IF.
i
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If all the ways were easy
And all our tasks were light;
It all the weeds bore roses
And all our hands were white; -
If no one had to hurry
Lest we should fall behind; J
And no one had to worry
Because Fate was unkind;
If those we love would love us
And sweetly tell us so,
And only gentle breezes '
Acrosa our paths should blow;
If each couid have the basket
That held the choicest peach,
And if to gain the prizes
We merely had to reach,
A few perhaps would gladly
Accept the state of things,
But most of us would sadly
Give vent to murmurings:
The blessings would be hateful
That all alike possessed,
Where no one could be richer
By taking from the rest.
«8. B. Kiser, in the Chicago Record- |
Herald.
IATEATTORERG
2 Cid and a Pig i!
oe
FURR ENTTUIS |
While the train was nearing Cosycot |
station, Shepherd read Lydia's note |
again.
“Dear Walter,” it began, “of course
we should be glad to have you at Cosy- |
cot during your vacation, and I sup- |
pose Aunt Elizabeth can put you up. |
But you will find us both completely |
busy with a colony of fresh-air chil |
dren near by, which aunt is taking |
care of. It is a noble work, and Aunt
Elizabeth has interested me in it very
thoroughly; 1
else, and have decided to devote my
whole life to laboring among the chil
dren of the poor, if I am worthy of
such a career. [ want to tell you this
before you make up your mind to
come, so that you will understand that
I won't be able to see much of you and
80 that you may expect to find me
sobered by a serious purpose.
“Yours most sincerely,
“I.YDIA FARROW."
Shepherd crumpled the paper vic
ously in his pocket.
“Confound Aunt Elizabeth!”
grumbled. * ‘Sobered by a serious pur-
pose!’ That's an old maid's phrase—
not Lydia's. Result of reading novels
about hospital nurses. The children of |
the poor must be taken care of-—but,
hang it all, so must Lydia.”
A trap was waiting at the station to
convey him to Aunt Elizabeth's
tage, and his hostess was waiting at |
her piazza to greet him. Miss Gibbs
was an elderly lady whose figure and
bearing looked as much out of place
in the country as would the portico of
the Fifth Avenue Hotel. No amount of
gingham and flannel could
her.
“Dear Lydia left
you, Mr. Shepherd.”
“She has been forced
upon an important duty connected
with our children’s mission May I
beg you to amuse yourself until she re.
turns? Thank you— of you
my clerical work me little
leisure in the afsernoon, and later I
have an outdoor class in botany.”
Shepherd spent a quarter of an hour
in a vain attempt to read a magazine,
then he flung it down and started at
random across the rolling and sun-
shiny green of the fields. A shadowed
lane tempted him for a mile or so, but
when he saw the path running ahead
of him into the hot glare of a highway
he paused uncertainly.
“Hey, Mister Shepherd!” called a fa-
miliar voice from the fence, and a fa.
miliar head and shoulders appeared in
the adjacent thicket. Voice, head and
shoulders belonged to Cuppy. the news
boy who was accustomed to sell him
the morning paper at his office door in |
New York.
“Hello, Cuppy,” sald Walter, in great
surprise. “Are you up here with the |
other kids?” ;
“You bet,” assented Cuppy. “The
flat is a couple of blocks down the |
street. Milk an’ ple an’ chicken—and
sheets fer ter sleep in. Dere's twenty |
of us. Termorrer we has atterleetic |
sports. I'm the empire.” i
“Miss Gibbs is very kind to do all
this for you.”
Cuppy stopped short in his progress |
out of the bushes
“Say,” he demanded,
Gibbs—are you wid her?”
“No,” replied Shepherd thoughtfully, |
“I'm agin her.”
“That's right,” said the ragged ob-
fect of Aunt Elizabeth's bounty. “The
old lady's all right if she'd only leave
us be. What fer does she come round
a-lecturin’ and puttin’ us on the sneak?
