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Show WOMANLY WISDOM. When in doubt keep pegging away. Have a pair of sleeves to slip oa over votir dress sleeves whea you are doing housework. Saves the dress. Left over asparagus make an excellent excel-lent salad with a dreaaing of oil, salt, penner and a few dropa of vinegar rubbed together. Buttermilk will take yellow stains out of white goods. Let them soak in it quite a while, then wash it all out and see how fine the goods will look. "When buying carpet for stairs, get an extra yard; and tura in at both ends. When it begins to wear, it ran be moved either up or down to equalize the wear. ' All stoves that are to be put away 1 for summer must be cleaned inside and out. and rubbed with linneed oil. If convenient wrap newspapers about tbem. Do not tack down oilcloth or linoleum when it is first spread over the floor. Let it be walked on for several weeks br until it has settled into nlaea and the ridges are evened down. lTee the garden hose for rinsing blankets- and rugs on the line. Hlaokets dry without wrinkles. Rugs should first be scrubbed with ammonia and water Le a bruh for that work; then rinse. What you are going to miss nirnl when vou move to town after spending the greater port nf your life on the farm, is the neighbors. You may possibly pos-sibly get many comforts, find many pleasures but you will never, never be able to make up for the dear old neighbors. neigh-bors. You're going to be lonenme, take my word for it; and there will never be any friends like the old ones. Farm Journal. |