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What One Woman Observes.
Some men are absolutely devoid of
generous impulses.
After all men are easily made to feel
their own want of force.
It is not always the pretty women
who make the most show.
Women rarely feel that there is any
need for a new resolution.
When a man reforms in real earnest
it makes him a striking figure.
A woman can bear heavy troubles
without giving evidence of the fact.
Most men can relate some experi-
ence of hardship in their own career.
A woman thinks of herself always,
no matter how generous ker disposi-
tion.
When a woman reaches middle life
she begins to hink kindly of woman-
kind. |
To all men there comes a time when
life assumes a positive brightness,
says the Philadelphia Bulletin,
A Pampered Pet.
Everybody has neard of the unbrid-
led luxury which often surrounds the
life of the Paris dog; but a new devel-
opment is reported from Brussels by
the correspondent of the London
Morning Advertiser. It seems that a
lady residing in the Boulevard Baudou-
in is greatly attached to her dog, which
is of the sheep variety. The animal
is never allowed to leave. her side
for a moment. She took the dog to
the Robiniere theatre, but the mana-
ger remarked that a four-footed spec-
tator might he a little dangerous, and
suggested that the animal should be
chained up in the vestibule, the lady
holding herself responsible for his be-
havior. This proposal was accepted,
but when the lady ascended the stair-
case she declined to leave the dog, and
went to her seat in the theatre, fol-
lowed by her pet.. The appearance
of the dog in the theatre caused some
excitement, and the woman attendant
suggested that he should be put out.
The police at last interfered and or-
dered the lady to leave with her dog.
But the lady protested, and said she
would complain to the Burgomaster,
who, she was sure, would take his dog,
not only to the Robiniere, but aiso to
the Theatre Royal de la Moundie.
One Day at Home.
“I tell you,” said young Mr. Morti-
mer, proudly, as he saw his wife bear
away their only son on his way to bed,
“you don’t know how I envy you, my
dear, the opportunity of being with
that youngster every hour of the day
and watching his little mind unfold
like—like a flower,” he concluded
tritely, but with undiminished earnest-
ness. If matters had rested there says
the Chicago News, all would: have
been well. But after some comment
by his wife he continued.
“No'time!” he observed, with a’ su-
perior smile. “I often hear you say
that, my dear, and I suppose you ‘don’t
know the curiosity it awakens in my
mind. The curlosity,” continued Mr.
Mortimer, “as to what you manage to
do with your time to fill it up. It is a
long day from seven to seven, surely
long enough to have an hour for al-
most everything that might fall with-
in'a woman's sphere; yet somehow
you seem to miss much.”
Mrs. Mortimer said nothing, but in
her mind was born a resclution.
The next evening after dinner Mrs.
Mortimer approached her husband
with a few sheets of paper. “The diary
of a day, my dear,” she said, as she
thrust the papers into his hand. This
is what her ead:
“Five o'clock. Baby woke up, and
would not go to sleep again. I took
him down to the library so that his
father should not be disturbed at such
an early hour, and kept him amused
until 7.
“Seven o'clock. Managed to get
dressed for breakfast, but was unable
to eat it with my husband owing to
the fact that baby got badly scratched
on a pin, which his father gave him to
play with, and had to be sot¢thed.
“Right o’clock. Gave baby his bath
and breakfast. At breakfast he upset
his bowl of porridge over his clean
dress, and so he had to be undressed,
bathed and dressed all cver again.
“Nine o'clock. Took baby out in his
go-cart to market and for a little air-
ing. Had planned to make a little in-
formal call, but baby grew fretful, and
I had to bring him home and put him
to sleep.
“Eleven o'clock. Baby woke up and
tried to swallow a button. Sent for
the doctor, but meantime got the but-
ton out of his throat with my finger.
“Twelve o'clock. Baby spilled a bot-
tle of ink all over the library table
and the rug under it. Also over him-
self.
