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DAINTY I?ISIiES,
Indian pudding is exoeJ]out for
this season. urease a pttdding-
dierh and line it with a light suet
crust, Put in alternate layers of
Sliced apples, quertens of orange,
:and pieces of figs, 'Scatter sugar
over all and add a pinch of ginger.
Cover with suet crust and boil for
two hours, Turnout, and verve•
Russian Mince, -Out one pound
of cold meat into small pieces, also
any cold vegetables, ham, bacon, or
a suet pudding- Fry all in a little
dripping, season highly with pep-
per, salt, finely chopped onion,
parsley, and a tablespoonful of
vinegar, Stir all together. over the
fire, and serve very hot on toast.
Tapioca gruel is most useful in
some oases of illness. Take a heap-
ed tablespoonful of tapioca, put it
into a quart of cold water, and let
it come slowly to boiling point, af-
ter which let it simmer slowly till
the tapioca is very soft. Strain it,
rejecting any tough pieces, and add,
if liked, a little salt and cream.
Fried Beef Rashers. --Cut some
slices of cold beef, roast or boiled,
brush each over with ketchup, and
season with pepper and salt. Fry
some rashers of bacon, take them
up, and in the fat fry the beef. Make
a mould of mashed potatoes and ar-
range the slices of beef and bacon
on it. Serve very hot.
Cranberryt
re. --Wash and
Sat
pick over carefully a quart of crane
berries. Put into the inner vessel
of a farina kettle; add a cupful of
water and cover. Fill the outer
boiler with hot water, and cook un-
til the berries are soft and broken
to pieces. Now stir in sugar to.
taste; cook for a minute—no longer
—and turn out into a bowl.
An Economical Stew.—Cut one
pound and a half of gravy beef in-
to small pieces as for a. pie, dip
each into flour, pepper, and salt,
and put into a stewing -pan. Fill
up with chopped vegetables, the
greater variety the better, but no
water. Add, if liked, a little pow-
dered allspice. Put on the cover,
tie it over with buttered paper, and
set the jar in a moderate oven for
about six hours. Serve very hot.
Doctor's Soup,—Pick over and
wash three ounces of rice and place
it in a saucepan with one quart of
water. Let this cook till the water
is reduced to one pint, add a quart
of milk, a little chopped onion and
celery, a pinch of salt, and a suspic-
ion of mace. Place the saucepan on
the side of the stove, and simmer
the soup till the vegetables are I
thoroughly cooked. Before serving
,i, add a lump of batter, rubbed into
alf an ounce of flour, and a tea-
poonful of chopped parsley.
Pumpkin Pudding—To a full pint
of stewed pumpkin that has been
put through the colander, add the
beaten yolks of four eggs and a cup -
of sugar. Stir into this a quart
of milk, a teaspoonful of ground
cinnamon, mace and nutmeg, and
1f you like, a little ginger. Lastly
,stir in the whites of two eggs whip-
ped .stiff. Turn into a buttered purl -
fling dish and bake, covered for half
an hour, then brown. A few minutes
before drawing it from the oven
spread on the top meringue made
of the reserved whites, two table-
spoonfuls of powdered sugar, and a
teaspoonful of lemon juice. Shut
up in the oven long enough to form.
the meringue and to tinge it lightly
with golden brown. Eat cold.
Batter ` Currant Pudding.—Six
ounces of flour, four ounces of our -
rants (picked and washed), two
eggs, .half a pint of milk, one ten -
spoonful of baking -powder, a pini-,
of salt. Mix the baking -powder and
salt into the flour in a swain. Break.
the eggs and place in a hole in the
middle and add the milk, then beat
till all is a smooth batter. Pour
into a `well buttered baking tin,
sprinkle the currants over, and
bake in a moderate oven for half
an 'hour. Tern out the 'pudding to
serve, and cut it in squares. Serve
with white sugar, sifted over.
