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Dainty Dishes..
Green peppers make attractive cup
or salads. Cut a thin slice from th
pof the pepper and. remove the seed.
end white pulp, If the cups do not
s
tand evenly cut a slice from the bot
-
tem also.
Cream Sandwiches. ---],feat - cream
!4Sntih it is solid, then beat in severs
tablespoonfuls 'of- any desired jelly—
4uince, crabapple or grape. Spread
the mixture between split lady fingers
Dried Beef Sandwich.—Put some
chipped ,beef through a meat chop-
per and mix it with an equal amount
of minced celery hearts. Flavor with
a little grated onion and moisten with
a little olive oil and vinegar.
Feather Gingerbread.— One-fourth
cup each of sugar, molasses, melted
lard, sweet milk and sour milk, one
cup bread flour, one well -beaten egg,
one teaspoon each of soda, cinnamon,
ginger and salt. Sift dry ingredients
together, blend all that remain and
))eat in flour mixture. Bake in single
layer cake pan in moderate oven for
about twenty minutes.
Sauce for Puddings. ---Cream to-
gether .a cupful of sifted sugar and
half a cupful of butter; add a tea-
spoonful of ground cinnamon and an
egg well beaten. Boil a teacupful of
milk and"turn it, boiling hot, over the
mixture slowly, stirring all the time;
this will cook the egg smoothly. It
may be served hot or cold.
Grapes may be kept for months. Se-
lect perfect bunches and see that the
fruit is solid on the bunch, Remove
all little spiders and their webs, but
do not wash the fruit. Wrap each.
bunch carefully in dark blue tissue
paper, twisting the ends tightly to ex-
clude the air, then pack the grapes
away in a closely covered l=ox, and
keep the box in a cool, dark, dry place.
Rhubarb Fritters. Prepare a bunch
of rhubarb for cooking, cutting each
stalk in two or three pieces --the long-
er the .better. Have ready a panof
boiling fat and some batter mixture.
Dip the pieces of rhubarb first in the
batter and then drop them into the
boiling fat; cook for Ave or six min-
utes. Take out carefuty, pile one on
top of another, sprinkle liberally wh
castor sugar and serve very hot.
'A Fine Egg Dish.—Boil a few more
eggs than you have people • to serve
and when hard, cool and. cut the
whites into small pieces. Make a
white sauce from butter and flour,
seasoned with salt and. white pepper
and: thinned with a cup and a half to
two cups of hot new milk. Stir into
sauce the cut whites, pour upon slices
of hot toast, rub the yolks through
a coarse sieve, spread neatly over the
dish, garnish with= parsley and serve.
Roman Cream.—Six eggs, one quart
milk, eight tablespoonfuls sugar, one-
half box gelatine, one wineglass wine,
vanilla to taste. Dissolve the gela-
tine in the milk. Beat yolks of eggs
and sugar thoroughly, and add this to
the milk, and put on to boil in double
boiler. As soon as it boils remove
from the fire to cool, and heat the
whites of eggs and add them to the
wine and flavoring, and set on ice in
a mold to harden and turn out of the
mold to serve.
Apple Roll.—Take two cups of flour,
one-half tablespoonful of salt, four
level teaspoonfuls of •salt, four level
teaspoonfuls of butter, two-thirds of
a cup of milk, one cup of chopped ap-
ple, three tablespoonfuls of sugar,
one-half tablespoonful' of cinnamon.
Sift flour, salt and baking• powder to-
gether and thoroughly mix inbutter
with tips . of fingers. Add the milk,
stirring it in with a knife: Roll the
dough out a quarter of an inch thick
and spread, with chopped apple, sugar
and cinnamon. Roll like jelly roll,
cut 'in three-quarter inch slices • and
place in buttered pan, flat side down.
Bake 15 minutes in a hot oven and
serve hot , with le'non sauce. The.'
sauce is easily made by boiling three-
quarters of a cup of sugar and- one-,
.half cup 'of water five minutes, add-
ing to it two teaspoonfuls of 'butter
and one teaspoonful of, lemon juice
just a dash of nutmeg.
housewives should try the plan of
baking it'instead of boiling it in the
e usual __way. If baked it eats richer.
