Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1881 — HOUSE AN U HOME. [ARTICLE]

HOUSE AN U HOME.

< roil steak without salting. Balt d.ttWM the juices in cooking; it Is desirable to keep these in u possible. Cook over a hot fire, turning frequently, searing on both sides. You cau get a bottle or barrel of oil of? any carpet or woolen stuff by applying dry buckwheat plentifully and faithfully. Never put water to such a grease spot, or liquid of any kind. The flkln pf a boHed egg is the most efficacious remedy that can he applied to a boil. Peel it careftilly, wet and apply it to the part effected. It will draw off the matter and relieve the soreness in a few hours. To take iron stains out of marble— An equal quantity of fresh spirits 75f vitrol and lemon juice being mixed In a bottle, shake well, wet in spots and in a few minutes rub with soft linen till they disappear.

Pocine soap may be made by Adding to a portion of the uncolored toilet soap half its weight of finely powdered pumice stone. Work it in thoroughly and make into balls. It will be found excellent for roughness of the skin, as well as for cleaning very dirty hands. Florida Water.— Dissolve half an ounce each of oil of lemon, oil of lavender and oil of bergamont, and half a drachm each of oil of cinnamon and qil of cloves in aqu&rt of the best deodorized alcohol. Add two quarts of filtered water and bottle for use in the. toilet. re dye black bor five pounds of goods six otiiiWH ol blue vitriol in the aqttle. A fter boiling a few minutes put in the goods for an hour, airiug frequently. Make a new dye with three pounds of logwood. Boil it half an hour, then immerse the goods for two hours, airing them once during that time. Scour in soap suds. WINE COLOR. Take two pounds of camwood for five pounds of goods. Prepare the dye and boil fifteen minutes, then dip tne goods for half an hour. Boil again and dip half an hour longer. Take them out and add an ounce and a half of blue vitriol to the dye: If a still darker color is desirable uall an ounce of copperas. TO COLOR DBAB. Procure a . of rotten wooa from an old maple, ash. beach or elm log. Pound it fine ana allow half a pint of it for every pound of goods. Soak the goods in this dye for an hour airing onoe or twice. ‘ Take them out and put In a piece of copperas the size of a haslenut. If not dark enough add more rotten wood and copperas. Rinse, dry and scour with strong soap suds. A good drab can be made with sumach, also with black tea and oopKras, or by boiling beach bark in an' >n kettle.until tne dye is strong enough, after which skim off the bark and set the dye with copperas. The shade may be made dark according to the amount of oopperas used, j TO COLOR BLUB. . se five ounces of alum and tkree ounces of cream of tartar for two pounds of goods. Make the dye with soft water and boll the goods for an h< nr, then rinse In warm water and make a new dye with the extract of indigo. The oolor to be regulated by the strength of this dye and the length of time the goods are boiled in it

Toilet Soap.— Make the lye in the manner just described, use nice lard or beef tallow; add eight ounoes of glycerine just before taking up, and stir until nearly cool. Perfume with oil of almonds and cassia, or'use the oil of cassia with oil of bergamont or rose geranium. The soap may be colored red with tincture of dragon’s blood or yellow with a little annotto. Tomato Soup.— Take eight good sned tomatoes, or half a can of tomatoes —the solid portion; cut them up and put them to boll with two quarts of soupstook and a boquet of herbs. When well eooked thicken with a little fle ur, smoothed and dissolved in alittlecold water. Then strain all thUNfegh a sieve; repeat * little, and add butter, salt and pepper to taste.

Hominy Muffins.—Having washed a pint of small hominy through two or sh*sb Vaters, pour boiling Water ex ft, Sowar and let ft soak for several hOflrS. Then put it Into ft thick saucepan with half a pint of boiling water, and let rt boll netil soft enougb-to kiaah; drain It and -mix it wellxtth a pint' of white oorn meal or wheatrifoufta little eglt and a pint and one-half of milk In which two tableepoonful* of butter have been saelted! the butter is nearly cold of yeasy covbubbles. Butter some muffin rings, set them on a hot griddle, pour Into each «*sottiojx of the mixture and bake them brown on both aides. tWlßlp* H your migtil tmtwuttar them quickly.«* ifTa ■ ■ifiPT* tare hilt vnfvitßN i*■ * "“v w v lujurgxvw m chidTOJ W ihore ts they srq small), dlsjointrnetti and cut the backbone, etc., as small as oonvshfeht Boil them with a few slices of pent fa water enough to cover them'; let them then the BBS?2S!!!SSSJ*/&S' sMMOK^rama; ajMrigffiedssf good fresh outter.havs

Barker, stock brokers of New York, both members of wbiofa* occupy the very highest soasri&Ktfmisß th^Uffthrce >ie funds of the John T. Raymond, the oomedian, was floarrled in Philadelphia, to Mias Courtney Barnes, a daughter of Rose ’? e ru eV ‘ Chicago, performed the Jtagoa, the. Republican candidate for Mayor of* Hoboken, N. J;, was sleeted by twenty-font majority.