Mock Oyster Bisque.—Scrape and
it bunch of oyster plant, cut
lengths, and after leaving
half an h tie
all these together and season
a teaspoonful of powdered sage, o
of strained union juice, and salt a
pepper to taste. Form with yo
'into. into an oblong roll.
may exercise your ingenuity
molding it into something that ria
be recognized as the form of a dee
Sift fine crumbs all ,over it, and 1
in the covered roaster. 'Strain
ten-eent can of chicken soup; Ile
ib to boiling, and pour about t
"duck" when he is in plsce. B0
slowly fee en hour, covered, beati•
six times, earefuliy, not to dislod
the crumbs. Then uncover and co
half an hour longer, basting •ofte
an
Transfer to 'e hot platter d a
over boiling water, while you -thio
on the gravy in the pan wi
browned flour, adding a teespoo
fill of kitchen bouquet. Boil up an
pour a few .spoonfuls over le
"duck," the rest intoe, gravy -boa
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Garnish boiled mutton with beet-
root cut in slices and a little chop-
ped parsley on each slice.
The flavor of salad dressing is
greatly improved by the addition of
a very little chopped capers or
pickles.
Grease on .a floor can he removed
by scrubbing with a solution. of un -
slacked lime, soda and water.
When .peeling lemons for cooking
purposes, be sure never to tut any
of the white skin, as it has a bitter
flavor.
When cleaning furniture wipe it
over with tepid, soapy water, and
dry it before polishing it with bees-
wax and turpentine.
If the oven does not brown,
sprinkle a good handful of sugar on
thelr
bottom o f the oven. It will thee
brown anything.
Turpentine is an excellent clean-
ser for many things- It, will remove
the marks of black lead from a
marble mantelpiece, amongst other
things.
Eggshells should always be care-
fully saved, for they are useful for
clearing soap and jelly, and, if
crushed and mixed with salt, for
cleaning enamelled pans.
Bread should always be kept in
an earthenware pan with a wooden
cover. Wash the pan out every
week, and dry thoroughly before
replacing the loaves.
Tough meat should be laid in
vinegar• a few minutes hefoee cook-
ing. This is a particularly useful
hint for slimmer, when meat cannot
be hung till tender, as in winter.
Clothes should never hang longer
in the kitchen than is necessary for
airing them, fur unpleasant odors
of eooking will get into them, and
cannot be got rid of without wash-
ing.
Young housekeepers will find it a
good plan to keep an account book
and enter, with regularity, all
rousekeeping expenses, adding up
accounts every evening and making
a weekly summary.
Good Polish for Oilcloth or Lino-
leum. ---Save all ends efeandles and
melt in the oven. Mix -with it suf
ficient turpentine to make a soft
paste. This is really an excellent
preparation.
Scratches on tables ave very an-
noying. Keep a supply of rounds
of dark green felt, on which to stand
china jars, flower vases, and so on.
These will not be noticeable, and
will vastly save polished surfaces.
Thiole blotting -paper under doil-
ies will keep hot dishes from mark-
ing a polished table. The blotting -
paper should be eut the, same size
as the various doilies. It takes the
place of asbestos mats.
Table linen is apt to wear in the
creases. Before signs of wear ap-
pear, cut a little off one aide and
hem it. This will bring the creases
in a different place, anti save the
wear. The same may be done with
the ends,.The flap of the sirloin should be
eut off before it is cooked. It
should be rubbed with salt fur a
few days, and then boiled very gent-
ly with herbs and spices in just
enough water to cover. When done,
press till cold. Garnish nicely be-
fore serving.
Great care should be taken to dry
towels thoroughly before putting
them away. If placed in the linen
presses without being well aired,
while still damp, e, mould is likely
to form upon them, which, it is said,
produc^' ^t -in diseases.
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'thirteen Strotobing,---I+irsb make
dining or extension table the dosir-
ed length, plum table pad,dirtg over
this, then put wet curtain down,
spreading it out tlio 'original length
and width, It w111 cling to the pad-
ding, no pins being used. Four cur-
tains may be dried at a time by
placing one on top of another, be-
ing careful to matte each exactly as
the one underneath..
