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.Nth} “v. JVLLL Linen, sxlver , china be as handsome as you can af-‘ ford. and irreproachably neat, how-l aver simple. Have the dining-room! comfortably heated; especially see; Festive ‘ , glass andl its gay: berrxes very cheery For a cen-l terpjece, use a Christmas lxly, grace-i ful ternary or thrifty house . 0 Eng powder. Add the whites of. three eggs beaten stiff at the last. These :akes are the small round kind we en- joyed as children, and still should have, some of them gay red lcing,others pure white and still oth- ers a festive blue. The colorings are harmless, and the ca. tive. The ice cream is often priately served with the pudding, and then both the jelly and the cakes‘ would be omitted, or the patriotically tinted cakes could grace the festive supper table. Le; your linen, silver, glass and china be as handsome as you can of. 42...: -- â€"‘ ‘ v ”WI-“U ‘ O- cupt may be used for sunsâ€"fine-cake b adding 6 of the yoLks of the eggs, well beaten, after beating the whites and the sugar together. Nut Fruit Cakeâ€"Cream 2 cups of sugar and 1 of butter; add 6 well- beaten eggs, 4 cups of flour, 1 of. cold water, 1 of hickory-nuts, one- balf pound of raisinsâ€"seeded, finely 3h0pped, and dredged with flourâ€"1 teaspoonful of soda dissolved in hot water, 2 of cream of tartar, and 1 grated nutmeg. ,7 -- .. ”Hugh. .uLuL WILL! a little of the icing, spread it between the layers, then cover the whole cake with the remainder of the icing, ar- ranging haived almonds on the tapand sides. Almond Cakeâ€"Cream half a cup of [mum and a cup and a half of sugar; add half a cup of milk, 2 cups of flour, the whites of 4 eggs, and a teasyoon- ful and a half of baking-powder. Bake in the pans used for jelly cake. Make an icing wiLh the whites of 3 eggs and 3 table-spoonfiuls of sugar. blanch 1 pounds of almonds, and chop half of them almost to a powder. Mix with n I‘ov‘A â€"~“ If a man uses the contents of hisl‘berries, chop .them or cu pocket-book wholly to replenish his, _ . l a knife ; stir with them a stock of tools, to build fine convenient! and a heaping tablespool barns, leaving his unhandy patched-up put into the pie-tin pre house for his wife to furnish and orna- with crust, add half a cu; ment with rag carpets of her own;cover With a to? CI‘USt i1 manufacture, broken furniture glued i beige 20111;: storfiifiltssnzg together and. upholstered by her over-.f in .ef a . I: - t burdened hands, can he expect her to; rui Juice or 00 W3 keep in touch with the inventions and ' each 0f molasses, brown = improvements of modern times? Canlgejr+ Vinegar,b ttwo-thirds] she be well versed in current litera-l I t.er, one ea en egg, , , _ ed cracker crumbs, one ture, 01‘ even have “me tor the pleas- and seeded raisins one 1 ant greeting 01‘ friendly Chat Lhat cinnamon one teaspoonf help him to iorget his labors and over- cloves allspice nutmeg 8: come the anxieties of his daily torl?g pepper citron, if you ’lil If he appropriates the daily paper .and: the raisins in. the water reads to himsell' alone, while hlS tired; utes add the molasses and wife clears away and washes the sup-l vinegar etc and lastly , er dishes, and plies her needle till the l ful of grape" 'uice ‘iIse c wee small hours in trying to relieve‘ J ' her overburdened work-basket of its} Turkey Dressed W'ith O worn-out garments that require patch ' a 10-pound turkey take t upon patch to render them wearable bread- . does it conduce to make that cheerful' t . tcrgrnbs, half a cupfu atmosphere that 'should surround a l cu m 0 1153, HOt melted, or home and enliven the household} If! ful 0f DOWdered thyme or s he. refuses to go to the social gather-iory, pepper, salt and mix ings of his neighbours in companyly. Rub the turkey well with his wife and characrerizes those? - that go to picnics or any place ofloqt with salt and pepper amusement, as idiotic, while he and? his wife stay at home and grow rus-g' ~ ; ty for lack of social friction, how can 9' ferplfi‘tuf)?