TO EAT SPARROWS
NEW DISH’S POPULARITY
AID IN EXTERMINATION.
CASSEROLE COOKING RECIPES
Fish Cooked In This Style Delicious-
Beats All Kinds of Old ilme
MAY
Hashes and Stews.
Their Flesh Now Has Market Valu9
Which Helps Naturalists Who Fa
vor Extermination—Chefs Say
They Are Good.
Beef en casserole.—Take 2 pounds
of skirt of beef and cut into neat
pieces. Melt a small piece of butter
In the casserole and fry in it two fine
ly-sliced onions and one carrot and
turnip cut into dice. Move the vege
tables to one side and lay the pieces
of meat in the butter and fry for a
few minutes on both sides. Sprinkle
with salt and, if liked, add a little
ehopped parsley. Put the cover on
closely and place the casserole either
on the stove or In the oven for about
three hours. Skim well before serv
ing.
Fish cooked en casserole is deli
cious. Take as many fillets of plaice,
haddock or whiting (in fact almost
any kind of fish that is liked) as> are
required. Season with pepper and salt
and spread each with some forcemeat.
Roll each piece and place in the cas
serole, which must be well-buttered.
Add half a pint of fish stock (made
from the bones and trimmings), sprin
kle with chopped parsley, cover close
ly and cook for about twenty minutes.
Another method is to fry three tiny
onions In the butter before putting the
fish into the casserole. Then sprinkle,
with flour, pour in the stock and let
It come to the boil. Draw the cas
serole from the fire and let the fish
cook in the sauce for half an hour.
These are the recipes for homely
casserole cooking. The addition of a
few button mushrooms, some highly
seasoned forcemeat balls, oysters,
peas, etc., ^rllt transform a plain dish
into one which may grace the table of
a king; and when once the art of cas
serole cooking has been mastered, va
rieties of flavoring, etc., will suggest
themselves to even the most ordinar
ily intelllgenced “general,” and the in
sipid stews and hashes with which we
were wont to be regaled become, hap
pily, things of the past.
Washington, D. C.-!—,Extermination
•of the English sparrow, desired by
naturalists for the reason that these
birds have in large measure driven
out the native song birds, may soon
be accomplished, it having been dis
covered that “sparrow pottle” equals
some of the game food served at fash
ionable cafes.
Advance in the cost of living is re
sponsible for the adoption of the Eng
lish sparrow as a fQod. In the west
and northwest, when the prices of
fresh meats reached a point prohibi
tive to the poorer classes, the sugges
tion was made that the sparrow as an
edible bird possessed merit worthy
of consideration.
Experiments In serving the sparrow
were made, with the result that spar
row potpie became popular and at
tracted attention of restaurant and
cafe proprietors, who discovered that
the bird could be served not only in
potpie form, but on toapt and in other
ways not under the name of sparrow
on the menu, but with some high-
sounding French title.
The dish
pleased patrons and at once estab
lished its popularity and success.
As a result of the popularity of the
new dish, it is said that the great
droves of English sparrows that have
for years been a public nuisance in all
of the large cities are being killed in
large numbers, the flesh of the birds
having a market value which will con
tribute to their extermination.
Those who have partaken of the
sparrow potpie and sparrow on toast
say it Is preferable to the reed bird,
the difference in the flavor of the meat
of the two birds being imperceptible
even by epicureans.
The chefs of the local hotels and
cafes, while not admitting that the
sparrow is being served at their ta
bles, say they can see no reason why
an English sparrow should not be as
good eating as many of the standard
game birds popular with diners. It
was said that while the birds are a
When Ironing starched clothes, if
little larger than the reed bird, they the iron is dipped quickly Into cold wa
are tender and possess a good flavor. ter each time when taken from the
stove the starch will never stick and
clothes iron smooth and so quickly
CHICK SWALLOWS ITS TONGUE the
you hardly realize you’re started be
fore you’re done.
