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RAISED ABOl
Sir Hesketh Bell, the Governor
log report of his tour through the e
He gave an amusing account of the <
of the Bakedi in dealing with the yo
though the majority of the Bakedi gi
desire for clothing is steadily grow
tunately, more clothes means less 'mi
been greatly addicted to wearing appz
among the Kavirondo, the Bakedi j
QDtable degree of morality is found
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REMOVING THE LADDERS FROM
AT NIG1
bachelors. The Northern Bakedi tak
the latter. All the young unmarriec
constructed huts raised high up on p
small that the occupants have to wri
gained only by a ladder, which is cai
men have been safely disposed of for t
nf thp trihes fine ashes are strewn uc
tell-tale footprints would indicate an
It will be noted in our drawing that c
-strewing the ashes underneath the hu
All-Metal Washboard.
An all-metal washboard of an improved
design has recently been invented
by a New York man. The
two primary advantages of the board
[T i]
-are that it is very durable and that
it has no cracks or corners where
dirt may lodge.
The device is made of one piece of
metal bent around a rod which forms
aides, top and legs. The scrub surfaces
are formed by raising the metal
In a series of corrugations, as shown
in the illustration. Being all one
piece of metal it will be readily understood
that the durability of such
a hoard would be great. There is
.nothing to be loosened or torn up',
and the chances are that the utensil
will last longer than the lifetime of
. those who use it. Another advantage
of this metal washboard is the absence
of rough corners or sharp
edges, such as sometimes occur on
the old-style boards, and on which it
is easy to tear a garment if the greatest
care is not exercised in rubbing
over them.?Boston Post.
Herbert Spencer's Deity.
This passage is from Mr. Spencer's
""First Principles:" "The conscioustiaes
nf an Insrrnt^hlp Pmvr>r mani
fested to its .through all phenomena,
has been growing ever clearer, and
must ultimately be freed from its
imperfections. The certainty that on
the one hand such a power exists,
^ while on the other hand its nature
transcends intuition and is beyond
imagination, is the certainty toward
which intelligence has from the first
been progressing. To this conclusion
science Inevitably arrives as it reaches
its confines; while to this conclusion
religion is irresistibly driveu by criticism."
Ball-Joint Pudding Stirrer.
Puddings, cereals, musn and such
foods require constant and thorough
stirring to prevent burning. The
contents of a boiler or other utensil
must be thoroughly turned during the
1 |
/E SUSPICION.
of Uganda, recently wrote an interest>asteru
districts of that part of Africa,
careful precautions taken by the elders j
>uths and bachelors of the tribe: "Alo
about in a state of absolute nudity, a
ing among them." he says. "Unforarals.'
The Baganda, who have always
irel, are of notoriously lax habits, while
and all the unclothed Nilotic .tribes &
to exist. A sharp eye is kept on the
; , ; -y.
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THE BAKEDI BACHELORS' HUTS
3TFALL.
e amusing precautions with regard to
i men are made to sleep in specially
osts.- The doors of these huts are so
ggle in on their stomachs. Access is
refully removed as soon as the young
he night. I was told that among some
ider these human pigeon cotes so that
y attempt at a nocturnal excursion."
>ne of the Bakedi elders is engaged" in
t.?The Illustrated London News.
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The Japan Magazine.
The initial number of the Japan
Magazine, published at Tokio with
English text, for the purpose of reflecting
the life, art and literature ol!
Tanan not aa a fantaaHr pr?m5r> nnpra
land, but as a real country and people,
contains much of interest to the
American reader, compares favorably
with our own magazines, and the
daintiness of the numerous illustrations
by native artists is in itself a
revelation.
A Gate For Beds.
No cribs are required in households
which are equipped with one of the
bed-gates recently invented by two
Connecticut men. Nor need adults
worry about tumbling out on the floor
during nightmares. The gate is of
metal and is composed of crossbars
pivoted at their points of intersection
so that the whole can be stretched out
to the length of a bed or folded up
in a small compass at the head or
foot. In the centre is a vertical bar
to hold the gate against outward
movement. Parents who have small
children sleeping with them will find
the contrivance a great convenience.
