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RIVAL OF BLUE SERGE i COVERT CLOTH PROMISES TO BE ? COME POPULAR. New Material Resembles Khaki, and So Smacks of a Uniform-Excel lent In Combination With Black Satin. : We ar? threatened with an epidemic j of that peculiar greenish-tan material 'known as covert cloth. It resembles khaki and that in itself is enough foi :the populace, neutral though we may 'be, for it smacks of a uniform. It i? being introduced in a wholesale way throughout the country and promises to rival blue serge as an everyday suit Those who object to it as unbecom ing and who realize that the new neck line is as high as the chin, will have "ic devise something in another color to reach from the base of the neck up. That is not difficult, for black satin goes admirably with covert cloth, and if there is a high stock collar of this material fastened straight up the front, as these high collars are, with black satin buttons, and topped with an inch turnover of white organdie or hem stitched chiffon, the work of remedy ing is finished. l( If one adopts that ultra new style [ of placing wide, flaring Louis XVI pocket flaps at the side of the waist line of a Rhort flaring coat, which is Brown Velvet Frock With White Kid Belt and White Satin Vest, Larne Pockets and Narrow Skirt. a trick that brings a coat up to the moment, then they, too, may be of the black satin. Such a coat worn with a short, moderately full skirt, leaving a plaited panel at each side and short enough to show laced shoes ol' black leather and covert cloth, or sand-col ored cloth uppers, marks a woman as a bit different from her neighbor. And that is our ardent wish, or, rather, it should be. There is no promise of a return to the fashion of wearing a tight-fitting covert cloth jacket with a plain dark blue serge skirt, but it is to be worn with a plaid skirt in dull tones that [ harmonize with the foundation color- ? ing of the coat. idor? and more does i plaid work its way into the fashions, j not only for entire suits, but for skirts ; worn with solid colored jackets, es- ! pecially when these are short. The j combination would be ugly if the coat was long. The use of plaid for collar and cuffs j on a jacket of solid color is often ad- i vocated. but it is not to be commend- I ed just now. The suggestion ol' put- | ting plaid peliry on dark cloth suits j was brought out by Premet. but it was not followed over here, possibly be cause it was difficult to get the dyed fur, and the fashion was too fleeting ; and experimental lor the expense in- j volved. (Copyright by thc McClure Nowspaper ! Syndicate.) j Beaver Fur. Beaver fur grows more and more fashionable-and ^'ho would have dreamed, a few months ago. of wear ing beaver again? The soft, dainty pelt is used for collarettes and sleeve edgings on frocks of pussy willow silk and on tailored frocks of white cloth. Sometimes a broad band of beaver borders a ripple tunic, but of course this lavish trimming is exceedingly ex pensive. The older woman should fight rather shy of beaver, however, for its delicate fawn color is becom ing only to fresh, youthful complex ions New Flower for the Corset. An entirely new flower which is used for both corsage bouquets and decoration is the Ranunculus. This is a small blossom, .red in color, with a dark center afmost black. Its gen eral cr 7,^0^ nee is somewhat like an unusually tiny poppy, and its stem aiso resembles tbs poppy stem. , ) MAKING THE MOST OF LAMB Housekeeper Will Find This Arrange ment a Help to the Cutting of Her Bills. Every housekeeper ls on the look out to save m these days ot high cost ot' living, especially in meats. Here is one w-zy to save mutton or lamb. If, on Saturday, a forequarter of mutton or lamb is purchased, weighing from seven to ten pounds, it should be divided as follows: Shoulder, neck, breast, French chops, bones and trimmings. The shoulder is boned, pocket cut for filling, that makes the roast; stuffed shoulder of lamb or mutton for Sunday dinner and cut cold for Monday luncheon or supper. Then the neck is boiled with the shoulder bone and trimmings, mak ing two quarts of lamb broth, to be used for soup for Monday's dinner. The meat is trimmed from the neck bones for lamb croquettes, meat salad er loat The breast is stewed, 03 curried with rice. The choicest part is left, that is, one dozen frenched lamb chops. Of course, you must