I'm on the sneak now. She pays the
rent fer us, an’ we takes off our hats
fer that. But,” he concluded with a
darkening eye, ‘she runs a night |
school out o doors by daylight and
I'm on the sneak. Miss Farrer, she's
the people”
“She is. all of hat,” sald Shepherd,
feeling strangely comforted; he wanted |
to shake the boy's brown hand as they |
strolled together down the highway.
“She is all of that, for sure,” he added.
“Sure, Miss Farrer's worked fer the
gang of us till she’s most down and
out. She looks as pale as me mother
on a wash day. Does yer know what
she's doin’ now? Gone up this road a
couple er mile after a pig.”
“After a what?”
“Ter git a pig—a greased pig fer the
atterleetics. The farmer what runs
our joint made her chase away to buy
one off his brother, who needs the
money. I told her I'd go meself,
‘eause she's so tired, but ‘Naw,’ she
says, ‘Cuppy, youse must stay fer the
botenny.’ So she chases erlone, for
she says it's her dooty, she says.”
»
he
cot-
rusticize
her apologies
said Aunt
to absent herself
to
Gibbs
30 Kind
faves
“this Miss
Shepherd gave his leg 8 savage slap
with his walking stick.
“Hurry along, Cuppy,” he exclaimed,
“Perhaps we may meet her. And this
is a fine job for Lydia Farrow!”
He plowed through the dust dogged:
ly, while Cuppy took to the roadside,
dodging among the low bushes and
keeping a wary glance over his shoul-
der for a possible pursuer. Proceed:
ing in this skirmishing order, they
reached a turn from which could be
seen a little bridge, gepanning a peace
ful brook, and on the bridge a girl
with a green sun umbrella. She was
holding the umbrella over something
behind her, and she did not observe
the two pedestrians.
“Hey, Miss Farrer,” yelled Cuppy.
Miss Farrow turned and Shepherd
waved his hat.
“Hello, Lydia,” said he. “What in
the world have you got there?”
“I have a pig here,” answered the
young lady. “1 am afrald the pig is
overcome by the heat. How do you
do, Walter?”
“There's a sight more chance that
you are overcome by the heat your-
self,” retorted Shepherd, wrathfully,
and, in spite of her protesting gasp,
he seized the umbrella and shaded her
pretty head with it. This maneuver
gave him a chance to shake hands
with her, and left the pig exposed in
“Say, he's a dead
Cuppy.
The small animal lay apparently
moribund on the planking and emitted
a feeble wall when Shepherd poked a
gingerly against his somewhat
emaciated flank.
“Oh, dear, what shall we do?” said
the girl. “Do you think it is going to
die? Auntie is so [ fail |
in my duties.”
“Good heavens,
one,” remarked
severe when
Lydia, do you mean
“But don't understand, Walter
—[ must show myself trustworthy in
every detail. Aunt Elizabeth
She knows a girl who couldn't
the Rivington Street Mission
where | want to go—be
couldn't rely on her to clean milk
cans Do you believe that if we
sprinkled water on the poor thing -'"
“Let's throw him in the brook,” mut.
teeth
you
SAyYs 80.
stay at
that's |
ause they |
between his
“No,
no, no,” cried Miss Farrow.
Shepherd gave her one wild
and vaulted over the low railing at the |
of the bridge He his
handkerchief in the stream, clambered
bank and the |
water over the pig. who was reduced
to the last
look |
side soused
up the squeezed out
by this demonstration ex
in the cord
squealed;
himself
his neck; he
around |
dissoiution
seemed imminent
“I don't know
said Shepherd,
s
much about
desperate because
the genuine in Lydia's
gray eyes. “Do you, Cuppy?’
“Aw, 1 seen one in Jones wood,
say, I think this fellow’s fakin
ordered Cuppy, grabbing the |
leading line. “Lemme take him eriong |
fer yer, Miss Farrer.”
