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Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04
AIDS TO HOUSE CLEANING

The woman who does not make house
cleaning burden to her family begins
early enough to do things easily and
unobstructively. 1t is a good idea to
set aside an hour each day for two or
three weeks before the general clean
ing time for going over bureau draw
ers, desks and closets.
1t is surprising how much can be
done in this way with no apparent
effort; without realizing it, one has
finished what is the laborious part of
the cleaning.
By doing such work early there is
more leisure to look over papers, and
one has time to sort out the contents
of little used closets and drawers and
throw out everything that is not need
ed. When such cleaning Is done in a
bunch with the rest of the house there
is no time in the hurly burly to dis
pose of things with judgment. Useless
belongings are packed away for an
other year for fear they will be want
ed while valuable articles are some-
times disposed of hastily.
Several drawers of a bureau often
can be cleaned in the allotted hour, and
the rest finished the next day. Remove
the lining papers, dust carefully and
wipe out the drawer with hot soda wa
ter. If the drawers or closets are not
in constant use, put a little insect pow
der under the papers.
For the last few days before house
cleaning, ornaments and pictures can
be washed at ones convenience. They
need only be removed or covered when
a room is cleaned. With these prepa-
rations the actual cleaning can be done
quickly and with much less disturbance
of family routine.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04
FOR HoUSEKEEPERS

Do not place range in a direct draft
or 1t will be difficult to light or keep
burning when the flames are turned
low. Be sure the range is level before
the gas filter leaves, otherwise results
are not so satisfactory. Many women
make the mistake of having the legs
removed from the range because they
think it too high. A greater mistake
could not be made, for few ranges work
properly when placed on the zinc-cov-
cred floor. Where coal is used a room
may be kept much warmer, but do not
warm, for 1t is not used in sufficient
er. lasts longer and consumes less coal
If the ashes are lifted twice a day. Stir
a range or stove fire below and not on
top of the Goals, because often a draft
is needed to make the coal burn, and it
dies out If clogged beneath. Never
burn paper, since 1t creates too much
SCOT in the crate. In using oil, put a
small quantity on the wood, light, then
pour on the rest. There is less danger
If this precaution Is used than when
large amount is first placed on the
wood, for if there are any live Goals
beneath an explosion is sure to follow
often a harmless one, though frequent
Iv causing damage and serious inju-
rfes. With the gas stove always light
the match before opening the burner
valve. Let the gas flow an instant to
clear the pipes from air, then hold the
,eAtch to the outer edge at the back of
Ine burner; 1t will light instantly and
quietly.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04
ALWAYS ENCHANTING

She may put on a toque a covering hat,
Her sleeves may be flowing or tight;
The heels OF her shoes may be stilt-lke or nat,
Her hips may protrude or be slight;
Her skirt may be brief or planned so that 1t
drags
Her waist may be shortened or Ions,
She may dress in the richest Of silks or in rags,
She still is the soul Of the song.
She may ask for a vote demurely declare
Her dislike OF political strife;
II matters not how she may do up her hair,
Nor what is her object in life;
She may dawdle at east earn her own meals,
Her hustle may bulge or be scant,
No matter what notions her raiment reveals
She manages still to enchant.
She may wear a high collar or cut her waist
low,
She may even wear skirts that divde
She may pass you with steps that are mincing
and slow,
or walk with unhampered stride:
She NAV use a sde-saddle straddle her
steed,
She may swim, she may dance she may run;
Though she longs to be led or is eager to lead,
ehes the fairest thing under the sun.
S. f. Kiser, in Chicago Record Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04

