e Kitchen s confections so teas are easily hip the whites of ound of pulverized Add a tea- n of tartar and beat nutes. ger, using a silver or ; Add a teaspoonful of [4 $pful of pecan or wal- nopped rather coarsely, drop by the spoonful on uttered, taking pains to y are far enough apart to ouching. Bake in an ex- oderate oven. Fruit Loaf together a half pound each sr and sugar, and, when soft ‘ooth, whip in six beaten eggs, espoonful each of powdered cin- n, nutmeg and cloves, a cup of and a half pound each of cleaned rants, seeded and chopped raisins 1 a quarter pound of shredded cit- n—all these fruits being mixed and rell dredged with flour. Last of all, add a tablespoonful of brandy. Turn into a greased loaf tin and bake in a steady oven until done. Ham Patties One cup finely chopped cooked lean ham, one-fourth cup fine bread-crumbs, one tablespoon melted butter, one-half cup hot milk, one eighth level teaspoon paprika, salt if necessary, eggs, but- tered crumbs. Mix the ham and breadcrumbs add the butter; then the hot milk and paprika. Add salt if required. Mix well and/ half fill ramekin dishes or well-puitered individual tins. Break the eggs carefully and slip one on to each patty. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and cover with buttered bread- crumbs. Bake for eight minutes in a hot oven and serve at once. Cheese Balls Whites of two eggs, two cupfuls grated cheese, one-half level teaspoon- ful salt, one-eighth level teaspoonful paprika, fine sifted bread crumbs. Beat the egg white until stiff; then add the cheese, salt and paprika. Mix well, shape into small ball the size of an oaamary marble and roll in the sad ¢ bs. Place in a frying bas- ok in deep hot fat until a yn. and ri VERC ustard kuls of milk, yolks of four burth cup sugar, one-fourth noonful salt, one teaspoonful Le can peaches, slices of stale ~~ milk over hot water and thickened and strain. Cool slightly and add the vanilla. Arrange alter- nate layers of cake and peaches, mois- tening the cake slightly with the peach syrup. Add the custard; chill, and when ready to serve beat the whites of the eggs stiff, add two level table- spoonfuls sugar and pile lightly on top. Date Pudding Make the usual rule for cottage pud- ding and to this add one cup of dates, stewed and put through the sieve, beating them in a little at a time. Steam instead of baking and serve with foamy sauce, Sweet potatoes contain more of the various bodily nutriments than most vegetables—sugar, starch and fat and are therefore delectable even when prepared in the simplest way-—plain, baked or even boiled. Sweet Potato Pone 4 cupfuls of hot, mashed sweet po- tatoes 1 cupful of hot milk 1-2 cupful of butter 1 cupful of sugar 2 tablespoonfuls of ginger 1-2 teaspoonful of salt 1 orange. Boil the sweet potatoes in their skins, and while still hot remove the skins and mash. Cream the butter and sugar together, add potato, milk and seasonings and the juice and grated rind of orange . Beat thor- oughly, pour into a buttered baking dish and bake in a moderate oven for one hour. Sweet Potato Pie 1 1-2 cupfuls of hot mashed, sweet potatoes 1-2 cupful of sugar 3-4 cupful of hot milk 2 tablespoonfuls of butter Grated nutmeg, lemon juice 2 eggs. Mash the boiled potatoes while hot and add to them the beaten yolks of eggs and the hot milk, sugar, grating of nutmeg and a few drops of lemon juice. Finally fold in the stiffly beaten whites of eggs. Pour into the pie crust and bake in a hot oven. Stewed Sweet Potatoes Boil the potatoes and when partly tender remove and cut into cubes. Mix in a bowl containing two table- spoonfuls of melted butter, two cup- fuls of milk, salt and pepper. Dredge with two tablespoonfuls of flour and cook in a double boiler for 20 minutes. Sweet potatoes may be scalloped as the white ones are, and a very de- licious vegetable dish made by mashing the sweets after boiling, add- ing salt, pepper, butter and milk and is g bro beaten. mixed with kugar and salt, and dffutéd with cheese until brown. Fight the Hessian Fly The injury from Hessian fly is still fresh in the mind of those whose crop was injured by it this season. Loss can be prevented or greatly reduced by planting a trap crop early and planting the seed for the crop on the fly free date of your locality. For fur- ther information write to the Bureau of Plant Industry, Pennsylvania De- partment of Agriculture, Harrisburg. The Hollyhock Bush Hollyhock rust greatly disfigures the plants and sometimes even prevents their producing good flowers. Very good control of this disease can be obtained by. picking up and burning all diseased leaves. Allow none to re- main on the ground over winter to in- fect the foliage next year. As it possible for the disease to carry over winter on the leaves of young plants near the ground, these should be ex- amined and if infected removed and burned. As the disease tnfested “cheeses” that round mallow that a weed in many gardens these also must be destroyed, so as not to spoil next season’s crop of flowers. The Corn Smut Can Be Controlled Corn smut reduces the yield of corn by spoiling the This trouble can be entirely avoided by burning all smut, found. Do this before the sacks burst because then the spores are be- in gscattered for next year’s