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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1900-3-15, Page 6owow. HOUSEHOLD. YNNAMWMAWMWMAIA T.Z.11 811118:1913L8 P 08z V% MO IIE RODIGAL'S RETURN Rev. Dr. Talmage Discourses on An Interesting Subject. how the Mother Would Greet the Prodigal's Return. -The Father's Greeting of the Wanderer—God Is Repre- sented as the Father—The Dr. Draws Some Lessons From the Parable. ▪ deepateh from Washington says: might eealize fttoeday, A wealthy —Rev. Dr. Teleattge 'promoted from the following text: "When the wait yet a great way off, leis father stew hiele, and had compassion and an, and fell on Ms neck end kiseed him."—leuke xv. E have often described to you the lady in one Of the euetern comes tries was going off for SUMS time, and she asked her detigee lore for autne memento to Derry with lte.r. One of tbe daugleteee brought, liveable tablet, beaulltully insorlbed; and ano1 her daughter brought a. beaUe fill 'wreath of elowers. The tbIrd eiangleter came, and said, "Mother, I ooing away ol tale prodigal son from brought neither !lowers nor tablet, but hie father's 0U88 and and l•have :showed here &o my heart. haye iuscribed it you. what a hard time he had down !elele'T:or rrt't'ia13.;(14or ilm,e111:',,e0n1m uc,„.teinvtre In the wilderness, and what it very ther reeogneeed it as the best of all great mieteke it was for him to leave the menuentoes. Of thee toolay our so beautiful a home for euch a ids- leelile nlieht go out towards the Lord Jesus Chitst, towerds our Father— erable desert. But he dld not always tat par heitts night be written all stay in the wilderness; he came baok over Ilia evidenoee of His loving, after a while. We do not read, that kindnees, and that ore Might never his mother carae to greet him. a sap- eget:a forsake Him. ;fjord God, this pose she (('05 dead. She would have be. TIly nelY Sidett. more upon our been the lion to oome out, The fa- la the first peeve I note* in this Mier would law.% gioen the second text, the feathers. e,yesiglat ; in the mica kiss to the returning prodigal; tee cued plane, 1 nodes the leatb,er's haste; min other the first. 11 may have beenhettIliessteird place, I notice the for the lack of her example and pray - To begin: the El theree eyesight. ars that he became a prodigal. Some- "Wheel he was yet a great way off times the lather does not know bow his father saw him," You hare autio- ed new old people eomelimes put a, book off on the other side of the, llght, They mon see at a dietetic's a great dela caeier titan they cum came by. 1 do not knew whether he °aukt aee well that which ,weei near by, but I do knewi he could se ea great way off. "His tether saw him." Perluipe he hail Mem looking for tee return el that buy epeolially that day. I do not know bit. that he had been in prayer, and that. God Mid told lam that that day the recreaat boy would gene home, "The tether toter him a great v. ay of." .1 wonder if God's eyeeight oan des- ory us when we are owning back 10 hire 1 The text pictures our condi- teen—eye are a great way off. That seung tu,an was not loather off remn hie Lather's house, sin is not farther off from holiness, hell is not farther off from heaven, than we have been by eur Mos away alt from our God; aye so far mei (bat we could not hear Hie roice, though vehemently Re hae called 114 year al tee year. I do not knew whetbad habits you have form- ed, or in what evil, plates you: leave been, or millet ream notions yo18 neap hese entertained; but you are reedy to licknewledge, le your heart hos not been changed by the grace of God, tha1 you are a, great way eel—aye, so far that you ommut ge1 beck of your- eelves. You w.euld like to mane back, Aye, this moment you would Wart, if it were not for Lleis die, and that hab- it, ane thie disedvantage. But I aro to tell you at 'rHE FATHER'S EYESIGHT. "He saw him a great way off." Ile DRS teen ell your frailties, all your dieadventages. ,Ife hes been longing for your coming. He has not been Looking et you wide a critic's eye or a bad lift's eye, but with a Father's eye; ana if le parent ever pitied a Mild, God Miles you. You eay hted so many evil surroundings when I. started. life. "Your keither toes it. You say: "I have 40 many bad sua, reandiage now. and so it is very' die - Souk for ine to break uway from evil associations." Your Father sees it, and. if this naeoneat you /Mould start heavenwarce—as I pray you may — ' year feather would not eh, idly down a.nd allow y•ott to straggle on up Lowa tete Him. Ole no I ;Seeing you tR great Wee off, he would fly to the rescue. .Ebote long does it take a fae tber to leap into the middle of the hegleway if his child be them, and a ewlat vehicles is coming, ana may de- stroy him 1 Five hundeed times long- er thou It takes our heevenly Father to spring to the deliverance of a