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The Commoner.
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taste, until , they can be pierced with,
a. fork; drain well through a colander,
pack into jars, sprinkle over them a
little Cayenne 'pepper, and cover with
strong vinegar, dropping bits of horse
radish root or green nasturtium seed
in' the vinegar; seal and keep in a
cool, dark place.
Pickled Peppers. Take of the large,
sweet variety green, won grown pep
pers, and cut from the stem end a
circular piece, and remove the seeds
carefully so as not to niD them against
the shells, as this will make them
taste "peppery"; soarc tne shells and
circular piece in strong brine for two
days, changing water twice; make a
stuffing of chopped onions, red cab
bage, cucumbers, with a few nastur
tium seeds, mustard seed and mace;
fill the shells and sew on the cap,
place in a jar and cover with cord
spiced vinegar. Other mixtures may
bo used as stuffing, according to taste.
Bottled Grape Juice. Select fine,
large, rlpo grapes; bruise without
mashing them, to avoid extracting col
oring matter. Strain through a flannel
jelly bag, repeating the process until
the juice is clear, then pour Into new
pint bottles and cork securely by driv
ing new corks In with a small wooden
hammer; tie with a strong string at
tached to neck of Dottle, stand up
right on a trivet in a Doner, and All
to top of the bottle with cold water.
Place over moderate fire and bring
slowly to a boil ana noil fifteen to
twenty minutes. .Remove? from fire
and let cool in the water, then cut
the string and lay bottles side by side
in a cool dry place.
BUNCH TOGETHER
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Coffee has a Curious way of Finally
Attacking Some Orgcvn.
Ails that come from coffee are cumu
lative, that is, unless the coffee, is
takeri away new troubles are contin
ually appearing and the old ones get
worse.
"To, begin with," says a Kansan, "I
was a slave to coffee just as thousands
6t others today; thought I could not
live without drinking strong coffee
,eyery morning for breakfast and 1
"bed several days every month. Could
hardly keep my food on my stomach
but would vomit as long as I could
throw anything up ana wnen I could
get hqt coffee to stay on my stomach
I thought I was better.
"Well, two years ago this spring I
was that sick with rheumatism I could
not use my right arm to do. anything,
had heart trouble, was nervous. My
nerves were all unstrung anA my fin
ger nails and tips were blue as if I
had a chill all the time and my face
and hands yellow as a pumpiUn. My
doctor said it was heart disease and
rheumatism and my neighbors said
I had Bright's Disease and was going
to die.
"Well, I did not know what on
earth was the matter and every morn
ing would drag, myself out of bed and
go to 'breakfast, not to eat anything,
but to force down some more coffee..
Then in a little while be so nervous,
my heart would beat like everything.
"Finally one morning I told my hus
band I believed coffee was the cause
of this trouble and mat I thought I
would try Postum which I had seen
advertised. He said 'All right' so we
got Postum and although I did not
like it at first I got right down to busi
ness and made it according to direc
tions, then it was fine and the whole
family got to using it and I tell you
it has worked wonders for me. Thanks
to Postum in place of the poison,
coffee, I now enjoy good health, have
not been in bed with sick headache
for two years . although I had it for
30 years before I began Postum and
my nerves are now strong and I have
no trouble from my heart or from the
rheumatism.
"I consider Postum a necessary arti
cle of food on my table. My friends
who come here and taste my Pos
tum say it is delicious.' Name given
by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Get the book, "The Hoad to Well
Ville,,, in each pkg. .
Query Box.
Jamie. tioth the quantity and qual
ity of the hair will be affected by dis
position, health and habits. People of
a nervous temperament are proverb
ially afflicted with thin, scant hair,
while, easy-going, never-wofry kind
of people have thick, glossy tresses.
A good tonic and cnre-taklhg, how
ever, will do wonders with scant, frow
sy hair.
Bernice, No lining- is needed with
the walking skirt; a serviceable pet
ticoat, with several ruffles about the
bottom to sustain the "Hare" of the
dress skirt, will be all you need.
M. K. It is an oM. true argu
ment against the -state of, affairs you
outline that it takes two to make a
quarrel; often, too, with but slight ac
tion on the part of one of the two.
