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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-26
SUITABLE DECORATIONS.
They Should Be as Simple Every Way
as Possible.

Next to the actual food placed upon
the Thanksgiving board probably the
next most important point in the eye
of the hostess is the table decorations.
Next to how the dinner tastes comes its
appearance.
Whatever the decorations used, they
should be simple and appropriate. A
Venetian vase of American Beauties
would be beautiful object anywhere,
but it would not be appropriate for a
Thanksgiving table. Things that have
no significance should not be employed
for adornment in connections that have,
like this day, marked significance.
A centre piece of bitter-sweet would
be as lovely as anything money could
buy; so would a bunch of the beautiful
red berries of the black thorn (if that
is its name) that people are bringing in
from the country, the leaves withered
and fallen off, and nothing but the
brilliant scarlet berries left A low bas-
ket of various fruits can be made a
thing of beauty, apples, bananas, or
anges and grapes combining into a
symphony of rich, soft eolors.
Flowers, if flowers You have. must not
be too delicate. Yet, when all is said,
there is no commonly available flower
that goes better with a. Thanksgiving
table than the chrysanthemum. Judged
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-26
UNTOLD AGONY.

ut is with a glad heart that write
you a testimonial such as few. can write
with the clear conscience that I do" says
Miss Sallie Began, Rich erich Hill,
Spartanburg Co., S. c. rAbout nine years
ago I was taken with what our best ply
sicians called neuralgia and enlargement
of the heart, dyspepsia and indigestion.
1 suffered untold agony in both mind and
body, and at times my mind would become
cloudy so that 1 would not care to see
anybody. 1 would sit down to the table
to eat, and eat few mouthfuls, but my
stomach would not retain any kind Of
food, and I would have to leave the table.
Last fall I spent about $500 with our
doctor but grew worse all the time. At
last, when was about to give up in
despair, a friend advised me to write to DR..
Pierce, l did so, and he advised me to
take his Golden Medical Discovery and
Favorite Prescription l bought one
bottle of each and also one vial of his
Pleasant Pellets, and began using as
directed. In a few days could tell was
getting better. have taken four bottles
each of the Golden Medical Discovery ;
and Favorite Prescription and two walls
of Pleasant Pellets, and I am we'll
woman to-day. Can eat anything and
work hard all day III the field or house,
or anywhere else, and can sleep as sweetly
as baby. Many thanks to you for your
kind treatment"
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-26
LIFE WORTH LIVING.

vI was a sufferer from torpid liver for
over a year." writes Mrs. Nora Willis,
Wheatfeld, Jasper Co., Ind, cand could
not sleep, nor eat but very little, and then
it would cause me great distress. tried
several doctors but got no relief. Was
advised by friend to write to DR.. Pierce,
which l did, and in a few days 1 received
letter, advising me to take his Golden
Medical Discovery and also his Pleasant
Pellets After 1 had taken only half a
bottle I was greatly improved. I only
took three bottles of the Golden Medical
Discovery and two walls of the Pellets,
and, thanks to DR.. Pierce and his wonder
full medicine, I am as well as ever in my
life, and feel that life is worth living
after all.
vLast winter took severe cold which
resulted in pleurisy. Tongue cannot tell
what l suffered. For two nights and two
days l could not move without it nearly
killed me. told my husband could not
endure another night of suffering. The
weather was so cold and stormy that it
was almost too bad for anyone to go six
miles to town, but he went, and got a
bottle of Dr. Pierce's Extract of Smart
Weed, which gave me instant relief. I
can say that for all pains that have tried
it for it has worked like magic. We keep
bottle of the Smart Weed in the house
all the time. 1 cannot thank DR.. Pierce
enough for what he has done for me-"
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-26

