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Evening star., 1909-05-30
Restored to Rights Of Sane Person

CHICAGO, May 29.-Herbert L. Swift
son OF the late Gustavus Swift, the pack
er, was restored to the rights of a sane
person by Judge Pond In the county
court today. Mr.. Swift. partly at his
own suggestion. was committed to san
atorium some time ago. his mind having
been affected by the excessive use OF
intoxicants: His restoration TO full rights
as a citizen was concurred in by his
brother. Louis F. Swift. and his wife.
The San Francisco call., 1909-02-14
SIS PRIZE
Ideas in Salads

SIrs. Morton LindIey, I44I East Six
teenth street, Fruitvale
Prepare celery stalks very carefully
by removing the stringy fiber until en-
tirely free from shreds. chop quite
fne. and to two cupfuls Of celery add
tzvo cupfuls OF chopped lettuce, the lat
ter crisp and fresh as possible. Sea-
son with salt pepper, vinegar. pure
olive oil, bay leaf and thyme or savory.
If possible. add half a teaspoonful of
shoyu. or japanese sauce, which greatly
improves the favor. Mix all thoroughly
and then add crab, shrimp, sardine,
spiced mackerel or halibut filing.
Boiled haIibut chilled in salt water,
makes a good combination with crab,
and when broken into small portions
and allowed TO stand for an hour or
So. in the same salt water with crab, can
with difficulty be distinguished from
the crab itself For sardine, potato,
and meat salads, a tablespoonful of
onion Juice is desirable.
Make a mayonnaise dressing by using
the yOlks Of three or four eggs, accord
.ing TO the quantity desired, and after
beating add, drop by drop. pure olive
oil. stirring constantly until the mix
rure begins to thicken. Then larger
quantity Of oil may be stirred in until
the mixture becomes of proper con-
sistency. about like heavy cream; do
curdling Salt very sparingly. and II
desired sift in q little cayenne pepper.
a few drops Of lemon or vinegar. or one
'or two teaspoOnfuls OF the spiced mus
tard vinegar from mustard pickles.
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All Good Ideas and R@cS0gs win

eggs, their weight in butter. sugar.
-four, teaspoonful of baking powder
and three ounces of preserved ginger.
Beat the butter to g cream, add the
sugar and flour, into which the baking
powder should be mixed then the pre-
served ginger cut into small dice. Beat
the eggs, yolks and whites separately,
and mix first the yolks and beat well
into the batter. then the whites. Pour
into buttered mold ornamented with
split almonds and steam for one and
half hours. Turn out and serve with
the following sauce: Crate one inch
of ginger and mix with one ounce Of
white pounded sugar: moisten sugar
and ginger with teacupful of water
together for 15 minutes Then add a
wine glass of brandy, the juice of a
lemon and strain. Serve round the
pudding.
The San Francisco call., 1909-02-14

Many early examples of the valentine
missive are extant showing little
change in style of rhymes and senti-
ment from those of today.
In the Pastor Letters. 1877. we read
a reference to the customs of Saint
Valentines day in Dame Elisabeth
Drews: Upon Fryday is Sent Vol
entine's day and every brydde chesyeth
hym a make; and yf it lyke you to
come one Thursday at night and abyde
till Monday 1 trusty God that ye shall
so spek to myn husband that he shall
heere" The cause of speaking being
the gentleman,s suit for the hand of
Dame Drews' daughter. In the six
teenth and seventeenth centuries the
chosen valentine was presented with a
gift
An entry in Pepys' diary under the
date Of February Is, 1861, runs; In the
afternoon my wife and I and Mrs. Bat
ten, my Valentine, to the Exchange and
there upon a payre Of embroydered
Gloves and six payre of plain white
gloves I laid put forty shiIIings upon
her" And under date OF February 22
1861, Mr.. Pepys records that Sir w. Bat
ten. who was his wife's valentine, had
sent her a half dozen pair of gloves, a
pair Of silk stockings and a pair of
garters for her valentine. And later
noting the fine jewels of the celebrated
Miss Stewart. who became the duchess
Of Richmond, Pepys says: THE duke
Of York, being once her Valentine, did
give her jewel of about eight hun
dred pounds; and my Lord Mandevine.
her Valentine this year, a ring worth
about three hundred pounds"
One of the earliest writer's of valen-
tine verses of literary pretensions was
Charles. duke of Orleans. who wrote
many charming ones while in prison.
The following is fair example of his
sentiment and style:
To my Valentine:
Muse. bid the moon awake,
sad winter now declines;
Each bird doth choose a mate
This days st Valentines
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Here Are the Prize Winnimg Ideas and Names of

