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Show I Woman's World J THE OLD MAID'S SONG. j I ri1 tnids that sro to the market-town, ' " U'lin nells arc ring-ins on market-' S nay. J -fl-jtii vour butter and egg-s, and your I ' fairiiip povn. ! vnss tho fields by the shorter way, I --,', ve and cossip at every pate. I J ,U(i loiter and laugh at many a stile: j fut when you come where the dead I ' "' iivn wait. J j ye be sorry awhile! 1 n,r there an honest lad lies low Tli.'it once was more than friend to I "in--: . iiini "no." and 1 bade him "eo," Trough the best in all the world was " he: I ,.w niore than else that the world can I ' 'hold ' ".ly hart holds him I loved too late, j t,.." ). nniiy and young, while 1 drag- obi i -v th-- field where the dad men watt! RECIPES. 1 Snow Pudding. Cr'vm one-half a cup of butter. Add I one (iip of supar ;,nd beat again un- ii! 'lipid. Add alternately two and one- S h;ilf ups of flour sifted with three I i. ,. t.-.i spoons of baking powder, and I y . iifii the batter is smooth fold in the I (j-iflly beaten whites of four eggs. Tour j int.. "a buttered pudding- mould and Ftt'ini two hours. Have the serving J ri,v.;, ii;(ted and turn out the pudding. I -yv with a chocolate sauce. ' Steak Roll. Take a round steak and trim away I :! the fat and muscle. Spread it over 'villi a mixture made from the fol-I fol-I lo-ii.g ingredients: Two slices of I v,-ad. crumbed: a teaspoon of tait, a tca.'-i'i'on of chopped parsley, a pinch ' f pepper and a. teaspoon of melted biiiter. In spreading, roll the steak t lit lone way. Then tie it in three I ).a -es. put it in a baking pan with a 1 pint of water, a slice of onion and a I cpiarter of a teaspoon of pepper. Cook I slowly for an hour. When done put in I a heated dish, remove strings and add J a sauce made as follows: Brown a tea-I tea-I spoon of butter and add a tablespoon !of flour. Cook to a dark brown. Add liquor from the pan in which the steak v ns cooked. Season with salt and i sTe with steak. I HOT CAKES. j When making cakns try greasing the I tins with olive oil instead of with better. You "will find that the cakes j turn out better. j J TO SLICE BREAKFAST BACON. I In cutting breakfast bacon lay the I rind side down on the meat board, cut ! down to the rind as many slices as are I needed, th-m cut it off in a block. Turn J e.jgway.s and cut off one end. then the I other end, the inside and last the rind, nd jou will have trimmed all the slice;? nearly as quickly as you could hav-? trimmed one. 4 I SCRAMBLED EGGS AND TOMATO. 1 Peel and cut up a pint of ripe to- niatofs: put them into a saucepan or I your chafing dish pan and cook until they are soft. Add a tablespoonful of 1 butter and falt, pepper and cayenne to taste. Add two beaten eggs and stir j and cook until the ggs are the con- I sistoncy of scrambled eggs. Have hot toast sliced ready and serve at once I before it sepparates. TO MAKE SALMON PIE. I Use one can of salmon. Take the I salmon from the tin, divid? into small 1 flak", sprinkle over a few drops of I inepar or lemon juice, anchovy sauce I and a sprinkling of cayenn.. Mix the rest of the ingredients together, butter I a pip dish, line with the mixture, re- isererving enough to cover the top. Put in Hie salmon and cov r, and, if the ( rust looks at all dry, add a few pieces of butter. Bake till hot through, then brown if necessary. Lobster or any oiher kind of fish may be treated in I tl-e same manner, or scraps of fish, 1 which may be put up in -patty pans. I FOR LOVERS IN GENERAL. I A girl who signs herself Mabel asks i J n, Observer to tell her how to get rid I of an unwelcome suitor, who is so per- 1 (!. t that no brand of snubs, or I even coldness of the polar variety, I lias sufficed to banish. It should be an easy matter to look a love-sick youth squarely in the eye 1 and tell him that th? time has come I. 'for him. to do his rooting on some " o'lirr front porch and to carry his lit- 1 tl lag of caramels to some other I 1 t;-!. i Perhaps, Mabel, you can't appreciate r.te jo-he that gets into the heart of a young man once in a whi.He is iisan-. His world begins and ends ri;',-, you. He writes bad poetry when l , )) ,-houid be keeping books for the ; I boss. His appetite fail? him. and when I V- walks the street the birds sing, the I flogs harks, and evfn the breezes echo I t ie one word. "L-o-v-e." He knows V.e is unworthy, that a century of cor- : S ': liinp will not make him fit for X you ., w ipe your shoes on. but he has J i :.7.v sort of an idea that if be keeps " lovinc. in time. he. may wear out Ii v "s-anco and that your pity may be I : a .,t'ormed into affection. I ! That is why he comes tripping up I th sups with the candy and the flow- i f's: v hy he is kind to your little bi! her. whom he privately thinks is i I b-ii.g reared for the penitentiary, why ! I -r- ' suns to the stories told by your I :-f"--. ted father, who has a fine recol- i I b-r-ion of how the battle of Bull Run I was wago-1, and likfs to tell about it. f Tl.at lover would help carry in the ! at. your res-idence, or turn the wvj. j.,T jf hP was (jpjipd He is in love. S .Mibs. lebufts. hints, polite refusals I ; n''- a the sighing of the winds to Th -r. is just one ihing for you to . (j" !'e frank. Be brutally frank. Don't j tr.v it old "I'll-be-a-sister-to-you" ' M-.