the prrrsBrmQ dispatch, Sunday, jgisrs 21, 1891. 13 n 1 ZT i. AJ 1 n 1 is ; ,"- S :fi vl . i v, .l!l. !5Mr -i J iKVfcJ 5s GOSSff ABOUT FASHIONS. 33 The latest Millinery From Parli Is De cidedly Fantastic Costumes fortho.Sea shore, for Garden Parties and for Driv ing Xew Ideas in Veils. .2 HE latest bonnets A7 from Paris are de cidedly fantastic, says Miss 31 antilini f- 1 in mo xou Jiaa V LS Budget. One I saw was ofTuscan straw, with a square and perfectly flat front Itwas trimmed with a pert stand-np bow and aclnster of pink roses. Another model resembled a wall pocket. It had diamond - shaped sides composed of straw, which came low down over the hair, and a full crown made of col or ed ribb on, adorned with a bunch of pink blossoms. " Tom Tug" is the name of the newest eailor J .A4 sfMj hat. It is oral in shape, and has a shallow crown bound by a band of ribbon and ornamented on one tide with a French bow. ' W Larze Iicffhorn hats, suitable for wearing ..ft at carden Darties are mostly trimmed with rosettes of filmy soft stuffd bunbunches of I', res. I saw several charming hats. A hat of was adorned with trails of pink and yellow ross and a bow of black lace, r can't say that I admire the enormous ribbon bows tad the bunches of nodding feathers that constitute the trimming of many of the Fronrh haK "Wings are much used in uon junctioi with flowers. A dark chip hat, garlanded with a wreath of yellow blossoms, was flanked on either side with a green wing. I should probably like the mixture cf black and gold better if I saw less of it Black and Gold Is Topalar. Almost half the bonnets made seemed to be trimmed with black and gold. They have a smart appearance, and look well with any dress. Flower bonnets are the rage tor sunny weather. A hat bonnet with only a ribbon bandeau by way of a crown was com posed of cornflowers, and had a green rib ton bow at the back. Grapes, currants, and berries are a good deal worn. I saw a bon net trimmed with tinsel pa-sementerie, em broidered with beetles' wings. There is literally no limit in the choico of trimmings. The French milliners are indeed wonderful people, A pretty out-door hat is shown at the beginning of this article. Of course one reeds j. parasol to match it. The distmctivecharacteristieof the charm ing driving costume shown in this column lies in tne elegant timplicity of the gown as contracted with the richness of the mantle ieatures that diMiu: :ruish AVorth's latest crea tions, savs Harper's Ilerar Tne gown is of light grav crepon narrowly fiordered with gray silk cord braiding. A coat bodice with revert opens loosely on full vest overlai with cream whiu guipure. A close in ner collar and belt are of the guipure end corded bands. The ve.t is fastened Invieihly on the left tide, the open fronts ot the coat being lined v ith silk. The sktrr. ill the liaek Ii.ir great fulness made Driving ToUA by cutting the seams bias below the waist to the end. The sleeves, broad at the top rather than high, taper to the wrist and have deep culls. The graceful skirt is much m If IL m Ml J, wider than thoe lately worn. The front is gathered at the top instead of being shaped " to the figure by darts, and hence does not cling tightly "in the inartistic way with which 11c are familiar. The sides 1 old for-j- ard on the front and are edged with trim ming, while the back has its tullness laid in ample soft folds that widen as they sweep -3iCJ to the ground. a ji " H Bo Seen at Newport. r' The picturesque mantelet is a novel shape worn by pansiennes when driving in the Bois, and recently imported here to com plete i en port costumes. The lovely cress is of emerald green elvct lined with rose-tolored plush, and trimmed with passe menterie ol cold and let It has a voke- like Inll of Cliantilly lace, which is hooked below the throat and decoratM with long points ot jet passementerie. Similar man ties are ol black ichet, with collar and lin ing of pinkish mauve satin bordered with jet galloon, and others areofcham- fce!eon silk rose changing to green bro- z9i caded with spots of green velvet; the lining .01 the latter is of old-rose satin, and the trimming, gold galloon studded with jet lia cabochous. A breadth of velvet or silk gathered on one selage forms the full cape and is bliaped by a single seam taken bias down the middle. A beaside dress of Scotch -omil !,. - t,:. colored ground barred with rough lines of red and brown, savs the Season. The front of the skirt i6 a bias breadth pleated at the top, then lifted in small paniers to meet the back breadth, which is fll'f) bias, and hung from oie cor ner, the opposite corner at the. foot be i njr slightly rounded. Three .bias folds of silk trim the foot. A deeply pointed cor sage "is also bias, and opens on a chemisette of cream white mousseline de soie Cream lace inhnts RtjirHnf on .. 1. 1? ITil thi chrmlriers hrr '.. ' ..7,7 i . . .. o. "e&fH ' I rfr , nn.nin, f J?ir ' r.v?M.j . r"b ttffiur&mt the corsage, and tmzjm .:ji'' L-r; .X7 lurire biiver uuuuus mMZtih are set below. Loops of beige-colored silk edge the waist. Bias sleeves with three narrow folds of silk at the j ?A S. -" j Pls: Ml? 'Z. Jt Tfltfr-rmtTty. wrist. Draped col- Seaside Gown. wrisu xirapcu cui. i lax -of mousseline A Wj Mm 9 Mi, -,,i- r t M IZj Hi y fc f de soie with lace above. Small toque of gold lace bordered with brown velvet, trim med with tufts of pink roses. Fink parasol with white chifion ruffle. The Latest Thine In "Veil. There are any number of novelties In Tells in London. Some are patterned at in tervals with butterflies, some with bees, and some with flies. They require to be put on very carefullv and securely pinned to the hat, so that there is no chance of their get ting askew. A lady came into a restaurant the other day with a fly on the tip of her nose. It was discovered at once and caused a considerable amount of giggling among a party of girls at one end of the room. A rather pretty veil for a blonde to wear is powdered with little turquoise spots. Kussian net flecked with gold goes nicely with a blaek and gold bonnet Chenille spots are wonderfully becoming, but they are counted old style now. The hunting crop and "V patterns are both novel. Col ored veils are seldom worn. They are to very uglv. The costume shown herewith is Just the thing for a garden party. It is from Marper'i Mazar. xne ma terial is pink foulard, with intricate pat tern of deeper rose touched with black amid ovals of gilt and pink. The pointed bodice, with fullness drawn down without darts, has a yoke-like col lar of white chiffonwrought with gold and scalloped with black. The sleeve have chiffon on the lower arm,wiA foulard puffs at tne top. xne straight skirt has a flounce of embroidered chiflon headed by a ruche of plain chiffon. Pink gros grain ribbon edged with satin lol lows the edge of the waist and falls low on jne side. The hat of cactus straw has flaring van dyked brim, Far a Garden Tarty. and garniture of,pink blossoms. "Wlita kid gloves and parasol of white silk. A graceful gown of hyacinth bbae crepon has the front en princess, with vest drapery of cream and gold guipure lace. The coat has jacket fronts with revers wrought in eyelet, through which gold braid is drawn. The sleeves and skirt are bordered with braid. A quaint hat of straw and gold braid is trimmed with tea-roses. Pearl-colored gloves, and blue parasol. 