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OR, A DEcLARATION OF WAR.
CHAPTER 1V.—(Cent'd.) new development of the spices altos
gether, or the flounced sills gewn
t e er 1 mme o ne
n pale kicl gleves, sobstitute nyou&
Ihat
was beatuiftd, john--beatitl- dbn t and the
• fUl!" she said to him at licane, still i
a flurry of agreeable excitement, "E
rou don't beloog to them only, you
y
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it mind a tweed coat and skirt (the lat-
ter stopping short well above the
ankles, if you please)—aa exeeedingly
sporting -looking 'twenty' and clog-skm
or let as say would-be dog -skin)
gauntlets—and there you have her
bodily before your eyee. She took
great CarEi to keep her left hand in the
pecket of her coat, and to give me her
right one at the latest angle. I was
a little bewildered at first, not been
used to the type, but after she ha
inquired whethei... there were many
country -house ladies 'in the eeipbor-
nioev; you belong to inc too!"
Whereupon John smiled tender/
but abetractoclly, being in spirit eti•
in the pulpit.
It was, after all, a great thing to
belong to a man who understood his
business, Ella reflected, having noted
the emotion of the congregation; for
those few final moments had com-
pletely covered the negative effect of
the rest of the service,
This revived enthusiasm serve
very well fel- carrying her through th
ordeals of that first trying week; fo
Adam in his Sunday coat and a colla
which visibly hamperedehis breathin
appealed to her scarceIrmore than i
his duck trousers; while the round -
eyed, shiny -faced Jean, whose gloves
were evidently bursting, and who held
her pocket -handkerchief in her hand
during the entire duration of the visit,
did not appeal at all. What could
Ella have in common with •a woman
who thought she was making conver-
eation when she was discussing the
composition of oat -cakes?
The manners of John's sister, Polly,
were even less sympathetic., for Jean
was at least profoundly respectful,
whereas the blowsy; carroty -haired
Polly, in virtue af her elder-sistership,
took it upon herself to be familiar, and
even jocular, to a point which offend-
ed Ella's finer sensibilities.
"Many's the time I've skelpit him,"
she laughed robustly, right into Ella's
face, and pointed a red finger at the
minister. "Not that he much need-
ed skelping," she presently admitted,
"except for forgettin' the things he
was sent for. John always was a bit
moonstruck,"
The return visits were a harder task
still. The thought of entering a
thatched hut as a visitor had cost
Ella some sleepless hours, and would
heave cost her rn.ore had she not fortun-
ately remembered in time that even
great ladies have been seen in cottages
—as benefactors, of course. • It was
frorn this point of view only that the
thing became bearable. This was not
a case of distributing bread; but other
things could be dispensed, such a kind
counsels and admonitory words, cal-
culated to elevate the rustic mind. It
was with this view that she began to
cultivate an amiable condescension of
manner, and that particular affability
which she understood to be the char-
acteristic of the Lady Bountiful.
In this way, she succeeded in
weathering an experience which, after
all, need not be too often, repeated.
And there were compensations; for
Mrs. Modley had returned, and the
happy moment of crossing the
episcopal threshold dawned for Ella,
with consequences to her mental
equilibrium which, she herself was
scarcely aware of at the time. So
also came that other proud moment of
returning. Mrs. Gordon's visit—in a
boat, perforce. There was a dark
blot upon that delight, however, for
John seemed to take for granted that
Polly's visit should be returned at the
same time, and could absolutely not
be got to see that there was any -thing
in the least indecorous in going from
the big house to the gardener's cot-
• tage. At a later period of domestic
felicity she would scarcely hive yield-
ed, and even as it was, she did so
with a rather bad grace.
"Well, let it be so, in Heaven's
name!" she acquiesced, with a sigh;
"but I do think it looks odd."
It had not previously occurred. to
John that that large, mobile mouth
held in it possibilities of peevishness,
but it did occur to him now.
The impression produced by Ella
upon the mistress of l3alladrochit will
best be given in a letter to a friead,
posted on the day of that first visit.
The passage in question ran as fel-
lows:
"I've just beep. interrupted bya
visit—such a visit, my dear! I wish
you could have been here to enjoy it.
I've told you about our `stiudant,'
haven't I 3—John M'Donnell, who has
recently got the Ardloch living. Well,
d hood' I got my cue. It's the couri-
e try -house' lady she's aiming at, and of
n.
he brought a wife with him from
Glasgow, on whom I recently left a
card; hence to -day's visitation. He
is nothing new to me, of course; I've
seen him inite garden often—such
times as the quarries were resting—
helping his brother -in -lave. He's
much the same in a black coat as in
shirt -sleeves, and the metamorphosis
doesn't really call for special notice.
