Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1879 — Page 3

The Rensselaer Union. REN6BELAEB, - • / INDIANA.

THE SILVER KEY IB LOST. ■<lne gate of pearl that opened to the »00l Of enr dear ohild ia ahut. The key ii loot; ahe cannot even hear . r The aniluuhrd cry I pot 8p to the Father, tpat Hia dear hand may pen the door that ahuta ull aonnd a«ay. Bhe only watches me and trie, to frame,. The few aweet word, of apeech '» Bhe learned before the silent angel came; Aa one might blindly reach For ailter ooin, that plint and elide away, Bhe loat bright coin of apeeoh from day to day. The temple that God made is very ati 11; Our child can hear no Bound. Bhe doe. not brighten at our evening hymn; No half-shut roue is found To open in her oheek with audden start, When words are read that should touch any heart. I do not know this secret of the Lord’s; The anguish ia so new, I have not learned to say, “ God’s will be done And vet it must be true That He. in loving mercy, shut the door Of sound to tfiat young soul forevermore. Forever must I aay, “ My little child, Gome, lean upon my knee. And trust me till 1 learn thro’ mother-love How tender God must he.’’ I have not said, aa yet. “ His will be done.” Teach me unquestioning faith, my little one. I try the wards from which God’s master-hand Hath taken the true key: And when those eyes are lifted to mine own, It almost seems to me That thou const read my faoe and catch my , 1 tone. That soul can speak to soul; and then, my own, The bitterness is gone that kept my soul From trusting God in this. The sorrow of mv life. Oh! sweet, dumb child; It may be 1 would miss The strange, sweet tenderness that came to me hen first 1 learned how still thy life would be. It lies like dew on the deep-hearted rose, And, if I keep alway This tenderness, it may be at the last . My quivering lip can say That it was best for others I should feel This anguish pierce my soul like the sharp steel. —Adelaide.’ Stout, in If. T. Evening Post.

STUTTERING.

The Afflictions of h Young Man With an Impediment In Hie Speech, “ It don’t bother me,” he said, ‘‘except when I get excited, or have been taking a little too much to drink. 1 could sit down and talk to you for an hour without stuttering; but it got me into an awful scrape a while ago. You see, I was going home on last Thursday night —” “On Friday morning,” I suggested. “ No—l was early enough that time. Not later than eleven o'clock. Just after I turned into Spring street I met a party of three men, who had been drinking pretty hard. They seemed to be strangers in the city, and there was no doubt that they had lost their way. “ They stopped as I came up, and one of them, a big, broad-shouldered man, faced me and addressed me in this style: “‘Will you p-p-please to t-t-tell me the way to C-c-c-canal street?’ “ When I perceived that he stuttered I was afraid that there was going to be trouble; but what could I do? He would have been sure to go for me if I had tried to pass on without answering, and I was ashamed to turn and rurf away. I felt that I was getting excited, and was sure that a fit of stammering would follow; but I tried to keep cool, and blurted it out in this shape; “ ‘ There is B-b-broadway, and Canal street is f-f-four blocks farther down.’ “ I know that niy face turned red, but don’t believe it was near as red as his. He was as wild as a tornado. “‘Y-y-young man,’ said he, ‘you are t-t-trying to m-m-m-mock me.’ “N-n-no, 1 ain’t,’ said I, more excited thaujjver. «P-p-p-pou my word, I ain’t.’ “‘You lie!’ he shouted, as he was ■too mad to stutter any more, * and I mean to teach you better manners.’ “With that, before I could either run or dodge, he hauled off with that big fist of his and lot me have a thumper right between the eyes, just where the black was bound to spread finely on both sides of my face. 1 thought that lightning had struck me, and felt as if my head was caved in, or my nose broken, at least. He dropped me another on the left cheek, while I was gazing at a street full of stars, and then one of the fellows with him took a hand in the game, or a foot, and lent me a kick that landed me on the other side of the gutter. “After that I don’t know what happened, until one of my friends found me somewhere up town, wandering about like a blind man. ■ He asked me what was the matter, and I begged him to take me to a doctor. He got some raw oysters, which I put to my eyes, and then took me to a doctor, but I couldn’t get any leeches, and it may be a week or so yet before my face recovers its natural color.” I sympathized again with the young gentleman, but asked him whether he had not sense enough to refrain from trying to talk to stuttering men. “I ought to have,” he replied, “aa I never fail to get into a scrape when I do it; but I can’t seem to help it” I asked him whether there wete many stuttering people in New York, remarking that 1 seldom met any person who was afflicted in that way. “ I should say there were,” answered Billy, “by the way I meet them. But l suppose it will be just my confounded luck to run across every stammerer on this side of the Atlantic, sooner or later.’Li. ; ■ , ' “Are they very sensitive?” “ Sensitive is no name for it. They flare up in a minute, and are ready to go raving mad if they suspect anybody of mocking them. It is because I know how touchy they are that I try to steer clear of them, but it is not al ways that I have sense enough to succeed. Sometimes the devil gets hold of me and drives pae into a stuttering match when I know that I ought to keep out of it. Not long ago I was in a bar-room town, wnere there happened to bo nobody I knew. I had been drinking rather more than was good for me, I suppose, and felt rather lonesome and liberal. “Down the counter was another young chap who ’was pretty full, and was trying to stand off the barkeeper for one more drink. I noticed that he stuttered pretty badly, and wanted to fraternize with him. So I thought that I would invite him to join me, though I hadn’t the least idea that I_would stutter over it. But this was the way it came out: v “ ‘ Y-y-young f-f-feller,’ said I, ‘won’t you t-t-take something with me?’ “Of coarse he made sure that I was mocking him, and he turned and went for me like a Royal Bengal tiger. I am happy to say that I ran a little '< faster than he did, and 1 didn't stop, after 1 had reached the sidewalk, until . I had put. several. Mocks Between nap and the bar-room.” „' “ That was your fault,” I Ventured to suggest •

