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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-17

It is
The hundred and one small courtesies that
give our daily life its sweetness and charm.
1t Is not enough merely to be polite. Chill
dren should see graciousness In the man.
ners Of those about them. To the mother
who realizes that her home is lacking in
this essential I would say: Do not be dis
couraged. Begin today and try the effect
of extreme courtesy in your own conduct.
If there are members In your household
older than yourself r-lke your considera-
ton toward them so marked that it cannot
fail to impress the children
The first requisite Of good manners IS
self-forgetfulness. 1 have seen people whose
social opportunities had been limited ap-
pear to better advantage than those who
had been accustomed to the usages of
polite society all their lives simply because
they had no desire to outshine or impress
other people, were good listeners, and OBJ
servant enough not to commit a breach of
manners. Politeness in the home should
be matter of course, and equally mat
ter of course should be appreciation. A
pleasant sense of obligation should pervade
all the household. l recently heard
party of women commenting on the lack
of manners among children. 1t was the
experience of each that their friendly salu-
tations to children of their acquaintance
either were ignored entirely or received
scant recognition. 1t usually Is lack of
training that makes children habitually
negligent in this direction, though We al
ways must bear with the shy. timid child,
or the dreamy, absent-minded one. whose
thoughts may be far away even while the
child looks at you.
The shy and self-conscious child is at a
serious disadvantage, for he is often too
timid to do the thing he knows Is proper.
Such child frequently should be praised
opportunities offered him to express
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I exterior leather and prunella, and pass
through to the real soul of each one that
| We meet.
| 1t becomes easy to realize that many of
| the unpleasant people we meet are peo-
| pie with souls that are inadequately ex-
| pressed, sometimes unpleasant because of
| their struggles for expression.
| The tactless woman would like to be
| suave and graceful, the quick tempered girl
wishes she were calm and collected. the
shy youth longs to the vivacious and the
! life of the party.
When we disregard the tactlessness, the
| shyness. the quick temper and have our
| communion with the real man. the real
| woman, not with their shirt fronts or
| 1t Is to this secret heart that our hearts
| must speak. If 1t be hard to find, it none
the less Is there.
| Strawberries and blackberries and rasp-
| berries. and above all, the cherries look
| as delightful as they taste. but water
melons, as every good American knows,
! must have their green rind penetrated be-
fore they reveal the luscious flesh.
Some people are watermelons. Indeed,
one Is inclined to think that the human
watermelon crop is large.
We Divide
| our world perhaps into pleasure and pain
On the side of pleasure are health. riches,
friends, success, dgnities. On the side Of
pain are disease, poverty, foes, failure, OBJ
security.
They seem so vastly different and they
are so vastly alike-as far as pain and
pleasure goes. Any Of them may be either
painful or pleasant bane or blessing. They
simply touch us at different parts, at diff
| ferent aspect Of our lives.
Disease, for example. wastes the physical
| body. But IL taken rightly it can waken
| and purify the spiritual body.
Frances Ridley Havergal was lifelong
| invalid and of the most famous Of
sacred song and story writer's. Her bodily
| ills did not make her excuse for repining
but for pleasant and useful employment.
Health suggests mental and physical
whoesomeness. If the wholesomenesS Is
missing in the mind the body can be hurt
and the man suffer by reason OF the men,
tai shortcomings. In any state whatsoever
the mind is the final arbiter. The events
in panorama provide the materials with
1t chooses.
Does a Poet
need a queen or a star to fire his magma
ton, or measure his rhythms, or inspire
his quatrains?
No; let him but see a humble. heavy la
borer with hoe and he renders lyric that
gathers all the world to hear and makes
his fame illustrious.
The petty round Of your today has in 1t
all the material for an epic or madrigal.
1t needs only that you surround Its bar
rem scenes with sweet imageries.
That you link it's burden of deeds and In
ventions each to each with fine golden
thread of harmony.
That you toll Off its swinging hours with
poetlcal melody.
Then your quatrains will be complete and
you will be a poet.
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pals and preserve jars all are perfect in
such lines.
For the invalid is a beef tea tray of
white Copeland china, set in a plated or
silver frame. light enough for an invalid s
use. and yet so deity arranged as to render
II perfectly safe for placing, il necessary.
on the bed without fear of II upsetting.
Nurses and patients who have tried to
balance the ordinary soup bowl will ap-
prec:ate this.
Another quaint little set for breakfast In
bed or for convalescent is the ever hot
cup and saucer, fixed In small ring over
a spirit lamp. which keeps the contents of
the cup at the requisite temperature.
Useful and Inexpensive
presents for a bride are the small table
cloths which are intended to hold four
plates and to be used upon a card table.
These are made of beautiful fine linen in
small all-oyer patterns. with initials or
monogram embroidered on one corner.
They cost no more than q small silver
present and are more useful.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-17
The Shops

