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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1900
Page
7
The house department invites Lowell Journal readers to send household recipes hints and thoughts for the About the House column. Readers may mail ideas to the About the House department Lowell Journal for consideration.
A reflective, somber poem about fate and art, as a blind weaver prays for beauty to remain amid toil. It mixes lines about threads, wheel, love, and fear, attributed to Myrtle Reed in Outlook, followed by brief domestic tips on cleaning, baking, and silver care from period ephemera.
The piece surveys domestic routines and fashion notes with a humorous tone. It contrasts American and Scottish phrasing for drying clothes, praises foresight with canned foods for unexpected guests, and advises on sheets, handkerchiefs, trained skirts, and white ribbons. It notes white linen as timeless, critiques street-ready trained skirts, and offers cleaning tips for ribbon fabrics.
A fragment discusses using ammonia in water to stimulate plant growth with caution on quantity. It mentions mildew removal from white cloth using a solution of chloride of lime in cold water, allowing it to stand before pouring off.
The piece reviews the Clayton Bulwer era Nicaragua canal question, the Hay Pauncefote treaty amending it, and U S plans to build an interoceanic waterway. It notes McKinley administration efforts, naval expansion, and continued British interest, with details of the Holland submarine boat trials on the Potomac under Capt Cable.
Recipes and guidance on feeding sick children emphasize milk based regimens during fevers, with koumiss preparation and cautions for scarlet fever, whooping cough, and diphtheria. Directions cover dairy soups, soft foods, frequent small meals, and temperance eggnog substitutions, concluding with detailed marmalade steps.
The piece critiques fashion notes from the Boston Sunday Journal. It laments spelling and grammar, notes butterflies as hat ornaments, mockingly highlights menswear fads like jeweled buttons, and warns of seal skins growing scarce. It argues the Boston bag functions as a detached pocket convenient yet easily snatched in crowds.
A set of simple kitchen ideas including a baked breakfast dish mixing cracker crumbs and ham with eggs, and a hearty emergency soup using canned salmon and milk. Also a recipe for Macaroni and Ham Croquettes with macaroni, ham, parsley, and a milk flour paste.
In a breezy rural dialogue, Miss Kidd faces a recurring absence as 41 call and a summer boarder comments on a life spread across 320 acres. Charlotte laments over her poetical husband Arthur from Carlsbad who professes love through a photo kissed daily, until she reveals a cheeky prank with her mother’s photo in his bag.
The passage reflects on religious temples as universal symbols of human aspiration. It contrasts diverse forms from the Druid forest to African huts, Indian pagodas, and Christian chapels, asserting that temples embody inborn spiritual longings across societies and eras.
A fragment urges readers to mention Hood's Sare in advertisements seen in the Courter. It hints at a proverb about a good wife and health as wealth and references a desire to convey reader notices to advertisers. The text is sparse and promotional in tone.
Santa Fe reports a vivid portrait of Edward Ladd an Apache Indian interpreter from Dulce New Mexico at the Jicarilla agency. The article notes his fluency in English and Spanish multiple Indian dialects his pride in Apache dress and leadership role alongside Chief Hate.
Two carriage horses began refusing oats after meals, whimpered and showed electric sensations when nibbling from a conductive iron manger. Vet Austerhois found moisture on paint created a live path from wiring to the iron, defeating the horses only when oats were dry, with saliva moisture completing the circuit. danger noted for veterinary practice.
Instructions describe making a wheat pudding from cracked wheat using sweet milk sugar salt cinnamon and optional raisins. Combine one cup milk with one third cup cracked wheat and similar sugar, add small salt and cinnamon, bake two hours, stir in crust, bake until creamy and brown, serve hot or cold.
Mix cold leftovers of potatoes and meat with other cold vegetables if desired. Chop into dice and turn into a pan with the previous day’s meat gravy. Stir until quite dry and crisp, resembling dry hash, then serve hot in a deep dish.
A compact instruction describes a bread toast method. Peel crusts from sliced one inch thick bread, dip in a mixture of three eggs and a pint of sweet milk with a pinch of salt, fry in hot fat until rich brown, butter, dust with powdered sugar and serve hot.
Clean a pig head and simmer in ample water four to five hours until bones detach from meat. Remove bones, chop meat finely, skim grease, return meat to liquor, season with salt pepper and sage, add cornmeal to mushy consistency, cook slowly an hour or more, pour into pans and cool. Slice and fry for breakfast or use as meat substitute.
Instructions describe reheating clabbered milk, cutting curd into squares, gentle stirring, draining in a bag overnight, then turning the curd to season with salt and pepper and adding cream. The resulting cheese can be formed into balls or stored in glass jars for aging or use.
Moisten bread crumbs with milk and layer with chopped cold turkey seasoned with salt and pepper, repeating until the pan is full. Add any cold dressing or gravy. Make a thickening of one or two eggs half a cup of milk quarter cup butter and bread crumbs spread over top, bake covered half an hour uncover to brown.
To the beaten yolks of three eggs add one quart of soured milk or buttermilk a batter thicker than for pancakes cornmeal salt soda dissolved in warm water and the beaten whites of three eggs. Dress each waffle with hot cream butter and sugar before serving two tablespoons per waffle.
A brief home guide shows how to make spiced vinegar by combining three pounds of sugar with two ounces each of mace cloves pepper allspice turmeric celery seed white ginger and ground mustard in spice bags. Place bags in a jar with the sugar and fill with strong vinegar. steep for several days before use.
Let one teacupful of milk come to a boil and pour it over a teacupful of bread crumbs. Break six eggs into a bowl, stir until well mixed, add the milk and bread, mix well, season with salt and pepper, pour into a hot pan with melted butter, fry slowly, cut into squares, brown on both sides and serve.
Simple egg sauce instructions boil four eggs ten minutes then cool. Peel and chop yolks of all and whites of two, mix into melted butter. This easily made sauce serves with boiled poultry or fish.
A portrait of Mrs Kruger highlighting her strict conservatism and wealth. She has never employed a white servant, hosts visitors at 6 am, preserves garden fruit by drying it in a coffin, and rejects new ideas while clashing with her husband’s fresh English habits.
An elderly man entered a Lewiston bank and asked tellers to count a roll of bills. He claimed he could not count and did not know the total. Bills were rolled and pasted together, needing solvent to separate. After counting, the teller determined the amount was different than the man believed.
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