i CHARGING 1 the | ENEMY 8 By Martha McGulloch-Willlams 3 Copvrii/ht, 1301, bp A. S. Richardson OOTTOOYYOOVTOOTYOOYTOOTTC Old Gib Ezell went swinging and stumping upon his crutches down the street and up the steps of his store. It was the biggest store in town, though not the smartest. Joe Beenam, who had opened up the spring before, Just across the street, was running old Gib hard in groceries and hardware and leaving him out of sight when it came to knickknacka or dry goods pure and simple. A man who half knew looked after old Gib, then across at the sign of his young rival and murmured half to himself, "What a pity!" Another man who knew also looked, listened to the exclamation and answered it. sticking out ids chin as he spoke, "Better say, •What a shame!'" "What's a shame, doc?" a third said, coining up behind them. Doctor Wa ters smiled half grimly. "I'm not quite sure—it seems to be the hitch in the course of a true love," he answered. Lew Bayne, the man who had spoken first, shook his head energetically. "I meant that poor old fellow's legs," he said. "I suppose, doc, it's certain he'll never walk again." "Now you've got me," the doctor pro tested. "I'd risk my professional rep utation that fall he got on the sleety pavement did no worse harm to his shrunken shanks than bark them up pretty generally. There were bruises, of course, and on the shoulder and side as well. I told him he'd be out and about in plenty time for the Christmas trade, but from the first he stood mo up and down that he'd never take an other steady step, and so far, I'm bound to admit, he was right. There's nothing on earth the matter with his legs, nothing at least that I or the oth er doctors can see. Against that there is the fact that the minute he tries to stand on them they do the Joint rule act—double under him as though they hadn't strength to bear up a spider. The trouble must lie in the nerves. If that's what you meant, I agree with 3'ou that it's a pit}*. I thought you had reference to the trick he's played on Jce Beenam." "What is it?" asked Merton, the third of the group. "You know I've been away six months! Tell me all about it." "Not much to tell," Dr. Waters said. "You know Florrie Ezell"— "I ought to, considering she sent me away," Merton broke in ruefull}'. "You don't mean Joe is gone on her like the rest of us? I thought"— "You've hit it," the doctor said. "Joe did stand out mighty well against the prevailing infection, but n man never knows what's coming to him until it hits him square in the face." "Lord! To think of Joe, the 'bomb proof,' we called him," Mertouehuekled. "How did it happen? Tell me all about Merton, a newly evolved drummer, bad given what he would have called "a comprehensive order." Dr. Waters also chuckled as he answered, nodding his head byway of emphasizing his points: "Well, you see, it's this way: The hour struck for Joe when he saw Florrie Ezell swirling around, a blue tnrlatan angel, In a waltz with Bob Acton at the Buttons' party. Fiorrie's a pretty girl anyway you see her. That night she was particularly fetch ing. But that wasn't the thing. I in sist Joe's time had come. lie knew it. Soon as the waltz was over he froze to Florrie—didn't get a yard away from her all the evening." "It was a freezing time, as I remem ber," Lew Bayne Interrupted, with a laugh. "Indian summer up to dusk; then a cold rain, that turned to sleet in short order. Say. didn't old Gib get his fall that very night?" "I'm coming to that. If you'll wait," the doctor ran on. "I tell you that was n sleet to remember. Joe, of course, wouldn't let Florrie walk home, though the Ezell house Is only six blocks from the Buttons'. No, slree! lie telephoned for the finest rig at the livery stable and bundled all that blue tarlatan in it as snug as you please. I heard Flor rie protesting that she ought really to wait for papa, but we all persuaded her papa wouldn't think of risking himself upon pavement like glass. We ought to have known better. Old Gib always does the thing that any other man would let alone." "Bet a hat he came," Merton said, chuckling more than ever. "You win—from yourself," Dr. Wa ters answered. "He came, he didn't gee his daughter, he went back swear ing like a trooper, though he is a dea con, and he fell right before Master Joe's fine rig, coming back from leav ing Miss Florrie safe at the gate. Of course Joe picked him up and carried him home. Equally, of course, old Gib hates him for doing it. By the time I got to him next morning he was fully persuaded Joe was at the bottom of his fall, with Florrie as ac cessory; said they ran away and left him, hoping he'd break his neck, so Joe could have both his daughter and his store. You know he didn't take overkindly to competition anyway"— "That he didn't! Why, he even wrote to our credit man to keep a peeled eye on Joe," Merton interrupt ed. "That's like him," Dr. Waters said. "I tell you, boys, nature must work along a certain line of compensation. I'm sure she slapped into old Gib all the small meannesses due to two gen erations of Ezells—it may even be three. His father was a hue mau, and