April, 1880. 
91 
ORCHARD 
Work three eyelet holes at the top and 
two at the bottom, one in each corner. Put 
tacks through these and fasten to the inside 
of the china closet door, or other convenient 
place. 
If your house is large, have one of these 
“Comforts" or every floor and insist on 
having all strings, wrapping papers and 
paper bags preserved in them. Then no 
one in your house need ever lose a street 
car or train because so much time was spent 
searching for string and paper with which 
to wrap up a little package. After a year's 
use of these “Comforts” you will wonder 
how you ever kept house without them. 
The manner of putting together and 
and appearance when finished may be 
readily seen by studying the accompanying 
cut. 
Calendars. 
At the present time, so many calendars 
are given away for advertising purpose that 
several find their way into almost every 
household. 
Some of them are pretty enough to hang 
on our walls just as they are: but others are 
ugly, and still more are such glaring adver- 
tisements that they offend our taste in sit- 
ting-room or library. 
After we have “read, marked and inwardly 
digested” the advertisement, that is suffici- 
ent. We shall remember the name of the 
firm that sent it and are now at liberty to 
use it as we please. 
A pretty arangement for one’s own room 
is to cover the space above the figures with 
the cabinet photograph of a friend. 
A larger calendar, for library or dining- 
room, may be graced in the same way with 
a striking portrait from one of the maga- 
zines: Stanley, the work-house boy who 
has grown to be the one man in whose fate 
the whole world is interested; or Gordon, 
whose brave life will always be an inspira- 
tion. Where the figures are clear and the 
paper white, a very pretty effect may be 
obtained by mounting on a dark blue or red 
cardboard. 
With a little taste, it will be easy for any 
one to provide, without expense, a pretty 
calendar for every room in the house. 
Alter House-Cleaning. 
When the house is restored to order after 
the annual spring house-cleaning, it should 
not only look thoroughly cleansed and 
freshened, but some changes and additions 
should always be visible. 
It is a good plan to completely alter the 
arrangement of a room, as we tire of seeing 
the same things always in the same place. 
Novelty and variety are obtained in this 
way, and often times an article of furniture 
which never looked well in one place will 
appear quite pretty in a more appiopriate 
position. 
This is especially true of pictures, for as 
all cannot have an equally good light, it is 
only fair that each one should some'time be 
well-hung. 
If money be lacking for new furniture, 
there are many convenient things which 
may be fashioned without much trouble or 
expense and which often add as much to 
the attractivenesss and comfort of a house 
as more costly articles. 
We give descriptions of some simple 
pretty arrangements of this kind. — M. C. 
Rankin. 
Seasonable Kecipes. 
Shad roes make good croquettes; par- 
boil a pair by dropping in a saucepan of 
boiling water, slightly salted, and let them 
simmer slowly for fifteen minutes. Then 
remove the skin and mash them. Put on 
to boil half a pint of cream; rub together 
one tablespoonful of butter and two of flour, 
and add to the boiling cream, stirring con- 
stantly until very thick, then add the yolk 
of two beaten eggs; take from the fire and 
season with salt, black and Cayenne pepper 
and a tablespoonful of chopped parsley. 
Mix well with the roes, and cool. When 
cold form in croquettes, dip in beaten 
egg and bread crumbs and fry in boiling 
lard. Pour around them a sauce made of 
ordinary drawn butter or water thickened 
with a tablespoonful of butter and two of 
flour rubbed together, and when made add 
gradually the yolk of two beaten eggs, the 
juce of half a lemon, a teaspoonful of oni >n 
juice, and a tablespoonful of chopped 
parsley. 
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