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Questions Ans7uered

Can you afford space in the Exchange
novice in the procession Of housewifery
l. May sour milk and soda always De
substituted for sweet milk and baking
O. should like to get a recipe for
simple salad dressing with exact meas
to taste recipe . pi sase. as 1 myself do
not like salad dressing.
3. A recipe for cornbread which is sure
TO be light and not very sweet
4. Which contains most bone and waste
les n o Rb s S9east s Of size Veal faa ol
Of pork?
8. A good recipe for filling the pocket of
6. Did those who enameled the inside OF
Z. May. not the Exchange be printed upon
some other page? ! wish to cut out the
pseTns and eannot aso do S sosb the
In return offer my tribute:
EscalIoped Corn.
P% a. layer of canned, or OF fresh. corn
In bakedish. then one of cracker crumbs
dotted with butter. Proceed in this order
until your, dish is, full. or the materials
it TO soak into the corn and crumbs
sdtI AIDING more more as the milk is absorbed Bake
2. Ny. cupboards are easily cleaned l
cups and and pitchers from brass hooks sap5 e
brass curtain rod. Behind this I stand Stand
Is easily removed when l wash the shelf.
May write .rNdp again sems %a tips2 Tss;,.,.,n,.
Write when you will, but do not
slander yourself in the signature.
Now, as to your queries:
l. The combination of alkali and acid
effected by the sour milk and soda has
the same effect as baking powder.
2. One. of the simplest and best salad
dressings is known as "a French dress
ing" Here it is in brief: Rubst the inside
of a chilled bowl with a cut Glove of
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Rancid Feather.

With regard to rancid feathers. would
say: Empty them into sacks Of thin mate
rial 0ike mosquito netting or cheesecloth)-
Add baking soda and a good washing pow
der in abundance, shaking the sacks until
the feathers are thoroughly busted with
soda and powder. Then tie up the mouths
of the sacks and boil as you would boil
clothes The feathers will fioat SO weight
the sacks with stones. Lift the weights
casionally and shake the sacks vigorously
In the water. When they have boiled about
an hour take them out wiring out all the
wet that will come away and rinse the
sacks in clear, warm water. Last. hang
upon line to dry.
IF the weather be fine and the feathers are
good live goose feathers they Will dry in a
day or so and be huffier than ever. If they
are MIXED feathers it will take longer to
Never I'LL pillows or bedticks very full or
the feathers will always be musty. While
they are drying YOU must shake and beat
the sacks repeatedly, pulling them out as II
you We're making up a feather bed, to let
the air get at the contents.
Is they are left out all night they will
not be injured If the air is dry.
n. B.-WJuld il not be we'll to let US
know how letters should be addressed in
tended for your department?
When we write we wish to be Of
reaching YOU. f.. B. NJ. fAtlanta, Ga.).
Address Marion Harland, House
mothers Exchange" in care of the
paper in which you read the articles
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Mas4NsA Hoe<o~,sz
AMULETS

mains OF this superstition still prevail.
for many people believe that a red
string around the neck is an excellent
remedy for asthma. measles and
mumps. The preservation Of faith in
red still exists as is shown in the great
confidence which obtains in the medical
virtues Of red flannel. and the belief
that the milk of the red cow is better
than that OF a COW OF another color.
The German peasant. IL he cuts him
self. thinks he stanches the blood bet
ter with a red ribbon. This may be ac-
counted for not only by tradition. but
the fact that blood would not form So
startling contrast when wetting I'D
ribbon as when wettirg white one.
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One-Egg Crullers.

Cream a cupfuI Of sugar with half a
cupful of butter. Add the yolk OF an
egg. beaten smooth, and a cup of butter
milk or of loppered milk If you chance
TO find that the cream meant for break
fast has soured in the night, it is even
better than milk Your crullers will De
the richer for the seeming mishap.
Sift a scant teaspoonful of baking
soda twice with pint OF -four. and STIR
quickly into the mixture. alternately
with the stiffened white Of the egg The
dough should De just stiff enough 70 roll
out.
Roll into a sheet less than half an
inch thick. cut into shapes and fry in
hot shortening.
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7ss.s1% nEN EOGC ApE, f1IGn

