The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-29
Hints for the Good Wife
of the Farmer.
RICE GOOD FOR INVALIDS.
How to Make Delightful Muffins-Ice
Absorbs the Flavor of Meat,
Cueumbers, Etc.

When potatoes are freshly gathered
the skin is best rubbed off with salt in a
coarse cloth. Wash very clean, and let
them remain for about half an hour in
salt and water.
There are many simple and effective
disinfectants, among which are coffee
pounded and burned on an iron plate,
sugar burned on hot Goals, vinegar boiled
with myrrh and sprinkled on the floor
of the sick room.
Rice is the least heterogeneous of all
grains. 1t is good addition to bread,
and is especially serviceable to combine
with highly heterogeneous foods, such as
peas, beans and lentils. 1t is particu-
larly adapted to invalids, as it is one of
most easily digested substances known.
To cool your face and prevent an oily
appearance put few drops of aromatic
ammonia in your morning bath. When
the face becomes overheated and "shiny"
during the day, wet a corner of towel
with alcohol and mop it softly, letting it
dry by evaporation or with little rub
bling.
The most delightful mullins are made
from the fine flour ground from the
whole wheat. This is dark flour. 1t
differs from Graham in that the bran
mixed through the Graham gives a
coarse texture to any bread made from
it. The fine part of Graham flour is
coarse like a meal. Entire wheat flour,
on the contrary, is as fine as any bolted
flour, all parts of the kernel being pow
dered. The brown bread and mullins
made from it have the sweet, nutty
flavor of the kernel.
Do not lay meat, fish, cucumbers or
anything else directly on the ice, as it
absorbs favors readily and will impart
them to the drinking water. The COM
partment for ice should be so constructed
that no food will come in contact with it,
The refrigerators should be kept entirely
for milk, butter and water, though sealed
and alright cans even of salmon, lob
ster, ham, ETC., may be kept in the up
per part without spelling the butter or
milk, and of course without affecting the
water, unless one should be stupid
enough to put them in the water tank.
Flowers should be gathered early in
the morning while wet with dew or late
in the evening after shutdown. 1t is bet
ter for the plant and for the flowers cut
that they be removed by scissors or a
sharp knife than wrenched off with the
hand. 1t is far better if they are kept
for some time to change the water daily
and clip the ends of the stems each time.
Rare roses and valuable flowers should
be covered with paper and set in the ice
box at night. A few drops Of ammonia
or little salt in the water is said to ma
terially assist in keeping flowers fresh
1t is not everybody who can make q
bed well. Beds should be stripped o.
all belongings and left to air thoroughly
Don't, however leave window open di
rectly upon the bed and linen, with {
fog or rain prevailing outside. 1t il
not uncommon to see sheets anC
bedding hanging out of window with
perhaps rain not actually falling, bu
with 80 per cent. of humidity in the at
mosphere, and the person sleeping il
that bed at night wonders the next da,
where he got his cold. A room may b
aired in moist weather, but the bedding
and bed must not absorb any dampness