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ter. then one of the dried cherries, steweC
and dra ned free from juice.
Cover with batter and steam under
cover for thirty minutes. Serve with
sweetened cream.
Cream Prune Pie.
Soak and stew a pound of prunes
Press through a colander. adding just
enough juice to moisten we'll. To each
cupful of the pulp add one cupful OF
rich cream, the beaten yolks of four eggs
and one-third of a cupful of sugar Line
pie plate with good pastry and partly
bake. Then fill it with the prune mix
ture. and bake In steady oven. Cover
with a meringue, return to the oven and
slowly brown.
Prune Cocktail.
Soak, stew and stone the largest
French or Santa Clara prunes. Sweeten
slightly. then thoroughly chill on ice and
chop small. To the prune juice add
orange and lemon juice to flavor, stir in
the chopped fruit and serve in cocktail
glasses. banked with crushed ice.
Apricot Tapioca.
Soak and stew a half pound of evapo-
rated apricots, then lift out with a per-
forated ladle To the juice in the kettle
add enough water to make a pint of
liquid. pinch of salt. a half cupful of
sugar and three tablespoonfuls of fine
tapioca Cook clear. turn into a dish,
stir the fruit in gently and set aside to
get very cold. Serve with sweetened
cream.
Apricot Pudding.
Prepare a smooth boiled custard of one
pint of milk. one-half cupful sugar and
two eggs. Add a half package of DIS
solved gelatin, take from the fire and
strain. Drain the juice from cupful of
apricots and press them through a colan-
der. Add the pulp to the custard, flavor
with almond extract, turn into a wetted
mold and let stand until cold and quite
firm. Mold and serve with cream.
Prune Salad.
Wash, soak and cook a pound of large
prunes until tender. Do not sweeten.
When cold pit and fiji the cavity with
almonds or English walnuts. Make ten
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cold water Turn out in a CREASED pan
ana stand aside to get cold. Then shape
INTO small croquettes. dip in beaten egg
yoIk' dredge with crumbs and fry in
deep not fat. Drain and serve very hot.
Brown Betty.
This old favor'te is just as savory made
from the dried as from the fresh fruit
Cover the bottom Of buttered pudding
dish with breadcrumbs and dot with
butter Over this spread a thick layer
Of stewed apples. mashed and sweetened,
and sprinkle with grated nutmeg. Con-
tinue alternating layers of crumbs and
fruit until the dish IS filled. Cover closely
and steam three-quarters of an hour
uncover and brown In quick oven
Serve with cream or liquid sauce.
Delicious Dried Apple Pie.
Stew the apples, then press through
a colander- For each pie allow the
beaten yolks of two eggs, one-half cup
full sugar and nutmeg to flavor. Bake
with an under crust only. When done,
spread over it meringue made from the
stiff1y whipped VIII ties of the eggs and
two scant tablespoonruls sugar Return
to the oven and brown slowly.
Compete. Of Dried Pears.
Cook together for fifteen minutes one
cupful each water and sugar, six cloves
and few bits of stick cinnamon Have
ready half pound of evaporated nears
cooked tender without stir ng SO as to
preserve the shape. After stew.ng thew
must be drained free from juice Drop
these into the strip and cook gently for
five minutes. Lift out with a skinner
and arrange In glass dish
Cook the strip until thick and ropy.
pour over the fruit and stand aside until
cold. At serving time cover with whip
ped cream and garnish with candied cher
ries or cranberrieS.
Pear Bavaroice.
Press a pint of stewed pears through a
cOlander Put over the fire with sugar
to make quite sweet. When hot, stir
in half box of gelatin softened in a cup
full of cold water. Take from the fire
and when cold add the juice of lemon
and a cupful of thick cream Beat slow
ly until firm, then pour into wetted
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prunes. cover with mayonnaise made WITH
lemon juice and serve on individual.
plates.
EMMA PADDOCK TELFoRD.
All the blue gems are In high favor.
With the long coat still leading il il
promised that the near future will sec
the short one again in style.
Some of the embro dered burnous
wraps. so popular this season, have hand
some knotted silk fringes.
Artificial roses upon housegowns have
been revived. Some are of satin, in real
coiors; others of gold and silver.
high full crown bullying over it is one
or the leading shapes of the season.
