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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-12-22

1inegar. Lay the bird in dish Jus,
arge enough to hold it and cover with
pint each of vinegar and claret and q
gill of salad oil. Turn frequently that
every part of the flesh may be acted on
by the acid and oil. It is safe to say
hat mine host makes use of this secret
20 economic by buying old, tough birds,
since the effect of this treatment is to
soften the fibers of the flesh as well as
% flavor it.
AS regards the best stufing for a
turkey there are many men of many
minds" The finest bread dressing is
made of half pound each of sweet,
| stale bread crumbs-the crumbs from
u loaf twenty-four hours old-and
| nicely creamed and mashed potatoes,
half cup of minced mushrooms, four
ounces of the best butter. and a sea-
;oning of sweet marjoram. summer
savory. pepper. salt, grated nutmeg
and grated lemon rind. Hold to-
yether with beaten egg.
You ca n change the flavor of this bv
substituting for the mashed potato,
y
IAN double the quantity of crumbs and
1avor principally with minced onion
.ried in butter, but when mushrooms
are used leave out the onion.
Sweet potato stufing was the favor
tie of Mrs. Senator Vance, of North
Carolina. They must be baked in their
skins and then mashed smoothly and
l,rrl 1x-.sb x,la - ii
;easonings to taste.
The wife of one of our chief justices
prefers French or Italian chestnuts for
stufing. Boil or roast the nuts, peel
and fill the body of the bird. Some
cooks use half pound each of lean
zeal and fresh pork. at least half of
The latter being fat; moisten with broth
and for a good-sized bird add fifty
.hestnutS-
Ar oyster stuffing is most delicious;
use as much of the oyster liquor as is
accessory to moisten the requisite
quantity of crumbs, of which you want
only half enough to fill the bird, then
season highly and add oysters enough
to make up the balance
VI COul SC d "a A&&3tS Il tilC
ne plus ultra, but as it takes at least
pound for a small turkey they arc not
often used
A turkey garnished with sage has
very festive, not to say bacchanalisn,
appearance Three-Quarters of an
hour before the cooking is finished
festoon it with strings OF link sausage;
these you mnst turn from time 10 time
so that every part shall be as brown as
the bird itself. The better the favor
OF the sausage. OF course the finer the
favor of the turkey With this ycu
will want gibiet sauce made by stewing
and mincing the gihle.s and adding
them to the gravy in the pan after the
fat has been removed. Thicker and
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-12-22

