TUB NORFOLK WKKKLL N'KWS. JOURNAL , FRIDAY , JUNE 10 , 1910.
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Hntttm fiirnlturu la being extensively -
ly manufactured In the , Philippines.
Under the now corporation tax the
government will receive about $22-
(100,000 more than before from the
corporation ! * of the country.
Governor Hughes nnd Mayor Gay-
nor are both proving that real live
concern for the welfare of the people
has the old same of playing politics
beaten to a frazzle.
It Is said that Vice Prctildont Sher
man while posing for a picture the
other day fell asleep. The habit Is
one superinduced by presiding over
the United States senate.
In view of the recent bribery conies-
BloiiH , if public jobs are to be sold at
auction , It Is about time for the pub
lic at least to get the proceeds of the
Bales.
Now that It Is announced that Kan
sas will want 20,000 harvest hands ,
our leisure class that rides on freight
car bumpers will give that state a
wide berth.
It looks as if things were getting so
dull in the U. S. A. that the colonel
would like to get the job of curbing
the Egyptian assassins as a supple
mentary holiday.
C. D. Morton , the president's new
secretary , is a former Insurance man.
No doubt he can therefore be depend
ed on to out-talk the most obstrep
erous olllce-seeker.
Figures of ministers' salaries Just
out show the average is but $ G63 ,
And yet the average church expects
the grade of eloquence that Is secured
from a $ f > ,000 lawyer.
John Hull having been sound ! }
spanked for weakness in Egypt , it
looks as If Kaiser Wllhelm must have
put up a very Ingenious bluff to have
escaped the shingle.
Such college honors as L. L. D
used to be valued , but to the college
boys such degrees as P. , IB. , S. S.
that come with the varsity ball team
are more highly prized.
Antomobllists who arc determined tc
make forty miles an hour , city 01
country , should change their autos foi
aeroplanes. The earth is no place fo
them. It is too thickly populated.
, T. 13. Iloss Is a candidate for shorif
In Indianapolis. It Is not stated whether
ther he is a "dark boss" or not. Hosi
power is a little slow for these times
but it may win In the race just ai
well as gasoline or electricity.
Hleriot caused some excltemen
when he Hew the channel , De Lam
bert less. England will never go
really excited until somebody by tin
name of Hohenstauffen or Hohenzol
eru blows across.
The Kansas City Star suggests tha
the next time the government couli
save many million dollars and niak
a bigger hit by keeping the battle
ship lleet at homo and sending Colonc
Roosevelt around the world.
There Is no building in the worli
now in use so venerable , so majest
cally simple , so famed and so lille <
with memories of a great past as i
AVestminster hall , where King Et
ward's body lay In state.
The railroads need not fear that th
people will not let them have a fal
Interest on the money Invested. Who
the people object to Is this payln
dividends on the expected value c
the property a generation hence.
The powers of Europe are wlllln
to "play" the "long delayed" engag (
inent , but no one wants the respons
bllity of "starting something , " an
each one wishes to know just wlin
the others will do when It Is star
ed.
Elizabeth Dlackweli , lirst woma
physician , is dead. In youth she wn
socially ostracized. Hut the herbs an
lotions of our grandmothers wer
much more useful than the vlolei
blood letting of the men doctors c
those days.
Ex-Governor Rollins of Now Ham ]
shlro pays 12.000 line for violation c
the customs law. The high inuck-o
mucks should know It Is as bad fe
them to smuggle In 55,000 worth r
*
for some poor peddler to bring In $1C
worth.
The editor of a paper down In Ml
slsslppi was compelled to eat a ell
ping from his paper whllo the ma
who was mentioned therein looked c
with a gun. The editor attributed h
subsequent illness to the fact that tl :
article contained several typographic ;
"errors , "
The genius of England for govern
ment seemed fallttlflod In South Afri
ca and In Ireland. One of the two
errors Is now cured. If the reign of
George V witnesses the reconciliation
of Irluli and Hrltlsh , the last great
Internal weakness of the empire will
have been removed.
A St. Louis newspaper reporter ask
ed Jane Addams of Chicago who was
visiting In that city If she had ever
had any experience In settlement
work. Somn people would never be
heard of If It were not for the fool
questions they ask.