“1 couldn't let
couldn't,”
gave me
counts
pigs.”
of i
trouble big |
an’ |
Stan’
you, Cuppy. really i
Lydia “Aunt
and fai
B 5, you ou
Give me
protests i
do. every ure
vaide ght
be at botany ord
She leaned rather w
railing and
the
sarily the
mplated
“But 1 am tired and
added
What's that place up the slope?”
inquired Shepherd, pointing to the
right. The was where a rude |
bench stood under some heavy
hanging trees on the neighboring hill
side, The clear water of a spring |
apotited generously out of a rock close |
and the
surrounding
out on the |
against
the hot
onts
she
place
over.
fark green of the foliage
it made the stand
knoil, like a bower.
“That's the-—that's
spring.” faltered Lydia
“The farmers call it the
Well,” explained Cuppy
Miss Farrow blushed slightly. She |
could not help it; Shepherd was look- |
ing straight at her
“Lydia,” said with stern deter |
mination, “you and | are going to
walk up there and you shall rest your
gelf. It is absolutely ridiculous for
you to think of promenading through
the sun with this beast. Cuppy shall
You'll take care of that
pig. won't you, Cuppy?’
“Yep,” agreed that
spot
a--why, a
‘Lovers’ |
he,
eager youth
Shepherd picked up the green um-
brella and closed it with a snap. i
“But--Aunt Elizabeth,” the girl de. |
“She will be angry. She |
will say I'm not fit for Rivington |
street.” !
“1 advise you not to introduce those |
subjects at this moment.” said Walter,
pulling her hand within the crook of
his elbow, in an old-fashioned but an
extremely comfortable way, “Here is
the path. Goodby, Cuppy.”
Cuppy, however, was already finvis
ible in a rapidly moving cloud of dust,
from which the indignant squeak of |
the pig drifted back indistinctly to the
Lovers’ Well,
Lydia laid her hat on the bench, and
a bashful breeze played with her hair,
Shepherd brought her some icy spring
water in a pocket drinking cup. They |
elaborately discussed the mechanism |
of the cup, and then, alter a pause,
they talked of other tnings. Perhaps
it is unnecessary to specify the topics;
Aunt Elizabeth and Rivington street
did not figure importantly among
them.
“Iot us go back across country”
suggested Walter, when it was time,
“Very well,” sald Miss Farrow. “I
think we can find a way along the
broek. It will be better than the
road.”
The way along the brook excelled
the road in every particular. It led
them through thick woods where in
the half light they seemed to be alone
in the world. But on a ridge which
skirted a cleared hollow Shepherd was
rominded to the contrary.
“Look,” te whispered, grasping
Lydia's arm. This was no effort, be-
cause she was close beside him.
“It's the botany class,” she answer.
ed, and they both peered down through
the interlocking leaves,
Miss Gibbs, beneath an incongruous
sunbonnet, towered in the center of a
circle of awed and perspiring urchins.
A swamp lily, evidently the subject of
her discourse, nodued dejectedly in
her uplifted hand. The botany class
did not appear to be interested.
“Let's run,” said Shepherd.
“Wait,” said Miss Farrow. "Don’t
you hear something coming?
what is it? Oh, what in the world is
it
On the other side of the clearing
where the class was in session the
bushes were swaying and crackling as
if a miniature cyclone were careering
Aunt Elizabeth's schol
ars dispersed and dashed expectantly
toward the disturber of scholastic
quiet; Miss Gibbs herself remained
rigid. Not, however, for long.
“Sho, sho, sho!” eried Aunt Eliza
beth, waving the lily at a maddened
pig, who came for her at a gait as near
to a gallop as pigs achleve. “Sho, sho!”
“Hi!” screamed Cuppy.
“Hey!” howled the botany students,
and performed a war dance,
The pig flew between Aunt Eliza
ing in ektremis, and the lady sat in
voluntarily at his side. She was
speechless when Shepherd assisted her
to rise. In the meantime Cuppy and
his cohorts had manacled the pig
ruthlessly.
“what does this mean? Are you in
“Please, ma'am
“Silence!
outrage?”
“Stand
mured
ear,
“Aunt, it
I'm to blame,”
' began Cuppy
Lydia, did you order this
by the
Shepherd in
boy, anyhow,” mur-
Miss
all an accl
exclaimed
fault,
was
ot Cuppy's
wasn't.”
