The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-10-15

Ripe tomatoes or peach skins are good
10 remove fruit stains from the hands,

Ripe tomatoes or peach skins are good
TO remove fruit stains from the hands,
When cooking onions set a tin cup of
vinegar by on the stove and let it boil,
and 1t is said you will smell no disagree
able odor.
A solution of cider vinegar and pure
glycerine in equal parts will cure the
most stubborn chapped hands, on even
the thinnest skin,
Punch the bottom of a tin pan full of
fine holes and you will have II crater,
sieve, colander, and, with the addition
of ettlecoyer, steamer combined.
The comma ION kerosene now to be found
in every household is cheap cure for
chilblains, cloth being saturated with
it and wrapped about the feet before
retiring.
A French chemist asserts that if tea
be ground like coffee, Immediately before
hot water is poured upon it, it will yield
nearly double the amount Of its eXhila-
rating qualities.
A smallpieee of chalk put in pitcher
of water, without imparting any taste
whatever to the same, will yet exercise
q corrective effect upon the stomach of
any one afflicted with aeidity or heart
burn, as it is familiarly called.
A clean paste may be made of two
parts gum tragacanUh and one part
powdered gum arabic; cover with cold
to do
sired consistency with same. A few
drops of carbolic acid will prevent sour
ing.
To cure sore throat, pour few drops
OF spirits Of camphor on lump of sugar
and allow 1t to dissolve in the mouth
every hour. The third and fourth en-
ables the patient to swallow with ease.
This has cured in the last stages Of the
disease. ~rrr1.,
Fuller's earth mixed to stiff paste
with water (cold) and spread carefully
over grease spots on carpets and covered
over with brown paper viii, in few
days, remove all traces of grease spots.
Sometimes second application may be
necessary.
To cure whooping cough, mix tea
spoonful of castor oil with teaspoonful
of molasses, and give teaspoonful of
the mixture whenever the cough is
troublesome. 1t will afford relief at
onc0, and an n few days will effect a
cure. The same medicine relieves the
Group, however violent the attack.
The French method Of polishing wood
Is as followss With piece of fine pum-
ice-stone and water pass regularly over
the work with the grain until the rising
of the grain is down; then with pow
d.red tripoli and boiled linseed oilpolish
the work to n bright face. This will be
superior polish, but it requires consid-
cradle time. 81
@ &nsaA Recipes.
CRULLERs. tablespoonful of
BUTTER six tablespoonful of sugar.
three eggs, one-halfteaspoonful of cream
OF tartar, one-fourth teaspoonful of soda
and make tolerably stiff with flour.
PoTATo- SNow.-Peel and boil six
large, mealy white potatoes; ad da little
salt to the water; take them out one by
Ohcy iab nttVhAh q eoiCFC ilbO " QIGp
dish, letting 1t fall in mound. DO not
touch with spoon or the hand. Serve
with melted bntter.
WHrrESAucE FOR FowLs.--T Take the
neck, gizzard, liver and feet of fowls,
with piece OF mutton or veal if you
have any. and boil in one quart of water,
with few whole peppers and salt, till
reduced to enc pint; then thicken with
n quarter pound Of butter mixed with
-four and boil it five or six minutes.
Mix the yolks Of two eggs with one tea
cup of good cream; put it in the sauce
pan, shaking 1t over the fire till done.
BAKED INDIAN PuDDING.--Twc
quartz Of milk, scalded, one cup of meal
nne-half cup OF -four; meal and flour
wet with a very little cold milk, then
turn into the, scalded milk; when coo
add two eggs, one and one-half cups O.
sugar, sone-halfcup of molssses, one nut
meg, u little salt and one and one-hal
teaspoonfuls of ginger. Rub piece o
butter rs large as half an egg around
the pan before putting in the ingredients
and bake an hour.
BAKED HoMNY.-To cupful Of cold