Democratic Press, Volume 2, Number 84, Decatur, Adams County, 21 May 1896 — Page 3

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H chm' IT.i: XX .-(Continued.) ■vin.K .1.1 »•" ••ar" f” r th * * «'>' M Y ’" ... ,-h sh.- had noon enough p*rthe <•»»»* of ‘■'•"'Pl-"-n ‘: «a. beyond Maud Neville's t> wa« infatuated about Willie . ..,'te of Ills misconduct she lox ■ ■ -h.il> ever. Thi» w« .illy and of Vanity: but eonaider. reader. how ■r,tones would be written >f a few ■*£ were not .illy nnd weak; and re--1.,.r '>•■« frail i« the heart of woman. K th"u-!.t nothing of the handsome dra-iv-e.o- admiration several g rl« Rtnnk and fortune were .ighing, nil beher heart wa» full of Willie Snow. K L W 1 e Snow, the man whom .he .till F'J her own. and whom .he believed Kd been given to her in a solemn aud ■L.c.r hour beneath the saffron skies. and K> the music of the dying evening wmd. ■ Mi.trer* Maud Neville was prompted ■fr 1 humane desire to keep the heart of K r brother in safety nnd to guide hm Kffeetioim aright. This desire frequently active nnd high-minded mat■L and from it unspeakable benefits aeKL to humanity. After one of these Earning encounter, between grass-plot B»d balcony, when Vanity had retired— down here. Tom." .aid Maud, in■fiicatiDg a garden sent; “what a pleasant ■Xaryou are smoking thi. morning! Now. ■ Master Tim. have you counted up the ■hearts you have broken since you came ■down here?” ■ "Ob. I don't know about that! the dralgo<in replied. “I really don't give my ■ mind to it—not much, you know, I Maudey.” I “I supp>se you will marry. Tom. and I inppise.'' Maud went on, "Arabella Hurdaistle will be the woman?” “Can't say." Tom replied diffidently. “But, Tom." Maud said, with an admirable air of surprise, “hare you and the Hardcastles fallen ont? You did uot .peak in this way a few days ago.” At which our dragoon's blush, just receding, broke out most visibly. “la one word,” Maud said, looking him fall in the face, “there i» u newcomer. I think I can guess." In this way Maud contrived so skillfully that there and then her brother confessed that he admired Vanity Hardware. and she, Hke the tactician she was. received the intelligence with perfect com-pi-ure, not protesting. This only .be Mid: "She is very handsome, good, kind; but then. Tom ” "1 know what yon mean," Tom remarked. seeing she hesitated. "Ought we to eisit her?” “Well, yon see, Tom, we have to ask web questions." “If you had to choose for me, nnd the thoice lay between Arabella and my newsower- ■■■■** “Really, Tom, I should not know what to do.” That may seem strange enough, but Maud could not bear the idea of having Arabella Hardcastle for sister-in-law. Her dislike was not a recent affair. Mrs. Hardcastle had brought her up from infancy, and had managed to make her. as child, girl and young woman, cordially detest her guardian. Arabella, too, had always been pitted against Maud. But that potent old lady had managed to entangle Tom Pembroke, for Tom was easy Mtn red. Accordingly, when Tom told his sister that he had really taken a fancy to Vanity Hardware, that sensible and straightforward young woman was in a fix. Perhaps of the two she might have preferred Vanity; but all lady readers will see that there were very grave objections to a marriage with this brave, beautiful, but certainly most nondescript heroine. “Which of the two would it be, Maud?” Tom saw his advantage, and pressed his question. Maud traced a pattern on the gravel with her foot, raised her eyebrows, ns if to signify that she was put in an unfair position; but she made no answer. "Os course,” said Tom, “I am now talking on the supposition that I felt such a step to be desirable, nnd also that—Miss Hardware would have me.” "Oh, Tom, ridiculous! Os course she would!” “How do you know? - ' he rejoined. “I am uot so sure of that." And he spoke so seriously that Maud felt he must have some reason for his thought, and she wns greatly astonished. Fancy wealthy, handsome, dashing, goodhumored Tom Pembroke, the prise for an earl's daughter, asking poor and pretty and helpless Vanity Hardware to be hie wife! And fancy her saying No! Here Would be materials for a novel indeed!

