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FIRE FIGHTING IN
BIG FIREPROOFS
TO MAKE SAFETY ABSOLUTE
SEA\S TAKES IS GREAT HOTELS
A\U TALL BUILDINGS.
Automatic Watchmen In Hotel
Houma-Fire Door* Which May Be
Cloaed by the Taming ol a Dis
tant Crank—A Hotel Eire Depart
ment With a Private Elevator in
Jew York City-
New York, Dec. 10.—To provide the
means of fighting- fire in fireproof
buildings seems like carrying coals to
Newcastle yet architects, engineers
and inventors are "Uniting in the work
of safeguarding the non-inflammable
structure from the danger of the
flames.
These elaborate precautions are taken
because, while the building itself will
not burn, draperies and furniture are
combustible and, therefore, fire • may
originate even in the fireproof build
ing. On the other hand, modern meth
ods of construction and the use of
many wonderful devices for giving an
alarm can be so employed as to make
it practically impossible for a fire in
a towering office building or great ho
tel to gain any headway before it is
extinguished. In fact as theaters may
be so constructed as to render a repe
tition of the Iroquois disaster impos
sible, hotels may also be so built that
there can occur in them no such lire
as that which several years ago cost
a number of lives in a New York ho
tel which was. so far as the building
itself was concerned, practically fire
proof.
in the Hotel Aetor.
The seven million dollar Hotel Astor,
as it is the latest addition to this city’s
great hotels, is perhaps the best ex
ample of twentieth century means of
preventing and fighting fire. In the
planning of such a building, the ar
rangement of staircases and exits is as
carefully considered with reference to
fire as if the building itself was com
posed of inflammable material.
In this case, the architects, intro
duced some novel ideas, as the result
of which the hotel may in one way be
compared to a vessel. The battleship
or ocean liner is divided into a great
number of water-tight compartments
and in case of danger a single man by
moving a lever is able to close all the
doors between the compartments.
Like n.n Ocean Steamer.
In this building, there is a somewhat
similar system. Staircases are shut in
by walls and the long corridors are
divided into sections by doors. Ordi
narily, the doors giving access to the
stairways and those in the corridors
are open, but should the fire alarm
give its warning in the office on the
street floor, the clerk by the turn of
a crank, causes all the doors to swing
shut. They do not lock; people can
A DItJU, re THE/ SEW ASTOR.
Hotel Firemen Hurrying- to Their
Special Elevator to Answer Alarm.
push them open and pass through but
the doors left to themselves imme
diately close again. Asa result, in
case of flf-e, the smoke which is more
to be dreaded than the flame, is, kept
from spreading through the building.
Another evidence of the care architects
nowadays bestow upon details is shown
by the location of the paint and car
penter shops in the Astor. They are
in what are practically separate build
*n*rs °n the roof and their contents
might burn up without damage to the
hotel itself.
Watchmen as Safeguards.
One of the greatest safeguards
against the spread of Are is the placing
of a watchman in every room—a watch
man on duty every hour of the twenty
four and one who never sleeps. Sup
pose a guest carelessly allows a lighted
cigarette to drop on the floor as he is
leaving his room. He locks the door
and goes his way while a puff of flame
turns into tongues of fire licking at
the draperies and spreading to the oth
er inflammable contents of the apart
ment. Before the smoke is smelt in
the corridors or the crackling of the
names is heard, the watchman has
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given the alarm and the Are fighting
appliances are brought into action.
The watchman is an automatic Are
detector. It consists of a thermostat,
with an attachment known as an am
monia diaphragm about the size of a
5-cent piece, airtight and filled with
ammonia. A thermostat is located in
the ceiling of each room and is con
nected by wires with an annunciator
in the hotel office. Should a fire break
out In any room, the ammonia in the
diaphragm begins to boil as soon as
the heat reaches a temperature of 130
degrees expanding the diaphragm and
closing an electrical circuit: thus auto
matically an Instant alarm is given
and a red light glow in a tiny bulb in
the annunciator corresponding to the
number- of the room.
Doors Close Automatically.