The tough part of the Skin should be
removed before the bacon is put into
the oven.
Drawers that open and shut with
difficulty are often a severe tax on
1 both time and temper, and the de-
fect may sometimes be very easily
remedied with beeswax. The runners;
the narrow strips of wood attached to
the frame work, should be well rub-
bed with a lump of beeswax, pre-
viously warmed in front of the fire,
Afterwards an occasional application
of furniture polish will keep the run-
ners smooth. When this simple remedy
fails it is due to some fault in cone
struction.
Household hints.•.
Soap shredded "among stored blan-
kets drives away moths.
Sponges which are slimy should be
steeped.in ;vinegar and water for a
If wooden pails and tubs are paint-
• ed, with glycerine they will not
shrink.
The closet of the guest chamber
should. have in it a 'skirt and coat
hanger.
Spoons stained with eggshould be
rubbed with salt before being washed.
Add a few chopped dates to the
stewed apples and it will improve the
_flavor.
A stripacro s
sewed's the tops of
quilts or comforters saves washing
them so often.
Disinfectingpowders r p w .rs oi,'- liquids
should be used 'freely' in ; a bathroom
once a week. , ..•
Potatoes boiled'- with the skins on
will be less • soggy than when peeled
before boiling,:.
Rose cuttings should be slit one
Inch from;the bottom, and a grain of
Wheat inserted.
Before cleaning knives warm the
kaifeboard` before the fire and the
knives will polish more easily.
Handkerchiefs maybe" ed
bleathdby
'soaking: over night in water in which
a little "cream. of tartar has been dis-
'solved.
When cooking a
8 piece of bacon
HEALTH.
Fight on Typhus,, 'Diabetes and.
Cancer.
1 In the blood-soaked trenches of Bu -
rope millions of men are engaged in
1 destroying human life. To the deaths
due to bullets and bayonets we must
add the frightful toll caused by dis-
ease, but science as well as war has
its trenches, its outposts and its her-
oes, and the microscope, the test tubes,
and other medical appliances have
proved to be the weapons not less
I powerful and wonderful to save life
than the 42 -centimetre gun and the
18 -inch torpedo have proved for its
destruction.
1 In the past few weeks, public atten-
tion has been directed to several new
discoveries in regard to the preventio
of three fatal diseases
which share with tuberculosis th
gruesome distinction of being amongs
MOST REMARKABLE SNAPSHOT OF THE WAR:.
The war bas given some wonderful photographs but the above, from J' at vu, a Paris illustrated paper,
The is perba s the most remarkable. picture is absolutely authentic and the orginal snapshot 1s
now in England. The picture was taken by chance ti a French soldier in the trenches at Sois-
sons Just as a shell burst, The'soldier in question was on obsci•yetion duty about thirty yards from
.the scene. The snapshot is, of course, greatly enlarged.
on tal disease in people of middle and Fan
advanced age, but presents an entire -1
e ly different aspect from the assault lie'
the most formidable enemies of hu
man. life -.--Typhus Fever, Diabetes an
Cancer,
Dr.. David Orr Edson, of New York
a noted man in the medical line, wi
an international reputation, explain
the modus operandi that is the las
word of science on the subject befor
us,
The public appears to' expect from
medicine a record of miracles, but
scientific medical progress must de-
pend entirely upon a laborious assem-
bling of carefully observed facts, and
their critical examination. He must
be over cautious, almost skeptical, in
his attitude towards every so-called
"new cure."
The trained investigator can only
emerge from' doubt into certainty, by
critical observation and, analysis.
Diseases, says Dr. Edson, are di-
vided into two great classes, those
which are caused by a failure of some
part of the complicated human organ-
ism to perform its functions, and
those which are due to an attack on
this mechanism from without. Dia-
betes, for example, is failure of a
within function, while typhoid fever
is a disease of assault from without.
The former is much more difficult
to treat than the latter, because their
cause lies deeper within the mysteri-
ous zone, where life's forces play most
energetically.
When the cause of a disease is as-
certained, over half the work of cure
is accomplished..
