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THE BUBAL MEW- 
ham and eggs, for instance. How often we 
see the dish served with the ham dried and 
tough till it resembles shoe leather more than 
anything else, and the eggs done till they 
look like India rubber; yet what is nicer for 
breakfast than a good dish of ham and eggs ? 
There are several ways of preparing this, but 
to my mind the nicest ways are as follows: 
Cut the ham in rather thin slices, lay in hot 
water for 10 or 15 minutes, then wipe with a 
dry towel, and nroil in a double wire broiler 
over a clear fire. Lay on a hot dish; over 
this lay Tyour eggs nicely poached; garnish 
with parsley. 
Another way of cooking ham and eggs, 
which, to me, is always a relish is as follows: 
Cut half a pound of lean boiled ham (the 
proportion must be arranged to suit the size 
of the family) into little squares, put in a pan 
with an ounce of fresh butter and eight or 
10 eggs, a pinch of pepper, (and if you like, a 
table-spoonful of chopped chives), place on 
the fire and stir continually till the eggs are 
done enough. (They should not be very 
stiff) Serve on buttered toast. 
Beef-steak is auother thing that is abomina¬ 
ble unless properly cooked. Steak should be 
broiled. Place it in an open wire broiler, and 
broil over a clear, quick fire. Turn repeated¬ 
ly so that one side will not be done too quick¬ 
ly for the other. Place on a hot platter, add 
pepper und salt, dot with good butter. The 
second cut of the round, ff cooked in the fol¬ 
lowing manner, makes a very good dish. 
Have the steak about an inch and a-half thick. 
Take the point of a sharp knife and cut little 
gashes on the surface. In these interstices 
stick small pieces of the beef fat—(this pre¬ 
vents the meat from drying or scorching.) 
Place in a broiler, and broil over a clear, 
hot fire; add butter, pepper and salt when 
taken up. 
The potato is another abused article of 
food. The tubers should be taken out of the 
water in which they are boiled as soon as 
they are done. Then hold over the fire till 
dry—this makes them mealy. If you want 
them mashed, break them up with a fork, add 
a little milk and salt; beat till they are 
creamy and light. Place in a dish, cut a little 
depression in the top, add a generous lump of 
butter. Place in a hot oven for a few mo¬ 
ments if possible, a3 this will make them a 
lovely golden brown. 
Never draw the tea till you are about to 
add the finishing touches to the tea-table, as 
it becomes bitter aud loses its delicate aroma 
if allowed to stand. 
The best coffee is made in a French coffee¬ 
pot (which has a double compartment, or a 
bag for holding the coffee grounds.) But a 
very good pot of coffee may be made if the 
following directions are carried out to the 
letter. Have the pot thoroughly clean from 
all dregs. Place the required amount of 
coffee in the pot. Add a portion of a raw 
egg. Mix thoroughly. Then pour boiling 
water over this, set on the fire aud let it come 
to a boil. It is not necessary to have the 
coffee boil, and boil, as some people think, for 
if it does all the strength goes up the chimney, 
and it gets thick and muddy. 
DORA HARVEY VROOMAN. 
AROUND THE HOUSE. 
ANNIE L. JACK. 
I T seemed 9trange to have the Wreath or 
Cinnamon roses blooming in May; but 
June is more than half over aud they are yet 
only opening fully. The hot wave that came 
over the land last month touched even here, 
aud everything came forward with magical 
haste. Iu the garden we felt like saying to 
the violets: “Stay, O stay a little while!” 
When the lilacs bloomed aud faded, and the 
apple trees with their piuk aud white beauty 
“came aud went,” I longed to be where they 
would not fade so soon, “ and uever wither¬ 
ing flowers ” kept constantly coming to my 
rniud. Then a frieud from British Columbia 
came to visit me, aud she said the flowers 
stayed there quite a long while, but they were 
a long time coming out: I thought how de¬ 
lightful that would bo. 
“But,'’ sli3 said, “the asparagus grows so 
slowly that it is quite tough before it is ready 
aud there are no green meadows." 