Owner Rescues Unruly Member, But
Powdered boraclc acid sprinkled on
the Sick Fowl Dies Not Long
lace yoke or collar, then laid away for
Afterward.
a day or two, then well shaken out,
will remove the soil.
Lebanon, Pa.—Out In the neighbor
Fasten firmly at the center of back
hood of Buzzard’s Glory, this county, tape or ribbon, which is run through
lives a woman who probably knows beading In underwear.
This keeps
more about chickens than any other it from being pulled half out or lost en
person In the county. She is Mrs. tirely in laundering.
Sarah Sinclaire and she tells of a
Linen pieces should never be put
freakish prank played by one of her through the wringer If you would
own chickens.
avoid the little. wrinkles that are so
Seeing the youngster, but a few hard to press out. Small tucks will
days old, which” she thought by Its iron smoother and look better if
action was afflicted with a bad case Ironed on the wrong side.
If knit
of gapes, she caught it, opened its wear, bath towels, etc., when taken
bill and discovered that the chicken from the lines are smoothed with the
had no tongue. She was very puzzled, hands and put on the bars to air, will
but decided to take a chance, so ran be ready to put away by the time
a horse hair down its throat and when the bars are needed, for the ironed
she pulled it out it brought forth a clothes. To avoid the unsightly fold
piece of bread which the chicken had so often seen on top ot a sleeve of
«wallowefl.
starched shirt waists, fold at the seam,
< Tlie miraculous part of the story is iron the upper, then the lower side, not
that the bread had become wrapped letting the iron within an inch or two
around the chick’s tongue and it had of the edge; then open the sleeve, fold
actually swallowed the tongue along with the unironed part in the center of
with the bread. In a few hours the the sleeve and press carefully.
chick died.
DANGER IN THE LARGE HAT
It Is Now Declared That Wearing It
Tends to Make a Woman
Bald.
New York.—The gigantic hat is still
fashionable in London and Paris, de
spite the ridicule heaped upon it by
masculine critics.
A London hair
specialist now declares that the big
hat is dangerous as well as ridiculous,
a London letter to the New York Sun
says.
He warns women that if they
persist in wearing big hats they will
lose their hair. The specialist said:
“As grass turns yellow under a
mushroom, so women’s hair will lose
Its color and deteriorate under the
gigantic hats which are now the mode.
There is every possibility of the fair
sex going bald unless a revolution in
hats is effected.
“First of all, these enormous moun
tains of millinery shut out, the health
giving sun and air. Secondly, they
present such vast surfaces to the wind
that they tug against the detaining
hatpins like a kite on a string. For
both reasons they Injure the hair.”
BOLTS ILLUME THE MINES
Lightning Flashes Play 1,800 Feet Be
low the 8urface and Light
Up Cavern.
Pottsville, Pa.—Lightning 1,800 feet
below the surface of the earth was
witnessed the other evening in the
mines in West Schuylkill. When a ter
rific thunderstorm came up the over
heated earth added to the fierceness
of the electrical display, and the light
ning managed to find its way along
the electric power wires to the bottom
of the slopes.
The underground workings were Il
luminated and made as bright as the
sun at midday; but no damage was
done, although a number of mules,
which have-not seen daylight for
years, are believed to have bean blind-
ed by
CAP
and
BELLS
COURTSHIP OF A DEAF MAN
Wonders Why Mabel Lowered Gas—<
Whether to Encourage or Stop
His Fingered Proposal.
The Deaf Times prints a story of
two men who were seen talking on
their hands on the top of an omnibus,
Their conversation ran thus:
“I want your advice.”
“I shall be happy to oblige you.”
“Well, you know, I’m in love with
Mabel. At last I made up my mind
to propose to her. Last night I made
the attempt”
“And she refused you?”
“That Is what I am coming to. 1
don’t know whether she did or • not.
You see, I was somewhat embar-
rassed, and the words seemed to stick
on my hands. And there she sat as
demure as a dove. Finally my fingers
stuck together, and I could not say a
word. Then Mabel got up and lowered
the gas.”