bowl two cupfuls of -four with an even
teaspoonful OF soda and half tea
spoonful of salt. Flavor TO taste. and
whip in the stiffened white of the egg.
Do not forget that one egg, whipped as
light as 1t can be made. does more 70
make batter rise than four that are not
properly beaten. Also. that more de-
pends upon right mixing and baking
than upon the number of ingredients.
In beating cake batter, drive the whip
down TO the bottom of the bowl every
time and bring II up with sweep that
aerates the whole mass. 1t is the fixed
air that raises the cake. Bake at once,
before it can escape.
One-Egg Gingerbread.
Mix together half cupful of mo-
Iasses and the same of sugar. Warm
the mixture slightly and beat in two
tablespoonfuls of melted butter. Now
beat until the ingredients. are several
degrees lighter in color than at first,
and perfectly smooth. Next. a WELL
beaten egg. half a cupful of milk.
two teaspoonfuls of ground ginger and.
after a whole minutes beating. a cup
full and half of flour which has been
sifted three times with a level tea
spoonful of soda and half as much salt.
Beat fast for final minute and bake
in shallow pans or in nappies. You
would not believe until you have tried
this recipe how satisfactory will be
the product 1t is very good ginger
Dread. even when the egg is omitted
altogether.
Bug Loaf. An English Recipe.
spoonful of melted butter into a pint OF
hot milk. Let It get iukewarm before
adding half yeast cake, dissolved in
warm water, and scant pint of sifted
-four.
Cover and let it rise all night in
moderately warm room. Beat for FIVE
minutes. work in another cupful of sift-
ed -four Cor enough to make soft
dough- Beat well with a wooden
spoon and stir in half a cupful Of
cleaned currants dredged with -four.
Make into three loaves, set them to
rise in buttered brick-shaped pans. and
when they have doubled their original
bulk bake III a moderate oven. Cover
for the first half hour. then brown.
Children will not crave better des-
sert than this loaf, eaten when fresh.
with honey or maple cream. 1t is also
good cold with cream cheese.
Poor Mans Cake.
This Is likewise an English recipe.
picked it up in Yorkshire. That is,
begged it of the landlady Of mine inn.
after eating heartily OF it without
guessing what shortening was used in
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Heat the Knife Blade

"O SPREAD the hardest butter
easily on the thinnest bread.
= have a cup of boiling water
handy, into which dip the point of
the knife each time before cutting a
piece from the butter, This renders
1t just right for spreading evenly. New
bread or cakes can be cut without
jagged edges if the blade of the knife
used be heated for a second in clear
fire-
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THE HOUSEMOTHERS' EXCHANGE

stock or gravy to stiff paste, handling
as little possible. It should be
spongy.
g. Referred!
Z. have nothing to do or say as to
the makeup of the paper. Your pro-
test must so to higher court. We
thank you for recipe and household sus-
ppSfion
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MONDAY
ST.

Apple sauce, cereal and cream bacon.
brown and white toast bread and butter.
tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Dreaded and baked sardines. saute sweet
potatoes Ca left-Over). Saratoga chips.
cookies and jam. cocoa
DINNER
Yesterday soup. rechauffee Of beef Ia
Milanaise "a leftover made with sultana
raisins and p.nenuts in gravy) mashed po-
tatoes, fried carrots cracker plum pud-
ding. black coffee
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THURSDAY
BREAKFAST.

White grapes cereal ana rraar, s-t.s
apples and bacon. mullins. toast tea and
coffee - 1--'~
LUNCHEON
Sausage and grfddle cakes Erc- asssa-.
the cakes with maple 'syrlIp and b1o,a,,'
lettuce with French dressing. Cocoa
DINNER
Bean and tomato soup Ca leftover in
paitl. Ihut.on choDs en- Casserole mashed
potatoes string beans. macaroni pudding
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food on the farms on which they are
bred And labor is no dearer. Laying
these facts to heart let us address our-
selves quietly to the business of de-
creasing the demand and thereby low
ering the profits of those whose rapac-
ity is responsible for the inconvenience
and positive suffering entailed upon the
innocent by inflated costs of daily living
By way of beginning. let us try this
recipe for
Cne-Egg Cake.
Rub to a cream half cupful OF but
ter and two even cupfuls Of sugar; str
into this cream the yolk of an egg beat
en- smooth, and beat hard for one min
ute. Add then a cupful of milk and two
rounded cupfuls of flour. which you
have sifted twice with two level tea
spoonfuls of baking powder. Last,
stir in a teaspoonful of fiavoring es-
sence and with a swift stroke. the
white of an egg, whipped stiff. Bake
in small tins, or in layers with jelly
between.
Sour Cream Cake.
Work a cupful of fine sugar to light
cream with half a cupful Of butter and
the yolk of one egg. beaten in after the
cream is smooth and light enough in
itself insure that the cake will not be
heavy. Next, stir in cupful of sour
cream, or if you have not cream, of
loppered milk Sift three times into
"eWe don't guarantee second-best
eggs F."
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Family Meals for a Week

hamburger steaks seasoned with tomato
catsup. onion juice and gravy and baked
in mould "a left-overl. baked sweet po-
tatoes, SnOrtcdke and maple xyrup tea
DINNER
Tomato soup. pork p0tpfe rnashe5 ~
tatoes. wine jelly and cake. black cones.
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SUNDAY

