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From Welcker,s Chef.

There are persons who affect to decry the
cooks profession. They represent MIN as
one who caters only to the sensuality of man,
and who fosters gluttony. sloth and self
indulgence. They denounce cooking as un-
worthy of man, and hold that it should be
left to little girls and old women.
A calm, dispassionate. common-sense view
of the subject will at once prove the fallacy
of such ideas. Food is the fuel which feeds
the fire of life. Without its nourishing
stimulus the athlete could not perform his
feats of strength, the singer could not pour
forth those liquid notes which charm a
breathless multitude, the orator could not
let loose the food-gates Of his eloquence to
wash away the Notifications of error and
oppression, and the writer could not conceive
those grand thoughts and weird imaginings
which live upon the printed page and in the
memory forever. For the proper prepara-
tion of their food-the presentation of it in
its most healthful and palatable form
mankind are dependent upon the
cooks. Since, then, food is the main
spring of life-that which maintains
and preserves it and which, in short, keeps
1t in existence-and since the cook is the
preparer of that food, is he not, therefore,
the nearest OF all men to the Deity? The
Supreme Being creates life. the cook furn-
ishes the means to maintain it. Is not the
maintaining of life second only to the crea-
tion of it? Surely the answer must be in
the affirmative, and that answer once given
we must admit that the cooks profession is
of all others the noblest and most entitled to
respect.
Next to the preservation of life, the great
object of fine cooking is to present food in
as an attractive guise as possible. To do
this successfully the first essential is a we'll
arranged bill of fare. This is one OF the
highest, most important branches of the
culinary art. and one in which many who
are masters of every other department of
cookery lamentably fail. Before complying
with the request to give recipes for some of
my original and favorite dishes, will out
line what to me seems model bill OF fare
for dinner, after which, without further
preface will furnish the recipes desired.
DNNER-MENU.
CLAIMS on half shell.
Consomme plain with cream Of asparagus.
Fish.
Baked blue fish, wine sauce. Spanish mack
erel. Soft shell crabs. Sea bass.
Entrees.
Sweet bread croauettes. Chicken saute Ia
chasseur. Lamb chops la Maintenon.
Roast
Beet. Chicken: Lamb. Ducks.
Came
woodcocka squabs ouailA
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CARRIED BY THE TRAMPs.
Facts About the Shipment of Live Cattle
Across the Atlantic.

Facts About the Shipment of Live Cattle
Across the Atlantic.
New York SUM-
The cost of shipping cattle from New
York to London is not so great as bringing
them from Kansas City to New York. The
business is in the hands of tramp steamers
and a certain grade of emigrant steamers.
Some boats carry emigrants from Europe to
New York and take cattle back. The cattle
get as good accommodations as the emf
grants. The cost fuctuates greatly, accord
ing to how many tramp steamers are in New
York at one time waiting for loads of cattle.
The cattle have to De shipped soon after their
arrial in New York, as it does not paw to
keep them here unless they are being fat
tened for the New York market. They are
sometimes shipped direct from the cars, but
usually they get rest in the stock yards.
and are fed and fattened there, so that they
will not be liable TO sicken and die on the
way over.
The average cost is about half a cent
pound, live weight. This is higher than
the freight rate on ordinary cargoes, and in.
cludes the feed and care Of the cattle on
their way over. Ten men can look after as
many cattle as there are on a ship. They
can feed and water the cattle, look after
those that are sick, and carry out those thar
are dead. A smaller force of men might be
used if 1t were not for storms, when there is
danger of the cattle breaking loose and fall
ing against each other. Then the men have
to 60 among the cattle and quiet them.
This is the risky part OF the trip to the men,
as should the' cattle break loose, the men
would be hurt At this freight rate there is
considerable profits in the shipments.
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Vegetables.
Asparagus, peas, beans, caulihower.
Pudding de plumete. Queen fritters. Maran-
CUES glaces. Bavarois au framboise.
And now for the recipes:
CHICKEN sAUTE LA CHAssEUR.
Take one chicken aud cut up in TO ur pieces,
put in frying pan with little olive oil and
fry till brown, adding little flour.
Add few chopped onions. shallotes and
mushrooms.
One glass of elaret wine and two tablespoon
fuls tomato sauce are to be added; also TWO
tablespoonfuls of minced celery.
LAMB CHOPS A LA MAINTENoN,
Fry or boil two pounds of lamb chops
Slice four onions. fry in butter, sprinkle .
little -four and add sufficient milk to make .
thick sauce.
Then add the beaten yelks of four eggs.
Put IN dish to cool.
Spread on one side of the chops. and then
brown them in the oven.
PUDDING DE PLUMErE.
Take as many pieces of sponge cake as de-
soaked.
Then take one-fourth pound dried cherries,
two ounces cltron, two ounces large raisns and
tIo ounces dried prunes.
Soak in half-pint of brandy.
Add and mix half a package Of dissolved
gelatlne and one pint of whipped cream.
Place in mold.
QUEEN FRITTERs.
Take one glass of water and two ounces Of
butter and put in the stove in q saucepan.
When this comes to the boil add half q
pound of flour and stir till stiff.
AXE of the fire and add six raw eggs sepA-
rately. beating each one as added till soft
dough results then fry in lard in pieces the
elz g OF walnut.
AUGUST CHAUNcoUNcEY,
Chief OF Welcker's, Washington, D. G.
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EEwMAN's VIOLIN.
Story Of the Cardinal Which shows Re.
semblance to Erskiue.

