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asafetida which has been held right
under its nose for a few minutes.
Again, there are medicines which must
be well diluted before they can be swal-
lowed, such as sulphuric ether or spirits
of ammonia, etc. If given in concen-
trated condition, the sensation of chok-
ing is dangerous to the patient and dis
tressing to the nurse, and such med
icines should not be given without full
directions from the doctor or dispenser
of the drug.
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its own use and individuality. If the
bookcase stands in enc corner, the writ
ing desk should soccupy another, the
low couch still another and an easy
chair or the low table, with its plants
or useful and pretty odds and ends, yet
another. MADGE PORTER.
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Giving medicine to children.

Hospital nurses will tell you that a
large amount of tact is required to get
some patients to take medicine. This
specially applies to children, who lack
the reasoning powers of their elders.
Care should be taken that no oil med
icine touches the lips, and it is a good
plan when such medicine has to be
taken to moisten the mouth-not the
ips-with water previously. After TAX
ing bitter drugs-such as quassia. quiz
nine, strychnine, etc.-the persistent
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FiIIeted PIafce.

Skin the fishes, lay them fiat on the
table and cut down the backbone, then
raise the fllet from head to tail. Cut
the fillets in pieces and fry them in two
ounces of drippings. oil or lard. Season
and add the juice of half a lemon
Drain the fillets on a cloth and serve
them on a napkin.
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Frozen Fruits.

Boil two cupfuls of sugar and one
quart of water 20 minutes; skim and
COOL. Add two to three pints of mashed
and sifted pulp and juice of any fruit
or mixture of fruits you prefer, like
peaches, plums and apricots. Freeze as
usual, and, if you prefer, add, when
partly frozen. one pint of cream, whip
ped. Some fruits will need more sugar;
others will be improved with lemon
juice.
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places famous in Shakespearean his
tory, prints of the poets characters or
of famous actors in favorite roles. Por-
traits of some of Shakespeare's friends
and busts of Shakespeare himself in as
many poses as can be obtained will add
to the value of an interesting nook.
The corners should be the cosiest
spots in the room, each corner having
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prints of her famous art works. plaster
casts of her famous statues and bits Of
pottery in the Greek fashion. This
will make a picturesque and original
corner. The style of the corner must
conform with that of the rest of the
room
A student of Shakespeare may arrange
one. corner with prints representing
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only some simple pins that are prettys
though sham, and these should be kept
clean and bright. For silver there is
nothing better than cut lemon or sill
yer powder. For stones rub up with
newspaper.
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neat after repeated exposures to the
weather and much hard wear.
The cut of bodices is particularly
pleasing. They are rounded in the
front with graceful decolletages, cut or
suggested, which add to the beauty of
the figure graces that were not suspect
ed in the less well shaped waists.
CATHERINE TALBOT.
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cumstances that you are not rich, and
that therefore these brooches and
bracelets, etc, cannot be real 1t is far
better to confine yourself to one or two
unpretentious paste ornaments for even
ing wear, and in the daytime to use
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Waist, Skirt and Bodice.
If you wish to acquire distinction in
dress with your separate waists, see to
it that there is some relation in color
between the skirt and the bodice. The
black skirt with bright colored waists
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APPLE SOUFFLE.-Take one pint of appls
PURGE. one lemon, three eggs, one ounce OF but
ter one round of sponge cake, castor sugar. aprl-
cot Jam, a few pistachio nuts and one glass OF
sherry Cut the apples in quarters and, without
melting or coring them, stew them till soft with
the pared lemon rind and enough water to keep
them from burning. When SOFT rub all through
fine wire sieve Stir in the raw yolks OF two eggs
only and nut the whites aside. Add the butter
and sugar to taste. Cook this mixture for min
ute or two over the fire, but do not let it boil
Take the cake and carefully hollow out the CEN
ter. SO as to leave Sprinkle it over inside
with the wine and, after slightly warming the
lam spread it thinly over the outside and sprin-
kle with chopped pistachio nuts Beat the three
Whites to q stiff froth and add them lightly to
the apple mixture Put this into the cake border
and place in quick oven till well pulled up,
probably about 10 or 10 minutes. Dust with sUg-
ar and serve Immediately.
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Nothing is so very much out of place
as to wear cheap, snowy jewelry. Ev-
cry one knows from your dress and cir
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DINNER.

