r pir" " n-v A" JANUARY 6, 1905 The Commoner "jr- 7-! several hours to take off the cliill; then mix thoroughly with it one and a half teaspoonfuls of salt; dissolve half a yeast cake in half a cupful of warm water, make a well in the flour, pour in the yeast and stir in enough flour to make a stiff batter; scald a pint of milk to boiling point, adding a tea spoonful of sugar and a half teaspoon ful of butter; add enough water, which lias been boiled, and cooled, to make the milk tepid, then pour it into the flour and yeast by degrees, beating thoroughly with a strong wooden spoon. Do not get the dough too wet; work it with the hands until it no longer sticks to the fingers; spread a clean cloth over it and cover tightly, and set in a warm place to rise over night; early in the morning, work it down and let rise again, then flour the molding board, knead the dough thor oughlyfirst cutting across it many times with a sharp knife, and after wards working with the hands. Fill the greased pans half full, cover with a cloth and set to rise; when it is well raised, prick with a fork and bake in a moderate oven. Vinegar Biscuit One quart of flour, teaspoonful of butter, dessertspoonful of vinegar and half-teaspoonful of soda; put the soda in the vinegar and stir Quickly in the flour; have two eggs beaten light and add to it; make a dough with warm water stiff enough to roll out cut with a biscuit cutter, one inch thick, and bake in a quick oven. ' Corn Bread. Use a coffee cup for measuring. One cup of meal, half a cup of flour, quarter cup cr sugar, tea spoonful of salt, small teaspoonful of soda, cup and a half of rich quite sour milk, one egg well beaten, adding the eggs and milk la3t. Turn into well greased pan and bake in moderate oven. high heels which have been inflicted upon us for many years past are re sponsible for the deformity of the ma jority of feet, and the result of wearing them shows itself, if not in onlarged joints, in soft corns, callouses, ingrow ing toe nails, and other serious ail ments, the existence of which ren ders pedestrianisni In most cases, sim ply impossible with any comfort what ever, especially when "breaking" new shoes. Query Box Annie F. To 'prevent the stickiness when seeding raisin3, rub a little but ter on the fingers and knives. Mrs. J. H. To ease tho window sash which shoves up hard, rub a little hard soap on the inner casings. For the bureau drawers, the same. M. S. A little cheap varnish i3 bet ter than paste for attaching labels to tin cans, boxes and glam Everything should be labelled. Aflle. To remove the black spots which attach themselves to doughnuts when frying, drop slices of raw potato into the fat and leave while frying the next relay; repeat, if necessary. Mrs. J. B. To take the taste of onions or rank, strong vegetables from vessels in which they have been cooked, rub the inside of tho vessel with a cloth wet with a strong solution of soda and water, hot; ,then wash with soap suds and rinse well. Querist. A teaspoonful of granular phosphate of soda in a tumbler of hot water, drank before breakfast for a few days, is a good blood purifier. This salt agrees with delicate persons and cools the blood, at the same time pro moting action of the liver. Reader. For tired, weak or inflamed eyes, use a wash composed of one pint of boiled water, teaspoonful of refined meshed solve, and set the bran away, using only tho finer meal that cornea through tho solve. Uso ono cupful of tho Hour and ono cup of wheat flour, sift together, adding four tnblespoon fuls of sugar, ono teaspoonful of salt, and four teasponfuls of baking powder. Add gradually ono cup of milk, ono ogg and one teaspoonful of melted butter; beat well and pour luto hot greased gem pans. Graham gems ought to bake twenty-flvo minutes. Johnny Cake. Old-fashioned johnny cake may be in ado cither in gem pans or in a large, shallow pan. Ono quart of sour milk, three eggs, two table spoonfuls melted lard, lablcspoonful of sugar (If liked), a pinch of salt, hand- nil of wheat flour, and enough corn meal (sifted) to make : (not too thick) batter; add heaping teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a little milk, the last thing, stir thoroughly, and have the oven very hot, and bake in a well greased shallow pan. A tolerably thin batter makes tho best bread. Tho soda must be used with judgment, as somo soda is qulto strong, while other la not, and tho milk may not bo very sour, or it may bo quite sour; in cither case, the judgment is the best guide. Plain Muffins. For twelve good-sized muffins, sift one and three-fourths cups of flour, two teispoonfuls of bak ing powder, half a teaspoonful of salt. Three teaspoonfuls of sugar, If