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the way described in that letter and al
though years ago 1 taste them yet.
This is the way she made them: Use a
deep ribbed dark skin pumpkin. cut in
slices, peel, remove seeds, and put in an
iron kettle with one cup of water, cover
closely, and cook until tender. Remove
cover and cook slowly. using a wooden
potato masher to mash and stir and to keep
from burning. When the pumpkin is dry
like mashed potatoes and very rich
brown take from the fire. The next morn
ing put through a colander and proceed
as we do in these days.
:" Here is the original recipe, used for
years: One cup pumpkin or half cup pump
kin. and one tablespoon of flour, little salt.
pepper, ginger, and cinnamon Ino cloves.
unless you wish it very dark, two table
spoons sugar. one egg; beat well. add milk
to make a thick custard, and one teaspoon
melted butter. This will make one pie. L
hope some one will try this recipe and re-
port upon it! A. M. L."
So do /. 1 little afraid of that pep
per and ginger combination. Doesn't 1T
make pretty hot pie? Once knew a man
who said that the best pumpkin pies were
made of Hubbard squash and have eaten
had right on his side. At the same time
am glad to have the recipe for the old
fashioned dark pumpkin pie and shall await
with interest a report upon it for some Of
our Cornerites.
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to know anything they nagged and
scolded and forbidden to do harmless things
until at last when the time comes for
the parent to forbid something actually
wrong the children have lost all conf
dence in her judgment. TT you fuss with
a girl to what shoes and stockings she
shall wear and make a big fret over nom
essentials you can't expect her to pay much
attention to you when you try to check
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choose intimates she would not have alto
gether liked. But if she had once come
to me and said tenderly that she feared
this or that friendship or habit was not for
my best good and asked me to believe she
knew what was wise for me and to have
confidence in her-why 1 cannot imagine
my withstanding her for a moment"
" Because she had never let you slip
away from her and had taken the trouble
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When we are young we naturally look
forward to events affecting personally
which the future may have in store for
us. AS we grow older we appreciate the
fact that first hand sensations are
things of the past. We have known the
joys of youth, of love, of marriage, of
motherhood. Life holds no great novelty
for us, unless it may be that of pain, but
we have the sweetness and blessedness Of
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her at all! She tries to keep her
at home, but she will run the
streets with the other girls, and
there seems to be no way of re-
straining her.
The friend who made this remark was sit
ting with me on the veranda of her home
in a little town. Pretty houses and pleas
ant verandas stretched about us, before
us was an attractive park or common, and
off to one side hung a low line of smoke
which marked the location of the plant -
which employed most of the wage earners
of the town.
The girl to whom we referred was an at
tractive young thing of perhaps 10 or 20
who had passed the house while we were
talking, laughing and chatting rather loud
ly with knot of her companions. had
met her before and the recollection of the
pleasing impression she had then made
upon me had called to my lips the wonder
that her mother did not keep her at home
in the evenings.
But that seems dreadful to me" said.
1.-The idea of a mother being unable to re-
strain a girl of that age, 1t is the time the
And frequently it is the time when she
has it least!'
Is there any one reading this who has not
had the chance to observe this painful fea-
ture of life in our small towns and villages?
L know one may notice the same sort of
thing in large cities as well, but the little
country town is supposed to be prominent
ly a place of homes. There are not the al
lurements and temptations there which are
supposed to attract the girl from her small,
close room in the great city.
If there is one locality where family life
at it's best is needed it is in the little town.
Yet it is there that the lowest order OF
morality is often found among the young
people; it is there that least restraint is
exercised by the parents over their sons
and daughters.
You mustn't think there is anything
really wrong about Janet J." my friend
broke in upon my musings. a. She is per-
fectIy good. straight girl, but she is des-
perately headstrong and does as she
pleases without listening to any one
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Then there are some mothers who ap-
preciate the risks run by their daughters.
but like the mother of the girl of whom
I spoke at the beginning of this talk have
no influence with their children.
How do the mothers lose control of their
girls?" 1 asked my friend one day
by overworking their influence on I'M
important matters" she said promptly.
" From the time the children are old enough
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Inexperienced but Enerqetic.

