Ligonier Banner., Volume 42, Number 43, Ligonier, Noble County, 16 January 1908 — Page 3

s { | By ANNIE HAMILTON DONNELL I ' : (Copyright.) - - . That—baby again! Richard Taft's thoughts hesitated between the first two words, but he was not -guilty of profanity. He only groaned. He could hear the baby’s crows and Miss. Audrey’s little high, falsetto croonings. It was just as it had been yesterday, day before—day before that. Heavens and earth, when hadn’t the baby crowed and Audrey crooned! . Richard’s hotel was a mile away from this pleasant summer place of the Baby, and on the way down this afternoon there had been plenty of time for him to face the desperateness > of his situation. The items stood out in indigo lettering before him. Itemone: no hope of Baby’s mother returning. Item two: no hope of devoted young aunt’s extraction from Baby, even for -a minute’s blessed space. Item three: the transatlantic steamer, City of Baltimore, would ‘leave her dock to-morrow morning, six o’clock. Pitying angels, could it .be worse? Item four Richard hid in his "heart, but it outweighed all the rest. If he did not get the chance to take the little white hands of that slender slip of a girl, crooning love songs to a baby down there, into his hands and hold .them prisoners ‘there while he said what he had come to say six days ago . —well, how do you think he was to go seas over without that chance? And that only a wisp of a baby should " stand in the way! It was maddening. He strode on till he came into the fmmediate radius of crows and croons. He had murder in his heart. “Oh, Richard, is that you? You've come just in time to trot the /Baby on your knee. She wants to ‘go to Boston, go to Lynn, then to Salem‘and =~ Y 2 N\ ] i / === \B ! v - ﬂ!". r ez ..\ )“ = _ﬂ’ - (U = R — 3 [} = / R "i P §ro 3 | R 4@\ = K N /) 1E 2N | P~ 1 ¢ \ : - \/ / L ——— \‘ 5 P S ' \ \ \ / NN /. A~ . “Where's the Baby?” 1 home again,” doesn’t she, Heart o’ Sunshine? She’s tired of Aunt Audrey; yes, she is. There, won't she hold out her little hannies to the nice Big Man?”’ But the nice Big Man drew away, with his hands behind him. This thing had happened, too, on yesterday, day before—day before that. This was the regular program. If it might pave the way to his opportunity—but it wouldn’t. She would only sit there opposite "and trot her Kknees, too, in sympathy, and make sweet nonsense faces at the undeserving Baby! Always the Baby! The little aunt’s face took on injured lines. She caught up the limp little heap of dimity and trotted it herself with exaggerated fervor. “There, there, here we go trotting to Boston, trotting to Lynn—trotting to Salem and home again! We'll go, won’t we, Eyes o> Blue? We know the way—don’t need any horrid, cross Big Man to take us; no, we don’t! Let horrid Big Mans go—right—away.” Ah, but ® was torture to see her crush the little face against her face! It was awful to stand by and see the waste of her precious kisses! Was there no help for a man?—gods of pity, take that gurgling child and-.trot it to Boston and give a man a show! “Audrey,” he began tentatively, “you know the—" ; - ; “Miss Audrey.” . “Miss Audrey, you know the chocolates I promised you? If you’ll put that blast—er—blest baby down I'll produce them. I think I never saw nicer ~ chocolates. So fresh—so choice—so—er—" - “Oh, give them to me quick! I'm going to give Floss o’ Gold one—she wants a chocolate right on her little " red tongue, doesn’t she?” “Pitying gods!” muttered Richard Taft. He strode away from them and made his plans. They were not definite, but they were deep-hued, desper_ate. He meant to eliminate the Baby. Coming back across the lawn, his eyes - were fixed on the little purple face crushed against Audrey’s breast. A look of alarm dawned in them. He ~ tried to introduce into it the tenderness that he knew would count. “Great heavens, look at the child’s . face, Audrey!” he exclaimed. “What . makes it so red? Wait; I know. It ~wants water, Babies require frequent - —er—watering—in hot weather.” He stood before her; ‘peering down at the ‘baby. “Have you given it water lately?” he demanded sternly. “The doctors say the mortality of babies in “Quick! get her a drink! Are you going to stand there and see a blésgmysm&u;mm ity o g | “Well, what is 1t? ¢ e faintly back 'Zgéf&gw

