Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-12-11
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FARM AND FIREsIDE.


How TO PUT NERVOUS BABIES TO
SLEEP--A baby is very tender thing,
people say but most Of them are very far
from knowing how tender. Imagine how
nervous you are in certain states-When
recovering from illness say. when the fall
of a book OF the slam Of door makes you
culver and feel faint, as if some one gave
you a blow That is the way a young baby
feels at its best. a puff of wind will set it
gasping, its little breath blown quite away,
A noise makes it shiyer, a change of sum-
mer air makes it turn death-eold. \ baby
is the most nervous Of beings, and the tor
lures it suffers in going to sleep, and being
Weakened by careless sounds when just
dropping off, are only comparable to the
same experience Of an older person during
an acute nervous headache. Young babies
ought to pass the first months of their
lives in the country, for its stiffness no
less than its fresh air; but where silence is
not 10 be commanded, baby may be soothed
by folding soft napkin, wet in warmish
water, lightly over the top Of its head, its
eyes and ears. 1t is the best way to put
nervous babies to sleep. Teethjng babies
find this very comfort able, for their beads
are always hot, and there is fevered
heating in the arteries each side.
V1oLETs.-Perhaps it may be of interest
to know how to raise in winter these
sweet-scented and beautiful little flowers
violets. First take a few old boards and
construct a bottomless box abont three or
four feet in length and two feet square,
sinking it into the earth nearly its full
depth, on the sunny side of the garden.
The top of the box should be slanting and
covered with a glass door or lid on hinges.
After having the box well fixed, plant five
Or six good healthy violet stalks, and the
bed is complete. But to run the same
successfully great care is necessary. Dur
ing the day, in warm and pleasant wealth
er, the glass lid should be opened, but al
ways closed at night; when cold weather
sets i'll the glass should be we'll covered
with dry leaves, and When wanted to bloom
the covering removed. On very cold nights
the box should be covered with three or
four pieces Of carpet, as also on very cold
days. The plan has been known to work.
and violets on Christmas and New Year
are quite plentiful.
MANURE.-Keep the stalls of horses and
cattle well Uttered with some good absorb
ent. Leaves are most convenient. What
the country needs is plenty of home
made manure, which will enable the farm
Ell to make heavier crops from less land.
Farming does not pay when it takes all a
mans labor to make his bread. -Four bar
rels Of corn to the acre will not pay; ten
barrels will. Six bushels of wheat for one
is q loss; twenty for one makes money.
Keep refuse 5anbarlst sawcust, woods
earth, OF refuse OF wood-plies isb4hsen-hoases
three inches deep all the winter Put in q
fresh supply every week; mix with plaster
in the spring and SOW on weak places in
Wheat-fields or reserve to plant i'll hills
with corn or tobacco.-AHherst EneeTprise.
KEEPING UP FERTILITY IN MEAD
Ows.-A correspondent of the New Hamp-
shire Mirror and Farmer states that
friend, who is noted for large crops Of hay,
pursues the following method in keeping
up the fertility of his meadows: 'He breaks
up his sward land in spring and sows it in
oats. These are ploWed in when fully
grown, and the next spring the ground is
seeded down without reploWing, the only
grass seed soWn being timothy. He gets
from two to three tons of hay per an
mum from an acre, cutting only once"
THE YELLOW SPOTS produced by nitric
acid may be removed from brown or black
wooden goods, while fresh, by repeatedly
dipping them into concentrated solution
OF permangate of potassa and then washing
them with water. The yellow spots ON
the hands may be removed i'll the same
way, the brown stain produced by the per-
being removed by I'LL aqueous So
luton Of oulphurous acid.
To PREVENT BALDNEss, says a cores
ponden throw away all oils and pomades,
and wash the parting of the hair with cold
water, night and morning, dry thoroughly,
tsAANA
brushing until relneSs or warm glow is
produced.
ToTAKE grease spots out of carpets,
mix IL little Soap in gallon of warm soft
water, then add half-an-ounce of boraX;
wash the part we'll with clean cloth, and
the grease or dirty spot will soon disap-
pear.
BRIrTANIA WARE, says one who has
tried it, should first be washed with a wool
EN- cloth aud sweet oil, then washed in water
and suds, and rubbed with soft leather and
whiting. Thus treated, it will retain it's
beauty to the last.
SAUCE FOR DUCKs.-Serve a rich gravy
in the dish, cut the breast into slices. but
don't take them off; cut lemon and put
pepper and salt on it; then squeeze it on
the breast, and pour a spoonful of gravy
before you serve it out.
KILL YOUR Hoes as soon as you can.