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Useful lints and
General Informa-
tion
i7forma-tion for the Busy
Housewife
F recent fashion show there appeared a ,.
most attractive costume, a three-piece
salt of Drecol]'s, reviving etaniine,;
Whether this is to be taken as an znrli•.'
cation that entrains: will again be J .
modish this season, or not, fs a quos -
tion. It ]s rumored that materials'
are so scarce on the other side of they
ocean this year, that many an old fab-.
ric is being brought out from its al-;
most forgotten restng place and fash-1
leeted Recipes, tuin black, boil tomato parings r Toned into a spring or summer cos -
them. It will clean thein. thine. Etamine was a particularly;
_ ttntrers to p
edge of the pie crust for the heat of
the hand keeps the paste from rising.
Fresh green vegetables and fruits
- "ire a natural tonic and should not be
omitted from the diet at any season
• of the year.
Lime Wend with a little seleb r
• and stirred into the soil about plants
is saki to be an antidote for fungus
diseases.
fou
Take the fat from chicken broth
1' when it cools, clarify it, then use it
instead of barter for pastry or de -
1 arcate frying.
n It is a nice idea to have a guest
d chest in the guest room. It should
▪ contain a nightgown, a bathrobe,.
e ..lipp rs and even a tooth brush.
A good way to prevent wear under
the arms of corset covers it to re-
inforce them, when made with a
ehield-shsped piece.
`l Try a toasted cheese sandwich.
Make the same as the ueual cheese
sandwich, and then toast it in the
over or in a chafing dish..
If you would have crisp crust on
your cake, add a spoonful of ice
water to the dough, or dust the top
of it sugar, just before baking.
Put the .scrubbing brush to dry with
the bristle, down, preventing the wat-
er from soaking into the back and
caus'ng the bristles to come out.
When marking linen handkerchiefs
with indelible ink;, first starch the
hendkerehiefs and iron them smooth,
Then you can mark thein clearly with
.Curried Potatoes, --Cook one table- Never use the inch the
spoon chopped onion in two table
spoons butter until yellow, add si
diced cooked potatoes, sprinlle wit
One teabpoon curry powder, one tea
spoon .alt ar..l one-foatrth teespoo
pepper. Pour in core -half cup stock
and one tablespoon lemon juice an
cool; and stir until liquid is absorbed
Tern .into heated dish and sprinki
•vitas chopped parsley.
Lettuce Hearts—Set aside. fc�
tableepo ne double cream until this
and eaet t.:e•ning sour. Beat yal
of egg arid one teaspoon sugar untl
very tl eek. ,l, way add one temp oe
/men juke orlight vinegar, beat gar
and :Ail cream gradually. Place wen
lilanchen hearts of lettuce en plat
and vee, ciao sing over just before
servieg. iepreatizieg as well as pour
!sluing.
Walnut and Cheese Roast, --- Or
cup , •rash a < . i'se, one cup eheppe
English it'r..its, one cup e.eti°:i
crumbs, tan tablespoons chappe.i
miens, ens, o e teid< spoon butter, juiee of
one-half l niy>::. salt and pepper. Cook
'on inhettee and a little water un-
til tender. MN other ingredients ani
moisten with water, using water i`.7
which uni: n:e was. cooked. Pour rate
shas1' iv deal a :"l brown in oven.
Quick [I'ltits Cake.—But ut into mix.
ing bowl one c•up sugar and one and
one-half ceps rifted flour, into wh:c'le
has been sifted one rounding teaspoon
baking powder. Ino eup put whites
of two eggs, f til to one-half cep milt,
making ore e;tn of liquid in alt. Add
a little flavoring, put all into bowl
.anti beat five minutes. You will be
e a' prise i it results, Bake in one leaf
Pan zbaut two anti ene-half inches
deep end nine by five inches akres ,
Rhubarb Biked With Figs, --Cover
well-loasite.l ours with boiling water
end euok until wetter is nearly e:':tper-
me d. Cut eve r anvil rhubarb. b nn-
pe?'_e¢i if ;;ung, into pieece, put layer
in balling dish sptesehiee with teaspoon
stager, ad 1 a few fp.,, then another
layer of izi.3+art=, until cane pound of
rintl•arr' a 3;°i onc•-half pound figs have
been used. Arid a few teaspoons of
hie teeter and bake, eavered, in slow
nen until rhubarb is tender. Datee
co: raisin:: may `.alae place of tine.
