The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-03-19

meal, two tablespoons melted butter, o.
little salt, one teaspoon soda. ~
TO TAKE OUT IRON RusT.-Oxalic
acid will take out rust or any other
stain out Of white goods. Dissolve
small quantity Of boiling water ana
dip the spots in.
BEE OR WASP SrGSGs.-Wet some cut
tobacco and lay on the sting. IN hVe
minutes it is cured. Always Keep cut
tobacco in the house, for such emergen'
cies. II is Invaluable and sure,
To REMOVE INK FROM FURNITuRE.-
Wipe the spot with oxalic acid let ~
remain a few minutes, then rub IT with
cloth wet with warm water. Colored
paint, mahogany and carpets will re-
auirc washing with hm'tshoIn.water TO
restore the original color.
To PRESERVE CHEESE FROM lNsEcrs.-
Cover the cheese while whole with n
paste made of wheat -four, then wrap a
cloth and keep it in a tight box, 50 ina,
it Will not get ny-blown. Cheese That
has shippers in it, if kept TN cold
weather, will become free from them.
To EXTRACT SUBSTANCES FROM TIE
NosTRILs.-When II child has any sub
stance wedged in its nostrils, press the
vacant nostril 80 as 10 close 1T, and APP
ply your lips close to the child's mouth
and blow very hard. This method will
gen rally force the substance out OF the
%nostril.
LIP SALyE.-Dissolve a small lump
of white sugar in n large spoonful OF
rose water common water may be sub
stitutcd mix it with n couple Of large
g~poopfuls of sweet oil, n pieco Of spGr-
maceti of half Of the size of n butter
mt. Simmer the whole eight or ten
minutes.
STAINS II o BRoApGLoTH. Take M
ounce of pipe.cIay, ground line, NIX IL
with twelve drops Of alcohol. and the
Same quantity Of spirits Of turpcntlne.
Whenever You wish to remove STAINS
from h~roadclotl, moi8ten II small por-
ton of this mixture with alcohol, rub
it off with II WOODEN cloth, and the spot
will disappear.
BLAcKrvG rOR IIARNEBs. Melt four
ounces of mutton Blct with twelve
ounces bccswnx add Twelve ounces HII-
gar candy, four ounces soft soap dIH-
gulyrd in water, and two ounces indigo
finely powdered. When melted and
we'll mixed, add half Il pint of turpcn-
tine. Lay it on the harness with a
sponge, and polish off with Il brush.
SUPERIOR MopEor BoIhING POr&roES.
Put them in II pot, with Just sufficient
water to cover them, leaving oil the
lid Of the pot. When the water be
comes 6calding hot, without boiling,
turn it Off and replace it with cold wa
ter, add ng salt. The cold water sends
the heat from tho surface to the heart
Of the potato, rendering it mealy,
When potatoes are old, they should be
pared previous to boiling them.
UINT FOH DYBpErrlC8. Wien victims
of dyspepsia take camphor to ALA,
headache, they introduce INTO thcl
Rystcma Il nervous Htimulant, the phys
biological effect Of which is to lnilam'
the mucous lining of the stomach an'
tillSb UlttTitllbl Iltlt' i"Ib' l
ties produce congestion, CONFUSION
and death, like ~immodcrnto doses @
alcohol or opium. Plainly, then, dyS
peptics should be particularly temper
nto with camphor.
To CuRE Docs ADDICTED ro klLLIN
SuEEr.-Take of bccfsteak siXtcc
ounces -strychuia four scruples. d
vide the bGefstcak, or "tit bit" int
sixteen pieces; take n sharp penknli
and make a small inclsion into each {
them into the oritice thus made lnScI
onc-sixtccnth part Of the above quar-
tity of ~strychnia (Which will amount {
five grains), drop II few of these mcdici
ted "tit.blts" on the outside Of til
sheep-pen, ns near the the tracks Of TIL
"bow-wow" as possible. A dog wit
five grains of strychnia in his stomac
was never known to meddlc with mu
ton, or over again disturb the slumbel
of any one by virtue of dog melody.
DURABLE INK roR MARKING LINEN
Dissolve u couple of ornchms of luni
c%austic, half an ounce of gum arab,
in n gill of rain water. Wet the art
cles in tho place where they nro to !
marked with strong salcratus water
let them get perfectly dry, then irc
them smooth. Tho heat Of the ire
will turn them II dark yellow, ms
Bcorched. Washing will eilace it, but
should not be done t II after the mar
ing is thoroughly dry =; place it in &
sun or near the fire. Tho ink shou
be kept in II small vinl the water W
cvaporate when it is kept long.
such II case add more water, and sim
it up well in tho bottle when you W
TO use it.
Far MEAT ron CONSERVATIVES. -
tnbte for fat meat is unf%ortuncly |
universal among children, but when
shows itself it il often universally
pressed by parents. This taste il a
other expression of the wants of I
living systom which wo can not disl
gard with %impunity. Without fats b
organism can not be built up in perfc
ton. Fats countoract tho tendency
consumption. Observation has csta'
lished the fact that persons who
early life show n taste for fat meat 10
dom fall victims to that disease; IN,
rice rcrSH, tIat consumptiyes ha'
generally shown an early repngnan,
to such food. There can b. no que
tion as to the lesson taught by this ia
that when the appetite exists it oub
to DO INDUCED, and that it ought,
possible, to be created, when wante,
by %tonics, and abundant exercise in IL
open air.
NEW THEORY or UoLOR.-Prof. Rood
demonstrations of the new theory
color, in the Popular Science MONTH,
aro Of great interest. The old thcor
of the three primary colors-red, ye
lou onI bIuo M ia ro1I Lnnu,p "a,