Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 27, 1876, Page 9

Wik CHICAGO TRIBUNE: ‘ SATURDAY, HOUSEKEEPIN Dr. Hale on the Cooking of Vegetables, Mre. gnother Sparkling Contribution ¢ from Mrs. Sarah L. ) Vatioty of Methods for Preparing Fish for the Tahble, gow o Wife Oured Her Hus- band of Dyspepsia. Recipes for Sauces, Cookies, Cakes, Ginger-Snaps, Ete. VEGETABLES. To tha Editor of The Tridune. CnicAco, May 26.—In the last paper we ko of the Inferior quality of tho fruit and Jegetables grown for and offered for sale in our fly morlce’a. 101 could induce the dyspeptic prallde, ond the weak, hyaterieal, norvous wom- 1n, who caunot walk threo Dlocks without head- «he or fatigue, to go to work right heartily ypon whatever bit of mother carth Provideuce I thic land-speculators perits to them, 1€ 1t yonly In o row of boxes on the balcony, [ thoukd hope te do them more goad than by any siher single means whatever, But Iam not so lisfonary 08 Lo unticlpate any such lappy re- mlt. Weo shail go on belng dyspeptic and yervoue, and eating things that don't agree'* gith us. Tlow, then, having the perfect food, Jhall we not spoll it in the cooking, or how, hav- pgonly the Inferlor kind, stall wo so manage 1 to dovelop all the goud and keep In abeyauco the evil quulittes? “Everybody knows how to mash _potatoes, wnysone of your correspondents. Tam not at Jisurcof this. T have seen potatoes mashed i & molding-hoard by a rolling-pin; I bave jcen them goggy and unpleasantly nolst, nmil Iryond disagreeably cheesy. Easy of achieve- ment a8 It seems, it is not ufter all so very cusy to have excellent ** mashed potatoes.” Does everybody know how to hofl potatoes? Wituess the lukewarm, hatf done, and wholly Kotestable dish, freckled all over with mildewy ipots, as unattractive to the eye as dlstasteful 1 the palate, complacently accepted ot half the Jables fn Christendom as potatoes. The baked potato, too, that loy forever on sur winter breakfast tables—bolled potatoes for breakfust is 8 bit of Larbarism—what o melan- tholy flluatration ft {5 of tho foct that pooklng of the shoplest kind i a flne at, that it requires sound judgment, re- fned taste, @ quick and diserhninating 15ty and that capacity for puihstaking which i onc of the nttributes of genlus, 11 a potato Is to be baked §t should be corefully waelied (with abrueh if you are nice about your hands), but N0 unt should the skin ‘be anywhere cut BT FEINOY 118 entlre integrity is necessary to tontine the water of the lmw"' rapldly ¢convert- M into steam by the heat of the overi. By this means the stareh-graing sre evenly and com- Ietely expanded and the cookingaccomplished l;mlmlll half an hour by u moderate heat, g:sml witha papkin in the hand they should uniformly done—ylelding to alizht pressure, ey require just as cureful couking ns an epe, en’tninutes Lo 1ittle, and there Is & hard Junip jomewhere,—ten minutes too much, and the skin sbrivels, the starch gralns part with thelr molsture and shrink, nud, instead of belus light and mealy, the potato becomes a heavy, sogisy, IndigestiBle muss, At this senson of the rear even theold and wot very good potatoes ean be made palatable by caretul couklng. Pare and wash them hefore Dlllug; let tho water boil hefors they are ut in, and le sure it does not cease o do #o untfl they are done. They should boso well done that a silver fork will not go rough without breakiug them. Then drain ot every drop of water, partly uncover the ket~ tle, aud return for a minute or two to the stove. Then remove to a hot dish and serve fin- medintely, If they are to be mashed, sprinkle over them little solt after they ure drained, and then usg e potato-masher s0 thoroughly that no lumnps are feft; put balf & teacupiul of sweet cream, ar, failing the cream, a plece of butter us lnrgo 1san e for five or eix potatoes, mdd enough milk to moisten properly, lltlllri careful ot to get In too much. Stir thorough- Iy, snd in wbout flye minutes remove tothe hot dish. Garnigh as you like, Itis o good way to brush over witli the white of nn e and brown fn the oven. 1€ there fs any left, which s not Mkely, it may be made into co- uettes, and nicely browned on o griddle for i next morning's breakfast, I botliny ]lnummca, when they are not previ- ously pared, T always have a rivg of the skin & nutarier of ua fuch peeled from” end toend, 1 B sure that this 8 not s “notlon,” but that the escape of the water, and coneequently the mealiness of the potato, are very much pro- moted by it. "It does no larm to it largd potatoes in halves or quar- trs before boiling. Now, unripe potatovs arc probubly us unwholcsome un articls of swnuier dict'as ean be found. They should not be used until well developed. Tenaclous cont proves them to be ripe. Al vegetables can be far more nicely cooked In soft water, a fuct of no special importance to us who use the excellent lnke water, but the young hourekeeper on the prairie, who has to thovse between the wetl and the elstern, will remember It Pens and sweet corn should be bolled in s Hitle water ns will cook them about twenty min- utes, at the longest half an hour. A longer timo hardens them. Marrowfat peas are, I belleve, an exception to this rule, All the sucenlent vegetables haveconsiderablo nutritive yalue. This f8 especlully true of the Jeguminos®, But, unfortunutely, the nutritive Principicn aro wssoclated with Iidigestiblo sul- stances which are often productiveof diseomfort n serfous fllness. When this Is the case, lid would better use themonly in soups. The healtfulness of saluads no one questlons, ut the * fnslillous cucumber 1 {s ulready in pur marl Whether to abstaln or partake I8 The question. Abstain by all means from the tucumbers of the grocer. " But §f you can grow them fn your own gurden, and pluck them cool and fresh fn the dowy morning, why thenl thlnlk, If you have & falr "digestion, you may par- take. Provided, that tho paring ho done with a fiberal hand, cutting down close to the watery Ind seedy core. Titon lico [n picces an elghth ol nn Juch thick, pour on cold water, and then after draining put on your vinegar, #alt, pepper, r.ul ollIf you llke, Hut use the vinegar spar. ngly. e ot to ho plekled, While freal, green cucumbers under the right tonditions are Innocent, plekled cucumbers ure slways cvil, unless, Indeed, you walt until tln-{ we ripe, when you way pare und core them, cul Inv}uur(crs, cook In water until they are soft, and then cook agaln in & quart of vincgar made weet by a pound of sugar, and Hghtly splecd. Bl Vefter ure”peaches prepared n 4 shmilor ay. + These, of course, are not suitable for food for etual fuvallds. Nor are they to be eaten freely ¥ people who do not wisk to become Invallda. Al coudiments—spiees, popper, mustard, and e llke—have o stimuluting effect upou the Jomach, A llttte of this may do no harm, may be even B benellt, but an excess can b only an injury, rldund«mbmny the free aud habltusl use o ighly-seasoned food creates, by und by, o crav- :1 Jor sthuulus whiclh “ouly " alcohol - can sty All'these should bo sparingly used, and, {f ero {8 alrcady o morbld condition of the Momuch, and reason to suspect . slght degroe Meronic inflammatlon, they would” better b dspensed with altogether. ® Eyrrs ara admirablu food for tho slck when tonvalesencs fa sutliciently estublished, und Nhere there §8 Impulred nutritlon they nre most faluable, ‘They contaln atbumen and fut in u ‘:ry digestible form. As n genersl rule, tho al- inen shoutd not be hardened by cooking, 1 think the best way to hnll«.‘¥ 78 3 a8 follows: Put the eggs in somo vessel which can bo closely :zvem]. and when the tea-kettle boils pour in ater enough to cover thew, close the vessel Eld Fhwe ftou the back purt of the stove, and 4 {€ remaln ten minutes. 