The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-15
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

A STRONG solution of hyposulphate of
soda is said to be excellent for cleaning
silver.
To PREVENT moths in carpets, wash
the floor before laying them with
spirits of turpentine or benzips.
SPRIGs of wirterSreen or ground ivy
will drive away red ants branches of
worm-wood will serve the same purpose
for black ants.
STRAW mating should be washed
with a. cloth dampened in salt water.
Ildihn meal sprinkled over it and
thoroughly swept out will also cleanse
1T finely.
Spots can be taken ont of marble
with finely powdered pumtre stone mix
ed with veriuice. Cover the spots and
allow tho stuff to remain for twelve
hours then rub clean, dry end rinse.
FhA1-sEEp ard tailow are used in
Germany as a stuffing for cushions.
One part of tallow and ten parts of FAX
seed are employed, this mobility of the
! CREASED soed rendering the cushion very
soft and pliable.
| An oAKEN color can be aiven TO new
pine floors and tetlss by washing them
| IN q stlhtion of copperas dissolved in
i 1ye, pound of the former to a gallon
of the latter. When dry, this should
be oiled, and it will look we'll fc.: : year
or two /; then rerew The oiling.
/, WAFFnEs Take sour cream, one
| quart, the yellow of three eggs and one
half teaspoonful. of soda, stir we'll to-
gether add one teaspoonful cream tar
ter to flour enough to make the batter !;
beat we'll, then beat the whites OF six
eggs to stiff froth and poHr on the
batter, stirring in slightly. Have your
irons ready and bake Immediately.
WHITE CAKE.-Three cups sifted
flour, one and hall cups of sugar, one
egg, one teacup of sweet milk, two
tablespoonfuls of butter. two table
spoonfuls of cream tattar, one tea
spoonful If ooua, and one teaspoonful of
canIlla, almond, or lemon essence. Beat
the butter and sugar to a cream, dis
solve the soda in the milk, and add to
it, with the egg we'll beaten, and the
essence. Mix with this very slowly
three cups of fotr, putting the cream
tartar into the last cupful. Bake in
Quick oven. 1t makes delicious cake
for jelly: chocolate, or cocoe-nit layers.
If the latter is Used, CRATE a large cocoa
nut, removing the brown skin first /;
then add to it the beaten white of one
egg and one coffee cup of fine sugar.
Stir it all together and spread between
the layers of cake, icing the upper layer.
This receipt will make three layers of
cake and a plateful of small frosted
cake.
NOVEL WAY OF MAKING JELLY. CAKE.
Take the whites of six eggs, one cup
white sugar, same Of fouS, Two table,
spoons sweet milk. two teaspoonfuls
! cream tartar, and one of soda. Bake in
q large oblong dripping so.the cake
will be very thin. Meanwhile stir an
other batch, making just the same, with
the exception of using the yelks instead
spread while warm between with jelly
| or preserve Juice of any kind put to-
| gether; bring the largest side of the
cake toward you, and roll Immediately,
or cut in four or eight parts. put together
| alternately, putting Jelly between each
layer. ard ffost lightly over the top.
Another method is to make three pans,
making the third layer of one third red
sand sugar, filing the cup with white
| sugar, using the eggs and proceeding
| the same as for the other layers. In
| putting together let the first layer be
the yellow, made of the yelks, then the
red, and lastly the white. Nicely frost
the top and you have beautiful as well
as delicious cake. They are very
pretty made into rolls.
To WEAVE HAIR.-A writer in the
Household gives some very plain direc-
tions how to weave hair. Take a smooth
board one and half feet long and six
or eight inches wide. Near one end
dfivn three single nails in a row, the
nails being half an inch apart and the
row running parallel with the end of the
board. At the other end, opposite the
middle nail, drive orc mill, wax three
pieces Of linsn thread, tie them together
! at one end, and about quarter of an
inch from this knot tie another now
slip over the nail that stands alone,
then tie one to each of the three nails,
drawing the thread considerably tight.
Take the board in your lap, with she
three nails toward the right hand. Next
take q bunch of hair, both the ends
evened, the size of a knitting needle !;
wet that end and put it under the thread
nearest you, over the middle thread and
under the last then bring it back on
the left side, reversing the order. Now
push it up closer against tho knot.
Proceed in this way until the strip is of
the required length. After it is dry it
can be pushed together more closely.
Twist is superior to linen for dnea.-
bility.