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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-08
Another Lonely Housemaid.

No ? deals with the story of the lonely housemaid who wrote to us a few weeks ago:
 Her experience is almost identical with what l have endured. If she is, by any chance, a Kansas City woman, we might become acquainted and relieve one an others loneliness.
 Seven years ago 1 went to Colorado to recuperate after too close application to my studies and finding ways and means of living meanwhile.
 Finding housework a very satisfactory way of earning money to meet expenses in Colorado tried 1t in Kansas City. The condition of my heart and nerves made it unwise for me to undertake anything so strenuous as business life l have an excellent place, where l do pretty much as please. The wages are satisfactory, and the woman Is companionable. l am happy in my work so long as I can forget the social side of life.
 That there Is a social caste in the United States is plain and many and bitter have been the tears l have shed after some deep heart thrust. l do not expect recogni- tion from people outside of the church, but having always believed that Christians are brothers, l cannot get used to the kind of religion that inclines a person to refuse to speak to a housemaid.
 At one church the elder usher was profuse in his greetings to me, often ad- vancing a few steps to meet me. l was plainly clothed, he could not have felt he was working to secure valuable mem Der. Each Sunday he was little more friendly, until finally he asked where I lived. Upon learning what my work was he at once became reserved. and ever after ward at my appearance at the door he turned abruptly aside and gazed out of the window until another usher would come to my rescue. What men do does not, how ever, hurt me so much, for they are not supposed to be as thoughtful as women.
 It seemed piece of good fortune to me when l was introduced to a lovely, white haired woman who had a reputation for being all that is expected of noble Chris tian woman. l thought that in her l would find sort of saint friend. You can imag
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herself. place where her days off woule be twice as many as they arenow where two maids are kept; viz, every other Thursday afternoon and every Sunday afternoon or evening. Her wages would range from S4 a week for a beginner to s7 for competent trained servant and the hours would be shorter than those she names.
 As for there being no place in church or society for a domestc, think she seeks it n@the wrong quarter. Any man who would turn from girl merely because she works out would be shallow indeed in mind and heart and she is better off without him. should call him snob.'
 As Tor church. Emily F. makes the mistake common to many others in large cities; sne attends large, fashionable church, where nobody knows her, or has time or care to do so Were in her place I should seek a little struggling church not of necessity of her own denomination where any help, or even attendance, would be welcomed. Then should begin by speak ing to any one about me who seemed lone- ly and in need of a word of cheer would attend their midwesk prayer service and when a sociable was announced. Iwould be present, always seeking to befriend those who need help and trying to forget myself in ministering to them She would soon find that joy and warmth will come into her life. The world is full of good, refined people of limited means. Some times when we feel ourselves unappre- cated 1t is because we are not with the right kind of associates.
 "When I first came to this big. busy city I attended for three months a large church of my own denomination and felt utterly alone amid uncongenial surround ings. Near to me was little struggling church of another denomination where Sunday school teachers were needed. offered my services, took a class of bad boys [this usually means mischievousl and gave the best of my spare time and energies to them l visited them in their homes some of these very poor indeed-and did all the good I could. Some of my fellow teach CTS were refined, lovely men and women, although like myself in humble circum- stances, though l was easily the poorest of them, but held on my way never talk ing a prominent place-and, O! the dear friends that madel I have them still and the memory of that time still brightens and cheers me. We were all too busy to visit. but the brightness crowded into that Sun day afternoon helped me all the dark, lone ly week when poverty and sorrow beset me on every side.
 There is a sunny side for every one who seeks it aright and the way to find 1t is-to help others!
 II hope this may be a drop of comfort to Emily F. I wish I could make her feel that true hearted people estimate us. not because of means or social position but for what we are! SArAH F. A.
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Housemnrk "Bp tIe Dau.

