Loading...
The Exeter Advocate, 1916-6-8, Page 6About the House Selected Recipes, Onion and Egg Salad. --Mince to- gether the tablespoons onion, two hard-boiled eggs and part of one bead of lettuce. Serve on lettuce leaves with boiled dressing. Sponge tale Pudding. —Bane sponge cake in ring basin. Ni"hen ei0lai. fill center with whipped ;:ream and maraschino cherries. Pour thin chocolate sauce wound outside and • send w table. Cider Jelly.—Soak a package of gelcitiee in a cupful of cold water for two hears. Add three cupfuls of sugar and the juice of three lemons, send the grated rind of one lemon. D set ve this in a quart of boiling water: Add a pint of eweet cider, strain, roue iota individual molds and Steamed ala non. --Pick over and heed large cera of salmon. Add salt, better and teble pt+on of lemon juice, dleTat smooth and gradually fold in :man cite of whipped cream. Put • into buttered mind and steam three- f011alh$ e4 hour, Turn out, surround with melted Nater and parsley and Straaherry Blanc Man e- —One quart mill;, one cup strawberry juice, ones-tetirth cup s=ugar. four table-. slioerts cornstarch. Hent milk to boning point. Add sugar, straw - beery eiee mei cornstarch which has neer. =1,6^eel emcee+th in a little cold mill;.t eicile vigil thie% and pour into wet mane. When firm turn out and enienisti with h who lk etreigberriee and serve with s wee erred. whipped cream. Mold Ginger t'rearn.-One-half cup . mill; aerie gin l , orris c 3' twa eggs, one ent e 9.'.Cv? ealileepetatnet sugar, heliµ es xaati.'.a gingeg syrup ;is milk, one cue neelne cream. env -half dance pre e9 °:', ,i ginger, three-fourths teanee g " 7, `liaise ea: Lard of eggs. milk fir a ender. a. , ii h, n cowl acid syrup irl p:'ea r "t'+1 ginger cut into dice; ate r t;'!a it cele . i1ve1 in two table- speene seater arni cream whipped eneefuily. Stir an together gently aa"ad earn vit when required. Deeor- E' waft chopped jelly. Potsto Nut +Cake. This mattes large !' • kelt it l;e4s. mist and freeh long three Two cups granulated su- gar, cup t;•simt. red, four eggs, one- helf cep trails;, c"re cup mashed pota- to, t, ere ...et! ctrl „ne-half teaspoons twa peons cinnamon, one- half cap hitter eliecrk te, two cups flour. ewe tce:moons belting powder, two cup I?^.g'i:-lt walnuts, ane tent spoor. barilla. Mix butter. sugar i and y Iles e,f c z tt together. When thurt:«urhi;, crea-aA add cold mashed pdatrte,e . 1>,•. t wain lightly, then add mill;, t1a ur, l a, ng powder, spices, grate,' cite, ila.e, En; iieh walnuts; sh c+ken into .mill pages) and finally stiffly beaten whites id eggs, with pinch of -alt tt, them. Bake in shallow pan in moderate oven for abatut fifty minutes. Strawberry Roll Pudding. -Two cupfuls bread Seer. two tablespoon- fuL= sugar, two tablespoonfuls butter, c three teaepeenfuls halting powder, one-half te::sptnenf til satl, about three- fourthe cupful milk. one bex straw- berriee, eugar. Make biscuit mix- ture el flour, salt, sugar. baking pow- der, butter and milk. Roll into ob- long ore--fearth inch thick and sprin- kle thickly with one-half box of ber- ries-, aivartered. Dredge with sugar. Rll like jelly roll, cut acmes in slices one-half titeer,,00nful salt, about three - bake alert twenty minutes in mod- erate oven. Serve with sauce made with :est of ber-'.es. Sauce_ Crnsh berries, hen teacher one-half cupful sugar end three-fourths cupful water five minutes. Add berries and juice and pour • onto well beaten egg white, whipping constantly. Add one tea- spoonful lemon juice and serve at once. Plan Your Breakfast With Care. Many a good housekeeper brings ennui to her home and gives harassed nerves to her husband because she gives too little thought to, the pro- blem of planning the morning meal. The failure may come from several causes, one housekeeper neglects the problem by serving the same break- fast day after day with few varia- tions. The other goes to the extreme of making breakfast a full meal, which means an overloaded stomach and indigestion: The breakfast menu must have en- ough food calories to keep the fam- ily well nourished. Variety and nourishment are . the two cardinal principles in making your breakfast menus count. A well balanced break. fast includes fruit or cereal combined or alone. This should be supple- mented by a principal dish, such as eggs and potatoes or chops and pota- toes, a bread 'and a liquid. Fruits ate to be selected as they appear in the market. It is a debat- able ground whether fruits are better eaten raw or ;cooked: It is largely a question which way they are 'digested.; more readily by the individual. Asp, pies raw or cooked are wholesome, grapefruit and oranges areheaIthful and refreshing. 