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Clam Chowder.

~ HOP half pound of fat salt
pork; put layer of the pork in
~ the bottom Of the pot, cover
with layer Of clans. sprinkle
with a little minced onion and parsley
and put in layer of split and soaked
Boston crackers. Proceed in this way
until seventy-ive clans are used. then
spflnkle with pepper ard salt and cover
win cold water. Bring slowly 10 a boil
ana simmer for an hour. Drain OF the
uquid and return to the fire Thicker
Win a lump Of butter rolled in flour and
add a cupful of tomato juice. Return
tAc other ingredients 10 the pot. bring
20 the boil and send to the table.
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Trim the stem ends of green peppers
so they will stand up. Cut off the tips.
and with a small keen knife extract
the seeds and as much of the tough fiber
as will come away. Mince white fish
me, moisten II with a white sauce, sea-
son and fill the peppers with this mix
ture. Stand in the oven long enough to
heat through and serve.
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Rhubarb and Raisin Pie.

Peel the rhubarb and cut into inch
pieces. Pour boiling water over it and
let stand for ten minutes. Drain; line
the p.eplate with plein paste. Fill the
pie with rhubarb and strew ov.- IL one
cupful of sugar and one-half cupfuI of
raisins. Add small pieces of butter.
Cover with a crust and bake
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of butter until it is thoroughly incor-
porated- Add enough milk 70 make
dough that can easily be handled. Turn
this on TO a Toured pastry board. roll
lightly in a huge biscuit as large as
rleplate. Put into creased pan and
bake in quick oven. When done spiIt
quickly, spread with butter then thiclSly
with the mashed berries, put the halves
together again. pour the remaining
mashed berries over the entire cake and
serve very hot
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Strawberry Mousse.

Whip pint of thick cream very sim
ana stir into ii cupful of crushed Der
ries which have been sweetened abund-
antly and from which all Of the juice has
neen drained. Mold and pack in ice and
SAT- Tor hours. When ready to serve.
garnlsh with whole Strawberries
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Strawberry Sherbert.

Mash one quart of berries. or enough
to make one pint of juice, add one
pint of sugar, and after the. sugar Is
dissolved add one pint of water and
the juice of one lemon. Press through
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sley or onion. Pepper and salt. Put
the cases upon q gridiron over a mod
crate fire Of bright Goals, and when the
butter melts, break a fresh egg into
each case. Strew over them a few but
Tered Dread crumbs, and when almost
done, glaze the tops with a hot shovel.
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HOllandaise Sauce for Asparagus.

Into a eupful Of drawn butter beat
the yolk Of an egg. then a good tea
spoonful Of best salad oil, dropping as
you would for mayonnaise. Add then
the juice Of half a lemon, a pinch of
pepper, one OF salt, the same of sugar,
and serve at once.
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Ginger Ale Frappe.

Open three bottles of imported ginger
ale and turn the contents into bowl
Add the Juice of four lemons and a half
eupful of graduated sugar. Stir until
the sugar is dissolved and turn the mix
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Asparagus Loaf.

Cook three cupfuls Of the asparagus
tps until tender, then drain Put into
q saucepan two tablespoonfuls OF butter
and one tablespoonful OF -four; cook TO-
getner one minute: add one cupful Of
Nallk. one-half teaspoonfuI Of salt and
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x Il Il VARIOUS SEASONABLE RECIPES y y y

ohe-iourth teaspoonful of paprika: add
the milk slowly stirring all the time and
let IL cook five minutes Take from the
nre and add four weII-beaten eees one
cuPlut OF asparagus tips and d tea
sp9,0SnIul Of chopped parsley. Line a
,,,5oI stered baking dish with the re-
tl, Sii ll OF the asparagus tips: pour in
me asparagus and sauce and co6IS with ~
NE, sle oish IN water in the oven for fifteen
minutes. Serve with egg sai,ce -''
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Hot Strawberrv Shorteake.

Mash quart of berries. sweeten them
with plenty of graduated sugar and let
them stand for an hour and a half.
Into a pint of -four sift a teaspoonfuI
OF baking powder and half a teaspoonfiIi
OF salt Chop into this one tablespoonful
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STIFFENING CANE SEATS.

