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I TAFT'S BED n I The accompanying photograph show; which was presented to President Taft b him in those islands and later in his W been installed in the White House. In cc ness of Mr. Taft.?Harper's Weekly. Improved Clothespin. If asked the question, the majority of housewives would say that the is t common clothespin was perfectly sat- mu tofactory in its present form. Never- at 1 theless, a glance at the illustration be below shows what a decided improve- tim ment can be made in these laundry fas accessories. The improved pin shown tac , . so wi ter ft the tae f i here resembles somewhat the clamps used by photographers to support wet 8 prints while drying. They are made ?o that any number can be placed on a clothesline, being movable in either direction. The clothes are supported by small jaws, the grip being decided1 ly firmer than in the ordinary clothespin. In addition, the clothes do not come in direct contact with the clothesline and cannot become soiled, ; as is often the case with the ordinary line. They are also easier to handle, and after the clothes are removed are allowed to remain on the line. Colombia Rich in Platinum. The platinum output of Colombia is second only to that of Russia. This i precious metal, washed from the grav- she i els of the Choco, is always found nes mixed with gold, sometimes one or In the other metal greatly predominat- cap ing. Although platinum occurs to a anc small extent in other parts of the to Choco, its main sources are the Plat- At i ina and Conoto rivers. nai CLOTHES MAKE M, "Ah, Scorcher, so this is your boy. per's Weekly. Baseball Curver. ary If the Nebraska man who invented the baseball curver shown in the cut ^ei had kept the idea to himself and used me It secretly, he could command a sal- ma am , car 1 0 X S J- \ des t J r^y gei IV /jr cas | ^ cl \M eve A. \, 4 Sta 1 * - Cit I THE WHITE HOUSE, > the elaborately carved bedstead y the Filipinos, and was used by ashington residence. It has now instruction, it suggests the sturdi Men and Mustaches. 'In Europe," the barber said, "it he fashion for men to wear their staches long and trained carefully ;he ends, in which shape they must looked after at the cost of much e and trouble. Here it is tTfce hion for men to wear their mushes short, which may not be quite pretty but is vastly more conven* t and comfortable, and is characIstic of the country. It is doing ay with surplusage and keeping decks cleared for action. 'No man who has had his mushe trimmed short once," the bar said, "would ever let it grow long lin.V?New York Sun. Holder For Laths. rhere is no reason now why the ;t generation of lathers should not re the erect, military carriage of {Vest Point cadet. Two brothers Colorado have invented a lafhder which relieves them of the :essity of stooping several thouid times a day. This device is de .to fit over the shoulders?the lulder pieces being padded undertth?and buckle around the body, the back are two supporting arms able of holding a bundle of laths 1 projecting far enough in the rear be out of the way of the workman, the left side is a cup to hold the Is. *VN AND BOY! He's the icaage of you."?Har' from one of the big league teams it would make an insurance presilt sit up and take notice. By ans of this simple little device a n can throw inshoots, outshoots i drops with as much ease as he t pitch a straight ball, and the ves will be such as fans never lamed of. The contrivance is sim a pair of connected elastic loops, iigned to fit over the first two fin U ~ ?- 1 ^Ct- Un?,l r^r. f V-, ^ a kjl tnc ujjui ui icu nana, ao tuu e may be. Inside each loop Is a tal plate with prongs which engage i ball and twist it in the direction tired. Every man who has played leball to any extent knows that st must be given a ball to make it ve In a given direction. The diffity is to get such a purchase on the tere as to make the twist sufficientpronounced. With the metal grip 5 is easy. rhroughout the United States re is one licensed physician to xy 709 persons; in New York te, one to 672, and ia New York y, one to only 653. VlBH I7V GS I ! ; T1 Eighty-eight Alpinists were killed 5t last year. In the previous year the j Hi number was seventy-two, and in ; fi< 1906 it was only fifty-nine. 1 H ] M Roosevelt and Taft are the only of Presidents elected from the same | towns in which they were born. I ai T< < France is now claiming the record j re for depth in the bowels of the earth. ! bi A.t Bonchamp, in the Haute Saone, ; of the Buyer shaft, sunk for coal, is said j m to be the deepest of all shafts sunk ai by the hand of man for industrial in purposes. It is exactly 1010 metres, j ai or about 1120 yards deep. j in Complaints are made in German papers of the depredations of tour- ' ti Ists who hunt in Spitzenbergen; one j wealthy Berliner killed thirteen bears ! 