lost chid. el ben he wee a great wee !oft hie Fla her saw bine" I Anti that briags nee to =Lice the le tie • Ieasie. Tbe 11240 8078 nen. No wonder. lie did not. know but tha1 the young man would change hie inind and go batik, llo did n•ot know. bot ilea he would. drop down front cell:mitten. He did not know but that. something fatel might over- , take him before he gut ne to the 110021 - Mil; ante so the father ran. The 131b1e, f •1. aurl to manage the children of the house- hold, The chief work oomee upon the neother. Indeed, no one ever gets trrer the calamity of lotting a mother in early life, Still, this young man was not uugreeted when he came back. However well aPparelled we mey he ia the morning whine tee start out on a, journey, before night, what with the dust and the jostling, we hem lost all Meanness of appearance. But this prodigal, when he started from tthe twine trough, was regged and wretched, and bis appearance, after be bed gone through days oe journey- ing and exposures, yoa caa more 8852" Ly imagine thee describe. As the people see this prodigal coming on homeward, they wonder who he in. They say: "I wonder what prison he has broken out. of. 1 wonder what lazaretto he has escaped from. I won- der with what (plague he will mite the els." delthough these people elan have been well aconainted with the family, yet they do not imagine teat this is Ihe very young mien who weni off only a little while ago with quick step, and ruddy (Meek, and beauti- ful apparel. The young man, I think, walks very fast, He looks as though he were intent upon something very important. The people stop. They look at elm They wonder where he came from. • They wonder where he is going to. You have heartl of a son who went off to sea and never return- ed,. All the people in the neighbor- hood thong/it the son would never re- turn„ but tbe ourente 00140 1.0 no duel conolusiona They would go by the hour, and day, tend sit, upon the beaoh, looking off upon Um water, ex - peeling to eee the sail that woold bring home the long -absent boy. Aid so I think thia father of my text sat Under the vine looking towards the road on which his son had departed; but the father has changed very,maolt Mum we saw him last. His hair has become white, his (Meeks are fur- rowed, HIS }MART IS BROKEN. What le all this bountiful table to him when his son may be lacking bread,/ What is all Lhe splendor of the Wardrobe of that homestead when •ooatl :"..Vertleae" aro all the sheep on the hill- ' encleeto that father when his wet lamb es gone. Still the sits and watches, ,looking out on the road, and one day he• beholeis a foot traveller. He sees him rise above the Mlle ; first the head and after awhile the entire body; and as soon as he gets a fair glance of bLoi he knows It is his recreant son. He forgets the crutch, and the cane, and the stiffness of I he joints, and bounds away. 1 think the people ell around. were amazed, rimy satd ; "It ie only a footpad. It is only some old tramp of tee road, Don't go out to meet him." The tether knew better. The change in the son's ap- Pearalace 0(12114 ,002 hide the marks by which the father knew the boygYuu know that persons of a great deed of Independence of dharamer are apt to indlotte it in their walk. For that reasoa the :tailor almost always has a I reason the sailor almost always has a 1 peouliar step, not only because ' stands nautili on shipboard. amid the Making of the sea, and, he ltEtS to bal- ance honself, but he liR.8 for the moist part an, independent tharaeter, Which would ahow itself even if he never went to the see,; and, we know front what tranepired alter, and from what tranegiemi before, that this pro- digal son WaS of an independent nod frank nature and I euppose that the eitaracterletioe of hie mind and heart were the cheracteristies (if his walk, And to the Rather knew him. He puts Out bis withered lame towards him; ho britrgs bis wrinkledl face agabast the pale cheek of his son; he kisses the wan Ape; lie thanke God that the Ming agony Is over, "When he Walt yet a great et ey off, his tether saw him, end heel compassion, and ran, and fell oo his neck, aid kissed him." . Oh, do 'you zot restiognIze that fath- er 1 Who was It I it was God I I leave ne sympethy with that east -Iron theology whieb reereSents God as herd, etiverti, and vledletive, GOO XS ,k FATHER, —kind, 108118,5 leeient, gentle, long- etiffering, *tient, en,1 lie flies to Par immortal reseue, 011, thaL we e a walking. "Ill flee fourth watch of (111. night," it eaye, "Jesus ceme unto them walking Olt the see." "Bes walk - e112 urnl the wings of lite wed." Our firm pesetas bested the voiee of t he Lord. walking in t he garden in the cool of • the day ; but 1111011 n sinner starts for teed, 1.1.1 leather runs to meet litre, Oli 1 if a mon ever wants help, 11 is when he tries Le beoame Christian. The world. says te him "Back with yoU. leave more ispirit. Lonehe leen:peeve with religion. Tenn enough yet. Wail Lintel you get eiek. Wag until you get. dd." Seam .81178, "Reek with yule; you are so hate 1 hat God will ham not athg to do nith you;" 01, o21 gm good enough, tool need no Redeemer. Take thine gum, eat, drink, and he merry." Ten thousand voicee say : "Beek with you. UGLY'S, A BARD MASTElt. The churth is a colleetion of hypooril- e. Back Into your sins? baek to' your evil indulgences; back to your prayer - less oillow. The silliest thing that. a goung man ever does 14 to come home etLor he hog been wandering." 