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"tfci X The Commoner. MARCH A6, 190G 9 utes. Set on the back of the range for twenty minutes longer. Drain, season with salt and pepper, turn into a border mould, set into the oven and hake fifteen minutes. Take out, turn the rice onto a dish and fill the cavity with fricassee of chicken or "brown stew and serve with' gravy. Spinach a la Creole. Wash the spinach through two or three waters; strip the leaves from the stems and reject the root and stalk. Put into a sauce pan with very little water and Bprinkle with a little salt; let boil twenty minutes, take up, drain and pres dry. Chop fine, return to the saucepan with a tablespoonful of but ter and a very little grated nutmeg; net over the fire; when hot, berft light and put into a dish, smooth the top neatly. Mash the yolks of four hard boiled eggs to a paste, add a table spoonful of melted butter, a little salt and a dash of pepper. Spread this mixture over the spinach with a knife, garnish with the whites of the boiled oggs cut into rings, and drop over it tiny bits of the pulp of lemon. Contributed Recipes Chicken Pie. Cook the chicken un til tender, salting to taste. Take out the loose bones, and have ready a crust made as follows: Two cups of flour sifted with two teaspoonfuls of baking powder; one .teaspoonful of salt; three tablespoonfuls of butter; 'mix the butter with the flour, add to it one beaten egg, then stir into the flour one cupful of sweet milk, mixing well. Put the chicken into a baking dish and pour the gravy over it; then drop the flour mixture over the chick en in spoonfuls and bake one-half to three-quarters of an hour. Dried Beef. Heat milk and water, equal parts, and thicken with a beaten egg and a little flour; when boiled . up, add the beef, sliced as thin as possible, and immediately remove from the fire, as the less it is cookqd, GRAND TO LIVE And the Last Laugh is Always the Best "Six months ago I would have laughed at the idea that there could be anything better for tf table bever age than coffee," writes an Ohio woman "now I laugh to know there is." "Since childhood I drank coffee as freely as any other member of the family. The result was a puny, sick ly girl, and as I grew into woman hood I did not gain in health, but was afflicted with heart trouble, a weak and disordered stomach, wrecked nerves and a general breaking down, till last winter at the age of 38, I seemed to be on the verge of consump tion. My friends greeted me with 'How bad you look! What a terrible color!' und this was not very comfort ing. "The doctors and patent medicines did me absolutely no good. I was thoroughly discouraged. "Then I gave up coffee and com menced Postum Food Coffee. At first I didn't like it, but after a few trials and following the directions exactly, it was grand. It was refreshing and satisfying. In a couple of weeks I noticed a great change. I became stronger, my brain grew clearer, I was not troubled with forgetfulness as in coffee times, my power of en durance was more than doubled. The heart trouble and indigestion disap peared and my nerves became steady and strong. , L t "I began to take an interest in things about me. Housework and home-making became a pleasure. My friends have marveled at the change and when they enquire what brought it about, I answer 'Postum Food Cof fee, and nothing else in the world. Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creole, Mich. .. There's a reason. Read the little book, "The Road to WollviUe, in Pkgs. the better. If the baet is very salty, it should be freshened in a littlo hot water (not boiled) before going into the gravy. Tea Biscuit.- One quart of flour, one teaspoonful of salt, half toaspoon ful of sugar, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, one tablespoonful of lard, one pint sweet milk. Sift together flour, salt, sugar and baking powder; rub in the lard cold; add the milk and form into a smooth, consistent dough. Flour the board, turn out the dough, roll it to the thickness or three-quarters of an inch, cut in small, round shape and lay close togetner on a greased baking tin; wash over with milk, and bake in a good, hot oven until done about twenty minutes. , Paste for Tarts.Beat the white of an egg to a strong froth; then mix it with as much water as will make three-fourths of a pound of fine flour into a very stiff paste; roll it very thin, then lay the third part of a half pound of butter upon it in littlo bits; dredge it with some flour (which should be left out at first), and roll it up tight; roll it out again, and put a second third of the butter on it in small bits, dredge as before, and roll up tight; roll out again, putting on the last third of the butter, dredge with a little flour, roll up tight, and then roll thin again, then use for crusts. .Oranges Oranges are charming for decora tion of the table, as well as for food. When placed upon the table whole, a few green leaves should be placed around them; the leaves need not, necessarily, be orange leaves, but other pretty, green leaves may be used, if the orange leaves are not to be had. When to be eaten at the table, there are several ways of hand- ling them. Cutting them across and eating with a spoon has the drawback that the juice flies aDOut disagree ably. By cutting a little circle around the core in the center, this unpleas ant feature may be counteracted. An other way is to cut them in eighths with the skin on, and sip the juice from these little portions. One method of preparing them for the table is as follows: Cut with a sharp knife a narrow girdle around the circumference of the orange, half way from the stem to the blossom end; remove all the rind except the narrow girdle; just over one of the divisions of the fruit, cut the rind band through with a knife. Then care fully separate the natural divisions of the orange, leaving each attached at its back to the strip of rind. It is very convenient and comfortable to eat oranges prepared in this way, as