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THE SUNNY SCHOOL STUDY
INTERNAMNAL LESSON,
4111E 4.
Lesson X. --Israel's penitence and
God's pardon, Hosea 14,
Golden Text, Neb. 9, 17.
O11 CREI'1'1 ON T11E EARN,
Ita Uses lieve Seen Largely l;xten..I
del by a Series of Experiments
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cups of minced chicken, one cup from fifteen to twenty minutes in Verse L Return unto Jehovah
bread crumbs, throe well'beeten vett' little watar. ,thy God—liosee has followed Antos
eggs, one tablespoonful of sherry 'Onions, peel under water; boil in chef ii
three-quarters of an hour to an ai rg that iple beca dilate
wine,. tiro; grates of nutmeg, one- q ter awaits his
hour, people because faith half teaspoonful of salt, dash each their iniquity, But now, with faith
of :cayenne and paprika, enc table- 'and )a tteatime' h e to s to them
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THINGS WORTH KNOWING, 1 , r in h m
spoonful each of cream and melted with an appeal to repent and a
butter, into pear-shaped babe; dip
these into beaten egg and bread
crumbs and fry to a golden brown.
These "are delicious.
Pinehppie Dessert.—One. pint of
shredded pineapple,• Boil with gee -
half ounce' of gelatin which has
been dissolved in just enough cold
water to dissolve at. When cooled,
• but not fully farmed, stir in the
stiffly beaten whites of three eggs
•and fold in lightly enc-balf pint of
Lemon juice rubbed on the lands promise of God'e forgzv .ig mercy•
will easily and effectually remove His doctrine of repentance, there -
striker. are, is as gracious as it is true.
Tu cureearache, wrap a litle 13o realizes lu.,w ]ow his nation has
black popper in cotton,. moisten it fallen in the guilt and shame of its
with sweet oil and insert it in the degeneraay, Litt he knows there.
oar. is hope in a God we°. is waiting to
Stains may be removed from tin- hear the cry and satisfy the hunger
ware by scouring' with .common of the returning prodigal, •
soda then washing thoroughly and 2. Take with you words —
drying, True repentance is articulate. It
Lemons hardened from. longi will not keep silent and 'so give no
whipped -cream; Fleur into a mold "standing may be made usable by token of its sincerity, but will speak
.and sat on ice to. harden, - If can-
ned pineapple is used no sugar will
be required. Servo with plain
•cream.
covering a few moments with boil -
beg water,
It is said that a piece of sal am-
monia° will remove a wart if damp-.
•Ouban Dish,—Peel and slice four a ened and rubbed on:- the wart sev-
fine Bermuda onions into cold oral nights in succession.
When preparing a leg of lamb for
roasting, pin on thin slices of ba-
con with whole cloves and the fla-
vor of the meat will be fine.
Always warm the baby's bed with
*water! Leave them there half an
:hour, take :them out and dry by
laying them upon one cloth, cov-
ering with another. Have ready
en a saucepan a dozen fine tomatoes
peeled and sliced thin. Heat slowly.; hot water bottle before putting
while you fry the onions'in butter him to rest for the night. 11 be is
restless this will make him sleep.
Having several pairs of shoes and
never wearing the same pair more
than one or two clays at a time will
rest the leather and make it last
better.
Boiled potatoes should be served
to a light brown. When thetoma-
toes are hot and oft season with
salt, sugar, and an even teaspoon-
ful of paprika. Add four okra pods
sliced "thin. Bring to a boil, add
the fried anions, and cook fast for
fifteen minutes. Line a platter
with elites of toast, well buttered, as soon as they are cooked. To ance with Egypt. The prophets re-
forth in praise and pure worship.
Hosea saw that the entire manner
in which Israel turned to God was
altogether -artificial and lacking' in
earnestness. Her burnt -offerings
were Cheaply rendered. They could
in no wise satisfy an offended God.