-n--. it was a failure when Kam- f ! mms courting. Make your NO J ;,s big as a brick house, and then go j and have your little cry. ! ) ' b- comes again, tell papa to use I I a club. f ! i ii don't worry. Th young man will J I s" "' tr it. Several millions of young I " ' !: do get over it every year. Love j I !s '.isfase. Sometimes it takes stions j j "'J "'""-' ,0 curc it. St. Josfpli News j j HOME. I'i'.sr: plow on the rock and pine. A' i beauteous rays that run ; I T" i' .oj me back to that home of mine f 1, the roaming of days are done. n 1 i 1'eaUi of r lover is blowing by I' i Ar.-l the laurtls flame afield i I A v valed cottage against the sky i I A'd the wounds of the years are j A'0"C the lane, where the river flows j I ld faces that smile I se; i j Ai-fJ the wind that over the valley goes- I Is ringing to welcome me. b K'R'-s warm are awaiting me, I I -ru,lf'rp' where the home-light shines; j J Jher,. where the starlight wanders free I i rl'rough the green and the cluster- t f vints. f IV Alid ah: Wl-at jov, at the journey's ! ; !. end, r ,' I tJ,!h' 1ovc should be patient still; 1 ; f Jnat. t,e weary, winding road should j T the peace of the old home-hill! ' i l I WHEN WE TWO WALKED IN I ARCADY. When wo two walked in Arcady How sweet th? summers were! How thick the branches overhead. How soft the grass beneath our tread. And thickets where the sun burned red Wcte full of wings astir, my dear. Winn we two walked in Arcady Through paths young hearts prefer. 11. Since we two walked in Arcady (How long ago it seems'.) High hopes have died disconsolate: The calm-eyed angel men call Fate Stands with drawn sword before the fate That shuts1 out all our dreams, my dear; Since we two walked in Arcady Besides the crystal streams. III. Beyond the woods of Arcady The little brooks are dry. The -brown grass rustles in the hfat, The roads are rough beneath our feet, Above our heads no branches meet, And yet, altho we Elgh. my dear, Beyond the woods of Arcadv We eee more of the sky! From Scribner's Mafgazine. GROWTH OF AMERICAN MUSIC. Mr. Rupert Hughes, author of "Contemporary "Con-temporary American Composers," prophesies a musical revolution in Europe, Eu-rope, to be effected by American music. mu-sic. "But," he adds, "wc may discretely discrete-ly omit to name the date, and we need not be surprised if we are not here j when the times comes." He admits, moreover, that at present we have to strain our ears if, out of all the songs and folk-musics that are busy in America Amer-ica today, we hope to hear above the jangle "some clear, soaring overtone I that we shall call the American tone." He further indicates the situation by the following apt figure (The Pilgrim, May): "There was once a king, as everybody knows, who loved no music except that jumble, tootle, and squeak of discord made by- orchestra when tuning up. It has ever since been called the 'icing's Piece.' But the rest of us. who were not unlucky enough to be born kings, prefer to arriev after the preliminary tuning is over. It is pleasantest to get to our seats just as the leader gives the rat-a-tat that hushes the cacophony, and raises his hands for the opening chord. "In American music there had to be a long period Of assimilating and tuning together all the instruments and all the families of instruments. But the "King's Piece' has held the American stage long enough. There has been discord enough, tootling enough. It is high time for the American Symphony to begin. Some of us believe that Kapellmeister Uncle Sam Is about ready to start, or perhaps has already Begun but very softly." No prophesy concerning American music, says jir. Hughes, can afford to ignore the contributions and musical influence in-fluence of the following races: English, Irish. Scottish. Welsh. German. Austrian. Aus-trian. Italian, FrGench, Jewish. Dutch, Spanish. Hungarian, Polish. Norwegian, Swedish. Danish Russian, Finnish. Negro, Ne-gro, Tuklish. American-Indian, Syrian, Chinese and Japanese. Of these various influences' and their relation to our musical development he says: "The first expectation would be that the Anglo-SaX'Ck element