Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1911 — Page 3

GINGER IS HEALTHFUL

.CHILDREN WILL LIKE IT IN THE V FORM OF CRISP CtfIPS. \ Recipe for Preparing These Dainties That Are Easily Made—Caramel Custard With Banana Flavoring la Delicious. TO speak of hot dishes for*summor has an incongrous sound. Yet there Is a Class of “hot" viands which are specially adapted to the torrid days of oar climate, and which combat flatulency and other warm weather ills. These are the spicy diet items so largely employed in the tropics as correctives and stomach stimulants. Ginger In any form Is such a diet jltem and should be generously dealt out in the family menu. A ginger dessert from time to time is worth thinking about at this season. Crisp Chips.—The children of the family would probably pronounce for ginger in the form of chips. These dainties are not hard to prepare. Half a pound of butter Is rubbed Into half a pound of flour, and into this Is mixed half a pound of brown sugar In which there are no lumps. Add a tablespoonful of powdered sugar, a teaspoonful of powdered cloves and cinnamon and a tablespoonful of ground ginger. Now stir in a pint of the best molasses and the grated rind of a lemon. Add a little of the lemon juice for flavor and half a teaspoonful of soda. (Dissolve this in a little warm water.) Stir hard. Mix in just enough flour to make a very stiff paste. Roll it out very thin and cut into narrow strips about an Inch wide and three or four Inches long. They require a moderate oven and about ten minutes* baking- . A new dessert of the genus pudding Is caramel custard with banana flavoring. ''V-;;,:. 'i y . Make in the usual way by cooking half a cup of sugar with an eighth of a cup of water till quite brown. Line a dish with this, and prepare the custard as follows: The Custard —Two cups of milk t scalded, three yolks beaten light with •a quarter cup of sugar. Add half a teaspoonful of buter. A double boiler Hs |>est, and after adding the butter 'beat the mixture thoroughly. Now add two bananas peeled and cut in slices as thin as possible. Poux' this ilnto the caramel-lined dish and bake half an hour or until the custard becomes flrm, without going beyond this danger point And, apropos of puddings, vary the -‘heavy sauce sometimes with whipped cream sauce. To a half pint of very .cold sweet cream add half a cup of ! powdered sugar and a teaspoonful of any extract preferred as flavoring. Whip to a froth and stir in last of all the lightly-beaten white of one egg. Use very cold. z i l ’

BAKED MEAT LOAF IS GOOD

{How to Prepare Thia Dish and the Sauce That Should Go Withit. Two cups of chopped meat, two lev-el tablespoonfuls of butter, one-half cup of stock or water, two tablespoons of bread crumbs, one teaspoon of salt, one-fourth teaspoon of pepper. Put the above ingredients on stove to heat. When hbt take from stove and add yolks of three eggs beaten light, then fold in whites beaten stiff. Put in pan and set pan in hot water and bake 15 minutes. Sauce —Put in double boiler two level tablespoons of butter. When melted add two level tablespoons of flour and blend thoroughly; ' one-half etip of stock or water, one-half cup of milk, one-half teaspoon of salt, and a little pepper, yolks of two eggs beaten light Turn loaf out on platter and pour sauce over it Garnish with parsley and siloes of bard boiled eggs.

To Make Starch.

When making starch have a kettle of boiling dater. In a clean enameled saucepan stir until smooth half a cupful of starch and one cupful of cold water. Then gradually add boiling water, stirring all the time. Boll' the starch for ten minutes, stirring constantly. ' ' Now add a little white wax or a piece of sperm candle. If wax or candle Is not available use a teaspoonful of butter or lard. Cover the saucepan and let the starch simmer 20 minutes longer. Add a few drops of bluing. The amount of boiling water added to the starch an 4 cold water will depend upon how stiff the articles are to be made. For shirt bosoms, cuffs and collars add one quart of boiling water. For dresses, underskirts, etc., use two quarts of boiling water.

Boiled Bread Pudding.

