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Drain and put into very cold water for 
10 minutes; then drain, and fill into cans. 
Prepare a sirup by boiling together for 
15 minutes a quart of vinegar and two 
cupfuls of sugar. Pour the boiling sirup 
over the peppers, filling to the top of the 
jars, put the lids on without tightening, 
and then cook in boiler, like other canned 
fruit, for 15 minute's. Another method 
is to trim out the stem, remove seeds, 
and leave the peppers whole, pack in jars, 
cover with a very weak sirup (me'rely 
sweetened water) boiling hot, and process 
for one hour. Still another method is 
to trim, remove seeds, blanch, and then 
put in the oven until the oute'T' skin can 
be peeled off. Then pack in jars, fill 
with boiling water, add a teaspoonful of 
salt, then pi'«cess for an hour and a half. 
Canned Chicken 
places wth gasoline or naphtha, being 
extremely careful, howeVer, to avoid fire 
or lights, as these substances are explo¬ 
sive and highly inflammable. Do not 
leave any old w’oolen garments exposed in 
the attic or closets, where' the moths can 
find a breeding place. Woolens and furs 
should be put away in tight boxes, closely 
sealed, after beating and examining for 
moths. Moth balls or naphthalene flakes 
may be put with them; we' think these 
more efficacious than snuff, but camphor 
is usually helpful. If the house is badly 
infested with moths, which sometimes oc¬ 
curs, there must be a constant fight to 
eradicate them. 
2. Paris green and lime, or lead arse¬ 
nate, are still the best materials to con¬ 
trol potato beetles. Use a heavy dose, 
apply early, and keep on, repeating as 
often as ne'cessary. 
I was much interested in Mrs. E. B.’s 
article on successful canning (page 563), 
and wish she would tell me' how she cans 
all kinds of meats. I wish to can chickens 
this Summer. Is it necessary to remove 
all bone when canning meat? 
To us The R. N.-Y. is like getting a 
letter from home; can hardly wait until 
we have time to re'ad it clear through, 
which'we usually do together. It brings 
to us so many helpful suggestions along 
with all the rest. MBS. H. B. 
To one large chicken add half a large 
dried red pepper, one' dozen whole all¬ 
A Guide to Reading in English 
Pabt II. 
"Eben Holden,” by Irving Bacheller; 
the story of a kindly and unlettered phil¬ 
osopher, who tramped into the “North 
(’ountry” with a boy in his pack basket 
and brought something of perpetual yotith 
to the rugged folk who lived in Paradise 
Road. The reader meets Horace Greely 
in the printing office of the great Tribune. 
“David Harum,” by Edward Noyes 
Westcott; a rambling but delightful nar¬ 
rative concerning a genial and philo- 
No. 724 shows a pretty pair of half curiain.s for use on tlie diniiif- room or kitchen 
windows. They are also decorative when in use on the glass doors of a dish closet or 
on a pantry door. The .scallops are to bo embroidered in light blue with the button¬ 
hole stitch and the decorative figures are for outline embroidery in dark deltt blue To 
correspond with the curtains there is a shelf edging, a tea cozy, a scarf for a refrig¬ 
erator, and a set of five doilies for the shelves of a sideboard. The curtains No 7^ 
are on white Swiss, and, with mercerized fioss, costs, per pair, 00 cents ’ ' ’ 
The shelf edging. No. 1305a, is on white repp, .size 7x44 inches, and, with mercer¬ 
ized floss, costs, per strip, 30 cents. » ^ 
cent^^® scarf, No. 725, is on white broid'erweave 17.X.34 inches and, with floss, costs 60 
The tea cozy. No. 67C, is of white repp, and, with floss, costs 45 cents. 
The doilies. No. 1148, are also on white repp, and cost, per set of five, with floss, 76 
C0n 18. 
the West, boldly imaginative in concep¬ 
tion and yet based upon long and intelli¬ 
gent study, overshadowed by the cruel 
laws of forest and plainland, and yet de¬ 
lightful and sweet in their personal ap¬ 
peal. 
“Tom Sawyer,” by Mark Twain; with 
its sequel, “Huckleberry Finn,” the epic 
of American boyhood. The author puts 
much of his own life by the Mississippi 
into these pages. His rich vein of humor 
and deep understanding of boy personality 
would seem to insure for these books a 
popularity as long as there are boys, 
either small or grown up, to read them. 
“The Outcasts of Poker Flat,” by Bret 
Harte; a collection of short stories of the 
far West. They are notable not only for 
incident and background, but also for 
their portrayal of greatness in human 
character underlying the rough and vic¬ 
ious life in the scattered settlements of 
that Untamed land. 
“The House of Mirth,” by Edith Whar¬ 
ton ; the histoi’y of a woman who came to 
a desperate end after a pathetic struggle 
to hold her place without funds in a su¬ 
perficial social set of New York City. 
Mrs. Wharton’s short story, “Ethan 
Frome,” is considered by many one of the 
supreme glimpses of rural infelicity in our 
literature. 