crop. Do not feed stalks infested with disease to cattle as the spore will get in the manure and infect next year’s crop. Do everything possible to prevent the spread of this disease and get the neighbors to do likewise so that the community will be free from this dis- ease, is leaves is ears. Crop Correspondents’ Notes Armstrong—Hundreds of acres of spring seeding of clover cut for hay. Berks—Largest yield of potatoes ever grown in this vicinity. Clarion—Ninety per cent will be cut after October 1. Delaware—It takes to buy a good apir of shoes. crop of apples ever known. Greene—Wool beginning to move fifty cents. Huntingdon—Formers lost fully per cent of their oats on account wet weather. Pike—Apple crop very large and of corn Heaviest at 50 of of tle of the hot milk. Stir until far before they came to a delightful [Esaghes a spHnkALE of grated n Adventure in the Woods “0-0-0, what a wild looking wood.” Laid Polly. “I wonder if any ogres or "tigers live in it!” Her cousin Agnes laughed. “I'm afraid you won't find anything as exciting as that in these woods,” she said. ‘This is really not a bit wld compared wth the forests higher up on the mountains. I suppose it is dif- ferent, rather, from a city park, though.” “l should say Polly replied, glancing around at the big trees on every side, whose great branches al- lowed just little bits of sunlight to come through te the mossy ground. “But I like it. Aggie, it is so cool and pleasant and it looks so adventure- some whether it is or not. I wish there were mountains in the city, too.” Agnes launghed at Polly’s quaint sh. It is nice and cool and I wish I 1d share these mountains with ybody in the world,” she saig, rously. “Not this lunch, though,” she added, opening the little basket she carried. “Polly, we've been so greedy on our way up here, I declare, there isn’t much lunch left!” “That's because we shared it with the birds and the squirrels,” Polly re- plied. “Just think how surprised the little creatures will be when they look out of their holes and nests and see a nice bit of your mother’s good bread waiting for them.” «well, I hope they find all the pieces,” Agnes sighed. “It would be a shame if they didn’t when we could do so well with it ourselves. Now we shall have to do with a sandwich apiece, these ginger snaps and this pot of jam.” “Um-m, that sounds good!” said the cheerful Polly. “Though I hope you are not vexed with me for being so free with the lunch. I ate a lot of the bread myself and I am really not so awfully hungry now so you take the two sandwiches.” «1 shan’t,” Agnes replied, “and 1 guess I ate quite as much as you did on: the way at that. You haven't a bit of right aking all the blame. We can fill ~with blackberries, there area 1g ym around here.” | «KH Polly clapped her «t them first and have nch. It will be a real so,” looked up in the same inquisitive man- ner with which he had examined the basket. to a higher branch in a great hurry. Bruin had hold of the lower branch and was slowly pulling himself up! ly. Polly. patch of brambly vines that glistened all over with them. “0-0-0, what stickers!” Polly cried, and in the same breath. “What great, big, magnificent, fit-for-a-Queen ber- ries!” What fun it was to pick and how quickly the little basket filled up! Agnes covered it with leaves and Polly insisted on carrying it as they hurried back to their camping place. Agnes went first and just as she came in sight of the spot she stopped short with an exclamation. Polly peeped over her cousin's shoulder and dropped the basket of blackberries. There sitting on the ground, enjoy- ing the lunch immensely was—not an ogre nor a tiger—but a big brown bear! He was holding the jam pot in his paws and licking it with great relish. When he saw the two girls he put down the pot and scrambled to his feet. “0-0-0!” cried Polly. get up that tree! Here. I'll boost you, Quick.” Polly didn’t waste a second. She ran te the tree Agnes pointed out and caught hold of the lowest branch. Agnes pushed her up and then with Polly pulling, managed to get up be- side her . “Where is he?” Polly whispered. “There,” said Agnes pointing to the place where they had stood a moment before and where Polly had dropped the basket of berries. He was exam- ining it in very solemn manner and son began to help himself to the con- tents. “He might be eating us up this very ninute,” Polly observed shiveringly. ‘Dear, dear, what shall we do now? 1 hope he can’t climb or that the lunch was enough for him: Perhaps we had better call for help. Somebody may be around.” “It might attract the bear’s attention “It might attract the bear’s atten- tion,” Agnes cautioned . “Perhaps he doesn’t know where we are.” Mr. Bruin put them right on this, however, for after he had finished the berries he went over to the tree and Polly and Agnes scrambled When they looked down again Mr. “Let's call!” cried Agnes desperate- “Help! Help! Help!” “Help! Help! Police!” shouted “Go ’way, bear! Shoo!” The unwelcomed intruder paused as nd | prised at the sudden noise and and Agnes shouted againas loud | good quality. Fire Blight Damage Can Be Reduced twig blight and fire blight and the common names of a serious disease of apple, pear and puince trees. They are all caused by the same organism, a bacteria. Only