Measurements of the Yale senior *
when compared with the measure
inents of the senior class of fort }
years ago , proves that the college man
f today will average the same height
s his grandfather , but he weighs six
ecu pounds more and exceeds him It ;
host measure by two Inches.
College professors who urge thai
very largo business man should em
loy a psychologist to assist him
lean Just the same as the successful
uslncss man of fifty years ago dlt !
hen he employed a manager whc
understood human nature. " The }
chioved success , but they never ever
eard of psychology.
It has been decided that by a cer
aln process of the judiciary a mat
lay change his name at any time
rovlded he has no criminal Intent
nils privilege has long been grantee
o women , provided they can find s
inn whose name suits them and wh (
s willing to share it with them.
A poetically inclined woman do
lares that the first sight of a vacuun
leaner stirred her soul like an epic
V good ode written to this labor sav
ng device would be a change fron
hose dedicated to "spring" and cer
ainly this Invention removes the tor
ors of spring housecleaning for worn
> n who employ it.
John W. Kern of Indiana , who wa
n the last Hryan ticket for vice pres
dent , is now a candidate for the Unit
ed States senate against Beveridgc
le has no chance for election , bu
jvidently gets his recompense by sec
ng his name constantly In print
Sven if a man wants merely to enjo ,
himselflt pays to adVertise.
During the period from 1S80 to 11)0 )
ho exports of Great Uritain of main
factured articles Increased 45 percent
Germany 143 percent , and the Unli
ed States 515 percent. In 1880 thl
country exported manufactured art
cles to the value of $122,000,000. I
1908 the value of the same was $750
000,000.
P. Augustus Heinze , who was a <
jultted after a trial which cost hii
ive million dollars , complains becaus
the trial was so slow. Charles \ \
Morse who was convicted says h
loesn't mind the cost but insists tlm
lie was tried too soon. You can
suit everybody and Uncle Sam coi
tinues to grind out cases in the court
of justice without attempting to d
so. r
Senator Hailey says the only polic
the democrats have at present is t
< eep prodding the republican faction !
IIo might have added that it is bi
cause they have never had any othe
policy that the people have no conl
donee in them. The party or the ma
who attempts to live by profiting men
ly on the mistakes or misdeeds (
others is in a deplorable conditia
and unworthy of support.
S. A. DeHcar , the London sportin
editor who lias recently allied himse
with a New York dally , complains (
the American manner of reportln
games as technical and slangy so tin
it is unintelligible to those who ai
not thoroughly acquainted with tl
game and misses the widespread I
terest which the English people mar
fest in sports.
The persistent demand for a san <
and more dignified observance of I
dependence day should be given a
tention by the nation's best thlnke :
in all seriousness. It should alwa ;
bo observed as a great national ho
day and its celebration should be :
keeping with the significance of tl
day Itself. No cheap , perfunctory <
trivial celebration of the Fourth i
July can properly bo called sane.
Kaiser William believes that exec
slve beer drinking threatens the Gc
mans with defeat In their race fi
commercial supremacy with the En
llshman and American. If the kals <
read the statistics as to how mu <
beer Is consumed by the Engllshmi
nnil Americans perhaps the compa :
son would make him far less anxloi
for German interests and more solli
tons for humanity as a whole.
The recent revolution in Cuba wi
promptly quelled by the arrest of tl
sixty malcontents. The building
railroads and development of the a
rlcultural possibilities of the Islai
which Is now going on Is a body blc
to the old tlmo gucrrlla warfai
When men get to be close nelghbo
and the government means more ti
chances for revolution and rebcllii
grow Increasingly small.
The Chicago Tribune lu Us fcarle
' expose of corruption In Illinois In con
nection with the Lorlmcr political
scandal has lost the advertising sup
port of a big business house. The
business firm that gets mad because
a great newspaper Is fearless In ex
posing grafting Is unworthy of public
I approval and It Is a safe prediction
| that their foolish action will cost them
a great many more dollars than It will
the paper. The Tribune Is to be con
gratulated.
Rubber balls are not new toys , but
on the contrary very old ones. Chris-
I tophcr Columbus found the natives
' playing witli them when he reached
the Island of Haiti. At the present
rate of increase in the cost of rubber
1 on account of the demand for the sub
stance for new uses In large quanti
ties , the rubber toy will soon bo an
expensive one. An effort is being
made by experimenters to reproduce
artificially a substancn having the
qualities of rubber.
