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HINTS FOR THE
BUSY HOUSEWIFE
Kitchen Wood Box In the
Wall of the House.
In planning a house or remodeling
the kitchen provision should be made
for storing a liberal quantity of stove
wood, heater chunks or cool, so as to
avoid going out In the rain or snow to
the woodshed for the house supply,
which in a protracted cold spell must
be replenished often. The sketch shows
bow a built-in wood box may be ar
ranged to load from the outside and
-emptied from the inside, says Popular
Mechanics. A spring lock or hasp on
the kitchen side keeps the box closed
against entry from the outside. This
box insures a lasting supply of dry
wood, as it may be built as large as
one’s needs demand.
Hard Soap Made With Soda.
Add to three pounds of washing soda
n. pound and a half of unslaked lime
and two gallons of boiling water. Let
It stand until perfectly clear, then
drain and add three pounds good, clear
fat that has been strained. Put over
the Are and boil until the mixture
hardens, which will, be in about two
hours. Watch closely and stir with a
wooden stick very frequently. After
the mixture has boiled half the time
add one gallon of cold water which
was poured on the sediment remain
ing after the two gallons of water was
drained off. Just before taking from
the Are add n small handful of salt.
Pour into wooden boxes or trays lined
with several thicknesses of wrapping
paper, the layer next to the soap be
ing oiled to prevent its sticking. The
eoap will harden in a short time, when
It can be cut into cakes and put on a
shelf to dry.
Cream Toast.
Bread for cream toast -may be cut a
little thicker than for plain dry toast,
and it should be well dried and of n
uniform brown. If cream is used boll
It and thicken It with one even table
spoonful of flour wet in cold water for
each cup of cream, add a little salt and
then let it cook in the double boiler
for at least ten minutes.
When mijk must take the place of
•cream, beat it and add it gradually to
one rounded tablespoonful of Aour
which has been cooked in one rounded
tablespoonful of butter in a smooth
saucepan. Add half a level tea--
spoon of salt and stir until thick and
smooth and cook eight minutes. Dip
the dry toast in a little hot milk and
pour the thickened milk or “dip" over
each slice.
If you want it very delicious, serve
with some mild apple jelly.
A Washday Help.
Shave a bar of good white laundry
soap In a basin of cold water and add
a tablespoonful of turpentine and two
of ammonia, .When dissolved pour in
a boiler of cold water, stir thoroughly,
then place the soiled white linen in.
Stir well until it comes to a boll. Drain
and put into clean warm water and
rinse well. Little or no robbing is re
quired. When through with the white
clothes remove boiler from stove and
soak colored clothes in this suds. This
Is a quick, inexpensive and thorough
method of washing and can not injure
the Anest fabric. 1
. Cheese In Cups—8erve Hot.
One cupful breadcrumbs, two cup
fuls milk, two well beaten eggs, one-
lialf teaspoonful salt, a generous dash
of cayenne, two tablespoonfuls melted
butter, one-fourth pound grated cheese.
Soak the breadcrumbs in the milk
for thirty minutes, then add the re
maining Ingredients and mix thorough
ly. Turn into buttered cups and bake
until set and slightly browned. Serve
at once in the cups.
Potato Stuffing. ,
Two cups hot mashed potatoes, one
and one-quarter cupfuls soft, stale
breadcrumbs, one quarter cupful of
Anely chopped fat salt pork, one-third
cupful of butter, one egg, one finely
chopped onion, one and a half tea
spoonfuls salt one teaspoonful sage.
Add to potato the breadcrumbs, butter,
egg, salt and sage, then add pork and
onion.
Yellow Gingerbread.
Cream two-thirds cup of butter; add
slowly two eggs beaten well and one
cup of milk added alternately with
three cups of Aour which has been
mixed wlfh two roundlug teaspoonfuls
of baking powder and one tablespoon
ful of ginger. Bake fifteen minutes in
quick oven. Itemove and sprinkle with
sugar.'
Fish Chowder.