Very effective are the oh ffon waists
made over the Persian silks. The voiles
are similarly used with satisfying effect.
Very popu ar are the all-black hats in
MORE and satin, trimmed with the ma
terial Of the hat and with buckles of Jet
or cut steel.
A little sachet slipped under the lin.
ing o ones tailored coat will not be
notlceab,e and the fragrancy will be
found pleasing.
Lorgnettes of silver and gold are
giving way to those % tortoise she'll
with the owners monogram c.eyerly in
laid with silver.
Long sword hatpins. made OF tortoise
shell. not only serve we'll with the sea-
sons hats. bat match the hair orna-
ments OF the hour.
The gold dollar shade Is ! yellow
that attracts much favorable attention.
1t i ups RIB in velvet, satin. gauzes and
chiffon cloths.
The owl head is featured in the new
Paris hatpins. These heads are rich in
iridescent colorings and are really
quite attractive.
Some of the new shopping bags are
provided with a vinaigrette, as well as
the usual small purse, mirror, powder
puff and card case.
The popular Circassan couture. fiat
and wide. must show no hairEins ex-
cept the four huge shell ones that hold
the coils in place
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come tnoSe sum-, warm ApTli DAYS Wnen
furs are laid aside and all the feminine
world energies in the glory of new spring
raiment.
An early Easter this year will hurry
along the sartorial season a bit and the
canny woman Will have her shirt waists
off the sewing machine before the LIST of
March. To do this she will first make up
her mind about styles and will then take
advantage of the January white sales,
when many exqu site bit of fabric and
lovely embroidery remnants may be picked
up for a trif1e. Paris prophesies that
sheer, soft materials, preferably silk-fin-
ished cotton batiste and the softer French
and Persian Towns. of fine quality, will be
the favored fabric for high-class summer
blouses; and trimmings will be of the
heavier laces. like cluny and Irish crochet
landings These straight landings set
between pin tuckings or mitered into geo.
metrical figures are in better style now
than the large motifs of loce which a
season or two ago gave thin blouses such
A startling ''peckabo effect
Re
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To return to the sleeve question. New
spring models show a decided difference
in the shape of sleeves, even when they
come to the wrist. Sleeves are decidedly
fuller, and the latest model is the Drecoll
puffed sleeve, with series of puffs down
the arm, confined by bands of lace or
embroidery. These puffs have to be care
fully managed to insure a graceful taper
ing of the sleeve toward the wrist, the
lowest puff being very scantily gathered
and confined snugly about the wrist Win
buttoned whistband. Some women are
making up dressy shirt wa SITS of embroid-
cry with puffed sleeves of this sort, and
are arranging the puffs with view to
shortening the sleeve by a puff or two
later on, if short sleeves gain the ap-
prevail of Madame Mode. The wise wom-
an, at any rate. will provide sufficient ex-
ira material in the case of a handsome
waist, to remake the sleeves, for this por-
ton of the costume is now a mooted
question with the dressmakers, and some
change is bound to come sooner or later.
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The year is closed the record made.
The last deed done. the last word said
= 49, el0r@ remsfns
Of all Its joys, its griefs. its gains:
Ai.t 80 |lsn pu4 pose fu and clear
J turn to meet another year
What's time? Man has forever.
Browning.
Ring out the DID, ring in the new.
Ring happy bells across the SNOW
The year Is going, let him go;-
Ring ont the false, ring In the true:
Ring ont false pride in place and blood.
The civic SANDER and the spite;
Ring In the love of truth and right
Ring in the common love of good.
Ring In the valiant man and free
The larger heart. the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land
Ring In the Christ that is 10 be.
-Tennyson
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successfully, and needs no starch. Il
does not musS and is altogether a de-
lightful blouse fabric. The marc is tie
waist pictured is very simply made, with
tuckings and lines of eavy linen croch (
lace, these heavy laces being promised
great vogue for spring and sum ner
with sheer materials. The waist fast rs
with a of fiat pearl buttons and
cod loops.
No. 3-Blouse of Pink-Striped Ba-
tiste.
