The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-12-16
HINTS.

EQUAL parts of sand and plaster Paris
moistened with water makes an excellent
mortar to stop cracks and holes IN walls
or ceilings. 1t hardens rapidly.
To MAKE corn meal griddle-cakes,
scald half a pint of Indian meal, half a
pint of the same dry, flour, and STIR all
into a pint of milk, with a tablespoonful
of butter and one egg. Spread very thin
on the griddle.
To cLEAN the insides of jars, fill them
with water, stir in a spoonful or more OF
pearl-ash; empty them in an hour, and
if not clean fill them again, and let them
stand several hours. For large-slzed jars
I've is excellent.
POTATOES are adapted to be eaten with
lean meat-the starchy potatoes furnish
ing the tattening and heating elements
which lean meat lacks, while the lean
meat supplies the bone and muscle-mak-
ing elements not afforded by potato or
fine flour bread. Fat meat affords heating
and fattening elements, like potato, but in
a form less easily digested by most per-
sons.
To KEEP the hair from falling out,
wash the head every week in salt water
and rub the skin of the head with a dry
coarse towel. Then apply a dressing COM
posed of bay rum and sweet oil, with
which a few drops of tincture OF canthar-
ides have been mingled. This will
stimulate the skin and keep the hair from
falling out and turning gray. The dress
ing for the hair may be scented with
cinnamon oil or some such warming
essence.-N. Y. Tribune.
For taking tracings, the following proc
ess has lately been suggested: One part
by volume of castor-oil should be dis
solved in two OF three volumes of alcohol,
and this solution applied to the paper with
a brush. The spirit soon evaporates, leav
ing the paper transparent and ready for
use. A tracing in pencil may then readi-
ly be made, and when finished the paper
is immersed in alcohol, which dissolves
out the oil, restoring the sheet to its origi-
nal condition. The drawing may after
ward be completed in India ink or in
colOrs.
For scent-cases it will be necessary to
buy an ounce of sachet powder (heliO-
trope, mile t1eur, violet or Florentine
orris-root). Cut out two layers of thin
cotton wadding three inches square,
sprinkle the powder between them and
tack the edges together. Make a little
bag of blue or crimson silk of the same
size, run it round the edges, leaving one
end open; tack the scented wadding
smoothly in and sew the open end over
and over. Trim around the case with a
narrow plated ribbon and catch it
through in four or five places with tiny
ribbon bows of the same color. st. Ntch0-
las for December.
CHILDREN almost invariably dislike
porridge, which is the more to be regret
ted as there is no kind of food that will
more surely build up Il strong and healthy
frame. That it is an unreasonable preiu-
dice is often shown by the fact that the
child who apparently loathes his basin of
porridgc will, when grown up to mans
estate, esteem it the greatest luxury.
Some parents apply the rod in such cases,
but it is a pity when children's food has
to be whipped into them. Rather let the
hest of all sauces, hunger, give them a
relish for what would otherwise be dis
tasteful and occasionally, by way of va
riety, substitute stale bread s~cantily but
tered, with weak, half-cold tea INSULT
GENTLY sweetened, and if that does not
bring the little rebel to appreciate his
porridge try something even more unin-
viting still.-N. g.. Farmer.
IT is said that the three finest ducks for
table use are the canvas-back, the red
head and the butter ball, probably be-
cause they feed on wild celery, while
others generally feed on fish. The can
vas-back is an innocent-looking fowl, in
dustrious, and depends alone upon his
own labor for all the sweets of life, and
would enjoy it hugely but for the intrud-
ers who haunt his presence, thus: The
canvas-back dives under the water and
tolls about the bottom till he makes choice
of a bunch of celery, which he takes in
his bill an inch or two from the root and
hastens to the surface to enjoy the fruits
Of his labor, while the other two lay in
in watchful idleness ready for the
plumber. The red-head, seizing the por-
ton Of the celery close to the bill of the
canvas-back, makes away with it, while
the buttcr-b ball gobbles down the other
end, leaving nothing for the laborer ex-
cept that small portion which he held on
to like grim death. In this wise the poor
canvas back tolls all the day long, from
early dawn till dark. He could enjoy
part of the day in rest and perfect happi-
ness but for those who seek every oppor-
tunity to eat up his very life substance
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