The record-union., 1896-04-05

woman, lately died at her mothers home
in Watongo, Oklahoma. She was a
woman of remarkable diplomatic skill
and a picturesque orator. One OF her
sons is finishing his education in Gin
cinnati college, and three others are at
tending the Haskill Institute, in Law
renee, Kas Her daughter, Muskogee,
is an educated woman. Washee Block s
mother. now over 100 years old. is the
great medicine woman of the Chey-
ennes, and until a few years ago made
annual pilgrimages to Dakota and Man
itoba for roots and herbs.
Cook two quarts of French chestnuts
till quite soft; then press them through
sieve. Add two tablspoonfuls OF sugar
and flavor slightly with vanilla Sur
round them with wreath Of whipped
cream slightly sweetened.
One cup chopped ham Chopped very,
very fine) Half pint of cream thick
ened with flour. Three eggs. Stir all
together and bake in oven one-half
hour. Then turn out on fiat dish and
pour a cream sauce over 1t.
Take two or three large onions, slice
them very thin and fry till nice brown.
Have ready a half-dozen hard-boiled
eggs cut in slices and cupful of nice
soup stock with little flour mixed in
it: add the eggs to the onions, then pour
in the gravy, and stir all till the gravy
las thickened. Serve very hot.
Take three pounds of lobster Cooked.
Pick meat out of the shell and chop very
fine. Add a little thickened cream and
heat all to scalding point. Then line
rice ring mold with soft cooked rice and
put the prepared lobster in. Turn all
cut on a dish and pour over all a white
cream sauce.
Doctors have many curious expert
ences, but the following production,
which the London Lancet" has re-
ceived from a medical man to whom it
was sent by child, and which is print
ed as it was written. emitting only the
name and address, would be hard to
beat:
Dear DR.. -: l would be very
pleased if you would let me have baby
for one guinea We ant it on the 4th
OF Febry for mothers birthday. We
would like it fat and Bonny, with blue
eyes and fair hair. We children are
going to give it to her ourselves please
answer at once. Your sincerely,
ARCHIE -.
"P. S.-Which would be the cheaper
Boy or Girl?"
The "P. s." especially is delightful
and shows how wonderful the ramifica-
tions of the commercial spirit are among
US.
Those who labor under the common
impression that Eastern women are
nonentities, and that their Western sis
ters monopolize energy and wisdom,
may be enlightened by story told In
the North China Herald" of a certain
New (Chinese) Woman" in Shantung.
This young lady, who is the daughter Of
a magistrate. acts as Treasurer in her
fathers yamen-a post usually consid-
cred sufficiently important to require
an experienced accountant. She keeps
the books looks up accounts, reckons
with all who have payments to make,
pays the bills and sees that her father
| is not cheated by such as think that a
chit of girl-she is nol yet out Of her
| teens-can be hoodwinked Woe betide
such wight, for he soon finds himself ar
rested and tied up to receive proper pun
| ishment. No wonder the Mandarin is
reported to have made 10000 taeIs in six
months. No wonder. either, that enc
mics have multiplied around him, and
that every effort is being employed to
| oust him from his berth A Chinese
gentleman, in conversation recently
with foreigner. at Chungking, ex-
pressed himself hesitatingly as to the
wisdom of educating women. The Chi
nese have accumulated vast experience
during the millennia of their national
experience. Can they have experienced
the new woman?
| Druggists, says "Comos." Janu-
ary 2oth, have in their establishments
sll sorts of substances for the cure of
ills or for their production; they have
just added to their pharmacopoeia re-
fined naphtha, which we may confident
~ place in the second category. 1t is
| employed quite commonly nowadays
for washing the scalp. which it cleans
rapidly and completely; the druggist.
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recommend ii for this use, letting his
customer suppose that it is a product
as harmless as it is beneficial. All.
well, We must beg leave to differ
with them a little Its infiammability is
much greater than of it's father petro-
leum. If it is used in an apartment
where there is an open fire or a light.
the vapors may catch fire at a distance
xf ..,-1, A
and. generally the fire reaching the hair,
finishes instantaneously and radically
the cleansing process that has been be-
gun. We know of several adventures
of this kind: in one of them a head of
hair over a yard long, the glory of its
| owner, went up in smoke. No doubt
it will grow out again to greater length
than ever, but the experiment was none
the less a cruel one. e."-Trans,ated for
the Literary Digest.
The mother who rejoices during mild
weather in the curly hair of her baby
will possibly find, with the advent of
| frosty weather, that its hair becomes
harsh and dry, and that the scalp ap-
pears lifeless. and is covered with par
ticles that look like dried skin or dan
druff. During the heated term baby's
head perspires freely, and the perspir-
alton keeps the fine locks soft and plia-
BILE. The cessation of perspiration pro-
duces just the opposite result, and the
natural oil of the hair dries up.
Now is the time for the mother to do
her work Of experimenting nature. At