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Eiseaese'espcgogcec .'Bsse "5 ' Ff} THE iiiliViE Q c0» kc ° n .§ g’ G Recipes for the Kitchen. @ e Hygiene and Other Note é . Q for theHousekeeper. E 9 .eQeQQQoQergerngoge THESE ARE VEGETARIAN. Many people have an idea that to nuake soup there must be meat 01' meat stock, or an animal basis of some kind. This is a mistake. The water in which cauliflowers, carrots. ‘turnips, onions, celery, beans, 111a- caroni, etc., have been boiled should be saved and used as stock for vegetable soup. Another good stock 'is the water in which bran has been boiled for some hours and then :strained. Julienne Soup-One-half pt carrots é pt turnips, i lb onions, 2 or 3 leeks, .1; head celery, 1 lettuce, a little sorrel and chervil, 2 oz butter, 2 qts water. Cut the vegetables into strips about 111- inches long‘, and be particular that they are all the same size. Cut the lettuce, sor- ‘rel and chervil into larger pieces. Fry the carrots in the butter, and pour the, water, boiling, to them. When this is done, add all the other vegetables and herbs, and stew gently for nearly an hour. Pour the soup over thin slices of bread cu-t about the size of a quarter, and serve after seasoning. Vegetable Soupâ€"Cut fine any kind - of vegetables, such ‘as carrots, tur- nips, onions, potatoes, celery, pars- nips, tomatoes or whatever may be "'i'n season. ‘Boil them well in a suit- able quantity of water, adding a piece of butter sine of walnut. When quite tender, rub'through a colander and thicken with entire wheat flour, seasoning with pepper and salt to taste. This soup may be varied in many ways, pearl barley, rice, hominy, macaroni, semolina or other farinaceous flour may be used t0 thicken it or give it variety. Potato So11pâ€"'1‘h_is is very easily made. Pare and cut raw potatoes into a saucepan, allowing 1 pt wa- ter to each pound of potatoes ; shred in an onion or two, add a little salt and pepper. Boil until potatoes are done, then rub the whole through a colander, warm again and serve. To ad-d more nourishment to this soup use milk and water in eq'ual parts, instead of water only; a little butter 01' minced parsley may also be added. Bran Soup-Mix 4 oz good ‘clean bran with 2‘ qts water and 4- large onions. Boil half an hour and then strain. Flavor with some tomato sauce, pepper and salt, add a good pinch of sugar. Leek Soup-Thoroughly Wash 2 or 3 bunches of leeks. If old, scald them. Take ofi' the roots and part of the heads and cut them into lengths of about an inch. Put into pot with 11- qts water, and sim'mer slowly until quite tender. Aldd a‘ piece of butter and pepper an'd salt to taste. Onion Soupâ€"â€"Six large onions, 1 small turnip, 1 parsnip, a piece of celery, blade of mace, salt, pepper and sugar, flour and butter. Peel and cut up the onions, also cut up into small pieces the ,tu1'nip,"pars- nip and celery. Put in a pot with 2-9} qts water along with the'macc. salt, pepper and sugar. Let all boil two horns and strain, rubbing it all Well through the strain-er. Then return the soup to the pot and add 1 small tablespoon butter and 2 tablespoons flour, mixed together, and a breakfast cup of milk, stir- ring it until- it-‘boils.* Allow it to boil five minutes, when soup is ready to season to taste. VAnioiis CAKES. Quick Sponge Cakeâ€"Bc-at the yolks of three _ eggs, add one cup sugar, the whites of three eggs beat- en until stifi', one cup flour in which has been sifted 'two teaspoons bakâ€" ing powder and, one- â€"'fou1tl1 teaspoon of salt, flavor- _ with 'one teaspoon extract and ' add‘ flan _teaspoons hot Water. Bake about thirty minutes. Pound Cakeâ€"Cream one-half of butter, ad'd threesfourths cup flour, the yolks of three eggs Well beaten and three-fourths cup pow- dered sugar. Beat well and add‘ the ‘beaten whites of three eggs with one-half teaspoon bakihg- powder. Bake in individual tins fifteen to twenty minutes. Nonpareil Cakeâ€"Ileat the yolks of cup foui eggs, a1dd giaduall'y one cup powdered sugar and the t 1:.th whites of foul eggs,’ thiee squams chocolate 1neltec_1,-,,0n.câ€"l1alf cup chop- ped almonds, one teaspoon baking powder and three-fourths cup c1'10ke1 c111n1'os. Bake in a moderate oven ; when cool garnish iwith one-half cup h 0f beaten cream, ‘one-quartei cu'p of sugar, two _.te11_spoons' = of- 111.111.1111.. wine and candied»; cherries- angelica. , F airy Cingeibieadâ€"â€"Cie'1m one-half :up 0f butte1,a'dd one cup sugai, ' when well intred'add two cups fioui _ in which has been sifted one-'qu'ntei . teaspoon soda; -one.