No brings much useful information to bear upon the matter before us. The whole communication bears the e'marks of serious thought and broad humanity, combined with sterling practical sense. We are for tunate in having enlisted the writer's sym pathies in the "Vexed Question.
 " May I be allowed to pass on sugges- ton which was contained in report of the bureau of labor for the state of Massa- chusetts that might help somewhat in solv- ing the 'Vexed Question :?
 About eighteen years ago woman Miss de Graffenried-was appointed by tha. bureau to investigate the status of women 8 labor. and at the request of clubwomen of Boston she was directed to inquire particu- larly into the cause for there being so great
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to go to the back door of large house when she comes in at night?
 '' have come in many night, trembling in dread of a negro jumping out at me from his hiding place; imagining 1t at every instant along the pitch dark alley to the, if possible, darker porch. 1t is not safe, and when I think of these and other things worse. if tha, could bel am glad my young sisters have been fire by the ambi- ton to earn livelihood in other ways.
 Ut is a big question, and as you say truly. there are two sides to 1t. Every wise woman must admit that. l should be glad to see a movement to elevate house.
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7Hey Ye 1ou day oH every o17e7 Iyeef, 61l7 16e5
 77a79ce 70 lave so17e ore /o7 lunch 1h97 oaY.

work to the same position with business life K.D."
 l could write 1or an nour upon the thoughts awakened by this woman's letter. l have rendered it, word for word just as she wrote it. 1t needs no editing. The girl who indited 1t would dignify any position.
 All that time and space allow me to re- mark here and now Is the utterance of an indignant protest against the unchristian dscourtesy of the treatment accorded her at the hands of so-called religious men and women. If l were acquainted with the pastor of the flock should entreat him to preach for several Sundays in succession
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from the first five verses Of the second chapter of St. James. True gentlehood is incapable of such gross lack of civility. My own mother, refined in every thought and deed. taught me lesson on this head which l may have told of in former talks. It is good enough to bear repetition
 You need not be afraid of stirring your pickles with a sterling silver spoon keep German silver out of pickles. The lady ingrain can afford to be affable to every body. She Is in no danger of losing her dignity The one who feels herself to be underbred dare not mix in what she con siders low company Having very little
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Concerning the Breakfast Crouch

Your paper upon the Breakfas st Crouch has caused much talk in our fam fly and circle of friends Will you let into the circle a belated correspondent who would air her personal notions upon the subject?
 In my opinion, the chief cause of thaI breakfast groueh is a misspent nigH. And almost every night is misspent when early bedtime does not find us more thanl ready to retire from work pleasure. and the active business of life in general, feel. ing that going to bed is one of the great. est luxuries of life and enjoying pleasura bleI anticipation of the morrow
 If we have not achieved that, so much' the worse for us, and so much the worse for, breakfast. I. H. K"
 l may have quoted before in the cornerl the distinction made by shrewd writzl' between pessimist and an optimist
 The pessimist groans at close of day.I " How tired I am!"
 The optimist sighs in great content, How good the bed will feel.''
 . l. H. K. says, in effect, that if vel were all optimists, the breakfast grouchl would cease from out the land There is al screw loose in the machinery of that manI or woman who does not look forward at| the end of a busy day to taking rest inl sleep as the happiest possible climax ofI the twelve hours of wakefulness and labor 1
 Blessed be the man that invented sleep." said wise tunlearned) sancho| Panza.
 An American housemother added: ThereI is no place this side of heaven more blessed than good bed to tired woman"
 It was an American writer upon Ameri- can Nervousness who left upon res,ordI the sentence. " Given plenty of sleep plenty of fresh air and exercise. and plentN of nourishing food, and there is practicaiiy no limit to the work you can get out of ouI brain"
 saying that should be lettered in gold above the desk of every busy man and upon the nursery walls of every home
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~HE letter and comment which ap- tt pears In your Exchange lately con-
 corning The Right Kind of Rice
 interests me very much l have
 repeatedly tried to obtain un- polished rice but though there is so-called unpublished rice in packages obtanable at some places l have found the real thing on sale in but one grocery in Chicago. It was SO different in character and taste from common white rice, and so superior to 1t that l was both surprised and pleased particularly noticed that it was so extreme ly nutritious that small portion only could be eaten at a time When so much mas ap- peared in print relative to the value of un- polished rice l cannot understand why 1t is not everywhere procurable. Many persons would buy it if they could get 1t in good con dltion, and it would surely become favor ably known. Cannot we who are interested join in an effort to bring this kind of rice into the market and create popular de- mand for 1t?
 MT. C. of the Vegetarian society once sent me a sample of what he called un- polished rice but though not as shiny as the ordinary rice 1t was white and tasted not nearly as good the unpublished rice had purchased. In truth it had the same taste as the rice when eVerNDous hhoMs'
 "I think I shall write to a firm of rice growers in the south and inquire into the reasons for depriving the public of good, honest. whole rice If other consumers will do the same perhaps there will be desirable results. ANNA r.
 And we are much interested in what you tell us about the unpublished rice l, too. have been unable to get it. although have made inquiry ot the leading grocery firms in our largest eities. l have, for long years advocated the claims of rice Geven as we buy it1 as nutritious vegetable product, holding it to be when properly cooked su- perior to the ubiquitous potato in nutritive properties and in palatableness, as it un- doubtedly surpasses the rank tuber in wholesomeness. If we could only supply our markets with the real thing as 1t is described by yourself and others who have eaten it-the price of the tyrant potato would cease to rise out of the reach of the poor, with whom 1t is the chief of their vegetable diet. Let us hear more of the re- suits of your research.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-08
Old Fashioned Gingerbread.

