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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-21
PENNSYLVANIA,

BUENA VISTA SPRING HOTEL.
South Mountain, Franklin Co Pa
Season opens June ~.
Most delightful resort south of Adirondacks
1000 feet above sea. Cool, dry peerless
spring water. Superb scenery. Every convcn
fence for rest and recreation. Uncxcelled cuisine
New mana ycment-
For terms and booklet address EDwARD
DAVIS. Mgr. care Hotel Rennert. Baltimore
my21 -sa tu tn. lot 10
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Hotel FrOmtemac

1000 ISLANDS. ST. LAWRENCE RIVER. Nv
OPENS JUNE 49,
magnificent Hotel, delightfully."- situated IN
island in the st. Lawrence River, with an ox
elusive class of patronage. The favorite wstar
for motorboats and boat racing Fishing. rowinc
and all aquatic sports. A picturesque nine hois
golf course free to guests Of the hotel cIubbonse
equipped with swimming pool shower baths etc
Tennis UneQualed bass and fresh water fishInc
near hotel. For full informatio address e =
TRUSSEII. Mgr. Town and Country. 3s9 9Th
ave. New York Also Mgr. Bon Air. Augusta Ga.
my12- tn sa, Su, tn, BOT, 20 49,
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NEW HAMPSHIRE.
GRANLIDEN HOTEL

LAKE SUNAPEE " H.
ore or the finest hotels in this country. At the
gateway Of the White Mountains t;ood Golf
etc. Write for circular. W W. BROWN Man.
haitian Hotel. New York. \. Y. until June 4.
then Grsnliden Hotel. Lake sunapee " H.
myl N. ga. S,I. got. 10
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Home-Made Fneless Cooker

A Kentucky correspondent sends In
capital recipe for homemade bread
which l lay aside reluctantly We de-
voted so much space to yeast last week
that other subjects claim hearing to-
dav.
The concluding paragraph of the let
ter has to do with another matter:
Have any of the readers of the Exchange
a homemade hreless cooker p ia like to
they must be an economical device for
housekeepers NJ r. w (Kentucky).
An excellent patented tireless cooker
has been in constant use in my kitchen
for two years past. We never think OF
cooking corned beef soups, boiled NUT
ton or fricasseed chicken. in any other
way.
But my first trial of The valuable
Friend of the HOUSEWIFE was an i'm
prOHptu and so crude as 10 appear
ridiculous 10 incredulous lookers-on.
Our old friend and ally is kept by us
in grateful memory of his services
The Courteous Consulting Chemist,
wrote to the Corner Of the .sfireless
cooker" as he had seen ii in his native
Germany. A Norwegian followed with
a description OF the same which has
5peen 4 IN =, ,common use in Norway and IN
my country house kitchen, letters in
hand. and summoned English Robert,
my gardener and general utility man, to
conference.
Under my direction he filed hoy
With nay. packing Ii hard: followed the
center TO receive a pot taken boiling
from me range. Said pot held the oat-
meal porFidge the cook was cooking for
breakfast. Il had boiled just ten min
uses pefore II was popped into the pre-
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those Of soft flesh. If you have any
on the subject. yet cannot
refuse the 'delicacy" %, lessen the peril
by seasoning it with red pepper and
tart sauce or clear lemon juice.
Purchase none that is in the least
doubtful as to age. If the eye be dull
and sunken and the fins fiabby. take to
yourself the benefit of the doubt and
let it alone.
have talked at length upon fish pto-
maines because danger turks more fre-
quently in this perishable article Of
diet than in any other. The edible
mushroom is a close second If the
truth were known. we should find that
many eases of illness attributed 70
poisonous fungi, gathered by mistake.
should have been ascribed to stale
mushrooms. that were harmless when
freshly gathered. Give a wide berth to
such as are offered as bargains because
mot quite fresh. you know When
they begin to wither into fiabbiness and
curl up at the edges, the ptomaines
are getting in their fine work. Red pep
per and lemon may. and win. kill the
weaker breed of destroyers. They avail
little against those that have had three.
days start.
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sure a goodly supply OF rich roast-beef
gravy, pour two cupfuls of boiling wa
ter, slightly salted. over the beef when
1t goes into the pan. This sears the sur
race and prevents too rapid escape Of
the meat juices. Cook In covered
half hour. Have at hand hot butter
and water, and baste with this alter
nately with the liquid that flows from
the meat. Turn the meat at the end of
hot dsh Mhea and Il heRsn SSns m he tns RraTy sfa
the pan with Drowned flour. Season to
taste. Send to table in a gravy boat.
Boiled Indian Meal Pudding.
Scald a quart of milk (do not let It
boiD and add to it, as it heats, a pinch
OF SODA Now stir into it half pound
OF finely chopped suet from which the
strings have been taken 1t should be
Hke coarse meal for fineness. Cook one
mlnute and put in gradually, stirring
sleaully. TWO cupfuls of Indian meal,
Win a scapt teaspoonful OF salt. Cook
Two minutes and turn out TO cool. When
1t Is perfectly cold beat into the mush a
small cupful Of molasses, a half tea
spoonful OF ground ginger. the same
quantity of soda dissolved in hot wa
ter and three weli-beaten eggs. Beat
hard for full minute, and add grad
ually cupful of seeded raisins well
dredged with -four.
Boil in buttered mould for three
hours and eat with hard sauce.
Baked Indian Meal Pudding.
Add to pint of yellow cornneaI an
even teaspoonful of salt and sift
twice. Have a pint of boiling water
over the fire and stir the meal grad
ually into this, beating hard When
and pour into 1t quart and a pint of
scalding hot milk. Cook in the double
boiler for an hour. Take from the
fire and let it get cold. Then beat
n a arc I.
whipped light, coffeecupful of
molasses, a tablespoonful of. melted
butter and sa1tspoonful each Of
ground ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg.
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AN UGLY NAME

