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BREADS.
Southern Spoon Breit;—One pint
of sweet milk, one-half cupful of
cornmeal, one-half teaspoonful of
Galt, one tablespoonful of butter,
one egg beaten light, one level
tablespoonful of baking powder,
Scald the milk in a double boiler,
Stir in the meal and let cook three
flours, then beat iri the other ingre-
dients, Note that it is one table-
spoonful of bakingpowder. Turn
into a baking dish suitable for the
table anti bale forty minutes,
Serve hot from the dish.'
Morning Bread -Pour one cup of
boiling water into ane cup of milk;;
when cool stir in one cake of corn.
pressed yeast dissolved into two
tablespoonfuls of cold water), one
teaspoonful of salt. Acle] flour to
make a soft dough; turn on knead-
ing board and knead 20 minutes, or
until • it will not cling to board. Set
to rise for three hours, knead thor-
oughly, .put in pans, and let rise
one hour. Bake forty-five minutes.
This will make three medium sized
loaves. The bread is splendid and
far less trouble than to bother with
bread at night.
• Bron Bread—Four cups of brown
sifted flour, two cups of sweet milk,
one cup of molasses, one teaspoon-
ful of soda, one teaspoonful of salt,
Steam two hours and bake one-half
hour. Dissolve soda in tablespoon
hot water, then add to the molasses
one cup of water and one of milk
can be used instead of two cups of
milk:
.A Bread Help—During cold wea-
ther many women who do their own
baking find it .difficult to get their
bread to raise without the sponge
getting chilled. With this recipe
make the sponge 10
p o'clock k
g and
the bread is done in time for sup-
per.. Take six medium sized pota-
toes, slice thin, and boil in two
quarts water; mash in water and
add one-half eupful of sugar, one-
half cupful of lard, 3 cents' worth
of compressed yeast or one-half
cupful of dry yeast in water; flour
enough to make a stiff batter. Set
on back of stove and stir from bot -
"tom every hour. In two hours will
--------.4airsfiedy to knead down. When
ready to make into loaves knead
well for twenty minutes. Make
free large loaves.
Madison Rolls.—These rolls are
well worth the little extra time re-
quired is making them. They can -
net be excelled in their delicious
feathery lightness and flavor. One
quart of flour, two egg yolks, one
teaspoon of salt, one-half pint of
liquid yeast, three heaping tea-
spoons of sugar, piece of butter size
of an egg, two large white pota-
toes, milk enough to make dough
as soft as can be handled. Boil
and mash potatoes, cream them into
the butter, sugar, and eggs. Work
this smooth, add gradually the
flour, then the yeast, and the milk
last, Be careful and do not get
the dough too soft. Knead until
light, put in a well greased crock,
and place in a warm oven to rise for
eight hours. When well risen turn
on a floured board and roll out an
inch thick. Cut with a medium
sized biscut tin. Put rolls in a
greased-pan•far enough apart to
not touch; let rise until light,
which will require one hour; bake
in a quick oven.
while boiling, stirring lightly, the
whites of the three eggs beaten to
a stiff froth. Flavor with vanilla.
Crumb the stale eake by rubbing
between the palms of the hands,
and place a generous layer on bot-
tom of the baked crust; on top of
this place a layer of sliced bananas,
with a sprinkling of sugar ever
them; then ever these layers pour
a portion of the prepared cream;
again place a layer of the cake
crumbs, a layer of bananas and
cream; continue in this manner en -
the crust is filled. Two layers
make an excellent cake. Serve
while fresh or the crust gets soft
and the bananas lose much of thole
flavor. This eako is delicious anal
may be served with or without
whipped eream,
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
To make potatoes white when
Booked, they should lie pared in
sold water for tee, or three hours,.
Stockings washed before wearing
will last in goad condition far lon-
ger than those not washed.
To keep milk from scorching, the
saucepan should be rinsed in eolcl
water before pouring in the milk.
alba habit of biting off thread
among young women damages good
teeth and is prolific of sore throats
and even blood poisoning.
If a saucepan be burnt rub with
a damp cloth dipped in fine ashes,
or a damp cloth dipped in coarse
salt will have the same effect.
If new boots won't polish rub
them over with a cut lemon, and
then leave until thoroughly dry.
Repeat this remedy once or twice
if necessary.
