SUMMER BEVERAGES.* Appleade.-Cut two large apples in slices, and pour a quart of boiling water on them, strain well, and sweeten. To be drank when cold, or iced. Apricot Effervescing Drink.-Take a pint of the juice of bruised apricots, filter until clear, and make into a syrup with half a pound of sugar, then add one ounce of tartaric acid, bottle, and cork well. For a tumbler three parts full of water, add two table-spoonfuls of the syrup, and a scruple of carbonate of soda, stir well, and drink while effervescing. Barley Water.-1. Pick clean, and wash well a handful of common barley, then simmer gently in three pints of water with a bit of lemon-peel. Prepared thus, it does not nauseate like pearlbarley water. 2. Take two ounces and a half of pearl barley: wash well, then add half a pint of water, and boil for a little time, throw away the liquor, pour four imperial pints of boiling water on the barley, boil down to two pints, strain, flavour with sugar, and lemon-peel, if wished. Barley Water, compound.-Boil two pints of barley water, and a pint of water together, with two ounces and a half of sliced figs, half an ounce of liquorice root sliced and bruised, and two ounces and a half of raisins. Reduce to two pints, and strain. Beer, Spruce, Powders. See Vol. I. p. 227. Beer, Treacle.-Take a pound and a half of hops, and boil in 36 gallons of water for an hour, then add 14 pounds of treacle, and a little yeast to work it; ferment, and bottle. Brown Spruce Beer.-Pour four gallons of cold water into a nine-gallon barrel, then add four gallons more, quite boiling, and six pounds of molasses, with about eight or nine table-spoonfuls of the essence of spruce, and on its getting a little cooler, the same quantity of good ale yeast. Shake the barrel well, then leave with bung out for three days; bottle in stone bottles, cork well, wire carefully, pack in sand, and it will be fit to drink in two weeks. Capillaire, Mock.-1. Take three pounds and a half of loaf sugar, three quarters of a pound of coarse sugar, two whites of eggs well beaten with the shells, boil together in a pint and a half of water, and skim carefully. Then add an ounce of orange-flower water, strain and put into perfectly dry bottles. When cold, mix a table-spoonful or two of this syrup in a little warm or cold water.-2. Mix two tea-spoonfuls of curacoa with a pint of syrup.-3. Boil a quart of water well, add three pounds of white sugar, the white of an egg; skim, and boil to a syrup; then add, while warm, four table-spoonfuls of orange-flower water, strain, and use the same as the others. Capillaire, true.-Take forty-eight grains of Canadian maiden-hair, (adiantum pedatum), six drams of boiling water, and an ounce and 20 grains of white sugar. Infuse two-thirds of the maiden-hair in the water, strain, dissolve the sugar in the infusion. Clarify with the white of egg, pour it over the remainder of the maiden * The Editor, while constrained to give as complete a list as possible, does not recommend the use of fermented and spirituous liquors. hair, placed in a water-bath, digest for two hours, and strain the syrup. For large quantities the proportions are:-Maiden-hair, 192 parts. Boiling water, 1500 parts. White sugar, 2000 parts. Cherry Drink.-Prepare the same as apricot, substituting the cherry juice for the other fruit. Cobbler, Sherry.-Take some very fine and clean ice, break into small pieces, fill a tumbler to within an inch of the top with it, put a tablespoonful of plain syrup, capillaire, or any other flavour-some prefer strawberry-add the quarter of the zest of a lemon, and a few drops of the juice. Fill with sherry, stir it up, and let it stand for five or six minutes. Sip it gently through a straw. Cool tankard.-Put into a quart of mild ale. a wine-glassfull of white wine, the same of brandy, and capillaire, the juice of a lemon, and a little piece of the rind. Add a sprig of borage or balm, a bit of toasted bread and nutmeg grated on the top. Cranberry Drink.-Put a tea-cupful of cranberries into a cup of water, and mash them. Boil, in the meantime, two quarts of water with one large spoonful of oatmeal, and a bit of lemonpeel; add the cranberries, and sugar, (but not too much, otherwise the fine sharpness of the fruit will be destroyed) a quarter of a pint of white wine, or less, according to taste; boil for half an hour, and strain. Curds and Whey-cheap method.-Add six grains of citric acid to a wine-glassful of milk, and the result will be a pleasant acidulous whey, and a fine curd. Curds and Whey-Italian method.-Take several of the rough coats that line the gizzards of turkeys and fowls, cleanse from the dirt, rub well with salt, and hang them up to dry; when required for use, break off some of the skin, pour boiling water on, digest for eight or nine hours, and use the same as rennet. Currant Water.