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raw MAI DA 1.
^^^ppestiyal up the flowers, its
HSm origin and observance.
May Day 4000 Year9 Ago?The
mjj^m In Egypt, China, Mexico and Per>
W ?Old Customs in Connection
W With the Holiday.
K "1 ~TOR the origiD of May Day with
g Y=f its joyous associations, we are
I I compelled to go back to a time
g when men personified the
B powers of nature and called them gods
|1 and goddesses. How far back the godI
dess of the flowers was adored at the
Em seaton when the earth put on her
H green mantle with its floral spangles
IB of everv hue. we do not know, for the
(earliest records speak of a spring festival
as an institution already well established
and even then known from
more ancient times. The Egyptians
/ A MAY DAY IN THI
made pictures of everything, ao it is
not surprising that among the paintings
on the walls of their catacombs
there should be found some which,
from the accompaniments of dowers,
garlands and wreaths, are judged by
the antiquarians to be of a spring festival,
a feast of flowers. May Day is
therefore at least 4500 years old.
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MAY DAT DANCE OF LONDON BOOTBLACKS.
When traces of May Day are discovered
in the earliest ages of Egypt and
at the dawn of history in Greece,
among the Etruscans, among the Celts
of the Rhone and the Germans of the
Rhine, in Scandinavia and Wales and
Ireland, among the natives of the Indian
Peninsula and among the Aborigines
of America and Australia and
New Guinea, the conclusion is safe
that such a custom is of universal observance
and remotest antiquity. So
it may be that the Chinese are not as
extravagant as they seem when they
olaim that May Day originated in the
Celestial Empire 90,000 years before
the flood, being instituted by the
never-to-be-enough-praised Empteror
Chi-Whee, who was fond of flowers
and employed exactly 1,000,000 men
to take care of his garden.
Leaving, however, the claims of the
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vxii' n ucc IU uo UOIDUUOU uy
his own people, it is worth remembering
that a festival, in many particulars
bearing a close resemblance to
our May Day, was celebrated all over
Italy and the south of Europe at the
beginning of the Christian era, when
every one who could spare the time
went into the woods and fields for a
day's outing, gathered flowers and returning
laid them on the altars of
Flora. It is also interesting to know,
that on these occasions the goddess of
flowers was personated by a young
tgirl, the prettiest who could be found,
who, during the day, received the
i homage of lier friends and 'was
orowned with the spoils of the fields, a
genuine Queen of the May. As cities
grew, it became inconvenient to go far
into the country, for the excursion
ateamers and railroad trains packed
full of pleasure seekers were not, and
a substitute was found by bringing a
tree into town, setting it in the ground
in a public place, decorating it with
flowers, which the country people, in
the hope of gaining shekels, or oboli
or denarii, or whatever other coin was
legal tender for debts public and private
in the neighborhood, were easily
ij THE DANCE OF THE Mil
induced to bring in. Time, in the
|5 May pole is seen the descendant of the
S green tree, and the dancing about it 1
j? in circles is explained l<y the fact that
|| the only way to dance around it at all
m is in a circle, and also, perhaps, the
9 circle has always had a myetic signifi%
canoe, being much used in charms and
I. incantations.
From authors of our own tongue we ,
may glean almost innumerable references
and allusions to the pretty custom
of hallowing the May Day, and
we also learn that less than isuu years
ago the May pole was as indispensable
in every English village aa the stocks
- the pillory. When the Puritans
1-nto power the May Day dancing
' iwer gathering were tabooed
(joles were all cot down. But
n old Oliver passed away the
po-fie began to amuse themselves
again, erected taller May poles than
were ever known before, and danced
about them harder than ever. But, as
often happens in such cases, when
nobody opposed the May Day and its
pole, both soon fell into "innocuous
desuetude," and now there is hardly a
May pole to be found in all J^nglana.
The custom of remembering the day,
however, still survives, and little girls
wearing garlands, and carrying with
them a doll decorated with flowers,
termed the "Lady of the May," still
go about the towns on this day, pre
; DAYS OF C?3AR^
senting their doll to the passers-by as
a modest hint for halfpence.
