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in $ ¢RANDMOTHER‘S sToRY. "Tell me a story, grandma," said litâ€" tle Bess, as she climbed upon her grandmother‘s lap. & â€" Aus Lt % |~ hb atcodommntutbccnte ts difrics Ad "Well, what shall it be about ?t* said the old lady, smiling, as she laid her work on the table and looked at ber little granddaughter. l m YOUNG FOLKS. "About when you was the answer. "Let me think. Ob, yes, I remem}l» er," she said as she stroked Bessie‘s golden bair and kissed her on the foreâ€" head. "When I was about twelve years old I went to spend the summetr with some friends. There were two children, both a little younger than myself, The older one was Maud and the younger one Mary. *"*I had noi been there long before we planned to have a spread some night after we had gone to bea. We set the night and began to collect all the candy and good things we cou‘ld find and put them in a basket, which we kept unâ€" der the bed. J "That night we went to our room and undressed, then we waited for their mother to come and say good night. We waited but she did not come and so we turned out the lamp and pretended to go to sleep. In a few minutes we were up and had the baskâ€" et. The feast consisted of three crackâ€" ers apiece, about half a dozen candies, a few peanuts and some cookies,. We all sat down on one bed and began to talk softly. Suddenly I heard a footâ€" step on the stairs, and knew what it was,. I pushed Maud back into bher place in the bed and jamped in myself. ‘Shrâ€"râ€"râ€"r! She is coming,‘ 1 said. But Mary just sat there and looked at us. Suddenly sbe looked at us and realized what was the matter, then made a rush for her bed. y en o "She had just reached it when 1 saw a figure in the doorway. Their mothâ€" er entered and kissed us, then went out again. We were about to get up again when we heard her say, ‘Don‘t talk.‘ They were the words we had dreaded, and what was anything without talkâ€" ing?t 1 lay down again and began to groan, when I saw Mary beside me, ‘Mamina didn‘t say we must not whisâ€" per,‘ she said under ber breath. In a few minutes we were out of bed and eating. Then what a good time we had and we talked until we had eaten evâ€" erything and it was long after time for us to be asleep. â€""Afte that we bhad a great many more feasts, but none of them was as wueh fun as the first was." LITTLE BRIDES IN INDIA. Have you all heard that the little girls in India are married when . so young that they ought to be playing with dolls and learning to read ? It is a sad state of things which makes this possible, but because the faâ€" thers and mothers have for many, many years sent their daughters away at this early age, the fathers and mothers of this day think they must do the same. We have seen a picture that shows a bride of the merchant caste, counted as "high caste." Her father Is proâ€" bably wealthy, and they have dressed bher in beautiful silks. And she has jewels upon bher arms and hands and neck. She also has a beautiful jewel on her forehead, perhaps that is the most precious of them all. And if we could see her little bare feet we _ could see toeâ€"rings and tinkling ankleâ€"bands upon them. All through the days of the wedding feast she displays these fine things. Then she is carried to her husband‘s home, and in the dark, secluded rooms in which women live she will pass the rest of her life. Many a little bride never sees the bright sky, flowers, trees and friends after she is married. Have you ever read about the "child widows" of Inâ€" dia?t If this girl‘s husband â€" should soon die his family would think she had brought evil to the house and causâ€" ed his death. They would take from bher all her pretty clothes and jewels. and give her in return one coarse dress. They would make her do the hardest work and eat the poorest of food. A few years ago it was found that there were seventyâ€"nine widows in Inâ€" dia under nine years of age. Do you not think we ought to be thankful to have such good fathers and mothers? Think of those poor little girls. Every boy knows the three eyes to be found in one end of a cocoanut, and many a boy bas bored these eyes out, or one or two of them, with the small blade of a pocket knife so as to get at the milk in the cocoanut, which he bas then drained out in a cup or drunk direct from the cocoanut itself. _ But there is a more fascinating way still of getting at the milk in the cocoanut. By (his other method the cocoanut is opened at the other end from the eyes. The cocoanut is struck all around gently and repeatedly