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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1911-6-15, Page 3Illints,for Busy Housekeepers, Reylpoi mad Other 'YeW O i,tlorni.Uoa of Particular Interest to Women Flips, SEASONABLERECIPES, whipped cream, one dozen 'mons, one CUP of nuts. Scald milk, mace- Rhubarbenc1Short Oake.—No. 1 sugar, and maple syrup, bent egg -;One and iha1 ono -half spos flour, ing. and add the above to it; set on the and one-half teaspoons , baking t e until it thickens, add gelatin powder• cue fouutt teaspoon salt, stove ah bas been previously dissolved one-half sup butter;. xcant, milk and let cool. Whip the pint of •end ba to powder. Al flour, sut- cream and add nuts and =ea- ter baking th .. Moist Rub the but- roons; add this to the fit:sb part miinto take n stiff ifen with enough n ut in .a mold. Cut in slices milk o make a bt dough, ,Spread and P serve with whipped creams thin on a well buttered tin, Skin 'an'd's v ! .and cut thin a pound and a half of This serves sixteen. Fruit Foam, -0,.e -half boar. gela- .and Add a cupful. of sugarisa tin, one-half cupful of water, two .and shako well, Nur over this a and one-half "Phi's of fruit juice, custard made of a half cupful of three eggs. Soak gelatin, in cold sugar, yolks of two eggs, and water until dissolved, float fruit .cupful of rich milk . Bake twenty juice (strawberry, raspberry, cur •five . trant, or .ggaypes), pour ever Bela- ee 2—Attnight seta of milk with tin, sweeten to• -taste, stir all to- -teaspoon salhs of a� pint yeast k,Otte gether, and strain and cool, Beat flouteaspoon salt, and one cake, whites of eggs stiff, beat into the -cream to thicken. In Olbe ,er, one_g jelly until it is a solid foam, pour. .half cone -half gap of andutwo o into a wet mold,. and serve with d cup of sugar, andiva eggs, whipped cream. Prepare day.Add ;little nutmeg . a little P be - lemon rind. Add sponge to this fore using. .and boa well, then add enough. 'Macaroon Pudding.—Beat the `m make a thick .batter. Pat yolks. of four eggs with` one cup i -flour welltut ® k sugar and two teaspoonfuls' of three—and buttered tins—it will make three—and let rise again. One gelatin' Boil one pint ofsweet t -con .be used for the rhubarb cake milk, pour over the eggs a he - and the other two can be made turn to double boiler until it thick- into coffee cake by spreading gens 'ens, then add the four ideat o n y whites. :Pour into a ,mo augerly with cinnamon and For which has ;been .placed one dozen thgar and .cinnamon on top. .Tor thecrushed macaroons. .Serve ice cold boil. a sauce of rhubarb c cake .with whipped cream. and a eu . pounds of rhubarb pint twop �n Pudding.—Scald one Sc and a half of sugar. When goof Lemon Pudding a add the yolks of two eggs. Pour of milk, add a large cup of bread this on the dough when raised and crumbs and one tablespoon 01 bu e bake fifteen miuutes. Make a ter. Lot boil up once and se meringue of the whites of eggs and to tool. When cool stir into the brawn • light] It is much nicer- milk the beaten yolks of three if the'meringue is omitted and eggs> one-half cup of sugar and whipped cream sa served in its the grated rind of one lemon. Bake plane on top, twenty minutes. Beat the whites Now Fruit Salad.—One can of the three eggs, mdd one-half cup .sliced pineapple, one-half can sugar and the juice of the lemon. white cherries,. two oranges. Ar- Spread over the top of the pud- range the slices of pineapple on ding and brown. lettuce leaves. Mix the cherries A Pudding Help.—All set pud- and sliced oranges, and place upon dings will be found to have a much theinea le slices. Pont over more delicate flavor if the pudding -each servingg a large tablespoon of dish is placed in a pan of water mayonnaise dressing; sprinkle each in the oven to bake.p with chopped pecan nuts. This Rice Pudding.—Wash it ono one recipe serves eight people. • rice thoroughly.' Drop — quart boiling water. Let boil Ctwen- STRAWBERRII S. Vminutes. Take two cup ooked rice, six tablespoons sugar, two Strawberry Kiss.—Whites of cups milk, one teaspoon butter. three eggs beaten stiff, add one one-half teaspoon salt. two eggs •cup of granulated sugar, one tea- well beaten. Season with nutmeg spoonful vanilla, one teaspoonful and bake in cups placed in pan of • vinegar pinch of salt, continue to water.. Serve with sweetened cream boat;`for a few minutes. Put in a seasoned with nutmeg. loose bottom cake tin that has been Fruit Chop •Suey.