THE CHRISTIAN SUN.
IN ESSENTIALS, UNITY;
IN NON-ESSENTIALS, LIBERTY;
IN ALL THINGS, CHARITY.
Volume XXXIII.
SUFFOLK, VA, FRIDAY JANUARY 23, 1880.
Number -A.
,Origiiml.
PROVIDENCE.
BY BEV. H. B. HAYES.
How happy I should be,
While here on earth I stay,
If I thy gracious hand might see,
To lead me on my way.
No evil should I fear,
Beneath Thy watch fuf'iye,
While I’m an object of Thy care,
And know that thou art nigh.
When on my bed at ni^ht,
I lay me down to rest,
While through the gloom till morning light,
Thou wilt in safety keep.
The covert of thy wing,
Is stretched out over me,
My graceful heart thy praise shall sing,
And ever thankful be.
When gathering storm9 arise,
And ponderous thunders roll,
AtfiTdark’ning clouds obscure the skies,
And fill with dread—the soul;
Then Thou dost whisper peace,
The winds Thy voice obey ;
The fury of the tempest cease,
And terror flee eway.
Though nature’s lovely face,
Be darkened for a while,
Yet in Thy providence 1 trace,
The hand that makes it smile.
0 guide^m^roving leet,
/Through life’s uneven way.
Until I walk the golden street,
And join the heavenly lhy.
—To be angry with a weak man is
a proof that you are not very strong
yonrself.
—If religious societies would em
ploy about twenty good listeners,
they would perhaps, dud the preach
ing improved quite as much as by a
change in the pastorate.— Oolden
Rule.
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
—No man or woman will have vi
tal piety who economizes with starv
ing rigor towards the church. We
have never known a single instance
where such persons did not get mor
ally flabby, careless, and callous, and
in Christian influence become gener
ally ricketty.—Presbyterian.
—A religion which is ever laid
aside for anything is not worth hav
ing; aud a religion which cannot be
carried into every department aud
employment and experience of life,
is only a form, aud has uo real lodg
meut in the heart. When a man
folds up his religion and puts it
away ns somethiug that he cannot
mingle with his daily occupations,
aud which he cannot reconcile with
his occasional enjoyments, he plainly
confesses either that his religion is
wrong, or else that his business and
his pleasures are wrong. It will pro
bably be found that both are wrong.
—Southern Presbyterian.
—The gospel is preached that men
may be made better, that is, when it
is preached with a proper under
standing of its office. The only rea
son of its preaching at all, indeed the
only reason for the gospel at all, for
that matter, is the fact that meu are
not good enough, but are capable of
being better. There is something
about man he ought not to have, de
ficieucies iu him that ought not to ex
ist, defects of life and character that
ought to be cured, weaknesses that
ought to be supplanted by strength,
moral perversities that ought to give
way to rectitude, vices that ought to
disappear in the presence of possible
virtues. Unless these things are
true, there is no special or general
call for the gospel, uo work for it to
do, no functions for it to perform.—
Pittsburg Christian Advocate.
—“What is the use of taking a re
llgious paper t—it’s matter is all in
the .Bible." »o argued a good old
Methodist lady last summer. True,
all the doctrinal lessons of a good re
ligious paper are in the Bible. If
they were not, the paper would be
mischievous. But what is the use of
bees!—their honey was all in the
flowers. W hat is the use of a far
mer t—the elements of the wheat and
corn were all in the air or ground.
What is the use of the loom, the
seamstress, or the tailor!—the cot*
ton or wool of the dress was all in the
boll or on the sheep’s back.—There is
nse in the bees and farmers, in mil
lers and weavers aud tailors, to con
vert the pollen and the elements of
the ground into honey and bread that
cun be eaten, or to change the raw
cotton or wool into well-flttfug gar
ments. This is just what the religi
ous newspaper does for the Bible.—
Christian Observer.
MONEY!
