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Bishop Potter on Women.
The Right Reverend Henry C. Pot-
ter, Bishop of New York, is writing
for Harper's Bazar a remarkable
series of papers on women—their
recreations, their progress, and the
rest. Concerning the progress of
women, Bishop Potter says:
“In a word, no more tremendous
change has come to pass in the last
half-century than that which has oc-
curred in the realm of woman. That
change has not, of course, been so
great in Western as'in Eastern lands;
for, in the former, those great ideas
which had been at work, as in Eng-
land, from the times of King John
and the barons, have produced their
appropriate results in the emancipa-
tion not alone of men, but also of
women. But whether in Europe or
America, two forces have been at
work in connection with the status
of women, one of them progressive,
and the other conservative—one of
them demanding for both sexes equal
rights and privileges, and the other
appealing to the Bible for the Scrip-
tural warrant for regarding woman
as an inferior and for keeping her in
bondage. A Chinaman, when remon-
strated with for holding the women
of his house fast bound to the ancient
custom of deformed feet, replied, ‘My
wife ean’t walk, and so she stay at
1ome;’ and even an Apostle, in recit-
ing, becoming in woman, graces
which he accounted as pre-eminently
praiseworthy, brackets with some of
chiefest value the words ‘keepers at
home.’
“In other words, it is undeniable
that half a century ago the ideal
woman was domesticity; and the vir-
tues which find their fittest sphere in
the retirement of the home were ac-
counted of pre-eminent value. But
all that is changed, and it can never
be forgotten (and I pray Heaven that
it never may be!) that such services
as Dorothea Dix and Florence Night-
ingale and Sister Dora and their kind
have illustrated were not rendered by
staying at home.” :
as
New Use For Chicken Feathers.
That it pays to breed the best
fowls, and only the best, true to color
and shape, is truly exemplified by the
latest law of Dame Fashion. Some
time ago the Audubon Society, with
a great amount of zeal and the flar-
ing of trumpets, succeeded in having
passed a law which prohibited the
wearing of wild birds’ feathers upon
women’s headgear. Their great hue
and cry about depleting the woods
and forests of their gay plumaged
and sweet songsters to supply wom-
an’s vanity, which they declared was
both unnecessary and cruel, led to
the passing of the law that forbids
woman from adorning her crowning
creation with the pretty and fancy
feathers which added so much to her
appearance.
While the gay and happy wild birds
are singing their lay, and gaily hop-
ping from tree to tree in the woods
totally unmolested by the millinery
hunter, the chicken, which is really
a bird, but not considered as such
by the mandates of the law, and is
scorned by the members of the Audu-
bon Society, has been literally
pounced upon by the millinery hunter
as an able substitute for his erstwhile
prey, the bird of the forest. How
well the chicken, the ordinary “bird
of commerce,” has succeeded in ful-
filling its mission may best be seen by
the innumerable number of “chicken
feathers” being worn on the new
spring hats. A prominent milliner
is authority for the statement that
the feather decorations on the fall
and winter hats will have to be sup-
plied by the hitherto despised chicken
feathers. Several unique and very
pretty specimens of fall styles were
shown by this dealer and possibly
the most “chic” confection was one
which was covered with the body of a
pure white Wyandotte, all of the
plumage being used excépt the head.
The wings and breast were strikingly
pretty and the whole so arranged as
to form a “dream in white.”
The average person has no concep-
tion as to the beauty of the fowl's
plumage—particularly the residents
of New York City, who see fowls only
in their market state. The innova-
"tion bids fair.to become popular, and
in so doing will add a material side
line to the poultry business. This
will be felt only by the breeder of
pure blooded stock, as the require-
ments of the milliners demand that
e_ plumage must be perfect and of
a color. The possibilities for
ons are numerous and the
ing tastes can be gratified
rious colored and bi-colored
only of the pure bred fowl.
Bocial Changes in London.