“Yes, that was my fault,” said Bill; “but it happens sometimes when no mortal being could possibly prevent It. One'Oii' my saddest adventures in that line occurred to me last winter. 1 was at a ball one night, a real nioe ball, and was enjoying myself remarkably well. There was a verv pretty young lady at tfie ball, of good family, a fine dancer and quite the rage, to whom I was anxious to be introduced. I secured an introduction without much trouble, and asked her for the pleasure of a dance with hor, in my sweetest manner and without the slightest shade of'a stutter. She graciously assented, and handed me her tablets, on which "There was plenty of room, as the danoing had just begun. “‘Pleaso to p-p-put your came down,’ said she, * f-f-for whatever dance you prefer.’ “ What a pity it was that she stanw mered so! What a pity, too, that I didn’t h*Ve sense enough to put my name down where I wanted it without saying a word! But I was sure that I could speak without stuttering, and this is what I said: “‘ 1 will t-take the f-f-first waltz, if you p-p-please.’ “ ‘ Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned,’ and, of course, she supposed that she was scorned. I don’t think that my face could possibly have been redder than hers was just then, but I know that it burned like fire. “ ‘How dare yob m-m-mock me?’ she exclaimed, as the sheet lightning shot out of her eyes. ‘ You are n-n-no gentleman, and I wish my b b-b-big brother were here, to p-p-punish you as you deserve.’ “ Wnat could I do? I tried to explain the trouble to her, but I stuttered worse than before, and she only got madder and madder. She called the floor-manager, told him that I had insulted her, and asked him to order me out of the ball-room. But he happened to be a particular friend of mine,and he assured her that I had an unfortunate impediment in my speech, and succeeded in pacifying her. I doubt whether she more than half believed him, as she not only refused to dance with me, but would never after that speak to me, nor even look at me.” I condoled with the unfortunate young man and remarked that his unpleasant adventures might be exceptional. “Do you believe,” I asked, “that the stuttering of one person begets in other persons a propensity to stutter?” “Of course, it does. You see how straight I am talking now; but if you should begin to stutter, I don’t believe that I could keep from chiming in, and 1 suppose it is the same with others.” “And do all stutterers, when they are answered by stutterers, imagine that they are being mocked?” “Every mother’s son of them, and every mother’s daughter, too. I don’t believe they can help it It is as natural as for sparks to fly upward. Even those with whom I am well acquainted, knowing that I usually speak straight enough, suspect me of putting up a game on them if I stammer in their presence. That reminds me of the saddest event of my life. I don’t like to talk about it, but will tell you the story, as you take such an interest in the matter. Not long ago—never mind just when—l fell in love with a girl who lived in Twenty-third street. She was just as sweet and nice as you ever find them, and I was struck just dead gone. We met at a number of balls and sociables, and got on together splendidly. There was such a complete understanding between us that we were as good as engaged; but it was necessary that I should see her father and get his consent —not to the engagement, but to what you may call the proper preliminaries. Although I was so well acquainted with the girl, you' see, I haa not the slightest acquaintance "with her parents, and had, never met her at home. So I had to call on her father, and ask his permission to wait on the girl, in the usual proper style, you know. Mary Ann promised to post him up about me, and to smooth the way for me, as I felt somewhat embarrassed about the business. “At the appointed time 1 called on the old gentleman, who was in the insurance business, and pretty well fixed. I was shown into the parlor, and he came in smiling. Mary Ann had the way, as she promised to, and everything was lovely. He had heard a good account of me, from some source that probably wasn’t well Informed. “ I was as cool as a cucumber, and plainly told him what I wanted, in as few words as I could respectfully use, and without the slightest suspioion of a stammer. “We got along very weft together, though I would have been glad to get away, as 1 know when I am well off, and was afraid that something might happen. Fortune seemed to be smiling a little too fresh, as a fellow may say. But he was half crazy about that girl of his, and was # very fond of . talking about her. So we fought it out on that line until he got excited and, great heavens! he stuttered. This is the way he came at me: ‘“ Well, young m-m-rpan, so you want to wait on my g-g-girl, d-d-do you ?’ “What could I do! I was bound tp answer, and a nod or a wink wouldn’t do. Yet I was as sure that 1 couldn’t help stuttering in speaking to him as I was that I sat in that chair. If I had only known previously that he was liable to stutter I would have asked Mary Ann to explain my failing to him, so that there might be no trouble; but, of course, she hadn't said a word about that or any of my other failings, and there I was. “ There was nothing for it but to jump in, and yop may bet that the cold shivers ran over me before I jumped. I hesitated a bit, trying to keep as calm as possible, and then I let out and did about the roughest job of stuttering that ever got any poor devil into trouble. , •“I would be g-g-g-glad to,’ says I, ‘if I c-o-c-oan have your p-p-p per-per-per—get it out alter a while—p-p-pern. mission.’ * “His face turned blue, and I thought he was going to have an apoplectic fit; but it was another kind of fit that was on him. “ ‘ You infernal scoundrel!’ says he, too mad to stutter, like all ibe rest of them, ‘ haver you come here to insult me*” y “I couldn’t explain; I might as well have tried to explain to a can of nitroglycerine when it has made up its mind to explode. 1 rose from my chair and made for the door, but the too of his boot was a little quicker than I was, and it caught me, and huTried me up oonsideraldy; yet I didn’t move fast enough to prevent him from putting in aooupl9.niOTe ficsfoolass kieks before I got out of the front door. He threw my hat out on the sidewalk after me, and 1 was so oompletely overcome that