His elevation (the social one, I rnean)
embarrasses him frankly, nor does he
• dream of throwing any veils over the
past. By way of filling up a pause
sy loin she has evidently made an ex-
haustive study. The result is not bad
really, It would be interesting to
hear Redfern's remarks upon the set
of the sleirt; but considering that she
probably cut it out herself, I think it's
wonderfully creditable, So is her
conversation, and the studiously cul-
tivated nonchalance. She must have
had some rather good models to go
by. Now and then a vowel plays the
traitor, as, for instance, when she
complained of there being no %ally'
in the garden—she positively adores
%ally,' and is quite jealous of the Bis-
hop's hedge. The Bishop is evident-
ly a great joy In life, He has be-
eome the 'dear J3iehoo' already, for
reasons not hard to unegeine. Dr.
Modley is grand at lettieg people have
their own way, you know, and seeing
which way tine yeung person's desires
tend, I've no doubt he's been ImMer-
ing her to the top of her bent, Mx'.
Modley had been so kind as to lend
her a seed catalogue, he told rne, and
was just embarking open a rhapsody
on gardeeing, when she stopped short,
abruptly, I believe, because the recol-
leetion ef Alick's eideeetice had made
bee realise the delicacy of the subject.
When I asked how she liked her house,
she became more measured hi her ens
ewers. It WAS not bad, on the whole,
she informed me, though it had its
faults, which she hoped to remedy.
Evidently she has decided that it won't
do te be too pleased with everything—,
might lead one to imagine; don't you
see? that she had not been used to
better things. Everything is rather
nice; the rooms, the sitooatione etc.
But she likes the esitooation' of the
Bishop's house ever so much better.
The Bishop and everything pertaining
to him has clearly been adopted as the
standard of comparison. I suppose it
does not suit her so well to institute'
comparisons with other people nearer
at hand, though the village swarme
with first and second cousins who also
have houses and gardens—of a sort,
"I'm rather curious to know whether
they'll have gone to Alick's cottage
after leaving me. He began saying
something about a second visit,
but she promptly suppressed him.
Poor girl, I fancy he must be a hand-
ful for her in some ways. I wonder
how these two came to pair—and I
wonder atilt more how they will pull
together!"
(To be continued.).
Milk and Cheese Dishes.
• Milk and cheese, at present prices,
furnish nourishment at a numb lower
cost than meats. The housekeeper
who knows their food value. and how
to prepare milk and cheese in a var-
iety of appetizing dishes will use more
of them. Secure the best milk at any
price for the babies; their lives de-
pend upon it. Whole milk, skimmed
znilk, butter -milk for the children, in-
stead of so much meat, is both more
wholesome and eheaper. If possible,
buy skimmed milk for milk soups and
puddings; it is a substitute for meat
protein and costs about a quarter the
money.
Milk Soups.
2 Tablespoons butter or dripping, 2
tablespoons flour, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 2
cups milk or 1 cup milk. and 1 cup
vegetable water, 1/4 cup vegetable pulp
or flaked fish.
The vegetable water is the water in
-which the vegetables have been cooked.
(In the case of potatoes the water is
not used.) The vegetable pulp is the
cooked vegetable rubbed through a
sieve. Since the vegetable is cook-
ed before making into soup, any left-
over vegetable from dinner can be used
to make a hot soup for supper or lunch
Onions, carrots, celery, potatoes, can-
ned corn, peas, or tomatoes, are gen-
erally well liked. In the case of
tomatoes, a pinch of soda must be
added to neutralize the acid so the
milk will not curdle, Remnants of
cold boiled fish, or canned salmon, oz -
dried beef may be used in the same
way as the vegetables.
Macaroni and Cheese.
1 Cup macaroni, 2 cups milk, 3
tablespoons butter, 4 tablespoons
flour, 1 cup grated cheese, % teaspoon
salt, few grains pepper, .1/4 cup dry
bread crumbs, 1. tablespoon butter.
Add 2 teaspoons -salt to -2 quarts
boiling water. Drop in the macaroni,
broken into inch pieces, and boil hard
for 20 minutes. Draine.ancl pour
cold water through to, prevent the
pieces sticking together. Melt the
3 tablespoons butter in a saucepan;
add the flour and stir until frothy;
add the milk and stir until it thickens.
Season with salt and pepper, add the
cheese and pour over the cooked mac-
aroni. Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a
baking dish, stir the crumb e in this,
turn them out on a plate, put the
macaroni in the baking -dish, and
sprinkle the crumbs over the top. Bake
until , thorough/ye heated and the
rumbs brown. This may be served
a vegetable dish without the crumbs
and baking, but the macaroni must
then be re -heated in the sauce.
Cheese 'Fondue,
1 Cup scalded milk, 1 cup soft stale
bread crinnbs, 1 cup grated cheese,
in the conversation he inquired polite-
ly how the briar hedge was getting in
on he had helped Alick to plant. You
should have seen the glance she threw
him at that! But her first appear-
ance was what nearly clic] far me. They
usually come in their Sunday clothes,
you know, but this young woman
knows a thing er two beyond that—a
gefir'f'rei tePieelfAileeetieWde
There are housewives whose
cake is always praised—whose
pastry is farno,us 'twits melting
fiakiness—whosd firm, light
bread wins daily oOtnplimen ts--
whose puddings are noted for
• savoury lightness—whose cook-
ies are so laetingly crisp.
