The Wingham Times, 1885-09-11, Page 3THE HOUSEHOLD
HOUSEHOLD HINT 4.
Cheese, when exoess'vely acid, h likely to
produce alarming gastrointestinal irrita
Caen.
Cold tea should be saved for the vinegar
barrel. It agars easily and gives Dolor and
flavor,
A pound of sugar is one pint, an ounce o
any liquid is two teblespoonfulls, a pint of
liquid weigbs sixteen ounces.
Hot wood ashes applied to a stove when
cold will remove grease. Cover the spot
entirely ; do not be sparing of the ashes.
Silver spoons that have become discolored
from contact with cooked eggs, may be
easily brightened by rubbing with common
salt.
Lemon juice will whiten frosting, crap.
berry or strawberry juice will color it link,
and the grated rind of an orange strained
through a cloth will color It yellow.
Mosquitoes, flies and other pests will no
enter a room in which the castor-oil plan
is growing ; or, if they should enter it, they
are soon found dead beneath the leaves.
A simple test for the detection of lead in
drinking water is provided by tincture of
cochineal, a few drops of which will color
the water blue, if there bo the remotest
trace of lead present.
One of the best and most convenient re-
ceptacles for table cutlery is a canton flannel
knife case tacked to the inside of a cup-
board door—to be so constructed that there
will be a separate compartment for each
knife or fork.
A lump of gum camphor in the dos t
where silver or plated ware is kept will do
much towards preventing tarnish. Coal gas,
and the near presence of rubber in any
form are two things that cause silver to tarn-
ish quickly.
Any one wha doubts as to the beat way
to have clear jelly is assured on strong evi-
dence and many p• oofs that to allow the
juice to drain through a flannel bag without
squeezing it, will render this matter easy
and satisfactory.
Better than an iron spoon for miring
sponge for bread, and for similar usea is a
" mundle ''or a piece of oak shaped Into a
round smooth handle at one end, and the
other end flattened like a thick knife blade,
then sand -papered smooth.
In a damp closet or cupboard, which is
Liable to cause mildew, place a saucer full
df quick lime, and it will not only absorb
all dampness, but sweeten and disinfect the
place. Renew the lime once a fortnight, or
as often as it becomes slacked.
When a knob comes off a door -handle
you can fasten it on again by filling the cav-
ity of the knob with salpher, then heat the
iron end of the handle which goes in the
knob just hot enough to melt the sulpher,
put the knob in, and let it cool. It will be
firmly fixed in place.
The Scientific American states that plush
goods and all articles dyed with aniline col-
ors, faded from exposure to light, will look
bright as ever after being sponged with
chloroform. The commercial ohloreform
will answer the purpose very well, and is
leas expensive than the purified.
If children are hungry between meals.
give them bread or biscuit, as these will
"stay the stomach " and not interfere with
digestion. I know a family of children who
have as much dry bread as they wish be-
tween meals, or an apple; never butter or
jam or preserve, and they are as healthy
and rosy as heart could wish.
Wax beans make a delicious salad.
Choose your beans,t remove the strings,
break in inch long pieces and cook in salt
and water. While still warm cover them
with a dressing of oil, vinegar, salt and
pepper. Be sure and remember in mixing
salads the old saying. "A spendthift for
oil, a miser for vinegar, a wise man for salt
and a mad man for mixing." Use at least
twice as much oil as vinegar.
Free and Easy Manners.
When girls assume a swaggering manner
upon the street, use coarse expressions, and
greet each other with a rough "Hello," they
cannot expect much deference from their
'male friends. A lady's manner always con-
trols that of a gentlemen ; and if she does
not respect herself he will not respect her.
