Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1877 — USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. [ARTICLE]

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

If you go in swimming and get cramps in the legs, turn your toes up toward the knee. Some one says that the movement gives instant relief. One can have the hands in soan-suds, with soft soap, without injury to the skin if the hands are dipped in vinegar or lemon-jnice immediately after. The acid destroys the corrosive effects of the alkali, and makes the hands soft and white. The disinfection of a room is not complete unless the walls have been thoroughly cleansed- If they are papered, the paper must be removed ana the surface beneath carefully scraped and washed. If ■the walls are painted, they should be washed with caustic soda. The ceiling should also be subjected to a similar treatment. — Scientific American. Cabbage Salad.—One fine head of cabbage, half a pint of vinegar, four eggs, two teaspoonsfuls of salt, one of mustard, one tablespoonful ot sugar. Butter, the size of an egg. Put the butter in the vinegar and let them -come to a boil, then pour it on the eggs, -etc. (which have boon well beaten), stirring it briskly to prevent its becoming lumpy. Small teaspoonful celery seed and a little cayenne pepper. Half the above quantity makes sufficient tor a small family. If eggs are scarce use half the quantity, adding a teaspoonful of corn starch or flour. Delicious. Bakbb Cauliblower with Cheese.— Take the green leaves from two large heads of cauliflower; cook the heads Tn salted water, with a small lump of butter; drain them; have ready a buttered baking dish, spread in it a handful of grated cheese and fine crackers, season the califlower inside and outside pretty highly with -salt, pepper and nutmeg; set the heads in a dish, and give them the form of a dome; in another sauce-pan have a pint of bechamel sauce; when boiling, mix with it the yelks of four eggs and two ounces of grated cheese, work it to a firm consistency, boil a moment, spread that sauce over the cauliflower, and smooth with the blade of a knife; sprinkle over the top some grated cheese and fine crackers, and small bits of butter; bake twenty minutes in a warm oven, and serve in the baking dish.— Fruit Recorder. Acorrestondent of an English medical Journal furnishes the following recipe as a new cure for consumption: “ Put a dozen whole lemons in cold water and boil until soft (not too soft); roll and squeeze until the juice is all extracted; sweeten the juice enough to be palatable, then drink. Use as many as a dozen a day. Should they cause pain or looseness of the bowels, lessen the quantity, and use five or six a day until better,tthen begin end use a dozen again. By the ttEti you havemsed five or six dezen.you will begin to gain strength and have an appetite. Oflcourse, as you grow better you need no toise so many. Follow these direckons and we know that you will never regret.it if there is any help -for you. Only keup it up faithfully. We know of two cases where both the patients were given qp by the physicians, and were in the last stages ot consumption, yet both were cured by using lemons according to the directions we have stated. One lady in particular was bedridden and very low; had tried everything that money could procure, but all in vain; when, to please a friend, >sh& was finally persuadad to use the lemons. She began to use them in February, and in April she weighed 140 pounds. -She is a well woman toulay, and likely tollive as long as any of us.”