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DINNER ON MOVING DAY
EXCELLENT MEAL MAY BE PRE
PARED IN ADVANCE.
Easy to Pack Everything That It Re
quired and Have Suit Case Handy
Against Day of General
. Discomfort
The ideal arrangement on moving
day or in housecleanlng time, so far
as the culinary end of the household
is concerned, Is to take dinner out
Sometimes a kind-hearted friend steps
into the breach with an invitation to
dinner; sometimes a nearby hotel or
restaurant suggests Itself as a solu
tion of the difficulty. Sometimes,, how
ever, dinner at home is a necessity.
And if it is there is no reason why
it should be the unsavory, inhospitable
meal it sometimes is.
A moving day dinner can be packed
in a suit case. It can be prepared the
day before, packed the morning of the
move, labeled and placed carefully in
pantry, kitchen or dining room of the
new house, and opened five or ten
minutes before time for serving.
The suit case Bhould be stored with
plates, cups, silver, napkins and table
cloth, candles and matches often the
gas and electricity are not on tap the
first night and, if the mover have
one, a chafing dish and a percolator.
All these things can be placed the day
or the week before. A bottle of al
cohol for the spirit lamps should be
added on moving day, with a bottle of
cream, a loaf of bread, a package of
ground coffee, a pat of butter and such
food as has been planned and pre
pared. The doilies or cloth can be
.spread on tables set up anywhere, or
even on packing boxes, the candles
lighted, coffee made In the percola
tor, one or two hot dishes prepared in
the chafing dish, the cold food served,
and in ten minutes a feast fit for a
traveling gypsy king can be ready.
Soup served In cups, cold veal loaf,
creamed potatoes, currant jelly, veg
etable salad, ice cream, coffee, cheese
and biscuits can constitute a suit case
spread. The soup, made the day be
fore, can be carried in a large fruit
Jar with rubber and screw top, or else
it can be bought in a tin and opened,
when it is warmed in the chafing dish,
and while the diners are eating it the
creamed potatoes, prepared the day be
fore and kept on the Ice and carried
In a fruit Jar, can be heated. The veal
loaf made the, day before can 'be
wrapped In a napkin or waxed paper,
and the Jelly naturally travels in its
own glass. Lettuce for the salad,
washed and pulled apart, Is wrapped
In a wet cloth and then In waxed pa
per. The vegetables peas, beans and
diced carrots can be packed, dressed
with oil and vinegar, in a small glaBS
Jar. A box of biscuits and a cake of
cheese also find place In the suit case.
Ice cream, ordered delivered at the
new house, makes an easy dessert
Boiled Indian Pudding.
Warm one pint of molasses, add
four well-beaten eggs, one-half a pound
of beet suet chopped fine, one table
spoonful of ginger, one-half of a table
spoonful of cinnamon, one teaspoonful
of salt; then alternately one pint of
milk and sufficient cornmeal to mix
to a thick batter. Dip the cloth in
boiling water, wring out and flour it;
turn the pudding In it and tie up,
leaving room for It to swell Boll
steadily for three hours and serve with
cream or a liquid sauce.
8calloped Tomatoes. j
Season one-half can of tomatoes
with a teaspoonful of salt, a salt
spoon of pepper and the Juice of an
onion. Add a cupful of finely minced
celery. Butter baking dish, first put
in half of the tomatoes, then a layer
of buttered soda crackers sprinkled
with two heaping tablespoonfuls of
grated American cheese. Then add
the tomatoes, sprinkle the tops with
crumbs and bits of butter and bake
twenty minutes.
Veal Croquettes.
Put two cupfuls of finely chopped
veal in a saucepan, add two table-)
spoonfuls of fine bread crumbs, one'
teaspoonful of butter, the beaten yolks'
of two eggs, one teaspoonful of onion;
Juice, one-half teaspoonful of salt, one
saltspoonful of paprika and spec of
mace. Stir the mixture over the fire'
until thoroughly heated, then set aside'
to cool. Shape into croquettes, dip in!
beaten egg, roll fn fine crumbs, let
stand one or more hours and fry until
well browned. Serve with tomato!
sauce.
Green Pepper Sandwiches.
Remove seeds and white lining from
sweet green poppers, wash them and
put them through the meat grinder.;
Mix them with cream cheese and'
moisten with cream. Spread on un-i
buttered white bread.