“One o'clock. Baby’s third bath to-
day. Luncheon. Unexpected company.
“Three o’clock. Got baby to sleep
after an hour’s trying.
“Four o'clock. Baby wcke up fev-
erish from his throat. Fell and
bumped his head hLadly.
“Four thirty. Baby fell and bumped
his head again in the same place.
Was naturally irritated and fretful..
“Six o'clock. Dressed baby for the
fifth time today, so that when his bliss-
ful, ignorant father came home he
might think a day with baby a heav-
en-sent privilege and a woman’s time
legitimate matter for perennial jest.
Sworn to, signed and submitted.”
The Pathway to Beauty.
An observant man Tecently said:
“The women of today are well
groomed, their hair kept in excellent
condition, their nails nicely manicured
and I'm told they use creams and lo-.
tions galore to preserve their good
looks; yet few consider expression suf-
ficiently to keep a pretty mouth,
though it is the mouth which indicates
the disposition. A woman may spend
a small fortune for massage and cos-
metics, but it will be wasted if she
does not watch her mouth and keep it
sweet. A happy-looking, well-groomed
woman, with a sweet, expressive
mouth, is the loveliest thing in the
world, and there are mighty few or
her.”
Dear me, what a startling state-
ment! and it almost tempts one to
take down the “Be Good” motto the
landlady has hanging on the wall, and
put up one that will read, “Keep
Sweet.” But many a mouth is spoiled
and made to look old before its time
by carelessness about the teeth.
The care of the teeth should begin
very early in life, and the first little
teeth should be kept clean and filled
as carefully as the permanent teeth.
A child’s tooth should not be pulled un-
til it fairly drops at the touch, for if
taken from the jaw before the perma-
nent tooth is well formed, the jaw
shrinks, and the contour of the face is
changed. Filling the tiny cavities in.the
first teeth does not give pain, and both
mother and child will be benefited by
a vist to the dentist. Any sort of
tricks of biting or twitching the lips
should be avoided, as well as the ugly
drawing down at the corners of the
mouth. The teeth should never be
used for nut crackers or scissors if
one cares to keen the enamel intact;
and while quill or wooden tcothpicks
are vastly superior to a pin to remove
particles from between the teeth, the
only thing absolutely harmless for such
use is silk floss. When it is neces-
sary to toke strong medicines, if pow-
der, put it in gelatine capsules; if
liquid, take it through a tube, and in
either case rinse the mouth immedi-
ately to prevent harm to the teeth.
As a thorough cleansing of the teeth
requires a certain amount of friction,
a.good dentifirce is necessary, and if
one is compounded at home, be sure to
have the powder smooth as flour, bolt-
ing it through silk gauze. One made
from six ounces of precipitated chalk
with one ounce cach om powdered
white castile soap and powdered orris
root is satisfactory. When brushing
the teeth, brush with an up and down
movement, not sideways only, clean-
ing the back of the teeth even more
thoroughly than the front. A few
drops of tincture of myrrh in a glass
of water once or twice a week will
tend to keep the gums firm and in
good condition. Powdered pumice is
excellent to remove tartar, but should
not be used oftener than once ‘in six
weeks. A well-recommended liquid
dentifrice is made with two drams of
oil of soap, two drams of glycerine,
12 drams of alcohol and eight drams
of water mixed with two drops each of
oil of cloves, peppermint, anise and
cinnamon.—Isobel Delarey in The Pil-
grim.
Fashion Notes.
A number of klack costumes are to
be seen, and are being worn by both
old and young.
Ostrich feathers grow more beauti-
ful in their soft tnd exquisite
ings, shading and fluffiness.
On the plain designs for traveling
and outing gowns very small buttons
play a conspicuous part.
Shepherds’ plaids will be much
worn the coming season, although
they were practically “done to death”
last summer.
Artificial] flowers are more fashion
able this season than they have been
for years, and are worn for many dif-
ferent occasions, but especially for
evening wear.