Braised Liver, --Make dressing of
one I elf cup finely chopped suet, one
cup stale l+read crumbs, one teaspoon
sweet herbs, a little grated Iemon
rind. and salt and pepper to taste. Mix
well and set to one side while prepar-
ing meat, Cut eaIf s liver in slices, not
too thin, and roll each eliee in m'x-
ture of flour, salt and pepper. Lay
thin slices of ' salt park in bottom of
bukirer dish. Put liver slices on top
of this and dressing un top of them.
Add water or stock to moisten and cov-
er baking dish closely. Cook over
fine or in moderate oven three -quart -
ere of an hour, remove cover and cook
twenty minutes longer in oven or und-
er low flame of broiler to brown top.
terve in dish in which cooked.
Jelly Canned Peaches,—Drain can
of peaches and add to one pint of
peach syrup juice of one lemon and
one-half cup sugar. Set over fire to
become hot. Dissolve two level table-
spoons ge]at'ne in one-half cup cold
water and turn into hot juice, stirring
until gelatine is dissolved, then strain
,.s.,.,
gh eheese-eloth. Take one one-
half cup and cool remainder. Beat
whites of three egge until stiff and
dry, and when syrup begins to thicken
beat it into whites until ma.s holds its
shape. Place by spoonsful into cold i
dishes, placing halved peach, pit
downward, in each dish. Pour a lit-
tle of reserved juice over each peach.
and set in a cool place until wanted.
Inexpensive Pot Roast. Wipe four -
pound piece of beef with damp cloth,
/coking it over carefully to see that it
Is clean, and place in kettle on end,
large part down. Have ready four
good sized carrots cut in two length -
Wise, four or five medium sized onions,
one white turnip cut into quarts and
add these to beef, with two cloves and
three pepper corns. Pour one quart,
water into kettle, let come to boil and
set kettle to simmer on back of stove
for about three hours. Much of water
will boil away, but marrow of shin
will finish cooking. Make paste of
one level tablespoon flour and one
saltspoon pepper. Take up meat, add
flour mixture to contents of kettle, let
simmer two minutes, dish vegetables,
pour gravy over meat and serve. En-
ough for large family.
Household Hints.
Food carelessly exposed invites
germs.
Keep the house clear of rubbish. It
breeds disease. •
A red-hot stove at any time is a
needless waste of fuel.
A bath in soda water is very re-
freshing when one is tired.
If fruit for stewing is very acid, add
a pinch of borax. It will correct the
acidity.
Novel candle holders are made of
Bound red apples cut out to hold the
vandles.
To vary a dish of scrambled eggs;
add a few slices of sweet green pep-
per chopped fine.
Pine shavings make very good bed
'ling for hens' nests and they avoid the
breeding of vermin.
1 Whhe:
n aluminium cooking utensils
•
ease.
A good mixture to roll fish in be-
fore frying is made of a cupful of
breatieruths and the grated yolks of
three hard -cooked egg•,,seasoned w'.th
alt and pepper.
In working buttonholes on a ma-
terial that frays easily, it is a good'
idea to buttonhole it first with stit-,
ekes : c•nae distance apart and then
go over it in the usual way.
The Fashions
Serge, Taffeta or Faille.
Perhaps the most fasenating thing
about the fashions this spring, is their
seeming simplicity. Although a trifle
more .frilly and fussy than for a sea-'
son or two back, this dainty little
lri aerie frock from Jenny, and that'
summer afternoon dress of striped!
chiffon and taffeta, from the Marson'
Agnes, look, as the dainty manna-'
qui:ui bow and spread out the volu-'
minces skirts before you, as if it
would be the easiest thing in the
worn to turn them out at home.
Why, the skirt is merely a double
flounce of embroidered batiste on a'
taffeta foundation, and the sleeveless
taffeta bodice is, well, just a little taf-i
feta bodice which could be made from
that strip of blue, pink, or changeable'
taffeta left from the frock of other'
day;. The full straight skirt on an-
other
nother frock is made from three
straight lengths gathered at the top,
the fulness evenly distributed, and
finished at the bottom with a quilling
of the same silk. The puff sleeves are
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Dyed Batiste •Flouncing and Taffeta. "Well."
quaint and pretty, very dainty and
youthful.'
Serge, Taffeta and Faille.
These three materials are the leedesr
again this sp1'ieg, with here and there Many a bachelor has made a wie in the way of creating such a league
a gleaflet revival; for instance at, 'a man happier by not marrying her: are many and obvious," h. says, "but
satisfactory summer fabric, cool, dur-
able and soft. It would not come
at all amiss were it to be revived this.
year.
