Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1895 — HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT

Away with the Gimcracks. Go through your house and simplify. Take out and throw away, or give away to some lower mind, the gilded rolling pin with a row of hooks in it; that elaborate mass of embroidered-velVfct-artd-piftn-lenf fan full of newspapers, that plfemy three-legged stool In the corner, painted—“hand painted”— nnd bodecked with a yard or so of good ribbon. Have nothing In your hons® that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. Nothing is or ever-can be beautiful without use, without harmony. A thing may be beautiful of its kind, beautiful In Itself, but the moment yon combine two things to make something else, then there needs something mors than the beauty of the separate parts. Your gilded rolling pin with tho hooks in it is not beautiful, because a rolling pin is an object with a definite use, and beautiful only in relation to its use. To gild it interferes with its use; to put hooks in it prohibits its use; to hang it on the wall makes a permanent laughing stock of a once respectable Implement Nothing Is beautiful out qf its place. So of tho fan, A fan is meunt to fun with, to move nnd swing; It suggests coolness and grace of motion. Fastened to tlio wall It gives tho same Impression n« a butterfly with Or' pin through it—something perverted und Imprisoned, robbed of its natural function,—St. Louis Globe-Democrat

To Serve with Meat and Flail. Roast beef should be served with grated horse-radish. Roast mutton with currant jelly. Boiled mutton with caper sauce. Roast I>ork with apple sauce. Roast lamb with mint sauce. Venison or wild duck with black cur> rant Jolly. Roast goose with apple sauce. Roast turkey with oyster sauce. Roast chicken with breud sauce. Compote of pigeon with mushroom sauce. Broiled fresh mackerel with sauce of stewed gooseberries. Broiled bluetlsli with white cream sauce. Broiled shad with rice. Fresh salmon with green peas and cream sauce. Pulnt for the Floor. Take one-third turpentine nnd twotldrds boiled linseed oil, with a little Japanese dryer added. Buy a can of burnt sienna und blend It thoroughly with this mixture. This gives a rich reddish-brown. Mix the paint quite thin, so that It will run readily. Lay It on the floor with a good-sized brush, stroking tho brush the way of the grain of tho wood. Put on several coats, allowing each one to become perfectly dry. Lastly, give the floor u good coat of varnish, nnd when thoroughly dry It will be found ns satisfactory ns a stained floor enu be, and easily kept clean. Tho varnish gives It the appearance of polished wood. It can be kept lu good condition by simply dusting nnd wiping off with an oily cloth.

When the Bhoe* Arc Wet. As soon as you can remove wet shoes do so, and rub them well with a spft rag, to get some of the dampness out, and to take off all the mud; then rub them with a cloth saturated with kerosene. Get us much of the oil Into them us possible, ami then 1111 them ns full of dry oats as you can and sot them aside for n few hours, when apply another coating of kerosene. The stiffness will have disappeared, and the shoe will be in good shape when you want to don It ugain. Bilccd Pineapple*. When a fully ripe pineapple Is to be offered on a warm day there Is no more satisfactory way of preparing It thai% to cut it into thin slices (after removing the core, and eyes), sprinkle the slices with sugnr, into which a little lemon juice has been squeezed, and then grate Ice over them just before serving. Graham Bread. For one loaf of bread take a pint of warm water, half a tenspoonful of salt, a tablespoonful of sugar, half a cupful of soft yeast and enough graham flour to make as stiff ns you can stir It; put in a tin and let It rise until quite light (probably two hours), then bake in a moderate oven slowly.

Baited Oranges. The Mexicans eat salt with their oranges, both because they prefer the fruit so seasoned and because it is considered more wholesome with salt. Hint*. Rub a creaking hinge with a very soft lead pencil. Russet costumes include g;owns, shoes, belt, and fancy straw round hat or Duse turban. In packing gowns they will be found to crease very little If paper is placed between the folds. Haircloth and alpaca skirts are rnada with three ruffles up the back and a steel in the bottom. Pole rings can be made to run easily by rubbing the pole with kerosene until thoroughly smooth. Baking Is one of the cheapest and most convenient modes of preparing a meal in small families. One teaspoonful of cornstarch to • "cup of table salt will keep it from getting hard in the salt shakers. Rain water and white castile soap la a lukewarm suds are the best mixture In which to wash embroideries. Something useful in belts consists of a nickel silver frame, Into which a ribbon of any other color may be inserted. Put an open box in the cellar with A peck of fresh lime In it; It will absorb the moisture and make it smell fresh and sweet. Virgil was a close student of Homer. Several long passages In the “Aeneid** are literal translations from the lines of the Iliad and Odyssey. He was also a reader of Theocrijtps, the Greek country poet, and many lines in the Bucolics and Georgies are translated Imitated from the Greek.