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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 25, Issue 39, 22 May 1914, Page 3

fHE. HOUSEHOLD. Never put kid gloves upon little children. It is simply barbarous. In winter woollen mitts are good and sensible, with Lisle thread for moderate weather ; but in summer it is perfectly sinful to hide the dimples and fetter the motion of cunning baby fingers. Often parents with all good intention reprove their children, for making remarks on the nature of the food placed before them ; but when children are at home they ought to be encouraged rather than otherwise to bestow well-merited praise or blame, as it indicates a refined and acute condition of the senses of taste and smell. A German authority recommends as very effectual an apparently very simple method if protecting iron from rust. The article is mmersed in a nearly saturated solution of rhloride of tin, then washed in water, and afterwards with weak ammonia. The tin ;olulion must not be top acid or it will ittack the iron. The treated metal appears ike frosted silver. It may interest some of our readers to enow that a Portuguese physician says that he often troublesome disease, ringworm, ;an be cured in ten days by cutting the hair iff the affected spot, rubbing in turpentine, tnd washing off with carbolated soap Then wash the whole head with hot water, and ouch the spots with dilute tincture of odine, repeating ..once or twice a day. The most common-sense theory of house- | leaning is to begin at the top and work gradually downwards till the last grain ol lust is swept out at the door. When all ornaments and pictures have been removed, die cornice and walls must be brushed with > soft, long-haired brush, or with a duster iied over an ordinary broom ; and when the carpet is upard the floor has been scrubbed, die walls must be brushed a second time to i<:t rid of the dust that will rise during the process. If the marble tops of washstands, cheffon ers, or chimney-pieces are discoloured *v, jrease or any other kind of stain, mix two Darts of common washing soda with outpart of chalk and one of ground pumice itone. Make sure that all are finely powiered, and then make into a paste with vater. Kub it well over the marble, and an lour or two later wash it off with plain soap md water. Another way of cleaning marble s to mix whiting and curd soap to a paste. Spread and leave fot a couple of days, then vash it off. and the marble will be as white is possible. If there is any straw or willow matting to De cleaned, or if the seats of chairs made of ;hese materials require cleaning, it must be lone with a nail-brush and salt aud water The most obstinate grease spots will come jut of boards and carpets if salt is melted in spirits of wine or ammonia, and applied to (hem ; and all the brasswork in the house will be improved by a good rub with salt ind vinegar ; and this last -mixture is this very best thing with which to cleanse the jheet of mica so often placed in the front oi in oil-stove. If the chimney of a room where you do not mean to take up the carpet is swept, and any soot falls on the carpet, cover it with common salt and sweep both off together. After this treatment, no vestige of the soot will be visible An American paper says :—A gentleman who is in business in this city has cured i himself of a chronic and ugly form of dys- | pepsia in a very simple way. He was given up to die ; but he finally abandoned alike the [I actors and the drugs, and resorted to a ,-iethod of treatment which most people would laugh at as "an old woman’s remedy." t v. as simply the swallowing of a teacupful hot water before breakfast every morning, te took the water so hot that he could only :.,ke it by the spoonful. For about three weeks this dose was repeated ; the dyspepsia I decreasing all the while. At the end of that time he could eat, he says, any breakfast or dinner that any well person could eat—he gained in weight, and has ever since been hearty and well. His weight is now between thirty arid forty pour ds greater than it was during the dyspepsia sufferings; and for •several years he has had no real trouble with his stomach, unless it was some tern porary inconvenience due to a late supper or dinner out, and in such a case a trial of his ante-breakfast remedy was sure to set ail things right. He obtained this idea from a German doctor, and in turn recommended it to others ; and in every case, according to the gentleman’s account, a cure was effected.

\There are few things more difficult (a Da Hi/ Tele-jiaph lashion writer says) to accomplish—in a small way than the proper adjustment of the veil. Many—girls especially—get over the difficulty by doing without it altogether; but your thoroughpaced person of fashion considers the veil the necessary complement of all bonnets, and is partial to it even in conjunction with the broad-brimmed hat; therefore she carefull-,’ studies the manner it shall be worn, which differs with different styles of headwar, Can anything lie more inelegant than I - wisp of net tied tightly over the face, m.-ezing the hair down on the forehead, ,-i 1 even sometimes going the length of dis- ■!: iiiLf the features, the ends of the net tied ,-, :iiier behind making an ugly little knot the back of the head? On the other hand, when the veil is too loose it does not lock, well either.’ Should the .brim of the capote, or toque be wide enough for the veil Lo be lifted from the forehead a flat piece of tulle is all that is needed, but in the case of x diadem bonnet, set further back, a short running in Hie top edge of the veil will have an excellent effect. Anyhow, it should be las i fined at the back with a pin, and the -.ads carefully tucked away out of sight. 1 ulle-cui in an elongated diamond shape is used just now; the longer points join behind, die shorter diameter being just deep enough ;o cover the face.' It is frequently necessary 10 gather the top edge of a veil that is to be worn with a hat. Long scarf-shaped veils are sometimes adopted with light lace edgings; these are draped round the hat, ami Uic long ends are allowed to hang down at the back, Others are square, save that ■ >m; of the four' corners is rounded off; this end tails oven' the face, while the three others—each weighted by a little tassel—e rouped together, dangle about the nape ol the neck, the ne covering the entire hat. This is one of the latest novelties. Fashion patronises very lightly woven tulles for utils; if lace embroidered the design is extremely small and delicate; spots, on the contrary, are generally quite opaque, and are sometimes made of velvet, sometimes of •anall grains with 'a metallic lustre 'about them, lie-sides these, there are tulles for veils speckled with gold, or dotted here and (here with bits of tinsel, or into the meshes of which are worked small beads of cutp lass imitating various gems —more especially liiamonds. White and coloured net for veils is much Hess in vogue than formerly, and should only be chosen of the same colour as the bonnet itself; nevertheless, 1 have seen a few hats —those with medium--sized brims turned up at the edge—to which ,i white, lace veil is attached which acUialiy (onus part of the decoration. These are ih.e exceptions. Black net foundations carry the day, and are worn with all sorts 6i ■oloured millinery, being so fine as to b# ,!mo3t invisible Cougns Colda, and Croup cured by Tonking’s Linseed Emulsion, 1/6, 2/6, 4f6 per bottle at a” Chemists and Stores.