This device means a considerable savV
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No Cribs Are Needed.
ing in money to families who do not
have enough little members to make
a crib a paying and more or less permanent
investment. A crib is of no
use after a child is old enough to
sleep without accident, and the gate
here described solves the problem
of how to get along without them?
without cribs, that is.?Washington'
Star.
cooking operation. To accomplish
the purpose fully, the strata of food
immediately at the bottom must be
completely moved, and this cannot
always be satisfactorily done with a
spoon.
A special kitchen implement with
which to do this has been recently
made. It consists of a perforated
disk secured on the end of a rod of
suitable length. These two parts
are secured by what is known as a
"ball joint." When this is thrust in- \
to the bottom of a kettle of cooking I
V^U.4. CILXll OUUCU (A IC WT I till 139, it
makes a movement of the contents
in a very complete manner because i
the disk accommodates it3elf to the
surface of the utensil and does the
work very effectually.
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Our Main Need.
"What do you think of this endowed
theatre?"
"I don't know anything about it.
What we want is an endowed slaughter-house."?Louisville
Courier-Journal.
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LEST WE
JJy CARL HOLI
Author of "A History of Sout
Picker" and Othi
Would you have present-day herous? C
Then remind your children of r.he r
heroes of the past. Would you have
poets to thrill your nation into fruit- c
ful activity? Then do honor to the p
poets of your past. The ancient \
Grecian race track was lined with the .1
statues of the winners of the races of t
other days, and as the runner hurled fc
himself along the course, he felt the y
inspiration of those marble figures e
beside him and knew that if he, too, t
won, his statue would stand among
those others in the immortal rows.
Small is the joy of. art if it see no
present results and can hope for uo
remembrance in the distant future. ?
New England long ago recognised ^
these facts, and she has not failed to c
reap the fruits in the high quality of ^
her citizenship. To-day you may trace
by means of lasting memorials the y
wild ride of Paul Revere over hill and .
valley. You may even find near Bos- f
ton a tablet marking .the spot where
"Schoolmaster" Emerson once kept
dnhnnl Va? mow fin/1 o Kit nf ^
llio DUiUUV/l. I U U LXXCkJ UUU 1* Ult VSL g
granite or marblje or bronze telling t
where Hawthorne did this, Longfellow
that, and Whittier tho other.
Those descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers.
with a high sense for the ideal,
have left in almost eternal forms
their admonition to future generations
to be worthy sons of noble fathers.
We of the South seemingly
have forgotten the significance, the
vast importance of this our duty to i
those who have striven for our wel- t
fare. We have erected, it is true, ?c
monuments to our famous soldiers; r
but what have we done for the mem- e
ory of those noble intellects who by li
song and story and stern expostula- a
tions roused .those warriors to go t
forth and battle for the right? Shall t
he that incites to duty be considered f
iess worthy than he that performs the t
duty? fc
No Shaft to CottOR-Gin Inventor. ^
r
Why, for instance, has the South c
reared no shaft in honor of Daniel v
Emmett, the author of "Dixie?" Why t
has no tablet been placed on the site ^
of the old New Orleans theatre where
that song first burst upon the South? e
Kentucky has lately bestowed its f
tribute upon Stephen Foster, the t
author of "My Old Kentucky Home;"
but why has Florida shown no grati- .
tude to him for the fame of "Su- c
wane? River?" Why has New Or- c
leans erected no memorial to the t
South's greatest musician, Louis ^
Gottschalk? Why has Augucta, Ga., j
not marked for the world the place t
where Eli Whitney's epoch-making t
invention, the cotton-gin, was first _
tried? Why has Georgia erected net ^
tribute to Francis R. Goulding, who g
invented and had in use a sewing ma- v
chine nearly two years before Howe s
secured a patent? It is said that one a
of the Legares had z steamboat pad- a
dling the Savannah River before Ful- ^
ton steamed up the Hudson; but what: ^
Georgian has taken the trouble to g
prove the statement and mark the p
shore where the craft began its voy- s
age? t
Indeed, Georgia has numerous sins j,
of omission to account for. Henry {
Rootes Jackson, the author of the 0
"Red Old Hills of Georgia," was born g
at Athens and died at Savannah; but ^
neither town seems particularly proud s
of the fact. Surely the maker of so
stirring a State-song is as worthy of a 0
memorial as any one of that State's
innumerable Governors. Augusta,
Ga., long ago carved a shaft in honor t
of her poet, Richard Henry Wilde; 0
but Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, ^
author of the famous "Georgia d
Scenes," to whom Richard Malcolm ^
Johnston, Joel Chandler Harris and *
Thomas Nelson Page owe so much, ?
