TITE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, DEUE3IBER 6, 1U03.
NORDICA'S SINGING SHOWS SOUL
OF WOMAN BEHIND HER VOICE
Artists Who Is to Appear at Heilig December 10 Leaves Lasting Impression on Listeners by Her Art.. ;
TRB concert Thursday night at tha
Helllg Theater will bring again to
Portland that favorite prima, do rum
known everywhere a "the Queen of
Song." Lillian 'ordlca. Nordlca'a ap
pearanoea mean more to a community
than might be apparant at first sight.
great singer might please an audience
vocally, yet his work leave no particular
Impression beyond the recollection of
having heard an exceptional voice.
Nordlca goes far beyond this Una and
appeals to the sympathetic as well as
to the esthetic aide of the listener.
Back of the rich, glorious voice ono
sees the woman a thoughtful, cultured,
whole-souled woman, generous, kindly
and human. The concert on Thursday
will bring out the 'usual throng of Nordlca
admirers, for the programme Is a fine
one and well calculated to display the
capabilities of the company, aa well as
the great powers of the prima donna
herself. The concert will be at the Helllg
Theater under the direction of Lola
Bteers-Wynn Coman and this Is the pro
gramme: J. Polonaise In A flat ..Chopin
Mm Kiowexa.
t. A rim Dtch Theure Halle'
TannhauT"
Mm. Nordic.
t- Prologue from "Pagllaccr-.. .Leoncavallo
Mr. Hustles.
4. Zairllsh Sens":
a) Now Sleeps tbe Crimson Petal
Qullter
() Serenade.". R- Strauss
e Ansrls Ever Bright and Fair..
" Handel
(d) Hall Bounteous May..."
Gena Bransrombe
Uolf. Nordic.
PART II-
1. a Faplllon
b Rnapsodle HonitrolKe
tl Shower.
Prnch and Italian Songai
ia Vieille Chanson....
(b Nell
ic Canzonetta from
Roia"
idl Mattlnata
Mme. Nordlca.
f. a) Requiem Arthur Fote
th) Sword Sons Elgar
Mr. Hastlnsa
4. German aonsa
(a Monat Mai Hammond
(b) Ieh Lleha rich Grief
(c Waldeaf eaprach Schumann
Mme. Nordlca.
."Wagner
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MJIE. LILLIAN NORDICA, TO SIPTG AT HEILIG DECEMBER 10.
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LILIAN TINGLE WRITES OF MAKING
OF FAVORITE CHRISTMAS DtSH
Various Ways of Compounding Plum Pudding, Pamous as Yuletide Deli
cacy Among English-Speaking People Since 1675.
BY L.ILJAN TINOLE.
YOU probably know the old rhyme
that begins:
"Roast beef, plum pudding, mince pies
and beer ,
Came into England all In one year."
It is doubtless "flat burglary as ever
was committed" to dare to doubt the
traditions of our ancestors thus em
bodied In deathless verse; but the sad
fart must be told. Plum pudding Is
Teally a comparatively newcomer be
side '"roast beef, mlnre pies and beer."
Plum pudding, as such, does not appear
In cookery books printed or manu
script before 1675; and It did not be
come prominent as a Christmas dish
until Georgian times. It has, how
ever, an ancient and very honorable
ancestry In "plum porrldjre," and the
origin of this famous dish Is lost In
the mists of antiquity.
Possibly the first historic mention of
"plum porridge" Is to be found In
Domesday Boook. It Is there recorded
that Robert Argyllon. head cook to
"William the Conqueror, served this
dainty at the coronation feast, Christ
mas, 1066, and so pleased his royal
master that a One estate, the Manor of
Addlngton, was bestowed upon him and
his heirs forever. Thus was the art of
the cook honored in old days. One
cannot help feeling sorry for the con
quered Saxon owner of that fine manor,
but the Saxons were notoriously In
artistic cooks.
Plum porridge and plum podding
after it, have been as victorious as
William himself. It Is estimated that
not less than 10,0)0 tons of pudding
are made and consumed annually In
Great Blrtain alone. Beside this, large
quantities of puddings are sent all over
the world.
As for Its conquest of America, we
may Judge partly by the rapid increase
In the consumption of raisins In this
country. In 1814 there was only half a
barrel of raisins to be obtained In New
York, to make plum puddings to cele
brate the treaty of peace; and now con
sider the hundred million pounds (more,
1 suppose, but I have not .up-to-date
flprures) supplied by California,
Here, however, we are Inclined to buy
our puddings ready made from groceries,
bakeries or women's exchanges; but In
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NEW YORK, Dec. B. (Special.)