CHATTER XXI. At last the little patient wn» discharged from her hospital; and, all danger from Infection being over —so the doctor said -Maud Neville was able to thank her benefactress in person. That energetic young matron could not but feel that Tom needed no excuse for being smitten by Vanity Hardware. Maud felt a secret respect for the young actress, and could not but utter her thanks with the sisterly Warmth which she desired to expri-ss. And yet could Maud have read Vanity's secret! The actress was possessed with an idea which Maud would certainty have calk'd wicked, if not mean. Her soul was concentrated upon her purpose of wayward affection and merciless revenge. Her calculation was that Nancy’s attractions would be about used up by this time. Vanity judged her just the woman to fatigue a man soon. XV ill ie had known her spell once. She knew exactly tow to captivate him. This wicked, reck--Ims purpose made Vanity grave oind calm and superior as she talked with Maud Neville. Maud poured out her thanks, praised Vanity’s bravery, and said whatever the occasion suggested. Vanity hoard her with an air of condescending interest, as

one listens to the thanks of a grateful child. "I am glad I risked it,” she said, speaking to her own heart while appearing to answer Maud. “If I had died I should not have cared. But 1 am alive!" "Alive!” repeated Maud Neville. “But suppose your beauty had gone!" Vanity shuddered. Then s/he remembered her own former thought. "If God or Eate had wanted my beauty, it would have been taken. Now I am twice my own.” This was Greek to Maud; but she had sonu-fhing to say herself. Vanity was standing at the window, looking into the garden. At a sight of the soldier outside Maud saw a sarcastic smile upon the lips of the octrees, but it vanished quickly. “I am so proud of my brother!" "No wonder,” Vanity replied. “He is a hamtaome man." "Tom is good as well as handsome. O. he has a noble heart! For all his easy, self-indulgent ways, he thinks more of other people than of himself. You may smil',” she continued, with growing imprudence. "I suppose you have guessed that my brother admires you. But let me

tell but «<! have a> a ouigaiu. ' «f i H. 8. Porter, s lovi " Mayor (p'iun was about the onl.\. tt> > republican here who euuhl inustej ; Huilicienl courage to attend the rev '‘L pubiicin congressional convention” "T at Hartford City, yesterday. Pt”, Dyonia Schmidt's meat marker 1 ah, has l>een fixed up until it looktf 1 t»t | like a new place. New furniture* tu *'i io papered and other ncce things ”. r .‘ makes the place look decidedly all' V I tight. ch ". In the Spring a young nian'tf PX ,. fancy lightly turns to thoughts of it ii —DeWitt’s Little Early Riserai •tra for they always cleanse the livetj h “V purify the blood and invigoialtt rest th ** system. W. H. Nachtrieb. k It will take a month yet to com

t:— if he asked tue. “What!” exclaimed Maud Neville. “Not marry Tim!” “No.” Vanity said cleverly, “for I love aomHwdy else.” "Do tell me—forgive me for asking. I» he handsome?” “Handsome! Oh, more than handsome —to me.” Vanity kept her own secret lock-, d in her breast. The strength of her purpose, the conviction that her wrongs in the past Justified her present schemes, enabled her to accept Maud Neville's congratulations with perfect calmness. \ anity was a law unto herself. But another and mightier hand than her own will was to fashion her future. That very night the smallpox laid her low! Poor Vanity! The doctor had pronounced her safe from all danger; but some inscrutable speck of infection had found its way into iher blood; and the face, whose beauty she had an hour before regarded with a thrill of vindictive pride, was at the mercy of this destructive disease. The whole establishment was upset, and rhe doctor, in his fresh alarm, insisted that the family should depart. Maud Neville made one bold pn>i>osa! to nurse Vanity herself, but this was sternly forbidden, and Sister Catherine, who happened to be in rhe neighborhood, declared that she would wait upon Vanity and see