013, berm ttnuch help a man dem want when he triee te become m ebristian. In- deed, the prodigal cannot; find his Way, home tot hie father's heuse alone. ifJnIees sonic one comes to meet him ha lead better. have :strayed by the wine -troughs. When the sea comets in at full tide, yote mighl more eneile With your broom weep bsek the merges than you, could drive baek the ocean of your ueforgiven 1.ranegres- 822818, What are WO 1218 1101 Are) we 1 fight the bat tee alone, and triudge 018 WWI no, Mee 10 Mel eat Med 00 eel* Le elleiter oe., and 310 Weed rineouragee ;mint to eleeer us, Glory be toielod, we Wive in tee text tbe alenelenceniont; 'Whoa he etas it great way off, hls railter ran," Wben the moue" starts for Gott, Gad eturte for Lee shinee, God theme not come out With a slow and hesitating peep, Tbe Butte speoee stiP beneath Hie feet, and tekee worlds at a Wand.. "The Lu ther SOlt." Oh, wouderfui meeting, when God and the soul moue togetber. "The Fellier ran." %You 81811 for Ged and Prod etarte for you, awe thie rimming nud this hotese ie the time all the pima when yen meet; end, while the emote rejoice over the Meeting, your long injured ..leather falls upon your nook with attestatione ot compassion and .pardon. Your peon velment:go mobil, polluted tome and tile 101 2105, tha Memel leath- er, have met. I remark upon the fatber's kiss. "He fell on his neck," my text see's, ,."and kismed elm." It is not every father that would have done that way. He woad leave emeheed him, and Beide "Here, you, went oCf. with Leautieu, elothes, Mit now you ere all In let- tere. You went o.f eettltby, and Ocene back sick end wasted with your diesepa !eerie." Ile did not say that. The son, all haggard, and ragged, one GIGO, and wretebed, Mood before h s father. The fa, her charged him w b none of het wanderings. He just to- whead him. Ile just kissed Min 13s wretehedne..s was a recommendati. n to that father's, love. Oh, that feting* kiss I How shall I deseribo tbe love of Godf—the ardour with wh:ch be re. ceivee the sineer back again'? Give ine a plummet with which I may fathom this sea. Give me A Milder with which I oan agile this height. Give me worths with ethical I ve11 de- eeribe this lova. The apostle says in one place, "unsearehable," in another, "past finding out." Height overtop- ping all height; depth plunging be - 014212 12 all depth; breadth coraeassiug all immensity. Oh, this lovel GOD 80 LOVED THE WORLD. Ho loves you. Don't you believe it/ Has He not done everything to make you think sce He has given you life, health, friends, home—the use of your hand, tho sight of your eye, heanng of your eur. He has strewn your path with merges. He has fed. yogi, Oheltered you, defended you, loved yea, importuned you all your rfe long. Don't you; believe He loves yeul Why, this morning, if you should Vtart 819 freel the wilderness of your 8111, He would throw both terms:mound Pee To make you believe that Ile levee you, He: Stooped to manger, and arose, and sepulchre. With all the weans of Ilef holy natu,s•e roused, He stands before you to -day, and would coax you to Otippiness and heaven, Olt, ibis father s kissl There is so much meaning, anti love, and corn- etiesion ha it; so notch pardon in it: so moat heaven in it. 1 tproolaim Him the Lord God, mercefue, gracious, and long-suffering, abundant in goodness and truth. Leet you wou'a not believe Hen, He goes up to Golgotha, and while the rocks are rending, and the graves are opening, and the, mobs are howling, and the son is hiding, He dies tor you. See Hunt See Lien on the Mount of Cruciiixion, the sweat on His Mott tinged with the blood exud- ing from Hie kicerated tetnplesl See his eyes swimming; in death] Hear I the Mad breaching co the Sufferer as He pants witth a waled on His beartl Ilark Lo the fell at the blood. from brow, mut hand, and foot, on the rocks beneath—drop! drop! dropl Look at the nails! How wide Lhe wounds arel Wider do they gap . as His (body comes down up- on them. Oh this crucifixion egoey. Tears melteng ineo tears. Blood Deleting into blood. Darkness deoppeng on darkness. Hands of men joined, with hands oe devils to tear mou1 the quivering heart of the Sou of God' Ohl will Ile never speak