St. Landry democrat., 1888-05-12
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Mind your attire after YOU have
put it on. Dress with care, and then
forget all about it.
For Vienna coffee cup is flled
one-fourth full of boiled milk, to this
is added three tablespoonsful of Whip
ped cream, and the cup is filled with
filtered coffee.
For dressing wounds, cuts or sores
of any kind, a solution of one spoonful
OF borax to one pint of warm water is
very healing. Bind up the wound.
after washing it, in piece of soft
linen dried out of borax water.
Chocolate Jelly. Take seven
spoonfuls of grated chocolate the same
of white sugar, one cup of sweet cream;
mix together and set over the fire and
let come to boil. Pour it over corn
starch pudding, or put between layers
of cake
-Ringworms often come on the
healthy skin without "any apparent
cause or provocation, are very stub
born, and will yield to but few reme-
dies! but borax will effectually cure
them. Wash with strong solution
three times day, and dust over the
fine, dry powder.
To Cook Tough Fowls-Joint the
fowls and put in plenty of boiling
water, add two tablespoons strong
vinegar. Boil until tender, perhaps
three or four hours. Put in two tea
spoons salt and piece of butter half
as large as an egg. Let the water
cook out, add a quart of milk in which
has been stirred two tablespoons flour.
Let it boil up and serve.
Spinach gone to seed is nice
vegetable still in the hands of the Ger
man cook. The stalks are peeled, cut
into inch pieces, boiled in salt water
and served with butter sauce like caul-
FLOWER. Spinach, cabbage and all the
green vegetables are cooked in close
earthern pots with an ounce or two of
butter, but no water, stewing in their
own steam, which leaves them very
high favored and tender.
"A fussy, nervous mother who is al
ways trembling for her darlings, and
will not let them do any thing that
their companions rejoice in, either
makes her sons weak and deficient in
sclf-reliance, or drives them to deceit
full habits of doing on the sly what
they would not wish her to find out,
though very likely in itself the amuse-
ment is harmless enough.-Demorest.
TO treat an ingrowing nail begin
the cure by application to the tender
part of small quantity of perchoride
of iron, which can be easily procured
either in fluid or powder form at
drug store. The tender flesh is dried
and tanned by this application and
ceases to be painful. When this hard
ened flesh has remained on two or
three weeks it can easily be removed
by soaking in warm water. Loose
shoes and cutting the nails properly
will complete the cure.
Cold cream made with oil of al
monds is favorite preparation for use
on the hands. A formula for making
this cream is as follows: Mix half an
ounce each of white wax and sperma-
ceti; oil of almonds four ounces;
orange or elder flower water, two
ounces. Before adding the latter SUBJ
ject the ingredients to gradual heat,
and, when liquid, add orange flower
water and stir gently. Stand in cold
water to cool.
The covering of a bed ought to be
light as we'll as warm. Wooden blank
cts are far more healthful than heavy
which admit of no ven-
tilation, but, instead, absorb and re-
tain the exhalation of the body. Beds
and bed clothing should be aired fire.
quently. 1t is not enough to air the
sleeping room. Not only should mat
tresses be turned and aired several
times week, but pillows and holsters
ought to be beaten, shaken and exposed
70 the sun. If beds and their furnish
ngs are not carefully aired, they soon
come to have a stuffy, disagreeable
DIOR, and that odor may mean Sleep
ess nights.