MULLIGATAWNY sOUP.-Make some stock
with any meat trimmings to be had Cut some
slices of carrot, turnip and onion fry them in an
ounce of dripping with a bunch Of herbs and
slice of bacon; add two ounces Of -four, table
spoonful of curry powder and a teaspoonfui OF
curry paste. Fry for a few minutes, pour in the
stock skim when it to boiling point, sea-
son to taste and simmer for hour Pass
through a sieve or fanny, flavor with lemon
juice and with boiled rice.
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MUSHROOM TOAST.-Pee1 some good fresh
mushrooms and fry in butter till cooked. Have
ready strips of buttered toast, arrange
few mushrooms each piece, season with salt
and little cayenne pepper. Dust finely chopped
parsley over, or, if you prefer it, grated parmesan
cheese, and serve. With nicely fried rashers Of
bacon this toast makes excellent breakfast
dish.
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which have no black in their compost
ton is no longer considered swell. For
example, a blue and fawn checked silk
blouse is very good style with either a
fawn or a blue cloth skirt, while with
black it would be very ordinary
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moderately hot oven. A few minutes
before the cake is done brush it over
with white of egg and dust it with pow
dered sugar. Turn the cake out of the
tin on taking it from the oven and serve
it cold.
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LUNCHEON OR TEA.

Fruit.
Ragout Of Mussels- Boiled Rice.
Potato Ribbons. French Bread
Lettuce and Radishes. Preserves.
Apple Souffie.
Tea or Chocolate.
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taste is best removed by masticating
and swallowing small pieces of dry
bread. This wipes and cleanses the
back of the tongue and cleans away the
nauseous taste.
Many medicines offend more by their
smell than by their taste. Where such
is the case the nostrils should be closed
with the fingers before the medicine
comes within range of the olfactory
sense and kept closed until the draft or
powder is swallowed One can quite
understand the unwillingness of a child
to swallow a preparation of vaIerian or
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-10
&" BOXERS" AND MISSIONS.
WHAT THE CATHOLICS DO-OTHER
MISSION WORK.

