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What  Open  Eyes  See. 
Cocoa  Cream, — Beat  to  a  stiff  froth 
one  pint  of  sweet  cream  ;  add  to  it  three 
teaspoonfuls  of  Epp’s  cocoa,  and  enough 
granulated  sugar  to  sweeten.  Eat  with 
cake  as  a  light  dessert.  Sponge  cake  is 
best  for  this  purpose. 
Rice  Toast  with  Poached  Egg. — 
This  is  a  novel  combination  from  one  of 
Food’s  breakfast  menus:  Boil  the  rice 
the  night  before  it  is  to  be  used  ;  put  it 
into  a  bread-loaf  pan  and  keep  on  ice  ; 
the  next  morning  cut  it  in  slices,  brush 
a  little  melted  butter  over  the  broiler  and 
broil  or,  rather,  toast  before  the  fire. 
When  done,  butter  the  slices,  place  on 
each  a  poached  egg  ;  spot  the  top  of  the 
egg  with  a  little  black  pepper,  and  serve. 
A  Handsome  Salad. — Boil  beets  and 
carrots  and  chop  them  fine  separately  ; 
also  chop  some  raw  cabbage  fine.  Ar¬ 
range  these  in  rings  in  a  shallow  dish, 
beets  in  the  middle,  then  a  ring  of  cab¬ 
bage,  with  carrots  for  the  outside. 
Sprinkle  a  little  salt  and  pepper  over  the 
whole,  and  then  pour  over  the  whole 
sufficient  vinegar  to  give  the  desired  acid 
taste.  These  ingredients  may  also  be  all 
mixed  together  instead  of  arranged  in 
rings.  H.  M.  w. 
Cocoa  Cream  Cake. — Beat  one  small 
cupful  of  sugar  and  one  tablespoonful  of 
butter  well  together.  Add  one  egg  if 
you  have  it,  one  cupful  of  sweet  milk, 
and  flour  to  make  a  stiff  batter.  Last  of 
all,  stir  into  the  batter  two  teaspoonfuls 
of  baking  powder.  Bake  in  three  tins. 
Use  for  a  filling  the  cocoa  cream  men¬ 
tioned  above.  This  is  a  delicious  cake 
and  within  the  reach  of  every  farmer’s 
wife.  It  is  very  good  without  an  egg 
and  also  answers  for  jelly,  or  any  layer 
cake.  m.  h.  m. 
Some  Christmas  Remembrances. 
— The  first  to  come  was  a  lamp  shade. 
It  was  of  yellow  China  silk,  shirred 
around  the  top  and  drawn  into  place  with 
baby-ribbon  of  the  same  color.  The 
shade  was  hem-stitched  about  an  inch 
from  the  edge  and  finished  off  with  a 
silk  fringe  about  two  inches  wide.  An¬ 
other  friend  sent  a  panel  photograph  of 
the  poet  Whittier  accompanied  by  a  large 
cream-laid  card  with  gilt  edges,  on  which 
she  had  copied  in  her  very  best  hand 
Lowell's  beautiful  tribute  to  his  Quaker 
friend.  I  keep  the  photograph  on  a  small 
easel  and  the  poem  always  rests  beside 
it.  Other  friends  have  been  very  glad  to 
see  this  of  late.  l.  c. 
Why  Don’t  We  Walk?  — Only  the 
poor  women  of  our  neighborhood  walk, 
and  they  do  so  because  they  must ;  and 
they  often  seem  younger  for  their  ages 
than  many  well-to-do  farmers’  wives  who 
have  less  hard  work,  and  grow  stout  and 
weakly.  When  they  were  school  girls,  a 
walk  of  three  or  four  miles  was  a  small 
thing.  Now  they  can  do  a  washing  for 
six  or  stand  over  an  ironing  board  a 
whole  forenoon,  but  a  mile  walk  makes 
them  sick.  It’s  all  in  practice.  Try  a 
walk  for  a  spell  of  indigestion  ;  it  will 
help  you— the  doctor  says  so.  Many  a 
headache  that  a  nap  cannot  relieve  can 
be  walked  off.  And  who  can  have  the 
blues  while  walking  on  green  grass  or 
sweet  clover  ;  while  picking  a  flower  or 
listening  to  a  bird’s  song  ?  r.  m. 