there is no trouble with the juice or peeling. Apple Turnovers Make a rich, short pastry, roll it out and cut into squares about five inches wide. Set in the middle of each a large," pared and cored apple; drop into each apple a piece of but ter about as big as the end of one's thumb, fill up the hole with sugar, and put more sugar around the out side of the fruit. Into the sugar stick two inches of cinnamon, and press three cloves into the flesh of the apple. Lay a slice of lemon on top of all this, then take up the four corners of the pastry, pinch them in to a knot over the apple, and set in a baking pan; let them bake in an oven hot enough to well brown the pastry, but allow the fruit to get well done. Tne lemon, or either of the other flavoring, may be omit ted, and the sugar may be either brown or white, as one likes the taste of it. To be eaten with or without sauce. experience too often prove that the charge Ib not unfounded. Who of us have not had a frequent Tlsitor who "hadn't a minute to spare, but thought she would just run in for a minute," yet who spends one hour or several at each call, plaintively bemoaning her lack of leisure for reading, rest ing, or improving herself? It is so much easier to talk about the things we would like to do than to go -ahead and do them, and she does not seom to realize that she is not only wasting her own time, but robbing us of ours time which we can ill-Bparo for the discussion of the neighborhood's do ings, or in the tittle-tattle which bone fits neither us nor them. Do wo not all know the woman who is "just run to death" with her work, who yet finds time hours! in which to de fraud us of our precious moments in retailing her own or another's griev ance? It seems impossible to impress her with an idea of the value of our time without brutal rudeness, or to UiatY uci 1ULU U U1BUUHH1UU UJJUU MU1UU topic which would Improve both of us, so that we might at least find an ex cuse for her delay. Now-a-days, when women are learning to measure time by its results, it is anything but sat isfactory to see our morning hours slipping by without any evidence of accomplishment. Caring for the Baby Should the nose of the young child become at all stopped up with dried mucus or catarrhal discharges, take warm olive oil or liquid vaseline, and, with a small swab of absorbent cot ton thoroughly cleanse the nasal pas sage. The baby which was before growing thin because it could not breathe through stopped up nasal passages, and was unable to nurse and breathe through its mouth at the same time, will begin to suckle again naturally, and to put on flesh and grow. Its skin should be gradually toned up and educated to endure changes of temperature by cool bath ing at it grows older by gradually lowering the temperature of the bath until at a year and a half, or two years old, it is taking its daily morn ing cold bath. As it grows older, it should be taught to inhale deeply in the open air, standing erect with mouth closed; also taught to run and ploy, always being careful to inhale through the nose. Mouth-breathing often becomes a habit, and aside from its hurtfulness, gives a bad ex pression to the child's face. The Housekeeper. have a pasteboard for the framo and iipll the pasto between the fingers, bring both ends togother and cover the pasteboard frame with it; then sprinkle with powdered glass (dia mond dust) to make it sparkle. This, whon dried, is said to bo very beauti ful. Made thus, it Is white, but it can bo colored, if preferred. Hemstitching by Machine Draw the desired number of threads, fold the hem over and baste with the edge in the center of the drawn threads. Loosen the tension of the machine and stitch as close to the edge of the hem as possible. Take out the basting thread and pull tho hem to the bottom of tho drawn threads. Hemstitched tucks may bo made in the same way. Wasted Energies It seems too bad to go back to the old witticism directed against woman's lovo of talking, yet observation and The Sympathetic Cough Sympathetic cough is oftenest met with in children, probably on account of their greater susceptibility to ner vous disturbances. The more com mon causes of it are worms, consti pation, dentition, and the like. A close examination will usually reveal cough In a child requires the closest investigation. The constant "hack- ing," the irritability of the child, Its disinclination to effort, its loss of ap petite and gradual, but steady de cline, are phenomena such as might accompany a severe type of lung dls-. ease. Its remedy consists of treat ment directed against the cause, and , it is of the utmost importance first to ascertain the real cause beyond the possibility of mistake. It is evi dent that no amount of cough medi cine, or soothing syrup can be of avail in such cases until the cause of the disturbance is relieved. Making Marble Frames Take one teacupful of gloss starch and one teacupful of table salt, one teacupful of water, one teaspoonful of glue (the glue you can buy at the drug store and dissolve in a little water). Cook salt, starch water and glue in a little saucepan, set in a large pan of boiling water, or use a double boiler; when thick enough to mold, OoEt-DoarWwk Many a semi-invalid, man and woman, many a clerical or business man .in ill health from close confinement, many a woman beginning to fail from the hardships of over-work at typewriter, machine or counter, has won greater income and jhe independent freedom and abounding good .health of out-door work by representing the sales departmentofTHELxDiEs' Home Journal and The Saturday Evening Post. Selling yearly sub scriptions to our publi cations is not "soliciting' The periodicals are everywhere well known and their representatives respected. Prizes of $40,000 are frequently distributed among our salesmen in amounts of $500 and less, in addition to prizes of $5,000 every month, and large regular commissions on every subscription you take. 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