The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Cleaning Carpets.

( lldpS Ulc uOSU lO1OuS way "
clean a carpet, especially a Brussels car.
pet, is to lay it on a clean grass plat,
face down, and beat it as it lies there.
After being beaten thoroughly, it can be
dragged by the corners yer the grass,
which will brush off all the adhering
dust, and the carpet will be cleaned in
the most approved manner To beat a
carpet on a line is but an imperfect way,
and the work is not as well done, unless
by the most patient beating, besides not
being as easy as the Aforementioned way.
The so-called carpet-beating machines in
use in this country are barbarous in their
treatment of choice floor coverings.
With, perhaps, twenty others, u car
pets are tumbled about in q great cylin-
der, until they are folded in a thousand
ways, and returned, instead of the stiff,
firm carpet sent out, soft, limp articles,
that have lost half their wearing quail
tiles.
In England, Ireland and Scotland the
prudent housewife compelled the carpet
beaters to discard the rotary carpet de-
stroyer. and automatic beating machines
are now used, which beat carpets as near
like hand work as is possible for machin-
cry to do it. If living in a city, it will
pay to employ men to take carpets out
into the country and beat them, as above
described. After comparing results, car
pets will never be beaten by machinery
again.
Again, don't let carpets be cleaned on
the floor, as is being practiced In some
cities. That Shiny compound that Is
brushed on the carpet is only soft soap,
nothing else, colored and perfumed, per-
haps, with sassafras. 1t is true that it
makes the carpet look clean, but it is
we'll known that more or less of that
soap stays in the back of the carpet,
having worked its way through, along
the sides and in orners. A physician,
or any one versed in chemistry, knows
that this soap which stays in the carpet
is resolved into grease, attracting myriads
of flies, carpet bugs and insects of all
kinds, besides decomposing and filling
the rooms with dangerous gases, from
the disgusting compound of grease, wool
and dirt.-Good Housekeeping.
TUE KITCHEN.
Veal Stew.
Cut four pounds of veal into strips
three inches long and one inch thick,
peel twelve large potatoes and cut into
slices one inch thick, spread layer OF veal
on bottom of pot, sprinkle in a little salt
and pepper, then layer of potatoes, then
layer of veal seasoned as before. Use
up veal thus: Over last layer of veal
put layer of slices of salt pork, and over
the whole a layer Of potatoes. Pour on
water till it rises an inch over the whole,
Cover close, heat fifteen minutes and
simmer an hour.
Fruit Layer Cake.
This is a delicious novelty in cake
making. Take one cup Of sugar, half a
cup of butter, one cup and q half of
flour, half a cup of wine, one cup of
~raisins, two eggs and o half teaspoonful
of soda; put these ingredients together
with care, just as if it were a very rich
cake, bake in three layers and put frost
ing between-the frosting to be made of
the whites of two eggs with enough
powdered sugar to make it thick. The
top Of the cake may be frosted If you
choose.
Egg Plant.
Gut the plant in slices about one-third
of an inch thick. Pare these and lay
them in Q fat dish. Cover with boiling
water, to which has been added one
tablespoonful Of salt for every quart OF
water. Let this stand one hour. Drain,
pepper the slices Slightly, then dip them
in beaten eggs and bread crumbs 1.-TWO
eggs andta pint of crumbs are sufficient
for 9 good sized plant). Fry In boiling
fat for eight or ten minutes. The slices