criticism in the same spirit in which it was offered; and bid her farewell in the words of the Archbishop of Granada-Adieu, Monsieur Gil Blas; I wish you all sorts of prosperity and a little more taste."" J. C. writes in the following congratulatory | terms:-"The magazine was always good; it is now most excellent, and deserves all the praise I or any one can give it. May its success be proportionate to its merit! Neither you nor its warmest friends could desire more. cordially approve of your kind and disinterested suggestion for relieving the Lancashire distress, and hope it will be responded to by every reader of the Family Friend."" A. D. YOUNGE.-The omission last month was purely accidental. Accept our sincere apologies. LUCINDA B.-Your very kind and nicely-written letter requires more space for reply than we can this month afford you. But we must insert a sentence or two:-"My kindest and most heartfelt sympathies are with the bereaved, the sorrowing; and I cannot refrain from expressing my sincerest thankfulness that my simple verses should have come with such soothing power to our esteemed friend Ruthenpharl. Although one beloved parent has been spared to me, I know something of the loneliness of orphanhood, and can well understand and sympathise with any one in that melancholy situation. Allow me to thank you, dear sir, for your kindly, fatherly address to us, your children, this month. You are, indeed, a welcome guest in every household." MIGNONETTE.-Continue, by all means, and hope on. Giving-up is surely not the characteristic of Mignonette. Why, we have a plant in our conservatory that has kept flowering all the summer, and is alive and full of health now. The answers are all correct. See now, have we not placed you in the First Class, as a reward for your continued perseverance and faith? BUSK.-"One word I should like to say to Ruthenpharl. His tales and essays are deserving of all praise, and it is a matter of surprise to me that, with such evident skill, he should write such an Acrostic as No. 12. This kind of Pastime I should class with the Anagrams, which, thanks to Caractacus, have not appeared for some time in the 'Family Friend.' I mean those which do not make some real word that has some reference to the word transposed. Such Pastime is very easily made, but tedious to unravel." ILLA.-First Class again. Pray do not despair, poor Illa. She "begs to return her very best thanks to Ruthenpharl for his most kindly mention of her productions; but, as regards his surmise respecting her poetic talents, she fears she must utter a most emphatic No! The corner was very dark indeed where Max fancied he discerned prettiness in its occupant's countenance."-Why not put a title to your contribution ? We do not see the precise meaning of it. RUTHENPHARL will perceive that the awards are made, and that he has no longer reason to complain. To him, especially, the members of the Council have reason to be grateful, for he is not only witty and genial himself, but the cause of wit and geniality in others. GILBERT A.-A first class certificate is a prize of itself; though your absence during the past year hardly entitles you to a prize volume. We welcome you back again. DAISY H.-Clever Daisy; your contribution to the Council is at least amusing; but what will Mar and Caractacus say? EMMA S.-Certainly you are entitled to a certificate, and you shall have one. We are glad to see you back again at your seat in the Council. TERRA COTTA.-KATRINE. ADELINE A.-We have searched for the "Death of Douglas in Prison," but cannot find it. Pray keep copies in future, of all your communicatione. SECOND CLASS. DORA-ROSEBUD.-ISABEL. MARGUERITE.-Definition good. Writing on both sides of the paper is fatal to your chance of ap pearing often in print. "Fashion" appears to be mildly interesting, but it is not punctuated, or written in a style sufficiently attractive for general reading. Try again. ST. CLAIR. ELIZABETH H.. CRAISTER.-Thanks for your adhesion to our friendly ranks. T. C. RYE. ALFRED BROWN.-Under consideration. JESSIE. Received with pleasure. CAROLUS.-Not sufficiently new. Try again. ADNIEL.-Thanks. on the 1st. CANNONIA.-Come, and welcome. send your real name and address. Next time ESTELLA is desirous of being admitted to the Coun cil, and sends a nicely-written letter as her creden tials. Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce my friend Estella. Make her your friend, too. CROCHET.-OCEAN.-STANTONTILLE.-MAY B. RUTH-CARMARTHEN-EMMA S. V. J. C. B.