Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-31

out smoothing much, and slip them into the
fat, using frying basket or not as pre-
ferred The fat Gard Is besD should De
hot enough to brown piece OF bread
while you count forty. Do not try to Try
more than four or five at a time, as more
would cool the fat and make them soggy.
Drain on soft paper. Fish balls should al
ways be mixed while fish and potatoes are
hot
The fastidious woman who breads a jour-
ney, fearing the dirt and microbes which
she feels assured lurk in every crack and
Granny of a train, would feel relieved could
she see the thorough cleaning to which the
cars on reliable roads are subjected. AT
the end of every trip the trains are backed
up into the cleaning yard, where the sleep
ers, day coaches and dining car are dl-
vested of their soiled linen. This is sent
to the laundry. The train is then stripped
of everything portable. thoroughly swept,
busted, fumigated with fermaldehyde, area
and washed inside and out, after which
it is closely inspected by man who Is
paid to do nothing but look for minute par
ticles of dust that may have CHANGED to
escape the cleaners eye. Every men OF
woodwork, glass freSco and metal is gone
over, rubbed and polished. Compressed ar
is used to extract the dust from otherwise
inaccessible crevces and from the uphol-
STEERING. When the work of cleansing is
completed there is not drawing room in
the land more invitingly, Immediately,
santarily spotlesS.
| There is a great Improvement in nursery
wall papers, the old jumble of many stories
| pictured without separation being super
| seeded by art papers issued by LONDON
| house. A perfectly plain paper serves as
| a background for simple, artistic series OF
artistic pictures. These come in panels.
| usually in five-foot-lengths, and these are
| so arranged that they can be repeated all
| around the room if desired. Noahs ark is
| specially delightful, the animals going
| around the room in solemn procession by
| twOS. There also fascinating prizes
of hen and chickens, mother duck and her
| brood, horses and puppies in varied attl-
| tudes. This continuity of design concen-
| trates the attention without confusion pro-
| duced by intricate and distracting patterns
| spreading all over the rest of the wall and
presenting no clear suggestion to the chlld
mind.
The Indian method of reckoning time by
| the sun is worth remembering against a
| time of need, when watches play false, but
| an engagement must be kept. The width
of the palm of the right hand. with the
| thumb held close inside the index finger,
! represents the space covered by the sun in
| an hour. IT, for instance, you would know
| just how many hours it would be before
! sunset extend your right hand against the
| sky until it just reaches the sun. Measur-
| ing by hand widths from the sun to the
edge of the western horizon gives the num-
! Der of hours to sunset. So also in the
| morning. Measuring from the sun to the
| zenith, it is easy to calculate the number
| of hours remaining before noon.
| A somewhat novel state of affairs exists
in the mining town of Bisbee, Ariz., where
| not a single Chinese wash house is allowed
| The nearest place is at Fairbanks, two
| hours distant. The object of this anti
| Chinese laundry league is to protect the
| miners widows (and there large num-
| ber), who need the work. So strict is the
! surveillance maintained by the miners that
! not a single Monaghan is allowed to stay
| in the town over night. They can come in
~ how ,l,lt rod
! to camp outside. Wages must be kept
| up say these miner knights, land home
| industries shall be protected
| The newest gastronomic wrinkle for the
| dyspeptic or the individual who wishes to
| take ON fat, halls from central New York,
| but is rapidly spreading to the regions
| beyond. This universal panacea is simply
| bread crumbs. Slices of good sweet bread
| are toasted brown in the oven, then ground
| or pounded into crumbs to be eaten with
| milk. Those who have acquired the bread
| crumb habit are loud in it's praises, declar-
| ing it far more palatable than grape-nuts,
| which it resembles.
| A delicate way of cooking bacon is in
| deep fat. Put the slices in the wire basket
| and hold in the boiling fat for a moment
| until crisp
! A delicious custard ice cream, which
| stands facile princeps of it's kind, comes
| from Boston. Make a boiled cuStard, with
| one quart of fresh milk, one cupful of SUI
gar and the yoks of six eggs. Strain, and
| when cool, add one pint of cream, more
| sugar is desired and one tablespoonful of
| flavoring, preferably vanilla.
Beat the whites of the eggs and add just
| before freezing. If the cream is to be
| nodded, add one tablespoonful of gelatine,
| which has been soaked an hour in one
| half cupful of cold milk reserved from the
| quart.
Always use a silver knife and fork in
| shredding pineapple, as the acid acts on
| steel.
The Virginia method of preparing fried
| mush is as follows: Mix together at sup
per time three tablespoonsful of -four, with
| three teacupfuls of cornmeal and sft
| twice together. Cook In a double boiler
using enough hot water to make a moder-
| ately thick batter and two teaspoonfuls
| fine salt. Boil two hours, stirring often
| At the end of that time, pour out on
| large fiat dish to the depth of a half inch
In the morning cut in squares, dip in sifted
| flour and fry quickly hot griddle
| Serve very hot.
When serving peaches, pears or pome-
| granates for breakfast, the fastdious
| housekeeper will see to it that finger bowls
| accompany the fruit The stains from these
| fruits are all well-nigh ineradicable and
the finger bowl of prevention will be found
| much easier than the elimination Of stub
| born, ugly spots upon the napery.
| The next time you roast lamb try bast-
| ing it with tomato sauce.
| Royale paste for clear soup is made of
| the yolks of four eggs, one gill of clear
| soup and a seasoning of salt and nutmeg
| Beat all together and pour into a buttered
shallow dish. Place the dish in a pan of
| water and bake until the custard is firm
| 1t should be about an eighth of an inch
| thick. When COOL cut in narrow strips
put in the soup and serve
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Dangers of the Corset.
From Harper's Bazaar
Another physician ascribeA the complaint
known floating kidney" from which,
| he says, thousands Of women in the coun-
| try suffer though many of them may not
| know 1t. largely to the wearing of COM
| pressing corsets and which he considers
the straight-form corset accentuates if it
| does not actually produce. third physi-