1 A charming house gown is of tan-colored crepon with embroidered border in Oiiental colors. The coat, of three-quarter length, has a pointed girdle lapped in front made of pink bengaiine richly wrought to match the border. A deep plastron is of pink chiffon. A pink sash embroidered and fringed with gold falls low on the right of the skirt. The sleeves round open to dis close an embroidered border. Novelties in Notepaper. Azure blue, rose-pink, mauve and pale green are the favorite colors for the moment in notepaper, says a Lonon correspondent A pretty paper in the first color is stamped with an initial lette in silver, and has a peculiar shaped envelope modeled on the new American purse. The "Jockey" is a paper with a cream ground and a bold pattern consisting of slanting stripes in such colors as red, yellow and blue. Dim floral designs take very well. Some jiaper in pretty neutral shades is strewn with little pink and yellow blossoms. The "Soleil" is novel as regards shape, the sheets being about three times as long as broad. It is a delicately tinted paper, stamped with the figure of the sun in gold. The "Autrefois" is in soft shades of pink and blue, with gold lines to write on, and an ornamental de.vice in the left corner. In menus the choice is even more varied. They are made in all manner of attractive shapes. The ins and the water lily are per haps the most popular designs. "Wnen modeled in natural tints they are extremely pretty, xne newest tilings in card-shaped menus have Dresden china decorations. Others are ornamented with little Watteau figures, harlequins, sea views, landscapes, sporting scenes, and so forth, done in water colors, The favorite menu for a sporting dinner is a horseshoe. It is generally a white card, with a border of crimped tissue paper. The newest receptacles for ice are made of straw decorated with knots of col ored ribbon. The photographoscope is just out It is Tery ingeniously constructed, and is just about donble the size of an ordinary cabinet sized frame. If I describe it as a panorama in miniature youiwill perhaps be able to see in j our mind's eye what it really is. Almost any number of photographs may be placed in the frame. By simply turning a knob at the side the pictures appear one after the other in endless succession, the one in view falling back and making way for another at every revolution of the handle. The frame is made of carved or inlaid wood, and is handsome enough to put on a drawing room table. It was designed by the inventors to supersede the album. "Women to Be More Beautiful. The love of the beauty of the female sex by the opposite sex is proved not only by choice being more largely determined by that than by any other element; it is proved also by the sedulous care with which men of civilized races guard their women against the hardships which are prejudicial to beauty, says Dr. John V. Shoemaker in "Heredity, Health and Beauty." The men of the higher races have, from the earliest times, followed beauty in the other sex, and that sex has complacently accepted the tribute to its charms, and why should it not? Men's preference, therefore, having always been for those individuals of the opposite sex whose beauty was greatest, the result has manifested itself not only iu wooing and wedding, but in the inheritance, in ever increasingly greater degree, by female offspring of those physical attributes which made the mothers attractive. The dissonance produced by the absence of beauty producing conditions, when the forces just described are in abeyance, is ex hibited by the characteristics of strong minded women. Sexual selections has gen erally stood them aside from relation to posterity. It follows that, if the character of the higher race docs not change, and the physical conditions on earth do not change, and it is impossible that they will change for at least some millions of years, the beauty of women will go on increasing for ft long time to come. Summing up all the agencies at work among the higher traces as fruitful of in. among toe mgner races as irulttul Of in- I creasing female beauty, we may well assume I Sit 4PSil its further gmA development. These In fluences are men's devotion to it, women's lessened labor and care, their higher educa tion and their social development These conditions must produce in return romantic love, vigor of body and maintenance of youthful appearance, ability' of expression end the intellectual and spiritual graces of the countenance; all of which, in the aggre gate, will mean increased beauty for the future. COOKING A CHICKEN. it Bhonld Go en the Fire Immediately After Killing Dishes for the Heated Term Ideas for-New Dishes Hints for the Home. rwETrnST TOB THXDISrATCO. Travelers who have made the tour of the Continent, and who have carried with them discriminating appetites, are profuse in their praise of the manner in which the Austrian cooks at the "Vienna hotels serve chicken, where, they say, it Is always ten der, juicy and richly flavored. And the reason is because the flowls are not killed until ordered.. But that there is. a vast difference in the taste, the flavor and the palatableness of chicken as it comes various ly from different cooks, is a matter well known. The manner of killing fowl as practiced among the orthodox of the He brew faith has much to recommend it from a 6anitarv point of view. The obligation of the Israelite to open the veins of the fowl to let it bleed to death before it is cooked is a part of the ritual law laid down by Moses in which the eating of the blood of any animal was prohibited under penalty of death. It has been learned that letting the fowl remain for some time after it has been killed before cooking lias the effect of mak ing the muscles rigid and the flesh conse quently tough. This knowledge was well known to the colored cooks of the South, and was part of the secret of their success in the preparation of fried chicken, one of the standing and most famous of the dishes of the old plantation aristocracy in the days of slavery. Young chickens, therefore, should not be killed until immediately be fore they are wanted. They should be plucked and drawn quickly a? possible be fore the flesh becomes cold, and not a mo ment should be lost in