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PAGE SIX ASHLAND TIDINGS Thursday, November 28, 1912. Home Maker x KHITKD HY A LICK I '. TAUOTT Visiting (he School. 1 want to ask mothers to make lrattice of visiting the schools at tended by their children. 1 fully realize that the hours of nearly every mother's days are crowded, but I think if those mothers understood the significance of an occasional call at the school, they would steal the lin-.u 0 iikiIjp one now and then. The real teacher is genuinely glad when you appear. She wants your counsel and help. She wants you to be her friend and she wants to be your friend. And do you know, mothers, what your visit means to your boys or girls who are pupils in that school room? Your presence shows them that you feel a vital interest in their school work. It brings home and school closer together. They realize that you have come to observe and to criticise, and this knowledge stim ulates and encourages them. The mother ought to know person ally the teacher to whose care she confides her child for many hours each day. How can mother and teacher, unknown to one another, work together for the child's best good? How can a mother judge justly of her child's progress in school unless she sometimes com pares his or her work with that of other children? And Ms a child to be blamed for feeling little interest in his school when his mother his best and dearest friend displays no interest in it at all? 1 urge mothers to visit the schools. They are needed there by pupils and teachers alike. A School Teacher. COOKING recipes. Fried Turniis. Pare and cut turnips in slices about half an inch thick, soak for half an hour in cold water, drain, parboil for twenty minutes, drain again and wipe dry. Salt, pepper and dip in corn meal or flour, and fry in bacon fat or other shortening. Itrotvn Stew. A seasonable dish at this time, and one that can be made quite pleasing in brown stew, either beef or veal being used. Select a chunky piece, which may be divided into good sized cubes. Cook, in salted water, four or five quartered potatoes and about the same amount of carrots. Now place in the iron skillet a gen erous lump of butter and allow it to sizzle and brown slightly; put in the meat and brown on all sides. Add the m'eat to the vegetables and sim mer all together gently until the meat is tender. Arrange neatly upon a box platter, meat in the cen ter. Thicken the dressing and eerve. Halted Apples. There is an art in baking apples if you would have them tender, transparent and delicious. Core and peel off all but a band about the center. Fill the core cavity with su gar and butter. Place the apples in a deep dish, which should be filled with enough hot water to half cover. Chocolate Pudding (Cold). Scald two cupfuls of milk in a dou ble boiler, adding a pinch of soda. When the boiling point is reached, stir into the kettle of milk four table spoonfuls of sugar and half as much cornstarch (generous spoonfuls) al ready wet up with cold milk. Cook for two minutes after the boil is re gained, stirring faithfully; add two heaping teasiioonfuls of grated choc olate; stir for another minute over the fire, and tako from the range. Season to taste with vanilla and pour into a mold wet with cold water. A simple and cheap dessert. Dried Reef With Tomatoes. One-quarter pound of chipped beef, one cup of solid tomatoes, one table- spoonful of butter, one teaspoonful or tine parsley, salt and pepper. Pick beef in pieces and bull in cold water. Heat butter and add toma toes; dust the flour over the toma toes; let cook add beef just before serving. Spanish Rice. One-half can of tomatoes, one quarter pound of salt pork cut in cubes, two tablespoonf uls of chopped onion, juice of half a lemon, half cup of rice boiled in three quarts of water. Add salt and lemon juice. Fry the pork and add onion, then tomatoes. Let simmer, then add rice, salt atid pepper. CIDER VINEGAR AND ITS MAKING (Gy P. J. O'Gara, Pathologist in Charge.) Outlines of the Process of Making Cider Vinegar. 1. In order to make wholesome vinegar only clean fruit should be selected. Rotten fruit will be sure to injure the final product. If fruit is dirty, wash it before crushing. 2. The fruit should be well ground or crushed before putting it into the press. As far as possible the cells should be broken so as to release the contents. If the crushing and pressing are well done, a box of apples weighing 50 pounds net should yield from two to three gal lons of juice. This juice or must will contain 11 per cent sugar, and with proper handling should yield 5 to 5 Vs Per cent vinegar. 