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' GGQQQQQ°QQ§9€5®Q¢ET9Q°®° bacon, laid on the edges of the dish. In a. recent issue (Pf Lloyd s erk" “Oth have t? be {IPSOIUPQIX W}D9d Strange as it may _appear, it is BEAN PORRIDGE HOT Anothei way is to slice the fruit ly NeWS, imbllshed 1n London. Lllg- out by the bounty (.ouncil Wlthm a possible to plant a tree, or a hun- the liquid in which the meat andl vegetables have been cooked should lin taking up spiinkle sugar on each he left closely covered in the kettle, and set away over night in a cool placo. Look over and put to soak for a night l quart beans, o1‘ thirds abeans and one-third dried split peas. In the moining skim all the fat f101n the top of the boiled dinner Lettle and set it 0v'01 the file with the beans added, to cook for fou" hours. By this time the beans should be Very soft. Voter be added from time to time as it boils away, to keep. the kettle about so full all the time. From this point on there are sev- eral methods which may be pursued, each one giving different results. The beans and the liquid can‘ be passed t'hi ough a colander pushing all the beans, except th'e hulls through the openings _ Small bits of meat from the boileul dinner of the day before are added, and the smooth, thick mass seasoned with herbs and “hot stuff, " and served after thinning it a little with water. In the second method the liquid is not strained; the soft beans are left 1n it,_ and the left-ovei cabbage, po- tato, and tu'rnip from the boiled j dinner ale chopped coarsely and add- ed. Small bits of boiled meat are also added, and the savoiy mass which is a Complete dinne1 in itself, is flavored with herbs and seasoned to suit the. individual preference of each family. Still a third method, and one much used‘ in some farming commun- ities, adds to the second method from 1 to 2 quarts of h'ulled corn put into the pot 20 minutes before serving. The liquid is ‘then thicken- ed with corn meal or flour. Milk is sometimes added‘ in this last me- thod, after the porridge is turned into a large tun'cen and is ready to be served at once. . A fourth kind of bean porridge is made of l cup left-over baked beans, put over the fire with 1 quart wa- ter, a small onion, and a little beef extract, if there is any at hand, or a few spoonfuls of gravy left from a roast, a drop of tabasco, a bay leaf or clove, a little kitchen bouquet 01' other perferred flavoring 01‘ season- ing can be added, and when the wa- ter has boiled away nearly one-half, strain the beans out of the liquid an'd ad'd l cu'p canned tomato. A FEW SOUP SECRETS. Not everyone that cooks k'nows how to make soup. I’m convinced of that, after partaking of some of the liquid attempts well meaning ill-- (llYlfliUZtlS will serve in the name of cookery, says a writer. _ To be sure there are a few little tricks about soup making The first is realizing what will combine well; but most any kind of vegetables, flesh and grains will unite accepta~ bly if rational proportions are used, and attention given to the fact that some are of much stronger flavor than others. Next is the cooking -â€" always so slowly for meat soups, so as to cook 04ut all of the nourishment and keep it dissolved. Why, when soup is boiled it’s about like churning; it tosses the liquid around so that the little particles begin to adhere to one another and grow into granulat- ed bits, leaving the water between them -- something like curds and whey. Of course for meat so'up cold wa~ t0r must be used. ‘hat helps the dissolving process. Il'ot water seals up the little cells on the outside 0f the meat and holds in the juices. Then there's the seasoning, where real art may be developed to a high degree; for there are any number of nondescript savory results obtaina- ble. It's a good plan to keep an ever-increasing stock of seasoning material on hand. But it requires some real study and observation to become skillful in their use. When- ever hearing of an unfamiliar pow- der 01' liquid just get some. After a while it will be a delightful surâ€" prise to note the pungent variety which has accumulated; amd then be- sides, they can be used for gravies, croquettes and all sorts of things. Like