Directly this alarm is given, the ho
tel clerk, by merely moving a lever,
closes every door leading to the
stairs and elevator enclosures, and thus
prevents draughts from carrying the
smoke and flames to any other part of
the building. The boiling of the am
monia in the thermostat not only indi
cates the whereabouts of the fire on
the signal board in the main office, but
it also rings a gong in an elevator in
the engine room. This elevator is used
to carry a corps of ten specially drilled
fire employes to the floor from which
the alarm comes.
As the apparatus stands always
ready for instant use in one of the
A LESSON IN EIKE FIGHTING.
Chambermaids Learn tn Handle the
Portable Extinguishers.
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city’s fire engine houses, so this ele
vator is always at the disposition of
the fire squad. Its use for any purpose
except the answering of alarms of fire
is forbidden. The men who rush to it
when the gong rings are ail employed
in the engine room and take their or
ders from a fire captain. They are
provided, of course, by fire extinguish
ers. axes and hooks.
Hose in Readiness.
Coupled to the standpipes on every
floor are the lines of hose, ready for
use, and here anew wrinkle is found.
The hose is no longer wound upon
reels, but is looped from a rod in such
a manner that It may be brought into
play in the quickest possible time. Be
sides that,* it is kept in better condition
hanging loosely from the iron bar than
would be the case if it was bound
tightly on a reel.
While the elevator is carrying the
hotel firemen to answer an alarm, bells
are ringing in the hallways and ser
vants’ quarters on the floor where the
fire has broken out. Just as the en
gine room men are trained to extin
guish fires, so every "other employe
learns the part he or she is to play in
an emergency.
Chambermaids as Firemen,
The chambermaids are instructed to
stand near stairways and elevators in
case of an alarm to inform the guests
as to the quickest w"ay out; but the
maids are taught more than this and
each be-capped and white-aproned
young woman knows how to handle a
fire extinguisher. Fire drills are held
every other week and are conducted
by an expert in the business of fight
ing fire, these drills being as thorough
and exacting as any held on warship
or liner. It is by their means that dis
cipline is maintained and the knowl
edge necessary to the prompt and skill
ful use of the apparatus is obtained.
Twice a month, the drill Is held re
gardless of the fact that the danger
of fire actually breaking out in the
building is extremely slight. It is very
likely that the fire squad will never
be called upon to cope with an r-tual
blaze but the men are always ready
and the special elevator is always
waiting. What is done in this New
York hotel is typical of the precautions
taken in many others of the great city
buildings and those in a position to
know say that similar measures of
protection are destined to become
more and more nearly universal, so
that in modern buildings the danger
of serious fire will be practically over
come.
—F. Marion Crawford, famous as au
thor and traveler, was at a dinner in
New York a few evenings ago, and
presented by the host as “Mr. Craw
ford” to a smartly dressed young
woman who did not suspect his identi
ty. They chatted for half an hour, and
later the host asked the lady what
she thought of his friend Crawford.
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SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. DECEMBER 11. 1904.
CATCHING THE
CHRISTMAS FISH
PERILS OF THE GRAND BANKS.
GAMBLING WITH THE SEA FOR A
HOLD FI’LL OF SCALES.
When the Fog Cornea Down—A
Steamship Tearing Through the
Fleet—“ Cut In Two In the Dark.”
Gnle and Snow the Rattle to Bring
the Dories Bark to the Anchorrn
Ships—The Race Homeward to
Gloucester, Boston and New York.
By Julius Muller.
(Copyright, 1904, by J. W. Muller.)
Twelve days before Christmas, two
hundred miles east by north from
where Cape Sable's house and flagstaff
look out on the dead men’s sea, and
a fleecy fog lying thick and endless
over all of the rolling ocean from one
end of the Grand Bank to the other.
In it, within a radius of forty miles,
each invisible to the rest, a fleet of
more than one hundred sail, pitching
to anchor and each one praying for
the gray ghosts of the Bank to dis
solve that they may hurry their work
for the Christmas fare of fish.
