THE 6CILLNTON TBIBUNE SATUKDAY . IfOBNTNQ, AUGUST 3, 1895,
Facts ;of Imterest
To Women Readers.
"Symposium of
' Partly Gossipy
MT XJUr8 BliEEVGSl
She' a phantom ot (race as ih sails In
ths room,
And I kmc for a glimpse of her cheek I
But acstacy dies In an ebony gloom
My pun are too utter to speak.
If my glances can roam to the creit of her
comb
i Tim all th.fr fnv vl.lon neroalvefl!
' And so with a sigh
I lay the hope by
1 As I sit In the shade of her sleeves.
I once was a man of the average size,
In a beautiful bygone day;
And favor I found In my fair one's eyes,
And oh, but my bosom was gayt
But fashion hath changed and her heart
la estranged.
In sorrow my spirit now grieves;
For my dream Is a wreck.
And I'm shrunk to a speck
As I alt In the shade of her sleeves.
If I could only sport a silk hat In the house
How much It would add to my height!
But no; I must sit Just as meek as a mouse,
8afe hid from my dear one's sight.
Why, sometimes I doubt If she knows I'm.
about
Life truly Is "nothing but leaves."
Pleasure's lamp has gone out
And hope put to rout
As I sit in the shade of her sleeves.
Ah, onoe I could glide to her radiant aldo
And coo In the shell of her ear;
With smiles and with blushes she'd listen
tn pride
My passionate wooing to hear.
Now at night and at noon through a rust
ling balloon
No answer my wooing receives;
Nor can my arm reach
To the goal of my speech
As I ait In the shads of her sleeves.
AlasI as I viewed them swell up and up
My spirits sank down and down.
Oh, sometimes I think I must take to the
cup.
My horrible anguish to drown.
Is it feathers or gas that hath puffed up
my las i?
Weird fancies delirium weaves.
Whatever the stuff
My fate It is rough
I'm lost In the shade of her sleeves!
-S. M. Peck in Judge.
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. The New York Sun, apropos of the
presence of the picnic season, drops
soma timely hints calculated to delight
the epicure. "When you have your
nest excursion.," remarks the Sun, "go
and get some Japanese napkin and
wooden plates, which are light to carry
and can tie thrown away when used.
Pack everything you can In boxes, and
have plenty of parafflne paper and wrap
eaoh article up by Itself. Provide thin,
dainty slices of bread, buttered before
It is cut front the loaf, and then
wrapped up or made Into sandwiches,
of which there is an endless variety to
choose from. Stuffed eggs, each one
rolled In paper; some kind of salad,
which can be carried In a Mason Jar,
with a mouth large enough to admit a
tablespoon; some toothsome little turn
oven that are not filled with juice, and
some small cakes or cookies that are
easily packed and handled. Make your
iusslan tea or lemonade and put It
Into bottles. Tou will usually be able
"to procure all the ice you need at the
picnic grounds. A few tumblers and
forks will be about all you will be bur
dened with on the homeward Juorney.
If you go by wagon Into the woods and
can have a fire, to the other things add
a coffee pot, with coffee and egg ready
mixed in It, a pall for heating water,
and a saucepan. Have some potatoes
sliced ready for stewing, or, better yet,
. nave corned-beef hash chopped and
ready to put over the Are, and if you are
near fishing waters you may be able to
have a catch for dinner. In that case,
remenrber to take some slices of salt
pork to fry with the fish. Put some
green corn into the bottom of the
wagon, and when you arrive have a
bed of coals to roast it. A picnic with
such a luncheon is a bright spot in
one's life and always to be remem
bered." II II II
A KEMALE CROESUS:
"Rich," exclaimed the emancipated wo
man to another; "why, she's the queen of
the Stock exchange."
"She's very lavish. I'm told, in her dis
play." "She can afford it. She's so rich that
he uses hundred-dollar bills for curl-pa-pers."-Washlngton
Star.
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The Sun also suggests few excellent
'" recipe for picnic dishes:
"For fluffed eggs take fresh eggs and
r DOl iwemy hudui; -woku com remwyj
I the shell end cut in half, lengthwise;
I tsike out the yoke, and with at fork rub
I It to a paste with a little melted (butter,
-Vrae salt, a dash of mustard ami cuy-
e pepper, and a cucumber pickle
mAped very fine; fill Che hollow whites
Wlih this paste and place the two halves
together and roll In parafflne piper.
Chopped bam can be used In place of
the pickle, with a little vinegar in for
wetting.
"Egg salad la made with hard boiled
eggs.. Cut them In pieces, not too (fine,
and to threte eggs use one boiled potato
cut In cubes; put the potatoes wi.Ji the
gigs; mix wtth mayonnaise dressing, to
which have been added some onion
Jules and a few capers.
"Veal toaif la made with three pounds
of veal, toaif a pound of salt pork, one
flnuAl .onion, and m lew sprigs of parsley.
Chop together -very fine and mix wftfi
one-half cup of bread crumbs and the
same of stock or milk and two table
spoonfuls of melted butter; season with
alt, pepper, arid a very MtMe mace and
two fegga well beaten; put In is buttered
pan and bake In a medium oven three
hours, keeping It covered the first hour.
