Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-07-21
HOUSE AND FARM.
HGuseh0ltl Nofea


MIR. b. J. Dunlap, of the Chicago Tri.
Dune, is quite defiant He says he" saw
milk submerged in tin-pail in cisteru
over thirty years ago" and if he wished to
repeat the process he should do SO regard
less of any patent.
Small chess souffles are not TO be do
spised. Make them as follows: Melt half
pound OF butter in saucepan, and stir q
tablespoonful Of flour into it. When the
two are amalgamated stir in small guam
tity of milk and about three ounces of Par
mesau cheese; continue to stir over slow
fire until the mixture is of the consistency
OF cream, but do not let it quite boil; add
some white pepper and little salt, stir for
another ten minutes, take the saucepan of
the tire and contiue to stir occasionally un-
til the contents are cold. Take the yolks
OF three eggs, beat them with little milk,
strain them, stir them into the cold mixture
add the whites OF five eggs whisked into a
stit froth; half fill little paper cases with
the mixture, put them into brisk oven for
ten minutes, and serve Immediately.
Says Time, ITO watch woman training
her husband to fetch and carry is delight
ful pastime for those who are inclined to
philosophic study. With heaven born
instinct the wife knows exactly when to
smile and when to frown, and where touch
OF the whip or tongue will be more effectual.
Graciously giving way to his wishes, after
they have been suggested by herself, she
turns him round her little finger, and holds
him up laughingly to the gaze of the won
dering world. Women are not generally hum
orists, but they cannot hep feeling the fun
of the thing when they 80 successfully man
age their husbands, who all the while think
they are managing them. This artful ap-
pearance of innocence and obedience is,
indeed, the surest sign that wife is having
all her own way" '@'
Gather the flowers to be pressed when
the dew Is quite dried off from them and
before the sun has become 80 warm as to
wilt them. Place them between newspa-
Pers or any other porous paper, and place
them under press; change them every
day to fresh paper until they are dried; all
the thin leaved flowers it will be found best
to use for this purpose.
To destroy cockroaches, scatter pow
dered borax about the places they infest
and it will soon exterminate them.
The utmost neatness should be exer-
ercised about the premises in hot weather.
Garbage of every kind should be disposed
of before it becomes decayed and is giving
off a bad odor.
The luster of morocco leather is restored
by vanishing with white Of egg.
Mix little carbonate of soda with the
water in which flowers are INNER sed and it
will preserve them for fortnight.
Wax candle light, falling through rose
colored or red shades, throws the best,
and coolest, and most becoming shade
over q dinner table.
Common soda is excellent for securing
tin, as it will not scratch the tin and will
make it look like new. Apply with piece
of moistened newspaper and polish with a
dry piece. Wood ashes are good substi-
tute.
Take new flower pot, wash it clean,
wrap in a wet cloth and set over butter;
it will keep 1t as hard as if on ice. Milk
If put into an earthern can, or even q tin
one, will also keep sweet fol long time if
we'll wrapped in wet cloth.
When the excellence of rice as diet is
fully understood it's use will be more fire.
quent and of daily occurance in every
household. At this season of the year es-
pecially, it may properly be classed as su-
perior to any of the cereals which are in
such general use fer the morning and mid
die meals. No other food is so easy of di-
gestion. .r.
When Mrs. Carlyle was married she knew
absolutely nothing about household duties
and spent her honeymoon crying because
her husband was not satisfied with f.od
either raw or burnt. Then she turned in
and mastered every detail of housekeeping
That is why Carlyle regarded her as re-
markable woman. Experience had taught
him that most women keep on as they
begin.