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today:
- * Sish you would give us a
strong ta1h.' With gloves off, upon
what is known in our family as the
Breakfast Crouch. From what I have
seen and heard of other households-and
of individuals. too. for that matter-I in
cline to think the malady is generally
abroad IN the land.
Lds43n: There are six of us-my father
my mother, two sisters, and two brothers.
The oldest son In "a and bank clerk The
second is a student in the university in our
home city. He is 21
My sister was graduated last June at 10
from Bryn Mawr. I am II, and hope to
enter college next October. We are not
xtchs but comfortably off in this worlds
GOODS My father is doing safe business.
We are exceptionally healthy, and have
the dearest, best most angelic mother who
ever brought up a brood of children to
mans and woman's estate. She is natural
~ cheerful and never cross. better
housekeeper does not read your corner :
daily. So far as I can see, we ought to be
q happy family. And we are. after the
morning mood is done away with
MY father hides glum face behind the
morning paper. Neither of my brothers
says word beyond Good morning. and
Mother, nope you slept we'll My sister
would talk, but the masculine portion of
the group discourages her from telling
of last nights party and today's engage
ments. Then she is often dull after the
evenings dissipation. and disinclined to be
lively. The three men have nothing to
complain OF IN their food and physical
plight.
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~TAe 5zeaE71-T Gzouch I"

the conviction that the evil she deplored is,
as she suspects. widespread. 1t may be
that other families st-nd in need OF little
plain talk upon the matter of the Break
fast Crouch.
Years ago had ike occasion to remark
that. while we all repeat duly and daily.
" Give US this day our daily bread and
include In thought a petition for
spiritual sustenance. nobody that I ever
heard says. before Joining the family at
the morning meal, :" Give me this hour my
breakfast grace"
Not for ability to utter conventional
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the part of well bred and not bad hearted
men and women. Personally, I consider 1t
what have called it-misconduct, and I'M
worthy of Christian civilization. In the
face of all that is asserted to the contrary,
I hold that there is something radically
rong in the physical system that does not
bring to the duties and joys of the new day
freshness of spirit and renewed energies,
If it be a Christian man woman who
yields to the Breakfast Crouch. it is SIN!
The dear old hymn that arises unbidden
to the lips from the force of habit learned
at the mothers knee should express the
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get his manners and a Christian his re-
ligion because he must eat breakfast In the
bosom of his family? That sounds dread
full for a daughter and sister to say, you
will think, but It is forced out of me by the
thoughts that have been mine since last
nights conversation.
Forgive this awfuHy long moan! have
nobody except my sister to whom to make
it And she won't say much. Maybe be-
cause she is wondering to herself. as
to my secret self, If that charming young
man who is now so DESTROYS OF pleasing
her will be as big a boor at the breakfast
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ITO my fellow housewives I would
- say: Don't stop baking cake be-
cause the price of butter has gone
out OF the sight of people in mod
crate circumstances
Buy really good leaf lard: cut it into
small pieces and remove all the membranes
and bloody specks from it Put it into
frying pan and cook until the harder bits
are crisp. Strain through cheesecloth and
let it get cold and firm. Then rub together
a cupfuI OF lard and two of white sugar to a
foamy cream Beat into this two well
whipped eggs and cup Of milk. When well
mixed add three even cups of flour previous
~ sifted twice with two teaspoonfuls of
baking powder and one cupful OF seeded
raisins dredged with -four. Divide the mix
ture into two halves and put one into an
other mixing bowl. Work into it a tea
spoonful each of ground ginger and CHINA
mon and half as much grated nutmeg.
Butter cake pan and put the two bat
ters In in alternate spoonfuls. taking care
that these do not disturb one another Do
not stir. Just lay in one great spoonful
at a time until all is in. You may make
two loaves If the pans are small. Bake
covered with stout paper for half an hour.
then brown lightly.
'' You will have fine marbled cake and
no one could tell that it was made with lard
and not butter. Try it, following directions
implicitly.
Reduce your grocer's bill by such in
genious expedients as this. It is an easy
matter If you will give your mind to It
have cut mine down from SIS month to
e25. I shall write again and tell you how L
did It MRS A. H"
have eaten in Yorkshire. England what
was called there lard cake" 1t was sweet
and toothsome and had fair resemblance
IN taste to plain fruit cake. Much of the
excellence of the cake for which we have
here a recipe depends upon the mixing
beating, and baking. confess I do not
as yet appreciate the necessity Of . trying
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4 Napkin Holder.

