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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
TO WASH MUSLINS.
■ Some of these wash admirably with
-a little care in the laundry. If the colors
are not fast, add a handful of salt to each
gallon of rinsing water. It is best to
try a small piece first if possible. Lay
them in cold water to soak, to get the
worst of the dirt out of them, then soap
them lightly and put them in tepid water,
and wash them thoroughly with good
soap; rinse them through cold water
(with salt, if needed) and dry quickly.
Use no starch, and fold them before
they are quite dry, ironing them lightly
with a not too hot iron. Washed in this
way whenever they get to look soiled they
should look as good as new r .— Washing¬
ton Star.
AET OF COOKING VEGETABLES.
Vegetables form a most agreeable and
useful part of our daily food, and they
should be made the object of greater
study than they usually are. They should
be dressed with taste as w T ell as care. The
fresher all green vegetables are the more
wholesome. When they are so they
break or snap crisply, but should they
bend without breaking, or have a wilted
appearance they are stale.
Soft water is much the best to use for
cooking vegetables, if pure and clean,
but if hard water is used have it freshly
drawn and put in a little soda to soften.
Nearly all vegetables should be thorough¬
ly cooked and are spoiled if either over
or under done. Those young and ten¬
der require less time than those more
matured.
Green vegetables with some exceptions
should be cooked in plenty of salted
water, putting them in at its first boil.
The quantity of salt to be used is a large
tablespoon to one gallon of water. All
vegetables are done as soon as tender
and should be immediately taken up and
drained in a colander.
Onions should be soaked in salted warm
w T ater previous to cooking to partly re¬
move any strong odor they may possess.
Peas, string-beans and green corn should
not be prepared for cooking until about
ready to be used.
Turnips, carrots and onions should
not be split, but sliced in rings across, as
they cook thus sooner.
A very small bit of red pepper put in
the water in which either meat or vege¬
tables arc boiled will, to some extent,
deodorize the steam and save the disa¬
greeable odor arising from cabbage,
onions, etc.
Potatoes should be pealed as thinly as
possible, as the better part lies neatest
the skin .—New York Press.
nOW TO MAKE STARCH.
Tlierc are very few housekeepers who
do not admire the “laundry finish” on
shirts and collars, etc., and wish they
could equal the stiffness and gloss at
home. There's a great deal in the starch.
Take the required amount of the best
quality and mix it with a little cold
water; take out a fourth of it, and cook
the rest, stirring to keep it from being
lumpy; let it cool a little, when it has
cooked enough—ten minutes, perhaps—
then stir in the rest, which both tvhitens
and stiffens the cooked starch. It should
now be very thick, as thick as you can
rub it into the clothes, which of course
must be dry.
Rub the starch into the clothes while it
is as hot as you can handle it, rubbing
w'ell with the hands, straighten out the
garment and rub well with the ball of the
hand, using a little fresh starch to rub in,
then roll up and let lie about ten minutes.
The shirt is then ready to iron.
You want hot flatirons, as hot as you
can use them, so hot they will scorch dry
cloth if left on it. Iron the body of the
shirt rapidly; this will make the heat just
right for the cuffs. Rub them over lightly
on the wrong side, then a little harder,
then turn and finish on the right side
with pressure, then iron the band, Get
another hot iron for the bosom, cool it
by ironing a rag or a towel. See there
are no wrinkles in the bosom or in the
back under it, turn it on your table so
the centre of the bosom is parallel with
the edge of the table, rub quickly but
lightly once or more, then “go for it”
with all the muscle you have; then the
other half, Put in your shirt board;
dampen about half of one side of the |
bosom, and with your polishing iron I
press as heavily as you can and iron it; J
fast. That brings the polish—and the
perspiration.
You cannot do fine work without a
polishing iron. IVith it and plentv of
elbow grease you can. And you don't
want wax. tallow, spermaceti or any
thing else in your starch .—Michigan
Farmer.
RECIPES.
Coffee Jelly—Take two tablespoonfuls
of gelatine and pour it over one pint of
good coffee. When dissolved strain and
set awav in the ice chest to cool and
thicken* Serve with sweetened cream
flavored with vanilla.
Frieandeau of Veal—The part of the
leg of veal which is called frieandeau, is
used for this purpose. Lard the veal the
same as a fillet of beef; roast in medium
hot oven: baste frequently and cook
through, but not too well done; make a
nice sauce iu pan and serve with the veal.
Lettuce Salad—Take lettuce, washed
well and chopped coarse, and make a
dressing as follows: Mix one saltspoon
ful of salt and one-half saltspoonful of
pepper m a cup. Add one tablespoon
ful of oil. When thoroughly mixed add
one tablesooonful of vinegar and two
more tabi Pour
lettuce an<r? onfuls of 0lL over
Fruit Tapic* Pick and wash
three-quarters C over
of . earl , ta , .