I went up an alley and had a regular cry, like a school-girl. “ The next day I received a note from Mary Ann, accusing me of having insulted her father shamefully, and declaring that she would never speak to me again. She kept her word, too.” Again I condoled With the unfortunate young man and supplied some liquid for lubricating his throat after so much speaking. • ' “Yee,” said he, “it was too b-b-blamed bad. Let’s have some m-m-m-m-mpre beer.” “It won’t do, Billy,” said I; “you are becoming excited, and you might meet another stutterer and get into trouble again.” Thanking him for the information he had imparted to me, I went my way?— Brooklyn (AT. Y.) Eagle.

THE GREAT ROWING MATCH.

Haitian, of €anadfc, Easily Beats Elliott, the English Champion, and makes the Best Time on llecord. New York, Jane IS. A dispatch from Newcastle-on-Tyne thus describes the race to-day: At ten minutes past twelve the men got to their station. Elliott, who looked confident and cheerful, called out to several of hid friends on the umpire’s boat: “ I will take threo to one that I lead all the way." No response was made to the champion’s offer. A few bets at six to four wore made, however, on the umpire’s boat. Hanlan came through High Level bridge, haviDg embarked on the south side. He lifted his cap to his friends on the cutter. Meanwhile the referee’s boat floated up to the starting point, and took its position. Renewed cheering took place. Both men took a preliminary spurt of a few minutes, and returned to the starting point. After three false starts were made, the men got away on equal terms, amid cries of “They’re off!” “They’re off!” At the third stroke Hanlan began to forge ahead of his competitor at a rapid rate, passing him as easily almost' as a steam vessel does a sailing boat. Hanlan rowed thirty-nine strokes to the minute. Within a very short time Hanlan was two lengths ahead. In the first mile, when the men had reached the lead works, Hanlan led by four lengths, and was giving Elliott the wash of his boat. The shouting and yelling on the shores at this time, encouraging Elliott to greater exertion, were deafening, Hanlan was evidently rowing a winning race. Elliott was hugging the shore. At Eastweck gangway Hanlan, finding the race sate, reduced his stroke to thirty-two. Elliott, in the meanwhile, was rowing at thirty-five, and beginning to show evidence of rowing wildly. His steering was very faulty. Hanlan’s steering was excellent. In passing Armstrong’s Crane there was no difference in the relative positions of the two men. The referee’s boat was about a quarter of a mile behind, on the south of the island known as King’s Meadow. The water was as smooth as a mill-pond. At the head of the Meadows Hanlan was rowing thirty-two strokes and Elliott thirtysix, the former leading by five lengths. When off Benwell boat-house, a little beyond Paradise Quay, Hanlan stopped rowing to look around him to ascertain the distance he had yet to row. This feat of his recalled to mind his bailing out his boat about the same place when he defeated Hawdon. About this time a death-like silence foil on the assembled thousands, for England’s champion had been defeated almost without effort by the Canadian oarsman. After smiling pleasantly to those on shore, Hanlan took to his oars again and began rowing with all his might to make up for lost time. The gap between him and Elliott was soon increased, and, amid deafening plaudits, Hanlan rowed unf der Scottswood bridge, winning the race by ten lengths, and gaining the well-deserved title of champion of America and England. After the race Hanlan, accompanied by Colonel Shaw and several Canadian supporters, returned to Newcastle, where he was cordially welcomed by a large concourse of people. In response to repeated calls Hanlan appeared at the window of the Newcastle Chronicle office and thanked the people very warmly for their kindness. He highly complimented Elliott for his invariable courtesy. Colonel Shaw also addressed the crowd. Both were loudly cheered. In the evening, at a concert at Newcastle Town-Hall, a splendid diamond ring was presented to Hanlan on account of 9 number of ladies and gentlemen of Newcastle. Hanlan, who was received with cheers, said he had that day encountered one of the best scullers he ever met. Elliott said he was satisfied that no man in England could beat Hanlan. He (Elliott) would row any man in the world, barring Hanlan, tor £2OO a side. A match has been arranged between Elliott and Robert Boyd on the Tyne for £2OO a side, to take place four months hence. The Newcastle Chronicle, in a special edition describing the race, says: “Never before in British waters has Buch a performance as Hanlan’s been seen. Elliott rowed in splendid form, but to no avail against the magnificent firowess of the young Canadian. Hscan may fairly be described as a scuHr ing phenomenon, and it will be a long time ere we look upon his like again.”

The Circus “Advance Agent” and a “Chronicle” Reporter.

Yesterday afternoon a dapper little man, with a two-ounce cane and a halfpound cluster diamond pin, came into the Chronicle office and asked if the amusement reporter was in. When the man he sought was pointed out the stranger grasped him warmly by the hand, remarking: “ Delighted to meet you, sir—really, I am. I’ve heard of you at every place I’ve stopped on my way from New York. I haa such a curiosity to see you that I got off at Reno and took a run up. But, really, I had expected to find a much older man, considering the magnificent reputation your dramatic and circus criticisms have given you. All of our boys told Ifie to be sure and see you, if I didn’t get aboard of anything else in the town.” “Ah,” said the reporter, blushing in four colors,,** I am glad to see you. Might I inquire your name?” ,{ Well, here’s my card,” said the little man, handing out a piece of paper about five inches square, “ you may have heard of me before —Clarence de Lacy Slocum, agent of the Sebastian Van Buena Vista Circus and Menagerie. This is by far the hugest combination oi gigantic circuses over put on the j road. We Started out about five years L ago in a small way, with not over four j hundred thousand feet of canvas, only inine tents. andscarcfilxfifteenbundttKl, ' animals, but wo gradually absorbed all 1 the small-fry shows. I'hey’d go into bankruptcy along the route, and we

