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18 THE WHITE HOUSE AUTOCRAT. PRESIDENT M’KIN JIEY ALLOWS HIS STEWARD LAiyuE AUTHORITY. A Sew Kltchen/l* In Use for Extc-n- Rlve The Way White Ilouite Mnrjkctina; I* Done—\\ liy Walters will Aeeept Ildrt l’ny for Sake fat Helping to Serve n State 111 liner—lira. Cleveland’* Successful Shopping for the tiov ernmetit Chinn Closet—Twelve Course* the flule. Washington, Dec. 29.—1n the season of state dinners there are two autocrats of the White House. One is the President; the other his steward. The one proposes; the other disposes. Though the President chooses his guests, the steward may cut down the list. Indeed, it may also be said that at this season the President surren ders his place as head of the first house hold of the land. Before the great Dewey dinner days were spent pruning the list of guests to the limit prescribed by the autocrat of the kitchen. Many a man of rank owes his rejection on that occasion, not to the President, but to the steward, who declared that juggling with the board for an eternity would not make space for ■.one man beyond the seventy-four pro tided for. The White House now has two kitchens, a private dining room, a state dining room and the great corri dor for emergencies. In this new kitchen ail the preparations are made for the great state dinners. The old kitchen still answers the demands made upon It by the # WHITE HOUSE DINNER INVITATION. modest entertainments of the President’s family. The new kitchen, though com plete and convenient, is not elaborate. The loom is about twenty-five feet square and well lighted. Along one side runs the great range, fully fifteen feet long, with Its warming rucks covered by un enor mous iron hood. Along the walls are the Khtdves and tables. Running down i*. n-bft CO,**. in place time and labor. As ir, i Jr e tiled—an ar rooms of the While House ffie Increscent arches which supi>ort Ihe celling and the structure overhead, may mar the effect for some. Near the kitchen are the china closets and supply stores. Marketing for file Executive Family. Contrary lo all tradilions, the supplies for the Wh'te House dinners are obtained In open market. Such is the excellence of the Washington -markers that it would scarcely be necessary to arrange for these supplies tiefore ordering the dinner, la fo merdnys the White House fowls, meats and fish were obtained direct from farm or shore. This is no' longer the practice. The White House steward merely advises o S w 12 S W W r in tO £ n. w w / / ' 152 r. Nr 1 M o* <3/ U 1 > s * 'e- W id* \J * M | a ’ 12 u ° 2 s i| '§ /*■ ° ~ 2\ g r *- ,o 0 [pntrnnrc. l “** 01 ,**■■ 8H822 <• gS£SSSiSSSS£S!sg*^g;^***g SSa u;u. r . S <* a 1 | 5 * 8 { O* —W! - ) s-„u.* u .o. tt t;tiCs; s |gteJtjl{ Sß?i jJS:SSKJ3SSS TXrSi-r&iWfa DIAGRAM OF TABLE WITH GUEST'S' PLACES MARKED. Ids tradesmen before hand of the coming date of the dinner and its probable menu and the choicest products obtainable are gathered lor his inspection. The market opens at 6 o'clock In the rrornlng, and shortly after that hour ie o\er run with the buyers for the Washing* t< n hotels and the providers for the scores o p irate lamlios who emertaln lavishly dining the social season. It therefore be hooves the White House steward to make an early visit. He is invariably among ihe flist. lie chooses for his dinner the finest meats to be obtained of the score or more butchers; he chooses the fluent fish and shrll .fish from the fish stalls, and the cholc- st vegetables from the farmers. He hit* his own wagon and driver end as soon m Ms shopping list Is . xhausied the pur chases are driven direct to the White House. By I o’clock that morning the pre paration of ihe dinner has begun. In Ihe Kitchen. The usual kitchen force of ihe White House consists of one cook und a couple of helper*. For the preparation of the • Hie dinners three Frenc h chefs are ,m -pluftd. They repair* two InJfwrs cach.snd i the kitchen is a scene of sizzling activity j for the day. There are meats to be boiled j and baked and roasted; vegetables to i prepared; soups brewed and fancy dishes arranged The bread used is also baked at the White House. The steward takes little part in this preparation, however; though he superintends all. His task hae been the compilation of the menu, the choosing of the china and the settling and decoration of the table. But as he is res ponsible for ail, he superintends each in detail. Setting the Table. If the number of guests exceeds fifty, the table I* spread in the central cor ridor. if less, the State dining room is used It Is interesting to note the at tempts which have been successively made to increase the seating capacity of the State dining room The original table was a rectangular affair, seating thirty-six guests. When this became inadequate a thell was constructed similar In outline to the figure eight, which, placed