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Show FOR WOMEN AND HOME. A sun bath is of more value than much warming by the fire. To cure a sting of a bee or wasp, mix common earth with water and apply at once. Bent whalebones, the genuine article, arti-cle, are straightened by soaking them in boiling water for a few moments and then ironing them straight. Neuralgia may very often be speedily speed-ily relieved by applying a cloth saturated satu-rated with essence of peppermint to the seat of pain and leaving it there. Soft soap, made from half a pound of hard soap and two quarts of boiling water, is more economical for laundry purposes than ordinary soap. A good deodorizer is made by applying apply-ing a hot poker to a lump of camphor gum in a saucer. The strong fumes will clear the atmosphere of a room in a few moments. . One teasDoonful of ammonia in a cupful of water will clean gold or silver sil-ver jewelry. A few drops on the under side of a diamond will clean it immediately, immedi-ately, making it very brilliant. Delicate colors can be set by soaking in a cupful of common salt to every two quarts of water. A tablespoonful of turpentine in a pailful of lukewarm water will set colors as well. Leather boots that have been soaked in water or dried hard may be softened by rubbing them plentifully with coal oil. If the leather is very dirty, wash it with hot soapsuds first. To renovate velvet, free it from dust by laying it face down and whipping it smartly; then brush with a soft hair brush; dampen on the wrong side with borax water, and hang, pile inward in the sun to dry. To prevent buff and gray linens from fading or growing streaky in the process pro-cess of laundering, add a tablespoonful of black pepper to the first water In which thpv arp washed and then laun der in the usual way. Great care should be taken to dry towels thoroughly before putting them away. If placed in the linen presses without being thoroughly aired, while still damp, a mold is likely to form upon them, which, it is said, produces skin diseases. x An" insect in the ear may be destroyed by pouring a teaspoonful of warm olive oil or camphorated oil into the ear and keeping it there for some time, holding the head in a position to retain the oil, which will afterward come away with the dead insect. A good scheme for freshening the appearance ap-pearance of white silk parasols, or any silk that will stand wa.ter, is to wet them thoroughly all over, open them and let them remain so until dry. All wrinkles are done away with, and instead in-stead of a muss3 half-worn looking article, ar-ticle, one has an apparently new parasol. par-asol. The strawr hat of last season may be cleaned by scrubbing it with a brush and pure castile soap and water. If it look yellow after this scrubbing, rub it with lemon juice to bleach it. Then press the brim straight with a hot iron. A new hat band will complete the rejuvenation, re-juvenation, until the hat looks like new. To make chocolate caramels, put in a saucepan half a cupful each of molasses, mo-lasses, of white sugar and of brown sugar, a cupful of grated chocolate and a cupful of cream or milk. Stir the mixture constantly over the fire until it reaches the hard-boil stage. Then add a teaspoonful of vanilla and turn the mass upon a buttered tin, making the paste an inch thick. Mark into squares and cut before it is quite cold. |