The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-22

moist. instead of the sloppy mouthfui OF
salted and peppered bread one TOO often
finds served as bird stufing.
Fol ducks and geese, nicely boiled
I onions, wei drained and chopped with
sage and pepper and salt to taste is the
proper stufing and they must never be
offered without a generous dish of tart
apple sauce the snowy wilderness of
which is attained by beating in half the
juice of a lemon to each quart of sauce.
With chicken and game. cranberry jelly
is preferred by many to currant and an
easy and unfailing rule that is sure to
sjell," as the country people say, is to
boil a quart of the fruit first for one
minute with quarter of a t~eaeupful of
water, then press through a bright tin
collander or coarse hair sieve, return to
the fire, let come to the boil with a large
breakfast coffee cup heaping full Of
sugar and pour into the mould This
made in the morning will be properly
stiff by evening. and will be just in
the quivering stage without being too
firm. sS ss2&
A thick chicken soup should always
be made from the broth In which a fowl
has been stewed. as when this is eaten
the full nourishment of the chicken is
obtained. Made as follows it is one of
the most delectable soups ever tasted,
once tired it will be a standing favorite,
and is a recipe for which a notable cook
is justly famous. Melt in a good-sized
| agate or porcelain lined saucepan, q heap
ing tablespoonful of butter, when boiling
hot, but not brown, stir in two scant table
| s~poonfuls of sifted flour, add salt and
white pepper to taste, then stir slowly
into it a quart of the broth and a pint
of milk boiling hot, stir until it is of the
consistency of thick cream and shoud in
variably be served with crouton. The last
named are merely made from thick slices
of a stale loaf cut into dice and thrown
into deep boiling lard to brown.
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Old shoes in this country are often re-
paired and sold by secondhand dealers
ard are cut up and the bits of leather
used in a variety of ways. but there IS
not nearly so much demand for them as
in France. There the ash heap and other
similar places are eagerly watched for
them, and they are bought up in guam
titles by rag dealers and sold to fac
tories. where the shoes are taken apart
and submitted to long manipulations
which turn them into a paste, from
which the material is transformed into
an imitation leather, appearing very
much like the finest morocco. Upon this
material stylish designs are stamped, and
wall papers, trunk covers and simils.
articles are manufactured from it.
Another French industry using old d.
lapidated shoes is the transforming of
old into new footwear. This is the prin-
cipal occupation of the military convicts
imprisoned in the fortress of Montpelier.
There the shoes are taken apart, all the
nails are taken out and then the leather
is soaked in water some time to soften t.
From these pieces that can be used are
cut the uppers for children's shoes, and
parts of the soles are similarly used. The
smallest pieces of leather are applied
to be used in high Louis XIV heels, which
were so much In style a few years ago.
Even the nails Of the old shoes are
used again. They are separated by a
magnet which attracts the steel nails,
while the copper and brass nails are car
RED on further. The price received for
the old copper nails alone almost pays
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pings and cuttings of the leather are also
used, being turned into a paste from
which artificial leather is made, and what
is not good enough to serve for this pur-
pose is sold with n. sweepirgs 10 agr:-
cultur.sts in the neighborhood, VINO use
this paste with great success as a fer
tilizer.
a pofa for &h1 st1hfrNor baI,caLoI6ar.
Tree planting may be done in the au-
tumn as well as in the spring. Some of
my most successful planting has been
done in the fall" said the owner of a
pretty place by the seaside.
81 have gone into the woods myself
with a farm age and a couple of men,
have selected strong, well grown sap
lings, taken them up with as big a ball
of earth as possible. and, taking as many
home as the cart would hold planted
them at once in the holes / had previous
~ had prepared for their reception. In
digging up trees for removal, the great
point is to preserve the centre, or tap.
root intact; II the lateral roots are cut
it does not matter so much, although, of
course, it is better to keep all the fbers
as little disturbed as possible.
Il never allow myself to be discour-
aged about what gardeners. or any one else
tell me; I think the great pleasure of a
garden is to a experiments, and ]
just go ahead and do what / choose to,
and half the time what I am told is an
impossibility succeeds" .
Trees will flourish in pure sand if
planted in the following manner: Take a
hogsnead tthe bigger the better. per-
forate the bottom and sides with auger
holes fill it with good earth and sink II
in the sand, so that the edge of the barrel
is on a level with the ground and Is en-
tirely unnoticeable.
Then plant the tree in the barrel. The
roots will find their way through the
anger holes, n the tree, supplied with
fertilizers which the barrel will prevent
from being wasted will grow rapidly.
II is a matter of no small wonder that
so little has been written about the i'm
p~ortance of standing properly. This is
the first step toward improving ones fig
ure and toward getting a good figure.
Without knowing how to stand and to
hold the body and head well no woman
can sit, stand or walk with gracef or
with any amount of lacing and padding
be anything but ungracefu14 Just cast
your eye along the line of your acquaint-
SncPS of the gentle sev ubon ,hav ,ro