61 In four days. ti ' se The postage stamp made its first | w appearance in 1839. Its invention ! Is due to James Chalmers, a printer ?! of Dundee, who died in 1863. Eng- *a land adopted the adhesive stamp, according to a decree of December 21, 1839, and issued the first stamps for public use on May 6, 1840. A year j m later they were introduced In the I M United States and Switzerland. I w ! fe The mortality under chloroform j m RVf>ra?ps nns nersnn in 10.000. I , n< According to a Cornell University ! b( professor, insects pests cost the farm- ! ai ers of the country over $700,000,000 M a year. When a hen attains her third year her laying capacity is at its She | ki will lay, on an average, from 300 to i ly BOO eggs in her lifetime. w ol Authoritative opinions hold that 01 the number of sheep in all countries w In the world decreased from 400,- oi 000,000, in 1873, to 300,000,000 in ta 1908. . cl ?<? m Germany has spent $150,000,000 oi In the last twenty years in the devel- ui opment and improvement of inland w waterways. As a result the empire P< has now 8278 miles of navigable streams and canals. cl * ce The petroleum production of the i w United States in 1908 has been esti- J A mated at between 175,000,000 and } as 180,000,000 barrels, an increase of I v< five to nine per .cent., as compared I g< with the production of 166,000,000 fa barrels in 1907. ? rn I ~ Concrete itself is very old. The j cl concrete stairs of Colchester and Ro- j tr Chester castles still show the marks | ct of Agrippa's Pantheon, which is 142 j w feet in diameter, is of concrete, and j G fragmeints of concrete buildings are found in Mexico and Peru. George, one of the fire department di horses in Bellevue, Ky., has acquired tr bad habits since beginning work for si ;he city. He is a confirmed chewer , b; of tobacco, taking a whole pack for js i chew. It he can't get the tobacco j tt Qe will chew hats or paper. He ate Ii patrolman Klett's hat recently when si refused a chew of tobacco. j tr I Pi In the railway mail service in [ tl 1888, before it was brought into the \ iu classified service under the law, there I bi was one error in distribution of mail j Si oaatter for every 3700 pieces correct- i ly handled; in 1897, some years af- j ol ter the new system became operative, I "! there were 12,000 pieces accurately j hi sorted for every one that went astray. | ; hi PANAMA AN OBJECT LESSON. ? iw ft Has Set a Sanitary Standard For ' M Future Undertakings. i J< The building of the Panama Canal j and the sanitary'record of the Japan- | ese in their war with Russia are the j two great object lessons of recent i P1 years, demonstrating that men can j lc neither work nor fight to tlje best i advantage unless protected from in- I n' fectious and preventable diseases. rc The civilized nation which will ; ** hereafter put an army in the field or undertake a great engineering | n< problem without first preparing the i a way by adequate sanitary engineering j ec and equipment will be regarded by j the other nations, says the Medical j News, as quite as foolish as a govern- | JjJ ment which would build a vast fleet | , of modern warships and then arm j " them with muzzle loading ordnance ; of 100 years ago. | An epidemic of typhoid fever in a military camp should be considered ] a greater disgrace to an army than a j defeat in battle since defeat may | come in spite of the greatest exer- j tions and the highest wisdom, while , typhoid and yellow fever would be j ** the result of ignorance or disregard ; of well known laws of prevention. ** All nations will profit by the sanitary ai lesson of the Panama Canal. ai The scourge of yellow fever against s* which the French struggled in vain, ai has not been seen there since May, 1906, although it exists at several st points to the north and south of the Canal Zone. Biibonic plague has fr not appeared since August, 1905, but | e* that disease also has broken out not j ai far away. No