Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1892 — A BEVERAGE FOR THE SICK ROOM. [ARTICLE]

A BEVERAGE FOR THE SICK ROOM.

Koumiss is a very refreshing, slightly stimulating, non-intoxicating beverage made of milk; and it is so highly commended by physicians of eminence for its hygienic virtues in many diseases that every nurse and housekeeper should know how to make it. I have found the following to be an excellent formula for koumiss: Dissolve about two-thirds of a half ounce cake of compressed yeast and two tablespoonfuls of granulated sugar in a quart warm milk. Pour that into a bottle, leaving at least an inch space at the top, cork tightly, fasten the cork securely, shake well, then set the bo’tle where the temperature does not exieed CO degrees. Let it remain at that temperature from eight to ten hours; then lay it on its side in an ice chest or refrigerator, and in from six to tea hours more it will be ready for use. Bottles that have self-fastening stoppers are the most convenient to use in making koumiss; but the corks can be fastened in without much difficulty with either twine or wire. I have mad. very excellent koumiss quite frequ.ntly by letting the brttles, when filled, stand from eighteen to twenty four hours on the cellar floor, where the temperature did not exceed fiftv-five de grees; then laying them on their sides in the same spot and letting them remain ui,disturbed from twenty-four to fortyeight hours. Less sugar and yeast can be used if desired, but the proportions mentioned have always given me the most satisfactory results. Emma P. Ewing. The Democratic County convention of Marion county, held at Indianapolis one day this week, instructed for Cleveland From indications coming to the surface everyday it would seem that Mr. Hill with his February convention has ac com listed the very reverse of what he desired.

We have no doubt that when p e Na B tional Democratic Convention meets and it should • be-ome evident the candidate for the Presidency will be s elected from the West, the Indian? delegation will press the claims of Gov. Giay with vigor and zeal. The indications are. however that Mr. Cleveland will go into the convention with such a following r.s will in> sure his nomination on first baliot. In that case it would be unwise that preference should give way to a sense of State pride. Personal preform ce for Mr. Cleveland should not be tortured into person 1 hostilty to Mr. Gray. Mr. Cleveland was he nominee four years ago. His ndminis traticn cf affairs was pointed to with pride. In the New York St: tc Convention, hold on the 22d February, bis n me, 'is Democratic administration, th' en dorsement of bin party, was studiously ignored by the men in control. Mr. Cleveland’s friends refuse to permit such pro■edure to go unrebuked. They will again retort: “Wo love him for tbe enemies he his mad ;” and this in no unfriendly spirit toward any Western candidate.

Since the above was put in type we nwte iu the Indianapolis Sentinel that has been agreed upon, between the friends of Mr. Cleveland and Gov. Gray, that Indiana 'ill go to the CLicago Convention instrncted for Cleveland, but should it become apparent that Mr. 0., is not the choice, then every effort be made to press Gray te the front. Th' Indianapolis Sentinel publishe” a list of the Democratic papers o" Indiana and their presidential preference.— So far there are—For Cleveland. 76 “ Gray, 34 Unclassified, 14 We take it for granted Ihnt the p pen as classified above sxpress the sentiments of the majority of the Democrats of their respective countie , as near as that sentiment could be ascertained. We are satis, (led that the Cleveland elem nt, in Jasper county, is largely in the majority, ano it is equally unanimous for Gov. Gray for second place. This preference should not be regarded as hostility to Gov. Gray or any other good man. It is a preference which, should the National Democn tic convention determine in favor of another, will gracefully yieldto its action and fall into line with a purpose to win. It should be ti e duty of delegates to the State convention, when uninstructed, as near as possible to ascer tain and represent the sentiments of those who send them Che > ful submission and acquiescence to the will’of the majority will be accorded by the friends of Mr Cleveland, and they demand the same iq return of the friends of other candidates. This course will smooth the way to Democratic success under the leadership of the choice of the Demo cratio National Convention.