Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-14
LADIES' aRAB-sAa ARD GOSSIP.

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Brown, City Clerk at the recent election.
If you wish to have the best results in
cake baking, always use pulverized sugar.
Nuns gray riding habits. relieved by the
merest dash of crimson, appear to be ia.
vorite riding habit in Central Park this sea-
son.
Spiced plurs are delicious. To eight
pounds Of plums allow four of sugar, one
teaspoonful each of cinnamon and cloves,
one small cup of vinegar. Cook until they
are as thick as jelly.
If you have occasion TO uae cloths wet in
hot water about an invalid, do not try to
wiring them out of the water. The best
way to prepare them is to steam them
they can be handled then with comparative
| ease.
Although cheap things are not always
| economical by any means, tOrchorn for the
bottom of the baby's short flannel petticoat
is a good as well as cheap finish. 1t will
wash 80 much better than embroidery that
it is very satisfactory.
Bananas sliced and served with iee.crearn
are very delicate and dainty. They should
be sliced and have little powdered sugar
scattered over them for about an hour be-
fore serving. Set them in TIE refrigerator
for that length of time.
A good way to warm over cold boiled
potatoes is to first chop them, not too fine
beat some butter in frying-pan and put
the potatoes in. Just few minutes before
| taking them from the fire stir in some we'll
beaten eggs. Serve hot.
For breakfast try this Take the skin off
a nice piece Of salt Goldfish, wash it in sev-
| eral waters and Law it On gridiron to broil.
It should be broiled for about twenty min
utes, and must be turned often to prevent
burning. This is nice for tea also.
Jenny Lind has one son, an officer in the
British army, and two daughters, happily
married. She is sixty-thr and is de-
scribed as being now exceptionally unat.
tractive in looks but you forget this when
she speaks, her voice is so soft and melodi.
Gus.
Two essential things to be avoided just
now are the adoption of grotesque and
| overloaded hats and bonnets, and the adop-
! ton of striking contrasts of color in dress
and millinery, both of which are out of
place and unbecoming to the majority Of
women.
4 pretty way to vary orange jelly is, af-
ter making the jelly in the usual way, to
fill the mold half full with the jelly and
| lay Slices of orange in and cover with the
rest of the jelly. Pineapple jelly is also
very nice with grated pineapple put in in
this way.
Jumbles which will keep a month are
made thus One pound of butter, one pound
of sugar, two pounds of -four three eggs,
nine tesspoonfuls of water three of bak.
ing powder. with salt and flavoring to suit
the taste. Roll them and bake them in
quick oven.
The effort to introduce lace insertions in
silk hose mas been total failure, SO far as
making a fashion of it is concerned. A
few extravagant women, of doubtful per-
sonalty, have exhibited them, but the ma
| jority, even of rich women, circumference
them, as distracting rather than adding to
the beauty of the foot and its covering.
The pudding which should invariably
accompany boiled dinner to the table is
made in this way One pint of sweet or
sour milk, two teacups of corn meal,
sifted one teaspoonful of soda, dissolved
in hot water add two slices of stale cake,
crumbled very fine and mixed with the
meal boil for three hours in bag; serve
with a common sour pudding sauce.
The story is told of Mrs. Croly ("Jen-
ME June'') that she was intrusted by her
mother with her entire living (Sl2 0OO) TO
invest. By the failure of bank the amount
was lost Mrs croly made no mention of
the loss to her mother, but set to work to
replace the sum from her own earnings,
meanwhile regularly paying the Interest
In several years the heroic task was COM
pleted.
The long French redingote or polonaise
takes precedence of all other styles of
outer garments for travelling use and sum-
mer cashmere, vigogne, nuns cloth, serge,
and pongee are the favorite materials for
these. One model has no seam down the
front, is looped low on one side and high
on the other, and the skirt beneath it is
perfectly plain with one full, wide, fam
plated killing around the bottom OF the
skirt. A second is severely plain in shape,
buttoning from throat to hem. 1t is pale
fawn color, with wide pockets and collar
of wood brown velvet. The entire front is
covered with an elaborate pattern in dark
wood-brown silk braid-work.
Basque of white or tinted brocade with
crenelated edges are still greatly in favor
with French modjstes, they admitting of
great variety of style. Some have fall of
lace or a fan killing set between and under
meath each Of the tabs. Some are corded
on the edges and lined with contrasting
color, or are embroidered or hand-painted
on each block or point The Jeanne dare
corsage is also favorite, opening at the
side, and lacing with silk cords. This and
the corselet laced under the arms will be
much worn during the warm weather, &C.
compsnied by guimpe of Oriental gauze,
or chemisette russo OF finest white mus
lin embroidered to the colors of the dress.
When a Frenchwoman of fashion de.
votes herself to designing dress the result
is sometimes amazing. For instance, the
VicOmtesse de Jange recently presented
herself at a private theatrical entertain.
ment in a bodice and train OF pearl gray
brocaded in black velvet. The skirt in
front was white satin, trimmed at the sides
in perpendicular lines with alternate bands
of steel beads on black and white net, and
black Chantilly lace. The low bodice was
cut oval at the top and finished off with a
standing net collar embroidered with steel
and fastened with two large diamond but
tons elbow sleeves of Chantilly lace, with
white satin cockades for epaulettes, steel
lace ruffles, black velvet throatlet, with
diamond scabious. Hesd-dress, three pale
blue feathers, fastened with diamond pins
in the form of three small horseshoes long,
buttonless, undressed kid gloves covered
with diamond bracelets, and embroidered
black satin shoes with diamond buckles.
One of the new styles in Undressing ia
to arrange the tresses very high upon the
head in Chinese knot on one side, and in
wavy loops held by jewel-headed pin on
the other, with soft ripples and few light
irregular curls falling over the forehead
The much.maligned fringe, to which 80
many American women have remained
faithful has long been abandoned by Pa
risiennes. Every style of couture here at
present, whether dressed high upon the
head or low in the nape of the neck, is