and whose story, "The Militia Drill." i
was directly imitated by Thomas ^
Hardy in his "Trumpet Major," has 1
received no recognition from his na- a
tive city. He was president of Emory r
College and of the University of Mis- 0
sissippi; yet their walls tell nothing t
of him. At Madison, Ga., William 1
Tappan Thompson wrote for the town .E
naDer. The Miscellanv. the lauehable r
"Major Jones' Letters." Why has 1
not Madison marked with some inex- v
pensive bronze or granite the spot '
where this pioneer in American *humor
did these things? a
In 1901, Charleston, S. C.. honored r
Itself by honoring Timrod with a c
pillar of stone. But see what Georgia s
has done for his schoolmate and fel- ^
low-poet, Paul Hamilton Hayne. His Jfamous
home, "Copse Hill," near Au- '
gusta, has been turned over to a negro
family! The house where the heroic
"Lyric of Action" was written, the
house which almost daily received
letters from LongfeUow, Bayard Taylor,
Tennyson and Swinburne, the
'house that should have become a literary
shrine of the South, has become,
instead, the habitation of a
motley collection of blacks!- If
"Copse Hill" had been near Boston?
but comparisons are odious.
Author of Battle-Song Unlionored. j
There lived and died near Colum- p
bus, Ga., a quiet country physician j
named Francis Tiekuor, the author <]
of a ballad the equal of any in the
English language: ?
''Out of the focal and foremost fire? t
Out of the hospital's walls as dire? j
Smitten of grape-shot and gangrene? Eighteenth
battle and he sixteen,
Little G iffen of Tennessee."
Poe, it is said, wronged him by a
using his poetic ideau and actual 1
words without giving credit; but has *
not Columbus wronged him far more I
by its utter neglcct? And why is Au- t
gusta, Ga., so slow in its support of i
a movement to honor the author of C
the greatest battle-song of the South t
?"Maryland, My Maryland?" If a I
New Englander had written as stir- s
ling a lyric as xnat, a piuar to ma <.
memory ere this would have touched
the clouds! Randall pointed out in t
the ruins of Poydras College, Pointe c
Coupee, La., the very spot where on e
that stormy night he wrote that cry f
to arms; the spot awaits in vain a S
fitting memorial. The room in Balti- \
more where two young womer put ?
that lyric to music and gave it to the 1
JDAY, M. A.,
hern Literature," "A Cottoner
Poems, Etc.
Confederacy remains to this day unaarked.
The most famous graduate of Merer
University and the mos", famous
irofessor in the University ol! Georgia
vas undoubtedly Richard Malcolm
ohnston. He was horn near Powelon,
Ga., and the Dukesborough of
lis famous stories is Powelton; but
ou will look in vain at Mercer, Athens
or Powelton for recognition of,
hese facts.
Strangers Recognize His Merit.
Maryland is another Southern State
hat has too often alloWed the memory
of her poets to suffer. Francis
!cott Key was born in Frederick
Jounty in that State, wrote the "Staripangled
Banner" near Fort Mclenry,
and died at Baltimore; and
et the only worthy symbol of public
ippreciation is not in Maryland, but
n far-away San Francisco, where in
iolden Gate Park a monument exeuted
by William Story stands to his
nemory. At Baltimore there lived
.nd died Edward Coate Pinkney, auhor
of many a graceful line of
loetry.'
"I fill this cup to one made up
/f loveliness alone,
A woman of he? gentle sex
The seeming paragon;
To whom the better elements
And kindly stars have given
A form so fair, that, like the air,
Tia less of earth than Heaven."
