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Lucknow Sentinel, 1907-09-25, Page 6THE EVERYDAY HEAVEN ANTI TOXIN FOR FATIGUE He Is Truly Godly Who Sees God In All Things of Life. “The earth Is >AfIl of the loving kind ness of the Lci4.’*—Ps. xxxiii., 5. Lite's poverty is due, not to what we have had and lost, not to what has been, withheld or taken from us, but to the good which we might 'have had which we carelessly have passed by. No others 'de-Spoil us as we despoil our selves by our blindness and indiffer ence to the wealth of our own lives and the beauty ever close at 'hand. We who scurry over land and sea, Who dig, and toil, and fret to find hap piness, come back at last to learn that the sweet faced guest has been wait ing .close by our door all the time. lie perishes in the pitiless snows .who, blind to the good and the glory in every valley and hillside, hee'ds only the im pulse bo climb and find 'the good in some remote helight. Ambition and pride lift ever new peaks ahead only to mock him when at last, worn, spent and empty in heart, he fall's by the v. ay. The old theology talked much of a heaven far away, to be attained in the remote future; the new theology often seems inclined to ignore any ‘heaven, tut what the hearts of men need is the sense of the heaven that is all about them, the God who ever is near, and the blessedness even now attainable. SOME LIVE IN TIIE PAST, complacently contemplating the glories that once were theirs or their ances tor’s; some live in the future, dreaming of felicities yet to be; but they are wise only who live to the full in the present, who ca'tch the richness and beauty, all the wealth that the passing hour or tne present opportunity may have. He is truly godly who sees God in all the affairs of this day, in the faces of living men, in the flowers and fields, who sees all the divine wonder and bcautv of life, and not he who sees the Most High only in some legendary past or in a strange, imaginary future. No man bcomes strong by reminis cence of his breakfast or dreaming of his next meal alone; each portion of THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, SEPT. 29. A Comprehensive Quarterly Review. Golden Text: Ps. ciii., 8. Lesson I.—God feeds Israel in the wil derness (Ex. xvi., 1-15). Golden Text, John vi., 51, “I am the Living Bread which came down from heaven.” He who redeemed them from Egypt by His own right hand without any assitance whatever from them gave them bread and flesh to the full without any labor on their part, and in the discourse of our Lord in John vi. lie plainly taught " that the manner was typical of Himself. Lesson II.—The Ten Commandments ; duties toward God (Bx .xx, 1-11). Gold en Text, Deut. vi., 5, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy sotl and with all thy might.” He who loved them enough to redeem them and wh~.se love to them was an everlasting love, an unchanging love (Deut. vii., 6-8; Jer. xxxl., 3; Mai. i., 2; iii., 6), asked that they should love Him in return for such great love. Lesson III.—The Ten Commandments; duties toward men (Ex. xx, 12-17). Gold en Text, Lev. xix., 18, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” It is only by our love to our fellows that wo can prove or manifest our love to God, for “he that loveth not his brother, whom he hath seen, how can he love God, whom he hath not seen?” (I. John iv., 2b). Lesson IV.—The golden calf (Ex. xxxii., 1-8, 30-35. Golden Text, I John v., 21, “Little children, keep yourselves from idols.” The people who promised to do all that God said could not keep it six weeks, could not keep their pro mise at all, but hey made a show of obedience for a little while. Lesson V.—The tabernacle (Ex. xl, 1-13, 34-38. Golden Text, Ex. xi, 34, “Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.” A dwelling place for God in the midst of Israel erected by Spirit filled men from the wiling offer ings of the people, who had to be re strained from bringing. Lesson VI.—The sin of Nadab and Abihu (Lev. x., 1-11). Golden Text, Prov. xx., 1, “Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.” The sin of these men was the strange fire they offered before the Lord, refusing a willing obe dience and presuming to do as they thought best. Verse 9 may possibly im ply that the cause of their sin was strong drink. Lesson VII.