HALL IS IMPORTANT
Charles Edward Becomes an Heir
ENTRY TO HOME SHOULD BE
ATTRACTIVE.
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Some Points to Be Considered in
Decortion and Furnishing Di
rections for the Making '
of Aspic Jelly.
The hall of to-day Is often large
enough to be used as a combination
living room as well as an entry. It
should, therefore, be cheerful and give
the stranger a sense of welcome the
moment it is entered. The first point
to be considered is the wall paper.
This should be of some warm color,
red or a rich yellow. The design of
the paper is of little importance so
long as it is artistic, and does not in
terfere with the pictures to be hung.
The fireplace may be of face-brick or
stone with a broad shelf at the top
for the display of brassware or pot
tery. The floor should be considered next.
It is not well to use carpet. If pos
sible have a hardwood floor partly
covered with rugs. If it happens to
be an old wooden floor, have it paint
ed or stained, so that rugs can be
used. With constant dirt and dust
blowing in, it necessitates sweeping
each day, and with a heavy carpet it
is much harder to keep clean.
In reply to an inquiry how to make
aspic jelly, we give the following
recipe from "The Boston Cooking
School Cook-Book": Two tablespoons
each of carrot, onion, and celery cut
into dice, two sprigs of parsley, and
the same of thyme, two cloves, one
half teaspoon peppercorns, one bay
leaf, seven-eighths of a cup of white
wine, one box of gelatine, one quart
of white stock for vegetables and
white meat, such as chicken, or one
quart of brown stock for dark meat,
juice of one lemon, and the whites
of three eggs.
Aspic jelly is always made with meat
stock, and in making it use as much
liquid as the pan which is to contain
the molded dish will hold. Put your
vegetables, seasonings, and wine (ex
cept two tablespoons) in a saucepan;
cook eight minutes, and strain, re
serving liquid. Add gelatine to stock,
then lemon juice. Cook to boiling
point and add strained liquid. - Season
with salt and pepper. Beat whites of
'eggs, add the remaining 'wine,"'' and
dilute with one cup of hot mixture,
stirring until ready to boil. Place on
back of range, and let stand for 20
minutes. Strain through two thick
nesses of cheesecloth, or through a
jelly bag. -Aspic jelly, cut into cubes,
diamonds, etc., is used for garnishing
cold 'meats', fish and salads.-
Pork Tenderloin 8tuffed.
. Pork tenderloin stuffed is really a
winter dish. If one is inclined to
grumble at the price of pork tender
loin at 25 or ' 30 cents a pound, re
member, that there is not an ounce
of loss.. It is all meat, and good
meat, too. Here is a recipe: Four
'large pork tenderloins, half a pound of
fat pork, one cup of cracker crumbs,
two tablespoonfuls of butter, one tea
spoonful of salt, half a teaspoonful of
pepper and stuffing as for poultry.
Make a. deep pocket in each ten
derloin and with a larding needle lard
each one, fill each tenderloin with the
stuffing, sew them up, place them in
a baking dish, bake in a brisk oven
45 minutes, basting with a brown
sauce. Garnish with quarters of ap
ple, cooked without sugar.
It's Helpful to Know
That you can make a faded dress
perfectly white by washing it in boil
ing water.
That salt dissolved in alcohol will
often remove grease spots from cloth
ing. That two potatoes grated in a ba
sin of water will give better results
that soap in washing delicate flannel
and woolen goods, ribbons, etc.
That piano keys can be cleaned, as
can any old ivory, by being rubbed
with muslin dipped in alcohol.
That a little thin cold starch rubbed
over windows and mirrors and then
wiped off with a soft cloth is an easy
way of producing most shining results.
To Clean Hardwood.
Grained and varnished imitations
of hardwood are best cleaned by rub
bing well with cloths wrung out in
borax soapsuds, never letting the wa
ter touch them. Afterwards they
should be rubbed with a flannel bare
ly moistened with kerosene. If there
be too much kerosene it will dissolve
and blur the color.
Clean hardwood with a flannel wet
in turpentine and afterwards rub
lightly with boiled linseed oil. Take
off spots with fine sand mixed in
oil. Apply it with a leather and rub
with clean leather afterwards to bring
back the polish.
