Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 262, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1910 — Page 3

The American Home

WILLIAM A. RADFORD Editor

' Mr - William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF SCOST on all subjects pertaining to the •subject of building for the readers of ’this paper. On account of his wide expedience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all Inquiries to William A. Radford, No. >194 Fifth Ave., Chicago; 111., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. With the approach of cold weather there ia one feature of home building that comes into new prominence. We bear the qusetion asked, “How is the house heated?” or, more often, “Is this a warm house?” These are important questions; not more important now, it is true, than in the hot summer weather, for even then the [■wise home builder looks forward to the wintry days and provides against them by proper construction; but now that cold weather is upon us the question of adequate beating seems to be more present and absorbing. With modern heating equipment there is probably no form of dwelling that cannot be adequately heated. iSome, however, are very difficult to heat and require a much larger heattog plant and much more coal than they should. This is due sometimes to faulty construction, sometimes to •unwise design. In the first place every home builder should know that there is no money so well spent as that put into insulating felts and high grade sheathing papers; which, combined with thorough construction in other ways, will go very far toward making a residence frost proof. A house so made can be kept thoroughly warm with from one-third to one-half the amount of coal required to heat the same siruciurt if not properly insulated and put together. Insulating paper does not cost very much and it should be used freely. The entire exterior walls should be covered between the rough sheathing and the clapboards and care should be

taken to see that the paper is fitted snugly around all openings, both doors and windows. The workmen are sometimes careless in this regard and it is well to keep pretty close watch of what they are doing when it comeß to this part of the work. Good oil paper should also be used in the flooring between the rough and finished floors. This Berves a double purpose, as it not only makes the. house warmer, but shuts out all furnace dust from the cellar, or dampness if there Bhould be any. The building paper used be-

First Floor Plan.

tween the floors should be turned up .six inches behind all the base boards. Another trivial expense while building that proves a very great economy In the long run Is to have the, basement lathed and plastered. Twentyfive or thirty dollars will do this on the average job, while the satisfaction and comfort resulting will be worth, many times that amount la after years. ' V. Also great care should Be taken that what are called the rough sheathing boards for the exterior vails should good matched lumber. Shlplap Is very good for this and costs very

little more than the ordinary unmatched boarding. Very often large knotholes in such boarding are allowed to go unnoticed* but this is a grave mistake. Much cold can find its way in through even one large knothole. They should all be hunted out and carefully plugged before the sheathing paper la nailed on. And in addition to thorough construction much can be accomplished in the way of easy heating/feying the house properly designed. A

Second Floor Plan.

long, rambling structure is much more difficult to heat than a square, compact house. The accompanying design is a good .example of a residence that is very easily heated. With either a warm-air furnace, steam or hot-water systems very good results can be had with this house. Being rectangular in outline, there are no exposed por-

tions. The solid porch at the front will be found a great protection, as It will blanket to a certain extent the broad exposed side of the living room. In other ways, too, the arrangement of this house is desirable. It is well suited for a narrow building site, its width being but 22 feet 6 inches. Even counting the side entrance porch, it doesn’t require more than 25 feet The side entrance is very popular at the present time' and thiß is a good example of the possibilities of this kind of arrangement. The living room extends clear across the front of the house, the reception room and stair hall occupy the middle of the side and at the rear are the dining-room and kitchen. There is a small den directly back of the stair hall, which will be useful for many purposes. On the second floor are three goodsized bedrooms, each with a clothe* closet opening oft from it. The bathroom is also on this floor and finds itself directly above the kitchen. This brings all the plumbing together and makes quite a saving in this factor of the expense. It is in matters of this kind that the experienced house designer can save a good deal .of money for his clients. Too often not enough thought is given matters of this kind, but there is no doubt but that substantial .savings may be accomplished in the construction of any house by having it properly designed. In exterior appearance the houße illustrated herewith is very satisfactory. It -is dignified, neat and substantial. It has the home atmosphere. A house of this kind has the advantage of being very easily kept up so that it always presents a neat and well-cared-sos appearance. The cost of this seven-room, story and a half house is estimated at $3,000.