“I've
enough.”
beth, leading,
turn march to the farm house “I
not see how | can recommend
Miss Stein’
“Who
Shepherd
“She's
endured your incompetence
Aunt Eliza
stiffly, the re
do
to
answered
somewhat
Tou
is dear Miss Stein?’ asked
the head worker at
“Oh,” said Sh
“What do mean?’
“1 mean, Miss Gibbs, that Lydia and
You
“oever mind now.” the
“Aunt
is anxious to give
for the Fresh
“That is
put in girl,
zabeth, Walter
lots of money
good of hi
Misa Gibb think I am
“Well, I don’t see why,
shall
although we
glad enough to have it.” said
and turned to re
charges, straggling along be
bearing the pig like a
Fn
she
hind and aloft,
ictim
I think 1
pherd.
why am
rye
You
you
7 proposed She
see Lydia and 1
“1 do
interrupted
wish ¥ Lydia
I won
3 11d wait”
“Look at Cuppy
that name?
“It is a contraction for C
Shepherd solemnly
“Cupid!” sniffed
New York
The Court Recognized the Charm.
When Lord Chief Justice Holt
sided in the
oa
wo
got
upld,” sald
Mias
Independent,
“Cu
Gibbs,
pre
“rent
old creature was
brought before him, charged as a erim
law ought to be visited with exemplary
“What is her crime?” hia
asked
‘
Witcheraft.”
“How ls it proved?”
“She has a powerful spell”
"1.et me gee it."
The spell was handled to the bench
of silk,
many different hues
unwound and unfolded
colored
threads
rags
of as
were
now nearly
The judge, after looking at this pa
per charm a few minutes, addressed
oner, how came you by this?”
it to me, to cure my child's agge.”
“How long since?”
“Thirty years, my lord”
“And did it cure her?”
“0, yes, and many others.”
The judge paused a few moments,
and then addressed himself to the
jury. “Gentlemen of the jury, thirty
vears ago | and some companions. as
thoughtless as myself, went to this wo
man's dwelling, then a public house,
and, after enjoying ourselves found
we had no means to discharge the
Obrerving a child {11 of
ague, I pretended | had a spell to cure
1 wrote thg classic line you gee
on a scrap of parchment, and was dis
charged of the demand on me by the
gratitude of the poor woman before us,
for the supposed benefit.”—The Mir
ror.
A Feminine Fire Brigade.
The little town of Massas, In
Sweden, has a female contingent, 150
strong in its fire brigade. The wa
ter supply of the village consists
simply of four great tubs, and it is the
duty of the women “firemen” to keep
these full in cases of fire. They stand
in two continuous lines from the tubs
to the lake some distance away, one
line passing the full buckets and the
other sendings them back.
LOOSE GARMENTS.
1.6t the average woman be careful
that in the search of fashion she does
not acquire a ludicrous appearance at
the back. With what wonderful adapt
ability does the tallor of to-day man-
age to construct his bard cloths and
unyielding tweeds into loose and
graceful garments, He treats the
bolero with great success. Do not
imagine that because a thing is loose
it {8 easy to make, for more depends
upon the cut than on the actual fit-
tings.
ODD THINGS IN VEILS.
lot looks as if they had pussy willow
all over them. Queer pussy
to be sure, but then there is the re
semblance. The dots are of chenille,
in the center a little touch of rose.
Other dots in similar style have black
with blue in the center or with white.
ous have smaller chenille
on a black vell or vice versa, and a
salvage edge. Attached to this is a
Httle fringe of dots. Very
veils they are.—New York Times.
POPULARITY OF PEARLS
In jewelry pearls are still
fashionable than anything else,
are certainly becoming. They have
making a bad complexion
less bad and making a good one
better still. All Can
buying them in as large quantities as
their means will and they are
being worn in one way or another at
all hours of the day. Black and
ored pearis, though much sought
ter for thelr rarity, are not
tiful becoming white pearls
Pink pearls are fabulous
prices are paid thel
rarity-—that is all
complexion
look
look
who are
allow,
col-
af
1 “1
B80 Deal
or so as
and
them for
pretty
for
A NEW FABRIC
Perhaps have own
bit tired of the crepes, all
nd the thousand
clinging fabrics, and
is liked by way of contrast,
While on the of
all other materials that
may not be amiss ment par
ticularly desirable and rather new ef
fect in which
qualities for
BROWNE.
