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MERITS OF PAPER BAG COOKING REVIEWED. By Martha McCulloch Williams. In this final paper on my experi ences with M. Soyer's paper bag cook ery, it may be well to sum up briefly its claims and its performances. In the claims, item one, economy, more than vital 1 the present state of finance high asd low. Item two, nutrition; things cooked in paper bags certainly set better upon the stomach and return more strength of mind and body than the same things cooked outside it. Item three, prevention-the preven tion of ptomaine and other obscure poisons, bred betwixt food and air. Not the wiliest microbe of them all can survive baking in the oven-and after the baking the ba, is thrown away. Item four, Increase and bettering o flavors, which means increase and bettering of food itself. Item five, the making tender of tough, hence indigestible fiber, as in round steak, old fowls and such like things. Item six, prevention of smells-an advantage so apparent aa to require no more than bare mention. Itht seven, the crowning mercy, the abolition of scrubbing out pots and pans. A fine array truly. But not the whole tale of benefits. The whole might be tedioua. Any way, in the little remnant of allotted space, other things press to be spoken. Words of caution, for example. In cooking in paper bags mind, not your p's sad q's, but the simple directions for use. Namely, to grease the bags well, not to overfill them, to fold over the open end three times and fasten the fold with wire clips, to lay the filled bag always seam side up, and if by chance it breaks, to put it instantly Inside another bigger bag, to flish the cooking. Bay clips in several slsdJL They are cheap and almost everlasting. Use them freely i! fastening up the bags -they can be pnled of before the bag is thrown away and used over and over. Coal and wnod ranges are not so well adapted to paper bag cooking as gas ranges. St,1 bag cooking can be t done with any kind of best-the knack lies in the regulation of it The theory of paper bag cooking is this: A cold bag put tnto a hot stove gets warm very quckly throughout, and the paper of It crisps wherever it touches nothing but air. This quick heat is essential-!t vaporises the f liquids or the uices inside the bag. c and makes a medium for softening I and flavoring the food fiber. But If a the heat is too long continued, it dot stroys the tensile strength of the bag, makes it break of itself, and spin its c contentas Hence, the importance of lowering the heat, and quickly, before c this destruction is aocomplished. There are several ways of doing c this. They may be used in combina- I tlon or separately. First, push In the damper, then open the oven door,. and set inside upon the oven floor a shallow pan of cold water. Leave the oves door ajar for two or three mim ut*, with a strip of white paper on the shelf beside the bag. If the paper turns pale yellow the heat is saut diesntly redeuced. If It turns brown very qunickly, set the door wide, take out the water pan and refill aftere emptying, with fresh cold water, then set againa upon the oven floor, Kep the door ajar until the test aper More Fish " By NIcholas oy.r, Chef of Brooks' Club, London. Sole Sourgpulgee: Thoroughly but tr a bag, place Inside a well trimmed sole or flounder, add three small peel ed uneut onioms, a bouquot garni and aglass of claret. Mix a large tea spoostul et Sour with an ounce of butter, place this mixture on the sole, seal up the bag and cook for twenty mlnuteo tn a hot oven. Sele or Fleuader or Cod, a la Corn temse: rease a bag thickly. Take mix er eight uesa of solee, dust them lightly with alt sad white pepper and eummse a little leson SJules ever eawh flet. Put them in a bag mad add to them as ounce of finely mlnced mushrooma, half a heaped large tea spooitul of fanely minced shallot or chives, a heaped large teaspoonful of minced parsley and a heaped dessert spoonful of freshly fried breadcrumbs, all mixed together. Add also half a Feeding the Baby Animas There Are More Pleasant Tarks on Earth, Aocording to One Who Has Done It. Birds and animals do strange things In their babyhoud The first thing tke b by ostrich does cin os arriitu iC tc!s u.rld Is to t 'ri round and ea: I.I os r ":- t', - I .e '.; by way ti (-f 1 ' OL . 