Take enough dry bread to make about two good sired cupfuls after it has been soaked and squeezed out dry (or more for a largo family). Add a small cup of sugar (brown Is preferable), half a teaspoon of cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon, two eggs, a cup of raisins or currants, and lastly, after this has been beaten up together, a ' heaping teaspoon of baking powder. Serve with hard sauce. Cook In double boiler two hours. ]

Spanish Pepper Salad.

When there are string beans left from the dinner they may be used for a salad with the sweet Spanish rod poppers. If the beans are scanty In amount, add a grogs popper or two

ARE AS DAINTY AS FAIRIES

Full Directions For Making puffs That Will Be Found Delicious for I Dessert - 1 An unusual dessert consists of puffs which, when carefully made, are of fairy-like daintiness. 7 * The way to have them quickly and at best is this: Into a saucepan put a cup of water, a half teaspoonful of salt, and half, a cup of butter, allowing these ingredients to melt .and come to a boil. * Then add, not little by little, but all at once, a cup of flour. Stir and cook until the mixture stands away from the side of the pan. Turn into a bowl and allow ft to stand until the batterls slightly cooled. Now add, unbeaten, four eggs, one at a time, beating each egg thoroughly in before adding the next Cover and let stand two hours. Rake on a baking sheet, having formed the batter into small round cakes. Leave one Inch of space, between them and bake in a brisk oven, with heat from the bottom,, for 15 minutes.. Reduce the flame and cook very slowly until the cakes become dry and crisp. Fill them with the cream given below, making incision with a very sharp knife in each, and decorate with whipped cream sprinkled with grated maple sugar. Pilling—A cup of cream and a cup of milk placed together in a double boiler. When boiling point is reached add a tablespoonful of butter and » tablespoonful of flour rubbed together. Cook until the liquid begins to thicken. Stir and cook three minutes; then take from the fire and cool.

"FALLEN CAKE" OF ENGLAND

Recipe for a Pastry That Takes Long / to Cook, but Is Worth While. To make what the English call fall* en cake, cream a quarter of a pound of butter and beat into it half a pound of moist sugar. Beat five eggs until quite ' stiff with an egg whisk, and mix with the butter and sugar. Add, wkh a flour dredger, a little at a time, half a pound of flour and any flavoring liked. . Beat for twenty minutes. Mix a cupful each of chopped and stoned raisins and well-washed currants and half a cupful of chopped candled' peel and blanched almonds. Have ready a square cake tin lined with three thicknesses of buttered paper, and pour loan inch-deep layer or the sponge mixture. Sprinkle a layer of fruit and then add a thin layer of the sponge. Strew in the rest of the fruit, and pour evenly over all the remainder of the sponge mixture. Bake in-a moderate oven and do not open the door for half an hour or more, dr the cake will fall. Cook for three-quarters of an hour, or till done. If the cake is very deep an hour will not be at all too long. When it is taken from (he oven ice thinly with a boiled icing and strew very thickly with chopped almonds and walnuts. When cut, the bottom of the cake should show a mass of fruit, while the top is' a plain sponge. If preferred, the bottom may be any rich fruit cake, but it is nicer made according to the above recipe.

For China.

“China day” is an Important occasion in a household. A woden tub should be lined with a soft cloth, pearl ash dissolved In warm water, and the best antique cups and saucers, vases and plates washed carefully in it A pastry brush always should be kept with which to work out dust which has collected in the crevices of china figures, while, after draining the china on a wooden board, ft is dried with a soft cloth and then polished with a silk handkerchief. Putty to clean antique glass and wet whiting for pewter are two other secrets of a successful cleaning day. For the insides'of decanters' and bottles nothing is better than to'sosp small pieces of blotting paper and fill the bottle with them, adding water to reach half way up, and then shaking' energetically until the contents froth. '

Principles of Baking.

