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Show JJ I Of interest to jadp 'Readers I THE DAWN. Have you soon the dawn, the Summer dawn, Swiftly risinjr from hor rosv pillows . When the- curtains of the night are back- i ward drawn I And a crismon glory lights the billows? Il'ierhor and ever ldehf-r J Jn Iter hands she iifioth up. j BjMmminpr over with rnhy lire, ; The Day like a eolden cup: ' j And IxTidinK' 1.V the river's brink, The sparkling; river, 1 Sh Kiwrn lime flowers thereof to drink. ' Who bless the giver. i i I hvi se(n the dawn, the Summer dawn, i Stepping from her purple cloud pavilion Pa-sinK softly over dewy mpad smd lawn, ' 5 iarland'd with azure and Vermillion. ! f Hipher and ever hipher j In the flaming ear she soars, 1 Borne on waves of amethyst tire Over plimmerinp seas and shores, , I And. stoopirvp from her ehariot red, : Glowinp and pleaminp. She smiies and wakens little Curly Head Out of his dreaming. ? - CROSS LEADS TO THE THRONE. j (Anthony Waite.) When I prayed to be free, from affliction A sweet voice within me spoke. 1 And it asked in measured accents ? "What would you in place of this yoke ; i Tliat linds you to your Savior, '.i That leads you to the cros.-i? . ' Ah: child, take heed lest your prayers . He fioarfi Xo your own soul's loss." And a sudden inist fell before me; I And all was dark and so drear. i That my soul was Idled with anguish. And my heart was rent with fear, j For I siw in the mist and the darkness i That my c ross was th one to In ar. It woul hrinHT me to my Saviour. f "With Him llis kingdom to share. I ;. And, now, "I am pray ins no Jonp.-r t For my cross to be lifted or lip'ht. Sut I k for God's love and His guid-' guid-' a nee, i And my heart overflows with delight, ' "W hen 1 know that my cross is e'er lead- ir.R i Me on and up to the throne, j And 1 thank Thee, my Cod and my Sav iour. :'l For the pathway Thy poodnws hath ' shown. - THE IRISH BOY. ? Trom the Irish People. Dubiin.) J The Irish boy to the war is pone In Kruper's ranks you'll fmd him, I A treeman's sword he hath pird-'d on .1 And a. Mauser's slunp be.hind him. f ,C)h. Kruper. dear." said the Irish boy, i "Thouirh" all the world betray thee. . These willing hands thy riphts shall guard t And this one fond heart shall praise : $ thee." Wliile the Irish boy is on thy shore I . He'll help to crush the stranper: '.i He'll sweep them hence for evermore, I And f r e thy land from dar.pcr. And then he'll pray tn3od above ! That his courape ne'.-r shall falter To puide him to the land he loves, I To Ireland o'er the water. . How light the heart of the Irish boy f From Kruper's land returning; ; His patriot hoirt is full of joy. f And for Irish freedom burning. No tyrant pold shall bribe his soul. Thouuh much he mav be neerinp. For his country's !lap is preen and pold I And freedom's call he's heeding. 1 BEATRICE FASHION LETTER. How to Give an Afternoon Tea, and "What to Wear, Be You Hostess or Guest. (Written specially for the Inter-Mountain Catholic.) Xew York, Feb. 20. The o o'clock la. j I think as I write ff seeing those voids in English in a French news-aper. news-aper. It was a rainy, sleety day in Paris, in January, that worst and darkest dark-est of all Paris months. The daily pa-I'crs, pa-I'crs, brought by a frowsy haired man, conveyed no cheer and litle intelli-i intelli-i gence. Languidly I picked them up and i glanced over the columns, too glomy to ; "translate." When, suddenly from out ! the pape, like a ray of sun on a cloudy day, appeared the words in 'italics, in plain, every-day English, "Five o'clock tea." 1 picked up the pape and kissed the words; then I laughed aloud with delight. It was like meeting a dear friend in a strange land. ? The French people have picked up as J many of our words as we have picked I up of theirs. You would be surprised J to know how they quote us and our i customs, too. 1 well remember reading i in a. Paris paper, in French, last Sep- , lember: "The first New York fashions for December will appear in these columns col-umns as .soon as they are published in New York." Truly we are progressing progress-ing when the Paris papers quote us. The five o'clock tea is not the crude thing it was. Though, for that "matter, it has not been crude for a long time.. Hut it has made such progress the last year that you now recognize it as a social function, not a haphazard one. To