The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-12-06


purely
To the red ripe apple upon the bough.
What do I mourn? Alas, no knowing
Nothing is lost that is worth the showing,
Only feel that summer is going
Summer is goiDg-summer is gone!
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
CARBOLIC ACID.
Carbolic acid is said to be a SOW
ereign remedy for mosquitoes and
flies. A few drops evapOrated in a
room, or poured upon the clothes,
will keep the winged pests at com
Portable distance.
BLOSSOMS.
If the blossoms of Towering
plants ara cut off as soon as they
fade, it viii greatly extend the sea-
son of their blooming. The plant
exhausts itself more in maturing the
seed than in all the previous growth.
LAMPS.
Lamp chimneys are most apt to
crack after being washed. They are
less apt to break if moistened with
the breath and polished with a white
cloth or paper, and afterward with a
chamois skin, which gives them a
clear brilliancy.
MINCE PIE.
One cup OF raisins, one cup of
currauts, one cup of strip, one Of
sugar, three fourths of O cup of vim
egar, one teaspoonful of cinnamon,
three cups of water. Boil all to-
gether, and when cool add three soda
crackers rolled fine. This will make
three pies.
CARPETS.
Brilliant red carpets as we'll as
green ones are often found to contain
arsenic. Lead in various forms, is
also used in the glazing of some
cuffs and collars made of paper.
When the hands and neck perspire,
or any abrasion of the skin occurs,
the lead is absorbed, and poisoning
results.
! CHEESE.
Boil two chickens till tender, take
out all the bones, and chop the meat
fine, season to your taste with salt,
pepper, and butter, pour in enough
of the liquid they were boiled in to
make it moist, put into whatever
mold you may wish, and when
cold turn out and cut into slices. It
is excellent.
! BEAN SOUP.
Wash the beans and boil them with
salt pork. When soft, take them
out, and pass through the colander.
Then put them back into the same
water they were boiled in, with four
hardbailed eggs cut in quarters,
and lemon sliced, and little pep
per, if you like it. Boil again, and
serve. This soup is very nice.
CREAM PIES.
-Four eggs, one cup of -four, one
of sugar, beat together, thinned
with little milk; bring one quart of
milk almost to boil, add a little
salt, cool, and add extract of lemon.
Make a nice crust and bake the up
per and under crusts separate; and
when baked place the cream pies be-
tween.
DRIED FRUIT.
Place your fruit in a steamer over
a pot of boiling water, covered
tightly. When thoroughly heated,
tie them Immediately in clean lin
en- or cotton bag, and hang them up.
This method is preferable to heating
in an oven, as thai is apt to render
them hard, even if you are so fortu-
nate as not to burn them. This will
keep worms from your fruit.
BED BUGS.
An exchange gives the following
as sure way to drive bed bugs from
old beds: Take green tomato vines,
put them in basin or tray, pound
them to pieces as fine as possible,
then stain the bedstead which they
inhabit with the juice, fill the
crevices with pieces of vines, and
lay leaves under the ends of the
Stats. If this is practiced twice a
year, not bug will remain in the
bedstead.
TOOTH WASH.
Dissolve two ounces Of borax in
three pints of water; before quite
cold add one teaspoonful of tincture
of myrrh and one tablespoonful OF
spirits of cumphor;. bottle for use.
A wine glassful Of the solution add
ed to a half pint of tepid water is
sufficient for each application. This
solution applied regularly preserves
and beauties the teeth, arrests de
cay and induces a healthy action Of
the gums.
CRACKER PIES.
Roll six crackers fine and put
) them in a four-quart pail or kettle
pour over them three-fourths of 6
pint of vinegar, two cups of molas
o ses and quart of water. Boil OF
the stove half an hour, adding more
I water, If necessary, to make quite
: thin. Add salt, raisins and all kinds
!. of spices, and make short crusts TO
; four pies. Bake about twenty min
utes, or until the crusts is done. 4
8 little sugar may be added before tn
:, top crust is put on.
, FIGS.
: Take good peaches, prepare an
: cook them as for the table, but a
: dry as possible; dip them out o.
y plates and spread them about hal
- an inch thick, put them in the su
. or stove until they are quite dry
Set the plates away for several days
3, they can then be taken off easily
: sprinkle little cinnamon or othe
! spice and some sugar over eac
- piece, and roll it up tight; whe
= wanted for use cut them IN slice
> Apples and pears can be dried in til
- same way, but are not as nice @