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Miscellaneous household tips from the past

To keep cheese, wring a cloth out of Vinegar water and wrap cheese in it. Wrap in waxed paper and store in the refrigerator.

Nut meats will come out in halves, if soaked overnight in water before cracking.

It's east to remember anniversaries and special days with a greeting if you select all your cards at one time. Address the envelopes and index them according to the date they should be mailed.

Sprinkly talcum powder into new shoes. They will seem much more comfortable when first worn.

Frozen water pipes can be thawed with salt if in a vertical positon and open at the upper end. Put in plenty and give it time.

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Do you live in a small town? Then you'll agree with the following.

You live in a small town if

“You can't walk for exercise because every car that passes offers you a ride.”

“You dial a wrong number and talk for 15 minutes anyway.”

“The local paper devotes half of the front page to your wedding.”

“Someone asks how you feel and listens to what you say because they really want to know.”

“There are more people standing in front of the stores talking than there are inside shopping.”

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Be careful who you ask to write your epitaph – These are some found on tombstones

In England

“Here lies the body of Joan Carthew

Born at St. Columb, died at St. Cue

Children she had five,

Three are dead; and two alove;

Those that are dead choosing rather

To die with their mother than live with their father;

On a gravestone of a wandering husband

“At least I know where he is at night!”

For a hated man named Jim Coleman

“If Heaven be pleased when sinners cease to sin;

If Hell be pleased when sinners enter in,

If Earth be pleased when ridded of a knave

Then all are pleased for Coleman's in his grave;

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Have you ever heard this old southern sayings?

“He run like a scalded dog!”

 “That stuff's as scarce as hen's teeth.”

 “That boy can run faster than greased lightning.”

 “Now don't go gittin' y'r feathers ruffled.”

 “It's right as rain.”

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