a  rejwrt.  presented  to  the  American  Pliarmaceu- 
tical  Association. 
The  man  who  may  pride  himself  on  his  pure 
Holland  flin  is  informed  that  the  oil  of  Janipe.- 
Berries  was  off ered  to  the  writer  hy  a  highly  re¬ 
spectable  firm  of  wholesalo  liquor  dealers,  who, 
in  their  desire  to  have  a  really  ]inre  and  superior 
article,  had  themselves  imported  it  direct  from 
Holland,  Jiaving  ordered  the  very  host  that  was 
obtainable.  As  a  very  much  greater  (pianUty 
had  been  aent  tlian  their  order  called  for,  they 
Were  anxious  to  dispose  of  a  (wrtion  of  it.  The 
gentlemen  wero  so  very  sure  abont  Iho  absolute 
purity  of  their  oil.  for  which  they  had  paid  a 
very  liberal  price,  that  they  wore  loth  to  be- 
lioTo  their  own  eyes  when,  after  agituUon  with 
an  equal  quantity  of  water,  only  20  per  cent,  of 
thoir  so-called  oil  was  left,  the  remainder  being 
alcohol. 
Oil  of  Lemon,  put  up  in  original  cans  and 
genuine  imported  cases,  branded  “  E.  B.  A  Oo.  ” 
was  found  hy  the  writer  to  contain  25  per  cent, 
alcohol,  and  to  per  cent,  castor  oil.  Another  lot 
branded  “  W.  8.  &  Co.,”  contained  26  per  cent' 
alcohol.  There  is  every  probabiUty  that  both 
seals  wero  counterfeit,  as  the  letters  composing 
them  w(!ro  slightly  different  from  tljose  fotmd 
addition  of  some  warm  milk,  when  the  bread  is 
mixed  up  hard,  maltes  the  bread  whiter  and 
more  tender,  but  it  also  dries  up  sooner.  The 
season  makes  some  difference  abont  the  trouble 
of  making  bread,  as  in  winter  it  is  harder  to 
keep  the  sponge  of  tho  right  temperature.  One 
of  tho  best  bread-makers  I  know,  uses  a  small 
tin  pail  to  mix  her  sponge  In  and  then  h.ang8  the 
pail  from  a  wire  over  the  stove,  which  keeps  it 
warm  and  makes  the  risitig  speedy.  In  very 
cold  weather  it  Is  best  to  mi.x  sponge  in  tho 
morning,  unless  one  has  a  honse  that  keeps 
moderately  warm  through  tlie  night. 
Wife. 
wnoro  tiie  microscope,  or  a  very  good  eye  will 
SCO  the  water  standing  in  itmiimerablo  drops. 
I  his  is  shown  any  hour,  by  ctivcriug  a  profusely 
sweating  horse  with  j-  •  •  •  ■ 
stand.  In  ,a  short  time,  tho  hair  and 
of  the  blanket  will  bo  dry.  while  the  moistur7wiu 
bo  felt  on  tho  outside,  f 
must  use  our  seu.sos,  and  obscrv 
Some  t - 
ho  provonted  from  fulling  i  _  " 
pretty  ivarm  soap  suds,  tUoin  rinsed  i:;  o; 
as  hot  as  can  well  bo  borne  by  tho  baud.  After 
being  once  made,  a  white  woolen  flaiuiel  shirt 
should  never  bo  put  in  cold  water,  but  always 
wa8lie<l  as  above,  not  by  putting  soup  on  it,  but 
by  wasliiug  it  in  soapsuds,  not  very  hot. 
Dk.  IIali.. 
a  blanket,  and  letting  Idm 
^  - — li  liner  surface 
- 
If  we  Would  bo  wise,  we 
’  I'O  for  ourselves, 
persons  prefer  white  llannol,  which  may 
i;  up,  if  first  washed  in 
I  in  one  water 
ORIGINAL  RECIPES 
taught  not  only  in  their  books  but  by  their 
family  physiciian,  who  also  died  before  tho  prime 
of  life.  If  I  recollect  aright,  it  has  been  said  of 
(Iraliam  that  ho  eventually  died  a  martyr  to  his 
principles. 