most any other foods, there's a diversity of opinion upon soup eating -â€" but t110n,. there are many soups. To my' mind one (the ap- petizing, nutritious kind) makes a good meal without anything else. DOMESTIC RECIPES. German Coffee Cakes. â€" ‘ake a pint 0f biead dough after it has 1isen foi the second- time. Into it work a cup of butter that has been rubbed to a cream with a half cup of sugar; thcnftwo well beaten eggs, a half teaspoonful each of cinnamon and grated nutmeg, and a scant tea- slpoonful of soda dissolved in . two tablespoonfuls of milk. Knead for a few moments till the ingiedients are well blended, then make into two long loaves and set in a wal n1 place . ,about a third “hen one has had a bo1led dinner thiough core and sfkin, sprinkle with tw o- I f oughly should of an inch thick, jsuga1,f1v in a little hot butter and slice. In all cases the better the ties consid-‘el the service a success. apple the better the dish resulting from its use. HTINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS. ‘A soapstone griiddle should be heated slowly and be allowed to get '4"er hot. Before using, rub tho1- with dry salt, then wipe. lvever grease it. The advantage of a soapstone griddle is that .the cakes are baked on it, instead of be- ing fried in. fat, as on the ordinary iron one. Salt meats and white meats-weal and pork-should '_be very thorough- ly cooked. In France there is a law regulating the cooking of pork, and SUfCll a thing as underdone spareribs in ham is never seen." Veal is es- pecially unhealthful unless well done. It is said that sheepskin rugs may be washed at home with little trou- ble when one knows how. The skin side should not be wet at all, and to prevent this the rug should be tacked around a barrel. Choose a sunny day, and with clean scrubbing brrush and plenty of hot studs in which a good washing powder has been dissolved, scrub the rug thor- oughly. 'Afterward spray well with clear water, using a. 1107.0 with show- er nozzle, if possible, so as to have a strong, penetrating stream. Let the rug dry on the barrel in the sun, combing it out 110w and then with a clean' curry-comb to prevent matting‘ of the wool.' It should come out beautifully white and fluffy after this treatment. A sipoon should be used to test whether a custard is baked or cook- ed sufficiently. cu-stard will coat the handle of the spoon, and one baked to perfection will leave it quite clean. TI-IE HOME DO CTOR. Brown sugar stops‘ the bleeding of a fresh wound For indi 'restion tly the beaten white of an egg in a \1 ineglassful of cold water directly after meals. A mixtuie 0f equal parts of sweet oil and tinctule of iodine is said t0 relieve corns and bunions. Headache, toothache, backache 01‘ almost a'ny joint ac'he will be relieved by heating the feet thoroughly with the shoes 0n. ' Mucilage has been found to be an excellent remedy, for burns. Apply it to the burn and lay any soft blank paper. The mucilage soothes the pain, while the paper excludes the air. For a stiff neck, pains in the chest, ctc., warm some sweet oil and ru'b on thoroughly with the hands, then cover with sheet wadding, the shiny side out. Wear it until you feel comfortable. A treatment highlv 10c0mmonde'd by a scientific magazine for poison- ing from ivy is to uet a slice of bread with wat01, d'ust it with com- mon washing solda and apply to eruption, keeping the bread wet from the outside, Half an hour of this treatment is said to be a sfure cure. ____+____.__ SWELL THIEVES. at Court Balls Drawing Roonis. Quantities of ornaments are lost each year at the drawing rooms 0r courts at Buckingham Palace, and only. a very small proportion is re- covered. A very strange story is still told about a diamond necklace which was found at one of the state balls some years ago. It happened that one of the late Queen’ s ladies-in- waiting picked up a diamond neck- lace fronr the floor. As she stood with it in 1101'4 hand a lady came quickly forward and claimed‘ it. The finder Was very firm’, however, and declarcd- it was her duty t0 give it in to the lord chamberlain’s of- fice,_as tl'fis was the rule with regard to- anything found in the palace. The lady protested in vain, but the