It is wonderful when we come to
think seriously of it to see how ea
gerly men seek to obtain money and
to what lengths they go in order to
possess it, when all know that it is a
terrible demoralizer of the human
heart aud the poison it daily infuses
in that organ lasts as long as life
does. The love of money is hardly
ever destroyed. The examples fur
nished iu the past of men who have
become famous off account of their
great wealth furnish abundant proof
of this fact and the love of it becomes
so fixed iu the mind and exerts such
a baleful influence over men, that
they resort to any and all means to
obtaiu it.
They do not stop at crimes the
most horrible and appalling : murder,
arson, theft, lying, fraud, deception,
betray al of confidence, betrayal of in
noceut blood, extortion, scandal, slan
der, all, all are resorted to aud perpe
trated, apparently, without any mi ft
givings of conscience.
By indulging in the desire to ob
tain it, the love or passion for it
seems to form itself into a mama or
intense desire so that ultimately it
gets as complete control over the man,
as the indulgence of any other vice or
passiou does. The love of liquor
gains not more completely the mas
tery of a man than does the love of
money. Why what is it that man
will not subordinate to it T He yields
his fondest hopes and dearest joys for
it. Home, wife, children, friends, all
are made subservient to it, aud the
purest, holiest and most sacred aspi
rations of the soul are cast off for it
Now there must be something rad
ically wrong in all this, for it is not in
accord with the teachings of the good
Book. You remember the young man
who approached our Lord and asked
Him what he must do in order to in
herit eternal life. He told him that
he must keep the divine law, &c.—
The young man said this he had done
from his youth up ; then the Saviour
told him to go aud sell what he had
and give to the poor. This was too
much lor him to do, poor fellow, aud
rather than do that he chose to lore
go the joys of heaven and eternal
blessings, so great was the love of
money in ms soui, iol ue uau irngv
possessions.
Money confined to its legitimate
uses is a good thing, because it is a
great convenience to man in the ordi
nary transactions of business life, but
the Almighty never intended that
mau should make a god of it and wor
ship it as many do. The Lord God is
a jealous God and will surely punish
all who thus regard it with most fear
ful chastisemeuts.
Our blessed Lord said how hardly
shall a rich mau enter the kingdom
of heaven 1 It is as easy for a camel
to go through the eye of a needle as
lor a rich man to enter the kingdom
ofiieaveu. Now we must know by
this that riches greatly hinder our
progress in the divine life, because
they take up so much of our precious
time that we ought to give to God in
good works. Man will give his most
unremitting attention to the accumu
lation of riches for six days in the
week and leave scarcely half of one
day for devotions to God.
Besides this, he becomes to love it
so ardently that he seems to lose all
sense of affection or taste for anything
else. His ear becomes deaf to the
calls of charity. He never feels an
other’s woe ; particularly if it costs
him a cent. He takes no pleasure or
pride in the aspirations of the young
or ambitious. He extends not the
assisting hand to suffering innocence
and virtue, through fear it may cost
him somethingt^'His heart becomes
as cold as an iceburg and his soul
dwarfs down to almost nonentity, so
that there is no room left in it for the
love of God or mau and in this way
makes it so hard a matter for such a
man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Clearly it is taught that the love of
mouey is not tlio ruling passion in
heaveu, and the man who has given
his best affections to money here,
would not feel at home there aud I
am persuaded he would not be happy
provided he could get there.
If a man has a talent for making
money he should use that talent in
that way, for he cau do a great deal
of good in the world with his money,
provided he uses it for the good of
man and the glory of (it>d our heaven
ly Father who so freely gives us all
things, aud that it is man’s duty to so
use it, there cannot be a shadow ol
doubt.
