NEWS FOR THE FAIR SEX.|
NEWS OF INTEREST ON NUMER-
OUS FEMININE TOPICS.
The Fashion in Rlogs The Favorite Varies
ties-~ Wondrous Trimmiags--The Queen's
First Doll Dinner Set, etc.
The Fashion cin Rings:
The woman of fashion wears no
rings except her engageinent and mar.
rage ring on any but the little finger.
To make up for this the little fingers
and the greater the display the greater
the ingenuity of the woman.
Marquise rings are leading the fash-
fons; the favorite is a marquise of tur-
quoise surrounded by diamonds or
quoise's popularity is that it is a stone
easily imitated and so liable to the sus-
picion of strangers.
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Al
The Favorite Varieties.
winter as In seasons past, but all of
those made are smart, trim-fitting gar-
ments, widely different from the clum-
sy affairs of long ago, whose picture is
conjured up by the name. Chinchilla,
sable, fox and other long-haired furs
are used to trim them. The newest
seal coats are double breasted and
have double Medici collars edged with
a narrow satin cording.
Otter, which stands rain and snow
fashion, as Is fisher—a dark-brown fur
from the snowy north, whose use Is
comparatively new. Little Eton coats
with full fronts are made of It and
trimmed with ermine, the color of the
fisher being rich enough to stand the
contrast.
The Wondrous Trimmings.
The eccentricity of trimmings that
are now displayed Js somewhat bewll-
dering In choosing the materials for a
costume,
distinet styles that are fashionable this
season--the severely plain and the very
much overdone.
the more difficult, as it requres more
skill but the trimmings are so expen-
sive that one counterbalances the oth-
er. Cut work, braiding and lace are
all effective; all expensive and all fash-
lonahle, and the three can com-
bined. A cloth gown that
smart shows this to perfection.
The skirt is In three skirts—the low-
est dark blue velvet, stitched with
white; the two upper skirts are trim-
med with lozenge shaped pleces
dark blue velvet, set into the cloth at
irregular intervals. [he body of the
walst is of heavy cresin lace,
bolero jacket of the cloth trimmed
with the velvet. A high collar revers
and cuffs are of sable, and a deep
corselet of blue velvet pakes the
gown a street costume. Certainly ec
centricity marks this style, but it
be admitted the gow 0 most
cessful “creation.
be
is
ust
in a Hie
The Queen's First Doll Dinner Set
A pretty story respecting the Queen's
first visit to Bristol, sixty-nine years
ago, is told on apparently good author
ity. Wikh her mother she entered a
china shop on High street
doll's dinner service. The one
ber childish purse, but,
early lessons of economy,
whkhed to purchase it. Thereupon a
consultation took place between her
and her mother, ending in a triumph
in spite of
she still
Kent consenting to lend her the amount
wanted until her pext allowance
should be due.
The shop was kept by Miss Elizabeth
Ring, a Quaker woman, a relative of
whom Is responsible for the story. —
London News,
Hidden Book Titles.
Hidden book titles is a new game of
the rebus type. The game is to guess
the title of books from pictures on
cards. The guessers write the titles
and authors of the books on tally cards
which have corresponding numbers
upon them. There is spe title on each
card, and the cards are passed from
table to table, a certain number of
minutes being allowed to each before
the cards are sent on,
Another way to play the game Is to
distribute the titles to the company
and let each person sketch a rebus to
be guessed by the rest of the company.
In this case there should be double
prizes, not only for the guessing, but
for the ingeguity displayed In hiding
the titles. Titles of books are written
on slips of paper, which the guests
draw from a basket. A certain time,
say twenty minutes, is given to com-
plete the sketches, which are then
passed around or immediately num-
bered and fastened up to the wall, so
that they can be guessed and voted
upon.
