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The Washington times., 1907-09-29

French" would be a help to you Then
GUY a really good cook book. one up
to date, and consult It when you 10
not Ike 10 ask Questions
Not that II Is a disgrace not to know
everything. l am positive that many
of the society women whose Llibncss
YOU envy are far more ignorant upon
some subjects. and important subjects
at that, than yoU dIv.
TOMATO ASPIC
Stew a dozss fine tomatoes until soft,
then strain through q flannel bag with
out squeezing. You should get from
them z pint of juice. Twelve tomatoes.
If ripe should yield more than thu
quantity.
Put tho juice over the Gre, add tea
spoonful of onion juice. also strained: a
teaspOOnful Of sugar. BAY leaf. IL you
have IT, and two whole cloves. BrinE
20 boil skim and strain again.
Boil up a third tiIue and stir into tho
liquid while II IS on The fire half pack
&c Of Gelalne which has been soaked
tor an hour in small cupful OF cold
water.
Wet a mold and put in the aspic. Set
away to form. II is served with let
tuce as 81 dressing or alone with may
onnaise. or as a Sarnish with cold
chicken or lamb
II formed i'm small cups or pale molGG
Il is a pretty accompaniment to lettuce,
and is as palatable as 1t is pretty
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Family Meals for a Week

Sunday.
BREAKFAST
Fruit. cereal. broiled ham. waffes, tea
LUNCHEON.
Chicken loaf, tomato aspic in iudl-
vtdual forms with lettuce and French
dressing, Boston brown bread. tea
DINNER
Cream Of lettuce soup. roast ducks.
sweet potatoes stuffed eggplant. cauli-
flower. apple meringue pie, coffee
Monday.
BREAKFAST.
Nodded farina with apple sauce and
cream 0ak ed eggs. tomato toast, tea
LUNCHEON.
Cold dUc.,, Drowned sweet potatoes,
toasted English mullins, apple sauce,
Dinner
Soup from duck csrcass. Dreaded NUT
ton chops. creamed potatoes. boiled
SQUASH. nodded spinach, peach charlotte,
coffee.
Tuesday.
BREAKFAST.
Fruit. cereal. minced mutton Qeft
over. quick loaf tea. coffee.
LUNCHEON
Scauoped oysters, toasted crackers,
coffee loaf, Philadelphia cream cheese,
tea.
DINNER
Cream spinach soup. beef pie with 20
tato crust, baked macaroni, corn and
tomatoes, rice custard pudding. coffee.
Wednesday.
BREAKFAST.
Fruit, cereal, dried beef with cream,
minute mullins. tea. coffee
LUNCHEON.
RechaUf1e Of beef with border Of po-
tato crust, macaroui warmed over. fried
green peppers, crackers, cheese, tea
DINNER
Green corn soup, baked hamburg
steak, whipped potatoes. baked squash,
fried eggplant, CUP custards, coffee.
Thursday.
BREAKFAST.
Fruit. cereal. bacon. toast. tea, coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Drowned hash (left over, squash souf-
lie left over, jelly pancakes. tea
DINNER
Roast chickens, boiled rice. lima beans.
frled tomatoes, lettuce and cucumber
salad with French dressing. sweet po-
Friday.
BREAKFAST.
Fruit. cereal. baked eggs. hot rolls,
tea, coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Cold chicken, baked beans, fried mush,
sliced bananas, tea.
Fish soup. baked lobster in shell. Ju-
lienne potatoes, sliced tomatoes and
cucumbers, cottage pudding. coffee.
Saturday.
BREAKFAST
Fruit, cereal, fried pork with cream
gravy, stewed potatoes, brown bread.
tea, coffee
LUNCHEON.
Broiled sweetbreads, French-fried Do
tatoes, egg bread. tea.
DINNER
boiled corned beef. hOrsera6ish sauce
creamed turnips, potatoes boiled plain
scalloped cabbage, cabinet puddin2
coffee.
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STUFFED Potatoes. PIain.

