2 21 CLASS AWARDS. ADDRESS: 23, MIDDLE STREET, CLOTH FIRST CLASS. many of my fellow-councillors I feel a personal respect, I had almost said. regard, so excellent is the tone of their contributions. RUTHENPHARL.-We thank you for your candid FAIR, number you among our most esteemed Councillors. opinion, and hope that you will allow us still to LILY H. must not flatter an Editor! of non-delivery or late delivery of letters is often The fault owing to the post-office authorities. LUCINDA B., whom we congratulate, not only on winning the Definition Prize, but also on the great assiduity she has displayed during the past year. Many thanks! MAGGIE SYMINGTON deserves well of the Council, and we give her a hearty welcome and all good wishes. She writes:-" Please tell Emma S. P., and all who wish for my carte, to follow your suggestions and inclose their cartes to me, either with or without address, and I will reply to them as they wish. And now, dear Mr. Editor, as the Christmas season draws near, I can scarcely find words to express my good wishes for your welfare. May the same amount of happiness that you manage through the pages of the F. F. to scatter over the whole year for us, make our Christmas-day a pleasant one. Please present my sisterly regards to the whole Council, wishing that the Christmas rays may protect them and bring them merriment and enjoyment in abundance." SYMINGTON selected, as her Prize for the Best MAGGIE Enigma, a New Testament in Latin and in French. We have received her graceful acknowledgments of the two volumes. GIPSY.-Always received with welcome. JANE C, EMMA, DAISY H, NELLA, NELLIE, CALLER HERRIN', ADELA, CORDELIA, EMMA S. P. ANNA GREY, CLARISSA, EMMA BUTTERWORTH, BELLA, STANTONVILLE, KATRINE are severally and warmly congratulated and and ILLA, hanked for their talents and perseverance. SPECTATOR is cordially thanked for the warm and constant interest she displays in the "Friend." We have none more zealous in the circle of the Council. VICTORINA is successful in solving the greatest number of the Enigmas, &c., in the November Number; and we therefore present to her as a Prize, "Cassell's Illustrated Exhibitor," value 78. 6d. KATRINE must please accept our thanks in lieu of more lengthy remark. She is wrong in supposing us in the least satirical. an Editor's grand characteristic! Frank courtesy is ROSALIE. On looking at your MS. we are compelled to say that the fault was not the printer's. We think with you in reference to the special subject of remark, and regret it. Write again; we have mislaid the note, to which we promised a reply by post. ILLA writes, and we thank her for so writing:"Accept my very best wishes for yourself, and those dear to you, for your magazine and for our Council therein. Once or twice I have almost feared that a touch of acrimony was creeping in amongst us, but thanks to your wisdom and kindliness of spirit, it disappeared almost as soon as it became ap parent. During our next session I trust we may avoid even the semblance of such an evil. For A DE YOUNGE.-We regret that we have been You are right in your supposition. We congratulate unable to print so much from your pen as we wish. you on winning the Prize for the Best Charade. What book would you like, value 7s. 6d. ? very highly. Will you allow us to tell the Coun- IVANHOE.-Thanks! The cartes have all been forwarded as you wished. JAGO.-Thanks! We imagined that to be the case, TRIP.-Your contribution cost us 8d, simply in an envelope. Separately they would have cost you consequence of your enclosing MSS. and letter in 2d.-a penny for the letter, and a penny for the book parcel, under four ounces. We regret to hear that copies of Ewol's Tenneb's carte, for which we have you have been unwell. several stamped directed envelopes. Not dilatory; We expect to receive more but then we cannot all be first, any more than that all soldiers can be captains, Trip. The Play upon Advertisements is clever, as is also the Ghost Story: but neither of them are quite to our liking, and therefore we cannot promise them insertion. ESTELLA is warmly thanked. Her sweet face shines on us-from a carte-as we write. By the way, we have not nearly so many portraits as we wish to have, considering that a hundred and fifty of our own portraits have been distributed to the Councillors. KATE SYDNAS.