A SAD BUT WISER WOMAN


A fool there was and she wore her
blouse even as you and l, and she fail
ed to wear it's rightful skirt at the
same time, and in consequence the
blouse is gone and the skirt is good.
Which Is a sad and sorry story to this
woman whose skirt material cannot
now be matched. The skirt, however,
is "prodigious good" and our lady of
the missing blouse intends to do a
by a resourceful friend who made tie
identical mistake when blouses were
scarce on several occasions, and who
had profited by the experience Now,
this skirt is a white linen with en-
broidered open spaces in its weave
and with Irish beading in its seams.
The unhappy owner will sit her down
to make a bodice of plain linen like
the background of the skirt material.
She will let into it two gibson pleats
going over each shoulder, and this, you
see, will leave a wide fiat space in the
center of the front and of the back.
The new blouse will fasten at the CEN
ter back, because the old skirt does,
and they will be joined together by
a narrow band girdle made of several
rows of Irish beading sewn together.
Now, to make this bodice a part of
the skirt, our amateur dressmaker
will take the best pieces from the half
worn bodice and Sne VIII make from
them a continuation of the front and
back breadths of the skirt. She will
carry them up on to the bodice bib
fashion in the plain spaces left be-
tween the gibson pleats. She will bead
these fast to the plain linen with Irish
beading, cutting away the material
beneath them to leave them transpar-
ent. She will also insert beaded-in
panels of the old linen on the top of
each sleeve. The gown will be again
satisfactory, but perhaps this sadder
but wiser, woman will hereafter match
up her blouses and skirts instead of
wearing them without their mates.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04
WILL LAST A LIFETIME

plain, everyday bureau scarf, and it is
most sensible to have some of these
simpler things for everyday use. 1t is
not necessary for them to be homely,
and the pique cover is far from that.
1t is planned for the exact size of the
bureau, and is an excellent cover for an
antique mahogany bureau with 4
bowed front. The back edge is turned
under for an inch-wide hem, and the
front and ends are buttonholed in
long, shallow scallops with white mer-
cerized cotton or done in a color that
harmonizes with the room.
These covers are we'll nigh everlast-
ing, and if pique is used on the bureau
it should be repeated on the wash
stand and small tables.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04
HOT WEATHER DISHES

An appetizing warm weather dish Is
made with tomatoes and peas.
Select tomatoes of equal size aud
shape and remove the skin. Cut a small
piece from the top of each, scoop out
a portion Of the inside and lay on a
sieve to drain.
Brush the outside of the tomatoes
with liquid aspic jelly and leave them
until the latter is set.
Season some whipped cream with
salt, paprika, tarragon vinegar and d
dust of sugar. Add carefully some
cooked peas.
Place on ice for q short time, then
fill the tomatoes with the mixture.
Decorate with nasturtium leaves and
blocks of aspic jelly.
Mayonnaise of Founder
Put some fillets of founder into boil
ing water with q little salt and lemon
juice and cook till tender, then drain
thoroughly.
When cold put them in the center of
some chopped lettuce, cover with may
onnaise sauce and garnish with slices
Of tomatoes and hard cooked eggs.
Beet and Caullhower Salad
Take some thin slices of cooked
beets, some cold cooked potatoes, some
cold cooked caulihower and a little
CUDDIeu parsley.
ing dressing and add salt and pepper to
taste.
Put one level teaspoonful Of mustard,
one teaspoonful anChovy sauce, one
tablespoonful Of milk or cream and
one dessertspoonful of vinegar. Mix
the mustard with the anchovy, then add
the milk, and lastly the vinegar.
Tomatoes are equally good served in
the same way.
Rice and Plums
Two cupfuls of milk, two ounces of
rice, one heaping tablespoonful of sugar
and one teaspoonful of vanilla extract.
Put the milk into a saucepan on the
fire, and when it boils add the rice, well
washed, sprinkling it into the boiling
milk. Add the sugar and vanilla.
The mixture should be Just thick
enough to pour into a wet mold. Leave
it In the mold till cold, then loosen
round the edge, shake gently and turn
it on to a pretty dish. Arrange some
nicely stewed plums round the rice,
adding also the sirup from the fruit.
Egg Ia Berlin
Six hard boiled eggs. three table
spoonfuls Of butter, three tablespoon
fuls of tomato catsup, two ripe toma-
toes, two tablespoonfuls of mayonnaise
sauce, two teaspoonfuls anchovy es-
sence, one truffe, little cress and sea-
sOning.
Shell the eggs, and with sharp
knife cut two pieces off the top of EACH
so as to leave a wide strip across to
form a handle.
Carefully remove all the yolks so that
complete little baskets of the white are
left.
Put the hot yolks into a basin, add
butter, tomato catsup, anchovy season
ing of salt, pepper and paprika. Work
all these well together with a spoon,
then rub the mixture through a wire
sieve.
Peel the tomatoes, cut them into
small dice and mix them with the may
onnaise sauce.
Put a little of this mixture into the
bottom of each egg, and heap 1t over
the sieved yolks.
Cut out small pieces of truf1e and
stick them on the handles with lit
tie white of egg. Place each egg on
a round of buttered bread and garnish
with cress. Serve cold.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04
REAL COMFORT

