HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
Avoid Fancy Cooking
Ybepe is altogether too much fancy
cooking “purees” nowadays. “Croquettes” and
take the place of the good old
fa-hioned cod-fish ba Is and hash, and
the stomach of the average American
cilazen is being gradually ruined by too
many kinds of food, and not enough
good the cooking. Some of the instruction
in cooking-schools is valuable, and
if put into practice would do a world of
good. the But such conceptions as enter
fearful and wonderful mind of the
“caterer” a j some of the fashionable
restaurants were better never thought
of.— Springfield Union.
Washing Feather-Beds.
Take advantage of sunny days to wash
feather-beds. My way is to shake all
the feathers into _ one end of the tich,
then sew it across to keep them there.
Set b tub of water on the floor and wash
the empty end, in warm soap-suds; rinse
thoroughly then in two waters, and starch;
pnt in some convenient place to
dry. When not quite dry iron well, so
ss to eook the starch into the cloth.
Then I shake the feathers into the other
end and proceed as before.
II & bed is not too much soiled, it may
be cleaned by spreading it on the roof
ef a low building in a good shower. It
should be turned and shaken while dry¬
ing. in tb When too much soiled to be cleaned
s way, the bed may be put in a
l»rge clean, basket and set in a tub or kettle of
warm suds out-of-doors. Let it
•oak till the suds aie nearly cold, then
stir well with a stick or paddle and lift
eut in the ba-ket to drain. Wash through
two the floor good suds, and rinse well. Dry on
of au unoccupied room, where
It can be well aired .—Prairie Farmer.
Undressing the Goose. ,
The goose is not injured by scalding
is [as improved the common both fowl, for the or the turkey), and but the
market
table. Moreover so far as my observa
tio i extends, the senseless habit of dry¬
picking “live and the prejudice in favor of
feathers” ha • e died out together.
We formerly kept cons derabie flocks of
geese, and every fa 1 bought, to fatten
miles slaughter, all that were raised for
around us, and we always held the
scalded feathers for a higher price than
those picked from the live geese during
the growing there season, and goi it, larger too, be
eause was among them a pro
portioD of down. We dipped the dead
goose into scalding water, moved it
and forth till the water had pene¬
to the skin, and then wrapped it
in a thick cloth till the scalding wns
so that the feathers could be
removed, the time varying from
e minutes for a gosling to ten for a
old goose.
It is a good plan, though net always
to plunge the picked carcass
cold water till the heat of the sur¬
of the body is removed. A more
method is to proceed at once to
the dres-ing, and cool the car¬
in iheair. The goose is a profitable profitable
fowl; indeed, I think, the most
under favoring circumstances. But the
on goo>e raising iu our ex¬
whi h extends over many
years, is that it roots out and kills many
the best grasses in our permanent pas¬
and encourages the growth of rauk
weeds, such as tbe goldenrod and daisy.
I have known geese to totally extermin¬
ate the grass in rich, good plots. drinking i p
land g' ese, that have sufficient,
water, are generally preferable for mar¬
to those which have unlimited in¬
dulgence in the use of water .—New
7 vtk Tribune.
Household Hints.
Inveterate tea-drinkers invite early
wrinkles.
Boiled or roasted onions are a specific
for colds on the chest.
Keep a iu separate possible. saucepan for boiling
potatoes if
In pressing flat embroidery, lay the
article wrong side up on a damp cloth,
Cloves are said to be a better preven¬
tive of moths than tobacco or camphor
•r cedar.
Apple sauce is much improved by tbe
addition of a tablespoonful of butter, and
requires less sugar.
New irons should be gradually heated
at first. After it has become used to the
heat it is not likely to crack.
If your sewing machine runs hard and
your o ler is empty, try as a substitute
equal parts of cleau lard and kerosene
oiL
To clean straw matting, wash with a
eloth dipped in clean salt and waer;
then wipe dry at once. This prevents it
from
Clean knives with a soft flannel aud
Bath brick. If rusty, use wood ashes,
rubbed on with a newly-cut bit of Irish
potato. This will remove spots when
nothing else will.
solving A good half disinfectant is made by dis¬
a dram of nitrate of lead in
a pint drams oi boiliug waler. then dissolve
two of common salt in eight or
ten quarts of water. *
If before grinding the morning’s coffee
the berries are heated for four or five
minutes, or until they take on a darker
shade of brown, the flavor of the coffee
will be much improved.