A Draped add Pleated Frock
One does not see worn many of those
pleated and gathered skirts shown In
the smart Importers’, but a few wom-
en are wearing them, and they are ox-
tremely graceful and «fective. Some
of the newest frocks are made with
skirts pleated all the way round,
stitched down closely so that the hips
are fitted almost as tightly as In an
eelskin skirt. Below the Lips the ma
terial flows out freely. An unusual
gown has three rather broad pleats
down the back, from a yoke of velvet.
In the back the material 1s moulded
closely to the figure in princess style,
but the front Is draped from the right
side to the left, forming on the skirt
a kind of looped-up tunic, and on the
bodice the handkerchief corner effect,
threaded through a big dull silver
huckle, The color of this frock ia
halest banana, and the cloth as fine
aid as smooth as satin, To ba worn
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with 1t are a Sewer toque and ! mufr of
hiack and white violets, the black
forming thick borders to the white
ceutres. Yet more curious is the toque
by reasoh of Its one ornament, a single
scarlet flower, which rises from the
mass of violets at one side, as if it had
The Neck Chain and Medallion.
“You are quite mistaken in all you
have sald about jewelry and trinkets,”
sald one fashionable woman to anoth-
er. “lI have just returned from Paris
and know that the reigning novelty
there Is the neck chain and medallion,
It is also such an attractive addition
to a woman's toilet that [ am sure all
that can afford it will soon be wearing
ane,”
These new medallions are Indeed
very fascinating, although in reality
there is little that Is new about them.
They are an old fashion revived. From
a heavy chain that is clasped about
the neck they are suspended and hang
on the front of the gown to about six
inches below the collar,
of the style would be lost If the chain
were either too long or too short. The
medallions themselves are large, the
larger in fact the better, and are
equally fashionable of either gold or
silver. The antique ones are of course
the most durable, but they are scarce
and very expensive. Reproductions of
them, however, can be procured that
it would trouble the cleverest pumis-
matist to detect.
wrought in gold alarmingly high prices
silver, or sil
The effect
therefore, wear them of
ver washed with gilt,
are really what Is most desired.
have suspended from them semi-pre
clous stones set simple that they may
be held in a tiny band of metal, It
would of course be pure vandalism to
an autique medallion, although
many are found that have already
been so treated. From them the idea
of hanging them with jewels no doubt
originated,
How Royal Russians Travel
When Czar and Czarina travel
most of the comforts of
them. Their private train
eleven carriages, all
corridors and furnished
caprice of the young
not many years ngo was
Princess Alixe” of Hesse,
grandmamma, Victoria,
gowns, and whose life at
old castle
and Lappy
might not
Americans, a0
the
take
home with
of
cousists Con
oy to
suit the
Ww ho
wWomatr
“poor
whine
furnished
her father's
was ote of quiet, simplicity
The
wonderful te
to vestibnled
the
SCOnOmy
BOE sO Very
ustomed
er luxuries of road
fdered
trains and oth
but in Europe it is cons
iy and luxury
range, tw
npholste n brow
irawing room ear has
walls cover vith embossed leat)
the f upholstered witl
he table
fure is
urns
pink striped biroeads
of which }
wood,
there are five, are of iplal
and a crystal chandelier is
from the The (Czari.
na's boudoir Is a of padded silk
Here a pler glass, a writing table
and a profusion of climinng plants and
flowers. The children’s room Is next
thelr mother's boudoir. Their beds
low and deep, luxuriously padded
The nurses and attend
ear to themselves, The
Czur's study Is furnished in brown
leather, and his writing table
ered with bronze “furniture.”
cars are fitted up for the suite, serv
ants and the officials of the road. All
the carriages are connected by tele
phone, and the train lighted by 300
electric lights, The train moves silent.
ly, even at its greatest speed.
SUR
» 111s
Ceiling
nest
is
to
Ants have a
i8 Cov
Other
Women Printers in London.
Women are found now and again in
printing offices in this country, en
gaged In typesetting and in similar
kinds of work, but it would be hard to
find a duplicate of the Women's Print.
ing Society in London, where the en-
tire establishment is owned and man
ager by women, and all the labor, with
the exception of heavy machine work,
is done by them.