-l'1a'-"lf tabléSpodn gin1ge1 and one-half. cup' milk ‘Spr cad. and bake. .1 __ Delicate Cake-Cream one-half cup b11tte1',add on cup sugar, two and one- -h:11f teasp o'iis ‘ baking powdei sifted with same 'and' threeâ€"fourths cups flour, one-half cuff iiiflkzand the whites (1f thiee eggs. Flavor and Mike in layers about twenty "fer. w v.21.‘L-q:-â€".=-=¢~.~.-1.--.â€".<.H1â€"..â€"~<-»~we - 1 â€".>r- -. .- ‘L’ 3:» -' -- ~ ' found the two women regarding one ~ and 31m 11"" Fig Filing-Mix 0.11.11.01.11 STRAIN SF BRUTALITY. chopped figs, one-half cup sugar, one tablespoon buttei, one tablespoon lemon juice and one-thi1d cup ‘water. Cook until thick enough to spread. Caramel Fillingâ€"Boil one and 011e- half cups browu sug a,r one-half cup cream and one tablespoon butter ; a-dd one-half pound melted marsh- mallows, beat until thick enough to spread. POPULAR SPORTS IN THE l NORTH or ENGLAND. Passion for Cruelty Towards Minor Animals â€" Joy Taken in It. The Well~b0rn and Well-to-do per-l sons who find pleasure in harrying a tame stag are not alone in their enjoyment of sportive brutality. Poor and lowly-born “sportsmen” in other parts of England share it with them, though the thought may not be grateful to the Surrey squires. The Spanish taste for bull- torture and the delight of Surrey gentlemen in the chasing of tame deer are expressed in less distin- guished quarters in a passion for cruelty towards minor creatures. It is only necessary to go to the north- ern counties of England to find “sports” which give ample evidence that even in this age 0f progress and higher education there is still a strain of brutality in the “sports- man's" character, says the London INVALID DISHES A pleasant and nourishing dish for a sick person with a weak stomach is an egg well beaten with 3 table- spoons rich, sweet milk, a ‘very little sugar and a little grated nut- meg. or other flavor, if preferred. Set the bowl or cup into a basin of hot Water, stirring the egg c011- tinually, until it is warm, pour into a dainty glass, and let the patient eat it slowly with a spoon. This makes an agreeable change from soups, brot-hs, etc., and is very strengthening. l Break a fresh egg into small cup or basin, beat thoroughly, adld 2 tablespoons milk and a tiny piece of butter, With salt and pepper to Leader. taste. Bake quickly in a hot oven, DEATH SHRIEK OF THE HARE. and serve immediately. This is much more easily digested than poached or boiled eggs. Broiled eggs in paper cases is an attractive dish. Take confectioners paper about six inches square, make a small box by turning up an inch and a half ‘all around, and twisting the corners tomake them stay, place the lit-tle paper pan on a moderate! 1y warm stove, over slow file, break an egg into the pan, and let it stand until the white cooks through. Slip pan and all on to a warm plate, sprinkle lightly with salt and pep- per, add a. little melted butter, and serve with a dainty cracker 0r a small bit of toast. This will tempt a capricious appetite often when an egg prepared in the ordinary Way would be rejected. The coursing of hares has been de- fended 011 the ground that the hare has a chance to escape with its life, and so it has. But those who have stood close by when the dog has fixed its cruel teeth in the victim's loins, and have heard _ its 'piteous outcry like the shriek of a. suffering child, Will not deny that there is some force in the contentions those who are sneered at as senti- mentalists. But there aie other popula1 amusements in which the quarry has no chance. In that ig- noble sport, rabbit-coursing, the little creature has no chance to get away, for the sport is conducted in an enclosed ground. Rabbit-coursing is now conducted, it is alleged, un- der better conditions, but there are stories of the destroying thumb inserted in a ‘rabbit's eye, so that it might run only in one direction, and these stories were current not very long ago. Less is heard now of the spelt which was derived from tho slaugh- ter of rats, and that ennobling and refined pastime seems to have lost its favor. But very few years ago it Was common .enough in the north. USEFUL HINTS. Try keeping tea, coffee and spices in a tightly close-d jar if the flavor is to be properly retained. To fry liver cut very thin drop in boiling water until white outside. Then roll in a mixture of onetablespoonful of flour, one of salt and a teaspoonful of sage and and . - .1. _- - The landlord of a public house, in iiifigygif‘f,i?pp,1,,g; quickly 1n hOt which such delights were regarded The'fat bits of mutton, beef- and ““th approval' usual?’ 