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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-29
MARION HARLAND'S HELPING HAND.

TO PRESERVE VEGETABLE MAR
ROWS.-Ingredients: Equal quantities Of
marrow and sugar. lemon and ginger.
Method: Peel some good marrows and
take out the seeds. Cut the vegetable into
pieces Of the size Of a large walnut boil
them with their weight in sugar until the
pieces. which should be shapely, are trans
parent Use no water. Flavor with lemon
or ginger or both. as preferred.
VEGETABLE MARROW PRESERVED
WITH GINGER ingredients: Same as
above Cut the marrow into strips, remove
the pulp and seeds: TO each pound Of mar
row allow one pound Of lump sugar. lay
the marrow and sugar in a pan all night: &c
every FIVE pounds Of marrow add two
ounces OF ginger cut into pieces and TIRES
lemons, with the thin peel cut into small
strips and the juice strained. Put into
preserving pan and boil gently for four
hours. Take care not TO let it boil fast
or II will crystalline. H L. Il.
!: 4
Becoming Member Of Corner.
How may you become member OF TIA
Corner or. as like to call it. the Helping
Hand Circle? Some Of the charter mem
bers VIII have it. The Helping Hand
club To all it is a big family bound to-
gether by a common desire to make the
world better and therefor happier because
We have lived in it-bsCaUse We are now
living in it. The manner Of imitation Is
the simplest one can imagine. just watch
your opportunity to help somebody by
writing TO me, in care OF the paperin which
YOU read that somebody wants something
you can give, and Forthwith see 20 il that
the said somebody gets It. 1t may he a
missing line OF poem or the poem entire.
the name OF a town or Of a chemical agent,
or of a lost relative. Or a shut-in is re-
ported as needing books or games or an
other means Of employing the leaden footed
hours. Or poor seamst-ess could make an
honest living il she had a sewing machine
or materials for rugs and rag carpets and
bed quilts The OTIS are beyond count
ing Keep your eyes and heart open in
reading the all too little corner and make
your own selection. You have earned your
membership today by writing out that re-
cipe when you saw it was wanted.
And what I say to you I say TO all who
have put the same question
One Of the most spiritual minded, as he is
one Of the most eloquent Of living preachers,
prays: May my life be like a house with
many mansions, with room for the enter
tainment of my brethreni"
The " entertainment " may be but a CUP
Of cold water. II II be held to fevered and
thirsty lips It is a bene6action. Despise not
the day Of small things
We welcome you into the circle
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-29

He works 80 hard in school time?"
Probsbly he does, but he has the strength
for II, and while extra sleep may be good
for him, you may notice that II there is
skating frolic or any other nestivity on hand
he can arise early and make no plea for his
need Of more sleep. OF course, he likes TO
lie abed. You would like It. too. II you had
the chance. and you needshe rest and SUM
Der far more than the boy does. Let one Of
your resolutions be to give your son and
daughter the chance to learn the beauty Of
unselhshness for the sake Of their moth
ers comfort and happiness.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-29
Too Much Self-DeniaI.

You see, I know you pretty well.
have known you for a great many years.
/ understand how your desire to do the
best for John and the children has be-
come the passion of your life, so that you
have almost no personality Of your own
left. You have lost your sense Of proper
ton and you do not appreciate the fact
that when you deny yourself overmuch
you spoil the man and the children for
whose good you try to live.
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perhaps. but think it over a little. Have
you never seen families rendered hopeless
ly selfish by the unseIfsh member Of the
household? I know Of cases Of the sort
where the self-sacrincing wife has under
mined the husbands character by her
readiness for denunciation, where the son
Of the family has been irretrieyably spoiled
because his adoring sisters gave up every
thing to him. where one daughter has been
deferred to by parents. brothers, and sis
tiers until she became Insuferabls.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-29
Meat Pudding Recipe.

BEEFsTbAK PUDDING-Take a piece
OF beef from rump. chuck. or round and
cut 1t into small pieces. A little ham OF
pork sliced thin also gives a fine favor.
Fry one medium sized onion until brown
In some fat. then add the beef and ham or
pork. Put in one tablespoonful Of flour
and enough stock or boiling water to cover.
Season with salt. pepper, parsley chopped
fine, and one tablespoonful OF Worcester
shire sauce Simmer slowly fifteen minutes
then add three or four potatoes cut into
small bits. Cook for twenty minutes longer.
Lane deep pie dish with pastry or ordinary
biscuit dough. pour in the meat mixture.
Put some slices Of hard boiled egg on top,
Cover with the crust of pastry rolled thin.
and bake about one-half hour or steam ono
hour. Pin napkin around pie dish and serve
In same.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-29
Seems to Be Penance Time.