case of smallpox has j 8< ueeu repurieu uuriug uie jear. j h It StUCk. : G I The cat was being pursued by Patrick around and around the kitchen. A. sudden turn in the chase landed it "kerplunk" into the crock contain- ! E ing the pancake batter. It scram- j Pf bled out barely in time to escape a J 1)1 blow from the poker wielded by Pat- j ** rick, and shot out into the yard. ! T* "Lave the poor baste go," begged j oi Biddy, seeking to make peace. "The \ si butter ain't hurt in the laste. Every c* place he touched it has stuck to him." tl ?Everybody's Magazine. ai ____________ ! ?1 Getting Rich. j ls ' How did you get the money to buy | ^ paints to finish your big picture?" j _ asked the sympathetic intimate of j (he struggling artist. "Pawned my j coat." "Oh! And how much did you . get for your picture?" "Nearly enough to get my coat out."?London ' Globe. J' I ' 4 indanao (P. I.) Herald. Show Windows in Moscow. One street in Moscow, Miasnitzlya Ulitza, is devoted almost entire to stores selling machinery. The ' indows of these shops are large and plate glass, and display the vari13 wares to good advantage. Many indows are devoted to large exhibits ! various mechinisms, and at a cerlin hour in the afternoon these malines are, so far as possible, set Id otion to give practical illustration ! their working. The windows are sually surrounded by men, many of hom seem to be mechanics, who apjar to be keenly interested. There is a demand here for, malinery of all sorts, but with the ex(ption of agricultural machinery, hich is well and widely known here, merican machines have not become : i popular as they should. In con- I jrsation with importers of American sods I learn that this is greatly the tult of the American manufacturers. 1th the notable exception of the :anufacturer of agricultural malinery, who has built up a large ade here, they are unwilling to acide to the customs of the country ith regard to payment. ? Consuleneral Hunter Sharp. I He Was On His Job. Railroad men are telling this Incisnt as having occurred on a Kansas aia some time ago. The rails >read, and the engine, tender and J iggage car left the track, but the | ir was not hard enough to disturb I le sleepers in the rear Pullmana. ' 1 the last Pullman the porter was lining shoes, and, thinking that the am was stopping at an unusual lace, he went ahead to see about, le difficulty. He was told that with-' i a couple of hours the engine could j s put back and the track repaired. o he got busy with his shoes again. Suddenly a head popped out of one, t the berths and a man shouted: Say, porter, what are we stopping ere for?" "Oh," answered the porter, "we ad a wreck?" "A wreck? Wow! Oh-oh-oh-wowow! My neck! My neck! My chest! y back! Oh-oh-oh!"?Kansas City jurnal. One From Boston. Seldom do we find wits among tha jlice lieutenants of this city, but one l a south end station may be in a ass with George Ade. Recently a awly made patrolman, doing his 1 >ute along the Common, discovered le frog pond to be overflowing. It seems that those in charge had jglected to shut off the inlet, and as result the water trickled over the iges.. Thinking that the mattei lould oe brought to the attention ol is superior officer, the rookie called le desk from his next signal box. he conversation ran something like lis: . "Lieutenant, the frog pond is over- | . Dwing." "Bail it out with your hat," replied ! ! le lieutenant, closing the incident.? ; oston Journal. j ] Seventy Years at Anvil. S. E. Chamberlin, of Enfield, hat , le honor of being the Bay State's j dest blacksmith. For seventy years i us veteran, now wmte-naireu at im < je of eighty-four, has stood at the ivil, and during that time he haj lod more than 12,000 pairs of oxer 1 id 60,000 horses. He can set a pace to-day that is , renuous for a man much younger. When he was fifty years old he equently shod seven pairs of horses , ich working day, making the nails , ad shoes himself. He can turn a 3od shoe even now, and he retains le old hammer he used more thaD alf a century ago.?Northampton azette. ' i Forbidden Book in Korea. In obedience t.o an order of the j ducation Department the Police De- j irtment has made a visit to all the Dok stores and seized every copy ley could find of the "Manseh ?'ok" The '"Mecseh ryok" is a book E calendars for the past few thouind years. We fail to see tow the rculation of such a book can disirb the Korean or injure