Maybe your H. II. c. can help me to find or to exchange old embroidery patterns and cross stitch gingham apron patterns. doi- lies waist aprons, or nything.
 offer a recipe for:
 FOLD FASHIONED GINGERBREAD Two-thirds of teacupful of butter, two- thirds of teacupful of sugar, two-thirds of d teacupful of molasses. two thirds of teacupful of sour milk, three teacupfuls Of flour, one teacupful of chopped raisins df liked) two eggs. one tablespoonful of ground ginger, a quarter teaspooniul of
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put in the fruit last. with the brandy. My objection to this is that 1t involves too much beating after the whites and flour are added.
 This is for two large cakes It is the Ofsa Virginia wedding cake and warranted to keep indefinitely-if kept under lock and key! I have eaten'it when it was twenty years old Ii was a bit dry in spite of the brandy that, with many Holdings of silver paper, was meant to retain freshness. But 1t was still sweet and spicy and unspoled.
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your charming letter. But why = breaded peppers '? l do not espy so much as crumb of bread in the sprightly recipe. It is delightful reading and quickens the qp- petite for more of the same sort, which you will not forget that you have promised.
 l prefer the Mexican "chili caliente. That leaves no doubt in the mind of the Spanish student
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Sand

FRENCH CHEESE SANDWICHES Brown bread, cream cheese, jam, marma- lade, or preserved ginger
 Slice the bread thinly and spread it with layer of the marmalade or jam. Straw berry or peach flavor should be used for the best results. Spread a layer of fresh cream cheese over the jam and cover it with an other slice of bread. Press and serve for afternoon tea.
 CREAM OF CHICKEN SANDWICHES Half cupful of white chicken meat one tea
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spoonful of gelatin, half pint of whipping cream. one cupful of milk, seasoning of salt. buttered white bread.
 Dissolve the gelatin in two tablespoon fuls of cold water. Pound the chicken fine ly and add the liquid gelatin and salt to taste. Put over the fire and stir until it begins to thicken; then remove from the fire and add the cream previously whipped. little at time. Stand away to cool and when very cold spread on thinly cut but tered bread
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breeding. she must take care of that little.
 !: l: Suggestions for 'Emilp F." No. writes temperately and with judi eial gentleness
 Suffer me to make a few suggestions that may be helpful to Emily F. and to others so situated
 First, as regards her having to occupy a room and bed with one whose personal habits are offensive-surely a competent. sensible, industrious, honest American girl could get a place as general houseworker where she might have a room and bed to
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cinnamon, one full teaspoonful of soda dis solved in half teacupful of cold water. '' stir in the soda last. A slow fire and close watching secure q good cake
 MRS. F. P. s." But. dear fellow worker, how are we to know to whom to send the patterns when readers write to us for directions as to for warding the tokens of good will? You give us no clew to your name and residence be- yond the initials Mrs F. r. S.. Birming- ham, Alabama"
 No street, no number. Kindly rectify the omission and let us see if we can get what you would like to have. if only out of grat- itude for the old fashioned recipe.
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 4 Mexican Recipe