He yet awaits a token of memory,
^.nd John Pendleton Kennedy, of Balimore?how
much he did for writers
if .the South! If that man had not
ecognized the ability of Poe, had not
mcouraged him, had not found for
lim a congenial work, America probably
would not have heard of its
ruest literary genius. Yet what
ironze words declare the, fact? And '
or that matter, what appreciation j
tas Baltimore ever shown for the |
tonor of possessing Poe's dust? He j
ies in a neglected grave in old West
ainster graveyard, and doubtless not
me person in a thousand of those
rho daily pass the cemetery knows
hat the most artistic of all American
toets sleeps nearby.
The bitterest shame of all, howver,
is the fact that Georgia has done
iractlcally nothing for the memory of
he great est genius she ever produced
?Sidney Lanier. To-day the Geor;ia
city best known, .to the intellectual
ircles of Great Britain is not the
apital, .but Macon, the birthplace of
he most musical of American poets,
"here stands in a hall of Johns Hop:ins
an impressive bust of. Lanier;
?ut where has Macon a shrine to hl3
nemory'' A few years ago a Geor;ia
Governor and a famous Georgia
ireacher stood on the capAol groands
,t Atlanta. Said the Governor: "I I
rant to see over in that corner a
tatue of Congressman So and So,
,nd a statue here to Governor This,
,nd a statue there to Governor That,
"hen we shall have our honored |
lead." "And where will you put
Sidney Lanier's?" quietly asked the
ireacher. "Ah," said the Governor,
omewhat abashed, "I had forgotten
iim." Perhaps that is the only troude
with all Georgians; not neglect- '
ul, simply forgetful. There stands
m an Atlanta street a strong, brave
tatue of Henry Grady; would it not
ie eminently fitting to place within
ight of the great orator's eyes the
Igure of Sidney Lanier, and farther
n another of Joel Chandler Harris?
Look where you will throughout
he Southland, we find sad neglect of
mr dead singers. William Gilmore
iimms, author of more than one hun[red
volumes, and genial inspirer of
rimrod, Hayae aad other literary I
ights, made his home, "Woodlands," I
iear Charleston, a true literary centre ;
n ante-bellum days; and Charleston J
las forgotten to honor either him or
hat famous home. Davy Crockett
.nd Sam Houston, the most famous
tioneers in Southwestern life?the
>ne born at Limestone, Greene Couny,
Tenn., and* tho othe3r in Rockiridge
County, Va.?have received
lo token o? respect from th6ir
QOther-States. Alexander Beaufort
tfeek wrote a poem, "Balaklava,"
vhich Queen Victoria deemed so
vorthy that she had it published at
ler kingdom's expense and spread far
.nd wide over her country, and this
nan, turning aside from his poetry,
reated by untiring efforts the school
ystem ot his native State, Alabama.
V.nd what hais Alabama done to give
lim honor before posterity? Nothng.
Father Abram Ryan lived at Norolk,
Kuoxville, Clarksville and Mo)ile,
and died near Louisville; but
rou will search long for signs of ap
ireciation. Clarksville has lately disovered
that he wrote the "Conquered
Janner" there?the old lady in whose
tome he resided at the time still
itres?and a small club is honoring
tself and the city by erecting a
ironze tablet proclaiming this fact to
he world.
Margaret Preston, of Lexington,
Cy., was undoubtedly the best woman I
ioet of America. Lexington evidently
s not aware of this. John Reuben
fhompson, born at Richmond and
sducated at the University of Virginia,
the author of our most famous
>rief verse narrative of war, "Music
n Camp," is just as much neglected.
Mississippi's poet, Irwin Russell, in his
'Christmas Night in the Quarters,"
is truly wrote the epic of Southern
ife as Whittier, in his "Snow-Bound,"
vrote tae epic of New England life.
Both poems grow more famous as
he years pass; but what a difference
n the honors to their authors! Port
Jibson was Russell's birthplace and
he hut of a poor Irish washwoman in
\Tew Orleans! his deathplace; the
itone marking either is not yet
:arved.
An old Scotch woman was led up
o see a great shaft to Burns' mem>ry.