bis daughter is just as good a woman us ever was made." "About Joe, now?" Merton queried. Dr. Waters frowned. "Joe courted Florrie with such a rush that in a week they were engaged. Then Be went right in to old Gib and had it out with him—told him all about himself and his business, in and out, up and down—but the substance of it was he wanted Florrie for his wife, and would do whatever old Gib said if only he could get her. And then the old crocodile pretended to cry; said Florrie was all he had to live for; he hoped Joe wouldn't press him for an answer then, nor, indeed, talk of an engagement until he was either dead or himself again. You know how soft hearted old Joe is, and how he hangs on to his word once he passes it. Of course he promised, never mistrusting the old wretch was playing him. So there you are! Florrie's worrying and losing color because Joe only speaks when they pass by, but don't coutb to the house. Joe's about desperate, and old Gib is fattening and getting ten years younger—on spite add crutches. What the end is to be nobody can guess." "Can old Gib be shamming?" Merton asked. Dr. Waters shook his head. "I thought so at first," he said. "But If he is it beats anything in the books. There's certainly nothing wrong with his legs, except that they're a bit flab by. It's equally as certain he can't walk on them. I think sometimes he has hypnotized himself. If it was Just deceit and what I call cusscdness, I would have been able before this to take him off his guard." "Well, I can at least go over and con dole with Joe," Merton said, stepping across the street. "And maybe sym pathy will be worth an order," he called back over his shoulder as he struck the store steps. Although it was late March, It was still nipping cold. A red fire roared in the base burner Inside old Gib's store. Old Gib himself sat close beside it, his eye ranging all the miscellaneous mer chandise which crowded shelves and floor. Ilis three clerks had been on the Jump all morning, but toward noon there came a lull. lie was about to send two of them off to dinner when the door opened wide, and Merton came through, with Joe Beenam in his wake and Dr. Waters and Lew Bayne marching solemnly behind. J&'s face was white, his eyes brilliant, his figure tense in every line. Indeed he looked desperate, and his voice rang hard as he said, stopping short three feet away: "Mr. Ezell, I have come to ask you, here in the presence of these witnesses, to release me from my promise. You know well how it was given—with a total misapprehension of the truth." "You mean you want to take my daughter, as well as my trade, and leave me, a cripple, to starve!" old Gib roared. Joe set his teeth. "I mean nothing of the sort!" he said. "Give me your daughter, and our home shall be yours. I will serve and care for you as I would for my own father" — "You won't get the chance," old Gib sneered. Joe half turned to his friends and whispered sepulchrally: "Go away! Quick!" "Going to murder me, hey?" old Gib sniffed. Joe stood very straight. The others had slunk toward the door, with the awed clerks huddling after. They heard Joe shout: "It is not murder! I shall give my life to free Florrie from your intolera ble tyranny!" Then they saw him fling wide the stove door and daßli Into it what seemed like several pounds of gun powder. Old Gib snw it too. With one wild, whooping yell he leaped from his chair, regardless of crutches, of everything but flight, rushed madly for the door, darted through It and did not puuse until he came panting and trembling to his own gate. As he clung there the others overtook him, as breathless as himself betwixt running and laughing. Dr. Waters made a low bow. "If I had thought three pounds of black sand would be so effectual, I would have had you well long ago," he said. Merton dragged Joe forward. "If you want to kick anybody, kick me," he said to old Gib. "I put this lad," patting Joe's shoulder, "up to playing you that trick." "Humph! I knew he didn't have the brains for It himself," old Gib snorted. But, though he had found Ills legs, ho was none the loss old Gib. The fact was proved by Ills letting Joe and Florrie marry ulmost out of bund and presenting them with both his store and his blessing. Knew Him as n Sharper. Lord Brampton, when he was Mr. Justice Hawkins, when on circuit, find ing a long summer evening drag on his hands, took a turn In the lanes, and, staying at a rural inn for a cup of tea, his ears were assailed by the charmed sound of the falling ninepins. With a lively eagerness he Inquired of the landlord if there was an alley on the premises. Byway of answer the landlord conducted him thither. The goodly company assembled eyed the newcomer with greedy eyes, think ing they would lead him on to an ad vantageous game. The learned judge at once acceded to their invitation, in the course of a very short time relieving every gentleman in the place of his spare shillings. Then the landlord thought it time to Intervene and, touching his !ordshlp on the back, said: "Look here, my fine friend, we have had your sort here before, and if you don't want to shake hands with the po lice you'd better get out of this!" Ills lordship went.