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RECIPES.

Baked ,Pears-Put the canned fruit
in pudding pan with sugar, little
butter, water and teaspoon dissolved
cornstarch; CRATE nutmeg over and
bake slowly half an hour. Serve warm
with gingerbread.
flashed Brown Potatoes-Fry out
three slices of fat salt pork, skim out
the scraps, add pint chopped cold
potatoes, salt and pepper. Mix we'll
and cook, then let brown and fold
over like an omelet.
Soda Mufins.-One egg, one and
one-half cups sour milk. heaping tea
spoon butter, half teaspoon soda, one
third teaspoon salt, one and one.half
cups of milk, one pint -four. Make
as carefully as cake; beat light and
bake quickly.
Brown Betty-Fill dish with alter
nate layers of bread crumbs and sliced
apples; season each layer with sugar.
When the dish is full (let crumbs be
the lastl, pour over milk to keep from
being too dry, and bake. Serve with
sugar and cream.
Peach Canayes-Slice some stale
sponge cake IN square pieces one-haif
inch thick, five in number; brown
them nicely on both sides in two table,
spoonfuls of hot butter; place on q
dish and spread with the mixture from
two cupfuls of preserved peaches,
mashed and pounded fine; serve with
cream.
Fricasseed Tomatoes-Canned toma-
toes of some brands are quite SOLID.
Drain the best and let the seeds and
Juice be saved for soup. Slice, dust
-four over, fry nice brown in butter
and lift with broad knife to hot plat
ter. Pour sweet cream in pan, season
with salt and pepper, boil up and pour
over tomatoes.
French Bread-The French bread
OF the bakers is generally very good.
but may be made at home: Beat to.
gether two eggs, four tablespoons
butter, half-cup yeast, teaspoon salt
and one pint of milk. Stir into two
quarts of -four. Let rise, mould, and
when risen again make into two long
loaves. Wet with milk when put to
bake.
Bird's.Nest Salad-Two cupfuls OF
cottage cheese, two tablespoonfuls OF
cream, one of melted butter, dash OF
pepper if cheese has not been salted,
use Tablespoonful salt; mix thor
oughly together and form into balls
the size OF birds egg; have ready
some lettuce (enough for five persons);
arrange it in groups. to look like
nests; pour over them half cupful
French dressing; place eggs in nests
and serve.
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POTTED PALMS.

If you stand palm in the window
be careful that you turn the pot
around every day, so that one side OF
the plant does not get the sole benefit
of the suns rays. And as regarding
the pot, be sure that you get one sufi.
ciently large, as otherwise your beau.
tiful palm will soou show signs of fail.
ing. When the blinds are drawn and
the gas lighted, remove your plants to
the conservatory or other cool place,
as few things are so damaging as arti.
fetal light.
One of the greatest palm fanciers in
London is said to have discovered
that the leaves should be washed, not
with pure water, but with milk and
water, which has q wonderful effect of
preserving them, and preventing the
appearance of the brown spots, which
are so disfguring.
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W0MAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
GIRL STUDENTS IN A BIG UNIVERSITY.