The principles of baking without an over are the same, whatever article is selected. Care must always be used to keep the baking article well covered Mid to prevent burning. It is best to begin with the simplest things, such as potatoes with the Jackets on, and then graduate into the more complex, like pies and puddings. There is no mystery whatever connected with the process and no Involved details to be followed. Two things only are to be particularly remembered: Do Mt turn the gas toe high, and wherever possible, especially with pastries, use a heavy Iron skillet In addition to the hot plate, as this retains the beat with little danger of burning. '

Little Lobster Salads.

Rub the yolks of four hard-boded eggs through a sieve, season with salt, pepper and cayenne, and add by degrees four tablespoonfuls of salad oil. When a smooth paste Is formed pour in a teaspoqnful of vinegar, a gill of cool liquid aspic Jelly and a gid of double cream. Have ready some of the best portions Of a lobster, coarsely chopped, add to the mixture, and fill some small china cases .which have been lined with aspic JeUy< pour In a little cool aspic over the Oiling, and put the molds In a cool place or on Ice till required. Turn them out and garnish with a little finely shredded lettuce and cucumber/ * '1

JAPANESE IDEA BEST

SHOULD NEVER BE CROWDED INTO BOWLS. /■ . ■ -A One Perfect Blossom More Beautiful Than a Bunch—How to Obtain Artistic Effects In House ■ Decoration. The most artistic effects with cut flowers are had by selecting the jar holding thexn with regard for the blossoms themselves and using only, a, few flowers at a time. The mistakemade by a girl who is not in the habit of Axing flowers for the house, is to crowd the bowls and vases. The Japanese idea, which is fast gaining ground here, that one perfect flower by itself is more beautiful than a bunch of the same, may- be demonstrated by any girl to her own satisfaction. Invaluable in gaining artistic effects are those small iron rings which, drop* ped into a flat dish or bowl, serve'as a support for the stem, so ( that eich flower will stand without resting against the sides of the receptacle. These iron or bronze rings are to be had in all flower shops - and almost wherever brass pots are sold. They are shaped in various forms, sometimes being turtles with punctured back, triangles, circles, crescents, etc. All are inexpensive. It is a small turtle, and the tiniest copper bowl, upon which one girl relies for the finishing touch on the table in her own sitting room. The bowl is three inches high and about the same distance across the opening. It tapers slightly to the base, and is lined with transparent enamel. In this rests always a turtle abopt two Inches long. Into his back is thrust the floral burden, beginning in the spring with jonquils. Three jonquils with a few sprays of their own foliage make a most charming effect. Later two irises are enough at a time, for they are of large size, and more would be confusing to the eye. Wild flowers of various kinds are used when they can be had, and if the stems are too small it is a simple matter tb pack the hole with a little foliage crushed in. It is not unsightly and makes the stem firm. A small bunch of mignonette, thrust into one hole of the turtle, the turtle then being in a shallow green dish, suggests a little green fountain with a pool beneath. Almost without exception garden flowers look better in china and metal receptacles .than in cut glas. Nothing lovelier can be imagined than white and blue larkspur in a low cooper bowl or a brass jar; in jglass it does not beglxuto be as effective. The same is true of other out of door blooms. Brass and copper, especially the latter, when polished, add a, most delicate note to the color scheme. It is a mistake to mix flowers when arranging them. Generally speaking, they are Infinitely lovelier if each kind is kept by itself. There are, however, some which are more effectlye in combination, as, for example, mignonette. The latter 18 nice with any flowers not having foliage, as It supplies the required green.

Female Labor Preferred.

In the German textile industry the tendency is to use female in place of male labor. .

