Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-10-28
NEW HAVEN CONN, MORNING, OCTOBER 2s 1898

| agreeable and unwholesome. The use of
charcoal or salt will tend to prevent this.
If flowers are especially choice take them
from the vases at night and sprinkle every
part of them thoroughly, then wrap them
in wet cloth and lay them away in q cool
place until morning, when, after clipping
the stems they are placed again In the
vases with fresh water.
If you wish to keep cut flowers for a
special time do not remove them from the
| box in which the florist has snugly laid
| them in a covering of tissue paper. Set
them into the ice box, or in a very cool
cellar; anywhere where they will not
freeze. Look into florists "cooler," If
you have an opportunity, and though you
shudder in its chilly temperature of 40 or
As degrees, you will see that the crisp,
fresh blossoms, and glossy leaves, look de.
| lghtfully comfortable as they lie, row after
| row, upon the shelves. So find some kind
| of cooler for your treasures and keep them
there until they are needed.
1t is often adv issd, when flowers are
| dropping and wilted, to plunge the stems
| in q very hot bath for moment bsfore
| placing them in cold water. Some flowers
| seem to take kindly to this tonic treat
| ment, but they are usually those with hard
80 that they take up ths water. but the ex-
pertinent is not always a success-indesd,
some flowers seem to faint away and never
| revive after the hot plunge bath.
Cut flowers will often last long time If
kept under bell glass. But the bell glass
itself must stand In a soup plate or basin
of water, for the object is not to shut out
the air from the flowers, but to supply
them with moist air.
t. &ko - &1a IT. IN l.
| so quickly destroys flowers, because they
give forth their moisture continually and
require that this loss be made up by
constant supply of moisture from without,
or their freshness can be only short lived.
The flowers therefore are pls oed in vase,
and the vase in soup plate filled with
water, the bell glass covering all. The
moisture will condense on the glass and
run down again into the plate, so that the
blossoms will breath In moisture through
the leaves and petals as we'll as drink it up
through ths stems In the vase. Another
way of arranging flowers under bell glass
is to put them into a dish of damp sand.
This is set into plate of water. OF course
the plate should be large enough in either
case to hold the rim of the bell glass; This
plan answers well for short stemmed flow
ers. With q little soda in the water, which |
should be often changed, flowers will often
Keep 1Of fortnight.
A very good way to preserve single
bloom is to cut the stalk neatly and evenly
across and insert 1t into piece of turnip |
or potato The fowsr will live upon the |
juices of the vegetable, absorbing gu ffi cient
moisture to keep 1t alive for some time.
THE LATEST THING IN HASH.
We have had "fruit salad" as an ap-
proved dish for eome time that Is to say,
s
apple, and the like, all cut together, blend |
ing their favors and juices delecssbly, and |
often with dash of wine-a doubtful i'm |
provemsnt.
The Lew fruit salad is made without |
wine, and its nov.lty consists chiefly in |
its name and in the manner of serving. |
Oranges, lemons, apples, pineapples,
bananas, and rAisins, are cut into little |
bits and worked together lightly so as to |
bring out the juices, then just taste of |
grated nutmeg is addt 1. The "pretty |
part" is in the serving. An orange is |
provided for each guest. II the stem end |
of the orange cut hole large enough to |
ad nit spoon, and through this extract |
all the inside, the pulp forming part of |
the salad. The hollow orange is then
filled with the blended fruits, and each is |
served upon a dainty little glass dish with |
garnish of orange or lemon leaves.
As for the name of this teothsome med |
ley, it is Heavenly Hash" This combI- |
nation of suggestions is sufficiently ludi- |
oi ous, but there's nothing ludicrous about
the golden globes on their mats of glossy
and odorous leaves, with glints of crystal
shining through, snd as far as the "hash"
itpelf, ID is ambrosif'.
But the rank end f'e of us viii be
70 nj IL
day, worldly hash, ss heretofore, and this
being the case, it is consol!ng - know that
there is 9 substance and potency to good
corned beef aud potato hash, not to be dc
rived from any fsuciful jumbling of more
expensive materials.
AS AND o's.
Some attention is being paid to grsphol-
ogy of late, and it is possible for people to
have all the intricsciea of their characters
revealed TO them, simply by writing few
lines, and enclosing them, with the re-
quired fee, to an expert in the science. He
will study these hand tracks, aud by a
hundred little signs will know whether
you are sweet, yielding and stupid; intelli-
gent, bad tempered and self-willed; tactful,
| courteous and schsmiug; plausible, deceit
| full and dscorous, or whatever you may be;
| all this he reads in ovrves and turns and
sngles'that to the r1initlsted sre meaning
| less, or speak only of firm or feeble
hand and goo i or poor pen.
| 1t would Ee we'll for some of us to be
posted as to thess tokens of character. We
| are at the mercy of the phrenologist and
the physios lomist, who read our bumps
| and lines an OF IN hook, even the chirop-
odist processes to judge of our traits by
the shape of our feet, and the very curls of
our penmanship betray our faults and fall
ings to the prs otised eye.
Here is one infslIible sign, but It would
seem an easy matter to make 1t of none
effect by merely taking q little pains in
writing. Ye people who leave your as
and os opsn at the top, learn herewith to
close them tight, for they surely reveal you
as chatterbo1ss and gsd-sbouts. There is
mysterious relationship between these
letters and you. Just in proportion as you
elose their tops in writing, so is your
mouth open or shut. The man or woman
who makes as and o's 80 that they can
with difficulty be distinguished from us
is talkative and gushing. He or she tells
everything he or she knows, and a great
deal more. Let no suoh man or woman be
trusted. Then, too, such peopls never
stay at home if they can help it. They are
up and away, especie'ly il they have any
thing to tell.
But for discreet, secretive, home loving
and housekeeping person we recommend
the one who curls the as snd o's around
and tieB them up as If they were never to
be unloosed. You may pour your conf
dences into the bosom of such an one,
knowing that 1t Is as a freproof vault for
= security; you seek for him, or for her, and
find each in his proper ple1e attending to
business. At least this il the opinion of a
famous graphologist of Paris, and the pres,
: snt writer, who usually makes the top OF
the as and o's meet and then clamps them
1 together, sees no reason for disputing the
truth of his conolusions. HILARY.