This is a sample OF the way in which We
are, all Of US led into making New Years
resolutions. Other persons have done it
from time immSmorial, 1t Is the accepted
penance for this season and so we search
our minds for fiaws which We can resolve to
correct.
1 don't mean TO say that you are perfect
and that there is no place for Improvement.
1 do aff1rm that unless you are diIIerent
sort or woman from what hold you TO be
you do your best all the year through and
that II is q big mistake to sit down and try
to rake up peccadilIoes that you feel ought
to be reformed.
A great disadvantage in making what
might be called periodical resolves Is that
You are pretty sure TO break them and that
shakes your confidence in yourself and dis
courages you in the attempt TO change con-
ditions you feel 10 be Undesirable.
Yet since the new beginnings are the
life of perseverance l would advocate q
few efforts at remedy, partly as, tribute to
the time honored New Year custom and
partly because there is a certain impetus
given by the date and you might as well
get the benefit OF 1t.
If you are the representative, careful
wife and mother and housekeeper. always
thinking Of yourself last, always spending
yourself for others, the first reform sug-
gest is that you should plan to be a little
more Ienient in your direction Of your own
life and conduct.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE

BECAUSE Of hs enormous numbu Of
Il letters semitic The department ] must ask
eantibutors 70 limit their communication 10
100 uOTds, except in cases Of formulas or
Tsdes phfeh require greater space. ! rant
sR ing correspondents to hare shouins In
hs Corns. and II my request in this respect
Is complied uih il uil Be possible 70 print
mary more letters.
Attention Is called 70 de faet that Marion
Hsrlan1 cannot Tscsirs money for patterns.
as she has no connection uih any department
hat sells them. :, Marion HarLand.
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Perhaps not. but did you think how good
It would have been for Mary to have little
lesson in thought for others, in self-denial
for the sake of her overworked mother'
We mothers have to train our children
sometimes at the price OF our own eppar-
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-29

young people-and some old ones-he likes
his own Indulgence. Is there any real rea-
son why he should be allowed to lie abed
until 10 o'clock all through the holidays
Just because there is no school. and that
the chores he ought TO do should fall upon
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-29

For example. there were holiday invita-
lions sent to all Of you, You would have
liked 10 accept one or two Of them, but
your party dress was shabby, and even
IL the old one had done for yourself, Mary
would have had to 90 without fresh frock
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-29

by accident l had separated my celery
into TWO parts. wrapping up the green part
IN a piece OF butchers paper and putting It
away for future US. When opening this
parcel found the green stalks bleached
and not bitter nor Wilted. But think that
when the celery has been thus treated It
willis more quickly when exposed to the air
that it did before it was wrapped up, always
supposing that it is not placed in cold
place or a refrigerator. J. A. NJ
The housemothers VINO read this sugges-
ton will. therefore. when they try this
method Of bleaching celery, keep the vege-
table in a cold place, preferably in the
refrigerator. 1t will be more crisp II laid
right on the ice.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-29
The Case Of Emily F"

How can a man get acquainted with
Emily F.? JOHN 7.
Forgive me II l say that he cannot.
through the Corner. ! regret to be obliged
TO make this statement. but as letters
from other men have come TO me with
the request that they be printed in my
column. l have good and sufficient reason
for declining to give the desired address
to other masculine correspondents. We DO
not run a matrimonial agency, aud when
We published Emily F.'s letter VS. did not
mean to Imply that she was seeking
husband.
/ am glad to add that kind hearted women
have been interested in her case and.have
written sympatheHcalIy Of It One,
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ent seIfishness. but the training is good
for them, all the same.
Another instance OF place for reform is
in your treatment OF that eldest boy OF
yours He Is a good lad. but like all other
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-29
"Slopping" When Scrubbing.

