For Rattlesnake Bite

Apply soda slightly moistened to make a paste to the wound. When it becomes discolored, remove and put on a fresh application until the soda ceases to be discolored. - Contributed.

The Bug Remedy

Ammonia, corosive sublimate, terpentine. The Williams Drug Company knows how,to proportion it. It is decidedly the best ever used.

Quick silver and white of an egg destroys bed bugs. - Contributed.

Necessities

Beef stock will be found useful for gravies, sauces, etc. Beef stock will not keep longer than a week.

Browned flour is always useful and should be kept on hand.

The Douglass Mixture

This ought to be printed everywhere: One-half popnd copperas, one ounce sulphuric acid and two gallons soft water. Be careful with the sulphuric acid. Let settle twenty-four hours and drain off. Put in bottles or stone jars. Add one tea-spoonful of the mixture to each pint of drinking water for fowls.

"Since I've been married I don't get half enough to eat." "Well, you must remember that we are one now."

When frying eggs after frying bacon or ham, sprinkle flour in the pan to prevent eggs from sticking to pan. - Contributed.

Sure Death To Flies

Instead of bothering with sticky fly paper, try this method: Put two teasponfuls of formaldehyde in a pint of water, pour into saucers and set on table. Flies are attracted and drink the water; some die in water and others drop near and are easily swept up and burned.

For Moths

Saturate an old sheet with formaldehyde and hang up in the closet, first stopping up both cracks and keyhole and leave for twenty-four hours. One or two such applications through the season will prove sufficient.

How To Set Color In Summer Dresses

Plunge them into boiling water with one tablespoonful of coarse salt which has been previously melted. The color in the daintiest gown will not fade hereafter. - Mrs. Finney, Williams, Ariz.

How to gain flesh - buy a butcher shop.

Hand Lotion

Two ounces of glycerine, five ounces alcohol, one dram ammonia, ten drops carbolic acid, one dram extract violet.

Hair Tonic

One ounce lanoline, one ounce coco butter or lard, one dram coal oil, one-half dram tincture cantharides, one-half dram lis-terine, one-half dram oil peppermint. Melt lanoline, slowly add lard and then others. Apply two or three times per week to the roots of the hair with tips of fingers. Rub in thoroughly with balls of fingers.

"I saw a big rat in my cook-stove and when I went for ray revolver he ran out."

"Did you shoot him?"

"No; he was out of my range."

Curry Powder

Two ounces mustard, two ounces black pepper, six ounces coriande seed, six ounces tumeric, one-half ounce red pepper, one ounce cardaman, one ounce cummin seed and ground cinnamon. Pound fine, put in a bottle, cork tight and keep for seasoning gravies, etc. - Mrs. Wm. F. Dermont, Williams, Ariz.

How To Keep Needles

A soda mint bottle, with a little screw top, makes an excellent holder for needles, to keep in the workbag. It is especially good for damp climates, as the needles will not rust. It can be made a thing of beauty by covering it with a bit of the material of which the bag is made (preferably silk, as this will work up better); and a workbag given for a present is doubly acceptable if some such little thing as this is added to give a distinctive touch.

Small Pox And Scarlet Fever Remedy

One grain sulphate zinc, one grain Fox Glove (digitalas). half teaspoon sugar. Mix with two teaspoons of water, when thoroughly mixed, add four ounces of water. Take a tablespoon every hour. - Contributed.

How To Take Spots Out Of Wool In Cloth

Two ounces of ammonia, one ounce castile soap, one-four ounce saltpeter, one quart rain water. - Mrs. Geo. A. Cole, Middletown. Conn.

How To Take Iron-Rust Out Of Linen

Put two or three pints of water in the tea-kettle and let come to a boil. Rub the spots on linen with fresh cut lemon and hold over spout of the kettle. If spot does not disapepar repeat until it does. - Mrs. Tom Smith.

Don't pick a quarrel before it's ripe.

How To Wash Point Lace, Tatting Or Any Doily With Lace Edge

Cleanse gently with warm water and a pure, white soap, squeezing, not wringing. Have the last rinsing water in a vessel sufficiently large that the doily will float out flat, then slip under it an old napkin or towel, roll up, and let lay a while before ironing. With such a process the edges do not mat, but may be shaken out like new.