-We shall be glad to hear from pray'do not unnecessarily exert yourself. For the you again when you feel disposed to write; but Councillors generally, we may say that your musical compositions are received with delight. Accept our sincere regards. yourself this month. ISABEL is kindly welcomed-always. MAX has not woke up as he ought to have done; but for old friendship's sake we still place him in the First Class. much as he wished to have done; but what he has ASHTON, ERSKINE, G. MATHEWSON, E. H. HUDDLE- Ewol Tenneb has been sent. MIGNONETTE.-Highly successful. The carte of CHARLIE F.-Accept our kind thanks for the very fine brace of pheasants you were kind enough to forward. We may also take this opportunity of acknowledging the receipt of several souvenirs appropriate to the season from various Councillors. In deference to their wishes, however, we refrain from making more particular reference to their well-timed and delicate attentions. SECOND CLASS. MYRTLE, ELIZABETH H., SNOWDROP, DORA, DAPHNE, SARAH H., FAN, LITTLE SUNSHINE, ADNIEL, DAFFE, META, MASETTO, LIZZIE, E. R., FORGET-ME-NOT, RUTH, PAULINE S., ROSINA,CHLOE, DOTTA, ROSEBUD, STEERIA, MARY W., SOPHY E., COUNCILLOR, ADELAIDE, LITTLE GIGGIE, AMELIA, CONSTANCE D., VIOLET, CECILIA and MARIA, JESSY L., PEGGY, MARIAN, DORA, JESSICA, HELIOTROPE, BABY H., CERTUS, DIE VERNON, BAY B., CLARA, and ELSIE, are individually and collectively requested to accept the mention of their names in place of more extended notice-for this month only. If they only knew how busy we are just now, they would, we are sure, forgive us and sympathise with us. mechanic who works twelve hours a day works too hard. Perhaps he does; but an Editor at Christmas-time works eighteen! It has been said that a STONEY.-Pretty, but too simple. will be C. T. RYE.-In future the "Friend better managed in respect to its publication. LIZZIE L-Very pretty. Please write on one side of the paper only in future. PAULINE S. (Thanks), A. BROWN, HORATIO, SEARLES, DEFIANCE, CLARIBEL, BIRDY, and MARIA W., and ISABELLA I, are again congratulated. Some of these Councillors are, it will be seen, promoted a step. OCEAN is welcomed back to the Council. The carte shall be forwarded as soon as we get a fresh supply. EUPHROSYNE and HELIOTROPE are marked. THIRD CLASS. YOUNG SILURIAN, MAJOR (as soon as ready; send stamped directed envelope), SAXON (earlier in future), A. M. E. P. (right). METEOR (an omission), PERSEVERANCE, EL SOL (very clever), AGESILAUS (welcome), YELLA RETEP (very clever), QUIZ, HORATIO. OUR LETTER-BOX. 58. The following Epitaphs are copied from Camberwell Old Church, and have, I believe, never been in print before:1. "Beneath these stones, Lies Thomas Jones. "(N.B.-His name was Smith, only it would not rhyme.)" 2. "To the memory of 'Ono,' (which name be obtained by the clergyman misunderstanding the father, and pronouncing a contrary word, where upon a friend exclaimed, 'Oh, no;' and thus it became the child's name)."-GIPSY. 59. CRINOLINES ABROAD -An African negress having been presented with a crinoline, caused no little amusement to the English, &e.. at Acra, by wearing it the wrong way up, i. e., with the wais band round the ankles, and what should have been the bottom hoop suspended from the neck by cords. In this guise she strutted about as proud as a peacock.-RUTH. 60. TO TAKE PAINT OFF 015-PANELING. - The only method of removing paint from oak-paneling, carving, &c., is as follows:- Make a strong solution of American potash (which can be bought at any colour shop, and resembles burnt brick in appearance); mix this with sawdust into a sort of paste, and spread it all over the paint, which will become softened in a few hours, and is easily removed by washing with cold water. If, after the paneling &c. is dry, it becomes cracked, apply a solution of hot size with a brush, which will bind it well together, and make it better for varnishing; as well as destroy the beetle which is often met with in old oak, and is erroneously called the worm. 61. THE CREOSOTE MEAT-SAFE.-Creoste is used for preserving meat, but it gives it a disagreeable taste and smell. This is obviated by placing a small plate containing a little Creosote immediately under each piece of meat as it hangs in the larder. and covering both with a cloth. The Creosote soen forms an atmosphere around the meat, and will keep it three or four days longer than otherwise, and the meat will not have, when cooked, the slightest smell or taste of Creosote. Or, the joint may be suspended in a wooden box or earthen jar, with a lid Another advantage attending the use of Creosote is, that it frees a larder from flies. 62. RHUBARB WINE.