The returned immigrants have had
such an Americanizing effect on Eu
rope that a public speaker who start
ed to address a Hungarian audience
In the Magyar tongue was requested
to speak In English , as many of the
audience could not understand their
native tongue. All over Europe this
\merlcanlzlng process is going on. We
are educating them so that they In
turn become educators and thus they
spread throughout the old world the
blessings and opportunities within the
reach of all under a democracy.
The present generation are in dan
ger of losing their health and vigor
because they do not take sufllcient ex
ercise. The electric bell , telephone ,
street car , elevator , etc. , lessen the
amount of muscular exercise which
the olllce workers and clerks have to
perform and increase the amount of
nerve trying and brain work which
ho has to attend to , thus disturbing
the necessary balance between ner
vous and muscular force so necessary
to the maintenance of perfect health.
We should take time to be healthy.
The gala season in Japan is when
the cherry blooms. Everything leads
up to and dates from the blossoming
of the beautiful cherry trees. Special
excursion trains are run to spots
where they are most abundant and
beautiful. After the cherry blossoms
have faded they wait for the month
when the whole empire is wreathed
in rose colored chrysanthemums. The
Jaoancse are passionate lovers of the
beautiful and these flowers are their
favorites. Admiral Togo has planted
cherry trees to commemorate his vis
its here which are carefully tended by
Japanese gardeners that they may all
thrive.
King George V comes to the throne
of Great Britain at a critical moment
in the history of his government. He
Is beset by demands from the liberal
party that the powers of the house of
lords be so curtailed that the house
of commons will have the controlling
voice in the legislation of the country
The complications iu his domestic pol
itics is believed to have shortened
King Edward's life. While the Britlsl
people are loyal to King George , he
lias not yet earned their love and es
teem as his father had , but if he
proves equal to the great responslbil
ities which have so suddenly come
upon him , his subjects will not be slo\\
In giving him their confidence am :
affection.
A Harvard student is living sue
cessfully on a dollar a week , for food
There are others. Despite high prices
and all that is said to the contrar }
there are thousands of families whc
' living comfortably and happily it
„ tills country today whose per capitr
t expense for food is below rather that
above a dollar a week. When James
e
e J. Hill recently thought he was giv
, . ing such sage advice in declaring tha
people ought to be able to live on 4 (
cents a day , he caused many hones
Intelligent wide awake American fath
ers and mothers to smile audibly ,
great deal that is said and writtci
about the cost of living only reveali
how little some people the allege (
wise ones know of how other pee
pie the real wise ones manage
There is a great waste among the get
rich-quick class In high living , but tin
thousands of earnest industrious clti
zens continue to exercise thrift an <
economy despite all that is said to tin
contrary.
3-
THE PAVING SPREADS.
As had been forecasted , the votlnj
of the paving bonds last Tuesday ii
Norfolk , meant more than the mer
paving of seven blocks of Norfolk av
enue. Already there are petitions ii
the field calling for the paving of mon
is than three miles of Norfolk streets.
And other improvements will fol
low , too.
The glamour which city life hold
for outsiders who catch glimpses o
It from a distance fades very qulckl ;
when they come into actual contac
with the conditions under which al
but the wealthy are obliged to live
In smaller communities families wh
possess comfortable homes with a :
abundance of air and sunshine ar
In a veritable paradise as compare
with the multitudes who exist in th
great centers , In small rooms , poorl
is lighted , poorly ventilated , hlgU u
from the ground where any contact
with nature Is Impossible.
THE STREET CARNIVAL.
Another argument against promis
cuous street carnivals has come to
light In the letters found on the person - '
son of a crook anested at Stanton.
The fellow proves to be a member of
a gang of thugs who had planned to
"do" Stanton because they heard that
there was a lircmen's tournament on
at that place. One of the gang who
had got t > ere first , found there was
nothing doing and went away , leaving
a letter lor his pal , wno arrived later
and , making n "touch" at a farm house
was leaving town when the sheriff
nabbed him.
The letter Indicated that the crowd
were vicious and that they would go
Into Dakota to wait for something to
turn up in their line.
The point is that street carnivals
and assemblies of that sort attract the
vicious and the criminal to a commun
ity and are undesirable propositions
on account of this fact , as well as
on account of their general demoraliz
ing tendency.
THE SCIENTISTS.
