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HIS FORTUNE.
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I knew one who had prospered,
To whom a princely fortune fell,
Yet men who toiled along below
Conceived no hate for him, and no
Old friend refused to wish him well.
He tasted of the pleasures
Accorded to the rich alone,
But never in his ease forgot
The hardships of the poor or sought
With their small joys to fat his own.
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Fate one day turned upon him
And ruthlessly took all he had,
And then I heard men honastly,
In sorrow and in sympathy—
The rich and poor exclaim *
I look on him with envy,
And if a choice were mine to make,
The fortune that Fate snatched away
Would tempt me not while I might iay
Claim to the love she couldn't take.
—S. E. Kiser.
‘Too bad!’
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THE CHOICE OF TWO.
By GERALD WHITING.
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“
‘Lorry was standing at the door of
his forge—a tall, strong man of 50,
with the carriage of an old soldier who
could still swing the lance or sabre,
though he had left the army some sev-
en years or more. The sun was aglow
in the cloudless sky, and the heat was
oppressive. Behind, the range of hills
rose blue-green in the distance. From
the road came a merry jingle of har-
ness bells and then a cloud of dust,
and then a wagon, drawn by two oxen,
rumbled up the incline. The driver
nodded pleasantly to Lorry.
“You have heard the news, master
he said. ‘“No? Well, I can’t stop, but
here’s a newspaper. Read that.” And,
with another nod, he whipped up his
jaded cattle and passed on.
The blacksmith sat down on a bench
and leisurely unfclded the paper. When
he had read a few lines his face dark-
ened, and he rose to his feet. His wife
came out at this moment. She was a
comely dame, with cheeks as ruddy as
the apples in her orchard. They looked
at each other for a few minutes with-
out speaking.
“Annette,” said Lorry at last, crum-
pling up the newspaper in his strong
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hand, “I have been reading the ‘De-
bate.” ”
His wife gave a little start, but
quickly recovered.
‘““No ill news of Pierre, surely?’ said
she.
‘No, no,” answered her husband;
“no need to be alarmed. Pierre is all
right so far as I know. But the Ger-
mans are at their old tricks. Not con-
tent with conquering, they must insult
as well. You remember my remark-
ing that I had seen three or four fel-
lows rolling about the village in the
uniform of French soldiers, and won-
dered how they came to be there, and
what they were doing away from the
regiment? Well, the secret is out.
They have elected to be subjects of the
emperor at Berlin. And to think that
we should be outraged by the presence
of such renegades! They are no long-
er Alsatians, but German wolves.”
“What can you expect, Felix? It is
not altogether the fault of these poor
fellows,” remarked Annette. “To be
sent to Algeria—think how far. And
the lads grow sick for home.”
“Hush!”’ said Lorry, checking her
with a peremptory gesture; “you do
not understand. You have grown so
accustomed to the women folk
abouts that you have come down to
their level, and think -as they do. I
tell you these men are cowards and
traitors, and if I thought eur Pierre
was capable of such infamy, as sure as
my name is Lorry, sometime trooper
in the cavalry of France, I would drive
my sword through his body!”
He walked quickly into the house,
and Annette followed him. He no-
ticed the flush on her cheek, and felt
abashed, he hardly knew why. Per-
haps he had spoken too roughly.
“Bah! I am a fool to worry about
such things, he said, laughingly. “As
if it is at all likely! So, so; I will
take a little walk to calm myself.” He
put on his hat and went out.
She waited till he was gone, and
then got her work-basket and sat down
at the window, as was her custom of
an afternoon. The sun shone full and
bright on the cornfield; there was the
path winding away to it in curves of
dazzling white; and, lower down, the
village church, with the burial ground
nestling by its side, and the sheep
drowsily browsing under the shadow
of the trees.
“They may be traitors,”
remembering her husband's words.
“but their mothers must rejoice to sze
them again.” ;
And she sighed, thinking of the day
her own boy left home, alert and trim,
with his rifie on his shoulder. Only
two years ago, yet it seemed an age!
