-., me like that,” observed the professor.
RR
THE CAGED BIRD)
A year ago I asked you for your souls
1 took it in my hands, it weighed as Yight
any bird's wing, it was poised for
ght,
t was a wandering thing without a goal,
caged it, and 1 tended it; it throve;
se ways 1 taught it; it forgot to fly;
It learnt to know its cage, its keeper; I,
Its keeper, taught it that the cage was
ove.
And now I take my bird out of the cage,
It flutters not a feather, looks at me
Sadly without desire, without surprise;
A 1 have tamed it, it is still and sage,
It has not strength enough for liberty,
It does not even hate me with its eyes,
~~Arthur Symons, in Harper's.
———
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Psychical Research]
oy
A
0 HE American girl sat next
T to Professor Denman. On
then came Mr. Forester,
then Mrs, Murchison, then
mo significance, then the American
girl. The table was quite still,
quired the American girl. “Somebody
give it a kick and tell it to get busy.”
utes,” observed Professor Denman,
“You must have some patience,
member, mosy of us bave never at-
tempted beforel’
fcan. “I suppose I've been turned out
of the circle for making fun at a
a craze for it one winter, and some of
us could make the table step lively;
its own accord so long as I was in
the crew. You see, I never could get
make the other girls real mad.”
“Well, I am responsible for our mak-
"professor mildly, “and I must apologize
for the lack of results. Shall we fry
“I have heard,” remarked the host,
“* “that sometimes a table that has made
will yield to the method of asking
questions and knock on the floor in
“Three times for ‘Yes,’ once for ‘No,’
I suppose,” remarked Colonel Hooke.
shall we try it? Mr, Forester, 1 sug-
gest that, just for a beginning, you
swerable by ‘Yes’ or ‘No,” and concen-
trate your whole thought upon it for
fingers touching as before.”
“What, me?’ said young Mr. Fores
fessor. He caught the eye of the
American girl, who was turning a
him. Mr. Forester suddenly straight-
ened himself in his chair. “All right,”
Jooked at him curiously; then smiled to
herself.
“Yes? Now fix your mind on the ques-
tion; and everybody else please try and
We'll give the table five niinutes.”
“Not wanted,” observed the host, as
legs and rapped back ou the floor;
once, twice, three times.
prompt with the best of the mediums.”
said Colonel Hooke. “How's that, For-
“First rate, thanks,” replied the
“young man, who had suddenly grown
the astounding—"'
“Shall we continue?” asked Professor
of the enthusiasm every one expected
from him at the first success of his
wearisome work for the company.” He
half rose.
© his other side sat the host,
Colonel Hooke, then a young man of
“Say, do you think it's asleep?” in-
“We have not been sitting ten min-
Alice,” said Mrs. Murchison. “Re-
“Well, I have,” SsQined the Amer-
dozen table-turnings up home. We Lad
but it never would shift a half-inch of
to feel serious about it. It used to
ing the present experiment,” said the
a little longer?”
no motion whatever of a rotary kind
answer to them.”
“Just s0,” said the professor. “Well,
formulate in your mind a question an-
a short time, while we sit with our
ter in confusion, looking up at the pro-
limpid and sympathetic glance upon
he said, “I don’t mind.” The American
“Ready ?’ inquired the professor,
take a real interest in the experiment.
the little table rose slightly on two
“Gad! I've never known it more
ester?”
red in the face. “But I say! Of all
Denman, in a tone that betrayed none
hobby. “I'm afraid this is rather
“Oh! we must go on!” cried Mrs.
Murchison. “Such an excellent begin-
ming! Let's switch the lights off and
do the thing properly.”
“No; no putting out of the lights, if
you don't mind,” said the professor.
© “That would make the thing even more
foolish than it already is. But we will
| 80 on if it still amuses anybody.”
| Every one looked at him in surprise.
“Have you suddenly become an old-
fashioned scientific scoffer, Denman?”
ked. the colonel, rather grufily. Sit
Own and let's get on. I'm going to
sk the table to give us a date.”
But not another movement did the
e make that night, '#
pper Professor Denman sat next
American girl,
Everard,” said the professor,
in an undertone, “I will take
portunity of asking you why
ade fools of the company this
o!?
