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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-11-12
DOMESTIC HINTS.



One pound sugar, little more than
quarter pound butter; six eggs, leav-
ing out the whites of two; juice Of
three lemons and grated r.nd of two.
Melt altogether in IA jar.
BRIGHTON ROCKS (CURLY rETERs).
Seven cups flour, rub into two cups
sugar; two cups butter, three cups cur
rants. one nutmeg. four eggs. one tea
spoonful soda dissolved in little hot
water. with quarter cup sour milk.
NIX into stiff batter and punch off
into cakes about the size Of eggs.
BOILED FRosTING.
One pound white sugar. one cup
water. boil to aropy syrup, take off the
stove and stir in the whites of four
eggs we'll beaten.
CoRS STARCH CAKE.
Whites three eggs. half cup butter.
half cup milk, one cup sugar, one cup
flour, thrcc quarters cup corn starch
and one tcaspoonful baking powder.
Cream your sugar, butter and corn
starch, add milk, eggs beaten stifl, then
flour and baking powder, and flavor
with teaspoonful almond.
GELATINE JELLY.
Ore box gelatine, one quart boiling
water, sliced lemon and piece of
stick cinnamon Get dissolvc), two cups
brown sugar. Strain all and pour into
molds.
TO PICKLE TONGUES.
Mix thoroughly four pounds salt, one
pound sugar four ounces saltpeter;
keep in dry place; for each tongue take
a teacup of the mixture, rub in well ton
Hat dish, turn and bask it every day
for four days, then place in a large
stone jar, with all the brine that accu-
mulatcs; always put the last tongue in
the bottom OF the jar and keep Il heavy
weight on the top. Tongues cannot be
cured well in the summer. but from
October all through the winter.
VEAL LOAF.
Three pounds uncookcd veal. quarter
pound salt pork, chop these fine; add
two eggs, one cup pounded crackers.
one teaspoonful salt and two of pepper.
sage and summer savory TO suit the
taste; mould into loaf put in a pan
and bake one and a half hours; haste
often: cut in slices when cold.
GOLDEN CREAM CAKE.
One cup Of sugar. quarter cup Of but
ter, whites of SIX eggs quarter cup of
milk, one and a half cups of flour, two
tcaspoonfuls of baking powder.
ANGELS FOOD.
Whites Of twelve eggs beaten to Il
froth. one and Il half cups of sugar,
one cup of flour sifted four times. one
teaspoonlul of cream tartar; bake in 4
quick oven.
SILVER CAKE.
Three-quartcrs of a cup of sugar.
onc-quartcr of a cup of butter, and
a-quarter cups of sfted flour. two tea
spoonfuls of baking powder; bake in a
quick oven.
CINNAMON CAKE.
Whites of four eggs. two cups of SUI
gar. one cup Of sweet milk. half cup Of
butter. three cups Of flour two tea
spoonfuls of baking powder. icing,
yolks of four eggs. orr and half cups
of brown sugar. two tcaspoonfuls vi
ground cinnamon.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-11-12
Daisies on the Farm.

She painted them on canvas
With rap', artistic air,
She wore them in her bodice,
And in her raven hair
She thought farm lie idylic,
And said Us greatest charm
Was lent it los the daisies.
The daisies on the farm.
"Do YOU not love The daisicsfr
TO the farmers son she saith,
But all the praise he uttered
Was underneath his breath.
II sounded energetic.
But she felt vague alarm
That he did not love the daisies,
The daisies on the farm.
She read to him poem,
A pastoral complete;
He seemed unsympathetlc,
Though her voice was very sweet.
With some reprcssed emotion
His face grew dark and warm,
For its burden was the daisies,
The daisies on the farm.
Soon the charming summer boardcr
To her city home returned,
Fora soul Of higher longing
Her aesthetic nature ycarncd.
And the farmers son, uuGauutcd,
With his scythe upon bis arm,
Went 10 battle with the daisies,
The daisies on The form.
.clps : rims
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-11-12
British Captain South America

Nearly Slj6 O0o.0 J0 OF British CAPT
tai, according to oil ial staiist Is, is IN
vested in the Arg mt n Rcpublic-one-
fourth the estimated wealth of the
whole nation in 1884 These invest
mcnts arr distributed as follows: Rail
ways. Ss3. 10000 public debt. 1885,
600, 600; banks and companies S57, 700.
600: estancias and stock. SlG5, $50, 900;
house property. Sl2. 100000. In other
words, the Argentine Republic has tc
pay to holders resident in England
coupons or dividends on more than
1915. 000,000 in Argentine securities.
amounting to 500, 0O0. 600. -Sprmgfcld
Republican.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-11-12
Not of That Kind.

