: a of the Sharpers Are Mas
hay every newspaper reader
“what a “greengoods
but how many people who think tha |
were pretty well acquainted with
e intricacies of metropolitan life
jave any idea to what extent this
tieular calling of the “powers that
* fs now carried? The trade of
groengoods” man is one of the
puzzling and mysterious with
ves have to deal
what is most astonishing of all is that
day within a radius of a few
les from New York City hundreds
of daring schemes are being carried
m and brought to full realization,
A New York Tribune reporter wis
prompted (o make luguiries as to the
extent and workings of this practice
: Washington dispatch. This dis
patch sald that J. L. Bristow, fourth
gistant postmaster general in his
cent report, had advocated un
amendment to the interstate com
law which would prohibit tele |
saph and express companies or their
yes from aiding and abetting
; "or lottery swindles, or
other scheme carried on partly
y mail and partly by common carrier
jolation of the postal laws. The
ity for such a law, together with |
the probable difficulty of its enforce
ment. was made evident by Theodore
W. Swift, chief of the New York post
office inspectors. Mr. Bwift said:
The “greengoods” man is one who
promises to give a certaln amount of
counterfeit money for genulne monay.
He Is one of the olliest Individusis
with whom detectives have to deal
He is difficult to apprehend. and when
‘caught it is almost impossitile to
obtain sufficient evidence to shcure
lis conviction. Every year he robs
peent, trusting men, of large sums
of money-—~how large we have no
‘means of determining. He (8 a high
wayman, a {rue freebooter, who
andles his revolver with as easy an
mesurance as be does his chief weapon
s tongue. We have fought him
5 rosa for years, and we are still
ing his cunning ways, He is the
ost, nerviest, most desperate rufl-
In good clothes with whom we
1 could talk to you for hours of
wormings, his twisting and hile
rrowings. bat perhaps a description
mly one of a bundred different
hods by which he makes his living
serve as an illustration.
ractically all the “greengoods” men
# country operste from New York,
y work in this city because the
it volume of mailing which goos
sre makes detection more difficult
of they recelve replies they
be tracked and watched, end if
knew from whom their mall comes,
ourse we could more readily drive
tem out of existence. As the system
ow worked we have no means of
who send letters to them or |
hat point these letters to the
rs are really written
t's take the simplest case. The
ods” man sends out a circu
divactory of some town. This iy.
stile that the writer has a
process of making Honey.
sds that further instruc
be obtained by telegrapbing
| a. Greenville, N.
a to the crook under a
say, for example, “736.”
786 accepts the bait and tele |
‘as instructed. In a short time
messages from
s pile of
persons, addressed to the
mulate at Greenville, It is
for us to find these telegrams at
but we can't find the crook.
the telegraph oper.
these mOSSagis are
_ by sxpress, or by hand
k, where the crook has
‘This scheme
ept himself.
from capturing him. It
ly impossible to prove that
erator, who receives $50 for
- the transactions, is an
i again to No. 736, the weakling,
sends Bim a genuine one dollar
as a specimen of the counter
ey which is for sale. He adds
0, in good money, 15000
yates after No. 736, the
to 8 oom at an ap
he eungoods man ap-
2 “steerer” then pilots the
he $5600 into the country,
‘a small Pennsylvania
the greengvods man
He 18 told that safety
The crook
ves the sucker” $5000
ey for his $500, =
: tells No. 736 that
t or it he did not take
utes tou them ton chem.
by the. rook, |
5 | the poc
“ man bs
And |
BYE,
1 is ak
OBt credible, ‘bat At i a fact that
he countryman, In the majority of |
“ames, consents to give back his $5000
worth of genuine bills to the crook to
subject it to the “process.” After re
ceiving the $5000 back the sharper dis
| appears, the “steerer” does likewise,
and the “sucker” is penniless. Had
he murmured an objection or hes
"ated a moment, he would have heen
sonfronted with a loaded revolver. In
ihis way theft by assault and battery
i% not necessary, and the same object
is mchieved In the quiet suave fashion
described. and the victim, because of |
his position as & would be dispenser
of false hills, is blocked from come
plaining to the puilce.
