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HUFFIKS MADE FEOH HOMINY.
Sponge Corn Cake Ttat Requires Judgment
and Experience in the Use of
Soda and Sour Hilt
HOW THE ITALIA WOXEN COOE.
Artistic and Musical Calls to Make the Dinner An
nouncement Fleacanter.
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INDIAN corn is the
jhomespunkine. There
is no cereal deserving
more or receiving less
from the American
people. "We are mak
ing a vast ado abont
introducing our corn
to Europe, but do we
recognize half its value
ourselves? How few
families, outside the
Southern States, habitually use cornmeal.
Tet not one who has seen and tasted the
many delicious dishes that can be made out
of cornmeal will ever -sneer at it again.
Besides the meal (or flour of corn) there
are several varieties of hominy, coarse or
fine, that serve admirably tor vegetables or
side dishes. The fine hominy can be made
into a croquette to tempt an anchorite, we
have often had this hominy as a mush for
breakfast, and then (letting a day intervene
to help people to forget, for we are artful
cooks), bv adding an egg to the revision of
the mush, we have servedhominy croquettes
in elegance for dinner. There Ss always
an air of elegance and the caterer about cro
quettes, somehow. Indeed, I know of no
dish that makes so great a show on so small
a capital except the Pilau.
Keclpe for Hominy Croquettes.
This is how we make hominy croquettes.
The recipe will sound helplessly blind to
the followers of the elastic cnp and the
unprincipled arithmetic of the egg, but try
it a lew times and you may find that judg
ment islikesome varieties of weak eyes, and
grows stronger by use. Here it is:
Take what is lettof tho morning dish o
mush, add to it one or two eggs, according
to the amount of hominy. Add. a teaspoon
ful or cream to each egg (if you have no
cream milk will do), and mis the eg? and
cream w ith the cold mush nntil you have
the mush just thicKcnoush to handle, Koll
outdrybiead or cracker crumbs w ith the
rolling pin. Should you be a provident
housekeeper you will have your glass jar or
fine dry biead crumbs leady on your shelf.
Have another egg beaten up, -white and yolk
together. Put this ess into a soup plate.
Shape your uominy cioquettes on the board;
then put one into ibis, soup plate and roll it
over in the egg w ith the spoon. A very
little practice w ill enablo you to do this
quickly and easilv. Koll the egg-painted
croquette again in the crumbs and fry in
boiling fat deep enough to cover. The cro
quettes bhould be rolled s-cparately, but you
can fry as many, together, as thelrjlng
kettle or spider w ill hold without crowding.
If the mush has been well salted you will
not need to add any salt to the croquette
mixture, but in most cases a pinch of salt
does not come amiss; and if you like them
sweet, a teatpoonful of sugar to a large egg
can be added. But tb my own mind there
is a wholesome, natural sweetness about
hominv itself, which is spoiled by artificial
sweetening; it reminds me of the fashion
the Southern Crackers have of powdering
the babies' laces.
A Nov; 3 Kind or Zinnia.
"Yerv nice mufHn, called Florida muffins,
in some cook books, are made out of hominy
combined with a proportion of flour and
eggs. You can take any good recipe of gem
or muffin made ith baking powder or eggs,
and by using one-lonrth or one-third hom
inv (cooked) instead of all flour you will
hate a delicious and "diflerent" muffin.
A simple Irving dish that can be made in
a hurr when you have the mush is to
take stiffmush and cut small slices. This
implies that you have providently turned
vour mush into a deep square or rectangu
lar pan. Slices two "by two inches and a
third of an inch thick are of a convenient
size. Dip the slices in silted flour, then
sautee them in a spider, with butter, or you
can frv them on a griddle. They must not
be more than half an inch thick, because if
thicker they may not be thoroughly cooked.
There is a coarser kind of hominy, some
times known as hulled corn. Cooked with
milk in the double boiler, for an hour, or
cooked in a granite saucepan on the bare
stote for half "that time, it makes a break
fast cereal, a dinner vegetable, or a modest
sweet. It is excellent with butter and
maple syrup.
If ominr Softened by.MIlk.
But the best kind of hominy mush that I
know is made out of the fine hominy. And
here is a recipe obtained from a noted en
tertainer, the wife of an army officer, her
self a name of that city of great and good
eating, Philadelphia:
Soak (after careful washing) a cupful of
fine white hominy in a quart of milk all
night. In the morning pour off this milk
and boil the liominy in more milk for an
hour or longer. A pinch of salt is added.
This hominy has an indescribable smooth
ness and ripeness and finish about it which
1 impute to the soaking all night in milk.
Tie most delicate and poetic corn bread I
have ever eaten is named sponge corn cake.
I give the recipe from an admirable cook
book:
One cup of wheat flour, yolks of two eggs,
one-half cup coinme&I, white of one egg,
one-half tca&poonlul salt, one tablespoontul
of nit lted butter, one-half teaspoonful soda,
one cod tour milk, one-third cupofsusar.
Iike ms shallow round pan or a brick loaf
pan.
This does not sound difficult, but in the
whole round of breads raised quickly, I do
not know ol one other with such varied
possibilities of failure. I have given these
easy-looking directions of a well-known
writer of cook books into the hands of six
good cooks. There have appeared on our
board six extraordinary compounds. Some
were of a green and maiachitish semblance,
some were coarse and tough, some had given
up the struggle in despair and concluded
not to try to rise at all.
Hie soda and Sour Milk,
Of coarse, it wa6 that uncertain soda and
that raoie uncertain sour milk! There
shouldjbe scant half teaspoonful of soda
andjthe milk should be sour, and not in that
ambigfious stage known as "on the turn."