WAS your husband on the stand
Yesterday" asked the lawyer of wo-
man in case in which husband and
wife were witnesses. No she an.
svercd with ssnap. ''he wasn't on the
stand. He was on the set That's the
kind Of q man he is. whenever there il
anything to set on. from satin sofy &c
the top rail of a worm fence. ~ Bssh
tngt0H Critia
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-11-12

Whites of four eggs. two cups of SUI
gar, one cup Of sweet milk. half cup of
butter. three cups Of flour. two tea
spoonfuls of baking powder. icing,
yolks of four eggs. orr and half cups
of brown sugar. two tcaspoonfuls vi
ground cinnamon.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-04-21
What Astonished the Young Man

What Astonished the Young Man.
II am designer and an artist and
something of an inventor" said young
man who stood on the corner of State
and Madison streets one sunny afternoon
last week, ''and I am familiar with the
vast possibilities m arrangement and
combination of colors and forms. But of
all the exhibitions of variety I ever saw
this takes the bark off the tree. I never
saw anything like it. For an even hour
I have been standing here, lost in amaze
ment."
"What do you mean7" inquired the
Herald rambler.
"Why, the women's bonnets. Bet I
have seen 10, 900 women pass this corner
this afternoon, and not one of them wore
bonnet or hat or hcaddress of any sort
like any other woman. I have quick
eye for such things, andif there had been
any two alike should certainly have no.
ticed them. Once in awhile you see one
that in some respects resembles some
other one, but upon close comparison you
find that they are quite unlike. The mar
vel to me is, as it must be to any one who
gives the subject moments thought,
how so many things as simple as most of
these bonnets are can be made with such
an endless variety. What designers these
bonnet builders must be-wonderful,
truly wonderful. chicago Herald.
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Temperance Notes.

Drinking water neither makes a man
sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow.
Spanish Mtarim.
The American hog is still prohibited
by the French and German governments
French and German wines and liquors
are still allowed to come to America.
A man in Salem (Mass liquor saloon
was recently the subject of bet as to
how much whisky he could drink; drank
sixteen glasses, then fell to the floor, and
died soon after.
A novel temperance organization has
been formed in Salisbury, Maryland.
Each member puts 81 in common purse
promises not to drink anything for a
year. If he breaks his pledge he forfeits
bis 81 to those who remain faithful.
It is said that rock-and-rye candies,
"soaked in bad whisky and poisoned
with fusel-oil, " are being sold near many
New York city school houses for the pur-
pose OF teaching the boys and girls to
love intoxicating liquors.
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The Schooner John G.. Whittier.

A new schooner for the Gloucester
CMass.) fisheries launched recently, was
christened the John G. Whittier. The
roet acknowledged the compliment by
sending tie owners the following lines:
TO CAPE ANN SCHOONER
Luck to the craft that bears this name Of
mine
Coed fortune follow with the golden spoon,
The glazed hat and tarry pantaloon;
And wheresoe'er her keels shall cut the
Cod, hake, and mackerel quarrel for her
line.
Shipped with her crew, whatever wind may
blow
Or tides delay, my wish with her shall 60,
Fishing by proxy. Would Sna' IL m'sn'
At need her course, in lack Of sun and STAR.
Where icebergs threaten and the sharp reefs
Lift the blind fogs on Anticosti's lee
And Ava!oh's rocks; make populous the sea
Round grand Menan with eager finny
swar1ns, =,
Break the long calms and charm awsB the
storms.
John G. Whittier. /.
OAK KNOLL, Sd no., %, 1886.
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The Unchanglng Ono.

''Change not, change not to me, my God
would that thou shouldst be
To farthest worlds what thou hast been
On this sad earth to me.
Though thou hast baffied sore my life
Though thy swift scourging rod
Hath left me spirit-scarred, cry,
Change not to me, my God!
'Change not me, in those far worlds,
Where all are strange and new;
Where can my stranger-spirit rest
If thou art changed too9
As turns the child from alien-crowd
To the one-kindred face,
To find that mother-eyes make home
In unfamiliar place.
$50, trembling must turn to thee,
The God whom have known,
The God who, in this lonely world,
Hath never left me lone.
DO with me, Lord, whate'er thou wilt,
So only thou wilt be,
Forever, and forevermore,
What thou hast been to me-"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-04-21
Duties Of Congressmen's Wives.