This Is crepe meteore,
mering fabric, possessing all
points of other crepes
some additional ones
there {8 more “body”
some just a
usseline
and
satin
mo
other filmy
the plain
subject
of
io
Crepes and
genre, {it
ion a
the
crepe combines all
liked certain styles
a soft, shim
the good
having
instance,
and
For
to crepe meteore
it is quite as soft as crepe de
in which
and most
duced, and the extra width of the
terial offers special
when it
OWNS
chine,
ft comes are the
ver
the shades
daintiest
delicate pro
ma
opportunities
IEning
to des
Times
Comes
Toledo
gpecial
LINEN COLLARETTES
Embroidered linen coll
be much this summer,
having sufficiently proved their
in this capacity Nothing
dainty, pretiier or more easy
quite fresh and uncrumpled,
to the laundry
beauty of fancy
used last year
worth
more
Keep
for a trip
only enhances the
stitching as as
that of fine linen ‘hey are embroid
ered Irish linen in fast
ors. One of the most attractive com
binations is an embroidery of Chinese
blue outlined with black on a white
linen collarette, the desiza remark
ably good, showing an irregular edge,
ring dots and graceful arabesques
Another idea iat use of
embroidery,
blue linen
is
to
well
on pure col
he solid white
with black
dainty
Very is a new
dotted
shape
of black
in front
in solid rings
is a half circle and
ing in size as they near the back —
Yogue.
fHE DAY OF THE SACHET
It is to be a poor season for those
like scents
modiste, who gives lectures every
winter to a number of dressmakers,
morning talk, and, as her topic was
the sachet, I will tell you about it.
“To secure that subtle fragrance”
acteristic of the elegantly gowned wo-
man, it is not necessary to spend
much money, but rather to spend ju-
diciously a small amount. In Paris,
where we study economy, I scent
whole wardrobes for much less than
the American woman spends upon a
little bottle of perfume, which she
scatters recklessly upon her gown.
“I base my applications upon sachet
powder, not upon the extracts, which
I count good only for the toilet and for
the handkerchief, the complexion and
the hands. The rest must be done by
sachet,
“With a bottle of heliotrope I can
scent a violet or purple colored gown
#0 that one inevitably thinks of violets
as the person approaches. My system
is this: Taking a bottle of the pow
der, in what sells in this country for
a b0cent size, 1 distribute it in six
neat little mounds. 1 then cut six
squares of silk and into each I place
the sachet powder so as to make six
bags. When the bags are completed
I attach a baby ribbon to each and
sew all in one long strip of ribbon,
This is tied around the neck, like a
necklace, while the six little bags
hang down in front and are concealed
in the folds of the gown, under all
Or, 1 sew them individually in the
front, between the folds, In perfum-
fng a skirt I attach half a dozen bags
to baby ribbon and sew them to the
under part of the band, so that they
shake forth their perfume ternally.”
Detroit Free Press.
————...
RIGHTS OF WIVES,
Mrs. William Todd Helmuth, former
President of Borosis, has taken up the
cudgel in behalf of the rights of
wives to a liberal part of their hus
band’s incomes. “The married wo-
man has a right to a certain propor-
tion of her husband's money,” she de-
clares. “When he gives 1( to her he iz
pot granting her a privilege, but ac-
knowledging a claim
“The amount that
the wife must, of course, be decided
by circumstances, Perhaps It may
seem best that the housekeeping bills
should come to him-—although,
rule, it is wiser
for household expenses
wife do the disbursing
Still, she may yleld
| seems expedient.
