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Selected Recipes.
Egg Gents,—Mix ono cupful of
cold chopped meats with one cupful
of bread -crumbs; add one table-
spoonful of melted butter, salt,
pepper, and enough mills to bind
together well. Fill well -greased
gem -pans with the mixture; break
an egg on the top of each, season
with salt and popper, and bake
eight minutes.
Citron Nets.—Ohop very fine one -
gloater of a pound of orange -peel
and one-quarter of a pound of cit-
ron, Beat together for fifteen min-
utes three eggs and two cupfuls 'of
sugar. To this mixture add the
chopped orange -peel and citron and
one and three-quarters cupfuls of
flour. Stir the mass until no flour
can be seen; form it into balls the
size of walnuts, Bake them until
yellow on greased tins in a moder-
ate oven.
Allumettes. (An old French re-
ceipt).—Chop one cupful of very
cold butter into two cupfuls of flour,
to which has been added a pinch of
salt. Mix into a soft dough with
one-half cupful of ice -water, or
more if needfed. Roll fairly thin,
spread with white of egg beaten
stiff, and powder quite thickly with
confectioners' sugar. Cub in nar-
row strips or diamonds, and bake
on tin sheets in a rather quick oven.
Serve with ice-cream or afternoon
tea.
Lemon Mice Pudding. --To one
cupful of rice boiled soft in water,
add one pint of cold milk, a piece
of butter the size of an egg, the
yolks of four eggs; and the grated
rind of one lemon. Mix, and bake
one-half hour, Beat the whites of
four eggs, and stir in one pint of
sugar and the juice of one lemon.
If the pudding is to be eaten by
persons who like sweets, as much
as half a cupful of sugar can bo ad-
ded. After the pudding is baked
and cooled a little, pour this over
it, and brown it in the oven. Serve
cold.
Oaten Paneakes.—Put two cup-
fuls of rolled oats into `three cupfuls
of boiling water ; cover and let stand
for fifteen minutes. Add a salt -
spoonful of salt, a tablespoonful of
sugar, and, one by one, two un-
beaten eggs. Mix all together, and
immediately fry the batter by the
spoonful in butter. Should the pan-
cakes not hold together when fry-
ing, add a tablespoonful of flour to
the batter.' Serve as hot as pos-
sible, with powdered sugar, or with
a compote of fruit. Sugared sliced
oranges may well be served with the
pancakes.
Stuffed Ilan,—Select a newly
cured ham, if possible. Boil it
slowly until it is so thoroughly
cooked that the bone can be re-
moved. It may be taken out or not,
as you please. For the stuffing,
take one pint of toasted bread or
crackers, two tablespoonfuls of
celery -seed, one-half teaspoonful of
black pepper, one-half tablespoon-
ful of cloves, one tablespponful of
mustard, the yolks of three eggs,
three onions chopped fine, and a lit-
tle vinegar ; mix all thoroughly.
Make incisions to the bone all over
the ham, and press the stuffing into
the incisions, forcing it through the
lean part of the hem; then spread
the remainder over the top of the
ham, and glaze with the whites of
the eggs. Bake slowly for about an
hour.
For Tea and Luncheon.
Dew Drops.—Mixtwo cups of
powdered sugar, one-half cup of
butter, one cup of milk, the whites
of four eggs, a tablespoonful of ex-
tract of lemon,, two teaspoonfuls of
baking powder, and flour enough to
make a soft batter. Bake in patty
tins and cover with a simple icing
when cold.
Bread Caste.—On baking day take
from your dough when ready for
baking two cups of dough, add two
cups of sugar, one cup of butter,
three eggs, two tablespoonfulsof
sweet cream, one -hall pound of cur-
rants, dredged, and one and one-
half teaspoonfuls of extract of citi-
namon or a tablespoonful (or more
if you like it) of powdered cinna-
mon, Put into buttered pans and
allow to, rise fbr twenty minutes.
Bake one-half hour.
