The National tribune., 1888-07-26
LOYAL WOMBNS WORK
The Household, Conversation Club,
Puzzles. etc.

NV reciDe Tor ice cream Take two quarts of
cream or cream and milk, and one cup gTanuialea
Sugar. Place stove and boil just a lltiie, strain
through A fiue sieve and stir in two eggs Wen /
beaten place The stove and boil lew inihutes
then cool and il VIII be ready for the freezer be
fore putting the cream the freezer, have the can
SO cool that id viii be frosted inside AFTER IL -
frozen almost hard enough, add any desired flavor
Ing-teasDoon 10 every quart OF cream. Eggs can
be omitted n wished and some people only use the
yolzs but i think the whole egg improves the
ereRm.-RenR b. Adamson.
CAKES AND KISSES.
HAPPY HOUSEHOLD: The following recipes, al
slough inexpensive, are nice:
Sponge C0ke.-One cup Of sugar, three eggs, Tour
tablespoons OF sweet cream one teaspoon oi lemon
extract teaspoon Of cream tartar one hail Tea
spoon Of soda sitted into one and hail cups OF
Gour.
KIsses-Two pounds Of white sugar, white. Of
eight egg; favor with lemon. Beat hard y lew
minutes then drop onto white CREASED paper laid
in q thin tan. Bake in moderate oven 10 pale
brown. Place the fat sides together while warm.
Smaller or larger quantities can be made i desiIa-
bls.-Edith y. Miller. Box 276 NeilisTllle, WIS
PYRAMID CAKE.
HAPPY HOUSEHOLD: / send recipe for pyramid
cake, which j. very nice and which hope the
success Two teacups Of sugar, one Of butter one oil
sweet milk, three and half Of -four, two large
teaspoons Of baking powder, whites OF six eggs
cake Favored with rose or Talllla e2traesi iels
Favored with lemon extract Bake N three tiis,
each little larger than the other. When nearly
colo turn ali upside down. putting the largest az
the bottom. and the next IN size next. Frost al
together.-Hattie B. speers, Hawley, Pa
Conversation Club.
Rules efshe Cgst5-I Write briefly. 2. Write only
Oh one side Of the paper. 5. Write 10 the point T.
Write one subject. >. Write your best. o.
Send answers TO all puzzles for of Editor Each
week the names Of those writing the best letters
style, composition, spelling, penmans6ip and gen;
ersl merit coHsidered-v'ill be named al the head
OF this column on the Honor Roll First honor
VIII include ali Of these requirements. Second
honor VIII include deficiency Ia some one point
NO Others viii be named
HONOR RoLL-BEsT LETTERS.
second Honor-Blanche Dippery, Van Vert. o.
Anna l. Soule, Pickreli, Neb.
OUR BOIL cALL-eREETIEGs.
Ella MeNamRr, Deer Creek, Mimi. Willie o.
johnson. Schooner Point, mo; Hattie Matieson,
l& E KeRrsley street. Flint, Mich Mrs. Abbie G.
Roberts Randolph, Mass: A. n. COwgeT, Rose
Hill, III; Charles Benston, Conway, Iowa; Allie
Should Rockport Ind, veterans daughter w d.
Austin, :. OF v, Box 81, Pine City, Mimi; Dretta
Chamberlain a u Box l05 Welisburg, WA; Fred
". Nichols : Of Y, North Arson, Me; Bertha
IAkue, Box A. Iakeview. Mich: A Ella Morse
Odell. III. veterans daughter; Lulu NJ Haeknlan,
Rossville, H.; Clara Nichols. PaO, Mich; Blanche
Dlppery Van Vert, O., student IN High Schools
Anna Fisher. Grace Ashley, two soldiers daugh-
ters, MhItney's Point, y. Y; Anna i. SOue,
Plckrell. Neb.. soldiers daughter; Nettie Hege-
man, Milford, Aebp . river town, picturesque
scenery; Fred BenhRm, Oiivet. Mich; Ruth Pol
lard, Bridgton Mo.; Minnie n. Douglass. Acadia,
IL, lives in the country and loves IL best Total,
SEARCHES AND soLYERs.
Carrie T. Fox, Elizabeth, y. J.. ! +; Chsrles A.
Mayer. Agona, Iowa, 1; G. Q. Wilson, Normal,
ILL.,. j; Ella Cuthbert. Kent, O., i; Arthur .. Sis
son. RedHeS5 OAK, IS; Fred b. PennelI, Geneseo,
Ill; b. r. HenshRw, Ulysses, Kan, 1; L :.
Thompson, Tower City. Pa; Alice II. Neaton l;
Flora Leeza J. II F. Webb. Eiroy Wis., 3; r. w.
Combs DallisOn. N. Va q; Lois Z. Jackson, Chap
81 Hill, Tex. 4; Bertha 4. Cheney, SchoOcraft
Mich, ]; Gertie Drake. san Luis Obispo. CAL 6;
Hay Russell, ROdmRn. Iowa, Il }. j. KedmRn,
Brooklyn, n. y. g. Florence III. Morse. East
Woodstock, Conn, 1; Eva 7. Pope. Hope. Oak.
