minutes over a bright fire; then place them 
on a sheet of clean blotting paper to free them 
from grease. Put into a stew-pan a large 
tablespoonful of butter, three medium-sized 
onions sliced, and a half teaspoonful of salt; 
lay the chops on this, cover closely and stew 
gently, without, the addition of water, until 
they are tender and the onions thoroughly 
cooked. They are capable of being served in 
many ways. Put a mound of nicely mashed 
potatoes in the center of a dish, lay,the chops 
around the base and send the gravy, to which 
you huve added a spoonful of good tomato 
or mushroom catsup, to the table in a boat. 
Green beans or peas may bo substituted for 
the potatoes, or boiled rice with a spoonful of 
citrry powder may be added to the gravy. 
Few cooks do justice to a breaded chop. 
The general idea that it must l>e fried by im¬ 
mersion in hot fat is an erroneous one. It may 
be strutted provided sufficient care is taken 
not to let the breading scorch. Pip each 
chop first in beaten egg and roll in fine bread 
crumbs, have your pan very hot, with a little 
very hot fat in it. Lay in the chops, place over 
a rather slow lire (a little practice will enable 
you to determine just how hot the fire should 
be), and turu frequently. They will require 
from ten to twelve minutes in the process. 
Season them with salt and pepper just before 
they are done, and serve them on a very hot 
dish. Mutton cooked in any way, if it is in¬ 
tended to be served hot, should be very hot, 
and if cold it must ho very cold. 
If you will try mutton cutlets a hi mi!in¬ 
cline, and not allow the high-sounding foreign 
name to frighten you, you will fiud them a 
very simple and delicious dish. Trim the 
cutlets or chops, and bread and fry as above. 
Before this is begun however put some maca¬ 
roni on to boil so that it. will be done about ten 
minutes after you begin to cook the chops. 
Put it on in salted boiling water, and when 
both are done, drain the macaroni, pile it on 
a hot dish, sprinkle two tablespoon fills of 
grated cheese over it. lay on a piece of butter 
the size of an egg, season with salt and pepper 
and toss with two forks uutil the butter and 
cheese are . melted, and the seasonings thor¬ 
oughly melted, Arrnuge the outlets around 
the base, and you will agree with Uncle Sara 
Ward that they “might make an ascetic play 
the glutton.” palmetto. 
Extract from a private correspondent at 
Bear Lake, Manistee Co., Mich. 
What bitter experiences have we passed 
through since I wrote yon last. I think I 
told you something of the drought and of the 
destructive forest fires that were near us. 
First our beautiful grove surrounding the 
house and grounds was set. on fire by a mis¬ 
chievous, half-witted boy, and as the drought 
still continued the fires continued to spread in 
spite of all our efforts to stop them. Meadows 
and pastures were blackened by the flames; 
miles of fence destroyed; then our commodi¬ 
ous barn, containing a large quantity of hay 
and grain, machinery, sleighs, cutter, harness 
and tools of all sorts was burned, and two days 
later the house with a good part of the cou 
tents, all were sacrificed to the fiery demon. 
Oh! it Was terrible to see the work of our 
hands tom from our grasp nud scattered to 
the four winds. It seems like a terrible dream, 
when T think of it, and that T must awake, 
but It is ouly too true. It might have been 
worse, for our lives were spared, and we were 
insured, though nothing near to what the 
losses were. For the first two or three weeks 
I had neither strength nor ambition to do 
more than exist. We were all exhausted with 
the work of trying to stop the fires. 
But we have finally taken up the thread of 
our lives and have gone about our work again. 
Wo were obliged to settle down in the village, 
five miles away, there being no vacant dwell¬ 
ing-house near the farm. So “ the men folks” 
take their dinners with them, and 1 try to get 
used to village life and entertain callers, when 
I want to be about the Iri important things 
that seem necessary to be done. I expect to 
learn many lessons. may maple. 
CARPET BEETLE REMEDIES. 
Prop. a. J. Cook, of the Michigan Agricul¬ 
tural College, recommends the following rem¬ 
edies for the destruction of the Carpet Beetle 
or “Buffalo Moth,” us it is ofteu called: 
First, he would recommend ironing wot 
cloths placed over the affected part of the car¬ 
pet, using flat-irons that are very hot. The 
cloths may be two or three thicknesses of com- 
4U£c*Uaucoa» 4Uwtbiaji. 
When Baby was 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. 
mon toweling, wrung out of water just so they 
will not drip, then iron till dry. To secure 
the best results one ought to have a dozen 
or more irons. He has found that this thor¬ 
oughly done is most deadly to the carpet moth 
larva, and surely the intensely heated steam 
penetrating every fiber of the carpet, and to 
every crevice of the floor, must sound the 
knell of every larval carpet beetle that feels 
its deadly presence. He has tried this on deli¬ 
cately tinted carjiets, and while it was de¬ 
lightfully efficient in destroying insects, it. did 
no injury whatever to the carpet. The only 
caution here then is to make thorough work; 
he sure of a full head of steam. 
