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GroundIess Pride.
~ ODERICK HUDSON a well known
X designer in the employ of a leading
~ New York

~ ODERICK HUDSON, a well known
X designer in the employ of leading
New York dressmaking house.
praised. at a recent meeting of his union.
the popular movement of rebellion
against Paris fashions.
why lake our fashions slavishly from
Paris?" demanded Mr.. Hudson "Ameri-
can fashions are better. They're the best
in the world Why, then. be hypnotized
into the belief that q fashion. just be-
cause it's Paris-born, is to be followed
like Holy Writ"
He struck his clenched fist against his
palm.
Initiating those Paris fashions blind
ly," he said, I'VE are as foolish as the
English In their slavish imitation of the
king.
II remember when I was head cutter
for a firm in Sackville street, Piccadilly.
One day a little fat man waddled in to
be measured for a frock coat He
looked like an apple dumping. and as I
passed the tape over his soft curves I
could hardly keep from laughing
when l came to measure his waist,
instead of drawing his stomach in. the
way a man usually does, this chap ac-
tually swelled it out.
'Sixty-two! / called to the marker
and the fat man said pompously:
Perhaps 1t will interest you to know,
cutter. that my waist measure Is exactly
the same to quarter-inch as that OF his
most gracious majesty"
Copyright, 1900. by Estete Klauder.
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most benefcent OF all vegetables fitted to
cope with nearly all the ills that flesh
is heir to. They deemed 1t as great
beautifier, clearing the skin, stimulating
the liver. Frightening the eyes and sweet
eniny the breath. For coughs, colds.
Group and influenza, for diphther1a ana
pneumonia, earache, insomnia ana mem
branous Group, nervousness and debility
the onion stood and stands unexcelled.
with this further point In its favor That
the onion treatment leaves none of the
INJURIOUS after effects of drugs.
In cases of aenemia, cabbage, cauli-
flower and spinach proved distinctively
beneficial Love apples" our modern
tomato, stimulated the healthy action OF
the liver. Asparagus was beneficial In
kidney troubles. Celery was a sure cure
for rheumatism and neuralgia. Ihe car
rot formed blood and added TO the velvety
smoo;hness or~the skin. Beets and turnips
kept the blood pure and improved the
appetite. Water cress, like asparagus.
was good for the kidneys, and further
more was stimulant to the menta!
faculties. Eat cress and learn. wit.
said the ancient Greeks. Lettuce was
extremely beneficial for tired nerves and
the lassitude peculiar TO spring.
Parsley was an excellent tonic and
cleared the complexion, while the whole
array of 'greens"-mustard. cowslip,
dock. horseradish. sorrel dandelion.
young beet tops, rhuArb leaves and even
the stalks of the milk weed were added
with assurance to the springtime dietary,
for the clearing of the blood, the regulat-
ing OF the system and the removal OF that
tired feeling so closely associated with
the vernal season
Now that to our grandmothers intuitiye
use of these products OF natures labora-
tory we have added the more definite
scientific information as to the chemical
constituents. there is small excuse for
continual dosing with drugs when the
same remedial effects may be found in
the much more attractive and palatable
form presented to us in the vegetables
and fruits. Does the system demand
sulphur? We find it in turnips. onions.
borSeradish.
The potato is rich In salts OF potash.
French beans lentils and rhubarb give
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pony Of Hassan's was about the best
ever saw in Somailand. He would not
put price on 1t, because he said he could
make quite q respectable income by maxi
ing looting expeditions on its back, as it
was SO fast nobody could catch it.
X X
A year after this met Hassan again.
and asked him how his pony was. He
said it was very well, but that he had
very nearly lost 1t a short time before.
He had been down in the waterless plain
on a looting expedition with come other
Eldegalla warriors. After a successful
raid they split up to avoid pursuit, and
Hassan was on his way home driving
some Of the looted camels in front of him.
1t was a very dry year, and although it
was the rainy season, he had been unable
to find any water in pools to give his
pony. The result was that having been
ridden hard for two or three days with
little or no water to drink, the pony got
beat, and at last lay down. about twenty
miles from the wells they were making
for No amount OF stick would get 1t on
its legs again, and Hassan was in despair.
wells where he could get vessels in which
to carry water back to the pony, and it
seemed as If nothing could be done to
save it. At last he thought of a plan.
Driving the camels at top speed to the
wells, he gave them as much water as
they could drink. and hurried them back
again. He found the pony where he had
left 1t. in a very bad way. but Immediate
ly proceeding to kill and cut open the
camels, he took the water out of their
stomachs and gave 1t to the pony, which
revived sufficiently to struggle to the
wells. After a few days rest it complete
ly recovered. Hassan added that he
could very soon egt some more camels,
and that he would rather have cut the
throats of hundred than have lost his
pony. This story shows great deal of
resource in a native, but the life Somali
leads makes him wonderfully quick at
finding way out of a fix Of this kind. 1t
was very lucky the pony was not killed by
lions or hyenas while Hassan was away.
Just before Hassan's pony was nearly
caught by the lioness we had a pony
killed by lions. the man on his back
escaping rather cleverly. At that time
we had two separate camps, six or seven
miles apart, each of them on the edge of
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iron. Water cress contains sulpho-
nitrogenous essential oil, iodine, iron,
phosphate. and other salts, and spinach
iron and salts of potassium in such guam
titles that it deserves it's French designa-
ton, Broom of the stomach
Cooking Of Vegetables.
The legumes such as peas, beans and
lentils should be cooked in water either
softened by boiling or by the addition OF
a little bicarbonate of soda, in the pro-
portion Of a teaspoonful Of soda to every
gallon of water. The harder the water in
which legumes are cooked. the more pro-
tein is lost in the cooking and the more
unpalatable and indigestible the product.
Root vegetables. on the other hand
beets, carrots. onions. turnips. potatoes.
satisfy, parsnips and also cabbage and
caulifower retain their juices better
when cooked in hard water
In cooking Brussels sprouts or onions,
the water should be changed two or three
times in order to carry off some of the
strong favor.
Tubers should be cooked long time,
while green vegetables deteriorate with
over-much cooking. This is especially true
IN the case OF asparagus and corn.
Potatoes in Their Jackets.
The Irishman's way Of cooking potatoes
In their jackets Is correct, because in this
way all the salts Of the potato are re-
tanned. The best method is to bake them:
the next to steam them. If boiled there
should be an abundance of boiling salted
water to burst the starch granules and
make the potatoes ''mealy." If the skins
of potatoes intended to be baked are
wiped over first with little lard or drip
pings they can be peeled after cooking
with as little loss as boiled potatoes.
Strong Smelling Vegetables. ;.
In connection with the home economics
work at the Ontario Agricultural College,
a test was undertaken to learn the best
methods of cooking strong smelling vege
tables so as to secure q palatable product
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that the Somafs were Quite nervous about
walking through the bush in the daytime.
Between us We shot twenty-four lions in
this place in Titles over a fortnight. Be-
sides lions there was more game than l
have ever seen anywhere else. Large
herds of hartbeeste. oryX and Sommer-
ing'S gaZelle were to be seen feeding in
every direction. Besides this. in the open
there were a good many ostriches and
few hunting cheetahs In the bush at the
back of our camps We're Walters gaZelles,
leopards warthog and innumerabe dikdik
and birds. In the rocky hills / saw sew
eral klip-springerS.
One. morning my companion was reused
by his natives. who told him that three
lions were just crossing a strip of open
ground within 100 yards of his camp. Be-
fore he was ready two or three of the
men jumped on ponies and galloped after
the lions-three very fine males with
manes-which were by that time making
off. The natives meant to try and keep
them engaged till the hunter had time to
get his rifle and cartridges and catch
them up. The lions We're galloping among
scattered mimosa scrub, making for the
thick bush beyond, and with an object in
view lion can get along at a very fair
pace In the cool of the morning. One of
the men got start of the others and
he lost sight of them for moment. He
galloped up to the bush where he had last
seen them, and as he rounded 1t, one lion
came at him from behind and the other
two from the front. They had got sick
of running and had waited for him. The
native did a very clever thing. There
was no chance Of getting away by gal
loping, as he was regularly hemmed in.
