Fireside Fragments

- Use kerosense oil to clean yonr washboiler. - Stuft'ed E?gv: Halve ten hard-boiled eggs; take out the yolks and season, adding minee rneat of any kind preferred; fill the eggs, join and put in a dish. Use bread crumbs and milk with the remainder of the mixture, pour over all and bake - (lood Housekeeping1. - To mend china, take a very thick solution of gum arabic and water, and stir into it piaster of Paris until the mixture becomes a viscous paste. Apply it with a brush to the fractured edges and stick them tojfether. In three days the article can not be brolcen in the same place. The whitencss of this cement rendara it doubly valuable. - Chicken Hash: Minee cold roast or boiled chicken not very fine, and to one cupful of meat add two tablespoonf uls good butter. on-half cup of milk, enough mineed onion to give a slight flavor, and salt, pepper and mace to taste. Stew it and stir often, and serve with fjarnish of parsley. Every partiële of bone must be subtracted. - Ladies' Home Journal. - To make frosted chcstnuts for a winter-evening confection, roast the nuts, shell them, and then dip thein in the beaten white of egga. Boll them in powdered sugur, and let them dry on an inverted sieve in the oven, which should be moderately heated. Almonds and walnuts may be frosted in the same way. - Carrot Salad: Carrots boiled and sliced help to make a. very jood salad if used with fresh, cooked veal. Put a cupful of chopped celery in the salad bowl with a little over half as mueh boiled sliced carrot and one pound of chopped veal; add a very little raw, flnely chopped onion, season with salt and pepper and a very little melted butter; pour over half a crapful of good vinegar and mix well. - Prairie Farmer. - Coffee cream will furnish something new in way of a dainty dessert. It is made as follows: Make a teacupful of the strongest and clearest coffee. Put the coffee, when made, with tw5 yolks of egga and one ounce of sugar, into a doublé boiler or a saucepan set into boiling víate r, and stir over the fire till the mixture thickens; then leE it get eold. Whip a pint of good cream quite stiff, and then add the corfee to it by degrees, so that it is smoqth and thick. Serve in pretty cups or g'lasses. It may be frozen if preferred. - N. Y. World. - In every case of in jury, in cuts, stabs and gun-shot wounds, in contusions, sprains, disloeations and fractures, in burns. frostbites and frozen members, the first measure to be adopted is the application of cold in the form of ice. snow or cold water. These substances are best applied in an animal bladder or a rubber bag. When towels wet in cold water are used, they require to be renewed every minute, for, unless frequently changed, they really act as poultices to the part, inviting what we wish to prevent. Cold not ouly stanches any bleeding which may occur, xmless the hemorrhage is altogether too severe, bui also moderates the ensuing inflammation. - Coffee as well astea should be made in an earthen pot. The best utensil for making chocolate in is a wide-mouthed porcelain pot, where the chocolate can be cooked very rapidly and where a large surf ace is exposed. By this method the oil does not separate from the chocolate as it does in a covered dish, or when the chocolate is cooked at a low temperature. Pour the chocolate in an uncovered china or earthenware pitcher and serre it with a bowl of whipped cream. Do not be tempted by a name to buy a so-called chocolate pitcher. They are good for coffee, or even tea, but chocolate should not be served in a covered pitcher. It retains the heat so well there is no excuse for coveriug it like tea and coffee.