Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-10-06

first soaking them in turpentine.
Crab apple and ounce jelles are really
improved by adding ono-third of apple to
them.
When you drive nail into wall,
clothes press or closet, to hang things on,
drive it through spool up to the head.
a muslin patch pasted over hole in
an old carpet looks much better than the
ragged hole. A patch Of this kind an
swers just as good purpose as patch on
a boys pants.
Fresh bread can be cut more readily
with hot knife than a cold one But it
is wasteful household management and
injurious to physical economy ever to cut
and cat bread freshly baked.
Fasten little balls of cotton batting con-
fined in green cloth, under the rear ends
Of the rocking chair, not only so they
will not tip over, but SO you will not be
afraid all the time that they will tip over.
The balls can be tied or tackled on.
Now for new Indian mush. Select the
ripest ears of corn, dry in the oven and
send to the mill to be ground. AS hint
to those who attend 4 near market weekly
we suggest that new corn meal finds
ready sale, at a good price, at this season.
Tomatoes when peeled 0he skin loos-
ened by a hot water bath), and SteWed
with three-fouths their weight in sugar,
and few sliced lemons, make nice pre-
serves. Ginger root may be substituted
for the lemons. The tomatoes require long
cooking-say four hours-or they may
not "keep"
1t is said that little red ants will not
run over shelves covered with coarse fan
mel or green baize. We are informed
that some housekecpers destroy these pests
r by setting pieces Of meat near their
; haunts and when they get on the meat
, drop it into hot water. Others use q
! sweetened sponge
/ Lamp shades made of autumn leaves
! are very beautiful. To make them, cut
= the shade the proper shape out of stiff
white paper, when the leaves, which
have been previously dried and pressed,
are arranged on it in wreath, and fasten-
4 ed securely by gum. The whole is then
n covered with very course net, and the
{ edges bound with giltor colored paper
If tin teapot has become brown in
1 side, and the tea made in it tastes brack-
t. ish, put in little washing soda, soft soap
i, and water, and boil. Have your dish
4 rag wrung out Of hot water, pour the
!, water out in pan, put in your dish-cloth
!, and wipe quickly. Pour the water back
6 and boil again; repeat several times and
/ 1t will all wipe off almost as bright as new
c a good brine to preserve any green
e material is made in this way: Eight
+ pounds of salt, one gallon of vinegar, one
gallon of water, lump Of alum as big a:
o a hens egg; use cold. Things dropped
into this brine, such as green tomatoes
cucumbers, peppers, string beans, cauli
flower, ETC., will keep till wanted to use
: or for year, taking care to have the
Y brine cover the material it contains.
Corned beef left over for the next day
should be put back into the liquor it wa
boiled in. Instead Of the hard, brown
woody substance, that is sometimes serv
ed as cold corned beef, kept in this way
it will always be juicy, as it reabsorb
much of the richness from the liquo
itself. Skim the liquor, of course, befor
setting it away, and it will keep as we'll il
the pot it was boiled in as anything else
Apple jelly makes pretty desert o
. tea dish at this or any time of the year
Pare and slice the apples, put them in
saucepan, with water to cover them
boil gently until very tender, then strai
through a Jelly bag. To every pint @
clear liquor add pound of loaf sugar
Boil for about ten minutes, and, as 500
as it begins to 'jell' pour it into you
mould. This ought to give a sparklin,
= and beautiful jelly. A little fresh lems
sb peel may be boiled with the apples if de
sired. -...
J For apple pudding take a ten-cer
earthen milk-pan, fill it quite full of az
pies prepared as for pie, add tea-cupft
, of boiling water, place over and on tn
500 apples piece of light bread dough flu
n inch thick, Cover with another pan G
v basin not exactly air-tight. Set the pa
ID on the stove where the steam from tn
= apples will cook the dough and make
Y raise very light and nice in about
: hours. Turn out on a large dish tn
aDt,leg of course will be on ton. 81 Slice oI
through all and serve with, sugar ant
cream.
Tits now announced, on the authorit,
oftan Sentiment physician J" that it isind