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AN ICE EASILY MADE.
How to Make a Cafe Mousse That VIII Be
Delightful in Hot Weather.


Delightful in Hot Weather.
A "cafe mousse" is one of the best ices
we have, and one of the easiest to make,
says the New York 7rib,ns. Grind fine half
a cup of coffee, and put it in thin muslin
bag. Pour very slowly over the coffee a
cup of boiling water, let it drip through,
and then pour the coffee over a second time,
making fine Mocha essenca. Beat the
yolks of two eggs together with hnlf a cup
of sugar, add the coffee and stir the mixture
over the fire for three minutes, being care
full that the eggs do not curdle. Remove
the custard from the fire and let it cool,
beating it some, and then mix it carefully
with two quarts of dry whipped cream,
measured after whipping. Put the mixture
in the can of an ice cream freezer, after re-
moving the beater. Cover the can, cork up
the aperture where the beater goes in,
and pack the can in ice and salt, be-
ing careful to use twice as much salt
in the packing as will be needed to freeze
an ice cream. A gallon mould requires
about three pints of salt to pack mousse
properly. After packing, set the freezer
containing the mousse away for at least six
hours, to become perfect. A mousse should
have mossy texture; therefore it should
not be stirred while it is freezing.
The French chefs make their cafe mousses
out of whipped cream alone, favored with
three tablespoonfuls of coffee essence to the
quart, and sweetened. Their coffee essence
they make by pouring cup and half of
cold water over three ounces of ground
Mocha coffee and reducing the mixture by
boiling to three teaspoonfuls. This essence
is then strained through cloth and used at
once.
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woMAN's WORLD ILLUSTRATIONS.
Something About the Styles That May As
sist Home Dressmakers.
A. G..

s1St Home DreSSmakerss
The hat shown in Fig. l is the latest
thing from London. 1t will be much worn
this summer with tailor-made suits 1t is
called at will the 'Tyrol," "Canoe" or
Brighton" the first name being the most
appropriate, as it is simple little affair of
rough straw with rolling brim and the crown
dented in. 1t is very much the same thing
as what is called an English walking hat, with
notifications. 1t is trimmed with pair of
high ears, or wings, on the side 1t will be
found an excellent hat for knocking about
and for common use.
The second illustration shows a design
from Paris that is represented as very pop
ular.
A lavender and white tennis gown is
shown in Fig 8. 1t is of the English
homespun that is now woven as light as
lawn. The belted bodice is a familiar
shape, with wide pointed collar and belt of
plain wool, piped on the edge with white
wool Full sleeves droop on full cuffs of
lavender wool. The skirt, with slight
movement in front, has panels of laven-
der on each side. A hat of the plain laven-
der wool is trimmed with loops of white
ribbon.
A seaside toilet is shown in Fig. 4. The
picture, which is from Harper's Bazar, tells
its own story. 1t is very simple, fashioned
exquisitely by Worth from soft fine wool OF
the pale tint of Persian lilacs. The rich
canal, or bishops mantle, by the same ar
tistic designer, is of cream-colored molleton,
a soft iannel-like cloth. 1t is studded with
Jet cabochons, and has yoke of jetted pas
sementerie, with rain fringe of jet and a
flaring collar finished with lace ruff. Gal
loon of let horders the garment The hat
from the Maison Virot, is of transparent
black horse-hair popularly known here as
Neapolitan braid. Curled black ostrich
tips surround the crown. Rose-colored rib
bon is added in erect wired loops at the
back, and long streamers hanging down to
the waist A parasol of white chiffon NOUS
seline completes the toilet.
Light green embroidered drap d'ete is the
material of the costume Fig. .. 1t is made
with draped bodice connected by an en-
broidered belt to the skirt, which is en-
broidered at the front. Accompanying it is
a long sleeveless paletot, with border of en-
broidery and fiounces of black lace.
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lipped again, with the chin tilted on one
side in that attitude which, corresponding
with the crossed hands in front, has become
familiar to all Paris as the diva's character
istie one. Of course, the eyes and lips
smile-that quite indefnable smile that you
must not try to dissect, but must take for
granted as the very triply-distilled extract
Of the fin de steele perfume. And, once
more, the hair drawn up from the cutabla-
ture Of "a square forehead, eliminating IN
pyramidal knot on top; the EXTREMIST de-
vice of coquetry by reason, exactly, of its
entire reputation of anything hattering.
Before this portrait also the crowd pauses,
smiles, feels itself particularly in Paris,
conscious of suggestions in the atmosphere
it could never get elsewhere.
These are two good examples of fin de
steele feminiuity 1t is like caviar. You
have to become accustomed to it in order to
like it. 1t is q taste that has to be acquired
American Women Get the Best.
Nothing YOU will see could be farther
from the conventional ideal of style than
such type as this. Perhaps when one is on
a scent one is inclined TO carry it little too
far; but it certainly seems that this same
conventional style or stylishness, has neith-
er the vogue, nor the votaries, nor the per-
fection in Paris that it once had. The sup
plyers are just as good, but the best they
have to give nOWkgoes on the back Of
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nose exceedingly delicate of contour;
slender-lpped mouth, also smiling enig-
matically at the corners. This keen profile
stands out more distinctly by virtue of the
protuberance of carmine hair rolled up in
I'm de steele antiquity above the nape of
the neck. Incontestably striking, though
no longer young, (with the very first
YOUTH, the original of the portrait was
present at the opening OF. the salon, sur
rounded by little court of men, followed
through the crowd by long, curious glances.
This well-known person is one of the fin
de steele beauties. In another room, at the
Champs de Mars, behold the portrait of that
essence of all Partisan modernity, Toette
Guilbert. An impressionist panel, long
and narrow, against which the very chic
singer of concert-hall naughty songs (now
sought after also in all the most aristocratic
drawing rooms of Paris, whose guests she
entertains), stands out with pervcrsely-
comic suggestion of an olden-time saint in a
,niSSal
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PREPARATION OF CABBAGE.
While Not Very Nutritious Vegetable It's
Good Thing to Cse-Some OF EIlioe
serena's General Recipes-Hints for the
Home.
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATcH.I

