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Some Problems of Life. 
Making Wall Paper ‘ Stick." 
We are in trouble about getting paper 
to stick on the ceilings in our house. The 
people who owned it before kalsomined 
them several times, and we have washed 
them and scraped them, but when paper 
is put on it comes off in a short time. 
It brings off some more of the old kalso- 
miuing. Can you offer any suggestion 
that would help out? We could kalsomine 
them over again but it will not stay 
either, as it scales off too. n. a. b. 
Pennsylvania. 
If walls had been given a coat of glue 
size before being papered, the paper would 
hold, unless, as I suspect, lime wash 
had been used, or some package kalsom¬ 
ine with casein binder in it was on the 
walls before the kalsomine was applied. 
If there is any “whitewash” on the walls, 
it is necessary to wet all over with vine¬ 
gar. and let dry before paper is put on. 
If there is no whitewash use one-half 
pound of glue (brown 1 to one gallon of 
water and coat all walls and let dry 
before papering. Soak the glue in cold 
water over night, put on stove and bring 
to a boil, keeping well stirred from the 
bottom, for if it scorches it is useless. 
Apply to the walls as hot as possible. 
This will probably raise “bubbles” on the 
kalsomine; if it does push them off with 
a knife and rub again with the size 
brush. Caution —Put lots on, but don't 
let it run or form drops on walls or 
ceiling. If you want to rekalsomine those 
walls or ceilings get the cheapest ceiling 
varnish (some places call it wall varn¬ 
ish) you can buy and mix one gallon 
gasoline to one gallon of varnish. Coat 
over walls with this. Let dry five or six 
hours or longer, then kalsomine and it 
won’t come off. When you are pasting 
paper for those ceilings again put about 
one teacupful of molasses or syrup in the 
paste. If there is whitewash or lime 
.m the ceiling coat with vinegar; no lime, 
no vinegar. Use glue size under paper; 
but if you want to kalsomine use the 
varnish, but no glue. A. F. R. 
Indignities to a Woman Passenger. 
< >n a recent date I had occasion to 
iravel from Canajoharie, N. Y.. to Sharon 
Springs, N. Y._, a distance of 12 miles, the 
only means of transportation being a 
stage operated by a stock company, hav¬ 
ing a franchise for using an auto bus in 
Summer and horses in Winter. In the 
wagon wore four men and myself (the 
only woman), one man the driver, one a 
young man of IS. We were barely start¬ 
'd when the other two men, who had been 
drinking before starting, began passing 
the whisky bottle, which they kept up 
■luring the whole way, urging me to drink 
tid putting it to my face. They had two 
dill bottles when they started. The boy 
would not drink, neither did I see the 
driver, although lie was repeatedly urged 
to do so. He said or did nothing to pre¬ 
vent them. When they insisted on walk¬ 
ing to keep warm he walked with them, 
the boy and myself driving at a snail's 
pace to keep with them, thereby suffering 
intensely from the cold biting winds. 
About half way they stopped at a hotel, 
getting into a row with the bartender, 
I going into a grocery store to warm, the 
boy driving up and down to keep horses 
from cold. All the time they were grow¬ 
ing more and more hilarious, using all 
kinds of language, quarreling, swearing, 
smoking and drinking. I suffered all 
kinds of indignities, even to liberties with 
my person. I)o you wonder that I want 
redress? Do you think I could do any¬ 
thing about it? If so. to whom shall 1 
go? Could their franchise be revoked? 
MRS. J. N. B. 
This is a case that warrants drastic 
action. Proceedings should have been be¬ 
gun immediately after the occurrence, as 
the longer the delay the harder the mat¬ 
ter of proof and the greater the tendency 
toward a lessening of the desire for re¬ 
dress. This lady owes a duty to the pub¬ 
lic as well as to herself to see that these 
people are brought to a realizing sense of 
their wrongful acts. 
I have no doubt that a criminal charge 
*d assault against some of these men 
would stand, and the matter should be 
brought to the attention of the district 
attorney of the county as to the best 
method of procedure. Or a charge could 
be made before a justice of the peace of 
the neighborhood. Then a civil suit for 
damages should be begun against the 
transportation company. They owe a 
duty to their passengers of guarding them 
1101,1 insult while in their care, which 
duty in this case has been grossly vio¬ 
lated. ]'j)p charter cannot be revoked, 
but the company should be made to suffer 
in damages. This matter should be taken 
to good local counsel at once for advice 
and action. Your correspondent should 
inquire for some dependable attorney in 
Herkimer. M. n. 
Those Women. Homesteaders. 
JUST noticed P>. S. D.’s query about 
taking up homesteads in the North¬ 
west. As the writer has lived out and 
proved up on a Wyoming homestead as 
well as helped his partner live out his 
later, perhaps T can give B. 8. D. some 
useful hints. 
In the first place, if your land has 
a market value after you “prove up” 
equal to what you have had to spend on 
it to get your patent you will be lucky, 
for of course the Indians and the earlier 
settlers have picked out the most desir¬ 
able tracts long ago, and later comers 
have settled on almost every tract loft 
that is worth having. The hardest thing 
for a single person to overcome is the 
terrific loneliness which will be empha¬ 
sized by the coyote’s howl at night. While 
you are busy it is not so bad, but unless 
you have $1,500 or" $2,000 to buy stock 
with it’s hard to keep busy, for you must 
stay on your claim seven months of the 
year under the present law. Your ex¬ 
penses for the three years will almost cer¬ 
tainly be $1,000 per claim, and may easily 
be $1,500 or more. I cannot give you all 
the items to prove this, but T know that 
you will find the above statement ap¬ 
proximately eoreet. Living costs and 
necessary labor for building cabin, fences 
and digging well are all very high in re¬ 
gions where public land is to be had. If 
you take a Mondoll claim (”20 acres) 
you will find it very expensive getting 
the required 80 acres broken and culti¬ 
vated and as a rule the chances of the 
crops grown meeting the cost of produc¬ 
tion are against you. 