Unless a cook understands her art well, I
would warn her to beware of sour milk!
Sour milk is like a fascinating and talented
voung man with bad habits; and soda is like
the lovely young woman who marries him
to reform fiim. Sometimes she does and
great is the result thereoi, but more times
he Joes not.
A "ood cook will make marvels of light
ness and smoothness and ethereal sweet
ness out ot the chemistry of sour milk and
soda. Tliere is a peculiar tenderness and
line texture, a moist firmness about bread
raised by sour milk and soda that is lacking
where Uhe milk is artificially soured by
cream of tartar and then sweetened by soda.
But nothing is more treacherous than sour
milk,' which does not keep the same temper
twice in succession. Yet the recipe says
alwavs the same one-halt teaspoonful of
soda! Sometimes the sour milK will not be
sweetened by half aspoonfulof sweetness
auid light heaviness and sogginess, in con
sequence! Sometimes the milk is not sonr
enough to need a half teaspoonful, then the
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man of the house tears open the green and
unwholesome bread and talks uncomforta
bly of poison! for there is a deeply rooted
belief in the masculine mind from what
occult sources arising I know not that a
green color implies arsenic and death. Some
men go further and object to the taste of
soda, or, as men invariably it, "saleratus."
They say it tastes like sewer gas.
Only a Wise Woman Handles Them;
Undoubtedly they go too far, but since
they have a foundation for their complaints,
it is, on the whole, the part of a wie
woman to respect them. She will not
handle soda and sour milk until she can
tell bv tasting how much she shonld use.
It is only fair to say of the sponge corn
cake that it can be made from sweet milk
and cream of tartar and soda. It is better,
I find, baked in a deep pan; then hs tender
virtues have full scope. And it should be
baked enough. I find two teaspoonfuls of
baking powder a good and safe substitute
for cream of'tartar"and soda.
There arc other cornbreads that are far
simpler. The famous hoecake of the South
is not only one of the best of breads, bnt it
is the very easiest to make. I take a cup
of cornmeal and put it in a granite dish. I
scald it with boiling water, a little at a
time. I put the dish on the stove as soon
as there is enough water in it to keep the
mush from burning. I pour in water ""'jl
the mush is a stiff, but thoroughly wetted,
mass. I add a half teaspoonful of salt to a
cup ot the meal. If you wish, you may add
apiece of butter the size of an egg. I let
this mush cook for five or ten minutes on
the top of the stove. Then, having buttered
a pan, I spread the mush on it to the depth
of half au inch or an inch, according to
taste. I nut little bits of butter on top of
this, and bake in a good oven for three
quarters of an hour. The butter is not
necessary, but I fancy that it is an im
provement. Corn Must Be Well Cooked.
It is absolutely necessary to cook corn
meal well, if one wants it to be palatable.
The crust should be brown and crisp and
the inside white and soft and there is noth
ing much better, if you have sweet butter
to eat with it. There comes a kind of very
white and fine corn meal that might pro
perly be called corn flour, which makes
most ravishing hoe-cake. This cake made
an inch or an inch and a half thick, forms
an unequalled cake-porridge for breakfast,
to be eaten with cream.
I remember a savory kind of hoe-cake
that deserved a better name it was called
"dog bread." To make it, calf 's liver and
bacon were cooked (the remnant from a
breakfast dish will do as well as a supply
cooked for the occasion) and cut it into
small pieces and finally mixed with the
hoe-cake mush, belore it was turned into its
pan. Then the cake was baked and it is
amazing how good it alwavs was! As any
kind ot meat can be used instead of liver
and bacon, it will be seen that this is a most
economical dish and deserves well of its
country. Liver is cheap and so is bacon.
The actual expense for a cake for a family
of five, in a "Western town, was ai follows:
Bacon 5c., liver 5c., meal 4c., butter (to
grease pans) say 3c, total 17c.
OCTAVE THANET.
THE CALL TO DINNER.
Designs of Pretty Women to Mnfee a Pleas
ant Thing More Pleasant Chimes and
Gone In Artistic Shapes Bells Kan;
by Monkeys.
rwKUTH-x ron the dispatch. i
The call to dinner really does not need
anything to make it more attractive. Such
is the peculiar consti
tution of the whole
nature of man, so near
together in his body
are his soul and his
stomach that the din
ner call striking upon
his ears would seem
gentlestmusic, though
it came from the throat
of a fog horn. Such a,
display of ingenuity
as has spent itself
upon the invention of
delightful calls to din
ner seems therefore
like a waste of talent,
but it is a talent of
& which we are all glad
to avail ourselves.
When it comes, for
Drorze BelL
example, to a string of three to six bronze
gongs, with a series of delicious deep tones
chiming perfectly, and with ridiculous
bronze monkeys climbing np and down- be
tween them, who doesn't feel certain
that 13 is an unlncky number
when he is told that it costs 13?
Then there are other bronze gongs, to be
struck, like the first set, from the outside
with a tiny chamois hammer, but set in a
horizontal row instead of suspended on the
tails of obliging monkeys. But these sets
have deep bowl-shaped bells of Japanese
bronze, with figures of silver bronze decora
ting them.
The bronze bell or gong is a favorite
dinner call at present; a single one sus
pended from a standard ot wrought iron
is one of the prettiest, and ornaments a
corner in the middle hall in one of the
best known literary homes in New York.
