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VOL.7. KENNA, CHAVES COUNTY, NEW MEXICO, FRIDAY, JUNE, 13 1913. NO. 17.
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HIS PRIZE ROSES
To Him Their Loss Filled
Whoie World With Fra
grant Blossoms.
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By CLARI8SA MACKIE.
Mrs. Madison looked -forlornly at her
sister as Barbara entered the room.
"What Is the matter, Alice?" asked
Barbara quickly.
"Barker hasn't sent the roses for
the table tonight."
"Well, It Is only 6 o'clock perhaps
y If you call him on the telephone "
"My dear," Mrs. Madison spoke rath
er petulantly, "I've called and called
and the only reply I can get In 'They
do not answer.' "
"There Is only one thing to do.
then," said Barbara with her custo
mary decision: "I will go up and
. dress and if ' the roses are not here
V by that time I will go after them my
self." "You will get so mussy," sighed
Mrs. Madison. "But it seems the only
way. I will have Clark get the run
about around. I would send him, only
he is eo stupid doesn't know the
country around here."
"He has been in Westlawn two
days," excused Barbara; "I've only
been here a day and a half myself,
but I believe I have covered every
square inch of ground in the county."
. "Well, hurry along and if you bring
my roses on time I promise to send
you in with Forbes Baker, although I
was saving him for myself."
Barbara laughed. "Don't bother
about any reward, Allie. Let me see.
what was your Order?" '
"Two dozen American Beauties.
He has plenty, for he told me so yes
' terday when I ordered them." -
Barbara hastened with her toilet
and In an incredibly short time she
'flew down the stairs buttoning a long
ullk motor coat over her pink dinner
gown. "My slippers and gloves are
In tha alcove In the library I'll put
them on when I come in," she called
as she drove away In the little electric
runabout.
The runabout slid noiselessly down
the incline to the smooth road that
wandered here and there among the
beautiful summer homes perched on
the green hills of Westlawn.
"Turn to the left" murmured . Bar
bara when she reached the foot of the
hill.
The left-hand road wound around a
wooded knoll dropping down to the
river. On one1 side was the sloping
descent to Ripple river and the other
was a blank stone wall enclosing acres
of field and meadow and woodland.
v "First gate on the left," Barbara re
minded herself of her sister's last in
structions, and 'presently she turned
in between two rustic pillars draped
in Virginia creepers.
A laborer trudging his homeward
way stepped out of the path of the
car.
"Is this Barker's?" asked Barbara.
pleasantly. x
"Yah," nodded the man carelessly,
abd went on.
"Barker has taste," commented Bar
bara as she whirled up the driveway
under drooping elms.
One arm of the drive swept around
to the front entrance of a long, gray
shingled, old-fashioned house half bid
den under Virginia creepers and
honeysuckles. The other arm led
straight ahead past the west wing of
the house, along by a tennis court and
ended at a row of greenhouses set In
several acres of a glowing garden,
Against the blurred masses of color
m the rose garden In the foreground
stood out strongly In its pinke ana
whites. Near the path that bordered
the garden was a huge wooden tub
- which held a magnificent American
neauiy rose Dusn.
Barbara paused before it with a lit
tle cry-of delight, Perfection of form.
I color and texture of leaf, together
I with its crown of twenty beautiful
I roses, made it worthy of a prize exhi-
hltlnn -
Common Sense From a Chef. .
' Many housewives think that French
chefs have notions which are too
high flown to be of use to the ordl
. nary home cook. "They have so much
'to do with," complains the home cook,
"they are so used to working with
large quantities of supplies that they
know nothing of . the . needs of the
home kitchen, where economy must
v be practiced. Here is a hint from a
chef which may well be put 4a prac
tice by any home cook. When cut
Hog tarts first stamp out the rings.
Time" was flying and Alice was watt
ing for her rotes. Barbara hammered
at the greenhouse door with her
gloved fists but the door was locked.
She sped over to the quiet old gray
house and knocked at the Closed
kitchen door. There came no re
sponse.
Back she flew to the rose garden,
picking up a pair of shears from a
bench In passing.
A search of the garden, showed that
the tub contained the only American
Beauty rose buBh. A hurried peep
into the different hothouses merely
disclosed long rows of empty benches.
Well, here goes," said Barbara
recklessly, and she carefully snipped
the twenty roses from the big tree,
feeling a pang of remorse as she
looked at its denuded branches.
"I wish people wouldn't cut flow
ers," she murmured, consclence-strick-en,
as she entered the car with her
fragrant burden. "Now, if Alice had
only ordered the whole tree transport
ed to the dining room and let us gazed
upon it well it's too late, now!"
As she turned out of the avenue
into the road, Barbara heard a shout
behind. She turned and saw a man
running fleetly from the veranda of
the house.