—The day of atonement (Lev. xvi., 5, 22. Golden Text, Ileb. vii., 25, “Wherefore He is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him.” God’s provision for the putting away of the sins of Israel once ayear faintly typified the eterna redemption which we have in Christ Jesus by His one offering up of Himself, once for all. As in Israel’s case, so in ours—the priest did it all; we receive the benefit. Lesson \ illIsrael journeying to Canaan (Num. x., 11-13, 29-36). Goden Text, Ex. xiii., 21, “And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light.” Delivered from their enemies, their Deliverer even with them, dwell ing in their midst; provision for all the journey assured day by day, the good land before them, and all the way their faithful guide to tell them when to go and when to stay. Lesson IX.—The two reports of the spies (Num. xiii., 17-20; 23-33). Golden Text, Num. xiv., 9, “The Lord is with us, fear them not.” Under such pecu liarly blessed circumstances and With such assurances from the living God to talk of sending spies to see if it was as God had said was surely sinful unbelief, and yet Moses fell into line with it, and God in gracious compassion for their weakness permitted it that those who would not believe His word might learn in their own harder way. Lesson X.—The bazen serpent (Num. xxi., 1-9). Golden Text, John iii., 14, 15, “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whosoever be- lieveth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.” Not liking God’s way and speaking against God brought a lc- of trouble, and yet it is the ordinary way of all men since that old serpent caused Adam and Eve to fall in with his plan of geting on in defiance of God. Lesson XL—Moses pleading with Is rael (Deut. vi., 1-15). Golden Text, Deut. vi., 12, “Beware, lest thou forget the Lord.” In the end of the fortieth year since they left Egypt (Deut. 1., 3) Moses rehearsed all the Lord’s dealings with them, reminding them of all the ways that the Lord had led them, of His un changing love and manifold mercies, and he may bo said to sum up his ex- hertaion to them in the words, “Remem ber, forget not the Lord; love and obey Him." Lesson XII.—The death of Moses (Deut. xxxiv., 1-12). Golden Text, Ps. cxvi., 15, “i recious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.” In John xvli., 24. IIe said to His Father that He longed to have them with Him that they might see His glory. In Phil, i., 21, 23, we read that “to die is gain, * * * to de part and be with Christ is far better.” More literally the last two words should be “very far better.” -----------4.----------- SHOOTING-BOX ON WHEELS. Indian Rajah’s Luxurious Caravan for Hunting in the Jungle. “The most luxurious caravan of mod ern times.” Such is the claim put for ward by a London firm on behalf of a vehicle, the total cost of which amounts to considerably over $5,009, which they have just constructed. Ten weeks ago the order was placed by an Indian rajah whose intention it is to use the vehicle as a movable shooting box. It is now ready for exportation to Bombay. Between the windows—strongly bar red without, so that they may be left open in safety, with no fear of intru sion from the wild beasts of the jungle —ten .portholes are interspersed. The roof is curved slightly in the manner a quarter-deck. The walls are built of the strongest teak—the only wood capable of with standing the full onslaught of the In dian sun—lined with light oak. fl be caravan, which is elaborately fitted, weighs ten tons in all, and will be con veyed through the jungle by eight bul locks, while on emergency elephants may be employed. The body of the caravan will be carried on a trolley, the springs of which have been so fashioned that not the slightest vibra tion will be experienced by the sports men. He that gives to be seen would never relieve a man in the dark. Misery loves company. That is why some bachelors and spinsters marry. Some men never miss the water till their throats get dry. A girl is always sure she is in love with some man, even if she isn’t sure which man he is. “How’s your wife?” “She’s having constant trouble with her head." “Can’t the doctor help her?” “No—nobody but the, milliner.” ABILITY TO RESIST FATIGUE CAN BE INCREASED. time must have its own fitting food. The soul of man never can find its full ness through either history or prophecy; it needs the sense of the spiritual in this living, pulsating, matter of fact present. This world is slovenly, sinful, and evil because so many of us are content with the past or the future, with myth or with imagination, and fail to de mand the development of the good that is our heritage to-day. The better day comes not by dreams, but by each man doing the best he can and securing all the good he can for his own day. We need to give up the plan of sav ing