quote an American girl living in Paris Paris again "we have our set of friends; and though we cannot entertain en-tertain elaborately or lavishly, we give a 5 o'clock tea three days a week." Mrs. O. H. P. P.elmont, who is one j of the finest ladies in society, if you ; count the ability and the means to do j things in the right way, gave a very I pretty 5 o'clock tea just before she took her sudden and unexpected de-i de-i parture for London recently. Mrs. Belmont Bel-mont had invited a large company to ( her house to a reception, on Sunday evening. Suddenly, without the slightest slight-est warning, she recalled all invita-I invita-I tions, and instead, pave a verv nniet tea; next day she sailed for London. , At the tea it was whispered that she went to cheer her daughter, the duchess, whose ftusband, the Duke of i Marlborough, had suddenly volunteered volun-teered for the Transvaal. Be that as it may, and be the gloom deep as it was, it did not prevent the guests and the hostess, for that mat ter irom wearing some very pretty clothes. Mrs. John Jacob Astor wore a lovely pun in tobacco brown cloth. Her toque Mas of sable with the crown of fur. Around the edge were accordeon plait-inga plait-inga of pink chiffon. At one side stood a bow of pink velvet caught down by a buckle of steel. It was a very neat affair. Next day Mrs. Astor herself sailed for the other side to take her little invalid son to the Mediterranean to spend the winter. But that evening all were gay enough. Mrs. Cornelius Yanderbilt, Jr., who is out again, wore a very pretty costume of pale lavender satin faced cloth trimmed with the narrowest bands of black fur put on in irregular rows, curving upward in the black. The skirt had a box plait in. the buck and was fluite plain. The bodice was a basque, pointed in front and edged with the narrow row of black fur. It was quite old fashioned, this basque, or would have been but for the very elaborate yoke of paillettes of cut steel. Underneath Under-neath the paillettes was handsome lace upon which the steel shone like frozen rain drops in the snow. Very glistening are these gowr.s with their little brilliant bril-liant pieces suggesting armor and a coat of mail. The hostess herself wore a foulard. Not an expensive fabric for a lady who i boasts a cloth-of-gold at Sr0 per yard. I Yet the foulards hold their own very well. They are adapted to all stations, being always genteel and ladylike, nometimes even dressy. Mrs. Belmont's gown was a deep shade of blue with a Princess tunic falling over a skirt on the foot of which were deep flounces of the foulard. The bodice was trimmed with a lace arrangement which in modern parlance par-lance in called a Marie Antoinette fkhu. It was fully five yards long; and when off must have been an awkward awk-ward thing to handle. Made of the lightest, finent chiffon in a shade of pearl white, it was edged with a chiffon chif-fon ruching of white, tipped with pink and black velvet put on in the tiniest rows. The whole affair was brought around the shoulders, draping them well, and tying in front, below the bust. Here it was caught with a handsome hand-some diamond arrow. It fell from the arrow point to the floor. Quite an elegant ele-gant article to wear. But easily duplicated, dupli-cated, I should say, in cheaper and simpler materials. My seamstress, who calls herself a modiste, says that there are cheap grades of chiffon which are very serviceable. ser-viceable. They wear until they become be-come soiled, and no chiffon can be expected ex-pected to do more than that. This cheap grade, he says, differs from the other only in that it may be slightly stroaked or cloudy, where a coarser or darker weave interrupts the crystal whiteness of the better material. But this does not injure the ornamental qualities -of the thin goods which in its five years of rulership has had no rival. . The slight, delicate edge to be found upon the more expensive chiffon chif-fon ruffling can be placed upon the cheaper grades by running the ruffles through the sewing machine threaded j . . - EW BLACK TISSUES MADE UP OYER WHITE GOODS. with the coarsest colored silk the needle will carry; and a coarse needle will carry almost a cord. Black silk is becoming so fashionable. fashion-able. Nay, the word is badly chosen has become fashionable would be better. bet-ter. In the days when black silke were worn, my friend