Household Tips and Remedies for Cleaning and Saving
Readers share methods to restore metal colors, remove stains, and banish pests. Advice covers lemon and whiting pastes for jewelry, chloride of lime bleaching for fabrics, and buffalo moth control with gasoline. A reader seeks frugal living tips and a family gives relocation savings as a path to lower expenses.
Seasonable Recifece Roll Lemons and Rhubarb Juice Method
Peel and slice six lemons and layer with sugar in a glass bowl. Chill three hours then add cracked ice to yield a quart of lemon syrup. Add ginger ale, mint, and rhubarb juice pressed from stalks or cheesecloth bag. Ferment juice with sugar for three to four weeks, then boil.
Rhubarb Wing No 2 and Pineapple Punch Recipe
Pare roll and cut six lemons thin. Cover with sugar and chill the mixture on ice. Turn into a punch bowl add minced fresh pineapple and two bottles Apollinaris water over cracked ice. Rhubarb wine No 2 uses boiled rhubarb juice strained and mixed as No 1.
Care of the Household Sponge Hints Restore Wear
Practical guidance on maintaining sponges by thorough rinsing and sun drying. If slimy, treat with lemon juice and boiling water overnight to renew usability. For wear, crochet a fine silk net cover to extend life and keep the sponge functional.
Insomnia Cures Worth Trying From Food and Baths
A critique of popular insomnia cures notes many rely on superstition and misapplied rules. It suggests practical remedies prize a light evening meal, early dinner, and a stimulating bath with brisk toweling as sensible, diet-based and physical-law grounded options.
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Wether's Column on parenting and domestic life echoes
The column discusses a unruly 16 year old, parental sacrifice, and education. It also offers practical mothering tips on washing fabrics and child care, then shifts to advice on bottle feeding and avoiding inquisitiveness, ending with a plea for honesty and privacy.
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