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Evening star., 1907-05-05
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I frequently are served natural ones may
| be substituted The inner petals are pluck
ed from a fragrant rose and pistachio or
strawberry cream placed in the center.
The stem must be cut off just below the
calyx and the flower made to stand Sc
curey in a pasteboard box which is not
perceptible. Any other suitable flower may
be substituted.
Candy made in the shape of orchids
roses and other blossoms also may be
| used for the purpose; these canded cups
| should, of course, harmonize or match the
floral decorations of the table.
Ices are frozen In fanciful forms, flower
devices being the prettiest. 1t seems some
what cannibalistic to devour japanese
maidens or the Trilby foot, which was
favorite device last winter.
Extremely ornamental are the amber jel-
lies through which one sees Strawberries,
cherries and. oranges. The fruits sre put
In just as the jelly is cooling. and the ef-
feet Is ornamental and tempting.
This Recipe
For washing fluid is most valuable. One
pound borax, one pound potash lye. one
pound washing soda and one pint of am
monia Mix the first three ingredients I'm
an enameed pan (not tin) with five quarts
of boiling water. When cold add the am
monia and pour into an earthen jug. Abovt
half cupful of this fluid is enough i'm tbs
water of an entire wash
Don't Throw Away
Any old bits of silk ribbon. Put theRa
all through gasoline. Then cut into strips
sew together and have them woven into
a portiere.
You Can
arrange to have your afternoon at homo
and serve tea at a slight expense. The SIM
plest tea service only is necessary, care
being taken, however, that the china "a
Immaculate, that the glass glftters and thss
the silver is bright. Make II a special point
to have the best tea. Nowadays most peo-
pie prefer for the afternoon either the
fragrant Ceylon q fine quality of India
tea, English breakfast being considered
heavy and the other teas affecting the
nerves. With this offer to your visitors
thin sandwiches, having minced or potted
ham potted meat spread between the
carefully buttered bread. thin waters side
plum cake: or everything but the tea may
be omitted IL You choose to serve II regu-
larly at O'Clock.
Evening star., 1907-05-05
To Get Blooms.

Man is prone to brag about "harnessing
will. Then along comes blizzard, flood
or an earthquake and man sings low for
a period of time. at least until the rem-
nants of his broken harness are covered
up from view.
Nature can be coaxed and ''jollied along"
though, and with nature as with many
other things, this diplomatic course is an
excellent one to pursue.
There is a reason for flowers They are
not accidents, nor were they cerated for
mankinds especial benefit. Natures beau
ties have a very definite reason for being.
They are to further the carrying out of
the greatest incentive that life holds-the
perpetuation of the species. Every color
every shade, every popularity of odor ex-
lists in order to guard against possible
failure in fertilization and consequent lack
of seed to insure the growth of another
year.
Thus 1t Is, too, that the plant puts forth
it's best effort during the time of seed
formation. When these seeds are assured,
the plant devotes its strength and energy
to the greatest development of them pos
sible, and from that time on the blooms
become fewer and smaller. for when the
seed is ripened the plants work is done.
But this seed development can be checked
by letting no plant ''go to seed and the
way to prevent that is to pick the bios
SONS while they are full.
Make 1t rule to pick pansies and sweet
peas, for example, every morning. Put
them in water and thus have beautiful
flowers around you constantly, while the
plants outside put forth renewed efforts
to insure the seed crop by raising new
flowers.
Poppies and nasturtiums, geraniums and
verbenas will all pay the big dividends of
flowers if thus kept from forming seed.
Teach the children how to pick The
right way to pick flowers is to pinch them
off or cut with round-ended scissors. Chill
dren learn quickly and love to gather the
lovely blooms. that attract them as they
do humming birds and butterflies.
Shrubs also respond to wise cutting.
Here the sharp knife or shears should be
used. Breaking shrubs and leaving ragged
stems or limbs is highly injurious. Don't
cut of a lot of stem to be thrown away
later. Cut the length needed for such
plants, as lilac, wisteria and spiraea.
Throw out many side shoots and set many
buds for next seasons bloom.
Evening star., 1907-05-05
Concerning Wire Fences.

Wire fences lend themselves readily to
beautifying schemes, for they furnish good
support for vines of every description. If
you crave annual change, try climbing mas
turtiums, morning glores, sweet peas,
wild cucumber, gourds, Madeira vine or
cobaea. II permanent effect is desired,
plant clematis, crimson rambler rose,
honey suckle. trumpet creeper or wood
bine; and during the first year while they
are getting a firm foothold, you can use
any OF the ANIMALS for temporary and i'm
mediate results.
Evening star., 1907-05-05
Soups without Meats.


