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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1912-02-03
NOTICE.

We, the undersigned, forbid all
hunting, trapping and trespassing on
our lands. Anyone caught so doing
will be punished to the full extent of
the law. H. A.rDUTSCH.
L. L. DUTSCH
C. r. SCHULTZ.
G.. H. DUTSCH.
]. e. CLELAND.
A. LAND.
L. TALLEY.
ROBT. II. VOSS.
G. r. DUTSCH.
r. MATHTES.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1912-02-03
TREsPAss NOTICE.

TRESPASS NOTICE.
The undersigned forbid ell hunt
ing trapping or trespassing on their
lanes. Anyone caught doing so will
ne punished to the full extent of the
law.
QUEEN & CRESCENT CLUB.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1912-02-03

HICKORY GROVE SUNDAY
SCHOOL.
Sunday School every Sunday at 2
p. M. 1t the Hickory Grove school
house. r
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salt and of garlic, one-fourth ounce of cay
enne pepper, half an ounce of black pep
per, one ounce of mace, two grated nut
megs two ounces of English mustard.
Peel the garlic and put the cloves
into the lemon whole Cut the lemons
in half and dig out the contents. Chop
the pulp fine and mix well with the rest
of the ingredients except the vinegar [leav-
ing the garlic cloves whole]. Now divide
the mixture equally among the halved
lemons. Fill the peels with it, set them
in earthen dishes and bake, closely COW
cred, in the oven until they are nicely
Drowned. Pack while hot in a deep crock
and cover with heated vinegar. Fit on a
tight cover and set in the cellar for ten
days, stirring up from the bottom twice
each day, and fitting the cover on again
at once.
At the end of this time chop the lem
ons fine, and mix with the rest of the in
gradients. Let all stand for five hours be-
fore straining through a double flannel bag
into a clean, crock Let it alone for a week
keeping it tightly coveredl- Then pour
off carefully. not to disturb the dregs, and
bottle. The liquid should be of a clear
brown color.
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ready a good pastry as for pie. Roll out
and cut into rounds rather larger than for
cookies In the exact center of each lay
four slices of apple, sugar generously, and
upon the top arrange a tablespoonful of
chopped nutS-pecanS or walnuts
blanched Acknowledgment them and lay
second round of pastry on these. Pinch
the edges together and stamp with the ham
die of a spoon or "jigging iron,' If you
have 1t, to prevent the escape Of juice. and
bake to nice brown. When half done they
should be washed over quickly and with
out taking them from the oven-with white
of egg beaten light with a. little sugar. This
makes beautiful crust.
Eat hot with hard or liquid sauce.
"A CHICAGO MEMBER"
So far as my knowledge and memory OF
recipes go, you may claim the proprietary
rights of the recipe with which you tempt
those of US who cannot hear of a new and
attractive dish without longing to try it
forthwith.
Years ago I invented what a member
promptly chTistened Marion Harland
Compete" which bore a family resem-
blance to your delicious dumplings. re-
peat the formula here lest you may sus-
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MARION HARLAND'S HELPING HAM
HAN D.

pect me of depreciatng the value of your
inventions by the mention of the dish.
Marion Harland Compote-Select fine, ripe
apples-pippins if you have them-and ex-
tract the cores. Do not break the outer
skin if you can help it except around the
core. Have ready enough chopped nuts to
fill the cavities. Mix plenty of sugar With
the nuts and very little ground cinnamon
You may leave it out if you prefer the I'M
adulterated flavor of nuts and apple Heap
the mixture in the center of each apple
and set all in deep dish well butteTed.
Pour about them a cupful of cold water
sweetened with two great spoonfuls of
sugar, and bake, covered closely, until the
apples are tender. Uncover and brown
delicately.
Eat ice cold with cream.
You see We do not trespass upon one
another's preserves. although the main in
gradients are the same in the recipes.
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netting TO exclude dust and admit the air
and leave it alone for two days before
brushing cut the magnesia- If it be very
much sofed a second application may be
needed Usually one does the work.
For mildewed cottons and linens: Be-
fore risking the threads by using powerful
acids or detersives, rub plenty Of laundry
soap into a paste with few tabespoonfuis
Of salt Wet the stains with cold water and
cover with the paste. Then lay in the hot
test sunshine you can find and leave it there
all day. Three times during the day wash
off the paste and renew. I have had this
remove the ugliest and most obstinate
blotches of mildew. and it does not rot the
finest fabric.
Il hope you will forgive the trespass
upon your time and the all too scanty space
granted to the exchange EMMA l..
Happy is the builder who has A" bricks
like these laid to her hand. 1 do invite
" briefiets " from experienced housemoth-
ers. They are the mainstay Of our Depart
ment.
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Time and Pdtience Only Cure.

