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VOL. IX.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, JULY 29, 189S.
NO. 45.
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V
Y
THE PERSIMMONS.
Oh,a little persimmon grew high on a tree
On a tree on a tall, tall tree!
And a little boy said: "It is growing (or me.
But I haven't a pole that oan reach it," said
' . he
- The persimmon that grew on the tree.
Oh, a little persimmon grew high on a tree
On a tree on a tall, tall tree!
And another boy said: 'fit is right overhead,
And when I grow big I can reach it," he
said
The persimmon that grew on the tree.
And while they were talking another boy
came
To the tree-to the tall, tall tree,
. And he jerked his short jacket and climbed
to the top,
While they shouted below: "He will drop!
He will drop! .
' He was fond of persimmons; he collared the
i- orop
Of persimmons that grew on the tree!
iercy Footers
A rug pathway meaudered from the
kitchen door to the parlor door, with
ramifications on either side to chairs
and sofa and table. Square rags and
round rugs and oblong, octagonal, oval
rugs filled up all the chinks. There
was scarcely a square inch of the car
pet visible anywhere.
The two or three ambrotypes and
steel engravings in solemn black wal
nut frames were befogged behind veils
of mosquito-netting. The comfortable-looking
lounge was draped in
crisp, clean newspapers to protect the
new covering underneath. The face
of the clock on the mantel looked out
coyly through its veil of netting.
It was dim and cool in the big, clean
pom and empty. They sat in the
cchen or, on especially hot evenings,
out on the porch. There was so much
danger of flies in the sitting-room, and
dust and sun-fading and all sorts of
dreadful things, especially in dog
days. - It was dog-days now.
Mercy Foote was upstairs in the
unfinished chamber, "resting;" but it
was so hot and so close that even to
rest was hard work. She never
dreamed of going into one of the spot
less, speckless chambers and "muss
ing up" one of the white, plump beds,
Mercy Foote was a very neat woman
some of the neighbors openly called
her "p'ison neat."
About midway of the afternoon
Nathan Foote came up through the
orchard from the hay-field. He walked
very slowley, as if it hurt him. Every
; minute or, two he mopped his bald,
shiny head with his handkerchief and
drew long, tierd breaths. Nathan was
almost an old man a good deal older
than Mercy..
He had been working hard ,all day,
and every individual old muscle felt
strained and sore; and how his back
ached! It was a rather long way, too,
. up to the house.
Mercy put her lips to the window
screen and called sharply to him when
he came into sight round ' the corn
house. "Nathan, go in through the stable,"
she called, "and mind you slide the
door to real quick behind you! I've
been out there fly-powdering. I don't
want to have flies following you in.
Shut it the instant!"
"Yes, Mercy," Nathan said, wearily,
It looked like a long, circuitous route
into the house, and he was very tired.
He slid into a narrow crevice in the
door, rubbing his aching
against the edges. Then he
him self and slid back the
bones
braced
heavy
door.
In the sudden transition from the
hot glare outside to the dusky interior
he felt dizzy and blinded, and had to
sit down on a wagon-thill a minute.
Then he shuffled up the steep stairs
and through the "shop" and wood
house to the kitchen, opening and
shutting all the doors with conscien
tious despatch. Mercy's voice drifted
lown to him, muffled but incisive.
."Don't wash in the best wash-dish,
jSTilhan. I've got it all scoured up.
Vol get the old one over the tubs in
the wood-house, and mind you empty
the water out in the asparagus bed. I
don't like to have the sink all wetr
up." . '
"Yes, Mercy"
. He got the old basin and filled it
and set it on a chair with the soft-soap
crock. Some of the drops splashed to
the shining floor, and stooping with
evident pain, he wiped them up care
fully. '
"I declare, ".he murmured, "I don't
know as I. was ever more beat out
than I am this afternoon! I don't
know as I was ever! I guess I've got
to lie dowu a spAll." .
"Nathan!" ' ,
ty ...tTrprcy "
s thirsty, you'd better
ut of the well; the
Wean. I gave it
v e last thing."
- f water out
7 v emptied
"made
toil-
Reconstrnction.
"Did you rub 'em on the porch
mat?"
"Yea. I don't know as I. did all the
times. I did once."
A groan, muffled but clearly audible,
descended to Nathan.
"I can't help it!" he muttered.
guess I'll go he down on the sitting-
room sofa a minute. I II have to;
can't stand up."
