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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-10-06
ri HAVE observed frequent inquiries
~ In your department from those who
wish to give entertainments Of

ri HAVE observed frequent inquiries
In your department from those who
wish to give entertainments Of
various sorts They want to know
what to serve and how to amuse
their guests. in what order food is to be
offered to visitors. and dozens and scores
of other Items showing how anxious the
writer's are to make good impression upon
invited guests and to keep them from being
bored and all that. Really. one might
think that having company is the big
gest nuisance a housekeeper can have-and
that is saying much. or, as my Jack would
put 1t, going some when you think of the
thousand and one bothers to which she is
subject In this land of liberty, where one
man is as good as another and better.
too!
Sometimes ! ask myself. in reading and
hearing such talk, why we ask people to
our houses when it is so much trouble and
expense to widen the family circle and take
them in? The puzzle is bigger yet when
I hear those who are invited grumble at
being obliged to accept this or that invita-
ton. The whole thing is a muddae Of mod
ern society-a tangle that neither you nor
can straighten out
" But that is not what began this letter
10 say. / wish you would give US a talk
upon how to behave in other peoples
houses. Since We must accept invitations,
isn't 1t our duty to make the visit as pleas
ant as possible to those who were good
Tor conscientiousD enough 10 open their
doors to US? To illustrate: l have lately
had a visit from a relative Of my step
mother. That worthy woman departed this
life some years ago crest her souiD and left
this cousin as a sort of legacy to US. We
loved and honored our fathers wife, and
We show respect to her memory by re-
ceiving her relative kindly when she in
vites herself to our respective homes. She
always begs US not to make a stranger
Of her She wants to it into the family
without friction or fuss She prides her
self upon that as a witty phrase, and uses
it ad, nauseam To make sure there shall
be neither fuss nor friction, she proceeds.
as soon as her bonnet is off. to make her
self perfectly at home by interfering with
everything and everybody. She is one of
those awful beings who takes an interest
in her fellow creatures everywhere and
at all seasons. Not a spot in the house is
unvisited. She actually peeps into the
servants room before they are out of bed
the clock struck six five minutes ago She
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-10-06
Is Too Much m Home"

is 90 Much 4 HI Home.
How I hate dat just thought! 1t is
on her tongp twenty times a day. She
says it to Explain her popping into the
kitchen when am making cake. She Just
thought I might like to have her beat the
eggs. She begs that viii let her put up
the children's school luncheon and set
closets TO rights and arrange the book
shelves. And while she does all these
things she tells me how her dear friend
Mrs. This-orThat manages such matters.
"' II you could just see her library and
wardrobe closets and kitchen pantries. o.
my..r Then 1t will be. How many flies you
have here! My dear. don't think me OFF,
cious, but just thought / ought TO tell you
that the kitchen door leading into the but
lers pantry ought TO have a spring on it:
The maids leave it open and the flies get
in Or, That dear little Katherine tsuch
a sweet childD of yours is getting to stoop..
II is a pity. for she would grow up into
fine looking woman if that is corrected.
/ just thought would speak Of it. I am 50
fond of your children- Or, again: DO you
prefer having your toast cut thick? Mrs.
So-and-So has the most delicious toast
you. ever put into your mouth! as thin as
wafer and SO crisp!
But enough Of this. I want you 10 tell
her and her tribe tmay 1t de-creaseD that
there is such a thing as making oneself
too much at home in friends house, even
though she may be a apprenticeship
in-law."
You wouldn't believe what a bother and
fexation she is to the servants, and what
an infiction TO me. Nor what a relief II is
to all concerned when she takes her trim
figure and prunes-and-prism face of to the
station when her fortnight's visitation is
ended. She always stays a fortnight She
looks forward to that visit from one years
end to the other
You won't have room for this diatribe.
know. But l couldn't shorten 1t and do
even partial justice to the subject. Serious
ly, ii is an affliction as well as an infiiction.
Blue-pencil this into shape and bounds.
but answer my prayer by telling US how
TO strike a happy medium OF behavior in
other peoples houses. mean. how TO avoid
fitting in too well and not fitting at ali.
REBEccA s. M"
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Not a Household Member.