nem? Will that crimson face never light up again? HE WILL SPEAK AG -AIN; ivhile the blood is suilusing His brow, teed reddening' His cheek, and...gather- ing on. nostril and lip, and you' think LI= He M eireatuifed and cannot speak, He mum out until all the ages hems him: "Father, forgive them, they' know latt What they.dol" Is there no emphases xn such a scene aa that to make your dry eyes weep, amd your hard heart break? Will you turn eaue hack upon 11, aid mop by your :goons what the jeers maid by, theer w ords: "His blood be 00 us, and on • elaldreee le hat does it lali 1120180, my brother, my sister? Why, it melthe that for our lose rem there W814' a Father's kiss. Love breught ' Hue down. Lowe opened the gate. Love led to the macrifice. Love sheltered the grove. Love lifted Him upt in the re- eurreetion.. Sovereign love. Omnipo- tent love. Infinite love. Bleeding love. Everkesting love. "011, .for this inve 181 rocke had hills, Their. Melees' silence break; And all harmonious human tongues The Saviour& praises speak." Now, will you accept. 11881 Fathee's lees e The Holy Spirit asks you. to. The. Holy Spirit mama to youl thts morning With MO arousing, meeting, alarming, Melting, vivityjng influ- ence, Hearer, what creates in thee thee unrest? IL is the Holy Ghost. What sounds in your eare to -day, the joys cie the saved, and; the sorrows of. the condenmech It is the Holy (theme What eifluence now tells thee that ft is Lime to fe)7, [het toonoterow may be too late; Iluit there is one door, one road, one moss, one sacrifice, one eestue? IL is The Holy Ghost. Don't you think He is here?. I see it in 'those solemn looks. I see Lt in those tear- ful eyee. I see it in 'those' beamehed cheeke. I see it in the upturned; Atm of childhood and the earneet gazot of old age. t know it fromi tbie silence like the grave. The Hely Ghost ,25 here, and, while I opeek, the canine at captives are falling, and the dun- geone of see are opening, ante the pro- digals coming, end the Felber is run- ning, and angels are shouting, and devils are trembling. Oh, It is ti mo- Menteus hour. It is Merged with eternal ilestinlett. l'he Meadows of the eternal world flit over thief nitertme binge, Berk! I hear the flringm of the saved. T hear the howling, et the damned. Heaven and hell *mon to integle, and eternity poitiets on the pleat of thin boar, Thy heather, Is beteg deeded, Tay doten is being fix- sa. The door at Morey, tie wide open, begine to clime. it treinnielt en 11* hiugee, e tie soon will be Oat. Timee ge tato tile, and those go tint 0 death; and these have begun the Plareh to lieevelni end leoSe have emameneed, to die. Timee hale began to rise, and those bow) begun to etuk, Hallelejahl Ifalletajahl Woe! Waal It 600111S :1 o Me RS LE the jUSignstent wore pest. 1(07' egos it in 11851. I imagine thet all the eentenees hive been awarded, the r 51218008 enthroned. ,11(1.1 Ice I dr( in roveg Lee his wieleettnees. Shut all ihe gatee of heavee. There aro no more Lo come in. 13011 1(11 the gates of dark- ness—no more to be. allowed' 1.0 come otet, Harkl the eternal ogee have be- gun their unending tramp! traMPI A GIRL'S AGE. Feminine Attractions Do dot End With Die -Teens. Habit still clings to the Idea Mega girl's age 18 either her pelt) 'or her Beanie, ie thing for which tshe be to be incessantly applauded or which Is to be softenetrolf and made es easy for her as possible, nem writer in elunsey's. The humorist; pa- pers still represene the world as inaeing jokes ((1201711 111024 ElderleIgh anti Miss Pas. say; but, as a matter of fact, Min liecler- lelgh aid bliss Plessey de till the joking there 15 en Die subject theleseives' The girl of the period 11/15 110 more redeem:1e about her years that:tithe hits about her ap- petite, displaying both with humorous (11,111(11088 111111 having only Room for the olcl fashioned person who would shread her birth year in mystery. ' "I'm 29, and If I couldn't get the better of that face in peoplees eyes I'd give ap so- ciety and take to boys' clubs, snid one youug women. ''10 Iris who fib ebent their ago aro petetleally neknowledging that their only power is their youthfulness and that there is nettling elso in them Well, It's their fault if it's true!" Sweet 17 10 still elle ago of supremo charm from the public slenulpoint, but as Indleiduals 'WO 11.110(7 better A girl in bar Moue is too imperfectly accendutod with herself to be Interesting, and by the modern staudaras she must be interesting even though elle Is beautiful. Her con- versation is always concrete and generally impersonal in spite of youthful e,gotisin, while the present ideate call for the ab- stract and:the personal. filer vitality and freshness con no longer counterbalance this lack, for there is not now such a de- cided contrast between her and her older sister in this respect. A nationel influx