getting them into the frying pan. I append some recipes: " Broiled Spring Chicken. Split the chickens in two, clean carefully, dry with a cloth and flatten with a hatchet or cleaver. Broil over a moderate flre. "When well browned on both sides, serve them on a hot plate. Season with salt, peppor, butter, the Juice of half a lemon and a little minced parsley. Servo with fried potatoes, rrlcd Chicken. Cut up the chickens, season with salt and pepper, roll iu flour and fry in hot lard. When the whole are fried, pour off the lard .. ... .. ....A ..l.... .f n .... ....4 ." T.l... one teaenpful of cream, a little flour and some scalded parsley, chopped fine. Minced Chicken and reached Eggs. Cut up all the white meat of a roasted or boiled fowl into mince or shreds, and put these Into a small stow pan with a gravy spoonful of Bechamel sauce; when about to serve, warm the mince, dish it up and place poached eegs around it with a crouton of bread in between each egg surrounded by a little white sauce. Fried Chicken, Southern "Way. Slice and cut into dice about half a pound of salt pork. Flour the chicken and fry in the pork tat. Dissolve a heaping tablespoonful of flour with a little cold milk. Add to it gradually half a pint of boiled milk. Season with butter, salt and pepper. Simmer until thick. Place chicken on warm dish, pour sauce around it Steamed Chicken. Take a chickon, plump and tender, split uun UWD UUUll, pLaco iu u uddu uuni vr U1311, , breast downward. Season the upper part with salt, pepper and butter, set in steamer and keep closely covered for an hour, or un til quite tender. Bemove from the dish, lay in bake-pan, breast up, season, dredge light ly with flour and bake light brown, basting often with a little molted butter. Make sauce from the drippings in the dish. "With the advent of real hot weatherthe following hot weather dishes will be found acceptable: Cold Compote. Wash strawberries and raspberries In cold water, drain dry, and place them on a dish. Pour boiling common syrup or boiling our- rantjelly all over. Serve when cold. x. Iced Coffee. Take coffee of good brand, make It strong, and when oold mix with it the same quan tity of rich cream. Sweeten to taste, and freeze. Blackberry Bread. Take slices of sweet, stale bread, butter lightly and remove crust Arrange In the bottom of a desert dish and pour in hot stewed blackberries, sweetened to taste. Strawberries, raspberries and cherries may. be served in the same way. "With the fruit season at hand the follow ing recipes may not come amiss: Four-Fruit Jelly. A very fine Jelly Is made by taking equal quantities of ripe strawberries, raspberries, currants and red cherries; all should be fully ripe and the cherries must be stoned, takincrcare to preserve the juice that es capes in stoning, and add it to the rest. Mix the fruit together, put it into a Jelly bag and squeeze it thoroughly. Strain again, meas ure tne jnice, ana to every pint allow a pound of loaf sugar. Boil for 30 minutes. skimming frequently, and if it congeals readily it is done. Cherry Jelly, To four pounds of cherries add one pound of red currants. Put these fruits into a ket tle, place over the fire and reduce to a mash. Stir constantly with a ooden spoon, press through a fine sieve and Alter through a Jelly bag. To each pound of fruit add from three-quarters to one pound of suirar as taste requires. Place again on fire and boll to a Jelly. Bemove scum, All glasses, and tie up when cold with brandied paper. Currant Jam. Take flne, ripe currants, pick them over carefully, remove stems, and for every pound of fruit allow the same quantity of sugar. Put into a preserving kettle, have tho flre slow until the sugar is dissolved, stirring occasionally. Increase the heat, boil ten minutes, pour Into glasses and seal when cold. Preserved Pineapple. Bemove all the nnd from pcrfeotly sound pineapples, grate them and allow a pound of sugar to a pound ot pulp. Simmer gently for 30 minutes, and seal while hot S Crab-Apple Jelly. Cut the apples to pieces without partngor removing seeds the latterimpart a pleasant flavor to the fruit Put into a stone Jartset in a pot of hot water, and lot boil for eight or nine hours. Squeeze out the Juice next morning, re-strain without squeezing, allow pound for pint and boil to Jelly. I append some recipes for frugal dishes: Utilizing btalo liread. A good way to utilize stale bread Is to moisten it (cut in small pieces) with a very little hot water. Season with minced onion, sweet-herbs, salt pepper and butter. Add a beaten eggsrad bake in a covered dish for one hour. Bemove cover, brown, and serve with gravy. The bread thus prepared may also be fried in cakes, or it may bo used for filling meats. For Cakes and Puddings. Add to the 'left over" syrup of canned fruit a quarter of a pound ot sugar to a pint ofsyrnp. Boil until it thickens a little and then -bottle. This is very good to use on cases tuu jjuuuuiga. Bread Sauce. Crumble stale bread very fine, set It on the flre in a saucepan, with as much sweet milk as will make it thick. Put in a slice of onion and stir it till the bread is soaked and the sauce is smooth. Season. Hints for the Home. In the kitchen use the finest and most delicate butter especially for pastry. Ixr cooking dry vegetables put them Into cold water nnd bring them slowly to the boil ing point. Fresh and green vegetables are plunged into salted, boiling water. In making omelets break tho eggs separa tely and beat until the last moment before putting into the pan. Beef fat is preferred by some of the best cooks to nil other frying mediums. It is sufficiently heated when tho smoke arises from the center. It should not boil. Sauces spoil by standing. They should be prepared last and served hot. Bluox Snoot. Her. Adam Baker's Cure for dysentery. "We used Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for dysentery and diarrhoea, and will Bay that it proved itself to be an excellent medicine. Ebv. Adam wbu ETiaQroTvaTranklincountyj P' AT A COUNTRY HOME. HfteJiost Charming Flacfrto GiYd'the Invited Quest Pleasure. HOTf-ENGLISH WOMEN "MAffAGE. JWfoafM Tenmdn Is a DdJgMM-lfoolrt-Taie the Breakfast. UDB1S ETTHE T7AT OP AMUSEia!HTB t wiunxif vok-thx xttsrJkTOKO The poets have, been In the habit of praising a country life since 'the days of Homer, but the Americans have sot as ft people appreciated its joys. As soon as a country man was able to do It he moved to the largest city near him, presumably Nsw York, or perhaps Paris. The city people were oontent formerly to give their chil dren six weeks of country air, and old New Yorkers did not move out of the then small city, even in the hot months. The idea of going to the country to live, for pleasure, ft place in which to spend one's money nd,to entertain.has been to the average American mind a