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Fill a large pudding dish with berries which 
have been carefully looked over. Add a 
cupful of granulated sugar, and a gill of 
water, then sprinkle flour over the top. 
Cover with a thin, delicate crust and bake 
one hour. 
There are numerous methods of preserv- 
ing blackberries, the simplest being to can 
them, using a quarter of a pound of sugar 
to a pound of fruit. They preserve their 
shape and appearance best when cooked in 
the cans, the syrup being made separately 
and poured into the cans just before they 
are ready to take up. 
Spiced blackberries are appetizing with 
meat. With nine pounds of berries, use 
three of sugar, one pint vinegar, one table- 
spoonful cinnamon and one of cloves. Cook 
half an hour. 
A blackberry cordial which will keep 
sweet without brandy or wine is made in 
this way: Simmer the berries until they 
break. Strain, and to each pint of juice 
add a pound of white sugar, one-half ounce 
cinnamon, one-fourth ounce mace, two 
teaspoonfuls extract of cloves. Boil twenty 
minutes, and do not bottle until cool. 
For blackberry wine, measure the berries 
and bruise them. To every gallon, add one 
quart of boiling water. Let the mixture 
stand twenty-four hours, stirring occasion- 
ally. Then strain off the liquor and add 
two pounds of sugar. Bottle and cork; let 
it stand six weeks, then strain and bottle 
once more. 
Cracked Ice. 
While ice water is very injurious to the 
system so that its use is condemned by a’l 
the best physicians, the effect of cracked 
ice is entirely different. When small pieces 
of ice are taken in the mouth and allowed 
to melt gradually, there is no flooding of 
the stomach with water so cold as to lower 
V the temperature and check digestion, but 
simply a gentle stimulus to the nerves of 
the mouth and the cooling of the throat and 
whole system. 
The value of cracked ice in illness is be- 
coming more fully recognize! all the time. 
In some cases of cholera, the patient has 
been allowed to take nothing but bits of ice 
for many hours. It is worth remembering 
that ice covered with several thicknesses of 
paper and kept out of a draught will melt 
very slowly. A dish of broken ice covered 
with paper and placed under a feather pil- 
low will last all night. 
Fashion Clipping's. 
My lady’s maid rustles importantly in 
starched, rattling skirts, but my maid’s lady 
walks with noiseless, graceful tread, for she 
is no longer clothed in linen, but in silk from 
her throat to her toes. Many women who 
have in past times longed for the luxury 
* of silken underwear can now revel in them, 
for good strong surahs and washing silks, 
but especially surahs, white or tinted, can 
now be purchased at incredibly low prices, 
and they are so easily cleaned and fresh- 
ened, that the price for the “doing up,” 
that was asked for the old style skirts, be- 
flounced and bedecked with lace frills, 
bands, points, and insertions, is saved over 
and over again by the adoption of surah 
garments in their place. There are few toil- 
ets that do not look and hang infinitely 
better over silk skirts, and the present 
sheatlily style of dress really demands them. 
Of course there is a sense of neatness and 
freshness about fine linen and muslin gar- 
ments, and in their place they have no riv- 
als, but for certain uses silk is supreme. 
The fancy for buttons with odd devices is 
revived for very elegant gowns, especially 
those with Louis XIV. coats and vests. And 
these vary from those of cut metal to styles 
as costly as real gems. Some are exceed- 
ingly handsome, in sets both large and 
small, made of gold, silver, or bronze, and 
tinted in rich colorings of vines in rebef , or 
set with half-precious jewels. There are 
many attractive buttons in faceted silver, 
mother-o’-pearl, hammered gold, chased 
copper, and onyx with solid gold carvings, 
showing heads of Hector, Leander, Atalanta, 
Priam, Hero, etc., in cameo, moonstone, 
agate, and vari-colored enamels. 
A dress braided at home is an inexpensive 
one, as beautiful designs bought at the fur- 
nishing stores and fancy dry-goods houses 
are easily transferred to the gown or jack- 
et. Braid by the dozen pieces is not an ex- 
pensive purchase, and the gown, when 
neatly finished, pays doubly for the time 
and money expended upon it. A braided 
costume from the modiste or importer is 
quite another matter, as its price is always 
excessive. 
Regarding dress skirts, they are still cling- 
ing, but they do not all wrap the figure 
without fold or pleat. One model very 
much liked has a plain front, with side 
breadths lapping each other, or they are 
made like long, straight panels, separately 
lined, and trimmed. with velvet ribbon, pas- 
sementerie, or galloon, and then adjusted 
to the figure over its plain foundation. A 
fan-back finishes this skirt. Slightly gored 
and bell-shaped skirts are considerably wid- 
ened in new gowns. Flounces are greatly 
used, both in lace and made of the dress 
fabric. The seamless skirt, with straight 
front and bias back, is the fashionable one 
for light wool dresses, and the width of the 
wool goods forms the length of the skirt 
from belt to hem. The sheath foundation 
is fitted and belted to the form, then the 
goods for the outside are curved a little, 
and closely fitted to the wearer by six short 
darts, taken one each side of the immediate 
front and two beyond; the one near the 
hips being longest and deepest, the greatest 
length of the goods is carried to the back 
and there joined in the only real long seam 
in the skirt, and this seam is covered by 
fan-folds of the material, which are pressed 
or taped to cover it. Some of the new 
French skirts are gored in the old-fashioned 
way, with a gored front breadth and two 
narrow side gores. 
Concerning Women. 
Chicago employs five women at a salary 
per year of $1 ,000 each as health inspectors. 
They are endowed with police authority to 
enforce their orders. Their work is to in- 
spect the sanitary condition of places where 
women and children are employed. 
Miss Irene W. Coit, daughter of ex-Con- 
gressman J. B. Coit of Norwich, passed the 
entrance examination to the Academical 
Department of Yale, and has received a 
certificate to that effect. But women are 
admitted only to the art department of 
Yale, and there is no expectation of her ad- 
mission to the academic department. She 
tried for the examination merely for the 
honor there is in it. 
A number of well-known women are en- 
deavoring to interest capitalists in the 
building of an apartment-house hotel for 
gentlewomen of modest means who are 
now obliged to live in the dreary hall bed- 
rooms of boarding houses. For teachers 
without families and for the hundreds of 
bright young women who are now yearly 
coming to New York for educational ad- 
vantages of some kind, and for thousands 
of other women these rooms are the nearest 
approach to a home to be had. 
In London there is to be an association of 
women who will make it their business to 
care for conservatories, balconies, window- 
boxes and small gardens. Persons who 
have potted plants can take them to the 
headquarters of this association, and they 
will be cared for during the owner’s ab- 
sence from town. 
Helen P. Clark, an Indian girl at Carlisle, 
Pa., a teacher in the Indian school, has 
been appointed special allotment agent by 
the United States government. She will 
superintend the allotment of lands to In- 
dians in Montana. 
It is said that within the last six months 
one hundred and fifty young women have 
taken up timber claims in the State of 
Washington. 
There are altogether 484 lady exhibitors 
at the Paris Salon. Of these 165 paint in 
oils, 190 are sculptors, 77 designers in pen- 
cils and pastels, and 52 engravers. 