1f you wish to b Tery cxocel, use & thormoicter” and keep the Fater \en minutes at exnctly the heat which s Kdicated after the water {s poured i, By the ordinary method of letting the (‘min U from twa Lo four ndnutes the white part i3 Bardened wnd the yolk feft uncooked, of If the Tulk 13 cooked the white Is too hugd, By Lhis hethod the heut penctrutes so gradually” that 1he yolk {s nicely cooked, whils the whits 18 soft od” tender and only just done enough to bo ‘:Wlnc. ll;!u ro best fried by putting enough L on the griddle to keeg themw from edher modes in bringing preparation of !oo(k your reason. however much the emanelpated prate over the They need not be drenched, since they tng and letting them cook Just enough to act tho white. A nice Tanch may be mado for an fuvalld hy putting natf a teacupful of milk into o hasit fund, when It hofts, breaklog I an e, Str il S tieleens, il add alt, A Tette may be made thus: Hreak haif a dozen eges Info” o bowl, 8kim out the volks o u lurge coffee-cup. Boat (he while ton sl froth, Now beat the yolks enongl ke then smooth, (1l up the cup with mi and pour this (nto_the bowl containlug the whites of tha eggs, Put in s little salt and stlr enongh to inlx the whole,—that Is, us little an posalble, Have the splder warmed nud a picee of hutter o8 large as an ey alremly melted thereln, Now your in your “eggs ond injlk, et it cook a]uwli‘; be rure nod pof. hutn. If there Isdanger of thia 11t it up from the botton with a koite, When the froth sets on the top it {8 done. Put o lwge plate over the apider and deftly turn the whole upside down, Lift oft the splder nnd you will have au clegant and delielons omelette, Eggs may bo beaten while raw and taken fna i:uplo coffue or tea, or In milk, or with stlion- ants, Bix eg?u to a quart of milk, Iunvln&' whites of two to froth for the top, an taste, makes a tfce, soft custard. Wiiere eggs are so nlnndant and cheap as they aro in the West, it I8 not worth while to he cconmnical of them, They give ns much hutrl- ment for the moucy as any other form of food. Avin M. Hawg, M. D. out the sugor to BRAIN FOOD. To the Kditor af The Tridune. Cnicaao, Mny 20.—Almost all kinds of food have been commented on, and reclpes given for thelr preparation and cooking, Iwasdeeply Interested in the letter from Lake For- eat, signed “R," on *Bread Preparation as Pood for the Drain Wil the sgent of Iorseford's preparation please advertise where Horafurd’s preparation can be obtalned? Lwas led to believe, untll recently, thut oll conrre flonr or meal was healthy. I was inform- ed by n phyrlelan whose opinlon T value frotn experfence that rye bread not only wes not nourishing, but was canse of disease. Our Inst week's —Twmnune contained several recipes for conking flsh, which §s one of the hest of foods for the brain we have, I wiil il a few recipes for cooklng flsh. For those who profer . fred, they will find it an improve- ment. When the fish 18 properly cleansed, fu- stead of putting it Into a smiall quantity of fat or grense, wipe deyj then rub with plenty of salt and pepper; let it Iny au hour or two before using; roll In corn-meal or flour; have reaily fat sufllelent for it to swlm In; the fat must be lmlllu{:vlmt' put the flsh in whole, or ent In pleces, 1t will come out nicely browned, and niot filled with fat, as In the ordi- wary way of {rylog. Bolled or stenmed fish {s very nice with drawn- butter sance, TFor baking fish, take bread crumbs sufticlent for tho slze of the flsh; beat two or threo eggs; pepper and salt; dd one Dutich of parsley, freal, and_chopped fines mix all togethier well: add a small piece of butters putall Into the fish und sew up. 1€ any of the dressing 1s left, put futo the bake-pan; add o pint of Dolllng water; put nto o hiot uvens baste every ten or fifteen min- ntes for an hour, when it will be well covked andd nicely flavored. For spiced fiall, which makesa nice relleh for supper: After well cleansing u good-elzed flah, hut Into a tish-kettle, and set Into o pot of hoil- Jiie Water well sateds let it bofl for twenty aininutes; take of vinegar sufliclent to cover; put into the vinegar ono ounce of cloves, one of alleplee, and one of popper whole; hotl ‘all togetlier for ifteen min- uten; when nearly cold pour over the tishj let it stand two or three hour hefore using. Those who are fond of oyster-soup will nd the recipe I will give fur niore digeetible than oyaters: Toko ol fresh tomatocs 1 pint, canned or fresh; take o lnrge teacup of nice white cod- lsh, pleked upflne; add to this 3 pints of waters o small tabiespoonful of guod sweet butter; wlien thege have bofled twenty minutes, add pint of freeh milk,—having ready one-half ten- spoonful of baking woda. Uec fumediately. ‘The taate s imilar to oysters or lobsters; ull tasto of tomatoes and figh are gone, Most all pervons with a delleate organization In thoe spring fecl more or less prostrated, be- cause we huve less food contaluing phosphates for winter use than in summer. Almost all yegetables contain phosphates, especially thoro fresh from the earth, and more or less cathartic as well as parcotle. 8o we are actunlly taking braln and nerve remedies in Homeopathie doses. But_ there arc stuges of bruin prostration that need o more direet treatment.” We will leave that to medical ocfence, and study the best sbout the cflect by the M A.D. DIRS. RARATM L.’S SETTLER. b the Editor of The Tribune. Cnicaao, May 25.—My dear Mrs. Emily: And ftall. 1%talk so much llke a man,” that's We cannot put down old Nature, wrongs of our scx—canwe! Your confesslon {s thu unanswerablo argunent for our suffvagists. Ie says sometimes, however, Lara more than lia)t man, but It's ouly when he sees me hail- Mpped, with the baby under my arm, squalling and squirming lWke a spider stuck upon a pin, trying to make out whether the political editorials of Tur TRIBUNE favor the nomlnation of Tilden or Blaine for Presl- dent. Ioften wish 1 hadn't adropof womnun blood in my valus, and I wish it the worst every spring ond fall. Tsn’t it o shame thot nearly six mouths of our year must be spent in pulling up old carpets, rearranging wrinkled and curled shades, mending old curtalns, benzining tar- nished furniture, clegnivg, and, Oh, heav- cans! I tlre at the mero enwmneration of our bienmial jobe, aml especlally when I think what great dofngs you and 7 might b capable of bt for these housckeepiug chalis, And even with al) our work, Busan and her agl- tators think we should do, or try to du, some of the men's work, The ewrly advocates of womati's rights, such as Mary Wollstonecroft and Fanny Wright, were not fu favor of woman's assuming any duties that were not by nature allowed to he hers. They stuck tnd that women ought to do better what they tried todo. Iama disciplo of thess earller preach- crs, and think we women need more con- sclentiousness in tho performance of our wurk; more honesty, if you please. Now, if T hadn't three stout boys (allowing to soup every d:\i'); 1 T hadw't an'old hachelor for a husbawd; it I hadn’t to go to church and to use my preclous tine in trylig to out-vie my nefghboring pews In the mamifacture of clothes, my mission would be to cajole some rich an benevolent man in Chicago (say Long Juhn far instance) intobullding me un Academic de culsine, where raw gi((rho might bo tought the common sense of cookery; where the chemistry of the selenvs could be learned by every housekeeper, and whero girls would be Impréssed with the sucreduess,” tho greatness, and the respecta- bility of their occupation, 1 never yet had a girl to do my work but that in soie way or uther tricd to convey the fmpression that her rr’xllllug was owlng” rather aceldent thau cholee. I haed o man vook a few months once, amd he was o pifze. Hewas proud of his profesaion, and how I dtd work with bim, and try to feel thie sume Interest that hie did 'in the preparation of dninty purees, sauces, salads, and garnlshcs, 1le would have worked for the sanie wages os & girl, but he couldw’t ar wouldn't’ serub, and w.]»