The soothsayers , magicians and as
trologers who used to stand before
i kings and tell them the things that
i were going to happen can seldom have
been more discomfited by the event
than are the scie'iitlflc men by the
behavior of the comet. It has had
them all guessing. It has falsified
ill their predictions , In as far as
hose presumed to be accurate. It
ms led to a confession of ignorancei
which will be worth something if It
shall be the preface to a little more
nodest attitude in future on the part
of scientific men in general.
This comet was no new wanderer
of the sky. It visited us seventy-live
rears ago. Its orbit has been calcu
lated and its return predicted. It was
ike a visit from an old friend. All
the data for ascertaining details were
> resent , and the astronomers gave
them to the public In abundant inoas.
ire. For weeks before the appear-
ince of the comet its behavior was
Jescribed in voluminous articles , the
liour of its transit was announced , the
very minute when the earth would
jegin and cease to move through the
comet's tail was told , and the only
tiling about which there was the very
slightest difference of opinion was the
visibility of the newcomer. It was a
.leliglitful harmony , and a concert of
that certainty upon which science al
ways prides itself.
The comet has come and gone and
It has turned most of these beauti
ful calculations upside down. It fail
ed to behave as it was expected to ,
altogether. The tall refused to arrive
on time. Just at the moment when
the earth was to be passing through
It , it was distinctly seen by the astron
omers themselves somewhere else ,
Nobody knows within twenty-font
hours of the time that the earth swept
through it , or whether it went through
it at all. Nobody knows the meaning
of the mysterious spectrum that was
seen between the earth and the sun
Indeed , the people of a few centuries
ago , gaping and shuddering at a cornel
or an eclipse , were scarcely more ig
norant than we have to confess our
selves about the essentials of the
comet. If it shall teach our scientific
men a little more modesty in theii
claims , its trip out of distant space
will have proved worth while.
AROUND TOWN.
Now your hay'll grow.
Please pass the paving.
Those coal men are lucky cusses.
The Fourth of July is just a montl
away. '
This rain is worth ? 9u to this conn
try , at the least.
We'll have to endure this Jeffries
Johnson dope another full month.
Might as well get out your sealskii
and keep it out the balance of th (
winter.
School's out for the summer. Anc
the first thing you know it"ll be start
ing again in the fall.
Ear muffs would look more comfort
able in the store windows than strav
hats.
Stories by the Oldest Inhabitant an
in order , giving statistics showing wha
years we've had cold weather In tin
summer time.
The sister-in-law who makes you i
present of three beautiful golf balls li
entitled to the Inside track and get :
it.
The sweet girl graduate will nov
take a back seat In the wings and al
low her sister , the Juno bride , th' '
center of the stage.
The school teacher has been libeled
They're a pretty good looking buncl
of girls when you got them togethe
In their party gowns.
The girl graduates are still sweel
but they're pretty nearly In the has
been class , along with the rest of th <
alumni.
"Have you heard how the name o
the man who met Gotch the otho
night , Is pronounced ? " asks a Norfoll
man. "Dennis , " says he , when yoi
i ask him the answer ,
A Norfolk boy graduate got 'six
scarf plus for commencement gifts.
He says he wishes he'd got one more ,
so that he'd have one for every day in
the week.
A woman wont Into a Norfolk dent
ist's olllce and asked If he could pull
her tooth without hurting her. Ho
could. And he did. "Didn't hurt you ,
did It ? " he asked. "No , " she whined ,
"but It's bleeding. "
ATCHISON GLOBS SIGHTS.
No one has even attempted to pull
teeth by Christian Science.
How pretty a woman's ankle looks
In a hosiery advertisement.
A woman's Idea of extravagance Is
what a man spends on himself.
It Is generally said of a certain
Atchtson man : "He tells his wife
too much. "
If a man doesn't quarrel with his
wife , lie is apt to be In a quarrel witli
Ills partner.
"I don't care to attend parties , but
my friends are asked to .remember 1
want to be Invited. " Parson Twine.
After a woman has been married n
few years she doesn't have any more
respect for the men than a good cook
has for a hotel dinner.
People are always saying to us :
"Why don't you get an automobile ? "
If we should buy one , people would
soon be saying to us , "Why don't you
buy a new one ? "
No girl is entirely happy and satis
fied with her lover if she continues to
say her prayers during her engage-
nent.
