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 EDITOR'S EDITORIAL CHIT- CHAT. " MAKING CARD- HOUSES." -How earnestly the little fellow, in our principal embellishment, watches lest his cardhouse should tumble down! We, who are grown up, are inclined, at first, to laugh at him. We say to ourselves, in a self-contented way, "with what little things children are amused." And yet, after all, the child is as wise, in his day and generation, as we are. If being pleased with illusions is folly, we are all, old and young, foolish alike. The wisest of us build card-houses ; the wisest of us tremble lest our card-houses should tumble down. Mrs. Jones, who is ambitious for her daughter, and who thinks she has secured a " good match" at last, passes many an anxious hour lest the engagement should " go off," and her cardhouse go to pieces. Mr. Brown, the great speculator, who risked his all on the Patent Petroleum Company, and is now ruined, had countless sleepless nights while he watched his " card-house," and while success or failure was in suspense. " Oh ! if we could only live on the Fifth Avenue," says Mrs. Mode. "My dear," her husband would say, if he was frank and honest, " we cannot afford it : we shail only, if we go there, build a card-house that will tumble down." Yet it is as well, perhaps, we should have some illusions. Making card-houses is but another name for building castles in the air. Could we see life exactly as it is, could we prophecy the future, we should not be near so happy. All winter, Mrs. Brown and her daughters look forward to their summer trip to Newport, Saratoga, Cape May, or Sharon. The prospect is a source of never-failing delight. Perhaps, after all, they are disappointed. The reality falls short of what they imagined. But nothing can cheat them of the pleasure they experienced in the anticipation. They go home, in the fall, with their card-house in ruins; but that is better than having had no card-house at all. Let us confess the truth, those, who have nothing to look forward to, are to be pitied ! People, who never build cardhouses, may be wise, but they are hardly happy. Even in the smallest things let us continue to build card-houses. Let us try and believe that all our friends love us, that our lot is pleasanter than that of others, even that we are better dressed, or better bred, or better hearted, or somehow, at least, better than our neighbors. These sort of illusions, if we do not carry them too far, if we do not grow conceited, will do us no harm, but, on the contrary, will make us more contented. The pleasantest people are those who build card-houses in this way. It is only when we spend all our time in such illusions, that we miss the mark and are unhappy.

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CORAL, and especially the pale pink variety, is again very fashionable. It has been reintroduced by the farfamed Mr. Worth, of Paris, who uses it lavishly in the decoration of dresses. For example, he trims white cashmere dresses with fringes of rough coral ; he fastens black gros grain dresses with coral buttons, using buttons also round the armholes instead of fringe ; he edges the tunics of balldresses, and especially those made of white silk, with coral fringe. Tunics are frequently embroidered in sprays of coral; beads being introduced among the work so as to give it more relief. With brocaded dresses, trimmings made with precious stones are in vogue, because gimp is not considered sufficiently rich for such very handsomo materials; consequently, buttons made of lapis lazuli, jasper, aventurine, and amber, are in great demand. The milky-amber is also to be seen on bonnets, head-dresses, opera-cloaks, and even on dresses. WHITE TEETH, according to the British Medical Journal, are the result, principally, of careful diet and its attendant good health. It quotes, in proof of this assertion, the prac tice of the Arabs. These people live on couscoussou and coffee, prepared without milk or sugar : a diet devoid of the acids which occur in eivilized dietaries. They rinse the mouth always at each of their four or five daily ablutions, filtering the water slowly between the teeth. They never take their food and drink at more then " very moderate heat." This protects the enamel, the conservative envelope of the teeth. To increase the whiteness of the teeth, of which they are proud, they chew, once a week, a piece of an indigenous root, called sondte. When partly softened, they withdraw it, and rub the teeth with this, and then with white woolen stuff. To what sobriety and modesty of diet the emulation of the teeth of these savages should lead us! OUR MAMMOTH FASHION-PLATES continue to be as popular as ever. They are declared, by the newspaper press, to be the finest things of their kind in any periodical. We may add that they may be depended on as reliable representations of the latest styles. In this particular, we believe, they have no rivals. IF WOMEN Would cultivate their minds more, they would be more companionable to intelligent men. Many a husband goes out for his evenings, many a lover tires of his betrothed, because he finds her conversation insipid. Ladies, try not only to look pretty, but to talk well, also.

A HUSBAND, it is said, is always in a better humor after a good dinner. If this is so, it is a strong reason why a THE COLORED SLIPPER PATTERN, which we give in this wife should be a good cook, or, at least, capable of teaching number, is a very pretty affair. Remember, every number her servants to cook well. of "Peterson," throughout the year, has some similar IN CHOOSING PAPER FOR A ROOM, avoid that which has a design, printed in the appropriate color, or colors ; and variety of colors, or a large, showy figure, as no furniture "Peterson" is the only magazine that goes to this expense ! can appear to advantage with such. Large-figured paperEverybody is talking of the superb pattern for a " Banner ing makes a small room look smaller. Screen," which appeared in our January number; and a letter, now before us, declares that it alone is worth the NOTE PAPER may be effectually scented by keeping in subscription price. " The Railway Traveling Bag," which your desk, among the paper, a sachet of the scent preferwe gave in the February number, is also praised every- red-musk, violet, etc. Ifthe paper be not too dry, it will where. readily take the scent, and retain it for a long time. COSMETICS are very dangerous things, sometimes. The THE PRICE OF PAPER still continues as high as ever. But, best cosmetic is exercise, early rising, and plenty of fresh notwithstanding this, we are giving more reading matter, water. this year, than any magazine at the same price. 232

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COUGH MIXTURES.-As this is the season ofthe year when The History of a Mouthful of Bread ; and its Effect on the coughs are prevalent, it may be as well to warn our readers Organization of Man and Animals. By Jean Mace. Transagainst the quack medicines so often administered forlated from the Eighth French Edition, by Mrs. Alfred Gatty. coughs. Many of these do more harm than good, though First American Edition, reprinted from the above, carefully a few, probably, are beneficial. It is best, however, to use revised and compared with the seventeenth French Edition. 1 only what is known to be curative. For this reason we vol., 12 mo. New York: American News Company.- Under give a really useful preparation. Take of syrup of squills, this quaint title we have as interesting and instructive a paregoric elixir, and spirits of sal volatile, in equal propor- book as we have seen for a long while. A morsel of bread tions. Dose : a teaspoonful in a wineglass of water. The is taken, and its successive changes described, from the mixture should only be taken when the cough is trouble- moment it is put into the mouth until its digestion is comsome, and not more frequently than four times in thepleted. The whole of the processes, by which food is contwenty-four hours. For a child, not more than half a tea- verted into flesh and blood, and the wasto and repair of spoonful should be given. Should sal volatile be objected the system is effected, are thus made plain even to the least scientific. The author is evidently an accomplished to, sweet spirits of nitre may be substituted. physiologist and naturalist. TRUE ECONOMY consists, not in never spending money at Passages in the Life of the Faire Gospeler, Mistress Anne all, but in spending and saving alike judiciously. " Penny Askew. By the author of " Mary Powell." 1 vol., 12 mo. wise and pound foolish" is a capital old adage, for, like New York: M. W. Dodd.- Our readers, generally, we hope, most popular sayings, it hits the nail exactly on the head. are familiarwith the works of the author of " Mary Powell." "A stitch in time, saves nine," is another excellent pro- She is of the same school as the writer of the " Schonbergverb, equally applicable to this question of economy. Cotta Family;" but superior ; in fact, is the original, while Franklin's motto, " Take care of the pennies, and the dol- the other is the copyist. This, her latest fiction, tells, in lars will take care of themselves," is also full of sound the quaint, old world style she affects, the story of Anno wisdom, only it will not do to push this maxim to ex- Askew, a martyr in the time of Henry VIII. There is a tremes, or it will lead to positive meanness, if not to delicacy in the touch of this writer, which nowhere comes miserliness. out more pathetically than in this book. "THE EAGLE'S NEST."-This engraving illustrates an incident which actually happened, a few years ago, in one ofthe Orkney islands. A child had been carried away, by one of the large eagles of that vicinity, to an eyrie on the side ofan apparently inaccessible cliff. Inthis emergency, a young cragsman volunteered to go down for the infant, and descending by a rope, as shown in the picture, heroically rescued the babe. IF THINGS GO WRONG, do not despond, and do not lose your temper. Hope and cheerfulness, in the long run, will conquer almost any difficulty. SMALL CRINOLINES, for the street, are now indispensable, if you would be in the fashion. TRUE POLITENESS is doing to others as you would have others do to you. www. REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. The Waverley Novels. National Edition. By Sir Walter Scott. 5 vols., 8 vo. Philada: T. B. Peterson & Brothers.These enterprising publishers have just issued a new edition of Sir Walter Scott's fictions, under the title of the " National Edition of the Waverley Novels," and have issued it at such a price as ought to place it in the hands ofevery family in the land. The entire twenty-six novels, with the author's last notes and corrections, are contained in this edition, which is printed in five large, double-column octavo volumes, on superior white paper. Each volume is bound in cloth, with a handsome gilt back. The whole five volumes have altogether four thousand printed pages. Beyond all question, these fictions of Sir Walter Scott are the best in the English language, holding the same rank, among novels and romances, that the plays of Shakspeare hold in the drama. Fifty years and more have passed since they first began to astonish and delight readers ; and other successful novelists have tried to dispute the palm with them ; but they still maintain their supremacy, and, we believe, will always continue to maintain it. When a family begins to buy books, it ought to buy Scott's novels first of all. And this edition has no rival in merit and cheapness. The price is only fifteen dollars, on receipt of which sum the publishers will deliver the five volumes, freight pre-paid, to any town in the United States.