Men do not so use it however, at
least a large majority of them do uot,
aud here comes in the danger of hav
ing riches at all. It looks unreason
able, and is sinful doubtless, that any
uiau who has riches should bo con
tent to keep it hoarded aud locked up
for the sake of knowing that he has
it, when there is so much suffering in
the world all around him. The suf
fering with cold, hunger and disease
of the unfortunate widow and her lit
tle ones who are often so hardls- driv
en by poverty and want, that her
boys whom she loves so dearly are
forced into terrible crimes, and her
tender little girls inte still worse sin
which the rich man might so easily
prevent by giving help to these suf
fering ones which he could so nobly
spare from his large possessions.
It does seem to me that the sweet
recollections of such charity and such
use of our money, would be the dear
est and most consoling reflectious and
memories that alter years could af
ford. I don’t think that 1 ever heaid
of any man’s regretting afterwards,
any charity he had done, but on the
contrary it afforded him much pleas
ure to think of it. Then does it not
seem unreasonable for men to refuse
to give when tliere is so much pleas
rs^jato be derived from giviug !
Man might do much good by using
bis means for the propagation of good
works—the different enterprises of
the church, having for their end the
good of man and the glory of God.—
For instance the mission »>ork is a
great and commendable enterprise
when properly fostered and pressed
forward, but rnouey is indispeusibly
necessary for it to accomplish the
great object had in view. Von eau
uot work it to much advantage unless
money is used, notwithstanding you
may have great talent and energy /or
such work.
So it is with the Bible work, the
dissemination among the people of
the world the greatest aud besj; of all
books, the precious word of God.—
Cau oue believe that iu all the States
of this enlightened country there are
many people living who have never
seen the Bible and know ijotbiug of
the precious truths it contain, yet it
is a fact nevertheless. Now the Bible
cannot be printed and scattered over
tliis and othgr countries and carried
to the homes of the destitute, starv
ing, perishing poor who are uuable to
buy it, unless money is used for that
purpose. All know this and yet so
many satisfy themselves with the
thought that, they cannot do so now,
but defer, Felix like, for a more con
venient season, which never comes.
The celebrated A. T. Stewart it seems
had promised himself to found aud
establish a large aud extensive chari
ty hospital for the good of his fellow
creatures, but kept deferring it so
long that the convenient season never
came aud he died without.doing this
great charity which would have im
mortalized his name and handed it
down to the latest posterity. And
better than this, had he done so, he
doubtless would have had much
pleasure iu it while living, aud after
ward have secured that crown iu glo
ry that fadeth not away.
Procrastination is a fearful evil
and the great enemy of all good eu
terprises, as one of the great works
of the church the Sunday-school en
cerpnse must oe sustameu auu car
ried forward as the great nursery of
the church. Yet it cannot be done
without money, and so with the Tem
perance cause. Intemperance is the
greatest enemy that the church, that
society, good order, the state aud
every other good work has on earth
to contend with. It is a fearful evil
in our land and no man can tell who
will be its next victim. Come he must
fron)‘ some dear fireside, but where
from I who will furnish him I what
mother or father is ready with the
victim ? There is a great work for
the friends of Temperance to perform,
yet it can’t be done without money.
So with the preaching of the gospel
of Christ, that blessed cause must
have money also, for it cannot be
sustained and successfully prosecu
ted without it. How often, Cod only
knows, has the poor faithful Herald
of the good tidiugs of peace had to
eke out a miserable existence on
account of the poor pay he gets. 01
teu going home from a long ride,
through cold aud hard weather, with
out one ceukiu his pocket to buy the
plainest necessaiies for his suffering
wife iuid children. Cod have mercy
on and pity the people who withhold
their means and treat the patient
servant of Cod in this way,aud teach
them to do much better in the future.
0 F. W. T.
Live fer something. Do good, and
leave behiud you a monument of vir
tue that the storm of time can never
destroy. Write your name in kind
ness, love, aud mercy on the hearts of
thousands you come in contact with
year by year; you will never be for
gotteu. No, your name, your deeds,
will be as legible ou the hearts you
leave behind as the stars of heaven.
—Chalmers.
\
THE PREDICTED FATE OF THE EARTH.
