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Show THE HOUSEHOLD. 1 Kaitsca.-lt can frequently he prevented, pre-vented, so it is said, by holding the hands in watsr ub hot as can be bornn, letting it extend over tbe wrists. JJttns.Takii oao cud of Etigar, ono cup of sour mi:k, one cup ol raisins, email cup of butttr, ouo teaspoonful ot soda. Flour enough to iix biih Ecerlon Taffy. Take one cup of sugar, one of mr l-ispes, ihree-fourlhs 'of a cup of but t it. B.iil not quite so Lug as molusHis aLily, and pour on out'.rred pliiloi. Corn Starch I'addiny.Tttke one quail of milk, five tablespoontuls of corn Btarch. three egg-t, a littlo salt, with vanilla LUvoriug. Eat wilh eug.ii and milk. Johnny Cuke. Take one pint of milk, one pint of meal, lliree table-spiioufula table-spiioufula of ll'Hir, two tabk'tpLVrnfulB ol ituynr, one tublcepoonl'ul of butter and add one egg. Copper Boiler. A copper boiler or U-u kuttle may b kept clean by a daily washing in buttermilk, rubbing dry wiih a llinoel. Fresh milk may be used, but buttermilk ia better. Ground lea. k French chemist assprts lhat if tea be ground like collee, immediately bt-fjre hot water is puurnd upon it, it will yieltl nearly double the amount of its exhilarating qualities. Ants. It is alleged that alum water ia good, or rather bad lor ants. Brudh all the crevices which they inhabit wilh hot alum water, and sprinklo pulverized borax freely wherever they are most numerous. Coffee Pot. A careless kept coflee pot will impart a rank flavor to tbe strongest infusion of the beat Java. Wash Ihe coflee pot thoroughly every day, and twice a week boil borax and water in it fifteen minutes. Coloring Carpet Rags Green. Color tbe rags blue first by getting Prussian Ibluo and oxalic acid five ounces ol Prussian blue lo three nf oxalic acid (that proportion). Have tbe druggist mix them. Then get four ounces of birbrotnato, and Bugar of lead for yellow to dip the blue rags in to make them green. The latter part Ot" the recipe is good to color yellow rags alone. Eye Lotions. ) One of the best liquids is a very diluted solution of sulphate of copper, or acetate of lead. (2) Suiphato of zioo, six or eight grniue; Eulpha'e of morphine, two grains; glycerine, two teaspoonfuls; j water, four teaspoonfuls. Drop two or tores urops into tuo eye nigut anu morning, and bathe the lids fre-q'jontly. fre-q'jontly. For styes, pull out the eye-IuhIi eye-IuhIi in its centre, and touch tbe stye very carefully with lunar causlic moistened. A; bedtime apply bread and milk. Laundries Spreading Disease. Incidents In-cidents confirming Ihe belief that diseases arc spread by laundries are constantly reported as occurring in i England and on the continent. Clothing Cloth-ing worn by diseased persona or persons per-sons who have died of infectious disease dis-ease aro washed together with other clothes. The germs thus sown Boon propagate, until an epidemic is orea-. orea-. ted, as has been several times the case. Too much care cannot be exercised in this respect. The clothing cloth-ing should either be buried or thoroughly d isin fected and washed ! apart. London Lancet. Waiting Flour. A correspondent ; writeB to the Christain Union: "How can I help wasting much flour when I making bread, cake or pastry? 8o much is washed oil' the bread board or the L'ake bawl. md vet 1 can't see how ;t k i,ki. " l i answers: "There is no necessity ol wasting any of it. Knead your bread (in tbe bowl till it will no longer ad-ibere ad-ibere to your hands, then dip your I bands in the flour and rub ofl all the dough that clings to them. Sprinkle jvery little flour on the board, taking .care not to scatter it, but keep it only j where it will be needed. If tbe broad ,is properly prepared it will require but little flour to finish kneading it after you put it on the bjard. Put a I little flaur in the bowl and, wilh it, rub ofl' all the dough that remains, ,and work it in with tbe bread. Scrape : off all the flour and such dough as may stick to the moulding bjard, which should be very little. Put what is thus BCraped up in the bottom of the bread bowl, and when the dough is raised enough to go into tbe the pans this flour al ihe Imltom of . the bowl will be light enough to work jirjtj ihe dough and thus be -aved. When moulding the dnuh io put into the puns, if nu setter fliuror d. uih on the b;i.ird, more than you .work in, scrape it up and put it i"ut't yuur yeast pot, and do tbe arae with all adhering to tbe board when making mak-ing pastry. By practice you will soon be able to make both bread and pastry and leave but very little to scrape Jram the board. All lhat sticks to jibe bowl in making cake Bbnuld be scraped off with a thin bladed knife and dropped into the pan wilh tbo cako." |