“Tink, link! Spink, spink! Dong,
dong! Boom, boom!” it rings from
every quarter, from miles away and
close abeam the hundred warning
cries of the anchored vessels, as each
with bell and horn calls out in deep
sea language, “A fisherman! A fisher
man!” that the speeding steamships,
east and best bound across the foggy
shoals, shall step aside in their flight.
From far away, infinitely far away,
infinitely mournful and infinitely soft,
steals a sound where the swirled fog
smokes its thickest. Fainter than all
the warning bells, softer than all the
snoring horns, it yet draws through
and sounds over them all. Scarcely
has the ear caught its first sorrowful
note, ere its second comes twice as
loud. Then the third, still louder,
beating with a rush of sound on the
strained ears. Through it and with
it, a heavy, steady pounding, as of a
great pump, panting hard.
With one accord, din rises from the
hidden fleet. Bells cease their slow
tolling and beat madly. Horns blare
above horns as if they were blown In
desperate attempt to shiver the draped
mists.
Steaming Throngh the Fleet.
But high over all the noises of the
fishing boats, the slow-drawn sound, a
roar now. hurries fast toward them—
its plaintive wail changed to vast,
formless menace. It rushes like the
wind. Straight at the fleet it sweeps.
The pounding is a wild rush and fury
of torn waters now. With it comes
the sharp splitting sound of seas cut
by a flying wedge.
Filling ali the world with its clamor,
its sweeps by unseen, leaving the fish
ing fleet dipping and rolling on both
beams. A few, close to the hasting
terror, catch the sudden swaying of
tattered fog wreaths as the great ship
rips through them. Then they close
in again and.-fast as it had rushed on
us, the noise fades in the mysterious
east.
The hammering bells win their
voices again. Again the horns snore
forth their slow, regular, lingering
warnings—then, suddenly, for a mo
ment it is as if all the fishing fleet
held its breath. From far away, down
in the whiteness whence comes the
soft, sweet mourning of the fleeing
ship's siren, cracks a sharp sound,
echoing clean-cut over the oily swells.
’’Over the dories! Over! She's cut
in two!”
Was it the command from our toss
ing craft or from a score of others?
The W’ords seemed uttered simultane
ously from all the quarters of the
compass; and almost at once come the
splash of oars on every side—all head
ing in the same direction.
Then silence falls again, almost
magically; and again, still farther
away now, steals the soft, sweet wall,
dying, dying.
“She never stopped! the bloody
murderer!" Out of the fog, super
naturally, floats the voice.
"Wonder who It was! The Mary
Savage was lying over that way!”
floats another voice, made thin by
dense vapors and distance.
Waiting for the Unseen.
So, between the measured strokes
of the bells and the blasts of the
horns, invisible watchers speculate
over fifty fathoms of green water,
and wait for that which they can
not see.
Thicker swirls the fog, and with
every movement of the glistening
deck, new vapors puff and drift in,
till at last men can not sense more
than a blurred outline of the nearest
shoulder of others standing close to
them.
rings out, thin and
far off. The distant rattle of blocks
answers and then the clatter of a boat
coming down on decks with a run.
“Oh-o-o-o!” bellows a voice from
our bows. "Did you get a-a-a-ny?”
"N-o-o-o-o!” comes the faint an
swering bail. ”Ca-a-a-n't even tell
who she was. Found nothin' but some
spars. Looks like a Frenchma-a-an."
“Aho-o-o-y! The NeiUe Nu-u-u
--gent!” comes out of the fog. half a
mile away.
“Aho-o-o-y!” cries our deck watch,
leaning forward Into the thick air, as
men hang over a pit's mouth.
Quickly the plash of oars comes
driving on, straight and true; and Ir,
a trice our dories bump alongside our
bobbing quarter and the wet, oilskin
clad men tumble on deck. There is
no need to ask questions. There are
no strangers with them.
“Looks like she was one of them
fellers from up Miquelon way." says
the captain, shaking himself and flap
ping his sou-wester to and fro along
the deck. "We see a few pieces of
dory and a couple of sticks out of her.
and they look like Newfoundland
build. Guess they never had a chance
to swallow after they got hit and
the fellers that done it went on
without knowing anything about it.
either.”
