THE 9EMLWEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
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Ihe KITCfE In Woman's Realm
CAEre
Two Modish Coats of Checked Serge and Tan Covert Cloth, Crave
netted, Which Are Among the Best of the Season's Offernigs
Simple but Extremely Effective Party Frock That
Appeal to the Small Maid.
Not only physical but mental vigor
and efficiency depend lni-Kely on a
proper dlot.
Not In tho clamor of tho crowded
stjreot,
Not In tho shouts and plaudits of tho
throng,
Hut In out-solves are triumph and do-feat.
LIGHT REFRESHMENTS.
Tho dainty sandwich Ib always Ml
f Ling a largo placo and whon woll mado
uuu nuivuu meiu la
nothing that Is bet
tor onjoyed.
Cream Cheese
Sandwiches.
Tako a squaro of
croam choose,
mash It In a bowl,
adding a 1 1 1 1 1 o
sweot cream to moisten, salt and pa
prika to taste, with one or two canned
Tod poppers, Bpread on thin slices of
buttered graham bread.
Marshmallow Nut Sandwiches.
Toast fresh marshmallows and cut
line, mix with chopped walnut moats
and sweet cream. Cut whito bread,
spread with butter, then with the
mallow and nut mixture. A fow
candied cherries may bo used with
this filling if so desired. A half dozen
cherries finely chopped will ho sufll
cient. for half a dozen sandwiches.
Fig Sandwiches. Soak tigs over
night In orango Juice, then simmer In
a Httlo wator added to tho Juice, un
til tender. Add a half cupful of sugar
and tho Julco of half a lemon to each
half pound of flgs. Chill thoroughly
and chop to a paste Spread on thin
whito bread or on sllco of pound cake,
Marguerites. Mako r. boiled frost
ing, using a few tablcspoonfuls of
steamed, chopped raisins and a half
dozen choped nuts. Put a teaspoonful
oil crisp, salted wafers and brown
lightly in tho oven.
Spongo cake baked in a sheet and
then cut with a small biscuit cutter
Into rounds may bo frosted with or
nngo Icing and rdlled in grated rind,
or tho top decorated with tho rind,
making very ' tasty cakes to servo
with a cupful of tea when a frlond
drops in.
The sky Is always bluo.
What though the night shall darken,
nnd enfold you
And for a spuco In sunless sltenco hold
you,
Tho dawn shall brighten when your
rest Is through.
The Bky Is always blue.
Christine Davis.
WAYS WITH PARSNIPS.
This delicious vegctablo should bo
found of ton on our tables -during the
spring months. To boll
thorn and servo plain
put a pork shank to
cook in boiling water, lot
simmor for an hour or
two, and two hours be
fore dinner add tho well
washed parsnips, cook
ing gently to keep them
whole. Season and servo with tho
pork.
Pot Roast. Prepare a pot roast In
tho usual way and cook somo parsnips
in boiling, salted wator until tender.
Drain tho parsnips and put them Into
tho kettlo after tho meat has been ro-
moved; cook until well seasoned, add
flour to tho sauco and servo meat, par
snips and gravy all on ono platter.
Casserole Parsnips. Cut tho peeled
parsnips In thick slices and parboil In
salted water for 20 minutes. Drain
and put lilto tho casserole with butter
and popper, or a few slices of bacon
may bo used Instead of butter, or beef
drippings may bo used. Dako two
hours, adding n littlo water until thoy
aro vory tender.
Browned Parsnips. Cut well-
cleaned parsnips lengthwlso and cook
until tender In boiling, salted water.
Whon tender, brown In fresh pork
drippings or in suet fat. Serve fho
parsnips, with a sauco made with
flour and croam in tho fat left from
frying.
Parsnips With Drawn Butter Sauce.
Wash and scrnpo parsnips and cut
in pieces or in strips; cook until soft,
then serve with drawn butter sauce-
molt a tilled of a cupful of butter, add
three tablcspoonfuls of flour, salt and
pepper to season and a cupful and a
half of boiling water. Servo hot.
Two coats, mado to bravo tho spite
ful roturn of tho north wind In May
and tho showora from spring skies,
aro shown in tho picture given horo.
Thoy aro of chocked sorgo ana tan
covort cloth, cravenotted, and thoro
toro not hurt by dampness. Their
stylo is excellent and distinctive.
