Parisian hair worn by the twenty or thirty young ladies in my friend's drawing-room, but none of the female coiffures there seemed to me at all to compare with poor Amelia's simple bands of waving gold. HOUSEHOLD RECEIPTS. CANDIED CITRON-PEEL.-Soak the peels in water, which must be frequently changed, until the bitterness is extracted; then drain and place them in syrup until they become soft and transparent; the strength of the syrup being kept up by boiling they should be drained and placed on a hair sieve to dry, in a dry and warm situation. Did her husband think so, too? I wonder. For, reader, her husband was there there, dancing to his wife's music, and looking as unconcerned a fine gentleman as you ever saw in your life. I was standing close beside the piano when Captain Fiz-it occasionally with fresh sugar. When they are taken out gerald's name was announced, and for an instant I noticed that the time varied ominously in the waltz Amelia was working under. Then she rallied-I imagine it was not the first meeting of the kind between this husband and wife-and played on, steadily and without flagging, through the remainder of the immutable twenty-one dances. Ouly once I saw her eyes fixed on her husband's face. It was in a gallop, and Captain Fitzgerald was dancing with a tall and stately young woman, all floating in innocence and white tulle, and crowned with roses-Miss Barbara Ashton, the belle of the room. Just as they were whirling past the piano, it occurred, I conclude, to Miss Ashton that the,music was not fast enough for her taste, for she looked up softly into her partner's face, and then requested him to "bid the young person amend her time." And her partner obeyed her. He stopped, leaned forward (with that urbane air of which Miss Lucinda had spoken), and said: "A little faster, if you please," his arm still encircling the lovely Barbara's waist. And then Amelia looked at him. Heaven grant no woman may ever look at me with eyes like those! And still, poor child, it was a look of love. FEA SOUP.-After well washing one quart of split peas, soak them for the night, and boil them with a little carbonate of soda in just sufficient water to allow them to break to a mash. Then put them to three or four quarts of beef broth, and stew for one hour; then pass the whole through a sieve, and heat again. Season with salt and pepper. One or two small heads of celery, sliced and stewed in it, will be found a great improve ment. To PREPARE CANVAS FOR OIL-PAINTING-It is first strained tightly upon frames; then washed with a thin white glue. When dry, it is painted with a coat of oil-color made of white lead, red lead, linseed oil and turpentine; and afterwards with a second coat, in which the red lead is omitted, and sugar of lead, with a little coloring matter, substituted. TO FIX PENCIL DRAWINGS.-Dissolve pale resin in spirits of wine; lay the pencil drawing on its face upon a sheet of clean paper, and brush the back of the drawing with the solution. This penetrates through the paper in a few minutes, and as the I went up, later in the evening, to the lady of the house, and carelessly mentioned the captain's name. Who was Cap-spirit evaporates the resin is deposited as a varnish on the tain Fitzgerald, and had they known him long? I did not remember seeing him at any of their parties before. Well, in a certain way, we have known him a long time," she answered. "He was in the same regiment, you know, as my brother Frederick, and that brought him a good deal about our house when we were living at Brighton and the -h was stationed there. What he has been doing for the last two or three years, nobody knows. He got into terrible difficulties some time ago, had to leave the army, and went wrong altogether-made a low marriage, in short-but as one sees him out again, known, and alone, most likely his wife is dead or has left him. Captain Fitzgerald is not at all a person I admire, or would encourage about my daughters," she added; dances so beautifully that Alice would have him invited, and as we met him at the Dacres' last week, it shows there can be nothing very, very wrong about him now; for you know old Lady Dacres is so particular in these matters.'' "but he I left London late on the afternoon of the next day, and as I was getting into my cab at Miss Philips' door, had a kind little farewell nod from Amelia. Her usually pale face was all lit up, and flushed with smiles; a sturdy, yellow-haired boy had got his arms tight around her