Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 25, 1877, Page 10

constantly porsing Avwa Jx conetantls rinning o by neve, and the namverless ‘glande that ecrowd the Ticous mensurane and other pnrta, ment of every muscle, bone, joint, or tisene, ev. ery thanght, every emation, every exertion of the ur 80 per cent of watet THE HOME. LIGHT ROLLS. Outalde your charmed circle, ** flome," T've stood, mor dared ta come: With fear xnd trembling now 1 ask, For une more s there room? ‘We all do know the Good Rook says That bread's the staft of life. To merit pralse from her llega-lord, Alma'every loyal wife. 2 elemeifts of growth, ro that a constant waste of tiague nceurs, and an eqnally constant demand for new materials {4 heard. f gratifying onr aense of taste, ponding to tae imper. emand of the varfous tiasnes. Le: #honld not be wise enongh to do this, the Creat has rendered gratifying the sense of taste & mativ for having on hund a supply of all the needs of the system. ’I'chml il donbt, palatable food digests more earlly, assimilates more thoronghly, and ylelds & larger amaant of nonrishment than' that which fs Children shonld not Wa eat not for thne What better way, my alsters, peay, Then, morning, noon, and night, To place befors hin lordabip, rolls Like suowfiakes, soft and white? Then tane this recipe of mine, And with it take iy word, 8ince we have used It, Tollsare fine, And nevor grumbling heard: unpalatable and offenaive, be compelled {0 ent what they do not relish, nor #honll mothera fall to prepare food In Anch & wAy thiat 1t may be relished, and th The nutritions valug of an; much upou ite ngreeable ta bamade nutritions. food depends ver! 11i-taeted food fa Of tepld water, one cup full— Of yoast, half-full—you take} Btir into this the fonr until A battor thick you make, Pat this to rito ateight a. m., 1f rolle you wish for tea; At twelve, more flonr and water add, If needed this may be. A pieca of butter, orof lard, Whichever you prefor, As large in size s 8 hen's egg, Into this batter stlr. Of baking-powder, teaspoonfal— Of salt, juat half—yon take, Mold Into rolls at three p. m. § Let rise ti)) time to bake. Quixer, N, Aug, 24, —— LETTER-BOX, The Homs Lotter-Box contalns communications for the following coutributors. forwarded upon recelpt of addresn: Doy in Blug (0)). i 8 y tn the wrong direction. This factshows that all mothers shonld mnake the food of their children agrecable to them. timea knew how to cook 1neet for the patriarch 8he made the meat of the kid savory, She suited the taste of her old best in overy woy of ail our meats, and still few As iris ordinarily prepared and cooked, Cannot some correspondent of The Honte tells us In Low many ways mutton may be cooxed and be made palatable? At this point we ougni to say that science docs not [bnit 0s to any particalar srticle of food, bnt simply informs us what king of dlet sccomnlisties Exactly what food a child oran n what he needs. ve him that food that e needs moro fat, glve No mother need Rebecea of olden children llke i Adult should eat depends'a, Le needs more muscle, roduces muscle; Im tha means of producing fat. Illpp;m m“l her children mulll eat filk-mu!lll tinsue.producing tisane producing articles of diet 1t is well to havo a variety, ro fhat the mother may .| e agreendle to hee family, or by a certsin amount uf culinarcy Somawmes ane partictlar kind 1n somo cases fsh fu bet- earn Ago we ate fish by It. Another ) aro {n cxintence. All letters will be | hoe haome that of food may be ncoded. ter food than meat, twice day, and were benefited perron may lmprove in health and activity by con- hird pereon may promois his heaith and cowmnfort by limiting himeelf o a vego- A fourth may ootain tough beel and mntton: 8o that the s 15, What kind of fuos tain person nevd? Does he noed s tissus-maki dictt and then what kind, animal or vegetal, ani. mal fat ur Indlan corn? This corn contains a larger crcentoge of ofl than any other grain, so vur armers vive it to thoso animala that the: They would grow poor on saperiine flonr or marchy food, Obecrvers and experimenters have fourd that soms kinds of food produce lisano, while other Kinds produce In tho waoted rounds of the blood, with jtinsach o way as to be culicd respiratory food. We ece In this ‘case, ne In many others, that natore nunglesand combined the clement most Rely 1f we consider on what the various tribc of man have lived, we may draw somc lessons for the benent of those who are studying the groat subject of human nourishment, the endlosa varicty of nutrimont un which nan can So we may ingqulro what the proper foud for wan, and (fln.;n who dre in u growing condition, or onght he, If we oxamine tho history of this subject, wo find sad proofs how closely aj asrociated with the poor supply may live ‘vn xfi‘nrly anything, ° e kinds of food to climalen crente the neccasil ‘The wheat of hot cl ercentage of heat ment as that of cold cllmates, 10 that we clearly seu that health and growih demandsa fitnessof foull euple of the Arctic rae ara varticularly fond of Jlome I'hysician, Lady Jonw Gray, Cousin Franklfm, Misa I, Woalsey, 0! Anxl)unl Mother (2) suming game. muncles by 1iving TIIE ITOME MEETING, To the Editor of The Tridune. Cnicane, Aug. 24.—The richly-adomed room was vacant of all visjulo life, though s short utretch of the fmagination served {o bring upa host of ghostly Inbabitants fltting noiselessly throngh e depthe of e carthly magnificence. The eles gantly-apholstered chairs sat prim and dignifed nround the exquisitely tinled walls, clbow to clbow, like a falthful regiment of warrlors goard- 1ng some dangerous defile whers the foe were apt 10 pounce down at any moment, through the richly-curtalned concealments tho dusky shadows crept, mow darting into cor- now hovering benealh or dashing up . to in the gloom of the loliy celling, dltion In which I fourd the magoificent Sherman Tlonse club-room on that memorable day In the annalsof llomedom, as, alone aud unguarded, I entered Its mystic depths, made more mystical by the lowering, dripping. forbldding aspect of the Forn fow moments 1 remained in all the grundour of supreme loneliness, when a buzzing near the door arrested my attention, and I knew I was polonger to Lo alope. faces entered, the snadows fitted merrily out and in, the chalrs began to be displaced from thelr prim statcliners ns form after form rustled into wlace. untilonly standin the fair-balred repatter sat moodily st the table looking as if he felt bimeulf snddeniy thruston the criminal-docket, with no ready meann of escape at Three o'clock found the room, which an hour before xeemed so tull of sombre shadows, all aglow with the happy countenances of The Home friends, who bronght with them such a cheery, genlal atmosphare that oven the youth at the table almost smliled. Aud yet wo pitled the poor son), for we saw that lie was abazhed before ruch o bovy of the fair sex, d, when his report next day showod wo plalnly 1hie oad atate of his mind, we saw that our plty had not been wosted, for did he not Uricg ** Deronda ' all the way down from Wisconsin, when Polo fa hls place of resldenco? In the absence of our worthy chatrwoman, Amle 31. Hale, who was lapguishing on s slek bed at liome, the conir was ited by Fern Loaf to the fufaction of all present, who wero pleased to have thelr foral favorlte brought so promizently beforo them, though they regretted the absence of thelr wedleal friend, By strict count thcre wers Afty-eleht of cor warm-hearted co-workers. gisembled to give us thelr help and cncourapement, and wo vortars to wesert thot not oxe of them went away from the spaclous apariments without a meutal bleas our Home ' We moy be surpelaed st This {8 the con- sy be_coneidered pecially for chil- o and deatls aro of food. Man The different uourlsh him. for differcnt kinds imates docs not poa- A bevy of pleassnt to those who eat it, gtonx fead on animals, an tat, nalice of raw blubber, ora chunk of They conslder o slice of raw walrus with fitt] of iis fata very delicious di The Houth Ureculands The raw boar gives blm more streugth and power of endurance than any other food. UGreenlander eats half frozen and half pntrid seal L the keenest appotite. tured seal 1aa dediclons dish and is nover lost, The Teelander depends mostly on fal mili, but Lread and vogetables are scarce, at these peopla ore annoyod by scurvy, ly by o vogotable diet. Scarvy and becanse they cannot nflamed Lowels ore -room romaived, while loves the froxen ‘I'he blood of & cap- prosy obtain vegetables or frults, | comnion. a4 o rosnit of thelr pocullar food. The Biberian lives mostly on fleh, fried in train ofl: bread 11 vory rare. for me: Y i Jakuts in the I r0o cakes ure use calth 18 great, olar Sca drink sour-milk, boited bucf, and horvetieals, and fat s theic greatest delis cy. ‘Thelr aupply of foud la au amall that they regurd quantity more tnun quality, bark of the larch orilr with fsh, and from pra L muke @ biroth, ‘The Indlana very far north of us 1ive on bullalu meat and what wild vegetables they Tho ludlan of inner Oregon prefers y Lury saimog roun; ty, and thus render