River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-01-03
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IT has be en- discovered that rics IS an ex-
cellent substitute for popcorn. l.IIc in the
hull, when heated IN the pepper like pop
corn, bursts open just like the latter, and
not only has the flavor OF real popcorn, bur
is crisper and much more delicious TO the
taste.
An interesting writer on cookery suggests
that the incongruous, inharmonious and un-
savory mixtures composing the usual bills
Of fare of all classes of people, have much
TO do with our social, mental and physical
ailments, and that harmonious adjust
ment of the things we eat and drink would
in great measure prevent disease, vice
and crime
IT is a mistaken idea that only fruit and
slaughtered game, or dead fish. or ''stIll
life" Of any kind are proper ornaments for
a dining-room. And do not have painful or
sad pictures, there is enough sorrow in reai
life without having pang OF sympathy or
pity added to ii every time your eye rests
on the walls. II you can not afford good
paintings, do not substitute chromos. but
some fine engrayings Of good design
FARMERS YEAsT.-Take a handful of hops,
put them into u quart Of water with four
potatoes. boil until the potatoes are done,
work all together and steam, add -four
salt, tablespoon of ginger, and half a cup
Of sugar, let come to boil, stir and set in q
cool place, when uilk-warm add cup Of
good yeast. Set by the stove and 1t win be
light in two hours. Put in stone jug, stop
tight and set IN d co0l cellar
1T is very fortunate that the great major.
ity of thinking men and women recognize
the fact that whipping the DEVIL as it is
called, out of their children is very poor
business. In nine cases out of ten, when
the ''devil" gets into the children, the
parents put him there by bad example, by
indulgence, or by wrong training, and the
more they whip the further they drive him
in, for the child has sense enough 10 see
that he is whipped for doing things that his
parents allow themselves TO do.
COLD food, says the Boston Journal Of
Heath. IS much more easily kept on a sensi-
tive stomach than hot; so in cases where II
is rejected in the ordinary warm or hot
form, it had better be tried as nearly frozen
as may ~ taken. In many fevers this
would be a decided advantage. Milk may
be administered in a frozen state, often
with positive advantage. The Sanitary Era
adds, from frequent instances, that ice
cream suits admirably some conditions
where hardly any other food is acceptable.
CELERY is sedatIve, and is good for
rheumatism, and the so-called neuralgia,
which is often only another name for IT.
Cucumbers cool the system-when fresh
cut, of course. Lettuce is not only cooling,
but produces sleep, especially if the stalk is
eaten. Asparagus purifies the blood, and
especially acts on the kidneys. Peas, broad
beans aud haricots are positively strength
ening, and contain for human being the
properties specified by farmers when they
say that peas "hardenn pigs flesh, and that
''oats may take horse out, but beans will
bring him home again. Potatoes should
not be eaten by those who arc disposed 10
get too stout, and many who suffer froEi de-
rangement Of the liver eschew them alto
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