Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-10-08
AND HOUSEHOLD
USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.

THE farmer who stints his fields is as
unwlse and improvident as he who starves
his working cattle-in both cases he is di-
minishing the ability of faithful servant
to be useful to him.
ALEXANDER DUMAS recommends onion
soup as an infallible remedy for nervous
prostratlon, headache, and debility. He
prepares his soup, which has become quite
famous among the gourmands of the
French capital, of cream and onions.
To CLARITY TALLow AND HARDEN IT
Take two pounds of alum to every
twenty pounds of tallow. Dissolve it in
water, and put in pint of the tallow be,
fore the water gets hot. Boil whole day,
and next day melt and strain the tallow.
To REMOVE WHITE Spots FROM FUR
NITURE.-Rub the spots with pulverized
punlice-stone wet with water, and then
with buckskin moistened with sweet-oil
or, put piece of paper on the spot, and
hold warm iron over it, and rub with an
oiled cloth. 3gga 5
To TAKE Ink FROM FURNITURE, CAR
PETS AND FLooRs.-Wipe the spot with
oxallc acid; let it remain few minutes,
then rub 1t with cloth wet with warm
water. Colored paint, mahogany and car
pets, will require washing with the harris
horn-water to restore the original color.
To MAKE CALICoEs WASH WELL.-In-
fuse three, gills of salt in four quarts OF
boiling water, put the calicoes in while hot,
and leave them till cold in this way the
colors are rendered permanent, and will
not fade by subsequent washing So says
a lady who has frequently made the ex-
pertinent herself ~
To CLEAN IRONS FROM RUsT.-Pound
some glass to a fine powder, and having
nailed some linen or wooden cloth upon
board, lay upon it a strong coat of gum
water, and sift thereon some of your pow
dered glass, and let it dry. Repeat this
operation three times, and when the last
covering of powdered glass is dry, you
may easily rub off the rust from iron uten-
sis with the cloth thus prepared.-Ar-
thurs magazine. r'-.. ..
LET THE YOUNG CLOVER GRow.-Keep
stock of all kinds off the fields where
young grass, and particularly young clover
Of any kind, is growing, as the tramp of
heavy animals, and the close nipping OF
colts and sheep, will damage the growth
of such young plants more than the value
OF hay necessary to maintain the same
animals while they may be feeding on a
given field where young clover is growing.
No stock should be allowed to Craze on
young grass or clover until after the end
of the growing season. And even then,
it would be more profitable to purchase
hay, and allow the new heritage to remain
where it grew to protect the roots during
the winter, and after decaying to afford
pabulum to promote the growth of the
crop the following season. Very few
farmers really apprehend how much dam
age is done to their young grass by pastur.
ing it before the roots have attained a
large size.-Hearth and Home. .-
EVERY body should live on the sunny
side of their houses as much as possible
and allow the suns genial rays to pene-
trate the rooms. Darkened parlors are
fashionable evils. True, it is gloomy
enough to be ushered into a tomb-like
apartment, where one can scarcely grope
his way to seat and to discover, when
his eyes become accustomed to the dim
light, that every chair and sofa has on its
linen "duster," apparently equipped for
travelling to some unknown land. But
ladies must have their carpets kept bright
and fresh, even if their cheeks are the
paler for it! And so the shutters are
tightly closed, and the heavy curtains
drawn. But for the sake of health and
beauty, ladies, let this be done only in the
"best parlor," if it must be done at all
Let the rooms where the family live be
cheerful and sunny. No lady would ex-
pect her house-plants to send out full
brilliant blossoms, unless she placed them
at window where the sunshine would
invigorate them. No more should she
expect her children to show fresh, rosy
compilations, or to develop genial DISPOSE
lions, unless they live in light, sunny, airy
rooms.