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January 1, !910 
For the Ladies. 
To a Young Lady about to 
Marry. 
When married you are 
You must learn to submit 
To the whims of a husband, 
And if he thinks fit 
To go out of an evening 
At concert, or play, 
At home, by yourself, 
Of course, you must stay. 
You must never be ill-tempered, 
Look sulky, or scold, 
For each frown adds a wrinkle, 
At least, so we re told. 
Be kind and submissive, ~ 
Yet cheerful and gay, 
‘Or you'll break the old promise, 
Love, honor, obey. 
‘And when he comes home 
On a cold winter’s night, 
Have the hearth neatly swept, 
The fire burning bright, 
The arm-chair placed ready, 
The slippers well aired, 
‘The cloth neatly laid, 
_ And the supper prepared. 
Attend to these rules, 
And you’ll certainly find 
Your husband affectionate, 
Tender, and kind, 
But take this for your comfort, 
If he proves the reverse, 
He’s your husband, remember, 
For better or worse. 
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Water as a Disinfectant. 
Pure, fresh cold water is one of the 
“most valuable disinfectants, inasmuch as 
‘it is a powerful absorbent. 
Every sick room should have a large 
‘vessel of clean water placed near the bed, 
or even underneath it. 
This not only absorbs much of the 
hurtful vapour, but in its evaporatioh it 
softens and tempers the atmosphere, 
doing away with the dryness which is so 
‘trying and depreasing to an invalid, or 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
even to persons in health, for that matter. 
Tt has frequently been shown by actual 
experiment that troubled sleep and 
threatened insomnia are corrected by so 
simple a thing as the placing of an open 
bowl of water near the suffer’s head. 
A Seaside Hair-Curler. 
No one is more aware (says an authori- 
tutive writer in the ‘St. James’s Gazette’) 
of the disastrous effect which sea air has 
on the hair than the woman to whom 
nature has denied the enviable curl or 
“kink” in the chevelure, which is such a 
redeeming feature when winds, waves and 
sea mists make havoc of the coifiure.- 
Where this is the case the use of a curling 
fluid is a great help in preventing ‘rat- 
tailed’ locks and wisps of hair from giving 
an tnkempt and untidy appearance; and 
and if this .s applied before the head is 
dressed in the moring, and again before 
the hair is placed in curlers for the night 
a good result will be obtained. 
An excellent home-made lotion can be 
prepared on such a simple basis as that 
of gum arabic, sugar and rose water the 
the proportions being two drachms each 
of the sugar and gum arabic to four ozs, 
of rose water, The gum should be slow- 
ly dissolved in the liquid, and the sugar 
stirred in last of all, the lotion being then 
bottled till required, and shaken well 
before each application. 
- Women and Men. 
A woman uses a glass—sometimes, let 
us say—to color her face ; a man—also 
sometimes —uses one to color his nose, 
If you set up with the lark, go to bed 
without one. 
A woman is never to good to be true. 
A swallow of brandy often turns out to 
be a bird of ill omen. 
Its a case of quick consumption with 
those who bolt toeir food. 
E. BLACKEBY, 
BOOT & SHOE MANUFACTURER, 
226 Rundle Street, Adelaide. 
Cut Soles a Speciality. 
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS 
— Lamp Wicks. — 
The best way to trim a lamp wick, as 
everyone knows, is tc remove only the 
charred portion of it without using the 
scissors. If this is done there will be no 
danger of the wick being uneven. Lamps 
in regular use should have the charred 
part of the wick removed at least three 
All lamps should be 
wiped daily. No burners should be 
allowed to become encrusted with dust 
and oil, and they will not get into this 
condition if they are attended to every 
day. 
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— Albert. Cake. — 
Put 2 lb of butter in a basin, and beat 
it to a cream with + lb of sugar and four 
whole eggs. When well mixed, stir in 
lightly, just a little at a time, } 1b of 
flour, 6 ozs of sultanas, and + Ib of 
candied orange-peel, cut in strips, and a 
dessertspoonful of baking-powder. Well 
butter a cake-tin, put in the cae 
mixture, and bake in a moderately hot 
oven 1} hours. Try it with a skewer, 
thrust through the centre of the cake; if 
it comes out quite clean the cake may be 
turned out carefully. 
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times a week. 
— Fruit in Fevers. — 
German physicians make great use of 
preparations of fruits in fevers, particu- 
larly of fruit soup, which is made by 
boiling for some time one part of dried 
fruit of some sort with four or five parts 
In cases in which considerable 
exists, the 
of water. 
gastro-intestinal irritation 
soup or decoction thus prepared should 
be carefull7 strained, so as thoroughly to 
remove the skins and all other extraneous 
matters. The juice of oranges, grapes 
raspberries, b'ackberries, huckleberries, 
tamarinds, currants, or cranberries may 
be added to water as a beverage in fevers. 
Thus used, they not only increase the 
quantity of water which the patient is 
enabled to drink, by giving to it a dis- 
tinct and agreeable flavor, but also aid 
the elimination of poisons with which the 
system is struggling, by a slight diuretic. 
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