The Placer herald., 1874-03-28
HOUSE AND FA RIM.

salt well and put it away in some good,
cool, suitable place, where there are no un-
pleasant odors of any kind. Next morning
take one-fourth of a pound of fresh butter
and one-fourth of a polnd OF sug,r; mix
the butter and the sugar well together, and
with a knife or otherwise plaster this mix
ture all over the turkey while cold; then
take piece of stout domestic or Lowells,
and make sack, into which carefully place
the turkey, and sew it up, tapping every
par. of the sack so AS TO make it fit close
and tight to the turkey; llace in cold water,
heat up, and boil for four and half hours.
The turkey will, by this time, be well cook
ed, and in his own juices, and will be sweet
tender and juicy. Now, my word for it,
there is more pleasure in eating one turkey
cooked thus than in eating half dozen
cooked the ordinary way.
CLOTHING OF INFANTS. In the first Stage
of infancy warmth depends on clothing
alone, for there is no muscular movement.
Avoid degree of warmth which pro-
duces sensible perspiraton.
Flanne and calico are the best materials
in all seasons.
Dress the child loosely, and fasen will,
strings, not with pins.
The umbical cord, navel and belly band
require much attention.
Avoid keeping the child's head too warm,
or its feet cold.
Avoid chilling the child, or take it abroad
in cold weather
Attend 10 the form and size of the child's
shoes so that the feet shall not be cramped
The practice of plunsing infants into cold
water to render them na,dy, is exceedingly
dangerous.
Let child's washing be very completely
and carefully performed. Keep he child al
ways perfectly clean and neat.
Be very attentive to ventilate the apart
ment where child lives, but never expose
it to draugb,s tf air
Begin early to form habits Of personal
cleanliness and delicacy.-Er.
CHICKEN PIE.-Seect young tender
chickens, joint them, and season with salt
and pepper, sprinkling small quantity over
each piece and arrange in a deep earthen
pie-dish, leaving out the breastbone, the
back and the neck. Cut fine piece OF
butter the size of walnut, and put over
the pieces of chicken enough of cold water
to nearly cover the meat, and about pint
of oysters, without any of the liquor-al-
lowing one pint of oysters to two medium
sized chickens. A little pounded mace is
great improvement Make the crust no'
quite so rich as for ordinary pies. and when
placing over the dish lay fold in the mid
die, that there miy be room for the meat
and liquor in cooking. Bake in moderate
oven about two hours. Should the crust be
too brown before the meat is done, leave the
oven doors open.
WHAT IS IN THE BFDRooM The import
ance of ventating bedrooms is fact in
which everybody is interested, and which
few properly appreciate If two men are to
occupy bedroom during night, let them
step upon weighings ales as they ret re,
and then again in the morning, and they
will ind that their actual weight is at least
pound less in the morning Frequenil,
there will be loss of one or two pounds,
and the average loss ,hroug hout the year
will be more than one pound; that is, dur
ing the night there is a loss of a pound OF
matter, which has gone off from their bod
les, partly from the lungs, and partly
through the ores of the skin. The es-
capod d material is carLonic acid and decayed
animal matter, or poisonous exhalations.
RAW TrRNIPs Some one writes the
Herald of Healh: 81 have always let my
children eat as many raw turnps as they
like. | heard city woman say the other
day they were not healthy, and believe
they don't hurt anybody. Will you please
settle the dispute for us? % The editor an
swers 'Generally children are fond OF
raw tur' ips, Of the fat, white, simp-leafed
variety, if taken fresh from the field before
very old and tough. If they are scraped
with a knife they will not harm healthy, ac-
tive children. If simply chewed they are
not easily digesed. As rule, countr,
children have better appetites and stronge,
powers Of digestion than city children. They
get more fresh air and exercise. There is
more waste and more want, hence the same
rule will not apply to both classes
CURE FOR CoRSs.-The safest, the most
accessible, and the most efficient cure of a
corn on the toe, is to double piece of thick
soft buckskin, cut hole iD it large enough
to receive the corn, and bind it around the
Toe. If in addition to this the foot is soaked
IN warm water fIr five or more minutes ev-
cry night aud morning and IA few drops OF
swe oil! or other substance, are paientl,
rubbed in on the eud after the so king, til.
corn will almost infllibly become COS,
enough IN few days to he easily pckeo
out with fngern,l. THIS saves the necps
sty of pairing The corn, which operation ha,
sometimes been followed with painful aud
dangerous symptoms. If The corn become,
inconvenient again, repeat the process Al
once Halls Journal Of Health.
A SIMPLE FILTER I'VE Fl I'd in an Engli-l
exchange the description Of very simple
filter, called "The Poor Mans Filter (" Il
consists of a common flower pot, of some