This society has been carried on for
a number of years as a successful busi
ness. Originally started by subserip-
tion for the purpese of training girls
who were anxious to varn a livelihood
in this way, it rapidly developed into a
prosperous concern. But it has not
lost sight of the aim of helpfulness to
young women workers with which i
was begun. It is managed on the co
operative principle, No dividend may
exceed OH per cent. per annum, and
above that the surplus ia to be divided
among the hands by way of bonus,
Apprentices are taken for three years,
many of them being girls just out of
school of about sixteen years of age.
Some of the workers become at the
same time shareholders.
About thirty young women are now
employed In the establishment, and
the continual increase in the business
testifies to the excellent work turned
out. A number of well-known periodi-
cals are printed by this society, and
various women's organizations, such
ns the National Union of Women
Workers, the Women's Institute, and
others which require a great deal of
printed matter, have shown their loy-
alty by giving all their trade into the
sane hands. Women printers are em.
ployed also In several large establish.
ments in England, and they earn gen
erally from 15 to 30 shillings, or from
$3.75 to $7.00 a week.
Fashion Fads and Fancies,
Crocheted buttons are revived again,
A slender band and invisible mount
Ing are used for the finest solitaire
rings,
Storm collars appear on all fur gar-
nents, even on the tiniest fur and vel.
vet collarettos,
Panne velvet painted
bunches of violets Is used
walsts, and lace waists,
in great demand,
Beaded purses and bags
sizes ligure largely among
ties In the shops, and
too, by the shoppers.
in
too, are still
of small
the novel
ure well worn,
fashionable gray-blue shades. Vichy
is a sofe water blue and marquise and
cocon are favored shades in brown,
The belt for und silk
dresses is a band an Inch wide of ma
terial 1o mateh the cosoume,
a stiff Hang and machine
wlge to edge,
1 west wool
made over
stitched
Antelope gloves are worn by the best
women, and the undressed
thicker skins are alse very popular,
White glace gloves are as much worn
ns ever for afternoon sod evenings at
the theatre,
The warmest things in skirts not
flannel are made of a soft elastic silk
material, a sort of mateinsse cloth, and
edged with embroidered silk ruffles,
They are very pretty, but In the
French underwear they are not inex.
pensive,
The idea
wide satia ribbon,
ne west in millinery Is the
boracred with fur,
for large bows which are used on the
Pale bloe satin and
make pretty combing.
while either pink or brown ix ef
fective with mink border.
chinchilla one
A handsome gown of tan velvet has
the overdress outlined with a design
in ent cloth applique, stitched on with
gold thread, the design odged with a
tiny gold braid. The body of
dress Is covered with a small all-over
pattern of the cut cloth, each design
set some distance apart and stitched
on with the gold thread
Effective evening have net
ver<iresses worn over contrasting silk
foundations, and small «ilk flowers
such as are used in millinery are tack-
to the net, They are In & color to
match the goods beneath or in
trastiug
net ayer
The
the over
gowns
od
a «con
olor, as red] Bowers on black
white satin
plaits to
trimming of under
A box-plaited ruffle is four or
five inches wide,
old-fashioned box fre
wien as the
There are one or two
neh-wide pinits separated by an equal
snd the plaiting i= stitched on
or so wlow the upper edge,
top of each plait caught
inch
the
in
in
A HOTEL IN MANILA.
is Poor and Service Wreiched. Bat
the Floors Are ideal
H. A. Goodkin, who
after
several monihs a
caAptare
of
ards over the with a
‘Ww naking there,
talked of the Philippines recently, “i
fvendl, while in Manila.” sald Mr.
Hotel Oriente, and
re it was something aw
rooms were all well enough,
amd fairly clean, but all
vif ul—poor food, wretched
1 that sort of thing
o things about it 1 Hked immense.
however for Instance, the floors of
hotel It don't know what sort
wood it was, but they were mag.
ficent; the planks were fully a foot
ined a half broad, and from twelve to
ighteen feet in length, and were so
hard that holes had to be bored before
the nalls could be driven In.
was no sign of warping, and their sur.
