Girl's Gossip.

A smart little boy of my acquaintance asked the other day if the hens would lay Jubilee eggs on June 21st. Perhaps he thinks they will be golden ones. If only they would be, what a quantity of hens I should like to buy up before that date ! I should dearly love to have, for once, more money than I should know what to do with. What a glorious new sensation it would be, and how attached my friends would suddenly become ! I should be as popular as the boy at school who had just had a big hamper from home. We hear from an acquaintance hi Birmingham that the luncheon-table laid for the Queen was a thing of beauty. Tt was set out for four persons, and there- were exquisite flowers arranged in \ases of Worcester and Coalportporcelain, sent by Messrs Ol&er, who also provided some wonderful cut-glass finger-bowls of a surpassing thickness and beauty. It seems odd that the Queen of England and Empress of India should have that simple nursery dish, a tapioca pudding, specially prepared far her ; but the choice is at least consistent with the simplicity and homeliness of her life. I wonder if the Prince of Wales likes tapioca pudding". Would you like to know of a use for your old kid gloves ? Well, dear, I hw c just heard that very warm and comfortable quilts can be made of them, a number being sewn together. Does it not seem an odd idea ? I should think that those who fear to undertake .such an ambitious affair as an entire quilt, might succeed in making chest protectors for delicate children and girls, or even coverlets for infants' cribs, which would bo most acceptable to poor and struggling mothers when the cold weather comes again. I have chosen for this week's recipe a good way of making shortbread. I hope you will like it. We do. Thoroughly dry half-a-pound of flour, into which mix about six ounces of sifted sugar, a tiny pinch of salt, four ounces of fresh butter, and a teacupful of cream. The whole should be well stirred, so that all t-h<? ingredients are thoroughly intermingled. Afterwards butter pretty little baking-tins and fill them with the paste, which should be quite two inches thiok. A pinch of cinnamon and a fcablespoonful of ground almonds are' a wonderful improvement. The shortbread requires about half-an-hour in a quick oven. —"Madge," in "Truth."