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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1909-11-25, Page 6• 10***********1 ifeerth cupful of "C" sugar, one - 41 HOME. ,,g ' , tar cupful of butter, one egg, t..nt h salt, one-half cupful of New '.•.o►s molasses, one-half tea- •oful of cinnamon, c,ne-fourth o.poonfill of cloves, one-half tea- :* **********0 ! of ginger, one and one-half e:int cupfuls of flour, one-half cup- ful of boiling water last. Individual Shortcakes.—One and a Ralf cupful* sugar, one table- spoonful Nutter, two eggs, one cup- ful of milk, two teaspoonfuls bak- ing powder, one teaspoonful of flav- ering, flour to stiffen. Bake in gem reins. Cut aeross and place fruit between and on top. Take one cup- ful sugar, one cupful crushed fruit. white of one egg, and beat together u►.til stiff and pour over each cake. Fresh fruit is preferable. but canned strawberries or raspberries or other fruit is nice. SOME DAINTY DISHES. hate Sandwiches.—Stone some dates. chop them tinily, and add a hole grated lemon peel. Cut thin slices of bread and butter, weal wish date paste and form into sand- y: is hes. Snow C'reatn.--Into a quart of ea ran milk put two ounces of but- ter. two ounces of sugar, two bay leaves, and four ounces of ground rice. Stir till it boils and fortes a smooth, thick substance, then pour into oiled moulds or teacups. When cold, turn it out and servo with any nice red jam. Fried Beef and Rashers. — Cut some slices of cold beef, roast or boiled, brush each over with ketch- up, and season with pepper and salt. Fry sotue rashers of b•won, take them up, and in the fat fry the strew of beef. Make a mound of trashed potato, and arrange the slices of beef and rashers on it. Serve very hot. Scalloped Onions.—Peel and slice • fou- large Spanish onions. Line a pie dish with breadcrumbs, then put a layer of chopped onions. Sea- son with pepper and salt, and add es few bits of dripping, then a layer of crumbs, and so on till the dish is full, having a laver of crumbs last. Pour over a teacup of milk and bake for an hour and a half Cheese and Rice.—Put a layer of boiled rice in a pie -dish. Into a saucepan put a gill of milk and half - an -ounce of butter. into which has been worked a teaspoonful of flour ; season with salt and cayenne and stir till it boils. Pour this over the rice, scatter some grated cheese on the top, and put in the oven for about twenty minutes to brown. Scree very hot. Chocolate Bread Pudding.—Soak trine pieces of stale bread in boil- ing milk, and after an hour beat it till fine with a fork. Now stir it. wtfficient chocolate powde't to make it taste rich, adding more sugar if necessary, and stir all together over the fire. Remove the pan, and then add one or two beaten eggs according to the quantity of bread. Pour into buttered cups or a pie- eiish and bake Cranberry Pie.—Take half a pint of stewed cranberries, add a tea- cupful of stoned and chopped rais- ins, half a pound of sugar, a quar- ter of a pint of water, and two, 1:.blespoonfuls of breadcrumbs. Lire a shallow pie -dish with pastry, fill with the mixture, cover with 'pastry, and bake. Before removing tats pie from the oven, cover the top with the stiffly -beaten white of egg, and dust sugar over. Leave it in the oven for a few minutes to set. Stewed Turkey Giblets. — These can often be bought for a few pence frcm a poulterer. Lay the giblets ie warm water till well cleansed. Drs and cutthen in pieces. Put these in a stewpan with a little ba- con and about four ounces of beef- rteak, cut in square pieces. Add. two ounces of butter and let all b,r.wn. Then dredge in some flour, add a small onion, a carrot, a tur- nip, all cut in slices, a pinch of salt and pepper to taste. Stew Feutl• till tender, removing the pieces when ready, the liver and pinions will be ready first and the bi'zard last . Savory Mutton.—Here is a good and economical dish which. if cook- ed with care. is really delicious. Take a nice breast of mutton, not too fat. and put it on to cook in w;',,s water, letting it boil gently till the banes can he slipped nut. Oleanwhile make a stuffing with a little suet (or dripping). a small on- ion finely chopped, two tablespoon- fuls of stale bread. soaked and then soeeezed dry, a large slice of bacon chapped, some dried herbs, black pepper. and salt. Spread the in- side of th' muton with this, and lien roll. securing all in place with tape er string. It,•nst the meat for half an hour, dredging with flour. and basting well. Serve with thick brown gravy, and browned onions i.,it round. SMALL C'.aK)'S. One Egg Cake.