her through the disease. In this manner rhe fitful life of Vanity Hardware wound its way into the valley of the shadow of death. As the malady progressed Vanity grew delirious. “Willie, Willie!” She murmured, in a voice deep as the note of a nightingale, and just as though she were breathing the words on his breast, “we will be so happy—far away—over the sea, living and loving together. Away, away from this horrid England! Oh, how 1 hate England!” Sister Catherine knew a great deal of Vanity’s former history. Listening to these wanderings, which were repeated with a significant persistency, she gradually discerned the filament of real feeling and intention on which the whole was threaded. “If you live,” she said, speaking aloud, “poor.’ wandering child. 1 will try to teach you that there is another love than this!” Vanity heard the words, and answered, ■till wandering; ••O, Willie, it is too late now, “ 'I am dying, dying—only I here importune Death awhile, until Os many thousand kisses, the poor last I lay upon thy lips.’ ” “O, Father!” the Sister cried, “slay this child’s beauty, and then raise her up to be Thine for evermore!" CHAPTER XXII. Vanity's illness might be compared to the course of a river. There was tlhe snatch of delirium when the patient was impetuous and fitful; then came the period of blindness and silence, ns if the stream, sinking down between deep batiks, rolled on dark and noiseless to the sen. “Tell me,” she moaned to Sister Catherine one day, after the doctor had gone, “is there any hope?” “Yes, Child,” she answered soothingly; “with care you will recover.” “I don't mean that,” she replied. “Shall I be marked?” “He fears you will. I don’t wonder if you grieve over that pretty, sweet face. But listen, child; you have to learn t» say, ‘Not my will, but Thine, be done.' And you will learn to say it.” “Never,” cried Vanity—“never! Listen, there is a man whom I loved, and who loved me. We had promised ourselves to each other, and a woman came and stole his heart.” “Then he is hers—not yours."

*T moan* to wtn him back," VanHy continued; "I knew he rould not resist ma. But now my face hi destroyed, aud all la •ver, ami I want to die." “Thank God. who has given you tlma for reptataoce," the Mister said gravely. “His ways are not our ways. Ho is loading you by paths you know not." Two or three hours Inter Mister Catherine, finding her a little rosier, said to her: "Would yon like me to tell about s man who-once—wanted to marry me?" There was a strange tremor In ths" usually calm voice as the Sister spoke. “Do let me hear it," Vanity said. "We met when he was twenty-five ant I twenty-one, and w<- both « ere |»«ir. We fell in love. I think ho really loved me. I know I really loved him. The story Is commonplace enough - at least to the cur. After we had waited five yearn for a fortune to enable us to marry, he secured u good appointment. My heart was throbbing with bliss when 1 received a lettei from him. written in a style of cold jus tice and formal honor, which stabbed mt to the heart. He had ceased to care fol me. I wrote and released him, and when 1 closed the letter 1 looked up. and there was my life around me, a desolate wildernose. My strength failed, my face grew aged with anguish, my hair turned white. 1 watched the signs, and was glad of them. I had been well laught, or 1 might bars killed myself. We were living in th< country, and one Sunday morning I went out for an early walk. Since my sorrows I had never gone to church, and I heard the bells ringing in the village for an early service. The idea struck me that I would go in and see if there I could calm my mind. As I entered the clergyman was reading the sentence. ‘Come unto Me, all that travail and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.’ “Now, let me tell you a fact. As I knelt there it seemed to me that an invisible hand was put into mine. I did truly and actually feel as if a hand clasped um*. I looked up. No one was near me. The clergyman was some way off. Then I seemed to hear a voice saying ‘Are there no sorrows beside your own’

