The Northern Pacific farmer., 1881-10-20
HOUSE AND FARM.
For and AbOnt Women.

There is a girl in Plymouth county who
has had eighteen lovers, and not ono of
them ever cot his arm around her. She
weighs SS4 pounds.-B0st0n Post.
Halt a grain of quinine in two ounces of
milk produces no disagreeable taste in the
mouth, and this same quantity {half grain)
in q glassful Of milk is scarcely percepti-
BILE. This is an easy way of administering
quinine to children and delicate patients
who object to the bitter taste which it
leaves in the mouth.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beeoher, good au-
thority on domestic matters, says ''that ten
pounds of the toughest kind of meat may
be made very tender by soaking seven hours
in three quarts of water acidulated with a
little more than half pint of vinegar.
Then wash, wipe dry and cook as desired"
We would rather have our meat tender to
begin with, but If any one becomes possess
sop of piece that is tough the plan may
be tried.
DR.. 81. Gibbons, at recent meeting of
the California academy Of sciences, says
that since he put petroleum on the trees in
his garden they had grown better and fas
ter than ever before, and given better roses
the scale insect. The handsomest rose he
exhibited was from bush which looked
nearly dead a short time before. The pc
. troleum was mixed with castor. oil. 1t is
applied sparingly, and great care is taken
that it does not run down the roots. Per-
haps in crude state the petroleum would
be bad, even on the stalks; but mixed with
castor oil it appears to be advantageous to
the plant.
Rev. George W. Shreck, of Baltimore, is
lecturiug on "Why never Married" It is
said that he holds his audience spell bound
for over two hours in simply explaining to
them that the girl said, No. thankee, sir.
OF course he goes into details and talks
about his nightly visits, candy bills, livery
stable demands, ice-cream extortions,
oyster impositions, moonlight walks, love-
inspired lies, stolen ki-well, everything
incident to such affairs, but his lecture
eventually SINNERS down to the above fact
that she said NO."
IF you are for PLEASURE" says Jeremy
Taylor, marry; if you prize rosy health,
marry. A good wife is heavens last, best
gift to man; his angel of mercy, minister
of graces innumerable; his gem of many
virtues; his casAet of jewels; her voice his
sweetest music; her smiles his brightest
days; her kiss the garden Of innocence; her
arms the pale of his safety: the balm of his
health, the balsam of his life; her industry
his surest wealth; her economy his safest
steward; her lips his faithful counsellors;
her bosom the softest pillow of his cares,
and her cares the ablest advocates of hea-
ven's blessings on his head"
It may be useful to those who have but
limited space for wintering plants to know
that most, if not all, of the tuberous rooted
begonias may be kept in dormant state dur
ing the winter. The set use for summer
blooming gradually dry off late in the fall,
and put in the cellar for winter, where they
keep in ine condition, with little water not
more than two or three times. They viii!
keep without any but not SO we'll. They
must be brought to the light as soon as
growth begins in the spring. They bloom
stronger for the rest. If the plants have
grown in the bed OF the border. they may
be lifted on the appearance of cold weather
and placed in boxes. If outings be put in
pots duriog the fall they will make small
tubers, varying in size from pea to a ha-
zelnut, and these, when we'll formed, may
also be stored away till spring, when they
will make strong plants for summer use.