—One egg, two- thiids cupful of sugar. four table - epee rfuls melted putter. two-thirds cul lel of milk. one teaspoonful of baking i•owder, one teaspoonful of vanilla, flour to make thin batter. Ginger Cookies.—Two sifters of Amur. one pint of lard, a little salt rids together; one pint of Orleans molasses. two eggs. one cupful of eugat. one-half pint of sour milk. tete (wart of hot water, tablesps,on• fa: of ginger. two tablespoonfuls of er Jn ; dissolve soda in milk or hot eater, which ever you nye. GL,Rer ('reams. -One cupful of C susar, one cupful of New Orleans m'slasses. one cupful of butter and lard mixed, one cupful of boiling water. nne dessertspoonful soda. ere half teaspoonful of ginger, one teaspoonful of cinnamon. one half teaspoonful of cloves, pinch of salt. 'it enough to hold up spoon. Mix St night. set in a cool place and hake in the morning. Ile careful not to use too mei: flour, as this will make them tough. holden Ciintgi I►rops. — One - MEATS. Ham Croquettes.—Three cupfuls esli ham, ground (either boiled or Wed), one large mashed potato, c.ne onion (ground), two beaten rags; form into oval balls and fry. Serie with tomato sauce. Veal Loaf. --One pound chopped Neal, one-fourth chopped pork, two eggs. six square crackers rolled Pne, three tablespoonfuls oL cream, one finely chopped onion. Pepper and salt to taste. Mix well with hands, form in loaf, put in skillet on top of stove with butter. brown arid simmer one and one-half hours, le.t half hour pour over meat loaf one cupful catsup. Beef can be used instead of veal. Veal Loaf.—Three pounds of veal, two pounds of fresh pork. put through -The grinder; then add two cups df bread crumbs. three eggs, a •assn to taste with salt. pepper, nutmeg. and sage, add cup of water. mix well, make into a loaf, and Leke one hour. THE SEWING ROOM. Border Help.—After cutting lin- en away from the border in fancy work if one would go over it with the regular buttonhole stitch, tak- ing up just enough to catch edge, the border would be more firm. This is especially good for towel ends, sheets and pillow cases. In sewing Iso finishing braid instead of bias folds whenever possible. Less work and prettier finish. Fringing. --In fringing a table ewer or anything with deep fringe, tear it up, as deep as you want the fringe at intervals of a finger or so all the way across the end, then fringe out these short pieces one by one. which is a much easier way titan pulling out a long thread every time. and having it break, and be- ing obliged to hunt for the end with pin or needle. Darning.—In darning on the ma- chine it does not make any differ - once what the piece may be. table cloths, napkins, socks, stockings. or arything that has a hole in. take the font of the machine off and run the stitches all the way across the la le just as you do by hand, then across the other way. just as you wouh. if done by hand, only it is dere en touch neater. Use an em- broider' hoop to hold the goods firm and even, put it over the hole, and slide under the foot of machine whatever color the material is, use the same color thread. LITTLE HELPS. in making hot starch add one tablespoonful nf lard and one of salt to each gallon of starch. Be sure and rase while hot. For cold starch use about half the URnal quantity of starch and add a tablesnoonful nf powdered borax. This stiffens without danger of the os r► sticking For irnning holders get asbestos if possible. Cover the holders when finished with little sacks or cases buttoned on. These are easy to launder and easily replaced. For r,uickly made holders to use around stoves save your salt sacks and ether small sacks. Slip the hold- er inside. turn the end back inside anci fasten with a small safety pin When scort•hed or soiled these are easily removed and a new cover quickly put on. 1f a ,light scorch is made on a white garment spnnee freely with a c'oth wet with h•drogen peroxide and iron dry. The scorch will dis- apoeer like magic. To Save Elective- To save etas - tic in children's Ileuses. which asst rmetimes as much as the material of the Meuse. take a niece of cane or selvage the size of the child's waist. less four inches. Cut the • HEIRESS TO MILLIONS THE SIMPLE ItII1NCTXc 1'P OF MISS (' .