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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-2-10, Page 3FEB. 10, 1RO9, T$„E RU8SELS POST. 1 -0 -p -q-{-0-0-0 Voung Folks. - -0-0-0 -o s TIT TRA.VEL1,1N11 INTO NIiI . My master grinds an organ And I, pink up his money; And when you see me doing 1t You wilt it very funny, But, though I dance and caper, still I feel at heart tortoni, I wish I were in monkey-Inndse The place where I was born I There grow the great green oaeoanuts Around the palm tree's crown; I used to climb and pink them orf, And hear them -truck I-oomo down, There all day long the purple figs Are dropping from Lhe bough; There hong the ripe bananas, oh, I wish I had Immo now I I'd feast, and feast, and feast, and feast, And you should have a share, How pleasant 'Lis in monkey-landl 0, would that I were there! On some tall tree Lop's highest bough; Bo high the Mouth; would sail Just over me,,1 wish that' I Were swinging by my tail I'd swing, and swing, and swing, and swing, How merry that would bol But oh! a traveling monkey's life . Is very herd for mo. vory long without going to nee if his fish was still to the basket and had Plenty of water. Lien felt very sorry for mamma, be - melee elle did not oat:cb anything; and he promised hor she meld elaim part of hie fish. He was a happy little fishermen who trudged home that evening .lust at t bo Wire the cows were Doming n from Gm meadows and alto chickens ware going to roost, rape and Joe carne soon after, very Lired and suubrowned, but disapPoint- ed. "They wouldn't bite I" said father. "Didn't you cltluh a thing e" cried mamma, laughing. And then a proud and happy young man brought his big perch to show; and Like all fishermen, he had lots to say about what sport it was pulling him in and how be came very near get- ting loose, etc. Papa laughed, and declared that he believed they caught 11 with a "silver hook;' but Jon felt very small to think that his ft>nr-year-old brother had beaten him fishing, right: at home in the little brook. BETTY'S ARITHMETIC LESSON. Betty was eating one of mamma's lovely round turnovers and studying /mottoes. She had just. begun to Lake litho nibbles from the edge of the turnover, " to make it spend," when paps gave her a question to work out. " From four -fourths take one-fourth." Betty thought fractions dreadfully stupid things. She didn't try to think out the answer in the way papa had explained to her over and over, but guessed it would be " seven -eighths l" and put it: do'tvn on the paper that way. Then she took another nibble out of the side of her beloved turnover. Papa looked at the answer and then at Betty. Then he looked nt the turn- over and lasLly at shaggy old Bruno, who had just coins into the room, He took out his knife, and taking the turn- over, ho cut it into Lour quarters. " Now, Betty," ho said, cheerfully, "as I told you yesterday and as you see here, there aro four -fourths, or four quarters in the whole of, anything. Now if we take atony one -fourth -here, Bruno 1 -what is there left e" Betty saw a quarter of I:hnl beauti- ful turnover disappear down Brunet throat Three-quarters 1' she said, with a little gasp, in bar voice. And if you will believe me, Betty never forgot how to work in " fourths" after that. WHAT BENNIE CAUGHT. Bennie hung on the gate, welching, as long as he could. See it, the cart dis- appearing down tho road, in which were father and Joo, going fishing in the lake, four miles away. Tho little fellow wanted to go, toot and he could hardly keep back the tears when he re- membered that his father had said: "Not this time, little man, 1 am afraid you would get tired and jostle the boa t." So six-year-old Joo went proudly away, with a rod on his shoulder, feel- ing so important that he hardly stop- ped to say good-bye to the small bro- ther hanging on the gate. Ben called "bye" to them, through the bars of the gate, in a voice that was not quite steady; and Joe sent bank a gay shout: "Good-bye, Bennis! 1'11 bring you a big string of fish." But Ben's lips quivered. He thought it would be nicer to sit in a boat and catch his own fish, He had never tri his lire been fishing He was just brushing two big round tears off his nose when mamma came out on the porch with a pan of peas, calling - "Mother needs a Little man to help her I" Soon Bennie was so busy popping the green balls out of their jackets that he did not feel near so badly about be- ing left behind. Presently his mdlher said - "Now, manikin, if we fly round and finish all the work, what do you think we'll do?" "What 2" asked lien, breathlessly. "We'll go down to the brook and Eh„ "Oh, goody 1" And Ben clapped his hands. At twelve o'clock mamma tied un her big