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Show Since nothing whatever happens to us outside of our own brain, the supreme importance of being able to control what goes on In that mysterious brain is patent Arnold Bennet. MORE GOOD, THINGS. On a chilly night a dish of hot soup la one of the most appetizing of all j j mmm foods with which 0-5c t0 start eve" ""J? ' nlngraeal. If the - dinner to follow fjg-j&g is a substantial Lf "ggJrW the soup may . be rjjlSiTa, Ust and stlmu- latlng with but little nourishment, but if the food which Is provided be light a cream soup, bisque or chowder should be the Grst dish. Soup a la Clermont. Take the upper crust of a small French loaf, cut In small pieces, remove the crumb. and put Into a bowl with two cupfuls of well seasoned stock. Place In a moderate mod-erate oven for half an hour. Slice four large onions, fry brown in butter, drain, and boil for twenty minutes in beef stock to cover. Add the onions and the bread to two quarts of hot beef stock; pour into a soup tureen and serve with grated cheese, passed on a separate plate. Mushroom Soup. Cut Into dice one and one-half cupfuls of fresh mushrooms. mush-rooms. Stew until tender In a cupful of beef stock. To this add one quart of stock. Thicken with a tablespoon-ful tablespoon-ful of flour rubbed smooth with a tablespoonful of butter. Season with salt and pepper and minced parsley. Combination Soups. Put into a soup kettle a hambone, a beefbone and a pod of red pepper and two cupfuls of split peas. Cover with cold water and simmer until the peas are soft. Take out the bones and pepper, season to taste and serve. , . - Bean Soup. Put Into a soup kettle two cupfuls of baked beans, two cupfuls cup-fuls of canned tomatoes, an onion finely fine-ly chopped, and six cupfuls ' of cold water. Simmer until the beans are soft, rub through a sieve, reheat, season sea-son and serve. Turkey Soup. Cover the bones and trimmings of cold roast turkey with cold water. Add a stalk of celery, chopped fine, a pinch of powdered sweet herbs, simmer for several hours, strain, season to taste and thicken with a tablespoonful each of flour and butter blended with a little of the soup. Within the somber realm of leafless leaf-less trees, The russet year inhaled the dreamy air; Like some tanned reaper in hla hour of ease, When all the fields are lying brown fiid bare. Thos. Read. I |