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MOTHER’S FRUIT CAKE.
St «u a Big Ob*, Bat th« ExfNM
Charges Were a Little
Bit Bigger.
The woman who was telling the story
gras the best gowned of all the women
In the cafe. It seemed to amuse the
Company around her table and some at
near-by seats couldn't help listening to
It, relates the New York Sun.
“I never see a piece of fruit or pound
•take that I don’t think of my poor dear
» gnother out in Kansas,” she was saying.
"Did I ever tell you about the cake she
sent me? Well, it was the first Christ
mas I was in New York.
“From my chill little bedroom In a
Booming house half way up town I used
to write to her the rosiest letters of my
progress and expectations. It used to
•hear mv alnnmiaat hours to see what
ties I could put down on paper for the
gratification and comfort of the little
eld lady. One night when I hadn’t had
any dinner, I remember sending her a
long letter about plans I was making
to bring my little sister east and give
her tbe education she ought to have.
“A few days before Christmas 1 got a
letter In mother’s own labored writing.
She said she knew I hankered for a
taste of the fruit cake we always had
at home at Christmas time and she had
made a whole big one for me and had
■hipped it by express.
“I promised myself that with one of
mother’s nourishing fruit cakes at hand
1 would be able to sustain myself on the
off days, and I sat in expectancy next
day when the bell rang and the maid
came toiling up the two flights to tell
me that there was a package for me.
“The expreesman climbed up with a
round parcel almost as big as a wash
tub. He held up the book for me to
Sign and remarked. Incidentally,
’charges are $6.45 ma'am.’ Mother had
lent It collect, all the way from the lit
tle Kansas town.
"Six forty-five! The fruit cake was as
far beyond my reach as a Tiffany tiara*
Bo the expressman bore it away while I
muttered something about dropping
Into his office with the money as soon as
1 had been to the bank. Then I wrote
• strictly private note to my little sis
ter telling her to tear up any notice
that might be sent to mother by the
company telling her the parcel was un
delivered. I have an idea they have
aome such system. Haven’t they?
“Then I sat down and wrote a fresh
letter to mother telling her how much
1 had enjoyed the cake, and describing
■11 the fictitious persons who had shared
ft with me, and who sent their con
gratulations to her on her skill as a
cakemaker. I ran out and mailed the
letter and went back and cried mysell
to sleep.”
“And that was the end of the cake?"
asked one of the women at the table.
“Oh, no,” continued the narrator.
•Three months later I went to the auc
tion sale of unclaimed express packages
.f^ bid it In for 46 cents. Mother*
fruit cake is so wholewmie and solid that
|t (Will keep for a year. If you’ll all
«ome .up to the house now, each of you
•hall have a small piece.”
“Wbat!” exclaimed one of the men.
**Waa this event as recent as that?”
The story-teller smiled bewitchingly.
--You know," she said, turning her look
the fat and apoplectic person who
Was presumptively the husband, "it was
• — of love at first sight with Mr.
X-— and me."
—Y«s,” assented the fat one, "and
ST—*ve Just shipped to mother a fruit
••ke that's so crammed with |20 gold
HJUI there's no room for raisins."
The toys and playthings of
..Queen Victoria, which in their in
trinsic value do not compare with
the priceless jubilee presents, will
appeal to the sentiment of all who
see them, says the Minneapolis
Tribune. They are at the replica
of the Orangery at Kensington
palace, the birthplace of the
queen.
$Vhen a child she spent manv
nappy hours in the quaint old
building, designed more than 200
• years ago foi the famous Queeu
Anne.
Borne of the dolls bear the
marks of the affection lavished
upon them by the little princess.
The arm off one, the leg off another
and the paint rubbed from their
cheeks.
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COLONY OF SEA SQUIRTS.
Curious Form of Ufa with Which
Bathers and Small Bojrs Hart
Much Amusement.
Most of the tanks in the aqnari
um have now been relined with
rockwork, says the New York Bun.
An advantage of rockwork for this
purpose is that it affords places of
lodgment for various forms of
marine life, both vegetable and
animal, which may be introduced
Into the tank either by accident or
by design, to make a further addi
tion to the tank’s attractiveness.
