Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1878 — About the House. [ARTICLE]

About the House.

Carpets having small figures are fashionable. Pure orris-root powder is a harmless and agreeable tooth-powder. Raisins are rendered quite digestible if boiled or steamed before using them in cakes or pies. To sweeten the breath, pour a few drops of tincture of myrrh into a wineglass of water and gargle the mouth thoroughly with it. An idea for mothers: Baste a piece of needle-work on the bottom of children’s cloaks; this takes the place of a white dress in'the street, and is far more easy to do up. To Destroy Cockroaches. Where borax and insect-powder have failed to exterminate cockroaches, sprinkle the floor with powdered white hellebore; they will eat it and be poisoned by it. Jumbles.—One cupful sugar and one of good butter, rubbed to a cream; onehalf cupful sour cream, one well-beaten egg, one teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a very little hot water; flavor with nutmeg; sift flour enough to make a soft dough or batter. ' Good Baked Ham.—Boil the ham till nearly done; remove the skin and cover /with a layer of grated bread crumbs, seasoned with sugar and a very little pepper, and bake an hour in an oven hot enough to brown the crumbs. The ham should be raised from the pah in which it is baked, that it may not taste as if fried in the fat which may exude from it.

Fruit or Currant Cake.—Currants or citron for cake should not be “rolled in floury” but dredged or well sprinkled with silted flour, having first made ’the fruit as dry as possible; that is, after washing and draining the currants, dry them on the stove and while warm and dry dredge them with sifted flour just before adding them to the cake, and the fruit should be the last thing added. To Rid a House from Bedbugs.— Take 10 cents’ worth of quicksilver and the White of an egg; beat them well together until the quicksilver is like fine pepper all through the egg. It may take one hour to beat. Do not use an egg-beater, for the silver is poisonous. Then apply the mixture with a feather to all cracks or places where there are any hugs. This, if persevered in, is a certain remedy. Curate’s Pudding.—Beat the yelks of two eggs with two ounces of flour and one table-spoonful of milk; set half a pint of ihilk, lacking the table-spoonful, on the fire, with two ounces of sugar and two of butter; make them hot, but do not „let them boil; when the flour and eggs are beaten quite smooth add the Hot milk, etc., also the whites of the eggs, beaten very light. Mix thoroughly and pour into four saucers, buttered and heated hot; bake twenty minutes in a quick oven. Wheff cooked a light brown color lay two of them on a dish spread With plum or other jam, place the cither two on top and serve at once. Cure for Earache.—Put about fofir drops of laudanum and four drop? of best kerosene oil into a teaspoon; putin a little bit of cotton-batting— about enough to absorb the mixture; hold the spoon and contents over a lighted candle or gas-fight till it begins to hiss with the heat; turn the cotton over; apply spoon and contents ogee more to the

TWV M * * V 4 * ,r s A heat; thenjpinch out the, cotton; put it hot into the ear; tie a bandage over the ear to kOep ~flie heat in, arid refief 3s immediate. If you are subject to earache, keep a little box with a small vial of each of the articles named, grid can get rfchefat all hburs of night or day in a few. moments. ;