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Home My WebLink AboutExeter Advocate, 1906-10-25, Page 6CUR,ReNT TopICS Liquid alte 'set regarded by the public as 4 toke, enien as a magnificent pOsen bi1iiy Is attractiug renewed attentioft because of English experiments which promise to reduce the price a the pro 'duet to les$ Inan one-sixth of the pre- sent figure. Liquid ale has been. Made Continentally for several yearn but be - cease of the cost and the complicated, tnethod of manaracture it has not been used widely. In some of the Welsh coal mines it, has figured as an, explosive, especially in pines where on account of the damp all forms of gunpowder are ineffective. Be the neanmelltod of mak- ing it in England, after the process in- vented by a Dane, a11 ultimate price of 3 cents a gallon is promised. This would Make it a commereial practica- bility in many linen pr.*. South Africa has some sagacious plants. They have two probleats to face, tie first, that of reducing the eva- poration oi water from their interior to illiMMUM; tilt) second, that of guard- ing against being eaten by animals. The plants have effected the arst of these objects by assuming a spheroidal form, thus presenting a minimum of surface, The second is effected in a different way by each. of the two plants. The flrst of. them grows among rolledwater-worn, pebbles, which it so closely resembles in form, color, and mottling of the surface that it is difficult to distinguish. The second plant is found among angular rock fragments. These it has simulated to the extent of covering the surface of its fleshy double leaf with minute spots. The general effect is that of a lichen growing on weathered stones. Wily dissemblers 1 With the coming of frost we are re- minded that plants do not freeze to death in the early winter, but perishfrom thirst. The process is simple. The cold causes the withdrawal of the water from the cells of the plant, forming ice crys- tals outside of the cells. The. frost, cooling and contracting the surface, acts as a sort of pump, and as soon as the cell is emptied of its life-giving fluid the plant dies. The truth of this theory has been proved during the present fail by numerous careful experiments. Great variation was found in the amount of cold necessary to cause the death of vegetation. Some plants dry out quick- ly and are killed before the freezing point is reached. Many plants will survive zero weather, and some only die at twenty degrees below. Certaia vege- table growths never freeze. There are forms of bacteria that even when 'im- mersed in liquid air, the intensest cold available, come out of their bitter bath as chipper and lively as ever. Surely no stranger anti -immigration law ever was passed than that by which the Australian Government has just closed the gates of that country against foreign bacteria. By proclamation the microbe hemorrhagic septicemia °M- elons is barred from New South Wales. It was proposed to destroy the rabbit pest by the microscopical creature in question. The rabbit pest is bad. enough, .but Australia. remembering her own un - 'happiness with imported pests and the tribulations' of Massachusetts with the gypsy moth, has a well grounded fear that the new microbe may be worse than the rabbits. The patkages or bacteria therefore are taken in charge by a com- missioner, who will not permit the seals, to be broken. They are placed for sate keeping in the hands of the °Metal bac- teriologist of Rea- South Wales. Ile will keep them while the Government, by authority of the noxious microbes law, enters into certain experiments. If the imported microbe is found to be harmless to domestic animals and fatal to rabbits, he will be turned loose on the plantations to work his invisible but none the less certain havoc upon the rodents. . A VIellY USEFUL TREE. The most marvellous tree in the world I is the Carnahuba palm, which grows i in Breen. It has recently been staled that in the great meat -packing factories! in Chicago, every portion of a pig is used except the squeal. Wilh respect to the Carnahuba palm one cannot even reserve the bark. Its roots produce the same medicinal effect as sarsaparilla. &am parts of the tree wine and vine - 'ger are made. Its fruit is used for feed- ing cattle, Of the straw, hats, baskets, browns. and mats are made. ft is also itised Mr thatching houses. The pulp hes an agreeable taste, and the nut, which is oleaginous and emulsive, is semetimes used as a substitution for coffee. Its stems afford strong, long tabus. which (termite a beautiful lustre end serve also for joists, rafters and other building rnateriale. It yields also seccharine substance, as well as a starch resembling sago. Of the wood or the Mem, musical instruments, water- ttubes, and pumps are made. Front the stem a White liquid similar la the milk of tho 00CM-out, and flottr re. sembling maizena may he extracted, eenreover salt is extracted from the free, end tikeevfse an alkali used in the -menu- tincture' of comMort soap,. There is :net raith equal to neat .01. the Man ,who :.culveetiseeatorthe enetterenot, 1051 untbeelia, THE BROKEN FAIRY CIRCLE Parents Should Not Deal Unjustly With Their Own Family And Esau hated jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him, eine etc.