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DECEMBER 10, 1909
The Commoner.
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ling, pour a little flavoring at a time
on the candy, and when done, you
will have the old "candy-pulling"
candy. ; ,
Binding Magazines or Papers
"A Reader" sends us the follow
ing clipping from the Pictorial Re
view: "Five strings of coarse twine
from hack of chair to rung; hoard
across side rurigs for shelf. Place
douhle. leaves of white paper for fly
leaves upon shelf. Pass threaded
needlo through fold, around twine,
through fold, continuing until
securely fastened. Fasten maga
zine the same. Cut twine two inches
each sido of volume, ravel ends, pasto
to back and cover with drilling; Jay
aside until dry. One half inch from
back edge placo heavy pasteboard,
cut right size, pasto to drilling and
one fly-leaf; cover back with canvass,
and ornament to suit."
Grape Fruit Shortcake
Mako a tender biscuit crust, using
a .littlo moro shortening and a pinch
of sugar than for ordinary short
cake and bake. Remove the rind
from two or three large grape fruits,
tako out the pith and seeds, break
up the pulp rather fino with a silver
fork; add plenty of confectioner's
sugar to sweeten, and put a large
cupful of the juice over the fire with
a cupful of sugar to cook until it
syrups. This will tako about five
minutes from the time it commences
to boil. Just before serving, spread
the hot shortcake with plenty of but
ter, then arrango the grape fruit pulp
between the layers, sprinkle the top
layer with powdered sugar, and when
serving, pour several spoonfuls of the
syrup over each portion of the short
cake. A few maraschino . cherries
may be mixed with he fruit pulp, or
added to the syrup.
The grape fru,lt. is not . ,as well
known as it should be. It. is com
monly, served for breakfast, but may
be served as the fruit course at a
luncheon, as a salad with other in
gredients, as part of a dessert, or as
HABIT'S CHAIN
Certain Habits Unconsciously Formed
and Hard to Break
an appetizer at either dinner or
luncheon. It is served plain, with a
little sugar (confectioner's), or with
Maraschino cherries and a littlo of
the liquid in which the cherries are
preserved.
An ingenious philosopher estimates
that the amount of will power neces
sary to break a life-long habit would,
if it could be transformed, lift a
weight of many tons.
It sometimes requires a higher de
gree of heroism to break the chains
of a pernicious habit than to lead a
forlorn hope in a bloody battle. A
lady writes from an Indiana town:
"From my earliest childhood I was
a lover of coffee. Before I was out
of my teens I was a miserable dyspep
tic, suffering terribly at times with
my stomach.
"I was convinced that it was coffee
that was causing the trouble and yet
I could not deny myself a cup for
breakfast. At the age of 36 I was
in very poor health, indeed. My sis
ter told me I was in danger of be
coming a coffee drunkard.
"But I never could give up drink
ing coffee for breakfast although it
kept me constantly ill, until I tried
Postum. I learned to make it prop
erly according to directions, and now
we can hardly do without Postum for
breakfast, and care nothing at all for
coffee.
"I am no longer troubled with
dyspepsia, do not have spells of suf
fering with my .stomach that used
to trouble me bo when I drank
coffee "
LookJn pkgs. for the little book,
"The Road to Wellville." "There's
a Reason."
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
Interest.
Some Good itcclpcs
Rolled Steak A large, thin sir
loin steak is nice for this: Fry a
minced onion in butter and lay tho
steak in this to fry quickly on both
sides; lift out on a largo dish and
cover with forcemeat mado with
minced and fried onion, dry crumbs,
a littlo sausago meat or a chesnut
or oyster dressing; roll up tho steak
tightly and tie with a soft string;
fasten with skewers. Lay in a sauce
pan, covering closely; add no water,
but set where it will heat slowly,
and let ccok very slowly in its own
gravy for two hours. When you dish
tho moat, thicken tho gravy if nec
essary, if not, thin a littlo with hot
water; remove the threads, tako out
tho skewers and pour the gravy over
tho meat.
