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HOUSEHOLD.
The Dinnea Table.
Great care should be taken arrang-
ing the table to ia.void overloadieg. Many
people imagine that rielreffeete are ob-
tained by placieg numerous flower vases,
fancy spoons, bows and dishes, for no
aPeareut purpose, here and there about
tbe table, u-ntil a guest sits in coestant
fear a upsetting or destroybag some ob-
jeet at bis every move. Let tee .decora.
time be few and r:oh ltolebag. or diepense
with them altogether.
A dinaer table should always be eov-
ered with felt or caxiton flannel witb
the doeialy side up. This deadens much
of the noise made by moving the chbata
and silver about from place to place.
To make LW'S cover secure. fastee the
ends with small nails or tacks under
the corners or the table. Over thie is
placed the linen table. -cloth. This can
bees handsome or simple as the owner's
pocketbook will permit of. Many table -
!cloths are elaborately embroidered en4
trimmed with lace, but a very neat and.
popular style is the hemstitched one.
Tebleeloths should always be ironed on
the right side when quite clamp, until
theY almost shine. They- should be fold-
ed lengthwise so that the ridge of each
crease is left on the right side, and then
rolled to avoia farther ereasing. They
should be long enough to hang over not
lese than twelve inches at each end of
the table. After the olotla is on the table
it caaa be smoothed out with a half -warm
flat.iron, care being taken to leave the
creases sharp and distil:let. The napkins
shoul4 be threeeemarters of a yaxd
square and always be of the same pat-
tern as the cloth, if possible. A ban&
soraelyeembroidered centerpiece in the
middle of the table adds neluxess, with
a gla-ss bowl or vase full of dainty flow-
ers and ferns placed, on it.
Plenty of room should be allowed for
each cover. This takes more room than
one is apt to think. If the dinner is to
consist of several courses, as manyplates
should be pot before each guest in the
order in which the courses are to come.
The dessert is, of course, excepted, and
may be served on plates not of the same
pettern as the other china‚ used. To the
riget of the plates place tbe knife, or
knives if more than one Is used, end the
glasses. To the left place the forks in.
ordeaethe one to be first used farthest
from the plates, and so on; the salt and
Wetter are also placeti on this eide. At
the top place the spoone in the order in
whice teey are to be used, the soup
ispoon fartlie,st from tbe plates if soup
is served first. The napkins may be
turned into fautestio shapes or left
plarnly folded ou top of the plates if
desired. A plate or two of thinly sliced
bread, flat dishes of pickles, olives and
salted almonds may be plaeed prettily
here and there, bu.t otherwise the table
Should contain nothing more when the
guests are first faceted. Everything
which accompanies each amuse should be
removed with it, thus keeping the table
in a, neat mindition during the whole
dinner.
Before the dessert is served, every-
thing except the flowers and the spoon
or fork to be used. should be removed.
Many people du not care for the black
coffee, as is customarily served after a
dinner, and it is always polite to place
sugar and cream on the 'table when it
is brought in. The teffee cups should be
small and dainty, and it is not necessary
that they be of the tame pattern as the
other china.
Great care should be exercised to avoid
much, if any, delay between the courses.
Although no one wishes to rush through
a dinner, yet it becomes quite tiresome
to be compelled to wait any length of
time to be served. Neatness, daintiness,
and neither rush nor delay in service is
what constitutes a. perfectly appointed
dinner table.
Possibilities of Potatoes.
The eeoret of Jawing potatoes mealy
and palatable is to cook them properly
and serve immediately. Potatoes should
be peeled very thinly, as the best part
of the potato is nearest the skin. As
soon as they are peeled they should be
placed in cold water, as exposure to the
air darkens them. Soaking them in
cold water renders them firm so that
they will hold their shape better.