Jumbles,—Take one-half pound of
sugar, a quarter -pound of butter
and four eggs beaten light, Stir
the sugar and bettor to a light
cream, and the eggs,. lemon, or va-
nilla flavoring and sufioient flour to
make riles. mixture thick enough to
• roll out. Mix • well together, and
roll out in powdered sugar in, theet
a quarter inch in ,thickness, Cut
into rings and bake in, a quick oven
on buttered tins, '
Marie's Tea Caluos.—Put upon
the pie board a pound of sifted flour
and make a hole in the centre in
which place one-half pound of bet-
ter, six ounoos 'of powdered sugar
and finer eggs, Mix all well together
and run out the paste extremely
thin, cut out in rounds or squares,
put in a pan that has been buttered•
slightly, brush the cakes with heat -
en eggs, sprinkle on top with ono -
half pound of cnrrauts, Pub in the
oven and retrieve when colored a
bright yellow,
Gretton ('also,—"Into a pint or
warm water On the stove place one-
half pound of butter and buil slow-
ly. Stir in three-quarters of a
pound of flour and buil one minute
and allow to cool, When cold stir
in eight eggs, beaten separately.
Drop on buttered paper and bake
for ten minutes. For a filling for
this cake take one quart of mills,
two eggs, four tablespoonfuls of
cornstarch, two cups of sugar, one
teaspoonful of butter, one teaspoon-
ful of vanilla, Boil the milk and
add the sugar, butter and earn -
starch, Beat the eggs and, having
allowed a little of the cornstarch
and milk mixture to cool, stir in
with the eggs. Then add this to the
boiling mixture and boil all for ten
minutes. Allow to cool. Now split
the cakes with a sharp knife and fill
with the cream.
Tips to Housewives.
The ironing of woollens is more
like pressing and should be done
with a warm iron when the gar-
ment is almost dry,
Do not rub, do not wring, do not
boil woollens. The twisting and
rubbing produces shrinkage by
knotting the fibres. •
When" beating the whites of eggs
with a rotary egg beater, try hold-
ing the beater at an angle instead
of straight up and down in the bowl.
This accomplishes the work much
quicker.
To remove milk or cream from
woolen goods, pour cold water on
the spots until the water runs
through. Then rub with a cloth
that has no lint.
When arranging pillows for an in-
valid, place the first pillow length-
wise with the person and the second
one across the upper half of the first
pillow.
Cakes should not be placed in a
cold place or at an open window to
cool. The steam will condense and
make them heavy,
Very small cakes require a quick
oven, so that they set right through
and the inside is baked by the time
the outside is browned.
It makes sponge cake very light
and spongy if a tablespoonful of
water, with the chill off, is put into
the cake mixture directly alter put-
ting in the eggs.
To prevent stove pipes from rust-
ing when put away, rub sweet oil
on them with a cloth. Then wrap
the pipes in paper and store them
in a dry place.
If a small hook and eye are plac-
ed at the ends of the rubber around
the knees of little boys' bloomer
suits, the rubber is easily removed
when the suits are washed, and the
bloomers can then be ironed out
flab.
To overcome the odor of mould,
which sometimes rises in damp wea-
ther in spite of the best of care,
scatter a few drops of oil of laven-
der on the shelves and the odor will'
disappear.
fn winter, when fresh roasting
chickens are not obtainable, buy a
chicken for stewing, steam itin a
colander for three hours, or until
tender; then, put it in the oven and
roast it. When it is done, it will be
brown and tender.
Before baking potatoes, let them.
stand in hot water for fifteen min-
utes. They. will require only half
the time for baking, are more mealy
and palatable, and if they are baked
in a gas oven the saving in gas is
considerable.
Queer Ironing,
A writer in the Wide World Mag-
azine says that the most curious
sight he sew at Cairo was men iron-
ing clothes with their feet! The
men were employed in the native
tailoring estab'bshinoute. Exoept
for the long handle, the irons were,
shaped like the ordinary flat -iron,
only larger. A solid block of wood.
rested on the top of the iron, and
on this the mien placed one foot,
guiding !the iron in the desired di-
rection by means of the handle,
For the seke of convenience, iron-
ing -boards were raised only a few
inches (roan the ground, and, how-
ever strange the method may .seem
to os, th•e work was done very well
and very expeditiously,
How to Live to Ripe Old Ago.