When boys and girls, young men and maid-
ens, are allowed to fall into the absurdities
of low foolish, meaningless talk, it moms to
dwarf % rem intellectually ; they can find
nothing of interest or importance to say,
and there ore make up for sense by filling
every sentence with needless exclamations,
exaggerations, or misused adjectives. It
requires much patience to be compelled to
listen to balf-a dozen folks and hear the
strange inappropriate use of language, They
will assure each other that it is "awful"
warm, or the concert "awful nice ; tho Bor-
man "horrid" dull ; a young lady is "awful
pretty," but her dress "horrid ugly ;" the
teacher "horrid strict;" such a young gen-
tleman who called had an "awful well"
team of fast horses. If young people could
hear themselves as others hear them, it
aright result in their reformation,
Refinement In Home and yoclety
Refinement of feeling and peroeption has a
much broader field in which to manifest it-
self in the narrow circles of home than in
the wider sphere of society, where there is
so comparatively little to cause friction,
And she who is not a lady in her deport-
ment to father, mother, daughter, son, sis-
ter or brother, fiiannot be such when she
enters the larger arena of society, no mat -
tet what suavity of manner or polish of ex-
terior she may bring to bear with which to
charm and delight those about her. Nor is
the inner refinement spoken of at all incon-
siatent with decision of character. In fadt,
the one'poeaessing it is the one beet adapted,
because of her olearneas of preception, to be
firm for the right and against the wrong, in-
sisting upon the former in every case where,
by virtue( f her position in regard to it, she
may in any measure be responsible for the
wrong St.eh a one rules her home with a
gentle grace which, while it records a tender
deference to inherent right and wrong in all
their relations, insists up n the former,
Disinclination to Marry.
"It is true," said a young lady, "I scarce-
ly know a girl who wants to marry. They
are learning something that will interest
them as well as support them, two roles in
which husbands just now fail. The truth is
we are all scared away from any desire to
marry by seeing how wretched those who
do marry are. Where would we look for
husbands? Among the snipes and sports and
characterless young men that fill our draw-
ing -rooms ? They are insufferable as mere
acquaintances or beaux; who could con-
template them as husbands ? I have always
thought that if I could find a young man at
all like my father I could love him and
marry him, but that school of men has van-
ished'froih the younger ranks.
Women of the Future.
The young men of the future have got to
look sharp. In the seminaries and colleges
whose doors have been opened to girls it is a
notable fact that the girls this year have
got away with the honors, by a large ma-
jority. As there is no institution thus open-
ed which will close its doors against the
girls, young men would do well to take
their lesson in time. The girls have knock-
ed the doors open to stay, and, what is
more, they are there to make good use of
their opportunities.
A GIRL'S WONDERFUL ENDUEANOE.
Hying For Three WecIia Without hoed,
A remarkable instance of endurance and
of the posaibitity of living without food for
three weeks has, the Melbourne (Australia)
Argus says, recently come to light, On the
12th of May a girl named Dlara Crosby,
twelve years (1d, was lost in the bush in
the Lilydale district, about twenty-five
miles from Melbourne. The locality in
which she disappeared was wild and mount-
ainous, and after several search parties had
unsuccessfully scoured it, it was concluded
that she had perished in some inacessible
spot It is probable, however, that she
would have been found promptly had not
erroneous information been given to the
search parties that she had been seen
proceeding in a certain direction. On the
2nd of June, just three weeks after she was
lost, two men, who were looking for a stray-
ed horse in some dense scrub in the locality,
heerda faint "Coo-ee." The men searched,
and soon saw the little girl tottering to-
wards them in an ulster, without shoes or
stockings on, and in an emaciated condi-
tion. She was, however, strange to say,
quite sensible. When she lost herself she
was proceeding from a house where she had
been staying to her mother's, in the neigh-
borhood, and she subsequently gave the fol-
lowing account of her adventures :
" I got out of the paddocks on to the road
all right, and went on a long way ; but I
did not see mother's house. I followed
some sheep, and they ran away from me.
Ilay down and had a little sleep by a path
in some long grass, and then I went on
again. I got to a house where there was a
cart in a shed; but there was nobody at
home. I didn't stop till I got into some
rushes, whioh out my legs, end name to a
creek with a tree across it. I lay down in
the rushee for the night, and in the morn-
ing 1 crossed the creek on the log. Near
the other side a branch broke, and I fell in-
to the water, but managed to cling to the
bank, Close by I saw a hollow tree, and I
was tired and wanted to sleep, so I went in
there. When I woke up I could not look
for my way. I went down to the creek five
times for water at first, I used to sleep a
lot, and as soon as it was night it was day,
and when it was day it was night quick
again. On moonlight nights I hoard people
firing guns, and I heard them knocking.
making a fence ; but when I 000 -e -d they
did not hear me. I used to sing Salvation
Army hymns at first, and pray that some-
one would come for Hie. The cows used to
coma and look at me, but I could not get
any milk. I tried to phew a bit of bark,
but spat it out, as I thought it would pois-
on me, and I got wearer every day."
