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the difference between this band OF corn
and the rest and asked a cOIored farm
hand one day how II happened.
He reckoned it jes' was meant fur to
be, by de Lord. OR maybe with
CLEAN of human intelligence" water run
min down de dreen from de kitchen
moughl a KEEP de roots wetter de res"
He knew even less than of the phos-
pilates, the salts, and the fats appropriated
by the roots for the nOurishment Of the
stalks and leaves.
II We may judge from the methods of
better educated white farmers and gard
cners If our generation they are no more
economical in the matter Of kitchen fer
tiIizers.
Our e2iTespondent is kind In directing
our attention TO the matter.
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Hon 10 Roast a Pig.

We mean to have a sucking pig roasted
on New Year. day My brother-in-law, who
is a farmer, Is going ~ send Us one AL
ready to be cooked. The children are over
joyed at the prospect and my John. who
was brought up near Albany. n. Y, says
it is the proper Knickerbocker dish for
New Years. I am frightened to death at
the thought that may not cook II right
and my Norwegian maid.of-all-work il
yet more ignorant than I. John wants
Obey koeks," too. What are they? Do
come to my rescue!
Mrs. T. w e"
Don't be terrified by the pig! He is as
manageable as a turkey. II you would get
into the right mood for cooking and eating
him. read Charles Lambs Essay upon
Roast Pig. In that he says Of the infant
porker: He is a weakling! He is flower"
This in cautioning the cook not to smother
II with onion and sage. You will do well
to recoIlect the warning.
ROAST PIG-To begin with, prepare a
liberal quantity Of stufing. To cupful OF
fine, dry bread crumbs allow half chopped
onion. teaspoonful OF powdered sage,
three tablespoonfuls OF melted butter, a
saltspoonful Of pepper. half a teaspoonful
Of salt. half a grated nutmeg. and two
we'll beaten eggs. Work in the dry Ingredi-
ents until they are evenly Incorporated.
then stir in the beaten eggs. STUFF the body
Of the pig with these and sew him up
Bend his fore feet backward. his hind feet
forward under and close to the body, and
skewer them into the proper position, keep
ing the natural size and shape of the
weakling" Wipe him dry and clean and
dredge well with -four. Lay him in
knseIing position on his stomach, IL you
like, or II easier for you. let him lie upon
his side. Pour about him in the pan
little hot water, slightly sailed, and At
on the cover Of the rooster to keep In
steam and flavor. In fifteen minutes peep
under the cover and II he begins to smoke.
haste literally with butter and water
Leave him for half an hour and haste
agaln-now with the water In the pan. F1f-
teen minutes later rub him all over with
q cloth dipped In melted butter. This win
keep the skin soft and tender as II browns.
Repeat the rubbing with butter every i've
minutes or 80 for half an hour. A month
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- NCLOSED please fnd a stamped
~ and self A ddressed envelope in
which please send me the recipe
for frozen plum pudding lately
published IN the Helping Hand
Ny cook does not know how to make it."
Mas JOHN A"
II has always been contrary to the rules
Of the Helping Hand to send recipes by
mail Were we to answer all the requests
Of this kind that are showered In upon US.
ne should have to engage a large corps Of
secretaries and even then would have time
tor little else. Our correspondence gath
FRS volume daily and while this is crafty
Ing as showing increasing opportunities for
service, II makes II all the more difficult
20 oblige housewives who have mislaid
recipes, or who have never read those of
|, which they are in search. This may be the
recipe you want, If not, II is good enough
TO take the place Of the missing formula.
FROZEN PUDDING-Heat two cupfuls
OF milk in a double boiler. Meanwhile
beat light the yolks Of five eggs to a smooth
cream with three cupfuls. even, Of fine
white sugar Pour the scaldIng milk upon
this gradually, beating al the time. Re-
turn TO the inner boiler and set over the
fire. 1T is safer to drop a bit Of soda the
size Of a pea into the milk before Il goes
into eggs and sugar,l Stir. and cook for
ten minutes. or until you have a nice Gus
tard. Let it get perfectly cold and then
beat in two cupfuls OF chopped crystallIzed
Iruits-peaches, plums, cherries, Rpricots,
hmes' and Observation-Disclosures you hap
pen TO like and TO have. Beat in the Juice
ana half the grated peel OF a lemon and
glass Of sherry, when the pudding IL
half frozen. opening the freezer 10 do this.
without taking It from. the ice and salt
str In quickly and from the bottom to
mix the ingredients thoroughly and pre-
vent the fruit from sinking to the bottom
OF the freezer. It Is this second beating
which makes the pudding smooth.
You may substitute raisins and eurrants
for the mixed crystalllEed fruits II you wish
20 have q veritable plum pudding. And
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citron, II you choose TO make it yet me
like the real thing.
* X
To Enamel Bed White.

