Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-09-19

on it for breakfast, and SO we felt at
peace with all womankind and eager
to be very industrious. You don't
know what fiummery is? Well, it is
the only way that civilized people eat
blackherries. They are not fit in their
raw state. They lack taste and their
seeds are hard. Now, the strawberry
has taste, slightly acid one, peculiarly
Its own, while the raspberry is go de-
licate that there is no word to describe
Its flavor. But the blackberry is fully
pictured when you say it is raw. 1t
needs TO be made into fummery to ap-
pear on table, How to make it? |
don't know that | know myself, but
you have plenty of great big black
berries and some sugar, and what the
cooks call thickening," and then you
let it stew in porcelain pot. And
when it is cooked here are all your
blackberries as soft and tender as pos
eible and the thick, sweet juice sur
rounding them, little like blackberry
brandy in its taste. Flumnery wants
to be served in cut-glass bowl Then,
when You get it, you make it richer
with yellow cream and feed yourself,
using for the purpose silver spoon.
And 10 and behold you are satisfied.
Nobody ought to serve cake with fun
merry; instead, you want thin slice
of homemade bread buttered on the
loaf. Anybody who is not satisfied
with breakfast of fummery and bread
and butter must be chronic grumbler.
KNITTER AND latter.
The'Knitter was on the border of her
shawl. The girl who was tatting was
trying to see which looked best in her
hands, a black or white shuttle,
while she who was sewing knew that
no improvement could be made on
gold thimble with band Of turquoise
decorating it. Then they began to
talk. Said the Knitter,'' Isn't it in
teresting TO hear about the Afghan
Prince, who is visiting in London now?
Did you know that the Queen gets as
her right from India, and has since
4 1910, not only - cashmere shawls, each
Il of which requires the work of an entire
family for a year, but she also gets II
cashmere goats. | wonder what she
does with the goats?'
Here the girl who was sewing inter
rupted, and said with giggle, ''Well,
perhaps, las the Prince of Wales is such
high and mighty master in the Ma
sons, may be the Queen donates the
goats to the swell lodgesr'
Nobody laughed. And the Knitter
continued. 'He has given the Queen
the most magnificent casket set with
jewels and no end OF other valuable
presents l have friend who lives in
India; she is the wife OF an official
there, and she says that the Eastern
magnates are always making an effort
to get an official or his wife to accept
present, for this would mean not only
the loss of position, but disgrace. His
wife can only accept flowers, fruit or
Sweets and they try to tempt the
women in every way. For instance, a
bunch of flowers will be sent in vase
worth thousands of dollars, or piece
of jewelry will be concealed in box Of
sweets, but the women must be smart
enough to look out for these things and
send them right back, for thy realize
fully what acceptance means. This
Afghan Prince in London now has some
peculiarities of his own. For instance,
when he goes out he wears long white
undressed kid gloves such as you or
would buy, and he is 80 pleased with
colored handkerchiefs, | mean linen
ones that he invariably carries four or
five of a different color. or course
he was Mortified when he saw the
English woman's evening get-up, for
an Eastern woman would count herself
ruined il a strange man saw her neck.
Somebody noted this verse to the
Prince as an explanation:
When dressed for the evening, girls, now
adays,
Scarce an atom of dress on them leave;
Nor blame them, for what is an Evening
Dress.
But dress that is suited to Ever"
Then the Knitter stopped to take
breath.
THE REAL WOMAN
And the girl who was sewing said /:
Everybody is talking about the adj
vanced woman, about the summer girl,
about the woman who did and the
woman who didn't, but very little is
said about the gentewoman, The
great lady. She who is born of good
people, who is always at ease; who is,
in short, because OF her sweetness
purity and loneliness, lady, woman
of high breeding. | often think OF
what Thackeray said about duchesses
and countesses. AS well as ] can re-
in station, they can be but ladies and
no more OF course, everybody has
her ideal Of great lady. The Countess
of Salisbury is the English woman's,
and you have yours and | have
mine. She is the woman whose life
have been reading lately. 1t was told
in her own letters. 1t was a sad life,
and yet it was a life full of love.
Who do | mean? | mean one of the
daughters of the Queen of England,
Princess Alice. | wish every Ameri-
can woman would read those letters,
for then they would realize that a
woman can be very close to throne
and yet have to economize and live
Just such life, as far as comfort goes,
hs many woman does here.
LOVELY PRINCESS ALICE.
SIN one letter the Princess Alice
thanks her mother for some money sent
to her, and tells her that with it she
will get some new chairs for the dining.
room and some new little frocks ane
petticoats for an expected baby; and
shesgoes on TO say that this little one
would have had TO wear old and shabby
clothes if it had not been for the money
sent by its dear grandmother. To hel
came an awful grief. A beautiful boy
Of four years leaned little too far oul
OF window and fell, and when the,
got to him he was dead. There is pu
up to his memory in the church al
Darmstadt most lovely window. Or
it is the picture of Christ blessing
little children, while the text below
tells that OF such is the kingdom, o
u e II 4 A. l..