would buy up their outfits. Sebastian, our owner, is the most sympathetic man on earth. He’d buy their little shows and paY" double price, just to help the poor devils along. Monev is of to him. He's traveling simply for pleasure and a desire to see the great West” . “I’d like to know him,” remarked the reporter. “ On, he knows you—thaj is by reputation; Be has your pictufd set in a frame that cost him over SIOO. He was saying to me one night that whenever business was dull he just took a look at that phiz of yours and it always made him feel as happy as if he whs obliged to turn five hundred people away at the door.” “ How came he to get bold of my picture?” “ Oh, he begged it of De Murska or Modjeska, or Clara Morris—l forgot which. She hated like thunder to part with it, but you see he had loaned the freat actress SIO,OOO once in Paris to uy a wardrobe and some jewelry for a new piece, and as the debt was never canceled she couldn’t very well refuse. But I just came in to gi w e you a little information about our show. I always like to give a man all the points when I know, he possesses the talent to handle them in the right style. Some fellows down at Reno and Carson tried to pump me, but I didn’t propose to let a description of my show be manfled up by scrub writers. Beside, Seastian telegraphed me from New York last night not to let anybody but you get aboard of the first grand description. Just mention four miles of cages containing wild beasts, with twelve new varieties of elephants and a recently discovered monster from Africa called the iabberwock, which weighs 3,000 pounds.” “Indeed!” „ * “ Yes, sir! and a man like you, with a fine descriptive ability and inexhaustible command of language which has made you famous in two continents”— “ How many columns do you want?” “ Oh, as many as you please." “When will the show be here?” “ Perhaps not for two months; it takes such a long time to move tho animals that our progress across the country is slow.” “Just so.” Well, our figures for big circuses like yours are one hundred and fifty dollars a column, cash down,, and thirty per cent, of the gross receipts if the show is a success.” The circus agent seemed greatly affected. “ Isn’t that rather steep?” he said. . “It would be, perhaps, for a small provincial journal like the New York Herald, or even the London Times, but we circulate such a mammoth edition that the price is comparatively trifling. Fourteen freight ears come up every day with paper for our edition, which is worked off on five big Walter presses, lightning geared. Our expense for steam alone, sir, is two thousand dollars a day. We have more carriers than you could pack into your largest tent. Our Eastern circulation has been increasing at the rate of a thousand a day for the last two years. By simply cutting down the size of the paper an eighth of an inch our proprietor has saved enough money to build four school-houses worth forty thousand dollars each, and endowed an orphan asylum in each county in the State. He doesn’t run the paper for money, but just simply for his health and because he likes the country. Our mailing and folding machinery would remind you of the Risdon iron-work.” “ Is it in this building?” “Oh no; this is simply the branch office—the place where we write up circuses. Our principal establishment”— The circus agent groaned as if in agony and fled from the office. — Virginia City (Nev. ) Chronicle.

Over Plowing.

A correspondent of the Farm and, Fireside says: One great trouble with some farmers is the habit of over plowing. They break up a piece of land and plow it five or six years in succession, or until it will not produce over three-fourthu of an average crop. At the same time their meadow land deteriorates and is in the same condition. Yve have learned by observation and experience that it is not best to plow the same land more than three years in succession. Then it should be seeded. The first year there will be little or no Weeds in the grain; the second year weeds will be more plentiful; the third year the quantity will be much greater, and thus weeds increase every year till some fields produce as large a quantity of weeds as grain. The main point in order to eeouro good crops is plowing. Farmers should remember if they only half plow a piece of land it will produce but half a crop. Plowing should be commenced as early as possible and should never be done in a hurry. Take time and do the work well and see that * the weeds and grass are all plowed under. The seed should be carefully sown and the ground ‘well harrowed; then the farmer can but expect a good crop. The seed will sprout sooner if a roller is passed over the ground, which should be done immediately after sowing. This makes the ground more even and better adapted for cutting the crop with a-, reaper, I will givo a brief description of my method of plowing, seeding, etc.: i irst, we select a piece of ground that produces the least grasg. We h»ve it well plowed in the fall or spring and give it atop-dressing of stable manure, as not much benefit is derived the first year by manuring green sward before plowing. If plowed in the fall we do not top-dress it till spring. The second year we manure before plowing. The third year we sow it with barley and seed-down with grass and clover seed, and also giving it a top-dress of manure. We have always obtained the best results by seeding with barley. We do not think it advisable to sow the same crop ott the same ground several years in succession. We think fanners would realize greater profits if they would adopt the “ rotation system.” If farmers whose grass lands are degenerating would plow a few acres and seed a few each year according to the above plan, their land in a few years would be in a productive condition. Never seed inglyA man and his wife can never agree upon what constitutes a tidy-looking room. A woman will grow irritable when she find half a dozen cigar stumps sticking to the scorched mantel-piece, and he can’t be expected to keep calm when he finds a bunch of long “ combings” in his shaving-mUg.— Fuck. There is on? thing which seems unaccountable to the average city fisherman and that is. that an overgrown, awkward, saucy ■ boy with a bean pole lor a sis hing-rod and cotton. twine lor line, will catch more fish thnn he with his fancy jointed rod and fine silken line.— Rome (if. T.)" Sentinel.

