Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-03-15
way 20 Use Dry Rread

for use. Never use a hard brush, nor
comb the hair too much; apply the pomsde
at night only.
A Good Way 90 Use DEFY Bread.
Make batter of wheat four, not.quite
SO thick as for pancakes, using equal parts
OF sweet and sour milk fer the Tetting, one
tablespoonful Of corn meal, and teaspoonful
OF salt Now cut very dry bread into thin
slices, dip as many into the batter as can be
fried at once, being careful to cover both
sides Of the bread, and fry Immediately on
well-buttered griddle, just hot enough to
brown them nicely. When done, butter
the slices, place them in layers and bring
to the table at once, as ahalf hours steam
ing on the stove would spoil this dish that
is excellent, and more wholesome than the
ordinary wheat pancake.
Setting the Table.
Let us be little extravagant in our fresh
table cloths, when soap, water, and little
labor are all we have TO pay. And now we
must decide, shall we have the best china,
and do with stoneware for every day? or
shall we pay ourselves the respect usually
reserved for company? Clearly, we are
the persons to whom it is of the most i'm
portance. Shall we sit down to odd plates
and cracked saucers six days that we may
enjoy glded china the seventh? By no
means. We will have plain white French
china, which can always be matched when
broken, and we will sit down to it every
day. In the same way we will bring out
the plated knives and silver forks, and par
take of food with a sense of our own de-
serts. We shall feel increased respect for
ourselves, also, with napkins and butter
plates; so those we will have.
To Distinguish Good Calico.
The cost of yard of calico is a matt er
of considerable importance to the customer
who studies economy; but, unfortunately,
there are those who, in wishing to practice
frugality, deceive themselves in the idea
that because an article is low in price it
must necessarily be cheap. The result of
this is q demand on the manufacturer for
low priced goods, and he, to keep pace with
the wants of his customers, introduces into
bis wares, when practicable, certain prepar
ations calculated to hide the finishes of
the products he is thus called upon to sup
ply.
The system of sdressing and finishing"
as it is called. is practiced to greater ex-
tent now than it ever was before, owing to
the enormous advance in the pcjce of cotton
of late years. The most common calicoes
are ''dressed" with -four, china, clay, etc.,
and are generally SO artfnlly "illed"
with one or the other preparation as TO be
very deceptive to the inexperienced eye.
When, however, such a dressed fabric
comes to be washed, the "extra fine fin
ished," as it is not unfrequently called, dis
appears, leaving a soft, fabby and loosely
woven texture in the hand, while the
water in which it has been soaked is almost
thick enough for biIl-sticking purposes.
The finest F'makes,n on the contrary, con-
tain scarcely any tour, and should never
appear any worse for soaking in the wash
tub.
In order to ascertain TO what extent a
plain calico is;inished, we have but to rub
small portion of the piece to be tested
sharply between the finger and thumb of
each hand, for this "makes the powder fly"
as the Manchester men say. If it be of the
most common quality, quantity of "dress"
will be extracted, and we shall soon see
that the threads are left as far apart as
those in a sieve, crossing each other IN
evenly, and in places going of, as 1t were,
in tangents. Then, if we draw out a
single thread and pull it asunder, it will be
found to break with swapping. If, on the
contrary, the calico is good one, scarcely
any dressing will come out Of it on rubbing
it; the threads will appear closely woven
together; a single thread drawn out will
rather burst than snap when pulled asun-
der, and the separate ends of such thread
will present fluffy appearance, while the
whole piece will be firm and elastic to Ghe
tOuch