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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1905-04-27, Page 7FELLOWSHIP OF REYERENCE When Meii Praise and Pray Together They Cannot Quarrt l About God. All nations %%hon 'thou hast made shall conte ash worship before thee, O Lord. ane %bull glorif . thy name. -Paaluis. lt.xxvi., I). A church was mice :!edk'ated "to a reverence for others' reverence." Be- liefs divide then; worshil► unite•» thews. When men pray. however their words may differ, i h. it hearts are one in 'earn in; for the blessings of the li v ing God. %%he•n men praise) God their dcepeet souls accord, oven as the %notes of the organ which lead» their anthem. One of the dearest hyu:ne at i':'o- teatant sings was fashioned in the fervent heart of a Catholic tweet. When a Catholic sings "Nearer. `dy Gori, to 'Thee" he is using e0:,13 penned by the hand of a devout Uni- tarian woman. "The Imitation of Christ," which is the phrased ectasy of an adorning monk thinking al.out Jesus, has found through centuries a fellowship In Catholic and I'roteet- ant heart, in the hearts alike of great scholars and of the unlettered. When mon praise and pray together they cannot quarrel about God. United in their deeps, they (•»not disastrously and hopel.,`sly divide in their shallows. Kindness is a es :co we say to (:ori. Jesus taught that when the hungry are fed. the naked clothed. the sick and the pris=oners visited, the deer} is/ done unto Ilium. GOOD 1)EI l►,S UNITE .MI I•:N. It 111 only evil that divides. '[here le no orthodoxy in inhumanity. In kindness there is no heresy. What you believe, important as it is. is not so essential as what yea do. What you think is not so vital as whatyou are. in Cod's world there is unity ane diversity -in the dolls unity, in the shallows diversity. 'That which unites is always diviner than that which divides. 'the diver- sity is ileeting-, ephemeral; the unity is abiding, eternal. There is a common sun In the sky, but. springing up In the inspiration of that sun there are oak and pine, apple and peach, rose anel da!Todil. Ellett !ells some story of the sun's grace. but tells it how differently! But trees wage no war about the sun's great meanings. Each glorifies that sun to its full and seeks not the dishonor of another. Nor (10 flowers fight because they do not in- terpret the sun alike. Each fa the simple truth of its being glorifies the sun and is thereby in the fellowship of beauty. Dislike of other flowers is nut es - settled to love of our own rower. T!The Gres that burn on our own altar are not fed by hatred of tires that burn on other altars. Your retie;ion dols not live by scorning your bro- thers. Ile who has most to say against other faiths has lost the beauty of his own. The seirit of controversy r!estr'oys love out oe tho heart as a storm destroys peace out 'of the sky. And that is luso for only by love can we find truth and !continue in truth. whether it is tho truth of st(atut, the truth of electri- city (le the truth which greatens the ssextl in the gentle teas of Cod. In Paris when a funeral passes :every hatis doffed in token of ree- : spe•ct. h, a' L:nowleileon'c'nt of the seamen des! iny, Til: ('t;MMON GRIEI'. What an eilieible inent in this fellow- ship of reverence! Why not a kindre(1 fellowship at :the altars of worship? When a man !kneels, reverencing the highest he !knows, ,learning for what is best, 'what heart. so hale as to deride him fur his foot of worship? i:verything that. (logs its hist has our- respect - has, indeed, the Miele -ship of our own hest --the horse that ploughs the osis! as the horse that speeds the road. the man who digs a ditch as the man who paints a picture. the child stnvuuering at his astronomy lesson as Ilerschel discovering a planet. To every one at his best good cheer from the best that is in us. Wo are fellows together in the school of hood. who will yet, by His netient ani tender teaching. bring all na- t ions 10 worship before 1 f im and to glorify Ills name. Sailors signal greeting to each other no matter what flag their harks may hear. It is the friendly acknowledgement of a common life on a common sea. Even RO life's mariners, however their creeds may differ nn•I divide, may greet each other with friendly. fel- luw'shite.ing trignnl in acknowledge - Dost thou wash my feet -With em- phasis upon the pronouns "thou" and "my." l'eter would say: "Lord. art Ihuu to perfurni for ate thy pupil the function of a bond ser- vant? Never!" 7. 'Thou tthult understand hereafter the significance of this act and the example of self-abnegation involved. Peter as well as others of tho dis- ciples needed this lesson in humility. 8. 1f 1 wash thee not -Note the slight play on the word "wash." which here has a twofold meaning, its deeper signiecanco of a sietitual purifying lovelorn' nnting. 9. Raisin . . . head -Peter is quick to »ext, both the play on words and tiro deeper import of the Master's answer. and replies after the seuae manner in words of a double and a deeper meaning. 1. 1lu that is bathed ntodeth not save to wash his fist-.lewus 110W speak» its figurative language. The sense of his words seems to bo: "Ile that is already fully s'rrrendores1 to roe as thou art needs but to gnarl against contamination and tempta- tion from without, that he may re- train as he is, clean every whit. Anil ye are clean -A remarkable unrl generous tribute to the heart - loyalty of the dis.l;.leo. 11. Knew him that shod( betray bine-That is. knew what kin ! e f a ratan nt. heart .7telits, the t.n••lean one, who later betrayed him, was. .Jesus doubtless ale() I new all about the impending troach.ery and betray- al (comp. vers(' 227). hut that is not what the evangelist sats in this verse. ' 14. Ought. to wash one auotlitcr's feet -Words the deeper meaning of which is that disciples of -the t'hrist aro in all humility and in utter self- abnegation to seek to servo one an- other. For the disciples in their time and under the social conditions under which they Betel, the exhorta- tion could prnp.•rly have a more lit- eral interpretation also, hardly so, however, for disciples to day. MANY CAUSES FOR - WAR SOME SMALL REASONS FOR BIG UPRISINGS. Child Slinging Stone;s Provokeed Insurrection -Cause of Indian Mutiny. In the second decade of the century before last MX 1 r_ ti of Algiers were mete er a common earth and a con' successively elected and assassinated moil heaven in the same a(lernoon by an ultra - We are the chadren of one Father. s,tlsitive popclace, the insurrections From 1 he heart of a common human- which endueso tragically being duo ity we can fellowship each other in in each Instance to the Algerians' our reverence for our conunon (1•3d dissatisfaction with the bearing and and lather, who is above all and attire of their new rulers. 'this' is a through all and in all. to whom he- record, even among orientate; but long the nat ions of the earth and utmost casually small causes It-svo the etiolation of every human heart. litany times small about similar THE SUNDAY SCHOOL, INTERNATIO!eNAL LESSON, APRIL 30. Leeson V. Jesus Washing the Disciples' Feet. Golden Text, Gal. v. 13. Till•: LESSON S1'A'1'i•:MI•:N'T, 1. The Relation of Our Lord to Itis Father and to 1119 Brethren (verses 1-3). The dramatic vicis>srittules of life are of interest to all; but often the abiding forces which cause these vic- issitudes remain hidden and unguesr ed. In the gospel narrative we watch the unsuspecting disciples preparing to eat the paww,ver trapper with their Lord, while Judns snakes his nefarious bargain with the chief priests; and events hurry forward to their tragic clines. itut .101111, now about to record a very unusual in- cident. pauses/ in his narrative to reveal the secret condition)/ and forces which pulsated beneath these events and which caused thorn. 1. John points to our Lords relation to clod (1) Ile is "tho only be4ot- ton Son." in whom the Father is well pltatsxd; (2) receiving from God "all things" -alike the power of working tteirucle•a anti the task of bearing pain. alike death. and trt- utnph over (heath; (3) "coating (iota God' (whether we viers' hitt as the Word who in the b3 ginning was with (3o(1 and who was Crit, or RS the angel-hhvtldett Babe of Ilethl heap); (4) "going to God" --"departing out of this world to the Father." 1. John deka our Lord's relations to "his own." (1) They are "his own" not because they first love() him, but because he! first loved them; (2) Having lodeld them et. the first he Invrii them to the emi. :f. John tells) us of what our foot was fully conscious as he approached his pas- sion. tie knew (1) 'Flint to a tailgate i sense God was hie Fat h( r. (2) That God his Father had given hint all power in earth and In heaven; (:1) Thnt the time of his departure from this world was et han(1: (4) '1 hat to the (lad from whom he had conte he was to return. 11. Our Lord's Symbolic Act (verses 1-1 1). As their hilet, accordlne to Orien- tal custom, our Lord supplied water for the disciples' feet. As their ser- vant he bathed their feet and wiped theta with a towel (verse); 4, '►,. 