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Tho Euglish Society for the Preven
tion of Cruelty to Children secured
the conviction and punishment of
nearly 3000 culprits during the past
year.
The revision of the French diction
ary by the Forty Immortals has, after
twenty years of diligent effort reached
the letter C. It was a wlso provision
which required the submission of this
work to the mmortals.
The demand for agricultural imple
ments in Egypt is increasing with the
progress made in cultivating land.
Farmers are rapidly finding out the
value of improved machinery, and
have in use already a number of
threshing machines.
When it comes to safety in traveling
possibly the modern steamship gives
the greatest possible assurance. In
evidence of this fact, it is of record
that not a single man of that 250,000
sent by England to South Africa, has
been killed or injured while on ship
board.
Another official wport has reached
Washington concerning the alarming
mortality among tho natives of Alaska
and the Aleutian Islands. The dis
eases which have afflicted them are
principally those imported along with
the advent of civilized man, proving
again that contact with civilization is
dangerous to the savage.
The average annual income of pro
fessional criminals is estimated at
about $llOO. This means that the
community pays them a yearly salary
of $400,000,000. After this is spent for
their maintenance we pay aunually
$200,000,000 for their detection, convic
tion and support under national,
state, county and city auspices.
Commissioner Fitchie's report on
immigration at the port of New York
for the fiscal year 1900-1901 shows that
453,496 alien immigrants were landed
in the twelve months. One-third of
them came from Italy, and most of
these from South Italy. Nearly 28 of
every 100 immigrants were illiterates.
Ireland sent less than 20,000 immi
grants, and Germany less than Ireland.
Austria-Hungary and Russia together
sent us over 161,000.
The Department of Agriculture is
preparing a bulletin giving a digest of
the game laws of the country, and it
makes recommendation of a uniform
game protective law throughout the
country, making it a national rather
than a State question. The American
Ornithological Union has practically
gained national protection for non
game birds, and the same efforts are
now to be exerted toward tho preserva
tion of birds and animals that are an
nually hunted as game.
There was a time when the efforts
of people to escape compulsory vaccin
ation would have been less unreason
able than they are now. When phy
sicians used humanized lymph (from
tho arms of children who may have
been the victims of constitutional dis
eases) there was supposed to bo dan
ger of developing incidental disorders.
As a matter of fact, however, most of
the charges of the transmission of
disease through vaccination were
groundless. In this day the virus is
prepared with the utmost care, and is
fully protected from all possibility of
germ infection. Only the bovine
virus is used, and the animals from
which it is obtained are always in per
fect health. No one need fear any
thing worse than tho effects of tho
harmless virus, observes the Phila
delphia Record.
By offering King Menelik 8 per cent
of the proceeds, Italian capitalists have
succeeded in securing the exclusive
privilege of working the gold mines
i The Turn
Tho 1 o'clock train went speeding
along the level line of the railroad one
sunny afternoon, just 10 years ago,
and among its passengers were two
young and handsome men, who had
met on the cars by chance, but who
had been intimate friends at school
and college, and who were intimate
friends still, if one might judge by
the fervor of their greeting and the
earnest manner in which they con
versed, without taking the least notice
of any person around them.
At last the elder of the two, a tall,
dark, young man. with large, dark
eyes and jet black hair and whiskers,
arose from his seat, took his traveling
bag from the rack and began to shake
the dust from his coat and to wipe it
from his face with a cambric handker
chief, as if his journey was drawing
near its end.
"Then you are sure that you won't
come with me, Harry?" he asked,
looking anxiously into tho fair, frank
face of his companion.
"I cannot," was the low reply.
"Well, at least remember what I
have been saying to you today. Give
it up, Harry—tho drinking, gam
bling, the folly of all kinds. Begin to
save your money, instead of spending
it all, as you do now, and as I used to
do, and in three years, or perhaps
sooner yet, you may be traveling this
way or some other way, bound on my
present errand, with a neat little home
and a dear little wife waiting for you
at the journey's end. It is worth far
more than all the rest, my boy. I
know, for I've tried both ways."
"Why, what nonsense it is to talk
to me about saving, George! Look
there!" cried Moore. He drew out his
pocketbook. In one compartment
nestled a ten-dollar greenback. In
the other were two one-dollar hills. In
a third, a little crumpled roll of cur
rency, and in the fourth, a tiny case
filled with postage stamps.