3. The juice should be allowed to remain for a few days in a vat or barrel so as to permit the solid mat ter held in suspension to settle. All containers should be thoroughly cleaned with boiling water. Live steam may be used to good effect. Never put the juice into a dirty bar rel, nor into a barrel containing vin egar or mother-of-vinegar. Only wooden containers should be used. It must be remembered that alco holic fermentation cannot take place in the preseuce of acid of per cent or over. 4. When the apple juice or must has been put into a clean barrel or cask, add one cake of compressed yeast for' every five gallons of. the juice. The yeast should he first dis solved in lukewarm water. Fill the container to about two-thirds its ca pacity. The openings should not be closed. It is best to place a var nished wire screen over them so as to admit air and keep out vinegar flies. The yeast plants will set up alcoholic fermentation, which should be completed in two or three months if the juice is kept at a temperature of C.I degrees to 75 degrees F. When the sugar has been converted into alcohol, the specific gravity of the liquid should be about that of water. This can be ascertained by means of a hydrometer. ' 5. When alcoholic fermentation has been completed, draw off the clear liquid and thoroughly cleanse the barrels or casks. Then put the liquid hack into the containers and add a gallon or two of good vinegar to each 50 gallons of liquid so as to acetify it. Mother-of-vinegar or a pure culture of the vinegar germ may then be added so as to hasten the process of acetic fermentation. The same temperature should be maintained as in the case of the al coholic fermentation. Do not com pletely fill the containers. Permit the free actess of air by leaving openings in the heads of the barrels. The free access of air is important and will hasten the process very ma terially. At the end of three or four months, depending upon tempera ture conditions, degree of areation and the quantity of alcohol present. the vinegar fermentation should be finished. Starting with 11 per cent sugar in the must, the resultant product should contain 5 to 5 . per cent acetic acid. It should easily contain 1.6 per cent solids. G. When acetic fermentation has been completed, the container should be completely filled and tightly bunged so as to prevent destructive fermentation of the acetic acid, and then placed in a cool cellar. If de sired, the vinegar may be filtered ind bottled for the fancy trade. (Note. In the forthcoming bulle tin the methods of making vinegar will be given in greater detail. Care ful instructions and illustrations will show how to make vinegar on a large commercial scale, using apples, grapes, prunes, honey, etc..) Setting "BacK the ClocK : 1 1 mm&M pp$iS m mm DON'T WASTE YOUR & CHRISTMAS MONEY BUY SOMETHING USEFUL For Ten Days wcfvfNRcE A Big Reduction On All Alluminum Ware Now is the time to get your wife a present she will appreciate one of those Handsome Alluminum Utensils, a Carving Set or a Meat Roaster. ASHLAND a. J. BIEGEL 0REC0N Crescent City. Special facilities ror tourist par ties at the Bay Hotel and annex, Crescent City. Hot and cold water, baths and rooms en suite. 22-tt La Follette's Weekly Magazine and the Tidir.gs one year for 2.50. NOTICK OF SALE OF REAL PROP EHTV HY ADMINLSTKATHIX. .Jewelers' Journal. H1GGKST SIRE-WHEEL STEAM Kit. Carries Six Thousand Lake Passen gers. HOl'KEIIOLH HINTS. Washing Hrushes. When washing brushes of any kind add a little ammonia to the water. There is less danger of the bristles dropping out. denning Kjongp. ' To keep your sponge in good con dition you should occasionally wash it in warm water with a little tar taric acid or soda, afterwards rins ing it in clean, warm water. Removing (; reuse Stains. Grass stains may be removed from washing materials by carefully rub bing the spots with a little fresh lard. Then wash in the usual way, and you will find that the stains have en tirely disappeared. Removing Iodine Stains. To remove iodine spots, place the article instantly, before the spot dries, in cold water and let soak. Slightly warm the water. Rub laun dry soap over the spot and pour boil ing water through it. All traces of iodine instantly leave. Keep Flowers in Potatoes. One of the safest and best ways to send a few choice flowers to a d's tance is to cut slits in potatoes and insert the flower stems, taking care that they are firmly fastened in. An ordinary potato will keep most flow ers fresh for two weeks in a moder ate temperature. After Raking the Cake. After baking a cake, as soon as removing it from the oven stand the tin on a cloth which has been wrung out of hot water. Leave a few mo ments and then take out. The cake will come out without any trouble. Detroit, Mich., Nov. 22. The new side-wheel passenger steamer See-and-Dee, building for the Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Company, Cleve land, was launched today, from the Wyandotte yard of the Detroit Ship building Company, and was chris- tended by Miss Eleanor Moodey, daughter of Robert C. Moodey, of Painesville, Ohio, a director of the Cleveland & But'tato Transit Company. The event is of historical impor tance, for the vessel launched is not only the longest side-wheel passen ger steamer on the Great Lakes, but is also the largest side-wheeler in the world. She marks the last word in marine architecture and it is not likely that there will be built in the future anything of her type exceed ing her proportions. Naval architects are quite agreed that she carries the efficiency bf this class of steamer to its utmost reaches nd that there is nothing beyond. She is the crowning achievement of Frank E. Kirby, who has designed practically all of the palatial side wheelers built in the United States. To Europe the Great Lakes are merely little blue patches ou the map of North America, and