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batter, and then Of chopped apples. Steam
one Eour. Serve hot with sugar, cream and
nutmeg.
Oyster Toast
Selecta dozen fine, plump oysters, mtnce
them fine, season with salt pepper and a
very little nutmeg. Beat up the yolks OF two
eggs. with q gill of cream, pour into the
simmering oysters. When set, pour the
whole over slices of buttered toast.
Snow Balls.
Peel and take out cores Of half dozen
large tart apples. Fill the cavities with
lemon marmalade and roll the apples in
powdered loaf sugar. Cover with q smooth,
rich paste and bake light brown in moder-
ate oven. Have al icing ready. flavor with
lemon, cover them quickly and place IN
cool oven to harden, being careful not to
allow them to brown.
Cake Pudding.
This makes a very delicate dessert, and
one that may be prepared on short notice.
Take stale sponge cake cut in rather thin
slices, spread with jelly and sandwich them.
Cover with boiled custard and serve when
quite cold.
Cornmeal Custard.
Beat three eggs thoroughly, stir in quart
of milk and an ounce each OF butter and
ter of pound Of very fine cornmeal. Pour
into cups and place In steamer for 10 or 10
and then set in the oven to brown.
Cheese Dish.
Beat up three eggs, add " cups fresh milk
mixture dip some slices of stale bread, az
range them In a baking pan, and cover with
q cupful Of grated cheese. Bake or steam.
ELLIcE SERENA.
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the novel way Just mentioned, it may be
put on in a fall from the shoulders to a
point at the bottom of the front. To give
width separate pieces may also be gathered
over the sleeve top. Another wav is to
gather it across the front from shoulder to
shoulder, as low neck would be outlined.
Recently, in a theater box, Mrs. Adolf
Ladenburg, the society beauty, wore a gown
that had q fall Of lace ten inches deep, gath
cred all the way round the neck, and hang
ing loose. The neck band above it was Of
sable fur. The gown was of bluish gray
cameps hair,a fur band was round the elbow
of the bell sleeve, there was ribbon belt
gown. Her dark hair was combed straight
the rest of the costume she wore bonnet of
gold galloon and black tips, and cloak of
cream-white cloth, trimmed with sable and
lined with pink silk.
Fur and white lace, mingled on demi-
dress costumes, is fashionable fancy. The
fur is in narrow bands, and commonly is
used as heading.
On the sleeve, if one must have trimming,
it is permissible to put narrow turn over
cuff, or buttons and loopholes up the side.
Also mutton-leg sleeve may have brace
let of ribbon tied round the upper arm to
hold up its fullness. This last would be
hardly suitable to heavy cloth. The bell
sleeve, which is close nearly to the elbow,
may have a fur band round the elbow, to
confne the fullness, or the lower part may
be covered with parallel lines of narrow SOU
tache braid, running round the arm.
ADA BACHE-CoNE
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the belt. The edge having the lace may be
rounded or left straight. There is fancy
for the straight effect. Another design
carries the lace up the sides and round the
back, giving som ewhat the effect Of yoke.
Lace used for that purpose is point de
gene, or point applique; a long jabot, or boa,
is made by sewing chiffon rufie eight
inches wide to strip of ribbon of the same
color. About the neck the ruffle should be
doubled. Chiffon can be bought by the
yard in ruff1e-widths, embroidered or plain.
1t is interesting to observe the tendency
toward decorating the shoulders rather than
the front of the neck. 1t is, perhaps, but
caprice of fashion, but it is more pleasing
to taste. A gray cloth dress has black pas
sementerie points. to wit: A graduated
strip passing over each shoulder, from front
to back; binding at the bottom of the
slightly pointed waist; an OVERLAPPING on
the deep cuffs, and on the standing collar:
A charming development of the shoulder
trimming in the jaboting Of white lace
straight down from the shoulders to the top
of the bust White lace is used on the
waists of both cloth and silk gowns in
tended for dressy occasions, such
as visiting and the theater It is
usually point applique Besides
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Of the simplest kind, and CANDY - we'll
What then for sweets, you ask? Fruit
fresh, ripe, wholesome fruit, without stint.
Berries and cherries. peaches and pears and
grapes, apples and oranges, lemons, bananas;
surely the list is long enough and varied
enough.
Then there are nuts, and children may eat
quart with impunity, and a pinch of salt.