. Everard was occupied at the
nt in blushing. She had just
ht Mr. Forester's eye across the
table. But at the professor's words
. #he blushed a little deeper, and glanced
at him in the manner of one of Mr.
Dana Gibson's unapproachable divini-
ties. Mr. Forester did not miss this
admirable effect. “The old boy is say-
Ing something pleasant,” he reflected
angrily. .
“It is not of the least use looking at
#Bhall I give you some salad? This is
not the first time I have engaged in
investigations of this sort, by some
hundreds. I may have struck you as a
harmless old gentleman, with whom it
was safe to play tricks; but I knew
at once that you were tilting your side
of the table when we got that ‘Yes.
Why did you do it?
Miss Everard ate her salad pensively
for a few moments, Then she smiled
“Yen,” she sald, “you are quite right,
professor, 1 did work the old table
just at the end. But you don't want
to give me away now, do you? 1 had
my reasons.”
“As it was quite clear from the out.
set that you would not pretend to con.
duct the experiment in a proper spirit,”
replied the professor, with good humor,
“1 was quite regdy for something of
the sort from you, My only surprise is
to learn that you had a reason worth
calling by that name, May one ask
what it was?
“Why, 0; not too closely, anyway,”
answered the American, dallying with
a fork in some apparent confusion,
“But I will tell you this. I happened
to have a sort of an idea what Mn,
Forester's question was, and 1 guessed
it would do him a heap of good to have
it answered with a ‘Yes. His question
was about a--a family matter that's
been troubling him some. 1 think it
was that, anyway.”
“Well, your benevolent fraud seems
to have worked wonders,” observed the
professor, innocently regarding Mr.
Forester. “He looks more cheerful
than I've ever seen him, positively, 1
must congratulate you.”
The professor spoke these last words
with the faintest suggestion of em-
phasis, and smiled gently at his neigh-
bor, Miss Everard again colored a lit-
tle and then looked him bravely in the
face.
“Perhaps you may later on, profes-
sor.” she said,
“Come, I'm walking your way, For-
ester,” said Professor Denman, as they
put on their coats, “We'll go together,
Only have some consideration for the
trembling limbs of an old man, my
boy. Don’t run me off my legs. You
seem,” he added, as they descended the
steps of the house, “as if you walked
on air.”
“So 1 do!” exclaimed Mr. Forester, |
baring his head to the night breeze.
“I'm the happiest man in London, by
Jove! Professor, you shall be the first
to wish me joy! I am going to marry
lice Everard. She accepted me in the
drawing room haif an hour ago. What
do youn say to that, sir?
“I am overwhelmed,” replied the pro-
fessor, with the hint of dryness in his
tone. “Aly dear Forester, I wish you
joy. I never met the lady before this
evening, but I can tell you this: She |
is resourceful, and she has pluck.”
“I should think she had!” cried Mr.
Forester, with enthusiasm. “But I
say, professor, we owe this evening's
happiness to you, I must tell you. It
all came of your table-turning.”
“Yes?” said the professor, interroga-
tively.
“The question I put in my mind,”
pursued Mr. Forester, “was whether I
had any chance with Alice. I had
hardly dared to hope it; there were at
least a dozen better men than I am
in the running, and I simply couldn’t
summon up the cheek to ask her until
to-night. But when your jolly old table
thumped out ‘Yes,’ I took my courage
in both hands and did it. I shall
never,” he added solemnly, “laugh at
that sort of thing again. It's dashed
odd and uncanny, and I don’t under-
stand it. But it answered my question,
and it was right.”
“Yes,” mused the professor, “it was.
Speaking as an investigator, I may say {
that a remarkably strong influence was |
at work to-night—very strong indeed.” |
—E. Clerihew, in London Daily News,
Extent of Swamp Lauds,
The Dutch have reclaimed vast
areas in Holland from the encroach-
ment of the ocean. Thousands of fam-
il live and farm below the sea lédvel,
gaining their security by m
feats of engineering and persistence.
They now contemplate the drainage of
the Zuyder Zee, reclaiming some 1,350,»
000 additional acres of meadow land.
American drainage, in most cases,
would be fa: more simple and less ex-
pensive; it is simply a question as to
whether the nation will see the wis-
dom of setting its hand to this work.