be able to tell your butcher just how you want it cut and trimmed. The chops are frenched, chine removed, but the chops are not cut apart. That is left for the housekeeper to do, cutting just as needed. The trimmings from the chops are boiled with the neck and bones, strained, and when cold all fat is removed and clarified for drip pings. From this forequarter you have the following dishes, always for four per sons: Roast stuffed shoulder, hot for Sun day dinner. Roast stuffed shoulder, cold for Monday, with soup (two quarts for soup stock). Lamb croquettes or meat loaf for Tuesday Stewed or curried lamb for Wednes day. Lamb chops which ca? be kept for Thursday. POLISH FOR COFFEE BOILER By the Use of Oxalic Acid the Utensil May Be Kept in the Best of Condition. A shining copper hot-water boiler adds much to the appearance of a kitchen, as all housekeepers know. The boiler may be Kept in a state of brilliancy by the use of a solution of oxalic acid and water. Five cents worth of the acid dissolved in a quart of warm water will last through many cleaning days. Best results are obtained by apply ing the solution to a warm boiler. After one application ot' the solution the boiler should be goue over with a cloth wrung out in warm water and then polished with a dry cloth. The best part of the process is that no "elbow grease*' is required. In a few minutes a dull, dingy boiler be comes bright and shining with but little effort. All copper articles not having a j lacquered surface may be cleaned with this solution, and it also serves j as a brass polish. Keep in a safe place, as oxalic acid is poison. Cocoanut Candy. ! Remove the shell from a half a co- | connut and shred or shave it with a silver knife. Spread it on dishes in J the open door of an oven until it is j soft and elastic. Dessicated cocoanut can be used instead, but the fresh sort is better. Then boil a cupful of mo- : lasses and a cupful of sugar, brown or j white, a teaspoonful o? vinegar and a tablespoonful ot butter. When this is cooked enough so that it is brittle when dropped in cold water add the j warmed cocoanut and pour into but tered dishes "Mark into squares when it is thick but before it is cold. Soft Ginger Cookies. Cheap and good. One cupful of mo lasses, two-thirds cupful of lard, two thirds cupful sugar, two-thirds cupful hot water, one teaspoonful ginger, two dessert spoonfuls of soda and one des sert spoonful cream of tartar. Put the molasses in mixing bowl first, then add cream of tartar and soda. Add also a pinch of salt and flour to roll. Cut out and oake. Do not roll too thin. Crust for Chicken Pie. The ingredients are three cupfuls o? Sifted bread flour, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one-half teaspoonful of salt, one-hail' cupful of lard and butter, one cupful of milk. Sift all dry ingredients together. Rub in the shortening with linger tips, then stir in the milk, using a fork and handling it lightly. As soon as com bined place on floured board and with a rolling pin pat into the required size. Deviled Ham Rolls. Make light, rather rich pastry, roll thin and cut into squares of about four inches. Spread upon each square a small quantity of deviled ham, leav ing about hali inch around the edge uncovered. Moisten the edges with cold water and roll each sheet of ham and pastry compactly, pressing the ends together, and bake. Beet Relish. Cook beets the same as for tho table, one quart, of beets choppod fi:;.}, one quart of raw cabbage chopped fine, one cupful grated horseradish as pre pared for the table, ono cupful granu lated sugar, one tablespoonful of sait, one teaspoonful black pepper. Vinegar enough to mix welt m IN SEARCH OF A WIFE By ELMER B. WARRINGTON. J (Copyright, 1314, by W. G. Chapman.) "Now, Ezra, remember, you are making a brand new start in life.'" "Yes, ma'am," assented Ezra in his usual homely, old-fashioned way. He regarded his mother in a wistful manner. For the first time in his life she did not seem to him like his mother. The old familiar dimity gown had given place to a showy brocade. The iron-gray hair showed traces of | walnut stain. There was even a sus picion of powder about the sunken faded cheeks. Then, too, the meal on the table. Mrs. Rachel Tuttle had hired a s?rv-| ant girl only that week. "Now I'm going to enjoy life," she' had declared with vim. "I never saw Miagara falls, nor tho White Housoj nor the