Morris tribune., 1881-12-29
HOUSE AND FARM.
Household Chats.

thought that the tubs must be got up from
the cellar, so that washing may begin at
o'clock Monday morning.
Bergonias grow better if shaded from
MONDAY sun, but they like sunshine in the
winter. The Crassula requires to be kept
in a dry condition to bloom by Christmas.
All succulents demand several months of
complete rest, and this plant has the feshy
leaves and stems of its tribe.
Mathew Crawford, of Ohio, makes lawns
in the following way, saving the heavy la
Dor or the expense of turing the whole sur
face: He first grades the ground carefully,
then chops up sods into small pieces about
three inches square, and sets them in
regularly about foot apart, pounding
them down and making all even. The
whole surface is then soon covered with
grass, as the turf has only to spread few
inches on each side to meet between the
pieces. Care is taken to keep out weeds.
J.. w. Maclean, o physician at Norwalk,
Conn, publishes the following recipe for
preventative of scarletina diphtheria, which,
he saws he has used with marked success
for four years: One drachm of Monsel's
salt, or tie subj ulphate of iron, in eight
ounces of cold water, adding plenty of
sugar, simply to overcome the taste of tn
iron. OF this solution give from two to
eight teaspoonfuls each day, according to
the proximity of the disease.
An advertisement in Berlin paper an
nounces that "a young noblewoman, having
large fortune and holding distinguished
position, who is as lovely as Helen, as good
housekeeper as Penelope, as economical
as the Electress Marianne of Brandenburg,
and as spirituelle as Nine. de Sael, who
sings like Jenny Lind, and dances like Ger
ito, plays the piano like Rosa Kastner, and
the harp like Bertrand, but who 10 as ans
tere as Lucretia, having no masculine ac-
quaintances, seeks husband.
To secure gloss when ironing shirts,
take of raw starch one ounce, gum arabic,
one drachm; white of an egg or blood al
bumen half an ounce; soluble glass, quarter
| of ON ounce; water, q. 8. Make the starch
| into fine cream, dissolve the gum in little
! hot water, cool and nix with the albumeu,
| and beat up the mixture with starch liquid;
| then add the water glass lsolution) and
| shake together. Moisten the starched lin
| en- with cloth dipped in the liquid, and
use polishing iron to develop the gloss.
| The excellence of American silks is be-
| yond question, and the leading manufac-
| ture-s now produce satin rhadames, satin
| meryeilleux, satin de lyon, armures, quad
| rifles and brocaded silks equal to any i'm
| ported. This advanced in manufacture will
| stimulate the cultivation of the raw mater
| ial, which has now been made the subject
| Of successful experiments in twenty two
| different states. 1t is to the ladies OF Phil
adelphia we owe the revival Of this interest,
which, if once established, will afford an
opportunity for the lucrative employment of
thousands of women and children IN their
| own home-for manufacturers will take
| the raw silk as fast as it is produced, and
| with failures for Keeling within astainable
distance the work can be managed as east
| " as taking care of plants and much easie.
than managing bees.
A Good Breakfast Necessary in Winter
The breakfast we take in winter will de-
ternine our efficiency for work in the day
and will so influence our whole being fol-
that period of time that no after meal car
correct The breakfast in winter must con.
tain more heterogeneous food than in sum-
mer; it is absolutely needed. You must
store heat to furnish material for absorp-
ton and for maintaining vitality; add tc
this heterogeneous food something that will
diseneape heat from the blood and keep uI
temperature and you may defy the Goddess
day Your face may feel it, your hand
may feel it, but your body will be imper
vious to it and go on disengaging that in
ward heat which can alone stand against tn
lowest temperature without. IF this frs
meal has been properly attended to we ma
, presume that vital action can be 1naintaine
, in full force for five hours at least before
needs replenisling.
Treatment Of Puer7perai Fever In Cow.
From the Rural New Yorker.
have very choice COW that did NJ
come in until about the last Of June.
think perhaps there would have been n
trouble with her. were it not that or til
morning on which she calyed it was Get
and rainy and she became thorough
Il soaked. After dropping her calf, put he
in the stable, and as I always do in sue
cases, fastened her in the staachions t
@ here I think is where made my mistak,
! Had rubbed her thoroughly until she ha
become warm and dry, I doubt whethe
any i'll effects would have followed; br
from being wet and then confined so thu
4 she had no chance for any exercise, a.
9 though she ate readily of some feed I CAV
g her; yet after standing in the stable fe
four or five hours she was taken with vic
lent chill, and suddenly became so wea
that it was with difficulty we could get he
3 on her legs after loosening her from Ii
q stanshions.
bsgan the treatment by rubbing he
smartly, and especially her limbs, whic
seemed very cold. This continued fe
about al, hour, after which we drenched hs
| with two heaping tablespoonfuls of cayenr
pepper in about pint Of sweet milk.
This was recommended by neighbor {
- mine, 9 man who has had many years e.
perience in the care of cows, and keeps
dairy of 40 COWS or thereabouts. He claim
: that in all his experience he has neve
= found anything that had 50 good an effe'
!, in such cases as the free use Of cayenr
pepper.
= Be that as it may, the effect was all tn
= could be desired in this case, the COW be
=, = coming naturally warm after little tim
. and although she was very weak for de
. or two, and, as natural result of so great
60 shock of the system, the flow of milk WI
= much decreased for few days from VIII
= it would otherwise have been. she has sint
!, the first few days after calving given b.
y ordinary mess of milk as compared wit
- previous years.
u Since I began writing the above conmr
= nication an incident has occurred illustra
: ing how prone we are to believe our ara
g the only correct way, or, even If the san
or equally good results are reached
some other means, to still consider that ou,
). is the best way. The incident, which
y think worth relating. is this, An! uncle {
% mine was visiting me. and told him abo,
y the case of this COW, and my treatment I
'e her, and its result. He admitted that
thought was very fortunate in saving he
8. But" said he, Il think it would have bee
Is better if you had used saltpeter, instead
8. cayenne pepper" and he proceeded to gi,
IS the result Of his treatment of case by tt
10 use Of that remedy.
m Care Of Farming Machinery.
a. When it comes to the actual work of Il
ID farm, the workman prefers bright ar
a sharp tools. But he does not manage &
ID ways to have them. He neglects prop
n. preparation, and the result is that when Il
I'd winters work is upon MIN the piows
t to are rusty and clogged with masses Of weet
i vs. and hardened soil the seed. drills chise