and arranged to fall between the braids. A , 
few false curia are worn by some. 
Fashionable SnpcrmiiiHlon. 
“Miss Curiosity,” Ionia.—The“ fashion¬ 
able superscription,” is to place the address 
higher up on the envelope than formerly. 
Married ladies are addressed by their own 
names, and not that of their husbands; Airs. 
Margaret Dwight, (-are of Mr. Chester 
Dwight, is proper; but. not Airs. Chester 
Dwight. Thai form of address, although 
so generally employed, is silly, common¬ 
place and stupid. Rembrandt pictures are 
photographs taken with a very dark back¬ 
ground. 
Ci'itioliuc. 
A. C. K.—Crinoline continues small, with | 
apron, or cloth front, and with much full¬ 
ness and “ stand out ” to the hack. Striped 
poplin, or any striped washable goods, not 
all cotton, is suitable for facing a hoop skirt, 
to be worn with dark dresses. It protects 
the skirt from soil, and also prevents the 
hoops catching on pegs, nails, etc. White 
skirts are not, in good taste for winter wear. 
They arc cold, cheap ancl dreary. 
Embroidery Trim minus. 
Seamstress, Galena, 111.—Embroidery is 
very much used for ornamentation on all 
• sorts of garments. An advance has been 
ngteme i nformation 
radish, salt, equal parts of black anu lea 
pepper, cinnamon and cloves. Pack in jars, 
cover with cold, strong vinegar, and in two 
days it is ready for use. This pickle will 
keep a year. 
A Nice Pudding, 
cheap and wholesome, is made as follows: 
Scald one quart of bread crumbs, cover 
closely to retain the steam, and let stand ten 
or fifteen minutes to soak. Wash them 
thoroughly, add one-half teaspoonful of salt, 
soda the size of a large pea dissolved in halt 
pint of sweet milk, and two eggs well beaten. 
For sauce, 
that plan, I immediately discovered that, it 
was a very effective contrivance for throw¬ 
ing the suds upon the person of the operator. 
1 first thought of a lid, like that disk which 
slips down over the handle ol the old-fash• 
ioned churn dash. This suggestion was 
received by my liege lady^ilh a “ Pooh! 
Work away! That i 3 the way I have al¬ 
ways done.” So I continued, thrusting this 
dung-knocker concern in among the clothes, 
withdrawing it for a new stroke, with the 
continual resistance of suction and the en¬ 
tanglement of some shirt-sleeve’ fettering 
every movement. At last., exasperated and 
smarting at the galling tire of an extra vol¬ 
uminous squirt of alkali in the eyes, I re¬ 
solved to risk the scorn of the narrow world 
I live in and, let. what would come, to revo¬ 
lutionize the pounder and turn it the other 
end up. It worked like a charm. The slim 
handle shot into the barrel true to its aim, 
like the finger of scorn hung to a perpendieu- 
Its action upon dirt was magi 
omtstk (kroncrmii 
SCARLET FEVER, 
CONDUCTED BY MARY A. E. WAGER. 
MY WASH-ROOM—A REVOLUTION. 
Eugene Baumann, a most pleasant com¬ 
panion and excellent landscape gardener, 
lately deceased, told me that in the county 
where he was raised washing day comes but. 
once in the year. He was bom, 1 believe, 
somewhere near the seat of the present and 
so many other European wars, so that the 
householders of that country may not he 
thrown out of their usual routine washing 
day. Whether this peculiar custom is one 
of the secret causes of the belligerence in 
that part of the world—whether a frequent 
recurrence of the proverbial ill-tempers of 
washing day is not a vent for the quarrel¬ 
some and pugnacious ill-humors of society, 
I leave to the research of some philosophic 
historian. According to my informant, this 
annual scouring of linen came off in June, 
and was entered into with spirit by the 
whole people, making a joyous public festi¬ 
val or holiday out. of what we consider an 
irksome and disagreeable weekly task. Writ¬ 
ing hut at second hand, I cannot speak fully 
of the merits of the plan. Just how they 
preserve their clothes, imbued with bodily 
Qnil for months, whether bv drv-saltiug or 
because they are largely increased by indi¬ 
vidual carelessness. It has always been a 
source of great mortality, and in the ab¬ 
sence of any means of cheeking its progress, 
such as we possess in vaccination for small¬ 
pox, and by attention to the water supply 
and drainage for cholera and some forms of 
pythogcnic fever, it becomes the more neces¬ 
sary accurately to investigate the means by 
which it. is spread, These may be summed 
up chiefly in a few words :—It is spread by 
personal carelessness, by neglect, and by 
recklessness of individuals as to the public 
safety. 
Scarlet fever is propagated from person to 
person by culpable ignorance and criminal 
neglect. Cleanliness and general sanitary 
regulations are of use in mitigating the 
severity of the disease, but are no bar to its 
Let us take the experience of 
Bake about twenty minutes, 
boil a pint of now milk, and when cold 
sweeten and flavor with cinnamon or nut¬ 
meg.—R ose. 
more easily handled, and wear more evenly, 
by being made in two parts, or halves. 