When ooM out tn thin slices.
, nru
raid ii
JFYult Turnovers Take one cup of
ns and chop fine; add one lemon.
, Juice and rind,, one up of granulated
- sugar; prie generous' teaspoon of flour,
emd one dessert spoon of brandy; heat
until the sugar is dissolved; make, a
rich piecrust and rol thin and cut out
rl.fc an extra large biscuit cutter;
: place some of the mixture on one side,
turn, .over jan4 tsress edges, tight, put
In a put and.f each 1wWn
, Bake In a qV rvVa, ; J ' '
. Derteiou' jombtes Take on4witf
- pound X of butter and sugar and
.ttlr to a cream, fbeatttiwo eggs well and
.add ft Uttle nutmeg-; now stir in three
quarters of a pound of flour to make a
soft dough; sprinkle over your board
some sugar and break it pieces of
dough about the else of a wahiutb and
' roll with .the fingers in the sugared
boaid; wake Into rings and lay them on
i tme one tndh apart In a moderate oven.
. , PJenlo Cake Take three-quarters of a
sup of butlerand on and one-half oops
of sugar; stir to m cream, use three
i rrssv putting pas in at a time and beat
7 fee rote the Hx4ure(-addae-lajUf eup
of Mlk and one andr one-half tea
CMtutt ef baking powder gtftsjd Into
Information, Partly Grave,
and Partly Gay.
two generous cups of flour; add a half
cup of Barfed raisins' and a little citron
cut very thin; bake In patty pans and
frost when cool.
A aamiwfch of brown bread makes
a variety and a nice Ailing Is cream
cheese tn which has been mixed finely
chopped raisins.
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PREFERRED TO ItESQN:
"Mr. Lively," said the managing editor,
"we'd like to have you draw something
comic."
"Yes, sir."
"Without making reference to the New
Woman."
"Y-es, sir. "
"Or the bicycle."
The artist turned away in silent dejec
tion. In a few minutes he returned, and
laid a sheet of paper on the desk.
"Have you done it, so soon?"
"It didn't take mo long to do all I
could under the circumstances."
"What is it?"
"I've drawn up my resignation." Wash
ington Star.
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According to the Chicago Journal,
marriages, in recent years, have stead
ily declined in every country In Europe
except Russia, Hungary and Servla.
In Great Britain the decrease has been
marked. According to a report in St.
James' Gazette there 'has been no de
cline among the nobility 'and gentry,
who have titles and estates to perpetu
ate, or among the lowest and most de
graded classes. In fact there has been
a slight Increase of marriages in the
slums of the great cities, the mining
districts and the Ashing settlements on
the coasts. The great decline has been
among the middle classes. There has
'been a similar decline of marriages in
France, Germany, Belgium, Holland
and Denmark. This is not a country
given to statistics; and In some of the
states marriage is made so easy that it
Is difficult to obtain the number of per
sons united in the holy bonds of wed
lek. But in these states observation
shows that marriages are declining.
One has but to glance at the names of
the persons who take our marriage li
censes to see that nearly all of them
are newcomers.
THE GOSSIP: " " "
I told my love unto the dew ,
That vanished in the air; ,
I told It to the little bird
That warbles everywhere.
At eve I told lb to a rose,
And said: "The secret keep."
Quoth she: "Beware and have a care;
I whisper In my sleep."
An adept grown, I told my love
To her whom I adore;
She smiled and said: "It must be so;
I've heard It thrice before."
Pittsburg Post
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Among the reasons given by our Chi
cago contemporary for this decline are
as follows: "So many females have
taken up the occupations of men that
the latter have not the means to sup
port households. American females
have ceased to be domestic. The old
desire for the pleasures of a home, once
strong, has weakened. The desire to be
Independent, to shine in society and
make a display In publio has taken
its place. It is probably true that the
average man does not appreciate the
'new woman' as well as she thinks she
deserves. All these things and per
haps others have caused marriages to
decrease. As might be expected the
decline of marriages has been accom
panied by a decline of births. Deaths
are more numerous than, births among
the native population of France. The
population of the country would de
cline but for the number of Italians,
Slavs and Germans who have become
residents. The birth rate In England
has declined during twenty years from
38 per thousand of the population to
30, while in France it has sunk from 32
to 24. Proud Massachusetts boasts that
-her birth rate has Increased during the
past twenty-flve years 23.6 to 25.8, but
that slight Increase does not show that
the number of persons of Pilgrim or
Puritan stock is becoming greater.
The Canadian Frenchwoman 'Is
abroad' in New England and she does
not propose to have her race die out."
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RELATING TO MARRIAGE:
"Be mine," he Implored.
"I am a new woman," she answered, ma
lignantly. "I hate all men."
And so they were marled. Detroit Tri
bune.
Mllllcent-Oh, thatMr. Van Cool is such
an Indifferent fellow; I wish I could make
him miserable.
Stella Er-er-why don't you marry him.
my dear? Brooklyn Eagle.
Boothbv What are you thinking about.
Ethel?