thing of recent growth. Perhaps our climate has much to do with this. People bred in the country feared to meet that long, oold winter of the North, which even to the well-to-do was filled with suf fering. "Who does not renumber the ice in the piteherof a morning, which must bo broken before even faces were washed. Therefore, the furnace-heated -city house, the companionship, the bustle, the stir and convenience of a city, have been, naturally enough, preferred to the loneliness of the country. As Hawthorne once said, Ameri cans were not sufficiently civilized to live in the country. "When he went to England and saw a different order of things haundcr stood why. England, a small place with 2,000 years of civilization, with admirable roadsj'with landed estates, with a mild win ter, with a taste for sport, with dogs, horses and well trained servants, was a very differ ent place. Some Difficulties In the "Way. It may be years before we make our coun try life as agreeable as it is in England. We hare got to conquer climate first But the love of country life is growing in America. Those so fortunate as to be able to live in a climate like that of Southern California can certainly quote Horace with sympathy. Those who live so near to a great city as to command at once city con veniences and country air and freedom, are among the fortunate of the earth. And to hundreds, thousands of such, in our delight fully prosperous new country, the art of entertaining in a country house assumes a new interest And no better model for a hostess can be found than an Englishwoman. There is when she receives her guests a quiet cordial ity, a sense of pleasurable expectancy, an inbred ease, grace, suavity, composure and respect for her visitors, which seems to come naturally to a well-bred English woman, that is to say, to the best types of the highest class. To be sure, they have had vast experience in the art of enter taining; they have learned this useful ac complishment from a long line of well trained predeoessors. They have no do mestic cares to worry them. Attheheadof her own house an Englishwoman is as near perfection as a human being can be. There is the great advantage of the English climate to begin with. It is less exciting than ours. The nervous woman is almost unknown. Their ability to take exercise, the moist and soft air, their good appetite and healthy digestion place them in a physical condition almost always denied to an American. Comfort the Great Desideratum. As a hostess, the Englishwoman is sure to mold her house to look like home. She has soft low couches for those who like, them, high backed tall. chairs for the' tall, low chairs for the lowly. She has her bo6k cases and pretty china scattered everywhere, she has work-baskets and writing tables and flowers, particularly wild ones, which look as if she had tossed them in the vases her self. Her house looks cheerlul and "culti vated." I use the word advisedly, for all taste must be cultivated. A state apartment in an old English grand house can be inex pressibly dreary. Hieh ceilings, stiff old girandoles, pictures of ancestors, miles of mirrors and the Laocoon or specimens of Grecian art, wnicn no one cares lor except in the "Vatican, the cerami and historical horrors of some old collector, who had no taste, are enough to frighten a visitor. But when a young or an exper ienced English hostess has smiled on such a house, there will he some delightful lumber strewn around, no end of pretty brackets and baskets and curtains and screens, and couches piled high with cush ions, and then the quaint carvings, the rather affected riches, the mantel piece nearly no to the xeilintr. as in Hocrarth's picture, all these become humanized bv her touch. The spirit of a hostess should aim at the combination of use and beauty. Some finer spirits command both, as Michael An gelo, who hung the dome at Florence, high in air, made a thing of beauty, which is a Joy forever, but did not forget to build un der it a convenient church as well They Never Entertain. As for the bedrooms in an English coun try house, they transcend description, they are the very apotheosis of comfort The dinners are excellent, the breakfast and lunch comfortable, informal and easy, the horses are at your disposition, the lawn and gardens are yours for a stroll, the chapel lies near at hand where you can study archi tecture and ancient brass. There are pleas ant people in the house, you are let alone, you are not being "entertained," that most dreadful of sensations that somebody has you on his mind and must show you photographs and lift off your en nui: But English people will tell you that house parties are dull, not that all are, but some are. No doubt the jaded senses lose ihe power of being pleased. A visit to an English house to an American who brings with her a fresh sense of enjoyjnentand who remembers the limitations of a new country, one who loves antiquity, history, old pictures, and all that time can do, one who is hungry for Old "World refinements, to such a one a visit to an English country house is delightful; to a worn-out English set whose business it has been for "a quarter of a century to go from one house to another no doubt it is dull. Some unusual distrac tion is craved. "To relieve the monotony and silence and the dull, depressing cloud which sometimes settles on the most admir ably arranged English dinner party,even an American savage would be welcomed, says a modern novel writer. American Beauties In England. How much more, then, is a pretty young woman who, with a true enthusiasm and a wild liberty, has found her opportunity and uses it, plays the banjo,tells fortunes by the hand, has no fear of rank," is in her seta giucier oi iresuncss, wita a nean Ol nre, like lloman punch. How much more glad ly is a young American woman welcomed in such a house, and how soon her head, is turned. She is popular until she carries off the eldest son and then she is severely criticised, and by her spoiled .caprices be comes a heroine for Ouida to rejoice in and the foud of a society novel. But the glory is departing from many a stately English country house. Fortune is failing them; they are. many of them to rent Bich Americans are buying their old pictures the Gainsborough, the Joshua Reynolds, the Bembrandts, which have been the pride of English country houses, are coming down .charmed by the silver mu sic of the almighty dollar. The old fairy tale is coming true. Even the furniture dances. So we have the money and we have the vivacity, according to even our severest critics, w e nave now to cultivate the re- jposo ox an English hostess If va would. dd'l ,-mako oax-oesatix 4bim m ftfrtuMt she does. "We cannot improvise the an tiquity or the old chapel, or the brasses; we cannot make our roads as fine as