A  Table  Decoration. — An  effective, 
cheap  and  easily  carried  out  table  deco¬ 
ration  is  of  Chinese  primroses  or  primulas. 
Every  year  we  send  for  $1  worth  of  these 
beautiful  plants,  but  keep  the  old  ones 
till  after  the  first  winter  of  the  new. 
The  table  is  oblong  and  supposed  to  hold 
16.  In  the  center  of  the  white  cloth  I 
place  a  large  white  table  napkin  doubled  ; 
then  I  choose  out  of  my  dollar’s  worth, 
four  prettiest  white  and  four  prettiest 
pink  primulas,  and  place  them,  still  grow¬ 
ing  in  their  pots,  on  the  table  napkin ; 
pink,  white,  pink,  white,  four  long  and 
two  wide.  Three  small  table  napkins, 
doubled  and  pinned  to  each  other,  serve 
to  go  round  the  eight  pots  (not  each  in¬ 
dividual  pot).  No  one  can  see  the  pots 
and  the  drooping  leaves  touch  the  table¬ 
cloth.  All  the  guests  think  I  have  offered 
up  all  my  primula  blossoms,  and  most  of 
the  leaves,  on  the  altar  of  friendship, 
until  I  explain  that  they  are  still  on  their 
When  Baby  waB  sick,  we  gave  her  Castorla, 
When  she  was  a  Child,  she  cried  for  Castorla, 
When  she  became  Miss,  she  clung  to  Castorla, 
When  she  had  Children,  she  gave  them  Castorla 
own  roots,  and  will  be  things  of  beauty 
for  a  good  many  more  months.  The 
effect  is  heightened  if  .sprays  of  wander¬ 
ing  Jew  are  twined  around  the  pinned  on 
table  napkins.  g.  a.  h. 
Virginia  Women  Awake. — In  Nor¬ 
folk,  Va. ,  the  Oldfield  brick  factory  is 
carried  on  in  the  name  of  the  widow  of 
the  former  owner  ;  ex-Mayor  McCordy 
left  his  coal  yard  in  the  hands  of  his 
daughter,  Mrs.  Fannie  Mathews;  Mrs. 
Hofflin  will  carry  on  her  husband’s  busi¬ 
ness  ;  a  yeast  factory  is  owned  and  man¬ 
aged  by  a  lady.  These  are  recent  changes; 
so,  slowly,  we  find  the  conservative  South 
with  women  coming  to  the  front.  Girls 
as  book-keepers  are  numerous  where, 
some  years  ago,  they  would  have  been 
curiosities.  In  Richmond  an  ice  concern 
is  carried  on  by  a  woman.  Virginia  now 
has  ready  for  women  a  college  the  equal 
of  the  male  colleges,  and  the  girls  are 
ready  for  it.  p.  y.  m. 
Precedence  and  Kindly  Speech. 
— Says  Good  Housekeeping  on  one  or  two 
points  of  etiquette :  Always  give  pre¬ 
cedence  to  elders,  visitors  and  superiors. 
Offer  them  the  best  seat  at  the  table,  the 
best  place  by  the  fire  and  the  first  of 
everything.  Go  further  than  mere  form 
and  see  that  they  are  comfortable  and 
happy.  One  of  the  best  rules  in  conver¬ 
sation  is,  never  to  say  a  thing  which  any 
of  the  company  can  reasonably  wish  we 
had  left  unsaid  ;  nor  can  there  be  any¬ 
thing  more  contrary  to  the  ends  for  which 
people  meet  together,  than  to  part  un¬ 
satisfied  with  each  other  or  themselves. 
Food’s  Cooking  Club. — “Who  has 
something  about  meat? ’’Mabel  asked. 
