The Placer herald., 1872-03-09
HOUSE AND FA Il n.

ounce white wax with two ounces sperma-
ccti, pour it into small dishes, about half an
inch deep, to harden, and add to your boiled
starch small piece. let my starch boil
for some minutes, and find that it improves
i: very much to strain itthrough a thin cloth.
Throw in the collars and cuffs while hot, and
when cool wiring out and starch the shirts,
and if starclled over night they do not need
to be dried before ironing, except aprons,
skirts, ETC., and often do not dry even
these. This preparation gives them almost
the gloss polishing does. The gloss of new
shirts is made with polishing iron. Heat
the iron, and after ironing your linen rub it
over with damp cloth, and rub the round
ing end of the iron on a hard wood board.
Be sure you have plenty of elbow strength
and patience, and after practice you can
make beautiful gloss. But it scarcely pays
to use the polishing iron, though it will pay
to go to some laundry won IN and learn how
to do such work. Iprefer con-starch to the
common kind Il. S. IN the Household.
FEEDING BEES. Two years ago we sug
gested tlio addition of glycerine to sugar
syrup as bee feed to prevent candying.
We found it satisfactory on trial, and several
correspondents used it with advantage. Add
ing half an ounce of glycerine to pint of the
syrup while yet warm makes suitable mix
ture, though larger proportion Of the for
mer may bc employed where it can be pro-
cured cheap enough to make it an object
Pure inodorous glycerne is itself an excellent
occasional bee feed, bat is commonly too
high in price for economical! use; nor should
we advise it to be used exclusively, if that
were not an objection. We have never tried
cream of tartar to prevent candying, and in
cline to doubt its availability for that pur-
pose.-Am. Bee Journal.
Do NOT RIDICULE CHILDREN Children
often seem to say very absurd things, for
which they are ridiculed or ahashcd. Nothing
however, can be more cruel than this, for
the child has merely done what many phil
osopher has done before him. jumped to a
wrong concluson; and if, instead of being
ridiculed and made to distrust himself, and
avoid the venturing bis little speculations be-
fore us in future, we had been at the trouble
have discovered how naturally, perhaps, the
idea had arisen, or how ingeniousy, through
lack of knowledge, the little mind had put
together lnconSruOus thmSs.
JOINING RUBBER. Rubber is easily Joined
and made as strong as the original fabric, by
softening before fire and laying the edges
carefully together, without dust, dirt or
moisture between them. The edges so joined
must be freshly cut in the beginning. Tub
ing can be united by joining the edges around
glass cylinder, which has previously been
rolled with paper. After the glass is with
drawn the paper is easily abstrac:cd SifI
-four or ashes through the tube to prevent
the sides from adhering from accidental con-
tact.
PREsERvIsG GRAPES. Travellers inform
us that the Chinese have a method of pre-
serving grapes, so as to have them at their
command during the entire season; and a
recent author gives us the following account
of the method adopted: 1t consists of cutting
circular piece out of ripe pumpkin, or
gourd. making an aperture large enough to
admit the hand The interior is completely
cleaned out, the ripe grapes are placed inside
and the cover replaced and pressed in firmly.
The pumpkins are then placed in cool place
and the grapes will be found to retain their
freshness for long time.
CHOCOLATE CAKE.-One cup sugar, one-
half cup butter, one-half cup milk, two eggs,
one teaspoonful soda and two cups flour;
crate one-half cake chocolate and mix with
one-half cup milk and the yolk of one egg;
sweeten to taste, and add one teaspoon va
na; boil till soft, and then mix together
and bake three-quarters of an hour. This
will make one very large cake. Or bake
the first mixture in sheets, and after baking
the chocolate, spread it between, and it will
make delicious chocolate jelly cake.
MUSHROOM CATsup-Clean the mush-
rooms by wiping them and cutting off the
ends of the stems. Put them in deep
pan, and sprinkle salt over each layer. Let
them remain two days; then put them in a
seive and strain off the juice. Pour it into
your preserving kettle, add twelve cloves,
twelve allspice, two or three pieces of mace,
and half of a small nutmeg, grated. Let it
boil for fifteen minutes; remove it from the
fire, and let it stand for two or three days
Strain, and bottle for use.
TAPIocA CREAM.-At night put two heap
ing tablespoonsful to soak, and in the morn
ing drain off the water, beat the yolks of
two eggs with half cup of sugar, little
nutmeg and the tapioca, and stir into quart
Of boiling milk and boil about ten minutes,
then pour into dish. Beat the whites of
the eggs to a froth with little sugar, flavor
with lemon or vanilla, spread smoothly over
the cream and Tut into the oven and brown.
Eat cold.
USEFUL CEMENT The following cement
is found to be excellent for use in cases where
it is desirable to join or close vessels for con-
tanning the vapor of acids, or highly corro-
sive substances: Beat and sift finely dry
pipe clay; add painters drying oil, and mix
in mortar, to a moulding consistency. Use
this lutte in cylinders, fattened, and applied
to the Jennings. The points to which applied
must be perfectly clean and dry.
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