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Good Things for the Table Offerings of the Market -Household Hints
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Green Wfiretabtes Here
Spring U casting it fair shadow Be
fore In th atom and provision shops
;of Omaha, where already a treat variety
of vegetables that belong to the spring
time are waiting the pleasure of the
'people.
Succulent rreen things that put vim Into
the blood and clear out the sluggishness
that the winter has stored up are here
iln profusion, chiefly from the sunny
.southland.
Head lettuce Is especially nlcfl and
'crisp. Tt comes from the south and from
'California.
Artichokes are here, too, from Cali
fornia. The folks who like them tie a
String around them to keep their leaves
from falling and then boll them In eait
'water for about twenty minutes.
Cucumbers from the local hothouses are
ready. Also splendid, fat. crisp celery
11 the wsy from California.
Tomatora are especially nice. They
come from Florida.
And here are rreen pea and beans in
their native shells, crisp as they were
hs moment they were picked from the
vines' In California and Florida.
Radishes, young onions, new beets,
turnips and carrots from Tennessee,
3oulxtana and Florida are plentiful.
And strawberries, great big, red ones
from Florida! .
I-eeks, French endives, Brussels
sprouts, big, new Spanish onions, you can
sret any of them now.
Apples are plentiful, fancy stock com.
Ing from tho north Pacific coast chiefly
Spltzenburgs, White Winter rcarmaln...
'Ftamen Wlnesapa and Jonathans,
There Is a variety of pear that grows
in California in the winter which la no
on the Omaha market.
Navel oranges are at the height of
heir season and the care taken In grow
ing and packing thta fruit In the last
few years Is apparent In the high quality
of tho fruit.
Cormorants as Fishers
The Birds Work for Their Japanese
Masters and Ask No Pay
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Mother's Busy Hour
' Please state to the court exactly
hat you did lietween I and o'clock
Wednestlay morning." said the lawyer
to a delicate looking little woman In the
nltness box, aa reported In a Kansas
paper.
"Well," she esld, after a moment's re
i'!ertlon, "1 washed my two children and
not them reedy for school, and sowed a
button on Johnny's coat and mended a
rent In Nellie's dress Then I tidied up
my sitting room and made two beds, and
watered my plants and glanced over the
morning paper. Then 1 dustod my par
lor and set things to rUrnts In It, and
washed some lamp chimneys and combed
the baby's hald and sewed a button on
one of her little hc: and then 1 swept
my outside stops and brushed and put
away the children's Sunday clothes, and
wrote a note to Johnny's teacher asking
her to excuse htm for not being at school
on Krldsy. Then 1 fed mv canary and
cleared off the breakfast table and gave
the grocer's boy an order, and then I
aat down and rested a few minutes be
fore the clock struck . That's ail."
"All," said the dased lawyer. "Kxcuse
me, your honor: t must get my breath
before I call the next witness.
Business Ethics in Housekeeping
With busy women It Is often a prob
lem how to combine business with suc
cessful home-making. A writer In the
New York . Tribune explain how thla
may be done. Instating that her only
secret of success la In doing the, same
thing at the same time every day,
eliminating all unnecessary things In the
matter of food, clothing and house fur
nishings, and. at the same time, keep
ing a home that Is cosy and comfortable
at all times.
This woman applies business ethic to
cooking and cleaning: she eliminates nn
essentlals. tiees every minute to good
advantage, and doe her planning ahead.
In describing her day in detail, ah tell
of rising every morning at : and pre
paring a bneskfast of fruit, chops or
leggs. hot biscntt or toast: the family
breakfast I finished at 7:. 'in the
meantime, beds have been aired so that
they can be mad Immediately after the
meal and the rooms put to rights. Then
the breakfast dishes are washed and put
away, after which a simple dessert Is
Household Hints
To clean nickel-silver ornaments, dip
a pleoe of flannel In ammonia and rub
the article.
To clean Jet passementerie, ruh It with
a cloth dipped In equal parts of alcohol
and water. Dry It Immediately with n
clean cloth.
To clean raincoats, sponce with a mix
ture of alcohol and ether, to which U
added a tableapnonful of ammonia to a
pint of the liquid.
To clean white leather belts, rub them
with a piece of white flannel which ha I
been dipped In powdered borax.
To freshen plush, sponge It with chloroform.
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Above Two men harnessing a cormorant. Reins are tied to the collar about the neck. The
collar prevents the bird swallowing any but the smallest fish. Below The fishing in full swing.
