Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1877 — USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. [ARTICLE]

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Oniono'cure sleeplessness. A good way to .clean black kid gloves, says the Scientific American , is to take a teaspoonfVt! of salad oil (sweet oil), drop a few drops of .ink in jt and rub it over the gloves wita the tip of a feather; then let them dry in the auto. Botmcd Parsnips.— Pare carefully, and, if large, cu( lengthwise in halves. Put them into boiling salted water, and cook ‘till tender. Bervc them mashed, or plain, with meltqd butter. They are a good accompaniment to Salt fish and boiled pork. Paris-green 1$ the only effectual remedy for potato-bugs. Tlie safest way to ÜBe it is with water, about a teaspoonful to two gallon*- of water. A line wisp broom is a good instrument to apply it with when the potato vines are ary.— lowa State Register. Mrs. Mili.kk’s Brown Bread.— Half a cup flour; one cup Indian meal; two cups'of Graham flour; two-thirds of a cup of molasses;, one tablespoonful of soda, in sour or buttermilk to make a thick batter; teaspoonful of salt. Steam three hours, then put it in oven to dry. Runaway Cake.— One-half cup sugar, one cup milk, two eggs, one spoonful butter, one teaspoonful soda and two of cream tartar, flour to make a stiff batter. This is a good tea-cake, plain or with berries stirred in for the summer season, or currants for winter. Being plain it is only good when freshly baked. Potato Pie Crust.— Put a teacupful of rich sweet cream to six good-sized potatoes after they have been well boiled and mashed fine. Add salt to taste, and flour enough to roll out the crust. Handle it as little as possible. This paste is excellent for apple dumpling or meat pies, and may be eaten by the most confirmed dyspeptic. Mrs. Rea’s Molasses Pound-Cake.— One cup .of butter, one of SHgar, one of molasses, one of milk, one teaspoonful of allspice, one of cinnamon, half teaspoonfal of nutmeg, two tablespoonfuls of ginger, two eggs, or.e teaspoonful of cream of tartar, one-half of soil a, sufficient flour to make the same as pound cake. Bake in cups or small tins. The London Garden says that a fine effect is produced by training petunias: He procures a number of hazel rods, each about two feet long, bends them line hoops and drives both ends of them into the bed, placing them at suitable intervals all over it. On these he ties and trims his petunias, which blossom more abundantly under this treatment. Petunias have been successfully treated as if sweetpea vines and trained on a slanting trellis. The trailing habit ot this plant, especially late in the season, is not always sufficiently considered.