Select large potatoes Cf Uniform size
and bake them until soft.
Take from the oven. cut of the top OF
sfch, scoop out the inside With a tea
sp1on. taking care not TO break the skin
at the sides, beat up the potato with a
fork. adding a teaspOonful Of butter and
one of cream 10 the center OF each po-
tato. Season to taste with salt and white
pepper.
a savory taste is given by the addi-
lion or grated cheese in the proportion
Of a teaspoonful to each potato.
When the mixture is we'll blended put
st back into the potato shells, examining
s. in closely. and return the potatoes TO
tne oven for ten minutes
You may leave the opened ends un-
covered and brown the contents Of the
Skins. or replace the caps you have re-
moved.
Some persons cut the potato in half
before removing the contents and then
serve them on the half shell. as it were.
with the contents we'll Drowned.
Stuffed Potatoes With Meat or Fish.
Prepare the potatoes as in the proceed
ing recipe. but TO the mealy inside add
rninced meat in rhe proportion Of cup
ful TO six potatoes. The meat should be
we'll minced AMI seasoned.
To beef add a little Worcestershire
Eauce or good catsup. and almost any
meat will be improved oy a suspicion Of
onion juice.
II there be well-havored gravy at
hand. substitute this for the cream in
rnoistening the potato.
For this filing it is better 20 cut the
baked potatoes in half lensthwise, rather
than to remove the cap.
Stuffed Sweet Potatoes.
These may be prepared like the white
potatoes. and are delicious, although no,
so well known
They must always be cut in lalt
lengthwise. and care should be taken, to
keep them covered Willie baking. that
the skin may not harden and crack.
Tomatoes Stuffed, Plain.
Select large. fine tomatoes; cut slice
from the top OF each and carefully
scoop out the pulp.
Chop It fine. put with IL one-third as
much bread crumbs as you have pulp
season with pepper, salt. a little sugar
ard a teaspoonful of melted butter "a
each tomato, and I'll the tomatoes with
the stuffing.
Replace the tops and bake. covered,
half an hour. Uncover and cook ten
minutes longer
II there is any OF the stuming which
will not go back into the shells. put II
between the tomatoes in the bake dish
Tomatoes Stuffed With Corn.
Prepare the tomatoes as in the pre-
eeding recipe, but put aside the pulp
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Stuffed Peppers.

Select young, green. but fuIl-grown
peppers, cut of the tops, remove the
fingers in the process. throw the pep
pers into boiling water, ana let them
cook five minutes
Lay, in cold water for ten minutes
more, stuff them with anything you
choose. You can fll them with fish.
faxed and prepared as for creamed fish.
or with minced neat well seasoned. or
with rice or spaghetti. or with a force
meat, such as IS used for cucumbars or
tomatoes or eggplant.
or you may I'll them with oysters pre-
pared as for scalIop. In any case they
must afterward be put into a pan. a
little weak stock poured about them.
and they should bake about fifteen min
utes.
The length Of time they are to cook
viii depend upon the character Of the
stuffing
The Washington times., 1907-09-29
A Confession.

