Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 36, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 March 1889 — Page 6

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WOMAN AND HOME.

-THE ALL IMPORT/^IT QUESTION Of CONTROLLING CHILDREN,

Information nnd Suggestion* tnr the Guardian 'of Home—Mary Stuart's Toilets. Tltc ProgrtM Made by Women—Talk* to

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Tho infant of a few months old who will resign himself after a hard fight to going to sleep in his cradle, instead of being rocked off to dream land in his mother's or nurse's arms, has already learned the necessity of yielding "to a stronger power than his own. As he becomes older the habit ef obedience should grow upon him, and if ho is properly managed there ne«l be very little antagonism "between him and bis parents.

One must not expect impassibilities. All the world cried out against the English clergyman who whipped his sixteen months obi boy black and blue because he would not stop crying yet there are some parents who to make almost as unreasonable demands upon their little ones. The writer has been told, in all good faith, of a baby who was much improved by being whipped for crying when ho was only two months old!

An ordinary child may bo taught to obey by tho time ho is a year old. That is, he may by then learn to go through various little tricks at tho word of command, to relinquish anything ho holds, and sometimes to stop -crying, A child's apparent disobedience often arises from inattention or lack of comprehension. His thoughts aro wandering, and his mental processes are not yet sufficiently rapid for him to bring himself instantly en rapport with tho person who issues an order. If his slowyess, instead of being met with patience, is sharply rebuked, the little one becomes frightened and loses ail idea of what is expected of him. This was probably the ca*3 in tho instance cited above, when the sixteen months old boy was so inhumanly punished. Tho firm, gentle repetition of a command will often insure obedience where harshness would utterly fail.

But where kindness does not succeed, and where it is thoroughly evident the child grasps the meaning of tho order, more severe measures must bo resorted to. What these aro to 1)0 must bo determined for each parent by herself. On tho subject of the corporal punishment of children there is a great deal of roso water sontimentalism in vogue Just at present. The apostles of this new dispensation urge tho ruling of children by love alone, •mi declaim against harsh measures of any kind. One is forced to the conclusion that their ranks aro chiefly recruited from the body of spinsters and childless wives.

Whilo all true hearted, loving mothers must deplore the necessity of bodily punishment for children, yot tho most judicious of them can hardly fail to recognize that it in a necessity. Allegod tender hoortedness in this respect is often only a euphonious term for self indulgenco and laziness. It is far easier for the mother to condono insubordination •nrf pass over a fault than to exact obedience and administer correction.

With some children a whipping has a marvelously good effect. With others it is highly deleterious. Tho mother must learn the temperaments of her flock whilo they are yet and regulate her control of thorn in aocordanco with tho conclusions sho doduces from their dispositions. Tho mother is spoken of here as tho governing power rather than the father, becauso tho children ore more constantly thrown with her. Moreover, only in very rare instances should tho task of inflicting corporal punishment be intrusted to the father. With no thought of injuring the child, he seldom has tho least idea of the •weight of his bond, and may do tho child serious harm.

How to Preserve Carpets.

A carpet that lias cared for properly, although only of an ordinary kind, will outlast one of a superior grade that has been negloctod. Therefore it is very important that tho carpet bo carefully treated. The sweeping of a carpet requires, to be sure, nmo strength, but generally housewives gijve too much strength to this work, more than is ever needed. It is very foolish to dig with the broom so hard that it seems as though you wero trying to got at tho floo# beneath, yot that is tho way many women sweep, some of them oven working tho carpet from tho sides of tho room in sftots. As tho dust on a carpet is always on the surfoco, a light, swift stroke of tho broom is all that is needed to dislodge it, for whatever dust has worked through the carpet no broom can remove, but it must await tho taking up of tho carpet Before beginning to aweop, with a small corn broom brush out thoroughly the sides aud corners of the room, and if there is a stove in tho room, brush under tho oilcloth or zinc.