The Shops
are showing beautiful things i'm china and
glass. In plate. beauty and artistic merit
Increase each year. There are beautiful
new combined coffee and liquor sets. one
especially, a convenient plated stand of the
lightest. yet most solid shape. holding a
coffee pot. cream jug and sugar dish in
hammered plate. with four white Coalport
china cups and saucers. each In its little
stand, dainty liqueur carafe and four lit
tie liqueur glasses being firmly set above
them. There Is little afternoon tea tray.
each delicate cup, plate and saucer being
mounted on its own attachment. yet form
ing part of Il whole which can be lifted as
required. without endangering the safety OF
the dainty cups or the dresses of the guests.
Simplicity OF form and purity OF material
Seem to be the great points aimed at and
the crystal clear flint glass and severe
plainness of the mounts are ideal for Sc
curing these merits. Biscuit boxes, ice
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carry Their own toilet articles and their
own note paper.
A Cherry Tree Contest.
This is founded upon the ever famous
cherry tree about which little George Wash
ington could not tell lie.
The hostess should secure Dough or
small evergreen tree and place 1t upright IN
a flower pot. Then attach to the branch
with silk thread number of candied cher
ries. Each cherry should hang from the
boughs by two or three inches of the SILK
thread. Each member of the company Is
blindfolde In succession and turned around
three times, given pair OF scissors ana
told to clip from the cherry tree as much
of the fruit as possible. Each person Is
allowed three minutes in which to do this
clipping. No player Is allowed to touch
the tree with his hands. He simply clips
wherever he thinks the cherries are hang
person who has secured the most fruit re.
ceives a box filled with crystallized fruit OF
the appropriate variety.
For a Home Wedding
Held at noon the repast for fifteen or
twenty would be called breakfast.
Seat the guests at small tables.
The menu may consist of bouillon. hot
fried chicken and potato croquettes, or
creamed potatoes, or broiled chops and
peas then a salad Of lobster, or celery and
apple Then mold of Bavarian cream,
with preserved or candied pineapple and
some delicate cakes, and then the coffee
in small cups without cream, or you may
serve 1t in large cups with cream when
the meat course Is served. Oysters or fsh
cooked in some delicate way may be
squeezed in after the bullion If you wish
to take the trouble.
A brides cake may be placed in the CEN
ter Of the dining room table, surrounded by
flowers, bonbons and extras for serving
and tables may be laid in the adjoining
room If the dining room is small The par
ents of the bride always are in the room
where the ceremony is to take piece to
greet the guests who arrive before the
bridal party enters.
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.ANE

love- fresh tranquility, each of a fiber more
transparency fine and rare and wrought
out with more alluring grace than the last.
Inc bright particular delight Of choosing
pretty new stuffs and tints that harmonZe
with ones eyes and hair and complexion
are not a fraction of the pleasure to be had
in matching the attributes of the soul with
the blue of truth, the pink Of love, the
white of purity. and of fashioning the fine
warp and wool of it's texture with high de-
-sires and beautiful thought. To think and
do is beauty. means beautiful spiritual
dresses To do the reverse means spiritual
tatters.
Is There
woman without a complexion? Roses
and lilies are made to suit. Is there a
youth short of breath and labored respira-
ton? He can develop the lungs of Hindoo
Yogi Is there a man without muscle? He
can become Sandow.
Ditto with our invisible selves. In them
changes rarer than any transmutation of
steel into gold are wrought by the fine
alchemies of the heart.
The sweet temper marvelously can be
wrought out of the tart. The faithful friend
out of the false. the kind heart out of the
cruel. the glad soul out of the sad, the
peaceful spirit out of the perturbed
1t can be done all this, and much more
than this. 1t is done wherever the mind has
mastered the sweet secrets of creating its
conditions instead of being created by them.
1t Is done whenever the mind has learned
to assert it's sovereignty over externals. 1t
Is done whenever the mind remains serene
while things are in furry. 1t Is done
whenever the mind is tranquil while things
are in disaster: when the mind is pure and
wholesome while things outside are faint
ed; when the mind is rich, although the
body may be in poverty; when the mind is
crowned with laurels. although the career
to blinded eyes may appear failure.
A Pretty Workcase-
may be made of a piece of canvas twelve
inches long and seven inches wide, lined
with silk. Featherstitch the canvas down
both sides and across one end. leaving a
space to turn In the edges. Basic on q
lining and finish the edges by turning in
and blind stitching. The feather-sttched
end then Is pointed by turning down the
corners and sewing them together. Turn
the other end up about four inches to form
a bag and sew the sides together. Make
loop in the pointed end and sew button
the outside.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-17
At Heart
Some W omen