The Deep *ea Funeral Service.
Nothing more la said. The brown,
strong faces look at each other grim
ly for a moment. Then each man
goes ostentatiously about some com
monplace task and there la alienee on
the vessel. That is the deep-sea
fisherman's funeral service over his
kind—silence that makes believes not
to care.
All night long the bells ring out.
high and dear, deep and solemn, loud
and faint, far and near. Ail ntgiit
long the borne blare out all around the
circle of the sea. Ali nlgbt long the
vessels roil and sway -now down,
down, down till their sides press into
the heavy aurge. then up. up. till their
bows point high and (he sterns
squeeze With gurgle and choke tote
the froth behind.
But the lifeless rattle of cordage
c eases its me lari'holy monotony, hit
by bit, as the nlgbt grows old, and
while the wintry dawn la stilt far be
low the Kaeteru aea rim, a <>old triad
blows strongly up from northwest,
chopping the hung, ewitging awelie eg
at the grey top* and paging nagg*”
holes and at last whole lanes Into the
Grand Bank fog.
When the wet sun rises dripping. It
rises from a running sea. black In the
hollows, green on the inclines, lacey
whit# on the crests; and every riding
sail in all the fleet thunders stiffly in
salute. The bows no longer climb
sputtering up the swells. They tear
through them, drowning and spilling
salt water to go spouting down both
sides of the bowsprit along the decks.
Again and again the men, sitting be
low at breakfast, hear the swash of
water as she “takes it green" over the
side.
Watching Their Rivals.
Holding to lines and lashed booms,
the men of the fleet look sharply
around the horizon, watching their
rivals. Suddenly a voice rings from
our bow. whipped back by the wind:
•The Paxton's putting her dories
over.”
"She la? is she?” shouts our captain.
"So she Is. Well, that settles it. Over
von go. boys.”
The big men in their big hip boots
unsiing the high sided dories at the
word. Over they go with a run into
a sea so heavy and wild that from our
slippery, cascade-washed deck it looks
momentarily as if the whole fleet of
smacks were going to the bottom. A
wicked thrust of rushing waves that
try to crush them against the side,
evaded with a clever, short twist of
an oar; a brief pounding into the very
middle of a swirling wave—and off
they go, pulling steadily and as easi
ly as if they were rowing on a mill
pond, up the long hills of gray and
green, poising a moment on the eharp
tops, and disappearing utterly in the
hollow- beyond, to climb up again and
sink until they anchor at last, black
specks, a mile and more away from
their "house and home.”
It is no weather for dories to he
out; and many a skipper watches the
growing sea and the whistling, strain
jng wind anxiously from his leaping
smack. But time is growing short. If
the smack is to have a full fare, she
must get It now or never, in order to
get it to the Christmas market.
The Gamble With the Sea.
So, weighing the chances of his
marine dice with keen and instant de
cision, the fisherman gambles with the
sea, and for unequal stakes. Against
the fish that are staked by the gray
old sea, the men stake lusty, brave
young life.
Harder and harder blows the wind.
The clear-cut rim of sea and sky in
the north has insensibly grown a trifle
dull. Only the eye of a sea gull or a
fisherman could see the difference.
But presently from schooner after
schooner sound the conch shells, blow
ing the home-call to their dories.
Specks appear, converging on the
semi-circle of anchored vessels, grow
from specks to tiny black shapes and
from shapes to dories, streaming home
in answer to the warning signals.
Before the rearmost have more than
come into fair sight, the thing that
brewed in the north is on them—
white, blinding, a driving snow storm,
biting with the cold of the Labrador
current.
Now ring bells, blow horns, sound
gun and pistol! The fishing fleet of
the Grand Bank has lost too many
men in the snow storms of the past,
to take a chance. Too many Christ
mas markets have been supplied by
vessels that came in with flag at half
mast, while somewhere in the un
known plains of sea drifted their
dories with men turning frozen faces
toward the staring, passionless Atlan
tic sky.