'the disciples wondered. Teter cheese- terisllcally put his wonder into words of protest (v'erseete 6-8). Our Lord replied in effect: 1. That. while the full symbolism of his net (ould not pee then be explained, it should become perfectly clear pater (verse 71; 2. That nsnnwhtle refection of the weel•ing would ho a practical re- jection of the Mestere; t.eachine;s and apirte (verse. els; :I. That what the hath Mot flow for the Ir bodies our Lord already heel done for their enol.- by grace they Were mean /with the , x(eption of one who hod per- ste-te•1 in sinning against gr(tee) (t'. Tsee 10. 1 1 ); 4. But though s:'ir'tually ellen in the ryes of (hall their contact with a 'Ante' World de - ----- --- I great events, although on a less mended the attentions of love; 5. Our Lore) was patient with the ntia- directed enthusiasm of 1'eter (verve 9), gild carefully set hits right. III. What Our 1 carers ee tmbolic Act deans for iTR (veut'o3 1`d-11). When ho hail w•asleel the feet of the twelve Jose's robed himself again as a guest (verse 12), and. sitting (town, procceele(t to explain: "Ido you understand my action? You call nee .M'as'ter and Lord. 1 (weepy that relation to you. Now 1, your Rabbi and Chief, have myself vash,wl Your feet. Take me as your example in humility and in charity." Verse 1. Now before the feast of tho pnssover-'[hitt in, before the regularly appointed day of the tenet. ITh% words give a (late to the whole nary at iv(' which follows. Jesus knowing Since or because he knew. Hie hour was come-I'nt(1 whish time all plots ngainat his life o•) the part of even his most formidable enemies were necessarily futile. 1119 own-': hose who had become such by chid -e through faith in him. l'he expression must be taken to- gether with tee phrase' th:al 't r" in the world. e' trig in the world they were nevertla less no longer "o( rho world." but neatness now of "the kingdom of hcav►n," of which he their Master was the King. Unto the end -Even unto d:ath, or possibly, as in the marginal render - Ing. utero the tit terntnst. The thought. douhtlesta. Is that 114 love for than went to extreme Ien.Ith4, not being Influenced by the sulk ing and (heath for them which it involved. 2. Turing supper -front John Rill.. 29 and sit i., 28 it. seen s (evident that the fourth evangelist wishes► specllienlly to distinguish this sup- per from the regular pas.over feast which on the day of crucifixion was still to he eaten. All threes of the synopt Ists, however, speak of this ssn:o supper ap n pas:ewer meal for which due and special preparation had been teach* at the request of Josue (co:::p. Matt. xxv(., 17-30; Mark xiv., 12-26; Luke xeil., 7-30). Perhaps the key to a correct under- atanding of these apparently diver- gent stetenv nts Is to be found in the words of .1.eanis as recorded by Lake: "1 have desired to eat. this( ;Passover with you before 1 suffer: for 1 say unto you. 1 shall not eat It until it bo fulfilled) in the kingdom of (loll" (Luke xxii , 15, 16) -the regular paesover being time anticipated by ono day, since .leans knew that on the rue rrow he tnuset suffer and die. -1. Ilis gar'enents-'I he loose outer mantle together with the girdle, bot h of which would be in the way in per - footling an act of service such as followed. e1. Itason-A basin. Began to wash the disc(plet'i' f(etee Thus. performing for thein the hu- miliating service of a slave. .lust before this the disciples .among then.selves had had a controver9y over the gumption "which of them should be accounted the greatest" (Luke xxll., 21). 6. SO he cometh to Simon i'eter- in regular order, hating 'rpm, doubtless, With the disciple nearest hitn. 1 wholesale scale. u In Paris, for instance, during Cur- dimtl eta/aline' sway, it was a child vlinging stones in front of the haughty eccle'siastic's palace that provoked the terrible insurrection of the lrondcurs (clingers) -an insur- re•ctlon which deluged the capital nt hlo0d, and changed for the time be- lie; the current of French history. The Un(teel States, again, n►it;ht 1,0 Itritish territory at this present mo- ment had not Theophilns Lillie, a Roston shopkeeper in a little hack street, persisted in selling British 1 goods after they were tabooed. 11is obstinacy excited and antered the people. who attacked his shop. Ono of his assistants, John llicher(ison, thereupon fired on the snob, killing it 1111(1 named Christopher Snider. 