Another remedy of which he says he should 
feel quite certain would bo to brush, by use of 
a paint brush, the floor under the carpet with 
a strong solution of corrosive-sublimate, the 
bi-chloride of mercury. This should be made 
as follows: Four parts (by weight) bi-chloride 
of mercury, one of chloride of ammonia (sal- 
ammoniac) , and 50 parts water. This is surely 
fatal to bed-bugs, Cimex Ieetularius, and cer¬ 
tainly these carpet beetles can hardly be pos¬ 
sessed of more lives than are the bed-bugs. The 
objection to this remedy is the virulency of 
the poison. Of course, with care there is no 
danger; but so many of us are by nature and 
practice so culpably careless that to have such 
a poison in the house is hardly safe. 
He also has reason to believe that tarred 
paper under the carpets, napthaline, the crys¬ 
tals of naptha, kerosene oil or gasoline would 
each and all kill the insects if freely used un¬ 
der the carpets. There are two objections to 
their use. They are all more or less offensive 
as to odor, while the last two, front their in¬ 
flammable nature, might do great harm. He 
has used the napthaline with marked effect. 
And although it does scent a room thoroughly 
it could lie removed after effecting a cure, 
anti the carpet aud room be so aired as to 
greatly lesson this objeetiou. Kerosene would 
surely kill all insects that it touched, but its 
tendency to stain the carpet, aud its persistent 
odor might be considered serious objections to 
its use. Gasoline—much better than naptha, 
as it never stains and quickly evaporates—is 
also a sure cure, and great caution to thor¬ 
oughly ventilate before any fire is brought 
near would render its use safe. If used thor¬ 
oughly iu a house, uo fire should be allowed 
eveu iu a distant room till thorough ventila¬ 
tion, as shown by the absence of the charac¬ 
teristic odor, had removed all the explosive 
vapor. As an accident by the use of gasoline 
might be most terrible it should ouly be used 
with the greatest care. 
Iu Case furniture is infested, the free use of 
gasoline would be the safest and surest rem¬ 
edy. In this case, the articles to Ik;* treated 
could be removed to an outbuilding, and 
should not be returned to the house till the 
liquid had thoroughly evaporated 
Woolen garments not in use may be pro¬ 
tected by putting them in perfectly close 
boxes. As the insects are so small we could 
not be sure that they were excluded except 
that we paste paper over any crack, as where 
the cover meets a box or trunk. 
In such close quarters, camphor gum, which 
keeps clothes moths away, is said to make no 
impress upon these beetles. The Professor be¬ 
lieves naptha line, which he is told not ouly 
keeps the Derme ,*s lardat ius (Bacon beetle) 
away, but uetua v destroys it w hen once at 
work, would alsi serve to protect against the 
carpet beetle, 1 no trouble with this would be 
the persistent odor. Yet it is possible that if 
tt should be closely wrapped in a cloth it would 
still keep the beetles out. and yet would not 
so scent the clothing that it w ould not soon 
pass off upon exposure. 
If clothing should become infected it could 
be put into a dose box aud drenched with gas¬ 
oline. As soon as the insects were killed the 
clothing could bo aired, when the odorous 
liquid would quickly escape. Bisulphide of 
carbon could bo used in the same w ay. This 
is deadly to all insect life; but it is fully as ex¬ 
plosive find dangerous when fired as is gaso¬ 
line. So if it is used we cannot be too cau¬ 
tious. 
HAIRPIN RECEIVER. 
This pretty and useful little article will re¬ 
quire very little time to fashion. Crochet in 
a shell pattern, of tuaeramd cord, a cover to 
fit a small tin box of any shape, stiffen it with 
cold starch; when dry it may be gilded. Or 
it may be made of the colored macramA Make 
a knitted top of zephyr by knitting every 
other row plain, and the alternate row by 
winding the zephyr around the first finger 
four times and knitting it in. Fill the box 
with curled horsehair, and fit it over. 
LAMP MATS. 
Handsome lamps have become so much the 
fashion that it is almost a matter of necessity 
to have mats, for if a table has a polished sur¬ 
face it will be scratched and marred by the 
jamp, and a handsome cover will also be soil¬ 
ed by it. Take four shades of zephyr; olive 
browns or reds are pretty. Knit in plain 
garter stitch a strip three yards long and 
18 stitches wide, using medium-sized need¬ 
les. This should then be dampened aud iron¬ 
ed; one edge cut off and ravelled out to within 
a quarter of an inch of the other one. Cover a 
piece of pasteboard nine inches square with 
some woolen stuff to ..'orrespond or contrast 
prettily with the knitted edge, and sew- the 
ravelled strip on in rows beginning on the 
outer edge with the darkest color. Lap each 
row over sufficiently to hide the edge of the 
previous row. H. m. 
