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a manure pile. Annie M. Shoemaker read
a sprightly account of the marvellous palace
and residence of Mrs. Jack Gardener of
Fenway Court near Boston. Only 200 visitors
a month as yet are allowed to behold its
beauties at a dollar a piece, but it is hoped
the general public may soon be given an
opportunity to enjoy such rare works of
art and such rare taste in the setting
for pictures and statuary. Mrs. Gardener
is said to have not only planned the whole
but in many instances actually shown
her workmen how to carry out her original
ideas in construction and decoration.

There is a Titian room, Raphael room,
and a Dutch room; the flowers and singing
birds are a delight and to cover all
the palace itself is really an exquisite
Roman villa brough over bodily and
put to-gether with some additions, and
improvements, within a few miles of
Bunker Hill. Elizabeth G. Thomas followed
with a witty poem entitled "Prejudice",
by Charlotte P. Gilman, a niece of Henry
Ward Beecher & Mrs. Stowe, a brilliant
woman with considerable talent in more
than one direction. E.G.T. had also
brought an old colored woman's recipe
for ground nut cakes and as the Secy.
had tasted in New Orleans a very delicious
sweet-meat made with pecan kernels
in the same manner "Aunt Tira's"
method shall be given space here.

"Recipe for Ground Nut Cakes"
"One of our friends requested us to send
her old Tiras' method of making ground
nut cakes which she peddles about the
town. So we insert in our November issue
the receipt just as she gave it this afternoon
with her quaint, old time interjections, while
we sat before her with paper and pencil.