The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-07-30
LOYAL W0MANS WORK
The Household Conversation Club
Puzzles, etc.
Club Coekerr.s

recipe for the benefit OF THE TRIBUNE Soosng
Club. The girls will ali surely Ike TO make them
and the boys 10 eat them.
Bosr- Kaots.-Cut thin puff paste IN strips; ana
shape them on the baSingpan TO form uoupe Dow
knot. When baked, put jelly on each loop OF the
bow. :,
And now lest YOU do not know how to make the
puff paste, will give the recipe as ioii9 S .
pound pastry -four, one scant teaspooniui oil SAT-
about one oupful of ice water BY measure, use
one quart of -four and one pint of butter Scad
your bowl then fill with cold water. Dip your
hands into hot and then into cold water; inns
makes bowl and hands smooth, and keeps the put
ter from sticking. Now wash the butter by Work
ing il in the cold water until il Is soft ana wsxy
Divide into four parts; pat each part INTO a long
and narrow strip, and wrap IN ciean WEI cloth
and law il in cool place DIETER on icel to harden
Nix the salt with the -four then break IN one guar
ter of the butter Rub with the tips of the fingers
only and keep plenty OF Hour between 1he ,he
warm hand will rot melt the butter, which should
be in little crumbs When mixed fine, pour In the
cupful of ice water slowly. BE careful not to knead
the dough- which will tougher it, Roll out the
paste and on corner of the board one the quarters
of the butter after which lay II on the dough foid
over side and then the other letting the cages
meet in the middle Double again and pound into
fiat cake. Proceed as before with the next quarter
of butter, pound and roll When the butter Is all IN
the dough may be folded rounded, and rolled from
two to seven times, your strength Will permit
Twice makes delightful pies, while three or four
times is required for tarts and more for
and other dainty pastry cuts. Keep your paste cold
as possible; the more bubbles formed in pounding
and rolling the nicer il will be. Ii is the quantity
of air in it that makes ii puff In bakIng.-boston
Girl
FRIENDS OF THE COOKING CLUB: Now that you
have started the Cooking Club in real earnest Will
some one give q nice recipe for making biscuit?
j am a soldier daughter, l6.-Mamie c. Thompson,
Washington, Iowa.
Editors Chat.
"Soldiers Son" New Lisbon, o., must send name
with request.
J.J. Weeks Locust Valley, Long Island, n. ",
offers a delightful book. by standard author for
the best essay furnished by Sept 1. When the
award is made the Conversation Club will have the
pleasure of reading it in THE TRIBUNE; MIR. Weeks
having promised the same, with the writer's name.
Kate Rogers, in writing for correspondence, for
gets to give her address in full. That will never
do, Kate, if you would keep even with the wide
awake members of the Club.
If Lulie NJ. Davis Quercus Grove, Ind, will turn
20 Mark, 9th chapter, Sd verse, she will find the
authority for the statement that Jesus was car
pen'er; Is not a''s the carpenter the so" Of Mary
Well-expressed letters on the England and Russia
question, now closed. are Acknowledged from Lowell
j. Decker Dawn, Mo-; f. L. Warren, Co. E, Sth
Ohio, Serado, Kan Edwin Wray. Lenora, Kan;
John Lawer, Strstford, Conn.,; Oscar ii. johnson,
Otis NJ Powers, Darlington, o.. May Workman,
Hamden, o.; Ada Burke. Scranton Iowa: VIM. f.
Healey San Francisco, Cal; William III. Brewer,
Onondaga, Mich; Parnen O'Connell, Yankton,
Oak.
The Editor cannot make out Minnie Williamss
question. She must write more distinctly.
Anna Z. Iitton should send the song direct to
Ella Dnsmore. THE TRIBUNE has not space for a
hundredth part of material offered, and must give
preference to fresh matter.
Clara Hurbut, Fort Bassinger Fla, Will accept
thanks for the pencil sketch done by her brother.
The Editor returns love to both
Mary Ward. Clinton, Mass, reminds Edgar w.
Cooley that the working classes of England always
stood by the Union, and in our darkest hour held
meetings 70 maintain the integrity OF our cause.
And quotes her father as an example of the service
OF Englishmen in our ranks, he having served 40
months, and was wounded five times; in his last
fight the bullet passing through his body.
c. J. Fox: For correct answer see TRIBUNE OF
July Is.
We must remind our young friends of the ineces-
sity of studying the Rules of the Club; particularly
of sending answers with puzzles, ETC., for Informal
lion of the Editor.
Delaware is known as the Diamond State, be-
cause of her small size and large wealth.
