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250 FRANK LESLIE’S NEW YORK, JOURNAL.
Family Matters,
True goodness is like the glowworm in this, that
it-shines the most when. no eyes. except-those of
heaven are upon it. :
Tue damps of autumn sink into the: leaves, and
"prepare them for the. necessity of their fall; and
thus insensibly are we, as years close round us,
detatched from. the tenacity of life. by.the gentle
pressure of recorded sorrows.
Tiints.to THE. Marriev.—‘ I have heard,” says
Mr. Henry, ‘of a married couple, who, though they
were both of a hasty temper, yet lived comtortably
together by simply observing a rule on which they
had mutually agreed’ — never to be both angry] a¢
together”? And he adds that an ingenious and
pious father was in the habit of giving this advice
to his children when they were married :
Doth one speak fire? t’other with water come.
Is one provoked? be t’other soft and dumb.
Tue Swearer Resuxev.—Dr. Seudder, on his
return from his mission in India, after. a long
absence, was ¢tanding on the deck of a steamer,
with his son, a youth, when he heard a gentleman
using loud and profane language. ‘See, friend,”
said the doctor, accosting the swearer, “this boy—
my son—was born and brought up in a heathen
country, and a land of pagan idolatry; but in all his
life he never heard a man blaspheme his Maker until
now.’”? ‘The man colored, blurted. out a sort of
an apology and moved away, looking not a. little
ashamed of himself. If there is any custom more
silly than duelling, it is that of swearing.
‘You can depend on no man, on no friend, but
him who can depend upon himself. He only who
acts conscientiously.toward himself will act so
toward others, and vice versa. -
Ir was a good answer that was once given by a
poor woman to a minister who asked her, « What
is faith?” She replied, «I am ignorant; I cannot
answer well; but I think faith is taking God at his
word.”
Trurn.—tTruth alone may not constitute a great
man, but it is the most important ingredient in a
great character; it exalts. and extends. its own
qualities, it gives confidence to those who serve
under him, security to those who employ him; and,
in the world at large, it inspires a solid and perma-
_ nent admiration, which maintains, and at last sur-
passes and outlives, the enthusiasm excited by the
. temporary success.
Our very manner is a thing of importance, A
kind “no” is often more agreeable than a rough
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Catumny.—The aspersions of calumny will not
adhere permanently to your character, unless they
‘When, there-
fore, you are assailed by slander and obloquy, suffer
that which will not stick to fall to the ground of its
. own accord; and as to the rest, mend your character.
Saumr, on Hasu or Game.—Melt in a saucepan
an ounce or two of butter, according to the quantity
of cold game there is left; thicken it with flour, and
stir it well over the fire for five minutes, taking care
it does not burn; then add to it gradually half-a-
pint or more of good broth, a glass of red wine, and
two whole eschalots, with a bunch of sweet herbs;
season with cayenne pepper and salt, and simmer
gently for half an hour. Skim off any butter that
may be on the top, and pass the same through a sieve,
Have the game cut up in neat joints or pieces, and
put it into the sauce to warm, noé to boil; squeeze
in the juice of half a lemon; add a pinch of sugar;
dish the game neatly on a dish; pour over the sauce
and serve. Cold duck or goose may be served in
the same way. -
Economicat Prum = Pupprtna.—Take one pound
of stoned raisins ; one pound of washed and picked
‘currants or, as these when good are dear, Smyrna
raisins may be substituted for them ;) twelve ounces
of flour; six ounces of crumbs of bread soaked in
milk, drained dry, and beat fine; one pound of
finely chopped suet ; two ounces of cach of preserved
lemon, orange, and citron peel, cut small; one
nutmeg grated; half a pound of sugar, and a salt-
spoon of salt. Having prepared these things, first
mix well the flour with a tea-spoonful of. carbon-
ate of soda, and half as. much tartaric acid; or get
from a chemist a three cents wort) of saline powders,
which is the same thing, and let these be most inti-
| mately mixed with the flour; then stir well together
the other articles with the flour, and mix the whole
Useful Receipts.
Portable Ginger Beer.—Takeé of powdered. lump
sugar, two drams. Carbonate of soda, half a dram.