1 When V it comes to selecting brealc- fast foods you have a large assort- meni:, such as rice, oatmeal, 'cracked Useful Hints and General Informa- tion for the Busy Housewife I wheat, corporeal and many others. The main dish can be bacon, chops or eggs cooked in different ways. Rice and wheat are especially good cereals because they are cheap and nourishing. Rice is used in the whole kernel. It conies in two varieties -- brown and white. Brown is a better nutriment. Either hind should be washed well to take out all particles. It should be waehed in cold water, so the kernels do notstick; the cold water stakes out the starchy particles. Let the rice dry after washing and before cooking. Breakfast foods especially require long cooking. These are better cool;- ed in a double boiler for a long time, rather than for a short time directly over the fire. Have water salted and boiling well. Then add cereal slowly, stirring con- stantly. Boil for • a few minutes, then place upper part in lower part of double boiler. Useful Hints .As soon as milk begins to steam it is scalded. • A green salad should be served with a' lash meal. FEEDING HUNGRY YOUNG IRISH. For some days during the recent Irish Rebellion,,food was. practically Fut off from the poorer districts of Dublin. The picture shows the beginning et a ,joyful dry bread banquet by hundreds of youngsters, gathered together in a, narrow street, and supplied with bread by the clergyman in the centre et else group, ROMANCE OF "Hill had a model farm at St. Paul and a laboratory where he kept U9 chemists employed. He had model * . 1 HILLS LIFE farms dotted throughout the tern It the oven is too hot sprinkle a little coal on the fire. Good macaroni is of a brownish color, not pure white. Don't use solid suds for colored clothes unless you expect them to look muddy. Ferns will not do well if placed on the window sill. They cannot stand a draught. It ruins the flavor cif vegttables to remain in the cooking water after they are done. A baked apple ie more easily di- gested than apples prepared in any other way. When boiling rice add a little le- mon juice to the water. This will make the rice lluffly: and separate the grains. • When preparing vegetables, cook enough so that there will be enough on hand for a cream soup for the next day's luncheon. For washing windows, which should on them, use warm water with a on them, pse warm water with a tablespoonful of kerosene added to each pail of water. When you crush dried bits of bread don't roll with a rolling pin but put them in a clean salt or sugar hag and pound with a potato masher, arse sno4,ueene atom au si eater, of removing finger -marks from wood- work, window panes or procelain than by wiping them with a cloth moisten- ed with kerosene. A one-piece nightgowu which is warn out above the waist can be utilized by making a new top with an empire waistline out of the lower half of another nightgown. A piece of paraffin in your darn- ing bag will save darning. After you have finished darning a hole rub the paraffine on the right side of the darn. This will prevent wear. Feather pillows should be washed by turning the feathers into cheese- cloth bags and soaking them in strong s oap:uds with ammonia in it. Rinse in hot soap water then in clear warm water and hang out to dry in the wind and sun. Ink :tains on mahogany can be re- moved by painting them with a solu- tion of six drops of nitre mixed with a teaspoonful of water. Then rub well with a damp cloth and polish with a dry ane. Wash leather furniture very gently with warm water in which there is a little vinegar, wipe with a dry cloth and then restore • the polish by mix- ing the whites of two eggs and a lit- tle turpentine, which is applied with a fiannel. FLIGHT ACROSS ATLANTIC. Norwegin Aviator the Latest to Dis- cuss the Project, The Loudon Daily Chronicle pub- lishes the following: A young Norwegian aviator, Mr. George Kulbech, is at present engag- ed in preparations for a caring at- tempt to cross the Atlantic by aero- plane, or rather by means of what he calls a "flying boat" of his own de- signed. He proposes to start from Jaederen, on the west coast of Nor- way, but to pay what may be called literally a "flying visit" to England on thew "My flying' boat" he says, "is built • exclusively to solve the prob- lem of the Atlantic, and is, therefore, constructed as a seaworthy boat, its hull being entirely- of'niahogany. It has two seats, placed side by side, so that the aviators` can steer by turns without changing places. Another peculiarity is the mechanism for start- ing the flying boat's motor, which can be effected by the