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I'VE PLANTS AND AMERICAN ASH0SE HUNTING TRIALS OF PARENTS
"Other Times, Other Manners and Other Inter-
pretatiOns of Holy Writ.

and erected vast tent. in which "al
freseo'' conservatory fruitful vine and
olive eaplings lived until frost drove
them into town. Then a tiwelling-place
was secured by sending the bigger boys
and girls to boarding schools. thus di-
minishing the size Of fam ".
Landlords, lessees, and agents have
some right on their side They are
not Intentionally IN league to prevent
the growth OF weli-to-do American fani-
lies. They may not be phIiant hropists.
..fley are not unpatriotfc conspirators-
They are shrewd business men, with an
eye to the preservation of their PROP
erty and the comfort OF profitable
apartment. The most loving mother
cannot gainsay this. Restless little feet
in stout shoes wear out carpets. scratch
polished floors. and disturb the peace
of the jewellers in the lower flats. Sarin
young voices, raised IN talk, laughter,
and song, pierce walls and ceilings
Dirty little fingers leave marks upon
wallpaper and mischieyous fingers,
equipped with pencils and paint, make
havoc Your healthy boy, with an active
turn of mind, does more harm to plumb
ing and heating apparatus in one day
than SIX adults would do IN a year II
turned out to play on the sidewalk they
make the neighborhood undesirable
inside OF thirty minutes. And every
apartment house is not near enough to
park for the latter to be available for
an overflow meeting
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Keeping Open House in The HOLIDAY Season

of people Christmas and New Year
night, nearly always got up something
To be done in costume, go as TO make
the compliment of preparation little
more pronounced.
One year they danced Mother Goose
quadrille-a home invention, by the way
eight girls dressed up as nursery-rhyme
characters.
Mother Goose danced with Peter
Piper's wife (who wore a green and
white dress. trimmed profuseiy with
small red peppers). the Queen of
Hearts, who afterward dispensed tarts,
with Little Bo Peep; Miss Muffet. who
who Aad evidently quite got over her
fear of spiders. for all sizes OF them.
decorated her quaint little rose-colored
gown, with DaTydowndiIly, gorgeous in
yellow and green; and Mary, Mary,
Quite Contrary, with Old Mother Hub
bard, who made all sorts of interesting
complications in the dance by bringing
her dog along at the end of q long red
ribbon, and making him join in
Another time they acted out, IN
shadowgraph. that pathetic ballad that
tells of the woes and ultimate happiness
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OF no less parsonage than-Mary Jane
And If you've never had a shadowgraph,
you've no idea what fun they are to see
and be ill.,
And still another year they had a
play-aot long, formal affair, but a
little. snappy one that lasted perhaps
three-quarters of an hour; acted, of
course. in costume.
A cat chorus convulsed its audience
one night by meowing through Three
Blind Mice with evident relish
A huge frame, set at one end of the
room. on another occasion was used to
pose pictures In, which Were to repre-
sent the titles of wen-known books
The audience wrote their guesses down
On little cards, and the one vine guessed
the most WAS given prize, tucked away
in a stocking that hung on the Christ
raas tree.
Perhaps a number Of people will come
IN during the afternoon and quite an
other set at night. Then they go
through their performance twice
Refreshments are never more than ices
and cakes and collector holiday times
play havoc with appetiteS-and diSpcns-
ed by the performers.
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The Case Between the Children and the Modern
Landlord and Servant.