Long she looked at it and then
jxclaimed: "Ayo, aye, he asked ye
or bread and ye gave him a stone!"
Scant was the bread we gave these
vorkera while living; can we not
Lfford them a. stone in death??Uncle
itemus'u Home Magazine.
P7PO PVLAR^XXyJ
ft SCIENCE > M
For mixing concrete a spade lias
been invented with long, oval* holes
In the blade, the perforations allowing
the finer cement to flow through
and give the face a finer finish.
Eggs with two yolks occur not uncommonly,
but eggs with three yolks
are exceptionally rare. Such an egg
was recently laid by a barred Plymouth
Roclc pullet at the Maine Experiment
Station, and i3 described in
some detail in a bulletin recently is....
J mi AkntrA
aut;u. i Lie was auuicwuai auuic
the average size, but no other abnormal
feature was noticed.
One of the longest wharves in the
world, almost a mile in length, or to
be exact, 4700 feet, is at Port Los
Angeles, Cal. It extends into the Pacific
in a long serpentine curve. The
reason for this construction, says the
Scientific American, is that it offers
better resistance to the strong currents
and the buffetings of the waves
than if it were perfectly straight.
Until the nearby harbor of San Pedro
was developed by the Federal
Government the big wharf at Port
Los Angeles was a very busy place,
but of late it is comparatively seldom
used except by the Japanese fishernion
nrVin Viqvo fnrmoH n onlnnv aJnnar
the adjacent beach.
It is computed that the temperature
of the sun would be expressed
by 18,000 degrees of Fahrenheit's
thermometer or about ninety times
the temperature of boiling water.*
This is about five times the temperature
that man is able to produce by
artificial means. The light giVen off
from the surface of the sun is reckoned
as being 5300 times more intense
than that of the molten metal in
a Bessemer converter, though that
i3 of an almost blinding brilliancy. 1
Or, if we compare it with the oxyhydrogen
flame, the sun sheds a light
oqual in brilliance to alight 146
times the intensity of the limelight.
?New York American.
In connection with a recent demand
of German nurserymen for seeds of j
the Montana larch, to be planted in
Germany, the curiou3 fact is brought
out that white-pine seedlings are to
be imported from Germany to be
planted in the province of Ontario,
Canada. Now the white pine is indigenous
to America, and was transplanted
to Europe many years ago,
to reinforce the forests there. It has
nourished so well in the Old World
that it now appears that the German
nurserymen are able to deliver whitepine
seedlings on this side of the
ocean more cheaply than American
nurserymen will furnish them. The
interchange of trees among the various
continents is a most interesting
development of modern civilization.
Besides the white pine, Europe has
taken from us the Douglas fir and the
black walnut, and we have taken the
eucalyptus from Australia and the
Norway spruce and Scotch and Austrian
pine from Europe.
A LEONCAVALLO JOKE.
Great Composer's Experiences With
a Reporter as Told by Himself.
Signor Leoncavallo recounts an
amusing experience that befell him
some time ago in Manchester Theatre,
rrrh Via nof>nriioi1 3 ofall nil P ?>Vfin
rvucic uc vwu^4vu %- ? -
ing to hear the performance of his
".Pagliacci." At the finale a stranger
sitting neit him kept exclaiming enthusiastically,
"What a masterpiece!
What a perfect masterpiece!"
Leoncavallo, imagining himself utterly
unknown in the audience,
thought it would be fine fun to play
the critic of his own work, so he
chimed in ironically: "A masterpiece?
I don't in the least agree with you,
sir. I'm a musician myself, so know
what I'm talking about. The fact is,
this opera is a worthless production
and brimful of imitations and plagiarisms.
For instance, that cavatina is
filched bodily from Berlioz, the duet
in the first act Is all Gounod, while
the finale is a sorry copy ot one yon
win nna id. verui.