With this end in view avoid any ap-
pearance Of idle curiosity with regard to
matters your entertainers do not see fit to
bring to your consideration Ask no Ques-
tons as to letters arriving and going. no
explanations or illusions to family affairs
incidentally made in your hearing. Listen
to what may be volunteered on the topic.
and push your inquiries no further than
the bounds set by your entertainers You
are their guest. not a member Of the house
hold proper.
Miss Mandy is a mighty we'll meantn'
woman said a coiored nanny" OF the
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III ILLUSION is frequently made to
~ ~ sauerkraut in the exchange.
~ Few American born house
mothers know how 1t is made
and the taste thereof after 1t is
made by one to the manor born. l send
with this recipe for the manufacture OF
the good old fashioned standby Of hun
dreds OF families on this side Of the water
and tens Of thousands across the sea.
GENUINE SAUERKRAUT. - Select
fine cabbages and take out the hearts,
which are not required for the saurekraut.
Put all the outside leaves through a cab
bage cutter. When they are minced fine
put a layer Of them about four inches thicl
into a stone jar. or barrel. or key, and
sprinkle salt and white sugar over 1t. Now
pound with a wooden mallet or pestle until
you have a compact mass Put over this
a second layer of cabbage, salt, and sugar
and pound this fiat. Proceed in this order
until all the materials are used up. Pound
hard to firm all. Salt and sugar to your
liking. It is not well to make 1t very salt.
do not add water in making. II you
pound long enough there will be enough
LIQUID to cover the cabbage.
the barrel or crock with cloth, then with
a board, and lay q heavy weight upon the
top Of ALL II during the winter the liquid
settles down and leaves the cabbage ex-
posed, pound all down with the potato
beetle. In this way you may keep the
sauerkraut nicely until June.
II have noticed, too, that In your weekly
menus Of family meals you mention some
times salt pork with cream gravy. This Is
a houely dish of which we farming folk
are fond. If prepared according to the in
closed recipe it will taste almost like fresh
pork.
SALT PORK WITH CREAM GRAVY.
Slice the pork thin, put It into frying
pan, and cover with sweet milk. Set 1t
upon the stove and bring slowly to the
boil. and the pork Is freshened. Drain on
the milk into a saucepan and keep hot
while you fry the pork to a nice brown.
Take I'D the meat and keep hot In the open
oven while you make the gravy. Stir flour
into the fat In the pan until you have a
smooth paste. Then addgradually the milk
In the saucepan in which the pork was
heated. Boil Up once and pour over the
meat
"You could not tell this from fresh pork.
"A WISCONSIN MEMBER"
We are glad TO get both recipes. That
for the pork and cream gravy will be .
godsend to the mother who is sorely puz-
zled in these days to substitute something
savory for the luncheon or breakfast dish
Of fresh meat. now made into an expensive
luxury by ubiquitous prices. II little
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Mexican Dishes.

Somebody asked for recipes for Mexican
dishes. This may not come amiss:
MEXICAN NOUGAT ICING-Two and
a half cupfuls Of granulated sugar. half a
cupful OF corn syrup, half cupful Of boil
ing water.
Boil this mixture until 1t thickens- Then
take out half a cupful and beat 1t into the
stiffly beaten whites OF two eggs. Return
the rest OF the strip to the fire and boil
until It threads and hardens IL dropped into
cold water. Then beat gradually into the
rest OF the mixture. By adding nuts and
fruits this makes a delicious Christmas
candy. Cut into slices. pack into fancy
boxes, and put candied cherries. violets.
and roses between the layers.
You are asking all the time for morsels
Of housewifely experience that may be use
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spice TO a gallon OF vinegar. Cover closely
while the vinegar Is hot and do not open for
a fortnight. Then pour of the spiced vine
gar. boil up quickly and pour again over the
onions in the Jars.
These pickles will be 1T for use in Il month,
but improve with age. The alternate sailing
and freshening should leave the onions
white and whole
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IMPORTANT NOTICE

because Of the enormous number Of
IL letters sentto the department I must ask
contributors 10 limit their communication, 10
100 pords. except in cases Of formulas or
recipes uhieh require greater space. ! want
ell my correspondents TO haze shouting in
The Corner. and il my request in this respect
is complied uiLh ii uiQ Be possible 10 print
many more letters.
Attention Is called 10 The fact that Marion
Horland cannot reeeioe money for patterns,
as she has no connection loih any department
hat sell, them. Marion Harland.
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Thin graham bread and butter
Crackers and cheese.
Rice pudding.
Tea.
DINNER.
Yesterdays soup with croutons.
Mutton chops. currant Jelly.
Canned green peas.
Scalloped sweet potatoes
Blanc mango and cake.
Black coffee.
3 -
FRIDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Grapes.
Cereal and cream.
Fish croQuettes. a
Quick biscuits.
Toast.
Tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Clam fritters
Breakfast biscuits.
String beans and green peas SALAD upon
endive Qeftovers).
Heated crackers and American cheese.
Cream puffs.
Tea.
DINNER.
Tomato soup.
Boiled cod with egg sauce.
Mashed potatoes.
Slowed celery.
Lemon and raisIn tarte.
Black coffee.
n: 4.
SATURDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Oranges.
Cereal and cream.
Bacon.
Rice mudina.
Toast
Tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Creamed eggs in naples.
Potato puff "a leftover).
Breakfast mufiins "a ieftovsr).
Crackers and cheese.
Small cakes and tea
DINNER
Tomato and rice soup "a Leftover In part).
Fish pudding In mold with sauce tartare
"a leftover).
Potatoes 4 Ia Lyonnaise.
Spinach Ia creme.
ouet dumplings with hard saues.
Black coffee
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FAMILY MEALS FOR A WEEK.

SUNDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Grapes.
Cereal and cream.
Kippered herring
Corn meal dodgers.
Toast.
Tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Beef loaf
Breakfast bread toasted
Whole wheat bread
Cherry aspic salad (see recipe)
Swedish waters.
Cream cheese
Baked custsrd.
Cake.
Tea.
DINNER.
Veal and vernIcelIi poup.
smothered round steak (see recipe).
Baked macaroni and cheese (see recipe).
Drowned sweet potatoes
Irish potato pie with American cheese
Black coffee.
- 4
MONDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Slbpe Irult.
Cereal and cream
Bacon and eggs.
French rolls
Toast
Tea and coffee
LUNCHEON.
Beef loaf sliced and garnished "a leftover).
Stewed potatoes.
Dreamed toast Cbahed).
Crackers heated with cheese
Cream cheese balls with orange marmaIads
and brown bread cut thin.
Cocoa.
DINNER
Yesterday's soup.
Ragout Of beef and macaroni e leftover).
Squash.
Spinach
Canned peach shortcaks with saucs
(see recipe for sauce).
Black coffee.
- 4.
TUESDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Baked apples.
Dried rusk and milk.
Bacon and fried gresa tsnatoesl
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Hostess Made Uncomfortable.

So many and divers are the violations Of
the laws Of hospitating as they should
be understood by cell bred residents Of
civilized countries. that time and space
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Hospitality a DUTY and Grace.

You have set the case so graphically be-
fore US that l have not touched the blue
pencil in transferring the delightful letter
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she does not hospitate Alright II she
does not dodge the floating gossamer as
il she saw 1t not. and feign to admire the
prospect dimly visible through the dirty
panes.
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Bran mufnns
Toast.
Tea and coffee.
4 4
LUNCHEON.
Fried salt pork with cream gravy (see recipe).
Breakfast mufnns split. heated. and
buttered.
soufae Of squash "a leftover). =
Canned peach shortcake with sauce
q leftover).
Tea.
DINNER.
Spinach soup Qsft over).
Fresh beefs tongue. Dreaded and praised.
Mashed potatoes.
Dreamed onions
cocoanut pie.
Black coffee.
~ o.
WEDNESDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Oranges.
Cereal and cream.
Scrambled eggs.
Wafiies and honey.
Toast
Tea and coffes.
LUNCHEON.
Baked Welsh rabbit
Fried hominy.
Graham bread
Potato cake 70 leftover.
Cookies and jam.
Tea
DINNER.
Black bean soup, based upon liquor In
which tongue was parboiled.
BEES tongue sliced, deviled, and fried
q leftovsr).
Currant jelly.
stewed satisfy.
Canned string beans.
Brown Betty.
Black coffee
~ g.
THURSDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Apple seucs.
Cereal and cream.
Bacon.
fcpovers with maple strup.
Toast
Tea ana coffee
LUNCHEON
Barbecued ham
Baked potatoes.
? Esg and lstssss aisA
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Cider Season al Height.