Australians are familiar with the agoniz-
ing experience undergone by people lost in
the bush, and know that in much eases
adults, as a rule, do not maintain their men-
tal balance, and that the dlffioultios of their
position are consequently greatly enohanced,
This little girl, however—who, by the by,
was not accustomed to country life—teas
actually able to preserve a mental record of
the exact number of days during which oho
was "out of humanity's reach."
KILLED BY HIS OWN ON.
A Quarrel In rt Farris House Oyer a Game
o1 Dominoes.
The county of Morris, N. J. has another
murder case, whioh, following so closely
after the killing of James Laurent by Sam-
uel Wade, causesunusualexoitement, Thom-
as Smith, about 45 years of age, was the
farmer who menage(' White Meadows, the
country residence of County Collector Mah-
lon Hoagland, about two miles from the
village of Rockaway. He is very excitable
end hot tempered, although not addicted to
liquor drinking. He has a soa named Lodi,
aged eighteen years. Late the other even-
ing this boy came into the village and gave
himself up to Constable Daniel Morgan,
with the startling information that he had
killed his father. The story of the franti-
oide whioh the young man gave is ea fol-
lows :
In the evening his father and mother,
Bridget Nolan, the work girl, and himself
sat down to play dominoes, the two former
and the two latter being partnere. The
first game was won by the boy and girl,
which so incensed the father that he swept
the dominoes from the table. The second
game was won by the father and mother,
which put the former in a more happy mood,
but in the third game the boy and girl
won, and the fathers anger became uncon-
trollable, He again swept the dominoes
from the table, and struck his wife. He al-
so caught up from her chair a little girl who
was sitting at the table, and threw her to
the floor. The son fled into another room.
The father followed him with astick of wood,
and declared with an oath too horrible to be
repeated that he would kill him. The boy
then drew a 32 -calibre revolver and fired at
him. The father turned and made a move
to Dome toward him, The boy fired and
a second time. Still the father came on,
then the boy fired a third shot. With
this shot the father fell to the floor. He
lived only a short time. He uttered noth-
ing but groans. One bullet had struck him
in the left shoulder, another in the upper
part of one eye, and the third went into the
forehead.
The boy then started for Rockaway at
once to give himself up. He expressed re-
gret at what had occurred, and said nothing
but a fear of danger to his life would have
induced him to do what ho did. He had
always been a quiet, well-behaved boy,
and was much liked in the community.
The father was a war veteran. Coroner J.
P. Stiokler next day commited young Smith
to the county jail at Morristown and pro-
ceeded to hold an inquest. Daring the pro-
ceedings Smith made a voluntary statement
to the jury. The other members of the family
corroborated his account of the homicide.
The proceedings were adjourned until next
Tuesday fer further testimony. The son
says that his father had on several other oc-
casions abused hie family and had threaten-
ed the lives of all. Some time ago they
were compelled to flee from the house in the
evening and they remained hid in a barn
throughout the night.
BRILLIANTS.
Expect nothing from him who promises a
great deal,
A pleasing countenance is a elleut com-
mendation.
Have not the cloak to make when it be-
gins to rain.
The most manifest sign of wisdom is con-
tinued cheerfulness.
Love is like honesty—much talked about
but little understood,
No degree of knowledge attainable by man
is able to set him above the want of hourly
assistance.
You may shrink from the far reaching
solitudes of your heart, but no other foot
than yours can tread them.
One who is content with what he has done
wilt never become famous for what he will
do, he has lain down to die.
Plato will have dasiples, but Socrates will
have adorers; because if the one knew how
to think, the other knew how to die,
The beautiful is a manifestation of the
secret laws of nature, which but for this ap-
pearance, had been forever concealed from
us.
The Winter's frost must rend the burr of
the nut before the nut is seen. So adversity
tempors the human heart to discover the
real worth.
Those who, without knowing us, think or
speak evil of us, do us no harm ; it is not us
they attack, but the phantom of their own
imagination.
Politeness may prevent the want of wit
and talents from `being observed, but wit
and talents oannot prevent the disooyery of
want of politeness.
The beginning of hardships is like the first
taste of bitter food -it seems for a moment
unbearable ; yet, if there is nothing ole to
satisfy our hunger, we take smother bite and
nd it possible to go an,
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