Ring
investinents
foul
atl the
got the
The
arge, al
dee was dren
and a
when
ry
Trvicte the
win
iv,
of
they were put down.
magnificent polish.
“At first all you could get for break.
fast at the Oriente was duck’s eggs
there were no hens there at that time,
and I abominate duck’s egress): canned
butter, which 1 detest; a dark and
muddy concoction they swore was
offee; and bread which weighed so
many pounds to the square inch, In
onsequence, I was in a perpetual state
of bad temper, until I found I could
They take a
Ermita. Later the
under English
came a clean,
place,
“The name Manila, which we give
to the entire city, the Spaniards and
all exact descriptions of the place ap-
Hotel Oriente came
management, and be-
decent and well-run
of the population living without
walls in the suburbs, or Spanish pueb-
los, The walled city Is surrounded
with a weed grown, rubbish
mont, which still ean be filled with
the waters from the bay by raising
fle gates, and if the army alone had
made the attack BH would have been
a tidy and expensive trick to have tak.
eh the city by the glege. But the big
guns of Dewey's fleet would have
made short work of those old moss
covered walls,”
A SA A NAR
London Newsboy's Large Br la
The heaviest brain recorded was that
of a London newsboy, who was rather
wenk mentally, It weighed 2400
grammes, The brain of a poor Ignor
ant Scandinavian peasant was only
sixty grammes less,
Gambetta's brain weighed 1,200
grammes, and that of Cuvier, the great
paleontologist, L830 grammes, How
ean the people who believe that large
brats necessarily denote superior in
telligence reconcile these facts?
Powdered rice applied on lint will
stop a bleeding wound,
OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
IDEXTIFYING A WITCH,
In a weather-worn, tumble-down
shied,
for friends she
has none;
Her children are absent—or dead,
OHS sen,
When his ship in a storm
astray :
driven
beaten key,
Where the uumbers
day.
went
And was to wreck ou a surf-
are rotting to
Since then, on the sands where the
wen breezes blow,
Dishieartened, her sorrow she bears;
She bas siruggled with worry, with
want aud with woe,
And her face shows the wear of her
Cares,
She way have ben Lappy when few
were her years;
She may have known
pain;
of
nothing
wud tears,
¢
And she's waiting for solace in vain
She may have been charming when
WAS BR bride
have been feted and rich;
loathed in the neigh-
borhood wide,
And whispered
“She's a witeh!
wii
She
But
AY
HOW Bie is
‘tis with fear—
At when the darkness with
ure is thick
astride of a broom,
aud on the
night
ion
That old wowmnn,
it
broomstick
She flies through
gloom
Sails 1s said
away,
the mist and tae
Though | never have seen it, I fear
it is true,
For the broom I beheld yesterday,
Aud a meager cat's most un-
earthly **
Shrieks at
sails away,
William: OG
black
meow’
night when the witch
Kem per.
A MOBY WONDERFUL XEST.
Sir
sented to a
her
Harry dri sie
Mau
wiiieh
the
uas pre-
museum: =»
by
be xt wonderful
nest world Birds,
know, fond of using all sorts of
materials to make their nests Lace,
ribbous, string, cotton, and leather,
have all by these clever
little architects:
nally
just
shield
i»
mm
i K nest, considered
unturaiints fo
the
are
in ax we all
used
but
its nest almost entirely
of wire
been
this heron act
made of
a log eal
Tit
A visit was nt
to the Boston
statiars Th
and de
through lie fingers
tang ht io
listen vervintently to
Wo hien ng
iad der
FOWER OF TTOUDOR
by Helen Keller
Art Mauseam to the
giri is blind
t be
igae
ee
s leary
She
but
understand her
the hall, tep
front of each
af and ail A mans
has
wen
sriicuinte, tie must
e reached as
Was Diag i in
statue his she mounted,
carefully and slow
Her ex
and her com
passed ingers
iy «
presced keen enjoyment,
ments
what esch was
M Apollo
yond
**He looks like
she pases
of dancing
are the singers ? When she
these, she said: “Ope 12 silent.”
lips of the singer were closed. A bas
relief of a mother and child brought
out the question “Where are the
he
Yer each statue. F800
howed that she discovered
meant to express
He is
Julius
grand Le
Unesar,
When
hands over a bas relief
girs, “Where
found
The
Hier Ay
description’; of
what he was,”
i her
she asked
THE BLACK CAT.
