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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-06-29
Standing OF Gu hs.

Games To-day.
Brooklyn In baltimore.
pitisburg tn Buffalo
Others not scheduled.
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Second game:
Score by innings: r II E.
Kansas City ..603 eco o22-7 Is q
IadsaHapnHs IG2 10 lis 10 2
Batteries: cullop. Harris, Stone and
Kruger; kaiserling and Rariden.
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sent to the correspondent who wanted
them, but am happy to have the copy you
furnish Of 8 The Old Arm Chair" and shall
put 1t away on the chance that some one
may wish 1t and write for 1t, The little
poem, " A Recipe for a Day." is OF the kind
that l fancy good many correspondents
will be glad to cut out and paste in scrap
book or tuck into some other secure place
where 1t can be consulted from time to time.
The slumber drink sounds sensible and
wholesome, and contemplate trying 1T my
self one of these night when sleeplessness
holds me in its grip. AS to your own self
improvement. I sympathize greatly with
you In your desire to widen your interests.
and see no reason why you should not do
so. Reading will undoubtedly help you,
and II l We're In your place l would inyesti-
gate the Chautauqua courses Of home read
ing and undertake one of these What are
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retiring. Let those troubled with insomnia
try this.
Now l should like some advice very
much. am one OF those who married
quite young and without much education.
and now that my own little ones are In
school l should like to do some studying
myself. Won't you tell me how to begin?
Would reading special things help, and
what shall it be? Not until recently have
] had any chance to go out and mingle with
other people. and find that now am awk-
ward and shy, and to save my life can't
think Of one thing to say when spoken to;
and 1t certainly is mighty embarrassing
sometimes. What Is one to do-just stay
at home and look at the four walls? / am
20. Is 1t too late to study music. either
piano or violin? MRS. j. A. L."
Thank you very much for your kindness
The poems of Eliza Cook have already been
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frozen in 1t was as smooth and delicious
as any ever produced by the most UP to date
modern freezer on the market.
HON 10 Make IL

Here are the simple directions by which
to make the selffreezing ice cream: Mix
your custard or ice cream compound in
advance. If it is a custard with eggs. and
must be cooked, prepare it the day before
1t is to be frozen. that it may be entirely
cold. Put thick layer of ice in the bottom
of the tub of your freezer and set this, with
the cream in 1t, on this bed of ice Pack ice
and salt around 1t. allowing about three
inches of Ice to one of salt, arranging them
in alternate layers until the cream can ia
covered. Lay thick piece of carpet over it
and leave it in the cellar or other cool place
for an hour and a half
At the end OF this time remove the cover
from the freezer. first wiping 1t off care
fully for some distance below the ton. that
no salt may get in when the can is opened.
The ice will have melted by now so that 1t
will be below the top of the freezer. With
a knife or wooden spatula or paddle
scrape the inner sides of the freezer. dis
lodging all the frozen particles which hava
adhered to the metal and beat the contents
of the freezer hard for at least five minutes
The liquid and the partially frozen portions
should all be mingled into a smooth pa ste
This beating is the essential feature In
making velvety. even cream If tits neg.
lected, you will have a product full os
needles and crystals of ice.
When the beating has been done thor
oughly replace the cover on the freezer.
pull the plug out of the hole in the lower
part of the key by which the water should
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Cleans Out Sinh Drain.

Here is a suggestion l am glad to send
in the hope 1t may be of service to some
one: When the kitchen sink gets stopped
up take off the strainer. attach short
length of garden hose to the cold water fau-
Get, tie strong cloth over the other end of
the hose, and put it as far down the drain as
possible; then turn on the water full force
1t may be necessary to do 1t several times
before the obstacle is removed.
IL. b NJ"
While I am always gratified to receive
household suggestions and to print them.
this especial one I must accompany by a
query. WHY'S the cloth tied on the end of
the length Of garden hose? 1 can see the
value Of attaching the hose to the water
faucet and flushing the water pipe after re-
moving the grating, but Of what value is
the cloth? I would be glad to have my
ignorance enlightened either by the writer
of this suggestion or by any other house
keeper Let me express my pleasure at the
kindly effort this correspondent Is making
to help Mrs l. L.