The tears started to her eyes. It was
well for Lerry to talk, but when would
Pierre return to her.
Suddenly the needle dropped from |
her hand, and she trembled in he:
chair. She heard the garden gate
swing back on its hinges. But the
Sor did not bark, though the jasmder
ust have passed close to his kenn
nein
She sprang up with a cry.
standing in the docrway,
his hair
rumpled, his gay uniform soiled with |
dust; pallid, shamefaced, more like a
criminal than a soldier. She guessed
what had happened.
been prowling about the place all day.
not daring to enter while his father |
was there. She would fain have chided |
him, but had not the courage. In fal-
tering tones he told her how tired he
had grown of the prolonged toil and | w
hardships of the war; how he had been
ill, and had yearned for comfort a:
peace of home. And his comrades hac
teased him, had called him “Prussian’
because of his Alsatian accent.
The mother’s heart excusad all. She
made him sit down, and brought him
food; but he could not eat. A burn-
$ng thirst seemed to consume him; he
ealled for water and drank glass after
glass with avidity.
So the minutes slipped
away. Pres-
here-"
she thought,
He was!
The wretched lad |
had returned with the rest, and had |
DVDS
ently a footstep crunched on the grav-
el walk.
“Pierre! Here is you father back al-
ready! I must speak to him and ex-
plain. Ch, hide! Quick, quick!” She
seized him by the shoulders, pushed
him into a cupboard, and turned round
sharply.
She heard a sudden exclamation. and
confronted Lorry, with eyes fixed on
the red Zouave cap which Pierre had
left on the table.
“What does that mean?” said he.
There was an instant of silence, save
for the sound of the blacksmith’s hea-
vy breathing. The next, and she was
beside him, her hands clasping his
arm.
“I have something to say, Felix,” she
began.
He moved away till he reached the
wall behind him, where his old sabre
was hanging, a bit of tri-color ribbon
round the hilt. He took it down with
the firm touch of a hand turned back-
ward while listening, with no sign of
nervousness.
“The truth, now,
returned?”
She bent her head so that he could
not see her face. Then she twisted
herself from him with an unexpected
suddenness, he voice breaking into a
sob.
“You will not—you shall not harm
him!” she cried. “He has come back
because he loved me and wished to see
us again.”
There was an inward struggle, and
then the woman conquered. Yes, she
was right to defend the boy who had
forsworn his country, and whom it
was beneath an honest soldier's dignity
to notice further. He threw down his
sword, saddened and subdued. Old
memories stirred at his heart; he
thought of the days when that recre-
ant son was a little child and smiled
and played about his knee. All that
was a dream, and this the awakening.
“Wife,” he said, speaking guickly,
“you need have no fear. It is no longer
any concern’ of mine. Let Pierre do
2s he pleases. I shall see him in the
morning.”
She stole one anxious look at his
face, and saw that a sense of something
serious to come was now overshadow-
ing his mind.
“Felix!” she exclaimed.
He advanced a step toward the door,
then stopped and looked back.
“Not now,” he said, and left her.
He stayed outside till darkness set
in, and the house was closed. All
those long hours he walked in the gar-
den, pacing with measured steps from
the orchard to the well and back again,
without any sense of fatigue.
Pierre appeared to be in a sort of
stupor when Annette released him
from the dark interior of his hing
place. He locked around him helpless
ly.
“1 am weary,” he said,
to bed.”
And he went upstairs.
was on the pillow he
and dreamless sleep.
He awoke, lying still,
sunshine. The window
and he heard passing
garden, and the ring of hammer
anvil from the forge. His mother was
standing at the bedside with a cup. of
milk. His gaze wandered slowly
round the room, and he say his father
come suddenly in.
Pierre blinked his
were somehow dim.
but speech died abr .
“You had better get up,” said Lorry.
“And by the by, put on the wor
clothes you were accustomed to
before you joined the army. No sense
to den a uniform you are not longer
fit to wear.”
“But my comrades will
strange, father,”
humbly.