0 . ' t ls,: hen, a, ful -.c t( I Re ' 'l c. i 'ha:ll take bar ben a il :!Y utr- ,4 .' \-. u th h)1u e .e 4t. ' 11 P I1," . t u Jt lie Lc - it . s a. 1 ra 1.ru.d v "2'e in the a l r:' l -,:.1. ,ru uge u.ii s genhrral!y ati nmur";' L.u.e a.e.c..e tbhan t'.u-ee u; . a.L4.Ul -, LL1.il.e.r s 1..tchell. lecturing to :e o)yil ii.Stiiuiion in London the odkes da, told :. an experience he had %-ih a bear to which it was desired to admtiAlter a dose of castor oil. With as easastat hbe tried to foroe" it down rlt' tShreat. Brui resisted. min 00 pasd. sad theltt cloties were I JbbA. sar t te so d at hali as merely yellows. E that time the dampers should have dons their work sufficlently. Close the oven door, leaving inside another gtrip of clean white paper. In three minutes look at it-if it is browning too fast, set the door again ajar, but if merely yel lowing let the door stay closed. This regulation of heat is a vital part of the problem, but much less In tricate than it rounds. S gas range too hot needs to have half the flame turned off, and what remains reduc ed as low as is safe. In baking pastry and cake it is es sential to make very tiny holes in the upper side of the bag before the, go in the oven. The holes should be in the highest part of the bag, but not very close together. TASTY FISH DISHES. Now that paper bag cooking has robbed fish of their harmful odor, the tang that hung to the house through days and days, Friday has lost a ter ror and gained a charm. A baked fish c' any sort is the bet ter for stuffing. Buy your fish with regard to the size of paper bags. If you need a very big fellow, make up your mind that it must be cut in fillets. Two medium fish, stuffed and baked, are much better than the same weight in on Have the head and tail cut off and the scales very well removed. VJS" quickly, wipe dry with a damp cloth and keep very cold until ready to cook, but do not salt-it draws out the juices. Fish stuffing needs to be rich and tast3fuL Make it of breadcrumbs well seasoned with butter or chopped suet; of mashed potato, seasoned with onions and tomato catsup, or of c rn meal beaten up with an egg and milkll and fried brown in hot ',acon fat. Wipe the fish afresh inside, salt light ly, dust -'ith black pepper and lay in a little lump of butter or suet. Stuff ) and tie firmly, then season outside, grease well all over and pop into a well greased bag. Cook twenty to thirty-five minutes in a hot oven, re duced after a while. Sliced tomatoes V and onions or tomato catsup in the bag with the fish increase the flavor admirably. If you like fillets well browned, sea son them after wiping clean, dip in sweet milk quickly, roll lightly in flour and put into a thickly greased p bag with a lump of butter proportion- t ed, to the number. A pound of fllets 4 requires a large spoonful of butter. t1 Cook in a hot oven ten to twenty min utes, shifting from the high shelf to ri the low, or vice versa, after ten min utes. Z4 Stew fish with vegetables after this p fashion: Cut up in neat pieces any it good white fish that is firm and r fresh. Free the pieces from skin and A bone, wipe well, season lightly, dip of in melted butter and lay together m while yod pare and cut in thin slices to onions, turnips, carrots, potatoes, as many as you like. Lay :. thick mass h, of the sliced vegetables in the bottom of a well greased bag, sprinkle lightly fr with salt and pepper, then imbed in T the mass as many fish strips as it will tt hold without danger of crowding the hi bag. Put on more vegetables, stick j, in more fish. When all are used, put d in a scant cupful of slightly salted we c, ter and a lump of butter rolled in t flour. Seal bag, lay it on rivet, tak ing care that the corners are very dl fast Set upon the gridshelf in a hot p, oven for