The Household. ADVICE TO OUR CORRESPONDENTS STAGE-STRUCK DAMSELS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1049, 15 April 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)

The Household.

ADVICE TO OUR CORRESPONDENTS

STAGE-STRUCK DAMSELS.

_ Mix alitt'o carbonate of soda.with tho water in which flowers aro immersed, "and it will preserve them for a fortnight. Common saltpetre is also a very good preservative, : ' ; Flies on Gilt •■ FRAMBS.-Aftev house cleaning this seaosn, says a lady, I applied onion water to all of my picture frames. .This is,.l believe, a sura preventative against flics injuring them. Boil three onions in, a.pint of water; strain and, use when cold. It in no way harms the gilding, • Fisil PuDDiNG.-Chop fine any fi3h already cooked as much as will throe parts fill a pudding liasin. Stow it for a time with butter and pepper. Then take a French roll, or the sains quantity of stale bread which has been soaked iu milk for an hour,' and beat it up well with tho fish with some choppedglierkins and mushrooms, and a couple of eggs, .Beat up well, put it iu tho oven, or boil, and serve with anchovy sauce.,;,: . ; Ginger ALE.-Gingor, three ounces; cream of tnrtav, three ounces; • brown sugar,, three pounds'; rind and juice of four lemons; boiling water, four quarts, Let all the ingredients mix well together, stir it well while billing and cover it till cooled to. blnod heat. Add threo table-spoonsftuYofbnlnv if summer, four and n halfif winter. Stir well again and let it lie till next bay;, Bottlo and cork securely. May bo used in four or five days, or six days'in winter. : Artichokes;— Parboil the artichokes for ten minutes in water, with vinegar or lemonjuice nnd salt, to mste\. Take them out, cutting off all the leaves and removing the" choke," trim them neatly in the shape of diminutive patty' pans. Lay them in a saucepan with plain white • stock/ and'lot them simmer gently till done. Drain them on a cloth, Arrange them* on their dish, and. pour over them somo white sauce, made as follows: —Mix in a saucepan one ounce and a half of butter, and a tablespoonful of flour, ; stir in half a tumblerful of white stock orevon hot', water, add pepper, and salt to taste, then stir in off the fire yobs of two eggs, boaten up with the juice of a lorhon and strained.

; Nover write with pen or ink, : It is altogether tjoo plain, tind doesn't keep the mind of the editors and printers closely onough to thoir work. If you are compelled to uso ink, never use that vulgarity knownns the blotting-pad. If you drop a blot of ink on tho paper, lick it off. The intelligent compositor loves nothing so doarly as to read through tlis smoar this will raalto across twenty orthirty words,'Wo havo'seon him' hang over such a piece of copy half-an hour, swearing ljke ii pirate all tho time.

' Don't punctuate. :We prefer to punctuate all copy sent to us. And don't uso capitals. Then wo can punctuate and capitalisoto suit ourselves, and your articlo, when you see it in print, will astonish, even if it does not please you. ' Don't try to write, too plainly. It is a sign of plebeian origin, Poor writing is an indication of genius.' It is about the only indication of genius that a great many men posses?. Avoid all painstaking with proper names. We know the full names of overy man, woman; and child in Australia, and the merest hint at the names is sufficient. For instance, if you writo a character something like a drunken figure ''B," and then draw a wavy line, and then the letter Mand another waring line, we shall know .at once that you mean Samuol Morrison, even though you may,think you meansomothingelso. It is a great mistake,to write proper names plainly.. Always write on both sides of tho paper, and whon you have filled both sides of every pago, trail a line up and down overy pago, and back to tho top of the first page, closing, your article byiwriting the signature just above the date. We love,to, get hold of articles written in this style! and how we should love to get hold of tho man, who sends them I

Lay your paper on the ground when you write; the rougher the ground tho better, When your article is completed, crunch your paper in yourpockot, and carry it two or tlirco days before sanding it in, This rubs'off Hie superfluous pencil'marks, and makes it lighter to handlo. ■■-.

If you can think of it, lose one page out ol the middle of your letter. Wc can easily supply what is missing, as wo have nothing else to do.

[ A young man getting up Into says he hasn't as I much spirits as he hadWoro he went to bed. A young goatleman, who is very. particular, about the getting up of his linen, wrote a note to his laundress, amlat the sanio time Wit one to the' object of his' affections. Unfurtiiiiatoly : ho put tho wrong address on the envelopes arid posted them. The laundress was puzzled butnot the least offended; but when tho :young. lady read, "If you rumple up my shirt bosoms and drag tho button off tho collar any ; more, as you did.the last time, I shall have to go somewhere else," she cried all the evening, and declared she would never speak to him again,

