The National tribune., 1889-05-02
LOYAL WOM4NS WORK
The Household, Conversation Club,
Puzzles, etc.
The Happy Household.
oATNEAL GEMS.


Soak one cup of oatmeal over night, with one
cup Of water In the morning sift together, drys
one cup OF -four and two teaspoonfuis OF baking
powder; add a little salt mix the meal ana l 5
together, wet with sweet milk 10 sth batter, drop
into gem pans aud bake Immediately.
BOILED FISH.
Boil any kind Of nice fish in salt water, with a
piece Of onion. Lay on platter, drain Oh All the
water and turn over nice white gravy, made with
milk thickened with -four and well seasoned with
butter, salt and white pepper Garnish the dish
with sliced lemons sliced pickles, parsley. Serve
with potatoes. Excellent
FAIRY FAN LACE.
II. r. and c. c.: Crochet a chain Of q stitchesi
turn.
lst row. d in the fifth, sixth seventh, eighth
and ninth stitches ach .; d c ia each OF the next
three stitches; repeat from twice; ca (; turn
ID rows d c Ia first loop made by ch en- =
d c in second loop made by > ch; Oh 2; 3 d c IN
third loop made by Oh; ch 5; l. c IN hole made
by stitches la ca Of p; CHI 3; turn.
50 rcW-I2 q c over j d c ia second row; S c
IN loop made by eli; ca 2 q in loop; re-
peat from twice; ca 4; turn
stb row-tOp part same as second row TO Il q G.
y q c over y 4 in third row, ca between every
5th ROWE d c over u d C in fourth row ch be
tween every @; q IN hoop made by ch; In
ish Ike top o. third row.
On royy-iop same as fourth row; dcover every
c c lR E!th row; eli 3; tDrB-
7th row d over every alternate c in pre-
eeding row, 2.ch between every one; top same as
fifth row.
6ah row-top same as sixth row; d c over every
Z c in preceding row, ch between every ones en-
8 turn.
s,h row-same as preceding row; top same as
seventh row.
l0,h row-iop same as eighth row; over
every in preceding row ch s. turn
llth row-skip c; I : c in Sd c; 3 chi 1 c
IN 9th C. repeat from is times top same as
ninth row.
l2lh row-top same as tenth row; lower part
same as preceding row, except ch every time, IN
stead Of s.
lS,h row-same as preceding row. except use
cl instead of Z; top same as eleventh row.
Repeat from first row; at tAe end OF every other
row ca 2 and fastcn 10 preceding scaliop by c.
Lizzie ~. Smith Franklin Grove, III.
Editor's Chat.
James Bennett: Washington, while young sur
veyor. marked the beauty OF the site on which
Washington Is built a choice which led to its Sc
lection as the Capital OF the Nation. Washington
planned The city and named the White House. Yes
Charles McVay, the White House IS of Virginia
sandstone. very porous and overaid with thick
soatIg Of white lead every nine or ten years
One ofihe neaiest little amateur papers we know
Of is the Blue Earth AIinnl Valley Signal IL. w.
Ireland. editor and publisher
VIII the little C. C. friend IN Illinois who sent the
beautiful peacock feathers please send address in
full 10 the Editor who has mislaid it and cannot
respond, as promised.
John " must return request over his own sigma
ture If Elmer viii send sketch Of Indian chasing,
it viii be carefully considered Why did not Glen
wood QOws) c. c. send name with questions and
answers?
Ella Norton: Expression of your wish to join
the C. C. IS sufficient. You are now enrolled as
smember.
" s. Moore: Your suggestion of a c. c. Reunion
would be Unwieldy. Better try a simpler form of
getting together as beginning; say, at Media
RlEmptoH's hospitable home West Decatur. Pa,
IN Wisconsin at the time OF the GAR. Encamp-
Unent OK W.aC. Convention in august.
Edtor's acknowledgements: or pretty s. CIV.
Ezrd lIom Emmet q. Richmond.
Conversation Cab.
R,ties o ste ClIsJ.-I. Write briefly . Write only
one see Of the paper. g. Arite TO the point. 4
Arlls Ca one subject. o. Write yoUr best. 6.
