St. Landry democrat., 1880-06-05
FARM AND PRESIDE.

. Cream of tartar rubbed upon soiled
white kid gloves cleans them well.
To prevent improving toe-nails: Cut
or scrapc a groove down the center and
pare the ends off square; never cut the
sides.
To preserve flowers in water: Mix
little saltpctre or carbonate of soda with
water, and it will preserve them for two
weeks.
Always start horse with the voice,
never with the cut of q whip. In start
ing, turn q little to one side; in stopping,
when going up 4 hill, do the same.
Rust may be removed from steel
knives by rubbing them ON a piece Of
smooth board with a 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
paralfine Repeat this twice and polish
with Il piece of flannel. This method
will preserve either iron or steel from
rust.
Beef Soup for Invalids.-Takc one
and a half pounds of lean beef, one ounce
of rice or barley, pepper and salt, and
one and I; half pints of cold water; di-
vide the meat into small pieces; put this
in u 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 uncovcring 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
IRE of young apple trees is the borer
This pest is Il 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 out with a sharp chisel; the
wounded bark will grow again if this
fall and spring.
A very pretty device for 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 a 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 OF 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 a 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 bowl, and
beating them to cream, mix this with
the tapioca and milk in the saucepan.
Grease with butter a deep pudding dish,
pour into it the pudding, sprinkle over
the top the grated nutmeg, and put all to
bakein moderate oven for half an hour