=To clarify Sugar.=—Take four pounds of sugar, and break it up. Whisk the white of an egg, and put it with a tumblerful of water into a preserving-pan, and add water gradually till you have two quarts, stirring well. When there is a good frothing, throw in the sugar, boil moderately, and skim it. If the sugar rises to run over, throw in a little cold water, and then skim it, as it is then still. Repeat this, and when no more scum rises, strain the sugar for use. =Candied Fruits.=—Preserve the fruit, then dip it in sugar boiled to candy thickness, and then dry it. Grapes and some other fruits may be dipped in uncooked, and then dried, and they are fine. =Another Way.=—Take it from the sirup, when preserved, dip it in powdered sugar, and set it on a sieve in an oven to dry. =To make an Ornamental Pyramid for a Table.=—Boil loaf-sugar as for candy, and rub it over a stiff form made for the purpose, of stiff paper or pasteboard, which must be well buttered. Set it on a table, and begin at the bottom, and stick on to this frame with the sugar, a row of macaroons, kisses, or other ornamental articles, and continue till the whole is covered. When cold, draw out the pasteboard form, and set the pyramid in the centre of the table with a small bit of wax-candle burning with it, and it looks very beautifully. CHAPTER XIX. DRINKS AND ARTICLES FOR THE SICK AND YOUNG CHILDREN. Drinks made of the juice of fruits and water are good for all who are in health. Various preparations of cocoa-nuts are so also. Tea is often made or adulterated with unhealthful articles. Coffee is usually drank so strong as to injure children and grown persons of delicate constitution. All alcoholic drinks are dangerous, because they are so generally mixed with harmful matter, and because they so often lead to excess, and then to ruin. The common-sense maxim is, when there is danger, choose the safest course. The Christian maxim is, “We that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.” Obedience to these two maxims would save thousands of young children and delicate persons from following the dangerous example of those “that are strong.” =To make Tea.=—The safest tea is the black, as less stimulating than green; both excite the brain and nerves when strong. The chief direction is to have water _boiling_ hot. First soak the tea in a very little hot water, and then add boiling water.