Protecting Greenhouse Plants.
Plants in a greenhouse should be
shaded in some way. Some apply lime
wash to the glass. This can be thrown
on well with a sprinkler, and it an
swers all purposes, but it is quite dif
ficult to remove it when there is no
longer need of shading. Cheesecloth
fastened .to wires with rings which
may be slipped up and down the wire
will be found to cost but little, and
will prove very satisfactory.
Hew to Mend a Stay.
The nicest way to mend a broken
corset or dress stay is to bind tha
top of the stay or where it is broken
with a small piece of chamois skin.
The end of the stay, it will be found,
will not pierce through the chamois
as It frequently does through cloth.
(Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
While Lady Angela busied herself
with the tea things the discussion
went on and broadened as it went.
What Lady Angela wanted to know
was what her husband would do if he
were suddenly cast upon the world
without the income or the occupation
which resulted from his connection
with Austin and company, bankers, of
New York city.
"I Should make my wants known in
the newspapers," said Charles Ed
ward, looking up from a page appar
ently consisting entirely of advertise
ments. "I should apply for a posi
tion." "As what?" asked Paul Gary, their
guest.
"That doesn't seem to matter. I
should decide on something very com
fortable and profitable. You can ap
parently get anything you want."
Charles Edward meditated.
"I believe," he added, slowly, "that
if one hadn't a penny in the world one
couldn't do better than become heir
to some very rich person."
"This is an inspiration, Charles Ed
ward," cried his wife.
"To-morrow, my darling Angela, I
advertise."
. "And I'll bet you twenty-five dol
lars " began Paul, "that you don't get
an answer."
"I'll take. it," came from the 'pros
pective advertiser, "and if you .like I
will bet another twenty-five that I
become an heir." '
The appeal which Charles Edward
inserted was perhaps not. unprece
dented, but it was at least unusual.
It ran as .follows: i
"In Earnest. I wish to be heir, par
tially or wholly, to some rich person.
A payment on account desirable. If in
London could arrange a personal inter
view." The advertisement was tor appear
for three days running. Three days
passed with no result When the let
ter came. It is still preserved among
the most valued archives of the Aus
tins. It said:
"Sir
"If you have not already made your
arrangements with some one else, I
should be glad of an opportunity of
talking with you in reference to the
possibility of your becoming my heir,
a plan which it seems to me might be
to our mutual advantage. If it should
be fine .on Monday afternoon, I will sit
in the Kensington gardens upon a
bench near the fountains at the head
of the Serpentine, holding a copy of
the Times in which your advertise
ment shall be marked with red ink.
I hope it will not discommode you to
meet me there. In case you cannot
come on Monday, I shall, if the
weather allows, be there on Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday.
"I am, dear sir,
"Yours most faithfully,
"FELIX ARNCASTLE."
The little formal garden lay baking
In the August sun. The sun had
scarcely begun to sink, yet one tall
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He Appeared to Be About
of Age.
Years
tree to the west managed to stretch
out its shadow and just touch a bench
on which sat a gentleman across
whose knees was spread carefully a
copy of the Times. He appeared to
be about 70 years of age, with gray
hair and moustache.' As the clock of
a neighboring church struck five a
young gentleman attired in gray flan
nels, with a Panama hat shading his
eyes from the glare, stepped into view
near the farthest fountain. .
"You are Mr. Arncastle, I pre
sume," said he, when he had advanced
to the bench.
"I am," was the reply, "and you
are?" v
"Charles Edward Austin. I am an
American, as you have undoubtedly
noticed, but I have married an Eng
lish girl. I am 25 years old, and
I don't know I should like to be
your heir, I think."
Mr. Arncastle looked Charles Ed
ward shyly over. "You don't," he
said, hesitatingly, "you don't well.
what I mean is," are you in great
need?'
"Of course, in any case, one would
try to keep up appearances. No, I
cuppose I don't look very poor." '
"I suppose I don't look very rich,"
said Mr. Arncastle, rather sadly. Then
he added: "Of -course it's only fair,
is it not, that the heir should help me
in some ways? There are so many
things to be done, and it is very
strange and very fortunate that yon
should be an 'American. Because it is
your government that has my money.
