Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-05-30
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.


Clean decanters with strips of
coarse, brown paper and cold water,
filing the decanter quite full with the
strips. Tea-leaves, potato-parings and
shot are also used, but nothing gives the
polish of the brown paper.-Ladies'
Home Journal.
breakfast Gems.-0ne egg, one pint
of milk, little salt and flour to make
a stiff batter; you will need a hot fire,
and the gem pans must be very hot
when you put the batter in; put small
piece of butter in each one before turn
ing in the atter.-Household.
The scrubbing of floors should be
done with bath brick dust or sand and
ordinary household soap. The object
of the brick dust or sand is to whiten
the boards. After washing leave all
the doors and windows open for it to
dry very quickly, which also helps to
whiten the boards.
TO prepare cocoanut cones whip
the whites of five eggs to a stiff froth,
adding gradually one pound of powder
ed sugar; then beat in one teaspoonful
powdered arrowroot and one-half pound
of grated cocoanut. Butter sheet of
writing paper and lay in the baking
pan; mold the cocoanut into small cones
and bake in moderate oven.-N. Y.
World.
-Okra Soup..-Talze a small shin of
beef, and, after washing it very thor
oughly, put it on to boil in one gallon
of water; skim the water as it boils,
and add salt; let it boil about five
hours, then add one onion chopped, one
tablespoonful of chopped parsley, one
fourth of a peck of olra and one quart
can of tomatoes; allow all to boil to-
gether an hour and half longer; re-
move the meat and serve.-Boston Her
aid.
The best time for changing the
linen of the patient is in the morning.
When able to bear a daily freshening
of the toilet, it should be done as near
ly as possible at the same hour. Be
for convalescence or strength will per-
NIT of daily toilet, frequent sponging
of the face and hands with tepid water
to which has been added little good
Cologne water, will be found very re-
freshing, especially to fever patient.
When a complete sponging is ordered,
if done just before the hour of sleeping,
it viii be found much more refreshing
and will conduce to Sleep
Sponge Steak.-Remove carefully
every particle of bone, fat and gristle,
also the though end" from four porter
house or two sirloin steaks; place in a
stew-pan with just enough water to
cover them; let them simmer mot boiD
until they fall to pieces when taken
from the pan; if the water cooks away
before the meat is done, add little
more, but keep closely covered and see
that all the water is absorbed When
cooked, remove from the fire, mince
very fine, add pepper, salt and catsup to
taste; press out all the juice, and work
in an unbeaten egg; with your hands,
form into cakes about four inches long
by three wide, and brown quickly in
hot butter, and lay on bed of fresh,
green parsley.-Good Housekeeping.
The newest sofa pillows are very
simply made of china silk, plain or fig
ured, and cord and tassels to match.
Cut a large square piece of the silk,
large enough to make both sides of the
pillow, and fold the corners together in
one common point, but do not join
them. Instead of letting the edges OF
the silk meet, separate them by a thick
putting of silk of contrasting color, OF
if figured silk is used, take a silk which
will harmonic with one of the figured
patterns, and after sewing the puff un.
derneath the sections of the large
square, lace it back and forth with silk
cord. Of course, the corners are brought
over the stuffed pillow, as it could not
be done afterward.-N. Y. Ledger.