Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-10-05
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Rubbing a bruise in sweet oil, and
then in spirits of turpentine, will usu-
ally prevent the unsightly black-and-
blue spots.
Mahogany furniture should be
washed with warm water and soap; an
application of beeswax and sweet oil
upon a soft cloth, and polished with
chamois, gives rich finish.
To Polish Brass or Copper. Take
wet cloth and pour on few drops of
j ammonia, and dip in fine ashes off the
top of the oven, and rub well the article
to be polished and finish with chamois
skin.
Many delicate and sickly persons
like to drink cocoa, and it is considered
very nutritious. OF course, you require
milk and sugar when you prepare your
cup of cocoa: so many products are
needed for that seemingly simple ar
ticle, a cup of cocoa.
Lemon Cheese Cake. One pound
of sugar, one-half pound of butter, juice
of three lemons, grated rinds of two,
yelks of six eggs, whites of four; beat
thoroughly, put in a jar and place in a
pan of water and boil till thick; turn
into a mold serve cold.
The annoying dryness of the tongue
and pharynx, so common in acute
febrile diseases, may be relieved by
brushing pure and undiluted glycerine
over the affected parts. The great thirst
ceases, and the patients condition is
made more comfortable.
For washing fine blankets, take two
gallons of water, add half cup each
, OF ammonia and alcohol, mixed to
suds with CASTLE soap. They should
be sopped up and down in it, rinsed in
tepid water well shaken, and improved
by carding with a comb while ON the
line drying.
"A person suffering with boils should
eschew rich pastry, gravies and every
kind of meat, except lean mutton. The
boils may be brought to a head by u.s.
ing warm poultice of camomile flow
ers, or boiled white lily root, by fer
mentation with hot water, or by stimu-
lating plasters.
Raspberry Pudding. Boil a'pint of
milk and stir into it two tablespoonfuls
of cornstarch which have been wet
with little cold milk. Then add two
eggs beaten with one-half cupful of
sugar. Put cupful of raspberry jam
in the bottom of a dish and pour the
custard over it. Serve while warm
with sugar and cream.-Good House
Keeping.
There are few desserts more accep-
table than oranges, cut up and sugared,
and chilled for "a couple of hours in the
refrigerator. Some add to it grated or
dessicated cocoanut, but as strawber-
ries and raspberries can not be improv-
ed by cooking, so good oranges can not
be improved by adding any thing be-
sides sugar, especially so indigestible a
thing as cocOanut
Amber cream is an excellent, easily
prepared dessert-in favor when milk
and eggs are plentiful. Soak half a
box of gelatine in one quart of milk for
ten minutes. Let it come to a boil and
stir in the yelks of six eggs, beaten,
with seven heaping teaspoonfuls of
powdered sugar Cook until it is like
soft custard. When it has been off the
stove just five minutes, put in the beat
en- whites, flavor and mold.
An English writer urges the i'm
portance of thoroughly airing rooms
and flushing all waste pipes on the re-
turn OF family after considerable alb
sence from home. The shut-up house
is often filled with noisome gas, through
- Al
keeps the sewer traps operative, and
this is not necessarily revealed by an
odor. Many cases of sore throat have
been traced to the neglect of the pre-
cautions mentioned.
Milk heated to much above one
hundred degrees Fahrenheit loses for a
time degree of its sweetness and
density. The promptpess with which
its cordial influence is felt is indeed
surprising. Some portion of it seems
to be digested and appropriated almost
Immediately, and many who now fancy
that they need alcoholic stimulants
when exhausted by fatigue will find in
this simple draught an equivalent that
will be abundantly satisfying and far
more enduring in its effects.
One of the best and simplest RENE
dies for torpid liver or biliousness is
glass of hot water with the Juice of half
a lemon squeezed in it, but no sugar,
night and morning. A person to whom
this was recommended tried it and
found himself better almost Immediate
ly. His daily headaches, which medi-
cine had failed to cure, left him; his
appetite improved and he gained sew
eral pounds within few weeks. This
is SO simple remedy that any person
thus afflicted will do well to give it
trial, as it can not possibly do any harm.
Scientific american.
OF ordinary ways to kill the carpet
beetle, ironing wet clothes over the af-