The record-union., 1899-11-26

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A bit of economy as we'll as an I'M
provement in the service of the egg in
which croquettes or fried food is to De
dipped before being rolled in bread
crumbs is to add to it a teacup of boil
ing water Use the whole egg and beat
lightly to break it up before pouring
in the water.
Every woman who Cor the first time
takes a cup of tea at a Chinese res
taurant discovers that she has never
before drunk the beverage in its perfec-
ton The little bowls. with covers ike
inverted saucers, which are to be seen
on every counter where ChlneSe anu
Japanese trifies are sold. are infusing-
bowls. Boiling water is poured INTO the
bowl to heat it, and heaping teaspoon
full of tea put in. To this Is adoeu
breakfast-cup of boiling water. Inc
bowl is then covered and allowed 10
stand for five minutes. 1t is tneh
poured off into another cup and drunk
sugar only being added. AL some ,
o'clock tea tables these little bowls are
used with pretty effect and exceiienl
results so far as the drink is concerned.
Baked peaches We're recently served
and proved a rather unusual dish. Inc
peaches were peeled and baked IN
nan as apples are A little sugar and
water with a small piece of butter were
added making a syrup that was usec
to baste them with. They We're cooked
tender and served cold, with the syrup
jellied around them. Whipped cream
was sent around with the dish, the val
ue of which rests in the fact that 1rult
which is not ripe enough to be offered
in it's natural state may be used in TINS
way.
An English woman who after seven
years residence in this country spent
last summer with her relatives in Eng
land returns this autumn completely
converted to most American ways
ITO begin with" she says, Il want for
ever the comfort of these warm Amerl-
can homes Although everybody whom
l met in England said this last summer
was unusually warm, 1 never lost the
shvery, chilly feeling that assailed me
from the day of landing. l first came
of climate would relieve the chronic
neuralgia from which 1 suffered. The
hope was more than justified, for was
soon completely cured. My initial
winter in New York gave me, for the
first time in MY life, the sensation OF
genial. enveloping warmth, a condition
to which 1 ascribe my cure. This sum-
mer in the stone houses of my friends
in Yorkshire and Herefordshire l rec
ognized again the chill in which l lived
till l came here. and which | think IS
responsible for much suffering. The
English women are martyrs to neural
gia, and English children expect chill
blains as a matter of course Half OF
the women l know over there who are
between 30 and 90 and upward are prls-
oners in their rooms from November to
April from bronchitis If they sten-
into the icy halls of their homes their
trouble is aggravated. The practice OF
bare shoulders daily at dinner and the.
thinnest of footwear in the house at all
times in those chilly rooms and corr1-
dors seemed TO be, after America. little
short of suicidal. Hotels in this coun-
try, l think, are superheated, and II Is
their excess of heat that pre1udlces my
countrymen, for it is of hotels only tnat
most of them know. But l wish that
Englishmen and England up and down
would listen to the gospel of rational
warmth with the comfort and health
it entails, as 1 could preach it after my
life here
Some beautiful baluster supports
taken from an old home that was being
dismantled were ingeniously continued
in use by daughter of the family.
She had a slab of polished wood mount
ed upon four of them as a table, a sec
ond and much thinner slab being fitted
across between the legs about an inch
above the floor.
An unaccountable invasion by bed
verrnin of a room on the second floor
of a house that had always been free
from any of these insects was lately ex-
planned in way that may be useful to
recount The annoyance last spring
was so persistent that, although the
bed showed not the slightest trace of
the trouble. it was banished, the room
cleaned, and supposed relief obtained.
1t was soon found, however, that the
the expected result, and finally the mis-
tress of the house shut the room up
for the summer, baffled in her search
for the origin of the trouble. This au
tumn it was decided, as a last resort,
to repaper the room, and it was then
that small hole close to the picture
moulding, and just above it, was found,
in which were unmistakable traces of
the insects. Further investigation
showed that in this hole was the end
of wire that passed up to the maids
room on the fourth floor. where it was
attached to bell Undoubtedly at
some previous time a bell-rope had
hung from the end in the second-hoor
room. The advent last spring of par
ticularly untidy maid, who had been
speedily dismissed, had undoubtedly in
tested the upper room with the trouble,
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