I have a confession TO make to our
mother.
No. haven't been extravagant or
indolent. or unreasonable. so far as
know
We are living easily within our in
come. we have no debts and we are
quitting by something Tor a rainy day.
We have two lovely, healthy children
snd we keep two competent servants
Then what am / repenung of
Just this. / am an arrant coward.
I am afraid of my cooki She is not
4 bad tempered woman, but she is
biz touchy. and she likes % have her
own way in everything connected with
her kitchen, laundry and storeroOm.
And ] want TO have something to say
about these things once in a Wilde.
She looks cross wheYi l go INTO the
kitchen to give orders after TIE morn
ing visit 70 refrigers tor and pantries
has been made
1t may be TO consult her kindly. pr
haps 10 make work easier.
She suspects me from the moment
she claDs eyes upon my figure II the
doorway, and assumes control of the
situation.
Sometimes I feel that there Is positive
insolence In her hard. gray ewes. Nv
cO.rage ooZcs out of my fingers ends n
have 20 find the least fault
Her face and attitude say. Il am mis-
my own citadel?''
And confess il with shame and hu-
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initiation. I just grovel before that
coarse. illiteTnte hiTeling,
I think Il was Mary MaPes Dodge who
said that she belonged 20 the "By-your-
school.
I GO. and there 1t is!
Now, despisc me TO your hearts con-
tent. I can't ask for absolution. for
am pitiful creature, the victim OF
self-contemDt-
II. A. r. CAttlebcro. A1ass.).
I should despise myself II had aught
in my heart but tender compassion for
You. dear. frank child!
Thousands OF other house-mothers are
as rank towards. but they throw a
bluff and think nobody suspects the
truth.
/ cculG talk all day 10 YOU on this
point.
have time and room for but one hint
that may help you. When you have &C
casion 10 reprimand the cook, or 10 is
sue an order you fancy may be dis
tasteful to her. don't e 10 the kitchen.
Send for her 10 come 10 your sitting
room
or, better yet, make it convenient to
nave her come 70 the drawing room.
Time the interview 70 suit yourself II
You can receive the delegation from the
kitchen after you are dressed for the
afternoon, and can pcrSonate the lady
of elegant leisure in her own domain.
you hold trumps from the outset.
u is Ike football team playing upon
its own grounds, or a yacht racing in
familiar waters.
mean what / say when / art that
the accessories OF dress and place have
tremendous weight with women OF her
stamp
have seen one cover on finding her
self upon Wilton carpet, and another
hoWled over by her, until then nominal
~ IL
Try the trick and let me hear from
You again
The Washington times., 1907-09-29

A Travelled friend is irving to teach us
TO eat frogs legs.
There is pond at the foot Of q
meadow back Of our house that has, UP
to this summer. been a nuisance on ac-
count Of the believing OF the frogs.
They Peep all the spring and below
all the midsummer nights
Our visitor tells great stories OF the
dishes to be evolved from the legs of the
musicians. and when he went cunning
last night and brought home fifteen
pairs of hind-qaarters, as white as
chicken, and really not repulsive to the
eye. whatever they may be to the i'm
aginatlon. was willing to please him
by cooking them
fried them for breakfast, and those
The Washington times., 1907-09-29
If You Move This Fall

~ E CAREFUL when selecting your
X house or apartment 70 get good
ventilation. even II you must put
up with old-fashiCned wall paper
and ancient style wood furnishings.
You can DC happy without style, but
you cant be happy without ne alth.
Too little attention is paid IN many
families TO the great need Of sunlight
and air IN INC home
Then again a dark. dreary house VIII
have a most depressing effect upon
the spirits.
Children become aillng and sic1ly
when they are deprived Of air and sun
light. Like grain sown under the trees.
they are impeTfectiy developed and
starve for the necessary sunlight.
The Washington times., 1907-09-29

her dishes OF stuffed vegetables. but
che makes a mistake II she stops at this
point. The potato may have other than
the simple stuffng referred TO. while
the tomato may have many forms Of
fOrcemeot as filling. and lends itself TO
all sorts OF experiments
Either vegetables may be used as
side dish or as the principal item at
luncheon or supper or breakfast.
Eggplant. cucuubers, and onions are
stuffed with success, as are cabbage
and beets.
Peppers are at their best when stuffed.
and eggs may be stuffed and served in
a variety of appctizinG fashions.
II the recipes give below serve as
a suggestion TO hOusekeepers and call
out from some Of the sistcrhoOd recipes
OF the same kind that they themselves
rave tested and proved good, shall be
much gratihed.
The Washington times., 1907-09-29
Stuffed Onions.