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have one specially wanted. so will send 1t.
also slumber drink and recipe for day.
- A RECIPE FOR A DAY.
80 A dash of water cold,
A little leaven of prayer.
A bit of morning gold
Dissolved in morning air.
Add TO the rule some merriment
And thought for kith and kin.
Then. as a prime ingredient
Plenty of work thrown In.
But spice it all with the essence of love
And little Whit of play;
Let wise old book and glance above
Complete the well made day
Slumber Drink.-Bol one heaping table
spoon of oatmeal five minutes. add one
half pint of sweet milk. butter size of wal
nut, nutmeg, salt and. sugar to taste. Let
come to boiling point. Drink just before
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Skeptical About Mother Love.

Il am writing to ask q question Of you
and some of the other Cornerites. Do you
believe all the talk you hear about mother
love is true? don't mean to say that
don't believe mothers love their children
devotedly, for think they do. and that es-
pecially when the children are small they
would sacrifice themselves to make the
youngsters comfortable. The number of
spoiled children you see who ride rough
shod over the convenience of every one
beginning with their parents. proves that
conclusivsly enough. But what hold IL
that the mother love Is seldom all wool and
a yard wide--in other words. 1t isn't con-
sistent. and 1t doesn't stand In some spots.
There's a song used to hear a good many
years ago called Rock Ne to Sleep and
there were two lines In 1t which claimed the
things don't believe. They went like
this:
+" No other worship abides and endures,
Faithful unseinsh and patient as yours
or something of the kind. Now, / have
known mothers who would snap back at
their half grown ami grown children. who
would nag and fret who were Jealous of
their friendships; who INDUCED In fits OF
temper and depression which made their
whole families wretched. and who could not
stand the least bit cf criticism on any fault
or the least suggestion that there was any
thing In them that needed Improvement.
/ have known those who would accept any
thing their children could do for them AZ a
matter Of course. who would make bond
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into them three cups of graduated sugar
and when these are blended pour upon them
four cups of milk which have been heated
to scalding In double boiler, return them
to the fire and cook until the custard is
smooth and thick. stirring constantly. TAKE
the custard from the fire, add to 1t two cups
of cream and three teaspoons of vanilla
and freeze.
You may vary this and make 1t richer, II
you wish, by increasing the number of eggs
or the quantity OF cream, or you may use
a little less cream and whip the whites
stiff. This increases the quantity and
makes the Ice cream lighter in texture. The
same end is attained by whipping the
cream. An excellent mixture is made with
only three eggs, the yolks cooked with the
sugar and milk and when these are cold the
stifflv frothed whites Of the eggs and the
whipped cream mixed with the custard.
This ia quite rich enough II fruit of any
sort Ia to be added to the cream This guam
tity will take quart of crushed berries or
peaches or other fruit.
II fruit is added 1t should not go In until
the cream is half frozen or 1t may freeze
into hard. icy pellets.
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Plain Vanilla Tdrietv.
Those who do not care for the custard
ice creams-which are sometimes known as
French, Neapolitan, or Delmonico ice
creams--may make the plain variety This
is usually called Philadelphia ice cream.
A simple vanilla cream of this variety is
prepared by putting two cups of cream
over the fire in a double boiler. with one
cup of sugar and cooking until the cream
ia sealdinR hot stirrinq constantly. When
this stage is reached the cream is removed
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Fruit Cakc and Fruit Pudding.

Il have never written to the Helping
Hand before, but thought would like to
send some recipes 1 have tried and found
to be good.
Fruit Cake.-Stir to cream two eggs
one cup sugar. and half cup of butter;
add one-half cup dark molasses and one
cup sweet milk and stir thoroughly. Mince
one package mincemeat with fork. Sft
together three cups of flour. two teaspoons
of baking powder, one teaspoon of salt, and
stir into the mixture until it is of the
proper consistency. Bake one hour. This
will make two cakes.
