1. Cereals keep more crisp in a dry glass jar tightly screwed.

2. Salt will remove fresh ink stain.

3. To keep ants away, wipe the shelves with water, hot with cayenne pepper, but best of all keep them immaculately clean.

4. Pure lemon juice is a capital remedy for biliousness and sick headache.

5. Pineapple is valuable in throat affections. The juice is the finest thing in the world for cutting the fungus-like membrane in diphtheria.

A Tested Cough Remedy

Boil three large lemons in water ten minutes, drain off the water, slice the lemons as thin as possible. Put in an earthen bowl on stove until the mixture is at boiling point, then draw to back of stove, let simmer three hours. Remove from fire, and when it has stood one-half hour, add a tablespoon of oil of sweet almonds. To be used warm. Stir and take in teaspoonful doses as often as needed. - Mrs. Mathews.

Lemon Syrup

Bake a lemon twenty minutes and squeeze the juice upon one-half cup of sugar. Excellent for hoarseness, and will break up a cold.-Mrs. A. D. Nash.

Fruits As Remedies

A physician says, that all ripe and fresh fruits possess valuable tonic properties. He says the peach, grape, strawberry, apple and orange rank the highest, and that over-ripe or under-ripe and fibrous fruits must not be chosen. The portions of the fruit next the skin possess the highest amount of mineral qualities. Oranges and other citrus fruits are excellent for purifying the system. The banana is good food when the intestines are in an irritated condition, for its fatty and oily qualities act as an emollient. The pineapple is the best remedy for a weak stomach, as it is a wonderful aid to digestion. Apples, either baked or raw, are good for a sluggish liver and for gout, and the juices when unsweetened will correct acidity of the stomach. The carrot contains pectic acid, which is valuable help to aid the other foods in digesting. Onion and garlic are unequaled for their purgative and anti-scorbutic tendencies. They are the cleaners of the system. Asparagus is a good diuretic. Beans and peas are highly nutritious if properly masticated and assimilated.

How To Wash Blankets

Make a suds of white soap and cold water, using one spoonful of borax to each pail of water. Soak over night. Next morning wash in fresh suds and rinse. Do not rub soap on, it leaves spots. - Mrs. J. D. Martin.

How To Keep Cherries Red After They Are Canned

One way is to wrap the jars in paper before storing them in the dark preserve closet. Another way is to add a few drops of red fruit color to the cherries when you are cooking them. You can make delicious jelly with any juice you have left when canning cherries by taking one-third currant juice to two-thirds cherry juice, with as much sugar as you have of both. Boil twenty minutes.

How To Clean Fruit Can Lids

Put a few at a time on the stove in a granite kettle and cover with vinegar. After scalding a little while take out, adding more. Cleanse well in water until clear, then scald in water containing borax, and they will look like new. By following this method I have never lost a can of fruit. Heat all lids in boiling water before placing on cans. Never put cold lids on hot cans. If your rubber rings start to draw up under lid, run two or three pins straight down about half their length through the edge of rubber and screw lid on tightly.

When the zinc tops for fruit jars become dingy from age, I find that they can be made to look like new ones by standing them in butter-milk for twenty-four hours. When taken out and washed in warm soap-suds, the result will be found satisfactory to anyone who cares to try this plan.