Maigee Soup.-Cut into dice one carrot,
one turnip, one white potato, and into thin
slices one onion. Put two ounces of butter
into a saucepan; add the vegetables toss
until slightly brown; then add a sprlg of
celery or a quarter of a teaspoonful of cell
cry seed and two quarts of water; cover
and simmer gently for one hour; then add
two good sized tomatoes cut into bits, and
simmer one hour longer. Strain; add a
palatable seasoning of salt and pepper, and
serve az you would any other clear soup.
Creole Soup.-Wash and cut~into thin
slices half dozen good-sizea okras. Peel
cut into halves, and press out the seeds of
six goOd-sized tomatoes; cut int othin slices
one onion. Cover the whole in saucepan
with two quarts Of cold water: bring to
boil and simmer gently for one hour. Add
two tablespoonfuls of butter. two teaspoon
fuls Of salt and a dash Of pepper If green
peppers are in the market chop fine one
green pepper and add to the other ingredi-
ents as they go over the fire. serve hot
Mock Bisque Soup.-The proportions of
tomato and milk in this soup need not be
uniform. You may use quart of milk and
quart OF tomatoes, providing the two are
mixed carefully at the last moment. The
easier method. however. Is to season nicely
one pint of strained stewed tomatoes with
teaspoonful of onion juice, a quarter of a
teaspoonful of pepper and an eighth Of
teaspoonful of mace Thicken a quart of
milk In q double boiler with two tablespoon
fuls Of butter and two Of -four rubbed to-
gether. When ready to serve turn the to-
matoes into the tureen: add quarter Of
teaspoonful Of bicarbonate OF soda, pour in
the milk; mix, and serve at once with
squares of toasted bread.
Bisque of Turnip Soup.-Put tablespoon
ful OF butter and one onion. sliced and two
or three slices of carrot into a saucepan;
add four good-sized turnps grated. You
should have at least one pint of pulp. Cover
the saucepan. and without adding any
water allow 1t to stand on the back part OF
the stove, where 1t will simmer gently for
twenty minutes. Then add quart OF milk
and stir into 1t two tablespoonfuls of butter
and two OF -four rubbed together. When
smooth and thick add teaspoonful of salt.
a dash OF red pepper, quarter OF a tea
spoonful of white pepper. and, IL you have
t. half teaspoonful of kitchen bouquet.
Evening star., 1907-05-05

Nearly
Every housekeeper finds it necessary at
some stage in her housekeeping experience
to fumigate a room. The old-fashioned
method. which still is as effective as any,
was used for sickness and for ridding the
house of bugs as well as Of germs. The
room first of all must be sealed. Strips of
newspapers six layers thick, were pasted
together with gum arabic solution, and
pasted over the doors and windows of the
room with the same gum arabic. This
paper was removed easily afterward with
soap and water. In a large kettle of boil
ing water smaller vessel was placed. and
in this vessel, which was sufficiently deep
to come well up over the water line I'm the
large kettle, a handful of sulphur On the
sulphur some wood alcohol was poured, a
long wax taper applied, and the housewife
hastened out of the room to avoid the
fumes. The room was left shut for twenty
four hours and at the end of that time
neither bug nor disease germ remained. 1t
is possible to purchase a box of sulphur
candles.'' which make the work of funi
eating. for moths, bedbugs and other YER
min. much more simple. One of these
candles is placed under the opened bed or
couch, another in the wardrobe, one near
the bookcase and others where they may be
needed A hot coal touched to each will
set it to smoldering. The housewife should
leave the room at once and close the door
tightly. 1t will require several hours to
burn out the candles and clear the room.
but when it is over it will be free from
vermin. disease and germs. If one begins
early in the morning the work of fumlgat-
Ing will be over by 2 o'clock In the after
noon. Select bright, sunny day, and air
the room thoroughly after opening it, so
that it will be ready for occupany by
night.
Great Blocks
OF ice may be followed out with a hot fiat
iron and are useful on the summer table;
in these Rllttering ice wells are sunk crisp
leaves of lettuce and scarlet tomatoes
peeled: they are served from this inviting
receptacle. and over them is poured a
luscious dressing la mayonna.se. Straw
berries. cherries or any kind Of fruit look
lovely held in block of ice. Lobster or
Ash In mayonnaise may be served the same
way.
Instead Of the paper flowers In which ices
Evening star., 1907-05-05