Mix them together. Take of tartaric acid, half.a
dram, best ginger powder, five grains, essence, of
lemon, one drop. Mix them together., Dissolve
the above powders in separate glasses, containing
together, about half a. pint. of cold spring water;
when dissolved, mix the contents of each glass, and
let it be drank’ immediately. The proportion of
ginger may. be increased to double or quadruple the
quantity agreeable to the’ palate; it should be. of
the finest kind (the subtle powder, as it is called,)
which, with the other ingredients, may. be obtained
any druggist’s. The powders, when made,
should be kept from damp. _ A cubic box of four
inches will receive six dozen of them, equal to the
same quantity of ginger beer.
Portable Icc-house.—Take an iron bound-butt, or
puncheon, and knock out the head; then cut a very
small hole in the bottom, about the size ofa wine cork.
Place inside of the butt a wooden tub, shaped like
a chum, resting it upon two pieces of wood, which
are to raise it from touching the bottom. Fill the
space round the inner tub with pounded charcoal ;
and fit to the tub a cover witha convenient handle:
having inside one or two small hooks, on which the
botties are to be hung,. during the operations.
Place on the lid a bag of pounded charcoal, about
two feet square; and over all place another cover,
which must cover the head of the outer cask.
When the. apparatus is thus prepared, let it be
placed in a cold cellar; and buried in the earth
above four-fifths of its height; but though cold,
the cellar must be dry; wet ground will not an-
swer, and a sandy soil is the best. Fill the inner
tub, or nearly so, with pounded ice; or, if pre-
ared in winter, with snow well pressed down, and
the apparatus will be complete. Whenever it is
wished to make ices, take off the upper cover, then
the sack or bagy-of pounded charcoal, and suspend
the vessel, containing the liquid to be frozen, to the
hooks inside of the inner cover; then close up the
whole, as before, for half an hour, when the opera-
tion will be complete, provided care be taken to
exclude external air. .
Tomato Catsup.—Take one bushel of -tomatoes,
and boil them until they are soft. Squeeze them
through a fine wire sieve, and add half a gallon of
vinegar, one pint and a half of salt, two ounces of
cloves, quarter of a pound of alspice, three ounces
of Cayenne pepper, three tablespoonfuls of black
pepper, five heads of garlic, skinned and. separated.
Mix together, and boil about three hours, or until
reduced to about one-half. Then bottle, without
straining.
Orange Pudding.—Grate the yellow rind ‘of. the
oranges, and squeeze the juice into a saucer, taking
out all the seeds. Stir the butter and sugar to a
cream. Beat the eggs as light as possible, and then
stir them by degrees into the pan of. butter and
sugar, Add gradually the liquor and rose-water ;
and then, by degrees, the oranges. Stir all well
together. Have ready a sheet of puff-paste, made
of five ounces of sifted flour, and a quarter of a
pound of fresh butter. Lay the paste in a buttered
pie-dish. Trim and notch the edges, and then put
in the mixture, Bake it about half an hour, ina
moderate oven, Grate loaf sugar over it, before
you send it to table.
To Collar a Breast of Veal.—Take the finest breast
of veal, bone it, and rub it over with the yolks of
two ezgs, and strew over it some crumbs of bread,
a little grated lemon, a little pepper and salt, a
handful of chopped parsley, roll it up tight, and
bind it hard with twine, wrap it in a cloth, and
boil it one hour and a half, then take it up to cool,
when a little cold take off the cloth, and clip off the
twine carefully, lest you open the veal, cut it in five
slices, Jay then: on a dish with the sweetbread
boiled and cut in thin slices and laid round them,
with ten or twelve forcemeat balls; pour over your
white sauce, and garnish with barberries or green
pickles. The white sauce must be made thus :—
Take a pint of good veal gravy, put td it a spoon-
ful of Jemon pickle, half an achovy, a teaspoonful
of mushroom powder, or a few pickled mushrooms,
give it a gentle boil; then. put in half a pint of
cream, the yolks of two eggs beat fine, shake it over
the fire after the eggs and cream are in, but do not
let it boil, it will curdle the cream. .
