Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1877 — USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. [ARTICLE]

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Cauliflowers. —Slice up the head with a sharp knife. Put into a stew’pan or spider, over the stove, and turn over it a cup or two of water—a little less than for cabbage, as it cooks tender in much less time—add salt sufficient to seasop, and cook till tender and dry. Then add a cupful of thin sweet erfiam, -and serve, To Cleanse a Meerschaum.— We fear that the husbands of some of our housekeepers will smoke; and, if so, they might as well be as clean aa possible about it, so we will tell them how to keep their meerschaums wholesome. Wash them with; alcohol. Allow the alcohol to remain In the bowl for a few moments, and then tfib them gently with a sponge attached to a small stick, —<7 or. Western Rural. Boiled Rabbit with Onion Sauce.— Peel five of six medium-sized onions and put them Into cold water;'boil them till tender; cut up the rabbit into joints and put it into a saucepan, with sufficient cold water to cover it, and simmer gently; for an hour aha a half. Affer it comes to boiling heat chop the onions and season them with a saltspoonful of salt, the same of white pepper, and put thelh into a small saucepan, with ah ounce of butter and two tablespoonfuls of milk. Stir and boil up, lay the rabbit neatly on a hot dish, pour the sauce over it, and serve at once. A gentleman who stammered from childhood almost up to manhood gives the following very simple remedy for thfi misfortune: “Qo into a room where you will be quiet and alone, get a book that will interest but hot excite you, and sit down and read two hours aloud to yourself, keeping your teeth together. lio the same thing every two or three days, or once a week if very tiresome, always taking care to read slowly -and distinctly, moving the lips but not the teeth- Then, when conversing with others, try to speak as slowly and distinctly as possible, and make up your mind that you will not stammer. Well, I tried this remedy, not having much faith in it, I must confess, but willing to do anything to curfi myself of such an annoying difficulty. I read for two hours aloud with my teeth together. The first result was to make my tongue and jaws ache, that is while I was reading, and the next to make me feel as though something had loosened my talking apparatus, for I could speak with less difficulty immediately. . The change was so great that everyone who knew me remarked it. I repeated the remedy every five or six days for a month, and then at longer intervals until cured." If cows kick, tie their legs together. I find it much better for myself and for the aiscipline of the cows, to lot the rope hold them than it is to try to hojd them myself. They soon learn that the rope can* hold them; they also soon learn that man can, not hold them without a rope. The rope I use is six or seven feet long, and has a loop on one end. I put it, around the right leg above the gambrel, tjttojislfc the loop, and draw it tight enough to keep i,t from dropping down, then behind the left leg ana take a turn once annum it, then around the front part of both legs to the hind part of the right leg, then between the legs and aroiind the parts that cross id front and back of| the legs, in such a way as to draw them as near together as desirable, then make fast. It w not necessary to draw the rope tight enough to hurt the oow if she stands still. It matters pot how hard or how long she tries to get away from the rope; it will stay there and it will hold her 1 legs very near to each ether, and however hard she may have pulled on the rope, the part that is on the inside of one leg being on with a slip noose, that on the other with a round turn, as soon as ahe stops struggling and the rope is slack, the parts on the inside slack so tlfiat they do not stop the circulation of the blood.— Oor. N. T. Tribune. —lt is easy enough to say “ Laugh and grow fat,” but the’fat won't come unless you give the man something more than an empty plate to laugh at. Plenty to eai doesn’t interfere with unrestrained laughter. That’s what Shakespeare means when he says, “ A man may smile sad smite, and be • fillin’." - —Girls who wish to “ do it up brown” this season must wear Invisible green.