\lnld finish every bottle of wine lett out of the cellar, © ‘The servant-girl questlon has two sides to it, T hardly ever knew un honest servant to leave an orderly houschold for amere whim, Girls like to stay at such places, It stimulates thelr awbition. ” ‘The wunt of superlority ln kuowl- edpge of mistress uver mald i3 one of the grreat. druwbacks to the enjoyment of housckeeping this country, and hus given rise to o phuse of Iifs_ which ‘can be found nowhero else l the world, sud that {s the boarding-house Hfe. DI you ever, friend Emily, read Mrs. Trol- lope's buol on America, ‘pubilshied beforg elthor of us were born, say in 1835 or 63 Ifnot, I must tell you what she says. It will make you Taugh for ts truthfulness For some resson or other, young mareied peesons boa of **golig to housckeeping un extabl{shms a great nuinbor of Ny the yeur instead an they call having 1 exw haedly lmage Tue w contrivane e effectnal for fnsaring the inslgnificance of u woman than marrying her at 17 aud placiug bor Iy abonrding-hone, no can 1inog- inu s lifo of more uniform dullucss (o the irl her- melf, And yct | have heard ladies declars that it fs “4juet the perfection of courfurt to have nothing to do.’" But desplte these sssurances 1 always cx- perlenced a feellng which huvered between pity and contempt when I contemplated thelr mode of vx- {atence. tlow would a newly marrled Englishwoman look upon such & Phfll. her head and heart tull of one dear schemve, *'n well-ordered home to muke” Bhe must rise exactly tn thio to reach the lnmrmn“- tablo nt the hour appoiuted forbreakfast or ehy will get w el bow from the lady president, cold colfee, and no cgus, The breakfusl procecds i1 wombre aitence, ave thit somvtlmes o pargot ur canury bird ventnres 1o utior o timfd oo When it L Tindghed, the gentlemen hurry nway, amd the laddive luzlly mount the stalre, xome to the first, sowe to tho secand, and some (o thy third stories, in un lnverse wumfllml to thy number of dullars pald, As to what they now do it is uot very vasy to eay; but belleve they it in & rocklng-cbalr aod gew, for I have observed you like me. One waman to lke another! But | your suspicion that Tam not a woman explains | that the ladies who hoarded wore maorn elnborately-sorked enllara and petticonta than o e el Aldtinner little 18 apoken o ta per hetwort tiniean hott wine jlunl unl, bt it WOt tn G ik or conversation of the m 11 I not then aud thers that the men of the drhnk, * sen out, Pogan vinll, {00 Nl n—nn, not hotme 1 whi not give that namn to a hoardipgdyonse, buat e Cre- untors the cold, heart atmosphers In which: she dwelle, whora hoapltality can never enter, and swhere futerost (nken Uie mn it Instend of Af- fection, At tea they nll mo 2 and a liitlo trickery in pereeptible (o w nice abseryer n tho manner of dividing the l)llll d-cake. Then they retire to a common stfingroom, fn n_raclety cemented by no tle, endeared by no_connection, which cholee did not bring together, and which tho stuhtert motive would break wrunder. (iere she might hnve ndded the ruinof many A poor yonms wife lmflnl.{ 1 remmarked that the gentlensen wero genorally obliged to go ont every evening on busi- tews, nnd I confees the arrangement did not aur- prise me. T elose her sarcastie description with the fol- lowlng wise conclusion upon this mode of Hfe: JLinnot thua that tha women can obtain that influcnce in_socicty which Is allowed Lo them in Earope, und to whitch buth nages and men of tho world huve agreed in usceibing mich ralutary cilects, Dovsn’t that bit the nall on the head, Emliy? But I must hurry on tomy bill of fare. As somebody [nguired bow to hake fish, and as no- Dody_aurwered, I will skip Ii?' beef a lamode amx‘ }ancudny. und take Fridoy, cverybody's uhi-ay. Yor breakfast, veol cutlets, mufiina, and fried sotatoes. The way I cook cutlets and chops I 0 hake them. Thic great object Is to bave veal and mutton thorai rm{ cooked, and by haking you best accomplish that ' object. Take your dripplng-pan, rub a little butter over ach cutlef st and popper, and Iny flat in pans; place in hot aven, and cover with another pan of same size. When done, if you Hke, make a sauce called butler malire Whotel. 1tub to n aoft paste a small p ? hut- ter with flours pour over half cup bolllng hot water. It will then thicken; then add atea- ul of lemon-jufce; pour over cutlets, and serve, It good “for dinner. Battered veal sn't fit to ent. Mullins: Oune cup mitk; twwo n;:§ two-thirda cup lard} snlt; one teaspoonful 1's huking qu\\'dcr(Rnck\\'uml keeps ft, and 'tis the best), Make = butter_ not too' stiff, and_bake fo gen- tins; fifteen or twenty minutes will do, Dinner: Rice soup, boked whiteflsh, maca- ronl, potatoes, souflice, cake, pudding. ‘The nwrk of soup nbways made the same. The rice cooked In a separate dish until done, Then about n “m‘mrllunmacup of bolled rice to o quart of broth. Boil together half an hour. A entleman assured me the other day that the st flah in all the United Statea Is to" be found our wicked Inke, and that's the whitefish. Three are a good dinner for six or seven per- suns. Dry with o towel, and put belly to back in dripplng-pan, Into which you lave proviously ent up twa alices of salt pork in inch pleces, Make u stufliug as for veal, previously given. Stull two, putting only n Httld in. Soine llkeit better without stufling, so leave one for thot une. Now pour over cach fish a spoonful of lemon-Juice or good vinegar, - After u little, baste with a little Nm‘)-hruth. Don't let the fish dry all up, und don't put s drop of water on it. Make your ssuce as for veal cutlets deseribed nibove, omitting the lemon-julee, but udd half cup of milk and cut up acouple of hard-bolled eggs fnto it. When done, aifo add the fish-julee.” A Hitle parsley chopped fine iu the saute, we ke, Garnlsl® with hard-bolled epres and n{wrlgn of parsley, mounted by little carpels of lemun. Potatoes: Steam or boll dry a quart of sound potatoes; then peel and mash in a sauee-pan, anid tix an ounce of butter; set over the fire, potiringe fu slowly uearly half a pint of milk. Btir to prevent scarching. Dish Iuto a common carthen dish, seallop and put in quicle uven to brown; sct on table {n sanie dish, This 8 the most'palatable way of | cooking potatovs in the spring. Macaroni: Blanch the pasie. Then boll un. 1 £oft, salting o lttle, It takes about twenty: five minutes, Turn Into a colander; make your sauce_as ahove described, omitting the femon. In such @ dinner you can muke enough of this sauce st on¢ time for all “your dlglies, “Toke your porcelnin macaront-dish; put’ a layer of riincas Tonl firet, cover with sace, a Jittle' bit of sult, u loyer of grated o w, & layer of macaroni, and then of chuese, and then sauce, then bread crumbs, four pleces of butter about the stze of an acorn placed on the crumbs, and tho dish ect i the oven to brown. It takes about as long oy the potatoes, Make a common good cake nnd a sauce of corn atarch, with sugar, and flavered with wine. Now in closing, and in snswer to “lHyde Park,” 1 will tell what will do for supper. The meat you make your soup of fs not like the wmeat / make my soup of. Idid not mean thut I fed ny children upon a dry shank or old pleces of boked meat bolled” oud sizzled to denth, I meant such o picce as any butcher wlill glve you it you usk for soup meat, not a soup hone. At the dinners of Dukes and Lords on tho Continent, a plece of this ment Is served nfter the soup ns an eufree, (I'don’t know this from expericnee.) I use It for mince-tneat ln winter, or, choppling it fine, scasou with ralt and pepper, make into cakes about the size of & Boston cracker, dip in beaten cgs, roll i bread crumbs, and fry in butter for our supper. 1€ any mashied potatoes are left make samne way, dip fn cgg and fry. With rutce and good bread it isa supper it for o Klug, or much tov guod for adnf;. Mus, Banax L. ——— DOMESTIC ECONOMY. To the Editor of The Tridune, CiticAGo, May 2.