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THE SOUTHERN WORLD, MARCH 15, 1882,
"Noise, rough handling, and dashing cold
water in its face utterly failed to arouse the
child,
“I wum told it cried hard this morning,
hindering ita mother from doing her work,
and she gave it u dose of laudanum about 5
o'clock and another about two hours later.
It was then 1 p. m. I asked how much she
gave, and she said she did not know. ‘Sure
ly,’ said I, ‘you know whether it was four,
six, or ten drops.’
“ ‘But, doctor, I did not drop it.’
“Finally, she told me the first dose was
half a teaspoonful, and the last all the
spoon would hold. On my expressing
surprise that it hod not killed the child
outright, she said she hud often given
it half a teaspoonful.”
It seemed that she had given it in its
brief life, about 14 ounces of laudanum
—nearly a pint!
After hours of labor, with noise,
shaking it, dashing its face with cold
water, the doctor succeeded iu keeping
the child aroused enough for the |>oison
to be eliminated, and thus saved its
life.
Perhaps there are many mothers but
little wiser than the above. Opium
ought never to be given to a child ex
cept at the doctor’s order. Even when
given iu small doses, its reaction will
be unfavorable to sound health.
IIOl'NKIIOl.ir KEC1PEA.
to an ordinary dishful. Bake one hour in a
moderate oven and serve hot. Well prepared
they are quite equal to scalloped oysters.
Cold Turkey or Chicken Hashed.—Mince
the fowl very fine, and free front the bones,
season with salt, pepper, parsley, and a little
thyme. Put it in a stew pan with a little
water, thicken with grated bread crumbs,
add a piece of butter as large as a hen's egg,
and a little ntilk or cream and stew all to
gether, or put in the buking dish and brown
in an oven.
Whipped Cream.—Put a quart of fresh,
Brocaded flounces adorn spring costumes.
Catseye stones are considered lucky jewels.
Galloons and tubular braids trim cloth
suits.
■ Skirts are to be still shorter for street wear.
Hamburg embroideries have lace designs.
Faille sedulsante Is a new bonnet trim
ming.
Venetian lace patterns are copied in bro
cades'.
Flounces of corded crinoline make new
bustles.
the family of de^arf parrots, and is among
the smallest of them all. It is a beautiful
bird of a general green color, with blue, red,
yellow and black spots on different parts of
its body.
In its native freedom the Blue-Crown sub
sists on blossoms and tender fruit; in cap
tivity it is usually fed with cooked rice.
When asleep the bird assumes the curious
position shown In the illustration, hanging
head downward, with one foot grasping the
branch or roosting place. It forms a desira
ble pet, being easily domesticated, and soon
becoming familiar with all the mem
bers of the family, to Which It seems
greatly attached.
The sight of a dog appears to strangely
excite these birds. The song which
they give forth is very sweet; not at all
comparable, however, to that of the
finch or other fine singing birds. The
notes consist, in part, of singing, whist
ling and parrot-like talking, and are
very entertaining to the hearer.
The Fan-Dove (Qoura Victoria,) be
longs to the family of crowned doves
(Gouridie). These are distinguished by
considerable size, a somewhat awkward
build, a beak almost equal in length to
the head, and of nearly uniform size,
exceptnt the tip, where it is larger both
above and below. The wings are mod
erately long and stumpy. The tail is
long, liroad and rounding, and the
plumage large-feathered, especially that
of the magnificent ornament on the
head, which consists of an upright, fan
shaped crest of feathers. They are na
tives of New Guinea and the neighbor
ing islands of the Indian Ocean.
The fan;dove is principally of a slate-
blue color; the under part, however, is
of a chestnut browu; part of the wings
is a blue-gray, and of the tail whitish-
grey. The feathers forming a crest have
little fans at their ends, triangular in
shape. Theeye is einnabar-red, and the
foot flesh color.
As early as 1099 Dumpier saw the crowned
dove in its home, and later many were taken
to the East Indies and kept like chickenSr-^w
Some were taken to Holland to adorn col
lections of birds, but of their wild life very
little is known. Von Kosenberg says: “The
crowned dove lives in flocks on the coast of
New Guinea and other islands. These birds
resemble pheasants in their way of life, go
around in small companies in the forest, and
prefer to remain on the ground.” Wallace
has often seen them in New Guinea running
around on the forest paths, for they spend
most of the day on the ground, eating fallen
fruit. When frightened, they fly up to the
low branches of the nearest trees, which they
also select to sleep on.
The Grent Glacier in Alaska.
Thirty miles distant from Fort Wrangle,
on the Stickeen river, is the great glacier
which the Indians regard asa personification
of a mighty ice God, who has issued from his
mountain home, invested with a power be
fore which all nature bows in submission.
Its first appearance is that of a mountain
instead of a stream of ice; and yet it is be
tween two mountains about three thousand
feet high. The face of it at the base is five
miles in extent, and from five hundred to a
thousand feet in almost perpendicular height
while the length of it is at least forty miles.
After one has tramped through the wet
bushes, and over the millionsof tons of rocks
and gravel which It has pressed down, he is
ready to believe all he has heard of this won
derful curiosity.
One can hear the deep, swift current of
water flowing through it. It is described as
a sight of most imposing grandeur, to be wit
nessed rather than described. Into the river
from the opposite side flows a stream of hot
water from an impiense boiling spring.
