The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-20
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE
Carpets should be beaten first on
the wrong side and then on the right.
Ammonia and water will remove most
spots.
TO purify q sink or drain, dissolve
one-haH pound of copperas in two gal
Ions Of water, and pour in half one day
and half the next.
"A teaspoonful of ammonia to one
quart of water sprinkled every other
day over plants viii cause lice to disap-
pear. and not injure the plants.
Potato water, in which potatoes
have been scraped, the water being al
lowed to settle, and afterward strained,
is good for sponging dirt out of silk.
Sweep carpets gently. Even rag
carpet should be treated with consider
alton. A severe digging with q broom
lint.
For sore throat: Dissolve one dram
of chlorate potash in half pint Of
water, and gargle the throat Herewith;
q few applications will allay indamma-
ton.
in cultivating roses faded flowers
should always be removed, since this
checks the tendency to produce seeds
and encourages new growth and fresh
bloom.
Hot alum water is good for washing
bedsteads, and for shelves whore
reaches are likely to come. Cayenne
pepper blown into cracks will drive
away ants.
When you clean your lamp-chim-
neys, hold them over the nose of the
teakettle when it is boiling furiously.
One or two repetitions of this process
will make them beautifully clear.
The clematis is one of the most
beautiful and hardy climbers we have.
They thrive in almost any situa-
ton, are perfectly hardy, and produce
masses of beautiful flowers and foliage.
How to Cleanse Lard.--Pare and
slice one or more potatoes, accord
ing to the quantity of lard used, and
fry in the lard before frying doughnuts,
and it will remove all unpleasant taste
therefrom.
-Stuffing for Fowls Take bread,
(yeast preferred), cut upin small pieces
till you have about a quart, put in
tray with q piece of butter the size of
an egg, salt, sage and pepper to taste,
and mix in water enough to make the
right consistency. Some prefer pota-
toes instead of bread.
Apple Fritters.-Two eggs, one pint
of milk, one teaspoonful Of salt, one
half teaspoonful of soda, and flour to
make batter. Cut into very fine pieces
two tart apples, and add to the batter.
Fry in a quarter inch of lard, turning
the same as pancakes. Eat with butter
and sugar, or strip.
Orange Pudding.-Peel and slice
five oranges, take out the seeds, pour
over cup of sugar; set a pint of milk
in hot water to scald, add the yelks of
three well-beaten eggs, one tablespoon
full of corn-starch; when cooked, pour
over the fruit. Beat the whites of the
eggs with q tablespoonful of sugar
for frosting, then brown.
Beef and Sage Broth.-Two pounds
of beef cut fine into two quarts of cold
water; stew until the beef falls to
pieces; strain it out, add salt, and one
cup of sage, carefully washed, and
soaked until soft in little lukewarm
water. After the sago is in, simmer one
hour, stirring often. Then add the
beaten yelks Of three eggs; boil up once
and serve with dry toast.
How to make pretty afghan for q
baby's carriage. Get honeycomb can
vas as near yard wide as you can,
fringe it around with worsted, some
color that blends nicely with the lining
of the carriage. Run Grecian work OF
q vine around the edge, with flower
or q monogram for the center. takes
two ounces of worsted. This is cheap,
and will wash, if the color of the worst
ed is not too delicate.
Picture scraps may often be used
with capital effect. Small rooms, and
nurseries especially, papered with them
and afterward vanished, afford great
entertainment; cornices may be made of
them to run around the wallpaper, with
about two inches of gold foil between
each and black bordering. Wooden
fireboards and holland mats may also be
covered with them; these must, of
course, be vanished.
-Cocoanut Cake.-Two cups of SUI
gar, two and one-half cups of flour, one
tablespoonful of butter, five tablespoon
fuls of hot water in which dissolve one
teaspoonful of saleratus, two teaspoon
fuls of cream of tartar, and five eggs.
Soak one and one-half cups of prepared
c0coanut and four teaspoonfuls of sugar
in two-thirds cup of sweet milk all
night. Mix all together. A tiny pinch
of starch. added to icing, will prevent
its crumbling when cut.
The unique paper lamp-shades so
fashionable Just now can be made very
easily. Fold q sheet of scarlet tissue
paper in center forming q half-square,
then fold again into quarter-square,
then into an eighth; continue folding
in this way as long as possible, always
folding from the center. Holding the
thick part firmly in one hand draw it
through the other till the paper is thor
oughly creased; then partly unfold and
draw it through the hand from the CEN
ter to the outer edge. When it has be-
come well creased cut enough from the
center to allow of its slipping over the
lamp shade.
Salt for Sheep.
The advantages of giving salt to
sheep are well known and universally
acknowledged, says the English Agri-
cultural Gazette. Though not cure,
it is one of the best preventives of
''rot." 1t is palatable and wholesome
addition to sleeps diet which is much
relisbed; and, for the reason above, it
may be recommended. Like every
thing else, however. salt may be abused
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