Thoro havo boon so many checked
coats in tho soason'a showings that it
would scom almost lmposslblo for any
thing now nnd also attractlvo to mako
ItB appoaranco among them. Uut tho
modol prosontod, whllo cut on familiar
that tho body of tho frock is of cot
ton not nnd is merely a full slip sot
on to a narrow round yoko of laco and
reaching nearly to tho knoos,. Throo
scant rufllos of laco aro sot about tho
bottom of this slip, and .It 1b ohlrrcd in
about tho hips with throo shlrrings sot
closo togothor. This shirring slinpos
tho slip into a long walBt and short
Bkirt. Tho bIcovob aro moroly puffB ol
not edged with a doublo frill of net.
Over this slip of not a short over
dross is worn. It is mado of two
lengths of yard-wido taffota cut with
It's the song ye sing and tho smile yo
wear
That's making tho . sunshine every
where. -Riley.
3AVORY SUPPER DISHES.
To mako a supper dish at all popu
lar it must bo tasty and quickly pro-
pared. Milk toast fills
both of these qualifica
tions, theroforo it is a
groat favorite.
Spanish Chowder.
Cook together a can of
tomatoes and a can of
red kidney beans for ten
minutes. Add a pound
of ilnoly chopped hamburgor steak, ono
chopped green pepper, and salt and
pepper to taste. Cook flvo minutes
longer nnd servo piping hot.
Corn Bread. At noon put two cup
fuls of cornmeal In a mixing bowl and
pour over it 1 cupfuls of boiling wa
ter, enough to thoroughly scald It.
Mix well and cover with a coating of
butter; covor-nnd let stand until night.
When ready to bake add a beaten egg,
1 cupfuls of milk a cupful of flour,
slftod, with threo toaspoonfuls of bak
ing powdor and a half teaspoonful of
salt; use moro milk if needed, as this
should mako a thick spoon batter.
Bako 20 minutes in gem pans.
Halibut With Codfish. Wash and
flake a cupful of hnljbut, wash and
flako two cupfuls of codfish and cover
with boiling water; let simmer for 20
minutes, drain and rinse again. Molt
four tablcspoonfuls of butter, add two
of flour and blond until smooth; pour
this into 1 cupfuls of rich milk.
Season with paprika and salt, if need
ed. Placo the drained flsh in n casse
rolo, pour tho sauce over It and cover
thickly with buttered crumbs. Bako
in n modorate oven a half-hour.
Mulligatawny ( Soup. Slice threo
mrge onions and brown them slightly
with four slices of chopped bacon. Re
movo from tho heat and add a tea
spoonful of curry powdor, four table
spoonfuls of flour and a half teaspoon
ful of salt; blend all together and
then add threo pints of veal or chick
en stock. Chop two apples vory flno,
add them to tho soup and simmer
gently until tho apples aro cooked and
tho soup is thick.
Rice Muffins. Mix a cupful of boiled
rice with two cupfuls of sifted flour,
two toaspoonfuls of baking powder, a
tablespoonful of sugar, a half tea
Bpoonful of salt, ono egg nnd a cupful
of milk. Mix well and bako in muflln
pans. Servo hot.
Silence Pleases Orator.
What a speaker likes best Is not ap
plause. It Is Bilonce. Thoro aro mo
ments when to a speaker tho sllonco
can bo thrilling. Then ho knows, as
wo say, that ho "has" his audience. A
perfect relation has been established.
During thoso moments tho thought is
passing rapidly from tho speakor'B
mind into tho minds of tho listeners,
and 1b taking effect. It may not al
ways bo a sympathetic effect. It may
even bo hostile. Nevertheless, tho
thought Is at work.
FEED COWS FOR MILK
Production and Size Aro the De
termining Factors.
It Is not the events of llfq, nor Its
emotions, nor this nor that experience,
but life itself which Is good. P.
Brooks.
Now Is the only tlmo to begin doing
great things.
SOME GOOD DISHES.
