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FOREIGN DISlajeo,
German Coffee Celcse—See.
sponge with one-half pint of biped
warm one sake of compressed
yeast, dissolved, and enough flour
to make a sponge a little -thicker
than for head. Set in a warm
place to rise. When light add one-
half cup of eugar and three Well
beaten eggs and one teaspoon of
alb, Beat well and stir into it
enough flour to make e oft dough,
just stiff enough to allow handling,
Now with the hand knead into the
dough about three-fourths (alpha of
molted butter or butter and lard
and whee well kneaded set aside
tO rise. When it has doubled its
bulk tip out on a well floured
board, pat it out and sprinkle over
it one-half cupful •ef sultana rais-
ins, one cupful of chopped date,
and a few eurrants. Roll up and
put into a large cake pan with a
fuenel tyhich has been well greased
with butter and oyez: which a layer
of light browe sugar 'ha s been
strewn and a few shredded -.Al-
monds. Set aside uatil light or. un-
til almost double its bulk. Put into
a electorate oven and bake about
three-quarters of an hour, being
careful not to burn. An alumietun
pan is the hest, as it will keep the
bottom from burning. Grease the
top of the cake before setting into
the meth and take it from the pan
as soon as taken from the oven, e/s
the brown sugar will harden and
then it will be ienaessible to get its
out:.
For cinnamon rolls use half of
the amount Of above dough aftee
has risen for the second time. Roll
eut on a board until one-half inch
thick. Grease with melted butter
and sprinkle with about 'one-fourth
eupful of sugar, scant teaspoonful
of einnamon and a small cupful of
sultana raisins er currants. Roll up
and cut into lengths of about one
.and ene-half inches; lay in a shal-
low pan which has been treated as
the above for eoltee cake or just
a greased one, and in that case ice
with vanilla, icing on top of rolls.
Set aside until light and bake in
moderate okzen for about thirty min-
utes.' If brown sugar is used in
pan turn on to a plate as soon as
removed from the oven and in the
-other case turn out and ice the top
while hot with an icing made of con-
lectioner's sitgar and cream with a
little vanilla.
For breakfast twists use the other
pound a prunes, ilAid two cupfuls
of aold weber, and let stanel one
hour. Lei, siranzer until prunes are
soft, Remove stones obtain meat
from the *tenet), and ;Wel to prunes.
Add one and one-foueth 'cupfuls of
boiling water ano a ouptel of SW,
gar; also ether ciunamen to tatite.
Let simmer five minutes, Diesel's%
one tablespooeful of cornsterehin
three tableepoonfula of eold water,
add to prunes, and stir till thick,
about five minutes. Remove china
mon, turn mixture into mold, end
chill, Seem with whipped °ream.
CLEANING HELPS.
Irish Crochet.—Shave elle ounce
of white laundry soap into g bowl;
P001' over it, one quart of boiling
water and stir until diesolvecl. When
lukewarm, put the lase in. Let
soak three hours, swishing it about
oceasionally. At the end of the
time remove it, rinse it tivo or three
times in. *lean water, then equeeze
out the moisture, but never wring
Mee. Hang it in tne sun and, when
nearly dry, place a cloth wet with
raw starch on a soft ironing board;
put the right side of the lam) on this
and iron until perfectly dry. Pull
the little picots into shape with the
fingers. Lace treated like this in-
variably looks like new. Pendants
and buttone should he washed in
the saroo manner.
Beaded Waist.—Put two cupful
flour into one quart gasoline and
stir well; leave the waist in this
for a couple of hours; shake aud
stir around, but do not rub; give a
second bath of clear gasoline; put
a clean corset cover on a Rana or
pillow, stretch waist on this to dry;
then brush with'a soft brush botake
out any. remaining flour. You will
find your waist like -new and the
beads safe and bright. The seams
only need pressing,
To Olean Walipaper.—The follow-
ing is a mesh excellent and simple
method of cleaning wall paper and
can be used withcoax...loth in every
house: Take one quart of fiour and
stir in five cents' worth of am-
monia and enough water to Flake
a stiff dough; work and knead until
smooth, then wipe the paper with
this batch of dough, working it so
that a ilea n surface will be present-
ed with every stroke. Go over the
paper in this way and, your paper
will be clean.