Dampened corn meal is excellent for brightening tho colors and laying tho dust, taking caro that tho coarsest meal is used for this purjxjse, and not tho granulated, as tho latter ought never to bo used. When spreading tho meal do not allow any to fall at tho sides of carpet near tho wall or in tho corners, for it is almost impossible to remove it wholly from these places, and moths rovel in it, Some women use dampened tea leaves with good results when sweopiug, but wo never had much success with them, and prefer tho corn meal. Salt is a wonderful brightener of colors, but is not a success in keeping down tho dust. Snow is ouo of tho best things wo know for laying the dust, but it is not advisable to use it inn very warm room, for if it is allowed to melt cro sweeping off it is apt to loavo a tiny pool of water, which, doing no harm of itself, might, whan mixed with tho dust, leave a tnuddy spot on tho carpet which would be difficult to remove.—Boston Budget,

Tlio Difference In Feathers. Considerable misunderstanding often results from housekeepers failing to comprehend that a feather with almost no stem, almost as light thoreforo as down, will weigh so much less in the same bulk, that half the quantity of feathers by weight are required as for a heavier feather. A pillow that weighs more than two and a half pounds to a tick, twenty-two by twenty-eight inches in aim, is too heavy to bo economical It is true that such Ught feathers will cost $1.30 a pound, but it will require five pounds of wveuty-five cent feathers to fill the same tick, and the pillow of cxpenairo feathers urill cost only fci, while tho pillow of cheaper feathers will cost 13.73. A pillow of camel's hair wool and one of down are delightful additions to tho lounge where it is difficult to get eoottgh pillows. Here, usoally, a small pillow filled with balsam fir is placed. Ftersons who sufToa- from headaches and rath of ItkKxl to tho head and infant children sboukl a Imir pillow sloop upem. —Good Hooae* -I' -t***-

For lho Sitting Room.

Here tltc family gather, and h-. ra is formed ami ciiltumi that taste and reSocssaat which fc p$ its mfluewe through life. An eminent .! in® says "A pretty, wtil ordered boat* preachrs #«wu sermon and wields a more powerful mlluenoo than «ttber sword or pen." ftegis wi:h iba walla. If you fresco them, let the* lint a warm pliik, a sdft gray or a delicate blue. If paper it used, do not bare

a glaring design that immediately upon entrance strikes the eye with an unpleasant sensation. The paper or the fresco should be the background of the whole picture—your room. Let the carpet be rich and warm and bright. I do not mean loud in its tones and tints, but with color enough suggested to make one feel that it is May instead of December.

In window draperies, soft, silken curtains are tho prettiest and under these, if desired, a half curtain of lace or fine lawn, hung on a brass rod, may be used. This will let your light in from the top, and is all the fashion^at the present time.

It does not detract from the appearance*or comfort of tho sitting room to have two or three tables in it. The one in the center of the room should be a double table. That is, it should have a lower part for books. A cover of billiard cloth or plush with painted border, or sprays of flowers in the corners would be tasteful and elegant.

Taste and means must suggest the chairs, sofas, etc. Rattan furniture is light, comfortable and pretty. Rolls of figured silk or "head rests" add to the comfort and beauty of the chairs, or tidies of fine Swiss, hand painted and edged with lace, may be used.— Louisville Courier-Journal. .,

The Baby.

Mrs. Herrick tells of a young mother who •aid of her first baby, a little girl: "Baby's father insists sho shall taste everything he hag on his plate. Sho is a year old now, but has liked potatoes and gravy ever since she was six months old is so fond of cake and preserves, and of nearly every sort of vegetabla I did protest when her father began feeding her pickles and cucumbers and cabbage with vinegar on them, but she seemed to l»lf« them and I cant see that it does her a bit of harm. Don't you think it a good plan to accustom babies to eat everything? Then their digestions will get used to all sorts of food."

The baby was even then of a pasty complexion, but had plenty of flesh, though it was flabby and lacked the firmness the flesh of a healthy child should have. By the time this little one was sixteen she was a confirmed dyspeptic, with a skin the color of dirty dough, decayed teeth and intolerable breath and the parents, who lamented their daughter's ill health, utterly failed to connect cause and effect, saying: "She used to be such a healthy baby die could eat anything."