Mrs. William Astor, the loader of New York society, then, as now, told Mrs. Ward McAllister, who was then the "power behind the throne," that s"he numbered her black ailks. "Black silk No. 1," was the oldest old-est of the series; then came "Black silk No. 2." followed by "Black silk No. 3," and she sometimes got as high as "No. 9." The dresses were all made from one piece of silk, or from one grade. But they differed from each other in newness and in make and fashion and pattern and trimming. But, owing to the adaptability of the material, ma-terial, they looked so different that, as a whole wardrobe, they were eminently satisfactory. A black silk looks well upon anybody. For a slim person it is capable of treatment to produce shape, such as fulled fronts, epaulettes, yokes, vesta and panniers. For fleshier people it seems the best of all materials; and for embodiment there is no argument. Nothing but black 9hould be worn. A woman dressmaker of New York city who makes her living, not in making mak-ing gowns, but in designing the small things of the toilette, has been known to take one well made black silk and A RIBBON-TRIMMED BODICE. from it to achieve one dozen gowns. Her various successes cannot all be mentioned, but the greatest was ac- j eomplished with a black silk skirt trimmed around the foot with one deep flounce. The waist and overskirt were made together in a Princess tunic, long all around, and opening invisibly in the front. With many a clever pin and hook she arranged a velvet belt of amethyst color so that the waist and overskirt seemed separate. The belt was high in the back and very low and pointed in front. Then, with the aame velvet, she arranged a yoke, overlaid with lace. In the center of each hole of the lace she tacked a silver sequin. Over the sleeves yhe 6lipped chiffon sleeves of white, all shirred and neatly neat-ly finished; and at the shoulder she fastened rosettes x the amethyst velvet vel-vet to match the belt and yoke. The overdress was covered with a chiffon overdress of the nicest cut. with a ruffle of chiffon around it. The whole was not at all expensive and could be transferred to another gown at any time, leaving the black silk free for future experiments. The 'tea table, thes-e days, is very pretty. The fashionable New Year and birthday gift in Gotham is a starter for the tea table. If your friend has no 5 o'clock tea table, you start her out in life, as it were, by presenting her with a tea cloth. May be someone will will her a itable, or, in lieu of that a Cairo ftand which answers the purpose pur-pose well. Then some friend gives her a cup, another a teapot, a third a plate, and so the tablets made up of souvenirs. souven-irs. At the first tea the whole may not be complete, but so much the better. The English way of giving a 5 o'clock tea is the best. They have the right of it in many things over there and we are coming to see it, if the Boers are not. The hostess has her tea table always ready at 5; ready ! three days a week. You call and remove re-move your wrap if you desire, de-sire, or if it is oppressive. Then you chat and the tea j comes along as a matter of course. It ' is not the objective point of the call by any means, but the means to an end, the end being a social afternoon, a.nd the cup of toa helping it along. The hostess need not scald herself making the tea. It was really ludicrous last week to observe a poor little debutante with a tea ball. She had clasped the tea leaves in the silver thing and had wagged it through the boiling water in the cup. Then she had sugared it and drawn out the ball. But how was 3he to gat the leaves out to make a fresh cup. tA servant came to her rescue, bust I'noticed that the little -debutante was holding her linger for some time after that. Let the tea walk in, like the guest, ready to cheer you. Let the plate of cakes sit handy. Have all underneath the table on a tray; or on top, if you prefer. The top is the prettiest way after all. Lat the guest have some freedom in selection and, above all, ' do not make too much fuss pouring the tea. Don't wear a loose gown at a tea. The hostess dresses in a snug house gown which may be any afternoon dress. It could do for calling, even. Remember that a tea gown, so called, is a morning wrapper, never a gown to be worn at a 5 o'clock tea. Remember also that your guests may bring their husbands and brothers