In the same way 'that hawk and fal
con were formerly used In, Bo rope .to
replenish their masters' larders with
game, so the Chinese and Japanese atlll
employ trained cormorant; but In their
casa they are used solely for eeonomlo
purposes. With the Japanese on the
river Nagara the season lasts from May
to Octqber, during which time the river
is visited by a small migratory fish,
locally called "al." On the Nagara the
method of fishing Is for soma' lx or
even boat to work In company.
Many Reasons Jor Eating Oysters
By GARRETT F. SERTUI.
In these day of costly living It is
good to be told that the price of oyster
ha hot risen, for oyster are among
the moat nutiitrlou and easily digesti
ble of animal food for man. That bureau
of fisheries is authority for the statement
that the oyster "is mora nearly than
moat food self-sufficient as a diet"
Moreover. It ha a reputation aa a
"brain food," which probably arises from
its ready digestibility, because whatever
enable the bodily machine to - run
trongly and easily necessarily steadies
and stimulates the ' action of the brain
cells. "It Is remarkable among ordinary
food substances," says the same author
ity, "In Its high . proportion of glycogen,
a substance resembling starch, but mora
readily and easily asslmillated. and. un
like starch, wholly digestible even when
uncooked."
There you have the explanation of
the great popularity of raw oyster,
which 1 also due, of course, to their
delicious and altogether inimitable flavor
when properly seasoned. Once In a
while you meet a person who doesn't Uka
oysters, but such persons are sara and
usually convertible. Some person learn
to like oysters a boy learn to like
tobacco, by repeated trial. Tha cryptic
charm Is as beneficent in tha on case
s It is maleficent In the other.
It Is also good to be assured by of
ficial authority that 'It can be said
that oysters are today more sanitary
and better than ever, and that there Is,
at least, as sufficient a guarantee of
their wholesomenees aa there is of milk,
strawberrtei. lettuce, celery aund other
foods not usually cooked for consump
tion." For the cheer of those who Uka oya
tera, but are afraid of poesible pollu
tion. It Is added that "If th oysters be
cooked there is a double guarantee,"
i which I take to mean that wn cooked
the oyster is always harmless, and no
less nutritious. A steaming oyster stew,
made by a competent cook, is certainly
a' terrestrial ambrosia, which diffuse a
delicious sense of comfort through the
whole body as nothing else can do. Every
organ and function feel the genial
Influence.
High authority aver that the oyster
needs the . ordinary Ingredient used In
cooking starches and fata to give It
balance. It may be so, but, personally,
I find no lack of "balanoa" In tha raw
yster. My mouth water at th recol
lection of th raw oyster from a' can
which I uaed to eat when a boy In the
country, where oysters In th ahell were
not to be had. But a strong argument
la favor of cooking 1 that, by th addl
Aetloit of a few Inexpensive Ingredients, a
,Jf d's't of cooked oysters, whether broiled.
yf stewed, creamed, sherrled, frlcassed, or
otherwise prepared, make a more satis
fying meal thsn the same number cf
raw oysters would do.
Externally hardly anything could ap
tt.T more unpromising from the view
point of a hungry man than an oyster,
particularly while It la still In Its shell.
It would be Interesting to know what cir
cumstance, or accident, first led primitive
man to try tha taste of an oyster. Prob
ably soma starving savage happened to
break a ahell and, seeing the juicy con
tent, swallowed them aa a desperate
experiment..
It la easy to picture hi amased delight
over th savory morsel, oven though he
had no salt, pepper or vinegar to bring
out It best flavor, and what a sensa
tion this discovery must have made when
ho communicated tt to bis skin-clad fel
low! How well they liked It la suffi
ciently Indicated by the Immense heaps
of oyster and other bivalve shells, called
"kitchen middens." which prehistoric man
left on tha seashore of Scandinavia and
elsewhere. It 1 no exaggeration to aay
that oysters war almost th first
animal food that man aver tasted.
It I safe to wager than not one In a
hundred persons who eat oyster with
great gusto know that an oyster In It
Infancy live without a (hell, and swims
about In the water, although It 1 never
a speeder. In this larval state the anrbryo
oyster is furnished with little bristles
with which It row Itself along, or keep
suspended In a current. After a short
time a shell begins to form, and the
weight of this, a It grow, bring the
creature down to the bottom, where It
fixe Itself upon some solid object, pre
ferably a rock. f '
The vast majority of th little oyster
Housewives Open W ar
on Dishrag
; Th old-fashioned dish rsg and dish
towel ar to be forever relegated to the
ash heap. Members of th Housewives'
league of St. Louis decided at tha annual
meeting at the Woman' City club that
they had seen their day. To take their
place the up-to-date housekeeper have
aupplied a brush or a woven copper dish
cloth and scalding water.