Fred s. should study the rules of poetry. He
viii find these ia any school text book of rhetoric
Mary Naples, Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, O.: Yes,
for five names. accompanied with S. addressed to
Mrs. Kate b. Sherwood Toledo, o., you will re-
ceiye five copies OF Campfire Poems and the
present of one for yourself additional This offer
viii hold good for any member of the Conversation
Club
To Comrade Benedict the Conversation Club
stands indebted for very interesting reply to one
of the questioners. giving an account of e W.
Locke the ballad singer, and his romantic history
Who can tell where he is?
his Sta.e.
Jane Fowler's question is not clear enough to
print. What does she mean?
Nellie L: Address Oliver DitsoD & Co., Boston,
Mass, for National War Songs"
Miss Aughey Z. Hawortn. Oakford, Ind, and
Ella ID. Harrison and Jennie M Parker, North
Hope, Pa. answer prize puzzle under date of July
2 and July q; also, Phebe McClelland Eugene,
Iowa.
Conversation Club.
Rules of the Cgub-l. Write briefly. q Write
side of the paper. 8. Write to the point. 4.
Write subject. 5. Write your best. 6.
Send answers to all puzzles for use Of Editor. Each
week the names of those writing the best letters
style, composition, spelling, penmanship and gen.
eral merit consdered-wili be named at the head
of this column on the Honor Roll. First honor will
include all of these requirements Second honor
will include deficiency in some one point. No
Others will be named.
HONOR RoLL-BEsT LETTERS
First Honor.Glencora Kiephardt, osceola Mills,
Pa; VIM. III. p. Brewer Onondaga Mich.
Second Honor-M. Helen Calvert, Shiloh, w.
Va; Ada Burke. Scranton, Iowa; VIM w. Iiealey,
No. s. Caroline street San Francisco CAL; Della L.
Kerr. Shelby, o.; Edith l.. Crst, Liberty, Ind.
PATIENT CLEANERS.
Chas. Day. Silyerton. Col, z; A. NJ ]. Todd,
Vergennes. ILL.,, 2; Donna Sayles, Mill, Iowa, g.;
John Hoslins. New Hartford. ILL.,, 16 John w.
Griffey; J. A. LtiIers, Downs, Kan, 6; VIM. Lett,
Barnard Mo-; NJ Ivy Goodale, Mansfield, H., Is I;
Ed. Rynearson, Gettysburg, o., ! Carrie Williams,
GAINESVILLE, o.. 6; o. Matthews. GIespieville, O.,
6; Edith L. Crist, Liberty, Ind 4.
DOES INVENTION BENEFIT LABoR2
FRIEsps OF THE CLUB: On this question take
the affirmative What would the farmer do with
out his machinery and the women without their
sewing machines? say, God bless the man who
invented the sewing machine. Inventors are ben
efactors,s and inventions make work for all in one
form another.-Edith L. Crist Liberty Ind.
FRIENDS OF THE CLUB: Inventions make work
easy, and therefore, aid the workingman. One
man can cut much grain with seIfbinder as 20
with reaphook, but there is 20 times as much land
cultivated, so as many men are employed, though
in different way. The same with cornplanter
and other farm inventions Let those who do not
think inventions benefit labor try farming under
the old way and the new, and their ideas will soon
undergo a change-Wm. Baird, Orizala Ill.
A NEGATIVE VIEW.
FRIENDS OF THE CLUB: Invention is not a benefit
to labor, for the reason that it is benefit capital
is gunpowder, ntro-glycerine and other explosives
q benefit to the laborer? Is the sewing machine a
benefit because il makes rich men or women who
should hire laborers, operate them, or secure the
they were not in vogue? Was the cetton-gin a
benefit to the laborer? No; but il benefited the
man who raised the cotton. for he sent his children
10 Europe for education and in various other
, ways managed not to invest where he made his
money. The inventor is in the meantime racking
his brain for an invention riding pillow. After
years of patient work he produces his pillow
Another year, and he gets patent on it. He gets
paltrp sum and the praises of the monopolist. The
came nsonopolist discharges two men out of three
IN his employ They go out to find work but where
do they get II? Mir. Nelson says that the more ma.
chiDers aye have for saving labor The better. Why
is il better? The men that labor are not going to
redoube their efforts to do the same amount oil
work that t,le machine does; but on the contrary
will have pore help and be more independent
viii tie champions of inventions tell me why
mahy INVENTIONS are discarded useless, when
they are good mechanical productions ?-Chares
Day, Silverton, Col.
FRIENps or THE CLUB: We hear much TO tho
effect that Inventions cheaper labor. Now, il il
cheapens labor how does it benefit the working
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