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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-14
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

-Plantain Fritters-Beat one egg.
add half pint of milk one cup of
-four and pinch of salt. Beat this
batter smooth add half teaspoonaOf
baking powder Slice the plantains
into it and fry brown.-Housekeeper.
Roasted Oysters.-Rinse the shells
clean and lay them on hot Goals with
the deepest side down so as not to lose
the liquor: when they begin to open
little they are done and the upper shell
can be easily removed with a knife,
and the oyster is to be eaten from the
lower shell. seasoned with salt. pepper
and butter.-St. Louis Republic
Lemon Cheese Cakes-The follow
ing quantities SHOULD make enough
churd TO fill twelve cheese cakes: Beat
up one egg. cream one ounce of butter
with the same quantity of castor sugar,
mix with the egg. add the grated rind
of a lemon. and the juice of half IL
When the ingredients are mixed. stand
the basin in saucepan. and stir it till
the mixture thickens--Leed' s Mercury
-Cornmeal Pie.-Scald half pint of
milk. mix two even tablespoonfuls of
eornmeal with a little milk and stir in.
Cook fifteen minutes. or little longer
il the meal settles. Cool. add two
thirds of a cup of cold milk. one egg
well beaten, three tablespoonful of
sugar and one-fourth teaspoOnful of
salt. Stir well and pour into a good
sized pie-plate lined with nice crust
Crate little nutmeg over it Bake in
a rather quick oven.-Farm, Field and
FireSide.
"A simple dessert is made ty placing
two square or four round crackers on
each dessert-plate. Pour over these as
much boiling water as they will ab-
sorb. being careful TO have the water
boiling. Add two teaspOOnfuls of su-
gar to each square cracker-Or an equal
amount to the round ones-carefully
sifted over them. and a little grated nut
meg. Put a spoonful of jelly or pre-
served fruit on each cracker. and serve
at once with sweet cream.-Farm and
Fireside.
-Bisque of Clam.-Drain twenty-five
clans. pouring one cup of cold water
over them. Put the liquor in sauce
pan over the fire to boil. When it has
reached the boiling point skim. Add
the CLANS chopped very fine; boil and
skim again. Then add one-quarter of
a cup of bread crumbs and one table,
spoonful of butter. rubbed smooth with
two of flour. Let simmer for ten min
utes. Press through sieve and return
to the kettle. When hot add one pint
of good cream. and serve at once. If
allowed to stand over the fire after the
cream is added it will curdle.
Apple Butter-Take sweet cider,
on the day it comes from the press,
boil it down one-half, add slightly
more than half the quantity of pared,
cored and sliced apples Cook slowly
and carefully. stirring with a long
wooden paddle which reaches the bot
tom of the kettle. and Swimming when
necessary. When the apple begins to
break. sweeten to taste, but it is better
if left quite tart. Continue the cooking
and stirring till the apple becomes
homogeneous mass like marmalade-
1t will keep for any length OF time in
stone jars or wooden vessels.-GOod
HousaL-aa0iur
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-14
Filed .;obnnv Cakes Arc Fine.

Did you ever eat fried Johnny
cakes?" They are perfectly delicious,
and are. think. indigenous to Missouri.
never ate them anywhere else, at any
rate. Take cupful of sour milk, one
cupful of sweet milk, two eggs and
enough soda to sweeten the mess. To
this add in cornmeal and flour till you
can make firm round balls OF the
dough by working it in your hands
make them small. using one-third flour,
the rest meal-and then drop them IN
hot lard and fry as you would dough-
nuts. Eat them when hot, with butter,
or make a gravy as for cream toast,
then cut the doughuts open and cover
Nth the crravr-N Y. World.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-14
Woman. Most Attractive A~e.