Granefruit cereal and cream. deviled
kidney. rice muffins. toast. tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON. Q
Head cheese. sliced thin and eaten with
French mustard o. tomato catsup. steamed
brown bread chestnut and apple salad.
crackers and cheese cream puffs. tea
DINNER
Okra and veal soup. roast beef. sweet
potatoes. boiled onions. canned peach pie.
black coffee.
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FRIDAY
BREAKrASr

of~EAkFAST.
Stswed prunes. cereal ana cream, -rs,-,a5
fresh Goldfish. bread. toast tea ana coffsa
LUNCHEON
Curried eggs. fried sweet potatoss s,i,,,
lunn. raisinS and nuts. tea '
DINNER
Potato cream -soup. clam frfttsrs. r,aca
roni au gratin. spinach, lemon T,a-inS,,.
pie. hla * coffee. A-"e1~
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to the sun this primitive contrivance
sufficient to light a city block. After
which exhibit l do not cavil at burying
bag of cream one day and digging UP
fresh, sweet butter the next.
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TUESDAY
RRrAKrAsr

Oranges. wheaton grits and cream bacon
and eggs. French rolls. toast. tea and
LUNCHEON.
Stew of beef and onions "a left-over),
potato cakes IA left-over}. lettuce salad
crackers and cheese. hasty cornstarch pud-
Potato soup. hamburger steaks largo
homiry. boiled and Drowned; canned beets.
French fritters, black coffee.
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T y VERY weariness Of spirit some Of
Us are disposed TO say that We can
not remember when they were
cheap. 1 told young housewife
last week that in my girlhood fresh
eggs sold in the markets for 10 cents
Per dozen.
"Fresh?" she echoed. You don't
mean guaranteed eggs'!"
We both laughed. For we had just
passed a window in which was a fam
ing advertisement Of what I called
graded eggs
Eggs. twelve for % cents. Fresh
eggs. 30 cents per dozen. Strictly fresh
eggs. 20 cents per dozen Guaranteed
eggs. 90 cents per dozen.
IN that far-on time" said 1. dream
fly. we knew but one quality. An egg
that was not good was bad. When
city housemothers began to look char
ita5ly upon Grated eggs sent in from
outlying regions that had Indifferent
means Of communication with markets.
her country sister shook a sorrowful
head
Better no egg than a doubtful speci-
menr''
This Is the text for today's talk.
What do We say Of tra6esman who
Is almost honest? That he would
cheat us if opportunity offered.
If the rumor gets abroad that the
drinking water OF a community is not
altogether pure. we boil what is used for
cooking, and lay in supplies of bottled
distilled wa tors fer fable uee
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DINNER
WEDNESDAY
BREAXFAST.

HREAAFAoI.
Baked apples cereal and cream. fish
cakes. quick biscuits. toast tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Large hominy mixed swith remains Of
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SATURDAY
BREAkFAsr.

bFtEAkFASr
Sliced pineapple. cereal ana crsar, 49,,
wafnes- toast tea and coffee
LUNCHEON
Goldfish and potato stew (partfv a Isft-s
over. pork and beans. endfve saIad basrs5
crackers and cheese. warm gingsrbread and
DINNER
Srtnach soup ca left-overl fresh beers
tongue oSster plant fritters Jerusalem
.n,,sa ax,.s.ioAss~ sweet potato pudding. black
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cLEvERLY MIXED

That chemical agent has not been in
vented that can amend the doubtful
egg. Job asked plaintively, thousands
Of years ago: rs there any taste in
the white Of an egg?" Evidently graded
eggs were unknown in the land
OF Uz. If there be taste in the white
or the suspicion of odor in the yolk,
that ovate's period of usefulness is at
an end, or ought to be. who excuses
himself. accuses" says the French
proverb. The grocer who confesses to
degrees OF excellence in his eggs puts
a ban upon the lot
Be sure that in the psrlance Of the
trade. his is a Job lot" After much
and careful examination Of the subject,
] have established to my dissatisfac-
ton that a clever tumble of good and
bad in the cheaper qualities enables
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A FUNNY FABLE