MIXED. %'pillar of the church, to be of any service, sbould, Jiko other pillars, Imvo capital. _ - A St Louis physician has an abiding,faitli-itt whiakyjcbil-llvor oil and warm clothing as a sme'cure for consumption. _ , " Our women marry early, and their husbands live long and'.'dio hard,"■ writes an-Indiana .trustee to.the. Bureau of Statistics." ~.,.- , A hint to church members;—lf the minister; lias'had; cliildron,'inako. his, Christmas islippora;.. double-soled, ■'.-.■ , ■ <-|< Syriopsiwd'opinion''by the 'Courts"These ; defrudauts.are dismissed • TII6 Cotirt finds tliby stolen Amount—ouough to entitle them to ;, i respect.. Call the next ense." .■ ■; • '.V .:•;•• ■'•';■ A fo>g weighing fifty pound* has b?on killod, ■ near New, Orleans, -Tins is .supposed .to liavo . boon the original frag from which Mark Twain, ;; tookliisjumpliigstory", , . : .: The Reviy. f,: Benedict advertises that he is ~

'.' an.ovangoiistsuccessful in rival nSbotings arid' Gospel tout work," find is."opeii for engage-' ments on farms within the reach of any church anxious for-the salvation of souls." " '

: Inferential l : " Yes," exclaimed "ydiialways find me with a psn in my hand. -I!ma regular p&nholder, my boy.". " Lot's, sop," said Fozp tmisiugly, "a penlieltlor is usually a stick,: isn't it ' i In tbo pprfornianco of Patime (it the Standard, Theatro,, tfew York, the 'following jorso is. introduced inio 'the Duott .by Bunthoi'ne and Gfosvonor: ;; ' ; A Nowark cashier young man, :. ' And tbe cashm't here young man; > . m.:. What has become of it? Nugent ff')t somo of it? Where is tlio rest, young man? •

; A young lady who has an objection to the revision of tho Now Testament, writes,to. the Lon-: don':.7y«fft to say that tho phrase "purple and fine linen "conveys no idoa of luxury, to her mind, and she suggests, as an improvement, ', '[sealskin and black volvot." : "As you grow iu your art," said Gounod to'a ' young; poet, " you will judge masters bt • the past ■ as I now judgo the groat musicians of formers times. Atyour ago I used tosay' I;' at twenty-" nvc.lsaid.'landMo'zart; 1 at forty, 'Mozart' and I.' Now: I 1 say' Mozart." 1 Delightful, arraugcraoat: "No," said the charming actress to lior, devoted lover,, "No,, Charlie, I won't, marry you, but you can, have tho privilege of paying for all my little suppers ami carriages'aftoi' the thoatro, arid you'll be ouvieilby all tlio boys. That ought-to satisfy you'.'"' '•■■■■■'■-- ■' ■■■■ In' the Seventoeiith contury, one Captain Stow, •• of Boston, for abusing a magistrate by 'Calling him a'jiis'tass, washuod £IOO and prohibited, coming within the patent without the Governor's h»:o, upon pain of, doath. in the Nineteenth! century, the Chief Magistrate of New York is : called a liar.and (i sneak, and the offender goos "scott frqo. ; flow we liave improved .upon' our ancestors, ''"'• '.'•.'■•''

: They teach ? .exalted theology upamong.tho Greeu Mountains. A Vermout clergyman makes thofuture'bf good Christians clear by 1 saying: " Aftercrossing the mystic river we shall go on from the man to, the angel, from tho aneel to the archangcl;jl'rdm tlio archangel to tho. celestial, from tlio ..celestial ,to. the divino, and then, gathering the stats iu: clusters about our hoads, dream out tho endless dream of eternity.'' • : /

Whori tlio bsseo of Dniry-lano advertised for' 150 young ami good-looking foiuales the otbor day, his theatre was invaded by an army of ovor a 1000. persons, the majority of whom came under the description given in tlio advertisement, _ But \yo have heard it whispered that the vast majority had nothing save their natural gifts to .recommend tliem. The result'of this was that, after the sieging powers of a number were tested, tlio management had to make a certain seloctibn for appearauco; and then to seek for a satisfactory chorus under oilier conditions, Much comment ; has naturally followed the'fact of so many young; and pretty girls::being anxious to appear in- ■ subordinato.positions. in a pantonine; annatton? v tion has been'called to tho higher remuneration ,• and much: greater comfort offered by ; domestic , sbrvico. Tliis.'is undoubtedly truo, and.it,has • been insisted on again and hunin, with, however, very little effect, on account of the'unhappy prejudice which oxists'against honest,'homely work. While- tho 1000 young fenialcs were strangling in Drury-lauc for a hundred places on ; tlio stage, any number of good homos wore opon' to them, if only; ttioy would put their prido and gentility in . their pockets. Tlio London papers contain hundreds of advertisements for servants of all kinds, and we have iust received an official , announcement that tho demand fur female do- • inestic servants is so groat in Canada that the Government offer assisted passages, aud a committee of ladies lias beon formed to receive immigrants, Wecomraend tlioso facts to tho n'otice of the disappointed damsels of Drury-lano, .