breaking hearts but yours? No sick t? No hunger? No nakedness?' Then the first time I realized that I will r one in a great fellowship of grief as overwhelmed, but with a blesset •ow now. When the cup came to mi >uld scarcely hold it. The clergyman my agitation, and kindly helped my nblmg hand, and I saw my own tears ping down into the wine 1 tasted. Bui p that moment there was a new lift >re me. And I have been happy evei >e in my own way. People »r.y all sortt lungs about religion; I only know what |.-ion has been to me. A new life —a life when the old one was withered blasted and dead! All that was twen(ears ago.” (That became of farm?" Vanity asked, le went his way and prospered. He is tried now, with a large and happy famkurage, energy, tenderness, and rare Ivledge of the heart were shown by l*r Catherine. She never lost pace with Vanity; she never shrunk

n -. iv u reproving her reckless notions; and she never lost sight of the nrethod by which she must lead this wander.ng child of Nature Into the way of peace. Sister Catherine gradually gained ground. She never lost an opportunity, and she read Vanity’s character with rare insight. In spite of all the sick actress would pour forth in her passionate brokenhearted way. the sister kept repeating that life was love, and that there was a life open to Vanity. At times, with accents of scorn, she would contrast this with Vanity’s old ideal; and at last Vanity fairly confessed that the sister's conception vs life was higher than her own. Vanity’s full heart emptied itself now. “I have been so wild and sinful, and my life is so broken up. and everything has gone to pieces, and there is nothing left! But if you will help me, I will live as you tell me, and not be afraid, and try to do the best I can!" A little incident then sealed Vanity's resolution. She felt her hand drawn gently toward the sister, who clasped it fast, after which the sick gin felt tears fulling down upon it like rain. And Vanity knew that these were tears of love and joy, and all that the sister had said to hei about goodness became a reality in a mo ment; and from that hour her feet wen set upon the way life. (To be continued.) Flowers in the Phillippines. Nearly every traveler in the I’hillip pines finds much interest In the prodigious growth of Howers. There are over thirty varieties of orchids in the forests, and dozens of lilies of mammoth proportions that are never seen outside of the tropics. The Malapo lily is the largest. Its leaves are often six feet long and two feet wide, while Its stems are three inches 'J diameter. It Is In bloom five mouth*.it the year, and its blossoms are :Ut large as t peck measure. Carnations grow In phenomenal vtv rlety all over the rural districts, and frequently cover an acre or more, while geraniums, whose luxuriance excites exclamations of surprise from nearly every beholder for the first time, grow like trees and great clumps of bushes. Geraniums that have grown up ths trunk and along the limbs of immense forest trees are to be seen frequently. The lazy, Indifferent natives seldom touch them, and they grow on and on for years. Along tne rural roadt there are everywhere wild popples ol the most delicate yellow flowers and large stems. From the trees In tdi« forest there ore hundreds of vines and parasites of the most brilliant blossoms, and in the spring season th« air all over the several islands is foi a time fairly heavy with floral fragrance. Both the Tagnls and the Bocals have no taste for the superb flora of the Phllllpplnee, and one seldom sees any kind of a flower or vine cultivated a-i the home of a native. The tropical luxuriance sometimes causes a beautiful wild geranium ora species of chrysanthemum to spring up at the side of a bamboo hut, and, because the ria tlves are too lazy to do what is noi absolutely necessary to comfort or lift* it will not be torn up or molested. In a recent magazine article Join Morley says: "There are probably noi six Englishmen over fifty whose live* need to be written or should be written.”

