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complexion, impairs its freshness. Red is objec¬ 
tionable, unless it be sufficiently dark to whiten 
the face by contrast of tone. Orange makes light 
complexions blue, yellow ones green, and whitens 
the brunette. White, if without lustre, has a pleas¬ 
ant effect with light complexions ; but dark or bad 
complexions are made worse by its strong contrast. 
Fluted laces are not liable to this objection, for 
they reflect the light in such a way as to produce 
the same effect as gray. Blaekadjacent to the coun- 
tanance makes it lighter.” 
More About Bread- 
Molly Greenfield writes to the American Agricul¬ 
turist. Many farmers wives make milk or salt-ris¬ 
ing bread, and if well made it is excellent; but it 
is not always as convenient to make in summer as 
hop-yeast bread. Hop-yeast may be kept some 
time in a cool cellar, and is very handy for biscuit, 
rolls, ealce, and rusk as well as for bread. One is 
not obliged to keep a fire half a day for the “emp¬ 
tyings” to rise, with the risk of failure from care¬ 
lessness, in allowing them to become too cool, or 
scalded. Here is a recipe for yeast which is good,, 
something nearly like which I found in an agricul¬ 
tural paper a good while ago. Steep a handful of 
hops in a large basin of water, mix with the hop 
water three or four good sized potatoes boiled and 
mashed; also a tablespoonful of flour, half a table- 
spoonful of salt, and half a teacup of sugar. When 
cool, add a cup of brewer’s yeast. Domestic yeast 
and molasses may be used instead of brewer’s 
yeast and sugar. If you wish moist bread, pour 
boiliug water on half or more of your flour, when 
you spouge your bread. But about Graham bread- 
do you ever make that ? If well made it is truly 
excellent and wholesome. Here are two good ways 
of preparing it. 1. Mix wheat meal with sweet 
milk, roll about % of an inch thick, and bake in a 
quick oven. 2. Mix the meal witliTieh buttermilk 
or thin sour cream, use soda and salt, drop on but¬ 
tered tins in small cakes and bake quickly. 
Hints on Cooking, etc. 
Marble Calcc.— Contributed to the Ameri¬ 
can Agriculturist , by Charles E. McFadden, Rutland 
Co., Vt. For the white part, mix 1 cup of butter, 
3 of white sugar, 1 of sweet milk, 5 of flour, 34 
teaspoonful soda, 1 of cream of tartar, whites of 
8 eggs, and flavor with lemon extract. For the 
colored part, take 1 cup of butter, 3 of brown su¬ 
gar, 1 of molasses, 1 of sweet milk, 4 of flour, 1 
teaspoon fill soda, and 2 of cream of tartar, the 
yolks of S eggs, and 1 whole egg; season with cin¬ 
namon, nutmeg and cloves: this alone makes a 
good spice cake. To make the marble cake, first 
put in a pan a layer of the spice cake, then of the 
white, and so oil until the loaf is complete, finish¬ 
ing with the spice cake. The above quantity will 
make two loaves in six-quart pans. 
Pop Corn Pudding. —This dish, the in¬ 
vention of which is attributed to Solon Robinson, is 
highly commended by him for good flavor, hcalth- 
fulness, and -facility of making. Crush popped 
corn with a rolling pin on a table, and then grind 
it into coarse meal in a common coffee mill: or in 
a mill of large size, it may be ground at once, with¬ 
out rolling. One pint of corn will make about six¬ 
teen pints when popped, and this will measure 
about eight pints when ground. To make the 
puddiug; mix five pints of the meal with four pints 
of sweet milk, place it where it will warm slightly, 
and let it soak an hour or two. Then let it cool, 
and add two eggs, sugar, raisins, and spice as for a 
rice pudding. Set it on a hot stove and boil a few 
minutes, stirring it several times to get the meal 
well mixed with the milk. Then bake it about an 
hour, and serve while hot. 
To Coolc Cubtoag’c.— Cut fine, add very 
little water, cover closely and cook until tender. 
Slowly drain it through a colander, season with 
salt and pepper to your taste, and mix with it thor¬ 
oughly a table-spoonful of good sweet butter. 