The reports from China to the effect that the
Boxers have destroyed of the mission
houses and threaten to do mischief in that
direction have caused many inquiries at the
headquarters Of the various foreign mission
CARNATIONS in New York. DR.. l. T. Headand,
professor of mental and moral philosophy at
Picking University, who is at present in this
city. received many calls from persons who felt
friends in the missionary service would be
China a missionary and teacher He &C
quired the language, in which he delivers lee
lures and his intimate relations with the people
gave him ample opportunity to study the Chi
nese question. He looks upon the reports of
massacre and destruction exaggerations, and
when told that the missions at Feng-T Tai and
Huang TSun had been burned said:
The Methodists have a mission church at
Huang-Tsun which is supplied from the Amer
lean mission corps at Picking A native preacher
is in charge of the church. The Mr.. Norman
who is said to have been captured is not of the
North China Mission, but is a member of the
Society for the Spread of the Gospel local So
ciety of Picking. 1 don't believe the Boxers in
tend to kill any foreigners unless they get mixed
up in fights. They want to carry off some. per-
haps in order to get a ransom for them, but
they are intent killing off the native Chris
tans"
The Boxers a secret society organized for So
cial, political religious and athletic purposes,
are known to be of the anti foreign class, and
one man who lived in China for several years
and had occasion to study the question Of secret
societies. said that the uprising in the North Of
China, in the Chilli and Shantung districts was
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about 700. The preachers are natives. but the
presiding elder is the Rev j. F. Hayner. for
merly assistant to the Rev Dr. j. S. King. of
NewYork.
The Picking University is a of great
pride to the Methodists. 1t has now about 100
students. all natives and all Christians In the
last year there have been many students from
high and official families Of whom twelve were
in the theological department and four in the
medical department.
The Rev. Frederick Browns report TO the
Tien-Tsin District showed that the prejudice
against foreigners had manifested itself there
also.
In the report OF the Rev. w. c. Longden on
the Shantung District the position Of the Roman
Catholics is referred 10. He says in part:
The disturbed condition IF the Shantung
Province has been urfavorah!e to our work, the
heavy rai"s injured the crops in many parts.
and in thirty-ono counties the overflow of the
Yellow River d, stroyel everything. The fight
ing Of the rebels in Anhui and the rumors re-
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In the history Of work in North China We
never began year with forbidding out
look. All classes Of people were greatly dis
turbed because of the great upheaval in the po-
litical atmosphere. While there has been much
talk there has been violent outbreak against
the Church, apparent desire to disturb the
Church. only to let it severely alone-an atti-
tude of fear lest they might be involved in any
evil that should befall the Christians
$50 marked was the fear in Picking last au-
tumn that the great Sabbath school for nom
Christians often attended by 1000 people. fell
away until for a few Sabbaths only few score
dared attend. The same was true of many of
the chapes throughout the country. Hospital
and dispensary work came to standstill.
"Of late our Sabbath school in Picking has
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specting them have added to difficulties.
Much lawlessness has existed throughout the
province and serious outrages have
Cured. Roman Catholic activity has greatly in
creased and their chief business seems to be to
manage cases of litigation in the interest of
their adherents.'
The total foreign population of Peking is less
than 400, inclusive of all the diplomatic and
consular officers.
Then it would be easy matter" it was
said to a missionary who returned from Picking
recently, Ito exterminate the foreigners if the
Chinese really wished to do So"
NO not so easy said the of peace
1.-The English consular officer is well supplied
with implements of in the way CT guns and
ammunition, and the Chinese would find it
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been attended as formerly, and street chapel
work especially at the new FengChen Chapel,
has never been more prosperous. A large num-
Der have joined on probation The only marked
prosperity in the district has been in connection
with the Asbury and Feng-Chen chapels in
Picking.
THE country about Picking has been slower to
recover from the effects of the late political dis
turbances At Pa-Cho. Yen-Ching-Cho, and on
the Ku-Pel-FGou Circuit there have been some
accessons to the membership. not many. Else
where have made apparent advance. We
have been unable to enter new fields because of
the lack of money, and for the same reason the
native preachers have been unable to travel
over their large circuits as the work requires"
The church at Picking has a membership Of
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easy task to take the place and those who could
take shelter there"
Schools. hospitals, churches and other institu-
tons for the refining and Outstanding of the
people are managed by the missionaries, of
whom there are about two hundred in the dis
turbed district. Besides the MethOdsts there are
about thirty Presbyterians, twenty English Bap-
lists, thirty under the American Board. thirty
under the London Mission Society, twenty sent
by the English organization for propagating the
Gospel and the balance in the employ of other
Christian associations. In the girls school at
Tsun-hua. maintained by the Women's Foreign
Missions Schools Society, there at present
seventy five students, and three of the teachers
natives.
The Presbyterian missionaries now in the Pc
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due to great extent to the decisions which
have been rendered against the natives in i'm
portant lawsuits recently.
The various sects and denominations under
whose protection missionaries are sent to
China" he said. content themselves with ordi-
nary missionary work. but it appears that the
Catholics go a step further. The Christians are
mOlested by the natives more or less all the
time, and the Catholic Church. on that account.
keeps several priests in the Chinese service for
the purpose Of representing members OF their
faith in court proceedings. These men are r. ally
the lawyers FOR their people and because OF their
superior knowledge. their familiarity with the
laws Of China and OF other countries and with
the languages they usually win their cases in
court. and this fact has much 10 do with the
uprsing-the Boxers by riot and disorder hope
To gain what they cannot get by law That Is
certainly one cause for the trouble. An anti
foreign feeling has always prey allied in China,
and requires only incidents of this kind to bring
1t to the surface"
The most active missionary work has been
done In China in the last ten years The Meth
odist Episcopal Church began its work In 1869
through missionaries from Foochcw and the
North China Conference was organic d in 1893.
The work is being carried on under the super
vison Of Bishop Cranston and in the last annual
report the following list Of mission arics is given:
Inc Key Frederick Brown and Mrs. Agnes
Barker Brown the Rev. George K Davis and
Mrs. Maria Brown Davis. the Rev. Francis d
Gamewell and Mrs. Mary Porter Gamewcu the
Rev. j. Frederick Hayner and Mrs. Mabel Shat
tuck Iiayncr, the Rev. Or. Isaac r. Hcadland
and Mrs. Marian Sinclair HoadIand the Rev
William T. Hobart and Mrs. Emily Hatfield Ho-
bart. the Rev. DR.. Nehemiah S. Hopkins and
Mrs. Fannie Higgins Hopkins, the Rev. Harry
f. King and Mrs H. T.. King. Edward *. Lowry
and Mrs. Katharine Mullikin Lowry, DR. George
ID. y. Lowry and Mrs. Cora Calhoun Lowry the
Rev. DR.. Hiram H. Lowry and Mrs. Parthena
Nicholson Lowry, the Rev. James II. Pyke and
Mrs. Anabel Goodrich Pyke, the Rev George
w. Verify and Mrs Frances Wheeler Verify and
Miss Alice Terrell. on furlough Or. William
ii. Curtiss and Mrs. Lulu Hale Curtiss. the Rev
DR.. Marcus L. Taft and Mrs Emily Kellogg
Taft, the Rev. DR. Wilbur Fisk Walker and Mrs
Mary Morrison Walker
When the annual report of missionaries in
China was made few months ago the political
atmosphere was far from clear, and the mis-
Sionaries had grave fears for the prospects of
the cause for which they had gone to China
The Rev. DR.. G. r. Davis In his report from the
Picking District. said;
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king district the Rev. Or. John Wherry and
Mrs. Wherry. the Rev. j, L. Whiting and Mrs.
Whiting, the Rev. A NJ. Cunningham and Mrs.
Cunningham. the Rev. c. II. Fem and Mrs.
Fem. the Rev. Charles \ Killie and Mrs. Killie
DR.. John NJ. IngIis and Mrs. IngIis. Dr. Eliza
F.. Leonard Miss Grace Newton Miss Bessie
Mccoy and Miss Jennie McKilliCan.
The latest dispatches indicate that Admiral
Kempn has less confidence in the Boxers than
some OF the missionaries who have lived in
China, for he has made requisition for add
tional marines, which will be landed at Picking
to protect the Americans against the fanatical
Boxers"
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EASILY FORGOTTEN.

