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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-18

chafng dish. May I submit a dish that is
received rapturously by my little brood and
contentedly by my John7
s. TOMATOES AND EGG6.-Put table
spoonful of butter in the frying pan, and
when it Kisses cook in 1t a small onion,
chopped fine. In two minutes after the hiss
ing recommends turn in half g. can OF
tomatoes seasoned with pepper. salt, but
ter. and a dash OF sugar to take or the
sharp acid taste of cooked tomatoes. Cook
IN the pan for ten minutes. and lift from
the flame Have the deeper saucepan ready.
buttered literally, and pour the hot mix
as the contents bubble drop in five eggs
without breaking the yollss. Just slip them
in gently from the shells Let them simmer
slowly, lifting from the bottom Of the pan
with fork. not stirring them as you would
scrambled eggs. When the eggs are arm,
serve. The tomato sauce imparts a fine
favor.
You might call them eggs poached in
tomato sauce If you like. MRS. LIE b.
A waggish youth complains that
"poached eggs have no temperament in
cline to his opinion, but the deficiency must
be supplied by the process described by
our member. In our household the fore
going supper dish figures occasionally on
Sunday night or at a week day luncheon.
but with a difference. Thesdame who pre-
sides over the chatting dish breaks the eggs
in stirring, and adds a small cupful OF hot
cream to the mixture minute before serv-
ing Either way is good.
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I thought not, when made a rapid com
putation OF the time LOST while or a maid
put on hat and coat, hunted up pennies
for the purchase and expended ten or fifteen
minutes OF q busy morning In going for
the paper and Irvine. Both are clean and
the stock is continually renewed. or SO
often that they do not encourage microbes
to nestle and breed IN fold and coil
Nor are ends OF ribbons and bits OF velvet
and silk remnants OF cotton fabrics and
woods. silks and linen floss. packed neatly
in box or drawer, with the definite design
OF sending them away at sight OF the next
call upon cornerites for contributions to the
portiere OF patchwork quilt. or a slumber
robe, arrested in the hands Of aged women
and helpless shut-ins for the want OF these
materials-in the least bit ike rubbish. Il
is capital and Of no mean sort
Keep It wisely and lovingly In circula-
ton.
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Our correspondence is already so heavy
that were we to undertake to answer such
requests as yours by post the load would be
intolerable. I am especially sorry in your
case because I should like to help you out
in this particular line.
I shall submit a menu which you may
find available at some future meeting of
the club. I have an earnest desire to be
represented at that affair. My daughters
belonged to clubs in their girlhood-salad
clubs and German and French reading
clubs, and I know what fun they had in
getting chahng dishes and percolators
ready You tell me that you have one OF
the latter. If you will send q stamped
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Mushroons CoarseLp Chopped.