Some of the new Senators and Repre-
sentatives' wives, if they are not too self
conscious, or too awed by their position,
have rich time of it in familiarizing
themselves with Washington ways,
writes correspondent of the Buffalo
Commercial. One of them lately said to
me: II got list of all the duty calls |
had to make, and went round and stuck
to it until I first made them, and, my
dear, when was done I tell you I felt
like tramp-going to all these strange
houses without knowing soul inside. :"
I think they are very apt to enjoy their
first winter the best of all, notwithstand-
ing some infelicities that come from ig-
norance, because the freshness of the
whole thing more than compensates for
the perils Of inexperience. Then again
there are some who stay a long time and
never seem to gain savoir faire. 1t was
not a new members wife, but Mrs.
Bland, of Missouri, wife of the champion
"silvcr" man, who kept one of Miss
Cleveland's lunch parties waiting while
she did an extra half hours shopping,
then made her appearance, among the
company unconcerncd and radiant, with
a shopping bag on her arm (not bundles,
though, as the story was told in print).
Major Poore gallantly says: "Why, GER
tainly, she had to have her shopping bag
to carry her silver dollars in" Miss
Cleveland received her beautifully, and
had the grace to wait five or ten minutes
longer before leading the way to the
dining-room.
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ago, I find many curious styles Of but
tons, which were in use at those periods.
The buttons used among the rich twenty
FIVE years ago were made of metal,
mostly in imitation of gold and silver.
In still earlier days it was the custom to
make buttons out of silver and gold
pieces, but that was long before my day
in the business, and I haven't any relics
of that time. Chintz and calico dresses
were profusely decorated with large but
tons of agate as large as silver dollar,
among which red and purple predomi-
mated. Then there were the small bronze
horn buttons, which became popular and
were much worn by the bellies of the
period There was also used about this
time large button Of solid mother Of
pearl Then came glass buttons OF
peculiar shapes, nickel buttons, with de-
signs of stars and other figures upon
them. and also large brass buttons, with
which dresses were profusely trimmed.
Cone-shaped, white porcelain buttons
were in vogue at one time, and the more
pointed they were, the more fashionable
they were considered.
"Brass buttons shaped as acorns, but
tons of brass open work, with red Innings,
and myriad of other odd designs were
among the styles worn twenty-five years
ago. A little later small pearl buttons,
shirt buttons they were called, came into
use, and were sewed close together on the
front Of dress. About the same time
the metal buttons were made smaller,
and the glass and porcelain ones shared
the same fate. The craze for small but
tons became as great as it had formerly
been for the large ones. Then it became
the fashion to initiate fruits and clusters
of grapes in buttons. These buttons were
worn in large punches on the fronts OF
ladies' suits and were almost as tempting
as the fruit itself, the limitations were 50
perfect. Jet buttons superseded these
and were worn in various shapes, but
usually in the form of long black worm
They were used with heavy braided
plastrons and were, in their day, con:
sidered Just the thing. '"-New YorI
Tribune.
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Odd Fashions in Button

ssButtons are now as much part of
the makeup of dress as the cloth it.
SELF" dealer said to reporter, "and as
much care is exercised in their selection
as in the cutting and fitting of the gar
ment. The colors must harmonize with
that of the goods to the shade, and in
size the buttons must correspond with the
general style of the dress and the toilet
which follows On street costumes of
rough imported cloth, which have lately
come into fashion, buttons as large as a
silver half dollar are used. They are
mostly of bronze, decorated with various
designs, and expensive. Some are made
of shell, and are variegated and bril-
liant. The decorations on the bronze
buttons arc landscapes, heads of various
historical personages and horticultural
designs. There are still others that arc
made in imitation of cameo, and others
are manufactured from peculiar mix
turc of gilt and silver. Of course these
STYLES Of buttons would never do for
house costumes, but are quite appropri-
ate on the street on heavy garments. The
old stylc buttons, which were once so
fashionable, are now used on black silk
suits. Women of quiet taste, however,
always prefer flat, silk covered buttons,
and small crochet buttons. School girls
affect large gilt buttons, but the hand:
some bronze buttons are the rage and
will, no doubt, continue to be so for
some time.
sIn looking back over my stock Of ten,
afteea, twenty and twenty-five years
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-04-21
Eccentricities Of House-Cleaning.