neck; and the silhouette of the captain's profile-long whiskers, eye-glass, and all-was dimly discernible behind the window-curtain. It, was New Year's day, so I concluded that this excellent man was rendering his wife supremely blessed by condescending to eat her turkey and plum-pudding in that humble room. 4 Would Amelia have loved him better had the captain been an honest man? a plain, hard-working, simple-hearted fellow, denying himself to keep her and her child in comfort, slaving day after day, night after night-as I have known some do-and considering himself amply rewarded if, by any extra work of his, he could satisfy her caprice for a new silk dress. or a trip to the sea, or a velvet suit for the child? I am not able to answer that question satisfactorily; I only know how well it is for men that there are so many Amelias in the world. A CLOWN employed to draw timber from a wood met with an oak truak of so large a size that the tackle he made use of to place it on the carriage broke twice. Hodge flung his hat on the ground, and, scratching his head with vexation, exclaimed, "Hang the hogs that didn't eat thee when thee was an acorn, and then I should not have had the trouble with thee." drawing. This has the advantage of not cockling the paper, which aqueous solutions will do; and as the brush only passes over the back of the drawing, none of the pencil marks are in any degree removed. This process will not answer with drawings on card, or any other substance too thick to be penetrated by the solution. In this case a weak solution of isinglass may be placed in a shallow dish, the drawing being passed through it, so as to wet every part without touching it with a brush. ELECTRO GILDING.-Take five ounces (troy) of fine gold; fiftytwo ounces (avoirdupois) of nitromuriatic acid; dissolve by heat, and continue the heat until red or yellow vapors cease to be evolved; decant the clear liquid into a suitable vessel; add four gallons of distilled water, and twenty pounds of pure bicarbonate of potassa. Boil for two hours. LEMONS PRESERVED.-Take some fine lemons, pare the yellow rind off very thin, cut out a piece of the rind at the blossom end, and remove the pulps and pips. Now rub the lemons well all over with fine salt, and lay them in cold water, where they should remain for five or six days, totally immersed. Then boil them in new salt and water twenty minutes. Next prepare a syrup of one pound of loaf sugar to one quart of water, well skimmed; into this put the lemons, and boil five or six minutes each for four days successively; then place them in a jar, and let them stand six weeks, being particular that they are completely covered with syrup. After the specified time, make a thick, fine, clear syrup of the best refined sugar and water, put the lemons into it, and boil them gently ten minutes; set them aside, and after twenty hours' boil them again, at short intervals, until they look plump and clear. Then lay them into jars or glasses, and pour the syrup over them cold; cover them with brandy paper, and tie bladder and leather over all. ORANGE WINE.-To make nine gallons, take eleven gallons of soft water, in which boil the whites of thirty eggs; take two hundred of the finest ripe oranges, and forty lemons, or about thirty Seville oranges, should they be preferred to the lemons. Lump sugar, thirty pounds. Pare the fruit as thin as possible, and upon the parings pour the water, boiling. Upon this juice, having stood ten or twelve hours, and being strained, run the expressed juice of the oranges and lemons, adding the sugar. If required, ferment with half a pint of yeast four or five days, when the wine may be casked, and let from one gallon to a gallon and a half of French brandy be added when the fermen tation subsides. Some substitute sherry, but it is inferior to brandy, and gives an alien flavor to oraoge wine. Bung down closely, but watch the progress of fermentation. In six months it will be perfectly fine, this wine being less liable to remain turbid than any of our other wines. By the directions already given, a wine from any fruit nay be made, observing that, the more sugar is used, the longer time it will require to complete the vinous fermentation. TO MAKE DERBY CAKES.-Rub one pound of butter in two pounds and a bal o: our; make a hole, and put in one pound of powdered loaf sugar; beat two eggs with three tablespoonfuls of honey water, and as much milk as will make half a pint; add half a pound of currants, mix all up together, make them of what size you please, and bake them in a steady oven. DIFFICULTY OF BREATHING.