SWEETBREADS WITH MUSHROOMS.
-Parboil. blanch and slice the mushrooms
before they are brought to the table, and
chop a dozen fresh mushrooms or half a
can of French (champignons) coarsely. A
gill of mushroom liquor. tablespoonful OF
butter. one tablespoonful Of -four yolks Of
two eggs, salt and white pepper TO taste.
Cook butter and flour together over boiling
water to a smooth roux and pour upon
them the cream and the mushroom liquor
Stir until smooth and lay in the sliced
sweetbreads Cook three minutes; put in
the chopped mushrooms and seasoning.
Lastly, stir in slowly the beaten yolks.
Cook two minutes longer and serve
Should you think the sweetbreads too ex-
pensive. or be unable to procure them
YOU may substitute cold chicken, sliced or
cut into cubes. You will need two cupfuls
Of it when 1t is cut up.
DREAMED TONATOES.-Two cups Of
rich milk (half cream II you can get IT..
a tablespoonful of flour. two tablespoonfuls
of butter, salt and dash OF pepper. SIX
fresh tomatoes Cor II you cannot get them
open a can of tomatoes which have been
nut up whole. You can find such at the
best grocers or some OF your club may
have canned them last summer Cut IN hal.
(after peeling the fresh tomatoes) and fry
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gaIoon. hung at the back of the bathroom
door II you have not room for It in the
kitchen. It may be as ornamental as your
needle can make 1t, If you like to do the
work Embroider waste papers upon
the front and have broad ribbons attached
to the top by which to suspend it from a
hook A wide flap should button on the
front. When a parcel is brought into the
house. unite the string, or, If the knot be
stubborn, clip 1t and not the cord. Roll
upon the latter neatly and put away in
drawer known to all the family. Fold the
paper neatly and tuck It into the bag. The
next time a bundle or book is to be done
up In a hurry you have the materials for
the Job directly at hand.
How absurd to keep strings and papers
when you can buy both for few pennies.
fresh and strong, at the next cornerl Isn't
that penny wise and pound foolish?" OBJ
1ected a busy woman who saw me do this
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The charlotte russo is prepared before
hand. The lettuce, of course. requires no
cooking Rolls and bread ditto The Sara
toga chips are warmed up in the chadng
dish. Everything else on the menu is
cooked, as you desire to have it, in the
sight of the guests Prepare all the ma
terials beforehand. That is, have the
CLAIMS taken from the shells, the sweet
breads b1anched by parboiling and sliced
the tomatoes turned from the can early in
the day and put upon the ice. the lettuce
picked over and laid in iced water. All
should be In the order of their cooking
upon a side table close at hand.
BEEF BOUILLON.Lay a cube of beef
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- IRST OF all. let US look up the denni-
- ton OF the word:
Any useless or worthless stuff;
that which serves good purpose,
or Is 1T only to be thrown away;
tFumpery: litter
Reading on. we learn that the word was
once " rubbage.'' ike that obsolete OF
dialectical - form of the term far better
than that now in use. recall that old
fashioned folk used 1t less than half CEN
tury ago. heard New England farmer
declare Of the man who had married q
pretty girl in the neighborhood. that for
his part he ." wouldn't have let cry such
rubbase set foot in his house" When I
inquired into the particulars Of the fellows
history. I wa@ informed that he was a
poor shoat."
From that hour shoat and '' rubbags {"
have been linked together in my imagina-
zion.
Yet there Is rugged strength in that rub
bage " that appeals to my sense Of fitness
1t Is old Enslish-virile and forceful
wish We had not let it slide out of sight
and become obsolete and dialecticaI
said this to myself when a woman whose
wealth had pushed her out Of a modest
house on side street into brown stone
front on -" the avenue which she pro-
nounced Is avernoo." wondered whatever
she was going to do with al the rubbish
in the garnet.
You see we've lived IN this house nigh
upon twenty years and you must know how
much rubbish gathers in an attic in that
time declare have a mind to dump it
all into the middle OF the street and set 1t
adras
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and self-addressed envelope to me I shall
give you the name of a little manual which
will be a safe guide in all pertaining to
chafing dish cookery. When you see the
title you may understand why 1 do not
publish 1t here.
LUNCHEON MENU.
(served from channg dishes.l
BouilIon.
Clam la Newburg.
Sweetbreads with mushrooms.
SaratoRa chips. Finger rolls
Dreamed tomatoes. Thin bread and butter.
Lettuce salad with French dressing
(nade at table,.
Crackers and cheese.
Charlotte russo Black coffee
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MARION HARLAND'S HELPING HA-

bouillon in the bottom OF each cup and pour
boiling water upon It, Stir for a moment,
and the bouillon is ready. There are divers
brands OF the cubes on the market. Get
the best
CLANS LA NEWBURG.-One solid
pint of CLANS, two taLblespoonfuls Of but
ter one gill OF sherry. half pint OF cream.
yolks of two eggs. scant teaspoonful OF
salt a very little cayenne pepper.
Trim the tough part away from the clans,
being careful not to cut into the soft part
(This may be done before luncheon IS
served) Melt the butter over boiling
water, stirring constantly. When It is
creamy add the wine, gradually. Beat TO-
gether the yolks and the cream. and add.
gradually. stirring all the time but not
rapidly AS soon as all the ingredients are
mixed, turn in the clans, and cook until
they are plump.
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FAMILY MEALS FOR A WEEK