of common sense hes granted the hitter a new lease of youth, and the disappearance el the Madition that one must be an old maid beeauseoue does not marry has given her a rejuvenating freedom from raspiest - betty. From 23 to 28 years, or, some say, from 25 to 30, are 00111 tho boat years of a girl's life her climax of power, for she is thou gaining valuable mental ground without serious outward toes. She has discovered others and is beginning to discover her- self. The first wild, restless vanity is over, and yet the world still glitters with possi- bilities. She has not caught up with her future, and things are still worth while. A WOMAN'S REASON. Why the Homely Man Was Entitled to Her ilusbaniVe Vote. There is a government official now on duty in Washington whose face would elose the doors of a beauty show with a snap before he could get within a mile of %and yet he is not unhappy. On the non- trary, he has a sunny nature that makes his faces flower garden all the yearround. The mily- oritioism that can be made of him is that ho is as conceited about his homeliness as handsome mon are about their beauty. That may be unusual, but it is true. Tee other day hawse talking on tho subject of his looks. "Ten 781108 00 more ago," he said, was a candidate for congress in my state, with no show to win but plenty of en- thusiasm in the good muse. I had been making a tour of the district, delivering speeches, and at one place I remained over- night at a farmhouao in lieu of a tavern. I retired early, and about an hour later I heard the host and his wife oome into their room, which adjoined mine, with a rather loosely hung door between the two aparb- manta. I presume they thought I was asleep, because they talked along so I could. very easily hear. I was net interest- ed in their conversation, however, untie they began to talk about me. It was gen- eral at first, and then it narrowed down to my personality, the woman luguing for me like a good fellow. "At last she explained, 'Why, John, you owe it to the teaching of the Bible to vote for him and to work for hbn Moe John couldn't exactly 000 why, and I role on my elbow to hear the limed argument 'You do,' she explained, ' buoause you have no right to make his burden any heavier than the Lord made le for Min in the first place. You ought to do all you can for a man with a facet like his to snake him for- get it.' " Papa Walin,t Flattered. "Yes, sir, 1 have come to as1c. you for the hand of your claiighter." • "For Isabol's hand?" "Yes, sir. It is a mere formality, I know, but we thought it would be pleas- ing to 100 1.0 have 11113 go through with It." 'What's that—a mere formality?" "That is what I said—a mere funnel- itAnd may I inquire who suggested that asking myeensent to my daughter:' mar- riage was only a mere formality?" "II: WOO Isabere mother, air. " "babel's mother? Then Ihaye nothing further to say.". einferootrere "The cashier informed me," /mid the president, "that he was strongly tempt- ed to skip with the fund% but that he locked himself up with them and prayed over them all 'night and oeeroanie the tereptation." "I know 11," said the chief director. "I had a detective at his oor, one at each window and one on the roof—at the chimney Hue—while be was pray- ing," Reciprocity. • "Where do eetreases get all their pretty little tricks of high bred man- ger?' "They linitate the society girlit in the bome " -Arid where do society girls get all fascinating little ways?" 'Why, they buitate the sietreees on the Mane." A PLEA. FOR THE CARROT, , The parrot bait never attained in thie country that mestere of useful - naafi anti dietinction wherth belong to it In some other parte ot the world, !m1 is regarded rather as 'a plebeinn vegetable, not fit to appear with the soon in good sooiety. flew it fell Into OM low estate it is hard to understand, for it has not always been thus, In the East, vvbere it origin- ated, it serves In rattayi dishes, and long ago it was used in England ael an ornament, at loait in part. The leaves of the parrot are fernlike, but do not wilt aa molly, as ferns, and the ladies of t he court of King Charles L made them serve in the plate) of plumes in dressing the hair. The carrot has great virtue as a pre- servative of the health, and the fre- quent eating of it is said to add to the beauty of the Orin, bringin'g a soft, satiny quality to it, Cattlemen know hal 11. 