Fruit Pudding.-Break half package
of mincemeat into small pieces in one pint
Of water, cook for twenty minutes, then let
it cool Add two eggs beaten light, one
quarter cup of suet Il left the suet out of
mine and liked 1t as WELD. one cup of bread
crumbs Drowned in the oven and rolled,
half a teaspoon of baking powder, one tea.
spoon of vanilla or other extract and little
citron. Bake one hour or steam two and
a half hours. Steaming makes it lighter.
l would like the recipe for vinegar pie if
could get it. SV.G."
We are glad to welcome you into the
Helping Hand and you have certainly paid
your admission Zee Dy the recipes you SEND
| give with this a recipe for vinegar pie
which hope may be what you WISH If
not. let me know and we will try again.
Beat one egg light; add to it one cup of
sugar and one tablespoon Of flour, beating
hard. then put In one cup Of cold water. one
tablespoon of vinegar, and nutmeg to taste.
Bake In an open crust Another recipe
directs a cup OF water. a tablespoon Of but
ter, a tablespoon Of flour wet to paste
. with cold water, and two-thirds Of cup
Of sugar be put together in a saucepan
and stirred until melted. when cup of
vinegar is added and all stirred until thick.
The mixture is baked in an open crust
and when done covered with a meringue
made by whipping the white Of an egg
with two tablespoons Of sugar and this
lightly Drowned in the open. think my
self that the mixture would not thicken
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from, the fire and set aside TO cool. fla
vored with two full teaspoons Of vanilla,
two cups of uncooked cream put with the
cooked cream when this is cold. and fro-
zen, either by turning or by the self-freez-
ing method II the uncooked cream Is
whipped 1t goes further, and tho sunny
beaten whites of one or two eggs may also
be put with 1t. although then 1t ceases to De
the genuine Philadelphia ice cream VI
preferred. none of the cream need De
cooked; the sugar and navoring are strreo
into It and 1t is frozen, but this compound
Is generally considered less wholesome
than that In which part OF the cream 10
scalded
Chocolate ice cream of this order Is pre-
pared by putting four tablespoons OF
grated chocolate with the sugar and cream
and cooking together in double boiler.
Strain II, when cooked smooth. through
fine wire strainer, mix with the uncooked
cream, and freeze as before.
You may make a delicious fruit ice cream
by cooking together the two cups of cream
and the one cup OF sugar as directed. add
ing the two cups OF uncooked cream, and
when this is half frozen you may stir in
two cups of crushed fruit, which has stood
for half an hour with one cup of sugar
strewn over 1t. Peaches. berries. or pine
apple may all be used thus.
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Fruit ices Cheaper.
The heaviest quality of cream is not
needed for ice cream and IL 1t Is rich II may
be diluted with milk to the consistency OF
ordinary single cream. When cream is not
plentiful fruit ices may be maze
One of the best of these which nay serve
n. H.. ..1l Ixxxf1-
Ing together one cup of water and two cups
of sugar until it spins a thread from the
tip of fork dipped Into it. To this should
be put quart of chopped or crushed fruit
of any sort, either fresh or canned. al
though the fresh is better. and the unbeaten
whites of four eggs. This must be frozen
by turning. II it is to be frozen without
turning the whites of the eggs must be
beaten before they are added to the fruit
and strip.
This is a far cheaper dish than any vari-
ETY. OF ice cream. and is almost always we'll
liked.
Plain vanilla ice cream may be varied by
sauces. either made of the fresh fruit,
crushed and plentifully sweetened, or of
the canned fruit, To prepare the latter the
contents of the can are turned into bowl,
and II very firm a cup of the solid part
should be put through the chopper. 1t is
then set over the fire with two cups of
liquid from the can and one cup of sugar
and boiled to smooth thick strip. 1t "
used hot
A hot chocolate sauce is generally popu-
lar and is made by melting four squares of
the unsweetened chocolate, without water.
putting with it one cup of sugar and half
a cup of water. stirring over the fire until
dissolved and then boiling until little
dropped into iced water makes a soft ball
between the fingers 1t is turned into a
heated pitcher and served hot with tho
ice cream. either the vanilla or the un-
favored.
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Needs Hand Seeming Machine.