-The poems, "Drowned," with their accompaniments, were placed aside, and cannot now be found. ** All friends and councillors are requested to keep copies of articles, poems, &c., sent for insertion. We cannot undertake to return rejected MSS. ERRATA. "ISLAVERNAY" writes:-"May I call your attention to the omission of a ledger line in the "Alexandra Galop," which causes the bass to be discordant. Probably many of the readers of the "Friend" have discovered, ere this, that a pen-andink line between the B and C is a remedy for the mistake; but as there may be others not gifted with this perception, I enclose "Errata" for their benefit: Chord in first 6 bars, read B, ED, G. Ditto in bars 9 and 10, ditto. Ditto, first 6 bars, second part, page 74. A ledger line drawn above the B, will raise the C and E to E and G. [This was not a printer's error: we are bound to do this much-abused profession that justice by so saying. It was set up" strictly to copy. Moreover, the discord was detected by our musical editer, but he thought it would be a liberty to alter t, knowing that vagaries of this kind are frequently done intentionally-ED.] OUR LETTER-BOX. 21. RICE BREAD.-Take 1lb. of good clean Bengal, Patna, or Arracan rice. Boil it in 10 quarts of soft water for at least 30 minutes, keep starring it, then pulp it through a coarse horsehair sieve: it ought when cold, to weigh 71lbs.; then mix it with the flour, and make bread in the Deal way, using two ounces of German yeast. It will produce when baked, according to the quality of the flour, from 26 lbs. to 28 lbs. of bread, at the following cost: s. d. 3 6 0 23 0 1 0 34 4 1 This bread is very white, and keeps good for upwards of a week. 22. EMMA FLETCHER DEPILATORY. The French Journal de Pharmacie gives this formula for a depilatory:-Take of sulphuret of sodium, or hydro-sulphate of soda, crystallised, three parts; quick lime, in powder, ten dit.o; starch ten; mix. This powder, mixed with a little water and applied over the skin, acts so rapidly as a depilatory, that if it be removed in a minute or two after its application, by a wooden knife, the surface of the skin will be entirely deprived of hair. By this process, the removal of the hair becomes simple, rapid, and safe in operation. It may be applied to parts the most delicate as well as irregular, and to surfaces either limited or extended, and it is only after several days that the hair begins to re-appear. [We do not vouch for the correctness of this receipt.-ED.] 23. TO PRESERVE FLOWERS IN WATER.-Mix a little carbonate of soda in the water, and it will keep the flowers a fortnight. 24. MINT VINEGAR.-Put fresh mint leaves into a stone jar, and pour on them a sufficient quantity Set of the best wine vinegar to cover them. the jar in a warm place for fourteen days; then strain through a jelly-bag. 25. A SMOKER.-Coffee acts powerfully on the nervous system, and causes sleeplessness; it counteracts the effects of narcotic poisons, and is for this purpose given plentifully in cases of poisoning by laudanum; it is taken by the Turks to remove the soporific effects of opium, which they are in the practice of chewing; and it is sometimes used as a vehicle for the administration of laudanum when it is desirable to allay pain without inducing a disposition to sleep. A cup of strong coffee, taken immediately after dinner, is supposed to quicken digestion, and prevent drowsiness: it is for this purpose the French invariably take it. Coffee should be infused (not boiled), by which all its aroma, and other properties, are retained. Coffee, to be good, should be black and boiling hot 26. APPLE WINE.-Pure cider made from sound, dry apples, as it runs from the press. Put sixty pounds of common brown sugar into fifteen gallons of the cider and let it dissolve, then put the mixture into a clean barrel, and fill the barrel up to within two gallons of being full with clean cider; put the cask in a cool place, leaving the bung out forty eight hours, then put in the bung with a small vent until fermentation wholly ceases, and bung up tight, and, in one year, the wine will be fit for use. This wine requires no racking; the longer it stands upon the lees the better. 27. FANNY W.-Por POURRI.-To make " a perfume of sweet-scented leaves, &c., for fancy jars."-Mix half a pound of common salt with a quarter of a pound of saltpetre, a quarter of an ounce of storax, half a dozen cloves, a handful of dried bay leaves, and another handful of dried lavender flowers. This basis of the Pot Pourri will last for years, and you may add to it annually petals of roses and of other fragrant flowers gathered on dry days, as fancy may dictate. By the same rule you may add, if approved of, powdered benzoin, chips of sandal wood, cinnamon, orris root, and musk A very excellent Pot Pourri may be made in winter with a pound of dried rose petals, bought at a chemist's, mixed with four ounces of salt and two of saltpetre, on which were put eight drops of essence of ambergris, six drops of essence of lemon, four drops of oil of cloves, four drops of oil of lavender, and two drops of essence of bergamot. 28. TO PICKLE NASTURTIUMS.-Have ready a stone or glass jar of the best cold vinegar; take the green seeds of the nasturtium after the flower has gone off (they should be full grown but not old), pick off the stems, and put the seeds into the vinegar. No other preparation is necessary, and they will keep a year with nothing more than sufficient cold vinegar to cover them. With boiled mutton they are an excellent substitute for capers. 29. IMPUTRESCIBLE GELATINE.