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England's latest naval plans indi
cate a disposition to convci-t her bat
tlo-slnp links of defence into an cud
less chain.
The Belgian hare is becoming .a pest
in Missouri. This is very ungrateful
after all the prominence that has been
given him.
Carnegie says lie always wanted to
he a newspaper man. There are one
or two reporters who might he per
suaded to swap jobs wilh him even
now.
If China is indeed what she looks
like, namely, thirty cents, the concert
of Europe, also, will have to be re
garded as an artistic rather than a
financial success, observes ruck.
One of the deadliest of the Kentucky
feuds has been settled, the parlies to
it having signed an agreement to stop
shooting one another and behave
themselves. It is significant, however,
that all hands insisted upon retaining
their rifles.
A Vassal- girl saw through the tele
scope the new star in Perseus the
night before the Western astronomer
did who is to receive the credit for its
discovery. But she was thinking of
her back hair, while he registered the
stellar dcnotcmcut.
A new province is to be formed in
India by placing the four districts of
the Punjab that lie beyond the Indus,
under a government of their own.
Tlicy are the extreme northwest dis
tricts that have been the scenes of
the recent potty wars, Peshnivur, Ko
hat, Bannu and Dcra Ismail Khan,
with the political agencies of Dir,
Swat, Ohitral, the Khalbar, tile Ku
rnm, Tochi and Wana.
The work-a-day world in great
cities is served largely by high speed
engines and high pressure boilers, and
the terrible explosion at Chicago the
other day, affords distressing evi
dence of the calamitous results of giv
ing the mastery even for an instant
to the invaluable servant of industrial
communities. Perfect construction
and rigid inspection afford almost
absolute guarantees of public safety;
yet none the less Is eternal vigilance
the price of security.
Recent details of exports show that
Croat Britain is buying more boots
and shoes of American make every
year. The British manufacturers
have been addicted to ponderous foot
gear built to last, but generally too
thick, heavy and clumsy for easy
wearing. Brother Jonathan taught
John Bull long ago that in carriages
nn.l wagons and all sorts of things
c:i wheels he could combine lightness
with strength and safety. And now
h is giving him lessons in leather.
This is assuredly the gem-ration of
the specialist in all professions and
nil liner, of business. One of the lat
est additions to the ever-swelling
ranks is the photographer who makes
a specialty of women's photographs.
'And while he is most successful in
his chosen line, strange to say he is
not an adept in the art of flattering
the sitter to the point that the picture
bears scarcely any likeness to the or
iginal. Rather, he produces a series of
portraits, each oue depicting some
passing inootl or characteristic, so
that one's friends can choose the one
Which seems to each most natural.
The recent disappearance of an em
ploye of a store In Wilmington, Del.,
is attributed, in part, to anxiety as to
his employers' business because they
did not advertise. A new danger for
ithe backward merchant. Not only
does he jeopardize his business by neg
lect of printer's ink, but be may be re
sponsible for crowded asylums, hus
bandless v. ive3 and fatherless children.
PROTECTED.
Pre bnlTt n wall about
To ICM p nil foes without—
Anxii'iy. with all her train,
Ami the jyriin monster, Doubt!
You ask my name? 'Tis Happiness,
With which no foe can cope!
The wall I've built cannot bo scaled-
Its quarried blocks are hope.
9 —THE— 9
jFOOT OF TOE LADDER 5
9 9
"Now, Reub. you don't mean to say
it took you two hours to find those
eows, and one of 'm with a bel!, too!
Cows are bigger than grass-hoppers,
and I'll venture to say you found
enough of those."
Having a choice collection of bugs of
various sorts in his handkerchief at
that moment. Ueub did not stop to ar
gue the point. And, indeed, no argu
ment that he could muster would
change his reputation for a heedless,
blundering fellow. So looked Reuben
Clay to the world; and how looked the
world to Reuben, fatherless, mother
less, fed and clothed by Mr. and Mrs.
Urown for charity's sake till such
time as he could take care of himself?
Ever since he could remember, the
boy had had an eager interest in every
thing that crept or flew. Though his
zoological tastes were frowend upon,
they throve under opposition, and
when one summer a college professor
came to the village and encountered
Reuben in some of his collecting ex
cursions. Reub's vague wishes grew to
a resolve. Some day, if he lived, he
would know birds and insects as the
professor knew them; and as a neces
sary step to that end, he would go to
college.
