SO"E COOKERY HINTS
IDEAS THAT MAY BE OF VALUE
TO THE HOU8EWIFE.
Hew the Ideal Custard Should Br
Mad Mayonnaise With Just the
Right Flavor Beat Way to
8arve Cucumbers, T
The bet custards ever made have
hot beea baked on the oven floor. The
tried-and-true method to make the de
licious custard la one quart of fresh
milk, scalded In a double boiler. No
more nor leaa than (our eggs beaten
and stirred Into one cup of granulated
sugar. Always lemon extract with
pinch of nutmeg for the delicate cus
tard. U kills the egg flavor. Now,
here Is your secret, place it in a pan
of boiling water In the oven, cover
your baking dish, bake it Just one-halt
hour in a warm but not too hot oven.
Insert a silver knife In the middle of
the custard. If it comes 'out clean,
the custard is done, otherwise the in
gredients, stick to the knife.
Of all the professional secrets hard
est to obtain for the delicious mayon
naise this was the hardest That un
mistakable "tang,"' the tasty snap,
though hidden with other, condiments
was found to be nothing else but cu
cumber. No, you could not taste it,
for it was blended with the mayon
naise The cucumber is grated for
the purpose. . Then, think of it, the
vinegar used. - Ordinary vinegar T Yes,
but prepared with brown sugar, boiled
with spices and churned into a white
foam with one-halt its bulk ot olive
OIL For potato salad this mayon
naise, mixed with the cucumber rnd
hard-boiled eggs is, really, one ot the
finest flavored salad dressings known
to the chefs who dislike to make
known their professional secrets.
Have you seen the encumber sliced,
but in halt and decorated with slices
of red radish? - Very pretty. Score
the rounded aides of the cucumber
Into one-eighth inch aections, but do
not cut through the cucumber. Place
the flat or cut side of the cucumber on
the dish, slice the red radishes, leav
ing on the red rim. Insert these slices
of radishes between the slices of cu
cumber, alternating the red and white;
garnish with parsley, small pickles,
email flecks of beet, and serve with
ealad dressing.
A delicious luncheon dish is known
as "Devils on Horseback." Plump car
dines, are used. Bach has a little
blanket ot bacon pinned around his
"tummy turn turn" and all is fried In
deep fat and served on buttered toast
. Dont Lose the Pie Juice.
'To keep the Juice in the pie, Instead
ot using the cloth strips, which spoils
the edge of the pie anyway, have the
bottom crust larger than the pan. Cut
the apples Into sections. Before put
ting them in, cover the bottom of the
pastry with half the sugar, r One cup
ful of sugar to a good-sized pie will
not be too much if the apples are sour.
Lay sections of apples all around the
edge. Then fill In the middle. Add
the rest of the sugar. Roll out the
top crust to fit and lay on.' Wet the
edge all around and turn up over the
top crust the surplus of the under
crust Press down with the fingers,
then mark all around with a fork.
Make a hole in the top of the pie and
wet all over with cold water. The
oven should be fairly hot for the first
15 or 20 minutes. Then the heat may
be reduced so that the apples may
cook thoroughly. It will take about
40 minutes to bake good-sized pie
Cooking Steak.
To cook steak, have a nice red Are,
not too hot or it will scorch meat
;ln a few minutes remove broiler, and
,Jt steak has changed color turn other
aide, then change again. Have sharp
Wfe and cut a little piece; if center
is bright red and no sign of raw meat
remove and put piece of butter on It
and eat, the sooner the better.
WHAT BRITISH CONSOLS ARE
I Net Bends, aa We Uee Term, but
, Perpetual Obligation of the
. British Nation. , ..
The Vltish government debt really
i dates back to 1671, when It bore 6 per
cent Interest Since then the major
wars of the world have been recorded
with more or less exactness in the
fluctuations ot interest return to In
vestors In British bonds. Incidentally.,
a very ancient and honorable British
institution Is now apparently In the
way ot being extinguished. In the
middle of the eighteenth century
about the time yonng George Wash
ington was surveying In the wilds of
Virginia England's government debt
was consolidated Into a uniform Is
sue bearing S per cent Interest; hence
arose the venerated name "consols,"
long boasted as the world's premier
security. .-..''' ;v", j
War with the American colonies and
with Napoleon sent consols down to
47 cents on the dollar, but by 18z4
they were up to 06, and England set
tled back Into a conviction that her
government bonds, bearing not. more
than S per cent interest were among
the permanent phenomena of nature,
says the Saturday . Evening Post
Nearly a generation ago Mr. Qoschen
reduced the Interest on consols to 214
per cent then to ZVt per cent, 'and at
the, latter . rate they presently aold
above pan r ; :: ..'.' '
Consols are not really bonds,- aa we
use the term, because the principal to
not payable at all. They are the per
petual obligation of the British gov
ernment and the purchaser, Instead
of getting a sheet ot engraved paper, i
with coupons attached, gets merely an
entry on the Bank ot England's books
signifying that Interest Is payable to
him. -
Recently parliament authorised a
loan of 16,000,000,000 payable In SO
years and bearing 4ft per cent Inter
est Consols are convertible Into the
new loan at the rate of 66 1-1 cent
on the dollar, by which process they
may disappear. What other ancient
and honorable Institutions the war
may swallow up is problematical.