ABOUT THE FARM SUBJECTS INTERESTING TO RURAL READERS. Mome Valuable Hints on Melon Culture- How to Prevent Itretrnctlon by Insect a Feeding Huy to Hoge Don't Cover Heeds Deeply. Melon Culture. Puinpklna aud cucumbers will grow everywhere, but there seems to be a prejudice or conviction among ninny that melons arc difficult to grow. On the contrary, they enn be grown na easily as nny of the vine vegetables. Insects nre their worst enemies, but are not troublesome after the vines have started to run. Air-slacked lime dusted on thickly when the plants nre wet with dew or rain will keep off the troublesome flro-bectlro, and nothing Is so cheap or effective. Tolxtcco dust Is also good. Melons like a warm, moist, sandy or gravelly loam, though muskmelons will grow in a heavier soli than watermelons, but the flavor is beet when grown on lighter land. The main secret In melon culture is to start the plants early. Muskmelons \ •'Si 5) M unreal. Molrofie. Emerald com. DELICIOUS MVSKMELONS. ehould Im» planted 4x6 feet and watermelons Bxlo feet apart. They should be cultivated as long as possible aud will cover the whole ground at these distances. The land should lie heavily fertilized with good manure, and a liberal handful of fertilizer hoed in around each hill. Big melons and lots of them do not grow where plant food 'is scarce. Os the muskmelons and cantaloupes, the former ix-lng the round, netted ones, and the latter the long, smooth sorts, the Emerald Gem is one of the earliest and best. It is ■quite small, dark green, deeply ribbed, has thick flesh, small cavity, and the very finest flavor. The Melrose, a now sort, is very handsome and good. Green Montreal is large, and a very good, late kind. —Orange Judd Farmer. Dairy Herds Infected. Commenting on the reported decision of the French Government that all live stock inqsirti-d into that country hereafter must be subjected to the tuberculin test, the New York Tinies says that this country should prepare for similar action on the part of other foreign nations, to which we export cattle to the value of alsmt f30.(M»0,000 per annum. The Illinois Board of Live Stock Commissioners has determined, “for the welfare of the general public and for the protection of the Inmates of the various charitable institutions throughout the State, to subject all dairy cattle connected with such institutions to the tuberculin test.” Os the large herd attached to an asylum In Elgin nearly half of the seventy-live cows were found to be tuberculous. The second herd which the commissioners examined was one of 182 cows, attached to the Eastern Illinois Hospital, nt Kankakee. Here forty-thn«e were found to be diseased and were killed. To Prevent Horses Hating Rapidly. When a horse eats his grain too rapidly—as many horses do—a device like that shown in the illustration is of advantage. It is a rectangle of stout | WIRK COVEH FOB FEED DOX. wire that will lit easily inside the feed box. nnd from side to side are stretched lighter wires, or a piece of poultry netting is lltti*d into the wire rectangle. This, laid upon the grain in the box. prevents the horse taking too large mouthfuls. It falls, of course, as the grain is eaten. Where the grain for the horse's ration is poured Into the manger, the same end may be secured by nailing parallel strips of wood across the bottom of the manger. It much better, however, to feed in a box which can be washed out occasionally, for where soft feed, especially, is turned into a manger, the latter Is likely soon to become sour. Hay for Hogs. Feeding hay to hogs may seem new, yet therearefarmers who provide bulky food to their hogs in winter, when green food is scarce, by cutting clover hay - very short and steaming or scalding it. The cut hay. after it becomes softened, Is sprinkled with bran or corn meal and fed w’arm. It Is not only highly relished by the hogs, but promotes thrift, nnd is as cheap as corn, serving also to afford a balanced ration. Potatoese Farmers who are disgusted with low prices for potatoes will find many others who are also not now very partial to them, and there will probably be a much smaller crop this year, simply because farmers will not venture Into a crop which gave such little I profit as potatoes did last year. The 1 fhet is that it was not so much the