Do you think there Is any one in the
Corner who has a hand sewing machine to
give me? I am an invalid and have to stay
in bed nearly all the time. My children do
the homework. I have four, the eldest Is
a. My daughter, aged H. does the cooking;
1 also have daughter aged 10. 1 am sew
ing their dresses by hand, but 1t is so slow
My husband has made me window bed.
so that l am outside all the time and he
could fix something so that could run the
machine while In bed. / cannot even pay
the freight, so you see It would have to be
free gift. The doctor tells me can get
well. so I live in hope. My children are
splendid helpers and have the best hus-
band in the world, so l have much to he
thankful for. MRS. D. A. L.
A brave, CHEEKY letter from q woman who
has a hard life and is taking it in plucky
spirit / hope with all my heart that the
hand sewing machine may go to her and
may help her make the clothing for the chill
dren. who are such !" splendid helpers at
an age when most little ones would never
think of undertaking the work OF house.
l trust may have an early application from
some Cornerite who has just the hand sew
ing machine that Is needed
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4 Recipe for DAY.
A few weeks ago noticed request for
the poems of Eliza Cook I happened to
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adequately with so small an amount of flour
and 1 would counsel doubling the quantity.
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Irish and Scotch Songs.
I would like to know If eny of the Cor
nerites have some old Irish and Scotch
songs with or without music. My father
would like to have them and would gladly
pay postage on them MRS. b. IL
Are there not some such songs in the pos
session of our readers who would be glad
to pass them on?
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- = ITH the march of the heated term
M comes a craving for cold desserts.
Wv Fruit pies and buildings and
dumplings are good and on cool
days their appearance on the ia
BILE is hailed with enthusiasm, but when
the mercury runs up into the nineties and
apparently forgets the way down the pail
ate Graves frozen dainties. At such times
the housekeeper who owns freezer and
understands its management is kept busy.
If you have never had much practice in
making ice cream you may regard it as
good deal of an undertaking. Perhaps
you may consider 1t as expensive and may
urge that when you wish to eat ice cream
It is really less costly to buy it than to
make 1t.
You can get ice cream so reasonably
now" heard a woman urge only the other
lay when a member of her family be-
sought her to buy a freezer. When
you figure out the price of the freezer and
hat you have to pay for the ice and the
cream and the other things that are used
In ice cream, to say nothing of the time it
takes to make it, you will find you save
money by buying ice cream ready made"
l disagree with her in more ways than
one. l grant that If you only mean to make
Ice cream two or three times in the course
Of the season it is undoubtedly cheaper to
order it from a first class confectioner's
than to buy a freezer and make it at home
But If you mean to rejoice the palates of
your household by frozen dishes once or
twice week all summer; If you are will
Ing to learn the use of fruits, fresh and
canned. in ice creams and ices and =" fruit
surprises ~; If you will take the trouble
to study out a few of the devices by which
you can make acceptable ice creams which
are not rich or costly, 1t is not an extrava-
gance to buy a freezer
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your interests7 Do you care TO know about
politics. or travel. or history, or biography.
or current events, or literature. or art. or
music? Think up the subject you are most
DESTROYS to know about and ask for infor-
nation as to books on this. l am sure you
will receive details which will be OF great
assistance to you. More than this, l would
advise you to read the newspapers. Skip
the chronicles of crime and try to find out
something about the things worth while
that are going on. This 10 tremendously
interesting period Of the worlds history.
The Mexican situation. and politics. and
railroad investigations In this country, TO
say nothing of woman suffrage at home and
abroad. home rule In Ireland. and suffragist
outrages in England, the history Of the
state In which you live-you have your
work ahead of you to get In touch with all
these things and most absorbing work 1t
will be too. / wish you all sorts of good
luck with 1t, and I wish you would write
and tell US how 1t turns out. Would you
like to correspond with some other Corner
lite In the same line of self-improvement7
! hardly know what to say about taking up
music II you have never had any experience
with 1t. I am told that after one Is well
into the twenties the fingers stiffen SO that
II 10 hard TO acquire any instrumental facil-
ity after that age. What do our musical
readers say? But am sure that any one
who can write as good and clear letter as
yours has intelligence enough to put
through anything she undertakes In the
line of self -improvement
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escape and let this out, or tilt the key so
that the water can run off. Then pack the
can again with ice and salt and throw the
carpet or cloth over it once more Leave 1t
for four hours. looking once during this
time to see If the ice has melted so much
that the water must be drawn off and more
Ice and salt added AT the end of the time
lift out your freezer. wipe it off carefully
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SO as to free 1t from salt. wrap a clot
wrung out In hot water aboutit, take Off the
top, invert the freezer over plate. and the
frozen column of ice cream will slip out
If you have done your work properly, it
will be solid. smooth, delicious.