The Draytons and the Davenants. By the author of "Chronicles of the Schonberg-Colla Family," etc., etc. 1 vol., 12 mo. New York: M. W. Dodd.-A story of the civil war in England in the time of Charles the First, done with that graphic and minute fidelity, those simple, home-touches, for which this author is celebrated. These qualities, added to the religious and moral tone of the fiction, will make the "Draytons and Davenants" as popular as any of its predecessors from the same pen. The Way of the World. By William T. Adams. 1 vol., 12 mo. Boston: Lee & Shepard.-The author of this novel is better known as " Oliver Optic," under which fictitious name he wrote several excellent stories for boys. He now aims at a work of more pretence, and, as we think, quite successfully. The volume is nicely printed. King Rene's Daughter. By Henrik Hertz. Translated by Theodore Martin. 1 vol., 12 mo. New York: Leypoldt & Holt. This is a lyrical drama, written by a Danish poet, and founded on incidents in the life of the " Good King" Rene. The story is full of romance; and as a work of art is perfect. The translation seems excellent. The Women of the Gospels : The Three Wakings, and other Poems. Bythe author of" The Schonberg- Colla Family." 1 vol.. 12 mo. New York: M. W. Dodd.- This volume has been arranged by the author expressly for publication in America. It contains many poems never before printed. Nearly all the poems are of a religious character. Country Quarters. By Lady Blessington. 1 vol., 12 mo. Philada: T. B. Peterson & Brothers.-A love-story, and agreeably told. It is the best of the novels of the late Countess of Blessington, and has never before been reprinted in the United States. The Brewer's Family. By Mrs. Ellis. 1 vol., 16 mo. Now York: M. W. Dodd.-A new story by the author of "The Women of England ;" didactic, of course, but very good of its kind. We can honestly recommend it. Liffith Lank ; or, Lunacy. By C. H. Webb. 1 vol., 12 mo. New York : Carleton.- A burlesque of the novel of “ Griffith Gaunt." Sol. Eytinge, Jr. has contributed some racy illustrations to the volume. The Brownings. By J. G. Fuller. 1 vol., 16 mo. New York: M. W. Dodd.-One of the best of the fictions which our late civil war has already begun to call forth. Full of stirring incident.

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THE TOILET. - HORTICULTURAL, ETC.

THE TOILET. following will be found among the most desirable for the THE HAIR.-Young ladies are often in trouble about their beauty of their flowers and continuance of bloom, assorthair between the ages of seventeen and thirty. The hairments of which can be had from one dollar up to five: may be unruly; it may come out ; the scalp may be at German Asters, Amaranthus, Antirrhinum, Balsams, Calfault, or the fat glands act improperly. liopsis, Candy-tuft, China Pinks, Convolvolus, Gaillardia, The hair may be too dry and get brittle ; this arises, Lobelia Maurandia, Mignonette, Wrimulus, Nasturtium sometimes, from the too free use of spirit washes of various Pansy, Petunia, Phlox Drummondii, Portulaca, Sweet kinds, or from dyes. The remedy is plain. The great com- Abyssum, German Ten-Week Stocks, Thunbergia, Sweetplaint is that the hair gets thin. If there be any debility Peas, Everlasting-Flowers, Double Zinnia, etc., etc. For more full directions for the sowing and management present, the hair will mostly thin out. In these cases it is as well, for a time, at any rate, to keep the hair rather of the above, with descriptive lists ofVegetable and Flowershorter than usual, and to take general tonics. If there Seeds, Plants, etc., refer to DREER'S GARDEN CALENDAR, FOR be indigestion present, this must be remedied ; if neuralgia, 1867, which will be mailed to all who enclose a stamp to HENRY A. DREER, . quinine should be taken. The most troublesome instances his address. of loss of hair on record have followed in the wake of vioSeedsman and Florist, 714 Chestnut St., Philada. lent attacks of neuralgia of the head, brought on by disappointment, or some mental excitement or depression. In these cases very much may be done by the use, internally, PARLOR AMUSEMENTS. of remedies that gives tone to the nervous system, such as CUPID'S BOX.- This game, invented to compel forfeits, is nux vomica, bark, quinine, and steel. After these have done good service, local applications, especially ammonia, played in the following manner : The one who commences offers a box to his right-hand are serviceable. neighbor, and says, " I sell you my Cupid's Box, which It is a fashion with very many young ladies to wear contains three phrases- To Love, to Kiss, and to Dismiss." their hair in different styles that necessitate frequent The neighbor answers : " Whom do you love? Whom do variation in its length. Now, this is productive of much you kiss? Whom do yon dismiss ?" harm. At one time nature has to furnish a large, at other At each of these questions, which are put separately, the times a small crop, and hence is puzzled, or so unhitched, or unbalanced, that she does not afford a supply of nourish- person who has given the box names some individual present whom he Loves, Kisses, or Dismisses. The person ment when called upon to do so, and lapses into a state of whom he kisses must in reality kiss him, and the one that indifferent weakness in consequence. he dismisses pays a forfeit. A player may Love, Kiss, or The one great cause of thinning of the hair is unques- Dismiss several, or even all those present, but this is pertionably general debility. We advise, in the majority of mitted only once during the game-a regulation which such cases, that a teaspoonful of tincture of gentian, with ingsbr it to a termination. about ten drops of diluted hydrochloric acid, be taken twice a day in a wineglassful of water, and the scalp rubbed with some such lotion as the following, night and morning: OUR NEW COOK - BOOK. Distilled vinegar, two ounces; tincture of nux vomica, three drachms ; tincture of capsicum, seven drachms ; ottar Every receipt in this Cook-Book has been tested by a of roses, two drops; and rose-water, four ounces. It is practical housekeeper. almost identical with the nux vomica lotion, the very best PROFESSOR BLOT'S RECEIPTS.A very eminent professor preparation of its kind. Now, the heated and crowded rooms at balls and parties in the art of cookery, the equal, perhaps, of Ude, Franare, in some cases, very injurious to a good state of the catelli, etc., etc., has been lecturing, for some time in our hair. The gas acts very hurtfully in those cases in which principal cities, with great success. We give, this month, a few of his best receipts, thinking they may be useful to the hair and scalp are very dry. The only plan here is to our subscribers. use to the scalp such a simple preventivo as the glycerine Bisque of Lobster.-A soup made with fish is always lotion we have recommended. called a bisque. It is made either with crabs or lobsters. Remove a portion from either side of the head and use the rest. To boil a lobster, put it in a fish-kettle, and cover it HORTICULTURAL. with cold water, cooking it on a quick fire. Two lobsters GARDEN FLOWERS.-Preparation should now be made for will make soup for six or eight persons, and also salad. the sowing of annual flower-seeds. At the South, they All the under-shell and small claws are pounded in a mormay be sown in the open borders ; but in the Middle and tar to make the bisque. When it is pounded, put it in a Northern States, a hot-bed, or where this is not obtainable, pan and set it on the fire with broth or water. The meat a warm and sunny window in the house can be used ; the is cut in small pieces to be added afterward. The bisque soil (and on this greatly depends your success) must bo is left on the fire to boil gently for half an hour. Then light, and not subject to bake, for this is what renders it pour it into a sieve and press it with a masher to extract so difficult for small flower-seeds to survivo germination, the juice. To make it thicker, a small piece of parsnip and for delicate, transplanted annuals to make a start. can be added and mashed with the rest into a pan, so that The best soil is a mixture of equal parts of sand, leaf- all the essence is extracted in that way from the lobster. mould, and loam, which should be thoroughly mixed ; then When you have strained it, put a little butter with it, and fill the boxes, or pots, in which you intend to sow the seed, { add as much broth as is required. Put some of the meat to within one-half inch of the rim, press the soil firmly in the soup-tureen, and pour the soup over it. Fish Stuffed - Soak some bread in water, which is then and evenly in the pot; then water the soil, after which sow the seed evenly over the surface, and finish by cover- to be squeezed out ; add a small onion, chopped fine, fried ing the seed with a light sprinkling of fine soil, (which with butter till nearly done; (this fish weighs two pounds,) should be passed through a sieve,) from one-sixteenth to add to the onion, when nearly done, the bread, salt, and one-quarter of an inch thick; the deep covering of seed, pepper, a little nutmeg, and a little broth, one yolk of egg, with over-watering, is the fruitful cause of so many failures and stir rapidly; when done, add a little parsley, chopped in germinating small seeds, as they generally decay, or fine. When a fish is prepared to stuff, cut out the backdamp the gerin off before they appear above ground. The bone, put the stuffing inside, and sew it up with a trussing-