In Florida the Everglades alone—
almost solid muck beds—would afford
an empire of some 7,000,000 acres; in
New Jersey and Virginia are vast
swamps, among them the famous Dis-
mal Swamp. In Illinois, which is gen-
erally regarded as a well settled agri-
cultural State, there ave <.000,000 acres
of swamp land; in Michigan there are
nearly 4,000,000 acres. Fertile Iowa has
about 2,000,000 acres of swamp land.
In Minnesota there are almost 5,000,000
acres of rich surveyed swamp lands
and huge swamp areas not yet sur-
veyed. Arkansas has tremendous
swamp areas which could be drained
and made habitable, and, in all, there
is a swamp area in the eastern half
of the United States which is equal
in extent to the great agricultural
States of Indiana, Illinois and Iowa,
with three or four smaller Eastern
States thrown in.—New York Press.
|
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Kentucky Mules Scarce.
“A pair of big, fine young mules are
easily worth $500, and they are hard
to get even at that high price,” said
Mr. L. B. Foreman, of Cincinnati,
“Kentucky is the great mule-producing
State, and one county alone in that
Cemmonwealth had 18,000 mules on its
tax rolls last gear. There is good
money in breeding them, but not in
localities where land is very high
priced. During the Boer war the Brit-
ish bought thousands of mules for use
in their campaign against the Afri-
kanders, and owners made big money.
Horses of high quality are also very
scarce in the West, and the demand
for them is even keener than in the
days when automobiles were unknown,
Good horses, in fact, are so high that
sales are exceedingly dull.”—Wash-
ington Post.
The collection of musical instru
ments, medals, jewels, autographs and
original compositions, published and
unpublished, which belonged to* the
great violinist, Paganini, is to be sold.
The. articles number 358 and are now
at her accuser,
the property of his brother,
THRILLING FIGHT FOR LIFE,
0 O be seated in a buggy be-
hind a runaway horse, bat-
T © (ling for his life with a
K, Fr wildeat, was the exper-
oN rience of Harvey Jack-
son, a traveling man from New
York. While he was driving from
Irventon, Pa, to Youngsville, the rig
was passing a lonely stretch of woods,
when the beast sprang into the vehicle
from a tree, aligiting on the driver's
lap.
The wildcat tore the rebe to pieces
and attacked Jackson. He drew a
small knife and managed to open it.
While the cat was tearing his face and
body he jabbed it with his weapon.
The horse had become frightened
and was running away, while in the
swaying buggy the battle continued.
Jackson was gradually growing
weaker, when suddenly the cat dropped
to the bottom of the buggy, dead. He
bad killed it with the knife.
Tae horse ran almost to Youngsville
befeve Jackson recovered and stopped
it. although badly hurt, the man will
recover.—Philadelphia Record.
PIRILS ON CHINESE RIVER.
Miss Anna B. Coole, a young Baptist
| missionary, who has been in the far
| interior of China for two years, arrived
recently in San Francisco, Cal, on the
Coptic on her way to Cleveland, Ohio.
With Miss Coole were Gretchen and
Kathleen Wellwood, young daughters
of the Rev. Robert Wellwood, a mis-
sionary in Szechen, not far from the
border of Tibet, 2000 miles up the
Yangtse Kiang from Shanghai.
The trip made by Miss Coole and
her young charges was most unusual.
Leaving Suifu on January 15 in a na-
tive boat, accompanied by a lifeboat in
charge of Chinese soldiers, they started
down the river, traveling only by day
On the way down their boat was
wrecked on a rock and the party had a
narrow escape for their lives, finally
reaching Shanghai in safety.
BURGLARS ODD ADVENTURE.
When a Paris architect named M.
Georgel was sitting in his office a
few days ago, he heard a knock at the
door, but as he desired to be alone he
took no notice and went on with his
work.
A few minutes later he heard a key
moving in the lock, so, not doubting
that his visitor was a burglar, the
architect armed himself with a re-
volver and hid behind some curtains.
A moment later the burglar entered
and proceeded to rifle the room. Then
suddenly he started and grew pale.
In a mirror he had seen a revolver
leveled at his head from behind the
curtains.