Another pretty conceit for trim-
ming consists of bands of fancy cloth
imitating angora and astrakan. Many
smart wool costumes are effectively
trimmed with these.
Fancy vests seem to be the fad just
at present, and these may be had to!
match any suit with which they might
be worn. White, blue, gray, red,
green and black may be embroidered
with gold, or with the dainty Persian
colors.
White and light colors still reign
supreme in the world of =2vening
cloaks and the number of tints that
come under the head of white is sur-
prising. Ivory, oyster, champagne,
pearl and biscuit, as well as pearl gray
and faint tones of green, are still re-
garded as white and .swansdown, er-
| mine and sable are used to trim them.
color- |
My Other Me.
Children, do you ever,
In walks by land or sea,
Meet a little maiden
Long time lest to me!
She is gay and gladsome,
Has a laughing face,
And a heart as sunny;
And her name is Grace.
Naught she knows of sorrow,
Naught of doubt or blight;
Heaven is just above her—
All her thoughts are white.
Long time since I lost her
That other Me of mine;
She crossed into Time's shadow
Out of Youth's sunshine.
Now the darkness keeps her; *
And, call her as I will,
The years that lie between us
Hide her from me still.
I am dull and pain-worn,
And lonely as can be—
Oh, children if you meet her,
Send back my other Me!
—Grace Denis Litchfield, in Indianap-
olis News. :
Fijian Fire Walkers.
Those who witnessed the coronation
procession will doubtless recollect a
small group of copper-coiored soldiers,
with bare legs and outstanding hair
innocent of covering. These strange
people—Fijians—and their ancient
ceremony of the Vilavilairevo, or fire
walking, were the subject of a paper
read by W .1. Allardyce, C. M. G., at
a meeting of the Royal Colonial Insti-
tute recently. Admiral Sir N. Bowden-
Smith presided.
The ceremony of fire walking, Mr.
Allardyce explained, is performed by
a certain tribe at the istand of Bega,
and originated in a legend that in re-
ward for having spared the life of a
man he had dug out of the ground, one
Tui Qualita was invested with the pow-
er of being able to walk over red-hot
stones without being burned. An earth
oven is made, and filled with layers of
wood and stone. In this fire is kindled
about twelve hours before the fire
walking takes place, and, when the
hot stones have been exposed by
brushing away the charcoal, the na-
tives, under the direction ¢f a master
of ceremonies, walk over them bare-
footed.
The temperature at the edge of the
oven is about 120 degrees Faherenheit,
while on one occasion, when a ther-
mometer was suspended over the
stones it registered 282 degrees and
the solder was melted. Yet, stated
Mr. Allardyce, after the ceremony the
natives show no signs of the terrific
ordeal through which they have gone.
By means of a number of views the
lecturer gave a realistic idea of the
ceremony as performed nowadays.
Vice-Admiral Lewis Beaumont de-
scribed a fire-walking ceremony, as
witnessed by himself. Although those
who took part in'it showed no signs
of discomfort, he remarked that ap-
parently they did not like it over-
much. :
Replying to questions, Mr. Allardyce
said the only explanaticn he could give
of the apparent immunity from harm
tollowing on the process was that the
soles of the feet of the natives were
hardened to an unusual degree through
constant walking on a sandy, soil, cov-
ering coral, which became exceedingly
hot under the sun.. Taere was also the
element of absolute beiief by the na-
tives in the legend tnat they were
Strange Land ‘lenures.
Every student of English history or
fiction has read of ancient leases of
property which require rent to he paid
in peppercorns or roses, or in some
other curious way. The Windsor Mag-
azine describes some customs in con-
nection with Jand tenure which are
still more curious.
Whenever a certain estate at Ching-
ford, in Essex, passes into new hands,
the owner, with his wife, man servant
and maid servant, goes on horseback
to the parsonage and pays homage by
blowing three blasts upon a horn. He
carries a hawk upon his fist, and h's
servant leads a greyhcund, both sup-
| posed to be for the use of the rector
for that day.