it ¥a delicacy. Quachos,” living In the Argontine Republic, mostly on roast boef, food, and drinking on Thy uatives of Auatralia, some forty years azo, lived on st und any animals they could catch, CGirubs that thoy fonnd in decaying cy, ‘They ronsted the entire anlmal nud ate "Tho vericty of food very large, —turtics, lcaves of planty, fruite and berries, Jums, manns, huney, auts, ezee, opossums, ducxs, azd s multitnde of uthor animals an numerons to mentfon. VALUABLE RECIPES, To the Editor of The Tribune, DzKaun, 1L, Aug, 20,1, too, would like all the uico pstterns sdvertised In Tho Home, but will nut take up tho valuablo space in its colamns (o Oor- llome Doctor knows overy- thing, and may be everybody In Chiczgo. ask bet to toll us of some puor fomale qualified to Then we will send all oug ‘‘fancy work" patternd {o ber gratls, She can aunouuce hor residence In Thoe Home, and » Hst of the pattorns, with price, in a condenscd form. It will not take the room that correspond. ents do now, and we can sond ottr orders Ly malf, ‘which will be wmure satlsfactory to The IHome res: crs, beside furmshing profitable employment to some worthy person toose hard times. bea puarchasing agent aléo. 1 have many times wishied I could soud to some rellable person who would charge a reasonable pev cent for trouble,and a¢nd me whiat I could not find here, or what would o times a8 mnch. wisli to keep our ‘Tminuxe supploments for refor- cnce know Low difficalt It is lv bunt ont o single recipe. 1 will send & listof youd apple recipés, and others that havo been called for: ntu ong-pound of fone subtwo ounces of butier and tho whites of threo cggs, well beaten; add o tablewpoonful walt, and wilk enough to make a stif dough; cover and set In a warm place till Jight, which will be ja an houror morc, according to the atrength of the yeast, Cytlnto rolls, dip the edged Into melted butter to keep them from eticking together, bake ja s quick oven, Whipped Creaw—Take half a piat or one quartof milk bulled down to & pint. pound of powdered loal-suyar snd Lall a tea- wpoonful of powdercd yum arabic dissolved in Beat the liquld ull cone vertea into froth, and send to table inmediatel; Flavor the cream with vanills or anyshing pi rarely tasting farinaceous geutlemanly proprietor who so Lindly fr gy, tate, mico, gave ua the use of bis beantiful rooms. The mect- grand success, and the Commitice were #0 far encopraged and anfmated by the cordial greetings and happy cxprossions of sympathy and arvlstance that o meeting was called for the follow- tng day, which resuited intho appolnting of Chatr- mien for the difarent sub-commitioss, the adoption of the accompanylng vrogtsume, and the declsion of the tlmoe &t which tbe entortalnment TONE CORVENTION PROGRAMME. ‘The fullowling order of exerciscs haa been decld- ed upon for the,forthcoming entertalnmient of Tur Trivexs: Home Club, which has been appoint. ed for Wednesday and Thursday, toe 26th aud 27th of September, wt Chicago: Hirst nay—Qatherin) keep & pattern-shop. second day—Falr for flowers, tutery Y, Artic erved with children's Lyenng—social le, with supper at 10 p. w, COMNITTERS. Chattman of Floral Committce—Fern Leaf, Box Clisirman of Fancy Articles Cummitteo—>alne, U T'wenty-third street, clty, Literary Commitiec—Orlcns 8, Matteson, Chicago Post-Ofice, Children's Featlval Committee— Theodors C. Campbell, 108 Wabag] Clatrman of Reception Committee—Mra, L. A, Hambleton, 420 W n Chalrwan of Baugquet Committee—Aunt Jemi- The Executive Uommiltee cornestly dealro each and every member or friend of The Home who is willlog to sid lo making this Convention uot olready responded’'ts s former cull uf tho Comunitice, Lo write at once o the suv- eial Chairmen of the different sub-commnitiecs at thelr sddress av glven above, what they are willlog to furnish [n each of the difterent departments, letters must be written gt once, oa the com- weet sgnin Sept. 1 to repart, and we are in Lopes all the fricnds of ‘The Home will uler what sid they can, cven though It ke Little. Mns. O, 8. Mavresox. TROPER FOOD. Ta the Editor of The Tribune, -We observe tnat some con- tributors ta The Home ore Jaboring under the false lwpression thut the sort of food cBltdren cat leof »o kind of importaoce, They scem to Shink that achild oy thrive as well on one sort of food as on any othors that its body. will increaso in form aud beanty 3¢ much un o buu food e vn pitrogen, sad 80 on geperally; that tho hud of food bas no bearlng upon its health uud growll, sud that what 8 child longs for it necds and should have; tlat, 1f It longe for sugar, fteliould have It If it longe for hime, or clsy, or wlate-pencily, it shonld oot b forbidden. Af 1t craves, tho mother sbould gralify s cravings. 1f #t wishes for ymokod beef, friad vea), or Bologna denled. Now good yenst, 8 litile Add one-quarter orsnge-lower waler. Cuicaco, Aug, 2 One Egx Cske: One snd a hslf cupe of sugar, three-fourtha cup sour milk, one-hal{ cup of hut- ter, oue cgg, vuu-balf teaspoonful of soda, Dow'y Oue cup of sour milk, une cup :l‘ nr:.:v'nh“f::.n ro?:rgnp of chopped raisins, hnlll . vne eye, vven Louspooniul O e0Us, Hour to maks & st battar. and apice to taste, Foatber Caky: of milk, one and one-hul butter, ons-hail’ teaspoon! ?uu tablospovaiul uf cresw of Larr, Aavdr with t 84 on weat, o0 gar- one-half cup our, une tably. i wdored 3 one-half cup uf aweet-mill blelwun:;lugl‘x’nl butter, one teaspuoulul of bakivg-powder, ) add tbe following: Custard— freaks mshould be gratifed? :1 observation and expericnce (0 bo diggzardedr Are the results 1u making Jelllea of ap or apricots, pecl, reiove i ut fu pleces, cover with water, aud_ boil 3 thun straty Lhe juice gently add 2 balf-pint of wugar 1o ‘or berrice 8 poand of sugirw 8 wiut of Julce, boll uuthl it rupes from the spoun, or fieen to Lwenty minutes. onu-third curants, an ounds of sugur, seven and cored, oud Does tle intelligent farmer think so? adapt the feeding of hie cattle ta thp object bo L fu view? 1f e wishes to fatton his sheep, does bo Bot glve thew that kind of food that produces faty It L wishes to produce muscle, does he not pra- scribe wmuscle-maklng food? 1f ho deslres his cows 10 yleld un sbundance of ik, is ba pot care- tul Lo mensure out tothem 3 certalo amouut of certuln kinds of food, tlat are knowu 1o increass the uuantity and tmprove tho quallcy of milk? T'ne saume law holds good In the vegetable world. Wheat grows and ylelds sved unly iu certata solls, Uale must 80d the clenents of its growth snd yield Piy trecs do not produce fral; io sand- or do pear trees thriveia Lsks Michizan. Eo that, reasoniog from anslogy nu _iess than frow tience, we must think thal a Oloess w food 5 that it s of the ureateat comacquence that ren shvuld nave those kinds of f00d that wote tueir growth; that all sosts of dict do uot ac. 1 o bruces exiats, why du those who live Ou VAo @Ik Hourish elter than thoae who lve ves iwpury wilk? Wiy do luuse su- {wals whicl Hyy o sugur sovs d 100tLere a0 anx1ous tu oblaln & bealthy uutee, orto Bave il fruw oue cowr J we feed vor children st all? What B A i s R Wobud that Lie couslitucaty of our budic gently tll well cookd In making rasu- puuuds of upples quarteres Viuegur; steaw the apples Ul a fork wi thew readliy; tbe wak vinevar aud pour uver them while bot, and stick & clove or two into each quarter, Bpleed Apples: Eight pounds of apples pared and quartered, foar Lounde sugar, one quart vivy- 7, OO vuncu stick cluuamon, balf ounce eloves. oil tho sugsr, vinegar, uu i ha applca whils boiling, sud let il tender (about tweuty minutes). the eirup until thick, and pour it over the frait. Apples preserved like gloger: Peel aud cut fu fanricre »ix puunds of apple uny-half poond race gluger; pack the upples in & jur, a luyer of appies, toen vugarand gloger, until all sre put lu; next day bralso sn vunce of e it iu Balf 8 plut of Loilius wuter, closel; day put the applus, Ahe water Lrow the orutsed gluy: citle and bull 16 for one bour, or ootll [ovk cluar sud sirap rich, ad lewwn pecl, cut very 1910, Just belore dune. plessant, and trup of the sugar and splcey together; . ez d v, cumplieb this purpose, pounds_sugu lfla‘m uay of THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1877—TWLLVE PAGES. henlthy bread Is made n France by a mixture of | & world of shams and pretense, whuso lustre cor. | continued, confdentisily, tandlndy has the appica’ and fote i the propoction of one-ihird | rodes fn the coutact with Iife's experience, and [ reputation of making the beat bash of any woman apple-puip to two-thirds flour. The uanal quan- | turnd lo pewter In your grasp. Younz girls, walt [ fn the city.