-By mixing glycerine in equal proportions by weight with strong glue melted in a water-bath, M. Lallement, of Paris, produces an elastic and imputrescible gelatine. It may be used for various purposes, such as the making of artificial limbs, elastic toys, printers' rollers, &c. M. Lallement has also found glycerine of great service in the preservation of natural teeth. 30. VARNISH FOR RUSTIC GARDEN SEATS.-otto of roses. First wash the woodwork with soap and water, and when dry do it over, on a hot, sunny day, with common boiled linseed oil; leave that to dry for a day or two, and then varnish it once or twice with what is commonly termed "hard varnish." If well done, it will last for years, and will prevent any annoyance from insects. L. R. P. 31. TO COOK YAMS.-Place the yam in cold water, and boil till it is tender: then peel off the skin, and put it into the oven till it is baked a nice brown. When going to serve, cut it open, and, pressing the inside gently, butter it quite hot. 32. H. ROSE.-BRITISH WINES.-Take black, red, and white currants, ripe black-heart cherries, and raspberries; if the black currants be most abundant, so much the better. Take four pounds of the mixed fruit, well bruised; put one gallon of clear, soft water steep three days and nights in an open vessel, frequently stirring it up; then strain through a hair-sieve. The remaining pulp press to dryness; put both liquids together; and to each gallon of the whole, put three pounds of Jamaica or white sugar. Let the whole stand three days and three nights, frequently stirring up as before, after skimming the top. Turn it into casks; and let it remain full, working at the bung-hole, about two weeks. Then, to every three gallons, put one quart of good brandy, and bung closely. Ripe gooseberry wine may advantageously be mixed with the above; but it must be made separately. 33. TESTS OF PURE WATER.-The following practical rules for testing the wholesomeness of water (says Dr. Marcet) will be useful:-1. The water must be perfectly colourless and transparent, leaving no deposit when allowed to stand undisturbed. -2. It must be quite devoid of smell.-3. When litmus paper is immersed in the water, the colour of the paper must remain unaltered.-4. The water, when boiled, must not become turbid.-5. About half a tablespoonful of the fluid being evaporated to dryness on the spirit lamp, there must be a slight residue left at the bottom of the spoon not turning black from organic matters.-6. The residue obtained by evaporating to dryness a sample of the water in a porcelain cup upon the tea urn, must not become black on the addition of a solution of sulphuretted hydrogen 34. THE BAKEWELL PUDDING -Having covered a dish with thin puff paste, put a layer of any kind of jam about half an inch thick, then take the yolks of eight eggs and two whites, half-a-pound of sugar, half-a-pound of butter melted, and almond flavour to your taste; beat all well together; pour the mixture into the dish an inch thick, and bake it about an hour in a moderate oven. 35. CRYSTALLINE POMADE.-Mix four ounces of oil of almonds, four ounces of best olive oil, one ounce of spermaceti, two ounces of castor oil. Melt these in a covered jar by the side of the fire; then stir in seventy drops of the following perfume, which should have been previously kept in a stopped phial. In Then pour it into your cream jars, cover, and let it stand till cold. Á cheaper perfume than the following, such as burgamot or almond flavour, which some people like, may well be used; but the subjoined is the best:-Mix together, and shake wel in a stopped phial, eight drops of oil of cloves, twenty-five drops of English oil of lavender, ove drachm each of essence of burgamot and essence of lemon, and ten drops each of the oil of cassia and 36. GARDNER.-TO DESTROY ANTS.-Pour ammoniacal gas water in their runs and nests. meadows, cut off the hillocks with a sharp spade, leaving a little mould to form a basin; then pour in strong ammoniacal liquor. This will be found the easiest and best method of getting rid of them. 37. BETTY, &c.-PICKLING.-Never use bras, copper, or bell-metal kettles for pickling, because the verdigris produced in them by the vinegar is very poisonous. Kettles lined with porcelain are the best; but, if you cannot procure them, blocktin may be substituted. Iron is apt to discolour any acid that is boiled in it. Vinegar for pickles should always be of the best cider kind. In putting away pickles, use stone or glass jars. The lead, which is an ingredient in the glazing of common earthenware, is rendered very pernicious by the action of the vinegar. Have a large wooden spoon and a fork for the express purpose of taking pickles out of the jar when you want them for the table. See that, while in the jar, they are always completely covered with vinegar. If you discern in them any symptoms of not keeping well, do them over again in fresh vinegar and spice. The jars should be stopped with large flat corks, fitting closely, and having a leather, or a round piece of oil-cloth, tied over the cork. It is a good rule to have two-thirds of the jar filled with pickles, and one-third with vinegar. Alum is very useful in ertracting the salt from pickles and in making them firm and crisp. A very small quantity is sufficient; too much will spoil them. In greening pickles, keep them very closely covered, so that none of the steam may escape, as its retention promotes their greenness, and prevents the flavour from evapora ting. Vinegar and spice for pickles should be boiled but a few minutes; too much boiling takes away the strength. 