The most attractive age of a woman's
life is the period when she is still
Young enough to be pretty and old
enough TO be sympathetic, writes Oc-
tave Thanet in Ladies' Home Jour
nal. For as grace is woman's great
est beauty so sympathy is her greatest
charm. \ graceful and sympathetic
woman is bound to be attractive to the
end of her days II she adds taste In
dress and some sense to her equip
neut for pleasing and does not grow
deaf I see no reason why she should
not be fascinating in her old age
Since the question. however, concerns
itself only with the most attractive
age Of woman must give the answer in
nv first sentence. What that age as
measured by years may be ought to
vary with the individual
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-14
A PRETTY WRITING TABLET.
Can Be Made at Home and is Convenient
and Cheap

A very serviceable and pretty writ
ing tablet can be made at home with
very little trouble at the minimum of
expense. To make it, get from any
carpenter a stout. smooth board two
feet square. Cover it smoothly on both
sides with pretty figured French ere
tonne. In the lower part of the center
Of the board tack diagonally across the
corners of place eight inches wide by
twelve inches long small straps of silk
ribbon elastic. Under these straps
slip piece of blotting paper just eight
by twelve inches in size. On the left
of the blotter tack two straps of the
elastic to hold the package of note
paper and the pack of envelopes
In the upper middle portion of the
board strap of elastic is tackled up
and down, making three places in
which to stick PEN pencil and paper
knife. just above the blOtter travel
er's inkstand is firmly glued. To the
right of this a small strap is tackled on,
in which to slip little book made OF oil
paper. in which to keep postage stamps
The right side of the board has straps
so arranged as to accommodate postal
cards and another package of paper
and envelopes When good taste is
used in the selection Of the cretOnne
and neatness in the lacking of it and
the straps on the board, the effect is
something quite artistic and pleasing
The tac1s are brass-headed, and two
quite small ones are really better than
one large one, and are prettier as well
In covering the board cover the bot
tom part first. leaving a small margin
of the goods, which must be tackled
upon the thick edge of the board with
small. ordinary tacks- The upper COW
er of the board is cut with a margin
little wider than the board is thick
This surplus margin is turned under
and the cretonne tackled very smooth
" with the fancy nails, which must
be very close together.-N. Y. Adver.
riSRr
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-14

HE CANE BOUNDING OVER THE ROCKS.
right on him; then, pickin' up my
knife and that piece of rock I'd had
in my hand, I knocked off the rough
corners while I watched the Sioux for
a minute or two. They were all
mounted by this time and circlin
round the camp like mad I knew
they'd be out of my way in no time
and. tuckin' the pipestone in the
pocket of my huntin' shirt, I crept
down to the little creek bottom.
'Once out of sight, 1 did some tall
runnin' for spell must have run a
mile or more when l heard a great
yellin' way behind me that told me
that they'd found the brave I'd shot. ]
was leavin' a broad trail in the tall
grass as I ran up stream to the east
and lookin' sharp for some place &c
dodge the Sioux. When heard that
yellin' behind l knew it was time t.
get under cover. My idea, at first, was
to hide in the tall grass along the
creek. but little draw that came into
the creek from the southwest changed
nv plan. After runnin' about forty
rods. straight ahead, past the mouth
of this draw. l caved a bit of he
creeks bank into the stream. to make
them think I'd taken to the water &c
hide nv trail. and. doublin' on my
track. ran back to the draw. jumped
out of my trail as far as | could and
crept through the grass and reeds up
the draw, coveriu' my tracks behind
me as carefully as l knew how. Td
got about a hundred yards up the
draw when the whole pack came W
the creek on nv trail. ridin' pell-meu
and screechin' like so many fiends.
1t always did do me good TO fool
the :unnin' rascals. and l laughed &c
myself when I heard the snappin' and
crackin' of a fire in the dry grass
Smoke began TO curl up to the east
and the yellin' commenced again.
They'd set the creek-bottoms on fire
and were ridin' along the banks to
head me of when they'd roasted NE
out I'd got my wind and loaded the
empty barrel of ny rifle by this time,
and keepin' in the bottom of the swale
made for camp as fast as | could with
out l6GElu TOO pLGAA u lldAA ~ NCAA CL
which way I'd gone As soon as had
put a safe distance between me and
the Sioux, took 10 the open prairie,
where my moccasins left scarcely
trace as l few along over the short
dry grass l naturally kept TO the hol-
lows as much as / could. and it must
have been half an hour before l heard
or saw anything of the Sioux again
Then my ears caught the thumpin' OF
hoofs on the hard sod. and l hadn't
more than thrown myself fat in the
grass before a dozen of EN- came
swoopin' over q rise on my left, and
crossed my trail without ever seem it.
not hundred yards behind me-
Il knew there wasn't anything &c
worry about after they were out OF
sight, and took NY time gettin' &C
camp
Yes. l made this pipe out of that
bit Of rock. Its always seemed like q
friend to me ever since it saved nv
life that time. and there amt money
e nough in tie country 20 buy it N.
Y. Ledger
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-14