Picking up the baby, he clutched the dimity bundle firmly at arm’s length, casting about for the right hiding place. lawn yonder, there in the middle of ane of the paths, the gardener had left Lia wheelbarrow loaded with straw for mulching. The Big Man darted toward it and thrust the Baby into the fragrant, yielding mass—in, in, out of sight. At the last moment he bethought him of Audrey’s chocolates, and crowded the moist little fists and the little red cavern of the Baby’'s mouth full of the hiscious-tasting morsel. G-rrr, they were good! Heart o' Sunshine gurgled appreciatively. Then he drew the thin cover of straw across his victim and was off, sauntering negligently up the path. He met Audrey half way.. She had a cup of water in her hand.

“Wha't have you done with—the Baby ?” she puffed. “Where’s the Baby, Richard@ Taft?” - :

“Er—the what? Oh, the Baby? He's all right, back there,” waving over his shoulder indefinitely. “Let me take the cup, Miss Audrey.” He was guiltily anxious to conciliate.

“The Baby is a girl,” she retorted stifly, “and she is not all right if you have left her alone! The poor little deserted Lamb o’ Innocence—yes, here’s Auntie! Auntie’s coming sweet!” And she was gliding swiftly away from him. He could only follow, but sudden fear for the success of his rusQ had engfifed his soul. He hurriedly overtook her and laid his hand entreatingly on her sleeve? “Audrey, wait—for the Lord’s sake give me just a minute! There is something I must say, dear——" : She was not listening. Her eyes were searching for the gleam of a little white slip against the green of the shrubbery. When they failed to find it she turned upon him denouncingly. : 2 : “I don’t see her—tell me this minute where you left that innoeent child, Dick!” ; 3 :

“ ‘Dick’-—oh, Audrey, that is music—wait a minute, wait!” he besought her. “I must have a chance—l tell you the little rascal is all right. He’s enjoying himself. You will not deny me my last chance, Audrey?’" Something in his face held her there before him, rosy and shy. Her hands fiuttered in his, but she did not draw them away. For the space of those few wondrous minutes, did she forget the Baby,: too? And—you will, Audrey? I am waiting for my answer, dear.” :She tried to meet the look in his eyes, and woman-like, because she could not, she sought refuge in mischief. e S “Oh, how can I tell?” she murmured, rebelliously, “perhaps I—well, I—might, if—if—well, if you—if you found the Baby—Dick!” She remembered the 'Baby then, at any ‘rate, and in sudden compunction darted away to find her. He went, too, his fate hanging on the issue of the hunt. But he was not afraid. Straw is ‘easy enough to breathe through, and there were a good many chocolates.

It was not far down the path to—gods and men, where was the wheelba{rrow! There wasn’t any. Nor north nor south, nor east nor west. The pretty grounds stretched away on all sides of him, wheelbarrowless! : -

Richard Taft uttered a sharp exclamation of horror. What did this mean? Had the “pitying gods” taken him at his word and wheeled the little innocent to Salem, or Boston, or Lynn? “Oh, what shall we do! Where can the darling be!” wailed poor Audrey, too distracted to remember to reproach him. i ; “There, the-ere, don’t . worry, darling,” he murmured tenderly. “He’s all right somewhere, depend upon it. I've onlx—er—misp]aced him.” ‘But in' the end he had to confess. “I—l've put my foot in it,” he said humbly; “both feet, dear. I dropped him into the straw, in the wheelbarrow. It was necessary—l had to do it. But it was a nice, soft bed and there were chocolates enough to last——" :

“The wheelbarrow!—Dick! Yau didn’t!” She laughed hysterically and he joined in a deep, mirthless boom.