atop the table increased the seating capacity to fifty. The number of guests, then, controls the choice of a dining room. During the after noon the table Is prepared and its setting arranged. For this purpose the steward chooses one of the many sets of china be longing to the White House. Each mis tress of the White House has exercised her inclination in the choice of a service and handed it down to succeeding admin istrations as a valuable souvenir of the maker’s art during that period. The re sult has been the accumulation of half a score of china services, each fully ade quate even for one of the great dinners given at this day. One of the services in use to-day was designed and ordered by Mrs. Lincoln, another by Mrs. Grant, an other by Mrs. Harrison; Mrs. Cleveland contributed two exceedingly beautiful ser vices and another will mark Mrs. McKin ley’s regime. The size of these services may he better understood when it is known that one of Mrs. Cleveland’s services consists of thir ty dozen dishes. One of Mrs. Cleveland’s services Is Invariably used at the dinners to-day. It is considered the most beauti ful at the White House. Around the flange of the plates is a broad band of rich red. The other pieces are similarly decorated with plain centers. All the White House services are decorated in Ihe I■'*>■s of taste. The coat of arms of the i included in the deoora t quentiy displayed on tITe ca t of our multi-millionaires. The glasses are cut simply with the President's coat of j arms. The spoons and knives and forks are marked, democratically. ’’Presidem’e House.” The decorations of a state dining table is always marked by extreme modesty There is no attemi* at elaborate dis play. Numerous bouquets of choice roses or orchids are scattered along the center and bouquets and boutonnieres of similar flowers placed by the plates of the ladies and gentlemen. Ail is so arranged that though the table presents a vision of un -1 usual beauty, there is no sense of the over-powering in decoration. Numerous cundelabru add to the scene with their soft lights. Extra Walters. A score of waiters are employed to serve the dinners. These are readily secured in Washington, where the waiter is at his best. The waiters arc usuauy colored men. though under the Harrison admlnis trat.rn Steward McKim chose white wait err In preference This unique departure has not been followed by his successor The waiters are not chosen lightly. There are numerous temptations in their way. both from the richness of apparel and Jewels of the guests, and the liquor which an intemperate mutt could readily And oc casion to consume. Only men whose hon esty and sobriety Is beyond all question are employed. They are called upon for similar service from time to time and find the employment pleasant and remun erative. They are required to report at the While House late on the afternoon of the dinner, and ure divided Into squad, and thoroughly drilled le th. part each is to play In the evening’s entertainment Ihe dumb. waiter of the White House TPtaMOKMNGKEWS: SUNDAY, DEUEMBEK 31, 1899. dOOK free The makers of LBEBIC COMPANY’S EXTRACT OF BEEF will mail to any housewife an attractive cook book containing 100 recipes. Send your address on postal to Liebig’s Ex tract Cos., P. O. Box 2718, N. i. City. has not the capacity necessary to carry the dishes from the kitchen to the dining room flJor. So six or eight of the waiters ore detailed to carry the dishes from the kitchen up ttie flight of stairs leading di rectly to the butler’s pantry; to retu-n empty dishes to the lower floor; ond band the portions from the carvers to the wait ings line of servers. Each waiter is supposed to serve four or five guests. He receives the d.shes from the carvers so adroitly carved that though the form of the roast o’ fowl is preserved the guest can readily separate a portion. He watches closely to the needs of the guests under his charge. The President a.l his wile are served by their personal servant. The White House dinners are served ideally, ii is said, for the waiters are noi mere machines, but nun of judgment and action. For their two or three hours’ work they are paul $4 or 15, and this, in connection with the natural prestige of a waiter who serves at the While House, brings to the steward the best assistance the city affords. Expensive Housekeeping. II is impossible to furnish in detail any estimate of (he materials and foods used In the preparation of a slate dinner. When it is considered that only the choicest bits are served, the supplies purchased for a dinner of seventy must he something ex traordinary. A roast of lamb, or fillet of beef, for instance, is served but to four or five persons, and Ihe choicest morsels only are eaten. Of a fowl the breast alone is carved. The same fastidiousness is ob served throughout every course. There are never more, than twelve courses