: Owing to the large number of rec
4 ipes and household ideas that are be-
ing received every day, and the con-
sequent impossibility of their all ap-
pearing in The Sunday Call on ac-
count Of lack of space, several recipes
are now being published each day in
the daily edition under the heading
A Few Words With the Lady of the
House" 1t will be very much appre-
ciated if the ladies, in submitting
their contributions, will write only on
one side Of the paper.
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the beautiful Eleanor; who. piqued.
perhaps. by such halting tribute to her
charms from one who might we'll have
made her beneship more certain.
writes:
Said a beau to a lady-"Pray name. II
you can.
OF all your acquaintance. the hand
soonest man"
The lady replied-"If your have me
be true
He's the hanGsomest man who is most
unlike yours
One of the most exquisite bits OF
valentine verse is this by Charles
Kingsley:
VALENTINES DAY
o I wish were a tiny brown bird
from out the south
Settled among the alderholts. and
twittering by the stream.
would put my tiny tail down and put
up my tiny mouth
And sing my tiny life away in one me-
lodious dream.
I would sing about the blossoms. the
sunshine and the sky
And the tiny wife l mean to have in
such a tiny nest
And If some one came and shot me
dead, why then 1 could but die,
With my tiny life and tiny song just
ended at their best.
Wholly typical of the general style OF
sentiment and construction from the
first rhymes on the name card in the
box to the present day is the fragment
from The Valentine" by Charles G.
Blanden:
L would 1 We're the little flower
That springeth in thy path
It's life is one of happiness.
happy death 1T hath.
o make me, sweet, thy valentine.
Or 1 that flower shall prove
Which rude winds shatter, pitiless,
And no lips love.
And this to young lady of Ipswich
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And still another of later date:
Good morrow to you. Valentine.
Curl your locks as 1 do mine,
Two before and three behind,
Good morrow to you, Valentine.
The marquis Of Carmarthen, another
prolific writer of valentines. has left
these lines to one, Flavia:
Lovely nymph, assist my Tyre,
Beauty sure my verse inspire,
What are obelisks superb
Pursing streams and f1owery herb
Boundless ocean, azure skies,
When compared to Flayia's eyes?
The earl of Chesterfield was also
a writer of valentines, but his verse
does nos seem to soar to the height Of
his fancy. Miss Eleanor Ambrose, a
celebrated beauty of Dublin, is the in
spiration of these lines, although to
preserve the mystery required he ad-
dresses her as ''Flavia"
In Flavias eyes is every grace
She's handsome as she could be,
With Jacobs beauty in her face
And Esaus where it should be.
And this witty retort is attributed to
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Oyster and Shrimp Newburg
g. C.. VALLEY Ford

Clean and parboil one pint oysters
and drain from liquor. Clean and break
in small pieces one can shrfmps. Put
oysters and shrimps in stewpans, and
quarter cup sherry wine, cover and let
stand one hour. Add quarter cup but
ter and cook five minutes. Sprinkle
with one and half tablespoonfuls flour
and cook two minutes Add one cup
cream, and when thickened the yolks
of two eggs slightly beaten and diluted
with two tablespoonfuls cream. Season
with salt, nutmeg, paprika. cayenne
and two tablespoonfuls brandy. Serve
in puff paste shells.
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ST PRIZE
Two Useful Household Hints
Belle Henderson, 1924 Twenty-frst
Street, San Francisco

Belle Henderson, 1924 Twenty-first
Street, San Francisco
To stop a nosebleed. no matter how
severe, the following simple process
will be found effective: Fold a small
piece of paper several times and place
in the upper part of the mouth be-
tween the lip and teeth Keep there
for short while, remaining perfectly
quiet.
Some Uses of Chloride of Lime-A
can of chloride of lime should always
be kept around a kitchen sink; it not
only acts as a disinfectant but is very
useful for cleansing porcelain sinks.
it will remove brown stains from nor
celain whiteware by putting about a
tablespoonful in the vessel and filing
with water and allowing to stand over
night Of course the hands should
not come in contact with the solution
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ST PRIZE
Clam Fritters

Mrs. l.. JobanseD. s Minnie street, san
Rafael
Take colander of CLANS after they
have. been washed, put in a pan, cover
with boiling water, let stand a couple
Of minutes, then pour off water and
open your clans, separating the necks
from the CLAIMS and pinching off the
black tip. which you throw away
Washing the necks and stomach sepa-
rately. thoroughly chop the necks up
fine with a small piece of onion and
a bit OF garlic and parsley; then take
a cup and half of sifted -four, with
teaspoonful of yeast powder and a
pinch of salt, one egg, to which you
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by an unknown English poet.
Ever charming. ever rair
Sprightly. gay and debonair,
Fairest Of the female race
To whom all others must give place.
Hasten then. oh nymph divine
To celebrate St. vaIentins.
Robert Herrick. the English poet Os
the sixteenth century, apOstrophiEes
his valentine thus:
Oft have heard both youths and
virgins say
Birds choose their mates and couple
too. this day.
But by their flight I never can divine
When I shall couple with my valentine.
To the inspiration of so many OF his
sonnets. the beautiful dark eyed one.
or even the woman at the road house.
NAV have been addressed Shakespears's
valentine lines:
o mistress mine. where are you roam
ing?
o stay and hear; your truelOvs's com
ing.
nat SctH SINS bplh ulBu ana low
Trip no farther pretty sweetins.
Journeys end in lovers meeting
Every wise mans son doth know.
What is love? 'Tis not hereafter
Present mirth hath present laughter
What's to come is still insure.
In delay there lies no plenty
Then come kiss me. sweet and twenty,
Youths stuff viii not endure.
OF the making of valentines there
has been no end Hearts impaled by
Cupid's arrow, intertwined hands. COO
ing doves. love lorn SWANS and coy
maidens have, since the first tentative
efforts, been the basis OF the decor
ative scheme. Whether home made,
the verses inscribed in a studiously
disguised hand. the doves made with
three strokes of a pen or elaborated IN
lace paper and artificial flowers. these
little missives have perpetuated the
feast to Pan and Juno. while the
martyred bishop Is known chiefly by
the words thine. mine entwine or pine
that may be Induced to rhyme with
valentine.
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EscoIIoped Eggs
Mrs. f. NJ.

Mrs. +. NJ.
Boil six eggs 20 minutes. make one
pint of white sauce by melting two
tablespoons of butter and adding two
tablespoons of -four to the melted but
ter and slowly add one pint Of milk
Add teaspoon of salt one saltspoon of
pepper. Cook until quite thick Moisten
one cup of fine cracker crumbs with
fourth cup of melted butter chop
fine one cup of cold boiled ham, sepa-
rate the cooked yolks and whites of
eggs, chop the whites fine; Put a layer
ing dish, add a layer of whites, next a
layer of white sauce, then some of the
chopped meat, then yolks rubbed
through a fine sieve. Repeat until all
the ingredients have been used, hav-
ing a layer of butter crumbs on top.
Brown in a hot oven. Very good with
out chopped ham.
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Mrs. J. *. X. 42s4 Howe street. Oak
land.
When the fire is going all day. get
% cents worth of beef off the neck.
to boil (buy it the day before you
want to use it, and boil it until ten
der (not so that IT falls to pieces). take
1t out of the soup and next mornin e
skim the grease off the soup and strain
it.
Take a quarter of the cold meat and
a medium sized onion and chop very
fine, add six large potatoes (boil these
on the fire used to cook the meat), and
chop these very fine; wet this with
enough of the soup to meisten 1t nice
ly: put good piece of butter in the
frying pan, or lard; then the hash and
cook 15 minutes, turning frequently.
If one has the time, 1t is nicer steamed
for one hour with a piece of melted
butter stirred in. Eaten with a little
salad dressing this is lovely.
Chop half the meat now left with a
medium sized onion very fine add six
crackers rolled fine, and soup to mois-
ten 1t and season with salt, pepper and
sage. Make into patties, fry In lard or
butter on a slow fire until real brown.
Very nice indeed
With the soup stock make any kind
of soup desired vegetable, rice or to-
mato.
Use the remainder of the meat to
eat cold.
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Burnt Sugar Cake
Mrs. w. e. Bales. BakerafaeId

Mrs. w. E. Bales. Bakers7eId
Take one cup of granulated sugar.
place in a skillet and let it melt. Then
pour in boiling water and stir until it
is as thick as syrup Now take one cup
of sugar, one cup of good rich milk.
one lump of butter the size of an egg,
three teaspoonfuls OF baking powder
two tablespoonfuls of the burnt sugar,
two eggs beaten well, -four enough to
make stiff as a common cake. Sift the
baking powder into the -four. Flavor
with vanilla extract. To any good
white icing add two tablespoonfuls of
burnt sugar and put between and on
top of layers. This is a four layer
cake.
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casr1 Prizes for EIouset1old IDEAS

VxvANTED New recipes, housekeeping ideas,
w will add the beauty comfort cozines of the
home for publication this page which will appear
every Sunday ideas Put your
in vnot words lengh--and send it in
published each week prizes will be given The
first the second ST. and there will be FIVE prizes
of 81 each No manuscripts and payment will
awarded prize though others
be published IF YOU anything interesting
dosend In Address Modern
Housekeeper's Page Sunday Call, San Francisco.
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Water Sponge Cake

Miss n. Borge, 4s8 Moss Avenue, Oak
land, Cal.
six eggs, three and three quarters
cups flour; two teaspoonfuls baking
powder; one cup of hot water; two cups
sugar; one teaspoonful lemon extract.
Beat eggs separately. then mix together.
Add sugar. then flour, then baking DOW
der; boiling water last. Beat hard: put
in baking pan, bake till well done in
good oven.
FrOsting for Top Of Calxe-One and a
half cups sugar; half a cup of water:
whites of two eggs, well beaten. Boil
five minutes; then try in cup of cold
water; when hard enough take from
stove and add the whites Beat well
and put over cake.
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By Margaret Stabler

* WEET. be my vaIentine2"
Certainly not If you mean
viii ] be beaten and beheaded
for the faith"
It Is the bitter irony of fate that
gives to the good Saint Valentine. who
suffered nartyrdom under the Roman
= Claudian IN the third century the
epitaph IN the hearts Of the young:
The rose is red.
The violet blue,
Sugar is sweet
And so are you.
T. And his crown OF sorrow would
doubtless be the consciousness that his
day in the church calendar is lost in
: the celebration of the pagan feast to
Pan and Juno. It was an ancient rev.
: el that fell usually IN the middle of
February when the Roman youths and
maioens drew each others names from
box for partners during the season
OF revelry. The liberties taken were
excused by the fact Of having drawn
the right from the little box. The
growth OF this custom led to many
abuses, as one can easily see. and ear
ly IN the Christian era the priests in
their efforts TO stamp out all the relics
OF paganism sought to Introduce the
names fof saints instead OF men and
women for patrons during the year.
- And as this pagan feast OF Lupercalia
p had commenced about February IA
they happened upon Saint Valentines
day for celebrating this new feast.
But the blood OF youth was too red
. for any such innovation. Call It what
YOU viii. the feast OF Pan and Juno or
the anniversary OF the martyrdom of
Saint Valentine, the practice has re-
mained the same, celebrated by am
orous missives. routs and revelries.
The names in the box were often
adorned with gilt paint and flowers to
make the owner seem the fairer and
Fl was a short step from the simple
Inscription Of the name to the adding
OF a honeyed doggereL Eccoi you have
vour valentine
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ST PRIZE
BottIing Fruits for Winter

