Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-12-23
gadies' Golnmn.
Domestic Hints.

busting it with pure rice powder, the
only cosmetic powder that should be
used.
Brighten the eyes by bathing them
in cold water, and always press them
toward the nose when drying.
Treat tired or infamed eyes with
bath of warm water five parts, and
witch hazel one part, three times a
day.
Dill water mixed with an equal
portion Of rose water, softens and
Whitens the complexion.
Remove the unpleasant odor of
perspiration by using teaspoonful
of ammonia or powdered borax in a
basin of water when washing.
Clean the head of dandruff and
any warm, dry feeling, by rubbing
the head with alcohol.
A tonic for the hair is composed
of d ounce of glycerine, 6 ounces of
cologne, 20 drops of tincture of cap
sicum, 1 Il dram tincture of Spanish
flies.
If you are becoming round-shoul-
dered, walk with your hands behind
you, and use dumb-bells fifteen min
utes night and morning.
To remove coffee stains, put thick
glycerine on the wrong side of the
article and wash out in lukewarm
water.
If dish gets burnt in using, do
not scrape it; put little water and
ashes in it and let it get warm. 1t
will come off nicely.
A friend visiting at onr house last
week gave this recipe for an attractive
dish for breakfast, called Marguer-
ties Cut bread into rounds with the
biscuit cutter and brown them. Dip
them into cream toast, and lay
them on platter. Slice the yolks
of boiled eggs and lay a slice in the
centre of each round to make the
daisy, and pour the sauce around.
When you are mending gloves slip
a polished pecan into the fingers and
how easily you can mend over it
without hurting the shape of the
glove As the surface is highly pol
ished nut is very easily managed,
and you can have no idea, until you
try it, how convenient one is in
mending.
The following pickle or brine is
excellent for pieces of meat that one
wishes to keep a short time: One
fourth pound of brown sugar, Il
pound of common salt, ? ounces of
saltpetre, and Il of a pound of bay
salt to each twelve pounds of meat.
The meat should be turned in and
rubbed with this pickle for three
weeks.
In drying hams the first thing is to
thoroughly drain from the pickle by
hanging them in dry room in
draught of air. If they are not to
be smoked they should be wrapped
in coarse paper. When smoked they
should be hung high in an old fash
toned chimney, OF in smoke house.
Bacon is delicious dried in cedar
chips. And this is a common way
of drying it in the Southern states
wherever cedar-wood can be OBJ
tanned.
Another good way of packing shout
ders and hams in pickle is to rub
them well with common salt and let
them lie three days. Then for two hams
of is or 20 pounds each, take pound
of brown sugar, pound of salt,
onnces of salt-petre, put them in a
tub and cover with the mixture. At
ter three days time throw over them
quart of good cider vinegar and
turn them often. Powder them when
dry with oat bran and hang in cool,
upper room. The same brine can be
scalded and used again providing less
salt is rubbed on the ham before
picking.
The low state of the mercury should
not prevent the airing of sleeping
apartments. Open the windows about
eleven o'clock for an hour OF two in
pleasant weather.
A kitchen is converted into very
satisfactory dining-room by cutting
off the view of the stove and append
ages with screen. The large clothes
horse has the frame work for such
piece of furnishing, and when clothed
with pretty cretonne, or even room
paper, is a rather pleasing object.
To BAKE A HAM.-Take medium
sized one and soak in cold water for
twenty-four hours, wipe and scrape
and water, cover the ham and bake
in moderate oven six hours. 1t is
very nice and toothsome cooked in
this manner.
CHOCOLATE CAKE.-Two cupfuls
of sugar, l cupful of butter, l cup
full of sweet milk, 4 eggs, l small
teaspoonful of soda, teaspoonfuls
of cream tartar, and 3 cupfuls of flour.
Bake in two biscuit tins.
Professor Stewart, after telling us
that the seat of nausea is not in the
stomach, but in the brain, informs US
that relief from this distressing SEN
sation may be obtained by cooling
the base of the brain. He has tested
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