Every man thinks he is entitled teat
? at as much as lie can buy. That's
he reason stomach complaint is so
; onimon.
We believe in working for a living ,
but shall not Insist it is necessary so
eng as the prophet can make his busi-
less pay.
It is possible for a woman to got 'so
accustomed to her husband's explo
sions that 'she can always come down
n one piece.
Another thing we hate : to shake
lands with a woman , and have her
jerk her hand away , as though we are
molding it too long.
" 1 have heard a great many men tell
of the great ambition of their lives.
My greatest ambition is to have noth
ing to do on circus day. " Drake Wat-
on.
Quit hating your enemies , and quit
talking about them. You needn't love
: hetn , and you needn't speak to them ,
but quit hating them , and quit talk
ing about them.
When a man buries his wife and
lias her put where there isn't room
beside her for another grave , the wo
men on the way home from the funer
al talk of mobbing him.
When a boy climbs to the roof of
the house , and his mother comes out
in the yard and threatens what she
will do if he doesn't come down , it
shouldn't be a funny sight , but It Is.
One of the first delusions a young
husband gets rid of is that his bride's
numerous wedding gowns mean she
won't have to have any more clothes
for some time.
A New York dispatch says the bus
tle is coming back. How true it lh
that nothing in tills world is ever
wasted ! The turban , which Is going
out , can now slide further down , and
make a re-appearance.
Mrs. Lysander John Appleton was
engaged in pulling out the entrails of
a chicken. "Don't say entrails , " said
Daysey Mayme , as her Daily Bit ot
Instruction to her mother , "viscera
sounds so much more refined. " "I
notice , ' she added , "that here of late
all the dead rich have them. "
If you give a party you will have
trouble ; that is all there is about it.
You can't invite everybody , and those
not invited will hate you. It Is not
pleasant not to be Invited to a party ;
everybody can testify to this. It
makes you feel that you are being
neglected , left out , and den't amount
to much.
The children of an Atchlson man
always have a lot of kittens around.
As the man does not like to put them
in a sack and drown them , he has de
vised a novel method of getting rid of
them : he puts blue ribbons around
their necks , indicating that they are
pets , and valuable , and the neighbors
soon steal them.
Mrs. Lysander John Appleton was
disposed to grumble when talking tea
a caller In her parlor this afternoon.
"I declare , " she said , 'there Is no use
dusting with that comet hanging
around. I dusted that table just half
an hour ago , and look at the dust
from the comet on it now. Since the
comet's tail began Happing around
here , I have dusted my parlor on an
average of seventeen times a day. "
When a wife Is unfaithful to a hus
band , the mon never forget the hus
band if ho "makes up" with her.
Jack Cndahy IB invited to take notice ;
the papers say ho is again flirting
with his wife. Cudahy acted proper
ly when ho found a htrango man In
ills house at 1 o'tlurk in the morning ;
he marked the man for life , and
promptly loft his wife. Let him con
tinue to act properly and keep away
from the woman.
Home Course
In Domestic
Science
VII. Substitutes For
Meat.
By EDITH G. CHARLTON ,
In Chnrgo of Domestic Economy , town
Stnle College.
Copyritfhl. 1910. by American Preii
AiiocUllon ,
has been previously hinted In
IT these article's that meat need not
form a part of every meml In
fact , the majority of people will
have better health if they abstain
from flesh eating oftener than once
a day. The suggestion has also been
made that meat substitutes , such as
dinhcs In which eggs , beans , cheese or
nuts form the chlc f Ingredient , bo
served at least two meals a day. The
variety of ways in which the materials
may be used Is numerous , all that Is
nuudc'd being a little Ingenuity In com
bining thiMii with other Ingredients in
order to obtain satisfactory results.
Some people who are fund of hearty
foods and meat flavors tire loath to
see the moat platter depart from the
table only to reappear once a day.
For such persons It will bo necessary
to practice the virtue of patience ,
make the other dishes substantial and
appetizing and occasionally take a few
lessons on food values. Heans , nuts
and cheese' all contain a larger per
cent of protein than meat and , com
bined as they often are with other
protein food , are really more nutritious
than moat.
Cheese la a food rich in nutriment. It
contains more than twice as much tis
sue building material than meat and
a large per cent of fat. But because It
is a concentrated food It gives the dl-
pestlve organs considerable work. One
reason for this Is because the curd of
the milk has been hardened by heat In
the process of making , besides being
closely pressed. Grated or finely bro
ken chc'cse Is more readily digested
than that served lu larger pieces.
