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The girl and himself. being children of
sisters, are first cousins.
Their mothers. being cousins, the girl
and himself are second cousins also Cor is 1t
third cousins? %"
According to this the girl and the young
man are both first cousins and second cous-
ms. which adds to the deadly closeness OF
the relationship, should marriage be con-
tracted between them. By the long list L
gave of states in which such marriages are
unlawful, some idea can be gained of the
estimation IN which bonds of this sort are
held by thoughtful men.
Physicians have for years uttered warn
ings against marriages between cousins,
and the memory of each of can afford
narrowing illustrations of the risk of such
alliances. Insanity, scrofula, tuberculosis,
imbecility are only a few of the woes which
follow in the track of marriages between
those near of kin. They can offer excuse
of ignorance. in this enlightened day, for
yenturing to cali down the diseases have
mentioned, and other maladies as W. upon
the heads of their children and their chill
dren's children.
trust l may have the cooperation OF all
intelligent men and women In this small
effort to protest against the iniquity OF
marriages of this class shall be glad to
learn of any similar attempts which have
proved successful or of illustrations to re-
inforce my position
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Opens In1portan! Question.

Can't you imagine now he could have put
his case so he would have won the good
will of those to whom he appeals? Suppose
he had said that he was anxious to get
ahead and make a place for himself in the
world, but that approaching the self-de
NAL his family must have displayed in
order to let him have little longer period
Of schooling he wished to do something 70
them in return. With this end in view he
would like the opinion of the constituency
to the proportion of his income he was
justified in putting aside for himself. Tn
expenses of the family were heavy, their
debts burden he longed to tighten 50 ia
as he could. he was eager to DO his full
share towards the home life. Such pres
entation of the case would at once have
gained him the friendly feeling of all the
. Cornerites." AS it is, am afraid we are
forced to compare him rather unfavora bly,
with the girls as who bring all their money
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Training in Domestic Science.

Training in Domestic Science.
Since domestic science as household eco
nonics has been introduced into club work
I have made 1t constant study and for
five years have used every effort towards
putting such branches into our school cur
riculum. Domestic science has become a
study in the schools in all the largest
towns in Arkansas and In a few years
it will be IN all grades. I am
working at present to get chair Of
domestic science in our state university.
The State Federation of Women's Clubs
has never succeeded in getting this branch
of home making where it would do the
greatest good.
THE art of cooking is necessary part
of the education of the homemakers. You
know that. I wish you would in some
way put forth suggestion that a thorough
study of domestic science would give the
training necessary to efficiency and thus
add your influence to the work we are
trying to do. MRS. ]. B"
L entirely approve of training girls in
any and every branch of domestic science.
and any influence that may be mine am
happy to exert if it will do any good
would like to know through other work
ers in this line and those interested In 1t
the practical effects of the study in the
homes to which the girls go from school
and college.
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Il Messenger Boy Tragedy.

A few years ago l had a rather touching
illustration of this 1t was just befo -e
Christmas that a messenger boy came to
my home one evening with a telegram.
departed with his receipt and reappeared
half an hour later in a state of anguish OF
mind. He had lost his pay-$5-and had
come back to see If he could have dropped
1t there We were is last resort, for he
had inquired at every other possible place
before coming to The bill was nowhere
to be found and the small boy-a very small
boy he was, too--forgot what shreds OF
manliness he possessed and lifted up his
voice and wept.
Me mudder'n beat me when 1 come home
widout me pay! he sobbed. Sure, I'm
afraid to go homer
L have said he was small, just about the
size of some of our own little lads who
had been tucked in bed for couple of hours
while this wee CHAP was trotting about
earning his living We held a council OF
war, and after taking the precaution to
telephone to the office and verify the boys
story we made up a collection which re-
placed the lost So and put a little interest
with it One of Our party Intercepted
him.
mother?" she asked. Don't you keep
part of 1t for yourselfT'
Not your life 1 don't!'' was the
prompt response. =" Me mudder would lick
the stuff1n' outen me II I didn't give It all
to herr
Not so poeticaI some OF the tales in
which the infant hero is described a. nobly
supporting his starving parents but prob
ably much truer 20 life!
In something the same line was a story
told me once by wealthy New Englander
who prided himself on having made his own
way in the world.
" L asked my father to give my time
when was 49, he said. " But he wouldn't
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home" and to ask If it is not within the
bounds of possibility. that they, too would
like to spend money for themselves, even if
it belongs to their sex to be unselfsh."
1 shall be a good deal interested to re
eeive the estimate of % Young Man " from
my readers and to learn If they agree with
me or differ from me in my position with
regard to him. at the same time. whatever
we may think of him personally. it cannot
be denied that he opens up very impor-
tant question and one on which there is
room for a number or varying opinions.
How much right has a young man or
young woman. a boy a girl to his or her
individual earnings, ana what is the just
claim of the parents upon the pay of the
children?
We all know that in some sections or So
ciety it Is taken for granted that the labor
of the children is an asset of the parents.
The latter look forward to the time when
the boys and girls will be able to work and
claim the poor youngsters earnings as a
matter of course,
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TO WHOM BELONG THE WAGES OF THE CHILD

