Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-01-22
The far1t aud fireside.

A SERMON TO G1RIs-ON COOKING
Cooking-classes have been popular among
fashionable young ladies of late years. But
there is no cooking class which quite equals
in its opportunity for excellent information,
that which you may find at home. Presum-
ing that am talking to girl that has just
left school, I advise you to make use of your
leisure in taking lessons of your mother.
There is an absolutely splendid feeling Of in
dependence insknowing how to make perfect.
ly light, sweet, substantial bread. Then try
your hand at biscuits, mullins, corn bread,
toast, and all the different forms into which
bread.stufs may be blended. Toast seems a
simple thing enough, but is frequently so
poorly made that it does not deserve the
name. Toast, necessity osthe sick-room, is
often hopeless mystery to women who have
the vaguest idea of how it is envolved from
the raw material. After you have mastered
the bread question, try meats and vegetables
Any bright girl who can comprehend an
equation, or formulate syl ogsm, can over
come the difficulties which beset her when
learning to cook. Lucent syrups, golden cake,
delicately Drowned bread, quivering jellies,
melting creams, and the whole set of material
things glori6ed, because made for loves sake,
and for the good of ones dear oues, are fit
expressions for any woman The charm Of
this accomplishment lies in the fact that it
imparts to its owner gratifying sense of pow.
er, it bestows on her, too, the power of blessing
and resting those she loves best. Wherever
the cook goes she takes her welcome along.
One may tire of the sweetest singing, of the
loveliest poetry, of the most witty converse
ton, but of good cooking never. But l
would be sorry to have you contented to be
only cook, only domestic machine. That
is not my meaning or intention. Be artist,
poet, inventor, and well-bred woman be the
most and best that you can, and add, as a
matter of course, ability to keep house we'll
and to do all that good housekeeping in
cludes.-M. E. Sangster.
A NOVEL CURE FOR BRIGHrs DISEASE
A Brooklyn correspondent of the New York
Evening Post communicates the following {:
About twenty years ago daughter of mine,
then about six years old, was given up to die
by the family physician, who said that the
disease was incurable, and that it was never
known to be cured, either in Europe or
America. The physician, on giving the case
up, told my wife to give the child anything
she wanted, and to make her as comfortable
as possible while she lived. The child con-
stantly called for beans; so my wife cooked
some as quickly as possible, not even stop.
ping to parboil them, as is usually done, but
boiled beans, pork and potatoes together in
the first water, and when we'll cooked, she
gave them to the child to eat. The child
then went to sleep, and from that time
began to improve She is now the mother
of two children. She is not troubled with
the disease unless she takes severe cold,
and when that happens she at once uses her
old remedy, and it is always efectual.
The physician who attended her called
few days after the bean experiment and was
surprised to see the change in the child. He
inquired what my wife had done for her, and
upon hearing, his surprise was increased, and
he requested an exact description of the man.
ner in which the food was cooked. After
considerable thought about the matter, she
said that the beans were cooked in the first
water. The physician is now dead or |
would refer to him to verify the facts.
CHARCOAL FOR SICK ANIMALs.-Nearly
feeding in the FIRST place. In nine cases out
of ten the digestion is wrong. Charcoal is
the most efficient and rapid corrective. 1t
will cure majority of cases if properly ad.
ministered. An example: The hired man
came in with the intelligence that one of the
finest COWS was very sick, and neighbor pro.
posed the usual drugs and poisons. The own
er, being i'll and unable to examine the cow,
concluded that the trouble came from over
eating, and ordered spoonful of pulverized
charcoal to be given in water. 1t WAS mixed,
placed into a junk bottle, the cows head
turned upward and the water downward. In
FIVE minutes improvement was visible, and in
few hours the animal was in the pasture
quietly grazing. Another instance of equal
success occurred with young heifer which
had become badly bloated from eating green
apples. The bioat was so severe that the
sides were as hard as a barrel. The old rem
edy, salaratus, was tried for correcting the
acidity; but the attempt to put it down al
ways raised coughing, and it did but little
good. Half teacupful of powdered char
COAL WAS GIleu SlFeu III Ola uouiS oil oppooi'
ance of the boat was gone, and the heifer
was we'll.
RHEUMATIsM.-In response to request by
a subscriber, short time since, two recipes
have been sent in to the N. Y. Tribune.
/. The simplest and most effective is a
lemon, daily, until relieved. Take the juice
of one lemon with sugar just before retiring.
A good liniment can be made by dissolving
gum camphor in coal OIL Make it as desir-
ed When applying it do not be near the
fire. 1t will be found efectual also in neu-
ralgia and similar ailments The use Of lem
ons can not be too highly recommended for
all persons.
2. One-half ounce salicylic acid, one-half
ounce bicarbonate soda, one gill water. Dose ::
one teaspoonful every hour until relieved af-
ter that, one or two teaspoonfulls every two
or three hours until cured. The lady who
sends this says: "It cured my mother of
chronic and my daughter of inAamatory
rheumatisms. In both cases the second bot
tie was not entirely used before they found
relief.
FARM DoGs.-About the best dog law we
are aware of, is now in force in Kent Coun-
ty, Maryland, where all dogs over six months
have an annual tax of 81 each imposed on
the males, and S. on the females To pre-
vent evasion of the law, itprovides that every