It is a strange circams tanoe that the
chimney sweeps and bootblacks of
London should be the only people in
that great metropolis who now do
honor to the May Day. When Pepys
was keeping his journal the whole
court used to go out at sunrise to
gather dowers and wash their faces in
dew for good luck and looks, but the
custom gradually fell in caBte until
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nnauy it remains oniy among ine
dregs of eooiety. Every May Day,
however, it is religiously observed by
the street boys, who, with green
branches or leaves in their hands, parade
to the music of a fife and drum,
attended by two or three figures fantastically
attired and a "jack-in-thex,"whboois
indispensable to the occasion.
Who the jack originally represented,
or what was the significance
of his presence on so joyous an occasion,
can not now be ascertained, but
he is always on hand, and in different
countries assumes different forms.
From sfreet to street goes the little
procession of ragged and dirty folk,
halting here and there to dance and
caper about, while one of the number
diligently passes the hat to collect
such pennies as the spectators feel like
contributing, but, poor and dingy as
it may be, it is one of the survivals of
the grand parades in honor of Flora,
of which emperors and kings were
proud to be a part.
In France there are more remains of
the old-time customs, and even to the
present day the dance of the milkmaids
marching in procession with
their cows is seen in scores of villages
at thin season. That the dance origi
QUEEN" OF THE MAY IN* EUROPE.
nated with dairy people is unquestioned,
and it was probably once limited
to their numbers, but now it is
participated in by any young women
who choose, the only requisite being
that they shall wear a dairy maid's
hat.
When the pole was at the height of
its glory in England it was also in
jKMAIDS IN PROVENCE.
great favor in the Low Countries,
where May poles as high as the mast
of a three-decker were often set up.
Some, turned intg fiagstaffe, still remain,
and their former use may often
be ascertained from the remains of the
paint with which they were formerly
decorated, for the Dutch were artistic,
and, besides decorating their May
poles with stripes of red, white and
blue, like barbers' poles, they often
ornamented the top with an iron band,
which, at the time of the annual festival,
was covered with flowers, thus
making a very presentable wreath. A
fnh nnntftinin<r a t.rpfl or shrub was OC- '
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casionally substituted for the wreath,
but as the tub was hard to get up and I
easy to fall down, it was not in much
favor.
In the quiet country districts of
France, Germany and Italy there are
stiil queens of the May, young girls
who are on this day crowned queens
of the festivities. A little floral arbor
is provided, in which the queen sits in.
state all day long, taking no part in
the festivities ; no one speaks to her ;
save a bow or courtesy in passine, no
one pays her any special attention,
and the situation would seem rather
dreary, but the honor of the position
has compensations, and at every May
Day there is lively competition among
the various candidate3.
In many parts of Europe the May
festival takes the form of games and
athletic sports of various kinds. In
England there were formerly the Robin
Hood games among the country people,
which kept alive the memory of
the merry outlaw and his companions.
v arious persons, aressea in cnaracter,
cnaoted in an open square a pantomime
representing ?ome scene chosen ,
from the ballads which are the principal
literary survivals of the famous
hunter. Every entertainment, at one
time or another, has a contest in archery
as a special feature, a peculiarity
of the Swiss games also, which have
probably inherited this part of their
programme from the exploits of William
Tell.
It is a singular faot, as showing not
only the university of the custom, but
also the fact that all the varieties
probably had oue origin, that many
of the features of the celebration in
countries very widely separated are
almost identical. The Chinese, as well
as the English, had a Queen of the
May, while in Mexico and Peru, the
crowning of a young girl with flowers
at this season is a hint of the same
thing. While there seems notmng so
transient as a jovial custom like this,
nothing is, in reality, more permanent,
and the manner in which apparently
frivolous and meaningless celebrations
are handed down from parents
to children, from race to race, constitutes
one of the bonds which unite us
to remote ages and countries far distant
from our own.
Why
1771
the nnaa<7ement was
broken off.
Japanese Economy,
While sitting on one of the verandas
of the Yaami Hotel, Kioto, one
evening, writes Robert P. Porter, a
Japanese gentleman said to me:
"What an inconvenient man you are.
Yon require so much more than we
Japanese to keep you comfortable.
Here, for example, you are paying $5
(silver) per day, and I am only paying
75 sen, or 40 cents of your money. I i
am just as comfortable and happy as
vou are. To be sure, you have tables
and chairs and washstands and pitch- ,
ers and bedstead and sofa and goodness <
knows what, in your rooms. I have
nothing of tbe sort. A nice clean i
tatami mat and a quilt is a good enough
bed for me. Then you give so much \
more trouble at your meals with your ]
tables and chairs and crockery and j
glassware and knives and forks and ,
Bpoons and mustard and pepper pots.