A regular, simple diet is of paramount importance in keeping a child well. Next after that comes regular outdoor exercise and early hours. No wonder babies are cross and fretful when they are kept up nights till 10 or 11 o'clock, and abnormally excited by lights and unusual surroundings. Let them have their frolics in the daytime, but put them to bed in the twilight hour.

No pains should be spared to detect the first appearance of indisposition the work of checking an incipient disease is simpler than that of arresting it after it is under way. Often everything depends on controlling a disease in its earliest stages. Tho baby has Uttlo reserve power, and, though the recuperative ability of children has become a byword, it is unsafe to tax it too severely.

These are very sensible ideas, and mothers and babies will be tho better for putting them into practice.—Michigan Farmer.

Pocketleu Woman.

Why don't women have pockets! They carry their purses in their hanas and their handkerchiefs in their bodices, and they carry a little bag about as big as a pint cup on their arms, the exact use of which has nover been defined. There is a liberal wholesaleness about the way a man provides in the construction of his dress for his own wants that is actually refreshing in comparison with the way women inconvenience themselves. A man has plenty of pockets. He can carry keys. A woman is always wondering where she left or hid hers. When tho exigencies of the weather cause him to have recourse to his "wipe" he puts his hand into his breast pocket and hauls out a liberal square of cambric. A woman under like circumstances just sniffs and continues to sniff.

When a sits down in a street-car he waits till the genie of tho bell punch and regisster stand in front of him, then he puts his hum and forefinger in a tiny pocket in his overcoat and hauls out his ticket. The woman begins to get her change ready when the conductor is at tho other end of the car. She pulls her bag off her arm, draws it open, out her purso, pulls off her silk mitten, opens her purse, unclasps an inner compartment, takes a out nickel, puts it between her lips—faugh 1—snaps the compartment, shuts tho purso, opens her bag, and puts away the purso, and pulls on the mitten again. And this is a fair sample of tho way women hamper themselves in all tho littlo things—and life is mado up of them—and then complain of the disadvantages of sex. There is nothing on earth to prevent any individual woman from enjoying innumerablo pockets, loose sleeves, bifurcated underskirts, short hair, etc., and all the other modern feminine imotc., and all tho other feminine improvements —Chicago Journal

Mary, Queen of Scots.

That Mary wore false hair, and of many different colors, there is every reason to believe. Elizabeth is known to have had a collection of eighty wigs, and her dear cousin, with the unusual advantages of so many seasons in Paris, is not likely to have been far behind her. Among the statements of the accounts of her personal expenditure aro numerous items of perruques de cheveux, and Sir Francis Knollis, writing to Burleigh of tho ever faithful "Mistress Mary Seton, the finest busker, that is to say tho finest draser of a woman's head of hair that is to lx serai in any country," says: "And among the pretty devices sho did set such a curled hair upon the queen, that was said to bo perewyke frhnt shewed very delicately. And every other day she hath a new device of hair dressing, without any cost, and yet netting forth a woman gayUe well" This variety and eccentricity of coiffure naturally adds to tho confusion, and makes greater tho difficulty in identifying positively any of tho portraits or descriptions of her. Historians say that her mother was tall and beautiful, that her father was dignified, having a fair complexion and light hair and other and contemporaneous historians say that sho inherited most of the characteristics of her parents, "being about the ordinary s&s, with fair complexion and Grecian features, and a now somewhat longer than a painter would caro to perpetuate: her face was oval, her forehead high and fUje."—Laurence Button in Century.

He Could Sot Be Drives.

"He was so bad I had to whip him before ho would mind," said the lady next mc. {fh- had be— sewing* a dairt" piece of ',but# »d ac tand 1«• «i at mc when I asked: "T* I he mi". r4 If. v. fU, no, *.. be ran away from borne and did not dame back for two

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hearted a*d full of mischief, but somehow he was obstinate and hard to control, and I had to whip that boy every day in the year, and oftener. Well, ono morning after ho had disobeyed me, or I fancied he had, I scolded hlmJ gave him a severe whipping and locked him in his room. When the dinner hour arrived I sent for him. He had run away and no trace of him could be found. Ono morning two ?nnntha afterwards he came into the house, and walking straight up to me, said: 'Aunt T?ii«n, I shall never disobey you

but only on condition that you do not whip me.' "I saw that the boy was in earnest, and I also saw that driving would avail nothing with him. Love was the reins that must guide him, and reason the bit to curb his high spirits."—Atlanta Journal.