WRITTEN FOh THE
In his book on Goods, +" DR.. Smith says
the cabbage represents the least nutritious
class of vegetable foods, and is perhaps less
valuable for its direct nutritive elements
than for its indirect and medicinal saline
virtues; but it is nevertheless most agree
able vegetable, and, from the variety of
ways in which it may be prepared, whether
raw or cooked, is considered useful ad-
junct to the table by the housekeeper, whose
list of vegetables would not be complete
without cabbage L append some recipes
for its preparation:
Boiled Cabbage.
leaves, quarter, and soak in cold water, with
q good handful of salt, for an hour or two.
Plunge into rapidly boiling water, plenty of
it, to which has been added level saltspoon
OF bicarbonate of soda. Bofi--uncovered-
for 20 minutes without ceasing, drain well
and serve with butter sauce.
Fried Cabbage.
Mince cold boiled cabbage fine, add table,
spoonful of butter, seasoning and q little
cream. Put into buttered frying.pan, stir
until quite hot and before removing from
the IRE allow it to brown slightly 10 the
bottom
Take small head of cabbage, shave fine
cover with boiling water and set ON the stove
until the dressing is made. Beat two eggs,
with two tablespoonsful levell of sugar, one
of mustard, two of butter and a cupful of
cream. Drain the cabbage, pour in the
dressing and add one-haf cupful of vinegar.
Set to cool.
Following are some general recipes:
Tomato Cream Soup.
Two large cups of tomato sauce. one quart
hot water, one pint cream. Add little but
ter and -four, mixed together, to thicken, or
two crackers rolled. Put one-half teaspoon
full of soda in tomatoes before putting in
cream.
Apple Souffie.
Stew the apples as for sauce. adding little
lemon Juice Cover the bottom and sides Of
the dish with the sauce one-half inch thick.
Make q custard of the yolks of two eggs to
one pint of milk, add little cinnamon and
sugar, let the .custard cool and then pour
into the dish. Beat the whites and spread
over the top. Set in an open oven for few
minutes to lightly brown.
Orange Sponge Cake.
To the beaten yolks Of three eggs add one
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less expensive, and being in four different
sizes are acceptable for lighting purposes in
four separate rooms
While no vast amount of light is given
from lanterns, they take away from the
complete darkness of room, and the effect
of the coloring is desirable. There are even
lanterns of silk paper. These are suitable
for the corners of rooms and the piazza.
Lanterns of teak wood for halls are six
sided, and may be arranged for oil, gas or
candle
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regularly all about like a cake that has
come out of mould 1t is set squarely on
the top of the head, and little loose bunch
of very fine flowers thrown on top of it with
stiff aigrettes of velvet ribbon. The newest
shoe is out of all measure, long and pointed
back over the most spring-like of vests,
which are of crepe and lace, even for the
street. Finally, the little Henri ". cape
is, in its latest evolution, of crepe de shine,
plated over the shoulders into an innumer
able quantity of accordeon plaits.
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CANNING SWEET CHERRIES.