Halve your food.
Double your drinking water.
Treble your exereiss`,
The first wealth is health.
Man eats to live, not lives to eat.
live,Live to learn and you'll learn to
Seethes to -morrow through souse
to -day.
A man is often pub out by what
he takes in,
Don't ,mollycoddle your stomach,
bob be decent fo'ib,
_ esa
Shoes Ills Majesty Wears,
Tho King keeps from • three to
four dozen pairs of boots and shoes
of various kinds in regular wear,
and is extremely particular about
their ent and fib. The monarch's
favorite style of walking boot is
tirade of glace kid, peafeetly plain
in pattern with alts ' exe,eptnon of
half a dozen small stare on rho toe-
cap. For theseboobs the King pays 'roux years later there with an
$15 per, pane For patont leather other flood in South Carolina, in
boots His Majesty pays front $25 to which 300 people lost their lives;
$35 a pair, and for groes from $10 This disaster took place early in
to $15. Juno, and was l s'eoipitated by 4
GREAT A
YIERICAS FLOODS
f,OSSES IIY THEM 1S NOW AN
ANN CAL EVENT,
Mr, Roosevelt's Idea IF Carried
Out Wnuld Prevent the
Catastrophes.
While the loss of life in the floods
in the Middle States is much leas
than was estimated when the pante
was gat ibs, height, there mauls.' be
little exaggeration as tre the value
of the property destroyed, It might
easily reach $10,000,000 or even ten
times this amount, yet we shall
find, in all probability, that the
ground will not be dry before the
people will be busy with new build-
ings to take the place of those de-
stroyed by the waters, They have
been 'aptly compared with the
dwellers ab the foot of Vesuvius and
take the disaster of the district as
philosophically as the people in
White shiver aoeept the cold. It is
probable that the magnitude of the
present destruction, and the fact
that the causes that produced it are
generally known, will inspire some
huge work that will prevent a re-
currence of the floods. Roosevelt's
idea that the great force now ean-
ployed at Panama; . should be sent
into the Mississippi Valley to build
dams, construct artificial lakes that
will 'hold. surplus water, and plant
trees on the hillsides may be car-
ried out. It is to the credit of this
statesman that he made the sugges-
tion long before the jeresent cotes-
trpphe occurred.
The Galveston Flood.
As a matter of fact, however,
there are floods in. Ohio, Indiana,
and other States every year, Mil-
lions of dollars' worth of property
was wiped out beside the Mississip-
pi last year, and in 1903 there was a
series o•f floods in Kansas and else-
where that coat hundreds of lives,
The Galveston flood in Texas oc-
curred in 1900. Six thousand lives
were lost and 3,000 buildings de-
stroyed in this .great calamity. Gal-
veston promptly rebuilt, increased
the strength of her breakwaters,
and no doubt feels as secure at the
present time as does Guelph. The
greatest of all American floods was
that at Johnstown, Pa., in 1889.
This flood was not caused by the.
sudden melting of the snow and the
rising of the rivers in spring fresh-
et, for it took place on the last day
of May, and by that time the snow
had long since melted in the State
of Pennsylvania.
The Johnstown Warnings.
'Johnstown is situated in a narrow
valley, with a river on either side.
The land is low-lying "'and flat. A
mile or two up the valley was a
great artificial lake, held back by
an imamense dam. That this dam
might some day burst and over-
whelm the people in thevalley was
common knowledge in Johnstown,
but familiarity with the possible
danger bred contemptof it, and the
people were not much more alarm-
ed
larmed over the prospect .of the dam
bursting than the; people of Toronto
are over the prospect of the new
C.P.R. building collapsing. There
had been several scares over the
dam, and sines these proved
groundless the .people were indif-
ferent to the warnings that 'were
closely followed by the calamity.