Ss. George Cornwallis West, for-
ly better known as Lady Ran-
h Churchill, has an interesting
ticle in Harper's Bazar in which
he tells about London society as it
vas and is. Certainly no one should
understand the subject better than
she, and she says some very interest-
ing things—this, for example:
“If material London has changed,
so have the habits and tastes of the
social) world. The season proper, as
formerly understood, began on the
1st of May and ended on the last day
o? July. The winter session, which
usually assembles in February and
sits for six weeks, brought to London
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the legislators and their families, but
from October to February the town
was a desert with the exception of a
few people hurrying through or do-
ing-some Christmas shopping. As a
winter resort London is becoming
most popular, not to say fashionable.
Amusements of all kinds are provid-
ed, an opera season, promenade con-
certs, skating rinks and exhibitions
bring people up from the country.
The restaurants are crowded, and
when an autumn session is provided
by a Government and party greedy
for work, it is not to be wondered at
that many prefer the winter in J.on-
don to. the bleakhess of the country
at that time of year. Reversing the
old order of things, people are begin-
ning to let their town houses for the
summer, that they may enjoy the nat-
ural beanty of the country in prefer-
ence to the heat, dusty and noisy
pleasures of the town. Two principal
reasons’ can easily. account for this;
one is the material discomfort of L.on-
don with. its increasing trafiic and
noise, aud the second is the growing
love for open-air life and pastimes.
Motors have made the country so ac-
cessible that it has opened the eyes
of all sensible people to the folly of
wasting weeks, if not obliged to, in a
hot, ‘evil-smelling sand noisy metrop-
olis. Even during the few weeks
when the Season. with a big ‘S’ is at
its height, the fashionable world flies
from it every Saturday to Monday.
Innumerable are the week-end coun-
try house parties, with golf, lawn ten-
nis or the river to amuse and keep
one out of doors. Mothers with
broods of unmarried daughters find
this kind of entertainment a better
market to take them to than the
heated atmosphere of the ballroom,
which the desirable partis shun for
the greater attractions of fresh air
and exercise.
“The lovely gardens which former-
ly were left by their owners to bloom
unseen are- now eagerly sought and
revelled in. Consequently, the craze
for gardening is much on the in-
crease. Every one aspires to be a
Miss Jekyll or a Mrs. Boyd, and the
merits of rival Japanese, rose, and
friendship gardens form a favorite
subject of discussion.
“There is no doubt that luxury is
greatly on the increase, although it
may take other forms; the mode of
living is becoming more extravagant
every day. The young people who
were - thought to be well provided
for with £2000 a year barely subsist
now on £4000 or £5000. Every one
lives well, a bad dinner is a surprise.
Houses are- better and more artisti-
cally furnished, and every one enter-
tains more or less.”
Facts About Child Labor.
Dr. A: S. Daniel, of the New York
Infirmary for Women and Children,
has dug up some facts about child
labor that make a man's blood boil.
In the New York sweatshops he has
seen children required to sew on but-
tons at the age of three and to hem
trousers at the age of six. He as-
serts that he found an eighteen-
months-old baby earning fifty cents a
week; the baby was sick, but its
mother wouldn't let it be taken to the
hospital, as she “needed the money.”
Dr. Daniel reports that “children of
three and four years work with their
parents, the elder children, and pos-
sibly lodgers in the tenement work-
room. Children of six stitch the
hems of trousers, and those of three
or four, when not sewing on buttons,
pull out the basting threads.
“These little ones, in artificial
flower making, put the strings
through the petals and leaves, do the
pasting of boxes, and put the paper
over the rough cardboard. Then, too,
they press tobacco leaves, generally
standing up to do it, and this work
they do for hours at a time. The
child labor laws do not protect these
children, as they are not employed in
shops or factories. Tenements are
supposed to have a labor license, but
it would require an inspector at the
entrance and on the roof of every ten-
ement to prevent work going on in
unlicensed tenements. The only rem-
edy is absolute prohibition of any but
factory work.”
This damnable outrage defies the
utmost resources of imprecation. It
lifts Hood’s “Song of a Shirt” to the
rank of a lyric. It makes Victor
Hugo's chapter about the Thenardiers
and little Cosette a dainty pastel in
prose. Nothing that was ever written
compares for grim horror with those
awful sentences, so artlessly put forth
by Mr. Daniel, and if New York
hasn't manhood enough left in it to
put a stop to this crime against child-
hood, it doesn’t belong in America.—
Boston Transcript.