the Japaese; but we suppose the authories in their wisdom imagine that it dangerous, hence their action. The hole business, however, seems to be sry foolish and childish. ? Korea aily News. I It. Is estimated by a New York < uilder .that there are buildings un- | er construction in the city which ; ill aggregate in value more than 100.000.000. PIRATES OF THE SULU SEA. heir Attack Upon Fleet of Pearling Boats?The Leader Jikiri. Captain Charles Pfort, of the eamship Borneo, brought .the startag news from Jolo that the pearling ;et of four boats belonging to B. eaton-Ellis had been attacked by oros while at anchor near the town Parang. The Moros surrounded the pearlers id began the attack at long range. D this fire the crew of the pearlers isponded to the best of their ability, it having a very limbed number I arms and a small amount of amunition their defense did not nount t.o much. Two of the pearlig luggers immediately got up sail id were able to escape. As the steamship Borneo was leav;g Jolo a pearler was being towed i by a launch, bat being pressed for me Captain Pfort could not wait to jar the details of the affair. How-- | rer, the report that he brought is lat four or five men were killed and iveral wounded and one of the boats as scuttled and sunk by the pirates. It is thought that the attack was ganized and directed by Jijirl, the .mous outlaw whose band killed the imbermen Verment and Case someilng more than a year ago. While it is doubtless true that any of the crimes committed in the oro province and credited to Jikiri ere perpetrated by others, this last irocious attack on the pearlers was ost probaly the work of Jlklri'a md. It is known that his followers | jw amount to a considerable numir of picked rascals, all of whom e armed with up-to-date rifles.?' An arrangement of a ship's lights in a definite triangle on a known plan is urged as a safeguard against collision. The lights would then show an observer on another ship the vessel's course, her distance from the observer, and her approximate speed. It appears, according to facts collected by Arthur Mee, that Thomas Harriot, the English astronomer, born in 1560, made telescopes contemporaneous with the firBt instruments of Galileo. The very first teleacope seems to have been made in Holland in 1608. The next year Galileo heard of the discovery, and, after writing for information, began his own experiments. In the same year Harriot had one or two of the Dutch telescopes sent to him, and immediately began improvements on his own account. The great importance of X-ray and radium already play in the treatment of disease is shown by the appearance in Germany of a "Handbuch der Roentgentherapie," by O. Nemnich, which hi3 nearly a thousand pages. , At a meeting of the Academy of Sciences in Paris it was established recently that ultra-violet rays passed through milk will completely sterilize the liquid and effectually rid it of all microbes. The fluid is sterilized without heating or the use oichemicals, and, what is most important of all, without the loss of any essential character of the milk. The euphorbias are very numerous in the colony of Queensland, and among thetn is the Euphorbia pilulifera, the "Queensland asthma plant," which has a remarkable reputation for curing this troublesome complaint. Several pharmaceutical preparations of the plant are extensively sold in Australia. Analy?ds shows that a green plant contained seventy-nine per cent, by weight oi water and three per cent, of ash. leaving eighteen points of vegetable matter. A dried plant contained an alkaloidal substance equal to about one part in a thousand. It contained also a glucosidal substance to the amount of not more than four parts In the thousand. Possibly one oi both of these was the acthre principle of the plant. An instrument Is being used in one of the S(outh African mines which automatically keepB a record of the cage or skip Journeys are well as the signals given in the shaft and in the engine room. A band of paper ruled off into time spaces is marked by a small disc provided with a needle at one side. While the skip or cage is in motion, the disc travels over the cylinder making its record. When the signal bell is sounded the needle is caused to perforate the paper once for each ring of the bell. By Trade a Worm Eater. By HELEN ZIMMERN. Gothic, early Italian and Renaissance furniture can be copied with