Household Hints.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 173, 15 July 1909, Page 4

Household Hints.

How to make a Lamp Shade.—One of the worst foes to lasting eyesight is the glare of artificial lihgt, and it behoves us, therefore, to protect the eyes as much as possible from directly meeting the dazzling light from the electrolier, gas, or lamp. It. is not an expensive matter to provide a lamp shade. In fact a roll of crinkled Japanese paper, costing very little, will serve as a shade to an ordinary reading lamp. When the paper is unrolled, double it almost to half width, turn up each low *r edge, one higher than the other, and tack the paper lightly together at the ends, forming it into a circle. Crush the paper a few inches from the top, to form a neck, and tie this with ribbon matching the colour of the paper. The lamp shade is then complete, and will appear as and pretty as a more expensive one. Green H said to be one of the coolest colours for the eyes, and a green lamp shade is, therefore, preferred by many. Influence of the Mind.—lf at thirty you expect to be an old man or woman at fffty-five you will be one. because the mind makes the material correspondence of whatever it sets itself permanently upon.—Health Record. Insomnia. —Hot water, used both internally and exernally,is highly recommended by medical men as a cure for insomnia. Bathing the feet in hot water is said to be partially efficacious. A Remedy for a Burn. —Burns often occur in a kitchen, so it is well to re. member that a raw potato is a srood remedy. Scrape or grate the potato and apply it like a poultice to the injured surface; it will be found most soothing.

Drinking With Meals. —The average person should drink about two and a third pints of water a day, and there j I is no harm in drinking as much as a j I pint at dinner. Hot water is a distinct { i aid to sluggish digestion and a drink ; Jof water the last thing at night and j the first thing in the morning is con- | ducive to good health. j To Cure a Headache. —One of the \ quickest known ways of dispelling a headache is to give some of the muscles —those of the legs, for instance —a little hard, sharp work to do. The reason is obvious. Muscular exertion flushes the parts engaged in it, and so depletes the brain; When your head aches take a stiff walk or a short bicycle ride j Deep Breathing Beneficial. —The J simplest way to get warm afcer exj posure to cold is to take a long breath j with the mouth firmly shut. Repeat I • this several times until you begin to | feel the heat returning. It requires a ! very short time to do this. The long j breath quickens the pulse, and thus I causes the blood to circulate faster. The blood flows into all parts of the I veins and arteries, and gives out a I great deal of heat. It is said that : this method of deep breathing prevents ; colds and a great many other ailments I if begun in time.

Some Reasons for Daily Exercise. — Anyone who does not take time for exercise will probably have to make time to be ill. ; Exercise gradually increases te phv- | sicai powers, and giVes more strength j to resist sickness. Exercise will do for your body what intellectual training will do for your mind—educate and strengthen it. Plato called a man lame because he exercised the mind while the body was allowed to suffer. A sound body lies at the foundation of all that gose to make life a success. Exercise will help to give it. Varied, light, and brisk exercise, next to sleep will rest the tired brain beter than anything else. Metal will rust if not used, and the body will become diseased if not exercised. A man too busy to take care of his health is like a woodman too busy to sharpen his tools. A lady lace-making expert declares that anyone can learn the art in six lessons. An old man marrying a young wife is like a withered willow sprouting/ Confucius. The Empress of Japan is a great advocate of the spread of education in her husband's dominions. To sketch a tiger and make it a dog is to imitate a work of genius and spoil it. —Chinese Proverb. Removing Mildew Stains. — I noticed,says a writer in a Canadian paper, some time ago an article by a lady who gave some household hints in which she stated that no one had learned how to take mildew out of white clothe 3. As I know how this can be done, I write for the benefit of others. Wet the mildew stains with lemon juice and sprinkle with salt. Then have boiling water in a vessel on the stove and hold the stained part closely over the boliing steam so that it gets the full benefit of all the steam, and kept wet with the lemon juice and some salt, you can watch the mildew disappear. Iron rust will be readily removed in the same way, and salts of lemon will do the same work as lemon juice and salt. Removal of Splinters. —A splinter that has been driven into the flesh can be easily removed by the aid of steam. Secure a wide-mouthed bottle, and fill nearly full of hot water; place the injured part over the bottle's mouth and press slightly. The action thus produced will draw the flesh down, and in a minute or two the steam will extract the splinter, also the inflammation. —"Science Sittings. Inexpensive Fruit Cake. —One half cupful light brown sugar, cupful lard, pinch of salt, one teaspoonful ginger, one teaspoonful cinnamon, one teaspoonful cloves, one cup New Orleans molasses, two and a half cups flour, two teaspoonsful soda dissolved in one cup of boiling coffee. Cream, sugar and lard, add other ingredients as they come,then add two well beaten eggs and one cupful of raisins floured so that they will not sink to bottom of cake. Bake forty-five minuutes in slow oven. When cold ice with boiled icing

Snow Cake.--One cup sugar, one-half cup butter,one-half cup sweet milk,one and a half cups flour, whites of four eggs beaten stiff, one teaspoon baking powder, one teaspoonful of lemon. Filling: One cup flour and sugar, two tablespoons of sweet cream, flavour. HOME METHOD OF DRY CLEANING, Dry cleaning at home is almost regarded in the light of a hobby by many women. A word of warning is, however, necessary at the outset before dry cleaning by means of gasoline is commenced. Few chemicals which are within the range of the amateur are more explosive, and a large quantity of the gasoline should never be kept in the house if possible, nor should the cleaning process be carried on where there is artificial light. Until the garments cleaned are thoroughly dry they should not be placed close to an open stove or fireplace. When posisble the whole process should begin and end in daylight. To clean blouses of silk, crepe de chine, or other like materials an earthenware or an enamelled jar or pan with a cover should be used and kept strictly for that purpose. The article to be cleaned should be placed at the bottom and covered with gasoline and the lid put on. After 24 hours the jar may be opened and the blouse gently squeezed with the fingers until all the dirt is removed. The gasoline should then be poured off into a bottle and placed with the rest of the spirit, and after 24 hour.-; may be used again, the !:>iuH boir.ir poured off slowly without .slaking, while the dirt remains in the form of a sediment at the bottom of the bottle.