The newcomer receives a chicken
for the hawk, a peck of oats for his
horse, and a loaf of bread for his grey-
hound. After dinner the owner blows
three more blasts, and then with his
party withdraws from the rectory.
The “Castor-Whip Tenure” is even
more remarkable. On Palm Sunday
every year a servant from the Brough-
ton estate attends service at Castor
church with a new cart-whip, and after
cracking it three times in the porch,
marches with it to the manor-house.
When the clergyman begins the ser-
mon the servant quits his seat. A
purse containing thirty pieces of silver
is fixed at the end of the whip-lash,
and, kneeling on a cushion, Le holds
the purse suspended over the head of
the clergyman until the end of the
sermon. Then purse and whip are left
at the manor-house.
The “Whisper Court” at Rochford,
Essex, is a strange Michaelmas ob-
servance held under the superintend-
business of the court is carried out
at midnight in the open air.
The absence cof a tenant is punisha-
ble by a fine of double his rent for
each hour he fails to be in attendance;
no artificial light except a firebrand is
permitted; the proceedings are record-
ed by means of one of the embers of
the brand. The roll of fourteen ten-
ants is called over and answered to in
proof against fire.—London Standard. |
| tors is
ence of the steward of the manor. The |
a whisper, and then they knee! and
swear allegiance.
The explanation of this odd cere-
mony <is that, very many. years ago,
the lord of the manor, after an ab-
sence from his estate, was returning
home by night. Passing over King’s
Hill, he accidentally heard some of his
discontented tenantry plotting his as-
sassination, and, thus warned, he
reached home by an unexpected route.
He enacted that from that time forth
the tenants of his estate should as-
semble every year exactly at the same
time to do him homage round a post
which he erected on the precise spot
where the plotters met.
The Ever Useful Knot.
There isn’t a human being who
doesn’t have to tie knots for one rea-
son or another.
The best apprenticeship in knot ty-
ing is in learning how to tie up a bun-
dle.
Perhaps the best knot used in tying
up packages is one where the end of a
cord is doubled back and the knot tied
near the end. This results in form-
ing a loop of twine that will break
before it loosens under strain.
A great amount of string is wasted
usually in deing up a parcel; and few
persons really know the best manner
of tying up a package.
Begin by measuring off enough cord
to 1go along the top of the parcel
lengthwise and half way down the
side. Double this length, and in a
similar manner lay off four times the
length ‘of cord required to go across
the package and zilow several inches
over.
Carry the cord once around the
package the long way and twice
around it, cnce near each end, cross-
ways.
Secure the parts of the cord that
cross by winding one once around the
other.
Tie the cord with a loop knot where
the lenger piece of cord intersects the
shorter near the right-hand end of
the parcel as it lies before you.
Secure any length of twine left un-
used by fastening it along the longer
cord : between the two crossings of
the others. This thickens and tends
to strengthen the part of the twine
naturally used as a handle with which
to convey the package.
One of the extremely useful knots
is the clove hitch, which is not a knot
at ail until it is put in position around
a rod or some such support and pulled
tight. :
Then no knot equals it for taking
held and holding on to the most slip-
pery of surfaces, even a glass tube.
The cord must not be too hard in tex-
ture or too large in diameter.
It is simply impossible to pull any
object cut of a clove hiten.
This knot is the best fastening in
the world with which to tether an ani-
mal or a boat to a stake, and should be
the only one used to fasten ropes for
a swing or hammock, for it never pulls
loose. :
It is a simple matter to make it.
Two loops in the cord, one passed be-
hind the other, are slipped over what-
ever it is intended to secure.
Then the ends are pulled tight and
that is all. 5
Scmetimes you will want to mend a
broken fish rod, a bat, a handle to an
axe, an oar, or some such matter. The
most simple and the best way to do
this is by using the long loop splice.