CIlToh' IT you choose TO make II yet more
like the real thing.
* x
To Enamel Bed White.
have a green iron bed which is some
what marred. I should like to enamel ii
white What kind of enamel should
use? A READER.
Rub the marred paint smooth with fine
sandpaper. DO this gently. not TO rougher
what paint remains upon the iron. II yOI
could get it all off, il would be better, fol
then you would have a uniform surface
This done go all over the bedstead witt
the white enamel paint sold at paint shops
end by some druggists. Use broad brush
and sweep it smoothly and evenly over
tie iron until all is covered. Let the first
coat get perfectly dry before applying the
second. Three may be necessary TO make
the whole of the dark iron white. The
advantage Of the white enamel over and
above the pleasing effect is that 1t may
be renewed when it becomes defaced and
that it will be the fairer for each renewal
- Please tell me how to take a grease
spot out of a green leather bag. I2I And
how may a set Of beaver furs be bright
ened and the fur made smoother?
M P"
Rub the spot with French chalk. Leave
II on all night and brush 1t of. II it does
not quite extract the grease. make a paste
Of the chalk and few drops Of ammonia
just enough to make it stick and cover
the grease with It. Leave It alone for two
days Should a whitish spot remain
after the grease is extracted, dip the tip
of the finger in meats foot oil and touch
the blur. You cannot put too little Of the
grease on the finger.
III Don't try to dress your furs You
may brush them smooth, but you cannot
brighten them" The process is a secret
known TO the profession. Send them to
furrier.
Care of Winter Plants.
From a correspondent in the far south
west we have kindly hints to amateur
florists:
HOW TO CARE FOR WINTER
PLANTs-Ferns should be kept quite wet
and their growth viii be unusually rapid
and gratifying IL they are wet weekly with
cold coffee.
Primroses are among the few plants
that demand a northern exposure. They
require plenty OF light. but sunlight shin
ing directly upon them Is actually hurtfuL
They are not difhcult to raise and bloom
profusely.
When boiling potatoes with the skins
on pour OF the water and diluting II slight
ly keep II as q fertilizer for plants. II
is especially good for begonias.
g The liberal use Of lime water will ban
ish the larve Of the white worms found
in the soil about the roots Of some plants.
Wet the earth with thiS-not the plantS
Lime diSeolors the leaves
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ing patterns and the attempt to reconcile
colors, imposed by imagination, when the
senses should be lured to rest by harmoni-
Gus influences. Study these, If you would
enjoy refreshing SAUNDERS and have your
guests do the same.
As to native woods, California redwood
is cheerful and durable. Some have great
liking for CHARTERED oak. This should not
he used in cottage chambers. 1t is too
massive in effect. Georgia pine is pretty
from the first and meIlOws into a most
agreeable shade as time goes on.
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Scslloped tomatoes "a leftover
Stewed potatoes.
Boiled chestnuts and molasses tafry, home made.
Cocoa and cookies.
DINNER
Testerdays soup.
Hamburger steaks garnished with fried bananas.
Kohlrabi. Canned string beans.
Swiss nitterB Black coffee.
= =
FRIDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Oranges. Cereal and cream
Bacon. Fried mush. Toast.
Coffee and tea
LUNCHEON
CroQuettes Of Hamburger steak and potato
"a leftover.
Salad Of string beans and Romano Il leftover.
Thin bread and butter
Crackers and cheese
Cream puffs and tea.
DINNER
Goldfish chowdsr. Clam fritters.
Riced potatoes etswed celery.
Home made coffee ice cream and cake
Black coffee.
SATURDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Pineapple. Cereal and cream
Finnan haddie Graham gems.
Toast. Coffee and tea
LUNCHEON
Baked Welsh rabbit. Graham gems dheatedo.
Brown bread anehovy sandwiches.
Potato cakes. Apple and celery salad.
Ginger snaps and cocoa
DINNER
Yesterdays chowdsr.
Boiled mutton With eaper sauce.
Potatoes q "a PaKiAenne
Canned lima beans. Apple merinEus. Pie.
Black coffee A
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Resolutions Along Same Line.