Heed nonethem. of tl em. What he
desired was a "clean worship that
expressed itself in heart -wrung
words—bullocks of the lips. Peni-
tont confessions, mows, abhorrence
of sin—these,Jehovah will gladly ao-
cept as good.
3. Assyria shall not save us --
There
There. woo two pulitical parties in
Israel in these latter days of .the
kingdom. One oourted the help
of • Assyria, the other favored re-
sistanne of Assyria through allir
orm c coni roc o.t ins
Made in tlio outlook of the farmer
in these fow years, has done mueli
to revolutionize things on the farm.
The growing scarcity of lumber
and As consequent rise in price, has
gradually caused that ooiumod'iy
to assume the general uepoet of a
luxury, So much lumber is used on
the farm for buildings and fences
that its extremely high price has
made it almost prohibitive to the
average farmer unless he has an
extra large sum of money to spend
on outlay. Wire fencing partially
solved the problem, but real relief
did not come until concrete„ was
proven by actual tests to be not
only practicable, but t,o possess
many advantages over wood as a
building material.
The uses to which concrete can
be put are practically without limit,
more particularly on the farm. Al -
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by a medical health officer, with the
result that it is traeed back to its
cause and this cause removed,
1'he farmer must be his own me-
dical health ollieer, He meat look
to the causes to be found on his own
farm. ,
fa n. .A regi deal 's now v of
b
l i : t being
d•.,no alone then bees, and in many
places, particularly in the West, it
hoe bee.a found that a number of
the causes of meow; can be avoid-
ed by the use of concrete.
. cumnion sense view of the situ-
ation shows that this simply-h
led'material is peculiarly well adap-
ted to measurer of sanitation and in
preventing germs from 'spreading.
Possibly the place visited more .of-
ten`than any other by the farmer A
his well. If it is so situated that
unheultltfu1 ground atraams can
leak into the drinxing water, there
is every possibility' of this nnhealth-
fulness being communicated to the
farmer and •his family by the most
direct route.; Concrete has done
much to remedy this. of a well is
built of eonerete—a solid cylinder
set into the ground—it is impossible
for such leakage to occur, In the
same way a concrete dairy provides
but slim acoommooation for disease
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and poor the "olla" over tem, make them drier drain off the water garded .both theseschemes as lis -
Set in the oven for threeminutes quickly, shake them in a strong loyalty to the God of Israel, and
to 'soak the toast and serve.
Genes Dish. -Stew one dozen to-
matoes until soft, add a little sugar,
salt, and cayenne. Put through
a Colander, return to fire. In a
frying pan heat three large table -
.
spoonfuls of butter, break into it
rapidly six eggs, . stirring' all the
time. As soon as eggs are broken
and mixed add the tomatoes, then
add quickly three tablespoonful* of
grated Parmesan cheese. Eat with
brown bread.
PINEAPPLE.
Drain the slices of pineapple from
the syrup in the can. Dip the slices,
one at a time, in fritter•r batter and
t• "fly in deep fat to a delicate amber
belt. Drain on soft paper, Serve It is seldom necessary to eat half daughters of this wicked genera -
at once with a hot sauce made of 1 a chicken in the middle of the night, tion. They had grown up in ig-
the syrup from the can or with norance of the true God, and were
not his. But he intends, neverthe-
less, to seek them out, to win them
back, and prove to them—father-
less as they are—that in him is
mercy.
4. I will love them freely—The
love. of Jehovah is nothing that can
be purchased. ' It is as spontaneous
as it is undeserved. It asks no sac-
rifices
acrifices except those of a contrite
heart, and where that is found there
in a potency in the love of God
which makes all things new. It is
ready to forgive gratuitously, and
powerful to heal absolutely, all our
baokslidipg. So it removes the
stain, as well as the guilt, of our
sin. Compare Rom. 3. 24; 8. 32;
Rev. 21. 6; 22..17.
