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THE TOILET . - HORTICULTURAL, ETC.
THE TOILET. following will be found among the most desirable for the THE HAIR.-Young ladies are often in trouble about their beauty of their flowers and continuance of bloom, assorthair between the ages of seventeen and thirty. The hairments of which can be had from one dollar up to five: may be unruly; it may come out ; the scalp may be at German Asters, Amaranthus, Antirrhinum, Balsams, Calfault, or the fat glands act improperly. liopsis, Candy-tuft, China Pinks, Convolvolus, Gaillardia, The hair may be too dry and get brittle ; this arises, Lobelia Maurandia, Mignonette, Wrimulus, Nasturtium sometimes, from the too free use of spirit washes of various Pansy, Petunia, Phlox Drummondii, Portulaca, Sweet kinds, or from dyes. The remedy is plain. The great com- Abyssum, German Ten-Week Stocks, Thunbergia, Sweetplaint is that the hair gets thin. If there be any debility Peas, Everlasting-Flowers, Double Zinnia, etc., etc. For more full directions for the sowing and management present, the hair will mostly thin out. In these cases it is as well, for a time, at any rate, to keep the hair rather of the above, with descriptive lists ofVegetable and Flowershorter than usual, and to take general tonics. If there Seeds, Plants, etc., refer to DREER'S GARDEN CALENDAR, FOR be indigestion present, this must be remedied ; if neuralgia, 1867, which will be mailed to all who enclose a stamp to HENRY A. DREER, . quinine should be taken. The most troublesome instances his address. of loss of hair on record have followed in the wake of vioSeedsman and Florist, 714 Chestnut St., Philada. lent attacks of neuralgia of the head, brought on by disappointment, or some mental excitement or depression. In these cases very much may be done by the use, internally, PARLOR AMUSEMENTS . of remedies that gives tone to the nervous system, such as CUPID'S BOX.- This game, invented to compel forfeits, is nux vomica, bark, quinine, and steel. After these have done good service, local applications, especially ammonia, played in the following manner : The one who commences offers a box to his right-hand are serviceable. neighbor, and says, " I sell you my Cupid's Box, which It is a fashion with very many young ladies to wear contains three phrases- To Love, to Kiss, and to Dismiss." their hair in different styles that necessitate frequent The neighbor answers : " Whom do you love? Whom do variation in its length. Now, this is productive of much you kiss? Whom do yon dismiss ?" harm. At one time nature has to furnish a large, at other At each of these questions, which are put separately, the times a small crop, and hence is puzzled, or so unhitched, or unbalanced, that she does not afford a supply of nourish- person who has given the box names some individual present whom he Loves, Kisses, or Dismisses. The person ment when called upon to do so, and lapses into a state of whom he kisses must in reality kiss him, and the one that indifferent weakness in consequence. he dismisses pays a forfeit. A player may Love, Kiss, or The one great cause of thinning of the hair is unques- Dismiss several, or even all those present , but this is pertionably general debility. We advise, in the majority of mitted only once during the game-a regulation which such cases, that a teaspoonful of tincture of gentian, with ingsbr it to a termination. about ten drops of diluted hydrochloric acid, be taken twice a day in a wineglassful of water, and the scalp rubbed with some such lotion as the following, night and morning: OUR NEW COOK - BOOK . Distilled vinegar, two ounces; tincture of nux vomica, three drachms ; tincture of capsicum, seven drachms ; ottar Every receipt in this Cook-Book has been tested by a of roses, two drops; and rose-water, four ounces. It is practical housekeeper. almost identical with the nux vomica lotion, the very best PROFESSOR BLOT'S RECEIPTS.A very eminent professor preparation of its kind. Now, the heated and crowded rooms at balls and parties in the art of cookery, the equal, perhaps, of Ude, Franare, in some cases, very injurious to a good state of the catelli, etc., etc., has been lecturing, for some time in our hair. The gas acts very hurtfully in those cases in which principal cities, with great success. We give, this month, a few of his best receipts, thinking they may be useful to the hair and scalp are very dry. The only plan here is to our subscribers. use to the scalp such a simple preventivo as the glycerine Bisque of Lobster.-A soup made with fish is always lotion we have recommended. called a bisque. It is made either with crabs or lobsters. Remove a portion from either side of the head and use the rest. To boil a lobster, put it in a fish-kettle, and cover it HORTICULTURAL. with cold water, cooking it on a quick fire. Two lobsters GARDEN FLOWERS.-Preparation should now be made for will make soup for six or eight persons, and also salad. the sowing of annual flower-seeds. At the South, they All the under-shell and small claws are pounded in a mormay be sown in the open borders ; but in the Middle and tar to make the bisque. When it is pounded, put it in a Northern States, a hot-bed, or where this is not obtainable, pan and set it on the fire with broth or water. The meat a warm and sunny window in the house can be used ; the is cut in small pieces to be added afterward. The bisque soil (and on this greatly depends your success) must bo is left on the fire to boil gently for half an hour. Then light, and not subject to bake, for this is what renders it pour it into a sieve and press it with a masher to extract so difficult for small flower-seeds to survivo germination, the juice. To make it thicker, a small piece of parsnip and for delicate, transplanted annuals to make a start. can be added and mashed with the rest into a pan, so that The best soil is a mixture of equal parts of sand, leaf- all the essence is extracted in that way from the lobster. mould, and loam, which should be thoroughly mixed ; then When you have strained it, put a little butter with it, and fill the boxes, or pots, in which you intend to sow the seed, { add as much broth as is required. Put some of the meat to within one-half inch of the rim, press the soil firmly in the soup-tureen, and pour the soup over it. Fish Stuffed - Soak some bread in water, which is then and evenly in the pot; then water the soil, after which sow the seed evenly over the surface, and finish by cover- to be squeezed out ; add a small onion, chopped fine, fried ing the seed with a light sprinkling of fine soil, (which with butter till nearly done; (this fish weighs two pounds,) should be passed through a sieve,) from one-sixteenth to add to the onion, when nearly done, the bread, salt, and one-quarter of an inch thick; the deep covering of seed, pepper, a little nutmeg, and a little broth, one yolk of egg, with over-watering, is the fruitful cause of so many failures and stir rapidly; when done, add a little parsley, chopped in germinating small seeds, as they generally decay, or fine. When a fish is prepared to stuff, cut out the backdamp the gerin off before they appear above ground. The bone, put the stuffing inside, and sew it up with a trussing-