Ihen you are crowded together in one j
room. My meals are served on a tray \
in my room by a pretty maid who
kneels before me while I eat, and chats
and makes herself interesting, looking
after my every want at the same time.
Then you cart a lot of unnecessary
baggage around. The hotel furnishes
me a fine Bilk dressing gown and a nice
clean night robe, and I can buy a
toothbrush for a sen or so. No, say
what you like, you Europeans are inconvenient
people."
The Language of a Pet Eagle.
Mr. W. Le C. Beard writes in St.
Nicholas of a pet eagle named Moses,
which he caught in the Arizona de- '
sert. Mr. Beard says: Moses had a
language of his own, which, by the [
constant practice he gave us, we soon 1
learned to understand. It consisted
of a series of cries, all harsh and y
nerve-rasping, but perfectly distinct, I
each one expressing a different emo- 1
tion. Thus, rage, entreaty, excite- (
ment and pleasure were each easily
distinguished by those who knew him
well. His one syllable note of greeting
was more explosive and perhaps a ^
shade less disagreeable than the rest; (
and he had also a low, crooning sort '
of murmur ; but this he used only in
soliloquy, so to use it expressed only
the faot that Moses was talking over t
things with himself. f
A NATION OF READER!*.
1= Whir Manir A morgan IMoUSCS
Now Have a Mbrary. I ]
Thure may be one or two countries j
whero the percentage of illiteracy is |
lower than in the United States, but
there is no country more deserving to
PERSPECTIVE 7IEW.
be called a nation of readers. The
peasantry of other lands rarely make
a practice oi reading ; bat in America
the laborer, the artisan and the
farmer are ardent readers of the daily
newspapers, and often of class publications,
even if they do not venture
into the field of general literature.
The magazines owe their enormous
circulation to their widespread love of
reading, there being dozens of them
that sell more than a hundred thousand
copies every month, thus '
proving that they must go into
millions of households.
Thei tremendous and ever-increasing
nni/nnt nf hooks is another testimonial
of the habit of the people. This
growth of love for reading mast to a
great extent influence their lives for
the better; and although it by no
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rnisT FLOOB.
means follows that a library will make
readers, there can be no denying the
fact that a convenient and comfortable
room, with something of artistic simplicity
and finish about it, set apart
and dedicated as a library, encourages
and fosters the habit of reading. That
this is generally known and appreciated
is shown bv the fact that of late
years a very large proportion of the
houses built contain a room Ret apart
for that purpose. It is well within
the memory that when a house con*
tained two rooms on the first floor in
addition to the dining-room, one was
called "front parlor" and the other
"back parlor," or, more euphoniously,
perhaps, parlor and reception room.
At the present time, however, one of
fho vnnma in fxlmnftfc invariablv dubbed
"the library," even if it has only a
beggarly array of books.
It is meet and fitting that the library
should be a general sitting room
uid the place where the best of the
home life centres. Moat plans that
are drawn now give the library one of
the choicest locations in the honse,
and full advantage is taken of this fact
in the fitting and furnishing of the
room.
Reds and browns are the most pleasing
colors, but these may be shaded to
light fawn color, terra cotta, or warm
yellow if necessary. There may be a
panelled ceiling and hardwood floor,
the latter covered with rich Oriental
rugs, if means permit. Of course these
are not essential ;some of the most delightful
libraries have merely papered
ceilings, and floors covered with
cheaper carpets o"r dark mattinfs.
In a new house wh?ire everything is i
planned from the beginning, the problem
of fitting the library is comparatively
simple. Instead of movable
bookcases, which are always cumbersome,
low shelves should be arranged
around the walls as permanent tix- i
tares, or they may be carried up to
the ceiling to fill odd corners. Dust |
is a great enemy of books, and to keep :
this out is the excuse many people
give for sticking to the old-faahioned !
way of having bookcases with glass
doors; bat tins ena is just as wen odtained
by placing escaloped leather
valances on the shelves, or hanging attractive
India silk curtains in front of
them.
The central feature of the room
3hould be an elegant library table for
books and magazines, a desk made for
writing and not for mere display, one
or two straight-backed chairs, several
easy-chairs and a comfortable lounge.