"Stop!" he cried authoritatively.
"You are too late, Mr. Barker,"
smiled Barbara saucily to herself, and
the little car darted forward and was
soon out of sight around the bend of
the road.
Fifteen minutes later Mrs. Madison
embraced her sister and the huge
bunch of roses in an ecstatic hug.
. "You are Just In time all here ex
cept Mr. Baker. He Is always late,
but he is such a dear we don't mind.
I will give these to Haksuo while you
put on your gloves and slippers."
Flushed and lovely Barbara entered
the drawing room Just as Haksuo an
nounced that dinner was served.
At the same moment a cool-looking,
dark-eyed young man was introduced
as Forbes Baker.
It was not until they sat at table
that Barbara stole a glance at the
man who hadtaken her in. His eyes,
blazing with wrath were fixed on the
great cut glass vase of roses. His
face was white and Barbara notej
with an odd tremor of her pulses tnat
his hand was shaking as he raised
his napkin to his Hps.
A man addressed him across the
table in gay reproof.
"Don't glare' at Mrs. Madison's roses
that way, Forbes; of course we all
know you are eaten up with jealousy
because they are bigger and handsom
er than anything you can produce on
your place." (
Forbes Baker smiled grimly.
"How about your wonderful tree,
Forbes?" asked Mrs. Madison. . "Is it
ready for the exhibit? We are all dy
ing to see it with its twenty magnifi
cent blooms Forbes has talked of
nothing else for weeks roses are his
hobby," smiled Alice at her sister.
But Barbara sat in frozen silence.
A great fear had come over her. The
meal seemed hours long. Forbes Bak
er uttered a few commonplaces, but It
was evident that his mind was on
other matters. Barbara was glad she
did not have to talk. She knew Mrs.
Madison would scold her afterwards
tor her stupidity but she didn't care
nothing mattered any more. She
had committed a crime a theft She
had stolen Mr. Baker's prize roses
from his bush. She knew it It was
her own fault to take It for granted
that that lovely old place was Bark
er's. She knew that Barker was a
"gentleman-florist" and she had not
been surprised at the surroundings.
Forbes Baker found her in the gar-
J den, wandering drearily among the
pains, iney came lace to face and
Baker tossed away his cigar and
turned to walk beside her.
Before his lips could form a sen
tence regarding the beauty of the
dusky, moonlit garden, Barbara had
turned to him with outstretched hands
and beautiful pleadln face.
"I am so sorry oh, so sorry!" she
said, shakily.
. "Sorry?" he asked a little vaguely.
Roll the trimmings into a hall than
roll them into a thin sheet with the
rolling pin, and stamp out the rounds
to go under the rings. In this way
there (s no waste of crust. Yet do not
most home cooks first stamp the
rounds and then the rings and leave
much of the trimming to take care of
Itself?
8uprm Test
The supreme test of physical forti
tude: To kiss a lady doctor. Smart
Set
"About your roses you you rec
ognized them?"
"Yes. Then it was you I saw
someone in a motor car leaving my
place then you took them?"
There was carefully suppressed an
ger in his tone but there was won
derment la the blue eyes fixed on
Barbara's tearful face.
"Why did you take them?" he asked
gently.
Barbara told him frankly; related
the plight of her sister over the de
linquency of the faithless Barker told
of her own hurried search for the
'gentleman-florlst' of the stolid labor
er who had undoubtedly misunder
stood her inquiry and in a sudden
flood of shamed tears she told how
she had cut the twenty beautiful
blooms from the rose tree.
"You should have turned to the
right at the foot of the hill and Bar
ker's place is the first place on the.
left. Please forget the whole Incident.
It is not worth one tear from your
eyes. Miss Ware. I'm afraid I've act
ed like a least over the whole thing
That's the worst with having a hobby
one becomes such a fool over it.
PleaBe please there, that's better,"
he smiled down at her with tender
eyes.
Barbara smiled wanly.
"But you will be so disappointed at
not exhibiting the tree," she said for
lornly. "You can never grow Just
such another splendid bush."
"Never mind I'm rather thinking
of cultivating another variety of
roses," said Forbes gravely, and
something In his eyes brought wave
after wave of lovely color to Barbara's
cheeks until she looked like a fragrant
pink rose herself.
From the house came the sound of
a piano and . Tom Madison's mellow
baritone singing "Roses. Roses Every
where." In spite of the loss of his prize blos
soms, it seemed to Forbes Baker that
with Barbara Ware beside him the
whole world was filled with fragrant
roses and nothing else would ever
matter.
(Copyright, 1913, by the MeClure News
paper Syndicate.)
Improving the Boomerang.
