The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-12-11
THE HOME CIRCLE.
EDITED BY I" BESSIE" :"
THEIR OWN CORNER.
Bessie's Talk With the Ladies More
Interesting Than Ever.

Bessie's Talk With the Ladies' More
Interesting Than Ever
An Ink Beiou6cd BI,testocking-W Wants to Para.
lySe the Dry Goods Gerks-F5rest Preserues-
Ho'o to Make an Erccl1ent Fruit Cake-Lttae
Dishes for the iSick-Fashion Chat-70 Rise
A6ooe the Djctates Of the Fashion Gods, and
Other Topics.
Here l am again, seated at my desk pen in
hand, all ready to begin my usual weekly chat
with the readers of " Home Circle" l always
keep half lemon on my desk so as to quickly
remove ink stains from my fingers for, like
other girls do not like to be called an link
bedaubed bluestocking"
Before me are two little communications.
which have come to hand for my consideration
this weck-the one query; the other hunor-
Gus sketch from real life. These | will put
ahead of what | have to say, for they are both
of quite readable nature and deserve all the
prominence that l can give them. Here they
are:
TO PARALYZE THE CLERKS.
DEAR BESSIE: What are the names of the
most popular new shades in dress fabrics? You
see am going shopping Thursday, and want
to be able to parayze the clerks, by my ready
knewlege of all those rev shades with their
queer names II you will kindly tell US some
thing about them in Home Gree" | will set
up all night but what l learn them by heart
| think the FLoRIDIAN The best and brightest pa
per that papa takes, and am pasiing the whole
of Home Circle" in my scrap book every
week. Lovingly yours, BLUE EYES"
Certainly, dear; you shall have the infDrma-
tian you desire. You will find 1t to-day among
the fashion chat, and am satisfied that you can,
MT only parclyze the dry goods clerks of Talla-
hassee, but supply them as well. | nave taken
the precautiOn TO explain what these colors look
like, so that the ever ready statesmen cannot
palm off spurious colors on you. | don't mean
to say that they would Go it intentionally, bu, no
one likes 10 show their ignorance, and if you
were TO call tor Saurienne Henrictias they would
probably hand you down IA rich purple piece,
rather than admit that they did not know what
Saurenne was
FOREST PRESERVES
Miss BESSIE: We were talking the other dav
about the Forestry Congress, and OF Gov Perry
having appointed several Tallahassee ladies as
delegates. Our cook heard the conversation and
during the afternoon she came to and asked:
MiSsuS, what dat hear you say bout de CUB.
ner done sout some ladies off? He amt sont EN-
to de crOwnin' ob President Harrison is he p
| told her that they were appointed to 60 10 At.
anta, to Congress, where they were to talk
over and adopt The best plans for preserving our
forest trees "Dc Lawd-a-rnassy-me " exclaimed
she, rs been n cooking for years an years, an
Is made wateImiOn serves, an pear serves,
an peach serves, an ounce serves, an more
serves dan you kin shake II stick at but ant
nebber hearn tell ob 'servin' whole tree out ob
de woOd Dat beats me- | wonder il de ladies
Wi pi ll "A lev hrinp
ii back" | couldn't explain TO Ntncy's Salts
faction, and she is waiting to sample piece of
Forest Preserve" UNO
Poor old soul. Her whole education in lite
has been in preparing good things to eat, and it
is no wonder that she was thunder struck to hear
OF pres, rvins a forest.
These Two little communications are just
splendid, AMI they add life to this weeks II ,me
Circle" do hope our many readers will favor
us with all such little hom incn!ents queries,
ETC. II they only will, Home Circle can be
made The most interesting ladies department in
any paper or magazine of the day Lam sure
that chapter Of some such bits of nome humor
might be contributed every week, and when
they are all gathered together in scrap book
it will make an interesting volume
Christmas cakes, if are to have any, and, ne
there are several young housewives among my
readers, it may not be amiss to have word to
say on how 10 make an excellent
FRUIT CAKE.
Tie best and richest fruit cake that | ever ate
was at the hospitable residence of Tallahassee
lady, and she kindly furnishes Home Circle !"
with her recipe Here it is Take one pound
of butter and one pound of light brown Florida
sugar, and beat them together with the yolks of
eight eggs; beat the whites separately ; mix
with these one and half pounds Of flour, one
teacupful of cream one wineglass of brandy
and one OF wine, one grated nutmeg, one teas
poonful Of mace, one teaspoonful OF cloves. two
teaspoonful of cinnamon, half teaspooaful of
salt, three-quarters of pound of raisins, three
quarters of a pound of currants, half pound of
citron. Mix with the -four two teaspoonful of
Royal Baking Powder The fruit should be