Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1878 — For the Household. [ARTICLE]

For the Household.

To Kill Flies. —A few chips of vuassia wood soaked in a little sweetened water will kill them. Tea Biscuits. —Two pounds of flour, two ounces of butter, one cup of milk, one or two eggs, half a cup of sugar, one cup of yeast; set at night, bake in morning. Red Ink. —Take of carmine twelve grains; spirits of ammonia, three ounces; heat; add powdered gum arabic, eighteen grains, and stir till dissolved.— Western liural. Lemon Meringue Pie, —Beat the yelks of four eggs, ten table-spoonfuls of sugar, three of melted butter, and the juice of one lemon and a half, add three table-spoonfuls of milk or water; bake in anundercrust, then beat the whites, pour over the top, and put back in the oven to brown. Liquid Glue.—Dissolve three pounds

of No. 1 glue in a quart of water. Then add slowly a little nitric acid. After efferresoenoe has oeased, take off to cool, and bottle. It mil keep two years, and is a reliable glue. —Ohio Farmer. Coloring Kid Gloves. —Put one-half ounce of extract es logwood into a twoounce vial, and fill with good brandy. This dye will keep for years if well corked. Put the gloves on the hand, and with a sponge apply evenly all over them; rub one hand with the other smoothly and firmly until dry; more logwood gives a nearly black color; less, a delicate lilac. —Letter to Chicago Inter Ocean. A Simple Work-Box. —l would like to give directions for making a work-box which I think is very pretty. Take a wooden box the size you wish, sandpaper it, and paint with black paint. When the paint is dry, varnish it; while the varnish is wet arrange ferns on the box; then let this dry, and varnish over four or five times. When done it will look as if the ferns were inlaid. I made mine about six months ago, and the ferns have retained their color, and are just as pretty as ever.— Letter to Chicago Tribune.