 Ours is a new settlement down here in the desert. Still ] hope you won't mind if l ask to be numbered among the Cor nerites?
 "One of these, l note. asks for Mexican recipes. We are right among them here Che Mexicans. not the recipesD. So, if she likes the following. l shall be pleased to send more:
 BREADED PEPPERS Prepare a bat ter of toerably well beaten eggs and flour about the consistency of cake batter. Two eggs. teaspoonful of salt, and the re- auired quantity of flour should make enough in which to dip dozen medium sized, long, green peppers. A tablespoon ful of real cows cream makes 1t richer and serves to smooth the admixture.
 {" Put the peppers upon an iron plate over the blaze and scorch them wells turning frequently that they may not burn. This
 
 all are well scorched. put them into pan of cold water for an hour. Remove the seeds by sitting up one side, and peel off the skin. which. if the peppers are fresh. comes off easily. and leaves them smooth and whole Dip each separately into the batter and fry in a generous painful of boiling hot lard or in any of the excellent cottonseed oils. I use the latter. The pep pers puff up real nice and fat and come out of ths fat a beautiful golden brown. They must be served at once Otherwise. they fall and become soggy, They are delightful side dish for a roast of beef or lamb
 If you fear the peppers are going to be too hot, soak them in very salt water for an hour before cooking
 The Mexicans call these chili caliente.' Whlch means not peppers. when you are eating them. if they burn your mouth don't take drink of water. Take, instead. a pinch of salt. And don't fry them in bacon grease. l. makes them stick to the pan.
 Some time ago there was an article in one of our papers describing the roping-in of wild animals in Africa. The author Mccutcheon) gave what was either the East Indian or African method of baking chicken With dressing made of corn and
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Recipe for Fruit Cake.

While awaiting the action of the house. mothers |" of credit and renown who will send in, each, her pet recipe for fruit cake. will you accept mine, which has come down to me by ordinary generation from very great grandmother who heard the cannon roar at Bunker Hill?
 FRUIT CAKE-One pound of powdered sugar one of butter and one of flour, twelve
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Suggestions for "Emilu F."

breeding, she must take care of that little.
Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 18??-1940, 1912-12-13
Road Notice.

Notice is hereby given that the under
signed petitioners will apply to the
Hampstead County Court at the January
1918 term thereof for an order to open a
public road in Hampstead County, Ar
kansas, as follows, to-wit:
Commencing at the town Of Bolton near
the half mile corner on the South bound
ry line of Section 20, Twp. 9, S. R. rs
West, intersecting the Prescott and
Nashville road; thence North to near the
center of said section 90 to the Bell and
Stephens line; thence East to the Steph-
ems lane; thence North through said
lane about one half of mile, thence in
Westerly direction to the Northeast
corner OF the Northeast quarter of the
Northwest quarter of said Section 20
thence due North to the Northeast corn
er of the Northeast quarter of the North
west quarter of Section II, Twp. 8, s. H.
25 Vest thence Northwest to intersect
the Murfreesboro road near Hickory
Creek,
Homer Harris. ct al.
Petitioners,
Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 18??-1940, 1912-12-13
FRIENDS ONIONS ARE BETTER
Why the Lady Decided Not to Com
plain Of Smell of Neighbours
Cooking.