Although essentially a meditatiye man.
Cardinal Newman did not forget the claims
of recreation, and this he seems to have
found chiefly in the charms of music. He
is credited with having been an excellent
violin player, and apropos of that accom-
plishment, very happy story is told of him.
1t is related that. shortly after his elevation
by Pope Leo XIII. to the dignity of Cardi-
nal, some one from beyond the Tweed wrote
strenuous epistle to him, challenging him
to discussion on the "merits OF Popery."
His Eminence was in no mood for disputa-
tlon, and he indited note to his adversary
In this wise: II lear am too old for such
violent exercise as you propose, but have
very fine old violin here at the Oratory,
and if You will favor me with a visit shall
be glad to play a tune or two for you to the
best of my ability"
The Cardinal, in this respect, appears to
have resembled Ebenezer Erskine, one of
the founders of the United Presbyterian
Church, and whose early domestic associa-
tons were connected with Northumberland
Mr.. Erskine, too, was a skillful performer
on the violin; so completely did he charm
deputation who waited upon him to re-
monstrate with him upon such practices,
that they departed with deep-rooted con-
viction that the fiddle was by no means the
"sinfu'" instrument they had believed 1t
to be.
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aside and told him that she could not whip
him any more.
| "Now," said she, ST want you to feel just
how it hurts me to whip you. Here is the
| cane. 1 want you to strike me as hard al
you can ten times"
The little fellow whimpered.
go on, now; you must whip your mother.
| Why don't you eommence?
| He had been all rebellion up to this time,
and as sullen as possible.
go on, SIR" said the mother, "whip
me-"
The little fellow lifted the cane in the act
Of inhicting punishment but it fell impotent
at his side. Then with a flood of tears he
exclaimed: "Oh, mamma, I cannot do il.
1t hurts me here" pointing to his heart.
''You must whip me, mamma. Let me be
whipped. Oh, I cannot whip my mother.
Indeed 1 cannot"
Taking the child in her arms the mother
sought to instruct the little fellow by words
OF tenderness. He was never known to re-
peat the ofense. Do you think, mothers,
that the child did not remember that lessonf
Go ye and do likewise.
*x
As the Child Natures.
But, mothers, your children cease to BE-.
children ouly too soon. If you have con-
scientiously done your duty by them in
childhood it will not be your fault if they 90
astray. Do the very best you may, and then
the inherent evil of the human heart, which
is "deceitful above all things and desperately
wicked" may assert ITSELF Under such
circumstances your skirts are clean. Too
many mothers are over anxious to have their
girls s'married and settled" Matchmaking
mothers often repent their actions. To
fill girls mind full of anticipations
OF this charpeter while the body
and soul is undergoing formative process,
IS little better than crime against human
nature. Marriage as often mars as makes
girl when 1T is the outcome of maternal
haste. The mother who encourages her
daughter to make serious entanglements
with the sterner sex just as the teens are be-
ginning to dawn, very often sows seeds Of
misery which the daughter will reap in
abundance. There is enough sorrow and
pain in the world without inviting it to
make its advent too soon. Fearing that her
daughter may not "make her market" if
she waits until nature has carried out its
programme, the mother may place in peril
the whole life-that life which she loves mora
than her own.
All, mother, let your daughter sing the
sweet song of maidenhood, let her young
voice ring. with unwavering melody through
every number of life's grand harmony. Let
her wait until the great conductor of her
destiny shall wave his baton. Let the
theme OF the varying solos be fully enioyed,
and then the chorus, when it bursts upon
the ear and heart, will be all the more en-
tranclng. The COUNTRY PARsoN.
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Another Washington Chef.