“Do as I tell you,” remonstrated his
father. “Time enough afterwards for
| explanations.”
For the next few minutes he was
| busy moving boxes and opening draw-
Annette! He has
“and will go
Once his head
sank in placid
in the morning
was part open,
eyes, but they
He tried to speak
uptly from his li
think it
remonstrated Pierre,
ers in the adjoining chamber, and
when shortly after they met him again
in the kitchen, he was ed for a
journey. The look was still in
his eyes, as, declining the wife’s prof-
| fered help, he stirred up the fire and
ee. With this and
some bacon and brown bread, a pot of
honey, and a dish of hard biscuits
baked the day before, he set out a
breakfast for three, and then mo-
tioned them to sit down to it.
Annett him unceasingly.
but the smile for which she longed did
not appear. It was a rel to all when
the meal was over.
| Then Lorry rose and spoke his last
| boiled a pot of co
{
e watched
ierre,” he said, almost solmenly,
yonder stands the forge—it is yours.
The garden, the house—they are yours,
tco. The vines, the beehive the or-
ghard.-ali belong to
sacrificed your honor for thes
it is only just that you should
. He#sceforth, you are abso-
r of everything in the place.
ng away. I shall enlist as a
in your own re;
Zouaves—I, an old sc
you. Since you
olunteer
footsteps in the |
and |
use |
the Imperial Guard. You owe France
them for you.”
“0 Felix! Felix!” cried his wife, im-
ploringly.
“Father!” said Pierre, and covered
his face with his hands.
He heeded them not; he was now
clear of the house, striding briskly
along the broad high road. Annette
rushed to the door, but it was already
too late. The blinding tears shut him
out from her view, and she saw him
no more.—New York News.
PRESERVING MEAT BY STEAM.
An Australian Method Which Is Em-
ployed on Steamships.
“Keeping meats sweet and pure in a
refrigerator by means of steam sounds
a bit queer, doesn’t it?” I was asked
by George IL. Cameron, superintena-
ent of a meat packing establishment,
who continued in explanation without
awaiting my answer. “Yet that is a
method now in vogue on the big
steamers which carry meats from this
country and from Australia to Europe.
Meat placed in refrigerators where the
atmosphere is kept continually at an
average temperature of from 36 to 40
degrees will remain fresh, but not en-
tirely untainted for an indefinite per-
iod.
“I think the Australians solved the
problem first. They worried over the
matter for a long, long time, and
adopted expedient after expedient,
tried experiment after experiment, but
all without avail, until some one
thought of using steam to volatilize
the gases which caused these annoy-
ing conditions and draw them off. A
steam pipe was placed in a wooden
duct at the bottom of a refrigerator
chamber stored with meat; the gases
of this kind are low lying, and the
duct led directly to the brine tanks.
This experiment occurred at Sydney,
and for 89 days the refrigerator com-
partment was kept closed, at the end
of which time it was opened, the
meat drawn forth and every piece
thoroughly tested. It was as fresh and
pure, without the slightest sugges-
tion of bone odor or mold, as on the
day it was packed. The gases had
been volatilized by the steam, carried
off by the wooden duct and the entire
noxious condition purified by the brine
tanks. With this aid to the refrigera-
tion process, provided care be taken
that the temperature never falls be.
low freezing point, save occasionally,
so that the meat will not become froz-
en, meat may now be kept for years,
and be perfectly fresh when taken
forth for consumption.”—St. IL.ouis
Globe-Democrat.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
Japanese and Germans have the
same average brain weight.
If cork is sunk to a depth of 200 feet
in the sea it will not rise again to the
surface.
At Rome, Italy, twins were recently
born to a couple, both of whom are
over 70.
Nineteen million immigrants reach-
ed the United States in the 80 years
ending with 1900.
The opadge worn by the Lord Mayor
of London is studded with diamonds
to the value of $600,000.
Austrian laws prohibit marriages be-
tween Christians and Jews and be-
tween Christians and infidels.
Considering their nutritive value po-
tatoes are about twice as expensive
as bread, and milk is even dearer.
