| CHILDREN'S COLUMN, j
Tommy'* Dream.
Little Tommy was a hero, and tiio fairies ;
thought him good;
He felt as brave as twenty Jack-tbe-Giant-
Killers could.
One day. as he was dozing, he was sum
moned to the fray,
"You shall have,'* a fairy cried, "an opf>or- I
tunity today !
The Princess Painty Darling i 3 a prisoner
in yo<n tower,
And a lowering Giant guards her—oh, how
darkly he can lower !"
"Let me have some wings," said Tommy,
"and a sword that goes thwack,
thwack,
And I'll make a few things happen at that
tower ere I come back !"
So they flew away together and the Giant
soon was seen,
Low'ring at them with a visage that wae
wicked and unclean.
The Giant waved his spikey club,but Tommy
killed him dead,
One blow sulTiced to separate his body and
his bead.
And the Princess Dainty Darling he pro- i
ceeded to unchain;
v To the King and Queen, her parents, then,
he brought her back again.
The good King said, "Sir Thomas, you
shall have her for your own.
And when I get too old for work,l'll let you
bnvo my throne.
'Tou shall have a royal palace, filled with
knights and serving folk,
And your pockets full of gold, nmd—"
Twns at this point Tommy woke !
—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Betty's Birthday Bnc.
Butty Ellis hud hud a birthday party
every year she lived, until the year of
her seventh birthday. At that time
her mamma was very sick, so all
thought of a party had to be g . en up.
Betty was dreadfully dlsai p dated,
but bravely tried to make the L it.
Now Betty had a dear, den: e,
who lived at their house, a:.d was
|| always thinking and doing the most
delightful things. So when *-..<■ ; w
how bad Betty felt, she put on . - ivst
thinking-cap, and soon had made up a
clever plan for a birthday surprise
without any party.
For several days bufote the party,
Butty noticed that auntie looked very
funny aud mysterious, and she just
knew something nice was going to
happen.
When she opened her eyes on the
morning of her birthday, she saw lean
ing up against the side of her bed, a
large bag. It looked like the bags
that ragmen use to gather rags in, and
seemed to he full of something very
odd in shape.
Betty jumped out of bed to look at
It, and there, tied to the draw-string
was a card with her name on it Of
course she knew it was a birthday
present "But what a funny way to
yr, l?lve one!" she thought as she pulled
< it open. Inside was just what she
had longed for, a new doll-carriage for
her Christmas doll.
At breakfast-time she found under
her plate a tiny bag made of pink silk.
Inside, wrapped in cotton, was a ring
with the tiniest speck o.f a diamond
in it. How she danced about and hug
ged papa and auntie!
When she got ready to start for
school, she found, in place of her old
book-satchel, a new school-bag, with a
story-book in it. It was hard to have
to leave that at home, and put her
school-books in its place, .lane, the
eook, gave lier a calico bag to keep
buttons In. She found this at noon, up
in her room; also a pretty laundry-bag
from auntie, with six new handker
chiefs in it. And when papa came
home at night, he brought. Instead or a
box of candy, a big bag full of candles
and uuts.
But the nicest birthday bag of all,
so Betty thouglrt, was the one Tom
gave her. Tom was the gardener's
m son, and a very good friend of hers.
> He had two of the dearest little pup
pies that ever were seen, and Betty
had been teasing for one ever since
they were bom.
How surprised she was when, on her
birthday, Tom came in with a horse's
feed-bag in his hand, carrying it very
carefully, and begged her to accept it.
It sepimnl a queer present, but she
thanked him, and peeped in, and there
was the prettiest puppy, the one with
the white nose!
When Betty went to lxd that night,
with the ring on her finger, the doll
carriage at the foot of the LxhL and the
puppy in her arms, she told anntie, in
their bedtime talk, that she thought
birthday bags wore just exactly as
nice as Christmas stockings.—Youtli's
Companion.
The Soup-Bubbler*.
