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Boiled Corn Meal Pudding

1 pound of corn meal (nearly a quart.) 1 quart of milk. 1/4 pound of sugar. 6 ounces of chopped suet. 3 eggs. Little salt. 1 lemon--juice and grated rind. 1 teaspoonful of ginger, ground or extract.

Boil the milk with the sugar in it; sprinkle in the meal and stir it over the fire 5 minutes. Add the other ingredients. Tie up in a bag with room enough to swell to nearly twice its bulk; boil 5 hours.

Butter and sugar or hard sauce, meringue sauce, or golden sauce are most suitable for the three puddings preceding.

A book is advertised which foretells all the disasters that will befall this poor earth in the next seven years. Also, at the same time, Scribner's publishes an article presaging to hotel people the calamity of an avalanche of dried peaches. Now, what have we done? It may be all very true about the Delaware plains being "the peach garden of the continent, where the peach trees stand in rows a mile long, luxuriating in a warm and mellow soil and a genial climate, and every farm counts its hundreds or thousands. There are forests of twenty thousand peach-trees standing in prim and stately lines. Some large estates count ten, fifteen, or twenty thousand trees in one block. With a fair crop there will be five million baskets of peaches on these trees. A good crop will yield six million baskets--more peaches than the nation can eat while they are in good condition." That is pleasant; so is this: "when, in April days, the blossoms of these million trees foretoken an abundant crop, the good news is telegraphed over the country." Yes, it is good news; everybody glories in millions; we all love plenty. It is the conclusion that makes us unhappy. There is a new industry springing up. They have learned how to dry millions of baskets as peaches as easy as rolling off a log, as if there was not too many dried peaches already. The dried peach is a good thing abstractly considered, yet, when presented in a practical shape to the hotel guest, a little of it goes quite a long way. The taste for it has to be cultivated, and it is tedious work for the cooks. Dried peaches keep well, but it does hotel people no particular good to keep them. They might pay the Indians their annuities, perhaps, in dried peaches, and get rid of the Delaware surplus in that way. If it will do any good towards checking the growing evil to show how to use up peaches, green or canned. here are a few ways to go on with, and some more may be studied up after a while.