Household Economy

FOR OlLING WALJÏUT FlTBNITUBE.- Raw linseed-oil rubbed witli a flannol cloth, then polisli with a dry piece of flannel ; be careful not to put too much on. P.qor Man's Pudding.- Three cups of flour, one cup of molasses, one cup of mili?,, one cup of suet, one cup of raisins, one teaspoonful of soda ; spice to taste ; boíl two hours ; eat with sauce. Lejíon Butter. - Hix lemons, twelve egg.s, two pounds of sugar, One-quarter pound of butter; grate the .rinda, add the juico, beat the eggs ; sirnmer over a slow flre fifteen minutes, stirring all the while. Lemon Cake. - Three oups of rolled white sugar, one cup of butter, one cup oL sweet milk, íive eggs; beat butter and sugar to a croam; dissolve one-half teaspoonful of soda in milk; sift four cups of flour and iadd by degr: es ; add juice and rind of one lemon. Stiwfkd Potatoks.- Wash good-,siz,ed potftitocs; Ma tlieni in the oven for tliirty minutiís; takc them out, and with i l'ovk oarefully remove the insides, preserving the shells whole; scason the potatoes with salt, peiper, and butter; ñll the shells with it, put them in the oven a few minutes, and serve them steaming hot. Punkies. - Punkies or any insects can be entirely destroyed by closing the apartment infested and with a small bel]ows used for the purposo blowing one or two ounces of insect powder into the room. Leave it plosed half a day, or niglit, if more eonvenient ; then open and ventílate. It will be "death to inSects," bui perfectly harmless otherwise. Pickalilly. - One-lialf bushel tomatoes sliced, two heads of cabbage, cliopped; also, twenty-five green peppers chopped, one pound English mustard-seed, two table-spoons raw mustard mixed tbrough ; put the tomatoes, cabbage and peppers in salt twenty-four liours, tlien add Hpice to suit the taste; squeeze out the salt; can with vinegar just scalded. Iíottling Oider. - Cider sliould rernain in barrels until February; bottle when the weather is clear ; fill the bottles full ánd leave standing six hours, then put in the corks; in each bottle put a piece of rock candy, size of a pea; lay the bottles on theside; put wax over the corks so as to inake airtight; to keep cider sweet put one ounce of English mustard-seed in the barrel. House-Cleaning. - Don't tear the house all up from garret to cellar. Clean one room and put in order before comniencing another. Don't take up carpets that will possibly do witli a thorough dusting ; wring out a mop very dry and rub thoroughly ; they will seem most as good as new. Carpets are generally worn and torn more in taking up and putting down than with six months' use in a living room. Saratoga Potatoeí!. - Peel and wash the potatoes and cut them in thin slices. This rnay be done with the slaw cutter ; lay them in cold water until wanted, then take them out and wipe them in a towel and lightly rubbing them ; have in a frying pan on the fire sufficient lard to swim the potatoes; when boiling hot drop in a few at a time, and let them brown ; then lift them out with a fork, so as to drain off the fat ; set them in the oven to keep hot ; if properly done, they will be crisp and brown. Fleas - How to Banish. - From an article in the Louisville Bulletin we learn that the oil of pennyroyal will certainly drive these pests off; but a cheaper method, where the herb flourishes, is to throw your dogs and cats into a decoction of it once a week. Mow the herb and scatter it in the beds of the pigs once a month. Where the herb cannot be got, the oil may be procured. In this case, satúrate strings with it and tie them around the necks of dogs and cats, pour a little on the back and about the ears of hogs, which you can do while they are feeding without touching them. By repeating these applications every twelve or fifteen days the fleas will nee from your quadrupeds, to thejr relief and improvement, and to your relief and comfort in the house. Strings saturated with the oil of pennyroyal and tied around the neck and tail of horses will drive off lice ; the strings should be saturated once a day.