Cider Season al Height.
e This is the height of the cider season
in some parts Of our territory. am pleas
ing myself by sending recipes for making
it into a beverage that should supersede.
with sensible. reasonable people,
Brandy. whisky. or rum,
Or anything that makes drunk come.
TO KEEP CIDER SWEET AM
BRISK.-Put into each barrel eight table
spoonfuls of white mustard seed tied up
in a muslin bag. If you bottle it put raj
sin in the bottom Of each bottle.
a GOOD COOKING WINE.-Mix with
new cider from the press as much honey
as will support an egg. Boil gently for
fifteen minutes in an enameled or porcelain
kettle-never in iron, brass, tin, or copper.
Skim it well and let it cool. Then pour
it into a cask. In six months It will be
ready to bottle, and you will have a really
excellent cooking wine. MRS. T. E. NJ
Sweet cider for the Thanksgiving dinner
finds favor with the most temperate of
domestic caterers. And II the mother can
make her own wine for sauces, and creams,
and jelIles, there is so much to the good
in more ways than one.
AZ =.
Green Pepper Manages.
In one of your cook books you give a
green peppers stuffed with mustard seed.
etc, and picked. 1 have never seen a
recipe for the peppers picked plain. Yet
they are nice. and much less troublesome
TO put up than the manages.
GREEN PEPPER PICKLES.-Cut a
dozen large green peppers into thick slices
crossways. Take out all the seeds before
you slice them, and do not let them touch
the inside walls Of the peppers. Put into
q crock or porcelain pan and pour salt and
water over them. Leave them in this for an
hour. Then drain and pack into glass jars
that have been rolled In hot water to pre-
vent cracking. Have ready enough scalding
vinegar spiced and sweetened to taste to
cover them. Pour 1t over them, filing the
cans full, and fit on tight rubbers and tops.
'' They will be fit to eat in two months,
and are fine as relish to be eaten with
meat, fish, or poultry.
And here is composition Of my own
which We like 1t may be used as an ac-
compartment to cold meats or as salad,
formed in molds or cut into cubes and
served up on crisp lettuce leaves.
CHERRY ASPIC.-Make pint of lem
on Jelly with little or no sweetening, and
when It is lukewarm mix with it a pint
of canned cherries, fruit and Juice. The
Jelly should be stiff. SO that the addition Of
the cherries will not thin It toomuch.
Allow for them as you would for wine or
cider In making the jelly. In all you should
have quart when all the ingredients are
In. Set 1t to form in jelly mold or In
nappies If you wish to have II IN small
portions.
In serving put a portion upon a leaf of
heart lettuce and pour salad dressing over
all Mrs. H. L. g."
1t Is an Iowa member who presents her
in the form Of two novel and
attractive recipes. She is cordially well
coined to the big family. and invited to
,avor US with further contributions.
~ e.
Onion Picking Recipe.
Recently saw in some paper-I think
IN yours recipe for picking onions. The
paper was accidentally destroyed before I
could cut out the recipe. would It be asking
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is afraid they might y have heard IT
and just thought she 5uld tell them
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Onion Pickline Recipe.

"Recently saw in some paper-I think
In yours recipe for picking onions. The
paper was accidentally destroyed before I
could cut out the recipe. would II be asking
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onion juice be added to the gravy it will be
relished the more by John and the boys
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-28
DICKENS, } M ~WlSDOM
 NRSHOGUE STlNQtOQB
SENTIMENT OR SENTIMENTALITY
''It will often be found that the sentiments which have nothing in them make the oudest ringing in the world and are the most relished. .'-Barnaby Rudge.

As people love to be humbugged r We like plays that appeal to hollow sentiments
 We like politicians who make loud and hearty blus- ter about things that matter little.
 We like pretty little lady like charities that get where but deeper in the muddle.
 As women, adore sentimental speeches that are the face of them, false; and willing to suffer heavy punishments for latter of the dark ages which call chivalry.
 The real things of fe-duty to ourselves and duty to our feowmen-we not so fond of
 The honesty which means justice in business and in the home well the justice meted out in the courts hard to practice
 There is nothing harder than being honest with one s self, because sentimental
 know of young girl who gave up home and friends to go into religious work She had old mother who helpless and dependent upon her. She had halfwitted sister who needed her than the church. Surely the Master will not blame her. She followed her vision, but there be doubt that she pleased with sound ing sentiment, rather than a duty
 If only the right and wrong things of this world securely and plainly labeled would get along much better.
 But as they not must study to know sentiment from sentimenality- from law laws of from laws of humanity-e from within rather than life from without.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-28
POINTS OF INTEREST.
Shoes for Easter.

