The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-11-17
HOME AND FARM.

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To handle a hot boiled egg in
removing the she'll, drop it a moment
into cold water. This cooIs the shell
for an instant yet leaves the egg
hot inside. o. Meanwhile get the shell
out OF the way. 44 %
FLOWERS IN SAND.-Many pretty little
blossoms of bulbs OF %yiolets, primroses, and
other spring flowers having short stalks,
will keep fresh for a long time il each flower
be pricked into a saucer or plate of wet sand.
used in the usual way, is that each bloom
remains in its place Just where fixed. Ii Is
a good idea to Keep a fiat glass dish filled as
Stated above, on the side board, and as the
flowers decay, remove them, and stick in a
few moreinutneir places.
Here is a string of good hints from DIR.
Halls Magazine. Each paragraph is a
text FOR a sermon. Ifyou are well let your
self alone. One of the great errors Of the
age is, we medicate the body too much, the
mind too little. More persons are de-
strOyed by eating too much than by drink
ing too much. The best gymnasium is the
woodward, q clearing, or z corn-feld. a
harty laugh is known, the world over, To be
a heslth-Prompter; it elevates the spirits,
enlivensthe circulation, and is marvelously
contagious in a good sense. Bodily activity
aud bodily health are inseparable. II
the bowls are loose, lie down in bed, re-
main there, and eat nothing until you are
well. The three best medicines in the world
are warmth, abstinence and repose.
bEETs FOR WINTER.-Croppie writes for
the Tribune the following. 1t will be in
order next spring: L know it is a common
practice for jewellers in the country
TO make but one sowing of beets.
They plant early for ''new beets,"
and then what remains until au-
tumn is for the winter crop. Such people
have not the least conception what consti-
tuteS a juicy, fine favored root when vegeta-
bles are in demand. The proper time to
plant is in June, not earlier, and they will
then arrive at maturity before the frost is
severe. III dug and carried carefully to a
damp cellar, where they will not freeze
hard, and buried in eand, one can enjoy a
first class article all winter. 1t may appear
like heresy to advocate planting a light
colored variety, but IL is my choice never
theless. / adhere TO the Early Bassano, all
the season through, as being the sweetest,
most tender as well as the most profitable |
have ever grown.
HYACINTHs IN GLAssEs.-The following
directions are just now in season and may
be useIul to those not already well informed
on the treatment of these beautiful winter
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single varieties. They are less beautiful,
but are to be preferred to the double ones
for the reason that they bloom two or three
weeks sooner and are more fragrant. Hav-
ing selected the bulbs, fill the glasses with
pure water, place the bulbs in them, and
set them in a closet for a fortnight or three
weeks, or until the glasses are we'll filled
with hbers. Then expose to the sun; give
fresh air occasionally, when the weather
will permit. Change the water when 10 be-
comes impure. When making The change,
take out the bulbs and rinse the roots we'll
in clean water; also wash the insides of the
glasses thoroughly. The freezing of the
water not only endangers the safety of the
glasses but causes the roots to decay.
Soft water is always preferable. 1t should
be perfectly clear to show the roots to advan-
tage, and should be on a level with the base
OF the bulb. Avoid placing the glasses
within the influence of fire heat. These
biiet directions, carefully observed, viii re-
suit in handsome blooms.
SAGE CHEEsEs.-At a late exhibition of
dairy products in New York, Mr.. Fuller
showed some old fashioned sage cheeses,
a luxury that modern times had almost for
gotten. He told how to make them, and
his directions are precisely the process fol-
lowed by the dear old New England moth
ers nifty years ago. Let it never be forgotten.
This Is the way to make sage cheese:
Green sage is used for obtaining the flavor.
A quantity of leaves and stems about the
size OF ones wrist and six inches long is
taken for 100 pounds of curd. The
green sage is run through a common sau-
sage machine and then soaked in water
over night and in the morning the water is
pressed out and strained off and added to a
vat of milk by itself at the time the rennet
is applied. For coloring, bean leaves are
taken and also put through the sausage
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the liquid strained off in the morning and
added to a vat of milk by itself. The two
watts of milk are curded off separately and
just before sailing, the curds are thrown
together and Immediately in~termingled
by stirring, when they are sailed and 90 TO
press. In this way the green and white
curds coming together give the cheese a
beautifully notified appearance. Sage cheese
an extra price that amply pays
for the trouble OF preparing it, and is
esteemed as a great delicacy by many.
WORKING DRESS FOR WoMEM.-The FASH
ion editor. for American Homes writes some
good things. from which the following is
selected: Instead of a number of cheap and
too often tawdry looking dress that we see,
loaded down with Indifferent trimmings.
looped up in complicated puffs and ridiculous
looking panniers, pinned here and there.
tied back until locomotion would seem
very difficult. If not quite impossible, and
respectable working woman rendered a
pitiable and ludicrOus caricature of the very
extreme of fashion, we advocate business
suits for working woman that shall be quite
as practical as those worn by men, and
would have such suits worn as constantly
as a gentleman wears his business suit,
which, with the most practical and econom-
ical, is, until worn out. when it should be re-
placed by another, instead of resorting to
that oft-practiced but mistaken economy of
Finishing up" some house dress, or what
was originally a best SUNDAY suitu by
thinking such a practice is quite as much
against good taste as we would think the
appearance of a gentleman, attending to
business attired in an old "dress coat" and