‘ a gurkeyé Sitarai they acquire that culture and discipâ€"fkey {((Ifoek :11: “if; to . ast line that comes from contact with thescho° fi “ f 6t? e S m many-sided world? . l . p - ne 0“ e “a”. Pineapple Ice Cream.â€" Fruit Nuts. Coffee. "- vd-vvâ€" Roast Turkey. Oyster Dressing. Giblet Sauce. Cranberry Jelly. Mashed Pctatoes. Boiled Onions. Baked Sweet Potatoes. Lima Beans. Salted Almonds. Olives,_ Spiced Peaches A TTRACTI VB CHRISTMAS DINNER MENU. Celery Soup. Scalloped Oysters. middle, sometimes known 3 head.” The pan should sed. Bake forty minutes .te oven. If still soft 1": 4- L - CHRISTMAS CAKE. Chicken Pie. LeLtuce Salad. Plum Pudding, Hard Sauce‘ Ribbon Jelly. BUT ONE ANSWER. 5. The colorings are e cakes very attrac- 'eam is often appro- ith the pudding, and jelly and the cakes , or the patriotically ]d are an : it bake the tin same re- Cakes. Bonbons. Lord Sallsbury Kmpws Meanâ€"Ills i-‘zuher H iowauce When He ship Is a Mass of Is a Lover 0:" Peace. SOMETHING ABOUT THE PRIIfl MINISTER OF ENGLAND. HE IS A GREAT STATESMAN Lrons should m come red hot, as tain the heat prl Silken fabrics, especially White handkerchiefs, should not be dam ed, lr-ut ironed WEth a maderately vx iron when taken from Hm. Hun ,‘ A very hot iron should never be used for flannels or woolens. Calicos, ginghams and chintzes should be ironed on the' wrong side. Clotheslines, are made much more 'durable by boiling for ten minutes be- fore they are used. Table linen should be ironed when Quite damp and ironed with avery hot and very heavy iron. Embroideries should be ironed on a thin, smooth surface, over thick flan- nel, and only on the wrong side. Linen may be made beautifully white by the use of a little refined borax in the water instead of using a wash- ing fluid. ‘ POINTERS FOR W'AE Wash fabrics that are fade should be soaked ax very salt water, to set the washing in the suds. Delmonico Pogetoes.â€"Cut cold boil- ed potatoes in one-half inch cubes. To two cubes allow one and one-half cups spoonfuls of butter of flour, one quarter of a teaspoonful 'of salt, one-eighth of a teaspoonful . g dish. Cover the top ;}Vlth butetred cracker crumbs. Bake 'In a moderate oven twelve or fifteen U 3313’. Hub the turkey well inside and ’iout with salt and pepper, then fill {with first spoonful of crumbs, then a few well drained oysters, using about {ta pin‘rt for a turkey. Strain the oys- gter liquor and use to baste the tur- l.‘key. Cook the giblets in the pan and] 'chop fine for the gravy. A fowl of this s?ze w‘H require three hours in La moderate oven. Turkey Dressed W'ith' Oysters.â€"For :1 10-pound turkey take two pints of bread-crumbs, half a cupful of butter, cut into bits, not melted, one teaspoon- ful of powdered thyme or summer saw-l ory, pepper, salt and mix thorough- {ed cracker crumbs, one cup chopped and seeded raisins, one tablespoonful cinnamon, one teaspoonful each of cloves, allspice, nutmeg, salt and black pepper, citron, if you like it. Stew the raisins in the water a few min- utes, add the molasses and sugar, then vinegar, etc., and lastly a wineglass- ful of grape juice. Use cold. 1 Mince Meat, Minus Meat.