Tamarisk timber 4000 years old has
been found in perfectly sound condi-
on in ancient Egyptian temples.
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English coal is used as far as possi-
ble on Japanese warships, because the
Japanese coal gives off much more
smoke.
A'rifle bullet is traveling at its great-
est speed not as it leaves the muzzle,
| but at about ten feet in front of the
| muzzle.
A toothbrush is to be provided for
each of the children in the Hampstead
workhouse, and they are to be trained
to use it in class drill.
A deposit of asphalt,
contain about 500,006 tons, has been
discovered on Table mountain, near
Cape Town, South Africa.
estimated to
William Ludlam, who died at Oyster
Bay, N. Y., at the age of 88, made his
own coffin ten years ago, and had kept
it in his house all that time.
Five e of the seals of government or
capitals of provinces in the Dominion
of Canada are named Regisa after the
late Queen Victoria of England.
The biggest lump of coal ever dug
out of the earth is that raised from cne
of the Wiggan collieries. It took nine
months to hew it out of the seam, and
it weighed over 12 tons.
The Americans and English, al-
though they consume twice as much
ugar as the French and Germans,
have much better teeth. The Ameri-
can dentist, however, ranks first in all
countries.
A Gern
an professor says that over a
of central Russia the mag-
dle does not point north or
is in one part d X
, and at another part to
at one place it points
due
are as much uses in Ger-
peanuts are in America.
ENEMIES TO PLANT LIFE.
WORK OF THE VARIOUS BLIGHTS
| IN THE UNITED STATES.
five years of service, and I must pay ;
Great Damage Wrought by Potato Rot
—Losses in Florida—Brown Rot
Destroyed Peaches—Root Feeding
Insects Busy.
The destruction wrought on crops by
countless plant enemies throughout
the country is revealed by a report
issued by the department of agricul-
ture on “Plant Diseases in 1903.” Be-
sides the mass of detail regarding
conditions in the United States, it
| shows that the coffee leaf blight has
‘accidentally been introduced into Por-
to Rico, and measures are being taken
to stamp it out. Cocoa in Porto Rico
is affected by a black pod rot canker
cand root disease. The tomato blight
has praetieally ruined the tomato crop
of Porto Rico. A potato root rot has
caused the loss of nearly the entire
potato crop.
! Orange scab has caused considerable
‘damage in the Bayamon dis®rict.
, Beans and cowpeas are injured by va-
j rious fungi. The potato dry rot conm-
| tinues injurious in the Hawaiian
i islands. THe cotton root in Texas pre-
i vailed to a greater extent than for
| many years, the loss being estimated
"at about $2,000,000.
| Anthracnose has been generally
prevalent from North Carolina to
Georgia, and locally injurious, especial-
ly to Sea island cotton in South
Georgia. Wilt continues’ to spread
slowly, and now occurs in limited areas
in North Carolina and South Carolina,
and is widely prevalent in South
Georgia and Southeastern Alabama, in
connection with root knot. Rust oc-
curred as usual on the poorer soils,
and was unusually severe in Texas.
The potato blight and rot caused
widespread destruction, being es-
pecially enormous in New York, Penn-
sylvania, Northeastern Ohio, Michigan
and Wisconsin. The damage is esti-
mated at $10,000,000 for the season
in New York alone. Walnut bacterio-
sis caused heavy losses in California.
The cherry shothole fungus was inju-
rious in New York and Pennsylvania,
and prevailed destructively in Iowa
and Nebraska. Crown gall is becom-
ing more serious every year as a nur-
sery pest throughout the country. The
black rot of grape was more general in
Connecticut and Rhode Island, the
loss being 40 percent.
The department is obtaining prom-
ising results in its effort to discover
a resistant vine. Strawberry leaf
blight is less prevalent. Die back
among the citrous fruit disezases in
Florida is less destructive than be-
fore 1903. Corn smut caused heavy
loss in Maryland, and was common in
New York. Corn leaf blight was gen-
eral in Connecticut, Delaware, Eastern
Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Alfalfa
rust prevailed in Ohio, and rice blast
in the Ccoper river section of South
Carolina, where the crop was more
than 100,000 bushels short. The loss
from the spread of this disease in the
last six years is estimated at $1,000,000.