% I t\ 1.1.11' . Taught to Value Little Pleasures, Simple •less• and l nuMeuta- liou� l lathes. Being trained to inherit one hun- dred millions. Suclt is the lot of a bonnie, unaf- fected little girl of twelve years, whop, you might have passed almost any day if you had been walking in Central Park, New York, where you would have seen the little girl feeding squirrels or tossing bits of bread to the swans. You would never dream that she would inherit one million, let alone one hundred trillions. But that is because she is Margaret, daughter of Andrew Car- negie, who adds to the high ideals of his wife his own practical ideas of education fur a great trust. The keystone on which Mr. and Mrs. Carnegie are building the edu- cation and training of their daugh- ter, according to a kinswoman and intimate fancily friend, is the neces- sity of preserving at any cost and sacrifice the child's natural capa- city for finding happiness in sim- ple things. It is their belief -that the joy of childh.;nd should not de- pend upon formal pleasures and concrete amusements; that it should not be affected by either the abund- ance or the absence of toys and games; that dress and personal luxuries should be matters of indif- ference. And, finally, the child should find its supreme happiness in the stere joy of living, in the in- nocent realization that it is alive. .ttxlge weighing over two tons \o one should think from this out- while an automobile, carrying six line of Margaret ('arnegie's train- people, runs over it. This is a com- ing that she lives an austere life or isined weight of over three tons, has not every modern cnnvenienee and if his strength should give way .--even for one second—it would mean instant death, or, at least, TERRIBLE INJURIES. Equally striking is Mr. Saxon's feat of lifting 371 lbs. above his arrival of a pair of "grown-up" sloes w'a' an event in her well -or- dered aud frugal life. This simplicity prevails in her en tire ttardrobe. The arrival of a new truck in the Carnegie nursery has always been an event. Not bo- ing surfeited with handsome and expeusive clothing, like any whole- some and happy girl the heiress of millions finds her cup of happiness overflowing at sight of a new frock without reference to its intrinsic value. WORLD'S STRONGEST MAN .tM.1Z1NG FEATS OF MR. .tR• Tilt R SAXON. Striking Feat of Lifting 3:1 Lbs. .t bore His (lead With One !land. Can the human frame support a weight of nearly One and three- quarter taus :' An emphatic "No" mould probably be the reply to this question in ninety-nine cases out ••f a hundred. Nevertheless, the feat of sustaining 3,86 lbs. by mus- cular strength alone has been per- formed many times by Mr. Arthur $axon, known in the athletic world as the strongest man on earth, says London Tit -Bits. While lying lying on his back Mr. Sax - en balances a huge plank. 40 feet long with his feet, and a 200 lb. bar -bell. Thirteen then sit on the When a Turkish lacy. gives a plank and -three on the bar -bell, r•chalya," or tea party, her bus - the combined weight being 3,1308 band is perforce excluded from the lbs. An even greater test of harem while the strange women are strength is made when, with his in the house. These guests begin brother Hermann, he suppWts a to arrive towards six, accompanied by their maidservants and negroes, carrying lanterns and bringing their children with them. Closely muffled, they divest them- selves of their burnouses and ba- bouches in an anteroom and pat on delicate satin slippers, which they have brought with them in bags. The reception -rooms are brilliantly lighted up with pink wax candles and scented with fragrant pastiles. "I AM DEVOTED TO YOU." There is no kissing or hand -shak- ing between the hostess and her guests, but each lady as she conies it raises her hand gracefully to her heart, her lips, and her brow, which means, "I an, devoted to von, with ihs. with both hands, after press ing it upwards to arms' length. NOTHING LIKE BEEFSI'1:AK Strangely eu.•sglt, this man of muscle i ever dirt.; himse'f. •• While 4 do t.ot drink or smoke habitual- ly," be says. "I drink beer if 1 feel 1 want it, and often smoke a ci- gar or two a day. Smoking and drinking in moderation are not in- jurious, and I know positively that they do not in the slightest affect my ability to life heavy weights. The same thing is true in eating. Ever since I became a professional strong roan I have eate.t what t "tented. I cut three big meats a clay and everything I want. I have never d:etcd. 1f my stomach (eaves any particular dish I eat it --al- ways in moderation, of course. 