—Genesis, xxvii., 41-45. Tha family is the oldest institution in the world and existed before either the Church or the State. It i$ founded in nature and a divine instnutioA, witina the family circle the noblest virtues are the cultivated—helpfulnees, patience, forgiveness, gentleness, sympathy, bra - thorn, love, the rear of God, true relig- ion; indeed, all that Christianity im- plies. A true family is a paradise, an Eden, a heaven on earth. 11 is the duty of znarried men and women to. so live that their homes may be to them like heav- ea We ought to watch night and day to keep Satan out of the household, for if ever he gets his head in he will neVer be content until ins whole body Is in As there is no more charming picture than a true home, so there is no sad- aer and darker picture than the broken family circle. We have such a -home in the text and no real excuse existed for it. Jacob was a farmer, a cattle- man, a. herdsman, a rancher. HE WAS A MAN OF CHARACTER and had faith enough to leave his home when he heard the voice of God. He was a man of great prosperity and pos- sessed flocks of seeep, cattle, goats and camels.Yet these did not contribute to his happiness and peace of mind. There was discord, and so a broken faintly circle. The brothers were jealous of one another and the father and mo- ther were distracted and heartbroken. Tim same was true of the family of Saul. He was called from the farm to the throne and had a fine chance, but missed it. His spirit became dark. He grew jealous and threw a javelin at the head of his son-in-law. All this was unkingly, and the family circle was broken. One of the things that breaks the family circle is jealousy. It was jeal- ousy, largely, that broke the family che c.e of Jacob. Parents should watch for the developineecharacteristice and study the temperaments of their children in order to allay jealousy. Injustice is another ause. Parents are Oleo unwise in the treatment, of theft' children. Men who pride theme selves on being lust to their neighbors ought to be just also to their children, for if they dealt uneasily with their own family they may look to see the family circle bronen, Still another cause Is favoritism, ei- ther on the part of the father or the rao- then Often there is too much made cf one thitdat the expense, of another. Faveritism has broken up Many 4 fine ?amity, for the last thing in the world love can stand is to be elighted., Divorce is one of the great sins of our times mid the cause of many broken Manly circles. We need a league of all good people for the PROTECTION On THE FAMILY. Parents should be impartial and strictly ,just in their.,dealingswith chile keen. God eXpecte this, and unless par - eats are just they must look to see. Ilia family circle broken up. Math should be made of the home. There should be proper amusements Tor the thildeeal an abundance of good papers,bootee and magazines, cued friends welcomed to the home circle. ' Home life should be made pleasant, cheerful and bright. When this is done there will be little danger of broken 'family circles. In the .horne religion should be put into practice and family life hallowed by prayer. The Word of God should .honored and the name of Jesus Christ exalted. When chtldren are taught to levet and honor God they will be quito. sure to love and honor their parents and the family' circle will 'remain un- broken.. May the: great God help us to keep our homes sweet and pure, and finally gather us into the greater faintly circle In the Father's house above! REV. DAVID G. WYLIE, D. D. *********** HOME. PUMPKIN DELICACIES. Pumpkin Chips.