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Show Since so many women have to spend so much of their lives in the kitchen it should be made a place of comfort. Be Bure and have a lounge or easy chair there. Towels, brushes and combB should be apportioned ap-portioned upon the army plan. Each member mem-ber of the family should be provided with a separate outfit. When laid away for any length of time, linen should be washed, rough dried without blueing, and laid in loose folds without much weight on it. Fried Indian meal pudding so called Is as toothsome a breakfast dish, for the rising generation, as one can travel many miles to secure. The best bathrooms have a natural wood floor, or are covered with oilcloth or something some-thing of that kind of material. To remove white spots from table or other furniture, rub the spots with camphor and they will disappear. Decayed vegetables should not be left In the cellar, and cellars should be whitewashed to be kept sweet and clean. Put salt in the water to prevent black calicoes cali-coes from fading when they are washed, Books and pictures, in intelligent families, now rank next to bread and butter. To fumigate a house, burn in it sulphur oi tar; then wln'towash and paint. |