5. The dew—Scarcity of rain often
made the land depend upon the
dew. So thePsalmistspeaks of
the dews of Hermon. In the long
droughts of summer there would be
no living in Palestine without this
gracious provision. Hermon itself
is snow -Capped in summer, and the
moist warm wind from the Mediter-
ranean, coming in contact with the
chilled air about the snowy top,
results in a drenching dew. What a
picture of the gentle pity of God.
Lebanon -Here,. as often in the
Old Testament, not the entire range
now knows as Lebanon is meant,
but Hermon, the loftiest and south-
ernmost summit. From almost
every quarter of Galilee it is vis-
ible. "You cannot lift your eyes
from any spot of northern Israel
without resting them upon the vast
mountain. From the unhealthy
jungles of the. upper Jordan, the
pilgrim lifts his heart to the cool
hill air above, to the ever -green
cedars and firs, to' the streams and
waterfalls that drop like silver
chains off the great breastplate of
snow." Compare..Isaiah 60. 13.
6. is beauty . ,"as the olive-
tree—A promise of national pros-
perity and plenty.
7. They shall revive—Under the
nurturing influences . of the divine
mercy, as expressed by the dew, and
the protection of his shadow, Israel
is to blossom 'forth in unwonted
beauty, fragrance, and fertility.
8. Ephraim—Representing the
people of Israel. The verse has
many difficulties, owing to the eon -
fusion resulting from the use of so
many undefined pronouns. This
oanfusion is characteristic of
Hosea's style, Here, it cannot cer-
tainly be determined which is speak-
ing, Jehovah or E,pht'aim, or both.
A good explanation makes the verse
a dialogue betweeen the two, Ephs
raim annotinces his intention to
have done with idols. Jehovah re*
draught of air, and do not put back'
the lid of pot.
Any dish that has held dough,
milk, cream or eggs should be rins-
ed in cold water before being placed
in hot water, as hot water tends to
cook such things ,and make them
more difficult to remove.
To keep the feet dry and warm
and increase the durability of boots
and shoes, it is. bust to have the.
soles perfectly dry, and then apply
linseed • oil an the outside of them'
till they will absorb no more.
The best way to keep a bed from
becoming damp if left for a week
or two, is to leave a blanket on the
top of the bed after it is made.
Take the blanket off before using,
and then you will find it quite safe.
accorclingly frowned upon foreign
entanglements of every . sort, whe-
ther they meant protection from
the powerful Assyrian, or the re-
enforcement of Egypt's swift hors-
es (cavalry). The foreign idols, also,
wrought by theirown hands, were I
equally tobe eschewed as an of -1
Tense to God and as a worthless
superfluity. They had Jehovah,
and he was more than all their i
allies and made unnecessary their
hideous idolatries.
The fatherless—This is a touch of
that personal history which colors)
so much of Hosea's prophecy. Like
his own children -one of whom ire
called Unloved (one who knew not
the pity which a father has for his
children)—so were the sons and
powdered sugar.
Sauoe for 1 Titters—Put the syrup
but there, are times when a plain
biscuit and a glass of water will
from the can of pineapples and give the relief to an exhausted body
three-fourths of a cup of sugar which will bring soothing rest to
over the fire to boil; mix a level the disturbed mind.
teaspoonful of arrowroot to a Wash and starch your curtains in
smooth, thin consistency, with three the usual way. Pin down on the
or four tablespoonfuls of cold lawn with,toothpicks, stretching in
water; stir the arrowroot in boil-
ing syrup 'and les simmer five or
six minutes. When ready to serve
add one-fourth of a teaspoonful of
salt, a tablespoonful of lemon
juice, and Kirsch, claret, or rum
to taste. Serveas an entree with
xoast meat.
Pineapple Fritters. Batter' for
.Pineapple Fritters Boat one egg,
.add one-half cup of milk, and gra-
dually stir into une eup of sifted
floor, sifted again with one level
teaspoonful and a half each of bak-
ing powder and sugar and one-
-fourth teaspoonful of salt.
Golden.Gustard.—To each pint of
milk allow two eggs, one-fourth
cupful' of sugar, or more if desired
very sweet. Whip •the; sugar with
the eggs until sugar is disselvod.