Fried Bread.
After frying pork or bacon, put into
the fat slices of Btale bread. As it
fries, pour over each slice a little milk
or water and salt to taste, turn and
fry on the opposite side. This- is a
very appetizing dish.
MAKING THE WORK EASIER
Little Things In Themselves, but They
All Mean a Lightening of the
Daily Labor.
A small basin of hot water will fa
cilitate the cutting of citron for mince
meat or fruitcake. When the slicing
knife becomes sticky dip It into the
water to dissolve the sugar.
Take a piece of one-eight stiff wire,
bend about this at short intervals,
small wires shaped into hooks and
fasted above your kitchen table, to.
hang spoons, potato masher, egg beat,
er and other light kitchen utensils,
on.
To remove ink stain from a carpet,
mix some cornstarch In half a cup,
buttermilk until a thick paste is'
formed. Apply this to the ink spot;
On the second or third day moisten
this a little bit Scape it off on the
fourth day and all traces of the. stain
will disappear.
When the bread or cake sticks to
the pan tip the latter up to an angle
less than 45 degrees to the table and
lay a damp cloth on the bottom of it.
This causes steam to arise inside of
the pan. The bread is released by the
steam and will slip out slowly.
When milk is scarce and dear econo
mize by omitting it from the griddle
cakes. This will work no hardship,
for just as good, fluffy and delicious
cakes may be made from potato water
as from milk. Save the water after
boiling potatoes and when cool mix
the cakes with it as though it were
milk.
FRUIT SURPRISE VERY GOOD
Peaches, Pears, or PJums May Be Em
ployed, and the Result Will Be
Gratifying.
For this use a can of peaches or of
pears or of plums, chopping or crush
ing them with the liquor, so that you
have a quart of the pulp. Put with
this a cupful of sugar if the fruit is
sweet, two cupfuls if it is tart, one cup
of cold water, and the whites of four
eggs. Do not beat the eggs. Turn In
to a freezer and freeze until firm,
pack, and let it stand for an hour or
so before serving.
This dish Is excellent made of fresh
oranges and for this the small tart
oranges will answer or with any
kind of soaked fried fruit or canned
fruit, berries or the larger fruits. Ba
nanas are also good In it if combined
with oranges, and chopped dates and
figs may be added to apple sauce and
used for a foundation. The "surprise"
'. neither so heavy nor so expensive
as ice cream, and while It may not al
ways take the place of this, it is a
very pleasing family dessert
Pickled Peppers.
Choose rather large peppers; wash
clean, cut off the tops and scrape out
all seeds. Fill with a mixture made a
follows: To two quarts of finely crop
ped cabbage add four large onions,'
about two tablespoonfuls of pepper
seed, two tablespoonfuls of salt, and
either two cupfuls of chopped celery,
or one-half teaspoonful of celery seed.
Pack the peppers as solidly as possi
ble, taking care not to burst them, and
press the tops back on. Lay in jars
or crocks and cover with hot vinegar.
To one gallon of vinegar use about
half water if the vinegar is very
strong, add four cups of sugar and &
teaspoonful of mixed spices; any
spice liked extra well can be used.
Cover the peppers and set away
where cool. They do not need seal
ing. To Clean Satin Collars.
The white satin collars that are so
fashionable now but so hard to keep
clean may be rinsed out in ether and
cleansed Immediately. Do not try to
sponge off the spots, for that leaves a
ring, but put a little ether in a small
bowl or teacup and squeeze half the
collar at a time and it comes out per
fectly white. Ten cents' worth of
ether will clean the collar many times.
Chicken and Tomato 8alad.
A can of tomatoes, half a box of
gelatin, left-over chicken too small for
slicing, make a delicious Balad. Sea
son the tomatoes with onion, chopped
parsley, a bay leaf, a teaspoonful of
salt, cayenne and black pepper to
taste. Stew for half an hour, strain
through a fine sieve to leave much of
the substance, return to the Btove, add
the gelatin (previously soaked in a
half cup of cold water). Stir In the
chicken, cut into small cubes and
stand In a mold or ring to stiffen.
Serve on lettuce with mayonnaise.
Grape Ice Cream,
Take one pint of rich cream whip
until nice and thick then add one
large cup of grape Jelly (dark) and
whip again until thoroughly mixed.
