Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-01-02
INDOOR ITEMS.

IT has be en- discovered that rice IS an ex.
cellent substitute for popcorn. Rice 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, bu:
is crisper and much more delicious to the
taste.
AN interesting writer On cookery suggests
that the homogeneous, 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 q 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 ''stll]
lte'' Of any kind arc proper ornaments for
a dining-room. And do not have painful or
sad pictures, there is enough sorrow in real
life without having pang Of sympathy or
pity added to it every time your eye rests
on the walls IT you can not afford good
paintings, do not substitute chromos, but
some fine engravings of good design.
FARMERS YEAsT.-Take a handful Of hops,
put them into quart of water with four
potatoes, boil until the potatoes are done,
work all together and steam, add -four
enough to make stiff batter, q teaspoon OF
salt, tablespoon of ginger, and half cup
of sugar, let come to a boil, stir and set in 4
cool place, when milk-warm add u cup Of
good yeast Set by the stove and it will be
light in two hours. Put in stone Jug, stop
tight and set in cool cellar.
IT 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 nino cases out of ten, when
the "devil' gets into the children, the
parents put him there by q bad example, by
Indulgence, or by wrong training, and the
more they whip tho further they drive hin,
in, for the child has sense enough to sec
that he is whipped for doing things that his
parents allow themselves to do.
COLD food, says the Boston Journal OF
Health, is much more easily kept on a sensi-
two stomach than hot: so in cases where it
is rejected in the ordinary warm or hot
form, it had better be tried as nearly frozen
as may be taken. In many fevers this
would be decided advantage. Milk may
be administered in 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.
i: Celery is sedativc, and is good for
rheumatism, and the so-called neuralgia,
which is often only another name for 1t.
'Cucumbers cool tho systen,-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 and haricots are positively strength
ening, and contain for q human being. tho
properties specified by farmers when they
say that peas "harden" 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 to
get too stout, and many who suffer from de-
rangcmcnt Of the liver eschew them alto.
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