Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-08-10
DOMESTIC.

dCCOTulHBlJ, 1uAlCuAoVSly bCAOAO pOu
time, strewed the floor of those parts
of the house most infested with
the vermin with green peel, cut
not very thin from the cucumber, and
sat up half an hour later to watch the
effect. Before the expiration of that
time the floor where the peel lay was
completely covered with cockroaches,
SO much so that the vegetable could not
be seen, so voraciously were they en-
gagged in sucking the poisonous mixture
from it. l adopted the same plan the
following night, but my visitors were
not near so numerous-I should think
not more than one-fourth of the previ-
GUS night. On the third night l did
not discover one, but anxious to ascer-
tain whether the house was quite clear
of them, l examined the peel after had
/ laid it down about half an hour and per-
cSived that it was covered with myrIads
of minute cockroaches about the size of
flea. therefore allowed the peel to
lie till morning, and from that moment
have not seen a cockroach in the
house. 1t is very old building, and
can assure you the above remedy only
requires to be persevered in for three or
four nights to completely eradicate the
pests. OF course it should be fresh
cucumber every night.
BOILING water will remove tea stains
and many fruit stains; pour the water
through the stain, and thus prevent it
from spreading through the fabric.
Ripe tomatoes will remove ink and
other stains from white cloth; also from
the hands. A teaspoonful of turpentine
boiled with white cloth will aid the
whitening process. Boiled starch Is
improved by the addition of little
spermaceti, or salt, or both, or gum
arabic dissolved. Beeswax and salt
will make fiat irons as smooth as glass;
tie lump of wax in cloth, and keep
it for that purpose; when the irons are
hot rub them with the wax-rag, then
scour with n paper or rag sprinkled with
salt. Kerosene will soften boots or
shoes hardened by water, and render
them as pliable as when new. Kerosene
will make tin kettles as bright as new;
saturate a woolen rag and rub with it;
it will also remove stains from Vanished
other article has been scorched in iron
ing, lay it where the.bright sun will fall
directly on it; it will take it entirely out.
Fish may be scaled much easier by dip
ping them in boiling water for min
ute. Cool rain water and soda will
remove machine grease from washable
goods. Lamp-wick dipped in hot vine
gar before using is said to prevent
offensive smells from lamps. Tortoise
shell and horn combs are preserved
from cracking by being occasionally
rubbed with oil. To remove spots from
mating, counterpanes, ETC., wet with
alcohol, rub with hard soap, then wash
with cold water. Halt dozen onions
planted in the cellar where they can get
little hight, will do much toward
absorbing and correcting the atmospheric
impurities that are so apt to lurk III
such places.
RECIPE FOR PRESERVING NIEAT--There
is no good reasan why farmers and
their families should eat so much salt
pork, leaving all the fresh meat to the
inhabitants of cities and villages, when
the following method will keep meat
fresh for weeks, even i'll the warmest
weather. have tried it for more than
ten years AS soon as the animal heat
Is out of the meat slice il up ready for
cooking Prepare large jar by scald-
ing well with hot salt and water. Mix
salt and pulverized saltpetre. Cover
the bottom of the lar with a sprinkle of
salt and pepper. Put down a layer of
meat, sprinkle with salt and pepper the
same as if it was just going to the table,
and continue in this manner until the
jar is full. Fold cloth or towel and
wet it in strong salt and water IN which
little saltpetre is dissolved. Press
the cloth closely over the meat and set
it in cool place. Be sure to press the
cloth In tightly as each layer is re-
moved, and your meat will keep for
months. It is a good plan to let the
meat lie over night, after it Is sliced, be-
fore packing. Then drain off all the
blood that oozes from it. It will be
Becessary to change the cloth occasion
ally, or take it off and wash it first in
cold water, then scald IN salt water as
at first. Ia this way farmers can have
fresh meat all the year round. have
kept beef that was killed the 18th of
February till the 21st of June. Then
packed large jar of veal in the same
way during the dog days, and kept it
six weeks.
ORANGE PUDDING or custard makes O
dainty desert. Cut five or six oranges
in small pieces, place them in pudding
dish, and sprinkle one cofeecup OF su-
gar oyer them; make boiled custard of
one pint of milk, the yolks of three eggs,
half o cup of sugar, and one teaspoonluI
of corn starch pour this over the oran-
ges alter the sugar has dissolved; make
a meringus of the whites of the eggs
with three tablespooEfuls of powdered
sugar beaten in; put this over the GUS
tard and set it in the oven to brown. If
the oranges are very sweet, less sugar
can be used.
ONE is sometimes troubled when fry
ing cakes by sediment forming in the
lard, which darkens it aud sticks TO the
outside of the cakes. To remedy this
peel and wash potatoes, cut them III
slices an inch thick and drop them into
the hot lard. They will readily absorb
the black PARTICLES, and You can easily
take them out with SKINNER and not
waste tn. lard.
A GOOD way to regulate a chiId's
stomach and bowels is to give him
little bowl of oatmeal and milk every
day tor breakfast or dinner; see that it
is well salted; as salt promotes digestion.
The ailments OF a child who is in O