. He took off his boots and paddled
softly along the rug' pathway. It was
so dim in there that not till he got
close to the lounge did he notice the
newspapers covering it. He lifted one
of them off with a little determined
twitch of his lips, but replaced it
hastily, and padded softly back to the
kitchen. He went to the door.
"Mercy," he called up, "where's
the last paper?
where."
I don't see it any-
'Goodness,
Nathan Foote, shut
that door! You'll let in a mess , of
flies!"
"Wher's the last paper, Mercy?"
Nathan's diminished voice rose, patient
and tired, to Mercy's ears through the
closed door. ' -
"It's all piled up nice, Nathan. You
don't want it now.. You take the
almanac over the kitchen table and
read the jokes!" she called back. He
got the almanac and put on his boots,
Then he dragged them wearily, step
by step, out to the stable. His griz
zled, seamy face was drawn with ex
hauston and pain.
Mercy Foote came down-stairs at
precisely five o'clock to get supper.
Just as she stepped over the kitchen
threshold the last stroke of the clock
was clanging. That was her rule.
Mercy was as methodical as she was
neat. '
"Goodness," she exclaimed, "there's
a fly! there's two flies!" She caught
up one of the deftly folded news
papers that she kept hidden in handy
nooks and proceeded to wage war.
"Nathan's so careless!" she fretted.
"But I didn't think they'd find their
way clear in from the stable!"
She peered into .the sitting-room,
and noticed that one of the papers on
the lounge was awry. "Nathan's
been in there yes, there's a wisp of
hay on the speckled rug! Now I
s'pose, I've got to go to sweeping!"
It was quarter of six before supper
was ready on the kitchen table. Mercy
had arranged the dishes precisely, but
there seemed very few of them. "It's
too hot to light the fire, and 'twould
muss up dreadfully the shavings and
all. We'll have just a cold lunch.
Nathan oughtn't to eat hearty victuals
after haying and getting all heated
up.
"Nathan! Nathan!" she called from
the porch door, which she warily
opened only a crack. He was not out
there. She could not find him any
where. .
She went all over the house, and
peered from all the tightly screened
windows. She put on her sunbonnet
aud blew the dinner-horn. She always
put on her sunbonnet when she blew
the horn, nobody knew why. Mercy
didn't know herself.
There was a little circular hole in
the upper part of the kitchen door,
protected by a swinging disk of wood.
It was to blow the dinner-horn
through. Nathan made it for her so
that she need not open the door aud
run the risk of the .entrance of flies.
She slid away , the wooden cover and
quickly inserted the end of the horn
into the hole, and blew long, resonant
blasts. They echoed back to her
lonesomely.
The clock struck six seven. Still
Nathan did not come. Mercy went
out to the hay-field and all over the
little farm. Her heart grew heavy
with new, unacknowledged dread.
Where was Nathan.
"I'm beginning to get scared, "poor
Mercy confessed to herself. Why was
it that she kept remembering the
sharp words she had said to Nathan?
Why did she remember how old and
tired out he had looked at dinner.
Why, when she went into the dreary
little porch-room, should the wooden
chairs stiff and uncomfortable, remind
her so insistently of their sitting out
there together she and Nathan to
save "mussing" the sitting-room? She
could see just bow uneasily Nathan
sat on the edge of his chair, without
any resting place for his shirt-sleeved
old arms Goodness where was
Nathan?
Terrible things she had read of
and heard of kept recurring
to her mind with dark insin
uation. Could it ' be possible that
weary old men with fussy, scolding
wives ever ever Oh no! But where
could Nathan be? Eight o'clock one,
two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight
slow, solemn, significant clangs!
Mercy went out into the wood-shed
into the stable anywhere, away from
the sound of the clock's voice that
scolded her incessantly.
The hungry old horse in his stall
was whinnying and pawing for his
supper. Mercy stroked his nose.
"I'll go get you some hay, poney,"
she said. She went upstairs to throw ,
it down to him, and there was Nathan,
asleep in the hay! He lay in the pro
found, relaxed slumber of utter weari
ness. The yellow almauac had fallen
roui his fingers and lay beside him.
"he knew he was tired, and not very
'1. He had been driven to take his
in the barn!
M-ey tiptoed back into the house, ,
ff!
n a j , auu luigcbuug l i oiiu l iud kiwi o.
She built a fire and filled the tea
kettle and made many trips to the
pantry, coming back with sundry
dishes that Nathan liked, and crowd
ing the table with them. She took a
lighted lamp into the sitting-room and
set it on the table. With a vigorous
sweep of the arm she bundled together
the newspapers on the lounge, and
carried them out.
