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Show QUIET HOUR CHATS. Why Hearts Wear Out. (Written for the Intermountain, Catholic by Laura Jean Libbey. Why does the rose in the angle of the high stone wall wither and droop and die? Because the life-giving sunshine never nev-er reaches it. Why does the shuttle in the loom, pulsing backward and forward like the throbbing human heart, grind itself out? Because it needs more oil than it gets. Love is the sunshine that oils the human heart and keeps it in happy working order. But that life-giving sunshine must come from another heart which responds unto its own. The human being who walks through life loving, and sure of that love being be-ing returned, has received direct from heaven the greatest blessing God could bestow7. Such hearts blossom and beautify and ehed-the radian ce-of their joy-up- Standish" for instance: "Landing at Plymouth," "Priscilla the Puritan Maiden," "Miles Standish, the Captain of Plymouth," "Why don't you speak for yourself, John" are laid at each plate. Have 1620 in left hand corner and 1900 in the right. Pineapple Sherbet. One tablespoonful tablespoon-ful of gelatine soaked in one cup of cold water fifteen minutes; dissolve with one cup boiling water. Take one-half one-half can grated pineapple arid one-half cup sugar, juice of one lemon; add strained gelatine, put in freezer, and pack with ice and salt and freeze. Tomato Jelly Ealad. Soak half a cup of gelatine in a cupful of cold water for half an hour. Turn the contents of a can of tomatoes into, a porcelain-lined porcelain-lined saucepan and ' stew for .. twenty minutes; add pepper and salt to taste nnd a snnrmfiil of prnnitlntpd entrcir I Strain through a flannel jelly bag and I return the liquid to the fire long enough to reach the boiling point, but J not until it boils. Remove and pour at once upon the soaked gelatine; stir until un-til dissolved, and strain again through flannel. Pour into small cake tins wet with cold water and set aside to form. WThen firm turn the jelly shapes into lettuce leaves and pour a spoonful of mayonnaise dressing over each. Pretty Pink Effect. A very pretty pink decoration for a Fourth of July dinner may be arranged by placing a mirror in the center of a round table covered by a linen and lace cloth over pink satin. Lay a wreath of green leaves around the mirror, -with a pink rose here and there in green- leaves. Arrange-a cut glass bowl of pink roses in the center of the mirror. ' Place silver sil-ver candles with pink shades at four sides of the morror. The result will be cooling on the hottest day. Asparagus Soup. Boil one quart of asparagus, cut in inch lengths, in one quart of w-ater until tender; rub through a colander and return to the water in which it was boiled. Heat one pint of milk, stir into it: one table-spoonful table-spoonful butter rubbed fine with one of flour, and cook a few moments. Season and pour into asparagus. When it is boiling hot pour into tureen over toasted toast-ed bread cut into dice. v |