“I'm afraid I did, dear.” “Then where is that wheelbarrow? Tell me quick!” . “I can’t he groaned; “the gardener must have wheeled it away.” Then suddenly, in the midst of their dread, a little sound came to them, and Audrey laughed exultantly. Through the trees the gardener was coming toward them with the crowing Baby in his arms! They could see the small fists and the yellow glimmer of the little head. Audrey would have sprung away to meet them, but Richard held her back.

“No dear,” he whispered. “It’s over. We're saved! See, he is all right—the little rascal! And I need you this last minute. You belong to me.” “But you did not find Baby!” ghe laughed softly. . There was time just to take her in his armg, and to thank ‘the pitying gods once for befriending him, then to hurry away to his train—but he came back again and lLissed the Baby, .

Mistaken Politeness.

Sam was the brightest of the little class of 50 or more foreigners. . He loved his teacher and tried with all his small might to adopt the Ameri. can expressions of politeness that were carefully presented each day by the charming, ladylike little teacher. - Sam, one day, made a false step and landed his stout little boots squarely upon the shiny enameled toes of his beloved instructor,

“Why, Sammy, you hurt Miss Brown; what do you say when you step on anyone's toes?” ~ “Tanks,” shouted Sam, in his loud est voice.—lllustrated Sunday Maga zine. - :

His Interpretation.

Mythology sometimes becomes strangely twisted in a youngster’s brain. Reggie heard at school the story of Damocles, and the sword which hung over his head suspended by a hair. At dinner he related it to the entire family, showing that it had made a*deep impression upon him. His father, wishing to know what lesson Reggie drew from the story, asked him why Damocles was in constant fear. Reggie pondered, thes brightened and responded: ¢ - “1 suppose he was afraid i{be halv would fall in his soup.” B

S PT, SNV, Gaid AET N l PR S AR Y ' g—féef‘&"kq@ i 2o TR AN N G"q’n": Y/ ~:';Q‘ e _ PROPER STORAGE FOR POTATOES. Suggestions Which May Prove Valuable in Preparing for Another Season. The storing of potatoes, particularly on the farm, in proper manner is a ‘problem of great "—'"_i—" importance, inas- : i much as it means to the owner : whether or not A : the potatoes so ‘ stored shall retain their color, 1,0 freshness and g | weight for from ¢ 1 two to six months. i 4 The proper logl i .Y cation for a pota- - to storage house s of large capacity - is a factor that is : often overlooked, s says Orange Judd : | Farmer. It .can Plan of Storehouse. lever be built on a perfect level with the same results as when constructed on the side of a slope, preferably on the south; thus it is possible. to gain all conveniences obtainable. I have just completed such a house, and believe that should the mercury go down as low as 40 degrées below zero for a week or more, it will have no ill-effect on the product stored, because every precaution has been taken to prevent loss from freezing. I have an ideal location for such House and.one that is few and far between: First, the land is thoroughly drained. Second, by taking advantage of the R : ) NN % \ A P BT 4 ;130T _‘mf : Pl e IRy S MR R eel L L} ";%%% 3 R A T BRI SBy o el ¢ LRt | TREEEEs o wran N :%-’-E-i e E PR 'L;r."' :r5,/ AR 'gﬁau e | i Sreate | 4 ms’wﬁx TSR R U & hj’;“%ﬁ“ A ";‘% TR ey e “‘*f:}“_v‘ & e *.“'f‘} 0 q,,.-t ;;- g R FRR oy "Sactional View of Potato Stdrehouse. nataral slope it has been possible to draw at a level with the inside of root house and loading pkce outside. The excavation was made 34 feet long, 24 wide and ten deép. Inside of this dugout was placed at:sides and ends; and one foot ljrom earth, pieces of round tanbark, well peeled and seasoned, not less than 12 inches at small end projecting on each other four feet, as binder and cut in one-half-inch each. At the center of length was another laid across;in similar manner to prevent frcm spreading.