The medium-sized and smooth potatoes
are best. The medium-sized. potatoes
when young, will cook in from 20 to 30
minutes; old potatoes require a longer
time. Potatoes are rendered watery if
allowed to cook after they reach the
proper condition. They should be cook-
ed in clear, fresh water that has just
reached the boiling point. Cover close-
ly and boil steadily until they present
a mealy, broken surface; then remove
them from the stove and drain off the
water thoroughly. If they are to be
mashed, mash them with a wire pact-
to- masher. When this is done, add to
each pint of potato a so ant 1-2 teacup-
ful of rich, hot milk, 1 tablespoonful of
melted butter, 1-2 teaspoonful of salt
and a half saItspoon of pepper. Beat the
mixture until light, turn it into a dish
and serve without packing; the rough
surface being more attractive and the po-
tato being lighter when treated in this
way. .
Potato Puff.—To every pint of mashed
potatoes add 3 tablespoonfuls of sweet
or cream and. then the yolk of 2 eggs
well beaten by themselve,s first and
afterward in the potatoes to make the
latter light. Last, stir in the whipped
whites of the eggs, heap the preparation
roughly upon a dish that ean be sent to
the table, and bake 10 minutes or more,
until the woes has risen and browned
nicely.
' Potato Timbale.—To each quart of
mashed and highly seasoned potatoes add
2 tablespoonfuls of fine bread cruro‚bs
that have been thrown into a teacupful
of boiling milk, and when the whole is
slightly cooled stir in ".3 well -beaten
eggs. Spread a mold with a beeping
tablespoonful of butter and then sprinkle
with as many fine bread crumbs as will
adhere to its inner surface. Press tbe
potatoes into the en,olti and then bake
m a moderate oven for 25 minutes; re-
move and when slightly cooled tuna
them upon a platter and serve.
Ringed potatoes.—Peel large potatoes,
cut them round and round in shavings,
as you pare an apple. Pry with clean,
sweet lard ba a fryingpan till brown,
stirring so as to brown all alike, drain
on a meve, sprinkle fine salt over them
and serve.
Potato Rissoles. --Mash potatoes, salt
and pep per to taste, if desired add a Lit-
tle chopped onion. Roll the potatoes in-
to small belie, cover them with egg and
bread crumbs anti fry in Lot lard about
two minutes
Saratoga Potatoes.—Pare and out into
thin slices large potatoes new are best)
let stand. in ne-cold water a half hour.
Add suffieient salt to the water to
sea -son them, Take a etendful of the po-
Woes, squeeze the water from them and
dry in a, napkin; separate the slices and
drop a handful at a time into a skillet
of hot lard; 40 not crowd therd io the
skillet. Stu. with the fork until tbey
• e a light brown color, drain -well and
serve an an open dish. They are very
nice served cold for Sunday luncheon.
Fried Whele Pota.toes.—Peel and boil
In salted water, remove from the fire
Cs soon as done so that they will re-
main weole; leave ready 1 beaten egg
and some rolled eraekers or bread
mambs. First roU the potatoes in the
egg and the u in the crumbs, and fry
In butter till a light brown, or drop in
hot lard. This is a nice war to cook old
potatoes.
Baked Petatoes—Select potatoea, of
even size, scru.b tlaein with a brush,
wipe witk a cloth and place ie. a hot
oven The moment they are done
squeeze each one to burst its skin and
allow the steion to escape.
Scalloped Potatoes,—Pare and cut in
thin slices enough to nearly fill a two.
quart earthen baking disk. Place a
layer of potatoes in the bottom; sprinkle
lightly with salt, pepper, little lumps of
butter and a very little flour, then an-
other layer of potatoes and so on until
the disla is full within two tithes of
the top. Fill the dish with rice, sweet
milk to within one inch of the top, cov-
er and bake alaout one hour. Do not
stir. reed boiled potatoes are excellent
cooked. in the same way, 15 minutes be-,
bag sufficient tixne to cm* them.
AN INTERRUPTED WEDDING.
an Incident of the Franco -Merman War--
ExampIeltor the ilorrorm of That Time.
Taw borrors of war are never more
deeply felt than in a 'single concrete
example—such an example as the fol-
lowing, 'unlisted by Mr. Arebibald
Forbes in his "Memories el War and.