Indeed, one faithful watcher who
had examined the dame every day
was discredited when he .warned
first hie employers in the Sports-
man's Club and then the Mayor of
the town that rho structure was giv-
ing beneath the weight of the wa-
ters, and might collapse at any
,moment. When the disaster actu-
ally occurred, and the wasters were
beginning to rash down the valley,
the mounted messengers. who has-
tened to warn the inhabitants were
laughed at.
When the Dam Broke.
The dam, broke atter dark, and
all nightlong the waters roared
and surged over what had been a
thriving little town. No one sew
any great part of the tragedy. The
destruction was wrought in the
dark, for the lights were extin-
guished by the firs£ rush of the wa-
ters. One can onlyimagine what
scenes of horror, of hei'odsm and
self-sacrifice were enacted under
the leaden sky, but in the nwrning,
when light came, there was a lake
twenty miles long, where the day
before there had been a twenty -
mile stretch of cultivated ground.
In some places the land was cov-
ered to a depth of forby feet.
Bodies of men, wonteu and children,
and the carcases of cattle floated
upon the surface of the water, and
the wreckage of a thousand houses.
jostled thein. Here and there w'as
a survivor clinging to the"wreoltage
of his °home. When the work of res-
cue had been completed, it was
found that there were 2,228 identi-
fied dead: Some of the estimaites aE
the number that had perished.
reached 5,000.
Millions Lost hi China,.
cloudburst that suddenly gorged
the l'aeolst River, and caused it to
bums a huge dam. As in Johns-
town sleeping families in Spartan-
burg had awakened to find their
homes afloat. They had absolutely
no warning, and probably half the
victims were drowned in their own
homes. A somewhat similar disas-
ter occurred in Oregon in the same
year, 300 lives being lost. In mod-
ern times the greatest fieods !rave
been in Japan and China. In 1857
floods in Henan are said to have
cost millions of lives. In 1890 there
were 27,000 people drowned in a
flood in Japan, and last year the
reports from Chine, were to the ef-
fect that 100,000 people had per-
ished.
TILE ICELAND FISHERMAN.
Deagerons Life Led By French
Seamen In Northern Waters.
The life of the French fishermen
who spend the season off the comet
of Iceland is a term of desperate
sand ranee. The work is done in all
weathers, and during the season,
between April and late September,
France loses one barques, oftener
two, every week. In the coat vil-
lages of Brittany the little burying
grounds are full 08 empty graves;
the grasses bear the names of those
lost at sea. When the tempest over-
turns a barque the mmn cling tle its.
sides, thrust their knives deep in
the upturned hull, and hang on the
handles until their hands let go
their hold. 'When a wreck is found
the knives sticking in the hull are
counted and their number iss report-
ed to the first station.
The ships arealways under sail
when not forced to lay to•. The first
boats reach the grounds about the,
last of March or the first of April,
when the worst storms rage, so the
work is complicated by exhausting
struggles with the sea.
The codfish rum in compact banks
over a hundred meters deep. The
coast is wild, and there, where no
ship can find refuge from the
storms, the Breton barques go to
pieces to drift to the "lumber yard"
of the Atlantic. The men fish with
heavily -weighted linos. Each line
carries several baits. The fishing is
done by watches. Half the crew
work the lines, the other half pre-
pare the fish and take a few hopes'
aleep. It is desperate work to
handle the weighted lines. The men
wear thick gloves, but the lines cut
through them, and the tarred cords
that bind the oilskin sleeves to the
wrist to keep out the water draw
blood. -
In a fishing smack everything is
sacrificed to the cargo. The "ca-
bin," or forecastle, is narrow,
small, filthy .and overcrowded..
However a man may need air, he is
not allowed on deck for any pur-
pose but to do his work., Two verti-
cal ladders lead from either end of
the deck to the den where the men
eat, sleep and suffer, swear and
pray. The bunks hang one above
another, two by two, strewn with
straw or holding each 'a lean mat-
tress. Two men sleep in a bunk,
and in his bunk every man keeps
everything in daily' use. The chests
stand in line under the bunks.
