New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-09-10
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

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ting fire to the thread.
WH1TEwAsH sticks much better when
put on hot. II the lime be Stacked in.
hot water in which q little rice has been
boiled until thoroughly dissolved, and
some salt added, it will be greatly inn
proved.
The National Live Stock Journal
says: "No intelligent horseman will
speak of q thoroughbred Morgan, .
thoroughbred trott6r or thorough
bred draft horse, because the term, as
applied to horses. belongs to q pecu-
liar breed called Thoroughbreds. /"
CEMENT FOR FIXING METAL LETTERS
ON GLASS. - Copal varnish, fifteen
parts; drying oil, five parts; turpen-
tine, three parts; oil Of turpentine,
two parts; liqui6ed marine glue, five
parts. Melt in q water bath and add
ten parts dry slack lime. - Scientific
american.
A SUCCESSFUL dalryman feeds his
cows night and morning the year
round, and in each feed puts tea
spoonful of salt. He considers this
method of sailing COWS preferable to
the usual one Of giving animals salt
once or twice q week, and thinks his
method adds largely to the amount OF
milk given.
A SIMPLE way TO remove iron rust
from any white cotton or linen fabric
is to soak it for several days in sour
milk. This rarely fails, but If it should,
phosphoric acid Qiquid) may be ap-
Piled successfully and without injury.
No process is required but to touch the
spots with the acid and let it dry
Cincinnati Times. LII
A PoULTRY-BREEDER says farmers
will feed q bushel of corn to produce
six pounds of pork, worth sixty cents,
while this bushel would keep q hen.
She would lay at least twelve dozen
of eggs, which, averaging eighteen
cents . dozen, would equal 1915, and
she would rear a brood of chickens
worth as much more, making total
of near tive dollars.
A SIMPLE BUTTER COOLER.-W When
ice cannot be easily obtained, put q
trivet, or some open, fiat thing with
legs, into saucer or soup-plate, and
set the plate of butter on the trivet.
Fill the saucer with water, turn clean,
common aower-pot upside down over
the butter, 80 that the edges will sit
within the saucer and under the water.
Put cork tightly into the hole in the
bottom of the f1ower-pot, then drench
thefower- with cold water and set
in a cool place over night, or for some
hours before needed on the table, and
it will be as hard as If kept on ice.-'
Christian Union.
WILL BUGGY PEAS GROwp-This is
just now question which is being holly
discussed by some of our agricultural
contemporaries. Some gardeners claim
that pea containing . weevil-or bug
as it Is generally termed-will not
grow, while others say the bug does
not eat the germ, and consequently
does no great injury to the pea for seed.
We have tested the matter, and are
satisfied that the infested peas are OF
no value for seed; out of fifty planted
in greenhouse q few weeks since. not
one sprouted. Still we are not ready
to say that no weevil-infested pea will
grow under any condition. It, would,
however, be well for all who have beans
or peas infested with weevils to plant
q few separately, and see what proper
ton, it any, will grow.-N. 7. Sun.
IS, How to Mend Stockings.
A HOMELY art, but one that conducea
not little to the comfort Of fami-
w. come not with homily upon the
duty of teaching the daughters while
- eli NJ a.
vacancy in hose with q neat cross, fol-
imitation of cloth. Nor do propose
to enlarge upon the pretty French
method of working into the hole
piece of knitting done by the needle,
called Rumelie-if nicely done, an ex.
act counterfeit of the knitting. Neither
will inflict on the reader my expe-
rience in inserting into the square cut
hole piece of the same material aa
the hose, by the simple art known as
the stocking stitch-an imitation SO
precise that q stocking may be ripped
apart and sewed together, and the
seam cannot be detected. BY this
stitch the so-called double heels are
sewed into nice hose. All the above
methods of repair have their advan.
tages; but lively drawback upon each
and all Of them is the waste of time and
eyesight in doing the work-no special
trial to persons Of leisure.
But to the weary mother OF growing,
tearing, destructive children whose
basket, piled up with stockings wait:
ing to be mended, is at once dread
and rcproach--l come with meth.
cd which my good mother and my neat,
precise aunts, looking out Of their spec.
tacles as they sat knitting in prim,
high backed chairs, would have frowned
upon as "shiftless.' However, since
the increasing refinements of domestic
life exact more and more of the moth.
er's thought and strength without be.
slowing any addition to the latter why
not accept any possible facility to light
On her cares?
Having myself carefully learned the
methods above mentioned, and found
each excellent in its way, venture ia
suggest slight work as adequate for
some occasions: Given dozen pairs
of wooden, ribbed socks. Select from
them the two or three pairs most worn;
cut away the heels and toes, and lay by
the better parts for use in mending =
well, yes, Tor patches. From the best
hose retained to be repaired, cut out
the worn heel, and from the patches
cut q new heel precisely like the old
one. First sew the bottom of the heel;
then sew it into the place made va
cant. Use soft cotton, or else the fine,
soft mending yarn, which comes, Of all
cOlors. on sDOOls. Sew the raw edges
lover and over" about as close as q
nice overcast; SO that when this new
heel is worn out, you have only to pull
the thread and insert another. The
thread must not be so tight but that
the seam will fatten and become i'm
perceptible to the foot. To sew in
such heel will require about one min
ute. IF the toe is worn, so that the
new darns seem to take from the old
and the rent is. made worse, cut it of
80 far toward the instep as it is thin
From the top Of one Of the socks put
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