German and Other Warships.
The revelation of the general trend
of naval policy in the United States,
Great Britain and Japan toward un-
paralelled concentration of fighting
power in colossal ships has been un-
welcome in Germany, because the pol-
icy of construction followed in the
case of recent American, British and
Japanese ships bids fair to render
the German navy obsolescent long be-
fore even the scheme of augmentation
passed-in 1900 is actually complete,
—A. S. Hurd, in Cassier’s Magazine,
\ London.
‘A«SERMON" &
§
THE REV~
Subject: Profanity,
Brooklyn, N. Y.—Preaching at the
Irving Square Presbyterian Church,
Hamburg avenue and Weirfield
street, on the theme “Profanity,”
the Rev. Ira W. Wemmel Henderson,
pastor, took as his text Exodus 20:7,
‘Thou salt not take the name of the
Lord thy God in vain.” He said:
If there is anything that is disgust-
ing it is unbridled profanity. And
the prevalence of useless, pointless,
unjustified swearing merits the atten-
tion not alone of the Church but al-
so of the civil authorities whose duty
it is to keep the moral atmosphere
of this and every other community
free of verbal pollution. The com-
mand ought to be obeyed and the
civil law on the point ought to be
enforced. Tae silly fool who spreads
the germs of diphtheria or typhoid or
smallpox broadcast throughout the
community will soon feel the iron
hand of the law laid heavy on his
shedilders and he ought very properly
be put under lock and key until san-
ity has returned; but any man with-
out a sense of moral respectability or
even elementary decency may satu-
rate the moral atmosphere, in which
we have to live and to rear our youth,
with all manner of verbal disease and
the average policeman will but smile
or perhaps add to the sum total of
uncleanness. The man who has such
poverty of language and such an ab-
solute lack of common sense that
profanity is to him the one way to
dignify and emphasize the expres-
sion of ideas, ‘should be jailed with
that other man who endangers our
physical health. The third command-
ment has, we know from experience,
a very practical and forcible applica-
tion to this day. Nowhere may we
escape the man of unwholesome
speech. Men with gray locks and boys
just out of kilts, men who should
know better and boys who must learn
the disgrace of profligate language
if they are ever to amount to much in
life, both and all are guilty of the
most shameful depravities of speech.
As things stand to-day, no man can
rear a child with a pure mind. We
walk our streets and curses every-
where fill ‘the air and fall upon our
ears. Does a horse balk the Almighty
is invoked to move him. Is the dray-
man delayed a moment he curses the
fellow just ahead. It is impossible to
sit by an open window on any prom-
inent thoroughfare without being
morally poisoned. Does the boss in
the shop wish to hurry up the men
the vilest of language is the means
he uses to set speed to hand and
mind. Not once but hundreds of
times I have seen foul mouthed in-
spectors, overseers and gang bosses
invoke the maledictions of heaven
and hell upon poor dumb driven
brutes made in the image of the
Maker, lest forsooth they straighten
weary toil bent backs to sieze a mo-
ment’s rest.
Of course these very men will tell
you that they have no desire to dis-
honor God nor to offend our moral
sensibilities. They lay it to habit,
thoughtlessness and a hundred other
causes. I am convinced myself that
much of the swearing of the day is
due to thoughtlessness rather than
to wilful sin. And yet I have seen
the same men take more liberties
with the name of Almighty God than
I would allow. them to take or they
would dare to take with my name—
either thoughtlessly or wilfully.
Thoughtlessness is no excuse. God
gave us brains and tongues, and 1t
is our duty to exercise our wills and
to use our tongues for the expres-
sion of worthy thought alone. Of
course men don’t think, that is to say,
thé most of them .do not, for if they
did swearing would go by the board
to a short and sure death. To plead
thoughtlessness in extenuation of sin
is to play the baby-act. Men should
think and cut the cursing out.