-Take a pound of currants, and squeeze into a quart of water; put in four or five ounces of pounded sugar. Mix well, strain, and ice, or allow to get cold. Drink, Divine.-Mix a bottle of cider, half a bottle of perry, and the same of sherry, with half a gill of brandy, then add a sliced lemon, the rind pared as thin as possible, and a toasted biscuit, which is to be added to the liquor as hot as possible. Drink iced, or cooled. Eau Sucré.-Dissolve sugar in boiling water, and drink cold. Effervescing Lemonade.-Boil two pounds of white sugar with a pint of lemon-juice, bottle and cork. Put a table-spoonful of the syrup into a tumbler about three parts full of cold water, add twenty grains of carbonate of soda, and drink quickly. Flap.-Put a little brandy in a tumbler, and add a bottle of soda-water Ginger Beer, bottled.-See Vol. I., p. 227. Ginger Beer, Indian.-To ten quarts of boiling water, add two ounces of pounded ginger, one ounce of cream of tartar, two limes, and two pounds of sugar. Stir until cold, then strain through flannel until quite clear, adding a pint of beer, and four wine-glassfuls of good toddy. Bottle, tie down the corks, shake each bottle well for some time, place them upright, and they will be fit to drink the next day. This does not keep long. Ginger Beer Powders.-See Vol. I., p. 227. Ginger Lemonade.-Boil twelve pounds and a half of lump sugar for twenty minutes in ten gallons of water; clear it with the whites of six eggs. Bruise half a pound of common ginger, boil with the liquor, and then pour it upon ten lemons pared. When quite cold, put it in a cask, with two table-spoonfuls of yeast, the lemons sliced, and half an ounce of isinglass. Bung up the cask the next day; it will be ready to bottle in three weeks, and to drink in another three weeks. Hippocras.-Digest for three days half a drachm of mace, ginger, cloves, nutmegs, and gatingale, in three quarts of Lisbon wine, and also caraway, add an ounce of cinnamon. Strain, and mix twenty ounces of white sugar with the liquor. Imperial, Bottled.-Pour a pint of boiling water on a drachm of cream of tartar, flavour with lemon-peel and sugar, and bottle. Imperial Drink.-Put half an ounce of cream of tartar, four ounces of white sugar, and three ounces of orange peel, into a pan; pour three pints of boiling water on, strain, and cool. Imperial Pop.-Take three ounces of cream of tartar, an ounce of bruised ginger, a pound and a half of white sugar, an ounce of lemon-juice, and pour a gallon and a half of boiling water on them, add two table-spoonfuls of yeast. Mix, bottle, and tie down the corks as usual. six or eight oranges, two quarts of boiling water, and two drachms of tartaric acid into a bottle. When required for use, pour out a tumbler-full, and add thirty grains of carbonate of soda. Orgeat.-Blanch and pound three quarters of a pound of sweet almonds, and thirty bitter ones, with a table-spoonful of water. Stir in by degrees two pints of water, and three pints of milk, and strain the whole through a cloth. Dissolve half a pound of loaf sugar in a pint of water, boil, skim well, and mix with the almond water, adding two table-spoonfuls of orange-flower water, and ä tea-cupful of good brandy. Poor Man's Champagne.-Put a pint of Scotch ale into a jug, and add a bottle of good ginger beer. Quince Syrup.-Grate quinces, pass the pulp through a sieve, then set before the fire for the juice to settle and clarify; strain, and add a pound of sugar (boiled down) to every four ounces of juice; remove from the fire, and when cold, bottle for use. A table-spoonful of this syrup will flavour a pint of water. Royal Lemonade.-Pare two Seville oranges and six lemons as thin as possible, and steep them four hours in a quart of hot water: boil a pound and a quarter of loaf sugar in three pints of water, skim it, and add the two liquors to the juice of six China oranges and a dozen lemons; stir well, strain through a jelly-bag, and ice. King Cup.-Take the rind and juice of a lemon, Raspberry Effervescing Draught.-See Vol. I. a lump of sugar, a small piece of bruised ginger, p. 227. and pour on them about one pint and a half of Raspberry Sherbet.-Add half an ounce of raspboiling water; when cold, strain, add a wine-glass-berry vinegar to half a pint of iced water. ful of sherry, and ice. Lait Sucre.-Boil a pint of milk, sweeten with white sugar, and flavour with lemon. Lemonade. Take sixteen lemons, pare thin, cut in halves, squeeze well, and throw all into a pan; add a pound and a half of white sugar, a gallon of boiling water, and five table-spoonfuls of white wine (four if sherry), mix, strain, and cool. Lemonade au lait.