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needle and twine ; put a little salt and pepper in it, and a z Bread.- Professor Blot declares that bread must be well few pieces of butter underneath in the pan, then cover it kneaded, with enough tepid water for an ordinary dough. Then shape it ; place the paste on the make-board and use with a gill of broth, and place in the oven. Shoulder of Mutton Boned.- Split the shoulder on the in- a stick for shaping it; put it in the pan upside down, and side, and run the knife along the bone. The butcher must leave it fifty minutes to rise ; then turn it over again into not break the bone, as that makes it difficult to split. the baking-pan and place it in the oven. A roll is made When the first bone is taken out remove the second. (The in the same way, pressed in the middle with a round stick. same can be done with a shoulder of veal. ) The bones can The oven must be very hot. French bread requires about be used for soup. The shoulder can be stuffed with the three times as much kneading as ordinary bread. Directions for a Bill of Fare.-Put the soup first ; always same stuffing as the chicken. Put a little salt and pepper on the shoulder, and some stuffing in it, roll it, and tie it eat the melon immediately after; then the fish ; then with twine. This can be served with a puree of peas. A butcher's meat- beef, next mutton, next veal and lamb; shoulder of veal prepared in this way must be served au then poultry, and, last of all, game. A roasted fish is served jus. For the stuffing, if you like, add a very little pork- after the roast-beef. Vegetables au sucre are served after say only four ounces of pork to one pound of veal, in having the other vegetables. Cheese is served before dessert. Tinthe sausage-meat made. Put a little salt over it, and place lined utensils for the kitchen are preferable to porcelain, it in the pan, with half a gill of cold water, and then lay it because porcelain cracks so easily. Copper is the best, if in the oven. The mutton is served with its gravy, or sauce kept perfectly clean. For boiling milk, block-tin is the best. Always use a stone mortar, not a wooden one, and Ravigate. Venison Rarigote Sauce.- Take three pounds of venison ; have a sharp-pointed knife for boning meat or fish. Burnt Sugar or Caramel.-Take one and a half tableput the meat in a vessel ; set it on the fire in a pan with one pint of vinegar, two bay-leaves, two cloves, two cloves of spoonfuls of white sugar and put it in a ladle over the fire, and stir with a wooden spoon. When the sugar is black, garlic, one onion, sliced, two stalks of thyme, four of parsley, and one dozen peppercorns. Give it one boil, and add of water one gill and a half; let it cool, strain, and turn over the venison. Leave it there for a day or two, keep it in a bottle. It is used for coloring soup, gravy, and and turn the venison occasionally. Then put the venison ether dishes, and can be put in ice-cream to color it. To make a potato salad, the potatoes must be boiled and in a pan with some spices, and pour the juice and vinegar back over it, adding salt, and a few pieces of butter, and cold, cut in slices, with salt, pepper, oil, and vinegar, and bake it. If you roast the venison, put the vinegar and a little parsley, and just move them gently round. We can spices in the dripping-pan and baste with it. For the also slice beef which has been boiled in broth, and take the sauce, take an onion, chopped fine, and set it on the fire same dressing, only adding mustard. For a Tartare sauce, after making a Mayonnaise, add raw with one ounce of butter; when nearly done, add half a tablespoonful of flour, one gill and a half of broth, and stir. onion and a chalot. Potage a la Reine.- Cut one chicken in five pieces, and Then add the drippings from the venison, and boil it gently on a slow fire. The Ravigote sauce can be used with beef, set it on the fire, with one quart of broth ; it must be boiled mutton, or pork. Keep it on the fire five minutes, add for two hours. When half done, add four ounces of rice which have been washed in water. When done, place the chopped parsley, and serve. pieces of chicken on a sieve to drain, and also the rice, and Potatoes a la Maitre ' d Hotel.- The potatoes are steamed wash in the sieve to extract all the juice and pulp. When and peeled. Potatoes should be put in a steamer over a the chicken and rice are passed through the sieve, they are vessel of boiling water, and not into boiling water. The put into a pan and stirred; then strain in some broth and skin is more easily removed, and the potatoes are much stir again Consommee a la Reine is made with consommée better cooked than when boiled. Put one ounce of butter Set the potage on the fire. Take one and in a pan on the fire; when melted, add a small tablespoon- instead ofbroth. ounces of butter, in a pan, one yolk of egg, and milk, ful of flour, then milk or broth, about a pint to seven pota- a half together-cold ; (one gill of milk;) then take two toes. As soon as the milk rises it is done; but it must be stirred stirred all the time. Slice the potatoes, turn them into pieces of the chicken from each side of the breast-bone, and cut in small dice, and put in the soup-tureen ; salt to the sauce, add parsley, chopped fine, and they will be ready taste. As soon as the potage comes to a boil, turn the milk, to serve. and egg in and stir, and it is done. You must turn butter, Peas au Sucre.--Boil the peas and throw into cold water, mixture in at the boiling point, as otherwise it would then put them in a pan with a little butter, a tablespoonful the curdle. Turn the potage into the tureen. and a half of sugar, a tablespoonful of broth, one yolk of Puff-Paste -Work the butter in water to extract the salt egg; stir fast, and they are done. and sour milk. Put one pound of flour on the paste-board, Parsnips Sautes.-Parsnips are put on the fire in water, (or slab of marble, which is best;) then, with cold water, and they are done at the first boil. Skin them, and slice the flour is worked to a paste, one pound of butter being them across, and set on the fire, with a little butter and used to one pound of flour, with two gills and two-thirds of salt, till brown. Just before serving, when brown, add a water. Put enough flour on the paste-beard, after the dough little parsley, chopped fine, and turn it into the dish. is made, to prevent its adhering to the board, and roll it Omelette Soufflee.--Put three tablespoonfuls of sugar in aout to one-third of an inch in thickness. Roll out the butter bowl with four yolks of eggs, and mix them well, adding in the same way and the paste round the butter, working a few drops of essence. (Omelette soufflee is an entremet down carefully the whole with a rolling-pin to one-quarter and comes after the vegetables.) Then beat the whites, of an inch, and to an oval shape ; then fold one-third over, adding a pinch of salt, and mix with the rest, putting in and then the other, and roll again, folding in the same way two tablespoonfuls of the mixture with the whites at first, for four times. When the weather is warm, beef-suet must and then adding the rest. Stir gently until well mixed, be used instead of butter ; break the suet with the hands and serve in the dish that it is cooked in. After putting as fine as possible, and work it in water like the butter. it in the pan, smoothe with a knife, dust with powdered The paste should be one-quarter of an inch in thickness. Frangipane.- Set one pint of milk on the fire in a blocksugar, and bake. The salt is added to the white of the egg to prevent its curdling. The omelet is cooked at three tin saucepan; put in about three tablespoonfuls of sugar, hundred and ten degrees Fahrenheit. For puff-paste, five two of flour, three eggs, and mix well. Turn the mixture hundred degrees. It must be served at once, as it falls into the milk as soon as it rises, and stir at the same time ; rapidly. Powder it with sugar, and serve. boil five minutes, and add a few drops of essence to flavor.

