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For Woman’s Work. .
I SE TIRED AND SLEEPY.
“Mamma, pease, touldn’t I do to bed ?”
Says the dear little tired one.
I glance aside at the golden head,
Knowing that half Hie battle’s won.
I couldn’t resist the pleading charms
Or the dimpled tear-washed face request,
So I gathered her gentlj’ into my arms
And clasped her tenderly to my breast.
Then to the song of sweet lullaby
I rocked her into the lend of dreams,
Bending to look, with a mother’s sigh,
Into the face of wee “Sbnbeams
Blessing the bondage of the call
I rise from my chair and lay her down,
Wondering, t hinking after all
That mother’s name is not a golden crown.
—ldol Rambell.
For Woman’s Work.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Rosemary is said to be a good moth pre
ventive.
Prepared chalk and powdered orris
root make a nice tooth powder.
A little soda water will relieve sick
headache caused by indigestion.
Use half a raw potato instead of cork
to apply bristol brick to steel knives.
Use turpentine and machine oil to pol
ish your sewing machine, and rub briskly.
Pure beeswax and clean, unsalted but
ter. make an excellent substitute for creams
and balms.
To prevent mold on jelly, cover it with
a thin layer of paper, dipped in the white
of an egg.
A lotion consisting of equal parts of
lactic acid and glycerine will remove
freckles.
A piece of sponge fastened to a stick is
a good thing with which to clean lamp
chimneys.
For a sprain or bruise use wormwood and
vinegar steeped together; it is good for
man or beast.
Pennyroyal laid about and sprinkled
i over the floor is one of the best things to
” drive fleas away.
Keep a small box filled with lime in
your pantry and cellar ; it will keep the
air dry and pure.
Soda is the best thing for cleaning tin
ware; apply with a damp cloth and rub
well, then wipe dry.
In making sponge cake, if you desiie it
to be yellow, use cold water; hot water
makes it much whiter.
A good tonic for the hair is of salt wa
ter, a teaspoonfui of salt to half a pint of
water, applied to the hair two or three
times a week.
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When putting away silver that is not to
be used for a considerable time, place in
an air-tight case, with a good-sized piece
of camphor.
To relieve insomnia, sip slowly a pint of
hot water before going to bed. Those who
have tried this remedy say the effect is
prompt and almost wondrous.
In paring fruit for preserving, use sil
ver-plated knives, and drop each piece as
soon as pared into a bowl of cold water,
which has been made acid by the addition
of lemon juice,as it prevents it turning dark.
The favorite German polish for hard
wood is made as follows: Melt half a
pound of white beeswax, also two cakes of
castile soap, then mix together, adding a
pint of turpentine. Shake thoroughly before
using.
Do not forget to place by your bedside
a pair of comfortable shoes to slip on if
obliged to arise during the night. Bare
feet, even on carpeted floors, have caused
more sickness to previously healthy per
sons than “this world dreams of.”
A good cement for mending china is
made in the following way: Make a very
thick solution of gum arabic and warm
water, and stir in a sufficient quantity of
plaster of Paris to make a thick paste.
With a small brush apply the paste very
carefully to the fractured edges of the
china, pressing them tightly together.
Leave the mended dish untouched for two
or three days.
Lace may be yellowed without harm by
dipping in a decoction of coffee, varying
in strength as the lace is desired in color,
and then being wound on a bottle or can
to dry; although in this case it is best not
to place many layers over one another,
lest it may be streaked.
In mending lace curtains, perhaps the
best way is to dampen a piece of net with
thin starch,draw the rent carefully together,
place the net over it, and press dry with
H warm iron, ,
WORK.
If you are willing to work eight hours per day, apply to us enclosing a two cent
stamp for terms and outfit. You can learn our business in one hour so you can make
fair wages. Do not apply through curiosity, but if you have time to give to work we
can start jou at once. Our terms will astonish you. This is the best time of year to
begin. We can give you work, no matter where you live; experience not necessary
Honest people willing to work, are the ones we want. You can make money the very
first day, and have it in your pocket in the evening. The work is light, the business
pleasant. Do not wait til) another secures the territory, but write us to-day, enclosing
two cent stamp for free outfit.