Pour this into the milk and 'pour
over a half cupful of stale cake
crumbs that •have been dried and
rolled fine. Pour into fancy molds
or soups and setin a pan of waren
water which comes to one-third of
the top of the cups. Bake in a mod-
erate ovem,until the.ousterds are
firm. Remove from the cups by
slipping a thin bladed knife about
the edges of custards. Pour some
sweetened pineapple: juice over each
one and top with a spoonful of
whipped cream.
Pineapple Trifle.—Boil two-thirds
cupful of sugar and one pint can of
grated pineapple until a - good
syrup. Dissolve one-half package
of gelatin hi one-half pint of boil-
ing water, Add pineapple .pyrop,
juice ,of an orange, and let set,
'When well set add one-half cupful
-whipped cream and beat until well
:mixed, This amount will serve
oiglrt persona, and in carrying out
a color scheme of red or green a
decoration of maraschino cherries
could be used,
TIME FOR COOKING.
' Beets, from enc hour to four
"hours. Wash end cut off tops.
Cabbage, wash And soak a few
Minutes in salt water to remove
any insects; boil' for twenty min-
utes.
Carrots, serape, boil from thirty
to forty-five minutes.
Turnips, pare, boil in water to
which a tableepoon£ul of sugar has
beta, added; if large, slice.
to position as you proceed. You
will find. they will look as good as
new and the process much easier
and quicker than with frames.
White ostrich feathers can be
cleaned by using gasoline and flour.
Stir in enough flour to make a thin
white paste. Thoroughly shake the
feather in this. ' Dry by waving in
the sunshine and ' air. The flour
will shake out, leaving your fea-
ther white, oft, and beautiful.
If there is a strong wind and the
doctor has left orders that a window
in the sick room must be kept open
all night, nail a piece of muslin
over the aperture. This will pre-
vent draughts, and at the same time
not obstruct the ventilation. The
material should be coarse.
Instead of a hot-water bag, use
a bag of hot salt. Put the salt in
a pie plate and heat it in the oven,
then put it into a small bag or, in
ycaseof emergency tie it loosely in a
thin clothand lay it over the af-
flicted part. Many prefer a hot salt
bag to a hot water bag. The salt.
may be reheated.
Savo old kid gloves for ironing
day. Sew a pad made from the left
glove on to the palm of `the right'
one, and you will find your hand is
saved from becoming blistereii while
the fingers and the back of, the hand
will be protected from the scorch-
ing heat, - which is so damaging to
the skin.
OVERLOOKED.
A schoolmaster had been severely
correcting a boy, and finished by
saying "Now, sit down` and write
a letter to your parents, telling
them how much you are taught
here, and how little you profit there-
from. I should be ashamed to tell
them." The boy cried at first, and
then wrote: "Dear Father, --I am
very stupid, though there is more
to be learnt hero than anywhere..
Twice two's four, four boys go to
one bed,"'six beds make one attic,
and fear attics made one well -ven-
tilated and well-appointed sleeping
dormitory, One round of bread and
butter makes one breakfast, and
every tea makes its own supper."
"This, time," said the master,
when he had examined the letter,
"we Will overlook your conduct,
and you neon t send that note,
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HOGS EATING FROM A CONCRE
ready the list includes forms of con-
struction ranging from the large
hip -roofed barn down to a nest -egg
that deceives the wisest old lawyer
in the brood, These uses have been
extended largely, by a series of ex-
tensive experiments.
Already much has been accom-
plished on the farm by the use of
concrete. Perhaps the greatest ar-
gument in its favor, and one which
has developed only since concrete
has actually been put into general
use, is its health promoting pro-
perties.
If sickness occurs in a city to any
great extent, a searching' investi-
gation usually follows, conducted
TE FEEDING FIOOR.
germs. These two simple precau-
tions are a long stride in the direc-
tion of good health, as water and
milk, the latter even more than the
former, are thecommonest of the
germ -distributing agencies and both
are used frequently by the farmer
and his family.
