The Wilmingtonian., 1884-11-08
ESPECIALLY FOR THE LADIES

GIRL SHOULD LEARN
To sew.
To cook.
To mend.
To be gentle.
To value time.
To dress neatly.
10 keep secret.
To mind the baby.
To avoid idleness.
To be self-reliant.
To darn stockings.
To respect old age
To make good bread.
To keep house tidy.
To be above gossiping.
To humor a cross man.
70 control her temper
To take care of the sick
TO make home happy.
To sweep down cob-webs.
To marry man for his worth.
To be a help-mate to a husband.
To keep clear of flash literature.
To take plenty Of active exercise.
To see mouse without screaming.
To read scme books besides novels.
To be light-hearted and heet-footed
To wear shoes that won't cramp her foot.
To be womanly woman under all cir
cumstances.
"Will you help me to press some leaves?"
the maiden asked her lover. ''If you will
HaIA
can do he answered and thus popu-
lar method of pressing autum leaves was
invented
TREASURE LoAvEs.-Take well. Drowned
loaf of wheaton bread. With sharp knife
make a deep ineision of the desired shape.
Then work the knife under till you can lift
off this piece entire, which will enable You
next to scrape out all the soft part of the
loaf When the crust is thoroughly cleared
out, wrap your gift securely in paper lay il
i'll the hollow loaf, and sclape the soft part
from the lid Or removed portion, which must
be put back and occurred by an application
of flour paste. Now put the loaf in hot
oven for few minutes, SO as to brown the
the joined surface with sand paper and nc
one will suspect from its appearance that
the loaf had opened.
APPLE CUsTARD. Peel and core eight oil
ten medium sized apples; lay them in cold
water until the syrup is prepared in which
to boil them; make a syrup with teac up
ful of water, the grated yellow rind and
juice Of one lemon, and few sticks of CHINA
mon. When the syrup becomes clear put
in the apples and simmer until soft Takt
up the apples ir draining spoon, and put
them on the dish in which they are to b.
served; boil up the syrup and pour oyer them
make soft custard with the yolks of fou
eggs, three tablespoonfuls of powder sugar
and scant quart of milk. When COLI
spread it over the apples. Whip the white
of the eggs flavor with lemon, and place OF
the custard. Color in the oven.
CORN MEAL BREAKFAST Rolls One an,
half pints of flour, half pint of cor
meal, one teaspoonful Of salt, two teaspoon
fuls of baking powder, one teaspOonrul q
butter, three-fourths Of pint of milk. Sill
together -four, corn meal, salt and powde
to the batter, cold, add the milk, and mi
smoothly into rather firmcr dough til al
usual. Flour the board, turn out the dough
give it one or two turns to complete il
smoothness. Divide it thus prepared int
pieces the size of an egg; again divide thes
in half, which roll out under the hand unit
they are long and half the size Of ones littl
finger, lay on creased baking tin, SO the
do not touch each other, wash over milk
and bake them in a quick oven seven q
eight minutes.
A NEW recipe for making chocolate is a
follows: Crate sufficient Bakers caocolat
to allow one teaspoonful to each cup; mi
that with little cold water; put on the fir
in porcelain kettle pint of rich milk, an
when this comes to boil, add half pin
of boiling water. This will make abou
four cups of chocolate. Add the four te;
spooniuls of chocolate, stirring quickly, an
boil for five minutes. Sweeten and boil OF
minute longer. While the milk is bolin.
prepare the cream as follows: Take a ha
pint, put in shallow bowl and whip stii
heaping it in slender glass tumbler. Wine
serving the chocolate, add heapng te;
spoonful of the cream. Phe effect OF til
floating cream above the delicate chocolat
color is pleasing to the eye, and the chocC
late tastes better when made in this way.
THE pECT' AMI GUM NpI,S1, DT ,f,IN 7,