The Wilmingtonian. (Wilmington, Del.) 1882-188?, 1884-08-16
ESPECIALLY FOE THE LADIES.

In silk hosiery the fancy is to have the
tip, toe and heel in contrast with the re-
mainder.
LOVERS of brown bread should have tin
made on purpose for it, round and tall, with
a closely fitting cover. In this genuine
brown bread should be baked slowly for
four hours.
Sour CREAM cookies are made of one cup
full of sour cream, one cupiul of sugar, two
eggs, one teaspoonful (not heaping) of soda,
little salt and flour enough to make soft
dough flavor it'll cinnamon.
THREE baths week are considered
sufficient number for year-old baby with
feeble digestive organs. The water should
not be too warm, but it certainly should not
be cold. Rub baby as rapidly and as
roughly as you can without making him
cry,
The art of drapiug gracefully and hecom-
ingly has become quite a study, and
modiste with natural taste in this direction
can command large salary. Drapery can
be made 30 hide inperlections and enhance
beauties, and real artistic taste is shown
more in the matter of draping than in any
other portion Of the costume.
PRETTY comforts for the beds in summer
are made of the so-called barbette vtlings,
which can be bought for four cents yard
The scarlet make very pretty ones il tuited
with white and tonhaled around the
edge with Germantown or some similar
wool, after being cut in deep and good sized
scallops.
For the sake Of variety cook a fish in this
way,once in awhile: Cut it in slices not mere
than two inches thick, and let it cook
slowly on the back of the stove until done
in soup or gravy made by boiling one Or
two small onions, sliced in water, with salt,
pepper and little parsley. Serve with
drawn-butter gravy.
ORANGE CAKE.-Two cups of sugar one.
half capful of milk, one half-cupful of but
ter, two and onc.half cupfuls Of flour, two
tablespoonful of baking powder, yolks Of
five eggs and whites of two. Bake in shall
low tins. Crate one large orange, remove
seeds, add whites of three eggs, well beaten
and three-fourths cup Of sugar. Spread
between the cakes.
People who always appear we'll ant
happy are the most popular. When any
body asks about your health mako favora
BILE reply if at all possible. 1t doesn't maxi
you feel any worse and your interlocuto
will go away in a greaC deal better frame 0
mind than if you had given him full an,
detailed account of your internal troubles
Go to the doctor, who is paid for listening t
such things.-N y. Examiner.
style of costume in favor for woolc
material is trimmed around the lower Skin
with narrow pleating, above which is
bias fold. The front drapery is laid in ovei
tapping pleats at the right side and falls i
a deep point at the left side where only
single pleat is folded. The back drapery
laid in xilt-pleats that are stayed by nnde
tape and is tackled to skirt at each side
1t has coat basque with deep box-pleats a
the back, short on the hips and pointed i
front.
DELICIOUS FILTERS may have stale breaC
for the foundation If care is taken in re
moving any or ali of the crust that is darl
brown, the fritters will be light colore
and very inviting in appearance. Eggs ar
good addition in the proportion of fou
eggs to one quart of sweet milk; saltspool
full of salt, and four or five slices Of brGa
are also required The bread should i
soaking in the milk for two hours. 1t ca
be broken into small bits and then it wi
not be lumpy,
SPRING chickens are so often . delusio
and snare, that unless you have suiliccr
number so that none Of the family will b
obliged to dine of small bone, with littl
dry skin on it, and require great aid froi
the Imagination to satisfy hunger, do ne
serve them till late in the season. A friC
spring chicken is often preferable to
broiled one. Fry it in butter and lar
mixed, and very slowly. 1t ought to coo
sufficiently in half an hour, but it is imposs
BILE to give definite directions as to the tim
After taking the chicken out of the fat, NAL
gravy the same as for fricasSced CHECKER
using a portion of the fat in which it W
fried.