-Take half a pint of lemon juice, the same of white wine, three quarters of a pound of loaf sugar, and a quart of boiling water; mix, and when cold add a pint of boiling milk; let it stand twelve hours, then pour through a jelly-bag. This makes two quarts; and about seven lemons will produce half a pint of juice. Lemonade, portable.-See Vol. I., p. 227. Lemon and Kali.-See Vol. I., p. 196. Mint Julep.-Put about a dozen of the young sprigs of mint into a tumbler, add a table-spoonful of white sugar, and half a wine-glassful of peach, and the same of common brandy, then fill up the tumbler with pounded ice. Nectar.-See Vol. I., p. 114. Negus, Port Wine.-Prepare the same as white wine, substituting port for sherry. Negus, White Wine.-Take two quarts of white wine, a pound and a half of sugar, two quarts and a half of boiling water, and an ounce of lemon juice. Mix, cool, and add grated nutmeg. Orangeade.-Squeeze out the juice of an orange, pour boiling water on a little of the peel, and cover it close. Boil water and sugar to a thin syrup, and skim it. When all are cold, mix the juice, the infusion, and the syrup, with as much more water as will make a rich drink. Strain through a jelly-bag, and ice." Orange Drink, Effervescing.-Put the juice of Raspberry Vinegar. Put a pound of fine fruit into a bowl, pour upon it a quart of the best white wine vinegar, next day strain the liquor on a pound of fresh raspberries; the following day do the same, but do not squeeze the fruit, only drain the liquor as dry as you can. Bottle, and cork well, then cover the corks with bottle cement. Sangaree.-Mix a bottle of Marsala wine with a bottle and a half of iced water, sweeten with loaf sugar, and flavour with lemon-juice, and grated nutmeg. Seidlitz Powders.-See Vol. I., p. 227. Sherbet, Lemon.-Mix half a dram of tartaric acid, an ounce and a half of white sugar, with half a pint of water, and flavour with essence of lemons. Soda Water Powders.-See Vol. I., p. 227. Supreme Nectar.-Put into a nine-gallon cask six pounds of moist sugar, five ounces of bruised ginger, four ounces of cream of tartar, four lemons, eight ounces of yeast, and seven gallons of boiling water. Work two or three days, strain, add brandy one pint, bung very close, and in fourteen days bottle, and wire down. Tamarind Drink.-Boil three pints of water with an ounce and a half of tamarinds, three ounces of currants, and two ounces of stoned raisins, till about a third has evaporated. Strain, add a bit of lemon-peel, which is to be removed in half an hour, then cool. White Spruce Beer.-Take six pounds of white sugar, four ounces of essence of spruce, ten gallons of boiling water, and an ounce of yeast. Work the same as in making ginger beer, and bottle immediately in half pints. Brown spruce beer is made with treacle instead of sugar. bear in mind, that acquaintances are more readily formed than discontinued; and that the character ETIQUETTE, POLITENESS, AND of a young man may be compromised by contact GOOD BREEDING. No. VII. CHRISTENING ETIQUETTE. INTRODUCTIONS. CASUAL ACQUAINTANCE. CONCLUDING that many of our friends may like to be informed respecting Christening Etiquette, we shall devote a brief space to some few particulars on the subject. Immediately after the announcement of a "little stranger" in the columns of the newspaper, friends and acquaintances of the family are expected to send messages of inquiry, and to continue those attentions twice or thrice during the course of one or two weeks. When the lady wishes to receive visitors, cards suited to the occasion and expressive of her thanks, are sent to the inquirers; after which calls are made as early as possible, and the baby is properly introduced. The good old custom of cake and caudle still lingers, happily for those who like the observances of by-gone days; and some there are who slip a present into the hand of that important functionary, the nurse. This, however, is entirely optional, even with relations and near friends, unless, perhaps, when an heir to a great family is born; but on the day of Christening, a gift of money, proportionate to their rank or circumstances, is given to the nurse by those who fill the solemn and responsible office of god-parents. We have thought it advisable to make mention of these particulars, because information will, otherwise, most probably be sought through the medium of the Family Friend. And before proceeding to the subject of Introductions and Casual Acquaintance, we shall present our lady readers with a translation of the beautiful ode of Horace, on the occupations of a country life, and the duties of a young Roman matron. "As the Sabine matron chaste, Active as the Apulian wife, See, she assumes, with cheerful haste, Draws the clean vestment o'er the little limbs; "Dusky grows the winter eve, In hurdled cotes the flocks are penn'd; While she strains the eager gaze, O'er the dim vale, to see her husband come, With tired, yet willing step, to his warm, happy