Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1877 — USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. [ARTICLE]

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

A feverish thirst that refuses to be quenched by drinlftng water may be allayed in the following manner: Throw a sliee of bread upon burning coals, and when it is all aflame throw it into a tumbler of water. This remedy has been tested and proven good. To stew Cklkhy.—Clean the heads thoroughly; take off the coarse green outer leaves; cut in small pieces, and stew In a little broth. When tender, add some rlph cream, a little flour and butter, enough to thicken the cream. Season with pepper, salt, and a little nutmeg, if that is agreeable. . ( He is a smart and a wise man who gets everything out of daily experience which there is in it. If you do not believe it, just observe—-yery few men profit by their daily experience. The common occurrence sin the way of their business are overlooked, and the lessons which to an observing and thoughtful mind are oracles of wisdom are as little heeded as the breeze at midday by the mass. The business man must be learning all tfie time in order to win the goal—make money. —Detroit Tribune. A “ Relieved Mother,’* in the Chicago Tribune, tells another mother how to relieve this really distressing pain: one of the small fry makes night hideous with the cries of “ leg-ache,” let her rise/ wring a common towel out of Cool water,' wrap it around the offending member its whole length, and instantly cover it with flannel. A flannel skirt is usually the most convenient article, and it should* be thoroughly wrapped around and pinned or tied to its place. The mother can then return to bed, and the patient—after one gasp—will howl no more. Orange Marmalade.—To one pound of crushed sugar allow one pound of oranges with the rinds on. Then pare off the yellow rind of half the oranges, and put it over the fire in cold water; cover very tight and simmer till tender. Grate the yellow rind of the remaining oranges, and set aside. Quarter the oranges anff squeeze out all the juice and pulp, removing the seeds and white skin. Put the sugar in the kettle, and to each pound add one pint of cold water; allow the white of one egg to every two pounds of sugar. When the sugar is all dissolved, put it over the fire; let it boil, and skim till quite clear and thick; take the boiled parings and pound to a paste in a mortar; put this in the sirup; boil and stir ten minutes, then add the pulp juice and grated rind; boil all together for half an hour, till it is a transparent mass. Lemons' may he prepared in the same way, but require more jiugar. A geranium-cutting struck in the fall can, by the next fall, be grown into a Slant three or four feet through. In [arch, shake off all the old soil, removing a part of the roots; then put in good soil and in as small a pot as possible, giving no water till all the soil becomes dry. Then «ut the plant close, leaving about two buds on a shoot. Give a good soaking of water and they will all break regularly. Keep.them close to the glass and as cool as possible. By spring repot them in seven-inch pots, using equal parts loam, leaf-mold and cow-manure, with a small portion of sand worked through. These pots will be large enough to gtow a plant four feet through. Then you can begin to arrange a trellis, by placing a wire around under the rim of the pots. Then place three sticks across the top of the pot, and fasten to the wire to hold them. The shoots are now to be trained around and not straight out or upright. When the pots get full of roots give them a dose of liquid manure-water, every other watering, and your plants will break regularly at every eye. Do not stop them while there is room on the trellis, pose them gradually to the sun; These directions are for green-house but may be adapted to the sitting-room by experienced plant-growers.