va j
AND
Fresh Air.
Give tlie chickens plenty of good,
freBh air these hot nights, even if you
have to make a hole in the henhouse.
Chickens that are cooped up in a
elose atmosphere all nlghtand turned
out in the cool of the early morning,
will be fit subjects for colds, rheuma
tism and roup. Farmers' Homo
Journal.
Roup. - '
The first thing to do upon discov
ering roup 13 to Isolate the infected
bird, put it in your hospital If you
have one, and if not got busy and es
tablish cue, for at this date nil up-to-date
poultry plnntB have their hospi
tal to v.':!rh nil ailinc; birds are re
moved ml Uio lr.njoriiy are thereby
saved. Farmers' Home Journal.
V;i!;:o of Rivrcl ( lover.
Sweet, clover generally consid
ered a v. eul, ::yA under certain con
ditions it h such. It," however, pro
duces v,.l .'A'.' forage in sections
south of t'::e clnv.-r l)e!t. Stock do
Hot like it :'i ftr, i.ut th?y can easily
become ri'.w.tt.d lo eat It either
grepn or cured.
Sweet rlowi' is biennial and dies
after the second year, hence to keep
a field seeded it will l)e necessary to
allow a (rood portion of the plants to
go to B??d in July.
The greatest vnlife of sweet clover
Is as a soil builder. It will grow on
land too poor to produce anything
else. It is commonly found growing
wild along railroad cuts, roadsides
and other places where the top soil
lias been removed. In a few years it
would reclaim poor land and make
It capable of producing other and
more valuable crop3. Weekly Wit
ness. Catch Crops,
Whether corn is cultivated level or
In cheek rows, it Is always profitable
to sow some crop at the last working.
Whenever wo see a cornfield bare
during the winljcr we think what a
waste of opportunity. Sowing a catch
crop at the last working of corn not
only enables this crop to grow with
out extra preparation, but it covers
the land during the winter, which
prevents leaching and washing of the
soil, and materially increases succeed
ing crops.
There are so many crops that can
bo sown at the last working of either
corn or cotton that the wonder to me
Is that any farmer should try to get
along without using one. You can
sow to advantage either crimson
jelover. rye, winter oats or vetch. All
of them usually give good results
sown in this way,
if enm ic i,ntoj , '
are an excellent crop to sow at the ,ha nr.c':'!"'t1'' untler irrSntlon ' east
last working. Farmers who have had ! prn Washington. The western Wash
experience state that the cowpoas in-1 ins:on ener,'ies are Produced without
crease the yield ol the corn crop, and
at the same tir.-.a make a most ex
cellent quantity of feed, as well as
Improve the land tor the crops to fol
low. J. A. Ea:::hard, in Farm and
Home.
Rest Litter Tor Hens.
We were once asked to visit a poul
try farm where the hens were not
laying satisfactorily to see if we could
discover any reason for the lack of
eggs. The work on this place was
entrusted to help. The owner had
the theory of poultry raising, but
very little practice. He knew that
the grain should be fed in deep litter.
The men told him that there was
straw in the houses, and what more
could the hens want?
"My . hens have plenty of feed,"
said the owner of the farm. 'They
have plenty of water, grit, charcoal,
and litter to scratch in, and yet in
May I am getting only a one-third
egg yield." ,
The trouble was- not far to seek.
The litter was packed down so solid
that It might almost as well have
been a barn floor. The grain had
been thrown on top of this till the
kirds were surfeited, and grain was
scattered in heaps on the floor and
in the corners of the house. The
yard had been picked clean, there
was no inducement to exercise out
Bide, and no opportunity luside, so
the hens waxed fat and lazy. If tho
straw had been tossed up each day,
kept light so that the hens could
scratch it about, and If the grain had
been scattered on the bare floor and
the straw kicked over it, the chickens
would have been forced to scratch
tor their living.