1 ant fond of meat, particularly beef- steak, and I eat meat three times a day. There is nothing like beef- steak to make one strong. "'Everything in moderation' is a good old motto to be observed on ali occasions." A TURKISH TEA PAR fY 110W 11' iS ('ONUt (1 ED IN 1' 11.1'I' ('01 N TR t W. No Tea Served, but Cigarettes, Coffee, Cake and (lancing (arts. and comfort at her command. It is simply that love of luxury is no part of her curriculum. MONEY NOT EVERYTHING. The average child born to the golden spoon is taught that her fa head with one hand, and 448 lbs. lher's money will smooth all thewith two. Just consider what this rough places out of her pathway means for a moment. With one and buy her whatsoever her heart hand this professional strong man desires. Money, t, her, represents .raises above,his head a weight merely a means of satisfying her equivalent to over 3►„ cwt. of coal. personal desires. Her attendants There is no trick about it, Mr. Sax and tutors generally teach her that on will tell you. It is simply a this money sets her apart from the question of strength—strength in - rest of the world as a person to ,herit.ed from a race of strong men whom all good things will cone. and women. and developed by years With Margaret Carnegie the sys- .of exercise and temperate living. ten►,of training is entirely different. And yet Mr. Saxon never lifted She must be taught that the wealth a weightuntil he was sixteen yearn she inherits will bring with it rough of, age and he is now thirty-one. places which her own intelligence 'I was studying to become a and gond judgment will make sculptor," he remarked a short smooth. In the performance of her time ago, "when my father caused duties in this connection, in the me to join a weightlifting club. 1 handling of her inheritance, she will mss fairly muscular, and my strong find herself unable to gratify many,frame enabled me to lift greater of her desires. And while this weights than any of the other money may set her apart from the An. embers. 1 also learned wrestling, rest of the world, it will he because and developed into a good amateur, she has a trust to fill. and later into a fairly good profes- SIMPLE TOYS. sional. I was able to life such "Noblesse oblige." This is the heavy weights. however. that a cir- ne manager wanted motto on every Royal nursery wall mo morethan than I could nme ;and make as lie Europe. And the little heirs to offered es - ancient thrones are taught that no- as a sculptor,strong I man. I was then pro my bility involves simplicity. and that 'seventeen eyI only p seventeen years old. nobility of birth stakes nobility or magnanimity of conduct obligatory. WHY HE C.'tVE UP WRESTLING "Noblesse oblige." It is not writ- "Eras the next few years 1 travel - ten on the nursery walls in the led all over the Continent, and Eng. Carnegie home on Fifth Avenue, land, lifting heavy weights and but it is lived and preached by all wrestling. Pur years I gave exhi- to whom the education and train hitions of weight -lifting and wrest- ing of the little Margaret is en Jin every day. laterally, 1 di<t trusted. This one lofty precept not need any other exercise. 1 must be hers, that whatever she has found, however, I could lift heavi- which other less fortunate -little er weights if I did not wrestle, so girls have not is hers only as she 1 gave it up and devoted all my may make of it an instrument for efforts to the weights. The sea the happiness of others. tion for this is that quickness and The average nursery in a million- suppleness are needed for wrest- aire's home is cluttered with ex- ling while for lifting great weights pensive toys. Little heirs and heir- esses are taken to great toy -shops by relatives or governesses and per- mitted to pick and choose without question of price. Not so in the Carnegie nursery. Here toys aro of the simplest and least expensive sort, corning at such infrequent in- tervals that there has never been a surfeit. just fresh joy in each new gift. The kinswoman who has so often heard Mr. Carnegie expound his theories of child -culture, tens this interesting story of Margaret ('ar- negie's everyday life. When she wadi six years old she received her first pair of "shiny- shoes, made from patent leather. Living. as she had. in a modern palace, attended b: vigilantnurses and tutors, this tape in half. insert No. inches of little girl had never possessed any- eta+fie. nut the tape. with the Chas thing quite so gorgeous as those lir it the center of it, in the item shiny shoes. No wee daughter of a MUCH HIDDEN TREASURE FA( IS 11101'1 t Nt 1,1111E9 SIDNEY 1\ It1\lt •. Thousands of Pounds Lein, ID English Bailie( For 11 hick 'There Are No (ittuet•s. Fifty