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little pockets, and in these were stored
handfuls of the little pink paper blossoms
Gifts brought by the girl friends were
all wrapped in pink tissue paper and fas-
tened to the lower limbs. Then long
streamers of pink ribbon were attached.
and when the dear girl in whose honor the
peach trees blossomed, came into the
ROOM vigorous pull at the ribbons
brought the whole shower of f1uttering
pink down over her head and shoulders
and the green carpet underneath. 1t was
all so pretty and girlish.
An Apple Orchard Club Entertain
ment.
Somewhat similar was an apple or
chard entertainment given this last win
ter by a western Woman's club For days
beforehand the women met at each
others homes to make apple blossoms
When the day of the luncheon arrived
the men did their part in bringing from
the woods a dozen or more trees that were
set up in the hall to represent genuine
apple orchard The limbs were quickly
wreathed with the pink and white bios
SONS. and underneath the trees the ia
bles were set Apples in every conceiy-
able form were the feature of the gener-
Gus luncheon proyided-apple frltters
apple buildings and charlottes, apple pies
and apple cakes. apple dumplings and ap-
pie pandowdies, baked apples and apples
al naturel.
Our battleship officers returning from
their cruise about the world were en-
thusias.ic over their reception at Toxic.
They were there in October, when the
ordinary cherry blossom was entirely out
of commission. What did they do,
those people of JAPAN" said Lieut.. Com
mander Mutton, in recounting the gem
erosity of their different hosts. They
arranged a large garden of artificial cher
nv trees in bloom natural one could
almost smell them. and then they sus-
pended a legend woven in those cherry
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dition has been handed down unbroken.
and the best lace made today Is as beau
tiful as that of centuries ago when lace
making was in its most glorious period
The wife of the Zeevecote road-mender
works with him. The lace he generally
makes is Bruges lace. a snowy lace.
quickly made and easily sold. because of
its low price, This man also makes
ly resembles the finer and more costly
Brussels duchesse lace, which 1t is
most probably offered for sale in the
shops.
The earnings of the 1acemakers are
never large. There are too many inter
mediaries between them and tse ultimate
purchasers of their work. The Zeevecote
road-rnender was glad to receive 500 in
OF which he spent many months This
gown was sold by the agent who bought
it from the road-mender to a Brussels
shop. and the Brussels shop sold it. at a
great profit, to Princess Albert of Bel
GUM. wife of the heir to the Belgian
throne. Intermediates have always
reaped the profits of the lace trade. For
centuries after its invention. at the end
of the crusades. immense sums were paid
for lace work. but from the day it was
first made down 20 the present time no
record showsothat a lacemaker was ever
enriched by his work
TIE district of AIost, on the frontier of
Flanders farthest from Zeevecote. half an
hours journey from Brussels is the home
of thousands of Brussels laborers most
Of whom are brick makers in summer and
lace makers in winter. In summer guise
these brickmakers of Brussels look
curious race. They stalk into the subur-
ban cafes. near the brick fields. almost en-
tirely naked. save for a generous coating
of rich yellow clay. They are mostly
small men and their scarcity of apparel
makes them seem like gnomes near the
well dressed citizens by whom they pass.
During the summer months they live in
the brick fields. in a manner little more
complex than that of apes in a primeval
forest. few planks. knocked together
any way, form their habitations and their
cookery is of the rudest kind. They live
much on horse flesh. which the butchers
sell and their utensils are borrowed from
the neighbors round about.
In September the work in the brick
fields ceases. and those who have worked
in them return to their native villages
transformed men. They are no longer
like savages shaping coarse clay with
their rough hands; they are artists. mas
tiers of a dainty craft. careful of their
persons, neat In thelr dress, ana proud or
the order in their well regulated homes
Ceaseless activity is all that remains to
remind observers of their summer habits
In winter, as In summer, they arise at 4
O'Clock in the morning, and are at work
by half-past 4 or ). There Is work
out of doors for them in the dark winter
days, and there is no source of distraction
in their villages for these men of sober
race. They are neither gamblers nor gos-
sips
The village aIe-houses are CHEEKY Dlaces
clean and warm, furnished with COM
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An Inflated Figure.