18 good fon stock. It forms blood, so the country women tell us. Its roots mashed =Ore an excellent poultice for inflammatoie surfaces. There are two kinds of carrots which are common, One ie a small ea r rot scarcely bigger than the hutnb. IL came from France origin- ally. The other French oarrot is used abroad in combination with otter vegetables, and makes a delicious dish. Carrots and peas are 000ked sep- arately, and then warmed up: togeth- er, until a little brown, in oil or melt- ed butter. Tender green bean* may be combined in the same way. The French alwaye 1100 oil for cooking where we ueed melted butter, but it reuily matters little whioh is prefer- red. In France the carrot is served whole alter being cooked in oil, and it is rarely cut in halves, even when used with other vegetables. lf you like to -try new dishes, out the small carrots into halves, after having boiledi them until soft in salted water. Roll them In cracker dust, then in egg, and fry at butter until browned. You will be pleased with the result. Somewhat similar are caramel par- rots. In tlals instances out the car- rots into long narrow stripes, after having boiled them. When the butter in a frying pan is very hoe. drop in- to it the serips of carro1 which have been rolled in sugar and salted. When the edges are brown bake out, sprinkle with chopped paosely and serve. Carrous a la reine.---Scrape aud boil the vegetables in salted water until tender. Drain and then cover with any good gravy. Let them boil a few minutes in this, and if the gravy is thin thicken it. Serve Lille with pot roast or with, roast lamb, Another known way of pre- paring carrots to serve with lamb cutlets is this: Cook as before in the salted water. Drain, add a little gravey, a small onion, two cloves, and season with salt and pepper if needed. Steer until the °emote, may be mashed through a sieve. Allow a tablespoonful of butter to once cupful a pulp. Mer, heat up and mound it on a platter. Lay around the mound the broiled cutlets. There ts nothing plebeian about this dish' either in taste or appearance. There are several ways of making carrot soulp. The pulp given In tbe former receipt may he diluted with milk thickened with flour, seasoned with nutmeg, and will be found a de- licate soup. Here is another rule for soup: Put two quarts of good stoek tette kettle anct add to it two onions, , one thrall, and. six large carrots, all of them out in slices. Summer four hours, rub through a sieve, boil up once more, season highly, and serve. Rather stronger of the carrot will be Ibis soup. Simmer slowly in three large spoonfuls of melted butler, Stir carrots which halm been scraped and cut in small slices. Do not/ let. them brown. Let them cook for one hour In the butter, then turn over them two quarts of stock and simmer gent- ly for another hour. Strain through sieve, seelson and serve. Rather a delicious dish is Carrots a l'Allemande. Put three spoonfuls of butter inbo. a pan, and when melted, eight carrots out in thick rounds, one tablespoonful minced parolee, one hell teaspoonful minced onion and salt lo suit. Simmer for ten min- utes. Add one pint of st tick and cook for half an houe. Thinken with a spoonful of butter end flour mixed together, and boil ten minutes end serve. If the carrotare old and hard, they should have some prelim- inary conking. Have you ever prepared carrots for the table tut you prepare equarrh, mashing rod seasoning liberally with butter and melte It is a simple way of dreeeing it, but le good. You may like cold boiled carrots cut in dice and warmed In brown or wbite satice, Three desserts may be nude from carrots, mad they all heve found friends willing to devour them. which In ea gables is the true proof of friend- ship. Here is a boiled carrot pud- ding: Mix together half a pouted of %lotted raisins, half a pound of cur- rants, game amount of boiled and grnied cnrrot, quarter of a pound of finely chopped suet, quarter of a pound of =gar, t wo tablespoonfuls of finely cut candieh peel, half a Pound of brenderumbs, and three spoonfuls of flour, Usually there le moisture enough io the earrot to make it un- necessary to add any more. When all these ingredients( ore thoroughly mixed, turn into a vvell-buttered dish (Ina boll herd for hours. Oavrot pie is as good. es squash pie. tests puff paete for Lite crust. For lhe take two °arras boiled and mashed, two spoonfuls of beead-, erumbs, two of butter'three of tnilk, four eggs, sweeten to taste, aed "MEM with' nutmeg, Bake slowly eor so honr, Prate and good Is a carrot Merin. gee. To one half a Imp Of carrot. pulp, Web has been run through a 'leve, mid as much sugar, a piece a muter as large as a walnut and balf 1115 grated rind cel an orange. Turn in- to a pint of warm milk, and Mir into this the yolks of four and the whiee (Irene egg mai beaten. Set the bak- ing dise into a pen of ware1 water, end lake until the =steed Is firm in ehe middle. Cever 21:Ii a meringue made of the beaten whites, three filliesPeer rWs of powdered =Pie and a little grated fresh orange rind. Let thie set in the oven until a delicate brown. After you hove tried th'ese dishes you will find your contempt Of the common vegetable nate departed. If You wish tbe carrot to eery° your love of beauty as well as your appetite out