millions of unclaiins i de• !;,,sits in the coffers of bank, Such t as the amazing total arrived at, a few years ago, by the 1•:dieleagf, Merchants' Company, which t.co- tinned Parliament with Co. sante ..bject as a Bill recent! :.. ;...Inc• c.1 into the !louse of temeeens - that all such balances shall be con- fiscated by the State, says London Answers. Whether the estimate is fairly ac- curate it is impossible to say, be. cause bankers stake no retntns of unclaimed funds in their possession. and refuse to give any information on the subject. But banks unques- tionably hold enormous sums for which no owners. are forthcoming. An indirect proof of this is that savings banks, which are obliged to publish account,, invt riably ac- knowledge having some dormant and unclaimed balances. Only a.few months since, ono made a special effort to discover the owners of a number of such accounts; lint, though it found the people entitled t , £5,172, it was unable to trace the owners of deposits aggregating 15,124. 124. ORPHANED THOUSANDS. Further evidence to the sante iurport is supplied on the occasion ,.f a bank failure. When the West- ern Bank of Scotland went into liquidation, many balances were unclaimed, and, twenty years after- wards, there remained ownerless £ l0,36e. In connection with the li- c nidation of the City of Glasgow Bank, again, no claims were lodg- ed its respect of £51,143; and, though subsequently some of the money was claimed, the Assets' Ccmpany not long since had thou- sands of pounds fur which owners could not be found. Look. too, at the special manner in which the Bank of England deals with dormant balances of long standing. The bank invests them, rind the interest which accrues • is heart, mouth, and mind.'( This -,tf eient to pension the widows of mode of salutation, when smilingly ler deceased clerks. performed, is very pretty. 1 Besides such testimony as this, The greetings being ended, the there are many isolated incidents company seat themselves on chairs, which go to show that, if banks if there be any foreign ladies pre-; were made to disgorge the money to sent ; if not they betake themselves which they have no right, the ever - to the divans and carpets, while the tightening grip of taxation might children go off all together to be be promptly relaxed. A mysterious account stands in an alias of a maiden lady. After she had been a customer at a certain joint-stock bank for some years. aha opened a second account in an as- sumed name—a practice which is constantly adding to unclaimed epective dresses. which are sure to hoards in banks- -and paid into it a be most sun►ptunus. and indeed are lutnp sunt of £7,500. Subsequent - sometimes worth a fortune. regaled and to romp in some other room. Cigarettes, coffee, and sweet- meats are handed around, and while these things are being discussed the ladies are bound to pay one an- other compliments about their re- "BRiNt; IN THE CAKE." The evening costume of a Turk- ish lady consists of a long tunic of the first account. About the £7.- with open sleeves and a wide pair' �. however, they said nothing- of trousers, and when these arti- and nor did the bunk. For business reasons, a French gentleman once wished to communi- cate with a certain English lady, end wrote to her London agents, introduced, and at this stave of the ttho, on making inquiries, discover- rroceedings the elderly ladies gen- cd that she had died in a lunatic erally settle down to cards and asylum. Her affairs were then in - back -gammon. In some houses, vestigated, with the result that a no- where Christian manners have pe- licitor recovered from the bank an net. rated, a woman pianist rattles account in her name which had been off waltzes and uperatic music to dormant for some time. ly. her original account was fre- quently dealt with, but the othet she never touched. After her death her executors withdrew the balance cles are of costly stuffs, embroid- ered, laced, and covered with jew- els, they produce a rare effect. After the coffee dancing girls are one should be stiffer than a gond amuse the company; but this does wrestler can afford to be." not exclude the performances of Mr. Saxon, by the way, tells an the native dancing girls, whose gy• amusing story of the manner in rations and fantastic music with which he induced the local strong 'nen of a certain town to try fur the £50 offered to anyone who would lift his heavy bar -bell. No one seemed eager to attempt the Leat. so the bell was unloaded. and thus made quite light and empty, and