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During the hot sun aud drying
winds, a good mulch is far better for
piants and trees than watering.
Cold Slaw Dressing. -Scald ave
tablespoonfuls of milk, and, while hot,
stir in one well-beaten egg; add a piece
of butter the size OF small egg; stir IL
constantly till it thickens; add vinegar
and salt 20 your taste, and pour over
the cabbage or salad. Let It get cold
before eating. a gS~a5gA3 J'
chicken-aud.Ham Rolls. Take
half the crumb from the hearts Of
French or light homemade rolls but
ter the cavity aud ill with mixture Of
minced chicken and ham. Stop tho
hole in the side with wad Of crumB
or bit of crust. These are very nice. e
Chicken Sandwiches. Il Cut the flesh
from the bones of cold roast fowls, aud
/ dispose in close neat strips between
buttered slices of bread or halves of
biscuit, Sprinkle with pepper and salt,
| III you like. you may chop the fowl fine,
| and spread almost half-an-inch thick on
the buttered bread. ~
! ---Soap for Removing Grease Spots, s,--,
Dissolve in half pint OF water half a
| pound of washing Soda put in two
pounds of good hard soap, cut in slices
! and boil until massis formed. Then
| add half ounce each of alcohol, cam
phor, ether and liquid ammonia, and
mold into cakes,
do not put clothes into the blueing-
water until they have been well shaken;
if tossed in while folded as they come
through the wringer they are almost
! .tain IN ho - ynI
and, although after repeated washings
these strealls will come out, every one
knows how aggravating IL is to use
napkins or handkerchiefs that show
traces OF careless washing. eaa
! -Flaked Fish. Make a sauce by
! dredging some Hour into two ounces Of
hot water in stewpan; add half a
pound of cold fish, nicely ilaked. one
ounce of cold butter, a -dessertspoon-
ful each of anchoyy sauce aud mixed
mustard, one teacnpful OF cream, soma
pepper, salt, and q few bread crumbs.
Make hot and serve as it is, or You may
pour it into buttered dish, with the
addition Of 49, few bread crumbs and
brown the top in the oven.
Mixed Chow-chow. Take radish
pods, green peppers, long and round,
green grapes, nasturtiums, peaches.
cherries, string beans, caulillower,
button onions, pour over them a hot
brine that will bear an egg, and let
them stand four days. Then makesa
, pickle very warm with spices, and
, after il has been boiled, and the in
gradients well dried from the brine,
Hlpour it over them boiling hot; mustard
seed may be added, and then it must
: be covered close from the air. This
viii keep, If well prepared, two years.
. Il Nrs. l.. g. AbeH as 5000
, -Sassafras Mead. Two quarts Of
/ boiling water; three and half pounds
of sugar; pint and half OF m0lasses;
!. one fourth pound of tartaric acid; quar-
: ter of ounce essence of sassafras. Stir
! lthese all gradually togetneri be sure
10 have the water boiling; when cool
strain into a large jug or pan, and add
: the essence of sassafras. Put II in
|, bottles, cork tightly aud keep In o cool
place, To prepare glass for drinking
! pour a little of the mead in a glass, fill
three quarters full of cold water, then
:, stir in a little carbonate OF soda, and 1t
will foam TO fill the glass. A pleasant
drink for warm weather.
THE cheapest. best, easiest put up
Z and strongest lightning neonductor is
: copper wire, says writer in the New
= York Tribune Get at ametal store 8
= coil of the length required, and as large
! ! as. OF larger than, common telegraph
: wire. Fasten one end over your chin
! ney-top, run along the ridge and dowr
= the end of your house, fasten
2 ing with common blind-staples driver
y into the wood. BE sure 10 have th'
y lower end terminate in permanentl,
; moist earth on in well, liot % camentet
cistern. Use no glass insulators, paten
st tips or other humbug nonsense, and yol
II will have the cheapest and most periec
4. lightning conductor that can be made
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