How many housekeepers know that
If the seats of cane-seated chairs have
become sagging and limp. they can be
washing with hot water in which a
little soda has been dissolved and then
putting them in current of air TO dry?
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Use a sharp GZlhe 70
kTh1ac/ onion Hears

dish. cover with boiling water slightly
sailed and cook for ham an hour, or
until a wire viii pierce. them easily.
Transfer the dish to a table, turn off all
the water, and, with sharp thin blade,
extract the hearts Of the onions with
out breaking the outer walls. Fill the
cavity with forcement or minced cold
and fine crumbs, seasoned with
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Family Meals for a w eek

bread turniD sOuffle "a left-over). beet
salad "a lett-oveT2; soft gingerbread tea
Scotch broth Cbased on liquor IN which
mutton was boiled. curried mutton "a
leftover boiled rice and iced bananas
with the curry. artichOkes. berry short
cake and cream, black coffee.
Thursday.
BREAKFAST.
Fruit. cereal With cream. bacon and
fried tomatoes. rice mullins, toast, tea,
and coffee.
LUNCHEON
Baked eggs. stewed potatoes, tomato
toast, Welsh rabbit. baked cuStardS tea.
DINNER
Rice and tomato soup. beefsteak ana
onions. spinach. baked nacaroni. apple
dumplings with brandy sauce. black
coffee.
Friday.
BREAKFAST.
Oranges. cereal and cream. fried egg
plant. boiled eggs. hOminy mullins.
toast. tea, and coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Beef stew "a leftover, stuffed pota-
toes (Warmed up), haSty cOrnstarch puc-
ding, tea.
Potato soup, baked shad. green peas,
potatoes a IA Parisienne. cottage pud-
ding with wine sauce. black coffee.
Saturday.
BREAKFAST
Grapefruit. cereal and cream. shad roe
(deviied), graham gems, toast. tea, and
coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Stewed kidneys, green pea soufTle "a
I left-Over). Drowned potatoes, berries and
cream, cake. tea
DINNER
Corn gumbo soup. roast beef. sweet
potatoes, asparagus, lemon meringue
pie. black coffee.
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@~MG0NQlE LOUr\nER~ VE6EIABLEO
: - @DSaAND ROW TO COOK THEn