the world by the piety of postponed pleasures and to find the fullness of life in the present to get below the sur face of things and DISCOVER LIFE'S REAL RICHES to interpret this daily toil and struggle, and all this world of ours, in terms of the divine and infinite. How much it would mean to our lives if we might learn, intend of sigh ing for the impossible, to get all the sweetness and joy that is in the things we have, how ricn we would find the common lot to be, how many things that now seem dreary and empty would bloom into new beauty. In a child’s 'smile, a wild flower’s fragrance, a glint of sunlight, things possible to all, nve Would find joys unspeakable and full of glory. This does not mean dull content with things as they are; it does mean the de velopment of' the faculties Of apprecia tion, 'the growth of the life in power '.o see, the development of the dull earth with the glory of the ideal. Some day, when we look back over cur lives, how keen will be our regret as we realize what we have missed, bow We have spurned the substance < f life’s lasting treasures, human loves, friendships, everyday beauties, and happiness, while chasing the shadows of imaginary joys. HENRY F. COPE. Experiments Made With Mice—Give Short Periods of Work (o Child. In a paper by Professor Burnham, read by Dr. Gulick, of Now York, to the International Congress on School Hygiene, the professor said that with in certain limits the ability to resist .fatigue can be increased. It was ap parently proved that toxic products re sulting from the functional activity of ■the muscles are the chief cause of fa tigue, says the London Daily Express. “Thus, when the blood of a tired dog Was injected into the veins of a nor mal one,” says the professor, “the lat ter showed symptoms of fatigue.” Nor is. this all. There are certain things, the professor slated, that act as an fantidote to fatigue, and (Weichardt •claims to have isolated the fatigue tox in, and to have produced an anti-toxin in the usual manner. EXPERIMENTS WITH MICE. The anti-toxin may not only be pro duced artificially, but is produced dur ing normal functional activity. When (moderate quantities of the products of ■fatigue are produced in a heartily or ganism, there is an increased formation <cf the specific anti-toxin; that is to pay, there is always a tendency to de velop immunity to fatigue. Experiments with mice have proved ’this. While a mouse that is given a large dose of the toxin shows decreas ed ability to work, and soon dies, mice which beforehand have been rendered immune by treatment with the anti toxin of fatigue may be given a largo idese of the toxin, and yet continue to Work with unabated efficiency. SMALL DOSES GOOD. It is much the same with men and •women, the professor started. Small /doses of anti-fatigue toxin have stimu lated them to work, and rendered them 'temporarily fatigue-proof. Large doses, hcAvever, decrease the ability to work, and may do permanent injury. “The way to develop power to resist fatigue in children,” says the profes sor, is by short periods of intense work, followed by periods of rest. Pro longed periods of work should be look ed upon with grave suspicion as likely to injure permanently the ability to ■work.” Prfessor Burnham quoted authori ties to show that physical energy is at •a low ebb in March and April, and that there is a depression in the curve <f psychic energy in April. WAGE SLAVES OF LONDON. Sweatshop Watfcts for Making Trousers —Parents Cannot Support Faniily, Emaciated and poorly clad, Edward Dennis, aged 32, appeared in the dock at the Guildhall Police Court recently, says The London Daily Chronicle, to answer a charge of begging with his two children, aged 9 and 5 years. It was a pitiful story that was disclosed. The two children, who were brought into court, looked half starved and were wearing no underclothing. Mr. Wills, the L.C.C. officer, explained that both Dennis and his wife were tailor's press ers, and formerly lived and worked off Mine-end road. They were very poor, The wife was ill, and what would be come of the children when she was laid up if the authorities did not look after them, he did not know. In order to provide food and clothing for their children the parents had been known to sit up half the night finish ing trousers, for which they were paid at the handsome rate of l%d. per pair. They had drifted into the slums of Spitalfields, and at last were forced to beg. A lady visitor corroborated this story. It was a particularly sad case, she said. She was negotiating to help the woman. An order was made for the