The great advantage of leaves for
litter is that they are too light to
pack. A house twelve inches deep
in leaves is ideally equipped for
scratching. Lacking the leaves, straw
is good, if allowed to pack.
We thought we had found Just the
litter we wanted one year when we
saved the chaff from the threshing,
but later found that the hens pick
np' too much chaff with their feet,
and the chaff was unwholesome as
well as unnutrltious.
' Make some provision this year for
litter and feed in that, not on It.
Inland Farmer.
Alfalfa Will Grow Everywhere.
While experts have been declaring
that alfalfa would only grow in cer-
ST
.r. mj
tain soils and in certain climates H
has proved its adaptability to nearly
all climates and almost all soils. It
produces with a rainfall as scant as
fourteen Inches, and in the Gulf
States flourishes with sixty-five
Inches. It gives crops at an eleva
tion of 8000 feet above sea level, and
in southern California It grows be
low sea level to a height of six feet
or over, with nine cuttings a year,
aggregating ten to twelve tons. An
authenticated photograph in posses
sion of the writer shows a wonderful
alfalfa plant raised In the (Irrigated)
desert of southern California, sixty
feet in height. Satisfactory crops
are raised, but on limited areas as
yet, in Vermont nnd Florida. New
York has grown It for over one hun
dred years in her clay and gravel;
Nebraska grows it in her western
sand hills without plowing, as does
Nevada on her sage brush desert. The
deuieted coiton soils of Alabama and
rich corn fields of Illinois nnd Miss
ouri each respond generously with
profitable yields to the enterprising
f.-.nr.or, while lt.3 accumulated nitro
gen and tho sub-soiling It effects are
making the rich land more valuable
and giving liack to the crop worn the
priceless elements of which it has
boon In successive generations do
spoiled by a conscienceless husbandry.
Coburn's Book of Alfalfa.
Profit In Cherry Raising.
An illustration of the possibilities
there are in fruit culture in western
Washington is seen in a brief dis
patch from Stanwood, recording the
fact that the cherry growers in that
Foc.tion oil the country are closing
their shipments after the most suc
cessful season ever known. The late
varieties of cherries, such as the
lloyal Annes, brought the record
price of seventeen cents a pound In
the orchard, about eight cents more
than the previous high price paid
there.
There is no fruit that does better on
the deforested land of western Wash
ington than the cherry, and nowhere
in the world are finer cherries pro
duced than here. The cherry tree
grows to great size and benrs In this
favored climate abundantly. There
are forty-year-old cherry trees In this
county which are loaded with this
delicious fruit every year. A single
old cherry tree has been known to
hear a crop of 800 pounds in a sea
son. At the price in the orchard of less
than one-half that which was recent
ly paid in Stanwood, the owner of a
Puget Sound cherry orchard in full
hta'-ing can have an annual lncomo
from each acre larger than the high-
est income earned from the best of
irrigation, and will grow on lands of
which thousands of acres are yet to
be had at prices but a petty fraction
of that commanded by lands under
ditch in the better advertised fruit
growing sections of this State.
There could hardly be a better nnd
safer Investment than tho purchase of
a few acres .of logged-off lands in
western Washington at the present
time, clearing it and planting it to
cherries. The man who has a ten
acre cherry orchard in this part of
the world, after it gets in bearing,
will have an annual income consid
erably higher than Is earned by the
average professional man, here or
anywhere else.
If the land hungry, who have been
so much in evidence in the recent
rush to take up opened Indian reser
vations, will look over the opportu
nities open here, they will find thou
sands of opportunities for homes.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Weight of Egg.
There Is a decided difference In the
weight of eggs from pullets and hens,
and of those laid by different breeds.
These figures are approximately cor
rect: Single Comb Brown Leghorns,
pullets, 17 ounces per dozen; hens,
21, ounces. Light Brahmas, pul
lets, 23 ounces; hens, 28 ounces.
Black Langshans, pullets, 24 ounces;
hens, 26 ounces. Pekin ducks,
35 ounces.
