TAKE A SEAT,

WITH COMFORT AND IN SAFETY.

Without attempting anything like an expert discussion of chairs as regards their design and construction, and leaving their social value quite out of the question, there is one solemn fact about chairs which we wish to announce with a mild flourish of trumpets, a fact evidently quite unknown to multitudes of manufacturers and designers of furniture, both of cheap and expensive grades, especially the latter,-and this is the great fact, or principle, which

kitchen and chambers, will doubtless send our illustration to the dining-room, and very properly. At the same time, it would not be out of place either for use or in appearance, if standing in the hall or before the library table. In fact, if it were made of polished ebony upholstered with sulphur satin, and gorgeously bedecked with electric-blue ribbons, it might even be permitted to occupy a retired corner of the parlor. It would just suit some dignified guest, resembling the redoubtable Mrs. Wilfer who, having condescended to ride in the Boffin' chariot, found it morally impos

we are the first to formulate, even if we are not the sole, original discoverers, and for which we are willing to live, and die, if need be: Chairs are to sit in, not to sit on,-we sit on stools, logs, and dunce blocks, not to sit around or at, but in; not to recline upon or to fall across, or stoop over; not to "plump down" into, nor to ride bare back. They are not primarily intended as back-grounds for tidies and anti-macassars, nor as expensive trellises for cheap pink bows. The essential, primary use of chairs is what we have announced.

Those who think it necessary to classify chairs according to the rooms in which they stand, and who would be unable to begin housekeeping without the prescribed assortment, properly labeled for the hall, the parlor, the library, sitting-room, dining-room,

sible to "loll" gracefully, thereby exciting her daughter Lorina's extreme disgust.

Still if one had a dozen of these chairs, or even half a dozen, we should place them around the "festal board." Dining chairs, by the way, are not only to sit in, they are to "sit up" in. Deep, wide seats, yielding upholstery, high, sloping backs and other lounging conveniences, are too suggestive of an after dinner condition by no means pleasant to contemplate. Finally, and in conclusion, the arms of dining chairs should not be high enough to throw the occupant into a spread-eagle attitude as to his elbows, and the chair occupied by the carver should have legs at least two inches longer than the rest.

-E. C. Gardner.

THE COZY CORNER.

[In this corner we propose to have pleasant gossip with our readers and correspondents, in passing matters of household interest, and that it may be made an instructive and profitable Household Exchange, we invite correspondence of inquiry and information on all subjects of general interest and value to the Homes of the World.]-GOOD HOUSEKEEPING.

HOUSEKEEPER'S DAILY PROGRAMME.

Editor of GooD HOUSEKEEPING :

'A Housekeeper's Daily Programme" by " A Subscriber," has found an echo in one heart at least. I hope soon to have the pleasure of seeing the Daily Programme in GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. NEW YORK CITY. ETTA CLEMENS.

The matter is having due consideration.-Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING.

HOW GOOD HOUSEKEEPING IS PRIZED IN ONE FAMILY.

I am not a subscriber to GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, but buy it regularly from the agent of the Northern News Company in this city. I presume our numbers are read by at least ten or twelve persons, and our servants ask for them to read before they are due. You can judge how the magazine is prized in my family.

DIDN'T KNOW WHAT SHE WAS LOSING. Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING:

Have you back numbers of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING? If you have, I want them. I am out of patience with myself to think that when I had the chance to commence with the first numbers I

did not, but I did not know then what good reading there was in those magazines, and what a treat I was losing. I do hope you have back numbers. If you will let me know you will oblige me very much. MRS. J. D. EDMONDS.

SYRACUSE, N. Y.

"ENGLISH AS SHE IS SPOKE."

Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING:

In an article in your excellent magazine, written by that accomplished authority on gastronomy, Catherine Owen, I find a dozen French words, which to the majority of housekeepers are as unintelligible as sanscrit. Will you pardon me if I suggest a column translating those obscure names and methods into plain every day English. Soufflé bread may be a delicious compound, but how is the American housewife who can cook only in her native tongue to know? The French never borrow from us to express their ideas and I cannot understand why potatoes, boiled and served in their jackets, should masquerade on a bill of fare as "Pomme de terre Duchesse" in a country where it is all we can do to properly master "English as she is spoke" I think you will agree with me that the horrible nightmare, restaurant French, should be kept out of the family. Yours for reform,

We

We wish to lift up our voice in praise of your helpful, charming little magazine, and to wish it great success and a long life. are reading with especial interest the serial, "Ten Dollars Enough,” and have added several of Molly's dishes to our daily bill of fare. The epicure of our family cries for stuffed potatoes and considers Molly's breaded chops a dish "fit for the gods." But "honor to whom honor is due," we feel that since Marta slammed the oven door and hopelessly spoiled Molly's cake, she has been living under a cloud, at least a partial cloud, and we wish to relieve her mind by the assurance that the cake might not have been a success, even if the oven door had not been slammed in that fatal way. We speak with some authority, because we tried the receipt the other morning and the result was a failure. We did not slam the oven door, and we did take the precaution to add a teaspoonful of baking powder, although none was mentioned. We wonder if the omission was intentional? The fire was bright and glowing, the oven "just right" and the cake came up beautifully, but, alas! it speedily fell, to rise no more. It was a heavy

indigestible mass, and the verdict at once was, "too much butter." However, since "hope springs eternal in the human breast," we did not despair, we simply made a note of the fact that Molly's cake did not require half a cup of butter, and proceeded to soothe our ruffled feelings and recover our reputation as a cake maker, by stirring up a loaf of the favorite and reliable "Aunt Libbie's Cake." Perhaps some of your readers may like the receipt, so we give it in full: One small cup of butter, two cups of sugar, one cup of milk, two eggs, four cups of flour, one cup of currants, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, a little nutmeg. Stir the flour in gradually and beat the cake very thoroughly. PORT CHESTER, N. Y.

A. J. C. A.

IN PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE under DIFFICULTIES. [“Seekers after light," regarding the perplexities and intricacies of Household Life, will be at liberty to make their desires known in this new department of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. Able pens have been engaged to respond to such, in several of the prominent branches of the Household, and others will be secured as occasion may require. The Inquiry Meeting is now open.]

OATMEAL AND MACARONI. Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING :

If "An Anxious Mother "-Inquiry No. 2 in GOOD HOUSEKEEPING NO. 18-will put a quart of boiling water upon a cupful of oatmeal, and boil, without stirring, four hours, or even more, in a double boiler, or a pail set in a kettle of boiling water, I know that her oatmeal will be all that she wishes and enjoyed by her children. I would like to send you my way of serving macaroni, and one which I have never seen in print: Break the macaroni into small pieces and cook in cold water until soft; drain off what water remains and add milk, pepper and salt. When the milk is hot, pour it over slices of toasted bread which have been buttered.

I cannot tell how much I enjoy your GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, and think it the best thing of the kind I ever saw. J. P. M EAST GREENWICH, R. I.

HOUSEKEEPING ACCOUNTS.

A "young housekeeper" asks if it be necessary to keep accounts. She writes: “Do you really think an account book a help? I have never kept accounts and am sometimes puzzled to know what becomes of the money. I am often tempted to think an account book a delusion and a snare,' an extra burden to a housekeeper's life without its compensation." An account book, conscientiously kept, far from being a burden, is likely to be one of the greatest helps to a housekeeper. One admirable housekeeper recently told me that she received a certain amount each week for housekeeping, and as she had never exceeded it she thought she might as well save the additional trouble involved by accounts. This was, perhaps, well enough in her case, but it is not every one that is blessed with so liberal an income that no thought must be taken as to its expenditure. A very convenient and practical manner of arranging an account book is to have household and personal divisions. The subdivisions under the first general title should embrace columns for food, fuel, light, repairs, articles for household use, servants' wages, expenditures for extra help, rent, insurance and taxes. The second general title should contain a subdivision for each member of the family, and others for charity, church expenses, gifts and amusements. Each subdivision should be plainly indicated, so that it may be seen at once exactly how the money is spent. The great advantage of this plan is that, in case of too great expenditure, it will be far easier to see precisely where the "cutting down" shall take place than in the case where all the expenditures are simply put down without the slightest attempt at classification, "as the manner of some is." A clever woman has an original way of keeping money. She has a box marked" household," in which the money for the house is put; another marked "dress," and another marked “amusements." Into the latter box the money received for gifts and all saved from the other two boxes is put every month, and the cost of many a pleasant outing has come from the contents. Strict accounts are kept, and if the amusement box is not supplied with the necessary funds when a trip to the country is desired, the outing is not indulged in until the amount is in the box.-Vew York Commercial Advertiser.