—C.'ush one buttered anl bake for u half hour quart of strawberries, place in in n veryslow oven. When ready dishes, ready serve, , 'which have to serve add one quart of straw- been lined with crisp lettuce leaves, berries that have been cut in half garnish berries with small cubes of and sugared, cover with whipped oranges, beat white oil one egg to cream and serve same as short a stiff froth, sweeten to taste, drop •cake. This quantity is enough for on center of fruit, place a ripe six persons. berry in this, add sliced bananas, 'Strawberry Jam.—Use fine scar- and serve. This will nerve six per, let 'berries, weigh and boil them sons, and prove not only a pals, for thirty-five minutes, keeping table dish but also an attractive them constantly stirred. Add eight and economical dessert. ounces of good sugar ,to the pound Of fruit, mix then well off the fire. Clean the rut Of the wire clothesline with a woollen eloth dipped first in kerosene, the in sand soap. To insure finely flavored coffee beat the dry ground coffee before. adding boiling water, When preparing . meringue add one-half teaspoon of baking pow- der to each beaten white of egg.. Will be wonderfully improved. Powdered magnesia will effeatu- ally remove grease stains. Sift cornmeal into the boiling water for porridge, and lumps will be less apt to appear, Cut bars of laundry soap in half, place on top shelf to dry, and the soap will last longer, To prevent tomato soup .from curdling add hot tomatoes (`,lith soda in) to the thickened milk.. •When making mustard• add a few drops of vinegar if you wish it to keep. A. NEW KIND OF LIBRAIIY. Belglan Government Connects It With Post -office Banks. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JUNE 18. Lesson XII,— 7'ho downfall of Sa- tnarltr, 2 Kings 17. 148. Golden Text, Prov. 29. 1. led the people farther and farther away from God, till they forgot both their dependence upon him and their responsibility to him. ,1. 51 CALLED THEIR MOTHER. Norse 1• The twelfth: year o Alias—One. of the worst of ]the kings of Judah. See lesson for last Sunday—Word Studies. Hoshea son of Elah—There are no special manifestations of strength in the 'character of this king. To sure he is singled out of all the kings of Israel, for com- mendation (rather negative) tothe effect that, while he had done. some evil, it was not as the kings of Israel that were before him. But he had none of the faith nor the positive qualities .i[ the reformer. Doubtless :he did not replace the calf at Dan which the Assyrians had taken away. But he lacked the en- ergy to bring back the old worship. Indeed, he seems to have lived with one eye upon the Assyrian power and the other upun his own inter- est -3e was an opportunist, as he was a puppebr-.. It would have re- quired a: man of b"4Qad;°~<; gc.^•.•tOrA.s't- ed statesmanship, courage, and un- yielding trust in God, to steer the already battered ship through the stormy waters of this eventful era. A new kind of circulating library is to be tried by the Belgian Gov- eriinient, At Brussels a central lib- rary consisting at the outset of 10,- 000 volumes is to'be ereated•pnd any inhabitant' of. any part of Belgiurii who owns a post office savings bank book, will be entitled to borrow from it and receive by mail any book for a fortnight upon having two cents checked off his account at the post -office. His deposit serves as a guarantee for payment for books not returned. As there are about 1,500 post offices in Belgium, this will amount to the creation of a circulating lib- rary tary with seine 1,500 branehes, whose risks will be more than cov- ered by the deposits in the,savings banks. ---d. Then boil again quickly for twen- HOUSEHOLD HINTS. ty-five minutes. Take off the scum Traces of mud may be removed and pour intojars or glasses. from black materials by rubbing Preserved Strawberries. — Pro- with slices of raw potato. cure fresh large strawberries when Stains in table linen may be in their prime, but not so ripe as easily removed by plunging the to be soft. Hull them and weigh articles in pure boiling water. them, take an equal weight` of Soap and water would have the ef- sugar, make syrup, and when boil- feet of fixing the stains. ing hot put in the berries. A small Carpets are made bright sod al - quantity only should be done at once. If crowded they will become mashed. Let them boil twenty minutes or a half hour, turn into tumblers or small jars and seal while hot. In pouring hot Fruit in- to glass put in a. silver spoon first; it will temper the glass and keep it from breaking. Do not use tin, iron, or pewter spoons for stirring fruit as they .convert the color of red fruit into a dingy purple and impart besides rt very unpleasant flavor. PRESERVING. iStrawberry Proserve.