American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-11-01
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

DIo LEWIS says that diet OF beans
is better for the complexion than all the
powders and cream ever manufactured.
INDIAN BREAD.-Take one quart flour,
one quart meal, one quart buttermilk,
one cup molasses, one egg, saleratus and
salt.
PROFANITY never did any man the least
good. Norman is richer, happier or wiser
by it. It commends no one TO society; it
is disgusting to the refined, and abomina-
BILE to the good.
TRUTH lies in character. Christ did
not simply speak truth; he was truth :;
true through and through, for truth is a
thing not of words, but of life and being.
None but a spirit can be true.
WHEN TO TRANSPLANT EvERGREENs.-
The most successful cultivators of ever
green's prefer to plant about the time the
buds begin to swell in spring. In this
country spring planting is decidedly
preferable to fall planting.
MoLAssEs PIE.-Four eggs, one tea
cuplul of milk, one and one half teacup-
fuls of molasses, two tablespoonful of
butter, and half nutmeg; beat them well
together, and bake on pastry the same as
custard This is enough for two pies.
To REMOVE SILVER SANDSTONE of the
best ways is TO wash the spots with a con-
centrated solution of sulphate or chloride
of zinc, and to rub the worst places with
metallic zinc. Then rinse in pure water,
and complete the washing with soap. Ink
stains can be removed in the same way.
A NEW way of preserving autumn
leaves is given as follows: Iron them
fresh with a WARM mot hot iron, on
which some spermaceti has been lightly
rubbed. This method preserves perfectly
hai OR q
which no other one secures. The process
is very rapid and very agreeable, and no
lady who has ever tried the tedious and
uncertain experiment of pressing will ever
again resort to it after once trying this
new and better way
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, at the opening
of the Concord Public Library, few days
since, said: "The book, as a companion,
is always at your service, always willing,
and always pliable. You meet with men
of service, good thinkers. good speakers
and you do not know how to draw them
out; but a book opens to your wish, and
shuts wnen you desire-sCmething which
your professor might not do"
To CHANGE the color of natural flowers,
place them in glass funnel, which is in
verted over plate containing a few drops
of sal ammoniac solution. After few
minutes blue, violet or carmine- colored
flowers change to green; dark carmine
flowers become black; white change to
yellow. They retain these colors some
hours. By treating similarly with hydro
chlCric acid, many flowers may be color
ed a lasting red.
things, says Hamilton, are requisite TO
create a happy home. Integrity must be
the architect and tidiness the upholsterer
1t must be warmed by affection, and light
ed up with cheerfulness; and industry
must be the ventilator, renewing the at
mosphere and bringing in fresh salubrity
every day; while over all, protecting
canopy of glory, and nothing will suffice
except the blessing of God.
To REMOVE INK STAINS FROM Book.
First wash the paper with warm water,
using camcPs hair pencil for the pur-
pose. BY this means the surface ink is
got rid OF. The paper must now be wet
ted with solution of oXalate of potash,
or, better still, oxalic acid, in the proper
| ton of one ounce to half pint of water.
| The ink stains will Immediately disap-
pear. Finally, again wash the stained
| place with clean water, and dry it with
white blotting-paper.
| ANSWER Your CHILDREN's QUESTIONS.
Education is enormously supposed only
| to be had at school. The most ignorant
children often have been constant in their
attendance there, and there have been
very intelligent ones who never saw the
| inside of school-roOm The child who
always asks an explanation of terms or
| phrases it cannot understand, who is never
willing to repeat, parrot-like, that which
| is incomprchensible, will far outstrip in
education" the ordinary routine scholar
Education" goes on with children at the
| tireside, in the street, at church, at play
everywhere. Then. do not refuse to an
swer their proper questions. Do not
check this natural intelligence, for which
| books can never compensate, though you
| might bestow whole libraries.