SEASONABLE HINTS.
'all of the dough. Break off pieces
About the size of a large walnut and For Gardeners.—When . usin-g
roll on the board until about five eggs, break off the tops, empty con -
inches long and one-half ineh thick, tents and fill with soil. Plant in
;Livid and lay on greased pan one each shell a seed of eabbage, to:
.and one-half inches apart. Let mato, pansy or anything you want"
rise. When light grease and to "start early, and set in egg case
!sprinkle with the following: Take fillers in a warm, sunny window,
,one-half cupful of sugar and. olio- The long egg boxes one dozen car-
. .quarter cupful flour and one tea- ton) will set nicely in window sills,
:spoonful of oinnamou; mix these in- When Olant is large enough, break
,gredients and rub into them one shell and set in garden.
-teaspoonful of butter. Sprinkle the Overshoe Help. --How to dispose
asvists with this anti bake in mode', of overshoes in wet and muddy weas
.ate oven until a dolden brown. : ther is a "seriaus problem to a hoe -
For low eoffee sake take a -sisal- tess. If net removed before going
lose pan and roll dough one-half inch to the dressing rooin the carpets
thick, let rise and greeise end and rugs ,soon become damp and
;sprinkle over it the above mixture. dirty, over which surfaceetheelland-
Bake in a moderato oven about some gowns of ehe guests are later
-twenty minutes. An endless num- dragged, ancl often ruined. A
'be r of. good ',things may be made conemeient and inexpenseve 'way of
frain this dough and treated in clif- ,solving this problem is for the hos-
-ferent waye. , tess to bey at her ,grocery paper
Rolled thin ie may be used for bags large enough to hold a. pair
e .apple cake with apples sliced on it of overshoes. Oe of these is hen-
-and fi, few currants orinklecl ever <led to each guest, with a word of
it. For breakfase rolls it can't be explanation, by the melees she
saw ,. aurpassed. I bake them on Satueelay opens the door, There is then no Lor
ete111 reheat them for breakfast and excuse for any one wearing her bill s
for Sunday evening tea. I usually overshoes to the clressing. reoni. The tradi
use double the amount in the re- names may be written on the. bags by gi
-eipe.---Mrs. E, W. , before handing to each guest. This lying
Hungarian Goulash. — Into the method prevents the loss and mis- &gar°
. 'bottom of il, well battered eitsserola znating of overshoes. .. - nhildr
put one pound of round steak cut turnin
in time inch squares. Pere and HOUSEHOLD HINTS.. S '
ables,
gage
slice three medium potatoes, two When 'claiming certain kinds of prison
parsnips, one large carrot, and one •easteego almitted underwear, The
large oeion. Put them on top of eniong Othe•-things--it is a good which
meat, season- with salt and peppee, Plan -to has& beneath any large street
-cover with warm water; and cook, halo a piece of soft not,—and darn system
.cloeoly cevered, in a slow oven for aver and theough this until the net sliee088
'-throo and oneehalf hours, is concealed. The net eelds te. the new b
firemen of the claimed pieee. • These
DESSERTS,
Nut Pudding.—Two cupfuls of able odors, such as that of onions,
To tree the hands froln disagree- aeendtar
elourselevo teaspoonfuls of baking cod-liver - oll, etc.,- mix a little eugage
poevcier, and oho -half teaspoonful ground dry inustard with warm the cha
:salt, sifted etiogether. Than add water mid wash the.hancls well with No b
-one-half cuPful of granulated sta. lb. The simmers of scales, or vessels ea boo)
tacter, add one cupful of milk to two used in cooking, can be Ned fro») No b
4 -eggs well beaten. Stir this ieto the odors by the same method. in Mae
