1904 
Notes from the Daily Round. 
Most of the women who sew carpet 
rags—there are not many of them in 
our locality nowadays—plan to prepare 
them in the Winter. I do not; I sort 
out the materials at the Spring house- 
cleaning, and cut the rags when seated 
out of doors in the shade during Sum¬ 
mer. This keeps a lot of shreds and 
ravelings out of the house, and gives 
“pick-up” work for warm days when 
one is not inclined for regular needle¬ 
work. The dust and shreds are easily 
shaken from a cotton gown. It is use¬ 
ful work, too, even if it is not as dainty 
as ordinary fancy work. I used to 
think of rag carpet rather contemptu¬ 
ously, but a few seasons ago I had a rug 
woven in Roman stripes for the porch, 
and it was so much admired that I am 
extending further. Ours is an old-fash¬ 
ioned country house, and the rag carpet 
rugs harmonize with it. I am now 
planning for rugs to put in front of bed¬ 
room washstands. They tan be woven 
of colors suited to the rooms, either 
striped or hit-and-miss. If I used car¬ 
pet on my stairs I should have rags 
woven for that, but for several years 1 
have used nothing but stout denim for 
that purpose. The stairs are first 
padded, and then the denim is laid down 
just like a carpet; it is a little too wide, 
so a hem is basted down each side. 
The walls of the hall are terra-cotta, the 
woodwork white, and the stair-rail old 
mahogany, and moss green denim looks 
very well. It is so closely woven that 
little dust sifts through it or collects on 
it, and it is easily swept. Many people 
put down a stair carpet and then cover 
it with crash; by doing away with the 
carpet, and using the closer-woven den¬ 
im, we abolish a dust-trap, and simplify 
work. 
Some of our friends comment on 
Itobina’s abundant hair, and ask how I 
care for it. These inquiries make me 
realize that I really pay less attention 
to the matter than I should. A thorough 
brushing at night should always be 
given; as she wears it parted and in 
two braids, which are looped and tied at 
the nape of the neck, it is really an ad¬ 
vantage to make it into one braid for 
the night. Hair specialists tell me that 
when a child’s hair is perpetually parted 
there is a risk of its wearing thin at 
the parting. Straining it back too tight 
also causes thinness of the hair. If 
badly split the ends must be singed, for 
which a wax taper is used. The hair is 
first parted down the middle, then di¬ 
vided all around into strands which are 
twisted tightly like little rat tails. This 
twisting makes all the split ends stand 
out, and it is then easy to run the taper 
over them, singeing these ends without 
touching the rest. After singeing the 
hair should be shampooed, for which I 
use green soap, a liquid, but many pro¬ 
fessionals use ordinary tar soap. If a 
solid soap is used, shave a little into a 
bowl, pour boiling water on it, and let 
it dissolve, stirring into a frothy lather. 
Part the hair and rub this lather well 
into the scalp, rinsing it out with plenty 
of warm water. The final rinsing should 
be only tepid, or if the subject can stand 
it, perfectly cold, to produce a bracing 
reaction, which obviates the risk of tak¬ 
ing cold, but a neuralgic person suffers 
from the cold rinse. After the first dry¬ 
ing with towels, the hair and scalp must 
be well rubbed with the hands until 
quite dry. Hair specialists pinch the 
skin all over the head, and rub it with 
fingers and thumb as though to loosen 
it from the bone, asserting that when 
the skin seems very tight upon the head 
it is not in a healthy condition. Of 
course this rubbing and pinching tends 
to produce an active circulation, which 
is naturally stimulating to the hair. 
Tonics for weak or falling hair? 
Well, I should want to know what they 
were before using them. My friend, the 
specialist, has her own mysterious ton¬ 
ics and salves, but she says that dry 
hair should have a little ordinary red 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
357 
vaseline Tubbed 'into ,the roots after 
washing—not on the hair itself. White 
hair should have a drop of bluing in the 
last rinsing water, to give it the proper 
spun-silk look. When my hair began to 
fall out badly she told me to use discreet 
rubbings of plain everyday kerosene, 
the hair being parted and a tiny quan¬ 
tity of the oil rubbed into the skin, 
either on the tip of the finger or on a bit 
of flannel. The scalp being thoroughly 
rubbed, it is quite likely that the mas¬ 
sage was as beneficial as the oil; at any 
rate, the hair improved rapidly. The 
odor of the kerosene very quickly passes 
off, but if it is objectionable a little oil 
of bergamot may be added. The kero¬ 
sene was applied twice a week, at night; 
intervening nights the scalp was pinched 
and rubbed, and the hair well brushed. 
Some of my friends do not bePeve in 
having the hair washed at all; they 
think it is weakened thereby, and they 
have it cleansed by the Swedish process. 
This calls for the application of a pow¬ 
der made for the purpose, which is 
rubbed well into the hair, and then 
brushed out with infinite pains. It cer¬ 
tainly removes the dust, for the powder 
which is white when applied, comes out 
dingy and blackened, and the treatment 
appears very beneficial to weakened or 
falling hair. My objection to it is that 
the hair never “fluffs” with this treat¬ 
ment, but is sleek and oily, and whether 
this is natural and healthful or not, it 
is not desirable for present-day modes 
of arrangement, which demand fluffy 
hair. There are. however, diseased con- 
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Most farm boys, old or young, will be 
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shown in Fig. 151, where the philosophic 
pig seems entirely unconcerned as re¬ 
gards his unaccustomed load. A well- 
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yard, is a very different animal from 
the unlucky porker confined in a pen. 
He soon knows his friends, and often 
develops a number of kittenish tricks 
that combine very oddly with his un¬ 
gainly appearance. One of our English 
friends tells us that, in her young days, 
the family pig resided in a well-kept pen 
at the back of the garden. Once a week, 
on wash day, the rinsing suds were used 
to give the pig a bath, and he was 
scrubbed as thoroughly as the children; 
between baths he was well brushed, and 
bis surroundings always kept void of of¬ 
fense. It is quite possible that this well- 
scrubbed pig did not share the senti¬ 
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produced by nervousness or deficient nu¬ 
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by this treatment. The old-fashioned 
women who urged a nightly brushing 
of 50 strokes on each side of the head 
■were quite close to modern scientific 
methods. sylvia. 
but there is no doubt that he was con¬ 
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the business farmer cannot spend his 
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