TO SHARPEN THE PENCILS

Capital Little Contrivance That Will at All Times Save Much Time and Worry. Anyone who Is In the habit of using pencils frequently, knows bow difficult it is to obtain a nice, fine point to the lead with a pen knife, to say nothing of the dirty gtate It generally leaves one’s fingers in. The lead also often

breaks in the process, considerably shortening the length of the life of the We give, therefore, a sketch of a capital little contrivance on which the lead of a pencil may be sharpened to the finest possible point with the least possible risk of breaking it and without soOimt oners hands. It can

The HOME DEPARTMENT

CASE FOR THE HAIR BRUSHES

Any Material That is Strong May Be Made Use Of for This Valuable Appurtenance. z This Is a useful case for men’s hair brushes, and it may be carried out in any fairly strong material. It must In a measure be specially made for the particular brushes it Is destined to contain, as brushes of this kind vary In shape and size, and the case should fit them closely. Two oval pieces of cardboard should be cut out just a trifle larger in size than the back of the brush, and smoothly covered with the material that has been selected. The brushes can then be placed together and in this way the width of the case determined. This portion of the case should be lined, and have an interlining pf thin cardboard to stiffen it The flap, which lifts up for the Insertion of the brushes, is bound at the edge with narrow ribbon, and fastens with a button and buttonhole. The edges of the case

are finished off with a silk cord, and initials or some pretty little floral design may be worked on either side. For ordinary use upon the dressing table or for traveling purposes, a case of this kind is always handy and helps to keep the brushes clean and free from dust.

Pomades and Hair Oils.

Some people have such dry hair that they are obliged to use pomades to prevent ft from breaking off. The use of liquid vaseline Is highly recommended. • Inferior pomatums cause or hasten the loss of hair. Therefore, unless you can -procure the very best from a wellknown druggist, prepare them yourself. The grease and the oils which are used, to be preserved from growing rancid, must go through a suitable process. Put in a brain-marie 200 grams of fat or marrow, with six grams of powdered benzoin and six grams of pulverized balm of tolu. Stir constantly with a wooden spatula. After two hours of hard boiling, strain through a bit of linen. Benzoic acid possesses the quality of preventing the fat to which it has been added from becoming rancid.

Bordered Chiffons.

Bordered chiffons can be used for many things, but are especially good for attractive little blodses of simple line. A surplice arrangement with a short kimono sleeve is a design often chosen for such material. Persian or flowered chiffons are made up without veiling and are trimmed with flat round collars of baby Irish or fine filet neL

bo made in a few moments, with very little trouble, and will be found especially useful to art students and others. It consists of a thin piece of wood throe or four inches tn length, cut square at one end and the other end is shaped to form a kind of handle. In this handle a circular hole Is cut by which the sharpener may be hung up on a nail If desired. On the square part a piece of fine sand paper is glued, and by rubbing the' lead of the pencil on this paper, the most perfect point may be obtained. The sharpener from which our sketch was made was of bass,wood of a quarter of an inch In thickness and four or five Inches In length and two Inches In width. The sand paper will last a very long time, and when It has become a little worn. It win serve its purpose even better than when quite new, and it can, of course, bo easily replaced when it becomes too worn.

Lace-Trimmed Hats.

One of the notes on millinery is the flat lace trimming on the largest brimmed hats of tagal or chip. If you are fortunate enough to have laid by a handsome piece of broad lace —lt only requires about half a yardlay It flat over the round crown of your hat and fasten It down to the brim on one side with a broad buckle and on the other side by a large rosette of mixed flowers or tiny blossoms set about with a row of leaves. Large hats have returned to their own again; the small round ones are not sufficiently becoming to the majority of fSoea £