There is no branch of culinary art which
affords wider field for the ingenuity of the
well-skilled cook than the preparation of
meats and fowls. The number OF ways in
which these may be presented at table are
limited only by the inventive powers Of the
culinary artist. I append favorite recipe
of this kind, which amateurs will find we'll
worth trying:
OUTLETS OF CHICKEN WITH SAUCE PERI.
GARDE.
Cut one chicken very finely with the point of
a beef tongue and q few truffies.
Mix in a saucepan with an ounce Of butter. q
gill of sherry wine and sufficient -four to give
the requisite consistence
Make into small cakes the shape Of outlet.
Fry brown and serve cold.
w. M. TAYLEuRB
Chef Of Riggs House, Washington, d. q.
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After Mrs. Cleveland.

Variety is said to be the spice of life, and
constant repetition Of the same dish tends
to deteriorate mans physique, as well as to
disgust him with his food. For this reason
the ingenuity OF cooks in all ages has been
taxed to the utmost to devise new and
elaborate methods of preparing the simplest
viands. The more common and the more
generally used the article of food, the great
er the necessity for cooking it in some novel
way. take pleasure, therefore, in present
ing the following recipe for what call
CREAM OF EGG A La MRS. CLEVELAND,
Boil six eggs 20 minutes.
Separate the yolks and whites.
Mash the yolks and add them to one pint of
cream salted and buttered to taste.
Cut up the whites and place them on six
slices of well-browned, buttered toast, over
which pour the cream and yolks mixed as
described above. YoSEF BUTLER,
Chef of Wizards, Washington, D. c.
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Greatest in America.

In free America every mother has the
right to hope that her son may become a
leader, if not the leader of the nation, and
thus hold that American motherhood car.
ries with it far more responsibility than
that of any other country. In possibly
nine cases out of ten, the child will be what
the mother makes 1t. See giddy, foolish
girl wandering from the pathways OF
modesty and virtue, and in too many cases
you will find that the springs of profigacy
take their rise from the mother. A young
boy, wayward and unmanagable, easily led
into temptation, is sometimes so because of
early indulgences and lack of disciplinary
training on the part of the mother. In in
fancy, possibly, he manifested pugnacious
disposition. scratching and fighting every
other child. The silly mother thinks him
"smart" She admlres his spunk, and
laughs at his precocity.
In a few years he pulls at her maternal
heart strings, and gives her untold pangs of
agony. The uncurbed temper of the child
will, ere long, rebound upon the mother
who thus, out of false love, fails to chide
and correct evil propensities while the tw1g
can be bent and twisted to her will. There
are thousands upon thousands of women to-
night, in all classes of society, waiting for
and dreading to hear the football of their
sons, who may credit large portion of their
present woe to past neglect.
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The Mothers Responsibility.