Some extraordinary performances
are described in St. Nicholas In Mere
dith Nugent's article on "The 'Soitp-
Bublilevs' First Reception." The
*•' Soap-Bubblers—hot recently organized,
with our old friend Phil as Head Bub
bler, Harry Baker as Chief Cornucopia,
• the minor Bubblers occupying minor
* odd-titled positions, as well as nil Bub
blers occupying no positions at nil
bad resolved that the ancient and hon
orable amusement of blowing soap
bubbles was sadly in need of refor
mation; and, further, that it was their
mission to reform it. Thus it caine to
pass that on the evening for the por
fotflhance the interior of .Masonic Hall
presented such a scene of hrllianey as
had rarely lieen equalled within its
historic walls.
After a few words explanatory of the
evolution of the soap-bubble from the
clay-pipe stage to its present one, Phil
dipped a wire ring into the soliffion.
and gently sweeping it before him.
cast off a bubble fully twice the size
of his head. Every Bubbler boy gave
a cry of satisfaction at tills, and it
looked as though all the Bubblers
might fling their golden cornucopias on
to the stage, when the master of the
soap and water tossed off five large
bubbles in succession, not only from
.the same ring, hut from the same film:
\ Almost immediately Phil's assistants
—tliore were five of them—followed '
his exahiple, mid from that time on the 1
stage was continually aglow Wltli tha
brilliant spheres.
Harry Bakcrr.uw came forward with |
the club's two kittens, and set them
011 a dry block of wood rusting in the !
center of one of the large nine foot pan* j
—now filletl with soupy water. Before |
club's two kittens, and set them on a [
dry block of wood resting in the center
of one of the large nine-foot i*ins—
now filled with soapy water. Berore j
the animals could move, Phil quickly ;
lifted a lioop frofn the pan. and in a
twinkling covered both kittens over j
with a glorious bubble. "First kittens j
ever inside a soap-bubble!" Harry {
Baker announced, just as the little |
kittens started to wade about within i
the Iridescent dome. Phil sphered
them over a second and even a third j
time, when the pussies, excited by 1
their uproarious surroundings, offered
deckled objections to being imprisoned |
any more. Then Bubblers and audience 1
were treated to an exhibition of what I
were perhaps the largest bubbles that |
have over been made. Harry Baker I
was especially fortunate, and. at the I
end of a very exciting contest with j
Phil, succeeded in sphering the pan j
over from brim to briml Realize, 11 j
you please, that this bubble measured |
over nine feet in circumference! I'nil I
followed np this feat of Harry's by I
launching from the large hoop a round i
bubble measuring fully six feet in cir- J
cuniferencc! Compare this giant in I
size with the bubbles you have been !
used to blowing from clay pipes. As j
one Bubbler hilariously remarked, this j
was "more like a balloon show titan a j
bubble show." Not the least noticeable ■
fact was that the bubbles often meas- j
urcd twice the diameter of the rings j
from which they were thrown. Be- !
mailable, too, was the east; with which 1
both lioys picked up the lilins with !
their Ikhijis. These hoops, measuring
from 30 to 34 inches iu 01-
am< irr, when thus filmed over dashed
like disks of waving gold, lliil slowly
. revolved one of these golden disks up
' on the tips of his fingers, and a mo
ment later the audience were enthus
iastically applauding another of out
magicians' startling surprise. Here
| were two large elongated bubbles,
! springing from the same film, attached •
to each other in tin? center, and yet
traveling in opposite directions.
Iflill took a large hoop, and dipping It
in one of the great pans, withdrew
it covered by a film. Then he held the
i lustrous disk well up in front of him, j
and started to blow.
Starting from the lioop. first slowly,
and then almost shooting forth, was
an ever moving, ever-lengthening,
ever-vurying, twisting, writhing shape
—such a form, in fact, as might have
found existence In the imagination of
Edgar Allan Poe. When Phil and
Harry, together with tlielr assistants,
gave themselves up fully to this ex
hibition of monsters, the stage looked
as though peopled by one of tlio bob
goblin races. Sometimes great bun
bles. live feet hi circumference, wotiln
snap off the end of these sonp-tmtihle
dragons, and sometimes n number ot
very small ones. Inlengththey varied
from two to eight feet—that Is measure
ment in a straight line. Could all the
windings and twlstings have been
taken into eousldertlon. they would
have been found far longer.
