Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-10-30
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
Do LEWIS says that a diet of beans
| is better for the complexion than all the
powders and cream ever manufactured.
INDIAN BREAD-Take one quart -four,
one quart meal, one quart buttermilk,
! one cup molasses, one egg, saleratus and
salt
PROFANITY never did any man the least
good No man is richer, happier or wiser
by it. It commends no one to society; 1t
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
cuptul of milk, one and one-half teacup-
fuls of molasses, two tablespoontuls Of
butter, and half nutmeg; beat them well
together, and bake on pastry the same as
custard. This is enough for two pies
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
their lovely tints, and gives waXy gloss
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.
To REMOVE SILVER STAINs.-One of the
best ways is to wash the spots with 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.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, at the opening
of the Concord Public Library, few days
since, said THE book, as 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 book opens to your wish, and
shuts wnen you misunderstanding which
your professor might not do"
To CHANGE the color of natural flowers,
place them in glass funnel, which is in
verified over plate containing few drops
Of sal ammOniac solution. After a 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.
RECEIPT FOR \ HAPPY HoME.-SiX
things, says Hamilton, are requisite to
create happy home. Integrity must be
II 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 salubri.y
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 camel's hair pencil for the pur
pose. BY this means the surface ink is
got rid OF. The paper must now be wet
ted with a solution of oXalate of potash,
or, better still, oxalic acid, in the proper
| ton Of one ounce to half a pint of water
uC LIN SldlIlS Will lllliltuldtcIN ulSdD-
pear. Finally, again wash the stained
place with clean water, and dry it with
| white blotting-paper
ANSWER Your CHHDREN'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 "a 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 ineomprehensible, 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.