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Wrong.
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du,
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somehow
I dink it makes more joy at home,
dond you?
contracted
Uud dese droubles oud,
your vife
Remember dot does aH she
knows
make your
complete,
washes, scrubs, darns,
und cleans und sews.)
ven anudder fellow down
street
wares und
does revile
Dond go home
der place;
shildren dey
shmlile
Den half a dozen frowns upon your
face
To in dot home
comfort
(She sweeps
go der
Jour business
Der vould radder see one
Remember dot your vife has droubles
100,
Und in dere vay dey're shust
hardt to bear.
At nighd-dimes ven
vork is droo
In her shmall home
she dere
If you are fretting, grumbling,
creet
Mit not a vord ov kindness al’
long
she dinks her
vot sclace finds
indis
nighd
Und so I dink a home vould be more
shweet
If business cares vore
dey pelong.
Pitzer, in the Naw
left vhere
FP, York
ry > rr
NIE ERNE,
HOW LINDEN I¥PROYED
. « . THE COOKING.
FURNES IE REAR
275K Ce CHS CHOON
News
—-— —-
SNE
mashed potatoes
ng her
“1 despise
Linden,
lately, “and I abomina‘e
This one isn’t even
“Try this one”
pleasantly
“Don’t you
asked Mrs. Bra
Linden shrugged her shoulders
might if they roperly cooked.”
sald she ungraciously. “There
enough salt in the
Patient Mrs
think Hannah
know she
only a si
little older
learned our
But
ayel late discouso
lamb chops’
cooked through”
sald her father
the butter-beans?
ddoeck
like
were p
180
has
srt time
than
celient meal
was too heavy
too large and th
When 1 keep |
ing shot I si
to eat!”
“Linden is utterly
said Mrs. Braddock
had closed behind her
worst of it is that it is largely
own fault. We've always encouraged
her to express her opinion freely
“Yes,” said Mr. Braddock, “we've
set back and applauded when we
should have punished her. Mother
says she ls
a really nice young gir! can be.”
“Who began it, 1
know?” sald Mrs
“Didn't
unreasonable.”
when the
laughter
door
The
our
Braddock, bridling
for it, and didn't she
the library table with the
when nothing else would satisfy her?
Of all doting grandmothers"
“I know, 1 know.” eld Mr
dock, hastily. “But Linden
child any longer
Brad-
while, since ghe ian’t satisfied with the
present arrangement?
will enjoy her meals better
pares them herself.”
“That's not a bad
if she pre
idea.” returnéft
“I've promised Hannah
f week's vacation very soon. While
she's away | shall give Linden a few
laggons.”
But Linden fever received the los.
sons. Hannah had been gone
gram called Mrs. Braddock to
bedside of a sick relative.
*
sald Linden, “Don't worry
natural gift for ft. 1
heavenly toast.”
“Provided somebody else makes the
bread and the fire,” interposed Lin.
den’s brother, Maxwell,
“Don't discourage Ler,” sald Mr.
Braddock. “If the worst comes to the
worst, there's an excellent restaurant
across the street from the office. We
shan't starve to death, in any cuse.”
“Well,” said Mrs. Braddock, “I shall
have to go whether Linden ean cook
or not. Perhaps you can induce Han.
nah's sister to come for a few days”
“There won't be the slightest neces
sity,” sald Linden, rather Joftily,
“We're going, for once, to have our
beefsteak properly broiled. You
needn't feel the slightest hesitation
about bringing a friend home to din-
ner father, If you happen to feel like
i ”
This was sald with a new-born air
of dignity that sat somewhat ludi-
crously upon Linden’s sixteen-year-old
shoulders. The patronizing tone of
her volce was too much for Max, who
snickered outright.
“You may laugh if you want to”
said the confident cook; “but you are
to have a good dinner tonight. | mean
to devote the afternoon to cooking it.”
