two eggs beaten, one teacup sweet crean 
one of white sugar, find one of vinegar 
warmed before stirring in. This is exceller 
for dinner. — -e. m. 
Trimming Picture IVamcs with Putty.- 
Will some of your lady readers who unde 
stand trimming picture frames with putt 
please explain the modus operandi in detai 
Mrs. K. T.. Carthage. Mo. 
H inds to Knowhow to Wash Black Colic 
—Will some one please give, a recipe for was 
ing black calico so that it will not fade : 
Booster Girl. 
are not as liable to have company on that 
day. In well regulated homes, the house 
should be in good order on Monday, the wash¬ 
ing done in the forenoon, or begun at least, 
.without the labor of looking through the 
house for dirty clothes. Wo have for years 
made it a rule to do no more washing in a 
day than can be done in the forenoon, always 
to have the hair combed, and all in 
domestic (bcoiuimn 
WHAT SOCIETIES ARE DOING, 
toilet stand with drapery 
On- page 17T we give an illustration showing 
how the commonest and plainest bedroom 
may be rendered beautiful and attractive by 
the aid of a little taste and cheap material. 
The toilet stand may be a cheap table, with a ourse 
shelf erected at the back for toilet articles, 
mid a bracket higher up for perfume bottles, 
&e. Oil cloth, of any desired color, may 
cover the table, cut in any shape to suit the 
fancy, the edges being bound with braid to 
correspond. The shelves uml brackets may 
be covered to correspond with the table, and 
the whole draped with muslin or ot her ma¬ 
terial, edged with lace, or trimmed to suit the 
taste and to harmonize with the other adorn¬ 
ments of the room. (Shelves may be made 
under the table, and a curtain of coarser 
material suspended from its edges conceals 
them. These shelves may be used for shoes, 
slippers, &c\, &c. This suggestion is made 
for sucl i persons as have to “rough it" yet, 
and whose home, in which all “modern con¬ 
veniences ” are to be found is only an “air 
castle." There are plenty such favored be¬ 
ings left, and it. will be pleasant to simulate 
the boudoirs of the “air castle” by garnish¬ 
ing the homely chamber in the way herein 
suggested. 
aiming -- -- , 
order for dinner ; ami then a few hours alLto 
lives afterwards, or a pleasant ride per¬ 
haps. If the week’s wash cannot tie all done 
in tliat time, or there arc young children 
whose Clothes should bo washed oftener, we 
have two wash days, say on Monday and 
Thursday—and we enjoy those days as well 
as any of the seven ; yes, and when there are 
children around they enjoy it, too, to wear 
old clothes, to play wash in a basin ol' Coam¬ 
ing suds, and not be scolded for it. 11 is with 
ns a ne ver-to-be dreaded day. This does not 
annlv to women who have no conveniences 
charade." wSs imiwietod and a deep Interest 
was manifested for the welfare of the Aesoola- 
tiop. D H m ' 1 ' treasurer, read his aimual 
report, in which It appeared that, the ,,0 ' n . 
Trade rooms and furniture had been paid fm 
full, leaving a considerable baliumo In mum m 
the treasury, anil with no outstanding debts. 
The following are the mimaftot the riUmoreeloo- 
ted for the ensuing year: Fir*.—A. wiu* 
.in nre-F rsr.s Asa Burnham, ('tnjatmmua 
Cm S. A. t airinglmi, Voto- % < Wm. Bland njr, 
I trod me Co.; -las. W. < 'rmikhite, Herkimer tm, 
) V It Scdvllhi. Oneida to.; Jos. MeAdarn, 
Otsego Co.: I». V. Berry, Montgomery Cm: I>. " • 
I. ewi-.. New York; ItughT. Brooks, Wyoming 
Co.; Sftin’l E. Lewis, Chenango; M 
Lewis Co.; Alanaon :-. 
aril Clmreh, Allegany: >V. A 
O. rt. Smithvrort-h. St. Lawrence I < 
New York; Min, T. ivft,Olyg" Cm 
tiss. SaratuClt Co 
g. . 
Shull. 
II. Ilun-elf 
SCIENTIFIC PISCATORY INGENUITY 
... T. Miller, 
Slaughter. Orange Co.; UH'«- 
A. Jolmson, trio Co.; 
it.; Ah Folsom, 
.uMctw Co.; !•'. 1>. Cur- 
.. Ben. F. Bruce, Madison Lo.; 
it. Weeks, Onondaga Co. ('or. See.- Josmh 
Sir .-Walls T. Loomis. TYm*.—David 
■j. Director*— F. Ives, J. G. Snell. Har¬ 
ris idwls; Morgan IlSdlcman, .1. Harvey btnlth, 
Hon. k. c. itlcc. Manager— Jus. W. (nmkhite. 
