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[if '] - ' i DINNER 1 i * * A Function in Which Relij Quaint Home Customs Features?*Lasts i Dainty Servic the Menu? u - [XXER with the Japanese __ lisa function which comft I 1 a bines with nutriment a Jv thousand suggestions of j their religious belief and j their quaint home customs. The service in itself, says the Washington Star, is a source of wonder to every Occidental who is the recipient of Japanese hospitality. The meal lasts for several hours, during which hosts and guests kneel or squat on cushions placed at intervals on the floor. Neither forks nor spoons are provided, but chop sticks, which require deft handling, convey the food to the mouth. Instead of the tablespoon common to American service, spatualas made from wood are used to serve the rice, the one dish that is passed around. Though Japan is famed for her cooking, lacquer bowls of innumerable styles and sizes are used instead of dishes. Guests are always provided with chop sticks of white wood so made that the handle can be pulled apart, which proves that the sticks have never been used. At the conclusion of the meal they are all destroyed, a proof of Japanese cleanliness. For state dinners chop sticks of h ivory are used. Meat plays small part in the Japanese menu, pork and chicken being common and beef being used but rarely. Fish and rice are the staples, the former being served with every dish at simple home dinners and passed as the r ( last course of a formal dinner. Preliminary course served with ; "sake," an alcoholic liquor prepared from rice, all the dishes being served simultaneously. Suimono?A kind of bean-curd soup. Kuehi-tori?A relish, such as an omelette or chestnuts boiled soft and sweet; or kamaboko, which is fish pounded and then rolled into little balls and baked. Snshimi?Minced raw fish: very often I fish like skeepshead is used. Haclii?Zakana?A tine, large fish, either boiled with salt or boiled with $ Shoyu. Umani?Bits of fish or sometimes - . fowl, boiled with lotus roots or pota| toes in Shoyu and with "mii-in," a sort of sweet liquor. Su-no-mono? Sea-ears, sea slugs or lobsters served with vinegar. Chawan-mushi ? A thick, custardy soup, with slices of mushroom, bamboo shoots or chicken boiled in the soup. Zembu?First course; all the dishes served at once. !Shisu?Soup. O'Hira?Boiled fish. Tsubo?Sea weed, or some other ap, petizer, boiled in a small, deep bowl or \ cup. Namasu?Raw fish cut in slices aud served with vinegar and cold stewed vegetables. Ayemono?A sort of salad made with bean sauce or pounded sesamum seeds. Yakizakana?A sort of broiled fish. Kono-mono?Pickled vegetables, such as egg plant, cabbage" leaves or radishes. Ni-no-zen?Second and final course. Soup, raw fish arid rice. The Recipes given below are typical, and are important features of the Japanese daily meals,.as well as formal dinners. Raw Fish?Notwithstanding its startling title, this is hgld to be an exceedingly delicate dish, and no more objeci tionable than raw oysters. Various sorts of fish are used for the purpose. Sheepshead is preferred by the Japanese living in this country, but the favorite fish at home are the tai and the if katsuwo, the former being chosen for festive occasions on account of its name, which is the last syllable of the ' * word me-de-tai, meaning ''congratulatory." The fish must be absolutely fresh, handled as little as possible, aua prepared immediately before serving. After it has been scaled and cleaned it is cut from the tail to the head with a sharp knife as close to the bone as possible, first on one side, then on the other, separating the flesh from the bones. Then remove the skin, trim off the flabby ends and cut into thin slices. Place these on a dish, overlapping one another, and garnish with sprigs of parsley and strips of white turnips. Before eating the slices are dipped lightly in soy, seasoned with grated horseradish or ginger. , Chawan-muslii?This famous dish of the Japanese can be prepared in America. the various ingredients being offered for sale by certain dealers who cater to