"There," she said, "now I'll fetch
a pillow and put a paper handy."
A few minutes later she stood in
the porch door and blew long, steady,
penetrating calls on the horn. Nathan
heard them and came in, looking
guilty.
"I guess I went to sleep, Mercy,"
he said. "I must have! I was all
beat out when I came in."
They sat down together to the
savory little supper. The pungent,
pleasant odor of steaming tea filled
the room. Nathan ate with the hearty
relish of a well-rested man, and Mercy
watched him with delight
Suddenly Nathan suspended his
knife and fork and looked across at
Mercy, troubled.
"If there ain't two pesky flies!" he
said, ruefully.
Mercy's eyes were glued with
dogged heroism to her plate.
"Where?" she said, cheerfully. "I
don't see 'em Nathan." Youth's Com
panion. THE ATMOSPHERE OF LONDON.
It Contains More Things Than Any Other
City Dust Enough for Food.
Only by degrees are the marvelous
qualities of our. London atmosphere
becoming known. No city in the
world can boast such a peculiar aerial
composition as that which the inhabi
tants of the metropolis have served to
them daily and nightly, without money
and without price for neither the
government, county council nor ves
tries have yet attempted to tax the
highly nutritive air which we breathe.
Most people think that our atmos
phere consists of practically nothing.
Quite a mistake. It is both meat aud
drink. A paper contributed to the
"Transactions" of the British Insti
tute of Preventive Medicine states
that even in a suburb the dust parti
cles number 20,000 per cubic centime
ter in the open air, and 44,000 in a
quiet room; while in the city O for
tunatos nimium ! the totals per cubic
centimeter were 500,000 when taken
from a roof, 300,000 in a court, and
about 400,000 in a room. In other
words, the air of the square mile is
900 per cent, thicker than in the
suburbs, which is in accord with the
general experience that fogs are both
more dense and more frequent over
the centre than in the outskirts. But
what is especially interesting is to
learn that although dust is the great
carrier of micro-organisms, there
is only one of these articles per 38,
000,000 atoms of dust. Thus it is
calculated a man could live iu the
metropolis for several years and only
absorb 25,000,000 microbes into his
system from the air, or about the
same number as he drinks in half a
pint of unboiled milk. Qf course,
there are other serious objections to
dust; but it is something to know
that there is only one microbe to
many millions of motes. London Tel
egraph. Pedeslrian Feats.
It is true that the Greek soldier, wh(
ran all the way irom Marathon to
Athens to bear the news of victory
and dropped dead when he had deliv
ered the message, had covered oulv
twentv-six miles, yet he mav have
been worn with fighting when he
started".
On the other hand, Deerfoot, the
Indian runner of the Cattaraugus res
ervation, who once held the record in
England and America, ran twelve
miles in fifty-six minutes in London in
1861, and extraordinary stories of his
long-distanca running are told. Cap
tain Barclay of England walked o
thousand miles in a thousand hours,
and W. S. George, the world's great
est amateur distance runner, followed
the hounds on foot. Henry Schmel,
in Jims. ih;j4. waiKea irom norms'
field, 111., to Chicago, 188 miles, in !
sixty-nine hours and fifty minutes. In
1892 Schueideit, an Austrian printer,
finding himself in Calcutta withoui
means, walked all the way home from
his native towu, Batheuow, traveling
on foot for two years across India,
Afghanistan, Persia, Turkev, southern
Russia, Bulgaria, Roumania and Hun
gary, and thence into Austria.
But these insiauces, which mtghl
be multiplied, are for the most par
feats accomplished under special con
ditions or stress of circumstances oi
by picked men. In Apache land everj
Indian is a runner, asking no odd3 o
earth or weather, and whether it be
the peaceful Pueblo, trudging to hii
irrigated lands, forty miles and back
or tne venoiaous L-nirscanua, tarne(
io do serviee'Jor Uncle Sam, the Mai
on Horseback may well regard Inn
with amazepfnt. Lippincott's Maga
zme.
tinlv Impossible.
AIvs H
'e is a novel I found ou:
maid rea
nr about a lord wh
jri" " i tt ..: i: ... l
gin. now mucinous
f. As if any one dh
shop girl's salary ii
';-nt; Enquirer.
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RAMS IN NAVAL BATTLE.
MOST FEARFUL WEAPON IN
GRASP OF A SEA POWER.
