The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-05-10
HOUSEHOLD.

around the house will not take its place
the exhilaration of the open air and change
of scene are absolutely necessary. oh.
know all about Lucy's gown that is not I'm
shed, and Tommy's jacket, and even his
coat-his buttonless coat thrown into your
lap, as if to add the last ounce to the cam
els back still say, Up and out. Is it not
more important that your children in their
tender years should not be left motherless,
and that they should not be born to that
feeble constitution of body which will blight
every blessing? Let buttons and strings go.
Y GU will take hold of them with more vigor
and patience when you return, bright and
refreshed; and if every stitch is not finished
at such a moment-and it is discouraging
not to be able to sympathize in your best
effort-still remember that she who hath
done what she could is entitled to no mean
praise. Your husband is undoubtedly the
best Of men, though there are malicious peo-
pie who might answer that that was not
saying much for him. Still, he would never
to the end of time, dream of what you are
dying Of So accept my advice and take
the matter in hand yourself.-Io-ddy.
ScoLDING.-Scolding is mostly habit.
There is not much meaning in it. 1t is often
the result of nervousness, and an irritable
condition of both mind and body. A person
is tired and annoyed at some trivial cause,
aud forthwith commences finding fault with
everything and everybody in reach.
Seeding is habit very easily formed. 1t
is astonishing how soon one who INDUCES
in it at all becomes addicted to it and con-
firmed in it. 1t is an unreasoning and I'M
reasonable habit. Persons who once get in
the way of scolaing always find something
to scold about. If there were nothing else,
they would fall scolding at the mere alb
sence of anything to scold at. 1t is an ex-
tremely disagreeable habit. The constant
rumbling of distant thunder, caterwaulings,
or hand-Organ under ones window, would
be less unpe lsant
The habit is contagious. Once introduc-
ed into family, it is pretty certain in a
short time to affect all the members. If one
of them begins finding fault about something
or nothing, the Others are apt very soon to
take it up, and a very unnecessary bedlam
is created.
Women contract the habit more by fire.
quent use than men. This may be because
| they live more in the house, in a confined
and heated atmosphere very trying to the
nervous system and the health in general;
and it may be partly that their natures are
more susceptible, and the sensltiveness more
easily wounded. Women are sometimes
called divine but scolding woman never
seems divine.
SLEEP.-Exercise your body and your
mind gently till you are tired, and no long
er; when the bed becomes irksome, get up,
if circumstances permit; when again nature
, calls for rest, follow her dictates, and regard
not the time or hour. In health, custom
rules but when sickness takes the helm,
nature will not be controlled. In good
health, seven or eight hours sleep is gener-
ally sufficient a disposition to lie in bed
beyond the usual hours generally arises from
some arrangement of the digestive organs.
In sickness, if the patient is favored by
sleep, nothing will so soon renovats and re-
store strength; when nurse perceives her
patient inclined to sleep, let everything give
way, no matter what time it happen. A
patient should never be awakened to take
medicine /; no medicine can be so beneficial
as sleep, which is the balm Of Gilead of
this state of being, and comforts both mind
and body beyond any other thing. Sleep is
sound, sweet, and refreshing, according as
| the alimentary organs are easy, quiet and
| clean.
REMEDY FOR CoRNs.-When young
man, says correspondent of the Country
Gentleman, I used to he very much annoyed
by those painful excrescences called corns'
on the toes and feet, until was told of
very simple but effective remedy for them
by some person. 1t was to battle the feet
in tepid water, to soften them then pare
them off very closely with sharp knife;
then rub on well, green peach-tree leaves
when, after continuing the rubbing once or
twice day, the corns will entirely disap-
pear and not return, without the cause which
first occasioned them. have often tried
the remedy, and never found it to fail yet.
1t seems to be the prussic acid in the peach
tree leaves that takes them away.
PLAIN DoUGHSUrs.-One pint Of rich
buttermilk, one heaping teaspoonful of soda,
half that quantity Of salt, three tablespoon
fuls Of melted lard -four to knead we'll.
GINGER SNAPs-One fourth pound each
of butter, lard, and brown sugar; one pint
of molasses; one cup Of sour milk two ia
blespoonfuls of ginger; two teaspoons of
soda.
CHEAP Brown BREAD.-Take one pint
sour milk, one pint sweet milk or water, one
teaspoonful soda, one teaspoonful salt, one
half teacup molasses, or one teacup of sugar:
one tablespoonful ginger, one pint of coarse
-four, one quart of Indian meal put it in a
warm place to rise one hour bake in mod
crate oven two hours.
CooKIEs.- Two cups of molasses, one Gun
of butter, one cup of boiling water, one tea
spoonful of ginger, one teaspoonful Of soda,
three eggs and piece of alum the size of q
walnut dissolved in the hot water.
GOLD CAKE.-The yoks of eight eggs,
one cup of sugar, one-half cup OF butter, one
half cup of sour cream, in which put one
half teaspoonful soda, having previously dis
solved it in water, two cups Of -four. Flavor
with lemon extract.
CREAM PE.-One cup of sugar, three
eggs, one and One-half cups of -four, one tea
spoonful of cream of tartar, one half tea
spoonful Of soda, and flavor with lemon.
Beat the eggs and sugar as for sponge cake.
Bake in two tins while warm cut open with
sharp knife and lay in cream
Cream for the pies-Boil one pint of milk;
beat well together one cup of sugar, two
thirds of cup of -four, two eggs, and turn
all into the boiling milk, let it boil two min
utes, then add small piece of butter.
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