This is the simplest method of
groengoods procedure, There ate 8
ihonsind variations to this thems
each of which is a bard nut for us to
crack. You ask why cannot one of
ofr men impersonate a credulous per
son and then arrest the Mackguards?
We have done this, but have practi
cally abandoned the tdea, because gen
erally wo bave been unable to pro
duce enough evidence to convict. The
sending of the telegrams and letters
ix Bo sdroitly managed that the train
of evidence which we may collect is
likely to hroak at an important point
Of course,
constant danger when pursuing these
cronks.
“Where do the sharpers get the
money with which to play their trade?
Where did the man in the case sited
got his $5400 in genuine money? was
astked. Mr Bwilt replied:
“Phat la the most interesting part
of the story. The system does not
depend for its success upon the re
sonirces of a fow needy gwindlers
These men are simply Agents of
wealthy criminals, who manage their
men. outline the plan, think of new
schemes and pay their Agents a gen
erous percentage of the amount they
steal from their victims This wink
thy criminal is the King sharper of
the crowd: it is he who furnishes tha
capital. To prove my knowledzs of
the existence of these facts, 1H say
that I know one of these King cronks.
He lives in Pennsylvania where he has
& magnificent stock farm, Many aires
of rich land. on which are costly cat
tie and horsew, stretch on all sides
from his baroninllike mansion. There
are others like him, closer to Now
York human valtures, who by the ex
ercise of a peculiar cust of intelli
genes have heen able 10 AMAR jars
fortunes. They have wrought so args
ningly that, while we are certain
that they are exceedingly dangerous
1 tn society, we are almost poweriess
to convict them. The very nicely of
the law of evidence renders aimost
impossible the fulfilment of justice,
We have bean fairly siceossfol, how.
in driving these
from our postoffice, and what we
want now 1s just this amendment to
the Interstate commerce law Which
will make telogranh and express com:
panies-—ihe [lormar particulariy—
more Besdful of their duty. We have
a law in New York state which pro
hibits this wretched business being
carried on by telegraph or mall All
states should have such a statute or
else let us have a Federal law to the
same effect. New Jersey has a statute
prohibiting telegraph and express
companies from aiding and abetting
these swindlers. We have recently
had 8 Now Jersey operator imprisobed
for violating this law.
Had Been There All the Yime,
One of the “iy men” at the central
police station was given instructions
several weeks ago to “bring in” a
young nian who had a criminal record.
The detective knew his man and had
received information that he was in
the eity.
A detective working under an in-
struction to arrest a man when found
does not usually devote all his time to
the search. He puts the warrant (ot)
his pocket and depends upon encoun-
tering Bis man sooner or later. If he
has no other work on hand he occa
sionally drops into the resorts such
ag are usually favored with the pres.
ence of wen who have been photo-
graphed side and front,
One inorning the “fiy man” while
on his way to his room met the long-
sought crook at the front stairway of
the building.
“I want you,” he sald good:natured-
ly, “but 1 didn't expect to find you
here’
“This is where | live.’
“For how long?”
“Since | came back, six weeks ago.”
Wall, you're a bird. I live here,
too.” Hoth men were touched in their
professional pride—one that he could
search for weeks to arrest x man in
the same building, the other that he
ghould rent a room next to a “iy man.”
—Milwaukee Sentinel,
Snails te Wash Windows.
Snails have long Leen employed In
this country for cleaning windows
The creatures are dipped in cold
water, and then placed upon the pane.
They crawl around slowly. devouring
all foreign matter and leaving the
glass quite bright and clear. They
are, of course, used only for upper
winlows, not easily reached from out
side. Water snails also command a
ready kale. Almost every aquarium
owner keeps a fow water snails. They
are the best of scavengers and keep
the place as tidy as a new housemald,
London Answers.
On the Misslasippl.
Louis and Minneapolis 60 sawmills
are in operation. and 179 steam craft
‘of various kinds Bavigate this stretch
fot Ihe Hyer. :
; made after the “$500 aoe
the detective's life is in |
highwaymen |
with Mr Johnson
shor falling to men.
