Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-12-04
Domestic Items.

How TO PREPARE WOODEN PA1rs. If
q common wooden pail receives three
coats OF common copal varnish on the
inside, before being used, it will never
become water soaked, nor will it give
any disagreeable flavor to water chat
may be allowed to stand in it for any
length of time. Thus it's usefulness and
durability are greatly increased.
TOILET Soar AND How TO MAKE IT,
Take one box of concentrated I've, dis.
solve in cne-half gallon of rain water,
then pour in vessel and let cool. Now
melt five pounds of clean lard or tai
low; when about milk warm, pour
your cold lye in very slowly and stir
rapidly; continue the stirring until it
begins to thicken, then add one ounce
OF sassafras oil; have ready O clean
box about one foot square, pour in and
cover tightly. Let it remain for four
days, then cut in cakes, and it will be
ready for use, A READER.
O4sTERs FRIED. Select large oysters,
drain and spread on cloth, to absorb
all the liquor; beat until light the
yolks OF two or three eggs; dip in an
oyster, then into rolled cracker into
the egg, and then Sin cracker. Have
the butter perfectly hot, and enough,
in the dripping pan to cover the oys.
tiers, just as in frying doughnuts. Lay
them in one at time when brown,
turn and brown the other side. Cooked
in this manner, they are less greasy
than where there is only fat enough to
try them in tho ordinary way. Some
cooks prefer dry bread crumbs to
cracker, as they fry lighter. There is
still another mode of dipping oysters
in nice batter instead of crumbs.
WASHING PAINT AFTER F1Y-T1R.-
great amount of labor is requisite 70,
clening the traces of flies from paint
or woodwork. No soap is necessary.
I wet the door or window frame all
over with cloth that will not drip.
Then I 60 back to the place where I
began and wash the whole over very
quickly and easily, then / use q clean
dry cloth. I should not think of men
tioning this, but the other day I saw a
hired girl of considerable experience
rubbing hard and long upon q door.
and signing because dy-specs were 80
hard to wash oa-simply because she
did not put the work ''asoak. +" Not long
before I saw man undertake to clean.
and greatly iniure, painted piece Of
furniture covered with the marks of
last years ay-time, by rubbing a coat
OF soap all over it, and then washing
OH soap and paint, and dirt together.
Cold water alone would have cleaned it
better. Soap always Injuries paint more
or less. A little applied under the
and insnaed5Qtetv washed
away is sometimes admissible.
Whiting on q flannel cloth is recon-
mended as still better. Soap-suds vel.
lows white paint, and dulls the luster
OF all paint and varnish. Clear water.
either cold or rather warm, is all that
granting needs
Agricultural.
VIZ net recently an intelligent gen.
tleman who went from New Hampshire
TO Kansas fourteen years ago, and who
in his business has constantly been
travelling through Kansas, Iowa, Ne
braska and Minnesota, and in tho
course OF q conversation he said: IT
have very extensive acquaintance
among farmers west Of the Mississippi.
and / do not believe those who have
gone from the East could sell out to-
lay and return with as much money
rs they carried away. And everybody
wants to sell out. Why, sir, I was
offered last week, for 81, 700, farm in
Central Kansas of $50 acres, as good
and as lies out doors, 200 acres of it
enced and under cultivation, with
'orn upon it fifteen feet high, 60 acres
IT splendid timber and the remainder
with house, barn and out
upon it, and o railroad run
hing right through the centre I sold
asst week for man $40 acres of beauti-
nj prairie at IS per acre.-MirrOr and
Farmer.