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2:1": Queoeosleoo'eoeoaoooaofln . s ‘3 FOR THE HOME 609 c g c 9 e 5 Recipes for the Kltchen.§ . Hygiene and Other Notes a e for the Housekeeper. a e (a geeogoaegoeogoooaoaoeo DOMESTIC RECIPES. Baked Indian Puddingâ€"Two quarts sweet skimmed milk, 1 cup fine In- dian meal, 1 cup molasses, 1 tea- npoon salt, 1 pt or .more of sweet apples cut iv. small pieces. Put 1 qt milk in a pan over a kettle of boilâ€"- mg water. While it is heating, stir together in a. bowl the meal, mo- lasses and salt until smooth, adding a little cold milk to make it thin enough to pour. When the milk in the pan is scalding hot, pour in the mixture slowly, stirring briskly to prevent lumps. When it has thickâ€" ened, stir in the apples, and remove the pan from the fire. Grease an earthen pudding pot that will hold two quarts or more. Pour in the pudding and place in a moderate oven. When it has baked about three quarters of an hour, pour in very gently -1 cup cold milk. If the fire be hot, leave the oven door ajar. A pudding of this kind should bake slowly ; a bubbling around the sides of the pot indicates sufficient heat. Add 1 cup cold milk every hour or two until the quart has been used. The pudding should bake from six to seven hours, and then be taken from the oven and allowed to set awhile, when it can be turned into a dish and will be a dark red with a clean whey. Very nice. Baked Trout or Salmonâ€"Clean thoroughly, wipe carefully and lay in a dripping pan with water enough to prevent scorching. Bake slowly, basting often with butter and water. When done, have ready 1 cup of sweet cream into which a few spoon- fuls of hot water have been poured. Stir in 2 tablespoons melted butter and a little chopped parsley, and heat_ in a vessel of boiling water. Add the gravy from the dish and boil up once. Place the fish in a hot dish and pour over the sauce. Roast Meat with Puddingâ€"Never wash the meat, but if necessary, wipe with a damp cloth ; sprinkle with salt, pepper and flour, and if not fat, put three or four pieces of butter the size of a hickory nut on it. Put in the dripping pan without water, letting it rest on a wire frame or small sticks to keep it from the pan. Baste and turn often, baking from 15 to 20 minutes for every pound. Make a Yorkshire pud- ding to eat like vegetables with the roast as follows :â€"For every 1 pt milk take 3 eggs, 3 cups flour and a pinch of salt ; stir to a. smooth bat- ter, and pour into the dripping pan under the meat half an hour before it is done. Baked Pork and Beansâ€"Put on 1 qt dry beans to boil in cold water. In half an hour after they begin to boil, add i} teaspoon saleratus. Let boil up and pour off the water. Put on fresh water, hot or cold, let boil until the beans are tender, but ‘not mashed. Take 1 lb salt pork, clean it well, score and rind and put it in the center of the beans in a large dripping pan. until all are nicely browned on top. Roast Beef with Dressingâ€"Get a piece from the round, about one and one-half inches in thickness. Pre- pare a dressing of bread crumbs sea- soned with salt, pepper and sage and wet up with 1 egg. 4 tablespoons sweet cream and a little cold water. Spread the dressing on the beef, roll up, fasten with skewers and roast until well done. Serve with gravy. Steamed Boston Brown Bread-â€" One scant quart buttermilk or sour milk, not quite 1 cup molasses, 1 level tablespoon soda dissolved in hot water and put in the molasses, about 5 cups Graham, corn meal and white or rye altogether. Divide this in five equal parts. Put this on in cold water, and boil for an hour and a half. Do not let it stop boiling. Dry off in oven for a minute. Chicken with Biscuitâ€"Put a nice chicken on to boil in 1 pt water, and keep boiling in just about that amount till very tender. When alâ€" most done, add salt, pepper and butâ€" ter to season to taste, and let simâ€" mer down in the kettle, till the watcr is nearly all gone. Then rcâ€" movo chicken from the kettle. Into the kettle pour nearly 1 qt boiling water, add butter, salt and pepper to taste. ’l‘hickcn with 1 heaping tablespoon flour mixed with water till all lumps are gone. Have ready some hot buttermilk or baking pow- dcr biscuit. Spread them with butâ€" ter, and pour this gravy over them. The buttermilk biscuit are made as follows : One cup very rich sour buttermilk, a little salt. Into this sift 1 pt flour to which has been added 1 even teaspoon soda, 2â€"3 oven teaspoon baking powder. Add just enough more flour to enable you to flatten the dough out on board. cut and remove‘ to tilts without sticking. Biscuit made in this way will be light and fluffy. White Cakeâ€"One teacup butter, 2 teacups sugar, 3 teacups flour, 1 teacup mi k, 3 eggs, 1 teaspoon bak~ ing powder, 1 teaspoon essence of lemon. Put the sugar and butter into a basin, and with a wooden s 0011 beat them till they are the- tiickncss of cream ; then add the eggs wcll beaten, and mix in very thoroughly, after which add the milk. Mix the baking powder with the flour, and add it next, then the essence of lemon, and boat the while thoroughly. Linn. a cake fin with Bake in a slow oven. nwm‘vm‘qu .m gum-“(rain many-.2: r; 211‘.