would predominate. pre-dominate. I am afraid that it does. Afraid? Yes: for those of us who usurp the title of pure American because be-cause we are of British ancestry must sing small when it comes to music. This is especially true of Puritan descendants, descend-ants, for the Puritans abhorred almost all forms of music. They considered musical instruments to be the very tools cf the devil. It was our Puritan ancestors an-cestors who opposed the whole principal of written music: they mentioned ten reasons against the writing and printing printi-ng of music; these are four of them: T.th, It is popish: 6th. it will introduce intro-duce instruments: 7th. the names of the notes are blasphemous: Slh. it is needless, the old way of being good enough "The bitter truth is that there is more creative and intrinsic music in the little lit-tle finger of German. Italy. France, Hungarv. Poland, or Denmark than in all four limbs of Great Britain. We mut be thankful that the United States has become an asylum for exiles of other oth-er peoples than these. "The Netherlander settled New York at a t'me when Flemish music was great in the world, but there was no apparent importation of the genius of Flanders in the stout hulls of the Dutch. , . . "The first real awakening of music in the American wilderness- was when the young German, Siegfried, strolled into the magicforest." . Of the-further growth of American music we r?ad: "In 1RT the United States celebrated the hundreth birthday of its declaration declara-tion of political independence. The Centennial Exposition was opened with-a setting of Whittier's 'Hymn bv John Knowles Paine, who had in that same year been appointed a full professor in the new and specially created chair of music at Harvard Univrrsitr. "John Knowles Taine is the Thomas Jefferson of American music. He drew up our declaration of musical independence inde-pendence in the first symphony. It was brought out the same year, IS. 6, by Theodore Thomas, the Friesland;r who came over into Macedonia to help our musical paganism and unbelief. "Dudley Buck was contemporary with him. and far more popular. He had a more genial and accommodating lalent that seized th? great hunger for church music of all forms. Buck poured forth a great flood of correctly written, writ-ten, fluent, and understandable lyrics for the organ, the choir, and the church fnloist. He was thoroughly American in his aucestry. and he showed a praiseworthy determination to use little lit-tle but American poetry for his music Yet his training was German, and his lyricism Italian. "Other composers of great importance import-ance in creating a school of American music were men who went abroad to breathe atmosnherr. xto hear and talk and imbibe music in German centers, and who then returned to America and gave their souls to the writing of symphonies, sym-phonies, overtures, oratorios, cantatas, knowing that there was no hop? of financial fi-nancial reward and little ho:e even of Ihe reward of a public hearing. "Theodore Thomas. Anton Siedl, Frank Van der Stucken. and the various var-ious directors of the Boston Symphony Orcheftra were, however, occasionally hospitable .to American works in the larger form?. Among those who led the way and achieved real success have been Georg'e W Chadwick. Arthur Foo"e. W.Sv. Gilchrist. S. G. Pratt. C r Converse. F. G. Gleason, and Mrs. xj ii a Beach; and. among those still younger, Henry K. Hadley an Rubin Goldmark. ' , , The most markedly individual of our important composers, says Mr. Hughes i "undoubtedly Edward MacDowell. Of him wa read: "He haa felt big moods, and written them large in almost all '"siaf0T! except opera and oratorio. Nobody else ever wrote just such music as MacDowell. Mac-Dowell. Furthermore, his music content with being merely different. U is beautiful, sincere unaffected fearless fear-less lofty. From little songs of compacted com-pacted meaning and small piano pieces of a new import, through titanis piano Urates and orchestral suits of noble th ught, he has sounded a gamut that is his own. He has earned his place among the foremost of living composers." compos-ers." Mr. Hughfs 'names, others, contemporaries contem-poraries of MacDowell, whose messages, mes-sages, while slighter, arc, he claims, no less authentic: "Edgar S. Kelley is the chief of these with his humorous symphony. 