f'Ptomaine poison is a phrase sprung
upon us within the last decade. The
thing itself is an old acquaintance. al
though thus lately christened.
1t is an ungainly term, with a very
ugly root, being derived from a Greek
word, signifying a corpse, with the
added significance Of falling In the
loose way even educated people have
Of fitting words to things that come
handy we associate our new scientific
term with fish, seldom applying it else
where. In fact, It is the generic name
of alkaloid bodies formed from animal
or vegetable tissues during putrefac-
ton" From these alkaloid germs thus
evolved spring livelier bacteria. and so
on and so on, and, for all we know. ad
infinitum.
We knew, and our ancestors before
us. that stale fish is one of the most
deadly of unwhclesome foods, long be-
fore chemists helped US to a name for
the noxious principle pervading it. The
very elements that make 1t a valuable
brain food are. by decomposition. per-
yerted into ptomaine.
Without knowing why, we learned
long ago that fish is less likely to dis
agree with delicate stomachs If eaten
with acid sauce or with the accompani-
ment OF pure acid. When mere child
1 discovered that shad did not cause in
digestion when I seasoned il with vinegar
OF lemon Without suspicion that the
deadly ''aikaloid'' was thus measurably
counteracted. I fell into the habit of
using acids with fish. 1t was through
sinstinctive obedience to what we felt
rather than knew that we came to con-
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pared cavity without lifting the lid and
packed in quickly and snugly with
heated hay. Over the hay was fitted
the wooden top of the box. a heavy
weight held it fast, and over box and
all Was wrapped an old comforter. The
clumsy contriyance was left on the
kitchen table all night. At 8 o'clock
next morning 1t was unwrapped and the
pot disinterred under my eye. The por-
cooked
We stewed fruit. made soups and
stews In 1t afterward / had not then
neard that any patent of the fireless
cooker, was in the American market.
Now there are at least dozen.
For convenience sake use one. 1t is
not easy to get hay in town. and the
homemade article has inconveniences
avoided by the patent. All the same,
our Kentucky member may construct
ner own. improving upon my rude con-
I.rlvance. It is a great saver of coal and
time. and by allowing the fire in the
range to go down on hot summer moons
Wlthout checking the cooking of meats,
vegetables and soups for dinner is an
inestimable comfort.
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wash over with vinegar and 4. dash oe
red pepper.
Lay a lump OF charcoal in the bottom
OF the chamber OF the refrigerator In
which milk and butter are kept
Make free use Of the whitewash brush
in the root cellar. and everywhere let
in the free air and sunshine (when you
can get IT'D once day. Have wire
screens In your windows and doors all
summer long.
Corruption breeds In warm darkness,
and is carried into your dwellings upon
the feet and feelers OF insects. The
price OF security from perils. visible
and microscopic. IS eteranl and intelli-
gent vigilance.
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A1zsty meal viii develop meal worms = ?