A Floral Hint.

It is an easy matter to secure beautnul hyacinth blooms in winter. It is only necessary to remember the fact, and act upon it, that the roots must get a good start before the leaves are put forth. By potting in rich earth, and setting them away in a cool, dark place for about six weeks, the roots will form inniHft without the leaves starting. Then they may be brought into the light and warmth and the beautiful blooms will shortly appear. By use of the regulation hyacinth glasses, simply filling them with water so that the roots of the bulb will rest in it, and following the same method as for potting above mentioned, wo get an effect that is preferred by some, but we like them best in the old red flowerpots.

Do not, from a mistaken idea of tidiness, cut away the stalks of arundo eulalia and such tilings in fall, for tho hollow stalks left sticking up convey the water to tho center of the plant, where it freezes and thaws, to the death of tho plant. Left on, the tops.form its own protection.—American Garden. m.15 it

Very Rich Empress Frederick The sum of money tho Empress Frederick will get under the will of the Duchess of Gallicia is said to amount to 5,000,000 francs, and is left to her absolutely.^ She will be very rich when all her money is invested and her affairs settled, and she has been wisely advised in the arrangements by the queen's lawyers. The arrangement made for her by the Emperor Frederick, apart from her an nuity of £40,000 as queen dowager of Prussia, was very generous, and the present emperor was most anxious that as regards money matters his mother should have everything done that was possible. When the late emporor was about to make his will he sent for tho crown princo and Prince Bismarck to inform them of what he intended to do, so that after his decease there should bo no unpleasantness and I am informed that the present emperor expressed his complete satisfaction with his father's arrangements.—London World.

Slung That Are Sure.

"I see your family's home again," said one neighbor to another, as tho two met yesterday morning. The family had returned but how did ho know it? He had not seen them. Truo, but he had seen the unmistakable signs. The curtains at the front windows, which had been drawn closely for weeks, were up. In the frost upon the pane was a figure that only tiny baby fingers could draw. Beneath the fringe of frost reclined a touzle headed doll, and a picture book rested against the sash. In the parlor below was a vase of fresh flowers, and the curtains appeared to hang more gracefully. The front steps were scoured and the sidewalk was clean. Yes, the family was home again, and no one was more happy over it than the man who had for weeks gone around with safety pins where buttons ought to be, unblocked shoes, and the generally dilapidated appearance of an unhappy bachelor.—Chicago Herald. •a-# j:

Helping Immigrant Girls

The fourth annual report of the Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary for the Protection of Immigrants, with which the third is combined, has been issued. It shows that from June 1, 1886, to Dec. 81, 1887, 9,078 girls received hospitality at the home. Besides providing for them the mission paid $884.43 for board and lodging. The total expenditures from Oct. 1, 1886, to Jan. 1,1888, were $19,974.05, being $356.25 less than the total receipts for the same same period. During the last year 4,490 immigrants were registered at tho home. For that year the receipts were $15,0d7.17. There is a net balance on hand of $1,966.10. Contained in the report are tributes to the memory of the late Father Riordan, the founder of the mission, and an appeal by the Right Rev. Mgr. O'Reilly to the women of .America to aid the mission.— New York Times.

Helping Their Hnabands.

One of the Cornell university professors is assisted in his scientific investigation* by his wife, who is skilled in entomology. They work in a small annex called tho bug house. The special objects of their study are the insects and other pests that infest garden vegetables. Their object is to discover some means of their extermination. Another graduate of the college, Mrs. Gage, writes for the Microscopical society and does all the microscopic work in the anatomical department. This is a substantial aid to her husband, who is the professor of that branch. Still another woman has made all the drawings and translations for her husband, who is preparing a dictionary of technical medical terms, with a short treatise on each term, abounding in illustrations. Boston Transcript. if

What a Girl Should Leant

To sow to cook to mend to bo gentle to value time to dress neatly to keep a secret to bo self reliant to avoid idleness to mind the baby: to darn stockings to respect old ago to make good bread to keep a house tidy: to control her temper to be above gossiping to make a home happy to take care of the sick to humor a cross old man to marry a man for his worth to be a helpmate to a husband to take plenty of active exercise to see a mouse without screaming to read some books besides novels to be light hearted and fleet footed to wear shoes that wont cramp the feet to be a womanly woman under all circumstances.—New York Mail and Exprew. ,®C w.