'Gulliver': 'Gulli-ver': his amazingly beautiful Chinese suite. Aladdin': and such an epic song as his 'Israfel.' Harvey Worthington Ijoomis has ventured into new fields with splendid passion for new beauties and nw expressions of musical emotions. emo-tions. Henry F. Gilb-rrt has revealed unheard of colors and processes in musical mu-sical expression. Iawrenee Gilman, the critic, han done some hauntingly intense in-tense studies in mood and tone-painting." Literary Digest. CARE OF THE DIET. j It is in her diet that a woman must I abptain and use fortitude. T do not advocate ad-vocate a vegetable diet, though incidentally inci-dentally I have yet to see a vegetarian who did not have fine and erpiisite skim But Americans eat too much beef, pork and other heavy meats. Only hard working men should indulge in those. Women especially will have far better complexions if they confine their meat program to poultry, lamb, with very little veal occasionally, and beef not oftener than oncein ten days. Meat' should never be eaten oftener than once a day by the average person. Pastries and rich gravies, of course, are prohibited, . as are fried things. Exchange. HOW TO LOOK YOUR BEST. Every vear, after Easter comes a short sea'son of social pleasures. Somehow Some-how the fasting of Lent does not do all it should for our personal appearanceperhaps appear-anceperhaps its good effects are nullified nul-lified by the overwork of houseelean-ing houseelean-ing or spring sewing and when the woman wants to look her best she is fully conscious that she doesn't. Here are a few suggestions: When you want to look the very best possible, of course you are tired. That is a matter of course. Therefore lie down in the afternoon, and be sure to throw off both shoes and corsets, for with these in place there is no real rest. After forty- winks and a good stretch, take a warm bath and rub the snine with cologne. Dress slowly. The face should be washed with hot water with a little bran in it. and then hardened with a daslr' of cold water. Bathe the eyes with water wa-ter in which is a trifle of salt. That will brighten and rest them. Before the last touches, sip slowly a glass of hot milk. Ten to one some friends will tell you how well you are looking, look-ing, and so youns. The woman who waits to get ready until the last minute, who' runs in from an afternoon of shopping or calling, call-ing, who is tired to death and hungry, hun-gry, who has new corsets to fit on, whose shoes . must be restrung, who must baste shields in her waist, who cannot find her fan and opera glass, whose hair needs washing so badly that it will not fluff, who has marks of fatigue under her eyes, who keeps her husband waiting until he is crass and says things, will not get any compliments, com-pliments, and, worse than that, she will realize that she does not deserve any. Catholic Transcript. YOUR SHOES. If women knew how a rundown heel or a dirty shoestring spoils an entire toilet they would be more particular. "When a woman is particular about her shoes, gloves and handkerchiefs." said a man. "you may be sure that she is a good housekeeper." If you buy a well made, well fitting shoe in the beginning it may cost you more than you feel that you ought to say. But if you take good cgre of these shoes, cleaning them, keeping them in shape and seeing to their wants, you will find that they will endure three times as long as a cheap shoe and r ill always look shanely. Shoes are not to be taken off at night and tossed anywhere. As each one is removed it should be stretched and pulled while still retaining the warmth of the foot. It should be rubbed with the palm of the hand and then allowed to stand until the wearer wear-er is ready to retire. At this point the adjustable foot tree should be inserted. in-serted. The tree abolishes all danger of the half-dozen creases which the action of the foot is bound to form on the front vamp. It is well to have two or three pairs of shoes at last on hand and to change them as often as possible. I Shoes changed in this way will last I longer than those worn constantly. J Catholic Transcript. MISTAKES OF WOMEN. One of the mistakes of women is not knowing how to eat. If a man is not to be fed when she is, she thinks a cup of tea or anything handy is good enough. If she needs to save money, she does it at the butcher's cost. If she is busy she will not waste time in eating. If she is unhappy, she goes without food. A man eats if the sheriff sher-iff is at the door, if his work drives. If the undertaker interrups; and he is right. A woman will choose ice creajri instead of beefsteak, and a man will not. Another of her mistakes is in not knowing when to rest. If she is tired, she may sit down, but she will darn stockings, crochet shawls, embroider doilies. Doesn't she know that hard work tires? If she is exhausted she will write letters or figure her accounts. ac-counts. She would laugh at you if you hinted that reading or writing would fail to rest her. All over the country women's hospitals flourish because be-cause women do not know how to rest. Exchange. HEALTH