â€"â€"One cup fruit juice or cold water, half cup each of molasses, brown sugar and ci- a knife; stir with them a sup of sugar and a heaping tablespoonful of flour; put into the pie-tin previously lined with crust, add half a cup of water and cover with a top crust into which you have rolled some bits of butter. Cranberry Pie.-â€"-'Wash the cran- berries, chop .them or cut in two with DOMESTIC RECIPES. Bread Griddle Cakes.â€"One quart m'lk, two cups stale bread crumbs, ha’f cup flour, tablespoonful melted but- ter, three eggs, teaspoonfu] sulx,two teaspoonfuls baking powder. Addthe butter to the boiling milk, turn it over ,covered; beat to a smooth batter, add fthe salt, yolks of eggs well beaten! 5then the flour and baking powdeh} {lastly the whites of the eggs, beaten,: :‘stiff. These cakes are also made of; {sour milk, in which the crumbs are: 'soaked over night, and a teaspoonful,t level. of soda used to correct the acid-‘ ity of the milk. In this form stale! bread may be utilized without a sus- pician of its identity, and the result is more palatable than the usual bread; puddings of the economical house-l Wife. " can and try to make the anniversary meat all that we know it can. taken from theâ€"“Ii; uld notfibe allowed mos that are inclined to . be soaked and rinsed 1n xter, to set the color before the suds. as they willhever re‘ properly afterward. the giblets in the pan and 31' the gravy. A fowl of I! require three hours in , two-thirds cup melted beate_n egg, half cup roll- â€"-â€"vl , Refused am an ”H : ”armedâ€"Allis Lurd‘ ' Contradictionsâ€"Jae Mr. Gladstone .e Minister for and LOrd Salis. What Hard Whose hands eleven years not be damfién- l-tdgrately warm WASH DAY. emyv is the PPOSpect of Lord I His‘ to be- silk has Sat in the a m mber of t thinks so little AN Eb TV..- uuuist“, ne gave us a glimpse , ~~- “#910“! at ,‘of his faith in youth. " ' ' a ' on 1,113 @afl‘mgé'fourga time the feudal lords were H ”.Vmg 3y Pre::indeed. Now, alas, all w- . . _ 10“glngb g'Democracy for the moment; carried the rim-1,. the! “FR” 3 day. But for the moment only. The . eading drucwsftide must turn. The people themselves for the Times, and. his brave; . . 7 . - . . .would see the er wue worked by his Side forlthen the feudal eight years, until he husband’s 3 - his marriage he became it; has loSt much of . third Marquis of Salisbury, But hardly more than ten years ago Lord Salisbur spoke approvingly of A MASS or CONTRADICTIONS. a . -. - 5' gland first and Lord Salisbury is a mass of'England only, and smeered at pious contradictions. ' ' ndulged in “cosmopolitan” the backbone, and even From being con- sw-upt away quarter ses “Roughing it,” Was 1 um max-ea abroad, which brought he' long list of presents for the columns ,of the Mqrning Poet, and which cut: where he was born and from the; of a brilliant; Lord Robert Cecil married the judge’s (laughter, and for hen sake , l HUI-u. Udllfiuury as a I - make in the world. Under these cir-l te' - l cumstanoes he ought. of course, Atoljgieticis declgar: 111 h h“ I have known better than to fall in’ pain e at W l . {iron as Count Corti â€" n f love with a bride who could bring. - T him no fortune. But such things will i The Radical ' - happen in the most excellently regu- 5 bubble, and the . :to the man of iron, but lated lives, and Lord Robert Cecrl :that Lord Salisbury is a1 ' found himself at twenty-four in love; ' with the daughter of Baron Alderson, Ihis country. “There is ‘ i ' h d brou ht man 1n England,” said 1V. whose serv 088 as a Judge a 2; dozen years ago, “who 2 him a great measure of popularity,t . ,of country first and pa but not by any means an equal mea. fthat man is my uncle.” sure of wealth. The noble father, the If the pleasing points of L01 maI‘QUis, pitied his son, pleaded, threat- , Sffirrtgl‘ Ltllaé file hats not pened, dwelt on the duties of a Cecil ‘- 0 e 1° {W- _ . . 