athoice, (Hitkoey nuts preferable.) of lukewarm water are the proper a hall 1
dew mixture and add one-third of a Ilreshes and brooms would last after 9
-cupful 01 melted butter, heat well. much longer if they had an occa- No ba
:Stir into this one and ette-helf cep- Alone' bath. Four tablespoonfuls attend
fills of nut meats 01 your elyn of household amme»ift in two quarts employe
Steam three hottrs. Servo with a proportions. Let the brushes or No bo
'sanna'aa Inilows i One tind one-ilali twigs stand in the water for about eusesene
.eupfuls ot sugar and three-fourthe half an hour; then rinse thorqugh-
,of a cupful of water, dissolved and. .13,, barber's
and hang thorn in a. cool place
, iboil to a. thread IlF1 fee icing, Have to ere,
"Here
-.reedy the well beaten yelks. of three The busy housewife ie often call- meial ;
;eggs. .Then ackt geadually the hot cd upon to Attoo<1 to a pinched fine throwin
!syrup over the eggs; stirring brisk'. gee -nail, either at lice own ov of law"
.11Y- Sob aside in lee Water to cool, some nsetober of hey hOmeoliolel, tonishm
tstirrieg constantly. Add ilattottieg She ehotild apply cold water, and ninched
tlitti.a. Before serving, on tho cause the injured finger to be bra teat it
Mine blend carefully Iwo eula ' uptight for aft leest, ball en hoim, seoe-e ag
' Of whiPPod cream- - 'net lettieg it ' Limp; dean ' for one ,vou ' re
i
'rune laidding.--Waeb rate half .socoltd. If this rule is Adhered to eseterete
I them will bo no unsightly bleak
!mark left en the luta afterwards).
A piece a wiro gauze makes ith
excelleet iron eleaner, 4 picate cf
Old gauze window blind answeee the
purpose admirable, Run the fron
o and fro aeimss it, end yoo will
o delighted end surprised at the
' result, The iron cleans perfeetly,
The dust item its aurface falle
threugh .the meehes a the Wire, in-
stead of being ground between the
iron and the oleanee as it is when
sandpaper is ueed.
When potatoes are inelined to go
black efter boiling, the follewing it
a good plan to Improve the eclat
and meke them floury: Pare them
our before tiookieg, and put
them into enough cold water to en-
tirely eover them. At the right
time put thetn into fresh oold water,
with some salt and a tablespoonful
of milk; let them come to the boil,
and Won Bimmer for the rest of the
time required for 400king.
If you wish your clothe)) to be
of a dazzling whiteness try this elleY
way of laundering them: Put them
to soak overnight in lukewarm
water to which has been added one
eup of soap jelly and one cup of
melted paraffin. In the morning
look over the clothes and rub any
soiled spots lightly with the hands.
Rev° ready a boiler of hot water
to which has been added a cup of
Melted paraffin and one of soap
jelly, put the clothes 111, and boil
twenty minutes; rinse through two
or three waters, and hang on the
line.
NURSING THE NEW CRAZE.
Fashionable Soeiety at London Has
Taken it Up.
The fashionable craze of the hour
in London, England, is nursing. A
good deal is being made of the fact
that "Nurse Griniston," who has
entered a. braining home at Bow in
the East -end of London. happens to
suth force that she reeled, totter-
ed, and then fell,
Backward she went, turning heels
over head, and making several com-
plete somersaults, but still holding
on to her precious burden. with both
hands. She, was soon landed in the
cold and swift -running waters at
the base of the eliff, and there she
NVIIS 00Mpei1ed eK, let go of 'the hat-
boxee, which floated down stream
be the Earl of Verulam's daughter.
As a matter of fact, the peerage
has supplied a good many recruits
to the profession of nursing in the
,last few years.