—Pound for 'pound of berries and sugar, Pour sugar on with very little water and boil until thick syrup. Cool a little to test it. Remove from fire, add berries and the juice of ono lemon for each two quarts of berries, then cook twenty minutes more to make thick and seal. Tasty Relish, Two quarts of sliced rhubarb, one pound raisins, one-half pound J.inglish walnuts,. four oranges (chopped), three pounds sugar. Cook altogether thirty minutes and put in glasses.: Plum Conserve,—Tlu'ee pounds of blue sweet plans, three pounds of granulated sugar, one pound of seeded raisins, one-fourth pound of English walnuts, two oranges; pit the plums, chop the oranges and walnuts; ooik all together three-fourths of an hour, or until thick, and put in glasses and seal, A fine ,relish. DESSERTS. Maple Pudding,—One cup of lyd1k, three-quarters cup of maple syrup, ono cup of sugar, one egg, one-half box gelatin, one pint of CZARVITCH'BUILDS SHIPS. Has a Toy Navy Yard With Naval Engineer as Tutor. Six-year-old Grand Duke Alexis, 250,000). heir to the throne of all the Rus - gas, seems to have inherited' a 4. The king of Assyria shut him taste for ahipbuilding from his it up—This is all we know of the fate lustrious ancestor Peter the Great, of Hoshea, except a possible hint who went to Holland 200 years ago, at the age of 25, in disguise, and worked for wages as a ship's car- penter under the name of Peter Timmerman, lodging in a small house in Saardam. Little Alexis has had a complete miniature navy yard constructed and fitted out for him on the bor- ders of a lakelet in the grounds of his father's palace at Tsarskoeselo, There he amuses himself wth build- ing model ships, war and other arais, under the expert tuition of a naval engineer. 3 MICROBES BY THE MILLION. Germs are the latest weapon on of v P doctors. There has been a curious case under treatment at St. Bar- tholomew's Hospital, in London, England, for some time, and 400,- 000,000 microbes have been reared for the cure of one patient. Chron- ic empyema is the trouble—an in- flammation of the coverings of the lung. From the lung secretions germs were collected, and the de- scendants of these—of three dis- tinct tribes—when they have grown to a set microbe strength are kill- ed by heating. Then . 10,000;000 dead microbes of each variety are injected, in solution, under the skin 'of the patient's arm, and, at intervals, larger doses are given, till, finally, 100,000,000 germs can be injected at one time! The skin trouble known as acne is another which the specialist nowadays 3. Hoshea . . brought him trib- ute—This humiliation was the re- sult of the differences which had existed between Ahaz, king of Ju- dah, and Pekah, king of Israel. at - 1 in Ti 1 h former had called led The g Pileser to defend him against Pe- kah and the king of Syria. When Pekah had been disposed of, Hoshea, who was a conspirator, was given this vassal sovereignty in Samaria. From inscriptions we learn that the tribute was a heavy one, ten talents of gold ($200,000) and 1,000 talents of silver ($1, - Boer Woman had 27 9f Tier Own Besides 24 Step,Childreu, In the district of liroonstad, in the Transvaal, lives the Widow Van Wyk, whose history,' matri- monially and otherwise, is—not to, put too fine a point upon it—some- what out of the common, .says Lon- don Tit -Bits. Born oa October 20, 1832, Mrs. Van Wyk at the age of 18, married Petrua Jacobue'Lubbe. At the end of two years she beeame a widow with one child. After be- ing a widow for ten months. says the Volkstern, she married Nicola - as Marthinus. Preterites a widower with four children. After living with him fora year and five months he also died, leaving her with five children. After five months she married for the third ,time, David Stephanus Pieterse, a widower with seven children. With him she lived eleven years and had seven children, when he also died. After five years' wid- owhood she married for the fourth time, Daniel Lodowikus Cronje, a widower with eight children. With him she also livedeleven years and had four children, when he, too, Five years later she married, in Micah 5. 