It ‘must be made with firm, well
twisted cord, or it can be made with
copper or sc’t annealed iron cr steel
wire.
If small articles.are to be mended,
stout linen thread may be used, but it
should be well waxed.
Fasten the ends of the broken arti-
cle together temporarily with a bit of
thread or with wax. Make a long
loop and lay it along on top of the
part to be mended, beginning below
the fracture and ending beyond it.
With the thumb of your left hand
hold the loop where it is dcubled over.
Wind the cord at the open end of
| the loop two or three times around
the article to be mended in such a
way as not to pull open the loop; then
wind the cord close and tight the rest
of the way to within a short distance
of the other end of the loop.
Be careful to lay the cord neatly and
firmly, so that no part of it lies on
any other part.
If you find difficulty in starting to
wind your cord without pulling apart
the loop, you may fasten the part of it
where you have to begin winding with
a pin or with a small curtain tack,
vhich you can remove atterward.
Having reached within a short dis-
tance of the doubled over end of the
loop, taread the end of your cord
through the loop and pull it until the
loop disappears, being tucked well
away under the wrapped layers of
twine.
This makes an extremely neat
splice. If, however, ihe break is
square across or too abrupt to admit
this treatment, splints will first have
to be laid along on each sid of the
fracture and the whole wrapped as de
scribed.—New York Press.
Historic Monitors to Be Sold.
The five historic monitors, Jason,
Canonicus, Nahant, Lehigh, and Mon-
tauk, which are lying at League isl-
and, will be sold on April 14. They
were built in 1862. Each of the meoni-
about 200 feet in length, 42
feet in breadth and has a mean draft
of 13 feet 6 inches. Their displace
ment is about 210 tons. The side ar-
mor of each is five, while the turrets
are 10 inches thick. The appraised
value of the vessels to be sold fol-
lows: Canonicus, $15,000; Jason, $10,-
000; Lehigh, $10,000; Montauk, $10,-
000; Nahant, $10,000. Jf the bids do
not reach the appraised there
will be no sale.
gan
CCIENCE NOTES.
Veloxite, the new stable smokeless
powder invented by Colonel Hope of
the British Army, contains seventy-
three percent. more power as a propell-
ing agent, weight for weight, than the
government's present powder.
The Wright Brothers, of
Ohio, recently made rour
flights, in North Carolina, with their
aeroplane. Their machine weighs 700
pounds and is borne by huge wings
which have behind them a pair of
screw propellers.
—
Dayton,
Discussing the possibility of propell-
ing ships, particularly warships, by
the discharge of streams of water
through the hull, a writer in the En-
gineering Magazine says that with two
600 horse-power De Lanal engines and
pumps 17,000 tons of water could be
pumped from a ship.
Cuenot, who has perhaps done the
best original work on the subject of
the possible determination of sex, says
that “the classic examples of insects
and frogs, in which it was supposed
that external conditions acting on the
later embryo determined the sex, have
been shown to be capable of a differ-
ent interpretation.”
An article in the Revue Generale des
Sciences describes some highly novel
and interesting experiments by MM.
Jean Demoor and Van Lint. They
found that when emulsions obtained
from the glands of one animal were in-
jected into another, toxic action was
set up, and that when serum obtained
from the second animal was injected
into the first animal, the organ from
which the original emulsion’ was ob-
tained was directly affected by the
serum.
The Cost of War.