Another gong that is really like the old
fashioned gong is a bronze plate suspended
from a small pagoda of bamboo and delicate
bronze, like the illustration given here. All
thee designs are Japanese, and are fast
doing away with the silver or brass bells of
former da vs. The new dinner calls are much
more, artfstic in design, much more musical
in tone and give evidence of much greater
ingenuity on the part of the deviser. One
that is even more original is a triangle hnng
from a brass aponce hung in the doorway of
the dining room. This triangle, when
Design of an ArtisCt Wife,
struck with the metal rod that belongs to it,
gives out one of the most musical peals in
all the world, and the clever woman who
devised its domestic U6e declared she could
plav any tone she choose upon it.
Even more clevsr than this isthe harp
shaped zither which the wife of a
New York artist had made for the
door of her dicing room. It was only
of pine sawed out like the illustration and
stained dark. Across the lower part were
stretched the strings, which were piano
wires tuned to an octave. From the top
bar hnng silken threads, to which were fast
ened lead balls, hung at different heights so
that one ball would strike but one string.
All this was fastened on the door and as
soon as the door was set in mor
tion all the little ball wire too,
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and they struck the wires softly
and yet enough to give out the most de
licious jangle of sweet tones. To be sure,
the sound wasn't very loud, but such was,
the perfection of her household appoint
ments that the sound of the bells was sure
to be supplemented immediately by the one
method of announcement that is better the
quiet voice of the butler who stood in the
doorwav for an instant, bowed respectfully
and said, "Dinner is served, madam."
HELEN WATTERSOIT.
MAGIC OVEN IN ITALY.
One ot the Secrets of the Kxcellence or
Italian- Dishes The Women Can Work
In Reception Costnmes Something
America Might Adopt With Front.
rCORHESPONDltlfCE OF THE DISPATCH.!
ROME, Jan. 17. The other name for the
"Magic Oven" is the forno di campagna.
"When it is used that is, if it is used under
standingly there are neither dust, dirt,gas,
smoke, heavy cake, soggy potatoes, explo
sions nor ruffled tempers. What it is used
with is not exactly a stove, though it an
swers every purpose of one.
Fancy baking and boiling while wearing
a gown in which it is quite suitable to make
your entree to reception room or salon, ap
pearing before your guests, too, with clean
hands and serene nncrimsoned countenance.
Fancy a stove that has never known nor
needed blacking and that burns only a dol
lar and a half's worth of fuel in a week, no
matter how extravagant your servant may
he! One, to which you may trust your most
delicate compounds, with light heart and
untroubled conscience.
What the Italians Cook With.
There are many things our Italian sisters
could copy most advantageously from our
own scientifically arranged systems of cook
ing, but in solving the very important ques
tion: "How shall we cook," thatis"on what
and with what shall we cook," they are far
" ' e I y.
Using Vie Wonderful Magician.
in advance of us; so far that I wish I could
induce every woman out of Italy, to refuse
to use anything not the equal of the Italian
madres' cooking apparatus, for its synonym,
is hcalthfulness and comfort. Before this
is possible in the highest degree, however,
onr housekeepers and housemakers must
induce onr architects to join forces with
them as thev do here, where there is scarce
a dwelling, "even those of the poorest, that
f has not its I hardly know what to call it,
for it is neither range nor simply stove
built in a corner of the kitchen of every
"apartment"
Only that it was closed at the bottom, I
thought "it" was a set tub covered with
shining tiles of blue and white porcelain,
instead of made of soapstone, for the first
one I saw was just about the size and width
of one of the double tubs that are a part of
our laundries. It was a trifle higher,
though, and in order to operate on it to the
best advantage it is best to stand on a little
footstool or platform that is just as long as
the stove is.
A Description of tho Stovr.
Under the stove there is a semi-circular
closet reaching up about half its height, and
holding from one to three sacks (about four
bushels) bf carbon, for charcoal is "the"
fuel used. On the top of the stoves there
are one, two or three openings little square,
box-like grates, sinkingperhaps four or five
inches, and about eight inches square; under
the grates there are receptacles with doors,
for ashes, and right in the center there is
a larger receptacle for heating dishes. Over
I the stove and about half-way np the wall, '
there is built a "canopy shaped liKe tee
stove at the bottom, but gradually narrow
ing to the top at the front and side until it
is almost funnel-shaped where it joins the
chimney, on the outside, while inside, and
just at the junction with the chimney, there
is an opening into the chimney, about the
size of a very small stovepipe. Now can
yon see why there is always a good draught
without dampers (which are too often literal
exponents of their name), and why there is
neither smoke nor steam going out into the
kitchen?
For boiling, a few bits of cane are put in
the square or grate over which the kettle or
the saucepan is to be placed; then a shovel
ful of charcoal is put over the canes, a light
is applied, and if you are in a hurry, over
the hole there is put a curious contrivance
very like a stovepipe, perhaps two feet
high, with a funnel at the top;a contrivance
that is expressively known in Italian as "il
diavolo," possibly because it starts the fire
in such a marvclousjy short time, for no
sooner is it fairly on, than snap! goes the
carbon and a shower of sparks issues from
the top and sails away up the chimney.
t How tho Stove Is Used.
If the articles to be boiled are vegetables,
the kettle is placed directly over the grate,
and "il diavolo" is laid upon the shelf
jihave. If. however, something more deli-
I cate is to be concocted, a tripod about three
inches high is put over the grate, ana the
boiler is placed on that, so there is not even
a possibility of burning or scorching; then
a circle of coals is put on the outside of the
stove about the boiler, which is tightly cov
ered. It takes from 20 to 30 minutes to
cook this way, and everything cooked is
cooked all over.
For bakinji, the preliminary preparations
are the same,.but the dish holding the mix
ture is"placed" in an outer dish of block tin,
and over it is put that wonderful magician,
the forno di campagna, that looks very like
a peck or a half-bushel measure, according
to its size, made of sheet ironand inverted.