Preserved Plums.—Cut your plums in half, (they
must not be quite ripe,) and take out the stones,
of a firm consistence with miik.. Boil in a cloth, or
well-buttered basin, three hours. The soda.and
tartaric acid will render the pudding, light without |
the use of eggs, It will, be found, on trial, a good
' pudding, suitable for any season,
Weigh the plums, and.allow.a pound of loaf sugar
to a pound of, fruit... Crack, the stones, take out the
kernels and break them: in. pieces, Boil the plums
and kernels very slowly. for, about fifteen minutes,
in as little water as possible. ‘Then spread them on
a large dish to cool, and strain the liquor. Next
day make your syrup. Melt the sugar in as little
water as will suffice to dissolve it, (about a gill of
water to a pound of sugar,) and boil it a few
minutes, skimming it till quite clear, Then put in
your plums with the liquor, and boil them fifteen
minutes. Put them in jars, pour the juice over them
warm, and tie them up, when cold, with’ brandy
paper. Plums for common use are very good done
in molasses. Put your plums into an earthen ves-
sel that holds a gallon, having first slit each plum
with aknife, To.three quarts of plums puta pint
of. molasses, ‘Cover them, and. set them on-a
moderately heated stove... Let them. stew tor
twelve hours.or more, occasionally stirring them,
and renewing the coals, The next day put them
in jars. Done in this manner, they will keep till
the next spring. Syrups may be improved in clear-
ness by adding. to the dissolved sugar and water
some white of egg very well beaten, allowing the
white of one egg to two pounds of sugar. Boil it
very hard, (adding the egg-shells,) and skim it weil,
that it may be quite clear before. you put in your
fruit. ry
To prevent Flies from settling on Pictures, Picture
Frames, or other Furnture.—Soak a large bundle of
leeks for five or six days.in a pail of water, and
then wash or sponge the pictures, &c., over with. it.
To remove Iron-moulds: from Linen.—Take some
crystalized citric acid, (acid of lemons,): pound a
small quantity to a fine powder, and apply it to the _
spot; drop some hot water on, and rub it in, upon
a pewter plate over a stove, until the’ oxide of the
iron unites with the acid, when a little warm water
washes all out.
To Bleach Ivory.—Take a double-handful of lime,
and slake it. by sprinkling it with water, then add
three pints of water and stir it up together; let it
settle ten minutes, and pour the water ito a pan
for your purpose; then take your ivory and steep
it into the lime-water twenty-four hours, after
which boil it in strong alum-water one hour, and
dry it in the air. :
Excellent Lemonade.—To the rinds of ten lemons,
pared very thin, put one pound of fine loaf sugar,
and two quarts of spring water, boiling hot; stit :t
to dissolve the sugar; let it stand twenty-four
hours, covered close; then squeeze in the juice of
the ten lemons; add one pint of white wine; boil’
a pint of new milk, pour it hot on the ingredients;
when cold, run it through a close filtering-bag,
when it will be fit for immediate use.
For Sharpening Razors.—Take oxide of tin, levi.
gated, vulgarly termed, prepared putty, one ounce;
saturated solution of oxalic acid, a sufficient quan-
tity to form a paste. This composition is to be
rubbed over the strop, and, when dry, a little water
may be added. The oxalic acid having a great at-
traction for iron, a little friction with this powder
gives a fine edge even to a blunt razor.
To make Paper Transparent.—Dissolve some resin
in spirits of wine. Dip into it a camel's hair brush,
and with it go over as much of the paper as ycu
wish to make transparent, doing it on both sides,
A colored drawing or engraving may be made by
this application transparent in those parts where
moonlight or fire-light is intended to be very bright.
Afterwards, they can only be seen to advantage with
alight behind them. The same application is used
for transparencies painted on linen or thick musliv
stretched on a frame,
Black Dye and Ink.g—Vhes following is a process
for the preparation of a black dye, for which 8
patent was taken out at » ienna by M. Honig :-
Logwood is to be boiled several times in water, and
a little sub-carbonate of potash to be added to the
decoctions, the quantity being so moderated that it
shall not change the color to blue; the stuff to be —
dyed is then to be plunged into this bath. ‘Ibis
stuff may be either animal or vegetable. . When it
is well impregnated with coloring matter, it is to
be withdrawn, and, without being exposed to air,
is to be introduced into a solution of green vitrioi,
and left there until it has obtained the desired black
hue. In preparing the, ink,ithe decoction of log-
wood is used in place of the infusion of galls,
Best Position for Bee-hives.—TVhe best situation
for hives is to face the south, or the south-east,
From the north they should. always be sheltered.
As bees require a great deal of water, they will not
thrive. unless there is. a; stream -ins their vicinity. »
The grass round their.bench should be kept -free:
from weeds, and some dwarf or. low flowers. may;
come. within. two. feet of it; but tall plants. will
assist destructive insects in getting to the bees, .
| Tne powder of sorrel or.lemon will remove
blood-stains from paper.’ The place must be wetted
first with clean water or vinegar. .