five minutes, then reduce bi heat at least a third and cook for half fl an hour to forty minutes accordigg to the weight of the bag. Rich fish, as salmon, are delicious J cooked in wine. Any good, firm-grained fish of deli- p cate flavor can be creamed in a paper bag. Cut It in thick slices, wipe clean, season, roll in flour, and lay in a thickly buttered bag. Add a lump of butter the size of a walnut for each half-pound of fish. and half a pint of thick cream. Seal bag tight, set on trivet, cook forty minutes In moderate oven, the heat of which is reduced as above directed. Haddock, sole. flounder, or white fish can be made very excellent in this fashion. Serve with hot brown bread, very sour pickle, and baked apples dress- o0 ed with sugar and rum, or a very sour salad (Copyright, 1911, by the Asociated Literary Pres.) wineglassful of sherry mixed with the I sam amount of either good Ash stock or ordinary stock. Clcae the bag and cook in a moderately hot oven for eighteen to twenty mlnutes. To make the iAsh stock, put the bones and trimmings from' the fsh in a clean small steiwpn with a gill of water and a bit of turaip, carrot, onlon sad celery, all Arnt well washed and slieed, and simmer itteen mm utes. Strain of sad ,se. c Whitebelt: lean sad dry one pound whitebait sand roll in Sour. Melt one ounce of butter, season with a little a eayenne pepper, a finely chopped 9 shallot, sad a tablespoonful of ine. gar. Sprinkle Ash with this mixture, 1 seal in a well buttered bag and cook for fve minutes in a very hot oven. (Copyright, 1911, by Sturgis & Walton d Compan.'.) hour something like a very small tea" spoonful had been forced down the patient's throat. Then the exhausted men had a happy idea. They put a lot of castor oil in a saucer, and stepped cut of the ring. Bruin walked to :he saucer, swallowed the whole dose, and looked up pathetically for more. 'hbs Mr. Mitchell told to illustrate the undesirability of attempting to force focc upon an animaL With the alligator, howevey, the case is somewhat different. If he refuses rood, drop him into a warm bath, tak. itg care that It is something under Lo ,ing point. This should make lim I vely, but If he still refuses to eat, stut him forcibly. You tickle the side of his mouth until he opes his Jaws, and then ram the food down with the handle of a toothbrush. And if he wceps, do not say kastj and dis. paragingly that these are mere Nmeao dile tears. They ma be the egmees aism of his deep"a a tUee s MR. RUCKER'S MEMORIAL DAY DINNER t.i ·: /4 O UR illustration is a flashlight photograph of the Memorial day dinner given. by Congrrssmaa A. W. Rusher of Colorado to 12 men in Washington official life, who, like himself, ar. survivors of the Coaemisarto urm. The only flag that appeared in the decorations of the host's apartment was Old Glory. SEEK ASTOR WEALTH Heir to $100,000,000 Receives Letters From Many Persons. Women Propose Marriage and Men Ask Him to Become Partners in Businese-Others Make Odd Requests. New York.--Vincent Astor's latest trouble is a deluge of letters from persons anxious to advise him as to the best manner of spending his $100, 000,.000 inheritance. Many of the let ters are from women, telling of their great love and conveyingoffer offers of mar riage. Old women and young women, bra zen and demure, thin and fat ones, pretty and ugly, have taken their pens in hand, not without hope of gain. Some have pretended to bespeak Mr. Astor's interest in behalf of causes other than purely personal ones, but most of them have been frankly smit ten in the desire to call the young man's attention to certain persons that be otherwise might overlook. Some of the writers have waited in front of the Astor estate offices in Twenty-sixth street for a glimpse of the boy. Most have mistaken the handsome "Nick" Blddle for the ob ject of their curiosity, much to Bid dle's embarrassment. He is an exe cutor of the Astor estate, is about thir ty-four and looks younger. And it isn't only through the me dium of letters that women have pressed their suits. The telephone has been kept pretty busy, both at the of fices and at the Fifth avenue house, Mmm m-- - _ --. -.