113 one of the few great to his house and Its traditions, . and Cabinet who have prevailed upon the wayward T r , Robert to avoid Miss Alderson for a Eh: {:15 never SCFUPIB year. But it was of no avail. and at '3 9 Into the length the father struck the finalth Pleased blowâ€"he ref " ' ' . :i+knh _ It was hard Sm: 1mm imam; a-“ 'y {Salisbury will have held the reins of lverbial; he is an a1 office as long as Mr. Gladstone, and {crown Of 1113 head to . k He has been desci who will say that be may not 8° bac the Lords -- to Downing street a fourth time, as tained, with his hat 'thr Gladswne did? ‘ .chiselled features ‘si , pale east of thought. f LORD SALISBURY’S ROMALCE. lot courseâ€"the first ( 0" It may look, at first sight, like a tic tine 9111in? figrvige e'Pilradox to speak of the romance of, 90 S ta o 18 u 'h' k 'mght oil on Sunday: r,Lord Salisbury. Nobody 'ever ‘ ”1 8.0t‘fioe. And he he lfof romance as having anything to do i of the public service. .g‘with the Prime Minister. Yet Lord luaocelntury he has yg I’S‘Salisbury, though he is the head ohms Ife to England. ‘ .1. {thusiasm of humani‘ Egone of England’s PrOUdeSt fami 168' jOne can never think sjhas known what “hard times” meanurousing the countr) .che must often think, as he{ sits in \hisffigazrfigfiétmfif‘ :fstudy at Hatfield, coming smart . . . . . . thim giwng up 1118 la '1' phrases which Will next day rlng {Gladstone did, to one Q [through England, 01‘ Preparinngalisbury has been 8 ?speeches to which all-the world will ffenhghtened autocrat, {listen of the days when he was an 913 as accurate as , , b k f of two words can be. ‘obscure young man lodging in a .. ac §to see England, no ( lstreet off the Strand, writing articles!kind of liberal autoc ! , . - gcannot , for newspapers to make both eédslgovernmbznfgsulilemgi; meet. It is a pretty story, Whlchghis old-world-ness am. makes us forget for the moment i the 3 ing ways of time, scor politician, and stirs our sympathywiwhlich he works, but . r t ' no, for’ Lord Salisâ€" 88L y and well; but 11 Whe her we Wlll or h h S! born lguarded moment forge bury the man. T119118 e wa glar as to shake hand. to a title, Lord Salisbury was 110‘: by mos.. any means born rich. He was a younger son, and had his own‘ way to -_. vVI-LLIU r of the Government; 30 httle of it that he has an seen in the Peers’ ; 81' once saw Mr. Parne Slxteen years one ofi t1 members of the Emma a mum c‘i'uUUULE.. A BROAD OUTLOOK.‘ ioughxng it” was not an altogether, Lord bahsbflury, though he has {pr- . , . , proved, of yourse experlence for Lhe young M.P.â€"- - ,of creed, has been 3 1e first few years of married 1i” 'gradual process. At hls comlng 0f age . . 'at Hatfield, before he had known any- not the bltter struggle that 1t ; . - ~ -~ . n; have been. Lord Robert Cecil . thing or 1116 out81 Ie the luxury .of a 4 ’ reat house, he - us a hm 'se become member for btamford at:g - - h -,, ,gmL “A g p ' . . . .of hls fair v nri was able, on his! max-m...” 5.--, uurLeI‘ sessions; leudalism dead. He r the Bong; the House Of 0f the Goverm little ofit am HARD STRUGGLE Ed by his 5. until her . and Lord 1 end of his “Uh", ‘u‘P'I'eSEeS ; Public Conduct Inf- --L'I . a Owl-‘Ul V P. Parnell, wfi vne Ofi the mos 3 House. AUTOGRAT.. f Lord Salis. SOUCI‘OUS moods, hls own child, 0: the 'Proudest .0â€" L4 \ . 