The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-05-04
Useful to Know.

rOR OOID.--Many n deluded
child has been cured of cold by this
means Take cup of brown sugar
and put it in a saucepan to make can.
dy, but instead of adding water 10
which to dissolve the sugar, put lit
Tie tea made by sleeping thoroughwo,t
This will impart bitter taste, which
is not unpleasant to the child after the
first mouthful, and is really a good
remedy for tickling in the throat"
Az ExcELLENT Soup.-To make an
excellent soup allow four pounds of
beef to two and half quarts of water,
one small onion, one carrot, and a
small head of celery. Let these boil
for four or five hours. Three quarters
of an hour before dinner strain this
soup, salt it, and add heaping tea.
cupful of macaroti, broken in bits
let this boil slowly. Add any other
seasoning you like for some tastes a
pinch of curry powder improves it.
COOKING m ELEoTRIclrY.-A Mon
treal firm has invented and patented a
machine FOR cooking by electricity. 1t
consists of saucepan so isolated by
non-conductors that the bottom forms
the positive pole of the current. The
negative pole is attached to movable
point which travels in circles over the
bottom of the pan underneath, distrib
uting the heat over the whole surface
and with sufficient rapidity to avoid
burning a hole through the pan at any
one point
THE RIGnT WAY TO BRUsu VELVET
The art of removing lint, dust and
light matter adhering to velvet con-
sists in the proper mode of managing
the brush. Take hat brush-not too
soft, but having the bristles elastic,
and returning at once to their original
state after being pressed aside--hold
firmly under the palm of the hand in
the direction of the arm, and with the
bristles downward, and pressing them
first into the substance of the velvet,
then twist around the arm, hand and
brush together, as on an axis, without
moving them backward or forward.
The foreign matter will thus be drawn
up and fiirted out of the flock without
injury to the substance Of the velvet;
and the brush must be lifted and
placed in similar manner over every
part required to be brushed BY this
means velvet will be improved instead
of deteriorated, and will last for years
BAKED SHAD.-Reduce to crumbs
the inside of a loaf of bread, heat in
saucepan some fresh butter the size of
an egg, chop the quarter of an onion
and add to the butter when it begins
to bubble. When this begins to
brown add the bread and stir well
till thoroughly hot through Season
rather highly with pepper and salt.
Stir through it tablespoonful of finely
chopped parsley, remove from the fire,
and add Immediately two well-beaten
eggs. Stuff the shad with this dress
ing and sew it up. Sprinkle pepper,
salt and -four, and little water; put
few thin slices of breakfast bacon in
the baking-pan and lay the fish upon
them. Pour little hot water into
the pan and put into hot oven, lay
ing a few more slices of bacon over
the top of the fish. Basic very often,
and when done remove the bacon,
sprinkle with little melted butter in
which chopped parsley is mixed, and
serve in platter on which the fried
shad roe is arranged about the fish in
a nest of parsley.
How TO APPLY THE SODA REMEDY IN
BURNS AND ScALDs.-A saline lotion,
or saturated solution of the bicarbon.
ated soda in either plain water or cam
phorated water, if applied speedily, or
as socn as possible, to burned or
scalded part is most effectual in re-
lieving the acute burning pain, and
when the burn is only superficial or
not severe, removing all pain in the
course of a very short time, having
also the very great advantage of clean
liness, and, if applied at once, Of pre-
venting the usual consequences-a
painful blistering of the skin, separa-
ton of the epidermis, and, perhaps,
more Or less of suppuration. For this
purpose all that is necessary is to cut
piece of lint, or old soft rag, or even
blotting paper, of a size sufficient to
cover the burned or scalded parts, and
to keep it constantly well wet with
the sodaic lotion so as to prevent its
drying. BY this means it usually hap
pens that all pam ceases in from
quarter to half an hour, or even in
much less time. When the main part
of limb, such as the hand and fore
arm or the foot and leg have been
burned, it is best, when practicable, to
plunge the part at once into jug or
pail, or other convenient vessel filed
with the soda lotion, and keep it there
until the pain subsidies; or the limb
may be swathed or encircled with n
surgeons cotton bandage previously
soaked in the saturated solution, and
kept constantly wet with it, the relief
being usually immediate, provided the
solution be saturated and cold. What
is now usually sold as bicarbonate of
soda is what / have commonly used
and recommended, although this is
well known TO vary much in quality,
according to where it is manufactured