Inside were placed posts to hold earth back, and other posts of greater weight placed under the sills from bottom up, to hold them in straight position. The center piece in similar manner. On these sills were. placed rafters of 12 inches in diameter, three feet apart, and on another 12 inches by 36 feet long timber which was placed on the V-brace from center purline and up. : ‘ : From the center purline was placed a brace teward the center. of each rafter to take up the burden and prevent. breakage. On top of these rafters and across, lengthwise of house, were laid tanbark poles not less than three inches in diameter. Thence two thicknesses of straw and earth each six inches, making a thickness of two feet roof, eovered with one foot of sawdust .evenly spread. The intention is to cover this ro6f with shingles next year. : '

There are three bins, one on each side of alley, 15x8x12 feet high, holding about 750 or 800 bushels each, and one at end of alley 15x16x16 feet high at center, and ten feet on sides, holding from 1,600 to 2,000 bushels, according to how high it is filled up. In each bin is a spout which empties into the center of each bin. The alley runs from the outer pair of slanting doors through two other pair of doors to the center of the large bin on west end of house.

Through this alley and terminating just inside of the outer slanting laid door is a track laid of two pieces three-quarter-inch round steel, hung on large sunken posts, protruding 1.6 feet above floor and two feet at outer door of alley, and tightened by a nut in each end. The two t}xresholds are made high, so that the track may rest on them when holding up large loads. On this track I have made a flatcar, 314x6 feet long, which will carry 20 or 25 bushels at a time, and run so easy that my 13-year-old son can run it out. As, the ground outside of the outer doors or loading place is excavated enough to allow the car When it appears loaded to come even with the bottom of wagon box, it has brought hard lifting and carrying to a minimum. # :

Covering Raspberry Bushes.

We have not covered a single raspberry cane on our grq'unds for a number of years, and have had good success with the varieties we grow on a variety of soils. However, where it is necessary to cover the plants, they may still be bent to the ground at any time when the canes may bhappen to be thawed out so that. they will not break too easily and covering with stable manure, or any other material that will hold them down to the ground. As we have before remarked in these columns, winter cover is not given so much to keep the plants warm as to keep them from alternate freezing and thawing and from exposure to our “¢y thirsty winter winds. By keeping this in mind; the methods of covering a great variety of tender plants may be better wier-

PLANTS FROM CUTTINGS Grape Vines and Berry Bushes Easily . ' Propagated. Every land owner can easily secure a nice lot otr grape vines and currax}t

bushes with only=l alittle labor. They are . grown commercially- from cuttings of the present sea-‘ son’s “growth. All that is necessary is to put the ripened wood in the ground where it will start to grow next year "and form.a plant

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which will be suitable to transplant one or two years later. Grape cuttings are made with either two or three buds. Well ripened, short jointed wood should be selected. Make the A Grape Cutting. s lower cut squarely across and clpse under the bud; the upper cut slanting and an inch or two above the bud. In this way the cuttings can be planted right side up. Currant cuttings are made six or eight inches long in the same manner, but they contain seveiral buds. e Cuttings may be tied in bundles, with the lower ends even, and buried

in moist sand over winter. The ends will lcallous over and they will be ready to put out

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roots as‘soon as planted in the spring. They can also' be planted in. the open ground as soon as made! The cuttings should be placed somewhat slanting in rich, meHow soil several inches deep and covered to the top bud. A'slight mulch of coarse manure, when the ground freezes, will help to protect them from being thrown up by the alternate freezing and thawing. Plant them four to six inches apart in the row and the rows 2% to three feet. In one or two years they will make fine, handsome plants of the variety from -which the cuttings are taken. T PEA WEEVILS AND THEIR WORK. Examine Your Seed Before Planting To -Discover Presence of Pest. There is only one generation of the pea weevil each year, says S. A. Johnson of Colorado.. The eggs are laid in early summer on the outsides of the pea pods when the young peas are just beginning to grow. They are deep yellow in color and glued fast with a sticky substance, which turns white on drying. When the eggs hatch, ‘the young grubs burrow through the pods and into the peas where they live- and grow until after the pea is ripe for harvest. Lopr i :

The presence of the weevils in the peas may be readily detected when the peas are picked for table use by the presence of a dark spot on the surface, as though the pea had been pricked. [ Before going into the adult stage the grub gnaws a round hole nearly or quite through the skin of the pea, so that it may escape when the proper time arrives.

