The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-30
HOUSEHOLD NOTES.
MRS. S. 4. NETTI.ES.

A very pretty table cloth may be
made OF Il material called madras,
which is principally used for curtains.
Select a pattern with a yellow ground,
partly covered with large figures. 1t
can be purchased at from fifty to sew
enty-1ive cents yard, fifty-two inches
wide. A yard and a half makes q
good sized cover. The Hover or prin-
cipal pattern, is outlined with tinsel
laid around the edge Of the flowers,
AMI caught down with white thread.
The tinsel comes in balls at fourteen
cents each. After the cover has been
outlined with the tinsel, it is to be
lined with yellow surah silk OF satcer,
the edge finished with tinsel, and 4
fancy ball on each corner.
To mend china take a very thick
solution of gum arabic and stir into
into it plaster Of paris, making thick
paste. Apply it to the fractured edges
of the china, and press them tilnly
together. In three days the articles
cannot be broken in the same place.
The whiteness of the cement renders
it doubly valuable.
Cup C>kE-One cup sugar, one cup
fresh milk, one egg, one tablespoonful
c. butter, one teaspoonful of baking
powder, and three cups Of flour.
A dessert prepared in cups is more
easily served than one which must be
helped upon the table. A cup of'cus-
tard or blanc mango is much more
rapidly chilled than a larger quantity,
and often q number of cups can be
arranged so as to touch the ice when
it would be impossible to place a large
dish upon it. A dainty cup with its
piled up meringue has an inviting air
which the same quantity of padding
spread out upon plate entirely lacks,
and that, in these days of people who
eat with their eyes as we'll as their
mouths, is a consideration not to be
despised.
A delicious dessert may be prepared
as follows: One quart of milk, the
yolks Of four eggs we'll beaten, four
tablespoonfuls Of sugar, a scant tea
spoonful of salt, a teaspoonful of va
nilla extract. Beat together and fill
teacups two thirds full with the MKT
ure. Steam twenty minutes. When
cold put a tablespoonful of crab apple
jelly or rasberry jam on each and cov-
er with meringue made of the whites
of the eggs whipped to a stiff froth
with a tablespoonful Of powdered su-
gar. Brown i'll the oven. Serve ice
cold.
BLANC NANCE. a quart of milk,
add half teaspoonful Of salt and
half a cupful Of sugar. Soak half a
box of gelatine in half crpful of
cold milk for twenty minutes. Stir it
into the boiling milk. When entirely
dissolved strain and pour into cups
wet with cold water. When cold and
hard turn out upon platter. Eat
with a sauce made Of half pint of
milk, half a pint of cream, and half a
cupful of sugar stirred together. Fla
vor with two tablespoonfuls Of sherry.
If you baye no cream, use milk, ad-
ding two tablespoonfuls Of condensed
milk.
FloAT1xG ISLAND WITH JrILy.--Fill
small tumblers third full with jelly
Of any kind, crab apple is best, but
lemon jelly made with gelatine by the
ordinary rule will answer very well.
Make q boiled custard Of pint of
milk, the yolks of three eggs, three
desertspoonfuls of sugar, pinch of
salt and half a teaspoonful of vanilla
extract. When cold pour enough
custard into each tumbler to fill it
within three quarters of IN inch Of
the top. Beat the whites of the eggs
to stiff froth. Have ready a sauce
pan OF boiling water. Drop the beat
Ell white of egg in spoonfus. Let it
cook for a minute, then transfer to
the tops Of your tumblers. Place in
the ice box until very cold.
CELEBRATE TIE CHIIDnEN's BIRTHDAYS.
As a people, we pay far too little
attention to birthdays and other fam
ly anniversaries Too much cannot
be done to make home attractive, so
hat our boys and girls will prefer it
% all other places.
"But it's SO much trouble to cele-
orate birthdays" complain some moth
ers, "and in large families they come
50 often" Yes, it is some trouble;
but how can we keep our children
,ontented and happy at home without
aking trouble? And no mother re-
5rets the trouble when she sees her
:hildren regarding their home as the
very best place in the whole world.
Fry to celebrate the birthdays one
year, and see If it does not "pay," in
;he enjoyment OF the whole family.
Let no one be forgotten, from father
20 baby. No matter how simple and !
.rifin3 it may be, the love and
,houghtfulness which go with it Will
make It precious.
There are many pleasant ways Of cele~ .
|'ratinG birthdays, according to the !
season Of TIE year, Inc location Of tie .
home, and the amount OF time which
can be spared. Sometimes a drive IN
the country, a picnic, excursion, or