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12 THE SOUTHERN WORLD, JUNE 1, 1882, When we got to the town we was aimin' for and told our story, there was a big hurrahln and jollification, for every one felt as if he'd waked from a night mare, when he knowd the terrible Boydon Band was used up. I found owners for two of the horses, and kept the other, as no one could be found who had a better right to him, and a splen did critter he was; full of life and that knowin' that he mostskeercd me sometimes; os wo got to know each other better, Selim, his name was—but I’ll have more to tell you of him and his doin's to-morrow night; we’ve ended up the - Boyden Band, so now you know all about ’em stranger. Til* consummation most devoutly wished for by all house keepers deserving that high nml honorable title, is to attain und preserve a certain brightness and whiteness of ar ticles that are culinary and domestic, and also decorative. And the experience of the most notable women of ail time has been that a great amount of scouring and rub bing was necessary to the maintenance of the desired appearance of things daily ex posed for use. Much valuable time and force lias always been expended upon the metal ware of a house, keeping it presenta- hly shining. At last a preparation has been put upon the market that is receiving tiie endorsement of thousands of people and is warranted to be the best and quickest cleaner of polished metals, plate glass and plated ware in the world. Such is “Lustro” a white liquid that will polish to a glitter ing brilliancy glass and metal surfaces by simply being applied with a piece of can ton flannel, allowed to dry, then wiped off with a dry piece of the same mate rial. It restores nickle plates to their original color when tarnished by heat, and rubbing in any case is required. Here is time, labor and strength saved by this truly unapproachable prepara tion. There is nothingin its composi tion which will injure the clothing, bands or metals, for it contains no acid nor grit and is free from all injurious substances. It should be kept instock by grocers, and hardware dealers, and sold with laundry soapatnl stove polish. Ask yonrdealers for "Lustro,” test its merits, and tell your friends and neigh bors of its marvelous cleaning proper ties. FASHION FANt.'IF.N. The wildest combinations of color are the most popular. The capote of medium size is the bonnet of full dress. New mown hay and putty arc two new shades lately brought out. Watteau bodices and panniers are much worn by young girls. . Lace frills are worn around the neck and wristsfor house toilets. Large sagging puffs form the panniers and oftener the fronts of new costumes. Very low embroidered slippers are worn with embroidered stockings. The embroid eries should match. A new fancy in hosiery are in stockings of green silk with a peacock’s feather in tinted gold on the instep. Parasols are very large and are bordered with deep lace on the edges, and decorated with landscapes, dowers and animals pain ted upon them, and with knots of ribbon and bunches of artificial flowers. Some of the new hats and bonnets are as large as parasols, others are no bigger than saucers, while few are of medium size. Pale rose and blue, and rose and cardinal red, are beautifully combined in the guuzy dresses made for midsummer watering-place wear. Straw and chip hats and bonnets of myrtle green, mahogany red, maroon, terra cotta and navy, sapphire and grey hound blue will be much worn. "The world, dear child, Is as we take it, and l.lfe. lie sure, is what we make It." ••OFII «IP«Y.” HY HISS 1m *. KIHII. Two brown eyes full of mischief and fun, Curls ull tangled and snarled Into one, Sunburned face, merry,dimpled, and sweet, Wee, restless, pattering, bare, brown feet, Chubby hands grasping her bounet strings, As back and forth on the gate she swings. With wondering eyes she la trying her best To learn how to fashion a pretty nest, I.lke that the robin and busy mate Are building, down by the garden gate; Her voice full of music, clear and strong, Trying to mimic the wild bird's song. Now she Is off for a race with old l’omp I Away they go in a scampering romp! Her lion net forgotten, she Mings aside, Mounting the shaggy old dog for a ride; Careless, mischievous, thoughtless—and yet A durling, a sunbeam, our household pet, Tlio NnliiiiiniiUer Flail. The Salamander fish, or Prolopterut attncc- tens, is a native of Central Africa, where it lives in swampy places, in the mud, near tiie rivers, being very seldom found in run ning water. Its length is a little over three feet. The Salamander resembles the eel in appearance, has a small mouth, and is cov ered witli little scales. It subsists on frogs and similar creatures The Salamander has the peculiarity of be ing very pugnacious and quarrelsome, at tacking every other fish of the same kind IIOUNKIIOM) RKCII'IW. Dakku Tomatos.