GIRL STUDENTS IN BIG UNIVERSITY.
Nearly 800 girls are students in Le-
land Stanford University, California.
They live in hall and pursue much the
same studies as the men students; both
learn to make furniture together in
the university carpenter shop. Mrs.
Stanford, who is now in New York, is
glad TO talk about her foundation.
She says the most wealthy Californians
send thei1 daughters to learn the use
of the hammer. Education at the
university is entirely free. Mrs. Stan
ford has just decided her San Francisco
house to the university. She wishes
it to be used as university extension
centre, with lectures and evening
classes fo- the benefit of those youns
men who live in San Francisco and
cannot afford to pay their board at the
university, even though the tuition is
without cost.
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would be simply invaluable. Further
instances of its possible usefulness
would have been the prevention of
frauds on the United States Pension
Bureau by parties who have assumed
the name and condition of others, the
detection of false claimants to estates,
The prevention of the landing of
Chinese who come to this country
bearing the name and papers of
others of their countrymen who have
:eturned to China. 1t requires long
acquaintance with this race to be able
10 distinguish one celestial from an
other, and by the present methods of
Identification it is almost impossible
Tor the Government officials to detect
fraud of this Rird.
Perhaps there is no sphere in which
the benefits of the system would be
more Immediately felt than in the
army, where it would act as a check
apon desertion from the very day of
its introduction. In time of war,
moreover, it would serve as an in
fallible Identification of the killed and
wounded, and in subsequent years, as
suggested above, it would prevent
fraud upon the Pension Bureau of the
country. The question of its intro
duction into the army is being actively
urged by DR.. Paul B. Brown, United
States Army, to whom we are indebted
for valuable assistance in the prepara-
tion OF the present article.
The Bertillon system for measuring
criminals has received its most extern
eive trial in France, where it has been
carried out for over ten years with the
thoroughness for which the police of
that country is famous. 1t is in gen.
eral use also in Belgium, Switzerland,
Russia and several South American re-
publics, and Is being tested in Eng
land. 1t was introduced into the
United States by Major R. W. Nc
Claughry in 1887, and is now in opera
tion in Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin
and the State of Massachusetts. 1t was
adopted by the police department OF
the City of New York on March 6,
1896, and in May of the same year its
use was made obligatory in all the
prisons and penitentiaries of the State
of New York.
The accompanying illustrations
show the practical operation of the
Bertillon system at police headquar-
ters in this city. 1t varies in no es
sential particulars from that of the
countries and States above mentioned,
only such slight notifications as were
suggested by local conditions hav
ing been made in minor details. The
system is made up of three distinct
parts. First, the measurement o
certain Interchangeable ebony lengths
of the body; second, careful de
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his entire lifetime, and occupies it
under peculiar conditions. Most of
the time he is unconscious, under the
influence of sleep, and he cannot
adapt himself to changing conditions
of temperature and ventilation, as he
can when awake. His muscles, too,
are relaxed, and his power of ofresistance
lowered; nothing then should tend to
vitiate the air or should afford lurk-
ing place for dust or disease germs.
Sudden changes of temperature should
be prevented, if possible, and there
should be means for obtaining con-
stant supply of fresh cir. In the main
these things are attended to by the
architect, but his work goes for
naught if the doors end windows are
covered with heavy hangings, or if
there are inaccessible corners and
hooks behind ponderous furniture to
serve as catch-alls for dust.
Every bedroom should be pleasant,
light, cheerful, and the utmost ele-
gance prevail, so long as it does not
interfere with the truest sanitary con-
ditions; but very often the best ef.
fects are obtained from the elegance
that is allied to simplicity.
A hard wood floor, or one covered
with n: atting, on which is laid rugs
that can be frequently taken up and
shaken, may be readily cleaned.
Papered or smoothly painted walls are
the best for all the main essentials.
Stationary wash stands, with their
possibility of leaking sewer gas, have
come into disfavor for the bedrooms !;
a fine hard wood and marble stand,
with pretty china. and a decorated
splasher to save the walls, may well
take the place of the plumbers handi-
craft.
Nothing more beautiful, convenient
aud comfortable in the way of a bed
stead has ever been devised than those
made of brass. These are remarkably
cheap at the present time. but if be.
yond ones means, those of iron in
white enamel with brass trimmings
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Character in Children.

Parents sometimes congratulate
themselves upon the fact that one
child is never self-willed, never pas
slonate or angry, always amiable, con-
tented and calm, seeming to need no
discipline and no restraint. And they
mourn over the fact that another
child is eager, impetuous, willful,
troublesome. Yet not infrequently
the mourning and the rejoicing ought
to change places, if the future life
and character be taken into account.
The tranquility of the one may be
onlv the outcome of feeble character,
which leans against the nearest prop
because it cannot stand alone, while
the other, who is so difficult to man
age, may contain the elements OF a
powerful nature, which needs only to
be guided Alright to become valuable
and noble man.-The Ledger.
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BEAUTY IN MATURITY.