They Are One of the Best of Fruits for
Preserving for Future Use.
Housekeepers should be reminded that the
sweet cherry is one Of the best fruits we
have for canning. Its flavor is insipid when
preserved in sugar in the old-fashioned way.
The sour Morella cherry, however, makes
delicious preserve.
The distinction between canned and pre-
A canned fruit is cooked in the jar it is put
up in, in light syrup, and sealed up boil
ing hot; preserved fruits cooked in a pre-
serving kettle in heavy syrup and is then
put in Jars, and is often cooled before it is
sealed up.
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which takes the ascend
ant. All the women,
more or less, try to copy
it; all the men succumb
to its fascination. 1t is
as well-defned a fashion
as long gowns or short
gowns, high hats or low
hats.
At present, in Paris,
there is a distinct type of
femininity designated un-
der the term fin de steele.
AT the salon of the
Champs de Mars there is
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LANTERNS FOB DECORATIONS.
They Do Not Shed Much Light, but It Il
Subdued and Beautiful

Perhaps no article is of greater value for
decorative purposes than the lantern, and
these are so varied in design that something
different may be had for each room. The
most expensive are those made of iron and
brass. They hang from the ceiling, the
Ight-dim religious, always from lanterns
glimmering through the holes and cracks
made by the carvings and designs The
gauze lanterns with lacquered frames are
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mo. J. d UT talLl PVLVIdII' dIOuHu
which there cluster groups of interested
spectators. Not all admire but none pass
by indiferently. The lady stands upright
in sharp relief against dark background,
garbed in simple white, whose fat draperies
are confined about the waist by two narrow,
pale. pink ribbons A very long, white
neck; shoulders and bust, thin to thinness,
though without suspicion of bones; arms
slender and bare; the face turned away in
direct profile; the tinting of the whole skin
all one equal, even, luminous, pinkish-
white.
ua;- That TliscnuDfe Nafure
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WORD, we W e a I
them better! Some
change has passed
over the Paris
enne; whether it
be the fin de steele
influence, or what
not, she no longe;
looks quite so
much like a trim
yacht under full
sail as she used.
And to sD e a k
frankly, Id on t
think she cares to
look so any longer
to the same extent,
having perhaps an
other more vague
and less precise
ideal. As things
now stand her car
riage dress is per-
haps her best eff
fort. She certain
ly looks attract
i've just now driv-
ing out to the Bois
under the bloom
of the chestnuts.
Besides she knows
how to sit back in
the corner of a
Victoria with an
air of which we
Americans as yet
baua NOT attained
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A Novelty in Doilies.

A novel idea for set of doilies is to have
q flower and an appropriate motto for each
month. The old poets Spenser and Chan-
Ger furnish many notices, and one may
with very little trouble sketch in the de-
sired flower much more satisfactorily than
If stamped
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marble tablet,
are undulated
meshes of an
extraordinary
shade of red
hair; hair that
nature never
made of that
precise tint,
since it has ab-
solutely car
mine touches
under the
brown, but
hair neverthe-
less so startling
and so super
artistic, that it
seems sacrilege
to suggest the
idea Of dye in
c onnecJion
with 1t. B e.
meath the tab
let-like fore
head curved
eyebrows hat
looklike apen-
eli line; eyes
small andlong,
with a little
smile in them;
a lonr 9 harm
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GETTING OVER GRIP.
Shirley Dare Says It's Best to Take
Things Easy for a While.
POINTS CONCERNING COMPLEXION.
Glycerine Taken Internally and the Merits
Of Salcylic Acid.
HOT BATHS BEST TAKEN AT NIGHT
WRITTEN FOR THE DrspATcH.]

