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GOOD CAKE IS RAKE RULES THAT WILL HELP PROVE COOK'8 WORK. IM. That Few Families Know What Good Cake la la Statement That Will Ba Resented, But It la Nona tha Leaa True. Paw families know what good cake la. This statement will be resented, but la none the leaa true. It la equal ly true that few professional cooks make as good cake as that baked by tha mistress of the house or one of As every one should know how to bake delicious cake whether ahe makes use of It or not, here are a few rules that are essential: Use the best materials. So-called eooking butter and stored eggs will make poor cake, and let no economi cal one perauade you otherwise. wnat is known as soft A sugar makes a cake of nicer grain than granulated or powdered sugar. In measuring stint rather than heap up tha cup or the batter la coarse grained Baking powder should be measured by gently rounding, not heaped or flat, taaspoonfuls. With sour milk recipes use baking soda and cream of tartar rather than baking powders. Never guess at measurements. Most PArtl noal flva ovoa! irtnrTrlrtr a wVi 4o Vi a good cook sometimes modifies. aup, when not defined, usually means the stone china kitchen coffeee cup that holda a little more than half a pint The richer the milk the better the cake. More than Is called for la oft- an permissible to keep the batter from getting too thick. Stinting flour la the secret of good cake. Few realize this, as can be told by two persons making up the same recipe with results totally dif ferent for the cook who Is heavy on flour. It Is safe to allow a quarter to half a cup less flour on most recipes. Judgment is important in cake min ing. Flours differ in heavlneaa and agga in size; therefore to keep the batter from being too stiff see that It runs easily from the spoon, yet St not "runny." Thinning must be dear before baking powder and whites t eggs are In. Hare all ingredients ready before beginning to mix a cake. Once start ed It should go into the oven quickly. One mixing bowl and two smaller ones for eggs will be needed; also a wooden paddle and a wire egg beater 81ft into batter before measuring and put into batter through sifter. Get ready pane before starting cake. There la but one sure way to prevent sticking paper tha bottoms of pan and grease it, not the pan, which Is only buttered on the edge. Many per one tile lard for n-a&alnff but butter never tastes. Papering la no trouble If ten cents worth of yellow wrapping paper is bought and cut In leisure momenta to fit your various shaped pans. Keep In an air-tight box In the kitchen closet A good cake baker makes sure that bar cake pana are not used for other purposes by keeping them under lock. Ia the same place have all the uten alia needed and there will be no de laya. Here also have an extra aupply of baking powder, flavoring extracts, chocolate and the special sugar used. Do not' get more than five pounds at a time of the latter, and see that it i rolled and sifted before using. Pickled Oysters. Two hundred large oysters, one cup vinegar, one cup white wine, four teaspoons salt, six teaspoons whole peppers, one-quarter teaspoon mace. Drain and clean oysters, scald the liquor. Strain and add the above named Ingredients. Let boil up at onoe and pour, while boiling hot over the oysters. After these have stood ten minutes pour off the liquor, which, as well as the oysters, should then be allowed to got cold. Put In a Jar and cover tight Butter Cakes. Sift two cups of flour, with four level teaspoons of baking powder and one level teaspoon of salt Rub Into this two tablespoons of butter. Grad ually add three-fourths cup of milk. Roll out one-half Inch thlok as for biscuits. Bake on a hot griddle on top of stove, leaving room for them to rise. Dake rather slowly and turn bat once. They will puff to double he slse they were when put on pan. Lamb Pudding. Tha cold meat from yesterday's Joint bread crumbs, one tablespoon of butter, two eggs, a little gravy, pep par, salt and a piuch of nutmeg. Chop tha cold lamb fine, season and wet up wtth a little good gravy. Mix In one quarter as much crumbs and pour Into buttered mold. Set In a pan of hot water, and cook covered In a good oven for one hour. Turn out and pour a little gravy over It Green Tomato Preserve, Wash and slice green tomatoes, al low three-quarters of a pound of sugar to each pound of tomato, together with one lemon cut in siloes and put be tween the layers of tomato; cook until thick, add a 15-cent Jar of preserved ginger pat through the food chopper. A Cooking Timetable. Mutton, IS mlnutee to