I y as one OF an audience that laughed
Itself sick the other day over the fable
OF THE Fresh Young Egg That Would
Go TO Town" as read by the author. a
noted humorist. The concluding SEN
tence ran thus:
THE city * no place for a fresh young
egg
A woman behind me said audibly to
her. .neighbors My grocer would agree
with HIM" and a low groan responded
from all within hearing.
High-priced meat is bad enough, and
we would all buy choice cuts if we
could afford it: but the skilful cook
may correct toughness by arts known
to herself. and of which her family
reap the benefit Cold-storage fish
foods are not materially injured by
keeping if they are sound and fresh
when committed 10 the refrigeratorial
process. One Of the triumphs of my
own culinary career was achieved
thirty years ago, when the butcher
failed 10 come. one August day, and
three masculine guests dropped in"
in passing our country cottage. The
only morsel of meat in the larder was
a steak the cook pronounced fetched"
and which l described as high" It
was laid in a bath Of iced soda and
water for an hour. wiped dry and
braised with vegetables, emerging from
the oven in the role of "beefsteak a
la jardiniere" tender. savory and
wholesome. I would not buy high"
meat. II it comes to grief in my lar
der ] try to convert it from the error
of ils ways-not. as the Frenchman
boasted he had redeemed this unsavory
fish, by q process Of vinegar and
charcoal" but by harmless soda. It
corrects the incipient acid stage of de-
composition.
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Poor Mans Cake.

FOOT MdIl 5 CakT.
This Is likewise an English recipe.
picked 1t up in Yorkshire. That is,
begged it of the landlady Of mine inn.
after eating heartily of it without
guessing what shortening was used in
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-21
Search Deserted House

Acting upon a request from Chief
Patrick J. Kindelon of the Southern Pa
cific secret service Sheriff Chatham Of
San Mateo county swooped down yes
terday afternoon on a deserted house
about quarter of a mile from the
railroad in the vicinity of the Sixteen
mile house south of this city, where
two men answering the description of
the train robbers were reported to be
in hiding.
The raid upon the deserted ranch
house was without results. No signs
of life We're found about the place, nor
was there any indication that the
dwelling had been occupied for some
time past.
The message from Kindelon was re-
ceived by Sheriff Chatham at Redwood
City by telephone at 3:15 o'clock yes
he had received word that two men
had been seen in the deserted house
near the Sixteen mile house and asked
Chatham to Investigate the report.
Chatham. District Attorney Joseph j.
Bullock and Deputy Sheriff Charles
Long drove to San Mateo in Bullock
machine. where they picked up Chief
Of Police Maurice Boland of that city,
and then continued on to the Sixteen
mile house. In the meantime Agent
Madden of Kindelon's staff went to
Redwood City and met Under Sheriff
Frank Bartlett and the two proceeded
TO South San Francisco by train. Both
parties made a thorough search of the
suspected house without results, Bull
lock. Chatham and Long returned TO
San Mateo late in the afternoon.
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MINIATURE PANAMA
Canal PLANNED
Will Be Among Unique Features
of the Great Exposition
of 1915

A miniature Panama canal, exact in
every detail to the original, in all
probability will be among the unique
features of the Panama Pacific EXPOSE
ton to be held in San Francisco in 1915.
The idea was suggested to the board of
directors by an outsider and met with
instant approval.
The miniature canal will be an exact
replica of the one in celebration of
which the exposition is being held. 1t
will run through the fair grounds, and
on either bank there will be growing
tropical plants. 1t will possess all the
locks and tying up places The plan
is to have launches running up and
down the canal. At one end of it will
lie the European exhibits, those from
London. Paris, Berlin and other impor-
tant civic centers of the old world. At
the other end will be the orient, as typ
flied by miniature Chinese city, Jap
anese exhibits and those from Asia
generally, the thought being to connect
the east and west by the Panama canal.
Such matters as the canal, the Olym-
pic games and the south sea exhibits
will be taken up in detail later. At the
present moment the directorate is busy
making the preliminary arrangements.
Meetings are being held daily and the
expectations are that within a few
days the skirmishing will be over and
the real battle commence.
The publicity committee submitted
a list of 20 delegates to travel with
Governor Gillett to Washington to the
board of directors and invitations will
be sent out in day or two.
Congressman Kahn's speech at
Washington was received with much
enthusiasm by the various committees
and a telegram of thanks sent to him,
applauding him for his efforts.
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ABANDONED IT
For the Old Fashioned Coffee WA,
killing


