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k'*=«?*»»«s: -v .y About the Household ITALIAN RESERVISTS LEAVE NEW YORK Selected Recipes. Beray Eggs. â€" Fry some sausages. Werm some tomato sauce, fresh or preserved. Add a little meat juice. Fry some eggs in butter, and ar- ransre round the sausages with the tomato sauce. Souffle of Flah.â€" Take fish that has been left over from a meal, re- move the bones, and cut it into small pieces. Add an equal quantity of uncooked marconi, and cook the whole in salted water. Drain it, and add one-half the quantity of grated Swiss cheese; mix everything well, put the whole in a baking dish, and small pieces of butter, and cook it in the I oven. Serve it hot. â- " ' Orange Mint Salad. â€" Remove the pulp from four large oranges by cut- ting the fruit into halves, crosswise, and using a spoon. Sprinkle it with two tablespoonfuls of powdered su- gar, and add two tablespoonfuls of finely chopped, fresh mint leaves, and one tablespoonful of lemon juice. Chill it thoroughly,' and serve it in glasses garnished with a sprig of mint. If the oranges are very juicy. It is well to pour off a portion of the juice before serving. Bachelor Buttons.- -Cream together one cupful of sugar and one-half of a cupful of butter; add one egg and beat the mixture; then add one cup- ful of bread flour with a pinch of salt, and tlrfee tablespoonfuls of almonds. chopp«n fine, and mix the ingredients tMbroughly. Drop the batter by tea- â- poonfuls on a buttered making tin, and spread it in the form of buttons, being careful not to have the dough any thinner on the edges than in the middle. Place one-half of a nut on top of each button, and bake them in • moderate oven, dauliflower Pudding.â€" Break a -eauliflower into sprigs, and soak it in cold salted water for half an hour; then drain it. Cover the mixture with sweet milk and boil it until it k tender. Drain it, add one-half of a cupful of thick, sweet cream, the well-beuten yoiks of four egg.^, one- / half of a veaspoonful of salt, a pinch T of ground mace, a dash of Cayenne, two tablespoonfuls of soft butter, and the juice of one-half of a lemon. Mix evciythiriK well, pour the virhole into / » buttered puilding dish, and bake it / in a i-low oven until it is firm. i'incapple Wax. â€" Pineapple wax is especially delicious on ice cieam or other f'ozen rlesserts. The receipt is as follow.^: Pare a fresh pineapple, and euf it into cubes of uniform size. Put them into a steamer, and steam them until they are tender (until the cubes look clear). The juice that results is not used, because it is too •trorg, but it may be of use in flavor- ing other fruits. It should not be wasted, for it hus a very strong pine- apple flavor. When the cubes are done, make a thick syrup of water and sugar, and, when it boils, drop in the cubes, and cook them until they again look clear. It makes a preserve • little stitfcr than a marmalade, and when it Is poured over a frozen dcs- eeit, it becom'js a wax that is very delectable. Muffins.-This receipt was intro- duced to a certain household by a ser- vant from Hungary. In Hungary, »hc explained, she used salt pork, but ehe found bacon better than pork. She â- ifts IV2 cupfuls of flour with l'/4 teaspoonfuls of baking powder, a teaspoonfiil of sugai and a half tea- spoonful of salt. / "then she adds a beaten egg, a .teaspoonful of melted butter andyWalf a cupful of sweet milk.^. Aflor beating smooth she adds hair n cupful of bacon. The bacon is first fried or broiled until crisp and then chopped and measured. The mufl'ins are baked in hot muffin pans until done and they are eaten with- out butter. The bits of bacon throughout the muffins give sufficient flavor of the sort butter would supply The Banana. The liiinniia is the hou.sekeeper's main dcpenilenee among fruits. It •upplies the table all the year around. nanait» Kloat.- Place four ripe bananas in a moderately hot oven for 20 minutes. Remove the skins and redu(e the hot fruit to a pulp. Have ready th-.' well-beaten whites of two eg«:s, and while the banana pulp is hot, rapidly beat together, with two teaspoons of sugar. When cold serve with whipped cream. This is deli- cious. Fried Kanana8.