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The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27
WOMAN AND HOME
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led by Mise Jessie Ackerman, q Woman
Of Pluck and Purpose.
Saloonkeepers on Chicago's west side
are squartng their shoulders fer a bait
tie royal. A modern Joan of Arc in
the form of Miss Jessie 4. Alderman,
who has scaled the highest mountains,
explored the depths of the ocean in
Giving costumes, hailed passing steam
ers from the masthead and ridden over
land in Iceland 500 miles on horseback,
has begun a crusade against Kirg Alco-
hol. She comes to the Fourth Baptist
church of Chicago as special rescue
worker and is probably the first to
larry the work of the Baptist church
INTO a field hitherto claimed alone by
the Salvation Army slum corps. The
FIRST onslaught will be against saloon
keepers. The latter are nervins them
selves to face the bold invader, but if
Miss Ackerman's past achievements are
taken into account it is probable she
will gain the citadel with the aid of a
telescope organ and her gentle person
atty.
Miss Alderman is known to temper
ance and rescue workers the world
yer 1t is unlikely that among them
may be found another woman with
such a history of varied and daring
experiences. When seen at the home
of a friend her agreeable manners and
expressive face belied the trying situa-
tions through which she has passed as
a missionary.
The Fourth Baptist church, of which
Rev. Kittredge Wheeler is pastor, will
experience a change of work and policy
as a result of the work mapped out for
the versatile woman. Miss Alderman
is one of the two licensed women Bap-
fist preachers in the United States and
is pretty well known as a lecturer.
Miss Alderman is an American, but
has devoted most of her life to active
work abroad as a missionary. She is
mt present working upon a history of
her 800 mile ride on horseback through
iceland. Thirty-one days were con-
sumed in the trip, and each had its
quota of picturesque incidents. She
describes the Icelanders as "a people
with a touch of melancholy in all their
doings and delightfully."- provincial in
customs" "It is difficult to sleep on
the island" she continued. eve had
to lower curtains and darken the rooms
in order to get eve sleepy. 1t is so
light one may read day and night with
cut artificial light. I can say that 1
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27
GENUINE IRISH STEW.
How to Make 1t Out of the Food Gem
orally Thrown Away.

How to Make 1t Out of the Food Gem
orally Thrown Away.
We are o apt to regard the Irish
peasantry as either thrifty or patterns
in any matters of cooking, yet the
canny Scotch are no more severe econ.
omists than the Irish of the northern
country. The genuine Irish stew is a
dish that deserves every praise. 1t is as
great a success in its way as q Scotch
broth of mutton, and it is a culinary
lesson in the use of what people general
ly throw away.
To make this dish the peasant
secures what scraps of meat and bones
ne can get for a few cents. The pury
chase is chiefly bone, and the meat is
either beef or mutton, or it may be OF
both.
The bone and meat are separated and
the fat is removed. The best way to
make the broth is to throw the meat
in one kettle and the bones in another,
and cover them both with cold water.
After the contents of the two kettlcs
have simmered very slowly for one
hour salt is added. The cook now gath
ers any sound vegetable tops, the green
tops of celery, the green leaves outside
the cabbage, which in less thrifty parts
of the land are'the perquisite of the pig.
These are chopped together and added
to the kettle containing the bones, and
simmered with them for the next hour.
For every two quarts of the stew two
small onions cut in slices are added.
When they have simmered half an
hour, six small potatoes, cut in quar-
tiers, are put in. When the potatoes
have cooked half an hour, strain the
broth off the bones and chopped vege-
tables, pressing the vegetables hard to
extract all the pulp and flavor from
them. Thicker the strained broth with
a heaping tablespoonful of -four mixed
with a large tablespoonful Of butter.
If mutton is used the broth must be
carefully skinned before adding the
t~hickening. Let the thickening cook
in the stained broth for ten minutes,
stirring it carefully, then pour it in the
kettle of meat, onions and potatoes.
Let the stew simmer 3 moment or two,
stirring it constantly. Taste it to see
if it needs more salt, add pepper, and
serve at once.
It is largely a pot of luck, depending
upon the vegetables at hand, and the
amount of meat it contains; but it is
nutritious, even when it is made largely
of vegetables, and it is always excellent
IN. Y. Tribune.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27
FARM AND GARDEN.
RArIoNs 90 80.


