The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1890-02-27
a PEETTY WOEK.APRoN.


DEAR 6. {: send directions Tor pretty work
apron. One yard Of Pougce silk, - inches wide.
EHbroideIf - etching SILK some design. AS
How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining AOur7"
Or this viii 90 nicely:
don't care what the daisies say,
know D lie married some fine day"
After Toe embroidery - done leIn Is turned all
around ile apron and neatly hensiiiched. the
lower end 81 tie apron j. tsen turned up 20 as 10
form POCKET ana the apron finished with bows
Q; six El0Don.-Ada GrayeE, Fort Huron. Aich.
cOc0AHUT CASSIDY AND Popcorn
DEhE H. il: Are you not al getting hungry for
8 lillle canoyz have not seen any recipe in this
column ia a long time. Try Ibis cOcOanut candy
and please report; Crate tie 81 bite meat Of a cocoa
NUT ard EiiG with b. two pounds Of sifIed white
sugar the beaten whites Of two eggs and the milk
81 the nat. Make into little cakes. aud ia a short
time j wiz b. ready for usc.
FOp-C0rH Bais= -Four quarts Of popcorn three
quarters cup sugar. Put little water ia pan and
bo4 az Tor candy remove and pour ln table
spoonful II gum HTabic solution made by pouring
iioi water ou The gum. Pour All on the corn and
mix Wei Hiih the hands laiO baIls.-AIamie L.
GOHEIn.
BAKED BEANS AND BEOWg BREAD.
HAPfY I-CLsEHoID: Put 10 soak two quarts Of
bzans; 'sul.lil white pea bean, Or yellow eyes are
tlc best LIT them soak all night ia lie morn
llg put tseln 10 boil in four quarts u water
boil ~ minutes Pill tie baEug-d eis Two, third.
fun with tle beams, put one pound salt pork Ia The
center - tl-e ai-I, wItE Tie skin eide scored 40.
then GI eI.A the remainder u tBe beauh aud add
two large ibiespOouiuis 81 IHolasse= OF sugar ~
~ ~
flii tIe 5aElE8dl-A with boiling water, cover and
bake eight ~ nine hDuTz ia "a mod rate oven when
more "tisi y needed ia ile baking pan De IT,
Dr. bOIluE hot and DO not sir the beans when ad
ding water.
B1o1sa J,ead Three cups q Indian meal. one Gun
u -four cup % Inolasses one teaspooniul II
soda, one trs-pDOuful salt, one cup 81 sour milk
and enough cold water ~ make q thla batter.
steam ulfee hOlrs, aud bake hour lu q luyaer-
Clifford.
Conversation Club.
Estiof Sflbe cfJ-i- v rite briefly. q Write only
- one roe 81 lice paper D. Write 70 ilIe point T.
Write ou one subject. Q. Write your best g.
Bend answers 20 aIl puzzles fOE use IF Editor Zach
week tl3c llnIes Of those writing the best letters
Eiyle, coHIs position, spelling eIHIaHsiip aild gen.
fIhl merit oolaiceTca-Wll be- named 81 ti4e head
81 ibis column on the Honor Roll. FIrsi honor
MiA ihe.s1e ali 81 uIese requirements. Second
honor GlH include deficiency ia come one point
10 oiiieis VIII be named.
HONOR EoLL-EEsT LETTERS.
First EouOr-M Lucille sitntaou. Naeou,b IN
Second honor-C. j. 5ay0Ty, Flint River June
ton. dlcii.
GIRLS IN TELEGRAPH OFFICES
A number % communications have been received
tn response 10 Louis Is. Staring's letter adyisID,
young against taking up the vocation o
telegraph operator, because. hs he says they Yoult
Ia contact with railroad men, who are nlostI,
rough ai.d mol proper associates for refined youn,
Battle b Lowe. Washington. Kan.
agrees with Louis saying that rough language
always beard around a telegraph Office, end th
use Of tobacco i great John Z. Schuncman Pep
IertowB. Ina., thinks parents should teach thci
giEls that sae telegraph Office Is a mans place an,
the walls u kitchen tie boundaries Of women
Elmer L. Cothier thinks Acknowledgment
oihce unsuitable Tor women as the operators hay,
20 handle freight aud baggage and attend 10 switch
lamps at night
On the other hand there comes abundant testi
Inony 70 tie fact that girls filing positions as tele
graph operators, both in railroad Offices and office
elsewhere, are treated respectfully by RAILROAD
are the women and girls elsewhere en-,
yloyed, b. the men with whom they come ia con