Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-09
MON AND AMERICAN.
no THE HOUSEWIVES.
To Clean n Hair Brush.

Put a tablespoonful of spirits Of hartshOrn
in pint Of water, and wash the brush in
it. It will very quickly make the brush as
clean as new.
To Written the Hands.
Wine-glassful of eau de cologne, and an
other of lemon Juice; then scraYe two
cakes of homemade soap to pow Ger, and
mix well in a mold. When hard it will be
an excellent soap for whitening the hands.
.-. Cleaning stoves.
Stove lustre, when mixed with turpentine,
and applied in the usual manner, is blacker,
more glossy and durable than when mixed
with any other GqEid. The tuTpentine pre-
vents rust, and when put on an old rusty
stove, will make it look as well as new.
Baked Indian Pudding.
Scald quart of milk and stir in seven
tablespoonsful of Indian meal, a teaspoon
full of salt, teacup Of mOlasses, and a ia
blespoonful of ginger or caSsia; bake from
three to four hours. If you want whey you
must pour in little cold milk after it is all
mixed. Here is good recipe for
Beef Steak SmOthered with Onions.
Cut up six onions very fine; put them in
a saucepan with two cupfuls of hot water,
about two ounces of good butter, some pep
per and salt; dredge in flour. Let it stew
until the onions are quite soft, then have
the steak broiled, put into the saucepan
with the onions; then simmer about ten
minutes, and send TO the table very hot.
when Not TO Eat.
Never eat when very much fatigued.
Wait until rested. Never eat Just before
you expect to engage in any severe mental
or physical exercise. Never eat while in a
passion, or while under great mental ex-
element, whether of a depressing or ele-
waiting character. Never eat Just before
taking bath Of any kind. Never eat just
before retiring for the night. Never eat
between regular meals.
Cure for Burns.
A correspondent at Huntsville, Ala, says
mutton suet with just enough Of coal tar in
it to color it, will heal up burns very rapidly.
He gives an instance of a child whose hand
was so badly burned that all the skin pealed
of, yet by the use of this mixture it was
cured up in three weeks without leaving a
scar.
Cures for ChiIIs and FeVers.
q. W, Macon, Ca, writes the Rural
Neto YOrke, that he has cured cases of two
or three years standing with two doses,
given on separate days, of Gor an adult)
one tablespoonful of mandrake or May
apple, (POdOphylllmt peitai11a) root. He
says ''grind it in a coffee mil; clean the
mill with corn meal; it can be made into
pills with a small amount of -four"
A lady sends the Atlanta Plantation the
following recipe, which she states has
wrought some remarkable cures within her
observation of this eXhausting malady:
Teaspoonful corn meal, one ground black
pepper and one Of whisky; give separately
and successfully every hour during the day
for two or three days, beginning early in
the morning; to be followed by some active
medicine.
Washing WOOIeDs.
If YOU do not wish to have white flannel
shrink when washed, make a good suds of
hard soap, and wash the flannel in il, with
out rubbing any soap on them; rub them
out in another suds, then wiring them out Of
It, and put them in clean tub, and turn on
sufficient boiling water to cover th' m. A
little indigo in the boiling water makes the
fannels look nicer. If you wish to have
your fannels shrink, SO as TO have them
thick, wash them in soft soap suds, and
rinse them in cold water. COlOred wOOlens
that incline to fade should be washed in
beef's gall and warm water before they are
put into soap suds. COlored pantaloons
look very well washed with beef's gall and
fair warm water, and pressed on the wrong
side while damp.
bleeding at the Nose. .
A correspondent writes: Some Two years
ago, while going down Broadway, in New
York. blood commenced running from my
nose quite freely. l stepped aside and APP
piled nv handkerchief, intending to repair
to the nearest hotel, when a gentleman ac-
costed me,saying; "Just putt piece Of paper
in your mouth, chew it rapidly, and il will
stop your nose from bleeding. Thanking
him rather doubtfully, did as he suggest
ed, and the flow of blood ceased almost i'm
mediately. i have seen the remedy tried
since quite frequently,and always with sue
cess. Doubtless any substance would an
swer the same purpose as paper, the stop
PAGE of the flow of blood being caused, no
doubt, by the rapid motion Of the jaws and
the counteraction Of the muscles and AFTER
les connecting the jaws and the nose. Ply
sicans say that placing small roll Of paper
or muslin above the front teeth, under the
upper lip, and pressing hard on the same,
will arrest bleeding from the nOse-checking
the passage Of blood through the arteries
fbroupb the nose.