I  am  ueitlier  a  zoologist  nor  much  of  a  dabbler 
in  natural  hi.story,  but  I  understand  that  by  the 
toeth  alone  tho  natural  food  of  any  animal  can 
bo  determined,  and  that  tlie  teeth  of  man  indi¬ 
cate  a  mixed  iliet  and  that  ho  is  therefore  classed 
as  omnivorous.  Now,  Jlrs.  Lnvaud,  I  live  with 
another  JIrs.  Invaud,  whoso  fooil  is  beef,  bread 
and  butter,  with  sometimes  a  little  potato,  sel¬ 
dom  any  other  vegetable  or  any  fruit ;  such  is 
her  experience  as  to  the  hcoltlifulnoss  of  food 
for  her,  and  should  yon  ask  her  advice  she  would 
toll  you  to  judge  for  yourself,  tliat  your  own  ex¬ 
perience  woiiUl  bo  your  host  guide. 
Tho  tables  drawn  up  by  Db.  Bkaumo.vt  as  tho 
result  of  his  experiments  ui>on  Alexis  Ht.  Martin 
are  very  intoreatiug  in  a  scieutillo  point  of  view, 
but  I  think  they  have  led  many  into  an  errone- 
Pi(raUlli.~Tii  answer  to  request  of  “Young 
ITonsekeeper,"  I  send  tlio  following  recipe : 
Bor  one  gallon  of  sliced,  green  tomatoes,  fsaltell 
and  drained)  take  one  quart  of  cider  vinegar, 
one  iionnd  of  sugar,  one  tablespooufiil  each  of 
mustard,  cloves,  and  sweet  fennel  seed.  Place 
all  in  a  porcel.iin  kettle  i 
tomatoes  are  cookod  tender 
out,  and  boil  the 
over  a  fire,  until  tho 
— then  drain  them 
sirup  down  till  just  enough  re¬ 
mains  to  cover  them,  they  do  not  need  sealing. 
Onions  may  bo  added  if  liked.— 5Ic. 
To  Farrner^s  Wife."— Lemon  Pie  Wlfhont 
KgrjK.—lioW  or  bruise  two  lemons  until  the  juice 
will  squeeze  from  tliem.  Then  strip  off  the 
rind  and  shred  tho  remainder  of  tho  lemons, 
casting  out  the  seeds.  Orate  one-hnlf  tlie  rind 
of  one  lemon  and  mix  witli  one  cup  of  sugar  and 
one  of  molasses.  Beat  three  tablospoonfiiU  of 
flour  and  one  of  molted  butter  into  the  mixture, 
and  hake  as  oastards.  Light  broad  crumbs  may 
ho  added  insteatl  of  Jflonr. — Me. 
AmU  »umumh'8  Bhv— Cover  a  plate 
with  paste  as  for  pumpkin  pie :  spreail  over  this 
crust  three  tahlcspoonfuls  of  (lour,  and  a  siroon- 
ful  of  bntt.er  cut  in  small  jiicccs  and  live  table- 
siioonfuls  of  Orleans  or  maple  simp.  The  latter 
is  th«  best.  Bake  in  a  moderately  heated  oven. 
When  nearly  done,  stir  till  the  ingnxlicnts  arc 
well  nuxod,  then  lot  it  finisli  baking.-  -m.  b.  a. 
English  Pudding. — One  cup  of  chopped  suet 
tuiTo^aiiiig  iiio  oyo  for  auKWora  to  some  of  tho 
hard  questions  which  aro  put  to  ns  hy  certain 
le.-Ml  symptoms;  and  l.o  wi..l,ea  to  impress  upon 
the  profession :  (1.)  That  there  are  many  head¬ 
aches  which  aro  due  indu-cctly  to  disorders  of 
tho  refractive  or  accommodative  apparatus  of 
the  eyes.  (2.)  That  in  these  instances  the 
brain  symptom  is  often  tlio  most,  and  sometimes 
the  solo,  prominent  symptom  of  tho  eyo  trouble 
HO  that  wliile  there  may  bo  no  pain  or  sense  of 
fatigue  in  tho  oyo,  the  strain  with  which  it  is 
used  may  bo  interpreted  solely  by  occipital  or 
frontal  headaclio.  (.1.)  That  tho  long  contimi- 
a-tico  of  oyo  trouble  may  be  tho  unsnspectod 
source  of  msomuia,  vertigo,  nausoa.  and  general 
failiu-oof  hoaltli.  (4.)  That  in  many  cases  tho 
eyo  txonblo  bocoines  suddenly  mischievous, 
owing  to  some  failure  of  tlie  general  health  or 
to  increased  sonsiUvoncBs  of  the  brain  from  moral 
rir  mental  causes.  Several  illustrative  cases  are 
on  remaining  m  the  still.  The  proportion  of  al¬ 
cohol,  which  had  been  present,  is  represented  in 
the  loss. 