But is there nothing to take for it? L
have indicated certain remedies. but there
is no prophyia ctic unless it may be time
and patience few palliatives exist and
it is up to you . to find them All that
sort of thing devolves upon the mother. 1t
would not occur to the children, ana Jonn
usually is so busy observing his own symp-
toms in all the time he can spare from MS
work that it never comes to his mind that
you may be suffering from the same COM
plant which aff1icts him.
Look about you then for some thing which
will help you all and you will probably dis
cover it in some sort of diversion. Haven't
you heard that the results are almost in
yardably disastrous If you break off a drink
or drug habit too suddenly? 1t must be
stopped by degrees. The vacation haplt
has not been pernicious or harmful. but II
has been powerful and you cannot expect to
check it in a moment without suffering
from the shock.
Let yourself down easily. Work shorter
hours at first, even. if there are many things
waiting to be done. Keep to the custom of
Saturday half holidays for all of you. Go
for trolley rides or for afternoons in the
parks or at the beaches or other pleasure
resorts of the kind near you and look upon
the expense of such outings as less than
doctors bill or medicine. When you can
not go into the country contrive some sort
of frolic at home and conduct it along such
informal lines that it won't tire you. Live
simply so zar as housekeeping is concerned.
Make fruit take the place of made desserts
while this is plentiful and comparatively
cheap.
Give picnic air to the regular meals by
dispensing with formality and when you
can take a meal with you on little excur-
sion do so and save yourself table setting
and dish washing.
Try all this and see II you don't have
gradual settling down of wheels into the
rut instead of a sudden slump " which
breaks springs, strains the running gear,
and shakes up the passengers.
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4 Hold Full of Briefs.