Tom Newecome told
When we children
we asked mother
At first
if we
might have the cat,
mals abont the place, but we
sented,
the next day Bert went by for the cat,
We were all at dinner when
keep her shut np for a day or two
home,
“I tell you she was heavy to carry
said Tom, as he sat down,
“What color is she 7” asked mother,
“Black; not a white hair on her,”
“Let me go have a look at her ¥'
He enme downstairs in great ex.
“What color do you say
she is?” he demanded of Bert,
“Black, I told you."
“Well, "she isn 't; she is gray.’
“Nonsense, she is black, as
black,”
**I tell you she is gray.
cat up in the play-room.”
“['m going to look,” eried Jane,
She came down laughing. ‘Of
course she is gray, such a queer gray
color, Why do you call her black,
Bert?"
Bert looked very much astonished.
“It was a black cat that 1 brought
home, anyway.”
“Perhaps it is a chameleon cat and
changes color,” suggested Ida.
nner was over, and we went up-
stairs in a body to see the wonderful
oat that looked black to one and gray
to another.
as 3 Sing
and we jum n t on
window sill was a Jarge gray oa
Bert exclaimed te.
“Where in the wore
trom? Whereis my black cat?”
It is agray
i
We went in, shutting the door after
Mother put out her hand to
then threw hack her
head and langhed heartily.
did you bring her home in, Bert 7”
We all joined in the laugn, when
Bert pointed to an empty flour sack,
and we fonnd that every time we
touched the eat a little cloua of dust
rose from her fur.
all the flour was out of
we found, as Bert sa
fur,
thint there
ager
id,
to. great age and was a
KROuUrce of amusement in many Why.
One day John playing bear.
He was on the floor on all fours roar.
ing for all he worth, Suddenly
the cat ran out from behind the stove
and reaching up boged his cars twice,
We children thought the way she did
it was very fanny. She looked nc
angry with John for making hi
noise, Bhe always hated a
When sister Ida plaved on the piano
jump up right
down on her bands to from
playing
We were all
and wae children
funeral.
She lived
wns
Wan
BUC a
HORE,
i
Laks
and
keep her
died,
fine
sorry when she
LAYS her ta
WHERE THE LEAVERS WENT
Mai
foot
fall of
lenves,
"They
lovely i
ted
Vonald,
paraffin
. -
rhame, rad
eline. he was curled
of a great ocak-tree,
Crimson Ye
sorted
i's a perfect
up at the
Rp
low Je
carefully
and they re 00
snd
whieh she
die so ROooOn,
die, 1 mean,” ah
“They're beauties,”
‘and a little
keeps them rather well
I had a box up-garret all last
winter,” said Made “You can
spread out lovely things, wreaths
ilve # COrTed
i d
and
Ts
pi euRinge
line, }
and
borders"
‘I have it!" cried
her hands “*Aunt
Let's seud her some
‘Aunt
Madeline,
little
wet in Cowes, Fnglan
SBurely,” said Elsie. neyer
forgot anything. “Poor little ili
thing! And one Aunt Bet
was amusing her, she described Aner
ican sutumn leaves 1 Gils
could some
not glow with
“Hhe zhall
“I'm a packer trom
Bet's leme child !
child 7” sad
*Oh, do
Ban we, Aunt
lame
my stifled
tot'a
YOu
jet
mesn tHadys
day when
and wish MIN
Fuglis
olor like
hen,
a
ville
‘And my pressed loaves are sweet,”
declared Madeline, ran
for the stack of old k= in which
they usually pressed tropliles
‘Exquisite,’ Pet, when
’
box, CSREES. WAS
The
while Eisie
Lim
their
Aunt
a WO
said
ins de
presented for
leaves
the ier
her inspection
lay between
and on the top were
ds and a hittle
y little note that
ig chair |
marvelous
which had come to b
the ocean.