Give children their o tea early, so
that they may have a good hour's
play before going to bed, This play
will induce a healthy tiredness,
and sleep will soon follow.
Cold water seethes the pain of
any sudden inflammation of the ey.
Hot water will help to dull the pain,
and a weak solution of boric acid
is always good for the eye.
If you are distressed to find that
some careless person has scratched
the new white paint with a match,
try rubbing the darkened surface
with part of a cut lemon.
Glycerin as an application for
scalds is most useful and should be
applied immediately after an acci-
dent. Strips of linen or rag soak-
ed in glycerin should be gently laid
over the affected part.
Fat skimmed from the water in
which bacon or meat has been boiled
should he kept for frying or pas-
try. Superfluous fat from joints
may be melted—while sweet — and
kept for frying purposes.
To keep a skirt placket from tear-
ing out at the bottom sew on a
hook and eye at the extreme end
of the placket, fasten and then
crush flat. This is a simple but
very useful thing to know, as it
saves many a stitch,
Flannels may be washed by hav-
ing boiled soap suds poured over
them in a tub; in 20 minutes pour
off the suds and p .ur in clean boil-
ing water; pour off and on again
more boiling water; squeeze the
garments and stretch on line, press-
ing water out as it settles do.t
Women who are acklicte r
ousness should avoid -
SVC Ian.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL STUDY
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
- FEBRUARY 1a,
Lesson VIII. Elijah's Flight and
Return, 1 Icings 18.41 to 19.21
(Golden 'Test, lat. 40.81,
Verse 41. The Roared of abund-
ance --The ' Greek Old Testament
has here the suggestive words,
"the sound of the feet of the rates
storm.", All the evidence the pry.
phet had was the word of the Lorfl•
'Show thyself to Ahab, and I will
Bond rain:,' Faith was not difficult
after the miraculous oxhibitiou of
Jehovah's power in the sending of
fire and the blotting out of the
heathenish priesthood, So Elijan
urges the king to renew his ex-
hausted vitality with food and
drink, at his tent up an the slope of
the mountain, before the expected
downfall should make a journey to
Jezreel impracticable..
42, Elijah went up to the top of
Carmel—The rugged haunter of the
wildernesses forgot his own need of
refreshment in his eagerness to see
the hand of Jehovah disp.tayed still
farther. The ,attitude he assumed
was one of earnest prayer.
43. His servant --Tradition says
this was the widow of Zarephath's
son whom he snatched from the
jaws of death, The sea was of
course the Mediterranean from
which rain would naturally cwt ep
in. Six times the lad went up to
the point from which the great ex-
panse of water was clearly visible,
but each time saw nothing but what
had appeared in the brassy sky for
three weary years.
46. The hand of Jehovah was
on Elijah—That is, he was fillet;
with a divine impulse of rapturous
exultation, which carried him be-
fore the rapidly moving cha.rot of
Ahab even to the gates cf the city
Jezreel, where the king maintained
a palaee. Here he halted, £„
rhe
had no liking for cities and en ld
easily find shelter in the neighbo.-
ing Gilboa.
2. Jezebel—To her the 'events en
Carmel meant more than they pos-
sibly could to her husband, for her
devotion to the cult of her father,
who had been a high priest of the
Baal -worship in Tyre, amounted to
fanaticism. She could not sit idly
by and see her work of years oblit
crated, It was to be expected that
she would send just such a message
to the prime mover of the threat-
ened revolution, pronouncing upon
him a virtual sentence of death.
3. Beersheba—Though this was -a
town of Judah, about thirty miles
south of Hebron, yet Elijah did not
feel himself secure there, inas-
much as the king of Israel was in
alliance with the king of Judah at
this time. So he took himself, in
characteristic fashion, to the wil-
derness (4).
4. Juniper-tree=More properly
a species of'the broom plant, which
grows everywhere in the deserts of
the Holy Land. It afforded a poor
shelter, but sometimes the best
that could be had.