Il have an expensive linOleum on my
kitchen floor The edges where the strips
are Joined are not true, therefore some
crevices have formed that are large enough
10 allow the water to run underneath.
which will soon ruin the linoleum. What
can do about the matter? MARGARET
The linoleum should be lifted and relaid
80 that the edgeswill come close together.
1 am sorry that you will be put to this
trouble, but know OF no other remedy for
the error. May 1 also suggest that in
cleaning your kitchen floor you can get it
quite as clean II you do not use enough
water " to run underneath the floor COW
ering? Wipe up with cloth wrung out in
warm water. changing the water often. or.
il the floor be so dirty as to need scrubbing.
do not souse the liquid on the floor. but
dip the brush into the pail, shaking on the
superfuous liquid, and apply 1t vigorously.
A little water applied frequently will get
your floor as clean as would a quarter
pailful stopped " on and over the linoleum
and running into the crevices Of floor COW
ering and floor.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-29

for the New Years dance. So you gave
up the outing and stayed quietly at home.
" You can't trouble me by letting me have
quiet evening to myself" you said cheer
fully as you saw the merry party on.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-29

into the boiler and boil hard for twenty
minutes, then turn them into the tubs.
When washed clean. rinse well in Two
waters.
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you? Why should you have to stop your
other work IN the middle Of the morning
anG get a breakfast for a we'll, strong boy
who has slept over the regular family meal
time?
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-29
FOR Whitening Clothes.

viii you kindly insert in the House
mothers Exchange a recipe for washing
fluid that will whiten my Globes? FIJI"
To make the washing fluid. dissolve a can
Of potash in two gallons Of boiling water.
II you cannot get the potash. use some lye
that you have tried and found good. Add
to the mixture a half cup OF household
ammonia and half cup of pulverized
borax. Stir the mixture. take from the fire,
cover closely, and, when lukewarm, pour
into bottles, closing these with rubber
corls. When ready to use this mixture for
whitening your clothes. put the boiler of
water on the stove. shave into It a half cake
Of good laundry soap. and bring to the
boil. Stir in teacupful OF the washing
fluid. take It for granted that the clothes
will have been soaked over night and
soaped in the soIled spots Put them now
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-29

thai you may find it OF use. II certainly
is inexpensive. The reader who sends it
writes:
This salad dressing will keep for months
in a cool place. The ingredients are one
tablespoonful Of sugar. one tabIespoonfulof
flour, one tablespoonful Of mustard, pinch
OF paprika, one teaspoonfH Of salt, one egg,
one coffee cupful OF vinegar, one table
spoonful OF butter. Mix the dry ingredients.
add the egg, well beaten, and a cup OF
vinegar. Cook until thicker than cream.
Add the butter when cooked and while still
very hot. II too thick, thin IT when ready
to use with sweet or sour milk or cream.
l keep mine in pint fruit jar, which need
not be alright
We are grateful for the directions and for
their opportune arrival There is such va
riety of salads from which 10 choose that
time and space would fail me were to
attempt to enumsrate tenth of them.
OF course potato salad, well seasoned and
very cold. is always popular. and when
served with Swiss cheese sandwiches forms
a nourshing meal Cold boiled vegetables
that have been left over-such as beets,
green peas, string beans, etc.-may be
mixed together, moistened with a French
dressing, and served on lettuce leaves.
As cheese is very nourishing, and digesti
Bile If not eaten after a hearty meal, it may
be served with all kinds Of salads. Strips
of cheese, or mounds of it grated. can be
put on crackers, which are then set in the
oven until the cheese is melted. Serve
these very hot.
Cups of steaming hot cocoa, made, if you
wish, with a really good brand of con-
densed milk, are a grateful and whole
some addition to the salads, or, in fact, to
any luncheon that you may serve.
Desserts are often expensive. II good.
And yet there are some sweets that do not
cost so much as to be ruled out of your
menu. Prunes, well soaked and properly
stewed, are nice served with sweet crack
ers or with eggless cookies, recipes for
which have appeared in the corner from
time to time. Eggless gingerbread is sat
isfying, and is especially nice If accom-
panied by the cup of cocoa already sug-
gested. JeIlies made OF gelatin are not ex-
pensive, and may be favored with coffee,
lemon, or fruit juice. A jelly favored with
prune juice is good While this is cooling
stir into it the stewed and chopped prunes.
A wholesome dessert is apple sauce; an
other is baked apples.
Oatmeal and graham waters and cookies
are digestfble and nourishing.
Will You not let US know at some future
time how the luncheon business progresses?
Perhaps some Of our readers may send
some helpful suggestions which can pub
lish in the Corner and which hope you
may see.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-29
FAMILY MEALS FOR A WEEK.