by the Pilgrim Father standard, the
chrysanthemum is impossible. No pas
senger on the classic MayfloWer ever
saw chrysanthemum or ever heard
of it. Miles Standish, Cotton Mather and
Jonathan Edwards were alike inno-
cent of an acquaintance with it's beau
ties. Its traditions are all of the orient
and the spicy south, of tea and lacquer
and pagodas and stone, lanterns and
women with miniature feet and over
grown sleeves and a past that lapseS
into the beginning of things.
No, nothing could be more at varis
ance with the idea and ideal of Thanks
giving day than the chrysanthemum.
Yet, a bowpot of yellow or white or
crimson chrysanthemums somehow
does not offend the sense as, a bunch Of
lilies valley or forget-me-n
would. Something about them--their
large, free nobility, perhaps-lends it,
self not unkindly to the Thanksgiving
ideal.
But don't annoy the table with your
red satin ribbons and fancy doylies
and centrepieces. Keep it simple, aus
tere, if you like to call it so. Let the
gayety and happiness of the occasion
lie in the hearts of those present, not
in the poor trappings that are to be
bought at any dry goods store. And
let not our forefathers in this pleasant
land be forgotten 1t is a pretty Gus
tom to place at each cover a little plate
and in each little plate two grains of
corn and before a napkin is unfolded
a sip of water drank, or knife put to
turkey, for every one about the table
to eat his two grains, in loving re-
membrance of the founders of Thanks
giving day, who We're once reduced so
low that only two grains of corn each
were left in the public stores. Ii is d
little tender sacrament l like.
Try TO have something put into the
day beside eating. Don't be content
to sit around after dinner, too heavy
and duh to do anything but have
conundrums, or game of cards or
play something with the children. Mu-
sic is not out of place either a lit
erary salad is good fun for adults. You
may have real lettuce leaves or may
make them of green tissue. To each
attach a slip of paper, rolled up, and
containing a quotation on giving or
thanks or Thanksgiving. Each one in
the company takes a leaf and attempts
to guess the author. There is Inc
struction as well as amusement in Il.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-26
ANNUAL HOLIDAY.
CONTINUED from PAGE 12.l

ing milk; add the butter, season with
salt and pepper to taste; strain and
serve Immediately. The flavor is i'm
proved by adding a cup of, whipped
cream when the soup is in the tureen.
Cream of potato soup forms also an
excellent introduction to dinner. IL
requires one quart milk SIX large po-
tatoes. an onion tablespoonful of but
ter and one of flour Boil, and mash the
potatoes; put the milk on to boil with
the onion; put into the milk butter ana
flour, stirred to a cream. Season with
white pepper and salt. Strain before
sending to table. 1t should not be al
lowed to stand.
\ The Following recipe for cranberry
sauce is delicious The juice will be
found to be a clear, rich wine, while the
berries themselves will be perfectly
sweet and soft Make a sauce of one
pint of water and one pint of sugar,
then add three pints of cranberries, and
boil eight minutes. Skim and let cool
in the dish in which it is cooked.
A nice dressing for a, turkey is made
with two pints of bread crumbs, half a
teacupful of butter cut into bits (Hot
melted, one teaspoonful of powdered
thyme or summer savory pepper and
salf Rub the bird well inside and out
with salt and pepper, and fill, alternat-
lilS SpOpAluh VI u uiiibSf LhCii q lev
well drained oysters. A solid pint of
oysters will probably be needed. Use
the oyster liquor to haste the trukey.
A standard recipe for stuffing for a
turkey requires light bread enough to
make three gills of fine crumbs. Cut off
the crust and lay by itself in just
enough boiling water to soften it. Rub
the soft part into fine crumbs between
your hands put in teaspoonful of salt,
one or two of powdered sweet marjor-
am, little pepper, and piece of butter
half as large as an egg. Add the soft
ened crusts, and mix the whole very
thoroughly If not moist enough, ado a
little milk. Taste it, and if there is not
seasoning enough, add more
In case you have not the time or do
not desire to make mince pies, try a
mock minee pie, the mince meat for
which is made with three soda crackers
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-26

rolled fine, 10 of cold water. one
cup molasse lalf cup brown sugar,
one-half Guy cider or vinegar one
half cup melted butter one-half cup
raisins, one-half cup currants, one egg
beaten fine, one teasDoonful of CHINA
mon, one-quarter teaspoonful each of
cloves, allspice, nutmeg, five apples
chopped fine
If it is desired to add frozen dish to
the menu, what could be more delicious
than cafe parfait? To make this favor
lite CONNECTION, take one pint of not very
heavy cream, one cupful of powdered
sugar, one-half cup of strong, cold cof-
fee and pinch of salt. Whip the cream,
adding coffee and sugar gradually. Put
in mould or freeze, pack in ice and salt
and let freeze four or five hours without
turning, pouring off the water as it
rises and adding more ice and salt.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-26