"Behold my worldly wealth!" said
he, in a mocking tone. "There is all
[ have before the next quarter's salary
Is paid. And while I live in New York,
I must spend the whole of my salary.
I cannot save it. Expenses are too
high."
"Then do as I did," said his friend.
"I found the temptations and expenses
of New York life too much for mo. I
could not save, and what was worse,
I found that I was giving way more
and more to the liahit whicli I want
you to leave off, Henry. I gave up my
place and went to yonder littlo town,
wherein nn uncle of mine lived. I
stated my case to him. He helped me.
He got me a situation in tho leading
store here, ho took mo to board at his
house and watched over mo like a
father till I cared no more for drink.
After that, it was easy enough to save,
Henry, and I soon worked my way
up to home and happiness. Oddly
enough, I started with only ten dollars
in my purse. But I was far worse
than you are. Cannot you get some
thing to do in some quiet, country
place like this, where you will bo kept
out of temptation as I was? Try it,
old boy. Write to me a month hence,
and if you have not found tho place
and the people to cure you by that
time, I'll find them for you. Is that
a bargain?"
"Yes," said Henry Moore, speaking
on the impulse of the moment.
They parted. Henry Moore watched
his friend as he stepped into a waiting
carriage at tho station, and drove
away to meet his bride upon his wed
ding night. Then, a3 the train steamed
slowly off again, he thrust his pocket
book back into the breast of his coat,
and leaning his cheek upon his hand,
gazed moodily out upon the flying
meadows and forests, while he mused
upon his schoolfellow's happy fate.
"The last time I saw him, he had
been drinking heavily nearly all
through the night," he thought.
"Gambling, too, and losing. His face
looked purple and flushed; his eyes
were hoavy and dull; his checks were
bloated; his hand shook like the hand
of an old man. How different now.
He is as handsome and fresh-colored
as he was in his boyhood. He is eager,
alert, full of life, hope and happiness,
While I—" a heavy sigh finished the
reflection.
The train sped on. The young man
lost in painful memory of misspent
hours, still leaned his forehead against
the window frame, gazing on all that
passed before him as if he saw it not.
Suddenly, as the train decreased it 3
speed again, ar.d the warning hell be
gan to ring, a tableau flashed before
his eyes that roused him in a moment.
For half an hour past their way
had led through a dense pine forest,
rising greenly on either side of the
cars.
But now there came a sunlit streak
among the trees beyond his window,
and in the long, val apace thus formed
he aaw a lowiy, but snug-looking, gray
cottage, with vincahaded porches and
portico, a green and level lawn, with
a lake flashing brightly in the sun
beyond it; and on the lawn a rosy,
healthful girl of seventeen, standing
with her arch, mischievous face turned
toward the passing train, and her arms
clasped grimly around the neck of a
small, black pony, saddled and bridled,
who seemed terribly frightened at the
noise, yet perfectly docile to her
voice and touch.
Other figures filled the background.
The farmer, stout and hearty, dressod
in blue overalls, and wiping the pers
piration from his brow, as he lifted
his straw hat aside—a neatly dressed
matron on the porch, shading her eyes
with her hand, as she watched the
train; a great, black Newfoundland
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dog, parading about in a dignified
manner, with a lady's riding whip in
his mouth, and a dapper young gentle
man in a light, summer suit, approach
ing the lady and her steed. He saw
them all as one sees faces and figures
in a vivid dream, and wondered almost
audibly what "that fellow" was doing
there; and then, as they plunged once
more into the unbroken solitude of the
pines, that girl's face seemed to stand
out visibly in the air before him and
accompanied him, like a smiling spirit
of good omen, to his journey's end.
Late that night, when, after eating
supper and reading the evening paper,
he went up to his room the face was
there before him, smiling like a pic
ture from the bare white wall. He
had gone up there to make some alter
ations in his dress before going out to
get rid of the rest of his evening in
the city streets; but the face detained
him, held him there in the cheerless
fourth-story chamber, even against his
will.
"How graceful she was!" he
groaned out. "What a pretty—what a
sweet face she had! How blue her
eyes were! How brown her hair was
and how it waved about her head and
face like a little, soft, dark cloud of
curls! She must have been 111 lately,
or she would not wear her hair like
that; every other girl is piling chig
nons up higher than the moon. And
yet she looked the very picture of
health. Her cheeks were as round and
as rosy as the apples in her father's
orchard. Perhaps she is too sensible
to wear chignons and false hair. Per
haps she don't care so much for dress
as other women do. What did she
wear? I can't remember. I only know
it was some soft dun-colored material
lalling about her in soft folds, with
out ruffling or paniers of any kind.