color with Tournade Kitchen bouquet.
| With celery stuffing serve both a
giblet and celery sauce. and with
oyster stufing an oyster sauce.
The vegetables served at Christmas
dinner should be prepared with special
! reference to pleasing the eye, although
certainly not at the expense of the
taste. A dainty way to serve potatoes
1 is to prepare quantity of mashed po-
tatoes with less cream or milk than
for plain use: let these get cold and
| mold compactly into the form Of small
| apples-they should be no larger than
lady apples; make slight indentation
in the stem end. roll in crumbs then in
egg and again in crumbs and stand in
the icebox until wanted. A few mo-
ments before serving immense them
until golden brown in very hot
dripping of lard. using wire basket
Lay on napkins on hot dish and
insert the stem of an apple or tiny
crust of bread shaped like stem.
Very small white onions Drowned in
butter and then cooked in stock until
done are very savory.
Celery fritters make a very delicate
little course. The white stocks of cell
cry cut in two-inch lengths are boiled
until tender in sailed water. Drain
and dip in batter made from the yoll1
of raw egg, a tablespoonful of solid
Oil or melted butter, four ounces of
-four and cold water enough to make it
of the right consistency. The moment
before using stir in the whipped white
of the egg
Sweet potatoes should not make their
appearance au naturel. but boiled, cut
in eighths, and basted with plenty of
in quick oven they are delicious.
Small, even sized tubers are also nice
when baked. after which cut slice off
the top, laying the potato, of course,
on its side, scoop out the inside. mash
with plenty of melted butter and sea-
son with salt and white pepper and re-
turn to the case which should not have
Sweet potatoes au caramel are almost
a CONNECTION, but they will please any
southern guests whom you may hap
pen to have at your table. Boil, pare,
cut in carpets and lay in a baking dish,
each layer with plenty of
butter, generous sprinkling of brown
sugar and cinnamon, and just shake
of -four; when the dish is tvo-thirds
full flash on half a cup of hot water
and bake three-quarters of an hour in
a moderate oven.
If roast pig graces your Christmas
table a very pretty way to serve the
necessary apple sauce is as follows: Sc
lect number of smooth, rosy, well-fa-
vored Baldwin pippins; polish them to
the last stage of ruddiness, cut slice off
the top and scoop out the inside leav-
ing wall of perhaps half an inch.
enough to keep the apple in shape.
Make nice apple sauce seasoning.
havoring it appetizingly, and fill the
followed apples with it. Insert the
stem OF an apple or any bit of twip bv
way of a stem, and serve one to each
person on pretty dish or like a sorbet
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on dolly laid on pretty pate. Very
finely minced orange rind is a delight
full favoring for apple sauce.
A pretty substitute for the ordinary
cranberry or other jelly is made from
ounces. Core, pare and halve num-
Der; cook until tender in strip made
by boiling cup of sugar in pint Of
water; lay on dish that can go in the
| oven and pour over little of the
sirup, just enough to glaze them: set
| in the oven until golden brown.
Meantime cook the skins and cores I'M
| til tender in very little water;
squeeze through jelly bag and add to
the syrup in which the ounces were
cooked, allowing measure for measure
of sugar; boil fifteen minutes. Then
transfer The ounces to the dish in
which they are to go to the table, and
pour oyer this the jelly which is of
beautiful pink color. The individual
and delicious flavor of the ounce
makes this very acceptable accom-
paniment to any kind of poultry or
game.
do not need to consult Soyer or
Francatelli for recipe for chicken
pie. / am sure when YOU have tried
that of an old Guilford dame you will
want no other. The best dish to cook
it in is large brown ''nappy," holding
not less than three quarts. XIII the
chickens several days before wanted
and see that they be tender and well
grown, weighing from six to seven
pounds the pair. You will want the
best parts of four chickens. Joint as
for fricassee, laying aside the first and
second joints, the breast and upper
joints of the wings for your pie, aud
making stock from the remainder
with knuckle of veal or some bones
OF cold roas. veal Cook The
lointed birds with four ounces
of salt pork cut in strips in
Just enough boiling water 10 cover;
simmer slowly and season when half
done. When tender butter the dish.
lay in the chicken and pork. seasoning
each layer and adding dozen little
force meat balls made from bread /
crumbs, thyme. savory, parslev. sal. /
and pepper and some OF the finely I
minced chicken and veal used IN maxi 1
ing the stock which must be taken i
from the stock pot for tina. purpose as
soon as tender. Cover the tsp with a 4
good paste, at least half an inch thick. 4
cut hole in the center and pour in !
half pin; % stock When half pa ked +
add more stock Bake this the dsy be-
fore Christmas 1t will bear heating.
or il VIII be delicious served cold for
late supper.
Fc- small Christmas dinner pair
az tender dneklinTs aay be substituted
for the regulation turkey. & very
tasteful dressing IS made by mixing
minced oyioF thai has been fried IN
batter with Two cap.rlS CT eruzbz
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-12-22
PERSONALS.

Simon Greenspan, Topeka. is stopping at
the Carey.
C. A. Newmeyer. Weir City. is in the city
on business.
S. l. Hall, La Crosse, Kan. is visitor in
the city.
C. W. Myers, Greenshurg, came in last
night to transact some business.
d. r. Getter and wife. Wellington, are
in the city, guests at the Carey.
Ed Gould, Hennessey, is in the city doing
business.
Judge J. C. Strang. Guthrie, is guest
at the Carey.
Edwin Hillyer. Topeka, came down last
night and will remain day or two
A. L. Green, Newton, is in the city on
business.
J. F. LytIe, Emporia, is stopping in the
city.
S. F. Galbreath, Solomon City, is trans
acting business In the city.
J. W. Hamilton, St. Louis. came in yes
terday afternoon.
Thomas Best, Medicine Lodge, is guest
at the Carey.
y. A. Mathis. Newton, is in The city on
visit.
George w. Winans Edmond, o. T., is in
the city.
George c. Pritchard. Topeka, is at the
Manhattan.
A. NJ. Mackey, Pond Creek, is guest at
the Manhattan.
Oscar Rice, St. Joe, is in the city on
business.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-12-22