“Open the window,” ordered the
architect, “and shout ‘Police!’ ” The
burglar had no alternative but to
obey, and was speedily arrested.—Paris
Journal,
THE SAHARA TRAVERRED.
The most remarkable journey across
the Sahara was begun in May last
year, and ended less than five months
later. The explorer was Professor E.
F. Gautier, of the School of Leiters,
Algiers, who is well known for his
geological studies in the northern part
of the desert. For the last 600 miles
he had with him only a guide and a
servant, and was practically unarmed,
for he carried no rifles.
He met the Tuareg outlaws, who
had lived by plunder and made the
desert travel impossible except for the
strongest caravans; but he expected no
harm at their hands, and in fact they
belped hifh on his way. Ie made re-
markable discoveries, for his route was
through the unknown and widest parts
of the desert, south of the Tuat oa
The paths of Caille and Lentz were far
to the west, those of Barth and IFou-
reau were far to the east of his track,
and so he had a virgin field for his
researches.
Four years ago, such a journey as
Gautier has made would have been re-
garded as a madcap enterprise, doomed
to failure and involving the lives of all
engaged in it. But Gautier believed
he would pass unscatched and win
success, and no one thought his fool-
hardy. Mis journey was made possi-
ble by an idea that struck the French
four years ago—a brilliant conception,
brilliantly carried out, by which they
f
”.
have revolutionized the conditions of
desert travel—Cyrus CC. Adams, in
American Monthly Review of Re-
views.
MAIL IN THE WILDERNESS,
The annual mail for: Arctic circle
points with the Dominion of Canada
has just been despatched by way of
Edmonton, Alberta, over a trail which
is not only the longest mail route in
the world, but the most desolate and
most difficult. Letters only are carried,
€ays a British Columbia correspondent
of the New York Sun, and these are
limited to one ounce in weight, as the
entire bulk of the packet when if leaves
Edmonton must come within 200
pounds.
For the two-cent stamp which decor-
ates the corner of the envelope the
letter will be carried in some cases
from the extremes of South %frica,
Australia or India, and it willl most
probably be necessary tothave fe car-
riers go 500 or 600 miles into afifrozen,
forbidding wilderness. The
overn- |
ment expends upon the redemption
of the stamp very many thousand times
what it receives, and the carrier must
fight Ingle-handed with nature, His
life and the safety of the precious
packet entrusted to him are at all
times in hazard,
This is the first year in which the |
Postoffice Department of Canada has
assumed the delivery of mail in the |
Bay |
extreme North, The Hudson
Company has heretofore carried mes-
sages to and from the Arctic and sub- |
Increases in the num- |
Arctic country,
bers of trappers, missionaries, prospecs
tors, settlers and policemen in the ex
treme North explain the taking over
of the responsibility by the Postmaster
General of Canada,
The mail is divided into two packets
at Edmonton, one for points between
Lac La Biche and Fort Resolution, and
the other for the straggling outposts
of empire as far north as Fort Mec-
Pherson, the most northerly depot even
of the Hudson Bay Company, nearly
100 miles within the Arctic circle,
where the year is divided into a single
day and night.
The Lac La Biche mall goes by horse
only 120 miles out of Edmonton,
Thenceforward the dog and the rein
deer are the carrier's assistants, From
Edmonton to Fert McPherson is over
a thousand miles. Ten intermediate
deliveries are made, and the mail ar-
rives at the fort in April—if it has no
exceptional delays. .
Besides these packets, several other
packets go to the northland about this
season, so that all the posts will re-
ceive at least one mail a year. There
is a mail made up at Prince Albert
that goes as far as the head of Rein-
deer Lake, at the edge of the great
Barren Lands. The York Factory
packet runs to the far north by way
of Winnipeg and the Nelson River.
The Moose packet is made up at Mat-
tawa, and goes by way of Abittibe
River,
The carriers for the east and vest
shores of the great bay sometimes
meet at the southern ports on the
shores of the bay, and the meetings
are made the occasion of brief but
hearty jollifications. Then each passes
on his way.
Newspapers and packages are car-
ried to the north by the annual steams-
ers of the Hudson Bay Company on
the Mackenzie River in the summer.
