Household Hints.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 179, 5 August 1909, Page 4

Household Hints.

A WlrE'S OBLIGATION. One of woman's chief obligations to her husband is to appear dainty and > neat. A young husband receives no j severer shock than when he finds his | wife waiting for dinner for him in a j kimono or her morning-frock. He will probably be too polite to speak of i it. That is the trouble. The fault J grows, and the once attractive wife | becomes a bedraggled female, without j a particle of charm or grace. \ Finally, she gets out of the most ordinary habits of neatness in attire, and this writes itself in her appearance, even on those awful times when she "desses up." Complexoin, hair, teeth, hands, —all suffer; and in a few months a woman can go back years in this respect. The husband grows morose, glum, and cross. He show 3 a disposition to go out alone rather than take a woman whose appearance he is ashamed of. The result is a neglected wife and a husband astray. HOW TO POLISH UP YOUR HAIR. If you want to be beautiful said the famous beauty specialist, looking keenly at the exquisitely gowned wo- j man before her, don't worry—and— { comb your hair. j You are young and you hive your ;' share of good looks. You know how j to dress; but no amount of careful! gownings or massage will make you j beautiful if you are constantly fretting | and if you let your hair go. Now, i just look at it. She turned her visitor around to a huge mirror. As she surveyed herself in the glass the specialist continued: While I suppose your hair has been washed recently it has a dusty appearance. This shows that you neglect to brush it. You rat it up any way during the day. At night you are too tired —or too indolent —to bother to take it down, so you merely remove a few of the puffs and curls, wind it up a little tighter, and let it remain in that condition all night. In the morning when you take it down it is undoubtedly snarly. You whack at it a few times with a brush and then pull the comb through it. When the snarls are out —and considerable of the hair as well —you do it up, stick on your false paraphernalia —and there you are. In the first place, you must ventilate your hair. Everything has to be ventilated. We ventilate our rooms. We ventilate our bedding. Why not ventilate our hair? Every night you should take the comb and carefully brush it until it is quite smooth. Divide it into strands and brush. Do not brush it altogether. After the snarls are out throw the hair back and rub it briskly with the finger ends, being careful not to scratch the scalp with the nails. Then take common table salt and rub it well into the scalp. Brush a little longer. Then divide the hair into two parts and braid it closely, letting a braid hang down behind each ear. In the morning carefully brush all the salt out of the hair. Give it another brisk massage, wetting the fingers in cold water. After this, if your hair is inclined to be dry and unruly polish it. I mean just what I say —polish it. Take a small velvet cushion, and after dividing the bair into strands brush each strand with this velvet brush. The velvet in some curious way brings the oil to the surface, and makes the hair shine. Persons with naturally oily hair had bette- not try this method of beautifying the bair as the result might be anything but satisfactory. Greasy hair is always disagreeable —shining hair never. Many women hold that the hair net is a necessity. lam not of that opinion. It is not pleasant to see the hair that looks as though it could not be disarranged by an earthquake. A little loose curl or a slight fluffiness are often more becoming than an elaborately perfect coiffure, but the hair which is disarranged must be clean hair, shining hair, hair that shows care. There is no excuse for a frowsey head. BLANKET WASHING. Spring is also the time to have blankets washed; and if this is to be done at home, it is well to see that each pair is cut and bound. An uncut pair of heavy woollen blankets is hard to handle. There is no difficulty about blanket washing, provided you choose a sunny, windy day, and have ready a copious supply of warm, soft water, and good, pure soap. First shake the dust well out and have ready a tub of warm suds. Into this put the blankets, stir them with a new smooth piece of wood, and work well up and down, but never rub them. When the water : is dirty, put the blankets into a fresh j lot of suds, and repeat; the process, j then put the blankets through the wringer. Afterwards put them through ' several lots of tepid rinsing water. Do not wring them, for this crushes the nap, but squeeze lightly, put them through the wringer again and then \ hangout. When dry, rub the surface : lightly with a soft flannel cloth to I raise the pile. j THE LIFE OF A CARPET. What every woman knows is howmany a handsome carpet is made to take on a prematurely middle-aged look by ignorant and injudicious sweeping. An inexperience! ma:id sweep hither and thither, utterly r - gardless of te bpiie of the carpel, a: d raising clouds of dust durinr the ; recess, that spell ruin to the fun.iture. HINTS ON KEi'APEKINi;. If repapering has to be done, all the old paper should first be torn from the walls before the new is put on. By this moans any germs that may be lodge j in the old paper are removed. In choosing a wail paper, remc-m'r er that r00m..-- with low <•■<..iPir.gs aiwa; s iook lighter with striped paper.-. a:.d palter:.. -1 paper: >■!", letter still, the wails should be painted some pretty uniform colour.