—Pare and cut the nempkin into thin strips. and take equal weight of sugar, saturating the sugar with lemon juice. When thoroughly wetted place this on the sliced pump- kin and let stand M hours. Allow for each pound of sugar 12 peach pits or bitter almonds. After draining pumpkin from the syrup heat syrup in separate vessel and add the pits with, for each 2 lbs. sugar and pumpkin combined, 8 cloves, ee nutmeg grated, dessertspoon powdered cinnamon and teaspoon va- nilla flavoring. Place the pumpkin in this hot, slimed syrup, in a double ves- sel, letting simmer till well flavored and tender. Remove pumpkin to healed jars and keep hot until the syrup Is cooked down to a thread-like consis- tency, when it should be strained from all but the pits and poured over the chips; seal carefully. The pumpkin may also be dried and Candied, after this peeparation, as for any candied fruit. Also ginger or lemon flavoring may be used. Pumpkin Marmalade.—Wash," cut up and pare yellow, ripe pumpkins, re- moving seeds and the fibre. To each pound allow 1 lb. sugar and a 'small or- a.nge or lemon. Grace coarse the.pump- kin and place with sugar in preserving kettle. Add grated rind of lemon and, strained juice. Let all boil up slowly, stirring often, skimming well, till smooth and thick. Place in small glass. jars with double found of' nestle paper or parraffin. Cover with waxed paper or bladder. Pumpkin Biscuit.—To 1 pint of dry, mashed pumpkin add 1 teacup sugar, 1 tablespoon butter and ee cup yeast. Beat well before adding yeast, then mix well with flour 1111 batter is quite stiff. Let rise over night. In the morning beat again and drop into hot gem pans or roll out into biscuits. Let, rise and hake. Eat hot. Hurry -up Pumpkin Pte.—When you wish to make a pumpkin pie in a hur- ry and have not time to steve the pump- kin, just peal a part and grate it, then season the same as if stewed. One egg is suflicient tor two pies. Add table- spoon of cornstarch. Not everyone knows that a little nutmeg improves a pumpkin pie. "Oscar's" Pumpkin Pie.—Boil and strain the pumpkin, taking to each a pints pumpkin 4 eggs, 2 tablespoons flour, 1 m. sugar, 1 tablespoon ground ginger, 1 teaspoon salt and 2 quarts milk. Mix while pumpkin is hot. Bake a little 'less than an hour in moderato oven, The Alden .Pie.—To 1 pint pumpkin trace 1 egg, 1 gui molasses, ee, lb. Un- refined or raw sugar, butter size of ttn ego, gill Milk, salt to taste, and a lit- tle each of cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, allspice and ginger. Bake 40 minutes. Pumpkin Indian Pudding.—To nee pints cold, mashed peropkia Mice same quantity Indian meal and tablespoon ground gingen Meantime heat to boil- ing point 1 quart milk; talc° 'from ,fire, and stir into it ee pint Oelean$ =les- see, Add gradually ,the pumpkin and meal (Mixed). and grated rind of onele- neon or orange. Dredge a plideling-cloth end place in it ibis mixture, leavirlg mile rooni to swell. Plunge ire° boll- feg water and keep fast boiling for 4 hours. Turri several times and replan- igh water, licatteg temperatarn Serve at once when done, first dipping bag into Cold water, then turning out and serving het evith butter and syrup. MISC-fennANEOUS,, RECIPES, n'earint Cookies.—Cream together ie cup brown sugar and 2 tablespoons- but- ter, add 3 beaten eggs and two table- spoons sweet milk, 1 teaspoon balcing powder in sufficient flour to make a stiff dough. From 1 pint roasted pea- nuts rub off the brown skin and put through the meat chopper. Stir the peanut meal into the dough, roll out, cut into round cakes, put a peanut meat in the centre of each and bake in a mod- erate oven. Scalloped Potatoes.—Two cupfuls of raw, finely sliced potatoes, one chopped onion, a tablespoonful of chopped pars- ley, and a tablespoonful of butter. But- ter a deep dish and put in a layer el potatoes sprinkled with salt, pepper, butter, onion and parsley, and so con- tinuo to the top. Bring a pint of milk to the boiling point, add a large tea- spoonful of flour stirred until smooth in a little cold milk, pour over the po- tatoes and bake in a hot oven until tender. Charlotte Russe.--Soalc three-quarters level tablespoon of granulated gelatine in one-quarter cup of cold water ner half an hour, then set the dish in another or hot water and stir until the gelatine te entirely dissolved, Beat one cup of thick cream, add powdered sugar and vanilla to suit the taste and then the lukewarm gelatine. Pour the gelatine in slowly- and bring the mixture up from the bottom of the bowl while stirring. Line five small moulds with lady fin- gers or sponge cake sliced thin and fill with cream. Set away to harden. Poached Eggs.