American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-10-15
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Alum dissolved in water will kill
bed bugs if applied where it is most
needed.
In troublesome bleeding from the
hose, SMILING up powdered alum will
generally control it. 1t will also al
most always stop excessive hemorrhage
from a cavity caused by the extraction
OF tooth, by being placed in it.
If tablecloths. napkins and hand
kerch;e's are folded an inch or two
beyond the middle they will last much
longer; it is on the edges of folds
where they first wear, and folding them
not on a middle line, each ironing, they
get new crease.
Cinnamon Cake Two pounds
brown sugar, two pounds -four, one
teaspoonful baking powder. one pound
of butter, three tablespoonful of CHINA
mon. three eggs (beaten lightly); mix
all we'll as usual for cake; roll very thin,
cut and bake.
Apple Preserve. some pleas
ant sour apples, pare them, take the
core out at the bottom, and leave the
stem in; make a sirup of white sugar
and water to half cover the apples;
bake or boil them till they are just done
through. Serve them up whole, with
loaf sugar and cream.
1t is not wise to go out into the
early morning air before eating at least
few mouthfu's. Especially ought
this precaution to be strictly observed
in malarial sections, and in seasons
when much sickness is over the coun-
try. Nothing can be more unwise than
to go into a sick-room fasting, and
when the sickness is contagious the re-
suit may be dangerous if not fatal.
Bones may be reduced by means of
wood ashes in the following manner:
One hundred pounds of bones broken
up as small as possible are packed in
cask with one hundred pounds of fresh
wood ashes mixed with twenty-five
pounds of dry water slaked lime and
twelve pounds of sal soda; twenty gal
Ions of water are poured over the mass.
In twenty or thirty days the bones will
be soft enough 10 be mixed evenly with
some good soil in dry mass.
MIR. Curtiss, in his pamphlet on
wheat culture. favors early cutting ex-
cept for seed. He mentions several
important advantages. and several
minor ones, to be secured by cutting
wheat when it is passing from the milk
vents injury by rust, as rust ceases to
affect the grain as soon as cut. Itgives
more and heavier grain. 1t gives more
and better Hour to the bushel, as all the
time the grain stands, after the dough
state, it makes bran at the expense of
starch and flour. 1t causes less waste
by Smelling and scattering. while har-
vesting and handling. And, last, the
straw is tougher and softer to handle.
Maryland Biscuit. one tea
spoonful each of butter and lard into
one quart of sifted flour. with one tea
spoonful of salt; gradually add milk
enough to make stiff dough. mixing
it with the hand. When the dough is
mixed lay it on a Toured bread board
and beat it with the rolling-pin, turn
ing it continually, until it blisters and
cracks loudly. 1t will require to be
beaten about half an hour. When the
blsters are abundant tear off pieces of
the dough as large as an egg. and mold
them in the form of biscuit, prick the
tops with q fork. and bake the biscuit
in rather quick oven.
-Damascene Rolls.-Boiled pastry
should be prepared with as much care
as that meant for baking. the proper
tons of butter, lard and flour the same.
Stew the cherries or whatever fruit you
desire, with little sugar; roll out the
pastry into a thin sheet--the thinner
the better; spread over a thick layer of
the fruit, and then, commencing at one
side. roll carefully until all the fruit is
inclosed within the paste; pinch to-
gether at the ends, and tie up in a
strong cotton cloth, then drop into a
pot of boiling water. The morello
cherry is the best for this purpose, or
some other fruit possessing acidity. To
be served with sweet sauce.
As regards the distinction. nutri-
lively considered, between the whole
grain of wheat and the white flour of
the interior parts, there is no room for
doubt or dispute, says the journal OF
Chemistry. 1t is the whole grain which
constitutes perfect food; the white -four
is incapable of afording complete and
healtnful support under all conditions
of human existence. The white loaf IS
very beautiful and fashionable, but it
docs not contain the phosphates of
magnesia, lime and soda which are
found in the brown loaf. These salts
are stored for some wise reason, Doubt
less, in the bran or outer covering of
the grain, and they are certainly lost to
large extent in the boiling process.