to n White House dinner. Asa usual thing the courses range in number from eight to twelve. They are served without haste, but still in such succession that the dinner may not seem to drag. An entire dinner in this manner Is nerved within two hours, and some of Ihe most noted dinners of the last two years have been served In even less time. As the dinner always begin at 8 o'clock, the White House guests are not given to late hours. Official precedure at a stale dinner Is one of the most delicate questions with which its managers have to deal. There Is no one more sensitive than the average diplomat. At a diplomatic dinner preced ure Is determined by ihe official rank of a guest and his seniority in point of ser vice in Washington. So well are these gradations established that an error would 1 he Inexcusable. All confusion, however. Is avo’ded by a custom which conveys un mistakably to each guest the exact posi tion he Is expected to occupy at the ta ble. Before entering the .lining room each guest is given on envelope enclosing a card on which is printed a complete dia gram of the taMe with the various seats numbered. The name of the lady he Is. expected to take into dinner Is also written on the card. A cross Is also drawn through the number of the seat the guest Is to oc cupy. The possibility of mistake is further obviated by placing at each plate another card wiih the guest’s name written across its face. The seats of least honor are at the ends of the tabe. The President sits in the cen ter of o r,e ol tne long sides. The seat next cuSf'tMjr is directly opposite. At the diplo- Presl t. nfs-s. it has heretofore been the by the British am.to be occupied by the rank to the President arfrtw*,into dinner matie corps. During this however, the invalidism of Mrs. McKinley has occasioned a change. The President keeps her always by his side, and Mrs McKinley sits between the President and tile British ambassador. The seat opposite is now occupied by Secretary Hay. There are no leases or speeches. When the dinner is finished the President and his wife rise as a signal that the ser vice is at an end. The ladies nass to the reception rooms, and the men to the smok ing room where coffee, liquors and cigars are served. The gentlemen pass some time in informal conversation, and then join the Jadies in the reception rooms. Here tea is served. Custom prescribes that none of the other guests shall leave until those of the highest rank have taken leave of the evening s host and hostess. Out of consideration to ihe o*ber guests the=e of ficials leave immediately after tea has been served. The other guests follow clo e ly. so that the entire company has left the hite House by 11 o’clock. Frank Cauldwell. A HEROINE OF THE LITE WAR. Now- York. Deo. 29,-Tho monument erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution to the memory of Rubena Hyde Walworth, whose name Is numbered with heroes of the Spanisb-American war, was unveiled the first anniversary of her death, in Greenrldge Cemetery, at Sara toga. 4 The monument, designed by Mr. C. B. Canfield, stands upon a raised terrace at the head of the main avenues. When the American flag, which formed its veil, w’as drawn, Ii revealed an obelisk of pure "hite granite, perfect in its architecture. It Is 32 feet high and 7 feet 6 inches square at the base. The name and in scription are in letters of bronze. It is usually the work of many years to raise a fund and erect a monument to a hero, hut scarcely eight months have elapsed since the Mary Washington Colonial Chapter, under the efficient auspices of Miss Lillian Montgomery, first sent out letters and began to make requests for aid in the undertaking. The Saratoga, the Manhattan and the Yonkers chapters lent their aid The requests were quickly responded to Miss Helen Gould sent SIOO. and *IOO was contributed without delay, bv the Olvm pia Club of small boys while some of the poor soldiers who had been nursed by Miss Walworth’s tender care, unable 'to do more, sent offerings of 30 cents. Miss Walworth Is a hero>of the noblest kind. When the war with Spain broke out she was teaching painting hi a New York school. Her family, who for gen er.Uiors had sent a sen to war to tight for his country, had now no son t 0 Ke 7,j She resolved to go. to nurse the soldiers After a shori preparatory course at the Saratoga Hospital, she went to Fortress Monroe; later to Montuuk. where she took entire charge and was the only woman In the Detention Hospital, a place filled with malaria, yellow fever and diphtheria What she was to the* poor sufferer* ia beyond power of description. Even when Camp Wlckott le arnt a pest ho!e she refused to Lave until she had cared for ihe last patient, and soon ufter Ihe last one had gone from her care she 100. fell 111. The end oon followed Ty phoid fever was not long In taking her Kwav. H* r name wl'l b# hani-a <iown