22°‘; 1;th pork saved every day and fried out matter in hand, and a \er ls a he Would give £5 “to be coursed for at iats, by all classes of teriieis, lighting dogs barred." The entry fees were added to the landlords contribution, and a sweepstakes formed in the usual way. A pro~ fessional rat-catcher found the rats, and gcnci ally acted as refelee. When all Was iea'dy, and the excited and clamoring crowd had assembled around the enclosure, the first _rat was dropped and the coursing Went 011 in the usual Way, with a betting accompaniment, tn. the rat was killed. BATTER IN THE PIT. Another dog and rat sport which had favor not long ago with those who like such excitements-eand 110 doubt it is ...;ill carried on suirep- titiou-sly-was a rat-killing match proceeding from'a bet between one sportsman and another as to the capacity of their respective dogs for slaughter. In these circum- stances the local connoisseurs pro- ceeded to bet about it, and make a prodigious fuss-for betting and fuss make an excellent sulbstitute for lard and butter in cooking. A thrifty butcher said to his boy, “Thom-as, pick up that nice bit of mutton fat from the floor. The sheep-stooped a great many times before he picked it up.” Walnut cookies like mother used to m-ake : Use two cups of sugar, two eggs, half a cup of melted butter, six tablespoonfuls of sweet milk, one teaspoonful of c1 cam of ‘re- W1, half a one of soda and one cupful of fine- ly chopped Walnut kernels and only enough fiour to make them roll out. A lady who had been much annoy- ed by various insects infesting her pantry and kitchen cupboard has been ‘greatly aided in her fight by having all the woodwork frse hly painted with common White paint and with a final coat of White en- amel. Every shelf is painted, and she has discarded all papers, which formerly were a means of' refuge for the beetles and ants. The paint is easily cleaned and is both cool and hygienic in effect. ______+_____..___ , are indispensable on these occaâ€" 7 1‘ '-. 1 , sionsâ€"-a11d ‘each side provided say, LIbeNG IN A QUINNDL‘ 20 rats. The vermin were kept A distinguished novelist, ‘whose’ awhile, and were often starved a Works are exticmely popular with little so that they might become the faii sex, recently found himself lean, lithe creatures, vicious and travelling in a lailway .,"ca11iage hungry and fierce. They were all with two \ery talkative women. shaken up in a bag, and then the out 20, which were placed in a circular pit, and made to run round it. Then one dog was dropped in, the timekeeper touched Ilaving lecognizcd him f1 om his pub- judge took lished po1t1aits, they both opened fire upon him in legard t'o his novels, which they praised in a; man- ner that was unendurable t0-.- .thc his stop-watch,- and the massacre sensitive author. _ Presently ‘Idle:- began. So lapidly Was the slaugh- train entered ‘a tunnel, and"in_.-tl1,e ter effected that a clever dog has killed the 20‘ rats in.]ess than 25 novelist, who under.~' stood Women, lifted thevback of his- hand to his lips and kissed it" soundingly. When light 1eturncd he darkness the another in icy silence, and,~.ad- dressing them with great suavity, he said :â€" '_ _ ' “Ah, la'dies, the regret of my life ,' W-ill hereafter be that I shall nev'e1" know which one of you it was that ' kissed me.’ 1 f - “ ' _.'_.,__§‘______ ONE 11'011'1'1113 SHOP WALKER. A celtain shop-Walker in 'a large establishment is noted _fo_r his sever-1;. ity to those‘ under him ih' business. One day he approached a junior as- , 'sistant, from whose Counter a lady‘ had just moved away. ..- “You let that lady go out without making a purchase ‘2" he asked, se-f - verely. '1 -‘{Yes,. sir. Iâ€"-â€"-" _ . ‘_ __ _--‘ .. ~ “"lnd she was at? 1516111- taunts L fully ten minutes '2" ' “ “Dountless ; but then, you seeâ€"" ' “Exactly,- I saw that, spit” ~' " ‘of a'll the questions" she putr,‘ n15 you ~ you rarely answered. illgl-l, and. gnqver attempted- to get what she wanted ” -“Well; but-+3" .' "‘I shall repoit your carelessness _ . “Well, I hadn’ 't 'what she Wanted ” ' ““hat was that ?” ' . ' “Fifty cents. .She' s avbook can-j vasser,’ getting subscr'ibers to the ‘Life of Moses.’ " - And the shop- -walker retiied crest- fallen. ~ Hubby-Man in England leads his '-'Harem.-:.=:ve.