'The latter WAS at, owe christened the "first Martyr of Liberty." and Ills body tuns followed to Its last resting -pisco by no fewer than one hundred thousand persons' Infiniti- ' contort' speeches were delivered nt the graveeeide, and these quickly found nn Mho all over the country, and 10 a little while thereafter the embers of revolt IIIJIRST INTO OPEN FLAMM. That, flaune, thus ll;htly kind) I, Wald nut linally eslingiilnhed until October, 1781, when ! ord /.'u;nwel- ' lie and his entire army of seven thousand men surrendered to Gener- al Washtn1 t on at Yorktown. A multiplicity of toll -gates was the cause of the extraordinary "ltebec- ' ca" Ineurreetion, which broke out in North Wales in 18-1:1. Parties of five and slx hundred sten, armed and mounted, used nightly to traverse the counties of ('arcoarthen. Pem- broke, Cardigan, and Ilrecun. They were nlwoys led by a tall Henn, dreens- (st in female attire. and it was at his command always that the toll- gates were thrown down and the toll-houves burnt. 1 Large bodies of military were sent i into the disturbed districts, but so! well did the "Ilebeccaltes" keep their councils, and so secretly did they manage their forays, that no efeett al check could be put upon their pror.edings; and In the end they ,stee aeled in demolishing prac- tically all the obnoxious harriers in the districts where they operated. Much discussion has arisen regard- ' int; the curious title adopted by these insurrections, but the most generally received opinion is that 1 it was derived originally from the • Biblical story of ilebecca and Isaac: "i.et the se,t1," said the bride's re- latives and friends, "possess the gntes of those which hate thee." THE WHISKY INS1111111;('T10N. is the name given by American his - tenting to a very serious outbreak uhlch occurred In i'ennsylvania and Virginia, owing to an attempt to levy n Rice -int duty on spirits. 01- flcers sent to enforce the new statute were violently resisted, and Federal troops were thereupon searched into the district. This enraged the peo- ple still more, the rising becnrne general. and many shocking outrages were perpetrated. At ono time the insurgents number- ed between six and seven thousand, all determined then and well armed, and things looked very serious. But while General I.ee, with throe bat- talions of infantry, a troop of cav- alry and a battery of artillery, was preparing to take the field against theist, the obnoxious law was hurri- edly repealed, and the insurrection thereupon came to an end. The Maroon Insurrection was to Jamaica, on a small scale, what the mutiny of the Sepnys was to India The Maroons were runaway slaves who congregated in the impenetrable forests on the north side of the is- land. One day two of theist were caught stealing pigs and flogged, and this trifling incident net all their comrades burning, massacring and pillaging. The war that followed was exceedingly sanguinary, no quarter being given on either aide, and at tirst the advantage was al- most wholly on the side of the blacks. At length, however, the expellent was hit upon of sending to puha for one hundred bloodhounds. The !iTtt- roons then craved mercy. which was accorded theist; but all who would not (trontisn to abandon their preda- tory life wore banished, first to Hali- fax, Nova Scotia, end afterwards to Sierra Leone. The deseentlants of the remainder aro still in peaceful possession of a few towns built by thenteelves TN TII1: FORESSTS. Insurrections aro to a great ex- tent a smatter of race and tempera- ment. When in London the "Mo- hawks," the "Scourers," and other similar gangs of well-bred rulTnlns made the streets unsafe by night, no one thought of throwing up barri- cades in the Strand, or storming Buckingham Palace. Yet when, un- der like circumstances, the "armag- nacs" and tho "Rurgundians" inter- fered with the comfort of the Paris- ians, the latter fell upon the rival factions and extirpated them root and branch. Fourteen thousand of thetn, we aro assured on credible authority. were slaughtered in three days -a lesson to well-bred "Hooligans" if ever there were one. And, in addi- tion. there fell in the resultant fight- ing the "Constable of Prance. the Chancellor. six bishops, and 3,500 nobles, besides an unnumbered mul- titude of the "common people." The i'homite Insurrection, which broke out in 1838, had its origin in 'the insane ravings of a Cornish es - leaped lunatic named John Nicholls 'I'ho►n. Ile appeared suddenly in Kent, ns'umed the name of Sir Rich- ard Courtenay, and gave out that ire was a being of supernatural origin 1 who had lately dropped from rho `clouds. ile promised his delude) fol- lowers that t)hsy should be wholly invulnerable to fire or steel, and that the streets of that "great Go- morrah. London, which have hitherto been wetted with water only, shall flow with blood for the rights of the poor.' During his march upon the capital sotto private in his ragged battal- ions set fire to a beanstack. A po- liceman attempted to arrest the in- dendiary, whereupon 'Thorn SII(YI' 'fill•. OFFICER DEAD. The military were then called out, and the '1'hornites took refuge in a wood. The soldiers surrounded them and rho officer in command called on there to surrender. Thorn's answer was a bullet. which killed the speak - himself killed, together with a num- er; but in the end the madmen was for of his followers. 