PHILIPPINE MOUNTAIN TRIBE,
A IfllMlniiHry Describe* tlie IgiKTottes;
Who Cook and Eat Dogs,
The Rev. C. 11. Carlisle, a mission
ary, formerly of Warsaw, N. *., writes
from Dagupun. In the Philippines; to a
friend, and in Ids letter describes the
Igarottes, a mountain tribe. He says:
"Cp in tlie mountains of the nortl>
east there is a tribe of half savage,
people called I garottes. They live in
the mountains, hardly ever cotnlng
out into the valleys, except when hun
ger compels tliem. None of them
wear any clothing except a strip of
loin clotli. They have a speech of
tlsdr own. The Filipinos cannot un
derstand tliem. They are fond of dog
meat; so two days ago fonr of them
eame down here and in an hour had
captured 18 dogs, tied them wlta
ropes and started away. The Filipi
nos did not disturb them, letting them
have all the dogs they could catch.
They came right past my tent In the
evening, stopped 011 the hank of the
river n tittle way from the centre ot
tlie town, killed a dog, cooked and ate
him. They skinned it, cleaned the
body, ran a Stick of green bamboo
tlwough it lengthwise, then two of
them spitted the meat over the fire
until it was brown. Then they laid it
in the grass, and these four ate every
bit of that dog, even picked the bones
clean. They had no other foo<l with
the meat: no knives or rorks or
plntcs. They Just took the llesh in
their hands, tore it Into hits nnd de
voured it. Borne of our men offered
them a hit of cooked beef and they re
fused it, hut ate the meat raw. Then
they sang some sort of a chant, heat
ing on their stomachs the while. H
sounded to me like:
" 'We like dog
All sane bog,
flaked dog. fried doc, dog soap,
Bow-wow mueho good.'
'•They are rather taller than the
Filipinos, black as night nnd have
kinky hair. As the sun went down
they moved awayout of ttietown,lead
ing 15 dogs and carrying one they had
to kill in order to get him. The
sight made me sick and I lost nil ap
petlte for my supper. We could spare
the dogs out of the double score that
mnde things howl here In uagupan,
but I hope I may never see that sort
of feast again, too dogoned beastly for
me."
Ileal Hardftliip.
Polly—What an awful, awful time
the pioneers must have had!
Polly—Yes. Just think, the poor
things didn't have chafing dishes!
DEMOCRATIC LETTER.
THE REIGN OF CORRUPTION
TAKES A RECESS.
STnvmckvai Profligacy of the lteptihllcsMi
Ailmtritrtt.ru tCui —Starving the People
to Fatten the Purees of Political Heeler,
eg High and later l>egree.
Congress has adjourned, and the Is
sues upon which the presidential elec
tion Is to be fought la November have
been Joined. Three years of Mclvln
ley's administration have proven that
the Republican leaders arc drunk with
Imperialism, mad with militarism,
profligate wtth government funds,
reckless In foreign relations, and cor
rupt In their dealings with corpora
tions. True only tb the trusts, the
Republican party has abandoned the
constitution and the principles on
which this government was founded.
The Democratic party will appeal to
the country to bring the government
back to the paths of truth and sober
ness, to stop the radical and reckless
expenditure of public funds, to give an
honest and impartial enforcement of
the law, to bring the nation out of Its
entangling foreign alliances and wars
of conquest Into a condition of peace
and open-handed friendship with all
the world, to take steps toward remov
ing the dangerous control of the na
tion's finances from the national
banks, to pass laws that will curb the
trusts and take from them the special
privileges whereby they have grown
so great, and last, but not least, to
"turn the rascals out." On such a
platform, and under the leadership of
Bryan, the Republican party can be
swept from power in every branch of
the government by a combined, united
and harmonious opposition.
The most Important and patriotic
duty of the Democratic party will be
to defeat the Republican ticket nest
November. The details of reform In
administration can safely be trusted
to Bryan and of reform In the laws of
the congress which shall bo elected
with him.
Tie country Is more concerned fp
bringing tie government back to safe
and sound principles of administration
than in any single law which might be
enacted, however Important such law
may be to the welfare of the country.
Honest administration of the govern
ment on constitutional lines Is the
foundation upon which reform of the
law must be erected. Nc law, however
good and salutary, can be of avail un
less It is honestly administered. There
arc good 13W3 on the statute books
now which have become dead letters at
the hands of the present administra
tion. The Kansas City convention will
give earnest of Its purpose to meet the
demands of the country.