with a bamâ€" mer, or a stone will do, at a distance of about oneâ€"third of the way down from the top, about where the Arceâ€" tic circles would be on a globe. _ A continual geotle tapping will finâ€" ally crack the shell of the nut all around; not in a line exactly on the circle perhaps, but pretty near to it. Sometimes it cracks shell and meat of the nut, too, so that both can be liftâ€" ed off together; sometimes it cracks out only a shell cap at the top, which is lifted off, and the cap of meat unâ€" derneath is then cut out around with a knifa And then there you are with the whiteâ€"lined cocoanutâ€"cup to _ drink from PHOTOGRAPHING IN THE DARK. Bulphate of quinine bas some very eurious properties, one of them being its power to impress an image of itâ€" self on a shoet of sensitive paper in the dark. If a design be drawn on a shoet of paper with sulphate of quinâ€" ine, exposed for a few minutes to the un then placed on a sheet of sensiâ€" tive paper, put in a book, and left for a few bours, a perfect image of the MILK INX 7HE COCOANUT were a little girl," copied on sensitive papel in ‘*N‘" " ./« but it must be reversed or the writâ€" ing will be reversed on the sensitive paper. drawing will be found impressed the sheet of paper. Writing may Terms of the Contract Between the Comâ€" pany and the Corporation. The law authorizing the city of Paris to erect a system of metropolitan railways having been promulgated,the municipality have published the terms of the convention concluded in July last with the General Traction Comâ€" pany, which undertakes to form with-} in six months a special company for: working the lines when constructed, with a capital of not less than 20,000,â€" 000 franes ($5,000,000). ‘The total length of the system of linesa is forty English miles, but only twentyâ€"five miles will be taken in hand at first, the city unâ€" dertaking to construct the {first porâ€" tion in eight years. As this is perhaps the first example of such a considerable work being unâ€" dertaken by a munisipality, details of the working convention may be of inâ€" terest, says The London Economist . It has already been stated that the amount of the loan to be raised for the execution of the first portion of the lines is 165,000,000 francs ($33,000,â€" 000). The Traction Company, which bas obtained the working concession, undertakes to employ only Frenchâ€" men, and to have all its plant and rolâ€" ling stock made in France. The board of directors of the working company must be exclusively French; the comâ€" pany will be permitted to have its deâ€" pots and work outside the city, but they must pay octroi duties on the materials employed, as if the buildings were within the city walls; the names of the stations must be of a uniform lcnlor and must be so placed that they may not be confounded with advertiseâ€" ments. or any salary to be paid to any ol the company‘s servants or employes will be 150 francs per month, or for workmen engaged temporarily 5 francs per day; the wages must be paid in full during the period of military inst ruction ; the day‘s employment must not exceed ten hours, with a whole day or two half day‘s rest weekly, and ten day‘s holiday annually without deduction of wages ; in case of sickness wages must be paid in fuli for at least a year ; in case of accident, until complete reâ€" covery, without prejudice to the inâ€" demnity, to be paid if permanantly disabled, wholly or partially. hew: . anllcls con sramed "a+ 95 snn UERBUEDPUOM, NOMORASO CC SRCCOCOC PT The fares are fixed at 25 centimes (3 cents) first class and 15 centimes (3cents) second class for any distance. Passengers before nine in the morning may have for 20 centimes (4 cents) a return ticket, available at any bhour in the day, Children of the municipal schools are to pay a fare of 5 centimes (1 cent) only when travelling collectâ€" ively, accompanied by a master. The working company will pay to the city for the use of the lines 10 centimes &@ cents) per first class passenger and 5 centimes (1 cent) second class, inâ€" creased progressively slould the numâ€" ber of passengers carried dux:tnguthe 1g °L8 UdTLIOM s 000 4 248B 2 4P sc lcA css dn w o d t " year _ exceed 140,000,000, _ Children travelling for 5 centimes are not to be taken into account for the payment or the number. The stations and means of access to the platforms to be at the charge of the company, but the platâ€" forms are comprised in the work exeâ€" cuted by the municipality, The concesâ€" sion is for thirtyâ€"five years, but the city reserves a right of