“Well?”
“Well, what is bothering me is this:
why did Mabel lower the gas—to en
courage me and relieve my embarrass
ment, or so that she could not see the
talk and so stop my proposal?”
Unanswerable.
Ethel had been visiting at a neigh
bor’s.
“I hope you didn’t take a second
piece of cake, Ethel?” said her mother.
“Yes, I did, mother,” replied the
child. “You told me never to contra
dict and the lady said ‘I know you’ll
have another piece of cake;’ so what
could I say?”—Yonkers Statesman.
His Eye for Business.
Ashley—I see that Lawyer Black
will accept no client who is not a
merchant tailor.
Seymour—Isn’t that a rather strange
procedure?
Ashley—Not In reality. Black claims
he gets the most business from mer
chant tailors because they have new
**uits to try every day.
Flavor With Almond and Rub Icing
Smooth With Boiling Water—Dif
ference in Sugar Used.
This Is an original recipe, and if all
directions in regard to quantity, and
combining of material, as well as di
rections for baking are followed, suc
cess is assured (use ungreased tube
mold, medium size, and a graded
measuring cup); all measurements are
level; do not pack down flour when
measuring, just fill cup lightly and
level off top with knife. Ingredients
—One cupful of whites of eggs, three-
fourths cupfuls each of granulated and
powdered sugar; one and one-fourth
cupful of finest pastry flour; one tea
spoonful each z>f cream of tartar, va
nilla and almond extract; a pinch of
salt.
Method—Sift sugar and flour five
times separately before measuring,
then combine and sift two more times,
then let stand in smef until needed.
Put whites of eggs in round bowl
large enough to allow for expansion in
whipping; add the salt, then with a
flat egg whip begin with lifeht, even
strokes; when they begin’to froth add
the cream of tartar, whip until so stiff
that if a portion is taken up on whip
and reversed they will stand up in a
point; then add the flavoring, whip
in lightly, then sift sugar and flour
over evenly and with a light dipping
motion fold in until all ingredients are
well mixed.
Fill carefully into the
mold, seeing that mixture reaches the
sides, then place in a moderately hot
oven and watch carefully; the cake
should rise to top of mold and rise
smooth and slightly rounded, without
showing more than a golden tinge; if
at any time the oven becomes too hot
open the oven door and let the hot air
escape; this may be done at any time
without danger of the cake falling, but
never move the cake or jar stove when
opening the door, or place a kettle of
cold water on stove while baking.
When the cake has been in about
20 minutes the heat may be slightly
increased; when done the cake will
shrink slightly, and to test press with
fingers; if cake rebounds without mak
ing a hissing sound it is done; it
should then be a delicate golden brown
color; take from oven and invert can
until cake is cold. (This process of in
verting pan insures a light cake, as it
cannot sog while cooling, and when
ready to ice remove the slides on sides
of pan, dip a long, flexible knife in cold
water and cut cake from mold. Invert
cake on a plate, rub off any loose furry
particles that are on sides and bottom,
then ice with a liberal coating of con
fectioners’ sugar, flavored with almond
and rubbed smooth with boiling water
(note the difference; use powdered
sugar for cake, but confectioners’
sugar for icing.)
IN THE PUBLIC EYE
ROCKEFELLER AND HIS
RELATIVE HAVE MADE UP
OHND. ROCKE-
feller has won
J a victory
over him
self greater per
haps than any he
has won over his
b us i n e s s rivals.
.The New Testa
ment tells us that
a person who has
aught against his
brother
should
first be reconciled
to that brother
before offering his gift at' the altar;
but many men find it difficult and
some even impossible to carry out this
clear injunction of the Master.
Evidently John D. Rockefeller was
one of those who found the task of re
conciliation a hard one. For years
be and his brother, Frank Rockefeller,
did not speak, and an enmity, deep
and bitter, was entertained by the lat
ter against the oil king. Frank claims
that John D. wronged him and he
had registered a vow not to speak to
him until that wrong was rectified.