. . Handling Fowls.
It Is well to handle fowls occasion
ally after they have gone to roost.
It tames them. Also feel their crops
and see if they are well filled, but
not gorged. A little -grain thrown
into litter at night, gives the fowls
something to do when they come off
the roost. If no rats are troubling,
the morning feed may be put out in
the litter when poultry bouse is
closed for the night.
Sunflower Seeds Useful.
Soma sunflower seeds should 'be
planted around edge of yards for
shade, if no other is accessible, until
a' few fruit trees can grow large
enough for shade. Sunflower seeds
are good for fowls, especially at
moulting season, so be sure to plant
a few every year. Get the large
kind. Mrs. J. C. Deaton.
France hag
tor women.
an aeronautical club
! POLE THE BDAL OF CENTURIES' EFFORT.
For Three Hundred Years Adventurers Ha ve Risked
Lives to Discover It Tragic History of Search
Franklin, Do Long and Andre Most Notable Victims
of Quest for the Farthest North ,
Centuries ago men made up their
minds to reach tho North Polo and
since then many have gone in search
of it, to leave their bones whitening
in the Arctic circle. Nono found It,
but what they did find In Its sur
rounding regions has had an Im
portant place in the history of the
world.
That the quest for the North Polo
has been more persistent and more
extensive than the search for the
South Pole Is obviously due to the
fact that the Arctic is much nearer
to the great maritime nations than
Is the Antarctic and that its waters
more nearly merge with those of the
highways of the sea trade.
The first incentive which sent ex
plorers into the Arctic regions had ItB
bawls In the commercial instinct.
And this instinct had two phases.
One was to extend tho limits of tho
northern fisheries; the other a deBlre
lo shorten thn water route between
the ports of Europe and tho Orient,
either by a northwest or northeast
passage. But whilo these Incentives
were predominating ones in the ear
lier history of Arctic exploration, all
of tho more recent ones have been in
tho Interest of scientific research.
It is not known who was tho first
to venture Into the Arctic region
tho region which, as the little girl
wrote In her copybook, "Is chilly used
for purposes of exploration." But as
early as 1750 Froblsher made a voy
age to the southern extremity of
Greenland and the opposite American
coast, and In 15 S5 tho strait forming
the entrance to the Arctic regions
west of Greenland was discovered by
John Davis. In 1015 Bafiln and Bylot
passed through Davis Strait and
sailed up tho North Water to Smith
Sound, discovering on the homeward
voyage Jones Sound nnd Lancaster
Bound, which were closed by Ice. Ex
cept for the voyage in 1031 of Luke
Fox, who sailed up Fox Channel to
Peregrine Point, nothing further was
learned of theso regions for nbout
two hundred years, and Bafilu's dis
coveries were almost forgotteu
Lnst Century's Research.
The interest in a northwest passage
having revived, Commander John
Ross, in ISIS, set out with the Isa
bella and Alexander. He confirmed
the accuracy of Damn's observations,
nnd In the following year Lieutenant
Parry, commanding tho Ilocla and
Griper, sailed through Lancaster
Sound. Some few years later Sir
John Ross made another voyage In
the Victory, and passed up Regent
Inlet to the Gulf of Boothia; while
his nephew, James C. Ross, traversed
the southern part of Boothia and the
Btrait named after him. A few years
earlier, in 1826, Dr. Richardson had
passed through Dolphin and Union
Straits, and sighted Wollaston Land,
part of which was afterward named
Victoria Land by Simpson, of the
Hudson Bay Company, whq. with
Dease, in 1S38-9, passed through
Deaso Strait, and the entrance of
Simpson Strait; while Dr. John Rae,
in 1845-7, explored the southern
coast of the Gulf of Boothia from
Fury nnd Hecla Straits on the east to
LorJ Mayor's ilay on the west, and
proved Boothia to be a peninsula.