the) pound. Beef, ! minute. VeaL 10 minute. Ham, 18 to to minutes. Itovla. U to 15 mtantar TEXAS SENATOR ENTERED CONGRESS AT AGE OF 28 Among those who have entered the United States senate and made no table careers Sena tor Joseph W.Bal ley of Texas stands with the first. The prog ress and evolution of Mr. Bailey since he entered congress in 1891, when only twenty- eight years old, have been among the most interest lng features of our national life during that period. Personally, Senator Bailey is a man of a very genial disposition. His most conspicuous personal trait is loyalty to his friends, and he has always been found to be sincere, frank and candid. The senator Is one who delights in retirement, and seldom if ever is he found frequenting the clubs and hotel lobbies where his political friends are wont to congregate. He is unconven tional In many ways and he cares lit tle if at all for even the simpler man ifestations of social life. One of the laudable traits of Mr. Bailey's charac ter is his love of the home and the family. When his colleagues are en joying the luxuries and pleasures of their various clubs he delights in be ing at home surrounded by the peace' ful influence of bis family. His fa vorite hobby is the raising of fine cat tle and blooded horses, and it is one of his ambitions to conduct the best farm In the land for this purpose. Among the rank and file of the sen ate Bailey Is probably the most en thusiastic patriot. The Are of his or atory when speaking on the consolida tion of Oklahoma and Indian Terri tory, besides eliciting a burst of spon taneous applause from the galleries. thrilled and astounded his confreres. In his peroration on this occasion he branched off Into an Impromptu trib ute to the Lone Star state and hi commanding deNxvry axd beautiful Jaaguaga proti WycwaJ 5rasti?,a tStt oratory UIJ thrtrea Sa IS tvnd eongTWiS xti thai SJ fcrfttrt q& tra patrtottian tt 3 a ffiirtmt ea. The Discordant Note By TEMPLE BAILEY 6 WESTERN CHILD WONDER SmSS TEH LANGUAGES W&roJ Sfctc3.TGl Stoaer. daugh ter cf CVfc. 1. R. Stutter-, cf the Tutted Sta'tfs marine hospital service, is regarded as a rlTal of young SUls. the special student in Har vard who Is a genius in mathe matics. w inirred, o r "Cherle " as her mother calls her. Is only 8 years old. She can speak 10 different languages fluently and uses the different tongues as she chats with her dolls and plays with children. She reads almost constantly, and has read the majority of Shake speare's plays. She is also a poet having written verse In several lan guages. Tne motber says the ability of the girl to speak French, Spanish, Latin, Esperanto, Japanese, Russian, Polish, German and Italian Is due to careful training from the time ahe was a baby. "Her advancement," says her moth er, "1b not due to anything except the way in which she was educated. . I began with her when she was three weeks old, developing her mentally and physically, and the effect of the teaching and methods is apparent. The method used is the same as was employed in training William James Sldls, the Boston boy. I started from the first to teach the child the best, to cultivate her taste and to Improve her mind. I do" not have her 'show off' and I know she is as normal as any child of the same age, but I would like to have her work known for the bene fit of other kiddies, for any child may be trained the same way with the same probable result. The secret is to make their training the same as play for them." Modern Publlo Highways. The people of the city are not the only ones who pay tax money for the building and Improvements of streets and highways that never Is spent on the roadways. And this condition In the country gave John Winters a chance to say one of his occasional good things. It was a town meeting. The people of his Til lage could not understand how the money appropriated for roads had vanished with such negative results, and some of them attended this meeting of the select men to dis cuss the matter. "I'd just like to say one thing," he drawled, regardless of the fact that he had Interrupted an Indignant neighbor, "I don't want to make any fuss whatsoever, but I'd Just like to ask this honorable board of publlo highwaymen" And that was aa far as he got A roar of laughter drowned his fur ther words and showed his efforts In the red faces of the "highway men" and, later, in the improve ment of the before-mentioned road way. Judge. Possibly. Gotham They say that the wireless bustness Is still in Its infancy. Flatbush And do you suppose soma day we'll have barbed wireless fenoes? Yonkera Statesman. (Copyright, ibio. by