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Domestic News
September 23, 1882
St. Landry Democrat
Opelousas, Saint Landry County, Louisiana
What is this article about?
Collection of household, farm, and garden advice tips covering children's shoe sizing, potato preparation, making jelly glasses from bottles, protecting pear trees from cats using pine tar (with a cautionary outcome), removing worms from plant jars with lime water, dyeing cloth brown, and ensuring children get sufficient sleep.
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HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.
Parents should see that their children's shoes are large enough to allow of the natural growth of their feet during the growing years.
A quick way of preparing potatoes for breakfast is to cut cold boiled ones in small square pieces; dip them in beaten egg, and then put them on a buttered dish in the oven to brown.
Home made jelly glasses: Select good-sized bottles. Take a strip of old muslin or a piece of candle wick, dip it in lamp oil, wrap it around the bottle where you want it to break, set it on fire and the glass will crack just above the cloth. — Prairie Farmer.
A correspondent of the Country Gentleman says: "Having several valuable young pear trees scratched by cats, and being told that pine tar was a reliable remedy for all vegetable wounds, I applied a coat to the affected parts. The result is, I have more experience and less trees."
The little white worms which sometimes make the earth in a plant-jar look as if it is alive can be driven out by stopping the hole in the bottom of the jar, then cover the earth with water in which you have dissolved a little lime. Let this stand for several hours, and it is not likely that you will be troubled with the worms any more. — N. Y. Post.
To Color Brown: For five pounds of cloth, boil one and one-half pounds of catechu in as much water as will cover the cloth until dissolved, then add two ounces of blue vitriol, stir well and put in your cloth. Let it lie over night, wring it out in the morning, put two ounces of bi-chromate of potash in a kettle of boiling water, let the cloth stand in this till of the right color, and wash when dry. Color in iron. — Farm and Fireside.
Give the children plenty of sleep. It is a mistaken notion that some mothers have of compelling their children to get up in the morning before they have finished their natural sleep for the sole purpose of eating their breakfast with the rest of the family. Better set their breakfast aside and serve it to them later. No healthy child will take more sleep than he needs, and it will be better for him and the mother when he does get up, if he has a thoroughly refreshing sleep and plenty of it. — The Household.
Parents should see that their children's shoes are large enough to allow of the natural growth of their feet during the growing years.
A quick way of preparing potatoes for breakfast is to cut cold boiled ones in small square pieces; dip them in beaten egg, and then put them on a buttered dish in the oven to brown.
Home made jelly glasses: Select good-sized bottles. Take a strip of old muslin or a piece of candle wick, dip it in lamp oil, wrap it around the bottle where you want it to break, set it on fire and the glass will crack just above the cloth. — Prairie Farmer.
A correspondent of the Country Gentleman says: "Having several valuable young pear trees scratched by cats, and being told that pine tar was a reliable remedy for all vegetable wounds, I applied a coat to the affected parts. The result is, I have more experience and less trees."
The little white worms which sometimes make the earth in a plant-jar look as if it is alive can be driven out by stopping the hole in the bottom of the jar, then cover the earth with water in which you have dissolved a little lime. Let this stand for several hours, and it is not likely that you will be troubled with the worms any more. — N. Y. Post.
To Color Brown: For five pounds of cloth, boil one and one-half pounds of catechu in as much water as will cover the cloth until dissolved, then add two ounces of blue vitriol, stir well and put in your cloth. Let it lie over night, wring it out in the morning, put two ounces of bi-chromate of potash in a kettle of boiling water, let the cloth stand in this till of the right color, and wash when dry. Color in iron. — Farm and Fireside.
Give the children plenty of sleep. It is a mistaken notion that some mothers have of compelling their children to get up in the morning before they have finished their natural sleep for the sole purpose of eating their breakfast with the rest of the family. Better set their breakfast aside and serve it to them later. No healthy child will take more sleep than he needs, and it will be better for him and the mother when he does get up, if he has a thoroughly refreshing sleep and plenty of it. — The Household.
What sub-type of article is it?
Household Advice
Gardening Tip
What keywords are associated?
Childrens Shoes
Potato Preparation
Jelly Glasses
Pear Trees Cats
Plant Worms Lime
Cloth Dyeing Brown
Children Sleep
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Assorted practical tips for home, farm, and garden management, including advice on children's footwear, food preparation, crafting, plant care, pest control, dyeing, and child rearing.