1. dome conjecture, from the tower instead of byone of king captured, before the walls that a battle was fought, and the j the battalions at Chelsea or Wel- of the capital. At any rate, the 1 lington Barracks. With this change cause of this sudden vengeance isin the old custom of having the not hidden. Hoshea was playing al guards march nightly to the bank "B'IIIGUT" GIRL. Lady Henry Stanley 'Fells Two Good Stogies. d'ahn Bright, the famous English statesman, was intimately ac- quainted with Mr. Charles Ten- nant, and used often to visit him at his home, Mr, Tennant's daugh- ter, Lady Henry Stanley, had many pleasant recollections of the great orator and statesman, some of which are included by R, B. O'Brien in his biography of "John Bright," Lady Stanley says: My father and John Bright were great friends, and Mr. Bright call- ed constantly to see us throughout his life. I used to love to look at hire and hear hien talk. I remember one thing that hap- pened when I was quite a klittle girl, about eight or ten. I that Mr. Bright wascoming to see my father, and I thought that my father would not allow me, to re- main in the room to hear them talk, and I determined to get under the sofa, and so listen to Mr. Bright. Well, they both sat on the sofa, and after a time things got a bit uncomfortable for me, for the sofa began to bend under their weight, and I had to dodge and creep about to escape getting crushed. In wriggling about, I pushed my feet from under the sofa. The eon- versation suddenly ceased, and Bright said; "Why, Mr. Tennant, there is something under the sofa! Look!" and so my father pulled me out, and x. used that I wanted to hear Mr. Briglf .talk, and that was the r.tason I got unlet sofa. I remember angtlrtr,day, when z was something oldether', "chat Mn. Bright called at the housegnu• n� erybody was out. When the ser- vant opened the door he told Mr. at home. was one ihtthatno 0 Bright p I was upstairs. tairs. T asked the servant who bad Bail- ed. He said, "Mr. Bright," where- upon I dashed away from the maid who was attending to my toilet, rushed downstairs, and ran into the street, following Mr. Bright as fast as I could. I got up with him just as he was entering Palace Yard. I put my hand into his arm and swung him right round, and said: "Now you must come back with me. I know you called, and they said everybody was out, but I was not out." He laughed and came back with me, and then I gave him tea, and he talked away to me. for the '-fifth-Cii r,;_ Hendrik Klep- per. .. With hint she also lived eleven years and had ten children, when he also died: After two years she married for the sixth time on this occasion, with Coenraad Hendrik Van Wyk, a widower with five children, and with him she had four children o After having lived together for eleven years. he also died. She had thus fifty children, who called her mother and about 270 grandchild- ren. She is still alive at the age of 78 years. GUARDS PR0,1L THE TOWER. The Bank of England is to be Pro - tented by Them. Hereafter the Bank of England is to be protected by the guards double and losing game. If his cessation of payment of the annual tribute had been followed immedi- ately by the arrival of the Egyp- tian forces, he might have won. But his ruin was in the procrastin- ation- of King So. When it was too late Hoshea tried to propiti- ate Shalmaneser with gifts. But the Assyrian monarch was aware of his duplicity. f Hoshea — Sa- maria. N year o t maria was taken B. C. 722. Sar- gon, probably a usurping officer of the army, had succeeded Shalman- eser the year before. Samaria was not destroyed. The inhabitants who were carried away in captivity were replaced by foreign colonists, under Assyrian governors. Placed them in Halah—North of Thapsacus, on the Euphrates. Sar- gon reported the number as about 27,000. The record of these whole- sale deportations of men, women, and children, flocks and wagons, is preserved an the tablets in Sar- gon's palace at Khorsabad. The Haber is the same as the modern Khabour, a river in northern As- syria, flowing into the Euphrates. 