been in the must and sourness. actu-
ally knew one frugal housewife who
sifted the weevils out of the -four and
use! 1t never occurred TO her that there
might be as many invisible germs in the
sifted -four as there were living wrig-
glers before she used the sieve.
Custards develop poisonous qualities
If kept too long. Not a dozen years
ago twenty families in one neighbor-
hood OF great city bought custard
pies from the same confectioner. and
all who ate Of them were made i'll. The
symptoms were distinctly those Of poi
soning. and investigation was made. The
confectioner confessed that the custard
had been made three days before the
pies were baked. Also, that the pies
we're twenty-four hours old before they
were offered for sale. Chemical analy-
sis showed the presence Of some deadly
agent--I forget what. Now we should
call it ''ptomaine."
Sprouting potatoes are unwholesome.
1 have said before. and repeatedly. that
the water In which raw potatoes
are cooked should be thrown away as
unfit for culinary purposes. In some
countries it is reckoned poisonous. Old
potatoes should be cooked In two waters.
Sprouting potatoes should not be cooked
at all, except for chickens and pigs.
Luckily. the rank smell that goes with
the pale, dingy green of the peeled
vegetable repels the would-be eater.
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MORE UNSAFE FOOD

Mouldy bread is another lurking place
for ptomaines. I have heard house
keepers gravely assert that mould
does not hurt bread" A woman who
had studied domestic science in college
argued with me, to her own satisfac-
ton. that mould, being a vegetable
growth, when it appears upon stale
bread, is as harmless as yeast, .tOf
which it may be said to be a by-prod-
uct,'' she concluded. Under the micro
scope you would see a miniature forest
in that slice of mouldy bread. Toast
it, and you have dead Woodworking
worse"
She may have been right. 1 may err
in advising my fellow-housemothers to
keep bread from moulding. if possible,
and to throw 1T to pigs and chickens
when the blue-edged forests appear
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auage feSAHe.se SI eye ard I'm.

is a degree of truth in the rumors
touching the germs that are proof
against freezing, and which. if torpid
for time. regain life and action in
the human stomach. I have tasted ice
that had the tang" of copperas and
was frankly condemned by scientific
men who analyzed it, I have detected
other fiavors in ice that should be alb
solutely destitute OF any taste or smell.
Clearly. it is the part of prudence
never to put suspected ice into glass or
pitcher. Set the vessel of water in the
icebox or pack it with broken ice long
enough TO cool it. Nobody is compelled
to drink a beverage in which ice is dis
solved, unless one wills to do it. Give
yourself the benefit of the doubt when
you suspect some danger near in the
guise Of equivocal ice.
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German and French Books
AN 9 domestic science graduate of
PratNInstitute. Hence I may say that

Il AN 9 domestic science graduate of
Il PretNInstitute Hence may say that
than the average housekeeper.
When I began housekeeping two years
ant type-strong, elean and willingLin pref-
erence to Americans | had TO train my
maids. who had beer. in the country but
six weeks. AS ! could speak a little Ger
man. we, could Understand one another
For a wear there was not a meal except
breakfast. which I did not superintend
personally. The housemaid left me a year
ago 70 be hookkeeper in grocery store.
lime NV cook cannot read English wei.
Inleretore. Inc she does not comprehend GER
10 practice in cookery
At last / am coming to the point of
this episte. Can you tell me where. / can
ind in this country. written in German.
i nook corresponding q -Knight's Practical
sSo.Aery anG sclent;nc Reasons, or Will
Of Practical Coolxery''g
Also. where can nnd in translation a
50 cften gwen hints as 10 the economies OF
French housewives. and 1 should like so
much 70 learn more OF these that make
this application. Do YOU know of such :.
S. F. NJ. tPeoria. nl.)
l am sorry not TO be able TO help you
IN the struggle with Kitchen German. 7"
NY first cookbook Common Sense in
the Household was translated into
German, and the translation is stfll 70
pe had from the publishers, but that
does not trest Of scientific reasons for
practical cookery.
French Dishes for American Tables. .
W Flerre Caron. has been translated by
Mrs. Frederic Sherman; 1t may meet
your second demand gained nv
knowledge Of French housewifely meth
ian patent:
First the boy spells thing and then
ne goes and does IT. Having lived
aoroad for several years, and kept house
land and Italy, / became toiera ll,, vvsil
acquainted with the cuisine of each
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Three Wants

