Found wisdom
Some parents allow their children to acquire the very rude and unmannerly habit of breaking in upon their conversation and those of older persons with questions and remarks of their own. It is very uncivil to allow them to do so.
Some girls think it is interesting and attractive to be terrified at insects, and will shriek with fright if they happen to be chased a few rods by a flock of geese, but they only excite laughter and do not gain the admiration which a brave girl who tries to help herself would deserve.
A sun-bath costs nothing, and that is a misfortune, for people are deluded with the idea that those things only can be good or useful which cost money. But remember that pure water, fresh air and sunlit homes kept free from dampness, will secure you from many heavy bills of the doctors and give you health and vigor, which no money can procure.
Pictures are both for use and ornament. They serve to recall pleasant memories and scenes; they harmonize with the furnishing of the rooms. If they serve neither of these purposes they are worse than useless; they only help fill space which would look better empty, or gather dust and make work to keep them clean.
A room filled with quantities of trifling ornaments has the look of a bazar and displays neither good taste nor good sense. Artistic excellence aims to have all the furnishings of a high order of workmanship combined with simplicity, while good sense understands the folly of dusting a lot of rubbish.
A poor book had best be burned to give place to a better, or even to an empty shelf, for the fire destroys its poison, and puts it out of the way of doing harm.
Take a good-sized cupfull of ground coffee, and pour it into a quart of boiling water, with the white of an egg and the crushed shell. Stir well together, adding a half-cupful of cold water to clear. Put into the coffee boiler and boil for about a quarter of an hour; after standing for a little while to settle, pour into your coffeepot, which should be well scalded, and send to the table. The coffee should be stirred as it boils. To make coffee au lait, take a pint each of hot made coffee and boiling milk; strain through thin muslin into coffeepot, to get rid of the grounds, and serve hot.
[Handwritten in pencil on a sheet of torn ledger paper, laid in:]
Swell Cake
1 scant cup of lard
1 cup of sugar
1 egg (beat white seperate)
1 cup of sour milk / or
1 " " coffee cold mix with one tea S soda
1 heaping tablespoon cocoa
1 tea spoon ground cloves
1 " " " sinoman
1 cup seeded raisans
1/2 cup molasses
2 cups flour use more if needed
1 tea spoon of baking Powder
[Typed two times on a sheet of paper, laid in:]
Equal parts of each of the following:Blood Root-----Chloride of Zinc-----Flour
Mix the blood root, flour and zinc to form a thick paste . . . .
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