= A III Cowger, Rose I'LL, III, l; Bertha Row
land, Rochester, o., ?; Elmer G. Wood Putnam,
Conn. .; Ada Dudley. Island Station. Cole, /;
DretLE Chamberlain Wellsburg W. Va j; John
q. Miller, FairbuOok. Pa. a Sadie +. Elliott Red
Bank. y. J.. 2; Grace Blanchard. Thompson o.,
]; Mary G. Walker, Naples, Ne, %; Royal d.
Beck, Emerson, han.. o Annie Waiter, Greenup.
Ky. y: Emma a. smith, Canton street, Hartford
Conn L; l.. r. Lincoln. bingham, Mass, &c;
Annie J. Marsh, saugns, Mass 81; VIM :. Peden,
keystone, O., . Ola = Whittier, Nolleston
Rights, Mas. Lottie y. Aiaxfeld, Cambridge
Va Is; Hattie I. Miller NeiIlsville Wis %
LeGnora IL Gageby, JohBstoNn. Pa, William
Valley Pa. j; Ella Colby, Medina y. T.. ?; ..
0berdoerfer. Elizabeth, \. J., !; w. d. Newgeon,
!; Benjamin Taylor, Ledouc, Mimi, 2; Lou House
EnGn, Casl2lia. O., 2; Rena i. Adamsop, Corning,
- - 1Ie1 ~ -s4Ilo1s - as,l' ie = II
AZ Young, R9secrans, H. 20; Lille DTehenderfer,
FoTest Hill, Pa, Il Clara Nichols, Palo, Mich, II.
WILL SOME ONE PLEASE REPLY.
FEIEsDs OF THE c. C.: would repeat the fol-
lowing questions. heretofore asked, hoping this
time for replies: Why were the Plains Of Abra-
ham. near Quebec so-cslIed2 Why were The Coun-
teG OF MarHeH and OFerton, la Tennessee, survey
ed and plated IN circular formf Why, during a
thunderstorm and Immediately after heavy crash
q thunder and lightning the rain 90 often Dours
down in excess Tor 3 few minutes ID. Il. Witter
Council Bluffs Iowa.
an AcADIAS RAMBLE.
FRTEsDs or THE 9. @ Lei us take a rambIe this
bright uly morning over the Iowa prairies. We
~ q str o.
lf water which curves around slopIug green hilE
and 90 passes out Of our sight A blnejay goes soar
ang heavenward with shrill ks, ka; q meadow
lark. peIciled Oh an old stump pours forth per
fect torrent II Delodlous music till It seems i
would split Lis throat. The meadows on one side
O. "a are dotted al over with fragrant Wild roses
painted il many bright colOrs; tie corn just com
Ing up on the other side, and field Of waving
green wheat IN front q us. Along the banks o
the stream we ind pure white Lilies with bright
yellow hearts.
Al las We reach the summit OF an exceeding,
high hill. The leaves Of an old gray cotton WOOD
rustic over our heads the green, round hills gC
rolling over and over like great, turbulent oceaI
as Tar az the eye reach until earth and
sky seem - uleeti tie prairie grass waves IN Tia,
gentle breeze The silver stream goes weaving il,
way among the green hilis, and tie tall, dari
hleW-Rrass along the bank breaks into ripping
Boa u green. We look down al our feet and Natcl
The antsand nayriads Of insects running about Ans
what Is this queer plant with tie green bais2 il
botanical name y uStr0gdi&s cQTyOcdTyJlts Gale,
by some grOGHd-plum, shOesiring Strag
Elersl hear some one ask We'll, il sounds iiilt
struggling along late 10 the Spring. The blossom
Bre pUTplish pink, and tle leaves look sometime;
like ferns The green balls its seedyods. 4
=. Hickman, you expressed my ideas exactly OF
American freedom, and ana grateful TO YOU for Il
a person may 20 where he viii. bat ] think b.
VII End no place free. fresh and pleasant as Tia
country, and advise ali people wanting 70 lead !
quiet, peaceful life 70 migrate 70 the country
Minnie L. Douglass, Acadia, Iowa.
LOOKING FOR HOMESTEAD.
FEIFlsDs OF TIE C G: am the daughter Of
veteran soldier. am p years Of age Father ha
taken THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE . number Of year,
and have read Inc q. G. columns with leasu re q U
profit. Letters discussing important questions {
the day. thislE, are profitable both for the write
and the reader some % the letters Christian is
gVes and give one desire 10 live h0lier life al
some letters which touched my sympathies syeF
written by persons living in the West on home
ssoads. Sliii, want 70 90 and take q homestead
many EOuug lady has-but have TO bend mas
asH 10 my circumstances. My mother die
when ] WAS only ~, aud ] being the oldest q
family Of eight children have had 70 take her plac
ano fll IN the best i could; consequently cam.
do as ] would IL my circumstance were d.iIereu
Lake others 81 the C. C.. want 8 better education
and a. am poor c0nversati0uaiisi. / would 4
pleased y several 81 the mem eTs Of the club Woul
give their views on that suhjecl, and tell how "a
may Improve our talent IN that direction. ] woul
like 10 correspond with persons living on claims
southeastern Colorado OF western kansas Nov
after several attempts, have written 10 tine G.
Department and send my 10 the Toll-calI
Anna L. S0ule Flckreii, Neb.
WILD FL0WEEs OF VIRGINIA.
FRIENDS or THE c. c.: A schoolmarua from We,