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- CREAMED POTATOES.
Have cold boiled potatoes, cut in
dice shaped bits and lay in a sauce
pan io which you have a white sauce.
Make the sauce of two oumces of
butter, vne ounce of flour and half a
pint of cream. Heat thoroughly and
serve, sprinkling over the top chopped
parsley or chopped chives as you like.
APPLE BAVAROIS.
Pare and slice half a dozen sweet
apples and set them to cook with the
juice of a lemon, a wineglass of sher
ry, a cup of sugar, or more if it seems
necessary, and an ounce of gelatine
dissolved in a little warm .water and
strained. When the apples are 80
tender they fall to pieces, take up,
press through a fine sieze and let get
perfectly cold. Whip in then a pint
of cream and pour into a mould. Turn
out when set.
QUINCE JELLY.
Wash the fruit; save all the nice
parings and seeds; cook for an hour
or more in more water than will cover
them; then run them through the
colander and let them sit until next
day, or until the fruit substance has
settled; now throw off the clear juice
through a thin musym bag and set on
the fire; when boiling well add one
pint of sugar to each pint of juice and
boil until it rolls off the spoon; fill
the jelly cups and let them set by a
stove or any warm p:.ace a couple of
days without covers, s 0 as to evapor
ate any water if the jelly is not stift
enough.
BARBERRY JELLY.
A delicious je!ly, which is in high
repute with English people and fami
lies of English descent in this coun
try, is made of barberries. The bar
berry is a rather seedy fruit for pre
serves, but it is sometimes put up, as
currants are, with a pound of raisins
to every five pounds of itself and a
pound of sugar to a pound of the
whole. Th» barberry should be pick
ed late, after it has been touched
with the frost, and the fruit is a deep,
dark crimson. The demand for the
fruit is soo limited that i seldom sells
for more than ten conts a quart, so it
must be classed among our inexpen
sive preserving fruit.
MUSTARD PICKLES.
Chop fine one pint of good-sized
cucumbers, one pint of large onions,
one head of cabbage and six red pep
pers. Add one pint of very small oni
ons and one pint of very small cu
cumbers, leaving these whole.
Sprinkle with half a cupfu! of salt and
let stand for twenty-four hours. Take
one cupful of sugar, two quarts of
vinegar, one tablespoonful of dry mus
sard, three tablespoonfuls of white
mustard sced, half an ounce of tur
meric, half an ounce of white celery
seed and half a cupful of fiour. Mix
the flour, the dry mustard and the
turmeric with a little cold vinegar,
and very carefully add the rest of the
vinegar. Add the sugar, mustard
seed and celery seed and let it come
to a boil. Put in the vegetables,
chopped and whole, and boil for five
minutes. Seal and put away.
VENISON PIE.
This is a dish for hungry hunters,
and is delicious served anywhere. Cut
up three pounds of venison in small
square pieces and place them in a
saucepan with a tablespoonful of but
ter ov dripping to brown. Then add
a tablespoonful of flour and stir until
it is well incorporated. Moisten with
a quart of white broth or water, add
six small onions, salt, pepper, a pinch
of nutmeg, and half a teaspoonful of
kitchen bouquet. Let this cook, cov
ered, on top of the stove for three
guarters of an hour. Lay in a deep
porcelain dish and cover the top with
a moderately rich pie crust, taking
care to wet the edges of the dish.
Brush the surface with the beaten
‘white of an egg, make the proper im
cisions, and bake in the oven for
about forty minutes. -
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
AM canned fruit should be kept in
a cool, dark place.
A litile sugar put in the cooking
turnips improves them wonderfully.
A stone jar with a close cover is a
safe match safe. Keep it out of the
reach of the children.
‘Gum arabic and gum tragacanth, in
equal parts, dissolved in hot water,
makes an excellent mucilage, always
tandy and ready for use.
Mush for frying should not be sO
thoroughly cooked as that which is to
be eaten without frying. Pour into a
deep pan when cooked sufficiently,
and when cool, slice and dip the slices
in beaten egg; they will then fry
crisp.
Old newspapers are better than
clothes ta rub off the stove with.
A cloth wrung out of warm skim
med milk and water is good to clean
fiy specks from varnished woodwork
or furniture. It not only removes the
dirt more easily, but it makes the
varnish look fresher.
To brighten the isinglass in a stove,
rub briskly with a rag dipped in vine
gar and water.