purchase from the year 1910. TORONTO Fashlon Among Some Folks to Insert a Photograph in the Tombstonc. Every one who has visited Paris and the famous Pere la Chaise cemetery is familiar with the withered wreathes of immortelles which hang there month after month; the tiny chapels, the resting places for the living who come to pray for their dead; the reliquaries of the departed, and the many hundâ€" reds of portraits of the dead which deâ€" corate the different tombstones. The custom of placing portraits of dead relatives on their tombstones has not until very lately been noticed in this country, but one day last week I was rather startled at what Isaw in an east side undertaker‘s shop, says a Paris letter. One of the monuments displayed in this shop had a photograph of tha perâ€" son whom the stone commemorates, covered over with glass and framed with a black bordering, imhbedded in the white surface over the name, age, date, and place of birth, etc. A bride, in wedding finery, looks from anot her tombstone that is recommended as: most suitable to commemorate such a calamitous taking off. Infants in all stages of babyhoodâ€"long frocked, short frocked, just toddlingâ€"are pictured on diminutive liggle marbles meant for children‘s graves, and photographs of soldiers and of civilians, young and old: of mothers with their children beâ€" side them in a group, and of wives with their busbands, or young gir‘ls with their sweethearts, or schoolâ€" mates clasped bhand in hand, are fixed in sample marbles to show the approâ€" priateness of such a type of memorial. "Nearly everybody over this way who buys atombstone nowadays has the photograph of the dead person put ovâ€" er the date ; it‘s the fashion," said an elderly woman to her companion, as they stopped to look over the collecâ€" I see the Spaniards at Matanzas are compelled to eat their mules to keep from starving, remarked the short man as be laid aside the paper. Yes, I was just reading about it, said the man with the chin whiskers, It is too bad, I actually feel sorry for ‘em. Who, the Spaniards? No, the mules. tion RAPID TRANSIT IN PARIS. THUE MINIMUM WAGES PLACING HIS SYMPATHY. PICTURED GRAVES. [ paper. WILING 1707 °* nsitive paper in this way, . kap 0n to any of the CROWNING OF A GIRL AS QUEEN. It is surely woman‘s era when three queens rule as many nations of Eurâ€" ope, says an Amsterdam letter. This will be the case when the next great event of the year will have passed into history by the installation as Queen of the Netherlands of Wilhelmina, dauâ€" ghter of the late King William HL, and his second wife, Princess Emma. The ceremony of crowning the girl Queen of the Netherlands will take place in the New church, Amsterdam on Sept. 6. [ To grow up with the eyes of a naâ€" tion watching for the girkato develop and rejoicing as she changes from & pretty child into an unusually attracâ€" tive woman is a lot that anyone might. envy. Such has been the life of Wilâ€" helmina. Her budding beauty has been raved over and written about as few other young women‘s looks have been; her mental qualities have Leen praised in the way to turn the head of a less vain young person, and, in â€" a word, she bas been the idol of the naâ€" tion and the pride of every, Dutchman since she first wou their hearts as a cute little child of 7 riding a pretty little Shetland pony. Now that the time has come when she is to â€"leave childbood> behind and become the woâ€" man and the queen the picture she presents is one that the nation reâ€" spects as well as loves, For Wilhelmina is a dignified miss, who knows how to deport herself when the public eye is upon her and great functionaries of state are paying her homage. She will have need of all her self-] possession on Sept 6, however, for the ordeal ~will be a trying one. Wilhelâ€" mina is supposed to come of age on | that date. As a usual thing boys and girls ofe the Netherlands do not come of age until they are 28, but in this case Wilhelmina being a queen, is alâ€" lowed to come of age on her eighteenth‘ birthday. On Aug. 31, therefore, the‘ queen regent will cease to rule and Wilbelmina will become ~Queen of the Netherlands, although her coronation will not take place until Sept. 6. ' The programme is already arrangâ€" ed. The queen and the queen regent are to leave the Hague, where the birthday of the former will have been suitably celebrated a tow days preâ€" viously, on Sept. 5, earty in the aftâ€" ernoon,. Arriving at the Weesperpoot station at Amsterdam they will be met by the leading citizens and repreâ€" sentatives