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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



in 



HAMBURG^AMERICAN 



Largest S-S.Co.^ 



m the 

 WORLD 



^Over 400 Ships 



1,306,819 



TONS 



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WINTER 

 CRUISES 



During 1914 



BY THE 



Hamburg - American 

 Line 



New Cruise -ORIENT-INDIA 

 By the S.S. CLEVELAND 



17,000 tons 



From New York January 1 5th, 

 1914. Through the Mediterranean, 

 Suez Canal, Red Sea and Indian 

 Ocean to Bombay and Colombo, 

 includingside trips through INDIA, 

 THE HOLY LAND and EGYPT, 

 stopping at interesting points in 

 Europe, Asia and Africa. 



Duration about 3 months 

 Cost $700 up 

 including shore excursions and neces- 

 sary expenses. 



NILE SERVICE 



By superb steamers of the Hamburg 

 and Anglo-American Nile Company. 



Cruises to West Indies, 



Venezuela, and the 



Panama Canal 



by the largest ships visiting the Caribbean Sea 



S. S. AMERIKA and 



VICTORIA LUISE 



During January-February-March-April. 



Duration 16 to 29 days. 



Cost $145-$175 up. 



Two 15-day Cruises from New Orleans during 



January and February. Shore trips optional. 



f9lS 



Around the World Through the 

 Panama Canal 



From New York, January 27th, 1915 

 By 17,000-ton S. S. CLEVELAND 

 Duration 135 days. Rates $900 up 



including shore trips and necessary expenses. 



Atlas Service 



Weekly Sailings to Cuba, Jamaica, and the 

 Panama Canal, Hayti, Colombia, Costa Rica, 

 Nicaragua, by new fast Twin-Screw Steamers. 

 Low rates until October. 



Our Tourist Department, with experience of over 

 25 year*, arranges Tours by Rail or Steamer 

 to all parts of the world. 



Write for Information. 



Hamburg-American Line 



41-45 Broadway, New York 



1334 Walnut Street, Philadelphia 



607 Boylston Street, Boston 



338 Sixth Avenue. Pittsburgh 



150 West Randolph Street, Chicago 



902 Olive Street, St. Louis 



160 Powell Street, 



San Francisco 



probably will not soon be abandoned. It 

 offers an easy method of removing the 

 feathers and no serious objection can be of- 

 fered to it. It is an interesting commentary 

 on the peculiar ideas of people in different 

 sections that while in some cities, Boston, 

 for example, the call is for poultry which 

 has been picked dry, Chicago wants scalded 

 birds. 



When preparing a fowl for the table it 

 should first be singed. The common prac- 

 tice is to hold it over a piece of burning 

 paper, but one can hardly avoid smoking 

 and discoloring the flesh when this plan 

 is followed. Better results are obtained if 

 brown paper instead of newspaper is used, 

 but it is still better to rely upon an alcohol 

 torch or stove, the flames from which will 

 not blacken the skin at all. Pin feathers 

 are easily removed with a strawberry puller. 

 The head should be cut off and thrown 

 away, unless the owner of the bird happens 

 to be a native of France, in which case the 

 comb probably will be utilized, for in France 

 a cock's comb is considered a delicacy. The 

 bird will look more inviting if the neck is 

 cut off close to the body. When cutting 

 up a chicken the work will be found much 

 easier if a French carving knife is made use 

 of. Such a knife has a keen blade shaped 

 much like a dagger, with which it is not 

 difficult to separate the bones and even to 

 split the chicken down the back. For broil- 

 ing, the wings should be spread out and 

 broken with a smart blow of the knife. 



When removing the liver, the greatest 

 care must be taken not to break the gall 

 bladder or the meat will be rendered bit- 

 ter. Plenty of the flesh around it should be 

 cut away when taking it out to avoid the 

 possibility of a disastrous slip of the knife. 

 The most popular table fowl in the 

 country at the present time seems to be 

 the White Plymouth Rock, although the 

 Barred Plymouth Rock and the White 

 Wyandotte are much in favor. White birds 

 dress well becouse they have no dark pin 

 feathers. Although not very well, known 

 the Cornish fowl is a particularly good 

 table breed for the amateur to keep. The 

 amount of breast meat on the chickens of 

 this breed is astonishing. For delicacy of 

 flavor the Houdan is not easily surpassed 

 and is a favorite in France, the land of good 

 things to eat and of people who know how 

 to eat them. 



RESTORING MASTERPIECES 



THE New York Tribune describes the 

 means taken to preserve a famous 

 painting by Botticelli of a Madonna. 



The Madonna was painted on a wooden 

 panel at least four hundred years ago. 

 Recently the wood began to crack, and it 

 was feared that the painting would be 

 ruined; but a restorer was found who 

 said that he could save it. 



His first step was to paste thin strips 

 of tissue-paper on the face of the pic- 

 ture, pressing the paper into the uneven 

 surface of the paint. He added layer 

 after layer, until a thick body of paper 

 concealed the picture. 



Then the restorer turned the picture 

 over and began to sandpaper the board 

 away. After many months of careful 

 work he had all the wood removed, and 

 nothing but the paint adhered to the 

 paper. Next, he glued a piece of linen 

 canvas very carefully to the paint, and 

 slowly and patiently removed the paper 

 bit by bit. The work took nearly a year ; 

 but when it was finished the painting was 

 in a condition to last another four cen- 

 turies. 



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