l. Please tell me how to make good,
strong roast-beef gravy
II, Give recipe for molasses cornmeal
b. How to make the old-fashioned baked
indian ian meal pudding we had an Connecticut
a. Ihinksgiving time when / was a boy.
gredlents were baked all day. and came
out rich brown. C. z. r. (Chicago).
l can give both recipes. I wish I
bov's 1850 ngse 70 Supply Win tEem the
ance upon the table
IAN. the days that are no morei and
tne eager zest that rarely outlives the
sp1ngtime of human lifel
iour beef gravy is not relished by the
eplcure of today. He prefers the ruddy
JUICE that follows the carvers knife. and
Is known colloquially as dish gravy
railing this. he calls for horseradish
cream sauce, made by whipping together
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THE HOUSEMOTHERS' EXCHANGE

Turn all into creased pudding
dish and cook. covered, in a moderate
oven for two hours Uncover and
brown. Send to table in the dish in
which 1t was baked. Eat with hard
/ suspect that the recipe you are
looking for is the first of these. mixed
as I have directed. and baked. not
boiled.
fruit is a decided Improvement Are
you sure that 1t was not in your
Thanksgiving pudding?
T5Uo Timbales
Please let me know how to make fish
tfrnbales and mushroom timhales
Mrs. A. S. ]. (Chicago).
Fish Tmbales.
Mince fine cold boiled halibut, cod or
other firm fish; pound to paste a
dozen blanched and cold almonds. and
season TO taste with celery salt and
white pepper. Beat into cupful of the
mixed fish and almonds a stiff meringue
of the whites of three eggs; lastly, half
d cupful of whipped cream. Do Gn
quickly and turn at once into buttered
timbale moulds or nappies. Bake in a
quick oven and serve as soon as they
are done. turning them out upon a hot
dish. Serve with caper sauce.
Mushroom Timbales-
Skin the mushrooms and chop, then
pound them to a paste Season with
salt, white pepper and a very little fresh
butter When you have a smooth paste,
work in gradually, for a cupful OF the
mushrooms, half a cupful OF sweet
cream and the stiffened whites of three
eggs. Put through your vegetable press
and fill the buttered moulds with the
mixture Set the filed moulds in a drip
ping-pap in which there is an inch OF
water (hot) Cover the whole nan and
cook for fifteen minutes, or until the
timbales are set and heated through.
Serve with drawn butter
Cook the fish-moulds In the same way.
The water prevents the mixture from
sticking to the bottom Of the mould.
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slider lemon and sardines inseparable.
I think have told before of the chef
who boasted of having preserved fish
from decomposition by a process of vim
egar and charcoal. He builded better
than he knew
Granting that acid helps to ward off
the peril of ptomaine, stand fast to the
rule OF eating none except fresh fish
Cold storage has done an incaIculable
amount of harm here. Ten years ago
ate what was set before me as "the
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PREVENTIVE MEASURES

Raw oysters have had such black
eye Ito borrow a sporting phrase)
in some of our cities within the past
five years that word Of caution would
seem needless. In consequence of the
general alarm, the bfvalves have fallen
into disrepute as an opening course OF
dinner and luncheon. When they ap-
pear In this capacity, it is often under
the guise of oyster cocktails" The
acid and tabasco sauce are supposed to
neutralize or kill the poisonous bactlli.
Since prevention is, always and every
where. better than cure, 1t behooves the
wise manager Of the household TO shield
her provisions. raw and cooked. from
the peril of contagion. A fly will de-
posit enough eggs in meat in second
of time to stock 1t with larvae in less
than forty-eight hours. Therefore, keep
meats behind wire, and If they are to
be kept a day or SO without cooking.
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first shad of the season." and nearly
died as the penalty of misplaced con-
fdence. l discovered. after my recovery,
that 1t had lain in cold storage since
the preceding season. Frozen, hence
absolutely harmlessi' protested the
yender
! am an incorrigible infidel as to the
effect of freezing upon fish, particularly
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country. T have had the added advan-
tage of employing three excellent
French cooks In America. from whom /
gathered store of miscellaneous in
formation with regard to household
economics. An active apprenticeship of
Is worth a. fiye-year course in cook
ing class
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I've should suspect some danger near.
Where we possess delight"