Freeze from ten to fifteen minutes.
It is a pretty mauve color and dell
clous. Good Housekeeping.
Rich Lemon Pie.
To the Juice and grated rind of two
lemons add yolks of four eggs and
white of one egg beaten with seven
tablespoons white sugar and one ta
blespoon melted butter.
CUPID ALWAYS MASTER
FEW VENTURE TO DISOBEY DE
CREE OF GOD OF LOVE.
History's Pages Record Sacrifices
Made by Men of Note Who Gave
Up All for the Sake of
"the One Woman."
That "love often makes a fool of
cleverest men"' history furnishes abun
dant proofs, ever since (and long be
fore) Mark Antony feU under the spell
of Cleopatra's dark eyes and crowned
a career of folly with suicide.
Sheridan reveled In the role of
hackney coachman for the pleasure of
driving his adored "Nightingale of
Bath- to her home night after night
and exchanging love glances with her
under the eyes of her unsuspecting
father; and Canning put on groom's
livery and did stable work for the de
light of escorting, as groom in at
tendance, his master's daughter on
her daily rides.
William Pitt, most unsentimental of
men, as he considered himself, was so
Intoxicated by the charms of a pretty,
maid of Devon that he drank to her
health in canary out of one of her
dainty shoes; and Mr. Sellwood, a not
able man of his day, actually served
as footman in the house of the lady
he loved 'for twenty long years, until
her husband's death set her free to
accompany him to the altar.
And so it has always been from the
German baron who had his right hand
cut off because it had accidentally
struck the cheek of the woman whose
little finger was more to him than his
whole body, to the gilded young
French nobleman who served years of
apprenticeship to the law and won
fame to prove to his lady love that he
was, not the butterfly of pleasure she
fancied.
There is no year that does not yield
its crop of similar stories of men who
have proved that no sacrifice is too,
great to win a lady's favor. When the
youthful Count Francis Erbach suc
cumbed at the Bight of a peasant girl
whom he met one day when riding in
the forest at Erbach he determined
that she and no other should be his
wife, cost what it might. That Anna
Schultz earned her daily bread at the
washtub mattered nothing to this heir
to great dignities and to estates val
ued at $1,000,000 a year. He defied his
father's anger, fled with his peasant
maid to London, and married her a
disinherited outcast.
"I do not for a moment regret the
step I have taken," he said. "On the
contrary, we are perfectly happy. I
intend to work for.my living, and have
already taken steps to find employ
ment" It is but a short time since the heir
to a noble Italian house was lathering
cheeks In the shop of a Clerkenwell
barber, as the first fruits of a similar
adventure in matrimony. Son and heir
to the Marquis dl Castro of Naples, he
had turned his back on title and for
tune at the bidding of love in the form
of a pretty young dressmaker whom
he took to London to wed.
Preserving Light of Firefly.
Probably as far back as 1733 it was
known that the luminous parts of fire
flies, glowworms, etc., could be dried
and preserved out of contact with the
air for considerable periods without
losing their light-giving power. In
late years it has been possible to
prove this permanence of the light
giving power for at least eighteen
months. Kastle and McDermltt were
able, upon opening tubes containing
the luminous organs of the common
firefly preserved in hydrogen or a vac
uum, to obtain quite a brilliant light
by simply moistening with water. The
light was Increased when hydrogen
peroxide replaced the water. How
ever, scientists have yet to discover
the firefly's secret of producing light
without heat.
Strive for Capability.
Always in the myriad-shaped strug
gle that is going on upon the stage
of the world capacity means victory
and life; incapacity, defeat and death.
If we would win physical triumphs
we must be stronger physically than
the brute force with which we are
contending; and If we would win In
tellectual or moral triumphs, then in
tellectually and morally we must be
more capable than the opposition. In
spite of prayer and protest, the sov
ereign law keeps right on and Byng
went to the wall.
"Graham Dyke."
The Graham Dyke, Is the later name'
of the Antonine Wall which crossed
Scotland from the Forth to the Clyde,
a distance of thirty-Bix miles. It has
nothing to do with Graham, despite
the local pride which has provided a
heroic charge of one Robert Graham.
In its earlier form of Grymlsdyke,
which occurs at several similar spots
In England, it is seen to be associated
with the Teutonic devil Grim. In
later years the solidity of Roman
fortification might well have seemed
supernatural.
