The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-03-09

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Half teaspoonful of sugar will
nearly always revive dying fire, and,
unlike the few drops of coal oil which
servants are so fond of using and
which have caused so many accidents,
is perfectly safe. ,
10 mend very large hole in socks
or woven underware tack q piece of
strong net over the aperture and darn
over it. Thus mended the garment
Will be stronger than when new and
look far neater than if darneu in the
ordinary way.
Turpentine and black varnish is the
6lacking used by hardware dealers
1or protecting stoves from rust. If put
on properly it will last through the
season.
Satisfy Soup-Scrape dozen satisfy {
roots, cut in slices, cover with boiling
water and boil slowly for one hour:
add quart of milk. Rub an ounce of
butter and two tablespoonful of flour
together; add it, with half dozen clo-
yes, blade of mace and q bunch of
sweet herbs, let boil, and stand on the
back of the stove. fifteen minutes.
Plants in Living Rooms.--Itis well
to keep two or three pots of plants in
living rooms as a test of the quality
of the air. If the plants flourish the
air is good. If they are sickly and
the leaves drop, the air is likely to be
TOO dry or to be impure. A baby will
thrive in room where houseplants
thrive. Brackets beside the windows
may serve to hold the plants If they
cannot find good place otherwise.
Butter Beans.---Boil in salted water,
as for immediate use, until nearly
done, then spread on earthen plates
and dry at once in the oven, taking
care to avoid scorchfhg; keep in cool,
dry place in paper bags. When need
ed for the table, soak them over night
and cook them in the water they are
soaked in. Beans thus prepared are
almost as good when the snow flies
as when fresh from the vine.
Steamed Cabbage.---Chop cabbage
fine; take tablespoonful of butter, put
in pan and brown; put in this half a
cup OF white sugar. Let this come to
a boil; then add previously beaten one
egg, half cup of cream, half teaspoon
fui OF cornstarch; stir these i'm the
boiling vinegar. Pour this dressing
boiling hot over cabbage and cover
close and let it stand on back of range
a little time before serving.
Onions.--Boil them in salted water
with little milk in it till they are
tender. Then put them in baking
pan with little pepper, butter, and
salt over the top of each, and put
little OF the water in which they were
boiled in the pan. Brown quickly,
and serve hot. using them, if desired,
as garnish for meats.
Jonny Cake.--One cup sweet milk,
one cup wheat -four, one and one-half
cup corn-meal, one tablespoonful
|shortning, one egg, one Tablespoonful
sugar, tea-spoonful of baking-poW-
der sifted with the flower, little salt.
Bake in tin about four by eight inch
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Noisy Children.--It has been said
that noisy children and bad house
keeping invaribly 60 together. A GER
tain orderly arrangement. an infexible
neatness, persistent insistence on IL
diness of person in child.-these have
avery strong tendency to bring the
child within the dominion of law and
order and make him reasonably quiet.
Ifyour children are unbearably noisy
try and see if making the housekeep-
ing more exact will not make them
more quiet. -.
Leghorns and Minorcas.- two
breeds are now rivals, and are so near
ly alike that novice cannot distin-
guish between them, says poultry-au-
thority Jacobs. The White Leghorn
has yellow legs, and the White Minor
ca pale, tiesh-colored legs. The Leg
horn has ear-lObes ofcream color, while
white. The Minorca is about pound
larger than the Leghorn, and has a
larger comb. segg producers there
is but little difference between them,
both being non-sitters and excellent
layers. -.
Raised Waffies.-Make thick spon-
ge as for bread, adding for each pint of
milk or water used q tablespoonful
of sugar and one of butter, and salt to
taste. Let it stand over night, and in
the morning, just before bakeing, add
for each pint, as above, two eggs, whites
and yelks beaten separately;! stir all
together and bake Immediately. No
more flour should be added in the
morning, as it will make the waffies
tough.
The Art of Conversation.-The art
of conversation is to some women a
gift. Like the poet, they are born
with their glorious powers. But many
women who converse eintelligently and
pleasantly have become masters Of the
art by patient care and study. Even
persons of ordinary ability will find
upon making the effort that where it
is not a gift, no other deficiency can be
so we'll supplemented by art. For the
untutored there are three old rules
which may not prove amiss. Talk to
men on the subject which belongs to
their peculiar calling; talk about those
things which Interest yourself, assum-
| ing also that they interest your listen
er, and make it point to inform your
self upon variety of topics; meyer
be guilty of introducing in a mixed
company subject upon which all
may not be able to converse. There is a
wonderful faculty in drawing people
out, in making the stranger and the
timid feel at ease, in putting questions
so skillfully and adroitly as to compel
them to answer as though they were
comforting a favor on you, not you
seeking to entertain them; but here
the rule of goodbreeding is the best to
follow.