ne colour, and serve with anchovy and
butter sauce.

SPLINTERS. To run splinters, prickles or thorns, such as those of roses,
thistles, or chesnuts, into the hands, feet, or legs, is a very common
accident; and provided any such substance is immediately extracted, it
is seldom attended with any bad consequences. But the more certainly to
prevent any ill effects, a compress of linen dipped in warm water, may
be applied to the part, or it may be bathed a little while in warm
water. If the thorn or splinter cannot be extracted directly, or if any
part of it be left in, it causes an inflammation, and nothing but timely
precaution will prevent its coming to an abscess. A plaster of
shoemaker's wax spread upon leather, draws these wounds remarkably well.
When it is known that any part of it remains, an expert surgeon would
open the place and take it out; but if it be unobserved, as will
sometimes happen, when the thorn or splinter is very small, till the
inflammation begins, and no advice can be at once procured, the steam of
water should be applied to it at first, and then a poultice of bread and
milk, with a few drops of peruvian balsam. It is absolutely necessary
that the injured part should be kept in the easiest posture, and as
still as possible. If this does not soon succeed, good advice must be
obtained without delay, as an accident of this kind neglected, or
improperly treated, may be the occasion of losing a limb. In this and
all cases of inflammation, a forbearance from animal food, and fermented
liquors, is always advisable.

SPONGE CAKE. Weigh ten eggs, add their weight in very fine sugar, and of
flour the weight of six eggs. Beat the yolks with the flour, and the
whites alone, to a very stiff froth. Mix by degrees the whites and the
flour with the other ingredients, beat them well half an hour, and bake
the cake an hour in a quick oven.--Another, without butter. Dry a pound
of flour, and a pound and a quarter of sugar. Grate a lemon, add a
spoonful of brandy, and beat the whole together with the hand for an
hour. Bake the cake in a buttered pan, in a quick oven. Sweetmeats may
be added if approved.

SPOONMEATS FOR INFANTS. It is something more than a human axiom, that
milk is for babes; and as this forms the basis of nearly all the food
from which their nourishment is derived, it is necessary to observe,
that the best way of using it is without either skimming or boiling it.
The cream is the most nutriti