The Brookhaven leader., 1886-06-17
PUTTING ON AIRS.

A few well-timed remarks upon mat
oers of general interest to housekeepers.
coming from one who understands fully
what he is talking about, may be bene-
fetal. If they are received in the proper
spirit my object will have been attained.
All care for is to furnish all the infor-
nation can and do all the good / can.
Life is made up of these little acts OF
kindness, and to be we'll informed, and
then to be able to spread that infOrma-
ton around all over the country In such
way as to ameliorate the condition OF
our race, is a most fortunate thing for
the possessor and great boon to those
who may be the recipients OF that IN
formation.
A good, durable whltewash may be
made by slaking pure lime With salt and
light solution of water. Mix while
cold and stir gently while boiling, so
that it will not burn on. Let 1t stand
ten minutes and then carefully skim it.
If it does not settle readily drop in the
volk of an egg. Do not put glue in
your whitcwash in order to make it
stick. Ii is q great mistake to unite
glue or baking powder with whitewash
that is t. be used on the walls or ceiling
of parlOr.
A gallon of milk will improve large
quantity Of whitcwash, but the cream
NAV be taken off before the milk is used.
To apply whitcwa>h on a ceiling is not
a difficult process, and many people. pay
a professional when they might do 1t
equally well themselves.
Take whitewash brush of about the
medium height and dip it in the liquid
preparation. Next carefully remove
the surplus By gently pressing the brush
against the side of the pail You can
then stand on the piano and apply the
solution to the ceiling. little at a time.
| If YOU do this, however, do not step for
ward into the works of the piano or set
the pail on the strings while you are at
work. After YOU have been at work for
a few moments and get your sleeves well
| filled with whitewaSh, you may empty
them back into the pail, thus saving the
surplus, which otherwise might be
wasted. Care should be used in spatter-
inc oil paintings and bcic-a-brac on the
walls. Some oil paintings look better
spattcrcd with whitcwash, while others
do not. For this reason q keen dis
elimination is necessary. and every man
NAV not succeed with the brush.
Whitcwash may be removed from the
eve by the iudiciouS use of muriatic
acid. which cuts the lime and purities
the eve itself. removing any animal sub
stance also that may have fallen into
the socket, including the eye itself.
Maple sugar may be made by
Squeezing the Juice out of the maple
tree and boiling it down to about the
consistency Of the spring poem. The
maple flavor is not injurious to the
taste, ani. does not interfere with the
popularity of this iHstly celebrated dope
for the hot pancake Much maple
strip and sugar grow in Vermont
and have often wondered what be-
comes of this healthful beverage.
Why maple sirup, made from the jpice
of the maple tree, should not find Its
way into the channels of trade is more
than can understand.
A cheap and tasty window curtain
NAV be made of the finest batste, cut
the proper length, and then decorated
with painted flowers, Most any lady
can readily paint these flowers in any
! design, or at least great many seem
to think they can. The flowers may be
any variety which fancy may dictate.
such as corn flowers, daisies. pond lilies
or forget-me-nots, and, if they do not
look Just right, they may be erased
while still green by boiling the cur
tains in n solution of benZine and tur-
pehtine, say two parts of the former to
ninety-eight of the latter.
A design to which my attention has
been recently called consists of unique,
| improvised flower. cOit1pOsed by a
young lady who is destined to make her
mark some day, unless some one inter-
feres. Sic has already made her mark
in several places in fact, bnt these flow
ers certainly deserve something more
than mere passing notice. They arc
not copied from the mOnotonous and
tedious uniformity so much affected in
nature, but they stand out by them
selves and attract the attention at once,
because of their bold originality. In
stead of copying nature, and thus be-
coming tiresome, she has constructed q
flower that is a cross between rose
cancer and ginger cOOky 1t grows
on perpendicular stem, that looks like
n dark green hat-rack with buds on it
that remind the enraptured spectator
of an aggravated felon on dark rec
thumb, Just peeping out of apale green
weather beaten bandage.
Nothing so bold in conception or Sc
utterly free from conventionality ha:
come within my range of observation
for wears. The inflammatory condition
of the blossom itself, the bold and math.
ematicallv perpendicular poise of thC
stem, and the early stages of eruption
visible in the complexion of the bud
challenge the admiration of the philan
thropist and the board of health.
1t stands out as work of art, alon'
and safe from imitation. 1t certainly
has never been successfully initiated by
nature, and do not think it ever viii
be. While nature loves to give us freak
now and then, may safely say tina
she will never furnish us with flower
like this, flower that looks as thougl
it had been nailed on the parent stem
with shingle nails, while the foliage,
would seem, was cut out of sheet-irol
and riveted to the curtain by the han,
of a master. 1t is one of those meek
eyed, fragile blossoms of the vale, tina
YOU could successfully use in beatin
out mans brains. Nye, in Bos
ton Globe.
a Good Chairman.