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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-19

blueberries. and let the dish become ire cold before serving it with cream and sugar
 BAKED BERRY PUDDING.
 Beat separately the yolks and whites Of three eggs; put one cup of milk with the yolks, three tablespoons of melted butter. and cup and a half of four which has been sifted twice with heaping teaspoon of baking powder and half teaspoon of salt. Whip in last of all the whites. beaten stiff and turn the batter into a well greased pudding dish. Have ready "a quart of berries-raspberries. blueber- ries, huckleberries. or blaekberries-with which have been mixed four tablespoons of sugar, and stir these lightly into .he batter, not mixing this up from the bot tom but leaving the berries near the sur face, just covering them lightly with a little of the batter. Cover the pudding, bake half an hour in a moderate oven. uncover. and cook for ten minutes more. Serve in the dish in which it was baked with good hard sauce.
 PEACH BATTER PUDDING.
 Peel but do not stone twelve fine ripe peaches and put them closely together in a large buttered pudding dish. Sprinkle them thickly with sugar and pour over them a batter made by beating four eggs light, pouring on them four cups of milk, adding one tablespoon of melted butter, a saltspoon of salt. and three scant cups of flour with which have been sifted tw!cs two teaspoons of baking powder. Bake in a steady oven and eat as soon as done with a good hard sauce.
 PEACH DUMPLINGS.
 Chop a tablespoon of butter and one of lard into quart of flour with which have been sifted twice two teaspoons of baking powder and half a teaspoon of salt. Moisten with two cups of milk, or enough to make dough as soft aa can be han dled Roll out into sheet about quar- ter of an inch thick and cut into pieces five inches square. Lay a firm. ripe peach peeled but not stoned. in the mid de of each square of dough, fold the ccr- ners together, and pinch them so that they will stay in place. Lay the dump lings in greased baking pan, the joined edges downward. and bake for half an hour. Serve hot with hard sauce. App'o dumplings may be made in the same way.
 