“Main Traveled Roads,” by Hamlin 
Garland; a book of stories of the middle 
West, depicting with deep intuition and 
faithful regard for fact the unromantic 
but highly significant life of the immi¬ 
grant farmers. 
“Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch,” 
by Alice Regan Rice; a charming little 
story of a widow, surrounded by poverty 
and children, who still could brighten lier 
neighborhood by virtue of her indomitable 
optimism and her buoyant philosophy of 
life. j 
“The Virginian,” by Owen Wister; a 
character sketch of the ideal cowpuncher 
of a picturesque period now gone forever. 
Although his duties as the judge’s “re¬ 
sponsible man” leave him little time for 
the pursuit of fancy, he is not least at¬ 
tractive in his quaint 'and persistent 
courtship of Molly Woods from Benning¬ 
ton, Vt. 
“The Healer,”^ by Robert Herrick; a 
story of the insidious influence of com¬ 
mercialism upon art, and potently indi¬ 
cative of certain American tendencies. 
“The Sea Wolf,” by Jack Eondon; a 
dashing and romantic yarn of life on the 
high seas, with a leading figure who stirs 
the imagination and baffles all attempt at 
explanation. There is no heroine. 
“Blacky Rock,” by Ralph Connor; a 
strong, virile tale of a manly missionary 
who lived and loved among the lumber 
camps of the Selkirk Mountains in Can¬ 
ada, and impressed his personality and 
ideals deeply upon the hearts of the rough 
but loyal men who worked there. 
“Coniston,” by Winston Churchill; a 
novel dealing with corrupt politics in New 
Hampshire and based upon the author’s 
personal observation. Its charm lies in a 
lei,surely delineation of character and in 
the quiet but enduring background of the 
granite hills. 
spice, one large onion and .salt; boil un¬ 
til meat falls off bones. Cut in pieces 
small enough to put in Mason jars, fill 
cans with broth. Now .set cans in drip¬ 
ping pan with a little water in pan, and 
let boil 10 minutes. Take out one can 
at a time, put on rubber and seal. When 
cold dip can in jiaraflin up over rubber. 
I can all my meat same as the chicken. 
MKS. E. B. 
Destroying Moths ; Potato Bugs 
1, Would you advise me how to lid my 
home of moths? They stay mostly among 
my clothes. I tried to put them out with 
camphor and snuff, but it did no good. 
2. I would also like to know what will 
rid our tomato plants of potato bugs. 
They just seem to eat the plants light 
off. We' tried ashes, Paris green and 
lime sifted together, but it didn’t help. 
MBS. E. J. B. 
1. Clothes moths, like cari)et beetles 
and fleas', live and breed chiefly where 
they are rarely di.sturbed. Frequent 
brushing and shaking out of clothing, 
dusting and scrubbing of closets, tends to 
control them. They like dark places, and 
like most evil-doeiNS, dislike exposure to 
broad daylight. Shake and brush the in¬ 
fested clothes, hanging them out in the 
sun. Examine susiie'cted fabrics carefully 
for the small larvae or caterpillars, and 
destroy any found. Closets or clothes 
presses should be well scrubbed and 
brushed, and it is also well to spray such 
.s<q)hic “boss swapper” and banker of 
niral hiicw York. Not to have known 
Dpid and his sister Polly is to have 
missed one of the most pleasant experi¬ 
ences in American fiction. 
“The Trimmed Lamp,” by O. Henry; 
stories of ‘^he struggling souls buried in 
the turmoil of our greatest metropolis. 
O. Henry is justly famous for his marvel¬ 
ous technique in plot structure, but he 
also saw truly into the hearts and minds 
of men and women, and wrote of them as 
he saw. 
“The Gentleman from Indiana,” by 
Booth Tarkington; a novel, in plot in¬ 
ferior to hi.s shorter story, “Monsieur 
Beaucaire,” in characterization inferior 
to his 1‘enrod sketches, and yet notable 
for certain striking scenes and for its 
pervasive spirit of the new democracy. 
Its general impression is one of the kind 
which lingers. 
“Red Rock,” by Thomas Nelson Page; 
a .story of the reconstruction period in the 
South, written by one who combines a 
fine love for that country with a keen 
aitpreciation of what constitutes interest¬ 
ing fiction. 
“The Octopus,” by Frank Norris; a 
.symbolic epic of the wheat, in which the 
sordid victories of map’s commercialism 
are seen to be transient and insignificant 
when compared with the golden fecundity 
of the Western plains. The sequel of 
this novel, “The Pit,” deals with the Chi¬ 
cago stock exchange. 
“A New England Nun,” by Mary Wil¬ 
kins Freeman; a collection of short sto¬ 
ries written mo.st artistically by one who 
has observed with rare insight and sym¬ 
pathetic regard the mothers and maiden 
aunts of our New England towns. 
“Lives of the Hunted,” by Erne.st Se- 
ton-Thompson; tales of the animals of 
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