stewed evaporated peaches and cookies Tea
DINNER
Yesterdays soup
Calves hearts Dreaded and roasted
Large hominy, boiled and Drowned.
Canned Succotash Baked custard
Black coffee.
y *
FRIDAY
BREAKFAST.
Oranges Cereal and cream.
Bacon and fried mush Toast
Tea and cofree.
LUNCHEON.
gcalloped oysters Lettuce sandwiches.
Pulled bread. Crumpets.
Cream cheese, with crackers and Scotch
marmaIade. Tea
DINNER
Cream tomato soup without meat.
Goldfish steaks with tartare
Mashed potatoes Canned asparagus.
Indian meal pudding.
SATURDAY
BREAKFAST
Baked apples Cereal and cream
Broiled lambs kidneys Popovers-
Toast. Tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON
Yesterdays soup in cups. Cheese soufie
Potato croquettes Ia left overJ.
Hot biscuits. with marma1ade or honey.
Milk and chocolate.
DINNER
Combination soup lremeins Of split PEGS, etc.
kept upon ice and cooked every other dayl-
Fish timbales Ia ieftoverl
Stuffed eggplant Riced potatoes
Brown Betty, made Of evaporated peaches.
Black coffes.
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Rag Bag a Good Thing.

A rag bag Is a good thing, If 1t be emptied
at isast once a month, or oftener when the
call Is read or heard for IS old clothes to
be utilized in the sicHroonn or hospital
obbe woman OF distinguished ancestry
opened in New York City fifteen or more
years ago a private hospital for cancer pa
ticnts. The demand for old linen and cot
ton in that home is incessant and the supply
insufficient. " Unpurchasable - Ii the
word that explains and emphasizes this
demand. In every neighborhood there are
sufferers from ulcers and other sores
some durable, more chronicle whom roll
of soft we'll worn linen or cambria would
be the most welcome of gifts In our own
helping Hand club these are sought for
eagerly and persistently. Don't throw
them away. And don't hoard them. In
the rag bag they are rubbagei" The
word slipped out by its own weight It
suits the case as the modern version would
not.
What do they do with all those news
papers?" I asked a schoolboy one day
a wagon containing tons Of the forlorn
looking sheets passed The wind was
high and. although bound into parcels. the
papers writhed and bulged and futtered
drearily and one might have fancied, re-
sentfully in the dusty drafts sweeping the
streets
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Quick biscuits with syrup or honey. Toast.
Tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Smoked salmon, boiled and shredded then sauta
and served upon toast.
White potato pun Ia left over1.
Thin brown bread and butter.
Junket and cake. Tea
DINNER
Split pea soup.
Scallop Of turkey and oysters Ia left overJ.
Rice and cheese Irecipe given last week..
Canned string beans. Apple dumplings
Black coffee.
x X
WEDNESDAY
BREAKFAST.
Canned cherries Cereal and cream
Barbecued rabbits. Mullins and toast.
Tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Saint of rabbit Ia left overl. Cream toast.
Mullins left from breakfast. Celery salad
Crackers and cheese. Currznt buns Tea
Turkey rack soup la left over1
Irish stew. Baked macaroni
Mashed tIrnips. Bread
Crumb pudding-sugarless,s with hard sauce
Black coffee
THURSDAY
BREAKFAST.
Oranges Cereal and Cream.
Sausage and griddle cakes Toast
Coffee and tea
LUNCHEON
Remains of Irish stew
Minee Of racaroni and tomatoes
Tpart1y a leftover1
Potatoes a Ia Parisienns.
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lightly In a tablespoonful OF butter. Lay
in the bottom OF a buttered saucepan and
pour over them sauce made by heating
the cream or milk in another pan and thick
ening with the reserved tablespoonful OF
butter stirred into the -four. It should be
smooth and smoking hot before It goes into
the tomatoes. Simmer all together for a
minute and serve
It IS safest to put a bit OF baking soda
no bigger than pea into the milk while
it is heating. Then the sauce will not ourdie.
and the combination OF the soda with the
acid makes the sauce light and foamy.
Concerning the Eyes.
4 should like 20 consult you about nv
eyes. They are red and inhamed. have
used patent eye ssive for them without
getting any relief. II do not use something
1 cannot sleep. There seems 10 be no
moisture in the eyelids 20 make them work
easily over the eyebaiis. They are always
dry. I cannot bear to have a light IN my
I Dom at night. It hurts my eyes 30 that
cannot sleep. I cannot look at the light
without pain.
DO you know OF some simple thing that
may help mel ANTIQUE"
First-Let patent salves and washes alone
seeond-Go at once to a sixiiIful eye spc-
cIaiist and have your eyes examined. This
done, follow his advice.
Third-If you are disincIined or unable 70
DO this. get a vial OF boracic acid from your
druggist. Tell him you want It for your
eyes and he will give you the right thing.
Wash your eyes freely and often with this
and between times with pure water az hot Is
you can bear It without pain. Soak a cloth
In hot water and lay 1t upon your eyelids
when you go TO bed.
Fourth-(This should have been nrst)-
Spare the suffering organs as much az YOU'D
can. Do not sew or read by artificial light:
go to bed early and do not have a light In the
room after you lie down. Have your bed
where the light win not fan upon those in
famed eyelids when you awake.
These precautions will 60 far tounra
bringing present ease. II they do not eject
Rctual cure.
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Rubbish as She Defines Il.

