Farm And Household

Polish of mahogony color: Two ounces of beeswax cut fine, spirits of turpentine, ono ounce; ono dram powdered resin. Melt at a gentío lieat, and add two dranis of Ind-an red to givo it a nicihogany color. Coffee if taken early in the morning on an empty stomach issaid to act as a preventiva agaínst intectious and niany acute epedmiio diseases. Oil for red furniture.- Take linsèed oil; put it, into a glnzed pipkin with aa mach alkanei root as it will cover. Let it boil cently. and it will become of a stron" red color; when cool it will be lit for ase. Inllamni.ations are. more safely and far mote agreeably subdued by tin? application of warm water than of cola. Don't neglect to give the baby a drink of water once or twiee a day. The nurSing baby cries oftener froiu tfairst than trom hunger. For warts, corns and Othef induration.s of tho cuticle, notliing acts more Batisfactorily than a mixtureof eqnal parta oí tincture of iodina and alacial acetic acid, applied in repeated layers with a brush, night and morhin'g. Cherry is just now the fashionablo wood lor bedroom furniture. It ia mueh lighter than the old, hen vy, solid black walnut sets which usedup overy avalable apace in an ordinary si.ed room. Oak furniture retains its popularity, and is bandeóme with either pink, terra cotta or olive green walls. Brass adds eleaance to bedroom adornments at the present time, and Is used for top rods and foot rails, or circular or oval canopies, as well as for mirror frames.