Being of a size just fitted to the box oi 
French bedstead, they cannot work apart 
When slept upon, thus making the division 
objectionable, which is crosswise and not 
lengthwise. The advantages are at once ob¬ 
vious. 
Recipe for MnUiuir Rusk. 
Take one and a-half pounds hop-rising 
dough; one tablespoon fill white sugar; but¬ 
ter the size or hulk of a walnut; yolk ol 
one hen's egg, well beaten; mix and knead 
well. Let it stand about half an hour, or 
until having risen, then make Into twenty- 
lar motiou. 
cal. No soil or stain could retain its hold 
on the fabric under the tremendous thuds 
of these concentrated blows, which felt the 
bottom of the barrel through the thick¬ 
est wad of cloth. Thero was no splash¬ 
ing of soap-suds under the most rapid and 
forcible movement, and a bulk of clothes 
that before were sufficient for two or three 
batches were pounded out together, saving 
one-half or three-fourths of the labor. The 
lignum-vit® came in play as momentum, 
and this old pounder, like many human con¬ 
trivances, was vi _ 
topsy-turvy 
rig-up a era 
to 1 _ 
of these inexorable pounde 
01 propagation 
r(Kl one London physician during the last week, 
and it will easily explain how scarlet fever 
is now being spread. lie tells us that he 
)1’S, has become cognizant of the following cases 
md during that timeTraveling by rail, he was 
iiir- requested uot to put down the window, as 
lins a little boy in the carriage was not very 
ool well. The boy was on his way home from 
ish, a school where scarlet fever had broken out; 
the and on examining him the eruption was fully 
We evident. A clergyman brought, into his 
this room a lad, not to consult him about the 
:nty lad, blit, inadvertently. He was about to 
gof take him into the country. This lad had 
just recovered from scarlet fever, and was in 
astly improved when turned 
\ Of course, my inventor will 
-rank motion, with a balance-wheel 
work with the foot attached, to a couple 
m I relinquish 
all right and title to the idea, contenting 
myself with the applause of my own domes¬ 
tic circle. I don’t want even one of the new 
machines. °- 
Remarks.— So much from a man! We 
are sorry his modesty withheld his name, j 
but then modesty is always a brake on true 
genius! We believe in pounding barrels, 
and pounders in pantaloons, and feel greatly 
strengthened in our belief, by this humorous 
and manly endorsement from a sensible man. 
But as to yearly or semi-yearly washings, 
thanks to Yankee energy, we are a hundred 
years in advance of our thick-headed Ger¬ 
man sisters over the water. It undoubtedly 
Is easier for the women, but a loe to bodily 
sweetness, as we venture to affirm clean 
clothes are far from being a weekly luxury. 
Wc hope our readers will not fall to appre¬ 
ciate the wash-tub on wheels, and our men 
readers, especially, the beauty and adapta¬ 
tion of their superior strength to the wash¬ 
room 1 
Domestic Inquiries.—MrS* MARTIN USkS 
some one to toll her how to can grapes; also 
how to preserve them.— Another correspondent 
asks for recipes for lemon pic ami lemon custard. 
—A Florida subscriber asks .Julia Colman to 
decribe the Whitney blanket and say where 
they are manufactured, and at what price sold; 
also givo the different ways of cooking oysters. 
the desquamative stage of convalescence, 
shedding about those scales which aro so 
highly infectious, and are enough to poison 
the whole population. His washerwoman 
had scarlet fever in her family; she nscer- 
taiued that it was conveyed by the clothing 
of a scarlet fever patient sent to the wash 
by the friend# without, caution. 
These are all acts of the most culpable 
and dangerous negligence. Scarlet fever is 
one of the most intensely and continuously 
contagious diseases. From the outset of the 
disease till the completion of the subsequent 
of peeling ol’ tbc skin, the patient, 
itnners 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
BY MINTWOOD. 
process 
Ids clothing and discharges, and the light 
scales which are diffused in the atmosphere 
from his peeling surface skin, are pregnant 
with poison. Not only should lie be care¬ 
fully isolated, not ouly should bis clotb'mg, 
and all that comes in contact with him, Vie 
carefully and thoroughly disinfected; not 
only should his body be anointed, as Dr. 
Budd has recommended, with oil, to limit 
the icrtal diffusion of the epidermal scales, 
but the utmost car© should be exercised by 
the persons attending him not to become 
carriers of this virulent and subtle poison. 
To send to the laundress garments fatal as 
those of Dejanira, to expose in a public ear- 
life into the “varmints.” In cold weather, 
not much danger is to be apprehended from 
the wearing of it. 
Tuble Kt i(i net to. 
Mary Arnold writes:—“ Please tell us 
something about table etiquette: how we 
should behave? how ask for what we want? 
how leave the table ? 
BLACK OR WHITE? 
