o the stomach that is impossible to resist.

Buying a whole ham at a time is the best and most economical way of
buying ham, as experience will prove. It can be boiled or baked whole
and sliced for whatever purpose intended. When baked ham is broiled for
breakfast it requires to be cooked just long enough to get hot all the
way through.

It is many years since the curing of ham was first tried and in those
years much has been accomplished. Today Armour's Star Hams represent
perfection in cured ham. In them the highest quality is allied to
skillful curing and careful smoking.

From many thousand hams those intended for the Star brand are chosen;
the process of curing is a specialty of Armour and Company, and careful
smoking over green hickory logs gives the final necessary touch.

They say "the proof of the pudding is the tasting of it" and this
applies to Armour's Star Hams as well.

[Many ways of using this, to most people, necessary meat, will be found
on page 12.]

[Illustration: _Built in Cupboards and Shelves Economize on Space and
are Especially Nice for Linens_]

Halloween Hints

Witch Apples

Bake large apples from which the core has been removed until soft, but
not long enough to burst the skin. When cooked, insert a marshmallow
into the core space, put a teaspoonful of sugar on top and a few
maraschino cherries. When ready to serve turn over each a scant
teaspoonful of brandy and light just as the table is reached. The brandy
will burn with a ghastly flame and melt the sugar and marshmallows.
Whipped cream served in a bowl is a delicious addition.

Witch Cake

Cream one half cupful of butter with one and one half cupfuls of sugar;
add three eggs and beat five minutes; add one cupful of milk. Sift
together one third cupful of cornstarch, and two cupfuls of flour, one
and one half teaspoonfuls of ground mixed spices, and three teaspoonfuls
of baking powder; then add to the mixture. Now add one cupful of seeded
floured raisins, also one cupful of chopped nuts. Turn into a well
greased loaf cake pan and bake in a moderate oven about forty-five
minutes. Frost with a white boiled icing. Melt sweet chocolate to equal
one third cupful, flavor with a teaspoonful of lemon juice, add one
cupful of boiled chestnuts which have been run through the meat grinder,
and enough confectionery sugar to make a paste easily handled. Roll and
cut (by pasteboard pattern) black cats or any other Halloween figure