Year: 1877

The braids can then be washed and dried
with towel This preserves the color
of the hair and keeps the scalp clean.
BAKED PEACH PUDDING.-Line deep
pudding dish with puf-paste; put in
layer of peaches, pared and sliced, then
sprinkle with sugar, and add few bits
of butter and little corn starch; then
peaches and so on until the dish is near
ly full. Add teacupful or more-ac-
cording to your dish, of hot water, and
cover the whole with the paste; prick
well with fork and bake one hour.


POLISHING A STOVE. blacking
should be made of the consistency of
cream, and a tablespoonful of molasses
to stove causes the backing to adhere.
I have noticed, when cleaning the oil
cloth after a stove has been polished
with backing having molasses in it, that
there was much less black dust-the
backing was on the stove and not ON
everything else. Put on the blacking
with a paint brush, little at time
Ghe stove being slightly warm then
polish with shoe brush.-CorrespO'ad-
e,ace Germantown Telegraph.
COVER TO Pork BARREL.-In fami-
lies where pork is largely used, the bar
rel is usually kept in the cellar, but very
often there is no place at hand clean
enough, or otherwise suitable, whereon
to place the pork while cutting. To
supply this correspondent suggests a
| cover to the barrel which will make the
work cleanly and easy. A board covers
part of the top, being fastened by
screws, and extends over to form shelf,
supported by brace. The remainder
of the cover is hinged to this stationary
part When the cover is opened it rests
upon the shelf, ana affords firm, clean
and convenient surface on which to do
the cutting, and there is no trouble in
looking about for suitable place.
Housekeeper.


W4It;S 4ND STRAfS.
How little is known of what is in the
bosom of those around us We might
explain many coldness could we look
| into the heart concealed from us; we
should often pity where we hate, love
when we think we can never forgive, ad
mire when we curl the lip with soorn and
Indignation. To judge without reserve
of any human action is a culpable temer-
ity, of all our sins the most unfeeling
and frequent.


The art of spreading rumors is COM
pared to that of pin making. There is
usually some truth, this is called ''wire;"
as this passes from hand to hand, one
gives it polish, another a point; others
make and put on the head, and at last
the pin is complete.


He that threatens us, not having the
power to harm us, would perhaps do 50
if he could; but he that threatens, hay
ing the power, is not much to be feared.
A man in paroxysm of passion may ex-
claim: ''I would stab you if I had a
sword !'' And, perhaps, he would be up
to his word; but he who has sword will
either use it without threatening, or
| ClfCdUSn W1tl1OuJ uSlllS IL.


If we wish to know who is the most
degraded and the most wretched of hu-
man beings, look for man who has
practoed vice so long that he curses it
and clngs to it; that he pursues it be-
cause he feels great law of his nature
driving him on toward it; but, reaching
| If. knows that it will gnaw his heart, and
make him roll himself in the dust with
anguish.


The young person who does not sea-
sonably set himself about establishing
useful and solid habits of thought and
action, and who does not resolutely pur-
sue the path which Providence points
out to him, is likely to be uncomfortable
to himself. and, perhaps, burdensome to
his neighbors.


It has been remarked that any man can
be an orator who possesses the two great
requisites oe brass and volubility.


IF, in conversation, you think per-
son wrong, rather hint difference of
opinion than offer a contradiction.


4T4RICE.


/ Grotesque are the vices of the Chinese.
The wife of charcoal peddler in Shang-
hal boarded money secretly, and not
even her husband knew that avarice was
her ruling passion. When she was taken
i'll Last July she concealed her money
under her inflow. and when she died her