Why Not?

“Curious thing about a cold in the head,’’ said the little girl, “is that when I ,have one I always talk in dialect.” ■ , “What dialect, pet?” cold-in-the-head dialect, of course.” (Note—And she always gets it right —which is more than "can be said of most professional imitate!*. >

RELISHES FOR MEAT

BIVE BHARP, APPETIZING FLA* VOR TO BTEAKB AND CtiOPS. Pepper Relish In Which Cabbage le Substituted for Tomatoes Is Particularly Fine—Two Kinds of Piccalilli. Pepper Relish. —Pepper relish Is usually made of green peppers, green tomatoes and ’celery; but cabbage may be substituted for the. tomatoes. For the latter, chop fine a small head of firm, white cabbage, six large green peppers, taking care not to leave in any of the seeds, and a nice bunch of celery, removing all the fibrous green outer leaves; put into a large bowl, sprinkle with a half cupful of salt, mix well, cover and let stand over night. The next morning drain in a colander, then pack in a stone Jar with two tablespoonfuls ; of mustard seed mixed through it. Put into a porcelain kettle three pints of vinegar, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, one tablespoonful each of whole cloves, allspice and whole pepper, a clove of garlic and one onion minced; simmer gently twenty minutes, to extract the virtue of the spices; drain and pour boiling hot over the vegetables. There should be enough of vinegar to cover. When cold cover the Jar and, keep in a cool place. A little red pepper may be added, if you like it very hot. Piccalilli.—Allow to a gallon of Bllced green tomatoes one pint grated horseradish, eleven ounces brown ■ugar, two tablespoonfuls each fine salt and ground mustard. Put the tomatoes in a large stone crock, sprinkle the salt over them and let stand over night with a slight press on top. The tomatoes may be chopped instead of sliced if preferred. In the morning add to the tomatoes the other ingredients, and set in a warm place, the compound forming its own vinegar. This will take several weeks. Set In a cool place. The vessel containing the pickle must have a cloth and weight on top to keep the pickle under the liquor. Piccalilli With Cider Vinegar.— Where cider vinegar is used It Is made in this way; Chop fine one peck green tomatoes and one head cabbage. Mix with them a large cupful salt and put all Into a coarse cheesecloth bag to drain over night. Chop blx large onions and four green pej> pers, mix with the cabbage and tomatoes and pour over them enough hot weak vinegar to cover, then drain again. The next morning heat the same amount of sharp cider vinegar, pour over the pickle, add two tablespoonfuls whole mustard seed, and when cold It should be ready for use. Chutney Sauce.—Chop coarsely twelve sour apples after paring and coring. Seed one cup of raisins and two green peppers, add four medium Bized onions and six green tomatoes and chop very fine. Put four cups of vinegar, two cups of brown sugar, two tablespoons each of mustard seed and salt in a preserving kettle and bring to the boiling point. Add the chopped mixture and simmer one hour. Now add the chopped apple and cook until soft. Seal in pint Jars.

Sliced Oil Pickles.

Slice very thin 100 small pickles about the circumference of a quarter, and, if liked, blx onions also sliced. Cover with salt and let stand overnight. In the morning rinse with cold water and put in a sack to drain. Mix three quarts cider vinegar, one-half cupful each white and black mustard seed, one cupful olive oil, one heaping tablespoonful celery seed, a half teaspoonful red pepper and a half teaspoonful white pepper. Pour cold over the cu’cumbers in an open Jar, let stand a day or two, stirring occasionally, then seal in Jars.

Grape Juice.

Use Concord grapes. Wash and bruise the grapes. Cook and strain one quart of Juice, one quart of water, two cups sugar. Boil five or ten min. utes. Put hot Into bottles and seal. I use a double cheese cloth bag. Do not squeeze, but turn the bag often Around. From two' small baskets of grapes I get three pints of Juice. Small bottles are better to use, though the juice will keep several days In the ice chest after being opened:

Moiasees Biscuits.