acreage devoted to potatoes Inst year that canned the largo crop as It wns to tha favorable conditions for their growth. It being wliat Is termed a “good potato year." Kina of Inaectlcldea. The one supreme Insecticide Is kerosene; and kerosene emulsion should Im* always kept on band for Immediate use when needed. It la Invaluable to be sjMingcd Into the l>ark of all trees twice or three times a year. 1 use It on maples, elms, nnd all lawn us well as orchard trees. It Is made by dissolving half a pound of any hard aonp In a gallon of Isdllng water. Then add two gallons of kerosene nnd churn al! together with a common force pump until the substance la homogeneous; that Is, churn for ten minutes. Use a pint In a pall of water on strong trees, n weaker solution on tender plants. Tills Is the remedy also for eablsige worms. I add heliobore nnd use the combined mixtures on currant worms nnd nil softtHMli(*d peats. H<i( Cholera. Hog cholera makes fearful ravages wherever it appears on farms, and although hundreds of remedies have been suggested, yet there is no sure cure known. Experiments show, however, that when- the disease ap|H*ars most fr<*quent!y is on farms where the hogs are Inbred and confined too closely to a grain diet. Feeding slop of a filthy kind Is also a cause. To avoid the disease fe<*d the hogs on a variety of food, making grass an article of diet, give clean water, nnd procure new males every year. Effective Hproyina. Smith Hawley, of Michigan, in a lecture before the horticultural society of that State, said that the picture so often seen in agricultural papers of a man standing on a wagon and throwing spray into apple trees as he was drawn along is a delusion. To do thorough work one must go all about a tree and throw spray upon it from every direction. When tills work is properly done the trees will retain their foliage until the snow falls and will produce much fruit on off year*. Insect Destruction Prevented. Gardeners are often pestered by small insects eating young plants. To prevent the destruction, nail two halfhoops together at the center and sharpen the ends. Press the ends into the ground over the plants and throw over them cotton mosquito netting or cheese zw ■ 7- ' THE CROP ASSfBF.D. cloth. The e<lges may be held down by drawing dirt on them. Such protection Is letter than boxes, as it lots in air and light. The frames can be kept for use from year to year.—Fffrm and Home. Don’t Cover Deeply. When covering small seeds be careful not to have too much earth over them. They cannot push through the ground after germination in some soils, and Ily where the laud banks. Such seeds ns carrots, parsnips, turnips, kale, cabbala*, etc., require only a slight sprinkling of dirt for a covering. Beets, peas, beaus aud other large seeds may Ih* planted deeper, but half an inch of dirt is sufficient for them. Feeding* Many farmers do not draw the line In feeding. They give the growing stock the same rations which are allowed to fattening animals, nnd maka no distinction between winter and summer feeding other titan to use the pasture in summer. It is a waste of food to give corn and ground grain at every meal in the summer, unless moderately, ami it is of no advantage to have young stock very fat. Itoyal Disobedience. An amusing anecdote is told of Princess Royal, now Empress Frederick. When’ a child the queen had some difficulty in keeping her in order. On one occasion, when Dr. Brown was staying at Windsor in attendance on Prince Albert, the little princesses, hearing their father call him "Brown." used the same form of speech to him also. ’ The queen at once corrected them for it; all obeyed except the Princess Royal, who was threatened with “bed if she did It again. The next day. when Dr. Brown came down to breakfast, the little princess got up and said: "Good morning, Brown!” Then, seeing her mother looking at her, site continued: "And good night. Brown, for I’m going to bed!" And she walked resolutely away to her punishment. It it well known that winds play on Important role lu the distribution of seeds. Prof. Bolley records that In two square feet of a three-weeks-old nnd three-inch-deep snowdrift upon an ice pond ten yards from nny weeds he found nineteen weed seeds, nnd in another drift similarly situated thirty-two seeds, representing nine kinds of weeds. While the wind was blowing twenty miles per hour a peck of mixed seeds was poured upon the snow crust, nnd ten minutes after 11)1 wheat grains, fifty-three flax seeds, forty-three buckwheat and ninety-one ragweed seeds were found in a trench thirty rods from where they had been poured upon the crust. The dust nnd small chips from turquoise polishing can be made up Into artificial stones by means of hydraulic pressure that puzzle the best experts.