of the government,. and acâ€" companied by an escort of bhussars will be driven to the palace by a route sufficiently circuitous to enable a vast concourse of spectators to witness the procession. In every street to be traâ€" versed the decorations will be of the most ornate description, and joyal greetings will meet ner majesty‘s eye at every turn, while a portion of the route, it is expected, will be lined by representatives â€" of _ "labor corporaâ€" tions‘ carrying their respective banâ€" ners Between the hours of 7 and 8 on the following morning, Sept, 6, curious muâ€" sic will fall upon the ears of citizens, for from +the steeples of the different churches trumpeters are to play exâ€" cerpts from sacred worksâ€" surely a novel depuarture in reveilles, At 11 o‘clock on the same day, acâ€" cording to present arrangements, the coronation services will take place in the Nieuve ~‘Kerk, but the details of the ceremonial have yet to be disâ€" cussed and brought to completion. In the afternoon the queen will again drive through the town, and will visit, amona other districts, the Jordan, this being the Jewish quarter. With the fall of night the city is to be ilâ€" luminated, a brilliant display being anâ€" ticipated, while it is also expected that ‘Lhe queen â€" herself will be _ driven through the streets, in order that s}le may see the bright and radiant devicâ€" es prepared in her honor. . At 11 o‘clock on cording to present coronation services the Nieuve ‘Kerk, The following morning, like the day previous, will be ushered in with simiâ€" lar strains, while at 10 a.m. Queen Wilhelmina is to be serenaded by the Netherlands Choral Society. The afâ€" ternoon will witness the great popuâ€" lar festival, near that wondrous muâ€" seum which contains Rembrandt‘s masâ€" terpiece. From the square the queen, accompanied by her mother, will witâ€" ness an allegorical and historical proâ€" cession, which is being organized on an elaborate scale, to illustrate in picturesque fashion the principal epiâ€" sodes and stirring events, from the period of the eighty years‘ war down to the nineteenth century, that have marked the history of a nation which, despite its many and strange vicisâ€" s‘tudes, bas attained such solid glory. After this interesting pageant has passed before the eyes of the people, the men, women and children of Amâ€" sterdam are promised an opportunâ€" ity of making merry over a "water carnival," in connection with which the craft in the harbor and canals will be gayly and tastefully illuminâ€" ated. From a pavilion to be erectâ€" ed on the West Indian pier the queen will view this festival, and on the} next day Sept. 8, she will, it is believâ€" ed, pay a visit in company with bher mother to that section of the Ryx Museum which is devoted to objects of interest connected with the house of Orange. Another exhibition will probably be visited during the afterâ€" noon, while their majesties have also arranged to attend a "matinee musiâ€" cale, to be given by the Dutch Musiâ€" cians‘ Association in the concert hall. At night there will be a gala perâ€" formance in the town theater, which will be beautifully decorated for the occasion. On the following morning, Sept 9, the departure of the queen and the queénâ€"mother will be made from the Central station, and there will be an end to revelries and rejoicings that bid fair to be memorable in the annals of the country of Mynheer Van Dunck. It remains to be seen to what extent Englishmen and other foreignâ€" ers: will make an incursion into Holâ€" land on the occasion of the lpfimob- ing festivities, but certain it is that mo one who embraces this opportunity of becoming acquainted with that inâ€" teresting country will leave it with the words employed by Voltaire to express his cynical indifference to its undoubted charms, How they are ever going to accommoâ€" | intr harvan Bs date the people who will flock to this| Of mar town on the occasion of the coronation church. is a mystery. ‘The statement is now | for the put forward in various quarters that | will sit ever since the beginning of the year |°_f the the space at the disposal of every hoâ€" | Ci@ls of tel of repute has been bespoken for | Upon t the period of the coming festivities, | the sou This circumstance, remarkable enough | ed glas in itself, suggests the probability of !nctm% a very knotty problem having to be solved, while it also brings to mind inâ€" cidentally the anomaly of a city of half & million inbabitants, and a "moving population" too large to be | satisfactorily estimated being