cream satin enriched with embroidery
in white. cream. crimson and gold; and
an outlining of japanese tinsel- The
cover should be lined with soft GRIM
son silk and have an interlining of thin
flannel.
A nightdress sachet need not be made
in the conventional shape. For con-
venience it should be moderately large.
Our model is made square, of striped
sash ribbon lined with quilting and
edged with cord, looped at the corners.
A ribbon is sewn to one of the loops at
the tips, and to close the case the four
flaps are turned inwards; the ribbon is
threaded through all the four loops
and tied into a careless bow: the
whole thus bearing some resemblance
to a Brobdingnagian envelope.-Good
Housekeeping.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-14

But Farmer Hatch can successfully
conceal from his friends the fact that
he is chewing. Charles Dickens would
never have found text for his severe
article uy contact with Col. Hatch.
lie is different from Mr.. Bland in that
he is always Clearly in his appearance
and habits, his clothes are carefully
brushed. his hair and wh;skers combed
ard his shoes shined.
Alexander VI. Dockery. also Of Mis-
souri,. the gentleman who caused the
revision of the methods Of bookkeeping
in the treasury. is gentleman of
courtly bearing and extraordinary par
liamentary acumen. He is d handsome
man. and always appeared as fresh and
Clearly and wholesome as though he
had just core from bath tub: but.
alas, he is tobacco chewer. aud takes
but little less precautlon than Mr..
Bland to conceal the unfortunate habit.
Lafe Pence. of Colorado, the brilliant
young orator from the Rockies who
looks so much like Andrew Jackson,
and acts so much like jerry Simpson.
is gone from Us by the recent popular
verdict. He and Simpson sit near each
other IN the house. and both OF them
have the carelessness OF the frontier in
their use of tobacco. Their ezpec-Ora-
tons of tobacco and single t2xisn viii
both cease TO attract attention in the
legislative hall
Speaker Crisp chews tobacco, but he
is not TO be retired. He will occupy
seat in the house and Tom Reed will
be speaker. Mr.. Reed will Danish the
spittoOn from the platform: for he
aboninates tobacco in every form
Amos j. Cummings. of New York,
will not be in the next congress He
does not chew tobacco, but he is an al
most incessant smoker. He has even
been accused of smoking in his sleep;
but he laughingly denounces the story
as campaign SANDER He is popu-
lar and able man.
Maj Baldwin. of Minnesota. who has
represented Duluth, the zenith city of
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-14

gray chin whIskers are always stained
with tobacco. He is a good natured
gentleman. but when he smiles. as he
often does. his handsome teeth are
stained with the popular poison.
Senator Coke, of Texas, the Goliath
of the senate. the tallest. the broadcast
shouldered. the heaviest weight, the
senator with the most sonorous voice,
will close his public career next March.
He chews more tobacco than any man
in congress, and not even Bland, of
Missouri, compares with him in that
respect. He voluntarily retires from
the senate, and will leave many warm
friends behind him
Senator Harris. of Tennessee, whose
present term will expire in March, will
probably be reelected for another term
of six years If he should retire, his
eloquent voice and aggressive manner
would be no more missed than the rub
Der tobacco pouch in which he carries
a large supply of fine-cut, and which
he is handling conspicuOusly every five
minutes. He was in public life forty
years ago. and maybe Charles Dickens
saw him from the gallery. If he did,
he must have received some inspiration
for his literary assault upon our repre-
hensible national masculine habit.
Eppa Hunton, of Virginia, venerable
and famous. is to retire from the SEN
ate. His successor has been elected.
Senator Hunton for nearly thirty years
championed the cause of poor old Billy
McGarrahan, the celebrated claimant
of millions, who died last year in pow
erty. Senator Hunton is a tobacco
who knows it Virginia thrived for a
century on her tobacco. and the sons Of
her soil are proud of her product.
Senator Lindsay. of Kentucky. who
succeeded the celebrated Carlisle, will
probably be elected. He is big man,
smooth shaven. with big round face.
He uses great deal of tobacco, and is
whom Dickens saw in the country ex-
ceiling in vigorous expectoration.
Senator Morgan. of Alabama. will
probably be reelected. 1t would not
be creditable to Alabama to send any
man in his place while her distin-
guished senior senator is able to serve
her in the senate. He is a moderate
chewer of tobacco, and very seldom
manifests his habit in public. He is a
wonderful orator, and his brain is an
exhaustless mine of information upon
national and international affairs.
The words of Charles Dickens quoted
above are very severe, but they are de-
served to-day, as they were then. The
chairman of the republican congress
sional committee. Mr.. Babcock. of Wis
consin, chews tobacco, almost osten-
tatiously. The chairman Of the dem
ocratic congressional committee, Sem
ator Faulkner, of West Virginia, chews
tobacco excessively. Theheadquarters
of the campaign committee of both po-
litical parties are as supplied with spit
toons as they are with campaign docu-
ments. 1t might not be out of place for
the ladies of the Woman's Christian
Temperance union to undertake cru
SADIE against tobacco in addition to
their laudable efforts against the
demon of the still. Drunkenness and
tobacco chewing are not set down in
holy writ, nor in Christian rubrics, as
prerequisites to publication, regenera-
ton or sanctifcation.
SMITH d. FRY.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-14
WOMAN AND HOME.
PUMPKIN PIE.
Something Abou. she Proper Way of Cook.
ing Pumpkin and squash.