—Wash, wipe and cut the tomatos in halves, and place them in a baking pan with the skin down ward; season with pepperand suit; bake in a hot oven until tender; then take up eurefully, ami serve on toast with a bit of butter on each tomato. Stbawiikkky Shokt Cake.—Take two teacii|is of sour milk add a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda; when dissolved add one cup of butter or lard and Hour enough to make a soft dough; roll in thin cakes large enough to fill the pan in which they are to be baked. Dust a frying pan with flour, place in the cake and bake over the fire, turning as soon os the underside is done. Split the cake while hot and butter well. Lay on a plate one-half cake, and put on a Inyer of well sugared strawberries, put on another half, then more strawberries, and so on, until there are six layers; then serve. CiiiCkkn Salad.—Pick a pound of meat quite free from boue, and thoroughly cleanse a good head of celery; chop botli very fine or better still, pass through a mincing ma chine; put this in a large basin. Beat the yolk of an egg until it is thick, mix with it a teaspoonful of made mustard, a pinch of salt, and a quurter of a teaspoonful of white pepper, lleut well into the mixture half a tcucupful of thick cream, and add the juice of a small lemon, drop by drop, beating the mixture with a fork all the time. Stir this drcasing well among the minced chicken and celery. Mould with a spoon in any shape you like, and serve on a dish with beet root cut into fanciful shapes. Some pre fers teaspoonful of tarragon vinegar instead of lemon juice, and salad oil can be used in stead of the cream; but tho cream makes it much whiter and daintier in appearance, and gives a better flavor. Kkostku Stbawbxrhiks.—Beat up the white of an egg in two tablespoonsful of water; take large ripe berries, dip each in the mixture and then roll it lightly in crush ed sugar which has been rolled flue; place tiie sugared crust on a dish and let it stand six hours before serving. A syrup pie is made of syrup, eggs, butter, flour and nutmeg, THE SALAMANDER PISII. large single flower patterns in rich nat ural colors, on grounds delicately tinted on pure white are the features of new mus lins. Low necked, short sleeved dresses'are re vived for girls under nine years. Shirred yoke dresses, with full skirts and no whist band or shirring, arc much worn by little girls. New table linen of the finest grades, cor ners in tinted grounds with damask designs in white on one side, while on the other the color is reversed. Baby dresses without waists, the skirts attached to the yokes or bauds around the shoulders, will be popular summer garments for little girls under ten years. The European fashion of wearing no jewels except in full dress, for evening en tertainment, is sensibly being adopted by American society. The mull neck scarfs lately so popular are now used os fichus tied or loosely knotted on the bosom of the dress, while the neck ribbon is placed above them around the neck, inside the dress collar, but outside the ruche or linen collar. Dresses of fine lawn are made up with trimmings of imitation lace edgings, falling over pleated ruffles on the skirt. The dra peries are lined with the same lace, while the upper part of the coat sleeve is formed of the bands of the lace sewed together, The unlined waist lias a flehuy lawn trim med with the lace. which it may meet, and fighting so fero ciously that one is seldom found which pos sesses a whole tail; a greater or less part of that appendage having usually been Inst in some battle. It wilfalso attempt to defend itself against a human captor, and hiss and bite like a snake, which it somewhat resem bles in its movements. The negroes of Central Africa kill the Sal amander with harpoons, mid regard its flesh as a desirable article of food. During the dry season it hides under a covering of mud from which it does not emerge for several months, or until the streams are replenished, when it revives and comes forth again. Our illustration represents a Salamander captur ing and preparing to devour a frog. FAIRY KTOIIY FOR MY UOYN. Once upon a time there were three broth ers, l’out, Sprinky and Brag—who lived in a small house down in a valley. Pout was the youngest of the three, but every one spoke of him first, because lie was so large and fat that lie looked older than he really was. Sprinky was a little