Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1882-05-26
SCRAPS.

If your neighbors hens are trouble
some and steal across the way. don't
let your angry passions rise. but fix a
place for them to lay.
CuRRANTs.-After coloring, currants
will hang on the bushes month, and
improve all. the time. For jelly pick
as soon as coloref
Save the SCOT that falls from the
chimney. A pint Of SCOT to paiI-full
of water will make liquid manure of
great value for flowers and plants of all
kinds.
IRISH SrEw.-Take mutton chops;
cover we'll with water; take the scum
off as it rises; add layer Of potatoes.
layer of tumips, and one onion sliced;
season with pepper and salt; add more
potatoes as before; then add more wa
ter. Drop dumplings are good with
this.
MARBLE CAKE.- Whites of three
eggs. cup butter, cups sugar, cup
sweet milk. 3 cups Of -four, teaspoons
Of baking powder; for the dark part,
take cupful of this dough, add one
cake of grated chocolate dissolved in
a little milk.
Poor MANS CAKE Take 1 emp of
dried apples, soak in hot water until
soft, chop fine, put on one cup of mo-
lasses, stew few minutes, then let it
cool: two eggs, one cup Of sugar, one
cup OF butter, beat well: cinnamon and
alspice, half teaspoonful of each, one
cup of the juice that the apples were
soaked in, or one cup of cider. One
teaspoonful Of soda, ane flour enough
for stiff batter
BACHELORS PUDDING.-Beat three
eggs, flavor with essence of lemon and
grated nutmeg, and add them to four
ounces each Of finely minced apples,
curants, grated bread-crumbs, and two
ounces of sugar; mix thoroughly and
boil in a buttered mould nearly three
hours. Serve with wine sauce.
RICE MUFF1Ns.-Boil the rice soft
and dry. Take half a cup of rice, stir
in three spoonfuls OF sugar, piece of
butter the size of an egg, and a little
salt. One pit. sweet milk. one cup of
yeast, and two DTS. Of flour Let it rise
all night. If sour in the morning add
little soda dissolved in milk, and bake
in muffin rings.
IMITATION JAPANESE FRAMES - Have
q frame made of the size required, and
quite broad. Give it two coats of nice
black paint. Take yellow leaves and
tasten them on the frame in any man.
her your taste dictates: then give a
coating of demar varnish and fyour
frame is complete. These are very
pretty and not expensive as any one
who can use saw and a ,jack-plane can
make the fame.
AN EFF1cAc1ous COUGH SYRuP.-An
ounce each OF fixseed, licorlce, slippery
elm, thoroughwort. four ounces wild
cherry bark: simmer all together in
three pints water ii II the strength is
thoroughly extracted. Boil down to
one pint, add one pint honey, halt a
pound of loaf sugar, and two ounces
gum arabic. have used this tor wears
with unvarying success. Enoug' can
not be said in ITS favor.
A MEDALL1oN.-Take a perfectly
round piece of board and bevel the
edges. Cover one side and the edges
with gold paper. Cut the picture out
and with fine mucilage gum
it exactly in the center of the circnla.
board. These are very pretty for
heads or busts.
COAL AsHEs.-If your soil is COM
pact and heavy, measure it well. AND
mix with it coal ashes, about one forth |
or little less. An application of
is good for plants, and char
coal placed in the bottom of your pots.
is good fer drainage, besides keeping
the earth sweet. Some time ago,
'Millicent'' asked how to make her
Gala blossom. A friend of mine treats
hers to bath of scaldlng water every
day or two, and is rewarded by an
abundance of blossoms. will also
give her way for propagating slips.
Take box five or six inches deep and
i'll up with sand, keep it wet all the
line. Put the slips in about one and
halfinches in depth. They will root
n four or five days to two weeks. l
would like to get some ''othoEna' for a
ranging basket. Iii sometimes call
ID "love IN tangle.s Will give a
,eranium slip in return forit.