Something Abou: she Proper Way of Cook.
ing Pumpkin and Squash.
Pumpkin for pie to be properly
cooked must Oe slowly steamed. Peel
it. remove the seeds, cut it in pieces and
put It in large iron pot. with about a
quart of boiling water to one good
sized pumpkin Cover it close. Let
it boil hard for about five or ten min
utes. and then SCI it back where it will
steam slowly for about six hours At
the end of this time nearly all the
water will be absorbed, and the pump
kin will be sweet and tender. Press it
piece by piece through a vegetable
press. By this means the pumpkin
should be well drained and thoroughly
strained, hardly more moist than we'll
mashed potato. Take FOUR cups of
this strained pumpkin. add four cups
of rich milk. a teaspoonful of salt. two
of ginger. one of nutmeg and one of
mace. a small cup OF sugar and four or
five eggs according to their size. Some
housekeepers prefer to bring the milk
to boiling point before they use it.
and this undoubtedly gives a richer
pie. Pour the pumpkin thus pre-
pared into deep pie plates that have
been lined with pastry. A properly
made pumpkin pie is at least an inch
thick. See that at least half the plates
are square tins, which give the de-
lightful corner pieces of old times.
A squash pie is much more easily
made and this may be the reason why
il has taken the place of pumpkin in
some localities. For among vegetables
the fittest does not survive, but that
which is the easiest handled and gives
the least trouble. To make q squash
pie use five cups of strained and cooked
squash to one quart of boiling milk.
Add grated rutmeg, heaping tea
spoonful Oh salt, the juice of half
lemon. tablespoonful of butter and
five or six eggs, according to size. Bake
the pie for from fOrty-five to fifty min
utes in rapid stove oven. In the old
fashioned brick oven they were baked
about one hour.-N. Y. Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-14
CHRISTMAS FANCY WORK.
inexpensive Articles Which Are Sure (
Eri


Please Your Friends
A splash-back to a vashstand saves
many an ugly stain upon the wall
paper. Novelty in shape is now sought,
and one of the latest ideas represents
huge fan of plated cretonne or art"
muslin. II the latter is used, it is so
thin that it requires lining. The better
plan is to cut the fan shape out in
American cloth. or even stout brown
paper, and then to take long strip of
the muslin having lace sewn (plainly
not full along the top edge and oplait
that over the paper. lacking it here
and there to keep it in place. The
splasher can be hung up by a cord, the
ends of which are to be brought
through holes pierced in the founda-
ton.
A key cover keeps dust from the
piano and can be made exceedingly or
namental. The material chosen should
be as rich as possible; we are thinking
now of a background of rather bright
crimson plush, with a central band of
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-14