“ :-:-rm-.Lm~x wzmaugwxuâ€"JNW-..... ~.... ....A -.._.._-.._... buttered paper into which pour the cake, and bake for an hour or till ready. HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS. Miss Parloa suggests that dried fruits cooked in the oven have a po- culiarly delicious flavor. Soak all dried fruits (except prunes) over night. Put in an earthen dish with cover, set in the oven and simmer slowly until done. Never use tin or iron for the cooking of fruit, either fresh or dried. The omelet is the most delicious of egg dishes and the most difficult to prepare. It should be high and thick in the centre and pointed at the ends ; soft inside, delicately brown outside, and perfectly season- ed. Small omelets are better than large ones and three eggs make a nice sized one. To this number of eggs allow half a teaspoonful of salt, a dash of pepper and half a teaâ€" spoonful of butter crumbled to bits. Have your pan good and hot, put in a little butter and let it run over the surface, then pour in the eggs, having given them just twelve beats. While the egg is still soft fold the omelet over and let it set ; when dope turn from the pan to the platter and send to the table at once. Omelets wait on no one. In making oyster stew, remember that boiling in milk toughens the oysters. Cook them first in their own liquor, but remove them from the fire the moment they reach the boiling point, and then add the hot milk to them. A boiled oyster is a spoiled oyster. You can remove a rusty screw by holding a redâ€"hot iron to the head until it is hot, then using the screwâ€"- driver at once. The best cure for rheumatism is care of the diet ; to eat only such food as is nourishing and easily diâ€" gested and not too much of that ; to avoid starchy foods, including fresh bread. Plenty of water should be taken, especially between meals. At least three pints a day should be used. To take off a ring that is too tight, thread a needle with thread that is strong, but not too coarse. Soap it and pass the head of the needle under'the ring. Pull a few inches of the thread towards the hand and wrap the other end of the thread tightly and smoothly around the finger towards the nail. Take hold of the needle and begin slowly to unwind the coil, carrying the ring along with the thread until it slips easily from the finger. FRAMING PICTURES AT HOME. Passe-partout framing for pictures is quite inexpensive, and may easily be done at home. For- merly a mat over the picture as a margin was considered necessary, but there is no need of one with the present style of framing, where ‘ the moulding frames the picture without margin. If the picture is a cut from a magazine or paper, it should first be smoothly ironed on the back, with a warm iron, then mounted on some heavy cardboard ; the cover of a pasteboard box wiTl answer. Paste it lightly at the four corners only, and get at the glazier’s a piece of glass cut the same size as the pic- ture. Put this over the picture, and behind it place another piece of pasteboard of the same size. The three pieces, glass, picture and pasteboard, are then to be pasted together around the edges, with a tough thin paper, that may be purâ€" chased at any framing establishâ€" ment, and is manufactured for the purpose, although any paper that is thin, tough and pliable will answer. Cut two narrow strips of thin cambric about half an inch wide and an inch long, fold them over two small brass rings, paste them at the back on each side of the picture, run a wire picture cord through them, and they are ready for hanging. small KEEPING FRUIT CAKE. Fruit cake may be kept an iiidefin~. ite length of time by packing it in granulated sugar. I have just openâ€" ed a box containing a loaf of my wedding cake, which was put away six years ago, writes a correspondâ€" ent. In the bottom of a tin box was placed sugar to the depth of about one inch. Then in the centre of box was placed the cake, and sugar poured all about it, filling the box to the brim, the size of box allowing for about an inch and a half of sugar at the sides, while the depth above the cake was the same as be- neath. The box was then wrapped in heavy brown paper and carried to the attic, where it- rcmaincd undisâ€" turbed. When recently opened. flavor and moisture were identical with what they were when put away. +â€"__ The prisoner had been convicted of forgery, and the judge sentenced him to live years’ penal smavitude, adding “And you may consider voursclf very lucky that you didn’t commit this crime thirtyâ€"five years ago, f0r “\n that case you would have been hanged next Tuesday.” The judge is still wondering why the prisoner smiled. -+ Fatherâ€"“What’s all this you are doing ?” Little Johnnieâ€"“Please, dad, teacher told me if I wanted to learn quickly, I was to put down every word I didn’t know and ask you what it meant.” Fatherâ€"â€" “That’s an excellent plan, my boy.” Little Johnnieâ€"“Well, dad, I have on this piece of paper 103 words marked down." Fatherâ€"“Johnnie, go upstairs to bed this moment." .