M. Jules Roche, formerly minister
of commerce in France, recently gave
some interesting estimated as to the
cost of a European war. The point of
comparison is made with 1870, and
taking as a basis M. de Freyinet’s cal-
culation that 600,000 men ‘were en-
gaged, without including the 300,000 or
400,000 men in reserve in the camps
and in the various garrisons at the mo-
ment of the armistice M. Roche esti-
mates that the cost of each soldier
from Sept. 15, 1870, to Feb. 10, 1871,
was 13f. 80c. per diem. It would be
very different now. Instead of 600,000
soldiers in the fighting line there
would be at least 2,000,000 in round fig-
ures. The thirteen classes forming
the active army and the first reserve,
taking each class as consisting of 160,
000 men, give a total of 2,080,000. The
Germans would put in their first line
more than 2,550,000 men; Austria-
Hungary, 1,300,000; Italy, 1,200,000.
France, therefore, to place herself on
a numerical level with Germany only,
would have to appeal to at least six
classes of her territorial army, these
comprising 900,000 men, and thus
bring up her field strength to 3,000,000,
who would have to be mobilized, con-
centrated, transported, and nourished.
In addition there would be more than
600,000 horses for the cavalry, artil-
lery, engineers, and army service, of
which at least 500,000 would have to
be bought and paid for. Counting 15f.
per head per day for each soldier
would be certainly less than the truth.
M. Roche then makes an elaborate
survey of the enormous expense en-
tailed by the dearness of provender,
the reparation of lost and used-up ma-
terial and general destruction of prop-
erty, and puts 30,000,000f. per day as
the cost of a big Eurcpean war under
present conditions. at
How Animals Swim.
Almost all animals know how to
swim without having to learn it. As
soon as they fall into the water or
are driven into it, they instinctively
make the proper motions, and not only
manage to keep afloat, but propel
themselves without trouble.
Exceptions are the monkey, the ca-
mel, giraffe and llama, which cannot
swim without assistance. Camels and
llamas have to be helped across water,
and giraffes and monkeys drown if
they enter it. Now and then both of
the latter species manage to cross wa-
terways when they are driven to ex-
tremities, just as human being occa-
sionally can keep themselves above
water through sheer frigat.
A funny, though able, swimmer is
the rabbit. He submerges his body
with the exception of head and tail.
The latter stick away up into the air
and his hind legs make ‘*‘soapsuds” as
Lhe churns the water madly to get
away. But with all his awkwardness
he is a swift swimmer and ‘is only
beaten by the squirrel among the land
; animals.
The squirrel swims with his heavy
tail sunk away down in the water and
his head held high. He cleaves the
waves like a duck, and a man in a
rowboat has all he can do to keep
abreast of the swimming squirrel.
One thing that none of the land-liv-
ing animals dces is to dive. No mat-
{ter now hard pressed a swimming
{ der, rabbit, squirrel or other purely
t terrestrial animal may be, it will re-
i main above water. But the muskrat,
| beaver, ice bear and otter dive imme-
! diately.—Boston Budget.
Women’s Vanities in Turkey.
| An imperial tirade has been pub-
i lished at Constantinople, in which
| married Turkish women are command-
| ed to discard all brilliant ornaments,
‘such as necklaces and bangles, when
appearing in public. They must he
dresed with Jdecorum, and in accor:-
ance with the Mussulman law, the or-
dinance says, in default of which the
husbands of women
be visited with punis
so offending will
successful
To Use a Gas Range.
If the gas range is used and proper=-
ly treated it is the greatest economizer
cf strength, time and fuel. The im-
portant thing to bear in mind is that
matches are cheaper than gas. Don’t
leave a burrer lighted because you will
need it in five or ten minutes. Turn it
off as soon as you are through using it,
then light it again when you are ready.
Don’t light up and then go on ta
fill your kettle or get out your frying
pan. Have all in readiness before you
light the flame. Don’t use the large
burners when the smaller ones or the
simmerer will do just as well. Turn
the burners down so as to use only
what gas is needed. Sez that the flame
is blue, not red. The red flame is
wasteful, indicating imperfect combus-
tion. If any of the burner holes fill
up, clean them out with a wire or re-
move and beil in a sclution of strong
soda and water.