Japanese traue. me iounuation is the white meat of chicken, served with delicate bamboo sprouts, ginnan nuts and mitsuta, the last a green vegetable for which spinach can be substituted. The chicken is cut into slices and cooked in boiling salted water until tender. The nuts are roasted and shelled, When ready to serve a few slices of chicken are arranged in each individual bowl with a few mushrooms, a few bamboo sprouts, a few of the nuts over the top, and a small buncli of the mitsuta covering all. There should be ready cold stock, to which add raw eggs in the proportion of two eggs to each three cupfuls of stock. Beat lightly, pour into the bowls and steam for fifteen minutes, when the dish will take the consistency of a thick custard. The bamboo sprouts are usually purchased canned and ready for use. When mushrooms alone are used they must Ije 'cooked beife ?? 5s- i V . - ..." . .... % ; k--.. s ^ ...... ' V ' n japanT jion and i Are Important or Several Hours*e and Little Meat in -Some Typical Receipts. fore adding to tlie chicken, hut the canned ones are ready for use. Lobster Soup ? The foundation of nearly all Japanese soups is the dry bonito fish, known as katsuobnshi, which is hung in the air and exposed until every particle of moisture has evaporater and it becomes almost as hard as stone. It is considered extremely nutritious, and is sold in sticks by dealers in Japanese supplies. To make the stock, one-half pound of the. katsuobnshi is scraped very fine with a sharp knife or chisel, and added to two quarts of water, after which it is boiied slowly tor an hour, when it is seasoned with salt, pepper and soy and strained. The lobster is killed, by cutting the joints where the tail and body come together, when the meat i removed from the shell and made into little balls. To do this, wash it lino and press through a sieve. ?"o one lobster of medium size add the *** bite of one egg and a "ittle salt. Make into small bails, dri>\> tfeom into the stock and let boil for a few minutes. In Japan soup is served in dainty lacquer bowls, in each of which have been arianged a few slices of mushrooms, or young bamboo sprouts and a few leaves of spinach previously boiled. The soup is dipped directly from the bowl. Boiled Lily Bulbs Lily bulbs are a favorite vegetable with the Japanese, and are simpL prepared by boiling in mirln or sweet sake, the native wine distilled from rice. The bulbs ^are placed in a saucepan with the root side up. nearly covered with wine, and toiled, until tender, ior auout twenty minutes. Chrysanthemum Salad?Flower salads are held as great delicacies with is a favorite. To prepare it the petals are separated, boiled for just a few minutes, drained, dried and cooled, and served with a dressing made of vinegar, sugar and chopped red Chile peppers. Oil is not used in Japan, Plain Boiied Rico?Every rice eating community has its own methods of boiling rice. The Japanese wash the rice thoroughly in several waters, then carefully drain, and to each cupful allow one of cold water. It is then placed in a saucepan, covered tightly and set over a brisk nre to boi? quickly. Tin.: rapid boiling is kept up until most >f the water is absorbed. the cover being kept on and the water allowed to run over the sides, after which the saucepan is moved to the back of the stove and the rice allowed to cook slowly until perfectly dry. During the entire process the rice must be neither stirred, shaken nor tossed, but allowed to cook undisturbed, so that each grain will be perfect. Father Time in Korea. The calculation of the Korean year is said to begin about the latter end of January, about a month later than our I own. The moons of the calendar are ! made alternately long months of thirty ) days and short ones of twenty-nine. | The first is a long mouth, called a ; "great moon;" the second a short moon, the third a "great moon" again, and so on. The moons are divided into three parts of ten days each, instead of into four weeks, as with us. The day is divided into twelve hours, each one of which is twice as-long as one of our own. The Korean