Corn and Data In Equal Parts Is q stanAs
ard Winter Feed.
Corn and oats in equal parts makes
Of the very best grain ration Tor
sheep. Corn alone is too heating and
fattening. Moreover, If sheep are Ted
exclusively on corn for any consider
eble length of time they lose their
wool.
It costs just so much to keep a sheep
of a certain weight right. But If, with
good care in selecting and breeding,
and with good feeding, the sheep can
be made to give eight or nine pounds
of wool instead of four OF FIVE the extra
weight of wool win be that much addi-
tional profit. When it barely pays to
keep a sheep that shears only four or
five pounds, one that shears seven or
eight will give a good per cent. on the
money invested. In addition in nearly
all cases the heavier fleece win be ora
better quality.
While it is always best to feed with
as little waste as possible, it is rarely
good economy to compel the sheep to
eat up the hay in their racks as clean as
with cattle and horses, unless it is un-
usually fine. Still, care must be taken
not to feed too much, as sheep are in
ciined to waste their feed if overfed.
But considerable waste can be avoided
by having good racks. The Stats should
be wide enough apart to allow the sheep
to put their heads entirely in the racks
and eat or they should be so close as to
only allow them to insert their noses.
If made in this way, however, it is im-
portant that they be made sl~anting, so
that the hay will gradually sink down
and always be within reach of the
sheep.
Every day that the weather will per-
nit the sheep should be turned out in
the morning to get fresh air and water.
At the same time their quarters can be
well aired. Sheep do not bear close con-
flnement well. Whenever it is possible
the doors of their quarters should be
left open during the day so that they
can run in and out, as suits them. With
the breeding ewes, especially, care
should be taken to have the doors to
their quarters wide, so as to lessen the
risk of injury in their running in and
out. 1t will still further lessen the risk
of injury if the doors are hung to slide
open rather than to open and shut with
common hinges.
In extremely cold weather more corn
may be given than when it is milder,
but do not make it an exclusive ration
at any time. Give oats, barley mill
feed, and other materials to make up a
good variety. Sliced tufnips with
wheat bran sprinkled over them makes
a good feed for sheep, especially when
grain is given at other meals. The con-
dition of the sheep is the best criterion
as to what the quantity of the ration
should be. One of the most economical
rations is ~unthreshed oats, run through
a dampener sufficiently to make the
bran stick to the straw. Give them all
that they will eat up clean.-St. Louis
Republic.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27

~neyer,spent o more delightful time than
during m~yssejourn in Iceland"
In China and India Miss Alderman
~traversed the countries in native cos
tune. Her descriptions of the preva-
lence of the opium habit in those coun-
tries are narrowing, to put it mildly.
s'But find that there are whole dis
tricts devoted to these lens in New
York, San Francisco and Denver" she
said, 'and | have an idea that plenty
of them may be found in Chicago. In
foreign countries-India and China
the number of people enslaved by
opium is almost as great as that of the
victims of strong drink. The effect is
just as inevitable and ruinous."
Among the many daring incidents in
which Miss Alderman has figured is
her descent to the bottom of the sea
near the coast of India. Arrayedin the
tIappings of a oIn diver, probably
the only suit of the kind in existence
n obtained for the occasion from an
expert, Miss Alderman viewed the
beauties of the deep and helped ! o bring
r1p a number of pearls. On hec way to
India on the high seas, while on board
q steamer, she climbed q mast and,
ciinging to the swaying top, waved a
greeting to a passing ship. On the same
journey abroad Miss Alderman was a
passenger on a Chinese junk, and dur
ing a high storm at sea was swept over
board. Her presence of mind and some
sailors from a Turkish man-of-war
saved her. Australia was also the
Gene of some of Miss Ackerman's most
active labors. She has twice encir-
c!ed the globe. When in Africa she
was Frustrated with sickness. Lady
Henry Somerset heard of her condition,
sent for her and brought her back to
health in her castle, near London.
Miss Alderman is a good platform
speaker and her is sincere.
She is determined to carry on an active
campaign on Chicago's west side, with
the Fourth Baptist church as her sup
port.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27
NEW crop.