A careful examination of the peas before planting ought to reveal these holes if they are at all numerous.

AN ACRE OF PEACHES.

llinois Farmer Succeeds in Turning a

Good Profit from Trees.

John A. Gage, a nurseryman of Jefferson county, 111., has an acre of peach trees that is proving very profitable. It contains 117 trees, and for the past few years has netted him about $lOO per year. It is only nine years old. The crops this year was a very good one and the high prices paid for peaches made it more than usually profitable. He shipped 777 crates of peaches to Chicago and received for the best ones $1.40 per crate. ' In each of these high-priced crates there were 40 or 44 peaches, which made the price a little more than three cents per peach. He sold altogether 259 bushels. ‘His net receipts were about $750, after deducting commissions, freight and all expenses except picking and packing. Examples like this are what stimulates farmers to continue to try to grow peaches, in spite of the many obstacles in the way. '

USE FOR OLD CANS. An Unfailing Device for Keeping Mice : from Hams. The accompanying illustration shows the way I have of keeping rats and ey Mice away from T zE] my meat. I have =it )i © trled many differY& " ent methods but 1 always failed un- - El til I tried the »_;!' method described. I ?';f Take an old tin - Bl TS quart can, punch . a small hole in the - g bottom and run ,"’/ your = string or wire through this leaving the open end up, and allowing the can to rest on the meat, says the Prairie Farmer. This will prevent rats from getting to the meat from above, and you only have to see that the meat does not hang too close to anything that they can climb upon. : - Worms in Colts. For intestinal worms in colts the fol lowing mixture is used by veterinarians: Mix together as a ‘base one pound each of salt and granulated sugar, in this mix one-half pound of tobacco dust or fine cut tobacco, four ounces of sulphate of iron powder, siX ounces of powdered worm seed. Give a heaping teaspoonful in the feed at first once per cay, then twice per day, and-

DREAMS OF FORTUNE. ‘ Son Scoffs at Old Man’s Vision, but . Butied Gold Is Found. | Shelbyville, Ind—The next time Daniel Oldham has a revelation to make his son Martin probably will not deride it as a “pipe dream.” The father, who is &n old man, recently asked his son to go with him and dig up $750 in gold, which he said was on the farm of Hugh McFadden, in Sugar Creek township, but the son smiled significantly and intimated that the story was a vagary. ; The son went to Franklin recently, and the old man persuaded the grandson, Charles, to accompany him. No one was at home at the McFadden fartm, and Mr. Oldham asked the grandson to get a shovel and follow him. He did as requested, and they then went to the north side of the ‘house, under a tree in the orchard. The boy was requested to dig in a certain spot to a depth of two feet. Hae did so, when the shovel struck an old kettle. It was pulled from the ground and a tin box taken from it. When the box was opened it was found to cone tain $750 in gold. g . : Seven or eight years ago Oldhamlived with his daughter, who was Mrs, Hugh McFadden. She died and he left’ the farm, having buried the money some fime before, where it has been until found the other day. ' : BIG WINDFALL FOR HEIRS. Illinois Man, Long Dead, left $3,000 in : : Oregon Bank. Portland, Ore.—Selling a farm in Ilinois while a resident of Portland and placing the proceeds of -the sale in the First National bank of Portland, John Bouton died at his old home in Illinois in 1904, surrounded. by his children, without telling them uof his money in the Portland bank. Whether ‘the transaction was forgotten at the time of his death or whether he died l suddenly is not known. Anyway, the ~money has been in the bank’s vaults for over ten years without a claimant. iNow the heirs of John Bouton are proving their claim to the money. The bank advertised this dormant account recently, together with a pumber of others, and the children of John Bouton were notified of the unclaimed balance in their father’'s name. A son, Samuel Bouton, who is admihistrator of his father’s estate, is now collecting | proofs of his title. to the dorman account in the First National, amounting to about s3,oooaand the money will ! be divided among the Bouton heirs. % WOULD SLEEP §.Y HIS BOOKS. Recorder of Deeds- in Oklahoma 'ls ' Fearful of Damage by Fire. ' Frederick, Okla.—Recorder of Deeds IJame’s Ingram has requested the . board of county commissioners to per’«mit_ of his sleeping in one of the rooms l provided as an office for hirﬁ,’ in order that he may protect his books and records from loss by fire or otherwise, pending the securing of a safe or vault by the county commissioners for these records. : “I'll sleep with my books,” said Ingram, “and they’ll be safe from fire, safe as I would be.” Recorders in most of the new counties are making use of bank vaults for the safe keeping of their records, until provislons are made by the county commissioners. These books counsist, in most part, of merely a receiving book and an open '‘account book that have been purchased for temporary use. , .