day begins at midnight. In calculating age, Koreans take small account of any fraction of a year. The moment a Korean baby is born he is said to be one year old, and one year old he remains until the coming of the next New Year's Day, when he is suddenly advanced to be two years old, just as all his compatriots are pronounced a year older, no matter how near the close of the expiring year they may have been born. As may be believed, time is not of much value to a community which reckons on such a system. The means of calculating age of individuals savors of "Alice in Wonderland." Anv>rican travelers conclude it is safe to deduct a year and six months from the given age of a Korean to find out how old he really is. The Jury'# Verdict. An English coroner had directed the jury in a suicide case to find a verdict of felo de se. "Well, chaps,'' said the foreman of the jury, when they had retired to consider the verdict, "it appears to me that this 'ere chap shot 'isself with a gun after shoo.in' another chap with a gun, but Dr. .Tones, the Coroner, who we all know and highly respect, 'e says that this 'ere J chap fell in the sea. Well, it ain't for the likes of us to go arguin' the point wiui the doctor, for 'e knows more about it than we do. So, I suppose we find a verdict of found drowned"?and they did?Progress. Proved to He Correct. The late Channing Clapp, of Boston, was for some years after the Civil War a cotton planter in the South. Mr. Clapp had on his plantation a little boy in buttons called Sam. Sam one afternoon pointed to a bottle on his master's bureau and said: "Mars Channing. am dat hair oil?'' "Mercy, no, Sam, that's glue,'' said Mr. Clapp. "I guess dass why I can't git mall cap off." said Sam. thoughtfully. ' -V - ; v,V& In the Pu * GENERA (The Japanese Officer ] Operations Aroui 1 i nk< I SPRING HATIKBS 1U mi vx | Device Which Will Prevent Many Elevator Accidents. A now life-saving device, designed to prevent serious injury to one unfortunate enough to fall down ah elevator shaft, has been made by Joseph (J. Branch, Inspector of Boilers and Elevators, and is shown herewith. It consists of a woven wire net covering the full opening of the well and supported just above the bottom by stout arms. The whole is supported in an outstretched position under normal circumstances by a pair of springs. When the falling body strikes the net the fall is broken by the combined action of it and the springs. It will give and sag to a position indicated, :he arms themselves closing up scis nM-Hi.-a nc w shnn'n nnd beincr re UUV9 **? ? ^ VMV " ? 9 ? sisted in this movement by the compression of springs. The pipes are SPRING MATTRESS TO FALL ON. free to move endwise through proper openings made in the upper ends of the strut arms, permitting them to close in and break the force of the fall. THE MAN WHO t PANAMA H : ? jAgf ', -'- . . ' ' ?' .*.. v . ' ' -/ ' x .. ; &; . XZ%%'' "?* >*%$*** Ai X-..-..-. v- ? * JOHN F. 1 So has been appointed Chief Engineer < . has been General Manager o blic Eye. L OKU. Most Prominent in the id Port Arthur) Making Flench Knots. "I did not see 'your daughter in tlie coaching parade, Mr. Gates." "No. She has been captured by the latest fad?making French knots. You HIGH=GRADE ANGUS BUTCHER ?>mmwt Live weight, 1330 lbs.; dressed weig 40 lbs., worth 4c. per lb. (2) Chuck, 21 1214c. (4) Porterhouse steak. 103 lbs., 1: Rump, 36 lbs., 3c. (7) Round. 183 lbs., 1 52 lbs., 4c. (10) Ribs, plate, 138 lbs., 5c know, she was a pupil of Madame Buchanan, of the Champs Elysees, and is quite proud of her needlework. Every young woman these days must have at least one hand-made dress, that is, a dress made oy her own hand. Eloise spends four hours a day ornamenting her latest creation with French knots. Last night she informed me that she had made already over 1200, and expects to make 800 more. The knots look, like little hummocks of thread, and are built right in the cioin. Several Silesian* villages have been visited by a plague of adders. In Frendenthal alone 452 snakes have been killed. VILL BUILD THE CANAL. f0(50f: V&k % " %?P >} Ip'%.' %r- ig$ .'