The successful though Ill-fated ex
ploration of Sir John Franklin in
search of a northwest passage set sail
from the Thames on May 20, 1845,
With the Erebus and the Terror, un
der command of Captains Filzjames
and Crozier, Franklin passed through
Lancaster Sound, and, as was after
ward ascertained, sailed up Welling
ton Channel to Penny Strait and down
Crozier Channel, returning to Beechey
Island in winter. Subsequently the
vessels made their way to the north
west coast of King William Island,
where Franklin died in June, 1847.
The survivors, under Captain Crozier,
started in 1S48 for the Great Fish
River, and their remains were found
along the route to Adelaide Penin
sula. The expedition had, therefore,
ascertained the existence of a sea
passage from the Atlantic to the chan
nels south of Victoria and Wollaston
Land, leading to Bering Strait.
Kane. After the Pole.
Hopeful of finding some tidings of
her husband, Lady Franklin, in 1852,
sent out the Isabel and the Com
mander, afterward Sir Edward Au
gustus Inglefield. Steaming up the
open water "stretching through neven
points of the compass," he sighted
what is now known as Cape Louis
Napoleon, but 'he found no traces of
Franklin, despite a long and diligent
search. Twelve . months later Dr.
Elijah Kane, in the United States
brig Advance, followed In hiB tracks.
Ostensibly Kane was on a Franklin
search, but his real objective was the
North Pole.. " He explored the sea
which is named after him and en
countered many hardships and met
with numerous adventures. But he
was no more successful at finding the
Pole than he was in finding traces
of Franklin.
On July 10, 1860, Dr. Hayes, who
bad Berved with Kane, Balled from
Boston for Smith Sound, in the
schooner United States, of 130 tons
and a crew of fifteen men. His ob
ject was .the follow up the line of re
search opened by Dr. Kane. lie win
tered at Port Foulke, about ten miles
from Cape Alexander, which 'forms
the eastern portal of Smith Sound.
Dr. Hayes crossed Smith Sound in
the spring with dog sledges, but his
Observations are not to be depended
on, and It is very uncertain how far
he advanced northward on the other
side. Ho returned to 'Boston on Oc
tober 23, 1861.
With the Ill-fated Jeannette expe
dition began a series of Arctic trag
edies. This vessel, vhlch had been
fitted out In 1879 with the Intention
of making an effort to locate the
North Polo, was under the command
of Lieutenant De Long, of the United
States Navy. Lens than two weeks
after, having entered tho Arctic
Ocean the Jeannette bocamo solidly
frozen In an Ice pack and never es
caped from it. In tho grip of what
was to prove her tomb, the luckless
vessel was carried hither and thither
by the drifting Ice. Eventually she
was crushed and her people had to
abandon her, forming a cr.mp on a
nearby berg. This was In June, 1881.
"About 4 o'clock the next morning,"
one of tho survivors wrote, "tho camp
was aroused by tho man on the watch
crying: 'Turn out if you want to see
the last o? the Jeannette there she
goes!' Most of us," the ghnBtly rec
ord continues, "had barely time to
rlBp, when, nmld the rnttllng, nnd
banging of her timbers and iron
work, the ship righted and stood al
most upright; tho floes that had come
in nnd crushed her slowly backed off,
and as she sank with slightly accel
erated velocity tho yard arms were
stripped and broken upward parallel
to the masts, and so, like a great,
gaunt skeleton, clnpplng ls hands
above Its head, she plunged out of
Bight."
Do Long's Trnslc F;it,
The Jeannette had been provisioned
for thrco years, but as no tidings had
been received of her up to 1881, two
other vessels were sent In search of
her. One party, under the command
of Engineer George W. Melville, of
the United, States Navy, reached
Yakutsk, and afterward found the
bodies of De Long nnd somn of the
crow. To quote from Melville's own
narrative:
"I Identified Do Long nt a glance
by his coat. He lay on his right sldo,
with his right hand under hi3 cheek,
his head pointing mirth, and his face
turned to the west. His feet were
drawn slightly up as though ho were
sleeping; his loft arm was raised with
the tlbow bent, and his hand, thus
horizontally lifted, was bare. About
four foot back of him, or toward the
east, I found his small notebook or
ice-journal, where he had tossed It
with his left hand, which looked as
though it had never recovered from
the act, but had frozen, as I found it,
upraised."