Oil  of  Rose  Geranium  is  now  so  frequently 
substituted  by  the  ginger-grass  or  palma  rosa 
oil,  abtained  from  Aivlropogon  Hchcenanthus, 
that  it  is  somewhat  difficult  to  procure  the  true 
oil  of  Perl/irgonium  odoratisshnum  or  JiaduUi  in 
commerce. 
Oil  of  Wintergreon  was  offered  to  the  writer 
by  a  tall  Jerseynnan,  who  professed  to  have  dis¬ 
tilled  every  drop  of  it  himself,  and  who  tliercfore 
claimed  to  he  able  to  guarantee  its  absolute 
purity,  which  proved  to  contain  just  two-thirds 
of  its  volume  of  alcohol.  It  is  somewhat  remark¬ 
able  that  even  this  large  proportion  of  alcohol 
could  scarcely  bo  recognized  by  the  senses,  and 
that,  as  far  as  could  be  juilgod  by  the  taste  and 
smell,  this  was  an  unusually  fine  specimen  of  oil 
of  wintergreen.  8cveral  other  lots  have  been 
met  with  contaiuing  various  proportions  of  oil  of 
sassafras. 
Those  who  pride  themselves  on  pure  salad  oils 
aro  informed  that  Olivo  Oil  is  largely  substituted 
by  some  of  the  cheaper  fixed  oils  fotmd  in  this 
market  Very  little  of  that  which  is  sold  by 
grocers  is  oven  imported  from  Europe.  A  New 
York  merchant,  who  is  extensively  engaged  in 
bottling  this  iirticlo  in  imitation  of  the  imixirted 
stylo,  informed  us  that  for  the  cheajiest  grade  he 
is  ill  the  habit  of  putliug  up  refilled  cottonseed 
oil,  and  for  a  somewhat  better  brand  tho  oil  of 
bonue. 
TONTINE  ENDOWMENT  PLANS, 
hicvEiiAi,  years  ago  soino  of  tlio  loading  life 
compaiiios  introduced  plans  to  retain  policy 
holders’  sliares  of  snrphiB  for  a  term  of  years 
Tho  purpose  was  U^  equalize,  as  far  as  jiracUca- 
hle,  tbo  hurdcu  of  payment  by  giving  Uio  divi 
donUs  to  those  who  iiud  contributed  most  to  cre¬ 
ate  thorn.  Tho  Tontine  principle  involved  in  all 
this  IS  not,  when  properly  midorstood,  a  bad 
ono.  The  objection  lies  in  the  abuse  of  its  ai>- 
pUcation.  8uico  that  time,  and  oKpocially  within 
tlio  last  five  years,  many compauios  have  adopted 
somewhat  siiniliu'  plans  in  order  to  conceal  their 
inability  to  pay  any  dividends  whatever.  These 
devices  are  caUed  by  all  sorts  of 
uanies,  hnt  are  ahke  i 
call  for  whole  life  rates,  ten- 
Iiayment  life  rates, 
the  better  for  tlio  < 
WEARING  FLANNEL, 
Put  it  on  at  once,  tho  first  week  of  November, 
a  good,  substantial,  old-fashioned,  home-made, 
loose,  red  woolen  llannol  shirt,  and  do  not  lay  it 
aside  for  a  thinner  article,  -il  least  imtil  the  fir.st 
day  of  May,  even  in  tlio  latitude  of  New  Grleans. 
We  advise  the  red,  because  it  does  not  full  up, 
thicken,  and  become  leathery  by  wearing. 
Wear  it  only  in  the  day-timo,  unless  you  are 
very  much  of  an  invalid;  then  change  it  for  a 
similar  ono  to  sleep  in— letting  tho  two  hang 
alternately  on  a  chair  to  dry  in  a  warni  ilryroom. 
If  leaving  it  off  at  night  gives  you  a  cold,  nev¬ 
er  mind  that ;  persevere  until  you  take  no  more 
cold  liy  tho  omission.  No  ono  ceases  to  wear 
shoes  becatiHO  they  caused  corns :  it  is  the  proper 
use  of  things  wluch  makes  them  iimociums.  'Hie 
less  you  wear  at  night,  tho  more  good  will  your 
clothing  do  you  in  the  day-time.  Those  who 
wear  a  great  deal  of  clothing  at  night,  must  wear 
that  much  more  in  the  day,  or  they  will  feel 
chilly  all  the  lime ;  and  our  own  observation 
teaches  us,  that  the  people  who  muffle  up  moat 
are  tho  readiest  to  complain  of  taking  cold. 