The New Years resolutions were framed
along the same line. Nowise daunted by
the thought that it was big contract, they
went at II in due order and got II out Of the
way. Ny doughty ancestor was elected
twice 20 the general court Of the state-oth-
erwise the legislature-and was familia.
with the manner of drafting resolutions and
putting them on nile for the use Of his
felloW-citizens. II IS curious - Us latter
day sinners to think how circumstantial
were his cogitations during the ten hours
Of SecluEion from his family, and how sys-
tematic the resolutions to lead a more
" sober and cody life - for the coming year
than he had recorded during the last
twelvemonth. We may be tolerably sure
that he was honest in summing up his
transgressions against his Maker, and in
,penitence for the sum total. We may be
cure and certain that he did not descend
TO petty particulars Of harsh words, cruel
Sights and Indifference to the finer feelings
Of his meek wife and cowed offspring.
Such travesties OF goodness may have
had no inconsiderable part in bringing
wholesale investments in saintliness into
disrepute. However thiF hay be, IT is a
fact that New Years resolutions are
4 byword and Kissing in the mouths OF
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TUESDAY
BREAKFAST.
Oranges. Cereal and cream
Bacon. Boiled eggs. Baked Toast
French Rolls. Coffee and tea
LUNCHEON.
Cold roast pig u lsftover).
Souffie Of caulihower "a leftover.
Lettuce and cheese sandwiches
Baked potatoes
Obey koeks and sweet cider
DINNER
Cream Of spinach soup IA Ieftover).
Saint OF beecs heart with whole olives
cooked in about eight.
Potato pun "a leftover. Carrots.
Plum pudding. sliced and fried "a leftover.
Black coffee.
4 =
WEDNESDAY. -
BREAKFAST.
Baked apples Cereal and cream
Calls brains croQuettes
French Rolls. Toast.
Coffee and tea.
LUNCHEON.
Stew Of young pork (remaIns Of the pigo ana
carrots (also leftover. Apple sauce.
~, STUFFED Swest potatoes.
DINNER
Barley broth
Veal outlets. stswed tomatoes, salsdfy fritter1
Cabinet pudding.
Black coffee.
4 -
THURSDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Oranges. Cereal and cream
Bacon and eggs wafies and honey. Toast.
Tea and coffee
LUNCHEON
Minced veal on toast q leftover.
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FAMILY MEALS FOR A WEEK

SUNDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Grapefruit Cereal and cream.
Fish cakes. Corn bread, toast.
Tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Bouillon in cups
Cold corned beef Ia leftover) with
creamed horseradish sauce.
French fried potatoes.
Toasted cornbread from breakfast
Romano and egg salad. with French DRESSING
Obey kosks (see recipe in Helping HAND
and cheese.
Tea.
DINNER.
Black bean soup. founded upon liquor in which
beef was boiled
Bssfs heart a u mode
Mashed white turnips. Sweet potatoes
RAiEin and date pie.
Black coffee.
=
MONDAY.
QSew Years day.)
BREAKFAST.
Grapefruit. Cereal and cream
Barbecued rabbit. Nufins.
Toast. Tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Clipped beef with cream gravy.
Potato cakes n lsftoTer).
Fried ulush. Crackers and dairy eheesa.
Cream pufis. Tea
DINNER.
Yesterdays soup with the addition Of q cup
Of strained tomatoes and croutons.
Roast ptg Gee recipe In Helping HAND.
Apple sauce
Mashed potatoes. Caulihower. Canned spinach.
Plum pudding with brandy sauce
Black eoffss
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You who are weary Of sorrow and SHINING
Here is a beautiful hope for you
hope for me and hope for you
UsAN COOLIDGE supplies us with
the keynote for our New Years day
talk. She Is essentially the poet OF
- what Carlyle calls the present and
the actual" In every day speech she
dignifes the commonplace and glorihes
the common ways in which each Of Us must
walk, whether he Will or no.
Our sentimental foremothers and their
creed-istic spouses felt it to be religious
duty to make good resolutions on the first
day Of the year. 1t is related OF a certain
ancestor Of mine that he spent the day in
his locked chamber in Tasting and prayer.
/ may mention, parenthetically. that he
never allowed the children (of whom there
were eight TO speak at table. He wasi a
farmer who owned broad. fertile acres out
lying the homestead, and gave personal at
tention TO the laborers who titled them. 1t
was his custom on returning home for the
II o'clock dinner to cough loudly when he
turned the corner of the house. All in
doors heard the warning note, and not a
chick or child peeped from the dust Of
silence until the sound Of his heavy feet
died away on the hillside back Of the home
as he went back TO his work.
They did most things by wholesale in that
day. from laying in household stores to
doing up their religion on Sunday for the
week Benjamin Franklin as a boy put
into words the principle he had learned
from his fathers precept and example
when he proposed saying grace over the
whole barrel to escape the tri-daily bless
ing asked before meat and the thanks re-
turned " after the pork and cabbage were
eaten.
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Mind the Present ONLY.