"A LETTER comes to me which COM
N pels my earnest thought, and which
&c / would like to lay before our con-
stituency. In fact, the writer of the
note appeals to your judgment for
help in the solution of a problem. Here is
what he says:
Can some member of the Corner make
q suggestion regarding the rights Of chill
sren in their homes?s Should they give all
their wages to their parents OF should they
only pay their board? Our family consists
OF parents and five children. three boys and
two girls. They don't own anything, not
even house. and are much in debt. They
all claim to have done me a great favor by
keeping me in school until was 10. I have
obtained a position and get a great deal
more money than the others, and they
expect me TO pay all the family debts. Is
this not must unjust-to expect me to pay
debts I did not altogether incur? The girls
bring all their money home. but it belongs
90 their sex to be unselflsh-
THE question is, Would they all appre-
eis-te me If was to help some? Should not
each one look out TO- number one7 I want
to save my money for myself. They can
live just they did before 1 went to work.
However. wait your opinion
YOUNG MAN"
I wonder II you Will understand my att1-
tude of mind when say that OF the trst
queries which presented itself to me in con-
nsction with this screed was: What would
have become of the youth and his stay at
school until nineteen years of age If the
family had followed his theory OF each look
ing out for number one?''
Perhaps you do not share my impression
that the writer of this note is another IL
lustration OF the fact you. frequently see
exemplifed that the member or the house
hold for whom most sacrifices are made Is
usually a miracle OF selfishness. He prob
ably has justice on his side to a certain de-
gree, but his zeal for his own interests Is
so obvious as to rob US OF sympathy for
him Apparently he is not only number one
in his own esteem, but several other nu-
merals as well.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE

BECAUSE Of the enormous number Of
IL letters semitic The department must ask
contributors to limit their communications to
700 rcords. except in cases Of formulas or
recipes uhieh require greater space. udnt
al my correspondents to hare Showing In
The Corner. and il my request in hfs respect
Is complied With IL tpiu Be possible 10 print
many more letters.
Attention IS called 10 the fact that Marion
Hdridrd cannot Teeefce money for patterns.
as she has no connection tcih any department
that sells them. Marion Horlan6.
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For a Lunch BASKET.


VIII you please publish some recipes
for preparing a lunch basket for the fac
tory which has to be taken early in the
morning? You know there are 80 many
things that would not be good after stand
ing all day in a dirty factory. The main
thing is the meat problem. VIII you also
give a recipe for home made peanut brit
tie? MRS. e. H"
The best standby for the luncn that must
stand all day is to be found in sandwiches
with good filling and these may be varied
and made as dainty and as appetizing as
you choose. OF white or brown or graham
or whole wheat or corn bread with filling
of meat or fish or eggs or cheese or salad
Jam or of combination of two or three
o. them Or you may have a little tin OF
baked pork and beans or small meat pie
pressed meat, chopped and reasoned
and with 1t bread and butter or potato
salad. You may have cake and fruit ana
little pies or tarts or wee puddings and
custards-there is big variety possible
and your choice must be determined by
the taste of the men for whom you are
catering. You speak of the " dirty fac
tory" but IL the food is properly protected
there IL no need for it to be injured even
If the factory is not clean. Have plenty
of waxed paper for wrapping your sand
witches and pies and cakes and japanese
napkins or plain napkins that can stand
hard wear and frequent washing
On this subject L would like suggestions
from other housekeepers who provide
lunch for their men when these go forth
to work that keeps them away all day
II you can possibly afford 1t would ad-
wise a thermos bottle or one OF those bot
ties which are about as good In keepins
hot liquids placed in them boiling hot
BY means of this you can supply warm
soup or tea or coffee or cocoa for the noon
and this Will help down many a cold meal!
What do most of you give yourshtnRrv
men workers for their factory lunch?
PEANUT BRITTLE-Boil together a cup
OF molasses. one Of brown sugar. a table
of vinegar and two of butter until
q little of the mixture dropped In cold
water is brittle between the fingers. Have
ready a cupful Of blanched peanuts, add
them to the strip, take at once from the
fire. add a teaspoonful OF baking soda.
beat your candy hard for a couple OF min
utes and pour into shallow buttered panA
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out of the wind or draft. Be careful no
children get hold OF it. Keep the chickens
and the dog cat away from it. After
having mixed the stuff put it in saucers.
a tablespoon to a portion. and set it any
place where you are troubled with rats.
Within fortnight you will see the result.
Don't worry over the possible odor. for
there will be none. Most of the rats seek
water and go out to get it, but none escapes.
The above dose is not cruel or troublesome.
but you must be careful in handling 1t.
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sugar. one cup sweet milk one tablespoon
butter. two eggs beaten light, the whites
and yolks separately. saltspoon salt, three
cups flour or enough to make a good batter,
like cake. sifted with two teaspoons baking
powder. Rub the butter and the sugar to-
gether until smooth; add the beaten yolks,
then the milk, the salt. the flour. and the
whipped whites. Bake in q buttered mold
in a steady oven until a straw run into 1t
comes out clean; turn the loaf out on dish.
For a sauce beat tablespoon of butter into
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Wants a Pulor Stove.