the coming blessing as every one that
feareth the Lord thy wife shall be as
fruitful vine by the sides of thy
house; thy children like olive plants
round about thy table, he meant more
than well to his brethren.
.'Other times. other manners and
other interpretations of holy writ.
Cody Americans regard the upspringing
of the aforenamed olive plants about ex-
tension tables as a weedy growth, OPP
posed to economic and social veal. The
limitation OF offspring is advocated in
religious journals and discussed anx-
iousIy in women's clubs. A more potent
encouragement of the "weedy growth
Is found in certain features of our do
mestic service.
How many in family?" is emphatical-
with whom the housewife is a candl-
Temporary mistress.
a. Ny co-Iaborers in housewifery will
testify with me to the sinking of hear:
that attends the admission: 'FouI
children. besides my husband and my
self,
But yesterday woman, noted FOL
generosity and kindness to her maids
told me of the sudden indignation with
which cook, sent to her from ap in
telligence office, gathered her wraps
about her and arose to depart on hear
ing that there were three children in
the family-the youngest ten years OF
age
I'm fair surprised that they should
have sent me here from the office wheT
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..
they know me principles is aginst talkin
service where there's more nor two in
fam'Iy!''
If this principle" was incorporated in
the articles of faith of the informal but
terrible trades union that dominates our
domestic service it could not be more
potent And this when principles go
to pieces and TO the winds il Bridget
ThekIa take unto herself a husband and
sets up her own Lares and Penates in
the shape of a cook stove. a feather
bed, a Powered carpet and a red plush
sofa Her olive plants-or slips of
bIackthorn-are like thickset hedge
about the cook stove hearth. and every
mothers son Of them stands for the
vote of a native American in ten or fif-
teen years from now.
Joined hand-in-hand with our maid in
. principle, and effect, if not in ayowed
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With everybody tired out from Christ
mas shopping, 1t takes the hardest kind
Of work TO create enthusiasm enough 10
carry the preparations through for holi-
day parties in anything but a half
hearted way.
Yet almost everybody likes to go to
affairs at such times so 1t behooves
those OF us who have time, 10 plan
Dancing and bridge whist and must
cales-aH have their devotees, who
would rather have their own particular
kind of amusement than the most origt-
nal other form of entertainment They
are easily arranged too. but there's an
other sort to be reckoned with-the
times that you call keeping open
house" when every age and kind OF
person drops IN.
It's q mistaken notion that nothing
need he provided but things to eat;
that calls and little visits take care of
themselves In the entertainment way.
The most successful open-house times
are those In which definite plans pre-
vent all chance of 'ennui."
One family OF ingenious spirits. who
make point Of being ready for host
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Sorry, madame, but our rules are
positive! We can't take families with
children
One pater familias from whose parent
al stock had sprouted nine olive-shoots
tramped last week Cup to Christmas
Eye9 through the length and breadth
OF a popular suburb of great city
seeking rest and finding none for his
brood of prospective voters and voters
wives-tife seed CT the State-to-be. He
was able and willing TO pay well for a
large apartment: he would guarantee TO
pay for any possible damage done 10
home or premises. All in vain. To
ran.e the number OF mis- olive plants
was TO raise quarantine flag.
Another married pair - fertile in
resources = driven from the habita-
lions of men by a similar expert
ence LIST May. hired a vacant lot.
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! Twelfth Nght' Pdrtu Full Of JollitU and Fun
Something New in Holiday Entertainment When Everyone
Death
sW in HOLIDAY Entertainment When Everyone
Seems Done to Death.

gay chatter of What did you get for
Christmas2'' and Its beautiful.
But. when everybody had come, some
one led the way 90 a room lighted only
in a ghostiy way by the flames from a
saap-dragon bowl. which was placed on
a tabie-covered with evergreen boughs.
The game was the old one of snap
dra gon, that had been regular feature
OF Twelfth Night celebrations in the old
days in Merrie England-just a low
bowl flied with raisins and covered with
burning brandy. And the trick was to
snatch a ra!sin from the bowl, reading
your future from it. If it we're big, he
would be a great man; IL fat. rich; If
thin, poor, and so On
When everybody had tired, and most
of them had succeeded. some getting
two and three husbands), they were led
into another room, where q Christmas
tree was trimmed with lady apples and
small fruits and candies, and where the
fortunes grew
These were in the shape of English
walnuts, which broke open easily to dis
close, as a kernel" little folded pa
per, with a fortune in rhyme on it,
Everybody took a nut, opened it, and
then the verses (they were hopelessly
original. too-written by a committee
of poets)" were read aloud.
And such verses!
He'll be a short lad
Of he be not talD
Better wed q short lad
Than wed none at all"
was delightfully."- indefinite, but the one
the next girl had was a warning:
Maiden. If you wish him tall,
He'll be Hhort.
Those things Aever come at all
AS they ort -
She who wishes for blue eyes
Gets them brown
Cupid turns all lovers signs
Upside down.
There was plenty Of the poetic license
amateur poets require in that.
Another appropriately fell into the
hands of the wittiest girl in the party
(another Beatrice, by the way, and ev-
erybody applauded the compliment:
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Tutti-Futti.

