THE WISOONSIN FARMKER.



  CLJIINO Disu Covzas.-Dish covers should
always be wiped and polished es soon as they
are temoved from the tble.  If this is done
while they an wwen, it will be but litlie trou-
ble; but if the steam is allowed to dry on
them, you will find much difficulty in getting
the tarnish off from the inside.  When they
are wiped and pollihed, hang them up in their
places immediately.

  CoUaT PLASsTa.-Never having seen in
print an excellent substitute for court plaster,
for cuts and bruises upon the hands in cold
weather, I give you the following: Take half
a dozen pig's feet, well cleaned for cooking,
and boil o a jelly of say about half a pint or
less, then spread with a brush on any waste
scraps of silk, and we find it equal to any ad-
hesive plaster we have ever used. Any fatUy
matter in the boiling of the feet rises to the
surface, and when cold can easily be removed.

  SW If you would avoid waste in your fain.
ily, attend to the following rules, and do not
despise them because they appear so unimport-
ant-' many a little makes a mickle."
  When ivorybhaptdled knives turn yellow, rub
them with nice sandpaper or emery; it will
take off spots and restore whiteness.
  Silit pocket handkerchiefs and deep blue fac-
tory wiU not fade if dipped in salt water while
new.
  Lamps will have a less disagreeable smell if
you dip the wick yarn in strong hot vinegar
and let it dry.
  If you wish to preserve fine teeth, always
clean them thoroughly after eating your last
meal at night.
  Cotton, wet with sweet oil and paregoric,
relieves the ear-ache very soon.
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  WINS JELLY.-Soak half an ounce of gela-
tine in half a pint of water fifteen minutes,
then add half a pint of boiling water, set it on
the ire, keep stirring it till the gelatins is dis-
solved, add the juice of two lemons, sugar to
your taste, and Madeira wine enough to make
a quart in all; strain it and set it to cool.

  LeMo: Piz.-Take 4 lemons, grate the rind,
squeeze the juice, chop the pulp very fine, 4
teacups of sugar, the yolks of A eggs, 2 tea-
cups of milk, 4 tablespoonsahl of corn sarch;
beat well together andlbke, beat the white ot
the eggs with 6 tablespoonsful of white sugar
to a froth; when the pies are baked, put the
froth over thet, and sot them in the oven for
6 minttes.



         YOUM't CORNER.

            A Pretty Nqa teuma
  Professor Rogers gives the following in n re-
cent secientific paper: "Take a sbeet of fools-
cap or letter paper; roll it up so that the
opening at one end shall be large enough to
take in the full size of the eye, and at the other
end let the opening be not half so large. Take
it in the right hand, holding it between the
thumb and fore finger; place the large end to
the right eye, look through it with both eyes
open, towards the light.  You waiU fee a hole
through your hand. If you take it in your left
hand and hold it to your left eye, it will be the
same. You will, in both cases, be astonished
to Fee that you have a hole in your hand."

              An Indian Story.
  There is an Eastern story, which has its ver-
sion in many languages, ,of a beautiful damsel,
to whom a genius of surpassing power desired
to give a talisman. He enjoined her to take
herself across a field of standing corn; she was
to pluck the tallest and largest ear she could
find, but she was to gather it as she went for-
ward, and never pause in her path, or to step
backward in quest of her object. In propor-
tion to the size and ripeness of the ear she
gathered, so would be Its power as a talisman.
Shb went out upon her quest, says the legend,
and entered upon the field. Many a tall stalk
of surpassing excellence met her glance, but
she still walked onward, expecting always to
find one more excellent still. At last she
reached a portion of the field where the crops
were thinner and the ears more stunted. She
regretted the tall and graceful stalks she had
left behind, but disdained to pick those which
fell so farbelow what her ideas were of a per-
fect ear. But, alas! the stems grow more
ragged and more scanty as she trod onward;
on the margin of the field they were mildewed,
and when she had accomplished her walk
through the wAying pain, she emerged on the
other side without having gathered any ear
whatever. The gentils rebuked her for her
folly; but we are told that he gare her a oppor-'
tunity of realieving her error, W  May aply
this mystic little Indian fable to the reabtlea
of daily life. Children if you would succeed In
life form the habit of doing Z1h  sonsteats the
beat each moment.

  AN APOLoGY-Several articles iatended for
this Depsrtment are unavoidably crqwtded dut
this mo*th.  We shall try to make azends



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