odd- est thing was that this necklace never was claimed, and. is probably still at the lord chamberlain’s office; The fact that it was quite £1.4C01Tl- mon sight to see ladies stuffing their handkerchiefs with sweets and cakes from the supper tables .at the court balls may be regarded as anlamiable foibleof doting parents; but, ae- cording to some, lace handkerchiefs and jewels are waited away in this fashion, and sometimes fur stoles and lovely opeia cloaks have been secured as spoil. It used to be a saying in India at. the big viceregal balls that the T11 st departule was sure 0f the best Ram- pore chuddali. ' These beautiful white- sh-awls are alWays more or less the‘ same ‘ size, but the difference in price is enormous, as the finest kind, l voluminous as they seem, can easily‘ LONDON’S Pilferin g‘ and be passed thrOugh a ring,.and~_ -. are. ~_ the . consequently very costly, .while t0 rise.--Co'vc1 the top 0f each with coarser,’ 911.93 are P1191301 fwnatqu slu-gar Land bake in b steaidy oven. ' ' ChQflD- Y . . , Spinach mt-z.'-Toast'â€"-801llllalf a . p“4“"'“"_’ ' ‘ ' ' peClC of spinach in salted water til] Thirteen British life insurance tenlder, drain and chop fine. In a ofilces decline proposals from un- sap'cqran put a. tablespoonful of but-l vaccinated persons. ' Westminster, A properly boiled . land, is the following interesting a1- ticle 011 the housing of London's working population. The‘ News says z Municipal house building in Lon- don is proceeding very rapidly. The County Council has already provided accommodation for over 4.0,000 p01- sons at a cost approaching two mil- lions and a half sterling, and when ‘it has completed the schemes it has in hand it will have housed some 90,000 people at an outlay of about four and a half millions. These 90, - 000 persons constitute a population larger than that of llarrow-in-Fur- ness, or Bath, or Blackpool, or Carlisle. The Tottenham scheme which the Council has in hand is by far the largest that has been under- taken by any municipality in the world. It will, in fact, mean ‘the creation of a new town almost as big as Swindon. It 'will accommoâ€" date 40,000 persons, and will » con- tain all the requisites and appurten- ances of an ordinary, sclf~possessed centre. The Borough Councils have not undertaken such extensive hous- ing schemes as has the central au- thority. Eleven of them have taken action, including the City Corpora- tion, which does not work under the same laws as the other local govern- ing bodies. The City Corporation has several blocks 0f dwellings in occupation. The Shoredit'ch 1301'- ough Council, too, has buildings in use, and schemes are more 01' less nearing completion under the con- trol of the Camb-erwell, Woolwich, St. Pancras, and Step- ney authorities. The projects 0f the Bermondsey, Battersea, Chelsea, St Marylebone, and Hackney Councils are at present only in their early stages. MOST DIFFICULT PROBLC'M. In face of this activity the pro- blem of the Door in London is as great and as pressing as ever. OVBl- crowding during the past few years has not lessened ;‘r0nts are as high in the East-endâ€"if not higherâ€"- than ever they ‘were .;, the County Council itself is not able to houso the “very poorest"â€"to use a phrase that has been uttered many times recently at Spring-gardens. The tenants of the Council's dwellingsâ€" and even progressive County Coun- cillors thoroughly in sympathy with the housing policyâ€"â€"c0mplain that the rents are more than can comfort~ ably be paid, and that the r0gula~ tions are harsh. and sometimes pro- hibitivc. The County Council is not, as will b0 admitted by its most opti- mistic members, housing the “very poorest.” Among those in occupa- tion of its dwellings at the time the last reliable computation was made, were five actors, seventeen bakers, five clergymen; eighty-0110 clerks, three customs officers, six electri- cians, fifty-four engineers, one jour- nalist, and two publicans. These occupants d0 not, as a rule, reduce those who follow them to the lowest depths'of poverty. It is not the poorest who are the Council’s ten- ants. But what does occur is that these people remove from other houses, which are thereby available for the