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any one class of foodstuffs, which would
require the use of certain juices and imply
the dsuse of others which normally are
present.
Breathing through the nostrls with the
mouth closed is the proper and only way
to breathe. 1t is right because 1t is the
primary function of the nostrils II all
persons breathed through the nostrils nasal
catarrh would become unknown.
sallow or muddy complexion is indica-
tive Of poor health. poor digestion and poor
circulation. Cleanse the body inside as
have abundance of fresh air. Avoid
tea. white bread and milk or cream in
coffee-fn fact. anything that overtaxes the
liver and stomach.
The muscles Of the face may be developed
and made firm by careful manipulate ion.
Nutritious food should be eaten to supply
the muscles of the face the same as the
other muscles of the body. Muscles that
are not worked lack firmness; therefore 1
would suggest a light massage for the
cheeks, using the thumb and forefinger
vigorously, but not so as to bruise the
flesh.
Avoid a draft when warm 1t may be
comfortable. indeed. but that comfort will
be short lived. 1t must be understood that
breeze or moving air is not necessarily a
draft. The precautiOn is given for the
purpose of a too sudden checking of per-
mon saying. 1t would be better to say:
Cool not at all, but get less warm The
cooling point Is the danger point.
Care Of the Complexion.
One article on the care of the skin win,
as you say. recommend hot water and
soap: another will be horrified at the idea
of soap. and discourage the use OF any
thing but the coldest water. The truth is
that the skin must be catered to individu-
ally. and this special thought that is con-
ceded to any other part OF the body must
be given to 1t. The treatment which Is
poison TO one skin may be salvation to
another. II hot water causes the face to
flush and the skin to feel drawn. evidently
water that barely has the chill taken OF
will be the best suited to you. A good
soap will not injure the most delicate skin,
but a coarse soap will cut the skin,
rouxhen 1t. and cause 1t. when 1t is gensi-
tive. to break out In Objectionable red
rpots.
Evening star., 1907-05-05

egg and beat for five minutes longer, slowly
pouring in three tablespoonfuls Of olive oil
and stirring constantly. season with lit
tie French mustard, few drops of lemon
Juice and sprinkling of powdered cinna-
mon, and pour over the cress and cucum-
Der. Arrange on salpicon of chopped
celery, garnishing with quarters of lemon
and blanched celery tops
iIndNe and Mandarin Safad.-Should the
endlve be wilted when received revive by
setting the stems in cold water, but avoid
wettng the leaves. In preparing the salad
use the blanched leaves only, wping them
with damp cloth. Place them directly In
the salad bowl. adding an equal qua nifty
c. sliced radishes and shredded mandar rim
pulp: pour over sufficient French dressing
made with tarragon vinegar to moisten
Weil, and toss lightly together with a silver
fork, garnishing with finely chopped tara
gon leaves and whole rad.shes cut in form
of roses.
Luncheon Dishes.
Venison. Hunters Sty.e-Cut the meat in
thin fillets. brush with butter and broil two
minutes over hot Goals, then spread with
butter again. dust with salt and pile on
the center Of an old hot pewter platter
Garnish with currant jelly or serve with a
currant sauce made of currant jelly, mus
tard, lust a suspicion. and little of the
hot juice from the platter. Serve hot
Fried Chicken and Waff1es.-Cut a young
chicken into pieces. discarding back and
legs; this will leave the breast, which may
be cut into four pieces, and the two second
joints. This will make enough for six persons
Plunge them into cold water, drain, dust
with salt and pepper and then-roll in -four.
Saute few slices of fat salt pork in
deep pan; when hot strain the fat return 1t
to the pan and fry the chicken slowly in
this until quite brown, OF course turning
enough to keep from burning. 1t will take
about three-quarters of an hour. If the
pieces Of chicken are left In a marinadei of
oil, vinegar. salt and pepper before rolling
In the -four they VIII have a delicious
favor. To make the sauce take one tea
spoonful Of fat add one of -four, cook until
smooth: then add one fourth of a teaspoon
full each of salt and paprika and a dash of
nutmeg. When bubbiing add one scant
cupful of hot cream: pour around the
chicken, which should be served from
large platter. and garnish with hot waffles
and spri0e of celery.
Evening star., 1907-05-05
Use Warm Water