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Charlotte of Apples.-Line the mould with chips of stale are both embroidered with silk and beads. The latter is bread. The six apples are peeled and cored; set on the fire cut in points, and finished with a jet fringe. Bonnet of with two tablespoonfuls ofwater. When nearlydone stir, white silk, edged with scarlet velvet. FIG. Y.-HOUSE DRESS OF WHITE SILK -The bottom of and add a pinch of cinnamon, four tablespoonfuls of sagar, and when cooked, set to cool; cut the apples into quarters the skirt is trimmed with a broad band of blue satin, as before cooking. Grease the mould well with butter before well as the body and front of the skirt. Tight white putting in the bread, and put the apples into the mould. sleeves, trimmed with blue. Over the white dress is worn The apples can be placed with layers ofsweetmeats, or else a blue satin peplum, with deep Venetian sleeves, and is apples alone. Place slices of bread to cover the apples, and trimmed with a mixture of black and white blonde. bake them in the oven. Our next dish, ladies, is FIG. VL - CARRIAGE DRESS OF PEARL-GRAY SILK, trimmed of crimson satin. Cake of Pithiviers-Place paste, one-fifth of an inch in with black velvet and Lands weather is still so cold that GENERAL REMARES -The thickness, in the bottom of a pan, and make the border as for rol au vent, obly not so thick, and put some frangipane but few new goods have made their appearance as yet. into it; then make a top for it with paste, cutting a few The brocaded silks, are too heavy for spring and summer holes so as the steam can escape, and glaze with egg, and wear, and will be replaced by chene, plain or small striped, or plaid silks. Black silk dresses are always popular, beplace in the oven. cause they are always so useful. One celebrated dresscut the paste of an inch, one-fifth Tarteletles.-Take paste maker in Paris made over one hundred black silk dresses the size of a small tin mould, and put it in the mould; then in two months. fill it with frangipane, cut strips of paste to cover the tarTHE WAISTS of dresses are still short, with a belt of telettes, and bake in oven at four hundred and thirty de- moderate width, and but little trimmed. Over the tight Dust baking. before egg grees Fahrenheit. Glaze with sleeve the wide Venetian sleeve is frequently worn. For with sugar when baked, and serve. the house, the trains are still long; though on the street Allumettes.-Take one tablespoonful of sugar and mix nothing is seen but the short dresses, which do not touch well with half the white of an egg. Take a strip of paste the ground. All skirts are very much gored. Evening one-fifth of an inch thick and two inches broad, and spreaddresses are made with low waists, and crossing over the the white of egg and sugar on it, and put in the pan and left to the right of the waist, is frequently worn a broad bake. ribbon, or scarf of tulle, on which is sometimes placed a Gateaux Fruille'ces.-Cut the puff-paste into any shape small wreath of ivy-leaves, a cluster of pink roses, or some with a paste-cutter, and put it in the oven to bake. You other flower corresponding with those worn in the hair. can put a little sweetmeat in the center, and then glaze One charming dress of white spotted musiin, for a young with egg. lady, has recently been made with an " infant waist." A Omelette with Ham.-Cut the ham in slices and pillets, light scarlet sash was to be worn around the waist; coral and then in small dice ; put a small piece of butter in a cameos in the center of the shoulder-knots, a row of large frying-pan on the fire, and beat the eggs with a very little coral beads around the waist, and a comb, ornamented salt. Then put the ham, which is raw, into the melted with coral, in the hair, completed this beautiful toilet. butter, and stir. When the ham is nearly fried turn the BONNETS are ofevery shape, and not yet as large as they eggs over it, and cook the omelette on a brisk fire. In will, probably, be later in the season. Square veils thrown making an omelette with boiled ham, you put the hanron carelessly over the back of the bonnet, and fastened under the fire at the same time with the eggs. the chin, in the fashion of the Spanish mantilla, with a Porte-Minteaux.-Cut a strip of puff-paste three and a flower, or dead-gold pin, are not common, but pretty. FAW FLOWERS are worn in the hair-usually only a small half inches wide, rolled down to an eighth of an inch in thickness ; fill the strip with sweetmeats, and then roll rose, or a tiny wreath put on the top of the head. Amber it round and glaze with egg ; then roll again, so as to ornaments are taking the place ofjet for head-dresses and cover the sweetmeats ; glaze with egg, and place it in the trimmings. oven. SHOES, for evening wear, are profusely ornamented with rosettes covered with beads, either colored, crystal, or pearl; and a fringe of beads to correspond passes around the top of the shoe. FASHIONS FOR MARCH. SACQUES.-The cold weather has prevented anything very FIG. 1.- RIDING- HABIT CF BLACK CLOTH.- The skirt is new in the way of sacques, etc., from yet appearing. gored, and is no longer in front than a dress skirt, but measures one yard and three-quarters in length. The basque is made so that it can be worn with a vest, or CHILDREN'S FASHIONS. without. It is trimmed with cord and buttons. High silk hat, with tissue veil. FIG. 1.-A LIGHT BLUE POPLIN DRESS AND BASQUE, trimFIG. II -WALKING DRESS OF NANKEEN-COLORED POPLIN.- med with velvet of a lighter shade of blue, for a little girl. FIG. II. A LITTLE GIRL'S DRESS OF FAWN-COLORED POPLIN, The petticoat has one row of black velvet sewed on plain. The basque is so long that it answers the purpose of both trimmed with velvet of a golden brown. FIG. IL-KNICKERBOCKER SUIT OF BLACK VELVET, for a waist and skirt. It buttons from the neck to the edge of the skirt, and is trimmed with ribbon velvet. It is almost little boy. FIG. IV. A YOUNG LADY'S DRESS OF DOVE-COLORED SILK, unnecessary to say that these garments require heavy linings, else they would be unsuitable for. early springtrimmed with blue velvet. Blue silk petticoat. Black wear. Black felt hat. cashmere jacket, embroidered with jet. FIG. V.- KNICKERBOCKER PANTS AND LOOSE PALETOT, for a FIG. III.- WALKING DRESS FOR AYOUNG LADY.- The petticoat is of blue cashmere, cut so as to fit the hoop closely. young boy. GENERAL REMARKS.- Nothing new is to be seen in boy's The upper skirt is of black silk, and is looped with rosettes of blue. The sack is of blue, like the skirt, and trimmed costume, except that one or two suits have been made with with a heavy chenille fringe. White silk hat, trimmed trousers tight at the knee; jackets straight, with pockets, with berries and leaves. and very large, squaro linen collars. As to little girl's FIG. IV.- CARRIAGE DRESS OF STEEL-COLORED SILK.- These dresses, they are only miniatures of their mothers, as may dresses are imported in dress patterns. The skirt and coat be seen in our fashion-plate.

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VIOLETTA HEAD-DRESS.

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 NEEDLE - CASE

IN

CROCHET.

BY MRS. JANE WEAVER.

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MATERIALS .-Some stiff cord-liner, such as comes for corset-lacers ; two shades of one color zephyr, single or contrasting colors, or floss silk ; or a mixture of wool and floss may be used. Our design calls for yellow floss and emerald-green wool. Begin in the center with the green wool, and work in single crochet-stitch over the cord ( observing to hold the cord firmly and work close) three rows ; then tie on the floss silk, and do three stitches in it, pass it under, and do four in wool for one round ; then do two rounds in wool, widening enough to keep the work flat; then one row floss and wool. So continue until the case is large enough for convenience. By looking closely at the design, it will be easy to

count the stitches ; and the number of rows in all will greatly depend upon the. manner. of working. If the work is done loosely, it will require a less number of rows to make the proper size, and will not look so well. The object is to work close and firm, and with a moderately fine needle. For the last row, work it double crochet ; make a slightly scalloped edge by working the center stitches ofthe group in treble crochet ; do this row in the wool, and finish off with the floss. Some pieces of flannel, button-hole stitched round the edge with the floss to hold the needles ; make four of them, decreasing in size. Narrow green ribbon for strings, and tie the two sides of the case together, completes the requisite material.

CATERPILLAR FRINGE FOR TRIMMING CURTAINS, COVERS , ETC... BY MRS. JANE WEAVER. MATERIALS. -Colored wool or cotton to cor- the colors you desire to work. Our design is respond with the material to be trimmed. Wind in white and red wool-two red and two white together four threads - that is, two of each of threads, and the twisted fringe has, conse301

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quently, four red and four white threads. For, draw a loop through ; repeat from * twice, so each loop take a thread twice as long as the that in the whole the three threads thrown required length for the fringe. This had better round, and the three loops will be upon the be measured each time, that the work may be needle. Then all the threads are drawn through quite even. Twist the thread with your finger with one single loop, and fastened with one and thumb rather tightly. When the twist is chain-stitch. The conclusion of the head forms prepared, fasten it immediately with a single the scallop. For this, crochet in each chaincrochet-stitch, that it may not untwist again. stitch of the preceding row one single, then The head of the fringe must be worked in three chain, one treble in the first of these, one crochet when an entire line as long as required single in the next chain of the preceding row, is completed. For this, work in each single and so on. The red and white fringe is faststitch of the fringe a loop of tuft-stitch. For ened with white single stitches, ornamented that, * loop the thread round the needle and with red tufts, and has white escallops.

VIOLETTA

HEAD- DRESS.

In the front of the number, we give an engraving of a very pretty head-dress, the Violetta. Make a square by crossing some velvet ribbon, black or violet-colored, half an inch wide, as seen in the design. On the flocks, where the ribbon erosses, ornament with a

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single violet, (the silk violets are the prettiest, and the largest size. ) Make a group of four or five for the corners, and finish with doubl loops and ends of the velvet ribbon. This is one of the very prettiest, newest, and most simple, of the many head-dresses now in vogue.

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 TURKISH

SLIPPER.

BY MRS. JANE WEAVER.

WE give here a design for a Turkish Slipper. The cut below gives the full size pattern of the applique. Our model was a scarlet-cloth ground, with the applique in black velvet, and gold cord round the pattern both inside and out. The stars in the center of the patterns are alternately of black and gold crochet silk, and those at the corners ofthe leaves were all of fine gold thread.

The pattern should be traced upon the velvet, the leaves cut and gummed upon the cloth, and the cord afterward sewn round. The bottom of the slipper has a quilted satin sock, and the ruche is of quilled satin ribbon. The shape of the slippers should be had from the shoemaker, who is to make them up, as there is then no waste of work.

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NEW STITCH IN WORSTED WORK, WITH BUGLES AND BEADS.

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scribers, descriptions of all the old stitches in ; gravings of three new stitches. By studying crochet. New stitches, however, are continu- these, any lady may learn how to work either ally being introduced. These, however, cannot of these stitches.

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OPERA

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BY EMILY H. MAY.

ONE of the most stylish and fashionable French capital this year, has been called the articles which has appeared this season, in ? EXPOSITION OPERA CLOAK. We give, on this

Paris, has just been sent out to us. It is an page, two engravings of this cloak, one showing opera cloak, which, in honor of the " Exhibi- the front, the other representing the back. The tion of all Nations," that is to come off in the material is silk of almost any color that the 306

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marked in inches on each piece. Of course, this cloak, though designed for an opera cloak. is suitable for a wrap on any occasion when the wearer has on a low- necked dress : as, for instance, in going to a concert, to the theatre, to a lecture, etc., etc. It will be universally worn this season.

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TABLE.

