Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1913 — Page 3

COMBINATIONS FOR THE FLOWER GARDEN

Canna and Salvia Form a Brilliant Bit of Color.

(By EBEN E. REXFORD.)

Every season 1 get letters from •women who love flowers, and take great pride in their garden, asking if I can’t tell them about “something new” in the way of beds, or of some new and desirable plants. They want something “a little different” from what their neighbors have. Now there are always new plants, "novelties,” the seedsmen call them — and almost invariably these plants are Introduced with a great flourish of are used in describing them are quite sure to be in the superlative degree, and it 1b not to be wondered at that any flower-loving person’s curiosity is excited "by what the dealers have to say about them, nor is it at all strange that many persons ate tempted to investing in the m. Of course one cannot say anything as tb the merits or demerits of these plants until they have been tested. Some of them prove to be valuable; but, as a general thing, they are of so little merit that we never hear anything about them after the second season. Therefore, I have to say to those who ask advice about putting their money into “novelties,” don’t do it, unless you have so much that you would not mind the loss of what you invest. Here is a suggestion for a bed that ought to “work up” well: Fill the center with “Crimson Feather” Celosia. Edge it with Uadome Sallero Geranium. The green and white foliage of the latter ought to bring out the brilliant coloring of the Celosia with telling effect. Such a bed as this is easily made, and is a little out of the common.

Here is another suggestion that will, if followed out, give you a wonderfully brilliant bed. In ordet to secure the best effects from it, it phould be given a prominent location. Center of bed, scarlet salvia. Surround this with calliopsis, rich golden yellow and brown. Border the bed with scaflet and yellow coleus, setting the colors alternately, or using a row of each. A bed of this kind will fairly blaze with color at midsummer. The annual phlox adapts itself to gome lovely combinations. Use the pale pink, the delicate yellow and the pure white varieties together, and have a veritable poem of harmonious colors. These can be arranged in rows, in circles, or planted in masses, to suit individual taste. It will be readily understood, I think, that I am fonder of harmonious color effects than I am of a wide variety of color. A package of mixed sweet pea seed will give you red, starlet, purple, carmine, pink, blue, \yellow, lavender and white flowers. But if you prefer, instead, exquisite chordß of color, you will have to get packages of seed in which each color is by itself, and select from these the colors which combine most satisfactorily. An extremely brilliant bed can be made with the petunia. But don’t use seed of mixed colors if you want the best results. Fill the center with the .crimson or violet sorts, and edge the bed with white varieties. In this way you heighten the effect of each color by contrast. If the two colors are scattered over the bed* in haphazard fashion, the effect will be too bizarre to be pleasing. The foliage Bhould not be cut off when green, but allowed to wither and then be removed. Transplanting otr any division of the bulbs is best performed in July or August. If this aperation is delayed until the fall more or less injury or check to the new growths must take place. Narcissi are hardy. They live in al-

most any soil or climate, and may be left alone for several years after once being planted. A rather deep and somewhat stiff soil is preferred—that in which the bulbs succeed best; and if the position is one particularly shaded from lots of sunshine in the spring the flowers of some of the species retain their beauty for a much longer period than they would if exposed to all the light and sunshine possible. The usual mode of propagation is by off-sets, which should be collected from the parent bulbs and planted out separately for a year in order that they may grow sufficiently large for flowering. The majority of the species increase somewhat freely by this method and permanent clumps may be lifted, and their offsets removed, should there be a danger of injury caused by the flowering bulbs being overcrowded, ensuing ,from their multiplying. The process of raising plants from seeds is a slow one, but is practiced for raising new varieties. Seeds should be sown soon after )>eing collected, in pans of sandy and rather loamy soil. Young bulbs should be planted in a prepared border, and do not require more than one inch of space. (Copyright, 1913.)