and sweethearts; sweet-hearts; and let your gown be modish and dignified. BEATRICE. TO BE HAPPY THOUGH MARRIED Mrs. "Williams Gives Some Good Advice Ad-vice to Young Married Women. Mrs. Jesse W.' Williams, who has been married and in love with her husband hus-band for six years,, and who has enjoyed en-joyed the wealth of his undivided love and attention, without the usual intervals in-tervals occurring in married courtships, declares she has solved the problem of "How to be happy though married." She is willing to give up her secret to a generation that needs it, if sufficient i f'tnds can be collected to found schools "for the education of women who would be wives." Mrs. Williams' proposition is not based upon theory. It is a compilation of facts and figures proved and reproved re-proved during years of experience as a wife and mother :and housekeeper. Mrs. Williams is ah earnest, cheerful little woman, who has passed success- ! fully through those material struggles which curdle the temperaments of most women. She has kept home on amounts varying from $5 a week upward, up-ward, and downward again to amounts so small she will not speak of them, for fear of the unbeliever. Yet she has solved the problem vyhich has wrecked ' and wasted so many lives, and is prepared pre-pared to impart to her sex the knowledge knowl-edge she has gained. Mrs. Williams believes that schools for the education Of housewives i,would wipe out every evil that menaces the institution of matrimony. "It is the ignorance of women," she declared, "that .makes the home fall short of what it-should be. When men and women enter the arts or professions profes-sions they go through a course of training train-ing to fit them for the new position; yet they enter, into the state of matrimony matri-mony wholly unqualified, untrained, unfit, and usually unwilling to conform to the new conditions when they learn what they are. These things men and ' women should learn before marriage. ' The unmarried period should be a sort : of preparatory school for the state to j come." Yesterday a reporter called upon Mrs. Williams and received a first lesson in the art of "How to be happy though married." "Marriage is. not a failure," she said, smiling wisely and sweetly. "Nothing is if we choose to make it otherwise, but marriage least of all; for there is always the other one to help make it a success. If these schools can be started start-ed I would appeal first to my own sex, because their influence in the home is greatest, and more can be accomplished through' them." "And what are the first things we must learn?" "These are a few," said Mrs. Williams, Wil-liams, counting off on her fingers. "First. That men are human beings, not angels. They are likely to err and must be forsiven. "Second. That the dollar is the standard of happiness as well as of finance, and you must learn to respect it for its full worth. "Third That the home is the unit which stands for matrimonial success; it should be made and regarded as the dearest place on earth, not the place to go to when all else is exhausted. X1 OUrtn. ouuu naiuie emu fcML.. sense are a combination never found in homes that are failures. "Fifth. Economy means wealth, not only in finances, but happiness and contentment. con-tentment. "And, lastly. System is-the keynote to it all." MRS. GEORGE M. PULLMAN. A Western Woman Whose Wealth, Business Ability and Philanthropy Philanthro-py Keep Her In the Public Eye. Much interest has recently centered in the widow of the late George M. Pullman, the palace car magnate, on account of the report that it was due principally to her management that the name of Pullman was not dropped in the colsolidation of the enterprise which her husband founded with another an-other world-famed palace car concern. For years it was rumored that the two companies would amalgamate if a decision could be reached by which the names of both firms could be maintained; main-tained; then the difficulty arose as to which company's narae should appear first shouTd a union be established. Each wanted precedence. Then it was I announced "by those in authority" ! that the consolidation would never eventuate because of the difficulty to agree upon this point. Be 'that as' it may, the union has been consummated, and the Pullman name is perpetuated, thanks to the efforts ef-forts of Mrs. Oeorge M. Pullman, if one can judge from hearsay. It is well known that Mrs. Pullman is one of the cleverest business women in the country, and though during her husband's lifetime she was willing to live in the shadow of his glory, manv of the successes which he attained were the result of plans which had been laid by Mrs. Pullman. HER MARRIAGE. George M. Pullman was scarcely more than comfortably situated when, in 1867, he was united in mariage to the beautiful daughter of J. Y, Sanger of Ottawa. 