—London Stand ard. DRESS HINTS. Thin stockings should be darned with fine worsted. Cover an old hat pad with crape and use it for brushing velvet and vel veteen. Water in which potatoes have been noiled is the best thing with which to sponge and revive a silk dress. When buttonholing flannel edges, first run a linen thread about one eighth of an inch from the edge. It will hold the buttonhole stitch and wear much better. Corsets may be cleaned by scrubbing them with a hand brush and warm soapsuds after removing the steels and laces, then rinsing. When dry, mend carefully and put the steels and laces back in place. To renew lace veils dip them In new milk, squeeze dry and pin them to a firm surface to dry. Pick out every point of the lace and have the edges perfectly straight, and the lace will look like new when dried. Pink, eiel blue or mauve accessories often render a gray gown becoming to either fair or dark women, and, again, a small amount of rich velvet, with the addition of some handsome deep cream lace, greatly improves a gray toilet. The Parlor. The parlor, otherwise the "company or show room," ought to be the one room in the house that should portray in its every detail the Ideal personality of the woman who owns it. It should contain but a few beautiful objects on which the eyes might rest without dis traction, some pood pictures on the walls, a suggestion of music by the presence of an unobtrusive instrument, and, above all and everything, a sense of comfort and unity should be appar ent in all its furnishings and decora tions. The Japanese custom of show ing only one good picture or kakemono or screen at a time and placing tlie flowering branch of a tree where it will be seen to greatest advantage in their guestroom is unquestionably an excel lent idea, one well worth Imitating. 111 our efforts to have everything pretty and showy around us we reduce our parlors to miniature eurio stores and palnihouses and in crowding our treas ures fail to obtain the effect of artistic beauty in their arrangement. PralHe 111 the Home. There is nothing better for a girl sometimes than a little hearty praise. Many good people conscientiously uct 011 the direct opposite and seem to think nothing better thun a little hearty blame. They are mistaken, conscientious in their blame as they may be. There are sore burdens enough In life, bitterness and pain enough, hard work enough and little enough for it—enough to depress us all and keep us humble, a keen enough sense of failure, succeed as one may, and a word of hearty commendation now and then will lighten the load and brighten the heart and send a woman on with new hope and energy, and if she have any reasonable amount of brains at all it will do her no harm. Children are sometimes heart starved for a little hearty praise. Boys will act up to the estimate put upon them, or at least try to, If they are worth their salt. Hot Milk For the Skin. Hot milk for the complexion has proved to be of the greatest benefit, and many women say they owe an im provement to their complexion to the constant use of hot milk applied every morning and night to their faces. A woman prominent in the literary world and whose complexion is equal to a young girl's declared that of all the many precautions she had taken to keep her skin in good condition none was so efficacious as hot nfilk. "When I am frightfully fatigued," she said, "from the rush of the life I lead, I get a gallon of milk for thirty cents and put it in my bathtub, adding sufficient hot water to cover the body. "I lie in this mixture for ten minutes and come out feeling thoroughly re freshed and with a new life to the skin, which, previous to the bath, had a dead look." Rone Care For Nervoannenn. Roses as a cure for many of the lit tle aches and pains of life, says the Chicago American, are advocated by those who believe our mental condition has much to do with our physical pains. It has been discovered that a rose will cure the headache. Its perfume soothes the nerves, and the brain is rested by its color. Recline 011 a pillow of roses if you can. If you cannot do this, lie and look at a few of the flowers. Tie up your head witli rose perfume if you have it and, like the famous London beauty, pull tlie flowers to pieces, sniff deeply the rase, let your eyes look long at the peculiar tint in its depths and cure yourself. If you will give half an hour to this cure, you will find yourself mucli refreshed in every way. Baked Illiniums. To bake bananas delielously make a sirup of orange and lemon juice and sugar. For six bananas two oranges and one lemon will be required. A lit tle pineapple juice is an improvement. Remove tlie entire skin of the bananas, place them, with the sirup, in a baking dish, put in the oven and cook until clear. The bananas should be basted frequently with the sirup. When they are done and cooled, remove to a glass dish and pour tlie contents of the dish over them. Serve very cold. The Divan. A divan should never be set across the corner of a