really lowest classes which the Council is unable to touch. In this way the pressure is, and will be relieved ; accommodation become available ; the volume of ‘demand is decreased ;- and rents necessarily show a tendency towards reduction also. That, at least, is the theory, which had not yet been justified or WM‘... “Now, tell n10, why is that hyphen placed in chicken-coop?! “Please, sir, fer the chicken to roos t on." term of 60 years. Land that in London is a permanent asset, i11- creasing in value every year, has to be paid for in less than the average lifetime. Mr. John Burns has stated that the Council's dwellings will last for 200 years if kept in proper re- pair, and they habe to be paid for in 60. The effect is simple and un- avoidable. The Council may not go upon the rates for deficiencies in its housing schemes, so it has to fix the'rents sufliciently high t0 cover the annual repayments of capital and the interest charges. What is happening is that the tenants are themselves paying the capital ex- penditure on the buildings. Were thegland made What it really ought to be-a permanent asset against debt-and the repayment of 'the loans for buildings extended to a hundred years, the rentals of the County Council dwellings could be ieduced by about one-half. QUICKER TRANSIT REQUIRED. The London housing question will be solved, however, not by huge barrack structures, but by mole efficient transit facilities, .- which will enable the w01king people to be carr ied to the areas outside the city, and to live in airy cottages. But even here the municipal authority \vill be unable to build sufficiently cheaply unless its burdens are eased by the Legislature in the diiection of spreading the capital inc-payments over a long'ei period of _vea1s. The only eiiticism that can fairly be di looted against the County Council’ s housing policy is whether the Coun- cil is not building too well. Its wo1'k1nen’s dwellings are not, like the graves of tl'e digger in “Ilam- let, ” t0 last till Doomsday. The te1m of years for which they will be required will, on the contr'a1y, be comparatively short. It will be wmth the Council’ s time to con- sider the advisability of putting up cheap buildings, which would last about twenty years, until the tran- sit facilities have been developed. The Liverpool corporation has al- ready made a move in this direc- tion. The city engineei has per- fected a method by which buildings will be erected f1 0111 slabs made the fr onts, sides, from the clinker throwu ofl' by dust destlucton he floors and roofs are all t-o be made in single individual parts, hoisted into position, and then bolted to- gether. The cost of construction will be about one-half that at present paid ; it will be possible to build at the rate of a house a day, ar d the corporation will be able to "let" at a shilling per room p01‘ weekâ€"the ideal of the housing ieformer. MADE FROM A FARTIIING. A Dublin workman has produced a novelty in the shape of a kettle, cup, saucer, and spoon made out of a far thing. Ile hammered the‘ bronze coin till he had obtained a very thin‘ sheet of 1110tal,f101n v'hich he fashioned a complete and workable kettle, vith a swing handle, 10- movable lid, 0tc., together with a cup, saucer, and spoon. I-Ie can boil water in the miniatuie utensil and pour it thiough the spout. The weight of the kettle, cup, saucer, and spoon is forty g1ains.The weight of a. far'thing is foitv-eight grains. -â€"¢--â€"- Spain holds the record f01 management of her railw'.a§s Onlv 118 per cent. of the gross cainings are spout in management. cheap '40. Marvels of Modern Forestry-Big- Tree Planting Is Very making a. miniature Sher wood F01- est, but I shall b0 able to promise it you by the. firs st. ” _ _, ' It wasn ’t a joke either', as the date might have suggested, for the expelt and his men have gone ‘ .to dred trees, and g0 bird's-nesting in the branches within a month. That is not fancy, but fact. Should you have bought a house in the country, rejoicing in the name of “The Firs” or “The Limes," and there is not a fir or a lime within ten miles of the tradesmen’s entrance, the defect can easily be remedied by doing as Mr. C. L. Blair, millionaire, has posing, of course, money is no object). This gentleman building a $2,500,000 mansion Hat. Blairsden, near Far Hills, and was‘ much concerned to find, after pur-~ chasing the land that the place was, almost destitute 0f his fa1'01ite taees.