George Macdonald puts the same truth
in other and more direct language: " 1t
has been we'll said that no man ever sank
under the burden Of the day. 1t is when
tomorrow's burden is added TO the burden
OF today that the weight is more than a
man can bear. Never load yourselves
so, my friends! II you find yourself thus
loaded, at least remember that it is your
own doing, not Gods. He begs you to leave
the future to him and TO mind the present"
II l were asked TO define the secret Of
long. and busy life I should assert. unhesi-
tatingly-making every day fresh begin
ming, living it as if no morrow were ever
to tax energies and demand thought; &C
cepting, in the literal fullness of its mean
ing, the divine Injunction: Therefore be
not anxious for the morrow for the morrow
shall be anxious for the things of itself"
Cking James version has take no
thought" The later translation has anx-
ious.D The Great Teacher never enjoined
impossibilities. And II is neither right nor
practicable not to think of and arrange to-
morrow's work. 1t is altogether possible
not to worry over the arrangement thereof.
Sit down quietly on this first day Of the
untried year and separate the anxieties OF
the next twenty-four hours from the pain
full incertitudes that vex your mind con-
corning what tomorrow may bring. We
have held the " big contract of twelve
months up to the ridicule of intelligent
people. Prove your discretion and sagac-
ity by sitting the cares of the day and
hour and minute from those which belong
TO next day and next month. One of the
sanest workers l know, whose heart and
hands are ever full Of worthy deeds done
for others has a stock admonition for her
helpers and underwriters:
d" Ny child, that toll that trial. that grief
has not to be met now! Wait until it
comes"
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Worry Is never good" and II is always
sheer waste let the cause be what II may
Set about breaking yourself of the trick
the habit, the SIN by shutting down the
bars between you and tomorrows worries
The result will remind you of Mr.Venus
retort upon the saucy boy, in I" Our Mutual
Friend -: You've no idea how small
you'd come out II had the articulating OF
you!"
''Articulate your worries and note the
result.
Your cook has been inclined to sulkiness
for a day or two. She is a good girl las
girls go) and il would be 20 end of a
nuisance were she to leave. You recall
gloomiIy how often you have heard Of
maids who had been, like Whitcomb Riley s
small boy before Christmas, as good as
she could be until she was in possession
OF her Christmas presents. then gave warn
ing and departed without the shadow Of
provocation. Should Ellen leave at the
end of the month-just a week off-and you
expecting your stylish cousin from Boston
to make you a visit! Your skin FUCKERS
into goosefesh and there are queer shivers
up and down the spine.
Why go into particulars? We have all
been there" Take yourself in hand.
This day is a fresh beginning to which
the question of Ellen's departure does not
belong. She is here and here she will
stay all Of this day. Something will turn
up tomorrow. 1t always does.
Or, the Christmas expenses have made
terrible Inroads upon the fund set aside
for that purpose. and the New Years bills
are sure to be frightful. You quake to
think Of Johns grave looks when he learns
the several amounts. You wish, from the
depths of your nauseated soul, that you
had resisted this and that temptation to
buy gifts for those and the other friends
1t is a dreary reaction that succeeds the
holiday revels. You are brave Christian
If you can turn the key upon misgivings
that have naught to 90 with this especial
first Monday of 1912, and get all the com
fort out of the bird in the hand that religion
and philosophy can extract.
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for t-ansgressions Of which we stood con-
ViCtcd by her and by conscience. and our
prayer TO be allowed to rub out and begin
again"
This is the boon granted in bounteous
measure by the fresh begImn ng Past
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IMPORTANT NOTICE