There is an opening at one side, up which
slips the handje'of the baking tin or the sauce
pah, (whichever is used) and over which the
"form" slips, settling firmly down on the
stove. Under the dish that contains the
material to be baked is the charcoal fire in
the grate; about it glowing coals are put
and replenished before the glow dies out;
and on the top of the "forno" more glowing
coals are placed and treated in the same
way. So, you see, that everywhere there is
an " equal diffusion of heat, and food thus
cooked cannot be unhealthy as far as the
process itself is concerned. I have seen
mince pies, sponge cake, custards, bread
and turkevs taken hence, perfectly browned
and "done to a turn," as our grandmothers
would say.
When the tempting food is removed the
"forno" is hung np or placed beside il diav
olo; the tiles are washed and everything is
finished. The "forno" wasn't invented by
an Italian, though, but by a Frenchman,
and it would be quite possible to use it with
our charcoal stoves. Theo. Tbact.
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SMALL TALK FOR WOMEN.
A Point In Etiquette From Plttsburc The
Right Age to Go- to Cnllece MaklnR
Little Folli Useful Women's Ideas ot
Neckties. X
rWBlTTEN ron THE DISrATCH.
American parents are proverbial for the
indulgence of their children, and in many
cases this indulgence is carried so far that
the children eclipse their parents and bend
all household ways to suit their childish
caprices. In many homes children are
waited npon too much and would bo happier
and better if they were trained to render
little services to their elders. A child's
natural activity and pride delight in duties
and responsibilities that are not tooburden
some, and there is no keener pleasure for
a well trained boy or girl than the sense of
being trusted. This characteristic may be
developed and these natural activities
trained into helpful deeds.
The mother takes endless steps and con
stant care of each little one, and as soon as
possible she should begin to require little
services. It takes longer for little feet to
toddle across the floor for the pencil than to
go one's self, but so will it be with every at
tempt at training the unskilled hands and
feet. It is easier for a mother to sew the
seam, to darn the stocking or to make the
bread than to gnide the daughter's awkward
fingers in the same work, but any sensible
woman knows that a mother who faih to
teach these things does both the child and
herself injustice.
Things a Child Shonld Do.
There are countless services that are
within the capacity of even very young
children. Picking np their playthings,
pushing the chairs into their proper places,
handing trifles to each other, carrying mes
sages from one adult to another are some
instances. Children can be taught always
to put their clothes upon a chair and not to
drop them on the floor; to hang np their
coats and hats if low hooks are provided
for them; to hang up the towel and wring
ont the wash cloths instead of leaving them
In a damp heap. Where there are set
bowls, children should not be allowed to
leave dirty water standing, nor under any
circumstances to leave soap soaking. A
hassock or box should be provided so that
the child can reach.
With a little supervision a child of 5
should be able to take his own bath and
pick out his own clean clothes. He "can be
taught to fix his clothing at night so that
turned sleeves and twisted stockings need
not make him late to breakfast. Girls at 6
and 7 years old can put away clean clothing
when brought in its basket to the chamber
floor. They can bring the baby's clothes to
mamma, each child having the pleasant
liberty of choice in bib and gown and
petticoat. Both boys and girls ran spread
open their beds in the morning, even
though it is quite a tug, and sheets and
blankets get all awry. Soiled clothes can
be put into their proper place by their
owners. Then there are the match safes to
be filled in each room, and the burnt match
receptacles to be emptied. It takes but a
few glances from sharp eyes to Bee them,
and a few steps from "nimble feet to do the
work, but such little tilings are a help to a
busy mother who has two ways to turn for
every moment.
Implants the Habit of Helprnlness.
Then the little son can sweep the steps
with his own small broom, and pick up the
papers that continual advertising brings
into the doorvard. Hev can pick up the
chips and fill the woodbox or basket, and
learn to lay the open fires. There are the
inkstands to be filled, and the pencils"to he
sharpened for both mamma and pspi
These cani be trusted to older children.
Unsightly, scattered newspapers can be
piled neatly, and how proud a child will
feel when he can read and can sort the re
cent from the old papers. The half-grown
daughter can water the plants, feed the
bird and fill the vases and empty them, too,
before the flowers have littered the table
with their dropping petals. ,
When she visits grandmamma or auntie
what a good chance she has to learn how to
cook some little dish with which to surprise
mamma.
These few hints ofloving duties and help
ful ways serve to illustrate how girls and
boys can be taught, little by little, to want
to be helpful, to see for themselves things
to ,do and ways to show their love by
thoughtful attentions. They learn in this
wav to be orderly, industrious, considerate
and to have some appreciation of the many
steps taken to make them well and happy.
Some children learn quickly without
suggestions, but no mother ought to be dis
couraged if she has not only to ask but to
remind, a child many times of his duties.
Plenty of praise and notice for the little
deeds will help a .weak memory, while
gentle blame or carefully showing of what
caused the failure will stimulate the pride
and interest until that mighty power, the
habit of helpfulness, has been thoroughly
implanted and will go on growing naturally
and easily. Agxes Bailey Oumsbee.
Neckties Women Generally Select.
Many a man who will trust his wife with
the disposition of half his Kingdom, won't
let her select a necktie for him. And with
reason. A woman is altogether too likely
to pick out what men call a "pretty neck
tie." "It is wont to be of a delicate tint,
pale gray or white with little flower sprigs
in it something ladylike and dainty, but
comporting ill with the solidity and sol
emnity of masculine attire. Now a man
hates a pretty necktie and when he wears
one uncomplainingly, it is certain test of
his affection.
