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OR, A DECLARA'T'ION OF WAR.
CHAPTER III.—(Cont'd). Despite the naked branches,. the
That his devotions were to -day quite February day was no longer quite a
as detached from the things of the winter day. The well -kept grass Pxolo
Meat Economy.
Use less; once a day is ample if
supplemented with legume dishes,
milk soups, cheese dishes, attractive
bread and cereal dishes, and eggs
when they are cheap enough.
Serve carefully, at the table; it is
better to: serve twice than to send
remnants to the garbage pail,
Use cheaper cuts. We pay largely
for flavor, tenderness, and excessive
fat is the expensive cuts,
We Luy meats chiefly for their pro-
tein food value. The cheapre round,
shank, and neck cuts give more for the
money.
The cheaper cuts chopped fine make
a Hamburg steak as quickly broiled as
a porterhouse.
nged cooking at the lower
earth as they were wont to be, it might showed a •hint of green, the sky act- temperatures will make the toughest ,fish and small bits of butter. Season
be rash to assert. Neither was he ually a suggestion of blue, which
among the last to leave the sacred might possibly endure as long as the cuts tender and improve their flavor. and cover Witha top layer of potatoes
This can be accomplished economically and bake in a hot oven for ten minutes
precincts; while, once outside the door monstrous chimneys held their labor -or until it is brown.
he seemed without any definite act of ing breath. In the newly -turned in the double -boiler when the coal or
volition to com'e' to a standstill, and oorders the bulbs were beginning to wood fire is being used for other
pepper;.. Boil one egg hard, Add the.
butter and yolks of two eggs to cream
sauce, cheese and pepper and minced
hard-boiled egfa. Then add the fish.
and heat the mixture
Baked Codfish.—One eup rice, one
quart Milk, on cup shredded codfish,
three tablespoons butter, four eggs.
Cook rice and milk in double boiler
until rice is tender and has absorbed
the milk. Add well -beaten egg yolks,
codfish that has been soaked, and blit
ter . When cool add the stifF,ly beaten
egg whites. Bake and serve with the
melted butter.
Fish Pie.—Remove the bones and
skin from any cold cooked, fish, shred
it and add seasoning to taste, But-
ter abaking-dish, cover the bottom
with mashed potatoes and add the
presently found himself watching the show• Upon the gnarled branch, of a things; in the casserole or close -cover- „ ' Household Hints.
' 1I Pictures should be hung an air
terest never before felt in his fellow -
song
might of its small heart; and the when it is left for the night; or in the agreeable level with the eye,
worshippers. At every particularly song had evidently something to do fireless cooker when gas or electric The lightest wei ht kitchen utensils
fair head of hair he actually craned his with spring,, and possibly also with one stores are used: g
of thepassions apt to be stirred bythe make work less tiresome.
long neck, and when eatr last his roam- P Stews -To man Canadians- the.
ing eyes met another air of eyes, season. So suggestive w*as that song, aor b y When a screw becomes loose, re -
likewise roaming, but'which in the that not all; the slabs and columns and d i Ings a memory of say oiless move. it and fill the hole with bits of
sane instant gave up their wander- urns and sham temples and over. -life- chunks of meat swimming in a wa- sponge packed 1n tightly. Then re-
Ings with a finality which showed that size figures could quite succeed in tery gravy, In intelligent rands it place the screw. and it will hold as
the goal was reached, he began to turning the ancient Fir Park of the becomes a dish of 'infinite variety
have a glimmering of his own motive. 'city into a stone -cutters yard.
In another moment they had met— As presently he rested upon a bench
She openly radiant, he abruptly self- (for it was actually mild enough to
conscious. sit) b@side his new acquaintance, John
"Oh, how pleasant!" she smiled M`Donnell made an unlooked-for dis
frankly, from under the shade of an covert' that he was young, It might
obviously new and very becoming. grey most be called an original discovery.
hat. It was real kind of you to think Hitherto his youth had appeared to
of nze."
Her naive taking for granted that
she alone had been the object of his
station at the door somehow saver, the
situation.
"I wanted to ask you whether you
outpouring congregation with an in- veteran oak a bird, was singing with a ed stone crock in the coal stove oven
him to be chiefly an obstacle to the
rapid attainment of his end; now it
occurred to him that in itself it had
advantages.
