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O.E.THOMPSON,SOLE M’F’R’. 
YPS/LAA/TI, MICH . 
the ladder of domestic economy when she 
could do the family washing satisfactorily, 
and she would not go half-clad or half-fed, as 
would one who could only do a little fancy 
work. She would be able to keep a supply of 
money in her purse, for such work will bring 
the dimes. 
prejudiced bv the learned Professor’s denun¬ 
ciations, prepare and try some of these vari¬ 
ous articles of food, and especially such as 
have bad digestion will find that I am not 
mistaken in recommending Graham if 
properly prepared. 
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illustrations of what is done by 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
CARE OF INFANTS, 
TO CLEAN SPONGES. 
Ammonia and hot water will clean them. 
WHITE STAINS ON ZINC. 
To remove: Rub with a flannel dipped in 
kerosene. 
LABELS ON TIN CANS. 
Put a spoonful of sugar in each pint of 
paste. 
TO CLEAN A DECANTER. 
Break raw egg shells iu small pieces, put 
them into the decanter, add a little water and 
ammonia, and shake well. 
BED BUGS AND FLEAS 
A thorough washing with carbolic soap and 
rubbing every joint and crack iu wood-work 
and bed with crude petroleum will banish bed 
bugs, for a certainty. I hope the time is at 
hand when these things w ill be considered a 
disgrace to be in any bed-room, or piece of 
furniture. 
Fleas are difficult to uiauage where dogs are 
kept, unless these are kept free from the pests 
by means of carbolic washes. Cleanliness and 
careful attention will banish these insects; 
and for wood-work or gaping j iuts of houses, 
it is a good thing to use strong aromatic herbs 
that are disagreeable to the nuisances. 
“While worm-wood hath seed, get a handful or 
twain, 
To save against March, to cause tteas to refrain: 
Where chamber is swept, and worm-wood is 
strewn. 
No ttca for bis life dare abide to lie known." 
A. L. JACK, 
Ou looking over a late Rural (as I am an 
old mother), the above title attracted me. I 
can fully sympathize with the writer in her 
desire to bring Baby into regular habits, 
but I should not feed au infant every fifteen 
miuutes, if he did ery for it, How could the 
child digest a meal iu that time, aud had not 
the overworked stomach something to do with 
the sore mouth ( A derauged stomach will 
cause a sore mouth iu an adult, aud w hy not 
iu an infant ? I have never Lad trouble with 
sore mouths in my family. The nurse who 
was with me when my first child came, told 
me that if l would keep a piece of fine lawu 
by me, wrap it over my finger, dip that into 
t'resb cool water and gently wash, or rather 
wipe, baby’s mouth and guius with it every 
morning when giving the bath, sore mouths 
would never trouble me. I took her advice and 
have never been troubled with it in my fami¬ 
ly. For those who are so troubled l have known 
burnt borax aud alum in equal quantities, 
powdered finely aud gently rubbed on the 
mouth twice a day, to be of great service. 
What aud when, and how. to feed baby is an 
other affair, and I think should bo arranged to 
suit each individual case. Ou one point, how¬ 
ever, I should be imperative; that is, the boil- 
iug of the milk. Get the milk as soon as pos¬ 
sible after it is taken from the cow, put it iu 
a saucepan, aud boil it at least five minutes 
after it has reached the boiling point, stirriug 
the whole time. I believe milk so treated will 
agree with most infants. I am surprised that 
the writer of the above-named article should 
object to feeding her child with a spoon, be¬ 
cause of the time it takes. When God gives 
us children, surely we ought uot to grudge the 
time occupied in feeding and otherwise caring 
for them. The same routine will uot do for 
all infants; for myself, I found that a break¬ 
fast and supper given the child with a spoon, 
and nursing about every three hours, proved 
satisfactory. 
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gray—falling off so vapidly tliai she soon became 
quite bald. One bottle of Hall's Hair Re- 
newer brought it back as bull, brown and 
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IKS' Mr. Resting, an old farmer, near liar- 
saw, /ml., had scarcely any hair left, and what 
little there was of It had become nenrlv white. 
One bottle of Haul's Hair Kenewer stopped 
its falling out, and gave him n thick, luxuriant 
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Mrs. A. T. Wall. Greenfield, Chen hire, 
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hair growing, tuui gives buck the uatural color 
to faded aud gray hair.” 