MEN THAT WASTE YOUR TIME

ETZ. V" i - - . Writer Sets Down Certain Class, and With Much Truth, as Being Merely Loafers. To a heap of people, maybe the big majority, life is just loafing along, Frites Tip in the New York Press. There’s the fellow who sits smoking on a porch or stoop and throws a dozen or so matches upon the lawn or into the yard. It would be just as easy, and a million times as decent, for him to put them in an ash receiver—too much trouble to get one—or lay them in a little pile beside him to be disposed of afterward. But it takes somebody a quarter of an hour to go and gather up the half burned sticks that he has scattered everywhere. He prides himself, perhaps, upon not being finicky; would be mad as a hornet to be told he was just a loafer. There’s the fellow who sticks a fine steel blade Into add fruit, spoiling the fruit and the knife, not even bothering to wipe the blade. It takes a second to do the damage; ft would take forever to undo it There’s the fellow who goes and finds a screwdriver in its proper place to tighten up a window hasp, say, and, after tightening it so that it will not work at all, puts the screwdriver down anywhere, so that the one who must untighten the hasp has to hunt for hours all over the house for the screwdriver.' The fellow has no doubt he was being useful; he was being a ding-goned nuisance; wasting other people’s valuable time. There’s the fellow who knows that it’s about time tor an axle to need oil or grease, but tomorrow will do, when it’s handy; so the hot box that comes along before then puts the thing out of commission and costs dollars to get in shape again. He thinks he was in .hard luck that ft wouldn’t run long enough for him to find the lubricant without any trouble; he was just a good-for-nothing. There’s the fellow who burns a cigar when he needs it, and goes off leaving it burning just the same when he doesn’t need it. He’s very likely to plume himself on *not being pennywise; he has the responsibility and sense of a Digger Injun. There are 10,000 ways in which that sort loafs along through life, cock-sure they are useful human beings, but mostly leaving wreck and ruin in their wake. From the start they have no chance for success; at the finish they are ghastly failures. And every mother’s son of them takes his oath, at any stage of the game, that he is' being passed by somebody all the time merely because the other is smiled upon by fortune and pampered by favoritism.

The Largest Sassafras Tree.

Atlanta leads the south in many respects, the nation in several ways, but until recently the fact that Atlanta leads the world in at least one thing has been unknown. ,A sassafras tree is the principal in Atlanta’s new bld for fame. The largest sassafras tree in the world, says the department of agriculture. To most people the name sassafras is associated in their minds with thq picture of a low, stunted bush luxuriantly follaged from the roots of which their grandmothers made tea to “cure spring fever” and other ills of that nature. A sassafras tree has been a thing unknown. liuthe year of the First Methodist Church of Atlanta the sassafras tree stands, passed by thousands each day, none of whom has realized that in that yard was growing the biggest tree of its kind in ths world. Few of the members of the church were cognizant of its existence, though it has shaded little children in their play for many years and will probably perform the same loving task for years to come. The tree, according to the experts of the agricultural department, is more than 100 yeajs old. It is seven 'and a half feet in circumference, fifty feet high and has a spread of more than forty feet, overshadowing all the trees tn its neighborhood.—Atlanta Constitution.

The “Chestnut” Story.

The origin of the word “chestnut** as applied to an oft-told joke may, according to Joseph Jefferson, the actor, be traced to the stage. In a melodrama entitled “The Broken Sword,” written by William Dillon, two of the principal characters were Count Xavier and his servant Pablo. In a dialogue between them is to be found the origin of the word “chestnut” as applied to a story that has lost its first bloom of novelty. Here it is: , "Once,” said the count, *T entered the forests of Calloway, when suddenly, from the boughs of a cork tree—” .“Chestnut, count,” interrupted Pablo. “Cork tree,” said the count. “A chestnut,” reiterated Pablo. "I should know as well as you, for I have heard you tell the story twenty-seven times.” ’ The count was a veritable Munchausen, for the frequent relation of his exploits, and consequently liable to get a little mixed in his details, so It la that from a cork tree we get the chestnut • •

The Innocent Agriculturist.

Walters—Did' you make a good bargain when you bought that abandoned farm? Williams—No, I waa done by,aa abandoned farmer.—Somerville Journal.

Has to Be.