By making out menus for a' week
in advance, keeping lists of food well
liked, thus bringing
variety to tho
table, tho house
wife will savo her
self much time for
other things. It is
alBO a good plan
to place opposito
a recipe tho cost
of tho dish. Usually eggs aro one
of tho varying costs, but tho house-
wlfo will bo able to tell at a glanco
tho cost of tho dish. As tho majority
of women have a certain allowance
to spend for the table this will help
her to keep accountB and perhaps re
duce expenses or at least equalize
them from 'month to month,
When eggs are sixteen and eight
een cents a dozen is tho time for
angel foods, souffles, spongo cako and
omolets. When thoy aro fifty and
sixty cents a dozen pork cako, applo
sauco cako, cscallopcd dishes and egg-
less dishes of various kinds will bo
used.
Annel Food. Sift one cupful of
Blftcd flour with a quarter of a tea
spoonful of cream of tartar. Tako
a cupful of egg whites, add another
quarter of a spoonful of tho cream of
tartar and a pinch of salt, beat until
stiff but not dry, add a cupful of
sifted sugar, folding in lightly; then
tho flour, alBO folded in; flavor with
vanilla and bako fifty minutes in a
modorato oven, using a tubo pan.
Cocoa Mousse. use ono and a
half cupfuls of cream, flvo tablespoon
fuls of powdered sugar, ono and a
half ounces of cocoa, or half- a cup
ful, one-half a teaspoonful of vanilla,
Dissolve tho cocoa in i small sauco
pan with two tablcspoonfuls of cream,
Whip tho cream and whon nearly stiff
boat In tho sugar and cocoa; mix
thoroughly, turn into a wot mold and
pack in ico and salt for four hours.
Date Pudding. Mix together n boat-
en egg, a cupful of fresh bread crumbs,
a cupful of chopped dates, a cupful of
sugar, a fourth of a teaspoonful of salt
and three tablcspoonfuls of milk. Bako
in a sheet and serve with whipped
sweetened cream flavored with al
mond.
Fate of Annie Laurie.
Tho familiar song of "Annlo Lau
rio," saya tho London Chronlclo, waB
written by a soldier in Flanders to
his ladylove at homo. Tho writer was
William Douglas, and Annlo Laurlo
was ono of tho three daughters of
Sir Robert Laurlo of Maxwelton. Sad
to relate, Annlo did not marry hor
ardent loyor. Somo say that Douglas
was killed In Flanders, but whether
or not that is so, Annlo was led to
tho altar in 1709 by James Fergussoa
of Craigdarroch.
Each Animal Should Do Given no Much
Roughage as She Will Eat Up
Clean Avoid Increnso In Body
Weight Abovo Normal.
In tho managomont of tho modern
dairy it should bo tho aim to surround
tho cows with conditions most con
ducive to a largo and economical pro
duction of milk and huttorfat In each
individual caso. Each cow should ro-
colvo as much roughngo as sho will
eat up clean and a portion of this
thould proforably bo of a succulent na
ture llko grass, allago, Boiling props
or roots. Of concentrates it has boon
found a good working rulo to food
as many pounds of grain feeds por day
to each cow as sho produces pounds of
huttorfat a wook, or ono-fourth to one-
third as much grain as sho givos
pounds of milk dally, tho amount do
ponding upon tho por cont of huttorfat
In tho milk. In tho caso of cows pro
ducing milk with n low por cont of
fat, ono-fourth would bo required. Cnro
should always bo taken to avoid an In
creaso In body wolght abovo tho nor
mal for each cow, Blnco tho milk Booro
tlon, as a gonoral rulo, Is llkoly to
BUffor whon cows commonco to utllizo
tholr feed for tho formation of body
fat.
It follows from what has been said
that no two cows in tho hord can bo
fed exactly allko under this system of
MADE TO BRAVE JALL WEATHERS.
and well-llkod linos, snows a nnisn en
tirely novel. All its edges aro fin
ished with a piping of whito and out
lined with narrow flat silk braid, mak
ing tho sharp and snappy contrast of
black and whito in a conservative
fashion. It has a "chin-chin" collar.