Miss Warrlnfffnrd Ahmat our wnlrllnir.
I want to ask a favor of you. '
uoothby Anything, dearest.
MlM Wnrrlnirfn,Wiill t rivnM ant l
change my name to Mrs. Henry W.
Boothby. I want you to change yours to
Mr. Ethel K. Warrlngford. Harper's
Basar.
"There 4s one point In your future hus
band's character that you ar to be con
gratulated on," said Miss Cayenne.
'What Is that?" asked the engaged
girl, her eyes lighting with happiness.
"tie is very easy to please."
"How do you know?"
"He Is so well satisfied with himself.
Washington Star.
He What would you say. darHnr. If I
should tell you that you can never be
mine?
Sbe-I should say. pet. that I've swt a
nice bundle of your letters that would
help to make It expensive to you. TU
BUS.
Eheneser Whst tin vm frhinV ( th.
best way to approach your father, dar
ling, 10 asK mm tor your hand?
jumenne rrom behind. Town Topics.
Cobbs That was a pretty sentiment
young Masher got off the other night
when bidding Miss Plumpy good-night.
DobDs hoi What was It?
Cobbs He said he wished she was
locked in his arms and the key lost
Truth. '
It Is ft homely savins-, abserves. ths
Household News, that "a woman can
throw out with a spoon faster than a man
can threw In with a shovel," yet the truth
of ths old saw has never been dlaputod.
Given an Intelligent, industrious, "bread
winner," as It is fashionable to call ths
person who earns ths funds which sup
port ths home ana the thrift or want of
thrift marking the caretr of the family
tm depend almost entirely upon the
habits of the housswjfe la relation to lit
tle matters. One of the religious papers
recently presented this eaaraoterisatloa
of "ths thrifty housewife, and the por
trait Is so terse tad tma that It ntlf hi wan
be made a rule of conduct in all honvs
where true prosperity Is sought: "She
takes note of the kitchen Ore and closes up
the dampers when she Is not using It,
and makes one Are do all the work M will
at once. She saves her alee 'drippings
and makes them serve In cooking instead
ot butter. She saves all the odds and ends
of bread and meat left over from nasals
and works them up Into appetising and
nutritious dishes. Instead of throwing
them away. Her clothing she keeps clean
by the use of aprons; she haa suits ot
clothes suitable for dirty work. She turns'
her sheets when they grow thin In' the
middle. Her worn tablecloths are cut Into
napkins for everyday use. She keeps rugs
spread over places In the carpet that are
subjected to the hardest war. She care
fully dries her tinware so It will not rust
out She keeps her old brooms for roup-h
use, and so prolongs the terra of service of
her best broom. She uses up her worn
garments in making quilts and comforts
or In rugs and rag carpets, and so in a
thousand ways she saves what if wasted
would be pure loss, and do nobody any
good."
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WOULD TAKE ANY, THEN:
"Are you fond of etchings?" asked the
young man who had taken the hostess'
pretty niece from the country down to
supper.
"As a general thing, yes, she answered,
looking up Into his eyes with an engaging
frankness that threatened havoo to his
heart; "but," she added hastily, as he
started to say something pretty, "not any
tonight, thank you it is rather late. A
very little sherbet la all I care for." Spare
Moments.
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Congressman Johnson, of North Dakota,
has a wife who is a helpmeet of the proper
sort to him without being a canvesser of
votes, a lobbyist, a reviser of his speeches,
or even one of those women who are de
scribed as taking the "keenest Interest"
in their husbands's careers. Mrs. John
son, to be sure, may have the virtues of ill
these classes, but she has won fame chiefly
from the remarkably clever way in which
she superintended the work on a farm of
1,800 acres, while h?r husband was at
tending to the legislative affairs of the
nation. - In the spring of 1893 Mr. Johnson
Invested heavily In hay lands. Before the
hay was ready to. cut he was called to
Washington by an extra session of con
gress. He tried to find a man who would
attend to his hay for him during his ab
sence, and, falling, allowed his wife to as
sume charge of the big hay farm. ' The
harvest came on and Mrs. Johnson was in
the fields bright and early In her top
buggy, looking after men and teams, and,
when one Held was cut, selecting another
and then another. All of the hay on '.he
Johnson farm was mown, and then Mrs.
Johnson leased the hay tracts In the vicin
ity of Petersburg until the total cut
amounted to almost 300 tons. Mr. John
son himself says that he never had a crop
looked after in a more business-like way
than the hay crop of 1893.
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HEALTH HINTS:
Bicycle riding is the Very best remedy
for nervousness caused by lack of ex
ercise and confinement In an office at a
desk all day.
Wash the face night and morning In
buttermilk, permitting to dry without
wiping. This will make the skin white and
soft. There is nothiing so "good for the
complexion" as exercise In the open a'.r.
A preparation of linseed oil and llmo
water is a good application for sunburn.
Put on the burned surface and cover with
old linen or muslin; If the burnt surface
Is very sore do not remove the linen, but
keep It wet by pouring the mixture on.