And a blue ribbon at ber throat —blue
as the 'bluets'—blue as her own sweet
eyes! Oh, dear! 21 I could but meet
a girl like that—a girl with 'no non
sense about her,' as Mr. Toots would
say," he added with a laugh—"a girl
who would mar: y a poor man because
she loved him, "d who would go to
work and help him build up his for
tune and his house together. Why it
would be the making of me!"
He took out his pockotbook and
looked again at tho ten-dollar bill.
"Shall I try it? Jerrold says he be
gan with no more; and look how well
he has done. Let me see. Here is
enough to pay for my supper, lodging
and breakfast, and my ticket back to
tho place where I saw her. That will
leave me the roll of currency for small
expenses, and the ton dollars for my
sole capital till I find a place and
work. Her father is a farmer, I know.
And that chap in the gray summer
suit hates hard work. I saw it in his
lace and walk. I'll do it. He can
but refuse me at the worst, and I shall
be able to look at that sweet face
again. I'll go."
You know he Is not very strong, fa
ther, and his hands have grown white
and soft at college, and, as he says, he
is not fit for the work," she was say
ing when her father's growls ceased
suddenly; and, looking up, she saw
a tall, handsome, Saxon-facod and
bright-eyed young fellow, dressed in
homespun, taking off his straw hat to
her and her father in tho way that
did not smack of country birth and
training by any means. The light blue
and the dark blue eyes looked straight
into each other's depths for one be
wildering moment. Then the girl
turned away and walked out of the
field, with a sudden, vivid blush stain
ing the whiteness of her throat and
forehead; and the young fellow, gaz
ing after her involuntarily, began his
story to the amazed farmer and aske?d
for work.
At 12 o'clock that day Jane Halliday,
after giving the last touches to tho
well-spread dinner-table, took the tin
horn and went out on the side piazza
to "call the folks" to their noonday
meal. She saw the heads turn, and
the bending forms straighten them
selves as the echoes of the mellow
blast floated over toward the distant
hills, and lingering yet a moment felt
her cheek grow hot again, when she
saw the young man advancing with
her father toward the house.
"Here's a new hand, mother," sang
out the farmer to his buxom wife, as
they entered tho kitchen together. "Ho
came along to look for work just in the
nick of time, o.fter your dandified
nephew cut and run for foar he should
tan hia cheeks. You'll make Dick's bed
up for him tonight, Jane. He is worth
his salt, I must own, and he shall
stay here as long as he likes. Now,
mother, dinner —hurry, Jenny, hurry!"
They sat down to the table. Jane's
chair was directly opposite that which
tho now hand occupied, and presently
the farmer called out, wondoringly:
"Salt In your coffee, Mr. Moore!
Well. Ido vow! That i n a'quoer taste
of yours, anyhow!"
"I drank it so as a child, but I think
I'll givo it up after today, as I am to
do farming work," stammorod tho
young man, scarcely knowing what
he was saying and unwilling to own
his blunder lest its cause might pos
sibly be guessed.
"Gracious!" said the farmer.
But the good wife quietly changed
the cup for another, properly sugared
and creamed, and the new hand
thanked her by a bow that set her
marveling in her turn.
"He don't look one bit like a farmer,
Jane," she said, watching them back
into the field again after dinner. "He
is as much of a gentleman as your
Cousin Dick is, in spite of his common
clothes. And yet he must take hold
of the work pretty well or your father
wouldn't be as pleased with him as
he is."
Jane made a brief reply and changed
the subject as speedily as possible.
She had seen beneath her long eye
lashes how the stranger's eyes were
fixed upon her when that mistake with
the coffee occurred.
"What a ridiculous excuse," she
thought, smiling.
And then a sudden recollection
flashed across her mind with stunning
emphasis and meaning. Was it a
dream? Or was it real? That rush
ing train—that open window —that
moody look flashing into sudden
brightness as it caught and answered
her own laughing glance while tho
cars whirled by. No wonder the face
seemed so strangely familiar to her
in the farm fields that morning. But
what—oh, Jane of the fair face and
innocent eyes and softly clustering
locks —what could it all mean?
