Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-12-19
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Hose leaves, dried and STEPPED IL
water, make a cool and pleasant wash
for the face and eyes.-Euchauqe.
Feathers slightly uncurled by the
uamp ar may be restored by holding
owe a not stove, then shaking and re-
peatlng until curled. Care should be
taken not to burn the feather.-Har.
per's Bazaar.
There is not much advantage in
cutting green corn for soiling until it
approaches the blossoming stage. Be-
tore this time stock will eat it, but it is
watery and nutritious.
The best way to boil corn is to boil
1t with part of the husks on it, Remove
the silk and the tough outer covering,
leaving the white inner leaves. The
corn will be much sweeter if cooked in
this way.-Troy Times.
Cheese, when properly made and
thoroughly cured, so that all it's SUBJ
stance lssavailable for food, has twice
the value of butchers meat for sustain
ing life and is quite as easily digcsted
and as wholesome.-S0n Francisco
Chronicle.
Waters: One quart of flour, four
ounces of lard or butter, a little salt,
mix with cold water; pound with a roll
lng-pin twenty minutes, to be rolled out
very thin and cut With a doughnut-cut-
ter. To be eaten with jelly.-Toledo
Blade.
Tomato Catsup: One gallon of
peeled tomatoes, four pods Of red pep
per, four tablespoons of black, four of
white mustard seed, four of ~allspice,
four of salt, one quart of vinegar,
onions to the taste. Boiled well until
quite thick, then bottle and cork tight.
The Household.
Careful experiments were made
last year in New York State in the cul-
ture of potatoes. The best results fol-
lowed the Dutch method of planting,
which consists of keeping the surface
of the ground level, planting a single
eye in place, covering it six inches
deep, and allowing but a single stalk to
grow in the hills, which arc a foot
apart each way.
Women are more cheerful than
men, and yet are getting the reputation
among men Of complaining. The wife
stays in the house too much. The
evil Of ''dressing to go to market is in
the way. Let it be considered bad taste
to see a housewife "dressed up" while
she is doing her marketing; then there
will be more ''time'' to get the fresh
air.-Cavrent.
Prof. Sanborn has made some ex
periments in feeding grain to stock al
pasture which indicate that even with
mich cows the gain does not pay fol
the increased expense. There is a de
cided difference in the value of pasture
at different times, even in the samt
season. Perhaps with rich grass il
June feeding extra may not be profit
able. But early in the season, wher
the grass is watery, and later, whe1
pastures are dried up, we are very con,
tident that extra feeding is the bette!
policy.-M Y. Times.
"A correspondent of the Bee Journ0
writes that a brood of chickens were i,
the habit of frequenting the shed il
which he kept his bees. The bee
yet did not modest the light-coloret
chicks. Why this preference? Tn
editor writes that he has frequent,
spoken of the advantage of wearin!
light clothes among the bees. "W
wear black bee walls because we can no
see clearly through any other color
Woolly, fuzzy and dark materials ar
objected to by bees. A nan with
plug hat on rarely gets stung, unless b
a bee that, in trying to shoot the hat,
aims too low, and hits the face by mis-
take, while a companion at a suitabl
distance is perfectly safe"