A resolution was passed dlrcct lng the ( orres- 
OomliuK Secretary to correspond with the dilTer- 
ent localities -m to facilities to he uttered for 
the next general Convention, and report the 
same to the Directors. The m xt geuoral Con¬ 
vention takes place on Wednesday and Thurs¬ 
day ,,f the 2nd week in December next- 
Hurllugi.m Cm, Fa., A«. Hoc. -Officers elect 
ror 1873: I’rto. Hon. J. L. N. Stkatoin, \ wc 
prex'lx 13. Darn oil, T. C. Andrews, " - It. Han¬ 
cock, A. 11. Uee, See,-#. Darnell. (or. 
See G. C. Brown. I monco Coni.— M. S. I ,m- 
cnilst. H. L. Rudd, F. B. Levis 
B. Jones of Mount Holly, Ijr. G. f . Brown del- 
gate to the National Agricultural Congress, to 
meet at Indianapolis, in May neat, luosdtty 
■md Wednesday, the 7th and Htth of October 
were tot'd upon us the duva forholdingtho next 
fain 
Sicilian Co., X. Y„ Vg Roc. (Mtlccrs elect for 
1HT.J /»|(,S. SAMITE!. K. ILA8KJN,AVOCft. M«e- 
Prex'ts- A. 0. Brundage, I rlmno; L B. v an 
llmiaan, Prat.tslnirgh; N. H. Stanton, Hornby; 
K. .T. Marshall. Wheeler; If. lb Viiireldld, IJrba- 
na - II S. KoBenlmuis, Wayland-. Satmiel Bal- 
eu,n Hath ; Martin W. Noble, ^th .Scc -Reu- 
hen E. Itoble. Bath. /Wrw.—Gc<>. W. HaBook, 
Bath. Oenr.cal Sup't —(. has. N. Ackcrson, Bath. 
Cumberland Co., N. J„ A«. Hoc.-Omccrs for 
lK7;i- Pint. 8. G. CATTKI.L. Hrc-F/rst * Lew¬ 
is Tomlinson, Lorenzo Sharp, Isaac Kichimm 
;uid Joseph Acton. Sec. a Iren *.—David Mc- 
I Bride. K.r. (i; III. A. J. Long, Lewis It. IlolT, 
Samuel Fisher, Charles It. Elmer, Jacob 
Biin, Charles Castaday, Robert Moore, rheodme 
i,- ii-ivis. Charles Woodnui, John S. Holmes, 
George Smith, says that, on one of his | 
aquatic excursions, he saw some Chinese fish- , 
erraenab their vocation in a way to quite ; 
astonish him. They had a model of a. tlsh 1 
made of bright tin, which wasslmvly dragged 
along at the end of a line fastened to the boat. 
The Hah in all directions swam towards the 
decoy. It seemed to possess a peculiar fas¬ 
cination. Far hock in Urn rear was another 
boat, carrying a net; when it was judged 
there were fish enough congregated about 
the object of their attraction, the oarsmen 
slacked a little while the net men approached 
seine, widely extended ; 
DOMESTIG BREVITIES 
How to make a Tidy—One of tlie corres¬ 
pondents of the Rural New - Yorker 
asks how to do this, and we give in answer 
the following from a correspondent of the 
Jowa Homestead ;—Take four pieces of lath 
of equal length, and fasten them securely at. 
the comers into a square frame, as large as 
you wish the tidy to be. Drive tacks into 
this at the corners, and in all sides, <me and 
one-fourth inches apart. Then fasten one 
end of ft ball of white wool on one of the 
tacks next. I he corner, carry to t he one on the 
opposite side and back, then back again, 
leaving t hree threads in a place ; carry to next 
tack, and proceed os before, till your frame 
is tilled. Then turn it and cross the “ warp 
thus made at right angles in the same way; 
j then turn your.frame again and wind the 
wool “ corner wise ’’—excuse the word—di¬ 
viding the check squares into triangles tm n 
the frame again so as to cross the last at 
right, angles. Fasten and cut off your white 
wool, and with a yarn needle, and red wool, 
fasten all corners where all courses cross, 
leaving several ends at all the outside cross¬ 
ings, Cut the wool from the tacks. Trim 
the edges even, leaving the ends as litt le las 
scls, and you have a perfect gem of a tidy. 