Every honest and patriotic citizen
wants a clean government, whether he
be a Republican, Democrat or Popu
list He wants an Impartial applica
tion of the law. He wants an econom
ical expenditure of public funds. He
wants the public service to be free
from scandal and corruption. He wants
an equitable adjustment of taxation.
He stlU believes In the constitution.
He la opposed to a huge standing army
and to entangling foreign alliances.
He Is opposed to trusts and the spe
cial privileges which have create!
them.
McKlmley has not given a clean ad
ministration. Hnnna's political hench
men have filled the public offices, have
openly and flagrantly violated the civil
service law and have stolen public
funds. The Cuban scandals in the pos
tal servlae, In the customs service and
in the army are merely the surface in
dications of a corruption as wide
spread as the government itself.
Millions have been taken from the
public treasury under the flimsiest
gloss of regularity and legal form. No
one who know 3 will attempt to denj
that political favorites were permitted
to make contracts for army and navy
supplies at prices out of all propor
tion to the value of the articles fur
nished. Scores of vessels were sold
to the government at three times their
actual value, with commissions to po
litical favorites quite equal to the price
which went to the actual owners of
the vessels. Worse yet. legislation was
forced through congress, like the ar
mor trust grab, for the sole purpose of
furnishing Mark Hanna with a Re
publican campaign corruption fund of
millions. This notorious and flagrant
misuse of legislative power is alone
enough to condemn to political de
struction the party which has permit
ted it.
Taxation has been so adjusted as to
fall almost entirely upon the shoulders
of the laboring and producing masses
of the country, while wealth is prac
tically exempt from sharing in the
burden of government
A general demand that taxation
should be reduced to a safe and con
servative basis has been refused, and
all signs indicate tbat expenditures
even in a time of peace will equal the
enormously heavy revenue now pro
duced. The appropriations for the
coming fiscal year are more than $709,-
300,000. Had not certain important
appropriations been deferred, and had
not even the heavy appropriations
made been pared so much below the
actual requirements of the Republican
program that a heavy deficiency bill
will be necessary next winter, the ap
propriations would have been over
$800,000,000. Did these huge appro
priations return to the people in pub
lic benefits some fair share of the
money taken from them in the form of
taxes there might be less reason for
complaint, but the unfortunate fact re
mains that not one dollar in five is so
expended as to actually benefit the
taxpayer who contributed it.
Take for instance the $90,030,000 in
crease in army appropriations over the '
figures for ISDG. That is all to be j
thrown into the Philippine rat hole, !
where the entire trade of the United \
States for the current fiscal year is j
less than $2,000,000. The
in the naval expenditure will benefit a
few ship-bulldlng firms, who will di
vide with the armor plate trust enor
mous profits on their political con
tracts. There is a $32,000,008 increase
in the sundry civil bill. That goes
entirely to feed taxeaters of high and
low degree.
A smaller indication, but a charac
teristic one, is found in the bill now
reposing on the Senate calendar with
a favorable report from tbe Republic
an majority of the Judiciary commit
tee to Increase the pay of all federal
judges from the chief justice of ths
Supreme Court down. The chief Jus
tice now gets $10,500. It is proposed
to give him $21,000 a year. The other
justices of the Supreme Court are to
have their pay doubled. Taking the
whole list, an increase of salary
amounting to half a million dollars
annually is to be put through.
The army reorganization bill, which
is hung up to see whether McKlnley is
to be re-elected or not. Involves an
increase of the standing army to 65,-
000, with a trebling of the expense of
Its maintenance. These are a few briel
samples of what a continuation of Re
publican control means to the taxpay
ers. The Democratic party will put
the issue squarely before the people.
JACKSON DAY.
DEMOCRATIC EXPANSION.
The Republican newspapers have
been doing the people a real service by
publication of a map sent out by some
one of the imperialist committee®—
very likely the Cuban annexation Jun
ta of Washington—which map shows
how the United States has grown and
enlarged by Democratic expansion.
Louisiana Is marked 'Democratic ex
pansion," and so is all of California,
Texas. Oregon, the Gadsden purchase
and Florida.