—To keep the eggs In shape, the water must simmer, not boil hard. Salt the water and put in -several muMn rings. Drop an egg into each ring and clash the hot water over the top ef the egg until the-whiteis set. Lift out with a flat skimmer on to slices of buttered toast, dust with salt and pep- per and add a bit of butter. Lay a sprig ce; green parsley beside the .egg. CUES FOR THE COOK. To make wine or lemon jelly attrac- tive to serve mold it in cups or glasses the size of a macaroon. Cut angelica in tbe shape of a star and put in first so that it will come in the top of the Mold, and through the centre put colored fruits, say, red, white, and maraschino cherries. Put a macaroon on top so that when turned out of the molds it will hold the jelly. Cucumbers are prettily arranged for service from the side by cutting them in thin slices, but not quite through. In- sert between the slices .at a place corre- sponding to nnery third cucumber a slice of radish cut anth the peel left and slic- ed to the exact size of the cucarn,ber, or do the same with lemon, tomato, or apple. Serve on lettuce leaves with French dressing. Bananas are coated with finely chop- ped peanuts by cutting them into halves and dipping them into mayonnaise. Let this drain off, roll them in the peanut °climbs, and serve on lettuce leaves. A pretty imitation of bar le chic can be Made with ordinary preserved cur- rants or gooseberries. Whip, a little cream and add it gtadually to cream cheese, continuing the heating until the cheese becomes frothed, Heap it on a synalldish and place the 'preserve on the top. Any ordinary jam and even cranberry marmalade in small quanti- ty ,makes a good combination with the whipped cheese. • STAINS AND RUST SPOTS, We should remember that soap is an alkali and sets Vegetable stains. There- fore all stains should be removed be - tote the articles are Init in a washtub. The, sootier a stain in treated the more readily it will yield to the treatment. Pour belling water through fruit stains, •',,eeneere obettriate Soak in a solution of Oxalio aid, Wash VaSelitte stains In alcehol; paint, in turpentine, kerogene, Or alcohol; varteish, itt (neaten grass or other green vegetableeetains, In 0.1- cohol kerosene or .mOlasseaa Per stains repro blood, meal Mice, and white of egg use cold water. in the case of 411011€11,11 15 cold rater and d cleel:assltrritvlpitiessttiolanps and ene water, Tart neon grease,. er Inetchine oil stains should be rubbed with. lard and allowed to stand a few minutes. 'rhea they should be melted win) soep and cold water. Tea, con fee, or cocoa stains should be removed with boiling water; if obstinate, wine a weak solution of oxalic acid. Use ox- alis acid for iron rust spots, and for ink stains USO lemon juice and salt; then bang in the sun. ,If the ink does not disappear at first repeat the opera- tion until it does. When oxalic acid 15 used care must be taken that the ar- ticle is thoroughly every particle of the rainciscle.d Ne.t7ohetnerroNirl°- ing water is used stretch the stained part over the bowl and pour absolutely boiling \valor from a height until the stain disappears., 13e careful that the belling water does not touch any silk embroidery or other declicate colors. IIORSB, INDUSTRY OF ONTARIO, Ontario Department of Agriculture 'Will Obtain Information. At the last session of the Legislature the Minister of Agriculture secured en appropriation for the purpose of ranking an, investigation into the condition of the liorse industry in the Province of Ontario. This work is now being un- dertaken by theeDepartmeat of Agrican titre of Ontario and will be commericed early in October. The object of this -in- vestigation is to obtain information to be used in deciding as t� the bast policy Is adopt .to encourage More extensiye breeding' of a bend, class of horses. Following are the principal points which will be considered in thee course of the investigation: (1) The number, type, quality' and breeding of stallions and brood mares in the Province. • (2) What conditions have affected cr aze affecting the quality and.number of stallions and brood Mares in the various sections of the Province, and if the ef- fect Is for good whether or not the same conditions could be applied in other sec- tions, and if the conditions have not a good effect what could be done to im- prove- them. (3) What class of horses can most profitably be raised in different sec- tions of the Province under the natural conditions found in these sections. (4) The system of owning horses by a syndicate and any other plan at pre- sent adopted in Ontario other than pri- vate ownership. (5) The views of horsemen generally , as to the advisability of a Stallion In I spection Act. • (6) Suggestions from those interested in the horse business as to what can be done no improve conditions of the horse business generally. In order to pcocure this information the Province will be divided into eight dtstricth. Two competent and expert horsemen have been selected and allot- ted to each district. From live to six weeks will be spent in each district by Elie Committee appointed for that dis- trict. The districts will be composed of a number of counties- grouped together, the number making up each district be- ing decided by the length of time re- quired to go through a county.