wise, a quarter inch thick When this is
done. run two stout straws from END to
end of each potato wh=c you have put
the slices together in Initiation OF the
originalsA Pass a soft cotton string
about the restored vegetables to hold the
slices in shape. and parboil for eight or
ten minutes in boiling sailed water
Drain well, and lay in the roaster when
a piece of beef is nearly done. Basic
with the dripping and brown lightly.
When the meat IS dished, clip the
threads. withdraw the straws. and ar
range the potatoes about the meat. Do
not let them fall apart until they are
served.
A Potato "Buck."
Slice enough cold boiled potatoes to
Ill bakedish three-fourths Of the way
to the top. Arrange in layers, sprink-
ling each stratum with salt. pepper. bits
OF butter and Parmesan cheese. Have
ready a cup Of half milk. half cream,
into which you have beaten three eggs.
Pour this over the prepared potatoes
and bake, covered, for fifteen minutes,
then brown.
Brussels Sprouts on the Half Shell.
The "half-sheIl' is that Of an Edam
scOOped by degrees, leaving II as hard
as wood Cook the sprouts tender in
two waters, adding salt 70 the second.
Cut each sprout in two ana put a layer
in the bottom Of the shell when you
have washed ana wiped H. Cover light
~ with fine cracker crumbs. dot with
butter. season with pepper and salt and
let fall on each layer a few drops OF
-, II
in the UppermOst layer of sprouts, cover
with crumbs and bake TO a light brown.
The sprouts should be put IN very hot
and the filling be done 80 rapidly that
they do not cool before going into the
oven Long baking would affect the in
tegrity of the shell. The slight favor
Of cheese is a pleasant addition TO that
OF the vegetable
Sealloped Beets.
This IS a good way TO use up cold
beets. usually regarded as unavailable
except as pickles or salad: Slice the
beets and put in layers into a bakedish-
Strew each with dots of butter. pepper.
salt, and a very little onion Juice Just
enough 10 be suspected. but not con-
victed," said the merry matron from
whom ! had the formula A few drops
OF lemon juice on each slice are the
finishing touch 70 the seasoning Cover
with fine crumps; put a few spoonfUls
OF melted butter on the crumbs and
bake. covered, for half an hour, then
brown the crumbs.
Next week I shall talk OF mushrooms.
green beans. eggplant. Swiss chard, veg
etable marrow. okra, and other sum
mer delights, some Of which have not
had from American COOKS the lnlelA-
gent appreciation their merits deserve
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Hd7NSd P0ldh7 "a E662
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az re WILL not waste time. and
A space in repeuuons or what
" v has been said strongly and
often in this column OF the
gastrOnornic and sanitary virtues Of to-
matOes. No more wholesome vegetable
comes upon our tables. 1 may add. none
that Is susceptible Of more and agree
able varieties OF cooking. L offer few
formulas that may be novel and attrac-
tive to our householder who is not con-
tent to trot steadily in the track worn
dusty by her forbears in the sphere OF
culinary enterprise.
Tomatoes Stuffed With Green Corn.
Select large. smooth tomatoes OF uni
form size; cut a piece from the blossom
end OF each with keen knife and lay
fl aside. With a small silver spoon (an
egg-spoon viii do) dig out the pulp and
seeds. leaving the walls untouched.
Mince the extracted pulp and mix IL
with cold boiled green corn-two-thirds
Of the corn and One-third Of the tomato
pulp; season with melted butter. salt.
pepper. and sugar. The sugar must
never be omitted from tomatoes when
cooked in any way. When the ingre-
Ndients are we'll Incorporated. ill the
'emptied tomatoes with the mixture, re-
Uplace the tops. set them close together
bake dish, put a bit of butter on
bach to prevent scorching, cover and
bake ten minutes before removing the
. cover If they are sizzling by then.
uncover and cook from ten to twelve
Fninutes more. The oven should be
brisk Serve in the bake dish.
Uncooked corn may be substituted Tor
ne boiled. II II be young and tender.
IN that case, cook five minutes longer.
before uncOvering This is a good way
OF using corn left over from yesterday
Tomatoes Stuffed With Mushrooms.
Empty fine ripe tomatoes, as directed
in the last recipe. In this dish the pulp
IS not used. Put it into your soup stock
before giving it the daily boil.
Have ready cupful of fresh mush-
rooms. which have been peeled and cut
into thirds-not minced Put into a
saucepan two tablespoonfuls of butter
ard a small onion, finely minced. Add
the mushrooms and cook slowly for
eight or ten minutes Remove from the
IRE, season with pepper and salt. stir
into the mixture two heaping table
Epoonfuls OF dry crumbs, and fill the to-
matoes with 1t. After this is done. pour
a tablespoonful Of rich gravy-chicken
or veal, II you have it-into each to-
mato, letting it sink into the mixture.
Ihen strew fine crumbs over all and
NJ on the tops cut from the tomatoes.
Lastly, pour little stock into the bake
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Egqs in Cases

Make little paper cases of buttered
writing paper Put small piece of
butter IN each and little chopped par
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Peppers Stuffed With Fish.

ture into a freezer and freeze. Thu
Ice is very refreshing.
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Wednesday.

BREAKFAST.
Oranges, porridge and cream. pan fish.
brown and white toast, mullins. tea, and
coffee.
LUNCHEON.
M1nce OF liver Ga left over. loaf corn
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BerzuQR Onions Are Ge|cIOI5
hlzez S[1ITe0

dish TO keep the tomatoes from burn
ing and add to the flavor; cover and
bake for twenty minutes. If you have
not the fresh mushrooms. use cham
pignons. This is a delicious luncheon
dish. and good at any time.
Broiled Tomatoes.
Slice large, firm tomatoes, without
peeliug' into rounds rather more than
quarter inch thick. Arrange them
upon a buttered broiler and cook for
ten minutes over hot Goals, turning
every minute. Lay on a hot dish and
coat with a sauce made OF butter beaten
to cream with little onion Juice. salt.
pepper. and sugar Set the dish upon
the upper grating OF the oven 70 melt
the sauce before serving.
Dreaded and Fried Tomatoes.
Cut as for broiling: season with pen
per, salt. and sugar; coat with drv
crumbs, and fry quickly in a little but
ter.
20 speak correctly. this process should
be called "sauteing" To fry Is 10 i'm
merse in boiling fat To saute Is 10 frv
In Just enough butter. oil or other fat
70 keep the article tc be cooked from
sucking TO the pan.
Green Tomatoes.
b Green tomatoes may be sliced and
broiled, or saute, according to the rec
ipes given for ripe. They make a nice
breakfast relish on warm morning.
They may also be fried in the fat that
mas exuded~from breakfast bacon. and
the bacon be served as a garnfsh TO the
dish. They SO well together
Onions.
onions are at their best in the ''rich
midsummer prime" In winter they are 1
plebeians. Useful they may be, and
they may be rendered almost delicate
by cooking in two waters and then
treated to final boil in milk. In sum
mer parboil Of ten minutes in slightIv
Salted water and a second ten nnIn,,tes
IN half milk, half water. converts them
INTO patricians.
Stuffed Onions.
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Tuesday.