An egg boiled five minutes is hard but in
digestible; boil it ten and it digests readily.
Make sandwiches occasionally of chopped
eggs some cold fish, faxed and boned; sea-
son with little salt, mustard and oil; cut
the bread thin, butter lightly, and cover
with the prepared fish, Another sandwich
is made Of chopped sardines with a few
drops of lemon juice squeezed over, and yet
another of the giblets of fowl, minced and
mixed TO a paste with a little melted butter.
The Virtue Of Green Things.
When you make cranberry sauce put a
few spoonfuls into tiny cup to cool and
turn out whole for the lunch basket. Boil
the breakfast cereals until they jelly;
mold, sprinkle with sugar, and see child
enioy them. Put a few tender lettuce
leaves, some broken celery, sprig of fresh
cress and tiny salt shaker into the basket.
These green things are natures health pre-
servatives.
A cold baked sweet potato tastes good to
q child A simple lunch of good bread and
butter cut and spread evenly, with po-
tato, an apple and orange and handful of
fresh nuts already cracked is satisfying and
wholesome
When you have pineapple, save few
slices, cover with sugar and put into jelly
glass that has cover. An orange and
banana sliced and sweetened, and spoonful
of grated cocoarut is combination sweet to q
child's palate and stomach. Cheese used in
moderation assists digestion. Stewed prunes
are very wholesome; SO is apple sauce put
into the useful jelly tumblers or spread on
buttered bread, and baked apple is the
sov'reignist thing on earth for the stomach.
Menus for the School Week.
These hirts are intended more especially
for winter months; spring luncheons should
be altogether different. Perhaps the sub
Joined menus for the five school days Of the
week NAV prove of service to mothers whose
time is filled to overlooking with countless
duties:
Monday: Cold fowl cranberry sauce, bread
and butter, cheese and fruit.
Tuesday: Egg Sandwiches, jellied oatmeal,
Wednesday: Cold meat, stewed prunes,
bread and butter, fruit
Thursday: Flaked fish sandwiches, cheese,
baked apples, nuts.
Friday: Sardine sandwiches, 5ellied wheat,
bread and butter, fruit.
1t is also help to provide some small
deep saucers, and when q rice, sage, tap
ioca, or prune pudding is prepared for the
family dessert, bake a little one for the
lunch basket. Custards baked in this way
are always welcomed BY children, and are
among the most wholesome of all sweets.
EMMA ]. MCLAGAN.
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"Time enough?"-she glanced up at me
quizzically-"is there such thing? Why
my child, God is the only being who has,
time enough"
l turned to flee, but she caught my skirts.
"Don't you know" she said, "that grand
mothers are the busiest people in all world?
NV own children were heavy cares, but my
children's children are three times the care,
because they are three times as many. was
never SO busy as am now"
"Then you won't do" said, sadly, and
turned away.
'The grandchildren must gain at the
grandmother expense" said, as stopped
in the hallway at the sight of little figure
in the window seat, bent over big book.
"Where have you been, little Dorothy"
asked. tYou haven't been to see me for
two month";" "
"Oh, Mis-. Harriet, meant to, but I
haven't had time; I'm in school, now, you
know, and school girls are kept busy. You
can't guess. =.
"No, 1 can't" gasped, and the outer air
struck my face as I spoke.
'But 1 will find her yet" said, and
of ESSAYS o few DAYS before, ''The leisure of
the unmsrried woman" sought the un-
married woman. She is 30 years old,
stately, white-haired, serene.
"Tell me about the leisure Of the un-
married woman said. "She surely has
time to loaf and invite her soul. There is
no family, 40 household, no husband, there
is
"Eyerything!" she burst out. The
leisure of the unmarried woman, indeed! I
never heard of more preposterous thing.
I haven't my own home on my shoulders,
and so have the wide world for my inher-
itance as care. And other peoples chill
dren and other peoples households are
harder to manage than ones own.
And everybody in the family thinks
I belong especially to her and to
her interests, because, indeed, 1
don't happen to have husband to look
after Besides, there are church fairs and
the diet kitchens, and the Seidl concerts
and beggars, and young people whose love
affairs 60 wrong and the maid that won't
keep the front steps clean unless I watch
her. Leisure Why sometimes | get so
rushed and tired of being the maiden aunt
to half the world that just wish I could 60
back and be protoplasm long enough to get
rested and start life over again"
eff 1 were protoplasm," I said, grimly,
s1'd know enough to stay protoplasm. It's
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patcher, Superintendent Palmer placed
Miss Spencer in charge. Her success was
such that he did not find 1t necessary to re-
place her. In short time she received the
regular appointment of train dispatcher for
the division. She has kept the place ever
since.