Next morning Leoncavallo drove to
the railway station and bought the
leading local journal. On comfortably
seating himself in the train he
opened it, and was aghast with astonishment
at encountering the following
headlines: "Signor Leoncavallo's
Opinion on 'Pagliacci.' Declaration
of Plagiarism, Confession of a Composer
Bereft of All Originality." The
great Italian master adds: "Evidpntly
my neighbor was a journalist who
had dogged me, but' to this day I
have cold shivers every time I recall
the incident."?Milan Correspondence,
London Chronicle.
The British Situation.
A few friends were discussing the
political situation, and one of them,
a Tory, was emphatic on the point
that while his party were quite ready
to Resume the fight it would be reprehensible
on the part of the Radicals
to raise the veto issue while King
George's reign was at its infancy.
"Your attitude," said an Irishman
in the little party, "reminds me of
two fellow countrywomen who were
quarreling. One of the two, declaring
herself quite anxious to fight.
snatched up her child ana saia defiantly:
'Strike me now with the child
in me arms!" "?'London Daily News.
/-kl -I - ~ A.r1?Kl
A woman coming down the garden
walk was horrified at seeing her son
standing on his head against the garden
wall.
"Johnnie, you wretch," she cried,
"what are you doing now?"
"Standing on my napper," replied
Johnnie. "Didn't ver tell me to play
at summat that wouldn't wear my
boots out?"?Tit-Bits.
Andy's Punishment.
If the American people ever start in
to square accounts with the big men
who have been having fun with the
public the way with Andy Carnegie
will be easy?give him back all his
libraries. ? Tip, in the New York
Press.
I THE
EPICURE'S
CORNER ^
iij
Finnish Eggs.
Fcrr Finnish eggs, cream together
a tablespoonful of butter and a tablespoonful
of flour and atir into a cupful
of canned tomatoes and add a
tablespoonful of minced green pepper.
Cook the mixture over hot water for
a quarter of an hour. Meanwhile
poach three eggs and toast three
slices of bread. Put an egg on each
slice and turn the sauce over them.
Sprinkle with a tablespoon of minced .
chives and serve very hot.?New York
Sun.
_ Cocoa Biscuits.
Two cups or one pint of sifted flour,
three level teaspoonfuls baking pow- (
der, one-half teaspoonfull salt, two
level tablespoonfuls sugar, four level
tablespoons cocoa, two level tablespoonfuls
butter or lard, two-thirds f
cup milk or enough to make a firm 1
but not stiff dou<h. Sift all the dry
ingredients together, rub in the but- t
ter with the tips of the fingers, stir in ?
the required amount of milk, turn
out on slightly floured board, lfoll or i
pat out the desired thickness, place '
close together in pan and bake in very
h^t oven ten or fifteen minutes.
?Boston Post.
Dronned Cookies.
One egg, one cup sugar, one-half |
cup shortening, one cup milk (if sour i
use ode teaspoon soda; if . sweet is
used, use two tablespoons baking
powder) and flour to mix stiff, but
not as stiff as for doughnuts; onehalf
cup raisins, one-half cup currants,
one-half c\tp nut meats, onehalf
cup chopped citron; drop by the
tablespoon, not too near together,
into a well buttered dripping pan and
bake a tender brown?use half the
mixture this way, then to the remainder
add one teaspoon cinnamon and
one teaspoop of nutmeg and one-half
teaspoon cloves. Saves lots of work
by not rolling out and looks so nice.If
they run together cut into squares
before taking from pan.?France?
Jelinah, in the Boston Post.
Two Desserts From Apple Jelly.
Soak one envelope gelatine in one
cupful cold water two minutes. Pare,
core, cut into small, pleces^twelve ap-1
pies, ana cook inem m mree cu.yj.uic
water until soft; then turn into a colander
over dish and let stand till you
have three cupfuls of apple juice.
Pour this onto gelatine together with s
juice of two lemons and about one
cupful of sugar. Stir well, and place
in mould. This makes one dessert
with whipped cream or a custard. (
For the Second Dessert?Rub the
apples remaining in the colander
through; add one-half cupful sugar, ;
cinnamon, two drops lemon -juice and
one egg well beaten. Place in a but- 1
tered pudding dish and bake twenty 1
minutes. Serve warm with milk or s
cream; and the jelly will keep till 1
next day.?Mrs. E. H. Fish, in the
Boston Post. ' t
Cream Jolly Cake.