“I  have,”  Dorothy  answered.  “It  is 
spiced  beef.  I  boiled  a  shank  of  beef 
until  it  was  very  tender;  then  I  drained  off 
all  the  liquor  ;  and  when  it  was  cold  I 
skimmed  off  all  the  fat,  chopped  the 
meat  fine  while  warm,  and  seasoned  it 
with  sage,  salt,  pepper  and  a  little  mus¬ 
tard.  After  that  I  put  it  into  the  kettle 
again  with  a  little  of  the  liquor,  just 
enough  to  mix,  and  boiled  it  five  min¬ 
utes.  It  was  then  put  into  an  earthen 
dish.  When  cold  it  was  cut  in  thin  slices.” 
“  Well,  that  sounds  rather  good,”  Kate 
said,  “  for  a  cold  dish.”  “  But  it  may  be 
eaten  hot.  To  warm  it,  roll  the  slices 
in  flour  or  granulated  meal  and  place 
them  in  a  hot,  buttered  frying-pan.” 
More  Experience.— Asa  sort  of  sup¬ 
plement  to  “  My  Experience,”  I  would 
like  to  say  that  I  have  always  found  the 
more  one  can  simplify  a  process  in  doing 
any  work  the  more  satisfactory  will  be 
the  result.  I  know  there  is  no  “  royal 
road”  to  excellence  ;  but  any  road  may 
be  smoothed  and  straightened  so  as  to 
make  a  journey  over  it  comparatively 
easy.  As  to  newness,  does  not  every¬ 
body  know  that  “there  is  nothing  new 
under  the  sun?”  Dr.  Drummond  says  : 
“No  matter  what  work  or  other  achieve¬ 
ments  you  engage  in,  you  will  find  others 
there  before  you  doing  the  same  and 
probably  doing  it  better  than  you  can  do 
it.”  If  this  is  so,  and  it  must  be,  all  any 
one  can  hope  for  is  to  teach  and  benefit 
those  who  cannot  do  the  work  as  well. 
There  are  so  many  burden  bearers  that  it 
is  no  mean  achievement  to  be  able  to 
teach  some  of  them  where  to  place  the 
yoke  on  the  galled  shoulders,  mrs  peters. 
From  Whom  all  Blessings  Flow. 
— Almost  every  nature,  however  spright¬ 
ly,  sometimes  will  drop  into  a  minor 
key  or  a  subdued  mood  that,  in  com¬ 
mon  parlance,  is  recognized  as  ‘  the 
blues,’  ”  says  Dr.  Talmage  in  the  La¬ 
dies’  Home  Journal.  “  There  may  be 
no  adverse  causes  at  work,  but  somehow 
the  bells  of  the  soul  stop  ringing,  and 
you  feel  like  sitting  quiet,  and  you  strike 
off  50  per  cent  from  all  your  worldly  and 
spiritual  prospects.  In  such  a  depressed 
state  no  one  can  afford  to  sit  for  an  hour. 
First  of  all,  my  sister,  fresh  air,  and  the 
faces  of  cheerful  men,  and  pleasant 
women,  and  frolicsome  children,  will,  in 
15  minutes,  kill  moping.  The  first  mo¬ 
ment  your  friend  strikes  the  key-board  of 
your  soul  it  will  ring  music.  A  hen 
might  as  well  try  on  populous  Broadway 
to  hatch  out  a  feathery  group  as  for  a 
man  to  successfully  brood  over  his  ills  in 
lively  society.  Do  not  go  for  relief  among 
those  who  feel  as  bad  as  you  do.  Let 
not  toothache,  and  rheumatism  and  ma¬ 
laria  go  to  see  toothache,  rheumatism 
and  malaria.  On  one  block  in  Brooklyn 
live  a  doctor,  an  undertaker  and  a  clergy¬ 
man.  rlhat  is  not  the  row  for  a  nervous 
man  to  walk  on,  lest  he  soon  need  all 
three.  Throw  back  all  the  shutters  of 
your  soul,  and  let  the  sunlight  of  genial 
faces  shine  in.  Besides  that,  why  should 
any  woman  sit  with  the  blues?  Shone 
upon  by  such  stars,  breathed  on  by  such 
air,  and  sung  to  by  so  many  pleasant 
sounds,  you  ought  not  to  be  seen  moping. 