Pry three slices of salt pork, cut Into
dice and boll four potatoes and one
onion, cut up, fifteen minutes. Add to
the pork and one quart of hot milk
and one pound cod or other fresh fish
cut in pieces. Boll ten minutes longer,
then add butter, pepper and salt after
removing from the fire.
HISTORIC DARK DAYS.
In the Year 626 Half of the Sun Wae
Obscured For Eight Months.
In the year 358, just before the
earthquake of Nicomedia, the dark
ness was very dense from two to
three hours. Two years afterward
in all the provinces of the Roman
empire there was obscurity from
early dawn to noon. The stars were
visible, and its duration precludes
the idea of a solar' eclipse. At the
return of light the sun appeared
first in a crescent form; then half
its face was seen and was gradually
restored to its whole visible disk.
In 409 the stars were seen by day
at Rome. About 536 the sun was
obscured for fourteen months, so
that very little of his light was
seen. In 667 such darkness pre
vailed from 3 p. m. till night that
nothing could be seen. In 626 half
the sun’s disk was obscured for
eight months. In 733 he was again
darkened, and people were gener
ally terrified.
In 934 Portugal was in darkness
for two months, the sun having lost
its brightness. The heavens were
then opened in fissures by strong
flashes of lightning, when there was
suddenly bright sunlight. On Sept.
21, 1091, the sun was darkened for
three hours. On Feb. 28, 1206, for
six hours complete darkness turned
the day into night. In 1241, on
Michaelmas day, the stars were vis
ible at 3 p. m. In 1547, April 23
to 25, three days, the sun was so
obscured that many stars were vis
ible at once. Thus says Humboldt
in Cosmos.
If we come almost to our own
time, to May 19, 1790, history and
tradition assert the occurrence of a
remarkable day prevailing over
Hew England, at least, and consid
erably in some other places. It
came on between 10. and 11 a. m.
and continued until midnight,
growing gradually darker and dark
er even till 11 at night. Candles
and lampB were lighted for the peo
ple to see to dine and perform work
about the house. These became
requisite before 12 o’clock m. In
the evening so dense was it that
farmers could scarcely, even with
the aid of a lantern, grope their
way to the barn to take care of the
cattle. The birds retired to their
roosts at 11 a. m., and the day was
converted into night.
Yale’s Now Football Coaoh.
John W. Field of Washington haa
been selected bead field coach of the
team for next season. He was full
back and halfback on the Yale eleven
for three years. He was crippled for
much of the time. Field is twenty-two
years old, weighs about 174 pounds
and is five feet ten inches, tall. He is
one of the best all round athletes in
Yale.
Johnny Hayes to Quit Running.
“I’ve been thinking seriously of quit
ting the professional running gams
and of getting Into some regular busi
ness.’’ said little Johnny Hayes, ths
Marathoner, who first gained fame by
winning the big distance event at the
Olympic games. The game looks “In
active'’ In this country, and all the
best distance runners are preparing to
Jump over to Europe.
Wall Behaved.
Mother—I don’t like the looks of
that hoy I saw you playing with on
Hie street. You must not play with
*nad little hoys, you know.
Son—Oh, he ain’t a had little
hoy, mamma. He’s a good little
hoy. He’s been to the reform school
two times, and they’ve let him out
each time on-account of good be
havior.
Her Way.
Mrs. Woggs—So you keep your hus
band home evenings? I suppose yop
put his slippers where he can find ’em?'
Mrs. Boggs—No; I put his overshoes
where he can’t.—Puck.
HIS LITTLE BLACK PONY.
Fencing as Seen by Pa.
Mother—I jlst got a > letter from
Ephraim sayln’ as how he’s took up
fencin’ in college.
Father-Rail, stone or barb?-Comell
Widow,
R Landed Its Owner In the United
8tates 8enate.
Judge William G. Ewing, at one
time a well known lawyer of Quin
cy,. 111., and later a famous lecturer
on Christian Science, told how
James A. McDougal was made
United States senator.
