The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-07-12
HOUSEHOLD.

SlDle ADVICE Is given US Dy correspondent
in the Country Gentleman: sos
al pass some houses in every town whose
windows might as well be sealed in with
the walls for any purpose they have but to
let in the light. They are never opened,
summer or winter. In winter it is too cold;
in the summer the flies stray in, or, if they
are netted, the dust sits through the nets.
Now, | can tell person who inhabits such
chambers when 1 pass him in the street
there is such smell about his clothing.
I always wish for sniff 81 eelegsbe aoshs<tS Z
horn, or burnt feathers, or soHaetAing OF the
sort, to take the taste out A house that
is never aired has every nook and corner
filled with stale odors of cooked meats. boil
ed vegetables, especially cabbage and onions,
which, as the weeks go by, literally reek in
their hiding places.
dWho has not wished sometimes to hang
new servants clothing out of doors some
frosty night until it should be thoroughly
aired? But l have seen the fine ladies
come sweeping into church with their vel
vets and silks, when said velvets and silks
gave unmistakable evidence of having been
housed in Just such shut-up chambers. Oh,
what a tale that odor of pork and cabbage
tells about the lady's style of housekeeping
The very garments of the children tell the
same story of uncleanliness. 1t is bad to
have unwashed clothes, but there may be an
excuse for it. But what excuse can there
be for unalred ones, when air is so cheap
and free? There is death in such unaired
chambers. Better swarm of flies or
cloud of dust, better frost and snow in a
room, than these intolerable smells. Dear
girls, the first thing in the morning, when
you are ready to go down stairs, throw open
your windows, take apart the clothing OF
your beds, and let the air blow through it
as hard as it will There is health and
wealth in such policy. 1t helps to keep
away the doctors with long bills. 1t helps
to make your eyes to sparkle and to make
your cheeks glow, and to make others love
your presence. Girls who live in close.
shut-up rooms, can only be tolerated at the
best in any circle"
ITEMS FOR HoUsEKEEPERs.-Do everything
at the proper time. Keep everything in its
place. Always mend your clothes before
washing them.
Alum or vinegar is good to set colors,
red, green or yellow.
Sal soda will bleach one spoonful is sufi-
Gent for kettle of clothes.
Save your suds for the garden and plants,
or to harden yards when sandy. ~
A hot shovel held over vanished furni-
ture will take out spots
A bit of glue, dissolved in skim milk and
water, will restore old rusty Grape.
Ribbons of any kind should be washed in
cold suds, and not rinsed.
If fiat irons are rough, rub them well with
fine salt, and it will make them smooth.
If you are buying a carpet for durability,
You must choose small figures.
A bit of soap rubbed on the hinges Of
doors will prevent them from creaking.
Scotch snuff, if put in the holes where
crickets run out, will destroy them.
Wood ashes and common salt wet with
water will stop the cracks of the stove, and
prevent the smoke from escaping.
Green should be the prevailing color for
bed-hangiDgs and window drspery.
Acknowledgements few humps Of
loaf-sugar with the oil of orange, by rubbing
into them as much as you can readily from
the rind of four oranges. Roll as many or
anges as you design to use, squeeze the
juice, allowing eight to one quart of water.
Throw the skins into half pint Of water as
you squeeze them, let them stand short
time, press them little, and add this water
to the other juice. The very highest favor
ed oranges should be selected, and if not
found sour enough to impart an agreeable
acid, lemon juice may be added, with the
caution that it must not be used freely
enough to impair the distinct favor of the
orange, which is meant to predominant.
The oil should only be slightly rubbed from
the oranges. Allow half pound of sugar
to the quart of oraDgeade but in this mat
ter consult, if possible, the taste of some ex-
perienced desert-maker. With all care to
give an exact recipe, the proportions Of
both sugar and water may require modify
ing-a little more or little less, as the
case may be. .-.
TOMATO SoUP.--In one gallon of water
put two and half pounds of lamb, boiling it
until the water is reduced to one half the
quantity and the meat is in shreds strain
the liquor, put in two quarts of skinned TO-
matoes, stirring very often and well, that
they may dissolve, and boil half an hour;
again strain, add a tablespoonful Of butter,
and if the tomatoes are very acid, about
half tablespoonful of white sugar. In win
ter use tomatoes that have been canned
with very little cooking, and are nearly
whole. eeflT fte~e .f.
DYETNc BLUE-Dip the goods in strong
solution of alum. Then prepare a small
amount of water with Prussian blue, and
dip a few rags in it; add little more blue
and immense few more, and so on, the
amount of blue to be regulated by the shade
desired. have found about al, ounce to a
pound of goods generally sufficient. The
blue dye to be used cold.