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Ham Sandwich.
The secret of the delicious ham
sandwiches served at an afternoon
tea last week was in the cooking of
the ham and the abundance of maycn-
naise, used in mixing the meat. The
ham had been broiled until it was
brown and then ground very fine and
mixed plentifully with mayonnaise.
The meat may be cooked in the oven,
a thin slice being allowed to bake
until it is well browned, or the meat
may be fried. There is a more defi-
“ite flavor about’ ham cooked in any
of these ways than there is if it is
boiled,—New York Sun.- 5
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= Vegetable Scallop.
" Butter a deep granite or earthen
dish; put a layer of thinly sliced
Shion in the bottom, then of thinly |
sliced potatoes, then layer of sliced
tomatoes; season with salt, pepper
and butter, a large tablespoon sugar,
then layer of dried bread crumbs,
Repeat the process and
cover with bread crumbs; pour over
a teacup of water and put in oven;
add water while cooking if needed;
it should be of the consistency of
scalloped tomatoes when done and
will require one and one-half hours
to cook. Very nice with fish or roast
meat.—Boston Post. : :
" Snow Drift,
One pint milk, butter size of an
English walnut, one-half cup sugar,
two and a half dessert spoonfuls of
corn starch (moistened with a little
milk), whites of three eggs beaten to
a stiff froth, one teaspoon vanilla;
put the milk into double boiler, add
the sugar, then the butter; let come
to a boiling point, then add the corn
starch, let it thicken up, then take
from fire and add the vanilla and the
stifly beaten whites of eggs; beat
hard for a minute or two, then set
the dish in the hot water again for
* one minute; then remove and pour
into moulds and put on ice or serve
with cream and sugar.—Boston Post.
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307” Broiled Chicken.
, It requires a very clear fire for
brolling chicken, and even with much
care they are apt to scorch more or
less; so to make the work easier and
overcome all difficulty they may be
partially cooked in the oven.
Order the chicken dressed for
broiling at the market, and wipe with
a cheesecloth wrung out of cold
water. Place in a buttered dripping
pan, skin side down; sprinkle with
salt and pepper and dot over with bits
of butter; bake in a hot oven fifteen
Remove to a hot, well
greased broiler and broil over a clear
fire ten minutes, turning the broiler
frequently that all parts may be
broiled evenly. Arrange on a hot
platter, spread with butter, sprinkle
with salt and garnish with parsley.—
Boston Post, \ {
; Corn Chowder. ;
To make the chowder, cold cooked
ears of corn may be utilized. Grate
or cut from the cob enough to make
a quart of corn. Cut into small
pieces one-half pound bacon or fat
salt pork, and cook in a frying pan
until brown. Just before it reaches
this stage add a medium-sized onion
minced fine and brown also. Put into
a stew pan a layer of diced potatoes,
sprinkle over some of the browned
onion and bacon, then a layer of cut
corn, with salt and pepper to season.
Next, add another layer of potatoes,
more bacon, onion and corn and So
on until all the material has been
used, having corn at the top. It will
require about four or five potatoes,
dependent upon size. Add a cup and
three-quarters of boiling water, cover
the pot and cook gently for thirty
minutes. Make a cream sauce, using
two tablespoons of each of butter
and flour and two cups of hot milk.
‘When cooked smooth and thick, add
- to the kettle of chowder, a few crack-
ers broken and stirred in at the last,
and a tablespbonful of minced pars-
ley. Serve hot.—Washington Star.
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A running or darning stitch is the
best for padding small spaces in
French or satin stitch embroideries.
Shredded chicken dressed lightly
with mayonnaise and served in little
| emi al
French rolls is popular at afternoon
teas.
A lovely centrepiece of fine linen
was beautifully decorated with white
and blue cords in a conventional de-
sign. ;
Chinese, Indian and Bulgarian em-
broideries are favorites for all kinds
of bags, card cases and veil and hand-
kerchief cases.
It is better to use light blue trans-
fer paper for tracing embroidery de-
signs than the dark colors, as these
are apt to rub off and soil the article.
A linen or denim shoe bag, with
one Japanese motif of simple though
striking design on each pocket, is a
useful and attractive gift for a man.
A shredded Spanish sweet red pep-
per adds flavor to creamed fish.
especially tasty with creamed finnan
haddock or any other coarse fibred
fish. ;
Practical and attractive lamp mats
are made of linen in gray or the nat-
ural color embroidered in shades that
harmonize with the furnishing of the
room.
For a dinner fruit cocktail fill
punch glasses half full of diced pine-
apple and oranges and top the mix-
ture with mint ice. Lemon or orange
ice may be used instead of the mint.
To pad a wide edge for a button-
holed scallop, go over the outline with
a row of catstitch or with the loose
chain stitch. This saves many stitches
of padding and serves the same pur-
pose.
To cook a pumpkin easily halve it,
remove the seeds and bake in oven.
‘When tender scoop pumpkin out with
a spoon and rub through a colander.
