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The times., 1897-03-28
Columbia Athletic Club.

The bowling committee OF the Columbia
Athletic Club is in communication with
the famous Carleton bowling team OF
Brooklyn, relative to q set of ten pin
games, to be played here with the C. A.
G. bowlers sometime in April. 1t Ii more
than likely thatthe games Will be arranged.
It will be remembered that the Carleton S
and G. A. c. bowled home and home
series two years ago. a return set may
follow the games here.
The Atlantic division of the A. A. U.
has granted a sanction to the G. A. C. to
hold its open field games on Columbia
field on June g. This will be good news
in many local athletes outside of the
club who wished for an opportunity here
to show their proves in their various
lines. Prof. CrossIey and Capt. Sam Slime.
metz vouch for it that this will be made
one of the most attractive meets the Club
has ever held.
Capt Sam Stincmetz has been elected
to fill the vacancy as q representative Of
the G. A. C. on the Atlantic board of the
A. A. Z. The vacancy was caused by the
death of g. NJ. Fague. His associates
from the club are Alexander Grant and
William B. Hibbs
Prof. Crossley is actually heels over
head in work in the gymnasium, Last Sat
urday he had seventy-eight boys in his
junior class, many more than ever before.
All athletes, all ages and sizes, are ow
busy at work, preparing for the athletic
features of the club benefit, to be given
at Columbia Theater on May 8, and all
are bent on making this the best athletic
show ever given here
Practice for the pyramids and ladders
is had on Monday and Friday evenings.
There will be from sixteen to twenty in
the pyramids, the largest ever attempted
here Some fifty odd persons will take
part in the athletic end of the show.
Eddie Sewel1 is again in harness, much to
the delight of all members. and his clean
cut difficult work will again be an at
tractive feature Of the gymnasium 9nd show
work.
Will StlnemetZ bids fair to become one
of the best aIl-around athletes in the city.
Dr. Harding is putting up something new
each week in his clean, pretty work.
Howard Allen and Rex Smith are at work
putting on the finishing touches of their
horizontal bar specialties.
Adam johnson makes a good ladder
holder: he Is strong, and KNOWS now,
and the boys have lots of confidence in
him. Frank Waters, who has been on the
sick list, is on the mend, and his class
mates hope soon to see him out again. His
splendid work is missed. Nudge Ross
keeps up his excellent work. Bob Bell
has Joined the classes, and says he feels
years younger on account Of the work.
Dick Ryan and George Wallace will join
tile classes next week, and there will be
lively times in the gym when they do their
turn. Mr.. Won de Lube took snap
at the boys last week, and he proposes to
give picture to each one in the group.
The board of governors at a late meeting
decided to order a new eight-oared shell
for the coming rowing season 1t is
probable four may be added. The board
is liberal one, and will see to it that
the oarsmen are well boated. and if they
show speed they viii again be seen In out
The times., 1897-03-28

years made a credtable showing.
Carroll Institute Athletics.
Maurice A. joyce, the phS sical instruc-
tor of Carroll Institute, was born in Sara
toga, New York State, about tbfrty-seven
years ago, and has been an acrobat n early
all his life, having started out at the { ge
of fifteen with the old Levi North circus,
and has since travelled with all the leading
shows of the country His last season ON
the road was with the great Forepaugh
show about twelve years ago, after that
he took up the study OF physical culture
as study, and he promptly scored a sue
cess in this line, and for the past eight years
has been an instructor, and since the
opening of the Institute gym, about five
years ago, has been connected actively
with it, and earned for himself q great
reputation.
He makes a speciality of instructing his
classes in body building, seeking above all
else to strengthen weak portions OF q
pupils body by prescribing the proper
kind Of exercise necessary. In this way
drawing to his gym very large classes, the
members of which gratefully testify to
the excellence Of q method which has
benefited them so much.
The professor is an accomplished gym
mast and acrobat, as well as contortioniSt
OF great reputation. When his pupils
desire it lie teaches specialties and gym
nasticS, but he devotes most OF his time
to class drills and body building. BE is
an ardent admirer of all kinds of athletics
and especially Of basketball, to play which
he secured a very strong team, which he
has trained to play very scientific game
in the league series he was instrune ntdl
In part in introducing the game in this city.
About three years ago he organized
class in gymnastic work for ladies, and
since then these classes. held in the In
stitute gym twice a week, have grown to
very large proporti ons and from the
regular work the ladies derive untold
benefit aa
Mr.. Joyce is about five feet nine inches
high, and weighs 100 pounds, and is one of
the best formed and most perfectly devel-
oped men here. he carries. himself well
and is a good example of his heathfui
training. He is modest n; bearing and very
popular with every one whoknows him in
or out of athletics.
Prof. Joyce is preparing to give an ath-
letic exhibition during the latter part of
April, one of the features of which will
be successes growing out of systematic
training and drilling. Among the features
will be free arm and body exercises,
bell drills, wand drills, flying rings, hori-
zontal and parallel bars, acrobatics and
tumbling and special work.
Among the members who are doing good
all-round work in the gym are Arthur May,
G. A. Trapp, Thomas Brick, H. Alexander,
Paul Hughes. Crutchett Daily and O'Dono-
hue.
The ladies' classes will close the season
with an athletic exhibition and match
game of basketball.
Washington Light Infantry.
The usual routine work in athletics is
being donein the gymnasium of the Wash
ington Light Infantry, but the REGULARS"
show especial desire to keep in shape.
bicycling will be made feature in the
The times., 1897-03-28
Amateur Baseball.