But  why  wear  flannel  next  tlie  skin,  in  prefer¬ 
ence  to  silk  or  cotton  ? 
Because  it  is  w'ai-mer;  it  couve-ya  heat  away 
from  tho  body  less  rapidly ;  does  it  so  slowly 
that  it  is  called  a  non-conductor;  it  feels  less 
cold  when  we  touch  it  to  tho  skin  than  silk  or 
cotton. 
If  the  three  are  wetted,  the  flannel  feels  less 
cold  at  tho  first  touch,  and  gets  w.aiTu  sooner 
than  silk  or  cotton,  and  does  not  cling  to  tlie 
skin  when  damp,  as  much  as  they  do.  We  know 
what  a  shock  of  coldness  is  imparted  to  the  skin 
wlifcu,  after  exercise  and  perspiration,  an  Lish- 
ILiien  lihirt  worn  next  tho  skin  is  broiiglit  in  con¬ 
tact,  by  a  change  of  ixisition,  with  a  part  of  the 
skill  which  it  did  not  touch  a  moment  before— 
often  sending  a  shivering  chill  t-hrough  tho  whole 
system. 
A  good  deal  has  been  said  and  written  about 
silk  being  best  on  account  of  its  electrical  agen¬ 
cies  ;  but  all  that  is  guesii-work.  We  are  mere 
blind  leaders  of  tho  bhnd  when  wo  talk  about 
that  subtle  agent ;  and  until  we  know  more  of  it, 
it  is  the  greater  wisdom  to  bo  guided  by  our  sen¬ 
sations. 
Anotlmr  reason  why  woolen  flannel  is  better  is, 
tliat  wliile  cotton  and  silk  absorb  tlie  perspira¬ 
tion,  and  are  equally  saturated  with  it,  a  woolen 
attractive 
in  certain  particulars.  They 
*  ,  '  I'paymont  or  twunty- 
I,  or  any  other  rates,  the  larger 
„  ^  company,  and  promise  to  pay 
the  full  value  of  the  policy  and  all  accumu¬ 
lated  profits "  at  the  end  of  so  many  years,  pro¬ 
vided  tlic  policy  is  then  surrendered.  Tho  agent 
ingeniously  represents  that  “  tho  fall  value  ”  is 
the  total  premiums  paid  and  that  “  the  acoiimu- 
lated  profltH  ”  will  amoimt  to  a  large  endowment 
— tJial  is,  that  tho  pruiuiiim  payer  will  get  hack 
all  bis  money  and  a  groat  deal  more  besides. 
Tho  tnith  la  that  tho  policy  is  nothing  more 
than  mere  (ettn  in/iuratitr,  for  which  the  vic¬ 
timized  party  pays  two  or  three  times  as  much 
as  is  ncoossary.  At  the  end  of,  say,  ton  years  it 
exiiiroM,  and  the  company  pays,  if  it  can,  the  le¬ 
gal  reserve  and  perhaps  a  few  dollars  over. 
For  example,  a  man  tliirty-two  years  old  pays 
for  such  an  int-urance  !st24.5  a  year  for  what  is 
represented  to  bo  an  endowment  “  estimated  to 
equal  the  face  of  the  policy,"  one  tlionsand  dol¬ 
lars.  At  tho  end  of  ten  years  ho  claims  his  dues 
and  is  paid,  if  the  company  can  pay  anything, 
the  legal  value,  ifcO'J.ls.  That  is  aU  ho  can  com¬ 
pel  tliem  to  pay  and  all  ho  has  a  right  to  expect. 