A PAGE OF FUGITIVE VERSE.

GATHERED HERE AND THERE.

[The following poem, by the late Mrs. Nancy A. W. Wakefield,-then Miss Priest,-has been copied as widely, doubtless, as any poem ever published, and can never be duplicated in print too often. It was originally published in the Springfield Republican when the late Dr. J. G. Holland was one of its editors. The writer of this paragraph occupied a desk adjoining that of Dr. Holland, at the time the MS. was received in the editorial room of the Republican. Dr. Holland, after opening the letter containing it, commenced reading the lines thoughtfully, and in a few moments he said: "I have a poem here, Bthat I want to read to you," and he commenced reading it anew, and aloud. After reading one verse, and a portion of another, he paused, shading his eyes with one hand, and passing the MS. to the writer, said with much emotion: "Read it yourself, I can go no farther." And it was then read in silence, as it should ever be ]-Editor of GooD HOUSEKEEPING.

OVER THE RIVER.

Over the river they beckon to me,

There's nothing like a blazing fire
To make a man feel blithe and jolly,
To raise his drooping spirits higher
And drive away his melancholy.

And we enjoy, my wife and I,

Our cheery fire when darkness hovers, And when the cold winds moan and sigh We sit there like a pair of lovers.

I sometimes think that there must be
Some subtle witchery about it,
But this I know: I can not see
How we could ever do without it.

So every night it's lighted now,
For thus we both of us have willed it,
And every night we have a row
To settle which of us shall build it.
-Somerville Journal.

"A CHILD SHALL LEAD HIM." She came to my waiting arms one day, And clambered upon my knees;

The gleam of their snowy robes I see,

But their voices are lost in the dashing tide; There's one with ringlets of sunny gold,

And eyes the reflection of Heaven's own blue; He crossed in the twilight, gray and cold,

And the pale mist hid him from mortal view. We saw not the angels who met him there, The gates of the city we could not see, Over the river-over the river

My brother stands waiting to welcome me.

Over the river the boatman pale

Carried another, the household pet; Her brown curls waved in the gentle gale, Darling Minnie! I see her yet.

She crossed on her bosom her dimpled hands, And fearlessly entered the phantom bark; We felt it glide from the silver sands,

And all our sunshine grew strangely dark. We know she is safe on the further side, Where all the ransomed and angels be; Over the river--the mystic river

My childhood's idol is waiting for me. For none return from those quiet shores Who cross with the boatman cold and pale; We hear the dip of the golden oars,

And catch a gleam of the snowy sail; And lo! they have passed from our yearning hearts,

Who cross the stream and are gone for aye, We may not sunder the veil apart,

That hides from our vision the gates of day; We only know that their barques no more May sail with us over life's stormy sea; Yet somewhere, I know, on the unseen shore, They watch, and beckon, and wait for me. And I sit and think when the sunset's gold Is flushing river and hill and shore,

I shall one day stand by the water cold,

And list for the sound of the boatman's oar; I shall watch for a gleam of the flapping sail, I shall hear the boat as it gains the strand, I shall pass from sight with the boatman pale, "To the better shore of the spirit land;

I shall know the loved who have gone before, And joyfully sweet will the meeting be, When over the river--the peaceful riverThe angel of death shall carry me.