Cousin Dick returned no more to
the farm that summer. But the new
hand stayed and worked faithfully
all through "haying time and harvest,"
much to the farmers delight. At tho
end of the season the farmer made
the young man a liberal offer for the
ensuing year. And thereupon ensued
a long and confidential conversation
between the two.
"Give me twenty-four hours to make
up my mind," said Moore, at last.
"Tomorrow morning you shall have
your answer."
So, when the four o'clock train from
the city thundered past the farm that
evening the new hand stood on the
lawn alone and watched it with
thoughtful eyes. Taller and straighter
he looked than when he first came to
the lone pine lands, and there was
a healthy flush on his check, beneath
the sunburn, that told tales of a dif
ferent, a nobler, a holier life, than the
former one had ever been.
The farmer was busy at the barn.
The good housewife, in the kitchen,
was hurrying onward her preparations
for tea, and Jane, with a two-quart
tin basin in her hand, came out of the
house and turned toward tho garden
as he looked that way. Her errand
was for fruit for the eupper table,
but before the first handful of borries
had rattled down upon the bottom
of the basin, the girl started, listened
a moment, and then turned crimson
as tho now hand came up beside her.
The berries were neglected. Ho stood
still a moment, then dropping basin
and berries upon the grass, he held
her by the hands.
"Jane, your father has asked mo to
stay hero and help him with another
year," he said. "Ho offers me good
wages. And I am safe here—safe
from many a temptation that you
know nothing about—thank God. 1
am a better and a happier man for
my stay here this summer, but there
is room for improvement yet. It rests
with you to say if that improvement
shall be made."
"With me?" said Jane, glancing up
at him with a gentle smile.
"With you; with you alone."
"Then stay."
He took a pockotbook from the
breast of his coat and opened It.
"Jane, you seo that ten-dollar bill?"
"Yes."
"That marks the turning-point in
my life. I was going headlong to de
struction when a friend held me back.
I had but ten dollars to begin the
world with again if I gave up my place
and salary in New York. Yet my
friend advised it. It wa3 what he had
done, and in three years he had earned
a home and a wifo in another place.
He had been as wild and as reckless as
I was then, and it was seeing what
a little sober effort had done for him
that encouraged mo to try. I came
here—aud you know my life and
thoughts and habits from that day.
We have been happy here together,
Jane."
"Oh, very happy," was her reply.
"But now there must be a change. I
cannot go on in the old way any
longer, Jane; your father likes me and
I believe I may stay here forever so
far as he and your mother are con
cerned. Now, for their daughter.
There Is ten dollars, Jane, and there
is what I have earned by sheer hard
work these last six months added to
it. I shall receive four times that
sum another year from your father if
I stay. Will it he enough, Jane for
me and my wife?"
She was silent. Bending down to
look at her he saw that her eyes were
full of tears.
"Can't you like me, then?" he asked,
in dismay.
"Oh, it is not that. It is father and
mother," she whispered. "I must not
leave them."
"There is no need, my love. I may
tell you now that your father has
given his consent, and your dear
mother will not be long behind him.
Oh, Jane, my darling! I found my
hope, my joy and my salvation that
day I came to tho Lone Pino farm."
"And not a single berry for supper!"
bewailed Mrs. Halliday, when they re
turned at last to the house. But a
tearful smile succeeded the lament,
as, after a brief whisper from Jane,
she kissed and blesseu the "new-hand"
as hei prospective son-in-law.—New
York News.
Plmrks Unrter n Hnilwny.
The British Museum authorities are
investigating an extensive find of
sharks' teeth and palates of other fish
which have been unearthed in Golds
worth cutting, Woking, during tho
widening of the London & Southwest
ern railway main line. The teeth,
which were found In large numbers in
the green sand formation, about 35
feet below the subsoil, are In a state
of splendid preservation.—liondon rjjx
press.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY".
The idea of driving piles with a wa
ter jet was borrowed by engineers
from the clam, which burrows 12 to
14 inches into hard sand or mud by
this process.
The total annual production of tim
ber and firewood of the German forests
is estimated at 38,000,000 tons, and this
is supplemented by an import of 4,-
000,000 tons. The material progress of
tho country would not be possible had
it not the large home production to
fall back upon.
According to London Invention the
On. Norman city of Rouen is about to
put into practice an entirely new sys
tem of fire fighting. The place is so
far modernized —at it is traversed
everywhere with electric trolley wires,
and it is proposed that pumps driven
by dynamos be supplied, to take the
current by means of a trolley hooked
to the overhead wires at the nearest
point to the fire.