those which enable .an English "house party" to drive 16 miles to a dinner; in fact, we must admit that they have been 900 years making a lawn even. But we must try to do things our own wayand use our own advantages so that we can make our guests comfortable. Autumn the Best In America. The American autumn is the msst glori ous of seasons for entertaining in a country house. Nature hangs our hillsides then with a tapestry that hos no equal, even at "Windsor. The weather, that article which in America is apt to be so good, that if it is bad we apologize for it, is more apt to be food in October, makes the duties of a ostess easy in October, ibr 'nature helps tot entertain anybody. It is to be feared that we have not yet learned to be guests; trust ing to that boundless American hospitality which has been apt to say: "Come when youpleasennd stay as long as you can," we decline an invitation for tne 6th, saying we can come on the 9th. This cannot be done when people begin to give house parties. We must go on the 6th or not at all. "We should also define the limits of a visit, as in England one is asked on Wednesday to arrive at 6, to leave ot 11 on Saturday. Then one docs not overstay his welcome. Host and hostess and guests must thoroughly understand one another on this point and tnen punctuality is tho only thing to be considered. The opulent, who have butler.fbotman and French cooks, need read no further in this chapter, the rest of which will be directed to the larger class who have neither, and who have to help themselves. Good Service Indispensable. No lady should attempt to entertain. In the country who has not a good cook and one or two attending maids who can wait well and perform other duties about the house. With these three and with a good deal of knowledge herself, a hostess can make'a country house attractive. The din ing room should be the most agreeable room In the house, shaded in the morning and cool fn the afternoon, a large room with hard wood floor and mats, if possible, as these are clean and cook If possible a round table or an oval, set in a bay window. If not possible, try the por tico for out-of-door dining and breakfasting ip warm weather. The tablecloth should be of snowy damask, and the chairs easy cane, cheap articles, both cleaner and cooler than heavily upholstered things. A wide veranda shaded with vines is the most agree able of places for a summer breakfast or lunch. If there are long windows into the dining room the servant can use the dining room for her reserves of knives, forks and spoons. Maid servants should be taught by the mistress how to carve, in order to save time and trouble. Soup for a country din ner should be clear bouillon or creme d'ns parger, of mutton or chicken broth,as heavy soups are unseasonable in summer, in very hot weather iced bouillon is preferred by many. A country hostess should have cold ham, cold tongue, "and all sorts of salads, as a reserve, in case the cook leaves, as she generally does, just as the oompany is ex pected. The Virtue of Tresa Vegetables. And a garden full of fresh vegetables should be the belonging of every country house. A clear soup, a slice of fresh broiled salmon, a bit of spring lamb with mint sauce, fresh peas, a salad of lettuce or cold potatoes sliced with a bit of onion, a custard, cold and well flavored. a bit of cheese, a cup of coffee, is a good dinner. So is a steak well broiled, with a baked potato, a salad, and the rest of it A famous epicure said that all he asked was a bit of broiled salt pork and fresh vegetables, with five strawberries. Most hostesses in the country can give this and more. The service is the thing. There must be nothing neglected, nofhing at all slovenly. Carafes of ice water, a silver dish for ice, a pair of ice tongs, should be put on the table ibr summer, with cream and fresh butter, and then with a patent icecream freezer in the kitchen closet, with a knowledge of the delicately-flavored things which can be made from gelatine, corn starch and eggs, a country hostess can reasonably succeed with small means and few servants in making everybne very comfortable. It. is not in good taste" to make an ostentatious display of silver or expensive china in a country house. At Newport, and in many a fine place elsewhere, the oyulent make a boast that they nse plated ware, so thatxburglars will notbreak through and steal. Nowa days the china and glass is so very pretty, and so very cheap, that it can be bought and used and left in the house all winter with out much risk. , Guests Should Have Their Own Time. It is well to hav very easy laws about breakfast, and allow a guest to descend when he wishes. I' possible give your guest an opportunity to breakfast in his room. So many people nowadays want simply a cup of tea, and to wait until noon before eating a heavy meaL so many desire to eat steaks, chops, toast, eggs, hot cakes and coffee at 9 o'clock, that it is difficult for a hostess to know what to do. Her best plan, perhaps, is to have an elastic hour, and let her people come down when they feel like it In England the maid enters with tea, excellent black tea, a toasted muffin and two boiled eggs at 8 o'clock, a pitcher of hot water for the washstand and a bath. No one is obliged to appear until luncheon, nor even then if indisposed to do so. But dinner at whatever hour is a formal meal; and everyone should come freshly dressed and in good form, as the English say. The Arab law of hospitality should be printed over every lintel in a country house: "Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest" "He who tastes my salt is sacred, neither I nor my household shall attack him, nor shall one word be said against him. Bring corn, wine and fruit for the passing stranger. Give the one who departs from thy tents the fastest horse. Let him who would go from thee take the fleet dromedary, reserve the lame one for thyself." If these momentous hints were carried out in America and if these children of the desert, with their grave faces, composed manners and noble creed, could be literally obeyed we fear country house visiting would become almost too popular. Suggestions for a Ball. A sort of Druidical procession might be improvised to help along this ball, so that the hostess would amuse her Company for a week with the preparations. First get a negrof fiddler to head it. dressed like Brown ing's "Pied Piper" in gay colors and playing his fiddle. Then have a procession of chit dren dressed in any gay costume. Then "two milk-white oxen garlanded" with wreaths of flowers and ribbons driven by a boy in Swiss costume, then a goat cart with the baby, driving two goats, also gar landed. Then a lovelj Alderney cow, also decorated, accompanied by a milkmaid, carrying a milking stool, and then another long line of