The legend runs that while pushing his
way through the canyon, the ice god looked
upon the domains of the river god, and after
a conflict with that deity, conquered him and
spanned the river’s breadth so completely
that the river god was forced to crawl under
neath. The Indians then sent their medi
cine-man to learn how this could be avoided.
The answer came that if & noble chief and
fair maiden would offer themselves as a sacri
fice by taking passage under the long, wind
ing ice-arch, his anger would be appeased
and the river be allowed to go on its way un
disturbed. The two were found, the fatal
journey was made, and the ice has never
again attempted to cross the river.
Salt fish are quickest and best fresh
ened by soaking in sour milk.
Fish may be scaled much easier by
first dipping into boiling water about a
minute.
The fine green tops of earrots make a
pretty garnish fora platter of cold boil
ed ham.
Cooks often make the mistake of
boiling things too much. After reach
ing the boiling point meats should sim
mer. The toughest meats cun be mude
tender by so doing.
It is a good plan to pour hot water
over liver before frying or broiling it; it
improves the taste and seems to muks it
more wholesome also.
White Lilly Cake.—Take the whites of
six eggs, two cups of sugar, three cups of
flour, one cupof sweet milk,three-fourths of
a cup of butter, two teaspoonfuls of cream
tartar, and one teaspoonful of soda.
Cocoanut Pudding.—To six eggs well bea
ten, add one cofl'eecup of milk, one of sugar,
one-lmlf cup stale crumbled sponge cake,
and one-lmlf pound grated cocoanut. -Va
nilla to taste. Bake.
Baked Shad.—Clean and wipe a large
slmd, season with salt and pepper, and put it
in a buking pan with a very little water and
a tablespoonful of butter. Bake the fish
slowly, basting often with the water in the
pan. Make a sauce with a cup of rich milk,
boiled and thickened with a teaspoonful of
flour; add to the gravy a little flnely-chop-
ped parsley, a piece of fresh butter the size
of a walnut, and the gravy from the baking
pan. Let it come to a boil, and when the
fish is placed unbroken on a hot platter,
pour the sauce around it and garnish with 1
water-cress.
French Rolls.—I send a recipe for French
rolls, the best I have ever used: Take three
medium-sized Irish potatoes, boil until soft,
mash in the water in which they were boil
ed, add flour to make it the consistency of
cream. Soak a yeast cake info a cup of tepid
water, beat in two or three eggs, one table
spoonful of sugar, one of salt, mix the whole
together and set to rise. When risen, work
in flour, in which 1ms been rubbed one table
spoonful of lard, until stiff enough to handle
easily. Let it rise again, then make out the
rolls with your hand, flatten until they will
fold over, and spread a very little butter,
just enough to keep it from sticking; bake
quick.
Custard Pie.—Twoeggs beaten well, three
heaping tablespoons sugar, one and one-half
cups milk, with as much cream in it as-you
can afTord ; flavor with anything preferred.
Make a crust of medium thickness, and
brush with beaten egg; while baking watch
closely, and if it commences to boil or bub
ble leave the oven door open. If baked
slowly enough, it will be smoothelike jelly,
if too fast, it will be curdy and watery. This
makes one pie.
Scalloped Potatoes. Slice raw potatoes
thin, as for Saratoga chips, and lay in cold
water one-half hour; then put into a pud
ding dish sprinkling considerable butter in
them, salt, and put about one-half pint milk
THE LITTLE
thick cream into a deep bowl, with a tea
spoonful of any essence preferred, and
enough powdered sugar to suit the taste,
whip witli an egg whisk to a froth; os soon
as the froth rises, take it up on a skimmer,
and drain it in a sieve standing over a dish;
occasionally turn into the bowl containing
tbe cream being whipped, that which has
been drained through tbe sieve. When all
has been whipped to a thick froth, put into
a mold, or cups, and keep it on the ice until
wanted for use. Lemon and orange flavors
are added to whipped cream by rubbing a
lump of loaf sugar upon the peel of the
BLUE-CROWN.
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Antique bodices grow longer and more
pointed.
“All black” for the neck, is liked for
blondes.
Small butterfly bows of kid are worn on
slippers.
Pleatings for the neck have become very
narruw.
The Princess of Wales’ favorite bonnet is
the capote.
Sapphires are fashionable for engagement
rings.
Feather hats and bonnets are moribund—
Paris has condemned them.
THE FAN-DOVE.
fruit, aud then dissolve it in the cream.
Strawberry and raspberry juice, strained and
added to the cream, gives it a delicious
flavor. •
FASHION NOTES.
Small buttons are stylish.
Sunflower yellow is very dark.
Lace-figured ribbons are new.
New buttons are ball-shaped.
A straw ruche borders bonnet brims.
Tucked borders trim gingham dresses.
Slate blue appears among new colon.
Canvas shoes are Imported for summer.
New sattnes come In primary colors, red
and yellow.
Shirred white Surah chemisettes are in
new dresses.
Imported dresses have long waists and are
bouffant.
Cards are festooned on the basque of cloth
dresses.
Foulards will supersede striped and
checked summer silks.
The Little Blue Crown.
The Little Blue-Crown [Ooryllii galgulis,)
is a native of Borneo, Sumatra, Banka, and
the Southern part of Malacca. It belongs to