4 DDISON MINER. the well known
"A bon vivant of New York. was dis
GUESSING lis reported contract with vaude-
vile agency for series of Partisan
dances at $4,000 week
That report.V he said. lis inflated. In
lis imitation OF the salary and In its in
fiation OF my knowledge of the dances of
the east the report reminds me Of
theatrical criticism / once wrote.
IN this criticism of musical comedy
/ desired 10 fiatter a beautiful dancing
girl. The girls ngure was superb. In my
article | praised il ardently. But the exi-
gencies Of space compelled the excelsior OF
NEST of-tlle praise. and only one sentence.
containing "A horrible typographical error.
was left. This unfortunate sentence ran:
Kathleen Nayasour. who dances in
the second act. possesses a form that
Jumbo might have enyied.' "
Copyright, 1909. 10y Estelle E>-~s
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can housewife would intrust so much as
a BIT ter dish lest it should be clunsi!y
dropped and broker, spend their winters
it making Brussels lace. Their coarse
hard hands weave patterns almost as deli
cate as cobwebs. and, Furthermore many
of the mel can lay claim to being artists
of high rank. making their own designs
with a taste and feeling that would he
noteworthy in graduates of art schools
Their delicate tasks completed, this army
of lacc-Llaki1g laborcrs are now prepar-
ing to go back to the folds.
Wages i'm the agricultural districts of
Flanders so small. and families so
large. that in summer the women are
forced to do the field work at home,
while the men go forth in thousands TO
earn higher pay as harvesters in France
or brickmakers in Brussels. Love of their
native villages draws them back in the
autumn. but about these villages there
is work to be had in the winter time.
trade they have learned from their moth
ers and at the village schools.
X ~
The lace most made by these Flemish
workers is pillow lace made with bobbins
To an observer unskilled in the craft the
making of pillow lace seems complicated
beyond comprehension, but its complica-
tion is more apparent than real The
simplest forms of bobbin- work can be
taught to a child in a few lessons. 1t is
true, years OF patient labor are necessary
To make one a master of til, craft. but in
its increasing difficulty there lies half the
charm of lacemaking for an artistic peo-
pie. The learner of lacework who would
be a master at each advance gains
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knowledge which reveals unthought
realms of beauty, and in the end he finds
himself no mere mechanic, but an ARTIST
who. knowingly. creates things beautiful.
and loves his labor with an artists love
If it were not that the lace worker is
always anonymous. the fame of the skill
ed man workers of Belgium would be far
spread The mems work is said to be
better than that of women In the SIM
pier kinds of lace. 1t equals woman S
work in the most difficult kinds. In the
Jesuits' church at Lierre there is a mag
nificent altar cloth of lace. made by an
inhabitant of Lierre. and offered by HIM
to the church The donors wife, when
dying. asked him to work a piece of lace
for the church, and he, that her wish
might be most worthily fulfilled, spent
fifteen years in manufacturing his offer
ing. This lace was exhibited at Brus-
sells. where it gained first prize, and
was valued at fifteen thousand francs.
There are many men in flanders who
make the finest lace, but they are gen.
orally men in easy circumstances, who
do not sell their work. Those who work
for gain make lace which is quickly COM
pleted. low priced and easily sold. Most
of the workers are content to make mar
row lace such as torchon, for which
there is an unlimited demand in Belgium.
where the women of the middle and
working classes delight in the luxury OF
lace trimmings.
The children of the Flemish laborers
are taught lacemaking by the nuns in
the village schools. in hours which other
wise would be given up to play. In order
that while they still at school they
may earn something instead of having
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whites of the eggs. an equal quantity of
white celery cut In bits and Il tablespoon
full chopped pickles. Arrange the salad
on lettuce leaves and turn the dressing
over it. Chill and serve.
Dreamed Shrimps.
For a quart of the canned shrimps al
low one tablespoonful butter, half table
spoonful flour, one cupful heated cream,
one beaten yolk of egg. salt, paprika and
drop or two of Worcestershire sauce.
Melt the butter, add the flour. and when
and slightly thickened. add the shrimps,
seasoning and egg yolk. serve on toast,
in croutstades or patty shells.
Shrimp Fritters.
To three well beaten eggs add pinch
of salt, a quarter cupful milk table
spoonful melted butter, a can of chopped
shrimps and bread crumbs to make
stiff batter Drop the mixture by the
spoonful into boiling fat and fry to a
light brown. Drain on paper and serve
hot with any good fish sauce poured over
them.
Some Good Fish Sauces-Bechamel.
Melt a tablespoonful butter in a sauce
PAN add teaspoonful of flour and cook
about five minutes. Add slowly a cupful
hot milk. beating thoroughly. Add salt
to season. with flavor of mace, lemon
juice or bay leaf, and lastly a well beaten
egg
Hollandaise Sauce.
This is particularly good TO serve with
boiled fish. Mix in a bowl two table
spOonfuls butter, a teaspoonful onion
juice. bit of bay leaf, a half dozen
whole black peppers and if the butter is
very fresh a saltspoonful salt Add
cupful stock or water and the juice of
a lemon. Place the bowl in a pan of hot
water and stir until the butter melts.
Take from the fire and stir little of the
warm mixture into the we'll beaten yolks
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New Orleans Shrimp Salad.

vest pocket gardeners annually tum-
bic.
Ii will be well for any one who plans
TO turn his city-or suburban--back yard
into a kitchen garden to adopt In the
very beginning a plan. and then TO ad
here -rigidly to that plan. Such a pro-
cedure means process of elimination
and selection; 1t means the cutting out
of a great number OF things that appeal
with great force from the pages of the
catalogues. and the limiting of ones gar
den to half a dozen or SO OF staple ia
vorites. BY leaving melons. pumpkins
squashes and potatoes out of ones calcu-
lations good start is made i'm the elimi
native process. and from this point il can
be carried on to whatever extent the in
dividuaI gardener wishes.
A good vegetable scheme" and one
that meets the requirements of the aver
age family in the way of homegrown
produce. is the following:
Early lettuce. radiShes, green onions.
Mid early-Beets tboth for green's and
FOR the rootsb. cucumbers green peas.
idseason-Beets. peas. snap beans
tboth the wax and the green podded va
rietieSl, sweet corn. tomatoes
MEDIATE to late-Peas, beans tbusii
and pole) lima beans. sweet corn. toma-
toes. fall lettuce and radishes. egg plant.
BY judicious paintings, at different perl
DDS such selection will furnish the
average family with fresh vegetables dur
ing AN entire summer leaving, in most
cases. surplus for distribution among
neighbors and friends not so fortunate
a to- be able to make gardens for them
selves And to attempt anything beyond
such list unless some Of the vegetables
herein mentioned are cut out. is folly. and
meaEs. very likely, crowded, unsatis-
factory. i'll kept and improbable garden
which, in turn. usually means the aban-
Comment of the garden before 1t has
brought anything to maturity. and the
conclusion on the part of the gardener
that efforts Ia produce vegetables on a
small plot of ground are useless.
No garden that has not been properly
fertil'zed, plowed or spaded, and worked
into fine, mellow condition will ever
produce a satisfactory crop of vegetables
or anything else-but weeds. This IS the
first thing to learn in gardening of any
kind, kitchen or ornamental. Too much
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TO go untaught TO work in the fields.
After a few weeks instruction the school
children make lace of quality sufficient
~ good for sale. and the nuns sci! it for
them to the agents of the great shops,
who travel through the lacemaking dis
trict.
The lacemakers congregate most dense
ly about Bruges. but they are found in
every part OF Flanders. In Zeevecote. d
tiny village near the Belgian frontier. ten
or eleven miles from Ostend. there is a
primary school, taught by nuns in which
class of twenty-five boys are taught
lacemaking. The boys in this class,
whose ages vary from eight to fifteen
years. make lace for three hours a day
and each of them already earns by his
lace work from twenty-five to thirty
francs a month. When these boys leave
school. if they give their whole time to
lacema king. and make only the simplest
kinds of lace. they can earn about thirty
cents day; a miserable wage. it may
appear. but one not far below the aver
age pay of laboring man in Flanders
which. according to the official returns
is thirty-four cents a day, without food
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of three eggs. When well mixed grad
ually add the remainder of the sauce.
return to the fire and stir steadily until
thickened Add another tablespoonful
butter and serve. This sauce is the
foundation for lobster sauce or oyster
sauce. Add TO pint of Hollandaise the
chopped meat of one lobster claw and
half the coral of one lobster pounded to
a paste with the last tablespoonful but
ter to be added. For oyster sauce add a
dozen and half oysters that have been
scalded in their own liquor, to a pint
of the Hollandaise. Do not add too much
of the oyster liquor, as the sauce must
not be too thin.
Maitre d'Hotel Butter.
This is perhaps the simplest and best
sauce to serve on fried fish or broled
fish. To make it. beat heaping table,
spoonful of butter 10 a cream in IL warm
bowl. Add the juice of a lemon, q half
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1t is to such men as the cantonnier, or
road-mender of Zeevecote-who as he
strolls along the roads on his official
rounds stores in his mind the designs and
traceries he discovers in hedgerows and
trees. to reproduce them later in his
work-that Flemish lace owed its early
popularity. The Flemish workers, from
the commencement. avoided slavish repro
duction of the Gothic designs of Italian
point. They borrowed largely from the
fora of their own country. and produced
designs of surprising beauty. Their ira
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n the opinion of
gastronomes, there
are few articles in
the cuisine that
can compete with
the shrimp. The
carefully arranged
menu of a formal
dinner is seldom
without the shrimp
In one form or an
other. And yet less
is known about
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shrimp. 1t closely resembles a crawfish,
excepting that 1t lacks the heavy claws.
and ranges in color from a transparent
cream through all the shades of pink to
a bright crimson. The old idea that
shrimps eat nothing but diatoms has
been dispelled by recent investigations;
averse to eating sea weed, sand and de-
Caying vegetable and animal matter.
From the middle of February to the mid
die of May they are found in large num-
entirely disappear until August. when
they are thick again. remaining for about
six weeks before swimming off to the
deeper water of the gulf.
Shrimp Salad.
To make the seductive shrimp salad ac-
cording to the California methods chop
fine one can of shrimps. Measure double
the quantity of celery and chop fine also.
together with the whites Of three hard
boiled eggs. Mix lightly. Have ready six
eggs boiled hard and mealy. cut in halves
crosswise and remove the yolks. Keep
six of the white halves to serve as cups
for the salad, chop three of the others,
and slice the other three i'm rings Mash
the yolks smooth with melted butter or
OIL add the juice of three lemons with
salt. cayenne pepper. little white pepper
and mustard to season Add the minced
shrimp. celery and chopped white of egg.
Fill the egg cups mounding up in the
middle. but allowing the white edges ia
be SEEN Make a mound of the remaining
salad. put in platter and arrange the
filled half eggs around it, Garnish with
lettuce leaves and the rings of whites Of
eggs. This is extremely pretty as well as
delicious.
New Orleans Shrimp Salad.
This is slightly different, but equally
good. For two dozen shrimps make a
dressing by MASKING the yolks of three
hard boiled eggs with a tablespoonful
melted butter or olive oil. one table
spoonful lemon juice or vinegar, and salt
and pepper to season. Add the minced
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THE shrinking shrimps scoot into view
Their worried faces pallid.
For fear that they will be compelled
To be served in a salad.
Soon cold in death they will be laid,
As having run their race.
A leaf of lettuce DER them spread.
All damp with mayonnaise.
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THIS Is the Time of Year
! When the Lacemakers of
Flanders Are Suddenly Trans
formed Into the Brickmakers
of Brussels = Horny-handed
Men Who Weave Dreams of
Beauty Into Filmy Meshes-
Toiling for Thirty Cents a
Day on Work That Com
mands a Fortune by the Time
1t Reaches American Homes
Picturesque Preservation of
Traditions Centuries Old.
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a supply of fresh
V e & e I a bles -
wanted for the
home table dur
ing the spring
and summer, ii Is
time to begin op-
erations on the
kitchen garden.
Indeed. a good
part of the pre-
liminary work
should have been
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Radishes may either he planted in drills
or sown broadcast and raked into the
earth. as in the case OF lettuce. In the
average city garden the gradual use of
the radishes during early spring will thin
them out sufficiently. Do not fertilize
your radish bed too highly. else the
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place for day or so to allow the earth
to become thoroughly warmed. and then
SOW the tomato seed In shallow drills
The drills must be from four to six
inches apart. Set the box and its con-
tents in a sunny window, water it in
moderation every day, and when the to-
matoes are above ground thin the young
plants out until they stand about an inch
or so apart in rows. When the third
.eaf shows on the plants. transplant them
either to thumbpots or spot them out in
other rows in the box. In either case
transplant again when they are about
three to four inches. high. Water the
plants daily and keep them growing all
the time. The plants should BE- about
six inches high by the time all Danger
from frost is past, and the first tiny
bunch of blossoms should begin 10 show
indeed, it will be we'll if the plants are
in bloom when they are set out. When
they are ready to go into their parma-
nent places set the box outside the win
dow during the day for few days. leav-
ing them out at night, covered with a
single thickness of newspaper. unless the
night promises frost. This is to harden
the plants and prepare them for growing
out of doors. No time should be lest,
however. in Se.~ing the seeds into the
ground, as the young plants should be
ready for the garden by the middle OF
May, or even earlier.
Eggplant is treated in exactly the
same manner as tomatoes, VIII n grown
from SEED. ana tne process dsScft5eI
above for growing tomato plants applies
also to the production of young plants
for elephants.
Unless one possesses a hothed or cold
frame. both tomato plants and elephants
will do better when grown as above
directed than. in any other manner. Sci
the box Of young plants on the hot water
radiator at night. During ths night the
temperature of the room is always mark
eddy lower than during the day. and the
growth OF the plants is correspondingly
checked. By placing the box OF the
radiator-care being taken. OF course. to
see that the radiator IS not too hottie
sol. is kept always warm and tn. plants
grow far better than when allowed To
remain over night and all the time In the
window.
Turn the soil o. the garden up to the
depth of at least ten inches or foot.
blowing under Cor spading under) a
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attention can hardly be given to the prep
aration of the seed bed. for upon the
initial condition of the ground depends.
almost altogether the resulting crops. OF
course. the first thing to be considered is
fertility. Stable manure, in generous
quantities and in we'll rotted condition
best. but the cheapest. Bone dust phos-
phate and all the commercial fertilizers
no doubt have their uses: but for ease
with which 1t may be secured and for
general satisfactoriness none of these
compare with the natural product of the
stable or barnyard. 1t should be used Is
is here stated, generously: 1t is practically
impossible to overfertiliZe when nothing
is used but we'll decompoSed stable or
farmyard manure.
Having spread over the ground four
to six inch layer of the fertilizer. II the
garden plot is of sufficient size. have it
plowed. turning the manure under and
blowing to a depth of a foot or a trifle
less If it is practicable to use fine
tooth harrow in breaking up the clods,
do so: if not, see that they are raked and
mellowed until the surface of the entire
garden is reduced TO as fine and smooth
a condition as 1t is possible to bring 1t to.
This done-thoroughly, painstaknsly and
carefully done-the initial work of gar
den-making is out of the way Too much
emphasis. however, cannot be laid upon
the absolute necessity for careful prepa-
ration of the seed bed: ground planted
while ii is in a rough, cloddy condition is
not tit for the reception of seeds. and
seeds planted in such ground will be slow
of termination or will refuse TO ger
inmate at all.
With the garden worked into fine,
mellow. loose condition the work of put
ting In the seed follows. In nearly every
case It will be found advantageous to
mark the garden plot off into beds of
varying size. \ single long bed will serve
for the lettuce. onions and radishes. Let
tuce seed for the earliest outdoor grown
supply should be sowed now. Scatter the
seed broadcast and rake it into the soil,
covering the seed not more than a quar-
ter of an inch or so. When the plants
come un they will. of course he too
thick; as they mature the gathering of
lettuce for table use will thin the growth.
the sturdier plants being left for full ma
turty. In most cases one another OF
the head lettuces will be found most sat
isfactory, they are as easily grown as