MUSCOVY DUCK IS MOST PROLIFIC

Size Is One of Strongholds ot Breed, But not Satisfactory to Market Young

We have in the Muscovy one of the most prolific of all the varieties of ducks, especially for the farmer. Young ducks marketed before Christmas time brought $1.50 each and yeanlings $2 each. \ The size is one of the strongh holds of this breed, but they are not satisfactory if you wish to market them at tea or twelve weeks, as they will not mature so rapidly as the Pekin. However, they can be raised on about half the feed which the other clucks require and they are very hardy and splendid foragers. We have raised large broods in the open fields, never feeding them, and find they are very much like the ton key in this respect. Those wishing an ornamental as well as the most profitable of all the ducks will find the Muscovy satisfactory. They make scarcely any noise unless molested, and are less of a puddiet than any of the other varieties, and they can be kept where any other variety would make anything filthy. They make a fine cross with any variety of duck and make a grand table fowl when crossed with the Pekin. We are breeding all varieties of ducks and find either the pure bred or the crossed birds profit-producers. The progeny of the cross-bred birds will not breed and are like the Canadian geese in this respect. The Muscovy is found wild in South America and Brazil and they are extensively domesticated in Europe, where they are bred in great numbers. They live to a good old age, as we have one female in a flock eight years old and has won many first premiums. If they are not allowed to hatch their eggs they will lay more or less from April to- November.' They molt but once during the year, and it requires five weeks to hatch the eggs.

Bed of Chinese Peonies.

(By R. O. DAWSON.)

KEEPING FOOD ALWAYS HOT

Modem Improvement Is the Plate Wirmtffto Be installed'in?the Butler’s Pantry. of excluding kitchen qsOiindf ana odors from the living moms has led -to the installation in most houses of a serf ing room or butler’s pantry. This in turn, has created another difficulty .that of keeping a meal hot and without loss of flavor in the interval of preparation and serving. This latter difficulty has, however, been obviated in a number of homes by the use of a hot closet or plate warmer -in the butler’s pantry. There are, various ways of furnishing ‘heat.for this purpose—steam, gas or electricity. Electricity furnishes perhaps the simplest means of attaining this end, as it requires no especial attention beyond the turning on or off of the key of the switch, and is free from odors and external heat. A hot closet can be made useful in a number of ways—to keep savory a delayed luncheon or a bite to be taken before retiring ,and in taking care of babies' or invalids’ food without danger of- its deteriorating.

LOBSTER IN CUPS OF RICE

Really a Form of Curry, Though It Need Not be Made as Hot as That Particular Dish. , \ ' ■»!■.• v • ’ i. Fill cups with warm boiled rice, pressing down close and firm. When cold, scoop out the middle of each cup, leaving a wall substantial enough to preserve its shape. Have ready a kettle of boiling drop the cups in carefully and fry until brown. For the filling, put a tablespoonful of butter in a saucepan and when hot add a tablespoonful of minced onion. Cook until a light yellow, then add one ta(blespoonful of flour. Ab soon as frothy, pour in one cup of hot milk or water, a teaspoonful of curry powder and salt and pepper to season. If you use water instead of milk, a teaspoonful of lemon juice is an improvement. Cook until the mixture thickens, add one cupful of diced lobster, then fill into the cups and serve.

Salad Carcassone.

Mix together equal parts of white wine, vinegar and salad oil, season with a small quantity of moist sugar and a little salt and turn into a salad bowl. Throw into this some sprigs of watercres|jj and on these strew lightly the leaves of young nasturtiums, if they can bs procured, with sufficient cress to fill the bowl. Toss this well and then turn the whole out ont to a large dish. Arrange a wreath of nasturtium leaves around the edge of the dish, allowing them to overlap each other a trifle, then make an inner circle of the flowers and within that a circle of sliced hard boiled eggs. Serve before any of the freshness of the salad has gone. This is a salad especially suitable for afternoon parties of young people or like festive' occasions.

Planked Steak.

Wipe, remove superfluous fat amd parboil seven minutes a porterhouse steak or cross-cut of rump steak; cut one and three-fourths inches thick. Butter a plank and arrange a border of duchess potatoes close to the edge, using a pastry bag and tube. Remove steak to plank, put in a hot oven and bake until steak is cooked and potatoes are brojvned. Spread steak with butter, sprinkle with salt, pepper and finely chopped parsley. Garnish top of steak with sauted mushroom caps and put around the steak at equal distances halves of small tomatqes sauted in butter and on top of each tomato a circular slice of cucumber, or you can serve small boiled onions, the tiny ones, seasoned with butter, pepper and salt, or peas or dices of carrots.

To Save Juice of Rhubarb Pies.

One of the minor advantages women in the suburbs enjoy at this season is the opportunity to go out in their gardens and cut fresh rhubarb. But how provoking it is to a housekeeper when baking rhubarb pies, or any fruit pies, to have the juice overflow, and what a burnt, sticky mess it makes on the bottom of the oven! We should like to have all that juice in the pie, and it may be kept in by taking a short piece of> uncooked macaroni and inserting it in the pie, like a little chimney stack. Some people make paper funnels to answer the same purpose, but I think the macaroni is better. Of course, it should be removed after the pie is baked, as its presence is purely useful, not ornamental.

