The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-09-04
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H~nnsewffe.
Home starcheTs often fail to get the
things starehed stiff enough. A wom-
az who knows says that a wineglass
tul Of strong borax water in each pint
OF starch VIII remedy the difficulty.
Palus, India rubber plants and all
foliage pets need a bath every little
while, just the same as human beings.
Once q week is probably often enough.
a fine soft sponge and plenty Of luke
warm water, with a soft and tender
touch, viii do the business.
Shabby black belts, shopping-BAgs
and such things can be made to renew
their youth by giving them a coat of
shoe yarnish. Two coats win answer
still better.
Don't teach the lisping child slang
expressions. or permit others to teach
them to it, nor to be impertinent to it's
elders. Those things sound very cute
when the child is learning to talk, but
when it gets a little older it is called
pert, and will soon be said to be impu-
dent.
Wash the dishclothl Careless house
keepers have no idea of the death and
destruction that turks in an old dish
cloth. Any old thing win do for a dish
cloth, in the opinion of far too many,
and when it gets too black to use n
longer, a new rag is substituted, and
the old one thrown on the ash heap to
rotA The dishcloth will sour in half an
hour these blistering days, if it is not
washed with soap and rinsed and hung
in the sun to dry. All the washing will
not sweeten it, unless it is put where
it viii dry It is simply awful to sit
down to table where the dishes smell
sour, but you often do, in nice houses,
too, where you would expect to find
everything immaculate.
If you can stand acids, try a lemon
ade made pretty sour, for your morn
ing appetizer. 1t sometimes works
wonders in clearing the system of it's
bilious symptoms.
Sometimes, perhaps, we will learn
that the stomach is the seat of most
of the ills that flesh is heir to. If the
digestion is good the tone of the whole
system remains normal, but the in
slant the digestion is impaired .every-
SHS SONS NAOuS. lueIe are more
drugs sold to sweeten the stomach and
promote digestion than all the others
put together. The sensible thing to
do would be to eat in moderation the
rich viands put before us, and the in
slant that we find certain things do
mot agree with us to give them up rather
tina go on eating them and taking
doses of drugs to correct the trouble.
# you will insist on spelling fresh
fTtit by putting it into pies do make
the pies fit to eat while you are about
it. The woman who skimps her short
ening in pie crust dough is guilty of
crime. 1t is only fit for food when it
is puffy and crisp. Use fruit unspar-
ingly, and let it's juice be juice and not
water. Most fruit needs as much as
its bulk in sugar when made into a
pie. Flour the upper side of the bot
tom crust, sprinkle flour pretty thick
over the fruit before putting on the
top, and -four the under side of the TOP.
Bake the pie in an evenly hot oven
till it is golden brown. A white
pie is an offense against good taste. An
undone pie is simply horrible, SO be
sure that your oven bakes well in the
bottom. Made after this fashion.
there is not much danger Of the juices
all boiling out while the pie is baking.
Washington Star.