Cooking also Increases the ludig'ostlbll- '
Ity of cheese , and for this reason in
GERM FROM WHICH SKIN LINING
CHICK CROVVS THE SHELL
TWISTED WHITE
CORDS WHICH KEEP
YOLK STEADY SPACE FORMED
BETWEEN SHELL
AND THE SKIN
HC.2 &
FIG.3
IFIg. 1 Illustrates composition of an egg ;
Fig. 2. tests for freshness of an egg ;
Fie , 3 , tlint nine eggs , one-half pound
beans , fourteen ounces beef , one-half
pound bread and one-half pound checso
equals one quart of milk In food value.J
all dishes requiring cooking the cheese
should be subjected to as little heat as
possible. There is a large amount of
fat in cheese , and cooking fat changes
Its character , breaking It up Into glyc
erin and fatty acid. For tills reason
ail fat used for cooking purposes
should not be heated longer or to a
higher dVgree than necessary. A very
delicious supper or luncheon dish In
which cheese is used In combination
with cooked macaroni , eggs and milk
is known as macaroni loaf and is made
as follows :
Macaroni Loaf.
Three-quarters of a cup of macaroni ,
one cup of cream , one cup soft breadcrumbs -
crumbs , one-quarter of n cup of butter ,
one tablespootiful of red or green pop
per , one-half cup of grated cheese , one
tablespoonful onion juice , one tablespoonful -
spoonful of chopped parsley , three
eggs and one tablespoonful of salt.
Cook the macaroni In boiling salted
water until tender. Drain and rinse In
cold water. Scald the cream , add
bread eru/nbs , butter , pepper , salt ,
jnitcd cheese , parsley , onion Juice ,
.hen beaten eggs and macaroni. Line
a quart baking dish with buttered pa
per , turn In mixture , set the pan on
many folds of paper In a dish of water
and bake In a moderate oven from one-
half to three-quarters of an hour.
Berve with tomato sauce.
Tomato Sauce.
Two tablespooufuls of butter , two tablespoonfuls -
blespoonfuls of flour , one-half teaspoonful -
ful sail , one-eighth Icnspoonful of pep
per , one cup of stewed and strained
tomatoes , sllc6 of onion and half a teaspoonful -
spoonful of capers , llrown flour nnd
butter separate , then combine and add
Bait and pepper. Cook tomatoes with
slice of onion for a few minutes , then
remove onion and add Juice gradually
to butler and flour. Cool ; thoroughly ,
then add capers.
The macaroni should be broken in
Inch pieces and conked in a quart of
bolllni ; water to which a tablespoonful
of salt has been added. Keep boiling
rapidly until tlm macaroni can bo
crushed between the thumb and linger ;
drain and pour over it a quantity of
cold water to keep the pieces from
sticking together.
now to Cook
The white of t-fjg IB almost entirely
pure albumen , a substance which lit
( Illicitly coagulated "y heat and lollRh-
ened by prolonged cooking. Albumen
Is the protold part of animal foods am )
when hardened by rooUlng Is rendered
much less easy ot digestion , ft in
probable that eggs and moat conked as
carefully as may be are less readily
acted upon by Hie gastric juices than
cither would InIn the uncooked state1.
Albumen coagulates at a wry moder
ate1 temperature , only a little higher
than UXJ degrees , and at less than
Nlininorliif , ' point , ISO degrees , It la
hard , ( tolling makes It tough and In
digestible ; hence It can readily bu
seen that eggs should never be ( tolled
If their digestibility Is to be retained
In I'ven a moderate degree. The icrni
"soft boiled" or "hard boiled" should
never be applied to eggs ; rather , "soft
cooked" nnd "hard cooked" would bel
ter be used. The custom of holllni ;
eggs three minutes la an unwise one
to follow. This Is the HCloutlllc meth
od for cooking eggs In the shells , and
when It Is followed even the hard ogi ; ,
cooked until Its yolk can be grated ,
will be found perfectly digestible :
Soft Cooked Egg.