possessâ€" ed of not more than hailf a dozen | hotels of the first class. Those that do ; not belong to this order are excellent enough, to be sure, but the lack o£; suitable accommodation in Amsterâ€"| dam has brought about in connection . with the impending ceremonies | a curious state of things, in that it has precluded the issuing ot invitations by the government to the heads and | representatives of other countries.fl New, it is a fact that need scarcely b: insisted upon that you cannot very well invite, say, a crowned head to the capital of your kingdom upon an cccastion of the utmost state and then alicw that illustrious personage ‘o run an> risk in respect of the conditions of comfort under which the visit is likely to be paid. The plain truth of the matter, as an influential resident here has explained to me, is thisâ€"that, although, as might not unâ€"naturally be supposed, there are enough suitâ€" able baildings in Amsterdam to house a certain number of royal and other distinguished guests, and the memâ€" bers of their suites, the number is inâ€" sufficient to enable all those to be inâ€" vired whose rank or position entitles them to such a compliment, and inâ€" asmuch as to make exceptions would be to uffer a serious affront to those who remained unbidden, it bhas been wisely decided by the high officials in whose hands the arrangeéements for the ceremony are placed to extend no invitations of the kind indicated. On the other hand it is hardly necesâ€" sary to point out that persons of an exalted station, â€" representatives of states, chiefs or governments, and others of high degree, who desire to show their good will coward the youthâ€" ful sovereign by attending the corâ€" onation service will be made heartily welcome and accorded an official reâ€" ception fully in consonance with their positions and the honor that is due to them. "What is the use of getting anxiâ€"| ous?" said a citizen to me with an apparent â€" unconcern typical of his race when I referred to the inconâ€" venience that might arise from the universel desire to honor Queen Wilâ€" helmina. "What is the use?" he reâ€" peated with a shrag _ of his shouldâ€" ers, and added, "All I know is that I shall be there and mean to see it all." At the same time, as will be observed, there are many residents in the "Dyke of the Amste!" who manifestly have a less touching truthfulness in their own 1 powers of overâ€"riding obstacles when the long looked for day arrives. So it happens that a brisk trade is being carried on by townsfolk who have the good fortune to occupy buildings at convenient sites in the disposal of rooms from which to view the state procession, which is to form an imâ€" portant feature in the approaching festivities. In the principal arteries I find that twoâ€"window rooms have been bespoken for sums varying from 500 to 1,000 guilders (roughly speaking, from $200 to $400), whilé in the case of a sartorial establishment in the Dam, overlooking the front of the royâ€" al palace, accommodation has brought as much as $1,000 for the chief day of the celebration. It is worthy of note, by the way, that in certain streets grand stands are to be erected by the locai authorâ€" ities for the benefit of "the people," and for these seats a fixed and nomiâ€" nal sum will, it is understood, be charged. ~ e e in C ns The Nieuve Kerk, in which the corâ€" onation ceremonies will take place, is uncompromising in its plainness, but possesses, apart from a simple dignity that at once impresses the visitor, not a few memorials beautiful in themselâ€" ves and also interesting as illustraâ€" tive of deeds of glorious valorâ€" in the history of the country. There is still to be seen the laurel wreath, long since faded, which the German emperâ€" or himself on the occasion of his last visit placed on the monument of Adâ€" miral de Ruyter, while another notâ€" able memorial is that erected to perâ€" tuate the heroism of Lieutenant Van g;eyk. who, as the inscription in Dutch recalls, blew upthis ship before Antâ€" werp to save the honor of his country‘s flag. The antigstpation of the solemn QUEEN WILHELMINA, OF HOLLAND | _ On the side facing the exquisitely lc'u'ved, chaliceâ€"shaped pulpit are the \ pews which will be occupied respecâ€" tively by the queen regent, with her ‘maids of honor, the members of the ; queen‘s court, and the mayor, with the icivic officials accompanying him. Esâ€" ‘corted by the highest dignitaries of ‘ state and preceded by the officials to | whom falls the honor of carrying the crown, the scepter, the crossâ€"surmountâ€" ‘ed