Just what the specific injury was is
not publicly known, but it kept the
brothers apart until recently, when
Frank and John D. met, buried the
hatchet, and exchanged the brotherly
kiss. Just as it is not known what
Frank's specific grievance was, so it
is not known what were the terms of
reconciliation. But they must have
been satisfactory to Frank; and now
John D.’s Sunday school in Cleveland
may expect to hear a discourse in due
time upon the beauty of brotherly
love.
Frank Rockefeller is little known
to the public, and is of such paltry
concern to the biographer that his
name is not even mentioned in Who’s
Who. He was at one time interested
In ore mines in the Lake Superior re
gion and was associated with James
Corrigan, a former business ally of
John D. Rockefeller. But in the panic
of 1893 Frank and Corrigan went un
der, and the' power that submerged
them was exerted by John D. Pos
sibly, that may have been the griev
ance of which Frank complained. Any
how, the grievance is now removed,
and the brothers are as happy as
school boys.
This ought to be a
good time to strike John D. for a loan.
CAPT. SCOTT, BROTHER
OF LAKE COMO VICTIM
IS
The Usual Way.
“Gladys has jilted young Jorkins,
yet when they were first engaged she
used to say he was the star of her ex
istence,”
“Does he carry a pistol?”
“I don’t know. Why?”
“Because if he does Gladys had bet
ter look out that he doesn’t prove to
be a shooting star.”
WILL HE DO IT?
Delicious Dessert.
Cut even slices of bread not less
than one day old, butter and stack
three or four high. Heat fruit juice
left from canned fruit or melt a glass
of jelly, adding enough water to cover
the bread which has been placed in a
dish deep enough that the liquid can
cover the bread. Have the liquid hot
and let it stand on bread until thor
oughly soaked and then allowed to
get cold. Turn bread out on plate and
slice like layer ice cream. Serve with
plain or whipped cream. When can
ning fruit it is a good plan to put any
surplus juice in pint cans for this pur
pose.
Private Muldoon—I was absent this
mornin* at rdll-call.
Sergeant Doolan—Well, me man,
Hungarian Goulash.
Cut one pound of good round steak nixt toime youre absint at roll-call be
into inch cubes and add an equal quan sure and say you’re absint whin you
tity of thinly sliced onion. Put one- hear your name called.
half cup butter into a large saucepan
and when it bubbles put. in the meat
Handicapped.
and onion. Let it brown slightly, then
“Yes,” said the man from St. Louis,
stew slowly ’for three hours, or until “I am very fond of green peas, but I
lhe meat is tender. Do not add water, can’t eat them.”
as the juice from the meat and onion
“Why not?” queried the Chicago
will make a gravy. One-half hour be man who was dining at the same
fore it is done add salt, paprika, and a table.
little stewed tomato. Be sure to add
“Because,” explained the other, “I
entire amount of onion. Is none too an’t keep ’em on my knife.”
much.
“Come Across.”
Corn Pudding.
“Do these Englishmen understand
Scrape half a dozen ears of com. American slang?”
beat two eggs together, add half a
“Some of them do. Why?”
teaspoonful of salt and a tablespoonful
“My daughter is to be married in
of sugar and mix with the corn ker London and the duke has just cabled
nels. Stir in one and a half cupfuls me to come across.”
of milk and pour the whole into a
“Well?”
pudding dish. Bake the mixture two
“Does he want me or my wad?”
ours and serve as a vegetable.
Water Sponge Cake.
One egg, one-half cup sugar, one-
half teaspoon lemon juice, three table
spoons cold water, two-thirds cup
flour with one even teaspoon baking
powder. Beat yolk, add sugar, and
beat again; add lemon juice and wa
ter, then flour, lastly the white of egg
beaten stiff.
WAY TO MAKE ANGEL FOOD
Looking for Bargains.
Patience—A municipal drug store
has been established in St Peters
burg, where things are supplied at
about 20 per cent less than In the
other pharmacies.