Tho short coat of covort cloth
trimmed with plain broadcloth Is
frankly a modol for all-round wear,
and does not commit Itself to any sort
of spocial occasion. It Is pictured
worn with an afternoon frock of taffeta.
narrow straps over tho shoulder and
scalloped about tho bottom. Tho scal
lops aro bound with a narrow binding
of taffeta made from strips cut on tho
bias. Tho silk is shirred over a cord
about tho neck, and tho arm's cyo and
shoulder straps aro hound llko tho
scallops. Tho fullness of tho silk is
drawn In about tho hips with two
shirrlngs over cablo cord, forming a
sprightly flounco bolow. Tho over
dress slips on over tho head. As
pictured, It Is made of light bluo shiny
taffeta with considerable stiffness.
Relation Of Dioestible Matter
Anp Protein to Total Dry Matteu
5g, 1 in Rations tor
1200 PouNoCbws
MILK LIKELY TO BE BITTER
Trouble- May Appear at Any Tlmo
and to Almost Sur to Result
From Threo Causes.
Milk 1b especially llkoly to bo bit-
tor In tho spring, but this trouble
may appear at any tlmo. It Is almost
Buro to result from (1) eating tho last
romalnlng woods In closely grazed
pastures, (2) bad health of tho cow,
or (3) tho growth of bacteria in tho
milk. Tho euro In each caso consists
in finding and removing tho causo and
suggestions for doing so aro mado
by Percy Werner, Jr., of tho Missouri
collcgo of agriculture
It tho milk becomes bitter after
Btanding, it Is not tho cow's fault, but
results from tho growth of bacteria
brought in by particles of dirt or ma
nuro or loft In Improperly cleaned vos-
boIb. It tho milk of all cows in tho
hord Is bitter when drawn, tho food Is
probably nt fault, and tho bitter taBto
will probably disappear It tho cows
aro kopt in a lot whero thoy cannot
got at weeds. This will glvo tho pas
tures a bettor chanco to got a good
Btart. If only ono or a fow of tho
cows glvo blttor milk, It is probably
bocauso they aro in bad hoalth or go
ing dry, and tholr milk should bo kopt
away from tho roat bo that It will not
spoil tho wholo milking.
Production and Size Aro tho Factors
Determining tho Food Requirements
of Dairy Cows The Amounts of
Dry Matter and Digestible Protein
Should Increase in Proportion to
the Production of Butterfat.
feodlng. Each cow muBt rocolvo In
dividual attention and bo fed accord
ing to her special roqulromonts. It is
possible, howovcr, to lesson tho labor
Incident to regulating tho feed supply
In nccordanco with tho requirements
of tho individual cows by adapting a
general grain mlxturo which will servo
tho needs of most of tho cows In tho
herd. This may bo placod in a cart
and weighed or measured out from
tho same to each cow in tho stablo.
PULLET TROUBLES IN SPRING
Many Young Fowls Lost From Ever
slon of Oviduct Watch for Bloody
Eggs In the Nests.
A number of hons, and cspocially
pullets, nro always lost in tho spring
from tho troublo known as ovorslon
of tho oviduct. If you soo ono of your
birds walking about with a halting
gait, and upon closor examination find
tho lowor portion of tho oviduct pro
jecting from tho vont as a mass of red
or purplish tissue, you can rocognlza
It as tho abovo troublo. It you no
tlco many bloody ogga in tho nosts,
walcii ror it. ir you soo cuior nons
following another and picking at tho
vont, look out for this troublo.
It may bo cauBod by extra strain ot
tho muscles and tissues of tho walls ot
tho oviduct, in tho laying ot doublo
yolkod oggs, or vory largo eggs, or
duo to nn obstruction In tho oviduct.
Unless discovered immediately nttor
it occurs tho best troatmont is to kill
tho bird.
PARTY FROCK FOR THE SMALL MAID.
Horo is a party frock for tho littlo
maid from about eight year? up to
twelvo years old that will delight hor
and' pleaso hor mother as woll.
It seems hardly worth whllo to de
scribe tho method of making it, bo
cause it Ib so clearly set forth in tho
plcturo. But for tho bonoflt ot tho
Inexperienced who may bo encouraged
to uudortako it, it may bo mentioned
Tho frock is worn over a pottlcoat
or slip of flno lawn edged with ruf
fles trimmed with narrow lingerie laco.
It is mado as long as tho frock, so
that thoro is a glimpse of these lacy
r ullles under thoBo on tho not dross.
JUDGMENT IN SHAPING TREES
Fowls Dust Themselves With Gorml
clde as They Enter or Leave Hen
house How It Works.
