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The citizen., 1908-07-31
CuttlefiSh Farms.

1t is not generally known that cut
tlefish are cultivated on some farms
in order to be "milked." These cut.
tiehsh farms are located on parts of
the British coast, and the cuttlefish
are kept in tanks or ponds to be
'milked' of their ink.
The pond or tank is connected with
the sea by a pipe, and thousand or
more cuttles are kept in a single one.
Ihey form a most curious sight as
they move about, trailing their long
arms and staring out of their bulging
e.'es.
They are guarded by screens,
which prevent them from being
scared. For if they are suddenly
frightened they will squirt their
milk" into the water, and it would
therefore be lost. This fluid or milk,
is very valuable, and each cutie
Will yield fifteen shillings worth a
year. It is secreted in a bag, which
can be opened and closed at will. the
cutie ejecting the fluid to darken
the water SO that it may escape un-
seen when attacked. The best cuttle-
fish are procured in China, where for
! some reason or other they produce
the best quality of milk"
When the farmer considers /. op-
perfume to milk the cuttles, he pro-
ceeds by opening the sluices of the
pond and gently agitating the water.
The cuttles then swim around the
pond, and as soop as one passes
through the sluice is closed. The
cutie passes down a small channel
into a basin or metal receptacle, and
as soon as it is securely there the
water is drained off. 1t is then fright
ened, and at once squirts the fluid
from the bag. When it is exhausted
it is lifted out, the milk collected, and
the basin is prepared for another
Popular Science Siftings.
The citizen., 1908-07-31

Even if the federated club ladies, ?"
whom certain ungallant persons have
deprived of capital letters in order
to lessen their dignity, did have to
drag a man into their meeting in Bos-
ton to lecture and thereby restore
that balance of dignity, it doesn't fol-
low that there wasn't talent enough
In their clubs, or that they didn't
wish to do much speaking in that
grand blowout. Clubwomen gener-
ally have enough to say and aren't
afraid to say it, but many of them
are afraid to lecture because they
know they cannot make their modu-
lated voices carry IF women are
to take part in public meetings" said
a Bostonian after visit to one of
the club meetings, they will be
obliged to cultivate the platform
voice and learn how to let it carry
without shrieking. The recent gath
erings of clubwomen here have
taught one point, at least: The impor-
tance of being heard. New York
o~ess.
The citizen., 1908-07-31
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~ FASHIONS
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Linen and pongee are the outing
girls favorites.
Fastidious women have discarded
the popularized stripe.
1t is said that the long skirt is
now exceedingly fashionable.
Pekin stripes in mousseline and
sheer materials are still worn.
Combinations of net or lace and
straw are in vogue for bonnets.
Cerise, which started out triumph
antly, is somewhat discredited now.
Flowered silk and fiowered ribbon
play a considerable part in millinery.
All white wash frocks are more
than ever beloved by the summer
girl.
With the white lingerie blouse
white shoes and stockings are always
worn.
The preferred colors in linen Jump
er dresses are pink and the biscuit
tones.
The new shapes are very high of
crown and usually very large of
crown, too.
For general utility frock the
sheer white voile is found most
practicable.
The gored skirt of French pique
buttoning down the front is the popu-
lar separate skirt.
There is marked liking for pique
again which is evidenced among the
embroidered and braided pattern
robes.
Hats of rough white straw faced
with green and trimmed entirely in
quantities of spraying mignonette are
pretty models.
Several beautiful hats from ia
nous Partisan designer have wide
dropping brims of leghorn or white
chip and medium high crowns.
There has appeared new blouse
of white linen strapped with tan OF
lavender or other colored linen that
looks decidedly comfortable. The
collar is s5v and the sleeves are
short.
The citizen., 1908-07-31

he sheds it on hot summer days when
ne gets into a negligee shirt.
A woman in the course of the dav
may have on surplice necked matt
nee, a turnover of linen, fur boa.
an unlined bit of lace and a low
necked gown. What wonder she is
subject to throat troubles.
We should not treat our necks to
sudden changes from hot to cold: and
we should clothe them so movement
is free and ventilation good.
Equally important is it that there
is no undue pressure, particularly for
iull-blooded or apoplectic persons.
Remember that the great blood yes-
sci of the neck, the windpipe and the
organs of speech are all shut I'D in
the throat and must be treated with
consideration.
A high tight collar not only makes
swallowing difficult, but also i'm
pedes the circulation of blood in the
brain, therefore is dangerous.-New
York Press.
The citizen., 1908-07-31
Baked Potatoes.