EPSOM SALTS AS ANAESTHETIC.

Valuable Riscovery Made by ' Physi. cian at Rockefeller Institute. °

. New York.—Announcement of the discovery of a new anaesthetic, according to a local paper, will soon be made by the Rockefeller institute of medical research.

The new anaesthetic is nothing else than plain common epsom salts, or, to give it its scientific name, sulphate of magnesia. It was discovered by Dr. Samuel J. Meltzer, one of the Rockefeller experimenters. Its greatest value is that it permits any sort of an operation without any danger to the heart of the patient. Either local or general anaesthesia, it is said, may be produced by the injection of a 20 per cent. solution of the familiar drug into the nerve tract governing the sensations of the part to be operated upon. -

Divorce Rate Is High.

Towanda, Pa.—For every marriage ceremony performed in - Bradford county, of which this borough is the capital, a petition for divorce is filed here. o

. A recent study of the official records shows that for the last several years the number of marriage lieenses issued and the number of applications for divorce filed will not vary more than two or three to the hundred.

‘An unusual fact disclosed by this study of the records is that in 90 per cent. of the applications for divorce the marriages. occurred across the border in New York state. ;

Prize Eaters of Jersey.

Burlington, N. J.—Burlington county Red Men are still talking of an eating match witnessed at a ‘“‘feed” by braves from several near by towns. Arthur Wilcox of this city was pitted against a strange brave from Delanco. Wilcox, his friends claim, got away with 33 ham sandwiches, four dozen small pickles, two pounds of cheese, and 12 cups of coffee. His Delanco brother, whose name his friends re. fuse to make public, went Wilcox one better through the entire menu and was awarded the purse. :

Taximeter an Old Story,

London.—“ There is nothing new under the sun—not even a taximeter. They were better known to the Rome of Juliug Caesar than they are yet to the world of 1907. Suetonius. and Vitruvius both described them as attached to the Roman cabs of that epoch. The latter even goes into details of their mechanism. Taximeters ‘were also known to the Chinese of the, eleventh century. W ' A Texas man shot a goat thinking it was a deer. He admitted the horse.

',How TO WASH CHAMGIS,

Gloves of That Kind Should Be Cleansed in Bath of Soapy Water.

Every woman is under the impression that chamois skin gloves are grand till she has tried to wash a pair. They are said to wash so easily that the one who has a pair seldom makes any attempt to keep them clean in the beginning. She is sure that all she has to do.is to give them a careless scrubbing to make them as good as new that she doesn’t take even the ordinary precautions. Wait till she has tried washing them just once, and then hear her denounce anything made of chamois skin forever after. They can be washed to look like new, however, if one but knows the little trick of leaving the soap in to keep them soft. Again, it is bad policy to wash them on the hand, as they are sure to stretch this way. Rather cleanse them by the squeezing method, rolling them up in a little ball in the palm of the hand. Wash in several waters, all soapy, and finally pull into shape without rinsing. Do not stretch them in the least, but after Working the fingers into shape hang them in a current of air, but not near heat of any kind. When dry give them a vigorous tTubbing with a brush to bring up the nap. ;

OLD-FASHIONED STYLES LIKED.