Rubbish " repeated. dreamIly " Such
as what?'
W-h-y-an sorts of things that are too
coed to throw away and not worth keen
ing. Things it seems wastefuI to pitch
into the waste basket, or the scavenger's
cart"
AS will be seen. she is not an educated
woman in the ordinary acceptance Of the
word. But she had defined rubbish -
more aptly than the Century with all its
scholarly staff has succeeded in doing, Il
definition means bringing the full meaning
Of language to our apprehension. I had
that garnet in my minds eye at once
Smiling in the recollection OF definition
and mental picture when got home, I
CHANGED to pick up a family newspaper and
sny eyes fell first upon this paragraph.
I transcribe It at length because 1t puts
the case I was revolving in thought more
pertinently than I could give It. I wish
could thank the synonymous author face to
face for saving me trouble by expressing
my sentiments to It -:
Some housekeepers seem to have a per
feet mania for storing up cid odds and ends
WORKOUT or useless things-in the expecta-
ton that they win come in useful some
time. One woman saves every shoebox and
bit of pasteboard that comes into the house,
because she says some time she may want
to send away a photograph. Old magazines
and newspapers are piled away. because
some time she may want to look up an
article in some one Of them. All the old
boots OF the family are saved. because she
may want a bit OF leather some time to
make hinge for box Tin cans are treas
ures. never to be destroyed. She may need
one to use some time for a flower pot or
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dren to school, and has then
thousand and one things to do
bsfore they and her husband come home to
support
II she would taks ten minutes late In
the afternoon to battle her aching feet in
tepid water in which bit of washing soda
is dissolved, then soak them longer in
plain tepld water, dry. and with piece
Of sandpaper rub down any callous spots.
finally drawing on a pair Of fresh stockings,
She will feel rested and ready to meet them
al with smile
Now that the children are settled again
IA school. it is the mothers duty to supply
them with good, wholesome food. Have
well cooked cereals and cream for break
FAST and If they come home at noon, In
stead Of giving them tea and pastry and
rich cake, have a plate OF nourishing vege-
table soup awaiting each A soup bone may
be bought for 10 cents Well boiled-that
Is slowly and long,-and with few vege-
tables cooked into it, and. when the meat
is tender. with this put through the meat
grinder and stirred into the soup. the bone
will supply dinner for the hungry bairnies.
ITO SAVE STOCKINGS-A piece of
velvet pasted in the heel OF the shoe Will
make hose wear much longer than IL this
were omitted
Mothers need never be bothered with
verrnin in children's heads II tincture Of
larkspur be literally applied at the first
appearance Of the pests. and the head be
washed Ia clean water next morning. Re
sult-a perfectly clean head! MRS. J. E.
An esteemed correspondent from whom
we have heard before, and always to our
pleasure and advantage
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Denim Bag for Waste Paper.

If the reader who recalls sundry utter
ances of mine respecting paper and twine
is inclined to call me down for Inconsistency.
put upon record here and emphatically an
exception in the matter of these articles.
Or, TO speak more plainly, to insist that
they are valuables and unless torn and
clipped in slovenly undoing of parcels. that
they are never rubbish.
Have stout bag of DENIM or cretonne, or
brown linen, bound all around with tape or
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BOOKS Fen IN Old DAYS.


