Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-11-04
HOUSEHOLD BREvITIEs.

They say if you burn piece of gum
camphor about one-third the size of an
egg over candle, being careful that it
does not ignite, that the smoke will fill
the room and expel all mosquitoes-N.
Y. Tribune.
Both butter and milk are injured in
flavor if inclosed in tight box with
other food, yet it is a common custom
to set plate of meat and another of
cold vegetables beside the milk pitcher,
and the butter is scrupulously kept on
ice even if fish and cabbage are its near
neighbors.
"A nice breakfast dish is made by
baking bread that is dry, the dryer the
better, so long as it is not moldy. First
dip it rather quickly into cold water,
then into eggs which are well beaten,
having little salt in them. Then inn
mediately fry in hot lard until nice
brown.-N. Y. Voice.
"A clever woman has converted the
unsightly, but alas! immovable steam
heaters of her home into summer things
Of beauty by having long, low boxes
made to stand upon them. These she
keeps filed with a few low-growing,
bright-hued plants and several vine
roots whose reaching tendrils of green
hang far toward the floor in a graceful
swaying fringe.-N. Y. Times.
"A Fig Pudding.-A half pound each
of figs and suet chopped fine, and half
pound each of brown sugar and bread
crumbs; six ounces of -four; two acid
apples chopped fine; half cup of
sweet milk and three eggs, the whites
and yollks beaten separately. If suet
is not at hand use butter, creamed and
mixed with the -four. Mix the sugar,
eggs and milk, stir in the other ingredi-
ents, put in a buttered mold, and boil
four hours.-Ladies' Home Journal
"A splendid shaving soap is made by
shaving fine three pounds of the best
white bath soap, add to it three-fourths
Of q pint of soft water and one pound of
palm oil Melt it in an earthen bowl
or tin pail placed m kettle of boiling
water. Stir well together. Add sixty
drops of oil of lavender and ten drops
of oil of neroli These give it delici-
Gus perfume. Stir well, turn into a
shallow pan of wood or tin, and when
sufficiently hard cut into squares. De-
troit Free Press.
Mrs S. T. Rorer, principal of the
Philadelphia cooking school, is author
ity for the statement that string beans
are the easiest of all vegetables to can
She directs that they be merely put into
boiling water, cooked rapidly for fifteen
minutes, and put up precisely as small
fruits, filing the cans to OVERLOOKING
Both fruits and vegetables keep better
in the dark than where it is light, and
cans may be wrapped in paper bags, if
no other method of securing the desired
condition seems feasible Scientific
American.
German Potato Salad.-A perfect
salad can only be made of young pota-
toes The Germans use small hard
variety of potatoes Boil the potatoes
in their skins, peel and slice them. Lay
them on the platter and sprinkle tea
spoonful of salt, two tablespoonfuIs of
oil, and two of vinegar over every
quart of sliced potatoes, while they are
hot; add few shakes of white pepper.
Cover the potatoes and let them stand
awhile. When they are cold, add two
tablespoonfuls of chopped onions. a
handful of chives, and two tablespoon
fuls of minced parsley. -Demorest's
Magazine