Will you kindly tell me how an mex
perienced but energetic woman of 40 can
find employment? Would there be any
opening in the cities for such a woman in
settlement work? If SO, how could she pro-
cure the position? Until now have been
one of the homemakers but am entirely
alone. with only small income. 1 can
furnish the highest references a to my in
tegrity, etc, but am not trained for any
but have no particular talent unless it is
to fill position of trust with good COM
mon sense, honesty. and determination to
drown sorrow in hard work. If you will
give me advice I will be greatly indebted
to you. JEANET NAMELEss.''
No name and address accompany this
communication, and all the help can give
must be through this printed page. My adj
vice to you is to go to some bureau con-
nected with the Young Women's Christian
association and see If they cannot suggest
a field for your ability. You ought to have
no trouble in filing the place of matron in
q home or something of the sort, or in be-
ing a parish or district visitor in connec-
ton with church or charitable activities.
AS to settlement work have my doubts.
My decided impression is certain amount
of training is demanded now of those who
take such posts, and that mere good will
without preliminary drilling is no longer
sufficient. Can any of our readers make
further suggestions that may aid this cor
respondent?
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to retain your love and trust. A great
many mothers don't seem TO recognize the
necessity of this and when they have oc-
casion to call on your belief in them it is
not there to respord to the call. It's hard
work being the right kind of mother,
you know
Perhaps it is, and yet doesn't the effort
pay? What is there in the world that
pays better, after all?
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Recipe for Sour Meat.

Some time ago a woman asked Tor a
recipe for making sour meat, as she called
it 1 wonder if she would like my way
of making what we call sour hash? We
think it is Just fine. To make it call for
a 10 cent soup bone with meat and not
much bone-boiled meat or leftover meat
may be used; cook it till tender and re-
move from the fire. When cold cut into
small squares. Brown a heaping table
spoon of flour in a frying pan over not
too hot fire, and stir into cup of soup stock
until you have it the consistency of a cream
gravy; put in four tablespoons of good
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rice. Moisten this with little gravy or
stock OF with melted butter and set them
in the oven. covered. until they are hot
through-about ten minutes. If you wish
you can mingle little meat with the rice
or pour tomato sauce over it after it is in
the peppers. Serve with or without gravy
poured about the peppers on the dish
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Common Sight on Nice Eocnings.

During the fortnight 1 spent with my
friend had the same sight brought to my
eyes every pleasant evening. Clusters and
couples of girls roamed the streets until
all hours of the night. apparently unafrat1
of late hours. despite the fact they must
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Substitute for Olives.

81 have seen directions for preparing
green plums to take the place Of olives
but cannot remember the process. VIII
you please give the recipe for olives made
of green plums and also for the genuine
olives? MRS E. s.
For instructions for this 1 must turn to
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vicarious joys in the lives of our children.
What mistake we make if we fail to
provide happiness for our old age by bring
ing up our children to be the men and
women we wish them to be,
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As Mother Made Them.

" Reading your reply to Westfield
brought back to me memories of those
luscious mahogany colored pumpkin pies.
Ny mother always cooked the pumpkin in
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Youth Not Naturally Bad.