Peace." The oceurrence took place dur-
ing the Franco-German war. while sev-
eral war -correspondents were at Saar -
bracken.
Within two miles of tbe little town
ley, a whole French army corps, whicla
any day might overwhelm the town and
its slender garrison. So we lived, a
little detachment of us, in a hotel on
thet outskirts, ready far a judicious bolt.
At this' hotel there arrived one raorn-
ing a. young German girl who was en-
gaged. we learned, to a sergeant ot
the gallant Hobenzollerns. She had
come, it seemed. to say farewell to her
sweetheetxt before the fighting. thould
begin and he should march away, may-
ilap never to return.
nae of the livelier spirits among us
conceived the idea that tee pair should
get married before the farewell should
be said. Both were willbag. The bride-
groom's officer gave him leave, on con-
dition that should the alarm sound, he
was to join his company without a mo-
ment's deley.
All was In readiness, and the clergy-
man was just about to join the couple
in holy raatriraony, when the sound of
a bugle broke the stillness. It was tbe
alarm! The bridegroom hurriedly em-
braced the bride, buckled on bis accou-
trements, and darted off to the place
of rendezvous.
In ten minutes more the combat was
in full intensity; the French bed car-
ried the heights overhanging the town,
and. were pouring down upon it their ar-
tillery and mitrailleuse fire.
Our hotel was right in the line of the
fire, and soon became exceedingly dis-
agreeable quarters. We got the WO -
Mall down in the cellar, and waited for
events. A shell crashed into the kitch-
en, burst aside the cooking -stove, and
blew the wedding breakfast, which was
still being kept hot, into what an Amer-
ican colleague called " everlasting
smash." It was too hot to stay- there,
and everybody manoeuvred strategical-
ly to the rear.
A few days later was fought, close
to Saarbrueken, the desperate battle of
Spieheren, in which the bridegrooms
regiment took a leading part. The day
after the battle I was wandering over
tbe field ,helping to relieve the wound-
ed, and gazing shudderingly on the
‚beeps of the dead. Suddenly I came on
our bridegroom, in a sitting posture,
with bis back resting against a stump.
Ere was stone dead, with a bullet
through Ids throat.
"Hide and Seek."
Soft steals the twilight o'er the church-
yard green.
A.bout it ghostly shadows gather
Wear I
No sound. disturbs the stillness of the
scene,
Save distant stouts of children at
their play.
One little maid, more daring than the
rest,
Hides wbere a headstone makes a safe
retreat'
Braving the terrors that the place 221 -
vest,
She waits the pattering sound of
seekers' feet.
What should she know of human an-
guish deep,
Coratmon to all, to monarch 'as to
slave?
What reeks she of the dead, who silent
sleep,
Who sorrow hide, and seek rest in
the grave?
01 happy, careless childhood, no dread
tbought
Of death or paixt can mar your golden
prime;
You have no passed, tear -stained and
sorrow -fraught,
Nor do you fear "th' avenging hand
of time."
Peaceful the dead rest in untroubled
sleep, ,
While all about them oheldieb laugh-
ter sounds
And the grey twilight shadows softly
creep
Over God's acre, with its grassy
moutuds.
When Baby WU fdet, We lame bee CtistOrte6
When shamus Child, she cried for CastOria.
MIO13 she became Miss, she clung to Castoria.
When sholuiedObildrea, sheave Um cadmic
Same Old Stavy.
Do you. love me for my pelf/ •
The same old answer follows:.
I love you, darling for yourself,
And not your paltry ff $.
14E FAR?/41.•
A Question or Temperament Rattier
Than "Flank."
