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Nothin(/ should be bought- which is considered 
too fine for the fullest domestic appropria¬ 
tion, Far better is the plainest furniture, 
on which the children eon climb, than satin 
and damask which must be viewed until 
reverence. 
A BREAKFAST FOR SIX. 
‘‘We’ll feast each other ore we part.” 
Codfish Cakes. 
Rissoles of Chicken. Savory Potatoes. 
Fricasseed Eggs. Mufti ns. 
Codfish cakes are very much like the little 
girl in St. Nicholas: 
“When they're good, they’re very, very good,” 
And when they’re! had they're horrid." 
They not only seldom are so good as they 
might be, but they generally are much more 
“horrid” than is necessary. Now for the good 
kind. 
Buy a pound of the so-called “boneless cod¬ 
fish,” choosing a thick cut from the center. It 
must be white and free from suspicion of 
taint; after having soaked it for an hour in 
lukewarm water, pull it iu pieces and put it 
over the fire in cold water, letting it stand 
where it will come to a boil slowly. As soon 
as it reaches the boiling point, take it otT, taste 
it, and if not Sufficiently freshened, pour oft' 
the water, cover again with cold water and 
let it heat slowly, If allowed to boil it will he 
tough. Drain, press dry, and pull in shreds, 
picking it until it is light and fluffy. There 
must be no lumps or coarse pieces in these 
model codfish balls. Add an equal bulk of hot 
mashed potatoes, that have been carefully pre¬ 
pared after a recent Rural recipe, butter the 
size of an egg, one beaten egg and pepper to 
taste. Beat these ingredients until they are 
all thoroughly mixed, and mold into flat 
cakes or little round balls. If these are for 
breakfast, it is a good plan to make them at 
night while the dinner dishes are being washed. 
Fry quickly m a little hot butter or sweet 
dripping; I do not like lard for this pur¬ 
pose. They are often fried by immersion iu 
boiling fat, but this Ls not always convenient 
iu a small family, whore quantities of fat for 
frying purposes are seldom on hand. Half of 
the above quantity will be sufficient at a 
breakfast where other courses are to be served, 
but the remainder makes a nice and cheap 
little fish course for a family dinner. 
A few tablespoonfuls of cold roast or boiled 
chicken may be served up as follows : Mix it 
with a third of the amount of tongue or ham ; 
all should be minced finely ; put a tablespoon¬ 
ful of butter iu a saucepan, stir in as much 
flour, and when it thickens add th* minced 
meat; moisten with a very little stock or 
cream, season with pepper and salt (if the lat¬ 
ter is necessary), a little lemon juice, and a 
trifle of nutmeg. Remove from the fire, and 
stir in the beaten yelk of an egg. Now make 
a paste with two beaten eggs, a gill of water, 
a pinch of salt, another of sugar, and flour 
enough to enable you to roll it out. Stamp in 
round pieces with a cutter three inches in di¬ 
ameter. When the mince has cooled, put as 
much on each piece of paste as can bo folded 
up neatly : fasten the edges by brushing them 
them over with cold water. Brush each ris¬ 
sole over with beaten egg, and fry by im¬ 
mersion in hot fat. 
Put six hard-boiled eggs in cold water as 
soon as they are done, nud when cold out them 
cross-wise ; takeout the yelks, slice a bit from 
the bottom of each of the white halves, stand¬ 
ing them close together in a fiat dish. Rub 
the yelks to a paste with a tablespoonful of 
melted butter, one of cream and two of bread 
crumbs. Fill the whites of the eggs with this 
mixt ure, pour over them n little chicken stock 
or gravy, and set in the oven for five minutes. 
Slice u piut of cold boiled potatoes and sim¬ 
mer them for ten minutes in a little gravy or 
stock; add a bit of butter, a little minced 
parsley, such seasoning as may be necessary, 
and serve very hot. 
The nicest of muffins are made from one 
small yeast cake dissolved in a cup of warm 
water: add two cups of milk, aud flour enough 
to make a stiff batter. The next morning add 
one beaten egg, a tablespoonful of melted 
butter, a teaspoonful each of salt and sugar, 
and bake in buttered gem pans. 
A nice breakfast is never complete without 
gjBijdffUancouia 
When Baby was sick, we gave her Caatorla, 
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 
stewed or fresh fruit of some kind; the latter 
is generally served before the meal. 
PALMETTO. 