Auociatad Literary Pre) Duohane lying lazily on the marble bench by the fountain could see Julia as she swept down the long shaded wslk with the vista of the terraced gardens at the end. She was in shimmering green with a necklace and belt of turquoise. Behind her strutted a peacock with outspread tall. Dushane's artistic eye gloated over the perfection of the picture. "You -beauties," he murmured under his breath. Julia, coming nearer, said, "I knew I should find you here. You are al ways lazy in the afternoons. Other men play tennis but you " She shrugged her shoulders. "Would you like to have me play tennis now?" be asked. She shook her head. "No, you may talk to me." "What shall I talk about?" She gave him a swift glance. "As If you didn't know," she murmured. He knew what she wanted. He had always paid homage to her beauty, and she liked to bask In the sunshine of bis compliments. Somehow he felt not In the mood to give ber what she desired. A weariness had come over him. a sense of incompleteness. He had planned today to ask Julia to marry him. and now that the moment had arrived, he had no desire to speak. Even as he hesitated the peacock raised his head and gave a harsh cry. Julia put her hands over her ears. "He is such a beauty," she said, "who. would have dreamed that he could give forth such an evil sound" It flushed through Dushane's mind, as she sat there, touching her shi ning hair, setting the blue stones at The Peacock Spread His Plumage and Gave Forth Hla Crlea. her neck, making a thousand little Ineffective feminine movements, that she was not unlike the peacock preen ing itself In the sunshine. At his silence she pouted. "You're not Inter esting," she said, "I am going to leave you and find somebody who can talk." He let hor go, wondering why he did bo, yet held from the declaration of his feelings by some intuition. When he was again alone he became conscious of a little sound in the stillness; a soft song sung in a quavering voice. He rose, followed the sound, and came upon a little summer house set at the foot of the vegetable garden. In it a little old lady sat with a big pan in her lap Into which she was shelling peas. Dushane laughed delightedly, "Why, Mrs. Worthington " he said. "Who would have believed It?" The little old lady rose hurriedly, and the peas flew In all directions. "Oh, what would Julia say If ahe knew you saw me?" she gasped. Bho waa a quaint little figure. Her modish black chiffon gown waa cov ered with a big, white apron; her hair, dressed with Jeweled combs, was piled high on her bead, and she had perched on it an old straw hat to shade her eyes. "Julia doesn't like to have me do anything In the kitchen," she faltered. You know Julia has been away to school, and since we got the big house she wants us all to live like people in the city; but I" she drew a quick breath "I have alwara shelled peas, and done nuch things, and I cannot get used to idleness." "I know,"-he added, "my mother loves housewifely things. In our place in Virginia she is out in the garden half the time." "Oh, Is sher The little lady'a tone was eager. "I wish you would tell Julia, she thinks ladles like your mother do not do such things." Dushane knew now the cause of hla instinctive suspicion of Julia's beauty. He had felt behind it there was a lack of character and a snobbishness that was .plebeian. His own lineage was unquestioned, but the women of his family had been proud of their gardens, their kitchens and ot their hniiRftwlfelv domain .... "Now Nell is different," the od lady waa saying. "Sometimes ahe cornea out and helps me. , The other day we ran away and had a picnic. Wa bought a loaf of bread and a bot tle of milk, and made milk toast over a little fire we built in the woods, and you cannot imagine bow good it tasted." "Indeed I can," Dushane said heartily. "The next time you run away you must tell me and I will go too, and I will catch some fish, and we will broil them over the coals." ' She clasped her hands eagerly. "There comes Nell now," she said. "We've planned to go tomorrow, and I am going to tell her you want to accompany us." Nell had none of Julia's haughty pride, but she was very fresh, and sweet, and enthusiastic as she talked to Dushane. "Do not tell Julia," she insisted. sne nates to have mother and me do such things, but tomorrow there will be a lot of people for tennis and tea, and we thoueht we could run away, and not have to meet them." I will run away too," Dushane said. "I will meet you at the second bridge. They will never miss me In tne crowd." ' But Jillla did miss this wealthy and