Lady Esher's first aid classes
have given an impetus to the move-
ment, while the practical interest
in nursing institutions which Queen
Alexandra has repeatedly shown is
also largely responsible for the
hold which the vocation has taken
on the minds of women who are
orominent socially. One of the best
known society mimes is Lady An-
nesley, who becarae deeply interest-
ed in hospital work and spent much
of her time in the wards of the City
of Dublin hospitals. But for her
marriage she would have adopted
nursing as a profession, and in the
end she founded a village hospital
in the grounds of her home in Coun-
ty Down,
Lady Hermorde Blackwood, a
marquis' daughter, and sister of
Lord Dufferin, is president of the
Irish Nursing Association, and
among earls' daughters who have
been to the fare in the nursing
movement are La,cly Katherine
Stanhope, Lady Rosalind North-
cote, Lady Griseldo Cheape, and
Lady Maud Keith -Falconer.
CHILDREN ON THE STREETS.
Bill te Prohibit Trading by Boys
and Girls.
d Shaftesbury has drafted a
ellich will prohibit any street
ng by boys under 17 years and
rls under 18. 'The idea under -
the bill is that street trading
ys the potential 'capacity of
en to become good citizens,
g the boys tilld girls who an -
in it into hopeless unemploy-
whose ultimate destiny is the
and the workhouse.
London te'ounty Council,
tried registration of juvenile
traders, has 'decided that the
of badges has not been a
, and it has just adopted
y -laws "to dose with the evil.
by-laws will, have the effect
ng .off the streets 10,000 boys
006 girls who are at present
d street trading. Among
uges aresthe fellowing
oy under 10 to be employed
mployed in streee trading,
oy or girl under 14, liable to
et beading before 0 a.m. or
p.m.
y ca. girl under 14, liable to
full time at school, to be
d for more than three and
bus's a day,
y or girl tteder 14 to lather
rs or do other work in a
shop.
I" ehouted the railway of -
"what do yon mean by
g these trunlcs about like
The porter gasped in m-
eta, and moveval travellers
themselves) to make sum
was reel Then the Official
ain : "Don't yon see that
making big dents it) this
plate rm !"
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL STUDY
INTERNA_TIONAL 'LESSON!
APRIL 23,
1
Lestion IV.—Jeaeh royale he l'ents
pie, 2 Rings 11. 21 to Lt,
Golden Text, I Chron, 29, O.
Chapter 11, verse 21, jelmash —
Popularly known as joash, Be
was the -eigths ruler of Judah, his
grandmother Athaliah's brief
usurpation being the only break in
the Davids line in the history of
jueleh. The revolution by which he
was placed on the throne is the
only one record ill Judah's long
history,. There, were more stirring
times m
1. Jelm—Re will ever be remem-
bered as the effective instrumeet in
bringing to an end the house of
Omri, accoreitate to the propheey of
Elijah, He wasewith. Bidkar, elese
to Ahab, and witeessed the offieial
murder of Naboth, and heard as
well the doom pronounced upon
Ahab by the prophet, As command-
ing officer in the army of Jehorana,
in the siege of Ramothgilead, Jean
was selected by the revolutionary
party under Blisha to succeed the
king who had been severely wound-
ed and removed to Jezreel. Flatt-
ening thither, he slew jehoram, as
well as Ahaziah, king of Judah,
who WAS present, and, riding up
to the palace, ordered the ruthlees
assassination of Jezebel, who had
survived her husband, Ahab, twelve
years. This bloodshed was followed
by the destruction of all the princes
of Ahab's line, field the slaughter
of the Baal worshipeys at Samaria.
jehu then reigned fer twenty-eight
years.
Beersheba—A village in the ex-
treme south of Israel, famous as the
residence of Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob.
2. Jehoash did that which was
right—After tlie death of Jehoiacia,
who for some years after the coro-
nation continued as guardian for
the young king, Jehoash is said. by
the chronicler (13 (throe. 24) to have
departed soinesvhat from the way
in whith he had been instructed at
oaonmerpireattee,f rtohme at, eereollitgliooints
pwoaisntnootf
view, for Jehoash still permitted
the high places (hilltop sanctuaries
of Baal), and leniently winked at
the heathen sacrifices of the people
(3).
