Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1884 — SUGGESTIONS OF VALUE. [ARTICLE]

SUGGESTIONS OF VALUE.

Kfh shoes can be kept soft and freo from cracks by rubbing them once a week with pure glycerine or castor oil. A delicious hot sauce for puddings is made of six tabiespoonfnls of sugar, two of butter, undone egg; beat the, butter, sugar, and the yolk of the egg together, then add the white beaten to a froth; lastly stir in a tehcupful of 1 toiling water and a teaspoonful of vanilla. A delicious way to prepare baked apples for tea is to cut out the core before baking. When ready to send to the table fill the space left in the apple with sweet cream with a little powdered sugar in it. Quinces are also excellent prepared in the same way. In these butter may take the place of cream if more convenient; t A useful and even tasteful cover for the marble slab of the sideboard is made of a strip of banton fiannel just tha width of the slab. It should be long enough to hang over at the ends with white or colored ball fringe, and if you wish to, a row of Kate Greenaway figures may be outlined at each end. Line the fiannel with firm white cotton cloth, or with turkev-red calico. Where the hall of a house is used as a room, the draughts caused by the frequent opening of the outside door may be prevented by banging a curtain of some thick, heavy stuff a few feet from the door. A common £ ray blanket makes a good, inexpensive hanging and may be easily decorated with an applied design. A double-faced canton flannel is also a good material. A hall portiere of olive felt has a lattioe dado of gold braid, over which is a boldlydrawn pattern of vines running up on flie curtain, worked in crewel and arasene. Renovating Black Silk, etc. —There are few fabrics which will wear longer than black American silk. Not the new kinds, which you can not tell from the imported article, even by the difference in its ability to crack, but the oldfasliioneil Cheney Brothers’silk, which the “oldest inhabitant” lias failed to wear out. I have one which has been in wear for ten years or more. It has been washed repeatedly, coming out a little tliiner from each washing, but w ith more wear in it than the average dress goods, even now. It has been cleaned in this manner. An old black shawl was securely fastened to a smooth board. The silk is laid on this, and brushed vigorously with a soft clothes brush dipped in hot suds. When all dirt is removed, it is thoroughly rinsed and liung up without any wringing. When about half dry, it is ironed between pieces of black flannel, and it comes from the adventnre looking wonderfully well. Black cashmeres may be washed in clear hot suds, like cotton goods. They should be rinsed in bluing water before hanging out, and ironed, like the silk when partially dry. Old dresses often look better when “made ox er” than they did when first made.— Filbert, in Elmira Husbandman. Love-Signs In the Ence. People do not generally think of marriage in a common-sense way, but unite themselves with any one who takes their fancy, whether a suitable mate or not; hence, the divorce courts are full of cases based on simple incompatability of temper. The nervous temperament should unite itself with the bilious-vital, which is known by plumpness of person, dark hair, eyes and complexion, activity of the nutritive organs, fondness for social pleasures, etc. great deal as to the activity of the brain and the peculiar direction of the faculties. For instance, full red lips and broad, prominent chin show great strength and ardor in the love element. A narrow and pointed chin is the more exclusive and monogamic. The former will usually be accompanied by a broad neck and expanded brain back of the ears, while the retreating chin will be found with a longer, narrow neck. Full, round eyes, high in the center, are also indicative of honesty and purity of love, while the broad or fiat eye is more inclined to bo loose in love matters. Low and scowling eyebrows indicate subterfuge and resistance—a disposition to shift, evade and resort to many ways to accomplish a purpose or to avoid difficulties. Projecting eyebrows tell of mechanical skill, a stern nature, with talent for details. t Full and finely formed lips bespeak, a large heart. The perfect mouth is full, with the upper lip well curVtd in the center, and with neither upper nor lower protnding. Sudh a month indicates love for all that is beautiful and tasty; a whole-souled an<f generous nature, good disposition, strong affection, desire for caressing and kissing, affections both active and passive. When the upper lip is thin in proportion to the lower, it shows that the affections are not balanced. Its possessor may receive caresses and kisses, but cares little about giving them. Lips turned up at the corners indicate mirthfulr.ess.—lnterview with a PhrenoloThe Yard Measure. A few months since a question was raised about the measurement of land in vogue in the British American Colonies before they became known to history as the United States. Tlje English Board of Trade was appealed to lor information as to when the existing foot measure iSras established in America, and whether it might have differed at any time from the foot measure of Great Britain. In reply, the board stated ttart 'the standard yard of Henry VIII. still exists, and is probably of exactly the same length as the old Saxon yard It is a solid brass real, and was constantly used for the verification of other yards till the reign of “good Queen Bess.” After allowing for the estimated wear, it is found to be of tißS' gime length as the present standard yard—Carpel Trade Review. A public sentiment ought to prevail which should make it disreputable to jump at one wild leap into matrimony, .gnd the clergyman or magistrate party to it should be held guilty of a crime against the unwritten law, for the enforcement of which the court of public opinion exists.— Chicago Inter-Ocean.