AND BEAUTY. Drink lots of water. Boil it if doubtful doubt-ful of its purity. Don't bestow less care upon the teeth than upon complexion and hair. Don't use metal or wire hairpins of any kind. They are ruinous to the hair. Use shell or imitation shell of medium size, i Don't think that the skin is as thick as the hide of the rhinoceros and treat it accordingly. Tf you do you will have premature wrinkles and lose delicacy deli-cacy of coloring. Do not forget that the same blood that nourishes the muscle? also feeds the nerves: so when developing physical physi-cal strength you are strengthening the nervous system. When you are feeling fagged and your skin looks pasty dip a sponge in very hot water and bathe the base of the brain, also the face and Throat, for five miruites. Finish this ceremony cere-mony with a dash of toilet vinegar. For an oily, greasy skin a simple wash is made by dropping half an ounce of tincture of benzoin very slowly slow-ly into half a. pint of elder flower water. Apply with a soft cloth, using instead of soap and water before retiring. THE FORGIVING WOMAN. "To err is human, to .forgive divine.'' The truly forgiving woman is always the happy woman. She does not live in the past. For her it is always today or tomorrow, never yesterday. She does not remind her children that one day last week they disobeyed her and that their punishment is to be extended indefinitely. in-definitely. She takes the wiser plan of letting them see she forgives their little lit-tle misdemeanors, because she is quite sure they were slips that they, would not repeat for anything in the world. And wlien confidence is placed in the i little ones, they respect it and really do try hard not to commit themselves. One finds it an impossible thins to punish a child who comes to one willing will-ing and expecting a caress. The woman wo-man or man I wil linclude the sterner sex because I know this to equally apply ap-ply to both will -seldom have cause to forgive-the '-same offender twice. One cannot find it in one's heart to slight ' ' r or neglect a person who expects only' what is. prompted by love or friendly consideration. Do you think you are a better or a wiser woman because you are succeeding, succeed-ing, or you fancy you are. in strcngth-! strcngth-! enlng that little light crust of resent-! resent-! fulnr-s-s that I admit it is possible to I cultivate over your naturally forgiving I woman's heart? It wiil not add one ! bit to vour happiness or the happiness ! of others to find that you can be fierce-: fierce-: ly resentful. It v i" only bring unbecoming un-becoming and harsh lines about your otherwise pretty mouth to cultivate this thing that is so contrary to a woman's nature. All the world is the better because it is a. part of woman's best nature to forgive. for-give. When she has come to the conclusion con-clusion that it is weak instead of Divine Di-vine to forgive she will find that there is not the harmony in her life that there is- when she is willing to admit that she "just cannot say unkind things." POTATO AND TOMATO SALAD. Boil in -their jackets four medium-sized medium-sized potatoes. While they are boiling make a Fiench dressing and slice into it one good-sized onion: as soon as the potatoes are done, drain, salt and dry them. Remove the skins and cut the potatoes while hot into the dressing: toss them carefully until every piece is well covered. Put the mixture on a cold dish and stand aside until serving hour. Then garnish the dish thickly with pfirsley: sprinkle over the dish a tablespoonful of finely-chopped parsley pars-ley or celery tops; a small pickled beet may be chopped line and placed diagonally across the dish. Sardines or pickled herring may also be used as a garnish and to give variety, and , one may also stir into the dressing a J tablespoonful of Anchovy paste. Scald, j peel and cool small, sound, well- j shaped tomatoes. Dish them neatly ! on lettuce leaves, and put over each a I teaspoonful of mayonnaise dressing, i Keep in a cold place until it is time to j serve. j HOUSEHOLD HINTS. j Strong, hot vinegar will remove paint and mortar from glass. Rub grease on the seams of new tinware, tin-ware, keep in a warm place for a day, and the article will not rust in the sea ms. Do not wash the wooden breadplate in hot water and it will not turn black. Wash with soap and warm water, and rinse in clean cold water. Alwavs wash off the top of the milk bottle before removing the little paper cap. since it is by the top that the delivery, de-livery, man always lifts the bottle. Use a few drops of carbolic acid on the damp cloth with which you wipe off the mouthpiece of the telephone. 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