golden ball and the other glitterâ€" |ing symbols of authority, ber majesty entering by the doors reached from the Nieuwezigds Voorburgwal, will walk up the center of the fane, and then take her place on the dais. Here, after service on Sept. 6, the date of a sermon has been preached probably by the oldest of the four ministers atâ€" tached to the kerk, Queen Wilhelmina will take the oath in the words preâ€" scribed by custom, swearing to "defend and preserve with all.her power the independence and territory of the kingdom, to protect the general and individual liberties of her subjects and to employ all the means placed within her power by the constitution to mainâ€" tain and promote the welfare of her people." This and other formalities over, the first knightâ€"atâ€"arms, will duly proclaim Wilhelmina Helena Pauâ€" line Maria to be Queen of the Netherâ€" lands, and a flourish of trumpets, a roll of military drums and the clangâ€" ing of church bells will announce to the inkhabitants of the city that the great and eventful ceremony has reachâ€" ed its close. Notes of Interest About Some of the Great People of the World. Sir William Henry Broadbent, M.D., F.R.C.P., has been appointed one of Queen Victoria‘s physicians extraorâ€" dinary in the room of the late Sir Richâ€" ard Quain, M.D. Mr. Stead says that the news which most cheered Gladstone in his last illâ€" ness was the report that his grandâ€" daughter, a bright girl of 20, had deâ€" cided to become a missionary. An interesting series of lettars, twenâ€" tyâ€"two in number, from Mr. Gladstone to his friend, Mr. Farr, will soon be sold in London. They were written while Mr. Gladstone was at Eton, Oxâ€" ford, and afterward, and dated from 1820 to 1832. Edwin Austin Abbey, one of the few American artists who have been honâ€" ored with membership in the Royal Academy of England, learned the beâ€" ginning of bis art in the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. There are few waterâ€"color painters held in higher esâ€" teem than Mr. Abbey. It has recently been learned in Engâ€" land that Lord Beaconsfield‘s coatâ€"ofâ€" arms, was taken from the gravestone of a Jew who was buried in Prague. The Jew bhad been ennobled for his valiant services during the thirty years‘ war. Mr. Gladstone is said to have manâ€" aged the Hawarden estate, which was once much involved, with so much thrift and sagacity that the eldest son of W. H. Gladstone, will, it is believed, succeed to $50,000 a year on attaining his majority. Queen Victoria has given her conâ€" sent to the publication of a large colâ€" lection of private letters, which were written by her aunt, Princess Elizaâ€" beth, the Landgravine of Hesseâ€"Homâ€" burg, who died in 1840. In Thackeray‘s famous sketch of George III. there are some interesting allusions to the landgravine and her residence in Homâ€" burg. The young Queen of Holland is very: enthusiastic about horticulture. Her faâ€" vorite flower is, not unnaturally, the tulip. ‘The royal gardeners make suâ€" perhuman efforts to keep these flowâ€" ers in bloom all the year round, in view of the peculiar favoritism which their mistress has for them. There is one special variety of tulip called "Queen Wilbhelmina," of which she is particularly fond; it is brilliant orange with flameâ€"colored stripes. ; PERSONAL POINTERS. EASY DESSERTS FOR HOT DAYS. The wise housekeeper will eschew cookies, doughnuts, heavy puddings, elâ€" aborate cakes and many pies during the long, hot summer days which will either require so much time in the hot kitchen for the making, or else by their richness and heaviness furnish more "fuel" than our bodies need when the thermometer climbs upward from the All admit that fresbh, ripe fruit is the best and most wholesome dessert for warm weather as well as that most easily prepared, but a little addition occasionally will be welcome. For this a simple sponge cake is easily made and answers every purpose and is in fact nicer than a more elaborate cake to serve either with berries, custard, float or other summer desserts. | _ Delicate Pudding.