The attached plan dhows that the
irohitect has provided a most attractive
library, finished in cherry, wi{h
Sooring of maple, the whole room
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lending useii to iuu must musuu
furnishing, and that without a great
outlay of money.
The arrangement and sizes of the
rooms are shown by the floor plans,
the width of the house being fortyf
n jji *** j a*' R.
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SECOND FLOOB. |
'our feet four inches, and depth, insluding
veranda, twenty-tive feet two
nches.
Thitj design can be built in the s
ricinitj of New York for about three
housand five hundred dollars, though a
n many seotions of the country the 3
;ost should be much less. ^
Copyright 1897. '3
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Heli Chatelain, the traveler in 6
Africa, Bays that among the '200,000,- !j!
)00 of people in the Dark Continent,
>0,000,000 are slaves. a
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In tho fiords of the Norway coasts a
he clearness of the water is wonder- ,
Bl. 1
RESTS ON LOVE.
tfEW VIEW OF MUSIC PROPOUNDED
IN GOTHAM.
Foot Bicycles Are the Latest FadFifth
Avenue Tea Room an
Adamless Eden ? Women's
Fashions.
(Special New York Letter).
rrom r 1 .1J T J
uoi iancy sooer oiu uouauu goI
ing wild over "Foot Bicycles,"
(yV little bicycles on the feet?and
whirling in the parks at breakneok
speed ! New Yorkers, of coarse,
must follow sait; and a school has
been opened for this latest craze.
Two tiny tires are joined together
and so constructed as to fit the boot
or shoe firmly. The softness of the
mbber and the ea6e and epeed with
which one can spin along is indeed
luxurious and exhilarating.
This is assuredly an age where the
one cry is "Time fliesand we are all
chasing after it. Imagine the sensation
of a modern Rip Van Winkle who
had slept from a date when cable cars
and bicycles, to say nothing of
"wheels in the head," had not made
their appearance. His cry would be,
"I am not mad, but crazy."
Miss Virginia Earle, the clever
Molly Seamore of "The Geisha," is
a d< votee of the wheel, and looks a
iisiin^TT 1?4- + 1a flornna -in Ka?>
jauui/jr l?bi>*v uguiw *u mv*
breasted reefer aad skirt of fine serge
Df a marine blue. Her favorite run is
to Olaremont, adjoining the Grant
monument, a spot where one may meet
many well known people in kid glove
Bohemia taking eleven o'clock breakfast
in the glass-covered balcony overlooking
the Hudson.
A society leader, who recently leotured
here before a distinguished
company of aristocratic dames, took
for her subject Mr. Krehbiel's definition
of music, which asserls that
"Musio is an art whioh rests on love;
and that it represents pure thought,
lofty imagination and deep learning."
This may be true at times. But some
German street band music I hear,
SUIT OF SAGE GREEN "NOVELTY"
CLOTH.
wafted by the gentle freeze of spring
through my open window, rests
wholly, I should eav, on rye bread
and cheese, and love has nothing
whatever to do with it. ^
" Jnd then again, I do not think that
Ranting ab^ut for shoes to hurl at
sinffln? cats aF midn'ght is "pare
thoughtalthough I allow that one
may get worked up to a pitch o-f "lofty
imagination" in the hope of annihilating
one's neighbor's pet. But, as
Rudyard Kipling would say, "that is
another story,"
Miss Elsie De Wolfe, the society
girl who joined the ranks of the theatrical
profession is making, with Miss
Agnes Miller, a big hit in the ridicu[oub
but clever farce "Never Again."
Both ladies looked very stylish as they
1'IUNGQOWN AXD "FETCHIN'O" SHORT COAT.
lighted from their cabs to enter the
tage door last Saturday; Miss De
Volfe, tall and elegant, in a costume j
f gray and brown in a pin-check, i
rhich had an open fronted jacket
howing a golden brown silk shirt
'aist, and wearing one of the new j
Inglish walking hats with a large bow
cross the front. Miss Miller was a
,o less striking figure in a handsome j
uit of sage green "novelty" oloth >
aade with a close-fitting Eton coat;
iraided around the edges and with t
three ornaments in front. A tall
linenj collar and a de Joinville scarf
peeped out coquetishlj* from the opening
at the throat. Her stylish flaring
a
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skirt had several rows of braid around ^
the bottom. ,
Not seeing the Fifth Avenue TeeBoom
mentioned in the morning, af- ?
ternoon and evening odition of every
newspaper in town, I dropped in to
see if it were still in existence.
