The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-07-23
HOME AND FARM.

Try pure benzine to remove stains
from hair-cloth furniture.
-Camphor placed in drawers or
trunks will prevent mice from doing
them any injury.
When striped stockings are washed
and are ready to hang up to dry, turn
them wrong side out; this will prevent
the color from running on the right side
and spelling the stockings.
A correspondent of the Gardeners
Chronicle says that pulverized fresh lime
will effectually drive earthworms from
lawns. The lime also kills moss,
which is so troublesome on old lawns.
Mix the lime with twice its bulk OF fine
soil or of leached wood-ashes.
-Spirals. eggs beaten quite
light, sufficient flour stirred in to make
the mixture very stiff add q pinch OF
salt and stir again; then roll out quite
thin, cut strips about two inches wide
and four long, and roll round the fingers
as if curling hair. Fry in batter till of
delicate golden shade, and sprinkle
powdered sugar just before serving.
-Raisin Cake.-One cup white sugar,
four tablespoonful melted butter, stir
red together, eight tablespoonful OF
sweet milk, one cup flour, one teaspoon
full baking powder; flavor with lemon;
stir in last the beaten whites of four
eggs; bake in layers; for filling, add
little water to one cup of white sugar;
put it on the stove to boil chop one cup
of raisins and beat the white of one egg;
take the sugar off and stir the egg and
raisins in.
in buying Paris green to destroy
the potato beetle and other insects, buy
that which is heaviest and honestly sells
at the highest price. The great demand
has led to much adulteration with high
er and more soluble poisons, which are
less safe to use. London purple, which
many regard as equally effective, is
much cheaper and more bulky, and
hence is not so likely to be adulterated
as Paris green.
One of the best ways to cook black
bass, that favorite fish with so many
people, is to broil it, You need a wire
gridiron with a long handle, so that you
can hold it over the Goals and not let the
edges get scorched or BACKED. Serve
with lemon sliced on the platter. When
baking whitefsh do not let it lie on the
bottom of the dripping-pan; put a tin
plate under the fish in such way that
the oil will drip off into the pan. The
fish will be less greasy and the dressing
will not absorb so much of the fat.
Peach Butter Pudding Pare some
ripe and soft peaches, leaving whole.
Arrange closely together in the bottom
of q buttered baking dish. Make a
batter of quart of milk, six eggs beaten
very light, ten teaSpoonfuls of sifted
flour, tablespoonful of melted butter,
little salt and two teaspoonfuls of baking
powder sifted with the flour. Bake in a
quick oven and eat hot with cream and
sugar or hard or liquid sauce. Straw
berries, cherries, raspberries, or black
berries may be substituted for the
peaches.
-Windgalls are seldom productive of
lameness, and may be regarded as mere
eye-sores. Many methods of treatment
have been resorted to, and with the same
result; they are rarely ever removed
| permanently by any method of treat
ment. Rest, with the application of
congresses and bandages, may reduce
them for time. By blistering and SUBJ
sequently turning the animal QUITO grass,
they will, in all probability, disappear,
but are apt to return again, especially
when the animal is put to work. Unless
q horse is of much value, it is scarcely
desirable to try any treatment at all for
these tumors. To puncture them is
dangerous and Intellectual, and cutting
them out is absurd and impracticable.
| Western Rural.
| After keeping house year I ven
tured to ask an old housekeeper what
she used for a mop, and found to my
dismay that it was a question open to
much discussion. After various expert
mentS find that the best material is old
knit wrappers, cut in convenient strips
1t is best not to make the mop very
large, as it is then so heavy when wet
that it is burdensome, and although you
would get along faster you would be
more tired and very likely strain your
hands in wringing it. Have as little
space left to mop as possible carpet
| just as much of your kitchen floor as is
consistent with perfect neatness, or bet
| ter still, one oilcloth-it is so much more
easily cleaned; grease does not sink in
to it to render you desperate. The hap
Ply law of compensation may hold good
here, but 1 do not seq in what way, COM
mensurate with the expenditure of time
and strength, woman can be repaid or
have it made good to her for having
scrubbed away SO many of the hours Of
her youth and middle age. There is
something hopeless about it; after eve
rything else is done there is always the
kitchen floor to clean; it is dangerous to
dwell upon; it needs, as Mr.. Emerson
says, ''all the force of an idea" to lift
the load from off your mind.-N. Y.
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