Cuba Is also Included in the list. It
Is an instructive map. If we had one
of them we would publish IL Every
voter ought to see a copy and study It
carefully. By this map It Is shown that
the present great area of the United
States of America is due entirely to
"Democratic expansion" save and
alone the original thirteen Btates and
Alaska. This is a record which the
Republican party dare not "point to
with pride." There was no "Repub- j
lican expansion" known until McKln- J
ley got in his work. The growth of J
the United States so as to cover a large
part of the continent and include
homogeneous states working togeth
er in harmony has been due to the
Democratic party.
We are glad that the Republicans
have called attention to the fact that j
the expansion we have known before
has practically all been "Democratic
expansion." This is a point we have
been making all along, but the Re
publicans refuse to acknowledge it
President Schurman of the first Phil
ippine peace commission, acknowl
edged it He was among the first
Republicans to declare that the expan
sion under this administration differs
in every essential from the expansion
of the Louisiana purchase. Then Sec
retary Root stated the distinction
plainly. (
Since then the administration hail
acted entirely upon the theory that
expansion which includes islands In
distant seas Is entirely unlike the ex
pansion which the Democratic party
brought about. In fact, every thing
has been dons to make It evident to nil
that the "Republican expansion" of
1899 is entirely different from the
"Democratic expansion" which has
made ours a great and glorious nation, j
The truth is that "Democratic ex
pansion" is in accord with the spirit
of our institutions, while "Republican
expansion," or imperialism, is along
the lines of European colonization.-
Sioux Fails Press.
"There's the Rub,"
The war in the Philippines, again
says Gen. Otis, "is practically ended,"
and, "as soon as the natives In general
gain confidence in the friendly offices
of the Americans, there will be little J
difficulty in bringing them to terms." I
Aye, there's the rub. The experiment
of shooting "confidence" into the Fili
pinos, however, has not proved and
will not prove a success. Human na
ture is not constituted that way.
Men must reap the deeds they sow,
Force from force must ever flow;
And deeds of blood, though done be
neath
Pretense of good, are Dragon's teeth
From which must spring, as fixed by
Fate,
Their harvest—denth, revenge and
hate.
—Grand Rapids Democrat.
The March of Umpire.
The Rev. Rockwell Ciancey, a mis
sionary who has Ju3t returned from
India, sayß that he "saw girls In one
town sold for thirty cents apiece. They
were bought up by the Mohammedans, j
Boys were unsaleable." This traffic
in human flesh Is due to the great '
famine in gold-ridden India. This Is |
but one phase of the terrible condition
lhat the people of the United States. I
as well as the people of other coun- J
tries, are called upon to relieve. And j
can the rest of the world escape Its j
responsibility because Great Britain !
Is not doing her full duty?— Milwaukee j
News.
Careful measurments prove that
the average curvature of the earth is
C.99 inches to the statute mile.
"ENGLISH AS SHE IS MURDERED."
Violent Assault, on Our Lnuj-unj-o by
Chicago Aldermen.
"Clilcagoese" is the name a witty
Alderman recently applied to the jar
gon often heard in the Couucil cham
ber when city fathers wax eloquent.
While the Council has been trans
formed from what it used to lie in that
a far greater percentage of cultured
business men are included in its mem
bership, there are yet several Alder
men of tbe "Old School," whose fear
ful and wonderful grammar and pro
nunciation furnish amusement to the
galleries. Here are a few samples se
lected at random from the debate of
recent evenings:
"I ain't a-goin' to stand fer depriv
iti' the police of no necessitaries of
life."
"All men In accordance to our doc
trine is free."
''My gentlemen to the left is all mis
taken, every one of them."
"I don't believe that Aid. Powers
has never brought anything into this
Council only in good faith and I
won't."
"I vote 'No' on that 'Aye.'"
"Mr. Mayor is cramming his heel
down the people's throat that tliey
don't want and they will spurn him
with their foot.
"This advice that is being attempted
to give to-night is a Jouali."
"You're a jay and a cucumber if you
so.V I'm a lamb In wolf's clothes."
"Taxes is increased to the extent of
SLOOO.OOO than it has been."
"The press has been hollerin'! Lot
her yell; they can't corrupt me."
"The whole city will ndvocate what
I done."
"Me and my colleague what repre
sents my ward wdl stand together
like a man."
"You say the police are dead-beats.
Gentlemen. I don't blame tliom. I'd
do it myself."
"Stick, fellers; I won't never ask you
to do notliln' fer me again."