For tbs select large onions; the Der.
mudas are the best. Parbon them- for
ten minutes. take them from theyifre.
and let them become entiItty cold.i
Remove the center Of each with a
The Washington times., 1907-09-29

= SEE frequent references to tomato
aspic IN recipes and in printed
4 menus. Kindly tell me just what It
Is / app ashamed 20 ask when 1
near the name Of a strange dish. one
c"eSa Ike 10 appear ignorant The
french names especially bother me.
n lady asked me the other day If
necU blsquc, ana / said at a venture
Nst very much hadn't the least
drink
How may learn all about such
things?
yod see I was raised in The country
aad lived there until I was married.
and you have no idea how awkward I
fCu sometimes.
The worst OF Il Is that I am afraid
nat my husband viii be ashamed OF his
greeu' wife some day.
Don't smile when you read this. and
P.e,ASe 10. aon put my name or initials in
JUST sign this little crouch"
DISTRESSED.
You write a beautiful hand: YOU spell
cofFScll%; inc structure OF your SEN
tcnceS Is grammatical
1 do not believe your husband. who
married you when you were q country
SRI, VIII ever be anything but fond and
proud " you.
J. am going 20 ten you presently how
say that Tie best way TO learn Is not
y pretend TO knowledge you 90 not
Possess
did smile when 1 got to the con-
lSsslon OF ignorance on the bisque oues-
tion, Tor / recollected instantly the first
time [ ever heard the word
Il famous housewife in her set was
reSretung The loss by marriage of a
cook who had lived with her for some
years.
u shall never get another to suit me
50 wei in some respects" she said.
Her bisqucs were dream, Especially
her lobster bisqUtr
At that she claspad her hands ana
rolled UP her eyes, as If seeing ceIes-
tiol vision. 1 asked outright
What is hisCuC2 I don't think ever
Geard Of il before. You have excited
my curiosity ana NY desire Do tell
iae and put me out Of my misery"
Everybody laushed and one woman
said: Thank YOU for asking. 1 had
not the courage to E-7r that I am rs
ignorant as stone or the same point :"
iHaL was the way I found out That
giSqUe Is thick soup, somt times OF
FISH, sometimes Of chicken. sometimes
OF vegetables.
have written so many recipes Tor
me various kinds snce then that I
Gun hardly believe there was ever =
/ time when I knew No thing of them
One word before We get at the asoic
ia every Wel-CcGuucted cook book tatr
is 2 sort OF glCssary for The nsc of
novices In kitchen lore. and newly m
vented names If dishes.
little monJal called Kitchen
The Washington times., 1907-09-29
C7zzea Cheese IS = IyzI IA9ur z6r 5zz2l1Zs.

sharp knife and fiji the hole made with
a good forcemeat Of minced meat and
crumbs. IN the proportion OF twice as
much meat as you have crumbs. season
well with salt and pepper, and mo.sten
with butter.
Arrange the onions IN a dish, pour
around them O. liberal cUpful Of weak
stock sprinkle crumbs over the top, dot
with pieces Of butter, and bake, COW
The Washington times., 1907-09-29
~ ~ SeaSonable Recipes ~ ~