You have repeatedly invited housemoth-
ers to send in what you call briefiets col
lected during our active years of house
wifery. Once you said that the structure
of successful housekeeping is made up of
these Titles. Perhaps you may be able
to use few bricks have picked up here
and there in twenty odd years of married
life.
A Hodful of Bricks.-To restore faded
ginghams, calicoes, muslins, and other
washable materials, shake and beat out
all the dust, then wash quickly in lukewarm
suds made of old CASTLE soap, thoroughly
ripe -; rinse in clear cold water and then
lay in a strong solution of alum for an
hour. Dry in the shade. The alum will set
the colors and brighten them. Dry quickly
on clear day. but out OF the sun.
A rusty CRATE or range should be wiped
free OF dust and ashes with dry soft
cloth. then rubbed all over with cut raw
potato. changing the bits are very dirty
and applying others. Do this faithfully.
You will be amazed at the CRIME that the
potato will remove. Let it dry and polish
as usual with whatever preparation you are
in the habit of using.
To allay the smart and itching of mos
quito bites: AS soon a convenient. moisten
sweet toilet soap and rub the bites well
with 1t. Do not wash it off but let 1t dry
of itself Relief viii be prompt and no
lump will be left from the sting. The alkah
of the soap neutralizes the acid of the sting.
The same household remedy is good for the
sting of wasp, bee, or yellow Jacket Should
more powerful applications be required, try
household ammonia.
Fleshy persons should diet wisely. Ihat
does not mean abstaining from all FOODS,
but selecting the right sort of dietary All
starchy foods make adipose tissue e.;
fat. Don't eat sweets, breakfast cereals,
potatoes. and pastries. Let candy alone.
Eat freely OF fruits, raw and stewed, and
drink little water, making the acid OF
fruit satisfy thirst. Eat fish, lean meat
and no fresh bread. Dry toast-the drier
the better-is excellent for your purpose
MIX. particularly buttermilk, cream. and
chocolate are fat makers.
ITO clean white felt hats and slippers;
Make stiff paste of powdered magnesla
and household ammonia and apply to the
article with a perfectly new and clean
brush. Rub well into the felt, first against,
then with the nap. Set the hat in box
SO large that it viii not touch the sides ana
keep it clear of the bottom with stick
fitted into the same, hanging the hat upon
the stick. Cover the top of the box with
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putting it to rights again, and possibly
this might be the easiest way for you. But
it would be hard the rest of the family,
and especially on john, who feels the
" slump whether he acknowledges it or
not, and has a right to some consideration
when he comes home weary from work
for which his muscles sti1l soft after
the rest.
Unless you are a remarkable exception to
the rest of huma nkind-and particularly
womankind-you will overdo abominably
after your vacation.
al always expect rush of patients when
vacation time is over" said physician to
me when I had gone TO him to ask for
tonic and had bemoaned myself for getting
tired so ca silly when had come back from
a months holiday only fortnight before.
I'VE all make idiots of ourselves he
went on. We take our outings and come
back feeling we could move mountains and
then proceed to tackle the noun tains. And
the mountains wont move, SO We tire our
selves out attempting to do impossible
things we would never have thought or
when we weren't unusually " husky" If
a man would work after his vacation as he
did before he'd get some good from his
outing, but as soon he feels rested he
does too much-and then he comes to me
LOT q LOQlC.
Don't we all make this mistake? And
isn't this in degree responsible for our
depression after we come back to work?
Other valid causes exist for such depres-
sion We have lived in the open, We have
breathed pure mountain or sea air, We have
taken much outdoor exercise Simple COM
nonsense should tell US that when We leave
all this for the city streets, when we shut
ourselves at work within four walls, when
we abandon rowing, tramping, fishing,
games Of all kinds and have little or no
bodily exercise except that involved in
doing homework or going to and from
school or business-and generally taking
car for that-we cannot expect to feel the
physical glow we knew when we were lead
ing a normal life.
Bear this in mind when you are inclined
to be severe on your children for ''dawdling
around" when John comes in looking as If
the cares of the world were upon his Shout
ders and wonders if this fatigue can mean
typhoidr" Apply the same patience to your
own case. Don't make up your mind you
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- HAVE read with much interest your
~ article upon corporal punishment.
To my mind there is nothing equal to
4 1t in any way, shape, or manner. It
has refining and elevating influence
when rightly administered and accepted in
the proper spirit
My mother was a wonderful woman in
every respect The world is better to me
because she once lived In it. She and 1 were
chums and more like sisters than mother
and daughter. I had no secrets from her,
but was obliged to obey her. was sound
" hand spanked for my misdemeanor to
my great and lasting benefit and perpetual
and grateful remembrance. 1 can never
recall having any feeling of resentment to-
ward my mother because she punished me
in that way. All honor to her who gave
sound switching to her daughter when she
was lie years Of age! We do not think
there should be any age limit as to when
corporal punishment should cease. 1t
should depend upon the capacity acquired
for right behavior on the part of the child
There would be fewer girls upon the
streets in the immodest attire OF today;
fewer gadabouts among women frivolously
inclined and less race suicide Il corporal
punishment in a mild, humane manner
were more generally administered. lit
tie touching up with the switch the hair
brush, as occasion required, would be of
ineStimable value to the rising generation
were more of them recipients of the salu-
tary discipline. Provided always that the
chastisement were accompanied by the per-
suasion upon the part of the child that it
was given in the spirit of love and with a
view to his or her betterment.
YOURS FOR THE ROD New York City,.
Our esteemed correspondent is right in
the MAN.. according to my ideas of family
goverumsnt. She strikes straight out from
the shoulder in a whole hearted fashion
that earns the respect even Of those who do
not quite agree with her. I am disposed to
take issue with her upon a single point. As
1 said upon former occasion, my own
mother, a wise and loving discipHnarian,
held and believed for certain. and practiced
her belief that the child who IS judiciously
trained in habits of obedience and self-con-
troll from earlier infancy should not require
corporal punishment after il is years of
age. BY then. according to her, it should
be 80 well grounded in habits of obedience
and deccrous behavior as to be in some
deRree capable of government With
each of the seven children who grew up to
mans and woman's estate under her gen.
tie rule a word of command or admonition
was all that was needed after that age.
do not recollect ever defyiug her author
ity. 1 certainly never felt resentful Of her
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low do you and your family feel
about returning to the city after the
summer holiday?
Probably there are as many types
of opinion and behavior as there are
individuals in the household. Taking the
children first, you will be likely to ma
frank resentment at the end of the vacation
and this shows itself in iTnpatience, in fret
fulness, in " grouchiness," according to the
personal disposition.
John would not be the conscientious man
he is il he had not thought for some days
before he came back that it was time his
hand was again on the helm and this con-
viction and, the plans he is making for re-
sumption Of work render him more or less
distracted and absorbed 80 that the chill
dren whisper among themselves that
Father is a gloom! and you have won
cered il anything has gone wrong with
business.
As to you, you may have been tribe dis
trait too The refreshmept the vacation
has given you has supplied you with new
energy and you are full of schemes for little
changes you mean to make in the mouse.
Those long dining room curtains are TO pc
out to sash length. that worn breadtn IN
sac hall carpet is to be covered with rug
the old ingram on the chldren's bedroom
floor is to be taken up, the boards painted
and the carpet sent away to be made over
into small rugs.
Then there is the fail dressmaking- The
girls must positively have some new school
frocks, your spring suit must be touched
up to answer for use in the early ran last
winters light dress must be sent TO the
dyer's so as to be ready for remodehng
little later-the e are countless things to De
cone and all are SO nearly equal in 1mpor-
lance that you can hardly decide Wnlch 10
attack first Is it any wonder that you are
a little hasty of speech. little intolerahl
of the claims and interruptions that al an
other time You would take placidly?
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IMPORTANT NOTICE