From The Chicago Tribune.
Cant you remember the principal acts Of
your various Mayors" asked the man who was
trying to compile history OF the city.
Not very WELL" ALPHABETICALLY replied the old
citizen. Our Mayors are short lived you
know. they don't make much impression on the
memory. They go in one year and out the
other"
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EUROPE'S MOORISH PERII,
MOROCCO MAY INVOLVE THE PoWEpa
IN A GREAT WAR
GREAT BRITAIN THREATENS TO SEIZE TASerrps
IF FRANCE TAKES POSSESSION OF TABLET
THE INTERESTS AT STAKE

Many years have elapsed since Lord Sails,
bury, who at the present moment is the dean n,
all European statesmen in his wide experience
and profound knowledge of diplomacy and for.
eign affairs. declared in one of those odd bursts
of confidence which denounced by his foes
as blazing indiscretions'' that the questio,
which would bring on the long expected and
much dreaded outbreak of a war between the
great Powers of the Old World would be in
connection not with China, nor yet With Esvpt
nor the Balkans, nor yet Asia Minor but
Morocco. OF far graver import than the much
discussed Eastern question the Moorish
problem, he declared. And it would seem
that now. when his public career is drawing to
a Close the predictions which he made quarter
OF a century ago are on the eve of realization.
There is no doubt that the English Premier
had this in his mind when at the annual Con-
gress of the Primrose League he referred to
the necessity of Great Britain being prepared
for conflict of far greater magnitude than the
Boer war. All sorts of speculations were in
dulged in at the time by the press to the
nature Of the peril that threatened the British
Empire. Some expressed the opinion that he
had in view the troubles in China, others that
it was Russia's movements in Persia which
alarmed him, while some went so far as
to insist that he haunted by the dread of
what the United States might do if Bryan were
eltCleu as IIeSluent anu CdIteU upon put into
execution his menaces against England. II now
turns out that it was the Moorish crisis that he
had in his mind, and that he regarded the death
of the powerful Premier of Morocco, occurring
at time when the present French Govern
ment is in a lettering condition. and destined to
be succeeded by an administration committed
to a warlike policy as entaiiing serious DANCER
1 have excellent authority of official origin
from London for stating that very vigorous
/ correspondence is proceeding between the Brit
ish and French governments concernina, the af-
fairs in Morocco while it is a fact Wei known
likewise in eoreisn capitals that r-norard bos
determined u25r Cccuprf7a, Ta7-iar IN The
event of France CARVING oIt her ir+a7,i-,, =
Selling Tablet. There is no Doubt That This
action on the part of the one nation as ,f the
other would bring them face 10 face in e1,cb y
"a war which the German the Snanfeb md the
Italian governments have had in con+ar,n1a
ton for some time
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The Grit-advocate., 1900-05-18
LESSONS IN ENGLISH.
Things Frenchman Learned Studying
the Language.