«tr* Mrs. B. E. Elliott, Glev*tUe. IT. VW.. 
says : “One bottle-of Hall’s Hair Kenewer 
restored my hair to its natural, youthful color.” 
No injurious substances enter into the 
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and it is not a dye. Its vegetable Ingre¬ 
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and it does not make the hair dry and 
brushy, like the so-called restoratives com¬ 
pounded with alcohol. 
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NOTES, 
Make corn-meal mush iu the morning when 
getting breakfast, dip a spoouful in a place ou 
to the greased griddle or skillet, fry brown ou 
both sides. It is an improvement on cold 
fried mush. 
Mix about one-third wheat middlings or 
shorts with buckwheat flour, and stir with 
oue-third buttermilk. 
For quick relief iu croup, rub the chest aud 
back of the neck down between the shoulders 
well with soft grease, chicken grease or lard. 
Heat it thoroughly by the fire and cover well. 
This is also good for colds on the lungs. 
Grease the nose for cold iu head. 
A good physic, is usually a sure remedy for 
a cold. 
To wet the top of the head with cold water 
every morning is a preventive to takiug 
cold. c. E. JACK. 
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I regret to see iu your usually correct aud 
valuable paper sach palpably erroneous views 
advanced on the subject of Graham bread as 
were those of your learned Professor aud subse¬ 
quently of yourself, 1 have occasionally 
found during the lost 30 years au “M. D.” 
who iu his professional capacity protested 
against all preparations of wheaten meal as 
articles of food; but a majority of the medi¬ 
cal profession recommend them. Now it 
ought to be well known by everyone that the 
wheaten kernel consists of bran, i. e., the out¬ 
side covering, very thin, with little or no 
nutritious qualities, tit. only for food tor cat¬ 
tle or swine—the germ, a nutritious sub¬ 
stance containing considerable oil, a layer of 
albuminoids, a layer of gluten,then the strictly 
white portion or flour, but really only starch, 
containing very little nutriment, which 
eau be transformed tlrst into dextrine, then 
into sugar. The nitrogenous elements are 
nearly' or quite confined to the albuminoids 
and gluten, there being very little of them 
in the starch, so thut a barred of pat¬ 
ent roller mill flour is really ouly a barrel of 
starch, indigestible aud innutritions, without 
any' properties suitable for making bone or 
muscle. It is uot strange that wo are fast be¬ 
coming a nation of dyspeptics so long as 
fashion requires the whitest of flour ou every 
family table. 1 have suffered from dyspejxsia 
for the last thirty years, making it ulmost im¬ 
possible for me to eat white flour iu bread, 
cakes or pastry, yet I can oat any aud all 
foods made of Graham, so-called, without any 
bad effects. The starch or white flour con¬ 
tained in the Graham is easily digested in con¬ 
nection with the albumen aud gluten, which 
operate as ferments, transforming the starch 
into dextrine and sugar. 
My method of preparing Graham is to 
thoroughly sift it until all thu bran, as far us 
possible, is taken out, leaving the albumeu 
gluten aud starch only, which we use for 
bread, puddings, gems, griddle-cakes, dough¬ 
nuts, pie crusts, etc. Many of the family, uot 
dyspeptics, preferring some of these prepara¬ 
tions to those made from white Hour. Graham 
griddle cakes have for years occupied a front 
rank on uur table iu preference to buckwheat 
or other flour. 
“The proof of the pudding is in tlte eatiug 
thereof,” so let your readers who have been 
UCKEYE 
FORCE to 
PUMP. I 
CAKE WITHOUT EGGS. 
The following makes a very good loaf of 
cake iudepeudeut of Mistress Biddy: One tea¬ 
cupful of butter or meat drippings, two of 
sugar, two of sweet milk (I used buttermilk), 
oue teaspoonful of soda, and flour to make a 
stiff batter. The sunie recipe, minus one cup 
of milk, makes very good cookies. 
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ONE EGG CAKE. 
Oue egg, one Large spoouful of butter, two 
cups of sugar, one small cup of milk, two-and- 
a-hulf cups of flour, two small teaspoonfuls of 
baking powder. Nutmeg or lemon to flavor. 
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CRUST 
One pound of flour, one-fourth pound of 
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pint of cold water. Stir with a knife. 
EXCELLENT ORANGE CAKE. 
Two cups of sugar, half tt cup of water that 
has been Inti led, yelks of five eggs, two cups 
of flour, grated riud aud juice of out' orange, 
oue teaspoonful of cream-of-turtar, half a tea- 
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