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pastry flour mixed with one teaspoonful of baking-powder. 

 Beat steadily for fifteen minutes, then fold in quickly the 

 stiffly whipped whites of four eggs. Fill tiny greased molds, 

 bake in a slow oven, and ice with white fondant or boiled 

 icing, and decorate with chocolate drops. From the Cooking 

 Circle in "The Circle" for January. 



CAKES ONE CAN MAKE AT HOME. 



A few fancy cakes are always an addition, and any one 

 who understands how to make and use fondant (the French 

 cream icing described in the article on cake-making) can do 

 wonders with a comparatively plain cake recipe. The batter 

 may be baked in tiny molds or dropped on flat pans, baked 

 and put together in pairs with a jelly or cream filling before 

 being iced. Among some specially good cakes are the fol- 

 lowing : 



JUMBLES. One pound each of butter and sugar, two 

 pounds of sifted pastry flour, three eggs, nine teaspoonfuls 

 of orange-juice, a scant teaspoonful of salt, three teaspoon- 

 fuls of baking-powder. Handle lightly, roll rather thin, and 

 sprinkle with granulated sugar before baking in a quick 

 oven. 



SPICE FINGERS. Cream thoroughly three tablespoonfuls 

 of butter with a scant cupful of brown sugar, adding a tea- 

 spoonful of powdered cinnamon, a half teaspoonful each of 

 nutmeg and allspice, a quarter of a teaspoonful each of gin- 

 ger and salt. Stir one teaspoonful of sifted baking-soda into 

 one cupful of rich sour cream, and as it foams add it to the 

 spice mixture alternately with enough graham and white 

 flour (half and half) to make a soft dough. Turn on a 

 floured board and knead into it three tablespoonfuls of seeded 

 raisins, three of currants, and one each of chopped citron and 

 candied orange-peel. Roll out very thin, cut in strips with a 

 jagging-iron, then sprinkle with powdered sugar, and bake in 

 a moderate oven until brown and crisp. 



CHOCOLATE SPONGE CAKES. In a saucepan put one cupful 

 of fine granulated sugar, two tablespoonfuls of grated choco- 

 late, and one teaspoonful of vanilla. Stand over hot water 

 on the fire until mixed and melted, then take off and beat 

 until very light, adding by degrees one cupful of sifted 



MINIATURE CITIZENS OF OUR REPUBLIC. 



There is a school city at the Thirteenth Avenue School 

 in Newark, N. J., where a sense of civic responsibility has 

 extended not only to the care of the school building and 

 immediate surroundings, but to the entire school district. 

 There is, for instance, a young truant officer and a street 

 inspector for each street in the district who report any vio- 

 lation of the school or city ordinances occurring on their 

 streets. Suppose, for example, an ignorant immigrant family 

 dump their ashes on to the sidewalk instead of into a barrel. 

 The child who is the school city inspector for that street re- 

 ports the matter to his chief, the commissioner of public 

 works, the commissioner to the mayor, and the mayor to the 

 principal. The principal then calls to hjs office the child of the 

 offending parents, explains the ash ordinance, and charges the 

 child to request the parents in future to observe the ordi- 

 nance. If the same complaint is again entered against the 

 same family, the principal adds to his request a threat to 

 notify the city police if they refuse to comply. Such a threat 

 has in every case been effective without the actual interven- 

 tion of the police. Some time ago Mr. Gill wanted to organ- 

 ize a school city in a certain large school near New York city. 

 Although completely in sympathy with the idea, the principal 

 withheld his consent because, as he explained, the worst boy 

 in his school was unfortunately the most popular, and would 

 hence undoubtedly be elected as the head of a school city. 

 Mr. Gill finally secured his permission, however, to a provi- 

 sional organization. Accordingly the elections were held, 

 and the "bad boy" was not only not elected to the chief office, 

 but was not even nominated for any office whatsoever. Sub- 

 stantially the best pupils in the school were elected, and the 

 provisional government became permanent through the con- 

 sent of the principal. The "bad boy," however, did not take 

 seriously the "sacred responsibilities" of citizenship, and began 



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