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Evening star., 1907-08-31

TOLD
lINTS

II is perfectly amazing thing in the sum-
ner now much clabbered milk ia thrown
away by careless housewives and wastef,,I
ignorant serving maids who fail TO discove,
IN II the foundation for innumerable tas.v
dishes. Pancakes, biscuits, gems pinger.
breads, etc. made with sour milk are much
more tender and delicate than those conn.
pounded with sweet milk so that econonv
III tiiis particular instance is not only a
saving of money, but "elegant'i-to ouo.a
the dear ladies Of Cranford-fn its results
Here are some of the ways in which sour
flying results: '"''
Cottage Cheese.
Put thick sour milk In a pan and cova,
with boiling water from the teakettle. Let
stand on the back of the stove a few mo-
ments until the curd separates from tho
whey then pour into bag and let II drip
until dry. Salt well. sprinkle with paprika
or add a tablespoonful pepper grass cut fine
Add little cream and melted butter to
moisten. and make into pats or pile lightly
on a pretty dish Minced olives or ground
nuts are also nice mixed with the cream
cheese.
Cabbage Salad
Chop or shave fine half medium sized
head of cabbage that has been left in cold
water until crisp. then drain. Season with
salt and pepper, then pour over it a dressing
made In this way: Beat the yolks OF two
eggs. add two tablespoonfuls melted butter
and beat again Add two tablespoonfuls
thick sour cream, two tablespoonfuls sugar.
a sprinkle of mustard and half a cupful OF
vinegar. Beat until thoroughly ncorpor-
ated, pour over the cabbage and toss lightly
until uniformly seasoned
Molasses Cookies
Put into bowl one and one third cups
molasses, one cup brown sugar one cup
sour milk. in which heapng teaspoonful
soda has been dissolved. Ada one teaspoon
full vinegar and stir until the soda has
stopped ''purring" Now add one cup melt
ed shortening. one beaten egg. one table,
spoonful each cinnamon and ginger and
saltspoonfu salt. Mix add -four enough TO
make soft dough as can be rolled OUT.
cut in thick cookies and bake in quick
oven.
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the Scotch Arms" the Duke Of Cumber-
land" the BLACK Horse the Cart and
Horse and the Bunch Of Grapes"
The same conditions prevailed at Boston,
and McMaster, in his History Of the
American People," says: THE mean ap-
pearance Of the houses in Old Boston was
to some extent relieved by the rich display
Of painted and sculptured signs which
adorned the front of taverns and stores
The numbering of houses had not come into
fashion, and every business street was an
endless succession of golden balls, of blue
gloves, of crowns and scepters dogs and
ralnbowS, elephants and horseshoes. They
served sometimes as advertisements of the
business, sometimes merely as designations
of the shops. which were indicated popular
ly and in the newspapers by their signs.
The custom still fingers among opticians,
glovemakers. bootmakers furriers and bar
bers. But we are now accustomed to regard
the sign as being a direct relation to the
character Of business it advertises. We
should never seek for eyeglasses in a shop
over whose entrance hangs a gilt boot nor
inquire for gloves in shop before whose
door stands an Indian in war paint and
feathers. One hundred years ago no such
relation was understood to exist, and it is
not thought remarkable that Philip Free
man should keep his famous bookstore at
the Blue Glove on Union street"
Old Washington.
Many Baltimoreans still living can recall
the time when pictorial inn signs were to
be found in that city at the "rhree Tun"
tavern, the Swan" the General Wayne"
and others. The traveller could not fail to
find the Fountain Inn because it had a
fountain in its courtyard Philadelphia had.
among other inns. its Green Tree: Rich
mond its Eagle tavern
Washington, however was laid out at the
time when this custom was being aban-
doned and the word tavern" supplanted
by the word hotel" The commissioner
who conducted the first federal lottery at
the National capital spoke of the first prize
to be awarded as "a hotel" to be erected
at cost Of $4,000. This substantial nrIzs
became known as "Blodgetts HOTEL
picture OF a tavern In Georgetown as 1t was
IN l'sl shows swinging signboard on
"hich there was nothing more than the
simple inscription, "Suters Tavern" There
was no pictorial device Thus was fora
Swallowed the passing Of the heraldrv of
'raoe' though owners of dairy rooms In
some cities have made an attemnt to 70
VNe IL within recent years by choosing q
oesish TO emblazon upon their windows in
harmony with the name adopted.
