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Show ike mam A handful of dust it is death, It is birth, It Is naught it Is all since the first day of earth, It Is fame. It is fortune, and laughter and tears, , And it looks all the mystery lost In the years, A handful of dust. GOOD THINGS FOR THE HOME TABLE. Where there are proper facilities for keeping foods from one day to another, anoth-er, much time and tvV1-! ""1 labor may be saved I 4 C i l)y rnakinS a little I A V" more than is neces-IA neces-IA ' 1 sary fr 'he meal zrZtk fr which it is In-p2a In-p2a teuded. Rice may "SsS be served in sev-eral sev-eral ways so that a larger quantity may be cooked at one time. Stuffed Egg Salad. Cook four eggs until hard and after shelling cut lengthwise into halves ; remove the yolks and beat to a paste; add a ta-blespoonful ta-blespoonful of chili sauce, two table-spoonfuls table-spoonfuls of minced chicken and a tea-spoonful tea-spoonful of melted butter. When blended fill into the egg whites and arrange on a bed of crisp heart leaves of lettuce, pouring over a thick boiled dressing; garnish with capers and slices of pickled beets. Palatable Steak Ends. Crop the tough end of a porterhouse steak rather rath-er coarsely ; cook it In a little butter with a sprinkling of pepper and salt; add two tablespoonfuls of milk, dredge with browned flour, toss it in a fourth of a cupful of cream and serve with baked potatoes. Peanut Butter. Shell and blow off the brown skins from the nuts ; ruh-bing ruh-bing them between two coarse towels will help the process. Dust them with salt and grind at once; pack into glass jars or tumblers, cover and keep In a cool place. Four tablespoonfuls of butter but-ter Is added to each pound of nuts by some, who consider it an improvement. Rice Spoon Bread. Take a cupful of corn, two tablespoonfuls of butter, a cupful of boiled rice and two-thirds of a cupful of boiled water, a cupful of milk, two beaten eggs, one and a fourth teaspoonfuls of salt, and a teaspoonful of baking powder. Beat well and bake In hot custard cups well greased. Hermits. Soak a cupful of seedless raisins overnight, then drain. Beat half a cupful of butter to a cream and ridd gradually one cupful of brown sugar, one teaspoonful of milk, one tablespoonful of molasses, two eggs beaten light, the raisins and two cup-fuls cup-fuls of flour, a teaspoonful of cinnamon, cinna-mon, half a teaspoonful of mace, two and a half teaspoonfuls of baking powder, all well sifted. Drop from a spoon and bake in a moderate oven. More flour should be udded if the cakes spread in baking. The man who drops Into a ruck And makes a sorry mess of life. If he's unmarrit-d blnmes his luck, .And If he's married blames his wife. SUGGESTIONS FOR HOUSEWIFE. Every spot of ground available should lie put into things for the ta-o-w, ble this year, as we are constantly told to ?on-Jjh ?on-Jjh serve every resource in '3sJS3 these times of stress and '5 - - high prices. The weekly f k-rrpA news letter published by J Kljj the United States depart-UJ depart-UJ meat of agriculture has inn n nn urtidQ ,y p i Hou.s- ton the secretary of agriculture in which he says: "Both for economic and patriotic reasons the American farmer should strive this year for the highest standard of etliciency In the production and conservation of food. But production accomplished by wasteful waste-ful methods does not make for efficiency, effi-ciency, and careful thought therefore should be given to the steps that need to be taken. Every vegetable not used for the table should be canoed for winter use, so that nothing be wasted. Even on city lots a small hotbed may raise a large quantity of table vegetables, and a bed four feet square will raise herbs enough to supply the market with sage, mint, and various savory herbs, fur some time. Vacant lots all over our cities are lying unused un-used which should be put to work raising rais-ing food for future needs. Different soils grow different crops successfully. The soy bean Is a crop which is easily grown on poor soil and the bean Is a most nutritious one, which at much less cost takes the place of the navy bean. It seems to need a little longer soaking and parboiling to soften the coat, but otherwise It Is cooked and served as the navy bean. Our food experts tell us that the nourishment Is equally as good as that of the navy bean. |