The boomerang of the Australian
native Is of various shapes and pat
terns. It has remained for an Eng
lishman so to improve the Australian
cross-shaped weapon that it is no
more than a cross of plain wood, the
lower strip of the cross being one
third longer than the other arms of it.
In throwing this the' long lower end
of the cross is held firmly between
the thumb and finger vertically, with
the plane of the cross beside his face.
Thrown seventy-five feet, the boom
erang will not return, but after it has
traversed 100 feet or more the revolu
tions Increase rapidly until it swerves
and begins its return flight to the
thrower. Harper's Weekly.
Interesting English Lake.
In the Staffordshire district of Eng
land Is Rudyard lake, which gave Its
name to Rudyard Kipling, for it was
on a picnic there that young Lock
wood, a designer" tn a pottery factory
at Stoke, met to. marry Miss Mac
donald, daughter of the Wesleyan
Methodist minister at Burslem. From
the place of their meeting came the
novelist's Christian name. The two
other daughters of the Methodist min
ister in the potteries married the
artists who were to become Sir Ed
ward Burne-Jones and Sir li J. Poyn
ter. Quite Naturally.
A funny mistake occurred lately in
printing labels for a meat-preserving
company. The printer had been in
the habit of labeling tins of beef or
mutton, as the case might be, with
the words "without bone" prominently
displayed. The company having add
ed kidney soup to its list, the new ar
ticle web duly ticketed as "Kidney
soup without bone.
He that wills a thing succeeds In
It; but the most difficult thing In the
world Is to will. De Maistre.
Pulchritude and Pedagogy.
Doctor Williams, superintendent of
school .at Richmond, advises the
school board not to employ women
teacher who were either startling
beautiful or equally homel) The ob
jection,, be said was that a teacher
whose personal looks were unusual
would attract more attention to her.
self than . to her teaching. He be
lieves that teachers ought not to at
tract attention to themselves tn any
way.
FOR THE WARM DAYS
NOW 13 A GOOD TIME TO FIX UP
PORCH FURNITURE.
Demands a Little Time and Trouble,
But Effect Is Well Worth While
Best Method of Staining
New Articles.
It Is time to get out the porch furni
ture. This sounds like a task easily
accomplished, but In reality It entails
a good deal of work. The furniture
cannot be Just lugged down from the
attic or up from the cellar and de
posited as it is on the veranda. It
must be cleaned and freshened up.
Some of it needs a new coat of stain
or enamel, some of it needs new
cushions. Perhaps it must be replen
ished, and that means careful shop
ping.
To begin with the cleaning, this
can best be done out of doors, with a
garden hose and plenty of hot water.
For each chair have a pailful of hot
suds, softened with borax. Apply this
to the seat of the chair with a stiff
whisk broom, and scrub it about vig
orously. Then scrub the back, sides
and under part of the chair in the
same manner. Dash whatever suds
remain over the chair, and then rinse
It with plenty of fresh, clean water
from the hose. Clean tables and all
other plecesof furniture In the same
way, and let them dry out of doors
in the sunshine, or elBe near a Are.
The cleaning process described may
brighten, the furniture sufficiently so
that no additional stain or paint is
needed. If the furniture does need a
fresh dresslngapply the finish decid
ed on without scraping off the old
paint The result will not, of course,
be perfect, but It will be sufficiently
good to make the time saved seem
worth while. Most porch furniture
is hardly valuable enough to spend
hours over with sandpaper and paint
removers.
' New furniture should be carefully
t stained or enameled. It can be bought,
of course, already colored, but as the
price of most articles Is a dollar less
when they are uncolored, and the
work Is easy to do and pleasant any
cheap, it can advantageously be done
at home. Enough varnish, enamel or
stain for a chair or moderately large
table costs from 15 to 25 cents,.
Many decorators now give willow
furniture a dull Instead of shiny
finish. To accomplish this apply a
flat finish oil stain. Put it on evenly,
and allow the first coat to dry before
putting on a second.
If the stain is not dark enough when
it has dried a second coat can then
bo put on without danger of cloudi
ness, stickiness or thickness.
Another way to get a dull finish is
to put on a varnish stain and rub it
in as you put it on with a cotton cloth.
This method makes the stain dry dull.
Salad Francois.
Chop fine a 'bunch of parsley, two
shallots and half a dozen anchovies.
Lay them In a bowl and mix with them
salt and mustard to taste, two table
spoonfuls of salad oil, and a gill of
vinegar. Stir all well together and
then add, two or three at a time, some
very thin slices of cold roasted or
broiled meat, not more than three or
four Inches long. Shake the slices
well as they are put in the dressing.
Cover the bowl closely and let it
stand for three hours before serving.
Served garnished with parsley and
some slices of tho meat, with a little
fat on them.
Cheese Cake.