The Apostle Peter, in his second
epistle, announced the approach of
the time when “the heavens shall
pass away with a great noise, and
the elements shall melt with fervent
heat; the earth, also, aud the works
that are therein shall be burnt up.”
What has modern sciences to say to
the possibility of a catastrophe such
as that shadowed forth lu a compar
atively unscientific age, eighteen cen
turies ago ! Mr. K. A. Proctor, wn
ting in his latest volume, “The Flow
ers of the Sky,” remarks :
“It is no longer a mere fancy that
each star is a sun—science has made
this an assured fact, which no astron
omer thinks of doubtiug. We know
fbat in certain general respects each
star resembles our sun. liach js
glowing like our sun with an intense
heat. We know that iu each star
processes resembling in violence
those taking place in our own sun
must be continually in progress, and
that such processes must be accom
panied by a noise and tumult, com
pared with which all the forms of
uproar known upon our earth are as
absolute silence. The crash of the
thunderbolt, the bellowing of the
volcano, the awful groaning of the
earthquake, the roar of the hurricane
the reverberating peals of loudest
thunder, any of these, or all com
bined, are as nothing compared with
the tumult raging over every square
mile, every square yard, of the sur
face of each one among the stars.”
lie proceeds to describe, with con
siderable circumstantiality, two ap
pearances witnessed iu the heavens
within the last few years—iu 1SCG,
when the tenth magnitude star (that
is, four magnitudes below the lowest
limit of the naked eye vision), in the
coustellation of the Northern Orowu,
suddenly shown as a second magni
tude star, afterward rapidly dirniu
ishing in lustre ; and in 187(1, wheu
a uew star became visible iu the con
stellation Cygnus, subsequently fa
ding again so as to be only percepti
ble by means of a telescope. After
noting the conclusion deduced from
the application of the most improved
instruments to these observations,
Mr. Proctor, whose authority is sec
ond to none among astrouomers, re
marks :
“A change in our own sun, such as
affected the star iu Cygnus, or that
other star in the Northern Crown,
w'onld' unquestionably destroy every
living creature on the face of this
earth; nor could any even escape
which may exist on the other planets
of the solar system. The star in the
Northern Crown shone out with more
than eight hundred times its former
lustre, according as we take the high
est possible estimate of its bright
ness before the catastrophe, or consi
der that it may have been very much
brighter. Now, if our sun were to in
crease tenfold in brightness, all the
higher forms of animal life, and near
ly all vegetable life, would inevitably
be destroyed on this earth. A few
stubborn animalcules might survive,
and, possioiy, a lew 01 tue lowest
forms of vegetation, but naught else.
If the sun increased a hundred-fold in
lustre, its heat would doubtless steri
lize the whole earth. The same would
happen in other planets. Science
knows nothing of spontaneous gener
ation, and believers in revelation re
ject the doctrine. Science knows
nothing of the creation of living
forms, but believers in revelation ac
cept the doctrine. Certain it is that
if our sun ever undergoes the bap
tism of fire which has affected some
few among Ins brother suus, one or
other of these processes (if creation
can be called fit process) must come
into operation, or else our earth and
her companion worlds would forever
after remain devoid of life.-’—Sunday
Magazine.
Tue “Blues.”—Cheerfulness and
occupations are closely allied. Idle
men are very rarely happy. How
should they be T The brain and mus
cles were made for actiou, and neith
er can be healthy without vigorous
exercise. Into the lazy brain crawl
spider-like faucies, filling it with
cobwebs that(shut out the light and
make it a-fit abode for “loathed mel
ancholy.” Invite the stout hand
maiden’s brisk and busy thought into
the iutellectual chambers, and she
will soon*brush away such unwhole
some tenants. Blessed be work,
whether it be of the head or hand, or
both 1
What a blessed thing is sunshine !
How it lightens and brightens every
thing on which it falls 1
FINDING "GIRL” IN THE BIBLE.
