Ladies' Column.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 90, 30 March 1876, Page 7

Ladies' Column.

The following is the general mode adopted in making Scotch haggis:— Clean a fat sheep's pluck thoroughly. "Make incisions in the heartland liver to allow the blood to flow out; and parboil the whole, letting the windpipe lie over the side of the pot to permit the phlegme and blood to disgorge from the lungs Alter ten-minutes' boiling change the water for fresh. The lights cannot be overboiled. A half-hour's boiling will be sufficient for the ? but throw back half the liver to boil till when cold it will grate easily. Take the heart, the half of the liver, and part of the lights, trimming away all skins and black-looking parts, and mince them together finely. Mince also a pound of good beef suei, grate the other half of the liver. Have four large mild onions peeled, scalded, and minced, to mix with tbe haggis mince. Have also ready a large teacupful of finely-ground oatmeal, toasted slowly before the fire till it is of a light brown color, and perfectly crisp and dry. Spread the mince on a board, and strew the meal lightly over it, with a high seasoning of black popper, salt and a little cayenne. Have a sheep's paunch perfectly, cleaned and see that it is strong enough to resist bursting. Put in the meat, with half-a-pint of good beef gravy or as much strong stock. Be careful not to fill the bag too full, but allow the meat and meal room to swell. Add juice of a lemon or a little good vinegar, press out the air, and sew. up the bag ; prick it with a long needle when it first swells in the pot to prevent bursting*. Let it boil slowly for three hours. Bring it to the table when piping hot. It will be found " worthy of a grace as lang's yer arm," but don't take time to say so many ce good words" beforehand. ' Wait till after, and then " the aukf gudeman, maist like to ry ve," may hum his " bethankit" quite leisurely. NEVER MARRY GIRLS WORTH IONSWhen a dozen newsboys and bootblacks had collected on the Customhouse stairs yesterday (says the Detroit "Free Press'), and when each one had grown tired of jaw-breakers and popcorn balls, " Little English" remarked ■:— " Sposen Jim Cocanut tells us a story." " Sposen,'" remarked all the others. " Well, gentleman," remarked Jin^ after a few. a digs at his hair, "I will tell you a true story about a girl. Her name was Marier, and she had yeller hair, blue eyes, small feet, and she was worth a million dollars." " ln stamps V asked Cross-eyed Dick. "In clean cash, right in the savings bank," answered Jim. "This girl was an orphan, with no one to boss her around, and if she wanted to be out until eleven o'clock at night she could! There were piles of fellers after her to • maiTv her, but she stuck up her nose at the hull caboodle." " What fur ?" anxiously inquired. Firecracker Tom. "What fur? Why, she knew they loved her money instead 'of herself. She wanted some one to love her earnestly and like gosh. Well, one day, when she was going down to the post-office to see if there was ary mail, a run away- horse came along. Marier fainted away and sat down on the road and she'd have been broken all to pieces if it hadn!t been for a boot-black about my size. Pie pulled her into a shooting gallery, brought her to, and then hired a hull omnibus and took her home." " And they fell ih love and were finally married," remarked Suspender Johnson: " No my fellow countryman," sadly replied -Jim— r-'/ she gin him 10 cents:" " And is that aIH" exclaimed three or four. voices. ." All she gave him, and that turned out to be a counterfeit.": There was a long period of silence,; and then Cocoanut Jim continued : — .."Which is a lesson to us never to ; marry a girl worth a million dollars." "And we never shall," they solemnly replied. A Pretty Oenament. — Here is something pretty that is within the reach of every little girl. Try it : " Take a white sponge of large size and sow it full of rice, oats, or wheat. Then place it for a week or ten days in a shallow. dish of water, and as ithe sponge will absorb the moisture, the seeds will begin to sprout before many days. When this has fairly taken place the sponge may be suspended by means of cords from a hook in the top of the window, where a little sun will enter, It will then become, like a mass, of green and can 'be kept wet by the mere im^ mersioii of it i'n a bowl of wattr." A DARNING, MACHINE. Imagine ye mothers of large families/ who ruefully contemplate dilapidated socks by the dozen, : after the week's washing, with visions of strained eyes and tired backs floating* across your 1 minds ; iniagine-a » little apparatus in--finitely..mor&.-simple than, the sewingmachine, which repairs the hugest darn in much ..less, than , we ■(Scientific American) can describe the operation ■ and'.ikr iihore, neatly rthan you can do it with all your years of practice. This, is what it is." Two small plates, one : stationary and; the/other .moveable, are placed one above the other. The faces are corrugated, and between them the ' holy'- portion of the stoeking'is lafd. Twelve .long eye pointed . : needles--arranged .side by side in a frame, which last is carried forward so that the needles penetrate opposite edges ofthe hole,-' passihjg-v in the corrugations between 1 the plates. Hinged just ! in front of the plates is an upright bar, \

■ t " ■ -- ■ and on this is a cross piece carrying twelve knobs. The yarn is secured to j an end nob, an ; d then, with a bit of flat wire, pushed through the needle eyes. I'hen the loop between each needle is caught by the hand and hooked over, the opposite nob, so that each needle carries really two threads. Now the needles are carried back to their first position, and in doing so, they draw the threads, which slip off the knobs through the edges of the fabric. A little push forward again brings the sharp rear edges of the needle eye against the threads, cutting all at once. This is repeated until the darn is finished, and beautifully finished it is. The. inventor, is Mr 0. S. Hosmer, of Boston, and Ave predict for him the blessings of the entire feminine community. The cost of the machine is but ten dollars.