And when we look at the matter carefully.
how much 90 we have to renounce of our
own will and way in order to hold our
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-26

HREE letters of the same type have
reached me at approximately the
same time:
turn to you for help and advice
1 am in the beautiful city of Los
Angeles, a recent widow, trying to forget
my sorrow in this glorious country and to
find new interests in life. 1 wish 1 could
find some other woman, left alone like my
self. to whom 1 could be helpful COM
panion. I am 80 years old, in fairly good
health, of pleasing address, neat habits,
and others have said 1 am of an amiable
disposition and good company. 1t is the
consequences that eats the heart out of me.
i walk the crowded streets of this beauti-
full city, all about me strangers, and go
home without having spoken q word to
soul all day. Do you know of any societies
or lodges in town which 1 could join with
out having to pay too high dues? I can
furnish good references. T. B."
As 1 have often said before, It is impos-
sible for me to make through this col
umn applicati tons for paying positions
If T. B. seeks a position as salaried
com anion there is nothing I can do
for her, but from the tone of her let
ter I think she is seeking g friendly
association which will lessen the loneliness
from which she suffers. Can any of our
Los Angeles members answer the queries
about the societies and lodges? I hold T.
BIS address and will be glad to give it to
any one who can supply information that
may cheer her life little.
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own frankly that 1 have never heard of
making mock olives from green plums and
wonder very much if they would have the
peculiarly nutty flavor that marks the true
olive. The preparation of this for eating
is also outside my knowledge and would
be glad to receive directions for the work
and print them here for the benefit of others
who may own or manage olive orchards
Some Fruit Combinations.
Here are some fruit combinations we
like. When apples are plentiful we can
them and cook parings and cores for juice
canning it and using it as needed. we
use the sauce strained with gooseberrles'
plurns or cranberries, taking one part
apples and two tart fruits to make mild
easily sweetened sauce. One part plums
and one part apples make a much better
butter or jelly than plums alone. One pint
wild cherries and one quart apple juice
cooked and strained are fine made into
jelly. Dried apples. raisins, or prunes and
dried apricots, or three parts of apples or
other mild fruit and one part of apricots
prepared as you would any other dried fruit
alone, make good combinations
MRS. A. U. A
As the fruit season comes upon us we all
appreciate any suggestions for good ways
of using or of preserving our supply. 1
am glad to have my own habit Of making
use of the cores and Feelings of apples
Endorsed. Only the other day a woman
rather snubbed me for my economy of maxi
ing apple sauce of impaired apples To me
the practice means something more than
economy and that is added flavor to the
apple sauce. The best part of the fruit
lies close under the skin and you frequently
lose it by peeling the apple before cooking.
y X
Needs Wheel Chair.
rs there space in your Corner for this
request? An old man TS years of age has
lain for two years in a small back room
with only one window. He is paralyzed
from the hips down. If he had a wheeled
chair he could enjoy life a little better.
Isn't there some one of benevolent turn
who will give chair to one afflicted?
MRS. N. M"
AS I sit here at my window and look out
on the sweet greenness of the country and
feel the delicious air that blows across
grass and flowers 1 try to think of what it
must be to lie in what the poet Heine used
to call mattress grave and my heart
aches with pity for the poor man and with
thankfulness for my own blessedness. Isn't
there some one who can help this poor old
prisoner to have change from his bed and
a chance at some life outside of his " small
back room
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DINNER.
Vegetable soup.
Curry of veal Ia leftoverl.
Boiled rice
Chilled bananas.
String beans.
Fruit surprise.
Coffee.
FRID Az.
BREAKFAST.
Canteloupes.
Cereal and cream.
Picked up Goldfish.
Potato biscuit.
Coffee
LUNCHEON.
Fried parrish.
Baked potatoes.
Corn mullins.
Lemon Jelly.
Ginger snaps.
Tea.
DINNER.
Cream of cabbage soup.
Baked bluefish.
Scalloped cucumbers.
Riced potatoes.
Snow pudding.
Coffee
X x
SATURDA Az.
BREAKFAST.
Oranges.
Mush and milk.
Savoury omelet
Rolls.
Coffee.
LUNCH ON.
Fish au gratin Ia leftoverl.
Potato puff a leftoverl.
Mix toast.
Hot gingerbread.
Tea.
DINNER.
Clear coup.
Smothered liver
Succotash-
Fried mush.
Hot berry shortcake.
Coffee.
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from an operation for appendicitis. would
like some place to stay for company in ex-
change for my board, with some widow who
lives alone or with some married woman
whose husband is away good deal and who
does not like to stay by herself. 1 can do
my own cooking and dishwashing and
would be willing to do the woman's patch
ing. etc. L can furnish the best of refer
ences and would like place in Los Angeles
or Pasadena. I prefer the latter. r.
Another chance for companionship for
some lonely one, and this is perhaps an OPP
portunity for the writer of the first of the
three letters 1 have put here together.
Please observe that all three writer's re-
quest and offer references.
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Received Help from Conner.