liked; beat ono egg thoroughly and add it with three-quarters of a cup of milk to tho dry ingredients and beat hard. At tho last moment add one and a half tablespoonfuls of melted butter; drop tho batter in hot buttered iron gem-pans and bake in a hot oven for twenty-five minutes. STRANGER THAN FICTION A Romedy Which Him Revolutionized tho Tro&tment of Stomach Trouble For Tho Mis-Shapon Foot A reader wishes to know how to re duce the enlargement of the ball-joint of the great toe. I can not say; but relief may be had from the pain by wearing a properly shaped shoe. How ever, this is a difficult thing to find, as ehoes are made to fit the last not the foot, and Fashion orders t done after designs of her own. If one will insist on having a shoe of proper breadth and length for the normal foot, with no pinching, pointed toes, it will be but a small matter to get relief by the aid of the cobbler without destroying the shoe. Let the shoo bo broad across the toes, if possible, for no length will make up for the point into which the toeS must bo bunched. On putting the Bhoe on, either yourself or the "shoe man" should cut a slit on the side of the shoo under the enlargement, as close to the sole as possible, and ac cording to tho enlargement, longer or shorter about an inch for a very large joint. Wear the shoe in this condi tion for a day or two, that the slit may spread as much as necessary for cOmfort, then take it to the cobbler and get him to set a patch in, not on, the opening, to fit the slit. This can be done without ruining the shoe if the man is skilled at his business, and most shoe houses keen such a man. The cost will be about twenty cents, and the comfort over the joint can not be estimated. Prevention is better than cure; but to prevent, one must begin with the child's foot. The pointed toes and Tho "Ono Standard" Roil Hero is an article clipped from borax and fifteen drops of spirits of city daily newspaper which It would .camphor. Drop into tho eyo with a medicine dropper several times a day. If the eye3 trouble at night, uso it again. M. S. See answer to Reader. One grain of boracic acid to tablespoonful of boiled or distilled water is a good wash for weak or inflamed eyes. The trouble is often caused by disorders of the internal organs, and in such cases, constitutional treatment i3 called for. Nasal catarrh is often the cause. Old Reader -For rheumatic affections of the arms, use a liniment made as follows; Liniment of chloroform, six drachms; liniment of belladonna, four drachms; liniment of opium, four drachms: compound soap liniment four ounces. Mix, and apply with vig ourous rubbing; apply heat and wear flannels. Laundress. "Water which contains the salts of lime, are saw to be hard. There are two varieties of hardness. Water, the hardness of which i3 due to the presence of carbonic acid gas which holds the salts in solution, may be softened by merely boiling, which liberates the gas and allows tho salts to be deposited, and it is frequently seen as a crust on teakettles and boil ers inside. The other kind of hardness is permanent, and can only be removed by distillation, or process due to chem ical action. A NOTRE DAME LADY'S APPEAL. To all knowing sufferers of rheumatism, wheth er muscular or of tho joints, sciatica, lumbago bnekaeno, pains in tho kidneys or neuralgia pains, to Trrito to her or a homo treatment which has repeatedly cured all of theso tortured She feels it her duty to Bend it to all sufferers. FREE. You euro yourself at homo as thousands wllltestify no change of climato being neces sary. This simnlo discovery banishes uric acid from tho blood, loosens tho stiffened joints purifies the blood, and brightens tho eyes, glv ing elaslicity and tone to tho whole system. If tho above interests youyfor proof address Mrs. M. Summers. Boxica.otre Dnme, Ind. Some BrooJcfast Dishos Waffles. Sift one and three-fourths cups of flour, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder and half a teaspoonful of salt; gradually add one cup of milk, the yolks of two eggs well beaten, one tablespoonful of melted butter and beat smooth; at the last, cut in the whites of the eggs whipped till dry; cook on a hot, well-greased waffle-iron, and do not try to lift a cake from the iron till both sides are done, or it will be heavy. . Graham Muffins. If the graham flour is Tery coarse, sift through a' coarse- be well for bur mothers and sisters to read and think about: "If society looked upon the escapades of young men as it does upon the same escapades of young women, there would be fewer such scandals in the world. I havo seen young men who went all tho paces of immorality, and when fi nally caught, society would hold up its