The duties of train dispatcher require .
cool head at all times, and good Judgment
in case of emergency. The dispatcher must
be able to read complicated time tables cor
rectly, judge of their merits and dement's,
vary their exactions according to circum-
stances, and, in case of accident change
them Unnecessary at moments notice On
this road the dispatcher must also be an ex-
pert telegrapher.
All of these requirements Miss Spencer
fills. During the Rhode Island fair at
Cranston each summer, trains are run from
Providence every Is minutes during tho
day, thus complicating the business very
materially. This great traffic she manages
with such success that it is the boast of the
road that during the time she has been in
charge there has been no accident OF delay
3raceable to her.
The Men Know and Trust Her
Every engineer on the division knows
the girl dispatcher and obeys her orders
with implicit confidence in her good judg-
ment. 1t reply to request for information
about Miss Spencer, Superintendent L. w.
Palmer replied:
Miss Spencer has always been a most care
full and reliable dispatcher. During her
term of service she has heen placed in many
very trying positions, and has always
proved herself equal to the emergencies.
The worst wreck or most serious blockade
of trains she handles with GOODNESS and pre-
cision, and possibly the highest praise
which can be accorded her is to say that the
conductors and engineers have the most
perfect confidence i'll her. An employe said
Of Miss Spencer in a recent letter:
Miss Spencer is the peer as an all-round
operator of any person, man or woman, that
grips key in New England to-day. Her
great superiority in this department. lies in
the fact that she can receive from
the fastest pressman or the incipient plug
and never break, while her sending Is
simply perfect. To persons who understand
the art, the difficulty of receiving from 20 to
80 different operators, all writing variable
hands, is apparent in ordinary business.
Apply the same difficulty to the skill
uuired in the dispatching of trains by wire,
and We have known many a cool man to eS
himself In a mess, but never Miss Spencer.
I merely voice the sentiment Of the ON.
ployes OF the road when / say she 10 the
smartest woman we ever knew, and all en-.
ployes unhesitatingly obey her directions,
for they have the most implicit confidence
in her caOacity,
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TIE HOMELY RAG CARPHE
With Skiliful Management II Becomes
Thing OF Beauty and Use.
WRITTEN FOR THE pIsPATcH.1

Thing Of Beauty and Use.
WRITTEN FOR THE pIsPATcH.l
Rag carpet has been adopted as kind Of
art work. Specimens of domestic weaving
have been carried home by travelling Eng
lish ladies with Navajo blankets, Arizona
pottery and other curios, and notable Eng
lish housekeepers have taken to using their
wooden savings in this way. 1t goes by the
name of American work, and a weIl-made
mat is not disdained for the nursery, smok-
ing room or in any lady's chamber. But
under clever hands and taste it turns out
very different from the ordinary rag carpet
with its stiff bars and stripes.
Cut cloth or flannel in strips three-fourths
of an inch wide clear through the piece.
Sew these by the ends together till you
have q pound, which makes q large ball.
Fine heavy cloth Of mems wear is cut half
an inch wide, and the finer the strips the
more they make in weaving. A pound and
quarter ball is allowed to make yard of
carpet yard wide. Allow two or three
yards Of bright red, green or yellow for
will have uneven Earrings OF gay color,
dark and gravely pleasing to the eye. Mix
bright color with every yard of dark stripes
and the result is mottled ground. If you
have enough of any rich color, you may
have carpet or mat with mottled center
and borders of deep blue black and deep
yellow, or red, black and orange. The
strips can be dyed bronze peacock, deep red
or any strong color after they are sewed
together.
After the carpet is woven you may sew
the breadths together with On ingram
border, and have a mat which is nearly in
l. l. L. L. Al
of rag carpet in any one generation. No
one seeing such mat for the first time
would dream of CHASING it with the hum
drum rag carpets of old. The smooth
basket work surface, the rich colors vie
with those of foreign mats, and in point of
taste, q well-chosen, homemade mat will
please better than the crude red and green
Turkish rugs which, in fact, are the rag
carpet of peasant homes in the East
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MAKING NIGHT ARTIFICIALLY.

