The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-05-16
FARM AND PRESIDE.
Good care, together with good feed,
II produce you handsome results.

Good care, together with good feed,
will produce you handsome results.
Good Cookies: One cupful butter.
two cupfuls white sugar, one cupful
sweet milk, one teaspoonful baking
powder two eggs, flour to roll nicely
Toledo Blade.
Cottage Pudding; One cup sugar,
one cup milk, one egg, one teaspoonful
soda dissolved in the milk, two tea.
spoons cream tartar in the flour Flour
to make stiff as pound cake, about one
and One-half cups. Bake forty-fve min.
utes. The same can be made with two
ounces of butter and two eggs.-The
household.
The pastures are greatly damaged
in the spring, and their whole summers
growth retarded, by having the stock
turned on them too early. The pastures
should be allowed a good start, to gel
well rooted and the ground be thor.
oughly settled before any stock is al,
lowed to range on them. -Prajrjt
Farmer.
Hair Tonic: To prevent the hail
from falling out after sickness, battle
the scalp each day with a tonic prepared
| as follows: Pour over three ounces OF
sulphur one pint of alcohol. Shake
well and add One-half pint of castor oil
If, after settsng some time, it should be
come too thick for use, add alcohol anC
oil in the same proportions; if too thin,
add sulphur. -EGchange.
Lemon Jelly: Dissolve one ounce o.
good gelatine IN about half a pint OF
water; let it stand two or three hours
then place it in a saucepan with one
pint more water, the juice of three lem,
ons, the rind of two (cut very thin).
and rather more than one quarter pound
of loaf sugar. Let it boil five minutes.
strain through a sieve, and place in a
mold for the next day.-N L. Mail.
Chinese Charm Cake Three eggs,
one cupful sugar, one and one-half cup.
fuls flour, one-fourth cupful butter
Scant one-half cupful sweet milk, two
teaspoonfuls baking powder. Beat the
sugar and butter together, then add the
milk; beat well, then break in one egg.
beat all together, then add another egg.
beat well, then add the other egg: beat
well, then stir in the flour and bake.
This is a good cake and easily made
N. Y, Posi-.
A useful article to hang in bed.
room or closet is case made of linen.
in which umbrellas and canes can be
kept. The case should be cut in the
form of a closed umbrella-that is. il
should slope from the top to the bottom
gradually. There should be a division,
50 that the canes will not be in the
same pocket with the umbrellas; bind
this all around with brown ribbon or
heavy braid, and with brown crewe
embroider on the front the outlines OF
an umbrella and cane.
Young colts can be easily broke /,
the right method is pursued. The one
we prefer is the following: When the
proper period arrives to do so, place the
saddle on its back and let it stand for
day or two at a time. The bride, etc.
should follow the same course: Their
harness into the wagon and let stand
for day or so: also, do the same out
of doors. Food and drink should be
given at the proper times in the stall
then try leading it with the harness on
then with the carriage attached, and
finally try to drive it, Use it carefully
a"i patience will succeed. Home ana
Form.
Dr j. R. Irwin says That one of the
best and most pleasant things that can
be used to relieve toothache is chewing
cinnamon bark. 1t destroys the sensi,
bility Of the nerves, and suspends the
pain Immediately, if the bark is of good
quality. After repeated trials, and in
different cases, he is convinced that it is
generally as ef1icacious as any of the
other remedies suggested for odontal-
gia, and not attended with the unpleas-
ant consequences of creosote, carbolic
acid, etc, which relieve the pain. but
leave the mouth as sore and painful as
the tooth was previously; though these
results are usually due to carelessnesS
in using.-Boston Journal Of CHEMISTRY.