• Each county will require from four to nine days. The information regarding stal- hons will he as detailed as possible, each stallion in the Province being in- spected. The information regarding mares cannot be got so accurately, but a great deal of inTormation can be pro- cured from the stallion owners in each district as to the number, type and quality of the brood mares, the Commit- tee having an oportunity of confirming this by noting the appearance of the mares seen while travelling through the district. liegarding the other mat- ters of a., more general nature, inferima.- Eton will be procured by close observa- tion and by conversation with those met by the Committee who may have any knowledge of the local condition's. In addition to the work as above out-, lined, it is being, arranged tO have one public rneeting in each county at some 'point centrally ,located, and where a special interest is taken in horse. intinstry. The object Of the meeting is to give any person who so desires an opportunity of expressing his views to .the Committee. The meeting. in each county will be held immedrately after the Committee has completed the work In that county. In each Farmers' Institute district the Secretary has been asked to assist in the work of procuring the names and addresses of the stallion owners and leering out the most convenient route for the Committee to follow while in his district. He has also been asked to accompany the Committee, and to ar- range for the public meeting in the county. 15 cases where the Secretary was unable to do the work. the Presi- dent. of the Farmers' Institute has been asked to make the necessary arrange- ments. The dates and points at whice the public meetings will be held have been selected. Arrangements have also been completed for the dotes allowed for each. -Institute division, and the points at:which committees will transfer from one Institute district to the one fol- lowing. The work should have the Sympathy an,d co-operntion of all owners of stal- lions and of all who are interested in the horse industry. 11 18 hoped that the Committees will be given every facility for procuring the information required, and that every person interested will take advantage of the opportunity being given to express hie .view,s a$ to how the horse industry, of this Province can beet be improved. • "Why do girls wear engagement 'Otto?" "On the same prineiple that a person ties a etritig around his finger -- so they Won't forget they're engaged." &MO : A Cloud of Justice, Tedious l. C. i$ addressing the jury in an act - dent case, a hag having fallen from a window on to the head of the plaintiff. Tedleus IC. C. : "I kreow not, gentle- men, for my instructions do not tell me, What were the contents Of the bag. Con- ceivably if, May httve been a bag of coals; poesibly it may have been a bag etnfania-balatg;_perayhairiz iludmgacy: 11,0,1v,eccil4eperia11, d ba ." THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL Lle$SON. OCT. 28, 1.MOzi IV. Jesus Anointed In Bethany, Golden Teat z. Matt, 20. ie. THE Lr4ssoiNI Wow) sr.ruixES.. Note.HThe text of the Revised Version is used as a basis for these Word. Studien Chronological Sequence of Events.—In point of cheonologicel sequence our lest loseen narrative is otet of its proPer place he the record of Matthew, as ie also the case in the nominee of Kirk. The anointing of Jesus by Mary in teeth.. aay really occurred on the evening pre- ceding the .trimphal entry. In John's gospel the event is given its proper set- ting (Jahn 11. 55-1e. 11). Matthew and Mark seemed to be concerned more with showing the connection of the treachery of Judas with the event limn to observe the exaot chronological order in their narratives, The supper in the house of Simon occurred on the evening of Sat- urday, after the close of the jewish Sab- bath, at sundown, and hence, aacordIng to the Jewish reckoning, during the early hours oe the day on which the leyiumphal entry °contend anion e), and whiche ended Sunday. evening at sea - down. Verse 6. Now when Jesus was in Bethany --. The manner of introducing thiseaccount of the anointiog, of Jus by. Mary shows it to be pareathetical here, and belonging elsewhere chronological... ly. Simon, the leper—One Simon whom, apparently, Jesus had healed of leprosy at some previous time. John records that a supper had been prepared in •honor of Jesus in the house of Simon, at which Martha was among those who served. 