THE
The Katahdin Is Expected to Demon
strata Terrible Effectiveness When the
Opportunity Comes Administering the
Conp de Grace to an Enemy's Fleet.
The fight in Manila bay gave no op
portunity forfuse of the ram. but the
nen who built the Eatahdin and those
fvho advocated her . building; are not
liscouraged. They hold now, as then,
;hat she is the most fearful and cer
lain weapon ever placed within the
jrasp of a sea power, and they expect
aer to demonstrate it when occasion
irises. The Eatahdin, it may be ex
plained, is a ram pure and simple.
Her enormous beak of steel is capa
ble of crushing its way through armor
shicker than any hull would float, and
he depends upon it entirely for her
jffensiveness. She is, of course, pro
jected by plating, but she is not heavily
gunned. Any buoyant thing struck
by her while her thousands of tons are
ripping through the water at a speed
of more than twenty miles an hour
tvill go to the bottom. That much
leems to be fairly a certainty.
Captain Mahan calculates that in
Dpen sea fleet action action between
Beets of approximate strength and
numbers one-half of the defeated
fleet will be sunk and one-half cap
tured. Of those sunk he credits two
thirds to the ram, one-sixth to the
gun and one-sixth to the torpedo.
This calculation shows the importance
ittached to the ram by naval experts.
Of the one-half of vessels to be cap
tured the ram is credited with a third.
The value of the ram exceeds that of
ill the vessels' guns at the opening of
the duel in the single combat which
is expected to form so large a part of
the naval combats of the future. Later
in the action the ram becomes of less
importance, and the guns are relied
apon to achieve victory. It is thought
to be certain that as the world grows
alder and battleships more frequent
fleet actions will decrease in number
and single combats and "two to ones"
become more common. The ram is
designed specially for use in affairs of
this kind. It will not be used, how
ever, as was the original intention, to
administer the coup de grace. Its
blow will be delivered, if possible, at
the beginning of the engagement. It
will open the fight and not close it.
The rule in modern sea v fighting is to
sink or destroy the adversary. Cap
ture is a secondary consideration and
does not enter into the preliminary in
tention. ' The force of the ram varies directly
as the weight of the ship and the
square of the velocity. High speed
is, of course, an essential. Into ram
ming vessels are placed the most
powerful engines, and to them are at
tached the best models of propellers.
The ram itself is made as sharp as is
possible consistent with massiveness
and crushing strength. There is no
ram now afloat incompetent under fair
i conditions to tear a hole below the
j water line of the strongest battleship.
I Iu the shape of the vessel everything
j is sacrificed to strength, speed, and,
above all, handiness. To be able to
get quicKiy unaer weign, to attain a
j high rate of progress in a limited dis
tance and to turn quickly in response
to the helm are absolute necessities.
It is believed that the Eatahdin meets
these requirements more fully than
(a,ny boat owned by foreigners.
It is evident that the success of the
ram in its duels will depend almost
wholly upon the captain. It is not a
question of markmanship or bravery,
or even of high discipline. It is a
question of coolness, steadiness, good
judgment and skill in maneuvering.
That vessel which strikes the broad
aide of the other vessel head on, or
area partly so, is the vessel which
wins. The ram may be likened to a
foil in the hand of its commauder.and
he must know how to use the weapon
which his countrymen have giveu him.
He must know his ship. He must
know what she will do at various
apeads and with different helm angles
what she will do while backing with
headway on and while going auead
with engines reversed. He must
know her turning area to a foot and
the exact force of her striking capac
ity with a give a distance and number
of screw revolutions. He must prac
tice. , From her conning tower he
directs her every movement, and he
alone is responsible for the result.
The rules for arming, driving and
Stew ing a ship which is to use its ram
to basY "advantage are few and simple.
She should have twin sc'fews and steam
or hydraulic steering gear. ihe bow
and stern fire should be strong, and
the bow gaus should have a wide arc.
It should be possible to discharge both
broadsides or either from the conning
tower. There should be capacity for
high spee lall through the action, The
attack should be made from windward,
on account of smoke from guns and
funnels veiling movements. Of course
the first ship to enter the turning
circle of the other, bow on, obtains an
immense advantage, aud it will be the
duty of the commander to get this
vantage if he cau. A hundred years
ago it was the Auglo-Saxou maxim in
sea fighting to "get the waatlier gauge
and board." Most of the Euglish
and American tights were won m that J
way, but ocean combats between steam
driven and steered armored vessel?
have become much more complicated.