™ Just then hia wife came round the cor- 1y of yeast Ix beaten with flane and the warm | tintil you arn older before you eall vourself nfil- | ner, toak hls hem, and, looking daguersat me, cried pulp of the apples, salt, and a fittle water, If the | anced. Your taates for booky and millinery under- | In toneaof thunder, **Come on, ™ and he went an Apbler are sour, a little sngar may be added before | go grest :hnm}u between the ages of 18 and 25; | addutiful haaband should, Then I purancd my way Fuuln[ in the flour. It reqnizes rather longer time | 80 will your higher tastes. The age that feeds upon | nntll 8 sign Attracted my attention, whera in gilt fi o tise than ordinary bread, and should be eaten | Mrs. Southworth's novels must worahip & dif- | leiters I reed the words, ‘*Private Buarding- resh, ferent horo from the age that craves atrongoer | Ilouse.” [@went slowly up the steps and rang the Apple Short-Cake: To one quart of sifted flonr | montal food. ~As children must have raeasles snd | bel), which was answered by a bright, black-ered add {wo toaepoonfuls of cream tariarand ona of | il other childish aiiments, 4o youth must have ita | woman who {uvited me in, &nd Informed me that #ods, half s teaspoonful of sait, quarter of a pound | terms of whimsical Joves and spasmodic wors — | ahe was French and ¢onld not apeak English very of butter, awe®t milk enotgh to mix it, Have the | walt untll the hand of time has narred you through 11, which fact I had ‘Irndfldur,nvrreu. French, dongh rather s)if, roll ana bake Inacheet. As | these dirorders befora you choose your destiny, | faid Ito myself, and a great burden seemed to fali #non as baked, splitopen the whole cake. apread | Thersought tabe a lawforblading early maeringes, | from my ‘shouiders. ‘Then oerhaps she knows one pieca quickly with dutter, cover with well- | for, although I grant there are many haopy excep- | mothing of hash, and I immediately engaged board swesiened mpple-mauce, ponr over some thick | tions Iom{ tie, [am safo in eaying that three- | and handed over a $5 bill which she de- siveat cream, grate on nutmey, place the other half | fonrths of the ex ing "”I unlona provoa | manded in advance, 'Twszs tea time, and on this, erust-slae down, spread with batter, | carae to one or both of the mated. as I toox my place ai the tabla with cover with apple-saace, cream, and notmeg. Lo, Deronda, yan are moanted for the eampalgn } 8 score of the Juym of the Ay, A dieh for breakfaat: Take siz good cooking ap- | against acandai!’ You men are always on the ram. | my heart grew light, and [ 'reasoned (o mysell In ples, cut them In sl one-fonrth of an Inch | page against either that or gossip. Andif yon | this way, **Sarely,' said I, ‘‘surely, that mis. tnick have n pan of fresh, hot lard rcml{. drop | achieved no other work in life than the overthrow | terious inizture called *hash® has never anchored the siicen in, and fry brown; sprinkie a Iittle sugar | of thess dragonsj you would go down to youe | in this househiold. where all scem so joyons and over them, and nerve hot. raves, leaving & splendid record, Duf, ma | contented.” The tahienpread was of snowy white. ‘Apple-Float: Stew parttally one quart of apples, | long ~ ms the devil fs _ loose, - | ness. tho eflver ahinlng bright: o geranium Aushed and mash them well; udd the shites of three cgge | dal and gossip shall ~ bhe 1 ¢ | scarlet in tho window, while & gentle breezo well beaten, amd pour heaping lablespoonfal of | emmissaries, can fight down **pusley" and | fanned my cheak, and **all seemed as ceful loaf-sugar; beat al) together diteen minntes, and | exterminate Canada thistle perhaps in & hifetime, | and s stl)l a3 the mist slumbering on yon hill. eat with rich miik spiced with nutmeg. 11t your years ninst be as (hc years of Methuselah Suadenly thero was heard & runm.]or dishes, Apple-Snow: Put twelve good, tart ngplu in | If you andertake to overthrow hnman natnre's bo- | the door swnng open, a waiter briskly catered, CDIJ'IVMM' and set them aver: the fire; when soft | sefiing sine, \Wo must bow to the Inevitable, and, | pansed heaide e, net something down, and that drain the watee; strip the aking off the npples,core | while doing onr best \ith oar Hitle dippers. wo | something nothing more or less than & dishof them, and lay them in 8 deep dish; beat the whites | need never hope to dip away tho ses, As long ns | hash steaming hot. How I ever got through of twelvo esnze 10 8 #LHT froth; put ball & pound of fre man and one woman llve upon the earth scan- | that meal [ know not, but at last ‘twas ended, finely-powdered white sugar to the applea; best | {iat will be propaeated, Ihold that men are ze- | Tho eituation could not have been worse, butdl thiem to 8 sthl froth, snd add the benten ‘egys. | iailers of scandal as well said, **I'll stay til] my week s out,” ‘The word Beatthe wholetoa stilf snow, then tara intoa | difference fs that men had scarcely pissed mylipe when amyrald of deegert-dinh, teputations wilh clubs, 'A’" , —clum. | yolcen whispered in my ear, **Remember your One Crast’ Apple-Pie: Line yonr ple-dish with | sliy,—while we women' understand the art of | Yow.' Aud remomberiug it I pasned over the siry, thon anarter your apples, Il sour pic- | needie-polnta and yenomed stings. And I sm | threshold) and eortowfully b thought of that$5 i with them, sweeten with su nd bake un- | frank 10 admit that [ would rather “be | bill, and I ean but admit that 1longed to take it in til tender: take nut of the oves tie whitcsof | pursued with a club than tormented by a gnat. | my haudand put It safely in my Enckn. althongh iwo egite to & atifT froth. awecten with une tea- | Can we not form oorselves into & soclety, dear | 1 knew that puper money ws nothing but rags aod speoniul of powdered sngar, spreail it over the | Iadies, for the suppression of scandal! If you ple, place it agatn in theoven, and brown lightly. | have read E. E. llale's delighiful Jittle baok, Apple Meringue: Pare siz farge tart apples for | **10x1—-10," you eanuot be eurprized at the rsuce: while hot put in s plece of butter the size | mighty {nfiucnces that widen from Individoal of an egg; when cold adit 'a cup of fno cracker- | efurls. crimbe, tho yolks of three ezas well beaten, a cup Let us say that we wili Hsten_to no word about of sweet mil! lttle salt, nutmeg and | anybody that fe not kindly. Let us shun other sogar to taste, 0 o a large plate with an une | people's fanlts; they arc plagne-spots, the handling devcrnat and rim. When dono take the whites of | of which will only poison our own fingurs. 1f ono three egge, haif A large teacup of whito sugar, and | seeka through an acre lot for weeds, hie will find a few drops of extract of lemon, beat toa sti® | them: IF for fowers, they shall raward the search. froth, pour over, put back In the oven and brown | If you, sweet lady, whose 1ifo has heen sb Hghtly. overwaiched by Juve and tender cark have Jlaked Appls Dompling! One plot of flour, one | broughe to lossom & fow roscs, dare tablespoonfut of lard and butter mized, ono cup | yon down upon the sister whose of milk, one-halt teaspaonful of sada dissolyed in | life never known the nurtaro of lovo hot water, one of cream-tartar, a plach of salt. | because sho has brooght forth Idlo weoda instead, Choo ‘the shiortening into the flonr, Afteryou | God knows why it Jn so much easlcr to ralee woeds bavo sifted this smi Lhe cream-tartar together. pat | thanto cultivite roses. And I think by.and.by fn the soda and wet np quickly with milk,~just | 1e will discriminate teuderly between tha llves SUfT enongh toroll Infoa pnate less than linlf an | thal have been all soutliern” exposure and thoso inch thick. Cat Into sq , and lay in the cen- | which have brought forth tholr bit of blocom out tre of each a fart nople, pared and cored, bring the | of the siarcy wayside. ile chiarilable. Drapo alf corners of the square neatly together, and pinch | deformitics of character with the emina of gentlo slightly. Bako in & moderato oven; eat with hot, | |udgment, and where words avall nothing to com- aweet usuce. lort, and ' strengthen, and heal—keep ailent. In Htjce nnd Apples: Coro as many nicaapples as [ that way, and that alone, shall scandal be eont wiil 011 a dish; boll them In ilght llmw vrepare a | coweringback to the kingdoni of datkncrs that quarter of & pound of rice in inllk, with sugarand | gave it birth, > n = worthicss stuff. And so for weeka 1 was tossed hither and thither on the soa of ancertainty, nuw fnding a home wiiich would only prove an 'Jeland of refage for & dnv or two, orn week at most, and then driven forth by bash, the bame of my pxistenco. A low weeks ngo I made one of a number of happy excursiunists who vislted St. Louis, Being in good company, in the enjoyment of Lhe presant moment ] forgof my paat misery, and with a gay beart and bouyant step 1 sprang from the cars, nnd after o beisk ride 1 reached the housg of my friends. "Twas noon, and as [ seated myself atthetablel gayly exclaimer 10, hour of all hourst tho most blossed upon eartl, the hour of my dinner.” Hare a hornbla sound fell upon my ear; 1t was tho volcs of thy h saylng, *‘Chat 'wou't you huve somo A cold dweut broke oot upon me, for s sccond my licart ceased to vibrate, then, with desporato throb, aimost burst from my bovom. It was more than mortal man conld bear,and I aprang from the table, rushed into the hall, seizeu my bonnet, dashed [nto tho streat, and, regardicss of opiajon, regardiess of consequences, I nover stop. ped {n 1ty mad raco uniil I bad put_several bloc between me