ocean. I'm going on a tour, Ezra, and take in some relatives in New Hampshire and sort of spread myself on all the money I'm going to get. You say you don't want to jine me, that you don't like rummaging around. All right, Ezra, you've been a good son and you shall have your own way. Make yourself comfortable and have a good time. Here's some money, and spend it freely. I suppose when brother William's estate is set tled up there'll be a big plum for us. And now, Ezra, remember you're mak ing a start in life. You won't be plain plodding Ezra Tuttle any more. You're a gentleman of means, now." '"Yes. ma'am," said Ezra, more de pressed than ever, with a longing gl;:nce at his discarded homespun hanging on the clothesline. lmmediaely upon hearing that she was an heiress, Mrs. Tuttle had drawn a goodly amount from the bank and, had planned out. her "grand tour." "i'll have one grand breathing spell, after all my years of drudgery/' she declared! and Ezra was silent, but he mourned in spirit. Three days of the slatternly new cook had given him indigestion. Certainly his mother had been a model housekeeper. How he missed the homemade sausage and buckwheat cakes, and neighborhood pure maple sirup, the nectarlike oof fee for breakfast. "I am lonesome and out of sorts," he ruminated, "and it will be an ex perience, anyhow, and if mother is going to wander about and break up the home, why not a wife? Maybe I'll find one in my travels-who can tell?" and he smiled quaintly. Ezra was no clod, only homespun. He knew fully how to conduct himself in company and made a good impres sion with the Mantells. His rumored fortune it was. however, that made a better one. He was soon aware of this, judging from the specious in quiries of Mr. and Mrs. Mantell. ThenJ they threw Helena at his head. n She was an only daughter, tall, | stately, cold as ice. Amid heu* state- : liness, however, Ezra soon discerned that she was bent on capturing him. The family were truly aristocratic, that was their bent and pose. They j were selfish, skimping, sacrificing ! comfort to make a show. "Three days of these people was all ? ? could stand," soliloquized Ezra as, '? gracefully as he could, he took his de- ! parture, feeling that be was lucky to I have escaped still a bachelor. Then Ezra tried the Moores. They j I had money and lived at a private ho- j t tel. There were two girls here, one ! j a blue stocking, the other a languish- j j ing sentimentalist. They played their . j arts alternately. Tho flimsy feeding \ I at the table d'hote did the rest for j ? Ezra. He made his adieux and struck ; off for a rural jaunt feeling free once i more. j Then came the crisis in Ezra's life, j j He was passing a field hedge when ? his quick ear eaught a moaning sound, j i He brushed aside the osage orange : { bushes to locate a man lying exhaust- 1 ed to faintness. Beside him lay a j scythe. It was dabbled with blood. Then Ezra saw that he must have stumbled, and one limb had fallen athwart of the keen blade. The man's eyes closed as Ezra sprang lo his side. The latter saw at a glance that the victim of the acci dent was bleeding to death. It was j a question of a speedy emergency j service. Within a few minutes Ezra had stanched the ebbing life tide, bound up the limb at the cost of his coat, and had the satisfaction of see ing the man come back to conscious ness. .'Home-.'' he just whispered, and pointed up a near rise. Ezra ran to its top to discover a handsome farm house a few hundred yards distant. He took up the man in his arms and proceeded towards it. "You saved my life," declared Rob ert Wadham that evening, as he and his daughter Elinor and Ezra sat in the comfortable best room. The daughter-ah! there had come a revelation to Ezra. Perhaps her pretty gratitude had stirred him more deeply than common, or her tender de votion to her father. Four months later, a tired-out, dis appointed woman, Mrs. Tuttle got off the train to receive a royal welcome from her waiting son. "Oh. just to get back to the com forts of home! I'm tired of frappe ing! " she cried. "House all in disor der, I suppose?" "Neatest you ever saw it," her son responded. "Got a new housekeeper." "What!" "Yes, my wife." And Ezra told his mother how he had met, loved, wooed and wedded the jewel. Elinor. BOTH LOVE AND WAR By JUNE GAHAN. (Copyright, 1?U4, by the McClure Newspa per Syndicate.) "The soldiers are coming! Hurrah! Hurrah!" sang Gretchen Armour, as she danced into the family living room. "Coming? When?" gasped Her moth er, laying down her book and losing her place thereby. "Tomorrow-they've been billeted upon us! We're to have 20 of them over night. 