"Is Buttit a man of decision?” “Bure. He's a baseball umpire.’*

WENT IN SOME HASTE

IN HIB PAJAMAS DOcloß RESPONDED TO CALL. -Joke” That the Physician Must Have Greatly Enjoyed—And All Wife Wanted Was for Him to Take Her Home. Hbw a prominent Indianapolis physician—recently a visitor in Chicagoanswered a hurry call from a “patient” clad only in a heavy overcoat thrown over his pajamas and his house slippers, and instead of finding th© supposed patient was confronted by n hilarious party of his own friends, was told here at the Auditorium hotel by the physician himself. * ? “Yes,” the Indianapolis doctor began, “I believe I hold the record for being the brunt of the practical joker’s tricks. Listen to this tale and see if you don’t agree with me: “To begin with, my wife Is a bridge whist enthusiast, while I myself would rather go to jail than to a card party. On the night in question we had both been invited to a friend’s home to play bridge. She—my Wise —went and I staid at home. Clad in my pajamas, With a sweet old meerschaum in my mouth and my feet poked close to a blazing log In my bedroom fireplace, f settled down to read a new detective story which I had bought a day or two before. . ■> “Alohg about ten o’clock I grew sleepy. I closed my eyes almost unconsciously Snd my chin fell on my breast How long I would have dozed that way before the fire I don’t know, had I not been awakened by a frantic ringing. of the telephone beH in my office room. “I blinked once or twice and hurried to answer the call. “/Hello!* came the voice through the receiver, ‘ls this Dr. P—?’ “‘Yes,’said I. ' ‘“O, doctor, won’S you hurry up to my house? This Is Mrs. Thomas. MF baby is terribly sick and I don’t know what is the matter, or what to do. Please hurry, doctor.’ "It was.rather cold but of doors, but I was in a hurry. Mrs. Thomas was a friend of mine and of my wife. It was at her home that the bridge whist party was being held, but I did not remember that in my haste; I threw my overcoat over my pajamas and went to the shed when I kept my runabout. There was a heater in ft and as I had not more than half a mile to ride I thought I would be able to withstand the cold. So I started, my coat collar turned up, no hat and the automobile running on high speed. “As I came near the house I noticed many lights and I thought that truly the baby’s illness must be serious. When I pulled up at the block at the curbing I jumped out and ran into the house, never pausing in my hurry to ring the bell It was perhaps a case of life and death, I thought, and in such cases we physicians never pause for formality. “ ‘Just step in here a moment, doctor,’ spoke Mrs. Thomas. who met me in the hall. “I thought ft rather strange that I was not taken right to the patient, but I went into the room she indicated and sat down. I was indeed a unique sight for the eye. My hair was sticking up all over my head and at my throat my pink pajamas showed an inch or two and below my overcoat they showed a foot. I had on brown leather house slippers, and between them and my pajama bottoms showed a couple of inches of bare skin. I was a sorry looking sight, I admit “Suddenly four electric light, in a chandelier In the-middle of the room shone brilliantly, and I heard what sounded like laughter coming from a hundred maniacal persons. In reality, there were only eight of them, but they were maniacal, all right The first person I saw was my wife, and she was laughing so that tears coursed down her cheeks. The others la the party were literally doubled up. My wife, when she her laughic’. said.. “•John, 1 wanted to get you over here in the machine so that you could take me home. But I didn’t think you would come without your clothes.’ Chicago News. ' .

Puzzles for Patients.

Although the patient had waited half an hour for her interview with the doctor the time had not dragged. "I worked on one of these puzzles.” she eald. "By the way, doctor, you are not a children’s specialist; then, why do you keep so many puzzles In you reception room?" > "You answered your own question before you asked It,” the doctor said. "I keep them to amuse the grown-ups. „ Most people who feel bad enough to visit a doctor can entertain themselves better with a puzzle than/ifc book or magazine. Every puzzle that has achieved popularity In the last 25 years has a place in that cabinet. Dentists also rely on puzzles to keep waiting jpatients In good humor, for even toothache will share attention with a good puzzle.”

No Second Violins for Her.

A social leader at Narraganeett was arranging for a musicale, and called a local "professor” Into consultation. • I think,” he said, “we'd better have two first violins, two seconds—” have only first violins, if you pleaae”