HOME, FARM AND GARBER.

—A sprinkling of line plaster or sulphur over the leaves of the strawberry at the first appearance of the blight (g suggested as a remedy for this disease, which has made suoh sad work with the foliage of this delicious berry. —Quiok Graham Biscuit.—Three cups of graham flour, one cup of white flour; rub in the flour two tablespoons of lard, one heaping spoon of sngar, a little salt, two teaspoons of baking powder, and milk to make a soft biscuit dough; cut and bake as you do the white soda biscuit. These will bo found nice cold as well as hot. —Corn-cobs dipped into molasses and suspended from limbs in the plumtrees have saved many a crop oi plums for a Moreland (Pa.) farmer. He has done this for many years with success. The curculio will lay bis brood into the sweetened corn-cob instead of the plums. From six to twelve prepared corn-cobs are sufficient for an ordinarysized tree. —A certain farmer in Illinois will not allow partridges to be killed on his place. He states that recent investigations made by him prove conclusively that they are the best protection the wheat crop could have. In the crgw of one ho found over a hundred bugs of the most destructive kind to the wheat crop. His crop is excellent, while those of his neighbors have been ruined by bugs. —The Cultivator says of squashes: ♦* The seeds of the different varieties are very apt to mix when planted in close proximity, and hence it is hard to get pure seed, the seed-growers often being too careless about the location whence they have seed. Unripe or partlydecayed squashes are often fed to stock, and make good fat. They should, however, have the seeds removed first, as these have a diuretic effect injurious to cows.” —Family Graham Bread.—Set a sponge of white flour by taking two teacups of milk and sufficient yeast, or should you have your white bread sponge set, take two teacups of the light sponge and one cup of warm water, a little salt, one tablespoon of molasses, one of lard or butter; stir in the graham flour with a spoon until you nave quite a stiff dough, but not hard, then set to rise again, and when light put in pans, using as little flour as possible, handling it lightly with your hands; let rise again and bake slowly about an hour and a quarter. This recipe makes two medium-sized loaves; care should be taken that it does not get too light after putting it in the pans. —A correspondent of Forest and Stream says: “ A very successful plan has been tried by placing in Mr. Crow’s way a number of grains with a horse hair run through them. He is bound to swallow one, and his note of alarm is soon sounded. It is impossible for him to dislodge the grain, and if he can be watched V sufficient length of, time he will be seen to cut his own throat in scratching at it. His usual note is changed, and I can assure you that life to him is such a misery he could ‘ even wish that he were dead.* It has been noticed that after the note of alarm had been sounded all the crows in the vicinity will leave that field and approach it no more that season. It is a simple thing, yet all who try it will find it a success.’’

Artistic Cookery.