IL Is now In order to consider the origin
OF those peculiar signs that remain aInost
inseparable from the trade or occun.t,o,,
which they represent, which. though NJ
Master overlooks the fact. had re,.t,o,
TO the character Of business they rsnre.
sented not only one hundred years bsfora
the time at which he wrote. but lons bs-
fore. The three gilded balls which hanx
IN front OF a shop where articles are left
In pledge for the repayment as loans vers
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these khedives. father and son. led the con-
sui general ard myself to seats on the op-
posite side of the room and each took his
own place on a divan there and sat down
with one foot under him. There seemed to
be nothing undlgnified in this attitude. the
manners of both being perfectly simple and
free from ostentaton.
Model Lives.
During the talk Of today cigarettes were
brought in and the consul general and my
self each took one and lit it. His hghness
refused, and upon my asking him il he did
not smoke, he replied: NO" I asked the
same question of Tewfik Pasha, and he told
me that he neither smoked nor drank, say
ing that MohammeGans do not believe 1t
right to drink anything intoxicating, and
that he tried to follow the laws Of life as
laid down by the. Koran.
The present khedive drinks nothing but
pure watee, and he is, l am told, quite as
religious as was his father. He says his
prayers Immediately upon rising and goes
to the mosque every day Tewfk Pasha
was devout. He told me that he knew the
Koran from one end to the other, and that
he could begin at the back and quote al
most every paragraph from there to the
flont- He had much faith In his re-
.I%ion as We have in ours, but he said,
during talk. that he thought every
lEan should follow the faith of his father.
Mohemmedan Monogamists.
The khedives of the past have been noted
for their numerous wives Every one of
them has had the four allotted by the
Koran, and in addition concubines and
slaves. The father of the present ruler
was a monog amist. He was true to his
one wife. and, far as 1 can learn, she
was most accomplished lady and queen
When 1 was here before I heard many
stories of the love which Tewf1k Pasha
had for this young mans mother, and OF
The pleasant home they had outside of his
official career. 1t was probably that exam
pie that made Abbas Hilmi a monogamist,
and gave him a home which in it's quiet
and peace corresponds favorably with that
o: any ruler of Europe. Indeed. Tewfk,
the father Of Abbas Hilmi, once expressed
himself strongly in favor of monogamy,
saying: I'm my own fathers harem I saw
tho disadvantages of many wives and of
many children by different wives, and l
then decided that when 1 came to man
hood 1 would marry but one woman and
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Dickens speaks often of doOrplateS and
other lettered signs, and readers of the
great novelist are told that the name OF
'Pecksnif. architect" appeared on a brass
plate; that PETER & Snagsby, law sta
toner's" was a legend painted on the in
stalment plan, and that the name Of
"Cheeryble Bros" was inscribed on door
post. Dickens would have been replete
with references to the old-fashioned signs
had they prevailed in the period of which
he wrote, which extended from the eighth
decade of the eighteenth century to about
the middle of the following century, as he
was always minute in his descriptions
His allusions to signs in front of inns
numerous. He describes at length the
Maypole in front of John Wilatt's inn of
that name in "Barnaby Rudge." and. In
''Pickwick Papers" that at the Marquis
of CRANKY" at Dorking. owned by the
widow of whom the elder Weller failed to
beware. He says: "On the opposite side
of the road was large signboard on
high post representing the head and, shoul-
ders of gentleman with apoplectic coun-
tenance, in red coat with deep-blue fac
ings. and touch of the same blue over
his three ee-cornered hat for sky. Beneath
the last button of his coat were a couple
of cannon, and the whole passed as an ex-
pressive and undoubted likeness of the
Marquis of CRANKY of glorious memory"
The George and Vulture," the Blue Lion"
and the white Hart are among the other
inns mentioned in "Pickwick Papers," 1t
was at the White Hart that Mr. Pick
wick made his greatest discovery-Samuel
Weller.
The Blue Dragon was the inn which
Mark Tapley of Martin Chuzzlewit' fame
deserted because it was no credit to be
jolly there. and the Golden Cross" at
Charing Cross the one at which the un-
sophisticated David Copperfeid encoun-
tered the officious waiter and was allotted
inferior accommodations before his frien.'
Stesrforth came to his relief.
In Old New York.
The. custom of having pictorial or carved
signs prevailed to great extent in this
country in the colonial period. Thus from
chronicles of New York city about the
middle of the eighteenth century it is
learned that John Wallace, "at the sign
of the Cross Swords next door to Mrs.