Select oval potatoes having a
smooth, unmarked skin, and of uni
form size. Scrub until perfectly
clean, then rinse and drain. Put in
an old baking tin, kept for this pur-
pose, or on the clean oven crate
and bake in hot oven. Forty min
utes is about the time required for
the baking. Serve as soon as done.
Sweet potatoes should be boiled until
almost tender, before baking, then
put in the oven to finish. To test
whether potatoes are done, press
with cloth. Cold baked potatoes
may be warmed up so as to be almost
as fresh ones, If they are dipped in
hot water, then put into the oven
and allowed to remain Just long
enough to get perfectly hot but not
long enough to harden. Contrary to
general opinion, cold baked potatoes
may be creamed or fried quite as sat-
isfactorily as the boiled ones.-N
York Telegram.
The citizen., 1908-07-31
Consideration.

"The most considerate girl l ever
knew got married yesterday" said
the man. "She showed her thought
fulness in a most. unusual way. The
day before the wedding she called
the attention of the rest of the fam
lily to row of old shoes standing
in downstairs closet.
1 want you to throw these after
the carriage she said. They are all
mates. l collected them to throw
away. I lSarned some time ago that
certain poor souls who have hard
work to get clothes of any descrip-
lion keep q lookout for big weddings.
They hang around the house at going
away time, and pick up the good-luck
shoes Maybe they find fit and
maybe they don't. Anyway. I've done
all l could to accommodate them.
Here are six pairs of decent shoes
to be fred after me. If somebody
doesn't get fitted in that collection,
is isn't my fault. New York
Times.
The citizen., 1908-07-31
1sISs O.
VHINTS FOR THE'I
USEkEEPER,l
HS@N2IG>R "a @cz2ss sSse

A rug that twists can be flatlened
by damping the edge and pressing it
on the floor with hot iron.
Mems worn linen collars, cut into
narrow strips, furnish convenient
substitutes for the wax tapers used
In gas lighters.
A bit of raw onion will remove fly
specks from gliding. White spots
on a vanished surface will disappear
II hot flatiron is held over the place
for a minute
The globe on gas fixtures and
lamps should not be screwed on too
tightly, as the heat. when the light
Is burning, will expand the glass. for
which sufficient allowance should be
made.
To save continual STOPPING to turn
down rug corners sew piece OF stiff
canvas, buckram or haircloth to the
under side. These pieces may go
just across the corners or can be
sewed entirely across the end.
~ 10 Woii " nave HdHSiuS CLOSE De-
side the refrigerator long, slender
rod, on which is fastened sponge
or rag. This can be run down the
drain pipe every two or three days,
and is of great assistance in keeping
1t clean.
According to dealer most of the
fashionable country houses have the
majority of sleeping rooms done in
cretonnes, and the leaning this sea-
son is toward gay colors. the walls
corresponding in this respect with the
furniture.
! To clean brass pans, rub them with
powdered bath brick moistened with
vinegar. Afterward wash them, and
when dry polish with little whiting
on leather or soft cloth.
Parsley can be kept for winter rse
In soups and sauces by plunging
fresh punches of it into slightly salt.
ed boiling water and boiling for three
minutes. At the end of that time II
should be removed and dried quickly
by the fire.
The citizen., 1908-07-31
The Overland Mail.