‘of attending to a machine is easy,
The wages are |
Tha envelope |
gnlesinan, whether at home or on the | $3050. the highest price ever paid for |
hetwoeen St.
Ten MILLIONS ruRnED out nN THIS iv
COUNTRY EVERY DAY.
Ed
Mew the Teade Prononnces the Ward
Preliminary Frocesses of Muwrfacinre
“wEnveinpes That Are Veriiahle Works
of Art A Very Pleasant Employment,
The word is spelled in (wo ways
envelope and envelop. The Envelope
Trust spelis it with the final », in
which case it should be promounced |
as if French—ahneiope. The French
spelling is, however, enveloppe. The |
word without the final ¢ is prosounced
envoilup. Dean Swift made the fob
jowing rhyme ~
“land thease to papersparing Pope,
And when he sits to writs,
No ister with an anvelups
Cond give him more delight.”
The trade does Bot say ahnviope,
but envellup, The United States Eo-
velope Company, with & capital of $5.
. 1&8 the largest manufacturer
as it does no less than ning
cerng in New England and one in
Milwaukee
haove ail told 80 large firma engaged
in this mannfacture, 20 of which do
not belong to the frost
Over 10.000.000 envelopes Bre made
in this country every working day, or
fore than S000 000 060 a year. The
pin prodoct amounts to 30000000 a
day, or nearly 190.000.600.020 annually.
The American output of lead penciis
8 S000 gross or 720.000 a day, mak.
ing the annus! production of 205 200,
Buttons we make by the mililon gross,
ar! great quantities of steel pens,
In the latter product England is far
shesd of ur It is sald we do nol
make the right kind of steel for pens.
The biggest little thing is the match,
of which we make and use annually |
Cgver 120.006 bon 00
It is estimated
that the consumption is five matches
a day for every man, woman and child
of the pooulation, which makes $00.
asi a day. A single machin
turpa out 660.000 matches an bowr,
or L.280000 sach working day of
eight hours,
firm in the United States is on Willian
Kreps which boasls many
tonsea in other lines
the old, the solid, the sale and
the sound in our commercial life go
to William street between, say, Lib
erty and Beekman, Samuel
ey
was the original envelope manufac
turer in New York, and the fram In
L Willinm sireet (a big sUccesior.
he began business our fathers wera
| folding their letters with the writing
insite and concealing the contents by |
Pof which but very few EXADIOR Are
means of wafers and sealing WAL
Thu: was about 50 years ago.
long time envelopes wire wats
hard and the coal Was considerable.
Japes is so small that we hardly take
it into serious eonpideration.
{ confess to a feeling of ©
De and turn out millions of the finish
eu product, packed in GOXR ready fw
the customer.
fed on blocks of wood and «ae Come
pleted product
to Si each. However,
machine is ingenious enough. Tas
Blanks are frst cut with wtieel dies,
pression.
front of the which
machine,
them up one by one, gums the Aas, :
folds them. dries them and delivers
then in blocks of 25 to the ap2ralor,
The latter is invariably a woman,
of blanks and band the envelopes as
Vey are turned out,
myvelope the faster the machine the
capacity ranging from 12.000 to 15.409
a day of eight hours.
Siome of the envelopes msde
are veritable works of art
exnmples of lithographing are seo
fmmense sheets of paper, some with
gorgeous plotares so Intricate that the
man with the die must be a Philadel !
phia lawyer to unravel the puzzle. The |
pimber of sheets to be cul into b iankx
at one impression must be of perfect |
Fao §
ruined in the folding. The old plan ran on Broadway, truckmen practiiai-
was to drive steel pins through the | by ruled the stre
4) or more sheets, seeing that in eich |
a mark made by the lithographer was :
Ry varied is the demund | irather more) smphatically 10 get out
for envelopes that no f(aqtory could |
keep in stock a sufficient number of | they
dirs and machines for making odd
huni «in the trickmen
work is carried on in a secluded cor careful, for a f
fears showed them
i condi be knocked in
Cr Tew minutes
LO 3 be wi fairly
chisels, with which he cuts out these | pot ine way fairly Esa
odd shapes and sizes, all of which are | if grudgingly, but such an exenARE X
register, £lse the envelope will
punctured,
styles, therefore ihe ancient
ner,
A young man in 8 wire cage has a
mallet and some queer shaped sted
and. It is
DOCERSAry
glimmed and folded by
slow and tedious yet a
hranch of the busidess
dissolved in hot water or steamed,
is used for pasting the flaps
of the envelopes ave 10 by 15 inches,
of vor.