BECAUSE Of the enormous number Of
ID letters semitic the department must ask
contributors 10 limit their communications 10
100 words. except in cases Of formulas or
geeip.s which require greater space. 0Gnt
oil my correspondents to hare shouting in
The Corner. and if my request in This respect
is complied wiih ii rciR be possible to print
many more letters.
Attention is called to the fact that Marion
Harland cannot receive money for patterns.
as she has no connection NTH any department
LLat sells them. Morton HaTlGnd.
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punishments. In fact, as a mere infant
used to wonder within myself why loved
her better by the time was allowed to kiss
her nd say that 1 was sorry for my naught-
mess. The blessed soul had a sa ying that
each of her children had said " I WON'T"
to her just once" usually by the time it
could talk. And never again. she added,
COMPRISING the lips in which the law Of
kindness abode continually. In the recol-
lection I echo our friends All honor to
such mothers!" But-the girl of 10 who
has not so far profited by her decade and
half of steady discipline as to need no gov
eminent save that of moral suasion is
grievous exception to the time seasoned
truth
Just as the twig is bent. the trees
Inclined
Bending here signifies continued influence
for good and inclination in the right
direction. In word, she would be
freak "a blot upon the page of life.
apprehend much and vehement dissent
from those who read the plain talk Of our
disciple of SoIomonic domestic regimen and
nv cordial acquiescence in her views as
whole. The lists are open to all who would
express sentiments in favor of or opposed to
the trend of the article. The Corner would
always give both sides of question-when
there are more than one
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Of duties. You say all this and you mean
every word of it.
Yet with it all there is the knowledge
that the one outing of the year is ended.
the only time when you can shake off
household cares has come and gone, and
that before you stretches the level Of do
nestle duties, the more or less humdrum
round, with nothing Of real change ahead
of YOU for months to come. Whether you
recognize the sensation or not, there Is a
certain element of dreariness in the pros
pect, slump" as your schoolgirl daugh-
ter calls it, which weighs upon your spirits,
fight against it as you may.
Now II ever is the time to labor for pa
thence with yourself as we'll as with others
There Is need of the grace! For the young
people are feeling the slump " asIyou are
and without the compensation you have in
your plans for the home, in your sat1sfac-
ton in being back in your own special
niche. Try to bear with them in their I'M
pleasant moods and lenses and to put up
with the prickIes they present to every
thing and everybody.
Great is the expulsive power of new
affection" Try to find one which Will
drive out the memory OF the joys you have
all left behind you.
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Pleasures Need Not Be Costly.

