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For The Housewife

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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
April
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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Piasier easts ra:iy bc made to look like lvory by soaking in melted wax. Moths ave disï.ouraged from their depredations in carpeta if ihey are sprinkled with snit before sweeplng. All young meats sliould be well cooked. Veal cutleta are improved by a tomato sauce poui-ed over them. A new cotton dress, accidentally torn, may be mended so the. rent Will not show, by starrhing a piece of the goods and ironing it on. Fish and eggs are the diet for spring as nature plalnly intimated when she provided them in such plenty ,-it thls season. Keep fish while sealing them in a pan of water ; then the scales will not fly over youí and when done the water may be poured ïrom them. beiore they are put in the slops. Garnish beefsteak, mutton chops or fish with sprigs oï water eress ; it wil! add an appetizing look as well aa fltivur to them. It is a better blood purifier than any medicine you can take. You eau sweetpn and dry a damp closet by placing in it a pall half full oí quk-k lime ; it will slake slowly and may then be ètill useiul i! thrown on damp, sour land or on the compost heap. A pan of charcoal will serve much the same purpose in the closet. Nothiag will ranke a darn so nearly invisible as the use of thrèads drawn from the same material. So when you draw a thread to straighten the end of a tablecloth or napkin, save it and the piece cut off for meftdworn places, and if neatly done it will take sharp eyes to find the spot. This is true of rents in dress or other material as well, and especially so of carpets. Tuberoses may be started inside for early blooming but the gladiolus should b set directly in the open ground, and succesive plantings will prolong the blooming season. Here are some thüigs you ought to have sure : Some Marguerite carnations, a dozen ever-bloomin? roses, an imomea leari vine, a cobaea scandens, a pansy bed, a row of swct peas, and a wild garden of old-fashioned roses. When the plants are removed from the wlttdow garden for more light and air as the weather beeomes warmer, give the cacti all the sunlight possible. These cnrious plants are becommg more popular every year, and there are very few window colleetions in wtíich they are not included. From siow on, througllout the summer, igive them the hottest, sunniest positionw, and an incrêasèd supply of water. Echinocereus I'ictinatus is a satisíactory variety and a proïuse bloomer. A small plant will often bear half a dozen or more of the large iragránt blossoms at one time. They say that men are untrersally obstinate about making lawns and setting stade and ornamental Itrees about the house, and yet that they are all alike in admiring them and being made better by their presenee in perfection. Ge: John at it this spiiiv;' and see next fall if he doesn't congratúlate himself on hls taste and

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier