THE COZY CORNER.

[In this corner we propose to have pleasant gossip with our readers and correspondents, in passing matters of household interest, and that it may be made an instructive and profitable Household Exchange, we invite correspondence of inquiry and information on all subjects of general interest and value to the Homes of the World.]-GOOD HOUSEKEEPING.

We have several contributions for our "Cozy Corner" department, every way worthy of publication, which do not appear for the reason that the names and addresses of the writers are not

given. Only such contributions will be printed in any department of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING as are accompanied by the name and address of the writer.-Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING.

SEA FOAM.

Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING:

I enclose a rule for Tapioca Pudding, or "Sea Foam," which is very much liked: Soak one large cupful of tapioca four hours, or over night, in a quart bowl filled with water; then put into a farina kettle and cook until clear, stirring occasionally. When done add one cupful of sugar and a small piece of butter; beat well; add the beaten whites of three eggs and pour into a dish to cool. Eat with cream. Pineapple goes nicely with this pudding. TULARE, CAL.

VERSES ASTRAY.

Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING:

MRS. E. B. O.

Can any of your readers tell me where to find some verses entitled "An Apple to the Sextant for Pewer Air;" also one which I think is called "Beautiful Hands," though I think it speaks of feet too, and that two lines are,

"Beautiful feet are those that go On errands of mercy to and fro."

CHARLESTOWN, Mass.

INDELIBLE STAMPING INK. Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING:

kind of ink can be used with a stamp to mark linen, which will not In reply to inquiry of your correspondent, "A. E. S., as to what wash out, I would say that after many unsuccessful trials of several so-called indelible stamping inks, I find none of them indelible. The only sure way to mark indelibly is with a common pen with Payson's ink. This ink, although quite fluid, can be used with a stamp, with care. An ordinary stamping pad with a piece of thin rubber stretched over it makes a good pad. On this a few drops of the ink should be evenly distributed with the end of the vial cork. Practice a few times on another piece of cloth to learn to avoid blotting. A.

SUMMER COMPLAINT. Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING:

I came across the following recipe in an ancient book belonging to my mother, and recollecting that at this season many infants are suffering from summer complaint, I send it in the hope of its giving relief to some little sufferers. It has been used in my family with good effect.

CURE FOR SUMMER COMPLAINT.-To two quarts of juice of fresh blackberries add one pound of loaf sugar, and one ounce, each, of the following spices; pulverized nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, and allspice. Boil together for a short time, and when cold add a pint of fourth proof brandy. Bottle, and administer several times a day as needed, in teaspoonful doses.

WASHINGTON, D. C.

IDENTIFICATION AGAIN.

M. A. T.

Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING:

[Three poems with the title "Beautiful Hands" have appeared in GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. One, original, was published in No. 60. One in No. 69, by James Whitcomb Riley, and one, unsigned, in No. 76 were republished by request. Neither of the three contains the lines quoted by M. A. T.-Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING.]

ABOUT CELLARS.

Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING :

Will you please ask our iconoclastic friend, who is in the confidence of the "Man in the Moon," if in some future paper he will tell us about the practicability of building houses without cellars. It seems to me, as he suggested in a former paper, that a great deal of money is thrown away on that part of a house which is very liable to prove a nuisance, especially in country houses, as our nostrils too frequently testify. I still admire GOOD HOUSEKEEPING as much as ever, and would not willingly do without it. WARWICK, N. Y. "WARWICK."

ANOTHER IDENTIFICATION. Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING:

Will you tell" Mrs. E. V.," in answer to her first enquiry, that the poem is by Aldrich. The first two words are

"Some where, in desolate wind swept space," instead of "One day," as she quotes it. I do not know by what name the poem goes, but Elihu Vedder has a wierd painting called "Identity," carrying out the idea of the two verses. I am such a "good housekeeper " that I have never had time before to say a word to you, but you are a constant help and enjoyment. CORTLAND, N. Y.

WHERE CAN IT BE HAD?

Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING :

"A. W. T."

Will "Esther Paige " please give information how the "Daphne Cneorum" she speaks of in GOOD HOUSEKEEPING No. 12, Vol. 6, can be obtained, or where-I venture to assert that if inquired for at any florists it would be found among the missing and probably unknown plants; this has been my experience where I have asked for anything a little out of the common sound. From

F. H. B.

Please allow me to say, in answer to "Mrs. E. V." in your excellent issue of June 23, page 91, that the lines first named are by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, editor of the Atlantic Monthly. They can be found in a volume of his poems published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, in 1882. They occur under the title "Identity," and read correctly as follows:

Somewhere-in desolate wind-swept space

In twilight-land-in no-man's land-
Two hurrying Shapes met face to face,
And bade each other stand.
"And who are you?" cried one, agape,
Shuddering in the glooming light.
"I know not," said the second Shape,
"I only died last night!"

In a recent number, "A. B.," of Morristown, N. J., asks for a recipe for "Tutti Fruitti." I send mine which I have tried for four years, and always with success.

GERMAN RECIPE FOR TUTTI FRUITTI.-Into an earthen jar (holding two gallons, that never has been used before, and smaller at the top, with close-fitting cover) place one quart of the best brandy, dissolve in that three pounds of block or crushed sugar and stir well until it seems quite like a syrup. When strawberries are ripe prepare two pounds as for table use, and with two pounds of block sugar add to the brandy and stir carefully every day-not hard enough to crush the berries-using a long, wooden spoon and stirring from the bottom of the jar. Next in order comes white cherries. Stone two pounds of these, add two pounds of block sugar, and add to the strawberries, brandy, etc.

I have used the following fruits every year: Strawberries, white cherries, red raspberries, pineapples, peaches, apricots and Florida oranges, and the flavor is very nice. Always add the same amount of sugar as you do fruit and leave the berries and cherries whole; but the larger fruits are minced with a fork. Like pineapple, peaches can be quartered, and oranges pulled all apart, seeds removed; all the fruits peeled of course.

I keep the jar of "Tutti Fruiti" in the cellar and stir it once every day until the last fruit is added; the oranges are the last, and then for about two weeks it has to be stirred, then the preserve

Will you be kind enough to publish (the enclosed article) still "one more " recipe for using up pieces of bread.

Take pieces of bread, dip them in water and put them in a pudding-dish. If the bread is dried, then pour a little more water over it, let it stand until the bread is soft. Cut off all the crusts and with a knife cut it fine, as for turkey dressing. Never use a spoon to mix it with. To about a quart of bread thus prepared add three well beaten eggs, a little salt and enough milk to make it quite soft, then mix well together with a knife. Have a frying-pan hot with some sweet lard or drippings, put the fritters in this by the spoonful, fry them a light brown, then turn as you would griddle cakes and brown them on the other side. To be eaten with syrup or not as preferred. This is a delicious dish for breakfast or tea. I find I can dry pieces of bread on the top of the back part of the kitchen stove. Put the bread on a common plate or dish; there is no danger of burning and it is much easier than drying it in the oven, does not need so much watching,-" time is money" even with a housekeeper. E. W. L.

SCHENECTADY, N. Y.

"BREWIS."

Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING:

I would like to add one more way to use broken pieces of bread. It is an old family dish with us and called "Brewis." No matter how hard the pieces, they can be utilized in this way, and children usually are very fond of it. Mine like the addition of a little maple syrup. Two-thirds white and one-third brown is better, but all white is good. Break up in small pieces in the iron spider, adding milk, or milk and water, to nearly cover; let stand a short time then cut all through with a knife until the whole mass is soft; add a piece of butter (be generous), a little salt; let cook a few minutes, and I think you will find it a palatable dish for tea on a cold night, or for breakfast. I hope some one will try this and report. Some time ago I inquired through the "Cozy Corner good way to mark bed linen, but received no answer, so will try again. I want to know if any of the good housekeepers have any systematic way of marking so one can know which are new, medium or old at a glance. I have taken your good magazine from the initial number, and feel as our friend from Kentucky did in No. 74, about the new bonnet. SPRINGFIELD, MASS.

for a

C. O. A.

PRESERVING AND CANNING FRUIT. Editor of GOOD HousekeepING: In the May 26 No. of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING are two good articles on preserving and canning fruit, but as my method differs somewhat, is easier to do, I think, I would like to give the readers of the magazine the benefit of my experience. Instead of heating the jars, I place the cold jar on a towel wet in cold water, and wrung out slightly so the water will not drip on the floor, and folded in several thicknesses. The jars will not crack when the boiling hot fruit is poured in if care has been taken to have the jars perfectly dry. After they are filled and the tops are screwed down, let them remain on the wet towel until they are cold, tightening the tops at intervals as they cool. I use a half pound of sugar to a pound of fruit, unless it is currants, which need a pound to pound. A tablespoonful of bourbon whiskey to a quart jar of pears, just before closing the jar, is an improvement, as it intensifies the flavor of the pears. Many do not succeed with strawberries, but I think the trouble is that they are not cooked long enough. The strawberry is filled with air and needs considerable cooking to expel it. I should think they would require from fifteen to twenty minutes slowly boiling. Last season I canned the Wilsons and they were excellent, the flavor was very fine, and I did not lose a jar. In canning I only make enough to fill two jars at a time, but close up each jar as soon as it is filled. E. W. L. SCHENECTADY, N. Y.

122.-NUMERICAL ENIGMA.

My whole is composed of 80 letters.
My 41, 7, 11, 21, 14. 8, 38, and
My 22,
6, 42, 20, 28, 49, 43, 19, 80 were novelists.
My 13, 3, 33, 69 2, 66. 21, and

My 10, 32, 76, 67, 59, 65. 74, 61 were actors.
My 18, 68, 51, 5, 75, 55, 60, and
My 34, 45, 15, 30, 37, and
My 35, 76, 39, 72, 29 44, and

My 26, 16, 71, 62 were poets.

My 17, 48, 70, 4. 50, 57, was a philologist.

My 23, 27, 46. 78, 58, 53 was a miscellaneous author. My 9, 12, 56, 1, 24 was a judge.

My 25, 79, 73, 31, 40, 54, 64 was a jurist.

ASA.

EDITOR'S PORTFOLIO.

SPRINGFIELD, MASS., JULY 21, 1888.

Registered at Springfield Post-Office as second-class mail matter.

GOOD THINGS IN GOOD HOUSEKEEPING.

The Continuation of the "Philosophy of Living," by Hester M. Poole, gives some interesting and instructive points on "Conversation and Correspondence," telling how both should be carried on with pleasure and profit to all concerned.

"Kitchen Love and Loyalty," is the title of an amusing little

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The regular page of " Family Fashions and Fancies," tells about the latest styles in lace dresses, yachting gowns, garden hats, parasols and fans, and other seasonable articles of ladies' wear. Clarissa Potter's second article on "Home Matters," made mention of miscellaneously, contains much of interest to housekeepers.

In "Art and Articles without Art," our family pictures are talked about, by Belle Fargher Meyer. A general discussion and criticism is given on what we hang on our walls, with the opinion that poor pictures are better than none at all.

Maud Wyman gives " Another Side of the Help Question," and relates an amusing California experience on the subject.

The fourth chapter of "Our Babies and their Mothers," by Amelia A. Whitfield, M. D., takes up the "Bottle Problem," and makes valuable suggestions to mothers on the care and feed of infants, particularly those "brought up on the bottle.”

"Every Day Desserts, and Desserts for Every Day," by Ruth Hall, gives thirty-one carefully prepared recipes for a variety of good things-one for every day during the month of August.

"Random Extracts" furnish a variety of practical information to housekeepers that will be found useful "All about the house." The second installment of replies to the $100 prize offer for the best means of exterminating Buffalo Bugs, Bed Bugs, Moths, Flies and Fleas, occupies three pages with plenty of information of how to rid the house of these pests. This subject has excited great interest among the readers of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING all over the world, and the suggestions and information published in the series cannot fail to be of great value.

The poetry offerings are: "A Child's Laugh," by Asa Harlin; "The Cradle at the Foundling Asylum," by Adelaide George Bennett; "The Children Have Grown Away," by John A. Clark; "My Father's China Cup," by Marienne Heaton; " Vers de Société," by Maud Wyman and "A Page of Fugitive Verse."

UNSUCCESSFUL SEARCH, AS YET.

Many of "Our Hidden Poets," for whose identity a search was announced in GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, No. 83, still remain in hiding, although the search has been general and made with much care and study by numerous readers of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, widely located. The nearest to a successful naming of the poets so cleverly hidden away in pleasant rhyme, still comes ten short of a correct search, and as many as twenty-one remain in hiding from the gaze of other earnest searchers. The day of grace for searchers will continue in force until Saturday, July 21, and returns having a postmark of that day will be in season to be entered on the list of would-be-prize-winners-the winner at this writing, Wednesday, July 11, being yet to be named.

The prizes are: First-One year's subscription to GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. Second-A copy of Catherine Owen's "TEN DOLLARS ENOUGH," bound in cloth. Third-Any single volume of the GOOD Housekeeping SERIES: "Perfect Bread," "A Key to Cooking," "Six Cups of Coffee," ""Dainty Desserts for Dainty Diners," or "In the Sick Room."

ORUMBS FROM EVERYBODY'S TABLE.

SWEPT UP and CareFULLY PRESERVED.

CUBA'S TWO MEALS A DAY.

Only two meals a day are served in Cuban hotels. They live much as people do in some parts of France and Switzerland.

You take an orange or two with a cup of coffee and a roll in the early morning; a liberal breakfast, in courses, is served at eleven o'clock and a ceremonious dinner at 4 or 5 in the afternoon. This mode of living is admirably suited to the climate, and you fall in with the custom and like it at once.

The breakfast opens with small olive and fresh radishes served in the same dish; the next course is fish, then eggs, meat, etc. You are not asked what you prefer, but each course is set before you, and you partake of it or not. Instead of beginning with fruit, the Cuban breakfast ends with it—pineapples cut from the stalks the same morning, bananas freshly picked, sapodillas, a faint and rather over-sweet morsel, with oranges ad libitum.

In Florida, and in many other parts of the country, the orange is cut in halves, and its juice and pulp are passed to the mouth

with a teaspoon.

In Havana the orange is served whole on the table, peeled down to the juicy "meat of the fruit," and you present the golden ball to your lips on the prongs of a fork.

At any and every American hotel the moment you sit down the question is almost flung at you, "Tea or coffee?" Cubans better understand what is healthful. They follow natures plan and take their meals more as the lower animals do. Cubans do not fill up their stomachs with fluids during meals. After breakfast is over then coffee or tea is served-coffee in French style, at least onehalf the cup being filled with milk.

THE FASHIONS IN FLOWers.

Wild flowers are the fashion. The large cities do not usually make so much as a pretence of caring much for the fragile darlings of the woods, but this season they have at least made believe prefer their delicate colors and forest odors to the more luxurious tints and sensuous perfume of the hothouse pets. They have gone so far as to demand especial flower receptacles suited to their new favorites, and the latest thing out in porcelain is a dainty shellshaped affair, whose crumpled pink edges shading into pale blue or creamy white suggest, as it stands on lunch or tea table, the little folk of the field for whose benefit it was designed. New York society has had a blue violet lunch and a white violet lunch, the decorations being formed exclusively of the long-stemmed, fragrant meadow beauties of the colors specified. A recent farewell breakfast of a lady off for Europe was a yellow meal set out with golden dandelions, as a daring novelty. A floral wedding was also announced to take place in a parlor bowered entirely in the glorious white cornell, whose banners flaunt on many northern hillsides.

HARD AND SOFT WATER IN HOUSEKEEPING.

