New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-01


The onion In the colder ATTITUDES becomes as rank ~
garlic. To boil onions for the table, peel them. II
they seem strong, you may hold them under water
auriag this process q BIT Of bread the tip
Of your knife 10 absorb the flavor. Pun them In
abundance OF water, using at least two three quarts
to quart Of onions. 1t Is better always 10 have .
large saucepan for this purpose the family ID very
fond of boiled onions. Let them cook forty
five minutes. Then drain them, shake them 10 sst
rid Of the moisture, aud then them In pint a
boiling milk In which tablespoonful Of butter and
one of flour have been mixed. Add teaspoonful q
salt and little white pepper, and let the
onions boil up In this gently for ten fifteen
minutes. delicious way to onions is scalloped.
Boil them as directed then drain them. put them In
nm earthen puddingd DISH cover Them with saVce,
sprinkle them lightly with bread-sumbs and bs of
butter. and bake them for twenty minutes In q hot
oven simple method Of frying onions. which MAKES
them crisp and delicate, Is TO soak them for tpn
minutes In milk after cutting them in slices. Thca
dip them lghtly IN -four and fry them In deep fat hot
enough to fry potatoes. 1t win not do ~ fry but
few at time. like potatoes. they cool the fat
rapidly after they are put in. Tn. fat therefore,
should be very hot and the onions should fry for eahs
minutes.
The purely medicinal value OF onions shoum not
be overlooked In Of Group and chest diseases,
roasted onions very efcacOus used as pouitace.
The roasted heart OF onion. II Is said. when pas
nothing else will do any good. Our grandmothcss
used make an onion syrup. very old fashioned,
Of minced onions and cider vinegar, sweetened WITH
honey, which they believed a certain cure FOR
hoerseness and colds. Unllk many other old Wives
remedies it had at least the virtue OF being harmless.
For lip-salvc dissolve a lump Of white SINGER in .
teaspoonfu OF Let IT stand at the hack q
the stove TO simmer slowly. Add two tablespoonful
OF Dice olive oil and piece OF srermsceti the sise OF
walnut. Add drop Of cochneal coloring mas
ter to turn il pink. When the whole is melted to an
ointment turn it into a little round porcelain box kept
for the purpose. II should be small enough 70 hoh
only few tablespoOr fuls.
save for the hands is made with two ounces Of the
Oil OF almonds half Of spermaoet and hak a
ounce of white wax. Melt all the ingredients together
in bowl set in a kettle OF boiling water. Add table
spoonful Of water and begin beating Remove the
bowl from the boiling water to table, and contanuo
beating until the mixture is cold. II II should be toe
hard melt it again and add another tablespoonful =
rose water. Beat again till cold.
There Is little attention paid in this country -
tho cultivation Of the voice. by this we do not mean
the voice in singing, but the voice in speaking. Thou
sands Of young women pass hours In practising their
vocal notes piano whose speech rasps the nerves
with it, nasal twang. though every one knows, the
young ladies' will be heard hundreds Of times oener
when they speak than when they sing. The general
public has not been cultivated to that point wherein
they appreciate the value OF softly modulated, low,
musical voice the certain indication OF the woman or
OF culture. The voice of a growing girl or boy
should be early trained by the careful method Of the
eocutlOnist but even before this, at their mothers
knee, the children should be taught speak gently
10 avoid loud screaming at distance, and especially to
avoid the twang and slang too In this land OF
independence. There is no excuse for a mother who
allows her children to shout over the stairways ana
make Bedlam OF the house In order to the few steps
necessary to communicate with their companions In .
properly moduated voice. The study Of eocuton n
not. TOO many people believe, designed merely for
stage display Of oratorcal speech striking versa
These simply indicate the amount OF cultivation the
voice has undergone. They not egumately the OBJ
iect Of the study OF elocuon any than the essay
which college graduate reads on commencement dA3
Is the object Of his fouryears' course Of study Not
person in 5000 is capable of such attainment a
reader that he has right to demand the attention Of
audiences. Yet the study OF elocuton should be ~
essential part OF the Of education the study
OF arithmetic Unfortunately training OF the voice
usually stops when the child has been taught to read
intelligenty. There is scarcely any effort made hy
the teacher of English b. nculcate the value of .
cultured voice. The breathing exercises taught in elo
cution not only valuable in giving a person fnn
scope OF voice In daily speech, but = matter Of
hygiene invaluable. Their value IN STRENGTHENING
the lungs is beginning to be appreciated Too many
women and girls fail to take deep enough breaths.
They do not make of the lower part OF the lungs
at all, and the cells thus unused peculiarly IiabD
to disease. In all time the value Of a lew voice in
woman has been approximations In which the voice
changes like bird's7 and there grows more OF tn
music and less OF the Words
Almost any recall fneloo;dng women with
the air OF to the manor born which seems TO cling
10 many American girls. Yet they pictures only
while they remain silent. The first word uttered In
twangy tones, in angy uncutured language, destroys
the illusion. Some girls 20 imagine that strident
tones necessary to assert their independence,
whereas they merely proclaim their vulgarity and
often vapldty OF mind 1t well for our girls Il
they to take Cordelea for their model. whose
i voice was ever. soft, gentle and low
Few small things can produce more acute pain and
Interfere with the daily routine Of life than an
ngrOwing tOenail. This trouble i0Iletjmes grows to
such dimensions that surgical aid Is needed and the
removal of the entire nail becomes necessary. yet 1t
IS the result OF carelessness, and when well
advanced be easily remeded. Hitting shoes
are the primary Of this evil, aggravated by
cutting the nails in a wrong way. letting them
20 uncut for too long q time. The nails should
ilways be trimmed with an inward curve at the GEN.
re of the edge. This causes them 10 grow forward
n straight shape instead Of enlarging sideways and
hus growing into the flesh. If they are too long in
her direction, front side, they will be bent down
ward and inward by the shoe, and more and moro
quickly by ilLftting shoe than by anything else
n severe case Of inTowng nails a somewhat heroic
emcdy IS necessary. Surgeons application to
he tender part Of q small quantity Of perchlorde Of
ron, which may be obtained al druggists either in
uid form n powder, but IT'S application produces
uite sensation Of burning PAM sufficient when once
experienced to induce the sufferer follow the plain
irecions to keep the toenails stragh thereafter.
n merely moderate cases. however the nail may be
Mt out and II cut 70 keep straight, the injured
esh will readily recover Its sound normal condition.
Take a pound OF white CASTLE or brown Windsor
oap stir it the fire with little water Add Iaven.
or water or any other kind of essence when IL In