Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-11-12
HOME MATTERS.

A PupDrSG made after the well-knovn recipe
for cornstarch blancmange is made delicious and
rich by adding two tablespooaluls of grated
Chocolate to the cornstarch before il is cooked.
Make thin custard and pour over the pud-
ding.
To PREVENT CHOKING. break an egg into a
cup and give it to the person choking to swal-
low. The white of the egg seems to catch
around the obstacle and remove it. If one egg
does not answer the purpose. try anOtae r. the
White is all that is necessary.
A NICE WAY OF COOKING COLD MEATs.-Chop
tne meat fine; season with salt, pepper, little
onion or else tomato catsup. Fill a tin bread
pan twO-thirds full; cover it over with mashed
potato, which has been salted and has milk in
IL; lay bits of butter over the top and set it
into Dutch or stove oven for fifteen or twenty
minutes.
The QUEEN ANNE STOvE-SCREEN," lately in
troduced in England, consists of curtain sup
ported by two brass uprights and cross-bar,
each having a telescope action, so that the
screen can be adjusted to the width or height of
the fireplace After having done duty during
summer as a fireplace screen. it can be turned
TO account in winter as fire-Screen
AROMATIC VINEGAR.-Put into a stone lar one
handful each of dried sage. mint lavender rose
mary, NORWOOD. rue, and large tablespoon
1ni OF whole cloves; pour over these ingredients
gallon of scaldin@ hot vinegar; cover the lar
tightly. and keep it covered for a week where
It's contents will keep just lukewarm; then strain
Ii, diSSoive IN IT an ounce of powdered camphor
and put 1t into glass stOppered bottles-Juliet
CorsOn.
WALL DECORATIONs.-There is nothing to
laugh at or despise in the desire, which is uni
Versai just now. to decOratefhe wall: much in
genuity is displayed in converting simple. every
day things into ornaments The way to make
Use OF fan is to spread it open and tack it on
the wall. put two or three photographs between
The sticks-it makes pretty background-and
III You put the pictures in carefully you have
seryiceable frame. which is both ornamental
and inexpensive.-N. y. Post.
The FRAMES OF TOILET LOoKING-GLAssEs are
now painted They have to be made to order,
and are usually painted before being made up.
A mirrOr-frame in china. mounted i'm dark-blue
FeFet on toilet table hung with blue velvet
and lace. painted with wreath of roses en-
twlned with blue ribbon was seen recently.
The two side-pieces were IS inches long and 4
inches wide and the top and bottom pieces were
o inches long and inches wide. The corners
nave to be filled i'm with wood or velvet Some
times only the corners are painted. and mono
gram ornaments the top pece.-4AH amateur
GAS TREATMENT OF WHOOPING COUGH-In
the treatment of whoOpng-cough in gas works,
As lately resorted to. especially in London, the
purifying chamber consists of large room with
doors and windows freely open. and each con-
falnS twenty-fOur vessels, holding five cubic
meters of depurating substance-lme and sul-
phate of iron mixed with saWdust-thrOuoh
which the gas has to pass. When the work
men are emptying and reflling these vessels
the children with whoOpin@ cough are placed
around 1t, and 1nhale the yapOrs which escape;
they are in an atmosphere containing am
monium sulphide, carbOlic acid and tarry pro-
ducts. = As TO the efficiency of this treatment
one physician reports that of 12O cases perse-
tyya nv fhnpa
forty-elght showed Improvement and the rest
We're cures; it is thought. however that it acts
only upon one element of the maady viz ca
farrh.
MUsHR0ONs.-The mushroom is a very ac-
eommOdating plant. We have seen them grow
Ing in old tubs, in Out-Of-the-way corners of
sheds, in abandoned greenhouses, on shelves in
Stables. and In every case giving apparently a
good and healthful crop. All that is needed for
success Is a temperature from 5Oo to fOo some
fresh horse manure and little spawn. Having
procured what fresh horse manure is needed
mix 1T well with about One-third of its
bulk OF good loan. and you are prepared to
make your beds in whatever place YOU prefer
II you determine to form beds make them
narr0w-certainiy not more than five feet
oreadth and about fifteen inches in
height. The material must be made compact
~ beating down, as evenly as possible If I'M
Der cover. the beds may be made fiat on the
Top; but II the open air they should be rounded
70 shed the rain. After the beds have been
made a week. there will be considerable heat
produced by the fermentation of the manure
Bricks OF spawn should have been secured pre-
viousiy. and they can be sent everywhere post
age OF expressage free. at about thirty cents a
pound Break them into pieces as large as wal
nuts and insert in the beds lust below the sur
fsee, about ten inches apart. One pound of
spawn IL sufficient for space two by six feet
III there seems to be much heat. do nothing for
week or ten days. until it somewhat subsidies
bod wit inoh
e2rth. pressing it down with the back of a
spade. Ii is not likely in a large bed water will
oe Needed at all; but if the material should APP
pear very dry, water lightly with warm water
In small beds. or pals, or anything of the kind
It Is probable water will be needed once or
twice. Mushrooms will begin to appear in about
six weeSs after planting the spawn and can be
gatnered for three or four weeks. In gather
Ing, take up the mushroom entire. leaving no
stem in the bed. and placing little earth in the
mole made by its removal. When the crop is
gathered cover the bed with a little more
earth, beat it down gently, and give a pretty
good moistening with tepid water and in about
month more another crop will be produced.
Fick's Illustrated
HYGIENE OF THE TEErH.-A hard crust is the
best possible dentifrice. / never could get my
SELF to believe in the natural necessity of teeth
brush. The African nations. the HindOOs the
natives OF southern Europe, the South Sea Is
landers. the Arabs the South American yege-
SAsidHS. III SuOIt tnTcc-fOUILnS OF our Fellow
men. besides our next relatives the fru9ivorous
animals. have splendid teeth without sOZOdOnt
really believe that ours decay from sheer dis
use the ooarding-house homo lives chiefly on
pap-wants all his meats soft-boiled, and
growls at cold biscuit or an UNDERGONE
potato; sin other words he delegates to
the cook the proper functions of his teeth.
We hear occasionally of old men getting a
second. or rather third, set of teeth met
one of them in northern Guatemala. and
ascertained that he had become toothless during
atwelve-years' sojourn in seaport town. aud
that he got his new set upon his return to his
native village, where circumstances obliged him
to resume the hard cOrncake diet of his bOyhOod
years His teeth had reappeared as soon as
Their services were called for and would proba-
D'y never have absented themselves if pap diet
mad not made them superhuOus. An artificial
dentifrce will certainly keep the teeth white
but that does not prevent their premature decay:
disuse gradually sOftens their substance till one
fine day the hash-eater snaps his best incisor
upon an unexpected piece Of bone Every old
dentist knows hundreds of city customers whom
the daily use ola tooth brush did not save from the
necessity ofappyng before the end of he fnrtiafh