sunbonnet, peeked a basket of sandwiches and got the rods and lines :ready. .Ben dug some hall and away they went across the meadows waving with long, pretty grass, through the wood -lot where the birds sang in tbe trees and to the aids of a lovely, bab- bling brook, which, mamma saki, was talking to itself es it hurried busily Itlung, going eomcwhere. Mamma throw her lino in and began to read h book. Ben eat as still as a mouse, watching the lines anti nibbling n sandwich now and then, Ile was just getting a Jittle tired of keeping so still, when the oork stopped bobbing up and down and dived etr tight: elf in the water. ' Sh-ll-h I" whispered mamma, laying clown her book, And she quietly pub bee hand over Ben's; and they draw the line gently-oli, so gently -toward the bank. Then, when the fish gave a big, strong tug, as ie he was Won - (tering what was palling against: him, mam50a jerked the line giti.ckly up; and there lay Mr. Irish on the green bank l Ilea sus BD dolightycl that ha could only oxchtrni, "011, my I Oh, my 1" as be or:Jeered'about his catch. It was a perch, and ire shiver sides glistened in the sun. After that he could not sit POLICE FORCES COMPARED. Lowden has Twlre as ;deny Policemen as Vett Vern, and They Cost Less. The present population iof the city of London is 4,500,000. 11 was 4,113,- 018 offleielly by the eensus of March, 1890. The present papulation of rho city of Ncw York is 0,500,000, and New York and Londou are now the two largest cities in the world. Paris, the third largest, being nearly 1,000,000 be- hind New York, and Berlin having less than one-half the population of New York city. By the last published re- port made eo the British home Sec- retary by Sir le. It. Bradford, London Commissioner of Police, it appears that at the beginning of 1808 the London force consisted of 3e superintendents, 578 inspeolors, 1,008 sergeants, and 12,034 constables, or a total of 15,152. Of these, 4 superintendents, 52 in- spectors, 107 sergelukts and 1,505 con- stables were employed on special duties for various Government departments, including special protection, posts at public offices and buildings, dock yards and military stations. Under the ex- isting system about 00 per cent, of the Luudun police force available for duty in the streets is. required fur night duly -from 10 Lem. to 0 a.m, The New York Pollee Department, at the time uL the last report, was just . ONE HALF AS LAR,Gle • .t1tW:;N1NWr11ihMilNNtNJi �m Agricultural PRACTICAL DAIRY RULES. Read current dairy literature and keep posted un new ideas. Observe and enforne the utmost clean- liness about the cattle their attendants Hie stable, the dalry and all utensils, A person suffering from any disease, or who hum been exposed to 0 conLa33- IonH disease, must remain away from the °hove and the milk, Keep dairy cattle in u room or build- ing by themselves. It is preferable to have no (teller below and no storage loft. above. Stables should be well ventilated, lighted and drained; should have Light floors and walls, Dad be plainly con- structed, Never use musty or flirty litter. Allow no strong -smelling material in Lhe stable for any, length of Lime. Store the manure outside I.he cow stable, Dud remove IL to a distance as often as praolieable. Whitewash the stable once or twtee u year. Use land plaster in the man- ure gutters daily. Use no dry, dusty feed just previous to milking; if fodder is dusty sprinkle it: before it is fed. Clean end thoroughly air stable be- fore milking, Keep the stable and dairy room in good condiLlon, fresh air and clean. Promptly remove from the herd any animal suspected of being in bad health and reject her milk. Never add an. animal to the herd until eerlaiu tit is free from disease, especially tuber- culosis. Do not move cows faster than a com- fortable walk, while on the way to Lhe place of milking or feeding. No sav- age dogs. Never allow tbe °owe to be excited by hard driving, abuse, loud talking, or unnecessary disturbance. Do not ex- pose them to cold or storms any length of Lime. Do not change the feed suddenly. Feed liberally, and use Duly fresh, palatable feedstuffs, In no case should decomposed or mouldy material be used. Provide water in abundance, easy of access and always pure; fresh, but not too cold. Do not use impure pond wa- ter. Salt should always be accessible. Do not allow any strong -flavored food like garlic, cabbage and turnip to be eaten, except immediately after milk- ing. Clean the entire body of tbe cow daily If hair in Lhe rsgton of the udder is not easily kept clean it should be clip- ped. Do not use within twenty days before calving, nor for three to five days af- eossary to deliver twine a day during the hot test weather. When cans