Morgan County Star | 1912-09-28 | Page 5 | Helpful Hints

HELPFUL HINTS instead of throwing away the ashes from your furnace place them in a neat pile in the center of the lawn during the winter next spring cover with a foot of rich dirt and plant with flowers interspersing with minta miniature ture alpine chalets chafets cha lets thus you will provide provid 0 yourself with nice scenery without tho the expense of traveling an old silk hat lined with tin and fitted with a ball and cover makes a neat meat and unusual tool holder bolder or lunch carrier A charming pencil holder bolder may be made by cutting the middle finger anger from a new kid glove and buttonhole stitching the cut edge then affixing a silver or gold pin for fastening to the to vest to make your own porous plasters it a a chemical analysis of the composition on the plaster you purchase at the drug store secure the ingredients and prepare them take any old popular song of which you have tired paste it on a sheet of muslin then with a conductors punch make holes boles where the notes aro are printed on the music spread the tha composition the chemical one on the back of the re enforced music to know whether or not an egg la Is fresh take the egg firmly between the thumb and two fingers of the right hand lift it to a level with the eyes then bring it down sharply upon tho the edgo edge of a dish or pan