At Chris
livered
lays re OO
paper,
iren’s car
Bu merry tring
bs
Te
sved it even better 1)
treasure fA
er fron
i 8 quaint
her ir
CRIT
YA NR
triad
etter
Briarvale House, Cow
Dear Friends: }
nd of a dull, du
if }
noch pleasure
me. 1 had a tea-party and
mother garnished the table with them,
Guy Fawkes So many
callers are charmed to my leaves,
and 1 have made water color dr Ings
of them, and an album, besides plan:
erewel designs and laying pat
My Christ
mas box cannot ibly bring vou
such joy, but let it bring
Thank you, dears,
Merry Christmas
; Your little {fri
(ladys
ir ifRYER Cal
when 1
fin
as they
, at
ad
suythaing
ihe ¢ Any i
been so il
preter.
been to
Yel
have
on night
on
nw
one
Rane.
I'm going to etter
myself,
answer hat
:
even if she isa girl,” de red
Aunt
“Dou’s
Bet, just arriving, isngaed
Hadys
of
hing
Ami gle
etlera wil
Mrs. Kane has «
Are,
Won
believed be
lapfui of an
av
alia
rial
pen
of our
but neveg
ays Hite
heard
winds,
one blow a
fhe way
could
leaves all
Wight.”
“And bring back English
a Yankee Christmas,
it sort of an
clone,”
And they all jaugh
to the Isle
fn
or
“ey
cy-
3
3. ..8%
BOY
papa.
international
mE
d happily.
Voice Pictures.
To take a picture of your voice it
ix only necessary to tie a sheet of thin
strong paper over the wide end of a
fin trumpet. Hold it with the sheet of
paper upward, take a thin pinch of
fine sand amd place It In the center
of the paper, hold the trampet verte.
ally above your face nnd sing a note
inte the lower end. Do not blow, but
sing the note. lower the trampet
carefully and look at the sand,
You will find that the vibrations of
your voice have scattercd the pinch of
sand into a beantiful sound pleture,
Every note in the musical scale will
produce a different picture; so you
way produce a great variety of them.
Some of these pictures look like pan-
sles, roses and other flowers; some
fook like snakes, and others like fly.
ing birde~in fact, there is no limit
the variation,
If you wish to wee the pictnres while
they are belag made, you may employ
an old bell shaped ear trumpet, or you
may use your trumpet with a short |
1
SASATIES AND KLUITJES.
Queer Dishes that the Boers Are Food
Esting.
The instinct of good feeling is inhe
ent in the Boer character. In a grea
many cases it is impossible for him t
indulge his predilection because of hi
his isolation from market
and the scarcity of provisions,
But If be has the opportunity bh
feeds well and often; certainly far bet
ter than a man in a position In
England, This must not be taken)
however, typical of the average
country but rather of the domes
tic of the better class,
eduented Pretoria officials and the lige,
They are very fond of sweetments in
every dpe and form, and are exceed.
ingly atl home-made preserves,
Tangerines or naartjes are a very com
mon fruit, called
“naartje excellent.
The fruit is preserved whole with su
gar and syrup, and has exquisite
aroma peculiarly its own, There is an
excellent kind of eake called “moss
belletjer,” made of grapes raisins
and “moss,” which is the juice of the
grape iu first stages of fermenta.
tion, During the making season,
of the Colony, this is
used instead of yeast hy the
uch like,
called
Hike
ins
Boer,
drrangements
cleaver
and a
comfyt” Is
preserve
quite
au
or
its
wine
in paris
Comme
country folks for buns and s
An old Dutch
“koesisters.” and
Cape
aly
sweetmeat is
is made of flour, su
gar, eggr, butter and yeast,
They dipped In syrup and dried.
