174 FARM HOMES, Itf-DOORS ASTD OUT-DOORS. 



ice and salt. Heap the ice about and over the tin pail, 

 and in about an hour the cream will be nicely frozen. 



COOL HOUSES IN SUMMER. 



During severe heat, close the doors and windows of 

 lower rooms* after eight o'clock in the morning, with 

 the exception of some north door or window, and 

 open the doors leading into the hall or the stair- 

 way. Upper rooms not being in use until night will 

 naturally be left open to sun and breeze, as all sleep- 

 ing rooms should be. From these, the cooler air will 

 descend to the rooms below, while the wanner current 

 will ascend. Toward the middle of the afternoon, 

 four or five o'clock, east and south windows can be 

 opened ; and at sunset all can be flung wide, and, if there 

 are screens, remain so through the night. In the morn- 

 ing, the house will seem to have absorbed coolness enough 

 to last until the relief of another sunset. 



ROOMS WITHOUT FLIES. 



Farm-house rooms in daily use are generally found 

 swarming with flies. It is only now and then that 

 the visitor in rural districts enjoys the luxury of a 

 dining-room where there are screens at windows and 

 doors, and a delightful absence of these buzzing and 

 somewhat filthy annoyances. If farm-wives only realized 

 how easy it is to get the upper hand of flies, they would 

 not submit to them as they do. Fifty cents worth of 

 mosquito netting, if the wire screening can not be pur- 

 chased, securely tacked on plain pine frames, and placed 

 in the doors and windows of the dining-room, before the 

 flies have taken possession of the house, will keep the 

 room almost entirely free of them all summer. If there 

 is a baby in the house who likes to poke his fingers 