" cry pale pink and white striped
batiste of fine. sheer grade was used
for this attractive morning waist and
similar models are shown i'm pala green
and white, blue and white and otter del
lcate colo lngs- Pin tuckS and a h mmed
and fiuted ruffle form the only trimming.
and the narrow frills on tn sleeves are
a feature of this seasons blouses. Round
crochet buttons are us d, the frill being
attached to the left side Of the blouse.
not as is usually the case, to the outer
edge of the lap-over front. Thus the
frill may be removed when desired and
a fresh one basted in.
No. 4-French Lawn Blouse.
NNE Of the new models for spring
- which promises to be prime favor
lite is shown here. Soft sheer materials
bid fair to hive first place in fashions
favor for thin blouses, and for wear with
the tailored wool or moaair suit for a
very fine blouse. tucked like this model.
is in better taste til a model elabo-
rately trimmed with lace. The little yoke
of torchon adds daintness to this pretty
blouse, end the side jabot. starting be-
low the yoke, is distinctly new feature.
The finely tucked material is made into
deeper tucks at the shoulder to give full
ness over the bust.
No. 5-Useful Chiffon Overblouse.
A S practical as the hard worked but
"a most satisfactory jumper are these
little over-bouses of colored chiffon which
match the wool or mohair suit material
and dress up simple shirtwaist wonder
fully. The over blouse shown Is of green
chiffon, the skirt being of striped ma
terial, and under the green chiffon is a
little Slip of silver lace. the whole blouse
being worn over a figured net waist. The
bands across the shoulder are of green
embroidered net. This blouse fits over
the skirt band in the new bodice fashion.
No. 6-Embroidery Insertion.
NIDSUMMER blouses will undoubtedly
4v4 be more elaborate than the tailored
models sfown for early spring and this
pretty advance model. showing Paris
blouse ideas, is suitable for wear in very
W rm weather. Two kinds of embroid-
cry are used and strip of tucked lawn
is introduced in the sleeve. which shows
the new al. aneement of puffs confined
by bands. Such sleeves are hard 10
build in shapely effect Too much full
ness in the puffs spoils tee line from
shoulder TO wrist, but the material in
this instance has been managed very sat-
isfactorily.
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down one side of the front is a feature Of
spring tailored waist models, whether the
material is soft batiste, handkerchief
linen or the more expensive crepe or
marQuisette.
X x
Japanese crepe, in the crinkly weave Of
last season, has had its day, and the new
crepes are infinitely finer and more beau
tiful. crepe blouse should not be in
dulged in unless one can afford first
grade quality at dollar or more yard.
The cheap crepes wash up thick and
look very cottony and commonplace after
laundering. besides shrinking badly and
losing their shape. Marquisette, silky
fabric, slightly HEAVIER than chiffon, yet
lighter than an open-meshed wolfe, is used
for many of the better French blouses
and the marquisette waist Is made most
simply, with pin tucks in groups and in
serted bands of real cluny or Irish lace
In word. simplicity of style and ex-
quisite fineness of fabric are the keynote
of smartness in spring shirt waists, and
the wise woman will put her money into
good materials and her strength into TAX
ing tiny hand stitches, rather than buy 4
lot OF lace and embroidery to be
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OST women like TO
get the S u m m e r
blOuseS "out of the
" a y . before the
serious business of
spring dressnaking
begins: and, verify,
there is no comfort
like that of having
a dresser drawer
filled to the brim
with fresh. dainty
new waists W n e r.
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ITH the coming Of
the New Year.
particularly If it
is to be accom-
panied by an
a valanche Of
bills, most o(
US feel that We
really must turn
over a new leaf"
and study how To
economize in the
daily living. With
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Mol IlNENe 1hlRTvlAi5r WITH JRAyvNv1oRk

The overblouse, like the jumper, was 4
stroke of genius on the part of the wom-
an who originated it. A well known
dressmaker is authority for the state
ment that 1.-The chiffon overblause solves
the problem of the lingerie shirt waist" So
much has been said about white blouses
being in disfavor that one felt hesi-
fancy in investing in very handsome and
expensive lingerie blouses, even for sum-
mer use. Now, however. when the lin
gerie blouse, yelled with an overblouse
of chiffon. is always permissible with a
wool or mohair street suit. one may reyel
to hearts content in the frag lie. fasci-
mating French waists and their American
copies. The chiffon overb.ouse is made
quite separately and has little Sleeves
which fall over the shirt waist sleeve be-
meath. The overblouse should be made of
a good quality of chiffon cloth, for cheap
chiffon soon pulls and becomes ragged
and shabby and is a waste of money.
The blouse IS made very simply and is I'M
ished at the top with a shaped band of
stitched silk or satin, the white stock of
the waist beneath showing in the open
ing. The smartest of these overblouses
but a few inches of white around the
throat. Sometimes on extra dressy occa-
sions second chiffon slip. daintily en-
broidered in gold or silver threads. is
added underneath, or the chiffon blouse
may be made up over one of coarse gold
or silver net. In any case, however. the
overb,ouse is separate from the white lin
gerie net waist over which it is worn.
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DARIS Prophesies Soft,
j Transparent Blouse Fab
rics-Cluny and Irish the
Favored Lace Trimmings
Peekaboo Effects Barred
Candy" Stripe Blouses in
Color-Puffed Sleeves a New
Note-Frills More Fashion
able Than Lace Trimmings
The Accommodating Over
blouse of Chiffon.
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Description of the
Fashion Photos Above
No. Linen Shirt Waist With
nro wnuork

No. Linen Shirt Waist With
Drawnwork.
EoR the tailored shirt waist nothing is
! as satisfactory as handk erchief linen.
This fabric may be made sheer as
desired, and it's beauty of texture remains
unchanged through innumerable launder-
ings. The woman who can do simple
drawnwork patterns on linen may have
an exceedingly handsome shirt vast Of
this sort at very little expense. The
linen is first well shrunken. and after
the threads have been pulled the bat
tern is made over a frame before the
shirt waist is cut out of the linen. Two
pleats, one over the other, at the Shout
der give sufficient fullness to the front
of the waist.
No. 2-Marquisette, Cool and Pretty
THE soft marquisette blouses. when
daintily fashioned. are much liked
for wear with tailored suits for morning
and travelling use. Marquisette launders
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No. 2-Marquisette, Cool and Pretty

lettuce cups either curving whole lettuce
leaves into nests or shred the lettuce anu
curl into cups In each of these cups or
nests put three or four of the stuffed
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Apple Croquettes.

This is specially appetzng dish to
serve with roast pork, goose or game
and is prepared as follows:
Press the juice from a sufficient guam
tity of stewed dried apples to make a
pint. Mash very fine, then add table
spoonful of butter. sugar to sweeten
slightly and a few bits of stick cinnamon
Put over the fire and when hot stir in
u tablespoonful OF cornStarch and a tea
spoonful salt. wet to a thin paste with
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is mainly because of improper cooking
Rapid cooking, the usual method. de-
stroys the flavor and toughens the fruit
The average housewife does not soak
the fruit long enough. The correct
preparation is one of the slowest Of
processes; but the result proves it's
worth. Wash the fruit thoroughly In
warm water, piece by piece, rubbing
through two or three waters, then
soak in cold water twelve or fourteen
hours. Next day put in a stone pot
If you are going to cook 1T in the over,
or granite or porcelain-lined kettle
If to be cooked on top of the stove
Never use tin or iron for any kind of
fruit unless the tin Is perfectly new.
Cook slowly. covered. in the same water
the fruit was soaked in for three or four
hours. stirring occasionally with 4
wooden or silver spoon. If the water
gets low replace from the tea kettle,
though with the gentle simmering the
water does not reduce rapidly. About
ten minutes before taking up sweeten
to taste. Prunes seldom need any
sugar. the long soaking and cooking
having developed the natural flavor and
sweetness of the fruit
Apples. peaches and apricots usually
require a cup of sugar for each pound
o. fruit. Cooked in this way the juice
should be thick enough to almost jelly
when cold. Apples do not require long
cooking d the apricots. but longer soak
ing little nutmeg may be added to
the apple. but the apricots need no other
seasoning. Prunes are improved by hav-
'ng fine sprinkling of the thin rind OF
an orange or lemon added.
Personally. l prefer the even cooking
If have "a fire for other purposes. 1t
would not pay in summer to keep hot
fire for one dish alone. In this case use
the smmerer on the gas stove. or push
far back on the coal range.
The following receipts will serve to
demon trate the possibilities Of dried
fruit. and be suggestive OF other COM
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-01
GAVE LIFE TO SAVE MANY
Missouri Section Hand Prevented
Wreck But Was Killed.

Mexico, No.. Dec. IA heroic act was
enacted near this city when Curtis Cen
try, Wabash section hand. saved east
bound passenger train No. 20 from being
derailed while running at unusual speed,
by removing a jack from beneath the
rails in the face of the oncoming train
He saved. no doubt. over score of pas
sengers from death and many more from
serious injury. by his GOODNESS. but he lost
his own life in doing so. He was struck
by the engine just as he succeeded in re-
moving the jack.
A gang of section hands were repairing
thes Wabash track near Thompson and
were not expecting the train at the time
All ran aside for safety except Gentry,
who saw at a glance that the elevated
position of one of the rails would surely
wreck the train if the prop beneath was
not removed.
Unhesitating, he stuck to his post and
extracted the Jack used to pry the rails,
just the engine struck him.
Travelling men and passengers aboard
made up snug purse for the family of
the hero, and all stated that they expected
to increase the sum soon as they reach
ed home. The regard with which the pas
sengers viewed the beheaded body of the
unfortunate man, who gave his life for
theirs, was extremely pathetic, both men
and women sobbing their thanks to the
mangled form of the hero.
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CO he said. 81 have
never heard a rumor of this kind and
no one has approached me on the
subject. I do understand that the
ming John Wright for county treas
urer."
one of the prominent colored politi-
clans was seen at the city hall this
morning and when asked of the situa-
ton he said:
1--WE are going to run John Wright
for county treasurer and we are going
to try and make victory for him. AS
far as the commissioner dope is con-
cerned 1 have nothing to say. If the
people are figuring on such move 1
have had nothing to do with 1t"
Campaign Opens.
The preliminaries to the commission
primaries were opened the first of the
week when the people of North Topeka
circulated petition for the nomination
of their councilman, C. E. Jordan, for
commissioner under the new plan The
petition is readily signed and asks that
Mr.. Jordan take up the commissioner
race. 1t has always been thought that
Mr.. Jordan would run for mayor
against Mayor Green and Councilman
Howard together with Alderman
Hughes. Mr.. Jordan is one of the most
popular and we'll Informed councilmen
III Ln0 COulC1i lOudy dllQ Ills
and popularity combine to make him a
strong candidate.
This new petition would tend to give
Mr.. Jordan the first track in the COM
mission depot. Several of the close
friends of the First ward councilman
have been pulling in his interests for
some time and the petition came to
them as a surprise.
It is the opinion of the politicians
buzzing around the city half that Mr..
Jordan is either being literally support
ed by his friends in the First ward or
else the candidates for mayor agains.
him have circulated the petition in or
der to get him in the race for COM
missioner and keep him from entering
the mayoralty race.
The building permits for the last
month amounted to s263,545, or almost
a quarter of a million dollars. This
has been o-e of the greatest months of
the year and has swelled the total for
1909 up to 81, 3T5,917. In other words for
the year 1909 up to the present time the
building permits have amounted to al
most a million and a half dollars.
The ambition of the building permit
department of the city is to see the per-
mits amount to 81, 100000. few more
permits OF the big variety and another
month like November would total the
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CITY HALL NEWS.
New Sensation in Commission
Plan Politics.
Said That COlOred People Will
Run Candidate.
FIRST PETITION OFT.
North Side People Back COun-
Gilman Jordan.
Other Items of Interest Around
City Building.

Are the colored people of Topeka
going to have a candidate in the field
for commissioner under the commits
sion form of government? This is
the question that has caused a minia-
ture panic around the city hall and
the rumor gains influence as it passes
on from one politician to another.
1t is a well known fact that for the
last few days different colored peo-
pie over the city have visited several
of the public officials in their of
fees and they have sounded" them
as to the advisability of the scheme.
The colored politicians have given out
no names and they have not made
their plans public but it is known