-Take the green stalks or stems of the rhubarb plant, and bruise them, in a mortar or otherwise, to a pulp. Pat this into an open tub, and to five pounds of pulp add one gallon of cold spring water. Let it infuse three days, JENNIE W. and MADELINE are very warmly wel- stirring it frequently; on the fourth day, strain off comed to the Council. A STUDENT discovers germs of talent. We trust you will succeed. The defiANNA SAUNDERS is also very welcome nition is too long for insertion, owing to the press of other matters in the Christmas Number. We LIZZIE A. B.-Persevere and you will be seen to be well enough knowu to the Councillors. shall be very happy to receive your carte. HELEN and MEDORA.-Try again. the liquor, and to each gallon add 3lbs of loaf sugar; stir it until the sugar be dissolved, and there will be formed a crust, or head, which should be skimmed off. Put the clear wine into a cask, but do not stop it down. If it begins to ferment, rack it into another cask; in about a fortnight, stop it down, and let it remain for six months, when it should be racked, and again stopped down; but if the wine should have lost any of its original sweetness, add a sufficient quantity of loaf sugar, and stop it down; taking care, in all cases, that the cask be full. In Rhubarb, early in September, will produce a second erop, when wine may be made as above. 63.-THE GHOST.-All the extraordinary effects shown by Professor Pepper at the Polytechnic, and by Professor Wheeler at the Alhambra, are produced by a very pretty portable toy invented and patented by Mr. Thomas Cooper, 39, Tavistockstreet, Covent Garden. Any young lady or gentleman can make a ghost at home by means of the new apparatus furnished by the inventor, at a cost of from five shillings to a guinea. As a novel source of amusement for winter, may the Toy Ghost be exceedingly popular. 64. WINE FROM UNRIPE GRAPES.-Provide forty pounds of full-grown but unripe grapes; pick out all unsound ones, then separate the small ones by means of a sieve. Put the fruit into a fifteen or a twenty gallon tub; bruise in small portions, so as to burst the berries without crushing the seed. Pour upon them four gallons of water; stir and squeeze them with the hands until the juice and pulp are separated from the seeds and skins. In twelve or twenty-four hours strain the whole through a canvas bag, and pass through the fruit a gallon of fresh water. Next, dissolve in the juice twenty pounds of refined sugar; and add water, if requisite, to make up the whole liquor to eleven gallons; let it remain in the tub, cover it with a blanket, over which place a board, and let the temperature be from fifty to sixty degrees of the thermometer: in a day or two, according to the symptoms of fermentation, draw off the liquor into a ten-gallon cask to ferment, keeping it filled up to near the bung-hole. When the fermentation becomes somewhat languid, drive in the bung, and bore a hole in its side, into which drive a wooden peg. In every case loosen the peg, so that the air may escape, and when there appear no longer any bubbles, drive in the peg tightly. The wine being thus made, it should be set in a cool cellar, and remain there until about the end of December, when, to ensure its fineness, it should be racked in a fresh cask, to clear it from its first lees Should it then prove too sweet, instead of racking it, the fermentation should be renewed by stirring up the lees, or by rolling the cask. Sometimes, if the wine be examined on a clear cold day in February or March, it would be found fine enough to bottle. If it be racked, it should be fined in the usual way with isinglass. If a very sweet as well as brisk wine be wished, the quantity of sugar for ten gallons should be increased to thirty pounds. To ensure briskness without excessive sweetness, the proportion of the fruit should be fifty pounds to twenty-five pounds of sugar. If the sweetness should pass off from wine thus made, check the fermentation by racking and fining, and it will be speedily fit for use. Observe that the husks of the grapes be fermented in the vat with the liquid. ALICE C. 65. FOR WEAK EYES.-Two grains acetate of zinc, in two ounces of rose-water; filter the liquid carefully, and wash the eyes night and morning. 66. FOR CHILBLAINS.-Boil some turnips, and mash them into a pulp; put them in a tub or large basin, and put the feet in them, almost as hot as can be borne, for a short time before going to bed. Of course this must be before the chilblains are broken. 67. FOR WARTS.-Dissolve as much common washing soda as the water will take up; wash the warts with this for a minute or two, and let them dry without wiping. Another way is to get a little bullock's gall, and keep it in a bottle; rub a little on the warts two or three times a day, and in a short time they will disappear. 