tire hauled far they should be full and carried in a spring wagon. In 1301 weather cover tbe mins, when moved in a wagon with u clean, wet blanket or mLJLvaS or snowed milk box, Milk utensils for farm or dairy use should be made of metal and have all the joints smoothly soldered. Never allow them to become rusty or rough inside, Do not haul waste products batik to the farm or dairy in the same can used for delivering milk. When tbie is un- avoidable insist that the skimmilk or whey tanlc be kept clean. Cans used for the return of skim - milk or whey should be emptied and cleaned as soon as they arrive at 1110 farm. Clean all dairy utensils by thorough - 1y, rinsing them in warm water. Then clean Inside and out' with a brush and hot water, in wlileh a cleaning mater- ial is dissolved, 'P11e11 rinse and last- ly sterilize by bolting water or steam. Use pure water only. After cleaning keep utensils invert- ed, in pure air, and sun If possible, until wanted for use, as that of London, comprising a force of 5,320 in Manhattan, and the Bronx, 1,878 in .Brooklyn, 103 in Queen's and 04 in the borough of Riehmond. In- cluded in these numbers are the bicy- ole squad of 80, the detecLivo squad of 120, the sanitary squad of 03, the court squad oL 177, and the telegraph squad of 25, exolusive of 14 deteotives in Brooklyn and 15 members of the ordi- nance police in Brooklyn. The arrests matte by the Loudon pollee number 510, UUU in a year, attests by the New York polos number 110,000, and the small difference in the numberet arrests in view of the large difference In popu- Laitou is explained by the fact that police arrests in London ale more usn- ally the results or formal complaints by citizens than the independent acts of policemen, and moreover a large la- titude scorns to bo given in matters of Moat order, its maintenance or disturb- anee, than is the case in New York, Quite a ocnsiderable number of ar- rests made in New York are o1 what may be called a tentative oharaoLer, re- sulting in the discharge of the ac- cused person on arraignment either at the ponce station or in court. More than one-quarter of the number of those arrested in New York for serious ofienoes are disoherged without the formality of a trial, and of those ar- rested for minor offonttes the propor- tion discharged is about one third. In London during the year oovcred by the hist report there were eighteen cases of murder, of which three re- sulted in conviction in Um first degree. In New York, the number of arrests for murder is larger in a year, but the pro- portion o4 convietions is higher tee. THE EXPENSES of the London. Police Department are, approximately, 57,50(1,000 a year, while those of the NevtYork Police Depart- ment this year are in excess of 011,000,- 000, a dine -mime explained to part by the fact that the pay of the London po- licemen is much smaller than the pay Of New York polioemen for like ser- vice. The salary account is 010,000,000 a year. In one particular at least the London Pollee Department appears to be more diligent and effective than the New York force, hind that is in recov- ering lost property, of which there are In a year about 4,000 articles restored in New Turk, and 10,000 in London, in- cluding umbrellas, blankets, macin- toshes, baby carriages, hats, hat pins, uveroouis, books and newspapers. The average number of arrests Matto by a London policeman is not more than 7 in each year, as against an average of 28, four Limes as many, made by Paris policemen. The average number of arrests made by New York city police- men varies from 18 to 20 so in respect to the activity of its police foree, New York may be said to stand between London and Paris, as it does in popula- tion, and nearer to Paris than to Lon- don in this respect. The average height of London policemen is 70 in - clue, and the average weight 185 pounds. NOT NEW -WOMANISH. bl:innier-Don't you wish we woman -were strong enough to defend our- selves like mane M.omie-No. We would lose the sat- isfacl ion of telling those hateful men just what we would litre to, do to them. ' ENTIRELY IMIPAUUTIAL. Traveler -Which is the shortest, qubekost and best: route to the West? Ticket Agent -I don't know, sir. Have you no opinion on the subjects Nona at all. They nil pay the same conunUSslon now. ANNUAL The fact that apple trees, and to some extent pear trees also, get into the habit of hearing only each alter- nate year, and somatimee missing that, is the worst setback for average apple - growers. Yet by judicious care and pruning• it is comparatively easy, ac- cidents excepted, to secure crops ev- ery year. What is needed is to pre- vent the excessive growth of fruit In FRUIT BEARING. 