The. third commandment has solid
sense behind it, as have all of God’s
commands. The misuse of the name
of God, or of the name of our Lord,
profanity, swearing, ‘cursing, all
should be abhorred for several good
and sufficient reasons.
Profanity is unnecessary, unmanly,
indecent, immoral, ungodly. There
are five good reasons why it should
be put aside.
Profanity is unnecessary. A curse
never prove a point. It rather dem-
onstrated the paucity of thought of
the swearer. Oaths never convince
a person of the validity or strength
of an argument, but they do show up
the poverty of language of the man
who uses them. Curses never made
any workman do better work; they
have, however, been the excuse for
many a murder. Sense and no swear
words will unravel many a perplex-
ing problem. The name of God is to
be hallowed not hooted on the
streets. The name of Jesus is wor-
thy of reverence and adoration; its
misuse damns not the man who is
maligned but the curser. There is
no problem in life that can not be
solved without curses. Sense, indus-
try, wise reasoning and good judg-
ment will settle any difficulty. Pro-
fanity is useless, unnecessary and
wholly unprofitable.
Then, too, profanity is unmanly.
Many boys seem to have the idea
that the one sure sign of manliness
Is to be able to swear with vigor, pro-
ficiency and volume. There never
was a greater mistake in the world.
Instead of being a sign of manliness
It is a sure mark of moral instability
and bad manners. It reflects small
credit either upon the youth himself
or upon the family whom he repre-
sents. For an educated youth it is
# denial of the value of education
and mental growth. In any man, ed-
ucated or ignorant, it is degrading
and altogether unmanly. Manliness
is purity, efficiency, power, forceful-
ness. The curse is impure, inef-
ficient either for expression or proof,
powerless to do productive work,
forceful in no way. By these tests
it is unmanly.
Profanity is indecent. That which
is decent is befitting, becoming, hon-
orable. I will leave it to the judg-
ment of the citizens of this or any
city to decide how much swearing
Tove the Lord
befits a normal, rational human be-
Ing., Creatures of reason as we are,
we bna that the curse flies in the
face of sober thought. Used as we
are to logical processes we find the
curse devoid of logic. Profanity
reeks with sulphur and sends Satan
to our hearts. It is utterly unbe-
fitting and unbecoming.
To say that it is dishonorable is
just to begin the damning count
against profanity. The curse is with-
out honor for it is used only to spread
dishonor. It looks never toward God
but rather uses His name to invoke
the aid of the powers of hell. It is
dishonorable from start to finish and
indecency marks it as her own.
But one of the two worst things
about profanity is that it is immo-
ral, root, branch, tree and fruit. Ca-
tering as it does to all that is low in
man, hand and bond servant as it is
to all-the hosts of sin, profanity dis-
integrates the unity of individual
personality. No man can be profane
without dishonoring God and dam-
aging himself. We cannot give vent
in word to the evil that is in us
without spreading contamination not
only through our own lves but also
through the lives of men and women
all about us. Profanity is unclean,
it strikes at the foundations of mor-
ality. It undermines the sense of
honor and destroys the faculty of
cool, deliberate judgment; under no
circumstances is it susceptible of
justification and its immorality is un-
questionably a fact.
But the last and the worst charge
that may be upheld against profanity
is that it is ungodly. ' “Thou shall
Thy God with all thy
heart and mind and soul,” says our
Father. The curse is heartless and
it destroys our finer faculties do we
give it time. Under its blighting in-
fluence the power of mental appre-
ciation of the glories of God will be
lost. It is soulless to the last ex-
treme. How can a man be godly
while cursing the children of God
in the name of the Father who has
given them life? How can a man
be godly when the springs of sin are
rushing from his mouth? Ah, no!
Profanity is ungodly. It shames God
and disgraces man. It reviles the
Father and degrades His sons. God
is good but profanity is evil. God is
kind but the curse is verbal murder.
God is truth but the curse cares not
for truth:
Unnecessary, unmanly, indecent,
immoral and ungodly profanity is
the most frequent as the most insidi-
ous of the sins of the tongue. And
vet bad as it is when used by men,
it is most abhorrent when coming
from the lips of a woman. Not that
it is morally any worse, but that it
sounds worse. If you really want
to become positively assured of the
horridness of profamity you need but
hear a woman curse.