Serge is as popular as ever, al-
though it is said that we may have?
our trouble* in dyeing it later en. An
effective suit of Gheruit's ie. fashion-
ed of mixed dark blue covert. At tis
distance it cannot be told from serge; a
and of course, for the sport suit,'
tweed is very popular. A particular,
smart suit, made by Lanvin, is a light;
gray tweed trimmed with French blue
braodeloth. There is very little of a
the leather, introduced earlier in the!
season, to be seen about the late coats
and suits, whether for sport purposes
or the regulation tailored use. Beer!
clings to the notion in a novel cape 1
eoat suit. The coat. is fashioned of°
a new waxed silk, which greatly re-!
s embles leather, especially at a dig -s
tanee; it is dark blue and is combined;
whin a skirt of dark blue gabardine
Paquin shows a coat of covert for,.
afternoon wear, trimmed with dark
blue patent leather, but, except for:
motoring and sueh use, leather is not
to be reckoned with to any extent.'
Now and then an odd leather motif
is appliqued to a hand bag, or trims
a sport hat effectively, hut, for rnost+
other purposes, satin has superseded
it, l
Taffeta and Wash Fabrics.
A. pretty nation in the new summer'
frocks is the touch of taffeta or other'
silk on the dress of batiste, voile,°
crepe, or organdy. The colored
6545
Simple Taffeta Frock.
batiste flouncings, organdies, and silk -
embroidered crepes and voiles, not in-
tended for tubbing, are often made
over foundation slips of taffeta, and
have bodices, collars, cuffs and girdles.
Bias bands of taffeta or satin trim
the skirts, and black velevt ribbons
lends a touch. of "old-timiness" to the
dainty sheer cottons modish this sea-
son.
The taffeta bodices, such as illust-
rated here, may be worn with any
lingerie dress, if made detachable;
they add a finish, particularly pleas-'
ing, making the simple dress appro-
priate for any occasion.
The Slip -On BIouse.
The new "long -line" blouses some of
them ""are called; Cheruit sends us an
especially pretty one fashioned of
handkerchief linen, made to slip on
over the head, with a draw belt to
gather it in loosely about the waist.
Many of these slip-on waists are .
made on kimono lines, low in the neck
and wonderfully easy and graceful in
every line. Taffeta, satin, crepe,
Georgette, chiffon, and the Chinese and
Japanese silks, are being used for
these models, as well as the novelty
cottons and sheer linens. The sum-
mer girlwill appreciate their charm
and comfort, These, too, are so
simple that they may be fashioned at
home with no misgivings at all—and
what possibilities for becoming effects
and color combinations they do af-
ford!
These patterns may be obtained
from your local McCall dealer or frons.
The. McCall Co., 70 Bond St., Toronto,
Ont., Dept. W.
Willie's Request.
"Ma,"
"Would you just es soon cut your
finger nails before you wash my ears
again?"
A Matte
"What was that, Bill?"
"Trench mortar."
"Ours or theirs?" ---By Captain Bruce Pairnsfather, in London By-
stander.
of Moment.
BRITISH 1M
RE SO S
VE FIVE
TOF'T
Ela .U'dS AND IDEALS' IN 'FH:
I'RESEN'I' CRISIS.
Viscount Bryce Says Government o
Germane, Not People, Is
England's Enemy.,
Viscount Bryce has written an
article on "The Attitude of Great Brit-
ain in the Present War," in which h
says:
"Ie in Britain who respect and val
ue the opinicbi of the free neutral pea
pies of Europe and America cane
but desire that those peoples should be
duly informed of the way in which
we regard the circumstances and pos
sible results of the present conflict.
Lord Bryce says there are five prin-
ciples on which the aims and ideals of
Britain in the present crisis are es
sentially different from those of Ger-
many, namely, as to individual Iiberty;
as to nationality, which sympathizes
with the efforts of a people against
foreign domination; as to the main-
tenance of treaty obligations; as to
the regulation of the methods of war-
fare in the interests of humanity; and
as to a pacific as opposed to a military
type of civilization. Ile compares the
British and German attitude on each
of these principles. Continuing, he
says:
Government for the People.