The use of the ram in naval war
fare is as old as history itself, but it
had sunk into abeyance in late centu
ries. Recognition of its high valua
and its deadliness was forced upon the
attention of the powers by the suc
cess of the confederate iron clad Mer
rimac in Hampton Roads. A slow,
uncouth, cumbersome craft she was,
but a veritable besom of destruction
to the wooden ships opposed to her.
The offensive power of the ram has
been developed as rapidly as the de
fensive power of ships, and it is likely
to furnish some startling instances of
its destructiveness before the year is
out.
EQUIPPING THE ARMY MULE.
Packing Is a Science, and the Man Wh
Is an Expert Can Make Money.
Packers at Tampa, Fla., are engaged
in sorting out .mules for use in the
army and fitting the pack furniture.
Most of the mules will be fitted with
the Mexican aparejo, which is to be
preferred to the saddle with "trees
and sawbuck."
It consists first of two or more thick
felt blankets, folded large enough tc
nearly cover the mule from shoulder
to rump. Over this is placed a huge
pair of leather bags united by a broad
band of the same material, the cavi
ties stuffed with soft hay.
This is girthed to the mule by a
cinch nearly a foot in width, which is
draw n as tightly as possible by a strong
man, pulling with both hands, and
with a foot against the animal's ribs
to give him a greater purchase. On
each side of the spine the articles to
be carried are placed and lashed by a
rope about fifty feet in length, which
has at one end a broad webbing belt
to pass under the belly as was done
with the others. Another "squeezinar"
is given and the rope is crossed in dif
ferent directions over the load, tight
ened at every crossing, and finally
fastened in a knot loosed by one pull.
"Packing is a science and as such
commands good wages. I have known
"chief packer to be paid a salary
of $150 per month on the' fron
tier, and his services were worth
the money paid. The duty is taught
to cavalrymen as part of their drill
and many of the Boldiers become very
expert in it. At a pack drill of the
Ninth cavalry a few days before it left
Montana one company packed its mule
in 1 minute and 54 seconds and others
were but little slower.
Thirty mules generally constitute a
"train," and are managed by three
men. Tney are traineoto follow a bell,
worn by a horse, white preferred, as
being more readily seen. They are
not confined in any way except when
first put intothe train j then, any
straying from it is punished very se
verely and Mr. Mule soon learns his
place and that it is best to keep it.
Each man with the train carries a
diamond-shaped leather blind with
leather cords attached to the 'ends and
knotted together. . If a pack becomes
disarranged two of the men lead the
mule out of the trail, blindfold him
with this blind, rearrange his load.
remove the leather and allow him to
rejoin his fellows. He is never struck
when started, and pack mules are
never misused by good packers.
Where the Soldiers Come From.
It was an earnest and enthusiastic
company drilling in Cass park. There
were not to exceed a dozen in the
ranks, aud the average age was about
six years. Broom handles crossed
their shoulders at various angles and
elevations, a few had toy pistols, and
a little cha2 with an 8-inch snare drum
furnished the music.
"Get off that grass !" -shouted a big
policeman just as a particularly diffi
cult evolution was being executed.
"Halt!" screamed the little curly
haired captain, just in time to aveM a
disgraceful stampede. "Make ready.
Take aim. Fire !" and the report of
three paper caps "rang out on the
startled air."'
Every little body was fairly rigid in
its determination to fall back in good
order while loading, when the police
man joined in tne lauguter of a score
of -other witnesses.
An old gentleman, bent with years,
walked over to the brave captaiu,
patted him on the head aud turned
with beaming face to those about him;
"And yet other nations wonder where
our soldiers spring from when the
country needs them to tight its battles."
Detroit Free Press.
Murphy's Natural Mistake.
Officer (to new servant) Murphy.I
have left my mess boots out this niorn
iiipr. I want them soled.
Prirate Murphy Very good, sor.
Officer (later in the day) Did you
take tho'je boots, Murphy?
Private Murphy (feeling in his
pockets rind putting on the table 18
pence) jYefl, sor; and that's alllcculd
get for tliem. The corporal who bought
them saild he would have given two
shilling mad it been pay day. ' (Col
lapse of o ilu't i). Tit-Bits.
l
Kite Ou? 1
fapau for Via"y
has been popular in
Japan for 'vauy centurie the kites
depicting the most absurd figures,
ceuerallv of ged gentlemen, birds or
puppy dofis.
HELPS FOR HOUSEWIVES.
A Novel Vegetable Slicer.