PECA USE Of the enormous
IL number of letters sent TO the
department must ask con-
tributors to limit their con1n1unica-
ttoHs to 100 words, except in cases of
formulas or recipes which require
greater space. p4nt all my cor
respondents to hareI | showing in the
Corner, and if my request in this
respect is complied with it will be
possible to print many more letters.
Attention is called to the fact that
Marion HarIdnd cannot receive money
for patterns. as she has no connection
with any department that sells them.
Marion HarLand.
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old pig requires from an hour and three
quarters to two hours to roast
When he is ready to serve, take him from
the pan and set over boiling water, COW
cred closely to keep warm. while you make
the gravy.
Turn this from the dripping pan into
saucepan. add a little hot water, thicken
with Drowned flour, boil sharply and strain
through the colander. Return to the IRE,
add the juice Of a lemon, a teaspoonful Of
kitchen bouquet. and a tablespoonful Of
cGrrant jelly-nnally, a small glass Of
sherry.
In serving him let him knesl In q bed Of
parsley, varied by clusters Of pale green
celery. Put wreath Of the same about
his neck and stick a tuft Of white caulI-
flower in his mouth in a setting of parsley
] assume that John, having been to the
knick2rbOcker manor born. knows how
to carve the " flower?" In case he has
forgotten. let me advise that he cut OF
the head first. then split down the back.
remove hams and shoulders, and separate
the ribs. Serve the Stufnng with each po--
ton
Pass cJrrant or grape Jelly with the Dig
and apple sauce. And may digestion wait
upon the appetites John and the children
viii bring 10 the feastI
Obey koeks are doughtnuts compounded
AFTER fashion varied according to the
housewives fancy. Here is a recipe given
to me forty years ago by q full-olooded
KHickerbocksr-a Van of noble In
cage a gentlewoman and a capital house.
keeper, as were most women OF that ilk:
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Worry Aiwaus Sheer Waste.

She it was who laughed with me over the
exclamation of a companion-cited last
month-"AlI that good worry wasted
She had been possessed by fearful look
ing forward to which the actual event gave
the lie
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Ancnt a Mem Home.

" come for suggestion with regard
to finishing the walls Of our new home, now
nearly completed. Would you advise me
10 have the walls painted or papered? II
painted, the 6ado and frieze should be
steEcIled in conventional designs. And
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this generation. 1t is not a week since I
heard q man declare that they have gone
clean out of fashion. And good radiance.
too, for individuals and the community at
large! They were always a hollow sham
puritanical mummery!"
None said him Nay" l quoted Henry
Van Dyke last week as asking, II you can
keep Christmas for a day. why not for a
year,"
1 offer the query inverted: If for the
year, why not for the day."
This is the common. sensible - fresh be-
ginning" Sensible because 1t is reasonable
and altogether practicable. wish could
locate the old writer who said: God
always grants grace for daily duties. Each
day is a stick the carriage of which is never
beyond ones strength. Nowhere in his
holy word is grace guaranteed for fagEots."
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A QUICK CARAMEL PUDDING Csub-
mitted by Mrs. l. NJ. M9--Melt q cup OF
sugar in saucepan or frying pan. Have
ready mixed a pint Of rich milk, one egg.
and a tablespoonful Of -four blending these
ingredients wen. Turn the mixture into
the sugar and stir until thick and smooth.
Serve with cream.
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OLE Koeks.

w ANTWERP OBEY KoEKsCream
a pound Of butter with one Of sugar. whip
ping 1t light. Stir into II a quart OF milk
and cupful Of yeast with a quart Of nour.
Let It rise all night. In the morning add
four eggs. well beaten. with two teaspoon
fuls Of cinnamon and the same Of mace
or nutmeg. Add. last two cupfuls Of -four.
or enough to make the mixture as stiR as
soft bread dough. Set to rise again. II
should be light in three hours. Then roll
Into a sheet an inch thick and cut into
shapes with tin cutters. Fry In deep fat.
As fast as they are done and OF rich
golden brown. take UP with a skinner and
lay to drain In q colander. sift powdered
sugar over them while they are hot.
These recipes go to you with best wishes
for the health and happiness OF yourself
and your family during the year now al
most upon US.
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Every day is a fresh beginning.
Every morn is the world made new
You who are weary Of sorrow and SHINING,
Here is a beautiful hope for you.
A hone for me and hope for you
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- NCLOSED please find a stamped
B and self addressed envelope in
which please send me the recipe
for frozen plum pudding lately
published IN the Helping Hand.