Mrs. Braddock, in the ousue of de
parture had no time for culinary in-
structions; but it is doubaful if Linden,
in her exalted frame «i
have profited by anything of
kind.
The coast was clear at last. Linden
with a businesslike alr, put on a huge
apron and started to iauspect her do
main.
There was meat in the icebox.
den it at first with
but the feeling gradually gave place
to doubt
“It's either mutton, veal,
pork, but there doesn’t seem to be
distinguishing feature.” sald
touching it gingerly with one
“lI should think the butcher
label it. However, it doesn't
particularly. I'll just
cooking all
way.
the
Lin
eyed
beef or
any
Linden,
finger
would
matter
read up the d
four,
Here's
a dressing’--Well it
at any rate there lant
in it to put dressing. ‘Baste
Now what does that mean?
I know; they sew it up In a cloth. ‘Put
an apple in the mouth’--0Oh, that's for
a whole plg. Pshaw! This cook-
1'il just cook the
in the oven the
choose the casicst
‘Make
isn't veal,
any place
well”
for
-whatever it is-
Hannah does.”
So Linden slid “the thing” which
happened to be a leg of mutton, from
its plate into a roasting pan, and car-
it to the oven
“Why.” exclaimed the
“there Isn't any fire
good
thing
ast
in the
thing th: re’s
cook,
It's a
"”
stove
plenty of
time
It was a good thing. too, tl
plenty of kindling
never have started
and white
+ meat into the
uld have
of the stove
at th
the
Some
potatoes f
oven.
something
"sald Li
around with a
Hannah
cooking
nden,
pexplexed alr
Ob, coffee, of
jelly of
look
always does
I think I'll
anberries
she
says |
make
wme later
Now I'll
said,
can't
SOIRe
couk?
the table ™
Jdnden lingered
task of setting the table It really
well that me one least of
all Linden—would have suspected that
the salt, tablespoons, carving knife
and napkins were missing. When she
returned to the kitchen she found that
the fire had taken advantage of
fire had again goue ou?
Linden rebuilt it
& sol
kindii
lovingly over the
r
looked so
her
cheerfully, adding
kardwood to the
she went to the gar
some flowers
k of parsiey,
turned to the kitchen the
RERin gone
gave a gasp of
unmixed with
itary
ng
whore
for the table and a bur
When she re
fire had
stick of
7 hen
she gathered
out
Cou} astonish
dismay. Then,
anxious glance at the clock
the fire
1" ay
Sure
i never
¥
Hannah
fies ¢
tie to do. She gets
Keep s
necessarily musey
. 100
Linden glanced complacently at her
reflection in the little mirror over the
sink, and was surprised to over
a black streak
nose
dis
down side of
She washed her face and hands,
ins ped
Oe
was out
“This,” sald Linden, *
able stove!”
: an abomin-
roiling of a singie- butterball
butter-boards became sticky and would
not work. The completed ball was
grimy in appearance and anvthing
but round. Linden consigned it to the
decided that plain butter
ed hitherto unsuspected difficulties.
“Hello, the cook!” erisd
later. “How's the dianer’
“Almost ready,” sald Linden, who
had just emptied her first decidedly
back fence,
“What's
Max,
happened here?” asked
coming in at the back door. “It
murdered some
dragged the
shed and buried it
body in the kitchen
back yard.”
“That's cranberry jelly,” explained
“1 wish you'd
out and stay
gO of the kitchen,
boys around.”
At last the dinner was on the table.
roast garnished with parsley,
looked very much like one of Hanna's
tain scarlet rivulets that trickled over
the platter. The potatoes looked well,
they were of adamantine hardness.
What was left of the Jelly, by the time
Linden had succeaded in transferring
it from the saucepan to a glass dish,
looked positively tempting.
Max took a mouthful and made a
wry face. Mr. Braddock caught his
son's eye, and shook his head.