Their particular exvellence in the
fact that if are properly made
they will keep for months “Honing
just nnd is very
and rich: it is flavored with
brandy, and is not unlike French
pain d'epices. “Mebox” is a8 very com
mon and nniversally appreciated prep
aration of dried and salted apricots
They are dried in the sun, then
flattened out and the extracted
crystallized sugar and salt are sprink
led over them, and they are then stored
for winter Many people declare
that is an effieaclous remedy
for seasickness, “Rys Jeu are
situple rice dumplings, which are usu-
ally with curry or with boiled
corned beef, and they form an excel
lent accompaniment to sweet potatoes,
which are a luxury
A very excellent
Is called “one
spices,
fire
lex
they
koek™ is honey cake
HW
the
hot
136
ime,
“mebog”
on"
eaten
in themselves,
form of «
ferwetze pastel” It
of dish,
bicken pie
isan
with spices, on
eggs and ham it
exceedingly toothsome,
and might with advantage be added to
an English bill of fare. A typical Boer
dish Is called “kabobs,”
and is probably derived from a Malay
origin leg of
ton cut
curried
itm
elaborate
SOT
wine, lemon,
however,
“sasaties,” or
nut
fried,
shewers,
suggest the
mit it Is very
This consists of a
up into little squares,
and then
perhaps, somewhat
grilledi on
ay,
13 good,
io
appetizing
hone eal se meat, 1
indeed, an here is a great deal of
Sone
« of the
nds.
nar
ettien
flavored
pod,
rather
r ingredient
onding to our
A Pe uliar
fat talis,
ip. and which
delicacies,
ned
condiment
an
to cold
indian
bread dump
with soup or
d
ch make excellent s
othor ax
for
above
also used
in the
Biatjaog ix a
with
agrecable
botee™
and
$80 com
ngs,
are
“oookios”
made
extremely
“Bo
TY.
men ti
hot
and is
adjunct
a species of
chillies,
meat.
wm or
“brood kluitjes” are
which are served
stewed chickens
“Boon tie *
stew. A “bredee”
which anything may be
guinces, for ipstanpce,
matoes In some parts of South
Africa It is called but “bre
dee” is the speliing
“LFOSIO rather
appalling, it than
fried w and
“Wentel jeefijes” are a sort
of pancake, but crisper and more fia
vorsome., “Wafels” are wafers, such
ae one gets In Switzeriand and some
parts of France.
The most ivpically wer food of all
is purposely left until the last. This is
“hiltong.” the provender of the Boer
on the veldt, and the most sustaining
form of dried meat ever invented, The
beef or venison must be cut from out
the bind leg of the animal, from the
thigh bone down to the knee joint. IY
is salted, saltpetred, pressed and dried
in the sun and the wind, It will keep
aay length of time, ana for eating 1 is
shredded with a pocket knife,
bredee™ is a dry bean
sort of stew In
put with ad
or to-
i= a
vantage:
“brady,”
Drateh
A
ROUNUS
Correct
hoender”
srile
but is nothing more
chicken ith onions,
chillies
spice
A Reusdabout Journey.
What is the most roundabout jour
ney that the absence of proper steam
whip communication entails on the in.
habitants of any country? Surely it
must be that described by our consul
at Loanda, Portuguese West Africa.
11 one of the 6.000 whites of Angola, or
1.500 Buropeans in the Congo Inde
pendent State, who so frequently need
change of clitnate, wishes to spend a
week or two in Cape Town-<which
shonld He, even by slow steamer, only
six days distant-he has to travel
1.000 miles from Looandoa to Madeira,
catch there a Cape steamer, and jour:
ney for another fortnight the 4800
miles to Cape Town. It thus nesds
fully a month's continuous travelling
and 7.000 miles of it to reach & point
only 1,000 miles from the starting