7. .A. woman—Mary, the sister of Laz- ,arus and 'of Martha., An alabaster cruse—Or, a flask. Com- pare note in Word Studies on lesson for April 22, page 278, -Sunday School Ban- ner, for April, 1906. Exceeding precious ointment. —"Oint- ment of spikenard, very precious" (Mark). The special kind of ointment named by the evangelist—nard or spike- nard — was extracted from the hies- seins of the Indian or Arabian nerd - grass. The other evangelist give three hundred denarli as the value of the ointment. A denarius was • equal to a trifle more than seventeen cents, and was the average day's wage of a com- mon laborer.. The actual value- of the ointment, therefore, la our coinage would be a little more than fifty dollars; but in purchasing value it was equiva- lent to'between three and five hundred dollars. 8. had. indignation—Not all. of the disciples, apparently, shared in this indignation as is plain from the ac - °Mint by the other evangehsts-: "But there were some that had Indignation among themselves, saying, To what purpose hath this waste of ointment been made?" (Mark 14. 4). 10. But Jesus perceining in—Perceiving their Indignation and hearing .their criticism. Why trouble ye the woman—Words of unkind criticism had apparently been spoken to Mary. In John's account Judas is made the spokesman of the faulnfinding disciples : "But Judas Is- cariot, one of the disciples; that should betray him saith, Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred shil- lings, and given to the poor?" (John 12. 4). A good work—Good in the sense of noble or praiseworthy, a deed done under the inspiration of intense and passionate devotion. 11. For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always—In the words of this verse Jesus points out difference between general ethical obli- gations and duties arising out of special cireurnstances. • The former .are easily -recognized by all, but it takes "a genius .or passionate lover to.see and' swiftly do the latter." Mary saw and did the exceptional thing, ttod her act therefore was especially .commendatory. 12-. To prepare me for burial—We are not certain from the wording of the narrative. at this point whether or not Mary was herself conscious of the meaning of the act which she per- formed. 1!. so, then her love had dis- covered •what the disciples could not perceive; if not, then Jesus aneans to say that nn act of loving devotion -may have a significance far more profound than its original intention. 13. This ,gospel—Or, these good tid- ings, that is, the tidings of the life and death and mission of Jesus. , 14. Then—Apparently very soon after the events connected with thp supper and arrointing at Bethany. 15. Weighed unto him Actually weighed out with a pair of scales the pieces of money. Money is still Weighed even in very small quantities in the Orient, as, of course it is in larger quan- [tithe in the great banking houses every- where in the world. The cruder coinage of the team xnacte the weighing of the coins even more important. Thirty pieces of silver --Thirty silver shekels, worth about four denarii, or seventy cents each; and hence worth 10- gether almut twenty-one dollars. We must. again remember, however, that the purchasing value of this sum vette rimele greater therenhan now, ,being equivalent to about one hundred and twenty dol- lars. The surn pale to Judas for the be- trayal of JesilS was the market price of O comnion sieve. • 16, From that lime he sought oppor- 'tuniter--A convenient place and time to betray hint secretly and to deliver him unto them. ENTMELY PROPER THEN. Figg : "You have eeen, Scragg's wife; epviIetatityilst, she like? Should. you call her Fogg "I might if I were talking to Setaggs." Little Willie—"I erne pa." Pe ---"Well, what is it, My son?" • Lit!lo Whrif, did moths live on before Adam Mid Eve wore elethies?''-` •40.4...rovr .00000P09.