Whon in uso, this duBtcr Is mounted
abovo tho door of tho henhouso or
coop nnd tho hens dust thomsolvos
with germlcldo as thoy enter or
leave. Thoro Ib a slot in tho bottom
of tho hopper which Is covered by
laro Should Be Exercised Not to Cut
Away Any Portion Which May
Affect Appearance.
In shaping tho trees, tho orchardlst
must uso his own Judgment largoly,
Whero tho trees aro vory Binall caro
hould bo oxorclsod not to cut away
any portion of tho tree which may af
fect its appearanco in tho future. Bo-
glnnorB should not start on young or
small trees, for mistakes on thorn aro
always costly.
If you obsorvo a serious fork In tho
young trco, It should bo remedied at
onco by cutting away tho ono which
you think will not mako tho best pro
ducer. If -uch a defect Is remedied
early in tho Ufotlmo ot a troo It will
scarcely bo noticeable lator, but to al
low it to remain for any longth ot tlmo
is to injuro and deform tho troo por
mancntly.
REMEDY FOR A SAGGING DOOR
Old Wagon Rod and Staple, Arranged
aB Shown In Illustration, Will
Prove Satisfactory.
For a door that has sagged, wrltos
Joh. Reagan of Minnesota in Nebras
ka i-'nrm Journnl, put tho ring of tho
rod at tho bottom of door and run
Cure for Sagging Door.
tho ntaplo through it. Run tho oth
or end of rod through u block fas
tened near tho top of tho door, put on
tho burr and tighten.
MANAGEMENT OF BROOD SOWS
Properly Fed and Handled Mature Anl
mal Will Keep Better If She Has
Two Litters Yearly.
Two litters a yoar mean two dlvi
dend periods for tho hog raiser each
year, Instead of ono. Properly fed
and handled, a mature sow will keep
in bettor breeding condition and will
glvo her owner moro years of profit
able servlco if sho haB two llttors
year than it sho has only ono.
To do this, sho muBt bo fod whllo
pregnant a full supply ot bono, blood
and muBclo-maklng feeds, in order
that tho development of tho unborn
pigs will not weaken hor. by taking
thoso materials from her own body.
POULTRY. DUSTER IS USEFUL'
Poultry Dustor.
V-Bhaped wlro mesh funnol, in-
sldo of which thero Is a strip ot wiro
mesh, extending up Into tho gorml
cldo. Whon tho back of tho hen
moves tho funnel, tho gormicido ia
dustod among tho feathers. Wiscon
sin Agriculturist.
SUCCESS IN GROWING CLOVER
Add Lime, Phosphorus and Potash to
Soils Needing Them Give tho
Seed a Fair Chance.
Tho principles of succossful clovor
growing may bo summarized aB follows;
Glvo tho clover a chanco to mako a
hoalthy plant by adding llmo, phos
phorus and potash to soils that nooi.
them. In somo way add vegetal .o
matter to tho soil and keep" up tho sup
ply by turning under clover often
enough.
Qlvo the seed a fair chanco by plac
ing It in mollow Boll and covorlng it
from one-half to ono inch deep.
If sown with a nurBo crop, t,1vo
tho young plants a chanco by not Bocd-
ing tho grain crop too thickly, by top
dressing with manuro it practicable
and by cutting tho stubble nn high aa
possible.
THICK CREAM IS PROFITABLE
More Sklmmllk Left on Farm to Feed
to Hogs, Calves and Poultry,
8ays Ohio Bulletin.
Farmers will mako moro money by
separating a reasonably thick cream
than a thin cream, according to dairy
department, Ohio state university.
SMmming highest cream leaves moro
Bklmmllk on the farm to feed to tho
hogs, calveB and chickens. Sklmmllk
utilized in this way has a feeding
vnluo of about 35 cents por hundred,
whllo, if tho milk is left in tho croam,
nothing Is realized.
Tho buttermakor usually wants a
cream testing around 35 or 40 per
cont butterfat. In tho winter, It tho
cream Ib abovo 40 per cent, It is
rather difficult to got tho cream all
out ot ono can into anothor or into a
vat. Cream toBting about 35 per cent
in tho winter and 40 per cont In tint
Bummer is right for butter-making;