It was forcibly pointed out in one ot the
papers read at the last meeting of the
American Health association convened In
Canada, that radical Improvement In pub
lio hygiene should begin In ths public
schools, and unless it Is done, we may
rationally expect to see a progressive
physical degeneration of our race through
the pernicious Influences of the miserable
hygienic surroundings to which our
school children are so commonly subject
ed In the common schools.
A few simple rules carefully obeyed will
do much to preserve the eyes In health.
Light and color In rooms are Important.
The walls are best finished in a single tint.
Windows should open directly upon the
outer air, and light Is better when they
and close together, not separated by
much wall space; not distributed. Light
should be abundant, but not dazzling. It
should never como from in front, nor
sould sunlight fall upon work or the
printed page. Never read or sew in the
twilight, after an exhausting fever, nor
before breakfast. Look up frequently
when at work and fix the eyes upon some
distant object. Break up the stretch of
wall by pictures that have a good per
spective. Those rest the eye, as does look
ing out of a window. When at work on
minute objects, rise occasionally, take
deep inspirations with the mouth closed,
stretch the body erect, throw the arms
backward and forward, and step to an
opon window or out Into the open air for
a moment. Two desks of different heights
are valuable for a student, one to stand
by and the other to sit by. Plenty of
open-air exercise Is essential to good eye
sight. Sometimes (t is impossible to cure
eye troubles while patients stay within
doors In furnace-heated rooms. - Kor
proper vision, printed matter should not
be less than fifteen Inches from the eye.
Some advice which the Phlladclp:ha
Record gives to a mother who complained
of the Incessant crying of her girl baby
may be valuable to other readers.
"Search all over the child's .clothing,"
says the Record, "for the cause of the
crying. Clothes that bind, ptns that prick,
safety-pins that ore large and clumsy may
make pressure sufficient to cause pain.
An Infant's clothing to be comfortablo
and unlrrltatlng should be sewed on It
takes very little more time to fasten each
garment with thread. . Buttons should
never be used; nor pins. You may cause
her to suffer by too frequent feeding;
once every three hours . Is quite often
enough to feed a six-months-old baby.
Permit no Irregularity In the feeding; feed
her at no time except at the end of each
three hours. Never feed her to silence her
voice. Early in life digestion Is feeble,
and regularity In meal hours Is of much
more lmportance( than In adult life. Too
frequent feeding causes colic. Indigestion
and Illness. Do not feed her during the
night if her last meal has been at 11 p. m.
give her no more food until S or 6 a. m..
Do not rouse her from sleep to feed at any
time. If she have colic give half a tea
spoonful of hot "soda mint." If she does
not Improve within a week take her to a
physician for examination and treatment
Her present ailment Is Indigestion. Feed
ing produces pain and colic. Keep her
chest and stomach and bowels covered
with a thin layer of wool wool shirt or
flannel binder night and day. Give her
a teaspoonful of 'caraway water' after
each feeding."
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HOUSEHOLD HELPS:
Old kid gloves make excellent pen
wipers. Raisins for fruit cake are very much
Improved by cooking. Let them soak out
slowly, and then simmer until the skin is
tender.
i You should keep your fine- laces
wrapped In blue paper If you don't want
them to turn too yellow, yellower than Is
desirable. .
By rubbing with a flannel cloth dipped
In whiting the brown discoloration may
be taken off of cups which, have been used
for baking.
Among the best and moat useful arti
cles for ths washing of dishes Is the soap
shaker. It makes excellent suds with the
least possible outlay of soap.
To keep cake and sandwiches fresh sev
eral days, wrap them up In a wet cloth
and keep them from the air. This method
will also' hold good for buns and coffee
oaka - ' -
The llttl sliding boxes ws get from ths
druggists are lovely little receptacles
for the elastic rings so much used now
adays. Fasten two together with a bit of
ribbon, tls ft bow on the top, and you hare
ft pitas for postage stamps as well. 1
It Is not good economy to cook ths Sams
things day after day. Study up some new
dishes, and serve them daintily; use up all
the left overs; put bits of bread, mashed
potatoes, boiled hominy or rice, anything
of the sort In your griddle cakes and see
how it will Improve them.
A dainty and delectable addition to
mlladl's tea table Is known as "nutted
dates." The dates are Brat stoned and
then filled with whole meat of the Eng
lish walnut This makes a sweetmeat
both novel and acceptable, and one pe
culiarly adapted to the demands ot 6
o'clock affairs.
When a stain gets on the fresh dinner
cloth the easiest way to remove It la Im
mediately after dinner to slip a bowl di
rectly under the spot, thus raising the
cloth from the table, and then to pour
boiling water over the stain. Let the
cloth remain stretched over the bowl
until the wet portion dries.
Many women Imagine that a bare floor
scrubbed every day or two Is the only
"neat way of living," but the woman who
covers her kitchen floor with a hemp rag
carpet, protected In the most exposed
places by neatly-bound oilcloth, saves
much exhausting scrubbing, and her
kitchen looks cleaner than the floor, dingy
and rough from frequent washing. Al
most always the freshly-washed floor Is
the real cause of those mysterious lan
guid, lame sensations from which delicate
women suffer.