In such matters, .one" should be "a
law unto herself." No outside inter
ference will avail.
Annie. Pastry flour is flour de
prived of most of its gluten thereby
giving it a lighter and more delicate
texture when baked. It is made of
winter wheat.
S. W. For removing fruit stains
from the hands, this is recommended:
Wash the hands in clear cold water
no soap; shake the water off as much
as possible, then, without drying, hold
the fingers close together, light a
match, and hold the t fingers over the
match to confine the iumes, and the
stain will disappear. You can try it.
Piazza Girl-. A really good embroid
ery silk can be made to stand a good
deal of washing witli soap and water
by soaking it in strong alum, water be
fore doing the washing carefully; but
a better way is to wash the article
separately in bran water, using no
soap. Boil two quarts of bran in a
gallon of water (or in this propor
tion), for a few minutes, then strain,
and wash the article in water. The
stiffness of the cleansed article, when
ironed, will depend on the quantity
of bran in the water. When ironed,
iron on the wrong side, or with" a fold
of cloth between, and not too hot an
iron.
J. A. L. Gave recipes ror salad
dressing in last Home Department.
The oil must be dropped in very slow
ly, beating well.
Mrs. L. C Allow a pound of dough
to one loaf, to be baked in a brick
shaped pan, four ancr one-half inches
deep, the same' wide, ana nine inches
long. Dough should about double In
size before baking.
Flossie. Do not combine your In
gredients for salad in which cucum
bers and tomatoes are used, until
a very few minutes before serving.
Standing in the dressing withers these
vegetables.
Melissa. The Welne model of the
short skirt was mace tne vogue last
winter hy the pretty French actress.
This skirt escapes the floor an inch
in front and tilts up at tne back full
an Inch and a half. Her stage dresses
were distinctly short aiways an inch
shorter in the Imck than in the front.
The short skirt is so sensible, so
comfortable and so smartly pretty
that it would seem impossible that
women would ever again be content to
wear dragging dresses again. But they
.will.
R. F. D. I am assured by good
authority that the stain of olive oil
can not be removed, even though the
oil may. If any 'of our reacrers can
tell us of a reliable recipe, I shall
bo glad to havo it, as I have had sev
eral Inquiries for one. Tbe best, and
only sure way that 1 r.now or to rout
fleas from a house is to tako up all
floor covering and spnnuie air-slacked
limo thickly over the noors, letting it
remain for several days, then sweep
ing tho limo up lightly ana scalding
the floor with boiling water, leaving
the limo in tho floor-cracic and about
the washboard. Air-siacked limo
should be freely scattered about all
out-buildings and along me paths to
such places. Tho llme-uust may be
disagreeable, but it is only a tem
porary nuisance, while tho fleas are
an absolute affliction almost impossi
ble to be gotten rid of any other
way.
Tho Difference.
There are many kinds of advocates
of the woman's rights question. There
is the radical, uncompromising class,
who want everything at once, and
who would stop at nothing in their
ambition and impatience. They are
unsparing in their abuse of men; un
reasonable and unreasoning in their
rabid demands.
The liberal woman comes next; she
does not surrender her common sense,
nor fight against immutable facts. She
urges tho emanclpr.:ron of woman
from tho tyranny of the marlage re
lation and unjust laws, ana insists
that motherhood and wifehood do not
exhaust the possibilities of her sex,
and resents the idea tnat Tier "sphere"
should be limited to these two voca
tions. She strongly advocates a physi
cal reform which Would regeneiate the
race as1 nothing else could.
By far the largest of the fighting
force is the conservative class which,
while it ..has no unirorm conviction's,
believes that, by fair means or foul,
woman must get what she wants.
Progress is, to this class a matter of
evolution, and this word is used as a
spur to stimulate the siow-going, who
want nothing, and a restaint upon tho
impatience of those who want every
thing. They fight1 tho battle with the
strange, hard, logical zeal of prosaic
characters.