111. The fates smiled upon him, and his small savings grew into hundreds, and from hundreds into thousands, and from thousands into millions. Mrs. Pullman was always by his side, ready to counsel, and add to the family fam-ily fortune by careful management in the home. Unlike many women, Mrs. Pullman changed not as wealth increased, in-creased, and cared, litle for the pleasures pleas-ures which the world and society offer a woman of wealth and ambition. She preferred to remain at home with her husband and children, where the days were spent in study and the evenings in quiet amusements, until the business busi-ness interests were yielding money enough to allow them to travel. Mrs. Tullman is extremely fond of traveling and has been several times to Europe, where her daughters were partly educated. During Mr. Pullman's lifetime he always accompanied his wife and children in their travels. And often, for the tours through the United States, they would board their luxuri ously furnished cars at the east end of the lawn of the Pullman residence in Chicago and never leave them until they had traveled across the country and back. These cars are amonggt the handsomest handsom-est in the world and are patterned after af-ter the famous private cars of President Presi-dent Diaz of Mexico, also manufactured manufac-tured at Mr. Pullman's shops. They have all the conveniences of the home, such as drawing room, library, dining room, music room and kitchen, and are equipped with a complete corps of servants, who administer to the wants? of the family just as they do in the Chicago, New Jersey and Thousand Islands Is-lands homes. The Pullman residence in Chicago is one of the sights of the great western west-ern metropolis. It is a massive brown-stone brown-stone edifice situated on the northeast corner of Prairie avenue and Eightr eenth street, and is surrounded, with large gardens, shaded in spring and summer with tall trees that have been brought from all parts of the country. coun-try. The mansion has three imposing entrances en-trances one for pedestrians, another for carriages, and the third, above re-fered re-fered to, at the east end of the lawn, for the private cars of the Pullman family and their guests. Besides this magnificent palace, Mrs. Pullman owns a beautiful country residence at El-beron, El-beron, New Jersey, and "Caslte Rest," which occupies a picturesque spot on I one of the Thousand Islands group. Mrs. Pullman prefers? however, to I live in Chicago, for both of her daugh-i daugh-i ters are there, the eldest, Mrs. F. O. Lowden, wife of an eminent Chicago I lawyer, living only two doors from her. I The other daughter is Harriet, named i after her mother, and the wife of Francis Fran-cis J. Carolan, who is a well known business man of Chicago. These daughters daugh-ters are devoted to their mother, as she is to them, and there is no happier trio in the western city than Mrs. Pullman, Mrs. Lowden and Mrs. Carolan. Caro-lan. Mrs. Pullman also has two sons. George and Sanger, who are well known both in the east and in the west, and who are very popular among their friends. Time has dealt kindly with Mrs. Pullman, for although she is well past middle life she has a very youthful appearance ap-pearance and is so well preserved that her friends often remark jokingly that they "can not tell mother from daughters." daugh-ters." She does not entertain very often, of-ten, but whenever a social function is given at the Pullman mansion it is one that is long remembered in the world of fashion and one at which it is the dearest wish of "well established" matrons ma-trons to be a guest. Mrs. Pullman is very well known in eastern society, where her charming manner and liberality to philanthropic enterprises have made her a favorite. She is also collected with several charitable char-itable institutions in her own city, many of which are supported almost wholly by her. for one of the