Chocolate Bread Pudding.

Take two cups stale bread crumbs. Stir into crumbs one-half cupful sugar add one tablespoonful of cocoa or a little more if desired. Add two cupfuls sweet milk, then beaten *y<rfk of one egg and a small piece of butter. Bake in fairly hot oven for threequarters ot an hour. Sauce —Taxe one-fourth cupful butter and one-half cupful sugar and cream by hand, then add beaten white of egg.

Tutti-Frutti Sandwiches.

Chop rather fine the following ingredients for the filling: Dates, candied cherries and canned plums, English walnuts and blanched almonds. Moisten with pineapple Juice asd spread. Cut bread in small, fanciful shapes.

Use for Tea Leaves.

When cleaning a grate always sprinkle the ashes with damp tea leaves before sweeping thenf'out. This Is very good to prevent the dust from flying about

CONVICTED POLICE INSPECTORS OF NEW YORK

The picture showp the four convicted police inspectors of New York boarding the boat for Blackwell’s island* to which place they were sentenced to serve one year an d pay a fine of SSOO each on a charge of consprlacy. From left to right—lnspector Sweeney (extreme left in background), the heavy-set man next to him is Inspector Murtha, next to him is Inspector Mussey, and the man trying to hide behind his hat is \ Inspector Thompson. The man on the extreme right is Sheriff Harburger. >■'

WOMAN, 101, TRAVELS

Aunt Mary Is Not a Real Hobo, for She Works ... i i., .1 i~j i Mrs. Everett of Maine Hat Wanderlust as Certainly ae Any Weary Willie—Aids. Farmers in Their Work. Fort Fairfield, Me.—Recently Mrs. Mary Everett celebrated her one hundred and first birthday. It is rather difficult to say where "Aunt Mary” will be in'a few days, for she has the wanderlust and may be ’way up in Madawaska or down at Mattawamkeag. | Mrs. Everett is one of the oddest characters in New England. She was born in St. John, N. 8., in 1812, according to the parish register. Her people were well-to-do and she went to school until she was about eighteen. Then, she says, there were religious differences in her family and she left home and never went back. Eventually she came to Aroostook county and was married to George Everett, a farmer. He died many years ago. Their one daughter is still living. For fifty years Mary Everett has earned her own living, and she does today. Sprightly and vigorous as the average woman of sixty, she travels continually, staying but two or three days in a place. Everybody knows her, and almost anybody in the country towns of the county is glad to give

Mrs. Mary Everett.

- her shelter. "She is as good as a show," they say. She has a vast fund of funny stories and anecdotes, and no end of quips and epigrams, while she can relate many incidents of the early days of the county with historical accuracy, and knows the genealogy and the scandals of scores of families back to the second and third generation. In the summer she earns money by picking up and sorting and selling apples, the average Aroostock farmer being too busy with his vast potato plantation to bother with them. In the winter she gathers scraps of silk and stows them in a capafclous bag and makes (hem Jnto quilts, which she sells. She is skilled with the needle, which she threads without glasses. But it matters not how cordial her welcome and how comfortable her quarters, she remains in one place only a day or two and then takes to the road with the persistency of the professional hobo. She trudges along the road until d farmer’s team comes along and gives her a lift. Of late years it Is raid she declines to ride anything but an automobile. She rides

as far aB the vehicle goes, no matter whero. Aunt Mary has been offered a good home several times, but she says, “Not yet.” She says she may settle down "blmeby” when she gets old and feeble.”

LOST BIBLE VERSES FOUND

Manuscripts Belonging to New Testament Discovered in Egypt Have Additions to Bt. Mark. * London, England.—Some long missing verses of the new testament are included in the manuscripts of the gospels discovered in Egypt six years ago and purchased by Charles L. Freer of Detroit, Mich., according to a study made of the Freer manuscripts by the Timeß. A facsimile of the manuscripts has been presented to the British museum by the University of Michigan, to which Mr. Freer assigned the task of publication, and, according to the Times study, there have been found in the gospel of St Mark several verses which occur in no other known manuscript of the new testament although they were known to St Jerome, who quotes part of them. 11l I In the Freer manuscript, after the passage in which it is said that Jesus upbraided his disciples for their unbelief 9 the text continues as follows: “And they excused themselves, saying that this age of lawlessness and unbelief is under Satan, who, through the agency of unclean spirits, suffers not the true power of God to be apprehended. “For the cause, said they unto Christ, Reveal now at once thy righteousness. “And Christ said unto them, the limit- of the years of the powers of Satan is (not) fulfilled, but it draweth near (the text here as elsewhere is corrupt). “For the sake of those that have sinned was 1 given up unto death, that they may return unto the truth and sin no more, but may inherit the spiritual and incorruptible glory of righteousness in heaven." A large number of variations in other portions of the new testament are also pointed out by the Times in the Freer manuscripts.

