The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-07-26
HOUSEHOLD.

Cold BATHING.-Just now i am sorry to
see that there is reaction against daily cold
bathing. A medical man of my acquaint.
ance cautions his patients against too fire.
quent bathing for fear the oil may be re-
moved from the skin. He tells them that
twice month during the winter, and twice
q week during the summer are quite enough
for anybody. A well known writer has
recently cautioned the world against the
removal Of the skin oil by too frequent bath
ing.
This is an entire misapprehension. In
hydropathic establishments the patients are
sometimes bathed three or four times day,
yet never lose the oil of the skin in conse-
quence. Pugilists, in preparing for the prize
ring, are bathed two or three times day.
and rubbed with rough towels by the strong
est arms. Heenan was bathed three or four
times day, and was rubbed by Mcdonald
and Cusick with all the power Of their
strong arms, fifteen minutes at a time, and
with the toughest towels and brushes, and
yet the account says that when he appeared
in the ring his skin was as beautiful as
babys.
If cold water were used without soap,,a
bath every hour, with the hardest friction,
A more frequent objection-one urged by
the patients themselves-is; that they cant
get up reaction. A lady said to me one
morning, al have tried this cold bathing,
but it always gives me headache besides,
| can't get warm for an hour"
Many others have made the same objec-
ton. Now this is all because you don't
manage right. If you will manage as fol-
lows, the want of reaction and consequent
congestion of the head and chest will never
occur again. Purchase bathing-mat, or
make one by sewing into the edge of large
piece of rubber-cloth halfinch rope; on
rising in the morning spring into the middle
of it, and with an old rough towel folded
eight or ten inches square, apply the water
as fast as your hands can fly; then with
rough towels rub as hard as you can bear on
until the skin is as red as a boiled lobster.
This will take one minute, and leave you in
a delightful glow.
| have never met any one who, taking the
bath in this rapid and vigorous way, was
not satisfied with it-To,day.
SPoNGE-CAKE PUDDING.-Melt some but
ter, and grease very well with it the inside
of a futed cake-mould, using for the pur-
pose feather or brush. Then glaze the
mould with powdered white sugar-that is
to say, shake it about until the part creased
is equally covered with the sugar, and looks
white. Stone some raisins, and have ready
few currants, washed and picked. Place
them according to fancy in the curvings of
the mould. Take some sponge-cake, stale
will do, and cut it up small filling the
mould with it, as you do so mixing lightly
throughout currants and raisns rubbed in
flour to prevent their falling. Beat up four
eggs, the whites separately from the yolks,
add four tablespoonful of sugar, one to
each egg, and then pour gradually to them
until well combined three half pints of cold
new milk, which quantity should be enough
to fill the mould. Set your pudding in a
pan containing enough water to come lit
tie more than halfway up the sides of the
mould. Just as the water begins to boil
see that the oven is so moderately heated az
to insure the slow baking of the custard
else it might turn to whey. Do not let the
pudding brown or burn; 1t should be done
in about quarter of an hour after the water
has boiled around it. Sauce make thus :
Four yolks of eggs beaten up with four
tablespoonful Of sugar, poured to a pint of
turn to the fire for about FIVE minutes, stir
ring rapidly. Flavor with what you please
rose-water is good. Turn out the pudding
in pretty dessert dish pour the sauce
around it, and the work is done The above
recipe is especially adapted to meet the
wants of small families, upon whose hands
cake is apt to accumulate and turn out stale.
An elegant and economical dish is thus pre-
pared out of materials that would otherwise
be wasted.
LEMON SYRUP.--I send recipe for a de-
licious and healthy summer drink. Four
pounds of graduated sugar and two quarts
of cold water, set it on the stove and stir
till dissolved. Give one good boil and skim,
take off the fire and stir in one ounce of
tartaric acid. When perfectly cool flavor
with essence of lemon. Clarity the sugar
with the well beaten white of an egg put in
when you put in the cold water. To use,
put tablespoonful into a goblet and fill
with cold water
My SISTERS CAKE.-One cupful Of sugar;
one-half cupful of warm water, with butter
the size of small egg melted in it; one-half
teaspoonful of soda; spice to taste; -four
enough to mix hard put in while very
warm stir well, and bake in hot oven.
To MAKE Doors WATER Proof Warm
a little beeswax and mutton suet, and while
it is liquid rub some of it slightly over the
edges of the holes where the stitches are.
FADED HAIR have used the following
recipe, and consider it perfect Six ounces
of castor oil, two ounces of alcohol. Flavor
with few drops each, of musk, lavender,
and bergamot.