Scorching is prevented and time saved
by this method. nade
~ THE ROTHSCHILDS.
Origin of Family and How It Became
so Opulent.
As the revolution in France was
the beginning of modern history in its
other distinguishing phases, so it gave
rise, directly or indirectly, to concen-
trations of modern financial power.
The leading example is the history
of the Rothschilds, In one of the
mean and dirty houses in the Jewish
quarter of Frankfort, Mayer Amschel
was born in the year 1743. The
house was numbered 142 in the
Judengasse, but was better known
by its sign of the Red Shield, which
gave its name to the Amschel family.
Mayer was-educated by his parents
for a rabbi; but judging himself bet-
ter fitted for finance, he! entered the
service of a Hanover banker mamed
Oppenheim, and remained with him
until he had saved enough to set up
for himself. Then for some years he
dealt in old coins, curios and bullion;
then returned to Frankfort, estab-
lished himself in the house of the
Red Shield, and rapidly advanced
toward opulence.
In a féw years he gave up his ir-
regular trade and confined himself to
banking. Such was his integrity that
the Landgrave of Hessen, in posses-
sion of large treasure in the garly
days of Napoleon’s career of Eurc-
pean conquest, confided that treasure
to the “court Jew,” who kept it out} {R
of Napoleon’s grasp and restored it
to its owner later. Out of this trans-
action Mayer made a great deal of
money. So likewise, out of his trans-
actions with the Danish and Prussian
governments later. He left five sons,
to whom upon his death bed his last
words were: ‘You will soon be rich
among the richest, and the world will
belong to you.”” The prophecy was
more nearly true for the period down
to fifty years ago than it is now.
The five sons conceived and exe-
cuted an original and daring scheme.
While the eldest remained at Frank=-
fort and conducted the parent house,
the four others emigrated to four
different capitals, Naples, Vienna,
Paris and London, and acting con-
tinually in concert, they succeeded in
obtaining a control over the money
market of Europe, as unprecedented
as it was lucrative to themselves. It
was the third brother, Nathan, who
settled in London. He had a com-
manding ability, a natural genius for
finance; his grandson, Nathaniel
‘Mayer, born in 1840, was raised to
the peerage, as Baron Rothschild, in
1885.— Portland Oregonian.
Grapes Tied by Baby Ribbon.
The Eastern shipments of ‘“‘cluster-
ettes,” the new grape pack sent out
this year by the California Fruit Ex-
change, utilized $3600 worthe@f fancy
baby ribbon, which if stretched in one
piece would cover a distance of twen-
ty-five* miles.
The experiment proved a success,
and the growers sending grapes East
packed with fancy ribbon received
much larger prices than those whose
consignments went in the rdinary
manner. Clusterettes go in the nat-
ural form in large bunches as picked
from the vine, packed in specially
constructed crates so the berries will
not bruise.—Sacramento Correspond-
ence San Francisco Chronicle,
Bride Receives an Aeroplane,
Wedding presents are a very good
index to the tastes of the times and
the character of the young folk of the
period. One has seen some curious
changes in this direction during the
last quarter of a century. There was
a time when the lucky bride proudly
numbered a brougham and horse
among the, “numerous and costly.”
This gave place to the silver plated
bicycle, that in turn was superseded
by the motor car, and now one reads
that an aeroplane was among the
gifts presented to a recent bride. This
presumably will become an estab-
lished present for a while, but what
its successor may be is beyond the
wildest
Lady’s Pictorial.
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imagination to conceive.—'
PRIME MINISTER OF ENGLAND.
Novel Skirt Gauge.
inventors are divided into two
classes—those = that. invent skirt
gauges and those that invent other
things, and the latter are only slightly
in the majorigy. One of the former,
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a California, man, designed the skirt
gauge shown in the illustration.
This consists in a base plate, with
guide ways and an upright backing
plate. A guage plate, corresponding
with the backing plate, is movably
mounted on the base and is held in
position by a spring. The gauge plate
has a series of slots running up to it
to permit of the garment being
marked. The skirt is placed between
the two upright plates and the device
is moved around its whole circumfer-
ence. The amount to be taken off the
garment is measured on the gauge
chalk this length.can be marked off
as the device circles the cloth. As
will be readily noted, the line thus
drawn is necessarily accurate and
there is no danger of taking off more
cloth in one part than in another.—
Boston Post, /
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A Certain City Peril.
you won’t be shot by being mistaken
for a deer, but you may be mistaken
for.a lamp post by a chauffeur and
run down.—Boston Herald.
ing the seats one by one?
plate, and by means of a piece of
HERBERT HENRY ASQUITLL
A Useful Man,
“See him? That's the baby ele-
phant. He’s the best Kicker in the
team.” “How far can he. kiex?”
“Oh, he dossn’t kick far, he kicks
hard. He's disabled thirty-seven (his
season.”—Pubif Cpinicn.
Car Seats cn Lever.