"Returning to the ejttestion as towhee
dispositima An animal will ina,lee of the
food, it takes, in tinae it will be gener-
ally admitted. that it is simply a ques-
tion Of temperment," writes Prof.Heack-
er, Animals, as well as men, are dom-
inated by different temperaments, and
they vary in form or type according to
tee ternperameets, con.sequ,ently type is
the index of temperament. Ip the
hound, trotter, thoroughbred, etc., tte
motion of the rou.soular sysbem has the
mastery, and for this reason the muscu-
lar system absorbs the bulk of the nu-
trients izi the food. they take. It will
be noticed that in Ibis OWLS of animals
there is always a large network of vouis
running over and through the muscles,
to carry the ‚nutrients that bave been
absorbed by the blood to these parts.
In the hog, the compact blocky steer,
mutton sheep, etc., the vital tempera-
totbeent tho:41ds aas‘..vay,coannvderithede nutrient
tbe
Witb the dairy cow the function of
motherhood is the chief object in life,
and this is accomplished through the
most wonderful of all systems, the
nervous. Conception itself is the result
of - nervous action, and though shrouded
In mystery, the feet tbat the wbMe pro-
cess of g•estatioo and motherhood is
mainly the result of nervous action is
clearly demonstrated through the wbole
period of lactation, The more higblY
developed the nervous system the great-
er the activity of the lacteal functions
and the greater the flow ot blood to the
udder, The udders of great railkers are
always c,overed with a rearrespondiegly
large network of veins, and the two run-
ning forward from tbe udder in such
cows are always large, to accommodate
the large flow of blood from the udder.
'ate closer we examine into Ms intri-
cate problem the ixtore clearly do we see
that temperament really controls the
disposition that Ls to be made of the
nutrients that are deposited in the
blood, arid.since type Is simply an in-
dex of temperament we must train
ourselves to a better understanding of
animal physiology." 6
TUPII1PS versUs Carrots fer Horses.
Carrots have always been extolled as
the par excellence of horse feed, and to
a certain extent they are. Carrots fed
to young stock make them irritable,
nervous, and in the case of young stal-
lions vicious, Carrots owe their chief
value, as a food for horses to the pectic
acid contained in them, which so much
assists digestion and assimilation, and
for this reason are good for old horses.
Horse dealers tboroughly understand
their value, and feed them generously
to old horses. It is within my experi-
ence that Swedish or yellow turnips are
much better, both ae an article of food
and as a conditioner, than carrots for
horses. Try a few Swedes, cut them
ale and sprinkle with corn meal and
bran. The soft and glossy coat, the
shtea,orlyth. 3: look, with the good spirits of
the horse so fed, will soon tell the
When to 'Water Horses.
Always water your horses the first
thing, 18 the morning, and do not let
the water be toe cold. If it is too cold
yoa will probabfy have a case of colic.
Water is best when it is about 10 de-
grees wanner than the outside air in
winter, and as much cooler in summer.
Give the hay before the grain, so that
the stomach may le partially filled be-
fore the concentrated foods get into it.
Better still, feed chopped feed. Mix
the ground grain witli dampened hay or
fodder, and give the largest feed at
night, when the horse has time to di-
gest it. Fat and food for the muscles
are made when the lease is at rest,
--
eainter Care of Vegetables.
Many good vegetables are wasted be-
cause proper winter care is not given
them. Fanners are often urged to bave
a garden that there may be an abund-
ance of vegetables for winter use For
health and economy as well as for var-
iety, a good supply of vegetables is just
as needful in January as in 'July. On
some accounts more so.
Beets, carrots and other root crops
may be kept just as fresh for months as
when harvested if stored in bins,boxes
or barrels, and packed in fresh earth.
Cabbages may be treatet the same way
or may be pulled and only the roots
buried in earth. Tbis treatment ap-
plies to the -supply put in the cellar.
Where pitted the same effect may be
obtained if the earth is put directly up-
on or among tee vegetables instead of
the pile being covered with straw or
other litter before the earth is put
upon it.
One who has not tried this method
of storing vegetables has no idea how
nice and crisp they can be had in Jan-
uary or March.
Holding Farm Produce.
A correspondent has found One ad-
vantage in prompt sales of produce.