The Paris Women's Library. Tho queen of Ronmnnin, who figures as a literary woman under tho nom de plume of "Cannon Sylva," has accepted the presidency of the new women's library which is shortly to be opened in Paris. This collection is to be composed exclusively of works by female authors but I have not yet beard if profane is to be allowed to pernio the contents of tbe library, or if the readers will be confined to tho fairer sex. All sorts of folks in Paris are interesting themselves in the movement, which promises to bo a real success. There are to be a picture gall.-ry uk1 club rooms.-^-London World.

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STYLES IN DRESS APPROVED BY THE FASHIONABLE WORLD.

Suggestions for the Layette—Convenient Klght Gowns and Simple Day Robes for Infants—Elaborate Dresses No Longer

Tolerated by Sensible Mothers.

Elaborate dresses for infants are happily a thing of the past. Generally speaking, baby dresses are exceedingly simple, except, of course, the christening robe, which is usually a more or less elaborate affair. The dresses, as a rule, are made with yoke and cuffs of embroidery, drawn work, tucks or brier stitching. The skirt of many of these dresses is gathered into the yoke and finished at the bottom with a broad hem, above which appears sometimes a cluster of tucks alternating with rows of brier stitching, and sometimes with rows of insertion.

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Many mothers keep infants tho first few weeks in unstarched garments, in a word, in night gowns of simple construction, but of fine quality and tastefully trimmed.

In the accompanying cut are shown a night gown and a day robe included in a Layette that came recently from London. These garments, as will be seen, are quite simple and promise comfort to both the baby and its attendant. The night gown, which will serve the first three months for a day gown as well, is made with a square yoke back and front, and the bodice and waistband aro gathered. The high robe designed for day wear on extra occasions is of cambric and the trimmings consist of rich embroidery. The embroidered yoke matches the skirt. The long sleeves terminate with cuffs.

During the first three mouths wadded wrappers, mode of cheesa cloth, will be found very convenient in cold weather to take the place of the light flannel wrappers that servo on mild days. Wadded comforter quilts of cheese cloth make an excellent substitute for the more expensive blankets and lap robe6. They are warm, soft and light, and thai, too, these cheese cloth quilts have the merit of being inexpensive. Another convenience worthy of a place in all Layettes is a square lap robe made of Turkish toweling to use during the infant's bath.

Dress and Fashion.

A fashionable bootmaker has successfully launched his yachting shoes for ladies, which are to be seen in maroon leather, with white heels, sewing and white ribbon lacing up the instep in navy blue with white, and in white kid, with scarlet ribbon, heels and sewing.

Gray note paper is fashionable, and a novel box for it (brought out recently for New Year's gifts) is in the form of an old rusty iron trunk, of small size, with nails and padlock, all complete.

For evening shoes there is a tnost dainty looking new ornamentation, composed of four little loops, like a mouse's ears, made In the miriR nil lr as the shoe, lined with a contrasting color, standing up on tbe instep, but clustered together and secured by a loop and some bead work below on the too. The silk hose are sold with the shoes, in the exact shade.

Washing silks, also called silk cheviots, are among spring importations, and are to be used not only for blouses, but for entire dresses.

Surah must be of heavy quality to be effective when made in directoire fashion with straight skirts.

Coiffures are as varied as dressesT The high coiffure with hair drawn up from the neck is still worn, and the low catog&n as well, with the hair knotted and falling on tbe neck, with sometimes several long curls added

Very young girls sometimes wear their hair all thrown back and hanging in long curls behind, but this is only for girls under 15 years of age.