If left to himself in the selection of ne ck
ties misguided man proves himself not to
be so misguided alter all. He buys a neck
tie that his wife doesn't like until he puts
it on, then she sees that its dull tone and
conventional pattern suits the rest of his
clothes and provides a touch of color that
doesn't look missish. Women who aspire
to stand high enough in their husband's
confidence to be permitted ttfbuy his neck
ties should bear in mind these general max
ims as to their selection offered by a man
who takes his neckwear seriously hut not
foolishly, and who finds his wife's" judgment
faulty in this one regard alone.
Men IJko the Fonr-ln-IIands.
A man of f aste, says this wise man, cares,
first of all, that his tie be one he can tie
himself and not one that is made np; these
are neither economical nor in good taste.
Present fashion makes the long scarf known
as the four-in-hand the most desirable for
anything but evening wear. Next, he cares
that the quality should be good. A man
really does care more about the quality of
his neckwear than his gropin; ignorance
about it indicates. If it is satin ho wants it
heavy and soft and not showing a cotton
back through the glossy face; if it is of silk,
he wants it also heavy and fine. A good
black tie is cither of satin or of fine gros
grain silk, the hea vy ribbed Faille Francaise
and bengalines being used forties in a single
color. A black silk four-in-hand costs from
$1 to $2; a black satin one a dollar more.
Four-in-hands in single color cost 51 and
wear well.
A figured necktie suits a man usually if
the background is of a solid color, with a
small conventional pattern in contrasting
color. Most men have a special liking for
dark blue four-in-hands, with tiny figures
of dark red or brown," or blue. For some
occnlt reason few men can be persuaded to
try any of the dull bronzes and, olive greens,
and so few of them are found in the shops.
The dull greys, with figures of lighter tone,
or vice versa, men find suitable for occa
sions between ordinary dress and evening
dress.
Dark Colors for Bosineas.
But for business wear they prefer solid,'
dark colon, or a mall, irregular figure oa
SUNDAX JANUARY St
DECORATIONS
dark ground. Set patterns are not 'dear to
the average man's heart, except in the
white crepe ties worn in summer; a fine
tracery, with here and there a decided dash,
is what he feels safest in wearing.
For the wash neckties worn in summer
these rules are reversed. There the dainti
est colors prevail,"and a man is likely to
feel justified in availing himself of them in
warm weather. The pale pink or dull blue
or tans with white stripes in four-in-hand
shape, few men, except those past middle
life, decline.to wear, especially when the
stuff is substantial, like the Bedford cords
and figures.
For evening wear but two styles are per
mitted to a man, either a narrow, white
lawn tie not a white satin one or a nar
row black silk or satin one. From this
there is no departure. No woman, there
fore, can offer a greater affront to the man
she loves, if he be a man of taste, than to
present him with a white satin evening tie,
on the feminine ground that satin is nicer
than lawn, Helen Wattekson;
Bhlrley Dare on IHIqnette.
I have received the following interesting
note from Pittsbnrg, the name alone being
fictitious.
When calling on two sisters and address
ing the younger as Mis Brown in presenco
of the older one. Is it proper, or called for,
or polite, that tho lady should call a gentle
man's attention to the fact that she wished
to be addressed, Miss Pansy and not Hiss
Blown. Quito an argument was tho result.
We decided to take vouropinion for granted
and say no more. The gentleman is not at
nil intimate with the yonng Jliss B. Miss
Tansy Brown is 17 and the older 20, and tho
gentleman i9 24 years of age. To the best
of our knowledge tho eentleman has never
attempted to correct Miss Pansy Brown in
similar circumstances. We acreed to ac
quaint you with the above circumstances in
order that you may be able to give a correct
opinion.
Here is a coil ! A very nice young man
who wants his manners irreproachable as
the gloss of his high hat, makes the mistake
of calling a younger sister Miss Brown in
presence of the elder girl, who alone has a
right to the dignity of the title, he gets
nettled when corrected, and makes matters
worse by holding an argument, and it is
safe to judge a warm one, with the hostesses
of the hour on the subject
The Right of Elder Sisters.
Until a girl is long past 25 she wants all
honor of her eldership, and the buds of the
family likewise hardly care to be taken for
their elders. If there is any point on which
any one has an nndoubted right to decide, it
is upon his or her own name and style of
address. To argue the point only empha
sizes the error. The young man should have
gracefully accepted Sliss. Pansy's correction
and made his mistake forgotten by being
interesting on another subject.
A man who wishes to be a gentleman,
with or without a capital G, does not hold
serious arguments with women in society.
He goes to a debating club for that amuse
ment. Argument is one of the things in
which men usually have the best of women,
and only a boor or the great American ani
mal takes pleasure in showing off his
strength against women's natural weakness
of arm or intellect. That Mr. X has never
presumed to correct Miss Pansy on any
point makes no difference. He does not
seem to understand that in civilized society
women have privileges, and it is quite
within the right of man or woman to correct
a mistake in the form of address the first
time it is made. "Miss Pansy" may be
spoken quite as respectfully as "Miss
Brown." and would save uncertainty as to,
which lady was spoken to. Very possibly
Miss Pansy erew tired trying to determine
whether Mr. Z's last remark was for her
elder sister or herself, and reminded him
that she had a distinguishing name of her
own.
, A Matter of Seriona Annoyance.
A young man must expect tt be set right
on more points than one in society. A man
who never makes mistakes, Channcey De
pew says, never makes anything. It is
very much better to be set right promptly
than be allowed to run up an account of
blunders.
It is presumed Miss Pansy ventured her
correction with kindness and tact. Girls
sometimes criticise men in a way meant to
cut their feelings, and "take them down,"
a most unwomanly and ill-bred thing. A
correction may be right in itself and wrong
in manner, which stamps the critic worse
.than the offender. A sensible person counts
a correction a iavor, however, no matter
how ill-naturedly given, and is thankful to
shed a fault, even at cost of a graze to his
self-love.