“O” I said. “I should not like to live 
there—no clover blooms, no restful green for 
the eyes.” Aud so every life has some com¬ 
pensation, every loss has a gain, if only one 
coil'd be content. 
Meanwhile the spring flowers are only a 
memory aud the roses are here. It has been 
a hard wiuter. Mabel Morrison, the fair sis¬ 
ter of our Baroness Rothschild, with others 
less noticed stands, black and deud in our rose 
garden; but we fight along, replace and try 
again. Grapes, too, are “sick,” as the guid 
mon says, Wfiite grapes, without exception 
and no matter where they are growing, prove 
tenderer than black. 
It is a 9ad thing to go out the first fine 
spring morning and find so many favorites 
dead; but perhaps it is good for ono or we 
should forget that we too are mortal, and 
grow too proud of our successes. In the house 
all is in summer quiet and freshness. There 
is a smell of linseed oil lingering about the 
floors and the sweet, faint odor of shellac; but 
the June ros“s find us ready for them, and 
for their contemporary, the strawberry; for 
I never can in any way disassociate them. 
Our neighbor has been troubled with moths 
in her carpets and keeps her house redolent 
with camphor tar, the smell of which is 
offensive to many nostrils. I suggested to 
her a thought of my own that came from ob¬ 
serving her daughter putting down a carpet 
before the floor was dry, and I fully believe 
this to be the cause of the moths. Floors 
should be thoroughly dried and if anything is 
put under the carpets, a few branches of red 
cedar picked off the stems and smoothly 
strewn over the floor are pleasant and effec¬ 
tual for keeping away the insects that seem 
to abound everywhere. This is for any lo¬ 
cality where druggists are not plentiful. 
STRAY THOUGHTS. 
U /AF all sad words of tongue or pen, 
V J the saddest are tfiese, it might have 
been.” 
How utterly useless and wrong it is to dwell 
on that idea! What is, is for our best good, 
and we need waste no time speculating on 
“ might-have-beens.” 
We all may be what we “might have 
been.” How much better this second theory. 
We might have been honest and faithful, 
pure and just. We might have beeu found 
always doing our duty, always obedient, al¬ 
ways ruling our own spirit, always careful to 
choose our words well; and, surely, if wo 
have not “ been,” while we live we have op¬ 
portunity to “ be." 
As for happiness, it comes only from a con¬ 
sciousness of well-doing. Fleeting pleasure 
we may enjoy for a short time; but we need 
look back with no regret to a happy “ might 
have been ” unless we could picture ourselves 
doing right. 
If you wish to knit woolen yarn that has 
beeu raveled, you can straighten it in this 
way: wind it tightly around a clean board, 
wet it thoroughly, and let it dry before tak¬ 
ing it off the board. 
Last summer we had more red currants 
than we could well use, so we canned some 
juice. This spring we have made excellent 
jelly with it. 
The following is our best way of cooking 
pie-plant. Wash well, and cut in half-iuch 
pieces. Sprinkle over it a small spoonful of 
salera.us, and pour on sufficient boiling water 
to cover it. Let stand one minute, stir well, 
aud drain iu a colander. Have ready a thick 
sirup, made of grauulated sugar, pour in the 
well-drained pie plant, aud boil slowly till it 
is tender, but not broken. Very nice. 
Here is a German dish: Into two table¬ 
spoonfuls of sweet milk break two eggs. Stir 
in all the flour you can, and knead well. 
Roll very thin, cover with flour, begin at one 
side aud roll it up. With a thin, sharp knife, 
cut thin, round slices, which should unroll, 
making long threads of tough dough. Add 
flour to these, and continue till the long roll 
lies before you a pile of these long threads. 
Have boiling water in a kettle, and drop 
them slowly in, stirring carefully. Add salt 
and pepper; boil 10 minutes. Add a generous 
lump of butter, aud a quart of rich, creamy 
milk. MRS. L. H. NILES. 
rp>HE following h nts from Harper’s Bazar 
JL as to what is worn will, we know, be ap¬ 
preciated by the woman who makes her own 
dresses aud trims her ovvu hats. 