Maroon Colors on Wool .— 
rids in very weak lye ; then rinse 
a clear water ; thus you have a 
an color, although your goods 
)ccn much faded and stained, 
color thus obtained may not be 
ulc as when new, it is, however, 
ty one. This may be new to 
was to me, until accident led me 
eporiment. I have now tested It 
and feel so much pleased with 
that 1 send it. for publication, 
i it may be of use to some of the 
y-Y orker's fair readers. The 
ot answ er for other than all wool- 
,L maroon color.—M rs. Julia W. 
and dropped the 
they then gradually brought the extremities 
together, and generally made, a successful 
haul. 
Those same people with long hair practice 
another adroit method of fishing, which might 
he practiced here with equal advantage. 
They hang a highly bright varnished strip of 
board along the outside of the gunwale of a 
Boat, at an angle about, that, of tlie roof of a 
house. When ready on the tlshing ground, 
torches are lighted. The varnished board in¬ 
tensities the light and throws it at an angle 
far off into the water. Curiosity, or some 
ether sentiment, prompts the fish to'follow 
up the rays. They rush on with such speed 
that when they see the boat, which seems to 
be an obstruction, they leap over the row 
locks inside, just where they are wanted. 
Another method practiced, which the ob¬ 
servant missionary often saw, was by trained 
cormorants. They dived down f wnn the boat 
and rarely failed to bring up fishes in their 
bills. To prevent them from swallowing the 
prey, each had a metallic ring on its neck, 
through which nothing coulcl pass. Occasion¬ 
ally it waa removed that the birds might be 
encouraged with ft few morsels of food. 
WASHING AND WASHING DAY 
Colby 8 little wasner ana luimv mp ^ 
machine in use and worth twice its cost. I ’ 
use no preparations, nothing but soap and 
water ; not as much of that as some people 
do. I would rather have oneol' these washers 
than all the preparations I have ever heard 
of ; and il' I have no water to carry (which 
we have had to do this Winter) L would rath¬ 
er wash than iron any time. Washing day 
is not so bad a day as some would like to 
make it; but whether good or whether bad, 
depends on how we take it.” 
Mrs. A. R. It., writesYour correspond¬ 
ent, G. R. B., in Rural Jan. Iklh, fails to give | 
any good reason for not adhering to the 
time-honored custom of washing <>n Monday y 
although she draws a very doleful picture for 
our contemplation. Now, though we must 
necessarily have (for a time), steam anti suds, 
why need we have “compassion, picked-up 
dinners, cross words," or even cross looks on 
Monday more than any other day of the sev¬ 
en t or, why should we have them at all ? “If 
we keej* the Sabbath, does it, imply that wo 
must have confusion ou the day following ? 
Do we sin in practicing those habits of neat¬ 
ness and order on the Sabbath which we fol¬ 
low through the week i Is it any greater sin 
to return clothing, books, &e., to their proper 
places after using, than to throw them on 
beds, chairs, or the floor to be picked tip on 
Monday f Is it any more labor, when we re¬ 
move aoUed clothing to throw them in a tub 
of water to soak, than it is to hide them away 
in closets, under the bed or some other place 
out of sight, to be searched for on Monday ? 
Why have picked up dinners i It is no great 
task to prepare food on Saturday enough to 
last two or three days; ora picked-up dinner, 
even, would not be so bad, with cheerful 
hearts and pleasant words; for “better is a 
dinner of herbs and love therewith, than a 
stalled ox eaten with hatred.” 
Surely if we have kept the. Sabbath as a 
i day of rest and holiness we should rise on the 
following morning refreshed and with enough 
of the spirit of the Sabbath to carry us 
l through one day, at least, without emss 
words or looks ; and as to those garments to 
be finished, why they should have been done 
the week before, or must be left until the 
next wash. Many people seem to think be¬ 
cause they have, a hard day’s work on hand, 
they have also a free license to bo moss and 
fretful, iukI keep themselves and the whole 
family in a state of mind which is much more 
I wearing to the constitution than the. labor 
FISH CULTURE IN MICHIGAN 
A few gentlemen at Clarkston, Michigan, 
have been experimenting in the hatching of 
white-fish and salmon ova, successfully, A 
hateliing-housc was built there, at first suffi¬ 
cient to hatch half a million of white-fish ova, 
which were deposited in it Nov. IN, 1871. Fifty 
per rent, of these were hatched on the first of 
April, lsy-2, and distributed in the waters of 
Detroit river and a few of the inland lakes of 
Oakland Co. On Nov, lfi, 1872, a half million 
more <>f white-fish ova were placed in this 
untY-hinc-homse. audit is expected that a.much 
on got 
Hire Cake Without Eyy*. — 1 ha ve lately 
made a cake according to the following recipe, 
which was pronounced excellent by compe¬ 
tent judges ; —Two cups white sugar, two 
cups sour cream, two cups sifted flour, slight¬ 
ly heaping, one and ft-half teaspoons of soda, 
which should be pulverized and beat up wit h 
the sugar and cream before the flour is add¬ 
ed ; flavor with lemon ; bake in rather quick 
one needs to use her 
oven. In making cake, 
own judgment in regard to the quantity of 
flour needed, as more is required if Spring 
wheat flour Is used than for Winter wheat. 