^ I'^i0-: t ;. . . . ' ' " f pg?: <* :'^:^ V ALL ACE, )f the Panama Canal. Mr. Wallace f the Illinois Central RailreatL - ' t* BARBARIC SPLENDOR; Tcndencj Noticed In the Latest r rod notions of the Jeweler, Ornaments sucli as gliste:: on the * s bosom of Indian princesses are now chosen for the adornment of Western maidens. Barbaric splendor is the object toward the attainmen. of which the jeweler applies his art. - { Precious stones of t richest and ?ost brilliant colorings are used to fashion corsage ornaments. These consist of silver chains, tarnished as /? though by age. Here and there they are studded with flowers wrought in silver and fashioned in relief, some of these flowers measuring more than an inch across. Penda.it from the chains # are glistening stones, pale green, pink, crimson, transparent, blue,, faintly tinted wi a lavender, some .very large, indeed, perhaps an inch and a half across. These beautiful pendants are not necessarily formal in shape, though some are cut in ovals, circles and hearts. All have facets, which cause them to shine brilliantly in artificial t light. Of all the precious and semi precious stones.used in this way by Lie art jeweler, perhaps tne pale, trans.Iuceut gfeen of aquamarine is most attractive. It suggests to the mind's eye the cool * depths of old ocean. . < The gleaming yellow topaz is also very showy set in tWs way. Without any backing, sinqdy held in place by a silver band, it has a limpid beauty which otherwise one could not appre- ^ ciate. * J The lapis-Iazull is" one of the uncom-. mon stones thus employed, and its rich dark blue, opaque and veined ?with red and white, makes it very popular. I ^ TARGET SHOOTING OH THE OWING TABLE ' Figure 1 shows the target cut out of c-igar bor wood- A circular piece Is first cut about one inch in diameter, and eight small round pieces of card/%f | ^ ' 7i~LU lA^GZn. j ' board with Lire numbers 1 to 8 ca tliem are mounted ou toothpicks and grouped around it at even distances; the other ends of the toothpicks are then inserted in the Sides of the circular piece of wood. The target itself is fastened to a ; stick of wood about eight inches long, fastened to- a stand, as shown in the picture. The gun consists of a paper tube, which *s made by winding cardboard well covered with glue, around ilie stem of a leadpencil. When it is dry, a piece about five inches long is cat off. One and three-quarter inches from one end, we make an incision about two inches long, cutting down to about one-half 'S * r L i STEER, SHOWING ,'S CUTS. lit, 1046 Jbs. Retail prices: (1) Keck, T 1V.O Tn (0\ Primo nf rih 117 Ihs? I I UO.t ftU JL iiUiV V* , Sc. (5) Sirloin steak, S7 lbs., 15c. (G) 10c. (S) Sbank, 30 lbs., 2c. (9) Flail k, . (11) Shin, 23 lbs., 3c. of the thickness of the tube (see Figure 2). Figure 2 shows how a piece of whalebone about six inches long is inserted, acting as the propelling power of the gun. You shoot with a wooden peg about one and a half inches long, fitting loosely into the barrel of the gun; to give it more weight ^nd strength, we insert a carpet tack. To shoot, hold the gun with the right hand, pulling the whaleboue back with the index finger, and insertingthe peg; as soon as the index finger releases the whalebone, it springs forward and forces the peg out. To aim well, hold the tube in such a way that the whalebone spring points downward. GUTS OUT TJIE PINEAPPLE EYE. The preparation of a pineapple is a long and tedious operation because of 41 ~1? -? tVin nnH fnr ine size aim &uupc uj. mc uun, ? the reason that the fruit is rather hard to cut. After it has been pared it must be carefully gone over and the eyes cut out.' These tough portions being allowed to remain, interfere largely with the enjoyment of eating the fruit, whether it be in its natural PINEAPPLE .EYE CLIP. condition or cooked, .and .the economical and quick removal of the eyes with the ordinary means is impossible. A pistol-like device with which this is accomplshed with celerity and dispatch is shown in the accompanying cut. In use the pineapple is pared and the