Carpets well sprinkled with salt
and then wiped with cloth squeezed
out of warm water containing a spoon.
ful <f spirits of turpentine to every
quart, will look bright and new and
will not be troubled with ’mot’hs.
Keep a good-sized pisce of charcoal
in the refrigerator until the frost
comes, removing the charcoal every
ten days or twoe weeks,
Have all the plumbing painted well
with white enamel, not only for sani
tary reasoms, but to lighten the work
‘'of the housekeeper.
Keep a lump of washing soda over
the sink pipe, as it will neutralize the
grease in the wash watsr and pre
ven*: the pipe clogging.
A clever woman travelcr mended a
rent in her gown by using a hair from
her head as thread for the needle she
always carries in her purse.
If a paper bag is slippsd over the
frand before the coth or brush is
tak>n to clean the stove, the finger
tips and nails will be saved contact
with the grime.
The Monte Carlo coat ig still in
demand.
Two-toned felts are becoming gen
eral favorites. They are welcomed
by ihe women who alwars lccked up
on pastel shades as the best fashions
in vogue for many a day.
Deep brown and orange wiil be used
extensively. Perhaps the lead-color
this season is brown and the orange
‘is employed as a relief.
. The French noveltizs which are ap
pearing are worthy of mention. They
include almost every design which it
i 3 possible to rote.
~_The poke bonnet is again seen, and
' for the girl who still r=tains her pomp
' adcur it is just the thing.
. The dot, always so fashionable, is
coming in, and, where there was one
dotted gown before, there will now
be 2 dozen. The dot, to be fashionabie,
must look as though done by hand,
for it is the hand-embroidered dot
;which makes the gown chic.
% Similia Similibus Curantur.
l “Jigson has just paid two doctors
' seven hundred dollars to cure his wife
got some disease that resulted from
iwearing fashionable shoes.”
“Hugh! High heels, weren't they?”
Japan is buying the locomotives for
the Corean railrcads exclusively in
the United States, chiefly because of
more speedy delivery. It is favoring
' England and the United States in the
purchase of material for the new wat-
Femorks at Yokohama. England is
particuiarly favored for material for
i Children are unconscious - philoso
phers. They refuse to pull to pieces
their enjoyments to see what they are
made of.—Henry Ward Beecher,
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The State law of Maryland has pro
nounced Trained Nursing a profession
rather than a means of livelihood.
Professor Karl Lemprecht, of Leip
sie, received the degree of LL.D. from
Columbia “in camera,” which looks
like a rather negative distinction,
thinks the Boston Transcript
Will Shute is the name of a new
Southern express messenger on the
Southern Railway. Train robbers,
beware!—Sunflower Pensac.
The Czar has put a million rubles
into bank for his infant son, to give
him a start in life. Vanity Faic says
it is known as the “The Fresh Heir
Fund.”
A scientist now prediets that the
time is coming when we shall be able
to do without sleep. When this hap
pens we will, perhaps, be able to keep
up with our fictional literature as fast
as it is published.
Quite appropriately Unele Sam’s
first “horse marines” wili make their
appearance in the Mare Island Navy
Yard, where the reservation is so pbig
that it cannot be properly patrolled by
foot soldiers.
The Knickerbocker Steamboat Com
pany, which owned the General Slo
cum, is reported to be embarrassed.
It might well be after all the uncom
plimentary things that have been said
about it, one would think, remarks
the Boston Transcript.
The new steamship restaurant, al
though still an experiment, will un
doubtedly be welcomed by the trav
eler who bemoans the payment of
his goodly money for both board and
lodging during a period when appe
tite- is fickle and the conviviality of
his fellow diners an impertinence.
The Japanese haven’t been ac
guainted with frorses as long as the
European world and familiarity has
not vet bred contempt as is shown
by the proposition to build drinking
fountains for ‘horses all (ve- Japan as
monume<nts to the chargers that have
lost their lives whzn their batteries
went ipto action on the Manchurian
battleficids.
From very early times whenever a
romancer has been hard up for a
story he has mad: a fish give up a
man, a diamond, or a watch. The
latest version of the familiar myth—
well vouched for, as usual—comes
from Havre where a fisherman no
ticed something unusually hard in
side of a dried codfish. It was a
golden curb bracelet, dropp:d, no
doubt, from an Atlantic liner.
As if the eye were not a weapon
with which every young woman is al
ready expert, certain rules for an
eve drill have recently bsen promaul
gated. It seems that the beauty of
a woman’s orbs lies not so much in
their shaps and cocr as in the way
she uses them. Hence a leng list of
directions for rotating them sa that
the muscles may be best trained.
