Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-01-14
DOMESTIC

How TO DRESS on SLALLi MEANS
/ Every once IN a while there comes a
/ time when the woman of small means
and great love of pretty things has to
retire in bitter anguish OF spirit. and
| wonder" how she can make herself
presentable, not TO say fashionable, on
! the meager contents of her purse
Such time is now. for though there is
little that is essentially new, there has
been a sort of revulsion and upheaval,
a transmigration of ideas, and an out
pouring of images and idols, which Is
confusing, to say the least, and awakens
"A sort of passion for spending, which
most women have to fight from neces-
sity. 1t will not do to say that they
indulge it, for the lnexorable logic of
facts and figures has proven that men
spend more for clothes In America than
women. 1t is not easy, however, to resist
the influence of pretty things, and the
only way is not to pay much attention to
mere novelties of dress and fashion,
but adhere to certain fixed and weil-de-
ined rules. Buy good materials, avoid
cheap trimmings, select always such
colors as will go well together, and have
them usually dark. Never wear your
best on secondary occasion, or when
it is likely to to be subject TO severe
wear and tear. Have best dresses cut
or made by a good dressmaker, and en-
ploy your own efforts upon your indoor
gowns and washable materials. Use
best black kid gloves, ecru or beige
4 hattar than fancy col
ors and the black are better made; they
can be worn with all dresses. Never
buy cheap gloves or hosiery, they are
delusion and snare. Always have
plain black walking dress and one
handsome black dress, and depend upon
cut aud material more than ornamental
ton. If you can embroider yourself
dress you can make thing of beauty
with little cost; but otherwise content
yourself with the neatness that Is the
best evidence OF refined taste.
MEDICAL LEMoNs.-The way to get
the better OF the bilious system without
blue pills or quinine is to take the Juice
Of one, two or three lemons, as appetite
Graves, IN as much cold water as makes
it pleasant to drink without sugar, be-
fore going 10 bed. In the morning, on
rising. at least half an hour before
breakfast, take the juice of one lemon
in a goblet of water. This will clear
the system of humor and bile with eifi-
cheney without any of the weakening
effects of calomeI or Congress water.
People should not irritate the stomach
by eating lemons clear; the powerful
acid of the Juice, which is always most
corrosive, invariably produces iniam-
nation after while; but properly di-
luted SO that it does not burn or draw
the throat 1t does medical work without
harm, and when the stomach is clear of
food has abundant opportunity to work
over the system thoroughly.
SLICED APPLE PIE.-Line a pie pan
Or plate with crust, sprinkle with sugar,
iiil with tart app.es, sliced very thin,
sprinkle sugar and very little cinna-
mon over them. and add a few small
bits OF butter anu Il teaspoonful oi wa
ter. or not, as you please-it depends
upon the jaiciness of the apples-1redge
ln -four, cover with the top crust, and
bake about three-quarters of an hour;
allow four or five tablespo slfuls OF sug
ar to one pie. Or, line pans with
crust, FIJI with sliced apples, put on top
crust and bake; take off top crust, put
in sugar, bits of butter and seasoning,
replace crust and serve warm. 1t Is
delicious with sweeterei cream. Crab
apple PIE. if made of the Transcend
ents," will fully equal those made of
larger varieties of the apple.
BOILED TURNIPs. a separate
saucepan for them. Ii when done they
appear soft and watery, put them in
cloth and squeeze the moisture out;
then add little salt and butter; a tea.
spoonful OF sugar makes them taste
milder. Mash and dish them. If,
however, they are nice looking tu-nips,
slice them, put little butter on them
and pepper well, and then serve them,
An hour will boil them. unless they are
very hard.
CARPENTERS should remember that
fresh glue dries much more rapidly
than that which has been once or twice
melted. The finest ordinary glue, or
twelve times its weight OF water in
twenty four hours; from dark bones the
glue absorbs nine times its weight of
water; while the ordinary glue, made
from animal Iefuse, absorbs but three
to five times its weight of water,
CURDs MOULD. Stir to a cream three
ounces of butter, then stir in well the
following in succession: The yolks of
six eggs, three ounces of powdered
sugar, three ounces of curd rubbed
smooth and the whites of the eggs
whipped to a snow stirred in the last |
thing. 1t NAV be either baked or
steamed in a well buttered mould. |
Then turn it out and strew it with !
sugar.
OIL CLOTHS should never be scrubbed |
but washed with skinned mix, in |
which has been thrown a handful of |
corn meal; it Is the only wash to use |
for them, as it imparts a freshness |
which no amount OF scrubbing will give.
They should be vanished every spring, |
and oiled with hnseed oil once a week;
this preserves them. and if the method |
is persevered ID, they will last four times
as long as they do ordinarily.
IRISH STEw.-Put two pounds of NUT
ton On to stew in water enough to cover
it. Salt and pepper. When tender
take out of the kettle and cut in small
pieces; have ready one dozen potatoes
sliced and three sliced onions; put all |
toge her i'll saucepan and stew till the
potatoes are done; then stir i'll enough
flour TO make thick gravy.
HAsTY PUDDN5.-Boil a quart of
milk with four bay leaves; beat up the
yolks of two eggs and little salt; stir
in the milk; then take Ont the bay
leaves, and with a wooden spoon In one
hand, with the other sprinkle in -four,
stirring rapidly until 1t Is of a good
thickness; pour into dish and serve
with a sauce.
HIcKoRYNUT CAKE.-One-haIf cup oi
butt-r, two cups of sugar and four eggs,