The Young Eagles defeated the Little
Cracks by score of 1 L to Z. The feature
of the game was the battery work Of F. B.
Devereux and Bernard Flynn. The Young
Eagles would like to arrange games with
all teams averaging twelve years. Chal
lengcs should be sent to F. B. DeyercuX,
captain, 81 street northwest.
The times., 1897-03-28
Broke Les1ie,s Record.

Detroit, Mich, March 27-At the Audi
torium here this afternoon, on a sixteen-lap
track, J. j Blouin, local bicyclist, rode
against the one-hour record. He covered
twenty-four miles, 10 laps in the time,
beating Leslie's Chicago performance OF
twenty-three miles, and four laps, which
is the record.
The times., 1897-03-28
WAsHINGT0N's BALL CLUB
Growth of the Team Represent
Ing the Capital City.
A STEADY MARCH FORWARD

Difficulties That the Messrs. Wagner
Have Had to Overcome at Heavy
Outlay of Money and Patience.
A Foothold Gained and the Future
Is Promising.
The times., 1897-03-28
Capital City Athletes

of-town regattas, where they for many
years made cTeditable showing.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-11-24
rho Housewives Holiday Plans

Make the home bright and cheer
full for Thanksgiving and Christmas,
writes farmers wife. Plan the work
so that the holiday will not find you in
the kitchen every moment or find you
weary from overwork. Pies, puddings,
cake and bread may be made two days
before the event; sweeping, dusting
and decorating may occupy the day
previous, and the turkey or chicken
should also be cleaned and stuffed ct
this time, in order to so into the oven
early the next day. This method
gives little time on the morning OF
the holiday for the extra toilet and the
reception of guests. Roasting the
turkey and preparing and cooking the
vegetables will take up the remainder
of the morning, so that no time can
really be found in which to prepare
desserts, etc. Garlands of evergreen,
dotted here and there with wild i'm
mortelles and pressed autumn leaves,
will brighten the rooms wonderfully
This is easy work for the young peo-
pie, who always want to help at such
time. Have some green upon the
table. II you have no flowers in bloom
use the handsomest plants among
your window collections. If no lardl-
Micro is forthcoming, conceal the ordl-
nary flower pot with evergreen or
autumn leaves. Chrysanthemums
keep out Of doors until the first OF
December, and are effective as decora-
tions, if one does not object to their
odor.
Let me describe the table decora-
ton at our first Thanksgiving SIX
wears ago. had only few carnatlon
blossoms, red and white ones. These L
lus into q tall glass vase with some
dropping sword ferns that stole from
my one iardiniere. I placed the vase
upon large antique pewter platter,
covered with pretty dolly and heaped
with fruit, apples, grapes and bananas
The base of vase was almost concealed,
and the result charming, rs my guests
declared.
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it seemed dishonor to all her happy
past not to have something special on
Thanksgiving; and so she had feel
ing of real pity for it, lying there
warm and snug in her palm, and so
soon to go tumbliug into the heap of
clashing, iingling coins tossed about
by the butchers greasy fingers, OF
perhaps into the pocket of that hor-
rible apron with blood-stains on it.
Miss Matte shuddered, but quickly
recovered herself to say, cheerfully:
ooh, thank you, Mr. Simmons; but
don't you think ducks arc sight OF
trouble, what with the stufing and the
roasting and needing to be looked
after and basted regular? l made up
my mind to something simple, and I
don't know anything that's easier got
or moro relishing than lamb chops.
Two lamb chops is about what [
thought of, Mr.. Simmons. You know
there's only me-.
Mr.. Simmons had not seen the five
cent piece, but he understood just as
well as if he had, and he began to cut
the chops at once, talking all the time
to relieve his own embarrassment and
assuring Miss Matte that eff folks
only knew it, there was nothing like
lamb chops to encourage your appe-