important guest ' It was because of mm tnat sne had invited her neigh bors for tea and tennis. She was proud of her conquest and wished to snow nim off. Dushane appeared among them for a moment, and then he could not be found, and little did Julia guess that he was on the road to a tryst with her mother and schoolgirl sister. Dushane caught a half dozen trout and broiled them with bits of bacon. The little old lady made coffee, and Nell stirred up a cornbread and baked it over the coals. In the midst of the feast came Julia, flaming. "What are you doing?" she de manded, sweeping In upon them, all In pale pink, with rosy plumes a her wide hat. "I misBed you, and the servants said you had come -this way. I thought something must have hap pened, and I ran away from my gueBts long enough to find you here. I cannot understand It Why has mother come out here in that old lawn dress and wide hat? Nell, what if some one had seen you?" In her anger she had forgottei. that Dushane might sit In Judgment. Her voice, usually low and well mod ulated, was harsh and rough." Du shane thought of the cry of the pea cock. This waa the discordant note! "Yes, we ran away," he said, and his glance met Julia's steadily. "Your mother does not enjoy tennis and tea and crowds of people, and sh en In vn this, why should not she have it?" The direct question brought Julia to her senses. "Why, of course," she faltered, 'only nice people don't do inh things." "My mother does them." stated. "I have been with her in the woods many a day, and we have roasted potato, and boiled corn, and had all sorts of feasts." Julia raw thai sho had made a roii-take, and attempted to retrieve it. But Dushane had no eyes for her; he was watching tVell whose crimson cheeks and tear wet eyes showed her distress. He wis watching, too. the old lady's trembling lip and nervous hands. His heart went out in sym pathy and tenderness. These two women needed him; more than that Nell was a girl to love. They went home a dejected group. The little mother and Nell entered by the back door. Julia rejoined her guests, and Dushane drifted down the shady walk to the marble bench by the fountain. On the tor race tbe peacock spread his nlumaa-a and gave forth his cries. At dusk a little figure crept like a shadow to the fountain. It was Nell In filmy white and pearls. "Are we such sinners?" she whis pered. "Wasn't It dreadful?" Dushane rose and took her hands in his. "No," he said, "but I am afraM Julia will never forgive me, and I'm noi sure, Nell, that I want her for giveness. But there la somnthtns that I do want and I am not going to ask it now. You are the sweetest woman in the world, and your mother is Just a little faded edition of you. Some day, and I hope it will not be long, I want to take care of you both: but this is not the time to ask It Will you wait a little and then Int me come back to you, Nell?" "Ohl"ahe whispered, "but Julia?" "Julia will find many others." ba said, "who will adore her beauty. She doesnt need me any more than I need her, but you will fill my heart May I come back?" ,, And the fountain heard her aa she answered "Yea." Evening Dresses call .Full Particulars Later. Mr. Dorklna Maria, do you that thing a hat? Mrs. Dorklna (In a clear, metallic volte) I think that's what the mil liner will call it in the bill you will get next week. Lata Horror. "WelL professor " laid one of his vounx married friends. "I've done the usual thing; I've put a mortgage on my house and lot. "Have you anything to chauffer it?" Inquired the professor. She Waa Careful. "But daughter, why dldnt you tell him to atop kissing you?" "Oh, papa, I thought It might be Impolite to interrupt him." Yonkera Statesmai THE costume shown on the left is a combination of soft primrose satin and silver grey chiffon. The satin is used for the Princess under dress, the chiffon for the over-dress, which is slightly full ' at . the waist, and at each side has a panel of dull silver and pearl trimming with fringed ends. The front of bodice is veiled with the chiffon, over which trimming Is laid, a narrow dull silver trimming edging the bodice; the chiffon is then draped on the bodice, the sleeves be ing cut In with it; the edge of sleeve Is finished with the trimming. Materials required: 7 yards doubje width satin, 8 yards chiffon, 42 inches wide, trimming according to width. SHOWING THE WINTER STYLES Exhibits of London Dressmakers Give Fair Idea of What Is Going to Be Popular. All the smart dressmakers In Lon don have been exhibiting their new models. The coat and skirt costumes were chiefly of "ratine," the latest novelty in materials, which