Asparagus rust is increasing in the
west, and important canning districts
are badly affected.
‘Watermelon wilt is spreading in the
south, and cantaloupe leaf blight was
injurious, especially in the south, the
loss in Florida being 40 percent. To-
mato bacterial wilt was found in
Connecticut, and it was serious in
New Jersey and Maryland, and wide-
spread in the south. The fusarium
wilt in Florida caused a loss of $500,-
000, and large areas of land also had
to be thrown out of cultivation.
Cucumber downy mildew caused
large losses in Florida and the truck-
ing section near Charleston, S. C.,
where the estimated loss was $100,000.
It was also unusually destructive in
West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New
York and Michigan. ‘the bitter root
cf apples has been widespread. Injury
was reported from Rhode Island, Penn-
sylvania, Michigan, Scutheastern
Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, the
Carolinas and Georgia. In Nebraska
it seems to be on the increase.
Apple scab was much less injurious
in’ New England, New York, Pennsyl-
vania and Michigan than last vear,
but it seems to have been more de-
structive in the west, especially in
Wiscensin, Eastern Nebraska, and Mis-,
souri. It is ‘on the increase on the
Pacific coast, in Montana, Iddho, Wash-
ington and California. Apple canker,
or brown rot, was prevalent in Con-
necticut, Ohio, New York and Michi-
gan, causing much damage, especially
if neglected orchards. Black heart,
a discase affecting tae wood of apple
trees, was reported from Montana, Ne-
braska, Iowa, Kansas and adjacent
states.
Pear blight was more than us sually
prevalent this year in the east. In the
south it is universal, and little effort
is. made to control it. In Colorado it
has spread rapidly. It is reported from
New Mexico. Twig blight, due to the
same organism, was serious on apples
in Connecticut, New York, Ghio. West
Virginia and Wisconsin, but was less
prevalent in Missouri. There was an
epidemic of pear leaf blight that defo-
liated trees from Maryland southward.
In Massachusetts, Connecticut and
New York pears and cherries were
much disfigured by gooty mold, which
followed a serious epidemic of the
pear psylla and apple louse.
Brown rot was again less injurious
in the eastern states, but was very de-
structive to southern peaches, the loss
amounting to from 30 to 60 percent of
the crop of Georgia. Peach leaf curl
seems to cause immense losses each
year, in spite of the ease of controlling
it, by a single spraying. In
Ottawa county alone, the loss from leaf
curl was $50,000. The losses in North-
western Pennsylvania and Western
New York were also heavy.
The department,
Ohio, in,
‘ters on that shaft
in a report on the |
principal injurious insects of 1902, says ;
that the (ailenda¥ year showed small-
er losses than in many years.
pests caused great injury in limited
Certain
localities, and several new insect ene- '
mies of crops were discovered. The
Mexican cotton boll weevil, which
spread into Louisiana, is stamped as
the most important insect pest of the
present time. The San Jose scale and
the codlin moth have engaged the at-
tention of many economic workers,
and there is a possibility of a lessen-
ing of damage in a few years. There
were local outbreaks, usually not ex-
tensive, of the Hessian fly, chinch bug
and of grasshoppers or locusts, cut
worms and army worms.
Root feeding species, such as white
grubs, wire worms, root maggots and
root lice, were rampant over a consid-
erable territory. The cabbage and
onion maggots were particularly de-
structive. The two cucumber beetles,
orchard scale insects in general, and a
few similar pests, were normally
troublesome. Rill bugs did a little
damage, which is true of the bean and
pea weevils. Shade tree defoliators
were only locally abundant. The gyp-
sy and brown tail moths have both en-
larged their territory, the latter hav-
ing become destructive in New Hamp-
shire.