8. Kings of Israel—Jeroboam who introduced the calf -worship,, s treats by injecting microbes. About and Ahab, who was responsible For most new by sprinkling with coarse fifteen injections are made, the Baal -worship in Israel, are especi- salt, and sweeping briskly with r- first alone sometimes containing ally in the thought of the writer as damp broom. The color is rester - over 300,000,000 microbes. he digresses to summarize the les - ed, and the carpet is not injured by this process. • New walking (WEEN VICTORIA, AND BIBLE. shoes sometimes O "slip at the heels and cause a nasty A Nf ht She Visited Prince Con - rubbing the inside of the shoes at sort's Room to head It. the heel with •a piece of dry soap Addressing the Church Mission - before putting them on. ary Society the other evening, Lord Gilt frames should not be wash- Blytheswood, known as tho Rev. ed, merely rubbed with chamois. If dull they should bo brushed. with a liquid strained irom the boiling of four onions in water which has been tinted to a golden color by flowers or sulphur steeped in it Before laying carpets spread newspapers over the floor, and if. you have any fear of moth, scatter, some pryethrum powder about. When frying fat catches fire, do not pour water on it, as it only spreads the flame. A handful of .earth or flour will quickly quench the flames. Wrap stale loaves in a cloth, dip into hob water for half a minute, take off the cloth, and bake for a quarter of an hour in a steady oven, This will make then like new bread. Never sweep dust from one room to another, nor from upstairs to the lower part of the house. Al ways' take it up in a dnstpan where yon have previously placed 'sonic damp .tea -leaves, When cooking spinach cook in a cheese -cloth bag, easily lilted and drained dry. Pad the ironing board on both sides, 17se ono siclo• for white goods; the other for colored. A teaspoonful of glycerine added to the rinse water makes woollen blankets come ,out like new. sons of his story. 9. Tower ... fortified city—That is, they set up their secret bowers and wicked images not only in populous but also in sparsely set- tled places, such as sheepfolds and vineyards. 13. By every prophet—Israel had. Slitlto Douglas before his access- failed in her high mission in spite g of the warnings and exhortations sion to the peerage, stated that he; of such men as Ahijah, Elijah, Eli - once preached by eommand at sha, NIieaiah, Joneh, Amos, Hosea, Windsor, and after the service he Nahum, Oded, and Jelni. The received a most gracious message mention of such names shows how from Queen Victoria to visit the much more God had given to Israel Castle. I was brought at last to than to Judah. 16. Asherah—Singular of Asher - Lewd images, presumably of the Phoenician goddess Ashtoreth. The worship of the starry host of heaven was borrowed from the As- syrians. It is neer mentioned in the Mosaic law until after the Israelites had come in contact with these eastern peoples. 17. Caused their sons . . . to pass through the fire—These were rites connected with the worship of Mo- loch, learned from Ammon and Moab. They wane prohibited in both Leviticus (18, 21) and Deuter- onomy (12. 31; 18. 10). Ahaz is said to have made his son pass through the fire (2 Kings 16, 3). The pur- pose of this hideous sacrifice was apparently to propitiate the Deity by the yielding up of the most precious possession. Divination and enchantments — These wore practiced by means of, belomancy (E' zek, 21, 21-22), and no- eromaney. Tho curse of an this, and the sellieg of themselves .for immoral purposes, eomaected with a. private passage, ,and was told that down that passage at night her Majesty came along to the room whore the late Prince Con- sort died. On a chair in that room was a large Bible, and on that chair every night the Queen read the Bible, - which had been such a blessing to the country over which she reigned so long." It's better to hp long headed than headlong. But a practical joke isn't funny when the reaction sets in. Why do friends of the bride al- ways cry ab a wedding, while the. friends of the groom always give him the laugh. Doctor -My clear lady, you are in perfect health. I cant find a thing the matter with you. Patient I wish you'd try again, doctor. I do so want to go away to recttperete. Wife "John, there roust be a lot of iron in your system." Husband —"Why do you think so r Wife— "Because you invariably lose your temper when you got hot." the heathen idolatries, was, that ib will be revived. Providing a garrison for the bank dates back to 1780, the time, of. the Gordon riots. The mob had al- ready ' -ken Newgate, and was ready for a frolic in the nation's treasury, but the files of grena- diers overawed the rioters, who departed very peacefully toward