HOW TO MAKE HEAD CHEESE
Nothing Hard About Operation, but
Certain Rules Are Well to
Keep In Mind.
Cut a hog's head into four pieces.
Remove the brain, ears, skin, snout
and eyes, cut off the fattest parts for
lard. Put the lean and bony parts to
soak overnight in cold water in order
to extract the blood and dirt When
the head is cleansed put it over the
fire to boil, using water enough to
cover it Boil until the meat sepa
rates readily from the bone. Then
remove it from the fire and pick out
all of the bones. Drain oft the liquor,
saving a part of it for future use.
chop the meat up finely with a
chopping knife. Return It to the
kettle and pour on enough of the
liquor to cover the meat. Let it boil
slowly for fifteen minutes to a half
hour. Season to taste with salt and
pepper Just before removing it from
the fire. Turn It into a shallow pan
or dish. Cover with a piece of cheese
cloth and put on a board with a
weight to make it solid. When cold
it should be sliced thinly and served
without further cooking.
ALWAYS A FAVORED DISH
Housewife In Quest of Dessert Is Safe
If She Serves a Nesselrode
Pudding.
Peel about a cup of large chestnuts;
put them Into boiling water for five
minutes; take off the second skin and
boll them again until they are tender;
press them through a sieve; cut a
quarter pound of candied fruits into
small pieces. Cook half cup currants
and half cup of stoned raisins in hot
water until plump; drain them through
a cloth; add one pint stiffly whipped
cream to a parfait made of six egg
yolks and one cup of sugar; turn this
Into a freezer and grind until half
frozen; then remove the paddle and
with a long-handled spoon stir in the
chestnuts, the fruit, one teaspoon of
vanilla, and half cup of shredded pine
apple free from Juice;, place tha pud
ding in an Ice mold, pack it in ice and
rock salt and freeze it for six hours.
When frozen turn it into a chilled
platter and heap whipped cream
around it
Cold Slaw.
One might easily infer that cold slaw
is simply made as hot Blaw, and served
cold, but here Is the exact recipe:
Take 1 head of cabbage, cut fine, 1
egg, 1 teacupful of vinegar, butter the
size of a walnut, 1 teaspoonful of cel
ery seed, a little flour, and salt to
suit the taste. Sprinkle the flour,
salt and celery seed over the cab
bage; warm the vinegar and butter
in a frying pan. Put the cabbage In
to it Beat the egg and pour It over
all. Mix well together and cook ex
actly two minutes. Let it get cold
before serving.
Maple Sugar Cookies.
Cream together one scant cupful of
butter, with three cupfuls of crushed
maple sugar and add In the order men
tioned two well beaten eggs, three
quarters of a cupful of sour milk, in
which has been dissolved a scant tea
spoonful of baking soda, and sufficient
sifted flour to form a batter that will
drop from the spoon. Allow plenty of
space on the baking tins, as the cakes
will spread when cooking and bake in
a rather quick oven, until they are
crisp and brown around the edges.
Curried Oysters.
Take two dozen oysters, one onion,
one tablespoonful of curry powder,
one dessert spoonful of flour, two
ounces of butter and the juice of a
lemon. Chop the onion up fine, mix
the curry powder, flour and butter to
gether and put all into a stewpan,
simmering i till a nice brown and
stirring all the time; add the liquor
of the oysters and the lemon juice and
boll for five minutes. Put in oysters,
boil up once and serve with a dlBh of
boiled rice.
Lemon Custard Pudding.
Boll one pint of milk and pour It
over three ounces of fine bread
crumbs; cream one ounce of butter
with two ounces of sugar, add the
beaten yolks of two eggs and grated
rind of lemon, then gradually add the
milk and crumbB; stir all together and
pour into a buttered pie dish. Bake
one-half hour or until set; then beat
the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth,
with one ounce of Bugar and a few
drops of lemon Juice. Pile roughly
over the pudding; sift a little sugar
over and then brown lightly.
Roasted Onions.
Bake onion until soft without peel
ing. When done peel carefully,, sea
son with salt, pepper and melted but
ter and serve. For anyone who Is
fond of onions and has not tried them
this way a new delight Is in store.
Duchess Potato Balls.