aviator with- out leaving his sea. t. "The machine is a biplane and has a plane surface of fifty square met- res. It.' can lift a total weight of about 6,000 pounds. The motor is of 250 horsepower; it is watercooled and has a velocity of 1,8000 revolutions a minute. With its full cargo the °fly- ing boat can attain a speed of 112 miles an hour, so that we should be able to .strike the. American comet in a little more than twenty-four hours," E WAS ONCE A DOCK LABORER IN ST. PAUL. A Glimpse of Some of the Character istics of the Great Railway Magnate. One of the intimate friends of the late J. 3. Hill, the greatest of Ameri- can railroaders and the man who opened up the North-Western States of the American Union to settlement a generation ago, is II Ir. Elias Roger; of Toronto, rays the Toronto Star. i Mr. Rogers knew J. J. Hill in the early days, having met him first in ;1 St. Paul in 188.2, Hill formed a strong affection for Mr. Rogers, large- ily because he had gone to a school in Rockwood presided over by Rev. William Wetherald, a member of the Society of Friends, of whom Mr. Rogers is also a member.. / ''J. J. Hill was the biggest railroad ' man in the United States or in the world," said Mr. Rogers. "There was not his equal. Van Horne was a friend of his and there were many E points of similarity, but Hill made S Zan Horne. He brought him to. the C. P.R. Strathcona and Stephens wanted Hill to manage the C.P.R., and Hill took hold for a while, but he picked Van. Horne to take his :place on the C.P.R. and went back to d the Great Northern, iWas a Dock Laborer. "J. J. Hill was a big lookingT,mane, 4 although he was not so tall as H was square -shouldered with a leonine head. He was blessed with a very strong physique. He had worked as a boy on the farm, and when he Came ' to St. Paul first he worked as a stevedore on the docks. They say the stump is still to be seen of the last tree he chopped at Rockwood. A man named Harris was working with ° him that day. Harris since came to work for me, and he told me the inci- dent. Hill, who had conceived the idea of going West, • laid his axe against a tree. "'That's the last tree I'm going to chop,' said he. "He started West on a ten dollar bill next day. "Hill was a particularly quiet spoken man," continued Mr. Rogers. "But' his words always carried weight. He was well read, one of the best read men in America, I suppose. He was well up on such subjects as the modern. science of agriculture, botany, flowers, chemistry of soil, and so forth. He was strong in geology. There were few subjects he was not thoroughly familiar with, but he had • no fads. Among other things he was a con- noisseur on precious stones and jewel- ry, and had a cultivated taste in mat- ters of art. But he was self-educat- ed, the schooling he had received at Rockwood being chiefly vain. zor teaching him how to learn. He had a prodigious memory. Fond of Old Me a tory of his railroads to the coast. Here he experimented with crops, and had samples of different soils sent 20 analysis to St, Paul. Then he woul determine what crops were best adapt ed for each particular region, an what fertilizer was the local require- ment. This information he would pub- lish for the benefit of the people, to -1 gether with the comparisons of the crops in the different districts under the different treatments. His farms could generally produce twice what was produced on the farms of their neighbors. In this way he improved the agricultural standing of the terri- tory through which his lines ran. His methods were always practical rather than mere academical or theoretical, He used to sell improved seed at a nominal figure. He also introduced the best stock. When he became im- pressed with a farmer as a progres- sive, common-sense man, he would often present such a man with a fine breeder, and thus improve the stock of bis district. Kind to Animals. "Hill was very kind to animals, and it was because he saw the stranger's horse was tired, that time ab Rock- wood, that he carried a pail of water to it. The stranger, in appreciation, gave him a copy of an American newspaper, where he read that men were wanted in Minnesota, and where- from he derived his determination to THE FASHIONS For the June Graduate. Quite as important as the June bride is the June graduate: She must be just as daintily dressed in misty whiteand her future is equally as promising It is no longer considered the pro- per thing for the graduate to be els- borately dressed in silk or satin; many of the daintiest frocks are fashioned by the graduate herself, from the sheer voiles, organdies, nets, or from the dainty flouncings of lace or embroidery. The