A handy vegetable slicer is formed
of a series of knives arranged in steps
in a casing with a sliding carriage,
having reversed steps, which push tha
vegetables through the knives and
drop them into the receptacle below.
Cleaning Tea Kettle.
The inside of a 'tea kettle may be
kept in fairly good condition by the
use of an oyster shell. Clean tha
oyster shell, put it in the kettle and
keep it there. The lime will fasten it
self to the shell and leave the side's of
the kettle comparatively clean. Each
night, however, the kettle should be
washed, lie oyster shell cleaned, the
kettle turned upside down and the
shell dried, to be used again iu " the
morning. Ladies Home Journal.
Packing Away Rngs.
Have the rugs thoroughly cleaned.
Examine them carefully to see that
they are not already stung by the
moth miller; fold neatly, and put a
little gum camphor between each fold.
Roll compactly. Take perfectly clean
muslin either an old sheet or muslin
purchased for the purpose cover the
rugs thoroughly and sew them up.
Wrap them in burlap and put away
in a light place. Remember that dark,
warm places are apt to increase the
tendency of moth-eating. Ladies'
Home Journal.
Tempting Breakfast Dishes.
Let every housekeeper remember the
zest given to appetite in the morning,
when appetite is least keen, by a bit
of salt meat or fish. Bacon is such a
stand-by at all times that it how per
haps lacks the relish of novelty of
good, broiled, sugar-cured ham or the
host of excellent relish-giving salt fish
dishes, as mackerel, smoked salmon,
herring or cod, broiled; salt fish in
cream (haddie or cod); dainty fish
balls of cod or halibut, etc. Fruits
also and the daintv fluffy things go to
make up appeti2i lg summer break
fasts., Woman's Home Companion
Esthetic Gridirons.
The woman who dresses a "reversi- '
ble gridiron" up in ribbons and con
verts it into a paper rack to hang
upon the wall has f om j artistic prece
dent for the ugly "ornament'v she his
created. In mediaeval days, when all
workers in, metal were skillful artists
in their trade and worked out by hand
what is now done by machinery, all
the ironwork was artistic. The grills
or gridirons made in the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries are beautiful,
graceful pieces of workmanship, and
the patterns are now used over doors
as well as for cookery. New York
Tribune.
A Household Scrapbook.
No housekeeper can afford to be
without a scrapbook for the preserva
tion of the thousand and one things
that impress her as worth referring to
a second time. Pending their final
adjustment, a tempting arrangement
that has proved especially satisfactory
is the utilization of large envelopes,
a dozen or so, niarkedwith the vari
ous subjects they contain, and bound
together in a linen cover, stiffened
with pasteboard. The pasteboard is
cut in two pieces the size of the en
velopes, while the linen is wide
enough to cover the sides and leave
abundance of room Tor the back. Two
stout silken threads piercing the low
er edges of the envelopes and loosely
tied hold them in place. The envel
opes may be marked "Sick Diet,"
" The Nursery, " " Furnishings, '
"Sanitary Hints, ""Luncheons,"
"Entertaining," and the like, to cor
respond with their several contents.
Receipts.
Asparagus Salad Rub three hard
boiled egg yolks through a sieve. Put
them in a bowl with two raw yolks,
salt, pepper and a tablespoonful of
prepared mustard, Btir with a wooden
spoon, and 'add slowly two gills of
salad oil and a little vinegar, with two
tablespoonfuls finely chopped herbs
parsley, tarragon, chives and shallot.
This is to be poured over' the cold
boiled asparagus. .
Gooseberry Tapioca Pudding Soak
one cupful of tapioca over night in
cold water. Make a syrup of two
cupfuls Qf sugar and half a. cupful of
hot water. When boiling add one
quart of cleaned gooseberries and cook
until tender. Four the berries into
an earthen dish, drain off the juice
aud pour over the tapioca. Cook in a
double boiler until perfectly clear, add
the berries, stir well together, turn
into the serving dish and set away to 1
cool. Serve very cold with sugar and
cream.
Strawberry Fromago Put one and
a half tablespoonfuls of granulated
gelatine in a small saucepan, add half
cupful cold water; let stand five min
uteR, then set saucepan in a pan of
water over the fire and stir until the
gelatine is dissolved. Mash one pint
well cleaned strawberries with a silver
fork, add half cupful of sugar to the
gelatine and mix. Let stand till it
begins to thicken. Beat half pint
cream until thick, add slowly the
strawberry preparation to the cream,
while beating continuously; pour in a
form; set in a cool place till firm.
Serve with whipped sweetened
cream.
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