"That ward of his'n may l>e O. K„
and I'm not saying it ain't, but my
war.l is the banner of the constella
tion."
"Gentlemen,our brave firemea braves
the terror of the night and risks his
life to save innocent women. Gentle
men, our policemen is waylaid and
slugged by thieves and robbers at all
times he runs the risk of, and yet,
gentlemen, he don't get as much as
we. Gentlemen. I say, gentlemen, is
wages half what the men are entitled
to?"
All the above gems were notod at
the time they were spoken, and the
exact language is given. Few even oc
casioned a smile at the time.—Chi
cago News.
Gold In the Philippines.
Gold is found at an endless number
of points in the Philippines, almost
every stream which cuts the older
rocks carrying some dust, and aurifer
ous quarz-veins also are known at
several points in Luzon and in-Minda
nao. I have been able to obtain no in
formation warranting the belief that
there is any highly important gold
field in the archipelago. The natives
are extremely skilful with the pan,
and have tK>eu exploiting the gravels
for centuries. They nlso understand
"salting" a mine. I do not believe
tliey have left any great prizes in the
way of placers, nnd, to some extent,
they have also worked the quartz. I
consider the gold resources of the
Philippines comparable with those of
the Carolinas and Georgia, rather than
with thoee of Colorado and California.
fl'icTresources of jlindanao are not so
unknown as many suppose. Competent
experts made examinations, years ago,
in each of the nnriferoifs provinces,
Misamis and Surigao, and neither of
them reported encouraging results.
Great caution should lie exercised in
seeking to develop gold mining in the
Philippine Islands.—George F Beck
er, in Scribner's. ~>ar -
Modem War Is Not Picturesque
A charge, such as the Boers make,
is robbed of all story-book picturesque
ness and glamor. The glitter of sword
and bayonet, the smoke and flame,
the bright uniforms, the inspiring
cheers the precision of serried ranks,
the gallantly carried battle flags to be
presently planted on the earthworks
of the enemy, are nil lacking. They
belong to the war of the past. In their
stead a crouching, creeping line of
dirt-covered men, shuffled by the va
rying chances of the tight out of all
semblance of order; brown, bare, sun
scorched, bowlder-flecked ridges, dot
ted hare and there with stunted liusher,
hazy with heat nnd alive with pro
jectiles; the keen rattle of rifle fire,
punctuated by the stuttering of ma
chine guns, and broken into full per
iods by the reverberating roar of
heavy artillery, now nnd again seem
ing to die only to break out afresh,
and all this for hour after hour, each
passing moment claiming a victim to
sprawl agony on the superheated
rooks. Such is modern war, as typi
tied in Soutli Africa to-day.—Thomas
I-'. Millard, in Scribner's.
Common Delusion*.
Pull nine out of ten persons plume
themselves on being different from
others, when tlielr very belief in the
notion is its own contradiction. Wo
complacently aver, "I have such a
keen sense of the ridiculous," when a
true sense of humor would have pro
hibited the boast. But what we most
pinme ourselves upon—if we are the
average man or woman—is our power
to read character. "I may not lie par
ticularly clever," we observe, with that
guileless braggadocio which masque
rades as humility, "but of one thing
I'm certain, and that is, I'm a good
judge of human nature. I'm never
deceived in a person," when, if such
perspicacity were really jiossessed,
we'd say nothing about it before those
capable of scentiug cur limitations.
(•OR THE HOUSEWIFE.
To Make KaUeil JIIIISIII.
For raised muffins scald a pint 01
milk and when lukewarm add one
compressed yeast cake dissolved, halt
a teaspoonful of salt and two cupfuls
aud a half of flour. Bent thoroughly
and stand aside until very light—about
two hours. Then add the yokes of
two eggs well beaten, and fold in the
well beaten whites. Stand aside for
30 minutes and bake In greased muffin
rings of gem pans.—bailies' Home
Journal.
Cream in Salad l)rea*inff*.
Some people do not know that
cream can be used in salad dressings.