Mrs. William Howard Taft. the next
"First Lady' at N asnington, has been
In New York visiting the family of her
brother-in-law, Henry W. Taft. and having a holiday reunion with her
three children. Mrs. Taft spent most of her time seeing friends and shop
pine and enjoying the society of her children. The children the ees only
at long Intervals, because they are all at school. Mrs. Taft made a most
agreeable Impression on all who met her here. The election of her hus
band to the Presidency bas not changed her In the least. She Is as simple
and straightforward In manner as when her husband was on the bench in
Ohio, and when she occasionally visited this city. Dignified but unaffected
In manner, ehe easily makes friends wherever she goes.
England, plum pudding making Is a
solemn family ceremony. The puddings
are mixed several weeks before Christ
mas and are the pride and joy of cook
and mistress alike. In old-fashioned
houses the oustom of "stirring the pud
ding" is still kept up. On the evening
when the last raisin has been picked and
the last bit of suet shredded, guests and
members of the family, young and old,
are invited to descend into the spicy
smelling kitchen with Its shining "dish
covers and well-scoured "tins" and
'brasses."
The cook, with glowing cheeks, modest
pride and a clean apron, waiting be
side a huge bowl In the North they call
It a "pancheon." nlled with the dark
and luscious compound. There is a huge
wooden spoon for stirring, and every
one must give It a turn or two even tha
baby's pudgy fist must be guided to the
long handle. Moreover, you must make
a wish when you turn the spoon. This
Is sure to come true If you can refrain
from speaking until you are spoken to
and then avoid answering "yea" or "no."
You might think this rule a check on
conversation and merriment, but It seems
to act the other way.
The puddings the proper British
housewife makes a year's supply at
this time are boiled for hour and
hours In the tvash-boner, and then
hung up to await the day of festivity.
The orthodox pudding Is boiled In a
cloth and should be shaped like a
canon ball with creased sides you re
member the pudding at "Tiny Tim's:"
"A great deal of steam. The pudding
was out of the copper. .A smell like a
washing dayl That was the cloth. A
smell like an . eating house and a
pastry cook's next door to each other
with a laundress's next to that! That
was the pudding."
But In these degenerate days boiJa
and fancy molds are more often used.
Of course, you know how It should
come to table parnlshed with bright
berried holly and blazing with lighted
brandy. And since the brandy may all
go off In blue flames, even the strictest
temperance advocate can hardly object
to it.
Do you care for some recipes? ,
Here is one over a hundred years
bid to begin with:
One pound beef suet, shredded fine
and chopped; one pound seeded raisins
and one pound currants, both carefully
washed and dried; half a pound of cit
ron In fine shavings; one cup brown
sugar, three cups sifted breadcrumbs,
one cup flour, one grated nutmeg, one
tablespoonful each of mace and clna
mon, four large tablespoon fuls of cream,
six eggs, well beatcp, one cup brandy
or wine (or orange Juice, if you dis
approve of anything alcoholic). Mix"
all together and stir "like fury." Bol!
the pudding not less than six hours,
and If possible for 34 hours.
The following recipe was given by I
Sir Henrv Thompson. . the famous au
thority on dietetics. It differs very
slightly from the older formula: One
pound stoned raisins, one pound washed
currants, six ounces mixed candied
peel (orange, lemon and citron), one
pound finely chopped suet: one-half
pound bread crumbs: one-half pound
sugar, one pinch of salt, a little gr.ted
nutmegi a. wlneglassful of brandy, six
or eight eggs, and a litle milk to mois
ten, if necessary. Boil in a cloth or
basin six hours. ; Keep -hanging In a
dry place and reheat when required.
Finally I offer you a vegetarian
i mv o-vnnrimnthpr'R Whirh
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calls for neither suet nor brandy: One
pound stoned raisins, 1 pound cleaned
currants, 1 pound cleaned Sultanas, 4
pound mixed peel, finely shredded. 1
pound brown sugar, 1 pound creamed
butter, 1 pound sifted white bread
crumbs, pound flour, the grated rind
of 1 lemon and 1 orange, Vt teaspoon
almond flavoring, pound almonds,
blanched and cut In strips, one small
nutmeg grated, ' 1 teaspoon cinnamon.
teaspoon powdered eloves, 1 cup or
ange Juice, 6 or 8 eggs, according to
size. Mix thoroughly and boll In bowls
6 or 8 hours. Serve decorated with
holly and stuck over with whole
blanched almonds.
My grandmother did not approve of
blazing brandy and used instead the
almonds to give an extra "tor-llL" You
could tell your fortune by the number
that fell to your helping..
Blazing plum pudding has its dangers.