Use Warm Water
Fer cleansing the teeth and rinsing your
mouth. cold water is apt TO shock the
teeth and iniure the enamel Two or three
times week II is well to brush the teeth
with soap, this, of course, not interfering
with the daily cleansing. Be sure to use a
pure soap. Do not brush your teeth for
too long a time, and be careful that you
brush them inside as well as out. Lemon
juice is said to be good for soft gums
where there is liberation, but in applying
this be careful not to get it on the teeth.
Be careful not to drink anything cold after
drinking or eating anything hot, and
never under any circumstances touch your
teeth with a pin or metallic instrument
There is no doubt about II that nothing
will whten the teeth so thoroughly and
give such a delightful taste In the mouth
as a fresh strawberry, and from the time
they appear In the spring until they have
said their good every woman should
use one instead OF, or in connection with.
her favorite dentifrice. The strawberry Is
rubbed over the teeth until 1t is entirely
crushed. and then the mouth is rin5eu with
tepid water so that none of the tiny seeds
get between the teeth For an invalid
there Is nothing more absolutely refreshing
than this strawberry mouth wash. In buy
ing a tooth brush do not choose one which
is too large, and which will not get into
every part of the mouth. and permit you
to brush your teeth up, down and around.
Brushes are now cut In such a way that
they reach TO all parts of the teeth. The
old ia shioned straight-cut bristles are COM
parativeiy little used.
Health and Beauty
Do not battle when tired, hungry or i'm
mediately after eating. This especially ap-
plies to the tub bath.
Is beauty skin deep? No, beauty is blood
deep, for beauty is built on health, and
health on purity of blood.
The brainworkers need comparatively lit
tie of carbohydrates-that is. starches and
fats; much less. indeed. than one employed
at manual labor requires.
A little time devoted to exercise every
day Is better than a little more time every
other day. 1t Is the steady dropping of
the water that wears away stone.
Nature never intended that all the nutri-
ton of the body should be derived from
Evening star., 1907-05-05

| Strain through a fine sieve and serve with
farina blocks.
Green Pea Soup.-Shell two quarts of
fresh green peas; wash the shells and
cover them with quart of water; boil five
minutes, drain, add to this water the peas;
cook until tender and press through a COL
ander; add two teaspoonfuls of sugar add
pint of milk, two tablespoonfuls of butter
and two cf flour; add salt and pepper and
serve at once.
Salads
Pineapple. Cucumber and Pinento.-Cut
into dice one cucumber and one small pine
apple, after peeling and removing the core,
adding one cupful of fancy shapes cut from
pimentos.> and half cupful Of chopped cell
cry; then stir in lightly half pint of may
onnaise dressing to which has been added
two tablespoonfuls of whipped cream. Ar
range on crystal salad platter surround
ed by border Of heart lettuce leaves dis
posing at each end pimento slashed, with
pineapple in the center.
Grape Fruit and Tomato Salad.-This
dainty may be- <attractively served in an ice
bowl. Freeze thFee-quarters of an inch of
water In large charlotte russo mold; !;
weigh smaller mold and set upon the CEN
ter OF the ice, filing the outer mod with
water and allowing 1t to freeze: then pour
in the small mold warm water and lift 1t
out, leaving the ice receptacle ready for the
salad. Prepare the tomatoes by peeling
and cutting in slices, and the grape fruit
by removing the pulp and shredding with
silver fork; line the Ice bowl with crisp let
tuce leaves that have been carefully dried,
and then fill with alternate layers of to-
mato and fruit, pouring over when just
ready to serve French dressing made with
the addition OF lemon juice instead of the
customary vinegar; garnish with pimolas
and chillies.
Cucumber and Watereress with Banana
Dres3iRg.-Mfnce finely a bunch of fresh
watercress and chop In small pieces one
medium-szed cucumber that has been
soaked in Iced salted water for three-ouar-
ters OF an hour; toss the two vegetables
lightly together and place directly on ice
until ready to serve, seasoning In the proc
ess with a saltspoonful of salt pinch of
white pepper and little celery salt. Pre-
pare the dressing by pressing three bananas
spatula; add the yolk Of one weii-bea ten
Evening star., 1907-05-05
Garden wv Wrinkles. "

The best sort of a garden glove is one
of coarse canvas that can be purchased
for 10 cents. If preferred, gloves can be
made of heavy denim and washed when
soled.
Let all your rows of vegetables run north
and south, that they may get every moment
of sunshine possible.
Weed with a hoe. If begun early it is
Just as efficient as handweeding and will
save YOU backache.
Evening star., 1907-05-05
A Wonderful Radish.

Most of US like to try something new,
occasionally, at any, rate; and when with
very well satisfied.
Japan has given many splendid f1ow-
ers and shrubs, such as the iris, the chry-
santhemum, the SNOWFALL the wistaria,
Douglas Island news., 1907-07-17
The NOrthIand The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North. Condensed. Information for Everybody.