Bunhill fields. Since that tinge the bank has had nightly guard a i lard of Grenadiers or strengthen the ar- Coldstreams to s gar- rison. rison. of clerks and porters who patrol the building. The soldiers are made very comfortable, the commanding officer being provided with a dinner for himself and two friends and an allowance of wine. The vaults of the Bank of Eng- land frequently contain $250,000,- 000 in money. The lock of the vaults requires several keys, each in possession of a different person. Access is obtained through heavy iron doors to where untold gold lies piled on trucks (to facilitate removal) or heaped against the walls in sacks. PINEAPPT 'fir S..':;„ NY VIRTUES. Invaluable oils Tissues toying Poisoil- iu Diphtheria. POTATO CROP IN THE CELLAR NEW METHOD FOR .GBTTING4 NEW POTATOES. No Light and No nastier() etre Needed --Plants Grow Without Tops. A new method by which new po- tatoes may be grown in perfety dark oellara, on a table top thinly covered with dry earth, with no cultivation and little Dare, is de- seribed in the Literary Digest. Light is, not only unnecessary, but even objectionable, since it causes the seed potatoes to 'sprout, which prevents the formation of the new, young tubers. Whole, clean po- tatoes are to be used: "Once in possession of the seed potatoes, the planter must seek a perfectly dark underground place-- a cellar or abandoned quarry. The absence of light is essential for the. filtration of a few rays pauses the potatoes to waste their energies in putting forth ,sprouts in all direc- tions instead of the buds of little potatoes. METHOD OF CULTIVATION. Fresh pineapple juice has great value as a digestive. A small amount will digest a considerable piece of steak or any other annual tissue. Boiling, however, seems to kill the enzymes in the pineapple, so that after canning it loses its digestive power. . The peculiar property of pine- bpple juice makes it of value in many ways. For instance, in diph- theria, it is used as a gargle, and the' diphtheria membrane disap- pears like magic at its touch. It seems to have the power of picking out all non -living animal tissues and rapidly digesting them, leav- ing all living tissues.. In cases of quinsy, pineapple juice digests all poisonous tissue, often giving quick relief. Sometimes it is not best to incise or lance a boil, and the yellow cap may often remain upon the boil without opening, holding back the. pus. The application of pineapple juice invariably establishes free drainage within a short time. For administration in the atom- acli pineapple acts, adds the Fam- ily Doctor, as a preventive rather than a cure. It cannot quickly cor- rect an acute attack of indigestion, though it may prevent an attack. Lots of bachelors would make good husbands, if the girls could only make them trunk so. Q.—Why is ao acquitted prisoner like a gun'? A.—Because he is tak- en up, clrarged, and then let off, Griggs—"Weren't you surprised that ,the customs inspector didn't. find those things you smuggled in 1 Briggs --"Oh, no; my wife stowed them away. She can pack things in a trunk where she can't oven find them herself. g• "Countrymen and city dwellers alike spay thus obtain good crops in a cellar corner or even in a dark closet perfectly fitted up, . , Fine, dry earth must be spread uniform- ly on a table, in .a layer two or - three inches thick, after being care.' fully sifted. Then a slightly moist., ened sponge must be passed civet each potato to wash off the crypto. gamic germs that are so injurious) a vegetable tissues. sprout, aa m s potatoes have begun u n tei tea -Sprouts are removed carefully withd'dt wounding the tu- ber. This done, tifiz potatoes are taken one by one and' half, buried in the soil, planting them tin rows spaced about four inches apart." a,sem LIVELY FLOWERS. A. New Species Discovered 1.0 an African Forest. . Natures protective schemes are varied and curious, and deceive the human as well as the animal intel- ligence. J. W. Gregory in "The sanew ' describes Rift ails ' d ratRftV Ge Y flower which he came across in an • African forest. He says: Walking through the woods,. any attention was attracted by a large brightly colored flower like a fox- glove. It had been raining heavily, and everything was so sodden with moisture that collecting was use- less. I would have passed this specimen had I not noticed some white, fluffy patches below the flower, which I recognized as a cer- tain kind