After his district school days were
over Reuben lived on at Mr. Brown's,
helping in the regular farm work, and
doing, besides, such odd jobs as for
tune sent in his way, lftying up money
for the future, and reciting Greek and
Latin to Mr. Alison, the minister.
Reuben had had one cruel accident
that would have turned many boys in
despair from the chosen path. On a
spring morning he had gone in his boat
to the village to deposit the first SSO of
his savings, and on the way he lost his
poeketbook. Whether he had dropped
it in the water or elsewhere, or some
clever thief had taken it from him, re
mained a mystery. It was discourag
ing work beginning at the foot of the
ladder; but there was no other way.
Abandoning his purpose never entered
his mind.
The years camo and went, and Reu
ben was IS, when one morning in June,
to Mr. Alison sitting In his Etudy, a
visitor was announced. In the parlor
he found a sunburned gentleman in
white flannels, who held out his hand,
saying;
"I'm here, George; and I've come to
ask a favor of you the first thing. My
coachman gave me the slip at the last j
minute. Can't you tell me of some one
down here that would do?"
And so it camo to pass that, almost
before he know it Reuben was estab
lished as coachman and general helper
to Mr. Courtenay, owner of the beauti
ful cottage on the hill, who chanced
to be also a college friend of Mr. Ali
son.
"He is a boy with a career before
him, I think," Mr. Alison had said. He
had not told all Reub's secret, but had
felt it right to say that he was an or
phan, working nard for money to start
in life.
Reuben's skies had never been so
bright. Courtenay took the whim to
offer him exceptionally good wages,
and he had large margins df leisure for
study. What he liked best was getting
to know Courtenay, who had taken a
liking to him, and let him enjoy for
u.e first time in his life the familiar
companionship of a gentleman. Some
times he felt as if Courtenay were in
vting him to speak of his future hopes,
but this he shrank from doing.
One morning they wore out in the
yacht together. Reuben had improved
wonderfully in his new life. He stood
straighter and seemed more manly
than ever before, and there was a hap
pier look on lii 3 face. As he stood by
the mast in his blue yachting suit, Mr.
Courtenay looked at him with some
thing like envy.
"If I weren't so fond of myself, I'd
like to try being you for a while," he
Baid at last.
Reuben laughed.
"You'd soon get tired of it. I'm a
born plodder, and shall be to the end
of my days."
"Plodders sometimes come out best
In the end," said Courtenay, wistfully.
He sat silent for a moment, with a
look that suggested not entirely cheer
ful memories. Then ho said abruptly,
"My mother and sister are coming to
morrow. We will meet the boat.
"With Dick?'
"No, with "i,> pair. Why do you
ask?"
"We have never tried the new horses
on the steamboat wharf, but we know
they ate restless," Reuben answered
hesitatingly. "I think Dick would be
safer."
Courtenay was on the verge of an im
patient reply, but he suppressed it.
"My mother likes spirited horses,
you and 1 will be on the front seat, and
I thin!: we can manage the blacks be
tween us."
Clearly Reuben's only course was to
obey. Morning came, and the faultless
ly groomed horses were brought punc
tually to the door. Courtenay toolc
the reins, and the horses trotted stead
ily over the road to the wharf, and
stood quietly while the steamer swung
slowly up to the pier.
"You see they are lambs," said
Courtenay, as he handed the reins
to Reuben, and went to find his guests.
He soon returned with the ladies and
put them into the carriage.
"I'll hold them while you look up the
luggage," said Courtenay, taking the
seat and handing tue checks to Reu
ben.
Reuben turned away and was busily
searching for the trunks, when sud
denly the shrill whistle of the stecm
boat sounded. With one fiery leap up
ward the frightened horses started at
full speed, cleared the wharf and tore
down the road, Courtenay's utmost
strength being powerless to control
them.
The hypothenuse of a right-angled
triangle is often a great convenience.
Reuben sprang from the end of the
wharf and dashed up the bank just in
time. He llung himself at the horses'
heads and allowed them to drag him
while he clung to the bits. They
swerved, but soon slackened, and final
ly stopped at the summit of a long
hill, down which neither Mr. Courten
ay nor the ladies would have greatly
relished driving just then.
It was a poor limp creature that
dropped by the roadside when the
horses stopped, and one foot dragged
helplessly as Courtenay put him in the
carriage. The next time Reuben
opened his eyes he was in his room,
with the doctor bending over him.