4 4 4 4♦ 409 00. •0 444•♦♦ 4•• i ,r Y About the House, ,. . M♦4.004♦®♦00444♦00$4♦0'041 WI1AT BABY CAN DO. 1t can wear out u pair of 51 kid shoos in less than twenty-four hours. It can simultaneously occulty both sides of the largest. lied made. LL can make ite•:elr look like a fiend ,lust when its mother wants to show it 0111, It can make an old. bachelor in Ihs next room, use language that, 11 01- leered on the street, would get him in the penitentiary for two years. It can go from the farthest end of the room to the foot of the stairs in the hall quicker than its mother can step Into the closet and out again. years of plenty, which so exhaust the tree that it is unable to make fruit buds for blossoms the following year. Then es to pruning, It is always best to check the leaching shoots of both apple and pear during the growing season, This will make small growth of wood, but more blossoming and fruiting. If fruit falls off to an un- usual extent it means that there is Probably not enough mineral plant food available to develop it. Often this means not lack of potash and phos- phate in the soil, but hack of water to enable the roots to secure them. Some falling off of blossoms before they set or just after is inevitable. Nature provides many more blossoms than she can possibly perfect into fruit, and she also partially thine them and if a very dry time comes after fruit is set nature often thins them too much. An extremely wet season generally means a large fruit orop, though if much ruin falls tvhble the tree is in blossom LL washes off the pollen from the blossom, and it either comes to nothing or grows into gnarled and dis- torted forms. This lmperfeot fruit should be picked off as Noun as dis- covered, so that the sap may be concen- trated to perfect the beet specimens. In all cases when thinning fruit se- lect the poorest, though if two peaohes or pears are growing too closely to- gether, and are both equally good, one should be taken off anyway, Many of these undersized and defective fruits hang very loosely on the stem, and would probably drop before ripening. Nature has already begun the process of getting rid of them, But so long as the fruit adheres to the stem, IL is getting some sap which would be best given to perfect the best. Thus even in vegetable life the rule holds good that those making best use of opportunities secure most of nature's favors, If the soil is known or believed to be deficient in mineral fertilizers et is much better to apply them early in winter, so that snows and rains can dissolve them. The roots run deeply, and though it is natural fur the heavy, mineral fertilizers to sink into the soil, they will not go deep enough to escape the roots which large fruit trees are always sending out in search of them. If you onto get an orchard in the habit of bearing every year it will be easy to keep up this habit by using very little stable or other nitrogenous manures, and using liberally potash and phosphate. This will give the ma- terial for producing annual crops, and by never allowing the trees to overbear these may be made Lo ooms every year. tsrw•ard, The milk should be clean in all re- spects. He should not use tobacco when milking. He should wash and dry his hands bel,re milking. The milker should wear 0 clean outer garment, used Daly when milking, and kept in a clean place at other times. Brush the udder and surrounding parts just before milking, and wipe them with a clean, damp cloth or sponge. Milk quietly, quickly, cleanly and thoroughly. Cows do not like unne- oessary noise or delay. Commence milk- ing at exactly the same hour every morning and evening, and milk the cows in the same order. Throw away -but not on the floor, batter in the gutter-tbe first few streams from each teat. This milk is very watery and of little value, but it may injure the rest, If in any milking a part of the milk is bloody or stringy or unnatural in appearance, the whole mess should be rejeoted. MIilk with dry hands. Never allow the hands to mote in contact with the 501114. Do not allow dogs, oats or loafers to be around at milking time. If any at:oident occurs by which a pailful of milk becomes dirty, do not try to remedy this by straining, but reject all( this milk and rinse the pall, All parsons wbo mills the cows should have thou' finger nails out closely. Remove the milk of every mow at once from the stable to elean, dry room, where the air is pure and sweet, Do not allow cans to remain in stables while they are being filled. Never keep milk in your stable or near bud adore• Strain the milk through a metal gauze and a flannel cloth ur layer of cotton as soon as it Is drawn, Aerate and cool t:he milk as 50011 as strewed. 