WOMAN A HOSPITAL STARTLE

Beeks to Bell Her Body to Institution and Use the Money for Fine Clothes.. Cincinnati, O.—A woman, plainly but rather well dressed, sat patiently an hour in the receiving ward of the Cincinnati hospital and when her turn finally came she startled the receiving clerk. Mr. Walihu, by saying that she wished to sell her body to buy fine clothes. -The woman said: "My name is Eleanore Muchmore and I’ve simply come here to sell my body.” “You don’t want us to kill you?" the astonished clerk gasped. “Oh, no,” replied Miss Muchmore, “but I want new clothes badly, and I thought I might be able to sell my body to some doctor In this Instlutitlon, to be delivered after my natural death.” Miss Muchmore seemed greatly disappointed when it was explained to hfer that her proposition could not be entertained

Records Hie Wife's Replies.

Paterson. N. J. —To obtain a record of his wife’s answers to his questions, John Gordon rigged up a phonograph in his home with a blank record, and when the woman returned at a late hour, Gordon fired a lot of questions at her. Then he told her about tho phonograph. Mrs. Gordon smashed the machine and screen that hid it, but Gordon saved the record.

DOG IS JUDGE IN LAWSUIT

Bnarls at One Claimant and/Bound* Into Other's Lap in New York Court. r New York. —Shep, a collie, was the most important witness in the Mofrlsania court before Magistrate Marsh : in a suit between Mrs. Anna Morrissey and Mrs. Freda Maurer. Shep identified himself as the property of Mrs. Morrissey to the iuitlsfaetlon of the magistrate, who ordered him turned over to her. Mrs. Maurer, who has had possessslon of Shep for seven months, was brought into court on a summons Issued on the request of Mrs. Morrissey. The animal had been stolen, the complainant alleged. Mrs. Maurer said she got the dog from some boys and had named him Prince. The magistrate directed that r the two women sit at opposite ends of a table in the court room and that each call the dog by the name she had given him. "Here, Prince!" shouted Mrs. Man-, rer. 4 "Come on, Shep!" called out Mi* Morrissey. • - The dog appeared confused for a moment Then he snarled at Mrs. Maurer and leaped across, the table into Mrs. Morrissey’s lap. Thereupon Magistrate Marsh ordered the collie turned over to Mrs. Morrissey. >-

CUPID CROSSES CRACK RIDER

Miss Griffon of Washington Refuses to Become Bride of Corporal Heffelflnger. j Washington, D. C.—Corporal J. P. Heffelflnger, crack rider of the Fifteenth United States cavalry, did not dream that while he was winning honors and blue ribbons at the recent military horse show he was riding out of the affections of his fiancee, Miss Emma V. Griffen of this city. Post society at Fort Myer had been looking forward to the wedding as a culmination of a pretty romance, begun more than two years ago in San Francisco. The fact that the army’s crack horseman had come a cropper In his riding for the matrimonial hurdle became known when the license that had been issued for the wedding was returned to the city hall with the foP lowing inscription In Miss Griffen’* handwriting: “Did not nse this, as f have a reason.” Corporal Heffelflnger could not be found at the army post and relatives of the young woman denied all callers. Miss Griffen was said to have left Hie city.

SHAVED HIS BRIDE’S HEAD

To Keep Other Men Away a California Greek Disfigured His Pretty Wife. * l Los Angeles.—The African tribe, whose men cut off their wives’ nosea' to prevent marital infelicity, has nothing on Angel Boars, a wealthy Greek of Venice, Cal:, according to the story, of his 17-year-old bride. Matilda. She averred that Angel shaved her head’ to prevent her beauty drawing nods and smiles from other men. Mrs. Bours, her head as bare and glistening as if it had never known '; hirsute covering, then produced the shorn tresses from her handbag. A warrant was issued for AngeL *

Millionaire and Never Knew It

Iron River. Mich. —Michael Ryan, who died 20, years ago here, where he was known as "Mickey,” was several times over a millionaire, but nev. er knew it "Mickey” onwed Id® acres of wild land and died in the belief that he was poor. The fcepublio Iron and Steel company has options on the tract and the explorations have revealed a body of ore equal to or larger than the famous. Mastoddn tract \