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Thoughts lor Mot Weather. 
“ Keep cool,” is no doubt very good advice at all times, 
particularly when the thermometer marks 100° and up¬ 
ward in the shade, as it has here this summer; but 
how can it be done? It has been amusing to the writer, 
to notice the different plans men have tried for this pur¬ 
pose. One sits by an open window, where the hot blast 
comes from the dusty street, fanning himself furiously, 
fuming and fretting at the heat, and making himself 
still more uncomfortable byoften looking at the ther¬ 
mometer. Another one is trying the experiment of fight¬ 
ing fire with fire, by drinking punch and juleps, to heat 
his blood and thus keep cool! But right across the way 
here sits a man who does not appear to know what the 
weather is. He is so busy with his writing that he thinks 
of nothing else, and so the heat makes little impression 
on him. He.knows the secret of keeping cool—to think 
about something else. This rule will apply under all 
circumstances calculated to excite a man and make him . 
uncomfortable. It is related of a sportsman that for 
years he was unable to shoot a bird because of his ner¬ 
vous haste when he discovered any game. At last a 
friend told him, to always stop and take a pinch of snuff 
before firing, and by thus “ thinking of something else,” 
for a moment, he became cool, and seldom missed a shot. 
The mind should be master of the body, and it may be¬ 
come almost absolute in its control, by proper training. 
A sea captain was lying sick in his berth, apparently 
dying. Word was brought to him that the sailors had 
mutinied. He instantly arose, seized his pistols, and with 
the assistance of his officers quelled the mutiny, and 
afterward recovered his health. His intense determina¬ 
tion appeared to break the force of the disease, and, he 
was thus cured by having somching else to think of so 
strongly, as to fix his Whole attention, and to command 
the vital forces of his body.-Would it not be an excel¬ 
lent arrangement, if by some means we could save some 
of the excessive heat of summer, to use in winter? A 
story is told of a simple minded farmer, who used to 
open his barn doors wide every hot day, to gather sun¬ 
shine for cold weather, and you may smile at his folly. 
But a perfect plan has been arranged by the Creator for 
doing this very thing. The food we eat, the clothing we 
wear, and the fuel by which we are warmed in winter, 
all come from the influence of sunshine; and it is a re¬ 
markable fact that every stick of wood or other combus¬ 
tible will give out in burning, just as much heat as was 
required to produce it. The trees, and plants are all 
storing up sunshine to give it out again in some form for ; 
the use of man. The amount of strength derived from a 
pound of corn eaten as food, is just equal to the force 
which the heat required to produce it would give out. 
Thus, if that heat would make r.team enough to raise a 
hundred pounds to a certain bight, then the man who eats 
and digests the corn will have just that amount of power 
added to his: body. It ought to reconcile us to hot weath¬ 
er to remember that it is really i he harvest time of pow¬ 
er, in which the earth is gathering, and storing up a plen¬ 
tiful supply of future life and vigor for all creatures. 
The Hoys of New-1’ orlc City.III. 
“ To go to New-York and get a place in a store ” is the 
highest ambition of thousands of boys in the country. 
They envy the lot of the smartly dressed clerks who oc¬ 
casionally visit their neighborhood, who seem to lead 
such an easy life, and have plenty of money to spend. 
Surely it must be better to stand behind a counter in a 
pleasant store, and handle dry poods, and admire and be 
admired by the ladies, and make money fast, without 
hard work, than to dig away on the farm, through sun¬ 
shine and storm, from early till late, day after day. It is 
not at all strange that some boys should think thus, for, 
to do them justice, they have too much reason for it. 
Many of them are overworked. They have little or no 
time for the sports which all boys love, and life on the 
farm seems to promise only hard work and poor pay. 
