The Placer herald., 1874-10-24
HOUSE AND FARM.

dyspeptics. 1t is light exercise Of the urms
aud chest room after meals, and it may be
done sitting as well as standing. A high Of
flee stool Is very useful in the kitchen. Fee
ble women, who do their "oyn work, often
stand upon their feet more than necessary.
You can sit down to dress vegetables, to
wash and wipe dishes, TO knead bread to iron,
and to do many other things. You may be
little more slow about the work, but you
will get through in better condition. House
keepers would often like to take an outdoor
walk, only their "fect are so tired"
Dishwashing woald not he half 20 disagree
able as it often is, if lhe dishes were lightly
scraped free from crumbs, and neatly piled
up for washing. There should be large
dish pan aud plenty Of hot water with which,
TO fill up the pan gradually us its contents
cool. seldom use soap for washing dishes,
but to the unskilled, or to those who use
mu b butter and fat in their cooking, it seems
necessity.
Sweeping is good exercise. if the floors and
carpets are not dusty. All! that ''if y Bed
making will serve as gymnastics, it the beds
are kept clean aud well aired
And what of washing? do not think
highly OF the old fashioned wash board exer-
else. 1t is hard Tor both lungs and back.
With good washers and wrlDgers, and strong
arms for lifting, it may be made passable as
exercise, and it is always pleasure 10 see
soiled things clean olce more.
A moderate amount Of ironing is good for
-, 4, 81 IA, l,t
days endca, ov to do it in II cool room or IA
shady porch.
Cooking is perhaps the most important part
Of bousework, and It's exercise is not heavy
in quality, though to some it may be bur
densomc IN quantity. seems 10 me more
like u high art, or dignliied occupation, wor-
thy TO be called pioiessOn--tdr mere hon
orabc tlan-the legal profession, for instance.
should not wonder ii really good and scien'
tiic cooks could do more TO preserve and re-
store health than The doctors OF medicine can.
As with ironing, the hardest kind Of cooking
is the least neccssary-the ornamental part
We should study TO make our cooking work
as little heating as possible. For instance,
bread may be baked IN the oven instead Of
cooking it upon The grdde in the form OF
"pancakes," and in hot weather we can avoid
those forms Of food that require constant stir
ring while cooking.
There is a great deal of necessary work to
be done in the world i'll order that we may
all be comfortably fed, clothed and lodged.
should like to see what would be the result
it the labor and strength spent upon unneces-
sary work, usually considered ornamental,
should le given cheerfully to doing the nec-
essary work Of the world. as preparation
for .he advent Of real beauty or genuine
ndomment in all departments Of our daily
lie.
Nsss AS FooD.--Would it rot be wise to
substitute more eggs for meat in our daily
diet? About one-third the weight Of an egg
is solid nutrment This is more than can be
said of meat. There are no bones aud tough
pieces that have to be laid as de. An egg
is made Of ten parts shell, sixty parts white,
and thirty parts yolk. The white of an egg
contains eipaty-six per cent. water; the yolk
fifty-two per cent. The average weight OF
an egg is about two ounces. Practically IAN
egg is animal food and yet there is none Of
the dsagreeable work Of the butcher neces-
sary to obtainit. The vegetarians of Eng
land use eegs-freely, and many Of these men
are eighty andnnety years old, and have
been remarkably free from illness. A good
egg is alive; the shell is porous, and tie oxy-
gen Of the airgoes through the shell and
keeps up kind Of respiration. An egg soon
becomes stale in bad air, or in dry air charg-
ed with carbonic acid. Eggs may be dried
and made to retain their goodness for long
time; or the shell may he varuiShed, thus
excluding the air, when, if kept in moder-
ate temperature, tbeI may be kept good for
years.
Eggs are best when cooked four minutes
This takes away the animal taste that is Of
fensive 10 some, but does not so harden the
yolk as to make tlem hard to digest
Eggs contain much phosphorus, which is
supposed to be useful to those who use THEN
brain much. Poultry Rerie,O.
ADoRN Your HOMES. Ono of the best
things about the Grange movement is the eff
fort to make the American farmer rememlel
that his house is not Il tent in the desert, but
home, and should make home agreeable
1t is strange fact that the nearer one comes
TO a city the more delightful lie finds the
gardens. The fact is that the dcnizens of the
city appreciate the pleasure afforded by ivy
and shade trees-and flowers, while the far
mer does not. He looks upon Ills land as
something to scrape living from, and chops
down the growing shade trees for cord wood
Witisa very few days extra trouble each
year, our farmer. could live in houses EN-.
powered by:roses and evergreens, and sur
rounded with flowers.
Mules, to do well, require more rough
ness, such as hay and fodder, than horses
Of equal wei ght, but will keep. fat ON, less