 boiled instead of baked, tying each one up in cloth, allowing room to swell, and boiling for an hour.
 BERRY SHORTCAKE.
 Chop two tablespoons of shortening Into four cups of flour sifted with two tea- spoons of baking powder and half a ted : spoon of salt; make to dough with two cups of milk and one egg beaten light and mixed with the milk. Roll into sheet half an inch thick spread half of this on the bottom of a baking pan, and strew with quart of berries of any sort; sprin- kle with half cup of granulated sugar, lay the remainder of the dough over tha berries, and bake in steady oyen Split while hot and eat with butter and sugar This is also good made with peaches ar with apples.
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cold; two good sized onions, four hard boiled eggs, and head of lettuce. These are cut up together and the dressing put over them. You can also use peeled and chopped apples with this. if you like them. Four of these will be about enough.
 MRS. c. S. F." The salad ought to be good. although it is rather heavy. but don't believe the apples would make an especially pleasing addition to the potatoes. The corre- spondent herself does not seem particu- larly enthusiastic about them What do you other housekeepers think of 1t?
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 Will Supply Magazines.
 will be glad to supply occasional magazines to some one who would care for them. How much more good the Cor ner does by it's exchange of kind deeds than could be gained merely by printing recipesl E. & w" Your kind offer of magazines will un- doubtedly be promptly accepted. Let me thank you for the gifts you have sent to other Cornerites in need. I agree with
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please? I would very much like your Judgment and that of the mothers of other young people. MOTHER
 I agree with you fully in your judgment that young girls should not be permitted to range the streets in the evenings. no matter if the town be small or large. 1t sickens me to see the crowds of boys and girls who congregate in the drug stores or confectioners' at the soda fountains. wasting their money and time and i'm
 pairing their health and their manners, if not their morals I wonder what the mothers of such children are about. For such boys and girls are little more than children, and they prove it by their con duct They ought not to be given their liberty while they are still too young to understand how to make wise use of it. The mistakes they make now have in them the possibility of errors which will darken their entire lives and they should be guarded against future shame and suffering which are no less real because the poor children fail to appreciate the dangers which encompass them. would
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~ UMMER is preeminently the time
 for fruit desserts, not only because
 fruit is then most plentiful and 0 cheapest. hut also because ripe
 fruit in season is wholesome to the majority of stomaehs. Nature is wise teacher and she instructs us to eat the foods with which she provides us so far aS we can when they are at their best.
 More than this it is only ordinary com mon sense to eat such articles then more frequently than we do other items that we can have all the year round. No mat ter what the calendar tellsyus. we can get dried fruits and the like. just as we can make hot buildings and pies, either in December or July. But we cannot get the fresh berries or larger fruits in win ter and it is the part of wisdom to reserve these delicacies for the period when most ripe native fruits are no longer with us.
 The housekeeper who adjures hot and heavy desserts during torrid weathee need have no fear of lack of variety. Fresh fruit may occasionally pail, if she gives it to her family steadily. but she can secure sufficient variety to insure the bill of fare against the accusation Of sameness if she will study the combna- tons in which she can offer fruits of dif- ferent kinds. She need not rely upon the cold desserts alone. Once in while a good berry or peach pie or pudding will make pleasant change. Nevertheless the simpler sweets, such as fruit trifles custards jellies. whips. and the like, will be more wholesome and as popular as the more substantial compounds.
 Fruit ice creams and ices are always popular, and directions for these have re- gently been provided. Some simpler des- serts are nearly as tempting and the housekeeper who tries some of the reel pes suggested below will doubtless evolve new and pleasing combinations of her own:
 RASPBERRY FLOATING ISLAND.
 Make a custard by heating quart Of milk In a double boiler. stirring into it the yollSs of five eggs beaten with cup of sugar, and cook until the custard thickens enough to mask the back of spoon: take from the fire and set aside until cold. Whip the whites of the five eggs stiff with three tablespoons of pow dered sugar and into this meringue beat tho juice from pint of raspberries which have been crushed, sprinlkled with heap ing tablespoon of granulated sugar, and left in this for half an hour. Press out the juice. Turn the chilled custard Into a glass dish, heap the meringue on top just before the dish is to be served, and have it cold.
 RASPBERRY TRIFLE.
 Make a custard according to the above recipe. f1avoring to taste with vanilla or lemon, after it Is cold. Lay sliced sponge cake in the bottom of a glass dish, pour the custard upon 1t, and heap raspberries upon this. sprinlSling them with powdered sugar. On top of these put half pint of cream, whipped stiff, but unsweetened
 RASPBERRY FOAM.
 Sprinkle a tablespoon of sugar over pint of red raspberries and leave them in
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lemon. and set fruit and tapioca aside to cool Serve with cream, either plain or whipped.
 PEACH TRIPLE. I.
 Put one cup of sugar and one cup Of water together over the fire, heat to boil ing, and cook for five minutes after this; add to it one quart of peeled and cut up peaches and stew gently until tender; take from the fire and set aside to cool When almost cold press the mixture through colander. Dip slices of stale sponge cake in sherry and lay them in ;s glass dish, spread the stewed peach upon 1t, and cover thickly with unsweetened whipped cream. Serve all ice cold
 PEACH TRIPLE. II.
 Cut up enough peeled peaches to make a full pint put them over the fire with tablespoon of sugar and stew until soft. Soak tablespoon of gelatin in one cup of cold water for an hour, stir this into the scalding peaches until the gelatin is dissolved. Take it from the fire and set in a cool place; when it is cold and just beginning to stiffen a little stir lightly into 1t two cups Of whipped cream. Put into a mold wet with cold water and set on the ice for two hours turn out on a flat dish.
 BLUEBERRY FLUMMERY
 Soak cup of pearl tapioea for four or five hours in two cups of cold water, put it over the fire i'll a double boiler with two cups of boiling water added to the soaked tapioca, and cook until clear. Stir in half a cup of granulated sugar and set aside until nearly cold, add quart ot
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WRITE to ask If any of the Co., ee nerites would mind giving their
 experience and average expenses
 in attending a worlds fair?
 1 have been saving for over a year to attend the one at San Francisco. wish to go by boat and remain in the city ten days. taking in the fair for about six days and spending the remainder of the time resting. going on car rides and boat rides to the suburban towns. A friend may go with me. in which case We would share expenses. which we wish kept as low as possible.
 MRS. M. D. J." l print this in the hope that it may meet the eyes of some one of recent and posi- tive experience. A near friend who was at the worlds fair in Chicago proffers little counsel born of her own stay there. She says that the cost of aecommoda- tions near the fair grounds is usually high and that it pays better to get rooms far ther off and make business of doing the fair, going early in the morning and spending the day on the grounds. There are always good resting places provided. The problem of food is best met by carry
 