Especially  if  light  from  the  better  world 
strikes  its  aurora  through  your  night-sky 
ought  you  be  cheerful.  You  can  afford 
to  have  a  rough  luncheon  by  the  way  if 
it  is  soon  to  end  amid  the  banqueters  in 
white.  Sailing  toward  such  a  blessed 
port,  let  us  not  have  our  flag  at  half-mast. 
Leave  to  those  who  take  too  much  wine 
*  the  gloomy  raven  tapping  at  the  cham¬ 
ber  door,’  but  as  for  you  and  me  give  us 
the  robin  red-breast  and  the  chaffinch. 
Let  some  one  with  a  strong  voice  give  out 
the  long-meter  doxology,  and  the  whole 
world  sing,  ‘  Praise  God  from  whom  all 
blessings  flow.’  ” 
About  Neuralgia. — There  is  no  dis¬ 
ease  on  earth  so  painful  as  neuralgia. 
Every  nerve  seems  affected,  and  the  per¬ 
son  suffering  from  a  severe  attack  of  this 
dread  disease  would  gladly  hail  death 
as  a  relief  to  his  sufferings.  Persons 
of  a  nervous  temperament  are  the  ones 
most  liable  to  the  disease,  especially 
women.  Persons  subject  to  the  disease 
should  be  very  careful  about  their  dress, 
wearing  flannel  underwear  summer  and 
winter,  and,  in  wet  weather,  heavy  shoes. 
They  should  never  sit  in  a  draft,  should 
bathe  frequently  and  keep  their  bowels 
open.  Quinine  should  be  taken  at 
least  once  a  year  ;  it  is  one  of  the  best 
cures  for  neuralgia,  and  when  all  else 
fails,  sweating  is  a  sure  cure.  Take  bricks, 
heat  them  and  wrap  damp  cloths  around 
them  to  create  steam,  if  you  haven’t  the 
hot-water  bags.  To  sweat  thoroughly 
one  should  have  at  least  four  bricks  or 
hot-water  bags  ;  put  one  at  the  feet,  one 
at  the  back,  one  on  the  chest,  and  one 
nearest  the  seat  of  disease  ;  cover  well 
and  sleep  will  soon  come  m.  h.  m. 
Feeding  the  Baby.  —  I,  like  E.  P. 
McC. ,  am  visiting  at  my  old  home,  with 
my  16-months  boy,  the  first  grandchild. 
From  the  first,  I  fed  him  at  regular  in¬ 
tervals,  beginning  with  two  hours.  Every 
two  or  three  months  I  extended  the  time 
a  half  hour  longer,  until  at  11  months, 
he  took  his  food  at  6  A.  M.,  10  A.  m.,  2  p. 
m.,  6  p.  M.,  and  at  midnight.  When  a 
year  old  he  slept  all  night  without  eating. 
His  food  up  to  the  seventh  month,  was 
milk  only;  then  for  two  months  I  gave 
him  Mellin’s  Food  with  his  milk;  from 
nine  months  until  now,  he  has  been  fed 
on  well-cooked  oatmeal  and  bread  and 
milk.  Mothers  would  often  say  to  me  : 
“  Why  don't  you  give  him  food  from  the 
table  ?  I  give  my  baby  any  thing  she 
wants,  and  see  how  fat  she  is.”  Yes;  but 
I  noticed  these  children  were  always  hav¬ 
ing  the  croup  or  some  bad  bowel  trouble. 
My  baby  now  weighs  22%  pounds,  has 
10  teeth,  runs  everywhere  and  has  always 
been  well  and  hearty.  At  10  months,  he 
had  the  chicken  pox  and  then  the  whoop¬ 
ing  cough,  but  both  lightly.  I  am  posi¬ 
tive  that  his  good  health  and  his  bright, 
sunny  ways  are  largely  due  to  the  way  he 
has  been  fed.  ESTHER. 
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Gray  hair  or  whiskers  changed  to  a  glossy 
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