If the animal mother display such tender
solicitude for her young, who so early in life
can look after its own needs how much more
anxious should the human mother be when
when she is intrusted for number of years
with the welfare of a body. marvellous in
proportions, "fearfully and wonderfully
made" Added to this that the germ of i'm
mortality is within that body the RESPONSE
bility is correspondingly increased. A
fathers responsibility is great, but moth
er'f is still greater. What pen can picture
the joys of motherhood? Out upon your
morbid pessimist. who looks through the
maze of unknown years and sees all the
fogs and storms and ragged rocks of life.
Between every mountain OF sorrow there is
vast and fertile valley of bright sunshine
and gladness, where unhampered Joy holds
high carnival.
As the mother presses her new born in
fant to her breast she glances upon it with
CLEAN of hope and trust. She sees only
the flowers. and'the meadows and the placid
streams. Her heart is full of joy, and why
should it not be so? Has she not become
the possessor of a new nature? With her
child, as its twin brother has been born a
new kind of affection, from which all of
selhshness and passion has been eliminated.
She has new aspirations now. Till this
time her life may have beenRa comparative
blank. But now it has a new quality. She
sees the world through a new lense. She
has a clean page upon which to write a new
life, the forming of destiny, the making of
a man.
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The EbbItt House Genius.

In the preparation of any dish it should
ever be the aim of the conscientious cook to
secure three great essentials of good cooking,
which are that his dishes should be first.
wholesome; second, palatabIe, and third,
attractive in appearance The following
recipe most happily combines all three Of
these points:
Mix one-fourth pound finely chopped ham
with equal quantity OF bread crumbs.
With paste brush egg over ten mutton
outlets with white of egg, and then cover them
with the ham and bread crumbs
Place them in a hot frying pan containing
ten tablespoonfuls of olive oil.
Fry for ten minutes, and serve with . thin
border of mashed potatoes, having seasoned
the whole to taste. JORGE TYsLFs
Chef of Ebbitt House, Washington. d. q.
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How TO Punish.

What would you do with child that ha.
inherited an evil disposition, or that mani.
tests one without the inheritance being
traceable? Would you thrash the evil oui
of him with rod? No; most emphatically,
mol As fixed principle 1 object to severe
corporal punishment. The mother who ex.
poets to break the will of her child by
breaking its head is off the track. It used
to be the fashion to click" child half to
death and then thrust it into dark closet
to reflect. I have been there. If ever I
held communion with the little sprites that
are supposed to inhabit gehena and visit
earth occasionally it was then and there. 1
have known mothers who have INDUCED
their children and palliated thousand
faults and failings for weeks at time, who,
under some sudden impulse at another time,
have nearly killed the child for compara-
lively trifing ofense. Under such circum-
stances is it not more than possible that
comparisons may be made by the child, and
that some of them may be odious?
Some mothers seem to enjoy thrashing
their children. have a recollection, and
not very dim one, either, of strap about
Is inches in length and one inch in breadth,
that was worn so brightly by friction that
you could almost see yourself in it. As a
general rule, it was only used when and
where it would do the most good, but there
were times when its utility was very ques-
tionable. Beyond the fact that it was an
aid to the capillary circulation, inducing a
free action Of the Hfe-giying fluid, and re-
ieving the active brain of extra pressure,
question il it did much good. 1 have
gazed upon that instrument of torture many
a time, and have secretly longed for its de-
struction. Before mother inficts corporal
punishment, let her be sure that it will
have the desired effect.
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American Vines i'm France.

The success of the American vines in
France still continues to be very great;
everywhere they take possession of the
ground which the phylloxera ravaged.
From a report read by the director of French
agriculture before the high commission of
the phylloxera on February 8, it appears
that the area Of vineyards, replanted with
American vines, increases with such rapid
ity that before long it will be as large as it
was before the phyllo1era extended its
ravages.
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The machinery of salesman's life does not
reYolve as smoothly as one would suppose
judging by superficial glance.
1t is generally supposed that salesman's
duties consist merely in showing his goods,
fitting them on, and having them wrapped
up. A more mistaken idea could not be
imagined; for, if this were all, selling
would be pastime. The successful salesman
must be a close observer to enable him to
"size up" his customer at glance and
know how 10 approach him. He must be
cool, cautious, determined, and possess an
almost inexhaustibe supply of patience.
A SIGNIFICANT FACT.
In nearly all houses there is rule that if
a salesman fails to effect a sale he must
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Touching and Effective.

