Evening star., 1902-09-13

lated sugar only weighs fourteen ounces;
| pint of lard or butter weighs about las.
ounces; a pint of flour, packed without sift-
| ing, weighs IL ounces, and, after sitting,
| lightly o ounces One pint of rich milk
| weighs little more than 16 ounces-skim-
| med milk is a triie heavier-but cream is
| lighter than either
| A physician whose mode of treatment has
| been particularly successful in building up
| children of weak physique, advocates a good
rich beef stew with plenty of bone in II,
| several times a week. The bone furnishes a
| jelly strengthening to bones and sinews
For this purpose piece from the shin or
lower part of the round is best. Have the
butcher saw the bones in order to get all the
marrow. Cover with cold water then put
| on close lid and simmer several hours
Do not let it boil Vegetables and season
ings may be added to suit.
The same doctor recommends the use of
a punching bag for small boys with narrow
chests or a tendency to round shoulders
When real leather punching bag is out of
the question, very good substitute is any
stout bag loosely filled with bran.
All exercise should be taken in the open
air, whenever possible.
There is a great knack in whipping cream.
but the principle once mastered any one
NAV be sure of attaining success every
time. In the first place. the cream should
be at least twelve preferably twenty-four,
hours old. 1t must be very cold, and should
be rich and thick. Have the bowl and
cream-whip Geld and do the whipping in a
cool place. When it begins to thicken per-
ceptiby. add the beaten whites of one or
two eggs to each pint of cream. This gives
it body and richness. Continue beating,
adding at the last sugar and favoring to
suit the taste.
The ideal dumping, light. feathery, deli
cate. is seldom met with, mores the pity.
The next time you want veal or chicken
potpie try making your dumplings in this
way: Mix thoroughly by sitting one pint
OF flour. saltspoon of salt and heapng
teaspoon of baking powder. Rub into the
flour teaspoonful of cold butter, using the
tips of the fingers Stir into the prepared
flour lust enough milk (skimmed milk will
answerl to make a soft dough-not stiff
enough to roll out. Take the meat up on
platter and with a tablespoon drop pieces
of the soft dough about large a small
biscuit into the boiling broth. Cover close
iy and cook eight minutes without uncover
ing or allowing the kettle to stop boiling
Serve at once.
With the growing fancy for collecting
Indian baskets and rugs, a word of eau
ton: Any ore who has ever been among
the Indians realizes the insanitary condi-
tions prevailing in their wick-i-ups or ho-
gans. Filth and disease of all sorts are
much more apt to be the rule than the
ception. Among the aborigines of the
southwest particularly water is almost an
upon the irrigation bitches through their
reservations and a two hours rum of
water every eight or ten days with no
vessels to conserve the precious fluid for
use in the meantime, gives small leeway
for water to be used for cleansing pur-
poses. The beautiful Pinea and Apache
baskets will all bear good scrubbing with
some disinfectant in the water. The Ma
vaio rugs. If new. may be disinfected with
sulphur or formaldehyde-bu if they show
signs of any wear-wash thoroughly. The
native wool blankets colored with vege-
table dyes are improved, not injured, by
washing. Those made of Germantown,
where mineral dyes are employed, are not
only an offense against good taste, but
much more liable to fade or shrink.
In this connection, a word to encourage
the preservation of these beautiful native
crafts in their original integrity. The
Navajo rugs honestly made not only
practically indestructible. but rarely beau
tiful in design and coloring. Yet, since
the advent of the trader with his spirit of
commercialism, the art has deteriorated
and is in danger of being lost. These rugs
We're formerly made of the pure native
wool, like the best Persian and Turkish.
The co!oring was vegetable, laboriously
gathered from roots barks and herbs on
mountain and desert. There was no fade to
it. Every stitch was knotted by hand and
beaten down so closely that the fabric
would hold water. The designs were taken
from sky and cloud, the forked lightning,
the markings on snake and lizard. the
Oldest of NEUROLOGICAL symbols, including
even the Swastica, supposed, until recently,
to belong to India alone.
But with the advance of civilization has
come the theory anything goes, long as
1t sells In place of the thick. fine fleece,
there is Germantown wool, already pre-
pared, that be purchased of the trader;
in lieu of the rich vegetable dyes, red and
blue, there are crude greens, yellows pur-
pies and 'greenery yallery'-the output of
mineral dye house. Art, too, has lost
it's significance; the tomato can, the rail-
road train and soap labels have taken
the place of the old-time beautiful de-
signs. Nor is the work what it used TO be.
A modern Navajo, made to sell. is light in
weight, sleazy, imperfect. If the day
comes quickly that an intelligent, art-loving
public demands return to the old honest
work, and shows it by a disposition to pay
what it is worth then and not until then,
will this wonderful native craft be preSery-
ed to us in its integrity.
In another generation the art may be ir-
revocably lost.