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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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in the soup, and season it with a little pepper, 

 salt, and butter. Be careful the chopped chicken 

 does not settle, and burn on the pot. It will Ijc 

 well to turn a small plate on the bottom of the 

 kettle to prevent this. Toast bread quite brown 

 and dry, but do not burn it, and lay the toast in 

 the tureen, and servo it with the soup ; stir the 

 chicken through it, and pour it in the tureen. — I 

 Godey's. 



Potato Patties. — Butter some small pattypans ; I 

 strew Itread-crnmbs over the insides and (ill them ' 

 with some nicely-mashed potatoes, flavored with 

 either mushroom catchup, grated lemon-peel, or 

 savory herbs chopped fine ; add sufficient lard or \ 

 fresh butter, and sift more bread-crumbs on the 

 tops ; place them in an oven till properly browned, i 

 lift them out of the pattypans to serve. Note: a 

 very thin puff paste may line and cover the p.atty- 

 pans, and the bread-crumbs be omitted. — Godey's. 



Eggs avith Onions. — Boil some eggs hard, pre- 

 serve the yolks whole ; cut the whites into slips, 

 and add them to a few small onions which you 

 have first fried in butter : give all a stir up, pour 

 off the superfluous fat; dredge in a little liour; 

 moisten it sufficiently with gravy ; add seasoning 

 to taste ; let it come to a boil ; put in the yolks, 

 and, when they are quite hot, serve. 



Starching Cuffs and Collars. — After wash- 

 ing and rinsing them, let them dry as if for iron- 

 ing. Having made some starch a little thicker 

 than cream, put them in, wring them out again, 

 let them dry before the fire until they are fit for 

 ironing, roll them in a cloth, and iron. To give 

 them a good gloss, take the end of a wax candle 

 and stir it through the starch when quite hot, and 

 do not let the iron be too hot. A little salt put 

 into the starch when hot will prevent the iron from 

 sticking, and some soap rubbed on it before using 

 will answer the same purpose. 



Flaxseed Syrup. — This excellent remedy for a 

 cough is made thus : — Boil one ounce of flaxseed 

 in a quart of water for half an hour ; strain and 

 add to the liquid the juice of two lemons, and half 

 a pound of rock candy. If the cough is accom- 

 panied by weakness and a loss of appetite, add 

 half an ounce of powdered gum arabic. Set this 

 to simmer for half an hour, stirring it occasionally. 

 Take a wine-glassful when the cough is trouble- 

 some. 



Cure for Corns. — The following receipt is 

 vouched for as a sure cure for corns : — "Put the feet 

 for half an hour, two or three successive nights, in 

 a strong solution of soda. The alkali dissolves the 

 indurated cuticle, and the corns fall out spontan e 

 ouslj' ; leaving a small cavity, which soon fills." 

 An exchange says : — "We know the above reme- 

 dy for corns to be effectual. We have tried it, and 

 found it acts like magic. But we do not tliink a 

 strong solution is desirable. We know of a friend 

 who tried the remedy on our recommendation, but 

 he made the solution so strong that, with the corns, 

 it took off a portion of the skin on the foot. From 

 one to two table-spoonfuls soda in a small foot-tub 

 of hot water is sufficient to remove the corns, by 

 letting the afflicted member remain in it ten or fif- 

 teen minutes." 



Mustard Plasters. — By using syrupor molas- 

 ses for mustard plasters, they will keep soft and 

 flexible, and not dry up and become hard, as when 

 mixed with water. A thin paper or fine cloth 

 should come between the plaster and the skin. 

 The strength of the plaster is varied by the addi- 

 tion of more or less flour. 



To Wash Merinoes. — An old merino may be 

 made to look as good as new by flrst ripping to 

 pieces the skirt, and afterwards washing each 

 breadth separately in warm suds, being careful to 



rinse only in clean warm water suds. Cold water 

 after warm will shrink any kind of woolen goods. 

 Iron while quite damp on the wrong side. After- 

 wards fold once double on the right side, placing 

 over it a clean newspaper, and iron with a very hot 

 flat iron, in this way making the seam fold in al 

 new double folded goods. 



"WOMEN AND THE FASHIONS. 



It is the eternal, hc«^en-decreed, anti-Mill law 

 that women should be dependent, and poor, and 

 vain ; and their dependence, their poverty, and 

 their vanity make them all the more ad()ral)le, be- 

 cause we know that these spring, not from scllish- 

 ness, but from desire to give delight to men. They 

 are deliciously poor. They will borrow sixpence 

 from you without shame ; and if they have fifty 

 thousand pounds, they will come and cast the 

 money into your lap and say, "There, dear ; pay 

 off the nasty mortgages, and then take me out for 

 a walk." They only want to be taken out for a 

 walk to look at the l)onnet shops. If there be 

 cash about, they will have a bonnet — the best that 

 money can buy. If the funds be at low water, 

 they will "take it out of the bonnets" by looking 

 at them. I have known a "nice woman" who had 

 not the slightest hesitation in eating partridges at 

 twelve-and-sixpence a brace, but who was per- 

 fectly content to dine on a basin of water gruel— 

 so long as you took her out for a walk. Y<ju must 

 take her out for a walk. The nice woman forgives 

 everything but neglect. Pay her attention, and 

 she will forgive, forgive, fortjivc fof ever and ever. 

 Neglect or scorn her, or (U'cliiie to admire the new 

 collar and cuffs she has bought for onc-and-eleven- 

 pence-halfpenny in Newington Causeway, and she 

 will hate you worse than Mrs. Potiphar hated Jo- 

 seph. What is the usual complaint of an ill-used 

 woman against a man .' It is not "He beats me ;" 

 "he swears at me;" "he has spent all my money." 

 It is "he doesn't care for me." The woman likes 

 to be poor. She likes to beg. She likes to have 

 nothing, and that everything should come from 

 you. She would nibble the bread out of your 

 mouth if you would let her. She triumphs in "car- 

 nejnng" you out of a five-pound note. I do verily 

 lielieve that she will cheat you a little if she has a 

 chance. If you are wealthy and generous, you 

 may cover her with all the gems Mr. Hancock has 

 to sell. You may pour on, and she will endure. 

 But fall you into poverty — be you proscribed, be 

 unhappy, be distressed, and away go the diamonds 

 and the cashmeres to mine uncle — away go vanity 

 and caprice ; and you liav(kby your side a patient 

 little soul in a cotton print, who will wash and 

 mangle and iron and starch — who will peel pota- 

 toes and broil red herrings — who v/ill stitch her 

 fingers to the bone in the making of soldiers' jack- 

 ets to buy your bread. I believe that Zenobia, 

 Queen of Palmyra, would do this ; and "Nancy," 

 the burglar's sweetheart in Oliver Twist, could do 

 no more. It is the nature of womankind. There 

 are exceptions to the rule ; but the exceptions are 

 scarcely women. — Belyravia for October. 



Favorite Days for Marriage. — The latest re- 

 ports of the Registrars-General of England and 

 Scotland show "that no two nations could differ 

 more widely than do tlie English and the Scotch 

 with regard to the choice of days of the week for 

 marriage. The Scottish report states that the fa- 

 vorite day for marriage in Scotlund is the last day 

 of the year, provided it does not fall on Saturday 

 or a Sunday. No marriages are celebrated on 

 Sunday in Scotland, while in England it is the 

 favorite day of the week for marriage, thirty-two 

 per cent, of the marriages being contracted on 

 that day. Monday is a favorite day in both coun- 

 tries. Saturday, in England, is the third day of 