While they walked about, Miss
Mitchell (such, as she informed him
had no disagreeables in your walk the was her name) had supported the con -
other night?" said John, a trifle versation almost single-handed, im-
pompously. "It occurred to me after- Parting a good deal of information as
wards that it was remiss, of me not to she did so. He had heard more about
have stayed along with you." Peebles, and about the aunt who was
She colored, obviously not with cis- an invalid and a householder. He had
pleasure. also learnt that the "office" was a post
"Thank you; well, it was rather , office, though this information was
nervous work, but it's over now; and given reluctantly and principally for
nothing particular happened. Shall the sake of evoking sympathy. The
I tell you how you can make up for life at Peebles lad been much more the small children. The normal child
your remissness?" she asked, glance congenial, she assured him. She had will thrive better on milk, cereals,and
ing up at him with insinuating blue helped her father in the school, and eggs in place of neat. A child's ap-
eyes. had alevays had the management of all petite is what the parents make it. Do
How.?r the school -feasts. She loved school- not feel sorry for the child whose
By taking me a walk now." feasts, especially when they were breakfast is oatmeal and mil and
: given bycharxnin country ladies. who . - ' bit
"To one of the parks ." lived.
g y o supper is 'bread and mxll+'with ;a of
1 ved in beautiful "parks, and . hous biscuit and jam; thee hild is well fed.
Eggs may replace meat in the adult
diet whenever the price per dozen
goes below the cost of 1'A pound round
steak.
through the combination of different
meats with different vegetables and
seasonings, into juicy pieces of meat
bedded in most savory sauce.
Make a little meat go a long way.
Spread the flavor over other nutritious
but more neutral -flavored food, e.g.,
meat pies, Irish stew, potpies with
dumplings, stews with plenty of sav-
ory gravy, served in a border of rice,
mashed potatoes, boiled beans, mac-
aroni or vegetables.
firmly as ever.
When slipping geraniums remember
that the woody stalks cut back and set
in rich soil will make the best bloom-
ing plants.
To set growing house plants in - a
tub and spray them with a bath spray
is one of the best methods of giving
their leaves the necessary. moisture.
After washing oilcloth and lino-
leum, be sure to "dry it properly. If
left damp it will speedily rot and soon
become Totally ruined. It is a great
Use every part of a meat purchased: mistake to use too muchswater for
Fry out the fat not used for the table, washing it. The cloth should be
and use for shortening and other pur- wrung out and passed lightl over
poses; trimmings and. bones for sous y
P rsoups, surface.
and left -overs for "made" dishes. A canpstool to hold the clothes
I Avoid using too strong heat for roast basket is a convenience on washday.
ing and broiling, which ruins bones it is light, easily carried about, and
and trimmings for the soup pot, be- when not in use takes up little room.
sides wasting heat. In hanging out the clothes and taking
Eliminate neat from the diet of them from the line the•; stool saves
stooping and keeps the bottom of the
basket clean.
'rime will be saved if the house-
keeper will sit down with pad and cook
book and plan the meals for at least
three days, and as each meal, is plan
nc 1. a list is made of the food to be.
purchased; by this means the market-
ing can be done for three days in little
more time than wouldbe required .for.
one.
When a child has the slightest tend-
ency tocrooked 'legs he should have a
very special treatment. His bones
are too soft„ and he needs more lime
and iron. He should be taken off his
"No; to the Necropolis. It's the
only thing that appeals to my imagin- of whose inner elegancies she had on
ation in this dreadful town; the only more than one accasion—generally
spot at all romantic. Don't you think owing to sudden showers of rain—
so?" caught glimpses. : She thought that
"It certainly has the finest view in country -house lathes" . must be the
Glasgow," acquiesced John, as togeth- happiest people in,the, world. The
er they turned up thestreet like any post office in William Street was aw-
other Sunday couple. fully stuffy compared even to the
She prattled pleasantly as they' Peebles class -room. But alas! she
walked along. But it was not until had no choice in the ,matter. Situa-
they had crossed the bridge which tions of any sort were so difficult to.
spans the Monlindinar Valley, and get.
above which, among the leafless 'trees, 1 "But it's really a sort of .slavery,"
rose .a second forest of monuments, ! she assured him, gently plaintive. "To
that intimacy began to make :strides. 1 any person with an imagination, such
` "You know that this is called " the • prosaic occupation is torture. It's
`Bridge of Sighs,' do you not? It's a an awful bother to have a lively
name that delights me' imagination, I can tell you. Nothing
"Do sad things delight you?" but 1,veighing parcels and counting
"Serious ones do.. They are so 'stamens all day, and in the evening
much more interesting than the jokes when I yearn for a little cultured, talk,
people always are " making. I find • Fanny is either dosing my aunt, or
jokes so vulgar. Don't you ?' ' else too tired to open her mouth."
"I don't think I know much about "It must be rather a hard life for two cupfuls of flaked finnan laddie
jokes," confessed John, whose sense of your cousin," said John naively. } '
humor was, in truth, deficient. When "Oh, yes, poor Fanny! of course it
a good many adjectives hadbeen ex is. But I don't think she feels things
pended upon the view—not by John— as I do. She is quite elderly, you
a short halt was made before the know—past thirty; and besides she
gigantic statue crowning the height, hasn't got to earn her bread.."