and that detestablo dish, 1 reached tho deput and, hungry and sad, 1 waited unitll Leard the woleomo cry of **All nboard. " . nalt: put some of the rice in the disu, and pnt in 1 have beon smuvedt by some things thal have Arriving ut home I {ook np iny abode ata der- " {he apples: 011 up the Intervalawith rice, and bake | been sald nere about that blood-cundling =in of | man restaurant, whore I have since romained, And | $578 it In the oven till it fsa tino color. eating with the knife, DI you evcr stop tothink | aithongh for & block around the nir Is !ngnml with Matrimony Children's Pudding: Fill an carthen | that it half the anxlely maintained In toaching | the perfuma of limborgar, saucrkraut, and beer, the baking-dish with tnely-choj i nson | children not to use thoir knife in eatlng were odious odor of ash has not saluted my nostrils, and I am bhappy. Cuy 2, with suzar and nutmeg, add EP lmluvv‘:n dizected 10wards teaching them to be charitabie and on Lhe buck of the range antil the applos tender-heartad, tho world wanld be a bettor place SS—— 3 Gor: then mako a crist of one toncap of sweet | to1ive In. 1t fa horrible, of courwe, (o pat your 1OME-MADE KINDERGARTEN, e milk, oue tablespoontul of butter, o little salt, one | knife within your lips, but put It tnere, and keep To the Editor of The Tribune, Wil tenspoonfal of baking puwder, flour enough to roll | It thore to all'eteenily, rathor than give room for outs Jay the ceuvt on top of the appled and bake. | bliing words and bits of scaudal! As for we, 1 To e caton_ kot with sweot sauce, Aavored with | .lwll grow gray-hoaded. porhaps, and decrepld, if lemon or vauilla, Otler kinda of fruit may boused { thy Lord spares me upon earth; my childron's in the same manner, clildren shaly srise and call mo grandmother, Blird's-Nest Pudding: Pot into three pints of | —yca, even Isase, the tell-boloved of my botling milk six crackers, pounded fno, and onc | yout, ¥lall wane alwo 48 wanes the harvest cup ralsins; when eool, add four ogws, well boaten, | moon, but even throngh the palsy of life's deu‘l a little suyar, and four good-sized apples, pared | shall protect my right to use whatever utensil the and cored. To be baked and eaton with warm | craft of man has formed to best sult niy conven. sauce. fence in eating, I do not think the angel that Nnrsery Apple-Pudding:. Grate somo atale bread | guards the celestial gato will stop to ask |1 1 usod 1uto & buttered dleh, strew upon it a layer of sliced | iy knifo in conve: “‘f my food from plate to lip, or chopped apples inkled with sugar, alternate | or if § subsceibed €o all the rules of social etiquetie crambs, apples, and sugar until the dish s fa that govern ud too rlgldly sometimes here Lelow. then cover with crutobs und small pleces of batter, | Hid questioning will take hald of deeper matters, motsten with o little milk, putin the oven, aud | and our entrance info the preat company of the bake a light brown, sleet shall depend on other tssues, Bole l\llgnnd Apple or Pruns Padding: Crust to ba mado same | Iess time in bursishing tho externate,—lot ua look #s cream-tartar blscuit, to bo cooked by steam fun | to it,'not oniy that the fabele of our charactor tin boller; roll the cruat to the required sizeand | grows plistentug and white, but also that the half an fnch thick; nso_ Arst & layer of crust, then | texture lo sirm, and there aro 0o hidden Inroads of sliced apple and so un, having the top layer u cruet, | decay that the strong light of atcznity shall reveal. Touving room tor the pudding to swell. If prunes | Wil ilarriet Woolsoy pleaso wrlte me personaily? are nsod, swell them first by sosking them in warm | I imagine that I have been looking for her these wator, Cook_the puddinizan hour anda balf or | many years, What has bocome of the Becretary of two hours, according to ithe sixe. You can ves | the 8. I, A.? 1 wlsh that he would return, thls recipe forany kind of frait, always swelling In uttendanca upon the fadies’ meetlng held tha drla m&t. ‘Wednosday, the £2d, at Sherman Houae, I A Chicap Apple Pudding: Bnicct twodeep earthen | dropoed small thread all: will sny one who dishes, 1l ona with tart apples cnt fino, and half u | plcked 18 Bp please write me to that edect? mmul wateror loss. Cover tiie mpples with o AuBEn. nder crust, tnen turn the emoty dish over It, and a CHAT'S EXPERIENCE. Jerrensoy, Wis., Ang. 20,—In The Home of July 28, Dactyl {ntroduced the subject of Kindur- garten, which forelbly reminds me of my promive to Fox, soveral months since, to give her some In- formation about my home-made system, as I called 1t, which ¢ no kindergarten atall. I onlyusedthe word for want of some mdre appropriate one toex- press my meaniog. 1am,in fact, entirely ignorant of the systom founded In Germany by Froebel, with the exception that it excindes reading wntirely, and Is designed for children between 3 and 7 yeans of age. % At the timoe I made that promise I had & friend in Voston learning to teach (t, ond my plan then waa to find out all I conld sbout it for tha berieAt of The 1Momo, rosders, and in addition tell of a MNttle home-made affulr of my own, Now, fo thinking the matter over, it cortalnly does seem the very helght of folly to undertake to tell others what I know nothing about mysell; therefure I wlill proceed to tell yon iow Mabel plays in = way to develop her ming, and oleo my own. But firat [ would inform the reader that sho {s not my chlld, and for this reason Lhave not given tho subject that careful thought that T otherwisa ahould, The little fne is & nelghbo: who camo to sce me very often last winter and soring, and, ae she has & very Inquiring mind, it one day occurred to me that such & mind ought to bave sume profitablo employment, and some of tho stepping-stones that led to that em- ployment were na follows: "**Mabel, ald you evor play make pumpkloa? ' **Of course, Indeed, I never did, Tlow do they make them?" Thero 1 gave her an ear of corn, and told hor If she would shell §t I would show her, This employed about iwenty minutes of her timo (an ftem of ‘some importance at lesst), Then I gave her two round tin dlsbes, ono bolding a quart and tho other apint. ‘Tarning the larger oneover bottom upwards on_the foor, I told her to puta row of corn all atound the edge, placing the k nels close toguther, which sio did with the great. est delight, ‘I'non 1tooX the basin up carcfully, and bebeld pampkia No, 1, Repeating the proccsa Ly placing the baeln two or threcinches from fiure 1, No. 2 was formed. Then followed sov- cral othora formed g the small tin basin for varlety, The nextstep wae 10 unito them by o large, long ving, conslsting of two rows of corn nboot an luch apart, and then short ones loading 1o each pumpkin, Huch a prolific vinol" Ithen exclaimed, lleroshe of course asked what pro- 1ific meant, and, when told, understoud sng re- membered 1L, After admiring them suficlently, 1 naked: **Now, how wonld you like to tura them ail into sunfiowers?* She thought thut would be mote charmiug atillt so I took & little tin Lox-lld, ond, with & hatchet, cut it in two (o thecentre, and, lnkln%onl balf, placed it with the nim npwards agalust tho edge of & pumpkif, and told her to put @ row of corn around the edge and thon Lup, and #o procoed autll the odgos ot afl cailoped, And fhus they were ail turned Intosunflowors, By means of tha rim of the lid, you will sce that she could handlo it easler thana Jastebosrd pattern. Now, aftor such u beqnnlug, there was no end to the varlaty of thinge that could Lo mude, It \ras Just lke the storics uf Scheherazade. Thers were cow-pasture bridges, lird-cages, churches, aquariume, with tauks of varioas kinds and shapos, w1lh potatoes for sulmals o fnhabit them, gar- dens, guncu ples, open pes-pods, the house that Jack boilt, ete., &)l of which 1 wonid like to tell von sbonl, but for lack of room can_only describe & few, Pirat, the aguarium. AsIowna colored lithograph of the New York Aquarinmn, sha bad nu diiicuity In underatanding what an squarium was, or Low the tanks were constriétod. She was Intercated in tho tanke that contalned the whalo, octoyts, seals, etc, than the glass ones contafning Delios, aud foraed: them by using tin dished, Fortho whale's tank ahe used tlo Iid of my wash-boiler, and s coban- swored for a whale, The ocl}npm was 8 parvnij with many small roots, whicll, , ahe said, looke nd the otheranimals wy After she had outlined all gl N“Y Eou muvt make unother cir- ¢le, or tuey will not be strong enough, ond gunr snimals will all escape,™: But 1 sbuuld bave t told ypan that the u)unlum building Wi almply an inclovure formed Dby pi Iug tho “kernols of corn around the edye, of 8 newapaver pinued to the carpet to kesp it in place (s ovard would have been bLutter). Aftor 1 you 1ust make an L2 atreet ur cook Afigen oe iwenty minaics 1o a hot oven. Lo not removo tho cover untll the moment the pad- £ "To the Editor of The Tribune. ding is to ba caten, and have it done at the right ey s orve with Greatn and surar, of other sance, | | DECATUR, Aug. 22.