When they pay me vrhJi they owe me
I shall be a very rich man. Of course
in the meantime I must see what I
can do about arranging for you and
your expenses."
The last was said with a quaint and
pathetic dignity. Charles Edward
thought of the house in Fifth avenue,
the cottage at Lenox and the bunga
low at Cookham; and wondered', rather
shamefacedly just what part of the
expenses of these establishments it
was lfkely that Mr. Felix Arncastle
could conveniently bear. For it was
gradually dawning -upon him that in
stead of being a very rich man, his
benefactor was an extremely poor
one.
Something like 150 years ago a branch
of the Arncastle family went out to
America. Contrary to the usual rule,
the American braneh died out, and to
Felix Arncastle came in due course
that forlornest of forlorn hopes, one of
the French spoliation claims. The''
history of these claims is a rather un
happy chapter in American records.
The French, exercising ' the right of
search over which there was so much
controversy in those days inflicted
great losses upon American merchant
men, among them, upon the brig
Eleanor sailing nnder the command
of her owner, Captain Thomas Arn
castle. Later the United States was in
a position to exact reparation from
the French government for the injur
ies done to American citizens. And
a large sum of money in satisfaction
of all claims was actually paid from
Paris into the treasury at Washington.
There it unfortunately remains, and
neither' entreaties nor threats have
availed with congress to induce the
government to disgorge -Its -ill-gotten
gains. The affair is now so old that
almost no one takes' it seriously.
"And what do you do to prosecute
the claim?" asked its prospective in
heritor. "I write to America, to "the presi-
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and to some of the .senators. .And I
often try to see your ambassador here.
But it's. a long-time sincetl. haxeiman-.
aged to see anyone except a secretary
five years, I think. Then other peo
ple have tried to help me, but they
have never done any good, and they
have cost me a good deal.
"I had more once than I have now.
My son took most of my money when
he went out to Australia. He was to
invest it. And, while he was alive, he
sent me 50 pounds- a quarter. Then
when he died. he was killed by a
horse it seemed that he had Invested
it badly, or hadn't invested it at all,
I could never quite make out At
any rate it was gone, and besides, I
was alone. That is why I thought of
an heir when I read your advertise
ment. What " do you think of the
plan?"" :
It is almost unnecessary to say that
Charles Edward accepted with alac
rity, even though his inheritance
seemed to consist merely of responsi
bilities and the 20 pounds he "would
win from Paul Cary.
' Mr. Arncastle then held out his hand
to Charles Edward. There was a
golden sovereign in it,-- ' !
" "The payment on account," he said,
with an apologetic smile trembling on
his mouth. "I hope it is enough for
the moment. I must arrange some
thing more at once."
The following morning the heir and
his wife came up to town and Charles
Edward had a consultation with the
law firm of Henderson ' and Hender
son, who have so extensive an Ameri
can connection, ne was scarcely sur
prised to find that they considered the
payment of the French spoliation
claims among the three or four meat
remote possibilities in the world.
Upon learning this he drove direct to
the corner of the very street in which
Mr. Arncastle lodged.
Keeping the sketch of his morning's
movements in mind, it is a little diffi
cult to see how he had found time to
do some of the things of which he
told his benefactor. For Mr. Arn
castle was led to understand that a
talk with the American ambassador
disclosed the fact that there was a
growing feeling in Washington that
something ought to be done about
these long-neglected claims. More
than this, it appeared that the tank
of London and New York had such
confidence that something was sure to
happen that it was willing to advance
Mr. ( Arncastle 50 pounds a quarter ."
upon the security of his claim, pay-.
ment to continue until the bill passed
congress, at which time the money
was to be repaid with interest at ten
per cent. ."
"My dear boy, this is wonderful!"
burst from Mr. Arncastle.
"It's jolly good business for them,"
was the reply. "Ten per cent is big
Interest," '
"I could never have arranged It." :
"That is why you needed an heir."
Mr. Arncastle gets his 60 pounds a
quarter regularly. The French spoli
ation claims bill is still unaccountably
delayed in Washington, although his
heir writes him often from America,
and it is always "to report progress."
