The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-02

WOMAN'S WORLD.
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Philadelphia Enquirer" They settle into
porch corners, Turk under dropping caves
and call for something jolly in the way
of ~twinkling lights.
"A time of day / adore. The hum of a
city's strife seems to have skipped to an
other part of the globe, there to fret
poor humanity with its din and clatter.
My friend. the old lamplighter, and I
are having a sort of race for life, he be-
cause he is in a desperate rush, l for the
fun of the thing. He is in a hurry. Be-
hind time, evidently. I wonder as we
skim along through the twilight why he
is always in a hurry, always behind
time.
1t is a way lamplighters have, I no.
tice. They are such picturesque relics of
the past. Soon pushing progress will steal
their vocation and for one shall be so
sorry.
like my lamplighter immensely. l
have watched him in the furry of a mid
winter snow scene patiently trudging
from post to post, curtained in foury
flakes, the city's Santa Claus.
1 have watched him when the apple
blossoms were all ablow climb on his
perch and down again, until each mimic
star in my neighborhood winked at the
dying day.
1 shall miss him when his time comes to
go, as 1 am old-fashioned enough to miss
other good old ideas, now mere dream
pictures. On we tramp, he and I, each
intent on covering space.
Through the murky shadows comes a
robins call. 1t is answered, and now all
robinville, in the brawny elms on a near
by lawn, is in a fiutter.
Respectable robins should be in bed at
this hour, I argue, and here am I enjoy
ing the sweetest of concerts. A dead
head, too. This fact strikes keen delight
to my newspaper soul.
The old lamplighter has disappeared. l
alone enjoy the impromptu affair Grand
opera, light opera, concert hall warDllng,
how grotesque beside the delicate trilllng
that breaks the stiffness of the cleaning.
Fortunate Dorothy I say to myself
again and again. 1t is not often within
the towns limits one is greeted with such
a symphony.
And then. womanlike, I think of him.
Why is it d great commonplace him
must always intrude at a moment when
the heart IS stirred by tender harmonies?
What has a staiwart man 70 do with out
daintiest emotions? a hulSing six-footer,
as likely as not, With no more sentiment
in his nature than a block Of wood.
Wsman. strange enigma! Shall we ever
understand her? And having thought Of
him I do not rest until we two make a
trio 10 the elms al twilight. We time our
visit with greatest nicely.
The shadows obiigingly play their part.
the ,ampiighter goes through his role and
the robins-alas for human hopes. Does
any pleasant thing in this world ever re-
peat Itself?
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throat. Every blessed bird in its nest and
a provoking man al hand who waits IN
vain for the pro Used treat.
In the foriorn silence I grow embar-
raised. and man-like, my companion re-
fuses to smooth out one wrinkle in my
ruffed up feelings.
He seizes the opportunity for a little
fun on his own account, and talks of
Dorothy's sweet Authorizations begs
me to write a .springtime idyl, and finally
asks if have not yet become acquainted
With a second-class lot of twittering
sparrows? Such an insult to my robins.
deserve it, though, the pesky little
creatures, to desert me at such a trying
: moment.
Procure a small fresh ham, place It in a
kettle over the fire and cover with boiling
water; add a well cleaned chicken of three
and one-half pounds in weight and season
with one heaping tablespoonful of salt,
one teaspoonful pepper and three onions,
cover and cook till the chicken is tender;
then take out the chicken and continue to
boil till the ham is done.
Remove all the meat from the chicken
and grind it fine, then measure it; grind
also part of the ham; there should be an
equal amount of ham and chicken meat.
For one pint of chicken and one pint Of
ham broth, take three large green pep
pers. cut them open, remove the seeds,
place the peppers in a sauce pan over the
fire. cover with boiling water and cook for
five minutes; remove and chop them fine,
add the peppers to the meat. season with
one teaspoonful salt and half teaspoon
full pepper. Strain the chicken and ham
broth, put three pints of the broth in a
saucepan, add two large tablespoonfuls OF
butter and one heaping teaspoonful OF
salt; when it boils pour in one cupful vel
low Indian meal and one cupful white In
dian meal; stir and cook till thick, then
remove from fire. !
Put some nice corn husk leaves in a
kettle; cover with hot water; set them
for half hour on one side of the stove;
take out the husk and cut them in even
lengths; spread a leaf out on a disn;lput
one tablespoonful of the cornmeal paste
on top of the leaf, and spread 1T even;
Their put a spoonful of the meat prepara-
ton over the corn paste and roll it up. so
the meat is inclosed by the corn mixture
The corn musk should be rolled the same
as a cigar, only a little thicker; the ends
should be twisted or tied with a string.
Place the tamales in a steamer and steam
for one hour. Some boil them in chicken
broth, but 1 find steaming the better.
Some add one grated onion to the meat
preparation; others put two or three RAJ
sins in each tamale.
The nodding plumes of the winter APP
pear to nave disposed women favorably
toward other forms of decoration that
set up-independent motion with the move
ments of the wearer. Some of these,
such as hat pins, CULVER in a way most
attention distracting toathose in church
pew or concert hall stall who have the
disadvantage to sit behind them. This
pin top being usually composed of more
or less gaudy colored glass jewels, the
effect of the bright object vibrating at
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