One can easily determine the amount of flour 
needed by trying a, small portion in the oven. 
t'MIlenili n < n.. M.. Ag. Hoc.— Officers elect 
’or 18711; Vrex.- II. N. Newell, Shelbum. I’ho 
i*,-,—A. O. Humphrey. Euderhlll; Lyman 
Barber, Essex. Trmx.- .1. E. Hrnh h, South IUir- 
ingtnn. NtT. Lbhu B. Taft,. Burlington. 
Chumontgu <’•>.. «.. Roc. (Mirersfor 1873: 
Pits. -I\ 11. (Jassos. riir-Fiw. Allen l’Onet*. 
Sec W. A. Hu iiu’s. Tiro*. W. Todd. Hie 
next Fair u ill will be held on slept. 30, and the 
let, 2d and 3d "f October. 
Acton. III., llort. Hoc. -Officers el act for 1873: 
I’rc'x - O. L. Bahi.Ku. Mee-Frexl'x K. Hollister, 
G Hilliard. NYc.-—Win. Kllot Smith. Time.— 
E. Hollister. Lihrorhm- J. M. Pearson. 
Lenox, Madison t:o„ V Y„ \%. Roc.—Officers 
elect lor 1873: ITm. L- (!. Sai-suebs. VUx- 
I’rcy'ts 1). I 1 . Lamb, John Barrett. Nee.—E. F. 
Lewis. Treat— T. F. Hand. 
Ton ill! Lac Co., \t is., As- Hoc. - J. ,T. Beeson, 
Editor oT the Reporter*,- has been elected Secre¬ 
tary In place of K.M. Adams, resigned. Next 
Fair, Sept. 18 18. 
Rock t'o.. AVI*,, A«. Hoc. 
of this Society, so far as 
I're*. Serif FisniiJi. NYc 
Janesville. Wis. 
Portage f’u., AVist., Ag. Hoc.—Officers i 
I for 1873: Fm.-CHAS. Conch. Vicr-Pre*. 
McGregor. Sec. — J. H. belch. Trcas. 1v 
1 Webster. 
Hank Co., AVIs., Ag. Hoc.—Officers elec- 
1873: Pres.—H. If. Potter, Baraboo. Tn 
T. T. English, Baraboo. Sec.—John M. 
Baraboo. 
To make Water-Proof Cloth out of thick , 
ducking, the following French recipe is 
given: Take two pounds four ounces of 
Mum. and dissolve it in ten gallons of water, 
lu like maimer dissolve the same quantity of 
sugar of lead in a similar quantity of water, 
and mix the two together. They form a 
precipitate of the sulphate of lead. The clear 
liquor is now withdrawn, and the cloth im¬ 
mersed one hour in The solution, when it is 
taken out and dried in t he shade, washed in 
dean water and dried again. 
Cochineal Coloring.— 1 The following is a 
good recipeCochineal, alum, cream tartar, 
! curb, polassa, each three drams; water, eight 
I ounces; sugar, six ounces. Rub* the cochi¬ 
neal. alum and cream tartar with eight 
FISH CULTURE NOTES. 
At the last meeting of the American Fish 
Guitarists’ Ass’ti, Horatio Seymour suggest¬ 
ed that efforts be made to introduce Chinese, 
and other foreign fish, in this country. A , 
committee of three was appointed to con- j 
aider the subject. 
The fish that are deemed most favorable 
for stocking the general waters of the lakes 
and streams of New York, and other Middle 
States, arc ; Wall-eyed Pike, Oswego Bass, 
Wbitefisb, Yellow Perch, Rock Bass and 
Black Buss. 
i Seth Green estimates the number of eggs 
’ of Lake Trout and White Fish in the State 
-The officers elect 
■(•ported to us, are: 
—it. J, Richardson, 
