The Jersey City news., 1902-02-26


shellpink blossom which has just been
registered. If it were not for the geher-
ors size of the Presidents family name
famine might be predicted.
At the meeting of the Florists Club
George M. Moss read an article on the
cutting, packing and shipping OF flowers
for market. Amateurs viii be glad 10
know that Immediately after plucking all
1owers should stand for a few hours with
their stems in water, and the earlier IN
the morning they're picked the better.
Flowers should be cut, too, just before
they reach their best, unless they are for
short and immediate use. With the rose
even the weather must be taken into con-
sideration In summer it must be cut
when the bud is very close II IL is TO last
/ at all.
Corned beef is sometimes very good,
though it is much oftener not 50 good.
The only sure way Of having the kind OF
| corned beef that is desirable is to pick out
the pieces of meat and have It cornea.
In cooking, it must first be put into coiu
water and allowed to come slowly to the
boil then simmered till tender. Meat thal
is boiled rapidly is bound TO be tough.
Having it correctly cooked, there are sew
eral good mixed dishes that may be made
from it.
For one. put layer of sliced potato into
| a baking dish, add a layer Of sliced onion
ard season with salt and pepper varying
the amount of salt with all due reference
| to the saltiness of the beef. layer OF
which, sliced, should be added Put in.
more potatoes more onions and more of
the meat, sprinkling little -four over
each layer of the beef. When the dish is
full. add some dots of butter, pour in
! boiling water and bake
1 Another way to vary corned beef, plain,
| is to cook together two tablespoonfuls of
butter and three tablespoonfuls Of flour
| and season with cayenne, salt and the
Juice of one-half lemon. Heat one scant.
! pint of milk, to which has been added a
| bit of onion and a sprig of parsley. When
| scalding remove the onion and parsley
and stir the milk into the butter and flour,
making thus smooth white sauce Have
I the meat cut into small neat pieces and
| add Turn into small individual dishes,
sprinkle seasoned crumbs over the top OF
| each and brown in the oven.
| The following method of laundering
! handkerchiefs is highly commendable:
4 Place six drops OF bluing in two quarts Of
water, add a piece Of raw starch the size
! of filbert and let it dissolve. being care
/ full that none of it settles to the bottom
: of the bowl. The handkerchiefs having
been washed and dried in the usual way,
dip each one separately in the water
j moving it about a little to make it thor
oughly wet, and squeeze it as nearly dry
as possible with the hands, When all
have been treated in this way lay them
I smoothly in towel and place in the
clothes basket. To iron them, lay each
one fat on the board or table, make a fold
/ TWO inches deep across the handkerchief
press it in tightly with the iron and then
make another fold across the first. The
Z handkerchief should then look exactly as
/ it did when purchased.
The society womans fad seems at pres
/ ent to be the diary, which tells of her
4 interests. of her reflections on the times
and customs and even of her criticism Of
1 the popular books of the day. Since the
/ book that she writes tells also of ths
( great personages she has met. and gives
her point of view on the great events as
they happen; 1t cannot fail to be Of in
terest to the succeeding generations of
her family. One prominent society wom-
an writes her diary in the form of letters
to her own great-great granddaughter.
Another has simply confined her diary to
the letters that she receives and her own
answers to them. Diary keeping is one of
the tasks of the society woman and the
keeping of diary WILL therefore. be re-
J instated in it's former popularity. after
the years of disfavor it has suffered.
Cranberry Bavarian cream is, of
course, a combination of cranberries,
cream and gelatine and is made in this
wise: Wash and stew the cranberries and
when they are tender rub through
sieve. To one cupful of this pulp add one
half cupful of granulated sugar Have
ready one-fourth of box of gelatine
that has been soaked in little cold wa
| ter one hour. Place the bowl containing
this in hot water and stir until the gela-
tine is perfectly dissolved. Add to the
cranberries and beat the mixture until II
is cold. AS it begins to thicken add one
/ half cupful of milk and continue to beat.
| Finally stir in one-half cupfui OF whipped
cream Turn into a porcelain lined mould,
previously wet with cold water, and set
on the ice to harden.
The trouble attributed to the poor liz
/ tie ant is falsely charged. In many m
stances where they have infested plants
in large numbers, there has been found
a sort of aphis on the plant. This de-
| pesius sweet, sticky substance to the
ants, and they often make raid on the
aphdes and kill them, that they may be
able to devour sole owners, the fluid
that is stored somewhere about their
bodies.
The ant seldom Injuries a plant, al
| though generally charged with all sorts
of iniqnity in this direction. On the con-
| trary, they often do good work in ridding
the plants Of the aphides which if let
alone will soon suck away the sap which
is the life of the plant, Instead, there
fore, of advising some application that
will destroy the ants, one should welcome
them. for they are good. sturdy, indus
| trious little workers. and their services
are no sinecure.
1t is not every woman who knows the
real value OF her teakwood table. Teak
wood has many good qualities. and ta-