}low to Mend Gloves—If you wish
to mend your gloves neatly, turn
then inside out and sew them over
and over with fine cotton thread -
Silk seems to cut the fabric, If
there is' a tear, sot a piece of kicl
under it and secure it with a few
stitches; if you have not the kid
of the right color, nee a bit of the
ribbon or silk. nye the best part
of the -old pair ti mond the new.
Court plaster will mend a break
nicely, but always stiffens the kid.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL STUDY
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
DECEMBER 1.
Lesseh X.—Nehemieh rebuilds the
wall of ecruseleni, Nee. 4• Gol-
den Text, I, Cor. 16. 13.
Verse 1. Sanballat-lie is the first
mentioned of the malignant ene-
mies whom Nehemiah encountered
(compare Neh. 2. 10). It was not
so long since all the Syrian colon-
ists in Palestine had joined hands
M obtain fr
e
m Artaxerxes
fur the stoppage of the work of
restoration in Jerusalem. There was
great jealousy of Jerusalem
throughout Samaria, and the hen,-
then
eathen in general were angry at
Ezra's severe strictures on inter-
marriage. But now that Nehemiah
had come with royal authority, hos-
tility had to take a new form, that
of cunningly devised intrigue. The
leader of all this renewed opposi-
tion was Sanbal]at, called "the
Horc•nite" from his dwelling in
Bethhoron. a town on the borders
of Ephraim. He was a moving :spir
it in the city of -Samaria, possibly
governor.
Mocked—At first, we are told,
Sanballat and his fellows wore
'deeply grieved over the coming of
Nehemiah (Neh. 2. 10). But this
soon gave way to wrath and indig-
nation when they saw that the peo-
ple actually responded to the young
governor's appeal to rise and build
the wall. In their rage they re-
sorted to the weak weapon of rail-
lery.
2. Will they sacrifice ?—This taunt
amounts to a question as to whe-
ther these Jews expect simply to
propitiate their God with burnt el-
ferings and their work will be ac-
compiished. Surely they cannot
think to malce.both a beginning and
an end in the short space of one
day ? For one thing the stones were
burned and they could not revive.
them. And think of the heaps of
rubbish! Almost a century and a
half had passed since the walls had
been razed. Huge building stones
were strewn in every direction,
while dust and refuse buried the
ancient foundations many feet deep
—explorers have stated that in some
p]aces the accumulator] rubbish new
reaches the great depth of 125 feet.
3. Tobiah the Ammonite—He was
eliief of a small tribe on the other
aide -of the Jordan, a people who.
had gotten into Samaria after the
Babylonian invasion. He is men-
tioned as the seconel of Nehemiah's
enemies, and is called a servant,
perhaps because he had held some
position under the. Persian gover-
nor (Neh. 2. 10). All these neigh-
boring communities were now com-
bined in order to prevent the reit
etatoment of Jerusalem as the dom-
inant power of Palestine -
If a fox go up—It is possible there
was some truth in the inference the t
even the soft tread of a light ani-
mal would be sufficient to bring the
wall down. So hastily had it boon
put together that strength was
wanting.
4, Hear, 0 our God --It was rhar-
aeteristic of Nehemiah, that, in
of vee •- iger,ire turned
Similar pa
r)ino
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ARRIVAL OF VICEROY AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE, CALCUTTA..
Every summer the representa tive of his Majesty in India goes to Simla and the healthier l or
bill returninglife .the
in the. winter to the splendid. palace reared by Lord Wellesley for the Emperor's deputy
and viceroy at Calcutta,
gotten the eo-operation of all the
people. The work proceeded at a
rapid pace because of the eagereeas.
of the workers. The governor, with
characteristic generosity, disclaims
any credit which may bedue hen.