Books were few and expensive. She was
a wise woman who made, little by little.
a library of scrap books from cuttings
taken from her own papers or picked up
elsewhere. I recoHect seeing a trunkfui
Of these bulky volumes-brown with age
and dog cared and greasy with much
handling-committe to g bonfire in tho
backyard of later householder. recall
especially that he took up each number
with pair OF tongs, having modern ideas
upon the subjech Of microbial Infection
Queried mentally, then" did It pay?' %
There cannot be the ghost of a doubt as to
the expediency in the twentieth century
OF boarding periodicals and leaflets for the
next generation.
Five years is generation In the maya
zine world said the founder and proprie-
tor OF " Godey's Lady's Book to me In
1880. He was a man of advanced ideas,
but even he could hardly have anticipated
that, sixty years later, five months would
make a back number-nay, a dead and gone
number-of the most popular monthly,
while dailies and weeklies are " rubbish !"
in a month.
Internal garments " now wear out all
over and become tindery in weight and tex
ture when laid aside. Middle aged cloth
bound books have dispirited shabbiness
that reminds one of the woman who has
lost her job with the marriage of her last
daughter. As for the utter use1essness Of
old postcards, empty bottles, old Shoes
photographs of Observation-Disclosures
and calendars-why expatiate upon what
nobody except our ultra-econognlst denies7
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Chnfnq Dish Menu Requested.

.. A club of which I am member will
meet with me shortly. Id like to change
the usual order of things by serving some
thing from the chafng dish. Kindly tell
me what the menu should be.
All I can make in the chafing dish Is
Welsh rabbit and creamed lobster I'd
like the whole luncheon to be served from
the chatting dish l have four pans to cook
from. as a friend has a chatting dish We
might, with these. prepare the whole
luncheon In the presence of the guests
Please advise me what to have besides
creamed lobster MRS l. D.
As you have learned by letter. it Is utterly
against our rules to send recipes by mail.
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that all may be shipshape for the clean
New Year. have mercy upon others. USE
less things that cost money are always and
everywhere an extravaganza.
While paper mills and scavengers endure
and furnaces roar and spades and back
gardens are to be had for the asking, cast
tradition to the winds and meet the New
Year with house that's clean every whit
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Mistaken View of Economy.

Mistaken Tfew OF Economy.
THE most exasperating thing about such
methods in that she believes all this stow
ing away OF trash is commendable fore
thought and economy, when 1t Is nothing
of the kind
I shall let the anonymous lecturer keep
the floor for q minute longer. before dis
miss her with hearty thanks for saying
what I had it in my mind to write when
that blessed article fell in my way:
. Fire is the great purifying agent Look
through your house and sort out all the
old letters and papers, patterns long since
out of date, rags, old felt and straw hats
no longer fit for wear bonnetH. feathers.
and artificial flowers, trousers. dress coats:
by all means old boots and shoes. paper
boxes, bric-a-brac, coupon pictures and
chromos. and last but by no means least
calendarsI
The most hopeless feature In this mag
pie habit IS that the hoarder is honestly
OF the opinion that principle lies at the root
of it. In q word. that she is practicing
virtue in accommodating rubbish. Were you
TO reason with her upon the manifest folly
OF c1uttering closets and drawers with what
there is no probability Of converting into
aught useful or ornamental for a dozen
years to come, she would pelt you with
text and proverb until you would retire
from the field, silenced and not convinced
She holds her own, doubly convinced and
vo1ubIe.
Acknowledge to her that nothing eatabi@
should be thrown away and you are at her
mercy. You cannot refute the assertion
that our grandmothers bequeathed to US
much that is passabIy useful and decidedly
curious in the way of attic treasures. She
win not see that other methods OF house
wifery have fallen to our tineR
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Chatng Dish Used Freely.

1t is safe to compute the number OF
families that have an early dinner on sun
day and supper In the evening at 10 per
cent OF the population. Perhaps 90 per
cent OF housemothers get the evening meal
while the maids OF all work $50 called from
custom and tradition) are taking their ease
with . acquaintance . abroad. Being ono
&C this class. make liberal use OF the
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ton of what were genuine economies three
quarters of a century ago. How every par
ticle Of grease was saved for making candles
and soap, how orange and lemon peel was
dried and pounded in a mortar for flavor
ing puddings and creams-and an hundred
other expedients were practiced for which
there is now not the glimpse OF use or occa-
sfOn