Compressed laminated zinc plates
are being used on the inside of iron
■and steel boilers to prevent incrus
tation and oxidation. Hitherto zinc
has been used with some success in
the shape of pigs placed within the
boiler, and experiments have shown
that the use of the laminated plates
fastened to the sides of the boilers at
slight intervals developes an even
galvanic current which effectually pre
vents oxidation at a slight cost. The
device is now in use in French marine
boilers.
The production of oxygen and hydro
gen on an industrial scale by the de
composition of water with electrolytic
apparatus in Germany has led to tho
suggestion that hydrogen thus pro
duced may find a wide field of employ
ment as a lighting agent. It is now
used for inflating military balloons.
For lighting purposes it is compressed
In steel cylinders. With a proper burn
er it is said to be a cheaper illumin
ant than acetylene, the relative cost
for equal illuminating power being as
25 for hydrogen to 59 for acetylene.
A new cattle food is made by grind
ing cornstalks and mixing them with
a low grade of molasses. This new
food is pressed into cakes under a hy
draulic press and can be shipped a3
easily as bricks or cordwood. For
feeding it is broken up and mixed with
water. Actual tests have been made
and camples have been sent to agricul
tural stations in Europe. Tue reports
from all sources are very encouraging.
This food will be particularly valua
ble for cavalry in the tropics, and the
food cakes can be made at a minimum
cost in Cuba and the southern states,
where thousands of tons of low grade
molasses go to waste annually.
The most striking characteristic by
which fishes of different ages can bo
distinguished is their size. But the
size affords us only the means to es
timate the age of younger fishes; as
to the older, it cannot serve us as an
indication of their age, since their
growth may vary according to the dif
ferent conditions of nutriment, so that
often the younger fish will excel in
size tho much older fish. There is,
however, at least as regards the fishes
of the northern seas, a sure indication
that betrays their age. It is the oto
lites, or ear stones. These ear stones
grow as long as tho fish itself contin
ues to grow, and forms annual ring 3
in the manner of trees. The more an
nual rings shown by a fishes ear stone 3
the greater its age. In this way tho
age of a fish can be exactly determined.
How (ho Carp Were Kxtormirmfml.
There was a great slaughter of carp
on tho Morgan place in Sauvie's isl
and and now ail the lakes at Morgan's
and Gllllhan's are cleared of these
pests and tlicy will no longer eat up
tho wheat put out for the ducks. The
very low water in the lakes gave Frank
Thornc, who lias the shooting at Mor
gan's place this year, a chance to kill
all the carp in the last, of his lakes.
The water was only a few inches in
depth. Still very few carp could be
seen, but when planks were laid over
tho soft mud down to the water and a
barrel of lime dumped in tho water be
gan to boil and hundreds of carp from
3 to 18 or 20 pounds put in an appear
ance and made the water and mud fly.
There were tons of the big ones and
millions of the little ones In the lake
but in a short time after the lifne was
put into the lake they were all dead,
and when the hunters left the pigs,
crows and cranes were having a pic
nic.—Portland Oregonian.
In.trninnnt for Il.hornliiG- entile.
, Dehorning cattle has brought a new
instrument into the equipment of a
range. It is a steel apparatus with
handles about three feet long, and al
together weighing 15 pounds. It has
two sharp knives, one stationary and
one movable, and resembles a tree
pruning fork. When the handles are
apart the knives are open and will
encircle tho largest cattle horns. When
the handles aro pinched together the
knives close and in a twinkling the
horns are severed clean smooth. A
gang of five men will dehorn 350 cattle
a day.
* Coin Hnntflro,
Ane of the most curious of the many
curious trades of Paris is that of tho
coin hunter. Many coins must, of
course, be dropped by inadvertence
each day in a big cuy like Paris, and
tue business of the 'filonneaur," or coin
hunter, is to find as many of them as
he can. Sometimes, according to the
confession of one of them, these poor
creatures pick up as much as three
francs a day, but their average takings
amount to one franc fifty centimes.—
The Lady's Pictorial.
POVSJEHQLD HINTS
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If a Shoo rinclieo.
If a shoe rubs or pinch.es on part
of tho foot a piece of black silk put
over the spot will give immediate re
lief.
To llomovn It tint from Stool.