most beautiful charasteristics of this no less beautiful woman is her unselfishness and ever readiness to devote her time, as well as her means, to the happiness of others. SOME GIRLS. A disagreeable girl Annie Mosity. A fighting girl Hatie Magin. A sweet girl Carrie Mel. A pleasant girl Jennie Rossity. A sick girl Amelia Ration. A clear cas:e of girl L. Lucy Date. A geometrical girl Polly Gon. Not a Christian Hettie Rodoxy. A flower girl Rhoda Dendron. A musical girl Sara Nade. A profound girl Mettie Physics. A clinging girl Jessie Mine. A lively girl Annie Mation. An uncertain girl Eva Nescent. A sad girl Ella G. GIRLS MEN ADMIRE. They admire the girl who is her mother's moth-er's right hand in household matters, and who is not above taking an interest inter-est in the most trival things in connection connec-tion with house duties. They admire the girl who us a bright, entertaining, companion, and who has ever a kind word and pleasant iSmile for thoise around. They admire the girl who is always neatly gowned, no matter if in inexpensive materials, and who never dresses loudly or in questionable taste. Thev admire the girl who can adapt herself to any society, who never puts on affected airs, and who would scorn to do an action of which all i-he world might not know. They admire the girl who, in an mergency, can turn her hand to anytning, from cooking tne family dinner to retrimming an old hat. They admire the girl who is unselfish enough to give up some pleasure of her own to benefit another, and does MRS. GEORGE M. PULLMAN, BUSINESS WOMAN AND PHILANTHROPIST. not consider herself aggrieved at hav-1 hav-1 ing to do so. They admire the girl who can talk of more important things than dreFfi or the last new play, and who can listen intelligently when deeper subjects are introduced. SOME ONE TO CRY TO. Who has not noticed, with a good deal of amusement, as well as sympathy, sympa-thy, the haste made by a child that has hurt itself while playing, to get to some one before it. began to cry. It will often go with suppressed sobs and grieved face all-over the house or the garden until it finds one of the family; but not until then will it burst forth into its loud cry of woe. A atory is told of one little fellow who was eo long in finding his mother after pinching his finger in the door, that, in view of certain distractions encountered in the meanwhile, he was obliged to falter out: "Mother, wh what was I going to cry about?" We are all a good deal like children in our tendency to use the sympathy of ofhers to augment our own griefs and pains. How often we go and inflict the atory of our trials upon come friend, not to get relief and comfort from him, but to intensify our own sense of suffering and perhaps ill-treatment through the sympathy which he cannot readily refuse. It is an unwholesome un-wholesome and unreasonable practice, and we would be vastly better off if we did not indulge in it just as children would get over their griefs and hurts more quickly if they did not feel oblig- j ed to hunt up "somebody to cry to." There is a right way and a wrong way to use human sympathy. The right way is to make it helpful. The wrong way is to make it contribute to and increase our own sense of injury. AN OLD MAIDS' CLUB. A club of handsome young women which calls itself the "Old Maids' club," can only have one possible termination. Such an association was formed three or four yea::; ago in a town near Chicago, Chi-cago, when eight of the "brightest young society women" of the place banded themselves together to protect themselves against the wiles of designing de-signing young men, each of them having hav-ing more admirers than she knew how-to how-to manage. These girls pledged themselves them-selves to eternal celibacy and a hatred of all men from the matrimonial point of view, and as a matter of course, when the novelty of the thing had blown over, the president of the. club married the most eligible of her suitors. suit-ors. Then a second engagement was announced. an-nounced. This was too bad; and so when Belle Stebbins married, the remaining re-maining half dozen really did attend her, wedding in deepest black, and we . 