—Scandal, thosubject so ably Paradise Pudding: Three eggn, half-pound bread- | treated in last weck's Home, 18 Indeed s yampire In , thirce apples, 8 cup uf carranis, Julco of | the land. . B half » lemon, nutiey and salt to taste. Mince the "Tha slmoom tnat swoeps over the desort beariug apples, beat t.e eogy, and atle all together, Rob " b cutrants 1n flous and stir In th luat tbiug. Lolt | deatli and destructlon on ite wings le not more to ono hour and a half. _Eat with hot swcet snuce, be dreaded than tho hot breath of slander that ‘Avple and Taploca Padding: Scak over nighta | stosls from no ono knows whore, coming alowly at. quarter of o pound of taploca: pour off the water | gesr, but surely, gathoring forca and Impetus by and ndd one quars and a giil of boillng waters Sircetcn and flavor with grated lemon pocl and tha | 110 Waz, and fuslly striking Jts victim With tho Julce of ous lemon. Tuko six or sight tart npples, | forco of a tornado, and, alas! how often burying Dare, core, and place In o pudding-dieh; Ail the | ber In the dobris of a ruined reputation. ]clex:lll'; &{ l: :;Ix‘ngfllln‘; \:ngll:um'rx:n Ilnlm 'Ymilr l‘l::; A person who dellberately, systematically, and D ad it avn ntl Tha apales aro pecfoctly | Wit **malice aforettionght, ™ slanders nothior s soft, Berve with cold creans. otto whom we all scorn, and who not unly desorves ‘An Appie Soutlle—Ingrediemta: Twelve largo ap- | our contempt, bt murlts the most severe punish- ples, haif-pound luélr. slx cgge, one plat mill,, | mentof the law, But hero, os has been truly sald, Bne'lemon, ono_fablespoontul powdered Augar | a4 ety B L R e such an oitendey {ode: paro and core the applos; stew them with e e e e e e ' | la uaually a0 strongly intanchod bohing the brusst= sleve; make o custard with thu yolksof the ege | works of knowing iooks, mgnificant gestures, and and the milic. Halffill a ple-dish with tho appl nsinuations tbat nothing can bo proved sgainat T oo oy ot oatard ots the Jcap | Bim oF s, o u ruth and lay an the custard; & he lou! sugar over ail, and bake in 8 moderate oven for ten Now, whilo wd denource such a person, and hold minotes. up our hands in holy horror at his sins, would it Curry Powder: Take onaonnce ginger, oncof mus- | not bo well 10 look to curaclves, and see it vome tard, one of penper, three of carlander sced, three of turmurlc.g: an unce of cardawmom soud, quar. | 1017 GIrl of woman who Lns fallen proaieats betare terof a a of Cayenne pepper, quarter of an | tho scorching Llast of acandol, even ae travelers uuncf: ulr’:l'r‘:‘:fnun' q{tnmr pn ‘::'m?ncn of curnn | fall before the dread blast of the sinicom, can ralse secus pulverizo nll very tne 1a & mortar, and cork | ber pale hand and poiut us out, nge os the aseassin tightly in a boitle. EWEY. of her good name, but ua the accomplices of that O assassin? When her falr fams has been AMBER’S LETTER. overshadowed by clouds as black as mid. % AWINCESUor of. The Trtnine, night' have we mever ndded our mite * Ianwoop, 111, Aug. 23,—The trlte proverd, | 1o her -nsnhh Dy repeating the stoties that tho **There are women and women, " finds exemplifi- | god of defamers, ** Hay,” hawe circulatod catlon th othor things than tho genilorsex, Thore | Soncarningher? lave wio ¢ i folded naver v cako and cako, music and musle, lovo and love, | hands aud ‘:l.‘;:,'f;’fi':::(u',’l',}:elflfo;d'.'.‘ Injibing Each of the coupled words apolled uliko, yot | Siicos s Cither 100 ndblent or too seltah 1o Ko to Heaven and I¢ll are not farther apart in eiguid. er rescue by bLoldly striking out and pulling up canca, Now and then I turns from my oven sowe | atream against the Current of public opinlon, and oy bellef in her fnni d plead); flabby wixture which gracos the bosrd ln cass of d'f‘g;f“l'gr:::“,' o e TocHacs (pod bleading a ) ate noed perbaps, butls no more like the ln her Liour ot need? nmw-v.unnnmm-x(pm:d toothsome compound of happlor chance than clay | our arrow la the quiver of slander? IHave we 15 like the fusm of tlie ees, or the adipose of an | holped fan tue fames llldlr!flnnlly..cnuumd Ler by Alderman liko the lissome graceot (ueen Titania, | OuF indiiferonce or our dread of ** what peavle will Qccaslonally our little town §e infesied by sn or- Toratius fooght singlo-handod at tho Lridge for a gan-grindes, e terriblo nstrument wheezes, and | (Lo, but at Jast, exbausted snd overborne Ly fresh splattery, sud gasps through tho ** Lost Ross of | eneniles, he piunged him in the Tiber, sud theru dulleat ear can recoguize the bean- funnd safely and rescae, Now, & woman may fdght alona th ful host of scofters at, and ‘unbe- titul melody, ebut comparo thots vizenish tones | Hovees e oy innocence: bt thore’ Wil surer with the same as rendered by Ole DBull's inspired | coma a time when, heart-sick.and weary, sbo wifl violin or Thowmas' picked fates. fiy to theY'iber of lovo sud friendship; aud if thosa And yet the smail boys whio sit astelds the fenee, | ®8ors bo dricd up, thon wlll tullow doapalr, Then and the smiling ruatics who lounge beside t, aro | YLt oL TeRt (eRCIGIE Buk TRCCRCE it thrilled with the dulcet strains, andcail the sad In- | of which she has bean innocently nccased. Wo giction muslc. 5 ;n:g lhm ;‘;"fi: g;‘ml;‘l;y iz -xc:la trs A sprite of agirl hardly oot of doll-tending, ut be w ik . wiel with every facully undeveloped, aclish, s ROk -'-“mh"mm" :‘m J:l".u:‘embggu s ifc thet has known 00 discipiine is | the sofc breszes of love —and kindness spt to be, thoughlless, becauso the thought | blowlng upon the black shadows of scondal aud that s born of life's experience bas mover | Suspicion uflen dispel thom, cyen as the rushing of he mighty west wind divpels the wtoria-clondu, come 1o s birth, —her tastes, and ul the possibil- [ AT IEEL 0 1l {ustly a8 well v tho un. ittes of her nature, very moch in the state of mat- Il“", accused, reach out ihe fair white hsud of ter before the Creator's fiat brought order out of | help andaympathy, and with cheoring words and cbaos; auch & glrl suns athwart her frat love. Por- | Qulck ssalstanca lad and gulds them geutly up tha hapa tho reclylentof ber devotion b as callow x| il {ihe"suwmit redecined aud ransomed froms aby; I 8o, matters will wdjust themsolves nore | femptation and shn. readily thao it helstbe vlderand craftier of the I‘I'{Xthk- way, us. %d'l'bor. dcl) b makl;:;v, dfiu Ah? " ublic know, aud moit especiaily do the readcry of (‘v]v‘u“.fl:n‘lhu ““m,ln“ these 1y u.lucl Lt iy he Homu fi-mw, that wr are I’hrnmud wtlm a g for Wie time. Little acrvices which, 10 | (orriife epidemic? And do they realizo that if the untiriog devotion of othier sud loftier love, are | jyyincdiato ond peremptory steps are not at once like the tinkla of recdy riila comvtnu to tho | taken Lo chicck its approaches this calamity, which nl:ruon of the sea, Bwiles and sunsbine, freaks | st preseut fu no lancer thun & wmen's band, will rainy weather, Jove grows to |te consumma. | aproad and spread uniil the whale bright Leaven i aweot-potato tanks, 1 ald, ouple conslsted of two rows uf corn several juchcs I said, ** Now it Is more aiblg, " does that meant* ** Kasy to -p.pmlch. or tvgo to.”! ‘Chen she made soine people in it, and con- claded by making somu cattlu on the vatslds of the building. Iird-cazes were outlined by placiug ti kcruclysround thy edge of & wailer turned bottom upwartle; & ring on top by 8 wmall round dish. Wirg bars ware represented Ia{ siraight rowa of corn, mada o by 1he ure of & atlck. Ono day It occurred to us that, by using s string {(waxed glittle) to form the objecls, wecould mako many king of wnlmals, plants, figires, vte, This roved to be B great success. With thu aid of an Eucyuuvmla. Vorcouter's illustrated Dictionsry, tion, ns 2 gathered lily fa its vase of water. overcast with the dark clouds of alarw, the d vilier itlustrated books, I cashiy formed alnge witnervasguickly. For, grant that warriage follows, | wrecked fo the billaws of surgow, and thao af evurything tnat | wished, but generally selected the crovsas that tust be borne, thy sclf-reuuncia- | Lope qoencoed in the black ocean of despal thoss aniniale that we, ticularly luteresting in thuir Ladits aud namos, aud alyo told her some- thing obout them, o sed-horae, Of hipno- causpus, for cxamplo, Also, wole, & Beb, 0 cafled pecause It s fat and feseimbles the sole of the foot, Jthua botl eyvs ou ons mde, cic, Sometines 1 would tell all the uames of the anlmals, purtly to wtrenythen her motnory, and also Lo make the sub- Juct tatoresting. Kxaple: Looby, ganoet, noddy, wland guose, 1t Iy caled buuby because it e pid bird, ete. It {4 an aquaile bird, -cte, Hero' call the child's atleation’to 1ls web fecl. Teack It the differenco between a cawel, drome- dary, A‘Km.' otc.. sud slways have tho pleture before the child while playiax with it, 10 make up fur yuur imperfucs outline, Fur tgures mske such s theso: arch, crescent, star, didwoud, coucs, angles, etc. Foe luavea nud dowere, paticen cun be cut, if found tuo diticutt to furw by sicans of a wsirlog, and the sam for all objucts §f moro couveuleut’ but 11iko a string bedt, and can make them 8il y (1 lve minutes’ time gunerally, tlons, aud cruciizions of sulfial dewire, the