tite and strengthen you up oil over.
''But you'll have to take tree
chops" looking curiously atthe money
Miss Matte laid in his big hand, "or
I'll have to make change, and change
is scarcer than hens teeth tonight.
You might have company unexpected,
you know, and an extry chop would
come in handy"
Miss Matte laughed SO genially
that the market man ventured to slip
o sweetbread and bunch of yellow
celery into the basket on the sly. He
would have loved to put in the duck,
but that would have looked as if he
suspected her reason for not buying
it, and, bless you, he knew better
than that. Some people have feel
ings, though their faces are red and
their hands coarse and greasy.
Miss Matte went very happily down
the street. She had lighted her lamp
before she went out, and cheerful
little ray smiled encouragingly at her
rs she came to the gate. All the
other windows in the weather-beaten
old house were black and empty and
looked to the lonesome little woman
as if all sorts of hobgoblins might be
peeping out al her from the gloom be-
hind them, for Miss Mattie's neigh
bors had gone away on Thanksgiv-
ing visit and taken the whole family.
At least they said ''the whole family, I"
but at the very moment Miss Matte
came to the gate member of the fam
lily was huddled up in correr of the
doorway, cold, hungry and much per-
picked to understand what had become
of NIL his friends and why, in spite of
his pitlful plea, no one came to open
the door for him. He heard Miss
Matte and ran hopefully to meet her,
limping as he came, for he had stiff
leg.
"Why, Tommy Barnes" said Miss
Matte, STOPPING to pat lis rough yel'
low head, you don't mean to say
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-11-24
Recipes.

Thickened Cream--Blend one table
spoonful Of -four with ohe of butter.
Pour on two cupfuls of rich milk, boil
ing hot, and stir over the fire until
creamy. Season with half-teaspoon-
full of salt and dash of nutmeg.
Chicken Hash on Rice Toast-Boil q
cupful of rice the night before, not for
getting the salt; put it in q narrow
square pan and set in ice-box. Next
morning cut it in half-inch slices, dip
in melted butter and broil on wire
broiler to O delicate brown. Arrange
the toast on q platter and pour over
the whole chicken hash made from
the remains of cold fowl.
Rye Shortcake, with Thicksned
Cream-One cupful of rice -four, one
cupful of white flour, two teaspoonfuls
of baking powder, half-teaspoonful
of salt. Sift all together; add half
cupful Of molasses and cupful Of
milk. Make into o stiff dough, roll
out half an inch thick md bake in a
hot oven twenty-five minutes. Tear
open and butter and eat with thickened
cream poured over.
Cassolettes of Shrimps-Stamp out
some rounds of bread, marking them
to three-quarters of their depth with o
smaller cutter, and fry golden brown.
Lift out the inner part, scrape away
all the soft crumbs and use the small
round as lid. Have ready cupful
shelled shrimps (the canned will ans
wer), and toss them over the fire with
= tablespoonful of butter, teaspoonful
of lemon juice. two tablespoonfuls OF
sweet cream, o do7h of cayenne and q
small blade of mace. Let this get very
hot, and fill the little bread cassolettes
with the mixture.
Pinard Sandwiches-Procure finger
rolls; split and remove most of the
crumb and butter the inside of the
shells. Then lift and fill lightly the
lower half of each roll with the follow
ing mixture, replacing the upper half
in position. Filling-Mix the yolks
of two hard-boiled eggs to o paste with
two tablespoonfuls of melted butter.
Season with teaspoonful of mixed
mustard and half that amount OF salt
and saltspoonful Of black pepper.
Stir thoroughly and then add half
pound of common cheese grated and
two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice. Stir
steadily for ten minutes, or until the
ingredients are thoroughly blended.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-11-24
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIR.",
Potatoes as Cleausers.