4. Al/ the me/ley—There were
three sources from which this was
drawn : (1) current coin; (2) assess-
ments, for the redemption of per-
sonal vows (see Lev. 97, 2); (3) free-
will offerings in coin. According
to 2 Chron, 24, the principal soarce
of revenue was the half -shekel ap-
pointed by Moses "to be paid by
every Israelite for the maintenance
of the tabernacle tExod. 30. 11-15),
5. Every man from his ac-
quaintance --The priests were in
addition (according to the Chroni-
cles) to raise a personal subscrip-
tion from araong their friends
throughout the country, each priest
having jurisdiction among certain
of his own kin.
Repair the breaches of the house
'—Jehoash had been brought up sec-
retly in a part of the temple, and
it was natural for him to wish to
restore its beauty and neglected
worship. Under Athaliah the see -
red treasures had been transport-
ed to the house of .Baal, and both
the Walls and the foundations of
the temple were sadly in need of re-
construction. -
7. Jehoash called for Jehoiada—
The plans of the boy king had mis-
carried because of the shiftlessness
ol bbe ptiests. But now he had magi
DER111A,N SAVINGS.
People -Of the Rethelland •Pet bY
Doe Billien Dollars a Yeats
When the Cierreall Reichsteg
few weeks ego (discussed the intros
duetion of foreign securities in that
eountry the ee wee general surprise
at the &Mount of Getman capital
istoerlieelginlwiezpsohrown to be invested in
But the Secrets*, of the Interior,
Dr. Delbrueek, eteted that Dee peo-
ple of Germany are saving (atom
year about $1,000,000,000, and that
aecesearily .e Mtge pert of this
mount must go abroad to find pro-
fitable investment. These savings
go into other Avenues beeides the
mere pule:Matte of setheities.
In 1906, according to a writer in
Hoody'e Mageoiets, German invest-
ment in foreign eonntries, outside
of holdings of seettrities, amounted
to about 9,225 millions of marks
(2,201.0 millioes of doilars), in which
the United States and Canada were
represented by at least 2,750 mil-
lions of marks ($558,300,000).
The holdings of foreign securities
were estimated at more than sixteen
billions of marks or some millions
less than four billions of dollars.
The real aggregate of all invest-
ments, however, is higher still than
these figures express, as not all
German participation in cominercial
or financial enterprises in foreign
ecoolitinntteies could be taken into acs
Scarcely anywhere in the world
is a large issue brought out without
the German capitalists being invited
to participate. Only a short time
ago a, large Hungarian loan was
placed in Germany and oversub-
scribed for several times, a Turkish
bond issue of large- amount was
willingly taken, and just when "the
emigration of German eapital,"- as
they used to eall it over there, was
being discussed in connection with
the proposed listing of St. Paul
shares on the Berlin exchange
papers reminded the banks that
they had to be in readiness for the
Chilean loan soon eo be expected.
The large German banks have
been repeatedly ulamed for their
assisting this emigration of capi-
tal, and the present situation, os-
tensibly directed against listing of
some American papers, but really
aimed at not keeping available
funds at home, again is an attack
on -the banks.
Wily NEGROES ARE BLACK.
--
Food Determines Color, Says a Ger-
man Professor.
What makes the Caucasian white,
the negro black and the Indian red?
One explanation is that the black
,races are made so as a result of
coritinuous exposure to sunlight,
but this theory does not seem to
hold goixl throughout.
A German professor, Dr. A. Berg-
feld, has just written a book in
which lie attempts to prove that it
is all a matter of feeding. He points
out that in the animal and insect
world color is often determined by
fetid, and he argues by chemical
process the same results are shown
in the different human races.