Not only has the modern farmer
studied out a method of guarding
against sickness from sources which
might, in the case of water and
milk, be termed, internal. He has
gone a step further and has decid-
ed that the barnyard must also be
subjected to some ebanges if doc-
tors' pills and doctors' bills are to
be dodged.
plies that he has taken note of the
penitent's prayer and will answer.
That being the ease Ephraim feels
himself robust as a green fir -tree.
But Jehovah warns him not to for-
get again that all the fruit of pros-
perity comes solely from frim.
9. Who is wise, that he may un-
derstand4—To understand, in the
thought of the prophet, was to lay
to .heart, with a good conscience,
such truth as God had made known.
None but the wise and prudent can
so appreciate the message of this
prophecy as to profit thereby. To
do that requires not merely an in-
tellectual apprehension of the ways
of Jehovah, but apractical effec-
tiveness manifest in walking in
them.
•CAPTAIN KIDD'S . TREASURES.
Papers in Record Office Tell What
Tie Did With the Booty.
Doomed to an infamy unde-
served, his name reddened with
crimes he never committed and
made wildly romantic by tales of
treasure which he did not bury,
Captain Willian Kidd is fairly en-
titled to the sympathy of posterity
aad the apologies of all the ballad -
makers and alleged historians who
have obscured the facts in a cloud
of fable. Fate has played the
strangest' tricks with the memory
of this seventeenth century sea-
farer, who never out a throat nor
made a victim walk the plank ; who
was no more than •an amateur pir-
ate in an era when this interesting
profession was in its heyday; and
who was hanged at Execution Dock
for the excessively unromantic
crime of cracking the skull of his
gunner with a wooden bucket; be-
cause, forsooth, his majesty's of-
ficers were unable to prove their
chargee of piracy.
As for the riches of Captain
Kidd, the original documents in
his ease, preserved among the
State papers of the Public Record
Office in London, relate with much
detail what booty he had and what
he did with it. Alas 1 they reveal
the futility of the -searches after the
stout sea -chest buried above high
water mark. The only authentic
Kidd treasure was dug up and in-
ventoried more than two hundred
years ago, nor has the slightest
clue to any other been found since
then.
WEAK IIEA"RTS NOT FATAL.
Irregularity in Beats Need Not
Alarm, Says Physician,
Dr. James Mackenzie, a distin-
guished physician and an authority
on diseases of the heart, recently
has upset all of the old-fashioned
notions concerning what is known
as heart failure. The results of his
investigations were made known in
the first of the lectures lately de-
livered at the Royal College of
Physicians, London, England. •
Dr. Mackenzie said that heart
trouble due to damaged valves may
persist for 50 years and not inter -
fore with good health and long life.
Again, he made an assertion that
should ease the minds of millions
of apprehensive persons who fear
that they are in danger of death
because their hearts e sometimes
beat irregularly—namely, that of a
skip and a jump once in a while is
good evidence of te healthy heart,
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"OR, 111A 1 ME BROWNS HAVE SIX KITTENS,
AN' I BELIEVE I COLT' D G11P THETNI TO
TEADII ONE 1O R A TWIN."—Life,
KING'S 1) MOM'. TENT,
lr01710.011s BaronyEl Fi>'eplaoe t
be Built in Canvas Structure.
Although Ring George is to live
in a tent during his stay in Delhi
for the
Uurbax it m notb a
:. y,e
sup-
posed that the tent will bear any
likeness to the white canvas mush-
rooms which are 'assooiated with
the training of troops.
The London Mirror has obtained
some details of )row the Royal tents
in India will he fitted up. In India,
Durban 'tents aro structuresof
wonderful splendor, and the Ring's
tent—or, rather, range of tents—
will, as is only fitting, beou a
scale ealoulated to impress ,evert
those accustomed to the magnific-
ence of the tabernacles of the In-
dian rajahs and chiefs.