FTER prostrating
illness nothing is
more resting than
to rest and let nice
folk do all the talk
ing. When not up
to the mark of
study or gardening
it is pleasant to take
the train less than
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PARIS TYPES OF BEAUTY.

Two Representatives of Fin de Steele Femi-
ninity as Seen in the Gay French Capital
Hair That Almost Startles-How Paris
ian Women Really Dress.
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DIsPArcH.l
PARIS, May 22.-In every decade there is
q peculiar style of feminine physical charm
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DINNERS FOR A WEEK.

Menus for the Couple That Gets on With q
Thousand a Year.
The following dainty dinner menu for q
week is furnished the New York World by
one interested in young couples whose in
come is 81 900 year or so. The dinners are
for gentleman, his wife, child of say 5
years, and one servant The portion of the
income left for clothing is not guaranteed,
but it is suggested that no matter how lin
tied the means of the parents of the bride
who is to live on 81 900 year, she generally
leaves her fathers house with q troussean
that with little making over will last for
years. Here is the menu:
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but Cdllo uSl we
sous. After all, a
plain gown, worn
over a bewildering
rustic of silken
skirt, and white
garment through
which eolored rib
bons run amid
falls of lace, is a
very fine research
for coquetry. 1t Is
not an upstart's
standard at all.
In the wild and
wooHy West we
should be inclined
to reverse that or
der fine clothes
aud unfne under
clothes.
n ow, if you
want a few partic-
ular d e t a j l S:
Worth and his
clan are making
"b e IL kir t S .
again - that is,
skirts that e are
out around t h e
feet and abjure
the tie-back. You
must no longer
Slook drawn-in by
your skirt in front.
The newest hat is
a little round of
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Another thing she does to perfection:
She guards the careful outlines of her figure.
The corset-maker has the position of a
priestess Every little provincial who comes
up TO Paris has her corset made to order and
pays her SO or S12 for it, though for the
rest she may buy most of her clothes at the
Louvre. The corset made to order is not
luxury; it is necessity in her eyes.
Very Comm endahla Trait.
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strikes a yell
low reflection
as of footlights.
These blended
huesh have dyed
of, in the prop
er impression
ist fashion, on
her slim arms,
gloved wit h
black above
the elbow. As
tonishingly de-
collete the bod
ice; but modest
the effect. Not
a fragment of
lace, not an
Ainch of tulle,
not a flower,
not q ribbon to
bre ak til e
harshness of
that figured
inpressi onist
rO b e against
the skin. In
short, not a be-
coming toilet;
and of a SIM
plicity of lines
so very ingen-
uous that it
could only be
the outcome of
artful S tudy.
And finally the
face: Narrow
We d, narrow
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HOUSEHOLD goods packed and stored
an HAUGH b KEENAN,, 80 Water ak
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Details of a Second Type.

She wears a gown of some fowered sssin,
with greenish tones upon which there
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A Very Commendable

Let us say the same of the daintiness, the
extraordiny fantasy, expended upon what
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Reasons Whv

DR.. Prices Delicious FlaVoring
Extracts of Lemon, Vanilla, ETC.,
Are Superior to All Others. =.
They are prepared from the choicest and
purest Materials
They contain no poisonous oils or etners.
They are highly concentrated.
They are more economical as they require
less to flavor
No deicacies are spoiled by their use.
Theyimpart the trueflavOr ofthe
fruit from which they are made.
myu~s
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Hair That Discounts Nature.

Taken back absolutely straight from fore
head so high and wide that it resembles a
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THURSDAY.

Total. ............ .....S1 %
*Only half will be eaten
and the rest put by for a
veal pie for Saturdays
dinner.
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0melette souffie. 3 i

IOgai, u
NOTE. Enough will be
left of the lamb to serve
for. breakfast, thus pay
ing for seasoning, oil,
vinegar, etc., used at the
dinners.
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FANS FOR THE SEASON.