"It simply Isn't done any more In the
kitchens of th good housekeepers," said
Mr. John Bley, tha president of th
olub. "The old rag we uaed to uae was
dirty and. unsanitary and tha towel
were little better. Now dishes are washed
with a sanitary brush' and put into
scalding water and set in a rack to dry.
Then th brushes or copper dish cleaner
ar cleaned and scalded, and th dishe
are spotless and ready to put away. It
makes housekeeping much easier."
Kitchen utensils which members had
found particularly useful on exhibition
were a wire pie pan guaranteed to make
a soggy pie crust Impossible, a skimmer
to take the cream from milk bottles, a
stirring soon with no bowl, cream whips
that do not splash, and wall paper pro
tectors for woodwork washing t, Ixiuls
Ulobe-Pemcci St.
are swallowed up and smothered by
drifting sand and mud, but a few survive
out of the millions that are bom from
tha eggs of a single female. When the
little oyster first become attached in
colonies to th bottom they are called
"spat." When they get large enough to
be transported to other place where they
may finish their growth, they are called
"seed oyster." There I a good deal to be
learned about an oyster besides th way
to eat It.
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Order Luscious
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California Selected
Oranges
On tale by all good
dealers. Order now.
Write for free book of
delicious recipes. Bare
wrappers for beautiful
Silverware.
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light, fluff, tender
cakes, biscuits and
doughnuts that just
keep you hanging
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made with Calumet
the safest, - purest, most
economical Baking Pow
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baks-day failure."
Patriotic Jewelry Fad
Patriotic designs In Jewelry ar the
reigning fad with men and women, and
even children. Much of It Is being sold
In New York and th manufacturing
Jeweler have all they can do to fill the
orders that ar pouring In from other
cities. With patriotic novelties profusely
displayed In the Droadway shop windows
Is is worthy of note that the deslgnere
are careful not to lend the martial spirit
In Jewelry fashlona any further than pre
parednes. The style In elegant and
costly Jewelry, aa a modest show of
patriotism, ar three-atone rings red,
whit and blue gem or clusters of thlr
teen stones to represent the original
coloniea On large manufacturing con
cern Is devoting nearly all tt energies
to the output of novelties that bear some
representation of th Rtatue of Liberty.
These are attractive In th multiplicity
of deriens and re so Inexpensive as to
be within th reach of everybody.
In-Shoots
A man can writ a beautiful leva letter
and yet In time be arrested for non
support. There are a lot of skulls about us that
might be Improved by the vacumm
cleaner.
Some women Imagine a poor excuse of
a husband to b better than none. They
are mistaken.
The modern mnsihack appear to be
the one who would rather rend Shakes
pear than th movie magaslnea.
The baby may be a delicate creature,
but hi stomach Is about th only on
that can stand raw milk.
Tha mora brutal th Instinct of the
wife th better ah love the husband who
bests her.
prepared for dinner. Then this lady, on
leaving her apartment at I , proceeds
to market; there she buy whatever she
need for th evening and order th
things delivered at o'clock.
When h reach ea home about (
o'clock, she Mart tha dinner prepara
tion at once; th pudding I now put
Into the aven. While the ateak. chopa.
or fish, which may be prepared In a half
hour, ar cooking, fifteen minute ara
devoted to the us of carpet sweeper
and duster. Thla Is all the dally cleaning
that th five-apartment gets, but once
a week a cleaning woman comes
sweep, scrubs floors, rubs furniture and
cleana everything thoroughly. For aev
eral years this plan has been followed
with success, the thorough weekly
cleaning, supplemented by th dally fif
teen minutes, sufficing to keep th house
In good condition.
Sometimes canned soup Is used; seme
times enough soup Is made on Saturdays
to last for aeveral dinnera. Really made
desserts are chosen: rice, tapioca and
bread pulling may all be prepared In th
morning and baked In the evening and
sauces of different flavoring will glv
vrlety. On Saturday afternoona exten
sive marketing Is done, staple foods
being laid In for the following week. For
the Saturday evening dinner, this family
has a rood slsed roast, th cold meat
from which will be good for Monday
night's dinner. A rake made on Sunday
Is also of a kind to keep fresh for sev
eral days.
These are some of the businesslike
ways worked out by this New YorW
woman, who closes her article by say
ing: "Of course, there are many thlnga
done by some housekeepers that I do not
sttempt, but from what I know of "living
in apartments my home Is kept as well
snd our food Is as good as where the
woman devotes the major part of her
time to housekeeping."
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It also means pure, wholesome and
digestible product, wrapped in parchment
paperclean, sweet and good for you.
Try a pound from your dealer today.
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does not have it, phone us
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