Scalloped Tomatoes Arrango half
a can of nico tomatoes in a dish in
alternato layers of coarsely broken
crackers, seasoning each layer with
minced onions, butter, pepper, salt
and a trifle of sugar. Bake in oven
until done, and servo. Tho remain
ing half of tho tomatoes is to bo
used for soup.
Pork Salad Tho lean part of tho
ham of a young pig, well cooked and
seasoned, is considered wholesome,
and if tho ham is stuffed and baked
not less than threo hours in a suit
able oven, it makes, a better salad
than either chicken or game, and no
ono eating it would suspect it was
mado of pork.
Veal Shoulder Fry threo slices of
salt pork in tho pan in which tho
meat is to bo baked; lay in the
shoulder, which may or may not be
stuffed, but should be boned; slice
two small carrots and three onions
on top of tho meat, cover with a pint
of water and bako for two hours,
covered closely. Garnish with a
handful of large, whole boiled chest
nuts peeled and mado hot in tho
gravy, and one small link of sausage
for each person. Tho bones and
trimmings of the veal, with a small
soup bone, will give stock enough
for two days' supply of soup.
Stale bread to be used for dressing
of fowls should bo wet with cold, not
hot, water and the dressing will bo
light and nice. Hot water makes
tho dressing sodden.
When making taffy, or sugar
candy, a teacupful of chopped nut
meats stirred in just beforo remov
ing from the fire improves it won
derfully.
prived of his oyesight, tho Oklahoma
senator is undor no temptation to
squandor or misiiBO his leisure. Ho
reflects moro than other men. and
keops turning over in his mind facts,
and inferences from them, and ways
of putting them persuasively.
This blind senator has onlv fnur
senses whero the rest of us have flvo,
uhu jut nu seems to navo moro facul
ties, and to bo nearer the complete
man than most of us than many
of his colleagues, indeed, intellectu
ally tho picked men of tho nation.
Ho has the best memory in public
life, because ho needs to have it. Ho
can remember a long array of fig
ures after they havo been read to
him twice, and ho has surprised his
colleagues by reciting off-hand the
statistics of capital stock, surplus,
earnings, par value, etc., of a dozen
different corporations. Ills memory
is only one illustration of his unusual
power of mental concentration. This
makes him ono of the readiest and
Filling the Coal Oil Lamp
Get a small funnel, costing five
cents, and pour the oil into the lamp
through this, using the funnel for
nothing else. Or, melt the top from
an opened tin can, bend one side of
it to a sharp point (tho can, not tho
top), and pour the oil out of this
into the lamp. By using the can,
there is no danger of running tho
oil over, as you will know just how
much to pour.
THE BLIND MAN'S ADVANTAGES
All that Senator Gore knows has
to be told to him, or read to him,
or absorbed in conversation or public
debate. The result is that most of
it is selected. His wife and secretary
and friends read to him only what
they, or he, deem worth the while.
When he listens to the senate de
bates, his mind fastens only on what
seems to be pertinent, for ho knows
that he must rely on what ho car
ries in his head; and a man is more
particular as to what he carries in
his head than as to what is contained
in his books and newspapers. De-
most, forceful debaters of the flenato,
"This world is too much with tin,"
has been tho complaint of men In nil
tlmo. Mr, Goro's affliction, shuts It
out, in part, and ho has so used It
as to turn physical defeat into vic
tory, Many a man feels his Intel
lectual vigor scattered, dissipated,
wasted, stolen, by tho multlludo of
unoBBentlalB which lay nlofjo to It
through all tho organs of perception.
Thoro Is power In reflection, In con
centration, in undisturbed exorcise of
tho mental faculties. Tho devotco
will tell you that thero Ik moro; that
thoro Is Inspiration, "tho ecstatic
vision," the inflatory of things un
seen. Now York Mall.
HAD INSIDE INFORMATION
At a party Sarah's aunt said to
her, "Child, you eat a great deal for
a littlo girl of throe." Sarah replied,
"Oh, I'so not so littlo on tho Inside,
auntie." Chicago Tribune.
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