-»v.'1m~esau-m1m>emw. . . -- of‘ seconds. 'Therival dog then had his tuln at the second batch of vermin, and upon comparison of the times recorded depended the victory monkey once excited the envy of the dog-owners of some Lancashiro towns, for it killed rats faster than any dog could by tapping them on the head with a hammer as they circled round. CO CK-FIGHTING N OT EN TIN CT. The sporting man who owns a dog in the North of England will “back it for all he is worth” if he con- siders it clever at any 0f the dog sports, and some of these, it should be said, such as dog-racing and the interesting trail hunt, in Which the dogs follow a scent laid by a man drawing behind him a bag filled with material which has a pungent smell, involve no brutality to the animals, but require that they shall be treated with care. But the dog does not monopolize the possibilities of sport in the north. It is gen- erally supposedthat cock-fighting is extinct in England, but from time to time the owners of fighting cocks manage to evade the police and carry their birds to secluded spots, where the main is fought. Only a few years ago an “inter-county" match Was held on the moors above Rochdale, and birds representing Lancashire and Yorkshire fought the battle of supremacy. Nor are dog- fights, on which heavy stakes and bets change hands, merely memories of the dark ages. DODGING PIG EONS. The gun, also, plays its part in the minor sports, among which are such variants of pigeon-shooting as sparrow and starling shooting. So highly organized are seine of these ‘competitions that there are men who gain at least part of their livelihood by supplying pigeons which have been trained to beat the gun. The young 01' “green” rocks are placed in a trap, which is a. kin-d of hinged box. When the string is pulled the box turns over, and the bird is free to go. But in the train- ing period a long thread is attached to the leg of the pigeon, and to that a squib or cracker is tied. The cracker is lighted and exploded once or twice while the bind is still in the box, and then the lid is raised so that the frightened bird flies away with a succession of small ex~ plosions like the crack of a gun in its wake. Naturally it' darts this Way and that in the effort to avoid the annoyance, and after a few ex- periences of this kind it becomes a dodger in its flight, an'd does not give the marksmen a steady object to aim at. There are records of a bird which was shot at 2O times be- fore it met its fate, and of another that slipped out of the trap in the manner which fear had taught it to adopt, and, being missed, took refuge in a barn, where it laid an egg. It .Was recaptured and again placed in the trap, and was twice shot at and twice missed in the same afternoon. THE ‘enlist: FOR ‘GAMBLING. Theronare'some northern sports, it is true, which do not involve. cruelty to animals, but they are only - ac- ceptable if they provide an. outlet for the gamibling instinct. ‘There is no form of chance on which money will not be staked. One announces that he will play any man in the world at skittles for £25 a' side ; another will venture twice the sum on a test of his skill at high-kicking or eccentric jumping. I' 01 a race with navvies’ bair'ous £25 a side has been staked, and tu'o 'factory lads have been matched to win £20 from any other two in South Lan- cashire at “tip-it," which is 110- thine; but the art of discovering in which hand your opponent holds a button. Even if there be no. blu- tality there must be a stake ; but there is brutality enough in ‘most of the lower spoi ts of the north to. justify the suggestion that when the Surrey gentlenieirweal'y of torturing tame Stags; they might find 3con- genial ‘ recreation_ _ ajlittle farthe1 noith' ‘ ' ' wife to an insane asylum l Wifey-IIump ! Over here they generally drive ‘cm there l MW A AND SOME NEW *EXAMPLES OF - ing to . whilst. they hhd been e'x '15pe1 atcd to"' ' sei \ ed: themselv cs in theh l lence.’ '_ _ (To " Ysoul~,~ . it. THE FLIGHTS UF BBATURS . THEIR FALLS. -.