QOdd Shapes in China Are in Favor

This Season.-

Old-fashioned styles in china - will prevail this season, and to the uninitiated much of th> new 'dinner ware will appear cheap because the shapes are odd rather than pretty.’ For this innovation possibly the craze for mission furniture in diningrooms is responsible, for many of the designs are in keeping with this style of furnishing. - 2 As to the decoration on these—mis: sion sets—small, plain-looking nosegays of flowers in one color are used throughout each service. This orna: mentation is in just such plain shades as green, blue and red. - There is a marked change in the shapes of the dishes, for the square vegetable dishes.and zauce boats, the latter made in one piece, with the dish it rests upon, have returned to favor. Flat meat dishes follow the lines of the covered ones and are -decidedly angular. . Small butter plates are shaped square to match, and so are many o° the smaller side platters. '

Maple Sugar Cake.

This is a recipe not generally known, but it has been: tried = with great success. For the layers rub to: gether one cupful of butter and two cupfuls of sugdr until they form a cream. Add the yolks of four eggs beaten lightly, three cupfuls of sifted flour, half a cupful of milk, the whites of the eggs whipped to a froth and lastly one teaspoonful of baking powder. Bake in jelly pans. For the filling boil one cupful of maple sirup until it threads. Pour slowly upon the white of one egg, which has been beaten stiff, beating steadily all the while. Continue beating until the mixture is cold and thick, then spread between the layers and on the top. If desired still richer stir half a cupful of butternuts, which have been chopped fine, into the filling just before spreading on the cake. o

New Use for Table Oil Cloth.

A woman who is always discovering things about the house that nobody else ever .thought of says that the oilcloth used for kitchen tables makes an excellent flodr covering if used over felt padding. : o ‘lt has the merit, moreover, of coming in daintier patterns than the ordinary oilcloth used for kitchens. It can-be kept perfectly clean by scrubbing with soapy water made from a good white soap. Do not rub the soap on the oilcloth itself, but instead make a strong suds. The strong yellow soaps used in most kitchens Fwill soon wear off the luster of the oilcloth and make it dull and shabby looking. Wipe the floor perfectly dry with a clean soft cloth. 5

Turkish Delight.

Soak an ounce of gelatine for two hours in half a capful of cold water, Dissolve two cupfuls of granulated sugar in half a cupful of cold water. As soon as it boils add the gelatine and cook steadily for 20 minutes. Flavor with the rind and juice of one orange and orange flower water or rose water. lurn into tins wet with cold water aﬁd_ when set cut into squares. Roll

;ﬁ a mixture of cornstarch and confectioner’s sugar. A few chopped nuts may be added to the sirup when it is taken from the fire.

New ldea in Napkin Rings.

-An embroidered napkin ring is a pretty novelty. The desiga is worked in the solid satin stitch on heavy, linen; then the lining s carefully basted along the edge, and this is buttonholed with small scallops; the buttonholing -fastening the outside and lining together. One end,is pointed and has a byttonholed lcop at the extreme point. The oiher end is straight and a small pearl button is sewe(ﬂ on about two’ inches from the end. | The loop fastens over this, and the ring is complete. 5

Dolly Varden Cake.

One cupful white sugar; one-half .cupful of butter beaten to a cream, whites of three eggs beaten to a froth, one-half cupful of sweet milk; two cupfuls of flour, one teaspoonful cream tartar, one-half teaspoonful soda, flavor with lemon; beat .the yolks of three eggs with 15 spoonfuls of powdered sugar; put the frosting on the cake as soon as removed from oven. § Wholesome Oatmeal. i Cook the evening before from one to two hours In double boiler. When !going to bed put it on the best regis- ‘ ter or radiator in the house. Then 'when ready to begin breakfast ,the. ‘next morning put it on the fove again ‘and cook quickly. c Lo ~ Better Than Star Boarder. “You have heard of star boarders?” sald Bilkins, “well T am a comet: ‘boarder. 1 have moved eight times in three weeks.” 2 i L 8 T e A . fsR gy e >

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