Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1878-02-14
domestic.
Economy is the household mint.

In our families our tempers. and in
society our tongues.
FINGER MARKS. Finger marks may
be removed from vanished furniture by
the use Of little sweet oil upon soft
rag. Patient rubbing with chlorofOrm
will remove PANTHEON black silk OF any
other material.
A stand for plants should have cas-
tors on rollers attached to the legs, 81
that the plants may be readily turned
round to the light, or wheeled into the
middle of the room at night, when the
weather is severe.
Milk boiled with fine sugar, will keep
during long voyage. Milk, by gentle
heat, evap0rates into paste or dry cakes
which, with hot nufd=, iscossses min.
4 for every purpose, and may be kept for
7 years in close vessels.
Good dairymen contend that milk is
partly absorbed when kept for a long
time in the udder also asserting that
cows MIXED thrice daily produce more
milk and butter than if they were
MIXED only twice day
Corn CAKE.-A quart of sour milk.
three eggs, teaspoonful of soda, tea
cup full of flour, yellow corn meal
enough to make a batter as thick as for
pancakes. Bake quickly in a pan well
buttered with sweet butter.
Tuckerman says "There is to the
poetlcal sense a ravishing prophecy
and winsome intimation il flowers, that
now and then, from the influence of
mood or circumstance, reasserts itself
like the Renaissance of childhood or
the spell of love-
Every man engaged in the culture of
the earth can find time to adorn and
embellish his premises with plants and
trees, shrubs and vines, while his fam
lily will be educated to a love of the
beautiful in nature, and cling with fond
attachment to the parental roof.
The Zeit'tng communicates a plan of
testing milk, which possesses the merit
at least OF simplicity. A well-polished
Splitting needle is dipped into deep
Yessel OF milk, and Immediately With
qrawn in an upright position, when, if
the sample be pure, some of the fluid
viii be found TO adhere to it, while such
is not the case if water has been added
to the milk, even in the smallest pro-
portions.
To mount drawings on paper or linen
the linen or calico is first stretched by
lacking it tightly ON frame or board.
1t is then thoroughly coated with strong
size, and left until nearly dry. The
sheet OF paper to be mounted requires
to be well covered with paste this will
be best if done twice, leaving the first
coat about ten minutes to soak into the
paper. After applying the second coat.
place the paper on the linen and dab it
all over with clean cloth. Cut off
when thoroughly dry.
UNDER BONDAGE EVERYWHERE
Our Acknowledged Chinese sisters are as
much slaves of fashion as European
ladies. The higher class of Chinese
ladies are taught, like ours, to control
their voices that it is not right to
speak above a certain tone. They study
attitudes and effects before their mir
rors, and they bandage their feet for
the same reason that our girls tighten
their waists-in order to produce ele-
gance and gentility of form.
CARE or PLANTS. Plants, unless
they have a green, thrifty appearance.
are not worth house-room therefore
they should be stimulated gently once
or twice week. Rain water. so re-
ireshlng to summer flowers, always con-
talns ammonia, which also abounds in |
all liquid manures If you take an
ounce of pulverized carbonate of |
ammonia, dissolved in one gallon of wa
ter, 1t will make spring water even more
to your plants than rain
water II you water your plants once
N two weeks with guano water. zone
to pail of water. they
Will grow more thrifty. Chicken man
IRE dissolved in water is excellent. AL
ways keep the soil in your flower pots
DOSE. A common hair-pin, used daily.
will stir the earth sufficiently.
SMALL FEET. For the sake of hav-
ne small feet, many an otherwise SEN
IDLE woman will martyrize herself BY
lnchlng those unlucky members of the
ody into boots size too small. As
natural and necessary result of such
lnchlng confinement, the foot becomes
5p9ormed and larger than it would nat
fiy grow, with large joints and toes
Sned from line parallel with The e
OF, to say nothing OF the trouble~o4n. 4 +
rms, so annoying and Gripping to a |
Irge class of young women. The !
-orst results of this Gripping custom
t wearing small and narrow boots is
elt by children when allowed to out
row their boots. 1t is poor economy
0 allow the young to wear boots when |
he feet have become too large for them,
ince deformity of the feet is easily pro-
iuced ut this time. When the boot is
90 short and the heel too high, the in
growing of the nails is perfectly natu-
al result. Children will have sufficient
lis to contend with without this Grip
bling from deformed feet, the most prom
nent cause of which is small and bad
y-titting boots and shoes.
A GREAT EvIL.-The foe of Amer.
can social life is in the tendency to
luxury and effeminacy among the we'll
o-do young women of our American
titles and large towns. They do not
ealize how this dreadful mania for ex-
'ensiye pleasures, and life of alternate
dleness and amusement, is DESTROYING
heir health, abolishing true marriage,
eeding the flame of gross sensuality
nd intemperance among young men,
nd saddening the hopes of the best
arents in the land. Some of them will
ever know it in this world. But most
them have no real purpose to waste
leir hives in this wretched way. And
y high crime IN mothers, teachers,f
inisters of religion and the public |
ress 60 pander to this insanity. ! !