St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-26

| Tipsy cake is as old as egg-nog, and
! quite as trying to the feminine brain.
! Nevertheless, it is the best selling arti-
Gle in the bake shop. There are vari-
GUS ways of making it: the caterer as
rule makes a sweet butter or icing of
chocolate, pistachio, coffee, almond
or orange in which he mixes
| or maraschino to be had. Into
| this delicious syrup small cakes or
| cubes of loaf cake are dropped and
| dried in quick oven. The home cook
| who prides herself on having things
| just little better than the regulation,
and a great deal better than the COM
| mon, has a loaf cake made to order
without sugar. When day old
TINS is cut Iaa. into slices; finger
| In pan Of good, fiery old
| fashioned rye whisky. Then abut-
ter, made of pistachio, favored with
| curacao. mimic absinthe, is spread over
| the top, and when the tipsy slices come
| from the oven tl.ey are ready for con-
| sumption and confusion. As these
| EquOred cakes can be made playfully
stout and dangerously strong, it is just
as well for the fair guest to eat them
| with caution.
| There is another form of tipsy '.indi-
| vlduales" which are still more insid-
| ious,F sometimes known as cherry drops.
| A single, branded cherry is pinched
INTO fresh macaroon or between
| the halves of round sponge cake
/ and plunged into tath OF Innocent
| looking coffee icing. AT first this
! seems tame and safe eating, but the
1 moment the interior is explored there is
a give-away feeling to the senses, and the
| novice will require looking after. Two
of these tipsy bonbon cakes will send a
full-fiedged college graduate under the
! table and take the understandings away
| from whole seminary full of girls.
| Peacock feather, mixed with ostrich
tips are used on some of the beautiful
| evening wraps that are only within the
reach of rich ladies like Mrs. Wander
bilt' Nine. Rupert and Mile. Libby.
All the imported street dresses are
made with bias velvet ruff1e running
| round the feet.
Exit the leg o. mutton and bishops
| sleeve. Enter the elephant, which is
| INDUSTRIOUS in height and width on the
upper arm and Skin-tight from elbow to
| wrist.
Opera glass holders which can be adj
| JuSted to any frame are among the nov
elites of the season. They are made in
silver, plated ware, mother of-pearl.
enamel, aluminium, jet and stained
ivory, and sell at 81 and $40 each.
Tea ballsare bidding for favor. One
little moss-like marble is tossed into the
teapot and hot water poured in. In a
jiffy there is tea for two.
In making over room, take the pre-
vaiiing color in the frieze for key, and
paint all the woodwork and the marble
mantel to match.
While companion pieces in furniture.
painting or decorative art are objection
able, there is great Danger of giving
room patchwork appearance. To
avoid this study the blending of tones.
That is, put all the reds together, col
lect the pieces of yellow by themselves,
have bronze effect in the dining room
the hangings, chair covers and mantel
ornaments blue.
Custard glasses are all out of date.
If you serve junket, fruit fools, cream
merlnSue, tapl0ca or rice ScuffleS,
whipped jelly or hot custard the semi
liquid dessert is served in tea or coffee
cups and saucers. The quainter the pat
tern the prettier the effect. The saucer
is used to hold the lady finger or sponge
cake accompaniment, and the plate is
passed round in lieu of silver tray.
These custard cups have to go into the
oven as a rule. hence the absurd1ty of
using fine or costly china. Napkin, :mi-
tation Delft, majolica. Carlsbad and
Pompeiian ware are all pretty, and
abundant at prices that do not exceed So
dozen.
If you don't know what to buy in your
search for unique wedding present
get the bride betrothed marriage lar.
The form is lovely and the bowl thing
OF beauty, whether you pay 81 or s1O0
for it.
Real butterflies are tackled on the
evening fans. 1t goes without saving
that these are not good flirting fans,
although snowy and pretty. The most
composed and accomplished fashionable
could hardly maintain the even tenor of
cOquetry with mouthful of wing or q
pair of antenn8 in her eyes.