Eat wisely rather than too well. Aa for
cold pudding, ask that venerable author
ity Mother Goose:
"The man In tha moon came down too
- soon
(No doubt he smelled. the boiling pad
dings.) And asked his way to Norwich
He went by tha South and burned his
mouth
By eating cold plum porridge.
BUYS CANAL TRANSPORTS
Government Exacts Reduction of
Price for Seattle Steamers.
The steamers Shawm ut- and Tre
mont, now at Seattle,-have been pur
chased by the Isthmian Canal Com
mission from the Boston Navigation
Company, to be used In transporting
supplies for the Panama canal.
For this purpose last year Congress
appropriated $1,500,000. The owners at
first asked exactly this amount, but
finally agreed to take SI. 157,301, which
they state Is 33 per cent less than the
vessels cost five and six years ago.
The owners agree to deliver the ves
sels at New York without coBt to
the Government.
These vessels will be used for car
rying supplies to the canal and later
will be turned over to the Navy for
service as colliers. The . Government
now has a contract for 4,500.000 bar
rels of cement, which will be taken
from New York to Colon.
UNWRITTEN LAW IGNORED
Man Who Killed Wife and AVound
ed Paramour Goes to Prison.
LTJDINGTON, Mich., Dec. 5. Ernest
I Brown, an engineer of Grand Rap
Ids, who came here last January and
shot his wife and Robert Johnson, a
farmer, in whose home she was living,
Mrs. Brown dying from her wounds
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If you wish to select
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for a Christmas pres
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whenever you wish.
We would suggest,
however, that you
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tass-im i T'miirtti mi-1 1-'8, ' ' - a i.-y-'vyiii-j ;;Cv.fa-aS.5f' si's- . '
three days later, was found guilty of
manslaughter by a Jury today.
Brown , was today sentenced by
Judge Session to seven and a half to
15 years' Imprisonment with a recom
mendation that it be 10 years.
Heart Disease Killed Baird.
SAN FRANCISCO, Deo. 5. An analy
sis of the contents of the stomach of
David J. Baird, the young millionaire
who died suddenly at his home recently
after a night spent at a number of
resorts on the ocean beach, failed to
find any trace of poison other than
that contained In the embalming fluid
used by the embalmer. Coroner Leland
Is now convinced that death resulted
from heart failure.
Black Hand Hat Rival.
CHICAGO, Dee. 5. Fearing death at
the hands of an unknown writer of
threatening letters 'he has been recelv-
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Otto F. L. Herse, Tenor
Who Will Sing at English Lutheran Church
Tuesday Evening, JLec S
. An entertainment that will surely he
well natronized will be the vocal con
cert to be given by Otto F. Ij. Herse,
tenor halladist. in the English Lutneran
Church. "West Park and : Jefferson
streets, next Tuesday evening. Decern
ber 8. Mr. Herse Is making a tour of
the Northwest, and his present neaa
quarters Is Portland. His friends here
are persuading mm to remain yci
manently and teach voice. His con
certs are pronounced by .press and pub
lic of the highest order, most charm
ing and satisfying. He sings with sen
timent and expressive feeling, and some
of the- single tones will remain with
the hearer always a more beautiful
voice would be hard to find. His pro
gramme consists of varied selections of
high-class, and familiar songs a pror
gramme that will satisfy every Indi
vidual desire English, German, Scotch
and Irish. Speaking of the concert
in San Francisco recently, a paper of
that city says:
"Otto F. Ij. Herse gave a most pleas
ing concert at the Ingomar last night,
and those who braved the rain were
treated to a delightful musical evening.
It can be said of Mr. Herse that no
tenor applies a sweeter, more caressing
or clearer, cleaner tone to ballad sing
ing. The singer manifested excellent
Judgment In the selection of his pro
gramme, choosing songs and ballads
admirably adapted to his vocal style.
In such numbers as Bonds' "Just
Awearyin' for You." Burns' "When 1
Was Wl' My Dearie," and Wilieby's "Roses of Yesteryear.' Mr. Herse s sing-ino-
iirniit-hf on ovniilfHtn demonstration of tone control and appealing sweet
ness difficult for any vocalist to excel, in his native toague he gave "Still Wle
Die Nacht" and "Ich Ltebe Dich" in a most pleasing manner.
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lng. Rev. William C. Waters, rector of
Grace Episcopal Church, has appealed
to the Federal authorities for protection.
He has been ordered in several letters
to leave $5000 near the high bridge. In
Lexington Park. Failure to comply
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The organization Is thought to be a new
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Dr. Waters, before taking the pas
torate of Grace Church, was rector of
a leading Episcopal Church In Detroit,
Mich.
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