with ch*. nanv f the l)pvfl wiio <Jo*u their I liven tor their country * Hag. • THE SPRING TIME FIGHT. CAPTAIN JAC K BBMO\ TELLS OF A great gorilla battle. The Giant Ape* Were Fighting; for a Mate and an Alwiy* Yonng Mw cleft Were Too Strong: for the Beat Effort* of the Conning of Middle A are. New York, Dec. 29 —The boys ai ihe club had been te.ling, and hunting stories, and the talk oad drifted arounl to lights in general when Capt. Jack Ben ton entered the smoking room. “After the adjustment of our little unpleasantness with the South/ ’remarked Capt. Jack, “I drifted back info civil life. It seemed monotonous, however, after the excitement of campaigning and receiving an offer to go to Africa and collect animals for men age: les I jumped at it. My work took me Into the interior of Upi*t Guinea, which was then about as wild a country as there was in thei world/ *Tne morning 1 le t camp to make a circuit of some tr'up* we had set in the night, and, as I wasn't on the lookout for big game, I took on y a light rifle with me. Trudging through t'ne woods I came on n little clearing and there, not 50 feet away, I saw a big male goril'a. He was on all fours, half squitting on the ground. “Equipped with on y a Jight rifle I had no ambition to meddle with the boast. I slipped back into the underbrush and was about to make off as quietly as possible, when *he peculiarity of the gorilla’s ac tions attracted me. He seemed to be try ing to lo k as amiable as was possible for such a monster, and a second glance show ed me the reason for this. At the right of the clearing was a second gorilla, smaller, but equallj ferocious looking, a fitting mate for the first, big brute. I had tvide tiy discovered a gorilla courtship. “The mate gorilla trying to attract the attention of the female by uncouth mo tions, was beginning to advance clums ly towards her, when suddenly a dull ‘Boom, boom’ sounded from far away in the for est. Up to that instant the male gorilla, while savage looking, had given no sign of being angry, but now all was changed. His huge Jaws shut together with a snap. “Then through the silence which had fallen on the jungle when the first sullen challenge was heard, came a sharp bark, followed by a deep humming sound. It was terrible battle call of a full-grown gorilla, the cry sfent out when he is about to fi&ht to the death for a mate. At the end of each echoing challenge the hairy giant beat with trs big hands on his chest, while at other end of the clear ing, waiting to b?stow her hand on tho victor, sat the fertale gorilla whose charms had inspired sucl jealous rage. “Suddenly ther was a little flurry ai the left end of tie clearing, and the chal lenger broke thre igh the bushes into plain sight. He was worthy to do battle with the first giant. I could see he was a veteran, with thf scars of many battles on him. His big 1 :>s were rolled up in a grim snarl, sh< ving broken teeth and great gaps, 4he suit of former battles*. Both gorillns Wire taller than the aver age man as thej stood on their hind feet for battle, but t elr enormous breadth of chest and shoubers made them look like squatting, hairy ionts. In fighting ability each seemed eq al, for while the second older gorilla ha< evidently been in more battles, yet the one I had first seen in the jungle had n advantage in strength and youth. “Neither of th* b?g animals wasted time in preliminaries: they had worked them- selves up into sucAi an insanity of rage that only killing would satisfy. Each ad vanced on hia hind legs until with'n six feet of the other. Then the younger gor illa began to fight. Stepping forward with marvelous quickness for suiii an ungain no merfc 1 a fail-like blow’ with big-boned framr o f filVo',adonis/‘Toubl have wnhstood it . But , hp o](J ':' any de,th grapples to as ih. h 80 " ar ' y * n ,h ‘ H S ht - Even as the big arm swung arcund he sprang th/rid, , C ° minß , in * lO *> as to miss the full force of the swirg. The next he vonn e own arm round the jounger gorilla’s beck enclrellne- i, Inx h hl >Ur fPe ‘ ? f steel \nuseles ond hold ing his enemy s Lead stiff unriaht so that he could not bring torribfe teeth into play. Then the old gorilla onened his heavy jaws, and gett\ 1K a firm „ r , on the right shoulder of Hi, young" gor illa. held on like a bulkA tearing h . way through the knotted mVse e and sin ewa and shoulder I,lade of opponent' ‘Vi /u Same ,ime the left Vrm P of the old fighter wrapped itself about the young er gorilla in u rib-breaking gA V “ I . t *f s 0,1 for an Irstan! however that things looked* so desperaV f" The younger fighter. The first gori it, <iid fighting ability and tiWendous strength showed themselves. WffirMng up his left arm he fastened his V>ng fln sys about his antagonist’s thrl.t and tried to break his grip and shove hetul back. At first the only effect of tL w?,- to make the ohl fellow lighten his X-in