At the same time there is 110 question
that the best salad is mudc of oil, but
the whipped cream can he acceptably
used in its place, and the taste is a little
different from that of the regular
mayonnaise. A recipe for this whipped
cream dressing is: Take two eggs,
throe tablospoonfuls of vinegar, two
tablespoonfuls of cream, one table
spoonlul of sugar, a quarter of a table
spoonful of mustard. The bowl In
which these ingredients are mixed
should he placed in a vessel of boiling
water mid stirred until the consistency
of rich cream, then lift the howl from
the hot water, and, when cool, place
in the refrigerator.
Kxcellont Snuce for Meat.
Honolulu sauce is excellent for meat
and lish and is made thus: A small
cocoanut, one quarter of an onion, one
clove of garlic, one inch of root ginger,
two large tablespoonfuls of curry pow
der, one quart of milk, four table
spoonfuls of butter, four tablespoon
fuls of flour, salt and pepper to taste;
grate the onion, garlic, ginger and co
coanut into a double boiler and add
the curry powder and milk; cook slow
ly for an hour, beat the butter to a
cream, add the flour and heat the mix
ture until it is smooth and light; strain
the curry mixture upon it gradually
so as to prevent its becoming lumpy,
add the meat and fish, which are to
he served with this sauce, and cook
until boiling hot—about u quarter of
an hour.
Ciilfu I'iver Honr(s(>l"*.
Procure a nice liver from two and a
half to three pounds. Cut one pound
of larding-pork in strips two inencs
long and not too thick. Season each
strip with pepper and salt, then lard
the liver. Tut in a bralsiere one table
spoon ful of butter, and the remnants of
the trimming and rind of pork. Place
the liver In it, and leave it until nicely
brown all over. Remove the liver
from the saucepan. Add a desert
spoonful of flour, cook five minutes,
stirring all he time with a wooden
spoon. Season with two pinches or
salt, two of popper, half a pint of dry
white wine, one and n halt of water;
add a bouquet of three sprigs of pars
ley, one branch of celery, one small
bay-leaf, three onions and two cloves.
Put the liver hack again in the sauce
pan; cook one hour and a half over
a slow Are. Add to it lastly one pint
of small new enrrots and a half pint
of small new onions; cook half an
hour longer.
Serve the liver on a warm platter;
arrange the vegetables around; strain
and ponr the gravy over. The white
wine will give an excellent taste, and
prevents the gravy from being greasy;
but if no wine is at hand, the same
quantity of rich good stock will an
swer.—Harper's Bazar.
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Household HMIIH. '• 4
To remove chocolate stains, put 111
cold water first, then boiling.
When dressing fish that are slippery
and difficult to hold, dip the fingers in
salt. , ——
If one can wear old, loose kid gloves
while Ironing they will save many cal
loused spots 011 the hands. „ •■<*
In tea-making hard water is always
to be preferred to soft sinoe it dis
solves less of the tannin in the leaves.
In adding milk or cream to tomatoes
for a bisque, have both hot and then
add a pinch of soda. This Will pre
vent curdling.
Milk is an excellent substitute for
soap in washing dishes. A half cupful
to a (lishpan half full of hot water is a
good proportion to use.
To soften hard water when you do
not wish to boll it. drop a little piece of
chalk into the pitcher nnd in a snort
time the water will be quite sort.
Eggs that it is desirable to keep
fresh should be put in a cool, dark
place. And it is always desirable to
keep eggs fresh. One that isn't fresh
is nothing short of an abomination.
In a lobster salad, lettuce leaves
torn in coarse bits, are used in place of
celery, the lobster coral is sprinkled
over the innslc of mayonnaise and the
small lobster claws are used in the
decoration.
Bits of lirown broad, graham, etc.,
tnnke .Hist as good pancakes as do bits
of white bread, which as most house
keepers know, are very appetizing and
quite unrecognizable when converted
into pancakes. Soak up and make
just as you do the white bread.
It is a mistake to iron flannels, it
pulled out evenly while on the line so
that they dry in good shape, and if,
when dry, they are folded and put in
the bottom of the clot hog basket and
the other clothes piled on them, they
will be smooth enough to suit anybody
but a crank. Hot irons take the lite
out of flannels.
Keep a small, stiff new toothbrush
especially to clean your fancy glass
ware. Dust, etc., accumulates in the
pattern and the towel does not re
move it. Glass that has held milk
should ho well rinsed in cold water
before being put in warm suds, and all
glass should be rinsed in dear hot wa
ter before wiping.