Dory after dory, with frosted white
figures in them and soft white mounds
covering their fish, glide out of the
storm and lie under our lee to toss
their catch on deck and call out their
scores before the men scramble heav
ily on deck and shake off the fringing
ice that covers them from eye lashes
to feet.
lloiuetvard Round at Last.
The fish, herding fathoms deep, un
disturbed by the gale overhead, have
been biting well. The piles grow
high on deck with each dory’s load.
And when the cleaning and icing down
is done that night, all hands stretch
themselves happily to sleep with the
knowledge that the next day will see
the riding sail replaced by the great
mainsail, and that before noon the
craft will be gliding and sliding over
the restless seas, bound west by south
for port.
But it is no yachting cruise that
awaits them. Between the Banks and
Gloucester, Boston and New York
fish markets is a rolling ocean drunk
en with wintry temper. Before the
fishermen of America make the twin
lights of Thatcher's Island, the steady
eye of Minot's Lodge, the welcome
soft shine of the Stepping Stone that
tell Hell Gate is near, or the fierce
winklqg of Sandy Hook that shoots
its electric beam over thirty miles of
sea, there will be frozen sails crack
ling like a board when they are moved,
and ropes of lee Instead of manlla
hemp, and decks glaring with sleet.
There will be driving through arching
seas and scudding before gales that
blow straight down from Greenland.
But the girls at home are pulling on
the tow rope; rolling, lurching on her
sides like a slipping horse, dipping
into the trough headfirst like a wrest
ler tumbling, she goes smoking
through it. Scarred and frosted and
saited and a little shattered, she lies
behind the long wharves of Boston
town or In the snug, populous square
wooden cove of Fulton Market at
last.
Winch and windlass clatter, baskets
flop Into her hold and come up. twist
ing slowly, heaped with silvery loads.
Outside the wagons w-alt to carry the
Christmaa fish through the green and
red decorated town. And the skipper
emerges from the cabin, transformed
from an oilskin-clad merman Into a
spic and span person rigged* In the
latest style of shore togs, to go and
see his girl, and tell her that they
had an ordinary cruise with noth
ing happening that was worth men
tioning.
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THE GIRAFFE “LIVES HIGH”
Like ■ Boy II Sometime# Kate Beat
from the Mantelpiece.
“You can always tali giraffe country
at & glance," said Capt. Manel. the big
game hunter. A place of low bushes
or no bushes or trees at all, Is sure not
to have any giraffes in it. Always look
for low trees with abundant leafage be
fore you look for the giraffes. No mat
ter how fertile the ground may be, or
how full it may be of fine Juicy graas
es and other vegetation that would fur
nish abundant food for the giraffes,
you won't be likely to find them unless
there are trees. The reason for this is
that it is very nearly as hard for a gi
raffe to browse on the ground as It
would be for a man to stoop Aver with
out getting on hands and knees, and
pk'k something up from the ground
with his mouth. There Is no more
awkward and painful sight than to aee
one of these beautiful beasts feeding
from the ground. It straddles Its im
mense forelegs out sideways till they
look as if they were being stretched
like India rubber. Then it slowly and
clumsily lowers Its body, jerking its
forelegs spasmodically to keep its bal
ance. That la why a giraffe is not
eager to browse on low growing vege
tation.”
DOROTHY'S VNABRIDGED
DICTIONARY.
Dorothy had driven half the house
hold wild by her attempts to discover
the meaning of a word. At last her
mother, iu despair, took down the
big unabridged dictionary and showed
it to her. The next day Dorothy was
in a strange house, and got into an ar
gument with the youths of the place
over the meaning of another word. To
convince her that they were right,
the pulled out a small school dic
tionary and showed her the definition.
But If they expected Dorothy to be
impressed they were bitterly mis
taken.
“Huh!” said she. wrinkling up her
nose and mouth in a highly insulting
and sarcastic manner. “That dlck
shonery don't count. That’s only one
of those old bridge dlckshoneries.
Walt till you come to my house and
I'll show you I'm right with our big
unbrideed one.”
MIND lIIIIGHTENERN.
Behendmente.
Behead to fluctuate and get to af
firm.