DINNER
Tomato blsque
Hamburger steak. baked in a mold and
1arn.shed with fried bananas.
Sweet potatoes
Dreamed onions
Rice puddSng.
Black coffee
s. <
FRIDAY.
BREAKFAST
oranges.
Cereal and cream.
Pan fish.
Tea cake.
Toast
Coffee and tea.
LUNCHEON.
Salt uackerel with cream gravy.
Southern batter bread lmsde Of southern
cornmesll.
Stewed potatoes.
Crackers and cheese.
Cookies and tea.
DINNER.
Black bean soup.
Oyster pie.
ScalIops Of tomatoes and rice.
Fried potatoes.
Ambrosia Gsliced oranges and grated oocoanutI.
and cake.
...H Black coffee.
4 4
SATURDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Sliced bananas and cream. with shredded wheat
biscuits.
Bacon.
Sally Dunn.
Tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON
IFor a stormy dayl.
Raxout Of hamburger steak. onions and diced
potatoes Ia left-overl.
Giddle cakes eaten with the rasout and for
dessert with sirup and honey.
Bread and butter.
DINNER
Yesterdays soup with the addition Of tomato
PURGE.
Calves hearts, stuffed and Dreaded
Mashed turnipS
Macarohl baked with cheese.
Apple pie.
Black coffss.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-29
Method of Bleaching Celery.

Il saw your item about bleaching celery
and 1 had already discovered the method
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-29

nothing untn as she stood at the back
window gazing out dIsoonsolately she saw
on the whitewashed fence the marks Of
dusty paws a cat had left in her leap across
the barrier.
The housekeeper new for a cloth and hur-
ried to the yard, wiped on the offending
footprints and returned to the house com
forted by the thought that she had done
something to raise her own domestic stand
ing toward the pinnacle held by her friend.
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SUNDAY.
BREAKFAST
Grape fruit.
Cereal and cream
Deviled kidneys.
Graham popovers
Toast
Tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Bouillon in cups.
Beef stew.
Potatoes q Ia Parisienne.
Whole wheat bread.
Lettuce salad with French dressing
Crackers and cheese.
Chocolate blanc mango.
Sponge cake.
DINNER.
Cream Of celery SOUP
Dreaded and braiEed breast OF veal.
Stewed tomatoes.
Canned green peas.
Plum pudding and hard sauce.
Black cofee.
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MONDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Baked apples
Cereal and cream
Bacon.
Baked cream toast Of graham bread.
French rolls.
Tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON
Stew Of beef and macarunI Ipartfy a Istt-ovsrl
Baked potatoes.
Sandwiches Of egg and snchoyy paste.
Crackers and cheese heated together.
Cookies and cocoa.
DINNER.
Combination soup {" Of canned peas and Stewed
tomatoes left over from yesterday and
favored by 10 cent can OF soup.
Veal scallop Il left-overl.
Canned lima beans
Fried satisfy.
Brown betty.
Black cofee.
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TUESDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Oranges.
Cereal and cream
kppered (herrings
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-11-21

Miss Theresa Coyne Is passing a
few days vacation at her home in Wa
terville.
Miss lnez Armstrong of Bridgeton,
who has been the guest of her sister,
Miss Mary Armstrong, departed for
her home, this morning
Messrs. +. f. Harris. r. W. Leighton,
J. H. White, and S. NJ. Cover, male
quartet gave a concert in Athens.
Tuesday night. They were assisted
by Tobey Nooers as reader, and Miss
Edith Lewis, accompanist.
Harry Williams publicly expresses
his thanks to the citizens of Skowhe-
gan for the generous contribution
which they have recently raised fer
him Mr.. Williams has been serious
ly i'll with rheumatism for months bur
is now on the gain.
The Mission Week exercises beiEg
held in Skowhegan this week are Of
much interest Services were held
Tuesday evening in the First Baptist
church; last evening in the Congrc~
gational church. and are To be CON
tinued tonight in the Bethany Baptist
church. There will be a union mass
meeting next Sunday evening in the
NJ +. church.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-11-21

