The record-union., 1898-09-04

the niceties of personal appearance,
have promptly discovered and tabooed
/ the injurious, choking collar.
A boiled chocolate frosting that IS
approved by the Boston Cooking School
| is made by melting two squares Oh
chocolate, to which should be added one
cup and three-quarters of fine gran
| ulated sugar and half cup or not
| milk; mix thoroughly and allow the
| sugar to become melted over hot water,
after which boil without stirring about
eight minutes Have the whites of
two eggs beaten light, but not dry, ana
| pour the chocolate mixture in tine
| stream on the whites of the eggs, beat
| ing all the time. Beat occasionally
thereafter until cold. A half teaspoon
! full of vanilla extract should be added
| as f1avOring.
Now that it is whispered that golf is
/ less fashionable and will probably be-
| come still less SO, the revival of lawn
| tennis and croquet is heralded. Lawn
| tennis has never even under the most
| intense golf enthusiasm suffered the
downfall on this side of the sea that
croQuet has, but there are evidences
that the latter game will again take
| its deserved place among outdoor
sports. In all the small places of Eng
! land and Scotland it is and has been,
| without cessation, played persistently.
! A lady travelling this summer in Bar
! rie'S country writes home Of going to
| call with rector and his wife on an
other rector where crOQuet was the en-
! tertainment of the afternoon, as mat
| ter of course. The Scotch hosts were
! so impressed with the Americans sim
gle-handed play, particularly as she
! won every game, that afterwards over
tea and biscuit there was a serious dis
! cussion over the eXpediency of adopting
| this method of playing. 1t is an al
most universal custom among Scotch
and English croquet-players to grasp
the mallet with two hands.
The excellence Of broiled ham when
prepared by a Southern cook is due to
| the fact that she boils the ham almost
! to the point of eatableness before it is
sliced and broiled.
It is becoming more and more COM
mon to line the staircase wall with pic
| lures On consideration, the idea is a
good one from other points Of view than
| the artistic The climb. particularly
| of a long unbroken staircase, is to many
| persons an affair of minutes, and it is
not at all unpleasant to be cheered its
| length by some attractive pictures. In
| some houses there are series of photo
| graphs along the stair, those of cele-
! brities being more often selected than
! the pictures of the friends Of the family.
For a lawn illumination that must be
more or less extemporized nothing is
! better and easier than a pan of ashes
/ and kerosene A wide, shallow tin
! dish is fastened to a short upright (the
| stump of a tree or a fence-post Is
good standard) and filled with ashes
! and cinders The latter are saturated
with kerosene and lighted, the oil
! burning with a strong and lasting flame.
II is a matter of congratulation that
| the useful chafing-dish has been re-
! duced to carrying form for the summer
camp and picnic party. These valua-
! bic assistants to alfresco meals come
now in a compressible, telescope shape
! that admits of packing in small com
pass.
! Persons who buy the tubes Of altar
! of roses offered at the various summer
resort bazars throughout the country
usually by swarthy feZ-covered foreign
ers-as pure distillation may be very
sure that they get nothing of the sort
Asingle drop of this wonderful scent in
it's absolute purity direct from the
| flower Is an heirloom in the Orient.
| Mothers pass it down to daughters as
valued wedding gift, the solitary
| gIobule in its crystal case attaining al
most the rating Of a precious stone.