children, then the youths and maids, bearing the decorations for the ball room. Let all these parade the village street and wind up -at the' ballroom, where the cow can be milked, and a surprise of ice cream and cake given to the children. This is a Sunday school picnic and a ball room decoration, all in one, and the country lady who can give it will have earned the fratitude of neighbors and friends. It has een done. As for the refreshments to be served, the oyster stew, the icecream, the good home made cake, coffee and tea, these are within the reach of every country housekeeper, and are in their way unrivaled. Of course she can add chicken salad, boned turkey, pate de foie gras, if she wishes. And she can have punch, hot or told, and let her not, if it is in winter, forget the coachmen outside. M. E. W. Sheewood. A Dunkard Minister's Opinion. Bev. Jacob Conner, a well-known Ger man Baptist (commonly called Dunkard) minister of Boyer's Ford, Montgomery oounty, Pa., says; '1 have used Chamber lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Bcmedy for diarrhoea, colic and cramp in the stom ach. I have never used any medicine with better or more satisfactory results. I con- aider it on of the best ever used in our 4 HOT WATER ATO MEAT "Will Make the Corpulent Low In Flesh and Gain in Health. EXPEBLEflCE OP CELIA L0&AIT. Tinnr Physic to the Dogs and" Then -JteTjr Upon a Resolute Will. JXETAHS OP AN TJOTAIIIK&-CDBB WBTTTEr JOB THS DISTATCH.1 The chief of my many physical derange ments was the accumulation of fat around the heart, which was slowly compressing that organ and threatening to Bqueeze out its life, as the wall closed about the doomed man in the 'Iron Shroud." That which happened fo me may happen to any other person suffering from surplusage of adipose; but, unlike me, he or she may not have the good fortune to be warned in time for re covery, for sudden death from ''heart fail ure" is liable to be the fate of any and eTery too corpulent person. The means by which I was literally snatched from the grave are so simple as hardly to gain credence. They were inher ent in the curative system to which I now submitted myself, and are to be found out lined in the following instructions, which, by the kindness of Dr. Salisbury, I am per mitted to make publio: Drink a pint of hot water at about 110 Fahrenheit, one and a half to two hours before each meal and half an hour before re tiring. From 6 to 16 minutes should be taken for drinking the water, so as not to distend the stomach to an unoomfortable degree, Hike VTashlng Out a Sewras. The object of the hot water Is to wash from the stomach the slimy mucus, alco holic and sour yeasts and bile before eating and sleeping. The water should be drank long enough before each meal to allow it time to get out of the stomach before the food enters. 'When thirsty, between two hours after a meal and one hour before the next, drink hot water, clear tea, lemon water or crust coffee. Take no other drink of any kind between meals. At meals drink one cup (five or eight ounces) of clear tea or clear coffee. The best times for taking the hot water are at abont 6 x. M., 11 A. M., 4 P. 3T-, and 9 p. M., and the meals at 7:30 to 8 A. JL, 12:30 to 1 P. M.. and 6:30 to 6 p. M. It is better to take the hot water in the morning iu ucu, or, ii up, to lie aown xox a nuio after taking it The food should be either the muscle pulp of beef, broiled beefsteak free from fat,roast beef, broiled lamb or mutton or roast lamb or mutton. For side dishes, oysters, law, broiled or roasted in the shell, broiled or boiled fish, chicken, game and turkey, broiled or roasted. All fat should be avoided, except a little butter. Salt and pepper and Worcestershire, Chutney or Halford sauce may be moderately indulged in with the meats. All meats should be fairly well cooked. Very rare meats are harder to digest, the musoular fibers pass ing through the bowels often undigested. Celery is admissable. Avoid all otherfoods and condiments. Tho "Weight Easily Regulated. By persisting in this plan of alimentation the adipose tissue will rapidly disappear and the loss in weight will be from ten to thirty ponnds per month, according to the degree of fatness, the rigidity of diet and the exercise and mental condition of the patient If the loss of weight becomes too rapid and the shrinkage in bulk so fast that the skin does pot keep pace with it and begins to hang in folds and wrinkles, a lit tle of the fat-forming food, such as bread, toast, rice, cracked wheat and potatoes may be used, usually, a shrinkage of from ten to fifteen pounds a month is about right When the desired weight and bulk is reached, increase the proportion of fat form ing food just sufficiently to maintain the buiK and weight ot tne body as desired. Usually two parts of meat and one of veg etable "food, by bulk, will be about right Often, however, this proportion may be varied either way under the guidance of good judgment The meals should be taken at regular In tervals, and it is better to eat alone, or only with those who are living on the same diet All temptation should as much as possible be removed from the patient If three meals 'a day are not sufficient to satisfy hun ger the patient may be allowed a nice piece of broiled steak between breakfast and dinner and dinner and supper. These extra meals should be taken at fixed and regular intervals. A Resolute TV IU Necessary. Here is a real cure for the corpulent with out the use of medicine or the expense of a physician. All that it requires is the reso lute will to adhere to that which I admit is very hard fare. I lost 30 pounds in six months, and found that I had not merely disappointed those physicians who said I must die, but that I had lost along with my Earns and ever present peril my cumbersome ulk, and had begun to feel better than I had within the previous decade at least Those who are obliged to be out attending to business cannot, of course, take the 11 and i. o'clock draughts, but the early mern ing pint can be taken before getting up, and as this is the most important jrint of all it should never be neglected. It is also easy to arrange to drink the hot water before re tiring, which is the second time in import ance. These two pints will suffice for those who cannot tako the others. The diet, how ever, is a different matter, depending en tirely upon the individual will. Those who are not loiiowmg tne Salisbury system for the recovery of health, but simply for the reduction of weight, should adhere as strictly as possible to the diet until they have lost at least 20 pounds, or as many as they desire to be rid of. After that they may advance to what is called the "two-thirds diet," that is, two mouthfuls of animal to one of vegetable food. I append the directions for the "two-thirds or normal diet," as prepared by Dr. J. H. Salisbury for the instruction of patients: Measure the Food by the Eye. Let all meals consist of two-thirds animal food and one-third vegetable food. ' The proportions are by bulk, to be measured by the eye, broiled steak and ordinary baked potato being the best data for making al lowances ior articles uaymg lesser aensity or more water. What I mean is that you could take, for example, without exceeding the one-third, a larger apparent bulk of boiled rice than you could ot baked potato, on account of the separation of the rice grains and the water they have absorbed. Chew vegetable food thoroughly. If it can be chewed until it is so that it disap pears, as it were, down the throat without any special effort to swallow, it will be per fectly masticated. Eat always at the same time. Do not drink more than six ounces of liquid at a meal. The principal thirst should be slaked between meals, about an hour before meal times. Do not eat or drink anything cold if it can be avoided. If obliged to take something cold warm it, if possible, in the mouth by chewing or holding it there. Do not eat manufactured sugar or products thereof, nor any dish or article prepared with the same. Do not drink choke damp, i. e., liquids having carbonic acid in them, as soda, ginger ale, champagne, etc Eat and drink nothing the composition of which is doubtful or un known, or which is known to disagree with you. Avoid malt liquors. An occasional glass of good, sound, still wine may be taken if it agrees, or some well-diluted dis tilled liquor of best quality. But it must not be u dailv practice. Smoking, not to exceed one cigar right after each meal, is permitted if it does not disagree. Soups, pies, puddings, pastry, preserves, candies, sweetmeats, cakes, nuts, raisins and dates should be avoided An occasional fig is al lowed if it agrees. Lemon Juice Instead of Vlnejrar. No condiments allowed excepting salt black pepper (use a French table pepper I horseradish freshly prepared with lemon juice. A little genuine cayenne occasion ally, especially if one. has a little cold in the head. Yinegar must be banished "Use fresh lemon juice in all cases where yinegar was formerly employed. Baw vegetables, as lettuce, endive, radish, etc., should be avoided, with the sole exception of celery, which is permitted in moderation. The pips, seeds, cores and rinds of fruits and vegetables and the fat, cartilage, sinew and tendon of animal food and things hard and indigestible in general are forbidden. Oatmeal and all other products of oats, and all products of maize, or Indian corn, must be avoided. "Wheaten bread and boiled rice should constitute about all your grain food. Fresh fruit' is recommended, but straw berries, grapes and pineapples should bo eaten very sparingly, especially strawber ries. "When the nnd of fruit is eaten or goes into the mouth it should first be well washed. Live principally on roast or broiled meat, fish, poultry and game, boiled rice, wheaten bread, potatoes baked in their jackets, butter, hot water, tea and coffee. Eschew the fatter, oily kinds, such as geese, ducks, salmon, eels. No pork. Eat noth ing fried, no sauces, stuffing or dressing. Avoid meats and 'fish that have been salted or smoked, excepting, perhaps, good dried codfish well soaked out A soft boiled or poached egg now and then, but not as a regular thing. The watery, ligneous and nitrogenous vegetables are allowed in small froportion once in awhile. They can easily e dispensed with, being, with the excep tion of beans and peas, mostly for flavor only. They are dear food considering the small nutrition derived. Such as have pe culiar specific properties, as asparagus, spinach, onions, nad better be avoided. The Wrinkles Are Xot Permanent. Many persons, especially women, dislike the change made in their looks by the re duction of fat The face becomes drawn and haggard, and the lower portions about the chin hang flabbily and in wrinkles. This lasts but a short time with the Salis bury diet, in consequence of the nutriment afforded by the meat Hot water is the natural scavenger of the body: those who persevere in drinking it will find not merely the promised reduction of obesity, but a surprising clearness of the complexion and a feeling of general rejuvenation a light ness of body and elasticity of motion which they have not had since losing their slender ness. Professionals and traveling salesmen who are continually on the road may urge that they cannot take the hot water because they cannot get it even at first-class hotels. But nearly all bedrooms are supplied with fas, upon which the water can be heated in ve minutes. One should carry a tin tea pot or thin Japanese copper kettle holding one pint, either of which can be bought for 25 cents, and a brass or tin support to screw on the gas jet, which may cost from 15 to 60 cents, according to style. The water should always be brought to a boil before using, and sipped when suffi ciently oooL The boiling is advisable as a means for rendering innocuous any organic matter or animalcules the water may con tain, and to know for a certainty that it has reached a proper temperature. Cold "Water Is Injurious. It should never be taken less than an hour previous to eating, or with food, or shortly after meals, as such imbibition would retard or impede digestion by diluting or weaken ing the gastric juice. Nor must the patient fall into the error of supposing that cold water will be as efficacious as hot, and thereby save the trouble of heating it Cold water drunk in excess is liable to produce weight and discomfort, colic and pain. It does not act on the liver as hot water does. It depresses vitality, and the heat of the body is lnwered in the endeavor to raise tho temperature of the fluid to that of the blood, and this causes injurious expenditure of nerve force. The water should not be merely tepid as that is liable to cause nausea and besides effect nothing. Take the water as hot as you can the hotter the better. If you cannot get down a whole pint at once, tako as much as you can. You will find that the repugnance to its insipidity is soon over come, and that you can take the prescribed quantity without discomfort It affords an immediate relief for flatulency, usually one of the numerous annoyances of the corpulent The hot water should not customarily be mixed with anything, but when first essayed, an infinitesimal pinch of salt will take away its insipidity and do no harm; a small dose of bicarbonate of soda 'taken with it will give instant relief from sour stomach or "heart burn." Those things, however, trench upon the province of medical treat ment where I do not propose to go. Never put sugar in your hot water, for it will do you far more harm even a Terr little of it than the hot water can