VIII you find corner FOR a new con
ceit that originated in my household?
When well made II is pretty and quaint.
A pretty and inexpensive napkin holder
may be made by gliding common but per
fectIy new and whole clothes pin with
gold paint, and writing upon It.. in white or
black ink. the name OF the person who is to
use it. This should be neatly done and Is
a simple matter. The holders are nice
when one is giving house party. or when
guests remain for some days. When'they
leave, the holders are given TO them as
souvenirs. A K"
a quaint conceit as you say. II deftly
turned out they must brighten the table
They hold the folded napkin as . clip g
holds a bundle Of papers.
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Evil Widespread One.

The woman who wrote that letter Is ca
pable of signing herself Mary Jane" In
reading the dashing signature I somehow
got the notion that she is the mother
namesake. She wrote out her surname
and address in full. My first impulse was
to look up her telephone number and call
her up for face to face confabulation.
That resisted the inclination was due to
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SUNDAY.

SUNDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Oranges.
Cereal and cream
Fried scallops. Popovers. Toast.
Tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Cream Of celery soup in cups.
Cold ham Drowned sweet potatoes
Tomato aspic and lettuce salad.
Crackers and cheese.
Jelly cake and cocoa
DINNER
Julienne soup.
Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding.
Mashed potato.
Raisin pie. Black coffee.
MONDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Baked apples.
Dried rusk with cream.
Bacon. French rolls. Toast
Tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Baked Welsh rabbit
Potato pun "a left over).
Breakfast rolls.
Cream cheese and heated crackers with jam
Chocolate with whipped cream
DINNER
Carrot and green pea soup. based upon 10 cent
can Of beef soup with left overs from
yesterday.
Cold roast beef garnished with Yorkshire pudding
cut into strips and toasted.
Creamed onions. StewAd satisfy.
Canned blackberry pie
Black coffee.
4 !:
TUESDAY.
BREAKFAST
Grape fruit. Cereal and cream.
Finnan haddie- Quick biscuits. Toast.
Coffee and tea
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IMPORTANT NOTICE

RECA USE of the enormous
IL number of letters sent to hhe
department must ask con-
frfbufors to limit their conlnlunico-
lions to 100 words, except in cases of
formulas or recipes which require
greater space. want all my cor
respondents to have showing in the
COrnsT, and # my request IN this
Tespect Is complied 1vifh it rviII be
possible to print many more letters.
Attention is called to the fact that
Marion H0rE1nd cannot receive money
for patterns, as she has no connection
with any department that sells them.
Marion HorLdrd. ~
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Speech Sets Her 10 Thinking.

1t was that speech of hers-and she Is
never laxative, although never anything
but gracious-that set me to thinking of
this matter of the Breakfast Crouch. I
recollect that one of your holiday talks
was illustrated by a picture of
standing by newly made grave all heaped
with evergreens- He was looking over his
shoulder with smile as he leaned upon
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LUNCHEON.
stewed beef and onions Qeft overs)
Baked potatoes Breakfast biscuits
salad Of cream cheese balls upon lettuce
Thin brown bread and butter
Tea.
DINNER
Canned corn soup.
Calves hearts, stuffed and Dreaded.
Canned whole toma toes baked in scallop shells
Potatoes boiled whole with butter and
Macaroni pudding.
Black coffee
< y
WEDNESDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Stewed rhubarb
Cereal and cream
Bacon and fried hominy. Toast
Tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Canned corn soup in cups "a left over)-
Calves hearts sliced cold
Apple, orange and celery salad
Crackers and Swiss cheese.
Cookies and n5armalade.
DINNER.
Veal and sage soup.
Irish stew
scalloped sweet potatoes. Brussels sprouts
Poor mans pudding.
Black coffee
= =
THURSDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Hawaiian pineapple.
Cereal and cream
Sausage Griddle cakes. Toast.
Tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Yesterdays stew.
Brussels sprouts (warrned over.
Toma to toast.
Crackers and cheese. Cream pufA
Tea
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out lard that is already clarified. wish
our correspondent would tell US if the leaf
lard must be crude or If the - lard of COM
merce" sold by our best grocers Will do
as we'll 1t is not easy to get leaf lard IN
the raw state.
We shall await with interest further in
formation as to the method of cutting down
grocers' bills They are at present madden
ing to the economical soul
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DINNER
Yesterdays soup
Kidney pie Canned spinac CHI.
Canned string beans Batter pudding.
Black coffee.
= X
FRIDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Oranges.
Bacon. Boiled eggs
Corn bread Toast
Tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Minced kidneys garnished with >s~zanz or pastry
"a left over)-
Fried French potatoes.
Salad Of string beans and endive Ca lett ever.
Thin graham bread and butte4.
Canned peaches and cake
DINNER.
Oyster btsque.
Boiled cod with egg sauce
Riced potatoes.
Spinach souffie "a left over)
Apricot and tapioca pudding
Black coffee.
): y
SATURDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Stewed prunes.
Cereal and cream.
Bacon Rice mullins and honey.
Tea and coffee
LUNCHEON.
Philadelphia scrappIe-
Potato cakes "a left over1-
Plain shortcake-
Warm gingerbread and American cheese.
Tea.
DINNER.
" Scrap soup . "a combination of well kept left
Fish pudding Ca left over baked in mold and
accompanied by egg sauce.
Whipped potatoes. Canned green peas.
Apple pie.
Black coffee
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absurd in the Extreme.

