The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-10-13
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

THE Boston Journal Of Chemistry says
a good cement for aquariums may he
made of equal parts of dry white and red
lead mixed into a paste with mastic var
nish, and used Immediately
GARDENING FOR LADIRs.-Make up
your beds early in the morning; seq but
tons on your husbands shirts Go not
rake up any grievances; protect the
young and tender branches OF your fam
lily; plant smile of good temper IN your
face, and carefully root out all angry feel
ings-and expect a good crcp of happi-
ness
FURNITURE CREAM.-The following is
said TO be good Soft water. gal. soap
OF white wax IN shsvings 1 Id. Boil
together, and add two ounces Of pearlash.
To be diluted with water and lai5 on
with q paint brush, and polished eff with
hard brush or cloth. Or, 81, wax, or. !;
pearlash, 2 o.; water, or Heat to-
gether, and add 4 oZ of boiled Gil, and 5
oz spirits of turpentine.
VANITY.-One egg, the smallest pinch
of salt, and the same of soda; mix very
stiff with flour; then take enough Of this
stiff paste to spread out to the size Of q
sauce plate. When rolled as thu as q
wafer, drop it ia clean, sweet, hot lard.
As soon as it blisters, turn quickly. Take
ous, gra.e or sprinkle fine white sugar over
it 80 I'll the hollOws formed By the bis
tiers.
ENGLISH MEAT PUDDINGs Take fat,
tender beef, cat IN bits, season with sage,
pepper, and salt; then take suet, chop
very fine, make q crust with it, AMI season
vita salt; put your NEST in, make into a
ball, tie up il cloth. and boil It three or
tour hours, according to the tenderness OF
your beef; put d bore or broken dish in
the bottom o: your kettle or it VII stick
fast.
AS many Of our readers, says an ex-
change, may not know the best manner
for clesning black lace, the following are
the directions for doing so: Sponge the
lace carefully with gin and wind it around
bottle to Dry, for if touched with an iron
it would look glossy and flattened Some
people ill the bottle With warm water,
which causes the lace to dry more quickly.
1t must not be placed near the fire, as ii
would give 1t rusty appearance,
To MAKE IMITATION CORAL HANGING
BASKETS. Take OH hoops with the COY
ering on; bend and tie IN any shape dc
sired /; tie with wrapping Irvine, with erdS
of the tHine left one fourth OF an lIcn
long; cover the basket when formed with
knots or ties about one inch apart all over
the basket Then take nehaif pound Of
beeswax, melt it ia i shallow pan, stir III
enough japanese vermiliion "a get the
color you wish, then roll the basket IN thu
melted wax until Il is covered completely
| One made III this way has hung exposed
TO the weather for two years, and Is still
as good as new.
THERE is q common, bat false, notion
that frequent cutting of TIE hair is favor
able TO it's growth Mothers thus often
bespoil their infants Of their first silkeT
locks with The idea thai the second hail
will be much more rich and abundant
This is an error. The most beautiful an(
Astounding heads of hair we ever saw
were those which the scissors had nevel
touched. Mothers, not satisfied will
trimming the hair of their children, otter
| have it shaved or cut it close to the scalI
when they find it is losing some of i'll
brilliaucy or falling out. Except In rart
cases of disease, the total sacrifice of the
hair is unnecessary, and the second
growth is never equal TO the first. Get
ting the hair trimmed from time to tiGle
may be allowed IS matter Of conven
fence, but it does not produce the benefit
generally attributed to it.-Ecohangs.
FODDER FOR HoGs-A correspondent O.
the Journal Of Agstculture says: ! hav.
never seen any distinction made between
growing fodder for cows and nogs, anG
one might suppose that there is none
but there is quite difference. ANY close
observer Will see that cows eat the blades
first and then the stalk. With hogs it il
just the reverse; they look for nubbin'
first, then the stalk, and last the blade ii
at ALL My experience is this IF l mean
to feed to cow, l would SOW about forty
grains TO the foot if it was intended fol
hogs 1 would SOW about twenty 10 tn,
foot. Where it is sOwl about twenty K
the foot, every stalk will have nubbiI
ON it, which is quite al item. l SOW il
drills four and halt TO five feet apart
and cover with a one-hOrse harrow, as i
comes up more even than if covered IL
any other way.