Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-28

20 mako Deautlxul anu QlOuuCl1V0 0tou ~
hopeless an environment as the city's
former dumping ground, a waste OF rags,
and wire, lime and stones.
With the cooperation OF the park COM
missioners level spot overlooking the
Hudson. Ia feet by "a, was plowed, pre-
pared and laid out in small numbered plots,
the whole inclosed by a three-foot-high
fence. Armed with no better agricultural
implements than clam shells, the children
having staked out their individual claims,
three feet by six, put in such vigorous and
delightful work that In six weeks time the
children were carrying home quarts of
fresh beans heads of lettuce and wheel
barrows of radishes of their own raising,
while the tasseled corn which they had
never seen before waved and shimmered in
the summers sum- While boys and girls
alike were apportioned their miniature
farms. the girls had an object lesson in
home-making which they will never forget
park commissioners allowed them to use,
but when scrubbed inside and out, painted
green and white, its shining window panes
cleaning through fresh muslin curtains
furnishings simple and inexpensive. yet in
perfect taste, 1t made the dearest little
country seat in the world, and the girls
went into raptures over It. Here in turn
they kept really, truly house," for every
afternoon tea was served to all visitors to
the children's farm-guests Of low and high
estate alike. 1t was the children them
selves who learned to do the simple mar
table linen, bleach 1t on the little lawn
and iron 1t with satiny gloss. to make the
tea, wash the dishes. keep the closets and
drawers spick and span and fill and care
for the one lamp.
To show the girls how even the one room
could be made to look attractive, in the
evening the table was cleaned and covered
with a green denim spread to match the
walls, and the lamp, burning brightly, was
set in the middle To teach the little house.
keepers how to get the upper hand of the
various tricks that every kitchen range is
apt to discover, kinks of various sorts
were introduced in the draughts and Chin
ney and burner from time to time without
the knowledge of the children, and they
were set to work to find and remedy the
defect.
BY noon each day the housework had to
be finished and the little worker put into
clean dress.
One thing they must be taught, said the
presiding genius OF the Farm School Is
that there Is no use in keeping house-work
dragging around all day, while they them
selves sit slatternly doing nothing In par
dcular. AS the work of regeneration went
on, and the farm and country seat each
blossomed as the rose. there came a tre-
mendous change over the children them
selves Given something to do and taught
to do 1t In the best and most perfect way,
malicious mischief that had heretofore been
the order of the day in all that forlorn
reighborbood, gave way to wholesome fun,
idleness to delightful labor, hoodlumism
and vandalism to honest civic pride-and
so neighborhood 10 reached and the work
goes on.
For the Wedding Buffet Breakfast
If the wedding breakfast is in courses,
make them four, but each the choicest that
the wealthiest people. now give more than
six courses. First fruit or bouillion served
in cups; second. a relish of eggs or fish.
such as caviare on toast, broiled eggs and
mushrooms, crabs, crawnsh white pait
or mussels; for the third course some deli
cate meat, like filet Of beef with fresh
mushrooms; fourth, single vegetable salad
at this season asparagus, always colo,
accompanied by Virginia ham-lastly an
ice or fruit. cakes, bonbonS and conee.
For a large number of guests or at sim
pie home wedding, a buffet breakfast Is
much easier to serve and lar less eApcn-
sive, as the services OF caterer can De
dispensed with. Have long table, set as
handsomely and attractively as possible
as to napery and decorations, with the
salads, plates Of sandwiches meats or nsh.
the brides cake, etc, and from mere let
the guests help themselves. At a very m
formal quiet home wedding recently. where
the men guests assisted the maids IN serV-
ing refreshments, napkins were served nrst
with the plates, each OF Which mao
helping of lobster salad on II. Bread
and butter trtangles were passed next, then
stuffed olives and cheese crackers ana
salted nuts, with punch In cups. rates
were then removed and fresh ones Win
ice cream in the fruit forms Drought VI;
small cake. and wafer rolls being passed
with It Afterward these plates were re-
moved and black coffee was served Later
the bride herself brought around her wed
ding cake, which had a ring In IT, icf
each one to cut and with this came pretty
Iananese napkins of rice paper 70 Ioiu
the cake in. Punch was on small table
all the time for each one to help himseiI
as he pleased ~. ,o+as
nassed first each held portion OF chick
en- salad on q crisp lettuce Leaf tiny sano-
witch roll, a sailed wafer and stuHeo oiVe.
This was followed later by ices and sweets
while the punch bowl kept frozen eggnog
on tap for the thirsty.
Small Cakes In Favor.-The large, I'M
wieldy layer cakes that used 10 De IN FAVOR
are no longer seen. Small cakes are much
more fashionable, ana Tar easter ,,ar ~ With
hard icing, each piece decorated with
candied cherry, violet or rose iea1' an EN-
glish walnut meat or leaf OF angelica is
specially nice to serve.
Macaroons-These are easy to make and
ALWAYS acceptable. For cocoanut maca-
rooms sift together a scant cupful OF hour
and one of granulated sugar ADD two cup
fuls of best shredded cocoanut, mix thor
oughly and fold into the whites of three
large eggs whipped to a stiff froth. Roll
into q sheet, cut in small nat CAKES ana
bake In a moderate oven until crisp ana
golden brown.
Nut rnacaroons call for one heaping cup
on hickory or English walnuts ground fine,
one cup of sugar two eggs five tablespoon
fuls of flour. Drop by teaspoonfuls on but
tered paper and bake in a moderate oven.
Nut Kisses-Put through the chopper
one-half cup of pecans dozen English
walnuts and two dozen almonds. Beat the
whites of six eggs to stiff froth, folding
in gradually three-quarters of pound of
nowdered sugar and the nuts Drop by tea
spoonfuls on waxed paper and bake in
moderate oven.