The Hadley shelter is again in opera tion.
 Yukon's gold court has been abol- ished.
 Congressman Waskey has returned to Nome.
 The "humpies" have put in their ap- pearance.
 5000, more or less, railroad laborers at Catalla, are on a strike.
 L. w. Storm has recently opened en- gineeriug offices at Valdez.
 Alaska exported 30 tons of gold and tons of coal in 1906. says an exchange.
 During the celebration on the Fourth a Ketchikan woman fell and broke her leg.
 The old-fashioned custom of "shoot- ing out the lights" prevails at Fair banks.
 A. G. Oliver, a Nome millionaire, was recently married to Kate Ella Gray, at Seattle.
 Congressman Sulzer of New York addressed the people of Ketchikan on the Fourth.
 The Mount Royal, river steamer, was wrecked on the Skeena, and six of her crew were drowned.
 The Boston Alaskan will suspend publication for several months, while the editor takes a trip to Alaska.
 Considerable stamp milling machin. cry is being set up in the Gold Bottom and Kougarok sections of the Nome district.
 Roy Lund and K. O. Aver, two Daw- son bikers, boast of a century run, from Dawson to Granville and back, in thir teen hours.
 The Metlakahtia Indians defeated the Ketchikan brag ball team on July 5th, by score of 3 to ?, in twelve inning game.
 The Landlock Bay Mining Company operating in the vicinity of Valdez bay is planning on the inauguration of cop per ore shipments.
 The Pioneer Mining Company, oper- ating in the Nome district, recently paid dividend of IA per cent, amount ing to over S7OO,OOO. /
 Some AIaskans may be offended be- cause the headquarters of the A.-Y.-P. exposition at Seattle have been moved out of the Alaska building.
 The wagon road built by the Alaska Road commission from Cholmondeley to Hetta Inlet, on Prince of Wales Is land, cost more per mile than any other the commission has yet undertaken, aud not a single horse or wagon is being employed on it as yet.
Douglas Island news., 1907-07-17

The marble beds at Calder, Prince of Wales Island, are known to oe solid and without break or seam to depth of one hundred feet.
 The Tyee whaling station at Tyee, Alaska-known to Alaskans as Murder Cove-is the most complete plant of it's kind in the world.
 Rampant and Whitehorse are Lot on good terms. The Rampant paper says the skeeters are worse at Whitehorse than they are in the Alaskan town.
 An Indian and his squaw wife, from Saxman, represented Alaska at the C.. E. convention at Seattle. All other AL askans were a bit shy of the Spirit"
 Miss L. M. Norton, editor of the Bos- ton Alaskan and secretary of the Bos- ton-Alaskan Society, will spend the summer in Alaska with notebook and camera.
 Dr. Frederick A. Cook, who last sea- son climbed Mount Mckinley, will make a dash for the South Pole with the aid of specially constructed auto mobiles.
 George T. Myers, head of the firm of George T. My CTS < Son, owner and ope- rator of the Chatham Cannery at Sit koh Bay, died at Seattle on July F, of ptomaine poisoning.
 Recent strikes on Goldstream, O'Con- nor, Esther, Big Eldorado and Cleary creeks in the Fairbanks district have occasioned rush of several hundred people to those fields.
 Captain O'Brien, of the Str. YucataD, was stabbed by an Italian prisoner named Joe Carbana, who was being taken to Valdez from Catalla, where he attempted to kill Tony De Pascal.
 The Yentua district will produce seV- eral times more gold this year than last, but is under a serious handicap because of the blanket stalking of all the good creeks by power of attorney.
 The Seattle Star says the Alaska Steamship Go. has made a change in the schedule of it's northern boats, and the vessels now leave at 9 o'clock in the morning instead of 9 o'clock at night.
 MT. Henry D. Reynolds, president of the Reynolds-AIasKa Development Co.,, will spend the summer at the mines of the company on La Touche Island and at Boulder Bay, Prince William Sound.
 Fishermen at Cape Flattery report very unsatisfactory season at the hal ibut banks aud believe they are played out. Many of them say they will never fish there again, but will go to the Alaskan fishing grounds.
 Operations of a development charac- ter are under way at the Knights Is Iand-Alaska Copper Company'S proper ty in the Valdez section. The proper ties are located along Drier bay. Wm. Egan is the superin tendent.
 The Alaska Central tracklayers laid 20OO feet of track this week, extending the railroad terminus across the Howe truss over the glacier stream on mile 90 and up to a short trestle over gulch. Work on this trestle will stop rail lay ing for only few days and the next jump will be 29Oo feet to a bridge at the end of mile 5O.-Seward Gateway.