EDITORIAL CHIT - CHAT. their sex of mingled poverty and toil. We have seen some of these wretched creatures, whose very semblance to THE BEAUTY OF AMERICAN WOMEN.- The superior beauty humanity seemed well nigh crushed out of them. Of of his countrywomen is one ofthe facts that an American, course, there are exceptions. Sometimes we see an excestraveling in Europe, recognizes with pride. The writer sively handsome girl come of people miserably poor; and, versa, peering out of à sumptuous carriage the face of of this was in Rome, last year, and wherever he saw a new vice a young Gorgon. But, as a rule, where wealth, and leisure, face that was pretty, he was almost invariably told that it and consequent culture exist, health and beauty naturally was the face of an American. What was true of Rome, follow in the second generation. was true of Naples, Florence, Milan, Venice, Vienna, Berlin, If there is any mistake in this, it is in exaggerating the Paris, and London. There is something more refined, per- importance of wealth. It is not necessary to be rich in haps high-bred would be even a better term, in our coun- order to be beautiful. There is hardly any walk in life, trywomen, than in any women of the world. The Roman except, perhaps, that of actual poverty, which forbids that princesses, almost without an exception, are positively equal development of the intellectual and physical natures, ugly. Even the boasted English female aristocracy do not which is the foundation of all real beauty. Most American come up to their reputation for beauty. More lovely women women have, in their household duties, a sufficient diverare to be seen at the opera, in either Philadelphia, New sity of employment. Some, indeed, are overworked. But York, or Boston, than at the Haymarket or Covent Garden, we hope this is not general. Now, if to ordinary housein London. We think this superiority, on the part of our hold duties are added exercise in the open air, the cultivacountrywomen, is to be explained by their superior intel- tion ofthe intellect and the taste, and judicious indulgence lect. In the United States woman has a larger develop- in harmless amusements, we have all the elements out of ment of brain, and a finer nervous organization than else- which to make, and keep, women beautiful. The very where. Part of this is the result of our institutions, part rich have not sufficient occupation, and hence plunge into may come from climate. But the fact is indisputable. gayeties, always excessive, and often injurious to more Hence that high-bred look of which we have spoken. than the health. The moderate circumstances, which are Everywhere here, one sees faces that have more marks of the lot of the majority of American women, afford, on the ancestral culture than any, except the very best, faces whole, at least in intelligent families, the best chances for abroad. beauty. Heretofore the physical health of our women has been neglected: at least this was the case generally for the first THE PRINCESS METTERNICH, as is well known, ranks high half of the present century. The mind was cultivated, not, among the witty and accomplished women of the French indeed, too much, but cultivated at the expense of the Court. She always appears to be inspired with some novel body. The consequence was dyspepsia, which finally be- and fresh idea. A few weeks ago a party of intimate accame hereditary. With dyspepsia followed excessive ner- quaintances were assembled at her house, when the subvousness, debility, flat chests, consumption, hollow cheeks, ject of the eccentric toilets of the present day was started, bad figures, and that im-milk complexion, which one in- whereupon the hostess proposed that every woman should variably associates with the old, and now exploded notion compose her toilet according to her individual taste and of a " blue-stocking," or a " school-marm." But the evil, at character. The idea once started the company set to work, last, cured itself. The necessity of physical exercise for and commenced composing the dress of a frivolous woman girls, as well as for boys, and the folly of taxing the brain by giving her a butterfly for emblem, and continuing with with excessive lessons at school, became so apparent, that the sentimental woman, the witty woman, etc., etc. The now, for nearly the whole of a generation, the vitality and Muse was to wear laurel in her hair, a lyre for a waisthealth of American women have been steadily improving. { buckle, a dress studded with stars, because she loved etheOne of our best literary weeklies, in a late article on this real regions ; then the lower part of her skirt was to be subject, holds the following language : embroidered with all her attributes, arts, sciences, natural The women of America are growing more and more hand- history, etc. A sentimental woman, on the contrary, should some every year for just this reason. They are growing be decorated with hearts, arrows, doves, half-opened roses, rounder of chest, fuller of limb, gaining substance and de- etc. It was to be regretted that some clever artist, with a every velopment direction. urgedWe to rapid pencil like Gustave Dore, for instance, was not premay be fact. Whatever this to be a demonstrable believe contrary,inwe the have been accustomed to hear dismal moans over dyspepsia sent to sketch these toilets, so ingeniously composed. The and the heat of stoves, bad food, and bad habits of life gene- idea, however, captivated, and a few evenings after the rally, that an impression of degeneracy finds place in many same company met at the Princess' house, and some were minds, and the proposition, therefore, that American women are visibly growing handsomer, may at first provoke a good robed in a very fanciful, although highly successful, mandeal of dissent. We believe, however, that reflection and ner. The most captivating was a warlike costume intended observation will endorse and sustain it. The change may be less marked among the poorer classes, and may be more for a heroine. The dress was white satin striped with gold pronounced in the chief centers of population and refine- cannons; the low coat bodice was crimson velvet, crossed ment; but that it has taken place, is progressing, and is with a black ribbon, which was striped with every variety probably destined favorably to affect the community at the different ribbons used for decorations; large, we have not the least doubt. When the rising gene- of color, to recall ration of American girls once began to wear thick shoes, the epaulets to the coat consisted of gold fringe ; round the to take much exercise in the open air, to skate, to play waist there was a gold band, to which was suspended a croquet, and to affect the saddle, it not only began to grow turned back a l'antique, more wise, but more healthful, and-which must follow as miniature needle-gun ; the hair was the night the day-more beautiful. Wealth indubitably and the head-dress was a small helmet in chased gold, enhas a tendency to produce refinement of feature, for reasons crusted with precious stones. or through causes which here need no elaboration ; simultaneously, unless its privileges are abused, it also tends to TO TALK WELL you must first think: then, if you are induce both health and symmetry. Poor emigrant women, whose figures and faces are alike misshapen and imbruted, sympathetic, you will be interesting; but if you know furnish us with plenty of sad illustrations of the effect on nothing, and never think, you cannot expect to talk well. 308

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 REVIEW

OF NEW BOOKS.

THE BEST CASHMERE SHAWLS, the long shawls with plain ground, crimson, purple, blue, green, or yellow-green are best- never cost less than $675 a pair in India, and are never sold singly. The next kind, or square shawls, much more frequently imported into Europe and America, are eitherloom-worked or needle-worked : needle-worked being the more original ; and they cost from $150 to $250 in the Punjaub, without freight, or interest, or profit to the importer-little facts which we commend to the attention of women who think they can buy the " best Cashmeres" at $150, or even $100 a shawl What they do buy is either an imitation, which was never in India at all, or a Delhi shawl, very good in its way, but no more approaching a Cashmere shawl in beauty than in durability. A man may lie on heather in a black Cashmere for twenty years, and it would be almost as perfect as on the first day. THE CIRCULATION OF THIS MAGAZINE is now equal to the united circulation of all the other ladies' magazines of a similar character in the United States. What better proof could be had of its superior merit? THE COTTAGE WINDOW is a charming picture of rural life, particularly suggestive at this season of the year, when, after an unusually severe winter, the spring is opening in all its beauty. ANOTHER ELEGANT COLORED PATTERN in this number. No other magazine, remember, gives these patterns ! wwwwww… REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. The Posthumous Papers ofthe Pickwick Club. By Charles Dickens. With Original Illustrations by S. Eytinge, Jr. 1 vol., 18 mo. Boston : Ticknor & Fields.-The rage, just now, seems to be for what are called " Diamond Editions :" that is, for books in type so fine that only the very youngest eyes can read them. We confess such books are not to our taste. But there will always be readers who will prefer a small volume, which may be held easily in the hand, even at the risk of injuring their eye-sight ; and to such persons this edition will be eminently acceptable, for nothing could be neater than its type, paper, and binding. We will make but a single exception. The illustrations, as a whole, do not please us. They are by an artist so thoroughly American that nearly all his faces are Yankee faces ; and as the characters to be illustrated are English, this is a very serious fault. His "Pickwick" is like nobody in England; nor his "Sam Weller;" nor, indeed, hardly any of his others. His "Dodson and Fogg" are types of the fat and lean New Englander: they are not London attorneys at all. One of the best illustrations is " Mrs. Leo Hunter's Party." We believe it is the intention of Ticknor & Fields to issue the entire works of Dickens in this style, publishing one novel each month. Each volume is to be bound in cloth. Price, $1.25 without the illustrations ; or $1.50 with them. The Bride of Llewellyn. By Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth. 1 vol., 8 ro. Philada: T. B. Peterson & Brothers.- We suppose Mrs. Southworth may be ranked at the head of the sensational school in America, now that Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., that most impressible of all melo-dramatic writers, is no more. This is her last novel. Those who like highly-spiced dishes can have one here. The book is printed neatly, and bound in cloth. Price, $2.00. Charles Wesley Seen in his Finer and Less Familiar Poems. 1 rol., 16 mo. New York: Hurd & Houghton.-A very beautiful edition of the selected poems of the Rev. Charles Wesley, the brother of the Rev. John Wesley, the founder and apostle of Methodism. Charles Wesley was no mean poet. He has written some of the best hymns in the language. The book is capitally edited. Price, $1.50.