At this point, all the wall had been
completed, without gaps anywhere,
to half its height. bt. Th
e ancient anti t wall
reacher
laheight
of
twohundred
feet -
7. Tho Arrabians—These are the
third class of foes mentioned in
chapter 2. To those already cited,
there aro now added the Ashdp
dites, who were dwellers in a strong
city near the sea. When these
heard of the repairing •of the walls
(the figure being that of the healing
up.of a wound, as seen in the dos-
ing up of the breaches), they were
more worth than at first.
8. They conspired—They, quit
their ineffeetive taunts, and got
down to active business. Their plan
was, first, to carry on an actual
;fighting campaign., Besides this,
they hoped to cause confusion in the
city, by winning over those disaf-
fected therein, and by drawing the
builders away from their work.
9. We made our prayer—Nehe-
miah sets at the forefront of his de-
fensive measures ;he force of
prayer- Up to this time we have
mention only of his own private
prayers, But now the infection of
his habit seems to have spread.
United prayer is a mighty engine in
the work of the kingdom. But it
Is necessary for the workers to keep
their eyes eeaselessly on the watch
against the intrigues of the enemy.
Prayer is meant to inspire duty, not
to replace it. Nehemiah's posting
of sentinels in the surrounding
country was prayer in action. Ten
plots of the enemy were reported
to him, and every one was foiled.
10. Judah said—Here was another
kind of difficulty. The Jewish com-
munity complained of exhaustion,
The work of clearing away the rub-
bish was such a burden that no.
strength was left to build the wall.
11. Our adversaries said—From
spies, so doubt, Nehemiah learned
that a surprise attack was being
planned.
12. Ye must return --The apparent
meaning is, that the Jews who lived
by them (that is, the Samaritan and
other enemies) began to be fearful
for their own homes ; accordingly,
they insisted again and again that
their fellow townsmen from all those
places from which they had gone up
for the rebuilding of the wall,
should come back and protect their
homes from the perils of attack.
13. The lowest parte of the space
—This was a general defensive pre-
caution, intended to guard against
secret attacks. Where the walls
were lowest, and the attacks there-
fore moat' likely to be made. and
where the places were open and free
from dwellings, he set his men ac-
cording to- families. This would
ordination -
time here are easily avoided by dis-
tinguishing between the classes of
workers, those that bare burdens,
of rubbish'or building material, and
those who ,actually laid the blocks
of stone, the builders who would
require the use of both hands -
2
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his s wen n
to
o_ the
weapon
water -The text here is obscure,
and various meanings have been
suggested. Perhaps the best is, that
for a certain length of time, say a
full month, no one laid down his
weapon.
STORYOF 1
OD
GARMENTS
Found in a Hidden Cupboard They
Recall. a Tragedy of
The Past.
It had been papered over and
forgotten so many years ago that
no one had even guessed of its ex-
istence until the old wall had need-
ed some attention at the hands 'of
the builder, and in stripping off
the paper he bad found the closed
door of the cupboard. Even the
key was lost. With keen interest
and vague wondering as to what
secrets we were penetrating, my
cousin and I watched the woekmen
force the lock, says a writer in the
London Chronicle
The door sprang omen and show-
ed the shelves' piled with neat boxes
covered with quaint checkered blue
paper. My cousin 1•acer. up a box
and opened the 1/•l. it was full of
strings of dull lilacs -beads
"What ever are these?" she ask-
ed. as she 'lifted up a string.
"Took at the box," I suggested,
and she read out the word pomand-
ers. We were no wiser, but on re-
ferring to a dictionary we found
that pomanders were 'perfumed
balls formerly carried in the
pocket, or else worn around the
neck, or suspended from the girdle.