on the other’s shoulder. Then the A,Ler gorilla put forth all his strength. iWuld see the muscles of his arm. shoulder* and back gather themselves into big knot si and bunrh up as if they would break thrdurh the skin. The murderous deep-set Xes started forward, until they were level Vh the cheek bones. A Jast desperate effo-t end the big head went back, the tightV oiosed jaws of Uje old gorilla tearing oil flesh nnd sinews ns they were shoved away Dl!t nol un-grlpped. Then the old', fighter s right arm slowly and reluctantly uncoiled from the other’s neck The younger gorilla had broken the death grip. Both big fighters were momentarily free and stepped back to regain breath nnd re pair injuries. "Although wounded, it was the younger gorilla that made the attack. This time he did not waste any efforts on blows with his huge paws. When they had approached almost within striking distance the young er of the lighters made a rush. He re ceive.! a blow on the head that would have crushed a man’s skull. It scarcely staggered him. Then both his long arms wrapped themse’.ves about his opponent’s neck, and holding hie antagonist tightly clasped, he began biting with fierce en ergy, not a steady gripping hite: hut furi ous. tearing gnashißgs, which ripped skin and flesh from face and shoulders and chest. “The older gorilla was taken by sur prise ai this sudden rush and change of tactics by his opponent. But though at a disadvantage, he was too old a fighter to he easily dismayed. First he secured a grip on hi* opponent’s throat, and strain ing every muscle tried to tear himself free from (he infuriated grasp of the younger biast. He might as easily broken a steel cable as the strangling hold of his enraged opponent. Then the older fighter relaxed his grip on the other’s throat, and plac ing both his big human-like paws on the younger * face tried to force hi* head back. "This brought out a terrific trial of strength. If Ihe old gorilla could force the other’* head back, he would be free and might perhaps break his enemy’s neck. Each of the huge fighter* seemed to know this and put forth all of their giant strength. Back, shoulders, arms and neck were called Into play, the heavy muscle* rippling up and gathering Into bl* knot* The snarling growl*, whleh l.*d nm-h-d tne t sinning of the fight, h*.l died away Each animal was sibi;!. A n til tee#* ocetued to tufi fallen on the, whole Jungle, and the crackling of the I twigs ard dry leaves seemed unnaturally i loud as the two gigantic lighters came to j the supreme strugg.e. “For what was probably half a minute. , but seemed an hour, the two semi-human I shapes stood there putting forth every en- I ergy. At last the younger fighter's face was within two inches of his opponent’s head. The younger gorilla made a su preme efTort, twisted his head suddenly, and before his opponent could dodge had fastened his teeth in a death grip on the throat of the veteran fighter. “The veteran was borne backward, car rying his foe down with him. Unless h* could loosen the grip on his throat he was doomed and the old fighter knew it. Over and over on the ground the two huge apes rolled, figh‘ing desperately, but with out sound save for the shrill hissing of their breaths as it was forced from their heaving chests. The veteran of many a hard fought Jungie battle knew’ his ow.t end had come. “Up to this time the battle had been fought in silence, but as the old gorilla gave up the contest and felt the teeth ot his antagonist sinking deeper and deeper into his throat, the pain was greater than he could hear. He broke into a wailing cry that echoed through the jun gle. I have heard the death cry of many an male, but never a call like that of the dying gorilla. For it was not like an animal-, but the wail of a man in overmas tering pain, a choking halt sob, half shriek. Again end again it rose up. I lifted my rifle and then lowered it, for I could not help the old gorilla, and to meddle in that fight with only my light rifle meant my own death. The half human wail broke out again, but while 1 was standing irresolute it ceased. The fierce, hard fighting, hard biting younger goriila had been working his way through his antagonist’s throat and had at last bitten through the windpipe. The great fight was over, and the veteran of many similar contests had met the fate he had meted out to others. “I watched the younger ape. as if fas cinated. while he wreaked his revenge on the body of his dead enemy. Then with a start it occurred to me that I would suffer a similar fate, if I stayed in that vicinity. But I had no real cause for anxiety. The gorilla had other matters to think of. The last glimpse I had of the conqueror was as. with the glare or battle still in his eyes and covered from head to foot with his own blood and that of his enemy, he marched off in triumph toward her for whom he had fought so desperately