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The Mutual Friend. By Charles Dickens. 1 vol., 8 vo. Philada: T. B. Peterson & Brothers.-This is an edition of Dickens' last novel, which seems to us to combine, in an eminent degree, many and various merits. The page is double-column octavo ; the type is brevier, a type rather larger than that in which our stories are printed ; and the paper is the very best, and with a highly calendered surface. Every part of the mechanical work is exceedingly well done. The illustrations are numerous, and are worked into the body of the text. It is a volume to please, in every way, the reader of taste : and yet it is so light as not to fatigue one to hold it; such compactness, and such various other merits, it is difficult to find combined in one book. We understand that Messrs. T. B. Peterson & Brothers intend to issue the whole of Dickens' works in a similar style. Each volume will be bound in cloth gilt, like this, so as to match for the library. These publishers own the original and famous illustrations of Pickwick, which, quite as much as the text, first brought Dickens into notice. We regret that, on this account, they did not begin this edition with " Pickwick," instead of " The Mutual Friend ;" with the first instead of the last of Dickens' novels ; for the "Pickwick" of Cruikshank has now become immortal, and no other illustrations will ever satisfy a cultivated public. Price, $1.25. In paper-cover, $1.00. Records of Five Years. By Grace Greenwood. 1 vol., 12 mo. Boston: Ticknor & Fields.- This writer has always been one of our favorites. Ifnot absolutely a genius, she approaches very near one : in this respect she is in advance of most American authors. Her free, bold style ; her true, womanly instincts ; her nobility of soul ; the entire absenéê of affectation in her writings ; the graphic power of her rural descriptions; and the widening and deepening experience, which give to much of what she says a singularly pathetic earnestness : all these qualities, rarely combined in one person, unite in her to make a writer, who is alike original and cultivated. The book is published in the tasteful style for which Ticknor & Fields have long been celebrated. Price, $1.50. Woodburn Grange. By William Howill. 1 vol., 12 mo. Philada: T. B. Peterson & Brothers - This new novel, by William Howitt, is printed from advance sheets. It is a story of English life, the scene being laid in Nottinghamshire, where the Quaker poet resided for several years. The characters are well contrasted, and the incidents natural, yet interesting. We like the book extremely. A strong feeling in favor of the people, as distinguished from the aristocracy, pervades the work ; in this sense it may be called almost republican. The publishers have issued the volume in very neat style. Price, in cloth, $2.00. Faith Unwin's Ordeal. By Georgiana M. Craik. 1 vol., 16 mo. New York: Leypoldt & Holt.- A charming story, charmingly printed, and bound in cloth gilt, with giltedged top. Messrs. Leypoldt & Holt never print anything but what people of taste will like, and always print it in a style to please even the most fastidious. Price, $1.25. The Huguenot Galley Slave. Translated from the French by Jean Marteille. 1 vol., 12 mo. New York : Leypoldt & Holl. The autobiography of a French Protestant, condemned to the galleys for the sake of his religion, in the reign of Louis XIV. An absorbing narrative. Price, $1.50. Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures. By Douglas Jerrold. With Illustrations by Charles Keene. 1 vol., 16 mo. New York: Hurd & Houghton.- We are glad to see these inimitable lectures republished in so neat a manner. The illustrations are excellent. Price, $1.50 Alderman Rooney at the Cable Banquet. New York: Ame rican News Company.-A satire in verse, racily illustrated by Magrath, the engravings being altogether the best part of it. Price, 50 cents.

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OUR ARM- CHAIR. our lady readers take the greatest pleasure. Spring is the WHAT THE NEWSPAPERS SAY OF " PETERSON."-The pre- time for action, and now all the preparations must be made sent volume of " Peterson's Magazine" seems to be the for the coming season. In the March number we gave a most popular ever published. Not only has the circulation few hints on the cultivation of flowers from seed; the same increased over that of 1866, but private letters, and the directions will apply to this month, only that the more newspapers everywhere, speak of its merits in the most hardy kinds can now be sown in the open borders, selecting glowing terms. We owe it to our subscribers, we think, to a warm and sheltered spot, and observing that the soil is quote some of these notices, in order that they may realize thoroughly dug and pulverized ; if of a clayey nature, how editors, who see all the magazines, estimate " Peter- lighten with sand or leaf-mould from the woods. In son." We have hundreds of these notices, but cannot covering the seeds, be careful not to cover too deep. afford room for more than a few. Says the Washington • In addition to the annual flowers, there is a large and (Ohio) Register: " There is more given for $2.00, by ' Peter- interesting class of plants known as Bedding Plants, which son,' than by any other magazine." Says the Montezuma are indispensable for a succession ofbloom, and add to the (Iowa) Republican : " Peterson for March is superb. For beauty and interest of the flower-garden. We have made splendid engravings, fashion-plates, and the very best of up assortments of these, together with other suitable and original stories, it has no rival in the country." Says the desirable plants. These assortments have given very geneBluffton (Ind.) Banner: "It is the best Magazine, for the ral satisfaction in former seasons, and are packed in such price, ever published." Says the Hopkinsville (Ky.) Con- a careful and compact manner as to carry safely by express servative: "Contains more for the money than any maga- to great distances. Very satisfactory letters have been rezine published." Says the Dowagiac (Mich.) Republican : { ceived from distant States, such as Georgia, South Carolina, "Its circulation in this section is greater than all the other Tennessee, Iowa, Missouri, expressing admiration at the ladies' magazines together." The Greenville (Ohio) Jour- careful manner in which the plants were packed, and their nal says : " Its corps of contributors is composed of the fresh and beautiful condition when received. The followbest authors. Every lady should take Peterson." The ing is the assortment offered for Ten Dollars, about one-half Columbus (Ohio) Gazette says : " The fashion-plate is a the usual cost when selected from a florist's catalogue. Ten Everblooming Roses ; twelve Verbenas ; one Coleus splendid one, and the patterns, designs, etc., are unusually numerous and valuable. As ' Peterson' is but $2.00 a year, Verschaffeltii, one Achyranthus Verschaffeltii, one Canna, it certainly will be pronounced the cheapest of the maga- one Variety Sweet Alyssum, (Ornamental Foliage Plants ;) zines." Says the Jefferson (Iowa) Era : " It is the best two Heliotropes ; four Fuchsias, single and double ; four Magazine published for the price." The Palla (Iowa) Blade Petunias, single and double; four Lantanas ; two Snapsays: "Peterson is charming: it gives more for the money, dragons ; two Ageratum; four Pansies ; one Blue Sage ; one and of better quality, than any other ladies' magazine." Scarlet Sage ; four Geraniums, assorted ; one Gazania SplenSays the Mt. Vernon ( Ill.) Unionist : " Every family in the dens ; one Pampas Grass ; four Double Dahlias ; four Gladioland should take, at least, one copy." The Neillsville lus, choice ; four Tiger Flowers; four Iris Germanica ; four (Wis.) Advocate says : " It presents, this year, if possible, Chrysanthemums ; two Violets ; two Pinks; two Monthly still greater attractions than heretofore. It is just one of Carnations ; one Clematis Flamula, hardy climbers ; one the best Magazines for family reading that is now pub- Lemon Verbena ; two Maurandias, one Lophospermum, lished." Says the South Union (Ind.) Bend : " A young two Thunbergias, (summer climbers.) One-half the above man who wishes to make an appropriate present to alady, assortment, (including package,) $6.00 . A One Dollar package of flower-seeds, (as described in should subscribe for Peterson's Magazine for her." Such universal testimony to the superiority of this Magazine is the March number,) with the above plants, will give all not to be disregarded. We will finish by saying, that we the flowers desired in a moderate-sized garden. DREER'S intend, for 1867, to make " Peterson" more brilliant than GARDEN CALENDAR, FOR 1867, contains select lists of seeds ever. We are giving more reading matter, and, we be- and plants, with directions for their cultivation, and will lieve, even better stories, fashion-plates, steel engravings, be mailed to all who enclose a postage-stamp. HENRY A. DREER, Address, etc., etc., than heretofore. Seedsman and Florist, 714 Chestnut St., Philada. SMALL HOOPS, FOR DANCING, are now the fashion; and a very sensible fashion it is! The most acceptable hoops are J. W. Bradley's. CROCHET STITCHES, ETC. THE PRICES OF BOOKS, noticed in this Magazine, will be IMPLEMENTS FOR CROCHET.-A needle of ivory-bone, or given, in future, as far as possible, at the end of each no- steel, with a hook at the end; whatever the material, the tice. We do this at the request of numerous subscribers. hook should be rounded at the end, and quite free from sharpness. WE DO NOT UNDERTAKE to return rejected communicaPOSITION OF THE HANDS IN CROCHET.-The crochet-hook tions. Authors, desiring to have copies of their stories, or is held lightly in the right hand, between the thumb and poems, should keep duplicates. the fore-finger. The hook should be kept in a horizontal position, never twisted round in the fingers. The work is A LADY WRITES to us that two things are indispensable held close to the last stitch, between the thumb and forein her household : " Peterson's Magazine, and the Florence finger of the left hand ; the thread, crossing the fore and Sewing-Machine." middle-fingers of that hand, is held firmly between the latter and the third, and a space of about an inch is maintained between the fore and second fingers. A very slight HORTICULTURAL. motion of the left wrist, by which the second and third FLOWERS FOR THE GARDEN.- One of the most gratifying fingers are drawn back, suffices to lay the thread over the signs of the times, is the increasing interest manifested hook, and then a movement of the thumb and fore-finger everywhere in Horticulture; it is one of the unmistakable toward the middle one forms the thread so laid into a new evidences of civilization and refinement; and there is no chain-stitch. Thus, the chain-stitch is made without any occupation fraught with so many pleasures to old and movement ofthe right hand, which not only gives a much young, rich or poor, as gardening. We shall endeavor, by more elegant appearance to the hands, but also enables occasional hints in these columns, to awaken an interest the lady to work much faster than she would ifboth hands on the subject of flower-gardening, in which, most properly, were constantly moving.