111 au apparatus for airing and cooling at the same time is not at hand, the milk should bo aired first. This must. be dont in pure air, and it should then be cooled to .15 deg.; 00 deg. if for home use or delivery to a factory or delivery for domestic use sold by pint or quart. Never close a can containing warm milk which has not been aired, and cooled by turning from one to the oth- er, stirred or dipped until animal heat [soul. If cover is left off the can a plebe of oloth er mosquito netting should be used to keep out insects. If 501114 is stored, It should be held in tanks of frosh„ cold water, renew- ed daily, in a Moen, dry, ooltl room, Unitise it is desired to remove cream, it should be stirred with a tin stir- rer often (tough to prevent forming a thick, cream layer. Beep the night's milk under shelter, so rain cannot gat into the Dans. In warm weather hold it In a tank of fresh, cold water. Never tide fresh warm milk will) that which has been tooled, DD not allow Guy milk to freeze. . Under no eireumsinnaes should any- thing be added to milk to prevent its souring. Cleahli,oess end cold ore the un1,y preventive needed, All milk should'be in good 00110111103n wheh delivered. This may melte it tie - A MOTHER'S PLACE. people, When properly and tboroug111y evoked Lt le certelnly as sweet. and ap- petizing a meat as one can find, but 11 takes much longer to digest than a1 - most any other meat Following are a few reliable recipes, gleaned from various sources: Roast Tenderloin of Pork. -Place one and, a half pounds short tenderloins of pork, seasoned wish h:.f o tablespoon- ful melt and a half toasty0onful pep- per in a small roasting pan with one sliced union, 1dree sliees of carrot and three slices of larding pork. Set, them iiia a het oven and roast. until brown, then add half a "up of water, roast and baste until demi. Lay the meat on; a hot dish, remove all fat Crone the gravy. Dilute one teaspoonful corn- stermh with a little meld water, add to tbe sauce, st:lr for a few minutes over the fire, add sufficient boiling wa- ler to make •1 creamy ea ace, strain and pour a little over the meat. Sauerkraut and Spare Ribs. -Take two pounds sparel'ibs, welsh and plane A mother's place is by no means nn them in a saucepan, cover with boiling easy one if elle is truly interested in I water, put one quart of sa00rkraut on her children, for- she must feel that 1 top of the spareribs, cover and mole all these virtues must be contained arta Hour and a half; then remove Lhe within herself if she accomplish her ate 1 spareribs, and lay diem on a hot dish, most with her child, so says a writer I taste the kraut, if not salt enough add more salt, and If not sour enough add In an exchange. Self-oontrol is per -:one tablespoonful white vinegar; then )haps the must, difficult attribute for I grate one peeled p0t,tt0, add it to the a mother at. all limes, but one of the { kraut, stir and cook five minutes, then serve, most important. Mothers cannot ex -1 ;Brown J3aoon.-Just a sprinkle of peel Ln Seo it in their obildren unless ranuLited sugar on baron when Lry- the child is able to see the same in, g them. The first. lessons may' he given ' Log will cause it to brown quickly, and a little babe, as in its attempts to help; also improves the taste. Cora must be Itself is begins to climb and perhaps ; taken not to hive the fire too hot, as it take a step and down it 33005. It first Inclination is to cry, but the wise moth -I eeorches easily. I always cook it a or, instead of snatching the little 1'01- little on both sides before sprinkling low up, running to the window, show -I with the sugar, so that it may be done, ing a favorite pncluro, or sumeth;ug to. as well as brown. The grease in the divert its attention, will lovingly teach; the little Dna to be bravo. skillet: is much bat" far gravy when As the harder humps roma to the lit -1 broil, nod as above. Stile a tablespoon- lle life, the being brave will grow up ful of flour into .the hot fryings, stir - on him until In later life he to {repay kung quickly until smooth, then add a ed Lo face the more sordous ol,struet.ions Pint ut milk, salt and pepper to taste, in his path with a brave heart and a boil up thoroughly and serve. dependence upon self when no moth- Roast Hine-Seteet a email ham nib er's hand can guide him througb, e, Ihln rind, which indicates that the 'fbe great trouble in the homes of j hparentam is fr,.m D young pig; score the today is the arbitrary controlling rdnd one-fourth inch apart, season the child by the parents, and the sud-den throwing him upon bis own re- with one teaspoonful salt, ono tea- sponsibility, when the suitable age 0p- spoonful pepper; place the dam len a pears. 