Every farmer knows, or should know,
how much money he should receive for
sales each year to raeet the ordinary
expense. If receipts are cut down by
small crops, and low prices, he must
plan to cut down expense, or at least
eat to incur any extra expense. When
big crop is stored in the eopectation
I". better prices, one naturally figures
eeoeipts at the expected price, and if
is not realized, there is disappoint-
ment, to say- the least.
By converting crops into money as
soon as they are ready for market, it
seems iiessible to do a safer business.
There is less care and worry. On the
other band, when convinced that any
pfoduet is selling temporarily at a price
far lower than condttions • justify, the
profit that is obtained by holding goes
dtouctehrt one remit deserving it—the 'pro -
Winter Poultry Food.
Bury cabbage and turnips so that
they can be easily got at. Cut up fine
and feed two or three times a week.
Shattered clover, scalded hay and chop
feed stirred upwith the green stuff
naake a fine winter food. Kapp a pot
handy, into which potato and apple par-
ings, tables,sserap,s, ete, can be thrown.
Boit all together aad thicken with chop,
adding a handful of linseed meal -and
a pod or two of red pepper. Feed only
enough to partially 'satisfy the hens.
Let them scratch for the remainder—
out of doors ln fine weather, and under
thesheds bT cat;straw on storray,snoWy
WORD SEIZE NEW YORK.
WHAT ENGLAND WOULD DO IN CASE
OF WAR WITH THE STATES.
A, neared American Naval, °Meer Describes
ed the Full or the City—Giotuntly Molds
That the Yankee filavy k inadequate
and Coast Defences P003—Then taUttbs.
The New York World says :—"11.
there should be' war with England,
the
plain
NewYorker.
wouldnEgolrandrdo first ?" asked
h
"Why, seize N'ew York," mailed the
.retired naval officer. "and. it wouldnot
give bei' very much trouble, eitharav2-1"That is -
slie would ginrebn/ttingit..me-"
"Well, she would, assemble at Hall -
fax a powerful fleet of, say, have a doz-
en battle -ships and twelve or fifteen
big cruisers. This fleet would. be for
the especial purpose of seizing New
York. Of course, she would send a sep-
arate fleet against each one of our big
ports at the same time. And, of course,
see would know just where each one of
our ships of war was and would look out
for them independently. Bat I shall
not go into these details, I will simply
002f Inc myself to the attack upon New
York. This fleet of tweoteemae ships
would move downwith aerPodo boats
and torpedo,destroyers and all the other
necessary accompanying vessels."
"And en
id would meet the combieed Am-
erican navy off the d of Long le -
land.,
"Not at all. There Ivould be a few
ships to guard New York, but our
navy is so very smell aria we have so
many great ports that we could. only
spare a few for New York—pertaps
the best, but still only a few.
"What would our one battle -ship our
five or six monitors and. the unarmor-
ed cruiser or so avail in the end against
such overwhalraing odds.? Then,e would.
be a terrific figiat but the chalices are
our fleet would le; in part disabled and
in part sunk. At any rate we'll just
put it that way for tbe sake of the
story.
"The lir'itish fleet is now off the end
of Long Island. The coma -landing ad-
miral divides it into two unequal parts
—the larger to go to Sandy Hook, the
smaller to force the Sound. The most
of the torpedo destroyers would accom-
pany the Sound fleet, because tbe
danger from torpedoes is greater there.
This Sound fleet, as you will see by
looking at tbe map, would advance in
A LEISURELY FASHION
oanutsived Nditohlitirlthroogppgoei,etiNoencktd a point just
"But where would they get pilots?"
"My dear sir. it is one of the rules
of the Admiralty that no British war-
ship shall ever enter foreign waters
with a pilot. The Admiralty supplies
each ship with the latest chaxts, and
the ships are steered by the cliarts.
Now this reap at which you are looking
has an exact account, of tbe shoals, cur-
rents and channels of the waters around
New York, Every British warship has
one of these maps.
"So, to continue, the Sound fleet an-
chors off David's Island mid Sand's
Point, The Americans have hurriedly
completed the torpedo arrangements
there. But the work is weak and, after
a, few hours' bombardment, the British
are able to force a landing and to blow
the place up.
