Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-01-02
HOME MATTERS.

NFoRNAL ENTERTAINMENTs-wH TO TAKE
MKDICINEs-How TO USE TABLE REMNANTS
SOMETHING NICE FOR BREAKTAsr-oTHER
GOOD RECIPES.
and taken at intervals relieves coughs. It must
De very acid as well as sweet.
A REMEDY FOR HICCoUGH for young and old
is granulated sugar moistened with pure VIM
teaspoonfnl.
LADIES are beginning to use scented wax for
sealing their precious little letters. There is
now imported from Paris q costly kind Of wax
,or this purpose, the perfume of which when
burning VIII dn room and linger tor hours
CAKE that has become dry can be make into
very good puddings. Boil one quart of milk,
add sugar and fiavoring to taste, and pour 1t
over slices of cake; when they have become
SOIL and light, STIR and add four eggs well beat
en-, ana half pound of raisins or figs; pour into
the fruit.
NICE FOR BREAKFAsT.-Mix half pound of
cracker crumbs with an equal quantity of
timely -minced lean boiled ham; moisten this
Ter, adding salt to taste. Put the mixture In a
Dak1ng dish, make depressions in it the size OF
d ueiicate Drown In good oven.
CREAM DATES are made in this way: Put the
white OF an egg into bowl, and add an equal
quantity OF cold water. Mix with this enough
confectiOners sugar until it is stiff enough to
mold Remove the seeds from the dates with a
which is formed in the shape of the seed, only
larger of course, SO that it fills the cavity then
be favored to taste.
BREAKFAST MUFFINs made by this recipe
Will be found excellent: Dissolve half cake of
vienna or compressed yeast in a pint of warm
water; then add one pint of milk, the whites Of
lonr eggs beaten to a stiff froth and enough
mixture rise over night, and bake in muffin
rings set On the griddle, which has been we'll
eaten they may be toasted next day.
A LARGE GLASS OF MILK swallowed sud-
denly will form in the stomach lump of dense,
cheesy curd, which may even prove fatal to a
weak stomach. Under the action of the
stomach this cheesy mass will turn over and
Juice can only attack its surface, it dsests sery
slowly: But this same milk taken slowly, or
with dry toast, light rolls or soft dry porridge,
juice can easily pass, and which breaks up
every time the stomach turns it over. Milk
spped By the aon eaten with
INFORMAL ENTERTAINMENTs.-In the way
of informal entertainments, progressive euchre
parties, bubble parties and five o'clock teas still
remain in high favor. 1t is not in the nature of
any of these affairs to be stiff or unsocial, and
Tor TINS reason they are always enjoyable The
DuDble party Is quite equal to the oid-time
"candy-pull' for furnishing downright fun and
merriment. n more amusing spectacle than
their efforts to blow the largest bubble cannot
be imagined. Then the five O'clock tea is SO de-
lightfully gossipy. you know. and there are
such charming accessories in the way of lovely
tea gowns, pretty painted china and all that,
that ladies still indulge in them. though men
have long since pronounced them a frightful
progressive is
and spirited in its tendency and has great at
fractions for both sexes. An additional charm
about such entertainments is that they are not
great tax upon the hOstess.-N J. World.
MEDICINES that are irritating should be given
after meals, when the stomach is full, viz, the
salts OF copper, zinc iron and arsenic in large
doses. Small doses, intended to act on the
stomach terminals OF the vagi, must be given
when the organ is empty. The condition of
the stomach veins after meals is such as to
lessen the activity of diffusion of poisons and
hinder their passage through the liver. 1t
follows that active medicaments in doses near
the danger line are more safely administered
after meals. When acids are prescribed with
the view to check the excessive formation of
the acids of the gastric juice they may be given
before meals-as, by the laws of Osmosis, they
line constituents OF the blood. Second; as to
alkales. These may be given just before meals
when the acid-forming materials in the blood
diffuse into the stomach glands, and after di-
gestion Is completed, when the alkalies diffuSe
directly into the blood, without interference
UTILIZING THE "LEFr OvERs,"-The rem.
nants of the turkey, after the best bits have been
removed from the bones for other use, make
a most delicious soup. Place all the bones
| and bits of dressing In an earthern vessel
cover with cold water, and simmer for two
through hair sieve or CLOTH to clear away all
bits of meat, skin, gristle, breadcrumbs
Half an hour before straining the stock pre-
pare two medium-siZed punches of celery by
washing and cutting into pieces an inch long.
Use both the leaves and green parts OF the stems
as well as the blanched. Put it on the stove in
cold water, and when the stock is ready, add
both water and celery to it. Season well with
salt and whole peppers. Variety may be
MISUNDERSTANDING, turnip, onion, and carrot,
very small quantity of each. Instead of vege-
tables. dumplings made thus may be added;
peat two eggs very light add half a teaspoon
full of salt, same of baking powder, and flour
enough to make q stiff dough; pinch off bits the
gers round, and drop them into the boiling
stock half an hour before the soup is to be
served. One OF the most simple ways of warm
and gristle from the pieces which have been
cut from the bones when preparing them for
soup, and placing the meat, not chopped, but
shred in long pieces, in frying-pan with SUI
ficient melted butter to fry it. 1t should be
stirred lightly several times, and not fried
brown or 1t will be too hard. If there is any cold
turkey has been taken up, and place it around
the edge OF the piate-Ha,pers Bazaar.
Serving a Warrant On Lost Mountain.
Joel Chandler Harris's story, Trouble on
Lost Mountain" in the January Centuru con-
tains this characteristic incident of mountain
life in northern Georgia: "On one occasion
shortly after the war Abe had gone to the little
county town on business, and had been vexed
into laying rough hands on one of the promi-
nent citizens who was a trifie under the fnflu-
ence of liquor A warrant was issued and Dave
McLendon, the sheriff of the county, stumpy
little man, whose boldness and prudence made
him the terror of criminals, was sent to serve
it. Abe, who was on the lookout for some such
visitation, saw him coming and prepared him
self. He stood in the doorway with his rifle
flung carelessly across his left arm
"'Hold on thar, Dave! he cried, as the latter
came up. The sheriff, knowing his man, hal
ted.
Il hate to fling away my manners, Dave
he went on, but folks is gittin to be mighty
his best frien's lore he kin find out Their which.