8. Went in the strength of that
food forty days -The journey to
Horeb, being not over 180 miles,
would require a much less time
than that. The number forty,
ever, is often taken to s
period of testing ..
of Moses
dou
pollutions by the long famine, At
would still be necessary in the div-
ine plea for the swords of Jehu
and Hamel to fall upon the Baal -
worshipping kings of Israel, and for
Blithe to carry the reformatory
work still farther, There, is ne re-
cord of Elijah's fulfilling all of this
mission, hut it came to be fulfilled,
in ono way and another, through
bis successor,
19. He with the twelfth—Elieha
was guiding but one yoke, the oth•
ere being in charge of servants,
Oast his mantle upon him—"It
meant the adoption of Blithe by
Elijah to be his spiritual sora; and
it meant a distinct eall to the pro-
phetic office,"
20 Let mo kiss my father and
my mother—An expression of the
tendernesscharacteristio of the
younger prophet, and not an act of
hesitation. Elijah, in the words,
Go back again, gives him full per
mission, disclaiming any other pur-
pose in throwing` upon him the
mantle than simply to summon him.
to a high duty.
21. Took the . , .oxen; and slew
them—A kind of burning of the
bridges behind him.
BIRD CHARMER .DECORATED.
French Government Pays Ironer to
Familiar Figure.
M. Henry Pol, the famous' bird-
eharmer of the Tuiileries, whom all
Paris knows gird admires, has been
decorated by the French Minister
of Agrieniture•,
His daily "receptions" of his
birds in the Tuilderies form one of
the most fascinating entertain-
ments in Paris, and are always
watched by hundreds of interestech
sightseers. M. Pol feeds his chirp-
ing flock regularly every morning,
to the delight of children and
grown-up strangers. Re has very
appropriately been called the Saint
Francis of the Tuilferies, and right-
ly so for like the Saint of Assist,
he has only to call the birds from
the tr
ec
sand they fJ
Y down to perch
on his h
and or his shoulders. He
gives then; the names which they.
remember, speaks to them, and
they listen. His charm over the
birds is really remarkable. Each
sparrow has its name, and pictur-
esque names, too, they are. They
range from the Christian names of
Jean and Jeanette to those of re-
volrtionairy-'celebrities. "There is
Phillippe, now," he will say. "1
have not seen him for several days.
Come here, Phillippe, you little ras-
cal; where have you been all this
time 1" And Phillippe, a very
plump, dark brown sparrow with a
sly look, would fly out of a crowd
of twenty or thirty watching for
crumbs on the gravel and perch. en
M. Pel's finger. His success is the
result of years' of effort, as he used
to pass through the garden on his
way to work. •
GOLD IN SCOTLAND. '
Believed Tliat it Can Be Mined in
Paying Quantities.
One scarcely thinks of Scotland
as an Eldorado or n. Klondike, yet
it is a matter of pride, witn the
poorer Scots es e ially the , '
river
A PORTUGUESE BULL FIGHT THE i1OOE N MAN-OF-WAR
TREY DO NOT ESE SPANISH
DflTAIOADS IN T1tJi RANG..
Other Aninsements of Citizens of
the World's Youngest
Republic,
The Portuguese is essentially a
pleasure -lover, He is not especial-
ly devoted to the theatre but takes
his pleasures much in the same way
as the Spaniard, although hie taste
in regard to bull -fights is by no
means so sanguinary. In the Span-
ish fight gore is the predominant
feature, and in the Portuguese it
is a display of elegant horseman-
ship—the bull is never kuled,
The Bull Ring at Lisbon is situ-
ated at the extreme end of the fam-
ous Aveneda di Liberdale, which
was the scene of the most severe
fighting between the Republican
and' Monarchist troops. On a fete
day, when the bull -fight is to take
place (and this is generally On a
Sunday),' the concourse of people is
enormous, and a stranger- might
wellimaginethat an infantile' re-
volution had broken out, for from
early morning until the time of the
bull -fight, at two or three in the af-
ternoon, there is a succession of
EXPLODING BOMBS,
shells, ;and rockets fired in open
spaces, and especially i t the vicin-
ity of the railway station and the
famous " Roly-Poly Square, the
stones of which are laid in such an
erratic ,fashion that they resemble
the waves of the sea, and which ev-
er way the tourist walks across
them he involuntarily raises his.
foot as though to step ever a, rise
in, the ground.
All over Lisbon, and especially
along the Aveneda, 'there is a cur-
ious fashion in pavements, and all
kinds of weird scrolls and twisting,.
twirling, ng,
and dragon -like figures
are made ine 1
t sse erect tiles—either
white upon black, or black upon
white.
