Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1875 — HOUSEHOLD HINTS. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

String Beans.—Should he strung, broken in pieces, and boiled an hoar or two, and seasoned the same as shelled beans. Thebe seem to he few people who know it, but it is said to be nevertheless true, that if yon hold between your teeth a pair of scissors, a steel knife, or almost any other iron or steel substance, you will not weep daring the process of peeling onions. French Toast.—Beat four eggs very light, and stir with them a pint of milk; slice some baker’s bread, dip the pieces into the egg, then lay them in a pan of hot lard and fry brown; sprinkle a little powdered sugar and cinnamon on each piece and serve hot. If nicely prepared, this dish is quite equal to waffles. When you want to send her a line by postal card, write with the following preparation: Ten grains of hypho-sulphite of soda in sixteen teaspoonfuls of water. Then, you see, the postoffice clerks won’t know what you write. Heat brings out the writing. For chilblains cut up two white turnips without paring into thin slices ; put the slices into a tin cup with three large spoonfuls of best lard; let it simmer slow ly for two hours, then mash through a sieve; when cold spread it on a soft linen cloth and apply to the chilblain at night. Pressed Chicken. —Boil tender one or two chickens, remove the skin, and in taking the meat from the bones keep the light and dark separate. Chop and season with salt and pepper to taste, and place in alternate layers the dark and white meat in a meat-press, or other mold, adding a little of the liquor in which it was boiled. When cold, cut in slices. It makes delicious sandwiches.

Cloud Cake. —Whites of five eggs, one cup of sugar, one-half cup of butter, two cups of flour, two teaspoonfuls bakingpowder and two teaspoonfuls lemon essence ; red analine size of a small pea, a spoonful of hot water on it. Take a little more than half a cup of cake batter, mix the thoroughly-dissolved analine well into it. Put in a layer of cake, drop the rose-colored batter around over it, another layer of cake, then more rose-cake, and soon. Frost and finish with white and rose-colored almonds if you like. — InterOcean. All carpenters know how soon the butt end of chisels split when daily exposed to the blow of a mallet or hammer. A remedy to prevent this consists simply in sawing or cutting off the round end of the handle, so as to make it flat, and to attach by a few small nails on the top oi it two round disks of sole-leather, so that the end becomes similar to the heel of a boot. The two thicknesses of leather will prevent all further splitting, and if in the course of time they expand and overlap the wood of the handle they are simply trimmed off all ardund. If two persons are to occupy a bedroom during the night, let them step on a weighing scale as they retire, and then again in the morning, and they will find that their actual weight is at least a pound less in the morning. Frequently there will be a loss of two or more pounds, and the average loss throughout the year will be a pound of matter, which has gone oft from their bodies, partly from the lungs and partly through the skin. The escaped matter is carbonic acid and decayed animal matter or poisonous exhalation. This is diffused through the air in part, and part absorbed by the bed-clothes. If a single ounce of wool-cotton be burned in a room, it will so completely saturate the air with smoke that one can hardly breathe, though there can only be one ounce of foreign matter in the air. If an ounce of cotton be burned every half hour during the night the air will be kept continually saturated with smoke, unless there be an open window or door for it to escape. Now, the sixteen ounces of smoke thus formed is far less poisonous than the sixteen of exhalations from the lungs and bodies of tw r o persons who have lost a pound of weight during the eight hours of sleeping; for, while the dry smoke is mainly taken into the lungs, the damp odors from the body are absorbed both into the lungs and into the pores of the whole body. Need more be said to show the importance of having bedrooms well ventilated, and of thoroughly airing the sheets, coverlids and mattresses in the morning, before packing them up in the form of a neatly-made bed . Exchange.