Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-06-12
HOUSE AND GROUNDS.

little sweet or castor oil and few drops OF lau-
danum.
BATHING the face In lemon juice mixed with
glycerine will remove tan and freckles In
few days, II the individual be not exposed to
the sun.
A REMEDY for chilblains-Take piece Of lime
the size of your double fist, put it In warm
water and soak the feet In 1t as warm as you
can bear for half an hour.
1T is SAID two parts tallow and one OF resin,
melted together and applied to the soles OF new
boots or shoes. as much as the leather will alb
sorb, will double their wear.
A GARDENER recommends that to keep bugs
on melon and squash vines tomato plant be
set In each hill, saying that when he had fol-
lowed this plan, his young plants were not mo-
Tested.
THE educated man, other things being equal,
makes better farmer than the uneducated
man, just as certainly as a sharp ak will do
more execution than dull one in the same
hands.
SUNFLowERs are recommended in the Duchess
Farmer for bean-poles planting them at suit
able distance In the garden and planting the
beans around them when three or four inchei
high.
FOR POISONING from phosphorus, as when
children suck matches, give tablespoonful If
magnesia and then, freely, gum arabic water
less magnesia If only little phosphorus is
taken.
If TROUBLED with wakefulness on retiring to
bed eat three or four small onions; they will &C
as gentle and soothing narcotic. Onions ar
also excellent to eat when one Is much exposed
to cold.
A SIMPLE and effective protector is made by
folding newspaper and placing 1t over the
chest, under the vest, when exposed out of
doors In raw, spring weather. The lungs re-
Quire protection.
QURLED PoTATOES.-Boil potatoes; when hot
press lightly through colander into dish or
platter; sprinkle over little salt and set In an
oven moment to dry, not brown, before send
ing to the table. This Is an attractive dish and
is very nice
LOBSTER SOUP-The foundation of this soup
should be made of fish. A Gods head is the
best; any white stock, however, whether OF fish
or meat answers perfectly We'll. Take care that
all fat Is removed from the stock let it boil and
add two or three stablespoonfulS of cOrn.flour.
Stir over fire until 1t thickens, then put in two
ounces of fresh butter; when dissolved beat in
yolkS OF two eggs, and stir in a moderate heat
for 10 minutes; withdraw Stewpan to the side
OF the range so that it will keep SimMering; put
In soup tin of lobster or the same quantity of
fresh boiled lobster. Let it cook 10 minutes
ASPARAGUS SOUP.-Take half hundred of as
paragus, boil it in a saucepan with three
pints OF stock free from fat. When done re-
move the asparagus pound it in mortar and
pass 1t through sieve. Melt about X or. of
butter In saucepan on the fire, and mix it
with two tablespoonsfuls of flour, add a little
sugar, pepper and salt, the asparagus pulp and
all the stock in which the asparagus was
boiled. Let the whole boil up, adding as much
more stock as will make the soup of the right
consistency. Then put in little spinach
greening, and lastly small pat of fresh butter
or stir in half gill Of cream. Serve over small
dice of bread fried in butter.
PRIME BUTTER.-A method In practice among
the butter makers of England for rendering the
butter firm and solid during the hot weather is
as follows: Carbonate of soda and alum are
used for this purpose, made into powder. For
20 pounds nos OF butter one teaspoonful OF carbon:
n mud
alum are mingled together at the time OF
churning and put into The cream. The effect
OF this powder is to make the butter come firm
and sold and to give clean, sweet flavor. 1t
does not enter into the butter, but its action Is
upon the cream. and it passes Off with the but
teTmllk. The ingredients of the powder should
used or at the time the cream Is in the churn
ready for churning.
NIGHT THE TIME FOR TRANsPLANTING.-Ag gen.
tleman anxious to ascertain the effect of trans
planting at night, instead OF by day, made an
experiment with the following results: He
transplanted ten cherry-trees while in bloom,
commencing at O'Clock In the afternoon. Those
transplanted during the daylight shed their
blossoms, producing little or no fruit, while
those transplanted In the dark maintained their
condition fully. He did the same with ten
dwarf trees after the fruit was one third grown.
Those transplanted during the day shed their
fruit; those transplanted during the night per-
1ected the crop and showed no injury from hay-
Ing been removed. With each Of these trees he
removed some earth with the roots. The inct-
dent is fully Vouched for, and If few similar
experiments produce like result 1t will be a
strong argument to hOrticulturists, &C., to do
such work at night.
GOOD SToCK.-Farmers are beginning to dis.
cover that 1t costs more to keep poor than 1t
does good STOCK. Hogs that have to be kept un-
til they are two years old before they are large
enough for market, OF course cost about three
times as much to raise as ANIMALS which are
ready for market at nine months. Sell of the
IT
good ones, keep fewer OF them. Raise the heifer
calves when they come of good stock. A calf
Will cost almost nothing to raise until 1t is
spare skim milk " Ill be all that is needed until 1t
can eat grass. Select some particular breed of
chickens best adapted for your purpose and
gradually get rid of all barnyard fowls. Re-
member, In making your selection, that it is ne
cessary to keep them confined. Plymouth Rocks
CochinS or BrahmaS will suit you better than
small and light, need very high fence. T hess
are also very energetic Scratchers and make sad
havoc In garden.
The GRAPE VINE LUxURIATEs In loose, warm
soil. naturally or artihcially well drained
Limestone sand, clay and iron are desirable
elements: The production of grapes for the
table and for wine are separate and distinct OBJ.
Jects requiring different kinds of soils. Rich.
lat lands give generous growth of wood and
thin. gravelly or rocky soils yield light crops of
rich, highly Favored grapes. Before planting
vineyard. the W1ne-grOwer should make I'D his
mind as TO the kind and quality of wine he de.
slreS TO make and then select his site and
choose his vines accordingly. He can produce
either large quantities OF medium wines or
small quantities OF choice wines. but large
yields and fine qualities Go not go together ana
are essentially Incompatible. "POOr soil. rich
product, great wine In little quantity" is the
rule all over Europe Wines OF the best char
acter are made from vines that flourish among
stones and rocks. Hermitage, for example,
was first grown among granite rocks, broken
smaller by art, with little or no dressing OF
earth; and flint stones are sometimes GATED
into vineyards in the Medoc district. although
nature has provided them with a very LIBERAL
Supply.-AnteTtcdn Grape Grocer.
EvERGREENs IN DOOR ARDS-A small. hand
somely- grown Norway spruce or other ever
green, fresh from the nursery and only three
or four feet high, is beautiful little object
and the inexperienced planter OF new groun is
or narrow extent, Is not aware that the Sym-
Retrical little bushes will ever be much larger
He 1ntersperSes them freely over his small
grounds, and they have fine appearance for a
few years. But they spread wide and push up-
ward increasingly. and in few more years his
windows are darker by the dense growth, all
distant views excluded, and small shrubs and
herbaceous plants beneath them are shaded and
destroyed. In few years more, the tall ever
greens themselves crowd and diStOrt one an
other, and their inner and lower branches be-
come dead sticks projecting from the bare
trunk. This result might, indeed, be prevented
by frequently cutting back the branches and
topping the leader, so as to impart q natural
labor, and the trees will be neglected. An EASY
and simple remedy Is to plant such trees as
never grow large, such, for example. as the
tree box, the dwarf mountain pine, the mupho