left on show at the entrance to the palace of entertainment at which Mr. Saxon was appearing. tambourines and castanets are much appreciated. These "Miner's" are seldom older than fourteen, and in any case no ruarried woman ever joins in a dance. When the evening has been more I or less agreeably spent amid these pastimes and conversation, it is the lady of the house who gives the Rig - nal for the guests to retire. Thin A PUZZLING BAR -BELL. she does by "Naturally," say' Mr. Saxon, C'LAPPiNG HIR HANDS "the strong men of tLe teen came round and tested the bell private- . and exclaiming, "Chalva yel'" 1 ly, and. on finding how easily" they ("Bring in the cake''") At once the could lift sone, they all were cur- maidservants burry off to fetch the Lain the £50 was as good as in their delicacy, and stun a very aromatic. l,r„.kets. That night. instead of a creamy. and spongy pudding is pro -1 dead silence as before. when my duced. and this having been hon-; of the hlease. Tt will act the seine day laborer could have taken keen- challenges was issued. quite a num- ()red as it deserves silver basins full es if it were all elastic and wear er delight in the new treasures, ber of eager weight -lifters, anxious of rose-water are carried in for the looter. Therefore von can nsake which had cost less than two dol to imprnyAtheir financial position, 'guests to wash their hands with,; six blouses with the same Plastic cars• jumped into the ring and rushed and then the party is at an end. •vlsich you would otherwise put in era. blouse. To Smooths Tions.—Tack a niece of *endpaper on the end of the ironing hoard to smnnth the irons. T'nnsed Linens.- Valnable lin- ens that are unused should at least be washed once a teat. thoroughly dried. end refolded. This will pre- vent yellowing and also the injnry •tbich resnits if creases are allowed to remain ton )nes. Beres talk about themselves; gos- sips talk about others. HER "SHINY SHOES." for the hell, which I bad raised; A very quaint form of salutation At first her father was greatly resits- with one hand ; but much to speeds the parting guest. As each ' their surprise the 1,o -Ib. bar bell ladv comes up to express her thanks amused at her keen delight, but had changed into a 300 -ib. one, and for the hospitality she has enjoyed gradually his amusement turned to the disappointed weight -lifters re- „ the hostess answer% sweet! He w displeasure as he saw the possibil- ities of one pair of shoes overturn- ing all his educational theories. For Margaret. walking in the park with her distinguished parent, stopped every few paces to admire the won- derful shoes, and. as often as she thought it necessary, to lean over and dust invisible specks from the tips with her pocket-Irandkerelief.,l,rought ever his forehead en to :111 of which goes to prove that therl,rs Mate, a bar bei', weighing 3g4 DIS RANKING. A Dublin bank epee issued a list of unclaimed property in its pos. session. Here are two suggestive items from it : "Box containing a number of sil- ver articles, coins, medals, and seals, and having on it a crest. and the name, 'E. S. ('roper.' "Box containing diamonds and articles of jeweller• lodged by I)r. Andrew Blake and George Jennings on December 22nd, 17f►5. There are many similar hoards in Irish banks, numbers of which have remained in then! since the Rebel- lion. Some years ago an Irish leer, when in Melbourne, heard in romantic eircumstances that a quantity of plate had been deposit- ed in a 1)uhlin bank by one of his ancestors at the beginning of the nineteenth Gentry, and that there it still remained. The bank. on his communicating with it. at once ad- mitted his claim. and delivered up the treasure. BREAKING THE NEWS. tired scratching their heady in an happy I am that it is allover'• Marion, who bad been taught to endeavor to ndoratand the trick which ambiguous utterance only report her misdeeds promptly, which had been played on them.' came to her mother one day, soh• Perhaps one of the most daring means, How happy 1 am that no feats ever performed by Mr. Saxon was that of throwing from one ha d to the other overhead a bar -bell ,weighing 315 lbs. On another oc- casiOD he laid on his back and aecident has befallen any of us during this delightful et—ening!" scone device for indicating ware a man's real friends are wo:►Id fill a long felt want. ting penitently. '•Mother. I--I—broke a brick in the fireplace." 'Well, that is not very hard to remedy. But how on earth did you eco it. child']" "i pennded it with father's wr tch." i