And now came a long time of lying
still, waiting for the injured ankle to
grow strong. This was a new experi
ence for Reuben the hardest he had
known. But for Courtenay's sake he
tried to make light of it- and keep a
cheerful face,though it seemed as if all
his dreams and hopes were hanging in
the balance. The doctor would not an
swer for the result unless the injured
foot had perfect rest for an indefinite
time—a sober outlook for a boy with
Reuben's plans; and, in spite of his ef
forts, he grew dull and listless, and lost
the elasticity so necessary for a speedy
recovery.
Courtenay's remorse and uneasiness
were increased by this state of affairs.
One evening, as he stood by Reuben's
sofa, he said:
There's no use denying it; you have
something on your mind, young man,
and you must tell me what it is."
Reuben could not easily tell his
plans, even to so kind a friend as
Courtenay had proved; but, having
made a beginning, it was a relief to go
on, and he told all. from his boyish
dream of an education down to the
present moment, not omitting the loss
of the SSO.
"So that is all that troubles you,"
said Courtenay. "Why, that is a mat
ter that a stroke of a pen can set
right. I was afraid it was something
serious."
"But I don't want to borrow," an
swered Reuben. "It is easy and inter
esting laying up for by and by, but a
debt fastened round your neck is a
different thing."
Courtenay sat down by Reuben.
"Nobody said anything about bor
rowing," lie said. "But you are just go
ing to college as soon as you can pos
sibly fit; and you are going to bo man
enough to let me help you, and throw
your scruples to the winds. You know
why you are lying here. You are some
thing to me."
In a few days a college tutor took
up his residence in the house; and,
when ho had examined into Reuben's
acquirements, he said there would be
no difficulty about getting ready by Oc
tober. Greatly to Reuben's satisfac
tion, the doctor thought the ankle
would he strong by that time if all
went well.
So Reuben worked 011 his sofa in
good cheer. The hope and will that
had been wanting before were now
thoroughly awake, and from the day
of his opening liis heart to Courtenay
he seemed a now creature.
One sultry afternoon in August, Mr.
Brown appeared at the Courtenay cot
tage. He had with him a queer bundle
wrapped in a newspaper, which he
handed Reuben, saying:
"Perhaps you can throw some light
on this. I can't. I was harvesting po
tatoes this morning and I found thi*
in one hill. It doesn't belong to any
variety that I'm acquainted with, and
I brought it over as a curiosity to
show you."
And there in a nest of potato root
lets lay the lost pockotbook. With
eager fingers Reuben opened it. The
stout leather had guarded the treasure
well. Discolored and damp the bills
certainly were, but quite recognizable
and fit for redemption.
"Came out very well this time, Reub,
and no mistake," Hsaid Mr. Brown,
when he had heard the story of the
loss. "But 1 wouldn't risk it again.
Next time you have SSO to take care of,
I wouldn't deposit it in the potato field,
for the chances are you might not al
ways bo so lucky." x
Courtenay walked down the avenue
with Mr. Brown as he went away, and
they spoke together of Reuben's plans.
"I'm glad you're going to give him a
lift." said Mr. Brown. "It'll save time
for him; but Reub would have done it
himself somehow. It's in him. When he
nee made up his mind it was never any
.ortof use to contend with him; wheth
er 'twas a tough stump in a pasture or
a contrary horse or what not, he never
gave up till he'd mastered it. I've seen
considerable many sorts of boys in my
time," he concluded, "and Reub is the
sort that gets there. You mark my
words, the world will hear from Reub
one of these days."—Christian Regis
ter.
Proud or IIU Ancestry.
First Chicken —Mr. Speckles is very
proud of his ancestry.
Second Chicken—Yea. I hear he
claims lie is descended from one of the
first incubators in America. —Brooklyn
Eagle.
In some parts of China the young
women wear their hair in a long
single plait, with which is intertwined
a bright scarlet thread. The style of
ornamentation denotes that the young
woman is of marriageable ago.
TROPIC FRUIT PROCESS.
A liw SYSTEM CF EVAPORATION
RECENTLY PERFECTED.
AuMioriti 'ft Think It Will Involutionlze
the Fruit TriKh-—ll iy <;ive to Dwollerft
in the CoinpHiatively Unproductive
North of-the Prodigal South.