A faint old-world perfume still
scented them, in fact, the whole
cupboard was still full of vague
sweet scents as of half forgotten
memories. Somehow the presence
of our 'unknown ancestress appear-
ed to haunt the spot where she had
stored her treasures. Was she;
young or old? Had she in the hey-
day of youth elesed the door and
concealed it under a layer of paper•,.
hiding them' until ages after her
descendants should find her trea-
sures? Or was it some crane, frail
and feeble with the weight of years
and the trouble that had been the
lot of the family in those days, that
had laid the things there and in
dread of the vandal's hands had
sealed them up for centuries?
We laid aside the box and its
pomanders and took up a leather
bound volume, and opened It, in
a ,quaint old-fashioned handwrit-
ing, and In faded ink were written
the words, "Do ..,•r ;f le—'s Book
"les,"
scented the .air as we lifted ,the
lids. Feather flowers that rivaled
Nature in their dainty Coloring and
marvelous imitation. Stores of
glittering heads and embroideries.
Last of all we drew out alaige
box that stood at the bottom of
the cupboard. We lifted the lid,
and the heavy
perfume p ttm
e peso like in-
cense. It was full of handsome
clothes. We lifted up the first.. It
was a petticoat heavy with jeweled
embroidery. Among gorgeous •silk-
en flowers quaint peacocks and
pheasants strutted. It must have
taken years tee work, and the thick
white silk was stiff witn the em-
broidery, while the weight of the
whole was enormous. We laid it
tenderly away as we picked ,up the
next garment. It was a man's
cloak. A deep wine color outside;
simple and plain. But the linings
was literally a piece of golden
cloth. The flowers of the precious
metal covered nearly the whole of
the white eilk on which they were
either woven or worked. Perhaps
it was sucha:coat Raleigh had laid
under the feet of his queen.
Hester, my cousin, shook out the
heavy folds and tirade as opt
to
throw the cloak over her shoulders.
As slie did so a gash in the lining
showed up grimly. The dark
stains around the edge showed that
the wearer had been stabbed in the
back. With a shudder we hastily
folded up the cloak and laid it
aside, wondering what tragedyhad
left its marks on that fair cloth of
gold lining.
We took out the treasured gar-
ments that formed the store in the
box. Evidently they had illustrat-
ed some life story, for among the
clothing. of grown men and women
were dainty half -worn shoes and
baby robes. Just the things a wife
and mother might hoard as relies
of the tragedies and events of a
saddened life—relics of baby feet
that had trodden life's thorny way
too short a time tee have felt the
pricks. We sadly replaced .them;
and had almost filled the box again,
when from the folds of . the petti-
coat dropped a slip of paper. On
it was written in a •trembling hand
in;the crabbed _anal ill -spelled writ-
ing of the day:
'I am growing old and weary
with much marrying and the loss of
children. I lay my treasures in
these boxes and seal them up. I
-have none to care forthem, and
my husband's sons' wives would
spurn them as they are of no value.
Only tbey are precious to me, and
I beg those who find them in days
to come to treat them tenderly as
they would receive an old woman's
bleslsing,—Dooratie /3—.''
'
glad she didn't put, a curse
upon the finder," added Hester, as
she ilnishcd translating the mis-
sive. "1 knee; who she is now:
She was old Sir Jelrn's third wife,'
only rho is always called Dorothy
in the family :stories No 'wonder
she was weary oflei marrying
Sl' n e :mare.
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the
at -
the
Bink 'leer
eaecr second.
die tern all."
loci• of the.
sadly away,
ors of the,
'had been, so
d into whose life
the joyousness of a
ce—
llh0unccel of Mrs,
grove, co, (cork,
Well known roe her
ongth. oor.':
z1 Witt -
an tee
u Park,
entire, met
ilOW IT MANAGES TO )4E10
DOWN SCANDAL.
Subsidizes rapers, .f.+eneiotii Seine
Loners and Sends Others
Meme,
"Tt may not be. generally leeowl0
in this oomrtry that the Month
Carlo Quaint, Company givesyoarly;
subsidies to certain Ituropean news*
papers, t b:elieye, e says, a writer
in the National Magazine, "thee a
leading Parisian daily takes $18,-
000 a year for doing nothing more:.,
than devoting a few linos of its
space every morning to the state
of the weather in Monaco,
"All the decent papers published
all along the railway from Paris to -
Lyons, Marseilles and on. to Nice
and. Mentons• are oa the Casino's.