earn- | we of ihe ninetcenth century will ensct the et work (hat luuow-flmhM' unny dreaut, will | blo scenas of two: hundred yeurs overshadow the poor ilitle How foreat trees | great plugue feil like 2 curse upon overtop the sbrinking vivlet st their fooi. Any | they know that our business will ceaso, vur onter- love that Is not reuted and grounded 1 sumething | priscs die out, und our ¢ tlvs Le depgguustudy iho Leyoud tho allurenicats of youth snd grace wiil | jrave will wave §u our atrects, and flo only souud prove woman's curée, ‘Fruelove s yrowg, not | that startles the uucarthly siliiness will’ ba the an vzplosiva. As well expect suwwer, Witk its | ominous ratile of tho wheels of the death-cart, and wlow uevelopment of blovw and xone, 10 bu shot | the uppatiiog cry, ** Driag out your doad. " out of u columblad, as to bope for the bleum aud But it 14 uot vestilence whuse scouts soug of love to follow tug feverish delirium hat | in our cuwp, but it Ju the gaunt from of starvation baifour young girls laucy 19 the dlvine senument. | thal approaches, ILisau epidemic with which we Teal yourseil and your feellngs tbgruughly befure | are thecdtened, and an epldemic of Huab. en b o Tthe nurned stater T your | MY word can be relied upon, for I bave talked jve mich tuat 1L depends upon no ouls | with the men, interviewed thu landlurdy, and wurd perishiable charnY Cen you love **as the | gossiped with tho womew, and [ koow whereof 1 ungels do. with the breadil OF beaveu betwixt | speak. aud then wy own uzperience coodras all Your" Are'vou whliui W sacrico and swdor to | the rumore that sra afust. see muck of ‘the postey of life yo, o8 tho apple | iissh iv s dish (et bas for years appeared occa- blossown fall, to wake ‘soom for the fruit wbat ful- | slovaliy even ot sowmo of oar Gesl-epread tubles, —to redounce the swoothed uut path of teu- | but never Lafore, in the wemory of wai, v derly guarded youth for the briery ruu&n 1ife du- | aupals of bintory, hav It become wo popular ss to yelopent, —to accept the peradventurdd uf pover- | Lunlsh almost avery other catable. Like an ava- ty and of BrroW. (o evou take (ho tornblo chanees | lauche it is swecpiog everything before it and if it that duath may pluck the owers you gather frum | coutlnaes to increase | public favar pothing, no yuur busom aud lay them low (0 your cuildzou's | notbloy, bul starvatton remaloe. graves. Aiw you resdy forall thier” If yuu whenk | Sowe time syo I resolved Lo changs my bosrding. ruu wne thora Wi tha ciown, do not be deceived, | houss ** for wy stomac’s veke, aud s 1 stood 1n you ate 8 siranger 80 the true signiticance of love. | wy room and wok a farewell look attha stalued- Love that csanct cadurs the cruclbie witl lunll wood furaiture, the rug-caspel, and greou-pavsr luu\'n your curse. Pruv's beautitulleiter last woek | window-curtalu, the lears sprang unbiddeu Lo w; o trutii itaclf. Therv s no lot on earth o0 terrible | wyes, my Leart thrilled whih puln, und T reallzo as loveless wodluck. ‘Tho slave'slife is Paradiss | Low' much attacbed I had becouio 10 wy pressnt cm:&uud o1t tor the mauacles that only bind ¢us | ubede guriog 8 loag redidenco of two weeks, y hands sre easy laid sside, bat thoas that fettes tho | Liftiog my band towsrd the ceacked luoking-glass, heart, Death scascely holds iha key Lo Joowon. 1 vowed & soleion Yoiv Bever 10 remain over night Uy un *‘old maid® 1 1ts 1oost desplaed wod des- | n s huuse whers bash was sorved outdaily, aud cabie n,mmflm; Lo u fluhfiu d 8 totler i) | 3¢ 1 was sadly weaudering aloog wne of our prin- by days of your life rater than rushinw marrage, | cipal thorvughfares [ wet an scquaintance of unlées gour ulon 1a grounded o the rock of Uod | whom 1 inquired If ho couid direct wie 10 8 ¢ood maell. There I8 @ tove wo pore, and boly,, | bosrding-boose. **Indead 1 can,™ aaid he; and - eonobling that eterwty whall mot bo' | ©'come right along with we} I am wtopping at one loog coough 1o fade Ehe whitences of | of the best placesiutown,” Lo they use rsz- ite blamow, nor duald eharp cuvugh to | carpels?” luakcd wistfully, ss1ay thoughts won- loosan the foundation of its buld. Such love alall | dered back Lo the soum 1 Juit deserivd, be womun's blessiug, 68 the sunshloe blowsce the | **\Well, 1don's know; L never notited,” aald be, world. Pray that this shall be granted you mh 7 | wa bo thougbltuliy acratched Lis beal, ‘rbur ‘l’a: ' ndon, Do Jready in this way, 1 make avory thing large, that ehe may bea long tlwa about it, "sud losisi bhal tho kernels shall vo clove togethor, and do not tall_hur of mors than oug or two Lalugs in one-ball day, Afice awhile sho becawe tired of uslng corni then 1 gave icr coffeq Lerrles, rossted and green; after m"\"‘.‘" beans, botl colored and white, bot best of aH wbo lked hickory-nuts aud acoru cups, bucauss she could work ¥o much faster, she said. Tadviso you tu make & few Fuled fo fegard to e, and bring tue wholu affalr into somu ordur, Bome- thing like this: Nob let tho child play just us much, ur just as Litle, as It chooses, and at soy thmo It chooses, or it wlll cortain) come tired of-the whole affalr In & short tiwe, ~ Sscondly, al- ways requirs the cbild to put away all fhe'ma- 1s alfter dona msing them. Ay to order, I Jould proceed, 1n this way: ' Quo ok wiaky Jand anlwats, the next, water animals, sud o on, sud slways wake some preparation for it before- ujng what you couvealently can avout Do pot ind if you capaot make the 5uscs very wall If yoa Lave 8 good plcture and cau 1naky the child usderstaud what you have to ¢ thaun that other codntesfelt passlon, s0 cacrelt in | Bave a nlano. acrooust-gzaund. aod . Hed Inent important that the prom- atures are hrought ont. 1Hke to see mothers lay aslde thelr motherly times ond be the little ones' dignity a1 such companlon by ndo ** Now, come, Lit rit down and fce what we £an find about that very funny litic sea-horse, or hippo- campus, an some peaple call him, a few minutes)—** Why, thing half #0 fanny bo they stand up when timy it down, and when they ewim in the water tho others’ talls and hold on for dear 1ife, and then it tr papa, instead of thelr mamms, *+Now, Mrs. 8ea-florse, It scems, has not any pock- et to put Aer things Into, and so when she lays her e Ahe puls them into Me. Sea-Hforse’s pockel, hich has a nice #oft lining, agd then she zoes ot and leaves him to take all tlfe care of them, and the little miles of sca-colts, too, Aaro hungry, woat do yoti think he givea them to eat? Why, the roft lining of his pucket, to ba anee, d1d hear of such a devoted papa before, or :pen o shirking, irresponsible mamma-dl ont Itla my opinion that tho spondenta who are #o often re! are looking for the luat art of convarsation, svhic! o certaln contributor Informs us as Jost man 1f 50, 1ot us hope that If fonnd It will ot prove to be of the **Johnsonisn style, " which another contribotor expresaly warna us, woof the n Joarnal, against adapting. o know thatthegreat Iir. Johnaon was the star in Mrs, 3."s conetellntion, that when ho began to talk the company gathered sbont him in every word that he t1ask parely for in- formation what that atylewas? Mns. MoxTAGUE. DE LIBERAL. To the Editor of The Tribune, Cnaxratuy, 1L, Aug. 22.—For many tveeks have T been a eilent yet appreciative reader of those coluwne graced by so many beautiful lotters, on such various topics of Interest, that it wonld scem impossible that mil shonld not find there something to please the fancy op interest the mind. Never beforo have f vontured to accept the invita- tlon to write, 8o generously extended to all who may feel an interest In this dopartment, 1t was with regret that Theheld a snirited dise cnssion arlelng over tho guestion of Intollectnal culturo, or whether articles of a mors puraly ltor- arr character should mest with 8 heartfelt wel- Surely all will admit with Lanrs Earle that ,'*there 14 no danger of thero boing any too learned 'or too wise,* and that fatellectual culturo ls very | knife-and-fork controversy, Inanswer toCoutean'y deafrabloat all timos and In all places. hope that nll tronble 14 at an end, and that bence- forth peace and harmony shall prevail, mollifying and concillatory tendency of your last letters will have an effect in that dircetion, and T nesure yuu that ae auch they have been nofdd with pleasure by many admiring readors. After reading baok saya that All grasp hoild of ench #ays that thel foeds them. i Now, when they delinguent corra- Inded of their dut) years ago, Sadcend: Naw s brightes four and five ey #aid. can anybo |, perfect wonanhood. Tlhe lifec of nature needs teaf come, engonders which and the suclal should harmonize, for from tho blenaing of the Lwo rotioty is improved aud benu- lifo cheered aud made bet ¥ . ting oplnions and diversiled tastos, differonces arise which must be tolerated, looked upon kinaly, and treated humanely, Dut fe there not rovm’ for ali? Who cannot relish the jokes of Chat? And surcly all hcarts will assent to tha noble senthents of Fern-Leaf's aud Amuer's Jast 1t would bo wall for the world If thero ‘was wore of a spirit of bonevoloncs and gunervslty octoating