Perhaps no better picture of terrors
of the Arctic and Its Btabblng cold
can be found than that which Is given
by Mr. Melville: "A cold, barren
plateau, between a small outlying
promontory and a bleak weather
riven rock of red syenite reaching up
to the skies, on whjch even the mosses
and lichens would scarce grow. The
raging of the wind and the pitiless
sen, and the roar of the black water
of the bay dashing over the ice-foot,
made the lonesome picture look cold
er and more appalling. Drifts of ice
and snow choked the ravines and hol
lows; but, saving ourselves end the
famished, skeleton-like survivors, not
a living thing appeared on the whit
ened landscape. The region truly
seemed to bo the most desolate on
the face of tho earth. It looked as
though the curses of 10,000 witches
had descended upou and blasted it,
and even the birds would not dare to
take their flight across the lifeless
land, lest they, too, fall victims into
the death-gap below.
"Struggling up the valley of death
against the frantic wind from the low
point to the westward of the camp,
where we managed with difficulty to
effect a landing In our whaleboats,
we first came upon the remains of
the winter habitation, a parallelogram
of four walls about three feet high
built of loose stone, the inside di
mensions being eighteen by twenty
two feet, with a tunnel or covered
way facing the mountain to the
southward. This hut had been roofed
over with the whaleboats turned up
side down and covered with the satis
and tent cloths; the smoke flue made
of old tin kettles bound with bits of
canvas was thrown to one side, and
water had risen in and about the
ARCTIC TEMPLES OF ICE.
A Crystal Palace Found Amid the Frozen
Wilderness of Greenland.
Changeless Arctic temples of Ice
amid the icy deserts of Greenland
were found by the survivors of the
ill-fated Erichsen expedition to the
North Pole. A crystal palace of su
perhuman architecture vaster than a
dozen cathedrals and Egyptian tem
ples, resplendent with jewels and
endless decorations of ice, is de
scribed. Created by nature In a forbidding
wilderness, It frightened and awed
the explorers. The dreams of poets
and the fancies of epic bards were
surpassed by this vision nt colossal
loveliness, whfch the painter Achton
Fries, a member of the expedition,
endeavored to carry away for the
benefit of the dwellers in civilization.
More than a mile in length, the
lofty nave ot this temple was pierced
at intervals with windows through
which the gleaming sun rays sparkled
wretched dwelling pine to a height
of eight Inch, concealing much of
the foul evidence 'of sq undid misery
In which Its poor ocrupnnts had llvtjj.
Cast-off fur nnd cloth clothing, pmpty
tin cans, and the sickening filth of
twenty-five men for nine months lny
heaped and scattered about, a verita
ble Augean scone."
On August 11, 1881, thn steamer
Proteus conveyed Lieutenant Greely
and his party to Lady Franklin Bay.
A house was built and they were left
with two years' provisions. The reg
ular series of observations was at
once commenced, and two winters
were passed without accident. Trav
eling parties wore a!ao sent out in the
summer, dogs, having been obtained
at Disco. Lieutenant Lockwood
made a Journey along the north coast
of Greenland nnd reached a small
Island. Dr. Pavy and another went
a short distance beyond tho winter
qunrters of the Alert, and a trip was
made Into the interior oi Grinnell
Land.
Relief of Greely.