"Our English ideal for the future
is of a world in which every people
shall have within its own borders 'a
free national government resting on
and conforming to the general will of
its citizens, a government able to de-
vote its efforts to improving the con-
dition of the people without encroach-
ing on its neighbors or being disturb-
ed by the fear of an attack from en-
emies abroad. Legislators and admin-
istrators have already tasks sufficient-
lyy difficult in reconciling the claims
of different classes, in adjusting the
interests of capital and labor, in pro-
moting health and diffusing education
and enlightenment, without the addi-
tion of those tasks and dangers which
arise from the terror of foreign war.
"I cannot believe that the German
people, as I have hitherto known them,
ever since I studied at a German uni-
versity more than 50 years ago, could
possibly approve of the action of their
Government if their Government suf-
fered them to know the facts relating
to the origin and conduct of the war
as those facts are known to the rest
of the world. We have had no hatred
of the German people. We did not
grudge them their prosperity. Neither
have we any wish to break up Ger-
many, destroying her national unity,
or to interfere in any way with her
internal politics.
Fight Till Victory Is Won.
"Our quarrel is with the German.
Government. We think it a danger to
every pesceful country and believe
that in fighting against its' doctrine,
its ambitions,'its methods of warfare,'
we and our Allies are virtually fight-
ing the battle of all peace -loving neu-
tral nations as well as our own.
"We must fight on till victory is
won, for a government which scorns
treaties and wages an inhuman war-
fare against innocent noncombatants
cannot be suffered to prevail by inch
methods. A triumphant, and aggres-
sive Germany, mistress of the seas as
well' as of the land, would be a men-
ace to every nation, even to those ' of
the Western Hemisphere."
Lord Bryce concludes with 'a plea
fors league of peace: "The obstacles
by a warm personal solicitude for the
individual soldier. The democracy of
' the Red Cross is a very real thing.
Almost every week drafts of invalids
' are now being sent home to Canada
' from Shornelife. The Red Cross
speeds these unfortunates on their
way with every comfort in its power.
` a While they are waiting at the station
cameo
whatever else may come out of the
war, we in England hope that one re-
' suit of it will be the creation of some
machinery calculated to avert the re -
r c
tui <n t of ..alv ul
a f a calamity it
Y
as
that from which mankind isnow suf-
• tering."
RED CROSS PUBLICITY.
i anti( an ed.Cross Society
open -
f abions in England are characterized
entrain they are provided with
warm refreshments. They are also
given a small bundle of personal com-
forts, comprising a muffler, a pair of
„ socks, a pair of warm gloves, hand-
kerchief, a pipe, some tobacco and.
cigarettes.
This conies to our returning wound-
- ed as a comforting forecast of the
sympathy of their Canadian comp -
patriots in their misfortunes. Any
Canadian who desires to make his
sympathy tangible, can not do better
than to contribute to the Canadian
Red Cross.
Public schools of Guelph, Ont,, have
contributed $139 to the Red Cross.
London, Ont., Red Cross has pledges
which secure it an income of $100,000
for 1916.
A raffled cow netted $100 for Shell-
brooke Red Cross.
In Moncton, New Brunswick, lady
Red Cross workers by acting as street
car conductors, raised $110.
Kamloops Red Cross has given col-
ors to the 172nd •
Battalion Rocky
Mountain Rangers.
Government employees in Ottawa
are maintaining a Civil Service Red
Cross nurse at the front,
Italian Red Cross Fund in Vancou-,
ver now amounts to $664.
Windsor, N.S., Red Cross has 55
life members.
The Western portion of Manitoulin
Island recently sent $161 to the Can-
adian Red Cross.
The great success of the Canadian
Red Cross is a tribute to the energy
and enterprise of the organized wo-
men's societies of Canada. Among
these societies .the Daughters of the
Empire occupy a prominent place
with regard to Red Cross work.
The report read at the annual: meet-
ing of the Brandon ' chapter of the
I.O.D.E. is typical of the activities of
1 the society throughout the whole
country. During the year the sum
of $4,335.7€ _ was collected -an : in-
crease of $1,385 over the previous
year. Supplies were given to various
regimental hospitals near Brandon
and a large number of articles were
sent overseas including 4,000 pairs of.
socks. and 615 Xmas parcels.
In addition these ladies conduct a
Red Cross sewing room from which
40 cases of hospital supplies have
been sent; abroad to the Red ' Cross.
Money and supplies have been sent
hbroad to the Red Cross. Money and
supplieshave also been given to the
Belgians` and Serbians, to Convales-
cent. Homes' for Soldiers, to the Pris-
oners of War Fund, to the British
Red Cross, and to a Red Cross Ambu-
lance Fund.