admission of the children to the Rpinan Catholic Industrial Schools at Whitstable. The man was discharged, and assist ance was givevi him from the poor box. -----------*----------- KING TOOK THE BUNCH. Amusdng and Expensive Joke on ths Emperor of Germany. Kaiser Wilhelm has had an amus ing and expensive experience in re membering the King of Siam’s birth day. The king, while the kaiser’s guest, expressed admiration for the kaisers two intelligent little daschunds, that follow their master everywhere. When the king went to Hamburg he express ed a wish to possess a similar pair to take with him to Siam. This remark was communicated to the kaiser, toge ther with the fact that the king's birth day would occur in a few days, and he gave orders to procure a number of the best specimens of t' kre^l and sent seven pairs for the 1 choose from. 'ibrS? The ruler of Siam was overcome with the kindness of the kaiser that be accepted all 14 dogs, which he will take home with him. It was only when a palace official, who had been entrusted with the de livery of the dogs, returned that the kaiser learned the cost of the gift. He took the situation good-humoredly as a joke on himself. -----------*----------. No matter how big a man is, he can not afford to belittle others. There is some hope for the fool who does not boast of his wisdom. Many a family tree has a bad branch ■and a shady reputation. Il’s up to the spinster to learn how to strike a match. There are sermons in stones and Ice cream in bricks. Every man has his price, but in nine cases out of ten he isn’t worth it. COOKING RECIPES. Beef Omelet. — One and one-half pounds of round steak ground, two eggs, , one-fourth cupful of milk, two slices of bread crumbed, salt and pepper to taste. Tomato Fritters.—Pare ripe tomatoes, chop fine, season with salt and pepper and stir in flour containing a teaspoon- fu’ of soda, to make a thin baiter. Drop in spoonfuls in hot fat, brown and serve at once. Cheese Salad.—Grate one-half pound of cheese, mix with enough cream to bind together, shape into small balls and arrange for individual serving on crisp lettuce leaves. Garnish with diced celery and rings cut from hard-boiled eggs, and dress with mayonnaise. Stuffed Peppers.—Minced shrimps and bread crumbs in equal parts, Worces tershire sauce, lemon juice, anchovy sauce, salt, pepper, and butter to taste. Mix all to a smooth paste and stuff into clean peppers. Strew the lop with bread crumbs and butter. Bake to a light brown in a quick oven, place a poached egg on top, and serve at once. Grape Fritters.—One lieaping cupful of flour, yolks of two eggs, two tablespoon fuls of salad oils or melted butter, pinch of spice and salt., one cupful of water. When mixed smoothly add the beaten whites. Dip little clusters of grapes in the batter and fry. Take up and lay on brown paper for a minute to free from fat. Dust with powdered sugar and serve either hot or cold, as a dessert. Peach Meringue Pudding.—Stew the peaches in a syrup of sugar and water until tender; remove and boil the syrup until thick, then pour over the peaches. Make a cornstarch custard of the yolks of two or three eggs, about a pint, of milk, two teaspoonfuls of cornstarch (wet in cold milk), sugar, and vanila. Make a meringue of the whiles of the eggis and sugar, and spread over the peaches. Use the custard as sauce. Apple Catsup.—Peel and quarter4 a dozen tart cooking apples, stew soft in just enough water to keep them from burning, then rub through a sieve. To every quart of the apple pulp add a cup of sugar, a teaspoonful of pepper, one each of cloves and mustard, two of cin namon and two medium-sized onions grated. Mix all thoroughly, adding a tablespoonful of salt and a pint of best cider vinegar. Boil gently for an hour, and bottle while hot and seal. Potato Puffs.—For serving with after noon tea, potato puffs are particularly good. Take three ounces of flour, three ounces of sugar, three large boiled oola- toes, a piece of butter the size of a nut meg, two eggs and a little' grated nut meg. Put all the ingredients together, make to a nice paste and fry a delicate brown with plenty of butter. Serve on a paper doily and keep them as hot as possible. If you wish them for a course they are very nice with white sauce. Preserved Pears.—Pare the fruit with a silver knife and drop into a bowl of cold water to preserve the color. When all are pared, put into a pan of clear, cold water, and boil until almost ten der. Make a syrup of the water in which the pears were boiled, allowing one pound of sugar to each half-pint of wa ter Drop the pears into the syrup and cook them slowly until they can be pierced with a silver fork. Put the fruit m hot jars and cover with the boiling syrup. Seal tightly. Tapioca Soup with Tomatoes.