The cherry fruit fly has apparently
disappeared, owing to atmospheric
conditions, and other pests, such as
the squash bug, strawberry weevil,
squash vina borer, the potato and to-
bacco weevils, have not attracted at-
tention. Of insects injurious to stored
products there has been a decided in-
crease, especially of the cigarette and
flour beetles. Several species of in-
sects, as a rule more destructive in the
south, but which have until recently
been very troublesome northward,
have nearly died out in the north.
The list includes the harlequin cab-
bage bug, cabbage looper, cornstalk
borers, fall army worm and others.
This, however, cannot be said of all
localities.
DEAD THEORETICALLY.
A Veteran Reported Killed, Decorates
the Shaft on Which His Name
Is Engraved.
Walter Knowlton, a veteran of the
civil war, living in St. Lawrence coun-
ty, New York, bent and Keble with
age, dead and buried theoretically, he
says, failed to decorate his grave in
a small town near Akron, Ohio, as he
started out to do on Memorial day
and as he had done in former years.
Memorial day found Knowlton in
Rochester and at the office of Super-
intendent of the Poor Lodge he
sought. transportation. On being te.d
that Mr. Lodge was out he agreed to
return the next day, but before leav-
ing recited his history.
“It is true that theoretically I am
dead and buried,” he said, “and a
shaft to my memory and the memory
of other soldiers slain on the field of
battle was erected near Akron, Ohio
I want to visit the cemetery and ob-
serve the floral offerings laid on the
shaft.
“Yes, 1 served through the civil
war. After the war closed and the
great review was held in Washington,
I went west and got work under con-
tractors who were building the Paci-
fic railroad branch through Utah.
I worked through the west for many
years and then went to St. Lawrence
county, New York, and settled down,
broken in health and ill prepared to
earn my living. But 10 years ago I
happened to be in Akron, Ohio. I
was originally enlisted in an Ohio
regiment. I walked out to the ceme-
tery and to my great surprise found
that my name was engraved on a
shaft of marble as among those sons
of Ohio whe had gone to war and had
been killed in battle.
“I did not tell who I was, but went
again on Memorial day. After I had
heard the eulogies pronounced upon
me and the other dead it seemed a
pity to disturb the shaft and I kept
silent. You see I was wounded near
the close of the war and had disap-
peared for a time. So many men
were missing in those days that it was
impossible to keep track of all of
them, and after I drifted further west
I suppcse my best friends took it for
granted that I was dead. So I left
the marble shaft in the little Ohio
village "and came to St. Lawrence
county.
“I could have anplied for a pension,
but after hearing the orator's speech
on that Memorial day 10 years ago
it seemed a poor swap.’ Yow see, he
made me cut so much better than
I was that I got to feeling that my-
self as I might have been lay buried
there, and 1 let it all go. But every
once in a while I scraped together
enough money to visit the cemetery
and place a few ilowers at the foot
of the shaft. It seems as if I was het-
ter for it. This year the money came
kind of hard, and I sought help. I
hoped to be there Memorial day, but
a few days won't make much differ-
ence. Some would say it is my lost
youth I am remembering, but the let
't stand out brave
and cold, I tell you, and I am proud
of them.”—New York Sun.
. Signal.
The ou Tr 1398 was made signal by
the Philippines Purchase exposition at
Manila.
The exposition was the largest ever
held, up to that time, and represented
an expenditure of about a hundreq
billions of dollars.
The buildings covered
acres.
It took a person more than three
weeks, traveling through the
in an automobile at the
one million
aisles
rate of a
mile a minute, to see everything in |
the exposition.
The deficit
billions.—Life
was less
than sixty |
not perfectly clean
About Lamps.
leave a lamp turned low.
It creates gas and uses up as much
Never
oil as when it burns brightly. If it
is necessary to have a light during
the night in a sick room use a tiny
night lamp and burn it at full force.
To Clean Mattresses.
If the mattress is stained put* in
the sun and cover the spots with a
thick paste made of wetting laundry
starch with cold water. Leave for
an hour or two and then rub off. If
repeat. Fancy
denim or cretonne sofa pillow covers
can be cleansed in the same way.