/, groaned under the greatest profusion
of dishes. To-day that housewife is
most to be envied who can prepare the
| daintiest feast or who can greet the
eyes and palates of her guests with
some pretty and novel dish, some little
original wrinkle in the making of a
sauce or the cooking of the time-hon-
ored turkey,
In France it is the custom among
poulterers to feed their poultry for
weeks beforehand on a diet composed
largely of highly peppered animal
food (which conduces greatly to quick
growth and consequent size. In early
times the French varied the favor of
their fowls by feeding them at great
cost with paste qualified with musk,
anise seed and other aromatic spices.
It was a French queen who spent if
teen hundred francs in imparting a
peculiarly delicate flavor to the livers
Of three geese. 1 once knew an
aristocratic old epicure Il almost said
''gourmand) who never allowed a
turkey on his table that had not been
fed for weeks before under his special
direction. Sometimes a diet of sweet
potatoes, both raw and boiled, milk
and grain was given and again nuts
with large quantities of animal food,
cabbage and lettuce.
Unless you have your own poultry
yasd you cannot of course make exper-
iments of this kind, but you can by
your skill in cooking add such favors
as the grower has failed to impart.
For the highest gastronomic effect
your Christmas turkey should be of the
hen variety, led to the block after
fast of twenty-four hours, broken only
at the last by spoonful of the best
vinegar, after which it will die
gamer" that is the meat will be
winter. sweeter and Of better flavor
All of this your poultry merchant will
attend to for you. l know of one en-
terprising dealer who engaged his tur-
keys six weeks before Christmas, and
then fed them up for special customers
according to their directions.
An Italian restaura teur in New
York city gives a delicious flavor to
ais turkeys by keeping them for two
days in mariuade of claret, oil and
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-12-22
GREAT ATTRACTION.
fancful Costumes he Worn at the Masone
radc BAN.

On Wednesday evening. Dec. %, Queen
City lodge No. 20. d. of H., will give 4
masquerade ball that foe novelty and
pIctnresqueness will eclipse any attempt
heretofore made. All the arrangements
are completed. Shaw's best music will he
furnished, the hall will be brilliantly
lighted. the reception rooms made com
Portable, and every minor detail will be
attended 10. Forty-three costumes. rem
resentins nearly everything fanciful. have
been prepared. Ali persons who were
present at the ball on the end of Novem-
Der are invited. the large number of iuyi-
tatlons printed having run out. From the
Character of the printed invitations. the
impression has gone abroad that il WAS to
TIE domino party. but such is not the
case. 1t isto be a masquerade of the most
unique and charming description. and the
man or woman VINO misses it will not be
in it. 1t will prove the greatest attraction
of the season.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-12-22

The delightful concert given at Thomas
Shaw's music store last night WAS tho
oughly enjoyed by large number of Cir.
~shs- lhe Charming music attracted the
attention OF all passers and was common
TED on as neing OF the highest order The
concerts will continue all the week.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-12-22

Ii. NJ. Chenanlt of Fort Scott was in the
city Yesterday on business. making the
EAGLE a pleasant call in the afternoon. IT.
Is understood over in the Second district
hat this prince of politicians" AS the
Fort Scott Monitor dubs him. will be .
Candidate Tor the nomination for CONGRESS
by the Populist party. He would dignity
his party. while rejecting no discre6it 70
Tie state, If nominated and elected
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-12-22
Aiore Llke IL.

hunker-Miss hilduff is girl o. the
period. She is always asking cues
tons.
Spatts-ln that case should call her
a girl OF the interrogation point
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-12-22

The eighth grade of the Webster school
viii entertain its friends and patrons with
Christmas program this afternoon, be-
ginning at 2 o'clock. All are cordially in
ri,ad
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-12-22
WICHITA UNIVERSITY.

The Philomathean Literary society of
the Wichita university Will render the
following special program in their hall
this friday evening:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-12-22

wsen Baby was sick. We gave her cesto-;.
When she wis 4 Child, she cried FOR Csstoria.
When she became Miss. she citing TO Castoris,
whoa she had Children, she gave then Casse-ia
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-12-22

Pastor Sims has closed the meeting at
Haysville, and will give all his friends
Christmas greetings at the Central next
| ,ord'S day
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-12-22
AN XMAS BANQUET.
Some Savory Dressings and Appe.
thing Sauces
Dainty Ways OF Serving vegetables-Lob-
ster Cutlets-Mushroom Pates-Tip.
ON Salads and Pretty Desserts
Model Table.
TcoPTRIGHr. 1897

In the good old
times" which it
is the fashion to
laud. but which
I fancy few of
us would care
to exchange for
the present, the
m cd Ell Christ
mas table was
a. - -
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-12-22

behatc Kesoived, That Grant Was betr
general than Lee
Ahirniactye-S. ID. Long. Il. +. shelton.
Negative III. :. Bird, J. w. Grinstead.
Gar connections will be made.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-12-22
Notary Seals.
Attorneys Pocket Docket.