I shall never forget an experience related
to me BY mother. Her child had done
something that it had been chastened for
many times. The mother was tired of use
lessly using the rod. She had hitherto gone
on the principle, too often overdone, as are
all maxims "Spare the rod and spoil the
child" The act OF Inficting chastisement
to her beloved child was most obnoxious. 1t
distressed and panied her beyond measure.
One day the oft-repeated ofenss had again
been repeated. The mother tosk the boy
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siZinR Up His Relatives.

New York HeraId.J
Young Brassey Ito Banker Wall, who
doesn't know him)-Say. Governor, let me
have a hundred, will you?
Banker Wall-Why in Halifax should I
let you have money, you jackanapes?
Y. B.-Your daughter told me last night
that she would be sister to me. Doesn't
that make me your son?
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o the student of hu-
man nature probably
no greater field to
study odd and pecul-
lar characters pre-
sentsltselft than in the
several departments
of a large clothing
house. A few days
spent at one of these
houses will bring
one in contact with
more quaint and Gu
rious people than
one would encounter
in a long Journey.
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Always That Way.

DetrOIE Free Press.
Twenty-one years ago Georgian man was
advised to carry snuff in his pocket to throw
into mad dogs eyes, in case he ever met
one. He has followed the advice right to Q
dot, but after all these years an old mule
backed up to him the other day and kicked
him off the face of the universe.
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SOME FANCY DISHES.
FaVorite Recipes of Six Of the Best
Known Chefs of the East.
HINTS ON THE ART OF COOKING
The Ancients Excelled the hoderns in
Tickling the Palate.
THREE OBJECTS TO BE ATTAINED

Six masters of the art of cooking have
been asked to send to THE DISPATCH some
of their favorite recipes and their ideas
generally in regard to modern cookery.
Their answers, printed below, make very
interesting symposium.
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| transfer his customer to another salesman.
The sales made by these transfers are nu-
merous, proving couciusively one Of two
things-either the first salesman, through
some reason or other, failed to make the
proper impression, or the customer was such
a peculiar character that the manner and
language. combined with the different tao
tics OF the second salesman. happened to
catch his fancy. No one without the per-
sonal experience can realize the tremendous
strain and tax to which a salesman's pa
thence is subjected. He must be prepared
to meet all sorts of statements and argr-
ments and be able to disproye them prompt
ly and in genial manner. Under no cir
cumstance must he lose his temper; if he
does he is lost no matter how much time
and labor he has spent or mental worry he
has suffered.
Customers as a rule are very practical,
unsympathetic and independent, and i'm
agine they have unbounded rights to which
poor statesmen must pay due de erence.
Should they be gently reminded of the
trouble and annoyance undergone to effect a
sale, he will probably be informed with the
coolest etfrontery imaginably that "that's
what you are here and get paid fort and
they s'don't propose to buy" until they
''look around and see where they can do the
best"
AN UGLY TYPE.
Here comes the cranky customer walking
In nervously: 81 want some clothes"
"What kind?" asks the salesman. 81 don't
know; let me see some and I'll tell you" he
answers very snappishly. The salesman,
not affecting to notice the slight shows this
sort of customer good suit at once The
ouvtomer Ola nces at If and with the remarl
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The Ring Crszr.
Boston Herald

Boston Herald.1
The chiet object Of some women's hands
10 to display as many rings as they can
wear, and still be able to bend their fingers,
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Hard Times Indeed.

"Times are getting 20 hard" remarked an
unsuccessful business man, ''that it's getting
to be all I can do to collect my thoughts" ["