He thinks that the original man
was black, as his principal diet
must have been vegetarian. Fruit
and vegetables contaiu manganates
which ally themselves with iron,
making' a dark brown combination.
Dr. Bergfeld says that /legatees who
add meat and milk to their vege-
table fare are never as dark as those
who only eat vegetables,
Indians are red because they
have absorbed for generations be -
cum, the red substance in t
of animals killed for foo
NEWS FROM SUNSET COAST
Tut WESTERN PEOPLE
ARE DOING,
'Progress of the Greet West Tel4
In a Few Pointed
Item%
Ohilliwack is building a 817,000
city hall.
Enderby, 13, O., will be lighted by
tungsten Street lamps,
Phoenix, 13, C. is to have a new
and .firet-elees skating rink,
Pottery elay is being ehipped
from Hyuquot Seund ets Victoria.
Revelstoke has tlais year etruck
a tax rate of twenty-tive
The 0. N. P. Rs has established
an emergeney, hospital at Hope.
The Victoria hotel in Cielgary has
been sold for $85,000 cash.
Edmonton is to have a new sehool
building at a cost of $14,492.
Civic asseesments Kambeeps
increased by $800 during 1910.
VaneetlYer'S eivic budget for the
present year totals $3,000 000,
A' Mood, oil and paint factory is
being erecteetaf littdieine Hate
. For a month this wintaii there
Was iso fresh nieat at Fort Georgn.
The village of Eason, Alba., *0
plying ap-
plying for ineorporation as a town.
The handsome new eentral school
opened,
Sturgeon
has been formally
Sturgeon is selling for 15 cents
per pouriel in the New Westminster
markets.
The City Connell of North Van-
eouver has clealateel against com-
pulsory vaccinatioe.
Seven Slays were recently de-
ported from Rossland under the re-
gulations of the Immigration Act.
A. Endersby, of Rossland, be the
biggest barn in British Columbia,
the total length being 254 feet.
"White fish from. the state of
Washington are to be placed in
Vancouver lakes during the com-
ing summer.
A patrol of Girl Scouts, a sister
organizetion of the Boy Scouts,
was organized in Trail, B. C., re-
cently. s
The Kootenay Jant Company at
Nelson, has sold its factory to the
Doulchobors and will move to the
coast,
It is a common occurrence, says
a Calgavy paper, for men to ask
for permits to beild half a doben
houses at $3,000.
So many gophers are ravaging the
Okotoks district that a general kil-
ling clay -will probably have to be
aPktinttneod-less than 400 teams pass-
ed him within six days in the Peace
river district is the statement of E.
F. Cote, D.L.S. 31e says the influx
into that portion of Alberta is al-
most beyond belief.
Robert Evans has sold 97 ares
of land adpoinieg Oroville for $90,-
000. The land will be cut up Mt*
several fruit ferinE.
Fur traders north of the Ses-
katchewan between Edmonton and
Lloydminster report, the fur catch
fall,
Thepoor, owing, to the heavy snow -
The new- sanitarium at Baltimore
has been opened, It contains more
than 80 bederionas and the dining -
room will seat more than 100 peos
ple.
Many settlees from the United
States are taking ep land in the
San Joseph valley, on the west side
of the northern end of Vancouver
The new Edson -Grande Prairie
road, Manitoba, which joins at
he
Sturgeon Lake with the old trail
d. from Lesser Slave Lake, was lately
opened..
' Three young women were recently
induced by an advertisement to
come to Canada on the promise of
immediate employment at Regina,
but they were left stranded in Win-
nipeg, without nseeey and without
friends.
A party of nine Ashcroft dis-
trict Iedians has left for Australia
under engagement to a Melbourne
amusement enterprise on Wild "West
lines.
This summer $140,000 will be
spent by the C. N. R. in extending
trackage and erecting caditions to
the toundhoese and freight sheds in
Edmonton,
grown to full maturity. and he pro- blood
ceedecl•to take the whole matter out
of the hands of those who had done
nothing, for it pained him to see
the house of God falling iato such
rank decay.