Aside from the question of comfort,
the thing that limits the distance be-
tween car seats is the space needed
for the turning of the backs of these
seats. A Philadelphia man has elim-
inated this feature by inventing a
mechanism which turns alternate
seats automatically, and not only
saves space, but saves the conductor
time. This device consists of a lever
mechanism running under the seats
and connecting with the backs. There
are two levers, each operating alter-
nate seats, so that when one series
are turned the others remain station-
ary, and there is no interference be-
tween them. Who has not seen a
‘conductor passing through a train or
trolley at the end of a run and turn-
‘With this
device the whole two rows of seat
backs can be reversed with two move.
Of course, if you stay in the city | ments, either by hand or by means of
the compressed air which operates
' the brakes, as it is easy to harnest
| the levers to this power.—Washing-
ton Star.
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| FISHING IN AFRICAN RIVER.
A Sixty-Pounder That Furnished
Some Exciting Sport,
One can easily imagine that after
feeding for many weeks upon hippo-
potamus steaks, the flesh of elephants
and other coarse food of that nature
fish of almost any variety would form
an agreeable and pleasant change.
Such, at all events, was the opinion’
of Sir Samuel Baker, who, after a
long march in Africa, through a wild’
and dangerous country, arrived upon’
the borders of a broad river. He took
his fishing rod, and wandering up
stream cast his line over the water in
the hope ® enticing some beauty of
the. deep to take issue with him.
“I put on a large bait and threw it
about forty yards into the river, well
up the stream, and allowed the float
to sweep the water in a half circle,
thus taking the chance of different
distances from the shore.
“For about half an hour nothing
moved. I was just preparing to alter
my position when out rushed my line,
and striking hard, I believe I fixed the
‘old gentleman’ himself, for I had no
control over him whatever.
“Holding him was out of the ques-
tion. The line flew through my hands|
and cut them till the blood flowed,
and I was obliged to let the fish take
his own way.
“This he did for about eighty vardg
when he suddenly stopped. This un«
expected halt was a great calamity;
for the reel overran itself, having na
check wheel, and the slack coils of
the line caught the handle just as he
and with a
jerk that nearly pulled the rod from
my:hands he was gone.
“I found one of my large hooks
broken short off. The fish was a
monster.
“After this bad luck I had no run
until the evening, when, putting on a
large bait and fishing at the tail of a
rock between the stream and still
water, I once more had a grand rush
and hooked a big one.
“There were no rocks down stream,
all was fair play and clear water, and
away he went at racing pace straight
for the middle of the river. To check
the pace, I grasped the line with the
stuff of my loose trousers and pressed
every yard, but he pulled like a horse
and nearly cut through the thick cot-.
ton cloth, making straight running
for at least 'a hundred yards without
a halt.
“I now put so severe a strain upon
him that my strong bamboo bent
nearly double, and the fish presently
so far yielded to the pressure that I
could enforce his running in half cir-
cles instead of straight away.
“I kept gaining line until at length
I led him into a shallow bay, and af-
ter a fight Bacheet embraced him by
falling upon him, and clutching the
monster with hands and knees, he
then tugged to the shore a magnifi-
cent fish of upward of sixty pounds.
“For about twenty minutes he had
fought against such a strain as I had
never before used upon a fish, It
measured three feet eight inches to
the root of the tail, and two feet three
inches in girth of shoulders, and the
head measured one foot ten inches in
circumference.”’—Youth’s Companion.
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No Siesta in Manila Now.
The Spaniard damned us for one
new custom in particular when we
went into business in Manila. We
didn’t take well to the siesta hour.
It was no part of our business cur-
riculum. Also it was one of the few
logical things that the American ab-
solutely refused to take into consid-
eration by dovetailing it into his com-
mercial institution and bylaws.
Promptly at the noon hour in the
early days in Philippine cities mer-
chants scurried home hehind their
liveried coachmen, while their em-
ployes ducked along out of the sun
or rain to their boarding places. The
store or office, as the case might be,
was locked up tight, It so remained
while the force dined and took its
afternoon nap. About 3 o'clock the
commercial world awakened again,
rubbed its bloodshot eyes, rinsed lite
mouth of a dark brown taste, and
grouchily returned to the tasks at
the desk or behind the counter. Now-
adays few stores close at noon. All
are anxious for the extra pesos the
American hoped to get by keeping
open. doors at midday. -—— Monroe
‘Woolley, in the Bookkeeper.
Bridget’s Explanation.
Bridget, who had administered the
culinary affairs of the Morse house-
hold for many years, was sometimes
torn between her devotion to her mis-
tress and lovalty to the small son of
the house. :
“Bridget,” said Mrs. Morse in a
tone of wonder after an inspection of
the storeroom, “where have those
splendid red apples gone that the man
brought yesterday—those four big
ones?”
“Well, now, ma'am,” said poor
Bridget, “I couldn’t rightly say, but
where my loaf 0’ hot gingerbread is,
likely those four red apples would be
lyin’ right on top of it, an’ I’m only
hopin’ his little inside can stand the
strain. ”"—Tit-Bits. :
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