If milk or grease boil over on the
kitchen range salt spread over It will
prevent the disagreeable odor that
would otherwise rise from It
By placing a screen In front of a
bed-room window at night the room
may be well aired while the bed and
sleepers are shielded from a direct
draught
Toasted Bacon for Picnic.
When on a picnic toast toe bacon In
a corn popper. The meshes being
mall, the bacon is prevented from
slipping through Into the fire, a It
would were a broiler need. The long
handle enable the cook to stand well
jut of the smoke.
To Preserve Egg Yolk.
Often, after baking, several egg
yolk an left over. They will keep
fresh for days, without drying. If pat
Into a cap and covered with cold wa
ter. McClure's Magazine.
a&AllAROUND
BATTLE HEAT IS REAL
SOLDIERS PERSPIRE AFTER
FIGHT IN ZERO WEATHER.
Captain of Confederate Cavalry Tell
of Experience He Had in the
Shenandoah Valley During
the Civil War.
The expression, "the heat of bat
tle," often used by poets and histo
rians, Is usually taken In a figurative
sense and supposed to refer not to
actual temperature of the combatants,
but to the intense emotional exclte
reent under which tbey labor, says
the Youth's Companion: But a vet
eran of the Civil war, who ought to
know, declares that the heat of battle
Is an actual bodily heat
"It Is no mere figure of speech,"
lays Capt. Samuel Chapman, who was
a trooper In the battalion of Col. John
S. Mosby, the famous Confederate
cavalry commander. "On the con
trary, In a hot fight the Boldlers are
often almost overpowered by the
sense of oppressive warmth, even In
the coldest weather.