—Have sir: ounces of tapioca and put into a saucepan with two quarts of fairly rich white stock. Let boil up for a minute, then simmer for two hours. In another saucepan cook half a dozen large toma toes, an onion, a small bay leaf, and salt and pepper. When the tomatoes are quite cooked, strain through a fine sieve and add to the tapioca. Strain all then through a sieve, set over the fire to re heat and add two ounces of melted but ter. Lemon Pie.—One large cupful of boil ing water, into which stir one-half cup ful of sugar, piece of butter size of a walnut, two tablespoonfuls of corn starch dissolved in a little cold water; let this cook well. Juice of one lemon (or about two tablespoonfuls of juice), some of the grated rind (I do not like the whole), one cup of sugar added to the juice; pour the cooked thickening into this and add the beaten yolks of two eggs. Bake in custard pie plate until it bubbles in the middle well; cool and frost. Rice and Apple Pudding.—A cupful of rice, six apples, a little chopped lemon peel, two cloves, sugar. Boil the rice for ten minutes; strain it through a hair sieve until quite dry. Put a cloth into a pudding basin and lay the rice round it like a crust. Cut the apples into quar ters and lay them in the middle of the ric^ with a little chopped lemon peel, cloves and some sugar. Cover the fruit with rice, tie up tight and boil for an hour. Serve with melted butter, sweet ened and poured over it. Veal and Rice Pie.—Boil a teacupful of rice in boiling water ten minutes, Strain it quite dry, peel a Spanish onion, chop fine with a bunch of pansley, a little lemon thyme, pepper and salt. Cut four rashers of rather fat bacon, line a pie dish with the bacon, then the rice and onion; cut up two pounds of the breast of veal in small pieces, lay those on the seasoned rice. Three parts fill the dish with quite boiling water, cover with a nicely mashed potato crust, and bake in a moderately hot oven one hour and a half. Broiled Oysters.—Select for this large oysters. Drain them on a cloth or nap kin, turning them from side to side to make them as dry as possible. Mean while soften some butter and season some cracker crumbs with salt and pep per. Then, holding each oyster on a fork, dip it into the crumbs, then into the melted butter, and again into the crumbs. Arange them in an oyster broiler (which differs from ordinary broilers by having the wires closer to gether) and broil over a hot fire for about two minutes, turning the broiler every few seconds. They should not be -----------.......................... .... WOODEN-LEGGFD TERROR MEN WHO FIGHT TffiS POLICE WITH THE TIMBER. Wooden Leg Used as Money Box- Cork Leg Cleared « Man From Being Fined. Poets have not written epics on the wooden leg, nor have philosophers ex hausted its glories, yet the humorist has extracted much fun from this use ful article. There is a lady wb.-a, when she wishes to keep her good man at home, has but to hide his cork leg. JStill, the wooden leg is a dangerous weapon. There is a beggar at North- wich who is described as the “wooden legged terror” by the police-. He has a playful habit of unscrewing his leg and using it as a weapon to bat the crowns of the constables. , “We had to take off his wooden leg, as usual, before wo could arrest him,” was the beginning of the -evidence of a constable at West Ham. This was with reference to ,a one-legged prisoner who bad violently resisted the officer. This man is well known as a terror to con stables new to the district, until they learn the trick of disarming him by taking off his leg. There is another cripple who is dreaded by the police, but has lost both legs and an arm in addition. When this man was arrested recently he resisted lustily, with the result that the harassed police had to lake him to gaol in fifteen pieces. A woo Jen-legged gentleman was plodding up Bat-tensea Rise ’When his timber leg somehow caught in a grat ing and became fixed. lie tried <o wrench it out, with the result that the leg snapped in two, and the man fell to the pavement. To the astonishment of <the people who witnessed the inci dent, a number of gold and silver coins rolled down the pavement. WOODEN LEGS AS MONEY BOXES. The gentleman explained 'that ho had used his wooden leg as a money box. In the thickest part of it, a cun ningly devised cavity had been made, Hie aperture being closed by a small door. His savings were