38 NEURALGIA.-A new remedy for neuralgia has been prescribed by one of the physicians to the Royal Free Hospital, in cases of patients suffering from that very painful affection under his care. The remedy used is the valcrianate of ammonia, a new chemical compound. 39.-IMITATION OF INDIA CURRY POWDER.-One ounce and a half mustard seed, four ounces coriander seed, four ounces and a half turmeric root, three ounces black pepper, one ounce and a half cayenne pepper, one ounce cardamom seed, half an ounce Jamaica ginger, half ditto_cinnamon, half ditto cloves, half ditto mace. To be finely powdered, well mixed, and bottled. 40. PUFF BALLS EATABLE.-R. Ward, Salthouse Hall, Norwich, says: "We have a delicious dish in the Lycoperdon Bovista, which is not uncommon in some seasons in these parts. Sliced and seasoned with butter and salt, fried in a pan, no French omelette is half so good in richness and delicacy of flavour. I am too glad to seize upon them when I can get them-of course, in the soft, pulpy state." LOVE AND DISCIPLINE; OR, TWO WAYS OF TEACHING. CHAPTER IX. ▲ FATHER'S SUSPICIONS. Ir was shortly after Célestin's departure that Rigobert had the visit from Solomon, of which we have given an account. With whatever temper and hostility he received this child, painful sensations were awakened in his mind by what had been said; he could not help associating them with certain irreconcilable circumstances and certain VOL. IIL-NEW SERIES. words that escaped his son's lips, which threw him into a profound reverie. Sur. prised at his long silence, his daughters, busy at work, at last looked at him, and asked if he were suffering more than usual. Instead of replying to their question, the old man said to the eldest "Marine, you must go to my sister." "Not to-night, father, it is too late; we cannot see to work any longer, and she lives at such a distance" "You can take Louise with you." "The poor child is still more tired than I; besides, father, you cannot be left alone. It will be time enough to-morrow to go and thank her for "For what, Marine? It is that which I cannot really say. You heard what the child, who is just gone, said; do not you suspect that something inexplicable has occurred? This lost watch-the address given by my sister-Célestin's agitation. Is it possible that, his request being refused, the unhappy creature-ah! I treml at the thought of it, prison-death-what would that be to the sacrifice of honour!" "Oh dear! what do you suspect, father? Has poor Célestin ever given yo reason to suppose him capable of so base an action? Ah! do not let my aunt, or any one, know that you have even imagined it. If I were to go this evening for an explanation, she would perhaps guess your anxiety, and, right or wrong, my brother would certainly be lessened in her estimation." "These are cautions to which I yield, believing him innocent, Marine; but!assured that if I thought him guilty I would be the first to desire his punishment. I could not even forgive myself for remaining in this uncertainty. To-morrow I must search into this matter, and you must see my sister before your brother returns." Marine, without opposing her father any more, went to bed in the hope that night would calm him, and that her brother would arrive soon enough to justif himself fully, without having recourse to others; but Rigobert, whose anxiety ha! not permitted him to close his eyes, woke his daughter at sunrise, and again desire! her to go to the florist. Marine, compelled to obey, got ready as slowly as possible, and at last went down stairs. However, instead of going directly where her father sent her, she waited in the street for Célestin's return, who indeed soon appeared and asked her, with surprise, what she did there so early. "I am waiting for you to go with me to our aunt." "What folly! replied Célestin, quickly. You have no business with that woman.” "I must at least obey my father, who has charged me to convey to her his thanks for her kindness yesterday." "This is insufferable obstinacy! I tell you she does not wish to see any of us.” "Is that possible?” "Very possible. She told me so in plain terms.” "How can any one lend money to people whose presence is so displeasing. To a brother! No, Célestin, that is unnatural, and I am persuaded she would be angry at our taking her at her word. I shall therefore go." "Once more, Marine, that cannot be; let us go up stairs again together, perhaps, I shall be able to make my father understand." "Before going into his presence, let me tell you of a circumstance that occurred yesterday, after you left for Neuilly." |