our mouvemonts in 1ifo, if we wire as so- licitous for thy wolfare of others as-for our own Ob, Luw much aolilshncss Is there cx- and mado manifest The world has too whole-souted dls. letiers. well-belng. hlbited upon esery hand, by our every actlonl fow of those truly noble, interested persons, whom wo 80 admire whou found et are su Juath to 1mitate, lest it prove inconvun- Happy 16 tne nneelfish peradn, for sure- ore pledsute ta give than to recoive. Ilow fow there ara who aro ready and wiiling to sacrifico their own intercats for those of others; and where nre these—nature’s noblemen—to be found?. Is it among the palaces of the rich that you mect the most gencrous welcomes is it from” thel, that you ars most often Invited to partake’ 13 1t ihat tho roughest exterior concenla the warme- 1t Is thus with the sallor, braving every dangar, brensting the storw, that commerce may ing frjends and products from findidg a murket for the ductlons of vur own laud. His 1s a roogh aifiicuit is the work he performs manners his ' 18 Wi man that will as own life to save that of another? Whoace comes thls generous devotion to others, this 1633 Of self, 80 exemplifiod 1n his life: spring from the inner promptings of - from n desiro to confor benefits, to do good: for wuch {s natare, untrammoled by the infuences so provalent in modern ‘soclety, which tend tu fncal- cate a luve of galn, » longink for personal distines nd a position above thatof tnows sround In nataro shera Is no protenalon, thare te no dissembling, all stands revoalod in the cloar light ‘There can be no donbt but Lhat there i« In every homan heatt & love of humanity, norant o to bo insensible to thls feoling of a com- t 1 found among the savages of pitality that is traveler by the In- . laine; and inany are tho - cuncerning his wanderings cut 10 Iy it fs m eat hoart. be maintainod, brin; over the waters, an coftss are his tion, a him, of, None are so ig- mou _intorest. the Weat, and graciou often extended to the dians of the Westorn cidonta related by Par in Africa that tend to confirm this, National vicas and public dangers, that so over- shadow and threaten to overwhelm o notion, aro but the oulgrowth of individual 1 ncle itsikes and fabor monopolies, lonosty of public ofticluls, ringyand panles, are £ tored by tha seldshnoss and greed that is so com MOn BAONg UL, & nd engulf us n;]cui: of soclety or etiquetie sre & barrler to all Peaplo are fust coming to wor- ship money more than thelr God, Thay distrast, reason, tho action of thele fellows, rinciple would sesm to be fast losing its over each and every one, Anard the parts comprising & unlt, 80 {s th ‘Where, then, 18 the body politictending? 1t woula seent to tha uttor demoralization an. donment of the goneral good. Itie thoacholar—f luver of books—wno del story of the paut, Who wi of history and seck to make known the lcssons thera gatned, moral control whole, lio hitd in dwelling upon the I listen to tho teachln; It was Michael Angelo who saw tho aogel In the unhewn marblo, atatesman Lhat soes the nation's wanta, and devises 1aws to secure them; it la bo that repeats the ator, past—of other national existences—thelr thie bullding up of thelr power and glory, tholr overthrow and final extinctlon, former greatness that he wonld wmodel the yous; republic—shiuuniug tho dangers that Injured thelr roaparity and avoiding tne avils that destroyed neir 1ife; but It |s with the peoplo that are con- stymed tho destinien of onr country, and adminlster tho laws, stimulais every wember of the great common. wealth (o act for the common good of il ‘whers to-day s the patriotism or the fathers? How seldom aro wo ho witnssue of traly noble and Muat llmha naid that Ely h; other W of ¢ Lieth, engrons acty, 2 ndesiro to oblde DLy it from a knowledge of the vund that will tlow from Its nluurnncu' ity in Ita execution promotes crime, mnd cortain punivbiment that olfendur renders valuables as sufe on the streets of Pekiuas In onr bank.vaults. ‘Theru {s, howaver, 4 ) Lenvvolence in every needs atronztheniny ductiye ax} meted out Lo the frit of gonerosity and true umzn deart, and it only and favigoraling to be pro. ! the most bencficial reaults, warmer and more heartfelt u tha grasp of the hand Ly to moet a friend in a strange en 2 sympathy thnt was ug- nown ot other lioies; oven foruer encniies have Leen kuown to cordlally greot each other on such It shionld Le'tlie alm ot all to cultivate wspint of Jberality and tolerution for the come in our dealings with 1t you chisnco suds oceasions, o Eleraiion for tucl rorioas et nd toleration for thelr varioos views, Yl Strive 1o do thie, surely the World wonld grow | Littered moments, nnder the mout aggravatiog cit- wiser and beller,—a prospenity and eweel contente wment would reign oyer sll that has hitl by i " nowe Pintiroy K oy hlu‘:(.o:u een | more complicated. * The words **old maid" no CULTURE BEFORE SUFFRAQE. To the Laitor o) The Tribuns, Martoox, Aug, 21,—1nHerlert Bpencer's assays upon **The dtudy of Boclology," he rumarke **that # wave of oplulon, reaching & certain height, can- uot be chauged by any evijence, or argument, but lias 1o spend tself in tho gradosl course of things before 4 reactlon of opinlon can arise,” otherwise it would he Incomprehensible why there suonld survive opponents to womsn's futellectusl with 0ay, fu the face of the direct proof thereol which Is ylelded by dally expericnce. To my mind the right of sufirage, simply regucded asa political privilego, would uot jucrease our power for the 1u there really any balm for Ignorance In any statate that conld poseivly be framed? No, Miss Dickensou, and XXX, you do s with dae respect for your 1 still adhere to my opiulon that owerless to make all wer within themselv ‘are not fair difinitione, only parts 3¢ descr! betlerlng of vaclety, nut go decp enuy, u bave the po It they wl and t5 briug the day near when men and wonien’ **aball uit side by side, full summied 1o sl ‘Tho world to-day believes that Ject hae 1o sex," sud the roet-uotion of superiority will gradually dle out of the s 8 mero vaucativual fallacy, when becoue as (ull-charctered und | know of); to bo scandalized becauso 8 youns us of sclfsluprovement hould fsc sather ed than extendued. but acknowledge that oar lustitutions. aue our safaly, rest upou the uncestalu passions of su Iguorant muliliude, the most huportaut thing for ux to do fe Lo endeavor 1o educate Luc lidasey LOW alon of the franchlao, s0 as to bring sbout being of our countey, ave waldthat } Lellevcd that the advocat Wowan Budrage had logicaliy the best of th ument; bat, furthermore. b3t wlhou we shall ucaled and disciplingd oursclves Lo be gulded Ly puro reason, then will the tiwme ba coute when_ the ** wave of public opinton" will bave turned In favor of woman's vuils: tue present time, ud a sex, arc inszinalive and lm- pulsive; suca Leing the case, vur enfrauchischent d ouly import into politics a plastic clewent 3 k upon our pavelons uud —oa deusgogisum b tu-day tho great power that cuntrols the wsjorily vl volers, Lot work, givu to Lho world as suclut) their **lutdl it minds of me wowmen a4 a bouestly de: men ore. fruuchlye abrl in possti; the Momeuber, that I buve r 5 wouls for ds prejudices, us, by tho help uf hanl goud Wworkwowea as workuwei. uliy. Lility command tho reward, au It ulways Lasand Ly-and-by, with a izl standerdaud “lwaye wili. persistent effort, we will achlovon moro plo Tictory than Congresa canld ever Ioetaiate ne: S Harkle takes the pronnpd that 28 e moral oy never chan dded to or taken nway from i1, —all advance in tha Woraln of n pegs Tlo fn due ealely L intellectnal gevelopment. "o, Ime has gone by, In Atmnerlca, when people believy that natneal strength (a 811 the stronger hecane it has not the old cultare, Let us estonq helptal hands fo one another, remembering the oliners of helbfulnesa, and that nag by precent thongh heard cmi‘: not by example, np. o8s iL 1 followed, but only by aetion, aften canseq by arclsted feeling, ean a moral hablt bo farmey It 1a moral, and apiritual Infiuences only tha can lenven every true civil and sacial improsement; an improvoment due to & mental gtowth which comey to appropeiato morals in a higher Intellectunl sfriy Do r\ullcn 1o your nature, educate yourself ro that {nn may grow to that helght and_that plenliude of ife for wiilch you were made, Do not worry abont your tights or your aphere. Every man of Womon Wwho has ever nchieved a real success inany . whatever hias earned hin pr her reward by sworkine and walting for it. W cau never be really groa; by nmccident, Gather np every idea, every ap. tnde that tends towsrda tho advancement of thy moral excelicnee of humanity, tntll, by and by the grace and glory of the clements yon have tend. et aro o world's wonder and ite greatest blensing o those contributors who have expressed a hormy of literary wonien, and blucestackings in gey. cral, remember (hat culturo {s not mere necy. lar edueationy not n welghting of memory wiy facts nnd dates, but rather the highest trainlng of o thinking power, whereby the mind attajus g Tigher senee of cthical perfection In