On the days of the bull -fights the
victors are escorted through the.
streets. In gaily decorated carts
with their lady admirers in start-
ling costumes, and the constant
cracking of fireworks mingles with
the cheers of the crowd. A Portu
guese bull -fight is worth seeing,
and even the Humanitarian League
could find little to cavil at it. 'It is
certainly no more cruel thanfox-
hunting or stag -stalking. The bull-
fighters
ullfighters earn large salaries, and
many of them ane popular heroes.
Some of them are quite wealthy
men.
THE LIVING PICTURE CRAZE
has long ago seized upon the Port-
uguese in a manner which would
astonish the owners of picture pal-
aces.
From noon until the small hours
of the morning ,the. streets of Lisbon
and other large townsare a. perfect
pandemonium with the clanging of
bells and the shrieking of steam
blown organs at the doors of these
scores of picture palaces almost
side by side inthe main tho ou-,-
far
UNDER- G,tliiH Til OE THE
NEWEST BATTLES/DIPS. •
The Interior Coating Is l's'odrieed
.0 Coeua=
Melts of arca
everybody knows
not know
undergarments witiclr i
rem aocoalints
Weekly, Your most
ar is really a
t, and they weafromhead
orandBOILERS.side,themuch •of
doesthat
special underclothing
vital parts of anatomyhis:t
become too cold, and
equally vital portio be-
come Inc hot.
From stem to' stern,
other way .of saying
toe, your enormous
nought is enveloped
under-
garment planed im
its topcoat of arm
is its especial mackintosh,
waterproof, which
pro-
tection .from fire as
In the ordinary a'
pierced the side of
water world pour in
and possibly the ship
but this is obviated
backing to the armor.
sec-
recy is kept in .the
regarding the material
its arrangement.
"JACKETS" FOR
1l1Alt'VPLS` 0)1' TJR) l!LAGIITS
Vu1tua'eb glide for Miles Witdtoua,
a Single Wing gent.
On the horizon in tropical mune
tries there often appears a small
black point visible only to the PITA -
tined oye, 'Phe point increases In
size as it approaches. It is the
sailing bird par excellence, the vul-
ture, says the Strand. Magazine,
returning to its 'bollow in the rock
a dozen miles away,
A glider, who sails magnificently.
upon its outstretched wings, with-
out a beat, without the alighted de-
viation from its perfectly straight
track, it' thus traverses the space
from one horizon . to the other,
again becomes an imperceptible
point and disappears, leaving the
spectator marvelling at the sanplic-
ity with which nature solves. a pro-
blem of mechanics which appeared
impossible to man.
When one observes a sea eagle
perched upon a lofty cliff it may l c
remarked that in order to quit its
eyrie it waits until a gust of wind
arises, then it lets itself fall for-
ward with extended wings, gives a
beat or two as it tuxes, brings it.
self to face• the wind and thus
mounts without a wing beat hun-
dreds of yards high,
A gliding bird so seta its 'wings
that the air currents make an angle
with their plane. The wind thug
sustains its weight and gives it at
the same time a forward movement.
If its force is stronger than is no-
eessary to obtain these two effects
it produces a third tffect-the bird
mounts into space without a wing
beat. If the air should,. suddenly
become calm the bird would fall,
but the fall would be astonishingly-�
Blow. '
Prof. Drzewiecki has calculated
that a gliding bird, at a height of
twelve hundred yards, at tho moa
Meet when it commences to descend
with motionless wings, can by sett- �j
ng them at the most favorable an-
gl.e touch the ground at a horizon-
tal
distance of about fifteen miles
If the wind fall, large birds can
al-
ways, with a few wingbeats,
an altitude where they will
"
'
lino
wind which will . permit them til
.continue their journey "on t e
glide,"
The gusts and eddies of the 'wfshd
are of course great disturbers! of
night, and, few birds
attempt to o
s uggle with a tempest. Evethe
aronges fliers have not from this
point of view so much boldnests as
they generally get credit for. Thus
the stormy petrel is so named, not
because it braves thestorm'but be-
cause as soon as a storm threatens
it will often seek for refuge on IS
ship's rigging, and thus foretell the
tempest. And if the albatross loves
the stormy waves it is only because
it frequently alights up' on the 'wa-
ter, where itoften sleeps securely
to the rocking of the billows.
PARIS'. WOMAN .WOMAN LAWYER.
Receives Public Offer of Marriage
in Ci?owded Hill.
A curious experience was that of
Mlle. Helene Miropolsky, the prat-
e a