He  baa  paid  out  iii  principal  and  hitcrcst  quite 
4*33(1,  or  !?23.S.82  more  than  he  gets  back,  and 
has  only  ten  years  of  term  insurance  to  show  for 
tho  outlay.  This  tenn  inmirance  is  worth  only 
(¥13.1.5,  or  in  principal  and  interest  for  ten  years, 
(SlSd.TO.  Ho  is,  thcrofoi'o,  out  of  pocket  aomo- 
thlng  inore  than  fifty-five  dollars,  which  are 
fifty-live  reasons  why  tho  company  invented  tho 
plan.  The  best  rule  in  all  cases,  when  a  man 
proposes  to  sell  a  dollar’s  worth  for  fifty  cents, 
is  to  let  tho  man  and  tho  plan  very  severely 
alone  and  “  thank  Heaven  you  aro  rid  of  a 
INVALID, 
The  expressed  oil  of  mustard,  a  by- 
product  in  tho  manufacture  of  table  mustard,  is 
also  applied  to  tho  same  purfiose.  Oiir  French 
friend,  whom  we  have  before  alluded  to,  also 
kindly  informed  us  that  in  this  country  tho 
groundnut  oil  (Arachis  hypogiea)  is  used  to  an 
enormous  extent  for  aihuixtm'e  with  olive  oil,  so 
that  but  vei-y  httle  of  the  latter  is  imported 
strictly  pm'e. 
Californians  say  Gmt  they  can  furnish  us  with 
all  the  pure  ohvo  oil  required  for  consumption 
in  this  country,  but  that  Eastern  people  prefer 
to  use  the  imported  adulteratod  article  to  the 
pure  home  inade,  and  we  presume  they  are  not 
far  wrong  in  making  this  statement. 
AS  you  seem  not  to  reply  to  Mrs.  Lwaluj's  in¬ 
quiry  **  as  to  the  healthfiilnoss  of  various  kinds 
of  food,"  and  as  she  seems  to  prefer  “  an  exclu¬ 
sively  vegetable  diet,”  and  disagrees  with  mo 
about  tho  hcalthfiilriess  of  pork,  it  seems  to  me 
proper  that  she  should  have  at  least  a  reply  as  a 
matter  of  courtesy. 
As  to  an  aumeiT  to  the  question  “what  kinds 
of  food  are  the  most  healthy  for  her,"  neither 
you  nor  I  are  as  capable  of  giving  a  correct  one, 
as  she  is  herself.  Theory  and  the  experience  of 
others  If  followed,  will  less  often  give  satisfac- 
wmen  i  presume  is  tho  case,  as  she 
seems  to  look  to  diet  for  relief.  The  remedies 
for  that  complaint,  or  the  malatlies  Uial  arc  called 
by  that  name,  may  he  reckoned  by  the  thousand 
and  people  who  get  weU  of  them  do  so  as  often 
after  they  stop  doctoring  as  before.  ' 
Mi-s.  IsvAiun  cortiiinly  has  high  authority  for 
the  idea  of  “an  exclusively  vegetable  diet,” bat  I 
think  the  biograpliy  of  the  most  noted  vegetari¬ 
ans  shows  they  have  not  gonorally  been  long- 
lived  ;  they  certainly  have  not  been,  as  far  as  my 
observation  extend.s,  unless  they  have  changed 
to  a  more  generous  diet,  as  was  tlie  case  with  a 
particular  friend,  who  would  not  believe  mo 
when  I  said  to  him  “you  will  Bvcntnallv 
BREAD  MAKING, 
I  UEABD  a  man  say,  not  long  ago,  that  making 
good  bread  runs  in  families.  People  may  easily 
think  so  when  they  see  tho  heavy,  unwholesome 
stuff,  which  some  housekeepers  habitually  pro¬ 
duce,  which  it  is  a  slander  to  call  bread.  I  give 
my  way  of  making  the  genuine  article:— At 
night  take  luko-warm  water,  according  to  the 
quantity  of  bread  required,  and  stir  in  flour  till 
it  is  about  right  for  pancakes,  then  stir  in  a  tea¬ 
cup  of  lively  yeast,  cover  it  and  set  in  a  moder¬ 
ately  warm  place,  to  rise.  In  the  morning  it 
wiU  be  light.  Then  mix  up  hard,  kuoading  it  wclL 
Return  the  broad  to  the  pan  and  let  it  rise,  when 
light,  mold  it  down,  repeating  this  three  times. 
Theu  make  into  loaves  and,  when  sufficiently 
light,  bake  carefully.  Good  dough  may  he 
spoiled  in  the  oven,  by  too  hot  or  bxi  slack  a  fire. 
The  mokling-down  process  may  seem  like  loo 
much  trouble,  but  it  is  not  in  jiracUce.  Tlui 
Pkeseiivation  of  the  Teeth.  From  infancy 
to  old  ago  there  is  notliing  better  for  tlio  teeth 
than  water.  If  a  tooth-brush  bo  used  nights 
and  mornings  witliout  exception,  all  powders 
and  teeth  preiiaiations  will  be  found  ueedle.s8. 