THE GOSPEL NEWS CO.,
CLEVELAND, OHIO.
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A wet umbrella placed with the handle
down, drips the moisture from it at the
edges of the fra/ne. and the material with
which it is covered dries evenly, and
leaves no spot still soaked with water. If
it is stood handle upward, the water runs
down to one spot at the top, where the
strong cloth lining about the ring holds a
good deal of it, and in a comparatively
short time rots the material so it breaks
easily.
A gown should never be hung away
after wearing until brushed and examined
as to loosened stitches, faithless hooks,
etc. The rip is sure to become a rent, the
hook’s office is performed with an unsight
ly pin, and the dress put on in haste on
some occasion w’hen these defects are sure
to be noticed by some observing eye, usu
ally a man’s, for men are quick to per
ceive untidiness; and the woman takes a
lower place in his regard. The wearing of
a gown in need of slight repairs frequent
ly results in its ruin, beyond the power of
needle and thread to rectify, or it at least
renders the mending too conspicuous.
Where a child is feverish and restless, a
warm salt bath will sometimes induce
sleep when everything else fails. Let the
temperature of such a bath be about 85°
to 90°. Add a cup of salt to every six gal
lons of water; and it is very important
that the salt be completely dissolved, as a
single crystal may cut into tire skin.
WOMAN’S WORK.
Do not rinse off the salt with fresh wa
ter, but dry the child’s skin thoroughly,
and rub it down with smooth, gentle
strokes of the hand. All this has a won
derfully pacifying effect, and a fretful
baby will often drop to sleep before you
are aware of it. A salt bath is equally re
freshing to a grown person.
There are two causes for the common
rusting of iron cooking utensils : Water is
allowed to cool in them, and they are not
wiped dry when washed. These utensils
should be washed as carefully and wiped
as dry as a piece of glass or china. Keep
coarse'towels for tin and iron utensils, and
if the dishes are wa«hed as clean as they
should be, they will not soil the towels
any more than if they were china. Iron
muffin-pans and griddle-cake and frying
pans may be generously greased with
fresh lard, and allowed to stand - V over
night. In the morning heat them thor
oughly, and then wash and dry as di
rected.
The only happiness a brave man ever
troubled himself with asking much about
was, “happiness enough to get his work
done.” Not “I can’t eat!” but “I can’t
work!” that was the burden of all wise
complaining among men. It is, after all,
the one unhappiness of a man. That, he
cannot work ; that he cannot get his des
tiny as a man fulfilled. Behold the day
is passing swiftly over, our life is passing
swiftly over ; and the night cometh where
in no man can work. The night once
come, our happiness, our unhappiness—it
is all abolished; vanished, clean gone; a
thing that has been : “not of the slightest
consequence” whether we were happy as
enpeptic curtis, as the fattest pig of Epi
curers, or unhappy as Job with pots
herds, as musical Byron with G’aours and
sensibilities of the heart, as the unmusical
meatjack with hard labor and rust! But
our work—behold, that is not abolished,
that has not vanished ; our wofk, behold,
it remains, or the want of it remains; end
less Tinies and Eternities remain; and
that is now the sole question with us for
evermore! Brief, brawling Day, with its
noisy ptfantasms, its poor, paper crowns
and tinsel-gilt is gone; and divine ever
lasting Night, with her star-diadems, with
her silences and her veracities, is come!
What hast thou done, anyhow? Happi
ness; unhappiness; all that was but the
wages thou hadst, thou hast spent all that
in sustaining thyself hitherward; not a
coin of it remains with thee, it is all spent,
eaten; and now thy work where is thy
work? Swift out with it, let us see thy
work! Os a truth, if a man were not a
poor, hungry dastard, and even much of
a blockhead withal, he wou.d cease criti
sing his victuals to such extent, and criti
cise himself rather, what he does with hjs
victuals!- Thomas Carlyle,
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