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Show Why don't you live a cheerful life And make the best of things? For discontent means constant strife An '. other His it brings. It la hard tramping on life's pike. I know that this Is true: But If you can't do what you like. Try liking what you do. THINGS FOR THE FAMILY TABLE TIT nEN preparing soup' and a " dumpling Is desired, try these: One-half hour before the soup Is to be served drop Into It a large potato and cook until done. Put It Into a bowl with n tablespoonful of butter and mash fine, add a slice of grated toast, an egg, a dash of salt and nutmeg nut-meg and work well with a fork. Drop this paste In small pieces Into the soup, boll up and serve at once. Spring Salad. Shred a head of lettuce and line a salad bowl which has been rubbed with a cut clove of garlic. Cut two large tomatoes Into slices and arrange In a ring around the lettuce. Sprinkle each slice of tomato with a tablespoonful tablespoon-ful of chopped water cress and cover the whole with a highly seasoned mayonnaise may-onnaise which has been enriched with a half cupful or more of whipped cream. Serve very cold. Alleghany Muffins. Take one and one-half cupfuls of sifted flour, one cupful of milk, one tablespoonful each of butter and lard., two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one-half teasponful of salt and one egg. Mix all the dry Ingredients and sft througli the sieve. Melt the but-' ter and lard In a cup. Beat the egg very light and add the milk to It. Pour this mixture Into the dry ingredients, ingre-dients, add the melted fat and beat vigorously vig-orously for a minute. Pour into buttered but-tered muffin pans and bake 15 minutes. min-utes. Rice Flour Pound Cake. Cream one-quarter of a cupful ol butter with one cupful of powdered sugar, add the beaten yolks of two eggs, one teaspoonful of vanilla, the grated rind of a lemon nnd one-half j cupful of cold water. Mix thoroughly and add one and one-half cupfuls of rice flour that has been sifted twice with one and one-half teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Fold In the stiffly beaten whites of the eggs and bake. (, 1923, Western Newspaper Union.) r . |