home. "Her beating heart and gladden'd eyes Perceive him ope the wicket gate, The flowing bowl, the steaming plate: Consider seriously before you accept a new introduction: and this advice pertains equally to young men and maidens. The former should ever with the worthless and dissipated, even if no particular intimacy subsists. The latter, that all proffers should be steadily declined, excepting from persons of the highest respectability; and as a general rule, we recommend our young friends never to accept any proposal of the kind, without the sanction of their parents or husbands; or, should they be orphans or unmarried, to seek advice from those on whom they can safely rely. Mistrust the prudence or good intentions of any one who presumes to introduce a stranger without previously gaining your consent. But when this is given, whether you are being presented, or are receiving a presentation, make a slight and courteous inclination of the head, which supersedes the stately courtesy of our grandmothers, when ladies walked in stiff brocades and hoops, and danced minuets. The custom of shaking hands on such occasions is obsolete; but when two ladies who have been introduced. to one another meet the second time, it is both right and friendly to offer the hand. This, however, does not hold good, if the person introduced is a gentleman; a bow at meeting and parting is alone required, unless, indeed, the acquaintance becomes one of long standing. Avoid, however, all formality and haste of manner, each of which is inconsistent with the self-possession of a gentlewoman. Should after circumstances arise of a nature sufficient to justify your wishing to discontinue an acquaintance, behave politely, and do not fail in respect of manner towards the gentleman or lady whose society has ceased to be approved. Any deficiency is highly reprehensible, and cannot be too carefully avoided. If the persons from whom you desire to withdraw possess right feelings, they cannot disapprove your conduct; if wanting in this respect, your friends, at least, will rightly estimate your reasons for thus acting. Young people, who know little of the world and their own standing in society, often fail grievously as regards their manners, when desiring to get rid of a previous acquaintance. But they forget that many eyes are upon them, and that they are in no small danger of losing the good opinion of those whom they most esteem. An instance of the kind arises before our mental view; and we know that such circumstances are never recurred to without a feeling of deep regret. Many individuals who are really gentlewomen, cannot avoid travelling alone, either in railway carriages, or stage coaches, or, it may be, in crowded steamers, when journeying to a distance. We allude especially to those whom the vicissitudes of time have placed in circumstances widely different from such as of right belonged to them, and who have, perhaps, exchanged ancestral homes, and carriages, for a life of dependence or self-exertion. To such we would say especiallyif, in travelling, you are addressed, either by a lady or gentleman, in a courteous manner, let your behaviour be dignified and polite; but remember that the acquaintance, if such it may be termed, ceases with the occasion that gave rise to it, and that the casual intercourse gives no possible right to any after recognition. Persons are occasionally met with, who, from knowing little as regards the usages of society, or from a natural overflowing of good humour and kindliness of temper, like to make themselves either useful or agreeable to strangers, and who take the liberty of speaking unceremoniously to ladies: should you meet with such, behave politely, but distantly at first, and you will not be subjected to further attentions, which might eventually prove inconvenient or derogatory. Be very cautious with regard to letters of introduction, more especially when a gentleman is the recipient. The weal or woe of individuals may be deeply affected by a letter; and many a young man seeks naturally to obtain access to the parents or the brother of a young lady whom he secretly admires, through the medium of a mutual friend. In proportion, therefore, as you are estimated by the family to whom the letter is addressed, will be your responsibility. Human life resembles a chain, in which the larger links are frequently joined together by smaller ones; and our happiness or misery often depends on apparently very trivial incidents; yet nothing is really trivial which affects an immortal being. The subject of introductory letters has been already treated at large; it is, therefore, only necessary to mention, that if, through not being well acquainted with the rules of etiquette, a stranger calls and presents you with a letter, if you know the handwriting, desire