All cooks do not understand the different effects produced by hard and soft water in cooking meat and vegetables. Peas and beans cooked in hard water, containing lime or gypsum, will not boil tender, because these substances harden vegetable caseine. Many vegetables, as onions, boil nearly tasteless in soft water, because all the flavor is boiled out. The addition of salt often checks this, as in the case of onions, causing the vegetables to retain the peculiar flavoring principles, besides such nutritious matter as might be lost in soft water. For extracting the juice of meat to make a broth or soup, soft water, unsalted and cold at first, is the best, for it much more readily penetrates the tissue; but for boiling where the juices should be retained, hard water or soft water salted is preferable, and the meat should be put in while the water is boiling, so as to seal up the pores at once.-Journal of Chemistry.

WEARING MOURNING.

The New York Telegram makes the following excellent remarks on the senseless custom of dressing in "mourning": "The ridiculous extreme to which wearing mourning for one's dead has been carried has received a slight shock. The custom when a man 'goes into' mourning for some octogenarian, for whose death and

whose money he has been patiently waiting for years, to array his man-servant, his maid-servant, his ox and everything that is his in black seems to border on the ludicrous. Why not paint his house black, put stove polish on his teeth and ink on his nails? In fact, as soon as he ceases to confine his badges of grief to himself, where is he to draw the line? It is safe betting that where there is much black there's more money and less grief. However, two American girls recently proved that they understood in a broad sense that wearing crape means an outward visible sign of sorrow for a great loss, and so the other day when their father failed and lost every cent of his fortune, they both appeared at a well-known watering place in dark and dismal black."

"RINGS ON HER FINGERS AND BELLS ON HER DRESSES." An eccentricity of toilet seen in Broadway, and heard, too, conThese curious sists of cowbells worn by fashionable women. adjuncts are shaped like the old fashioned tinkling bells which were suspended to one cow's neck in a herd, so that the beasts could be easily found when they strayed away in the woods, but they are smaller, being only about three inches long. The metal is brass, with embellished surfaces, although in extreme cases of extravagance gold may be used. They dangle at the ends of chains from the wearer's belt, and the clappers tinkle against the inner sides with more or less noise according to the gait of the girl. If she treads hard and fast, there is considerable ringing, but if she be an easy stepper, the sound is only an occasional clink, something like that of brass heels once worn on shoes.-New York Sun.

LEMON DRops.

Sometime you may want some nice, wholesome candy without having to spend money for it at the confectionary store. Here is a good receipt: Strain the juice of three or four large lemons into a bowl, then mix pulverized sugar in with it until quite thick. Put into an earthen pan, and let it boil for a few minutes, stirring it constantly. Drop it from the end of a spoon upon writing paper, and when hardened, keep the drops in tin canisters until wanted.

LEMON WHEY.

Lemon whey is made of milk and lemon. Put one cupful of sweet milk over the hot water bath. Take two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice and when the milk is hot add the juice. Cook till it changes to curds and whey. Then strain through a piece of muslin or a very fine strainer, add one tablespoonful of sugar and set away to cool. The curd should not be served in any condition.-New York Sun.

Birds' nests, of the edible sort, bring their weight in silver for the tables of the rich Chinese mandarins.

An English authority says that fish sauce should always be thick enough to adhere to the fish. It is better to be too thick than too thin.

They have a way in Baltimore of dipping sardines in butter and frying them, which is novel, and it is to be presumed, peculiar to Baltimore.

The French always eat asparagus cold, with an abundance of oil, vinegar, and pepper, and they are not prejudiced against holding the stalks in their fingers, either.

Carrots and celery cooked in cream make a very nice dish. The carrots should be cut in thin slices and boiled in salted water; the celery in inch lengths and then scalded. Add the milk thickened with cornstarch while boiling.

The London Caterer says that at some fashionable houses, Japanese pastilles are burnt after the fish courses, to disguise the faint odor it leaves behind. The same papers continues, "this may appear fastidious, but it is decidedly agreeable."

A weak solution of salt and water is recommended by good physicians as a remedy for imperfect digestion, and for a cold in the head it is a complete cure snuffled up from the hollow of the hand. We have known severe chronic cases of catarrh entirely cured by persistent use of this simple remedy every night and morning for several months, when the best efforts of the best physicians failed to do any good. It should be used milk warm.