 prices charged at restaurants and other eating places, but because these are gem orally much crowded at the time when most persons are hungry, and the time wasted in waiting amounts to a serious drain when one's hours at the fair are limited. It is easier to put up a small and compact parcel of lunch before start ing in the morning, after eating a sub stantial breakfast, and to do as much eightseeing as possible early in the day, while still fresh and unwearied and be- fore the afternoon rush begins On my own account let me offer the practical advice to dress yourself comfortably, with easy shoes and clothing you are not afraid of injuring by hard wear. Make out your plans beforehand of the things you wish to see and the places you desire to visit, that you may waste no time in deciding after you get there, and arrange your itinerary So that you may go to the places which are near together at one time instead of running from one object to the other, accomplishing little and fatiguing yourself needlessly. Resign yourself to the probability that yeu will have to give up a good deal and deter mine just what you must see ant what you will be willing to lose. As have said. there will doubtless be answers to Your appeal from those whose experience pas been more recent and wider than mine. and I shall look especially for a concrete statement of necessary expenses from some one who knows the subject thor oughly and can supply the practical in- formation in detail which you need.
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 Carying Money When Traveling.
 ''I am planning to go abroad soon Will you tell me the best way to carr. my money? Do I have to get a letter<o credit? l shall not have much to taA zith me when I start. but more will b cent to me from time to tiplSnn How is tn
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Roams Streets After Dark.

Do you think it is right for girl of 10 to be allowed to trail about the streets until Q o'clock at night? To be sure. we live in little town, not in a big city, but there are temptations here. too My daughter has taken to running about in the evenings, spending her time and money at the soda fountains with other girls and with boys of the same age or older. It is a new departure for her. for until now she has always been like a little girl and has come home before dark. But now she tells me that all the other girls are allowed their liberty. that there is no harm in having Q little fun and that she can't see why she should be obliged to keN different hours from all her friends. To it seems rather shocking for this kind freedom to be allowed either girls
 or boss of this age, but l am told am
 old fashioned and behind the times. What is your opinion of the condition? Am really back number. or should girls Of oyar l4 re kept at home in the evenings sndAnot pTmitted to go and come as they
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Wants a Mandolin.

am lover of music but have none of my own as I have never had money enough to buy an instrument of my own. l see that friend who signs herself Mrs. 0. H. has mandolin to give away. If she has not sent it to some one else ! would like very much to have it. In return I would send her many recipes if she would write to me. B. R.
 Unfortunately the mandolin to which you refer has been given away but print your letter in the hope that sone other Cornerite may have discarded mandolin she would like to bestow in exchange for the recipes offered
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Her Gifts Appreciated.