room, as is occasionally seen. A divan's place is against the wall, which, softened by upright cush ions, makes the back. Neither should a screen stand Irrelevantly, screening nothing. It should shut off a draft, an ugly view or conceal an awkward > doorway. AN ORCHID CENTERPIECE. A Richly Emhroldercil DESIGN FOP tbe Dinner Tuhle. Richly embroidered centerpieces are naturally for especial occasions, though the centerpiece itself of simple design has become an everyday table decora tion—that is, dinner or lunch table dec oration. Orchids are luxuriant. They would be if they grew by the acre, and one would, like Thoroau, be ready to take his hat off to every cypripedium, so in tensely royal are they. Our design of an orchid centerpiece is rather prodi gal, but the appointments of even a ORCHID CENTERPIECE. simple dinner can hardly be overdone. A dinner Is tlie acme of entertaining, and beautiful things are appropriate to it. The leaves of this design form a framework for the blossoms, and both are so managed that, while conven tionalized as to arrangement, they do not in the least violate the manner of the natural growth of the plant. They are embroidered In deep yet soft shades of green. Tlie orchids should be worked in purples and gold, always a rich com bination. The method of the stitcliery is featherstitch, and this work should be slanted toward the stem base of the flowers and kept almost parallel in the leaves. Since to embroider a flower as complicated in form as tills requires some skill, an amateur should avail herself of all possible helps. None is more desirable than color studies. If these were obtained and followed more often by tlie embroiderer, as they are by the decorative painter, we would have better needlework. There are many beautiful orchid studies, as these flowers are favorites in decora tive art. With one before the em broidery frame the worker can shade correctly as well as follow the lines which indicate texture, as a guide to the proper stiteli direction. Before set Aug the work on the frame a fine buttonhole edge should be em broidered all round .the outer outline of the design. The embroidery can afterward be carried down close over tills. It is not supposed to show much, merely to fortify tlie edge so it can be cut out when the work is complete. Tlie work should be done on a round weave linen of good quality. It is no economy to put needlework on inferior materials. Lilian Barton Wilson in Collier's. How to Hold I'p a Skirt. now few women ever attain the fac ulty of holding up the skirts 011 rainy days with ease and daintiness! Al though it is tlie rule to wear flounced underskirts that almost touch the ground, petticoats that reach only to the top of high boots have hitherto been the rule, and 011 rainy days these are still reverted to. When out walk ing, the clever woman arranges her skirt, and then, with one hand or per haps two, she lightly lifts it so that it falls evenly all round. This is where the knack comes In, says a writer in the Louisville Post. To hold up a skirt on one side and let it sweep the ground 011 the other is very natural, but it is not good taste, and when it falls evenly all round and the frills of the petticoat are almost if not quite visible the effect is dainty in the ex treme. One of the things that are taught at a school in New York is how to hold up tlie skirt gracefully. Time Children Should Sleep. In Sweden a committee was recently appointed by tlie government, saj*s the New York Times, for the purpose of ascertaining how many hours children of various ages ought to sleep in order that they may be able to study prop erly. According to tlie report forwarded to the minister of education, children who are four years old should sleep twelve hours, children who are seven years old eleven hours, children who are nine years old ten hours, children who are from twelve to fourteen years old from nine to ten hours and those who are from fourteen to twenty-one years old from nine to ten hours. It further points out that anaemia and weakness in children are frequently due to lack of sleep. Tlo Cony Corner. Cozy corners are dear to the fem inine heart, but they have been con demned as tlie homes of dust and mi crobes. Draperies and canopies are to blame for this. These should be dis carded. The couch should be placed a little diagonally, with a space behind It. The couch covering should lie as rich as one can afford, but with noth ing sweeping 011 the floor, the pictures and bric-a-brac simple and bright, the former of Inviting landscapes and flow ers, with 110 scarf or drapery across the tops or at the corners to gather dust and distract the attention from the subject of the picture. A Knife Cleaner. To make a homemade knife cleaner cover an old knife board with a strip of brussels carpet. Thickly cover the board with powdered bath brick and keep an end of it wet. First rub the knives 011 the wet bath brick and then finish off on the dry. Knives are pol ished well and quickly in this manner. LAUNDRY LINES. ! Black calico will look like new If I rinsed in very strong bluing water. Laces or