Man never knows when he is safe.
Hamilton W. Mabie says: “Men
fail, as a rule, because they will not
pay the price of the thing they want;
they are not willing to work hard
enough, to prepare thoroughly enough
to put themselves heartily into what
they are doing. The only road to
advancement is to do your work so
well that you are always ahead of the
demands of your position. Keep
ahead of your work, and your work
will push your fortunes for you.”
Last year, 1,069,000 harvesting-ma
chines were sold in the United States,
and, of this number, 225,000 were
binders. They went to every wheat
prodgcing country in the world, for
the sun never sets on American farm
machines. But most of them are be
ing used in the United States. Our
agricultural expansion has followed
the path of farm machine, comments
the World’s Work. = - o
shipbuilding and naval equipment.
Thegarge war vessels built for Japan
id:::aay were ordered to England
sor their armament. £%
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r Pure Water. 4y
This is something that people get
more of at the drug store than they
have any idea of. Every bottle of
medicine is a half or two-thirds dis
tilled water. Distilled water by the
five-gallon bottle is much cheaper—or
you may buy a “still” and make it
yourself. Pure spring watzr and soft
well water contain natural sa’ts that
are beneficial rather than harmful.
But these salts are to be had in fruits
and also in vegetables, and so it is far
better to drink distilled water than
impure water of any kind—or to drink
hard water. Hard water is especially
bad where there is any tendency to
kidney trouble. Spring water that is
sold in large cities in cans is unwhole
some—because of having been kept in
cans. Water—like fruit, rhubarb and
tomatoes—should never touch metal
Eof any "kind whatsoever. A cup of
[hot water an hour before each meal,
’ another cup an hour after each meal—
brings heaith. Put a little lemon in
;the water. Do not drink it too hot
Always have it freshly boiled.
5 Nothing New Under the Sun.
~ Mr. Arthur Evans, the Oxford arch
f aeologist, who has made so many in
teresting discoveries in the so-called
palace of Minos, in Crete, has found
in a subterranean sanctuary certain
very ancient, small, earthenware stat
ues, representing some goddess and
two of her servants. The dress of the
figures is said to be highly modern.
The skirt of the robe of the goddess
'is “in Louis XV. style.” Her jacket is
“exactly as is worn in the present
‘day.” Styles of say, 2000 B. C., styles
of 1904. TUnless some humorist has
“salted” the excavations, you are'
forced to hold that much nonsense has
been written about the plendid, free,
uncramped bodies of the female an
‘ cients, by no means ancient females,
'in their time. Ard “we shift and be
deck and dedrape us” much as our es
' teemed ancestors did in the morning
of the world—With the Procession,
. Evervbody’'s Magazine.
i Forgive Us Our Pressups.
| Polly, aged 6, had heard her papa
' talking about the campaign and she
. hurried off to the nurszery to tell her
dolls about the time she stayed up to
. watch the election recturns.
. “An’ it was jus’' awful crowds and
' awful crowds and awful crowds,” she
said. “An’ just mens and womens and
' mcre mens, all a-hollering like they
' was mad ‘bout somethin’—or maybe
|it was glad; I don't know e an’' my
| papa got mos’ pushed to death and
: squeez2d out of breath.
i “An’ [ found out right down there
' in the strzet, my bzautif-is, what the
good Lord meant when He put that in
' His prayver for us to say ‘bout ‘For
' give us our pressups as we forgive
| thoze that press up against us. "—
i New York Press.
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é No Chance to Learn.
| The family was planning at the
| breakfegs.t table to attend, later in the
' day, the funeral of a deceased neigh
| bor, but Isabel, aged six, was very
Emuch to her distress, to bhe left at
| home.
[ “But I've never been %0 a funeral,”
the little girl pleaded. “I want to g 0
Eto one just dreadfully.”
“Never mind, Sis,” said the little
!maid's brother, consolingly, “perhaps
you can go to your own some day.”
“Well,” flashed Isabel indignantly,
“if I don’t have a little practice I
shan’t know how to behave even at
that one.”—Lippincott’s.
Police Magistrate—How did you
manage to extract the man’s watch
from his pocket when it was provided
with a safety catch? Pickpocket—Ex--
cuse me, your honor, but that is a pro
fessional secret. I am willing to teach
you, however, for slo.—Chicago Daily.
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