Show Uses for Old newspapers What shall be done with the old newspapers news-papers is a question that puzzles many no doubt Dont throw them away or burn them to got rid of them Every Friday morning the girl comes for her weekly supply sup-ply She wants paper to cover the stand of flowers in the bay windows when she sweeps She pins the big sheets over the flower stands and thus keeps tho fresh green leaves of the plants free from dust She fastens up tho curtains and portieres and pins new papers around them If you have not tried this method you dont know how much longer hangings so protected from the dust will keep fresh and clean Finally she dampens several papers and lays them on the carpet and as she sweeps the dust settles on the papers instead of flying all over the room thus the sweeping and dusting are made much easier and more effectual Next papers are in requisition for cleaning clean-ing windows or rather for wiping them o 0 I after they are washed Windows and mirrors mir-rors so dried are much gleaner and brighter than when only cloth is used and lamp chimney can bo beautifully polished by the same means On Saturday Aunt Susan the cook comes putting upstairs for de papers fo do sbelbs please miss and she puts clean papers on all the shelves in the kitchen closets and pantries Aunt Susan has great faith in the merits of newspapers and always wants a pile of them handy for cleaning her kitchen ranqo Soons Ise done fryin I jest scrabbles up one dese yer 01 papers an rubs two free times cross de stobo an it takes I evry bit de grease off quickn a streak er hghtnin1 she says I The other day she came in after a shower I with her shoes soaked with rain She took them off stuffed them full of old papers and I set them in a corner to dry The next day she held them up triumphantly declaring that they were jes as soft an easys if deyd neber seen a drap o rain Neber did I sea nuffn like ol papers to keep folks warm too she went on my oi man use I ter dribe a mule team in wan times an whent were stingln col hed put two free 01 papers cross he shoulders an two I free mo ober he breas an button be ol sojer coat ober em an he say he neber feel a bit or col 1 sabe al do ol papers I you better blebe I does if I cahnt read em as you all does she added as she trotted off to heat up some crumpets for breakfast I When spring cleaning time arrives old papers are called for to put under tho carpet car-pet Several layers of them make a good carpet lining and if a thicker padding is desired straw can be used between two layers of paper This makes a very elastic lining and a very inexpensive one which can be renewed every season Cut in long narrow strips old paper makes good stuffing stuf-fing for chair cushions and pillows It may not be equal to down but it ia quite as good as inferior hair for this use Several thicknesses of parer placed between be-tween cotton batting makes a warm light bed comfortable and ironholdois and ket tIe holders are made in the same way the paper being laid between and the whole covered with calico On very cold winter nights we put a newspaper coverlet over our house plants ana never have known them when so protected pro-tected to be pinched by Jack Frosts icy fingers It was an old nurse who found out how to replenish noiselessly a coal lire in the sick room She had the coal brought to the room in a strong newspaper with the I corners gathered up and tied When fresh fuel was needed she could place the paper lust as it was on the lire with scarcely a rustle If she could only invent some noiseless metnod of poking the fire with a i newspaper her name would be held in honor inpur household at least for evermore ever-more If you have doors leading to porches etc which are not used during the winter you may find that the wind whistles j through no matter how securely they are locked and bolted Fold newspapers in long narrow strips and press them firmly in all cracks with a thinbladed Knife and the whistling wind will not trouble you again irom that source If you find it stealing in beneath the window sash raise the window place a folded paper on the sill then close and lock the window I I Philadelphia Times |