As no succor arrived in the sum
mer of 1 883 though relieving ves
sels had been dispatched both In 1882
and 18S3 Lieutenant Groely started
from Lady Franklin Bay with his
men on August 9, expecting to find
a vessel In Smith Sound. On October
21 they were obliged to encamp at
Cape Sabine on the western Bhore of
Smith Sound. A few depots were
found which had been left by Sir
Georgo Nares and Lieutenant Beebe,
but all were exhausted before the
Bprlng. Then came n time of Inde
scribable misery, acuto suffering and
death from slow starvation. When
the relieving steamers Thetis and
Benr finally reached Cape Sablno
Lieutenant Greely nnd his comrades
wero found just. alve.
During recent years ther'? have
been numerous efforts to solve the
rlddlo of the north. Andre attempt
ed It In a balloon and ndded another
riddle the riddle of what becamo
of him. Then the Duke of the
Abruzzl, Nansen, Flala, and most per
sistent of all, Commander R. E.
Peary, nil essayed the discovery of
the pole. Nansen entered the polar
ice with the Fram in 1903, and
throughout two winters drifted
toward tho pole, but never near
enough to locate It. Captain Cagnl,
one of the Abruzzl party, reached to
86 degrees 34 minutes north, the
most northern record up to 1906, but
which was subsequently eclipsed by
Peary. Following these came Walter
Wellman, E. B. Baldwin and Flala.
F. A. Cook, nnd once more that Indo
fatlgablo searcher for the pole, R. E.
Peary, both found it.
There have been 578 expeditions
directed against the North Pole and
61 agalnBt the South Pole since 1800.
Great Britain leads with 107 north
ward and 25 southward. Russia is
second, with 105 north nnd 1 south.
The United States Is third, with S4
north and 12 south.
A Long Walk.
He entered a Columbus car at the
City Hall, and, not finding a seat,
grasped a strap near tho door. Ho
was an East Side New Yorker such
as is met with on Houston street or
Grand street. Ills shoulders were
broad and set square on a broad
back.
A block further along Broadway
the car Btopped to take on another
passenger.
"Move forward!" yelled the con
ductor. . And he of the East Side obediently
moved forward.
At the next corner there were more
passengers to board the car, and
again came the demand: "Move for
ward!" This command Issued so often that
after a time, by moving forward the
space of one strap at a time, the
East Sider found himself nt the front
door of the car. The car was then
nt Fourteenth street.
Some one there boarded the car at
the front door and the conductor
walked thither. At that time be
spied the East Sider.
"Say, I didn't collect your fare for
this ride, did I?" he asked.
"An' you ain't goln' to!" exclaimed
the man. "D'ye call that a ride?
Why, I walked all the way from the
City Hall to here!" New York
Times.
The men of forty-nine, the Cali
fornia pioneers, are rapidly dwin
dling. There are now only seven
members of the Sacramento Society
of California pioneers. The eighth
member recently died, and the sur
vivors acted as pallbearers and
mourners.
on columns and cubes and immense
clusters of stalactites like pendant
jewels. Through the centre of the
ice palace flowed a stream of water
whose occasional ripple and splash
ing fall broke the majestic silence.
Far north it is possible that ice
palaces and temples should endure
without change longer than human
structures of stone. The carcasses of
prehistoric monsters have remained
inviolate in Arctic tombs for thou
sands of years, while granite pyra
mids have worn away and Babylon
ian civilization has been burled deep
in the earth. Chicago Tribune.
At present the monastery of St.
Barnard costs about 19000 a year to
keep up. This money is partly col
lected In Switzerland and partly de
rived from the revenue ot the monas
tic order.
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For Comfort. ,
Thor.e who care more for comfort
than for personal appearance are ad
vised to lot tho perspiration evapor
ate from their faces and hands In
stead of wiping It off. This wny cool
ness lies. It lies so near In fact that ,
the rule hag to be followed with dis
cretion, else a chill may be the result.
Indianapolis News.
Gasolene Stoves.