1 send you an excellent recipe, which
I hope you will publish. I am the woman
who wrote to you last fall asking for bits
of calico, and have received much needed
assistance through your corner. 1 have
eight children, the baby now 10 months
old. I have a certificate and will teach
school next winter at S55 per month. and
We certainly are glad to be able to help
ourselves to some extent A. A"
Thank you for the recipe, which will ap-
pear in another column I am glad TO
print your acknowledgment of help re
ceived and the news Of your promised 20
sition. 1t does me good to record any
good fortune that comes to our brave
women who make the best of what they
have.
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her in the way she behaves in public
the boys and girls she chooses for her
companions and friends"
X X
Had Confidence in Mother.
1t all seems so strange to me. . unused.
- When a girl 1 often did things of which
my mother would not have approved. am
afraid-small things. to be sure-and fire.
quently longed to go my own way and to
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Care of Figs.

SUc OF rigs.
Can you or some Of the Corner ADVISE
me regarding the care of figs. both for
home and market My husband has pur-
chased and we have moved on to a fruit
ranch, and the fig crop will be large. of
which we know nothing.
Mrs. H c. F."
Have you thought of writing to the de-
partment Of agriculture for advicer /
think you could get 1t from there; or can
some of our fruit growing friends counsel
you through our columns or by personal
correspondence? I have your address and
will furnish 1t TO any one who can assist
you. I wish I could.
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Home for a Won1an.


The second letter is from Eagleville. Mo. {:
90 Do you know of q woman between %
and 55 who would be glad of good home
and what clothes she needs and would be
willing to help or rather to do light house
keeping? There are but three of us in fam
tly-my husband. my little girl. and myself.
My little girl is years old. My husband is
away from home for all meals except break
fast and away from s in the morning until
in the evening. We live just mile
from town and are thinking of moving into
town. OF course the main thing is to get
some one who would be kind to my little
girl. She is nice to get along with. 1 could
furnish references as to this. / want some
one who is honest, clean. and cheerful also
who likes children. If there is any question
to be answered further would be glad to
write. would want good references from
any one who came and would furnish the
same. 1 am sure the right person would
not be sorry for answering this. MRS. W.
If the writer of the first letter and this
applicant could only get together it might
be possible for them to arrange partner
ship. I print the letters of both close to-
gether, and If no partnership comes OF it
they may make other relations which
would be satisfactory.
Hit. d.. u CJ1,,
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- Err mother has no influence over
eb1 her at all! She tries to keep her
at home, but she will run the
straats with the other girls nnl
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Wants a Place TO Stay.
81 am an orphan and just convalescent
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-01-30
AMUSEMENT NOTES.
Tonight the Pollard Juvenile Opera
Company Will Appear.

