All vegetables except potatoes, asparagus, peas, and cauliflower, should boil as fast as possible; these four only moderately. To prevent the bad odor arising from boiling cabbage, put it in plenty of boiling water, add a pinch of soda, cover closely, boil fast. Keep boiling for half an hour, no longer.

Onions should be boiled in milk and water. Equal parts.

Potatoes are the only vegeteable that should be put into cold water. They should be pared before being boiled, if you wish to have them mashed and look white. Pour off the water the minute they are done and stand on the back of the stove covered with a napkin. Sweet potatoes should not be pared, and they require longer cooking than the common potato.

Grate Gruyere's cheese on macaroni, Make the top crisp, but not too bony.

Roast veal with rich stock gravy serve; And pickled mushrooms, too, observe.

Roast pork, sans apple sauce, past doubt, Is Hamlet with the Prince left out.

Your mutton ehops with paper cover, And make them amber brown all over.

Broil lightly your beefsteak - to fry it Argues contempt of Christian diet.

Buy stall-fed pigeons; when you've got them The way to cook them is to pot them.

It gives true epicures the vapors, To see broiled mutton minus capers.

To roast spring chickens is to spoil 'em Just split them down the back and broil 'em.

Boiled turkey, gourmands know, of course, Is exquisite with Challenge Sauce.

Egg sauce - -few make it right, alas ! - Is good with blue fish, or with bass.

Nice oyster sauce gives zest to cod; A'fish, when fresh, to feast a god.

Shad, stuffed and baked, is most delicious, 'Twould have electrified Apicius.

Swiss Confectionery, Ladies' and Gentlemen's Ice Cream and Coffee Saloon, 416 Twelfth Street. Wm. J. F. Laage, Prop.