Bedroom Hangings.
Nothing is prettier or more dainty
for bedroom decoration than the up-
holstery dimities in the old English
style. They can be got in many pat-
terns and launder beautifully, so are
more durable than a flimsy fabric.
They may be used in the entire deco-
ration of the room for bedspread,
canopy, window hangings and dress-
ing table covers.
At the windows it is prettiest to
hang the curtains straight down each
side with a full valance across the
top. Cushions for chairs and corner
seats can be made to match, too.
.
The Care of Stockings.
The busy housewife, bewildered by
the extra duties of the house, is apt
to make short shrift of odds and ends,
particularly half-worn clothing, which
she banishes to the ash heap or the
furnace room—and afterward regrets.
This is particularly true of stock-
ings worn beyond hope of mending.
The most natural tning for a wife
and mother to do in this day of cheap
hosiery is to toss them aside, and
thus miss the opportunity of utilizing
them later for housecleaning devices.
If there is a little girl in the family
who is deft with fingers and needles
she can contribute largely to the
household convenience if given a few
simple directions about making use
of the old stockings.
The first thing is to cut the foot
off just above the heel, or, if the
seam is parting above this point, cut
the leg off until the seam ceases to
break. Then split the leg at the
seam, sew two legs of the same size
together in the form of a bag, turn
them inside out, and then turn in,
whip the end so that there will be
no raw edges, and you have the best
of piano and furniture polishers.
One pair split and folded into a
neat square the size of the hand can
be quilted and bound for an iron
holder. A piece of asbestos cloth
laid between the folds of the stock-
ing will add to the value of the hold-
er. i
Recipes.
Preserved Pineapple—Shredd the
fruit and weigh it, allow-
ing to each pound a half pound
of granulated sugar. Let it stand in a
china bowl over night, when rich
syrup will have been formed. Put
over the fire and cook a few minutes
only, as long cooking discolors it,
and seal. Some people are very fond
of grated pineapple. This is prepar-
ed by paring the fruit as usual and
grating it on a coarse grater, not
using ‘the core. Weigh and allow a
pound of sugar to one of fruit, and
after allowing it to stand over night
boil for a moment and bottle.
Pudding—Burn
cupful of sugar until
late brown; dissolve this 7 in
one quart of hot milk, add the yolks
of five eggs and a pinch of salt. Bake
“au bain marin’—that is, in a pan
surrounded by boiling water-—until
firm. Beat the whites of the eggs
until stiff, allowing one tablespoonful
of sugar to each white. Put on the
top of pudding and brown.
Canned Strawberries—Make a
syrup in the proportion tof
one pint of water to threefourths
pound of sugar. Boil the sugar until
it ropes. Turn in the berries slowly.
When the syrup boils again skim
out the berries into glass jars, paeck-
ing them close; fill two-thirds full of
berries. Boil the syrup until it ropes
again and fill up the jars; seal while
boiling hot.
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Chicken Mould—Cut the cooked
chicken in small pieces. To
one pint allow one table
spoonful minced parsley and one cup-
ful of the white sauce omitting the
lemon juice and adding a little grated
onion. Whip one nint of cooked rice
and one cupful thick tomato scasoned
with butter, pepper and celery salt
Line a buttered mould; fill with chick:
en mixture; cover with more rice,
set in hot water and bake one hour.
Unmold and garnish with w atercress
Cold lamb can also be used.
Tripe a Ja Creole—Put two
tablespoonfuls of butter in a
saucepan; add two pepper corns,
two cloves, a blade of mace and one
onicn, chopped fine; cook slowly un
til the ouion is a light brown; then
add two tablespoonfuls of flour and
let that brown; add one and one
quarter curfuls of stewed tomatoes
and stir until smooth; strain and re-
turn to the fire; scason to taste with
salt and pepper; add half a pound
of boiled tripe, cut in stri cover
and 16t stand 20 m
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