Let the searcher for comfort and happiness pay
His dollars, hard-earned, in the trips
Through high mountain lands or in sea-laden
airs
That blow DER the decks of the ships;
Let such go as they like on journey that's
far
Or near-or is more or less hard,
While I swing in content, without envious
pains,
IN the hammock out in the back yard.
What though to my lot falls riches of life,
No travel, no luxury rest
No wonderful sights in the far foreign climes,
Or adventures to crown them with zest;
What though the hot days l pass, one stay-at-
home,
From go-away pleasures debarred?
I make it all up in the cool, starlit nights
In the hammock out in the back yard,
Released from the cares and the tolls of the
day.
lol there with paper and pipe
Conventions forgotten, in negligent ease,
OF blissful contentment the type.
Absorbed in my Dreams which may never come
true,
But lost to realities hard
I swing in a fairyland world OF my own,
In the hammock out in the back yard
Baltimore American.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04
RULES FOR NATIONS

Do you chance to be the nation
That is richest on the earth,
what's the civilized preceding
To proclaim your moneys worth?
Build a Dreadnaught
Would you fain impress your neighbor
What a peaceful chap you are?
Let this method Of procedure
Be your guiding star
Build a Dreadnaught
Do you chance to be nation
Where grim poverty holds sway
what's the proper application
OF what cash may come your wayT
Build a Dreadnaught.
Would you have the sister nations
Think you have the warlike taste
What's Of course the only measure
You should execute with haste?
Build a Dreadnaught.
Puck.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04
THE 1NTR1oAcrEs OF FINANCE

Finance Is something that appears
To be away beyond my ken;
I've studied 1t for year and years,
In common with my fellow mAn;
But there are things about 1t which
Ale deply mystifying yet;
How is II that some men are rich
And at the same time far in debt?
My place in life is rather low.
And l may never cease to strive;
I'm poor, although I do not owe
A cent to any man alive;
The luxuries that come to me
Are very few and very small;
Things may be as they ought to be,
But I can't understand at all.
They say that old man Billngsworth
Owes money almots everywhere;
His people travel DER the earth,
And never seem to have care:
With eighty thousand dollars less
Than nothing he is living high,
And looks with splendid haughtiness
Down on such humble ones as 1.
He has a long, low, rakish car
In which he proudly rides about;
He smokes a large and good cigar,
And always has his chest pushed out;
The house in which he dwells is grand,
His wife wears gems that cost a pile;
His son has never turned hand.
His daughters dress in queenly style.
He does not labor day by day,
As I and those around me do:
He's very deep in debt. they say.
And always sinking deeper. too
Yet, worse than merely penniless,
He shines where I would have no chance
The simple truth must be, guess,
That l can't understand finance.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04
What Beethoven Is

"Now," said the brown-eyed woman,
"I will always know how to talk when
I hear a symphony or grand opera.
never could make what seemed to me
to be suitable comment but coming
out of the Philharmonic concert the
other night two highbrows walking
next to me gave me a tip
"'Well,' said he. with long drawn
sigh Beethoven is always Beethoven
"'Yes,' she responded. soulfully;
Beethoven is always Beethoven
isn't that lovely. 1t works both
ways and can be applied to anybody"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04
BRASS BEDS, FANCY OR PLAIN

Next in price to the white enameled
iron bedsteads, and certainly prettier,
are the, brass beds. The prettiest are
the plairest; those having simple lines
and gooa quality of brass.
There is q great difference between
a we'll 4made brass bedstead and a
poor one, a difference residing in the
weight and thickness of the tubing
used the lacquer and the way they
are put together,
When a cheap lacquer is used they
will tarnish Immediately; if the lacquer
is good they will last lifetime with
out discoloring.
The cheaply made beds are very light
and shaky, and come apart easily
The best beds are made of brass tub
ing lined with steel
The square tubing, with satin finish,
is more expensive, but newer and more
elegant.
The soft finish may be given to any
bed at an increased expense.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04
AVALON

MY love besought me at the droop Of day.
When twilight showed its fading fields OF
fawn-
where is that isle Of old called Avalon,
The blessed isle where summer dwells alway,
And happiness makes its eternal stay?
Has it, by some strange magic been with
drawn
Beyond the portals of the dusk and dawn.
Hid from our mortal ken perchance for aye?'
Gazing within my loves upturned eyes,
AS violet-deep as i3 the evening star,
And fairer far for me to look upon,
Unhestitant 1 answered in this wise;
30 tender heart Of hearts where'er you are
There evermore to me is Avalon!'
Clinton Scollard, in Putnam's.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04
Why and Wherefore

A minister one day found little boy
in tears and questioned him as to the
cause of his distress. The youngster
replied that his father had punished
him for being naughty, and he was
mighty glad that his mother hadn't
done it.
"Why do you prefer to have your
father whip you?" questioned the min
lister. rs it because he is less severe
than your mother?'
mo" replied the COY; but when he
licks me ma says he's brute, and al
ways gives me money to buy candy
Harper's Weekly.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04
Society

A ENCOURAGEMENT of the approach
IA ing marriage of Miss Ruth Vir-
AA ginia Kirkpatrick the charming
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs George Ber-
tram of Eleanor street, ColegroVe, ana
Oliver Cleveland Rankin, a young busi-
ness man of Los Angeles, will be re-
ceived with interest by the many
friends of the young people. The cere-
mony is to take place August lS, ana
will be a home wedding.
Mr.. Rankin is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. James 7. Rankin of this city.
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Owing to her departure in few
days for an extended eastern trip,
Mrs. Erasmus Wilson will not receive
this afternoon and evening as is her
custom.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson will spend sever
al months In the east.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson, with their
niece, Miss Evangeline Denny, and
George Collins of Mississippi. occupied
a box at the Mason Monday night to
hear the International Grand Opera
company.
DR.. Charles Yerxa and daughter
Dorothy, will leave Monday for visit
to st. Paul and Minneapolis, the doc
tors former home.
IS
Sidney A. Butler president of the
advisory committee and Good Roads
association, with Mrs. Butler, will sail
on the Manchuria September for
Japan, where they will spend four
weeks. and from there will continue
the world tour. sightseeing during
two weeks in China. four in India,
tow in Ceylon a month In Egypt, and
before their return visiting the coun-
tries of Europe.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. c. Freeman will
also leave on the same steamer.
=
Planning to visit Seattle and the
Yellowstone en- route to their home in
the east. Mrs. George NJ. Myers and
daughter. Miss Helen Myers of Kansas
City, and Mrs. Margaret Smith of Gin
cinnati yesterday concluded a delight
full visit OF three weeks with their
cousins. Mr.. and Mrs. Abner L. Ross
on South Alvarado street, and left for
Santa Barbara, where they will remain
n week before going on to San Fran
cisco and other points.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ross and their niece,
Miss Flora Harker, will leave early
In the week for the south.
Mrs. Wiley J. Rouse of West Twenty
fourth street has returned from a stay
of several weeks in Berkeley and San
Francisco.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adolph Fleishman. who
for six months have been touring
Europe, were due to- arrive in New
York yesterday on the Princess Ce-
ella. Several days will be passed in
New York and they will not arrive in
Los Angeles until the latter part of
next week.
Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Ralphs and
children are again occupying their
home on South Arapahoe street after
n tour of several weeks through the
north.
A party joining the general exodus to
Seattle and Alaska includes Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Fisher Mr.. and Mrs. Vic
tor Ponet, Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Hales-
worth. Miss Minnie Grumbacher, Miss
Dora Grumbacher. They will sail from
Seattle August 13 on the Dolphin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Eglinton An
derson of West Adams street will leave
August for tour Of many of the
large cities of the United States and
Canada, going later to France. They
will visit the fair at Seattle on their
way.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04
HusbandIess Honeymoon

There will be a very unique social
affair at Atchison soon. A certain girl
has never married, and as all her sis
ters married and enjoyed pretty
clothes and wedding presents, her ia
ther announced that he wanted to do
rs well by her. and will give her a
mock wedding.
She will have as much money to
spend on clothes as if she were to be
a bride. and after she has them all
made her father win give her a party
and notify all the kin that they must
carry presents as if to a bride. Then
he will send the girl on a trip to the
sea coast, where she can wear her
new clothes and have more fun than
IF there were a man tagging along
Atchison Globe.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04
For Ironinu Day

Here is a time saver for ironing day.
One woman never folds each handker-
chief as she irons it. She merely irons
each one carefully and places it aside.
making a neat pile of them. Then
when she has time to sit down, she
takes the pile of handkerchiefs AMI
folds them carefully while she rests
This saves a good deal of time at the
ironing board, as it is not at all neces-
sary to have the creases ironed into
the handkerchiefs to make them look
we'll
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04
CURRENT VERSE
ON PRAYER

Lord what change within us one short hour
Spent in thy presence will prevail to make,
What heavy burdens from our bosoms take
What parched grounds refresh us with
shower;
We kneel when all around us seems to lower;
We rise and all the distant and tho near
Stand forth In sunny outline, brave and clear;
We kneel, how weak; we rise, how full Of
power.
Why therefore, should do ourselves this
wrong,
or Others that we are not always strong;
That we are ever overborue with care;
That we should ever weak or helpless be,
Anxious or troubled, when with us is prayer,
And joy and strength and courage are with
thee? Archbishop Trench
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04
LIMITED FOoLIsHNEss

He claims he never rocked a boat,
With rusty guns he will not fool
He never signed another's note,
Nor jabbed the hind heels Of mule.
He shuns the cogs in whirring wheels,
He never bought gilded brick;
But always he gulps down his meals,
And doesn't know what makes him sick.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04
AN OBJECT OF SYMPATHY

Don't you like a summer outing,
with a dinner meath the trees,
And the children gaily shouting,
And the lulling of the breeze?
Do you really call 1t folly
From a selfish point Of view?
DO you say it's aught but jolly
Then we're sorry, friend, for you.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04

II you want to go east, @. HavdOck, Agt.
Illinois Central r. r., 11S w. Sixth street.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04

Eat at the Angelus grill.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04

It's as easy to secure bargain in a used
automobile, through want Advertising as it
used to be-and sull is-to secure horse
and carriage
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-04-20

months he will arrange to take &C
count of what has been done and to
ascertain what progress has been
made, if any.
He thoroughly believes in beginning
with the children and says that sloven-
" PARENTS when they see the child. at
tempting to be neat and clearly ia Oh
unfairly attempt to live up to the
standard brought home by the chill
dren. He does not care to form any
special organization for the pushing of
his ideas as to the dietary care, but
intends to use the existing organize
lions at work in that section of New
York
This New Englander, whose name
has become famous through his ten
years experience in following the Cos
pei of thorough mastication of food,
has in preparation also a series of
tests to be used at the summer chau-
tauqua He proposes to have food
commons for the teachers, Combined
with systematic and scientific expert
ments Then he believes the teachers
at the chautauqua will return to their
home districts and give out to those
! localities the experience they have
gained. In this way he hopes to spread
| his doctrine of economy and health
| through the proper chewing of food.
Mr.. Fletcher is wonderful example
| of the effects of the system he advo
Gates. After an eventful career he
| found himself in 1854 suffering from
| too much flesh, and his health greatly
| impaired Life insurance companies
| declined to accept him as a risk.
| These things led him to systematic
| study of relief and the result was
| fletcherism. He found the system OF
| thoroughly chewing everything he ate
| and slowly slipping what he drank
| toned up his system wonderfully. 1t die
| more. for on his fiftieth birthday ami
! versary-he was born in Lawrence in
| 1S49-he rode 100 miles on bicycle
without any training and without ap
| parent exhaustion.
Six wears ago at Yale university he
| without any training whatever, broke
the university record for an endurance
| fest. lust doubling the best record
made in the famed university prior tc
that time
And now in his sixtieth year Mr.
Fletcher thinks nothing of the 80 steps
he has to traverse to reach his rooms
in the East side tenement in New
York. There is no electric catch t
the street door. and when he has {
visitor or his bell rings he must traml
down and up the stairs each time, ant
he does it several times in few mo
ments without the least indication o.
being "winded' or troubled by the *
Uertion.