Even before you come back to your home
think what you do to reconcile the
members of the household to the pleasures
they are losing and to give them an inter-
est which will tide them over the first hard
days What such an interest may be will
depend upon the age and sex of the young
people, but the mother love that always
sharpens your wits where your children
welfare is concerned will help you to find
out a way.
20, there are plenty of things L could do
if I had the money! you may tell me-
" But our expenses are so heavy now that
I can't spare anything for mere pleasures.
That is what We all feel, but some OF the
pleasures need not be costly Your eldest
boy, for instance. has never taken much
satisfaction in his room-and you don't
wonder at it Like many bedrooms allotted
to boys this has been a sort of refuge for
old furniture and the collection of halt,
manned, and blind has seemed good enough
for a careless lad.
See now If he will not take little pride
in making it more attrac tive. Suggest that
he put up plate rail and offer hdm various
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trophies In the line of mugs and pictures,
and perhaps an old piece of arms to display
Tell him that this will be a beginning Of
such things and that when he once has the
place for them they will come to fill it.
Try to make this the keynote of the room
and go on to have the wall painted or
pa pered, the furniture mended or recov-
cred, and encourage him to do all of this
he can for himself. You know if his inter
eets are for sports or for natural history
OF for books. Play upon this and give him
a pride In his pursuits and his surroundings.
What of the girl? Generally she is an
easier proposition to handle than the boy.
She will tell you she is interested " in no
end of things" Decide which one of these
will give her most pleasure and profit and
talk 1t over with her. Perhaps she wishes
to learn some kind of needle work OF a.
handicraft. like hammering brass or work
ing in heather or wood carving.
Possibly she may care for domestic pur-
suits and crave a scientific knowledge of
something connected with home economies.
Or she may be Z" just girl - and wish for
social enjoyments more than anything else
dancing classes, good times with the boys
and the girls, and all the butterfly pleasures
natural to young people.
Discuss these things with her In one OF
the quiet hours you and she should orten
have together and don't laugh at her
schemes and cravings. If she confesses her
aspirations towards benevolent work and
her longing to go into a settlement, take the
subject as seriously as she does and let her
talk herself out to you and rid her system
of the pressure upon it. The fact that she
yearns for these things now is no sign that
she will want them year hence, but the
thought that she may be preparing for
them will help her over the hardness OF a
concluded vacation and a renewed routine.
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Element of Dreariness Crccps In.

With it all there is a sense Of reaction.
You may say honestly that you are happy
to be back in the dear nest, that there is
no place like home. that the conveniences
YOU did not have in the country are all the
more enjoyed when you return TO them.
that you had stayed away long enough and
that you are glad the moving is over and
you can settle down to the familiar sequence
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The recipe I have copied says: Taken
from an old English cookbook Of 1715.'
suppose there shorter cuts to the
same result by this time. Yet have not
found this so tedious as might think
from a single reading. The waiting for
SO many days sounds formidable, 1 think
But you don't have to carry the sauce in
your mind all that time!
THE entire process did not consume two
hours. J. T. A. [Chicago1.
You have proved your right to the title
of Regular Reader" bringing forth the
clipping published long ago that it was
forgotten by myself. The recipe is quaint
and attractive. suspect, with you, that
our rushing age may have sought out
shorter route to the same end. This will
suffice until another of later date is sent in.
=
Apple and Nut Dumplings.
Apples are ripe and beginning to fall.
Maybe the member who is puzzled what
to do with these same windfalls may like
to try the recipe which 1 1atter myself is
original with me? My family clamor for
more whenever we have this dessert.
Apple and Nut Dunplings-Pare and
cut into thin slices ripe. tart apples. Have