ns; dry, reduce it to
powder, and sift it with as much more as will make up a pound in weight;
mix with it one pound of flour, four well-beaten eggs, and six ounces of
warm butter; drop the mixture on buttered tins, and bake the jumbles in
a very slow oven from twenty to thirty minutes. They should be pale, but
perfectly crisp. Answer also received from NORA F.

MAID OF ATHENS wishes to have a recipe for oat-cakes.

PEPPER AND BLOSSOM would like to know how to make cocoa-nut ice.

GENERAL.

WHITE ANEMONE writes, in answer to BLUEBELL, who wishes to know when and
by whom organs were invented: "Jubal is mentioned in Gen. iv. 21, as
'the father of all such as handle the harp and organ;' but neither the
century of its invention nor the name of the inventor can be given. Hero
and Vitruvius speak of a water-organ, invented or made by Ctesibius, of
Alexandria, about 180 or 200 B.C., so that it may be inferred that other
kinds of organs were then in existence. Aldhelm, an Anglo-Saxon writer,
mentions that organs were used in England at the end of the seventh and
the beginning of the eighth century. The Byzantine emperor, Constantine
VI., sent an organ to Pepin, the father of Charlemagne, about the year
757. In 812, Charlemagne had another one built in the same way. This is
related by Eginhard, who was Charlemagne's secretary. In 880, Pope John
VIII. had an organ from Germany, and an expert player was sent with it.
It is supposed that this organ was the first ever used in Rome. Of the
quality of these early organs little is known."--Answers also received
from F. CROPPER, GAMBA, CHERUB, and CLAUDIA.

THE DUKE OF OMNIUM writes, in answer to SISTER SNOUT, that a window-box
may be very prettily arranged with nasturtiums (climbing ones) at each
corner, and _Lobelia speciosa_. Mignonette would make a border, or
violets and sweet alyssum placed alternately. Red geraniums should be
placed behind the smaller plants, and thus a very pretty box may be made
with good, hardy plants.--Answers also received from IOLANTHE, CHERUB,
H. B. BODINGTON, DEAR DUMPS, and CUPID.

THE BLACK PRINCE wishes to have directions for making a cardboard model.
[An article on this subject appeared in LITTLE FOLKS, Vol. XVII., page
205.--ED.]

M. H. S. would be glad to know if maidenhair ferns need much water, and
how often they ought to be watered.

THE DUKE OF OMNIUM writes, in answer to QUEEN MAB, that if her myrtle
suffers from scale, the following