delicate materials which are soaked in borax water do not require rubbing. All embroideries and colored garments should be ironed on tne wrong side whenever practicable, j To fold table linen when ironing place the salvaged edges together and fold first in half and then over again once, i When washing flannels, shake and brush them thoroughly before plunging into the water, as this removes the dirt in a more satisfactory manner and : keeps the flannels white. Soda and ammonia have a tendency | to make silk and woolen goods yellow I if used in the washing, while borax | tends rather to brighten. If clothes are not thoroughly rinsed, the color will al- I ways be bad. ! A housewife with a penchant for the -fragrance of orris root is said to place a piece of the root in the bottom of the boiler on wash day. The delicate odor clings to the clothes even when they are dried, ironed and worn. Tlic Renerved Girl. The average man—and we are not dealing with cranks—likes a dash of coldness—shall we call it reserve?—in a girl, something held back, a tantaliz ing hint of stores of passion reserved, it may be, for future occasions or des ; tined to be locked within the heart for ' over. Needless to say, I don't mean a disagreeable coldness—no man can en dure that—or the cruel coldness of the heartless coquette who desires power above everything and would drag her lovers at the wheels of the car of Jug gernaut if it would minister to her am- I bit ion or her vanity. The coldness which piques a man to greater extremes of loving—which is as vinegar to the salad of life—ls far otherwise. Proba bly—and herein lies its witchery—it is more or less assumed. A role which ! the bewildering woman chooses to play 1 and which fits her so exquisitely adorns her with such manifold new charms that, so far from regretting it, the en raptured lover feels it is the one crown ing touch needed to elevate passion to the realms of the sublime. Cultivate, then, this graceful, desirable habit of ' coldness, of withholding as well us of giving. Shoes as Nerve Restorers. Eastern travelers say the reason there are 110 nervous women in China is because they wear soft shoes. There is 110 doubt that the hard soled shoes of , the western world are the cause of much nerve racking and mental and physical wear and tear. I After a hard day much relief can be found in the slipping on-of a pair of | soft soled shoes. | Tired feet and tired nerves will find much comfort in a warm footbath, with a handful of sea salt in it. Pad dle about in this till the water cools, ; dry the feet carefully with a rough i towel and don fresh stockings. If one could take time in the middle of the day to change stockings for a fresh pair, it would be easier to keep the feet warm and to ward off rheumatism. Tender feet may be strengthened by bathing and then rubbing them with I methylated spirits before retiring for the night, and another excellent plan is to swathe them with a bandage dipped in alum water. Avoid Small Worrlen, Perhaps the secret of the sweet ex pression and habitual serenity of the | Japanese women can be found in their : freedom from small worries. The j fashion of dress never varying saves ! the wear of mind on that subject, and the bareness of the bouses and sim plicity of diet make housekeeping a mere bagatelle. Everything is exqui sitely clean and easily kept so. There is no paint, 110 drapery, 110 crowd of little ornaments, no coming into the houses with the footwear worn in a dusty street. And then the feeling of living in rooms that can be turned into balconies and verandas at a moment's notice, of having walls that slide away as freely as do the scenes 011 the stage, and let in all out of doors or change the suits of rooms to the shape and size that the whim of the day or the hour requires I—Pearson's Weekly. Woman'* Influence In tlie Home. Love and happiness in the home rest more, fair more, with the wife than the husband. It may perhaps be urged against this that there are some men whom 110 woman, be her domestic vir tues what they may, could possibly be happy with, but even among such as these the majority would, I am con vinced, be found to possess a good as well as a bad side to their characters, and the wife, If she be a wise woman, will set herself to find out that best side and, having found it, persuade the man to live up to it. Set up an ideal before a man, let him think that to you he is tha.. ideal, and the chances are a thousand to one that be will try to live up to it. Women Doctor* In Hnftlniid. Medicine as a profession for women in England is becoming exceedingly popular, and, though a comparatively short period has elapsed since women first obtained the M. I)., the number of registered medical women who have obtained thdr degrees in Great Britain is already over 500. The list is headed by Mrs. Garrett Anderson, who was the first woman to obtain the M. D. In England. Women In Holland. Tlie right of mothers us well as fathers to decide regarding the domi cile, choice of profession and marriage of minor children has been recognized legally by the Dutch parliament. Hol land has also passed a law by which women may be appointed guardiuns for children not their own. FOR THE HOUSEWIFE Nnraery Window Seat*.