—Allow me, as & constant reader of your valuable paper, to express iy ndividual thaoks for tho attention aud space you devote to the alldmportant subject of housckeeping., Years ago, when I was very young and & very Ignomst litle wife In- deed, T reeetved un incaleulable amount of henetit from Just such lettersas arc now appear- ing fn your columns, from those published in tho New York (Tribune. Our lamented Horace Greeley alwoys took o great interest fn the Art of Cooking, nand did much toward elevating and improving the Amer- lean tasto in that direction. I marrled at 16 a confirmed dyspeptie, and we read everything wo cduld get upon tho subject of dict,amd studicd hard to arrlve nt some system of dict which would be at once wholesome and palat- able, From following outa great many hob- Dies and crotehiets concernlng the proper way 4o live, he hnd brought hinself slnost to the con- ditlon of an{nvalld. He hod for years been o vegetarian, ond had drank nelther tea nor coffee, mor anything stronger than water, utd the effeets of all these things, combined with o ecdentary oceupation, had reduceld him to a akeleton almost. Now I will not bore you with an account of all the things we tricd that falled, butonly what wo fouml succeeded; for we did succeed in caring hin, 80 that, fromn being able to take at o meal & balf o slice of dry tonst, and o part of a very soft bolled egg, or a soda cravker and a small teacup of soup, he lllmlli' was ablo to eat heartily of anything except rich pastry,—and the stromzest of us cannot dv_this with u337||x|lly. The fol- Towing recipo did more good thni woull be believed without actual trinl. 1 have tricd it in o number of Bevers e and never knew it to fnd If properly tuken snd persevered fng its elfects are imnialiate and prmancnt, “Tuke ns much {pecacunnha as will Ie wpon the polnt of a pen-knifes stir it in o very little wa- ter, and take just befors every meal. This wilt excite the stoiuch to action, “but without pro- duclng nausea. It secures digestion, and “the body h iproved ub once by the nutriment gain- cd by u well-dlzested meal, snd every day adds totho rupidity of the cure. Now (u({nw thisup by s plain and stmple dict, sud all the ontdoor eXercise vou ean get, and my life upon {t you will not be troubled very loigs with dyspepsfa, But obeerve the following rules: The dlev , b flour, two-thirds white, and nial | wsunl wayas white bread tsmade,—tone of those MAY 27, 1876—TWELVE PAGES. ¢ the meat as well as the julce, the husk of grain ua well s the Kemnel, to jently irrlinte the bowels and prevent constina- tion, thut rout of all bodily s !For' tea, ont-meal or cornemeal mush, “well hoiled; bread and titters fealt of any ripe ki, and one cup of moderately strong tea, will do no hurt, ‘lhlrnl n the In making the hircad, use ong mulasses abmiminattons yelept “(rabam bread.’ Noenkel Noplel Nohot biscuitsl No pork! No fried potatoes for dyspeptics. No fricd ejris, nor hard-lwlled ones, r & while, atewed meats, stawed gontly in a little water, Uit ten- der; rare beefsteak; baked or bolled potatoes, | hut uhoays let the nitritious gralns prepouder ate in your diet. And now 1 wantto any o worl to © Mra, Iim!l*’," the gentle “ plper from the pineries.' Her Jetter struck a responsive chord in my brenst which vibrated in truest sympathy, for I have been just where sho I now, =z little one in_nrme, two or threo inore dlinglng st lier skirte, cyerything to do, no domeatlc training purhaps, ond every inclination and taste bent the other way, 15 added Lo this there fs very Tintted means, an exacting husband, the way fw rough Indecd. Let me hope she o sparei these two fost straws, I think T deteet {n her Dright und sparkling, but desperate, eplstle of lust weelg, the elferveseing of w aweet aplrit that years ago used todelight the senscs of ' Milwaukee m-wt)" who, unider the sweet name of “Mignonetts,” threw oft a great deal of newspaper fengrance, Am 1 right, Mrs. Enifly L.t 1t pu, can Lhelp you! I have struggled and fought, and scrambled, and sturnbled, and thought, und studied, ahd have fnally reached that bleased housekeeping state whe be- comes ciill’s play. I eati now luok back on my ntmgxillug slsters calinly, though full of inter- est. -1 would ke to du anything Icould to help them, though I find very few willlg to learn, 1 often wateh them doing things all wrony, aceording to my cxperienve, bui am afrald to fterfere, for fear they would resent it ns an hnperthience; but I would only be too rlad to Leich thetn anything Elmnow, and sospare hem rome of my trouble and pajns. Al we - could only hegin where our parents left off, und our children lmphl where we leave off, the ruce would soun arrive ot the acme of wisdom. But no! Weare so proud and stiff-necked, that we will not learn from other people's experlence, but apend the best part of our lives blundering over the path gur parents trod, lustead of prot- iting by their advice 1o scek newer aud better roads, you, Mrs, Emily, I nistrust these extraonlinary women ™ who ulways have everything n such ““apple-ple’ or- der. y “experlence of these women has been that their husbands invariubly spend thelr cvenings from bome, finding no rest or compan- fonship at hume, Of one thing I um sure, and thot is, it 18 simply fmpossiblo for o mothier with fafant children to observe such perfect propricty of housckeeping, and_ not neglect ®ome niore important virtucs. T have known some mothers who never hal time to take up their Jittle onee and singg 1ittlo dittics to theni, or tell them little pledsant stories, or apend few minutes In pleasant converse with hus- band on his afairs. ‘Ihiere was always the fronfng to finish, or the bread to ret, or the clothes to rprinkie, or the house must be fixed to look nlee in_caze *‘gomchody calls,” while the husband aud children starve for mother's | Better wear clothes rough luove and lefsure. dry, than lose these precious joye; better ab- jure visiting sltogether than purch such a price. A day or two's work w! seta Jove of o husband who hall reginl And the es of o dead child, who shall restoref fore, Mrs. Emily, I'say to you aml all | placed In your trying position, louk to your children and husband “and thelr comfort un love, and do not try todo fmpossibilities, and everything will always worle out rl(zht, even | thotiggh your dishes ure not garnislicd, your liouse not nlways in “npvlc- ic' order; your collars and aprons not of the dainticst. i Before T elose, allow e to protest agninst =o many ladics feeding thelr “tired and hungry hushands” on eake of all kinds, and pic, Ladies, {f you want to keep them lovatile and quml-untun}d you must do better than this. . 'wo-thirds of dll the recipes given thua far | have been for e, Wo uro blessed in this land with o superabundance of everything suita- ble for food. hy then allow this everlasting eake to rule the host? I am golug to take the | stand that a man who lives ou cake principally. or ple, is not worth and never will amount to “ghucks.” Now, ladles, there s my gountlet. Let who will take it up! I we want inen, we always ea must feed them on beef, and graln. and fruit, and not on such stuff as our lovesick maidens crave. Next weck, Mr. Editor, T will send sume common-sense reclpes, with your gex- mlssion. Tuzo. C. C. | s MUFFINS AND SAUCES. To the Editor of The Tribune, CmcAGO, May 26.—Please allow me o amall® space in your paper. When reading ** Mrs. Sarah L./s" last communication to your paper, it scemed to me ‘“a woman sling- ing about any expression,” nnd anything “gounding sloppy " read as slangy sé anything' I remember in “ Bridgeport’s™ letier. Iam glad to hicar alic 18 not o femme entretensne, although: when she speaks of how caslly she could decoy » husband from his wifo's side, it sounds suspi- clous. I don't think *the man she lives with' has to be ot his placo of businces at 7 or half- past. n the moraing ; if he does; her servants. are more willing to rise early than some I' have heard of. I like her way of cooking n. becf-steaks, but I think a tenderlofn prefer- able to porter-house. Of course, *the best unprofessional cook in thls city ™ can bear criticlsing some. Now, & mutton ragout, would be ns unpalatable to my fanily os “ sour bread sonked In seda-water and fried,” which I am quite sure would. I very often make beef steak ‘nlrluln) ragout, and frequently put_an onlon lIn, which scems to me u?rnpcr o place for one us in an omolette, and {f I'was Irisn, and bog-leal was uscd for flavoring, T know I ghould” like ft. It may be genteel to eat everything conducive to health; it 8 not ungenteel or fll-bred to