fellow, quick and bright in all his motions, good natured and full of fun. Brag was the eldest of the three ; he was always talking about what he could do, and thought no one else could equal him, and was very quick tempered and cross. Now there was a very high hill on one side of the valley, and on top of the hill was a Beautiful House, which hod been built by old Qiant Helpall, and filled with all the fine things he could gather from all parts of the world. He had said that he would give it to who ever would find his way through the thick woods which grew around the hill. There was no path, and the wood was filled with wicked fairies, who would be made ser vants of whoever should live in the Beauti ful House. As long as no one lived there, they were free to do as they liked, and did not have to work, so they tried hard to keep any one from passing through the wood. Now Brag was boasting to his brothers one day that he intended to live in the Beautiful House. “I shall easily find a way up the hill. I shall start in and go around and around, each time getting higher, until, in a short time, I shall reach tiie top, and then I shall live there and enjoy all the fine things, while you will have to stay here and work for your living." Bo be filled a paper bag with bread and meat and started. He went around and around, and around and around, but each time found he was no further up the hill than he was before. He grew very tired, but did not like to give it up and go home, for he had boasted so much what he could do, that he was afraid they would laugh at him. But at last his bread and meat gave out and he grew very hungry, so he had to go home and get something to eat. “Aha!” said Sprinky, “yon did not go the right way. To-morrow I shall try, and am sure I shall find the road. I shall go on the other side of the hill and go straight up; and when I get to the top I will look down and see you working here, while I shall be riding around and enjoying myself.” So, in the morning, Sprinkey filled a bag with cakes (of which he was very fond) and started around to the other side of the hill to see if lie could find the top. Now the fairies saw him coming and heard him say that lie intended to go straight to the top, without turning to the right or the left, so they waited until lie got a certain distance up the hill, and then they caused the ground to slide just enough to leave him about where he started, but they did it in sucli a manner that for a long time he did not know it, but at last it occurred to him to stop and look around and see if lie were not almost there. You may judge how surprised he was to -find himself no further on his way than when he started. He was very tired and disgusted with his failure, so he ate up his cakes and went home a very sad boy. “ Oh, ho!” said Pout, when Sprinky trudged in with such a long face; “so you are not going to live in the Beauti ful House, either! Well, I see it is left for me to get to the top. It is plain that neither of you was made to ride in carriages and live at your ease. Brag has walked around and around the hill, and Sprinky went to the other side and walked straight up,and neither of you got to the top. You did not think that you might just as well ride. I shall get on my horse and ride to the top, ns I am sure the woods are open enough for a horse to get through.” Brag and Sprinky had nothing to say, so in tiie morning Pout filled a large bag witli different kinds of food, for he liked plenty to eat, and mounted his horse and started on his way to the Beautiful House. "Now,” said he to himself, “1 shall start in here and just any way that is easiest, and shall be sure to strike some way to the top.” So he rode on quite easily for a long dis tance through the woods, but by-and-by the trees seemed to grow larger and stand closer together, so that sometimes they scraped his legs, as the horse squeezed between them, and he often had to stop to rest the poor beast, as he had forgotten to bring Borne feed for him—he had thought only of himself. Still the trees seemed to stand thicker, and at last the poor horse could go no further, and Pout was in a very bad way, for it lmd grown very dark, and his food had given out and he could not see whether he was going up or down. So he sat down and cried him self to Bleep. When he awoke in the morning, he found himself on his door-atep, with Brag and Sprinky just opening the door to see what was there. While he slept the wicked fairies had carried him back home. That night the three boys sat down to talk over their failures. Said Brag: "It is no use to try to find a way up the hill. We can’t do it, I am sure I”