Authentic Information Concerning the
Value OF KaRr Corn.
ssWheat and ri may not be grown
after this in Kansas The words arc
reported to have been uttered by d
Kansas minister. who praises the meal
Of the comparatively new cereal, Kafr
corn, as more nutritious than wheat
-four and of unsurpassed flavor"
According to the best information OBJ
tanned by the Kansas department Of
agriculture, the Kansas agricultural
college and the United States depart
lnent of agriculture, these claims can
aot be sustained. Kafir corn, az
Egyptian miIlet, is a most useful plant,
but it is never likely to supersede either
wheat or Indian corn.
The plant is a sorghum. There are
several varieties; the best is known as
the red Kafir corn.
As a crop it has these striking advan-
tages: the yield is larger, by from 20 to
SO per cent, than Indian corn; it will
grow and yield a crop-not a large one
on very poor soil; it is injured much
less than Indian corn by drought, and
even when withered by the hot, dry
winds Of the prairies, it will recover UNI
der moisture.
1t forms an excellent food for cattle
and pigs. All the experiments, of which
many have been made by scientific
agriculturists, show that it is inferior
in fattening power to either wheat or
corn. Nevertheless, as a surer and
la1 ger crop than corn, it promises most
important results for regions like Kan
sas and Nebraska, where searching
winds frequently wither the corn and
destroy the crop.
AS food for man, it is n~ourishing,
wholesome and palatable. But the lat
est conclusions of the national depart
ment of agriculture, communicated to.
US, are that its use will probably be
somewhat like that of buckwheat-it
will form an occasional rather than a
staple article Of diet. In nourishing
power it stands at27, where bolted corn
meal stands at 81, wheat Hour at AZ, and
oatmeal at SO.
Heretofore it has been difficult to
grind Kafr corn fine enough for use as
human food. It is said that this diff
Guilty has been overcome lately. Ii 50.
there will soon be an opportunity to test
its food value on an extensive SCALE
Youths Companion.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27

black, and turn back to cover the fouH-
dalton on that side. Take another
piece of different color and sew along
the other side of the black, to cover the
remaining muslin. At the corner, lei
one color overlap the other diagonally,
hemming it down upon the right side,
From the inner end of this diagonal line
make several stitches upon the black
in fan shape with a bright-colored floss.
This completes the block.
Plan the size of pillow that you wish
to make, and then piece as many blocks
as will be required. Twenty or %
inches makes a good-sizcd pillow, and
for the latter 121 blocks will be needed.
AS different colors are employed, any
odds and ends can be made use of.
The pillow is handsomely set off by a
wide bias ruf1e of black silk or goods
like that used in the corner of each
block. Or this rufae can be made OF
ribbon. If there is not sufficient OF
the black goods for the ruf1e, the edge
can be finished with q cord, and the
underside of the pillow can be made
OF any available material, OF like the
top.-American Agriculturist.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27
T
Clean up the fence rows.

Clean up the fence rows.
Be the best farmer in your county.
Roll the corn stubble after blowing
1t next spring.
Making a good seed bed for corn il
half the battle.
Drain that wet place. 1t is the rich
est land you have.
Trim up the hedge or cut it down and
grub out the roots.
Use straw in the stable as absorbent
for the liquid manure
Talk farm with the boys. Make con-
idants of the youngsters.
Keep everything looking neat, har-
ness, carriages, horses and-yourself.
Think for yourself. What will do on
one farm win not do on another.
Make the fields as long as you can.
Every turn that is saved is economy.
A cow that kicks is nice and agree
able as compared to a man who is q
chronic kicker.
The production and management OF
manure deserves as careful attention as
the production of any other farm crop.
The farmers garden is the most
profitable piece OF ground on the farm,
if it only produces all kinds Of garden
crops for the faElily.-Western PloW-
man.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27
CHEAP 6 Q
Prepare ThiB Winter for the Broods ia
Be Matched in Spring.