-Vitriolated spirits of ether, one ounce; camphor, twelve grains. Make a solution, of which take a teaspoonful during the proxysm. This is usually found to afford instantaneous relief in difficulty of breathing, depending on internal diseases, and other causes, where the patient, from a very quick and laborious breathing, is obliged to be in an erect posture. TO POLISH HORN.-Scrape with a piece of glass, or a razor, not too sharp, and without notches, as smooth as possible; next rub the horn with very fine glass paper: afterwards with the finest emery; and finally with pulverized charcoal, damped with water. These should be spread on a piece of flannel or cloth. Finish off with a piece of cloth covered with beeswax. This last operation must be performed with pressure and briskness, till the polished surface appears. DEPILATORY (TO REMOVE SUPEFLUOUS HAIR).—Mix two ounces of quicklime with halt an ounce of orpiment or realgar (sulphuret of arsenic); boil that mixture in one pound of strong alkaline lye, then try its strength by dipping a feather into it, and when the flue falls off, the rusma (as it is called) is quite strong enough. It is applied to the human skin by a momentary friction, followed by washing with warm water. Such a caustic liquid should be used with the greatest circumspection, beginning with it somewhat diluted. A soap is sometimes made with lard and the above ingredients; or soft soap is combined with them; in either case to form a depilatory pomade. The rusma should never be applied but to a small surface at a time, for independently of the risk of corroding the skin, dangerous consequences might ensue from absorption of the arsenic. ORANGE JELLY.-Put one quart of water into a saucepan with a quarter of a pound of hartshorn shavings, or two ounces of isinglass, broken small; boil it gently until it is a strong jelly; take the juice from four large oranges, and two fine lemons, and half the yellow rind from one orange and one lemon, pared thin; put them to the jelly, and make it sweet with loaf sugar; then beat the whites of four eggs to a froth, mix it, and let it boil for ten minutes; then run it through a jelly-bag once or twice, until it is perfectly clear; put it in fancy moulds. When you wish to serve it, set the mould for a few seconds in a pan of hot water, turn a flat glass or china dish over the mould, reverse it with the mould upon it, and if the jelly does not immediately loosen, give it a smart tap with the haud. RED STAIN FOR WOOD. -The common archil sold in the shops, used cold; and after two coats, it must be brushed over with a hot solution of pearlash in water. BLACK STAIN FOR WOOD. -Boil half a pound of chip logwood in two quar's of water, add one ounce of pearlash, and apply it hot to the work with a brush. Then take half a pound of logwood, boil it as before in two quarts of water, and add half an ounce of verdigris and half an ounce of copperas; strain it off, put in half a pound of rusty steel filings; and with this go over your work a second time. BINDING OF OLD BOOKS.-To polish up the covers of old books when the leather has got dry and cracked, take the white of an egg, break it with a fork, and having first cleaned the leather with dry flannel, apply the egg with a soft sponge. Where the leather is worn or decayed, rub a little paste with the finger into the parts affected, to fill up the broken grain, otherwise the glair would sink in and turn it black. To produce a polished surface, a hot iron must be rubbed over the leather. The following is, however, an easter, if not a better method. Purchase some "bookbinders' varnish," which may be had at any color shop; clean the leather well, as before; if necessary, use a little water in doing so, but rub quite dry with a flannel before varnishing; apply your varnish with wool, lint, or a very soft sponge, and place to dry. MUFFINS.-Flour, one quartern; warm milk and water, one pint and a half; yeast, a quarter of a pint; salt, two ounces; mix for fifteen minutes; then further add, flour, a quarter of a peck, make a dough, let it rise one hour, roll it up, pull it into pieces, make them into balls, put them in a warm place, and when the whole dough is made into balls, shape them into muffins, and bake them on tins; turn them when half done, dip them into warm milk, and bake to a pale brown. KNOCK-KNEES.