But there are as many and perhaps more boys overwork¬ 
ed and underpaid-in the city. The younger clerks in re¬ 
tail stores have to be on hand early and late, usually un¬ 
til ten o’clock at night, to run of errands, often until 
scarcely able to walk, and worse than all, to be ordered 
about, and often abused by the clerks next above them, 
who too frequently delight in using their authority to 
the utmost. So many persons living here wish to have 
their sons learn business, that they are willing to have 
them enter stores almost without pay, so that for years, 
thousands work for less than their board would cost; 
thus a boy from the country has a poor prospect of secur¬ 
ing any but a very hard situation, where no thoughtful 
parent would be willing to place his son. Our young 
friends.should also bear in mind what has been repeated¬ 
ly said in these columns, that the truest wealth a person 
can get is w,hat he can add to his own powers. Clerk* 
confined to their stores are apt to grow up like plants in 
the shade, with soft muscles, effeminate manners, weak 
wills, and frivolous minds. Their occupation also tena* 
to make them selfish and not over honest; it is considered 
praiseworthy among them to be sharp at a bargain, 
which too often means to take every possible advantage 
in trade. Young men may overcome all these disadvan¬ 
tages ; a few of them do, and grow up noble and worthy 
of all respect; but the tendency of business life as it ex¬ 
ists in the city, is to belittle a man. This is too great a 
price to pay for any amount of money. Far better stick 
to the farm, work out strong muscles and a stronger will, 
an open, generous, noble nature, and a large manhood. 
Mabits ol' the 9.ion. 
Gerard the lion tamer makes the following interesting 
statement of some of the peculiarities of the so-called 
king of beasts: “ The lion treats a man very differently 
from any animal that he is accustomed to kill for food. 
If he kills a person who has fired at him, he never eats 
the body. If he meets, in his nightly promenade, a man 
well clothed in burnos, (a sort of cloak worn by Arabs,) 
his experience shows him that he is not a marauder, and 
he may either kill him for food, or, if the fancy happens 
to take him, he will kill him by fear, little by little, just 
as a pastime. In the first case, he will give him barely 
time to say his prayers, and then bounding on htm, will 
crush his head with a single bite, instead of strangling 
him, as he is accustomed to do with other animals. In 
the»second case, he sometimes will bar the passage of 
the unfortunate fellow by lying down before him, and 
then he will walk along by his side, purring and showing 
his teeth like a tiger. Sometimes he makes believe go 
away and leave him, and then making a long detour he 
will conceal himself along the path, and charge at him 
with a roar. Sometimes he crouches down like a cat 
and bounds on his victim, who gives himself up for lost, 
but the tantalizer only knocks him oyer with his paw, 
or, walking around him, strikes him in the face a Dlow 
like a flail with his muscular tail. At last, the victim suc¬ 
cumbs to the agony that is greater than a thousand 
deaths, and dies of fear. These pastimes of the lion, 
that, as one can well imagine, have never been told by 
the victim himself, are reported by his comrades, who, 
having sought safety by flight, by taking refuge on rocks 
or trees, while the poor soul that was captured, too 
much frightened to imitate their example, died before 
their eyes, of terror, while they-could do nothing for his 
relief but pray to the prophet, though without an answer. 
New Puzzles to I>e Answered. 
No. 93. Illustrated Rebus .—Worthy to be remembered 
No. 94. Geographical Question, by Erastus Murphy 
The name of a President of the United States has been 
given to towns in 23 States, and to counties in 20 States , 
what is the name, and which are the States 
No. 05. Illustrated Proverb .—Of frequent occurrence. 
Answers to Problems and Puzzles. 
The following are answers to the puzzles in the July 
number, page 215. No. 90. Pictorial Proverb.—Of two 
evils choose the least. No. 91. Double Acrostics. —1st 
Principal Words, Jacob’s Ladder: 1, Jackal ; 2, Alex¬ 
andria; 3, Contraband; 4, Oppressed ; 5. Battle ; 6, Sur 
render. 2d: Principal Woids. Chase, Banks: I, Club 
2, Hepatica; 3, Afghan; 4, Shirk; 5, Editors. No. 92. 
Illustrated Rebus .— W hen ewes peak two ape r sun look 
him in the face ; or, When you speak to a person look 
him in the face. 
The following have sent correct answers up to Julv 5 
Ed. Pillis, 92, Maggie A. Grigg, 92; W. K. P„ and R. 
W. S., 92 ; D. Gibbony Cutner, 92 ; “ Lyue,” 92 ; James 
B. Zahn, 92; II. II. SVyker, 92; E. P. lUtniet, 94 