Mrs. :. Neal. Moss avenue. EImhurst,
Box 366, II. f. ID.
All kinds Of fruits can be put up
(also berries) in the following simple
manner. so as to taste exactly like
fresh fruit in winter.
Gather the fruit before it is dead
ripe put it in wide mouthed bottles.
filling them as full as they will hold,
cover them tightly and seal; put sonic
hay in a boiler and set the bottles in
with hay between, so bottles will not
touch each other, then fill boiler with
water up to the necks of the bottles
set over the fire till nearly boiling,
then take 1t off and let stand till cold.
Keep IN a cool, dry place till wanted.
You can not tell them from the fresh
fruit.
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ST PRIZE
A Good MarshmaIIow Cake
Miss AdeIine Dana. NipOmo

Miss AdeIine Dana. NipomO
Half cup of butter one and a half
cups sugar, half cup milk, whites of five
eggs. half teaspoonful vanilla, two cups
Of -four sifted with two teaspoonfuls
Of baking powder. Beat butter to a
cream and gradually beat into it the
sugar and vanilla, add milk and the
stif1y beaten whites of the eggs, then
the flour and baking powder sifted to-
gether. Bake in three layers
FiIIing-Boil one and a half cups
sugar with three-quarters cup of water
till il threads. Just before taking off
the fire put in half a pound of marsh
mallows (cut in bits to melt easily)
Pour this mixture in the beaten whites
of two eggs and beat until cold enough
to spread. By using the pink marsh
mallows It makes very pretty cake.
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add your chopped necks onion and
parsley, then your. stofFachs. with
about cup OF clam juice, which you
can save If while opening the CLANS
you hold them over a dish, but strain
your Juice through a piece of cloth or
let 1t settle a while. Drop a table
spoonful in hot lard and butter or good
drippings and butter and fry a light
brown Garnish with lime, as the
Juice OF a lime and tomato catsup go
very well with clam fritters.
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Bachelors SIumgulIen
f. L.. Ely, Newark

How to make a cleanup and have
something good; Put in large frying
pan two slices of bacon chopped In dice:
one fair sized onion, chopped fine; let
fry to rich brown: then chopped cold
meat of any kind left over-steak
roast. chicken or duck-put IN with
the onions and bacon; also the gravy
gravies; few cold mashed potatoes,
one can corn and a quarter can OF to-
matoes. Put all in frying pan and
stir frequently. Season with salt and
chile pepper. Especially good warmed
over.
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81 PRIZE
Cream Chicken

Mrs. J. IxfnsIOw, Corner b and Ross
Streets, Santa Rosa
Boil q four pound chicken and four
suveetbreads and set aside to cool.
When cold cut in small pieces. In the
meantime. or when ready to serve, put
in double broiler FIVE tablespoonfuIs
of -four and four of butter and stir to-
gether. Then slowly add, stirring all
the time q quart Of rich cream. Sea-
son with salt black pepper, a dash
~ cavenne pepper and a few drops of
tobasco. Into this stir the chicken and
sveetbreads and one can Of mushrooms
cut in half; heat thoroughly and serve
IN patty cases.
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The lyric lark and the grave whisper
ing dove;
The sparrow that neglects his life for
love
The household bird with the red stom-
ather;
Thou makst the blacHpird speed as
AS doth the goldfnch or the halcyon-
This day more checrfully than ever
shine
This day that might inhame thyself,
old Valsntine!
One of the valentines in the col
lection in the British museum is dated
1899 and made of plain white paper.
folded in fantastic shape and written
in delicate, spidery characters:
When you hear this harte behold
Twill break as you these lines behold,
For in the inside. sweet turtle dove,
I've wrote the MORALS of my love-
Another runs:
If youll be mine
/ will be thine,
And so good
Morrow, Valentine.
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Dreaded Tongue With Tomato
Sauce
MI. u. Johnnon. south vnIIeio