A new use for the humble tuber hos
been discovered. 1t will clean fabrics
without changing their color. Raw
potatoes ars grated over clear water in
the proportion of two fair-sized po to-
toes to pint of water. Crate till the
last bit of fine pulp has dropped into
the water, then strain the mixture
through coarse sieve into another
vessel holding the same amount of
clear water, and let the second liquid
stand until it is thoroughly settled.
Pour on the clearer part Of the liquid
and keep it for use. The soiled mate
rials are rubbed or sponged with the
potato water, then washed in clean
water, dried and ironed. The thick
sediment left after the settling can be
kept and used to clean thick fabrics,
like carpets and heavy cloths.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-11-24

your folks have gone off to Thanks
giving and left you beeind. Well, If
I ever! How dreadfpl--thoug ghtless-
and you cripple besides!" !.
Tommy kept on crying, but he had
his eye on the door while Miss Matte
was fitting her key, and the minute 1t
opened he darted in.
"That's right, Tommy" said Miss
Matte; 'iust make yourself at home.
You and I'll have our Thanksgiving
together. That extra chop will be
wanted after all, and I'm going to
make riz biscuits. F."
She put away her bonnet and shawl
and hung the basket on nail in the
back-room without even looking at the
contents, though Tommy Barnes
watched her keenly with shrewd sus-
picion of something good, and faint
hope which nothing in his past expe-
rience justified that he might come in
for a share of it. Miss Matte was ac-
customed to being alone, and she
scarcely thought of Tommy, as she
trotted about, setting the sponge for
her biscuits in q pint bowl. putting o
little cup of broth on the stove to
warm for her supper, making her tea,
toasting her bread, and at last sitting
down by the table in the little green
chair with patchwork cushion. Up
to this point Tommy had sat quietly
by the fire, having learned by many
severe lessons that little folks should
be seen and not heard, but when Miss
Matte poured out the saVory broth
the delicious odor was too much for
his fortitude, and with one bound he
sprung into her lap,
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dear to Miss NIattie's heart. 1t was q
straw too much to have insult added
to injury, and springiug from her
chair, she cuffed Tommy in such
vigorous fashion that three or four
hearty blows found their mark before
the astonished sinner could withdraw
his claws and bound out at the back
door, left ajar in the search for the
chops. At that instant resounding
knock on the front door sent Miss
Mattie's heart to her throat with a
sudden leap, as if justice were already
coming to take her in hand for unrea-
sonable cruelty.
When Miss Matte was peacefully
pattering about, unconscious OF the
cruel trick fate and Tommy Barnes
had played her, Mrs. Deacon Giles
was surveying her husband with dis
turbed and fearful face.
"You don't mean to tell me-" she
repeated, "that the minister's folks
amt comm ut all, and you and me
has got to eat this big dinner alone?
Here, I stayed home from church to
tend to it. Oh, you needn't to look
as if you thought it was n Judgment.
Josiah I wouldn't be such q hipper-
crit as to pretend to be thinkin' OF
spiritooal things when I was wonder
in if Sarah Ellen would remembe:, to
baste the turkey. Seems to me they
might let us know sooner"
"But T told ye, mother, it was a
telegram come just before church.
You can't regerlate kilograms like the
weekly newspaper, OF stop folks from
dyin' unexpected"
'"Then, why didn't you rush round
and get somebody else? Mercy sakes!
'Twon't seem like Thanksgiving at
all"
"Didn't seem to be anybody to ask
but old Mis- Morrison and Marthy
Ellison. drove round by the Morri-
sons, but the old lady was just having
something relishing Miss Matte had
fetched in. They said they invited
her to dinner, but she had comp'ny;
one of them Bnrneses next door.
"Fiddlenticks!' said the deacon's
wife, in avery disrespectful tone, "iou
just drive straight back and bring
Marthy Ellison up hore to dinner.
Tell her don't take any excuse, and,
if she can't come otherways, she can
bring her comp'ny along. though the
way them shif'less harnesses impose
on her is mortal shame.
Good Deacon Giles had learned
docility in many years of experience
and the double knock at Miss Mattie's
door followed as quickly as could be
reasonably expected. Miss Matte at
tempted neither excuse nor hesitation,
but accepted her good providence with
radiant delight.
Mother said to fetch your comp'nJ
along" said the deacon, glancine
doubtfully about the small room. owe
heard you had one of the Barneses.
kinder hope faint the cross-eyed one
that stole my pears"
"Oh," said Miss Matte, laughing
into the little mirror, rs she tied hel
bonnet, "he's had his dinner and he:
gone out"
She didn't say that he had eater
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-11-24
"Bless me. /" said Miss Mattie, eff ]