An all-black lace dress has Marquise net 
with large-flowered desigo, draped over black 
satin to form a Greek apron in front, caught 
up on the right but with the left side full aud 
straight, bordered with rnoird ribbons. Two 
flounces of lace are placed in jabots dowr the 
middle of the back. A ladder of four bows 
of moird ribbon is set down the left side, and 
two flat bands of wider ribbon are down the 
back outside the jabots. 
The fashionable corsage is slightly elongat¬ 
ed, being neither a round waist nor a basque, 
but something b 'tween thesa, extending just 
beyond the waist line, aud either slightly 
p inted or else broadly rouudod iu front aud 
back, the fulness which is shirred ou the 
shoulders being flatteu»d there in small plaits. 
If tbo short-waisted Empire effect is desired, 
a wide sash is set ou a waist nude as described, 
but if the natural length of waist is allowed 
to be seen, a narrower ribbon sash, quite 
straight. or else slightly .twisted, D set per¬ 
manently on the belt of the skirt, and the 
skirt is put on last (after the bodice has been 
fastened), the join between waist and skirt 
being hidden by the belt. 
Skirts of walking dre-ses, in order to be 
stylish, are made quite long, but this is an un¬ 
tidy and inconvenient fashion that cannot be 
commended. The perfectly straight skirts, 
with plaits of varied width, or shirred all 
around the top, or else those with slight 
drapery on each hip, are used for both elab¬ 
orate and simple dresses. The foot-plaiting 
is no longer generally used on skirts, but the 
Empire flounce of lace or of the fabric, gath¬ 
ered, or else cut in tabs to fall on a lace 
flounce, is a fashionable finish for the front 
and sides of straight skirts. Pretty little 
butterfly bows almost meeting to form a 
ruche are made of ribbon, and set at the top 
of the square-cornered tabs that fall in a frill 
below. 
Full sleeves are so varied in shape that 
some pattern can be found to suit any figure; 
for instance, they can be set high on the shoul¬ 
der seams for those whose shoulders are too 
broad aud square,or they can be made to pro¬ 
ject outward if the shoulders are too narrow; 
they can be tucked flatly, if the top of the 
arm is too large, or they can be caught in 
loose folds around arms that are too slender. 
The moderately large mutton-leg sleeves, full 
above the elbows and slender below, are found 
to be most generally becoming. All such 
sleeves are worn extremely long, covering the 
wrists entirely, and are very simply finished 
at the ends. With very sloping shoulders, a 
good effect is given by adding a standing ruffle 
of the material, doubled just across the top 
of the arm-holes, two inches wide in the mid¬ 
dle, tapering to nothing on the sides. Goat 
sleeves are still preferred for many dresses, 
but even these are now enlarged at the top, 
either merely raised slightly above the arm¬ 
holes, or else with the outside material length¬ 
ened and widened beyond the liniug, and 
caught there in slight folds that are broad or 
high, as best suits the wearer. 
Sailor hats are again in great favor, not 
merely for yachting (where they are worn with 
the simplest band around the crown), but for 
country wear, with morning and afternoon 
toilettes. As their severe shape, with slight 
trimmiDg, is not becoming to all faces, the 
milliners are trimming them much more elab¬ 
orately-, not with loops up the front, as they 
were worn last year, but with loops and wings 
coming from the back pointing forward far 
over the crown, with a broad sash ribbon that 
lies flat in front, but is gathered in high point¬ 
ed ends, like a jabot, at the back. Still an¬ 
other fancy puts flowers, especially small 
white flowers, all around the crown instead of 
a band, and loops of white thick faille ribbon 
are set to point upward on the top of the low 
crown. Colored straw sailor hats are partic¬ 
ularly stylish when trimmed with black; as, 
for instance, an old-rose straw hat has the 
back of the brim caught against the crown by 
loops of black moir6 ribbon, which point quite 
high, and hold a blackbird poised as if flying 
downward. The same ribbon is twisted 
around the crown, and an inch-wide band of 
black velvet is set under the brim as a facing, 
but does not cover all the straw. 
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