when at Its best resembles chamois leather in appearance, but is as soft and warm as a good Harris tweed. Coats, of course, were short and rather like the reefer of several years ago, while skirts, If not actually hobbled, were tight to the hobbling point and much trimmed. House and evening gowns were almost all fashioned with tunic effect Sometimes the tunic was very long. Sometimes It reached but a lit tle below the hips. Black was much used to soften vivid color effects. Thus, a frock of purple and green had a long tunic of black net bordered with Persian trim ming, while black and blue and black and magenta were blended on various evening gowns. Oriental embroideries, dull silver 'and gold tissues and gem studded braids were also in evidence, Garlands of flowers were used In trim ming some of the dresses, and one dainty pink and cream gown was shackled with ropes of dainty little roses veiled with chiffon. issues 0E There Is a preference for white laces this season. Light, filmy laces are trimmed with fur for winter gowns. The popularity for the one piece gown does not abate. More ostrich feathers are being sold than ever before. t Black velvet is paramount as trim ming, while satin runs a close second. Large colored wood buttons are seen on some of the new tailored suits. . There seems to be no cessation In the demand for allovera and baby Irish. The style of the one piece after noon gown depends upon the little French touches more than upon any special acheme of line. Hints for tha Table. For a very delicious dish of deviled clams prepare a cupful of chopped clams and season them with cayenne, salt and the juice of a lemon. Mix them to a aoft batterlike consistency with the yolka of two eggs and some powdered crackers. Put the mixture Into little ramekins, broad scalloped anella or Into tiny cups, spread the sur face) with soft butter and bake until well browned. For a change the mix ture may be spread over crisp .crack era and then browned in the oven. Two Sewing Hints. When silk pulls out of shape under a pattern, baate the edges of the silk evenly to a newspaper. Cut through allk and paper. To preaa tucks in crepe da chine put a aheet of white tissue paper over the right aide. In this way the tucks may be aeon and kaot straight The other is in white satin char mouse; "the slightly , trained skirt is trimmed with wide tarnished gold and pale blue embroidery, which draws the satin slightly in and gives the effect of a tunic, edged with hand some cord that is carried up to the waist each side front The over-bodice is of entirely the same embroidery, with undersllp of white crepe-de-Chinl, the whole edged with' cord; , waist-band of soft blue satin. Materials required: Five yards double width satin, 1 yard embroi dery for skirt, 1 yard embroidery for bodice, 1 yard crepe-de-Chine 40 Inches wide. REVIVAL OF "GREEK BATH" Beauty Doctors Are Recommending It Said to Have Splendid Effect on the Skin. If the skin happens to be dry ant harsh, have you tried tte soothing and smoothing effect of the' so-called Greek bath? This was a fav.nrlto ramnrlv nf the ancients and has been revived by modern beauty doctors. Mix seven tablespoonfuls of pure olive oil and , one of lavender water and rub it well into the entire body. Apply a little at a time and rub in well with the palms of the hand, using a circular motion. To get the best effects from thia bath the body should be kept very warm during the rubbing. If hot cloths are applied first to open the pores more of the oil will be absorbed. . Take the baths three nights In suc cession, then stop for a week and take the series again as necessary. Tha skin quickly Improves. ' LATEST IN MILLINERY. Parisian Idea In Novel Design. Foot Comfort A shoemaker who has had wide ex perience with making women's shoes gives as the secret of foot comfort tha simple rule: "Never wear a shoe that will not permit the great toe to lie in a straight line." This may mean the elimination ot some of the most fashionable cuts and the annoyance to vanity of asking for big sizes, but It will save bills to tha chiropodist and improve dispositions. Tea Gowns. A lovely little tea gown which con tains an idea for the woman with a similar garment to make over is of pale turquoise satin, draped In em pire style and veiled with gray crepe de chine, hemmed with a finger's width of gray squirrel fur. The veiling la held in place over the underbody by a fleur-de-lis of seed pearls at tha walat Find something more desirable than an honest man and you will earn tor yourself the title of chief discoverer arno" tha aoda-Natlonal Food Hag slot