I marvel in listening to the absurdity
how long he would endure the caprices of
a piece of insensa, machinery that was
SO stiff in the joints for an hour or so
after steam was turned OF and every part
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spoonful OF yeast Cor one yeast cake
dissolved In a little warm water). a tea
spoonful Of salt. big handful Of Indian
meal, two tablespoonfuls OF molasses. not
strip. Warm water enough to make good
batter
Beat hard in mixing-for three minutes
at least-and set to rise in a warm place.
II the batter be sour in the morning. stir
in a little soda dissolved in hard water. and
beat again hard.
Mix in an earthen crock. and leave
little in the bottoms cupful or soto
serve as sponge for the next night. instead
of getting new yeast OF course you add
the usual quantity of -four and meal every
night and beat up well. Some put in two
thirds much oatmeal as they have OF
buckwheat, and omit the Indian meal.
have fancy that the cakes are less heat
ing to the blood and more easily digested
when the meal goes in.
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table after he Is married as he is now in the
sunny apartment where he lives with his
three best friends All fine fellows he
says; not a black sheep in the flock
81 am curious to know your views upon
the subject MARY JANE
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form Of THANKSGIVING and supplication. but
for the
Daily strength.
To none who ask denied .;
for divine grace that will overcome inertia
and sulkiness and selfish preoccupation in
affairs that leave no room for thought Of
others comfort and happiness-in short
for enough common decency of action and
speech to pull one out of the breakfa st
mood, which is none the more courteous
and rational because 1t is INDUCED in by
the rest of ones family and friends
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70 Remove Spot, from PLush.

Il have gray plush dress upon which are
two red spots. got them from sitting in a
red plush chair which was wet 1 tried to
clean the dress with chloroform- The
spots are lighter. but not eftaced. Can you
tell me how to remove them and to restore
the gown to its former color7 ELLA"
The difficulty is that whatever extracts
the red is likely TO take the ground color
with it, 1 can tell you what via some
times do the work successfully. and then
again will not. Make paste Of starch and
household ammonia and coat the spots
thickly with it Lay the gown away for
two days. Then brush out the powder
Should the red spots remain. repeat the
process twice with intervals OF two days
Should the gray be changed after the spots
are extracted, touch With ammonia to re-
store the original c0lc-.
have tried this method most satsfac-
torily upon stained carpets and colored
embroiderIes: I do not guarantee success,
but It do no harm
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MARION HARLAND'S HELPING HAND

and the wives VINO viii have all of their hus-
bands love-or none! It is the inexorable
law of nature-and the way of women!
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One Recipe for Many Gales.

Have you room in the Helping Hand for
happy to have been the means OF lending
a helping hand to my sister housewives.
ONE CHEAP RECIPE FOR MANY GOOD
CAKES:
Il. One egg, one cup of sugar. half cup
of butter, two cups of flour. two easpoon-
fuls of baking powder. pinch of salt.
flavoring to your taste. Bake thirty-five
minutes in a moderate oven
- Add to the preceding ingredients one
level teaspoon each of ground cinnamon.
cloves and nutmeg. and cupful of raisins
you have a fine spice cake.
g. Add to No. a heaping tablespoon
full OF cocoa and one teas poonful of vanilla
You will have an excellent cocoa cake.
a. Or add to No. 1 cupful OF rasins
and little chopped citron to make good
white fruit cake
IS. Mix with the batter of No. 1 chopped
nuts. figs. or any other favorite dried fruit.
and you have nice light cake.
You see the one foundation does for all
the varieties. B B. e.
An indefinite number OF cakes may be
constructed upon staple underpin-.
ming our housewife gives here. With
one egg, the beating and mixing must be
of the best To toss ingredients together
as the manner of some is is to invite fall
ure. These are the cooks who Will tell
recipe and never measure or weigh"
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Unworthy of Civilization.