`p?per pension list." They are
pain sums of money varying from
$200 to $5,000 per annum tokeep
Monte Carlo scandal otic of their
columns and to correct reports of.
irregularities which might appear
in the British and;Aanerikan press.:
"In addition to this the Casino
baa another pension list. It is.
said that men and women who ab-
solntoly ruin themselves at the'
Casino aro .
ALLOWED SMALL SUMS.
for the rest of their lives. The
pensions vary from five francs- to
forty francs a day, acccirding to the
amounts lost at the tables.
'r -
A Scotclima
n
who lost o t abo '
ut
1 000 000
$ at roulette is said to re
ceive $7 a day. This gentleman
resides to -day in a tiny villa • at
Nice. Every year the Casino coin -
parry pays out another $15,000 lit
these pensions.
"Then there is the fiend required:
in order to get rid of those who
have lost all their ready ,money
in the gaming room. This is not
precisely an act of, benevolence.
People •without money are not
wanted around the plasm, especial-
ly if they have lost what they had
at the Casino. Consequently the
granting of this 'viatique' is'fre-
quent. The broken gambler who
presents himself at a small ofhre
in•the.central saloon of the Casino
is, if he is found to be abona fide
Meer, handed the priceof a second
class railway ticket to' his home,
whether his home bo in London,
New York . or Jerusalem, and
enough extra money for
HIS MEALS ON THE JOURNEY.,
"An Englishrnan is usually given.
from $40 to $60. Each broken
gambler who receives the yeetategenee
signs . a, receipt for the. ,money
handed to him, surrenders his
card of admission to the Casino and
is told that he will not be allowed
again to enter the gambling rooms
until he has paid back the loan.
Every year the company ayes -es
losers in this way -to the extent of
nearly $40,000.
"That the company is occasional-
ly victimized is not surprising. One
story is told of a• daily frequenter
of the rooms who mysteriously dis-
appeared. -A -search was made for
him, with the result that his clothes
were found on tile shore, together
with a letter explaining that the
tables had ruined him and driven
him to suicide.
"The clothes and the note were
found -by a visitor to Moate Carlo,
who reported the chatter to the
Casino authorities and threatened
to make the facts 'public. unless a
large sum of moiiey was paid to
him. The money was finally paid.'
A month or so later the man who..
was supposed to be dead opened a
oafo at Nice with his share of the
hush money banded over to his con-
federate.
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DRESS RESTRICTIONS."Tou cannot walk into the Casino
e way you drop into a museum.
efore you are allowed to easter
o gambling room you must 'give
e of the officials outside the doors
ur namo and adclrese and in ve-
in lie Bands you a card of act
mission available either for a day
a week ora month.
"Outside the Oasino are several
etectivess of variolic nationalities
who run their eyes overeach
cringer to Monte Carlo and watch
r..., a:ndesirablee and sharps,
rent '.Britain's representative i;
orally an ex -inspector of the
1letropolitan police foree.
`Certain restrictions in the mat,• of dress are imposed by the.
Gino Company: Unwary 'ones
o innocently attempt to enter the
tabling rooms in a knickerbocker
are politely but firmly refused
migsion. It is said that Misa
en Terry, the actress, was ones
fusee/ admission to thea Casino
ause the, was n0l; � sn'Ticicnt y
art in her attire earl it is a mat.
of common knowledge that the
e hent Salishsu'y was turneji
ay for similar reason,
to
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here rets a -lively diseub i±,n at
iglu (,h'rporati<m 'raci:0111 , arik-
frmm
is resolutii„t, moved by
Loral Mayor, that the Immo of
iii Britain slue(..; (hook? bas
the to Paine!, street, the
Me . being adoptee/ eventually.
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