THE GENESEE PARMER. 



OKIGINAL DOMESTIC KECEIPTS. 

 Contributed to the Genesee Farmer. 



To Restore Black Crape Veils.— Hold the crape over 

 boiling water until it becomes damp with the steam, and 

 then pin it down evenly upon a carpet, and it will become 

 stiff, and when dry, will have the appearance of new 

 crape. 



Frozen Eggs. — Mrs. Sophia Damon says that frozen 

 eggs can be restored, by putting them into cold water, 

 and placing them on the stove, where they will warm 

 gradually. If used immediately, will be as good as any 

 egg*. 



Pulverized Borax. — A lady correspondent says she 

 wishes to recommend this article as invaluable for a 

 lady's toilette. It is an excellent dentifrice; it removes 

 all stains from the hands; it cleanses the hair from dan- 

 druff, and is particularly good for washing muslins and 

 laces. 



Cyanide of Potassium.— This article will be found infal- 

 lible in removing stains from any kind of white cloth. A 

 distinguished chemist in the city of New York says that 

 he has never found any stains that can not be removed by 

 its application. Cover a small quantity of it with tepid 

 water, and apply it to the stain immediately. It will even 

 remove indelible ink. 



Soyer, the great French cook, says that cookery has 

 been thought beneath the attention of men of science; 

 and yet, Was there ever a political, commercial, or even a 

 domestic event, but what always has been, and always 

 will be celebrated either by a banquet or a dinner? 

 Nothing, he says, more disposes the heart to amicable 

 feeling and friendly transactions, than a dinner well cou- 

 oeived and artistically prepared. In ancient times, a cook, 

 especially if a man, was looked upon as a distinguished 

 member of society; and there are a few still in the high 

 circles who highly appreciate the knowledge he possesses, 

 and have classified cookery as a high art. One of the great- 

 est chemists of the day (Liebigi pays the highest eulo- 

 gium to culinary science. Soyer considers it worthy the 

 attention of a peer of the realm, and that the morals of 

 the country greatly depend on the production and pre- 

 paration of its food. If this be so, it is surely worthy the 

 attention of the women of this country who are house- 

 keepers, to make it a matter of the deepest interest to at- 

 tend to the preparation of food tor their families. It is 

 said of many who have resided for a time or traveled in 

 France, that a real French dinner, consisting often of 

 seven courses, is so perfectly prepared and seasoned, and 

 such an adaptation in its variety to the digestive organs, 

 that no one would feel that he had eat too much, although 

 he had taken something from each course, and that the most 

 inveterate dyspeptic could eat a French dinner with im- 

 punity, if culinary science can be carried to such perfec- 

 tion, surely cookery should be ranked among the fine arts. 



Fashions tor Ladies' Dress. — The present fashio: 

 for ladies' dress is really sensible. The high, thic 

 boots, linsey-woolsey dresses and grey sacques for tli 

 streets, which are now in vogue among fashionable cit 

 ladies, are just what is needed in the country. Theladw 

 are now adopting the habits of street dress of high-bra 

 English ladies, and a great improvement it is upon ti 

 customs in this country for many years. Now, Indies wl 

 dress fashiouably are warmly clad when exposal to U 

 weather, instead of the flaunting, showy style former] 

 worn by young ladies, when they could never be wan 

 unless, as their mothers would say, "Pride kept the 

 warm." 



The latest Paris fashions for bonnets for full dress a 

 rose color, or blue uncut velvet, trimmed on the top i 

 the front with flowers or feathers of the same color. T] 

 front is quite large and high at the top, but very clo 

 and snug at the sides of the face. The strings of tl 

 same color with the hat, broad and long, and tied wi 

 quite large, prominent bows under the chin. 



A veil composed of both black and white blonde lace 

 much worn, and particularly admired. 



The fashions for dresses remain almost unchange 

 Grave colors are worn for fashionable visits, even 

 young ladies ; and the principal charm of the prese 

 fashion is, that each lady can adopt the mode of dr< 

 most fitted to her style of face or figure, and still 

 dressed fashionably— for every style is worn. 



Zouave jackets and short sacques, pointed waists, a 

 waists with belts and clasps, high-necked waists for w< 

 ding dresses, and low-necked for young ladies. Bla 

 silk and velvet wadded sacques are much worn aga. 

 and short, circular cloaks, trimmed with a broad floun 



"To be pleased with one's self, is the surest way of 

 offending everybody else." 



Washington Irving on Woman's Love. — " It is a co 

 mon theory to laugh at all love stories, and to treat i 

 tales of romantic passion as mere fictions of poets a 

 novelists, that never existed in real life. My observatic 

 on human nature have convinced me of the contrary, a 

 have satisfied me that, however the surface of the ch 

 acter may be chilled and frozen by the cares of the wo 

 and the pleasures of society, still there is a •warm curri 

 of affection running through the depths of the cold 

 heart, that prevents its being congealed. Indeed, I an 

 true believer in the blind deity, and go to the full exti 

 of his doctrine. Shall I confess it? I believe in brol 

 hearts, and the possibility of dying of disappointed loi 

 I do not, however, consider it a malady often fatal to i 

 own sex, but I firmly believe it withers down man] 

 lovely woman into an early grave. Man is the creati 

 of interest and ambition. His nature leads him lot 

 into the struggle and battle of the world. Love is but 

 embellishment of his early life, or a soDg piped in the 

 tervals of the acts. But a woman's whole life is a histi 

 of the affections. The heart is her world; she eniliai 

 her whole soul in the traffic of affection ; and if sh 

 wrecked, her case is hopeless, 4>r it is a bankruptcy 



the heart." 



"Expect no constancy from fickle Fortune, for the f 

 cient dame has been the wife of many a thousand bri< 

 grooms." 