'The rept of them dispersed to their hontee. Perhaps, however, the Indian Mut- iny affords the most striking in - titmice on record of how easily, un- der certain conditions. the smould- ering embers of discontent may be fanned all at once into the all -de- vouring Ilatae of armed rebellion. In January, 1857, a man employed near Delhi in making cartridges for the new Enfield riflery. asked a Sepoy of the 2nd Native Infantry for • draught of water from 111.4 drinking - pot. The answer was an indignant recusal, for if the pot iead but touches) the lips of the low -caste ar- tisan it would have been polluted for ever. Thereupon the workman replied with a sneer that the Septet need not be so particular, as the new cart- ridges were greased with bullock fat and every S(epoy in India would lose caste in biting off the end. The horrible tale spread like wild- fire, variations of it being utilized according to the religious prejudices of the listeners. Thus the Hindus were told that the grease Yves that of the sacred cow. while the Moslem soldiers' were asxriured that It carne from the unclean Baine. (ethers, again, asserted that it was a mix- ture of cow and pig fat. The ultimate result WAS. of course, the sudden uprising of practically our entire native Indian nrmv, and the slaughter in cold blood of teeny thousands of unhappy white non- combatnnts-tern, worsen, and chil- dren.-l'earson's Weekly. _'---r "SUCCESSFUL" PEOPLE. Professor Dexter, of the University of Illinois, has compiled a curious volunae of statistics relnting to "suc- cessful- people. and containing 8,- 602 names. It is shown that nwsl- cinns gain succes at the earliest age; the scientists nt an early ago; the actor and the author next; the intentors gain their place slowly, no one below the age of forty being Included in the hook. Women reach success in all callings, except In music and on the stage, Inter than their finale competitors. 1t hos be- fore o-fore been noted that musical gifts tend to develop more quickly than almost any other. As for the bust - nese Hien, It is interceding to learn that 84 per cent. of the successful men of business did not enter col- lege, while 12 per cent. completed 1t. Of the financiers 18 per cent, are col- lege graduates. 4 - Mrs. Nagger -"Perhaps you recall it was on a rnilwny train that we first met, and-" Mr. Nagger - "Yee; but it's loo late now for me to sue the company for damages." ***** lte****** Apply strong hydrochloric acpd,l ,�` 71C�C�lC �F�i� (spelt of salt) to the stairs, and eft h all acid away with clean 1-101VIE ter. yy�� To restore painted woodwork clean with %%teak soapy warm water and fuller's earth blush off with clean :***********: warns water and a leather. To roiuove iron mold from linen rub with a solution of salts and le - mon o -%nun in earn' water. Well rinse in clean water and dei in the sun. Never scrub linolovnt with a brush. Wash with tepid water and a dealt of soap powder. Rinse with clean water. Mien dry rub with ferrtituro polish To polish steel Jow. IL ry-Rub with u;teked lint%• Steel jewellery may honslkept height by storing it in au airtight box with this substance in powder. To renovate China matting. -Shake to remove dust. Rub over with warm salt and water and wipe dry with a cloth. This prevents the mats turning yellow. oriental carpets may bo cleaned and the colors revived by washing them in sea wetter or in a solution of sea salt. This is practiced with auteess in the Far East. To re'ive alabaster. -Wash with' soap and water. if (such soiled, coy -r er with a paste of quicklime and water, leave for twenty-four hours and wash off with soap and water. To clean stained marble, rub with diluted hydrochloric acid or vinegar; rinse: with clean water; when tho marks aro removed, and wash after- wards with soap and water. '1'o whiten ivory, rub %tit h pumice powder and water to remove steins and dirt, and polish with soap anal whiting. Bleach by exposing to aun- shine under a glass shade. To remove dirt from baths, adher- ent dirt