the lady or gentleman to be seated, and enter into conversation; but if, on the contrary, you do not recognise the direction, ask permission to open the letter, and act accordingly. We have spoken with regard to the importance of behaving with great caution, and warned young people to be careful in forming acquaintance; but as good advice is best enforced by facts, the following narrative will close this section of our subject. Years have passed away since the event took place, but its remembrance still lingers in a solitary village, with its grey Saxon church, and row of elms, leading to a moated mansion of the olden times. Strangers who, attracted by the surpassing beauty of the neighbourhood, often spend some days at the village inn, are uniformly directed by their host to visit a small unpretending tomb, of foreign marble, bearing a singular inscription, inasmuch as it relates, that some one who lies beneath died of a broken heart. And when they ask the old man to tell them why such words were written, he will relate an "ower true," but sad history of the quiet sleeper who rests with an infant child in that narrow bed. That same history, deeply impressed upon our memory, is as follows. We shall, however, repeat it, as near as possible, in the words of the narrator: "Yonder house, whose tall smokeless chimneys are seen among the trees, was not always given up to the moths and bats. A power of company often met there in past days; the village used to be all alive with the rattling of carriages that came and went; and many a time and often, we had to send over the country for provender, when our own grew short in the hunting season. we, because my father was coachman, and I came, at length, to take the butler's place. no heart to bestow;' and thus thinking, he adopted the orphan son of a brother who died abroad, and brought him up as his own. Master Loftus was a fine youth; all the people loved him, he was so good and generous. But when he came to man's estate, he somewhat disobliged his uncle by marrying a young lady who had been his playfellow when he drove his hoop along the terrace walk. She was the only daughter of the clergyman, and a great favourite with the squire; but her father died, and she was thrown upon the wide, bleak world. Not knowing what better to do, she went to live as a sort of companion with old Madam Vandever, the Dutch merchant's widow, about thirty miles off. Folks said that the dame treated her somewhat harshly; at all events, the love that gladdened her own hearth-stone had vanished like a December sun-gleam. But one morning she did not come down to breakfast as usual, and when the servant opened the door, her little room was empty. Master Dangerfield, who lived near the town, said that he heard the trampling of horses' feet going fast enough by his cottage door at midnight, and by the clatter they made, he thought there must be four of them. off,' said he, with the young squire,' when the neighbours came running in to tell the news next morning :-and so it proved. The squire was very wroth at first, for he thought to have married his nephew to the great heiress at Aurisford Park; but he was soon pretty well reconciled, and he said that he did not blame the young lady, who had neither kith nor kin, nor any one to care for her on earth; but he blamed his nephew for marrying clandestinely, and not asking his consent. My memory somewhat fails me, and I cannot tell you why it was that the young gentleman went abroad, on business connected with property that had belonged to his mother. I, however, well remember, that his wife could not accompany him, because of having an infant, and that when he went away, I heard that he told her he would soon come back, but that, in the mean time, she must be careful to keep herself to herself, and make no acquaintances, because many eyes were upon her. 'She's "The poor thing was young and innocent, and knew nothing of this evil world; she found it dull without him, and when a grandish-looking lady, who lately came into the neighbourhood where Mrs. Loftus lodged at a large gardener's, admired the baby every time she called to purchase flowers, and then asked the young mother to give it an airing in her carriage with two fine prancing horses, she was glad enough. She knew nothing of the world, as I said before-poor innocent, how could she, brought up in this quiet village, all out of harm's way like! "Well, as I was saying, the lady jaunted her about; and one luckless day, when the sheriff was to make his public entrance into the county town, the good-for-nothing woman, who well knew that it was not for the like of her to be seen in company with such a one as Mrs. Loftus, proposed I say to take her there, saying that she had engaged a room at the Royal George, and that they could see the whole procession from the balcony. At first the young lady hesitated-she thought of her husband's words, and excused herself from going; but the would-be gentlewoman could take no denial, and, woe worth the hour! the poor thing went with her, like a sheep to the butcher's-her "Squire Loftus, for so my master was called, lost his wife and an infant son when he was scarcely of age, and took it so to heart, that he never could be persuaded to marry again. 