“The wife may under
| conditions, be willing to have her ac
| counts for dress settled by her
band's check, though this is seldom
| expedient, The woman who
| dress allowance and feels she
| keep within it is far less likely to run
into extravagance than the woman
who is not entirely clear as to
{| much may go for chiffons. The
| uncertainty is trying in more
than one,
“Though
should come to
¥
and let the
of the
that point
if it
even,
very
| the husband may pay
{ butcher and grocer, the milliner
ithe dressmaker, he should
into the blunder of fancying that
wife has no call for any money
{ yond the occasional dime or quarter
i he grants her for carfare There is
convincing testimony that the
ity of women have to ask their
bands for spending money or hypothe.
{cate the a in order
10 get it
I know jeal husband who has
never in a married life of thirty
ob to go to
is a certain mn
he places what he can
afford to let her have
drawer
Moreover,
and
not run
hus-
household accounts
one |
iged his wife him
There
where
money drawer
t
her desk
week. The
every
is never
he
| count for a
} i
nile iQ
allowed to get
her
That
daily
empty
never asks
of it
have a halo for his
cent
Plenty of other husbands
household al
allowance, to their
OWAnNCe, Or even
But
think
imagine
change
unex-
having re
money-making
wives
more dole what will
they
be needed and apparently
that get
my
their wives can what
they some sterious,
fashion, without
the
plained
to
means
sort ordinary
not I
creatures have been an
reganized Ago No man
right to submit his wife to the
iiation
is of
If women wer
there would
revolt long
she must undergo when
ged to decline to make small
church or club be
not the ready
an account In
Her clothing may
envy of her friends, her house may
a call
jar she has not the cash in hand
I#t the husband, at rate, give
{the wife a chance to whether
or not she is to trusted with
money Should she show herself un-
fitted to handle it is enough
him to withdraw her
treat her as he would
ten. But there are few wo-
who are unworthy of having the
their own spending money
they are quite as careful as
the matter of small
a horror of hills
’
to the lords of
in
has money
half a
be the
She may have
dozen shops
be
comes to
appointed, but when it
for a chance quarter or half dol
any
prove
be
time
| for lowance
a
and a child of
nine
| men
charge
As & rule
their husbands in
expenses and have
that is often unknown
creation. —Chicago
or
of
Chronicle
New sashes are made with three
long ends, each streamer carrying a
| ribbon rose a few inches from the end
One of the most of the
i new Eton jackets which
| attach
ailractive
has straps
i it to the skirt.
| Transparent black
Bw white silk lining are seen in
| areamey for light mourning.
|
Buckles of cut steel are seen in
{ combination
| tive
A pretty design In buttons is of
| French gray, having a fleur de lis in
the center,
fine silver chain a baroque pearl.
Under petticoats of white china silk,
lavishly trimmed with valenciennes
lace, are dainty and cool for summer
Wear.
Coats of black silk set off with deep
collars of lace, are much favored for
little girls, and are generally becom.
ing. Lace cuffs to match the collar
lend an extra touch of embellishment.
Ribbons to trim organdies match the
flowers or the leaves of the pattern.
Heartshaped pendants are of opal,
amethyst, or turquoise, and are gold
mounted.
Very smart is a little bormet of a
rough straw-colored straw, a bonnet
which looks more like a real bonnet
than most to be seen, and trimmed
with black taffeta ribbon and red
cherries.
Silk petticoats seem to be more
elaborate and expensive than ever. A
handsome one of light blue foulard,
one of the imported models, is finished
with a deep flounce of the silk em
broidered all over with pink rosebuds
and leaves wrought by hand in a
beautifully natural effect.
*
The present pole star is the only
one called Alpha, in the constellation
Ursa Minor. It has been the world's
pole star for nearly 2,000 years.
is not especially attrac-
HOW TO COOK RICE.