Tonne Girls Going to College.
A great many young girls, nowadays, get
away to college too young. This is becom
ing more common as the academic course is
more directly shaped toward preparation for
college and that alone. A girl may possibly
be very well qualified to enter college at 17,
but that is no indication that she will not
be better qualified at 18 or 19 and even 20.
Nature as it seems to most girls, has ad
vantages all its own. A. girl's brain at 17 is
not so strong as it will be at 20, neither has
her body the poise ot health that it will
have later if she is careful. Moreover, her
course of preparation lias necessarily been
continuous up to the time of her entrance
in college, if she goes at 17 to 18, and there
is no doubting that a rest of a year or two
before the strain of the new life begins, is
highly beneficial, both to body and brain.
It gives the eager young" intellect a
chance to dieest what it has already taken
in a process that nothing but leisure and
time will bring it; it gives her a chance to
apply the knowledge she already has to the
problem she finds about her, and to get new
knowledge from the results.
Knows Her Own Mind at Twenty,
Moreover, a girl at 20 knows what she can
do better than a yonncer girl. And she
usually knows pretty definitely what she
means to do. In this way she is not likely
to misdirect her energies at the outset. Any
one who has had any experience in teaching
girls varying in age from 16 to 21 and over,
must have noticed the greater strength and
solidity of the more mature mind. The
older girl may not get her lesson so rapidly
or recite it, so fluently as the younger one,
but in nine cases out of ten she gets more
out of it. Let a teacher ask a tew Questions
just bevond the range of the lesson, but sug
gested by it, and she instantly sees that the
older mind is the one that can follow her.
This is not a matter of superiority or in
feriority in brain, but simply a matter of
maturity. The principal of Somerville
Hall, Oxford, lays great stress on this sub
ject in receiving English girls into the Uni
versity. Girls are admitted here at 17, but
far better results are gained in the opinion
of this thoughtful woman where the stu
dents are considerably older.
FEELING IK THE BOXES.
They Are Ramified With Delicate Nerve
' Sensible to Every Injury.
Pearson's Weekly.
People usually imagine that their hones
are of solid mineral construction, without
any feeling in them. No one, who has ever
had a leg or an arm cut off is likely to in
dulge in such a mistaken notion. Compara
tively speaking, little pain is felt when the
flesh is being cut throughout w hen the bone
is attacked by the saw, Oh, my!
You see, a's a ma'tter of tact, there are
blood-vessels and nerves inside the bones
just as there are outside. Anyone who has
purchased a beefsteak at the market knows
about the marrow in the bone. It is the
same with other animals than the bullock,
including human beings. Through the mar
row run the nerves and blood-vessels, enter
ing the bones from the flesh without by
little holes, which you can see for yourself
any time by examining a skeleton, or part
of one. When the disease called rheuma
tism, which no physician understands,
affects the nerves within the bones, no way
has'been discovered for treating it success
fully., It doe not do to amilo when a per
son lay that h Tctla a thing la hi boae.
1892.
HYGIENE
THE MORNING DRESS.
It Shonld Be Dainty, Only It the Wearer I
a Bride or an InvalU Character the
Thing to Be Aimed at Some Charm
ing DeMjpis.
IwnrrrEX tor the dispatch.!
HFj morn
i n g gown
shown in
the initial
of this let
ter shonld
be vigorous
and glowing
in color and
in form.
It should
strike the
keynote of
the day
with earn
est of a
strength
adeqnate to
labors and
duty, and it
should be of
a material suitable to the homelier work that
usually comes after breakfast, and on which
the structure of the day's doings is built up.
"Baby" blue trimmed with lace, and forms
modeled on the lines of the ball gown are
hardly suggestive of these things. Bather
it should be of dark, rich, color harmonies,
and forms borrowed from picturesque labor.
It "should not be of dark, dull, gloomy
shades, but of cheerful hues, as if some de
composed ray from the rising sun had been
canght and detained.
Yet it is nine times ont of ten when a
Comfortable Souse Dress.
woman tries to think of something charm
ing for breakfast, she conjures up as her
ideal a flimsy thing of pale tint, smothered
with eider down or l3ce, reminiscent of
the opera, which no one, unless a bride on
her honeymoon trip, or an invalid, could
wear with any propriety. And these single
pale colors are crude in themselves, and
discordant with their surroundings.
Usually the breakfast room is in dark, rich,
tones, and the light, raw tint brought into
its midst is enough to shock the beholder's
nervous system for the day.
The Dress Shonld Have Character.
Materials may be fine and costly if one
can afford to have them so, and such qual
ity suits the surroundings; or they may be
cheap and rough, but in either case the
end sought should be not ..delicate weak
ness but beauty combined with character.
Unfortunately it is easier to recommend
artistic combinations of color than to find
them. We mnst take what the manufac
turer? offer us, and make the best of them.
But by studying a bit or oriental drapery
br a rug, we can learn much; for color as
the easterners mingle it is just what we
want in our morning gown.
There is one commendable thing in the
makeup of fashionable breakfast robes.
Thev are without lining or else they have
the lining practically separate, joined only
at the shoulders and under arm seams.
They are not close-fitted, but are full from
the shoulders, with the delightful suggest
iveness of an ample wrapping. They are
thrown on and adjusted afterwards, being
folded over a little less or a little more, as
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A Turkish Robe.
snits the temperature or feelings of the
wearer. Such susceptibility of variation is
a charm never to be had in the garment
which is fitted closely and constrained by a
lining.