A -rind of temporary plane or
pavilion will be built, consisting of
a large number of the most sump-
tuous Durbar tents specially made
for the occasion,
The principal of these will be ab-
out forty feet in length, is being
lined with native woven draperies,
and will leave an enormous "bar-
onial" type of fireplace built into
one side of it.
The general scheme of decora-
tion is to follow Indian traditions,
and will be carried out in a full,
rich -toned orange and blank as the
dominant colors. Externally, the
whole group of tents will be made
as strikingly gorgeous as possible
in order to impress; the minds of a
people who, ina- ages, have
been
associated with themost lavish dis-
playw s
in pageantry.
In all, there will be a large num-
ber of different camps outside the
walls of Delhi—the Ring's camp,
surrounded by the camps of the
higher officials of the Indian Gov-
ernment, those of the greater In-
dian chiefs, overflow camps for the.
suites of native princes, and, fin-
ally, camps for visitors.
FINGERS AND -FORKS.
A Traveller Says Forks Were First
• Used in. Italy.
The customs of to -day are the
laughing stock of to -morrow ; and,
quite as often, the innovation,
scorned by steady -going and re-
spectable' folks, becomes, in the
course of time, an every -day neces-
sity. It is scarcely three centuries,
for example, since forks came into
use.
"I observed," says a traveller of
1611, "a custom in Italian towns
that is not used in any other coun-
try. The Italiane do always at
their meals use a little fork when
they cut their meat. For while the cat is given as a plaything to
with the knife, which they hold in the lonesome child convalescing
one hand, they cut the meat out of
the dish, they fasten the fork,
which they hold in the other hand,
upon the ,same dish. So that one
should unadvisedly touch the dish
of meat with his fingers, from which
all the table do cut, will give oc-
casion of offense unto the company.
The reason of this their curiosity
is because the Italian cannot by
any means endured to have his
dish touched with fingers, seeing
that all men's fingers are not alike
clean. Hereupon, I myself thought
good to imitate the Italian fashion
of cutting meat since I came
home "
TIE FAMILY OAT AS A GEItlit
CAIGiGID
IG+
Doeters Tahk ,of he Diseases IIo
Nay Bring Int° ilio
Household.
"It is not diffzouit to quarantine
the 'child sick with scarlet, fever or
diphtheria, but the family .eat goes
where it pleases and comes 'when it
lilies,"
This was taken as the text of a
sermon on animal pais as a men-
ace to health delivered in tho
Geicago Health Department Bul-
letin by Dr, Charles 13. Reed, in
ventor of the "oat gibbet," which
is under construction as a means
of exterminating the dangerous fel-
ines of Chicago,
"The principal obstacle to a
general and truthful realization of
the danger's connected with the
domestic pet is found to be the
sentimentalists whoare unwilling
to .admit thatanything on which -
their affections are centred can be-
come a menace," says the bulletin,
",Lha woman who refuses to give
her child a red hot poker as a torr
has no hesitancy in putting into its
arms the more dangerous because
more insidious,, plaything—the fam-
ily cat.
'Under r
e normal conditions .the.
germs of nearly all the epidemic
and local diseases thrive upon
TAr FAMILY CAT.
Even where the cat itself is not
subject to the disease it easily
spreads the contagion and occas-
ionally does froth. Thus in the caso
of diphtheria the cat not only has
the disease itself but also carries
it upon the mucous membranesand
in the Inc.
"Influenza is spread broadcast
by fur and feet, and Hewlett re-
cently has shown that as a distri-
butor ofthe bubonic plague .the
cat vies in virulence with the om-
nipresent rab.
"Ringworm is spread in the same
way, and germs find easy lodgment
in the thick hair, from which the
stroking hand quickly conveys them
to the human body. The germs of
typhoid and tuberculosis are dis-
tributed similarly, as well as the
more subtle and less understood
germs of whooping cough, measles,
scarlet fever and smallpox.
"This is more readily appreciat-
ed when we consider how quickly
from some of the contagious dis-
eases.
