About Various Matters

To color black kid gloves: Put a large haudful of logwood into a bowl; cover wilh alcohol; let stand one day or until it looks strongr. Put one glovo on the hand, Rub uil over carefully wilh a small woolen cloth or sponge dipped iu the liquid, and let dry. Repeat the process nd it will be black. To make tho hair grow: Get a good hair brush, and brush yonr hair from 15 to 20 minutes, every day, nover using a comb any more tban is necassary. Try it, and jou will be pleasod with the result Ham dumplings are vorymuch better i{ tho meat is cooked tender bef ore making tno dumplings. Make the ernst without shortcning and they will be nice and light. To take iron rust out of wbito goods, satúrate them with lenon juico and placo in sunshino. To prevent huir from falling off wash thescalpfrequentiy with sago tea. To dry pumpkins for winter use: Cook the pumpkins as you would for present use vory dry, then spread it on plates and after it is dry roll up and lie in paper. When wanted for vise soak over night or a few hours in milk, then procecd as you do for fresh pumpkin pie. Mangos. - Tako as maoy large sweec peppers as you want to use, ripe or green- I use both. Remove ihe' core and seeds as carefully as possible, place I the shells in salt water two days, then remove them. Allow to drain. pareas much cabbage by chopping very fino as yon think will lili thetn ; season witb ealt and pepper. presa in firmly. When tilled put in 8ton6 jir, cover with good vinegar, placing a light press over them, t:e a covwring of thick paper over the jar. They will keep until warm weather.and longer if put in self-sealing jara, and aie very nice. Muskmellon Pickels. - Take ripe muakmellons, remove seeds and peel and cut in pieces. Put into a jar and cover with hot eider vinegar. Let them stand until tho next day and pour off the vinegar. Heat. and pour on them again. Do the sameevery day until the fourtli day. Weigh the mellón, and to every 5 Ibs. add 3 lbs. of white sugar and 1 qt. of the vinegar, and spice to suit. Put together and simmor till tender. The "next day but one pour off the syrup and boil it down so there will be just enough to cover the mellón. llominy Butter Cakes. - -Boil one pt. hominy very soft, and an eiual quantity of corn meal, with a teaspoonful of galt and a teaspoonful of butter. Make into a thin battor with threo eggs and a 9uflScient quantity of mllk, that is to say at east one qt., perhaps throe pis. Beat altogether some time, and iake them on a griddle or in wafHe irons. When well made and baked very thin, these cakes are delicious, especiaily when eaten with maple syrup. When eggs cannot be had yeast makes a good substituto. Put alarge spoonful in the batter and let it stand several hours to rise. If the griddle is uscd, the best way to grease it is to rub it over with a piece of salt pork wilh a fork. This prevents adhesión, and yet does not allow the fat to soak into what is cookod. Pudding. - Make thickbalterof flour, 2 two cupf uls of 8our milk, one toaspoonful of soda, pinch of salt, stoam 25 minutes in cups filledhalí full, and t-at with sauce or cream and sugar. Feather Cake. - Three egas, two oupfuls of sugar; ono of lard or butter; one cupful of milk; eight of ftour; two teaspooofuls of cream of tartar: one of soda: ono of lemon extract. Bróiled Tomatoes. - Select firm, ripe tomatoo3, cut tliem iti two, and place them upon a well-groased doublé broiling iron. Put thetu over a clear firo and broil, first one sido and tbon on tho other. Now plac on a hot dish and pour ovor them niolted butter, seasonecl with caynno pepper and salt. Servo immediately.