The Farmer and Editor. “Seems to me you don’t have nothin’ ter do,” said a farmer, walking into the sanctum of the editor. “Well I have worked on a farm a good deal of my life, and I regard editing a so-called humorous paper as harder work than plowing corn,* the editor replied “O, shucks!” exclaimed the farmer. “If I didn’t have nothing to do but sit around and write a little, an’ sheer a good deal, X tell ye I’d be Havin’ a mighty easy time.* “I'll tell you what I’ll do,” said the editor. “I’ll plow corn a day for you if you’ll write two columns to-day for me.” “Done,” cried the farmer. “And I’ll bet you $lO you can’t write two columns to-day.” * “Done again. And I'll bet, you $lO more yer can’t plow as mnch as yer or ter.” “I take you,” the editor replied. “What am Ito write about - L “Oh! anything, so it’s funny. Remember, uoav, Mr. Fanner, you are to do the writing yourself. The matter must be strictly original.” “Never mind me, Mr. Editor. But look yer. Yon have pot ter do a good job o’ corn-plowin’. Do it jest like I would.” “All right.” The editor went to the farm and set a good hand whom he had hired on the way, at work plowing corn. The farmer worte a head-line which read: “Killin’ tatar-bugs,” before the editor was ont of hearing. In the evening the editor came into the sanctnm blithe and cheerfnl. The farmer sat at the desk, vexed and worried into anger. “How do you feel ?” asked the editor. . “Used up. Hardest day’s work I ever done, and two lines to show fer it.” Sure enough he was but one line beyond the head line. That line read: “Killin’ tater-bugs is funny.” “Then I won the wager.” “Yes. But I reckon I’ve won t’other un.” “No, sir! i have won both. I have plowed several acres of corn, and done it well, and I’ve written my two columns, besides.” “Creation! How’d ye do it?” “Just like you would. I hired a man to do the plowing, and I sat in the shade; but I wrote while I sat there, and did not sleep as you do. Fork over the twenty.” The farmer paid S2O for his information, but the lesson was well learned, and as he went out, he said: “Stranger, I wouldn’t be an editor ts I could. It looks mighty easy, but by Jerusalem, it aint near so easy as sit tin’ in the shade, an’ watehin’ ther hands plowin’ corn. I’m a blasted fool, an’ yer kin say so in yer next paper, if yer want to,” and that is why we write it.— Through Mail. . _ ■ Remorse. An American tvriter lately endeavored to trace the after-history of noted men, who, in accordance with the code of honor of our grandfathers, had met and “killed their man” in a duel. Fifty years ago, no gentleman was expected to find life endurable after be had received an insult, until lie had tried to kill the man who had offended him. Some of the anecdotes recently collected show how powerful was the social pressure which drove men to the field, and how terrible, in some cases at least, was the remorse that followed. S. S. Prentiss wrote to a friend that his convictions and moral teachings all were so much opposed to dueling that before going out to meet his antagonist he “did nothing but read the Bible and pray.” Yet so strong was the force of public opinion that lie fought several duels. “The horror,” he said, “haunts me so that I cannot sleep, and I totter around in the daytime like an old man.” O’Connell, it is stated, never recovered from the shock of the death of D’Esterre, whom he killed. He never went to church afterwards without wrapping up the “murderous hand.” declaring that he “could not approach his Saviour with the stain in sight” Pauli, who killed Sir Francis Burdette, suffered so much that he became insane and finally committed suicide. Mr. Graves, who killed Cilley in the famous duel, was an altered man ever after, and with his dying breath protested against the folly and crime of the murderous practice. Now that the dueling has fallen into disuse, and is condemned by society, its folly and crime are very apparent to ns, and we are apt to be severe in our condemnation of it. Y'onng men wonder at the incredible weakness and wickedness.of their grandfathers, that they could be driven to corpmit deliberate murder merely from the fear of the censure of the fashionable world. Yet how much stronger than they is the lad who goes to the gaming-table or the bar, and slowly murders soul and body because he is afraid to offend the prejudices of society ? Or he who, to keep its favor by maintaining a false show of weaßh, degrades his conscience and murders his good name, by gentlemanly theft?— Youth's Companion. The Mu!e and tbe Boy. A boy, apparently very much agitated, rushed into a house recently and said to the lady: “I don’t want ter alarm yer, but I've got news. Tbe man sent me from the livery stable to tell yer.” “Good heavens, what is it?” “Why, you know yer little boy, Aleck, what the man can’t keep onien the livery stable ’round the comer ?” “Yes, well?” “I told Aleck just now not to go inter the stable among tbe horses, but he wouldn’t mind me—” “O dear! What has happened?” “He said he wanted to see what a inule wonld do, when he tiekeled its heels with a straw.” “O. heavens!” gasped tbs lady, and clung to the mantel for support* “Well, sir, yer boy Aleck got A straw and snuck up behind a sorrel mule, tickled him on the heels; an—” The lady stkrted for the door. “An’ the blamed critter never lifted a hoof,” called the boy. , “Never as much as switched his tail. It’s a mighty gcod thing for the boy thai he did’nt, too; an’ I thought I’d come up and tell yer of it.” And he dodged ont at tlie side entrance.