and so well.” FOUR CAPITAL, EASY RECIPES. An Ideal sponge cake should resemble its namesake only when that article is of the best quality, close and soft, like vel vet. If the following advice is followed, two bowls and a half pint cup are all the dishes needed for perfect results. Break four eggs carefully, the yolks into the mixing howl, the whites Into a deep pint bowl. Now with a double wheel ed beater whisk the eggs (first, without fail, adding a pinch of salt) until stiff enough to allow inverting the bowl while the contents are in. Measure an even cup ful of fine granulated sugar, powdered w 11 not do, as the result will be tough. Beat half of the sugar little by little into the stiff whites and put aside. Next, beat the yellow, the same length of time as the whites (watch the clock) adding the sugar after the first beating, exactly in the same way. Stir into this the finely grated yellow peel of half a large lemon or orange and a tablespoonful of juice. Measure strictly three parts of a cup of flour. See that the oven is right; grease a brick-shaped pan, with paper on the bottom, then toss the white into the yellow in the mixing bowl und blend briskly with the beater. Beware of beating after the flour is in, upon this rock amateurs split. Sprinkle the flour in little by little, folding it under with the big spoon. Just as it is put in the oven, sift fine granulated sugar over the top, this gives the desirable brown, rather ii crust. Bake in a steady oven first. At the end or tms-rfrfiw t{y ■IClP..a.t straw without taking out. Take out of the pan as soon as the cake may be handled and place on an inverted sieve. Only two bowls to wash, the one that held the whites almost unsolled, and the other scraped clean: Ten minutes is am ple time to allow- for mixing this cake. A shallow dish with a “whisker” mav be used for whipping the whites if preferred Perfect Potato Salad. The French have a secret with regard to potato salad, that, while very simple, yet if known and applied to one American dish would change its character much for the better. We. each one of us, can bring to mind the wholesome flavor of potato and dish gravy from a joint of beef, as this is of ten the first taste of the family dinner we have been allowed after illness. The Frenchman’s secret enables us to impart this flavor in combination with the relish of a salad If we have at hand a small bit of coarse gravy meat or a tiny pot of beef extract. The meat is to be heated through and every trace of juice pressed out and salted to taste, or enough of the extract used to give a good meat flavor to four tabiespoonfuls of hot w’ater. The potatoes are to be cooked as "waxy” as possible. With old potatoes this can be done by throwing them into the collander and spreading them out one by one to be come thoroughly cool. When preparing the salad each thin slice of potato is to be immersed Into the beef juice just long enough to take the flavor without becom ing moist enough to break. When the oil, pepper, salt and vinegar are added and ali gently tossed, the salad is ready to send to table. Finely chopped parsley Im proves the appearance, but It is not called for in .the above recipe, while the beef yravy is insisted upon. Whipped Apricots.—Just cover half a Pund of evaporaied apricots with luke warm water and allow them 10 stand over night. In tlie morning stew gently with hail a cup of sugar until very soft. Press through a coarse sieve and put aside un til very cold. Just before serving beat up briskly with the well stiffened whites of two eggs with a tablespoonful of gran ulated sugar to each, beaten in after they are stiff, a pinch of salt must surely he added before whipping. Serve in a glass dish surrounded with a custard made from the yolks of the eggs and flavored with vanilla. Evaporated peaches are also delicious prepared In this way. Baked Potatoes and Cheese.—When po tatoes are boiled much of the potash salts contained in this vegetable when -aw is wasted in the water. When baked these salts are retained and therefore the com bination of cheese with potatoes cookel in tills way is not only toothsome, but easy of digestion, the natural salts taking the place of the bicarbonate of potash. This makes a dish good to look upon os well as savory in flavor if prepared thus: Wash thoroughly rather large even-sized potatoes, bake until soft when pressed between a cloth, but take can not to overcook. For six potatoes have ready a cup of grated cheese. Cut ex actly In half, taking care to keep the skins whole. Scoop the potato out with a fork into a hot dish, sprinkle the cheese through, odd two tableipoonaful of hot m Ik. pepper and salt to taste. Whip the whole lightly hut thoroughly, with a wire heater or fork, put back In the skins allow a little knob of the filling to ap pear in the center where the potato is Joined, as if it had burst open naturally while baking. Hub each "knob" over with beaten egg. return to the oven long enough to brown nicely an*) serve l*mlly 1-ofd. 