Patrice—I wish they’d have such
stores In this country. I’d buy all my
stamos there.—Yonkers Statesman«
determined
H efforts to
bring to justice
the Lake Como
murderer has kept
Capt. H. H. Scott
more or less in
the foreground of
late. It was. his
sister, Mrs. Mary
Scott Charlton,
who was slain by
her husband, Por
ter Charlton, In
their villa on the shore of the beauti
A small quantity of vinegar bolleo ful Italian lake, the body afterward
on the range will counteract the odor being found in a trunk in the lake.
of boiled cabbage or other vegetables. The murderer fled to America and was
In darning curtains if the rent is arrested on arrival. Then arose the
large, take a piece of an old curtain question of his punishment. Italy hav
and patch the hole with it and the ing refused to extradite several of her
subjects who had committed murder
damage will scarcely be noticed.
A crust of bread Is best to clean a in the United States and escaped to
sticky bread or cake pan. Never use the mother country, the Washington
a knife or anything that will scratch government declined to send Charlton
the surface and invite more sticking back to Italy for trial. As the crime
was committed abroad, Charlton
thereafter.
To mend a crack on the inside of a could not be tried here. It is this mis
range, use a filling made of equal carriage of justice that Capt. Scott has
parts of wood ashes and common salt fought against.
Capt. Scott has a „very fine army
moistened with water. This will prove
record. He was one of the four army
hard and lasting.
The best way to extract the juice officers sent to the city of San Fran
from an onion, when needed for flavor cisco at the time of the earthquake
ing, is to cut a slice from the root and he worked there so successfully
end of the onion, remove the outer in an effort to bring order out of chaos
skin and press onion on a coarse that he earned the commendation of
all those who were actively interested
prater using a rotary motion.
When the boiled mutton has served in the work of rescue and reorganiza
Its purpose as a dinner meat in one tion. He has a great many letters from
family it invariably returns at luncheon San Franciscans praising his work and
or supper as a salad, and always with thanking him.
An interesting story concerning the
sandwiches filled with mayonnaise
bravery of Capt Scott has just come
mixed with chopped capers.
to light Some years ago the news
papers were full of the story of an
explosion at Lafayette Island, New
Afternoon Tea Cakes.
As a dainty to serve at teas make York, and the killing of seven nien.
some little raisin cakes. Rub one- Lafayette Island is a storage place for
half cup of butter to a cream with navy explosives. The explosion oc
one cup of fine granulated sugar, add curred one winter day when a work
one cup of milk, two cups of flour man was drawing the fuse from an
sifted twice with two level teaspoons eight-inch shell landed at the island
of baking powder, one-half cup of by the Brooklyn. The news came to
chopped raisins, one-half teaspoon of *the outside world through the tele
flavoring. Put a spbonful of butter phone when a watchman—the one man
in little tins, buttered and floured. on the island not injured by the ex
Have the pans but half full and when plosion—telephoned the news to Fort
baked ice the tops and sides and put Hamilton. When the news came, two
a whole raisin on each cake. Use the officers voluntered to go to the rescue
patty pans with straight sides.
of the injured men. It was perilous
work for the island was full of ex
plosives and a fire was raging which
Maple Sugar Fudge.
might communicate with them at any
One pound of maple sugar, one pint minute. The volunteers were Capt.
of cream, a few drops of vanilla, a Scott and Maj. Webb, now on the re
small lump of butter.
tired list. These two manned a steam
Break the sugar into small pieces, launch and broke their way through
add cream and let It cook until it the ice from Fort Hamilton to Lafay
forms a soft ball in water, or sugars ette Island which was a small piece of
on the edges of a pan. Stir constant land almost entirely covered by forti
ly. Pour thickly into buttered tins, fications. The interior of the fort was
after beating lightly on removal from a mass of flames and in the midst of
stove.
the nre lay eight mangled bodies. One
This Is nice with nuts added. But man’s head had blown to the roof and
ternuts or chopped cream nuts give a lodged there. But the other men were
delicious flavor.
alive, though fearfully mangled and
helpless. Capt Scott and Maj. Webb
worked with feverish haste to drag
the torn bodies of the men to their
launch while the old watchman played
a hose on the burning magazine. But
the fire had not eaten its way to the
magazine when the last of the bodies
was piled into the launch and-the two
brave officers and the old watchman
followed and put out through the ice
toward Fort Hamilton. Before they
reached that destination they saw
Lafayette Island blown up by the ex
plosion of the magazine.