â€" 36. 9 PGR FARMERS 'é . 31 3" >3: ; Seasonnble and Profitable 0 Hints for the Busy Tillers . ’ of the Soil. 9 IG’EK'.': ‘0'}x0005fi00: ’ .EK-ooxéo-xvfiooefiocefiwaf POTATOES. Deep planting has almost invaria- bly given better results than shallow but- very deep planting should not follow shallow plowing. The furâ€" rows opened to receive the seed should not go to the bottom of the soil that was stirred by the plow. If it is desired to plant six inches deep, the land should be plowed eight or ten inches deep, says a Corâ€" nell experiment station bulletin. Then again, land that has never been plowed deeper than five or six inches should not the next time be plowed ten. The deepening process should be gradualâ€"an inch or so a year. More "new dirt” may safely be turned up in autumn than in spring. Some fear that deep planting Will make the harvesting more difficult; if coupled with the deep planting the cultivation of the crop is continued late in the season, the mellowness of the soil and the freedom from late summer weeds compensate for the tubers lying a little deeper in the soil. Again, some claim that if they do not “hill up” the plants many tub- ers will be damaged by exposure to the sun, If. however, the land has been deeply and thoroughly preparâ€" ed and the planting is sufficiently deep so that there is plenty of room in the mellow soil for the tubers to develfip beneath the surface there will be few “sunburns;" but if the fitting and planting are shallow, killing is necessary to protect the tubers. Now a word about experiments in general. It seems wise to distinguish between a “trial” and an “experi- ment.” A farmer is convinced that it is well to spray potatoes with bordeaux mixture. He takes the ne- cessary steps to that end and sprays his crop. He makes a trial of spraying. He may “think” that the spraying was a benefit. Another farmer sprays a part of a field and leaves another part unsprayed for comparison. He harvests a measurâ€" ed area from each portion of the field and measures or weighs the product. He “knows” whether the spraying increased the crop and if ;he kept account of time and material con- sumed, he “knows” whether it was a profitable operation. We are thorâ€" oughly convinced that farmers need more of the facts and discipline that can be obtained from “experiments.” This bulletin is intended to impress upon farmers the importance of thor- ough tillage of the soil. It is im- portant right here to call attention to the fact that intensive tillage re- sults in a rapid consumption of or- ganic matter and if steps are not taken to restore this to the soil its physical condition will decline and production will fall off. Every opâ€" portunity should be embraced to grow sod or cover crops to turn un- der to help maintain a supply of organic matter in the soil, and dres- sings of stable manure are probably as valuable on account of the orâ€" ganic matter added to the soil as for the nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash they supply. POULTRY FOR PROFIT. Just why dairymen do not make poultry raising pay is not a problem hard to solve. The reason is lack of knOWIedge relating to poultry rais- ing. Would any common sense dalryman start. dairylng with a 72- pound butter cow and permit her to hustle for her living around the hay- stack? As to breeds, most. people have their fancy; but all breeds are not equally prolific. Of all the breeds some experienced poultrymen prefer the white Wyandottes. They will produce as many eggs as any other breed and more flesh than most of them. The barred Plymouth Rock is good for both of these ob- jects but some think that the Wyan- dottc is still better. How can we make fowls hustle and exercise? First, we must not feed too heavily or make it too easy for birds to get their food. We must get them out of their houses in winâ€" ter as much as possible. The profit in winter depends on having the hens wellâ€"housed and giving special care. One reason why some people do not succeed with poultry is that they do not know how to feed to the best advantage. Large fowls require a different system of feeding from small ones. chhorns are not likely to get ovcrfat. They will leave corn on the ground and run after insects: while the larger breeds will eat the corn that is given them and stand around waiting for more. Chopped clover is good and should be fed each day, and chopped vegetables will not take its place. On the average farm there is much that goes to waste that the fowls can utilize, and this helps to give profit. FARM NOTES. Healthy cows, in good stables, with good feed and decent cleanliness are what is needed to make healthy milk. Alfalfa, about which so much is now being heard was introduced in- to California from Chili some 50 years ago. In the United States, according to the census returns of 1900, the value of the poultry produced in that year amounted to $500,000,000 and the wheat crop $360,000,000. There is no country in this world where quality in everything comâ€" ' mands' a. larger premium than in the British markets. There is competiâ€" tion for everything that is firstâ€" class, while everything that is poor has got to be sacrificed. A good hen should have a. wide breast so that there is room for meat and heart. . She should stand well on her feet, and be fairly long in the back and not too deep. Her head should be wide and short, her eye bright, and her beak short and well curved. There is better egg production in summer than in winter because nature provides all the re- quisites. L Every man who sends a package of fruit, butter, chickens, eggs, or other produce away'from his farm sends a part of his character with it. His conscience is found at the bottom of the package, and is meas- ured by the meanest and smallest specimens. His heart is found at the top in the little heap above the true measure. Strange to say, the more you give away these chunks of heart and conscience the more you have left! It is claimed by an authority that from threeâ€"quarters to a pound a day is enough for a bacon hog to gain from birth to maturity. Don’t try to force them beyond that. Hogs managed in this way, he claims, reach the right weight at six or se- ven months old and not only sell at the highest price but bring the most profit to the producer. When forced beyond this rate of gain the pro- ducer does not realize to the full exâ€" tent the profit on the feed that he should. Better horses and cows will sure- ly insure better barns and sur- roundings. Larger yields and inâ€" creased prices will arouse ambition for sunnier homes, and quicker music in farm work will lead to larger crops and a bigger bank account. Starting from the lower the leaven of pride will work itself through the mass until the whole is leavcned and the boy's find that behind the home team there is more pleasure than on any hissing automobile ever invent- ed. Thg reflex influence of seemingly little Things is the potential power controlling the majority of lives. NEW warns neon. â€"â€" MESSAGES RECEIVED 2,099 MILES FROM ENGLAND. Inventor Marconi Is Jubilant Over This Latest Great Achieveâ€" ment. This is an account of the . mOSt amazing triumph which wireless telegraphy has yet achievedâ€"a story of how an Atlantic liner maintained communication with the Cornwall signal station throughout nearly all of her three thousand mile journey from Cherbourg to New York. There were many to.doubt Mar- coni’s recent assertion that by means of his wireleSS telegraph system he had sent a signal from Newfoundland to the Cornish coast, but there can be none to doubt this later and greater feat, which was accomplish- ed during the just ended voyage of the steamship Philadelphia from Cherbourg to New York. Captain A. R. Mills, master of the Philadelphia, bears witness to the fact that six messages Were, received during the first four days of the run, these beginning when the steam- ship was 250 miles distant from Poldhu, the Marconi Cornwall sta- tion, and ending when the vessel was 2,099 miles from that point. The other officers of the ship attest with their signatures the accuracy of this statement. Mr. Marconi took these precautions that the sceptical might be convinced. The young inventor is very proud of the tape bearing the "S" signal, which was received when 2,099 miles distant from the station, and which is signed and certified by Captain Mills and Chief Officer Marsâ€" den. . INEQUALITY IN APPARATUS. All the messages were one way-â€" all from the station to the ship. lllr. Marconi explained this by saying that while the apparatus installed on the Philadelphia admitted of the reception of messages it was not suflicicntly powerful to send them such a distance as the more pOWer- ful Cornwall station accomplished. “I believe,” said Mr. Marconi, quietly and without a trace of ex- ultation over the marvel which had been accomplished and his own triumphant vindication of what he had claimedâ€"“I believe that the disâ€" tance at which a wireless message may be sent depends only on the power of the sending station. I think it possible to send a message entirely around the worldâ€"to start a message eastward around the globe and receive it at the same station from the westward. <. “I now know,” continued the young inventor, in the same even tone, “that the curvature of the earth does not in the least affect the Waves. Many who have reasons for hoping so have said that this would prove a fatal defect to the system But it is not so. During the voyage I made a number of experiments which I had long wanted to make, but had never attempted before. You must pardon me for not disclosing their nature. All I can say is that they were eminently satisfactory to me. SECRECY IS POSSIBLE. "There is one other thing which I may add. It has been urged as an objection to I admit that in the earlier stages of the system’s development this ob jection might have been advancea with some cause. But now