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bran, make it milk warm, and let it stand 
until the bran rises: skim off the bran and 
put in one-half pound of madder. Put in 
your goods and heat slowly until it boils 
and is done. Wash in strong suds. 
To Dye a Good Slate Color.—To make 
a good dark slate color boil sugar loaf 
paper with vinegar in an iron utensil. 
Put in alum to se.t the color. 
To Dye Slate Color (woolen).-—Boil in 
an iron vessel a teacup- of black tea. with 
a teaspoon of copperas and sufficient 
water. 
To Dye Slate Color.—Beech, bark. Boil 
the bark in an iron kettle. After it has 
boiled sufficiently, add copperas to set the 
dye. If you wish, it very dark add more 
copperas. 
To Dye Green.—For each pound of 
goods, fustic one pound, alum three and 
one-half ounces. Steep until the strength 
is oirt, and soak therein the goods until 
good yellow is obtained, then remove the 
chips and sulci extract of indigo or chemick, 
one tablesjiooii at a time until the color 
suits. 
To Dye Green (wool or silk).—Make a 
strong yellow dye with yellow oak and 
hickory bark in equal quantities. Add 
extract of indigo or chemick (dilute solu¬ 
tion of chloride of lime), one tablespoon 
at a time, until you get the shade desired. 
To Dye Blue (woolen).—For a mor¬ 
dant use two ounces of alum to a pound 
of wool. Boil two hours. Macerate half 
a bushel of common purslane and a quar¬ 
ter of a pound of logwood chips in sep¬ 
arate kettles. Strain and mix, and boil 
the wool two hours. Drain and rinse and 
it is done. 
To Dye Red (silk).—The blossoms of 
the balm of Gilead tree steeped with fair 
water in a vessel, then strained, will dye 
silk a pretty red color. The silk should 
be washed clean and free from color, then 
rinse in fair water, and boil in the 
strained dye with a small piece of alum. 
To Dye Straw or I<emon Color.—Peach 
leaves, fustic, and saffron, all make a 
good straw or lemon color, according to 
the strength of the dye. They should be 
steeped in soft water in an earthen or tin 
vessel, then strained, and the dye set with 
alum. When the dye stuff is strained 
steep the articles in it. 
To Dye Yellow.—For five pounds of 
goods, black oak bark or poach leaves one 
hall peck. Boil well. Then take out the 
bark or leaves, and add muriate of tin 
one-half teacup, stirring well. Then put 
in the goods and stir them round and it 
will dye a deep yellow in from five to 15 
minutes, according to the strength of the 
bark. Take out the goods, rinse, and dry 
immediately. 
For a green add to the above dye, ex¬ 
tract of indigo or chemick one tablespoon 
only, at a time, and work the goods five 
minutes and air. If not sufficiently dark 
add the same amount of chemick as be¬ 
fore. and work again until if suits. 
LUCY E. TA1U1EI.I.. 
More About Farm Parasites 
I have been reading the letter written 
by Mother Bee concerning depredations 
of autoists, and if she lives in a State 
where State troopers exist would advise 
her to enter complaint to them, as to my 
knowledge they are very efficient in stop¬ 
ping depredations on the farmers. Living 
not so very far from a large city, and a 
lesser distance from a smaller town, it 
came to my knowledge that some of the 
“ladies” in this small village who owned 
and drove their own cars were in the 
habit of clubbing together and going to 
the city to do.shopping, incidentally pick¬ 
ing up any and every thing that could be 
of use to any member of the party, using 
the following contemptible method: 
While some of them were engaging the 
visible members of the home in conversa¬ 
tion, purporting the desire to purchase 
fruits or vegetables, the owner of course 
would show them the best he had, and 
where it grew or was kept, which place 
these “ladies” (wives of storekeepers and 
their friends) noted, and upon the next 
trip helped themselves. A complaint to 
the troopers resulted in those women 
nearly landing in the lock-up and a heavy 
fine. The lifting has ceased. A few 
years ago, before the time of autos, I 
heard a trolley-car conductor ou a line 
running out of Syracuse say that on Sun¬ 
days in the Summer and Fall it was 
necessary to attach a trailer to the car 
in order to accommodate the produce 
which the passengers picked up during 
the day and carried home. It being Sun¬ 
day. and city dwellers having nothing to 
keep them at home, entire families would 
take sacks and pick up anything that 
could be carried in a grain sack by the 
head of the family, which, if the family 
was large, was enough to keep the entire 
family through the week, and lay away 
some for future use, but the State 
troopers have changed all this. Let us 
all work to keep them on their job, even 
though a few fail us in emergencies. 
__ JESSIE. 
Bohemian Toast.—Beat two eggs; add 
one-hali cup sweat milk, one-fourth tea- 
spoonful salt, a sprinkle of r<xl pepper, 
one teaspoonful of onion juice. Into this 
dip slices of stale bread, then fry in the 
bacon grease until brown. 
Ham and Cheese Toast.—One cup 
boiled ham chopped fine, one-half cup 
grated _ cheese. Mix and heat. When 
cheese is melted add one cup cream sauce. 
Pour over slices of whole wheat toast. 
Honey Almond Cakes.—Boil together 
1 lb. of honey, V 4 lb. of butter. Take from 
the fire and let stand 20 minutes; then 
stir in one teaspoonful of ground cloves, 
the grated rind of one lemon, and *4 lb. 
of chopped almonds. Lastly, stir in 1 lb. 
of flour, sifted with *4 ounce of baking 
powder. Stand this mixture in a cool 
place over night. In the morning roll out 
half an inch thick, cut in cakes and bake 
brown. This is delicious. 
green. The lauterns are for outline embroidery and are for deep yellow, light green, pur¬ 
ple and rose. It would lx? best to use a generous size hem around the scarf instead of laee 
or fringe, and plenty of allowance is made for the hem in the goods. The designs are 
stamped and tinted on tan art linen. The pillow is 18x28 in. . The scarf, 28x54 in. The 
price for the set. Which includes mercerized doss to complete the embroidery, is ?2. For 
the scarf. No. 13S7, §1.50; for the pillow, 75 cents. 
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