2 by 3 12 inches,
manila paper and used for
enlloctions. Enormofs quantities
anil
ment. The favorite
gpondence is No. 6 3-4
an's occupation. only the
clean and pleasant.
fair. the hours short.
soad, carries po saminda caser but a
€
In the United Hiates wa |
little trip
ancient
ff yom wish to i
‘the same superstitions peverence a8
{wera the wrae vw of
: phi
Raynor |
tof cariounly earved
When |
I oot
For a
Nias ppoint ¥
ment since going through his factory of
{ thought an eb
slope machine conld oat rolls of pa
Mateh machines are
is set before you
packed in boxes containing from 65
the envelope
Cthe mame Iribhe outside (Be before
mentioned
which are foreed through from 400 to | seen the Inside of that strange and
706 sheets of paper at a aingle fm. |
They are then placad in the |
picks |
‘told that they can proceed no for
ther upon pain of death And this
[is not a tale of 400 years ago, but i
All
gle has to do is to keep up the supply | ! :
north sida of Popocstapet]
The smaller the |
oan
: Hie RE
here
= we at tid 3 . =
: & in | Indians whe are to be geen there ai
thar that
ff
: thelr
| tween trac.man and
Gum arsiie. | TO
8 Ly £
g i truck was keeping back a car
Some § THOR we Keeping buck 4 «a
Dopsararrean elanged hie bed loudly
with the top flap closed by means th driver of the tuck turned argund
Then there are little fellows, | and said:
principally made of |
church © A
get ul Of YOUr way
of | : ;
official sizes are madd for the govern. |
standard |
commercial size for business corre | a
Making envelopes is largely a wom- | fressmg - ~New
heavier |
And the work
moss, be 54 pursues him whereev,
goes, His face is a big part of the
fortuna of his house. Every time he
shows it to a customer the COMPANY
| buys a new machine capacity 45.000
a day———Victor Smith, in the New
ors Press.
Sikri
MEX co's ORACLE.
pen
Rules Over a Trive That is Conthries Be |
hind the Times,
As i well known to all who have
looked into the matter carefully,
i for instance, such men a8 Tamboitz, |
Starr and Soville—thers are
mote party of Mexico today to be
found portions of tribes of Indians |
in 18
who are practicaily as much given
to idolatry, superstition and witch
craft as worse their forbears in the
varnished rears when the
advent of &
victorious
annoancing the
ami more
Ho
gironger rue
faith.
The other
aver the luteroceanic, that
runis through E60 many plciurssque
Indian towns, | happened to meet in
one of these villages a very tareiil |
{ gent Indian, who told me the follow
ing. Whether it is true or pot i dn
not know--"1 toll the fale 88 twas
told
northern slope of Popocatapetl, near
the foot, there 3 8 large cave almost
to me.” He said that on tha
pnksown, to the outside world Iv
this cave lives an old white Baired
Indian who #8 the oracle of a small
tribe of Indians in that vicinity, whose
| Janguags fs uniike that of any of the
neighboring towns
Thiz liftle tribe has never been con
gqueresd either by the Spaniards or by
the charch or by the modern ROVeTH
ment of ihe republic. The Indians
have preserved all their old customs
and traditions pnt] this day. aod are
i practically as they were $00 Yoerrs
Ous of the very curious inste |
{ putions among them in that of the ark
The oliest envelops manufacturing |
| mentioned at @
BEG.
Bo dwells In the above
ail alone.
cle or seer,
ways the ob
the tribe He is looked npon with
Dodona ami Del
in the Boshood of the ‘world
In that eRte are preserved rare gems
emeralds, such
as the great “Malinche”
to Spain: Mole of gold and silver and
we &nd stones, pearl necklaces
trom the faroff Gull of California,
and strange roles of feather work,
known tolky outside the pages of
Sabagun, Prescott or Clavigero.
