Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-01

TIE QUEEN OF HoME.--Honor the
dear old mother. Time has scattered
snowy flakes on her brow, plowed deep
burrows on her cheeks, but is she not
sweet and beautiful now? The lips are
thin and shrunken. but those are the lips
which have kissed many hot tear from
the childish cheeks, and they are the
sweetest lips in the world. The eye is
dim, yet it glows with the soft radiance
that can never fade, All, yes, she is q
dear old mother. The sands of life are
nearly run out, but, feeble as she is she
will go further and reach down lower
for you than any other upon earth. You
cannot enter q prison whose bars will
keep her out; you can never mount a
scatfold too high for her to reach that
she may kiss and bless you in evidence
of her deathless love. When the world
shall despise and forsake you, when it
leaves you by the wayside to die I'M
noticed, the dear old mother will
gather you in her feeble arms and carry
you home and tell you all your virtues
until you almost forget your soul is dis
figured by vices. Love her tenderly,
and cheer her declining years with holy
devotion.
TOMATO Soup.-Take of neck piece
or from the round, two or three pounds
of beef; remove every particle of fat,
and cut the meat into very small pieces;
put into the kettle, with two or three
quarts Of cold water, and simmer for
one hour; as the scum arises, remove,
and keep the kettle covered; strain the
meat from the broth, and add quart of
tomatoes, which have been pressed
through colander, with O bunch of
parsley, and boil twenty minutes; cut
and scrape the kernels from three ears
of sweet corn, and add to the soup, with
u half teacupful of sweet cream, two
small tablespoonfuls of flour, pepper
and salt; boil fifteen minutes and serve.
SCALLoPED TOMATOES. Peel as many
ripe tomatoes as required; cut into
slices, and place in pudding dish first
layer of tomatoes, seasoned with but
ter, pepper and salt, then thick layer
of bread crumbs, also seasoned with
butter, pepper and salt. Thus alter
nate the layers until the dish is nearly
full, having tomatoes last: cover tightly,
and bake one half hour or longer if the
oven be not hot.
FRESHLY PAINTED RooMs.-The i'm
preston that those who inhabit rooms
freshly ,painted are in danger of lead
poisoning has been shown by DR..
Clement Biddle to be quite unfounded.
He bases this statement upon the result
of the following experiment.: He intro
duced into a close box number Of
sheets Of paper saturated with white
(lead) paint and upon the bottom Of
the box placed shallow dish of pure
(distilled) water, previously tested to
make sure of its perfect freedom from
impurities, and from lead in particular.
Alter an exposure to the atmosphere
Of the box for three days, the water-aish
was removed, acidulated with nitric
acid, and treated with sulphureted by
drogen, when not trace of lead precip-
itate occurred. DR.. Biddle therefore
attributes the colds and other I'M
pleasant consequences experienced by
sleeping in freshly painted apartments
to the irritating action of the vapors of
turpentine on the lining membrane Of
the air-passages.
PICKLED BLACKBERRIEs. - Seven
pounds of fruit, three pounds OF sugar,
one quart OF vinegar, one.half ounce
of cloves, one-kalf ounce cassia buds.
When the syrup is boiling add the ber-
ries boil one half hour skim out the
berries boil down the syrup and pour
! it over them.