Year: 1873

COURTESY TO SERVANTS. servants


right to be politely treated is just as abso-


lutte and indefeasible as that of the Queen
She is child of the great King, and to her
applies the royal law, according to the
Scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor
as thyself" That law. which is the highest
of all, surely includes politeness. If we are
bound to love our neighbors as ourselves
we are bound to treat them courteOusly, at
any rate. That is one of the first and most
rudmental of our duties to them. Your
servant, dear madam, is your neighbor-the
nearest of all your Ieighbors. She has a
right, then, under this royal law-whch is
in itself the spirit of all just laws-to be
courteously treated by you. 1t is no more
condescension for you to use respect and
gentleness in your intercourse with her,
than it is for her to sweep your floors or
build your fires. You are entitled to no
more credit for speaking kindly to her, than
you are not for stealing her pocket-hand-
kerchiefs. If you do not govern yourself
in all your conversation with her, by the
same laws of courtesy which you observe in
your conversation with the callers in your
parlors, you a very vulgar person. The
maid in your kitchen is "a woman ; the guest
in your parlor is nothing more. Will you
give to silks, and feathers, and purse, what
you deny to womanhood? That is the very
essence of vulgarity. Do not say that the
guest never tries your temper, as the servant
does. You know that many of those whom
you greet with smiles, tell lies about you
when they are beyond your sight. The
laws of good manners lead you to treat
their deceitfulness with forbearance. Should
they not require equal forbearance toward
the ignorant Irish girl in yoar kitchen
Hearth and Home.


How TO PRESERVE ORANGES AND LEM
oNs-Buy a number when cheap; a dry
and damaged lot will answer, by cutting
out the rotten spots. Peel them, take out
the seeds, cut up the pulp, and boil the
peels till soft, changing the water twice; if
lemons, take off the peel in as large pieces
as you can. Chop the boiled peels fine.
Weigh them and the pulp, which may be
chopped with them, and take one-half
pound of sugar to one pound of fruit. As
the fruit is the most valuable, you need not
grudge the sugar.


Make syrup Of the sugar, for which you
may use a little of the last boiling water
from the peel; put in the fruit, and boil
about an hour, till it is thick and stirs heav-
lily. Lemons are less juicy than oranges,
and require a rather thinner syrup. Use
these marmalades either to eat with bread,
or to make pies and puddngs.


For squash and custard pies, prepare q
painful of the milk mixture, and put lemon
marmalade to one half, and orange to the
other, about cupful of each, little sugar
is then required, and no other flavoring.
The peels of oranges and lemons should be
saved when the pulp is otherwise used, and
will make very good marmaade for pies, etc.
If dry soak in water for a night, then boil
and chop.


CHEAP DIsINFECTANTs One pound of
green copperas, costing seven cents, dissolv-
ed in one quart of water, and poured down
a waterclOset will effectually destroy the
foulest smells. On board ships and steam
boats, about hotels and other places, there
is nothing so nice to purify the air. Simple
green copperas dissolved under the bed in
anything that will hold water, will render an
hospital, or other places for the sick, free





stalls, fish markets, slaughter houses, sinks,
and wherever there are offensive, putrid gas
es, dissolve copperas and sprinkle it about,
and in few days the smell will pass away.
If ii cat, rat, or mouse dies about the house,
and sends forth an offensive gas, place some
dissolved cOpperas in an open vessel near
the place where the nuisance is, and it will
soon purify the atmosphere.


CRACKER PUDDING.-Take eight crack
ers, split and butter them, place them in a
pudding dish and pour over them a custard
made of two eggs and one quart of milk, set
it in the oven and bake about half an hour,
or until the custard is cooked Place an
old plate on the top of the pudding to keep
it uLder the custard while baking.


SUGAR GINGERBREAD-One cup of sugar.
one cup of sour milk, a piece of butter half
the size of hens egg, one scant teaspoon
full of saleratus, and -four enough to make it
as stiff as molasses gingerbread Flavor
with lemon or nutmeg.


ONE EGG CAKE.-One egg, one cup of
ful of saleratus, pinch of salt, and flour
enough to make as stiff as pound cake
Flavor with lemon.


JENNIE's CAKE.-One cup of sugar, two
eggs, one half cup of butter, one cup of sour
milk one-half teaspoOnful of cream of tartar
one teaspoonful Of saleratus, and two cups
of -four. Beat the ingredients well toeeth-
er, and bake in moderate oven A cup of
raisins improves it. Use any kind of fla
voring preferred.


RYE DROP OAKEs-One cup of sour
cream, three cups of sour milk or butter
milk one-half cup of sugar or molasses, two
teaspoonfuls saleratus. Mix stiff enough
for the spoon to stand erect A little salt
improves it. ...-


How TO DRESS WELL-Persons who
have read Thackeray's Vanity Fair" will
remember the philosophic chapter which
treats of how people live on nothing year,
and live well, too. We do not, however re-
member that the following aid to the ambi
tious impecunious is there mentioned Had
it been IN vogue and perfectly respectable
at the time when that chapter was written.
undoubtedly it would have found conspic-
uous place init. A Londen paper contains
the following advertisement


Dress Coats Lent-B. lends the finest
clothes for operas, balls or weddings. New,
fashionable, aud premier quality from the
most eminent West End tailors, etc"


There is no confidence like that which
comes from the consciousness of being we'll
dressed. but how horribly it must gall the
feelings of the shabby-genteel gentleman to
be obliged to return from an evening party
and deposit the shell OF his responsibility