Prepare Winter for the Rroods to
Be Matched in Spring.
1t is well to utilize the leisure of
winter in preparing for the rush eff
work that always comes when spring
opens. One such preparation is the
preparing of the needed chicken coops
for the broods to be Matched out during
the spring months. A simple arrange
ment is shown in the cut. Empty gro
Gerry boxes are produced and turned
upon their sides, the cover being re-
placed by Stats, the cover being re-
served for closing the coop at. night,
Upon the top now nail three strips that
will project Is inches in front, making
the middle strip higher than the other
two. Tack upon these strips, as shown
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27
CEMENT ROLLER.

ter Of the disc to insert an iron rod.
Place on end, with the disc end down. Sc
lect a round rod for the core of the
roller, and drive it through the hole in
the disc, a few inches into the ground,
keeping the rod exactly in the center of
the cylinder at the top. The mold, as
seen in Fig. 2, is now ready to fill with
cement A light handle is attached to
the iron center, and the roller is com
plete. Use the best cement, the sharp
est of sand and gravel and mix thor
oughly, that every particle of the ce-
ment may be wet. Round off all sharp
edges when the articles are taken from
the molds.-Webb Donnell, in Orange
Judd Farmer.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27

Millions now plant salzsr'a seeds,
but millions more ahoulds hente offer
4 pkg. Bismarck Cucumbers. ..15c
4 pkg. Round Globe Beet. .1Oc
1pkg. Earliest Carrot. .............1Oc
1pkg. Kaiser Wilhelm Lettuce. s15c
1 pkg. Earliest Melon. .............10c
4 pkg. Giant Yellow Onion. .........15c
1 pkg. 14-Day Radish. ..............10c
3 pkgs. Brilliant Flower Seeds. ...... 15c
Now all Of above 10 packages, In
Guiding our mammoth plant and seed
catalogue, are mailed you free upon
receipt Of about II cents postage.
rs pkgs. Earliest Vegetable Seed. 800
p Brilliant Blooming Plants. .s1.oO
John A. Salzer Seed Co, La Crosse,
wis. XXI
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27
WIN Not Use : EAR Rrush.

The brush is said to be by no means
the best method of dressing the hair,
1t tears out much of the hair, marring
its appearance aud seriously ~injuring
1t. A charming English woman, whose
hair always looked like FURNISHED gold,
announced n day that she used
brush on it; however she had n sub
stitute. With a large silk handker-
chief, such as good housekeepers covet,
for Frightening their silver, she stroked
St firmly and briskly 100 times night
and morning. She said this method
possesses all the good qualities of a
brushing without ever running the
danger of breaking a fine hair or firing
the head.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27
EASILY MADE CHICKEN COOP

in the cut, a piece of tarred paper, and
a waterproof roof will not only be Sc
cured, but a protection from the sun in
front of the coop. This will be very
grateful to the chicks in hot weather,
and to the mother hen, which often
suffers in the ordinary coop in the heat
of summer.
These coops will answer their pur-
pose admirably, can be made with but a
few moments work, and need not cost
over Is or 20 cents apiece.-N. Y. Trib-
nnR.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27

CEMENT WATERING TROUGH.

sand and sharp gravel well mixed upon
tne bottom Of the larger box, then set
upon this the smaller box, as shown in
Fig. /, and Eli in about the sides. If a
vent Is desired, in the bottom or side, put
2 round bit of wood in the position
where the opening is desired, as the ce-
ment is being flledin. The second con-
venience is a lawn and garden roller.
Get q sheet Of sheet iron and fit a disc OF
wood into one end to make it a perfect
cylinder Bore a hole in the exact cen.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27

s4aaent csn Be Advnntageoualy Used RoB
Many Purposes.
Tho use Of cement for stable floors IL
becoming o and more general each
year. There are other uses for the same
material about the farm, two Of which
arc suggested in the accompanying
Illustrations. One is a cement water
ing trough made by using two wooden
boxes Of different sizes TO form a mold.
Put IN q thick layer Of cement, SHARP
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27

Here's a mother writes for informa.
ton how to keep her ~16-year-old son in
at nights" said the Answers to Cor.
respondents man to the managing edi
tor.
Tell her to cut his hair herself in.
stead of sending him to a barber re.
piled the editor.-Harlem Life.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27
Cleaning windows in winter.

Often the window glass requires to
be cleaned, but it is SO cold and the air
SO full of frost that it does not seem
advisable to wash the glass with water.
Try a flannel cloth; moisten it with
paraffin oil and rub the glass with it.
Have at hand a fresh flannel cloth and
Iub over the glass with it. This method
will give better results than soap and
Water.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27
Keep the Hens scratching.

