The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-02-20
HOME AND FARM.
Rose leaves. dried and steeped

Rose leaves, dried and stepped In
water, make cool and pleasant wash
Tor the face and eyes.-Erchange
Feathers slightly uncurled by the
damp air may be restored by holding
over hot stove, then shaking and re-
peating until curled. Care should be
taken not to burn the feather.-Hdr-
per's Bazaar.
There is not much advantage in
cutting green corn for soiling until it
approaches the poisoning stage. Be
fore this time stock will eat it, but it is
watery and innutritious.
The best way to boil corn is to boil
it with part Of the husks on it. Remove
the silk and the tough outer covering,
leaving the white inner leaves. The
corn win be much sweeter if cooked in
this way.-Troy Times.
Cheese, when properly made and
thoroughly cured, SO that all its sub
stance is available for food, has twice
the value of butchers meat for sustain
ing life and is quite as easily digested
and as wholesome.-San Francisco
Chronicle.
Waters: One quart of flour, four
ounces Of lard or butter, little salt,
mix with cold water; pound with a roll
lng-pin twenty minutes, to be rolled out
very thin and cut With doughnut-cut-
ter. To be eaten with jelly.-T0ledo
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 eul-
ture of potatoes. The best results fol-
lowed the Dutch method of planting,
which consists of keeping the surface
of the ground level, planting single
eye in a place, covering it six inches
deep, and allowing but a single stalk to
grow in the hills, which are 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 60 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 slime" to get the fresh
Prof. Sanborn has made some ex-
periments in feeding grain to stock at
pasture which indicate that even with |
mileh cows the gain does not pay for |
the increased expense. There is de- |
cided difference in the value of pasture
ct different times, even in the same |
season. Perhaps with rich grass in |
June feeding extra may not be profit
able. But early in the season, when |
the grass is watery, and later, when
pastures are dried up, we are very con-
fident that extra feeding is the better
polcy.-N. r. Times.
"A correspondent of the Bee journal
writes that brood of chickens were in |
the habit. of frequenting the shed in
which he kept his bees. The bees
stung all the dark colored ones to death,
yet did not modest the hght-colored /
chicks. Why ibis preference? The
editor writes that he has frequently /
spoken of the advantage of wearing
light clothes among the bees. 1--WE
wear black bee walls because we can not
see clearly through any other color.
Woolly, fuzzy and dark materials are
objected to by bees. A man with
plug hat on rarely gets stung, unless by
} bee that, in trying to shoot the hat
aims too low, and hits the face by mis-
lake. while companion at suitable
distance is perfectly safe"