In most ships the cabin is pro-
vided with a little cast-iron stove,
where the fire burns night and day
to maintain the temperature need-
ed for drying clothing and "thaw-
ing out." The for'eoastle is lighted
by a cod-liver oil lamp.
The flint fishing period closes in
April on in. May. When the work is
done the barques run into the
fiords, take on water and dispose of
their catch. The second fishing is
done in the sea to the north of Ice,
land. There the boatsdisperse and
fish wide stretches, apart. The se-
cond fishing season ends in Septem-
ber.
3a
USED BABY TO SIIOP•LJFT.
Pence Suspected Cruelty but Found
It Was a Doll,
•
In the gutter outside one-of•the
great Parisian (France) shops stood
a beggar woman, incredibly, dirty
and shabby, with a bundle in her
arms so wrapped up that no one
would have known it to be a baby
but for an occasional movement and
at intervals an ear splitting wail.
The woman's importunities be-
came so intolerable that she was ar-
rested and taken to the police sta-
tion, Throughout her interrogatory,
to which she cheerfully submitted,
the bundle wailed spasmodically,
The inspector noted a curious fact
—that the wail coincided with a
movement of the woman's hand.
Suspecting that the .heartless mo-
ther vas pursuing a policy of pin
pricks, the officer snatched the
bundle, from her and threw off the
wrappings,
The 'martyred infant' proved no-
thing but a doll, and not an ordin-
ary doll at that, for it wee hollow
and contained a varied assortment
of articles, stolen, no doubt, from
shop fronts—feathers, ribbons,
oheoses and a box of sardines: The
ingenious doubler of the professions
of mendicant and shoplifter had,
been sent to . jail,,
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
APRIL 20.
Lesson 111,—Jacob's needing with
Esau, Gen. 32. 3 to 33. 17,
'Golden text, Lyth. 4. 32.
Twenty years had passed. since
Jacob had cheated the older bro-
ther out of his birthright and had
then fled to a distant land. Now,
in returning with his family and
possessions to the land of Abraham
and of Isaac, he was about to pass
through the borders of the country
in which Esau lived, Fearing that
the wronged brother might still be
angry with ltim, he sent messengers
to tell Esau of their approach and
to ask for his favor. The messen-
gers returned and reported theft
they had seen Esau'and that he, ac-
companied by four° hundred men,
was coming to meet Jacob. "Then
was Jacob greatly afraid and was
distressed" (Gen, 32. 7). His proud
heart was humbled. He -acknow-
ledged that he was unworthy of the
least of Jehovah's loving -kindness,
but in his helplessness he cried to
the God of his fathers for deliver-
ance, and his wrestling alone in the
darkness may be interpreted as a
symbol of wrestling with God in
prayer.
Verse 1. Divided—Jacob had al-
ready divided his servants, flocks,
herds and camels into two com-
panies, thinking that if Esau at-
tacked one, the other might escape
(Gen, 32. 7, 8). He had also se-
lected a large number of animals
and sent these on before him as a
present for Esau.
9. Rachel and Joseph hindermost
—Those he loved moat in the safest
place.
3. Bowed himself to the ground
seven times—A customary saluta-
tion offered to kings.
4. Esau ran to meet him — The
magnanimous spirit with which
Esau received the brother who had
so cruelly wronged him is .worthy
of all praise.
8-11. Among Oriental peoples the
elaborate courtesy, the exchange of
compliments, and the refusal of
gifts which are later accepted are
customary and may often be regard-
ed as mere formalities of daily in-
tercourse. However, the brotherly
manner in which Tsau received
Jacob, and his frankness and im-
pulsiveness • shown earlier, would
lead one to give to his words a
deeper meaning. In accepting the
gift Esau really places himself un-
der obligation to Jacob, and Jacob
wishes this further proof of Esau's
friendship.