Already in some of the tanks
here these lesser forms, either
planted or of accidental growth,
are beginning to appear; a notable
example of the last-named kind
being found in the salmon rock*
fish tanks, in which there may now
be seen, attached to the rocky lin
ing of the tank, a great colony,
some thousands in number, of
the familiar ascidian commonly
known as the sea squirt.
Everybody that has been much
about the water knows the sea
squirt, a leathery creature some
what resembling a rubber water
bottle in shape, with two siphon
tubes like stubby little slightly
curved bottle necks projecting
from its top. The sea squirt takes
its nourishment as the clam does,
i It absorbs minute forms of ani
1 mal life of various sorts, along
with quantities of water, through
| one of its siphon tubes, and after
extracting the nutriment it expels
the water through the other.
_ A _ At..
a tie Ben nquu i ui&ugo w |
rocks along shore, and to sea
t grass, and it is found in many wa
ters. It may be of a dingy white
i or gray in color, like those now at
the aquarium, though some sea
! squirts are of a dark rich brown,
and there are others of a brilliant
red. The largest of those here are
about an inch and a half in length.
Bea squirts attain a length of two
or three inches or more.
Bathers who know about them
pick sea squirts from the rocks and
play tricks with them by collaps
ing them and so spurting the wa
ter on fellow bathers. Boys liv
ing bj the water as in fishing
towns, carry sea squirts to school
with them, in their pockets, and
there squeeze the water out of
them. To collapse one in that man
ner means the end of the sea
: squirt.
A sea squirt left out of water by
the receding tide might lie col
lapsed and flat, but it would be
more likely to have taken in wa
ter enough to carry it until the
tide covered it again, and it would
be most likely to be found, be
: tween tides, in places where it
would get more or less moisture.
If one should be left exposed for a
longer time than usual on some
bare rock, as it might be by an un
usually low tide, it would be
burned and shriveled and de
stroyed by the sun's hot rays,
i They were probably introduced
| Into this tank with shrimp put
into It as food for the rockflsh.
Vatural Soap.
German papers report that
steps are being taken in Algeria to
manufacture natural soap on a
lage scale from a tree known as
“Sapindus utilis." This plant,
which has long been known in
Japan, China an'd India, bears a
fruit of about the size of a horse
chestnut, smooth and round. The
color varies from a yellowish
green to brown. The inner part
is of a dark color and has an oily
kernel. The tree bears fruit in
its sixth year and yields from 55
, to 220 pounds of fruit, which can
easily be harvested in the fall. By
1 using water of alcohol the sepona
ceous ingredient of the fruit is ex
tracted. The cost of production is
i said to be small and the soap, on
account of possessing no alkaline
qualities, is superior to the ordi
nary soap of commerce.
Pigeons as Smugglers.
A curious utilization of carrier
pigeons was recently attempted in
Belgium. This was making them
carry contraband goods into
France. For a short time 24 pi
geons w’ere let off regularly from
the Belgian dovecot, each bur
dened with a small coil of tobacco.
They arrived at their French des
tination rather exhausted, and
doubtless glad to be relieved of
their load. In one case, however,
a pigeon, in making the flight,
proved unequal to the effort, fell
into the Seine and was picked up.
The vs tern wan thug found out
ui ressed.
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IDEAL IH HOTTSEKBEPIffO.
■•■7 of Ikt 014 Coatoaaa lad Ca*
dltlona Are riaalaf Betlre
17 AW17.
A generation ago to be an ideal house*
keeper was the chief ambition ef almeet
every woman. No girl desired a fairer
(ate than to be placed at the head ef s
household with a good and loving hue
hand to supply all her wants and make
her the mistress and the queen of bis
heart and his home. In moet casee, says
the Peoria Herald Transcript, the girl
whs started housekeeping had mare or
less experience in the art under the tuition
ef her mother. 8he loved to decorate and
beautify tba bouse which was to be bei
home during the rest of her earthly pil
grimage. She loved to create delicacies
for her husband and her children, and,
disguise it as we may, much of the af
fection she received was dus entirely te
her skill ss a homemaker. When her
children grew up around hay this kind
and sympathetic mother and the pantry
were the chief attractions in their world.
