The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-16
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Plants taken from the warm, moist air
Of a propagating- house should be wrapped
in thin, soft paper, left open at the top,
until they have become acclimated to the
change. The leaves should be sprinkled
on the under and upper side, with wisp-
broom, studiously avoiding cold drafts OF
air.-N: r. Independent.
"A good way to start slips Of plants is
to get an old glass fruit-jar, sift nice mel.
low earth in it till it is two or three inches
deep, or till it touches the end of the slip,
then pour water over it till it is full. Set
the jar where 1t will be moved often.
After the roots start sift more earth over,
MI again with water, if needed, and so on
till it is full and filled with roots, then
carefully break the glass off and trans
plant to pot, and you will have no
trouble in starting it.
There is, says the american Grocer,
no article of food upon which so much of
the comfort of the household depends as
upon bread, and no one upon which so
much has been written. Whenever the
failures. of the sex in the way of house
keeping are commented upon by their
lords and masters, bread forms the con-
venient and ready proof of their delin-
quencies. If a woman does not do what
is supposed to lie within her legitimate
way of business, or does do what docs not
come within that range, the masculine
voice, with one accord, shouts deridingly,
or warningly, "Go and learn to make
bread" If they make poor verses or paint
poor pictures they are told that they had
better make good bread" If they have
an ambition to become doctors or lawyers,
or clergymen or editors, the whole profess
sional world joins in the chorus of advice
and tells them they had better learn to
make good bread"
The ideal dish of raw tomatoes is
thus prepared: Choose only those which
are large, comparatively smooth, firm, and
thoroughly red-ripe-it is an absurdity to
offer small or immature specimens in a
salad, and if you can't find such as here
recommended you must not attempt to eat
raw tomatoes. Put them in a tin pan and
pour over them boiling water, pouring it
off Immediately. This so loosens the
skins that they can usually be pulled off
easily without any violent application of
the knife. Then with very sharp knife
slice them across, discarding the first
piece, which has the hard base of the
stem, and the last piece, which is too
small. Make the slices thin rather than
thick, keep them large and whole, and
pile them carefully in layers in a pretty
dish, delicately sprinkling salt and pepper
over them. Then put them away to get
thoroughly cold in your cellar or refriger-
ator. Prepared thus they are simply am
brosial and only pagan could scorn them.
If anybody wants to add sugar and vine
gar to the seasoning that can be done at
table by the eater. Slices of the large
yellow tomatoes scattered among the red
sometimes make the dish look very tempt
ing.-Inter- Ocean,.
The chronological Journal says: If
the farm was to repair the pump, hang
gates, make mole traps, put in rake teeth,
file the saw and hang the grindstone, and
he did these things we'll, obviously the
farm is not the place for him-but ma
chine shop is. If boy will walk half
dozen miles after the days work is done
to hear a political speech; if he takes
time from play to attend trials before a
Justice of the Peace, and sits up half the
night when he is going to school to learn
declarations which bring down the house
at spelling schools, most likely he will do
the world more good if you put a law
book and not manure fork into his hand
If he earn more money in trading jack.
knives and tish-lines on rainy days than
he does in hoelng potatoes and cutting
grain in fair weather, give him chance
at the yard-stick and not have him around
troubling the other boys who are handling
horse rakes and pitch forks and the like
employments. Again, if boy is sklllful
in skinning small animals and stuffing
small birds; if he practiced making pills
of mud when he was child and extract
ed teeth from the jaws of dead horses with
pincers when he got older; if he read
physiology while his brothers arc deep in
/" Robinson Crusoe," he will he far more
likely to succeed with lancet than with
a scythe.