The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-12-31

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or freezer. They should be served on
small plates garnished with green
leaves.
In one of his lectures on art William
Morris sums up what he thinks are the
necessaries to furnish an ordinary sit
| ting-room: First, a bookcase with a
great many books in it; next, table
that will keep steady when you write
or work at it; then several chairs that
| you can move, and a bench that you
4 can sit or lie upon; next, unless the
1 cupboard or bookcase be very beauti-
| full with painting or carving, you will
| want pictures or engravings such as
| you can afford-only not stop-gaps, but
| real works of art-on the wall, or else
\ the wall itself must be ornamented
| with some beautiful and reStful pat
terms; we shall also want a. vase or
| two to put flowers in, which latter you
| must have sometimes, especially if you
live in town. Then, there will be the
| fireplace, of course, which in our eli
| mate is bound to be the chief object
| in the room. That Is all we shall
want, especially if the floor be good
| If it be not, as, by the way, in a modern
house it is pretty certain not to be, 1
| admit that small carpet which can
| be bundled out of the room in two
minutes will be useful, and we must
| also take care that it is beautiful. or
! it will annoy US terribly"
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| Baked beans occupy a deservedly
high place in the list of nutritive foods.
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take of the dish because it causes in
digestion. This may arise from one of
two causes: either the beans have not
been sufficiently cooked or they are
| old beans. Never buy beans without
seeing that they are fresh and plump
| looking and evidently of this years
| crop. Old dried beans are, if eaten
| little less than deadly in their effect
| Inscriptions grocers will try to dis
pose of leftover supply and the
housekeeper who buys blindiy may be
imposed upon. Sometimes the old
beans are mixed with the new ones.
but even this fraud may be discovered
If the purchaser looks carefully at
what he is buying. If mixed there will
| be perceptible difference in the ap-
| pearance of the beans. which can
! readily be noticed by scanning a hand
| full. If this is seen avoid the whole lot
and go elsewhere.
| A housekeeper who has made a study
| of economical comfort in her home has
| found after long experience that it is
not the fullness of hair mattresses
| which adds to their comfort 50 much
| as close tufting. 81 have my mat
I tresses made in the house and under
my own supervision. They are tufted
every four inches. and they are half
| the thickness of the average hair mat
tress. One good hair mattress will
make over in this way into two. This
| thickness is ample for the woven-wlre
| springs commonly used. Nor do my
| mattresses have to be made over near
| ly as often as those of my neighbors
| They do not mat because the hair is
held in place by close tufting The
| upholsterer will look upon this notion
| as foolish, but if it is once insisted
upon, it's test will be found convinc-
! ing"
A raisin pie was dish often seen
/ on the Thanksgiving board of Colonial
| days. In a New England cookbook
| published a hundred years ago, the
receipt is given: One cup seeded rails
ms. one-half cup sugar, one tablespoon
| ginger, salt and spice. Boil the raisins
in cup of water; and a spoonful of
! flour and one egg. Bake in two crusts.
Courageous Mice.
| A woman residing in the West End
had a remarkable experience with four
| teen baby mice.
She went into the cellar to a secluded
corner, where no one had been for some
! time, in search of an ice cream freezer
She found it, and inside was a nest
containing fourteen mice One good,
sized mouse was in with them. and.
although frightened, would not leave
! the little ones. An old piece of tape
reached from the bottom to the freezer
over the top and down to the ground
Mrs. b. went upstairs to look for some
of the boys to help her take them out
| but none of them was home, and so
she mustered courage and determined
| to go down herself and turn them
out When she reached the freezer the
/ light of the lamp she held in her hand
shone directly on it, and she saw two
big mice, each carrying a baby mouse
One was coming up on the inside and
the other was going down on the out
! side She was held spellbound at the
| curious sight, and did not offer to dis
| turb them She watched until every
one Of the fourteen babies had been
carried to place of safety.
Mrs. b. had a large mousetrap on the
other side of the cellar, and so touched
was she by the scene she had just wit
messed that she took the trap upstairs
and threw it into the fire-Albany
Times Union.
Those Loving Girls.
Maude-Do you know that people are
actually beginning to call me an old