Eve should suspect some danger near.
Where We possess delight
"HUS runs the pietistic whine. DR..
Isaac Watts said It. Like a host
OF other mechanical jingles turned
out from the same brain and
fingers, IL is unworthy of the man who
wrote some OF the noblest hymns in the
English language. The story goes that
the titled patrons. in corner OF whose
mansion he lived for years. expected
him to produce a hymn every morning
before he met them at breakfast He
was, during these years. engaged upon
the Divine Songs and Hymns that
earned him Immortality IN church and
Sunday school. II this be true, one
comprehends much and forgives almost
as much in the said productions"
In pondering the subject set down for
today's Talk. the pessimistic couplet set
at the head OF this article has haunted
me persistentiy. To q healthy body and
the normal appetite that should go with
health. eating is a delight The day has
gone clean out OF sight in which the
refined women and intellectual men
thought the pleasures OF the table be-
meath the consideration Of noble minds.
AS late as Sydney Smiths times. his
learned brethren. ecclesiastical ana lit
erary, frowned or sneered at the fri
volity or the epicureanism that dictated
the rhymeo salad recipe which IS pes
haps better known 70 the general read
ing public than any other effusion Of the
clerical wit
Our age is essentially practical and
commonsensible. When one has no rel
ssh for food Gin Sydney Smiths genera
ton. BLUM squires would have said no
stomach for victuals'D. we assume that
he is eiling in body or perturbed In
spirit One and al. we eat to live, and
are not ashamed to confess that we live
20 eat so far as to reckon the gratI-
hcaton Of appetite one OF the Joys Of
existence
Therefore, when brought UP against
The truth that dangers, seen and un-
seen, disport themselves in the food we
love and must have, we sieken at heart.
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upon It, I counsel the same, and
strongly. with regard to musty loaves.
1 am yet more positive in the convic-
ton that musty -four and souring In
dian meal are unsafe as food for human
creatures. Left to their own destruc-
ton as foods, the -four will develop
weevils and the meal mealworrns in
due time. The germs of both must have
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A CASE FOR CAUTION

At the outset Of our dissertation 7
call attention 70 the fact that caution
may degenerate into foolish squeamish-
ness. We have heard from babyhood
Of the overreiigious Brahn1in who, be-
Neving 1t mortal sin TO eat of any
living creature, perished with thirst
after mischievous Englishman showed
him drop OF wriggiing water under
the microscope. Fastidiousness akin to
this fanaticism moved the woman who
asked her doctor which was the lesser
risk. TO drink unboiled water with its
freight Of animalculae. or the fat cooked
liquid. which. she had been told, con-
tained no elements of nutriment.
That depends entirely, madam" re-
piled the witty Galen, upon whether
you choose TO make an aquarium or
cemetery Of your stomach"
Yet we cannot deny that the water
we drink is sometimes a fruitful source
OF disease. Witness the neighborhoods
that have been plague stricken by rivers
polluted at their sources or converted
into sewers in midfiow by filthy drain
sEo- During the Civil War the creeks
draining the outlying swamps into the
Chickahominy slew more than the
Federal guns. An officer who escaped
the fever that decimated his regiment
told me that he owed his safety to his
practice. persisted in from the begin
nlng OF the campaign. of drinking no
water that had not boiled at least forty
Hardly summer passes in which the
cry is not raised in our cities that the
water supply is tainted Sometimes.
ana oftener. we are warned that the ice
gathereo last winter in this or that
neighborhood is full Of typhoid germs.
II may be unwise TO disregard all these
danger signals. If il be established be-
yond peradventure that the water sup-
ply IS poisoned. let those who can AFFORD
Il drink bottled spring water guar
anteed TO be harmless, and let those
who cannot buy this by the case boil
ing.
Troublesone?' Of course il Isl But
tne game Is worth a thousand candles.
Know OF scores OF families where 4
regular part Of the summer work is
oolnng caIy as many gallons OF water
as Wlll last out the tWenty-four hours
II Is boiled for half an hour to make
sure OF the destruction of the most ro-
oust bacllh. then cooled. and that in
tended Tor table use or for drinking
between meals is set in the ice. There