dia molasses. Stew the whole slowly
until the liquid is nearly absorbed. When cold it can be eaten with
bread and butter, without detecting the senna, and is excellent for
children when costive.

2090. Discipline of Children.

Children should not be allowed to ask for the same thing twice. This
may be accomplished by parents, teacher, or whoever may happen to have
the management of them, paying attention to their little wants, if
proper, at once, when possible. Children should be instructed to
understand that when they are not answered immediately, it is because
it is not convenient. Let them learn patience by waiting.

[CARE IN SUMMER, COMFORT IN WINTER.]

2091. My Wife's Little Tea Parties.

My wife is celebrated for her little parties,--not tea parties alone,
but dinner parties, pic-nic parties, music parties, supper parties--in
fact, she is vhe life and soul of ALL PARTIES, which is more than any
leading politician of the day can boast. But her great _forte_ is her
little tea parties--praised and enjoyed by everybody. A constant
visitor at these little parties is Mrs. Hitching (spoken of
elsewhere), and before a certain epoch in her life (_See par._ 215)
she was wont to remark that she "never knew _h_any one who understood
the _h_art of bringing so many _h_elegancies together" as my wife.
Nobody makes tea like her, and how she makes it she will impart at a
future time. But for her little "nick nacks," as she calls them, which
give a variety and a charm to the tea-table without trenching too
deeply upon our own pocket, she has been kind enough to give a few
receipts upon the present occasion.

2092. Good Plum Cake.

One pound of flour, quarter of a pound of butter, quarter of a pound
of sugar, quarter of a pound of currants, three eggs, half a pint of
milk, and a small teaspoonful of carbonate of soda or baking powder.
The above is excellent. The cakes are always baked in a common earthen
_flower-pot saucer_, which is a very good plan.

2093. Gingerbread Snaps.

One pound of flour, half a pound of treacle, half a pound of sugar,
quarter of a pound of butter, half an ounce of best prepared ginger,
sixteen drops of essence of lemon, potash the size of a nut dissolved
in a tablespoonful of hot water.

2094. Drop Cakes.

One pint of flour, half a pound of butter, quarter of a pound of
pounded l