The decline of the tropical regions of
America has of late years been a fruit
ful topic of discussion. Well provided
as the public has been with statistics
as to the condition of those once fa
vored countries, no one who has not
seen with his eyes the present state of
affairs can fully realize the change. In
a land where nature is so prodigal that
almost the casual thrusting of a
branch into the earth insures a tree,
desolation and poverty are everywhere
found. The reason is plain enough; it
is only the remedy that has remained a
problem. The products of the tropics
are gratis, and the exportation of these
involves a greater risk and a larger
knowledge of the subject than has been
at the command of these countries. On
every side there is a waste of food
fairly maddening to the student of
economics; but how to utilize this su
perabundance, how to convoy it in
proper shape to the fnillions who win
only a bare sustenance from over
worked soils in other countries, is the
great and hitherto unsolved problem.
The solution now suggested is one
which has the sanction of Australia,
and tlifcj means more than appears on
the surface. Whether it be because
Australia has fewer lives to care for
and finds them more precious, or be
cause the authorities have less to do,
cannot be now debated; but the fact
is that Australians are not permitted
to poison themselves with adulterated
food, as is the glorious privilege of free
citizens in this country. The govern
ment watches with a never sleeping
eye the food which supplies the tables
of the people. When, therefore, the
Australian government indorses a
process and gives it medals galore, it
means that science has set her seal
on it. The system of fruit preservation
which is now being introduced into the
West Indies and Central America has
and vegetables are not dried on the
countries of Australasia.
Th new system is one of evapora
tion, but the process differs from oth
ers in that it is quickly done and in
sures absolute cleanliness. The Jruit
and vegetables are not dried on the
ground for days together, like figs,
prunes and similar preserves. Five or
six hours is all that is required to
change the fruit into an article that
will keep for months and years, and
still preserve the original flavor —in
some cases actually improve it. It is
not, however, so much the mechanical
process as the effect on the tropics
which interests the ordinary observer,
and it is in this direction that it is at
present being.developed.
There is 110 fruit in the world so
easy and cheap to raise as the banana,
or which contains more nutriment and
can be served in a greater variety of
ways. Yet there is no fruit which is
so carelessly exported and the general
value of which is so little understood.
The banana is the main object of at
tack under the new evaporation sys
tem. The exporting companies use
only the largest bananas, and every
year thousands and thousands of
bunches rot on the plantations in the
tropics. The new evaporation process
takes these smaiier bananas and makes
them into a dozen different marketable
commodities. There is banana flour,
to begin with, a delicacy which is used
for the making of cakes, fritters and
the like. There is banana prepared as
a substitute (an excellent one) for cit
ron and raisons in fruit cake. It also
makes a delicate preserve not unlike
and quite as delicate as figs and
prunes. Banana butter is another
product; this is a sort of jam, which
is not unknown in tropical countries
as a great delicacy rather difficult to
make by the old-fashioned process. All
these products cau now be marketed at
a small cost. The machinery is not
elaborate, and the original cost of the
fruit is almost nothing. It is esti
mated that the banana butter, for in
stance, can be put 011 the European
market and sold there at less than half
the price of any native condiment. To
the poor of Europe, whose list of deli
cacies is so limited, this will be no
small blessing.
The banana is not the only tropical
fruit which is being treated by the now
process. Any one who has lived in
tropical countries knows that the ne
groes who are out of the track of civil
ization make from the cassava a kind
of flour which is extremely wholesome
and cheap. This is also being put up
for exportation. The extremely nu
tritious okra (the value of which ir.
fully realized in the tropics, where it
is constantly in use as a food for in
valids) is being prepared in quantities
for exportation. In its canned form
the okra necessarily fails to retain all
its value as a food, but the exaporatcd
vegetable has been proved by analysis
to contain all the nuitriment. The man
who makes okra soup a standard food
among the poor of any country is be
stowing a permenent benefit. Sweet
potato flour is also made for exporta
tion.
The British government is just now
unusually keen as to the condition of
it West Indian possessions. As long
as fruit is the chief product of those
countries, and as long as old methods
of exportation prevail, so long will the
decline of the West Indies continue.
Once save the enormous waste by
finding a market for the innumerable
products of th south, and the islands
will regain thei** old prestige. The
government of .Janip'ca has been in
terested in the evaporation question,
and a favorable outcome seems prob-
I able. In Central America the process
i is now fully appreciated. Froo*. Santa
Tomas, Guatemala, the British army la
how receiving supplies of evaporated
food. Tile republics of Central Ameri
ca have all indorsed the process and
arc beginning to experimnt on their
own account. From a trade point of
view the innovation is important. Fruit
authorities think that it is likely to
revolutionize the tropical fruit trade.