Byfield. near the Fly market" made mend
ed and ground all sorts Of knives, razors
scissors and penknives; that Anthony
Lamb, mathematical instrument maker did
business at the sign Of THE Quadrant and
Surveying Compass; that Joseph Seddell.
pewterer. held forth at the sign of the
Platter" at the lower end of Wall street:
that grocer had Three Sugar Loaves and
a Tea Canister" for sign; another, Uni
corn and Mortar chairmaker, a Chair
Wheel; a vendor of clocks, a "Diar; a
livery stable keeper. q Dolphin: tailor
blue Ball." and that q craftsman and
merchant who nsw-silvered looking glasses
and sold pictures had Two Cupids" for
his emblem. Among the New York taverns
Of this period were the Kings Arms,"
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A Stock Breeder.

In them all the woodwork required for his
various estates and houses Is turned out
A Stock Breeder.
The khedive is fond of fine stock, and he
is doing much to improve that of Egypt.
On his various farms he has high-bred
| horses. cattle and sheep. He has large
number of Arabian thoroughbreds. some
Jersey, Swiss and other fine breeds Of
cows and his water buffaloes, known here
as gamoushes are far better than any
others of the Nile valley. He is also breed
ing cattle for oxen and mules for draft
animals. His highness believes in scientific
farming. He wants good stock and good
seed. and he works to some extent with
the Agricultural Department here. He has
a school on his estate near Cairo where
200 boys being educated to take places
on his various properties. This school Is
run at his own expense. and the boys are
taught about stock farming and surveying,
as well reading, writing and arithmetic.
The course of study lasts five years. and at
the end theg raduate Is pretty sure OF a
good position as steward or overseer on one
of the khediye's farms.
The Khedive's Railroad.
1 have already written something about
the khedve's railroad. This begins his
estate near Alexandria, having connection
with that city by the state railroad sys-
| tenn, and thence runs for sixty miles or
more westward, one idea being that it may
| be extended to Tripoli Much of the land
along the road has been redeemed and a
| iange part of this belongs to his high
ness. He has put up number OF viii
lagos here and there in this region: and
| am told that the road is paying so we'll
that the track, which was originally mar
| row gauge, has had to be widened His
| highness is much interested in the road
| and 1t Is said that he sometimes mounts the
| locomotive and manages the engine as the
| train goes over 1t.
! In speaking about this road he told me
| that he was we'll satisfied with Its present
| condition, and that he thought that 1t
might be extended along the coast Of the
Mediterranean as far as Trpoli and be
! made to pay.
! I am told that the khedive has made
| a great deal of money within the past three
| or four years. His farm lands have doubled
| in value and the great boom, which Egypt
| is now having. has added greatly to his
wealth. He is said to be investing largely
| in Cairo itself. and among other things Is
| building some apartment houses which
| have elevators. telephones, electric lights
| bathrooms and all other modern improve
ments. He has a brick factory on one OF
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be true to her. have done that and I
have never regretted IT.
The present khedive is undoubtedly Of
much the same opinion He has been mar
rte.l thirteen years. and that to single
wife who is the mother OF his six children.
A Business Ruler.
My conversation with his highness.
Abbas HImi, covered wide rang,. 1t
dealt with the present prosperity of
Egypt. and can that his highness un-
| de,s tands both his country and people. He
thinks that the Nile valley has by no
means reached the maximum Of its posi-
| hil,ties. and says that by increasing the
dams and drainage facilities Egypt might
yield much greater crops than she does
nov. l spoke to him about having met
his father, and referred to the great in
terest which Tewfk Pasha showed in
Egypt and its future The khedive ex-
Pressed similar desire to do all he could
for the Egyptians. and had he greater
power 1 am sure it would be used for their
benefit. AS it Is now this country is prac-
tICaly in the hands of the British. and al
most every act of the khedive, far
official doings are concerned, is directed by
them.
The only matters to which his high
ness has full sway are those regarding his
own estates and his management of them
is such as to show his great business
capacity. He has an allowance of 5000
addition he owns thousands of acres of
valuable lands. and the value Of his private
propclt. must run high into the millions
of collars. He handles this in such way
that it pays WELL and his experiments and
Improvements the talk of farmers and
business men throughout the Nile valley.
Abbas Hilmi, the Farmer
I have heard great dead of these farms
of the khedive since 1 have been in Egypt.