the greatest ease, and common wood is changed into walnut by the walnut's own juice. _For the pieces that demand more delicate processes nitric acid eats away the epidermis of the wood, while permanganate of potash --i ? T Cuiurs wiitiL rcuLiciiua. vr urn uuicc are produced In various ways; one is to shoot into the fresh wood with a pistol changed with grapeshot. Unfortunately the tell-tale shot remains at the bottom of the hole. But whc takes his furniture to pieces to look for such evidence? A worm-eater is a recognized profession, though this was not -known to the English magistrate who asked a poor woman what her husband's trade was and got the astonishing reply, "A worm-eater, please your Worship." If a forger is quite unusually honest he procures old worm-eaten wood and makes his furniture out ol that. It is told that some have even bought up old houses for the sake of Iheir beams and rafters. Intruding. It was hardly dawn, and the window was open. The intruder had clambered up the front porch, and the interior of the room looked inviting. He could see that it was the abode of some person of wealth. There were costly ornaments about the room, any one of which would bring handsome returns at a pawnbroker's. A gold clock ticked on the mantel, and a silver service glistened on the table. On a couch lay a man, sleeping heavily. His face was red and his hairless crown glistened in the first faint glow of day. "This is fine," muttered the intruder. ''Here's a baldheaded man first thing. The season is opening in great, auayc. And tbe first fly crawled over the window sill, and the season of torture had begun.?Denver Republican. A Model Judge, In a case at Greenwich County Court Judge Willis remarked: "I ilo not make any claim to exceptional probity, but I do not know that I have never read a Sunday newspaper." Judge Willis has previously stated that he has Never used a telephone. Never ridden in a tube railway. Never watched a horse race. Never gambled a penny. Never entered a place of amusement when a lad. Never run into debt. Vovar linrrnwarl m nnpv T .nn ri nn Mail. Outside the Curriculum. Dolly?"We had to practice Chopin [or threa hours to-day, mamma!" Mrs. Parvenoo?"Really, my dear, >hoppin' is all very well, but your >apa sent you to the ladies' hacademy ;o learn music an' that sort o' thing! " ?Tit-Bits. & V' I ARAB-AMERICAN HORSES. I1 Becoming More Common ? Arab ' <o Strain Traced to David's Time. ^ Although never bred to as great an extent in America as in England, many good Arabian horses have been brought over and their influence is the very noticeable, especially in the old Morgans. They have also been used 0j j fct different times to improve almost cjj0 svery type?draught horses, road- , sters, etc. JJ The famous gray charger ridden by General Washington in the Revolu- ^ tion was a son of Ranger, a desert j bred Arab that was imported to New ' . London, Conn., about 1765. In 1837 an* Commodore Elliott brought in a num- ger ber of mares and stallions, but al- flav though recorded in Bpuce's "Amert- y01 can Stud Book" their disposition is not noted. Keene Richards also j made some notable importations in 1854, but unfortunately practically ^ all were lost in the Civil War. par Altogether In the century between Wa 1760 and 1860 forty-two Arab horses tl0] and twelve mares are known to have ble, been imported to the United States, Th< including those presented to General me; Grant by the Sultan of Turkey. Most wa1 of the best pure Arabs in the country tio] are related to these. Of late years 6ac the greater number of Arabs have hoi come from England instead of di? it s rect, though .a few breeders have put gone to Arabia' for them. Let The practice of crossing Arabian \t 1 horses with American thoroughbreds that are used for speed has bfecome quite common of late years, for as a j result of too much inbreeding and ex- pos aggerated development along racy lines the thoroughbreds have become tjje high strung animals, in many cases an( verging on n'ervdus wrecks. At the BOn present time there are several farms per in this country which are quite sue- Bo] cessful in breeding pure Arabs with other horses for various purposes. ter It is a mistaken though common me oolnion, says Country Life in Ameri ca, that all Arabs are either spotted or white. On the contrary, there are no spotted horses in Arabia, and the only white animals are those that ^ change from the gray in old age. It has been estimated that about fifty per cent, are bays, thirty per cent. * grays and twenty per cent, chestnuts, f I with an occasional black, or brown. roa One of the ways of teiling Arabian qu' blood is by the color of the skin mi3 rather than the color of hair. The cal1 skin is always slate color, without the a * slightest spot of white or any other fl01 color. 