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KNIFE POLIsH.-Charcoal powder
will l,e found a very good thing to give
knives first-rate polish.
STEAMED APPLEs.-Pare and halye
good sour apples, remove the cores,
and place them in q steamer overa ket-
tie of boiling water; when tender serve
with sugar and cream, and imagine
they are peaches.
KEEPING THE HANDS SoFT.-To keep
the hands white and soft, before drying
them on towel, make lather on the
hands with the soap, drop few drops
of glyceTine on, rub in well and dry the
hands without putting in water again.
VIRGINIA OYsTERs.-I.et them drain
through a colander and lay them on q
towel to dry; have some butter in fry
ing-pan very hot; only little butter;
put in oysters; after few minutes turn
them; as soon as they swell out or the
gills turn up take out; put on hot plate.
Delicious.
Mock CREAM.-Boil Il pints of milk,
sweeten and flavor to taste. Beat eggs
very light; add to them heaping tea
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| salt. Stir this into the boiling milk.
| Spread this, when cold, between two
layers of the cake as made for Washing
ton pie, and you have a nice cream pie.
BRINE FOR SOUsE.-5 quarts of water
and l of vinegar to l quart of salt. The
salt is to be entirely dissolved in the
| liquor, and the mixture strained from
every impurity. If this quantity is not
/ sufficient to cover your supply of souse
add more, taking care to preserve the
same proportions. Be careful to keep
the souse entirely covered by the brine,
else it will soon become moldy and then
spoil. Weights may easily be contrived
for the purpose.
ABOUT BUTTER.-It takes no longer
to set table neatly than it does to set it
| carelessly. Now, in regard to butter.
| We have it upon our table three times a
day, therefore | think it is important
that it should look inviting, not as we so
frequently see it, in both large and
small broken pieces, surrounded by
numberless crumbs, as is the case when
taken hurriedly out of the jar or tub.
When we purchase butter, the better
plan is to take out OF the jar, tub OF
! firkin, 3 or 10 pounds and work it over
in a wooden bowl into small rolls Then
you will always have a Feat looking roll
of butter to set upon your table; a
smooth, round slice, instead of a jun
bled mass" as my mother called an I'M
slightly butter-plate.-NrS. Mjames.
SPRING HOUSE CLEANING. -Wheu
houses are infested by cockroaches, they
can be kept away by powdered bOrax
Keep it in tin pepper-boX and spri0klt
it wherever they go. Paris green Is
recommended, but it is poison; while
i borax is harmless. Sprigs of winter
green, or ground ivy, viii drive away
( small red ants, and branches of worm
wood will make black ants ''yamOse the
ranch" Scald your bedsteads in The
hottest soap-suds you can apply; i
there are traces of bugs apply kerosene
with a small paint-brush. 1t is 4 sur'
cure. Tenants of city houses are Otter
annoyed by bugs, and cannot tell whence
they came. Perhaps the border of the
wallpaper might divulge their source
or the cornices of the windows disclose
their haunts. Again apply Kerosene
and they will no longer trouble you
CarboGc acid may be applied; if pure
the odOr is not as disagreeable as tina
of coaIoil Papering and painting ar
best done in cold weather, especial,
the latter, for the wood absorbs the OF
of paint much more in warm wealth
er, while in cold weather it hardens OF
the outside, making coat, which vii
protect the wood instead of soakin!
into il.