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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 Something good for Christmas | During the holiday season, when good cheer everywhere prevails, there is nothing nicer to have in the house than a little good whiskey, and besides, your physician will tell you it la excellent in many cases of sickness. But you must have good whiskey, pure whiskey. You aon t want to drink poor whiskey yourself, much less offer It to your friends, while os a medicine, poor whiskey, adulterated whiskey, may do you deoided harm. . HAYNER WHISKEY goes to you direct from our own distillery, with all its original richness and flavor, and carries a UNITED STATES REGISTERED DISTILLER'S GUARANTEE of PURITY and AGE. When you buy HAYNER WHISKEY you save the enormous profits of the dealers and have our guarantee that your money will be promptly refunded if you are not perfectly satisfied with the whiskey after trying it That's fair.isn't it? HAYNER WHISKEY PURE SEVEN-YEAR-OLD RYE 4 FULL $0:22 EXPRESS QUARTS O PREPAID -We will send you POUR PULL QUART BOTTLES of HAYNER'S SEVEN YEAR RYE ,or **-*o. express chargee paid by us. Try it and if you don't find it all right ana as good as you ever drank or can buy from anybody else at any price, send It back at our expense and the next mail will bring you your *8.20. Could any offer be gum fairer* This offer Is backed by a company with a capital of *500,000.00. paid in full, and the proud reputation of 85 years of continuous success We hare Mv9 over a quarter of a million satisfied customers, proving conclusively that m*H our whiskey 1* all right and that we do exactly ae we say. Shipment mad* Ufa in a plain scaled case, with no marks or brands to indicate contents. Kef Orders for Arts., Cal.. Col.. Idaho. Mont. Ner.. N. Mex , Ore , Utah. Wash. JEmA ST w?o,. must he on the basis of 4 Quarts for #4.00 by Kaurcae Frepald or SO Quart* for #l.OOby Freight Prepaid. FREE With ea<li four quart order we will send free one gold-tipped whiskey ailllß glass and one corkscrew If you wish to send an order to a friend, ss a Christmas present, we will enclose with the shipment an elegant aouveuu KkfygefC oard. with both your rames neatly printed thereon. If fv" Write our naareet office and do It NOW. gjk THE HAYNER OISTILLINQ COMPANY *TUhTA OA. OAYTON. OHIO IT. LOUI*. MO. IT. PAUL MINN F Jso V* Dimujsr, Taor. a —MADMNBD ISIS (, ' 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. | I i I ! I 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. “Oh, so, so,” she replied. “He’s hand some and lazy and conceited, you know, and all that, but he strikes mo as being quite shallow and sadly lack ing in knowledge of the world." 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. 3/JOV CUT tf/S TT£TA 'T/S STMNGf. J ?- UTT/i JUSTJ£iAT PATENTS '(WlnklwtriMi TM kens, . Tm juuotSiV t. mtm —--ir-ijrrin t<A 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 _M4-mlnute wait at Sandfly. 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 *• *OO 7:40 *** *4O |:*o 9 40 ..... 4:20 |;00 10:10 5 00 .... Hermitage one-he If mile from ternsnM of Mlll-Msven Mm MT B*f> 1,1 IE. 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*’ •'.on m end every 4* minute* there, t ftrr tmffi ft a* tdedi sM4tig*t, 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 I GOTO SLEEP i Nothin* In so important fefl B a* Round sleep if you want I aVr **• W * ll an<l k ’* p Lw When you can't sleep H I from any cause get up H arid take a dose of Menu's H ■ t’uiatlw Hitter*. It quiets Em ■ the nerves. a sedative ■ % without any harmful In- H jfl gradient. Contains no II fl opium <>r dun*rous drug. 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