Scneme OF . Literateur Who Thought He
Could Work Best in the Dark.
New York Ledger.1
A very brilliant writer, who had means
and circumstances under his control, built
house with an upper room located in the
middle Of the building. This room was so
constructed that it was almost impossible to
hear any sound about the house, and heavy
shades were provided, so that the daylight
could be shut ou. without excluding the
air. A wax candle burning in one corner
of the apartment furnished that twilight
effect which many persons consider neces-
sary to the yagaries of their Imagination.
In this room many very brilliant thoughts
were conceived, but all persons can't so sit
uate themselves, and it is better to be less
brilliant and more practical and enduring.
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it may have fur set on its edge; it may be
cloth or gold galoon. The gold is sewed on
SO as to show an edge of the dark cloth
above, as the skin looks better with dark
color against it. When the collar is of
ribbon small bow of the same may fasten
it; otherwise it is fastened invisibly, or else
with brooch. The fashionable brooch is
round, the bar pin having had its day.
Whether or not white edge is worn inside
the col ar and sleeves is optional. 1t is
never more than a mere line, and commonly
it is not used at all.
The Medicis and other high rolling COL
lars are on evening wraps, but are not much
seen on day dresses A novelty in
collar, for wool dress that is buttoned
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"And you live here all alone?" asked.
'sYes, all alone"
"You must get lonely sometimes" ven
tured.
81 don't cal'ate I'll ever get lonesome,
she said, Yearly, 'T'm too druv."
"What in the world drives you?" burst
out
"Work," she answered, IT washes eight
times a week and iron nights"
"But you rest sometimes, said, aghast.
'Oh, yes, she said simply as q child, IT
rests sometimes and then I peel few
apples while I'm restin''
'eElesnor,"I said, humbly, "you were
right. There aint no such person"
II told you SO, said Eleanor, graciously.
HELEN WATTERsoN,
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TRE SECRET OF SAUCES.

Octave Thanet Gives Few Leaves From
Her Book of Experience-Slow and
Plenty of Cooking Essential-How to
Get tColor-Handling Eggs.
WRITTEN FOR THE DTsPArcH.l
All sauces, like Gaul, may be divided
into three parts. These are -four, butter
and liquid. The favoring should be-and
with good cooks always is-purely matter
of taste. If you understand how to make
one sauce, you understand how to make all.
The secret of sauces is slow cooking and
plenty of it.
1 give you sample sauce, white sauce:
Take two table spoonfuls of sifted flour and
two table spoonfuls of butter, put them into
= sauce pan Ia smooth sauce pan Of any
kind) and at the same time. take one pint OF
any white stock, veal broth or chicken broth,
or IL you are hard pressed, a pint Of broth
made out of beef extract and boiling water
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and waving her brush in the air.
"The- w oman W ho- -Has-Time, I said,
pinning on my veil.
'There amt no sich person" remarked
Eleanor, calmly, smearing gray and white
clouds over a blue sky.
'There is, answered firmly. 'Tt isn't
you and it isn't I, Eleanor Richards, and
I'm sick of us both and of this indecent way
we have of chasing the hours through the
day; but there must be someone in this big
town who has all the time she wants, and
I'm going to find her and rest my soul in
her soothing presence"
~ don't chase the hours; they chase me. I"
demonstrated Eleanor, ''and wish you joy
of your chase after the woman-who-has-
time"
'I know her," said to myself as went
out; "she lives up by the park, and she is
the gentlest, sweetest, little middle-aged
woman that ever brought up brood Of big
boys and sent them out into the world to be
good and prosper. She is through with the
hard part of life. She certainly has whole
armfuls of spare hours" and before I was
through with my musings stood before her.
''Do you have time enough?" asked.
She sat in her library crocheting away at
big spread that looked like a rainbow up
to date.
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Done HIS Best.

Dr. Price has done his best to make his Delicious
Flavoring Extracts superior in strength freshness
and fineness Of flavor to any favoring extracts
made in the world, and ladies of the best taste,
who are now using them, have decided that his
intentions have been successfully carried out Per-
sons who desire delicate and natural flavor in
their cakes, puddings, or any table delicacy will
obtain it by using DR.. Prices Vanilla Lemon, or
Orange Extract. Try them and be convinced
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trimming round the SKIRT but you must not
take it an excursion up the side, or break it
into varied parts that ask attention to them
selves. 1t must be simple border and
nothing more-merely an edge to the skirt.