He inherited much land from his father,
but he has other large tracts, which he
himself has redeemed from the desert and
others which he has made good by drain
ing Not far from Cairo he owns 900
a",es. which a few years ago were COW
cred with swamps, quagmires and hillocks.
He bought this cheap and then began to
improve 1t. He cut down the hills. drained
the swamps and put water on the land. At
present that estate Is paying over $4,000
year. and it is bringing his highness 30 per
cent and upward on his investment.
He has another great farm not far from
Alexandria, which was all desert not long
ago. The khedive laid down a small rail-
way and put dump cars on it. With this
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but it outlived this period and fourished
for long time after newspapers had be-
come popular. because mankind had not
invented the simple expedient of numbering
houses, which eventually became the sub
stitute for the picturesque assortment Of
arbitrary symbols that formerly guided
the customer to the shop at which he
wished to deal.
Signs were so numerous IN London IN
the early part Of the seventeenth century
that Thomas Fuller said, in extoliing the
remarkable memory Of one of his ''Worthies
of England: He would repeate you, for
wards and backwards. all the signs from
Ludgate to Charing Cross
Heir to the Crown.
crown was one of the most popular
symbols. and it is related that a London
grocer who lived under one of the Plantage-
nets was hung because of his fondness Tor
perpetrating the pun My son will be heir
to the crown" 1t seems that his tragic
fate did not abate a propensity to use
royal insignia as trade signs nor did 1t
check the pernicious habit of punning.
In 1921 1t was advertised that there was
a speedy cure for agues of all sorts to be
Hdu ol " imam DenIildH dt lHe Ho'ueA
Bull near Hyde Park corner; that those
troubled with itch could buy Of DR.. Rock
his infallible liquors at the sign of THE
Hand and Face" in Water lane. Black
friars, and that a grand cathartick' was
sold at The Black Boy" on London bridge
Mrs. Carter, occulist of this period, had
as her sign something apt, The Hand and
Eye but DR.. Clarke, dentist to his maj
esty. King Charles II, left posterity no
explanation of his choice of The Sun and
Eye for his sign. Exceptional judgment
was displayed in the selection of The
Bible and Key as the sign of a bookstore,
but as rule no attempt was made at this
period to obtain signs that were pertinent
Sir Walter Besant, In writing of London
In the reign of George II, says The shops
are small and there is little pretense in
displaying the goods They, have. however.
all got windows in front. A single candle
or two at the most illumine the wares in
the evening and in the short afternoon of
winter. A sign hangs out over every door"
He illustrates this paragraph in his book
with wood cut one of the signs,
The Kings Porter and Dwarf" rudely
carved in bas-relief, without indicating
what manner of store it decorated Ho-
garths famous cartoons contain many rep
reservations of these Shop signs
London and Dickens.
. In Dickens London. however the fashion
OF having individual signs other than q
mere legend giving the name of the firm
or individual appears to have been aban-
doned by all save the innkeepers. 1t is
true that there was little midshipman
in front of the shop Of Solomon Gill. but
he was only one of a number Of timber
midshipmen in obsolete naval uniforms
eternally employed outside the shop doors
Of nautical instrument makers In taking
observations Of the hackney coaches"
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vHE gradual retirement OF the ci-
garstore Indian from his post Of
honor at depots for the supply
II OF smokers needs is reminder
not only of the crowding-out
process which overlook the live Indian, but
also of the passing of what may be called
the heraldry of trade, once inseparable
from the conduct of business of any kind,
but now, since it is losing favor with the
tobacconists. almost confined to three va
rieties of shops or Stores-those of the
pawnbroker, the barber and the druggist.
AS regulations against obstruction of side
walks have made the BARRIERS pole IN
many instances the mere shadow OF It's
former self they have helped to bring
about the banishment of the wooden Indian.
The development of the show window Is
another factor. The show window has not
only supplantcd the favorite emblemauc
device of the toba cconist. but many similar
devices popular not long ago among other
tradesmen OF the few that remain the
.pawnbrokers' three balls. the BARRIERS pole
and the druggists show bottles are most
generally used. They not only survive an
era in which signs emblematic Of the char
acter of business were in great vogue.
but they have been handed down from
an era in which they alone, amid will
derness of pictorial and sculptured signs,
were indicative of the character of the
business instead of the identity of a par
ticular shop or store. They tiourished
when streets were filed with representa-
tions of lions and unicorns of various col
ors, together with medley of designs of
everything animate or inanimate, In crea-
ton or out of it, few of which had the
slightest connection with the use to which
hey Were put.