Send answers 10 al puzzles Tor OF Editor Each
week tile names Of those writing the best letters
siyte e5'i slilo seliifif, elulailssilp aud gen
eTel meris coasiGered-gFili be named al the head
q tAis column tie Honor Roll First honor
VAL nlc5uce al OF these requirements. second
honor VIII include deficiency some one point.
10 others VIII be named
sEARcHERs AND soLvERs.
James E. AIger, swampscott Mass. s; Eugene
I5lEhain, Springfield, Mass, 9; Inez II. Hunbert,
Y. F. J. Jones Holland, O.. 3; J. r. Grsss Topeka,
Kan. l. Fannie Y. Warrington, Delavan. H.. /;
Len - leaeils " oeott. l. 2; Charles r Straight,
4e5 LkiEh street PaFtn ct5et *. l., Z; Caroline A.
Briggs. Canton Junction, Mass 3; James =. Alser
N.Y.
pUE ROLL cALL-EEw MEMBERS
THE letters Us. mean veterans son. vd. veter-
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QenElies y, vile isiHalla soldier, who VIII add
bFoiier 10 her biscus-and Honey feast when one Of
thc C. G. cali. as they have a fine apiary; Kate
v bipEey. DE soto H., v-d-; Eta Carr ll5. vd-,
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and Nellie Sherman, y-.g.d- Manns Choice, Pax
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ffafr-
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Iowa; +. J. Carey. Paris. he; Sylvia =. Sample
New washington. lad; James E. Cole, Paris Hill,
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PHYSIOLOGY TALEs-No. l.
FRJESIss OF THE c. g: am a lover OF physiol-
oGy, and would ike 10 know how many join me in
this Amusing incidents often attend This study /
WAS one 81 tie dissecilg class last Summer and tie
weather very warm. The class r,e5ted N 7-}1
g. "a. aud Prof Yale had gone up street the even
ing before and purchased heart which WAS to be
tsle Object 81 our mornings lesson. During the
night i had become the abiding place of some
small insects which need name here. Never
suspecting i'rof. Yale brought il 20 the classroom
and we All gathered around him 10 hear his lecture
the suhjsct Naiautiy grzspiFg his scalpel he
proceeded 10 lay bare the anricles and rentricles
Men heIFof o. horrors, they were inhabited.
The Professor declared Il would be committing
murder by tle wholesale 90 any further, SO we
deferred our lesson I'll the morrow.
Aou aaay want 10 know what became OF the
heurt. We lifted Il teHderly in pair Of tongs aud
Deposited j. the sidewalk. The last we saw OF
s. il was scaupering over College Hill at a lively
Tate, in q harry 10 reach tOwn.-Eva L. Allen Ma
ZION, o.
GEOLOGIC wAIF.
FETENDs or TIE c. c: Who will take a short
tap 10 tle sand Of wooden Nutmegs -? Here we
are u Hartford, thence caslerly through Bolton
Notch TO hlAmaniic, and from WilliIaantic 10
Scotland, aud we take the road going east and be
gln Tie ascent Of an interninabiy long hill The
notice that the Lodges Of rock crop out OF the
ground, and the material is very hard. Now do
you zee that huge rock at the right hand side al
the ToacE You perceive 1t is ike the lodges
and bOGlders hereabout III oVerhanrs on three
SIDES. you observe. and rests upon a ledge lust
cropping ont here and there. How high did YOU
EeyT We'll. should judge about 90 feet high 30 feet
wide - feet long Serape off a little of the soft
ssOBe and taste T. hhew, ID tastes Ike alum and
y b called "sllt rock" Can we get upon II
les, I you are pretty spry; this side by climbing
over some fragments that have broken "a
long ago, we can climb one shelf TO another
now take mold Of the limb 81 the Tree growing on
o! creyices ia the rock and YOU can DuIi vourse
up - lie next shelf above. There, one OF the G.
t. Dy clever spring, has vaulted from the shel
10 Tie top. low, 10y las strong and G. C. grin
We caH, one ~ time. easily reach the top You
see tse big rncE Is partly bare, but partly covered
with messy carpet, IN which the foot sinks a. ~,
pass over %. il is located the highest point o
the ridge between the valley 81 the Appaouaan,
River The cast and valley OF the Sheincket Rive
OF the West
How did II come here2 cannot tell; the sign