Behead to wield and get a road.
Behead entire and get a perforation.
Behead to ascend and get a steeple.
Behead to abbreviate and get a part
of the nose.
Behead pressure and get a ringlet.
Transposed Words.
Transpose an Irish city and get a
stone.
Transpose a city in South America
and get to post.
Transpose h city in Scotland and get
a beam of light.
Transpose a city in New York and
get an advocate for royal power.
Transpose a city in Central America
and get solitary.
Transpose a city tn Illinois and get
a kind of cabbage.
A FOSTER ROY' SAYSi
“My goodness me!" said Willie Bogg,
"what alls our sister therA?”
“A painter man. with violet paint, has
put it on her hair!"
—An administration official declares
that It is all nonaense about men re
fusing cabinet positions and congress
ional nominations on the sole score that
it is too expensive to live In Washing
ton. "Nine-tenths of them.” he says,
"not only live within their salaries,
but save money. Some spend a great
deal more than they receive from the
government, and they can well afford
to do so. Good formal dinners and
similar entertainments can be given In
the capital as cheaply as In any other
place ,and at less cost than In many
Targe cities.”
SAVANNAH ELECTRIC GO.
St NDAY' WINTER SCHEDULE.
St'Ut HI! IN LINES.
Effective Dec. I, 1904.
ISLE OF HOPE LINK.
Between Isle of Hope and_4oth Street.
Lv. (oth St. Lv7 Isle“of"Hope.
A. M. P. M. - - A. M. P. M.
7:30 12:30 8 : oo 1:00
*3O 130 9:00 2:30
9 ; *® 2:30 10:00 3:00
10:30 3:00 ll;00 j : go
M:I0 3:30 12:00M. (:00
*:*• 5:00
:<*> 6:30
MONTGOMERY LIKE. “
Between Montgomery and 40th Street.
Lv. 40th Street. Lv. Montgomery.
A. M. P. M. A.’ M. ‘P M.
*3O 12:30 • 7:50 12:30
10:30 1:80 • 9:50 2:15
11:30 2:30 tll:30 *3:08
•Through to Thunderbolt.
tlg-mlnute wait at Sandfly.
Between Montgomery A Thunderbolt.
Lv. Montgomery. Lv. Thunderbolt.
A. M. P. M. A. M P. M.
7:50 10* 638 138
9 5® *o* 10:38 3:38
7: 5:10
Between Isle of Hope A Thunderbolt.
Transferring at Bandfly.
Lv. Isle of Hopa. Le. Thunderbolt.
A. M. P. M. A M. P M.
*:® *1:00 8:38 1:88
10:00 *3 00 10:38 t:U
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MILL-HAVEN SCHEDULE
Leave Whitaker and Bay" Streets.
A. M. A. M. > M. P M.
0:40 10:40 1:20 8.00
720 12:00 240 7:20
* 00 ..... 8 20 (:00
* 40 4:00 |;4O
* 20 * 4:40
Leave Mill-Haven.
A. M A M P M PM.
1100 12 20 1:40
7 00 11:40 1:00
7:4* ..... 2*o 7:00
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9 40 ..... 4:20 |;00
10:10 5 00 ....
Hermitage one-he If mile from
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Car leave# oaet e**e of nty Market
for f. v4o Park 4SO a m. and every
4* "im thereafter until II 40 p, m
t'M L letele Park for Mark*’
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MISS SWEETLYTHING’S LITTLE BLACKBOARD PUZZLE.
“Now," said Miss Sweotlythings, “I want you to divide the number 45
Into four parts in such a way that each part will mbke the same number
If you add 2 to the first part, sub tract 2 from the second part, multi
ply the third part by two and divide the fourth part by two.”
That sounded a little hard, but it wasn’t really. See if you can do it.
CHRISTMAS CAKES
FROM MANY COOKS
BY MRS. OLIVER BELL BIJNCE.
Every housewife has her favorite
receipt for Christinas calces, but she Is
also open to conviction when the
Christmas spirit In baking: takes pos
session of her. In fact. If there Is one
time In the yeur when she Is willing
to experiment, It Is just before the
holidays, when the household purse
strings are loosened.