. To prevent accidents with lamps the
first point, according to the London queen,
is to use good oil. to always have lamps
with metal oil containers, and wick tubes
of sufficient length to nearly reach the
bottom of the containers, and always to
place the lamps In safe positions; while
some really good brand of oil, having a
close test flash point of 70 degrees or over,
should be invariably used. Great care
should be taken to keep every part of the
lamp clean, end the gause of the burners
should receive particular attention, be
cause should this become obstructed by
dust, the lamps will smell most offensive
ly, while the light will be considerably
lessened; moreover, there is also the risk
of tiring back, and thus destroying the
burners. Petroleum when properly burned
In clean lamps should be free from smell,
giving a white light. Where petroleum or
other mineral oil is used for illuminating
purposes, half a dosen buckets of fine dry
sand should be kept in a readily accessible
place tn case of conflagration, as this Is
far better than water as an extinguishing
medium. In the event of santi not being
available, ashes, dry earth, or similar
material wll smother out an oil fire, but
water, unless applied in overwhelming
quantities, only causes It to spread. It Is,
however, better to prevent the danger by
having good metal lamps In secure posi
tions, and this should be the first care of
every housekeeper. Like everything else,
mineral oil is safe enough when properly
used, and no fear of explosion need exist;
while so long as properly constructed
lamps are used, there Is little to fear
when lumps are overturned.
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ONE DRAWBACK:
"It must be delightful," said the ordi
nary married woman, "to be earning your
own living and more, too."
"It has its drawbacks," said the busi
ness woman. "Every time I go to ft bar
gain sale and save 75 or SO cents on pur
chases, I lose two or three dollars' worth
ot time." Indianapolis Journal.
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SELECTED RECIPES:
Green Corn Pudding. Two coffee-cups
of the pulp of green corn, one quart of new
milk, three eggs, two heaping tablespoons
of butter. Pour one pint of the milk over
the corn and set on the fire until scalding
hot. Heat the yolks of the eggs and add
the pint of cold milk and half a cup of
sugar. Put the butter in the corn over
the Are and then add the milk and yolks
of eggs and a little salt. Put In a greased
pudding dish and bako slowly. Beat the
whites and add three spoonfuls of fine
sugar and put over the top when the pud
ding Is done. Set in the oven to brown.
Green Corn In the Husks. Some think
the corn sweeter if cooked with husks on.
Remove the outsldo layer, take out the
silk and tie the remaining husks over the
end. Cook In a kettle of boiling water
wth a little salt In It. The husks can be
removed before sending It to tho table,
but some prefer to leave the husks on so
as to keep it hot.
Escalloped Corn. Take fresh-picked
corn, cut it from the cob; grease a pudding
dish, put In a luyer, sprlnklo a little salt
over it and bits of butter, then put on a
layer of cracker crumbs', pour over a little
milk and fill dish with alternate layers of
corn and cracker crumbs, with cracker
for top layer and plenty of milk over the
whole. Cover closely and bake one hour.
Peach Short-Cake. Use canned peaches
and prepared flour for this dish. Chop
quarter of a pound of butter Into a quart
of prepared flour, quickly stir Into It
enough sweet milk to make a soft dough;
put this Into two round cakes upon but
tered tin pie-plates, and bake them In a
hot oven. Meantime open a can of
peaches, reserve the finest for the two top
layers and cut the rest In small quarters.
When the short-cakes In the oven are
done and cool enough to handle, tear them
open with the eld of a fork, butter the in
side, divide the out peaches upon the two
bottom layers, and arrange the finer ones
on the others; thickly dust all with sifted
powdered sugar, lay the tops upon both
under pieces and serve the short-cakes
with more sifted sugar and sweet cream.
The Juice of the canned peaches, well
sweetened with powdered sugar, can be
used Instead of cream.
Dutch Apple Cake. One pint of flour,
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, half a
teaspoonful of salt, large tablespoonful of
butter rubbed in flour, one egg, three
fourths cupful of milk. Beat well and
place In a shallow pan. Pare six apples,
cut in eighths, lay In rows on the cake,
points down. Sprlnklo three tablespoon
fuls of sugar over ths cake, and bake.
Boiled Cherry Pudding. Beat together
the yolks and whites of three eggs, then
stir In two cupfuls of milk, and from three
to four cupfuls of flour enough to make
a smooth batter. A tabtesponful of melted
butter or drippings is then added, with
a slight sprinkling of salt and two heap
ing tablespoonfuls of baking powder.
Take a pint of stoned cherries, drain off
the Juice, dredge them with flour, and stir
thoroughly 'into the batter. Then turn at
once Into a buttered pudding mould, and
cook for three hours In a kettle of boiling
water. The water must not stop boiling.
Serve with the pudding sauce above.
Gooseberry Fool. Stew one quart of
green gooseberries in Just as little water
os it Is possible to use. When soft, rub
through a sieve to remove the skins; rub
them back and forth with a wooden spoon,
so that nothing will be left in the sieve
but the tough skins. To every pint of
pulp add one pint of milk, and plenty of
sugar. In mixing the gooseberrrles and
milk add the milk very slowly. Serve in
small dishes, with cakes. This, although
a very old-fashioned dish, is, wtien well
made, very delicious, and, If properly
sweetened, a very suitable preparation for
children.