Mary Jane would like to have my opinion
OF this same early morning misconduct on
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older and less imaginative members of
the family were astir.
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she likes the nice boy, she mustered cour-
age to add: Or 1t ought to speak If only
to brighten the lives of others
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"TFIE BREAKFAST CROUCH; HAS IT NO
" Daily strength.

form of thanksgiving and suppncation. but
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Recipe for Buckwheat Gales.

viii you hold out the Helping Hand to
i sadly pewildered housekeeper? have
trouble with my buckwheat cakes.
My son is fond OF them. but, somehow
1 cannot make them just right. They are
sticky and don't get light. and are not as
tender as they should be. The buckwheat
-four is so pure that perhaps we ought to
mix some wheat -four with it? We are in
veritable quandary.
We enjoy the Helping Hand and fet
much benefit from 1t. Do, please, come to
my help about the cakes. E. R. W."
Try putting a generous handful of In
dian meal into the batter. We F." never
omit it. The buckwheat alone is too glu-
tenous to be spongy. This is the formula
handed down from my great-grandmother
We have used no other in our kitchen for
fifty years. And our cakes are always
light-never soEgy or sticky.
o L d FASHIONED BUCKWHEAT
CAKES otherwise Buckwheats ZONE
quart of buckwheat flour. four table,
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N LIVELY schoolgirl is our mentor
~ today:
~ * wish you would give us a
strong ta1h.' With gloves off, upon
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+ ITO my fellow housewives would
- say: Don't stop baking cake be-
cause the price of butter has gone
out OF the sight of people in mod
Evening star., 1912-07-05
CRICKET AT ROCK CREEK,
Captains Team Scores a Victory by
Score of Al to Is.

BY the one-sided score of Al to Is, the
Captains Team Of the Washington
Cricket Club gained a victory over the
Vice Captains eleven yesterday after
noon in the club match played at the
Rock Creek Park grounds.
Capt. Jimmy Rose was elated, not only
because he won the victory, but be-
cause the contest served to put him on
to the merits of several new players,
who made a good showing in the game.
Capt. Rose was second in for runs,
getting wickets, while John Morton,
the doughty Scot, got for 10. DR.. j. S.
Cannon had the brunt Of the work In the
bowling crease. performing in over
and getting wickets for total of H.
VIII Reeve, a new acquisition Of the
local eleven. showed well in the field,
capturing difficult fly, and was top score
with eighteen. Duncan Morton got six and
John Roberts and Arthur Wright four
each Henry Branch OF the Mexican
legation was let down for two on a lucky
catch by Lee Johnson, and Will Warren
fell before leg-break that John Morton
bowled and scored naught but duck"
The Baltimore Sons Of st. George will
meet the locals Sunday next, the game
starting at o'clock.
Evening star., 1912-07-05
EX-PREM|ER IS MENACED
Tang -Shao-Yi, Former Chi
nese Minister, Gives Would
Be Assassin the Slip.

TIENTSIN, China, July 5.-Tang-Shao-
vi, the former premier in the Chinese re-
publican cabinet, Cleverly gave an alleged
would-be assassin the slip today and re-
mains here for the moment in temporary
safety, while his Would-be slayer is on
board ship on the way to Shanghai,
Tang-Shao-Yi with his family was al
ready on board the steamer when the
former taotai, Chang-Chung, approached
and introduced to the ex-premier friend
named Wang-Cheng-Hsiang The latter
promptly covered Tang -Shao-Yi with two
pistols and demanded to know why he
had run away from Peking. Tang Shao-
Yfs explanation was outwardly well re-
ceived by Wang g-Cheng-Hsiang, who, how
ever. announced that he intended to ac-
company Tang -Shao-Yi to Shanghai
-Cheng- -Hsiang then retired to his
berth and as soon as his back was turn
ed Tang-Shao-Yi and his family sought
safety by slipping off the steamer and re-
turning to land. The steamer departed
Immediately afterward for Shanghai.
Evening star., 1912-07-05
Members of the Grand Army
Entertained at Kensinqton