Such robes are made of thin silks, in the
pale tints above mentioned, and are trimmed
with lace either point de Paris or point
applique around'the neck and down the
front, and on the loose, hanging sleeves.
Some dash and character might be given to
these garments by adding, with embroidery
silk or ribbon, so'me blotchesvof deep color.
If the gown is pale blue, add deep prussian
blue; if pink, add deep red; if yellow,
orange. Do not work a regular pattern into
them, which is tiresome, but only broken,
irregular spots.
Imlestrnctlbla and Inexpensive.
There is now in the market a coarse
marked black net of mixed mohair and
silk, or of all mohair, practically inde
structible and inexpensive, out of which a
dressy morning gown could be made. It
must be worn over a colored slip. Gather
the back in shirrs between the arxnhole3,
letting it fall out thence in a train. Gather
the fronts full on the shoulders, massing'
the gathers close to the neck, and cross in
surplice fashion and tie with blace ribbons.
Lay a folded piece round the back of the
neck, thus continuing the line of the front
gathers and giving sufficient height to the
back. Plait the wide sleeve into the arm
hole and 'catch it up below the elbow, and
confine to the arm loosely with a ribbon,
letting UlaUthaaat togitaar wlUttkaalif
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A.
will
sleeve. Pink the edges of Jhe silk sleeve;
leave the edges of the net raw.
The following morning honse costume I
am pleased to" recommend. It is distin
guished, beautifnl, absolutely comfortable,
adapted to the time of day, and easily made.
It consists oft very full blouse, gathered
round the neck and falling far over the
belt; a sleeveless jacket reaching to the
waist, and fitting the body not a corset
by means of the modern un-ier-arra T back
seams onlv. It is cut to meet, or nearly so,
the front edges being slightly shaped, and
is worn open or else is laced down the front,
through eyelets. The blouse must be of
light," soft material, snch as India silk, wool
crepe or albatross cloth, and the jacket of
heavy material, of velvet.cloth or corduroy.
The last is now a fashionable fabric. 'Alba
tross cloth is cheap, and has a beautiful
quality.
The iacket should he dark in color, and
the blouse considerably lighter. These may ,
1 ;L -,.', t-i 1.I- l!l-n tht. '
jacket completes an elegant costume. A
u7 ura wnn anv snin. dui a auun -. "-
uii conioinaiion wouin ue a wuw
grayish tan albatross, and jacket and shirt
of golden brown velveteen. Another is a
blouse of Indian silk, of light broken green
dotted with sprigs of coral red, with neck
and sleeve hands nfdurk crreen velvet, the
jacket of black velvet, and any skirt of
black.
Fora Beautirnl Blonse.
There is a vcrv heavy quality of surah
silk whiph would make beautiful blouses.
It is to soft that it will lie in folds without
creasing. It is worn to show two colors, an
ochre yellow on the surface and a deep
flame red in the folds. Patterns in harmoni
ous colors are over it, indistinct, half
blurred, like an artist's palette when the
knife has run tosether the colors but not
blended them. They are called "shadow"
silks.
To make the blonse have four yards, if
of India silt. Take one width for each
front, and one width for the back. Shirr
the fullness into the neck, aud trim it to fit
voke lining. Gather at the bottom with a
band. There is no lining except round the
shoulders and armholes. The sleeves re
quire each one width of the silk. Fold the
sides together and trim them off to make
the sleeves a little narrower toward the bot
tom; shape the wide endto make it conform
to the armhole, letting the seam be on the
inside of the arm. Gather into the armhole,
and fit bottom into a loose band, the width
of the neck band. The under-arm seams
slant outward a little as they go down.
Among new French flannels for morning
wear are wide stripes in two or more colors,
and plain tints having silk polka dots of
contrasting tint. The last cost $1 a yard,
and are more suitable for baby blankets
than for adult wear. Striped flannels it is
not easy to make up so as to avoid monotony
and get any beauty of result It can best
be done by plaiting so as to vary the widths
of the color spaces.
Pnttlnc Character Into Flannel.
Thus, a flannel striped with pink, black
and gray, which seems at first blush hope
less, may be made to assume some character,
as follows: Lay plaits so as to make a wide
space of black down the middle of the back.
In the same way make a space of black
down each side of the front, letting these
black spaces run to the shoulders, not into
the neck. Between the black spaces of the
front lay plaits to make a solid space of
pink. Across the back, between the arm
holes, and also across the bust, stitch two or
more straps of black. Stitch another black
strap round the neck to support the plaited
ruffle that matches and carries the broad
space3 of color upwards. Make the belt of
black. Line the half-flowing sleeves and
the neck ruffle with plain gray to match the
gray stripe. The same flannel might be
made also with the back simply gathered
Made From French Flannel.
and having a ribbon oelt run through a shirr
at the waist; the front open and turned hack
Its whole length, with a facing of plain
black, over an inner front of plain pink.
The ribbon belt is drawn round from under
neath and tied across the inner front.
Pinked ruffles are the popular ornament
for gowns of plain fianne. Sometimes the
ruffles are ot taffeta silk. The notches are
deep jagged teeth and the rnffle is very full,
so that it stands out in straight, assertive
lines.
The Turkish robes of colored and gold
embroidery make handsome house gowns
for women to tihom such a dress is becom
ing. The prices range from ?23 upward.
They are cut in one piece, the sleeve and
shoulder being in one straight folded line,
but they are shaped under the arm. They
are slashed at the sides, and fall open in
front, and require an inside gown, which
should be of a deep vivid color, such as
greenish bine or genuine Turkey red. A
sash may be worn tt ith it, or not. Turkish
sashes range from $7 upward. A Turkish
embroidered sleeveless jacket, with a Turk
ish sash of many colored bars, over a simple
gown, makes a charming morning neglige.