The physical beauty of women
should last growing more and more
mellow until the end. That the
beauty of women, like that of men,
should be determed from the stand.
point of advancing maturity cannot
be disputed. It is absurd to claim
that the ripe, rich beauty of forty IS
less attractive than the budding i'm.
maturity of sweet sixteen. When
women live in harmony with natures
laws each stage of life has its own
charm. The fullness of beauty does
not reach its zenith under the age of
thirty-fve or forty. Helen of Troy
comes upon the stage at the age of
forty. Aspasia was thirty-six when
married to Pericles, and she was o
brilliant figure thirty years there.
after. Cleopatra was past thirty years
when she mot Antony. Diane de
Poictiers was thirty.six when she won
the heart of Henry II. The King was
half her age, b. his devotion never
changed. Anne OF Austria was thirty
eight when described as the most
beautiful woman in Europe. Nine.
De Maintenon was forty-three when
united to Louis, and Catherine OF Rus.
sia was thirty-three when she reached
the throne she occupied for thirty-fve
years.
Mile. Mar was most beautiful at
forty-tve, and Nine. Recamier be-
tween the ages of thlrty.fve and
fifty.fve. The most lasting and
intense passion is not inspired by two
decade beauties. The old saw about
sweet sixteen is exploded by the true
knowledge that the highest beauty
does dwell in immaturity. For beauty
does not mean alone the fashion of
form and coloring as found IN the wax
doll. The dew of youth and COM
plexion of roses are admirable for
that period, but woman's best and
richest years are from thirty.six to
forty. It is an srrant error for any
woman to regard herself as passe at
any age, if she grows old gracefully.
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THE FASHIONS ILLUSTRATED.

The lady on the left of the large
illustration on this page looks dis.
tingue in q gown of blue canvas of
coarse weave, which has chic, sleeve
less Eton jacket, the shoulder tabs
forming unique feature of the gar.
ment. With this is worn pale blue
surah waist profusely trimmed with a
quantity of rich old lace.
The figure on the right is set of to
advantage in severely plain but rich
red costume, which has an open
ironted blazer jacket. With this cos
tune is worn large black straw hat
trimmed with proiusion of feathers.
The first of the single-column illus
trations depicts beautiful toilette of
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Flour 81 Il Pound.

The steamer Mexico arrived from
Alaska at daylight this morning.
Two days before sailing from Juneau
Hugh Day, the mail-carrier from
Juneau to Circle City, returned from
the round trip, which he made in four
months. He brought out 500 letters.
He says that many miners, blinded by
the glamor of gold, are going to
Clondyke without provisions, and star
ystion is almost certain.
According to reports he brings, flour
at Circle City is selling at 81 per
sack. At Clondyke there is none pro-
durable at any price less than $50
sack, or 81 a pound, and then only
when freighted in from some other
point. A man named Mckay took
down a small quantity from Pelly,
which was eagerly bought up at $40.
At Forty Mile, dog feed consisting
of ham so rotten it can not be boiled
indoors, but must be cooked in the
open air because of the stencil, is
sold fer forty cents a pound. Port
Townsend Wash dispatch to the San
Francisco Chronicle.
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ment, remains virtually the same
through life.
The measurements of the head are
taken while the subject is still seated,
and are read off on pair of calipers
provided with a graduated arc. In
taking the length the left point of the
calipers is held at the root of the nose
and the right point is brought down
over the back of the head. The thumb.
screw is then frightened and the meas
urement checked by passing the lu-
st-ument again over the head. The
width OF the head over the cheeks is
taken in the same way.
The measurement of the foot is taken
with caliper rule somewhat similar
to that used by shoemaker. The
subject is placed on the stool, standing
on his left foot and steadying himself
as shown in the illustration. The
graduated stem is placed against the
inside of the foot with the fixed arm
in contract with the heel, and the
sliding arm is then brought in tightly
against the toe. Care is taken as before
to check the reading.
In measuring the left middle and
little fingers, the back of the caliper
rule is used, two small projections
being provided on the fixed and sliding
arms. The finger to be measured is
bent at right angles to the back of the
hand, and the measurement is taken
from the tip of the finger to the
knuckle, as shown.
The measurements being oil taken,
the next analysis is that of the feat
ures of the face. AS these are liable
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MEASURING R0GUES.
TIE BERTILLON SYSTEM OF
IDENTIFYING CRIMINALS.
A French Idea Put Into Practice in
{ the New York Police Depart
ment How Measure
ments Are Taken.
TT is estimated that there are about