is readily removed with a rag soaked with paraffin oil. The remaining traces of oil may be elim- inated by washing with soap pow- der. To clean sewing machines, flood tho working parts with paraffin oil; this will dissolve the clogged oil, which may then be wiped away with a rag. Clear all oil holes with a a crochet' hook, 'I'o rotnovo grease stains from car- pets, add half a pint of ox gall to a pail of water; rub this in with a soft brush, and with clean, tepid water rinse off the lather which forms. To revive patent leather, rub with a linen rag soaked with olive oil or milk; polish with a dry, soft duster. Cream and linseed oil in equal parts are a good polish for patent leather hoots, '1'o polish gold jewellery, wash in son() and ater, rifts% well, and pol- ish lith jewweller's rouge and a soft brush or leather. Omit the soap and water if the jewellery contains pearls or opals. Never wash combs to clean them. Clean with a stiff brush, such as Is sold for the puurpose, and wipe with a soft cloth. The coarse teeth may bo cleaned by drawing them over a stretched string. 'i'o renovate cane -seated chairs. - Wash the ,'upper cane surface with soap and water, invert and flood the lower surface with hot water. Dry in the open air. This treatment tightens up the cane work. ABOUT WOMEN. The Terse Sayings of Some Great Men. 'I'he over Yeomanly draws us above. -Goethe. A woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she will. Women live only In the emotion that love gives-Iloussaye. There are no pleasures where worn en are not. -Marie Do Itomieu. Life is not long enough for a coq'tette to play all her tricks in. - Addison. Friendship between two women is always a plot against cac'it other. - Karr. Coquettes aro like hunters, who aro fond of hunting, but do not cat the game. Tho most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beau- tiful woman.-Macuulny. Women's sytnpathles give a tone, like the harp of Aeolus, to tho slightest hreath.-Mitchell. (lost bless all good women! To their soft hands and pitying hearts we must all come at last. There are e0 ugly women; there are only women who do not know how to look pretty.-llerryer, Neither education nor reason gives women h security against the in- fluence of example. -Johnson. One woman reads another wontan's character without the tedious trou- tale of deciphering. -Ben Jonson. Woman's love, like lichens on a rock, will still grow where even char- ity can find no soil to nurture 1t - self. -Bore°. There are only two good women in the world; enc of them is dead. and the other is not to be found. -Ger- man Proverb. 1f a woman Is young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dress- ed. -George Elliot. On all great occasions it Is almost always women who have given the strongest proofs of virtue and de• vot ion. -Mont hlon. No woman can bo handsome by the force of features alone, any more than she can be witty only by the help of speech. -Hughes. Discretion Is more necessary to women than eloquence, became) they have less trouble to speak well than to speak little. -Du Rose. Those who always speak well of worsen do not knew them enough; those who always speak pip of thein do not know them at all.-l'igault- Lehrun. The woman Who loves tis is only woman, but the *0013111 we love IR a celestial being, whose defects di.rapr pear under the prism through wht we see her.-U(rardin. ------♦ Though Icebergs sometimes' rise to a height of 20e feet above the sew level. eight -ninth% of their total height Is below the water. During of wine or oil of turpentine, ;.cal al- the ('halieneer Arctic expedition an low to dry of themselves. ie. -berg three miles in length Was '1'o clean ink -stained floor boards- tee, SELECTED RECIPES. Fried Potatoes. -Potatoes that aro to be fried raw should bo pared and kept in cold water for material huurs before being .Sioke.t. For French trite! potatoes for six people, pare half a (loeou potatoes of medium sl. o. Cut thous In two, lengthwise, and then separate each part into Uereo parts, cutting the length of the potato. Let theist statist in ice wetter for an hour or more. Drain and wipe theist dry, put fat or olive oil into the frying kettle to the depth of about four inches and have it smoking hot. Put the potatoes into the feting basket and lower this slowly into the hot fat, raising e, lit- tle w henover there is danger of the fat t ming to the top of the pan. Nearly all the stcaru will pass away in ul.out half a minute. Cook the potatoes for about ten minutes, be- ing careful not to let theist get too brown. Lift tiro basket from the hot fat and set on it plat.