hands in holy horror, then begin to pat him on the back and call him 'a good fellow, but a little wild.' But the woman in the case was kicked lower and lower. Now, who is it that pats the young scapegoat on the back and condones his crime while it kicks the woman lower and lower? Is it not the women? They arc so forgiving. And they seem to consider that he ia not to blame, so very much tho wom an In the case led him off. The men don't pass that kind of judgment on them; it is the women tho mothers and sisters of other women, in reier ring to Eve, I muat say, that, if Eve had been capable of looking beneath the surface, she would have known that satan was a "gay deceiver." But if Evo was like the majority of her daughters, she liked him all the bet ter for that." What do you say, mothers? Do you require a good moral character of tho man who visits your daughter? Do you nsk for a "clean bill" of moral health in the man to whom you give your child? Is inquiry evsr made as to his record in this line or his reputaUrn for purity of character In the dai asso ciations of life? Do you wonder at the frequency of divorce, or the necessity for it? Do you thing the "divorce question" is the one of greatest im portance? Do you not think our min isters might do better to turn their attention to the purification of the lives and characters of our young men than to spend so much time warring on di vorce' These are grave matters for thought and "in the beginning" is a good place to begin the "thou shalt not" proceedfngs. Tho remedy la not hontldod m jv wonderful discovery nor yet a Hocret patent modlclno, neither la It claimed to euro anything except dyapcpala, in digestion and stomach troubles with which nlno out of ten suffer. Tho remedy Is in tho form of plcaa ant tasting tablets or lozenge, con taining vegetable and fruit eaonccflf pure afioptic popain (government toat), golden seal and dlaataao. Tho tablets are sold by drugglata under tho namo of Stuart's Dyapcpala Tablets. Many Interesting experiments to test tho dl goatlvo power of Stuart's Tablets show that ono grain of tho nctlvo prlnclplo contained In thorn ia sufficient to thor oughly dlgcat 3,000 grains of raw moat, eggs and other wholesome food. Stuart's Tablets do not act upon tho bowels like after dinner pills and cheap cathartics, which simply Irritate and inflame tho Intcatlnca without hav ing any effect whatever In digesting food or curing I (digestion. If the stomach can bo rcatod and aa alatcd In tho work of digestion It will very soon rocovcr Its normul vigor, aa no organ ia so much abuacd and over worked as the stomach. Thla Is tho secret, if there Is any secret, of tho remarkable auccoaa of Stuart's Dyapcpala Tablcta, a remedy practically unknown a few years ago and now the moat widely known of-any treatment for stomach wcaknoaa. Thla success haa been secured en tirely upon Its mcrlta aa a digestive pure and simple because there can bo no stomach trouble if tho food la. promptly digested. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets act en tirely on the food eaten, digesting It completely, ao that It can be aaaiml latcd into blood, nervo and tlaauo. They cure dyspepsia, water brash, sour atom ach, gas and bloating after meals, be cause they furnish tho dlgcativo power which weak stomacha lack and unlca3 that lack Ib supplied It ia usclesB to attempt to cure by the uao of "tonics," "pilla," and cathartics which have ab solutely no digestive power. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets can bo found at all drug stores and the regu lar use of one or two of them after meals will demonstrate their merit bet ter than any other argument. Tho Dead Summer How fair she lies when last we gazo Upon her through the purple haze Which kindly veils her form when Death Seals up her eyes and stops hsr breath. How fair that life, begun In June, With birds and bees and brooks in tune, Goes out when brilliant Autumn's train Announce the opening of her reign. Now, when she lieth, faint and still. The heat-waves rise from off the hill; The milk-weed shows a bursting pod, The fence-rowa flame with golden-rod, The katy-dld's harsh rasp la heard Contesting for the final word; Ami nrlftketa sim? in sad refrain And wait with fear the winter's reign. Exchange. Why? Why do we always talk of putting on our coats and vests, when we al ways put on first our vest and then our coat? - Why do wo refer to the coverings of our feet as shoes and stockings when the stocks are first put on? Why do wo invito people to wipe their feet, when wo mean their shoes? Why in the olden times did a father tell his son he would warm his jacket when every one knew he meant his pantaloons? Globe-Democrat. m !