Besides the skirt border, the objective
points for ornament this season are the
shoulders, the throat and the belt. The
straight collar is on most dresses. Itshould
not be made so wide and so close as to be a
veritable choker. Long thin necks are not
beautiful A medium width looks best;
it is also most fashionable. The straight
collar can be varied, as follows:
It may be Of passementerie, even
though passementerie is nowhere else
on the garment; or it may be of jet;
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heart-shaped frame Gum q thin layer OF
cotton wadding over the face of the heart,
and over this piece of faded India silk.
On this paste cover of boiling cloth on
which buttercups, natural foliage, have
been embroidered After the standard has
been fitted, sew a fine gold cord all around
the heart. The idea may be developed In
any other color and any other flower may
be used. the prettiest being in white SILK,
edged with silver cord, and embroidered
by the hands of the bride, with an orange
blossom design, and given with her own
photograph to her maids on her marriage
morning
Finally, very charming little frames for
the tiny portraits now so popular are cut
from heavy whatman
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THE TABLE, THE bOUD0R HOME DECORATIONS AND HYGIENE.

cate in texture than the face, thus forcing
an invidious contrast. This effect is es-
pecially noticeable when the gown is dark.
A chiffon front that can be easily made at
home is of width of the material with the
top turned over and edged with lace: the
folded edge gathered into a chiffon collar,
and the lower edge gathered and falling over
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plan is to begin your work by ordering of
stationer some heavy foundation cards cut
from heavy cardboard in the shape you may
desire, two cards being required for each
frame, but if economy is a consideration,
and you make your measurements very
carefully and cut them very exactly,
YOU can save 10 cents pair,
which is the usual cost of the cut
cards. Next, provide yourself with pot of
strong, well-strained -four paste, to which
some gum arabic and a bit Of alum have
been added before boiling. Any material
almost may be chosen for the covering
handsomely figured English cretonne; gold
stamped Japanese cotton crepe; printed In
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in the back, has turned over points, and the
collar is reversed and worn with the points
in the back, leaving straight band effect
in the front.
The newest linen collar turns over the
neck band, and is similar to the byron"
collar worn by men. The cuffs to match
turn on the outside. Ties to wear with
them are Of bias silk, or of straight silk
hemstitched all the way round, or else a
mans "four-in-hand, is worn. Linen is
very severe and few people wear it.
Jabots of chiffon are a convenience in the
wardrobe, to vary the dress, though they
are often very trying to the face. The
trouble with them is that they give a
mass of light just under the chin of
about the same area as the face, and
which may by chance be even more deli
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and slice of mince pie! Shades Of Herod!
what slaughter of the innocents! And as
children out of 100 are similarly equipped
for the noon-day lunch.
Put bit Of food into a tin pail, cover it
closely and set it aside for q few hours.
Then try to eat the luncheon. The stomach
revolts at once. How much worse then for
the undeveIoped digestive organs of chill
dren. Never use a tin pail or box for
luncheon. A little basket costs no more,
and daily bath under the faucet, with a
good airing, and an occasional plunging into
clean, warm soapsuds, rinsing we'll after
ward, will preserve it sweet long time.
If laundry be a consideration fit fresh
piece Of clean white or MANILA paper-gro-
cery bags will do-inside the basket daily.
japanese paper napkins can be bought by
the quantity for a few cents, and couple
folded on top of the food. A child that
sees such dainty provision for its comfort
washes its hands and eats tidily.
PORK Isn't Good for Children.
Sundays dinner is usually somewhat
elaborate; prepare some of the dark meat
in preference to the white-of the cold fowl,
or some thin slices of the cold roast of beef
or mutton Pork should be tabooed for
children as strictly as by the Mohammedan,
and veal is almost as bad. A we'll done
mutton chop is. wholesome, but
meat ia not daily essential. Pie
should be sparingly used; cake also unless
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white hair and her pleasant face was scanned
with tiny wrinkles like bit of old parch-
ment or a quaint ivory carving The
kitchen fairly glistened with cleanliness
and wanted no whittier surface from which
to eat my luncheon than the top of the pine
table, whereon stood great dishes of drying
apples, newly sliced.