81 always drank coffee with the rest
was nothing for breakfast if we did
not have it on the table.
'I had been troubled some time with
my heart, which did not feel right.
This trouble grew worse steadily
Sometimes it would beat fast and
at other times very slowly so that I
would hardly be able to do work for
an hour or two after breakfast, and if
] walked up a hill, it gave me
severe pain.
81 had no idea of what the trouble
was until friend suggested that per-
haps it might be caused by coffee
drinking L tried leaving off the coffee
and began drinking Postum The
change came quickly. l am now glad
to say that I am entirely well of the
heart. trouble and attribute the relief
to leaving off coffee and the use of
Postum
"a number of my friends have aban-
doned the old fashioned coffee and have
taken up with Postum, which they are
using steadily. There are some peo-
pie that make Postum very weak and
tasteless. but if 1t is boiled long
enough, according to directions, it is
very delicious beverage. We have
never used any of the old fashioned
coffee since Postum was first started
in our house.
Read the little book. "rhe Road to
Wellville," in pkgs. There's a Reason.
Ever read the above letter! A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.
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want" said Petersen. gives us a point
from which to work. 1 am positive
that they are fugitives from Justice in
some case, and if not in this l will
never be able to explain to my own
satisfaction, / think, the peculiar cir
cumstances which point TO them as two
of the robbers.
MEASUREMENTS TAKEN
Hanson and Franklin, of course, are
not the mems true names, but they are
the only names we have. / took the
Bertillon measurements of the men to-
day and in a few days | will know
whether they have criminal records
ut is certain that we are more than
justified in holding our prisoners.
There were two men arrested at Be
nicia on suspicion of being the Marti-
nez suspects, but for lack of identified
ton they were released. | do not say
that those men were the right men.
do say, however, that if we had not OBJ
tanned the engineers and fireman S
identifications of Hanson and Franklin
today we could not have held them"
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slough toward Suisun bay. but the
search today revealed nothing.
Constable OFT of Concord and Con-
stable Fay OF Bay Point came into Mar
tinez today and were in consultation
with Sheriff Veale.
At 10 o'clock tomorrow morning
Sheriff Veale. Constable Charles II.
Palmer and Deputy Sheriff John H.
Birmingham Jr- will start in a launch
for another search of both shores of the
bay in the hope Of finding fresh clews
Of some kind.
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ALLEGED CHILD SLAYER
BREAKS DOWN IN COURT
Becomes HyStericaI and Case Is
Continued
TSpccial Dispatch 10 The Call

SANTA ROSA, April 20.-WiIlard
Thomas, who is on trial in the superior
court here for the murder of his infant
child broke down this afternoon dur
ing the final arguments, and the case
had to be continued until tomorrow
morning
nervous during the trial, continued to
grow more agitated throughout the
day, and about $3.50 o'clock this after
noon gave way completely and went
into Mysteries. A 10 minute recess was
taken. but as he was no better at the
end of that time the case was oon-
tinued. and he was removed to the
jail
The defense was insanity, but the
evidence simply went to show that he
had an unruly temper.
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SMUGGLER SLAIN BY
CUSTOMS OFFICERS
Killed During Running Fight
With Government Officials

SANTA ANA, April 2O.-Gregorio Es-
pinosa, who is alleged to have been
smuggling Chinese across the Mexican
border for years, was shot and killed
at Ell Toro last night during running
fight with Ralph Conklin and e. w. II.
Chadney of the San Diego customs Of
fee. The officers were in charge of
struggled Chinese at the county jail
awaiting the arrival of officers fro m
Los Angeles.
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PROPOSALS

PROPOSALS FOR HAY AND OATS Depot
QusrtermaSter's office. 1855 North Point St
San Francisco. Cal. March % 1910 Sealed
proposals in tripIcate. subject to usual condi-
tons, will be received here until IL 100 A. NJ
Pacific Time, April -. 1910. FOR furnishing and
delivering at Sa1 Francisco. Cal. or other prom
inent railroad points. 1000 tons hay and 1000
tons oats, for shipment to Philippine islands,
Information and blank proposals furnished on
application United states reserves right to
cept reject any or all proposals or any parts
thereof Envelopes containing proposals to be
addressed H P YOUNG, Depot Quar- termaster-