Bodices for Evening Dresses. Extremely low bodices for evening dresses have given way to the newer half low waists, some of which ore cut round in the neck, oi pointed, or oval, as tho taste of the wearer may ditkate. In some of these bodices the broad sash is worn to gain the short empire waist, so much affected, but many ladies continue ti^patronize the long pointed bodice, which shows a fine figure to greater advantage than does tho round waist.

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An Artistic Decorative Material That He Lends Itself to Many Purposes. Ohinese storm coats are among the latest myrelties used for home decoration. These coats are worn by the Chinese laborer to protect him from the weather, and most effectually they do it. They are made of coarse straw matting, eighteen or twenty inches deep, edged with a short fringe each upward row overlaps the one below it, so that the rain falls off it as water does off a duck's back. The coats are taken to pieces and the single strips are used for decorating spaces over windows, mantels, and sometimes they are used for friezes. 'v

Decorator and Furnisher, which Suggests this uso of Chinese, storm coats, says that when these are not to be had, the straw matting which comes around tea chests may be used instead. The grocer is usually glad enough to give it away.

First it must be thoroughly washed in strong salt and water, then placed flat under a heavy weight to dry great care must be taken to make it perfectly smooth, fiat and straight, for it is impossible to remove any crookedness or unevenness, except by dampening and pressing. A very sharp knife and ruler are necessary for the cutting scissors will not do.

Apiece of card or bristol board must always be used for the foundation this must be cut with care, and the exact size. When the matting is well cut, leaving no ragged ends of straw, the hardest part of the work is done. There is a coarse straw gimp which may be used for a finish to cover the edges, if desired. For window decorations or frieze, tho gimp i6 not at all necessary if the matting is well cut, as when once it is placed on the wall there is little wear and tear to fray it.

For a frieze, two Cus-cus fans, placed centers together, may be used as a center piece midway between the corners, or they may be used as corner pieces, leaving the centers plain. One mantel seen had two of these fans placed together over tbe middle of the matting, as well as one at each end. Individual taste must determine the brush decoration according to the room and its occupancy. The matting is especially suitable for music and billiard rooms, for sleeping in the city, or it may bo used with good effect throughout a summer cottage.

Tea chest matting serves as an admirable background for photographs and other small pictures. Among pretty things of this kind seen was one about twelve inches square made of cardboard and matting, cut tho same size and pasted together. Three small photographs of Chinese children, souvenirs of a California trip, wero pasted on irregularly in one corner glowed a bow of gorgeous yellow ribbons. Chinese characters, which to the initiated read, "Peaco be with you," wero scrawlingly painted between two of the photographs.

The beauty of a cabinet photograph is enhanced by placing it on a background of the matting an inch and a half larger all around than itself. A bow of ribbon may be added if desired.

Picture frames of plain thin wood may be covered with tho matting and handsomely decorated with colors if desired.

A mirror framed with a matting frame was decorated with a running vine of many colored morning glories.

Letter cases, paper holders, and a variety of pretty and useful articles may bo made from tho sanio material, if the worker has a littlo ingenuity.

Medlaivnl Paper Pocket.

Tho wall pocket is one of the most useful of articles that also lay claim to a decorative effect, and it is therefore always more or less in fashion. Tho forms it takes on are almost numberless, the desire of course being for something novel as well as protty. Among recent fancies is the ono shown in the cut.

MEDIAEVAL WALL POCKET.

This pocket in mediaeval stylo is of fancy material, crossed with brocaded or painted velvet ribbon it is hung to tho wall with two ribbon loops passed through a gilt sword or halberd. 7

Baked Turkey.

Parboil a littlo, then mako a batter dressing for it aud stuff, basto and bake. If you fancy a variety of flavors combined you cau add about twenty-five oysters to the dressing, Cry and stuff tho turkey with it. Basto and turn tho turkey very often till it is nicely browned, then toko it up and add to tho grease that has dripped from tho turkey into tho pau enough of the liquor in which it was boiled to make a nice gravy. Stir whilo it is cooking down, add the liver and gizzard and pour into your sauce boat or tureen.

Delicious Layer Cake.

