The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-08
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.


To Fry Tomatoes. Stake tomatoes
before they are fairly ripe, cut in thick
slices, salt and pepper and roll in flour,
fry until nicely Drowned.
To Cure Freckles.-Mix together
two ounces of lemon juice, half dram
of powdered boraX, and one dram of
sugar, and allow them to stand in bot
tie for few days. Rub occasionally
over the face and hands.
To Cook Egg Plant. select of nice
ripe egg plants a sufficient quantity; cut
off the ends; cut, transversely, in slices
one inch thick; cook without grease or
any other thing whatever, on hot grid
die or frying pan; when cooked through
and nicely Drowned dress with butter and
salt, and serve hot, piping hot.
TO Bleach Straw Hat.-First rub it
well In water, softened with borax, using
very little soap; then rinse it in borax
water, using teaspoonful of powdered
borax to basin of water; bleach it in the
sun for two or three days; if the hat is
very yellow, little lemon juice rubbed
on will prove effective.
"A Head-wash.- Sage tea is one of
the very best preparations for washing
and dressing the hair. The hair should
be carefully brushed and braided in two
firm oraids, and the roots rubbed with a
sponge dipped in lukewarm sage-tea.
The braids can then be washed and
dried with towel. This preserves the
color of the hair, and keeps the scalp
clean.
Remedy for Insomnia.-If much
pressed with work, and feeling an ina
bility to sleep, eat two or three small
onions, the effect of which is magical in
producing the desired repose. Such a
remedy has great advantage over the
Supplying drugs commonly resorted to
for this purpose, and is ever preferable
to the liquor Opt Seddt and chlorodine
of medical practice. Family Doctor.
To throw cured maize fodder out in
the cattle-yard, or to feed it in the stall
as hay is fed, is highly wasteful 1t can.
not be fed alone or as an adjunct to hay;
to use it proftably it must be finely cut
and we'll mixed or alternated with maize
or cOttonseed meal, bran, or some SINH
lar material. Maize meal and similar ar.
ticles contain too much albuminoids, fat
and starch for healthy and economical
cattle food; maize fodder contains toe
little of these and too much coarse fiber
the two should be miXed.-Pr0f. Samuel
| W. johnson.
Recipe for Golden Hair. - Since
golden hair is so much in favor, it is
well for mothers to know that they car
preserve the golden color of their chill
dren's locks by persistent and careful
washing with CASTLE soap and water
The hair should be braided and dipped
repeatedly into the suds, and then wiped
with towel. This should be performed
once in three or four days, and if perse
vered in, though the roots of the hail
may darken as the child grows older, the
mass will keep its sunny tints as long az
the owner wishes.
Goldfish Balls.-The desiccated cod
fish put up in boxes is the best, anG
equally cheap; as it is already cooked
and SHREDDED, all disagreeable odor il
avoided; it can be prepared for the
breakfast-table in twenty minutes; ado
do muCu UOlleu anu uldSueu pOldlO6S al
fish: the potatoes are best cold, with ,
lump of butter, and moistened with lit
tie milk; if they are to be extra nice, ado
one or two beaten eggs, according to thu
quantity of potatoes and fish; make then
into balls or cakes with Toured hands
and then melt some lard in fry;ng-pa1
to boiling heat, and fry the cakes to ,
good brown.
We have learned to jest ut gapes BY
making free use of camphor. We give
to a chicken in very bad case pill thu
size of small garden pea. AS soon al
we see symptoms of gapes we give the
birds water to drink which is strongl,
impregnated with camphor, thus giving
to the chicken that which was favor
lite medicine with our great grandmoth
ers, camphor julep." The treatment
seems to explain itself. The gapes o
Gaping" is caused by the presence o
small red worms in the windpipe. N
medicine can reach them unless it doe
so by vapor. An hour after the CHECKER
has swallowed the pill it smells cam
phor. Camphor is very strong vermi
fuge, and the worms die. --LOndon Cot