"Bless me-" said Miss Matte, eff I
hadn't clean forgot you, and you half
starved, I dare say. There, get down.
never could abide cots around my
victuals.
She put Tommy gently on the floor,
crumbled some bread into the bowl OF
broth, cooled it carefully and set it
down for him to eat.
"It's pretty rich for me anyway, !"
she said, as she made out her supper
with toast and tea.
It was perhaps well for Tommy that
he took an early promenade next
morning around the back yards of the
neighborhood, aud secured several
valuable tid-bits, for Miss Matte had
very little to offer him. She baked
her delightful little puffs of biscuits,
and enjoyed them immensely, finding
them lighter and more digestible with
out butter. She read Thanksgiving
psalm and went about trying to sing
in little chirrupy voice like brown
sparrow. She brought in the small
basket and flushed over the unexpect-
ed treasuretrove, but took it kindly as
n bit of neighborly goodwill. The
sweetbread, white and plump and oil
ready for cooking, reminded her OF ola
Mrs Morrison, just beginning to sit
up and watch the people 60 by the
window. What toothsome dainty
this would be for her, and what de-
light that she should be able to take
it to her rs she went to church, yes,
and some of the celery, too, for a rel
ish. The chops were transferred to a
plate on the shelf, the swee thread
wrapped in fine old napkin and laid
back in the basket with the best half
of the celery, and the biscuits Miss
Matte had saved for dinner.
"The cold bread will 60 just as we'll
with chops" she reflected, and pre-
pared for church with glow of hap
piness such as she had not known in a
long time.
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4 It helped to real feeling of thank
fulness, especially when she thought
of old Mrs. Morrison, and how pleased
she had been with the unexpected
gift. She laughed little to herself
as she returned to her own door after
service, remembering how when Sally
Morrison had commiserated her on be-
ing alone Thanksgiving Day, she had
assured her she had company invited
Tommy Barnes, from the next door,
who was spending couple of days
with her, the rest Of the family being
away.
B ct hope It want q sinful untruth, :"
She said, smiling at Tommy, who lay
peacefully sleeping on the braided rug,
f"but if old Miss Morrison had set in
to have me stay to dinner, I shouldn't
5a' known how to get away, and she is
such q talker.'
{ With long, clean apron over her
best frock, Miss Matte began cheer
fully to make her small preparations
for the Thanksgiving feast. She had
meditated leaving one chop for break
fast, but her walk and happiness had
made her hungry and she decided to
cook them NIL.
But where did she put these chops
she was getting SO forgetful-she
could have sworn she put them on the
shelf-could she have left them in the
basket after all? Her perplexed eyes
fell from the shelf to the floor, and
there, just peeping from the wood-box
was the plate, and two small, very
small, bits of bone, gnawed quite clean
and white.
|, Ungrateful Tommy Barnes, lying
there in peaceful slumber, with those
precious chops rounding out your yel-
low sides, if justice had befallen you
then and there you might not have
lived to steal again. But into the
midst of Miss Matte righteous wrath
came the reflection that Tommy must
have been hungry, and the fault after
all was partly her own for putting
temptation in his way, "though how
anything could have been further out
Of his way than that shelf, I don't
really see," she added, dolefully.
SAT that minute Tommy Barnes
walked from his nap, transformed him
self into camel, yawned in q fright
fully tigerish fashion, and proceeded to
sharpen his claws on the rug, the
sacred rug into which had been
braided some precious old garments