The Russellville Democrat., 1879-10-09
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Women in time of Need-Seasonable Re- ceipes and Useful Hints for House.
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 There is a pleasant fiction about the ideal woman that invests her with an unreal and intangible presence as if she were the creation of some higher sphere borrowed into this murdane life for a transitory, charmed existance.
 To this end poets cant her praise in immortal verse; sculptors gave her fame in life-like marble; artists work their souls into the canvas on which they re- create her, and the highest skill of the civilized world is evoked in costly laces and fabrics that will add to her loveliness.
 To this is added mysterious charm of weakness, dependence; as if this beau tiful pink and white doll were a puppet, to be moved only at an owners will, or a dainty keepsake, to be guarded under a glass case of conservative posses sions.
 The weakness of women is favorite theme with men who are not thoroughly conscious of their own strength.
 They turn contemptuously from the advice of wife or sister, and keep all their business and plans to themselves, until crash comes.
 Then they settle back on that weak ness to help bear the burden, and even eondescend to listen to some plans for the future and receive sympathy and help from those weak members of the family, who work all day and lie awake all night thinking, planning and help ing, while the strong man breaks down.
 There is no indication of weakness then.
 Some one has truly said that wo- mans instinct ts better than mans reason; and when she sees her dear ones threatened with disaster she knows no weakness, but comes up with all her col ors flying
 It is her nature to suffer and be strong" to tire herself with much serv- ing, to give largely out of the great in- come of love.
 There is strength of far greater value than that of bone and muscle, or even of brain; it is the strength of woman's love, which will survive shame, sorrow, neglect, and death; for she will leave it as legacy to her children.
 The weakness is the heroism that brightens the pages of history and the hearth of the humblest home, and will out-last the mental force and physical caliber of the strongest man.
 Circumstance have made 1t necessary to hedge women with thousand con ventionalities They do not prove her weakness or the need of barriers, for she can overleap them all if one she loves is on the other side and sends upa cry for help; but it would be well for her, did her duties lie serenly within their circumscribed limits. The world is full of cheap protection for women, which does not tighten one actual load; and this sentimental moralizing over her weakness is the cheapest and poorest of all. It is base disloyalty, too; for has she not proved herself from remote ages, patient and faithful yoke-fellow, strong to do to suffer to die for those she loves.
 DOMESTIC RECIPES.
 Marlboro Pie.--One pint of sour apple stewed fine or soft, three eggs, one cup of sweet cream or milk, sugar to taste; flavor with nutmeg or lemon; cover with good crust.
 Good and Cheap .SteW.-Take some raw potatoes and slice them thin into deep frying pan, with some onions and q little water. Put strip of salt meat in- to it; cover it down closely, and let it stew an hour.
 Kiss P,tdding.-Scald one quart of milk and dissolve six tablespoofuls of corn starch in cold milk; add the yolks of three eggs, and stir into the scalding milk; put the whole into dish and let it stand and cool. Take the whites of the eggs, beat with one cup of sugar, put on top and set in the oven to brown.
 Sponge Gingerbread-Melt piece of butter of the size of a hens egg, mix 1t with a pint of nice molasses, table Dissolve heaping tablespoonful of sala- ratus in half pint of milk, and mix it with the rest of the ingredients; and sufficient flour to enable you to roll it out easily; roll it out about an inch thick and bake it on flat tins in a quick oven.
 MISCELLANEOUS.
 For taking out scorch this is an easy way, says the Household. If shirt bosom or any other article, has been scorehed in ironing, lay it where bright sun will fall directly on it. It win take it entirely out.
 To remove iron taste from new ket- tles boil handful of hay in them, and repeat the process if necessary. Hay water is a great sweetener of tin, wooden and iron ware. In Irish daries every thing used for milk is scalded with hay water.
 Clothes can be bleached by putting six cents worth of oxalic acid into gal lon of boiling water and pour over them, Stir them up and let them remain in it till the water is cold, and then lay them out on the grass to bleach. They will soon be as white as snow.
 "A simple mode of sharpening tools, says an exchange, is to place the cutting part in water having 1-20 of it's weight of sulphuric or muratic acid. Allow it to remain half an hour; wipe it carefully with soft rag, and.in few hours edge it on an ordinary strop.