The Fire-Brat
The common sllverflih (Leplsma
saccharine) is a well-known and trou
blesome household insect but It near
relative Thermobla domestics, known
in England as the "fire-brat," Is less
familiar. In a recent department of
agriculture bulletin on silverflsh' Mr.'
C. I Marlatt calls attention to the
curious habit which the fire-brat has
developed of frequenting ovens and
fireplaces, where It seemingly revels
in an amount of heat that would be
fatal to most other Insects. The writer
says: "It disports Itself In numbers
about the openings of range and over
the hot bricks and metal, manifesting
a most surprising Immunity from the
effect of high temperature." ' It was
first described in this country In 1873,
and began to be noted commonly
about 1885 In Europe. It Is ot about
the same size and general appearance
as the silverflsh, except for some
iusky markings.
Color of Beards.
The color ot beards arouses many
points of interest All the ancient tap
estries show Cain and Judas iscarlot
with yellow or red beards, and Pon
tius Pilate In ancient art always was
given a beard. A reddish beard, how
ever, doe not carry the significance
that goes with red hair, for a large
number of eminent men with dark
brown hair have had reddish beards.
Sometime the eyelashes have been
ruddy, Savonarola, who had almost.
Mack hair, having startllngly red eye
brow and eyelashes. But, as a gen
eral rule here alio, a silky brown
beard, when accompanied by fine curl
ing dark-brown hair. Is the most usual
characteristic shown in the biograph
ies of men whose names have been
handed down to tame.
DO YOU HAVE HAY FEVER?
Ten Deubtles You Suffer Alee From
the Solicitous Friend Cure -by
Hearsay.
1 affect hay fever on tbe eighteenth
day ot every August beginning at a
quarter past three In the afternoon,
Robert C, Benchley write In Vanity
Fair. From then until September 10,
along about ten o'clock at night my
friend are never at a loss tor a mer
ry laugh or a Jocund remark about
my appearance. I am not proud
man, but I have sensibilities. I there
fore have a personal Interest In all
alleged hay fever reliefs.
But hay fever cures always come
secondhand by hearsay. Someone
snuggle up to you and says: "Oh, do
you have hay fever r (to which the
Ooldbergtan answer would be, "No, I
paint my nose and eye red every day
to frighten the gypsy moths away")
and then, with an air of purveying
diplomatic secrets they confide that
they have "a friend who used to have
hay fever, oh, terribly: couldn't
breathe, and all that sort ot thing,
you know; and someone told him of
this kind of powder arrangement
which you snuff up your nose and then
hold your head under water for a
minute or two, and. do you know, he's
never had a touch ot hay fever since
he tried It" And If you'd like, they'll
ask their friend where to send for It
and they take your telephone number
eo that they can 'let you know all
about It. Only If you are hardened to
the type, you give them the number
of the zoo, or the aquarium, or some
thing Impersonal like that, tor the
chance are that, when they do call
you up It will be to suggest an addi
tion to your life Insurance policy.
It's mighty funny that yon never
run across the original friend In tbe
first place. No one ever steps . right
up to you like a man say In o many
words, "This baa cured, me of hay
fever," pointing the while at a clearly
labeled bottle.
Poetry and Noses. '
'- I have read that no poem was ever
written to a nose. ' Can you, offhand,
recall a (Ingle rapturous or even ad
miring description of one? ' I search
my memory In vain, but produce in
stead one Instance that baa always In
terested me by its neglect You recall
that little poem of Browning's, "A
Face," the brief and charming descrip
tion of a girl's profile against a back
ground ot gold. Tbe "matchless mold"
of softly parted Up, the "neck three
finger might surround," and the
"fruit-shaped perfect chin" all receive
their due of praise; the nose, a seem
ing necessity in any profile, I not
even mentioned. It may be aa well;
each reader supplies, in tbe lovely
(ace, the line that suits him best The
poet may have feared that by It mere
mention he would produce the effect
too often given by the noae In real
life a heaviness that mars an other
wise charming face. Atlantio Month
ly. Curious Indian Game Traps.