do good. It is hardly necessary to say that the water should be pure. The Symptoms of Improvement. Here are a few things which wffl soon be noticeable to anyone who folIowsrthaJSalis bury system: Increased appetite. Improved digestion. Absence of diBJpmfort after eating. First loss of flesh, afterward (partial) gain. Flatulence, heartburn, sour stomach, tt& are cured. Perspiration starts freely after drinking the water. The skin becomes healthy and clear. Iced water and stimulants are not oared for. If obliged to eat hurriedly (In traveling, fmr inaiiiTiftA Mnfin Tftnrslf tn KTiimnl food, which does not need much, if any, maai tication. Aliments not mentioned in tne card are not required and are likely to be of a character to make them undesirable as regular articles of food. If taken at all they should be taken only casually and at long intervals. One can eat or drink almost anything once in a while in modera tion without bad consequences. It is the daily habit which does the mischief. Avoid "-made" dishes. A man should know what he eats and drinks. How can he know the components of sauces, sausages, made dishes, soups, stews, eelatines. etc? f If the two-thirds diet does not reduce corpu lence rapidly enougn, gradually augment the proportions of animal food, coming down by degrees to all animal food if suf ficient progress seems impossible without so doing. How to Select the Foods. In the various and generous viands placed upon the American table it is difficult to determine jnst what is and what is not fat forming food. Many who are not yet corpu lent, but show a tendency to become so, would be glad to know exactly what they .WCts V DELICIOUS Flavoring Extracts ARE Unequaled in Purity. Unequaled in Strength. Unequaled in Economy. Unequaled in Flavor. PRICE FLAVORING EXTRACT GO. I WE TAKE STOCK 4UET1 GREAT REDUCTION I During June. Wm. TrmHe & Co. 041 Wood St. mySl-su may eat without danger of increasing their weight I give a dietary card which will prevent obesity, as well as aid in its reduc tion. Aiaowed Ad Libitum Boast and broiled venison, beef, mutton, lamb, fish, oysters, poultry and winged game (prefer the dark meat); baked and boiled fish (ex cept the oily kinds). The meats should bo cooked "medium rare," and their fat, sinew and cartilage discarded. (Fish should be partaken of guardedly not for the rea son that it makes fat, but because it is otherwise injurious to many persons). Aiaowed ur Moderation Fresh but ter, boiled rice and potatoes, cracked wheat, table celery; ripe, sound apples, pears, peaches, raspberries, blackberries and oranges; baked apples, and, as seasoning, lemon juice, horse-radish and mustard (if freshly mixed with lemon juice), black pepper, salt, Worcestershire sauce (a dish), olive oik potatoes baked in their jackets, thoroughly baked wheaten bread. Keraem ber, if those things ore indulged in, that their total must not exceed one-third, in bulk, of the food total. Allotted Occasionally Soft boiled or poached eggs, clean sound figs, dates and stewed prunes. "With eggs confine yourself to the "whites." The yellows are two thirds oik To Be Cakefttlly Avoided Animal food Pork, veal, salted or smoked meats and fish, fat, milk, cream, melted or cooked, or rancid butter or cheese, all foods and dishesprepared or seasoned with any of the foregoing, soups, stews, shell fish (except ing oysters), the oilier kinds of fish and poultry, such as salmon, eels, tame ducks and geese. Vegetable food Uncooked vege tables; hot breads, all products and prepara tions of oats and Indian corn, sucn as oat meal, hominy and corn bread; pan and griddle cakes, fritters, crullers, pies, pud dings, pastry, cake, candies, beans, green corn, crackers, nuts, pickles, manufactured sugar, molasses, syrups, vinegar (substitute lemon jnce), jams, jellies, preserves, straw berries, grapes, pineapples, bananas, all foods and dishes prepared or seasoned with any of the foregoing. Generally Every thing fried, all seed or chilled foods, the cartilage tendon, gristle, skin and fat of meat and fish, the peel, core and seed of apples, pears, etc, all sauces, spices and condiments not permitted in this card. Quench the thirst.by drinking, about one hour before meals and retiring, all the water that the body craves drink nothing else between meals. Allowed at Meals Still dry wineand water (half water), beef tea, water with or without a little lemon juice or good whisky or brandy or gin, clear tea or coffee. Tea and coffee may be sweetened; lemon juice may preferably be added to tea. Not more than naif a pint of liquid must be taken at any meal, and the less you take the better. Do without drinking at meals if you can, and you can if you will only try, and keep trying. To be Carefully Avoided Sweet wines, all sparkling or effervescing bever ages, such as champagne, soda water and ginger ale; all fermented, undistilled liquors, such as ale. beer, cider, etc; liquors, cor dials; distilled liquors unless diluted one part of spirits to at least four of water, ioed water, all iced or chilled drinks. Smoking allowed if it agrees, but one gooddzarat -the end of each meal is the limit. Once a Drinker, Always On. The night and morning pints will be taken, when practicable, all one's life, sim ply for the slightly stimulative and exnilar- -atmg sense of internal clearness they Im part ana tne aeainiainess iney insure, .uui it need not be feared that temporary cessa tion as during travel, or even protracted continuance of conditions incompatible with the habit will cause a recurrence to corpulence, if the limitations of diet are reasonably well adhered to. This I affirm not from my personal experience, sino I have not yet had to forego my accustomed draughts, but from the assurances of others who have experienced the benefits of the treatment Effete matter and injurious accumula tions having been expelled from the system. feeble and worthless tissue replaced by thai which is strong and sound, semi-paralysed organs waked to full vitality, and tho will itself stimulated and inspired with new energy by the training undergone, health, will have been so fully re-established as an inherent attribute of being, that only through persistently reckless disregard of prudential considerations can fa, and disease again enter into possession. Salisbury patients generally agra thai gala seldom exceeds ten pounds. CELiALooim Ihe Astonished the Professors. A young lady from Saxony, Miss Lords Hnller, of Hirschfelde, has won the larja prize offered bj the University of Zurich for the best paper on the "Anatomy of Slants." The Zurich professors pronounca le work of the unknown author a most thorough and' complete treatise, and they were astonished to find that it had emanated from a woman. A brilliant future Is prs dietcd for Hiss Huller. .tH 1 ' 'iiim gii