The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-08-01

pitcher, and pour on them boiling
water, and let it steep.
CLEANING KNIVES : Vinegar and
fruit stains upon knives can be taken eff
by rubbing the blades with raw potato
and then polishing on the knife board in
the usual manner.
MUTroS AND BEEF.--F Four pounds of
beef lose. one pound by boiling, and q
pound and five ounces by roasting, and
one pound three ounces BY baking. -Four
pounds of mutton lose fourteen ounces
By boiling, and one pound six ounces BY
roasting, and one pound four ounces by
baking.
On Or OF WoorEE.-You can get q
bottle or barrel Of oil of any carpet or
wooden stuff by applying dry buckwheat
plentifully. Never put water to ruch a
grease spot, or liquid of any kind. :.
In planting all garden crops the temp
tstion is to do things in hurry. There
is nothing ever gained but much lost by
hurrying; take time to do everything
thoroughly.-[Iowa State Register.
BED CLoTHEs.-0n getting up in the
morning the bed clothes should be
thrown over chair by the open window,
to sir for two or three hours before the
bed is made up; otherwise the sheets
aud coverlids and beds, being charged
with the moisture Of perspirstion, become
unwholesome.
ITshould be borne in mind that every
farmer who will take the tronble to keep
up tasteful appearance about his house
not only performs good work for his
own family, but stimulates his neighbors
to initiate him. Nothing ia more conta-
gious than the desire for gardening when
once it gets footing. Prairie Farmer.
To WASH TOWELS WITH CoLoRED
BoRDERs.-To set the oolors, let the tow
els soak in pailful of cold water con-
tanning one teaspoonful of sugar Of lead ;
let them remain ten minutes before
washing. To make the colors look clear
and bright, use pulyerized borax in the
wssh-water, very little soap, and no
soda.
To CURE A BURE.-This has been
tried in the case of child four years
old who had been badly burned. Suppu.
ration was abundant and 30 offensive
that they ordered the child tepid bath,
containing a couple of pinches of sui
phate of iron. This gave relief to the
pain, and, being repeated twice day, 20
minutes each bath, the child was soon
well.
TIE prices obtained at the Howden
great horse show in England viii furnish
an index of the value of the several
classes of horses there: Strong agricultu,
raj and dray horses brought from $3.50
to $500 each; harness horses from $500
to $3.50 high steppers, suitable for car
riages, In pairs, from $3.50 to $500 each
hunters, at all rates, from $3.50 to $3.50
each.
FOE watermelons, break up the ground
deep, harrow, check twelve feet apart.
Have little or no hill; leave the hill
concaye. Six or eight inches from the
bill put stable manure two and half
inches THICK. Cultivate well plant
good seed; have no squashes, pumpkins
or gourds near. Clip the ends of vines
If you wish large melons instead OF great
numbers
LEMON PbDDISG.--Three~fourths of
pound of -four, ak ounces of butter, the
juice of one large lemon, one teaspeonful
sugar. Make the above proportion of
-four and butter into smooth paste;
roll ont the thickness of about half an |
inch, squeeze the lemon juice in a cup,
stir teaspocnfui Of -four In 1t and as
much moist sugar a. will make stiff |
paste, spread this mixture over the
dough, roll it up, secure the ends, and
boil In Toured cloth two tours.
SAVE all the bones for homemade
fertilizers Take tight barrel, box or
hogshesd, cover the bottom with four or
Eve inches OF nniesehed ashes; upon
this place layer of bones Is close as
they can bs packed together, covering
completely with unlesehed ashes; then
another layer of bones, and thus alter