To Fricassee Tlgeons. Cut two pigeons
Into pieces, wash and dean them well,
and put them Into a saucepan with a pint
of water and the same of claret. 8eason
It with pepper and salt, a blade of mace,
one onion, a bouquet of sweet herbs and
one and one-half ounces of-butter rolled
m flour. Cover the saucepan closely and
let tehm stew till there Is Just enough for
the sauce. Then remove the onion and
herbs and place the pieces of pigeon on
dish and keep them hot Beat the yolks
of three eggs and stir them In the gravy
until it Is thick and Smooth, then put in
the pigeon and shake It all together over
the fire. Put the pieces of pigeon In a
dish .and pour the sauce over them.
Scatter a few fried oysters over the top.
Escalloped Onions. Remove the skins
and put them Into boiling salted Water.
Boll them twenty minutes and pour off the
water entirely, then put -In equal parts of
hot water and snHk and boll them twenty
minutes longer. Whsn dona drain, cut In
slices, put Into a shallow dish, cover with
whits sauce sad buttered crumbs, and
bak till the crumbs are brown.
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In 'the Wonderland
Of North America.
fit. Paul, July IS. Why any American
cltixen should go abroad without first
beholding the stupenduous grandeur of
America the greatest country ever
given to man I cannot understand.
Desiring to known more of our own
native land we propose to take another
trans-continental tour. After the
adieux were said on July 9, we stepped
aboard the observation car of our far
famed Oavlty railroad leading out
of Honesdale for a trip to the "Won
derlands" of America and thus cele
brate our twenty-fifth wedding anni
versary, not on foreign shores but In
our own beloved America.
In 1893 the writer, his wife and Mrs.
Swoyer left the same station the same
month, the same day of the month,
with the same conductor for a tour of
9.700 miles, from Hell Gate to Gold Gate
and Pactflo Northwest, 'Montery and
Seattle then being the western ter
minus. Now the extreme northwest
ern terminus of our present trip will be
Bltka, Alaska, the land of the midnight
sun. Going westward we shall traverse
the entire line of tho Northern Paciflo
railway from Duluth to Portland and
Tacoma, .stopping off In Yellowstone
Park for ten days. From Puget Sound
we shall follow the inland passage of
the Pacific to the Ice fields of Alaska.
Returning to Vancouver, It. C, we shall
cross the continent eastward from
ocean to ocean by the iplcturesque Can
adian Pacific railway, through the Can
adian National Park and over the Sel
kirk Mountains, the glory of the
Queen's Dominions, a tour of 12,000
miles, the greatest and grandest the
American continent can offer.
In our series of "travel letters," of
which this Is the Introductory one, we
design to give to our readers a brief
description of' the- country . traversed,
the important places of interest as seen
with "American eyes," and. Impressions
received daily en route. No systematic
order of arrangement will be expected,
as much will be written on flying trains
and therefore must necessarily be frag
mentary and inadequate descriptions,
which a generous reading publio will
excuse. We shall attempt' no "fine
writing;" we shall avoid all fanciful
embellishments, but give only the plain,
naked truth In the most concise man
ner. We Invite our readers to Journey
with us in our travels "from the rising
to the setting sun," and thus catch a
glimpse, at least, of the marvelous
scenes to be found on this continent.
Later on our letters will be Illustrated
with photographic, views take en route
by the writer, with the "Lundellus
Camera," the latest improved pattern
in the market
Leaving Honesdale.
As our party of three ascended the
gravity plane leading out of the beauti
ful Maple City, overlooking the valley
of the liockaiwaxen, never did the sun's
rays tlhilne down more brightly upon
the beautiful town quietly resting In the
valley below, and our pleasant home on
Central Park, shaded by maples and
elms, never seemed' to us more sacred
than on this very morning. Even the
numerous churches, with their spires
pointing heavenward like the "finger of
God," seemed more hallowed than ever
before. The noble Lackawaxen and
Dyberry rivers which surround the
town, forming a confluence under the
shadows of Irving Cliff, never seemed
S3 clear and sparkling, while the bold
over-hanging rock, which towers over
300 feet above as If to guard the city se
curely from the hostile invasion of the
elements, never appeared so majestic
and defiant. The verdant hills which
encircle Honesdale and the landscape
generally seemed more and more at
tractive from the observation car as we
sped around the "Horse Shoe curve,"
while Honesdale receded from our
sight. Many are the pleasant memo
ries that cling and cluster around this,
our childhood home this lovely dale
we leave behind us and our hearts are
thankful In the enjoyment of so pleas
ant a home, where the educational,
church and social features are rthe very
beft.
We pass in quick succession the thriv
ing villages of Blandln, Seeleyville and
Prompton to Waymart through sec
tions of fine meadow, pasture and roll
ing uplands, which He outspread with
groves and miniature forests at inter
vals, the foot hills climbing almost
within the shadows of the Mooeic
range, the northern extremity of the
Alleghenle. Alt an elevation of 1,415
feet we ascend two planes, one of which
is over a half mile In lengthto be
exact, 2,630 feet when the summit of
FUrvIew is reached at an elevation of
2,345 feet albove sea level, the climax
for northeastern Pennsylvania.
