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§83 
he date of the first manufacture of salt is 
away back of historic ages. Lately mines of 
rock salt have been explored on the Caucasus^ 
in which stone implements were found as they 
were left at a date so remote that no tradition 
exists of the time when they were worked. 
The “manufacture” of salt probably dates 
back to “primeval man,” say in the “Stone 
Age.”—E. M.]; but you know Lot’s wife got 
too much of it. It is interesting to read the 
difference in the estimate of its use in various 
countries. In France the average is 15 
pounds for each person; in Great Britain. 22 
pounds, and in the United States it is 50 
pounds.” “Oh, that is because we salt down 
so many pickles,” said the thoughtful "cook;” 
“And make so much ice cream,” suggested a 
younger sister, with a taste for that cool 
sweetness. W bat a very wonderful and im¬ 
portant ingredient it is! and yet it must be 
used judiciously: a great excess produces 
scurvy; a want of it results in rickets. In 
medicine it becomes an emetic, tonic, disiu-' 
fectaut or purgative according as it is used, 
and is a real necessity to life and well being. 
It determines the life and form of all that 
exists in the ocean, and if it could be with¬ 
drawn the fish would change their nature and 
the marine plants become like the vegetation 
of pouds. It is the same way with cooking, 
so hard to strike a balance to suit all tastes. I 
smile sometimes at a little girl visitor who 
likes the Amateur Cook’s ginger snaps, but 
always has a glass of water beside her and 
rinses her mouth with it at every bite, so sen¬ 
sitive is she to the ginger, and it is just the 
same with other seasoning. 
The conversation on salt was called forth 
by the article in the Rural of Feb. 21st, that 
did not approve of salt in potatoes until they 
were nearly done. 1 have invariably salted 
the water slightly before putting in the pota¬ 
toes during 20 years of housekeeping, and 
have never found the potatoes as good when 
it is put in afterwards. Perhaps it is a neces¬ 
sity in the water here, and only another proof 
that what is "one man’s meat is another’s poi 
son,” and that 1 need not expect to give ad¬ 
vice to suit all needs. No one who has ever 
tried a wire drainer for potatoes, will ever 
afterward be willing to omit it. 
Mrs. Fisher’s pen pictures of her travels 
interest our young people; they like a little 
variety, they say, in their favorite paper, and 
not all "growing and cooking.” But “growing” 
must be made the first essential if people are 
to live; and "cooking” tbs next, for "where 
is the man who can live without dining,” has 
passed almost into a proverb. 
The worst season of the year in country 
places far from markets is that transition 
time between Winter and Spring The best 
of the stores are often used up: the fresh meat 
is not in such good supply, and no new vege¬ 
tables can be had to tempt the palate. Then 
a salad comes in good, and when one tires of 
cabbage and cold-slaw, it is a nice change to 
make one like ours to-day. We had sown 
some seed of cress in a box, first moistening 
to cause it to sprout quickly, and soon it was 
ready for cutting. With that were mixed a 
few blanched leaves, and some stalks of celery, 
cut into bits half an inch long, and two or 
three cold, boiled potatoes. The dressing is 
made with two hard boiled eggs, salt, pepper 
and mustard to taste, a trifle of sugar, and as 
much vinegar as it requires. The yelks of 
the eggs are rubbed fine, the other ingredients 
added, the vinegar lust, and poured over just 
before dinner. It is very good with cold meat 
, BATHING AND BATHS FOlt FARMERS. 
A mono all the appliances for health and 
comfort to tnankiud, I think l may safely say 
there is nothing so well known, so useful, and, 
withal, so comtorting, and yet so little prac¬ 
ticed, so carelessly and thoughtlessly neglect¬ 
ed, as judicious bathing. Tho skin of the 
human body, from head to foot, is a network 
of pores. One cannot put a finger on a siugle 
place without covering several hundred little 
openings which ought always to be kept free 
and clear of obstructions. As evidence of the 
truth of this statement, we need only call to 
mind the great drops of sweat so ofteu seen 
gatueriug on one's face and other parts of the 
body in warm weather, especially during 
times of over-exertiou. Those pores are the 
openings into minute tubes,or chanuels.which 
lead through unseen meauderings into the 
sauctum of life within. 
The dust which comes in contact with uui- 
mals covered with hair is mostly kept out, 
aud the perspiration is conducted away from 
the pores of the skin by those hairs; heuce 
bathing is not so essential fur them as for 
munkind whose bodies are practically denud¬ 
ed of such protection. 
The glutinous mass of perspiration, dust 
and tilth, which gathers on the surface of the 
body, naturally covers and clogs the pores 
and ofteu enters them aud poisons the system. 