Take two quarts four milk, pour into
a cheesecloth bag and let drip 24
hours, after which time turn it into a
dish and season with salt, adding one
cup thick cream. Then add one cup
sugar, four eggs, one tablespoon hielt
ed butter, one-half cup cream or milk
and currants. Mix Ingredients well and
bake In a deep pie plate lined with rich
puff paste.
Lemon Toast.
Take the yolks of three eggs, beat
them well and add one and one-half
cup sweet milk; take bakers' bread
(not, too stale), and cut Into slices;
dip them Into the milk and eggs and
lay the slices In a spider with suffi
cient melted butter, hot, to fry a nice,
delicate brown; take the whites of
the three eggs and beat them to a
froth, adding a half cup of white
sugar; add the Juice of one lemon,
beating well, and serve over the toast
as a sauce and you will And It a very
delicious dlb
DAINTY DISH ITALIANS LIKE
Ravloll Well Worth a Place on ' the
Tables of Arrlerlcans Who Care
for Good Food.
Dressing. One scant cvp dried
mushrooms, one-third cup grated
Edam cheese, two cups sauBUge meat
one cup brains, one email onion,
three cloves garlic, one good pinch
parsley, one good pinch celery, one
colander cooked spinach, ulne eggs,
one medium sized bowj white bread
(cut fine and soaked In mik) wring
bread dry before adding to other In
gredients three tablespoons olive oil.
two pinches allspice and salt and pep
per to taste. All the Ingredients
muBt be chopped fine and thoroughly.
Gravy. Get a fair Blzed boiling
piece and make a brown gravy by
first putting some bacon in a Bauce
pan and then the meat, letting It
brown nicely without water. After
the meat has cooked a while, add a
little onion, some parsley, celery and
tomatoes, also a few dried mushrooms,
salt and pepper.. Let this cook until
tomatoes are done, then add a little
dry flour and stir it in well. Add
enough water to keep the meat from
burning and cook until meat is well
done. When meat Is done, add enough
water to make the required amount
of gravy.
The Dough. One sifter flour and a
cup more, one small handful salt, two
eggs, water enough to make a stiff
dough. Roll this r'ough Into several
large, thin sheets, spread some dress
ing on half a sheet of dough and fold
the other half over It With the edge
of a thin board mark the "turnover"
Into three Inch squares. Go over tha
marks made by the board and press
the dough together firmly with the
thumb. Cut the squares apart with a
knife and lay them on a floured board
while the remainder of the dough and
dressing are made into similar'
squares.
Cooking. Have a kettle partly full;
of boiling salted water, and when the"
squares are all made up drop Into the
water and boll for 25 minutes. When
the squares are taken from the wat3i
they should be drained In a colander.
To Serve. Put a layer of the
squares on a platter, sprinkle a layer
of grated cheese over and then put on
a layer of gravy. Repeat this process
until tbe-rplatter Is full.
This 'recipe makes enough for about
fifteen people
Neatness in Arrangement.
I find that a small pasteboard box
placed on the floor beside me. Into
which I can drop pieces of thread and
scraps of cloth while sewing, Is a
great help In keeping the room neat
writes a contributor to Los Angeles
Express. It saves all that unsightly
mesa so often seen on the floor when
one Is sewing. A newspaper spread
on the floor to drop the scraps on an
swers the same purpose and can be
picked up and burned when one stopi
work. Christian Science Monitor.
Veal Hearts.
Four slices bacon, one sliced onion,
four veal hearts, one cup stock, one
half minced pimento, one teaspoon
salt, one-half bay leaf. Fry bacon
crisp, remove from the spider and
crisp the sliced onion in the hot fat
Trim and wash hearts, slice them, roll
In flour and fry In hot fat Add to the
fat in the pan the stock, pimento, salt
and bay leaf. Pour the mixture over
the hearts and cook two hours. Add
the bacon five minutes before serving.
Cheese Salad.
Ten cents' worth of Roquefort
cheese, a ten-cent package of cream
cheese, one tablespoonful of butter,
two green peppers, one large Bermuda
onion, one-half a stalk of celery will -be
needed. Rub the Roquefort and
cream cheese and butter to a smooth .
paste, add the finely chopped onion,
peppers and celery. Mix well. Sea
son with paprika and put iff icebox to
harden. Serve with hot toasted crack-
Rhubarb Cobbler.
Butter a deep earthenware pie dish
and fill with rhubarb, unpeeled, but
thoroughly washed and cut Into pieces
half an Inch long. Add eug&r to
sweeten, then cover with a rich pult
paste, or, if preferred a fritter batter
of eggs, flour, milk and salt, allowing
a large tablespoonful of flour to each
egg, a teaspoouful of baking powder
to each cup of flour used, and milk
to make the right consistency. Pour
over the rhubarb, which should be
slightly heaped In the center, aurf
bake until light and brown.