The independents Reporter will he
issued on Wednesday Of next week on
account of Thanksgiving, which comes
the day following. Will all CORES
pOndents and advertisers please gov
ern themselves accordingly.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-11-21

by Debe Bros. is being repaired.
Mrs. Truman Witham of Fairfield is
visiting to-day with Mrs. A. H. Lang.
There will be a dance in Grange
Hall Thanksgiving eve. Music by
Townes orchestra
Miss Lizzie Haines arrived home
Saturday night from visit with her
aunt In Hyde Park, Mass.
kendall's orchestra is furnishing the
music at the Star theatre for an in
definite time, which is a treat TO all
Morris Magoon and Roscoe G.
Bigelow have been in Orono this
week in attendance at the Breeders
Association meeting
A wedding reception was given in
honor of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Glidden
at the home of James Goodrich in
East Skowhegan. Monday evening.
Thanksgiving services will be held
Thursday evening at the First Bap-
fist church at o'clock The sermon
will be delivered by Rev Theodore
Halbert Wilson.
Mrs. Minnie Green has been moving
to the lower tenement of the house al
the corner of Cedar and East Front
street and will occupy the entire
house in the future
The Sunshine Circle is meeting this
afternoon in Municipal building and
owing to the holiday, there will be no
meeting next Thursday. The mem-
bers are arranging for sale to be
held Dec IA,
Mrs. II. S. Hopkins and Miss S.
Madeline Ward were in Portland.
Thursday and Friday Miss Ward was
quite i'll upon her return and was con-
fined to her home for several days fol
lowing her arrival.
IIuliuliu t. DdflS, VIII III SOit'c
time has been employed as salesman
in c. A. Ross store. has severed his
connection with that firm owing to
i'll health. He and Mrs. Davis will
shortly remove to their former home
in Hartland
Everett Nichols has returned from
a visit with his parents in Jackman
and will later go to Detroit, Mich,
where he has accepted position with
an automobile firm. During the sum-
mer he has been employed as ehauf
feur for r. l.. AIarston.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Debe have arrived
here from Piscenize, Italy, and are
to make their home in Skowhegan.
For the present Mr.. Debe will be con
nected with the business of his broth
er Pete and Emileo Debe, the Water
street fruit dealers, and probably later
will engage in business for himself.
Harold Varney of Seattle, Wash.
formerly of Skowhegan, has been
visiting his uncle, f.. E. McNeelie
This is Mr. Varney's first visit heIe
for II years. He departed Tuesday,
but will not reach Seattle for several
weeks, as business matters will take
him into many of the different states.
There was a large attendance at
the Whist party given in Conyeat
Hall, Tuesday evening, As tables being
Prizes were won as fol-
lows: ladies', LIST, Mrs. Lizzie Tantish,
butter knife; 2nd, Miss Jennie Dionne,
slippers; consolation, Mrs. Albert
Libby; gentlemen, list, Alton Beau
teau. punch bowl; 2nd, MIR Pack
ard, umbrella; consolation, Joseph
Murray. In the ticket selling contest,
Miss Annie Cariyeau won first prize
having sold Go tickets she and j.
seph Murray being also prize winners
OH the admission tickets.
Plain sewing wanted at 101 Madison
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-11-21

Wanted table girl, Skowhegan House
R. T. Patten has a -pure-bred Hol-
stein bull calf for sale which weighed
1902 lbs at birth. wv
Competent house-keeper wanted by
f. F. Merrill
Greatly reduced prices in trimmed
millinery at Mss Withee's.
See ad for competent house girl in
another column, wanted by Mrs. r. T.
Patten.
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Notice of Agricultural Meeting

The annual meeting % the life members If
the Somerset Central horticultural Society
will be held in the Municipal building IN
Skowhegan, Maine. on Saturday Nov. 10th,
1912 at 100 O'Clock In the afternoon for the
purpose of eectlng officers for 1913, and to
ransa ct any other business that may legally
come before the meeting.
Owls S IL. BRADBC R1, Secretary.
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Plain sewing wanted at 101 Madison
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81 Many a towering
business success owes
its first strides to the
little modest want ad,
timidly bidding for
customers.
81 Your little business
may be helped to Sue
cess in the same way.
81 Mail ads are the
Bargain Counter Of
newspaper space, and
you should have your
share of the benefits.