The most Important factor in the
cause makes the least noise, yet ac
complishes where the other classes
fail. This is the protesting class. They
stand between the actively aiscontent
ed, the hopeful of the classes and the
passively indifferent, and the hopeless
of the masses. Fine-fibred, with wide
activities, broad sympathies, rich na
tures, restless intelligences, strongly
imaginative, eager for intellectual and
spiritual development, yet lacking the
fanaticism of the radicals, they are the
real workers, accomplishing by the
subtle forces of their energies far
more toward spiritualizing the race of
men and bettering the condition of
women than all the radicals who shout
themselves hoarse In setting forth bel
ligerantly the wrongs of the sister
hood. By their slow, sieacy, patient
working this class is surely, if slowly
and steadily, gaining recognition for
the cause they love, and by urging up
on their sister women the necessity
of healthier bodies and broader out
looks, and keeping in touch with the
questions of the times through wider
readings and deeper thinkings, they
are placing in their hands a power to
be gained In no other way that or
being able to mould the minds and
hearts of the coming generation, and
every educated, thinking, interested
woman is just one step nearer the
bringing about the hoped-for advance
ment. Ex.
even younger, was relegated to Ua
chimney corner, wiln -ner straight
black gowns and caps and fichu, and
expected to amuso herself from dawn
(o darkness doing tho family knitting.
But now, it is a common thing to find
mothers, and often grandmothers of
grown children, still young in looks,
and, save In actual years, tao contem
poraries of women not yet out of their
thirties.
One sees a great many of these
young-old ladies going about tho
grounds of tho great exposition, and
the exception is rare. Many of them
are very beautiful, too, and their fine
eyes, though seen behind spectacles,
compare well with those of their
daughters. They dress prettily, too,
In dainty white or light gowns, and
becoming hats, and carry themselves
with heads up and shoulders set well
back, and show an interested appre
ciation of everything about them.
The woman who does not grew Old
Is she who keeps in touch witn tho
times; who studies the questions or
tho day and interest herself In tho
topics of the hour. Li To to such a
woman is not a mere existence. She
has discovered tho true elixir of life
In activity, change, and employment
of the mental faculties with the livo
issues about her, tho naiancmg of tho
menial with tho physical, and the
equal exercise of the spiritual with tho
fleshly functions. Her race may fade,
yet her eyes shine, and her tongue
drops jewels of wisdom. She is al
ways young and ready for the work be
fore her, and long after the bodily
functions fail, you will find that the
spiritual and the mental will shine.
One of the greatest things the new
order of intelligence is bringing about
is the opening of new avenues of in
terest for thoso women who could
find no opening for themselves. The
habit of reading is becoming flxed,
and it is no longer- a matter of re
proach that the woman of tho house
is as eager for tho perusal of tho daily
paper as is the man. Woman is no
longer expected to let her husband do
her thinking for her.
Mr. Littleton's Increased Knowledge.
Among the politicians to whom the
telegraphic bombsnell of Judge Park
er brought shock, if not demoraliza
tion, Mr. Littleton, who made the
nominating speech, is deserving of
sympathetic notice. Not that we sup
pose Mr. Littleton to be averse to
tho gold settlement of the currency
question. But the contrast between
what that gentleman said of Judge
Parker and the real thing is condu
cive of political amazement.
In one sentence of his oratorical
flight Mr. Littleton undertook to ex
plain Judge Parker's 3ilence by as
serting that "he does not claim to bo
the master of the democratic party, but
is content to be its servant." In the
next sentence he completed the pic
ture by declaring: "ir you ask mo
what his policy will be, if elected, I
tell you it will be that policy which
finds expression in the platform of
his party."
Hardly twelve hours elapsed before
Judge Parker revealed that he was
entirely the master of his party on
one point, and that he had one policy
that was conspicuous in its omission
from the platform. Mr. Littleton
knows more about Judge Parker now
ihnrt he fHfl xvbin Tia mario hffi Rnnorii.
i Pittsburg Dispatch.
Home Chats.
One of the signs of the times Is the
very few really "old" women one sees
nowadays. Time was and not so
very long ago but that many of us can
recall it when a woman of fifty, and
BETTER THAN SPANKING.
Spanking does not care children of urine dlffl
cultle. If it did there would be few children
that would do it. There la a constitutional caute
for thiB. Mrs. M. Summers, Cox 169, Notre Dame
Ind., will tend her home treatment to any
mother, 8he asks no money. Write her today
If your children trouble yon In this way. JDonrt
blame the child, The chances are It can't help It
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