The brave conduct of the two offi
cers never became known. Nor was
their bravery rewarded in great meas
ure by the result of their work of res
cue.
Only one of the men they
dragged from the flames on Lafayette
Island survived.
PHILANTHROPIC DONOR OF
THE NOBEL PRIZE FUND
Alfred
No
San
Remo, Italy, some
years ago, he left
a substantial fund
which instigates
our great scient
ists, authors and
, statesmen to their
mightiest endeav
ors a great deal
more
than the
mere plaudits of
world. Alfred Bernard Nobel was an
oil king second only to the present-
day magnate, John D. Rockefeller, and
in being an oil king second only to
the great John D. fie accumulated an
immense fortune as oil kings general
ly have a habit of doing. Upon his.
death some $9,000,000 was left behind,
of which small legacies were given to
his already wealthy relatives and the
interest on the remainder which ac
cumulated during a year was then di
vided into five equal parts and is an
nually awarded as prizes to the per
sons who shall have, made (1) the
most important discovery or invention
in the domain of physics, (2) in
chemistry, (3) in physiology or medi
cine, (4) who shall have produced in
the field of literature the most dis
tinguished work of an idealistic ten
dency, and (5) who shall have most or
best promoted the fraternity of na
tions, the abolishment or diminution
of standing armies and the formation
and increase of peace congresses.
The awards for these prizes are con
trolled entirely by Swedish courts.
The winners of (1) and (2) are se
lected by .the Royal Academy of
Science in Stockholm; (3) by the Car
oline Medical-Chirurgical institute in
Stockholm; (4) by the Swedish Acad
emy in Stockholm, and (5) by the
Norwegian storthing (parliament).
The Nobel prize fund is a fine phil
anthropy, bringing out the very best
in the man who is making an effort
for the prize and gives the people the
benefits of his masterpiece in science,
art or literature.
HEN
Bernard
W
bel died in
MISS BULA EDMONDSON,
TYPE OF INDIAN BEAUTY
HEN
one
thinks of In
W
dian beauty, es
pecially after a
visit to a wild
west show, his
sense of the aes
thetic is horribly
shocked — great
guff men, broad
nosed,
ugly-fea
tured and homely
appearing
worn- *
en, possessors of
every feature which does not tend to
beautify a human countenance. But’
if one enters into a chance conversa
tion with an Oklahoman and men
tions Indian ugliness he will soon be
told that in Oklahoma they have In
dian bèauty, and if need be the west
erner will cite well-known examples.
One of the best-known types of In
dian beauty is Miss Bula Benton Ed
mondson, principal of the publie
schools at Tahlequah, Okla. Miss Ed
mondson is a rare combination of
classic beauty, grace and surpassing
accomplishments. Her picture adorned
the walls of the Oregon building at
thé Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition
and for months it was the center of
marked attention from thousands of
visitors who found in the classic fea
tures a study which aroused the keen
est interest. Talented, beautiful, hold
ing the highest position which the citi
zens of' her community can give her
Oklahoma points with pride to her
protege whose lineage is linked with
the Cherokees, as the highest type of
Indian civilization and beauty in the
world.
Responsibility.
Friend—Haven’t you named the baby
yet?
Proud Mother—No ; we must be very
careful to give him a nice one, because
there will be so many named after him
when he is president
‘ Open.
“My life,” he boasted, “is an open
book.”
“Yes,” replied one of the men to
whom he owed money, “an open ac
count book.”