collected for him. and he was placed in a cab and driven home. People \vho use wooden legs often utilize them as money boxes, usually pulling their wealth in a kid glove, and an ex-military man recently '.scored in this connection. He placed his money in an aperture in one of his wooden legs, and then went to draw his pen sion, adding that also. Next he went to dine with a .shady acquaintance, and allowed himself forty winks after des sert. When he awoke, his acquaintance had vanished. “What I expected,” the captain said as he nodded his head and felt in his pocket, llis purse had van ished also. “I expected that, too,” he ehuckl d; “there is'sixpence in it.” When he looked down he became .horror-stricken, for his legs had gone., die shouted out, and the police (were •fetched. Afterwards 'the wooden ’legs were ’found up an alley, where the liiiCf had •taken them in order to prevent his vic tim giving chase. The old soldier fev erishly pulled out the stopper in his •savings box. and to his delight discov ered that his savings were intact. Smil ingly he strapped on his legs and jubi lantly marched home. BROOMSTICK TO THE RESCUE. A Bradford policeman arrested a man for being drunk .and disorderly, but it appeared that the charge hud no •better foundation than a cork leg. In his defence it was shown that the wob- 'bling was caused by the vagaries of a timber leg. The solicitor for the de- •fendan’t submitted that the man was not responsible for the acts of his leg, Iso the one-legged man got off in this case. Il was during a fog in London that seventeen people crowded into a Lon don and South-Western compartment. Then another endeavored to find ioom, •but failed. “Can’t get any further,” •said a man inside the compartment. “There’s a man here with a wooden leg blocking the way.” “Ah!” said the •owner of the wooden leg. “excuse me half a moment.” He obligingly un screwed his leg, and put it on the lug gage rack. A policeman who had just passed through the St. John ambulance classes was able to render first aid to a wood en leg. An elderly man was crossing the roadway at Victoria Station, Lon don, when lie was knocked down by a. hansom cab. The wheels went over tus wooden leg and broke it. It was ■then that the policeman suitably proved himself equal to the emergency. By the assistance of a new broom stick, purchased by a sympathetic on looker, the resourceful policeman took the needful measurements. In the pres ence of a highly-amused cnowd, and with a borrowed saw and other tools, ‘he constable managed to repair the damaged limb so effectively that the owner was able to go home, declining all other assistance.—Pearson’s Weekly. KEEP HIM IN. “Hang it all, my cigar’s gone out,’ he said, “It spoils a cigar, no matter b.ow good it may be, if you let it go out.” “A cigar,” she observed, “is, in that matter, not unlike a man.” shrivelled, but plump, soft, tender and juicy. USEFUL HINTS. Make potatoes look white and floury by boiling in as little water as possible, strain, and take at once to an open dcor. Give the potatoes a vigorous shake in the saucepan, and let it remain un covered at the side of the stove for five minutes before serving. Furniture needs cleaning as much as other woodwork. It may be washed with warm soapsuds quickly, wiped dry, and then rubbed with an oily cloth. To polish it rub with rotten-stone and sweet oil. Clean off the oil, and polish with chamois skin. Oranges and lemons should invariably be washed and the rinds brushed with a soft brush. Apart from the certainty that the fruit has passed through many doubtfully clean hands and receptacles, the specks often seen on the fruit are ■stated to be of a parasitic nature. Three hot dinners can be served up from a sirloin of beef. Cut the flank off and either salt it or spice it, then boil with fresh vegetables. The undercut may be removed and either larded and roasted, or served as fillet steaks. The prime cut which alone remains can bo toasted in the usual way. For Flavoring Cakes.—Make sweet spice for flavoring cakes as follows : Two ounces each of cloves, cinnamon, mace, and nutmeg, 1 oz. of ginger and 3 oz. of sugar. These ingredients should le finely powdered, mixed well, and passed twice through a wire sieve. Place in air-tight canisters for use. A Good Use for Old Blankets.