you scoop out for tomato sauce or soup.
In its place put into the tomato shells a
cupful of corn cut or grated from the
cob. seasoned with butter. salt and pep
per.
When the tomatoes are filled and in
the bake dish put on the tops, pour a
little gravy over all. or. lacking this. a
cup of boiling water IN which has been
melted a good tablespoonful Of butter;
cover and bake for an hour in a mod
crate oven.
Uncover and brown.
Tomatoes Stuffed With Rice.
FIJI the scooped-out tomato shells with
boiled rice. seasoned with salt and
teaspoonfuI OF butter for each tomato.
over the rice put the tomato which has
been scooped out
Lay on the tops, pour a little gravy or
tomato sauce around the vegetables in
the dish, cover. and bake half an hour.
Tomatoes Stuffed With Spaghetti.
Boiled macaroni or spaghetti broken
into short bits may be used in place
of the rice in stuffing tomatoes. and
cooked In the same way.
Tomatoes Stuffed With Meat or Fish.
Prepare the tomatoes as for plain
.stuffing. Have ready a cupful Of meat
or fish. minced and well seasoned. To
chicken or FISH sdd for this quantity
one tablespoonful Of butter and gill
Of cream, salt. pepper, and minced pars-
lev. and half a cup Of bread crumbs.
Fill the tomatoes and proceed as in
other recipes.
a pleasing dish IS prepared by sub
stituting boiled rice for the bread
crumbs with a stuming OF chicken. veal.
or lamb. and adding a half teaspoonful
Of curry to the seasoning.
Stuffed Cucumbers.
Peel four medium-sized cucumbers.
cutting the peeling thin; cut them in
two lengthwise, so that you have two
boat-shaped halves.
Prepare a stuGing of oupful of
minced cold chicken -, veal two table
soft crur- .,-sssNST OIvspoonful each of
salt and ~ pepper
Lay the filled cucumbers in the pan.
pour around them a cuprul Of white
/ stock and bake. COVERED. for half an
hour.
Uncover, strew with bread crumbs.
put few bits of butter on top Of these.
and brown for 1--WE minutes. These are
delicious.
-
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cred. for three-quarters OF an hour. IN
cover and brown
Stuffed Eggplant.
Select a medium-siZed eggplant and
boil il for twenty minutes. Take it out
and lay II IN cold water for half an
hour Cut II in half IenRthwise. scoop
out the inside. leaving the outside Of the
smell at least half an inch thick
Make ready a fOrcemeat Of the pulp
The Washington times., 1907-09-29

~ TUFFED vegetables Of various
kinds were in vogue on the other
Size OF the Atlantic long before
they gained a foothold here.
OF late years they have become well
Come guests or our tables, and are espe-
Cially valued by the housekeeper be
cause they afford her the means Of
gaining that for which she strives un-
ceasingly. variety in the daily bills Of
care for her family.
Tomatoes and potatoes stuffed are pos
5ibly among the best known vegetables
which thus prepared appear on our
fables.
The potato is stuffed with its own
Etarchy ins!des, treated with butter sea-
Eoning. but the tomato has bread or
cracker crumbs. suitably seasoned. for
hlling.
The housekeeper may begin here in
The Washington times., 1907-09-29

Of the eggplant and the pulp of two or
three raw tomatoes, chopped fine.
Mix with this tablespoonful Of bread
crumbs, a tablespoonful Of butter, salt
and pepper at discretion. a beaten egg
and half a cup OF good gravy.
With this mixture fu the two halves
OF the eggplapt lay them in pan. pour
around them a cupful Of weak stock.
cover and bake one hour.
Basic often. Uncover. strew the sur
face Of the shells contents with crumbs.
put bits OF butter on this and brown.
If preferred. meat may be substituted
for the tomato. This dish viii win golden
opinions
The Washington times., 1907-09-29
Stuffed Eggs.

Boil eggs hard. putting them on in
cold water and letting them cook for
ten minutes after the water comes 10
the boil.
Take them out and throw them into
cold water. remove the shells. cut the
eggs In half. either lengthwise or
across; mash the yolks with butter.
salt, pepper and onion Juice or grated
cheese. & good addition IS a little
ham, minced very fine and either
chicken or tongue or fish is also good.
Put the forcemeat thus made back
into the halved white. pin the sections
together with very fine Japanese tooth
picks or straws, drop each into butter
and fry in deep tat TO a golden brown.
or they may be made hot and served
with a white sauce or a tomato sauce.
II they are 20 be carried TO picnics. the
tooth picks are not needed 20 fasten
them together. as the two halves may
be held in position by tissue paper
cut into squares, frinGed az the ends
and twisted about the eggs.
They are very good served or lettuce
as salad. with a French or mayon-
naise dressing
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-10-12