There re alse ranged in Atting
The establishment of today turns ont Larder the ancient godx of thin strange
with $0 machines 1,200,000 every eight i
hours, and the present cost of eave ;
people, of whom this Uid man fs the
high priest Once a month & Cony
mixsion of the oldest mien of the tribe
twisita the
cave and taken with It
peonle, offerings
and satabics
of the gods
bn the name of the
frnit and fHowers
and incense in honor
and their oracle
Upon all affairs of Importance to
| the tribe this old man is consulted,
judgments are those of the
Modes and the Persians
pnd his
1 asked whather tf would he pow
sible to visit him or wot snd #23
told no (he. Bot even members of
“eammiggion” Rad ever
mysterious cave. My informant told
pi that at a certain point all
persons are stopped by a guard and
of today,
The tribe and the cave are at the
and oy
ery Raturday in Atlizxen members of
thia tribe are ut the market to boy
sell their simple pecessarios of
im enough lo see them 19
reniize 81 ones the great difference
between them and the other Mexican
Not only is their gtyia
clothing very differs bur aiso
apiiage Two > Republics.
Tructoman and Motorman,
In the uid days, before the fadle
and electric cars. apd when Korse (arg
st, and SU net pay the
gitghtest head to remarks rom the ear
deivers requesting them more or logs
Fria
oF
until
aly to do is
the may, decided thas
Wory rea When the
cable gerd Goally the elagivie card (ame
beosme a little
Faw en tors with 1h
thu their TOO Rs
y Rina
Nowgcays
of
they get
exp ditt 3
yesterday Bree
Ban is a
amenities as was heard
foot
It was an Duane street, and a baavy
Tha
and
enti] we reach the
very giad to
if you will waz
next corner 1 shall be
“Thanh von very much answered
the motorman. You are most oblig-
ing"
aah 1M the polices
Ww York Mail and Express.
add
Paid far Ouse Goat, S100,
A threeyearoid Angora buck goat,
Pasha Columbia, was sold at the Kan.
sas Clty stock yards recently for
one of his kind.—Kansas City Journa'
gleaming |
| banner of Castile and Aragon glanead |
of envelopes in the world, comprising | amid the peaks and valleys of Mex:
big cone
day, while making & |
He Is al
4 : ¢ Lid al a eed oh Rov
4 ated wineuwl mun of of 159 as compared with 1850.
cording to thiz statement, the total
gett Boma |
{ Callandran,
wark, or
more |
ing wood ia |
worols ne in
threatened, but the June
van on the |
is to
| Grande by storing the overflow of Jute |
Attempts |
: glaed n, then, br means of exces
ly ingenious ‘machinery, the wooden
covers are reduced to the proper size
for pencils snd painted or varnished |
and set aside to dry.
HM
The department of agricuituyre is
anxious to encourage the growing of
flowers for perfume making in this |
eottibry. and attention is called to the
fact that conditions in the southern
states, and particularly in southorn
California. are exceptionally favorable
It is bee
fievad that in California the essential |!
for industries of this Kind.
il, or attar, of roses pight be pro
danced on an extensive nesle to great
sdvantage.
nil
cow imperial technical sthool recently
dizooverad that a microphone, wien
attached to an electric arc lamp by
wire, will transmit sounds through the |
medium of another elueciric
Hepeated experiments were made, in
whith two lamps were separated by |
Ia thick wall
The Jnventor rend io a
low voles & lecture ou his discovery,
and hig words apoken into the micro
photie, were comfortably aadidle in
the next room,
About 200 odles in every direction
fn the distance & WAN “8a ee when |
standing. on 8 dear day. on the peak
of the highest mouniaing-—say at the
height of 268.688 feet, or a little over
five miles above the level of the sea |
An observer mist be at a beight of
£4467 feet above sea level to ses ob
Jocts &t a distance of 100 miles. The
distances in mike at which an object
upon ihe surface of the earth is visk
bie 1% equal to the souare root of one
and a half times the Beight of the ob
server in felt shove the sen level
da in
A preliminary
Bates Eas heen sued by the cénsas
hursan at Washington showing tha &.