Select your fruits, strawberries. cher
ries, raspberries, blaekbeTTies, pineapple,
and shred them with fork; also bits OF
orange or mandarino from which the
white skin has been removed: put into
wide-mouthed, self-sealing jars To
each Jar allow four tablespoonfuls Of
white sugar, and sprinkle with this each
layer Of fruit When the jar IS filed,
pour in slowly white preserving brandy,
lettiag It filter in slowly until every
crevice Is filed and there IS room for
not a drop more Screw down the tops
and set the jars in a cool place. The
fruit should season some weeks before
il is used
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Roast Turkey With Chestnut stuaing.
Contributed,

(Conributed-(
Boil one quart OF Spanish chestnutss
remove the skins and mash; add q heap
ing teaspoonful of butter, gill OF
cream, n teaspoonful of salt. and q dash
of pepper. Stun the turkey; rub with
butter. Put into very hot oven After
few minutes pour in q cupfui Of boil
ing wafer Cook ten minutes to each
pound Basic every fifteen minutes A
few chestnuts mashed very fine and
added to the gravy are 3 pleasant ac-
compartment. II. V NJ. (Firginia-l
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*DECORATIONS FOR HOLIDAYS.

jar. If little more elaborate trimming
is wished. place streamers Of red ribbon.
matching the carnations in color, at each
corner. fastening q spray Of holly with
perfect berries on each
Chrysanthemun,S and roses are made
of paper these days seas to appear as
natural as their models These flowers
can be used time after time for table
decora lions if they are placed In boxes
and covered, instead of being left out
side 10 collect dust and become cruIn-
pied. a small sum invested il dollhouse
vines to mix in, will MAKE the aru-
fetal blossoms appear more natural.
A low mound of chrySanthenaurns
wreathed with holy or ground pine
makes an appropriate table decoration
The blossoms should be scarlet and
white
Crystal candiesticks. hooded with
scarlet. apd wreathed at the base with
holly. VII add 20 the effect
Fruit is always an appropriate and
pleasant center decoration. \ silver dish
Is preferable 4 pretty china o. glass
bowl lends itself eharmIngIy ana The
common choppilS bowl. filed with VIM
ter fruits and nuts, placed IN a wreath
OF holly, Will prove novelty.
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with a saucy tongue (they say.
Beatrice was curst,
Yet Sir Benedfck (they say)
Loved her from the first
Loose thy merry Quip and jest,
IT'S the mood that suits thee best
Then the play, which, as it was a bur-
lesque was a great success. It had
been hard TO choose play, for anything
too modern would have been out of
keeping, and anything too old-impossi-
BILE. So e-Pyramus and Thisbe. from
"A Midsummer Nights Dream, was de-
cided upon, but given in an even more
inceneruous way than the poor clowns
themselves gave il.
Property details weren't taken very
much into consideration-there was a
lot of making things do
Toasts-In Cider.
Thfsbe killed herself with a japanese
dagger, which never saw the sixteenth
century: Lion couldn't find a proper
rug, so borrowed a fox rug and tied mis-
head up in a famous name made of
shavings; Pyramus and Thisoe died on
time. but, unfortunately, out OF place
But when they peeped to see what effect
they were producing upon the audience
they discovered the error. wriggied
across the floor until they lay properly
side by side. and died again
Then refreshments. which were
Twelfth Night dainties-apples, nuts,
candies, cakes-true ''marchpane,'' and
the crowning glory of all. the Twelfth
Cake which was the best thing any
body ever tasted, very large, very much
iced. very rich and full of nuts, and
decorated with twelve candles Cto rep
resent the twelve apostles) in true
Christmas colors-red, white, and green
OF course. there were toasts. drunk
standing the bowl containing moth
ing stronger than the favorite Twelfth
Night drink-cider:
God rest you, merry gentlemen May
| nothing you dismay," followed, Justify
sung, and then-it was just ten minutes
| Of 12-every bit of Christmas greens
was hurriedly thrown out of the house
| TO insure good luck for the rest of the
yea.
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AS the holiday season approaches. dec
orations are upperTnost in the mind A
false note is too often struck by having
the rooms so ladened with pine and hoi-
" that one experiences a sense of suffo-
cation.
Over arches or doors thick rope of
ground pine is sufficient, and the green
can be frightened by branches of holly
Holly wreaths tied with red ribbon Will
he, sufficient for windows. BE sure
when selecting the ribbon that it is a
rich crimson, harrnonizing with the ber-
ries. Vermillion color is too often seen
and is entirely inartistic writes Eliza
beth w Morrison in the December
''Housekeeper-
Charming effects can be produced
with little outlay for the table. A heavy
wreath OF holly Will cost IS cents. Place
the wreath on a white embroidered CEN
terpiece and stand the carnations IN a
green vase in the center. or one can use
a crystal jar or even white one with
delicate ornamentation. This decoration
may be easily ruined by the use OF a
Hpink. yellow or yellow-green vase OF
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the rights of others for the younglings
to be reminded hourly not to race Wild
~ IN the halls. or to thuInp scnsefessiy
upon the floors, nor. as hear the man
ners Of some ungoyeTned chfldrers
playing described-to ..scanper" un-
ceasingIy and 20 yell unmeaninsly.n
Even in Christmas holidays the deli
cate woman upon the next floor below
cannot dismiss her chronic headache,
and the old gentleman in the apartment
above objects as seriously as In term
time to losing his afternoon nap. 1t n
quite possible for healthy, happy chill
dren to enjoy life without making that
life q nuisance to quiet people.
This from woman who loves studious
quiet at certain seasons, and whose half
dozen gioriously happy and superbly
healthy grandchildren respect her de-
sire and her need.
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unequivocal national blessing and an
honor to the parents who had contrib
uted their quota to the upbuilding Of
national prosperity.
The olive is everywhere in evidence In
Syria. Oh, which there takes the place
in the cuisine which butter and lard
hold in our culinary operations, is eX-
pressed from the fruit; the wood is
wrought into ornamental articles. from
the sale OF which a large proportion of
the common revenue is drawn; the
roots, grubbed bodily out of the earth
when trees have ceased bearing by rea-
son of age or disease. are the staple
fuel in hotel and private house. Even
the penace from the oil-press is fed to
pigs and chickens.
When, therefore, David promised, as
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ANXIOUS MOTHER.