of lichen which does not usually grow on flower stems. I pushed my stick through the bush to pull the flower toward me, when, to my surprise; all the flowers and buds jumped off in all directions. There were similar clusters near,, and when Mr. Watson came up, I pointed out one and asked him if he knew its 'genus. He said he did not, although he had seen it before. He tried to pick one, and was as surprised at the result as I. The arrangement of the insect colony was that of green buds above and pink flowers below. We never would have dreamed that they were insects, although Mr. Watson was an enthusiastic botan- ist. The female lays its eggs as it walks up the stem; the lowest hatch first, which fact explains the apparent indifference .in flowers a.nd bads. Whether the insects can resume this arrangement on the stem after having been disturbed, I do not know. We watched for hours, but not one came back. NO POTATO BL.fS. The work of cultivation is now practically over. There is no back- breaking toil with the hoe in the broiing sun, and no fight with po- tato bugs. The tubera are inspect- ed now and then to see that every- thing is going on well, and two or three weeks later each will be seen to be covered with tiny white points, which several days after- ward change into little potatoes that grow very rapidly. s "When most of these are aso ably large, they ere removed, l an- v- ing in place the old pd whish ggntinue to bear. Several weeks later anotier crop may be gathered, and even a third; the budding keeps on until the com- plete exhaustion of the parent tu- ber, of which nothing remaiaa but the skin. "From timeto time sprouts r may and potatoes, the h on push forth these must be cut off with scissors. KEEP OUT OF SIGHT. "When the cellar is entered for this purpose, no vent must be open. - ed ; it is better to use artificial light for the slightest filtration of day- light causes the tubers to sprout. "A curious fact, and one for which no plausible explanation has yet been found, is that the tubers produce a weight of small potatoes superior to that of their own sub- stance. "This new system of cultivation will be particularly serviceable to small proprietors, who will thus ba able to grow successive crops of pee tatoes from the month of Septem- ber until the early varieties aro ready in Spring." GOING AHEAD. "I wanter give notice, mum!" blurted Mary Ann, one morning. Mrs. Skinniflint looked pained and surprised. "May I ask why, Ann 1" she in. quiied. "Well, mum, if you wenter know the truth, I'm engaged to be mar- ried." " said "Indeed! I am surprise,i : Mrs. Skinflint freezingly. "But. let me warn you against these fri- volous, marriage -seeking young oxen l You would do better to stay with us, if you have not given he matter the most serious eonsidera- tion l" "Yes, mitre, but I have," an- swered the preeautious domestic. "I've been to two fortune-tellers, anal a clairvoyant, and 'looked in a sign -book, and dreamt on a look of his hair, and visited an astrologer and a' palmist, and they 4111 say, Go ahead, Mary Ann—go ahead Oh, no mum, I ain't a ono to marry reckless -like TOO LATE 1 Mr. W. Holt -White's recent book, "The People's King," contains a little story of the late Edward VII.. of England, with a moral that grandparents might wisely ponder —the remarks of young people may be worth heeding --once in a great while. At a family luncheon at which three generations of the royal fam- ily were present, the king was in- terrupted in his conversation by a small voice calling insistently: "Grandpapa 1 Grandpapa I" For a time the king devoted him- self to his conversation and his salad, regardless of the voice which kept calling, Grandpapa I" At last, compelled toay attention to tho interruption, the king uttered something about little boys who should bo seen and not heard, and the rebuke silenced the prince. When the meal was over, the king turned to his little grandson,. and said: "Now tell me what you want." "It is too late now, grandpapa." "Why is it too late" e11" "Because I only wanted to t you there wase, caterpillar in yout• lettuce." s Thera are always two aides to n story, and some people eau impra' vise five or six move. After a man' has been married a couple of years he begins to skis the love passages in a novel. About the time a man begins t( flatter himself that he knows some thing he becomes thefather of f small boy with* proclivity for aria ing questions.