Be careful always to have the ice broken
into small pieces. The finer the ice. the
more rapid the freezing. and none of the
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slaves Of the older children to the babies,
till the poor little things--the older chill
dren-were like driven servants. Do you
think all these things sound like faithful.
unselfflsh, and patient love? Don't you
think we have put the theory of mother
love on a pedestal, made a fetch of it, and
that when you come down to 1t it's pretty
much like any other kind OF love. with both
bad and good qualities? l have known
children as devoted to parents and as SELL
sacrificing as any mother that ever lived;
l have known brothers who were angela
1.-THE other kind, tool and sisters TO match.
and husbands and wives as near perfection
as some others we're to the opposite.
Doesn't mother love belong In that Same
class? SKEPrIc."
II you had given me your address might
have felt inclined to write you q personal
letter. Az 1t is L can only obey your re-
quest and submit the query to the Corner
ties. Frankly. think 1 am one OF those
who put mother love on the pedestal Of
which you speak. You must recollect that
when the song writer speaks Of no other
worship abiding anu enduring like mother
love he compares 1t with the other loves
we see, and In spite of the force there un-
doubtedly Is In your remarks incline to
hold mother love Ia the high place 1t has
maintained for a good many ages. But l
would like to have tho matter discussed by
our readers from all points OF the Ques-
ton and to print their opinions here for
comparison. 1 hope there may be many
OF them.
Poor Boy Loses Bicycle.
About -FOUR weeks ago my eldest boy,
who IL 13 years old, had his new bicycle
stolen. He works as delivery boy and
needs a wheel for that purpose always. The
money with which he bought the wheel wAs
the savings OF the family. 1t u necessary
for the boy to help support the family. A.
there are In 1t smaller children than him.
self. l wonder IL there Is not some one who
has a wheel which is not needed any more.
l would be thankful for such help. krow
this is asking a lot. but don't see how We
can ever get another. MRS. b. w."
One Of the trag edies of the poori To work
and save and practice if-denial in order
to buy the wheel that was to help the uttle
lad support the smaller children than him.
self and then to have it stolen! l confess
cant think OF many worse things with the
exception of heart sorrow. and daresay
this comes about as near that a. anything
can. As the Cornerites know. have had
to draw the line as to asking for bicycles
Hardly Liall came to me that did not con
tain one or more requests for wheels until
after a while it seemed as II could give M
most Of the space reserved for the Helping
Hand to begging for bicycles. So was
obliged to announce that would give oar
readers rest from such appeals. and It y
only because this seems to me an excep-
tional case that l am for once departing
from my rule. I print the request In IT,
hope that some one may be found who n
willing and able to help him IN his strait
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DINNER.
Scotch broth.
Brunswick stew Of chicken.
Boiled large hominy.
Fruit surprise.
Coffee.
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FRIDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Berries.
Cereal. g.
Parsley omelet.
Coffee
LUNCHEON.
Cheese fondu.
Baked sweet potatoes.
Quick biscuit.
Marmalade.
Iced tea.
DINNER.
Onion soup.
Broiled hluehsh.
Dreamed potatoes.
String beans.
Chilled rice pudding.
Coffee.
r II
SATURDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Oranges.
Cereal.
Bacon.
Poached eggs.
Toast.
Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Creamed fish Oeftovsr).
Potato pun Qeftovey).
String bean salad Qeftovsr).
Gingerbread.
Iced tea.
DINNER.
Little neck clans on half shell.
Baked liver. lardsd.
Lima beans.
Dreamed potatoes.
Currant shortcaks.
Coffee.