“Dear me!” thought Linden. swal
lowing a tart mouthful. “I measured
that sugar and then forgot to put it
in”
During the meal Linden made trip
after trip to the sideboard, the china
closet and the pantry for missing arti.
cles. Mr. Broddock sliced a few mor.
sels from the outside of the underdone
mutton, and ate as much as he dared
of the almost raw potatoes. The cof
fee was muddy and contained frag-
ments of some exiraneous matter,
When Linden raised the cover of the
coffee-pot to allow ihe steam to es-
cape, she was horrified to discover a
poached egg floating serenely on a
dark-brown sea. Bhe had dropped an
unbeaten egg into the boiling coffee,
was, cooked!
Braddock ate bread and butter,
somewhat crest
Mr.
daughter,
“There's chivalry for you!
Max. “Or can it
oor
thought
be
But in spite of her
den did not enjoy
realized that it
the worst meal
father's tact,
her dinner. Sh.
Was,
ever been
roof And
was to chagrined to eat even
and butter
the way,”
some
that had
the cook
bread
“By
I saw
said Mr
particularly fine
down street today They're in
front hall. Get them, Max, and
if they're as good as look.”
“We had so muck zlge,”
Linden, apolegetizally, “1
wouldn't make any dessert.’
“I'm glad you didn't,” sald Max, with
a4 solemn countenance
Linden never forgot the week that
followed. She mastered one difficulty
only to into another.
crust was lke leather and her
like lead
table either
raw in the
limit to her
humble at
potatoes, to
gee they
fall
wmufling
wore
the
else
turned to a crisp or
middle. There was to
ambition: bul she grew
She learned to boll
ton and te scramble
CRESS conscience would not
permit her to serve this trustworthy
combination oft r than ouce each
last
make
but her
elif
day.
Mr. Braddock
themselves
heal at the res
doubtful if
and Max fortified
with a good
it is
BUTrViIVe
each noo
taurant, otherwise
they could have
wee Linde bread and milk
and the fruit h father was careful
to br i h her
OWE COOKIE She felt that she never
ed ege
rm
Vile
OK fer
wanted to see anoth
But the longest
fi pon her
ITEVer Uv return nannal
amazed at the warmth
greeting, at the condi
kitchen
girl’
How nice
floor, and at the
8 BDpelite
are!”
that
night ‘And, oh, aren't these the
uicest mashed potatoes? 1 think Han
pab is the cleverest person I know, |
profot fest respect for any-
things
done at
instead of
lagging along
time. 1 think I
everything eise and take
unter
them.” said
those lamb chops
said the deposed cook at dinner
have the
body that
at once, and get them all
cisely same
the soup come
an hour behind
drop
cooking lessons this wi
“Tl pay for
dock, promptly
I won't pr
said
can cook five or six
pre-
the moment
baving
avout
shall
Mr. Brad
y cat the results”
Max the best | can.”™
ithe
St. Rule's Tower,
8 Tower
to th
ron salir
yught
bones of St. Andrew from Con
and b
on the spot
town of St.
Whether
there seems
Mons
the
stantinople to
them near the seacoast
round which the present
Andrew's afterward grew
the story is true or not,
uried
Scotland
his life up to the moment
of his martyrdom in the east. James
il certainly associated him with the
he who founded the Order of St. An.
drew in 1687. to be conferred on the
king and
Chronicle
Interesting ‘Mexican Petrificationa.
in this capital by the family of the
0. the deceased.
Some fourteen years so there was
a flood in Jalisco caused
flowing of the Lagos river,
gtroyed. In the neighborhood of San
and
the neigh
alike were swept away,
when the flood subsided,
bors found quantities of
way of contrast,
gpecimens of fruit as pears, quinces,
apples, etc. One “paron” as it is call
od, being a cross between a pear and
an apple, was in a perfect state of
preservation, having lost neither its
color nor brilliance in the course of
petrification. The objects, sold ten
in number, brought $1000. Mexican
American Automobiles.