The diseases of assault are much
easier to cope with, as the microscope
tells us that they are all due to the
presence of 'extremely minute living
organisms, known variously as mi-
crobes, germs, bacteria, etc.
All diseases run a definite course,
and it seems impossible to prevent
this, when the disease -is once seated.
Measures for the prevention of dis-
ease are generally confined to two
lines,—sanitation 'and. hygiene, and
destroying disease germs or producing
conditions in which they 'cannot long
survive,—thus preventing their fur-
ther development. •
But recently science has discovered
another and highly effectivemethod
of disease prevention, called immuni-
zation.. This method Was suggested
by the .fact that when a person had
suffered from a germ disease, he or
she was less liable to contract it
again than was a person who had
never suffered from it to contract it
in the first place: The microbe' of the
disease seems to have, left in the body
a condition of the blood which in-
creased the power of resistance to a
second infection.
We; know thaC"the••disease microbes
are killed in all healthy -persons by
the leucocytes, or white corpuscles,.
in the blood, thus disclosing a chemi-
cal as well as a bacteriological method
ae protection. The process of increas-
ing leucocytes in the blood is called.
leucocytosis, and the chemical action
above' described as the creation of
anti -bodies.
Typhus fever, which recently threa-
tened destruction to Serbia's popula-
tion, is a disease which', is now hardly
known in the United States, though
there was a time when it figured pro-
minently all over America, causing
many ,deaths. American physicians
have the distinction of rescuing Ser-
bia from obliteration by this scourge.
The first step was to find out exact-
ly how the infection was ':.carried.
Careful observation finally fi d upon
the small. parasite' known' as the louse
which infested' the hair, clothing and
bedding: of: the; Serbians: It was then
a simple task of checking the disease
by the sanitary measures of, sterilize -
;tion of :all, bedding and clothing, and
TrrTurr0.,a,,,,,,, �� .
�, I{
- search, but we knenr it WAS not the
�1. Between Two Fires IFEJ
t diseases, It always had baffled re -
d
th
s
t
e
keeping the body free from lice. The
work proved successful. '
Diabetes is a very common and fa= rest well assured
work of any microbe.
It was first noticed that in examin-
ing the bodies of those who had died
from diabetes that the brain and pan-
creas were diseased. The blood, it is
well known, always carries a certain
amount of sugar in the form of glu-
cose. This has to he converted into
dextrose, --simply sugar in another
form,—before it can be tolerated in
the blood. If this process fails for
any reason, we have diabetes, --a form
of poisoning. This has led to the dis-
covery of a remedy by the Rockefeller
Institute doctors, for it is now known
that the pancreas plays an important
part in converting glucose into dex-
trose. The method of treatment now
is in supplying artificially the essen-
tial principle of the pancreatic secre-
tion.
As to cancer,—the most dreaded of
all diseases,—Dr, Silas P. Beebe, of
the Cornell Medical School, gives us
a new treatment, which, it is asserted,
will cure this terrible disease, or at
Ieast greatly lower the death rate.
Cancer has been the bete noir of the
medical profession. Dr. Beebe has
discovered an anti-cancer serum, very
effectual in cases of cancer, also show-
ing it to be of microbe origin. We
hail these discoveries with supreme
satisfaction, and look forward to the
day, not far distant, when tuberculo-
sis will prove amenable to medical
science.
CHAS.. M. BICE.
Denver, Colo., September, 1915.
A GREATER INDUSTRY.
Engineering Trade' Will Be in Two
Hands When War Closes.
One tremendously important fact
that emerges out of the first year of
war is that out of all the vast seeth-
ing changes of the past year there
will arise an incalculably greater Bri-
tish engineering industry than has
ever existed in the past. When we
have utterly crushed Germany, as as-
suredly will be : •the case, the world's
engineering trade will be in but two
hands—those of ourselves and of
America. We shall once more become
the workshop of the world. Allthe
war -devastated countries will look to
'us to supply their immense engineer-
ing requirements --"their new railways,
bridges, steel buildings, factoryegiiip-
ment, electric power "stations, tram
way systems, gas_and steam engines,
to mention , but a 'few of an endless
list. And—here is the important
thing—we shall` be in a position to
meet the world's demand, thanks en-
tirely to our participation in the
world's war. If our factories were as
they were a year ago we should be
quite incapable of meeting the enor
moue dem=and. Our loss would have
,been America's gain But the vast
changes in our engineering ..works
that have perforce had to be made
during the past year of war give us
every chance of profiting,by the trade
that will come with' the 'signing of
the treaty of, peace.