--Peel and slice lenprthwise in three parts. Have hot lard deep enough to cover the slices. Fry a light brown, and very carefully lift with a flat cooking shovel, from the fat to kitchen paper to drain a few minutes. Lightly sprinkle with sugar and send to table hot. Banana Fritters. â€" Peel two bana- nas and slice in thin circles. Dip in a batter made of one cup of sifted flour, a rounded teaspoon of butler, one tablespoon of sugar, a pinch of salt, one egg and one -half cup of sweet milk. Fry in hot lard. Serve with this sauce: Beat the yolks of two eggs with half cup of sugar. Add two tablespoons of orange juice; steam until smooth and thick. Then add two well beaten whites of eggs, dust slightly with grated nutmeg and serve. Banana Layer Cake. â€" Bake a white cake batter in layer pans. Ice each layer over the top with a thick coat of icing and over that put a thick layer of round banana slices. Place the layers of cake one over the other and ice the top and sides. It should be eaten while fresh if in summer. In very cold weather, the banana cake will keep for a few days. The filling needs no other flavoring than the bananas. This pleturc Hhows some of the 500 Italian Reser^-tst.s who sailed from New York on the steamer Dues d'Abruzzi for Naples to be assigned to their various regiments In Italy's second line unaj. Useful Table. !S«;i}»!^::{»;>^&ss«is«%sss«-3?»3^s^^ Who was Fooled? This table may help housekeeper: One tea.spoonf ul of salt to one quart of soup. One teaspoonful of salt to two '. quarts of flour. I One teaspoonful of soda to one pint I of 80ur milk. One teaspoonful of extract to one . plain loaf cake. I One scant cupful of liquid to full cupfuls of flour for bread. One scant cupful of liquid to cups of flour for muffins. One scant cupful of liquid to one cupful of flour for batters. One quart of water to each pound of meat and bone for soup stock. One-half cup of yeast or one-quar- ter cake comprcs.scd yeast to one pint liquid. Fonr peppercorns, four cloves, one teaspoonful of mi.xed herbs for each ' quart of water for soup stock. "Go on with your April fool jokes," ! the world. I never had hoped to learn he laughed good naturedly. "She got niy answer so quickly. two letters this morning." 1 "You have Billy to thank for that,"| Billy knew better, but there was gj,g laughed, no use asking questions. He had } "i jon't know whether to thrash or 1 the young ' ®a;'®a:®;'f;isJS®»>3':®S-;®S;Q^®i««^a«*SS«S ^^en her come out with just the one thank him," he smiled. "Perhaps it' two two Billy Parker grinned joyously. It would be such a good joke on Miss Allen to send the letter. Here Hugh had been in the Philippines for two years. What would she think when she received a local letter in the well- remembered handwriting? In his mind's eye he could see her eagerly tearing open the letter big envelope and that was from the would be better to do both â€" in that School Committee. The other was ' order." not under the big one, for he had pre- "Huh," mused Billy a few hours tended to drop his cap as an excuse \^^^j. ^s he lovingly fingered a gold to look at the under side and there pig^e, "Hugh says that I'm the April had been nothing hidden beneath. fool. I don't think so. He's in the But if Billy had hung about the f^ont parlor acting more like a fool schoolroom instead of pursuing his j ^jj^n I am. I wouldn't just sit kissin' investigations at the postoffice he [ a girl like that. I'd go up to the (n the letter in would have seen that Mr. Meade was i p^g^off ice and show off before the the postoffice. He would be outside , right, for on teacher's desk was the fgHers if I'd just come home." to yell "April fool!" Miss Allen al- ; envelope he had dropped into the ways stopped for her mail on her , box, and for the 10th time teacher, way to school. There could be no ' with glowing cheeks, was reading the possible chance of a slip-up if he note. mailed the letter Sunday. | "I have not the courage to speak," He had been looking in Hugh's it ran, "but I am coming back Mon- desk for some fish hooks when he had i day on the 4.38. If your answer is run across the envelope, carefully) 'yes' will you meet me at the train. tucked, away in the bottom of a If you are not there I shall know the Vowed to Shield Her. The Dust Devil. The loss of thousands of lives in war has made infant life more valu- able, if possible, than ever. Every- thing that can be done to stop infant mortality must be done. The sum- mer months claim thousands of little lives. There are two main causes â€" the fly peril and the dust devil. The nation has been educated to the fly peril, and we know that the fly de- serves no mercy. It carries infection, taints food, and is directly responsible for much illness. But there remains the "dust devil." There is much less diarrhoea in wet than in dry seasons. The rain cleanses the surface of the ground, and keeps dust laden with germs from flying about. Take a lesson from Nature, and freely water the ground outside your house in hot, dry wea- ther, especially where the children play. The dancing dust in a shaft of sunlight is deadly, but unless the wind had swept it up it wouldn't be there. In a house there should be no dry dusting and sweeping. The dust is disturbed, and