The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-11-28

Pack it nicely in a pudding dish aud set
In the oven When it is nicely Drowned.
slip on fiat dish and garnish with a
wreath of celery leaves. The potatoes
YOU can get ready for the oven tonight,
and it will save time in the morning
Fill that pretty glass dish with apple
Jelly, which you can buy for so cents
for a fiye-pound box. and with dough
nuts and rolls you will find you have a
very nice breakfast.
"For lunch | would have cocoa. Put
four small teaspeonfuls, wet up with
milk, in your pot, pour on boiling water
and let stand ten minutes. Take sorae
more of your dry bread and cut it in
HIN, even slices, beat an egg well, dip
your bread in it. and then fry light
brown. Take four nice, smooth apples,
wash and wipe them, take out the col c
and fill the holes left with sugar and a
few drops of vanilla extract; set in the
oven and bake. Get box of brook
trout, which will cost only ten cents,
put them on little platter and garnish
with the light green, feathery tops of
celery and sliced lemon, then with fresh
rolls and one of your jelly cakes your
lunch is complete.
"fhen for dinner, which will take
more time and care to prepare, your
first course will be soup, and you can
buy the little soup cakes at cost of Is
cents, which will save you the trouble
of making it. To prepare these you
need only half cake, break it up fire,
pour on pint of water and let 1t boil
Is minutes; serve hot with oyster crack
era. Get IL pounds of haddock, roll il
up in a thin cloth and steam for an
hour. Put one eupful of milk in lit
tie stewpan and let it come to a boil;
meanwhile mix n tablespoonful of -four
and butter the size of an egg till smooth.
stir into the milk. and when it is like
cream pour il over your fish. Bake
nice, eyen-sized potatoes and lay them
on a napkin in a dish in such way that
the ends may be folded over them. Take
four tahlespeonfuls of rice and put in
one quart of milk, add salt, one-hRlf
eHpful of sugar and teaspoenful of va
nilln; bake Il hours, stir it for the first
hour every Is minutes. and when done
It will be like thick cream. For your
vegetables, steamed squash and fried
parsnips; the latter you must first boil
and then cut in slices and fry in butter.
There is your Friday fare, my dear.
neither very hard to prepare nor very
expensive"
The face which at the beginning had
been a very doleful one was full of eager
delight.
"Oh. Aunt Alice, do wish could be
gin at once. l don't want to wait"
well. since wait you must, you can
improve your time by getting your
table in better order" and AUNT Alice
sat. like a queen upon her throne. in the
great armchair and directed
The cloth and napkins were Snowy
white. the dishes and glassware shone
from hard rubbing, and when every
thing was in order. and Aunt Alice had
accepted the pleading Invitation to
"stay all DAY" Daisy asked:
"What shall we have for luneh9 !
don't propose to fast because Master
Jack chooses TO stay down town"
Take your bits of beefsteak and roast
beef and chop them very fine" demand
ed the queen of the kitchen. add pep
per, salt, bit Of butter and n cupful of
hot water. When it is done. serve hot.
make some dry toast, a nice cup of tea.
and with lemon pie, which l long to
sample, and some of your nice cookies.
we shall do very nicely. And now. just
one thing more, Margaret. Don't, l
beg of you, appear in any more such
clothes" pointing to the soiled and
faded wrapper of pale blue cashmere,
with pufiings of still more faded pink
silk. If you haven't any calico wrap
pers, we will go down town and buy 4
couple readymade. which are far better
than any attempt at soiled finery."
But, auntie," pleaded the fair Gull
prit, Il thought this was saving, to
wear my old dresses till they were quite
worn outF"
NO, my dear; no lady can be par
doned for soiled clothes. They may be
poor or even patched. but if they are
perfectly clean you need not fear to
face any caller. no matter what you are
doing. \ far better method OF saving
would be 10 rip your dress, remove the
grease spots, and color it handsome
wine OF plum. Dip the pink silk in n
pink dye and it win come out lovely.
only deeper shade. then make your
dress into tea gown, which YOU can
easily do with little help to have it cut
and fitted"
Before Margaret Crawford retired
she was the owner of two pretty morn
ing dresses and as many wide-checked
aprons,
''You MIST have AT least six" Aunt
Alice said; "but these viii do to COM
nienee with, the rest you can make
yourself"
Tired out with the days excitement.
Daisy was fast asleep when Jack came
home. though it was still early, but the
memory Of a pitiful. babyish face. with
big ewes fan Of unShed tears. had
haunted him all day. and in spite of mis-
good dianer and the urging Of Charlie
Mason and his orderly wife, TO say
nothing Of the brilliant southern sister.
be made his excuses and hurried toward
home. He had told Charlie OF the epi.
sede Of the morning, and instead Of
sympathiring with him he had laughed
loudly as he merrily told OF Bellies mis-
lakes and failures in the beginning.
Il was rough on the little thing he