The Lawyers wade Necum" can be used in any
State and in any court. The most complete and
convenient pocket docket published, with two
indexes-an alphabetical index and diary index;
shows at glance just what date a lawyer has
in court; keeps complete record of of the case.
Handsomely bound IN flexible back, convenient
size to carry in the pocket Endorsed by attorneys
everywhere Price of Docket 800. BY mail post
paid to any address upon receipt of s1.07.
Milford chronicle., 1893-10-27
The Trouble WIN Tho nnrs.-

In that street of sights, West Twenty
third street, a trifing incident attracted
unusual attention today. It was that of a
glossy black horse attached to the light
wagon Of a dry goods house
The animal was left for a moment near
the curb while the driver ran into build
ing. Something seemed the matter with
the brute. 1t pulled and nodded its head,
but its feet did not move Shoppers and
sightseers stopped to look at the animal,
and the sidewalk soon became congested.
ITS a fine horse, too, " 1T must have the
shakes, Something's the matter with its
head, were the sympathetic remarks made
but no one did anything.
Presently "a well dresser woman of fine
physique and evident hif breeding came
forward in the crowd. Anstinctively a pas
sage seemed TO open for her.
Lifting a daintily gloved hand the gentle
woman unfastened the checkrein that held
the animals head. The horse tossed its
name with a shake of relief and dropped
it head near its feet. There on the clean
curb lay the fresh skin of banana Seiz-
ing Do in its teeth, the horse raised its head
and devonred it eagerly.
'lt'sa shame to torture a fine horse like
that, remarked the gentle hSarator as she
patted the sleek, glossy neck.
When She moved away, those in the
crowd looked as IF each was ashamed of
the other for not knowing what to do.
''Ihat Eein ought so be abolished" " said
Agent Smart of the Society For the Proven
tion of Cruelty to Anig-als as he moved
out Of the Crowd.-New 81 FIX Telegram.
Milford chronicle., 1893-10-27
A Ghnst ii 40 1rindnrr.

A practical joke was played upon the
archbishop Of York on a recent Sunday
evening in a suburban church near London.
His lordship was in the midst Of a most
moving discourse when unearthly groans
and cries, as of some creature in dire mental
and bodily distress, were heard proceeding
from one of the windows The archbishop
stopped speaking, and all eyes were turned
fearfully toward the window.
In another moment the window sash was
suddenly and noiselessly raised A chastity,
grinning human skull appeared, hoyered
momentarily in midair and as quickly van
ished. Women tainted, men howled, and
the archbishop gasped and turned white,
although, Of course, being avery learned and
godly prelate, he knew it could only be a
poor joke
Some strong nerved and brawny young
members Of the congregation rushed into
the graveyard outside, but in the pitch
darkness could discover neither the joker
nor his property skull. Meanwhile the
more hysterical women had been removed
to the vestry, and the archbishop, pulling
himself together, resumed his sermon with
out making any reference to Incorporation.
The window, however, all the evening ex-
ercised a disturbing fascination. More
eyes were turned to it than to the preacher,
and the effect Of the discourse was entirely
spoiled.
If the jokers can be found, they win be
charged under an ancient statute with
brawling in church. The lawyers hope
they viii be caught, so that the interesting
question may be argued How can any
body brawl in church if he does not enter
the sacred building New York SUMS Lon
don Letter.
Milford chronicle., 1893-10-27

lasting welfare, with al the urgency Of an
immortal addressing immortals, cry from
the depths of my soul and at the top OF my
voice, let gow Last summer the life say
ing crew at East Hampton invited me to
come up to the life station and see the crew
practice for twice a week they are drilled
in the important work assigned them by
the United States government, and they 90
through all the routine Of saving the ship
wrecked. But that would give little idea
of what they would have todoif some mid
night next winter, the wind driving beach
ward, a vessel should get in the grasp Of a
hurricane.
See the lights fare from the ship in the
breakers, and then responding lights far
ing from the beach, and hear the rockets
buzz as they r.se, and the lifebOat rumbles
out, and the gun booms, and the lifeline
rises and falls across the splintered decks.
and the hawser tightens, and the life car
goes to and fro. carrying the exhausted
mariners, and the ocean, as if angered by
the snatching Of the human prey from the
white teeth Of its surf and the stroke Of
its hiilowing paw, rises with increased fury
to assail the land. So now am engaged in
no light drill, practicing for what may
come over some Of your souls. It is with
some Of you wintry midnight and your
hopes for this world and the next are
wrecked.
But seel Seei The lights kindled on the
beach. I throw out the life line. Haul in,
hand over handl All, there is a lifeboat In
the surf which all the wrath Of earth and
hell cannot swamp, and its Captain with
Scared hand puts the trumpet to his lips
as he cries "Oh, Israel thou hast DESTROYED
thyself, but in me is thy help" But what
is the use of all this if you decline to get
into it, You might as well have been a
sailor on board that laundering ship Of the
Mediterranean when the mariners cut the
ropes Of the boat and let her fall off.
Milford chronicle., 1893-10-27