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CHAIN-STITCH.- Make a slip-knot at the end of the cotton, stitch. Suppose there is a long treble stitch, and you wish insert the hook in it; place your hands in the position to increase the edge. Do a treble crochet stitch, inserting already described, and make the requisite number of your hook in the side of the long treble: then a double stitches as directed. crochet on the side of the treble, and a single on the DOUBLE CHAIN-STITCH.-This is a stronger and firmer double. Thus, with one stitch only on the chain, or last chain-stitch than the ordinary one ; and as it resembles row, you would have four at the edge. This is much braid, is sometimes terined braid-stitch. When you have smoother and flatter than working four stitches in one. done two ordinary chain-stitches, besides the one on the TO JOIN A THREAD, Always manage to do this in any needle, insert the hook in the first of those two, draw the but chain-stitches. thread at once through them both : then continue to insert RIBBED CROCHET.-This is always worked backward and the hook in the stitch just finished, as well as the loop on forward; and is produced by inserting the hook in the it already, and draw the thread through both. back of the chain, instead of the front, as is usual. Finish SLIP-STITCH .- Insert the hook in a stitch, (having already a stitch with the new thread, leaving a short end of both, one loop on it,) and draw the thread through both. This ofit and the old one. which hold in as you work. stitch is frequently used to pass from one part to another TO WORK WITH SEVERAL COLORS.-This is always in single crochet. Hold in those threads not in use, at the back of ofa round, as by it there is hardly any depth added. SINGLE CROCHET.- Having one loop on the hook, insert your work, occasionally working over them, so that the the latterin a stitch or chain, and draw the thread through loops may not be too long. When a new color is to be in a loop. You have now two on the hook. Draw the introduced, finish the old stitch with it. Thus, if two thread through both. scarlet three green were ordered, you would work one SHORT DOUBLE CROCHET.- Having one loop on the hook complete scarlet. Begin the next stitch with the same; already, pass the thread round it, and insert it in the stitch but instead of using scarlet to draw through two loops on to be worked. Draw the thread through. You have now your hook, to complete the stitch, you would draw green two loops on the needle, besides the thread passing round through. So if only one stitch of a color is ordered, you it, which we may call another. Draw the thread through do not do the perfect stitch, but you finish one, and begin all three at once. the next with it. Sometimes in working over cord in DOUBLE CROCHET.-Begin as for the last; but when you several colors it is desirable to have the part covering the have the three on the needle, draw the thread through cord in one color, and the upper or chain-like part in antwo only. This leaves one besides the newly-formed one. other. To do this, begin the stitch with one color, and Draw the thread through both. finish with another. The upper half of the stitch is always SHORT TREBLE CROCHET.- Pass the thread twice round of the old color. Thus three and a half green one and a the needle, before inserting it in the stitch. Draw the half white, would be three perfect green; then begin the thread through, which is equivalent to four loops on the fourth stitch white, but finish it in green. The fifth stitch hook. Draw the thread through two ; which leaves two, all white. and the new one. Draw the thread through all three TO WORK OVER CORD.-Frequently done in making mats, together. baskets, etc. Hold the cord along the top of the work, TREBLE CROCHET.-Work as for the last, until you have insert the hook as usual, and bring out the loop of wool, four loops on the hook. Draw the thread, then, through under the cord. Finish the stitch over the cord. two only at a time, so that it will take a treble movement TO WORK IN BOTH SIDES OF A CHAIN.- Along the top of every line of cro et la the appearance of a chain, or sucto get them all off the needle. LONG TREBLE CROCHET.- Pass the thread three times, Cit of tambeers fiches. Usually, the hook is inserted before drawing it through the stitch, thus having fix · 1. The frợ † 6, on , of these ; but occasionally in both, to be required. loops on the needle. Draw the thread through two at a whom strent is time, until all are taken off. This will require fur noses TOWARUN? & A CRAIN.— The hook is inserted under, ments. vi in a stitch : it will then slip backward and forSQUARE CROCHET.-Square crochet is either open or close { Wo. 1. Close consists of three consecutive donble crochet stitches, y CECCHIET WITH BEADS.- This is so common now, for For an open square, do cue deubio crochet, two cha'n. } jeweled D'Oyleys, mats, and other articles in cotton work, miss two. Thus either takes up three stitches, so that the 3 as well as for those in silk and metal beads, that directions foundation chain for any piece of square erschet may be for these will certainly be acceptable. reckoned by mấtudying by three, and allowing one, fitch ( It must be remembered that beads are dropped on what over. A piece of dy paid would require a hundred is always considered the wrong side of a piece of crochet. In working from an engraving, therefore, work from left and fifty-onardston chain LONG SS Ch.can. -By this method any ordinary to right. square et porn taay be done on an increased scale. Beads may be placed on any kind of stitch. A chainAllow fuel in for the foundation of every square, with stitch will require one ; a single crochet, the same; a double one xtra. 11. a lose square will be four treble crochet crochet, two ; a treble crochet, three ; a long treble, four. stitches : an op sure, one treble crochet stitch, three All are put on after bringing the thread through the stitch. In s c, d c, tc, 1 t c, a bead is put on with each movement. ch ... mis the (. TO INCREASE IN JEWELED D'OYLEYS, ETC.-Do one chainDO CONTRACT AN E -32.-This may be done while working de le croche, trema crochet, or long treble. In any one stitch where an increase is required, instead of two s c in of these, do half t 2 complete stitch, but instead of com- one. Thus you avoid a hole, always produced by the other pleting it, twist the thread ran the needle again, until, method, in s C. In these D'Oyleys, the pattern is made in on bringing in high the nxt stitch, you will have as beads, on a cotton ground. As it is requisite that the beads many as befor iais, the stitch in the ordinary way; by should set very flat, any increase must always be in the this means you have worked two stitches at the bottom, cotton stitches. TO CHOOSE COTTON AND BEADS WHICH WILL WORK WELL and one only at the top 2 stitch is frequently used in TOGETHER -The cotton thould be as thick as it is at all forming flow .s. TO ENLARGE AN EDGE This is also chiefly done when easy to get the beads over. If they run on too easily, the imitating natural flowe s It may occur with a double, work will not look well. TO MAKE THE COMMENCEMENT OF A ROUND IN D'ÖYLEYS, treble, or long treble stitch. 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ground be white, or vice versa, and draw one end of it is most useful in cases of extreme debility: Cut into pieces through the last stitch of the first round, as you form it. a leg of fresh pork, carefully removing every morsel of fat Continue to draw it through the front of the chain of the and skin ; pour as much water on the pieces as would be last stitch of every round. By doing this from the begin- required for gravy-soup ; boil it until all the juices are exning, the plan is easily kept ; otherwise it will be found a tracted from the meat ; strain off the liquor, and let it cool; constant trouble to mark the stitch terminating the round, again see that every particle of fat is taken off; heat the soup again, and pour it into small jelly-pots. Of this, warm although the accuracy of the pattern depends on it. THE SIMPLEST WAY OF COUNTING A FOUNDATION CHAIN about half a teacupful, and give it sweetened like calf'sWHICH IS AFTERWARD TO BE WORKED IN SET PATTERNS.- In- foot jelly, or with salt and other seasoning to taste. It stead of counting the entire length of stitches, which is should be given early in the morning-about four or five both troublesome and confusing, count in the number re- o'clock-and two or three times during the day. quired for a single pattern, and then begin over again. MEATS. Thus, if each pattern requires twenty-five chains, count so Beef-Steaks-a la Parisenne.-Cut thin steaks from the far, and then begin again : this will ensure your having the proper number to complete patterns. finest and tenderest part of the rump, sprinkle pounded DRAWING PAPER-Used for taking off patterns should be, salt, a little Cayenne and white pepper combined, over not the tissue paper, but very thin bank-post, or tracing them, and lay them in a pan with an ounce of fresh butter, paper-a paper rendered transparent with oil. It may be cut in pieces; then work half a teaspoonful of flour with purchased of any artist's colorman. three ounces of fresh butter, as much parsley, minced exceedingly fine, as would lie on a shilling, roll it, and cut in CONTRACTIONS IN CROCHET. ch. Chain-stitch. large dice, lay it in a dish, squeeze the half of a lemon over dch. Double chain-stitch, or braid-stitch. the butter, and when the steaks are done, lay them upon sl. Slip-stitch. the butter; have ready a quantity of raw, peeled potatoes, SC. Single crochet. cut in thin slices, and washed in milk and water, fry them sdc. Short double crochet. in the butter and gravy left by the steak, and lay them dc. Double crochet. round the dish ; they will be done when they are a rich stc. Short treble crochet. brown. tc. Treble crochet. Veal Omelet. The kidney of veal, dressed in this manner, is generally a favorite dish. It consists of kidney, Itc. Long treble crochet. m. Miss. previously cooked, being finely chopped and beaten in with TO INCREASE THE SIZE OF AN ENGRAVED PATTERN.-It is the eggs. Another method is to mince or cut the kidney frequently necessary to give, in the Magazine, a design into very thin slices, seasoned with pepper, salt, parsley, which cannot be engraved of the full size. This causes eschalots, or chives. When well mixed together, these insome trouble to those who cannot readily enlarge a pat- gredients must be put into a small stewpan, with a little tern for themselves. gravy from the joint. When the meat has simmered until But the method of doing it is, however, very simple. warm through, set the stewpan aside. Make a plain omeTake a piece of paper, the full size required for the article, { let, and fold in the mixture before sending it to table. and rule lines across it, at equal distances, throughout the To Pot Partridge.-Clean them nicely, and season with length and width. Rule the same number of lines, also at mace, allspice, white pepper, and salt in fine powder; rub equal distances, on the reduced pattern. The squares will, every part well, then lay them breast downward in a pan, of course, be much smaller. It will be easy, with this aid and pack the birds as close as you possibly can ; put a good to the eye, to get every scroll and flower in a square ofthe deal of butter on them, then cover the pan with a coarse small pattern into the same space of the large one. When flour paste and a paper over. Tie it close, and bake in a half of a collar, or any other article is marked, ifthe other slow oven for seven or eight hours. Remove the paste, half corresponds with it-as it usually does, it ought to be take the bones from the partridges, and beat them to a transferred to tracing.paper, by means of which the other proper consistency ; put the beaten paste into pots, and pour butter over. half may be taken. Sweetbreads.-Two or three good-sized sweetbreads will make a dish. Blanch until fit to eat, and then take them up and lay them in cold water ; when cold, dry them well; OUR NEW COOK- BOOK. egg and bread-crumb them, with or without herbs ; put Every receipt in this Cook-Book has been tested by a them on a dish, and brown them in the oven ; garnishthem practical housekeeper. with mushroom sauce, or endives, or spinach ; or tomato SOUPS. will do, if approved of. Vegetable Soup.-Scrape and cut into thin slices four carRolled Patties from Remains of Meat.-The remains of rots, peel and slice three turnips, cut up two or three heads roast veal, or any roast meat, are chopped very fine, with of celery, according to size, or the hearts of two lettuces. fat of ham, adding to it a little nutmeg, salt, and butter, Peel and slice six large onions, or Spanish onions of cor- some eggs, parsley, and chopped shalots. Stir this over responding weight, also six good sound potatoes. Fry these the fire till thick enough for stuffing; fill some rolls with in half a pound of butter, or clear beef dripping; then pour it, and bake. on four quarts of boiling water, and let all boil slowly, or VEGETABLES. rather simmer, for three hours and a half, or even four Cold-Slaw. Take a nice fresh head of cabbage and lay it hours. Season to your taste. When ready, strain and serve. A spoonful of mushroom, or walnut catchup, very much in cold water for one hour, then cut off all the stalk ; shave improves the soup; also it is good to stew with it a crust down the head into very small slips with a cabbage-cutter, of bread toasted very hard and brown, but not burnt. or very sharp knife; it should be done evenly and nicely; Some persons like a handful of sweet herbs put in. In then put in a saucepan one teacupful of vinegar and let it summer, instead of carrots, turnips, or celery, you may use give a boil up, then add a teacup nearly full of cream, with some cucumbers, more lettuces, young onions, green peas, the yolks of two eggs, well beaten ; let these also give one and mint, etc. boil, and then pour it immediately over the cabbage, which Pork-Soupfor Invalids.—As any variety in the diet of an must be seasoned as soon as cut with a saltspoon of salt, a invalid is an acquisition, we give a receipt for soup, which little Cayenne pepper, and some black pepper also.