band 01 the clip is placed under the eye about one-half inch and then the trigger is pulled, and in its descent it completely cuts out the eye. The trigger, being released, throws out the bite. In this manner the eye is cut out with great economy of the fruit as compared with the usual method of procedure. During the last year 584 persons bitten by dogs having hydrophobia were treated by the Pasteur Institute in India. There were only six failures to immunize the patients. Six other cases came after the disease had developed. The most expensive chair in the world belongs to the Pope. It is of solid silver and cost $90,000. . . The changeful tints of the opal shovy to advantage in these ornaments. Other stones are used are jade, green, as > jealousy; green, red yellow and white V. corneliaus, amethyst, malachite aud emerald matrix and pure white crystal. It is difficult, after all, to say which of these is handsomest, though ? <; for delicate coloring the amethyst is ' conspicuous. * WORDS OF WISDOM. "" " }Iost boys need licking, and all need loving. God never reveals what man can discover. j* A stolen sermon is bound to please the wicked. Many things are good until they become gods: .;r- . * 13 i S One Father of all must mean one family for all. A man is never too poor to send a n : prayer dispatch. * God is the refuge of His saints, but not of their sins. Adversity is God calling us to give r. up our perversity. . >Seeds of sin must be judged by their sheaves of sorrow. Men seldom seek to dissect a religion until it is dead. Its meed of salvation is the secret of the world's sadness. * \ Your.attiude with men depends on - ,r your attitude with God. . ,4 Offensive Militarism. The minor persecutions to which militarism can descend in Austria are illustrated by an order just issued by ^ the commander of the garrison of WIsner Neustadt prohibiting the officers under him from frequenting the court cf the former Grand Duke of * ? ? * - ^ * - s? il. t Farma, wnose estate is m me uuuio on the ground that their honor as sol* diers would suffer from association, with an officer who had been dismissed from the army. This refers to Count Ledochewski, who was a captain on ' the Austrian headquarters staff, and ?Jiomlcnail hand ilea ha PoftKad tft ? U9 UIOLUICOCU wcvauug uv ?fight a duel, declaring it to be repugnant to his feelings as a Christiau to do so. He had afterward become a 1 < member of the suite of the former Grand Duke, and tin officers often met him at shooting and hunting parties given by the Grand Duk---London. Globe. Large Engines. An idea of the dimensions of a mod- /. era engine can be gained from the figures which, represent the largest * and lpost powefrul one the Baldwin, Company ever built. The total weight was 267,800 pounds, and the weight on , the drivers was 237,800 pounds. The diameter of the boiler was 78 3-4 inches and it contained 463 ubes, 2 1-4 inches in diameter and nineteen feet in length. The fire box was 108 inches long and seventy-eight inches wide, with a heating surface of 210.3 square feet. The heating surface of the ; !>es ---- -o--A- ~ ? -J WAS OlOO.O ijljUUlC iei'i, ituu ui mc un* brick tubes 23.9, making a total of 5390 square jieet. The gauge of this ^ engine was "four feet eight and a haif # inches, the cylinders were 19x32x32 inches, and the drivers slxty-seren inches. Soporific Senate. c One afternoon during a tedious debate on the Panama Canal Senator * Penrose and a colleague repaired to the Senate lunch room. When the other Senator had given th order he asked Mr. Penrose whether he would ^ ?n fftl? rtnffoo I V.(liC AVI wuvv. "Coffee!" exclaimed the Pennsylvania Senator, indignantly. "Why, if I took coffee I shouldn't be able t? get a wink of sleep all through the weary afternoon." Irish Needlework in Demand, T Ireland is having its inning this year, for all the French dressmakers are using what is called "broderie anglaise," or Irish needlework. Whole gown6 are made of it, sleeves and bodices trimmed wit', it, and it will r appear in all the freshest and most springlike dresses.?London Graphic.. / i