We need to-day ‘a strict insistence
upon cleanliness of language. No
man can be a friend of Jesus who is
ungodly in his talk. Christ proved
divinely - the possibility of forceful
speaking without the use of profan-
ity. And to-day men are most force-
ful, most manly, most convincing
when they do not swear.
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Pull Your Boat Up Stream.
To drift with the current or to
pull against it—this is the problem
which is born anew with each new
day. Some of our daily duties are
easy to perform. We turn to them
as easily and naturally as water seeks
a level. There is no conscious ex-
penditure of will-power. There is no
resistance in our nature that must
be gvercome. But these are the du-
ties of the day in whose performance
there is found the least merit.
Fortunately for us we cannot, or
at least dare not, always drift. Each
day has its tasks which test the will
and try the heart. Their perform-
ance requires stern determination.
They afford the best discipline and
develop the latent powers of the soul.
Inclination is not always—in fact, not
often—a true test of the thing we
ought to do first.
Sometimes it has been a source of
wonder to find .a preacher very —eady
in the use of language, and yet mak-
ing no headway in his chosen profes-
sion. In more than one case the ex-
planation has been found in a dislike
of study and reading on his part. To
talk has been with him as easy as
to drift. To study—well, he has been
unwilling to pull against the current,
and he has failed.
To pull against the current devel-
ops muscle, lung and nerve. It in-
creases the power of resistance and
endurance. To do the thing we dis-
like because we ought to do it, is to
give the will the place it deserves to
occupy. It is to make conscience a
master, and make us conscious of
our own powe:.
The hills of God are up uiream,
not down. The mount of victory is
never reached by drifting. The --ay
of success lies in the “pull;” not the
vulgar “pull” of the financier and
politician, but the pull against the
current.— Pittsburg Christian Ad-
vocate.
Helped by Our Company,
There are some men and some
women in whgse company we are al-
ways at our best. While with them
we cannot think mean thoughts or
speak ungenerous words. Their mere
presence is elevation, purification,
sanctity. All the best stops in our
nature are drawn out by their in-
tercourse, and we find a music in
our soul that was never there be-
fore. If to live with men diluted to
the millionth degree with the virtue
of the Highest can exalt and purify
the nature, what bounds can be set
to the. influence of Christ?—Profes-
sor Drummond.
Care of Human Prodigals.
Whatever retribution God has for
men on the other side of the grave
means love, not hate; it means re-
form, discipline, redemption, not
damnation. God is a shepherd. No
sheep will wander from His fold in
any world that He will not seek, and
sooner or later find and bring back.
God is a Father. We may trust Him
forever, sure that He will watch and
wait with deathless love, until the
last prodigal among His-human chil-
dren comes home.—J. T. Sunderland.
Heights of Prosperity.
Believer, remember, heights of
prosperity are safe, if only God ba
with you, and the vale of adversity id
healthful to the soul, if God takes
vou down into it.—Gordon Hall
. it rarely
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
The greatest ornament of an illus-
trious life is modesty and humility,
which go a great way in the character
even of the most exalted princes.
“How often do you take your chiid
aside and pray with him? You pray
for him sometimes, but why don’t you
pray alone with him?"—Gypsy Smith.
Higher than the question of our dur-
ation is the question of our deserving.
Immortality will come to such as are
fit for it, and he who would be a great
soul in future, must be a great soul
now.—Emersocn.
Nothing less than the majesty of God
and the powers of the worid to come
can maintain the peace and sanctity of
our homes, the order and serenity of
our minds, the spirit-of patience and
tendér mercy in our hearts.—Martin-
eau.
You are a member of a great human
society, and that your true interests
are with ‘those of the world which go
on much’ the same, however it fare
with you. Live the larger life, and
you will find it ‘the happier.—Charles
Hargrove.
The world has no room for cowards.
We must all be ready somehow to toil,
to suffer, to die. And yours is not the
Isle because no drum beats be-
when you go into your daily
battiefields, and no crowds shout
your coming when you return
vour daily victory or defeat.—
Robert Louis Stevenson.