BEFORE THE FIRE. Before the snapping, glowing grate We sit, my wife and I, together, And happy in our tete-a-tete,

Defy this dull mid-winter weather.

away;

May I love you all I please!"

"All you please? God bless you, yes!"
And my heart and eyes were full;
But oh! the little one couldn't guess
How heavy had been the pull
On the strings of a memory, always green
With the blossoms and balm of earth
Till the hand of passion had come between
My soul and its second birth.

She had said, "good master;" little she knew
How the angels had pressed the word;
And my arms instinctively closer drew
When I thought she had never heard.
And I prayed to the Father, "Make us one-
This little girl and me!

Let her innocence plead for the spirit of greed
Till it speed away to the sea.

And out of the fog let me lift the brain

To the sun of her shining hair."
Was it wrong and selfish to reap the gain
When she nestled so closely there;
And her little hand, such a willing help,
To lift me out of the dust!

Oh, Father of love! I give thee thanks
For this lesson of childlike trust;

It has made me young who once was old,
It has mellowed my life with love;
And I pray I may never again grow cold
While I fondle this heavenly dove.
-San Franciscan.

ABOUT HUSBANDS: TO THE GIRLS.

A man is in general, better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife speaks Greek.-Sam Johnson.

Johnson was right. I don't agree to all

The solemn dogmas of the rough old stager; But very much approve what one may call The minor morals of the "Ursa Major."

Johnson was right. Although some men adore Wisdom in woman, and with wisdom cram her,

There isn't one in ten but thinks far more
Of his own grub than of his spouse's grammar.

I know it is the greatest shame in life;
But who among them (save, perhaps, myself),
Returning home, but asks his wife

What beer-not books-she has upon the shelf. Though Greek and Latin be the lady's boast, They're little valued by her loving mate;

The kind of tongue that husbands relish most Is modern, boiled and served upon a plate. Or if, as fond ambition may command,

Some home-made verse the happy matron shows him,

What mortal spouse, but from her dainty hand
Would sooner see a pudding than a poem?

Young lady-deep in love with Tom or Harry-
'Tis sad to tell you such a tale as this;
But here is the moral of it: Do not marry,
Or, marrying, take your lover as he is-
A very Mars-with something of the brute,
Unless he proves a sentimental noddy,
With passions strong and appetite to boot,
A thirsty soul within a hungry body.
A very man, not one of nature's clods
With human failings, whether saint or sinner,
Endowed, perhaps, with genius from the gods,
But apt to take his temper from his dinner.
-John G. Saxe.

EDITOR'S PORTFOLIO.

HOLYOKE, MASS., AND NEW YORK CITY, FEBRUARY 6, 1886.

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EDUCATION FROM PLAY.

There is hardly a man or woman on the round earth who is not interested in some little child. To nearly every one, then, the education of children is an important subject. Of making books upon it there is no end, and of private theories, never intended for publication but none the less ardently held and enthusiastically experimented with, the number, one may say, is numberless. Amid all the conflicting theories the wonder is that children are not hopelessly spoiled; and that there are so many wise, well-balanced, efficient men and women in the world to-day is sufficiently strong proof of the ability of Nature to work out her own ends, however men may conspire to thwart her.

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A study of Nature's methods of education would indeed seem, when one comes to consider the subject, to be the only suitable foundation upon which to erect an educational theory. For, although "reading and writing” may not come by nature," yet all the essential operations of mind, and all the fundamentals of science, are taught to the little child in Nature's school, and so thoroughly taught, withal, that the pupil never unlearns them. To talk, to investigate, to invent, to reason, to meditate,-most difficult of acquirements,-all these the little child learns, not only without apparent effort, but with evident delight, during those early years when he is wholly given up to Nature's teaching,busy, that is, with nothing but play.