so, half checking the pony, he put his
heel on it's wither and jumped right into
the middle of a mimosa bush. Almost
as he jumped the lions knocked the pony
over. and when my companion came up he
found them eating 1t, taking no notice of
the dismounted men close by. The
first shot hit one, and while he was fol-
lowing it UP the other two gave his men
the slip. These two lions were decidedly
out Of luck. as got them the same night
That morning lioness killed a heifer
close to my camp. / had already seen
her tracks several times, but they had
always led us on to some stony hills
where we had lost them. This time the
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the same pony. After short ride We
got to the place and found the tracks
going into long strip of high feathery
grass. We cast all around and could find
the patch. 1t was about 200 yards long
and perhaps 80 broad. l could not COM
mand the whole of 1t, so / told the men TO
light 1t at the top and along one side.
and Abdula and I took up our station
half way down the other side, about
thirty yards out from the edge. At the
bottom end I put the warrior on the
pony to see if the lioness broke that way.
Almost directly the grass was lighted
big spotted hyena blundered out and
came within a few yards of US. but the
great part of the patch was burned be-
fore there was any sign OF the lioness.
Then l caught sight OF her Sinking along
through the thin grass at the edge of the
strip. going toward the bottom end. She
did not see us. as we We're rather be-
hind her and standing quite still.
When shot she seemed to stumble
forward. but. recovering herself. caught
sight of the man on the pony and before
T could shoot again she was half way
toward him. going like a flaslr. He had
not seen her when I shot, as She was
hidden by the grass and by the time he
she was close to him. He galloped
straight away from me. and I dare not
fire at the lioness for fear of hitting him.
For nearly 200 yards 1t looked any money
on the lioness. She got right under the
ponys tail, but did not seem to know how
to strike, and at length, to my great re-
lief. the pony began to gain on her. She
at once pulled up and turned In to
bush where she lay down. stretched out
at full length. painting. Running up l
shot her before she could prepare for
another effort. My first bullet had gone
through the muscles of the foreleg just
below the shoulder and, being solid, had
only drilled quite small hole. The ma
tives said that the reason she could not
catch the pony was because lion could
not spring before a momentary halt to
crouch. If this is so pony could al
ways get away from lion galoping
straight behind 1t. unless the pony was
such bad one that the lion could come
alongside. On two or three occasions l
have been chased myself in the open
grass plain. hut have always got fair
start, and my pony has had no difficulty
in keeping out OF the lions way. A pony
boy Of mine was very nearly caught one
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eral conclusion reached therefore, was
that the best method of cooking strong
smelling vegetables is to simmer them in
salted water in a covered pot.
To Cook New Onions.
A dainty way of cooking little new
onions Is to boil them. season with salt
and pepper and plenty of sweet butter
and serve on toast like asparagus points
A spoonful of cream can be added If de-
sired.
Onions as a Salad.
Onions sliced thin and served as a salad
with Oil and vinegar two or three times a
week will be found as good as medicine
for jaded nerves and languishing appe-
tites. Onions, cucumbers and lettuce are
good in combination so also onions and
tender radishes sliced and dressed with oil
and vinegar. while combina ton Of young
onions and ripe black olives is greatly
relished by those who have learned the
merits of the ripe olive. A little minced
parsley sprinkled over the salad or a sprig
of parsley laid on the salad plate to be
nibbled afterward will do much to re-
move any odor from the breath.
Fried Apples and Onions.
new wrinkle is to use two apples
to every onion in frying. Core the
apples, but do not peel, as the skin holds
the sliced apples in shape.
An Onion Party.
An onion party is jolly affair at this
season. Chicago club holds an an
nuaI onion feast. On these occasions
the clubs motto, I'm onions there is
strength" is spelled out in green on the
wall. The centerpiece at the table Is
made of onion blossoms. while the menu
includes green onions, onion soup, fried
onions onion omelet, stuffed onions and
creamed onions.
Water Cress Sandwiches.
Spicy little sandwiches are often served
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and at the same time avoid the disagree
able odors that often permeate the house
during their cooking. Half-pound sam
Piles Of cabbage and onions were cooked
in salted and unsalted water. and In COW
cred and uncovered pots. It was found
that when the vegetables were cooked by
simmering in a close covered pot, less
steam was formed than when they were
boiled vigorously, less escaped into the
rooms and the odor was noticeably less.
The best results were obtained when salt
was added before cooking. If added aft
erward, the flavor was insipid. The gen.
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side. After this we returned back to
camp, and in the evening after dinner
went off again, taking my bedding on a
donkey. This donkey was also to serve
taken away the heifer. We tied the
donkey by one foreleg. almost touching
the fence of our Zereba, and after showing
in my bedding. craWled in through the
come with us crammed this hole up with
thorns, and then went away. talking
loudly to make the lioness think that all
was safe If she were anywhere near.
After looking about for some time I
made out the lioness sinking along be-
dind our bush. She would not come up
to the donkey, but lay down some way
off under a bush. There was no hole on
that side. SO l could not shoot with any
certainty; and at last, needing sleep, lay
down, telling Abdulla to keep his eye on
the lioness. and wake me IL there was
any chance of a shot. had not slept long
when he touched me. at the same time
putting his hand over my mouth to pre-
vent me calling out on being suddenly
awoke. | got up on my knees. looking
out of the hole, but for a moment could
not make out anything.
It was a lovely night. but even by the
brightest moonlight Hon is not a very
easy thing to see. There was an open
glade in front of the donkey, and at last
standing out In the open. 1 saw two lions
They seemed as II they could not make
out why the donkey did not run away,
and stood quite still looking at him. As
1 watched they suddenly started, and
came racing toward us side by side like
two enormous dogs. When the lions got
up to the donkey they did not seem to
stop their rush. but donkey and lions all
went down with crash together. How
they actually knocked him over 1 did not
see, as at that moment l drew back my
head involuntarily, because. although we
were absolutely safe inside a mass of
mimosa thorns the whole thing felt un-
pleasantly close. When / looked out again
could easily have touched one of the
lions, which was standing with its fore
paws on the donkey and its hind quarters
within a few inches of our fence. The
other lion was standing on the far side
looking me straight in the face; but am
sure he could not see me, as the moon
was right in his eyes, making them shine
as IL they were alight. l could only see
his head. as the other lions body was in
the way, SO determined to give the one
nearest me shot. There was very little
of him to be seen except his hind quar-
ters. but he was SO close l was sure the
bullet would drive right through him.
AS the rife came up to my shoulder 1t
touched branch. which seemed to make
a crack like a pistol shot, and the lion
turned half round to see what 1t was. At
the same moment fired. and he fell, roll
Ing over and over against the fence, and
roaring loudly. Thinking that in his strug-
giles he, might carry away some of our
zereba, I gave him two more shots to
finish him. AS shot the second tirne the
other lion. which had run back a few
yards, came and stood close to the DON
key, looking straight toward u.s. 1 pulled
at his chest directly / was loaded. He
plunged forward, hitting the corner Of
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Taking the Winter Off.

X n RS. CARRIE NATION said on the
Wu Baltic that she would be glad TO
80 get back home.
Il felt as homesick over there in
Europe" she sighed, las the Philadelphia
young man who took up Dakota claim.
"A tourist found the Philadelphian' $
claim shanty boarded up. and this notice
rudely painted on the door:
Six mile from a neighbor. eighty
mile from a post office, forty mine mile
from a railroad. two hundred from
timber. q half from water. God bless
our home. We have gone east to spend
the winter with my wife's folks
Copyright. 1900, By Estelle Kiauder.
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apply another even coat of paint and al
low 1t several days for the drying
An extra gloss may be obtained by a
coat Of varnish thinned with turpentine
II you have no old carpet to use. double
thicknesses Of burlaps will prove very
satisfactory. Anew coat of paint applied
If necessary at the fall cleaning will keep
your homemade linoleum in the pink of
condition.
EMMA PADDOCK TELFORD.
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were goirg I'D To light it. lie was very
nnyyelI with fever at the time, and al
though he had two or three shots he was
SO shaky he could not hit her, and at last
felt so i'll he had to give her UP. His
shikari told me the lioness was very
much beat from being badgered about in
the sun and he was sure We Guld find
her. owed her one for frightening Has
SAN so we started at once. Hassan not
coming, but sending relation OF his on
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same thing happened again, so, thinking
she would probably come back that night
to finish the heifer. we decided to sit up
for her. We therefore made an inclosure
of thorns under a mimosa bush nearby.
The hat top of the bush came down to
meet the thorns built up all around and
one could hardly tell the whole thing was
not a bush. In the front there was a
hole to shoot through. and at the back we
left an opening SO that we could get in
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the Marar prairie. on a ban or open grass
plain many miles in extent. This was
the best place for lions 1t has ever been
my luck to come across. Hardly a day
passed that lions were not seen by one
in the open, miles from any bush. 1t
was cool. cloudy weather while we were
there. and the lions seemed to do most of
their hunting in the daytime. There
were so many, and they were so bold,
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our zereba, then swerved off. and we
heard him crash into a bush. where we
found him stone dead in the morning. The
bullet had gone through his heart. These
two lions were very nne specimens. One
had thick, almost jet black name, the
other had lighter name but for wild
lion very thick. There is no doubt these
were the lions seen the day before, as the
next day, riding over to visit the olner
camp, l followed their back L all to with
in a mile of the spot They were in the
best OF condition. but empty, SO that may
account tor their boldness.
Shortly before this L shot three times at
a lion which was eating my donkey. The
night was as dark as pitch. The lion took
very little notice of the two first shots.
although one OF them hit the donkey in
the ribs. The third shot was a very lucky
one The bullet hit the donkey in the
stomach. and, going through, caught the
lion at the junction of the neck with the
chest killing him on the spot. One would
think that 577 rifle blazed in his face at
about five yards would frighten any lion.
This one had killed and eaten a sheep the
night before. taking it from the same VIII
lage where 1 sat up for him.
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day in the open. He was trying TO round
up a lion and got rather too close to 1t
on tired pony. He only just got away.
This same lion afterward chased me and
two or three of my men for quite a long
time. Unless pony falls down 1 am sure
there is nothing to be feared from a lion
in the open if one gives him pretty
wide berth, so as to get a start when he
charges. AS a rule the lion will give up
the chase after 100 yards or SO. This
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The common growth of Mother Earth suhices
me-
Eat onions In May
And all the year after ply scians may play.
old Saw.
BETTER TO hunt In fields for health unbousht
Than fee the doctor for nauseous draught-
Dryden.
OH mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In plants herbs stones and their true qualities
-Friar Iawrence in Romeo and Juliet
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The two foregoing stories would seem
to show that a large percentage OF the
lions killed In Somaliland are shot at
night over bait. This is not really so.
as it is quite a chance IL lion passes
the place where you have donkey tied
up. Night shooting, to my mind, is
thing to be avoided, except now and then
as an experience. 1t generally means a
very disturbed night, especially If there
are any hyenas about, and in the morn
ing you are not tit for hard days
work. Occasionally by bright moonlight
it is very interesting, but If circumstances
admit OF lions being killed by day, 1t is
rather like shooting boar In a fine pig
sticking country to kill lion over bait
at night. Sometimes it is the only chance
you have Of getting lion. either because
you are moving camp next day. or be-
cause the country is unsuitable for track
ing. Under the circumstances you are
bound to try 1t.
/ have never myself shot more than
two lions in one night, but a man whom
l met In the country showed me the
skins Of four he had shot when sitting
up over the dead body of an elephant 1t
was very dark or he might have got
any number. as he told me he was shoot
ing most of the night, and that in the
morning there were tracks of many lions
all round the carcass.
| have once or twice sat up over a
dead animal. This way of getting lions
Is only likely to be successful when there
are many hyenas about they make
such a noise that they will attract any
lion that may come past within rea-
sonable distance.
By Permission Of Longmans. Green & Co., N Y,
Copyright. 1909, by Benz. B. Hampton)
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BY Lord Delamere.

D get good sport in
Sonaliland the first
thing is to get a
good shikari. There
are excellent men to
be found with care
and good luck, but
a great many who
are q b S o | u t e | y
worthless. In addi-
tion to others, l
have always had
one man, Abdulla
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Sunday Menu.

Sunday Menu.
BREAKFAST.
Stewcd Rhubard
Cereal
Broiled Salt Mackerel
Creamed Potatoes
Water Cress
Graham Gems
Coffee
DINNER.
SorreI Soup
Young Onions Radishes
Roast Beef Drowned Potatoes
ScalIoped Onions
Tomato Jelly Salad on
Lettuce Leaves
Cheese Straws
Lemon Meringue Pie
Coffee
SUPPER.
Creamed Mushrooms In
Chahng Dish
Salmon Salad
Bread and Butter
Baked Rhubard with Raisins
Chocolate Cake