-SKKKICO41 YOUNG FOLKS leceencetneeceneetnecinnoseecenenecanse042 DOTS' WORLD. aear me!" said Dot, crossly, "title is a horrid old world, li'e tile Yore worst world ever Weal" AMU; Meg sateen "nye been thinking it, was a real peen,. world, Dot. What is tee metier nett.; IL ?" "It rained all the =midge" said Dot, bielco,'Lloeild1111:0ieril:Didaacyt:ioltia:11% iSnouedlrilto t6doPeltlaYnaNN111111 tired of all my boons and games. No- any '10511011 .16 In4, and. it'$ Aunt Meg laid down her work and looked seriously at seven-year-old Dees Dot: lacea to have people look seriously at her, it made ter feel So Moe and grown up., "I don't really think it is a tumid world, Dot," she saki. "It is just the Rind of world We utak° it. Would you like a recipe fer making it a, nice world?" "'Course I would," &ad Dot, prompt ly. "Then," Said Aunt Meg, •decidti.alyt "you must go and do linage for ether Pqc'Pe1 li° "in,eyes. itthing?" asteed Dee. opening he "Oh, I can't tell you that. You Must find out whet things for yotirself." "AM you in earnest?" demanded Dot.' elodeea, I am. Just try my reeipe. You'll size that it will thange• year opine, ion about the,. World." • " Privately Dot didn't believe it Would,' Shewasn't at all sure she knew nist what Aunt Meg meant, but she thought it over carefully as site went down Stahlir'sthe sitting -room she saw grandma getting ready to wind a skein of yarre over two chairs. Dot knew it made grandmites arms and rheumatic fingers ache to wind yarn; but 1)01 didn't like it Cher, and she was just alining out wlien she thought of what Aunt Meg had said. Wainthis what she meant? ' "Grandma, I'll wind your yarn for you," she said. And wind it she did. When it was Sons grandma gave her a kiss and a pineapple drop. . "I'm ever so much obliged to you, dearie. You're it: thoughtful little' girl." Doe slipped outto the kitchen, and there was Nora getting ready to bake a cake. i "Can't I seed those raisins for you, . Nora?" she said. e "Shure, and it's meself that'll be obliged to yez if yez will," said Nora, heattily. "I've got forty other things to do this blessed afternoon. II yen' seed the -raisins for me, 111 balm yez two littlpattypans out of the cake for your dohicoiucsai e,' Ethel?" said mamma, cont - Ing into the kitchen when the knishes were done. "I want her to amuse Bobby:, while I stiteh up leer shirtweist." --ne "Ethel is busy doing her arithmetic for, bear 0.1\1,1d,o:BiadoaabtsbTi yt,eyt., ssia not. "M. play with Bobby, mamma." , 1 So for an hour Dot, played woolly, beand building house with two -year - y little woman," said mem ma. —en Bobby fell asleep six-year-old Teddy strayed in with tears on his face. "I tan't learn my letters," he sobbed. "Oh, yes, you can," said Dot, bright- ly. "rn help you. Come along, we'll go up to the hall window seat, and find - out all about them." In half an hour's time Teddy had got his alphabet so well straightened out that he knew every letter in it. Then Dee ran down 16 the Corners and did an errand for Ethel, for the rain had, slopped, and the sunwas shining gloriously. The flowers in Dot's garden plot were all Wide open and fresh.when she,lcbacmlieevIciacit, pick a bunch and take, them down to old Mrs. Brown," said Dot to herself. "I know she likes flow- ers, and the hasn't any.: "Bless your kind little heart, deader' said Mts. Brown, as she took .the bile sweet bouquet of blossoms. "It's a, sweet thing of you to think of bringing mesuchlovely flowersI've been wish-, ing for some all day. And you're like, at flower yourself, pet." That evening Aunt Meg °me teno The little white .bedroom where Dot had just: . gone to bed. "Well, Det. what do you think of lhe world now?" she asked, merrily. "WS a nice, splendid azorld," said Dot.' "I'm ever so much obliged to you for yeur recipe, Aunt Meg, and I'm going! to use it every. day." ......_, DAVE TIER A SUI1PRISE. "The brute!" exclaimed thebride of al year. "Have a cup of tea," said her fondese, friend, "and tell me all about it. . What has he been doing now ?" "You know I told you he has been enn emiraging me in learningeto cook; has( praised my nice little dishes, takes mei to the thentre as an occasional reward,/ and so on." , "No good ground for a separation ,n1 that, I imagine," said the dearest friend, with slight sarcasm. . "Your sympathy is worse than yout tea," retorted the bride, who was Ob- viously out of sorts. "But I am going to tell )'ou, anyway. Not long ago he promised Me a surprise if I ,would turn me a nice dinner. cooked all by myself, from soup IA coffee. Last night I die so. Everything pleased him. "'My .pet,' he. remnrked, 'I believe I promised you a surprise on an ocetisien like, Ilas.' "'Yes,' I tmswered. `Oh, do tell me Wi'lt'lli Sittintslt?c't isch a r go the coOk at the end . 6! the month,' he added." • 4 -' ,. TAKES TIME OFF. "Is he a professing Christian?" "Yee; but be takes a goodemany viletta time from his protession." "Whet \twee, ;5,-;11 so gloomy. about ?e! "1 am mange aceen out of dela.," "My, Ittav. er111 ow ',Oita • (Vollbli: N,! afila':g0 'apytioui 15 newt ;