To say that a child is "busy with play" is by no means a perversion of words. A noted educator has profoundly observed that "play is the appropriate business and occupation of a child;" and the child is most faithfully performing his heaven-given duty when he is most actively engaged in play. No language that he afterward studies, be he never so finished a linguist, will be entirely his own as the language he learned during the early years of entire abandonment to play; no invention, however perfect and however appropriate to the demands of the hour, will prove more successful than the devices by which the baby-inventor furthered his own designs for play; no investigations of the future scientist will be pursued with such entire humility, such ardent desire for truth, as those by which the little child solved for himself the initial problems of a mysterious and untried life.

This being the case,-and a moment's reflection will recall to every parent's mind incidents which will prove it so,-why should the mother or the teacher refuse to taks a lesson from the child before presuming to teach him? The child in Nature's school learns by means of original investigation: he handles, tastes, considers, experiments upon every object which comes within his reach, and thus he gains a real and lasting acquaintance with it. The child in Nature's school, that is, the child at play, observes, he meditates, he questions, and summons all his powers of imagination and invention to procure for him an answer. This is play.

Once he is put to school, all these mental proceedings are arbitrarily arrested. Who wants an inquiring, investigating child, one who delays the work of the class while he stops to think for himself, one who puts original (and possibly puzzling) propositions to his teacher, who wants such a child as this in a "grade" which is bound, at peril of the teacher's reputation, to "pass" into a higher room at the next examination? Shall the teacher waste the all-tooshort hours allotted for the prescribed cramming of her pupils, in satisfying an insatiable mind when the subject bears but indifferently upon the business in hand?

True, the child's school education completed, and the work of maturer life begun, he must fall back again upon the slighted faculties which helped him only in his plays. It is by the thorough

ness of his power of investigation, the wealth of his imagination, the fertility of his invention, the adequacy of his judgment, the efficiency of his reflective powers, the strength of his patience and │ endurance, rather than to any feats of memory, rather than to any acquaintance with language or literature or scientific facts, that the author, the inventor, the scientist, no less than the man of business, the teacher or the housekeeper, achieves success. Into this kingdom one must enter as a little child.

Why, then, should not the methods of play be carried on with the work of the school? not in the kindergarten only, but after the kindergarten period is past. Why should not the schoolboy be set to investigate for himself? Why may he not be encouraged to think? Grant that he thinks mistakenly on subjects now far beyond the range of his own experience,-are not his teacher, his father, his mother, then to put him right? Why should he not be set to observe and to reason upon his own observations? Why should it be assumed that there is any usefulness to the boy in "cram," when it is certain that the man will only be able to serve himself of that which he has made his own by assimilation, that is, by independent thought? Classical cram or scientific cram, languages ancient or languages modern,-why all this war of words as to their relative educating value as long as the methods by which they are taught are utterly opposed alike to the teachings of nature and the habits of the human mind? After all the ado that has been made about the science of teaching, it may yet be possible that it is the science of play, to which we must go to learn how the mind of a little child should be taught to work.

ALL KINDS OF FOOD.

QUALITY AND PRICE IN THE NEW YORK MARKET, JANUARY 23. [Prepared Expressly for GOOD HOUSEKEEPING.]

