Smyrna times., 1883-10-10
Gbe Smprua Gimes.
.SmV1'W0, DeI.,
Wednesday Afternoon, Oct. 10, 1858.
ConjugaI Felicity.

If the carpet i'll bedroom or COM
mon sitting-rOom looks dusty after it
has been thoroughly swept, you can
brighten it good deal by taking a
damp mop and busting with it; tian-
mel mop is best for this purpose.
SALLY LUNN CAKE.-Three coffee
cups of -four, one cup of sugar, two
eggs, one coffeecup of soda, one tea
spoonful of cream tartar. Bake nearly
one hour in round cake tin. Serve
hot. The rind of one lemon may be
added if liked.
Mush made in this way is excellent:
Boil quart of water. Stir pint OF
cold milk with one pint of corn meal
and one tablespoonful of salt. Pour
this into the boiling water gradually
and let it all boil for half an hour.
Watch it carefully to prevent burning.
A good way to extract the juice of
beef for an invalid is to broil the beef
ON gridiren for a few minutes and
then squeeze the juice from it with a
lemon squeeZer; put little salt with
it. This may be given as the sick one
prefers, cold or hot, or it may be frozen
and given in small Jumps.
APPLE DUMPL1NGs.-Par and core
tart apples that will cook quickly, take
light bread dough, cut in round pieces
half an inch thick, fold around each
apple until we'll covered. Steam over
a kettle of boiling water until done.
Try them with a broom splint. Eat
with cream and sugar or maple syrup.
THE INsIPIDITY OF BOILED WATER.
1t is often necessary to boil impure
water in order to make it fit for drink
ing; when this is done it should subse-
quently be cooled, and then before
drinking poured rapidly several times
in succession from one pitcher to
another, both being held far apart, ia
order to entangle as much air as posi-
BILE with the water; this will restoreit
refreshing quality to a degree.
QUICK VINEGAR.-Fill a jug with
cider, and turn into each gallon of
cider pint of molasses and a cupful of
lively yeast Have the jug full of the
liquid; let it stand uncorked back OF
the cook-stove where it will keep
warm. 1t will commence fermenting
in twenty-four hours, and will not
take over a week to make good, sharp
vinegar. 1t must be drawn off into
another jug. leaving the dregs, and
kept in a tight corked jug or bottles,
where it will not freeze.
To CLEAN SMOKY WALLs.-Brush
them with broom, then wash them
over with strong pearlash water and
Immediately rinse them with clean
water before the pearlash is dry
When dry, give the walls thin coat O.
freshly Stacked lime, containing lib
eral portion of alum dissolved in ho
water, finish with whiting and gooG
size. Be careful not to apply the size
distemper till the lime-wash is dry, al
the latter will destroy the strength o
the size if the two come in contac
while wet.
A favorite way to cook potatoes nov
is to boil them in their jackets unit
they are tender and then dry them OF
i'll hot oven. Sweet potatoes are ex
cellent also cooked in this way. O
course care must be taken to remov
the potatoes from the boiling water a
soon as they are tender. There is n
vegetable that gains more by bein
prepared with due attention than tn
potato, and the difference between
soggy, water-sOaked and one that
properly cooked is greater than man
woman Saaf1o fn LynOm