The valley below, with Its series of open
plains dotted with lakes which, form a
grand Interval between the gently ris
ing hillsides and long-drawn-out moun
tain range of the OatskNIs, forty miles
distant, never presented so beautiful
and fascinating a picture as on this
very morning. A 10-mlle run around
Shepherd's Crook, the most picturesque
point on the line of the Delaware and
Hudson, brings us to Carbondale, the
Pioneer Ctty of ithe anthracite coal
basin. 'Reaching Scranton, we take the
noted Pennsylvania route over the Al
logenics for Chicago, stopping oft
daily, first at Harrlsburg, then at Pitts
burg, the Smoky City, where a two
days' sojourn satisfied us that the place
was appropriately named and that the
smoke and cinders from the shafts find
chimneys of Scranton and vicinity were
far mere preferable to Pittsburg's soot
and tmoke.
Brief Glimpse st Pittsburg.
Still the cfty has very many attrac
tions whldh were of Interest o us and
to those of our readers who have never
seen them. Atrlef mention may be of
Interest.
Aside from its great iron works, steel
plants, fine churches, public (building?,
school buildings, elegant residence
etc., Pittsburg has a series of bold
cliffs,, public parks, lakes, (boulevards,
fine drives, which the visitor may en
Joy, but the moat novel feature to us
was the Incline planes and) terrace
drives. When seen at night from either
shore, with the noble rivers, Mononga
hela and Allegheny, flowing between,
or from the adjoining helghtsthe elec
tric display was truly magnificent
Pibtsburg's system of Inclines, when
compared with the Delaware and Hud
son, are of wide guage (twelve feet)
and wlbn one exception longer planes
and steeper grades. The Mt Oliver
plane la L640 feet long, has a 12 -fool;
guage and rises 400 feet (1 foot in 4).
Castle Shannon Is 1,776 feet long, same
guage, wMfh a 4tKWoot rise. Oft Wash
Ington plane Is ths steepest grade, toe
tag. 1 foot In SH.
The pasMhftr cars used on thtm Are
First of a Series of Travel Treating
Of the Great Northwest.
so constructed as to remain in a horl
sontal position In both ascent and de
scent The cars are divided into two
apartments, one for passengers, the oth
er for vehicles. They - are capable of
carrying fifty to 100 passengers, with
two loaded electric cars or two heavily
loaded teams. The ears are 44 feet long
by 20 wide and about 20 feet high. The
wire rope used la three Inches In dia
meter. The Knoxville Inclines) use 19,
320 feet of rope.
Another day of railroad travel brings
us to the "Windy City." After a
night's rest a daylight run of 410 miles
brings us to the Hotel Ryan, St Paul,
the Pioneer City of the great north
west Our inext letter , will give a
glimpse of 'the twin cities, St Paul and
Minneapolis. - John E. Richmond,
WELSH ECHOES
The following are gleanings from the
Drych and other Welsh sources. They
are of especial Interest to the Welsh peo
pie of Scranton and vicinity. The follow'
Ing letter, which .Is very Interesting to
Welshmen, Inasmuch as there are quite a
number of Crimean veterans In Lacka
wanna county, will explain Itself: "In.
qulrles have been made if there were any
Welshmen in the Balaklava charge. There
is no Welsh cavalry regiment; there Is but
one from Scotland, the famous Scotch
Greys or Second Light Dragoons, while
Ireland has four regiments of cavalry,
In the "000" who were tn the charge, there
must have been several Welshmen, but I
know of but two Lord Tredegar, of Trede
gar rark, Newport Monmouth, and his
brother, Godfrey Morgan, son of Charles
Morgan, who was afterward made Lord
Tredegar, a very ancient Welsh family,
There used to be an annual dinner at the
Crystal Palace, London, gotten up by sub
scription for the heroes ot Balaklava,
There used to pe a well-to-do Inn-keeper at
Sheffield who Interested himself being one
of the heroes himself In the annual meet
inghe Is dead now and I think the din
ner has fallen through.
"As to the number of Welshmen In the
Crimean war, it is a broad question,
There are but four regiments of Infantry
called Welsh the Twenty-third RoVal
Welsh Fusiliers, the Twenty-fourth Welsh
Borderers, the old Forty-first and the
Bixty-fourth. The Twenty-third has upon
Ks colors twenty-four honors or battles.
