The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-03-05
HOUSEHOLD NOTES.
MRS. s. A. NETTLES.

three or four bananas sliced, only
adding sugar and perhaps a little
syrup, if you have got it. Cover
crust over fruit; brush a little melted
butter over top; strew white sugar on,
and bake twenty minutes or more, as
required.
Delicious sandwiches and cheap
ones can be made by mincing fine rare
beefsteak. Season only with pepper
and salt. These are excellent for in
valids.
Lemon jelly can be made with very
little trouble, and it is pretty and
palatable addition to a table, besides
being an excellent nourishment for
fevered patients. Make a rich lemon
ade, using about four lemons to pint
of water, also enough sugar to make
it sweet. Strain carefully through a
cloth, and then add one-half box of
gelatine; after having dissolved it in o
little water, strain again several times,
then put in molds and place on the
ice to become solid.-Nsav York Fash
ion Bazaar.
CARE OF House PLANTS. Whenever
an herbaceous plant begins to drop
its leaves, i is certain that its health
is impaired in some way. This may
be due to several causes. such as be-
ing pot-bound, over-heated, exposure
to cold or the application of powerful
stimulants, as guano, strong liquid
manure, alkalies, etc., or to some 9TH
er cause, which has destroyed the
feeding roots of the plant, thus in
ducing disease and speedy death in
all cases where remedial measures are
not speedily resorted to. The steps
taken in these cases by the amateur
are generally the most disastrous
course that could be taken toward the
plant, short of destroying it at once
that OF deluging it with water and ap-
plying strong stimulsnts:
When the nutritive organs of the
plants have been destroyed or over
gorsed, the remedy is very similar
that which nature suggests when ami
NAL digestion is deranged-namely,
that of giving no more food until it
reacts. Then, if the roots have been
injured from any Of the above named
causes, we must let the soil in which
it is potted become nearly dry. After
which remove the plant from the pot,
take the ball of soil in which the
roots have been enveloped and crush
it between the hands, just enough to
allow all the hard outer crust of the
ball to be shaken of. Repot in a
rather dry soil, which must be light
and rich, using a new pot, or if the
old one is used it should be well
secured to open the pores, that evap-
oration may be properly carried on
through the sides.
Let the pot be only large enough
to allow an inch of space between the
sides of the pot and the ball Of roots.
After repotting give sufficient water
to settle the earth well about the
roots. Sink the pot in half shady
place or in box of soil. Do not ap-
ply water until the plant starts to
grow unless the air is so dry as to
evaporate the moisture before any
perceptible growth starts. Then of
course water must be given in suf-
feient quantities to keep the soil
damp, but no more.
I cannot conceive why people wa
ter their plants so much, nor why
they should think water such spe-
cifc remedy for all the ills to which
the plants are heir. The following is
a case in point: A neighbor consult
ing me about the feeble condition OF
her geraniums said, 81 am sure the
plants are not suffering from want of
attention, as have watered them CO.
piously twice each day!" I think it
is quite safe to assume that half the
plants that die in the hands of anna
teurs are watered to death.
Small white worms sometimes in
fest pots in which the plants have
stood a long time. These are easily
discovered by turning the plant out
when rather dry, loosing the soil
among the roots. Should any worms
be found, the roots of the plants may
be washed gently in soft water until
freed from the old soil, then repotted
in fresh earth. If it is not desirable
to repot, the pot may be set for a
half hour in hot water nearly to the
depth of the soil inside. This will
drive the worms to the surface with
out injury to the plant. Enough
weak lime water may now be poured
on the surface to penetrate the plant
roots. This will not only kill the
worms, but fertilize the soil.
Ants sometimes cause trouble where
pots have been plunged or kept in
the ground. There is no way to get
rid of them except by repotting
Geraniums often become enfeebled
and in many cases die from excessive
blooming. This must be corrected
by pinching out nearly all the buds
as soon as the leaves begin to indicate
a decline of vitality by their stunted
and discolored appearance.-Scientyfc
american.
WoMAN's Real L1FE-Woman's real
life begins at marriage, and for the
woman the first step is remuneration.
She must give up with good grace
the exaggeration and romance of love-
making. The warnest hearted and
most unselfsh women soon learn to
accept quiet trust and the loyalty of a
lOv;nr life ac fho ne]mest on6 hon