Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-10-20
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE

FURNITURE CREAM.-The following is
said TO be good Soft water gal. soap
4 or F; white wax in shavings Id. Boil
together, and add two ounces of pearlash.
To be diluted with water and laid on
with paint brush, and polished of with
q hard brush or cloth. Or, ID, wax, 8 o.;
pearlash, 2 o.; water, 8 OF. Heat to.
gether, and add OF. Of boiled oil, and
OF. spirits of turpentine. '9
VAMTY.-One egg, the smallest pinch
OF salt, and the same Of soda; mix very
stiff with -four; then take enough of this
stiff paste to spread out to the size of
sauce-p plate. When rolled AZ thin as
wafer, drop it in clean, sweet, hot lard.
As soon as it blisters, turn quickly. Take
out, crate or sprinkle fne white sugar over
1t to ill the h0llows formed by the bis
ters. Esa 4a ,.a.,l...s
ENGLISH MEAT PuDD1Hes. stake fat,
tender beef, cut in bits, season with sage,
pepper, and salt; then take suet, chop
very fine, make crust with it, and season
with salt; put your meat in, make into q
ball, tie up In cloth, and boil IL three or
four hours, according to the tenderness of
your beef; put bone or broken dish In
the bottom Of your kettle or n will stick
East. lir 1
/ As many of our readers, says an ex-
change, may not know the best manner
for cleaning black lace, the following are
the directions for doing 70: Sponge the
lace carefully with gin and wind it around
. bottle 70 dry, for II 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.
It must not be placed near the fire, as 1t
would give 1t rusty appearance,
To MAKE IMITATION Coral HANGING
BAsKETs.-Tak OLD hoops with the GOV.
ering on bend and tie in any shape de-
sired tie with wrapping twine, with ends
Of the twine left one fourth Of an inch
long cover the basket when formed with
knots or ties about one inch apart all over
the basket Then take onethAf pound Of
beeswax, melt II In . shsllow pan, stir In
enough Japanese vermillion to get the
color you wish, then roll the basket in the
melted wax until tits covered completely.
One made In this way. has hung exposed
to the weather for two years, and 10 still
a. good - now. ~ Dor 7sil#
y THERx ID . common, but false, notion
that frequent cutting Of the hair il favor
able to its growth. Mothers thus often
bespeu THAR. infants Of their frat silken
locks, with the idea that the second hair
will be much more rich and abundant
This II an error. The most beautiful and
4bounding heads Of hair We ever saw
were those which the scissors had never
touched. Mothers, not satisfied with
trimming the hair Of their children, often
have 1t shaved or cut II close 70 the scalp
when they And 1t b iosing some Of it's
brilliancy or falling ont, Except In rare
cases of disease, the total sacrifice of the
hair is unnecessary, and the second
growth IL never equal to the first. Get
ting the hair trimmed from time to time,
may be allowed % . matter Of conven-
fence, bat IL does not produce the benefit
generally attributed to it-Ahshasa.
IN FODDER yoB Hoes. LA correspondent of
the Journal Of Arseulturs says: have
never seen any distinetiOn made between
growing fodder for Gown and hogs, and
ONE might suppose .that there, Il none;
but there u quite difference. Any close
observer Will soe that COWS eat the blades
arst and then tho stalk. With hogs II is
lust the reverse; thsy look for nubbins
1rst, then the stalk, and lat tho blade III
iA an Ny expati6mcG i6thls II meant
~ I'D 70 dDwSy, I would ooW about forty
graino, 70 Tho foot II Il was intended for
boz would SOW about twenty 70 the
lboe. Where Il d s0Wn ab0ut twenty 10
~ loot, every aAlk VIII have q nnbbin
on IT, which n quite On item. I sow In
drills four and . half To- I've feet apart.
and cover WITH 3 o1NhoFse harrow, e e
eomse ~ moge svsn than Il covered n