high schools favor the idea of the graduate fash- ioning her own dress; some so as far as to suggest the material and the cut for the entire class. Per- haps this does not appeal to the aver- age girl, with her ideas of individ- uality, but the motion of making her own frock should appeal to her, for this very, reason, that she may add little distinctive touches which bring out her own personality. Simplicity in Cut and Material The very simplest, most youthful models are chosen for the June gradu- ate. They are usually of organdy, or ane of the sheer cottons,' very spar- ingly and simply trimmed, Crepe de Chine or one of the very soft taffetas or satins may also be used, if prefer- red, but the cottons are more in vogue and daintier. Net, which is such a general fav- i, , orite for the typical summer dress, is d quite as well liked for the graduation - • dress and proves extremely practical. d' White cotton net, combined with taf- go West. "Hill wanted to fight for the North n the Civil War in the States, and organized a company. They would not let him go, however, .because he N blind in one eye. It was not an apparent infirmity, in fact no one ♦vould ever have known it, His other eye was strong and did all the work He told me himself a couple of years ago that one eye was blind or I would never have known it. He did not wear glasses except in later years to read by. "He owned'most of the First Na- tional Bank at St. Paul, and the con- trolling interest in the Northern Pa- cific and the Great Northern. The three institutions occupy one building, newly completed, which takes up a whole block and constitute the finest building in St. Paul. The bank is in the centre, with a glass roof, one or two stories high. This allows the Great Northern and the Northern Pa- cific office buildings to tower up each side, and have plenty of light all around. them. Helped Strathcona. "J. J. Hill helped to make Strath- cona's fortune. I remember balking to Hill during the. South African war and remarking on the big. expense the Strathcona Horse must be to Sir Donald." "'He can easily stand it,' said Hill. `I've made more than that for him in one deal that he knew nothing about.' "Hill and Strathcona met the first time on the Red River trail between St. Paul and Winnipeg. Each was traveling with a dog sleigh. "At the time' of the first Riel rebel- lion at. Fort Garry, when the people were housed up in the fort, it looked s if they would be starved out. monies. "He was fond of indulging in i reminiscences. He used to talk to G me for an hour at a time of the old b days when he was a barefoot boy in c Canada. There was ane house where h he` used to call, and the woman there. t always' used to give him a piece of bread and buter, although he never asked for it. He confessed to me h that he was always very' glad' to get it, just the same. "Hill -always had a remarkable Strathcona sent word to Hill asking f he would get word through bo Fort arry that there would be food there y the time spring opened up. Hill ould not trust anybody, so he "went imself, traveling by dog -sled a dist ante of: over 400 miles, and taking an Indian with him to cook and help with the dogs. The Indian proved a traitor, owever, and when about half way there, he refused to do as he was told, Hill got suspicious. The Indian had been told to cook breakfast, and not obeying, words followed, when the In- dian attempted to seize the rifle. Hill was too quick- for him, and grabbed it first. He told the Indian to run. "'If you look around or let up your stride until out of sight you're a dead rr►an,' said Hill. The; Indian went traight ahead and stayed not: : Hill then started for Fort. - Garry alone, traveling- all: day arid all night, to et away from any possible pursuit. He was familiar with . the Indians round' Fort Garry., and was able. ` to work into the barracks during the capacity for details, liut.he maintain- ed his breadth pf vision. . He was opposed to extrayagance and display, but was never penurious. He lived in a very nice house in St. Paul, with beautiful grounds around it, but it was not a showy place. He had an- other house M New York. Mrs. Hill s is one of the finest ladies -I have ever met. She is not a society woman,' al g a though she is accepted everywhere, of course. She is a motherly woman. She is a Roman. Catholic, but of the broadest type. feta, voile, or organdy, fashions the daintiest of graduation frocks; one which may be worn later for summer afternoons, or the dance. Skirts are short, sleeves range from the short puff, so charmingly in keep- ing with bouffant skirts of the mom- ent, to the three-quarter or full length