The men who planned and backed
the Overland Route were big and
brave, but they could have done
nothing without a little army of
agents and drivers every whit as
big and brave in their humber
spheres of action. And it was action.
white-hot and picturesque, such as
you may find to-day only on the fir.
lng-line OF an army.
There was an agent in charge of
each division of two hundred and
fifty miles of road. with all its sta
lions and equipment. He bought and
distributed rations, fodder, mules.
harness. and kept the buildings in
repair. He fed his passengers and
fought for their lives, he kept his
drivers on the jump, and his mule
teams fit and ready. His stations
were forts as well, in which he must
stand off the Indian raids that lent
test to a trip IN the Overland Coach.
There was no summoning wrecking
crew by wire when a coach toppled
off mountain road. The agent was
king of his territory and his respon-
sibilities demanded that order OF
ability which made the American
pioneers race of giants.
The Sage driver took his chances
and counted himself lucky If his skin
would hold whisky, without leaky and
annoying bullet-holes, at the end of
his run. The road he must travel
was no more than trail, and one of
his chief concerns was to keep in 1t
during the wearing night hours.
Stage driving as an art departed with
the passing of this race of experts.
Now and then you will fin6 IN the
quartsr-masters wagon trains of the
regular army grizzled pilot of four
Or six Government mules who learned
his trade in the Far West, and who
may be called an heir to the skill Of
the men on the boxes Of the Over
land. The Outing Magazine.
The citizen., 1908-07-31
THE LOVE SONNET OF A COWBOY.

The other night the Two-Bar gave dance,
And she was there, shinin' star all
right,
Not dressed to kill, but Jest in simple
white,
And yet. you bet she breathed of elegance;
fou oughter seen her when some puncher'd
Drance
Right up and try to git off somp'n
bright:
Shed sling her moose of talk jest out Of
sight
Calf-ropin' didn't seem happenstance!
And when she danced it looked to me Jest
like
A purity flower, swayin on the plain
When some cool breeze has come I'm
off the hills:
[ din't dare to asst her fer a hike
Around the floor with me-'twould set
my brain
A whirlin' round Jest ike herd that
mills
Denver Republican.
The citizen., 1908-07-31
Election Followed Speech.

The National Academy of Medi-
cine elected DR.. Helen c. Putnam
president. Her election is said to
have been the result of faithful work
and not of wire pulling. AT the re-
cent meeting of the American Medi-
cal Association in Chicago DR.. Juett-
ner, of Cincinnati, read paper in
which he made the assertion that a
woman has no right to enter any oc-
cupation excepting domestic service,
nursing, teaching and kindred voca-
tions. Matrimony is the better paid
and the easiest occupation. Mar
riage is simply blocked by the en-
ployment of young girls. DR.. Put
nam replied by declaring that ''every
woman has the right to develop her
best faculties, to become educated
and to enter the business field, where
The citizen., 1908-07-31
Almond Wafers.

Beat to a cream quarter cup OF
butter, then rub in one-half cupful
powdered sugar. Add, drop by drop,
quarter cupful of milk, then, grad
ually, seven eighths cup of sifted
-four. Flavor with a half teaspoon
full Of vanilla or pistache, and spread
very thinly over the bottom of an
Inverted dripping pan and cut in
three-inch squares. Sprinkle with
chopped blanched almonds and
brown delicately in a very slow oven.
fake from the oven, turn the squares
over one by one with a knife and
roll loosely. Take up and spread on
waxed paper to cool and dry. If
the squares harden before you get
them all rolled place over the fire
a moment to soften. Serve with
cocoa, afternoon tea, ice cream or
preserves.-New York Tribune.
The citizen., 1908-07-31
More Wasps Than He Wanted.

The announcement that the Hay
wards Heath Horticultural Society
was prepared to pay a penny for
every queen wasp brought 10 the sum-
mer show has caused the secretary to
be inundated with wasps from all
parts of England. Some of the send
ers have requested that the money
they consider due them should be for
warded by return OF post. The Sec
retary, however, wishes it to be un-
derstood by senders that only persons
living within the radius of the show
will be paid for their asps.-London
Evening Standard.
The citizen., 1908-07-31
Creole Danube.

A recipe priced by the Creole cooks
of New Orleans and seldom divulged
by them is for a dish called danube.
The materials required are four
pounds best cut of round of beef. one
half can of tomatoes or three small
ones, cut fine; one onion, minced;
one small red pepper, three cloves,
three peppercorns, one tablespoonful
lard. Score the meat top and bot
tom and dredge with flour. Melt the
lard in pot in which meat is to be
cooked and brown the meat to it.
Cover the top of meat with tomatoes
and onions. Add the spices, cover
closely and cook slowly on back of
range four hours, turning meat at
end of two hours. Strain the liquor.
thicken with Drowned -four and serve
the danube with gravy poured over
it. This makes a delicious dish of a
cheap cut of meat.-New York
World.
The citizen., 1908-07-31