Perhaps some expert in the Siamese
language will tell US what Is its word
for "sedan~chair." When the King of
Slams minister, protesting against his
majesty's favor toward motoring, sug-
gested recently that "the royal sedan
chair" was always at his disposal, 1t Ii
improbable that he used a word remi-
niscent Of the French town. For it Is
from the scene of Napoleon Ills col
lapse that the sedan-chalr takes its
name, and perhaps remote posterity
will suppose that it had some connec-
ton with that event But Sedan first
produced these conveyances centuries
ago, and they were seen in England in
1881. One used by James rs Bucking-
ham provoked great popular outcry
against the employment Of men as
beasts of burden. Sir s. Duncombe Ii
credited with having introduced them
to London In 1884. And Bath knows
the Pickwickian sedan-chair to this day.
London Chronicle.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-10-12
Making Cloth from paper

ITO the Ingenuity OF Herr EmIl Cha.
viez, well-known Saxon inventor and
manufacturer, is due the production of
a paper yarn termed ''Zylolin," that
has been successfully used in a wide
range of textile fabrics" So writes
Frank n. Bauskett in the Technical
World Magazine.
THE utilization Of paper wood fibre
in this practical way and the extreme
cheapness of the new material com-
pared with other yarns now in use is
really a most remarkable achievement.
This Is not a haphazard discovery, but
rather the logical result of years of
painstaking study and experimentation
After the final development Of the the
DRY at first in mind into tangible ma
terial for all manner of uses in textile
industries, the paper thread and yarn
loose or tightly spun, of all thicknesses
have since been woven into almost ev
cry conceivable fabric and tested ant
retested until the invention has become
an important commercial success. TIL,
paper yarn has extraordinary wearin.
properties, and as the full scope of 1T
usefulness has probably not been deter
mined, 1t will, in all likelihood, len'
itself to other purposes yet to be dis
covered"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-10-12

A well-known illustrator who visited
New Orleans grew most enthusiastic
with reference to the quaint beauty of
the old town. ~ noticed a remarkably
decorative effect In street near the
French Market" said he to a friend.
"The second and third story windows
of a certain house were hung with pale
yellow bamboo curtains. These were
perfectly plain and all OF the same
shade, yet you can form no idea how
they set of the old place. They simply
glorifed IT."
The friend, New Orleans man, was
puzzled. 81 don't recall the house
Point 1t out to me the next time we're
in that vicinity"
A day or two later the friends were
walking In the locality referred to
when suddenly the man from the North
uttered an exclamation. "There 1t is =
he cried. 1.-The house of the bamboo
curtains! 1t must contain colony OF
artists !"
His friend smiled grimly. THAT ISM
bamboo" he explained. you're en-
thusing over a spaghetti factory. They
hang the stuff out there to dry!"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-10-12
LondOns 1O1 Parks.

One of the most useful activities of
the London County Council has been in
the extension of the park system of the
metropolis. which now Includes under
the management of the Council, nearly
5000 acres.
The requirement and development
has cost about fS,5OO,OOO, and the an
nual charge for maintenance comes to
f565 900, which adds about a half pen
ny In the pound to the rates. or about
two-tenths of per cent. The cost in.
cludes the salaries Of an outdoor staff
Of S43 men and women.
The Council came into existence In
1889, and succeeded to the metropolitan
board of public works in the care of
the parks, but of course with larger
powers. In all fifty-seven new parks
have been added since then out of the
total that come under the Councils
management and Cemetery.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-10-12
The Chinese Army.

Soldiers used to be desplsed In
China and only the coolies were con-
sidered suitable material for fighting
men," says Owen Macdonald in the
Technical World Magazine. To-day oil
this Is changed, and China has an
army to which it is an honor to belong.
Tomtoms have been superseded by
wireless telegraphic apparatus and sig
nal balloons; masks have given place
to field glasses, comic opera garb has
been cast off for khaki uniforms, and
the twohandled sword has become the
bayonet. China was first aroused to a
sense of her weakness, and her
strength, by the disaster Of the wal
with Japan in 1904. Hitherto she
had slumbered like a great lazy giant
smiling scornfully at the suggestion
that smaller and weaker nations, by
adopting modern methods, might in
jure her She had sublime faith In
the force Of tho vast hordes she coult
throw into the Held"