THE HOME.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2101, 17 November 1880, Page 4

THE HOME.

Boast Lamb. —Lay in the dripping pan, dash boiling water over it, and cook fifteen minutes for each pound. Baste with the gravy. A few minutes before taking it up dredge with flour and baste with butter. Pour the fat from tho gravy, thicken with browned flour, and stir in a teaspoonful of currant jelly. Boil and send up in a gravy boat, salt ing and peppering to taste. To Dbiyb Away Bats.— A lady writer in a recent number ef a New York journal, discourses in the following style concerning her treatment of rats and mice -We cleaned our premises of these detestable vermin by making a whitewash yellow with copperas and covering tho stones and rafters of the cellar with a thick coating of it. In every crevice where a rat might tread we put crystals of the copperas, and scattered the same in the corners of the floor. The result was a perfect stampede of rats and mice. Since that time not a footfall of either-rat or mouse has been heard about the house. Every spring a coat of tho yellow wash is given to the collar as a purifier as well as a rat exterminator, and no typhoid, dysentery, or fever attacks the family. Many persons deliberately attract all the rats in the neighbourhood by leaving fruits and vegetables uncovered in tho cellar, and sometimes even the scraps are left open for their regalement. Cover up everything eatable in the cellar and pantry, and you will soon drive them out.

Tbbatmbnt of thb Haxb. —How to preserve the hair is a subject which seems to interest almost everybody, if we may judge from the frequent enquiries from every direction which come to this office. One wishes to know what will prevent baldness, another how to preserve the heir from turning gray, another how to eradicate dandruff, &s. Now it is a delicate matter to recommend any special treatment, but Professor Wilson, of England, who is deemed high authority on the hair, condemns washing it, and advises, instead, thorough brushing. This promotes circulation, removes scurf, and is in all respects, ha siys, better than water. Cutting the hair does not, os commonly thought, promote its growth. Moat of the specifics recommended for baldness, not excepting petroleum, are mere stimulants, and are seldom or never permanently successful. Some of them give rise to congestion of the soalp. When a stimulant is desirable, ammonia is the best. It is safe.

For falling out of the hair, Dr. Wilson prescribes a lotion composed of water of ammonia, almond oil, and chloroform, ono part each, diluted wiih five parts alcohol, or spirits of rosemary, the whole made fragrant with a drachm of oil of lemon. Dab it on the skin, after thorough friction with the hair brush. It may be used sparingly or abundantly, daily or otherwise. For a cooling lotion, one made of two diacbms of borax and glycerine to eight ounces of distilled water is effective, allaying dryress, subduing irritability, and removing dandruff.

Both baldness and grayneaa depend on defective powers of the scalp skin, and are to be treated alike. What is needed is moderate stimulation, without any irritation. The following is good Rub into the bare places daily, or even twice a day, a linament of camphor, ammonia, chloroform, and aconite, equal parts each. The friction should be very gentle.

A MOTHER’S EXPERIENCE. I give my children plenty of good reading, and they utterly refuse bad when offered by companions. My oldest—a boy of fourteen—is hungry for history, biography, and natural history. I believe it is because I read such things with him when he was no more than eight, and from that time on, using a map and dictionary a great deal, and letting him see me use a cyclopaedia and explaining the reason why I used it. I read the best things in the newspapers aloud, and we talk about them, and they learned to discriminate for themselves thus. When a child has history referred to in a geography lesson, we get the history and read more about it. —“ N.Y. Christian Union.”