off the pointed end, leaving the Wok part, From this scoop out I he mantra, fill with water and bang tto that tbe, top is down, and you will soon have a feathery ornaneent at your window, Keep a conetant sue- ty a venter in the hollowed part of the oarrot. It is this whieb makes Ile growth. TO PRESERVE CUT FLOWERS. A florist of mrtny yeaete experience gives the following reeipe for pre - [foreleg flowers; "When you receive a bouquet, sprinkle it lightly with fresh water; then pat it into a vessel con: n ;nine some aosinsuds, tylilob nourish the reels and keep the flow- ers as bright as new. Take the bou- quet out of the suds every morning, and lay it sideways in fresh water, the stook entering first into the wa- ter; keep it tbere a minute or two, then take It out, and sprinkle the flowers lightly by the hand with pure water. Replace the bouquet in the soap -suns, and the flowers will bloom as fresh as when first gathered. The soap -suds needs to be chained every third day. By obeerving these rulee, s. bouquet can be kept bright and beautiful for at least one month, and will last still tenger in a very Visa - able state, but the aLtention to the fair end frail °ventures, as direct - ad above, must he etriotly observed. RICE MERINGUE. One cupful 000ked rice, one pint sweet milk, one tablespoonful sugar, yolks of two eggs, well beaten, one teaspoonful cornstarch, smoothed in a little water, the grated rind of one lemon, if liked. Cook thoroughly in double boiler, then set aside to cool. Beat whites of eggs to sleIf froth, add juice of good-sized lemon, and one-fourth cupful powdered sugar. Pour this mixtue over pud- ding when ready to serve. PROFITING BY A PEST. Antlrella (Sells for feed ihe Rabbits She 41081101. Extormloate. Everybody hats heard of the extra- ordinary ravages of the European rab- bles that west, introdueed into Austra- lia years ago. The animals were im- pelled so that the ;Britiala subjects wive had removed to the !antipodes might enjoy the sport of rabbit hunt- ing. They hasi. Marie sport than they barguined for and the whole country regrets the day the liltle animal was introduced to Australian scenes. There aro many millions of them wee and the Little nibblers eat the grass that is required for Hooks and herds. de- stroy ilelde, orehords tend gardens and are LIE great nuisance oZ the ootantry, Tee, rewords offered iby the various colonies for eonto sure way cie deetroy- ing Lille pest would. make the fortune in the man who should eistiover the PrTcte'o,Tts..y, however, the Australians ep- peter to be a little more reigned. un- der the infliction. The idea, occurred to them, a while ago, hat they might utiese the anamal on a lenge scale as a ocanmeroial commoclity. So they eet Lo work ;to kill the rubbles by the theu,eends, men the meat end send It lo l2urapo Ian canneti rabbits seLL at a cheap peke in the Britieb markets and is be- ginning to the largely Gonsumed by those who cannot affortl very often to Indulge in prime beef, TIE largest ooneignment ef rabbit, thus far, left bielbeurne lain year, et part of a weenier load being 15,000 ceses of eans containing 380,000 raatate. Australia has found. a now industry and who knows but some deg, the rabbit may mane to be regarded tes' one of, the great resour„,eee of the continent I DON'T GO THERE No 11014 nw Labor ITI S41111ill 4108 Either NOW Or logo We cell tbe ettention of the Govern- ment to a. metter that needs inquiry, sale the South African NOWS. Dur - Lug the Last two weeks seven American compositors helve coma to the News ef- floe reeking far 'work, They any that in their own and other trades through- out" America men are told tbal thee Is plenty ot well-paid work 841(12(415 them in Aerioa ; that at least 21 clay can be earned, either in their own millings, or as mule drivere, and that the day the war is over there., Will be an unprecedented demand tor labor. 'Who is responstble for this eruct hoax ova do PM know. It may be lea t it is a little dodge of the capitnlists in the hope of bringing dowe wages. However that may let, Nre stiggssl to the Government that i1 should with- out: delay cable to America mating the feels—that distress is acute, and that in all probability worse Unice are in front of LW. And the trade sooleties ebould wile lio Atnerlea in the same femme. Motit of the men who come are practically destitute, In our own case we have to fiend the applicants on to the Relief Ornnmittee, but, pf course, it is nadir to expect thee ex- cellent orga.nization 'to deal milli a close et Mum quite foreign to its pur- YOUNG FOLKS +e, REMARKABLE HORSE 3IJMP. Without very good evidence, I eon« fess I elleuld have bev a unable to medic aa ieeldeut weeolt heppened one (ley at Norwieh ; but tide evidence has been overwhelmingly turniehed, end the thing unquestionably heel - petted.. The Narwhal ridino