sleeve of organdy, net, Georg- ette or chiffon. Round necks are particularly modish, although the square neck and the V are also liked. If one wishes to be at the height of the mode, the graduation frock must' boast a hooped petticoat. These are so softly boned and so unobtrusive aloe Commencement Frock of Voile that the frock looses none of its sim- plicity but gains in grace. Shoes, Gloves- and a Fan , White kid pumps and white silk stockings are dainty and carry out the "all white" notion; black patent or kid pumps and black stockings, how- eyer, are in quite as good form. White silk gloves, if any gloves are worn, are better than kid, being cool- er. A small white fan may be car - darkness and deliver his message. He stayed there a short tithe, and when he started back the river had broken up. He was waylaid by a party of Riel's Indians and forced to cross the river. This he did .by swimming among the ice floes while the, Indians were shooting. He got his dogs around him and crossed all. right,- but one of his dogs was shot while in the water. He made for a lightand was taken in by a settler and put to bed. He •was,. unable to travel for two or three days, but came out none the worse in the end. Couldn't Be' idle. "Hill used to .plan vacation trips of two months' duration down the 1 -b xador shore and elsewhere. He was very fond of fishing. But he never stayed out the period he had planned. His business instincts agob the better of him. He could never stand being idle long. "a saw James J. Hill in New York only five weeks ago, and he looked to me as well as ever he did, full of life and energy. He always moved as if on steel springs. I cannot understand how it was that the operation killed him: - I thought he was likely to live. for ten years or -more." Lot SHII S Cool. Cosy Q➢� CtormiorI'aLi e WORM BY EVER MEMBER OF TP FAMILY z BOL BY ALL OC2Ore SEIM DEALERS' tied, both for use and ornament, for fans are extremely dainty this sum- mer, Feathers are being used in the new fans. There are small ostrich .feather fans and plain cock feather fans in white and colors, The small spangled silk fan is still favored. Any of these make most acceptable gifts for the graduate. Although the. plainer the hair is dressed the better, a bit of tulle or a single comb may be worn, and Colonial silver or rhine- stone buckles niay adorn the pumps, Very little jewelry, if any, is permis- sible; a small brooch or a tiny Laval- liere is quite enough, Summer Frocks of Organdy Organdy is one of the most general- ly favored of materials for the sum- mer frock, whether for graduation, garden parties, or summer dances. It comes in all the delieate pasted coler- ings now favored and is also pattern- ed with dainty, conventionalized de- signs, on white and colored grounds, The plain and figured voiles are ef- fective also,and there are many at- tractive combinations of voile and taf- feta, organdy and taffeta, net and organdy and the like. It is considered most Frenchy to combine organdy and taffeta, or net and taffeta. This is usually done in a frock which one has no idea of © Mceeee ,2192 Another Dainty Model for the Graduate sending to the laundry, although there are'at at the moment taffetas and satins which wash very well. The . first frock illuvtrated here is a jumper model adapted from one of Poiret's designs. It is developed in net and taffeta and is a charmingly simple model for the girl who wishes to make her own frock for commence- ment In the second design is a particu- larly effective frock of plain and fig- ured voile. The figured material is white with a white mercerized ring. The quaint neck line, puffed sleeves and full skirt, make it a very pleas- ing and youthful frock, 'suitablefor graduation exercises or summer parties. • The Garden Party Hat. It will do no harm to tell of a hat or two, which, worn with the gradua- tion frock after that wonderful day will , complete a most effective garden party; or summer afternoon costume. There are large hats of organdy in the dainty colorings, just the thing for the organdy frock; large black and. colored wenchows, .stenciled with some quaintly conceived and colored figure, flower or :bird; wide brimmed leghoins, with a flower or two on their drooping brims; and amany oth- ers,'for the large bat is again modish. These stenciled hats offer alluring possibilities to the girl who paints or understands the mixing of colors. These patterns may be obtained from ,your local McCsell dealer or from The McCall Company, 70 Bond St., Toronto, Ont. Dept W. Far 'Better. Clerk—Don't you want a burglar ala ? Kniermker-No I should Prefer 'tome - thing to put int to sleep if they come.