knowledge of their variety and extent is not much more intimate in various parts of the United States, and it will therefore come as a revelation to them that the handsomest side-wheelers of today are plying the Great Lakes. The new steamer is of the following di mensions: Length over all. 500 feet: length between perpendiculars, 4 85 feet; beam of hull, moulded, 58 feet; extreme beam overguards, II 7 feet 8 Inches; depth of hull at stem, 30 feet 4 inches; depth of hull at stern, 27 feet 1 inch; depth of hull, moulded, 23 feet G inches; depth of hull at guards, 22 feet 10 inches. She is a whale of a ship, as may be gathered from the fact that her crank shaft and pistou rods are among the largest forgings ever built in this country. In fact, the forgings of the battleship Texas, which are lying in the Midvale yard at the time, looked like pipestems alongside of them. The air pump is bigger than the main engine cylinders on the 600- foot bulk freighters employed in the lake shore trade. The cylinders are the largest that have ever been cast in the lake region, the low pressure cylinders weighing 33 tons each and the high pressure 29 tons. The pad die wheel weighs 100 tons and the main shaft, which is 78 V. fet long weighs 120 tons. The furnishings and moveable outfit of the new steamer would cover a field of 40 acres. Her guaranteed speed is 22 miles per hour from dock to dock, and to make it she has been given 12,000 horsepower, which is 4,000 horse-1 power more than any other side wheel steamer has. ' There -are 62 state rooms fitted with private toilet connections, 42 4 regulation state rooms and 24 par lors en suite with private bath and toilet, making a total of 510 rooms. She has, therefore, sleeping accom modations for 1,500 persons and will carry about b.OOO passengers. Her freight capacity is 1,500 tons, car ried exclusively on the main deck for convenience of handling. The steamer will be a blaze of light, having altogether 4,500 elec tric lamps. The telephone service aboard is equal to the equipment of a small town, and passengers may talk to any part of the ship, or to their homes when the vessel is at dock. The vessel is designed especially for daily service between Cleveland and Buffalo and will go into commis sion on July 1, 1913. In the County Court of the State of Oregon for Marion County. In Probate. In the matter of the es tate of Hazel Crook McCounell, deceased. Notice is hereby given that in pur suance of and by virtue of an order made and entered of record in the above entitled estate on the 11th day of November, 1912, directing and empoweirng the undersigned admin istratrix of said estate to sell at pri vate sale for cash in -hand, the here inafter described real premises be longing to said estate, I will on and after the 16th day of December, 1912, proceed to sell at private sale for cash in hand, to the highest bidder therefor, the following described real premises, to-wit: An undivided one-eighth interest in and to the following described real premises: Beginning at a point on the northerly side line of Main street in the city of Ashland, Jackson County, Oregon, 80 feet South, 55 degrees 18 minutes East from the Southeast corner of Lot Two (2) as designated, numbered and described on the plat of Michelson's Addition to the city of Ashland; thence South 55 degrees 18 minutes East, along said North s'de line of Main street 40 feet more or less, to the Westerly side line of what is commonly known as the Helen Ralph lot', fronting on said Main street; thence Northerly on division line between lxt Four (4) in said Michelson's Addition, Lot One (1), Block Twenty-three (23), Chitwood's Addition to the said city of Ashland, and said Ralph lot, 233 feet to the Northeast corner of said Lot One (1); thence North 67 degrees, West along the Northerly side line of said Lot One (1) 41 feet, more or less, to a point which is 170.5 feet from the Northwest corner of said Lot One (1); thence South 34 degrees 12 minutes West to a point on the Northerly line of Lot Four (4) in said Michelson's Addi tion, which point is South 55 degres 18 minutes East, 20 feet from the Northeast corner of Lot Three (3) in said Michelson's Addition; thence South 34 degrees. West 122 feet, more or less, to the place of begin ning. Notice is hereby further given that said sale will be made subject to con firmation by said Court in the man ner provided bv law. ANGIE W. McCONNELL. Administratrix of the estate of Hazel Crook McConnell, deceased. 49-5t-Thurs. Z)t anuturiting -On tfje WHXaVi In homes where there is youth, strength, ener gy, and real enjoyment of the breakfast. At Your Grocers fa... Ikau, 11.1 j-w mi wt -H....U.J ui.l t .... U M. lmu, NL f A Word About Printing Why Fret? In the November American Maga zine appears the following: Are the trains too slow for you? Caesar, with all of his court, never "exceeded" the speed limit. Are your wages too small.? In Europe people are content with mak ing a living. Are the lights too dim? David wrote his psalms by the light of a smoky torch. Are you ugly? Cleopatra, though homely, bewitched two conquerors. ' Are you cold? The soldiers of Valley Forge walked barefoot on the ice and snow: Are you hungry? 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