The sash is pnt round the waist twice and
tied in a knot in front.
Ada Bache-Cone.
We carry large force of expert furniture
packers, and furnish estimates on packing,
storing and shipping of household goods.
Hauoii & KEEjfAN, 33 Water street.
Su
Keep the Standard High.
The best articles never fail to please. High price
always carries with it a conviction of" superior quality.
When you are influenced to purchase a substitute be
cause it is cheap, depend upon it, if not injurious to
health, you will find it comparatively worthless. In all
the food products introduced by Dr. Price, his aim has
been to keep the standard high and his Delicious
Flavoring Extracts are not an exception to this rule.
Try them and see how superior they are to the cheap
flavoring extracts for sale as substitutes.
13
HEROINE OF CRIMEA.
Sketch ot Eorenca Nightinsalo by
the Wife of Gen. Lew Wallace.
HER ITAME MOST ILLUSTRIOUS
Of 111 Those Who Won Fame in the Con
flict Upon the Eosphora.
5ETER SOUGHT PDBLIC KZCOGNnTOS
rWrJTrzx ron tiii: dirpatch.i
" Soon after the close of the Crimean War
there was a memorable dinner in London,
given by Lord Stratford to the ranking of5
cers of the British arrav and navy. Natur
ally, conversation turned on the recent con
flict, and toward the conclusion of the en
tertainment the host suggested that each
guest should write on a. slip of paper the
name connected with the war which he be
lieved would be most illustrious through
future ages. All wrote as requested, the
ballots were collected by the proposer of tha
movement, were opened and read amid en
thusiastic cheers, for every one of them
contained the name of Florence Nightin
gale. The result has proved the truth of that
evening's prophecy; a whole generation has
pised since then, and who thinks of tha
dead and gone generals who fell at the
storming of the Malakoff? The elocution
ist gives the "Charge of the Light Brigade"
without knowing who obeyed 'the bitter
blunder; the military student may recall
Florence Nightingale.
the hero ot Kinglake's history the beloved
Baglan and possibly some veteran dimly
remembers the great commander of the gray
hosts of the Vladimir, but the Bweet name
of Florence Nightingale is dear in almost
every home where, the English language is
spoken.
She Never Shirked a Duty.
In Constantinople it was my good fortune
to know an English woman well acquainted
with the subject of my sketch, who left
England when she was about 36 years old.
Said my informant: "I have often seen her
in the midst of suffering, and where misery
and despair were deepest she was sure to b
found. Her figure was slight and graceful,
her manner dignified, her face beaming with
tenderness for tho soldiers, ho blest her as
she went by. Her fortitude at surgical
operatl ns passes belief. Once, when tha
agonies of a patient in thehands of sureeons
put to flight his attendants, Hiss Nightingale
called to tho trembline fugitives: 'Come
back! Shame on you as Christians: shame
on you as women!1 And her conrage. Joined
with what, tho French call the gift of com
mand, brought tho timid nurses again to
their duty. She was always on her feet. I
never saw her seated but onco in a
council of surgeons, who hated her oecansa
she broke through their routine and refused
submission to regulaiio s."
From the Dloody heights of Inkerman 900
wounded wero sent to Scutari. She de
manded mattresses, stores for the sick,
locked in the Custom House or lying in the
ships in the harbor, and was "told three days
was the shortest time in which they could
be unloaded and distribnted, and the rules
of the service could not be transgressed to
save even 1,000 men. She hastened to the
magazine, told the sergeant of the guard
who she wasfniid asked if he would take an
order from her. lie replied he would. Sho
commanded him to break down the door,
for the men wonid arrive in a few hours and
no beds were ready. That incomparable
woman stood all day, ordering, arranging,
distributing, in the midst of unspeakable
misery, her appearance everywhere a sign
of good comiort, and so touched with
heavenly charm that virtue seemed to go
out from her garments in the press of tha
crowd.
A "Welcome Vision In tho Night.
Night was her accepted time. 'When the
attendant and medical officers slept, and
silence and darkness settled on the long
lines of cots, holding: tho broken wrecks of
the hloomand flower of English soldiery,
she walked the dreary corridors alone. A
little lamp in her hand scarcely illumined
the gloom a few feet around her, but it was
cheering as sunlight, an omen of hope to tha
hopeless. How she whispered holy words to
a youth moaning in half-sleep or home and
motiicr, now smoothed tho pillow of some
wasted skeleton from the trenches, orlightly
touched the limbs straightening for tha
"rave. What wonder that hundreds kissed
her shadow as it fell, and, soothed by her
benizn presence, turned on their narrow
beds and closed their eyes to pleasant
dreams.
When her work was ended andpeaee de
clared, honors were showered on her. Tha
Cross of St. Georgo was piesentedbyQueen
Victoria, engraved "Blessed are the merci
ful;" an exquisite' bracelet came from tho
Sultan, but she steadily refused all moneys.
A man of war was placed at her disposal on
the retnrn voyage to England: she declined
the distinction and traveled through France
by night in order to save publicity. Soro
need h.id she of rest and qniet: thongh pros
trated bodily by tho long strain, her spirit
was undaunted. From her darkened cham
ber and invalid chair, she spoke cheerfully
to the infirm of heart and purpose who
sought her counsel, wrote letters to un
known correspondents, and patiently lis
tened to intrusive appeals which must have
appeared trivial to her comprehensive mind.
Iter heart beat rorall humanity, and before
her noble nature nothing was too petty or
mean for interest. To the last she wn &
comforter, brave and bnsy, refined and deli
cate, forgetful of nothing but self.
Scsax E. Waiaacx.
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