preventive be taken to hold this very serious disease in check according to the officials in the Bureau of Plant Industry, Penn- sylvania Department of Agriculture. In pear and quince trees cut out the infected portion six inches or a foot below the infection and sterilize the wound with bichloride of mercury, 1 to 1000. In apple trees the most effective work against this disease is to delay the dorman spray for San Jose scale until the unfolding leaves are one- quarter of an inch long—then spray with concentrated lime sulphur wash Pear blight, measure can half pint of Blak Leaf 40. Applied at this time the aphids will be killed —they are largely responsible for its spread among the apple twigs. Winter work in cutting= out all the cankers which the disease overwinters will be of great value. Stefanson, the explorer, has leased 113,000 square miles of Baffin Island, where he plans to raise reindeer on a large scale. A new type of protectionism, known as “frontier control,” has come into existence in Europe. The expenses of the British govern- ment since the beginning of the war have been placed at more than $55,- 000,000,000. To their relief simeone answered and soon a swarthy looking man cane into sight. “Here, here, you come-a off from-a da Seniorettas. You hear-a me, Gui- sippe!” he shouted. The ebar let himself down again with a sigh and soon the man had a collar around his neck. “He no-a da hurt-a da Seniorettas. He follow de crumbs da Seniorettas drop in de wood.” So saying the man led Guisippe away while the girls climeb out of the tree. “Well I never!” said Agnes. “And he’s gone and eaten all our lunch and the berries too!” “Yes, but it was an edventure, and I'd choose to go hungry to have one,” said 25 resome Polly. ALS laughed. “Y{¥fca e my share of any more they could.’ 3 eight calf-hides | Style Hints From _ the S Our wanderings about town each golden autumn day, reveal SW ning frocks, faithfully interpretin the ultra-fashionable tendencies of the advancing season. Youthful and full of that delight- ful lithesome grace so evident in the higher cost afternon modes now ap- pearing on the Delaware avenue and They are trimmed with contrasting colored embroideries, gay colored silks adding an effective note of autumnal brightness to ‘their con- servative simplicity. One beholds long, lines, with novel treat- ments, tunics, new neck lines elsewhere, slim novel and sleeves. The flaring skirt idea and with it sleeve for winter wool tricotine it newest whims and for the woman in quest modish frock that will service. In one of our great shops I saw two charming and distinctive models one in the overblouse mode with beading in black and red at the neck The second model the straight-line effect, exquisitely beaded in self color. Satin afternoon gowns, so lovely in every detail, will be found, though their chic and -harm cannot be transferred to print scarcely. - Developed in lustrous satin or crepe meteor and showing the mew girlish these fascinating little gowns boast of a straight or flared tunic with rows of tiny buttons and pretty lace or ribbon ornamentations. Something the oriental patent leather embellishment, as youthful as it is novel. For the young school grl I found a taupe satin with bouffant petal tunic, the novelty roll collar smartly embroidered with colored raffia. A girlish brown satin model has the oriental skirt with che novel accordion pleated ruffle at hem, waist and sleeve. For Milady's afternoon wear the |oriental designs seem to predominate {and Madam will have that in this [black gown of kitten ear crepe with lits air of simple elegance. Deep | fringe of cut jet beads forms the col- {1ar, which ends the short sleeves and | edges a very smart tunic. anything lovelier, I you, than henna duvetyn used with | French art on an embroidered frock of navy blue, The lines are slim, { smart, grlish, and the sleeves are attractive the long warmth. In fine reflects fashion’s fills a decided wont of a really give unusual is an we find and sleeves. is waist line, extremely new is Picture ask | short. Among the coats and wraps we find Many are imported [some dignified new notes. copies and adaptations of | models and they carry an air of style land chie, largely traceable to French accentuate Ines shoulder, rinspiration. ~Some [that swing from the Spooks obody home! That's queer. 1 nder if Aunt Annie got my letter or ick pulled the old-fashioned door- 1 again and heard the faint gostly ng of the bell inside, but that was a Nobody at home and he was a stranger in a strange city with mighty money in his pocket and no- wheer else to go. He had come East visit aunt and uncle who had (often invited him to come. So sure indeed had he been of his welcome he [had waited for a reply to his letter announcing his coming. “Gee! What'll I do now?” he said himself, feeling in his pocket for store of cash. It was very i, but his hand closed on A letter 1541 1ttie to his to his scant ont indeer a letter and brought it out. from his Aunt Annie. “Dear Dick,” it read, “I wish you would come and se us as we are al- most your only relatives, and you would be very welcome any time. Please consider our home as your own and don’t hesitate to come whenever you can. Your loving Aunt Annie. Dick read it over