One cupful of powdered sugar, one tablespoonful of butter, throe eggs, whites beaten separately, half a large cupful of milk, one cupful nnd a half of flour, ono heaping teaspoonful of baking powder flavor with var nilln. Cream, butter and sugar thoroughly, add yolks, next whites beaten to a stiff froth, then gradually flour and milk, baking powder Imt This *™»iw three layers and is very nice when put together with a corn starch cream, with a soft icing on top.

A Delicate Dessert.

Scald one quart new milk in double boiler. •MVwntimn beat until stiff the whites of four eggs, and add to them three tablespoonfuls sugar and one teaspnonful vanilla or other flavoring. Pour tbe hot milk slowly upon this mixture, beating ail tbe time. Then pour into buttered teacups, set these in a dripping pan of boiling water and bake in tbe oven half an hour or until firm. The beat should be only moderate. Pack on ice and turn out on sauce plates to serve.

Peanut Candy.

Vive cups of sugar, six tablespoonfuls of water, four tablespoonfuls of vinegar, on* tabiespoonfnl at batter. Boil (without stirring) till it crisps in cold water. Line battered pans with peanuts and poor tbe candy over them. When nearly cold, mark off into squares.

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SOCIAL ETIQUETTE.

A Society Woman's Protest Against Lat« Honrs for Entertaining. Mrs. Admiral Dahlgreen enters a vigorjpo protest against the wholesale adoption TCnglish fashions and especially the adoptio of late hours for entertaining. Sho does noconsider it any reason for us, who onjoy &•' ranch glorious sunlight, to Bhut it out fron our drawing rooms in the daytime, or, worse yet, to choose the most somber hours of tho night for our choicest entertainments, be causo those unfortunates who iivo in a murk'* f°£gy rainy atmosphere may find it mor agreeable to do so.

A scoi-e of years ago, according to Mrs.' Dahlgrai, 6 o'clock was accepted as a suitable dinner hour by our best people, when leading men, having used the day inacti effort and to some useful purpose, wer fairly ready to discuss and enjoy a good din ner. By 0 o'clock, at that time, tho most elegant assemblies commenced, and our polite society was prepared to exchange thmore formal dignity of the prandial feast foi the increasing hilarity of the evening.

Among reasons for early hours is that bj the time men and women have reached middle life, and have on account of their exper. ence become peculiarly fitted to direct society, they find it irksome if not physically dangerous to expose themselves to the strain of such late hours. As a result, society places itself, perforce, in the hands of a lot of young people who will doubtless in course of time become very capable society leadors, but who make no end of mistakes from la of experience.

Thus our social standards become insensibly lowered. In view of this and other considerations 1 Mrs. Dahlgreu urges that tho matrons who aresociety loaders should return to thoob-[ servance of those hours that were considort tho best before ws were led away by this pr vailing Anglomania. She says that fror the expressions of sentiment heard on thit subject from various ladies, whose opinions have deservedly great weight, it is to be hoped that already the tide begins to turn, and that there is a reflux in the right direc-, tion.

Another fact is also noted in this conueH tion. The hours that tho aristocracy of England observe aro so poculiar to them-' selves that they are not adopted on the con-, tinent, where a nicer taste in the refinemouts

of social life has hitherto been suppoeod to exist. It was never for a moment admitted until of late years that the English had any special adaptation, natural or acquired, for the elegances of life. The Anglo-Saxon genius that certainly leads tbe world and moldB its progress in various directions was never .regarded as peculiarly fitted to regulate social etiquette or form model manners. On the contrary, the English lack tho pliancy and fine tact of the French. It may be said I they have no tact, and are therefore essentially unfit to discriminate as to tho very delicate discernment required.

But we Americans have the advantage over both the French and English, for wo inherit Saxon strength and Latin versatility. What we seem most to need is the good common sense to appreciate tho advantages we possess and to make proper use of them.

Company Manners.

"The fellow" who ncds a cavalier welcome or farewell to his sister at the window, or in the street, will, with the most gallant intentions, some day, in a fit of abstraction, or whsn hurried by business into forgetfuhiess of his company manners, nod as carelessly to some other fellow's sister, and score a point in favor of the rival whose hand, from the force of early habit and long usage, moves involuntarily toward the cap brim at the ap-, proach of any woman whose face is familiar to him.

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