Il am a poor widow and am in need OF
a parlor stove. but cannot AFFORD to buy
one. Perhaps some friend might have q
stove that is of no further use and 1 would
be SO glad to have it! would be willing
to pay all express charges If could only
get onei MRS. o. 3.
Has any one such a stove? In the oid
days they were plentiful enough and they
cannot all have gone to scrap heaps Is
it not possible that there is parEor stove
slowed away in some sttic or cellar or lunn-
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Beef a la Mode NTH Raisins.


-'Will you be so kind as to let me know
how to cook beef a la mode with raisins?
Ny husband has eaten it and likes 1t SO well
that he wishes me to make it. but I don't
know how. 1 would also like to know how
10 make cottage pudding with a good sauce
and just how to mix it. for my husband is
fond of that, too. Mrs. Won K
BEEF A LA MODE WITH RA1SINS-
Cut quarter of a pound of salt pork into
strips and fry them in a saucepan. with
sliced onion, in good beef dripping. Lay
compact round beef upon them, add a
pint of boiling water. cover, and cook ten
minutes to the pound. turning the beef three
times during the process. Take up the
beef and lay It in a dripping pan, dredge it
with flour, haste it with its own gravy once.
and leave it In an oven where 1t will keep
hot without cooking while you strain the
gravy left In the pot. Take the grease from
the top thicken It with Drowned flour, sea-
son with pepper and little salt. IL it needs
this, and stir in a teaspoonful of white
sugar. a heaping tablespoonful of Sultena
raisins you, have washed and picked over.
and the same quantity of blanched almonds
cut into strips Boil gently three min
utes. put the beef in a dish. and pour the
gravy over it and around it.
COTTAGE PUDDING-One cup powdered
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do it-made me hand over all the money
earned by hiring to a farmer in the neigh
borhood. until I was 81. Then he gave me
my freedom suit of clothes and turned
me loose. I never forgave him for treat
ing me as he debut. after all. he had a
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{" I don't agree with you at ALL" she cried.
don't think am under the least obliga-
ton to my parents for borning me- They
didn't bring me here for my pleasure but
their own. and after they had me the least
they could do in common decency was to see
that I was well cared for and brought up
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properly. Why should feel myself in
their debt?
Her remarks sounded far less hfial and
amiable than her husbands. but I hap
pened to know her for one Of the most de-
voted and self-sacrificing of daughters,
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who counted nothing burden she could do
for her father and mother. L made re-
mark to this effect. Her retort was quick.
80 L do that for love, not from a sense of
duty. I care so much for them that would
give up anything in the world to make them
happy-but it's not from any old idea Of
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that the parents should provide for the
children. and not the children for the
parents-and take the stand that the chill
dren are under no monetary obligation
whatsoever to the father and mother, but
have full tight to anything they can earn
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Let's Tall the Subject Over.