The discovery of the manner In
which the prehistoric Indians ot tbe
southwest obtained their meat supply
was made recently by Washington
scientists during an Investigation
around the plateau' of the Pajarika
park, near Santa Fe, where a number
of game traps were found.
It Is believed that the discovery of
these traps Indicates that the south
western Indian of preblstorlo times
was far more Intelligent than his
brother of the North. '
The traps are holes cut in lava rock
at places where the poisonous gases
make their way through to the sur
face. They are Ingeniously arranged
to suggest a cavern In which an ani
mal may hide.
Animal running from their foe see
one of these traps and dive Into It
Almost Instantly tbey are suffocated!
by the gas. This manner of death
doe not destroy their value ae food
SAILOR "CAME BACK"
.Vir - ; H; V JV
ROMANCE OF THE SEA AS HI
LATBO BY THE WRITER. ;
, j w
Cupid Triumphed In the End, Deepltt
Effort et Father to Separate HI
Daughter From the Man
She Loved.
Some SO year ago I sailed with a
brlgantlne hailing from a New Eng.
land town. Tbe skipper had an eighteen-year-old
daughter, hi only child,
on board, hi wife being dead. v
The girl became friendly with on
ot our ordinary seamen about twenty
year old, a clean-cut chap, who al
ready had his master' paper. On
night, when the young fellow was at
the wheel, the skipper cam on deck
and found his daughter standing
alongafde of htm, with her arm around
hi neck. Tbe skipper became angry,
hit the boy, and aent him forward, and
would not allov him to come aft
again, although the girl told him she
was engaged to the boy.
Now began a trying time tor the
boy. One day the young fellow, goad
ed to desperation, defended himself
when the skipper struck him. This
was committing an unpardonable act;
The boy was put into Iron and
when we arrived at Rio Janeiro, our
destination, the harbor police took
him to shore. I must state, to the
skipper' credit, that he did not prose
cute the boy, but of course hi berth
was taken by another man when we
left Rio.
Five years passed. I was atlll with
the me skipper and to . was his
daughter, but she was not any mora
the laughing, happy girl she waa be
fore. W bad loaded pitch pin In Bruns
wick, Oa., and were again bound for,
Rio. Nearlng our destination, w
were caught It a storm. TIM vestal
rolled awfully, the cargo chafed back'
and forth and we toon knew that we
bad fire In the hold. We took off the
main hatch to try and put out the flrct
but a toon as w got It open tbe flame
burst out and w had to take to the
boat.
This happened at night The vet
set burned for two hours, when there
was no more left of her. W stood
by her, thinking the flame would
draw tome other vessel to our assist
ance. At daylight we saw a "tors and
after" near by. In a short time ws
were alongside. The skipper's daugh
ter wat the first np the ladder and I
was close after her to prevent her
from falling backward Into the boat '
The skipper of this vessel, a young
fellow, stood at the rail and helped
us to the deck. Tbe girl looked at him
and he at her; then they fell Into each
other's arms and the girl cried from
happiness. -
The youag skipper was the boy her
father bad treated so shabbily.
Strange to say, the vescel wat bound
tor Rio, too, -and he arrived there
once more securely bound, hut not'
with chains this time. The wedding
wat celebrated In Rio and the bride
went with lier hutband on hi vessel.
Chicago Tribune. i
How Much Radlumt
Effort to determine the amount ot
radium In the ocean have been few,
Prof. S. J. Lloyd ot tbe University
of Alabama find that about thirty
templet of sea water have been tott
ed, taken from tbe Irish and English
coasts, the North and South Atlantic,
tbe Mediterranean, tbe Black, sea, the
Arabian tea, and in bit own deter,
mlnatlon from tbe Gulf of Mexico S00
miles touth of Mobile. Discarding ex
treme result, with a maximum 60
time greater than the minimum, It I
concluded that the total radium In '
the sea somewhat exceeds 1,400 ton.
A river contain little, It I assumed
that this supply come from uranium
In the sea, which must reach a total ot
nearly 4,200,000,000 ton, making ura
nium In sea-water comparable In quan
tity to gold.