EccentriCitieS OF fHOuse-Clean1nS.
once knew brisk woman who used
to loosen her carpets in the last of Feb
ruary, so that's might take advantage Of
the first warm day, and whisk them out
before the gaze of an astonished world.
There was tradition in her family that all
carpets should be up and stoves down by
the middle of March, and unless positively
frozen up and showed under, she fought
it out on that line. She and her family
are long since dead, as might be ex-
pected, sacrificed not By cleanliness, but
by silly pride and an insane desire to be
more "forehanded than her neighbors.
I have noticed that these women who are
so forehanded with their house-cleaning
are apt to be forehanded in their deaths.
They seem to fancy there is some merit
in thus forcing the season, and they
plunge into the good work with all the
enthusiasm of the ancient martyrs, laying
up coughs and colds and treasures in
heaven. So many women clean house
according to tradition, instead of
common sense. They learned in
their youth that spring begins in March,
and in March they will clean house if
they kill themselves and their families
in the attempt. They remind me of that
imprudent young man who attempted to
scale the Alpine heights, refusing to
listen to sensible advice, and shouting
'sExcelsior" to all inquiring friends.
These women, amid the snow and biting
winds of lingering winter, will expose
life and limb, or at least fingers and
thumbs, and backs, to get ahead OF their
neighbors and have their house cleaned
first; they 60 pegging away up the win
try Alps, in a lame, rheumatic, but de-
termined procession, waving their tack,
hammers and sclubbing- brushes, and
shouting "Excclsior," till they disappear
in cloud of dust. They pay no atten.
ton to good advice, nor do they heed
the roar of the awful avalanche of dust
and dirt, and carpets, and stoves, and
SCOT that they bring down on their de-
voted heads; on they rush, and down
from the cold, damp shades of their fire
less, sunless parlors comes the last faint
echo of their cries.-Good Housekeeping.
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In Pioneer Times.

An incident in pioneer life may show
what times were in 1900. My mother
said to her ncighbor, Mrs. Roe, living
a mile and half distant, II have got a
fleece now, for I have carded the colt
and picked the wool out Of an old bed
quilt and am making stockings" Mrs:
Roe replied, $50 have I got fleece, for l
shaved our dog and with wool from
bed blanket will soon have
pair of stockings, too" A
short time afterward the whole neigh
borhood footed it four miles to see two
sheep, so great was the sight. Cortlend
IN. ~ Standard.
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Fast Type-Settins and Temperance.
The winner of the recent type-setting
contest in Philadelphia museum was
the only one among the numerous con-
testants that was solely temperate in his
habits-never having drank liquor, or
INDUCED in the use of tobacco. To have
such man win the match is highly sat.
isfactory, proving, that when endurauc
is scaled into play, the one who had never
been slave to ruinous and useless habits
of rum and tobacco, stands a better
chance for success than those who are ad-
dicted to intemperance. Let this prove
a warning to young people growing up,
who consider it a mark of manhood to
patronize the tobacco shop and liquor
saloons. The supposed "stimuhting"
effects Of these poisonous drugs are only
outward indications of weak tempera-
Vest Grore (Pes,,.) hdeDendent.
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sDoEs your wife talk in her Sleep"
asked one married man of another, one
day when they were comparing notes.
II don't lie awake to see, replied the
heartless husband, @but she talks all
the rest of the time, so I rather guess
she edoes."-Louisville Journal.
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TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT.
John b. Cough.
Dead on the field Of battle,


In conflict with the foe,
The field DER which the angels
. Are flying to and fro.
No foeman's hand bath smote him,
The soldier true and grand,
Whose battie-cry has been for
God, Home, and native land.
But the brave heart was weary;
God saw he needed rest,
And sent a bright-winged angel
To call him to His breast.
The slowed disciple" lons ago
Leaned there, and knew His peace,
And the brave, toil-worn soldier
Has gained a sweet release.
A wall Of bitter mourning
From myriads doth rise,
But it cannot drown the paons
Of welcome from the skies.
"To him that overcometh,"
This is the strain they sing,
"He shall have power for ever"
In the city of our King.
And the thousands he has rescued
Shall join the loud acclaim,
And bless him for the work he wrought
In the Redeemer's name.
Mrs. Richmond. in National Advocate.
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WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT READING FOR FEM.
ININE READERS.