As they grew older the ties only grow tbs
stronger. When they acquired families
ef their ews tba old homestead, with
Its 'Abundance at good things, still had
attractions ter them. The kind old
mother was still their best friend. 8h«
knew all the difficulties they bad to en
counter In starting homes of their own,
and her advice and sympathy weri
worth more to them than gold. Thf
grandchildren came to venerate her as a
sort of venerable goddeso, and whei
she finally went away from the homf
circle she left a vacancy which could
never be filled.
But we are assured with every symp
tom of rejoicing that these condition!
are passing; that women have beea
emancipated; that in the future they an
to be the rival. Instead of the helpmate
of man, and that they must combine ti
enforce their just demands against th<
hostility of the male sex. This Is non<
sense pure and simple. It may be tru<
that there are more mannish women li
tbla generation than there were tn thi
last It Is unfortunately true that 1
larger proportion of the female popuia
tlon has been forced to be eelf-eupport
tag, but It 1s not true that women enjoj
the so-called "liberty” which goes Witl
tolling for a living.
Ths home instinct Is too deeplj
planted In the heart of women te he re
moved by the effects of a generation e
elub work. It will never be removed, i
few women may go after strange gods
hut the natural, wholesome girt will sttl
And her highest Ideal of happiness it
a good husband and m cosy home. Thi
elubs may succeed In making suohhom*
impossible to a few men and women b]
making the young women feel that the]
have a move Important work In thi
world than the prosale duty of home
making, hot among the masses of thi
American people the mother will con
tlnne te be the bond which unites thi
nnltlss of that holy Institution the fam
lly, and she will continue In this exaltei
role until the end of all things.
WHAT DROVE HIM TO DRINK
Z~-r,
lh« Wm Happy and Vet There Wei
am Awfal Possibility Op
pressing Her.
"Darling," hs laid, as ha placed hli
arm around hey waist and drew her ten
derly to his breast, relates ths Nsw Tori
Times, "why tboes pearly tears? Is th<
hems that I have brought you to lsai
magalAcsnt than you expected?”
"Oh, tt-no," she sobbed. "It Is g-graad»
sr than I dared to h-hope.”
"Have you found since our marrlagi
thet I am less suited than you had sup
nosed me to he?”
"Oh, F-Fred. you are a th-thousant
tomes mors exalt-t-ted than I thought
you te b-be.”
Stooping down he kissed sway twi
large tsars that wars trembling upon hw
long, graceful lashes, and asked:
"Has it grieved you to be taken from
your parents and ths sosnss of youi
childhood, little one.”
"No, no, dear-dearest,” she replied
"I would g-gladly go anywhere w-wttl
ran. ”
“Great heavens!" ha cried, in will
alarm. “Perhaps you are 111. Tell me
la it so, sweetheart T”
"No,” she said, through a fresh burs!
of tears, ' it is not that.1'
A look of deep perplexity overspread
hie handsome visage, and, pushing hei
back so that he could look down into
her big, beautiful, tear-dimmed eyes, hi
aeked:
“Then, what In the dlckena Is thl
trouble ?"
“I was J-Just think-thinking," she re
turned, “bow miserable I should be 11
you were to die and I w-were to marry
•-some one who wouldn’t appreciate ell
this magnificence.''
Mock Terrapin la Ckklu Disk.
Take the dark meet of a chlckei
cooked the day previous and half I
pound of calf’s liver; put together li
the chafing-dish, add two cloves o!
garlic, one small onion sliced, twt
stalks of celery; cover with boillni
water and cook So minutes. Taki
sut and cut into dice. Cleanse th:
chafing-dish and put In a quarter of I
pound of butter; while the butter li
melting, take the yolka of two hard
boiled eggs, mash to a smooth paste
adding gradually a cup of cream. Adt
a tablespoon of flour to the butter, mil
and add the cream and eggs, stir con
stnntly until it reaches the boillni
point, then add meat, a teaspoon 01
salt, a dash of cayenne and just a sue
piclon of macs. Serve hot on round:
ef buttered toast—Ladles* Home Jour
aal.
la Cooking Apples.
When only russet apples are to b<
had, a favorite way we cook then
la to pare, quarter and bake them li
the bean pot all day. Add a little an
gar and plenty of water. When coll
tt looks end tastes like eider apjuli
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breakfast is served among cheerful, har
monious surroundings it gives you a
good start for the day.
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