decling what docs not agree with one's taste. I think it is quite’ as commenduble to he uxgzrl. with the needlo orsewing-machineasitls to be o good couk, Now yc housckeepers, who are so anxious to know what to do with the pleces of breud, arc there no children that como to your door bepging for “cold victuals? “If there ar¢, put them in thelc baskets; re- member what the DBible says about giving to the poor; or, give them to the chivk- ens; if they are your nelghbors, you will then ;Xm fultilting Bcrlpture, viz.: heaping coals of re, cte, 1 will ndd a recelpt for mufling, which are quicker prepared for breakfust than Freneh rolla: One quart of flour; three teaspoonfuls of Daking-powier, or two heaping teaspoon{uls of eream tartar (which I prefer), and one round- {ng full of soda, both stirred in the flour; two- thirds of a mllp of butter, or lard, or half aud half; put on the stove tomelt without getting hot; beattwoeggsinu bowl: addalittle leasthan a rlul of milk; stir into the lour o little ralt; adi the butter last; have lrons quite hot and 1ill even full: then bake, and with a cup of nics caffeey Mocha or O. G. Java,—aud maple wirup, or strawberriea (heefsteak and Saratoiu \tatoes If you Iikc), there will bo a breakfast }ll for Brlstow. Pudding-sauce: Two cups coffec-sugnr; a cup and one-half of water, put over to boll; a heap- ing tublespnonful of flour, rubbed to a paste with butter as large a8 an eggy thin with the alrup while it ls bumnf, il it pours easly 3 then tur futo sauee; let it boil alittle; flavor with nutmeg, or hrandy, if your conscience allows. A nive cold sauce: Squecze the julce of two oraugas; sidd hall & cup of wugar (more or less to taste): add o pint of cream, or rich milk. This fs nlce, with cottage pudding, blanc mange, corn-starch, or ny ruqulrlnF cald snuce. Now, Mr. Editor, If this s too lengthy an ar- tiele, throw It In the waste basket i€ o prib- sh it, aecept the thanks of RITIC. in ull cuses must be us - dry as possible It fs the saddest wilstake that o dyspeptle should eat, or ruther drink, soup. Wefouud this the stumbling block in the roud to o cure. At first. no soup atall, After awhile, when the stomach rete a {ittle strouger, Seotch soupt wmay be al- owed made in this' mouner: Take & plecs of Iean beef; boll 1t an hour u water enough to coverit; thenthrow In alargeteacuptul of pearl barley; bollanotherhour,oreven two luurs; then huve rewdy nome chopped carrat, turnip, parsulp leck, potatoes, l;mr»lu —and Scoteh peaple add vabbage; but T prefer to omit the cablinge, as withott "1t the soup will keep nicely for twa or three duya i cool wenther, aud judeed improves lsr keeping. Bolt anathier hour after the vegeta~ bles are l; and «kim offal fut, and you have, to Do sure, a very substantial soup; but it is very wholesome, and much easler to digest thain slopa. Beuon Witl sall ouly; peppee iaustncy- er bo used by people of wrnful gestion. Dow't be afrald of the barley; put plesty in; hetter e it too thick than too thln. Chis uscful graln {8 almost fgnored In this country, but it is i mast excellent food, aud can be prepared in number of ways. The Beoteh people know and uppreciate its wortl, dyspeptic must driuk very little, The di- postive fludus, ulready wealkened, must not b dituted still moro by quantitles” of Hquid. For breakfast, one cup of chocolate, bone-made biead (one day ofd), und a slice of cold Lolled beel or wutton mnlnlmlull;mxl butter, {3 a most exeellent breakfast, For dinuer, such s the ubove, and don't be afrald toeat w little of COOKTES AND CODTISIT. 70 the Eaitor of The Tribune. CorLnwaTER, Mich,, May 24.—Mrs. Sarah C. asks for a recipe for ginger-anaps, and for cook- ing codfish, I send mine, and would be glad to know whether they mect her expectations. Ginger-snaps: Put into o good tin pan, one even teacup of brown sugsr; two teacups of dark molasses; one and onc-half teacups of but- terj one teaspoonfut of soda, rubbed through a slue sleve; one heaplng teaspoon of ginger, also it through the sleve. Dol ull of the fngredients five minutes from the tine it comunences to boll; stir vecasionally, Put cight teacupa even full of sifted flour into a ist, and, when the mixture Is nearly cold, pour it into the four, and with the hand work sll thoruughly together; then flour the molding- board well; turo it out, and mold as you would bread-<dough till you get it a nlce suooth douy using no more four than & really necessu flour the hunds and board, Roll 3¢ fuch th cut with l}lllllll round cookle-cutter; butter the tins cach time; bake from seven to'vight min- utes. They shonld hake alow, o they will nat e us hard aud crispy s they should be. Keep thent I a dry place. To cook eadtish: Cut up the flsh futo small bits, enough to make two even pints; remwove every bune; pour cold water vver it to riuse it off, and soak in cold water about one and a half hours; then drain the water off; put it cookin | the souprmeat, The body needs the fibre of | with sutlicient bellng water o cover 1t; let e time at | negleeted houee to rights, but the lost | smmer, hofl, for twenty minutes; then n the water all off} your in one and'n half Ants of new milk; wld alump of butter slze of wen's e, Take one-hnlf pint of milky rub ntu bt three tublespoons of “four—every lump must b diasolved; s in two epege, well Deaten, and a little: black pl'wrm’. Wihien tho milk bolls wpy, stlr In this ‘mixture; eonl five minntes Tonger, etirring the most. of the thne, Serve fmmediately In a warmed vegetable-Qid. This quantity will be sufiicient for a fomily of six, and enaugh left for codfish-halla Coxifish-balla: After dinner, take the mashed potatoes (of which there should be a double quantity prepared for dinner), and fish that i left, uaing one-third fish and two-thirds pota- toes. Etirund heat them together while warm, 1 evenly mixed. will be g soft it cannot bo handled while warm —make them Into caken threequarters of an fuch thick and as large around us a teacup; put them in a cool place for breakfast, In the morn- ing, roll them i flour; have plenty of butter in the frying-pan just hot enough not to burn; fry quickly o a nice brown on both sides. Turn carefully, that they maykeep thelr shape, 8erve as suon a8 dane. E. B. COOKIES, To the Fditor of The Tribune. BrLoE Ist.AxD, liL, May 25,—~I am very much interested in the *Iousekeepers® Department " of Tie TINURE, and hope that it will continue to flouriah for some time to come. Last week there was n request for a good reclpe for cook- fes. I have ured for several years the following, and Uke it very much; and they will keep s long as you want them to: One cup sugary 3¢ cup lard or butter; 3 cup sour milk; X4 tea- spoonful soda; just flour enough to roll, haking quickly. ~ Add eny flavering you wish. . No egga are reguired, so don't fmogine I left them out. There nre ver nice {f grated or prepared cocoannt I8 added, 1 alao have o gomd secipe for crullers that § would lke to give: Three egiga; 1 cup of sugnr; 4 tablespoonfuls of melted lard, 6 of sweet wilk, 2tablespoonfuls of baking-powder; any lfla|vur‘: eat the s and sugar together first: then add the put my baking-power in the flour, and sift it In, stiering it witha apoon as long as I can, as I dislike gz you wish, and flour to roll_uicely. lard, beating welly then the milks using sny hauds, Of eourse every housckeeper knowa the value of salt; a little added to all kinds of pies or eake {8 un fmprovement, T liave o good recipe for cocoannt pies that T will mive t those that still favar the much- abused article. Mns. E. K. USEFUL RECIPES. To the Edttor of The Tribune, CiticAGo, May 20.—You have Leen so kind as tonllow me “iny say ' about that much-die cussed matrimonfal aubject, also on Home Adornment, and it seems us it T were acting on the principle (in sendiog this) of *the more you gety the more you want,"—that {s, In regard to asking rpace fn your paper. ¢ Mrs, W, would 1t should he stuffed, but. s very good simply baked o8 you The following recipu I8 o tost cxcellent rauce to serve with fish: One cup vin- egar; 1 cup water; yolks 2 epreas 1 Inrge m e ttery 1 apoonful of T starch Dlended; sugar, salt, and [Yemmr; mix alt like to know how to bake tlsh, would a roust. colid; heat it firavhmll.