The great secret of securing eggs is
really no secret, for every experienced
person knows that everything depends
upon the conditions. 1t is not always
the breed or the feed that makes the
hen lay. The main point is not to make
. laying fat hen. If you have hens fol
market that r to be fatted, remove
your laying hens. Keep the market
hens confined closely, but keep your
laying hens at work. The secret iii it Is
a secret) Of making hens lay is to have
them always busy at scratching. It. is
something they should be compelled TO
do from the time they come off the
rQost in the morning until they ca on
again at night. The laying hen is a
scratching hen. The idle, lazy hen never
lays. Do not forget the fact.-Farmer's
Voice.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27
silver Kits for bicycle Girls.

The new bicycle kit consists of an oil
can, wrench and pump, and is now
made in silver, being quite as practical
as though made OF baser metal. Each
article can be engraved with the own.
er's initial or crest, and the fancy
leather case holding the contents can
be marked in the same Mav.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27
PRETTY SOFA PILLOW.

Odds and Ends Can 10 Used Up In MaR-
Ing One o. Them.
This may be made from the merest
scraps of silk, or worsted goods can
be substituted for the silk, and the
work be done in odd moments Of time.
The foundation Of the cover can be
made from small pieces of unbleached
muslin, or -four sacks. Cut these pieces
two inches square. Then cut a piece of
black silk, OIL goods, one and one-
fourth inches in size and haste it upon
b corner of the muslin. Now take a
piece of any bright color and sew it
to the muslin along one edge of the
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27
That Was the way.

Kilduif-It was their mutual interest
iD amateur photography which brought
ahem together and established an ac-
quaintance which resulted in marriage.
Sst1oper-I see. She caught him with
Aer qameJa.-N. X. World.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27

"I don't like your milk" said the mis-
tress Of the house. whats wrong with It,
mum?' cts dreadfully thin and there's
no cream on it." "After you have lived in
e~ncouragingly, you'll get over them rooral
ideas of yourn. "-Twinkles.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27

OF course a l6-year-old girl cannot wear a
white dress and blue sash in the winter, but
she can wear blue ribbons in the braids
son Globe. =
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27

WHEN a man gives q gift with the request
that his name be not mentioned, he always
feels q little bit chaRrined to ind hia rs
nueat Observation-Disclosures Globe.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27

Hits Gurus ter me- said Uncle Eben.
ter hyuh how folks will 'buse er gossip be.
hin her back, an ter see how glad dey acks
wen, she m 'roun' ter tell de news
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27

Fits stopped free and permanently cured.
No hts after first days use of DIR. Kline's
Great Nerve Restorer. Free 50 trial bottle &
treatise. DR.. Kline, 933 Arch ST.. Pbila.. pa.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27

Father caught you smoking n of his
cigars, did he? And what did he do-lick
you?'' mo; wish he had" "What then 2"
Made me smoke it-right th~rough."-Fun.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27

Miss Elderwun-"Only think of it, when
] entered the room and lighted a match
there was a man therel" Mr.. Finegrass-
did you catch him or was he too quick for
you?"-Boston Transcript.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27

Teacher-"Bily, can you tell me the diff
ference between caution and cowardice 90
Bily-"Yes, ma'am. When you are afraid
yourself, then that's caution. But when the
other fellows afraid, that is cowardice."-
Golden Penny.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27

Cascarets stimulate liver, kidneys and
bowels. Never sicken, weaken or grippe, loo.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27

ri hardly think" said the lawyer, chat
you can get a separation from your wife on
account of her making a practice Of throw
ing things at the dog" ,"But," said the
man with the haggard look and the black
eye, every time she throws at the dog sbe
hits me!"-Twinkles.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27

Miss Dimples-"Wel, Pm clad 70 be~in
the new year right" Miss Psssay2And Il
hate TO begin Il eft."-Cleveland Plain
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27

EVERYONE who doesn't have to light the
nres IN the morning breaches against using
coal oil for that purpose.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27

Dicky-"They tell us you are living on
the fat Of the land at your new boarding
place" Weefers - Eyes, oleomargarine
and filed cheese. cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27

DO you reetify mistakes here?" asked a
gentleman, as he stepped into a chemists.
Yes, sir, we do, if the patient is still alive"
replied the urbane clerk.-Glasgow Times.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27

Most of the women who belong to literary
societies use self-rising pancake flour. A
self-rising pancake flour is a sure sign of
poor neutrality-suspicious. Globe.