- - --_-. -.-. -_ - -.- ._.-.- - . TO FORM FLAG ASSOCIATION Patriots Will Erect Monument and All Will Be Asked to Fight An. archistic Principles. Spoane, Wash.-The Grand Army of the Republic, the Spanish War Vet erans, American Flag association, Daughters of the American Revolu tion and other local members of patrl otic organizations will organize a lag associatfon in Spokane in which every national society will be a mem ber. They also will fight anarchistic organizations and teach all people and societies to respect the flag. A propo sition to erect a big monument on the high bluff in Summer avenue between Washington and Bernard streets, to be called "Flag Day" monument, is be ing considered. Downtown buildinrs will be deco rated and every national society in the city will be asked to take part of a parade and program. WEAPONS ARE FROM 1000 B. C. Austrian Explorers of Imperial Mu seum Make Rich Haul In Karat Mountains. Vienna.-An exploration by mem bers of the Imperial museum into the cavern of St. Kansion in the Karat mountains has yielded more than 1000 brose tImplements such as swords, axes, lance heeds and vessels sup posed to date from 1000 B. C. They were all found at the bottom of a pit 150 feet deep within the cavern. It is suggested they were thrown in there as a sacrifice to a subterranema deity. Fulfills His Death Dream Visions of Hearse Waiting for Casket Finally Induces Man to Kill Self. Phoenlville, Pa.-Tortared for weeks by a coastantly recurring dream. Ia which was pictred a fu neral eortege with a hearse opined to receive a casket which has beiag ca rled from the house tn which he board ed. Peter Leasnek died bsortly after h had cut his throat with a rasor. Witnesses, called at the tnaqestheld by Deputy Coroner C. H. owell, told the story of the strange apparition which had so long oppressed Luaseck and which drove him nally fromtr los of sleep Into Itsanity. His 3ellow boardere told of accounts of his strange dream which the s·aide gave them at breakfast each morning, and to which he declared that it foresati his owa death and letured to him his Within the past ew daYs lassohi was apparently' amstri frm a veit with girlish voices whose owners were anxious to have opportunities to meet the heir of millions. The reasons as signed were as many as the letters contained. Some of the writers want the young man to "do something worthy of his name." There have been suggestions that he finapce the suffragette cause. Others want him to use his fortune to buy up breweries and distilleries and put them out of business for the sake of promoting the cause of prohibition. Comparatively few of the letters writ ten by women are from inventors. This class of communications almost always bore a man's signature. Things suggested for a worthy use of the money ranged from patent bung-starters to methods of bridging Bebring strait Included in the ap peIls are those of professional beg gars. Churches, schools and libraries divide honors as to the numbers of their letters with propositions from business houses that offer him liter ests for ever so small a sum. Most of these letters, of course, need no answer. Those from women on subjects of the heart are entirely ig nored. Many of the latter come ac companied by photographs. Two of the fair correspondents sent as their own postcard, pictures of Lillian Rus sell, from which they had forgotten to scratch the name. Kills Girls Playing Indian. Watersburt.-Playing Indian, Harry Black, aged seven years, found ,is father's shotgun, and chased Mary Goodish, aged five, into a corner. Put ting the muzzle to her head, he pulled the trigger, instantly killing her. Man Near Death Relents Man~~~q ....Dat aln Murderer Forgives His Daugh ter, Who "Caused It AL" Dramatic Meeting In Prison Befoes an Artists Death-Plvture of Him. Self on the'Gallows Painted by Jan RIbarich. Washington, Pa.