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Show SALT AND ITS MANY USE S II This Commonplace Article Has a II ' Host of Virtues for the Housewife. 1 BY EDNA EGAN. gl OR the Household: Salt for ; 11 mi ue numan system is very es- : IraW senllal. We use it in practically prac-tically all wo eat. Carpets Sprinkled on the carpets tvhen sweeping, brightens them. Fire Handful of salt thrown on a small blaze will extinguish it. Stove A quantity sprinkled on top of hot coals, around the edge, will remove re-move clinkers. '.Flat Irons A handful placed. on an : old newspaper, good to clean sticky iron on. Flowers A shake of salt In your vase of roses will lengthen the life of them. Potatoes Planting potatoes, a handful hand-ful in each hill helps the growth and j kills the worms. Cauliflower and Cabbages Half a handOil sprinkled on each, plant will kill the .worms that form between the t leaves, and will help them tp "head up" good and solid. Milk A pinch added to your milk when it arrives will help preserve It. Fish If you wish to keep fresh fish over night without ice, pack in salt. It will preserve Pork Packed in a strong brine made from salt and water ' makes your salt pork. Beef Put in j light brine, makes corned beef. Fish . Packed in fairly strong brine, plcklcn Fish Packed in salt and dried mako salt fish. : Cucumbers Packed in salt brino ' for three days, washed and put in vln- ' cgar, makes pickles. ; IH Cabbage Shredded flno, packed in salt, set In warm place to ferment, ; then put in cold place to preserve, ' makes sauer kraut. 1 Brass or Zinc Salt mixed with vine- : gar, good to clean brass, zinc or cop- ; IH Iron Rust Lemon Juice squeezed on jH a spot of rust, covered with salt and laid In sun till dry, will remove it. Dyeing Salt put in your dye bath ' will help set the color. Prints A handful of salt in two , jH quarts of water, If colored prints aro soaked in before washing, will set col-ors col-ors so they won't run. Handkerchiefs Soaked In a basin of cold water and a handful of salt, your Boiled handkerchiefs will be mu.ch pleasanter to wash. a, Ice Cream Coarse salf'prlnkled over the ico In which youjlVavc your cream, or sherbet, paci&dlhejps to freeze it quicker. " Steps Coarse salt ftgl on steps covered with ice "13115'. tho ice so it will be easily renigycjlSp Medical uses: tp1 Hot Bag Hot salt put In a leaky hot water bag or in cotton bag serves In place of a hot water bottle. Nose A teaspoonful of salt to a cup of warm water snuffed up the nose wlllstop the most severe ncse bleed. Cut Shake salt on a cut; will stop jH bleeding. Stomach or Lungs One-half tea-spoonful tea-spoonful of salt to one cup of cold wa- jH ter. if taken, will stop hemorrhage of stomach or lungs. . Stomach Worms One-quarter tea-spoonful tea-spoonful of salt to one-half cup of cold jH water, given to a child when having coughing spells at night caused from jH stomach worms, will drive them back jH and afford relief. Pin Worms Salt water injections, good for pin worms. jH Feet A handtul of salt added to your foot bath Telicves tired feet Nuts and Bananas Salt sprinkled on nuts or bananas help greatly to aid . digestion. Cows and Horses Have a lump of rock salt in your stall and tie;-up so your cows and horses can have a lick when they want it, Hay Salt sprinkled over your hay when packing it away helps preserve it and makes the animals relish it more. Teeth One teaspoonful salt, cup ; warm water, good to clean teeth and harden gums. d fr-jjji RUIT as a diet has become very Is r3 widely recognized of late 1 fi) years. Good, sound, rlpo fruit cannot harm the most dellcato stomach and it is an excellent plan to commence tho morning meal with a ripe apple or any fruit in season. Chil-drcn Chil-drcn should be taught to reject the skins and stones of fruit, as these fre-quently fre-quently set up Irritation of the stom- " ach and intestines, and lead to disas-trous disas-trous consequences. Tomatoes are ex-cellent ex-cellent blood purifiers and should enter largely Into the summer diet Thero is an idea existing that tho eat-ing eat-ing of tomatoes produces cancer. Somo years ago one of tho best known can-cer can-cer specialists was asked whether there was any scientific basis for this assumption, and he unhesitatingly an-swered an-swered that there was none. |