1p by Engngh 'teen years a 0f Commons, society is ' Lard Sallsbur s oke a rovin l of xDICTIONs i . . -. - .y 9 PP 85’ gland first and a mass of'England only, and , sneered at pious l feudalist to people who indulged ° 1n “cosmopolitan” In his mostxsecond thoughts.” From being con- d one fanciesfcerned for feudalis ' rs when feud-gto be DO‘sver Such ‘8‘ agaxnst Q ‘mp‘res I“ ‘ a. l "RCi IS, ‘ 21 nd realize tor- long in milk. As tion progress the: smaller and more In the case of a well a_long in [not __.- we” uLueI‘ Oilficulty, this Sometimes this iies 5m Lhe condition of the cream. Evident- lly the wrong kind of bacteria h ave {been at work at it. Perhaps the! tem- right; it may need to he proper degree to cause the separat’ long in milk. As the perlodl‘ofi lacta- i tlon DI'OQ‘TPQQ rk,‘ 49-4 . . 15' the wrong been at Work Derature is m be brought to 081130 the Rang ,-_._--uu UL .[qu'O'p‘e as the only hope of peace. Statesmanship has a broader basis than either class or coun- try, and 1t. 18 assuring in Gates many sleepless nights! is only one ofadozen arm which wiil be remembered f iro n, as Count Corti â€" not like 'Bismarck-â€" year: ago. of the Salisbury ry pins his faith the man of Iron. but both admit e few great men in the been consistently . E verbial; he is an aristocrat from the (crown of his head to ihe, tip of 111.3 toes. : pale east of thought.’ ” He works hard, of courseâ€"the first Cecil fell a martyr ?to the public service â€" :b9oks bell of his burning the mid- rousing the country over the Bu]- garian atrooltles, or stirrin over Armenia. Nor can we thinlr Ari and: the Blue- ‘ weigh all the skill and energy thought of the Tory organ- vvould be interesting to reckon nany elections Lord Salisbury for the sake of :1 phrase. have :plBSS nights, and it ozen oraLorical gems remembered against lords were lords s. all was changed. moment ca_rried the FORE PARTY. » "cosmOpoIiLan” Pom being con- he had grown England. Since been completed, 1 BS become I to secure, 6 0W or one; has some- 3 Elm: to: There Shoal-fl be on every 1.3.1111 er. work roomâ€"one purposely" 1):}; frblll .ble in the purpose or partitioneo 01,1 ; h 0 rows some space in a buildingâ€"1n “11:0 35' I .SMet-iron stove could be .1) b.9356 E1aeta'bhimney is not necessary. The?” become can be run out of Ihq room sz’Wh'eg: sécure_ ;if Th9? wood work is protege-1L by 13:1] Or One .‘01‘ 151 mg. Diachiner)’, toms, 6.6100131] some- s'be repaired in such a room} :1“? If” Impose 'can be comfortable while (‘0an 1t. La 'ublemiofi money will be saved too. I "them prevent thvii further attaCKS 'JY “ice 3 scrubbing the t1 Links once or I year with strong soap 511‘s h we trunks are covered with rough bark, remove this by scraping. II is very difficult to rid an orchard of borers after they are once established If the trees have aheady been in- flested the borexs must be Iii-ken out with a sharp knife or ki 11m in we” holes by inseming a shup Wife “U- ter the trees have been pfreed ‘ffoim . ‘ , w A chicken to do his best, must from: steadily from the time he. IS out o t . ' a ‘shell, until he is n‘mrkebabl}? 0:31;}; d. pallet, till the laying age? "-913; {5. Four qualifications aru 9135.9}?- aren- semial to this grOVVth’ x'vlgomiérkithisg tag-a3, suificient, \vhuleminl'“, Pf)“ 35d a food. pâ€"lmty of 01W “‘3‘“; clean- dearth of lice, whmh sui-‘ges" liness. I When a sow is so careful of her pigs Ithat she never lies down without knowing they are safe from being crushed. keep her. She is worth fortune. Send the nervous, fidgeifi‘ sow to the butcher. She is not a good mother. An international agriculturalcon- Sress will be held at Paris in 190010 discuss subjects in “Men ever) fann- ing country can feel a mutual inter est, such as agricultuxal educa ion, science, experiments, crop punishes. etc. that The male bee is called .a drone, and has neuher Sting nor