Prepare a quart of fluffy mashed po
tatoes. Beat in an egg, then form
into balls; while still hot, roll lightly
In an egg beaten with one-half cup
of water and set on a buttered sheet
in a hot oven till browned.
WHAT DAWSON MISSED
PAWNBROKER ALSO OVERLOOK
ED A "GOOD THING."
As It Turned Out, Suit Was Really
Worth More Than the $5 Which
"Uncle" Grudgingly Gave Up
for Collateral.
. At 7 o'clock Dawson yawned, turned
over, then yawned again. Stimulated
mentally by physical exertion, be be
gan to think. Apparently his mind did
not dwell on pleasant themes, for be
groaned dismally.
"Broke," be said; "dead broke, and
nobody to borrow from. What beats
me is how I blew in all that money I
started out with last night I could
swear I put spme of it away for safe
keeping, only It ain't here. I recollect
that I turned my pockets Inside out
the last thing before I went to bed and
it wasn't there."
For proof that Dawson's recollection
in regard to his pockets was correct be
bad only to look at his clothes, which
were scattered about the floor. The
pockets were still turned Inside out
They hung limp and empty. Clearly
"it" was not there.
"There's only one way out," Dawson
decided. "I've got to pawn something.
Dawson opened his closet door. On
the nearest hook hung a new suit that
had been brought home from the
tailor's two days before.
"That's the thing," he said.
Dawson folded his suit neatly into a
paper box, dressed as hurriedly as his
shaky condition would allow, and head
ed guiltily for a loan office.
"Will you let me have $10 on these
things?" he asked.
The broker shook out the suit with,
an air of aggravating disrespect.
"Ten dollars?" he said. "Why, there
ain't $10 worth of goods in 'em. I'll let
you have $5. That the best I can do."
Dawson looked with diminished ad
miration on the suit of clothes which,
incasing his own trim figure, he bad
surveyed with such satisfaction in the
tailor's window three days before.
"Well," he said, "make it five. I
suppose that will do."
Dawson was wretched all morning.
He continued to grow in wretchedness
each succeeding day. Many things con
tributed to his misery, chief of which
was his unusual popularity. Everybody
who had ever invited him to anything
before, and some who hadn't, seemed
suddenly possessed with a mad yearn
ing for his society and urged him to
go somewhere. All this hospitality
Dawson was obliged to decline because
he looked' too shabby.
On Saturday evening Dawson was
again in possession of his own clothes.
Just for exercise he ran his fingers
through bis pockets. Presently they
struck something that crinkled crisply
under his touch. He withdrew his
hand, looked dizzily at what it held
and keeled across the bed.
"Of all the Internal fools," he said.
"I wasn't mistaken, after all. I did
put some of it away. I don't believe
any other Idiot on earth ever pawned
for $5 a suit of clothes that had $10
tucked away In the pocket!"
How Synge Gets His Material.
No mere man of letters ever knew
the life of the Irish peasant better
than Synge. Books about Irish life
do not appear to have interested him.
He went to the people themselves for
his information. Wandering about
the country with his fiddle, he en
countered some strange companions
farmers, tinkers, beggars, ballad
singers a motley crowd. He observ
ed them closely, their mode of life,
their manner of speech, and what he
saw he reported faithfully. Unlike
the majority of writers on Ireland, he
is entirely free from mawkishness or
sentimentality. There is no Celtic
glamour in these pages. The aged
peasant in his whitewashed cabin,
who bewails the conquest on an alien
tongue, may possibly exist, but Synge
does not appear to have met him.
Foxy Old Kaiser.
Kaiser Wilhelm decided that the
new war automobiles that his army
is going to use should be so con
structed that if one of them broke
down the dispatch the war lord might
be Bending to one of his generals
could be delivered promptly instead of
waiting until the old buzz wagon would
go again. So he had them built with
big pockets on the side, and in each
of these a motorcycle will be carried.
Then, If something goes wrong with
the motorcar the motorcycles can bo
used to deliver the message.
No Mystery About It
Travelers in Europe are familiar
with the sign "English Spoken," which
Is so often displayed in shop windows.
In a small town In the south of Ger
many a traveler noticed In the window
of a small shop the sign "Christian
Spoken." He studied It for a moment
and, being of a religious turn, he con
cluded that he would step inside and
Inquire about this new language. The
Joke was on him, for he discovered
that the sign was none other than
the name of the proprietor of the
shop.