that dif- ficulty has been entirely overcome in adoption of syntonic devices 1)} which messages may be transmittel from ship to shore, from ship t! ship, or even across the ocean with out interference of any sort. As a: illustration of the point to whicl tuning has been already developed, 2 may say that the Lizard station ix at present able to Work with ship: without suffering any interference al all from the contemporary working of the big power station at Poldhu. only seven miles distant. "There are several in England whc have urged this objection against the wireless system, claiming that if is possible to intercept and read messages transmitted by this meth- od. Before leaving England I gave these gentlemen an opportunity of making a test, offering'to place any station of mine at their disposal for the purpose. The offer was made in all sincerity, but :1; Was not ac. copted. , “I do not believe it any exaggera- tion to say that it is now practi« cally impossible to intercept wire- less messages. Had the Philadel- phia been accompanied on this trip by another vessel, and had the two travelled side by side, it would not have been possible for one to have received messages intended for the other, even though both were fitted with identical instruments.” TWO WESTERN STATIONS. Taking up ‘Marconi left off, Director Saunders, a director of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, who accom- panies Mr. Marconi, said that \VOI‘I! would be commenced immediately and simultaneously on the Cape Bre- ton and the Cape Cod stations and that the company hoped to be ready for business by May. A larger tower will be erected at Cape God to re place the poles which succumbed to December storms, and a permanent station will be built at Cape Bre- ton. As the distance from that point to the Cornwall station is considerably less than the distance at which the station signalled the Philadelphia, Mr. Saunders sees nu reason why messages cannot bt transmitted directly across the ocear and with as much certainty and cel- erity as they are now carried by sub. marine cables. “We are prepared,” Mr. Saunders continued, “to confute any who may be disposed to doubt the genuine ness of the work done on this trip, as we have incontrovertible proof. After we lost the Poldhu station we did no more talking until eleven o'clock Friday night. At that how we spoke the Nantucket station and sent several private messages ashore. “Just before sailing, Mr. Marconi addressed a meeting of the share- holders of the company in London, and gave them a clear statement of all that has been accomplished up to date, and explained what he has laid out to accomplish in the im- mediate future. The sharcholders are all enthusiastic over the results ac- complished and have the utmost con< fidence in Mr. Marconi. NO FEARS OF RIVALRY. "To the stockholders Mr. Mar- coni pointed out that so far as long distance transmission is concerned he now fears rivalry from no one, and that whereas the speed of the sub- marine cable is directly affected by length, that of the wireless system is not affected in the least by dis tance. It is just as easy to work at high speed across the Atlantic 01 across the Pacific as to work across the English Channel." +Wâ€" TRAILING SKIRTS. They. Are Absolutely Dangerous tc Health. Ladies cannot be told too often to abandon the unhygienic 'fashion of trailing dresses, at least in the street. They should be brave and show the world that they care for the health and welfare of others. When one considers how many mil-a lions of dangerous bacilli and micro- organisms are gathered up with the dust and brought into the house by 'his unhealthy mode of dress, further argument is hardly necessary to prove that the wearing of trains is absolutely dangerous to health. As the poet of the London Truth puts it in his “Song of the Skirt," why should dresses be made to do "the scavcngcr’s dirty work"; "chcpâ€"swcepâ€"sweepâ€" thre the waste of the street has thick, Sweepâ€"sweepâ€"swcepâ€" I-l'oweVer our path we pick; Dust, bacillus, and germ, Germ, bacillus, and dust, Till we shudder and turn sorry sight With a gesture of disgust. from the “Oh, men with sisters dear! Oh, men who have wellâ€"dressed wives It is not alone an expensive mode, It is one that hazards lives! For malignant microbes swarm In the trituruted dirt, And the 'dress that sweeps it up may prove A shroud as well as a, skirt!” Footwear is also a matter of ini- portancc. Shoes should never be ,worn too tight. They not only hin- der free movements, but the coustric~ tion of the blood vessels causes im- paired circulation and coldness of the extremities. If it is found necessary to wear underwear at night, a different. set should be kept for that purpose, which, with the nightâ€"dress or night- my system that under shirt. should_bc well aired during 1):: it secrecy of messages is impossible. ldayâ€"tinle. the story where Mrs .3'41L‘Xl7-‘7: \ .vzr' :‘uFJ-slfiaxz . NA.» fish-ys‘wV-VVV: “x ‘- v ‘D 2 i p E. 'l: 5 is g . f, t 9.: E x ' ~R‘.”hfi> , .~._.-