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I s The Commoner. VOLUME 4, NUMBER 43 4J-aFrff ri.t i jtti -v mi vi'ii ir o. sftsrirattR- rc-'fcV2 imus IX Jfc. .1 -.Wln- &V j. 1 fVfeljtiifJtilK "Tf!Ls.g Conducted $ fib. m r r . r 1 t . tt&en watts M lIDepanmeni ' xv V At Holtiht 'O the Yo&r Now turns the year In his scarlet bed; Now creeps the frost to the crimson tree; Now smokes the fires of the Wander Tribe; High in the woodland and low by the sea. Now is the time fothq. dearest dream, -'' To press the hill-tops With- nearing feet; Now enter tho heroes of Arcadie With creaking wains 'on tho narrow street. Now lifts tho heart to the fearless quest; Now sings the' blood to the surer tune; Now wakes tho soul from its summer sleep, To climb to God in an afternoon. Low in the valley the leaves are still Sodden gold in the stubble sear; Over tho woods the flags unfurl Flaring tho pride of the turning year. Low in the valley Doubt lies dead A shadow aslant the purple field Over the hill the quest is sped, And Youth goes up with a crimson shield. Woman's Home Companion. Homo Cheats Many kind words of commendatiou have reached me through the malls, and I would gladly answer the writ ers with thanks for the encourage ment, which is surely appreciated, but as this is impossible, I must thank you for all through the me dium of the Home columns. I am anxious to please you, and to serve you, and the Home columns should be nothing if not helpful, in more avenues of service than one. Others have sont with their kind words sug gestions which I shall gladly make use of, and still others ask for in formation which will be forthcoming in season. Some bave sent in excel lent recipes, but entirely unsuited for 30 Days Trial aa m av "whhmm - .... buysafully.jjuarantecd YinusoTi'mno. Qttoersat $165.00, $198,00 ana $225.00, umroval lor a7) tlftvaf trial. v IVfmlvhfc VinfTi .wavo l va ...,..- ..'! :i;r-wfr-jrtf"k".i""?j,."iv' -- 11 nvw iui uui uiunbrHLu nHuiminn. ltAnlln il-.Ii: -"- --, Shlnncul on & 9ay freight bo Anntatl ! X Jor"'iiuoWrV"i'4 uwwmuon, large pnow. VUUI WWJf until yoa kftYfc seen our- fttWnJ. u - i"r in-T- Montgomery Ward & Go, w.niKiAYB.iaui50flan waswngww Sw.,ChlcaflK this time of year, and as no names were sent with them, I shall have to keep them until .the time comes around again, and at the proper sea son give them to our readers, thank ins the unknown senders. I must again ask our. friends to send, with any communication they may offer, their real names and ad dresses, for in-many cases a personal letter may be required. Please do not forget it, friends. I should like the address of Mrs. B. S. Williams, of St. Louis, Mo Will she -please send it? Also of Effle S., of Salisbury, Mo. " For iho Hands It via wiser to prevent th,e hands from being chapped than to heal them after the mischief is done. Ev ery housekeeper should have at hand a little bag filled with powdered starch, which she should dust- on her hands as often as they, are wet, es pecially if not going to wet them again immediately, as housekeepers sometimes have to do. A bottle con taining one part of mire ErlvnoriTiF nnr? three parts rosewater should be kept on the wash stand and applied to the hands as soon as iney are washed and dried, by every member of the family, and especially at niehL Mon who work in the field will find great help from rubbing vinegar into the hands immediately after washing, as this acid, will kill the- alkali in the soap. Vinegar is very healing, and if combined with corn .meal, will tfeep the hands' in good shape and prevent chapping. ho Home Go.rdon While looking over the Florist's cat alogue and p.'anning for your bulbs and perennial flowering plants, do not lose Sight of the other side of the subject the garden for tho kitchen. Pre pare a nice bed and sow lettuce seeds, and do it now. The plants will come up thick next spring, as soon as the frost is but of the ground, and by the time the ground" is ready for trans planting jou will have abundance of nice lettuce plants and plenty of ear ly salad. Don't forget to set the rhubarb roots and if you already have a row of plants, see if they need separating and resetting. Put plenty of old, thor oughly rotten manure in the trench es, and don't forgot t6 put a gener ous Covering Of litterv maniiAra- Qr. the soil whore you have put the di vided roots. Another good thing to have in tho family is a sage bed. It may be set this fall, and then you will be sure of it, for if you wait until the hurry of springtime you will neglect it. Garden herbs are very handy things to have, and may as well be had as not. Do not forget to plant a few goose berry plants of the improved kinds and whether you live in the city or country, try to have av "fruit garden " If it only consists of one or two plants of a kind. Wherever a weed will grow, one can grow something useful, but before it grows, it must bo given a chance to do so. The home should have plenty of fruits, vegeta bles and- flowers, but every one of these calls for some work.' Guttering Vp h Fragments mh0,?bmingLOf the C001 das bngs with1-it -heartier appetites :'and calls for stronger foods, and it requires great care on the part of tho house wife to suit the quantity of food cook ed to the appetite to be catered to. Despite tho utmost care, however, there will often be "left-overs," and the constant cry of the economical cook is for suggestions and recipes relating to the best ways of using up these small amounts which one does not like to hrow away, but which are yet too small in amount to use sat isfactorily by themselves. In order to most economically use up all the little odds and ends of the pantry and the larder, tere are sev eral mechanical devices which every woman should have. The cost of each Is but small, and they