He
cannot
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who believes in eternal justice
be beaten in life. He may be
he may be half dead with the
wounds of life, stricken of heart in
the .lcuely desert; Lut he sure to
start into ‘energy the moment he sces
the fresh sunlight or the of the
new impulse, such in God
sends a man who by
faith.—Stopford A. Brooke.
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HUSBANDS SHOULD RULE.
London Magisterial and Clerical Opin-
ion on Marital Relations.
A remark by Magistrate Fordham
during the hearing of a case in the
North London police court to the ef-
fect that a woman ought to allow her
husband to revise her visiting list has
led to a burning controversy. ‘Rushing
into it, another Magistrate, indorsing
Mr. Fordham, says:
“In almost -every: case of domestic
trouble in my court the cause may be
found in the husband’s submission to
his wife. This is a perversion of the
natural order of things. Many years’
expericnee has taught me that the Old
Testament order is the safest for hu-
man happiness. The wife must be
subject to her husband, even where
the husband is unworthy of respect
and veneration. She must yield to
him on all points. Otherwise there
will be trouble sooner or later.
“It is the fashion to talk about mu-
tual regard and absolute equality, but
works in practice. If the
woman was not prepared to honor and
obey her husband she ought not to
have married him.”
A prominent London clergyman con-
curs mainly in this view, but advo-
cates a mutual understanding concern-
ing men whom the wife is- entitled to
receive. A lady in charge of the
headquarters of the suffragettes em-
phatically dissented from the mag-
istrate’s opinion. She upheld abso-
lute equality between wife and hus-
band. She said:
“The only arrangement is a mutual
one. The marriage service, with its
love, honor and obey, is an anachron-
ism. The wife is entitled to as much
liberty as the husband.”
It is noteworthy that the expressers
of opinion on the subject are reluc-
tant to divulge their names.—London
correspondent of the New York Sun.
Easy Marks.
A man witih a mania for answering
advertisements has had some inter-
esting experiences. He learned that
by sending $1 to a Yankee he could
get a cure for drunkards. And he
did. It was to “take the pledge and
keep it.”
Then he sent 50 cents to find out
how to raise turnips successfully. He
found out: “Just take hold of the tops
and lift.”
Being young, he wished to marry,
and sent thirty-four one-cent stamps
to a Chicago firm for information as
to how to make an impression. When
the answer came it read: ‘Sit down
on a pan of dough.”
Next he sent for twelve useful
household articles, and got a pack-
age of needles.
He was slow to learn, so he sent $1
to find out “how to get rich.® “Work
hard and never spend a cent.” That
stopped him.
But his brother wrote to find out
how to write without a pen and ink.
He was told to use a lead pencil.
He paid $1 to learn how to live
without work, and was told on a pcs-
tal card: “Fish for easy marks, as we
do.”—Hardware Reporter.
The Original “Charley’s Aunt.”
When Madame de Stael was staying
in London a number of undergraduates
invited her to spend a day at Oxford.
A large party had been gathered to
meet her, and great was the expecta-
tion of her coming. At the last mo-
ment she excused herself; Christ
church was in despair. The play must
be acted and a Hamlet found. An un-
dergraduate who knew French under-
took to assume the part. The gor-
geous robe and the turban were not
wanting, the manly voice and mascu-
line manner were no hindrance, the day
was a complete success. The guests
believed to the end of their lives that
they had spent rapturous hours under
the spell of the fair Genevese.—Satur-
day Review.
Savory Potato Cakes.
Take twelve cunces of flaky mashed
potato and rub through a fine sieve.
Add two tablespocnfuls of warm but-
ter, eight tablespoonfuls of flour, two
tabiespoonfuls of grated cheese, one
teaspoonful or baking powder, half a
teaspoonful of salt and a dash of
cayenne pepper. Blend these ingre-
dients thoroughly and mix into a
light dough with one tablespoonful of
cream and the yolks of two eggs. Roll
out about half an inch thick, cut in-
to little rounds and brush over with
beaten white of Bake in a
quick oven until a nice brown. Split
these cakes in half, butter and sprin-
kle - with finely ‘chopped parsley.