=- '_ The Orator Who “Cannot Open‘ His‘ Mouth Without Rut- ting His Foot in It.” A certain well-known Irish mem-V’ ber of Parliament recently clos~ ' ed an eloquent speech in Connaught in this brilliant fashion. “The blaze that is lighted here to- day, if- will not be quenched till it oieads .. ' a wave of indignation over the landv wlfich will bring the bigoted diiec'i' tors to their knees. _. The mayor of a provincial town . " no doubt meant to be veiy complii 9;, mentary when, in welcoming the 1ep~ ' resentatives of a trade union, ha _ ' said. “With the hammei of unity ._ you have welded yourselves into one haimonious whole, and so produced the cream of perfection. " Even th(- august chamber of the Lords is b3 no means fiee from these ilietorical "H' vagaiies, for did not a noble lord, when defending his class, recently re mark: “Is it not ri'ght that, in ordei to hand down to posterity the vin tues of those who have been en1i1 nent for their services t0 their coun. .1 try, their descendants should enjoy " ' the honors conferred on them as I rewaid for such services?" ' "As I have already said all that l wish to say,” an oratorical M. P. once declared, “I willingly retract what I was just about to- observe"; while a fellow-countryman, after? .. ‘4- )‘1;-:-_ vainly resisting the temptation ta ‘1' join in a debate, opened his speech, ,l; with the‘ startling ‘statement, “‘l 1;. can't keep silent any longer withouf saying a. few wor'ds' -,--1 -_ There was more than a little am biguity in the speech of the ma! who referred to “some tattle which we have seen in some sly cornei where no one has been but our- selves"; but this is lucidity itsell compared with the speech of thi American ASPIRANT TO CONGRESS, who compared the Opposition t1 “some Haunting vessel sailing pr oud~ ly 011 in ignorance of the hidden lee that should tear the masks fron their false faces and send them howl' ing back to thei1 lai1s, the 1110cke1j and derision of the world.” This is no doubt excellent rhetoric, but it must pale its ineffectual fire: before that member of the Louisiana Hlouse of Representatives when he re ferred to “the need of legislation to ameliorate ‘the condition of our owr people in the riparian districts, that h'ave been so recently visited by in undation and oveiflow and devasta' tion by almighty floofd, that ha: swept animated and inanimated mat» tei-s and objects before it in its vol- 'u1nin0us‘_march” after which ht touched lightly on a certain recem , time “when man spoke nervously to ‘,- man, and the destiny of their great nation was hung in Atlas scales, and the balanco was equipoised, and the go'ds suspended judgment other than the arbitration of the sword, and this mighty nation appealed to the Courts of Mar, and Mar'went forth from his dark chamber-to red-den tlu world with a sanguinary gore." From such a dizzy flight as this if is q'uite a ielief to turn to the sim- ple confession of the speakei who, when he was ass'ui ed by the chain man that the audience welcomed him with the greatest pleasure, answer- ed, “Iâ€"- I am always glad to be here, or indeed-eiâ€"-a11ywherc else. “The British Lion, " exclaimed one patriotic orator, “whether it is pac- Iing the deserts of Africa, sits thron- ed among the snows of Canaida, 01 'roams the jungles of torrid India, i: not the animal to draw in its horn: and seek safety ‘in its' shell; but with the keen eye of an eagle, and the waiy crouch of the leopa1 d it i: always ieady to pounce 011 its ene-__ mies and hurl them to destruction. ’* If this orator was a little '1 CONFUSED IN HIS SIA'IILQS he ha'd a n orthy'companion i-n the American pdlitician who spoke o. the tlHCLLChOiy of an opponent “v 11c would take 1ny_h..1;ndl_i11 both of his in tlhe ‘simulated grasp of warm friendship and with a Judas smile would stab me in the back with the other,” thus ‘clearly showing what a n ~ . v._.~'\~ Vi,» _. ,_ ,. . . Q“... ~._ _ . .4 ‘v. clevcr and dangerous man his ad- ve1sa1y was. “Thc l'rish .people, ’ 13111‘ D'â€"-'-- 01,16E' . -._.. said, “h. '1d seen theii c1111-i111-y...i11 i:ags and 111ise1y,thei1 childien _go- . _ .. destruction and themselves ' ‘.- filling paupeis’g1.1'.c.,, but no man’ s . ' hand had bee11'-r.1isetl---t0 Save them‘, . ' Crime and had ended their days on the gallows s1..”’i ‘As .1’ (vitty M. 1".‘ 0b_- , ".‘Men. ' who, ' afte'r seeing ' ‘ graves, can sur- vi1e to qualify 1101 the gallons cer- _‘ ; tainlv deserve' afi'better fate.’ ‘ --” " -' It was at least geneious of a well- _ U known. politician to '- decla1e-tha1""'= ‘1 ' “such prejudice as I haxe against _' _ "_. the 1101101 able member’ is aii in his ' ' ' favoi,” althou' 'h he s1l10uld"=‘1t haw spoiled this an iCable coanQi 011 113 _, c011_t_ii11_1ing:’-“1\in'd I am 1111:1121 to ex- f plCSS my” surpiisc when I/ lieai d hin' treat my 1"‘0111aiks on a former occa sion with such contemptuous ,si' ' t. 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