any germs it may contain settle on food, or are breath- ed in with the air. Wipe over fumi- Things Worth Knowing. Vinegar heated to the boiling point will soften paint brushes that have become dry and hard. When boiling a ham leave it in the water in which it has been boiled un- til it is quite cold. This will make it juicy and tender. One ounce of Kpsom salts added to a gallon of water makes an excellent rinsing mixture for colored blouses and washing dresses. When a hand embroidered blouse begins to show wear and little holes appear, simply buttonhole around the tear or embroider a dot over the worn place. If you wish to prevent green vege- tables from boiling over, drop a piece of dripping the size of a walnut into the centre of them, just as they com- mence to boil. If a glove splits at the thumb or near a seam a sure and permanent way to repair it is to buttonhole the kid either aide of the split, then sew the buttonhole edges together. In using butter with meat the first thing to remember is that the butter should not be burned. Burned fats of any sort are exceedingly indiges- tible mid ruin the flavor of the meat. In ising a white sauce with meat, which is a usual procedure with the French cook, great care is taken to have the white sauce thoroughly cooked before it is added to the meat. According to a man who makes fly paper, the resin used to make the paper sticky is soluble in castor oil, and any article which has come in contact with the fly paper can be cleansed if the spot is soaked in it. When making a steamed pudding put a piece of well greased paper over the top before tying the cloth. This will prevent the cloths from becoming greasy, and they are no trouble to wash. To keep ferns fresh and green all the year round get a large tub, and put into it some water about two inches in depth; stand the pots in this, and allow the water to soak up from the hole in the bottom. The chill should be taken off the water first but on no account pour water on the top of the ferns. Pot flowers may also be kept in this manner. He clasped her tiny hand in his. , .. ^u j- j She stood before him quite erect, one I ture with damp cloths, therefore, and of nature's fairest forms. He vowed , scrub and wash the floors, to shield her from the wind and from Keep the dust devil down! This, the coldest storms. She set her beau- 1 and seeing that in yards, etc., there tu^...cu. avva, .„ u.c uu.tu.u u. » ,1 j„u are nu. ...«.«. »..».. ,.mu„ .... , ^^ ^^^ j^ ^^^^^ ^ji. i^ „„ decaying food, animal or vege- drawer. There had been a time when ; answer is 'no,' but if you can find it, ' . ,aidâ€" "Won't an um- table refuse, to attract flies, or to v,o ko.i ,.„^^i,,^ o i.,f ^f <ko ,zaU^arr.o\ :^ ..„.,- K„„,t f„ i„„„ .«<. Aaa^ nl^oao Very toncs sne saia. â€" vYont an um he had carried a lot of the self same j in your heart to love me, dear, please j^^^'J' .. ,„ letters to the teacher, but that had , be there to greet me. The others ! """^"^ ^° ^* ^*" • been before Hugh began to talk about think I am coming on the night train the Philippines as a place for young and we shall have a chance to walk men to grow up with the country. I home alone." All day Sunday Billy grieved over] The explanation was very simple, his anticipated joke, and Monday ; She had slipped the envelope inside morning he entirely ignored the | of the folds of the paper as she had flannel cakes that he might be certain : received it. Somehow she did not to be at the postoffice in time, and went off leaving his mother greatly concerned over his failing appetite. Usually Billy preferred flannel cakes to promptness at school. lie had not long to wait, for pre- sently Nita Allen came briskly want others to see the precious mis- sive and with instinctive modesty she had hidden it. The afternoon dragged intermin- ably for her. Every stroke of the clock every tick of the pendulum brought Hugh nearer to her, and yet along and entered the postoffice. As the minutes passed with leaden wings she turned away Billy noted that she It was only a 10-minute walk to the held in her hand only a long blue station, and she lingered over the envelope and a newspaper. He compositions, her eye constantly thought regretfully of flannel cakes seeking the slow-ticking watch in as he realized that his April Fool joke front of her until at last the minute had miscarried, and turned and fol- hand had come almost to the half lowed Miss Allen down the street. hour. She put on her wraps and hur- There were the usual pranks play- ried down the street. ed in the school yard, but Billy, al- Billy, keeping watch at the post- ways the leader in all mischief, stood office, was spending a weary vigil. apart and wondered. He was certain that he had