-A correspondent's advice and testimony are as follows: "I commenced the practice of placing a small book between my knees, and tying a handkerchief tight round my ankles. This I did two or three times a day, increasing the substance at every fresh trial, until I could hold a brick with ease breadthways.. When I first commenced this practice I was as badly knock-kneed as possible; but now I am as straight as any one. I likewise made it a practice of lying on my back in bed, with my legs crossed and my knees fixed tightly together. This, I believe, did me a great deal of good." Yes, sir." "Mr. Clerk, fine that man ten dollars and imprisonment in the country gaol one month." No. 2, upon being arraigned, pleaded guilty also. "What sort of brandy?" Bir ?" "So you got drunk on old peach brandy and nice strained honey, did vou, sir? "Yes sir." "Mr. Clerk, fine that man one penny; the Court would like a few of such drinks itself." stantly in a scrape, and upon being brought up once for drunkenThe same judge had a very wild son named Bob, who was conness, the judge cried out," Is that you, Bob?" "Yes sir," answered the clerk. "Fine the rascal two dollars and costs; I'd make it ten dollars, if I didn't know that it would come out of my pocket." The man who was struck by a coincidence is fast recovering. MUCH NEEDED.-A good strong adhesive plaster, to make busybodies stick to their own business. Never confide in a young man; new pails leak. Never tell your secret to the aged; old doors seldom shut closely. Jeannie," said a Scotchman to his daughter, who was asking his consent to accompany her urgent and favored suitor to the altar; "Jeannie, it's a very solemn thing to get married." "I know it, father," replied the sensible damsel," but it's a great deal solemner not to." "I wonder where those clouds are going?" sighed Flora, pensively, as she pointed with her thin, delicate finger to the funereal masse that flooded lazily the sky. "I think they are going to thunder," said her little brother. A BRIGHT BOY.- Pa, will roots grow?" "Yes, my son, generally, if they are fresh and good." "Then I'm going to plant this arrow root, and raise all the arrow we want for our archery meeting. Mr. Jalap says its fresh and good." "Go ahead, my son. You will be in a quiver, though, I think, before the crop is got in." NOT A FALSEHOOD" Do you call them large turnips?" "They may be for turnips, but they are nothing to an onion that I saw the other day." "And how large was the onion?" "Oh, a monster; it weighed forty pounds." "Forty pounds ?" "Yes, we took off the layers, and the sixteenth layer went round a barrel that held four gallons!' "What a whopper!" "You don't mean to say that I tell a falsehood?" "Oh, no; what a whopper of an onion I mean." A SHARP DIALOGUE.-The following dialogue occurred between a magistrate and an Irish woman, a shoplifter: "What's become of your husband, woman?" "What's gone of him, yer honor? Faith and he's gone dead." "Ah-pray what did he die of?" "Die of, yer honor? He died of a Friday." "I don't mean what day of the week, but what complaint?" "Oh, what complaint, ver bonor? Faith and it's himself that did not get time to complain." "Ob, ay-he died suddenly? "Rather that way, yer horor." "Did he fall in a fit?" "Why, no, not exactly in a fit, ver honor. He fell out of a window, or through a cellar door-I don't know what they call it." "Oh, ay-and broke his neck." "No, not quite that, yer worship." "What then?" "There was a bit of sthring, or card, or that like, and it throttled poor Mike." "Quite likely. Call the next case." Love and a good dinner are said to be the only two things which change a man's character. A lazy fellow once declared in public company that he could not find bread for his family." Nor I, replied an industrious mechanic; "I am obliged to work for it." A GOOD SHOT-A gentleman better acquainted with the sports of the Stock Exchange than those of the field, and more intimate with the lame ducks in the city than either ducks or geese in their wild and natural state, has been spending a fortnight in Scotland; he came back glorifying in an accession of flesh that will qualify him for the post of a derman. Among the causes which affected this agreeable change, he has instanced hunting and riding on horse back. A slight doubt as to his skill with a Manton, induced us to pry into the success which had rewarded his efforts. "How much game did you kill?" SWEARING FOR THE FAMILY. A returned Chinese missionary relates the following anecdote, showing the cantion of the Chinese. He says: Daring one of our examinations for candidates for baptism at Ngakang, I observed that one women and some three or four young people had the same surname. This circumstance led to the followiog conversation between myself and one of the young men : I observe you have all the same surname. Are you members of the same family!" I inquired. "Yes," one replied;"this is mother and these are my brothers." "Where is your father?" I continued. 