* Window seats and boxes for the nursery or any room where the chil dren stay and play are useful In many ways. If there is even a slight Jog to the window, they are easily fitted ln f and hoarded up, the top fitted on a hinge so that it may he raised, an ex cellent receptacle for playroom litter |is provided. If liked, the space be ! ueath one seat may have two shelves • for the children's books and magazines, In which case little curtains stretched I on a wire or slender rod should fall from both seats. These should match the removable cushions of the seats and should he of denim, chintz or other stout and washable material. Have the windows thoroughly protected with window strips, for the children will sit in these seats for hours at a time, In terested in outdoor sights. Nothing more quickly induces serious colds than lounging in a drafty window. On I the other hand, if the window is prop ! erly stripped the seat boxes will prove I added protection from drafts that are j sure to come in around windows in our poorly built houses. Ham niila'tl lii Cider. j Try for the Thanksgiving feast hara ! baked in cider. This can he done the day before and warmed through when ; needed. Choose a good lean ham of about eight pounds. Wash thoroughly 1 and over the fleshy side sprinkle I chopped onions, a little clove and all- I spice, a teaspoonful of cinnamon and a half teaspoonful of ground ginger. Make flour and water into a paste as I thick as dough and cover over the | ham. Put skin side down in the roast | ing pan with two quarts. Cook slowly for three hours, hasting every ten minutes. When done, take off the | paste and rind and set away. An hour before serving return to the bak ing pan, flesh side down, brush the fat portion with beaten egg ami sprinkle thoroughly with chopped parsley and breadcrumbs mixed and let the ham heat through in the oven. Boil the , cider in which the ham was first roast ed down to a creamy sauce. Remove every bit of fat from the surface, re- I heat and send round in a sauceboat with the ham. A Good InvoNtment. It pays to have small bins built in your cellar for storing vegetables, for there is little loss from decay when ' bins are used. Place the bins against the wall in a slanting position and be sure that there are a few holes at the VEGETABLE BINS. bottom, not only for ventilation, but I also in order that any loose dirt may | be brushed out frequently and swept up. If the cellar is not cemented, have a strip of wood for the lower front edge of the bins to rest upon. The bins should be about twenty-two , inches long, eighteen wide and twelve or fifteen deep.—Ladies' Home Journal. Treatment of llngr*. The manager of a Chicago carpet department whose knowledge brings him an annual income of SIO,OOO ad vised the following treatment for valu able rugs: Lay them wrong side up on the grass, beat with a furniture beater, reverse and sweep carefully, a soft brush being the preference, or a good carpet sweeper. A little airing outside I of the sun's rays is good occasionally, ! when they may be carried in the house. The average American house j wife wears out her rugs by continued sweeping and beating. The plan of j putting them upon a line every two or three weeks or even once a month ! and then having them whipped is not to be commended if the rugs are of any value. When a rug is to be thor oughly cleaned, it should be sent where the work is properly done or else washed at home. Hominy. Indian corn is coming to bo more and more in use in this country and in for eign countries. It is being used in va rious forms and is much more palata | ble than rice or potatoes. One of the j best forms is hominy, but not every I cook knows how to have it at its best, i It should be boiled a long time—eight or ten hours at least—and it should be ! put to soak over night before boiling. It requires care and close attention to i keep it boiling and not to burn. It need not boil fast. Water is as hot when it boils slowly as when it boils fast (212 degrees F.). With butter or ham fryings it is delicious and u first | rate hygienic. Minced Tenderloin, Creole Style. Cut six ounces of tenderloin of beef j lengthwise, shape the slices into escal lops an Inch and a half in diameter by an eighth of an inch in thickness, j Saute them in butter. When ready, take the meat out and keep it warm between two dishes, adding beef stock, with part of its fat, some halved to | ma toes, peeled, pressed and fried in butter, and some green peppers sliced fine and fried in butter. Season highly, arrange the minced meat in a border ; of rice boiled in salted water, to which 1 half an ounce of butter has been added, and serve. WTIHIIIIIK: Colored Table I.lnen. Colored table linen should be washed in tepid water in which powdered borax lias been sprinkled. Wash quickly, using little soap, and rinse in tepid water containing boiled starch, j Dry in the shade, and when still damp iron.
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