The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-07-06
usEFuL AND sUGGEsTIYE.

To break glass any required form,
make a notch with file on the edge Of
the glass; draw your figure. starting from
the notch: make a small rod of iron red
hot and draw it along the lines; a crack
will follow the iron, and the glass can
then be easily broken. Indianapolis
Jourual.
Keep a cup of powdered borax on
your washstand; it will do wonders in
the way of softening the skin. If you
have been working in the garden, or do
ing things about the house which have
tended to make your hands rough, when
you wash them dip your fingers in the
borax, and rub your hands well with it.
IN x. Post.
Pork fritters can be made in the
following manner: Have at hand thick
batter of Indian meal and flour; cut a
few slices of pork and fry them in the
frying-pan until the fat is fried out; cut
few more slices of the pork, dip them
in the batter and drop them in the bub-
bling fat, seasoning with salt and pep
per; cook until light brown, and eat
while hot. Chicago Herald.
Roast Leg of Mutton: Take a leg
of well-kept mutton, rub it lightly with
salt, and put it in a dripping-pan with a
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lengthwise and set it under the leg;
haste with little good dripping at first,
and when within twenty minutes of being
done dredge it with flour to get it
frothed. Turn the Joint two or three
times while cooking. Time, about a
quarter of an hour to the pound. Serve
with currant jelly Chicago Journal.
in cleaning mating, wash twice
c11Vfa NOR with
a pint of salt to half pailful of warm
soft water; dry quickly with a clean
soft cloth. Treated in this way, the
mating viii not grow yellow. Or, if
preferred, apply a thin coat of varnish
to the mating. That viii make it more
durable, and greatly improve its APP
pearance. If vanished it will not need
washing. Now and then wipe with a
wet cloth and dry quickly. Use white
varnish on the white mating Be sure
and have the vaTnish thin or the
mating will crack. indianapolis Jour
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Velvet Cake: One pound of sugar,
half pound of butter. one pound of
flour, one pint of ice water, four eggs,
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder,
sifted well with the flour. Bake in
ielly-cake pans, and spread icing and
Pastry cream may be used with the CO.
coanut instead of the icing. Or it may
be favored delicately with orange, and
put together with orange MARINA
lade. 1t may also be baked in loaf.
This cake is excellent, and is suscept-
ible of as many variations as you have
originality and good taste to bring it to.
An old farmer writes to the Country
Gentleman as follows: 'eThe value of
corn husks in the art is much greater
than that realized by the generality of
farmers in feeding, although as a fodder
l consider them worth as much per
pound as the average hay for cattle.
They are used for a variety of purposes.
II our farmers would pick the corn from
the stalks. husks and all, they then
could safely house it in good weather
and pull the husks under cover, thus
saving them by themselves, either for
sale or other purposes, as desired. The
husking could be done at times when
out-of-door husking would be vecy disa-
greeable or impracticable. Good, clean
corn husks are sometimes sold to up
holsterers at high prices, and are always
in demand by them"