tongue. He could not gather honey if he. tried.He would starve to death in a field of clover. But he has :1 purpose, and the bees could not; do without him. \We decide the effect our surround- ings shall have on us; out: of? thesame soil the rose draws its fragrance. and its thorns. D0 net keep a cow simply because she gives a Large mess of milk. Fixid out how much butter fat there us 11: ,1t, how much butber she makes. - Pumpkins make a iesirable pig fieed. The hog seems to relish them. , \Vhen fed in connection with grain satisfactory gains are mage, inc meat produced is or very good quality- angry; go and kick Lhe barn door or mllklng stool instead untii you recov. er your senses. As a rule the hens with! the largest! combs will prove to be the best' He mixes {be absolute} one shipper with [hos and sup-plies his custo: mixed produCL. The cc begins Lo distrus: every 3 dealer tells him that absolute fresh he takes of salt. BORERS IN APPLE TREES. 1, ._ :hfsgp and plenty, would {albiflg as prgmublc as breedin f of”. s or spmng chickens. T8 an _ atter 1L isam- -‘ ’ ' ' ‘ . am be; 01 how L0 reacn ihe conmnnnro ' . A-A,‘ .â€" l “1- Do not kick the V57 INTER \VORK ROOM. FARM TOPICS 1 those of another customers with 'L The consumer in timq cow because you are 1 am his'eggs a takes it with agra churning the him In \J .ecclve much mi . and conzectionen‘ eggs. and" they an Ci HOU even by; m one. and W'Lenl fa rm “Nu win .tem that she needed a great. deal of iakmg . . are of. and whom he consequently ied . “i“"fh “"5 rover crossings, to his own imminem 5u.}'b.ur‘:d danger, and hers, very often. He was ‘ “:“LBQ‘? also most particular to explain every- I P” ASH“. thing said by the shopmen who served 3 u "’5 ff m, and his high, clear little mic-etch" ‘ffl ! often brought some amusement, and? Jde ‘1‘ IgOOd deal of gentle commisera1.ion hm be” down on the head of; Elizabenh,whose"; arvery F‘ that misery in her misfortune was\t 131% his the constant reminder of it she got. :th‘fl‘ ‘9‘ Whenever she moved abroad or sawich'l‘d .“f ”new faces. Daffy did nor konw this, i headd 1““ but he secreily felt. himself a mush iwjl; .th older and more experienced person ia’.‘?fi"d d than his mower, and never failed, on : df‘arddac going out, to tell the servants “to lake wi h me care of mother," as if she would be in ‘ .iack serious jeopardy urn-Lil he came home his {am again. i ‘ ' w 8. But strange and true as if a m to.“ “to the house. hUWGV¢r tar ‘way’ "Poor Elizabeth always felt and knew the)" each u bid 86 . he would not see her at any «111118, ' 'als would 1101 ad- IS matter how. loudly and [or admxssxon, and she both afily did. ”3k had pondered long 0wr ”Instance, 10th to put into V~ 5d 11' her mother’s love the board with the rest same breath hoped‘ t_hat Mystery of Id nei , and is defaced and clean and whole 1e a beginning 10 ; buL looking back, lightest, sign 10 01 all things love- ute, in fiiizabeth. ody dead, for m}. lad risen in her 33th. and he knew \ what he had A 1bet.h to be 5 felt. it impOb‘ the subject. 3 he had not I all these ye‘ ,few weeks n i '5 without the ’éoome the ca, He. saw be face, vwid 1 desolate voi< down whlie had ‘33ch qu rode m mid it would ave: with all the would wish ong ligmmi dome, In fancy 1 side him, 3 of companlc world, war! were fresh when they giorious 1a: themselves brilliant dé and nowâ€"I attaining 1 grand achn was when Ezizabzth 1 Wouid h if Nature stepmotnel to the I'm‘ I trow not for what n all for 111: And dealn and needs those who Poor E 1o pracuc discxpiine Jack wouJ me mOaL physically} was then. the mor and he he did seemed which 11 unbarre white, 8: was sbi word > but I!