Miss Dodds, late of the Edinburgh (Scotland) School, of Cookery, recently lectured upon the art of cooking before a Chicago audience. The Chicago Times describes her method as follows: Miss Dods was surrounded on the platform with very complete kitchen appliances, the cooking being done on a gas stove. She made her dishes in view of, her audience, giving her recipe, explaining in detail the various steps she took and the order in which the ingredients were mixed, and all the reasons for it. The first dish made was a Venoise pudding, the recipe for which was five ounces of bread crumbs, four ounces of sugar, three ounces of raisins, one teaspoonful of fresh lemon-juice, a half-pint of milk, the yelks of four eggs and a small piece of butter. With the butter she greased a mold, which she then filled with the mixture. Over the top she twisted a piece of paper to keep out the water, and then set it in a saucepan of boiling water, and let it steam for an hour and twenty minutes. She explained that it might be boiled, but it was lighter when! steamed. If the water in the saucepan became reduced too much it was to be replenished with boiling water, as adding cold water would cause the pudding to split open. The recipe for sauce was not given until the pudding was cooked, and in the meanwhile a kidney soup was made. The elements of this were one ox-kidney, two ounces of butter, one ounce of flour, a little pepper and salt, a quart of cold water, and one des-sert-spoonful each of mushroom catsup and Worcester sauce. The butter was melted and the dry flour thrown into it, and the water added subsequently; thus the flour didn't become lumpy. The soup was allowed to! boil up once, and then simmer slowly two hours. J bile the soup simmered some lobcutlets were made'of one ounce of butter, one ounce of flour, a gill of cold water, a little nepper and salt, a few drops of lemon-juice, a half-pound can of lobster, an egg and two tablespoonfuls of bread-crumbs. If fresh lobster were used, it wanted to be cooked twenty minutes in advance. Otherwise the recipe was as good for fresh as for canned lobster. After the lobster was cut up and mixed it was set aside to cool, as it then made up into cutlets much better. In the meantime some cheese fritters were produced. Three ounces of flour were placed in a bowl, an ounco of butter was melted and poured into the center of tho dry flour, and a gill of tepid water was added. Miss Dods explained that tepid water consisted of two parts of cold and one of boiling water. In this case the water .might be hotter without doing any harm, but in making bread the water must be just tepid. The yelk of one egg was added, the white being put on a plate. A very little salt and a good quantity of pepper, which aids digestion, were added. Three ounces °* grated Parmesan cheese were 'added, though any hard, dry cheese might be used instead of the Parmesan variety. 1 A small pinch of salt was thrown into the white of the egg, and it was beaten into a stiff froth. The lecturer explained that salt oooled the egg while Sttgar would heat it. The white was theu stirred very lightly into-the other ingredtents. The mixture was.to stand an. hour or two before being cooked, when possible, the white of the egg being added at the last moment. ' :•> , %

The lecturer knew her lard was just at the right temperature, because a light smoke arose from the center. If it arrived at this heat before she was ready to use it, she threw a large potato or a piece of bread into it, and the lard would get no hotter till it had cooked the potato or bread. She threw ihto the lard a half-spoonful of the mixture at a time, and It looked in three minutes. She used lard enough to cover the fritters, but she used the same lard over and over again, She kept two dishes of lard, one for cooking iisn and the other for fritters. When the fritters were done she took them out, allowing each to lie a moment on a piece of soft paper to absorb the surface grease. A sweet omelette was then made of the yelks of two eggs, a teaspoonful of sugar, the samo of essence of vanilla, ana a half-ounce of butter to grease the pan with. The yelks, sugar and vanilla were mixed in a small bowl. A little salt was added to the whites, and they were beaten stiff. The butter was melted in a pan, but not allotted to get hot The yelks and whites wore mixed lightly. The mixture was then poured quickly in an omelette pan, and it was placed over the fire fust one minute. Then it was put in the oven, and in four or five minutes it was done. When the lecturer could put her finger on the top of it, and the finger wasn't moistened by the contact, she knew it was done. It was then turned out quickly, and sugar was sprinkled over it The lobster cutlets were then resumed. The mixture was divided into five masses, and made into long, narrow shapes after being very slightly floured. An egg was thoroughly beaten and each cutlet rolled into it. The bread-crumbs were put into a piece of paper, the cutlets in the crumbs, and the paper twisted around till the cutlets were covered with crumbs. The cutlets were then cooked in the lard two minutes and taken out on paper likd the fritters. The pudding-sauce was then made. This called for the juice of half a lemon, one ounce of sugar, a tablespoonful of milk and an egg. The egg, sugar, lemon-juice and milk were mixed up in a saucepan and whisked over the fire till the egg began to thicken, but it was on no acoount to boil. The pudding was turned out and the sauce poured around it. This sauce was used with this pudding because their colors harmonized remarkably well.

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