Two cups sugar, one cup butter, :
threo cups flour, one-half cup milk,
four eggs, one and a half teaspoonfuls
baking powder or one teaspoonful
cream of tartar, one-half teaspoonful 1
soda. (
Cream butter and sugar together, 1
sift cream of tartar with soda into ?
flour, add one-half the flour, one-half ]
the milk ana two 01 tne uuueaieu
eggs to sugar and butter and beat
well together; then add rest of flour, 1
milk with the other two unbeaten i
eggs, and stir thoroughly together; i
bake in three tins to make three 1
layers. Lemon jelly for filling is ]
made as follows: Grate rind of two ;
lemons, add it with the juice to one t
cup sugar, one cup butter, yolk of
three eggs, place in double boiler,
stir quickly until it jells, when cold
spread between layers of cake. Frost i
to i suit fancy.?Boston Post.
nf linrirpscprt scrim. with 1
V>ui laiuo vi. ui?v?. t
a hem and a norrow lace edge, are *
popular for cottage use. f
No flower should be kept in a c
house after it has lost its freshness. *
A stale bouquet hints too strongly of s
decay and death. - c
It is said that if common table salt ,
is added to gasoline, spots can be J
cleaned on silks and other delicate
fabrics without leaving a ring.
A much more wholesome sweet for \
children than anything which can be s
bought is home made toffee?made r
only of butter, sugar and lemon juice, t
Beware of matches in the nursery. 1
Little children often suck them, and ?
may easily poison themselves in this
way, even if they do not set their
clothes alight.
All stains from strawberries, black- c
berries, etc., may be quickly removed c
by wetting the hands in cold water, C
and after lighting a match let the t
fumes pass through the fingers. f
Very badly tarnished brass or cop- 1
per that will not brighten with ordin- a
ary polish may be easily cleaned as
follows: Dip a piece of cloth into am- *
monia, then rub it over a piece of 1
soap; wipe the article with it; rinse ?
off immediately and then use a fine
sand soap, powder or other brass polish.
Flatirons if not properly cared for
when put away will become rusty, especially
if kept where dampness exists.
If this should occur you will
find that there is no better way to
clean them than to wash them first
in strong washing soda water and
Uun rub them hard 011 a board on
viiich some sort of polishing sand
;is been generously sprinkled. Em m\v
dust is splendid for this. When
finished the irons will look and feel
like new. _ r'
Te couldn't' talk a little bit on music of"
on art, .
Yhen men broached high biowJl topic?
you could see the sweat beads start,
Jilt before they had him silenced and ia
storage for the night,
Je would flash a roll or money?and of
course that put him right.
le was crude and most unlettered, and hi*
grammar was a sin, '2
Jut he knew the little secret of successful
butting-in;
le could change a cold demeanor and.
could break down stares of pride
Vhen he flashed his roll of money with k.
yellowback outside. i
'
Iwas his one trick, and it served him |
where all other tricks might fail,
t carried him through breakers and ?
through many an icy gale;
fc won for him position that could neyer <
be denied,
lis magic roll of money with the yellow- ?2
back outside. ' >3
-Arthur Chapman, ip the Denver Be- \3
publican.
Man's inhumanity to man makes a-r
:ountless thousands do likewise.-? 3
"Well, I mortgaged my home year '1
erday." "What make auto are you
;oing to get?"?Houston Post. 1
Miss A?"Men always guess me to ^51
)e younger than I am." Miss B?
'That's atter they've heard you talk."