—When blankets have become thin and unsight ly from long use, have them washed, put two or throe together, and cover them with pretty sateen to make quilts. But ton down the quilts hero and there, mat tress fashion, to keep them in proper shape, and finish off with a nice frill of sateen. To restore faded upholstery, beat the dust out, then brush. Apply a strong lather of Castile soap with a hard brush, wash off with clear water, then wash with alum-water. On becoming dry the colors will look as well as ever. When colors are faded beyond recovery they may be touched up with a pencil dipped in water-colors of suitable shade, mixed with gum-waler. Witch-hazel, much diluted with waler, has often been tried with considerable success, as a means of preventing the dark circles under the eyes, which are so damaging to the appearance. These are usually the sign of weakness or ill- health, and while external treatment is always helpful, the root, of the matter should also be attacked, and the system strengthened by taking a tonic, going to bed early, and by indulging in as much fresh air and moderate exercise as pos sible. Care must be taken to avoid opening (lie oven door for 5 minutes after the cake has been placed in it., whilst on re moving it or drawing it to the front to see if it is being baked evenly the least jar must be avoided, or the lightness of the cake will be interfered with. When lemon-peel is used for making buns or cakes it should be pared as thinly as possible or grated finely. In order to mix it easily with the other ingredients, it is a good plan to moisten it first with a little of the milk or eggs which are used in the recipe. The correct method in which to line I a round cake-tin wnh paper is that of j first- cutting a double thick band of the paper about 2% to.3% inches wider than the depth of the tin itself, and somewhat longer than its girth. The band should then be folded over for about 1 inch, and then opened out, when a series of notches should be cut out at even distances, so that the paper band, when laid at the bottom of the tin, will lie fiat, the “hem" covering the space between the outer band and circular piece of paper to cover the bottom, which is inserted last of all. ----------*---------- CONCERNING THE OCEAN. Some Curious Facts and Figures About the Sea. The oceans occupy three-fourths of the surface of the earth. A mile down in the sea the waler has a pressure of a tev to every square inch. If a box 6 feet deep was filled with sea water, which was then allowed to eva porate, there would be 2 inches of salt left in the bottom of the box. Taking the average depth of the ocean to be three miles, there would be a layer of salt 440 feet thick covering the bottom, in case all the waler should evaporate. In many places, especially in the Far North, the water freezes from the bottom upward. Waves are deceptive things. To look at them one would gather the impres sion that the whole water travelled. This, however, is not so. The water stays in the same place, but the motion goes on. In great storms waves are sometimes 40 feet high, and their crests travel fifty miles an hour. The base of a wave (the distance from valley to val ley) is usually considered as being fif teen times the height of the wave. Therefore, a wave 25 feet high would have a base extending 375 feet. The force of waves breaking on the shore is seventeen tons to the square inch. ----------*---------- - SOON CURED. “I was cured of an annoying pro pensity to sleep at the wrong time ;n rather an original way,” said Snoozer. “Some time ago there were a number of nights when I could not sleep until just before it was time to ruse in. the morning. Then, of course, it was hard to wake me. My friends advised all sorts of remedies, but my ‘wife set her wits to work and found the right one. The next night. I fell into a light doze after I got into bed, but in less than twenty minutes I was as wide awake as ever, pitching and tossing, and unablo to close my eyes. Well, my wife got up, struck a match, and pretended to look at her watch. Then she said:— “ ‘1 wouldn’t try to go to sleep, dear, as it will soon be time for you to get up now.’ “That settled it. In three minutes I was asle-ep and slept like a log. This was repeated once or twice, and now I get my regluar sleep every night. The best of it was that I didn’t know for a number of days the little ruse that had Lean employed to send me to sleep." ------------------- FINAL APPEAL. “The reason I can’t get along with, my wife is that she wants to submit all our differences to arbitration.” “To arbitration?” “Yes. She always wants 8o refer dis putes to ner mother.” THE REASON. Wife—“It’s flve-an-twenty years tha( day, John, sin’ you an’ me wis mar-: riet, an’ a’ that time we’ve never ylnce. quarrelled!” Husband—“I dlnna winner al that, my wumman, “sewin’ that I’ve sich a’ sweet temper.’’ f