"It may be suggested that the
same argument applies to the dog
and the horse. This, we admit, al-
though to a .smaller degree and
with extenuating circumetances.
The horse is so valuable as a do-
mestic
omestic aid that its good qualities
outweigh the bad, and besides in
both the dog and horse the passe
bility of contagion is diminished '"e
greatly by the frequent
SOAP AND WATER BATHS.
"It will be urged here by the cat
admirer that it is of value to men
To Queen Elizabeth were present- since it keeps the rats reduced to
ed gold and jeweled forks at var- livable conditions. We do not dis--
ions tunes. But the dainty queen pute this possibility, but the good
rat catcher is rare. The cat catch-
es lar moresong birds .and nest-
lings than rats.
"Both the cat and the rat are un-
deniable menaces to human life,
sermon against forks, declaring it and of two evils why choose both 1
to be an "insult on Providence not The Government scientists declare
to tench one's meat with one's fin- that the cockroach destroys the,
ors." And another, in 1617 ad bedbug, but no one hesitates on
wised all travellers "returning this aocount to destroy as many
home •to la aside the spoon and cockroaches as possible.
fork of Italy, the affected gestures "These accusations are all •ralisl'"'•"
of Franco, and all strange ap- against the family cat, but in
parol."
e.
THE FINGER NAIL.
preferred the old habit of fingering
her meat, and forks were for a
long time regarded as a worthless,
foppish invention. One di -vine, in
the reign of James I., preached a
Do Masks Indicate Approaching
Dissolntion.
The significance of certain mark-
ings on the finger nails frequently
has been the subject of discussion
in medical publications. The lat-
est contribution is a paper by Nor-
man Flower, which appears in the
British Medical Journal. It deals
with the condition of the nails dur-
ing and after severe illness.
"slower brings forward several
cases," says the Medical Record,
commenting on his paper, "which
have come ander his observation
in support of the contention that
finger nails undergo a, change dur-
ing and after serious illness. The
most interesting part of his paper
is, however, the testimony of Sir
Samuel Wilke to the same effect.
Wilke was the "first to notice the
white markings on the nails as be-
ing indicative of death or approach-
ing death. Wilke mentioned sev-
eral
eweral cases in proof of this argu-
m elte.
"Whether these finger nail mark-
ings are of any value in prognosis
is doubtful. In the first place, it
may be presumed that they elo not
always occur, and then those who
have them do not always die. Theyare apparently simple .curiosities."
When poisoned with poison ivy
.bathe the affected parts with'00 per
cent alcohol. Government experi-
ments have proved this to be an ab -
'solute antidote for poison ivy. "
44,
greater reater force against the
midnight prowler which devotes it-
self unrestrainedly to the collec-
tion of germs, the reproduction of
its kind and to making the night
hideous with its noises."—Ohicago
Tribune.
KAISER'S COOK DEAD.
Always Scornfully Rejected the
Flattering Title of Chef.
The Kaiser's patriot cooky Karl
Jaedicke, a highly salaried official,.
who played an important part in
the Emperor's campaign, for puri-
fying the German language, hos
just died.
Jaedicke was the first imperial
cook who scornfully rejected the
flattering title chef, and called him-
self by the old German mundkoch,
In collaboration with the Kaiser,
he worked gut a complete diction,
ary of translations of the names of
dishes from French into 'German,
and it was tinder his regime that
menus disappeared from the Court,
and spoisekar•ton, printed in Gotta.'
lc letters, took thole place.
The German Language League,,.
a very poiverful organization, re-
garded Jeediolre as a hero, and
wanted to make him its honorary
vice-president, The only dish
which Jaedicke could find:: no Clots:
man °trivalent was mayonnaise; " ^.
but he got round that difficulty by
spelling 15 "meionnoi:se," thus giv. •
ing it a German touch.
The whole staff of the Raiser's
kitchens turned out et Jaedicke's
funeral, and a speech was deliver•
ad laud?ng Min as "an honest, Ger-
man aratter. of German things,"