Pretty Designs That Must Correspond With
the Costume Worn.
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A careless or stupid boy has no right to
attempt the art. Pierre, which call him
because it isn't his name or anything like it,
is brisk, knowing, decided, and if others do
not know their part they are apt to learn
from him. ike to lounge in the window
seat and watch him as he dives first at one
thing, then at another, over his enamelled
pans and fine porcelain fireproof dishes, his
stills and digesters and filters and fine sleeves
of silk. 1t doesn't put him out to be
watched, for all his mind is intent on the
work in hand, but he has always space for a
CHEEKY word or humorous chat between
times. A person who knows something out
of the common and knows how to tell it is
the best of companions, especially when he
is kind enough to do all the talking.
He is great on cosmetics, powders and
paints and dyes, which are frowned upon in
the establishments. He is also knowing in
the latter science of the toilet, having
studied with a fine physician fer skin dis
eases. He doesn't believe in facial mas.
sage, at least not in OVERRIDING it, and is
thoroughly put out as he speaks of letter
from q woman who used his preparation and
gave it to her friends, who all rubbed their
faces with it for tan minutes. In conse-
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from the spring, and the less ceremony the
better. 1t will go hard with the Oldest
picnicker if at this juneture he does not re-
lapse into poetry and say:
The Proper Poetic Sentiment.
'What good things these are, and how
few know how to cultivate their senses.
Wine such as this (here he drinks to the
hostess, who looks very rosy and dishevelled
after her climb, but smiling), the beauty of
women to take us out of ourselves, such
sandwiches, and allow me to pause over the
game pie, an unqualified success (much en-
thusiasm) (hear hear), the view of yonder
valley, this inspiriting air, these hard boiled
eggs (would there had been more saltD,
these lovely Hebes and graceful Ganymedes
coffee? Yes, more coffee, thanks. Captain,
have you ever been in love?"
The Captain responds grufiy, as if from
the bridge:
Never have been anything else.
Then let us drink-what-claret cup! my
dears, this is too much.
OldaS we are, for Indies love unfit,
The power OF beauty we remember yet!
Things have not been served in order;
they never are at picnic, and the cunning
hostess now produces some claret cup. She
has made it herself since they reached the
top of the mountain. Two bottles of claret
to one of soda water, two lemons, a glass Of
sherry, cucumber sliced in Ito give it the
most perfect favor), plenty of sugar and
ice, and where had she hidden that immense
pitcher, regular brown Toby, which she
has brewed it in? 81 know" said an "en-
FAINT terrible;" 81 saw her hiding it under
the back seat"
Best for Warm Afternoon.
Well, there it is, filed with the most re-
freshing drink of warm afternoon, claret
cup. Various young persons of opposite
sexes who have been looking at each other
more than at the game pie, now prepare 70
disappear in the neighboring paths undsr-a
Huntsville gazette., 1891-10-31
Death Of Capt. Robert w. Figg.

Our community will be shocked this
morning to learn of the death last night
of Capt. Robert W. Figg, of heart failure.
He was out yesterday morning, seeming
ly in his accustomed good health, but was
found lying on the floor of his office
few hours later breathing heavily. DIR.
A. B. Shelby was summoned and ascer
tanned that he was suffering from heart
disease. He fingered during the day,
rational during the time, but the flicker
ing light went out at few minutes to
ten o'clock last night.
Capt. Figg was in his seyen:y-second
year. He was born near Petersburg,
Va, and came to this State when youth.
He was enjoying a lucrative practice IN
his profession, Dentistry, at Decatur
when war was declared, but closed his
office and enlisted in Gen. Forests regl-
ment. He was Captain of one
of Forests companies when he
received the wound, at the sec
ond Fort Donelson, that necessitated
the amputation of his arm. Recovering
from this wound he returned to the army
and served until hostilities ceased. After
the war, the loss of his arm preventing
further practice at his chosen profession,
he located in this city and was elected
Justice of the Peace for this county.
Tb;e office he continued to hold until the
time of his death.
Squire Figg, as he was commonly call
ed, was man of sterling chararter and
worth, and was conscientious in all his
acts and dealings. He was OF quiet
and unassuming disposition and very
modest and retired in professional duties,
but was held in highest esteem by our
entire community. His death will cause
many a person to remark that "good
citizen has passed from our midst"