When it opened a fewk'months ago,
it was given aa muoh space by oar to
"new" and "old" journalism as is P
ordinarily given to an international a
event. This may have been out ol 61
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COSTUME OP GRAY AND BROWN PIN
CHECK.
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deference to Mayor Strong, a lover ol
strong tea; or because our men, like
their English cousins, were actual!;
going to tajie time to sip a cup oj f(
Ceylon with their women friends. t?
The Tea Boom is still there in all p
its gilt-edged glory, with a perfume
of violets and serviettes of drawn
linen. But at 4 p. m., the hour 1
dropped in, it was an Adamless Eden.
Maids and matrons, however, were ?]
there in plenty, chatting and discuss- ,
ing the last debutante's tea or reception.
I noticed Miss Katherine Duer, 111
considered by many to be the hand- C(
somest girl in New York's smart set,
at one of the tables looking radiant e<
in a spring gown of a large cream and a<
brown oheck. The short coat fitted ti
i. it. - a. i.1*^ 1..A *?11 Tl
ugnuy iu me ukurt) iu me utxja, ian- ing
foosely in front, displaying a wais' b
of exquisite grass linen with strips oi n
embroidery. A huge brown picture ?
hat shaded Miss Duer's star-like eveg, "
and the soft light that oame from the w
pink candles made her look still more P
orientally beautiful. ?
The costumes illustrated herewith fi
were designed by The National Oloak
Co., of New York. c?
I'enusylrauia is Rich in Fur. J
Dr. B. H. Warren, the Pennsylvania tl
State Zoologist, shows that, notwith- w
standing the great slaughter of anima) T
life, the fur trade of the State is great. 01
In York County alone the fur?chieflj tl
muskrata, opossums, raccoons, minke tl
and foxes?last year obtained there ai
sold for 820,000. In Chester County h
one dealer has for several years sold si
fur in New York worth from 33000 tc w
85000. In Wayne County a large sum fi
is annually realized by hqafpp an<?
trappers for fur^ __ h
The omciaT ccunty records show ji
that Jhe payment of bounties hae B
grownTo be something considerable, ci
Statistics from nine counties show that h
during the past few years bounties d<
have been paid on 16,000 foxes, 1000 k>
wildcats, 1 panther, 5000 weasels, 800 te
mink, 900 hawks, 2000 owls and thou- ai
I sands of other animals and birds.? W
New York Press. cc
Trees for City Planting.
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Persons who are not members of di
the Tree Planting Association may di
share in its fruits. The association
will mail free of charge to all those q;
who may desiro to set out trees in cc
New York a printed list of trees that in
are recommended by experts as most | at
suitable for growth in this city, to- 0f
gether with a list of oity nurserymen th
who will do the completed work, in* he
eluding iron guards, with their chargce li^
for the same varying in price from m
89 to 820. The office of the association
is at No. 66 White street. Trees a i
increase the value of property, jg
beautify the streets and improve mi
health wherever they grow.?New he
York Press. at
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? HOUSEHOLD
MATTERS.
JELLY JAB COVERING.
For covering tumblers of jellies and
eserves, melted paraifihe is excelnt.
Poar it over the perfeotly cold
lly and it will form a thin crnit that
clean, tasteless and dnrable. It can
> taken off and used again. Mutton
llow is sometimes used for the same
irpose.
SILVER POLISH*
For an excellent silver polish that
ay be kept on hand for every day
e mix a few drops of ammonia with . *
e common whiting used for silver,
id add enough water to make it of ?
,e consistency of cream. Bottle this
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IU iiUOp IV bl^uvij wuinou. ?
;tle of this mixture on the polishing
oth, pub the silver lightly and rinse
. warm water, and the silver will be
istantly brightened . and cleaned
ithont the hand rubbing necessary
hen polishing with the dry whiting.
New York Journal.
CANNING COR*.
To preserve green corn by canning
more difficult than the preserving of < 'A
ly other vegetable. In former years,
ime patents have been issued for ,
>me processes, and even now factories.
ake something of a trade secret of
ieir methods. The general princile
to be observed is, that after the
)rn has been removed from the cob
> subject it to enough heat to destroy
1 germs, several hours being necesiry
for this. After the corn has been
at in the cans, these are plaoed into
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water or sieam utuu. iuo unu?