This last treatment cannot be given
however, with the old style two-piece
or cementer burners. Don’t light the
oven more than four or seven minutes
befcre using. Longer is waste. Plan
the baking and broiling so as to do as
much as possible at the same time
with the same flame.
If you want to keep anything warm
in the upper oven simply light the
oven lighter, and let that burn without
turning on the gas in the oven burn-
ers.
Kitchen Neglect.
‘Why should kitchens be always built
at the back of the house, where the
grass is trimmed down and slop pails
accumulate?Why have a back of the
house, anyway, instead of two fronts,
equally respected? The writer recalls
in Georgia a long brick house, with
three front doors, one of them the
Kitchen door; you could look straight
through the house in pleasant weather,
because there were thres other doors
facing the ones that looked over the
bay.
The rose that was trained over the
drawing room ran along to the Kkit-
chen and peeped in at the dear old
mammy who sang there very often. To
balance things, the peach tree that
was trained, English fashion, cn the
sunny wall of the kitchen, extended its
pliant branches to the dining room
grape vines, says the Cooking School
Magazine.
Parsley grew in the violet borders,
the cream smelled of rcses, and the
flavor of peach leaves that shamed the
druggists’ product lingered in the
cake.
The mistress could sit in the draw-
ing room and see the children coming
home from school, or guests driving up
from either direction, and, consequent-
ly, a fresh handkerchief, collar
were always ready. Dicey in the Kkit-
chen could always ‘see them, too; the
cake was on the plate and Zeke was
in his dress-coat when the door-knock-
er rapped. And no one in that house
knew the front or the back thereof.
In‘ was a kindly and original old
Pennsylvania German who built a
great sunny kitchen where the... com-
pany room is generally placed, because,
he said, “mother” spent nearly all of
her time in the kitchen, and she should
have the best. He gained praise in his
county, but no followers, a
and
Loar
Recipes.
Yorkshire Pudding.—Beat two eggs
until light colored and thick; add one
pint of milk and one level teaspoonful
of salt; pour half of this on one and
one-half cupfuls of sifted flour, then
add the remainder; beat well and pour
into a roasting pan; drop over the
top three tablespoonfuls of dripping,
in small pieces; bake forty-five min-
utes; serve with rcast beef or roast
lamb.
Pctatoes au Gratin.—Put two table-
spoonfuls of butter in a frying pan;
when melted add two tablespoonfuls of
flour; stir until smooth, then add one
cup of thin cream and one cup of stock
when boiling remove from the fire;
add the yolks of two eggs, three table-
spoonfuls of grated cheese, salt and a
little cayenne; but a layer of sauce in
a baking dish, then a layer of sliced
potatoes, then more sauce; when four
potatoes, cold boiled have been used,
spread buttered crumbs over the top;
brown in the oven.
Farina Jelly.—Soak one-half ounce
of gelatine in one-half cupful of cold
water; put one cupful of milk and
three-fourths cup of sugar over the fire
in an agate pan; stir until the sugar
is dissolved; as soon as it boils add
two tablespoonfuls of farina rubbed
smocoth in a little cold water, stirring
a minute; cook until clear, add the gel-
atine and stir until dissolved; remove
from the fire and when beginning to
stiffen add one pint of whipped cream;
turn into a mould and stand in a cool
place; add one teaspoonful of vanilla
extract when the farina is cooling.
Steamed Apple Pudding.—Make a
biscuit crust with one pint of flour,
two level teaspoonfuls of baking pow-
der, one cupful of milk, half a tea-
spoon salt and two level tablespoonfuls
of butter. Fill an agate pan two-
thirds full with sliced apples, sprinkle
over granulated sugar, a little grated
nutmeg or grated lemon rind. Roll
the dough on a floured board, wet the
edge cof the crust; place the penon the
! edve of the crust; place the pan on the
back of the range; cook for two hours.
When ready to serve put a large plat-
ter over the pan, inverted. This will
leave crust down and apples on top.
Serve with lemon sauce.
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