%. Dredge the potatoes with salt; then shako well and servo immediately. For thin fried potatoes, cut the vegetable in broad slices and no thicker than a wafer. Let these soak in cold wa- ter for twelve hours or more. 'This will remove much of the starch and coloring natter. I'ut the potatoes into fresh ice water an hour before they aro to be fried. Drain and dry them quickly, as they must be crisp when put in the hot fat. Cook about halt a pint at a time, keeping them in the fat for ten minutes; for they must be crisp throughout. Drain and dredge with salt. 'Thin fried potatoes %nay bo served either hot or coal. This is ono of the most satisfactory methods of cooking potatoes, as they can be served at any meal and aro always acceptable at a picnic or cold luncheon. Sweetpotatoes should bo bo(lo•1 for ono hour at..l then pared, cut, and cooked the sante as french tried potatoes. Servo at once. Macaroons -'These macaroons aro to be outdo the day they aro needed, if Possible. Take two and a, half cups of rolled oats, two teaspoonfuls of Batt, three even tablespoonfuls of butter, ono cup of sugar, threo eggs beaten separately, and a little van- illa. Cream the butter and sugar. add the yokes of tho eggs, then the oatmeal and baking powder. the vanilla, and lust the whites of the eggs. Drop in very small teaspoon- fuls on buttered tins three or four inches apart, and bake in a slow oven till brown. Ttomote front the tins while warm, Surprise Cakes -Rake any nice cake batter in small, rather deep round tins, and while warm cut a circle in the top of each and take out the in- side; fill with whipped cream, sweet- ened and flavored, put on top, and cover with boiled frosting, with choc- olate or vanilla in it. Cocoanut Crennt.-Put ono pound of loaf sugar and a gill of water into a saucepan, and place) over a slow tire. When the rrlgar is all dis- solved add a pinch of cream of tar- tar, boil up, skim if necessary, and continue boiling till the thermome- ter registers 235 degrees. if you have no therntoineeter, try the sugar In cold water. If it hardens suffi- ciently to make a soft ball between the fingers, it is done. Remove the pan from the fire, add theca ounces of cocoanut, and stir with a spoon until 1t becomes cloudy- looking. Pour on to a greased (fish or tin. Let this stet. then boil another pound of sugar In the same way, color it pink, and pour it on the top of tho white. When nearly cold Out up. English Fcnnonty.-The brisket of beef is used for I.re.strl beef when malted, and is served cold, or you can have it fresh. and serve it hot with vegetables. 'Iles flunk, more os- porinlly the boneless part, is stuffed and rolled and boiled. It can bo salt or fresh, as preferred. Another way is to keep It some days in brine with spices, and then cook it with vegeta- Idea, and servo cold. The (titch-bono is generally salted and boiled, the buttock is cut up into steaks for stewing, or for meat -pica or pud- dings. The shin is made int() a stew. and is very good if properly (looked. Mayonnaise 1)raysing.-Put the yolk of an egg into a bowl with a salt - spoon of salt, and heat until light. Add one-half teaspoonful of dry mus- tard and beat again. 'Then add olive oil. (trop by drop. until It ho - gine to thicken. Next a few drops of vinegar and the same amount of lemon Juice. Continue this process until the iressdnafias uwd up a little mare then a gill of be oil; add just a sprinkle of cayenne pepper. Crown ltonst-No %neat is so at- tractive for a spring dinner as a fine crown roast of lamb. In cooking it be sure and have the upright hones well covered with buttered paper, so they will not burn. and in serving put a shite frill on each. 'rhe center is oftcat filled with forcemeat balls, or with poaao, but for a change try using small new carrots cut into rubes, with turnips prepared in the Baine vete', and creamed quite stiffly; you can add a few peas to the mix- ture if you wish. Have both mint settee and brown gravy passed with this roust. USEFUL HINTS. '1'o purify sponges'. soak for twenty- four hours in b'ittcrrnilk and then wash well in tepid water. '1'o wash papier niache.-Use cold water without soap. Sprinkle with flour whilst wet, and polish with a pad of flannel. 'i'o remove mildew from linen, well soap and rub the spots with powder- ed whiting. )ibis% aril dry in the sun. Repeat If necessary. To take out stains in linen. -Linen stained with trine or fruit juice may be cleaned by holding the stained parts in polling milk. To (leans., gilt frames -Wipe s=-ftly with a sponge daneped with s;'t its