Of course letters are also carried, but
newspapers convey the tidings of the
world, and are treasured as fine jewels,
A SOLDIER'S WAY.
Abraham Haarscher was one of the
beaux of his regiment. He attended
the dances o. the enlisted men as re-
ligiously as he attended reveille, but
at no dance was there any particular
maiden singled out for the attentions
of Private Haarscher. He went the
rounds and danced with every girl that
came to the enlisted men's merrymak-
ing. Haarscher had dodged Indian
bullets and Spanish bullets and he
dodged Cupid's shafts. He saw his
comrades marry and leave the service.
They told him his day would come, but
he laughed at them.
During the course of his years of
duty as one of Uncle Sam's soldiers
Private Haarscher saw service in four
different regiments and against every
form of foe that his adopted country
had to face. Few men knew as did
THE SUEZ CANAL,
—
Nard to Build, Costly to Maintain, Bus
Well Worth It AlL
The creation of the wheat export
frade of India was directly due to the
{ opening of the Suez route to Europe.
| Before that time, says the Technical
World, all attempts successfully to
ship wheat by way of the Cape of
Good Hope had failed, because of heat.
ing during the long voyage and the
| loss from weevils in the cargo.
During the first year of operation of
the Suez Canal 486 vessels, aggregat-
ing 436,000 tons, passed . through it.
At the present time the number is
about 4000 ships, with a tounage of
about 10,000,000.
The magnitude of these figures be-
comes apparent when it is considered
that the foreign tonnage entering at
the port ©f New York is less than
0,000,000 a year.
Measured by value. the importance
of the Suez Canal trafiic becomes much
larger, the imports and exports of In-
dia alone which pass through it being
nearly gune-quarter of the vaiue of the
total foreign trade of the United
States.
The building of the Suez Canal was
a triumph of organization. At times
no fewer than 80,000 laborers were em-
ployed; and all the adjuncts of a per-
manent community had to be provided
by the constructing company.
The cost of maintenance of the canal
is necessarily high, on account of the
drift of sand from the Nile at Port
Said, which has constantly to be
dredged away. The operating expenses
are also heavy, the great traffic in-
volving considerable cost for pilotage.
Altogether, the annual expense for
maintenance and operation is at the
present time about $1,400,000, or ap-
proximately $13,000 per mile, -
About thirteen hours are required to
go through the Suez Canal by ordinary
steamer. By a system of landing marks
and electric light buoys, navigation by
night is made as safe as by day: and
each vessel in motion is required to
supplement the stationary lighting sys-
tem by having on board and in opera-
tion a lighting apparatus to illuminate
its passage through. Vessels without
an apparatus of their own may hire
the necessary reflectors, ete, upon en-
tering the canal and return them con
leaving.
WISE WORDS.
Vision, aspiration is
tial.—James M. Taylor.
The misfortunes that are hardest to
bear are those that never lLappen.—
Lowell.
Foolish men mistake transitory sem-
blances for eternal fact and go astray
more and more.—Carlyle.
Education begins the gentleman, but
reading. good company and reflection
must finish him.—Locke.
Thought is the forerunner of action.
Keep your thoughts pure, that your
actions may be wortby.—London S. 8,
Times.
Stand with anybody that stands
right. Stand with him while he is
right, and part with him when he goes
wrong.—Abraham Lincoln.
Grief for things past that cannot be
remedied and cave for things to come
that cannot be prevented, may easily
hurt, can never benefit me. — Joseph
Hall.
the first essen-
this private what absolute devotion
to duty meant. |
Haarscher was intensely proud of |
Lis French nativity. One night at a far
Northwestern ison he was walk- |
ing post as a sentinel upon a frail tems |
ne 'y bridge thrown across a stream, |
The ends of the structure marked the |
ends of his post.
A storm arose in sudden fury. The |
stream which flowed under the bric
kad been swollen before by the rains
of the season, In a few minutes it
was a raging, roaring torrent. The
I re began to show signs of weak- |
». Haarscher kept on walking his |
The timbers were creaking une |
Post.
der his feet and the water was begin-
ning to creep over the planking, when
the officer of the day appeared at the
end of the bridge. He saw the senti-
nel ang his peril.
“Come off that bridge, No. 5,’ he
yelled above the storm.