TT is estimated that there are about
1.5O0,OOO,OO0 people upon the
face of the earth at the present
time. II anyone had been SO
bold as to affirm, only few years ago,
that it would be possible to give such
a description of any Que individual
that he could be positively identified
among all these millions, his state
ment would have been met with ridl-
cule. To-day, however, thanks to the
researches Of Quetelet, the Belgian
scientist, and the subsequent labors OF
DR.. Alphonse Bertillon, a celebrated
French anthropologist, We are able to
record such a detailed description of
any given Individual that his identi-
fcation becomes a matter of absolute
certainty.
Although it is true that the Bertillon
System of Anthropometric Identihca-
tion, as it is called, is primarily in
tended for the prevention of crime,
this is only one of the objects OF the
system. In every case where the es-
tablishment of the identity OF an IN
dividual is desirable, whether for his
own benefit or that of his family, or
the State, this ingenious and highly
scientific system may be applied.
The victims of the cable car or the
railroad accident, the slain upon the
battlefield, the unclaimed bodies at
the city morsue, all present cases for
which Bertilion has made full pro-
vision; and in cases where the body
= has been mutileted beyond all posi-
bility of recognition by the usual
methods of Identification, the system
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TO MAKE NEW so1Es FOR STOCKINGS.

TO MAKE NEW soLEs FOR STOCKINGS.
To make new soles for stockings cut
pattern by new stocking, from heel
piece to toe, making it two seams
larger all around. Gut pattern for
the top of the foot exactly the same,
except you must make it seam mar
rover. Lay the smaller pattern on
the stocking to be soled. having each
folded down the centre and cut from
the toe around to the back corner.
Lay the sole pattern. folded, across
the waste piece, and cut that off o
seam longer than the pattern, round
ing it at the back for the heel. Stitch
up the heel, open the seam and run
each side. Baste the sole which has
been cut from another stocking to the
heel, stitch it, open it and run along
each seam, making it fiat. Now, baste
the sole and top of the foot together,
stitch and finish. By careful cutting,
one can get five pairs of soles from one
pair of stocking legs, aud nearly all
stockings can be cut down the second
time, thus making one pam do the
duty OF three pairs. '.
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A. True Parasite.

There are not many true parasites
in the vegetable kingdom. The mistle.
toe is unquestionably one OF the most
perfect samples of this class of vege.
table growth. It is absolutely de-
pendent upon his host for subsistence,
and in time draws the very lite blood
from the plant to which it attaches
itself. Experiments have been made
in raising the mistletoe in greenhouses,
but the results are scarcely satisfac'
tory. The mistletoe Is an exceedingly
slow-groving plant, two leaves and q
bit of stalk being all that is usually
produced during the season; therefore
some of the gnarled and knotsy
branches which we see in our markets
represent long years of patient en-.
deayor. The Ledger.
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KEEPING YEAST.

When on visit to my mother a
short time ago, writes diary Drury
Barrett in the Farm, Field and Fire
side. I learned something Few about
setting yeast sponge for bread. At
least, it was new to me, and it may be
that it will be new to some of our prac-
tical housekeepers. Since came home
T have given it two trials and each has
proven a success. Set your sponge as
usual with yeast cake, then when you
make up your bread in the morning,
save teacupful of the sponge in the
Jar in which it was set to rise, and add
q handful of corn meal. Set away in
cool place until the next baking day.
Then set again by adding three pints
of warm water and enough flour to
make stiff sponge. Set in warm
place three or four hours before
making up your bread. I think this
plan better than the ordinary way be-
cause it does away with soaking the
yeast cake; then, too, it perpetuates
the yeast, making it less expensive if
the housewife has to buy It. 1t makes
just as good bread and rises more
Quickly than thatmsd from the yeast.
I find that yeast will keep fresh longer
if kept in an air tight vessel. Mason's
fruit jars are good to keep it in, and
something almost every housekeeper
has. I have never tried the above
method of keeping yeast sponge in the
summer, SO I can not say whether it
would be practicable, but I like it
much .better than the old way during
the winter months when it is difficult
to raise bread on account of the cold
weather.
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around the thigh. He was born and
reared on a farm in remote section
of this county, and all the weeks he
has ever spent of of that farm could
be counted on the fingers of one hand.
Notwithstanding this narrow and
secluded life, he is above the average
in intelligence, and is quite jolly
fellow. Boss was always large for his
age, but did not begin to get fat until
he was eighteen. About this time he
was first married. He has been mar
ried twice, the last time to woman
who weighs only 125 pounds. Boss
owns 400 acres of mountain land, upon
which he hoes corn and does all kinds
of farm labor, just as industrlousiy as
his neiehbors.
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TIE SEPARATE WAIST.

