Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1879 — HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—Laziness grows on people; It beflns in cobwebs and ends in chains. he more business a man has to do the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time.— lowa State Register. —A lady in Springfield, Mass., has beon making some experiments in putting up canned goods without cooking. Heating the fruit tends more or less to the injury of the flavor, and the lady referred to has found that bv filling the cans with fruit, and then with pure cold water, and allowing them to stand until all the confined air has esoaped, the fruit will, if then sealed perfectly, keep indefinitely without change or loss of original flavor. —Cinnnnati Times £_

—To Make Husbands Happy.—One wife; mix with genuine affection, true pationoe and self-sacrifice. Stir with a kiss occasionally and add a grain of common sense in the management of daily trifles. Put a teaspoonful of real religion into every day’s life. Avoid fretting and chafing, as it curdles and destrov’s the fixture. Serve at breakfast and dinner in charming attire with a smile for sauce, and the result will be a wife with a rainbow always over her head and Heaven shining in her heart. —Cleveland Herald, —All lowers of flowers should remember that one blossom allowed to mature or go to seed injures the plant more than a dozen new buds. Cut your flowers, all of them, before they begin to fade. Adorn your rooms with them; put them on your table; send bouquets to your friends who have no flowers, or exchange favors with those who have, You will find that the more you cut off the more you will have. All roses, after they have ceased to bloom, should be cut back, that the strength of the root may go to forming new roots for next year.

—An Indiana farmer says: “Water made almost as thick as ordinary cream by the addition of fresh cow manure, and poured on young melon vines is the only effectual remedy I have ever found to prevent the ravages of the striped beetle. Such a liquid is a great stimulant to young plants. To retain it about plants in sufficient quantity, the nfelon hills should be made with a slight cavity in the center. I have noticed that the purest and most delicious s»rt of melons are not as robust growers nor as productive as those in which an infusion of the squash or pumpkin is perceptible, and that the striped beetle is much more fond of young plants of the former than of the iatter. The striped beetle has a most discriminating taste, never disturbing a pumpkin plant while a melon or Hubbard squash plant is obtainable.’ —The Turks are good examples for more enlightened nations, in two respects, at least. The Mussulman does not drink whisky, and he keeps his body clean. This cleanliness is demanded by his religion; ahd it is certainly equally obligatory on all Christians. The Turk is required by his religion to wash his head, face, neck, ears, feet, and even his teeth, five times each day, as a preparation for the five calls to prayer! There is such a thing as “too much of a good thing,” ana we think our Mohammedan brethren overdo the bathing business. The necessity for bathing, or washing the whole body, is based on the "fact that while we are constantly wasting away, actually decaying, particle by particle, more than one-half of this dead and putrid matter must pass off through the pores—a part of which is re-ab-sorbed if not removed from the surface, of course entering again into the circulation, contaminating the blood. Indeed, no one can be really cleanly without such washings, which with propriety may be enjoyed daily, in ordinary cases, with decided benefit; of course not to produce a permanent chill. The increased use of Water and pure air would promote purity of lives and cleanliness of person.— Cincinnati Times.