1 t^1G Arabian horses have been definite- cre ly traced back as far as 1635 B.C. to *ea | five beautiful mares owned by one clQ1 | Rablab, a 'contemporary of King onc j David. These five are the foundation tor I of all our present day Arabs, their S^T ' progeny having been bred in Arabia, S1II | without taint of foreign blood, for ke over 3000 years. Bo? While the Arabs have always I sruarded their horses very carefully to keep the blood pure, and while (. their ways of rearing have been guch ski as produced a fine and hardy race, len their method selection of individuals the for breeding never greatly modified wal the breed. tie I J About Soft-Shelled Crabs.: , get | Many persona believe that the eD' I hard-shelled crab and the soft-shelled * crab are two different species. This a ? I is not so. The shellfish thus dlstin- PaF i gulshed are merely two conditions of 1 j the same spacies. son Once a year the crab sheds its hard tre | outer coat,**much as does a snake, in ser ; order to give itself room for greater ! growth. When it gets ready to make j the transformation it sidles in close to ^ | shore, where the water at low tide To will just cover It, and where it Is com- SP? ; paratlvely safe from its maritime ene- c^? j mies. Then, when it is half buried S?E I in the sand, its shell splits open be- anc j hind, and It painfully crawls out. The ^uI< new coat, as soft as skin, is already enE i well started. But until it shall have ?* J become fairly hard the crab stays al' most'motionless in the shoals. While I it is in this condition its pincers are J useless, and it falls an easy prey to I < j the most insignificant enemy which ?5 j happens upon it. fc| There is no particular time of year 1 chosen by the crab for the metair.or| phosls. All through the twelve | months fisher lads and barefoot fish- ' I ermen wading with their basl'r^a a I along the shore at low tide gather the * ; helpless crabs, which fetch a high befl j price in the jnarkets. In their soft I ; state tbey are worth from four to five agr I times their price when in their natur- con J al hard condition. ? Chicago Dally col< j News. ?. Early Americans. I colc oo many popular descriptions and \ any pictures of the mighty dinosauria? rise "terror lizards"?which abounded in j i Western America in prehistoric times j edg ; have lately been published that much rics curiosity is felt as to their probable the manner of life. Dr. O. P. Hay con- ancj tends that these animals, and par- ^ ticularly the species named Diplodo- .j t cus, did not walk, and much less j Qut raise themselves on their hind legs, th on land. Their great weight, about twenty tons, seems to him to preclude that idea. He believes that they were ^ I more like crocodiles in their habits, SP?' swimming easily and feeding largely ,JUt | on water plants, many of which they a m reached by means of their long necks, to t The Diplodocus had relatively very T weak teeth.?Youth's Companion. fer ?? the | , It Killed the Rose. oni< According to a lovely-North Caro- scri lina woman, who has become a per- A manent resident of the city of has Charleston, when rose cuttings are tim planted they must always be named, sou and so, when she planted a cutting timi in the yard of a neighbor several -j weeks ago, she named it "The Meek- ]ax lenberg Declaration." And the rose whe CUttmg aierj, iittmianj, ucvaugc uiu uig declaration is a myth, and no rose ter bush could live with auch a name.? T Charleston Courier. Js , The Same Principle. "Fust time you ever milked a cow, Rur is it?" said Uncle Jooh to his visiting Jin(j nephew. "Wal, y* do it a durn sight better'n most city fellers do." T "It seems to come natural some- yeai how," said the youth, flushing with pan pleasure. "I've had a good deal of an practice with a fountain pou."?Ev- gixt erybody's Magazine. wat r '.* "* Russian Padding. Beat up two eggs in & pint of milk;) whites and yolks must be whisked arately. Add to this two ounces bread crumbs, two ounces of finely, pped suet, the grated rind of one ion, half an ounce of chopped cifcpeel, two tablespoonfuls brown' ar, five tablespoonfuls golden lp. Beat to a stiff cream. 