Six slices cooked corned tongue. half
a can of tomatoes, one slice onion. three
tablespoonfuls butter. three tablespoon
fuls -four. a third of a cup of dried
aud a bit of bay leaf The tongue
should be cut in slices a little less than
half an inch thick; dip in crumbs, eggs
and crumbs and saute in butter. place
on dish. pour around the sauce, cook
the tomatoes. onion and bay leaf Is
minutes; strain and add to the butter
and -four cooked together; season to
taste with salt and pepper.
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Italian RavioIa
IIrs. A. B. EchoIs, CoaIinga.

Mrs. A. b. EchoIs, Coalinga.
Take 90 cents worth of round steak
and run through a grinder or chop
fine; brown with onions and garlic in
butter; add one can tomatoes, season
with salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves
alispice and paprika; cook and add one
can mushrooms and thicken. In an
other kettle cook one can OF spinach:
in another cook some macaroni and
season each; then stack; on a lettuce
leaf put the macaroni, then spinach,
ravialo and grated cheese over all.
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Dutch Coffee Cake

Mrs. William Morris. Modesto, r.. No. s,
Box 100.
Two quarts Of -four. two cups milk,
dissolve two cakes compressed Yeast in
milk, let raise. then q little salt ona
cup of sugar, three eggs. one and a
half cups of butter Melted then let
raise again When finished raising pour
In buttered pans. Use hand in beat
Ing: be very careful not to get IL too
stiff
For the top of the cake. one cup OF
sugar, quarters cup OF -four lit
tie cinnamon and little melted butter:
put In bowl and rub as for pie crust
then, spreading on top OF coffee cake
bake IN slow oven 20 minutes. Very
fine
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Lemon Pie Filling

Mrs. A. Blank. 1860 Jones street, San
Francisco
One cupful of sugar. two good even
tablespoons OF -four and mix well to-
gether. then add one and two-thirds
cups of boiling water and stir up quick
ly to scald -four, butter the size of a
walnut, grated rind of one lemon and
the juice of two lemons. pinch of salt
beat well five eggs. leaving out the
whites of two for frosting. Add the
eggs after scalding the flour and sugar.
Line pie tin with rich pie crust and
bake in slow oven half an hour.
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Italian Spaghetti
Irs. p. H. Thompson. Vincbnrg

Fry until thoroughly Drowned two
pounds beef Ground steak chopped in
one cup of olive oil. Dress and cut up
at the joints one chicken and put in
large kettle, together with the Drowned
meat, one teaspoonful of chilicapena
peppers. about one dozen bay leaves, one
Glove of garlic, one can of mushrooms.
one quart tomatoes and salt to taste
Simmer for two hours, then add one
pound spaghetti that has been boiled in
salt water and drained. Just before
serving sprinkle with grated pineapple
cheese.
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Recipes and Household Hints
Mrs. II. NJ. Kern, TIP Maple street,
Pasadena

Mrs. II. NJ. Kern, z12 Maple street,
Pasadena
I.amh CutletS---SprinkIe outlets with
salt and pepper, roll in beaten egg.
then cracker crumbs and fry golden
brown in hot fat. Garnish with pars-
ley and serve with stewed tomatoes.
Corn Bread or Mufiins-One pint OF
sour milk. one teaspoon of soda one
teaspoon of salt. two eggs, one big
spoonful of flour. one small cup OF
cornmeaI Just enough to make a thin
batter. beat well and heat pan and
grease well, and bake in a hot oven
To clean bathtub, wash bowl or
toilet use coal oil on a cloth, then
wash with hot water and soap. One
can also clean their linoleum the same
way very quickly.