The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-08-09
HOUSEHOLD.

headed about his business, he knows about
politics and religion, he is capital school
committee man, but he is perfect idiot in
everything that concerns his health. The
mock-auction man can't humbug him, but
he will swallow the biggest kind of tomfeol-
cry in the shape of quack medicine.
To illustrate this l will tell you little
story. Nineteen years ago, finding myself
very tired. as the warm weather came on, I
invited my wife to take drive through Can
ada. With our beautiful mares Katy and
Jenny, we crossed on a ferry-boat at the
mouth of the Niagara River, and at the end
of three weeks found ourselves at Ottawa,
not then the beautiful capital Of the Domin
ion, but even then one of the most pictur-
esque and interesting towns in the world.
| We stayed there a number of days, making
delightful little trips in the neighborhood.
One evening, at the hotel, we became ac-
quainted with an intelligent Scotchmau
and his wife, and during our chat it happen
ed to come out that | was a medical man,
whereupon the lady told me the most stun
ming fact about doctor that l ever heard.
She said: "There is a travelling physician
here at the house just now who is getting
quite great reputation. He is the most
/
He hasn't washed his hands in twenty years,
and such hands you never saw. They are
covered all over with an incrustation as
thick as heavy overcoat cloth. He stirs
all of his medicines with those hands, and
declares that the virtue of his medicines
depends upon the stirring with his hands,
and upon his not washing them. He says
that if he should wash them they would
lose their power. The thumb of his right
hand he never bends, and I really believe
the crust on that thumb is at least quarter
of an inch thick. 1t is with that thumb he
stirs the medicines for the most difficult ca
ses. Now, DOCTOR" continued this highly
intelligent lady, F" do you really think there
possibly can be anything in it?"
l sought an interview with this wonder
| full doctor. He showed me his hands, and
explained things. He added one piece of
information-viz., that the right thumo had
not been washed in twenty-seven years,
while the remainder of the hands had not
been washed in twenty two years. care
fully examined his hands, and believed his
statements in regard to the years. l told
him that | thought his hands would Justify
| the addition of several years. He asked
me if | supposed he would go about the
country lying. I was interested in this
doctor, and took some pains to inquire
about his success. | learned from intelli-
gent and reliable people that he was doing a
very large and profitable business, and much
of it was among intelligent people. sup
pose / have told that particular story land
it Is true story in every particularly, to
more than. one hundred people, and nearly
half of them have very seriously asked me
if i really supposed there was anything in it.
The ignorance, stupidity, the idiotcy, Of
intelligent people in regard to medicines
and matters of health is simply astounding
In nothing is the need for the spread of in
telligence SO pressing. The sacrifice Of life
and health from the cupidity and ignorance
OF quack doctors, joined to the helpless
blindness of the people, is something dread
ful.-Dio Lecois in Today.
PIE-PLANT PIEs.-These are very deli
cious if well made. But can tell you that
if memory of your mothers Tor my moth
ers) excellent pie-plaDt pies drives you to
purchase one in city bakery, you will pro-
badly be sadly disappointed. They stew
their pie-plant before making the pies, and
that spoils them. Our mother never did
then sliced them in half-inch lengths, hold
ing several stems in her hand at one time
| With these she filled her pie, sweetened it
| generously-about the same as for lemon
pie, small teacupful of sugar for medium
sized pie-moistened it with agreat spoonful
of water, busted over this little dry -four
| Ito thicken the juice a little(, covered it
| with the upper crust, and baked it slowly
and thoroughly. Such pie is too rich for
some stomachs, and there is way of dis
pensing with part of the sugar without hav-
ing the pie too sour. Not by the use of
sodal No, indeed! But you can pour
boiling water over your sliced rhubarb, let
ting it stand ten or fifteen minutes. Pour
this off and make your pies of the rhubarb
with less sugar. If you stew pie-plant for
sanee, you can pour off part of the juice
before it is done (using it to make jelly if
you likel, and supply its place with more
water, 80 economizing with sugar.
LEMON P1E-Take one lemon CRATE the
outside rind; squeeze the juice in with the
grated rind add one tablespoonful of fourl;
rub smooth in the juice; now add the yolks
! of two eggs, one cup OF water. Beat the
whites stiff; sweeten with little white sugar,
spread on after the pie is done, and set it
back in the oven to brown little. This ID
for one pie ; rather expensive; but those
who can afford twill not mind the expense
after they have eaten such a pie once.
They can be made cheaper by using less
lemon Juice and less sugar and a little more
water. NsH 4Se s-
! STRAWBERRY SHoRTCAKE.-Rnb thorough
4 " into one quart of sifted -four one half
pound of good butter. Separate and beat
well three eggs. To the yoIks add three Ia
blespoonfuls of fine white sugar and one ia
blespoonful of ice-water. Add it to the
-four and butter, and then stir in the whites
beaten to stiff froth-if too stiff add lit
tie more water to the dough. Put a little
-four on the pie-board and knead the dough
ten minutes Butter the pans in which the
cake is to be baked, and roll out rather
thick. Bake in a brisk oven, and when
cool split and fill with mashed berries and
sugar, and cream if you have it. Or after
it is rolled ont, cut with large biscuit cut
ter, and bake as above. Ice them after
putting together, and place few large ber-
ries on the icing before it is quite dry.
They are delicious. Just try it.
/ A Peoria man arose the morning after a
storm and found his dog kennel buried in a
1 drift as high as church. He worked for
| half an hour to get his dog out, and then
went down town and told his clerks what
he had done, adding: "a merciful man is