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ORIGINAL DOMESTIC RECEIPTS. 



Contributed to the Genesee Farmer. 



kSTE FOR Papeeing Walls. — The following is said to be 

 tcellent paste, and adheres well on walls that have been 

 iewashed for years: Take the whites of four eggs, well 

 sn, one quart of cold water; thicken with rye flour to 

 Jonsisteucy of common paste. 



iBD Sovp. — Five gallons of soft water; three pounds 

 Qslacked lime; six pounds of sal-soda; boil till dis- 

 ;d; let it settle over night; drain it off; throw the 

 sawaj'; put in seven pounds of clean grease; boil 

 ty minutes; pour it out; let it cool; cut it into cakes 

 3et it out to dry. 



MO>f Pie. — Two cups of sugar, two cups of vvarm 

 r, two eggs, two lemons, three ounces of butter, one 

 spoonful of corn starch. Grate the rind of the 

 ns; use the juice of both lemons, but the rind of 

 one, or it will make it bitter ; beat the sugar and 

 together, then add the juice and rind, then the but- 

 nd corn starch, then add the warm water. This is 

 ;ient for tvvo pies. We consider this a very excellent 

 -Germantown Telegraph. 



PE Mat Pudding. — Take eight tablespoonfuls of 

 sifted, one quart of new milk, six eggs. If you have 

 n, it is very nice to use part cream with the milk, but 

 od with the milk a'one. Mix the flour with a part 

 e milk and beat it very smooth, then add ihe rest of 

 ailk with a little salt, a saltspoon part full, beat the 

 \ and while separately, add the white just as you are 

 r to put it in the oven ; bake from a half to three- 

 ters of an an hour in a moderate oven, 

 e following sauce is very good to eat on Cape May 

 ing : Quarter of a pound of butter and oue-half 

 pound of sugar. Beat the butter to a cream, then 

 he sugar, next a teacupful of wine, or more, if the 

 T and sugar will take it. You can flavor with what 

 ike— vanilla, lemon or nutmeg. — "Dough," in Ger- 

 oivn TtUgraph, 



w TO Sweep a Carpet.— Take a common wash-tub, 

 me vessel large enough to admit a broom freely, and 

 in clean cold water to the depth of a foot or more, 

 take a broom, (one partly worn so as to be a little 

 is the best,) dip it in six inches or so and bold over 

 ub, or go out doors, and knock off all the drops of 

 [•. This can be done most efi'ectually by holding it 

 e hand and rapping it with the other on the broom 

 above where it is wet. Commence brushing lightly 

 «t, going over with it the second time$ or more, and 

 ir carpet is very dusty, do not sweep more than a 

 •e yard or two before dipping your broom into the 

 • again ; this will rinse off all the particles of dust 

 •ing to the broom. Rap ofi' the drops of water as 

 e, and begin again, continuing to do so till the whole 

 aned. Should the water get very dirty before com- 

 ig the room, it can be changed. One who has never 

 the experiment, will probably be surprised at the 



quantity of dirt which will be washed from the broom 

 into the water. A carpet can be cleaned more effectually 

 in this way than it can possible be done with a dry broom, 

 as the particles of dust adhere to the broom instead of 

 rising to fall back on the carpet. There is no danger of 

 injuring even a fancy carpet, if the drops of water are 

 thorongbly removed from the broom. Let no one try 

 who has not time and patience. — New York Times. 



SOCIAL LIFE IN ENGLAND. 



It is a marked feature of social life in England, and 

 certainly one of its especial charms, that mothers and 

 daughters are so uniformly seen together at their own 

 home. Not only is the mother the first lady to whom you 

 are introduced at the house where you visit, but mistress 

 of the ceremonies throughout; not only does she preside 

 at the dinner-table, but in the evening party she sits as 

 queen. Whatever may be your first impressions of such 

 an arrangement— if it happens that your sympathies are 

 with the younger ladies — you will very soon learn to 

 think that the mother's absence would be very sincerely 

 regretted by the daughters. As a picture, all must admit 

 the arrangement to be perfect. The portly form and 

 matronly dignity of the mother are an exquisite foil to 

 theyouthful beauty and maiden coyness of the daughters. 

 And you will find nothing to mar, but every thing to en- 

 hance the interest of the picture. The mother's presence 

 never seems to operate as an unwelcome' restraint. Be- 

 tween her and the daughters you will mark the most 

 joyous, playful, loving freedom, without the sacrifice of 

 a tittle of parental dignity and authority on the one hand, 

 or of sweet and graceful filial duty on the other. It may 

 be said of English families generally, that these two 

 things are eminently characteristic, to wit, uniform pa- 

 rental authority, and the most charming freedom of in- 

 tercourse between parents and their children. 



Tou can not visit an English family in a familiar way 

 without discovering what will possibly surprise you, that 

 a deep dislike of ceremony and state is a very marked 

 characteristic of an English woman. This feature 13 

 strongest in those highest in r.ank, and has been a marked 

 feature in the character of the Queen herself from her 

 girlhood. Now that she is a widow, and her children are 

 growing to the stature of manhood and womanhood, and 

 leaving their home forever, how delightful to recall the 

 sweet pictures of her early married life, when she so 

 much loved to saunter, with her noble and good husband, 

 over the beach near their beautiful house in the Isle of 

 Wight, and to watch those then little children as they 

 amused themselves with trying fo find two pebbles of 

 the same shape, or dig wells in the sand with their tiny 

 wooden spades. Was she not a great deal happier amid 

 those sweet domestic scenes than when surrounded with 



glittering nobility on the grand State occasions? Bodon 



Review. 



Recipe for Killing Babies.— The Water Cure World 

 gives " eleven modes of committing infanticide," one of 

 which is the following: 



" Keeping childien^quiet by giving paregoric and cor- 

 dials, by teaching them to suck candy, and by supplying 

 them with rnisins, nuts and rich cake. When tljey are 

 sick, by giving mercury, tartar-emetic and arsenic, under 

 the mistaken notion that they are medicines and not 

 irritant poisons." 