FISH.-During the past fortnight fish has been very scarce, particularly the choice varieties demanded for family tables. The novelty of the fish benches in Fulton Market since the new year opened has been Rainbow Trout, which sell for $1.25 a pound. The arrival of a North-River shad weighing five and one-half pounds, created a sensation this week. Delmonico bought it for $5. A few North Carolina shad have appeared weighing four pounds each, but the majority of these fish are caught in Florida, weigh two and one-half pounds each, and sell for 75 cents. Oyster crabs are a delicacy of the fish stalls; these bring $2 a quart. There is a steady demand for fresh-caught Oregon salmon, at 35 cents a pound for middle cuts, or 30 cents a pound for the whole fish. Refrigerated Restigouche salmon are 30 cents a pound. Rhode Island green smelts are prime and 15 cents a pound. Canada frozen smelts are Io cents a pound. Frost fish or Tom cods are 8 cents a pound. Spanish mackerel are frozen, and 50 cents a pound. Fresh mackerel cost 121⁄2 cents each. Sheepshead are frozen, and 25 cents each. Market cod are 7 cents; live cod 8 cents, and cod steaks are ro cents a pound. Red snappers are at present the cheapest boiling fish next to cod and haddock, and are 10 and 15 cents a pound, according to cut. Haddock is 7 cents a pound. Medium-sized bass are 30 cents a pound, and pan-bass cost 20 cents a pound. Eels are 18 cents a pound. Lobsters are scarce, and 15 cents a pound. Flounders are 10 cents, and blackfish 12 cents a pound. Sea-bass are 18 cents a pound. Frozen bluefish cost 16 cents a pound. White halibut is very scarce, and 18 and 20 cents a pound. Green turtle cost 20 cents a pound. Terrapin bring from $8 to $48 a dozen. Frog's legs cost go cents a pound. Hard-shell crabs are $3.50 a hundred; crayfish, are $5 a hundred. Prauns are 50 cents a quart, and scallops are 35 cents a quart. Bluepoint and Rockaway oysters cost from 75 cents to $1.50 a hundred. Little-neck clams are 40 cents a hundred, opened.

MEATS. The features of meat stalls this week has been the arrival of "Hot-house lamb" from Southern New Jersey. The carcasses weigh twenty pounds and are sold at first cost for $16. They are purchased for clubs and restaurants, and large dinner parties at $1 a pound. The average supply of beef is not of excellent quality, and the inclination is toward an advance in price; sirloin steaks cost from 18 to 23 cents a pound, porter house steaks from 22 to 28 cents, and rump steaks from 16 to 20 cents a pound; whole tenderloins bring from 75 to 85 cents a pound, and those from Chicago beef from 25 to 35 cents a pound; rib roasts cost from 14 to 22 cents a pound, and chuck roast from 10 to 12 cents; rump corned beef is 10, 12 and 18 cents a pound;

brisket corned beef is 8 and 10 cents; fresh flank beef is 12 cents, and soup meat is 8 and 10 cents a pound; shins of beef bring from 45 to 6ɔ cents each; ox palates 10 cents, and ox tails 10 and 12 cents a rand, ox hearts cost from 121⁄2 to 35 cents each, liver is 8 and 10 cents a pound, beef tongues bring from 62 to 85 cents each, marrow bones are 10 cents each. Mutton forequarters cost 8 and 9 cents a pound; French rib chops are 16 and 18 cents a pound: these are the chops that have the bone cleanly trimmed; English loin chops are 22 cents a pound; hindquarters of mutton cost 122 cents a pound; saddles of mutton bring 14 and 15 cents a pound; mutton shoulders are 6 cents and up mutton is also 6 cents a pound; forequarter of last spring's lamb is 12 cents and hindquarters are 14 and 15 cents a pound; lamb chops are 22 cents a pound. Veal is very poor and stringy; veal knuckles cost 25 and 40 cents each; forequarters of veal are 10 cents a pound; loin or leg veal costs 20 and 22 cents a pound; veal cutlets are 35 cents a pound. sweetbreads bring from $4 to $8 a dozen. Little porkers for roasting have advanced from $2.50 to $3 and $3.50 the past week. Pork tenderloins are 18 cents a pound; spare ribs are 8 cents a pound; pork loin or chops are 12 cents a pound; pigs' feet are 30 cents a dozen; "French"

pigs' feet, which means the fore feet of the animal, especially adapted for broiling, are 75 cents a dozen; smoked jowl is 12 cents a pound; salt pork is 12 cents a pound; larding pork is 14 cents a pound; ham is 14 cents a pound, pressed ham is 15 cents a pound; boneless bacon is 14 cents a pound, and pork sausages are 12 and 14 cents a pound.