An English town missionary, a
short time ago, related a remarkable
incident. There was a lodging honse 1
in his district which he had long de
sired to enter, bat he was deterred
from so doing by his friends, who !
feared that his life would be thereby j
endangered. He became at leugth
so uneasy that be determined to risk
all consequences and try to gain ad
mission. So one day he gave a some
what timid knock at the door, in res
ponce to which a coarse voice roared
out:
“Who’s there t” and at the same
moment a vicious-looking woman
opened the door and ordered the man
of God away.
“Let him coma in and see who he
is; aud what he wants,” growled out
the same voice.
The missionary walked in, and bow
ing politely to the rough-looking man
whom he had just beard speak, said:
“I have been visitiug most of the
houses in the neighborhood to read
with and talk to the people about
good things. I have passed your
door as long as I feel I ought, for I
wish also to talk with you and your
lodgers.”
“Are you what is called a town
missionary 1”
“I am, sir,” was the reply.
“Well, then,” said the fierce look
ing man, “sit down aud hear what I
am going to say. I will ask you a
question out of the Bible. If you
answer me right you may call at this
house and read and pray with us and
our lodgers as often as you like ; tut
if you do uot answer me right we will
tear your clothes off your back aud
tumble you neck and heels into the
street. Kow, what do you say to
that, for I am a man of my word !”
The missionary was perplexed, but
at length quietly said :
“I will take you.”
“Well, then,” said the man, “here
goes, is tne word “girl” m any part
of the Bible J If so where can it be
found aud how ofteu I That is my
question.”
“Well, sir, the word girl is in the
Bible, but only once, and may be
found in the words of the Prophet
Joel iii: 3. The words are: ‘And
sold the gin for wine, that they might
drink.’”
“Well,” replied the man, “lam
dead beat; I durst to have bet five
pouuds you could not have told.”
“And I could not have told yester
day” said the visitor. “For several
days I have beeu praying that the
Lord would open me a way into this
house, aud this very morning, when
reading the Scriptures in my family,
I was surprised to find the word “girl,’>
aud got the concordance to see if it
occurred again, and found it did not.
And now, sir, I believe that God did
know and does know what will come
to pass, and surely His hand is in
this for my protection and your
good.”
The whole of the inmates were
greatly surprised aud the incident
has been overruled to the conversion
of the man, his wife and two of the
lodgers.
NO TIME FOR ANYTHING.
The great difficulty in this county
is, that we have no time for anything.
The very walk of au American shows
that he is in a hurry. Ail English
man buttons his coat and goes to bus
iness as deliberately as he goes to
church. An American business man
flies after the car, straggling with
his coat sleeves as he runs, plunges in
headforemost, and plunges out at the
other end without regard to his neck.
Chief among our accidents stand
those which occur because people
jump upon dying trains or departing
boats. To wait teu minutes is some
thing not to be thought ol.—Dinner
is hoi emeu, ii is an ilium cu
and when one comes to tbe desert, he
finds the.fruit was picked before it
was ripe. Everything is harried
through, from the building of a house
to the curing of a ham. The women
who work on sewing-machines stop
before they come to the fend of the
seam. The dressmaker sends home
your dress with the basting-threads
in it, and no loops to hang it up by.
There is none of the slow, sure com
pleteness of the Old World about
anything, and even fortunes are gen
erally made in a hurry and lost in
the same way. If any man you kuow
is getting rich by the slow and pa
tient process of saving, be sure he
was not born on this contineut. Yet
people live as loug hero as anywhere
else, and the days are the same
length. Why is it that we have no
time for anything.
A word of kindness is seldom spo
ken in vain while witty sayings are
as really lost as pearls slipping from
a broken string.
Jrarrn ani
LARGE FARMS.