Her C1ts Appreciated.
 ''I received a card several weeks ago from Mrs. I. l.. and she was glad to get the magazines. l saw in the Corner the letters you printed from two people who wanted her address and failed to send their own with their requests. am like you and wish to ask why they did not put in their own names and addresses so you could give them the directions they wish. I may be able to send her some more magazines later. F. M."
 Thank you for the other helps you have sent to the needy ones, as well as to Mrs. I. L. You are right in appreciating the difficulty made for the department by those correspondents who fail to send their own addresses when seeking to be put in touch with others. Thoughtfui- ness in this would save disappointment and inconvenience to all concerned.
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 Inpalid for Sepen Years.
 Can you get some one to donate an invalid chair? I want one for a small woman. and would like one with the rubber tired wheels. The woman for whom I wish the chair has been a martyr to physical suffering for seven years. She cannot walk and can sit up only part of the time. A chair would be a great rest and comfort to her in the hot weather. She is one of the most patient and lovable creatures that ever lived-a mother who has reared her children in most perfect way, invalid though she is. Her husband Is one of the best of men, but has been at so yuIch exnense with the many opera- tions his wife has undergone that know he could not afford the purchase of a chair for her. I am writing this appeal without the knowledge of either of the pair, in the hope that some of your read- CTS who may have lost dear one and still has ethe chair used by the invalid may be pleased to bestow it upon the suf- ferer of whom write. I cannot think of a better use to which the chair could be put. MRS. J. L."
 Although am going counter to my rule in asking SO soon again for a wheeled chair, feel am breaking the custom in good cause. l recollect very well an incident of which told you not long ago of a man whose father had for several years depended upon the use of a wheeled chair and how. after the fathers death. the son devoted this chair to the use of the afflicted The chair was lent to those who needed It for as long time as it was required in memory of the dear one whom 1t had helped while he lived. trust there may be some one else who will give ol lend . chair to this brave little woman and give her the chance to get away from hes 2 mattress grave. as the poet Heint
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like to know how other mothers feel on the matter. This is not the first letter have had on the subject. One mother wrote to me that she positively could not restrain her daughter from wandering about the streets in the evening and asked me how to control her. I could only tell her that the obedience that was flouted should have been taught in early child hood, but that she must exert genuine authority to keep her girl at home if other means failed. What do you other mothers of daughters think on this ques- ton? Write to me freely and fully and let me use your opinions to aid other parents.
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MARION HARLAND'S HELPING HAND.

termed his couch of suffering. into the fresh air and the breath of Gods out doors I shall be happy to put any one wishing to help in this good cause in touch with the writer of the above letter. . l: !:
 Asfs Hid for Needy Clergyman.
 2 have been much interested In the offer of barrel of articles to minister made in your Corner while ago and would like to suggest a minister. J. J. T.. who breaches gratuitously. He is very poor, as are his parishioners Some of them live six and eight in one room and have no nourishment much of the time except black coffee and bread made Of flour and water. I will gladly pay freight charges for sending the same.
 A. P" I regret that the barrel referred to has already been devoted to other uses, but print this letter in. the hope that there may be some friend inclined to make thank offering for gospel privileges and home comforts by giving some of the su~- plus from their own plenty to aid those composing the parish of J. J. T. In that case I will be happy to supply his ad- dress.
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 Could Use Small Scraps.
 s' If any one would send me scraps or embroidery. lace, scanning, or novelty braids, in lengths of two inches or over, also scraps of nice white goods or linen lawn, I would greatly appreciate 1t. am fifteen miles from market and in deli- cate health. I am handy and original with my needle and can make beautiful designs of pieces that others would throw away. so don't think any piece too small to send. l have two little girls for whose dresses l can make yokes of the pieces. combined with hand work, and help to pass the lonely hot days from now until September, when I hope my health will be better l would like to suggest to those who have fine light wooien goo9-a faces. or felt hats they wish to dry clean to try magnesia, which can be bought for cleaning purposes, instead of chalk, meal. or starch. like magnesia much better. MRS. D. D. b.
 Thank you for the suggestion. Will not many of our Cornerites send the scraps of which this correspondent can make such charming and unusual serv- ice?
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best way to carry the cash I must ac- tually have on hand? I am a thorough greenhorn, having never before left my native land KATE L.'
 Unless you have sum of money ex- ceeding $500 l believe it is difficult to get a letter of credit In the old days that was the only way travellers thought of taking foreign money, but the habit of using travellers checks is growing in pop ularity with every year. The express companies issue them: so do private banking concerns. The cheeks are issued in sums of varying amounts, both small and large. One great advantage they possess over letter of credit is that they can be cashed almost anywhere and will be accepted in payment in lieu Of cash at hotels and shops, whereas you must go to bank to draw money on your letter of credit and if you happen to run out of cash on Sunday or on a legal holiday you are put to great inconvenience un- less you have the travellers checks. There is slight commission charged on them by the firms which issue them, but there is also something of this kind to pay on letters of credit. Cash pockets Of
 