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Stir into pint of sour milk a teaspoonful
soda a half teaspoonful salt and flour to
make n good consistency for baking Have
the griddie hot and well creased bake the
of the other. No eggs are needed A nice
addition at this season is a handful of
huCkleberrirs
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out of Alexandria, on a beautiful bay Of
the Mediterranean sea. The khedive has
built palace there. or rather two palaces
He has little one for himself and a
larger one for his family. In other parts
OF the estate he is carrying on all sorts
OF breeding experiments: He has chicken
houses and rabbit hutches, as well as a
tower containing thousands of pigeons He
has dynamos, which furnish his place with
electric lights. and carpenter shops and
planing mills. the machinery for which the
same dynamos operate during the day time
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5oLDERs OF THE N1ED1vE

he hauled of the sand which came from
his drainage works. and now has it well
watered.
He has taken 1000 acres and turned
them into cultivated fields. Farm villages
have grown up about them and his high
ness has SO laid out the estate with trees
and flowers that it Is said to be paradise.
In one place he has a plantation Of 1900
mulberry bushes. the leaves of which fur
nish food for his silk worms, and in other
places there are fir forests.
This estate Is at MontZah a few miles
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BREAKFAST BREADS.

While the acidity of milk varies, re-
curing Judgment on the part of the cook,
a safe general rule to follow is level
teaspoonful soda to pint sour milk,
that has stood two or three days, and
scant teaspoonfu soda to a pint of sour
milk that has just turned to jelly-like
consistency. The mistake that many cooks
make is to add too much soda. Just enough
is required to counteract the acidity of the
milk. Sour milk that has stood long. enough
to acquire a bitter or moldy taste is I'M
fit for use and must be thrown away.
For the biscuit. sift together two cupfuls
-four. one-halt teaspoonful salt. a level
teaspoonful sugar and rounding teaspoon
ful baking powder Put into a bowl half
cup each sour cream and milk. then beat
into il half teaspoontul soda dissolved
In tablespoonful cold water When it
stops singing stir in with the sifted -four
mix gently but quickly with a spoon and
turn out on well-houred board Pat with
the Toured hand until a smooth cake is
formed then cut into shape with a small
biscuit cutter or tea Caddy lid. Lay in a
CREASED biscuit pan and bake in d hot oven.
II YOU have no cream, rub d spoonful lard
or butter in the prepared flour before add
ing cupful sour milk with the soda. Keep
the dough as soft as possible, 50 that the
biscuit Will be tender Buttermilk biscuits
spoonful shortening 10 a quart OF flour.
Steamed Cornbread
Sift into bread bowl taree cupfu!s In
dian meal. one cupful wheat -four. and
half teasi oonful of salt. Mix in another
bowl one cupful sour milk and one of
molasses and beat into 1t a teaspoonful
soda dissolved in Il tablespoonful cold
water. Add 10 the sifted Hour pour into a
wel-greased mold and steam steadily for
three hours. Bake few moments at the
end TO brown the top OF the loaf.
Sour Milk Corn Cake.
Sift together one cup flour. half cup
Indian meal, two tahlcspoonfuls sugar and
a half teaspoonful each sals and soda Pour
IN one cupfu sour milk and a teaspoonful
lard or butter melted and beat we'll Fold
In a beaten egg and bake in hot gem tin or
round shallow pan.
Sour Milk Pancakes
Stir into pint of sour milk a teaspoonful
soda a half teaspoonful salt and flour to
make n good consistency for baking Have
the griddie hot and well creased bake the
cakes In perfect circles ar.i pile rne on top
of the other. No eggs need; q. A nice
addition at this season is handful OF
huCkleberries.
Cream Waffies
Beat two eggs light and add 10 a pint
sour cream. INTO which teaspoonful Of
soda has been beaten Add half a teaspoon
fui salt and -four TO make a thin batter
Pour In wrll-greased waffle irons which
must be piping hot. Turn the iron the mo-
ment it is filled. shut II. and in few mo-
ments turn again. When the waffies are
brown on both sides place in layers and
serve very hot, cutting through the LAYERS
TO serve Eat with plenty of butter and
honey
Soft Gingerbread With Sour Milk.
Put into a pan one cup molasses, one
cup sour milk. one-half cup softened but
ter one heaping teaspoonful soda a table
spoonful ginger and flour TO mix very soft