eehool Is entered by a door, eertainly not lees than six feet three inolies in' height, and, above tide there is an aperture el barely three feet. r The °bargee of Ow officer in the Seventh Hussars wan going round the sobool one day, with 4)0 oue on his beak, when euddenly, instead of turning' t120 oorner, he went etritight for the door, tucked his head between hie legs In what. Is dee sorebed to me, ‘ancl, xaust teereainlyt have been, an extraordinary wie- ner, and jumped out into the yard, The landing le -on aome flat Memel he slipped tend carme down ton hie side, slightly bruising himself, but do - lag no harm, and 18 11084 as well agate as ever. • linen (55(1 4100305 to think what six feet three inches means, and the manner in which the horse had Lo screw himself up In order to got through the aperture, the perform- ance, is certainly nothing short oe moevelous. Capt. Dibble, the ring- master, who was in the sohool at the time, made a trooper, who was Eve feet nine incluse In height, stand with els back to the door, and the woods work was oertainly a good six inches above his head. Tf tbis horse jumpe as well with a man on Itis back as without, it oug'et to take something out olf the oommon to stop him. ELIZtABETH'S ILLNESS. A physician, like a sotdier, Must re- spond to the oall of duty without al- ways waiting bo disoover the why omd wherefore. A doctor, who is evi- dently the, soul of devotion to his pro- fession, was recently put to the test, and much to his subsequent irrite- lien, was not found wanting. It be- fell in this wise, according to the doc- tor's report: One day last week I was just sit- ting down to dinner, when I received 0, call frore, a tattle e -year-old girl. whose father lives in the adjoining block. She was out of breath, but mho managed to gasp out for me to come • te the house right away. Thinking it must be something seat- s:MS that should cause the little girl to be Font fox me I seized my medieine e ase, and hurried off, "Who is sick 1" 1 asked,picking her up in my arms and carrying her, so that I might get, along faster. "Elizabeth," elm answered. "la she very sick," I asked. "1 think it is typhoid fever," she replied. This gave me a scare and quicken- ed my steps. We were no long in ar- riving at Lhe house, and I was sur- prised that no one met us. "This way," cried the little girl, seiz- ing my hand. Allowing myself to be led along, I soon found myself in a beelroom by the side a a doll's cradle, In which reposed a doll with a red rag tied round its throat. I was dazed for a moment, and came to only when 3. hened the little gist inquiring anxiously is I thought 1211- b th we.s goingto 1101. assuire,d hex that she wasn't, and all that she needed was a spanking. I meant the little ere nob Elizabeth, But from what I heard as I came away I am afraid that my adviee was not understood, and that Elizabeth got the spanking. • GIMES TO KILL EAGLES, Tee great Skua gulls have boon reared by the natives of lioula, one of the Shetland Isles, to kill eaglee. These birds breed in the Shetlands, and the inhabitants of the far-awao and lonely Island carefully rear and preserve these birds in artier to rid 184 'eland of the eagles, which COM - mil so many depredations. The mag- nificent red sandstone cliffs that skirt the northevestern attest became a favorite haunt of Lhe eagles, and in that inaccessible spot they increasete so rapidly that they became a terror to the farmers and fishermen who dwell on this isolated spot. The Skutt gulls are also strong and fierce, and have become the inveterate foe of the eagles. en battle the, gulls are near- ly always viotorious, and so the in- habitants of Foula, weds 'Prevision for feeding and caring for the Skutt gulls, which, though formidable to their feathered enemies, are very penoeful and doeile when brought into contact with may. The great Shun is a splendid example of a robber gull, de- riving Ps food ohiefly by ye:limb:Mg or even killing other sea fowl. It =insures aboul two teat in length; the plumage,is predominantly brown, %title white bases 1,114 the quills conepi- mous in flight.. NEW PUNCTUATION. A high school girl said lo her fa- ther the Mime night:; Daddy, I've got a sentence here I'd like to Mons you puoctuate. You know something about puncLuat ion, dune, you? A Bette, Mid Lee cautious parent, ite he took the slip cie paper she, hand- ed him. nits wisat he read : A five dollar bill flew around the 811518 1., 1181 Shafted 11 ethrefully. Well, he fin:illy 5a 1st, I'd simply put a period after it lilco thin e wouldn't, said the high school girl I'd melte R (kWh after it. A SHREWD PHOTOGRAPHER,. Photographer, to youtag lady, There 10 11,0 inted of telling you to look Diem, - ant, Wes. Stith a face one not be otherwitee Man pleemank Young Lady, graniously, 1 11.2111like two dozen, Air, ineetae of one dozen.