Every country where the Christmas
holiday Is recognized and every statu
In the Union has some particular cake
for which It has more than local fame.
For instance, there are the Italian
pastes, the gay F.ench and German
cakes and the English loaf cakes, e&ch
In Its turn worthy of housewifely at
tention. The following receipts have
been tried out by many generations
of home cooks.
Virginia Walnut Cakes.—To 1 point
of the nuts, measured after they are
shelled, allOw I cupful of sugar, %
cupful of butter, 3 eggs and a pinch
of salt, 14 cupful of sweet milk with
flour enough to make a dough. Beat
the butter to a cream, and mix thor
oughly with the sugar. Next add the
well-beaten eggs, the milk and the
salt with a little of the flour. Then
the nuts, which have been shelled and
passed through the meat chopper, and
last the remaining flour. Roll out
lightly, cut Into shapes, sprinkle with
granulated sugar and bake in a mod
erately hot oven.
Christmas Cookies. Cookies that
have a genuine holiday flavor are
made by combining chocolate and
fruit flavors. They can be trusted to
find favor with the young people at
least. The proportions given will
make a fair quantity, but they can be
doubled if much entertaining Is dope
during the Christmas season. Allow
2 eggs, Vi cup of butter, 1 cupful of
sugar, 2 cupfuls of flour and 1 tea
spoonful of baking powder, Vi cup of
raisins measured after they have been
stoned and chopped, and 2 table
spoonfuls of grated chocolate. Dis
solve the chocolate In a bowl over a
kettle of hot watcf and let It stand
until needed. Hub the butter and
sugar to a cream, add the eggs which
have been well-beaten, then the flour
which has been sifted with the baking
powder, and lastly the melted choco
late. Beat hard and mix very thor
oughly, then work In the raisins and
roll the dough out to thin sheet. Cut
Into shapes with fancy cutters, press
one, two or three whole raisins Into
the top of each cookie according to
size and bake In a moderately quick
oven. Keep fresh by packing them in
a stone crock or eartherware dish
with a cover.
German Christmas Cakes—The
Fatherland cook boasts of many re
ceipts, but this one Is a prime favorite
with all classes. These delicious lit
tle sweets cun b* cut Into as many
shapes as the housewife has tin pat
terns and can also be made to take a
variety of colors by dividing the icing
chocolute for a fourth.
To I eggs allow 1 pound' of pastry
flour, §4 pound of sugar, Vi pound of
almonds well blanched and >4 pound
of candled orange peel or citron, as
preferred, 1 lemon, 1 large and juicy
orange, Vi ounce of ground cinna
mon and V 4 teaspoon of good cloves,
Vi teaspoon of allspice, 1 teaspoonful
of baking powder and Vi cup of honey.
Beat the eggs and sugar to a cream.
Blanch, dry and pass the almonds
through a meat chopper. Beat the
eggs without ceasing for twenty min
,utee, then add eggs and sugur, and
little by little the flour and the al
monds. Grate the rinds of lemon and
orange Into the mixture, add the
strained Juice and the honey, then the
baking powder. Mix well, and If not
stiff enough to roll out add more flour.
Roll Into thin cakes, cut Into fancy
chapes, bake In a moderate oven.
When cold spread with boiled Icing
colored as directed above.
English Mistletoe Cake—'This cake
Is both ornamental and toothsome, for
It shows the genuine Christmas col
ors. For the layers allow 3 ounces
each of butter and sugar, 3 eggs. Vi
pound of flour, 1 teaspoonful of bak
ing powder and 1 wine glassful of
orange flower water, Separate the
egge and beat the whites to a stilt
froth, the yolks to a cream. Beat the
sugar and butter together, add the
yolks of the eggs, the flour sifted with
ihe baking powder, the orange flower
water and lastly the whites of the
eggs. Bake In three layers. For the
filling, whip Vi pint of cream until
stiff, sweeten slightly snd divide In
two portions. Color one with spinach
green, and add grated rocoanut to the
ocher, Spread the green cream over
the first layer of the cake, cover with
the second, spread over the white
cream snd place the third layer on top.