In their wings. 4 painted butterfly
fiuttered before his face A swarm
of flies, taking advantage Of the fact
that his hands were busy, buzzed
about his bald head. biting him in
tolerably.
At last he felt that ne could not
climb another inch. Just then, right
on a level with his bloodshot eyes.
appeared narrow ledge. Could he
but raise himself his own height
and get his toe-tips on that scanty
shelf, freeing his arms from the un-
endurable strain, he might have a
change yet.
The agony of the next two min
utes was comparable with nothing
which the drillman had ever expert
enced before. He knew that he
must climb quickly, for he could not
last much longer.
Shutting his eyes and throwing all
his strength into his arms, he lifted
himself by a succession of short,
quick jerks. He experienced a pe-
culiar dragging sensation, gradually
stronger, as if each foot were teth-
cred by an india-rubber cable. which
pulled harder with every inch he
rose
At last he knew he could not pos
sibly raise himself another mill
metre. He opened his eyes and
glanced down. The ledge was about
half up to his knees. Lifting his toes,
he swung them in. and rested them
on the rock
The relief was inexpressible. The
strain was off his arms, although the
horrible emptiness yet yawned under
his heels.
The top was still nearly ten feet
off. His arms became suddenly
! weak. All grew black round him.
He swayed dizzily A little more,
and he would tumble backward.
Hold on. Dam"
The shout from above gave him
squirt of courage. He opened his
eyes just as moose dangled down
past his face. Kline above, fiat on
his stomach. his head projecting
over the edge. engineered the rope
down below Handy's knees.
Put your feet through it," he
directed; and the drillman obeyed.
Soon he was seated in the loop.
Letting go the hose, he grasped the
The citizen., 1908-07-31
Unnecessarily Scared.

A young man had been calling now
and then on young lady when one
night, as he sat in the parlor waiting
for her to come down, her mother
entered the room instead and asked
him in q very grave, stern way what
his intentions were.
He turned very red and was about
to stammer some incoherent reply
when suddenly the young lady called
down from .he head of the stairs:
Mamma, mamma, that is not the
one. Ladies Heime Journal
The citizen., 1908-07-31
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Son" Father. what's a music crit
lc?" Father-"He's fellow that all
music seems to irritate. Judge.
Bacon-"And does your son show
any signs of his college training?"
Egbert-"Oh. yes; he's quite lame
from an injury he received on the
football team. "--Yonkers Statesman.
A Jolly young chemistry tough
While mixing compound Of stuff.
Dropped a match in vial
And after a while.
They found his front teeth and one cuT.
Success Magazine.
why don't you watch the game.
Laura?" What's the use? You
told me the umpire man was paid to
watch it. Let him look after it. I'm
sure I don't want the job."-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
Boy (who has been naughty and
sent out into the garden to find a
switch to punish him with)-"Oh,
mummy. couldn't find a switch any,
where, but here's a stone you can
throw at msU-Punch.
Your teeth are like the stars. - he said
AND pressed her hand so white.
And he spoke true; for like the stars
Her teeth came out at night.
Cornell Widow.
Congressman Blank (after buying
voter drink )--"My friend, can I
rely upon you to support me?" Grim
son-nosed Friend" Sorry. gent; but
my wifes kickin' now cause l don't
support her. Judge.
Seldum Fe6d-"Me and me frien'
ainf no tramps. Maddim; we're a
couple O. wealt'y clubmen walkin'
across de continent on a wager"
Mrs. Flint (coldly)-"Hurry along.
then, or you'll lose your bet
Puck.
THE first thing the Pilgrim
fathers did after landing was to make
4 settlement" said the student board
er. Yes rejoined the bill collec-
tor, "and that's about the last thing
some of their descendants want to
do.'-Chicago Daily News.
The African pygmies are the
shortest people in the world" fe-
marked the learned traveller. Don't
you believe 1t" sighed the domestic
man. Did you ever see an American
husband after he had settled for his
wife's spring ?"-Chicago
Daily News.
Every ballot must be counted"
the first speaker had declared. 'T
agree with the gentleman you have
just heard" began the one who fol-
lowed, but l go so far as to say
that in certain emergencies, some of
them must be counted twice. -
Philadelphia Ledger.
Actor-'I have persuaded that
critic who wields so much power with
his pen to take dinner with u.s."
Wife-"What shall l give him?" Ac-
tor-"Well, for one thing a good
plain roast Wife (timidly)-
But, dear, would that be tactful?"
Baltimore American.
Rector Ito workman going through
churchyard) Nov, my good man.
you mustn't bring your wheelbarrow
through here. You must go round
The other way. Aren't you aware that
this is consecrated ground?" "Well,
zur, | didn't knaw but what the barry
warnt consecrated, too. I borry'd
1t o. the sexton. Punch.
The citizen., 1908-07-31
BAKED Rhnharh Pudding.