A Handy Clothes Pole. A convenient pole to hung clothes oi dish towels upon behind the kitchen stove la worth thinking about Its eapoeiid convenience ilea in tne fact that It can lie raised to tlie celling, out of the way. when not In use. Cords at either end pass up through pulleys In COXVESriKXT CLOTHES POLK. the celling nnd along the ceiling to a loop near the wall, where the two cordn meet and are attached to an Iron weight which Is large or small according to the prospective loads which ths pole la to carry. It can easily be mad* and put up by the home carpenter. Banana F*ala<i. Put into a small bowl or saucepan the yolk of oue egg. oue saltspoouful salt aud half a teaspoonful powdered sugar. Rtlr in oil slowly till one cup has been used, adding two tablespoonfuls lemon Juice ns needed to thiu it Color u teaspoonful of the dressing with a tiny bit of prepared green color paste and then stir this Into the whole, using only enough to give a pale tint of green. Just before s>*rvIng add two tablespoonfuls thick, whipped cream. Cut four bananas twice lengthwise nnd then each piece into quarters. Put two small lettuce leaves together, lay several pieces of banana on the lettuce and cover with the dressing. Arrange these portione on a large platter and garnish wttli the tiny center leaves. Spinach with Ekk Garnish. Pick over one peck of spinach, wash until clean, cook In boiling water until tender. 3D to 30 minutes. Turn into a colander, let cold watef run through it, drain very dry and chop it tine. Fifteen minutes before serving put into a shallow stewpan a large teaspoonful butter, a teaspoonful salt, a saltspoonful pepper and a saltspoonful nutmeg. When melted add th# spinach aud place where it will become very hot, but not burn. When ready to serve turn into a round vegetable dish and garnish with hard-boiled eggs cut lengthwise into four or six pieces, and laid on the edge of the spinach pointing toward the center. CookieH. Take nine tablespoonfuls of granulated sugar aud four of butter and cream them well together; add four well-beaten eggs, one cup of milk, a little gratis! nutmeg, once ounce of caraway sei-d or, if preferred, oue cup of currants, two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder, a pinch of salt, and enough flour to make a dough that will roll out easily. Cut out with a round biscuit cutter and bake in a moderate oven for twenty minutes. This will make about fifty cookies. Deche Cream. Take four eggs aud beat them thoroughly. lee ng out two whites; add gradually 0...‘ and a half pints of milk. Mix in carefully four tablespoonfuls of flour, two ounces of jtowdered sugar and a little grated lemon peel tit would be better to use a little essence of lemon Instead of the lemon peel). Boil all these ingredients over a slow fire until the flour Is well dissolved. Prepare a shallow dish with almond cakes or maccaroons, and pour the mixture througlt a sieve on the cakes. This Is to be eaten cold. Indian Pudding. Take two quarts of new milk and boil. Have mixed together one cup of molasses and two cups of corn meal. When the milk bolls, stir all together until well scalded. Add butter the size of an egg. a little salt, a quart of sweet apples. I’ut into a baking dish and bake it slowly six hours, or better, bake all day. Household Hints. If soot is dropped on a carpet throw down an equal quantity of salt aud sweep all off together. Always put the sugar used in a tart in the center of the fruit, not on top; it makes the crust sodden. Fruit stains can be eradicated by oxalic acid, and should be seen to at once while the stain is fresh. Frying pans should always be scoured with snX directly after they have been used, nnd wiped clean with a cloth. Pastry is lighter if mixed with a knife instead of the hand, nnd rolled with a glass bottle Instead of a rolling pin. When an iron bedstead creaks with each movement of the sleej>er, take out the laths and wrap the end of each in a newspaper. To prevent lamp chimneys from cracking put them into a kettle of water, gradually heat It till it boils, and then let It as gradually cool. It Is not generally known that rats cannot resist sunflower seeds. A trap baited with these seeds is the most efficacious method of catching rats. Lamps should be filled every day and chimneys washed once a week. To procure a perfect light let every lamp have a new wick once a month, aud Just before lighting rub carefully tlie body or stand of the lamp, so that all smell, of the oil be removed.