XLIII Sunday Dinner at the Dixon's

¼ C-orange juice ¼ C-milk 12/3 C-flour ½ t-lemon extract

Cream the butter, add the sugar and egg-yolks; mix thoroughly. Add the orange rind. Add the baking powder, salt and flour sifted together and then the orange juice and milk. Mix, and beat one minute. Add the egg-whites beaten stiffly, and the lemon extract. Bake in two square cake tins fitted with waxed paper for twenty-five minutes in a moderate oven. Orange Filling for the Cake (Sixteen portions) ½ C-sugar 3 T-flour 1/8 t-salt 1 egg yolk Grated rind of ½ an orange ¼ C-water ¼ C-orange juice ½ t-lemon juice

Mix the flour, sugar and salt well; add slowly the egg-yolk and the grated rind, the orange juice and water. Cook slowly over hot water for ten minutes, or until thick enough to spread. Add the lemon juice or lemon extract. Spread on one layer of cake. Place the other layer carefully on the top and spread Quick Cake Icing over the top and sides of the cake.

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OCTOBER.

Oh, hazy month of glowing trees,—

And colors rich to charm our eyes! Yet—not less fair than all of these Are Mother's fragrant pumpkin pies!

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CHAPTER LX

A KITCHEN SHOWER FOR ALICE

"DID you want me for something, Mary?" asked Alice at the door. "Mother said you had telephoned."

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"Come in! Come in!" cried ten girls at once, while Bettina whispered to Ruth: "Thank goodness, she's come! The muffins are all but done!" "What in the world!" said Alice. "A party for you!" "And I'm wearing my old suit!" "We caught you this time, but never mind. Come in, and take off your things." As soon as Alice reappeared in the living room, a small table was drawn up before the open fire. Two girls appeared, wearing gingham aprons and carrying overflowing market baskets. "This is a kitchen shower for you, Alice," Ruth explained somewhat ceremoniously. "But if you are willing, we will use the utensils in serving the luncheon and afterwards present them to you. May we unpack the baskets?" "Do," said Alice, laughing.

From the larger basket, Ruth removed twelve white enamelled plates of different sizes (suitable for holding supplies in the refrigerator), and twelve cross-barred tea towels. The latter she passed around to be used as napkins, and Mary distributed the plates. On the small serving table before the fire, a white muslin table cover was placed. As she unfolded it, Ruth read from the attached card: "If breakfast you should chance to eat Upon the kitchen table— I'll make it dainty, fair and neat So far as I am able."

When the steel forks and spoons of various sizes were taken out and passed around, two glass measuring cups were found to hold loaf sugar wrapped in frilled paper. Upon one of these Ruth read: "Please eat us all, but let your sweet Sweet hours be duly treasured, For we belie the worldly eye— True sweetness can't be measured."

A glass rolling-pin filled with stick candy came next, and its sentiments read, and meanwhile the girls had begun to read aloud the advice pinned upon the teatowels, such as:

and "No matter what his whims and wishes— Just tell him he must wipe the dishes!"

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