II would be better for the chfld's pres
ent comfort and for the future growth
Of the hair to have 1t cut. But you can
get rid Of the vermin in another way If
you are willing TO take the pains. Sham
poo the hair once a week with tar soap,
rfnsing out the suds with rather hot
water, then with cold DrenCh the hair
and scalp every night for q week with
tincture of larkspur, combing and
brushing long and faithfully every
morning to get out dead eggs and lar
vac. This process will surely destroy
these. and within a few days.
Larkspur is a strong poison taken in
ternaliy, but harmless as a wash.
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ShakeSpearean ACTRESSES as &C

4 L L
be nothing more than the name
OF play which occasional
Shakespearean actresses as oc-
casionaily revive 1t has lost ali its old
association with tie Old Christmas Day
except to students.
And one of these. actresses was re-
sponsfble for this creation of tiny
Twelfth Night club, although she new
er knew it,
Half a dozen girls had gone TO see a
presentation of the play, and enc OF
them, secretly bawildered over the seem
ing incongruity between title and play,
looked it up and found that 1t was
named from the night it had been
written to be played upon. Then she
grew curious-wondered what the night
had got its name from.
She found outbound that il was jan
uary S. the Old Christmas Day. and
that afterwacd, when the date of Christ
mas Day was changed to December %.
Twelfth Day was held in COM
memoTation OF the visit of the three
kings to the infant Christ: that 1t used
TO be celebrated with all sorts of quaint
customs, chief among them being a sort
of costume-plaY.
Then she told the rest of the girls, and
then-SOmebody had an inspiration
Starting the Game.
They had all been half-heartedIy get
ting up a Christmas party. and every
thing seemed done to DEATH Why
couldn't they transfer their plans to
Twelfth Night carry out the old
customs to the letter-the play, the re-
freshments and everything make a
new party out of an old custom?
And that is what they did-not jus:
the original sig, but about twenty that
they gradually grew into. And about
thirty more were invited to come AND
share in the Twelfth Night Revels,
as the party was quantity dubbed.
The guests arrived Can indefinite mum
Der of Christmas parties making then
all eager for something new. and, for
little while. there was nothing but a
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HIS WATERLOO.

Here" shouted the enthusiastic sa-
want: II have the elixir of Nfe,''
His wife did not seem to comprehend
What is it?" she oueried.
1T will enable a person to live for
ever. 1t will cure everything
Consumption?
ct will. ! have demonstrated it! My
name will
VIII IT cure cancer7-'
ct will, / shall be fa-"
"Wili II cure Brights disease?"
cit will: II will, Why. woman. I tel
you
well how about freekies? I've got
freckies.'
With a groan he fell to the floor and
expired.-Housson Post.
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Marrons Glaces.
By Reauestl

,
Cut slit IN each chestnut (SpanIsh)
Boil for five minutes; strip of shells
and skins: cover with cold water. add
ing teaspoonful of lemon juice TO each
pint of shelled nuts, and leave thus all
night. Drain dry IN the morning; cover
with boiling water and simmer gently
for an hour Drain all the water off
and add syrup made by allowing a
pound Of sugar for every pint of nuts to
a cupfui of water. Dissolve before the
nuts go in. Simmer very gently for one
hour; take the nuts up with skim
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Crust for One Pie.
Contributed