Be this as it may, there is great in
terest in watching the attempt to give
to dwellers in the comparatively un
productive north some of the blessings
of the prodigal south.
A DOG'S DEVOTION.
When Ills Master Dle.l lie Itefuneil to I.et
Any One Go Nenr the llody.
Another striking instance of the love
of a dog for its master was given re
cently when preparations were made
at Mount Washington for the burial
of Mr. Henry Wolfe, who was found
dead sitting at his table.
Mr. Wolfe lived alone and kept two
watch dogs and a lot of chickens. One
of the dogs was very savage and no
one dared venture to the houso by day
or night for fear of the dog. Mr.
Wolfe's chicken house needed no
burglar alarm and he could retire for
the night and feel perfectly easy about
anything he might have about the
place.
After Mr. Wolfe's death one dog—the
savage one—gave every evidence of
intense grief and became even more
ferocious than usual, so much so, in
fact, that it had to be killed before the
body could be removed from the house.
A brother of Mr. Wolfe was the first
caller at the house after his death, and
the animal, with a terrifying growl
and jaws wide open, made a leap for
his throat, and would have injurerd
him had not Patrolman Scott of Mount
Washington been near by. He was
finally driven off, but seemed constant
ly on the alert for an opportunity to
attack the man. A close watch was
kept on him. He was loath to leave
the kitchen door and tried hard to get
into the house where the lifeless body
of his master was lying.
The undertaker arrived later, and
about the same time Patrolman Kelly
reached the place with papers from.
Justice Bevan of Arlington, giving au
thority for the removal of the body.
The presence of the undertaker's wag
on seemed to work the animal up to an
intense state of excitement and he got
so wild that the brother of the dead
man asked the patrolman to shoot him.
When they went into the yard to kill
him he seemed to understand their
mission, and witn a snarl or defiance
made for his box. Patrolman Scott
followed him and tried to kick a hole
in the roof of the box in order to get a
shot at him. The dog, apparently
realizing that his end was near and
that he and his friend were to be sep
arated forever, made one final effort to
take a last look at his beloved master.
He dashed out of the box, across the
yard and into the kitchen before the
man could realize what had happened.
Patrolman Scott had hardly turned
around before he was gone. Patrol
man Kelly was in the kitchen and
grabbed a chair, and, standing upon
another chair, gave him all the room
he wanted.
Tho animal made straight for the
room In which his master was being
prepared for burial by the undertaker.
The undertaker dropped everything
but a hatchet and jumped upon a chair.
The animal ran several times around
the lifeless form of his master, whin
ing piteously, paused awhile beside the
body, as if trying to attract his mas
ter's attention, and then, with a deep
growl, dashed out into the rear yard.
Patrolman Kelly in the meantime had
gotten out of the kitchen and was
making for the road. The dog saw
him and promptly made for him. The
policeman turned and shot the dog in
the body. Patrolman Scott was near*
by with a club in one hand and his pis
tol in the other. He took good aim.
There was a sharp, whip-like crack as
the bullet sped through.
Tho dog fell over lifeless. Balti
more Sun.
A New Source or Rubber.
A process for extracting rubber from
the hule plant has been discovered by
a Mexican living at SierraMojado, and
a factory for this purpose has been es
tablished at San Luis Potosi. This
plant is a species of sagebrush, with
small leaves, which grows to a height
of about three feet and is found not
only in Mexico, but also in Texas, Wy
oming and Nebraska. It grows in moun
tainous regions, and is said to contain
40 percent of rubber. The plant is first
cut lip by machinery and then mixed
with certain chemicals in a steam jack
eted tank. The product is then sub
mitted to hydraulic pressure ar.d run
into a setting tank, where tho chemi
cals and other waste substances are
drawn off from the heavier gum, which
settles at the bottom of the tank. The
accounts furnished do not mention the
quality of the rubber produced, but
they state that while the cost of pro
duction is slight the high cost of trans
porting the material is a serious diffi
culty.
Spiritualist* in France.
The first chamber of the appeal
court has just given a decision which
is of considerable interest to spiritual
ists. Madame Rivail, widow of Allan
Kardec, left a will bequeathing her
considerable fortune to a Spiritualis
tic society and persons connected with
that belief. The will was attacked
by Madame Rivail's natural heirs, and
the court has given a verdict tn their
favor, annulling the will leaving the
money to the Spiritualistic society be
cause it is a society which has been
effectively declared null and void in
the eyes of the law. —Paris Cor
respondence London Standard.
Jp|
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Dimientic Pet*.