'He is at home, attending to his business." "Does he approve of your embracing Christianity ?" "Yes; he is entirely willing." "Why does not your father himself become a Christian?" "He says it would not do for all the family to embrace Christianity." "And why," I asked, with some curiosity," does he think so?" "He says that if we all become Christians, our heathen neighbors will take advantage of that circumstance to impose upon us." "How will they do that?" "Christians are not allowed to swear or fight, and father say! that when our wicked neighbors ascertain that we have embraced Christianity, they will proceed at once to curse us and maltreat us. Hence, father says to us, 'You may all become Christians, but I must remain a heathen, so as to retaliate on our bad neighbors. You can go to meeting and worship, but I must stay at home to co the curing and fighting for the family.'" It is supposed that the answer and excuse were satisfactory. A COOL SURGEON.-A celebrated Dublin surgeon was once known to give a lesson of economy to a wealthy, fashionable young man, remarkably fond of his handsome face and person. He was sent for, and found the patient seated by a table. resting his cheek upon his hand, whilst before him was placed a five-pound note. After some little hesitation he removed his hand, and displayed a small mole on the cheek. "Do you observe this mark, doctor?" "Yes, sir, I do.” "I wish to have it removed." "Does it inconvenience you!" "Not in the least." "Then why wish for its extirpation ?" "I do no like the look of it." turbed for such trifles; moreover, I think that littie excrescence "Sir," replied the surgeon, "I am not in the habit of being dis had better remain un'ouched, since it gives you no uneasiness; and I make it a rule only to take from my patients what is troublesome to them" So raving, he took the five-pound note, slipped it into his pocket, and walked out of the room, leaving the patient in a perfect state of astonishment. QUERY-When a lady writes a novel can her copy be legitimately called manuscript? The Yankees are a smart race of people. A man in Massachusetts recently made so many shoes in half a day, that it took him two 'How much? A deer, certaintly; some geese and grouse, and days to count them; and a man in New Hampshire built so much so forth." "Did you shoot a deer?" Why, yes, I think I did! I saw one and shot at him, and the next day a boy found one that looked exactly like him, not far off. I think there can be no doubt that I shot him." "Yes, how many grouse did you kill? "Two, I believe, all told; but I killed a magnificent grose. Yes," thinking a moment and bursting into a laugh-"Yes, I killed a magnificent goose, and was very near killing another." "Ah, how did it happen?" we inquired. 66 Why you see I was riding out one day on horseback with my gun in my hand, and no particular object in view, when suddenly what should fly under my very head but a great wild goose. It was so far ahead of me, however, before I got ready to fire, as to be out of range; and determined not to lose the shot, I just put spurs to my horse and rapidly overtook him. Just as I came within range 1 fired, and down came the goose on one side. At the very same instant the girths parted, and down came the other goose on the other side!" A physician once advised Sydney Smith to take a walk upon an empty stomach." Whose stomach ?" asked the wit. A leading broker, being asked the other day, how his child was? answered almost in tears "Very ill-would not give two per cent. for his life." A rural noet describing his lady love, says, "She is as beautiful as a water lilly, while her breath is like an armful of clover." "Well," said an old judge to a negro who had been hauled up for stealing a pullet," what have you to say for yourself?" "Nuffia' but dis; I was as crazy as a bed bug when I stole dat ar pullet, cos I might have stolen a big hen, and nebber done it. Dat shows 'clusively dat I was laborin' under de delirum tremendus." A fashionable doctor lately informed his