Burnside Post. G. A. r., and many
friends Of the members were entertained
yesterday afternoon by Mr.. and Mrs. B.
H. Warner at their residence in Kensing-
ton,
Among those present We're: Gen. John
c. Black, former Senator Butler, Cor
poral Tanner, Gen. Thomas s. Hopkins,
Lee McLung, Controller Tracewell
Maj. c. c. Loeffler. Capt Arthur Hen
bricks, Capt L. j. Hartshorn. Col. j. D.
Sumner, Commander j. NJ. Gleeson, Ho-
sea B. MouitOn. A. s. Perham. j. G.
Greenawalt, l.. +. Gridley, Lemuel War
ner, S. L. Stephenson. T. II. Syford. Dar-
win Weaver, +. J. Young, Maj. H. L..
Dean. l.. T. Farrabee, John w. Keys, w.
B. Hartley, T. J. Ingram, w. c. Bick-
ford Capt j. w. Andrews. j. w. Bar
Der, p j. Meehan. +. Meredith, Arthur
T. Miley, Daniel Knelly, Willis Case, C..
c. Lancaster. Rev. Father Rosensteel.
Rev. Henry Runner. Arthur Williams, j..
w. Townsend, Q. j. Field. G. w. Ash
worth, w. NJ. Terrell DR.. Eugene Jones,
L.C Witkowski. Frank Birgfeld J. Fen
wick Caspar G. Dickson. George Spran-
sy, b. II. Warner. jr.. and Messrs. Row
dybush, McClusky, De Pue, Bowie and
Cook
Evening star., 1912-07-05
THE DIME NOVEL.
Is It the Evil Influence It Is Said
to Be?

Charles NJ. Harvey. himself a veteran
journalist and writer. with personal ac-
quaintance of nearly everybody of whom
he writes, has a most interesting article
in our next Sunday Magazine dealing
with THE American Boy and the Dime
Novel;" which tells Of the first contribu-
ters Of the Deadly Dick style of melo-
dramatic literature, and the development
Of that remarkable movement in fiction.
He closes by asking. What about the
morality of the dime novel? Does it glo-
rify crime and stir up the primitive pas
sions? Some Of them do; but good deal
of the literature that we give young peo-
pie, from Jack the Giant Killer to Rob
in Hood has to do with bloodshed and
the outlaws. And yet it does not seem to
me that they are harmful. In behalf of
the dime novel, it should at least be said
that it holds heroic and worthy deeds up
to honor, Furnishes the villains, and does
it right here in this world, where the
readers can see the punishment. By ex-
ample it encourages bravery, chivalry
and patriotism"
Evening star., 1912-07-05
COIored Y. M. C. A. Team
Wins Swimming Games

The boys from the Colored Y. NJ. c. A.
took team honors in great style at the
third annual municipal swimming games
for colored entrants yesterday at tie
bathing beach, the score Of points reg
istered by this club being thirty-four out
of possible sixty-three. Cardozo play
ground was second. with six points. while
Howard playground was third, with three
points.
The summary Of events follows:
Midget events:
Thirty-yard swim-Won by Sheridan
Jones, Y. NJ. c. A; Robert Douglass, Y.
NJ. C. A.. second; Ralph Green, Y. M.
c. A., third. Time. q % seconds.
Diving-Won by Blanchard Ellis, Car
A., second; Robert Douglass, Y. NJ. c.
A., third.
Junior events:
Six.y-yard swim-Won by Sydney Will
liston Y. NJ. c. A.; r. Horad, Howard
playground, second; Frank Lewis, Car
dozo playground. third. Time. 81 1-5
seconds.
Diving-Won by Walter Mays, Y. NJ.
c. A: Stanley Malone, Y. NJ. c. A.
second
Senior events:
Tatum. unattached Roscoe Robin
son. Y. Nj. c. A., second: William Wash
ington. unattached, third. Time 3.O2 2-5.
Underwater swim-WOn by William
Tatum,s unattached, Roscoe Robinson, Y.
NJ. c. A., second. Bernard Brown. Y.
NJ: G., third. Distance. thirty-six feet.
Diving-Won by William Tatum, unat-
tached: John Burrel, second; Roscoe
Robinson, Y NJ. c. A.. third.
Length of tank, fifteen yards.