Though the alarmist is continually
sending forth the rumor that the
separate waist is passe, this very con.
venient addition to a woman's ward.
robe still holds serene sway, and wo
men in countless numbers continue to
ignore the warning and would-be man
date. In consequence, novelties in
these are constantly being devised,
and frequently they afford pretty sug.
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Greater New YOrk's Population.

Tie population of Greater New York
will exceed that of Massachusetts by
half a million, and it is stated that if
the populations of Maine, New Hamp-
shire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Mon
tana, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah and
Nevada were all united in q single
State it would still have less than the
population of the contemplated mann
moth metropolis.
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MODERN BEDROOMS.

The Best Architectural Ideas May Be
Ruined by the Furnishings.
In the great majority of cases the
furnishing of bedrooms is left to
chance. That is, the different articles
of chamber furniture are arranged in
the separate rooms, as convenience
dictates, with such regard for congru-
ity as is possible; or perhaps complete
chamber suites are purchased from the
dealer and little attempt is made to go
beyond this. If either of these
courses is followed, the result may be
comfortable, but will scarcely prove
satisfying or artistic in the aesthetic
sense.
One fact should never be lost sight
of in any scheme of furnishiug-that
in the bedroom one spends third Of
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for everyday wear is of richest plain
satin to match the gown, cut and fin
ished in the same fashion as the taft
feta skirts; and there is never bit
of rustic as this skirt swishes softly
past, and this is coming to be consid.
cred note of refined elegance. Dem
orest's.
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gestions for the corsage of q dressy
gown. Organdie waists are made over
fitted lining of India or surah silk in
bright contrasting color; as dark
blue, with large chine flowers in full
colors, over bright cherry silk; very
'pae heliotrope over rose.color white,
with design of yellow flowers, over
green. The effect of these softly blend.
ing colors must be seen to be under.
stood and appreciated. Grenadines,
also, are usually made over a silk lin
ing of hsrmonizing or contrasting
lor.-Demorest
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the trimming in white wood, with
main staircase ash.
The laundry is in the cellar under
the kitchen.
The cost to build this house in the
vicinity of New York is about $4,000,
though in many sections of the coun-
try, where labor or material is cheaper,
the cost should be much less.
Copyright 1897.
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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
USE OF FRUIT STONES,

In France the various kinds of fruit
stones, cherry, peach, plum, apricot,
etc., are collected, washed, boiled,
sun-dried and put into chintz OF
printed linen bane. Thoroughly
heated in the oven, they are admirable
applications for toothache or earache,
rheumatic pains or cold feet, as the
stones retain the heat for long time,
besides giving an agreeable SCENT
The Housewife.
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scription of the features of the face;
third, a careful localization of all the
scars and marks upon the body. Of
these three the first records are by far
the most important, because the most
permanent and unalterable. Bertil-
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A KENTUCKY GIANT.

Boss Skaggs lis Seven Feet Tall and
Weighs $50 Pounds.
Lawrence County, Kentucky, has
for citizen one of the largest men in
the world. The Louisville Courier
Journal says his name is Boss Skaggs,
and his normal weight is $50 pounds.
He is seven feet tall and is thirty five
years of age. He measures five ana
one.half feet around the waist, two
feet around the arm and three feet