Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-01-29
Farmer and ITousekeeper.

When you drive nail into a wall,
clothes press or closet, to hang things
on, drive it through spool up to
the head.
Lemon juice, used as a gargle, is
said by a French physician to be a
specific against diptheria and SINH
lar throat troubles, which he has
successfully used for eighteen years.
CELERY AD.-Two hard boil
ed eggs, teaspoonful of mustard.
two tablespoonfuls of vinegar a cup
full of milk, two heads OF celery, and
half cupful of sugar.
To REMOVE AcID STAINS FROM
CLOTHING. When acid has been
dropped on any article of clothing,
use liquid ammonia to kill the acid,
and then apply chloroform to restore
the color.
CIDER CAKE. One cup OF sugar,
half cup of butter, one egg, we'll beat
en-, one large cup of cider, one tea
spoonful of soda, flour sufficient 10
make 1t as thick as pound cake. One
cup of raisins can be added IL de-
sired.
FILLING. Whites of three eggs
beaten with sugar as for frosting
save out enough for the top of the
cake add a coffee-cupful OF seeded
and chopped raisins, two teaspoon
fuls OF lemon extract; spread between
the cake.
The poultry keeper who succeeds
the best is the one who takes the best
care of his fowls. There Is no more
"luck, about 1t than there Is about
boiling water. Put a fire under the
kettle and the water will boil take
care of your poultry and it will pay.
MoLAssEs COOKIES. One cupful
of molasses, one cupful ofsugar, two
thirds cupful of hot water, tw0-thirds
cupful Of lard or butter, one egg, one
teaspoonfnl Of alum, one teaspoonful
of saleratus, and two teaspoonfuls of
ginger. These ingredients will make
go to ITO cookies.
WINTER SALAD.-Cut two Span.
ish onions, well boiled, into slices,
arrange them neatly In a salad bowl,
and, just before serving, pour overa
dressing composed of oil Tor, better,
cream, vinegar, mustard, and salt,
to taste; add beet-root, cut into sill
ces, which has been boiled two hours.
MALAGA CAKE.--Two cupfuls of
sugar and half cupful of butter;
beat to a cream; add half a cupful
of sweet milk mix three cupfuls of
-four with three teaspoonfuls of bak-
ing powder; beat the whites Of seven
eggs to froth stir all together, and
flavor with lemon bake in sheets.
Dust is more injurious to plants
than many suppose. Those who
grow plants in their houses should
with a sponge wipe off the leaves of
all smooth-leaved plants. Others
should be set in a tub or in sink,
and watered with a fine rose water
ing-pot. When busting rooms in
which flowers are kept, cover the
plants with paper.
The New York Herald recon-
mends as an excellent remedy for
sprains, sores and bruises, sprained
hook joints and stiff joints generally,
In domestic animals, a liniment COM
posed of creOSote, one ounce; tur-
pentine, one ounce; olive oil, two
ounces mix and rub upon the af-
fected parts.
III you find your cherished plants
frost-bitten some of these cold MORN
ings, take them at once to cold,
dark room, Ia cellar is BEST set them
in a tub of cold water. Let them
stand As hours, and then when you
bring them to warm room, trim off
carefully and rigidly every stem and
shoot that shows by its helpless droop-
ing that it is irremediably frost-bit-
ten. Ii not too far gone, a fresh
growth will ensue.
PAPER LAMP SHADEs.-The UNI
ique paper lamp shades so fashiona-
BILE just now; can be made very easily.
Fold a sheet of scarlet tissue paper
in centre forming half square, then
fold again into aquarter square, then
into an eighth continue folding In
this way as long as possible, always
folding from the center. Holding
the thick part firmly In one hand,
draw it through the other until the
paper is thoroughly creased; then
partly unfold and draw it through
the hand from the center to the outer
edge. When it has become well
creased cut enough from the center
to allow Of it's slipping over the lamp
shade.