POULTRY AND GAME.-Chickens hatched in warm houses and fed with care, known as "hot-house chickens," weigh a pound each and sell for $1.75 a pair. New Jersey capons are 28 cents a pound; they weigh from eight to ten pounds each. Vermont dry-picked turkeys are 20 cents a pound; Western dry-picked turkeys are 16 cents a pound. Western chickens, fowls, ducks and geese are 15 cents a pound. Wild turkeys are 20 and 25 cents a pound. Antelope and bear meat are 25 cents a pound. Grouse cost $1.25 a brace, and Ruffled grouse are $1.50 a brace; Imported Scotch grouse of delicious flavor are $2 a brace. English pheasants bring $4 a brace. English hares cost $4 a brace. Squirrels bring 30 cents each. English snipe cost $4.50 a dozen. Squabs are $5 a dozen, tame pigeons $2.50 a dozen, and quail are $2.50 a dozen. Mallard ducks are $1 a brace; Red-head ducks bring $1.75 a brace. Teal and black ducks cost $1 a brace, and Havre de Grace canvas-back ducks bring $4.50 a brace. Wild pigeons are $2.50 a dozen. Small birds are 75 cents a dozen, and Ptarmigan cost $1.25 a brace. Brant ducks bring $2 a brace. Black heads are 80 cents a brace, and Butterball ducks are 75 cents a brace. Reed birds bring $1.50 a dozen.

DAIRY AND EGGS.-Fresh New Jersey eggs costs 35 and 40 cents a dozen. Limed eggs bring 25 cents a dozen. Unsalted butter is 40 cents a pound. Western creamery butter costs 38 cents a pound. Cooking butter brings from 16 to 25 cents a pound. Domestic cheese is 14 cents a pound. English cheese costs 20 cents a pound.

VEGETABLES.-Hot-house asparagus costs 75 cents a bunch. Hothouse tomatoes cost $1 a pound. Florida tomatoes cost $2 a crate containing six quarts and retail for 40 cents a quart. Hot-house cucumbers bring from 25 to 50 cents each. Havana string beans are 30 cents a quart. Brussels sprouts costs 50 cents a quart for those imported, and thirty cents for the domestic. Mushrooms from the hot-house bring 60 and 75 cents a pound. Southern egg plants 15 to 40 cents each. Fresh mint is ten cents a bunch; radishes costs 5 cents a bunch. Hot-house string beans cost 25 cents a bunch. Cauliflower brings from 20 to 60 cents a head. Lettuce is 7 and 10 cents a head. French artichokes cost 25 cents each. Jerusalem artichokes are to cents a quart. Cranberries are 15 cents a quart. Celery is 10 and 15 cents a bunch. The best potatoes cost 20 cents a peck. Sweet potatoes, either from Delaware or Virginia, are 25 cents a half peck. Early Rose potatoes bring $2.25 a barrel. Barbanks cost $2 and $2.25 a barrel. Scotch Magnum" potatoes cost $2 a bag. "Scotch Champions" are $1.62 a bag. Red and yellow onions sell for $3.75 and $4 a barrel. White onions bring $5 a barrel. Both white and yellow turnips are 15 cents a half peck. Boston and Hubbard squash are 10 and 15 cents each. Parsnips are 20 cents a dozen. Spanish onions are 10 cents a pound.

FRUIT. Hot-house strawberries are now sold in cups holding from thirteen to sixteen berries, for $2.50. Hot-house pineapples cost $5 each. Havana pineapples sell for from 30 to 40 cents each. Barbarossa grapes

bring $1.50 a pound. English hot-house grapes, called "Gross Magnum," cost $5 a pound. Domestic hot-house grapes sell for $2.80 a pound. Cocoanuts are $4 a hundred, and 8 and 10 cents each. Red bananas average 75 on a bunch, sell for $2.50 a bunch. They cost 40 cents a dozen. Yellow bananas, averaging 100 to the bunch, cost $1.50 a bunch and 25 to 30 cents a dozen. Florida oranges, bring $3.50 to $5 a box, and from 20 to 60 cents a dozen. Jamaica oranges, sweet, but not so richflavored as Floridas, cost $6.50 a barrel, and from 30 to 40 cents a dozen. Large Valencia oranges are $7 a case, or 30 cents a dozen. Baldwin and Greening apples are $2 a barrel. Selected apples $1 a peck.