Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1869 — FARM AND HOUSEHOLD [ARTICLE]

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD

DazniL BECIPEB, >:n. The farmer who stints hid fields Is as unwise and improvident ns he who starves ills working cattle—ln both cases lie is clinilnlsliihg the ability of a faithful servant to bo useful to him. Alexander Dumas recommends onion soup as an infallible remedy for 'nervous prostration, headache, arid debility. He prepares liis soup, which has beeomequite 'famous among the gourmands of the French capital, of cream and onions. To Clarify Tallow and Barden It. —Take two pounds of alluni to every twenty pounds of billow. Dissolve It in water, and put in a pint of the tallow liefore the water gets hot. Boil a whole day, and next day melt and strain the tallow. To Remove Write Spots from Furniture.—Rub the spots With pulverized pumice-stone wet with water, and then with buckskin moistened witli »weet-pil; or, put a piece of paper oil the spot, and hold a warm iron over it, and nib with an oiled cloth. • J To Take iNk from Furniture, Cab? pets and Floors.—Wipe the spot with oxalic acid; let it remain a few minutes, then rub It with a cloth wet with wnhn water. Colored paint, mahogany and carpets, will require washing with the harts-horn-water to restore the original color. To Make Calicoes Wasu Well.—lnfuse three gills of salt -'lll four quirrts of boiling water, put the calicoes in while hqt, and leave them till cold ; in this way the colors are rendered permanent, ' and will not fade by subsequent washing. So says a lady who has frequently made theexperiment herself. I < To Clean Irons from Rust.—Pound some glass to a fine 'powder, and having nailed some linen or a woolen cloth upon a hoard, lay upon it a strong coat of gum water, and sift thereon some of your powdered glass, and let it dry. Repeat this operation three times, and wliep list covering of powdered glass is dry, you may easily rub off the rust from iron utensils with the cloth thus ptepmed.—Arthur'* Magazine. Let the Young Clover Grow.—Keep stock of all kinds off the fields where young grass, and particularly young clover of any kind, is growing, as the tramp of heavy animals, and the close nipping of colts and sheep, will damage the growth of such young plants more than the value of hay necessary to maintain the same animals while they may be feeding on a given field where young clover is growing. No stock should be allowed to graze on young grass or clover until after the end of the growing season. And even then, it would bo more profitable to purchase hay, and allow the riew herbage to remain where it grew to protect the roots during the winter, and after decaying to afford pabulum to promote, tlie growth of the crop the following season. Very few Dinners really apprehend how much damage is done to their young grass by pasturing it before the foots have attained a large size. —Hearth and Ht/ine.

_ Every body should live on the sunny side of their houses as much as possible, and allow the sun’s genial nys to penetrate the rooms. Darkened parlors are fashionable evils. True, it is gloomy enough-to be ushered into a toinb-liko apartment, where one can scarcely grope ills waj to a seat; and do discover, when liis eyes become accustomed to the dim light, that every cliair • and sofa has on its linen “duster,” apparently equipped for traveling to some unknown land. But ladies must have their carpets kept bright and fresh, even if their cheeks are tho paler for it! And so the shutters ’ are tightly closed, and the heavy curtains drawn. But for the sake of health and beauty, ladies, lot this be done only in the “ best parlor,” if it must be done at all. Let the rooms where, the family live be cheerful and sunny. No lady would expect her house-plants to send out- full, brilliant blossoms, unless she placed them at a window where the sunshine would invigorate them. No more should she expect her children to show fresh, rosy complexions, or to develop genial dispositions, unless they lbve in light, sunny, airy rooms.