They have 0 o,c rule theta/nib:es
to all their braking.
Can you guess it
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tablespoon butter, lie teaspoon salt, 2
eggs.
Mix first five ingredients. Add
yolks of eggs well beaten, and fold in
the stiffly beaten whites. Pour into
a buttered baking -dish and bake
twenty minutes in a moderate oven.
Cheese Souffle. Buy
3 Tablespoons butter, 4 tablespoons :Direct
flour, 2-3 cup milk, 1. egg, 1 cup grat- Eaoto
ed cheese, salt and pepper, few grains bottom
of cayenne, dry crumbs. Prices
ECONOMY TO PROTIXT BIRDS.
Best Guard Against the /Ravages
jnsect Pef9lS,
in an address on "Insect Life in
Relation to Bird. Life," a Toronto
speAlter, Pr. Ceseoe, recently told of
the constant struggle going on in the
world between plants and animals and
insects for existence, and of the nice
balance of nature. This has been des
streyed by man, who is reaping the
consequences of his destruction of the
birds by seffering from the ravages of
insect peats. Birds are the most im-
portant check on injurious insects.
There are certain other checks, such
as parasitic insects like the family of
the Ichneumonidae. The- Ichneumon
fly lays its eggs either on the skin, un-
der the skin, or near the larvae of the
insect it preys upon. But the birds
are our great helpers, and every
stage of insect life, eggs, larvae,
caterpillar and mature insect, fur-
nishes food for some bird. Warblers
And chickadees 'clean up the eggs, as
do the creepers. A colony of warblers
and chickadees will keep an orchard
free from the dread San Jose scale. A
number of orioles and yellow -billed
and black -billed cuckoos will keep an
orchard free from the tent caterpillar.
Bank swallows feed on the adult mos-
quito, and should receive absolute pro-
tection. Dr. Cosens deplored the de-
• struction of colonies of bank swal-
lows every year by idle boys. 'This
should be stopped. Every bank swal-
low is a public benefactor. The wood-
peckers are the only check on boring
beetles in the world, and are specially
equipped with a beak and a tongue
for digging under the bark and lick-
ing out the grubs. The bark beetle is
the most destructive pest we hoes°.
The annual loss in forests in the
United States- alone is estimated at
$100,000,000. Woodpeckers should be
encouraged and protected. The sap-
sucker is more likely boring for a
grub than for sap. The robins feed
on the brown -tailed moth, which was
imported to this continent front Hol-
land in 1891 in nursery stock and be-
came very destructive in the New
England States. The gypsy moth has
a caterpillar which weaves a silken
sail and floats away on the wind to
pastures new.
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Ca. nloarne maned free,
Melt the butter, add the cornstarch,
and when well blended gradually stir
in the cream and cook 2 minutes. Add
the cheese and stir until cheese is
melted. Season and serve on toast-
ed crackers or on bread toasted on
one side, the rarebitleing poured over
the untoasted side.
Standard Food• is the Cheapest. -
Important factors to life are air,
water and food. We can, live without
air for only a short time, without wa-
ter from one to four days and without
food from thirty to fifty days. In
composition the human body is three-
quarters water, and of such a nature
that a variety of foods is necessary,
but not all are desirable. ee`
The most important business of the
housewife is to know and understand,
with a working kflowledge as a basis,
this supremely interesting subject.
Good food is most necessary for
good health, and even the best foods
are often spoiled by incompetent
housewives, who are not able or
familiar with the necessary' and im-
portant rules of cooking. These re-
quire intelligent and persevering
work, sincere efforts and determina-
tion to have this important knowledge
at their finger tips.
Many women fail in their undertak-
ings because they have a -wishbone in
place of their backbone, Roll up
your sleeves and determine that high
prices will hold no terrors for you
when you know that good standard
brain food is the cheapest in the end.
Do not permit any waste, Lett utilize
every portion of food. Thrifeis not
stinginess, as so- many people imagine,
but it is carefulness in undertakings,
that when used in the home, especially
in the kitchen, nets to the persevering
housewife wonderful result.
Housekeeping Helps,
Spinach is in a class by itself, be-
cause of its large amount of iron.
Cooked squash left over from a
meal may be made a delicious soup.
Always have the board well flour-
ed before beginning to knead bread.
If you feel very tired and drowsy,
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The empty baking powder can
makes a good nut mincer.
13acon dripping is excellen's for fry-
ing hashed brown potatoes.
Prunes cooked without adding sugar
are ihore wholesome and better flavor..
ed.
•When the top of the kitchen range
is red hot your fuel is being wasted.
Hot egg sandwiches make a good
Inexpensive dish for supper,
Tins for the baking of large rourid
cakes may be partially lined 'with
paper.
Fine linens and all pieces of hand-
some lingerie should be wrung out by
hand and never through a wringer,
The young carrots pulled up when
thinning the carrot bed can be scrap-
ed end cooked and served with cream
8auce.
The sugar for jelly should always
be heated in the oven before using.
Stir frequently and do not allow it
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