Elsie Bee says in the Jeweler’s Circular 
that with the revival of other old time favor¬ 
ites tt appears possible that cuff pins will 
again come into general use. That there is a 
necessity for these or some similar contrivance 
every lady who wears linen cuffs can testify, 
and the wonder is that so needful an article 
was ever dropped. There are few things more 
trying to the feminine temper than the shoot¬ 
ing out of a stiff cuff over the hand, and the 
jagging into the flesh of a pin point with 
every sudden movement of the arm. 
The new advocates for favor in form of 
cuff pins are fashioned after the old models, 
w hich of late years have figured in stock un¬ 
der the name of “baby pins,” because used for 
the purpose of keeping iu place infant’s bibs 
aud little peoples’ collars. The chief differ¬ 
ence between the new and old cuff pTns is that 
the former is bent a little so as to present a 
slightly convex surface that fits the curve of 
arm and sleeve. All gold cuff pins are in the 
show cases this fall; some are chased, 
some are finished in enamel, aud others are 
formed of twisted w-ire or rope pattern. The 
fact that the cuff pin, like the old bar pin, is a 
utility affair, serves equally well for lace, 
bonnet aiul ribbon ornaments, when not re¬ 
quired for confining the cuffs in place, is a big 
argument, in its favor. 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
MRS. L.’S JELLY CAKE. 
“ I have: a way of my own for making jelly 
cake,” said Mrs. L-, as she went about pre¬ 
paring things for supper, “ and I’ll make some 
while you are here and see if you do not pro¬ 
nounce it good.” 
While she was getting the materials to¬ 
gether, I hunted up a bit of pajter and my pen¬ 
cil and was ready to jot down the recipe as 
she directed. 
“ I put a cup of flour into the dish in w-hich 
the cake is to be mixed, and stir in a teaspoon¬ 
ful of baking pow r der. Now I add three- 
fourths of a cup of sugar aud two eggs; then 
I go to a pan of milk with my dish aud dip off 
about five spoonfuls of sweet cream, then get 
a lump of butter the size of a hickory nut, and 
put iu with the other ingredients, and then stir 
all together and put into the tins, and bake 
quickly. Flavor to taste.” 
When baked I found it excellent, and have 
since tried the rule, and found it easily made, 
and a success. She also gave me several other 
recipes, the following among them, which she 
prized, very much: 
SUPPER CAKE. 
Break two eggs into a teacup and fill up with 
sweet cream; add one cup of sugar, one and 
one-half cups of flour, one heaping teaspoon¬ 
ful of baking powder, stirred into the flour, 
aud one tablespoonful of butter. Mix all to¬ 
gether and bake. 
CORN STARCH CAKE. 
Two cups of powdered sugar, one cup of but¬ 
ter, three-fourths cup of milk, the whites of 
six eggs, three-fourths of a cup of cornstarch, 
two cups of flour, three tahlespoonfuls of bnk- 
iug powder mixed into the flour; flavor with 
lemon. V r ery nice. may maple. 
pine apple au naturel. 
Pineapples have the name of being indiges¬ 
tible, but if prepared as follows they will be 
fotmd quite innocent in their effects. Cut the 
base from a sound, ripe pine. Take a long, 
narrow, sharp anti pliable knife and rim it 
down within a quarter of an inch of the outer 
side of the rind. This will loosen the 
fruit from the skin which should then be 
lifted out. Now run the knife down the core 
and remove the latter which will leave a hole 
or cavity through it an inch in diameter. Fill 
this with white sugar and place it on a dish, 
base down. Replace the shell of riud and set 
a way for a few hours in a cool place. Bring 
to table the apparently untouched pine, lift off 
its plumed cap, and you will find it mellow, 
tender and delicious, and the dish brimming 
with a liquid like veriest nectar. a. g. 
Oak floors are best for kiteheus. 
Have you tried salting down string beans 
for winter use) Treat them tvs you would cu¬ 
cumbers. When wanted take from the brine, 
freshen, then eut and cook as you would 
those just picked from the vines. 
See to it that your napkins don’t smell of 
soap. 
How mauy of our readers have pleasant 
kitchens? 
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I would not be without, Ayer’s Cherry 
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Complaints, auil speedily relieves 
Hoarseness or Irritation of the Throat, 
caused by public speaking. — Rev. E. 
Betkune, Janesville, Tenn. 
I have been so much afflicted with 
Bronchitis that l should he unable to 
perform my clerical duties without the 
use of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. — A. G. 
Kirk, Pastor Baptist Cb., Hillsville, Pa. 
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