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Oct. 22, 1915. 
hot water, 31-2 cups flour, 1-2 teaspoonful 
salt, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon, 1 cup walnut 
meats, 1-2 cup currants, 1-2 cup chopped 
raisins. 
Cream butter and sugar, add eggs grad- 
ually add soda dissolved in water, sift to- 
gether flour, salt and cinnamon, and add 
1-2 of this to first mixture, then stir in 
the nuts, currants and raisins. Put in 
rest of the flour and beat well, bake in a 
moderate oven. 
(2) BEEF SALAD 
Remove all fat from cold roast beef, 
chop meat very fine. Add six finely chop- 
ped potatoes, an equal quanitity of beets, 
a few slices of tomatoes, a small bunch of 
parsley. Mix thoroughly and chop all to- 
gether until almost reduced to a cream. 
Serve with lettuce, tomato slices and may- 
onnaise. | 
Have You Ever— 
Taken out ink stains by soaking 
article for half an hour in very weak 
solution of cider vinegar? The waist 
or apron or handkerchief should then 
be wrung out, and put in cold water 
in which one tablespoonful of wash- 
ing powder has been dissolved. Af- 
ter bringing to boiling point, wring 
and wash in usual manner. This 
should be used only for white goods. 
N OUR ioe ED REE ZB 
CAMPING WITH STEVENSON. 
Wild the water roars and tumbles 
Through the rift of earthquake 
shock, 
Dashing white into the basin 
At the foot of balanced rock. 
Flares the fire up the stone flue, 
Sparks of fir wood flinging free; 
Broiling trout and sizzling bacon 
Promise rich .repast for me. 
Flaming pine knot on the embers 
Floods the camp with yellow light; 
Cheerful pipe and Robert Louis, 
My companions for the night. 
Down the Oise we drift together, 
Through the plains of Compiegne; 
Or, with Modistine we loiter 
In the Trappists’ cloistered glen. 
Climb with him the steeps of Miral, 
Picking chestnuts by the Tarn; 
Or, in Florac’s quaint old tavern, 
Learn the Camisardian yarn. 
’Neath the cool and silent pine tree 
Spread at night the bag for sleep,— 
Flickers out the fitful pitch light,— 
Lost the tale in slumber deep. 
—W. S. C. RUSSELL. 
YE WILBUR THEATRE. 
It is unnecessary more than to in- 
dicate the action of the two plays, 
Bernard Shaw’s “Androcles and the 
Lion” and Anatole France’s “The 
Man Who married a Dumb Wife,” 
which will be presented at Ye Wil- 
bur Theatre (Boston) for the second 
week beginning Monday, November 
ist. M»irance settles the casevof a 
man possessed of a beautiful wife, 
who has all the normal faculties save 
that of speech. The poor fellow, un- 
aware of his blessings, though he is 
warned by a friend to let well enough 
alone, calls in three practitioners, who 
with instruments of Rabelaisian pro- 
portions set the tongue free to speak. 
And such a gabbing as ensues! Again 
the doctors are stummoned, and this 
time they administer a powder which 
deprives the frantic husband of his 
hearing, for though you cannot make 
a woman dumb, you can make a man 
deaf! Whereupon the husband, un- 
able to hear, is happy, but the wife 
goes mad because of his inattention, 
and by biting every member of the 
company in the neck, conveys the 
madness to them all. 
North Woodstock, N. H. 
BLIEU ROOT, president of the New York State Con- 
stitutional Convention, gives his reasons for opposing 
suffrage for women in a letter made public some time 
ago as follows: 
I am opposed to the granting of suffrage to women, 
_ because I believe that it would be a loss to women, to all 
women and to every woman; and because I believe it 
would be an injury to the State and to every man and 
woman in the State. 
It would be useless to argue this if the right of suf- 
frage were a natural right. If it were a natural right, 
then women should have it, though the heavens fall. But 
if there is one thing settled in the long discussion of this 
subject, it is that suffrage is not a natural right, but is 
simply a means of government; and the sole question to 
be discussed is whether government by the suffrage of 
men and women will be better government than by the 
suffrage of men alone. 
The question is, therefore, a question of expediency, 
and the question of expediency upon this subject is not a 
question of tyranny, but a question of liberty, a question 
of the perservation of free constitutional government, of 
law, order, peace and prosperity. 
_ Into my judgment there enters no element of the in- 
feriority of woman. It is not that woman is inferior to 
man, but it is that woman is different from man: that in 
the distribution of powers, of capabilities, of qualities, our 
Maker has created man adapted to the performance of 
other functions. One question to be determined in the 
discussion of this subject is whether the nature of woman 
is such that her taking upon herself the performance of 
the functions implied in suffrage will leave her in the pos- 
session and the exercise of her highest powers or will be 
an abandonment of those powers and an entrance upon a 
field in which, because of her difference from man, she is 
distinctly inferior. 
“attains: 
I have said that I thought suffrage would be a loss 
for women. | think so because suffrage implies not mere- 
ly the casting of the ballot, the gentle and peaceful fall of 
the snowflake, but suffrage, if it means anything, means 
entering upon the field of political life, and politics is 
modified warfare. [In politics there is struggle, strife, 
contention, bitterness, heart-burning, excitement, agita- 
tion, everything which is adverse to the true character of 
woman, 
Woman rules today by the sweet and nobler influ- 
ences of her character. Put woman into the arena of 
conflict and she abandons these great weapons which con- 
trol the world, and she takes into her hands, feeble and 
nerveless for strife, weapons with which she is unfam- 
iar, and which she is unable to wield. Woman in strife 
becomes hard, harsh, unlovable, repulsive, and as far re- 
moved from that gentle creature to whom we all owe al- 
legiance and to whom we confess submission, as the 
heaven is removed from the earth. 
In my judgment, this whole movement arises from a 
false conception of the: duty and of the right of men and 
women both. We all of us see the pettiness of our lives. 
We all see how poor a thing is the best that we can do. 
We all at times long to share the fortunes of others, to 
leave our tiresome round of duty and to engage in their 
What others may do seems to us nobler, more 
important, more conspicuous than the little things of our 
own lives. It is a great mistake, it is a fatal mistake, 
that these excellent women make when they conceive that 
the functions of men are superior to theirs, and seek to 
usurp then. The true government is in the family. The 
true throne is in the household. The highest exercise of 
power is that which forms the conscience, influences the 
will, controls the impulses of men, and there today woman 
is supreme and woman rules the world. 
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