Is it a breach of eti¬ 
quette to ask one seated near us to puss 
dishes when there are servants ? Is it good 
manners to take the last piece on a dish ? 
Is it “outrageous” to lean one’s elbow on 
the table ?” 
Never appear at the table untidy or cross. 
If you fed cross, don’t show it. It is a 
prime Christian duty to enjoy the table in a 
spirit of good humor. It makes the plain¬ 
est meal palatable, ami helps digestion won¬ 
derfully. “How ask for what we want?” 
There are several forms, any one of which 
will do: “ Mr. Smith, may I trouble you to 
hand me the butter?” or “ Mrs. Smith, will 
Hugh Scott, Adrian, Mich.—Chin whis¬ 
kers are not generally becoming to a long 
face. A beard properly fashioned is very 
becoming to a man’s face. A heavy mus¬ 
tache, simply, gives a short, round face a 
coarse, heavy look, Side whiskers give a 
thin face an appearance of greater fhllness. 
A narrow row of whiskers reaching from 
ear to ear under the chin is becoming to no 
face, and is the style generally adopted by 
farmers and laborers. A rustic, sunburnt, 
unkempt beard is exceedingly uncanny. 
Yes, men use artificial means to eurl ancl 
wave their hair and crimp their whiskers. 
They are just as vain as women, and ten 
times as conceited. Didn’t you know it ? 
feed on. A rich, live color in bread gives 
joy to the eye and sweetness to the tongue, 
Let all the inhabitants respond, Arneul 
caused tne. Probably there is in nature an 
antidote for every poison, if we could but 
find it. If any of your readers know a sure 
and speedy remedy for the poison oi these 
noxious plants, I shall be glad to hear oi it, 
and the information will be worth precerv- 
ing to anybody.—J. w. 
Food Medicine*. 
Dr. Hall rolates the case of a man who 
was cured of biliousness by going without 
his supper and drinking freely of lemonade. 
Every morning, says the doctor, this patient 
rose with a wonderful sense of rest, refresh¬ 
ment, and a feeling as though the blood had 
been literally washed, cleansed and cooled 
by the lemonade ancl the fust. His theory 
I is that food will he used as a remedy for 
diseases successfully. For example, 
CONTRIBUTED RECIPES. 
(Stone Cans lor Fruit—Tlielr Management. 
We have used stone cans for years, pre¬ 
ferring them for several reasons. We used 
to be greatly perplexed by the wax that, 
would find its way inside, despite all our 
care and precautions, but at last we hit upon 
a sure cure, and as it is simple and effectual 
I will give it:—Mix a stiff paste of the yel¬ 
low of egg and flour; spread it thinly and 
evenly on pieces of muslin a litile larger 
round than the lids. Put the muslin on, 
paste side down ; press the lids on, and seal 
as usual. Two or three thicknesses of paste 
and muslin make a perfect sealing, without 
the use of wax. We have kept strawberries 
in the best, possible condition for a year by 
thi 3 method. If the cans are small it will tie 
b ack am! white aces A pretty ^ ^ ~ . Starf in U»i *.? 
S a,l arc*, » made by pfeerag be H is best to ask 
,per ect y round chape. “«■?■»» ™ Jble walter io serve you. “ Is it good 
cd, the diameter ot the piece mufc t0 take tUe ],„ t 0 u the dish Usu- 
iugh to allow a generous fullness u , u , . 
head; a full rucked border, fullest ally, yes; always, yes, when confident then. 
les if the lace is thiu. Ou the top of » «««• "*«• 'orthconumr. 
iced a square piece, the points just To your last question, No. Although it 
nt the front, sides and back; this is U no proof of ill-brceding, it is not advisa- 
with a ruche of bright ribbon, ble to confirm such a habit. 
3 made simply in a square shape; Mainline Duties. 
bree - cornered or fanchou shape. Robert Me-writes:—“I’m not so 
nauve, purple and rose are pretty j, reen but that I might be greener; yet I 
r enlivening and trimming tulle caps, would like to kuow what a gentleman’s duty 
CoUTure*. is toward a lady seated at tabic next to him- 
;tte. —Misses and young women self; she alone, and a stranger. Should he 
>pted a style of hair dressing which sec that she is provided for ? Certainly. 
>retty and girlish. The hair, parted Any way in which he can wait upon her, is 
e hack, is woven into two Chinese his duty and privilege. It is a men. passing 
,nd looped high at the back of the civility that all men owe to all women in 
ne or two curls are made of the front suoh circumstances. Let such attentions be 
both sides, which are drawn back formal and courteous, but never familiar. 
many 
lie instances cures of spitting blood by the 
use of salt; epilepsy and yellow fever, water¬ 
melons; kidney affections, celery; poison, 
olive or sweet oil; erysipelas, pouuded cran¬ 
berries applied to the parts affected; hydro¬ 
phobia, onions, &c. Bo the thing to do iu 
order to keep in good health, is really to 
know what to eat, and not what medicines 
to take. 
