The record-union., 1897-07-18

| well that 1t hardly seems worth while
| to attempt. The process is very simple.
| Place the leaves in a muslin bag, which
| is suspended inside the mouth of a
! strong jar. Over the mouth place a
pan with a few live cinders in it. The
essence of the flowers should drop
slowly into the jar, if all goes as it
should.
According to the strict creed of the
epicure, even the appropriate color of a
dish is a matter for consideration. For
instance, during the warm weather a
soup should be either white, pale am
ber or of a delicate green, like the
early leaves. After a white soup, a
salmon, a lobster or a white fish with
coral or emerald sauce should invari-
ably follow. The succession of such
harmonizing courses is a matter of
study with the gourmet.
Discarded champagne baskets make
the best sort of hampers for laundry
service between the town and country
houses. A short trunk-strap secures
them, and to protect the contents from
any possible dampness they should be
| lined with enamelled cloth before put
! ting in the linen. If one has not a wine
cellar, and, consequently, not stock
| of wine hampers, they can be bought
for quarter or thereabouts at the
nearest grocer's, where wine is sold.
!
At a recent wedding some arrange
ments of flowers We're notfceably odd
and effective. One bouquet was of
| peach-colored orchids, with asparagus
tops, clustered about deep purple iris
A basket, white enameled, but with
! bamboo handle, was filled with white
lilies and white gladioIas, with a good
| deal of feathery green, and a great bow
OF different shades of green tied to the
! handle. Another was a brown, rough
/ basket, with a rustic handle This was
hlled to overlooking with poppies and
spikes of gladiolus, all of flaming scar
let or salmon. The ribbons of deep
green were tied with a knot of poppies
and leaves in the bow.
|
| The widely prevalent habit of town
dWellers in summer of sitting out on
/ their broWn-stone steps has developed
a number of seats and cushions devils
ed for such use. A walk through the
residence streets in upper Brooklyn will
show almost the entire population
grouped by families on successive
stoops. Rugs and italian blankets are
brought out and allowed to trail down
the steps to project dainty skirts, and
! then on mats and cushions the house
mold poses, much to the horror Of our
visiting English friends. Since the
custom is such popular one it is re-
markable that no clever person has
evolved some comfortable, city-dweIl-
| ing stoop-seat, something with a back
and a generally comfortable regard for
/ the disposition of human anatomy on
the series of steps. Lately some of
the furniture dealers have been offer
| ing a low slipper chair, which ladies
like to keep in their dressing rooms, for
use on the narrow spaces of the usual
brown-stone doorstep.
A luncheon basket made for Queen
| Victoria has been exhibited in London.
| and contains some hints for humble
Z commoners in its conveniences. The
| royal affair holds silver dishes lined
with porcelain, which comprise plates.
covered receptacles for meats; for des-
sert, a box for bread, knives, forks. and
spoons, a compartment for wines. and
every sort of table possibility, even to
champagne nippers, salt, pepper. and
! corkscrew. 1t is not large nor a
heavy hamper, and is made Of stout
| basket-work. A picnic box might be
fitted up with not so much pretence,
but with the same eye to detailed COM
! fort. A basket-maker could construct
one after an original plan, and not
necessarily at any great expense.
Fish, bacon, kidneys, ETC., cool very
rapidly when not served from the side
but sent to the table on a platter
When other than piping hot they are
too, detestable. A hot-water plated
dished is, therefore, most desirable for
their presentation when cooked.
A beautiful salad set in green and
white was the offering recently of an
accomplished daughter on the occasion
of her mothers birthday. The bow
was tinted in a creamy white that
deepened into delicate green. and or
namented inside and out with trailins
SR1cS VI SlIdWDtIIy blossoms 4nO
green leaves. The plates of the sci
were, some of them, strewn artisticaIly
with white violets and their foliage:
others with lilies of the valley against
their long ribbon leaf, others with the
graceful Queens lace of the fields. and
still others with simply ferns or smilaz
against the soft green tinted white.
To make those pretty and tooth
some delicacies called lady-locks roll
out puff paste in as long and as thin
strips as required. Cut with a pastry
jaeger into pieces about half-an-inch
wide. Roll around the stick which
comes for the purpose, and bake
When cold remove the stick, and with
a pastry-bag fill the long cavity with
whipped and sweetened cream.
At the Fountain Head.
Now doth the statesman pause in awe
and hesitate in doubt: