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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-12-23
Curtains.

Bobinet curtains will be used a
great deal this season in parlors, din
ing rooms, libraries and bedrooms, diff
ferent styles being chosen to suit the
rooms. Cluny lace as decoration Is
a little newer than renaissance. al
though the latter is being used as
much as ever.
Imitation Brussels lace curtains are
to be had in good designs for very lit
tie money. 1t is often hard to tell
them from the real thing. Beautiful
curtains come in Nottingham, also in
the cheaper grades.
Colored curtains, like the barred
Madras, will not be used very much.
They are more of a summer than
winter drapery. Colored Nottingham
is bidding for favor, however. This
drapery comes in one or two tones, a
golden brown on tan being one of the
prettiest Of the latter
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-12-23
.Cocoanut Candy.

The following is a sweet popular in
the tropics. Obtain large fresh CO.
coanut and prepare as follows: Crate
the cocoanut into large, deep dish.
pour on it two glasses of hot water
and stir and knead with the hands un-
til it becomes quite creamy. Squeeze
hard through strainer until you have
two large glasses of the milk, adding
more water, if necessary, and discard
the dry cocoanut. Add the pound OF
sugar to the milk and put it on to
boil. If you can get lime, peel the
skin thinly in one piece without cut
ting into the pulp and put it into the
candy. 1t should be taken out when
you take the candy off the fire. Fail.
ing lime, CRATE some lemon rind and
squeeze some of the juice into the
candy. Boil without stirring until 1t
thickens in water, pour out on but
tered dish and as soon as cool enough
pull until creamy.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-12-23
A Cleaning Glove.

An ingenious woman has recently
contrived a cleaning glove and sleeve
protector which will be found of prac-
tical value to housekeepers. 1t con-
sists of fingerless wash-leather
glove, with a loose sleeve sewed on
at the wrist, which is gathered at the
end and elastic sewed inside, so that
the hand and arm may be slipped into
it, and the sleeve then pulled up over
the blouse sleeve wrist.
For cutting out the glove, simple
plan is to place hand upon the wash
leather and draw line around it,
allowing about half an inch in every
direction, so that the glove, when
finished, shall not fit too tightly. For
the sleeve any remnant of soft. light
material may be use. The glove will
not only prevent the hand from be-
coming soiled, but will also protect
the sleeve from the wrist to above the
elbow.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-12-23
Prize AnoeI Food.

Nine large eggs, whites, one and
one-fourth cups granulated sugar, one
half cup -four, one-fourth cup corn
starch, one teaspoon cream tartar,
pinch of baking powder, and salt. Sift
sugar four times, then measure. Sift
-four four times, then measure. Mix
-four and cornstarch and cream tar
ter and baking powder and sift. Beat
whites of eggs to stiff froth; fold in
sugar and favoring. Lastly fold in
sifted -four and cornstarch. Bake in
moderate oven 40 minutes in any un-
creased pan. This makes a cake that
will melt in your mouth. Measuring
cup should hold one-half pint. If you
wish to pour anything boiling hot into
glass set the glass on wet cloth and
1t will never break. Yolks of eggs
can be kept from getting a crust over
the top by greasing a cloth with lard
and spreading over top of bowl
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-12-23

little peroxide on it tomorrow"
Shades of Romeo! Memories of
Dante and Beatrice! Was it any
wonder that Prudence brought her
pretty lips together in a straight line
and registered mental VOW that AL
fred should rue this speech some day?
Let us now pass lightly on again.
Come we now to Christmas eve. Pru-
dence had, by ways and means familiar
to the feminine mind, conveyed to the
bashful Alfred the intelligence that
she had made for him Christmas re-
membrance. Never mind how she did
this. You, If you are man grown,
will be able to bark back into your
own past and bring up some instances
Of woman's diplomacy wherein she
was able to tell you something with
out saying anything in particular. Just
gave your intuition chance.
Knowing this, Alfred knew that it
was his bounden duty to reciprocate-
and to reciprocate In advance. AL
ways, always, man must reciprocate
in advance to a lady.
So Alfred might have been seen
stepping hesitatingly up the steps of
the Milton home on Christmas eve.
He carried small package in one
hand. 1t was his intention to deliver
this to whoever came to the door, with
a message that it was for Prudence.
In answer to his ring no less per-
son than Prudence herself opened the
door. Her eyes were sparkling, her
cheeks were rosy, and in one hand she
held bunch of green stuff"
"Why, Alfred!" she exclaimed.
Come right in. I'm putting up the
Christmas green's"
So Alfred came right in, shyly and
slyly depositing the little package on
a small table in the hall as he entered.
Prudence led the way to the living
room, which was empty of other peo-
pie, fortunately, at that moment.
won't you help me?" she asked.
81 think it Is such fun to decorate the
house with the holly and stuff for the
holidays. Now I've just been trying
to tie this bunch to the chandelier"
She mounted chair and affixed the
bunch of green sprays to the chande-
lied. Alfred stood in dumb admira-
ton. He looked at Prudence, and he
looked at the green herbiage which
she fastened to the fixture. She look
ed down at him, smiling, then put out
her hand.
Help me down." she said
Alfred caught her hand to assist her
to come from the chair
Heroes are made in a moment No
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-12-23
SYNOPSIS.

Archibald Terhune. a popular and In
dolent young bachelor Of London. re-
cetves news that he has been made helr
to the estate of his Aunt Georgiana, with
an income of $4,000 a year, on condition
that he becomes engaged to be married
within ten days. Failing to do so the
legacy will go to third cousin In Amer
lea. The story opens at Castle Wyckoff
where Lord Vincent and his wife, friends
of Terhune, are discussing plans to hnd
him a wife within the prescribed time 1t
seems that Lady Vincent is one of seven
persons named Agatha, all close girlhood
chums. She decides to invite two of them
to the castle and have Archie there as
one of the guests. Agatha Sixth strikes
Archie as a handpainted beauty. Agatha
First is a breezy American girl. Lady
Vincent tells her husband that Agatha
Sixth already cares for Archie. He gains
from Agatha Sixth the admission that
she cares for him, but will require
months time fully to make up her mind
Agatha First, neglected by Terhune, re-
ceives attentions from Leslie Freer. -Four
days of the precious time have passed
when Terhune is called to London on
business. Agatha First. on the plea of
sickness, excuses herself from motor
trip planned by the Vincents.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-12-23
TRY A GERMAN APPLE CUP
Simple Recipe Furnishes a Pleasing
Variety In Method of Serving
Apples.

Select fine-grained apples, one for
each service; core and pare, leaving
on section of the skin, in the shape
of a ring, near one end of the apples
Cut heart stalks of celery very fine,
but do not chop it. Mix the celery
with mayonnaise dressing, to which
half the bulk of whipped cream has
been added. Add also more salt and
pepper. Use this mixture to fill the
hollow centers Of the apples, rounding
it up, above the apple little. In the
center of the mixture in each apple set
a tiny heart leaf of lettuce. Place the
apples on lettuce leaves and serve
at once The ring of apple skin gives
a little color to the dish. The end OF
the apple on which it is left should be
upward. If the apples must stand
after pairing, rub over the exposed
surfaces very lightly with the cut side
of a lemon. This will prevent discoE
grafton.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-12-23

mo" I said shortly, too absorbed
in conjecturing the meaning of the
strange discovery l had just STUN
bled upon to invent any excuse for
the failure Of my errand.
We'll just have to walk home"
said "Pederson can wait with the
car and I'll send him help from the
castle"
And all the way home l pondered
upon my queer adventure. What
could Agatha First be doing in a
strange automobile in the middle of
the woods when she was supposed to
be i'll at home, and who was the man
who was with her, the owner Of the
checked coat? That was the most
mysterious part of the whole business
to me, and though l racked by brain
I could not possibly think who he
might be!
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-12-23

front seat, light pongee coat about
her, with an air Of expectancy, as if
she awaited the coming Of some one
not far off, sat Agatha First. Yes,
the very same. AS cheerful and as
much herself as if she had not plead
ed a headache as an excuse for not
automobiling with us that morning.
l stood stock still in the road as
my unwilling eyes took in this amaz-
ing sight, and it was full minute
before my routed wits apprehended
the significance of mans checked
automobile coat that hung over the
back of the seat beside her. Evi-
IDENTIFY she was with some one, which
somehow seemed less extraordinary
at the moment than that she should
be alone. Her escort though not
visible was apparently not far dis
tant, for even as / stared, Agatha
First rose in the machine displaying
huge bunch Of wild flowers in her
hands as she did SO, and hallooed to
him. Don't pick any morai" she
called, 81 don't want any utufe flow
6I L " dDI yOu. - laugh QuItc nSCtl CJ
hand sounded for a response and hur-
riedly started back down the road
| wanted awfully to see who the man
that belonged to the checked coat
was, but l wanted still more to es-
cape being seen either by him or by
my eccentric guest, Miss EndiCott.
The possibility that l might fall in
with the former returning from his
little ramble flowers in hand, almost
made me run, and the fear that in
looking for him, the latter was al
ready on the point of discovering my
retreating form, caused me to stick
close to the roadside and the shelter
of the trees like any thief or tres
passer And, by Jove! l didn't
breathe freely till I'd sighted my own
machine standing in the sunlight at
the crossroads. It's a nasty posi-
ton for a chap to be caught in,
eavesdropping, and if they had seen
me they would never have believed
l had not been spying on them.
''Did you get a jack?" inquired
Freer as l came up. He could see
perfectly well that l was empty
handed.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-12-23
SOME DAINTY PUDDING
DELICIOUS CoNCOCTIoNS THAT
WILL TEMPT PALLED PALATES.
Recipes That Will Furnish House
wife Pleasing Variety in Des-
serts-Pumpkin Pie Without
Eggs-Cocoanut Candy.

Grape Juice Pudding.-Three table
spoonfuls tapioca, two teacupfuls hot
water, juice of one lemon, one teacup-
full grape juice, sugar enough to sweet
en- to taste. Boil all together, stil
ring constantly to prevent scorching,
until the mixture begins to Jelly.
Pour in dish, cool, then place it on
the ice. When ready to serve, line
bottom of glass with marshmallow, fill
with the pudding, garnish with whip
ped cream, and cherry on top.
Bitter Almond Pudding.-Put one
pint Of milk over the fire; beat the
yolks of two eggs with a quarter cup
Of grated maple sugar or brown sugar; !;
mix two level tablespoonfuls of corn
starch In a little cold water or milk;
add this with the sugar and egg to the
scalding milk; stir until thickened; !;
flavor with half a teaspoonful of bitter
almond extract; pour into pudding
dish and cover with a meringue made
with the whites of eggs and powdered
sugar.
Caramel Mousse.-Cook half cup,
Iul of sugar to a caramel add one
third of a cupful of boiling water,
1rawing it to side of fire and stir
until the caramel is melted. Then set
away to chill thoroughly. Fold this
mixture into a pint of double cream
beaten to a dry solid froth. Or use
the chilled whip from one and one
half pints of single cream. Beat the
whole together until solid, then pack
and freeze in the usual manner.
Steamed Ginger Pudding.-Put one
cupful Of milk and three tablespoon
fuls of butter in a saucepan, and when
boiling throw in quickly three-quarters
of cupful Of -four, and stir until thick
and smooth. Take from the fire, beat
and set away until cool; then add one
at time five unbeaten eggs, mixing
and beating each in thoroughly before
adding the next. Add three ounces of
preserved ginger cut in small bits,
add two tablespoonfuls of the syrup.
Butter pudding mold, dust it with
sugar, pour in the mixture and steam
1t for two hours.
Pumpkin Pie Without Eggs.-One
cup Of pumpkin-or one quart of fresh
stewed-one quart sweet milk, nine
soda crackers, rolled or ground fine.
one and one-half cups sugar, one ta-
blespoonful -four, one teaspoonful gin
ger, one teaspoonful cinnamon, one
half teaspoonful nutmeg, one-half tea
spoonful salt, and tablespoonful melted
butter. Beat all well together and
pour into three open crusts. These
are light and rich and as good as
though eggs were used and much
cheaper, now that eggs are soaring.
Condensed milk and water may be
used with equal good results.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-12-23

said" l gaped at her a moment,
then seized her shoulder.
DO you mean to say 1t was Archi-
bald?" l cried, "who was the owner
of the checked coat?"
81 didn't say" she replied, only
1t does look little like it, doesn't it?
You see he couldn't go to the cricket
with us because he had to go up to
London, and she, because she had a
headache. VOLTA tout"
But we saw the Wire" l objected
"Oh, as to that" she said, " a tele-
grams easily enough cooked up! He
had only to write one himself and tell
the station-master to send 1t over.
We none of us examined it closely.
It's an old dodge, you know"
80 it is." I cried, and you're
right. 1t must have been old Ter
hume! What dunderhead I've been
not to see 1t before! But l say" |
added, less exuberantly as a thought
struck me, IF that's the case, what
does he mean by it, Dearest. What
wv IhCJ DOIh hlSdH ny II, ne and she!
And what does it portend in regard
to the match we're trying to make be-
tween Arch and Miss Lawrence? An
sWer any of those questions if you
can! Wiseacre that you are, l be-
lieVe you'll have to let me count ten
on that"
I'm afraid l will" she admitted, as
puzzled as | was. You see l never
knew Agatha Endicott as we'll as |
did the other five Agathas-as we'll
as l do Agatha Sixth, and then you
know Agatha Sixth has visited me
before, and this is the first time I've
seen Agatha First since we parted
on the occasion of my marriage"
CTO BE CONTINUEDl
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-12-23
Boston Baked Chicken.

Cut chicken into small pieces as
for stewing, wash and wipe dry;
sprinkle with salt and dip each piece
in melted butter, then coat with
-four. Put into bean pot, laying the
larger pieces in the bottom of the pot
and putting any pieces of chicken fat
on top. When the chicken is all in
pour over it one and one-half cups of
boiling water and cover tightly with
the lid. If the chicken is a young one
bake 1t for one and one-half hours
The juices, fat and -four will make an
excellent gravy. Take out the chick
en- when done and arrange with the
gravy on a dish or serve direct from
the bean pot, first seasoning to taste.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-12-23
Seofch Buns.

Scald four cups of milk, dissolve
half yeast cake. While milk is scald-
ing cream one and a half cups sugar,
two eggs and two-thirds cup butter
When milk is cool pour in above mix
ture with a heaping teaspoon of salt
and bread -four enough to make batter
nearly as stiff as for bread. Set to
rise over night. Roll out to half inch
thick. Spread we'll with soft butter,
sprinkle with brown sugar and those
small seedless raisins and cinnamon
if liked. Roll up as for jelly cake.
Cut in slices half inch in thickness,
place in creased pan two hours and
bake. Cover tops with powdered
sugar and water to spread. Great
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-12-23

and save her or perish in the attempt.
Such heroic remark as that would of
course lead into a more passionate
avowal of his reasons for being will
ing to lay down his young life for her
and then, of course, he could easily
hop-skip right along to request that,
since he was willing to die for her,
she might consider favorably a propo-
sition to share his life with him, or
words to that effect.
But when she asked him, with a
tremulous shake in her lovely voice,
and with a world of faith and trust
in her lustrous eyes:
what would you do if the boat
capsized?"
He never even stopped rowing He
just said:
1T wouldn't matter much. The wa
ter isn't over three feet deep here"
Prudence almost capsized the boat
from sheer vexation then. When a
woman becomes vexed with a man be-
cause he does not realize that he loves
her, you may go out and stake all
your worldly possessions that sooner
or later she will bring that man to
his knees, or her feet, as you like to
put it.
Let us pass lightly over the glorious
days of fall, when Prudence allowed
Alfred to call several times and find
her in the kitchen with an apron on
helping her mother put up jellies and
preserves and things. Let us even
pass lightly over the evening when
she showed him the blister upon her
fair white hand made by a sputter-
ing drop of apple butter. Yes, pass
lightly over it. Any sane man, any
man in possession Of ordinary facul-
ties, when a beautiful young creature
held out little white hand and show
ed him a blister thereon-not big
blister, just sort of a beauty spot of
a blister-would have taken that hand
in his and all but wept over 1t. He
would have asked her to give that
hand to him and to come along with
it herself, and would have sworn by
high heaven and the marching stars
and the sun and moon and sky that
never again should that wonderful
hand know the wearying stress of
toll, What did Alfred do?
He looked at the blister appraising
ly-without taking those taper fingers
in his-and he said:
stick a needle under 1t from one
side and let the water out, then put
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-12-23

man knows In what instant his soul
may flame within him so that he will
do and dare as he never dreamed Of
doing or daring. The philosophers
call such times psychological mo-
ments. This was one. Alfred helped
Prudence down, and it was quite nat
ural and easy for her to find herself
in his arms when she reached the
floor. And then before she knew what
he was about-at least, so she said
he had kissed her.
Mister Ruthven!" she exclaimed.
How dare you?"
TI-you know-the-the mistle-
toe!" he stammered, disengaging one
arm and pointing to the decoration
above her head.
Il forgot that" she said, demurely.
And then Alfred found tongue at
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-12-23
WHAT CHRISTMAS MEANS

Christmas is far other and more
than a vision, poetic rendering Of
the facts of life; it is an event set
deep not only in the history Of men,
but in their faith, their worship and
their way of life. They have never
risen to it's level; they have never,
by united effort, given it's spirit the
tremendous effectiveness of concerted
action; but, even in their infirmity of
intention and their feebleness of prac-
tise Christmas has given their life on
earth a diviner meaning and kind
lier habit. 1t has enormously in
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-12-23

80, they stopped, did they?" l asked
and thought to myself with some sat
isfaction that they were in trouble
too. The misery that SO often at
tends an automobilist is especially
fond of company.
wonder if they'd lend us a jack?'
l remarked aloud. What kind Of a
machine was it, kd?"
"a whoppin' big feiler red, like
your lordship's," said the boy. OF
course he knew me, even If l d1dnl
know him. He was probably the
butchers or bakers boy from Wye
on his way back from the castle.
Sounds rather promising" said
Dearest. do go and see If they
can't help us out. l don't want
Agatha Lawrence to walk all that
way home in this mud"
Very WELL" said, but it sounds
as If they were in need Of assistance
themselves! Why else should they
want to stop in the middle of the
woods? However, I'll make the at
tempt. Freer, you stay by the la
dies. and I'll go and see what l can
do" And just stopping to give the
little boy a shilling or two for his
information, l strobe down the wood
road in the direction he had pointed
out.
l hadn't gone far and was just
wondering again what in the world
would possess any one to push down
so narrow a road in a big machine,
when the machine in question came
in sight. 1t was a big touring car,
red like mine, to be sure, but an en-
tirely different make, and l stopped
and stared at it in an overwhelming
surprise. But not for any reason in
connection with the automobile itself.
1t was the girl who was its sole pas
senger that held my attention and
caused my surprise. Sitting in the
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-12-23
Sweet Potato Pone.

AS an acceptable change a sweet
potato pQne will be found delicious
This Is a Virginia dish which need
only be tried to commend itself to
further favor. To make it cream to-
gether one-half pound of butter and
an equal amount of powdered sugar.
add a scant tablespoonful of ginger
and alternately four beaten eggs
and three-fourths of a pound of graf
ed sweet potato. Beat well, then add
one-half gill of sour milk in which
one-half teaspoonful Of soda has been
dissolved. Beat again, then pour into
a buttered baking dish and bake two
hours.
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Spite.

Miss Purity is going to sing some
of the old Christmas waits says the
man In the background. You know
the waits are the songs that were so
popular many years ago"
rs she?" asks the woman in the
background who does not like the at
tention Miss Purity is receiving. I
see she is going to refer to the print
ed songs, too should think she could
sing them from memory
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-12-23
Caught!

DO you remember me buying a hair
mattress from you the other day p"
asked the lady.
"Perfectly well, ma'am," was the re,
ply of the dealer.
We'll, I've discovered that only
about one-quarter of the filling is hair"
Then you certainly do seem to have
me where the hair is short, maam."
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-12-23
To Save Her Gloves.

Having been unfortunate in losing
or mislaying my gloves quite frequent
ly, or even one OF what was always
sure to be new pair, l devised the
plan of writing my name with ink on
the inside of the wrist of each glove
This has saved the expense of more
than one new pair and has been a
lasting source Of comfort.-G A., in
Harpers Bazaar.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-12-23
Often the Case.

so Woofer discussed the tariff bill
in his remarks last night?" asks the
man with the serrated eyebrows. Did
he say much?"
NO." explains the man with the
disconnected whiskers, but he talked
a great deal"