Most people ate attracted by the
show of a great business, and the de
sire to extend operations is very
general. But a man who can sue
cessfully manage 100 acres, may not
be able to run a 600 or 1,000 acre
farm, and many men who can profi
tably work a farm by their own labor
fail when they try to do so by hired
help. To so manage a number of
working men that every hour’s work
of each shall be made to concentrate
upon one desire object, requires much
ability. For want of this, many who
have become “well oft” on a small
farm, have failed on a large one
where they have had to employ help.
A man may be worthily ambitious of
success in business, but before he
leaves-a small farm, for one much
larger, he should be satisfied of his
ability to manage it. It is not a new
Iihjijjg for a man to be land poor, even
though the laud itself is of good qual
ity. As with extensive and over
grown nations, large farms might
sometimes be of more value to all
concerned if they were divided np
aud each part put under or entirely
separate management.
How to Keep Boys on the
Farm.—Farming, when well conduc
ted, is a good and pleasant business.
If our sons and daughters do not like
it, there is almost always some good
reason for their dislike. If you want
to make your son like his business,
place him in responsible places, trust
him, consult him about the work he
has to do." Bet him do a part «f the
thinking. Give him nearly the sole
care aud responsibility of something
on the farm,—the fowls, the pigs,
some of the stock, some of the crops,
or a garden or part of it. Suppose
he does not do everything just as you
would advise him. It is much better
that he should fail while he is yet
young and has time to learn under
yohr trainiug, theu not to try or fail
till he gets into business for himself.
By treating children in this way, they
will take more interest in their work
and be much more likely to succeed
when they start for themselves. JJo
not make slaves of your children.
Let farming be conducted on thor
ough business principles, as manu
facturing and commerce are and ever
have been, aud it will become more
attractive both to boys aud men.
Variety of Food. —It is a well
established fact, that a single kind of
food is not enough for the best
growth, health and comfort of ani
mals. Like ourselves, the stock
which we keep, does relish a change
of diet—thrives better with a change
of pasture so to- speak—and gives
fuller returns for the trouble of pro
viding the variety of foods. Coarse
fodder should be mixed with that
which is of a fiuer nature ; and the
highly nitrogenous fed with substau
ces weak in nitrogen. Some farmers
will feed their sheep corn one morn
ing, aud barley or oats the next, and
thus keep up a continual surprise,
highteued by a lick of salt uow aud
then. It is the same love of change,
which makes the colt, cow, aud even
the oldest horse feel glad when turn
ed into a new field.—American 'Agri
culturist.
Buying Tools.—The winter is tho
time to buy tools. Every farmer
should, at, this season of the year, de
I tormine what implements he will
i ueed for the next year, and make ar
rangements for procuring them. If
a mowing machine is to be bought,
I let him take time by the forelock,
j and look into the merits of each kind
j of these machines, and buy intelli
I gently; do not wait until the grass
is ready to cut, and rush aud buy the
[ one nearest at hand. By sending to
j the various manufacturers, circulars
! with full directions and illustrations
| can be obtained, together with prices
; etc. If a plow is needed, do all the
: work of selecting it, before the busy
| seasou is at hand, that It may not be
| “on the way,” just when the best
| week for plowing is passing. lu the
| peace of winter, prepare for summer
I war.
To Take out Bruises in Fueni
! tuee.—Wet the bruised .place well
j with warm water, theu take some
browu paper, five or six times dotib
j led aud well soaked in water ; lay it
|on the place; apply ou that a hot
| fiat irou till the moisture is evapora
ted ; aud If the bruise is uot gone,
repeat the application uutil the bruise
i is raised level with the surface.
_i
Clean a brass kettle before using
I it for cooking with salt and vinegar.
SELECTED RECEIPTS.
Compost Ueaps.—If there is not
sufficient rain to keep these moist,
water should be supplied, even if it
has to be hauled and poured on them.
Decomposition is arrested when the
heap becomes dry. A few barrels of
water from the well will soon start
up heat and decomposition in a dry
pile of compost.