Put the article, if possible, in a dish
of kerosene oil; or wrap the steel ia
a cloth saturated with the oil. Leave
it a day or two. Then apply, if the
spot is obstinate, salt wet with hot
vinegar or scour with brickdust. Rinse
thoroughly in hot water and dry witll
a flannel, giving a last polish with
a clean flannel and a little sweet oil. j
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Varnishing lVooil.
When varnishing wood the work i
must be done in a warm room at a
temperature of at least 75 degrees Fah
renheit. At a lower temperature the
moisture in the air will give the var
nish a milky and cloudy appearance.
At the higher temperature on the
other hand the moisture is not precipi
tated until the alcohol of the varnish
has sufficiently evaporated to leave a
thin and smooth film of shellac. The
gloss and durability of the varnish
are entirely dependent upon tills. Wa- i
ter should never be applied to var
nished furniture, but oil should be
used in ail attempts at cleaning. Kero
sene oil may be put to good account in
cleaning unvarnished woods, but, like
water, it should be avoided with var
nish.
Japnncßo ftiiadolr Ornmnnnt.
A quaint ornament for a boudoir, up
right piano or bracket is the follow- '
ing: Take a small Japanese cat bas
ket and a Japanese doll's head, with
hair arranged in the quaint oriental
fashion. Arms aro included in the up
per part of this Japanese girl and
shoulders. A puff of pale blue silk
goe3 over these, simulating a low
necked waist. The sleeves are also
puffs of the silk. This upper part of
the doll sets upon the basket and a
pair of legs, each slipped into a pulf
of the silk, are fastened to the top of
the basket so that when the head is
on it, the effect is that of a pretty lit
tle miniature Japanese girl placed upon
the piano or shelf, with her feet hang
ing over it. Pink silk or cardinal can
be used for dressing the doll, but blue
seems to accord well with tho general
tone of boudoir furnishings.
lireakfant. Crpain CnUrR.
These delicious little cakes are of
such fairy like lightness and so deli
cious that it is difficult to realize that,
they are so simple in tlie materialjJw
used. It is difficult for a tyro in cook
ing, who has never seen them served
with the accompaniment of fragrant
coffee, to realize how excellent these
cakes may be.
Take a cup of sour cream, which i 3 !
well loppered but not old enough to
have any suspicion of mould about it;
stir in a scant half teaspoonful of
scda, or just enough to make the cream '
sweet to the taste; ami a little salt and
enough sifted flour to make a dougli j
as stiff as a pie crust. Roll the cream ]
cakes out as thin as a pie crust and cut
the crust into long oblong strips about
an inch and a half wide by three inches
long. Bake the cakes in a hot oven
until they are a rich brown. They
should be baked quickly, like a pie ,
crust, and liae a pie crust they will
increaso many times in size. This rule
gives an excellent crust for a chicken
or a game pie.
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Coffee Charlotte—Soak half a box of ;
gelatine in half a cupful of cold wa
ter. To one pint of thick cream add
a small cupful of sugar, aud a cupful j
of clear, strong coffee; whip with an i
egg-beater until thick. Stir two ta
blespoonfuls of boiling water into the
gelatine, after which beat it into the
cream mixture. Pour into a mold lined
witli sponge cake.
Chicken Saiau—Cut two and half
cupfuls of cold cooked chicken into
dice, mix well with one cupful of dried
celery, and moisten with a plain
French dressing. Chill thorough,iy.
Wash and crisp well a small head of f
lettuce, arrange in cups on a
platter, pile in the chicken and celcryj.'
put on each a spoonful of salad dres^ 1 -,
ing and Berve very cold.
Cucumber Pickles —To each hundred
of tho smallest cucumbers you can
procure, allow an ounce each of mus
tard seed and cloves, a large table
spoonful of salt, a cup of sugar and
two small red peppers. Put the cu
cumbers in a kettle with enough vine
gar to cover them. Heat very slowly
to tho scalding point. Take out, put
in cans and fill up with boiling vine
gar.
Delicate Water Custard—Beat well
tour eggs, add one scant cup of sugar
and beat again. Now add. drop by
drop, one-half cup of boiling water,
beating constantly. Beat three min
utes, add two and a half cups more
boiling water. Great care must be
taken in adding the first naif cup.
Add a pinch of salt, any flavor you de
sire, and COOK in double boiler until
solid In the centra The water in low
er dish must not touch the dish eoji*
taining custaro. Put your dish where
you can see the water begin to bubble
•>nd keep it so. Must not boil hard.
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