BREAKFAST.
Fruit, wheaton grits, Tom Thumb ON
elettes, biscuits, toast tea and coffee
LUNCHEON.
Liver and bacon. baked potatoes. fried
mush, crackers and cheese, berries and
cream. tea.
DINNER-
Pea and tomato soup. boiled mutton
with caper sauce. young turnips. beets,
floating island black coffee
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Stuffed Onions.

Arrange six or eight large Bermuda
'nlons. peeled and washed, in a. bake
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Monday

BREAKFAST.
Fruit. mush boiled in milk, breakfast
bacon and eggs, brown and white
bread. toast, tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Scallop OF veal Ca left-over). SaIa,I OF
beans and lettuce Ga left-over). thin gra-
ham bread and butter. potato pun "a
left-overl. berry tartlets, tea
DINNER
Pea soup. chicken pie Ca leftover. as
paragus, stuffed potatoes, bread and but
ter pudding with hard sauce. black coz
fee.
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Garnish of Sweet Potatoes.

Wash and peel sweet potatoes OF uni
form size, and slice them evenly. length
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Sunday

SUNDAY
BREAKFAST.
Oranges. cereal and cream broiled roe
shad. popovers, brown bread, toast, tea
and coffee
LUNCHEON.
Cold veal "a left-Over). cream cheese
sandwiches, shad roe and lettuce salad,
prune jelly and cream cake, cocoa
DINNER
Asparagus soup, roast chicken, rice
crOquettes. butter beans. mashed pOta-
toes. jaime mango with branded
peaches, cake. black coffee.
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* TE WILL not waste time and
AN space in repeuuons OF what
" " has been said strongly and
nftan In this column Of the
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-11-09
Record Of a Wonderful Decade.

The record of the past decade in po-
lar explorations is both inspiring and
significant. Compared with all that
has been done and known before, the
achievements of the last ten years
bulk larger than those of centuries,
larger almost than the sum total Of
the entire past The world reckons the
disappearance of the Spanish flag
from the western hemisphere, the par
titioning of Africa and the European
Asiatic struggle on the plains of Man
churia, as among the milestones of
the last decade.
Yet, in the Polar zones, and so far as
polar exploration and discovery go,
events of greater relative and ultimate
Importance have TRANSFERRED. For in
the decade now closing, the victory in
the age-long struggle has been won,
the polar mystery solved, and the ter
ra incognita of all former time prac
tically eliminated from the map. Gre
dit must be apportioned among sever
al, each deserving liberal praise, and
it is also due to many, who indirectly
and unconsciously, by experiment and
researches primarily for other purpos-
es, contributed to make the present
situation possible.-From "Ten Years
of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration"
by H. L. Bridgman in The Outing Mag
aZine.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-11-09
Threshlna With Goats.

Upon little mesa high up from San
Ia Fe, N. NJ, surrounded by tall noun
tains, the MeXicans owning ranches
up and down the narrow valleys of
the Rio Santa Fe and the Rio Tesque,
cultivate, harvest, and thresh their
crops Of grains, beans, and chilli in
the primitive manner introduced by
the Spaniards five hundred years ago.
This is the season of threshing grain
The herds of goats and sheep have
been brought down from the noun.
tains to the corrals and are being
made to do the work which machinery
has long since taken from them else
where. The native boys first select
a fiat, level plot of ground and after
clearing it of all grass or other fol
iage wet it thoroughly. With wooden
fails, the ground is then beaten until
it is solid 1t is left to dry in the sun.
The grain is stacked in the centre of
this adobe floor and the goats or sheep
driven about it in a rapid circle. AS
the sharp hoofs of the little animals
strike out the grain a ranchero with
a wooden fork throws down more
straw from the stack. After the grain
has been thoroughly trampled under
foot, the goats are driven aside and
the straw is tossed in the air with
the wooden forks or sticks. The wind
blows away the chaff and the straw
is piled to one side. The grain is
then gathered into sacks and stored
for the winter.-Kansas City Star.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-11-09
An Old "Ad."