may be added to the kitchen conveniences as one may have the means to spare, but they should certainly be added, even at sacrifice in some other way. ' Saving in the kitchen may not mean dollars ai . cents actually In hand, bu it may mean, and generally does, a saving in health and strength to the woman who does the work. Doctors' bills are dearer than kitchen equipments, and of far less value to the family, whilo even the family must suffer if the food is not nourishing and palatable. In this hurley-burley age, . a quick ly prepared breakfast is almost a ne cessity, and in order to get. the meal up in short order, nothing is more helpful than the little meat choppers by whfch the meats and vegetables are so prepared as to be readily avail able for the. "hurry order" of the average members of the family. Odds and enas of the "last night's supper or yesterday's f dinner may be made into delicious croquettes, souffles, hashes or sandwiches by being run through tho little chopper singly or in judicious mixtures. These little choppers may be had of any large de partment store in the city, if it can not be furnished by your own mer chant, and it will pay for itself many times over in a short while. The usual price or the family size is $1.25. Meats, vegetables and fruits are read ily minced, finer or coarser, as one may wish. Coffee is much better ground at home, even though bought ready browned, as ground coffee readily parts with its strength and flavor. In addition to the coffee grinder one should have another mill for spices, as spices should never be ground in the mlu used for coffee. Cherry stoners, raisin or grape-seeders, apple parers and corers, fruit and jelly presses, slaw cutters, graters, vegetable mash ers, egg-separators, potato peelers, can-openers, are but a few of these necessities which so greatly facilitate the work of tho housewife. On Trial $C25 WBKSWSSmk tm 1 fmisrf ft -'Pit M i days trial The Oakland $8. 25, tho Amazon 19.85. 30.85. S1.7K nj 00 Ac PA. ems.b. S t wgh-sridi m n.1.7 jvia vnu uuu nny " vrliGre. Don't buy a mnchluo until v t. soon onr catalosrao and SSS.iH?.,??,, i ?H ve it 0 3 K."Vi: Wndffl? iWr SSWZSZ whoro near onr nrlco. Lot ub "end you our ny llluBtrntod catnloRno. You will b0 BnrnSX tho pHcob wo rnako on ronlly hich-erodo w estly made machinos. AbIc for Sowlnn .m'i ?n Oataloguo. Wo wJU send it by wturn "SUli W0 Montgomery Wart & Co, Michigan Ave., Madison and Washlncton Sts Chicago For lamb or mutton, a little acid, such as chopped pickle or olive, or a little capers, should be added to toe sauce in which they are heated. Veal, chicken or turkey are uusually reheat ed in white sauce, while lamb, mut ton, beef and game should be served m brown sauce. Game should be re heated in a brown sauce, to which currant or other acid jellies, and la some cases spices and condiments havo been added. Turkey carcass and any dressing that may be left from dinner 'nay bo stewed for several hours, the water strained and returned to the kettle, and to this may be added any scraps of the meat, chopped very finely, to gether with .cold cooked rice and a few stalks of celery, allowed to boil half an hour, a tablesponful of butter and a cupful of cream -added, season ed and serve ? as an excellent soup. Scraps of beef, veal, mutton, turuey or chicken are all used for croquettes, while nearly all meats may be used in making salads. All kinds of vege tables may bo judiciously mixed and made into appetizing salads, with tho proper kinds of sauces, or they may be taken singly. Suggestions For Loft-Ovors Odds and ends of fish, boiled, baked or Tried, lend themselves readily to "made-over" dishes. Ordinarily an acid sauce is most acceptable, as the juices of fishes are alkaline, especially the oily fishes, such as salmon, sar- fiihGS' iblUe ?sll' etc White-fleshed fish and most of the shell fishes may bo acceptably served with cream sauces. w In preparing left-overs of meats flsh, flesh or fowl-do not recook. Merely towarming is all that is nee essary. The sauces should be made first, and the meats added, heating qnly so mtiw as to thoroughly heat 5S,Vel8?.?- " Is better to use a warinb0Her' Ta reheat y boiling water in the outer kettle, Sqoicos For Moats and Fishes For sauces of whatever kind or amount, the proportions are a table spoonful of butter and a tablespoon ful of flour to every cup of liquid. For a white sauce tho butter is men ed and the flour blended with it with out browning; for a brown sauce the butter is melted and browned, and the flour added and browned before tho liquid Is added. The flour should be put in all at once and stirred w.tji a spoon unth without lumps and weu blended, and when the butter and flour Is ready for the liquid it should be put in at once not by degrees. Stir until thoroughly blended, but ao- not allow to boil more man y "; Boiling "curdles" the sauce. WWWi or cream sauces, or served with lisn fowl, veal croquettes, sweetbreads, vegetables and eggs; brown sauce is served with dark-colored meats, game, ham, cutlets, etc. These two sauces are the basis of nearly all Kinds or sauces, which are made by adding au ferent flavors, catsups, jellies, pow ders, pickles, spices or vegetables. A NOTRE DAME LADY'S APPEAL brfekacho, pains in tho kidneys or nenrBiu pains, to write to her for a omatteatmem which! has repeatedly cured all p these torturca. Bho (cola it her duty to send it to ol .S""S FREE. Ydu cure yourself at borne Rsthousann" wlllteatify-no change of climate (being uecw eary. This slmolo dfscovery bapUlie 1 uric aw from the blood, loosens tho stiflencd a ow purlilns the blood, and brightens the 1 ejcsi h tf ing olaaiiclty and tone to the holo sjstem the above intereaU you. for proof address M, Bummers, Box ICO, tfotre Damo, ma. i I il I f . V .j' . ! ! . mKk