\' and boll for a minute. This dressing mon, lobster, lettuce, ete, Cuokies for * Corabella . cream; 1 eup hutter; 2 cups suiar; £ eggs) 1 tenspoon of wada; fiour and flavoring. Gingersuaps for “Mrs, Sarh C.": One oup molasses; 1 vup brow augars 1 cup melted lards poots of ingars @ spoons of alum, dis- 2 1ar; solved In hot water; 1 teaspoon of salt] Hrten- Epons of o mix poste. Freneh recelpt for cooking tongue: boll & few moments, aud serve.hot. Grorow H. A VARIETY OF GOOD THINGS. To the Editor of The Tribuns, MrxoNE, 1L, May 24.—1 bave noticed in your Tousehold Department an fnquiry for cleaning oflcloths, There Is no hetter way than to var- nigh them, and they will clean caslly and re- tain their brightness. ‘This is my re eqgs and pat fito Ly pint of milk, a butter kil littlo water. As 600n 0 it bolls It Ia done. Ginger snaps: Two enps niolasses; ome of butter; one teaspoonfal of ginger: one-half Put wll intoa pan, and set then take off, and teaspoonful soda. on the stove until it boils up; put in the sode, Roll thin; boke quickly. This {8 my recipe for cookivs: One and o half cups cream; 1Wo cups sugar; Lwo egeas ey And hiere let me express my thanks to the ladics who have given valuablé recipes fn cooli- ing through Tnz TN, May the ftone keep one-half teaspoonful sada. Kuead soft. will keep molst. solliog. Mns. C. E. ORANGE CAKE. T the [iditor of The Tritune. ALEDO, Til,, May 24.—Through the columns of your valuable paper I have become much in- terested {u the Household Department. I have for cooking, baking, ete, and like them very much. I thought for the benefit of some I would give a reclpo for baking_ orange cake, which has not It {s the most delicate and de- Hejous cake'there is, and if tricd onee I am sure you will not_forget’ the recipe. Grated rind of one orange; two cups sugur; whites of four cgps and yolks of tlve; one cup sweet milk; oné cup buitter; two large teaspoonfuls baking- nowder, to be sifted through with the flour; Take the 3 beat to a -frost: odd o little sugar, and the \tulce of the orunge; beat together, nud spread hetween the found many valmble recipes heen given yet, hake quick fo Jelly-tins. Fillin white of the one egg that was 1 1 do fnstead. ~ Yours respect{ully, Mns. J. G. . —_— CORRECTION. Tv the Editor af The Tribune. MENDOTA, 111, May $4.—In last week's House- keeping corner 1 find your compositor has inixed my sugar and butter the wrong way! In the first recelpt for cookles, nstead of one-huls” cup r, it should be, one and one-lalf cups—and hint “Thien in the lust one,— suj n»hl in—not boll thin! {0 fiu&ur (or lard) it should rea) onehalf be good. Mns, M. BITUMEN—-A COSTLY JOKE, In the flush times when ofl-wells ware the theme ‘Whereon mien's ifuds were principally dwelling, / And every speculator's nightly dreum Haw Great Petrolenn's aroiontle stream~— “Fhio fat of Nuture's broth, Mutonic eresm— From hix particular flowing well up-wellig, tlzens, on money-making bent, ‘Avsembled T au upper chamber apacicas, To listen to an **enterpriniug gent While be to them should make Tt evident Mnch moncy might bo made for little spent, ty any ene sutlcleinly waclous To give hin funds, by him to be {nvested 116 location b bimself had teeted, ' “¥Tho torritory where that well and derrick ara In the Lent ofl-country In Americat To uo more cortaln find can any man go Than right thero In tho hoart of old Venango," | The well would very shortly reach bed-rock, | Befng atready promisingly started: We pali 0or toney and we toolk out stock, And our dlalnterested friend departed. E'en then I marked, as T have marked before, “T'was not posncasiug richics, great or uinall, That fxed e due proportion’ eacly orie bore, Those who have littlu always give the mor 0, And thowo give least who have the ureuc;\umrv. { On them all burdens do moet lightly fall; Wiile some are |1ke the cobbler in his atall, Wheu lute uno swall boly be puts e littde awl. Why need [ hers repeat the old, old story? W never saw agaln our cherlshed pelf; The reader will uve guessed And very likely kuows how 't u priori, himsell, ‘When the whole enterprise had gone to pot, Ones mare we etockholders convened w weeting; In the old sadly woll-remember I‘:“ ‘W came t0 see where all our wealth was nof, And o the rust I thun, there, thus, gave gn:etlng:i +1Wo poor outalders do not feel ¥o sare, Although we're nelther more nor lese than hu- man, At haviug sacrificed onr little store, — For you rich folk, who know so vastly more, Haye been deceived in spite of your acumen; o ) Aud thls deep hole, that's proved so great a bore, “AhhouEh 11 B 10 o1, 1 has ol -yau-men [ In this dr{ Jest tho stackholiders nll shared; 1t way their rolo ceturn fur all their money. They Imuml.—J:urlupn they smiled,—1'm sure they stared, — To Auod thelr very souls witi laughiter sunny. . Tho meeting was tho last we did attend; This unsuccessful jokv tho only dividend! | ~V. Kirkland {n ner Jor Jund, But did not lnd it aduquately fuuny [ When cold—for the mixture aleo nlee, when cold, with sal- ' One cup sour' with flour Into o stifl After Dbofling it as urual, untdl tender, cut {nto sinall pleces, and brown with flour and hutter. Then add some of the atecks seacon highlys let it vipe for cooking codfish: First, be sure and pick the meat off from the bones: then let It stand In water for fiftcen minutes; then take it ont of the water and put in milk. To malie the quantity you may need, beat three fece of f the size of an egg; thicken this with s tablespoanfol of flour stirred up with u very 1f oranges are not to be had, lemons rea,—instead of ovo g oncLalt oupy cup. Hopt 1o on ion érled elther of these awd fatied, for 1 have used them 8o often, sud kuaw themn to FAMILIAR TALK. A Sketch of the Brook-Farm Ase sociation. An Outgrowth of the New-England Transcendental Movement. The Orlginators and Prineipal Partici- ponts in the Enterprise. Bale of the Addington Collection of Autograph-Letters. BROOK FARM. ‘The history of the Brook-Farm Assoctation— by far the most interesting of the various Com- munal enterprises Inaugurated in the United States~haa never been fully written out. The Incldental allusions to it, ory ot the most, the mengre outlines of ita plan, that are occasfonal- 1y mct with tn writings touching upon the trau- scendental movement In New England, scrva rather to exclte the curlosity than to satlsfy it. Hawthorne has left, in his Note-Books, some frank declarations concerning his own experi ence {n the Assoclation, and, in his * Blithedale Romance," has made use, with the liberty arm corded to the artist, of his reminlscences of cvents and characters connected with it; Mar- garct Fuller recorded somne interesting coin- ments upon the life of the community, which were reproduced In her blogruphy; Moncure Conway wrote, o few years o, 8 brief sketch of the enterprise for Every Saturday; and other similar fragmentary accounts afford some in- Aight into the otlve which gave rse to the the maonner In which it was yet 8 coherent and compréhen- ofr of the Assoclation has not yet been transeribed. There should be material enough in the memory of any one of the survi- vors of the fraternlty to make o most entertaine ln and profitable work on the subject; but it is searcely o be hoped for now. Each year adds to the throng of new fucldents that crowid back the old into the dim recesses of the past, aud the history of Brook Farm is neglected or forgutten in the fresh excitement of current und ubiqur'llllmz ineldent: T In bistecent work on “Transcendentallsm in New England,” Mr. Frothingham ls, as infght. be expected, devoted some puges to the hrotlser- hood ut Brook Farm, which was projected on the purest transcendental hasis.” Slxfll e, whose opportunitics for sequiring data must have been most favorable, coniplaing of the seanty mate- rials Lo be procurcd, and furnishes an secount which Is by 1o means a8 complete o8 could e deatred, From bis statements, with those