9-12. How Jelmeeh got together
the money neoessary to repair the
teinple, and how he disposed of it.
The priest was ordered to place a,
chestat the entrance to the temple,
beide the altar Of burnt offering
Which occupied a commending place
in the midst .of the outer court.
Whenever the chest was filled the
contvibutions were gathered into
bags and carried into the palace
and there coented by the high
priest and th•e king's private sec-
retary. The money was then care-
fully weighed out to the architects,
Wed by them paid to those who weee
to do the", work and provide the ma-
terial.
13. The vessels necessary for the
proper oonclueting of the sacrifices
of the temple were not made with
Dile money, it being devoteel ex-
clusivety to the repairing of the
fabric of the house. But theee
mast have, been a sueplus of some
sort, for Chrthielee tells us (2
Ohreq. 24, 10 that "of the rest
were made vessels for the houee of
the Lord."
, 16. Reekthed not with the men—
There were ne • pecifications, the
laborers and overseers being ef the
ideal sort that can be trusted to
deal squarely.
18. ' Trespass -offerings — This
money, and that .reeeived for geilt
(sie) offerings (Lev, 6. 1-6), helooged
to the priests, being ,paid to them,
ticeording to the Sewall. regulatioe,
for fines, and, Ptiseibly foe the put -
chase of sacrificee.
Mongols are yellow because they
descend from dark fettit eating rac-
es who penetrated into the Plains
of Asia, became shepherds and liv-
ed to a great extent on milk, which
contains chlorine and bas a bleach-
ing effect,
The Caucasians were another
blanch svho became still whiter
through acbc1Mg salt to their dietary.
Common salt is a strong chloride,
and is a poweeful 'agent in bleach-
ing the skin. The effect, he declares,
can be seen on negro children who
have been brought up on a white
dietary. They are never as black
as their kindred who have not
abandoned vegetarianism.
•
FACT AND FANCY,
Whim a man is taken in, he is put
out. .
A single Hoaduras mahogany tree
will sometimes realize $11,000 worth
of boards,
Like a savage, the aeerage mae
on having words with his wife,
rnshes 'straightway for his club.
Egyptian murnenies sometimes
have teeth quiee cleverly filled with
The reason rich men have so
many friends is because they are
capital fellows.
Banana juice makes a very fine
indelible ink.
Ile who does what be can may
soon be able to do what he would.
Occasionally a girl lets her par-
ents select a 'husband for her so
that she tvill have some oleo bo
blame or IL
WHY TEACHER REFRAINED.
Teacher—"Why were you not at
school yesterday ?"
,Willie—"It was my birthday."
Tevaber—"But 1 clon't stay home
from school On znY birthday.".
Willie --"Well, I (mess' you've got
used to 'am."
Succest is a target with a mighty
small bull's eye.
"Well, here I am," anuounced
the fashtorteble physician isi his
breezy way. , "And now what do
you thiek is the matter with you ?"
"Doctor, 1 hardly know," murmur-
ed the fashienable patient, "What
is now?
11
"Oh, jelinnie, Jobenie," said his
aunt, reproachfelly, "why is it you
hover remember te soy 'Titanic
you' 1'' "/ expect it's "eause. I
don't get things give» to nie often
enough foe practice," answered the
yowls diplomat, hepettilly eyeieg a
box of ehocolatee,
DIE GREEN DEMON Of FRANC
WAR IN AteglUtlA 12 RE
SIRLE FOlt
Waging a War Aptilet is Tearib19.
Drink That Smola PeoPle
Public men 11111-ivrauees ,ere me
preseet ems/seed in a desperate
dstermuogngl,e4erbi:ientbtoh,at terrible green
What one may elencat -describe eze
a national institution in Frames is
the "apertif hour," ow hour,,
usually about Ave o'elock ixt the
afternoon, when mese people leave
tnolef4iir:"oIalrip'ket"111:1tenifdg"r' eite:k eam agjs1;steyo fc'sfao0rb::1110°3-f
appetiser in preparation for din-
thhz,4te.he slow green poison that
drives its patrons to the made
Someone has said that "absin-
this'll" costs France an army corps
every year, and , te certainly,
among the yeneng conseripts for the
army that the effects of the dewily,
liquor are first felt.