Allow one pint of water for two
eggs. Heat In double boiler until wa
ter In the outside part of utensil is
boiling. Temperature of water In In
ner vessel will bu 1S < > degrees. Put
In eggs wllh a spoon , cover and let
stand over lire for six to eight min
utes If liked soft cooked , thirty min
utes for hard cooked. The same re
sult may be obtained by having water
boiling in saucepan. Slip In eggs and
remove saucepan to back of range
where water will not boll again. Hggs
perfectly cooked should he placed and
kept In water at a temperature of 17IV
degrees.
Nothing Is more tempting for break
fast than a light. Unity omelet , so
tender that It almost vanishes at a
touch. The secret of a good omelet
Is , to beat much air Into the eggs and
then apply a moderate temperature In
cooking that the albumen may not bo
toughened. The air in the eggs will
expand by the heat and be retained by
the albumen as It Is hardened. My
favorite recipe for an omelet , willed
may bo served with t'dii.ito , cheese or
oyster sauce. Is as follows :
Plain Omelet.
Four eggs , half teaspoonful of salt ,
a few grains of pepper , four tablespoonfuls
spoonfuls of water and one tablespoon-
fill of butter. Separate yolks from
whites. Heat yolks In a bowl wltti
a Dover beater until thick ; add salt ,
pepper and water. Heat whites until
stiff , cutting and folding the yolks Into
them until the mixture Is blended.
Melt butter In omelet pan. and when
moderately hot turn In mixture , spread
evenly , place on range where It will
cook slowly about twelve minutes.
Keep the temperature low until the
last minute , when it may be raised
to brown the bottom. When well
puffed put pan In a moderate oven to
cook the top that Is. until omelet la
firm to the touch. Crease , cross the-
top and fold. Serve at once.
Cheese Custard.
Half cup of cheese , three eggs , two-
cups of milk , salt and pepper and
slices of buttered bread. Heat eggs ,
adding salt , pepper , milk and grated
cheese. Then pour over slices of but
tered bread and bake in moderate oven ,
following method of baking custard.
What a simple dessert Is a baked
custard ! , It Is a favorite with almost
every person when baked until linn ,
with no indications of wnteriness.
And yet. possibly because It is so sim
ple. It very often appears more like
curds and whey than the article which
the name Implies.
The- secret of success Is In the meth
od of cooking. The oven should be
moderate , only hot enough to brown a
piece of white paper in twenty min
utes , and Hie dish containing the cus
tard should be set In a pan of hot wa
ter on several folds of paper to equal-
tie the temperature and prevent the-
i-ustard boiling.
Baked Custard.
Four cups of scalded milk , five eggs ,
sue-half cup of sugar , ono-quartor teaspoonful -
spoonful of salt and a little grated nut
meg. Heat eggs , add sugar and sale
and pour on slowly the scalded milk.
Pour Into buttered baking dish or into
individual buttered baking cups , sprin
kle with nutmeg , set In n pan of hot
water and bake In a slow oven until
custard Is firm. Remove from pan
containing hot water and set in cold.
Stews and Soups.
A few pounds of the clod or forearm
arc excellent for a stew. Cut the meat
1'ito small pieces for serving. Plunge-
r.ito * rapidly boiling water , set the ket
tle over tne simmering burner or a
very low * lire where It will not boll
again and cook slowly until meat Is
tender. Salt and pepper may be added
after the meat lias been seared , and a.- *
the water bolls away more should bi >
added. Meat I : thus cooked in a small
quantity of water , and some of the-
juice and flavor are In the liquid. Meat
Is boiled In a large quantity of water
by plunging the piece Int6 the boiling
water and allowing It to bull three or
four minutes. This closes the cut mus
cles , hardens the outside and keeps the
Juices In the meat.
In making soup the method is exact
ly opposite. The meat Is cut Into small
plecos-a shank or shin Is best for
Koupinaklng-put Into cold water and
salt added at once. Tills will draw out
the Juices of ilu > meat Inio the liquid.
The water should not. be allowed U >
boll tin-onhunt ; the ontlre > time of
cooking. If vegetables are used , they
should not bo added until the last hour.
A Joker Among Birds.
The bluojay Is a practical Joker. It
Is his habit to conceal himself In a
inasH of loaves near tliu spot where
small birds are accustomed to gather
and when they are enjoying them
selves In their own fashion to sud
denly frighten them almost to death
by screaming out like a hawk. Of
course they scatter In every direction ,
and when they do so the mischievous
rascal gives vent to a cackle that
sounds very much like a laugh.