Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1901 — Subscribe for THE DEMOCRAT [ARTICLE]

Subscribe for THE DEMOCRAT

One of the Bad Kind. “Do you believe in good dreams and bad dreams?” asked the superstitious man. • “Well, I don’t know so much about good dreams, but I have had nightmares,” answered the prosaic individual.—Chicago Post. For Hot Cakea. A rich sirup that can be made at home is the best substitute obtainable for pure maple sirup and is excellent to serve with waffles or griddlecakes for Sunday night tea. A pint and a half of boiling water is added to five pounds of C sugar. The sugar and water should be put in a porcelain or graniteware saucepan and stirred until the sugar is well melted before it is put over a hotter part of the range and boiled for ten minutes. If to this proportion is added a pint bottle of pure maple sirup, or, better still, of maple sugar melted in a little hot water, the flavor is enhanced and the whiteness of the sirup only slightly lessened. This sirup should be kept in glass jars or an earthen jug. Ah, Thera, Papal “It’s time, Charles, that we thought of getting Hilda married; she is eighteen.” “Oh, let her wait till the right sort of man comes along.” “What nonsense! I never waited for the right sort of man.” A Promise Kept. “Blanche’s papa paid a round million for her count,” said Miss “She always said she wouldn’t marry a cheap man,” said Miss Kittish.—Detroit Free Press. That Settled It. Brinkerhoff—l thought you intended to become a piano virtuoso. Beecroft—l did, but my barber says that I will be prematurely bald. —Brooklyn Eagle.