When you decide to buy a gasolene
stove, says a writer in Good House
keeping, be sure to have it burned
till UUltirtl 1L IB HUH), I'UIIIW.
stoves are oiled, it seems, in order to
keep them in good condition in th(
store, nnd people have been burned .
seriously, besides running the risk of
firing the house, when using one for
the first time.
Health Hints.
If one cannot copy the old-time
women with their aromatic herbs,
there are many things which can be
used in the water to soften it and
nifke It more refreshing. Among
these is a lemon cut In slices nnd
placed in tho bath ten minutes before
using. A little bora:; will also soften
tho water, or a bag about, five Inches
square filled with half bran and half
oatmeal.
Olive oil Is an excellent fattener.
Some can take a tablespoonful after
neal easily. It stimulates and makes
active tho digestive organs, clears the
complexion, and r.iukcs the eyes
bright and sparkling. Boston ller
uld. A Dainty Pincushion.
Among the many charming and at
tractive novelties seen in the shops;
one of tin daintiest was a neat little
pincushion about sic inches square,
covered with fino pique. It was deep
ly scalloped around the edgo in such
a way that they alternated, the big
f.callops falling below to give the ap
pearance of a double frill.
Tho top of the cover, which had a
white background, had a convention
al design in Wallachian fcmbroidery
done in several shades of pink. Iu
tho centre was a large embroidered
monogram.
This pretty and convenient little
noveity would be a most ripproprlate
gift for the traveler who can not
have too many dainty hand-made
cushions. New York Press.
India Relish.
As the making of proprietary com
mercial articles is usually a trade
Becret, I am not able to tell you just
how manufactured India relish is
made. Here is an excellent rule, how
ever, for its making: Chop fine a
Email head of cabbage, six onions,
twelve green peppers and two quarts
of green tomatoes. Sprinkle over
them one cupful salt and let stand
until the next day. Drain off all the
liquid and put the vegetables in a
kettle. Barely cover with vinegar.
Add one-half cupful mustard seed,
one teaspoonful celery seed and one
half cupful of sugar. Boil five min
utes, take from .the fire and put in
glass or stone jars. If you like the
relish sweet, more sugar can be
added. Add at the last one table
spoonful English mustard. Washing,
ton Star.
fmrfie Jiitclien
Lemon Sherbet. Boll two cupfula
water with one cupful sugar; beat
until cold. Add grated rind of one
lemon and juice of three lemons.
Freeze.
Cucumber Salad. Peel two cucum
bers and place them In clear cold
water. When ready to serve cut
them in two lengthwise and lay on a
salad dish, flai side down. Then slice
across without disturbing their shape
and add French dressing.
Filling For Washington Pie Beat
the whites of two eggs stiff, add
three-quarter cup confectioners' su
gar and beat; then add two or three
teaspoonfuls melted chocolate and
one-half teaspoon vanilla. This Is
also delicious as frosting on a custard
pie.
Orange and Rhnbarb Marmalade.
Peel six. oranges and one lemon;:
slice the pulp and cut the peel into
shreds; put in a preserving kettle and
add one quart rhubarb cut fine (about
two pounds); now add one and one
halt pounds sugar. Boil about one
hour or until quite thick.
Spanish Beef. Mince finely enough,
cooked beef to make two cups. Melt
two rounding tablespoons of butter,
add one small onion minced fine;
cook until light brown, add one-quarter
cup ot flour and stir until brown.
Add the meat, one cup ot beet broth,,
one cup of strained tomatoes and heat
well. Add salt and pepper and serve
on a hot dish or In a rice border.
Meat rie. Take scraps left from
any kind of cooked meat and put in
sauco pan with gravy. If you have it; ,
if not, cover with water. Season well,
add one tomato, If you have it, and
one tablespoonful of butter. When
It is hot place in baking dish and cov
er with mashed potato. The potato
forms a crust for your pie, and it
dotted with lumps ot butter and
browned quickly you may have a
tempting luncheon dish made of left
overs from your day-bef ore's dtousr.