Let's Tall the Subject Over.
Yet this does rot altogether answer the
question of my young man" correspond
emit. Have the parents the right TO the chill
drens wages as the mother OF my small
messenger boy and the father Of the yankee
farmer lad evidently felt they had? Is it
fair thing to take child. either boy or
girl. from school at the earliest legal age
and set him or her to work as a means of
support for the family? In the eyes OF the
law the minors earnings may belong to abe
parent, but is 1t Justice or kindness to en-
force this? How much shall the sons and
daughters be expected to contribute to the
running OF the homer Board may be paid.
but Is that enough7
OF course we all know cases where the
young people Of the family have. without
compulsion, assumed the burden OF a house
hold. taking care of the parents who are
invaded or in any way incapacitated from
self-support, bringing up and educating the
younger children, foregoing homes of their
own for the sake Of the families into which
they were born. The legal aspect of the
case does not affect these workers one way
or the other. They simply see what they
consider their duty and do 1t. and would
resent the suggestion that they were I'M
fairly dealt with in any respect
Also we know instances whore there is
no way outside of pauperism for the chill
dren of the family to avoid contributing
their earnings to the common good of ths
household. Illness. bad habits, lack OF
employment for the Older members of the
family, have tied milestone around the
necks Of the younger inmates of the home
Necessity in such cases knows no law, and
the burden bearers take the lot that falls
upon them not from choice but because
they must
How do you of our constituency feel on
the subJect7 Are the children fulfilling
their duty when they do this and doing no
more than the parents have q right to ex-
pect of them, or are they in a sense mar
tyrs to the family tie7 Have the fathers
and mothers a right to ask their boys and
girls to go to work in order to supply
their share of the family funds. or is it an
unfair advantage to take OF their children?
Is there more claim upon the boys than the
girls, or vice versa? Should the contribu-
ton towards the old homo be demanded
after the children are of age. or does 1t
cease when their minority ends?
This is matter which interests all who
are wage earners and who have wage earn
ers in their families It Is question on
which there are sure to be diverging opin-
IONS Let me have some of these and talk
the subject over together on this page as
we have done with others of like impor-
tance.
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by the work OF their heads or hands.
Which side do you take?
1 asked man this question while was
bordering over the letter with which I
started this talk.
=" feel I owe everything to my parents"
he said, promptly. They brought me into
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the world, fed, clothed, and educated me,
gave me good home and affectionate COM
partnership, and nothing 1 can do for them
in return would begin to repay them. I
shall always be in their debt
His wife broke in protestingly.
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Der room in one of the places where they
still have space for such receptacies? If
so 1 am sure you will agree with me in
thinking it will be of more value making
the widows heart to sing by keeping her
warm than in taking up room that might
wei. be filed with something OF more i'm
pcrtance to you. 1 hold the address Of Mrs.
O. S and will be happy to supply IT on ap-
pIication.
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You may be sure of the best results, as L
have proved by using 1t over twenty years
and making my bread and butter by mix
ing and selling it.
THE SCOTCH CHEMIST"
Let me reiterate the caution of our chem
list friend that you will not leave the least
portion of this poison where the children
or pet animals can get hold of it. Not
week passes that we do not see accounts
of poisoninss that have taken place through
carelessness or ignorance. The rats are
undoubtedly a pest. and 1 am glad to put
in your way any method of getting rid of
them, but you pay a dear price for relief
from them if there is even possibility
of any casualty from neglect to put the
stuff meant to destroy the rats where hu-
man beings or harmless animals cannot
get hold of It.
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a cup of powdered sugar, add half cup
Of boiling water gradually and flavor with
lemon Juice to taste or with sherry, and,
K you like. pinch of cinnamon.
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DINNER.
Brown potato soup
Veal outlet with tomato sauce
Rice scalloped Ia left overJ.
Fried oyster plant.
Cottage pudding with hard saucA-
Coffee.
FRIDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Grapefruit
Corn fakes and cream
Picked up Goldfish.
Graham mullins.
Toast.
Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Fried panfsh-
Steve white potatoes.
Waffies and maple strip.
Toast.
Tea.
DINNER.
Vegetable soup.
Baked salmon with cream sauce.
Macaroni and cheese.
Stewed celery.
Lemon pie.
Coffee.
SATURDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Apple sauce.
Oatmeal Jelly and cream.
Broiled ham.
Whole wheat gems.
Toast
Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Salmon loaf Ia left overl.
Lyonnaise potatoes.
Rolls.
jam
Crackers.
Cheese
Tea
DINNER
Cream of celery soup.
Pot roast of beef.
Creamed carrots.
Drowned white potatoes.
Mince pie
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LUNCHEON.
stewed kidneys
Sweet potatoes. hashed and Drowned Ia left overI.
Toasted biscuit from breakfast
Hot gingerbread
Cocoa
DINNER
Oyster soup.
Smothered lamb 8 liver.
Spinach soufie la left overl.
Mashed potatoes. mounded and Drowned.
Floating island
Coffee.
WEDNESDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Shredded wheat biscuit and
Omelet-
Corn mullins,
Toast
Coffee.
LUNCHEON
Dried beef and cream.
fotato cakes Ia 1eft overl.
Baked bread and cheese.
Gingersnaps.
Cheese
Tea
DINNER
Turkey rack soup Ia left overl.
Turkey and oyster scaIlop [partly left overI.
String beans.
Rice with cheese
Steamed pudding with liquid
Coffee.
i: X
THURSDAY.
BREAKFAST
Grapes.
Nush and milk
Coddied eggs
Bacon.
Toast.
Coffee
LUNCHEON.
Minced liver la left overl-
Fried mush Ia left overl.
String bean salad Ia left overl.
Steamed pudding sliced, toasted la left oyerl
and served with remainder of sauce.