among these are Alma, Inkerman and
Sevastopol. They earned in the Crimea
four Victoria crosses. The names of those
who received them were: Corporal Rob
ert Shields, of Merthyr Tydvll; Sergeant
Luke O'Connor, of Roscommon, in Ire
land, who Joined the regiment as a private,
but left it as its lieutenant-colonel, and is
now major-general, retired; Surgeon W,
H. T. Sylvester and E. W. D. Bell, Its
colonel at the time. The Twenty-fourth
was not In the Crimean war. It has nine
teen honors on Its colors, and has four
teen Victoria crosses to Its credit The
Forty-first and Sixty-ninth were at the
Crimean wnr. They have sixteen honors
on their colors, among them being Alma,
Inkerman and Sevastopol, The motto of
this combined regiment is "Gwell angen
na chywllydd" "Death better than
shame." A monument has been erected in
Carmarthen town in memory of those who
were killed at the Crimean war. It Is a
mammoth affair. It has a list of them ail
engraved upon it There are four Russian
18-pounder guns taken at Sevastopol
pluced around the monument One of the
guns shows a remarkable effect of a shot
fired by the allied army; it very nearly en'
tered the muzzle and tore out one side of
the gun. The Twenty-third used to be.
long to Carmarthen, but about twenty
years ago the army was reorganized and it
Is now stationed at Wrexham. The Twenty'
fourth Is at Brecon, and what is known
as the combined Welsh regiment is sta
tioned at Cardiff. The best books on the
Crimean war are Kinglake's history and
the letters of Russel, the Times' war cor
respondent." The Russel mentioned here
was the Times' correspondent of the Amer
ican war of rebellion. He is the greatest
war correspondent ot the age. He was re
cently knighted by Queen Victoria of Eng.
land.
Early Learning.
The following communication will be
very interesting to the early Welsh set
tiers of Carbondale. The communication
has reference to the late Rev. Lewis Will
iams, of Carbondale, a noted Welsh divine.
Mr. Williams was not a learned man,
neither was h a great divine, but his re
ligious sincerity and originality of ex
presslon made him a noted character in
his day. He died about ten years ago, and
the Rev. E. R. Lewis, of this city, wrote an
elaborate biography of the noble old char
acter, which appeared in the Drych a few
months ago:
"In looking over some old papers of late,
I came across a copy of the old Columbia,
and in it I found an interesting account ot
William K. Powell's boyhood days, when
he used to go to school. He relates how
cruel his teachers were In using the rod
and ruler; but it seems that It had a good
effect on him, for he has turned out to be
a man of high rank and Is held in high es
teem by his own countrymen as well as
other nationalities. He must have gone
to scnooi in later years than I did, else he
would not have been half the man he is
now. My father, Robert Foulkes, and Da
vid Jones, carpenter, as he was called,
were the first two Welshmen that come to
Carbondale, Pa.; they lived there a year
among the Irish and Americana, before
any other Welsh families came there.
"With the second immigration of Welsh
came Lewis Williams, who belonged to the
Congregatlonalists. They hired htm for a
school 'teacher and he was the first teacher
I ever went to school to. He had more
power in his arms than he had wit In his
head. When he would speak to the chil
dren It was like the roar of a lion amongst
the wild beasts of the forest; every one
was wide awake, and if the speaking
wouldn't do, the next thong would be the
ruler, and If we didn't hold out our hands
long enough to suit him, the next thing
would be the rod. I was somewhere be
tween 6 and 8 years old when I went to
school to him. He was one of the most un
reasonable teachers I ever knew. If the
great apostle in Scranton that wrote that
long epistle about his good qualities as a
preacher had been to school to him In
early days, he would have had a different
opinion of him. If he did not have more
Influence over a congregation In preaching
to them than he had In teaching us chil
dren, he did not convert a great many.
He pretended-to teach us In English, but it
was about half Welsh and half English
mixed. I don't pretend to say but that he
did his best as far as he knew how. The
good books says many are called but few
chosen; and I don't think Lewis Williams
was ever called to be a school teacher.
Well, he Is dead and gone, where he will
get his reward, and I suppose I will not be
long after him. -
"I am now In my fifty-ninth year and
living In South Dakota.. We lived In Car
bondale three years, and In the Beech
Woods nine years; moved to Wisconsin In
1841: went to California In 1850; came bark
to Wisconsin In lfc"2; moved to Iowa in 1R7S,
and from Iowa to South Dakota In 1881,
whore I now live. I suppose that my old
playmates that used to live In Carbondale
and in the Beech Woods.are all gon from
there, and that most of them are dead. If
any of them are living I would like to hear
from them. Tours truly. Henry Foulkes,
Canova, South Dakota"
. Hwf a Mon Honored.
"Charles Ashton, the great Welsh es
sayist. Is not ths only Welshman that was
favored and honored by Premier Lord
Rosebery, of England, on his retirement
from office. Hwfa Mon, on ths recom
mendation of Sir Os bourne Morgan, re
oetvad not) from the royal treasury."
Hwfa Moa. Is ths Area Druid of ths
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Welsh Bardic fraternity of the world. . Hs
Is also a noted divine and an' orator ot
great force. He visited the United States
to 1883. He was the bardic meteor tn the
great World's fair eisteddfod, and con
ferred bardio degrees on several Scranton
poets, according to the primitive rights of
the eisteddfod. He preached several times
at the Congregational churches of the
West Bide during his visit here, and re
ceived a great ovation in the shape of a
publio reception, on which occasion Judge
Edwards paid him a glowing tribute and
declared him to be one ot the greatest
poets of the age.
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