Though an enemy in one sense, John There was a silence, daring which
Knox, in another, was an ally against Miss Mitchell drew circles on the sand
a common foe—a sort of Moses who with her umbrella.
had led his people out of the Egyptain "And your home?" she began pre -
darkness of Popery. Utterly devoid sently, in a more tentative tone; "is it
though he was of the grimness of the far from here? Have you many re -
great reformer, this other John found Iations?"
no obpection -to paying him his qualifi- Evidently she considered that the
ed respects, time forgathering information, in-
stead of imparting it, had arrived.
"It is very far away—high up on
the west coast."
"Ah, the Highlands! I have only
read about them; but oh, how I. have
longed to see them! They must be
just beautiful!"
"I never knew how beautiful they
were till I left them, though I always
Ioved them, without knowing why."
"Ah, tell me about them!" implored
Miss Mitchell,
And haltingly at first; by degrees
more ;fluently, John began to draw a
picture of his home —a picture which
was meant to `be no more than a cata-
logue of landscape features, but into
which, despite himself, and fostered by
the breathless attention with which' he
Fish Recipes. ,
Salmon Cutlets. — 'Chop rather
coarsely the contents of a tin of sal: -
mon, and mix in an equal bulk of
breadcrumbs, seasoning.the lot accord-
ing to taste. Then, with the aid of
beaten eggs, form a fairly stiff paste,
which can be made into cutlets, and
each coated with egg or milk and
browned breadciumbs. Heat in a fry-
ing pan with dripping
Creamed Finnan Haddie.—Two cup-
fuls of wihite (or cream) sauce, .two.
tablespoonfuls of butter, three eggs,
one tablespoonful of grated cheese,
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was listened to, a little rude eloquence
stole.
"Oh, how happy the people must be
who live in those lavelyp - laces!" ex-
claimed. Miss Mitchell, clasping her
hands, and witheyes to which posi-
tively a litte moisturehad risen.
"Surely the prosaic side of life must
quite disappear among those moun-
tains! Oh, I wonder you could leave
them!"
"I left them only to go back to therm
I have hopes of getting appointed to
my own native place, and to be able
to be some comfort to my old fellow
workers."
"Fellow -workers ?" she repeated, a
little anxiously.
"Yes; in the quarry.. We all work
at the slates, from the time ahuost
that we can stand."
"And you have worked there too?"
With the question she glanced in-
stinctively at his hands, which,- how-
ever, were decently encased in a pair
of black Sabbath' gloves,a trifle pale
about the seams.
"I did nothing else till three years
ago, and even no'1v I am hi the quarry
from March till October. It's there
I gain the money I spend from Oct-
ober till March."
"Ah, I see," said Miss Mitchell, and
was silent for a moment, weathering
the blow -for a blow it undoubtedly
was.
She had not expected to hear that he
was a man of means (the look of his
clothes alone knocked that idea on the
head) ; but neither had she been quite
prpared for the discovery that her new.
acquaintance was a quarryman, which,
to her, meant nothing else than a com-
mon day -laborer, :Nothing about his
appearance had suggested this; for the
Celtic rustic is not as visibly hall -
Marked as his Saxon brother.
`,.:,Boorish" would have been the very
last edjective to apply either to John
or to any of his fellow -workers; while
In him natural refinement was height-
ened by a great personal mildness."
After that pause, almost of con-
sternation, the lady inquired, rather
more coldly, when he expected to get
hisappointmexit.
"Nex year, I hope—as soon as I am
ordained. 'The Bishop is very fav-
orably incline to inc."
"Have you a bishop up there?"
(To be continued),
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But the convenience of our service by mail to distant
customers is not. Articles of any sort can be sent us
either by parcels post or express, and returned in the
same 10 inner. We pay the carriage charges one
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loss of tone, climatic changes, overwork,
or errors of diet, nothing so soon, restores
tone and healthy activity to the digestive
system as the root and herb extract—
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regulates the Iiver and bowels, and clears the system of the decayed
products of indigestion—the fruitful cause of headaches,
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The ncw1.00siz,; contains firer Brea of
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feet at once, and have salt water bath-
ing and massage.
Door mats should never be shaken
against a wall. It causes the fibre to
break. They should be placed face
downwards and beaten gently with a
stick or brush head. Mats treated.
like this will last twice as long: This
method is also cleaner and easier.
To freshen a skirt that has become
wrinkled and mussed from packing, or
otherwise, brush carefully, so that all
dust may be removed, land hang over
a tub of boiling hot water. After it
is thoroughly steamedit will 'look like
a tailor cleaned garment.
To avoid valuable time looking for
the different buttons in your button
box take a wire hairpin and straighten
it out; then shape the wire in a circle.
and bend each end back after string-'
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Adhering to Orders.
Doctor (to Mrs. Perkins, whose hus-
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tervals!?
Mrs. Perkins (with dignity)—'E's
'ad nothing except what you ordered,
doctor.
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According to a lately issued edition
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