11 parents do not watch for ev- cry opportunity to unconsciously iroasting pan iii a medium hot oven, m - plant self-control in the Labe, and the roast until light brown, basting fre- ehild, they cannot expect 11 to drop quently with its own gravy; then add as a kilt from heaven when he is plac- edone-half pint boiling water, two slices where he must depend upon him- salt, of carrot, one onion with two cloves WAR COSTS $50 A SECOND. Number of Men Milled 30 the First Half of the Century. The Washington Star estimates that since the days et the Trojan war no fewer than 1,^-00,000,000 men, have been 511or1111ced on the altar of the God of War, If it were possible to gather together these millions oil war's vic- tims into one ghastly urmy they would forma column, tweuty-seven abreast, long enough to clasp, the earth at the equator, with a residue of tea similar columns stretching from Lundon,acroSs Europe., to Naples. I11 this filo were to pass ai saluting point at Lhe rate oL one every second, night as well as day, the last "shade" would only become visible In t15 au- tumn of 1.031, Two and a half million men tell on European battlefields during the first half of this century alone; and this Slaughter cost Europe the colossal sum of (6,850,000,000, Each victim cost 32140 to kill. A calculation as careful AS is possible places the total cost of sal' during the last 3000 years at the appalling sum of 5000,000,000,000. Alt the countries of Europe aro spending on their armies and navies at the rate of nearly $50 a second, or the almost incredible sum of *4,000,000a day. A MOVING MYSTERY. Mrs. Briokrow, niter the annual mov- ing-Tite family who last lived in Ibis libelee loft it in a perfectly horrible 0011di11011. Mr, iertekrow-T110 agent told 3310 it had stood empty ever since we lived in it before. • stuck in, roast and baste frequently till nearly done (allowing twenty min- utes to a pound); turn the ham over with the rind side downward. 1f the gravy should cook away Luo much add more water, but a little at a time, roast ten minutes. Turn the rind side up and let rete In five minutes longer in Ibh oven. Transfer the ham to a het dish; remove the fat from the gray, mix one-half leispoenful corn starch with a little cold water, add to the gravy, stir and cook a few minutes: add sufficient boiling water or broth to make a creamy sauce; strain and serve with the meat, SOME, GOOD RECIPES. Consomme With Egg Foam. -To one quart of consomme add one pint of rich milk and heat. Blend a table- spoonful of potato flour with two yolks of eggs; pour the soup, just off the boiling point into the mixture ; stir well and cook slowly for eight minutes. See that the consomme is perfectly sea- soned before the addition of the milk. Beat the whites of the eggs with a pinch of fine salt to a froth, add a tablespoonful of boiling milk, beat again and place a large spoonful of this foam on lop of each plate of soup when serving. This foam is delicious served on tomato cream soup. Creamed Chicken. Cut a well -clean- ed young chicken into eight pieces, take the breast, second joint and legs, sea- son with one heaping teaspoonful salt, half teaspoonful pepper, put: one table- spoonful butter in a blazer, add the chicken, sprinkle over the tablespoon- ful lemon juice, place IL over 1110 lamp, cover and cook ton minutes, stirring it onceduring that time; then adel one cupful boiling water and a small onion, cook slowly Lill done. If the broth should boil away add a little more water. Shortly before serving lay the chicken on a hot dish, remove all fat from the broth, stir a few minutes, pour the sauce over the chicken and serve with buttered toast or croutons, Maple Mousse. Whip one pint of cream light and frothy then drain it well, Beat the yolks of four eggs light, put in a saucepan a generous cup of mapte syrup, stir in the beaten yolks and place over the fire. Stir un- til the mixture becomes hot and the eggs; thicken the syrup, takefrom the fire at once and stand the pun in a dish of ice water and beat the mix- ture with 011 egg beater, until it is light and cold; then gently mix with it the whipped and drained cream, Meanwhile pack an ice cream freezer with salt and ice, using more salt than Tor ice cream. Turn• the prepared mix- ture into the packed freezer, cover closely and let It stand In a cool place three or four hours, , French Lyonnaise Potatoes. -Cut in thin slices three cupfuls of cold boiled potatoes, Cut in very thin slices a scant cupfut of onions, and shake them into rings. Put in a frying pan with a tablespoonful of butter and when a pole yellow add Gm potatoes; season with a teaspoonful of self, one fourth the quantity of pepper, a stunt Loa spoonful of minced parsley and the juice of half a lemon; fry a sleep yel- low and serve very hot. Before sending to the