, One-third cupful butter, two-thirds cupful of molasses, one-third cupful boiling water, one-quarter teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of allspice, one tahlespoonful of ginger, one-quar-ter teaspoonful of cinnamon, one teaBpoonful of baking soda; flour. Pour boiling water over butter; add remaining Ingredients, using sufficient flour to make a drop batter. Drop from a spoon on to a buttered tin. Bake In a moderate oven for 20 minutes.

Broiled Sweet Corn.

Boil the ears of corn two minutes, then drain and dry on a towel. Plaefl on a broiler and toast over glowing coals or under gas flame until a good brown. Season with salt and send to the table in a napkin.

To Color Lace Pink.

Pour boiling water over red calico and add a tablespoonful of vinegar. Insert a sample of your lace and If not the right shade dilute with water to make paler or boil calico to make a deeper pink.

TO WASH ECRU CURTAINS

First Lay in Cold Water, Then Pass to Bath of Warm . Water and Borax. First shake free from dust and, if possible, hang up out of doors to dislodge as much more of the dust as possible, as this will save labor when it comes to washing. Next lay in cold water until It looks dark and brown looking; then wring and pass into a bath, which you have prepared of warm water, soap and a little borax. The quantity of the latter will depend upon the degree of hardness of the water. Lift the curtains up and down in this bath and squeeze through the hands. Use only a good white soap And do not rub it directly on the curtains. If you do the result will be white patches, because the soap will probably take out a little of the color. When the curtains are clean rinse first in warm water and then in cold. If the shade has become lighter the curtains may be put through a last rinsing water, to which strong tea has been added. An objection to the tea tint is that the sun is apt to fade the color when the curtains are hung at the windows, creating ugly streaks, as curtains do not fade all over alike. Boiled or raw starch may be used when the curtains are ready for the stretchers or for pinning to the line. Take care to see that all edges are perfectly straight and even. Some persons sew a pair of curtains together before washing, and unless they are very heavy it would seem to be a good plan, because then they will hang exactly the same when taken apart and placed at the > windows.

STAND FOR A WASH BOILER

Convenient Article That Is Easily Made and Well Worth the Trouble. To make a stand for an iron wash boiler when wishing to heat water out of doors, take an old wagon tire or other similar pieces of iron and bend as shown in the accompanying illustration. The legs can be made of any desired length so the wood can be placed underneath. The square on

Stand for Wash Boller.

top should just fit the bottom of the boiler. The two cross bars are riveted or bolted. For a round kettle the top of the stand should be round and Just large enough to hold the kettle securely. The stand is a most convenient articls in preparing meals when camping out, as skillets and pots can be placed upon it.

Fried Rye Muffins.

Serve these muffins with some kind of acid or sharply flavored Jelly. Sift together three-quarters cup of rye meal, that was sifted before measuring, three-quarters cup of flour, two level teaspoons of baking powder and a saltspoon of salt Beat one egg, add half a cup of milk and turn on to the dry materials. Drop in small spoonfuls in hot fat and fry like doughnuts. Do not make the cakes too large, as they will be liable to fry brown on the outside before the centers are heated through.

Sparerib Pie.

Take two pounds of spareribs, have them cut small, wash, and place them over the fire ..with water enough to cover. Should be skimmed, then add one onion, salt and pepper. Cook 15 minutes, then add six potatoes sliced-, more water if needed. Let cook until all is tender, thicken with a little flour. Place in a pan and cover with plain pie crust. Bake in a pan and cover with plain pie crust. Bake in quick oven.

To Cook Corn.

With a sharp knife cut the corn from the cob. Don’t cut It to the cob, but about three-quarters, then scrape with the knife the one-quarter remaining on the cob * into the same dish. Plenty of butter, salt and pepper. Add no water, Just the liquor from the scraped corn, and. moisten. Put it in double boiler and cook 20 minutes. You get the fine flavor of the corn oooked without water.

Lemon Sauce.