friends, in a large company, that he had been passing eight days in the country. "Yes," said one of the party, "it has been announced in ore of the journals" "Ah!" said the doctor, stretching his neck, very important; " pray, in what terms?" Why, as well as I can remember, it is nearly in the following; There were last week seventy-seven interments less than the week befor.'" stone wall in a day, that it took him all night and part of the next day to get bome. Your house is on fire," said a stranger, rushing into the parlor of a Rober citizen. "Well, sir," was the answer of the latter, "to what cause am I indebted for the extraordinary interest which you take in the affairs of my house?" An engraving of a churchyard is a grave subject, but the tool that does it is a graver. could afford it these hard times. A young lady who was taking music lessons, was asked how she "Oh," said she," I confine myself to the low notes." Never flirt with a young widow who calls you by your Christian name the second time yo meet her unless you have made your mind up to the worst. A man with an enormously large mouth, called on a dentist to get a tooth drawn. After the dentist had prepared his instrument and was about to commence operations, the man began to strain and stretch his mouth, till he got it to a fightful width. "Stay, sir," said the dentist, "don't trouble yourself to stretch your mouth any wider, for I intend to stand outside of it to draw "our tooth." Franklin describes a bachelor as half a pair of scissors, unfit for aught but to scrape a trencher. "I'll be shot if I stay," as the partridge said to the double bar. reled gun. It is a popular delusion to believe that powder on a lady's face has the same effect as that in a musket; namely to cause her to go off. A tailor who, in skating, fell through the ice, declared that he would never again leave his hot goose for a cold duck. My first is the love of little ladies, my second the limb of a fish, my whole a strange monster of 'he deep. Dolphin. "You would be very pretty, indeed," said a gentleman patronizingly to a young lady," if your eyes were only a little larger." My eyes may be very small, sir, but such people as you don't fiil them." 66 FRANK LESLIE'S GAZETTE OF FASHION FOR NOVEMBER, 1865. left side. The dress and casaque are made of empress cloth, with raised black spots. The dress is quite plain. The casaque, in Louis XVIII. style, is tight-fitting, and has two pockets behind, trimmed with artistic buttons. Sleeve, cut with the seam at the elbow and very narrow at the wrist. A collar and cuffs of linen, trimmed with guipure de Cluny, are worn with this toilet. Fig. 3.-Dress of rich purple poplin, trim med at the bottom of the skirt by short bands of black velvet, placed at intervals diagonally in threes, and crossing each other. Paletot of brown fancy cloth, trimmed with narrow bands of black passementerie. It fits moderately close. Bonnet of white terry velvet, trimmed with pink ribbons and roses. Fig. 4.--Little girl's dress of poplin, with a scalloped flounce edged with fringe, and FIG. 1.-Bonnet of blue velvet, trimmed in front with blue daisies, and behind with a scarf hanging on the shoulders; blue ribbon strings. Dress of gray silk, ornamented with bands of blue silk, edged on one side with black guipare. The bottom of the skirt is bordered with blue silk cut in vandykes. High bodice, trimmed down the front with blue silk, edged with guipure. Round waist, fastened with a deep band with two very long shaped ends. The sleeve, trimmed to the elbow with silk and guipure, has an epaulet. Fig. 2.-Hat, in the shape of a Chinese bell, ornamented with wild flowers and a swallow, placed on the MADAME MULCHINOCK. 35 no DWAY. PAGE 235 MISS MATHERS, 891 BROADWAY. PAGE 285. headed with two rows of velvet and loops of the same. med to match. Short jacket, trimEstelle hat, trimmed with velvet and a garland of Marguerites. Fig. 5-Dress of pearl gray silk, the skirt having near the bottom two bands of rose-colored silk, the lower one edged by a deep black and rose-colored fringe. The short paletot of black velvet is tight-fitting, with waistbelt of rosecolored silk; it is edged round the bottom by a band of the silk, and a colored fringe like that on the skirt. The fronts, the neck, and all the seams, are trimmed by bands of rose-colored silk, which are carried to the bottom edge, where they form points and are turned back again, fastening with black velvet buttons at the top. The sleeves |