Ice thickly with plain boiled icing and
decorate while fresh with bite of can
died citron cut to represent mistletoe
leaves, using silver comfits for Ihe
berries,
French Chocolate Cakes. -For the
foundation, allow I eggs. 4 ounces of
powdered sugar, IVi ounces of flour,
1 ounce of cornstarch, and taaepoon
of vemits estrert Asperate the eggs
snd nest ike yolks to s cream, tken
add tbe powdered soger, tks flout and '
corn starch Utlc by little and finally
the vanilla. Beat all thoroughly, then
add the whites of the eggs which
have been whipped to a stiff froth and
whip lightly Into the mixture. But
i ter lightly a sheet of white paper and
! spread over an ordinary bsklng pan.
Press the cake mixture through a
i pastry tube to form rounds about
| the size of a silver half dollar. Bake
• In a moderate oven until firm and al
low the cukes to become cold. Then
cut all of one size with a small round
cutter, spread the flat side of half the
number of cakes with peach marma
lade and cover with the other half.
Put 1 cupful of granulated sugar In a
saucepan with 14 cup of water and
cook until It will spin a thread. Melt
an ounce of chocolate over hot wa
ter, beat the white of 1 egg until
stiff, then whip In the syrup little by
little until thoroughly mixed. Add
the chocolate and beat all until thick.
Take us many wooden toothpicks as
you have cakes and stick one Into
each, and, holding the toothpick In
the hand, dip one cake Into the Icing,
covering it entirely. Turn a flour
sieve upside down on a table and place
the ends of the sticks in the holes,
supporting the cakes thus until quite
dry. j
English Christmas Cake.—Allow lVa
pounds each of butter and sugar, 4
eggs, 1 gill of rich ( ream, & potwds
of Hour. 3 pounds of currants, %
pound of sliced citron, 1 grated nut
meg, 1 tablespoonful of salt and 3
teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Rub
the buttes and sugar to a cream, whip
the eggs thoroughly, then mix all to
gether. Sift the flour and mix thor
oughly with the fruit and spice. Then
add it and the salt to the mixture lit
tle by little, stirring gently until mix
ed, add the baking powder and beat
until smooth. Bake In a moderate
oven for two hours.
Southern Pound Cake. Beat 1
pound of butter and 1 pound of pow
dered sugar together until they form
a cream. Separate the whites from
the yolks of 1 dozen eggs. Whisk
the whites to a stiff froth and beat the
yolks until thick. Beat the whites Into
the creamed butter and sugar, then
udd the yolks and stir all thoroughly
together. 81ft the flour and stir In
lightly little by little, stirring only
enough to mix well and smoothly. Bake
In a moderate oven for ona hour and
a quarter. Be careful not to stir or
shake the pan until the cake Is well
set. The genuine pound cake la al
ways unflavored, but If preferred, the
Juice and grated rind of a lemon may
be added.
Hickory Nut Wafers. These de
licious little dainties hall from Ver
mont. For each egg allow V 4 cup of
butter, 1 cupful of sugar, I cupful of
the chopped hickory nuts. Beat the
butter and sugar to a cream, then add
the well-beaten eggs and the flour with
a pinch of salt. Lastly stir In the
hickory nut meat. Drop In small
spoonfuls on buttered paper, flatten a
little with the back of the spoon, and
bake in a moderate oven,
Swiss Christmas Cakss. The
whites of the eggs only are used. For
three of these allow 2 ounces of
sugar, 2 tablespoonsfuis of red and 3
of white wine, 1 lemon and flour to
make a paste. Rub the rind of the
lemon with the sugar, then dissolve It
In the wine, add the whites of the eggs
beaten quite stiff and flour to make
paste. Spread over a buttered pan
In a thin layer and cook in a rather
quick oven. Immediately on remov
ing from the oven, cut into narrow
strips, and while hot wind them quick
ly around a small stick, and when
cold slip them off. At serving time
pile high in a pretty silver dish.
Cheer
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