| case Of an author whose antecedents
were otherwise than literary.
THE Circle of a Century," BY Mrs.
Burton Harrison. SIPS. New York;
The Century Co. Putnam, Davis Co.,
Worcester.
This is a sequence of love stories in
New York. The scene of the first is laid
in the Bowling Green neighborhood
when the festivities were in progress
that marked the Inauguration of Pres
ldent Washington and the establish
ment of constitutional government. The
hero is a soldier and the scion of an old
and honored colonial family; while the
heroine is the daughter of an immi-
grant Scotch Irish mechanic. The OPP
portunities for use of the materials af-
forded by that picturesque period are
skilfully employed. The second part
deals with the present age of pluto
crazy its hero being the rich and Gull
tivated descendant OF the heroine of
the earlier tale. The two stories
abound in local color and dramatic sit
uations.
Behind the Veil" Decorated cloth, 70
cents. Published by Little, Brown &
Company, 254 Washington street,
Boston
His oAOIy 10 CuIlOuSly III nal illOlly
with the speculative inquiry of the day
regarding the nature of life after death
The treatment of the theme is simple,
rational and even convincing. AL
though its scenery and events are those
of which EYE hath not SEEM" yet the
reader intuitively feels the reality of
the narrative. Its evident truth ap-
peals alike to his reason and his intui-
ton, The conversation between the
man who WakenS to find that he has
passed into the new life and his friend
who meets him is full of the simple
information that all the world Graves,
and reveals that the change is evolu-
tionary, and that no violent contrast
presents itself between the conditions
here and those encountered Immediate
ly after death. The style is very win
ming, and the book is one to create as
well as to meet a wide demand.
THE Kings Jester and Other Short
Plays" by Cora Atherton Dugan.
Published by Houghton, Mifilin & Co.
Sold by Sanford Sawtelle Co, Wor-
cester.
These plays have been given in a hall
of moderate size, without any raised
stage or footlights. The stage settings
are not difficult to manage. The book
gives the fullest directions. The plays
are pretty and appropriate for anna
tours. The music of the songs is print
ed in the book.
Songs of the Soul" A Hundred Son
nets of Life and Love-" by William
Henry Thorne, editor of the Globe
Review, author of Modern Idols, -
etc.
Most of these love songs were orig
inally published in the authors maya
zine. The poetry is very uniform in
style and tone. Unless the reader has
a particular taste for sonnets, he will
want to read this pretty little volume
in homeopathic doses. Sonnets are not
the most fascinating form of love liter
ature, unless sonnets are what you
want For instance, most fellows
would not be moved to such ponderous
exclamation after seeing sunset from
hillside
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-26

rWhere Angels Fear to Tread" By
Morgan Robertson. Published by the
Century CO. $125. Sold by Putnam
Davis Co.
The author of this collection of short
stories from the Century and other
leading magazines, though still a
Young man, has been a sailor for many
wears. The leading characters in the
first of these eleven tales are fresh
water sailors from the great lakes,
who. as the result of inhuman treat
ment. mutiny at Callao and bring their
shin TO New York as best they can.
II is from this story that the book
takes it's title Other tales deal with
battleships and pirate craft, with naval
conditions of past age and with the
future possibilities of war at sea, Be
tween the millstones" tells how an
American sailor rode torpedo to the
destruction of a Spanish gunboat;
From the royal yard down" relates
the story of adventure that flashed
through seaman's mind in falling
through four feet of air. The contents
~ the book are nothing if not varied.
Mr. Robertson knows the sea thorough
" and vigor and directness of style
are nerhaps, to be expected of|one who
bas been knocked hA) shape by the
worlds rough naid: put the technical
slFilI that has gone to the construction
~ these stories is remarkable in the
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-26
THE Vizier of the Two Horned Alexan-
der, by Frank r. Stockton Pub
lished by Charles Scribner's Sons.