"Again at Throgg's Neck (Fort
Schuyler) they find themselves opposed
by a. line of torpedoes. But the works
are not very formidable and there is a
repetition of l)avia's Island. Fort
Schuyler is soon made helpless. The
fleet moves on, still more cautiously.
The torpedo destroyers have bard work
in clearing the water from this on be-
cause we have been very industrious
in laying torpedoes. But. at last, with
comparatively small delay and small
loss, the Sound fleet is anchored not
far from Riker's Island and a battery
of mortars has been set up on the is-
land itself. New York City is invested
.in the northeast. Two huge armored
cruisers are at the mouth of the Har-
lem, and the enormous guns and mor -
leas are ready to ram shot and. shell
on all the Upper part of Manhattan
Isia"Nilod-, let us go back to the Sandy
Hook fleet. There are, let us say, two
battleships, four huge armored cruis-
ers and two big protected cruisers in
this fleet, besides the little boats. 'This
fleet, of course, finds itself face to face
with our coast defenses on the end of
the Hcok. There are disappearing bat-
teries and mortars—a really formidable
defense. 'Unfortunately it is not fin-
ished. The fleet anchors just out of
range of the land batteries which pitch
their shells to the three-mile limit. The
day is calm—the English have plenty of
time and wait for a calm day.
"When. the sea is perfectly smooth
and accurate firing is possible,
THE BIG GUNS
of the great battleship are brought in-
to action for the first time. In a few
days the works at Sandy Hook are de-
rnolished and the only real defense of
New York Harbor is gone.
"Now come many days of torpedo
destroying, of shelling and. demolishing
batteries that have been hastily thrown
up along the shores of the bay. There
is much hard fighting. But we have no
ships, and at last the English fleet
moves in safety up the bay and divides
into three parts—one steaming up the
East River, one up the Hucison and
the other for the waters about the Bat-
tery. New York is invested. Every-
thing is ready for a bombardment."
"But hundreds of thousands of troops
are concentrated in and around New
York."
"Yes, I see them. But ev-hat can, they
do? They are powerless. The British
ships have New York at the mercy of
their guns. We have no ships to send
against them.
'Of course you understand that these
ships could bombard the city from the
Lower Bay, and no doubt would do it
if it was necessary. But, sooner or
later, before or after a, bombardment,
the British fleet would have New York
City directly under its guns. And then
an officer under a 'white flag would
come ashore to have e talk with Mayor
&meg and to suggest the appointment
of a Committee of Fifty or Seventy to
raise a.ransora fund."
Yon don't reaely mean to gay that
you think this would happen ?"
"No, I don't. Only I don't see how
the capture of New York and all our
seaport cities could be prevented. Do
y°,1.,1?"
No. I don't," confessed the New
Yorker. "I was thinking that all these
coast defenses they have talked about
were done or could be finished in a few
days."
"MY dear sir, it would take 'several
years to fortify New York Harbor. At
preserit, as I tell you, there are de-
fenses only at Sandy Hook, Davide'
Island and Theerg's Neck, and these
are so ineomplete that they poold be
easily destroyed."
"But soca a thing as you deseribe will
never happen—never 1"
"I agree with you," laughed the re-
tired naval officer, "and for one (mei-
lent reeson at least.'
"What ts that 1"
"Why tbere is not going to be a
war,"
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women of Russia,.
It is estimated that it takes two
years for the water from the Gulf of
Mexico to travel from Florida to the
coast of Norway.
Chicago's board of education announces
that it proposes to forbid the teachers
in Its employ to emoke pipes or cigar-
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A storekeeper of Kokomo, Ind., is
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burglar who broke a $100 plate glass
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A Dorsetshire zoologist, seeing en ad-
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reaching home he cut the etring.when
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A St. Berard was sold for $2,350 at
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Everything is white just now, It is
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It was the barking of ber faithful pet
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Maine newspapers axe telling that a
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