A man of broad views, the Minister
of Munitions, we may be sure, sees
something more in the twenty-six
vast national munitionsfactories
that are being built in various engi-
neering. centres throughout the coun-
try, than a capacity to produce such
a superabundance t of shell as will in-
evitably crush the enemy. He sees in
those admirably equipped factories
the opportunity for trade development
at present undreamed of as soon as
the war is over.
Here,' truly,. is a wonderful vision
of which the _ first year of war gives
us a glimpse. Of the future of the c
British engineering industry we ma
Captain Salter, retired sailor, drove
his spade into the soil with a jerk, and
raised his head. A voice had address-
ed him over the hedge.
"Good -afternoon, captain!" it said.
"And how's the garden this weather?"
The old salt tried to look amiable.
"Drat the woman!" he was thinking.
"She's always bobbing up there!" But
aloud he replied: "Fairly, ma'am—
fairly!"
Mrs. Jenkins, the widow, who lived
next door to the old seaman, looked at
him archly.
"Seems to me everything in your
garden always does so well, captain,"
she murmured coyly,, "Ah, a poor,
defenceless woman like myself does
miss a man about the place!"
But the captain was, too old a fish
to be caught with such devious bait.
"There's old Gray, down in the vil-
lage, would come and work for you
cheap," he said. "I know he's slack
just now."
"Oh, but 'tain't the same thing!" be-
gan the widow. Then she stopped as
a figure appeared above the hedge on
the other side of the captain's garden.
"Hope I don't interrupt," said the
new=comer, Miss Sophia Larcombe,
the village dressmaker, and aenaiden
lady of uncertain years. The widow
glared at her angrily.'
"Not at all --not at all," said the
captain, quickly.
It was an old Fame to him. For
months past the ladies on either side
had made a point of being about when
he was pottering round in his bit of
'garden, and it was said that in the
village 'bets were being made as to
which of.. them would carry off the
prize, and most of the backers favor-
ed the widow, as having had more ex-
perience.
"I was just telling myself this
morning -that no one could raise flow-
ers like you, captain," said the spins-
ter, sweetly. I do alove the sweet
spring flowers so much, don't you?
The golden daffodil, the sweet -scented
wallflowers, the----"
"The spring onion!" cut in the wi-
dow, sourly.
"Not being aware that I was ad-
dressing you, ma'am, I fail to under-
stand your remark!" said Miss Lar-
combe-stiffly..
ar-combe-stiffly..
"Highty-tighty!" responded Mrs.
Jenkins, pleased to see that she had
annoyed her rival.
The captain glanced -furtively from
one' to the other.,
"Must go in now, ladies," he said,
With a sudden inspiration. "I can
hear the kettle boiling for my tea."
"How sad to think of the poor man
having to get .his own tea!" sighed
Miss •Larcombe, sentimentally, eyeing
the man's broad, stalwart back:
"Better get it himself than have a
wife who couldn't; get it for him!"
commented, the widow meaningly..
"And by that you mean "
Miss Larcombe's voice rose shrilly h
on the unfinished. question.
"By that I mean exactly what you
like to think!" retorted Mr's. Jenkins,
turning away and entering her cot-
tage before her rival could think of
a crushing retort.
And in his little kitchen. the worthy
retired sea captain was talking seri-
ously to himself.
"Something's to . be done," f
8 gothe
muttered, as he brewed the tea; and
set his meal in rough-and-ready ' sailor "s
fashion .on'the bare table. ''"If I don't u
talc, care, one of those old cats will be
trapping me!"
And over• his tea he put his thinking
cap on, and at last'. came to sonic con-
luson, for, with a bron.d smile he got
tit pen and papei and .sent off a let -
II.