"When I was a boy and lived in
Bloomington,’’ said the judge, “Mc
Dougal was also a Resident of that
city and the owner of a handsome
little black pony, which was a
source of unending pleasure to all
hoys in tho neighborhood, includ
ing myself. Scores of times I have
seen five or six little fellows on his
hack at one time.
t “Finally, of course, these hoys
grew up to be man and scattered, as
boys will. Well, McDougal went
west. Years afterward I chanced
to ho in Bloomington and attended
a reception being given to McDou
gal, then United States senator
from California.
“When I was presented to Mc
Dougal he looked at me very close
ly and then, repeated by name sev
eral times, ‘Ewing, Ewing—there
were a number o£ Ewings, if I re
member correctly.’
“Tam William,’I-said.
“ ‘William ?’ replied McDougal.
T do not recall any William.’
“ ‘But I was usually called
“Whig,”’ I answered. ‘Don’t you
remember Whig Ewing, the one
who used to ride your little black
pony?'
“ ‘Well, I should say I do! Whig
Ewing, come with me; I want to
tell you something,’ and he drew
me aside, saying: T want to tell
you how that little black pony made
me United States senator. It was
like this. The Democrats had a
clear majority on joint ballot, and
to he elected was just a -matter of
getting the Democratic nomination.
I got within one vote of it, and
there I stuck. My friends were
willing to stay by me indefinitely,
hut it did not seem fair that I
should hold them any longer than
one more day, and I told them so.
“‘Among the Democrats who
had not been voting for me was one
Barnett, whom I began to fancy I
had known long ago. That night
about midnight I went to his hotel
and found him in. > V. .
“‘“Didn’t you once 'live in
Bloomington, 111. ?” I a^Ved.
“ ‘He said he did.
“‘“Very well. Do you recall a
little black pony on which you and
a lot of other hoys used to ride ?”
“ He gave a quick answer in the
affirmative.
“ ‘ “And don’t you recall McDou
gal as one of those hoys?” I asked.
“ “He was on his feet in a minute
and had me by the hands, and after
looking at me for a moment he said:
“Now, you just go hack to your ho
tel and go to bed! I’ll do the rest.”
“ T followed his advice,’ conclud
ed McDougal, ‘and that’s how I
came to he United States senator.’ ”
—J: H. Rockwell in Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.
An Officer's Ready Wit.
An ancestor of Tolstoy’s, an army
officer, was an excellent mimic. One
day he was mimicking the Emperor
Paul to a group of his f riends when
Paul himself entered and for some
moments looked on, unperceived at
the antics of the young man. Tol
stoy finally turned, and, beholding
the emperor, he bowed his head and
was silent. “Go on, sir,” said Paul.
“Continue your performance.”
The young man hesitated a mo
ment, and then, folding his arms and
reproducing every gesture and in
tonation of his sovereign, he said:
“TolBtoy, yon deserve to be degrad
ed, but I remember the thoughtless
ness of youth, and you axe pardon
ed.” The czar smiled slightly at this
speech. “Well, he it bo,” he said.—
London Globe.
Mrs. Newedd’a System.
“John,” Baid Newedd’s mother, “I
picked up Florence’s account hook
this morning, and I must say I am
disturbed over it. There are nu
merous entries of cash to G. K. W.
Now, who is this G. K. W. your wife
is giving sums of money to?”
“Oh, that’s all right, mother.
You see, Florence has a poor mem
ory about expenditures, so when
ever she comes out short she bal
ances her accounts with G. K. W.”
“And what in the world is G.
K.W.?”
“ ‘Goodness Knows What.’
Boston Transcript.. - -
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finest patterns ever made at the
cheapest prices
Muslin underwear, a big as
sortment to pick from.
Ladies tailor made skirts. I
have the be£t assortment for the.
least money.
A new lot of ladies millinery
just received—something new and
stylish at the cheapest prices.
Ladies and Misses low cut
shoes; the largest assortment to
pick from.
All embroideries and laces I
will offer at great bargains this
week.
All the goods above mention
ed can be found at
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I will pay highest prices for
|| all country produce.
■miC i otffc
In a way that will most agreeably sur
prise you when you buy your groceries
at WHITE & STRINGER’S. This be
cause we can buy closer than anyone
else, and consequently can sell cheaper,
while the quality of our goods are al
ways better.
White & Stringer.
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