Ladies Column

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 145, 4 June 1892, Page 2

Ladies Column

\.% -ji By Huia. I keep his house, I wash, wring, brew, bake, scours dress meat, make the beds, and do all myself. — Shakespeakb. Some of the prettiest loye letters known as those addressed by Steele, the essayist, to his wife. Here is one of them :— " Madam, — It is the hardest thing in the world to be in love and yet attend to business. As for me, all who speak to me find me out, and I must look myself up, or other.people^wjtlL^Os^yeSiiißJ^wA gentleman asked me this morning, ' what news from Lisbon?' and L. anawerexL she is exquisitely handsomei i l^uoth'er/ desired to know whether T had been last. night to Hampton Court. I replied-.it 'will;' bet 6n Tn^af^Wme^Wfw^^SL, , Prrthee allow me at least- to 'kisi-Tour *% band before that day, that niy mind ! may be in some composure, O lovel &'thousand torments dwell about me ! Yet who would, like to five r tsee v f \ " Methioka I could write a* vofunni fa* you ; but: all the language on earth w^raljl^ fail in saying how much and with what disinterested passion. lam ever yours, Riuhard Steele." .^ „ r ,. ' One of the latest freaks of fashJon,3s| for young and silly gentlemen to'carry^ tiny watches in the handles of their canes^ and umbrellas. ; ; i xm a ; ■ Cookery. /" „: '. h;t"->^f} Potato Peat*.— Half a pound of pota^ ; ; toes, one desertspoonful of milk, blal^aa \ ouuceof butter, on^ egg, brrao r cmml)au% Boil the potatoes till' done? v Vufi' tfiem through a sieve, and mash them ; fcoll- r l the milk and butter together, wHileboftngstir in the potatoes; andtfta *tollj3 add the yolk of the egg well beaten ; turn [ on to a dish to get cold 5. tel^e vpieces.of potato form them into pears) dip them-in-p the white of the egg yell ,beaj»n,' rail them in bread crumbs, aridity inTOilinV fat for five minutes. : ' ! ' ; •'•'■ ri ■' v i a-'nT Apple Mould.— This w a me© sweet f6fr£ a party and makes a very-pretty;disn'.<>s Soak a small teaspoonful of gelafine^oAa desertspoonful of water, pare a couple ~ of good sized baking apples, eoreithem, cut them in quarters) : and put tneV 'witn. a little lemon rind liito/a gallipot^let 1 * this in a stew pan with boihng^ter.ana^ ; let the apples steam till -lift ioufe* the lemon rind and sweeten the appl4; dissolve the gelatine, beat it up/with; jbhe fruit, add a lump of. sugar and one or two drop 3of cochineal, turn J;he ; preparation into a damp mouldy and J turn out when stiff and cold* '. ? -| &?>mf% Ar I