Some w omen
are fond Of perfume on their clothes that
they may watt a delightful aroma about
wherever they go. Violet sachets or pow
ders are the smartest and there are people
VINO say that the use of any other perfume
is vulgar, but scented lotion may be liked
and found useful for the pertaining of
gloves and slippers, which may be sponged
on the inside with lotion made up of the
following: Take of extract OF ambergris
two drops and OF spirits of wine one ounce.
or to make more plentiful supply. pro-
coed in this proportion and the result will
be found decidedly refreshing and last
Ing aroma.
4 fragrant perfume for seeming little
bags To lay among linen or dresses is made
by taking one ounce each of cloves, car
away seeds, nutmeg, mace, cinnamon and
tOnquin beans and adding as much Floren-
tine orris root as equals the whole amount
OF the other ingredients Grind the mixture
10 a fine powder and put into muslin bags.
1t is Lovely
20 have all one wants of Frenchy dancing
and dinner frocks, and chic outing suits.
and lovely neglges, and fancy slippers.
and silky hose and etherially delicate lin
geIie. but It Is loveller. incomparably love-
lier TO be able to clothe ones soul in fair
and hit attire.
IL is incomparably lovelier to have all
mat iit soul HteuS lot lOOkllS ltS DeSt on
every occasion. to have rosy pink hopes in
the morning and soft. sweet reflections at
night to have garments of light for the
hours Of glom, god cheer and warmth for
social evenings, and fortitude and zeal for
working days. and always good thinking
cap to don.
To know that this seasons princess gown
j. a perfect fit is joy indeed. but less JOY
than to realize the perfect adjustment of
ones soul, fitting to it's environment and
circumstances so that in whatsoever state
j am herewith | am content.
To know that each separate trifie of frill
Dr.. ones new party gown is specklessly un-
u.ussed is matter indeed for congratulation
bl; not such great matter the glad
realization that the robes of ones soul are
unstained and increased and Immediately
white with pure. peaceful thought
The bliss of being able to turn from worn
out dresses as they go out of fashion to the
latest charming confections OF ones favor
its mod!ste does not half compare with the
ecstasy or finding ones spiritual wardrobe
renewed it needs with fresh joy, fresh
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-17

As a Hostess
Gives of her best for visitors, they should
return 1t in kind. They need not intrude
themselves, but if they are musical their
| tact will tell them when their gift is needed.
If they are apt at games they should know
when to offer themselves as a partner. If
they can fashion dainty things they should
| not be slow to offer their assistance to
mend rent or insert fancy stitches.
desired 'sitor never makes trouble for
either hostess or servants, and 1t Is al
most unnecessary to add that a guest Is
bound by every law of courtesy to con-
form strictly to the ways Of the household.
Tact will suggest that there are times
when the family may prefer to be alone.
Hours when the guest may remain in her
room or go out to walk, thus relieving her
entertainers for a time. Punctuality to
meals Is Imperative, and whatever their
creed they should conform to the religious
observances Of the house. 1t is an excep-
ton to the rule If the family machinery
runs without friction. But visitors are not
expected to see the friction, or, having seen
II; they are not expected to remember It,
When they leave their hostess they should
carry away with them only a memory Of
the pleasant, kindly things. Criticism and
gossip are objectionable and vulgar. A
affords, and 1t should be their duty, as
we'll as their pleasure, to keep all appoint
| ments of the room assigned to them In per-
feet order.
Guests can aid the extra duties their pres
ence imposes upon servant by opening the
windows and turning back the bed cover
ing to air, and If they are in a large but
modest household they can assist by max
ing up their own bed and quietly doing
any duty that comes to their notice. A
well-bred guest does not litter things about
a room and never presumes upon a gener-
GUS hospitality.
ottIif TO NJ &c,
ton, better left to the guests own dis
elimination. 1t seems, however, only. a
kindly courtesy to reward a servant who
has added to their comfort
A thoughtful hostess provides her guest
room with many small accessories, but they
should be used sparingly. Visitors should
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After ALL


