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12 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. I*"*"? 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