The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-12-06
HOUSEHOLD.

take care of itself. speak of the exter-
nal signs. There is strange difference
among the nations. Among several OF
the most advanced people, black dress
has been chosen The great expense,
the depressing influence upon the spir-
its, and the bad effect of this color upon
the bodily conditions, have been observ-
ed and urged against this method of dis
play
Black is the worst color for winter
and for summer, for dry weather and for
damp atmosphere. Altogether, the
custom of announcing grief through
black clothes seems to be the worst
method ever devised.
1t is gratifying to hear from intelli-
gent people, as one may not unfrequent-
ly, that under no circumstances would
they display mourning dress. I will
not say that it is fiat contradiction of
the Christian faith. 1 will not say that
it savors of ostentation. I will not say
that there is frequently painful incon-
gruity between the mourning dress and
the conduct of the wearer; but I will
say that mourning dress is unphysio-
| logical, that it casts a shadow over the
spirits of the wearer, and constantly re-
minds her of her dead friend, and in
other ways tends toward depressing the
general health and tone I can't con-
ceive of grief which I should try to
express with Grape. By instinct, I
should avoid all such announcements
And then, when the prescribed year has
passed, the tapering off in the shades of
black, and the final bursting out in bril-
liant colors again, is so absurd, that it
seems quite unnecessary to expose ones
self to the necessity of advertising this
graduated dying out of ones sorrow.
-To-daq.
FUTURE HUUSEKEEPERS. - We some
times catch ourselves wondering how
many of the young ladies whom we meet
with are to perform the part of house
keepers, when the young men who now
eye them so admiringly have persuaded
them to become their wives.
We listen to those young ladies of
whom we speak, and hear them not only
acknowledging, but boasting of their
ignorance of all household duties, as if
nothing would so lower them in the es-
TEEN of their friends as the confession
of an ability to bake bread and pies, or
cook piece of meat, or disposition to
engage in a useful employment. Speak
ing from our own youthful recollections,
we are free to say that taper fingers and
lily white hands are very pretty to look
at with young mans eyes, and some
times we have known artless innocence
of practical knowledge displayed by
young miss, to appear rather interesting
than otherwise. But we have lived long
enough to learn that life is full of rug
ged experiences, and that most of the
loving, romantic, and delicate people
must live on cooked, or otherwise pre-
pared food, and in homes kept clean and
tidy by Industrious hands. And, for all
the practical purposes of married life, it
is generally found that for the husband
to sit and gaze at a wife's taper fingers
and lily hands, or for wife to sit and be
looked at and admired, does not make
the pot boil, or put the smallest piece of
food in the pots.
CREAM CAKE.-Break one egg into
teacup and fill with cream, one half tea
cupful of sugar, one and one-haf tea
cupfuls of flour, one teaspoonful of
cream of tartar, and one of soda.
For THE CREAM.-Take one teacupful
of sweet milk, two tablespoonfuls of su-
gar, one teospoonful of extract of lemon
and one egg. Boil the milk, beat the
egg, sugar and lemon together, and stir
into the milk while boiling. Bake in
two round tins. I let the cakes get
nearly cold before spreading the cream
between them.
BUcKwHEAT CAKRs. Make a thin
mush of corn meal, cooking it about ten
minutes; allow it to become perfectly
cool before putting the cakes to rise.
In mixing the cakes take a pint of the
mush to quart of buckwheat -four, add
water and yeast as in ordinary cakes
made of buckwheat. Making mush of
the corn meal prevents the raw taste
there always is when the meal is uncook-
ed.
BUcKwHEAT CAKES, No. 2.-Three
parts by measures of buckwheat -four to
one part of Graham flour, and mix with
buttermilk instead of water.
OYSTERS FR1ED.-Select the largest
and plumpest, drain, and spread on a
cloth to absorb all the liquor; beat until
light the yolks of two or three eggs;
dip in an oyster, then into rolled crack
er, again into the egg, and then in
cracker. Have the butter perfectly hot,
and enough in the dripping pan to cover
the oysters, just as In frying doughnuts
or fritters. Lay them in one at a time;
when brown, turn and brown the other
side. Cooked in this manner they are
less greasy than when there is only fat
enough to fry them in the ordinary way.
MARBLE CAKE.-Dark part-One cup
OF brown sugar, one-half cup of sweet
milk, one-half cup of butter, one-half
teaspoon of soda, yolk of two eggs,
spices.
White part One cup of white sugar.
one-half cup of sweet milk, one-half cup
OF butter, one-half teaspoon of soda.
whites of two eggs.
GRAPE JELLY. Weigh your Juice.
then let it boil forty minutes and set off;
then stir In one pound of sugar to each
pound of juice, (be sure to stir with a
wooden spoon then let it boil thirty
minutes longer over hot fire.
To REMOVE RUST FROM IRON SINKS.
Wash perfectly clean with hot suds
and wipe dry, then take cloth and rub
thoroughly with paraphene oil. 1t keeps
black for two weeks. This oil is prefer
able by far to kerosene.
The Southern Medical Record says
that castor oil applied to the corn, after
pairing closely, each night before going
to bed, softens the corn, and it becomes
as the other flesh.