HMaarscher walked calmly off the
bridge in obedience to orders and came
to an ‘arms port.”
“Haarscher, you fool,
know ‘that bridge, is going?”
Even as the officer of the day spoke
the bridge was whirled way.
“That was my post, Lieuten-nt,”
seid Private Haarscher, “and you for-
get that I am a Frenchman.”
At the end of the Franco-Prussian
War Haarscher came to America em-
bittered because his native province,
Alsace, Lad become the spoil of the
enemy. He enlisted almost immediate:
ly upon his arrival in this country,
and until the day of his death at Fort
Sheridan he never passed an hour, save
when on occasional leaves of absence,
beyond sight of the flag that marked
the campus, the garrisons or the bat
tlefields of America.
Abraham Haarscher carried one recs
ord that is probably unique in the his.
tories of the armies of the world. In
nearly thirty years’ service, although
a model of soldierly neatness, discis
pline and intelligence, he never wore
the stripe of a non-commissioned offi
cer, refusing chevrons time after time;
his reasons for refusing being known
to no one but himself.
Haarscher did not know what the in-
side of a guardhouse looked like from
ihe viewpoint of a prisoner. There
never was a soldier in camp or bar-
racks whose rifle and equipments were
like unto his. So at guard mount, as
the neatest soldier, he was chosen for
the duties of orderiy to the command:
ing officer. The soldier thus chosen
i rot obliged to wall: post, and when
tattoo comes he can turn in to sleep
without fear of being rcuted out for
don't you
the duties of the mid ight guard—
Chicago Post.
The character which you are c¢on-
structing is not your own. It is the
building material out of which other
generations will quarry stones for ihe
temple of life. See to it, therefore,
that it be granite and not shale.—Dr.
A. J. Cordon.
The deep truth about all noble life is
that it is renewed every day. * * *
The past has enough to deo fo help it-
self, and we cannot mase reserves of
goodness; the need of each day ex-
hausts all the supply.—Samuel Chap-
man Armstrong.
You can unlock a man’s whole
if you watch what words he uses most.
We nave each a small set of words,
which, though we are scarcely aware
of it, we always work with, and which
really express all that we mean by life
or have found out of it.—Professor
Henry Drummond.
Principal Thing in a Law Point.
A young man from the South who
a few years ago was so fortunate as
to be enabled to enter the law offices
of a well-known New York firm, was
first intrusted with a very simple case.
He was asked by the late James C.
Carter, then a member of the firm, to
give an opinion in writing. When
this was submitted it was observed by
Mr. Carter that, with the touching con-
fidence of a neophyte, the young
Southerner had begun with the ex-
pression, “I am clearly of opinion.”
When this caught his eye he smiled
and said:
“My dear young friend, never state
that you are clearly of opinion on a
law point. The most you can hope to
discover is the preponderance of the
doubt.—Success.
Klectric Train Light.
A little combination of dynamo and
eteam turbine is now in use by certain
railroads for generating electric cur-
rent on the train itself. The generator
is so light and compact that it may
be placed on the locomotive in front
of the cab. It runs noiselessly and
with almost no vibration, thanks to
the turbine motor. The steam is drawn
directly from the boiler and may be ex-
hausted inte the smoke stick: In some
installations the dynamo and turbine
are placed in the front end of the bag-
gage cfr, where they occupy a floor
space only five feet six by twenty-two
inches in extent. Headlights are now
frequently lighted by means of these
diminutive generators
one appearance at public worship in
the course of the year. This is on the
day which commemorates his accession
to the throne.
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HOUSEHOLD
AFFAIRS
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COFFEE AND TEA STAINS. .
Coffee and tea stains, if rubbed with
putter and afterwards washed in hot
soap suds, will come out, leaving the
table linen quite white and fresh,
CLEANS BLACK MARBLE. '
Spirits of turpentine will clean and
polish black marble. For removing
ktains from white marble nothing is
better than a paste made of one-
quarter pound of whiting, one-eighth
pound of soda and «<ne-eighth pound
of laundry soap melted. Boil the
mixture until it becomes a paste. Bee
fore it is quite cold spread it over the
marble and leave it for twenty-four
hours. Wash it off in soft water, and
dry the marble with a soft cloth.
