. Home and health; a household manual containing two thousand recipes and helpful suggestions on the building and care of the home in harmony with sanitory laws .. . ed fifty to one hundred sixty degrees, and skim. 196 Home and Health Do the duty which lies nearest thee.—Carlyle Pour into settling vats, and let stand for forty-eighthours in a cool place. Draw off from the settlings very carefully, and heatagain to a temperature of 150 to IGO degrees, and seal upin bottles. SEALING-WAX FOE. FRUIT-JARS Best orange (gum) shellac and beeswax, each onepound; rosin, four pounds. Melt and dip or pain
. Home and health; a household manual containing two thousand recipes and helpful suggestions on the building and care of the home in harmony with sanitory laws .. . ed fifty to one hundred sixty degrees, and skim. 196 Home and Health Do the duty which lies nearest thee.—Carlyle Pour into settling vats, and let stand for forty-eighthours in a cool place. Draw off from the settlings very carefully, and heatagain to a temperature of 150 to IGO degrees, and seal upin bottles. SEALING-WAX FOE. FRUIT-JARS Best orange (gum) shellac and beeswax, each onepound; rosin, four pounds. Melt and dip or paint thecorks with a brush. May be made any color desired. Forbright red, add vermilion.—Chase AN ACROSTIC T-he Home; the Home, what place so sweet?H-eavens first glad blessing to our race,E-re sin came in with cursed feet,— H-er watchword, misery and disgrace,—0-r ere earths sons had learned to roam,M-ercy provided them a thus it is when far away,M-ankind to it with longing turns,A-mid the clouds of sorrows day,K-eeps thus the wolves of grief at holds no sweeter, dearer spot,—R-emember, 0 forget it not. —Mrs. L. D. Avery-Stuttle. VIGILANCE To keep the house clean and wholesome it must be keptfree from pests, and this means watchfulness and intelligentwarfare every day. This is particularly true in warm cli-mates where vermin and rodents thrive and multiply theyear round. But even under the most unfavorable condi-tions these noisome plagues can be kept out of the give up the battle means to turn the house over tofilth and disease, and submit to the daily destruction andannoyance of rats and mice, cockroaches and moths, antsand flies, mosquitoes and fleas, etc., etc. HOMES BTJILT FOR THEM It would seem that some homes were built with thedefinite purpose of accommodating rats and mice in par-ticular, and other annoyances in general. The writer hasknown experienced carpenters to put in the plates andsills of a cottage so that mice and rats or
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