The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-01-22

pies you want hot oven; pour it on
thick; a thin pumpkin pie is not right.
Baked Dried Peas: Three pints of
dried peas, seven quarts of cold water,
three pounds of bacon or salt pork
pick over the peas, wash and soak them
over night in cold water, drain and pour
them into pot with the bacon or pork,
the latter previously cleansed; cover
and boil gently; remove the scum as it
rises; when the peas become soft drain
and mash them, put them into baking
dish, smooth the top, place the bacon or
pork on top, put the dish into the oven,
and bake brown. The liquor from the
peas may be strained, put into pot,
thickened over the fire with Indian meal
(about four or five tablespoonful to a
pint and boiled gently about one hour.
When cold it may be sliced and fried.
Miscellaneous.
-Turpentine will remove ink from
white wood work.
-Cockroaches may be driven away
by putting Scotch or other high-dried
snuff round their haunts.
"A mixture of oil and ink is good to
clean kid boots with. The first sOftens
and the latter blackens them.
Waterproof Whitewash: Stake half
a bushel of lime with boiling water, and
cover to keep in the steam. Strain and
add five gallons of hot water, three
pounds of ground rice boiled to paste
and hot, half a pound of Spanish
whiting, and one pound of clean glue
Dissolved to thin paste. Stir the whole,
and keep it covered for few days.
The whitewash must be used aot,
but one pint of it will cover square
yard.
Coal oil-crude petroleum-is the
cheapest and quickest dressing for sted
and iron surfaces that are to be keep
from rusting over winter, such as plows,
cultivators, scrapers, etc. l don't see
why it would not have been just the
thing to have wiped our laid away
stOve-pipes with last spring, if we had
thought of it in time. Unused sheet
iron rusts in summer more than it wears
in winter, and the civilized nostril is
become so accustomed to coal oil smoke
that few minutes of it, more or less,
| at the time of rousting out winter stoves
would add but trifle TO the usual fume
of that chaotic period.
To sweep and dust room properly
is an art, and like all fine arts has a
right method. Well done, it renovates
the entire room, and the occupant takes
possession feeling that "all things have
become new" 1t is not merely a per-
formance of the hands, but a work into
which taste and Judgment, in other
words, brains must enter. Are these
closets opening into the room to be
swept? Arrange the shelves, drawers
or clothing preparatory to sweeping
day, then let this be the first to be swept.
Cover the bed with sOiled sheets, as also
all heavy articles that can not be re-
moved, first, however, having carefully
busted and brushed them. Remove all
furniture that can be easily set in hall or
adjoining room, having first busted it;
then, taking step-ladder, begin to
sweep or brush, or wipe the cornice and
picture cords and pictures. Draw the
shades to the top of the window, or if
there are inside blinds, dust them care
fully. Open the windows. All the dust
left in the room now is in the carpet or
air, and the current of the windows will
soon settle it. Now begin to sweep,
not towards a door or corner, but from
the outer edges of the room towards the
center, where the dust will be taken up
with small brush and dust-pan. Go
over the room once mOre-this time
with dampened broom; that removes
the last bit of dust and gives the carpet
a new, bright appearance Replace the
articles of furniture as soon as the air is
entirely free from dust, uncover the rest
and the room is new and clean. All this
seems an easy thing to do, but there is
not one in a hundred that will follow out
the details. Some will sweep the dust
into the hall or from one room to an
other, and then wonder why their house
is so dusty again. Others forget cornice
and pictures, and thus leave a seed of
future annoyance, while a third class
will do all but using the damp broom,
which is as the finishing touches to a
picture.