The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-12-29
HOUSE AND FARM.
Household Chats,

Upon Sunday evening, when the soul 10
lifted on the wings Of faith, and holy
calm and holy faith broods over all ma.
ture, what tender regret comes with the
thought that the tubs must be got up from
the cellar, so that washing may begin at 8
o'clock Monday morning.
Bergonias grow better il shaded from
MONDAY sun, but they like sunshine in tho
winter. The Crassula requires to be kept
in dry condition to bloom by Christmas.
All succulents demand several months of
complete rest, and this plant has the deshy
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 a 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, physician at Norwalk,
Conn.,, publishes the following recipe for q
preventive Of soarletina diphtheria, which.
he says, he has used with marked success
salt, OF tie sub-sulphate of iron, in eight
ounces of cold water, adding plenty of
sugar, simply to overcome the taste of th
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
q large fortune and holding distinguished
~, al
a housekeeper as Penelope, as economical
as the Electress Marianne of Brandenburg,
and as spirituelle as Nine. de Stael, who
sings like Jenny Lind, and dances like Ger
ito, plays the piano like Rosa Kastner, and
the harp like Bertrand, but who is as aus
tere as Lucretia, having no masculine &C.
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 IN ounce; soluble glass, quarter
Of an ounce; water, q. 8. Make the starch
into fine cream, dissolve the gum in a little
hot water, cool and mix with the albumen,
and beat up the mixture with starch liquid;
then add the water-gla (solution) 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-
You'd question, and the leading manufac-
ture-s now produce satin rhadames, satin
merveilleux, 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-five
different states. tits 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 reeling within attainable
distance the work can be managed as east
y as taking care of plants and much easier
than managing bees.