tent of the indumey in the census year
AH
value of these two provfucta for 1904
was 320.344.8585, against $8577370 for
wh the numer of ssmblishments,
132. agwinst 670; th cap: tal
the avernge pummber of wage earners
41 8408 Apainat 15.286: the total wages
paid against $21 £7 and
Nai
the cost of materials ned $6.196.596
against FISTEAN3
The Helgian Boral
ahs y ainey
Meteo ratogical
hue pablisked the esi
masks made by various mathemath
clans and physiclsti regarding fhe
depth of the atmosphere surrogndio
the earth. The caieulctions ol the vark
wits #avanis abot the aublects aid
widdly divergent. Biot estimated that
the dep was only alout 40 miles
Pravalas 78 pulses: Mann, 81 mites:
106 miles: Sehinparelll
125 miles: Marie Dmey. 157;
Ritter stated that it reached
hetght of 218 miles In Great Britain,
Surioa the early part of the last cen
ney. the depth of the atmosphere wall
nasal ¥ accepted as Being 47 miles
hat the faet that meteuyrs heokme i
canescens 8% A much greater altitudg
inccmtrovertily proved that
Istion was fallacieus. $ir Robert Ball
states that meteors have been ob:
served at an aitingds of more thas |
ai miles, and since they bedome in
ceandescent whan they come Into con |
“tact with the air,
the caleniation of
Ritlor appearh fo ee the most cortect,
The Netenen ot Mey.
It is a eurives (net but one by no
mencs astopisting, that until] of late
days a satisfactory expisaasion of
glewp and its cansation was hardly to |
be met with within the bousds of
physiological solence. Anaemia of the
brain wes Fegirded gs the origin al
our slumbers. but it Became clear that
this Slocalessuinn wns to he regarded
rarlier as a read of some other anil
mode primary jirocess than as ftaell i
true or direct camae of sheen The the
wry bas been revived that sleep is dus
to Bee liberation into the hind of ce
tain wubsisoees which are Buis-
tired By certain gland fi-those are nat
defined, by the way with the result
that our brain cells are sent dozing.
Alingride
hat other which
this vinw may be placed
sppposed that &
greater amount of carbonic ackd gas
produced as the result of bodily |
a wait of siiminsiion of thin 2
tad went | Shia stove so it will beil gently for four
; Sa oar brain cells werd ;
i the liquid with brown flour. 3oive hot
| it a dish with gravy Poured arcund
belag
un G2
bed by the gaz | think
wirg sivep theorfes will
not hold water Far tore rational 138
the simple view that fatigue of oul
hrain cells is the real cause which
to the arms of the drowsy
ginl. London Chronicle.
Fenna' Ireigation Problem.
The rrigabls water in Texas 8 dos
rived mostly from the Rio Grande, rus
pas os and the Canadian, and enough
ater Sowa down these streams to ro
san the whols valley from end to aml
fn surumn the water of the Rio Grande
tx somewhat exhausted
rose hes the Texas line a8
tng industry below Ei
hmiore QL
nid the farm
Pass {3 thus
tr water down tn rloioas abundance
say that valuable crop gre often rained
hy its overflow. The eugineering que |
Linn {
of paramount iniphrtance in Texas
conirol the waters of the Rig
for the droughts Of angust
are already being made to do this, hie
it will be a glegantle engineering fear
thist will require years for completion,
—Gunton's ¥agastne.
are lamp. |
: repart on the farpen
fine and rosin industry of the United |
Ee
plored, $11.582 845, ian $4082 370:
while §
Ww Ai
5 Bae
this valley |
Boods send
after this laundering they are.
rolled on a stick. Each tableciof
its ivwn stick, as long as the p
wide when folded lengthwise tl
the centre. the sticks being
covered with several folds of
#nd afterwards with muslin.