B. 8. I)’s plan of teaching or cooking 
is good provided that she and her friend 
are good horsewomen, for they will need 
a saddle pony each. Other means of 
transportation are not to be depended on 
as a rule. Teachers and cooks are always 
in demand in that country for Dan Cupid 
is a very busy little fellow out there. You 
see he doesn’t have so many female sub¬ 
jects to work on there as he does farther 
east, and the bachelors there get lone¬ 
some too. I would suggest that B. 8. D. 
and her friend go west about April, plan¬ 
ning to work and look the country over 
for three or four months before filing on 
claims. Much extra help is needed from 
May 1st. till July in the lambing camps 
and at the sheep shearing pens, especially 
cooks. It is mighty hard work too with 
few conveniences to work with except a 
can opener. From the writer’s long ex¬ 
perience and observation he does not 
think the homestead game worth its cost 
and sacrifice, to say nothing of the time 
lost. However he will be glad to give 
any further information that he can. 
Nebraska. j. ij. tubbs. 
Singeing the Hair. 
ISCUSSING the practice of singeing 
the hair, the Journal of the Ameri¬ 
can Medical Association says: “A sound 
mind in a sound body suffices the serious- 
minded minority, but apparently the in¬ 
numerable majority, if they had their 
way, would have a comely body and take 
their chances on any old kind of mind, 
on the principle that it is better, to be 
good-looking than wise, because more peo¬ 
ple have sight than understanding. 
The hair in particular is the object 
of all mankind’s cosmetic endeavors. 
When it comes to civilized man he is uni¬ 
versally engaged in trying to save what 
he has left or re-grow what he has lost. 
Women, with few exceptions, do not be¬ 
come bald, but all women, in their opin¬ 
ions, are threatened with that unspeak¬ 
able calamity; men not only may get bald, 
but a large number of them are already 
so; and thus, the popular remedies for the 
hair. Vibratory and electrical treat¬ 
ments, hair tonics that feed the hair 
roots, as though they grew out of the 
scalp like broom-sedge out of an old field, 
neats-foot oil and crude kerosene, mas¬ 
sage and mange cures, all have their fu¬ 
tile trials. 8ingeing the hair is recom¬ 
mended to overcome splitting at the ends 
and to prevent falling, the reason for the 
latter being that it “closes the pores and 
keeps the fluid in the hair.” With the 
long hair of a woman which has a ten¬ 
dency to split at the ends, it is possible 
that singeing the tips has some use; it 
substitutes a charred blunt end of fused 
horn for one tapering to a point or cut 
clean across. But even in cases of this 
sort it is less useful than greasing light¬ 
ly the hair and thus supplying the fat 
which is lacking in such hair. For the 
hair of men, which is kept short, singeing 
is not of any use in preventing splitting; 
hair which is not allowed to grow to its 
natural length does not split, unless it 
has a deep-seated disturbance for which 
there is no such simple remedy. Of 
course singeing the ends in order to pre¬ 
vent fluid from escaping, like sap from 
a tree, is based on an entire misconcep¬ 
tion of the hair’s structure and nutri¬ 
tion; the hair does not contain any more 
sap than a buggy whip; it is not nour¬ 
ished by any fluid in it but by the blood 
which reaches only the root. The hair 
above the skin is a spine of horn, which 
is even oiled from without, and singeing 
its tips has no effect whatever on either 
its nourishment or growth. 
Good Words. 
Sometimes I almost dispute that the 
time will ever come 'that justice will be 
done to the honest, industrious people of 
our land. Then, I sit down and read 
The R. N.-Y.. and my admiration for 
your pluck and perseverance in fighting 
to this end gets another boost, and I have 
came to believe that no two men ever so 
honestly, earnestly and persistently 
worked for their subscribers. I try to 
say a good word for the cause through 
you “in season and out of season.” 
Maine. e. n. page. 
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Some few years ago I subscribed for 
The R. N.-Y. in the name of my little 
son. I thought it would help interest 
him in farm matters, and be a real means 
of farm education. I am glad to say that 
I have not been disappointed it. s. ii. 
New York. 
r We are certainly glad when The It. 
N.-Y. comes and only wish the Woman’s 
Magazine was in oftener. a. s. m. 
Pennsylvania. 
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Permit me to express my appreciation 
of the “Woman’s Magazine” feature 
which you have added the past year. 
The weekly “Woman and Home” depart¬ 
ment is always helpful in the household 
also. MRS. A. II. SEDGWICK. 
Virginia. 
When you write advertisers mention Tub 
R. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and a 
‘square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
The supreme test of paint is 
the way it holds its own 
against weather and time. 
The best paint manufacturers 
have found that 
zinc 
in paint forms an impervious 
coating. Such paint should 
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Let us send you a list of manufacturers 
whose paints contain Zinc, and also our 
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333 West 30th Street, New York City 
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