'ill a well buttered dish with the :ture, cover with buttered paper. I steam for two hours and a half. ve with sweetened white sauce * t \ ored with vanilla extract.?New "k Press. Coffee. The following directions for preing coffee as they prepare it at the .ldorf-Astoria, are given in the Nalal Food Magazine: Allow one taspoonful of coffee to each person. s coffee when ground should be a,sured, put in the pot and boiling ter poured over it in the propor1 of three-quarters of a pint to h tAhleEnnnnfnl- THa inatanf If Is take the pot off, uncover and let itand a minute or two; then cover, ; it back on-the fire and boil again. ' v ; it stand for five minutes to settle; / s then ready to pour out.. # {*^9 Pressed Chickens. 3oil a chicken in as little water as V sible till the bones slip out and other portions are soft. Remove skin and fat, pick the meat apart I mix white and dark meat. Sea- - ^ the liquor highly with salt, pepcelery and a little lemon juice. > il down to one cupful and add a- > -j le gelatine to make it jelly. Buta mold or oblong pan, turn in at, drop in along centre slices of r hard boiled eggs, pour over the nor when cool and place a weight the top. When ready to serve, nish with parsley or small crisp :uce leaves.?New Haven Register. . Terrapin a la New berg. ?or this delicious dish a duck sted the day before will be re rea. uut me meat; into aipe ana > c with one-half pound of boiled t's liver. Put into the chafing dish ablespoonful * butter and one of ^ ir. Blend throughly, then light1 . lamp and add one-half pint of v ' :$8 am. When this is boiling add a Bpoonful of onion juice, a single w ire of garlic split into halves and .;*? .'-half can of mushrooms. Cook three minutes longer and* then f , in the chopped duck and liver. > underneath f*?e hot water pan to ;p hot for ti. .econd helping.-? Y-* iton Post. ' * r'M - rJ. Eels a la Tartare. Jet your fish merchant to draw and n the eels, and cut them into gths of about an inch long, *rpsh m carefully and parboil them in :er to which has been added a lit salt and vinegar. .(V,, )rain them carefully and let them" cold, then dip each piece in beategg and fine bread crumbs. ''ry them In cooking hot fttt till ,'olden brown and drain them on ier. lave ready a hot dish which has le tar tare sauce poured in the cen; arrange the fish neatly, and ve immediately, and the heat of > : ^ dish will make the sance go Tai-tare sauce is made as follows:! a gill of mayonnaise add a teaonful of mustard, a little finely, pped onion, some chopped tarrai and chervil, one teaspoonful of . X hovy essence, squeeze of lemon le and plenty of white pepper. Cayie may be added to taste if liked, Jew York Press. Chopped olives are an addition to iost any salad. in excellent wash for the mouth ore retiring is milk of magnesia. lave you ever noticed the soft, eeable tone of the light which les through the curtain of cream )red cheesecloth ?, 'I always warm the flour," said a isewife, "when I make bread in i weather. Then there is never danger that the bread will not " > t is much newer not to put a fancy e on the curtains of wash fab- ? i which you may be hanging at windows. Let them hang straight plain. 'able linen hems much more easily he dressing in it is first washed , although there is no doubt but t a hem is turned more easily ?n new. Vhen making fudge use one tableonful of ueanut butter instead of ter and chopped nuts. This gives uch richer flavo. and is plcasanter he tongue. Then cutting a tomato some preto pass the knife frequently over / freshly cut surface of a large 5n. The resulting flavor is indebably delicate. l quick way to bleach linen that become yellow from lying a long e packed away is to soak it in r milk or buttermilk for some s before laundering. he woman who knows how to reand save her nervous energy sits ;n combing her hair or massag her face. She does ner woru Dexbecause it is less tiresome to sit. 'o use more of the candle tnan usually possible, fit a cork into candlestick, leaving about a quarof an Inch space around the top. l a heavy needle through the cork push the candle down on that. he new contracts alone, made last r by the New York Edison Comv. numbered 34.S31, aggregating equivalent of 2,765,C1C lamps of ceu candle-power, consuming fifty; ts.