thoughtfully. “That’s clear enough,” he said. “She sure did invite me. I'm to consider her home my own, she says. Well then, I'll just walk in.” The dor was locked, which seemed odd to the country boy. Must be a burglar hereabouts, he murmured. “Maybe the key’s under the mat.” He had heard that people put keys under doormats and looking under, sure enough he found a large key. The next minute he had the open and was peeping into a large musty dim hall As he peeped a queer scared-looking chap opened a door opposite and peeped at him. Dick jumped back in alarm and the stranger jumped back too. Then Dick laughed. The scared looking chap was his own reflection in a large mirror. After that he tried to look bold and stepped into the hall. Just then the house began to tremble—at least he thought it did—and before he knew what was what the front door slammed shut just as if somebody had pushed it. had pushed it. “Whew!” whistled Dick. “If I be- lieved in spooks I'd be plum nervous.” His hand shook a little os he locked the front door on the inside. Then he began to tiptoe through the house Why did he walk so carefully and slowly as if the house were a church or a graveyard He didn’t know, un- less it was because this was such a great gloomy dark old place that it seemed to demand silence and awe. “Wish somebody was here,” Dick muttered. “I'm lonesome.” He went first to the parlor, a long, high, narrow, dark room full of large {black furniture and oil paintings of dreadful looking old folks staring ‘down from the walls. Dick didn’t like lit so he tiptoed on to the dining room 8C door else Care of Shoes Careful poise of the body in walk- ing prolongs the life of shoes. A careless, slipshod gait wears shoes unevenly, while an erect carriage tends to keep the soles and heels level. Shoes, even more than most other articles of clothing, need to be aired after wearing in order to prevent the perspiration from rotting the lining. i is a good plan to keep them on shoe-trees or stuffed with tissue paper, because in this way the wrinkles are forced out and the original shape is preserved. Wetting tends to spoil the and to shorten therefore, A Que ui In some small New York villages the townfolk think that whenever there is a thunderstorm, old Henry Hudson and his men are playing Nine- pins in the mountains. Many of you have played nine-pins and know what a noise the ball makes as it rolls along and what a crash is caused when the pins go tumbling down . Now, picture to yourself a ball and a set of nine- pins twenty times as large as the set you play with and you will have a small conception of the set used by Hudson and his men, according to the old superstition, when they go out to play the game that makes the entire mountain side shake with thunder. Many of you are no doubt wonder- {ing who the man is who would want [to play nine-pins on the New York during a thunder storm and why the superstition has arisen |in New York. man who first City. With a he had set sail of shoes period service; should be worn in bad weather to protect the shoes. If shoes do get wet, they should be very slowly and carefully dried, for heat tends to crack the leather. It is especially im- portant to restore the shape of wet shoes by shoe-trees or paper stuffing. Kven with the careful drying, moisture tends to rot the threads with which a shoe is sewn, and “an ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure.” appearance their of overshoes Mountains Henry Hudson was the settled in New York little company of men from Holland to find as did so many of the early explorers, a short route to the South Sea Islands. But his little craft, “The Half Moon,” never reached the South «Jn proof cloth tops afford excellent pro. | ST ember, 1603, the boat entered the {river which now bears Hudson's name, Wien only us 3itl t Ke boos [and although Hudson thought that he e y a little protection is needed |, . WY reaching Pas the slip-on or sandal, is comfortable | vg. 5 the by lo Feaching the Pa and economical, for it covers the sole |New York, He planted the Dutch of the shoe but leaves the heel free. | yap in the new land and called the All types of rubber overshoes are now |city, which he settled, New Amster- that they should be |qam, but later the name was changed treated as carefully as the shoes they [ihe which all know—New pretect. They should be kept away |york. from great heat, and set “right side Stories of Hudson and his up with care” to prevent their losin: tures along the Hudson River and m shape. They should also be washed |{yo mountains spread about the coun- or brushed so that the grit on them |{;v and many many years after the may not wear down the surface. oad man had died the superstition It is economy to keep two pairs of spread that he had never died at all, shoes in use and wear them on alter-|phyt that he his from the nate days; the thorough airing on |Half Moon hidden among the shoe-trees or stuffed with paper keep: [caves and rocks of the mountains, and them fresher and more shapely so that (that on warm summer nights they each pair gives longer service. All |went to a chosen nook and there en- shoes should be kept clean and well |joyed their favorite sport—Nine-pins. brashed. Leather shoes may be rub- bed with vaseline to ke