-Jan RIbaulch, an Austrian, artist and thrice a murderer, who will be hanged here, was convert ed in his cell by. his daughter whom he had vowed be would kill beamsne she was the "case of it alL" A visit from his daughter, a prayer and the ssinging c 'Nearer, My God, to Thme," caused a dramatic incidet. Riblrich, who bhad Etted his oue In. to a studio, for weeks pest oecupled his time in painting plctures and prm senting them to his trlends and ail of. fclls. He always spoke Jokingly of the gallows and had persuaded the sheriff to allow him to look at the pgl. lows from a window several bors before the hanging was to take plaee Ribarich had painted many d his friends and had drawn a sketch d himself daagnag at the end at a rspe with his body halt omesae through the falling a the trap. Rabarich shot and killed Michael No vak, his wife and stepsam, 8tianovl, whom he blamed for harboring his daughter. After his convactln, the father said his only desire was to kill his daughter before he died, as eb had disobeyed him. The girl vilsted her father, aecompa aenue tra, and aoud talk ltfle I eloe than what be Lersed is ~ alnds funeraL Recently a groma was heard, evri4sa IT eomsas from the room wbleb he e. copled, and avest.tatkio revealed the I man la3 in a pool of blood and !ut I bleedi~n to death. He died har as hour later. Ha was umarrled sad, had been a residet of Phosat aI for seven years. TWO GO INTO LAKE OF FIRE Carnege Foundation Ma, Maa re. portam ExamMnatin o Ve . Cane o Kliagm. New York.-Professors beard ad Day. two geological eerts whom the Causesae hamiatlon sat n lwall a tewreatha ooeoa~pe as d m s u and omewhat barroeas 5 lett at at the voltane o Kleauer semu. as cedlig to riste s pas.ie la. The two sleahntisb woew lo eww 1A * DIES TO SPITE LANDLORD Woman at Paris, France, Ends Life in Owner's Fiat to Vex. Him. Paris-House owners In Paris ar no better and no worse than those oft any -ountry, and disappointed tourlsts, of course, keep them on their black list. Literary celebrities like U. Oand llot may leave lions and tigers In their fiats to annoy proprietors, but what in a poor charwoman to do whose room Is not large enough for a menagerie, and who, besides, is not famous? "I will do something that will draw attention to me," said one of thse p6or wretches, and she penned the following missive to her landlord: "I1 will commit suicide to spite you, be cause you let my fat to another. Peo ple will not cars to come to a fat with a co-pse In It" She proceeded to erry out her threat, and committed suicide by Inhal nlg the fumes of a coke fire which she lighted In her room. The proprietor found her dead. BEEF TOO HIGH FOR TWO CATS Uncle Sam Refaes to Malatain Rat Cateher at the Subtreasury Owing to Expense. Washinton.-The prprlety of feed ing two cats at the public erlb is de. ned by A. Platt Andrew, assistast secretary of the treasury. The urgent appeal ~r the cats esme from the subtrurl in New York, which is tntestd h rats and ami Kind-hearted cerrks v ben ome tributtag to the support of the' two cats Installed, while a tas oelial approval of the use of the contingent hmL aled byr gurd. W he hew her he broke down. A Methodist ameainr Praye. "Nearer, My God, to Tber" was mua by stors sad Mll guard and the condemmsd m o ed his daugher, Beefore leaving th s the daughter, sightee years old, prawlsed her . ther to bring her Sasu to titJal. It will be the lest amett g betwee. IM. baieh and th young ma who wi1 take bi deghr as a bride son a, er the bheas DIES BY OWN BUrGLAR TRAP Memphis Orer Paally weeesd byr shea S Near windw fr an Ifrbder. - Mmghi, T .--A brO r set by ay I. rBoous eass the deth or rDa n his eeeoer sen a the ouatridt twa. l be r was eaed a the loor w his wis west a r naS hod ot wr he LeU et. m e to ser. A .o e a *aIY*d to sdi sheae In the ale.tl of a widew, abemi an edet be made to rat the windLow, was eam . its had having e*Ald Be~ body. 