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New York. £*<> 9Q -it is not unusual ' ’ iox: who is going away tor an extended trip, o, j- * 4 „ city, to give pho tographs to the most intimate of her friends before leaving them. One such bride, who is given to doing things unique and original, determined to frame the pictures thus given, and to do so in an appropriate manner. They were to be mounted under glass in the manner familiar to all, and known as passepartout, but instead of the usual mat of linen or cardboard, she used a material which was especially appropriate ami one which made frame as well as pic ture worthy of being preserved among the family heirlooms. The p cture which she gave her moOier had a mat of the white satin which had been used for her wedding dre=s and across one corner was a bit of the lace with which the dress was trimmed. To a sister she gave a picture also mounted in the white satin, but with a design of orange blossoms embroidered upon it; while the mount for the one given her maid of honor was of ihe white satin embroidered with a graceful div of bride roses. K 3 Friends less near received pictures mounted with the goods which had gone to make up the different gowns of her trosseau The mount made from the ma terial of her “going away gown” had for get-me-nots embroidered in small scatter ed sprays, while some of the silks and fig ured goods were made up plain, being suf ficiently decorative in themselves In each case the mounted picture was bound to the glass with a narrow strip ?° f ‘ father in a shade to correspond with the color of the mount. Upon tho back of each was plainly written the name and date of the wedding;. It is needless to state that the gifts were prized as the pictures oione never could have been, and it is safe to nredw other brides will follow the graceful fash- Julia D. Cowles. CONSOLING FACTS FOR SPINSTERS. A School for Wives Has Helped Spinsters to Fln-1 Mates. Someone is proposing a Husband's Union, for the protection of husbands- * U st what they seek to be protected from ,t not yet stated. But the union is intended for all the down-trodden of the land; that is of the male portion. Possibly the union Is to be founded on the sam lines as the School for Wives, lately established tn England. bet< K r i ar t ,he roarriage sehoois which are being developed in Germany on very practical lines. U is for girls and women only and the value of such a train ing cannot be overestimated. Girl- leave the marriage school competent to "under take the management of u house-and a husband. The girls.who have graduated frm thes. schools have been extrat In gi-tilng married, so it is sa t,i k BOcU l >' which has been orgun- SSy ft? ohia'd ~ h O, C V“ h <nsura*nce "IKUIS. its object is to provide for thou, women who either cannot or will I n ! vide themselves with husband" The premiums, width ore „t various seal," begin at the age of 13 ,„! end al 40 a period at which It is supposed most of the members will have ", of though, of n,arn.,r'V b rtmg X esse, ih, woman receives an snnulfv r,„ life If, however, .he m'.rrul time sfter or before . . ... “ ,,y ..... v *he forfeits ~i ing by c hence wC,' UnXoUely hopes to provide (or its members doomed to single blessedness. Old maids in the United States are out numbered by the bachelors, although it is popularly supposed that the contrary is the case. To come to exact figures there are 7,427.767 bachelors and 3,221,494 spin sters. This is upon the authority of a government report. Even in Massachu setts, where it was thought that old maids constitute a large portion of the popula tion. they could each find a husband and then not exhaust the stock of single men; for there are 226,085 men and only 219,255 women who have no yet entered into the bonds of matrimony. New York state has 120,000 more bachel ors than spinsters. Only one slate in the union has more female celibates than male and that is California, in which there are 59,456 of the former and 22,829 of the lat ter. The state of Washington has per haps the largest excess of forlorn single men —80,537 all told, unmarried damsels numbering only 9,181. Out of an equal number of bachelors and widowers between 25 and 30 years of age, thirty widowers remarry for every thir teen bachelors to enter the bonds of hy men for the first time. For every spinster married between 30 and 65, two widows are remarried. Both facts are eloquent in favor of the com parative advantages of matrimony. In olden times, a tariff of matches was established in France, in which the va rious degrees of wealth necessary for a girl to enter the different ranks of French society were set down as follows: A young woman with a dow-ry of 2,000 to 10,000 francs a year was a match for a retail trader, a lawyer’s clerk or a bailiff; a dowry of 12,000 entitled one to aspire to a dealer in silk, a draper, an innkeeper, a secretary to a groat lord; one with 20,000 francs might look as high as an advocate or a government officer of considerable rank: one with from 30.000 to 100,000 francs might hope for a marquis, a president of Parliament, a peer of France, a duke. THE NEW CENTURY. S.ini- Rueer Calculation* a* to Tlmo and Units. New York. Dec. 29.