I took this opportunity to ask some questions regarding the Martial cuisine, and learnt that all but the very simplest cookery is performed by professional confectioners, who supply twice a day the households in their vicinity; unmarried men taking their meals at the shop.

Think what his position would have been if the worthy confectioners of Percy Street had not seen Mrs. Owen 'wrapped up in a shawl, on her knees, doing the front steps.'

When baked spread with confectioners' frosting.

CHEESE FROSTING With wooden spoon work 1 cream cheese until creamy and add gradually 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar.

Then add, a little at a time, enough Sifted confectioners' sugar to make of right consistency to spread.

BUTTER CREAM, COCOA AND WHITE Work 1/3 cup washed or fresh sweet butter until very light and creamy, add 1 cup sifted confectioners' sugar and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla very gradually, and beat until very light.

CREAM FROSTING Beat 1 egg white until stiff, add 2 teaspoons cream 1/2 teaspoon vanilla and, slowly, 3/4 cup confectioners' sugar, and more if needed to make of right consistency to spread.

And then came supper-time, and such a supper, setting all confectioners and doctors at defiance at once!

The maid grew distracted; her mistress was single, and had no intention of doubling herself; there must be some mistake; the confectioners were dismissed, in a very different humour to that with which they had come.

Kumodini Babu had requisitioned an immense supply of dainties from local goálas (dairymen) and moiras (confectioners) with a view to eclipsing all previous festivals of the kind.

Shám Babu was supervising the Hálûikars (confectioners) when the awful news reached his ears.

They have rebuilt, for instance, the old Corraterie, which is now the Regent Street of Geneva, famous for its confectioners' and booksellers' shops; they have destroyed, and are still destroying, other ancient slums, setting up white buildings of uniform ugliness in place of the picturesque but insanitary dwellings of the past.

The outer walls of many of the house are painted with pictures of animals and birds, trees, pagodas and other fantastic designs, and scenes like those on the drop curtains of theatres, which appear to have been done by unskilled amateurs, and the whole effectthe colors, the gingerbread work and the tintsreminds you of the frosted cakes and other table decorations you sometimes see in confectioners' windows at Christmas time.

It looks like the frosting on a confectioners' cake.

From our Correspondent's description of these cakes, we suppose them to resemble the wafers sold by the confectioners, except in the elegant designs on their surface.

His firm sold them all over America to fruitdealers for eating raw by children, and shredded and prepared them for confectioners and grocers.

" It has been estimated by the Commission that to raise the wages of two thousand girls in the candy factories from $5.75 to $8.00 a week, the confectioners in order to cover the cost will have to charge eighteen cents more per hundred pounds of candy.

Club-rooms, ball-rooms, card-tables, and confectioners' shops, are the factories; and gossips, both male and female, are the labouring classes.

1848 Slaves | Free Negroes| Whites Men | Women Men |Women Men |Women Domestic servants 1,888 | 3,384 9 | 28 13 | 100 Cooks and confectioners 7 | 12 18 | 18 ... | 5 Nurses and midwives ...| 2 ... | 10 ... | 5 Laundresses ...| 33 ... | 45 ... | ...

From the Slovak villages in the Carpathians to the Greek villages in the Laconian hills they have been crossing the Atlantic in their thousands, to become dockers and navvies, boot-blacks and waiters, confectioners and barbers in Chicago, St. Louis, Omaha, and all the other cities that have sprung up like magic to welcome the immigrant to the hospitable plains of the Middle West.

This is well worthy of attention from our confectioners at home, and it may hereafter form an article of commerce, although from what has fallen under my own observation, and from what I have learnt from Mr. Eyre and others, I should say it is not of frequent occurrence.

when the Israelites grew fashionists, and would have a king, that they might be like the rest of their neighbours, we read of cooks, confectioners, &c.

The lower floors were, for the most part, occupied by small grocers, dealers in notions, barbers, confectioners and such like.

CARAWAY SEEDS.The seeds of this are in demand both by druggists and confectioners.

Great quantities of Cranberries are imported every winter and spring from Russia; they are much esteemed by the confectioners for tarts, &c. and are sold at high prices.