of the wadters before mentioned, we muke up the nar- rative which follows: It wus In the carly part of the year 1941 that the fdes of a regencration of socléty, which hud been gathering strength and form i one of the most aetive minds in New England, took a prace tieut sbape in the cstublishment of the Brook- Farm Assoclation, The Irading epirits in the enterprise were the Rev. George Ripley and Lis accomplished wife, Sophis Ripley, the nlece of the poct Dana; Charles Anderson Dunn, sinee distinguished #s a Journalist; and Minor Pratt, au fotclligent farmer, who brought o practic knowladige of hushandry into the cdmbination, and was given the superintendence of its neri- cultural “juterests. Mr. Ripley had been for nearly fifteen years the pastor of the church on Purchase street, Boston, which was n s in- fancy when he assumal the charge of it. ‘The Boelty lud thriven under his care, und relations of mutual respect and friendship lnd united im with its members. But Mr. Ripley hud caught the infection of Transcendentalint which was aflaat n the stmosphere, aod, uvowing the uecessity of throwiug ofl the traminels of creed, severed his pastocul refution with bis church the ths of March, 1811, The very next duy be en- tered upon his ministry st “Brook Farm, He had disposed of what property be possessed, sellivg hin valuoble Hbrary st publie auction, and put the entire proceeds into the new enter- prise. But his sacrlfice waa grester in o social than in a pecuntary polnt of view. His clerical profession hud of “ftaclf secured im a high po- sition; but, when he resizned it to become s reformier, e cucountered tie bitter upposition of the order he had abandoned, and the preju- dices of all but the most cnlightened of the secular classes. As Mr. Frothingham remarks, hie “ assoclated himeclf at ooce with people of no worldly con- sideration, avowed l)rlm:iplcs that were voted vulfur in refined ciceles, and Identified himself with an enterprise which the mniuble called visionary, and’ the unamniable wild and revolu- tionary, But hls conviction was dear, and is Wil was fixed. Sustained by the entire aympathy of & very noble “wom- man, his wife,—who was one with him, In aspi- ration, purpoee, aud endeavor, till the under- taking endedy=he put *the world* bebdnd bim, sald all, aud folluwed the Master.” P ‘The preamble of the constitution adopted by the Brook-Farm fraternity wus thus worded: “1n order more eflectually to promote the great purposes of huinan caltures to estublish the external refutions of 1ife on a basls of wis- dom and purity; to apply the principles of jus- tice and love to our suclal _organization in - ac- cordance with the Jaws of Divine Providenc substitute a systemn of brotherly co-uperation for one of selifsh competitton; weecure to vur children, und those who may be Intrusted to our care, the benctits of the highest physical, intellectiul, and moral education Wi, 1 she progress of knowledge, the resources ut our conrmand will permits to nstitute an attractive, eflicient, and productive system of fndustr: prevent the exerclse of worldly anxiety, by the competent supply of our necessary waiits; to di- minish the desire of excessive accurulation, by making the acoulsition of Individuad property subservient to upright and disinterested usee; to guarantee to each vther forever the means of phyeleal support and of spiritual progress this to {mpart » greater frecdom, sfmplicity, truthfulness, refinoment, and moral dignity, to our mode ot life,—we, the underalgued, do unite Iu a voluntary Assoctation, and sdoptand ordain the following articles of agreeument.' ‘The Community welcomed to ita privileges {wnum of n:wr‘y sect, and color of hought, and degree of culture, allowed perfeet ndependence of - opinion and {ncHuatlon, trusting to the candinu! | doctrine that tile upright’ soul may be allowed to be its own law-giver. To s certain extent, the property of the members was held i com- mon; yet nune were reguired t rish themselves, und ench_received wa tu his labor. The work of the estubll doors aud out, wus perfornied by the ty, who shared allke in duties of OTL, Xong were drudges or menlals, The intel- lectual guve & portion of their time to tasks such as servants and handimaldens usually dis- charge. The unintellectual were nllowed & por- tlon of their time for nental culdvation. The benetits of soclal ntercourse were thrown open to oll. The am wus 1o 6e- cure w8 many hours a8 possible from the necessary tofl of providing for the wants of the body, that there might be more leisure to provide for the decper wants of the soul. The scquisition of wealth was no object. No more thought wus given to this than the exigencies of existence demanded. To live, expund, enjoy us ratlunal belngs, was the never-forgotten aim.” The ldea was noble and ratlonal, and {n many’ respects proved fruitful. The Culmnunlt¥ pur- chased a farm about 8 miles from Boston, In the suburb of West Roxbury. The tract comprised 23 ucres of land,—as birren, necording to one writer, as they were beautiful. % Thuse who, centurles before, had settled on Plymouth Rock, hardly found the sofl more nhospitable.” ~No streain, not even & gurgiing brook, ulforded the neeessary adjunct of wmcr-rnwr. awd the costly alil of steam had tu be invoked to carry on the machinery Introducedus the Assoclation extendud its industrics. Still, the brotherhood wurked for i infalthand hope. ‘Fhesurplus praduce of the farm was sold§ o school—one of the best in_ New Enpland—wus establlsbed; and u systemn of trufllc with the outside world wus mulntained. Meals were served fu * commons, or, s the fraternity eulanzed and separute bulldings were erceted, Yurllu who preferred were allowed separuts tablee. Amoug the irst to joln the Asswclation was John 8. Dwight, the ‘well-known cditor of the Boston Journal off Music, With him aune meveral sisters snd friends, Tutroduclng the de- Hightful element of nusle fto the community, Hawthorne took up hls residence ot Brook Furm (n April, 18415 and soun after there were athered futo that choles frateruity, Willlun flcnry Clunning, nephew of the great Chan- ning; George Willun Curtis and his brother s, Eifebeth Deabody, the Russels, thu Hoxics, Mesars. lirisbane, Brouson, and Orvin, with other refined and cultivated persons. The number of members uctuated, but ou an aver- age did not uxceed scventy, In 184 there wers bug four varried mu[l:l Children were per- witted to enter the school for uuy period, and the pupils, old and young, under dnstruction, nqu\'fi up ot quite half the budy of the com- munlsis, Emcrson, Alcott, Theodors Parker, und Mas- guret Fuller did not unite with the Association; | | q yet th:{‘wcru frequent visitors st Brook Fuaron, and waiched ts progress with deep concern. br. ulso felt @ Lively sympathy du the 9 Inntitutlon; but his death occurred soom after its orzanization. Hawthorne's connection with the enterprike lasted only about six months; but, during that time, he fabored manfully with the pitehfork atd the o, and ocenpled such offived of trust ns th of Trustee of the Brook- Furm estate, and Chiatrman of the Committee of Finance, - The diarelisiof the romancer for the Iabors of the hushandman §s_cordially atated in linea ltke these, taken from his Jnurnll: 4 Ty 1.—It {s my opinion that a man's soul may ba hurfed and'perish under n dung-heap, just as well as under a plle of money. Avp, B Even m Custom-Tloure experience was not such s thralfe dom and weariness as this. Ohl labor is the curseof the world, nnd nobody ean meddls with it without belng proportionably brutified! Ta it n-prafseworthy matter that I have spent five golden months In providing food for cows and horsea? It 18 not so. Salem, Sert, B The reat Mo was never an aasocdate of the Com- munity; there iad been a spectral appearance there, sounding the horn atdaybreak, and milk. ing Llic cowr, and hoeing the potatocs, and rak- ing hay, tolllng tn the aun, and doing me the honor to assuine my name. But this spectre wan 10t mysell." In October, 1944, the Directora of the Assacin- tlon published a statement declaring that the fundamental aima of the enterprisc had suc- ceeded beyond thelr orfginal hope, and that, in all 1ta departments, it was in a satisfactory work- ing condltion, Ita property was valued at $30,~ , about $21,000 of which was fnvested in tha stock of the dnmpnny and in gowd loans at 6 er vent. A conslderable nccession of skillful nborers had Inereased the efficiency of 1ta sev- eral wll.