Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-12-21
AN HONEST CHRISTMAS Plum PUDp1Na.-

AN HONEST CHRISTMAS Plum PUDDING
If any body can present better receipt than
this, We should be happy to see it and will try
it.: Take pound of bread, break it small and
soak in quart of milk ; when soft, mash the
bread and mix with it three large spoonfulls of
flour, previously mixed with cup of milk add
half pound OF brown sugar, wine glass of
wine, one of brandy, spoonful of salt, the same
OF pulverized mace and cinnamon, or arind of
lemon grated. Thewhole should be we'll stirred
suet or melted butter Add ten eggs Will
beaten, one pound of Zante currants and the
same OF seeded raisins Boil it in bag made
of thick cotton cloth, and before filling it should
be wrung out Of hot water and Toured inside.
1t must not be entirely filed with the pudding,
as it will swell when boiling. Place an old plate
at the bottom of the pot in which you boil the
pudding, to keep the bag from sticking to it
and burning. Let the water boil when you put
the pudding in, and in few minutes turn the
bag over. There should be water enough to
cover the pudding all the time it is boiling
When you wish to turn out the pudding, i'm
merse the bag ir cold water minute and it will
easily slip out. This pudding will require three
or four hours to boil thoroughly.
1t may not be amlss, perhaps, to say that
this. though Christmas pudding, may be
made and eaten during any time Of the year.
How TO ENTERTAIN GUESTS. Emerson
says: Il pray you, o excellent wife, not to
cumber yourself and me to get rich dinner for
this man, or this woman who has alighted at
our gate, nor bed chamber made ready at too
great cost. These things, if they are curious
10, they can get for dollar at any village
Rut LET this Stranunr coo IF ha will IN x,o,,,
looks, IN your accent and behavior, your heart
and earnestness your thought and will. what
ne cannot buy at any price, In any village or
city, and which he may well travel fifty miles,
and dine sparely, and sleep hard, in order to
behold.
Certainly, let the board be spread and the
bed be dressed for the traveller; but letnot the
emphasis of hospitality be in these things
Honor to the house where they are simple to
the verge of hardship, SO that the intellect is
awake and sees the laws of the universe, the
soul worships truth and love, honor and cour-
tesy flow into all deeds
There was strange but startling scene in
Good Templar's Lodge, iD Kentucky on Tues
day night, 10th instant. John w. Alexander,
young man, was about to be initiated, and
was offered glass of water. He drew back
with shudder, and the recollection of the fact
that III August last he was bitten by dog
flashed with terrible intensity across his mind
The next day he was out, but the memory
haunted him, and he said to friend that he
would go home and go to bed and die. He
went home and went to bed, and In spite of
drugs and nursing, that horrible malady, hy-
drophobla,. rushed rapidly to its conclusion in
death. Wednesday afternoon he went into his
first spasm. Wednesday night he foamed at
the mouth and yelped like dog, and his pa
roxysms continued and grew in intensity
Strong men held him, and powerful anmsthe-
tics were administered He begged to be shot,
and prayed for DEATH Thursday about 2 P.
NJ. he died.
How He WAS CAUGHT. "A gentleman resi-
ding some six or eight miles from the city has
been in the habit frequently of sending his
waiting boy with the buggy
.Tell my wife m caught on that id jury
again His wife, to be sure, little suspected
that the jury was set of boon companions
bent on a high cid time and the determine
ton not to ''go home till morning. A few
days since be sent said waiter boy to town after
some necessary articles. He fell in with friends
the buggy. The horse and buggy arrived home
all right, but the boy did not make his appear
ance until next day.
With stern countenance our juryman called
the boy up and demanded why he did not come
back In proper time
'Fore God massa, I was cotched on the d-n
jury
MUsIcAL.-The local of the Cleveland Her
aid, discussing feline serenaders, says: "a
male cat sees an acquaintance in the next yard,
and asks permission to come over in something
like the foowing-"Me ri-er m-a-y-e-n-t [
Come over to your h-o-u-s-e?' The re-
quest and the answer are pitched in 3 high key,
and we have noticed that it don't make bit of
difference whether permission is given or not.
Thomas walks right over. The two then pitch
themselves ON the fence always taking care to
get directly under the window of bed room,
and then they discuss the topics of the day.
As their conversation goes on they get excited,
and each advances his or her opinions in en-
phatic language, the discussion is sure to inter-
est all the cats in the neighborhood, and they
make straight race for the rendezvous -
SECRETS OF HEALTH First, keep warm
second, eat regularly and slowly; third, main
tain regular bodily habits fourth, take early
and very light suppers; fifth, keep a clean
skin; sixth, get plenty of sleep at night; +;
seventh, keep cheerful and respectable COM
pany eighth, keep out Of debt; ninth, don't
set your mind on things you DON t need TENTH
mind you own business eleventh. don't set
yourself up to be sharper of any kind ; twelfth,
subdue curiosity thirteenth, avoid drugs
CORN BREAD.-For family of four or five
persons, take one pint of sweet and one of sour
milk, one-half teaspoonful of soda, one table
spoonful of sugar, lump of lard the size of a
hens egg, tablespoonful Of salt, and two eggs.
Mix all the aboveingredients together, and with
spoon stir in enough sifted fresh corn meal as
will make stiff batter; have a stove pan well
creased, and pour in the batter transfer to
hot oven, and bake one-half or three-quarters
of an hour.
A farmer had two sons, one of whom named
Thomas, was an early riser and the other was
an incorrigible suggard. One morning the
father entered the bed room of his slothful son,
and holding up a money purse, said: ''See
The half-opened eyes of the sluggard surveyed
the purse, as he lazily drawled, But the fel-
low that lost it must have risen earlier than
Tom.
Must it not be very romantic to be On your
knees before lovely one of Eges daughters
heaving up a torrent of sweet words between
her glowing parted lips, raising roses On her
cheeks By the acre, bringing tears of pleasure
to her eyes at the Identical moment when she
is going to swoon away In your arms. to hear
her anxious mother cry, You Sal, have you
fed them ere hogs?"
Two men, named Bennett and May, suitors
for the hand Of the same woman, in Richboro,
Penn, engaged in fight, when May, who was
the weakest, feigned intoxication, and appealed
successfully to his antagonist to desist. As
Kenneth STONED tO nick mn his coat Nav sta h.