Next to that Of umbrellas, the ownership
Of books is perhaps the least respected.
Hence the philosophical though rude re-
mark ''that fools lend books and wise rnen
borrow them"
The day IS usually reckoned as being q
hours in length Strictly speaking, such IS
a mistake The standard unit cf time Is
the "sidereal day, p which iss3 hours, 68min-
utes and 4092 seconds in 'solar'' ''mean''
time.
The little town Of Newport, Hants county,
Nova Scotia, has a population Of about
1,400, and there are among them 40persons.
p Of them women, whose united ages
amount to $3.50 years, an average Of s
years each.
The points OF the compass can be told
from trees by the following simple observa-
tions: The side of the trees ON which most
Of the moss Is found Is the north II the
tree is exposed to the sun, the heaviest and
longest limbs viii be on the south side
Crete, or Gambia. is very fertile island
covered with an abundant growth Of arc
matte herbs. myrtle, orange, lemon, almond
and poipegranaea tres. 40, long al Il,
people Of Crete made a desperate enc. IS
secure their Independence from Turkey.
but they were not successful.
The Japanese tattooers netsoniy picture
dragons and flowers and musmaes on tlra
bodies Of their patrons, but 20 meet the
artistic demands Of Europeans they now
produce in c0lors an exact ph0.aqraph Of
any cherished friend whose image NE tat
tooed person may desire to have Consistently
with him.
Milford chronicle., 1893-10-27
The Duke OF PortIand's Baa Manner

An amusing story is current W., -
counter between the Duke of Pqxtland. .qp,.
was out deer stalking and a Supposed tres
passer in Caithness forest. : On COMING
across this intruder the duk ke harangued
him in no very fattering tegns, and on the
man stammering out that, ,he had as much
right there as the dukB his grace forth
with went in search of q gillie and ordered
him to deal with thjs profaner of landed
rights. 1t then TUNED out that this indi-
vidual was on Ithe geological survey and
was lawfully ( yfthorized to go wherever his
business took him. He was, in fact, the
son of Hugh Miller!LLondon,T Truth.
Milford chronicle., 1893-10-27
Woman's Age.

The wish toconceal her age is so popular
ly supposed to be second nature to every
woman that it has come to be accepted al
most as one Of her prerogatives. Even ON
the witness stand legal inquiry and judg-
ment are very lenient on. this point here in
America. Over in Austria, however, it
seems, it is a serious offense, and recently a
marriage was declared void because the
husband proved that his wife had deceived
him as to her age, claiming to be Is years
younger than she really was.-New York
Times
Milford chronicle., 1893-10-27
RHeklenis Arnlea save,
ans

Germany produces more zinc ths any
other country and exports between 0.o0o
and 60,00O tons annually.
It is stated that pail Of water eontain-
ing handful Of hay, if placed in a room
where there has been smoking, viii absorb
all the odor of the tobacco.
In the 10 years ending 1859 the inhahit-
ants Of London died ct an average annual
rate Of q for every thousand living. In
the 10 years ending 1889 that rate was
only 20.
A wire fence 68 miles long, feet high
and composed Of IA parallel strands Of wire
has been placed around the private park Of
Dr. Seward webb Of New York, In the
Aairnnlanl-.
Milford chronicle., 1893-10-27
Auistant Relative.

Let mesee," said Bobbs to Dobbs, isn't
this Dobbs that we were just talking about
a relative Of yours?"
"A distant relative, " said Dobbs.
Every distantW
ST should think so. He's the oldest Of
70 children, and Pm the youngest. Lon
don Tit-Bits.
Milford chronicle., 1893-10-27
mr. GIncier Thennnl.

About 1887 a horseshoe was found under
the ice of the glacier Theodul in Switzer-
land, which led geologists to the idea that
this pass, 1922 meters high, was formerly
not imbedded in ice This has been further
confirmed by a recent find of coins bearing
the Ikenesses Of Augustus and Diocletian.
journal of Education.