Thing & Go. open up the spring sea- son with the snappiest line of shoes, oxfords and pumps ever bought from manufa cturers. All the new styles and feathers and every pair carries with it Thing & Co.'s famous guar antee to make right any pair bought from uS no matter what the price may be- Buy now for Easter, before the rush begins. It will pay you to come here. $. B. Thing & Co.,, 115S Main street..
 Gut Out Borders
 Freezes, cretonnes to match the very latest in artistic designs of wall pa pers at very reasonable prices and hung on the wall if desired by prac- tical workmen guaranteed to stay on; oatmeals, vanished tiles, stripes, two tone effects, burlaps, sanitas, in fact every kind of wall covering. Any thing in paints, oils, etc. No dusto for floor sweeping, auto oils, gasolene. Jos. F. Coughlin Co., 777-7S3 East Main street Phone 2S05-3
 Lenten Fish Specials for Friday Fancy fresh caught buck shad. roc shad, steak cod, cut shad, haddock native flatfish, salt herring, opened long clans, sea escallops, Long Island steamers, large bakers. Fresh striped bass green halibut, spanish mackere1 perch, green smelts, shad roes, live and boiled Holsters, smoked sturgeon salmon, cells, bloaters, finnan haddies boneless herring, halibut, salt anC pickled fish, Bridgeport Public Mar ket and Branch, State and Bank Sts and East Main St.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-28
sNTHE BETROTHED"

Usual Apologies to Kipling.) Hi, old barkeep, get busy, draw me &
 schooner of SudS, For Mag and I have fell out, Bo, and
 she's drippin' tears in floods. We qnarrelled about the lager, we
 scrapped over good old foam, And Mag says Pm a sOuse-and she she's cracked in the dome. Fill her up to the brim, pal, let me dope out this ''biz'', Stickin' my nose in the lager, pipin'
 up Mags sweet phiz Mag is peach to look at, and Mag
 is a lovin' skirt. But the sweetest broilers get fat, and
 Cupid may do you dirt. There's peace in foamy Pilsner, there's calm in Milwaukee's brew, But the biggest mug i'll a jiffy is
 gulped, and over, and through Through-but there's more on tap, Bo,
 but the price I mightn't have If I sent Mag to the discard and had
 to pay her salve Mag my old woman at fifty, a face
 that would stop clock, With no other Mag to love, Bo, if I
 had a pile O. the rock. The dregs of old stale lager, with
 never a drop else to drink Think I'll fall for it, barkeep? I will,
 yes, I don't think. For Mag has laid down the law, laid
 it down lucid and clear, And it's up to me to decide 'twixt her
 and lager beer. I have been spoonin' with Mag for only
 a year or SO But the nickels I've slipped to you
 think you could count 'em,. Bo? White-robed he-angel of Bacchus, fill
 Ter up while I wait, Old Top, who is this Mag, that l
 should give you the gate? A million united Maggies would take
 me quick as a wink, An skirt is only a skirt, Bo but a
 mug of suds is a drink,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-28
POLI'S

Pretty Audrey Maple, star of Miss Captain Kidd" at Polls, this week, has created a sensation through her charm of appearance and her clever work as the heroine of this newest and brightest of vaudeville musical com edy sketches. It is a bill of hits this week and is being right royalty appre- ciated by the big audiences which crowd the popular playhouse The headline act, Miss Captain Kidd, Is winning the approval it deserves through it's dainty charm and many winning features. Miss Maple is not the only pretty girl in the cast, for all the young women in the company are
 possessed of unusual good looks and help to make the production the Suc- cess that it is
 sam Lewis and Sam Dody are Knocking 'em off the benches" at every turn. The two Sans have the greatest line of laughing lingo and catchy songs heard here in many a long moon. Lewis as the Hebrrew and Dody in his famous Italian inn
 personation are simply immense, and
 such pair of entertainers are wei
 come wherever high class vaudeville is played
 Paul Conchas, the German giant,
 presents the most novel and extra
 ordinary strong man. act ever seen
  a fractured skull and a broken neck at every performance by his daring feats in hurling immense cannon balls and projectiles into the air and catch ing them on the back of his neck and his shoulders, and hurling them back. Conchas is the most magnificent look ing specimen of muscular humanity ever seen here. Then his assistant is
 screamingly funny pantomime com edian and makes a great foil for the more serious part of the act.
 Harry H. Richards, .'the d1ppy com edian' and bonny Bessie Kyle, the charming and attractive miss, make a great combination for melody and fun in their skit, "A Regular Club Man" !" Kyle and Richards are always sure of "the big hand'' and as many encores as they can afford to take.
 Josephine Islieb and her song birds offer a flood of grand opera melody. This singing trio are equipped with beautiful voices and make a conbina- tion rarely heard upon the vaudeville stage. It carries the audience to the Metropolitan Opera House for little side visit and proves a most enjoyable diversion in the vaudeville menu. Other features of the week include The Grazers, musical and terpsicho-ean artists; Romalo and DelanO, the col lege athletes; Polls Electrograph with a dandy motion picture comedy, and Polls concert orchestra, featuring all 1 inc latest poplIlar music