Redent shipments of Red Cross
goods from St: John. to England in-
cluded 460 casee sent from Winnipeg.
80,000,000, Red Cross Christmas
seals were sold in the United States.
Japan with a pop`'ulation of 40;1.
000,000 has 1,800,000 Red Cross mein -
United -States witha population of
100,000,000 has only 31,000 members
of the 'Red Cross. A national Red.
Cross movement is now under way to
increase this membership to 1,000,000.
Ex -President• Taft in a recent
article hasmade some very apt com-
ments on Red Cross preparedness. He
points out that the Red Cross is like
an army. It cannot be created over
night. It is like e fire department
when the fire bells ring, there is no
time to build engines, to train fire-
men or to perfect a water supply.
These tinge must be ready or they
might as well not be at all.
When news of a great battle reaches
Canada, it is too late for us to ship
Red Cross supplies. The Red Cross
material must be on the spot ready
for the emergency, In fact the chief
purpose of the Red Cross is to meet
these unseen and sudden exigencies. If
it is not prepared it becomes a ghast-
ly mockery, and failure,
In Canada we have built up an ex-
pert Red Cross organization admin.
istered by trained specialists. Our
Red Cross campaign is carefully plan-
ned and vigorously carried out. All
that is needed is the steady moment-
um of public support.
Carlton County Council, Ottawa, has
passed a by-law providing for a
monthly contribution of $1,000 to the
Red Cross and Pabriotic funds.
$58.25 was realized for the Berlin
Red Cross by the sale of a tablecloth
embroidered by Miss Maude Kumpf
who has been working on it for three
years,
MY ENGLAND.
An American Tribute By Wm. Winter
in New 'York Times.
lily EngNndi Not my native land,
But dear to me as if she were,
flow often have is longed to stand
With those brava' hearts who tight
for her! .
Bereft by Fortune, worn with Age,
111y life is all I have to give,
But freely would that life engage
For those who die that she may live.
Mother of Freedom! Pledged to Right!
From Honor's path she would not
stray,
But, sternly faithful, used her might
To read mankind the nobler way.
Her task was hard, her burden grey
But 'round the world her edict ran
That reared and ruled a Sovereign
State,
Securely, on the Rights of Man.
No vandal foot should tread her !and,
No despot hold her realm in awe;
The humblest peasant should ...ore -
mend
The shelter of her righteous law.
In vain her lion port was braved!
Her pennant streamed o'er ev'ry sea,
And wheresoe'er her ensign waved
All fetters fell and Man was free.
To -day be all her faults forgot—
The errors of her nascent prime,
Or wily politician's plot,
Or blunder that was almost crime.
To -day, when desperate tyrants
strain—
By Greed, and Fear, and Hate com-
bined—
To blast her power and rend her
reign,
She fights the fight of all mankind.
She fights for us—for this fair clime,
Our home belo'd, where freemen
dwell,
Columbia, grandest born of Time,
That Teuton malice burns to quell.
My England! should the hope be crost
In which she taught the world to
strive,
Then all of Virtue would be lost
And naught of Manhood left alive.
But 'tis not in the Book of Doom
That Justice, Honor, Truth should
•
fail;
That earth be made a living tomb,
And only brutal Wrong prevail,
It cannot be the human race, E
Long struggling up to Freedom's
sun,
Is destined to the abject place
Of vassal to the murd-rous Hun!
In ev'ry land that knows the ills
'Of Bondage, and has borne its aches,
The deathless pulse of Freedom thrills
And Reason's noble rage awakes.
See splendid Italy advance,
And grimly issuing from his lair,
To grasp the hand of glorious France,
Stalk forbh th' intrepid Russian bear!
My England! Patient, valiant, true!
Nor foes without, nor frauds within
Will shake her purpose to subdue'.
The cohorts of embattled sin.
The swinish horde, bhe gilded beasts;
In whom no touch of ruth survives,
Who ravish women, murder priests,
And strew the sea with infant lives.
The Lords of War, who kill and maim,
Exultant, while their people groan,
Steeping themselves in melte' and
shame,
To keep a despot on his throne.
That pigmy, to whose 'wildered brain
Himself an Attila appears,
Who takes the name of God in vain
And drowns the earth in blood and
tears!
My England, strike! Droop not, nor.
pause,
Till triumph on your banners shiael
Then take a grateful world's ap-
plause
Millions of hearts that, a beat.like
mine.
-Wm. Winter, in New York• Times