Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1884 — HOUSEKEEPERS’ HELPS. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEKEEPERS’ HELPS.

Pressed Veal. —Take three pounds of veal chopped fine, two pounds of lean, raw pork, also chopped fine, three eggs, a piece of butter the size of an egg; pepper and salt well; bake two hours. When cold, slice it thin. It is like pressed meat and is very nice. To Remove Paint.— One pound of soft soap, one pound of soda; dissolve in one pint of boiling water; lay a thick coat (while hot) upon the paint with a brush; leave it for one or two hours until it begins to soften the paint, then scrape off what you can and repeat. ■When all is removed wash thoroughly with clean water. Brunswick Black, thinned down with turpentine until it has attained the right tone and color, will, if a little varnish is added—about one-twentieth of the bulk of the black and turpentine —prove a stain for imitating walnut and teak wood. There is no difficulty in getting the mixture to dry hard, and. it will take a coat of varnish first class. Catfish in Batter.—Cut the fish in pieces about two inches in length and one inch in thickness, beat three eggs very light, adding salt, pepper, and enough Worcestershire sauce to flavor them; dip the fish in this batter, and then roll it in commeal or in cracker crumbs; fry in plenty of lard until it is a dark brown; garnish with lemon sliced, if no greens are available; celery tops, parsley or small and tender lettuce leaves are preferred. Rubber Caps.—One objection to the ingrain carpet is that the high heels which servants delight in wearing on thick shoes seem to catch at the threads and drag them out of place, producing a rough surface; another is that the legs of heavy chairs have the same effect. One way to save these carpets is to cover tho ends of the chair legs with rubber caps at a cost of about 17 cents. The servants’ high heels are, of course amenable to no such remedy. Pincushions.—An English pincushion will be found a very pretty addition to a toilet table. The cushion should be round, with an open space in the center for the reception of a flower- vase or glass, and <an be cither of simple oo oral paper muslin, covered with lace or muslin, or can be provided more elaborately with an embroidered or

painted silk and deep fringe or border-i ing to match. The glass supplied with a few fresh flowers is a great improves ment to the toilet table. Waste Paper Baskets.—The fashionable color for ornamenting waste paper baskets is a deep rich orange. Scarfs of silk of this hue are drawn carelessly about two sides of square baskets, or draped fropi the top of those which are round or oval. Orange ribbons are embroidered with daisies or corn-flowers, and drawn slantwise over one side of a basket or ran in and out of the meshes of the wicketwork in such a way that all the embroidery is fully shown. Why Are Ye Bald. Men become bald! Why? Because they wear close hats and caps. Women are never bald. Sometimes Pont tong continued headache, heat in the scalp, bad hair-dressing, and other causes, women may hate bare spots here and there; but with all these e-ius-es combined, yon never see a woman with a bare, shiny, bald head. Ami you never see a man lose a hair below where the hat touches his skull. It will take it off as clean as you can shave it, down to exactly that line, but iiever a hair below, not if he has been bald fifty years.

Tlie common stiff black hat, as impervious as sheet iron, retains the heat and respiration. The little hair glands, ■which bear the same relation to the hair that the seed wheat does to the plant above ground, become weak from the presence of the moisture and heat, and finally fail to sustain the hair. It falls out and baldness exists. A fur cap I have known to produce baldness in a single winter. A man with a good head of hair needs very little protection where the hair gro\\m v Women, who live much within doors, and who arc therefore peculiarly susceptible to tlie cold, oil their hair' and plaster it down hard and Hat upon their skulls, so as to destroy, ninetenths of its power as a non-conductor, have worn for years postage-stamp bonnets stiick on the back of their heads, exposing the whole tops of their skulls, and then, going out of furnace heated parlors, have ridden for hours in a very cold temperature without taking cold and without complaint. Man, with his greater vigor and hab- ’ its of outdoor life, and with his hair not plastered down, but thrown up loose and light, could on doubt go to the north pole, so far as that part of his person is concerned, without any artificial covering. And yet we men wear thick fur caps, and what amounts to sheet iron hats, and do not dare step out in a chilly atmosphere a moment lest we take cold. It is silly, weak, and really a serious error. The Creator knew what he was about when He covered a man’s skull with hair. It has a very important function in protecting the brain. Baldness is a serious misfortune. It will never occur in any man who will wear such a hat as I do—a commoh black high silk hat with five hundred boles through the top, so that there will be more bole than bat. This costs nothing; the hatter will do it for you when you purchase your hat. If the nap be combed back the wrong way, and if after the holes are made it be combed the right way, no one will ever observe the peculiarity. They will wear quite as long—the hatters say considerable longer—because it is dry instead of moist; in brief, there is not a single objection to it, while it will certainly prevent baldness and keep the nap of the head 0001, and prevent much headache. While discussing the subject of our hair, I would remark that the back of the neck should be protected hi the winter against cold and in the summer against great heat. Nothing can accomplish this uniformly and perleoily but the hair. The custom of shingling off the hair from the back of the neck is unphysiological.and it should in both sexes be allowed to fall low enough to cover the nape or meet the usual dress. —Dio Lewis’ Mofflhly.