The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-02-03
USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.

GONE who knows" makes it a point to
select cow with yellow skin. One
whose skin is pale or colorless is not,
he says, half so likely to produce good
butter.
GRAHAM BREAD.-Two cups Of sweet
milk, two cups of sour milk or buttermilk,
One-half a cup of molasses, one teaspoon
full of soda, with unbolted wheat meal to
make stiff batter.
Mr.. DALTON, of England, by careful
experiment, has shown that where there
is mellow soil three feet under any crop,
it can defy the weather and come to ma
turity without drop of rain after the 1st
of June.
Corn STARCH CAKE.-The whites of
twelve eggs, three cups of sugar, one cup
of butter, three cups of flour, one cup Of
corn starch, one cup of milk, two tea
spoons of cream tartar, one teaspoon of
soda, add essence to suit taste.
THE most easily digested articles of food
as yet known are sweet apples baked, cold
raw cabbage sliced in vinegar and boiled
rice the most indigestiblc arc suet, boiled
cabbage and pork the former require an
hour, the latter five
You can increase the comfort and
cleanliness OF garment greatly by expos
ing 1t for hours to stron. heat, short of
scOrching. You can evaporate odors in
this way-that of the polecat (skunk) eff
fectually. This is but another way of
washing.
! y CORRESPONDENT of the Country Gen.
hemGn says that hand friction-always
rubbing dOwn-will certainly keep wind
gals from increasing, and if well applied
for half an hour at time, twice day,
will removed new one, or materially check
| one of long standing.
A LADY writes to the London Standard
saying that scarlet fever and kindred dis
eases may be treated successfully by
means of the Turkish bath. One of her
children, aged four, being attacked by
scarlet fever, was wheeled in a perambu-
lator to Turkish bath, and was much
better when she returned home. For four
successive mornings she underwent the
same process, and the progress of the dis
sease was rapid aud satisfactory.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Western RAJ
raj tells how German woman cooks foot
for four great fat hogs" She has bar
rel sunk in the ground. In this is placed
some meal, and on this is poured wash
boiler of boiled potatoes and carl OTIS
which are then rapidly mashed, with
"great FOUNDER" More meal is thel
thrown in and the barrel is tightly cover
ed. The whole mess is cooked by tn
heat of the potatoes and carrots. Thes
are cooked twice day.
MANY dangerous fever has been cause,
by the foul air from dark, damp and un
ventilated cellars. Confined air, withou
the purifying influence of sunlight, 500
becomes impure and unwholesOme Mos
cellars serve as a reservoir for this impur
air, which, in addition, is loaded with dc
composing organic matters and foul gases
given off from the masses of decayin
vegetables with which they are stored
Cellars should be kept as clean, pure, an
well ventilated as any portion of tn
: hOuse.-IHe Household.
GOOD RULEs.-Stop grumbling, get u
two hours earlier in the morning, and be
gin to do something out of your regula
profession. Mind your own business, an
with all your might, let other people
alone. Live within your means. Sc
your horses. Give away or sell your dos
Smoke your cigars through an air stove
Eat with moderation, and go to bed early
Talk less of your own peculiar gifts an
virtues, and more of those of your friend
| =.
promises. Pay your debts. Be yourse
all you would see in others. Be a goo
man and stop grumbling.
SURE CURE FORTHE BITE OF A RATTLE
sNAKE.-An old lady sends the followin
remedy to the Chicago Tribune, havin
herself seen it tried with success: "Tak
equal quantities of onion, tobacco, and salt
make a poultice, and apply to the wound
at the same time tie a cord tightly aroun
the limb which is bitten, above the WOUND
| If very severe case, the pOultice ,shoul
be renewed every ten or fifteen minute
till the poison is all extracted. The sam
remedy has been known to cure the bit
of mad dog"
} TOBACCO smokers, SAYS the Londo
: Medical Mirror, must look to their eye!
I Proofs are accumulating that blindnes.
1 due to slowly progressive atrophy of tn
optic nerves, induced by smoking, is c
| frequent occurrence. In one of tn
: volumes of the "London Hospital Re
t ports" Mr.. Jonathan Hutchinson ha
C narrated several cases of amaurosis, tn
histories of which go to establish the fac
D that in each case the blindness wa
4 brought on by that rapidly increasing
!, and, rs it appears, baneful habit and i
Y the .Nedicdt Times md Gdzette, of a lat
| date, the same distinguished surgeon ha
II described another striking case of tObaC
e co amaurosis, ending in absolute blind
: ness, induced in eighteen months.
EVERY person who tolls daily at an
kind ~f labor requiring great physical o
d mental cxertiOn should be extremity care
: full to practice a regular system of ablu
ton at the close of each days work
}, Sometimes person may become so CON
: pletcly exhausted as to render this any
a thing but an inviting performance; yet b
: its omission great deal of refreshmcn
: which the hours of repose are designed
impart is lost. To be cleanly is a strictl
d religious duty, and is absolutely essentia
s to sound and refreshing slumber; henc
c the labor of keeping ones person clean
l amply repaid by the elasticity which TO
a lows nightly additions before retiring
i Heed this advice, and the reader wi
S sleep soundly; disregard it-gO to bed III
e washed, and you will rise in the mornin
c unrefreshed, with feelings of lassitud
T which the eXertiOns of the day will hardl
I be able to movc.-E'rchan9e.
: Let Horses Have Their Natural Cal
IT is bad policy to move team out {