'In the name of the gov ernment!'" mocked Gretchen, trying to imitate the deep bass of the man's voice who had been at the door with the news. "Let me see," said Mrs. Armour, .taking the slip of paper her daughter waved as she still sang her impro vised song to the good old Scotch tune of the "Campbells Are Coining." "Do be quiet for a moment and let me think, Gretchen." The old Armour homestead stood far back from the main road, and it was to be expected that, sooner or later, the family would have to shel ter some of the many troops that were starting out on their long march in support of their colors. 1 Unusual guest rooms were turned jpto ready-to-live-in chambers, couches ?and cots were brought from attic and basement until the place looked like a veritable dormitory. In the kitchen Gretchen drove thc cook almost frantic with her effort:; .-.ai cooking. She had apple peeling;! everywhere, doughnuts in every avail able platter dripping their grease, chocolate filling on the fire for the cake that was not even started and LJ?hich Gretchen said she could make later. Even when the soldiers began to approach the house on the following afternoon Gretchen was still in her enfolding kitchen apron. "We shall not be much trouble." one of the officers in uniform told her, after she had mingled with them as kthey sat about and rested after the ?long day's march. "It's too good of you-too good!" "Good?" cried Gretchen, her dim ples dancing back and forth as she talked. "Why, it's too good to be j true to have you here. It's the one spot of joy in the whole war-for me!" And then, until it was time to have supper, the two talked and Gretchen j learned much of the young man's home. He told her he had wanted to ? go to the front all the time and that i he hoped to come back-he believed I he would return. And then It was the supper's arrival that had interrupted his story, and Gretchen had to help serve the many soldier boys. But Gretchen managed to see him ?}.b4fore they all "turned in." She ex tended her h?nd to say good-night. "Good-night," she said; "I do hope -you'll be comfortable." "Comfortable?" the soldier said. "I'll be comfortable bodily, but you've upset my comfort of mind. Good night." "Good-morning," she said to the sol dier when she saw him next morning. "Ifs good-morning and-good-by." he said, gravely. How pretty she was in the morning! "So early!" exclaimed Gretchen. "We march in an hour," he told her. Neither one spoke. They stood be neath the great elm tree near the dining room. Gretchen's eyes were on the lawn. "I-can't you give me something?" the soldier finally stammered. "A talisman-something of your own?" he asked. Gretchen did not reply. She looker, about he'.rlcscly. "This-my handker chief-is all 1 have," she said at last. The soldier took it. It had a deli cate, subtle perfume that he knew lu would never forget. He put it insid: his jacket. "I shall carry it till I set you again or-" "Don't say it," Gretchen cried. "Don't!" lt was one of the few se rious moment pf her gay young life. The soldier laughed, but the mirth was forced. 'All right-till I come back then? And when the good old band plays 'The Girl I Left Behind Me' this trip may I think of you as my girl?" he asked Breakfast was being called from the house. "May I?" he persisted. "I'm not anybody else's," Gretchen said, simply. And when the troops passed along the main road and the soldiers who had been billeted on the Armours joined them Gretchen stood beside the gate holding fast to a large square of linen that had been pressed into her hand when the soldier boy shook it. in farewell. Tears rolled down her cheeks as the band played "The Girl I Left Behind Me," and she wiped them again and again with her sol dier boy's handkerchief. Man's Conquest of Nature. More than half a century ago Buckle, in his "History of Civiliza tion," wrote: "Formerly the richest countries were those in which na ture was most bountiful; now tfoe richest countries are those in which man is most active. For in our age of the world if nature is parsimonious we know how to compensate her de ficiencies. 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