COTTON WASTE AS CLEANER.
Why do not housekeepers adopt cots
ton rraste as a cleaning agent? Watch
the engineer pick up a bunch of waste,
wipe off oil or dust and throw the cot.
ton into & heap to be burned at his
convenience, How much better tham
to use a cloth which some one had to
hem and some one else would have to
wash and iron. Why is not cotton
waste the best possiLle stuff to use
instead of so many floor cloths, wall
cloths, dust cloths, stove cleaners and
mops?
CREAM PUFFS,
A half pound of butter, three-quare
ters of a pound of flour, eight eggs, two
cupfuls of hot water. Melt the butter
in the water, set over the fire, and
bring to a gentle boil. Then put in
the flour and boil it until it leaves the
sides of the saucepan, never ceasing to
stir. One minute is enough. Turn ine
to a bowl to cool. Beat the eggs in,
one at a time, beating each for a min«
ute, and when all are in beat all to-
gether for two minutes. Set on the
ice for an hour, then drop in great
spoonfuls of equal size upon buttered
paper laid in a broad baking pan, take
ing care not to let them touch one
another. Bake for fifteen minutes in a
good oven, by which time they should
be golden brown. When cool, make a
glit in the side of each and fill with a
filling made by heating in a double
boiler a cup of milk to which a pinch
of soda has been added. Add two
teaspoonfuls of cernstarch wet in a
little cold milk, and gradually one egg
beaten light with a half cup of pow-
dered sugar, and stir until thick. Re-
move from the fire, add a teaspoonful
of vanilla, and when cold fill the puffs,
A MODEL NURSERY.
The House Beautiful describes =
model nursery, not a handsome room
with furniture made to order, deco-
rated walls, and nursery rhyme pic
tures, but simply a big, sunny room
at the top of the house. “In one cor-
ner is the girls’ oll house. On a
zinc covered stand under the window is
a sizable gas stove with an oven and
two burners. Here the children make
‘andy and bake apples; here the lit-
tle girls wash and iron their dolls”
clothes without let or hindrance from
the rulers of the kitchen. There is a
deep closet to this room, with drawers
allotted to each child. In the lowest
drawer are old gowns of mother’s, old
hats of father’s, the loveliest, old arti~
ficial flowers, parasols, shawls delect-
able and everything you can imagine
for Gressing up or play-ucting. A very,
small room adjoining is fitted up as a
workshop for the oldest boy. A car
penter's bench fills most of the space,
having clamps and vises, and drills
and screws, and other mysterious
requisite to the handicraft. A shelf
runs round the room, holdins models
of various things, tins of glue, stains,
varnish. A cabinet of tools hangs on
the wall.”
Philadeiphia Ice Cream—Scald one
pint of cream. Add one cup of sugar
and stir until dissolved. Take from
fire and add one pint of chilled cream,
Freeze when cold.
Tomato Butter—Scald and skin ripe
tomatoes, add a quarter of the quantity
of pared, cored and quartered pleasant
sour apples. Weigh the kettle, put in
the tomatoes and apples, and cook to
the consistency of marmalade, then
to every six pounds add a teaspoonful
of ginger, the juice of a large lemon
and four pounds of light brown sugar;
boil fifteen minutes or until it will
spread smoothly.
Ginger Snaps—Beat one-half pint of
butter in a mixing bowl until creamy.
Gradually beat one-half pint of su-
gar and one-half pint molasses into
this, then add one tablespoonful gin-
ger, one teaspoonful salt and one-half
tablespoonful cinn®mon. Dissolve a
teaspoonful soda in one gill cold water
and add. Work in three pints flour,
beating well. Roll thin and cut into
round cakes. Bake n & greased pan
in a quick oven.
Finnan Haddie (Delmouico Style)—
Have ready one pound of cooked fin-
nan haddie picked fine and freed from
skin and bone. Make two cups good
ream sauce, using four tablespoonfuls
of butter, one tablespoonful of flour
and two cups hot milk, Stir until
smooth and thick, add the yolks of
two eggs well beaten, three hard
boiled eggs cut up fine, Depper to sea-
gon and one tablespconful Edam
cheese, Add the picked-up fish, heat
all together until very lot and serve
alone with toast,
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