A Frenchman thirsting for lin
guistic superiority, recently began
course of English lessons with
teacher of languages. After toiling
conscientiously through a good many
exercises, the following dialogue be-
tween the pupil and his master' was
overheard: Il find the English very
difficult" complained the Frenchman.
How do you pronounce t-o-u-g-h?"
"It is pronounced 'tuff.'" "Eh, bein,
'tuff; snuff then, is spelt s-n-o-ug-h.
is it not?" "Oh, no; snuff is spelt
Snuff. AS a matter of fact, words
ending in o-u-g-h are somewhat irregu
lar" "Oh. I see; superb language!
Tough is 'tuff,' and Cough is
cuff have a very bad cuff" "No.
1t is 'coff.' not 'cufr.' VERY we'll.
coff, tuff, and coff. And dough is
duff eh?" mo. not duff" "'Doff.'
then" mo. DOH" well, then.
what is h-o-u-g-h?" "That is pro-
nounced hook" "'Hohck?' Then sup
pose the thing the farmer uses, the
p-l-o-u-g-h, is 'pluff.' or it is 'plohck.'
or 'plo.' Fine language-'plo.' mo.
no; 1t is pronounced 'plow.'" II shall
soon master English, am sure. Here
We go. 'plow.' 'coff,' 'tofr. 'hohck.' and
now, here's another-r-o-u-g-h now
that is row. suppose?" "Oh, no, my
friend; that's ruff again" "And
b-o-u-g-h is 'buff?'" mo, that hap
pens to be bow" "Yes, wonderful
language And I have just e-n-o-u-g-h
OF 1t. that's 'enou,' is it not" mo.
'enuff. "-Sheffield Weekly News. t
The Grit-advocate., 1900-05-18

get the grip II should mention the
size of bets.
Finally, Mr.. Pringle called me to
one side. and told me that his partners
objected to the game without a limit
He was willing himself to play the
bank without it, but lie was compelled
to defer to the wishes Of his partners,
and would place the limit at $3.50
bet
He said it was all right to have me
play on. as he liked me and all that
but I was the first man who ever forced
him to put limit on the game. When
returned to the table quietly in
formed the senator and he looked dis
tressed, as he saw no chance, from hit
point OF view, in getting rid OF his
winnings at $3.50 limit. We played
until midnight. and the senator at las.
yielded to fatigue. and ordered me 10
cash in. When he counted the roll in
his room, our joint winnings were just
f81. 800, of which sum he staked me.
as ny share to $4,000. Said he. when
he gave me the money:
Martin, l never played card In
my life before this afternoon, and
will never play another one as long
a. l live. This money l will do some
thing with which shall not immediate
ly benefit myself or my family
II visited St. Paul 20 years after tais
occurrence and met the senator. True
to his word, he had never touched a
card, and l learned from others who
got wind Of the play in Washington
that the senator's winnings were ex-
pended in helping struggling young
fellows to get a start In life, accom-
panied In every case by the condition
that they should never play in gam
ing house.
Il venture to say that this is the
most remarkable case on record of 2
mans unexpected and undesired large
winnings turning him against gamb-
ling and card playing and soaring him
almost to death. I was then so reck-
less with money that it made no sort
Of difference to me whether I won o.
lost $40, 900, so you can imagine how I
regarded the senator's squeamishness.
But you see he was right after all,
and he took the proper view of the
matter, for money which comes easy
in q winning at faro, goes easy the
same way; in a week l had lost the
$4,000 an thought no more of it than
l do now of losing $40 bill"