table squeeze the juice of the other half of the lemon over the dish. Dresden Eggs. -Boit 10 eggs for 15 minutes, put them in cold water for 10 minutes. Remove 111e shells, out the eggs in halves lengthwise, and rub the yolks to a smooth paste, with 10 drops of olive oil, a quarter teaspoonful of salt, a pinch of pepper and two beep- ing tablespoonfuls et cold ham; chop- ped vo1y fine; mix thoroughly, end fill the hollowed whites with the mix- ture, Serve in a bed uf'small toasts, with a create Satter poured around. These aro very appetizing. Fruit Cookies, --Two cups of sugar, ono and one third cups of butter, three eggs, one cup of chopped raisins, one cup of currn1118, ons teaspoon each of cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg and soda, flour Lo maks quite stiff. SOdIR PORK RECIPES. Although pork is considered by many to be unfit for food, it keeps its place an 1 he bilis of fare of the naejnrity of housewives, and will eonlin00 to do so until 3011 come to be a moat. -eating Health Department. SIMPLE GYMNASTICS. To remain young a woman m1151 la" her juinl.s limiter ; if negleoted they bee corms painful and stiff. Women groan' 301111 ('henm11110 p;1100, when, if they ex' erelsed properly, riaeumailsra would be unheard uf. Women sit by a fire and; shiver with cold, when, df they enoour- aged gymnastics, the blood would Cir.( eulale vigorously through 1 be body. The following four simple exereiees will greatly help to develop and pre-, servo physical symmetry; 1. Stand ascot, with hands out- stretelied, on a level with the shoulders and slowly raise yourself on your toes as far es possible, Retain this position for an instant, and then sink back on the entire, foot. Do ibis twenty times a day at first, and inaresao each day to a reasonable limit, 2. Placa the hands on the hips, and, resting all the weight of the boiy, on t hi right foot., slowly raise the left leg, and extend it in front of the body. 'Then bend a1the knee, pointing Lha toe downward, and bringing the foot up. Repeat this ten times at first. Than stand on the left foot and repeat the exercise in reverse. 3. Stand erect and lean over at the hips without bending the knees and try to touch the floor with the fingers, Day by day you will come nearer and nearer the floor. This exercise will make the body supple and strengthen the hack, and will encourage grace. 4. Extend the right arm, and plac- ing the left on the hip, bend to right side as far as possible, and then reverse the exercise, which should be repeated ten times at first, and, like all the others, increased from day to day, as Much es circulnstanoes will permit. This Ls an excellent general gymnastic. No woman should indulge in any exer- cise to such au extent that oven the slightest strain is possible. Fifteen minutes a day spent in exercise at home should result in muscular devel- opment and greatly help to retain health. ROYALTY AND RICH GEMS. 'When a London dealer in precious stones is commanded to Wiudsor or Osborne he finch in the Queen a very shrewd and intelligent purchaser. She knows diamonds like an expert, and buys like one. She owns a marvellous green diamond that has never been set, and; furthermore, she has at her fin- gees' ends the history of every notable stone in Europe now in possession of royally. Queen Margaret, of Italy, owns next to the ex -Queen of Hanover, the finest necklace of pearls in existence. She does not, like her deposed Majesty of Hanover, possess a six-foot string of those love -beads, everyone an absolute match in shape and 001003', but so ex- tensive and precious are her pearl ropes that her malds are onliged to wear a portion of the colleotien all the while in order to assist the Queen in keeping the gems pure, lustrous and healthy by constant contact with warm, human flesh, It is King Humbert who buys the pearls for his wife, and he is, like Queen Vietoria, an expert in jewels. The Empress of Russia wears next after Queen Victoria the largest dia- mond end rubies of surpassing splen- dour, but all of these belong to the nation, though the richest until most varied aggregation of }mecluus stones are owned by the Russian church, That quiet, domestic lady, the Queen of Dresden, enjoys the. ownership of four sapphires equal in size and beauty to one llutt glows in the Crown of England, and the favourite wives of the Shah of Persia and the Sultan of Turkey wear turquoises, the like of which no western queen can boast. Mars. Langtry at one time owned the most. perfect set of turquoises in Eu- rope, but her necklace and braeeless were sold at length, and the f,nest stones (-0111 Lo America. The Duchess of Westminster still wears, however, the lergest flawless turquoise owned 1>y any private