The tendency toward anti-highapeed
legislation in the United States is re
sponsible for a falling off in orders
from wealthy Americans for high-pow.
ered foreign automobiles. It has been
demonstrated that American-built
motor vehicles are, on the whole, bet.
ter adapted to the conditions met with
on average American roads than are
those of foreign designs and constr
tion.
The government of Wurtemberg,
Germany, has statistics showing that
18.8 per cent. of the average income
of its inhabitants Is spsai upon liquor,
Many a fellow who thinks he Is the
light of a girl's life gets turned dow
St. Peter's is in the form of a cross,
It is feet long by 50 feet wide,
The dome is 449 feet high.
of iaing has entered into
competition with New Jersey (o en
the organization of non-res!
dent corporations. The latter charges
4a $1000 fee for the incorporation ot
a million-dollar Maine ig of
fering the for a
636
The State
concern
same privilege now
Ihe
wave
exact speed of the Hertzian
currents of aerography has
been determined, but Marconi
they at the same rate as
namely, 186.000 miles per sec
therefore, a message ig ever
the the sys
one
transmission.
not
thinks
light,
travel
sent around globe by
tem it will
eighth of a
approximate about
second in
Arizona becomes a State, let
to the whole
gion
jefore
people
tra
for a
the
that
versed
national park
the people, and Cc
take it f«
Delay will be
nation reserve
magnificent
by the
scenic re
grand
Nobody wants It
gress
canyon
now,
except can
yr them by merel)
expensive
Brooklyn Eagle
For its area, Hoboken, " is the
most
Unite
nearly 60,000, but is confined in an
populated city in the
densely
popuiat
States. The fon is
area of about one
are 450
the |
that
Treasury
we that the
ited States and
ereat a8 it has
American war
the cal-
exceeded
and there is
made for
d 1901
bowing
yunced, will
million poor
persons in 1don as a feature of the
celeb jon following his coronation
After rejolcings
or the King
if he is
question why
in London
inner from
pageant and the
are ight be well f
to give
capable
S00 (0
there persons
the ro
worn by
oronation was
in 1838. It
ven emeralds,
and
on to these
y given to
pearls,
by Don
sapphire
i orth «
ich for the
nations, Before the
the Lowlanders
prowess in the fascinating
rivalries of goifiing and of curling
many a veteran who never saw the
River Tweed or Auld Reekie fell In-
to idle ways at threescore and ten
But troops of lusty patriarchs who
have passed the age which the Psalm:
ist set as the boundary of happy living
are now highspirited epeeders of golf
balls over the hilis and far away
pxclaims the New York Tribune.
The camphor habit is sald to be the
fatest fad among fashionable women.
improve the complexion,
game of §
try heal
High
the
gport has done m
ing of the
landers and set
example of
taken in small quantities will impart
a peculiarly clear creaminess to the
skin. Whether this is true or not scl
once falls to tell us. It is enough that
the idea prevails, and among the fash
jonable., The habit is by no means
healthy, however. Where large doses
are the rule it readily degenerates into
giavery, and at no time is it to be
recommended. Camphor-eating, what.
ever its effect upon the complexion,
weakness, lassitude
Qo even if the skin may improve, the
wits are likely to suffer through the
camphor habit, states the New York
Evening Sun.
The superintendent of the Municipal
Lodging House in Chicago thinks he
has solved the tramp problem, which
is serious throughout the West. He
divides tramps into classes. Some
are the result of industrial conditions;
some are made tramps by drink, and
others are degenerate owing to the
conditions of their childhood. When
a tramp applies for lodging he is
bathed and fumigated, and th the
morning is allowed a breakfast. Then
he is examined by a doctor, who de
termines whether he is bhysicaliy able
to work. If he desires employment
there are four firms which offer it
For four days he receives lodging. If
a tramp will not work he is locked up
at a vagrant. No tramps or homeless
person can lodge at the police sta.
tions of Chicago, and the “barrel