The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-08-12
BachsIor -Honse.Keeping.

u suppose everybody KNOWS WHAT
"sgrass-widow" means "a woman living
temporarily absent from her husband. I
can think Of p o corresponding term to APP
ply to a mansin like condition, unless it
is ftgrass-widower,II6 Ilknow OF M who
is. just setting up his cabin on q north
western prairie, prepared for q summer
campaign of ftbreaking" prairie sod. A,
boy of ~fourteenIis with him as "chief
cookIand bottle-washer. Ifeel a deep
interest in their work, particularly In the
housekeeping. The boys success or fail
urein cookingi washing ETC., viii bring
credit or discredit to his mother-and
that's me. I have lately heard the father
inquire a~n4iously concerning his capar
bilities: "Do You know how to cook
out meals?' "Can You make such gra-,
ham bread as this? "Does he under
stand the knack of making dried apples,
eatable?" "You know how mamma seas
ons the macaroni, don't you?" etc. Both,
are very fond of milk, and if they get q
COW, or find good milk for sale close at
hand, the cooking and eating business.
will be simpliied. 6 Milk goes well with
almost everything that u folks eat, as
seldom. To make. sure of cooking the
OdUllt0d1, CIdCASd WIcdb, ItCO III dO1Al1ltJ,
properly. they havetakenalonga steamer
made after the farina-kettle plan They
are directed to use one part cat meal,
rice Or hominy or cracked wheat, to four
parts of cold water in the inner kettle
with plenty of water to keep up boiling
in the outer one tf.-1 5.eG tasss. sri,
To secure good graham bread, they
have provided the best of graham -four
and the dried National Yeast Cake"
The cook will set q thin sponge at night,
whitehall q yeast cake, and -four and
warn water enough to make q large drip
ping-pan loaf (all they can bake at one
time in their oven) and In the morning
he will add sugar and graham -four until
he has a stiff. batter we'll beaten This
will be turned into the buttered bl cad
pan without kneading, allowed to rise
quite light andsthen baked. It is pretty
sure to be good every time, for the same
cook has gone through the same move
ments many a time, simply helping his
mother, but unconsciously educatinghim-
self to be a great help to his father in
this emergency, and possibly to himself
later In hfe.-Fdih Rochester in Amer.
icdn AgracuhurdHst.
WE incline to the opinion that it is not
SO much what a thing promises as the
service it will render, that should con-
troll us in its selection. In Endorsement
of the worth of a popular remedy, Mr..
Nicholas Krebel, st. Paul. MINI, OBJ.
serves: "By the use of the Hamburg
Drops, I was completely cured of a Sc.
we're and painful disease of the stomach,
from which I feared I would not recov.
er."-S. Paul and Minneapolis Pho.
neeT Press. h.
WHEN a young lady tripped into a
music store, the other day, and asked
the bashful clerk in attendance for
"Two Kisses" he jammed on his hat
and rushed out of the back door. The
clerk, never having heard of the piece Of
music, thought he was the victim of
leap-year proposal, and his salary was
not large enough to support two.
UNDOUBTEDLY it is q remarkable medi
cine, says Stacey Hill, Esq, of the Mt
Auburn Incline Plane Railway, Cincin
matt. I was limping about, hardly abb,
to move, with Rheumatism in the hin. O,
Sciatica. Hearing of st. Jacobs Oh.
procured a bottle of it, and with the
third application, was able to 20 about
with perfect ease and comfort" SCincin
natl Star.