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Sod Law wdels Win stnesM New Tel. - Wiemot haes rest a wdont olaw in the twe . soe- ther haee et cmpege. bfs ersmn Gold and Isbadee Ceas -ae tamngs adf hl hbaoers as a* beabyn tolw sh ofSt I awreas se1tw . Yhey we beI bms4, but aM r-l b- ea rases seasad ea three U.. .LL IM M HOUSE TO SAYE FAMLY Chicago Woman Fulfills Compact Made With an Armed Bur glar in the Night. THREATENS TO KILL . Wife Gives Up Own Valuables, Babies' m Banks, and the Ceotents of Her - Hueband's Trousere-She Re. calls Neighbor's Tragedy. Chicago.-At two o'clock the other morning Mrs. John C. Kuhas, whose husband is assistant purchasing agent of a big railroad company, entered into and carried out the terms of an honorable agreement with a burglar. The agreement was made in Mrs. Kuhns' boudoir at her residence, 7120 Luella avenue, by the glare of the burglar's uashlight In a chamber ad joining slept the woman's husband and her two children In blissful igno rance of what was happening. The agreement was something like this: Mrs. Kuhns was not to grow hysterical, cry out, or waken her hus band. In return the burglar was not to murder Mrs. Kuhns or molest her husbard. And in the fulfllment of her part of the compact Mrs. Kuhas proceeded to turn over her own valuables, slip Into the chamber beside her sleeping hus band, remove his trousers, rile them of ten dollars, break open the beaks of her two babies, push the contents into the hands of the robber. and the I escort that person to the front door and bid him good night. "Why did I do it?" Mrs. Kuahs re peate . "Please remember the case at Clarence D. Hiller a year and a half ago. He was our neighbor. One nalght a nego burglar entered the room of Is two daughters in their T house out here. Mr. Hiller, awakened by his wife and the cries of the ehfl Ufdren, ran up and seised the robber. n Mr. Hiller was killed. The burglar, a Thomas Jennings, was hanged on Sager print evidence for his murder. "That all came to me when I saw the white circle of the burglar's else trip lantern creep slewly across my dreslng tabdle I sat p t bed. The a to rt e the bkadtas Ih t h i ? In l hs hato w a d r hil " 7t p 5 ear, itd, Il Iae o -.Il tea' he salt I watd to sess A"I x 00 ...ldMat. "" r Ad .. ` ia: -- the at nm. ils drat w e sm , t-em . n a ata U e a r ..' I. t-ld o sa: 'Thaeuh te a-r .t i g"t he at W- e t h slr aldi amed am 1 e f -. e st Ies. ll hair wt M etm l I wet to a eltr besMe a Ithre wll te r geer li h nIs ma beea e his trwas e. Tehe I 'ff eis am, td, i'll he inn In he nea to rem . N ame ade wak rg- ad. Then I wY t byest ts o a' -ae' +a t I te d ter se o adr e ead asd feow e them to m ihim. -the nd a t sed ting te b I hinhand mm.1w s he as "hke Ih e MId hasl th ea tstms.i t malk ms l ta/r . ilen ar'ni. h' s u i it igh shee an m I' ) e a e vnts ne' sdt a inhb an a umm ed. eaU a ie ni ai maa bthis r evei esns the d'er ai Is" begarnqd. Iw- ais fte hee i.ur whi o Isswa n .h -e wit h t th hs gam i hi me he I iu er ase Ia my mawna ru - MOTHER UFE FUR Burns in Effort tn Boy and Baby wards he Kenosha, Wis.-A reached here the other Mutnner, a vrllage the of Kenosha county. A burned to death trylt 11ve of her two chub.,g The little one eosne marily to the bravery e( -a small boy. Mrs. Johanna six years of age, seat or children to the v l of gasoline. The boy the can on the way Tried to Fight er Way reached the house he near a burmiag gasmdle west out to play. Two other ohilnre, a eand a baby grl, were In the hose. Ths ca vwas exploded by the house took inm was hangsla clotheso yard. She rushed bu and tried to ight er -,am . she was fume s ad aok does the ire. wiiam K.re1, a the bhou burasigs a resue. Hes eteroed his way, whe, aithoug he found and parried to vneoaolous eS 'rL It was learned btur that when hei aw hid threatened by the 1i h to the halway, where ea~e by the mok. The eoroess jery, a verdic at seedetat Mra EntKetiehoser her ehildren." BRAVES MAD 00' Child Me @Sdhio n Cm ora til Aw-g 40 -eas eo mrso fliveriMd is to the todaed by *steio -pr sad bead are cP the ou em ie weIame whi the d - mtsed, asd us codar ead yaked It aIto thei p ot Wee " deer ad eis del OS the deer when ae - ap-eared iS * h the aleL. who asreod ggasea-re-uusdt 4