No more dangerously improbable and
delightful story has appeared this wear
than this impudent tale of immortal
life, gained by a casual drink at the
fountain of youth When SO years Of
age, this vizier of the great Alexander
was with his employer searching for
the spring. By chance, he got the only
drink there was left. He grew no
older. He married new wives, raised
new families, moved from place to
place. acquired wealth and then lost it,
Every few decades he had to move to
escape notice, changing his name He
piled many trades and learned many
languages. Stockton was fortunate in
his subject One gets a curious per-
spective of the centuries in reading this
bit of imagination.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-26

OF all the ages 'dost thou mind that day?
As it were taking angel wings to fly
Into the realms of love, where spirits die
For life immortal. o my dearest! say
Thou dost remember! and each wave
each star
Is crowned for me victor in loves war
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-26

"A Corner of the West" BY Edith
Henrietta Fowler author of THE
Young Pretenders, THE Professors
Children" etc. In Appletons' Town
and Country Library. Cloth 81. Pub
lished by D. Appleton & Co.
The author of this novel is a sister
of Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler, author
of "A Double Thread" Concerning
Isabel Carnaby" etc. 1t is, tale of
social life in Devonshire and London,
simply natural in incidents and situa-
tions, keen in NATURALIZATION of
characters, and tenderly, sympathetic
ally human in feeling, yet withal of
exceptional depth and value as a satire
upon the demoralizing artifciality of
modern English society.
Petronel, daughter of Lady Merri-
vale, when first introduced at the age
of seven, is a beautiful, spirituelle
child, with sweet, pure thoughts, dam
ty ways, and oldfashioned conceits.
Her mother is typical society woman,
void of sentiment, ambitious and av-
aricious; her father a sporting lord.
They make of her a girl of the period
loud, rough, smart, slangy cynical
who eventually sells herself in love-
less marriage to Lord Conway, an ex-
aggeration of her fathers type, but
very rich. Lavinia Garland's mother is
an aggressive, dictatorial person. who
has bullied her weak husband into the
grave and disciplined Lavinia into al
most feeble minded acceptance of her
utterly false standards of delicacy and
duty. DR.. Jim Cary would marry the
girl who is Verging upon old maid
hood, not because he loves her but out
of pity to save her from her mother
and they become engaged but she
postpones their marriage indefinitely.
Nine years elapse and they are still
simply engaged her concept of duty
keeping her with her mother, and he
quite contented with that arrange
ment. Then her orphaned niece,
Alison Royse, superb specimen of the
best type of English girlhood, comes to
live with the Garlands. DIR. Cary and
Alison fall in love, but even before
they realize 1t Lavinia does so. and out
of her weak colorless life rises once to
what is for her a sublime effort of re-
mandatory self-sacrifice.
Alisons visit to London as Petronel's
bridesmaid brings her into more in
innate contact with the smart set than
she has known before. and the piquant
cynicism, utter heartlessness and me-
retricious existence, frankly revealed
so revolt her sensitive soul that she is
glad to flee from it all, back to Devon
shire and Dr. Cary.
The conversational quality of the
story is delicious.
"E. P. Roe" "reminiscences of his life
by his sister, Mary A. Roe. Published
by Dodd, Mead & Co., New York.
Since the death of Edward p Roe
in 1883, there have been inquiries from
time IN time for some record of his life
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-26
LOVES REMEMBRANCE.
Dost thou remember, love, the fair.

Dost thou remember, love- the fair, far
hour,
When, on the hillside thou didst sit
with me,
EMBODIED by the strong arm of the sea,
As day was losing its majestic power;
The near hills glowing in golden shower
OF sun and twilight; when love, as
To me Yet NOT to me, thou said ST.
"Dear2''-Free,
Sweet incarnate spirit of each flower.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-26

Statistics of Railways in the United
States" Annual report of the inter-
state commerce commission for the
year 1898. Government Printing Of
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-26

via Crucis." BY j. Marian Crawford
Illustrated by Louis Loeb. Published
by the Macmillan Co. Cloth; $3.50.
This is the fourth edition since it's
first publication a few weeks ago.
This is a romance of the second cru
SADIE and must be accorded one of the
leading places among the great novels
of the year.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-26

'E. P. Roe" "reminiscences of his life
by his sister, Mary A. Roe. Published
by Dodd, Mead & Co., New York.
Since the death of Edward p Roe
in 1888, there have been inquiries from
time to time for some record of his life
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-26

and work, and it is in response to these
repeated requests that this volume was
written In so far as possible the au-
thor has made use of auto biographi-
cal matter The editor modestly dis
claims much credit for the excellent
work, but the reader cannot help pay
ing a tribute to her art and her loyal
devotion to her distinguished brother
The biography is full of interesting an
ecdotes. He had a dramatic life in boy
hood, in college. as chaplain in the war,
as clergyman, and finally as a success
full author.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-26