?Cleveland Leader. I
Resistance my religion is. 1
Repression is ray creed; j
Mv real life is that which I Jl
Have never dared to lead. |
?Harold Susman, in Smart Set. n
"Have the Comeups' family a clean |1
ecord?" "They ought to have.. The.#1
>ld man was a street cleaner and his I
vife was a washerwoman."?ijterijbi- 1
nor? American. , V
"George, papa has made his will." . J
'Well, do we,lose by it or win?" jjit'yl
hiuk we win. He's cut us off, hat '
ie's left all his money to an idiot I
tsylurn."?Cleveland Leader. '
Upson?"Anyway, young Ardupp> #
s entitled to great credit for his ef- fi
orts." Downing?"Yes, and he 'gets .
t, too. He is the mt>st successful / J
sorrower I know."?Chicago Daily 1
4ews. ;'
"Did you tell the exaijt tratfryhea
he census-taker askesi $our age?" "
isked Maude. "I did," answered ,H
Hayme. "I told him he was wasting.'?;
lis time asking foolish questions;"?
iVashington Star. 8
''Tia a curious fact," said a. government,
As he read about commons and peers, v ||S
That an Englishman votes with his jr^resand
his noes, > %-! .'"feijsiM
And expresses applause with his 'eara."";-VM
?Harvard L&mpooiv
"I love yon, dear, but I am greei%^l
md rattled, and I don't know hOw -to
>ropose." "That's all right, honey^?;
'ou're through with me. All yon'v^
;ot to do now iB to riBk papa."-? fl
Cleveland Leader.
"Even if you can't enjoy be^t fiel- .' Jj
ers," said the meditative person, -
there are books in1 the running .
crooks, you know." "Yes," replied ;* H
Hiss Cayenne; "but even the brooks
ire getting dryer every year."-? .?
Washington Star. a
"Can you support my child?" asked
he old man, sternly. "Support ber? I
: could support your whole family,"
:he youth boasted. Afterward bet^KM
jretted that he had not been, more-^ffl
emperate in his speech.?Buffalo . ?
"They say," Mrs. Oldcastle
narked, "that he has made a study I
)f occultism." "Has he?", replied r M
ler hostess, as she straightened
$900 rug. "He's about the last man fl
['d. pick out for an eye doctor."? . fl
Chicago Record-Herald. 9
"In your pursuit of pleasure," said
he serious citizen, "you should not
leglect to lay something by for a -'fl
ainy day." "Of course," replied th^gfl
light-hearted man. "Nearly" ewyJM
nember of our fishing club brings ?jW
along a pack of cards."?Washing:on
Star. fl|
Garden Work an Aid to Beauty.' >"Jfl
Working in the garden and picking fl
lowers make gentle exercise that- |fl
ends to improve the figure. Many ;fl
society women believe this, and' on fl
l>ong Island there are said to be a^H
icore of society women who are re- fl
sorting to this treatment for health fl
tnd elasticity. Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont >flj
spends much time in her garden in ifl
Jnnfhamntnn Mra. Herbert M. Har
iman and many others say they de- H
ight to pick flowers, and the question H
las been raised whether they are not H
ollowing the r dvice of a beauty spe:ialist
who advisesthis for health and
he form. "If a woman is in earnest fl|
ibout becoming slim,"says the beauty
loctor, "she will use the same mus- H
:les in working over a flower bed as H
he will in exercising in a gymnasium. H
deeding seems prosaic, but it is exellent
exercise. One of my patients
:ame to me recently and said she
vished to develop her arms and her fli
houlders. I told her to go home and fl
un the lawn mower. She was starled
at first, but finally she followed
ay advice and it did her a world
;ood."?New York Press.
An Extenuating Condition. H
When John Corbett. tne Chicago H
contractor and well known Demo- H|
ratic politician, was associated with
5eorge W. Jackson in the construc- fjj
ion of the various Chicago tunnels, Hj
te took a personal interest in his em< H9
iloyes, particularly where the charicter
of the work was dangerous.
During the construction of the subvay
Mr. Corbett noticed two of his
nen?Jim Clancy and Mike Casey?
carelessly shifting a couple of cabs HE
if dynamite to another section of the
unnel.
"Here, boys, looi here," warned -^R
tfr. Corbett, "you've got to be more
careful with that dynamite. You're H|
landling it like a bucket of mortar. HB
Vhy, don't you know the last time
here was a dynamite explosion here KB
en men were killed?" 9H
"Shure, Mister Corbett," whispered,
Clancy. " 'Twon't be so bad this
ime. There's only two av us."?
flack's National Monthly. Mm
Englishmen eat, on an average?^H|
iinet)'-flve eggs a year. * SB