We can feel as we wish TO feel The sun
shines and it cheers: the rain falls and 1t
deprcsses But We can be independent.
largely perhaps wholly. of shine and shade
in their many forms and phases.
We can feel as We wish, as we will to feel.
We can choose the temper of our moods.
We can govern thought and everything.
We are confessing weakness and failure
when we own our dependence upon outside
conditions for our pleasant and our painful
tempers The outer world, the passing
pageant of events can suggest, but 1t
should not control the frame of mind in
which we find ourselves. his can rest
mainly with the will and the reason.
The reason shows us the compensations in
sundry states and conditions. And the will
whenever it is the normal will instinctively
follows the way to it's greatest happiness.
And this way the normal will persists IN
without falterlng We should find ourselves
masters. not serfs. ruling conditions, not
sinking into lassitude, not drifting with the
Thousand tides that eddy around.
in his day and generation was the olden
time philosopher who laid down the law
unto himself that there were but two things
that people worried about-the things that
They cannot help. and the things they can
lrlp. Those things that people cannot
help il Is useless to worry about, because
they cannot be helped. Those things peo-
pie can help it is useless to worry about,
because they can be helped.
Lately it has been shown that anger and
worry are near of kin. another reason for
not worrying Indeed there is a deadly
horde of kindred miseries that follow close
In the train of worry, and are known to
be related to il. They are fear, anger.
melancholy and the blues" and like worry
itself they are not of more use when 1t is
something that can be helped than when
st is something that cannot be helped.
They are worse than useless.
There are other reasons why we cannot
afford TO indulge in worry. Some fine MORN
ing We are enjoying an extra quality of Sc
rerity of soul. A small cloud darkens the
air and 10, all serenity is swept away. No
one can afford to be at the mercy of every
i'll wind that blows.
Serenity does many things. And among
the many il preserves beauty. The mills
of the gods grind slowly, but they grind
exceeding fine in the matter of outlining
The thoughts and feelings on the face
anger and worry and the blues. The blues
are the little demons that make the heart
grow cd. To keep the face young there
Is nothing like the young heart.
At Heart
We are. all alike. every one of us. with the
same aspirations and the same worries.
For many of us still indulge the mysterious
luxury of worries.
When We realize this oneness of heart
appreciate our sameness, our identity with
one another. 1t is easy to clear away the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-17
Virginia Oyster Soup.

Take two quarts fresh oysters and wash
through two waters. Strain the liquor and
add to 1t two stalks celery, chopped fine:
four blades of mace, black pepper, cayenne
and salt to season. Simmer five minutes;
then add a quarter pound butter rubbed
smooth with two tablespoonfuls flour and
three pints rich milk or part cream. Let
them come to good boil; stir all the time;
add the oysters and let them boil up once.
no more, or they will shriyel. Serve at
once.
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Clam Broth Served en- Tasse.
Molasses Layer Cake.

One egg. one-half cup sugar, one-half cup
molasses two-thirds cup cold water, one
teaspoon soda. piece Of butter size of an
egg. Mix very soft and bake in three
layers.
Filling-One cup sugar. three tablespoons
hot water, cup raisins stoned and
chopped, white of one egg Boil the sugar
and water together until the mixture hard
ems when dropped in cold water. then re-
move 1t from the stove and quickly stir in
the white of the egg beaten to a stiff froth
and the raisins, then spread between the
layers This will keep moist two weeks.
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Fish Soup.