'It is of no use,' said he, for a man to give his hand, when he has heart misgiving her all the time, though she hardly knew why. "Madam's carriage, with her grand liveries, went flourishing along the street, till they reached the Royal George; and the master of the inn, all unwitting what sort of customer was coming, came out in a mighty fuss, with his wife and daughter, and the waiters hurrying after, to show the great lady into his balcony room. Presently the dogs began to bark, and the boys set up a shout, and all the people ran out of their houses to see the coming in of the sheriff, with a mighty concourse of county gentry; but scarcely had the procession got half way before the inn, than on Mrs. Loftus' having chanced to look round, she saw a stately gentleman, on horseback, eyeing her most earnestly; and then glancing at her companion with a look of insufferable contempt, he went on. "Poor lady! she quailed before the glance, and her heart repeatedly misgave her, but there was no helping it; and though she wished to decline going out any more with the stranger, she so came over her about the child, saying how strong and healthy it grew from frequent airings, that scarcely a day passed in which the mother and her baby might not be seen driving about in the woman's open carriage. To make short my story, the gentleman who looked so earnestly at Mrs. Loftus, was no other than the uncle of her husband, who, about that time, had purposed in his own mind to invite her to the Park, there to await his nephew's return. But seeing her in such company, and being of a hasty nature, he listened to the evil words of designing persons who sought to put him against her. He wrote accordingly to his nephew, telling him what he had seen and heard; and his nephew, without taking time to consider, wrote an angry letter to his wife, accusing her of keeping bad company, and not minding what he said about acquaintances. Mrs. Loftus fainted when she received the letter, and was carried to her bed, which she never again left. She sent a few hurried lines, assuring him of her innocence, and begging him to return without delay; and it was well that she did, for her fever rapidly increased; and the poor baby, too, fell ill. The old servant who waited upon her told me that it would break a heart of stone to hear how, in her delirium, she fancied her husband was in the room, and how fervently she declared, again and again, that she had not intentionally done wrong. At length he came, and his feet scarcely touched the stairs, so eager was he to reach the room; but terrible was the sight that awaited him. His beautiful baby boy was sleeping the sleep of death, and his wife was fast going. Hearing his well-known step, she, however, opened her eyes, and a bright smile played over her pale face. My husband!' she faintly whispered.My blessed Saviour, I come to thee!' and thus saying, she departed. "May be," added the old man, "you would like to look over the house where they all lived, when Mr. Loftus was a boy?" M. R. If you suffer your people to be ill educated and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them?-Sir. T. Moore. Barnfield. SWEET are the thoughts that savour of content; Beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss. IF the land be ploughed every year, the corn cometh thinly up, the ear is short, and the grain small. So those who never leave poring on their books have oftentimes as thin invention as those who have no books whereupon to pore. HE hazardeth much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master he is that is only made wise by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant that is neither rich nor wise till he has been bankrupt. By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.-Roger Ascham. OLD Roger Ascham says: "It is a pity that commonly more care is had, and that among very wise men, to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children. To the one they will give gladly a stipend of 200 crowns by the year, and loth to offer the other 200 shillings. God, that sitteth in heaven, laugheth their choice to scorn, and rewardeth their liberality as it deserves: for he suffereth them to have tame and well ordered horses, but wild and unfortunate children." PICTURE OF WAR. LASTLY, stood War, with glittering arms yclad, That to the hilt was all with blood imbrued: |