The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-04-30

seems peculiar to Americans to our over
| sociability. We respond so quickly to
any sort of companionship that it is
only by occasionally stunning every
body that we shut off all nervous drain.
Nervous prostration is not at all COM
mon in England, a fact that more than
one expert attributes to the we'll known
| English reserve.
| Tomato baskets for the salad course
may hold one of several varieties OF
| filling, such as the following: Cucum-
| Der Jelly, made in a flat dish and broken
| into pieces before being piled in the
| baskets; plain celery or celery with ap-
pies; watercress and radishes with
French dressing; hard boiled eggs,
chopped fine, and the tomato pulp cut
up with mayonnaise dressing; cold
saw, shrimps with olives, aspic jelly,
apple with watercress or salmon with
sliced cucumbers.
| Pretty lacquer card boxes that would
| be especially suitable for prizes at
card party hold four cards and are pro-
vided with two drawers in which to
tuck away counters for various games
| They are exceedingly useful and are
new manifestation in this ware.
| BouiIlon cups are among the table fit
| tings which fashion permits to be va
ried in set. When it is known that
a friend is collecting a service, the gift
of one is a happy way out Of the di-
lemma Of choice on her birthday or at
a holiday time, and is especially ac-
ceptable to the recipient.
| One way in which New York house
keepers simplify the domestic routine
is to have the family take their din
ners out This is entirely feasible when
the family consists of only husband
and wife or even if there are young
children who should preferably take a
noon dinner, experimenting it with a
simple 5 o'clock supper. 1t is the din
ner for adults of the family that makes
a large part of the daily work in almost
any home. In households where a de-
gree of economy must be practiced and
where plenty of competent servants
cannot be kept, this middle course is
often found very satisfactory. Break
| fast and luncheon are meals that are
easily arranged. There are many quiet
arrangements are made for such per-
manent dinner service, or sometimes a
private boarding house is near at hand
to which the family may go. When
! circumstances seem to indicate the ne
cessity this arrangement is a sort of
middle line between housekeeping and
| boarding that often combines the ad-
vantages of both while almost eliminat-
! ~
Silver pap spoons this spring are pro-
vided with very convenient handles.
/ This is an open curve, into which the
little band fits with a firm grasp that
cannot be secured on the ordinary fiat
handle.
Lamp shades, according to the best
authorities are once more to be trim
med. The plain English shade is still
popular, but there is a very decided
tendency toward lace, beaded, and
open-work effects. The ruffles of tulle
or pinked silk with which we used to
be familiar are happily not again in
evidence, the favorite design of the mo-
ment being close plaitings flaring at in
/ tervals. The very fluffy lamp shades of
a few years ago were too easily ignited
to make their return welcome particu-
larly at this time when the natural hor-
TOR of fire is intensified by recent dread
full examples.
Covers for sorbet cups are made of
composition like papier-mache in imita-
ton of tiny brown jugs. These fit over
| the cups and are tied with ribbon to
match the color of the table decorations.
A set of them can be used indefinitely
and affords a variety to the table serv-
ice.
A bit of bric-a-brac which the SUI
burban hostess of taste will value is
the English glass bedroom candlestick,
to be found in some of the shops where
artistic novelties are sold. The candle
sticks are from eight to ten inches high
by themselves. and are provided with a
large curved handle, reaching from top
to base. The glass tulip-shaped shade
for the candle is nearly or quite as tall
as the candlestick. The prices range
according to the decorations Those
with the plain shades can be had as low
as So, etched shades and candlesticks
with fringe of prisms costing So or
S15
In baking cake or mullins in gem pans
it should be remembered that if there
Is not quite enough batter to fill all the
set, little water should be put in
each one of the empty ones before they
are put into the oven.
A good cooking-school recipe given by
Miss Bedford is for tomato water ice.
Into saucepan is put one-half of a
can of tomatoes, a pint of water. the
juice of one lemon, three sliced apples.
lthree-quarterS of a cupful of sranulated
sugar, and a pinch of ground ginger.
This mixture is heated slowly to the
boiling point, taken from the fire. and
rubbed through a fine sieve Two ounces
OF finely chopped candied ginger and
four tablespoonfuls of maraschino are
added before the compound is ready to
be chilled and frozen. 1t was explained
that four tablespoonful of rum could
be added, if preferred. and the color
heightened with a little red colored fruit
paste before freezing.
Particular tea drinkers have always
on their O'Clock tea tray a, special
kind of sugar. This is made from the
beet and comes in thin oblongs better
suited to tiny tea-cups than are the
usual cubes. It is claimed, too. by con-
noisseurs that this sugar gives lust the
right flavor
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