Last be completely filled, leaving a
ary small hole ia the top of the oanf
le critical point being to close up
lis vent by soldering so that air canot
enter the can.?New England
.'omestead. .Jx
WASTEFUL HOUSEWIVES.
Here is a list of oareleBs bits of exravagance
which keep many a woman
oor. They seem like insignificant ,Js
tatters, bnt the snm of them ia no
sail affair. Let every housewife with
desire to save read, mark, learn and - :
lwardly digest the list and resolve 'M
ever again to be guilty of the follow*
Allowing pieces of oake and bread
o dry and mould and then throwing
hem away.
Failing to dry a box of soap for
everal days before using it.
Leaving dried fruits uncovered and ||
onsequently allowing them to beoome a
rormy, ,
'Using dish towels for holders, nap:ins
for dieh towels and sheets for
roning.
Using the face of flat irons to orack
ints.
Cold potatoes allowed to sour.
Sour milk thrown away.
The kerosene can left open to erap- "
irate. ,
Gold fish thrown away.
Oheese permitted to mould.
Lemons left to dry. *
Fat put in earthen dishes.
The mustard cruise remaining <Jpen
ojty.
Can goods left exposed in cans.
Bread Dan left with dough sticking
o it. ' 'jM
Left over vegetables thrown away.
Bice and eagar wasted in the handTto
mnoh starch made and thrown " (
nt.
Pails and waahtabs left dry to fall
o pieces. '
Oliver spoons ana lor&s asea m tne
iljhen.
Tjn dishes improperly dried when
raslied.
Mops and brooms not hnng up.
Tea and coffee pots neglected.
Soap left in dishpans to dissolve and
aste.
Bits of meat thrown away.
Carpet brooms used to scrub with. it
Throwing away tea leaves (save them
>r sweeping dark oarpets; coarse
ible salt should be used for light car*
eu.)
TIECTPE3.
Celery and Sardine SalaJ?Cat up
risp, tender celery into inch lengths.
ake the sardines carefully from tbe
ox and pat on the oelery. Pour a
layuiillttlbu UfCoaiUg v v ca. uaro vw
3ld, flat dish. ' .
Vanilla Chips?Beat three whole
ggs and ten oanoes of sugar together;
id half a ponnd of sifted fioar and
ro teaspoonfuls of vanilla. Mix well,
d11 the paste ont on the molding*
oard in a thin sheet, and cnt into
- t ?
arrow strips sis mobes long. Jjay
a a greased tin, and bake carefully
1 a hot oven for ten minutes. While
arm twist them around a stick or
encil to give tbe chips a spiral form.
!ept in a tin box they will remain
esh and crisp for a long time.
Graham Butter Cakes?Take two
jffee cups of graham flour, one teajoonful
of salt, three teaspoons
mooth) of baking powder. Mix well, '
len make a very thin batter with cold
ater. Have your griddle very hot. 0
he cakes will seem thin on pouring
a to the griddle, but the heat makes
lem swell and puff up so light that
ley are delicious, so quickly made
ad oue of the nicest wajs to use this
ealthful food. A cup of granulated
igar and three tablespoons of boiling
ater niake a nioe sirup after boiling
TojpSw. (
'frig'Salaqp Place, _one gill oj: atraiq?3
oner ffiTijowl; s^ueJze over it the''
licSjjjjTwo le?ns, and sjjf tog^tKer.
eat To a ,su? frpth half a prnT'^f'
ream, and~s|[r this Tightly into 1fie
oney. Strip the skins from two
ozen ripe tut firm figs, and with a
een-bladed knife divide into quarirs.
Pour over them the dressing
id place on ice to become cold.
fhen fresh figs are not obtainable
)ver dried figs with lukewarm water
id allow them to soak from five to
:ven hours; dry on a coarse towel,
ivide into quarters; then proceed as
irected above.
Codfish Omelet?One largo cup
lite full of freshened and well-picked
?dtish. Rub one tablespoon of butter
to one of flour. Warm a cup of milk,
ir into it the floured butter, a dash
pepper, a little minced parsley and
e fish. Toast six pieces of bread
id butter while hot. Beat six eggs
;ht. Cook the milk and fish two
iuutes, then add the beaten eggs.
i they begin to "set" pour them into
spider in which a spoonful of butter
hissing. Shake well; when the t
ixture begins to brown on the edges
ap it on the toast and send to table
cnce on a heated dieh