Nothing succeeds like persever-
ance," said Mark Twain at a dinner.
when the luck seems most against
us, then we should work and hope
hardest of all. In moments of dis
Couragement let us remember my old
friend, Henry Plumley, of Virginia
City.
Henry Plumley ran a collar fac
tory. Times were reputed to be hard
with him. When his factory, which
was very heavily insured, burned
down there was every indication that
he had set the place on fire himself
in order to get the insurance money.
Virginia City was the soul Of honor
in those days. Shocked beyond
words, it rose enmasse, seized Henry
Plumley, put halter round his neck
and lynched him.
But he did not die. The Sheriff
arrived and cut him down in time.
He was tried and found guilty and
served a term in Jail.
ION his release you wouldn't have
thought that he'd return to Virginia
City again, Ell? He did, though. He
came back, reopened his collar fac
tory and prospered.
What gave him his start was the
odd advertisement with which he an
nounced his return to business among
us. Preceded by a brass band,
Henry, in a great gilt chariot, burst
upon our streets. He sat on a kind
of golden throne, and he held on a
crimson cushion in his lap an old,
old collar. Above the collar, on a
crimson banner, waved this inscrip-
ton in huge letters of gold:
This is the collar we wore when
we were lynched. 1t saved our life.
Be wise in time and use no other.
At all retailers, ten cents apiece,
three for a quarter. - Washington
Star.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-11-09
LONG Lives and Short.

A great variance as to length of
life appears among different animals.
Some insects live for only a few
hours, while fish, elephants and tur-
ties are frequently centenarians. The
average life Of the mosquito is three
days Toads usually live to the age
of about fifteen years, while carp
have been known to reach hundred
and fifty. Chickens live from twelve
to fifteen years, dogs to the age of ten
and occasionally fifteen, and parrots
to extreme age. These birds have
been known to pass the age of two
hundred years. Turtles are also fire.
quently centenarians, as are storks,
and elephonts are said to reach the
age of three hundred years-Dundee
Advertiser.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-11-09
A Story of Fires.

Figures collected by the Interna-
tional Society of State and Municipal
Building Commissioners and Inspect
ors show that every week, on an av-
erage, fires in the United States burn
up three theatres, three public halls,
twelve churches, ten schools, two
hospitals, two asylums, two "col-
leges," six apartment houses, three
department stores, two jails, twenty
six NOTES.-THE fires at seashore re-
sorts this summer will raise the hotel
average-14O flat" houses, and
1900 single dwelling houses. More
over, many of the buildings destroyed
would have been torn down If they
had not burned. A Gountryman who
suffered from a slight fire said he had
lost two houses and three barns, If
you counted the Lighthouses, the chick
en-house and the cowshed. In such
lists as the foregoing a house is a
house, be it ever so worthless, and
college" may call itself so even If
it occupies but three rooms, and does
most of its business by mall
Youths Companion.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-11-09
Cigarettes in India.

A special correspondent of the Lon
don Telegraph writes from India: 1t
is not many years since the cigarette
began to make Roadway among the
natives, but it has become so popular
as to rouse the alarm of those who
are interested in the physical we'll
being of the people. A circular just
issued by the director of public in
struction in the United Provinces re-
marks that inquiries made as to the
prevalence of cigarette smoking
among schoolboys have established
the fact that the habit is becoming
common among them and that in not
few cases it is being INDUCED in at
an early age" Mr.. de la Fosse ac-
cordingly directs that Gin view of the
permanent injury to the constitution
that may result from acquiring the
habit of tobacco smoking in child
hood, every effort should be made to
put a stop to the practice. Headmas-
ters should punish severely boys who
after warning are found smoking at
any time or place, and should in
struct the teachers to be vigilant in
seeing that the order forbiddins
smoking is strictly obeyed; they
should also take steps to prevent the
sale of cigarettes to scholars upon
the school premises"