 money. One of the best of these is a stout pocket attached to a belt worn about the waist. The pocket buttons shut and has two or three compartments. An other money bag may be worn about the neck and is usually of wash material with an inside pocket of chamois skin. Both of these have their uses and 1t is well to be provided with one of each kind and divide the supply of money. If you have the travellers checks you will not need. to carry large amount of ready cash awith you, since you can replenish your supply of this almost anywhere. hope your trip may be a great success. Make little study of the coinage of the different countries in advance, that you may not be wholly at the mercy of strangers.
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cool place for an hour Soak table, spoon of gelatin for half an hour in enough cold water to cover it, mix into 1t three tablespoons of sugar. and set in an outer vessel of boiling water until the gelatin dissolves and blends with the sugar. While this is heating press the raspberries and extract all the juice from them, add this to the melted gelatin and sugar strain. and put aside until it Is cool and begins to form, when half pint of whipped cream may be beaten into 1t Serve cold.
 RASPBERRY FLOAT.
 Cover a quart of red raspberries with half a cup of granulated sugar. let it stand half an hour mash the berries and strain off the juice. With this mix pint of heavy cream and put 1t into glass dish on the lee. Beat the whites of four eggs stiff with four large tablespoons of powdered sugar. whip the mashed berry pulp into this, and heap upon the top of the cream and fruit juice in the dish.
 PEACH SPONGE.
 Peel, stone, and cut up enough ripe peaches to make three pints of the fruit, strew half a cup of sugar over 1t, and leave 1t in a cool place for an hour. Put one cup of sugar and half a cup of water together over the fire and boil for twenty minutes; soak a heapihg tablespoon of gelatin in half cup of cold water for twenty minutes. Press the peaches and sugar in a vegetable press. Stir the gelatin into the boiling sirup and take from the fire; add the fruit juice and str until the gelatin Is dissolved and all are
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Salad and Dressing.
 z send with this a salad which I can recommend as fine. The dressing for 1t Is made by putting together three eggs, half teaspoon of salt, dash of red pepper, butter the size of walnut, half teaspoon of mustard, and one cup of vinegar; cook until thick. The salad con- sists of five large potatoes boiled and
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BLuEBERRY FLUMMERY

you that we do great deal of good in this department but you must not forget that many of our readers are much helped by recipes which have been proved good by other housekeepers. The frequent re- quests that come for directions of this kind prove the fact clearly.
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FAMILY MEALS FOR A WEEK.

DINNER. Scotch broth. Stewed chicken. Rice croquettes Ileftoverl. Succotash. Berry shortcake.
 Coffee. FRIDAY. BREAKFAST. Oranges.
 Cereal. Clam fritters.
 Rolls.
 Coffee. LUNCHEON. Tomato omelet. Baked potatoes. Whole wheat biscuit, stswed apples.
 Cake.
 Tea.
 DINNER Brown potato soup. Baked halibut. String beans. Creamed potatoes. Charlotte russe.
 Coffee.
 * <. SATURDAY. BREAKFAST.
 Melons. Cereal. Minced chickens [leftoverl. Toast.
 Coffee,
 LUNCHEON. Dreamed fish in nappies. String bean salad [leftoverl. Scalloped potatoes [leftoverl. Berries. Tea.
 DINNER. Corn soup. Broiled hamburg steak. Young carrots. saute. Boiled large hominy. Berry cream pAas
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Carrying Money When 7raveling.
 '' l am planning to go abroad soon Will you tell me the best way to carry my money? Do I have to get a letteftof credit? l shall not have much to taAe zith me when start, but more will bA sent to me from time to tip,S How is the