Put tablespoonful of butter in a stew
pan over the fire and then fry in 1t three
chopped onions. When a golden brown add
a cup of tomatoes. a carrot. three or four
whole cloves, salt and pepper to season.
Put in a dessertspoonful sugar bay leaf.
sprig of thyme and quart of wa
ter. Cook until the carrot is quite soft
then add any cold fish, bones and ALL or
thin slices of raw fish, and simmer twenty
minutes. Toast small pieces of bread.
enough to cover the bottom of the soup
tureen. Add half glass of white wine to
the soup, strain over the toast and serve.
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Mattie's Nice Cake.

Beat the whites of two eggs stiff, then
beat the yolks into them until light; cream
one-half cup butter. adding little at time
a cup of sugar; cream to a froth. add one
half cup sweet milk and one teaspoon
lemon fiavoring. Sift all together one and
one-half cups -four. three-quarter cup of
cornstarch, one teaspoon baking powder
and one-half teaspoon salt. Add to the
other ingredients, beat WELL and bake in
a moderate oven thirty-five or forty min
uteS.
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Good Things to Eat
From Various Exchanges.
Black Fruit Cake.

Black Fruit Cake.
The secret Of making a black, moist, de-
licious fruit cake lies not so much In the
ingredients used as in the manner of mixing
and baking. The mixing should be most
thorough. many OF the best cake makers
kneading with their hands to insure the
proper blending. The baking must be con-
tinued for five hours at least. at so mod
crate a heat that at the end of that time
the CAKE VIII be as moist as possible and
yet firm enough to hold together No cake
will be of the proper color or quality IL
too rapidly baked, even when the best In
gradients are used. The true fruit cake
contains but little batter In proportion to
It's fruit 1t does not rise rapidly when put
IN the oven. but swells slowly, the Juices
or the fruit permeating the whole
For fruit cake or wedding cake cream
together pound OF fresh el-washed but
ter and pound of the finest granulated
or coffee sugar. Crate in the yellow rind
or a lemon and break into the mixture two
eggs, one by one. beating vigorously be-
tween each egg. Mix together half a cup
OF molasses, a teaspoon of cinnamon half
teaspoon of cloves. two of allspice and
half grated nutmeg and add to the bat
ter together with a pound of pastry -four
that has been sifted several times to tighten
1t. Stir well or knead before adding the
fruit, which should be in readiness before
mixing the cake. The proportion OF fruit
used may be varied to suit the taste. but my
pounds seeded sultana raisins, two pounds
seeded malagas. one pound citrOn cut in
thin slices. one-Quarter pound candied
orange peel. shredded. Knead again for
ten or fifteen minutes and pour into cake
pans. round or brick shaped. holding about
three quarts each. lining them first with
buttered paper. Have a good body of fire
in the stove before putting In the cake, so
that 1t need not be replenished until the
baking is done. Watch carefully lest the
cake bake too fast at first. If the oven
seems too hot deaden with a pan of cold
water. When cake Is cool roll in paraffin
paper and cover closely in tin box or
jar. This cake will keep indefinitely.
Beef Soup.
Get shin of beef and have the bones
cracked. Put over the fire In a large kettle
with a gallon of water, cold, and simmer
six hours; skim well. Then add two tur-
nips, chopped fine, two carrots. one onion.
two Irish potatoes. all chopped, a pint of
tomatoes, a tablespoonful of salt, and in
season half dozen ears of corn, the corn
cut from the cob: the cobs to be added
when ready to thicken then remove. Just
before dinner thicken with a little Drowned
flour mixed with cold water; boil few
moments, add seasoning II necessary and
serve.
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Clam Bouillon.

Chop fine two cupfuls clans and put in
saucepan over the fire in their own
liquor. Scald and skim, then add two cup
fuls of boiling water. one tablespoonful
chopped celery. a sprig of parsley. bay
leaf and pepper to season. Bring to a boil.
skim. strain through a cheese cloth and
serve In cups with whipped cream on top.
Clam Broth Served en- Tasse.
Wash three dozen little neck CLAIMS in the
shell in cold water, place in a saucepan
over the fire and a quart of hot water and
cook until the shells open. AS fast as they
do so, remove the clans from the shells
and chop. Return the chopped meat to the
clam BROTH with pat of butter, pepper to
season, and more salt If required. Cook
five minutes and serve hot or cold In cups
with crackers.