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THE SOUTHERN WORLD, MARCH 1, 1882,
expression of sympathy—these are as neces
sary to healthy and happy child-life as sum
mer showers to the vines. Esi>ecially bear
tlds in mind—they should never go to bed
cold, or hungry, or unhappy. Let them have
plenty of healthy and palatable food, at
regular hours. Small children should have
a slice of bread and butter, or an apple, or
some simple “bite," half way between meals,
and nothing more in the way of lunches. It
is the constant nibbling and “piecing” that
does harm. Never force a child to eat any
thing lie has a real dislike for. When plain
food is declined because of the more tempt
ing dessert abend, it is u different atfuir; but
J have seen little children compelled to eat
anything, when every mouthful was swal
lowed with tremendous effort and genuine
disgust. Some of ns liuve an utter ablior-
once of onions or tomutoes, or codfish, or
some article of food that ought to he relish
ed. How would we like to have some m'.gli-
ty giant put such food on our plates, and
compel us to cat it amid wild flourishes of
his knotted club ? Would we sweetly feel
that the dear giant knew what was best for
us, and proceed to swallow every mouthful ?
or would we say to ourselves,“we’ll eat it be
cause we must, but we hate it all the same,
and we hate you, too!” Children hove as
much right to their likes and dislikes as we
have to ours.
1IOITNEIIOI.I) RECIFE*.
Lima Beans.—Put a pint of shelled beans
in boiling, salted water, enough to cover.
Cook until tender, then drain them. Melt
a piece of butter the size of an egg, and mix
i an even teaspoonful of flour with it; add a
little meat liruth to make a smooth sauce, or
use water instead. Put the beans in the
sauce and set them at the side of file fire fur
fifteen minutes. Just before serving add a
tablcspoonful of chopped parsley, and season
to tuste witli suit and pepper.
Steweii Onions.—Peel the onions and boil
them in salted water with a little milk, until
they are perfectly tender, then drain and put
them into a white sauce to simmer for ten
minutes before serving.
Baked Onions.—Boil in milk and water
until just done, then drain and place the
onions in a buttered baking-pan. Put a bit
of butter and some pepper and saltovereach
one, and add a little of the water in which
they were boiled. Brown them quickly on
the grating of the oven and serve hot.
Salad op Vegetables.—A very nice salad
may he made by mixing a variety of cold
boiled vegetables together. Asparagus, cauli
flower, string beans, beets, carrots, turnips
and peus may be used. These vegetables of
different colors look well, but one can use
whatever is most convenient. Supposing
that the salad is to be made of currots, tur
nips and peas, boil a pint of peas in salted
water until tender, then lny them in cold
water. Pare a enrrot and a white turnip and
cut them into uniform pieces; boil them in
separate waters und lay in cold water until
needed. Just beforu serving, arrange the
vegetables neatly on a small platter, con
trasting the colors well, and pour over them
a French salad dressing.
Fkknch Sai.au Dukssing.-Mix a salt spoon
ful of white pepper with two of salt and a
teaspoonful of scraped onion. Add three
tablespoonfuls of salad oil, and when well
mixed, stir a tablespoonful of vinegar. Pour
tlie dressing over the salad just before serv
ing. String beans, alone, muku a nice salad,
and cauliflower with a mayonnaise sauce is
excellent. Cold baked navy beans are im
proved by u similar dressing, und cold boiled
jiotutoes with beets, onions and this sauce,
is a disii that seldom goes begging. Cold
boiled potutoes with limn beans and beets,ure
good in a salad witli French dressing. The
proi>ortlon of oil nnd vinegar can of course
be varied to suit individual taste.
Mayonnaise Bauce.—Beat the yolk of a
raw egg with a saltspoonful of |>owdercd
mustard, then add, drop by drop, the very
, best of salad oil, and stirconstuntly until the
mixture becomes thick and glossy. Add a
■ scant teusnoonful of good cider vinegar, or
instead of it a little lemon juice.
FANIIION NOTES.
Three or four yards of creamy white trim
ming lace will make a pretty garniture for
a black basque.
One of the most showy laces used for up
turned cuffs and “Mother Hubbard” collars,
is Irish point, in bold, distinct patterns.
Square 'kerchiefs und fichus are now made
. of net, edged with lace to correspond, in
stead of being purt^muslin or India mull.
There is just now a rage for beaded nets
and laces in black, white, cream and cardi
nal and other colors are sometimes used.
A pair of sleeves and a collarette, in
beaded tulle, changes a plain silk dress into
a pretty and stylish evening toilet.
Large Alsatian bows of moire silk are now
worn ujion the head by young and elderly
ladies, the latter choosing black alone.
Thouoii fashion inclines toward elegant
simplicity, ladies, in remodeling old dresses,
need not be afraid to decorate; quantities of
shirring, arranged very much as the wearer
fancies, scarf-draperies, all-in-one trimmed
skirts—all these fashion accepts.
Among the new materials for dress goods,
shown for spring wear, is a cotton material
called satinet. It 1ms a closely twilled sur
face, and is found in the most exquisite
floral designs as well as in solid colors. This
satinet can scarcely be distinguished from
foulard, ns it is silky to the touch.
Scotch ginghams bid fair to be as popular
the coming season as they were last summer;
they are found in eveu stripes, small checks
and uneven plaids. Some of the colors are
clear blue with white, or two shades of blue,
Notwithstanding the frequent rumors
that black costumes for the street are going
out of fashion, they still remuiti not only a
safe choice, but a stylish one; in spite of all
dark greenish brown, green, olive and black
with white.
temptation to adopt the bright colors, black
will doubtless long continue to lie the favor
ite street dress, in this country at least.
