Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-08-18
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

FARM AND FIRESIDE.
PRETTY SPATTER-WORK.-A pretty
picture can be made, at trifing expense,
and with little trouble, in the following
way; Take a pane of common window
glass, of any size preferred, and fit to it
sheet OF white paper, and piece of stiff
pasteboard. Cut an oblong piece of paper,
and lay on the center of the white sheet;
now arrange in the center of the margin
that is left some pretty shaped leaves in
the form of a vine, and pin them down
closely so that no ink can. get under them;
now dip fine tooth comb in black ink.
and scrape it over the paper so that the
| spatters will fall evenly and not too thick
| ly over the whole picture. But little ink
at time must be taken up on the teeth Of
| the comb as too much will cause large
drops to fall, which will spoil the picture.
When the ink has become dry, remove
the leaves and paper, and you have pred
| ty 'spatter'' margin for the center ,.
In this arrange prtetily some bright it d
autumn leaves, ferns, pressed pansles,
other flowers, gluing slightly the bacE o
keep them in place. Lay this upQ
pasteboard. place the glass over it,
bind the edges together with gilt p [,
using glue for the purpose, Before fas i
ing together, loops of strong kid or ST IL
rings must be sewed to the back o. 9
pasteboard to fasten the hanging caro- b7.
SrAMMERING,-A gentleman who stala-
| mered from childhood almost up to msu-
hood gives very simple remedy for the
misfortune:-
Go into room where you will be quiet
and alone, get some book that will inter
est but not excite you, and sit down and
read two hours aloud to yourself, keeping
your teeth together. Do the same thing
every two or three days, or once week,
if very tiresome, always taking care to
read slowly and distinctly, moving the lips
but not the teeth. Then, when convers-
ing with others, try to speak as slowly
and distinctly as possible, and make up
your mind that you will not stammer.
Well, I tried this remedy, not having
much faith in it, I must confess, but will
ing to do almost any thing to cure myself
of such annoying difficulty. I read for
two hours aloud with my teeth together,
The first result was to make my tongne
and jaws ache, that is while was reading,
and the next to make me feel as if someth-
ing had loosened my talking apparatus,
for could speak with less difficulty imme-
| diately. The change was so great that
every one who knew me remarked it.
repeated the remedy every live or six days
for month, and then at longer intervals
until cured.
CRAB-APPLE PREsERvEs.-A quart OF
water, two pounds and a quarter OF loaf
sugar, and lemon peel. Put two pounds
of loaf sugar into preserving pan, with
the peel of small lemon, and a quart of
water. Boil it till it becomes thick syrup.
Take some fine, red crab apples, with their
stalks on, prick them with needle, and
put them into the syrup, When the skins
began to crack, take them carefully out,
and drain them separately on dish: add
the rest of the sugar to the syrup, and boil
it up again to thicken it; then take out
the peel, put the apples into wide-mouth
bottles, and pour the syrup over them.
When it is cool, tie down tight, to exclude
the air.
SUN PRINTING ON FRUIr.-H any of
our young folks wish to astonish any mem.
bers of the family or any coming guests by
some day allowing them to discover their
initials neatly printed on pear, peach, o.
apple, as it hangs upon its branch, tins
the way to carry out your plan: JUS o.
fore the fruit ripens, cut the desired
ters from sheet of thin, tough paper, 5.lI
paste them on the side of the fruit
exposed to the sun. When, in couIs
time, you remove the paper from the
surface, you will find the letters dstinc.
marked upon it. There are other ways OF
printing fruit, but this is the most simple.
To CURE CROUP.-Croup can be cure
in one minute, and the remedy is simply
alum and sugar. The way to accomplisl
the deed, is to take knife or CRATER, and
shave off in small particles about tea-
spoonful of alum then mix it with abol'5
twice it's quantity of sugar, to make it pal
atable, and administer it as quickly as pos
gible. Almost instantaneous relief will
follow.
YANKEE PUDDING.-Take one pint of
seaIded milk, half a pint of Indian meal, a
teacupful of molasses, a tablespoonful of salt
and six sweet apples cut into small pieces
should be baked not less than three
hours the apples will afford an exceed
ingly rich Jelly. This is.truly one of the
most luxurious, yet simple, buildings
made.
BREAD OMELEC.-Put in stew-pan a
cupful O cream, thesame of bread crumbs,
a little salt, dust Of pepper, and little
nutmeg. Set over the fire, and when the
bread has soaked up.all the cream, remove
from the stove, cool, then beat dozen
eggs, thoroughly mix with the cream and
crumbs, and fry. Serve as an omelet.
For WEAK EYEs.-Bathe them night
and morning in strong solution of salt
and water. Some remarkable cures have
been effected by this simple remedy. After
bathing the eyes daily for about a week,
intermit day or two, and then resume
the daily bathing, and so on, till the eyes
get strong again.
NICE WAY TO BAKE APPLEs.-Take
sour apples, dig out the cores, place the