—When do we enter the twentielh century? In 1900 or 1901? The dispute is not anew one. Similar question* were raised in 1799, in 1699. and even as far back as 1599. A learned German of two • enturles ago made this the subject of a learned disquisition, which gave rise to quite a literature, pro and contra. And In 1800, Paris witnessed a comedy with the title: “Mon dieu, en quel siecle vlvons nous?” And yet. says Camille Flammarion, the famous French astronomer, the answer to the question is simple enough. Ten is the sum of ten units, and the number ten is one of them. There was no year 0 in the Christian era. The first year of this era was the year 1. Therefore the twentieth century begins in the year 1901, and not in 1900. The first year after the birth of Christ passed without special notice. As much may be said about the second, third and fourth. In fact, more than five centuries had flown before the people realized that they had entered anew era. For the Chris tian era was established early in 532 A. D.. by a Scythian monk. Dionysius, nick named Exiguus, because he was small of statur- . Dionysius the Small assumed that Christ was born on Dec. 25, 753 yeaie af er the supposed foundation of Rome; so the 751 th anniversary of this more or less mythical event became the first year of our era. Later on It was found that the little monk had made a big mistake, and that, thanks to him, the Christian era had been started, not at the birth of Christ, but four years and seven days later. This is why the Authorized Version of the Gos pels places the birth of Christ in the year 4 B. C. The German scientist of 1699 mentions this in his pamphlet, but the error, though acknowledged, is suffered to re main. But such as it was, the era of Dionysius Exiguus had no year 0. Its first year was counted as A D. 1, its tenth at A. D. 10, and so on. And yet the world at large has made up its mind that it will enter the twentieth century in January, 1900. No one doubts that 100 includes its hun tliedth unit, but strange to say, accord ing to the ideas of individuals as well as nations, Ihe world entered anew century on exchanging 1799 for 1800. Truly fig ures are almost as illusive as facts. The French astronomer Is perfectly pos itive that on Dee. 31, 1900, exactly at mid night, our nineteenth century will vanish into eternity, to give place to the next. Exactly at midnight; these three words suggest another puzzling problem: What country will be the first to enter the twen tieth century? If we reckon the hours moving eastward we find that when the clocks strike midnight In Paris it will be 1 a. m. in Vienna; 2 a. m. in Suez and Sebastopal; 3 a. m. in Teheran; 4 a. m. in Tobolsk and Bokhara; 5 a. m. in Colombo; 6 a. m. in Calcutta; 7 a. m. in Singapore; 8 a. m. in Shanghai and Seoul; 9 a. m. in Yeddo and full moon of Jan. 1, 1900, in the Chatham Islands. j On the other hand, if we make the same reckoning moving westward, we find ; that precisely at the same time it will be 7 p. m. in New Y'ork, 6 p. m. in Chicago, 4 p. m. in San Francisco, 2 p. m. in Alas ka, 1 p. m. in Honolulu, and finally, exact ly noon of Dec. 31, 1900, in the Chatham Islands. To remedy this discrepancy, Camille Flammarion suggests the world should agree to lay down a line of demarcation somewhere tn the wastes of the Pacific, ocean, east of Kamchatka and west of the Caroline Islands. If this suggestion be accepted, the Americans in the Phil ippines, the Russians in Kamchatka, the English in New Zealand and the French in New Caledonia will all enter the twen tieth century at about the same time. Yet the savage inhabitants of Chatham Island will be in advance of them all, as they will have lived through twelve hours and four minutes of the new century when Paris prepares to greet its arrival with raised glasses of champagne. This, how ever, is only justice; as, for the Chatham iles. this new oenturj is likely to be the last. Since 1830 their numbers have dwindled from 1.500 to about fifty, chiefly owing to the fact that their nelghliors. the Maoris, esteemed them as a table delicacy, making it the rule that the Chat hamite should collect wood for the fire at which he was presently to be roasted. Hapless Chathaipites! w Cures Dandruff. Falling Hair. Brittle Hair and all Scalp 1 roubles, such as Itching, Eczema Eruptions, etc. Purely Vegetable, harmless and reliable. 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