Once a pet has been admitted into
the house somebody must be intrust
ed with its care. Bird, cat or dog, if
it be under the roof, its meals, its
bed, its bath, its drinking water and
its daily comfort are matters as es
sential as the comfort of the children.
We are not obliged to have pets, but
if we adopt them they have a light
to our thoughtful care. —Collier's
Weekly.
A ( lever Woman's Idea.
A clever and resourceful woman,
who objected to the woodwork in her
bedroom, desired white paint in place
of the highly glazed pine, but, alas! it
was too expensive so she determined
to have the woodwork painted loaf
green. She faced the walls with a
white paper besprinkled with purple
lilac, calcimining the ceiling white.
The furniture, save the bed. which is
brass, she painted green, two shades
lighter than the woodwork. The dress
ing bureau, which is constructed from
a kitchen table, is all in white, white
dotted muslin over white cambric.
The iloor is covered with a matting
and on it is placed a square rug made
of ingrain carpet in soft greens, with
a narrow border in the same tones.
Muslin curtains screen the windows,
which are furnished with cushions
covered with dark green satine. This
same woman has just redecorated the
dining-room in her small apartments.
The woodwork is stained to look like
antique oak. On the walls is a plain
yellow cartridge paper. A shelf runs
around two sides of the room on a
line with the tops of the doors. On
this are placed blue and white plates,
mugs and tankards. At the windows
are blue linen draperies embroidered,
or rather appliqued, with a 12-inch
band of openwork linen. A blue and
white cotton rug almost completely
covers the floor. —Chicago Times-
Herald.
Tho Cam of Chamois Leather.
Chamois leathers are really almost
everlasting If properly treated. If
they are carelessly put away, after
being wrung out. for instance, with
out being stretched, they will natural
ly harden, and soon wear out, but if
laid or hung flat, and only used for
one particular purpose, they will
never prove an expensive item
In housekeeping. The smallest
amount of grease makes a leather
useless for window Cor plate) clean
ing.
The best way to wash them is as
follows: Dissolve a little soda in
warm water, and after rubbing some
soft soda well into the leather soak
it for two hours, covering up the pan.
Move tho leather about, and rub it
very gently; when it Is clean, rinse
with a slight lather of soap in a wealt
solution of soap and warm water;
wring tightly in a rough towel, and
dry quickly in the sun, or not too near
a fire, pulling tho leather about In all
directions at first and stretching tt
into shape; when it is dry brush it
well on both sides. Or make a hot
lather with soap, and when it is luko.
warm wash the leather in it quickly,
rinse it in luke warm water in which
a little soap has been previously dis
solved: squeeze the leather gently,
without really wringing it. pin it on to
a clean towel, spread It on a rack,
and then dry it quickly before a fire,
rubbing it softly every now and then
with the palms of the hands to pra.
vent it hardening.
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Cottage Cheese —Take sour milk
and let it get scalding hot; strain
through a fine seive; season the curd
with butter, pepper and cream.
Okra and Tomatoes—Stew together
equal quantities of okra and tomafoes,
sliced, and half as much sliced onion
as you had of okra. Add green pep
pers if liked, and season with butter,
pepper and salt.
Spaghetti With Tomato.—Plunge
tho ends of a handful of spaghetti in
boiling, salted water. As it softens
bend and coil it round the kettle.
Cover and cook 20 minutes or till ten
der. Drain, return to the kettle, acid
one ctip tomato sauce or enough to
moisten the spaghetti, one-third cup
grated cheese, a dash of paprika and
one tablespoon butter. Let it simmer
till sauce is about absorbed, then
serve.
French Rolls,—One quart of sifted
flour loosely measured, a little sE.lt,
two heaping teaspoonfuls baking pow
der; mix thoroughly together while
dry; then add enough sweet milk, or
milk and water, to make a slack
dough. Roll out thin and cut into cir
cular pieces with teacup or cutter;
then put a small lump of butter Into
the centre of each piece and fold the
dough over it like turnovers. Bake
immediately.
Cream Puffs.—One-third cup of but
ter melted in one cup of hot water;
put in a small tin pan on the stove to
boll; while boiling, stir in ono cup of
flour; take off, and let cool; when
cold, stir in throe eggs, one after the
other, without beating. Drop on but
tered tins and bake In a hot oven 20
to 30 minutes. Filling.—One cup of
milk, one egg, one-half cup sugar;
thicken with cornstarch and flaror
with vanilla.