The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-03-11
FOR THE FARMERS HOUSEHOLD.
Domestic Aids.

one spoonful corn-starch.
YELIow.-Gamboge triturated with
water, and a little alum added.
CURE FOR DIPTHERIA.-A teaspoonful
flower OF sulphur to be used as a gargle.
Lamp shades Of ground glass should
be cleaned with soap Oh pearlash; these
will not iniure or discolor them.
Cakes, puddings, ETC., are always i'm
proved by making the currents, sugar
and -four hot before using them.
Gold lace may be clean"d by rubbing
1t with a softbrush, dipped in r~ochealum,
burnt, and siited to a very fine powder.
White satin shoes may be cleaned by
rubbing them with blue and stone fan.
mel, and afterwards cleaning them with
bread.
Gold boiled potatoes used as soap will
clean the hands and keep the skin soft
and healthy. Those not over boiled are
the best.
Straw mating may be cleaned with a
large coarse cloth, dipped in salt and
water, and then wiped dry. The salt
prevents the straw from turning yellow,
DoUaHNUTs .-One egg, two cups of
sugar, two tablespoonfuls butter, one
teaspoonful soda, two t~easpoonfuls cream
tartar, one and a half ~teaspoonfuls salt.
GREEN Rub three and a half
drachms Prussian blue and three
drachms Of gamboge, with two ounces
OF mucilage, and add half a pint of
water.
GoID. Fine bronze powder or gold
leaf, ground with a little sulphate of
potash and washed from the salt, is
mixed with water and a sufficient quan.
tity Of gum.
CREAM E.-One cup sugar, two eggs,
one-halt cup Of water or milk, one.half
cup butter, two cups -four, one tea
spoonful cream tartar, one.half tea
spoonful soda.
COLD CREAM Take of oil OF almonds
two ounces, spermaceti half an ounce,
white wax one drachm. Melt together
and while cooling add two unces of rose
water stirring it until cold.
Rusty black Italian Grape may be
restored by dipping in skinned milk
and water, with a bit of fine glue dis.
solved in it, and made scalding hot. 1t
should be clapped and pulled dry, like
muslin.
Toad IN THn HOLE. Take n half
pound of sausage meat and roll it into
six balls; place these in a dish which has
been slightly creased; make a batter Of
two eggs, two heaped up tablespoonfuls
OF flour and one-half pint of milk; pour
this over the sausage, place in a moder-
ately hot oven; bake one hour; serve at
once with pork gravy and plain boiled
potatoes and you have a nice little din
ner for two persons.
To VASE SHETLAND SHAwLs. Make
thin lather of boiled soap and water;
plunge the shawl in this, and gently
strip it through the hand. 1t must
never be rubbed or wrung. When clean
rinse through water without any soap,
hang it up for about a minute, shake 1t
gently by each side alternately, pin it
out on a sheet exactly square and if the
shawl be of fine texture it should be
lightly sewed down to the sheet by the
top of tie fringe to prevent it running
mp, then go over the whole fringe, draw
ing each separate, and laying it straight
out.
The Finest Manure
is made by turning the heap wei twice.
To do this, begin at each end of the pile,
and throw off the manure to a distance
of three feet, building up the new heaps
and placing the coarsest man1re in the
center. Then proceed until two heaps
are made. These will soon heat, d
month or 30 afterwards the process may
be reversed and the two heaps made
into one again.
Grass In the South.
A great need in the south is grass for
early grazing and hay. Some of the
native grasses that have been fought and
struggled with for years as weeds are
now found to be of great value. BY
smoothing off a piece of grassy land, and
using some fertilizer and encouraging
the growth, a home supply of hay may
be secured. 1t is often the case that a
treasure may lie neglected under u
feet, and some Of the southern grasses,
long neglected, can be turned to profit.
able uss.
Milk Weed.
What will kill milk weed in a meadow
The same treatment that will destroy
Canada thietles and other weeds with
creeping roots. II there are compare.
lively few, cut them off as fast as they
reach the surface; or put a few drops Of
sulphurio acid from q stick on the points
Of tho young plants. If very numerous
and extensive it may be cheapest to
summer fallow the ground thoroughly
one season, blowing so often that nom
will ever appear above the surface, a
treatment which we have adopted with
entire success.