Make suet crust with three-quar-
ters of a pound of -four, six ounces
Of suet, half a teaspoonful of salt
and a little cold water. Roll 1t out
thin. Wash and cut up in small
pieces two large bundles of rhubarb.
Line buttered mold with the crust.
fill it up with the rhubarb, sprinkling
sugar through 1t or sweeten nicely,
and cover with layer of the crust.
Pinch the edges well together. perfo-
rate the top in neat pattern with
fork, and bake in hot oven for one
hour. Turn out and serve hot with
cream and sugar-The Housekeeper.
The citizen., 1908-07-31
PRESIDENT TAYLOR, OF VASSAR,
to the girl who wants to earn college education

question whether girl ought through
ege behind
Tor four
become intolerable
sholarshhe aid which college funds
through loans, with such small to
succeed winning college rapidly pay
their responsibilities should be borne
suen course great discount much of the college
limitations deprived
II is solely the intellectual
be obtained college outside
and work perhaps half the
than normal depends on the ind
vdual-Presdent Taylor, Vassar The
The citizen., 1908-07-31

she meets many men, where she can
select intelligently the father of her
children. Women who have had ex-
perience in business have learned that
the making of home requires some
thing more than instinct" 1t is said
that the impression made by this
speech has much to do with the elec-
tion of DR.. Putnam as president of
the National Academy of Medicine
New York Sun.
The citizen., 1908-07-31

line. But the heat of the sun on
his head had been too much for him;
he was losing consciousness. Kline
saw the danger.
Hoist away, quick!" shouted he
to the men behind him. Up came
the line. Just as Handy lost con-
sciousness and lurched backward,
the sailor caught him by the wrists.
Youths COMPANION.
The citizen., 1908-07-31
Wise and Otherwise.

The root of all evil seems to thrive
in any soil.
Love is the wine of life; marriage
Is the morning after.
Our creditors ought to organize a
Don't Worry Society.
1t isn't until man lives to learn
that he really learns to live.
1t is when duty calls that we are
apt to send word we are out.
A woman may regard marriage as
tie, but it is never tongue-tied, says
Woman's Life.
The citizen., 1908-07-31
First Woman,s Rights Book.

The first book ever published on
the question of woman's rights was
recently sold in London. The title
of the work, which was published in
1879 by ]. Hawkins, is Women Not
Inferior to Men; or Vindication of
the Right of the Fair Sex to Per-
feet Equality with the Men, by So
phia, Person of Quality.
The citizen., 1908-07-31
Women Get Shines.

There is one thing about the hui
man comedy over on Eighth avenue
on Sunday mornings that makes that
thoroughfare different from any
other street in town. That is the
number of women one sees having
their boots shined or polished. In
almost every corner bootblacking
stand in the Thirtietn and Fortieth
streets there will be at least one wo-
man perched upon the high bench
with an Italian lad hard at work
putting the necessary gloss on her
boots.-New York Correspondence OF
the Pittsburg Dispatch.
The citizen., 1908-07-31

Chicken la Mayonnaise.-Two tabespoonfus chopped
cooked chicken two tabespoonfus chopped cooked ham
tongue tablespoonful of finely lettuce celery
small finely cut tomato, little SALT pepper
cayenne one gill of mayonnase mayon-
nase into basn add all the other ingredients mix
together pile this in the centre of dish with border
of salad favored with little salt sugar. vinegar and salad
OIL Cover the chicken mixture with the
mayonnaise and sprinkle with finely chopped parsley The
chicken mixture may be divided and put into soufe
covered with mayonnaise and sprnked alternately
with lobster coral and chopped parsley pretty
lace paper or salad border to Cooking
School Magazine.