â€"In the bottom of \a baking dish put a generous layer of | rhubarb, _ blackberries, _ raspberries, | cherries, sliced peaches or quick!y cook« ing apples into quarters. Over this spread a dough made from & cup of \sweet cream, pinch of salt, teaspoon ‘baking powder agoa fiour to make & ‘batter as for cake, Bake for about twenty minutes or until the crust is |done and serve hot in saucers, with |the rich, crisp, crust under and the |fruit dished on top. Serve with sweetâ€" iened cream, as the fruit, if sweetened | before cooking, would scorch in the | baking dish, This is easy and quick!ly ‘prepared and is fine. Oneâ€"fourth the amount used for sponge cake may hbe |used instead of the receipt just given | if desired, and is by some thought to be superior to the plainer crust. _ _ Sbonge Cakeâ€"Four eggs weli beatâ€" en, two cups pulverized sugar, sifled and added to the eggs, two cups flour sifted two or three times, to which two teaspoons of baking powder are added before the last sifting. Btir all toâ€" gelher, then add a scant cup of boiling water. Beat until smooth and bake in one loaf in a moderate oven. Frost or not as preferred. Add flavoring after the hot water is put in. This is very nice indeed. If granulated sugar is used at least a heaping tablespoon less than the recipe calls for sbould be usâ€" ed, for granulated sugar being beavier than powdered sugar makes a cake heavy or gives it a waxyâ€"like uppet crust when baked, if the same quantity, is used. The coarser the granules the less one should use. kok 3 Floatâ€"A quarrt of sweet milk, balf cup sugar, teaspoon flavoringâ€"lemon or vanillaâ€"and the well beaten yolks of six eggs. Place over a hot fire and stir almost constanily uniil hot enough to cook the eggs and thicken, but watch closely and remove from the fire before it actually boils, else it will have a curdled appearance. Pour into a pretty glass dish. Beat the whites to a very stiff froth, add two tablespoons of sugar, a pinch of sait, and half teaspoon of same flavor used in the custard. Have ready a pan of boiling water and on top of this drop the beaten whites, & spoonful in a place. The steam will cook or "set" it in a minute when it is to be removed and lightly placed on top of the cusâ€" tard. This makes a most beautiful ;liilh which is as palatable as it is attrac« ve. A plain custard is made similar to the float ; only the whites and yelks of eggs are not beatren separately, but all cooked together in the milk. KEEPING A MEAL HOT. In every household there are occaâ€" sions when it is impossible for every member to be present when the meal is first served. When it is necessary to keep a meal hot for a belated comer, do not set the plate holding the food in a hot oven, thus discoloring the china as well as drying the food; instead, place the plate upon the fire over a pan of boiling waâ€" ter, covering the plate with a pan that will just fit over the edge of the plate. The food will keep hot and there will be enough steam from the boiling waâ€" ter in the lower pan, to keep the plate moist and prevent the contents from becoming dried. BEASONABLE COOKERY. Peaches are now here, in all their blushing beauty and modesty, and with such a delicious fruit added to the larder, a chef is delighted beyond meaâ€" sure, Really, if one wisely would folâ€" low nature‘s own teaching, the bouseâ€" wife would not think of doing up the luscious peach in dough and sauces, for the natural fruit just as it drops from the trees is by far the most healthfu! state. Still, while there are cooks, peaches will be cooked and iced and the genius of the white cap and apron will continue to improvise new methods. A very palatable Frozen Peach â€" Pudding â€"Can hbe made thus: One pint of rich milk, one pint of rich cream, whipped ; one pint of cut peaches, three yolks of eggs and one and oneâ€"half cup{uls of sugar. Ba«t the eggs well together with the sugar Bring the milk to a borl and stir it carefully into the eggs and sugar. Re turn it to the kettle and stir over th fire until it thickens slighUly ; do no let it boil, or it will curdle. Set th custard aside to cool, then freeze When partly frozen, add the whippe: cream. Turn a little looger, then sti: in the peaches. Pack in a mold. Bottled peaches are said to be fine and the requisites are here given. On« pound loaf sugar, three fourths pint water. Pare, halve and stone the peaches; put them in perfectly dry wideâ€"mouthed bottles, and cover them entirely with a thick syrup made by boiling the above p_ropprt,i‘qnl o{ sugar and water; cork the bottles and tie them down ; boil them in water for 16 minutes after it has reached boiling point, in the same manner as directed for green peas, letting the bottles reâ€" main in the water till it is cold. As the farmers "make hay while the sun shines," the cook puts in some time of the summer days making marmaladeq and pr, verves. 1N NYB I Enteresting Items Abou! Great Britain, the All Parts of the G Assorted for Easy & #d peat ! 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