The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-16
Facts of Interest
TO5WOmen Readers.
Symposium of Information, Partly Grave,
Partly Cosby and Partly Gay.

and prepare certain grilled waffies that
| delighted epicures as did her literary
work men of letters, The Empress
Josephine eXcelled in guava preserves.
Egg Plant Fritters-Take large-sized
egg plant. leave the skin and stem on
and boil till tender. Remove the skin and
| mash very fine in an earthen bowl with
teaspoonful of salt. Drain off the liquor
and add plenty of pepper large iron
spoonful of flour. half a cup of milk or
cream and three eggs This makes a nice
batter. Drop into boiling hot lard and fry
as you would fritters.
Baked Hash-Mince fine any pieces Of
cold cooked meat. To every pint of meat
add one cup of bread crumbs, table
spoonful of butter, a sprig of parsley,
chopped, little chopped onion Qf the
| flavor Is not disliked), IA teaspoonful of
| lemon juice or vinegar, and II seasoning
OF pepper and salt. Add sufficient gravy
| to moisten 1t thoroughly, but not enough
| TO make 1t sloppy. Just make it warm
over the fire, mix WELL and bake it in
| hot oven twenty minutes.
Chicken Patties-Chop the chicken meat,
| free from gristle, season with salt, pep
| per and a little celery or sage, place a lit
| tie OF the meat on pieces of puff paste
press the edges together, making small
turnovers. place them in a shallow pan,
ana bake nice brown, serve with drawn
butter or II gravy made from the liquor
in which the chicken was cooked.
MuffnS-One quart of flour, one pint of
warmed milk less two tablespoonfuls,
one teaspoonful salt, half a gill of yeast,
mix at night and beat till light In the
morning drop the well-rsen batter into
buttered cups; let stand twenty minutes
then bake and serve. These can be
made of water instead of milk, but are
much less tender.
Banana Blancmange-Into a quart of
boiling milk stir four tablespoonfuls of
corn starch wet with a little milk and a
quarter of cupful of sugar When 1t
thickens set aside to cool. When properly
cold stir in a small teaspoonful of extract
or vanilla and two or thre thinly sliced
bananas.
beci Cake-Take equal quantities of
cooked beef chopped fine and soaked
Tread crumbs, add one onion, chopped
salt and pepper to suit taste, a table
spoonful of chopped pork to every quart
of the mixture, one egg and little sage
or savory; place it in a fiat pan, and bake
twenty or thirty minutes.
Creamed Bacon-Bake in the oven slc>C
OF bacon till they are brown and crisp;
put them on hot platter; add to the fat
in the pan Il tablespoonful or more of
flour; stir till smooth, add gradually a tea
cupful and a half of milk and cook two
minutes.
Hominy Dabs-One cup of fine hominy
boiled two hours in quart of milk;
while hot add a little salt, two eggs well
beaten, a piece of butter the size of an
egg. Drop from a spoon on a tin sheet
and bake a light brown.
y Fish Sauce-Boil two anchovies and
half an onion chopped very fine, In one
| tablespoonful of vinegar, four of wine
and four of melted butter or cream and
serve very hot.
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN:
Susan b. Anthony has not slept at home
for four years.--~-.-"
Lady Randolph Churchill wears the very
exceptionally granted and much coveted
imperial order of the crown of India, con-
ferred upon her by the queen.
Mrs. Burton Harrison is said, on good
authority, to be the best paid woman
writer in the country The Century Mag
azine pays her 1872 cents a word for all
her stories.
The Chinese now find it more profitable
to raise their female infants than to
strangle them. In 1870 the average price
of a wife in the flowery kingdom was f5.
Now it is $50.
Women real estate agents have already
been successful in several places, and 1t
is somewhat surprising that more women
do not so into a business for which many
of them seem, well fitted.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox is an untiring pa
tron of manicurists, givers of facial mas
sage, chiropodists and shampooers. She
says she believes, on principle, in being as
good looking as she can be.
Queen Victoria will use electricity for
lii,
atus has been installed at Osborne in the
Isle of Wight. 1t is, however. only used
for the more delicate dishes.
Mrs. Willie X. Vanderbilt is going in
for cycling. At first she went to an
academy for her lessons, but now she
practices under the same tuition in the
great ball room of her own house.
Mrs. Eva Wilder Broadhead known in
literature as Eva Wilder McGlasson and
who Is now enjoying wedding trip on ami
about the Mediterranean, Is said to be the
youngest established magazlnist in the
country.
Mrs. Clara Cresslngham, one Of the three
feminine statesmen In the Colorado legls-
lature, has introduced bill in the lower
house Of that body ito create a state board
of arbitration and mediation fof the pur-
pose of settling labor troubles.
i ne TACT tnul Two EilBnSn women uOC-
tors should be simultaneously sent to the
bedside of an Indian queen and an Afghan
king, in each case with the happiest re-
suits. is a romantic episode of the "Wo-
mems Movement" thinks the Westmn-
ster Gazette.
DR.. Charlotte Ellaby has just come back
to England after completely restoring the
sight of the maharani of Jamnagar,
whose court is en- fete over the event.
The operation was for cataract The
maharani, according to a correspondent,
can now read small print with ease
Sister Agnes. the superioress of nurs-
ing institution at Brest, has received the
| order of the Legion of Honor. This makes
the twenty-ninth nun that has received
the honor. The first was Mme Biget
known as Sister Martha, who was decor
| ated by Napoleon In 1916. Apart from sis
ters, nineteen women In all have received
the decoration. 81
A woman's paradise exists In the Indian
ocean. The tiny island of Mnicoy. mid
way between the Maldive and Lacadive
group, Is entirely under feminine rule, the
men humbly taking the second place ON
every occasion. The woman Is the head
both of the government and of the home,
and when she marries her husband takes
her name and hands over all his earn
| ings throughout his married life.
The average waist of women is now "a
| inches against 10 inches five years ago.
| This development Is not attributed to
| the dress reformers, but to Sarah Bern.
| hardt. The people who invent new COS
| tunes have been inspired by the grace
and beauty of Sarah's clothes. These
are copied for their customers 1t is i'm
possible to wear these costumes with cor
| sets. Hence the waist has its chance.
1t Is noticed that Mrs. George Gould has
changed her whole manner and bearing
| since the death ,of her father-in-law.
tWhen Jay Gould was alive she was very
quiet, went out but little and had but few
visitors even to her opera box. Now