MANY RECRUITS ADDICTED.
Most of the recruits are addicted
mere or less to the absinthe habit)
before 'they are called op to serve
the colors, and -it has been found
that in the district); "Where absinthe
is most popular as many ae-50, per
cent. of the young men called en
are unfit and have to be rejected. -
An army officer has declared that
in the garrisons are innumerable
raen physically umfit, the hoeNtale
are filled with invalid soldiers,
while every prison has an alarmieg
proportion of insubordinates,
Curiously enough, it was threugh
the army that absinthe was first
troduceel into France. During the
Algerian War that came to a close
about 1847, the troops suffered
severely from malaria, and the
army physicians urged the soldiers
to take a little absinthe, as a eafe-
guard against the fever.
The he
diers liked the flavor of thes newol d -
drink, and continued to consume
large quantities even after their
return to France.
The vogue of the new drink was
spread, and very soon the manu-
facture of absinthe betaine a flour-
ishing inelustry. The liquor is pre- .
pared by pounding together the
leaves of wormwood and some other
herbs, and afterwards soaking them ,
in alcohol for about a week. When
distilled, this compound gives the
emerald -colored liquor that is the
cause of so much misery in Femme.
HOW IT IS DRANK.
Some people are said to ,drink
the green liquor neat, but it is
.thearly always diluted with water.
The water is added very elowly in
order to avoid a chemical reaction
that would make the tumbler as
hot as the globe of an electric lamp.
The usual way is to place on the
top of the tumbler containing the
absinthe a -saucer with a small hole
in the bottom. This hole having
been covered with a lump of sugar,
the water is poured into the saus
cer and allowed to filter slowly
through and drip down amongst the
absinthe. Sometimes the lump of
sugar is held over the tumbler itt a.
perforated teaspoon and the water
is slo-wlypoured over it.
The mixture produces a, greyish,
elondy liquid. Public opinion in
France against absinthe has become
so etrong that the manufacturers
ha -ye introduced a new kind in
which this cloudy appearance le
intensified to make the liquor look
like milk, so that the habitue inay
drink it without reproach.
When taken ie excess abeinthe
quickly deranges the digestive or..
gans and destroys the appetite. An
unappeasable thirst takes posses-
sion of the victim, The next stage
produces delusions and unbearable
mental depressioe, and, finally,
lunacy.
HORRIBLE DREAMS.
Equally horrible is the fate of ehe
man who avoids orgies .and drinks
his absinthe in smaller but regular
doses. His face gradually becomes
sallow and 'careworn, anti his hair
begins to drop off. Next come mus-
cular quiverings, especially of the
arms and shoulders. Los of brain,
power follows, and he is haunted
by horrible dreams awe delueions.
Gradeally paralysis overtalces eiin
and lands him in ,a, merciful grave.
Absinthe has been prohibieed
Switzerland and Belgium, and it
is probable that France will soon
fboor the example of these neigh -
Dr. Saleeby says that at present
no .absiuthe worth mentioning is
tonsumed in the 13ritish Isles, but
it is believed that the manefaceurs
ers,. having already lost., two of
their markets and being it immin-
ent danger of losing another, will
endeavor to creftee a demand for
their produce in Great, Britain. "If
there be anything in this expecte-
on," he says, 'which amens pee -
1 bable enough, it is certainly to be
I desired thee public opinion should
1 ghl,, well inforxned as to
the nature of this poison. and ite,
known contequenece," Peasaonta
Weekly.
Blessed is the absentaffilnelettemart
wee foegets the ingiedisee.'etheee
inake htisii, for he slual eeffet fewer
disappointments.