Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-02-12
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xxVA04 WxA1DASAeANs
Common I've of wood ashes will soften
hard putty in few minutes.
TO Remove Warts from Cows Teat.
Grease them twice day after milking
with hogs lard that is as salty as salt
will make it This will remove the warts
and do no harm whatever.
Lemon Mince Pies.-Squeeze large
lemon; boil the outside till tender enough
to beat to a mash. three large apples
chopped fine; four ounces beef suet; half
pound of currants; four ounces ofsugar;
put the juice of the lemon and some
candied fruit as for other mince pies.
Bake with rich crust.
Oatmeal Gruel-Mix dessert spoon
full of fine oatmeal or patent greats with
two tablespoonfuls of cold water; add one
pint of boiling water, and boil for ten
minutes, stirring frequently. For a
richer Cruel, boil two tablespoonfuls OF
greats in quart of water for an hour.
Strain through sieve; stir in piece OF
butter as large as walnut, and some
sugar, nutmeg or ginger
-Dandruff Some one asks, what will
remove and prevent dandruff from COM
ing in lady's head? A friend of mine
says she takes little borax added to q
pint of rain water, and washes her head
occasionally with it, l often add little
borax or cooking soda to the rain water
when wash my hair brushes. 1t cleanses
them nicely.-Ruth, an Country Gentle
man.
Broth of Beef, Mutton and VEAL
Take two pounds of lean beef, one pound
of scrag veal and one pound of fore quar-
ter of mutton put them, with ten pepper
corns and spoonful of salt, into five
quarts of water, and boil slowly for five
hours. Strain and set away to cool skim
off all the fat, and if there be any left, lay
clean bit of blotting paper on the broth
when little warm, and ii will absorb all
the grease.
--Kate's Snow Pudding.-Pour one
pint of boiling water on half box OF
gelatine, add the Juice of one lemon and
two cups OF sugar. When nearly cold,
strain; add the whites of three eggs,
beaten to froth, then beat the whole
well together and put in glass dish.
Take the yolks of these three eggs, one
pint of milk one teaspoon cornstarch,
flavor with vanilla and cook as you al
ways do soft custard; pour it round the
jellied part or serve separately as you
prefer.
Take plenty of exercise, and you will
not complain of sleeplessness. The best
anodyne is liberal amount of muscular
activity out of doors every day. Persons
who sit around the fire and lounge on the
sofa, or sew great part of the day, need
not expect sound sleep; only the labor
ing man can taste it in all its sweetness.
Many fail to sleep at night because they
will persist in sleeping in the day time.
It is just as impossible TO healthfully
force more sleep on the system than the
proportion of exercise requires as to
force the stomach to digest more food
than the body requires.
To make a square harrow in two
parts, hinged together in the center, take
four pieces Of Aka oak or maple scantling
six feet long, and eight pieces three feet
long. Mortice the shorter pieces into the
longer ones twenty inches apart and six
inches from each end, thus making two
frames or gates six feet long, three feet
wide, and with four cross-bars each.
Hinge the two gates together by means OF
three pairs of eye-bolts with long rod
passing through each pair. Put five feet
twelve inches long and three-quarters OF
an inch thick of square iron rod into each
cross bar, and three teeth into each main
bar between the cross-bars. There will
then be fifty-two teeth. The harrow
should be drawn from one corner.
Vegetable Perfumes.-Recent articles
in the Country Gentleman concerning the
presence of plants in sleeping chambers
remind me of statement | saw not long
ago, to the effect that researches made by
an Italian savant have led him to assert
that vegetable perfumes exercise very
healthful influence upon the atmosphere,
and tend TO convert its oxygen into ozone.
The flowers of the heliotrope, mignonette,
hyacinth, narcissus and lily of the valley
develop ozone in closed vessels. Flowers
destitute of fragrance do not develop it,
and those that only possess slight per.
fume develop 1t only in a very small
quantity. Lavender, mint, cloves, berga-
mot, fennels. lemons and juniper in es-
sence produce large quantities of ozone.
AS corollary from these facts, the use of
fragrant flowers and herbs is recon-
mended in marshy places, and in dis
tricts infested with animal emanatioDs, as
the powerful oxidizing influence of ozone
may destroy them, and prevent malarial
Diseases, tn Country Gentleman.