Crackers and Cream —Split six
Boston crackers, plat*e them in a soup
plate and pour boiling water over
them. As soon as they are soltdraw
off all the water and sprinkle lightly
with salt; then pour over them nice
sweet cream. This is speciully liked
by little children who are not feeling
well, and usually relished by grown
people, too.
Doughnuts.—One cup of soft
yeast, one cup of warm sweet milk,
one cup of shortening—hull' butter
and half lard, one cup of sugar, two
well beaten eggs, one-half teaspoou
i ful of salt: flavor with nutmeg, all
spice or cinnamon. Knead all to
gether, set in a warm place at night;
in the morning, if lighr, knead again;
roll about two thirds of an inch thick;
cut out in cakes a little larger than a
silver dollar, let them lise, then fry in
lard and roll in pulverized sugar.
Lumps in Starch and Gravy.—
How true it is that, if we observeand
remember, we can learn something of
every one we meet, A few days ago
1 learned from the poorest house
keeper I know something new to me,
that salt added to the flour before the
water, on stirring paste for starch or
gravy, would prevent the flour from
forming in lumps. Of course, I used
to salt both gravy and starch, but I
never observed the good results of
adding the salt first.
Sew Way to Cook Chicken.—
j Cut the chicken lip, put it in a pan
| and cover it over with water ; let it
j stew as usual, and when done make a
! thickening of cream and flour, adding
] a piece of butter and pepper and salt;
| have made and bake a pair of short
j cakes, made as for piecrust, but roll
I tbin and cut.iu small squares. This
! is much better than chicken pie and
j mote simple to make. The crusts
| should he laid • on a dish aud the
I chicken gravy poured over while both
I are hot.
| Management of Manure.—The
barn-yard is the field for w inter work.
Much may be done here by skillful
management. Manure, as long as it
is frozen, remains unchanged, and
the preparation of ihe manure in the
best manner for use iu the spnpg—
i makes no progress. Slake a central
! heap in the yard, and by means of a
f#w planks and a wheelbarrow move
the manure from the stable each day
to this heap. If the heap is built up
square, and made 4 feet high, it will
keep warm in the coldest weather,
and while warm it will ferment and
rot.
Indian Light B r s c u i t.—One
quart of sifted Indian meal, a pint of
sifted wheat flour, a very small teas
poouful of salt, three pints of milk,
fair eggs. Butter a sufficient liiim
ber of cups or small, deep tins; near
ly fill them with the batter. Set them
immediately iuto a hot oven and
bake them quickly. Turn them out
j of the cups, send them warm to the
table, pull them open aud eat with
j butter. They will puff up finely if,
| at the last, you stir in a level teas
I.poouful of soda, melted in a little
I warm water.—
I f i
j- Ink on the Carpet.—Ink freshly
spilled upon the carpet should at
once be taken up with soft paper or a
1 slightly damp sponge, oreven adamp
| cloth, care being exorcised not to
| spread the spot. After all is taken
j up that can be, wet the sponge—af
ter first washing it cleau—iu warm
| water, and thoroughly scrub the spot
i on the carpet. When no more can
be washed out, wet the spot with a
j weak solution of Oxalic Acid, and,
i after a few moments wash off with
: cold water, and finally sponge with a
weak Ammonia Water, to neutralize
I any of the acid that may remain in
i the carpet.
Snow Pudding.—Soak half a box
of Gelatiue in half a cup of cold wa
ter half an hour. Then poiir on half
a pint of boiling water; add 2 cups
sugar and the juice of 1 lemon; when
the mixture is cold, add the whites of
3 eggs, and beat all together l hour.
Theu make a custard ot 1 pint milk,
the yolks of 3 eggs, 2J tablespoons
of sugar ; set on ice until cold; when
wanted for the table, flavor the cus
tard with lemon,, and pour over the
moulded pudding. I beat one hour
or until it is done, which is shown by
its piling up like foam. This pod
ding is a very beautiful dish, aud one
that I make when I wish something
particularly nice.