One of the most stylish and becoming col
lars of the period is so simple in construc
tion that it can be made at home. The
foundation is a binding of mull about an
incli in width and long enough to reach
around the neck, a piece of tulle, cut the
shape and size desired—about four inches in
the back and rounded off in front—which
piece of tulle is covered with pleatings of
lace, two, three or more, according to the
depth of the collar. A very full, double
pleating of lace should stand up above the
binding. The binding should be covered
with satin ribbon, widtc or colored, passed
under an insertion of lace.
The best designs for making suits of soft
flannel for early spring dresses is to finish
tlie bottom of the back and side breadths
with a pleated trimming or flounce, either
pleat or tuck the front breadth until it
reaches the punier scarf-drapery, which
should be very short in front and long be
hind. If tucked, the tucks should be about
an inch wide, with a half-inch space be
tween.
Tlie hunting jacket, described in a previ
ous number, will bo worn with those suits.
Quiet weddings are rapidly gaining in
favor, and even the bridal tour is no longer
obligatory. It is not considered proper for
the bride elect to bo scon by her friends
after the wedding invitations are out. After
the ceremony the newly married i>uir fre
quently go directly to their new home. As
soon as the young people go to housekeeping,
they generally issue a few “at home” cards,
and thereby open the door for future hospi
talities. At a recent wedding in church the
bridesmaids carried, instead of tlie customa
ry boquets, ivory-bound prayer-books, the
gifts of the bridegroom.
Tbo FctUM ArboreiiH.
The Fetus Arboreus is found growing a-
long the precipitous banks of the river On-
da, in Central Africa. When seen from a
distance by the traveler, these trees, rising
in groups along the horizon, present the ap
pearance of palm trees. They have, as will
be seen by tlie illustration, high, straight,
conical trunks, from the tops of which fern
like fronds spread out in every direction.
This tree is but one of the many rnre tropicul
growths found in that remarkable land.
Aniunin, or Horned Screamer.
Tlie Screamers (Palamedcidae) found in all
the larger swamps of South America, are
large, beavy-bodied birds with long necks,
small heads, and beaks not unlike those of
chickens, pressed together towards the top
and hooked at tlie end. Their feet are short
and thick, protected by moderately long,
pointed nails, slightly curved; the outer and
middle toes being joined by a membrane.
Tlie wings are comparatively long and power
ful, and the rounded tail has twelve feathers,
the plumage being very abundant. Like
some other web-footed birds they have be
neath tlie skin a network of air cells and
bladders which can be Ailed and emptied at
pleasure.
These birds are usually found in small
flocks; they are quite peaceful in disposition.
In walking they carry themselves proudly
and with dignity, and in flying they look
like birds of prey, resembling more especi
ally tlie vulture. They seem to be unable to
swim. The food of tlie Screamer consists
chiefly of vegetable substances, although it
it will hardly refuse insects and little fish.
These birds make a large nest in the midst
of the swamps, deposit two unspotted eggs in
it, and take tlie young off with them ns soon
as hatched. When caught young they soon
grow accustomed to captivity and gain the
respect and obedience of the rest of the poul
try. People are fond of keeping them on the
farms in South America, but they are seldom
sent alive to Europe.
The liom, the left wing spur, and after it
the right spur are thought by tlie Indiuns to
possess great curative properties.
One of the threekinds of which thisfamily
consists is the Aniuma or Anihumn of the
Brazilians, the Horned Screamer, ( v alame-
dea comula.) It is found in tlie forests of
central Brazil, also in Guiana and Columbia.
The horn on the forehead is fastened simply
to the skin, its base being only about tliree-
flfths of an ineh from the base of the back;
it is thin, arches forward, fouror five inches
long, one-tenth of an inch in diameter at
the root and might well be compared to a
violin string. There are two spurs on the
wings, tlie upper one being three cornered,
very pointed and perhaps three inches long,
and is almost imperceptibly bent out-wards.
The second and lower spur is only three-
tenths of an inch long and almost straight
but is nevertheless quite powerful.
The soft, velvet-like feathers of the upper
head are whitish gray, towards the imint
they are black; the feathers of the cheek,
throat, neck, back, breast, wings and tail are
dark brown, those on the wings and should
ers having a greenish metalic lustre. The
plumage on the lower part of the neck and
the upper part of the breast is a clear silver
gray broadly edged witli black, that on tlie
belly is white. The eye is orange color, the
back dark brown, whitish at tlio tip, tlie
horns whitish gray and tlie feet slate-gray.
The length is 31 inches, breadtli 70 inches;
length of wing 22 inches, and the tail 11 in
ches.
The Prince Von Wied, says: “ Tlie Anihn-
ma, a large, beautiful bird, forms an ornn-
mentof the Brazilian forests. Itdid not ap
pear to me until In traveling from North to
to South on the river Belmonte, I had reacli-
the sixteenth degree south latitude. Here
they are numerous, they live remote from
men’s dwellings. I have only met them in
the high forests on the banks of the rivers.
Here we heard frequently the clear peculiar
voice of the Anihunia, whicli has a similar
ity to that of our wild ring-dove, but is fnr
clearer and is accompanied by some other
throat tones. Sometimes wo saw the birds
as they walked along the sand-banks or in
the rivers; but if we drew near they flew
up, and always settled on the top of a thick-
leafed forest tree whence their voices could
bo often heard, though we could seldom see
them. The beautiful large wing feathers are
used for writing, and those of tlie tail by
tlie savages for tbelr pipes. There is a super-
stitution that the biitl dips its horn into the
water every time before ft drinks.”
THE FETUS ARBOREUS.
THE HORNED SCREAMER.