From the Pacific to the Atlantic coast
the verdict has been the same as regards
to the Pollard Juvenile Opera company
and that verdict has been delightful.
1t is well known fact that young folks
in operate work who have been properly
trained are far more convincing and nat
ural than are adults and the Pollard
company, being composed of artists
whose ages do not pass the nineteenth
year are shining examples of the wis
dom of this statement. The Polards
have all been upon the operate stage
since earliest childhood and are pos
sessed OF most marvellous degree Of
magnetism and natural ability along
musical comedy lines. There are fifty
of them and they sing such operas as
The Toy Maker, the Mikado and Ser
geant Brue with much greater success
than could possibly accompany the pre-
sentation Of the same operas by adults.
There is singular freshness and de-
lghtful quality to their voices and the
comedy vein possessed by these young
sters is really marvellous. The Pollards
come to the Barre opera house tonight
and will present Edmond Aundron's fam
Gus success The Toy Maker. ADV.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-01-30
REPUBLICANS LOSE IN SENATE.
They Fail to Force Another Executiv,
Session.

Washington, Jan. 30.-The conflict in
the Senate over the Connecticut river
dam bill has been postponed because of
the deadlock over President Taft's nomi-
nations. II is still brewing, however, as
was indicated yesterday when Senator
Jones of Washington introduced an
amendment to the effect that the secre-
tary of war must have filed with him an
agreement in which full authority is
given TO the state of Connecticut TO con-
test and regulate rates. Senator Brande-
gee of Connecticut read telegram from
the Springfield board of trade urging the
absolute necessity of the immediate pas
sage of the bill.
BY a tic vote, the Republicans of the
Senate yesterday lost in their effort to
force another executive session To recon
slider President Taft's appointments.
Democratic leaders forced a rollcsll. nd
with the aid of Senator Bristow and SEN
ator LsFollette. Republicans, and SEN
stor Poindexter, Progressive, prevented
the Senate from resuming the conflict.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-01-30
BILL.
ADOPTED
Wins Out in the Senate by
a Majority of
One
APPROPRIATES
$14,OO0,0OO.OO
For Agricultural and Trade
Educational Work in
Country

Washington, Jan. Ex-senator Pages
vocational educational bill, authorizing
maximum appropriations of over $l4,-
100000 for agricultural and trade educa-
tional work, was adopted by the Senate
yesterday as a substitute for the Lever
Smith bill, which passed the House.
A fight extending over many days
ended when motion by Senator Page
OF Vermont. to substitute his original for
the Lever bill was carried by vote Of
81 to 80. The measure then passed the
Senate and viii 90 to the House and ul-
timately into conference committee.
The Page bill would establish courses
of instruction in trades and industries,
home economics and agriculture in the
various public schools of secondary
grade: provide for state agricultural
schools, testing and plant breeding sta
tons; education of teachers and general
extension work.
II is believed as result of the action
of the Senate yesterday, the agricultural
education measure may remain in con.
troyersy between the two houses when
the present session ends.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-01-30
Klark- Urban Company.

No company travelling to-day has a
more enviable reputation than the well
known and popular company bearing the
name of klark- Urban, who will appear
at the Barre opera house for six nights
and Saturday matinee commencing next
Monday evening. 1t is an organization
that is accepted throughout the country
as a standard of excellence, and the repu-
tation that it has acquired aur-ng .ne
past ten years of unyarying success will
be more than sustained during the pres
ent season. The company is headed by
Miss Maisie Cecil and Harden klark and
the supporting company is large and well
balanced, containing in its roster some
of the best artists in the theatrical pro-
fession. 1t is perfectly equipped with
all the attributes necessary for frst-class
performances, every play being presented
with all special scenery, electrical ef-
fects and beautiful and expensive ward
robe. The following is list of plays
presented during the engagement, THE
Man of the Hour" "Wildfre,'' "The
Sign of the Four" "Raffies,' .The Golden
Rule" ''The Dairy Farm" and Northern
Lights" The following high class
vaudeville will be introduced at each and
every performance. The great "Irving.n
society magician; Billy Webb, comedian
and dancer; AL Canton, comedy juggler
and Klark,, Urban and Schneider. must
cal artists. Ladies' tickets Is cents. Nom
day evening, limited to $50 if bought at
the advance sale before 6 p. m, Monday
Seats on sale at Hendricks drug store
Friday morning.-Adv.