all that tendy to make life beautiful, pure, and good. What ‘women of to-lay need most ls dovolopment, o cipline, cultare, Wo do not question wuman'y of capacity; we sincerely mourn that ail, inate: tha.few as now, do not realize the fdeal typa of 1 ng according to a standard,—as the nlxdeng', prunes the vine, not ut random but by the atan, ard In his mind, 20 shonll cyery woman b, lcve;'; self-cultare scek 1o deyelop within hersclf thus God-implanted clements of character which, whils it gives her fxed.principles, lhnmnnm‘y-rchumm onorzies, broad viston, and firm wilf, will not crowd ont or oversindow the leaat of her wary sympathics and feminine {nstincts, Woman needy dincipline, whieh alone can glve, her scif-relfancs and “cuiture, which, while 1f * tmproves her tastes, refines hor sensa of tho beautiful, docs npp enervato her sensibiilt or impsir the serviceacly stamina of the soul,” Mns. Artex E. C. Jonoax, TONKS VS, RNIVES, To the Fditor of The Tribune, " Prxnacora, Fla., Aug. 10,—1 bég a word In thy question fn the lpst Mome, **Is n man (or g ‘worman to bo stood (21¢) up to the scorn of the public or thrust from good soclety . . , for eating eoft plo with a knife! By no means, Good saclety, the eates belng of gaod Inclinalion althoogh of neglected mannots, 1s always ready to accept dbim with the hope of amendment. Socie. ty's most valuable recruits are thus obtalned. Couteau need only turn to the books ou the man. nera ana morals of the times to know that sfnce the Introduction of farks, abuut a eentury and thres- qoarters ogo, *‘well-bred people have uniform. 1y nbstained from eating with the knite.' Just oy good peoplo as any, morally speaking, Indulge In the habit; but they are not, to that extent atleast, well bred. For all purposes goodness stands firit, whilo at tho same time soclety, for s purposes, glves precedence to sgroeableness. One may be worthy yet stupld, coarse, and hils ideas of **con. venlonce," a8 J. 8. would have it, utterly unit for the guldanco of thoso of bettor culture, | The truth {s, that the knifa-and-fork queation s 3 batablo one; It has been lm?lon’v res m??l‘dlum"; The principle underlylngat is well stated in Wia. rticle on otiquctte \n the last Homwe. 1t 1s naked, ** Is the knifo really less lil"fl, and ite unc less graceful than the fork™" (sic.). There can bo no quertion’ aboat it The furk ls, or sbould be, eabroad as the knile, and. its tiues forming & rougher surface than the blade of the atter, food is not wo likely :!% slide or fail off on 11 way to the inouth: besluBs, the deprewsion o the formur where the handle onds and thu tines begin accemniodates it to the mouth better than th stralgut knife, In the nso of tha knlfuss awkward and ungracoful elevation of the eltow, 1iko that of a turkey-buzzard's wing when about to :fl}:omklllyr:: lml;u‘vxlflll;lt.klg:(, l;'l huve lla)d‘ tue reasond In favor ol the forl Vi Ll . copted 10 Le diuturbed now. S8 Pae e e t 19 not the custom to eat everything with the fork, ns Coutesu aftects to luR%flle, but “rather oot 1o cat with the knifo at all, Thero Is no *‘expert. ment or foollah whim" about the practice, The nggroguted good sonse of onlightenment de- cided the , controversy larmely over s hundred eArs 070, Those traveled foolswho bring revorts from * Yurrup, ' neo guilts less of contabuting to tho cutsblishment of the custon fur which we contend, or of any other truy custom of fashion. Aw has been well wald, fashion or gustom, }ko the songs of a peop! 4 the cone centrated wisdom of thele raco, the result of ime memorial ussge, 1y exparients, the best, or the goud at lsast, is, through a peocess of thue of greator or less duration, extracted from 8o essence uf things as thoy nre and vot asthey soem, apdsdd: ed frois tine Lo time to tho world's pravious stock of knowledge,.and 1s called wisdoni, The *'fel. lows™ who uave been to ** Yurrrup ** in the sense in which Contean alludces to thpm, are beyona the paleof tulturod society, and exercise no Infinence on it whatever oxcept by way of contrast, Thelr loud dress, outro manuers, ways of *‘conven: lence,” In o word, th boddylvm, mark them unmistakubly asof tho well nob.™ W hen oken of they pre mot Included, Thbe clety 18 such. Coutoan's comparlson of catting the bution with the knife, snd atl cklnf the bread with tho fork, doca not hotd good. {t s truo that It fv not et quette to stick bread with the fork, but in thls caw the fork does not Jeave tha saliva on the ULread a1 the kuife ducs on tho butter, to bo taken unk‘ the noxt unfortunate *‘sticker.” 1 should thl thot Nada Mas meausto convey tha idea that a per- s0n 80 wauting In training us (0 put the kuifo i his moutb would incontinently cut the buster with it to the neglect of the butter-knife. Asa matt:e of fact, the thing Is witnessed dsily at our hoteh, 1 must be allowed to congratulate Couteau vn his gy | good fortune In meeting at tbe same tablo (o our irans-Alissiasippl civiliz lustrations of the pointainvolved as the old Judre, #o much respecied in Council Blufs, and tho young Knight of the Mustache, Most rnnurdlnnr( o= incidence, Indeod? Wo have mot with nbth m‘ln mateh it, 8ach a colncidence and the oceaslon might nof meet agaln within sn age, Andhow fortunate that tho circumstance has been recorded Tor tho instedction of & pio-ealing posterity, But did it not occur to Couteau that votn thess ple- caters were wroug? 1f tho ple was too soft for thio furk, it wus wore so for the kn'fe, and sbould have bevn taken with o spoon. Tho Case provedd Little too much. 'T'his young mustache must Lave been one of the ** Yurcup ' ¢*fallers," and no s+ ciety man. No; vot he. 1 cordinlly sgree with Contean that the questios under discussion {s worthy the attention_of sll and shat good will come of Ita llfllllun. It isuns of the innumerable, grave lttla things of lfv that go to inske up character, ton two auch appoalte |l- FoURCHETTE. $4OLD MAIDS." To the Editor of The Tribune, CmicAqo, Aug. 24.—80 many good things bare boen suld fn tnese columns concerming ‘'old malds," thal {hey have made it uncoinfortable falrly for me to keop, back some theughtsIhare had on that subject mysolf. Commentators differ In thelr detaition of he words that bead tuls lef- ter. Oncethey merely designated & wowan otél 25 years of ago, who bad ot secured some mad lexally, Lo pay for her bosrd snd clothes, Dut i3 th days, when we bear it applled 10 women W¢ know are marriod, and somalimes even to me2 (though this, I grant you, is only in the 'most em* camstances), we are made aware that tho casels m to imply something more than mere »pii . Tho doubt as to just exactly wiib they do mean has led e to (ake testimony vu tbe, subject, 1amtoldan old mald {6 & womsn W thinks 8 man the moat Lorribla thing u the world . Anoilier wora Qippantly defines it as & woman whe ‘mearches the houss every pight for borglars. sof he case of one who Keape s croquet ball 19 uder bor bed nightly, not darlng to look uo- der, sathsfied, 1€ it through in duo tiie, 148 coming waa {s ot already io anbush underaeath. A constsnt use of the words ** proper” and ** dle- creet, " oF A1 Inces ¢ worry lest peoplo fu whosd aflalre they cannol pnulhl{ be legitimately cody comed **will do sowmethinyg they oupbi ool such sabeing **seco on tho street forty times ay''), are eald to bo symptoms of ghe 1hin wofl:’ though all trae of the subject. When vne canno dutne a thing, bisonly revource Is10 describo 80 i3 this caw beut.r than (rylng 1o tell wht *¢ old malagiva® tolliug what it makes pep; pleda. Tomeit Js 8 sigu of au +*old wald when & person, through a senso of false niodest shrinks frow doing thing: perfectly right anu vroper. As, for instance, 18 of coursge fu stupeak Orst" Lo geutlemen ou U strost, howeve® well they nay know them 10 ¥ fusv 1o make & bed becauso the proprieor, 88t tloruan, I8 eitting iu the room, though twelrt fect distant, and notal il **fnthe way"ito b bolb Jl‘um in s car ¢ day aod two DOk broad Awuke, Io tormcats of apprehension fest & T shoutd drop nelecp ip makiug u journcy (s ¢ sits playing (e plavo fo a gentlewad twiligbe Il ¢ gets quite dark; to relusoto st dony i 2 jsaiy soos whi h;ldulu guoer nd, theuy would staud thore whlle suylog 16 1 et mysels wisliag. Mre Sprat, what busband bas boen dead four wonths, 'lzldn'i Inugh becauag ¢+ sumebody might think It diho ook well,*" 1should greatly fear1 was Mcgm it an ‘told uald," §fyou *‘wish Miws Bmit Id‘fl'l whotn you buve never been lutroduced) wouCh’ sbow liee preferenca for Slr. Jouus quile 80 viicK 8 Iy."" orityou kecp track of how lite Smbe ata) Y ‘t‘l,m lfiuku. a‘nd hahwol;zl:hv Moily L time worl joet he & "I Urand you sy oa old walh whatever your age, #c3, ot coudition 1. of 1h 1am aware thcse are ouly symplom: ed drcaded and dreadful thing, but tiey 8o 2007 ‘-fl“' sod ymihnpn mdllku [ aes'nmuunul:::l . 'Loy 8rv, 8t leadt, disagreoable. -m}lu account for the wcorbily Witl Which 1o worde aro applicd Lo people. Heiewabar dirla, 16 to 0Dy the alily oes of e4(th Who Ju applytug It to yuu wean caly to LaustdOn Wita watit Of suéeces fo 10y matrluoutal wark Lu that seneu the phrase B0 longes wWidul mach