Put it in doubi P P 10Ca -
a ller h P“{ f .^
a half of boiling 3 wl ' a an
and transparent, sf; Cook till soft
nearly a sahspoonfui ^ often. Add
of ’ * rter o{
a cup sugar, one goov zed banana
and one large, juicy, swl! ““““l
in thin slices. Serve with oran » t ’ ‘
,
Cauliflower Gratin—Boi, am.
au
well done in salted water, the t
sauce; plain vegetable put in cauliflower; dish a ladleful oi^ eanj
fill dish nicely; arrange ^ ( ,
cover the top with ci nv
sauce; sprinkle over that fine bre.j
crumbs mixed with a little parmesa
cheese; besprinkle with melted
and brown in serve hot.
Egg Bread—Beat four eggs very light
and stir into a pint of sweet or sour
milk; if sour milk is used add a little
soda; mix in a large spoonful of butter,
take a quart of sifted Indian meal and
pour over it sufficient boiling water to
scald it, stirring it to a stiff, smooth
mass; add the milk and tablespoonful of
sugar; beat well and bake in a pan or
muffin rings. More eggs can be added
if desired. Sweet milk is better to use
than sour.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
An electric motor has been applied in
Chicago for running brushes used in
grooming horses.
The assertion is made that the Ameri¬
cans—a pre-eminently mixed race—fire
fast becoming a dark haired and blue
eyed nation.
A Russian mineralogist, Iv. D. Chrust
schoff, claims to have discovered a new
metal, which lie proposes to name “Rus
sium.” It resembles thorium.
A paper on the sardine read by M.
Boucher before the Paris Academy of
Science expresses the opinion that it is a
young fish which has not attained its full
development.
A citizen of Winnemucca, Col., while
making some changes in his well, discov¬
ered that trees 100 feet away had sent
roots to and down into the well How
did the trees discover the well?
Dr. Foster, director of the University
Ophthalmic Clinique at Breslau, believes
that a common cause of short sightedness
in the young is restriction of the circula¬
tion produced by the wearing of tight fit¬
ting collars.
The population of Norway exhibits a
higher percentage (97.25) of light eyes
than any other country in Europe. Flaxen
hair occurs in 57.5 per cent., while abso¬
lutely black hair is only found in the ratio
of two i^er cent.
The danger to life and property from
sparks emitted from electric light wires
has been so well recognized in London
mat it is recommended tmu mo city nu
thorities take the matter in hand and see
that the wires are properly insulated.
From a recent study of the bones of
anthropoid apes it appears that the go¬
rilla and chimpanzee approach nearest to
man, but in different degrees, orang¬
outang holding the third place. But
great differences exist between the pro¬
portions of the human frame and those
of all the apes.
Probably the most important inven¬
tion shown at the Paris Exposition is a
new railway, to be run by water power 124
at a speed frem eighty-seven to
miles an hour with absolute safety. It
promises to revolutionize the railway
system, doing away with the locomotive
engine and dispensing with coal.
The floods of the summer have shown
how great a protection against the in¬
roads of water a row of willow trees may
be. The engineer in charge of the Poto
mac River improvements says that where
willows were planted the land was pro¬
tected from washing, and practically improved no
damage was done, while in the
land not so protected there was great
loss.
The Indian Planter's Gazette says that
“Dr. Lazarus, the well-known oeculist,
has invented a shooting spectacle made
with adjustable shutters for use as ordi
dinary distant spectacle for target shoot¬
ing, and which modified will be found
most • useful to target shooters. This
useful invention will be found a God
send to near-sighted soldiers and sports
men.”
It is stated that about five hundred
veterinary surgeons in Great Britain have
signed a paper. condemning overhead
check reins as painful to horses and pro
ductive of disease. It distorts the v.ind
i _ liable _ . of
pipe, an< * s face, to cause apoplexy, paralysis
the muscles of the coma
and inflammation of the brain, all tnese
resulting in shorting the life of the
horse.
President Diaz, during the four years
of his administration in Mexico, has ren
dered substantial services to science by
encouraging archeological investigation
and taking measures for the preservatiorf
of ancient monuments and historical re
mains. The ruins of Xochicalco and the
pyramids of Teotihuaean have been ex¬
plored, and the searchers rewarded by
many interesting discoveries. An archaeo¬
logical map of the republic has been
made, and the palaces of Mitla inclosed,
for their preservation, by a great wall.
The State of Pueblo, Mexico, offers
$5000 for the first silk-weaving estab¬
lishment put up in the State.
Four-fifths of our agricultural land is
divided among four million families.
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Has fust opened at the Hudson <C Johnston corner a stock of f resit
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Cash paid for Country Produce—Chickens, Butter, Eggs, &c.
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