A room with a low ceiling will seem
higher the if the Lambrequins window curta ns hang to
boor. may be used to
extend the curtains to the ceiling and
thus carry out the effect.
Some jars in which lard has becu kept
and greasy pie plates may be cleansed by
putting them in a kettle with ashes or
sal soda, cover ng them withc.dd water,
and allowing them to boil slowly for
two hours. Let them cool in the water.
A sponge is excellent for washing
windows, and newspapers will polish
them without leaving dust and streaks.
Lse a soft pine stick to cleanse the ac
cummulations of di st from the corners
of the sash. Ammonia will give the
glass a clearer look than soap.
The Enervating Sirocco.
Most of the hot winds of the Old
World are modified forms of the simoon.
The sirocco originates in the Sahara and
travels nor hward to the Mediterranean
and Southern i urope, but it is not so
deadly as its prototype. It brings with
it great quantities of the desert sand, and
the air becomes so dense at times that
tho sun is obscure las if by a ondon fog.
While it remain-i on the African ma u
land it is character red by a very marked
drvness, as theie are no e tensive water
surfaces to supply it with moisture. is
soon, however, as it is launched over the
Mediterranean it i egins to take up copi¬
ous draughts, so that when it reaches
Malta, bicily, a"wind and the southern between shores south¬ of
Europe as from
east a id southwest, it has undergone a
change from a hot dry wind to a hot
damp wind. The result of this altera¬
tion is that it becomes most enervating
to the human constitution. Indeed,
while it prevails, from one to several
days at a t me, life is scarcely worth liv¬
ing, so de| wc-sing and burdensome is the
wind It is thu plumheun Au er of
IJo ace. Homan energy is puite dissi¬
pated under its fa'iguiug influence, and
with a temperature rang ng between
ninety-fi e degrees and one hundred
and ten degrees the stree s of the town
a eeted by it are deserted. According
to the Italians a stupid book is put
dowu as “era scritto in tempo del
scirocco.” To the Sicilians the oppres¬
sive wind is a perlect plague, for,
although naturally indolent, they cannot
stand the further loss of energy induced
by it. During its prevalence mildew, iron rusts,
clothes spoil with meat turns
putrid, g apes and greeu leaves wither,
wine will not fine, and | aint will not dry.
Sicily exper ences the sirocco about a
do/en times a year, but it is not so fre¬
quently met with n o her parts of Eu.
rope. There is no uistak ng the origin
of the wind, as the reddish sand is still
present whon it arrives on the northern
shores of the Medi erranean and cau-es a
m siy armo-phete. In Turkey the s rocco
is known as tho Samiel, or Sumyel, a
name ident cal in meaning with connection sirnnon.
It is supposed to have smne
with cattle di-ease in the south of iius
sia. On the Spanish Mediterranean
coast the wind draws more to the east,
and is known locally as tho solano, a
damp wind, so etimes accompanied and by
rain, cau-ing leverishness, dizziness,
re-tlessness, and people are so “doneup”
uniier its debilitating in uence that we
must “ask no favor during the solano.”
According ngiishman to the pauiards msonsible only a this pig
and an I are to
wretched Ineeze .—Onnhiil Mug nine.
yyiicu a Millionaire was a Rura Avis.
“ When I was a boy in tli s towu,” a
gray board said as he passed ay i .ould in
\ all st eet, ew ork, day “1 with was winking
along roadway one old my sue
wuen he po uted out a bent i.erman
going up the ste « of his house. * ook
at that man and you’ll sec ho only mill
ionaue in the l nited Slates.’ looked
w til wonder as. he told u.e’that a mdl
ionuiie was worth a mil inn dollars, and
1 saw ohn atob Astor. ILs grandsons
cm now toss up a hundred times as
much; so can the Vanderbilts, and so cau
.av ould. 1 tell you that a more mill
io are sn’t woith looking at in this
town nowadays. By and by you’ll see a
”—New YorlcHui.