‘ I-Ie consulted an expert and? .The man “Want a‘ the American multi- done (always sup- ‘that With you has lately been -â€"-firs. asked what could be done. of science airily replied: fir gr ove‘? Certainly! Can’ t let you have it completed before April next, as we are extra busy just now work with such good will that the house is alieady half suriounded by a grove of full-grown fu tlees, and the work will probably be completed b y THE END OF MARCH. To, provide a sufficient number of fir trees for this grove an entire for- est was purchased by Mr. Blair at Chester, a place some six miles from Blairs-den, at a cost 0f $25,000. The trees are magnificent specimens, and had to be 101n0ved by lail â€"- a cost- ly undertaking; for though the dis- tance to their new home was short as the cr'ow flies, to 1'00 ch Blairsden by rail the. t1ucks had to g0 via the Cential New Jersey to White House, and fr om thence to a point half Way between Gladstone and Pea Pack by the Rockaway Valley Raili oad. From that point a branch line had to be built to the estate, so that ‘could be taken the whole distance without being transferred. Two trucks were required to carry each tree, and the estimated cost for the entire work, including the branch line, will amount to very little short of $200,000. the trees lllairsden, when com- pletod, will be one of the show places of America. The laying out of the parks and drives alone is said to have exceeded‘ $5, 000, 000 The fir gr'me v ill be by far the finest in new Jersey. Itis due to the genius of Mr. John A. Wilkins, of Indianapolis, thatbig- t100 tre 11splanting has become such a. suc'css in America. Mr. device is unique and simple. P10- par atory to 101noving the tree the low 01 part is encased in a steel giid about SIX FEET IN DIAMETER. this are hinged some fourteen shovels of 5-16 inch plow These shovels are driven into their edg/es meeting un- with bars Wilkin’ s To curvcd steel. the ground, der the roots. Then across the hinges the operators se- cure them to the grating and the tree is encased in its steel basket. Then comes the work 0f lifting the A combination of which Mr. tree from its bed. wagon and machineiv , Wilkins calls the tians 1101 tei is a4lâ€" justed about the tleo, and the 1:lhoc thing is lifted out by the cross bars. When the tree reaches its destina- tion it is let gently down into the hole prepared for it. The machinery without loss of any 0f and the roots are 10ft in- is removed the earth , tact. During last vcai fol f_v one-hundred- year- -old oaks in full leaf “"010 car-- of thirty miles in transporter and so little did they feel their journey that their lcav cs iemained on the bfanchcs rather longer than usual. Mr. Wilkins is fully prepaicd to supply beautiful shady lawns at a- corn- within a i'ied a distance Mr. Wilkins notice or convert a forest days’ into a pine few field month. __----+_-____ ONLY A PUPPY YET. The youth and his was high. At home the all-engrossing subject: had just 10ft college, ambition, like his 'collar, Was the young man's future career, 1- and he was discussing with his par-, cuts which of the professions _stood. most in need 0f his genius. The father’ s idea of his son's'abil-;. ify w'1 s disgusti ingly low. i “I think," said the 0ld man,i “that you ha'd better adorn one ofi the stools in my office.” ' 1 The young man and the high collar grew tight as he? strove to swallow his righteous an~f gm‘. Folding'his arms, he asked: f “Am I a dog?” i “No; but you’ll grow!" came the' crushing response. ' ; __L+________ § Foreman 0f the locked-in jury (i111-' patiently) â€"-> "The rest. of us are agreed, and _you would as we. do if yen had an" ounce of brains.” Ob ,tmatc Juror (icflcct_ .ively) -â€" “But that’ ., just fle trou- ble I've got mofe fh ".11 an ounce." see the case drew himself up,i ‘ -_.-.,, ~.'\."'- r __, .“wa'tff _. _1 . .-11.~v-'~'-4'--~1.~ ;. ' .. ..-\. -;'.-.-,-. .-_..._,._,, _ w . . . '41.. - -_~. _ wkmu~a~4wme also‘; ‘p .. :.4...