Five and one-half tablespoonful of
cooking oil. four tablespoonfuls of cold
water. cne-han teaspooEful of salt.
s 1 use the cooking oil because il is
more wholesome than lard Drop oil
into q basin; add SALT stir in -four
enough for soft dough; add water and
more flour: mix soft. use plenty of flour
on board for rolling out. Press TRIM
-nings together with more crust Do not
mix Grease pan for bakiE- II more
than one pie is made. increase as much
as desired. but stir ali the ofs. -four. and
salt together first Then four table,
spoonfuIs OF water; then a little flour
alternately with water, sufficient for a
soft dough.
You vino try this please report re-
. suits. ". E. ". (New York;
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Economic Recipes for Family of -Four
(No. y Winter Vegetable Soup.
Contributed,

Two pounds of lean soup meat Put
over the fire with two quarts Of cold
water Boil slowly; skim well. Amer
boiling half an hour add pepper and salt
till il tastes like good beef tea. Three
tablesp9onfulS OF rice; two tablespoon
fuls of mixed whole spice tied in a linen
bag Add more water If needed. Then
put one small onion, one small stick
OF celery, one raw potato, one slice Of
turnip. and small piece of cabbage
into choppIng-bowI and chop very fine
It may be put through the meat grinder
Add these to soup: let it simmer slowly.
Strain one can of tomatoes. heat, and
add a small piece of butter and a table
spoonful of sugar. When hot, add to
soup. The soup should boil in all about
two hours.
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To Mend Broken Glass.

In reply to Mrs. ". H" and wv.
II. L. I would say that the cement for
mending glass and china is made of IN
sIaked lime and the white of an egg.
In preparing it use some broken glass
you do not care for, because You can
never clean it as.sTward. and use il
Immediately, because it dries uo very
quickly. Spread it on the edge of the
broken piece and fit the other nicely 70
it, Hold 1T there for two or three min
utes, and the work is done E. N
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Sponge Cake.
(Contributedl

Two cupfuls of sugar. two cupfuls OF
-four. with two teaspoonfuls of baking
powder stirred with 1t. four eggs. one
teaspocaful of lemon juice, three-quar-
tiers of cup of boiling water: add pinch
of salt.
Beat sugar and eggs very light; sift
sugar twice: add water last. II VIII
seem thin, but If care is given to the
baking it viii be all right If tried once
1t win DC again. Mrs. c. r. II. (Ohio)-
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(No. Al Hash.

Chop cold beef very fine Add hot
mashed potatoes: one tablespoonful Of
oaion-juice; a tablespoonful of butter;
one small eupful of hot water; pepper
and salt to taste. Melt butter in a
frying PAN stir in the hash and bring
slowly TO boil. Add hot water If neces-
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To Cook Potatoes virginia Style.

(Contributed1
Pare and boil in as little water as pos
s!nle: drain; add butter, a little sugar,
salt and pepper Let them brown, Their
pour over them milk tfickened with
cornstarch. Let them boil and thicllen
slightly. Serve hot Mrs. WI
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Ripe Cucumber Catsup.
fCoutHhutedl

SCo1tributed-}
Twelve large, ripe cucumbers-chep
very fine, put into cloth, and squeeze out
the water: six large onions chopped fine;
six green Cor ripe) peppers chopped fine;
one large tablespoonful of salt: one
quart OF vinegar
Mix and put into glass cans Do not
use before January, or even nearer
spring. and think you will call It
good. -. ss-ssss- Mrs ". l.
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No. 3 Johnny Cake.

Nine tahIespoonfuls OF eornuleal; six
tabiespoonfuis of flour; one tablespoon
full OF sugar: one teaspoonfu1 OF salt; two
teaspoonfuls of baking powder; one
great spoonful of melted butter or drip
ping; one cEpfu1 of milk; two eggs.
Melt butter in bake pan before putting
in the cake.
a WILLING HELPER
(Minnesota.)
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Honeycomb Pudding.
CContributed-)

One cup OF molasses, one cup of raisins,
one cup Of milk, three tablespoonfuis Of
melted butter, one teaspoonfuI Of soda,
nutmeg, and cinnamon. Mix together
as stiff as gingerbread. Steam three
hours. E. J. W. New York;
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We must have trav-
eled in the Psalm
lists Land - the
home of the Bible
in order to ap-
preciate the full
significance Of the
figure which COM
pares children to
olive plants in
the orchard of the
pious Hebrew A
good number OF
boys and girls in
e a C h household
u-.c rock0ned an