Boil together for five minutes onehalf of a cupful of sugar and one cupful bf water, add one tablespoonful, of cornstarch and cook for five minutes longer. Take from the lire, add the Juice of one lemon and two tablespoonfuls of butter and stir until thoroughly blended.

Caper Butter.

Chop one tablespoon of capers very flue, rub through a sieve with a wooden spoon and mix them with a saltspoon of pepper and one ounce (or more) of cold butter. Put a layer of this butter on a dish and serve fish on It

Apple Butter.

Apple butter made from apple pulp. —Run the apple pulp through a sieve and add sugar and spices to taste. 801 l 80 minutes slowly. -

A Corner in Ancestors

Holmes is a name with an attractive personality, if the expression is able. Is it not pretty because with the omission of one letter we have homes? Homes indeed is one form of the name found in colonial times. Holmes is from the Norman word holm, an islet in a lake or river; it also means lowlands.. In German, it is Holm; in Flemish, Holms. Holmo is found in Domesday book. Holmbury is a place in Surrey. The family has been prominent for centuries, in Yorkshire, Norfolk, Chester, Hertfordshire, Lancaster, Cambridge and Nottingham. The chief branch of the family, in Scotland, lives at Kilmanock, where the last Lord Holmes died in 1764, the title becoming extinct. The Holmes were in Virginia in the early days, and have helped to make

Holmes

history all along the ages. In 1635 George Holmes wgs the leader in an expedition to the valley of the Delaware river; this was several years before Penn’s time. George Holmes finally settled in New York city, where he owned a large slice of the town, or from what is now Forty-seventh street to Fifty-second street. It takes away one’s breath to think of the millions—shall we say billions —to which his heirs would be entitled had the property remained in the family all these years. What connection there is between George and Thomas Holmes, if any, the writer is not prepared to say. Thomas was the son of Thomas, a lawyer of Gray’s inn, London, and a soldier in the Civil .war. Thomas, Jr., ?ame to Virginia, ! and later removed to New London, where he married "Lucrese” Dudley. Their son John was born 1686, and married Mary Willey. They—that is John and Mary, had “an acre of rocky land on Cedar

The Beckwith family is very old, and dates back with a distinct record of each generation to the times of William the Conqueror in England. But strange as it may seem, the founder of the family waß not named Beckwith, but de Malebisse. Sir Hugh de Malebisse was a brave Norman knight, and he came with William in 1066 from Normandy to England. He is mentioned in the Domesday book as a land holder. He had three sons; one of them became a monk and the other two established families in the new country to which they had come. , Almost 200 years later, during which time the de Malebisse family had distinguished itself in peace and in war, Sir Hercules de Malebisse, one of Sir Hugh’s descendants, married Lady Dame Beckwith Bruce. Her father was Sir William Bruce, lord of Uglebarby, and he was descended from Sir Robert Bruce, progenitor of the royal Bruces of Scotland. Beck&ith, Bickwith, or Bechworth, which come from the old English words beck, a brook, and worth, an estate, were the names applied to one of Lady Dame Bruce’s possessions, and she persuaded her husband to take the name of Beckwith for himself and his successors. His grandson, Hamon Beckwith, in 1339 by a special grant, assumed the arms of the de Malebisses. So it is that that the family is named Beckwith, and not de Malebisse. The family made four distinct settlements in America. About 1570 there flourished in England a Marmaduke Beckwith of Dacre and Clint. He sold his lands in Clint, which had been in the family for generations, and bought lands in Featherstone and. Acton. He had three sons, Thomas, Mathew and Roger. Thomas had two sons, Thomas and William, and William was the first Beckwith in America. He came to Virginia in 16Q7. His brother’s son George, old Marmaduke’s great-grand-son, came to Maryland in 1648 Marmaduke’s second son, Mathew, uncle to William and great-uncle to Thomas, came to Connecticut in 1635. His third son, Roger, was the great-grandfather of Sir Marmaduke. who came to Virginia in 1700. William, the first settler here, went to London from Featherstone as a merchant tailor. In 1607 he Joined Capt. John Smith and came to Jamestown in the Phoenix. Mathew, who come here next, settled at Saybrook Point. Conn., in 1635. Three years later he went to Bramford, and in 1642 was among the first settlers at Hartford, to Lyme, Conn., and made large purchases ol land on the Niantic river, Gecrge Beckwith, the third Beck-