To remove that filth, frequent ablutions and 
occasional immersions in water are exceeding¬ 
ly desirable, and usually indispensable to 
health and comfort. Consequently every 
family should have a convenient bath—and a 
full bath too—of some kind, not only for gen¬ 
eral neatness of person so desirable to every 
individual of taste and culture; but as a means 
of preserving health, and in many cases—es¬ 
pecially under the advice of a good physician 
—as the safest, pleasantest and one of the 
most powerful and efficient means of combat¬ 
ing disease. 
Directed by good judgment and wise coun¬ 
sel, a bath is a valuable auxiliary to other 
remedies, and it can be used when internal 
remedies cannot. In the long catalogue of 
diseases to which flesh is heir, scarcely one 
can be named in the treatment of which a 
bath is useless. To those blessed with good 
health, a bath, as a common-sense appliance, 
gives thrift and growth to healthy functions, 
a brightness aud delightful serenity, a clear¬ 
ness of mind and buoyancy of spirit, it is 
certainly a blessing to mind and body. For 
the mental worker, it is a nerve touic, a thor¬ 
ough immersion in water of proper tempera¬ 
ture will calm and give strength and tone to 
his whole system. The iodoor laborer who 
gets but a scanty supply of fresh air, needs a 
bath to obtain those invigorating elements so 
common in the open air. The outdoor laborer 
— especially the farmer — who works with 
heroic energy all day long, unavoidably gath¬ 
ers oq the entire surface of bis body a com¬ 
plete prison wall of dust and thickening, gum¬ 
my perspiration; and when his day’s work is 
done, he needs then more than any other thing, 
not only a wash, but a good, refreshing full 
bath to tit him for a clean bed and an invigor¬ 
ating sleep. 
Finally, every one needs a bath at times, 
and every human habitation should contain 
something for a complete immersion in water, 
and since convenient aud efficient portable 
baths at comparatively low figures are uow 
extensively advertised for sale, there is little 
excuse for any one to be without this priceless 
benefit. common sense practitioner. 
WINE IN CuOKKRY. 
I was very glad to see the protest of a 
"Canadian” against the use of wines and 
liquors in cookery. Dr. Hoskins, in the last 
Rural, to the contrary notwithstanding. 
The use of the flavoring extracts L do not think 
a parallel case, for, as he says, the alcohol all 
evaporates in the cooking, leaving only the fla¬ 
vor of vaniila, lemon, etc., while with wine or 
brandy, the unmistakable odor and taste of 
the liquor is left, and we all know that is 
enough to drive one who is cursed with the 
dreadful appetite to drink. Enough good 
things can be made without putting the 
shadow of temptation in our brother's way. 
In common with many of the Rural sister¬ 
hood, though living in the eouutry, 1 am 
obliged to pass most of my time iu the house, 
having much work to do and sewing for six 
children. Now if you place your sewing 
machine iu front of a window, instead of 
against the wall, you can enjoy much of out¬ 
doors. It is refreshing to glance up while one 
is sewing, into the green trees or over the yard, 
aud perchance catch glimpses of husband and 
children passing to aud fro. You can’t im¬ 
agine how much pleasauter it is till you try 
it. G. c w. 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
GINGER SNAPS. 
One cup of molasses, one-half cup of sugar, 
one-half cup of butter, oue tablespoonful of 
ginger, two teaspoonfuls of seda. Flour to 
roll. 
DELICATE CAKE. 
Whites of six eggs, two cups of sugar, oue 
cup of butter, three-fourth cup of sweet milk, 
flavor with a little nutmeg. Add to three 
cups of flour, one teaspoonful of eream-of-tar- 
tar and oue-balf teaspoonful of soda. Stir 
quickly and thoroughly. Bake. 
RAILROAD CAKE. 
Three eggs, oue-aud-a-half cup of flour, one 
cup of sugar, one toaspoonful of cream-of- 
turtar in flour, one-half teaspoonful of soda 
in one-and-a-half tublesp Kinful of sweet milk. 
Hake ou sheets, spread with jelly and roll 
immediately. mrs. J. e. Eaton. 
COCOANUT SrONGE CAKE. 
One cup of powdered sugar, five eggs, whites 
aud yelks beaten sei»rately, juice and half 
the grated peel of one lemou, a little salt, a 
large cupful of flour sifted with a teaspoouful 
of baking powder and a cocoauut pared and 
grated. Beat together the sugar aud the 
whipped aud strained yelks, then add the salt 
and lemou, b*vtt iu the whites aud flour by 
turns, then the grated cocoauut. Pour into 
shallow pans aud bake half an hour. The 
oven must be well heated. M. B. 
Ilorsforti'* .Veld IMiosplinlo, 
lu Debility Irom Overwork. 
Dr. G. W. Collins, Tipton, lud .says; “1 
used it in nervous debility brought on by over 
work in warm weather, with good results.”— 
Adv. 
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