Serve very hot.
coo
55
Baked Beans.
of beans in cold
night. Pour off the wat-
er in the morning, parboil in fresh
water for ten miutes, strain through
a colander, and place them in the
pot. Pour boiling. water over
pound salt = pork, scrape
a ‘knife and cut gashes
through the rind; place the pork be-
neath the beans, leaving on the rind
at the top. Mix together a
teaspoonful of mustard and salt and
half a cupful of molasses, add to this
hot water enough to cover the beans,
adding more time to time as is
needed. Place - a cover over the
bean pot, and bake steadily for eight
in a moderate oven. The se-
cret of siuiccess depends largely upon
Gentleman.
Soak
water
one
Over
quart
of
exposed
from
hours
their baking. —Country
Ice Cream Cones.
cupful of butter,
one-half of a cupful powdered su-
gar, .one-fourth of a cupful of milk,
seven-eighths of a cupful of flour, one-
half teaspoonful _.of vanilla. Cream
the. butter, add the and cream
them well together, then . add the
milk very slowly, and last add the
flonr and flavoring. Spread very thin
with a’ broad-bladed knife on’ the
bottom of a square or oblong tin.
Bake until lizcht brown, then cut in
large squares and roll up, beginning
at corner, like a cornucopia.” If
the squares ~ become too brittle to
roll up, place. them in the oven again
to soften. The lower end must be
pinched together that the cream
will not run out as it melts.—C. N.,
One-fourth of a
of
sugar
one
SO
‘Michigan in Woman's Home Compan-
ion.
“Chicken Pie.”
Clean and cut up a pair ot tender
young chickens and put them in a
sauce-pan with just enough water to
cover th m; add a quarter of a pound
of butter, and salt and pepper to
taste. Cover the vessel and let
them stew until tender enough to re-
move the Make a rich bis-
cuit dough quart of flour,
bones.
with. one
“salt to taste; half a pound of butter
and ‘quarter pound -of lard (or all
lard will do), and four teaspoonfuls
of baking powder sifted with the
flour. Mix with cold milk or water,
lightly—not too stiff, kneading just
enough to make it easy to handle.
Line a deep pan with some of the
dough, if an under crust is desired;
if not, put a layer of the boned chick-
en in the bottom of the plan, put bits
of butter over it, sprinkle well with
sifted flour, and then another layer
of chicken, butter and flour until all
the chicken is in the pan. For the
pie, a gill of flour and a quarter of a
pound of butter is enough between
layers. Have the chicken broth boiled
down to one pint; pour into the pan
three gills of rich sweet cream and
the pint of broth. Roll the top crust
one-half inch thick and lay on the
top of the chicken, crimping the edg-
es; cut two slits in the top crust to
let the steam out. Bake slowly until
done, and serve hot, cutting into suit-
able sized pieces and dishing, serv-
ing the gravy with each piece.—The
Commoner.
Household Hints.
Persons who live mostly on vege-
tables have the best nerves and the
best complexions.
Fine table salt rubbed on marble
will remove a stain unless the latter
be of too long standing.
Fried sausage or force meat balls
make an appropriate garnish for
roast turkey, capon or fowl
To remove the odor of onions from
a knife, dip it into running cold wat-
er, then dry and polish it.
Place on top of fish when baking
thin slices of salt pork; it will baste
the fish and the seasoning is fine.
Bacon should be soaked in water
for three or four minutes before be-
ing fried to prevent the fat from run-
ning.
Put a few sticks of cinnamon bark
and a little lemon juice with crab-
apple when making jelly; the flavor
is good.
Carrots and onions will be better
if soaked in cold water for twelve
hours before using, to draw out the
strong flavor. :
To give an appetizing flavor to a
broiled beef steak, cut an onion in
half, rub it over the hot platter with
the melted butter.
When making tomato soup, add a
raw cucumber sliced fine, boil soft
and strain with tomato. It gives a
seasoning quite taking.
Soup stock is better seasoned by
sticking whole cloves and other spie--
es into the meat while boiling instead
of using powdered spices,