indi- vidual;the Duchess of Sutherland pos- sesses the only complete necklace of black pearls, and it is said by jewellers that Airs, Potter P01mer'5 star sap- phires are still unrivalled. SHOP AND L14ATHIER FAIR, A despatch from Ottawa says: -The Department of Trade and Commerce will shortly issue 0 ciroulnr to the lea- ther trades of Canada in 00111100111611 Will the fifth international Shoe and Leather Fair to be held in the Royal Agricultural hall in London next April. The importance of the lhchi- bilion is enhanced by the aetiou of the Shoe and Loather Assootntion !cnddng to the eneourngement of importation of leather from Canada. HOW THEY AC'P, SOME Ole THEM Guest -1 am amazed to dear you say that that delicate and refined young fatly is Miss Pert 1 I met lair al Faith - ion Grove last summer, and thought her the loucl01311 coarsest, Mntunonesi', lno011vulgarly holdmlislt creature Inver new in my life. IToslees-i-3at that was In the coun- try, yon know. LAUGH AND GROW LOVELY. One's general physical condition as so closely allied to the mental that laugh- ing is a good, invigorating tonic for the entire system. A long, hearty laugh expands the lungs, making the blood course through the veins quickly, and this simple process gives a peach -like complexion to the woman who laughs. And wbe14 she laughs her eyes twinkle and the brightness lingers there after the laughter has died away. Laughing, too, strengthens the muse cles of the face and banishes that drawn look so familiar to the sad -faced woman. The women, who have adopted the laughing cure claim that they have never felt so cheerful and thoroughly good-natured before in their lives, end their friends tell them they are poet - lively growing beautiful. Many a man has been scared off from asking a woman to become his wife by the assertion fromher lips that she has a bad temper and is proud of it. Mien are selfish creatures, and, above all things, like physical and mental com- fort. Perhaps the average man does not hope to attain happiness in this world, though in truth lie never ceases to seek it, but he does believe that there is such a thing as harmony, and he knows that a bad tempered woman and harmony do not go hand in hand. Amiability is power, if women outy knew it. Be, being always cheerful and amiable she can get ahold on men that the bad-tempered woman, no matter how beautiful, rich and alluring she is, never dreamed of in her philosophy. Amiability is not only power. It is health. It is mental progression. It is long life to one's self and to others. A WILD ROSE SKIN. When a Swedish woman has a clear, beautiful skin, it rivals almost in ex- quisite loveliness the bloom of the "English rose," or her cousin, the "Am- erican lily." To lie in bed and be waited on by a nurse with a wild rose complexion end to discover that when health returns one may hope to attain to such a complexion by the use of very simple means, seems to make ug in some degree for the weary days in bed. "Oh, nurse, if I only had your com- plexicn I" "If I could change my dull, spotted skin for one like yours, it seems to me I would be willing to jump into 1 a barrel of boiling oil." "Well, don, 50ees," was the reply, "you can haf it., sure, it you do but one leetlo ting. 'My fees vas all spots vat you call 'peemples,' and the doctor he say it rhan330 of anent -tie, He dm tell me to buy 25c vorth 'phosphete of .soda.' I take a teaspoouiul in a glass , yarn vnte0 al bed. 111ne, and de mama be- fore brankfnst. It net nasty. So, for von veok I also tike the some before each other meal; after dal: for von veok I take only night and morning. In two week, behold me as now." Reader, I bave followed the above ad - vine for "von half reek" only, and al- , ready my skin seems like "that of a little child;' writes a correspondent. To thane who desire to change n thick unresponsive skin, for n clear, bright complexion, this simple and praot.ioal advice Is gladly given by a convelese cent. OBJECT TO WATER„ There are in the world several kinds of animals that have never swallowed a drop of water in all their lives; these inalude the lamas of Patagonia and certain gazelles of the far east. 4. i>aroquent lived 52 years 111 London Zoological Gardens, without drinking a dire, and some naturalists think that hares tape no liquid except the dew that semezleaes forme on the 33raes i that they eat. A considerable taunt - her of reptiles -serpents, lizards, and certain halrachians-live end prosper , in places where there is no water at all, libnn11y, there are oven in France, in tho neighborhood el the l.ozaro, h'rds of (tows end goats that almost I u1)vo' drink, end wltlnll nevertheless prc,du0e 111a milk of which the 'famous .Roquefort chaste le made.