stamped the letter pro- perly, and anyway Mr. Meade would have given the letter to her and col lected the money had the stamp fall but her road took her in the opposite direction and he did not know that he was waiting in vain. The train had just whistled as she reached the platform, and in a few en off. It was something he could , minutes the heavy string of coaches not understand, though he puzzled | pulled into the station yard, the en- his brain until the last bell rang andi gine panting like some tired animal, he slipped into his seat just in time. I She looked quickly up and down the Some one must have been playing j long line of cars until with a tre- jokes on the teacher, for her eyes' mendous acceleration of the heart's snapped and about her mouth there bearings she recognized a muffled played a smile that made Billy want form stepping from one of the sleep- to hug her. Even when Ned Mat- ers. thews sought to pick up a reader only! "Nita!" he cried as she sped toward Developments in Hotor Building By Henry B. Joy. A student of the trend of the mo- tor car art has seen a wonderful evo- lution in the past twenty years. The automobile has been as epoch making In the world's history as has any other single step of man's ingenious progress, writes Henry B. Joy, presi- dent of a motor company. My father, who died in 189(5, never saw a motor car. To-day horses are practically re- legated to the "Zoo." To-day we talk to San Francisco. To-day man makes his way by motor £ar from coast to coast in fifteen days over the rapidly improving roadways without attracting particu- lar attention. The progressive evolution of me- chanical, chemical, electrical science is placing in the pos.session of the people of the earth daily more de- velopment than occurred in each thousand years prior to the last cen- tury. The motor car reached the stage of practical use first in Europe. Prac- tically Mr. Levassor of Paris, France, devised the transmission system, which, as far as its general scheme is concerned, is unaltered to-day, says the encyclopaedia. But inven- tions breed new inventions. The spark which ignited Mr. Levassor's inventive brain was the sight of Gott- lieb Diamler's crude internal com- bustion engines propelling boats on the River Seine in connection with the Paris exposition of 1887, says the same authority. Actually Mr. Levaaeor and his col- laborators had set the world on fire with zeal to further develop his con- ceptions of the ultimate in individual transportation. to have it jerked from beneath his grasp by a bit of thread. Miss Allen only looked the other way and tap- ped with her pencil on the desk, though surely at other times the source of this demonstration would have been as patent to her as to the class. 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NEW YORK. J him, "this is a surprise indeed." "Didn't you expect me?" she de- manded smilingly. "Did you think I could forget so soon?" Hugh looked puzzled as he fell into step and passed out of the sta- tion. "But no one knew I was com- ing," he declared. "You don't mean to tell me that my advent was anti- cipated?" "I did not tell a soul," she said. "I only got your letter this morning." "But I did not write any one, not even you," was the puzzled declara- tion. Nita laughed. "You don't mean to say that you expect a school teacher with a class like mine to forget this is April fool?" she asked. "The boys were tormenting me all day, and now you want me to believe that you did not write me that letter. You must have written some one else, too, for mine bore the local postmark." "Seeing's believing," he suggest- ed. With a pretty flush she thrust her hand inside her jacket and presently withdrew the letter. He glanced at the superscription and smiled. "And this is your answer?" he said gently. Her eyes gave reply. "I have the courage to ask you my- self now," he said, tenderly. "This is a letter I wrote before I went to New York to arrange about my going to the East?" "Then you didn't send it?" she ask- ed tremulously. "No," he said. "I didn't send it because I have come all the way from Manila to ask you to go back with me. I never had the courage to send you this. I think it must be that young brother of mine. He probably ran across it in my desk." "What can you think of me?" she said with glistening eyes. "If I told you," he said, sincerely, "I should make a scandal by hugging you right here on the street. I think you are the dearest little woman ia I dry and be dispersed in the air, : should mean that many valuable lit- Kaiser Wilhelm once confesses that ; tie lives will be saved to grow up he owned 18,000 neckties. I ""d fill the war gaps. 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