111 WW A PRETTY NEW FABRIC-' 3F THE SEASON MADE UP in ONE Ol" THE LATEST STYLES. are told that the marriage was th most grotesque affair ever seen in th' town. But we suspect that before Ioni there will be an eager clamoring o candidates for admission, for nothins so turns the thoughts toward marring' as belonging to an association which like the Old Maids' club, outwardly do nounces it. UNKIND WORDS. lou nave no idea what a wound ar unkind word will sometime?' inflict. I! you were aware of the great sorrow s. often occasioned by a petulant answet or a snappish question, you would bt careful in the choice of your speech, There is no dart capable of inflicting a deeper wound to the heart than an unkind un-kind word, and all the rejientanee will not serve to erase the searing. Be careful, care-ful, therefore, and shun unkind vord3, always. PROPER SATHING. Every person, old or young, sick or well, ought to have a daily bath. Immediately Im-mediately upon arising in the morning ia the best time. A quart of water and a bowl there ought to be two is all that is necessary. The water need not be cold or hot from TO to 80 degrees is preferable: the young and the very vigorous vig-orous can safely indulge in much colder water. Let the bath be taken rapidly occupying from two to five minute?. Simply wet the entire person with water, wa-ter, dry this off with one towel, then rub the surfaee briskly with a dry. coarse towel. Then dress rapidly; then exercise until there is a full, free action ac-tion in the circulation and warmth. If there) ia need for the usia of soap, except locally and where there is a daily bath there is little need for it let that be used before retiring at night. TAMOUS WOMAN SHOT. Mrs. Bennett Stanford Has Killed Many Wild Animals. Mrs. J. Bennett Stanford, an English lady of good social standing at home, very delicate in appearance, prefers shooting big game to dances and dinners. din-ners. Mrs. Stanford began modestly by shooting South African wart hogs. oryxes, hartebeests and wild ostriches. In one night the shot two beautiful lopards, and a third the following , night. A .fiOO express that is to say. a huge ritie shooting a bullet half an inch thick and l:3ng in proportion weighs pomething. When at last Mrs. Stanford Stan-ford went rhinoceros hunting, crawling on hands- anl knees through miles of black jungle, a native bearer carried her gun. But when she approached the rhino, she herself fired the shot that went crashing through his ribs. Mrs. Stanford took back with her to England a baby rhinoceros, leopard cubs, wildcats, antelopes and other sweet pet?, some of which She gave to the London Zoo. Fancy Cake For Children's Parties. Take one pound of almonds, one pound of sugar and some orange flower water. Pound the almonds very fine, and sprinkle them with orange flower water; when they are perfectly smooth to the touch, put them in a small pan. with flour gifted through a silk seive; put the pan or. a slow fire and d Tithe Ti-the paste till it docs not stick to the fingers; move it we!! from the bottom to prevent its burning; then take it off and roll it into small round fillets, to make knots, rings, etc., and cut it into various shapes; make an icing of different dif-ferent colors, dip one side of them in it, and t-et them on wire gratings to drain. They may be varied by strewing strew-ing over them colored pastachios or colored col-ored almonds, according to fancy. A Liquid Whitener. A liquid preparation that will make the complexion about two shades whiter is made from the following formula: for-mula: One quart water (previously boiled and strained); alcohol, thirty drops; oxide of zinc, one ounce; bichloride bichlo-ride of mercury, three grains: glycerine, glycer-ine, twenty drops. Take four ounces of the water ami heat it to boiling; dissolve dis-solve the bichloride of mercury in this hot water and add the alcohol. Mix the zinc and glycerine together in a bowl; pour the larger portion of the quart of water in; stir, then add all the diluted bichloride of mercury and alcohol. Bottle and shake always before be-fore using. Apply the liquid with a small, soft, velvet , sponge. If faithfully faith-fully applied every night before retiring retir-ing the result- of the application will begin to show at the expiration of a fortnight. : To Remove Yellow Face Spots. Drinking quarts and quarts of cool, pure water every day is usually a speedy spee-dy cure for yeHow spots on the face. Buttermilk an excellent liver corrective correc-tive is also good. Rubbing on lemon juice or peroxide of cold cream is an effective local treatment. |