The author of “John Halifax, Gentleman,” 
who has pictured so beautifully iu her nov cl 
the wise, economical wife and mother, gives, 
in Harper’s Bazar, the very practical advice 
that every girl who Ls not entirely dependent 
on her male relations ought, by the time she 
is old enough, to know exactly how much she 
has, where it is invested, and what it ought 
yearly to bring in. A person who is careless 
about money is careless about everything aud 
untrustworthy in everything. Yet there is 
such a thing as ignoble economy, as well us 
noble extravagance. She who stints her ser¬ 
vants in food and wages, who goes shabbily 
clad when her station and her means require 
her to be dressed at all points like a lady, is 
deserving of the severest blame. Money is 
meant not for hoardiug, but for using. 
“THE PRETTIEST LITTLE PARLOR.” 
I am very fond of young people, and never 
so happy as when 1 am listening to their joys, 
or comforting them in their sorrows. My 
friends say I am an inveterate match-maker ; 
perhaps because my own life has been a hard 
and lonely one, I am the more anxious that 
the lot of others in whom 1 am interested 
should be brighter. For some reason or other, 
young people all confide iu me. I am “Auntie” 
to many, and "Mamma” to not a few. If 
Lois is fickle, or Jack is proud, somehow the 
trouble is always brought to me, aud bearing 
in mind the sad mistake of my own life, I am 
often able to calm the troubled waters and 
make peace between them. So the other day 
when pretty Lois came to me, all smiles and 
tears and blushes, to tell me that she aud Jack 
were going to prevent any' future misunder¬ 
standings by joining their lot for all time, I 
had uot the heart to point out to her that 
married people quarreled quite as often as 
lovers, trusting to her own loving heart and 
Jack’s sturdy good sense to prevent this in 
her own case. We talked instead of the little 
parlor that must be cheaply furnished, and of 
how we could make it attx-active at the least 
possible cost. 
Since it was to be iu the country, we agreed 
that rural simplicity should be the order of the 
day, and a matting was the first tiling decided 
upon. It is always best to get the best quality 
of India matting, which sells for 75 eeuts a 
yard and Ls seamless. By a little time spent, 
in judicious shopping, however, one can always 
buy remnants at half price, ami as there is no 
time like the present we put on our bonnets 
ami sallied forth iu search of it. We found a 
piece, or rather two remnants, at 40 cents a 
yard, of excellent quality, with the cream- 
colored monotony relieved by a narrow stripe 
of dark red at wide intervals. There were 
nearly twenty-two yards which the obliging 
shop-keeper called twenty, ami sold for St A 
durable and really artistic library table was 
chosen at $15. For the rest of the furniture 
we weut direct to the manufacturers, and 
chose a couch, wide and low, aud two big. 
stuffed easy chairs of different designs: as we 
took these without any covering except the 
muslin one, and as they were intended to be 
entirely upholstered then* was nf> costly carv¬ 
ing about them, and the cost was only $15. 
These wo upholstered ourselves with loose 
covers of pretty cream-colored cretonne closely 
covered with deep cardinal flowers and trail¬ 
ing vines iu brownsaml old gold, making three 
large, soft pillows for the couch, one for the 
head and two for the back. Two light chairs 
and a wicker rocker were also added. 
One corner of t his parlor Jack, who is skill¬ 
ful with tools, is going to fit up iu the fol¬ 
lowing manner: A triangular seat, the bight 
of an ordinary chair, is to be fitted in, stuffed 
with excelsior, covered with a layer of wool, 
aud the whole tacked down and covered with 
coarse unbleached muslin. This is to be cov¬ 
ered with cretonne, letting a ruffle of the 
same descend to the floor. Two pillows are 
to be covered with the same nud placed 
against the walk A piece of gilt molding is 
to be placed against the wall, to match the 
shape of the seat, below, ami from this is to 
lie draped a pair of Madras curtains like those 
at the windows, looped back with ribbons in 
cardinal aud plain gold. A spinster. 
“BENEDICK, THE MARRIED MAN.” 
Some time since the Rural published an 
article entitled “Woman’s Unnecessary 
Work,” in which I criticise 1 (not unjustly, I 
think) over-industrious women: but a letter 
that I have just received, forwarded to me 
through the Rural, shows me that, all per¬ 
sons do not think alike. Although the letter 
is signed “Vindicator,” 1 judge that uiy cor¬ 
respondent is a woman, iu spite of t he mas¬ 
culine affix, both from the fact that she has 
taken up the cudgel in defense of the weaker 
sex, and because the letter savors considerably 
of injustice. A lady writer of much note, 
speaking of her own sex, says: “We are 
often tenderer thau our brothers, but not 
usually so just.” 