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 313 COOK - BOOK. www Spinach Ragout.-Having well picked and cleaned the Sago Jelly - A teacupful of sago, boiled in three pints spinach, put it into plenty of boiling water, throw in a and a half of water till ready. When cold, add half a pint small handful of salt ; as soon as it readily separates it is of raspberry syrup. Pour it into a shape which has been done enough ; strain off the liquor; put it into fresh water rinsed in cold water, and let it stand until it is sufficiently for ten minutes ; strain off the water completely, chop the set to turn out weli. When dished, vour a little cream spinach, lay it in a stewpan with a piece of fresh butter, round it, if preferred. keep it stirred ; when the butter has been absorbed, as Apple Pique.-Peel and stew some apples, but do not let much well seasoned gravy-soup as will make the consist- them break. Place them in a glass dish half full of syrup,' ence of cream may be added, with a little grated nutmeg. and put a piece of currant-jelly on the top of each apple. Serve hot. CAKES. Puree of White Beans.-Chop some onions, and fry them lightly in a little butter and flour, and moisten with a teaBath Buns.-Rub six ounces, or if less richness be respoonful of broth; let the onions be done ; boil the beans quired, a quarter of a pound of butter, into a pound and a in this for half an hour, season them well, use brown pep- half of flour, adding a pinch of salt. Mix half a pint of per, and strain them through a tammy ; reduce the puree milk, warm, with halfan ounce of German yeast; strain and over a brisk fire, take off the white scum, and before yon pour it into the middle of the flour; cover, and set it before serve, refine it with a bit of fresh butter, and two spoon- the fire to rise ; when sufficiently risen, add a quarter of a fuls of thick cream ; garnish it with fried crust of bread, pound of crushed loaf-sugar, half an ounce of carawaywhich may be made brown by frying the onions brown. seeds, picked and washed, four eggs, well beaten, and an Homony-Boiled.-Wash and soak the homony over ounce and a half of candied citron cut in thin slices. Make night ; early the next morning put it on to cook, in plenty up the buns, lay them on baking-tins, and let them rise of water with a little salt; it absorbs, like rice, much water, for about a quarter of an hour. Bake in a quick oven; and must be cooked with care, and be perfectly white and when done, brush themover with beaten egg, and sift soft. When quite done, stir in some new milk and butter, sugar on them; also, if you like it, strew a few comfits on and let it stew for ten minutes. Serve hot. It is very nice the top. fried for breakfast, and is a necessary accompaniment to Rice Cakes. Have ready nine fresh eggs, half a pound of pork. ground rice, half a pound of flour, half a pound of pounded loaf-sugar, the rind of one lemon, a little orange-flower DESSERTS. water, and some caraway-seeds. Beat the eggs thoroughly, Rolled Molasses Pudding-Goodfor Children.- To all who and then mix in the sugar, the rice, the flour, and the like sweet pudding, it is very nice. Make a crust of flour caraway-seeds, thickly or sparely, according to fancy. and suet, taking care to free the suet from all shreds of Grate in the peel of a lemon, and beat the batter until the skin and fleshy matter ; chop it as fine as possible, and rub beating has gone on for an hour from the time of first it well into the flour, in the proportion of a quarter of a beating up the eggs. This time it may be increased, but it pound, or five or six ounces of suet, according to the quality must not be shortened, and the batter must be immediately desired, to every pound of flour. Work it with water to a divided into little cakes, and placed in the oven. smooth paste, roll it out to about the thickness of half an German Cakes.-Beat up four eggs, beat into them half a inch, spread the molasses over it equally, leaving a small pound of butter melted until it becomes liquid, a pint and margin all the way round. Roll the pudding up, closing a half of warm milk, and a teacupful of yeast. Stir in as the ends securely, and tie it up in a clean floured cloth, much flour as will make the mixture stiff, then tie it plunge into boiling water, and boil for two hours. A loosely in a cloth, put it into a pail of water, and leave it quarter of a pound of molasses, and one pound of suet-crust the dough out of the makes a good light pudding. Using lard, instead of snet, there until it rises to the top. Take the pudding may be baked for a change; it must be in the cloth, mix with it three-quarters of a pound of sugar, the same of raisins, stoned, chopped lemon-peel, citron, and oven from an hour and a half to two hours. almonds, and divide it into cakes two inches across. Place Compote aux Confitures.-Peel some apples, leave them these cakes on tins, and bake them. whole, but take out the cores. Put a little water in the preserving-pan, and let the apples cook, with a large lump of sugar, taking great care that they do not break. Place THE TOILET. the apples in a glass dish, and when they are cold, fill the center of each with apricot-jam, or any recherche preserve. GRAY HAIR.-Last month we made some remarks about Boil the liquid until it jellies, pour it into a dish that it the hair, its liability, in young ladies, to come out, etc., etc. may take its form, let it cool, and then put it over the Another subject, upon which a hint or two may be adapples without breaking it. The French receipt adds that visable, is grayness. Preternatural grayness in a lady is the jelly will leave the dish easily if it be dipped for an in- no little anxiety. We will not engage in any lengthened stant into hot water, but as this would be likely to dull the discussion as to its cause. It may arise from anxiety, from jelly, it is a better plan to just dip shape, jelly and all, into fright, sudden emotion ; these are not the causes, however, cold water, a plan followed by good confectioners. which we need notice now. There are instances in which Figs a la Genevive.-Dissolve two ounces of best sugar the hair of people, apparently in good health, turns grain half a pint of cold water in an enameled stewpan, with dually more or less gray. Some are due to an excess of half the very thin rind of a large lemon. When this is lime in the constitution, if we may trust to the revelations done, put into it half a pound of Turkey figs, and put the of the chemist; others to an altered condition of the circustewpan either over a moderate fire, or on a stove, so that lation through the scalp; others to a deficiency of pigment. the figs may stew very slowly. When quite soft, add a In every case the loss of color signifies that there is a tenglass of common port, or any other wine, and the strained dency to a debilitated condition of the hair-forming appajuice of half a lemon. Serve them hot for second course. ratus. We may use various applications, the following They are very good cold for dessert. About two hours, or pomades among the rest: 1. Bismuth powder, twenty two hours and a half, is the average time for stewing the grains, added to one ounce of any pomade. 2. Acetate or figs, and the flavor may be varied by using orange-peel and lead, five grains; olive-oil, one drachm ; lard, one ounce ; juice instead of lemon, and by boiling two or three bitter ottar of roses, two drops. 3. Acetate of iron, ten grains ; almonds in the syrup. benzoated lard, one ounce ; glycerine, two drachms. And OUR NEW

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