Mrs. Jenkins was entertaining some
friends to tea. And the talk had turn-
= ed to the matter of the old bachelor
next door.
"Of course, I'm not saying that if
he was to ask me, I should accept
him," she said, firmly'. "That old
maid fair makes me ill with her ang-
ling and hanging about. She's always
at the fence or the front gate."
Her listeners said nothing, but they
might have asked where the widow
was on these occasions that she should
know so much.
"I did hear a bit of talk down in
' the village this morning about Cap-
tain Salter," began one of them.
"`Our Ben says as he's been interview-
ing Gray, the house painter, about
having his house done up."
Mrs.• Jenkins.pricked up her ears.
Rouse painting distinctly suggested
that the captain was meditating set-
tling down.
that so?" she commented, with
overdone carelessness. ""'Baur time,
tool„
"'Yes, and Gray told our Ben that
the Captain asked him what colored
paper would suit a lady best for the
parlor."
Having launched her thundeiboit,
she sat back in triumph.
"Would suit a lady ?" gasped the
widow. ``Well, I never!"
"Look—look!" whispered the other
guest. "There's Gray taking in his
pattern -book now!"
The three heads were raised cau-
tiously above the muslin curtain as
the village painter was seen coming
up the garden path of the cottage next
door with a large parcel under one
arm.
Then talk became a bit more gen-
eral for a little while, until there came
a rat -a -tat at the door.
"Please, Mrs. Jenkins," said a man's
voice, "the captain's compliments, and
would you give him the favor of your
opinion?"
Mrs. Jenkins rose agitatedly from
her chair.
"Really, now, Mr. Gray," she said,
in uneven tones, "come right in and
take a seat,"
The painter poised himself cautious-
ly on the edge of a chair, and opened
out a huge book on his knee. The pat -1
tern he displayed was a very bright
affair in green with pink flowers,1
while here and there hung a large yel-,
low butterfly.
"The captain 'as took a fancy to,
this," said he, . "but . I told him I •
thought it was too gay. So he said
I'd better ask you."
"Very pretty ---very pretty," said
the widdow%, eyeing the paper kindly.
"You tell the captain that I admire
his taste. • r`
And she sat and beamed on her ex- .
cited gvRsts for long after the painter
had gone. 1
Her, complacency might have de-
creased if ahehad seen what happen-
ed close to her.
Miss Larcombe was sitting, clown to
a solitary :heal when a knock at the
door roused her. Outside• stood a girl
from the village draper's.
"Please, Miss, Larcombe, the captain
as sent me to ash: which of these pat-
terns for window curtains you think".
Most suitable," she explained, undoing
a parcel, and bringing forth a bundle
of pieces:, "He fancies this one, but
thinks you'd know more about it," ,
- Miss Iaarcombe's • sallow face
flushed. , y
"", " , L -,
"The clear luau. she ;vlua,ierecl �e
herself. "He's opening up the. way.
or a ;proposal—I know' he is!':
She took the pattern wliiuh the girl
elected from the'.bundle. It'was a
right red background: with i iii,, --;lir
blue patten all over it.
There -_I call that ,P•'' - ,,r'� -
,. i ea iricE., site
said, in greatest' admiration, as she'
held the short piece ten t;, the light:
1 T
"You tell the captain from a �, e,a � " ,
call him. a man, of judgment: ' "
Alone, she sank again, in her chair.: a
She was all a -flutter with excitement
Surely the captain meant to ask: her
to share:his home and pension!
III,
Some days had passed since the vil-
lage had first been shaken by strange
rumors that Captain Salter was think-
ing of getting married, First it was
stated that Mrs. Jenkins was: the fa-
vored lady. Then popular opinion
swung round to Miss Lareombe.
On the third day the captain
marched boldly up to the widow's
front door, and knocked,
"Good morning, captain," said Mrs.
Jenkins, trying to keep her voice
steady, `How are you?"
"Very well, ma'am :very well," re-
plied the man bluffly, "I've come to
thank you for giving me your advice
about the wallpaper."
"No, no," protested the,widow, with
a blush, "it was your choice --and a
very good choice, too!"
