Year: 1872




half ounces of rose water; first dissolve
the ammonia in water, then add thu
tincture. Apply it gently to the root
of the hair twice week, or Oftener, i
found to be beneficial.


GRAHAM BREAD.


"Keep it before the people, and on
the table, till dyspeptics are no more
One quart of new milk, half cup o
Few yeast and q half cap of molasses
or one pint of bread sponge, with milk
and molasses. Stir in Graham meal
until stiff; let rise, and bake three
quarters of an hour; never mold as fol
fine -four bread. When the meal Is
coarse, as is best for pudding. stirring
in a cup of shorts, or fine -four, will
make it less harsh.


APPLE CHARLOTTE Russo.


Stew apples with an equal quantity
of sugar and little grated lemon into
a jam. The butter q baking dish OF
plain mold; cut very thin slices OF
bread; dip them in clarified butter,
and line the dish closely and neatly.
Then fill the dish with jam, AID cover
with slices of bread, dipped as before
in butter. Cover with plate or lid,
and place a weight upon it to keep the
bread close upon the apples. and bake
in brisk oven an hour. Turn it out,
sift sugar over it and serve 1t hot.


CHEAP PAINT.


A cheap paint may be made for out
buildings that will last for years, by
taking milk and cement-or "water
lime" as some call it-mix and apply
three or four coats; and dry colors may
be added. This will last for years. and
by renewing it once in two or three
years, building will look just as well
as if painted with oil paint. To put
this on, the paint should be stirred con-
stantly, as the finer parts will soon be
all used out, and at last you will have
nothing but sand.
WASHING FLANNEL.


Do all hOuse-keepers know that fan
mel should never be rubbed on a board,
hut as loosely "a possible in the hands
The harder it is rubbed the more the
dirt works in instead of out. Flannel
should be washed and rinsee in warp
water and dried where toe wind will
not strike il muah. Any one following
the acove directions need have no trou-
be about flannel shrinking.


To MAKE ATHOLE BKOTE.
From Scotch correspondent Put
a tablespoonful of fresh. new ground
oatmeal into a small jug, and stir it
about with nearly tumblerful of cold
water; put a tablespoonful of honey in
pretty large bowl, stirring it well,
and adding by degrees little of the
water of the meal until it is about the
thickness of the cream, then add al-
most q dessert-spOOniul of milk, AIR.
ring it well next add about three-wine
gla-sfuls of whisky, stirring sill well to-
gether. Turn the brose into a clean
bowl, leavingthe grounds and coarse
honey i'm the bottom. Put the brose into
with oatmeal cakes or thin water bis
cults. A basin of hot Cruel taken at bed
time with a glass of Athole brose in it is
very good for cold.


STRAws.


Nearly a quart of fl Dur, in which mix
well two tesspOonfuis of baking pow
der, in this cut finely piece of butter
the size of au egg; break three eggs in,
and two cups of OfsugsI-one cup OF milk.
Cut them about as thick as dOugh-nuts
and fry them in butter.


A NICE JELLY CAKE.
One cup of good sweet cream and two
cups Of White sugar beaten together !;
add six well beaten eggs, three cups of
flour, the juice of . lemon and one cup
of currants. Dissolve q small teaspoon
of soda in part of the cr,am and double
the quantity of cream of tartar in the
flour; hake in a loaf and then when
cool cut in moderately thin slices around
the loaf, spread with apple jelly and
put together carefully, and the loaf will
be complete again.


PACKING BUTTER.


A new method of packing butter for
the retail trade has been invented,
which promises to answer want long
felt. The new process is described as
follows: A firkin or barrel is prepared
by filling to a proper d. pth with strong
and pure brine. the butter, as IL il
taken from the churn and prepared for
market, is carefully selected as to color
and quality and inclo-ed in plain cot
ton bags or sacks, weigbiUg fiOm five
to ten pounds each. These sacks are
placed in the parrel or firkin, fresh and
sweet, and as the brine completely GOV.
ers them, they can be kept in this con.
dition for any time, it is claimed, with
out any deterioration i'm quality. One
gre at advantage that is claimed for this
new style of packing is, that dealers
can take one or more of the bags from
the original package, leaving the rest
safe under the cover of the brine and
excluded from the air. The bags are
suited tn the retail trade, as they are
just about what is generally needed for
family Use, but are the same time 80
conveniently arranged that any small
Ter amount can be cut from them in
the hsndiest manner. This j. an eX.
pertinent in packing butter, but it is
worthy OF consideration by retail deal
ers


The Weather of 1872, Past and to


Come.


The weather of 1872 presents, thus
far, q MARI ed contrast to that of the
two years preceding. Those years
were characterized by rainfall far
less than the general average all over
the civilized world, and by unusual
elevations of temperature, due to q
diminished evaporation from the
ground. This spring has been marked
by copious rains in most parts of the
land-surface of the globe, so far as
heard from. The eastern states, which
suffered from lack of rain in 1870 and
1871, even more than most parts of the
Northwest, have had n abundance
of pluvial blessings within the last few
weeks. The same is true of the south
ern part of Illinois, and also in Iowa,