I must admit that “Vindicator” shows 
much penetration when she expresses her 
opinion that I never had a husband of my 
own. I am bound to confess that, under the 
decrees of an all-wise Providence, whose 
wisdom in the matter I have uever for a 
moment doubted, I never had. Perhaps, for 
this very reason, however, I have had better 
opportunities to study “other women’s hus¬ 
bands,” and I have not found them all bad 
specimens. 
A few months ago I received a letter from 
a dear school friend whom I had not seen since 
her marriage ten or more years ago, telling 
me that she neede 1 rest and change, aud was 
coming to San Francisco for a couple of 
weeks iu search of both, at the end of which 
time I was to aceompauy her home. I found 
my poor friend sadly changed, with the sad 
drawn lines in her face, that tell of insomnia, 
that terrible disease that fastens itself upon so 
many great thinkers and writers. Although 
a graceful writer, whose name is well-known 
in the literary circles of California, she had 
never devoted herself to her work with such 
assiduity as to endanger her health, and con¬ 
sequently the cause of her illness remained a 
mystery bo her physician ami friends. In this 
case its worst feature seemed to be a madden¬ 
ing sense of the eternal sameness and routine 
of things. With au artist’s love of the beauti¬ 
ful, and an extremely sensitive nature, it was 
a peculiar phase of her disease that the very 
pattern of the wall paper had become a 
source of torture from the fact that her eyes 
had rested on it for so ruauy years. We tried 
the usual routine of trips to Monterey, San Ra¬ 
fael, Angel Islaud; sought every spot where 
health-giving mountain or sea breezes wore 
supposed to loiter, not forgetting that resort 
if every loyal Californian, the Cliff House; 
but without, producing much effect in the way 
of healthful sleep. For some reason that was 
to remain a secret she had been forbidden to 
return home before the two weeks were over, 
but at last the letter came recalling her. As 
we neared the house I noticed a bewildered 
look on the face of our dear invalid, which 
was explained by her exclamation of “What 
can Tom have been doing? Our house used to 
be white!” 
Whatever “Tom” had been doing, he cer¬ 
tainly had shown much taste in painting his 
house the darkest of olive green with just a 
line of Indian red here and there, the whole 
effect restful to the eye. As we entered the 
tiny hall and passed into the parlor, bewilder¬ 
ment deepened to amazement. Not one 
familiar object was to be seen. The room had 
been re-carpeted and re-furnished; the very 
engravings on the walls were different. This 
transformation extended through the entire 
house, and in the dining-room, the daintiest 
of feasts and a few chosen friends awaited this 
idolized wife. 
But it was in my friend’s own room that the 
acme of thoughtfulness had been reached. A 
large bay-window had been added to give iu- 
creased light ami cheerfulness, the carpet was 
of mossy greens interspersed with Lilies of the 
Valley. Great crimson floppies on a gilt back¬ 
ground covered the walls; the ceiling was 
papered to represent night, and twinkled 
with innumerable moons and slurs. I saw at 
once that the poetical nature of my friend 
appreciated this pretty idea of a poppv-eov- 
ered wall in her sleeping room, and did not 
doubt that ail this change, together with the 
pillow of poppy leaves that had been provided, 
would bring “Nature’s sweet restorer,” to her 
weary eyes once more. 
This of course is only one •• Other Woman’s 
Husband,” and I fear that he is somewhat of 
a rant avis, but, although such devotion iu a 
husband after fifteen years of married life, is 
not frequently found iu all conjugal differ¬ 
ences, there are two sides to t he question. The 
ease with which divorces are obtained in this 
country, where, us Charles Read© says, “ they 
allow you five minutes at. a railway station to 
get a divorce,” has probably much to do with 
the unhappiness of married people. Young 
people, while they may uot contemplate the 
possibility of a divorce on their wedding day, 
still have a feeling that the marriage is not 
necessarily for life. 
Swif t said: “The reason why so few marriages 
are happy is because youug ladies spend their 
time iu making nets, not cages.” 
no man’s wife. 
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{living off no poisonous vapors. The size Is now doub¬ 
t’d aud rake weighs nearly half a pound, but the quali¬ 
ty and price remain the same. Ask vour ttoocor for 
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