A Proverb Knocked on the Head.
'Tis libel, base one; We'll hear it no more,
Though proverb It's 70 less lie,
To say that when poverty enters the door
Love out Of the window will fly.
The love that is true has no craving for pelf
Through veal and through woe twill en-
dure;
Conju,al affection is wealth in itself,
Adversely can't make it poor.
Boston Courier.
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AwR1TER in Hygiene Pratique states
that boots and shoes may be rendered
Waterproof by soaking them for some
hours in thick soap water. The COM
pound forms o fatty acid within the
leather and makes it impervious to
water.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-04-21

In 1851 there were fifty-oue scientific
and art schools in Great Britain. Now
there are 1927 of these institutions,
with s7,777 students in science. The
entire educational establishment is under
government control.
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Made Mad by Rum.

Anna Shield, woman of forty-one
years, who claims to be homeless, was
intoxicated and turbulent in the Ho-
boken ferry late on Saturday night. She
carried a young child in her arms. and
for fear it might be injured or killed by
the reckless woman she was arrested. AS
socn as she reached her cell she threw
her child down on the stone floor, SER
iously injuringit. The child was taken
from her. She attempted later to hang
herself. She had fastened two handker-
chiefs about her neck and secured the
ends around one of the upper bars of her
cell. She was cut down and removed to
the county iail.-Mew York Herald.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
What are You Doing.

Do you ever tell what the Lord has
done for your soul2 How docs the world
know you are Christian2 Do you ever
make a personal appeal to an uncon-
verted soul2 Do your religious engage
ments take precedence over all others2
Have you tried to induce any one to
attend church? Have you welcomed any
stranger in church2 DO you visit the
poor, the sick, and strangers? Have you
sought to know our new mcmbcrs2 Do
you 'go into all the world and preach
the Gospel" by giving as the Lord has
prospered you2 Is secret prayer your
daily habit2 Are you informed concern
ing the spread of the gospel2 Do you
take religious paper9 Are you an ad-
vocate of gospel temperance principlcs2
Do you observe family worship2 Do you
ever hand any person a good book or
tract? Do you contribute your part of
the current expenses of the churcha Are
any of the ways of working and witness
ing for Christ your ways?-Dr. George
L. Spinning.
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There are now about $50, 900 creoles in
Louisiana, principally resident in the city
of New Orleans and the southwestern
parishes.
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they introduce, by the influences they bring
around the home they are helping to decide
the physical, the Intellectual, the morai, the
eternal welfare Of the human race. On,
the house of God to-day, perhaps entirely
unappreciated. She is the banker Of her
home, the pres:dent. the cashier, the
teller, the discount clerk, and ever and
anon there is panic. God knows the
anxieties and the cares, and He knows that
this is not a useless sermon, but that
there are a multitude Of hearts here
waiting for the disti,lation Of the divine
mercy and solace in their home trials and
their home duties and their home fatigues.
The world hears nothing about them. They
never speak about them. You could not with
the agon:es of an Inquistion bring the truth
out of them. They keap it still. They say
nothing. They endure, and will until God
and the Judgment right their wrongs. Oh,
but says some sister in the house, ''are you
not wi ling to admit that after all woman's
sister, anil that is the only kind Of life worth
living. That has been the life of Florence
Nightingale, that was tho life of Ed
ward Payson, that was the life of the
Lord Jesus Christ, that is the life Of every
man or woman that is happY-a life OF self.
sacrifice. These people living for themselves
are they happy? FTud me one. 1 will give
you all the nations Or he earth to find me
me. Not happy, no, not happy, 1t is the
self-sacrifcing people that are happy, for
God pays 50 largely, so gloriously, SO magnlt::
the soul. When young DR.. Hutchinson, Of
this city, few years ago stayed in a 2
diphtheretic room to relieve q patient
and was SO saturated with the poison that
he died, we all wanted to put garlandss on
his brow. The whole city was moved in
admiration of that young doctor On, how
we admire self-denial and self sacrifice, but
how little we have of it, How much easier
it is to applaud it than to exercise it. When
years ago in the burning Of a hotel at st:
Louis, young man on the fifth floor rushed
for the room Of his mother and plunged