The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-09-09
Household Recipes.


milk: half a pound sugar. two table
spoonfuls vanilla
PUFF PUDDING.
One quart of milk, seven eggs. eight
tablespoonfuls of flour. little salt. use
butter and sugar sauce.
POP-ovERS.
Two eggs. one pint of sweet milk, one
and onehalf pints of flour. little salt.
bake in cups in a hot oven.
CURE FOR WARTS.
Warts can he cured in the season when
the common pokeberry is ripe, by fire.
quent rubbing with the juice of the
bruised pokeberries.
To prepare starch, mix one-half pint
starch with one-half pint cold water,
and add three quarts OF boiling water,
stirring until smooth.
LADY CAKE.
Two teacups white powdered sugar.
one teacup butter. one tcacup sweet
milk. two and u half tcacups prepared
flour. four eggs. Flavor with bitter al
mond.
4 FRECKLE REMEDY.
TO remove freckles and tan. get up
before sunrise and battle your face in
dew. To whiten the hands apply bread
and milk poulticc rs hot rs possible on
going to bed.
DELICATE CAKE.
Two and half cups sugar, ono cup
butter, three and n half cups prepared
flour, five eggs. one cup of milk or wa
ter. This cake, TAXED in layers, makes
good Jelly or chocolate cakes.
REMEDY FOR GoIrREs.
4 goitre can he kept in allegiance, il
not wholly cured, by washing the neck
once or twice day with strong salt and
water. The swelling will go down With
the use of this application. though it is
liable to return if the washing is neg
lcctcd for II long time.
cRIMpiNG HAIR.
To make the hair stay in crimp take
five cents worth of gum arabic and add
to it Just enough boiling water to dis
solve it. When dissolved, add enough
alcohol to make it rather thin. Let it
stand all night and then bottle it to pre-
vent the alcohol from cvaporating. This
put on the hair ut night after 1t Is done
up in papers or pins will make 1t stay
in crlmp the hottest day. and is perfectly
harmless.
CHOLERA INiANTtN
Toast half slice of stale bread very
brown. break it in goblet and fill ~
with water, put in rs much soda as you
can hold on II three-ccnt piece; let the
I...I l.
stomach il very irritable, give only u
tcaspooniul at II time. In some cases,
with the advice of II physician, have
put II tcaspoonful of mrcgoric in the
goblctful.
HOfLED JELLY CAKE.
One coffee cup of white powdered su-
gar, one coilec-cup flour. not prepared,
four eggs, whites and yolks beaten sep
aratcly; II pinch of SALT beat the yolks
and sugar to Il cream. add the flour and
the salt. then the whites, beaten to IL
very stiff froth; should be mixed quick
ly; butter II large roasting pan, cover
with white tea-paper, and bake from ten
to fifteen minutes, according to your
oven; when done turn on u towel, re-
move the paper carefully, spread with
late cake can be made in the same man
ner by substituting any chocolate mix
ture for the Jelly.
TELEGRApHING A TUNE.-The readers
OF the Ttareiier have been made ac-
quainted with the wonderful inventions
Of Professor Bell, by which musical and
vocal sounds can bc and have been sent
over the electric wires, but few, il any,
are aware of the wonderful results
which are sure to follow these improve
ments in tclegraphy. A few nights ago
Professor Bell was in communication
with IL telegraph operator in New York,
and commenced experiments with one
of his inventions pertaining to the trans
mission of musical sounds. He mace
use OF his phonetic organ and played
the tune of "America," and asked the
operator in New York what he heard?
IL hear the tune of America, re-
piled New York. Give us another"
Professor Bell then played "Auld
Lang Syne.'
"What do You hear now"
II hear the tune of Aud Lang Syne,'
with the full chorus, distinctly" rpli.
ed New York.
Thus the astounding discovery has
been made that man can perform
music in New York, New Orleans, or
London or Paris, and be heard distinct
ly in Boston. If this can he done, why
cannot distinguished performers exc
cute the most artistic and beautiful mu-
- Al,