A couple occupying an uptown
apartment were for a long time
greatly distressed by the daily habit
of their very near neighbors of cook
ing onions. At the suggestion OF
the husband the better half of the
suffering pair decided to see the
agent of the house about it, with a
hint that the couple would move un-
less the nuisance were abated.
A week went by. Said hubby one
evening: MARY, didn't you say that
you were going to see the agent
about those onion people ?"
eyes, I did, replied Mary, 'but
that was before | met Mrs. Parker.
We have exchanged calls this week,
and | like her very much"
Whereupon hubby gave utterance
to a peculiar sound that his wife was
able to interpret.
II knew that you'd take it that
way" added the wife. ''But even
you, Henry, must admit that there's
a great difference between the smell
of a friends onions and those of
people we don't know"
Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 18??-1940, 1912-12-13

Postmaster G. l.. King of Ozan
was a visitor Monday.
Our local merchants are enjoy
ing splendid patronage.
The cotton ginning season is
about over here.
Phone me for package of
Seeded Raisens; if you wish them
order now. E. R. Beck.
Several girl friends from Blev-
ms spent Saturday night with
Miss Carrie Bonds, who is teach
ing the New Hope school and is
boarding with Esq. J. P. Baker,
near town.
Bob Phillips and Crit Stuart
were here from Columbus Tues
day.
Best Of Chocolate Candy at
E. r. Beck's.
Will Oglesby Of Hope was here
Wednesday.
H. A. King of Ozan was in town
Wednesday.
Miss Norma Phillips of New
Orleans, La, who, with her sister
Miss Charlean Phillips has been
visiting relatives at Columbus for
several weeks, was here Tuesday
visiting the Misses Bouldin. The
Misses Phillips will return to
their home in New Orleans in a
few days.
The Quarterly Examination, to
ascertain the qualifications of
those desiring to teach in the
public schools Of Hampstead
County, will be held at Washing
ton, Ark, Dec. 1920, 1912.
M. l.. Hicks,
County Examiner.
Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 18??-1940, 1912-12-13
POETRY COST TWENTY MARKS
Extraordinary Case Of Filming a West
phalian Miner for Insulting
StrIke-Breaker.

The strike in the Westphalian
mining district has been over for
months, but Beleidigung prosecu-
tons against the strikers are still
occupying the courts. Readers will
remember some cases of hard justice
meted out there How the mother of
nine children went to Jail for week
for saying, "Ffui! Strike-breaker ~
and how a mother and her nursing
baby occupied cell for several days
for a crime of no greater import.
The capsheaf, however, appears to
have been put on in a case just de-
cided. A striking miner was accused
of calling out to a strike-breaker a
line of an old poem, "Three words I
name, of import grave" of adding
these three words, 'Ui, wau, pauz."
In these words of import grave the
vigilant prosecuting attorney discov-
cred a severe insult, and the court
adopted his view. 'U1," said the
learned judge, ''is unquestionably
the last part of Epfui.' 'Pauz' ep-
pears to be likewise the concluding
syllable of slang expression some
times applied to strike-breakers. We
are unable to determine exactly what
'wau' means in this connection but
regard the insult as established by
the other two words" The unfortu-
nate quoter of poetry was fined 20
marks.
Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 18??-1940, 1912-12-13
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Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 18??-1940, 1912-12-13


U. A. Smith, Bridgeton, Ind.
had kidney trouble for years, and
was so crippled with rheumatism
he could not dress without help
He started using Foley Kidney
Pills, and says: Il began to get
better at once, and now ali nv
trouble has left me and I do not
feel that [ ever had rheumatism
| rest well all right and tho 50
years old can now do the work
Of a man Of 81 years. | would
like to be the means of others
getting beneftfrom Foley Kidney
Pills" Refuse substitutes. Sold
at Colds Cash Store.