68. FOR TOOTHACHE. A little horseradish scraped and laid on the arisi of the side affected, will, in many cases, give speedy relief. Another way is to place a little scraped horseradish in the mouth, or the tooth, and just around the gum. relieves rheumatic pains in the gums and face also. The mouth may afterwards be rinsed with a little camphorated water, lukewarm. It 71. EMERY PAPER.-The Moniteur Industriel mentions an ingenious method of obtaining fine emery paper for polishing metals. Slips of paper coated with fresh starch-size are hung on ropes at different altitudes in a small room, which is afterwards carefully closed. A quantity of fine emery is then blown in by means of a ventilator through an aperture left for the purpose, by which means a dense cloud of emery-dust fills the room, but only the finest particles rise in the air to a sufficient height for them to be deposited on the upper slips; those of the second row receive a somewhat coarser sort, and so on, while such particles as are too heavy, and therefore too course for delicate polish, fall to the ground at once. Thus emerypaper of different degrees of fineness may be obtained by a single operation, and sorted with mathematical certainty. 72. EXCELLENT DENTIFRICE.-Procure a lump of whitening, and scrape off as much, in fine power, as will fill a pint pot. Take two ounces of camphor, moisten it with a few drops of brandy or spirit of wine, and rub it into a powder. Mix this with the whitening, and add to it half-an-ounce of powdered myrrh. Put the whole into a wide-mouthed bottle, and cork down. If too strong of the camphor, it will be easy to add a little more whitening. 73. TO REMOVE CORNS.-Get four ounces of white diachylon plaster, four ounces of shoemaker's wax, and sixty drops of muriatic acid or spirits of salt. Boil them for a few minutes in an earthen pipkin, and, when cold, roll the mass between the hands, and apply a little on a piece of white leather. 74. FOR A COUGH.-A spoonful of syrup of horehound and ten drops of spirit of sulphur, taken in a glass of spring water. 75. TONIC APERIENT.-Epsom salts one ounce diluted sulphuric acid one drachm, infusion of quassia chips half an imperial pint, compound tincture of rhubarb two drachms. Half a wine-glassful for a dose twice a day. 76. INFANTS' APERIENT.-Rhubarb five grains, magnesia three grains, white sugar a scruple, manna five grains; mix. Dose, varying from a piece half the size of a sweet-pea to a piece the size of an ordinary pea. A very useful laxative for children is composed of calomel two grains, and sugar a scruple, made into five powders. Half of one of these for a child from birth to one year and a half, and a whole one from that age to five years. 7. FOR HICCUPS.-Take one teaspoonful of common vinegar. 78. FOR CHAPPED HANDS.-Take an ounce and a half of spermaceti, half an ounce of white wax; scrape them into an earthen vessel or pipkin (an earthen jam-pot will do), add six drachms of pounded camphor, and pour on the whole four table-spoonfuls of best olive oil-let it stand before the fire till it dissolves, stirring it well when liquid. Before you wash your hands, take a small piece of the cerate, and rub it into your hands, then wash them as usual. Putting the cerate on before going to bed is very good. 79. A SUFFERER. - TOOTH-ACHE-A writer in "The Lancet" gives the following cure for toothache:- The common methods of destroying the nerve in a tooth without extracting it, are the application of nitric or sulphuric acid, or a red-hot wire, but these are very painful expedients. Some time ago, I tried the application of a small piece, about the size of a pin-head, of stick caustic (nitrate of silver) in the hollow of a decayed tooth, from which I was suffering extreme pain. To my great surprise, the pain instantly ceased on the caustic touching the nerve, and I had not a return of the tooth-ache for twenty-four hours, when I again applied the caustic, and again got immediate relief, which continued for other twenty-four hours. I had occasion to make a third application of the caustic, but since that time, now some months ago, I have not been troubled with tooth-ache. This cure will be found ineffectual if gum-boils accompany the tooth-ache; for in that case the decayed part of the tooth is on the outside of it, and therefore the application of the caustic to the interior of the tooth can do no good. LONDON: ADAMS AND GEE, MIDDLE STREET, CLOTH FAIR, WEST SMITHFIELD, E.C. |