Ladies in South American Tbeat
Marcus A. Mayer, the well-known the
atrioal agent, wl o managed Patti while
she was on her last trip to South Amer¬
ica, in a letter to a friend in Now York
from Montev do, soys:
“The girls here ore theloveliest I ever
saw. There is one part of the house
where they only allow ladies. That is
the ‘Cazuela.’ It is the circle just be¬
low the gallery, or ‘Paraiso,’ and one of
the male sex is not allowed there, and
ladies are not allowed to wear bonnets
in the Cazuela. The front row is re¬
served, and we oliarge $6 for these seats.
The back rows are for the admission
tickets to the Cazuela, nnd for these we
get $1.50. At about five o’clock the young
ladies commence congregating at the
door, and there t ey stand until 7
o’clock and keep up such a clatter and
row that the police often compel us to
open the doors and let them in at 6:30.
You should see the scramble! They are
worse than meu or boys. They take the
seats back of the front row, and those
who are lucky get a Seat, while the un¬
fortunate damsels are compelled to
stand up. This place will hold about
600 women, and it is a beautiful sight
to look up at them in all the colors of
the rainbow—beautiful brunettes, all
bedecked in diamonds. At the c'ose of
the performance a platoon of soldiers—
tifty men—forms on each side of the
floor at the exit to the streets and keeps
the orowd back, so that the young lad
i's can depart in peace, and as they fathers go
they are met by their brothers or
or some escort to see them home.
Lord Sackville’s official pn-tinn his in
ugland is i • n • wav changed s ncc
iismissal from VVa-liing’on. Upon ilie
ooks of t e forci n i ffi he i impl
“Lord Saekville, Minister to Washing
. h me on leave.’’ fiis salary goes
all the same.
he Ashbourne act, which has passed
S • House i f L ols an i now awaits
Q men Vic toria’s appro-al. s n-p y in
the amount ava 1 hie to bo i- nf to
rish temt ts for the pure-ase of es ates
■oin £VO <>0 0 !) t co £ 10,0 ' 0.0 0
At last we are treated to a novelty in the way
nf almanac-making. Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., the
i-iowell chemists, send us their Almanac for
1889, i . the shape of a g md-sizcd oo c, embrac¬
ing editions in English, calculated for various
sections of tire United States, the Dominion of
Canada, India, S>uth A frica, and Aust alia;
also, editions n nine other languages, The
volume c ntains also specimen pages of pam¬
phlets issued by the conpauy in eleven la 1 -
guages not re.presen edby the almanacs—twen
(y-one languages in alt. From the preface we
learn that no fewer than fourtesn millions of
these almanacs are pri itod yearly, lias placing
the work as far ahead of any otli *r of die kind
in circulation and value as Ayer’s Sarsaparilla
is ahead of all others in merit and popularity.
Be sure to secure a copy of this fa /orifce alma¬
nac at your druggist’s. It is a species of “vcilow
eovered literature” which no family should be
without .—Good Fellowship.
The first of a flee of eie< t ■ ea. power b ats
was auncliedon the river T am-. I on Ion.
Your Friead Committe f'ti'c «!**•
You never suspected it, none of his friends
dreamed of it, lie did not know it hims lr, but
it is exactly what ho did, nevertheless. I)o
you remem her liis sal low comp’ exion? Do y» *u
recol ect how he used to comp aim of head¬
aches and constipation? “I i-’- geiting 1 quite
bilious,” he said to you one da , “but gu ss
itM pass off. 1 haven’t done an thu g tor it,
because I don’t beievc in ‘dosing.’ ” boon al¬
ter that you heard of his death. It was very
sudden, and every one w as greatly surprised.
If he had taken Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purga¬
tive Peliets he wou d be alive and weil to-da
Don’ follow his example. '1 he “Pellets’ are
easy to take, mild in their action, and aiwftj s
sure.
In one year tli * United S'ates -wn to
Bremen 817,703 b arrels of petroleum.
We accidently overhca d the following dia¬
logue on the street yesto day: that dis¬
Jones. Smith, why don’t you stop
gust! g nawking and spittii \uu know g? I martyr
Smith. How can 1? am a
to catarrh. as’l the disease in its worst
J. Do did. I had
form but I am well now.
S. What did you do lor it?
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N. I’ve heard of it, and by .)• ve i’ll try it.
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'Hie London and Northw«*f rn ral'- ar
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