the unsalted seas" will not be mere
with his huge tobacco pouch when the
congress comes again. He is another
of the genteel chewers. strong man
and good man despite the tobacco
habit.
Senator Berry. of Arkansas. has been
reelected He is a man of wonderful
forcefulness of character, strong
champion of southern interests, sec
tionalist of the ante-bellum grade. He
has but one leg, hops about on
crutches. and chews tobacco during all
of his wakeful hours: and he seldom
sleeps.
Senator Camden, of West Virginia.
will not be returned. His lips and
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-14

tomatoes, with the four green leaves
at the top.
Those of rough wood with large cher
ries sprinkled over the handle are sold,
but are not bit smart in tone.
The preferable ones are carved in
long slabs that are tipped with silver
or twisted in circle at the end that
the owner may slip her hand in to hold
it better.
A style that fits the woman in the
rough tailor gov is built similarly to
mans cane, having broad claw of
wood or burnt ivory tipped with silver
placed at right angles to the handle
proper.
Burnt ivory is very fashionable still,
especially if mounted with narrow fill
gree silver bands. and some devices
show an elfs face carved into the ivory,
surmounted by cap of silver. Very
dressy umbrellas have handles of plain
mother of pearl, fashioned column
like; others have a large amethyst or
emerald laid into the metal at the end.
But women who dress modishly don't
GO in for any of these styles as much as
they do for the rough or scented wood,
twisted and turned and capped charity
with silver.
4 word as TO the care Of your UNI
brella. Never put it ferrule down.
ward when wet. If you can't open it
and allow it to dry at its best, which is
the correct method, then place it ham
die downward, so there is no chance
for the drippings to remain in the tip
and rot the silk. Again, never go out
with your umbrella unrolled when not
in use 1t is world of saving if the
cover is always kept on it. TO say moth
ing of the smarter appearance it makes
-Jocelyn Davis, in Chicago Record
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knife, when the handle happened to
slip through my fingers Like fash |
dropped my hand, and my body with
il. to catch the keen blade before i,
struck the rocky ground. [ tell you
what, boys, it was lucky for me that
dropped that knife, for the instant l
stopped to catch it-twang! zip, spat!
an arrow whizzed through the collar
of my huntin' shirt from behind and
cracked against the rock in front of
me. The sneakin' varmint that fred
it was so close that l heard the twang
of his bow string plain as day. and
that quick stoop of mine just as he let
fly was all that saved me from gettin'
it straight through the body.
"A mans senses act mighty quick
sometimes when he finds himself in a
tight pinch like that; somethin'
quicker than reason tells him what to
do. specially if he knows the tricks of
the enemy he's got to deal with as l
did those of the crafty Sioux. The
second that feathered shaft flashed
past my throat l knew that l hadn't
more than one redskin to cope with.
IL AncIt 4ldd Occu lhCIC
would have been more arrows
knew, too, that he was hid so close by
that he could stick me full of arrows
If | should make a break and run for
it before | could get out of range or
see so much as feather of his to draw
a bead on. As | said before. fellows
wits are apt TO work pretty fast in a
fix like that, and that arrow admit
more than hit the ground after smash
in its flint head against the rocks, be-
fore l gave yell, threw ND my arms
and tumbled fat on my face. You've
seen them actor fellers get shot and
fall over dead on the stage? Well. l
low you never seen 'em play it any
finer than did that time. No Sioux
ever doubted his aim at that distance,
and when l went down with yell
that sneakin' coyote was as sure of my
scalp as if it was already dangling at
his belt.
Like a fash l wheeled over on my
back and made ready for him; and
wasn't a mite too soon. either. for the
minute l dropped he let off a whoop
that you could have heard half way
to the Canada line. and | hadn't any
more than cooked my rife and got il
to my shoulder before he came bound
in over the rocks with his tomahawk
in his hand. I'll never forget the look
in his black eyes when they met
mine. but | sent a cloud of smoke
into his face before he could throw his
tomahawk, and at the crack OF my
rife he came tumblin' like a log al
most on top of me. l was afraid ]
was in for it then. with the whoop the
fellow gave and the noise of my gun so
near that Sioux camp. Sure enough,
when l scrambled to my feet and
looked over the tops of the rocks. that
bunch of willow was alive with reds.
Most of EN- were maxim for the
ponies. hut three or four were run.
min out on the prairie in different
directions to reconnoiter. You see,
they heard the sounds plain enough,
but didn't know which way they came
from. rolled the dead Sioux UP
close against the rocks, where they
wouldn't see him until they stumbled