The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-05-13
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

Cream of tartar rubbed upon soiled
white kid gloves cleans them well.
To prevent ingrowing toe-nails: Cut
or scrape a groove down the center and
pare the ends Off square; never cut the
sides.
TO preserve flowers in water: Mix
little saltpetre or carbonate of soda with
water, and it will preserve them for two
weeks.
Always start a horse with the voice,
never with the cut of whip. In start
inc, turn little to one side; in stopping,
when going up hill, do the same.
-Rhubarb Pie.-To four cups of rhu-
barb put two and One-half of sugar, skin
and cut fine the plant, add the sugar,
mix, and fill the paste as other fruit pies.
Add one teaspoonful of corn starch
dissolved in milk to your custard pie,
bake in moderate oven; it will not be
watery. In making buildings from corn
starch you can use one-ffth wheat flour
withOus perceiving any difference.
Rust may be removed from steel
knives by rubbing them on a piece of
smooth board with cork dipped in a
mixture of fine emery powder and sweet
oil. When the rust has been removed,
heat the blades until they are too hot to
be held in the hand, and rub them with
paraiiine. Repeat this twice and polish
with a piece of flannel. This method
will preserve either iron or steel from
rust.
Beef Soup for Invalids.-Take one
and a half pounds of lean beef, one ounce
of rice or barley, pepper and salt, and
one and a half pintS of cold water; di-
vide the meat into small pieces; put this
in a stone jar, covering it tightly; then
place the jar in a vessel with hot water,
and let it remain in the oven for four
hours. BY uncovering the jar at the end
of the cooking YOU can, of course, very
much increase the strength Of the soup.
The most frequent cause of the fail
ure of young apple trees is the borer
This pest is beetle which lays its eggs
on the bark of apple trees near the
ground. The egg produces a black
headed white worm, which bOres under
the bark and goes around the tree, often
completely destroying it. The remedy
is TO wash the stems Of the trees near the
ground with thick lime-waSh, or to wash
them with mixture of cOw-dung, clay
and ashes, made into thick puddle; the
tree should be examined at once and every
borer taken ont with a sharp chisel; the
wounded bark will grow again if this
is done now. This should be done every
fall and spring.
"A very pretty device for a scrap-bag
is made from the somewhat peculiar
straw hats to be found in the japanese
stores, or even from the grass hats so
much worn last season at the summer
resorts. a piece of fancy colored satin
about three-eighths of yard in depth
forms the bag, the lower edge of which
is caught to the crown inside of the hat,
and the upper edge drawn up with a rib
bon or cord. The sides of the hat are
drawn back and fastened to the crown
on the outside and finished with grasses
or flowers and a small ribbon bow. The
whole thing is made complete by mar
row pleating of satin ribbon put on Just
inside the brim.
-Tapioca Pudding.-Three ounces of
tapioca, three gills of milk, one table
spoonful of sugar, two eggs, one salt
spoon of grated nutmeg. Cover the tap
iOca with cold water twelve hours be-
fore the pudding is to be prepared, and
let it soak in this until required. Drain
the tapioca, when about to use, thor
oughly of the water, put into a saucepan
and pour over it the milk place it over
the fire and stir slowly until the milk
boils. Take the saucepan from the fire,
place the eggs and sugar in a bowl, and
beating them to a cream, mix this with
the tapiOca and milk in the saucepan.
Grease with butter deep pudding dish,
pour into it the pudding, sprinkle over
the top the grated nutmeg, and put all to
bake in moderate oven for half an hour.