By ELEANOR LEXINGTON

Holmes Family -(Copyright by McClure Syndicate)

swamp, where his father hath planted some apple trees.” Some of this branch of the family removed to East Haddam. There was a Captain John about this time, and a eood ancestor to appropriate. He is, without doubt, John, son of Thomas. Captain John died 1734, and his was the first burial in One of the East Haddam grave yards. His widow married Samuel Adams, also of ‘East Haddam, whose first wife, Eleanor Lee, bequeathed him a rich legacy—l 6 children. Capt. John Holmes atid wife also had a large family. Other patriarchs of the Holmes family are George, a freeman of Roxbury, 1639; Isaac of Marshfield, John and William of Plymouth, 1632. William was a lieutenant In the Pequot war*, but 'as he neglected to take a wife, no descendants are scanning the records on his account. Let us hope that he was well fined for this little oversight, for bachelors were fined, and quite properly, too. * The Holmes of New York state trace back to Lemuel, son of Joseph, of Plymouth, bom 1766. Lemuel settled not far from Albany, and his wife was Polly Battles. Heitman’s “Officers of the American Revolution” gives the following names of the Holmes: From Massachusetts, Captain Lemuel; from Connecticut, Surgeon David; Surgeon’s Mate Silas, and Lieutenant Uriel; from Rhode Island, Lieutenant Hugh; from New Jer* sey, Captains * James and Jonathan; Lieutenants John, William and Elisha; from Pennsylvania, Lieutenant James and Ensign David; from Virginia, Lieutenant Benjamin Holmes, whose name also appears as Hoomes; Surgeon David and Ensigns Isaac and James; from Georgia, Chaplain John. Oliver Wendell Holmes was the son of Rev Ablel Holmes, and his second wife, Sarah, daughter of Oliver Wendell of Boston. Abiel was born at Woodstock, Conn., the son of Surgeon David of the Revolution. Ablel’s first wife was Mary, daughter of Rev. Dr. Ezra Stiles, president of Yale college. The first years of his ministerial life were spent in the state of Georgia. r The coat-of-arms reproduced is blazoned: Sable, a lion rampant, argent, charged with three bendlets, gules. Crest: A demi-griffln, azure, gutlee d’or, holding in his dexter claw a sword, erect, azure: pommel and hilt, or? Other arms are blazoned for the Holmes, and most of them show that they were granted in the early days of heraldry.

Beckwith Family

In 1665 he fought in the battle of Ann Arundel! with Lord Baltimore's party against the Virginians. Although ha died In England, where he went on business in 1676. he left five children In this country. There is not much to say about Sir . Marmaduke, who came here In 1700 and settled. In Virginia, where his grandfather's, cousin William had set* tied almost 100 years before, except that he also established a branch of the family which flourished and prospered. s . Two coats of arms are borne by the Beckwiths in this country. The Connecticut branch, which is by far the largest, and which now extends throughout the United States and into Canada, Is entitled to arms blazoned: Argent, a chevron gules, fretty or. between three hinds' heads erased of the second, on a chief engrailed gules, a saltire between two roses argent. The Virginia branch, founded by'Wtt11am In 1607, has arms emblazoned: Argent, a chevron between three hinds* heads erased gules. The former arm* are illustrated. The crest and motto are the same for both arms. The crest Is: An antelope proper In the mouth , a branch vert. The motto le; Jolr enbieu

with to immigrate to America, came to Maryland in 1648 and lived as a merchant and planter. .With other Protestants he signed the declaration commending the liberal administration of Lord Baltimore, which allowed the Protestants undisturbed worship.

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