-lmrlun:uln, and about $10,000 had been added fo ita capitnl by rubscription, A work- shop 60 feet by 28 had been crected; o Phalan- stery—or uniiary dwelling ou a large scale— was” tn proceas” of crectlon, until suceesa shonld aathorize the bullding of a Phalan- stery with the maognllicence and pers manence proper to Buch “a structure. The prospect was, or Iookisd, encouragin The experfent had been tested by the ha disciplinie of more than twvo years; the sc ditlicultive hod apparently bicen conyueres arrangements bad attalnéd systematie form, as far s the Minited numbers permitted; the idea wan respeetTuily entertaineds Soclullsm was mpreading; it enibraced persons of every station in Jife; and, I its extent and influence on ques- tions of importunce, it seemed to enthusiostic bellevers to e fast assuming in the United Stutes a natlonal character.” But In this, ts most prosperous hour, tho Brook-Farm Cotnynunity united with the New York Soclulists, disciples of Fourler, and the organization, becoming auwicldy in proportions, lost it power of self-support, sid gradually de- clined. In the spring of 1837, the Phalanstory was burned, and, in the autumn of the some year, the Assoclatlon wns dissolved. The roninent members removed to New York, and ar . year longer continued Ehe publication of the Jurbinger, 8 weekly Journal, started fu 1845 hy the Brook-Farm Philang, for the purpose of propagating their ideas of soclal aud political Progrers. Mr. Conway states that most of those who made Investinents fn Brook Farm lost them whally. [nwthorne put all that he had Into the stock, and drew nothing out cxcept. the material for #The Blithalale Romance.'?” Yet he could not complain of a venture which yielded him the frerms of this exqulsite fiction, The rest of the associates, Jke him, “so fur us I have heard,™ kuys Mr. Conway, “concluded to regard theme selves a3 amply rewarded by the returns the received fn other than pecuniary forns.” Brool Farm was sold L the Tuwn of Roxbury, and eventunlly passed into private hands, 1t was used by the Government durfng the War, and the main bullding has siuce beeh oceupicd 08 a hoxpital. Mr. Ripley, who had in lhehcfilnnlncmcflflrml somuch in uld of the enterprise, wilicred by it to the last. The oblitations which he incurred in scttling its final accounts were discharged by the frult of tollsome years following witer. To thls bruve and faithful teader and his loyal companion, Mr. Frothingham {myfl the following tributc: “Mr, and Mra. tipley were the life” of th Brook-Farm Asso- ciation. Their unfultering energy, unfailing cheer, Inexhaustible sweetness and gayety, avalled to keep up the tone of the fustitution, to prevent its becoming commonplace, and to retaln there the persous on whose chy moral and futcllectual standard depen wis due to them that the experiment s long ns it was,—six vears; that, w went on, it avolded, as it did, the usual seandal and reproach that bring ruinon schemnces of that deseription; ond that, wi finally it ended In disaster, §t commanded sympathy rather than contempty and Jeft & sweek memory bebind.” The Brook-Farm Association was regarded by those who kuew its experience and sympathized with its afm, as o success, albeit itslife was comn- ileted n six years. That it could survive so oniz upon the Hberal basls on which it had heen founded, was decmed conclusive evidence of the vitulity of the principle of Communisui. AUTOGRAPII LETTERS. The colleetion of utograph-letters formed by Mr. Bamuel Addington was recently sold in Londou, scattering smong multifarious pur- chasers some most Wnteresting memorlals of his- torieal characters. Conspicuous in the cata- logue enumerated was a letter from Sir Walter Raleigh to Sir Walter Cope, begging that his wife might be suffered to be with him in his confinement. The touching relle was sold for £5 35, Aletter from George Washington, on the political condition of Amerlea, brought £95. A letter from Clarles I to the Marquls ol Ormond, converning the Irsh Rebelliun, and containihing the following passage refersing to the Battle of Nascb, T will rather chuse to suffer il extremities than ever to abandon my religion, or give my consent to any such allow- ance of Popery ni must bring destruction to that Profession which, by the Grace of God, T shall ever maintuin through all extremities,” was bld in tor £00. A letter from Oliver Cromwel}, “To my beloved conue, Richand Cromwell, Esq.," and recommending the study of *8ir Walter Raughleye’s Historie,”” brought £40; aletter from Thothus Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, to bis wife, with two signatires and vurfous portraits, £303 o letter from Queen Ellzabeth to Henrd Quatre, £205 and one from Quueen Mary of Scotlsnd to the Cardinal of Lorralne, £49 105, A letter of_Alexander Popu hrou 416 1685 one of Edwund Wall £10 583 one of Thompson, £14; one of Keats, £13 555 and one of Charles Lamb, £85s. Dr. Juhuson’s last prayer was sold for £12. e ——— THE CONCERT OF THE FLOWERS, A poet, aaleep In a gardon, dreamed f thy various flowers he smelled; ! And in his faucy's freak it secued “That thoy & concert held, He thought they met in o roclal way, And euch, 84 8 muxical ¢! In appropriute lauguage sang a lay Exprossive of his and ber self, irst the fted Tose Sang » batlad op | — T0er wibtere, the Yollow, thu Pluk, and the White Joining 1 the refrata, each in part; “Tiien the Pausy, In hix full tenor rick, Guve a sulo thoaghte, so pure, — T0in notes ringlng vat on highest plict, For uncasy hesrta o cure, 1 soprano licht, ove and the heart, The Forget-Me-Not next, in mezzo cloar, Displayed proficient skill In u pretty sung on remeinbrance dear, Ending with b ripplins till; ‘Phen the Tleliotrope und Violét blae Sang s duct on forgetfalness, — The lutter's 1to, 50 purw and troe, Swelliug out with gentle utress, The Nastustiom, in barltone strong, Next his natural talent showed, s on patrlotism he sang o song, — A vort of nutlonal ode; Then the Lily white, in contralta swoet Un the nubfeclul purity fair, Gase b piece with Hourisbes roplate, Like an operatic alr, The Tulip fnturn next triod his deep beas Inuy l?’lm\ on fame, in slow timo; ilch the Dalsy sang, with good grae On simplicity a khors rhyme; Sailron Crocud followed, in bufo the best, Ju a medley on mirth, eo pay; Then Primrose on carly youth exprossed 1ler Idens In uursery-luy. Now, commencing with a prelude low, Cawme a chorus, full and graud, . From Creation’s oratorlo, 13y the whole of the vocal . ending their volces, swect snd deep, 1u barinony's pertect bouguet Thuy awoke the puct frum Lisaloep, Aud thon—all dicd awuy. Ttemembering the straine hie had beard, Still echoing in his heud, 1n soliloyuy his thoughts were stiered, And thess wers the words he said: 1YARI cun It be, under juy's coutrol, Phe Huwers breatho out tuclodies clear, hut, attuned to the fuer senss of tho woul, Tl poet In dreawms can butt var.” Cuticauo, Ma, 7¢. MarcoLx TATLOR o ———— Thoe Last of Two Culprits, Jim_ Kavanagh, formerly mouwber of Congress from Montana, was telling the uther day that on oue occaslon thers were seven men standing ou empty boxes, and with topes rouwl thele necke, undez the 11mba of tree, just ready to be hanged. Ons of thum, & Germun, begun t0 cry bitterly ss he thought' that he was about to de.” Tho wan next Lo hfm wus an_Irlshinay, who wus much bothered by the German's weeplug. 50 hitchng bl fuot to oha sidy o gave th Gerinun's box & push, leaving i wwhnglog $ tho air, sud sald: Lot sucker, won't you?" But the simeq acl bl over his owit box; ho could nok regalii bie footlng, and, with laugh ot the trick be was playing oa tho German, he, 490, SWUDg luta eterulty,