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ladies’ department. 
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LADY EXHIBITORS AT THE AMERICAN INSTITUE 
FAIR. 
The very best specimen of barley is shown 
by Miss Emma R, Purse of Newark, N. J. It 
weighs 64 lbs. to the bushel. This lady shows 
some remarkably handsome potato-onions. Also, 
a sample of three kinds of wine in some dozen 
bottles, and we do not know how many other 
products of her farm. 
Mrs. Sandford, of Sing Sing, shows a premium 
bushel of wheat, and Mrs. Harris, of Matteawan- 
point, a bag of beautiful rye. 
Mrs. V. B. Robinson has a handsome lot of 
fruit, and several other ladies have done a noble 
part and showed they possess the true spirit of 
improving farmers. If some men were capable 
of such a thing, they certainly would be put to 
the blush by these exhibitors. 
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HINTS FOR HOUSEKEEPERS. 
Gatherings. —Ribbands of any color should 
be washed in cold soap suds and not rinsed. Iron 
them wet, and they will be stiff and nice as new, 
except some kinds of pink and blue, which will 
fade. These ma}'' be dyed to look as well as 
ever. Dip the blue in a little cold blue ink and 
water, and the pink in carmine, from a pink 
saucer, according to directions, and they will be 
perfectly restored. 
Marble fire places should not be washed with 
suds, it will, in time, destroy the polish. After 
the dust is wiped off, rub the spots with a nice 
oiled cloth, then rub dry with a soft rag. 
When you rub the knobs of your doors, use a 
peiceof paste board as large as your two hands, 
with a small hole large enough to just encirle 
the knob in the center, and a slit in the paper to 
let it in. This slipped on, will keep off all soil 
from the paint, and is a nice way of doing it. 
A Cheap, Healty, Delicious Sweet Meat.— 
Ladies do you know how to bake apples 1 Try 
this way and see what an acceptable dish you 
will make.—Take sour apples, those of a keen 
acid, and to every square tin filled with them, 
pour a teacupful of water and one of sugar. 
Bake them slowly until done. Eat them with 
cream and the juice which cooks from them. 
Nobody kno # ws much of baking apples, who has 
not eaten them in this way. No quince, peach, 
pear nor plum preserves are equal to this simple 
dessert; and what adds to its value is, you can 
have it in the middle of winter, when summer 
fruits are among the things that were. 
To Fatten Poultry.— Ladies are all fond of 
fat pullets, ducks and turkeys, but do not always 
succeed well in their efforts at feeding them fat 
Let me tell you. Shut them up in the dark—> 
give them a little tight two or three times a day, 
long enough to fill themselves with food, and then 
shut them up quite dark. Dr. Chambers in his 
work on corpulency, says:—Defective light is 
found to add much to the fattening powers of 
moderate diet. E. L. A. was employed in the 
cellars of a brewery, and, though strictly tem¬ 
perate, found his bulk becoming so great as to 
give him much alarm. He obtained a situation 
as clerk in the same establishment, and found 
the employment above ground cause a rapid re¬ 
duction. He has since become a collecting- 
clerk, and is diminished still more. 
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Charity!— Greatest of all—the crowned queen 
among the virtues, the brightest handmaid of 
religion and love, has her abode on earth in the 
female heart. It is the plant, too, that groweth 
by cultivation, like a flower of the garden. May 
its roots strike deep, yet never reach a cold sub¬ 
soil. May we have to say to this goddess, in 
the person of every lovely female in our country, 
let us mark the splendor of thy presence by 
every desolate hearth, and by every mourner’s 
couch. Teach us to throw thy mantle of com¬ 
passion over the ignorant, the erring, and the 
guilty. Let thy influence soften every obdurate 
heart, and reclaim every vicious mind. 
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Washing Compound.— The recipe for making 
this compound is often sold for considerable 
sums of money. Dissolve 20 lbs. of hard-soap 
in one gallon of lye, over a slow fire, and let it 
boil, stirring it frequently. Now set aside to 
cool and then add one quart of spirits of turpen¬ 
tine and one pint of strong spirits of amonia. 
When cold cut it into bars, and wrap closely 
in papers and put away for use. It is far supe¬ 
rior to common bar soap, and will save nearly 
one-half the labor of washing. 
Flannel Cakes.—To a pint of flour, three 
tablespoonfuls of meal, a teaspoon of salt, add 
buttermilk enough to mix it to the consistency 
of cake batter; put in one tablespoonful of lard, 
and an egg. The last thing, just before baking, 
beat in a teaspoonful of soda, till very light — 
bake quick. 
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The High Laws. —Whatever may be the cus¬ 
toms and laws of a country, women always give 
the tone to morals. 