THE Favor of Princes" By Mark Lee
Luther Published by the Macmillan
Company, London and New York.
1.-THE Favor of Princes" is the title
of novel by Mark Lee Luther which
will be published by the Macmillan
Company in November. 1t is tale of
old and new France in the time of Louis
XIV The plot hinges on the action of
the king, who tries to deprive the hero
of his wife whose attractions have fas-
cinated him. Nine. de Pompadour, the
Due de Choiseul, Rousseau, and many
of the famous and notorious nersonages
of he time play a part i'll the action
of the story.
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GOoolP ABOUT NEW BOOKS.

ara. the end of the following century
look again that way An imbeciIe on
[ me throne once occupied by the CRAFTY
G.harles and Philip. Society rotten to
, Inc core, Soil exhausted and running to
waste; factories closed; artisan and ag-
IlcuIturtst vanished; one million of the
pest OF them, the Moriscos, cut off at a
single blow; the domain of proud cas-
tlIe dismembered, Holland and Portugal
gone, Artois, Roussillon and Franche
SolIlte' the glory of the kingdom de-
parted And after another century,
now now thehE Inundated into the dust;
pSSleh IN war like a child; not a foot
Of land n.Amerca; money gone. REM
tation gone, all lost but honor" and
that so filthy and tattered a thing that
no one will touch it.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-01-04
"A Shining Mark.

A lady, grievously tormented with a
corn on her toe, was advised by one of
her friends to anoint it with phosphorus,
which in weak moment she did, but
forgot to tell her husband before retir-
ing at night. It had just turned 12
when the husband awoke, and was star
tied to see something sparkling at the
foot of the bed
He had never heard of FREELY in the
locality, nor did he ever remember.see-
ing such a terrible looking object as
the toe presented. Reaching carefully
ont of bed till he found one Of his slip
pers he raised it high in the air and
brought it down with great force upon
the mysterious light.
A shrek and an avalanche Of bed
clothes, and all was over. When at last
he released himself from the bedelothes,
he discovered his wife grooming in q
corner of the bedroom, but she had not
got that phosphorated corn. London
Answers.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-01-04
THE PRICE OF PEPPER.
It Helped to Change the History OF
the Old World.

It Helped to Change the History OF
the Old World.
In the sixteenth century all the pep
per consumed in England was bought
by the English merchants from the
Dutch, who brought it from India.
Owing to racial jealousy, the Dutch
traders in 1899 raised the cost from 8
shillings to shillings per pound. This
petty display Of i'll feeling caused con-
siderable annoyance to the English mer-
chants and aroused in them that feeling
of independence which has always been
so characteristic of our race.
They determined to import their pep
per direct from India in their own
ships, and for this purpose formed
company, called the Governor and
Company Of Merchants Of London Trad
ing to the East Indies, and which in
latter days became eventually known
as the East India company.
Their first voyages embroiled them
in almost innumerable quarrels with
the Dutch and Portuguese, and for
time the venture proved financial fail
ure. 1t was not until 1915 that the
company became successful and obtained
lucrative treaties, owing to their de-
cisively defeating the Portuguese
From this time on their possessions
gradually increased, slowly at first, and
then very rapidly, until, by the wise
and beneficial management of such men
as Give, Warren Hastings and Corn
wallis, they exercised sovereignty over
the greater portion of India.
In this manner it happened that an
increase in the price Of pepper momen-
tously affected the history of mankind.
London Standard. :.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-01-04
Weather Forecasts.

IHh 1srst attempt at scientific FORE
casting OF the weather was the result Of
a storm which during the Crimean war,
Nov. II, 1854, almost destroyed the
fleets of France and England. As a
storm had ragged several days earlier in
France Valiant, the French minister of
war, directed that Investigations be
made to see if the two storms were the
same and il the progress Of the disturb
=ances could have been foretoid. It was
demonstrated that the two were in real
ity one storm and thatsits path could
have been ascertained and the fleet fore
warned in ample time to reach safety.