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Show HOME AND FARM. -Silk lace may be cleansed by washing and rinsing it in benzine. When clean, hang it in the open air till all odor has left it. Press between folds of white paper. Delicate silk ribbons may be cleansed in the same way. As benzine is very inflammable, care must be used to let no flame approach it. -Spiced Vinegar: For every quart of vinegar a low three ounces of grated horseradish, one ounce each of pepper, cloves and allspice (whole), two ounces of white mustard seed, two onions chopped fine. Simmer all together five minutes, and when cold pour it over boiled cabbage or beets.-N. Y. Tribune. -A pretty mat intended for the top of a small table is made of drab felt. The edge is cut in sharp points; between those points are placed soft little tassels made of high-colored crewell. The border of the mat is made by working with gay embroidery silks any pattern which suits the fancy of the maker. The old fashioned cross-stitch, or some modification of the feather-stitch, is pretty.-N. Y. Post. -Ten-minute cakes-Take two teaspoonfuls of cream tartar and mix it with one pint of dry flour. Dissolve one teaspoonful of soda in a teacupful of mile; rub a piece of butter the size of an egg into the dry flour; then beat up one egg and a teacupful of sugar; mix all well together, and bake immediately after adding the milk and soda. Have your oven ready heated before you begin, and you can make and bake this cake in ten minutes. -To can fruit, select with care, rejecting every over-ripe, under-ripe, specked and imperfect specimen, and have the fruit uniform in size. Peel with a silver knife and plunge into cold water till enough is prepared to fill one or two cans. When cooked sufficiently, lay piece by piece in the can, pour over the sirup clear as crystal and seal up. Or, put the fruit in the can and cook it there, then seal up. Nothing but porcelain and silver or wooden spoons should touch the fruit. This will give "gilt-edge" fruit.- N. Y. Tribune. -A decision of considerable importance to farmers and hired help was rendered by the Supreme Court of New Jersey the other day, in the case of Mather vs. Brokaw. Mather contracted to render services to Brokaw for a certain period, but before the expiration of the time agreed upon left his employment without the consent of his employer, and without any good cause. Being refused wages for the work done, he sued for them, but the Court decided that the employee could not recover for the work which he had done under the contract, for, having broken the contract, he could not maintain an action under it.-Chicago Tribune. -Dairymen of the southern part of Wyoming County, New York, are agitated by the presence of a new weed, known as "Long John," believed to have been brought in Western grass-seed. It grows three feet high, has the appearance of a species of mustard, and blossoms with a small yellow flower. Cattle are extremely fond of it, eating it in preference to grass. The milk from cows feeding upon it is rendered worthless, the butter made therefrom being worse than rancid, and utterly valueless for anything but common grease. The managers of cheese factories are watchful lest a batch of this milk shall spoil the whole make of cheese. A shipment of butter made to New York by one farmer was returned by the retail dealer as worthless.-Chicago Times. |