The Alaska citizen., 1915-10-25

corner of an envelope by cutting off the tip of one corner and insert ing 1t into the receptacle to be filled.
 This sort of improvised funnel is also useful in ornamenting cakes with icing when fancy figures for anniversary dates are wanted
 DONE IN TWO HOURS.
 I put my white clothes to soak at night, writes contributor to the Chicago Herald. and in the morning l fill the boiler with cold water, add half a cake of soap aud tablespoon of lye, let it come to boil, put in the clothes and le them boil hard for 10 minutes. rinse in two waters. blue and hang out get large wash out In two hours, and it is clean.
 FOR sPINsTERS.
 York Pa. is to have an old maid home. Anna Louise Gardner, spin ster, has left $4OO,OO0 for that pur- l,~e. 1t Is 10 pe called the Hann Home, and is to be for middle class spinsters and is built accord ingly-a little better than a poor. house and little less beautiful than he mansions of the poor of proud lineage.
 No paupers nor insane women are to be kept there but it is an attractive home for unmarried wo- men of Pennsylvania.
 FIRST AID TO lACES.
 Use mixture of gasoline and flour when cleaning delicate fabrics, laces, ribbons, plumes, etc. Dip the articles into the mixture and rub them thoroughly.
 Torn lace can be repaired by first placing piece of paper un- der the hole and then stitching on the machine back and forth until the hole is completely filled. Very fine thread should be used and the paper carefully picked out after machine.
 Laces that have been stained with precipitation should first be washed with cold water and soap. Afte: the stain has been removed rinse in warm water.
 A little white sugar in hot water, say two Jumps to a basinful is a sufficient stiffening for delicate faces BUSTERS, BURNS AND scALps.
 Children frequently burn them selves and have even suffered se- were scalds from pulling upon them selves vessels containing hot fluids. Excluding the air from surfaces so injured does much to relieve pain.
 h,, ings kept moist with a solution of urtica urens tincture and water, in the proportions mentioned for the calendular.
 Change the dressings twice daily, and if little blisters begin to form under it's use it is time to stop the solution, and change to generous application of white vaseline, which will complete the cure.
 Baking soda sprinkled thickly over a scald and overlaid by wet cloths makes a soothing dressing, but is less rapidly healing than the fore going. For burns. vaseline is the very best application, whether the injured surface is lightly or deeply burned. If you get it on quickly enough you may be able to prevent blistering entirely.
 Do not let child with nose bleed bend over basin. It should stand erect with head thrown back and arms upraised, with a damp cloth held to it's nostrils.
 Firm plugging of the nostrils with cotton in addition to cold water applied to the back of the neck and the forehead, usually checks bleeding promptly. The nose should not be blown till some time after the bleeding ceases. Obstinate bleed ing may require plugging of the nostrils by physician.
 TO coUNTERAcT FATIGUE.
 If we all understood the proper duty and function of sugar, We should probably be healthier na- ion. The trouble with sugar is that most of us eat it in such a way and at such time that it spells our appetite for more substantial food.
 But sugar, in spite of all the harm that it does when eaten in excess, should be recognized as one of the greatest helps in counter acting fatigue. It is so recognized among the armies at war in Europe Sweet and milk chocolate are sup piled literally to the soldiers-as much for the sugar as for the chocolate. And various sorts of sugar candy are given to them. And some women, desirous to help the soldiers to the best of their ability, heard of this demand for sweets and turned their attention from knitting needles and worsteds to candy kettles and sugar and turned out homemade fudge by the pound for the soldiers.
 All of Us who have heard a cer- tain lecturer on mountain climbing talk know how often she pauses to say that just at that point she stopped to nihble a cake of the fla nous brand of milk chocolate. At the boys and girls camps through out the country a cake of chocolate is the usual accompaniment of a hike-and 1t is the sugar as well as the chocolate that is useful
 For sugar gives quick results in energy. If you are very tired, and nibble bit of sweet or milk choco- late. or eat a couple of Jumps of sugar or eat any sweet candy, you will feel within a very few moments noticeably refreshed. And the tired shopper who has not time