"Well, it's hung now, and I wanted
just to ask if you'd come in to tea
this evening and have a look at it"
The widow accepted in haste. Sure -
Ily, now, surely, she told herself, he
meant businesal
Leaving her palpitating with anti-
cipation, the captain walked away and
then turned back furtively and sought
the cottage on the other side,
This time the curtains were the
topic of conversation, but the same ix1-
vitation was given.
Sharp on the stroke of four a knock
came at the captain's front door. It
was the widow.
"I'm glad you've come early," said
the captain heartily, as he led her into
the room. "Now, how do you like the
wallpaper?"
Mrs. Jenkins leaked round proudly.
Then her eyes fell on the curtains, and
she gasped,
"Goodness!" she cried. "Those cur-
tains! Where did you get them?"
Before the captain could. answer,
there came a second tan at the door,
This time it was Miss Larcombe.
""How do you like the curtains?" the
captain asked her, after polite and
distant greetings had been exchanged
between the two ladies,
, "The curtains are all right, but the
wallpaper!" said the spinster, her eye.
dazzled and twisted by the pink flow-
ers and, the unearthly yellow butter-
flies.
Mrs. Jenkins stepped forward.
"I chose the wallpaper," she began
I firmly, "and but for the curtains ,°
i "And I chose the curtains!" replied
t Miss Lareombe, just as firmly. ""Only
I didn't know that such a tasteless pa-
per would be used with them."
"Tasteless?" snorted Mrs, Jenkins,
I "Tasteless, indeed! The person who
could nut red and blue curtains like
that in a room needn't talk of taste."
i "And bad taste is all that a person
could talk about who'd choose a wall-
; paper like this!" retorted the spinster.
In their excitement they had not
heard a cab driving up to the gate.
They pard no attention at all until
, Captain Salter ushered in two ladies,
one short and stout and elderly, while
the other was also short, but only of
a pleasant plumpness.
Then the rivals turned, and:their
jaws dropped. Captain Salter was.
kissing the newcomers.
"Ladies," he said, turning with a
grin to the two thunderstruck women,
"these are my aunt and my cousin,
who've come to look after my house
for a bit. And I have to thank you
again on their behalf for helping nig
to get the place nicely done up for
them."
The four ladies bowed, more or less
politely.
"And who knows ?" went on the
sailor, grinning still more widely.
"P'r'haps Cousin Miriam, here, will
stay longer than that!"
"Go on, Joe!" - said Cousin Miriam,
flushing, but the look of admiration
she cast to her tormentor was more
than the spinster and the widow could
stand.
With a curt farewell, they left the
cottage arm in arm, comrades in mis-
fortune. ---London Answers.
PRINCE WAS KEEN FOR WAR:
In 1914 "'-• Said He Wanted to Fight
the French.
Ian Malcolm, British M.P., in. a.
book entitled "War Pictures Behind.
the Lines," relates a conversation he
had with the Crown Prince of Ger-
many at Berlin in January, 1914. The
Conversation, as reproduced ' from
Malcolm',s diary, reads in part as fol-
lows:
Crown Prince --After all, you Brit-
ish people ought to be better friends:
with Germany than you are.
Mr. Malcolm -Sir, we are a=wayt
ready to be friends, but to all our
overtures your Chancellor replies
with an invariable snub.
Crown Prince --How can we. trust
you whilst you are allied with sucli
people as French. or Russians? With,
us together we could divide Europe
and keep the peace of the world for-
ever.. •
Mr. Malcolm ---But how would you
propose to do that Under our existing
treaties ?
Crown Prince—You cot-. ti'
sh=at
our eyes and let us take the 22.'e:lcli
olanies: Inst of all 'we want them.
The interview closed by any mak
-
:mg the trite remark that nor-au"i,
nobody wanted war with injured vic-
tors and vanquished, to which the
ti e
Crown Prince vigorously replied "l
beg your pardon, I wa=it Liar. I want
to have',: a sack at those.' French
swine as soon z;; cv,,r 1 oar.'
If you int:c•iici to do a. mean ;$ing'
i
milt till to -morrow. If you are; to de
noble thing, do it now.