rloth ls ironed in one fold, one
svenly pinned to the stick And ;
| fioth Jocsely roiled on I. so
A member of {he faculty of the Mos B
will not crease. Afterwards t
is alipped inte 8 long Barrow
i8id In ths Linen close or in
tra wer of the sideboard if that:
for that purpose. :
The Betnrn to Pillow. Covers:
It bed dressing a return to |
rovers must be poted. The stiff
bobiters are still used, but thelr
ons fraud bas long been
the sleeping pillows mackaepers prs
the bed during the day. Wyn this
& tacking of sheer muslin, which con
verts them intd® sn actual case that
draws on over the other pillow,
well dressed bed is an important pm
of the modern weil equipped be v0
fokiing beds having been reloga
the list of sxpedients necessary ©
but. never desirable. ~New York Post.
Yalnahie Washing Saggentions,
A housekeeper makes goms valus
pugrgestions about washing linen em
| brofdered with wash pilka. Emb
ered articles shonld be washed ome 3
a time bv immersing In warm suds
por hot, made of pure soap; the soap
should be castile or some White,
gesnted varisty, Add a teaspoonful
of borax to the rinsing water, and the
article should pot be rubbed bat
winiply rubbed up and down, and B®
ahinld Se ringed in several waters
Embroidered articles shogld bo
soileszed, not rubbed. To dry them
wrap in a clean cloth, and remove i
in a few minutes and dry quickly in
the air. but not ia the san. Whes
pefectly dry lay the embroidery face
down on a smooth fina sheet, and
carefully draw the edges into pince.
Dampen the linen sections with & fine
gpinge. pass a hot iron over the cloth
in the direction of the grain of the ms
{tetfal. The iron sbouid be kot and
shinid move very quickly.
Oatmeal Fritters—One cup of cold
conkied catmeal, one ogg. two-thirds of
a up of sweat milk, one eup of Some,
teaspoon baking powder, Iwo
talilempoons sugar, pinch of salt. Drop
in spoonfuls {nto a fat. well greased
siciller. Cover and when brows turn.
Tein minutes will cook them. :
String Bean and Tomato Salad—
Peel the tomatoes, cut out a round st
the stem end, scoop out the seeds sad
£1 with cold cooked string bLesas
mixed with a litle mayonnaise Or
1 just sprinkle 8 bit of salt over the out
site of the tomatoes and dress the
beans with French dressing. Have
the vegetables both ive cold whem
serving, in sither case, :
Parisienne Potatoen—WHE 8 cutter -
¢ur large potatoes into balls like mar.
hies. Cool slowly in bolling salted”
wikter about ten minutes, or ontil you
cap pierre them easily with » foe
skewer without breaking them Desin
and shake carefully until dry. Pour
aver them one tablespoonful of but
ter muited,
are battered. sprinkie with salt, pep
per and mincsa parsley.
Pot Roast of Beef —Take a piece of
lean beef tour or five pounds, put
a vessel with enough cold water to
bull cover the ment. after It has come
ts a boll and the scum taken off, put
in one small onion, pepper and salt,
also a bHrtle celorys set it back om
~ five hours, of aatil render; thicken
ft.
Rire Mufins—One pink of milk one
quart of four, one pint of boiled ries,
three wggs. two tablespooniuls of se
gar. one teaspoonful of salt, two belie
iiig tesspoonfals cream of tartar, thoes
anghly mired with the flour, two even
teaspooninis soda dissolved in the
milk. Beat the eggs. sugar and salt
together, and add to the milk. Sor in
the flour gradually. When a smooth
igh® paste add the rice. Beat thos
oughly. Bake 3 minutes in buttered
pans.
Quince Pudding—Boll eight large
¢nineos till very soft. Peel core and
rash them. then add the yolks of five
¢ges well beaten together with a pint
of cream. Swesten to taste and add
a dash of powdered ginger and cine
mon. Butter the edges of a ple dish,
pat a strip of puff paste around the
edge pour in the quince mixture and . 2
hake in a moderate oven for an hour.
| Probably no sauce will be pecessary
yeith this pudding, but a bit eof
Whipped STAD SEY] A w=
burve ® make R more delici,
and roi! about until all 5