Rice is one of the most nutritious of
foods Jt cannot appear on the table
too oftén. The following recipes sug
gest excellent ways of preparing it
Boiled rice pudding-—One cupful of
cold bolled rice, one cupful of sugar,
four eggs, a pinch of soda and a pinch
of salt; put it all in a bowl and beat
until it is very light and white. Beat
four ounces of butter to a cream, put
it ino the pudding, with ten drops of
of lemon Beat all together
Butter a mold, pour
boil for two
sweet fruit sauce.
without eggs—Two
two-thirds of a cupful
Serve with
Rice pudding
butter as large as a walnut, a tea
meg and a pinch of salt
moderate oven; stir it
Put into a
once or twice
jet it remain
in the oven about two hours—until it
is the consistency of cream, Eat hot
CANNED STRAWBERRIES
Fill a quart jar with large, ripe ber-
ries, from which hulls have been
taken: fill the jar with cold water,
the
For every twelve jars to be put up use
thirteen measures
and in it dissolve gix pounds of sugar.
Pack the jars with
without
each jar up to the
syrup
and set
should have a
bottom pl
the
to crack
jars
shoulders;
fire. At
plus syrup in a sauce
it to become hot As
water in the bol
the time, and
eight minutes
the fire. Take out
fill it with
fn the saucepan, fasten it
put it back in the When all
are filled and «« them stand
in water until cold, then store in a cool
place until wanted
of these of water,
closely
them.
with
lid
which
wooden
on
berries as
8 possible mashing
! shoulder
cover {it with the
loosely
large boller,
] Pd
fitting
1&1
are
loosely
with
bottom
When the
in cola
cover it
reed holes sel
liable
full of
their
the
eur
metal the jars
boller is
pour to
and set it
time put the
E
and
on
allow
the
pan
as
ler begins to boll
soon
note
for
from
jar at a time,
the hot syrup
air tight and
when led
remove boiler
one at
even full
wered let
POTATO PIE
Slice eight
Put two tablespoonfuls of white
cream) sauce in a stewpan with
ounces of but . two ounces of grated
of half a lemon, season-
pepper and nutmeg and
thoroughly beaten
Stir over the thor
oughly Place a row of crou-
tons toasted bread around
a shallow baking dish, put a layer of
the potato slices within the border and
cover with some of the sauce, then ar-
range in a
smaller circie and cover sauce,
and so on until you have formed a
raised center; put a little sauce on top
and with two more of
grated cheese and some crumbs
and bake twenty until
nicely browned
or nine boiled potatoes.
{not
four
ter
cheese, juice
ing of salt,
the yolks of four
egEs fire until
heated
fried
of or
anot yer of potatoes
with
Qu NI0es
bread
minutes
cover
about
and serve up hot.
CHEESE ON DINNER TABLE
cheese is relegat-
when it appears
ipper table, and
nner table ex-
Some people think
ed to its proper place
on the luncheon or si
never place it on the d
cept as an accompaniment of apple
pie This is a mistake Cheese
not only a toothsome morsel, but it is
algo 8 valuable aid to digestion at a
time when digestive organs are
taxed to their utmost It has been
said that a small piece of good old
dairy cheese will digest an entire din-
ner, and it is an assured fact that
people having trouble with their diges-
tion are greatly relieved if they form
the habit of taking cheese at dinner.
The cheese should appear on the
table after the dessert and before the
coffee. and should be served with
wafer crackers or thin, crisp pieces of
toast.
is
the
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEWIFE
With soda water wash out the re
Kerosene will soften boots or shoes
that have been hardened by water and
render them as pliable as new.
Biue ointment and kerosene mixed
in equap proportion and applied to the
bedsteads is an unfailing bedbug rem-
edy, and a coat of whitewash 1s ditto
for the walls of a log house.
Good kerosene oil will make tin ket.
tles as bright as new. Saturate a
woolen rag and rub with it. It will
also remove stains from clean var
nished furniture.
To beat the white of an egg quick-
ly, put in a pinch of sait. The cooler
the eggs the quicker they will froth,
Salt cools and also freshens them.
You should never sun feather beds,
Air them thoroughly on a windy day
in a good place. The sun draws the
oil and gives the feathers a rancid
smell.
For washing finger marks from looks
ing glasses or windows, put a few
drops of spirits of ammonia on a moist
rag and make quick work of remove
ing them.
Never clean a drawing room or dine
{ng room without folding up the table
covers, ete, and covering up the furs
niture with sheets; fold the curtains,