10. Forasmuch as I have seen thy
face—Revised Version margin,""for
therefore have I seen thy face," as
one seeth the face of God, referring
dcnbtless to Peniel (Gen. 39, 30).
11. Gift—Heb., "blessing," the
present being regarded as an ex-
pression of good wishes.
12. I will go before thee—The way
is• better known to Esau, and he
volunteers to escort Jacob for his
protection.
13-15. Jacob's reason .for not ec-
cepting Esau's company seems a
plausible one, but in refusing the
offer of the help of some of Esau's
men, there seems to be a desire to
have their association come to an
end.
14. Until I come unto my lord un-
to Seir—Jacob intimates that he
will follow Esau to his home in
Seir. As a matter of fact, however,
he takes quite another direction. It
may be that be still mistrusts Esau,
or possibly, remembering how he
had wronged his brother, Esau's
kindness rebukes him; be feels ill.
at ease in his presence and is unable
to bring himself to ahe point of ac-
cepting Esau's hospitality.
16. Seir-Practically the same as
Edon, the land given to Esau for a
possession (Dent. 2, 4-6):
17. Succoth—The exact site is un-
known. It was east of the Jordan
and south of the Jabbok. The word
is the Hebrew for "booths" and was
given to the place after Jacob had
settled there and made booths for
his cattle. Jacob later removed to
Shechem.
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NEWS FROM SUNSET COAST
%%'JIAT THE ' WESTERN PEOPLE
ARE DOING.
Progress of the Great West Told
In it Few Pointed
Paragraphs,
North Vancouver is to have n
publie wharf.
New Westmivater citizen() are
urging the immediate erection of a
new city hall.
The mayor of Victoria, Mr. Beck-
with, has been unseated by the Ap-
peal Court and u new election or-
dered.
Four hundred linemen of the
British Columbia Telephone Com-
pany have returned to work after a
week's strike.
Much interest has been aroused
locally over the reported finding of
rich placer ground near the south
encs of Teeth) Lake.
The big dam which is being erect-
ed by the British Columbia Electric
Railway Company at Jordan River
is progressing apace.
Preliminary work on the build-
ing of the Kettle Valley Railway
bridge across the Fraser at Hope
will begin within the next few days.
Six million dollars will bo ex-
pended in Port Mann and New
Westminster terminals this summer
by the Canadian Northern Pacific
Ore production in the Kootenay
and Boundary district last week to-
talled 53,475 tons, making a total
for the year to date el 570,000 ton.
Chinese of New Westminsterhave
bad plans prepared for the erection
of two modern blocks of reinforced.
concrete and mill construction in
the city.
Within the next three weeks plans
and specifications will bo completed
for the proposed new home for old
people to be erected at Hastings
Townsite.
The Premier of British Columbia,
Sir Richard McBride, announced in
the Legislature that the Govern-
ment will not establish female suf-
frage in the province.
A special by-law for borrowing
$575,000 for road improvements, for
a period of fifty years at 5 per cent.
interest has been approved by the
South Vancouver Council,
New Westminster has received an
additional .appropriation of $30,000
for the construction of a post office.
The building which will be erected
is to be six storeys in height.
Two Austrians, Petrak and Wag-
ner; have arrived in New Westmin-
ster as a vanguard of a large num-
ber of their countrymen who are ar-
ranging to settle in the Fraser val-
ley.
A large grain elevator and milling
plant is assured for New Westmin-
ster in the near future by Mr.
Smith of the firm of Davidson &
Smith of Port Arthur and Fort Wil-
liam. .
Experienced prospectors now in
Atlin regard the new strike on
Moose Horn, Silver and adjacent
creeks as a good prospect in good
gold -bearing country, but will go
no further than that.
Victoria shipping men fail to re-
call a time in the past four or five
years when the deep-sea business in
connection with this port was ,as
quiet and dull as it has been for
the past month or six weeks.
The new steel trestle bridge which
is being erected on the Begelmalt,
& Nanainio Railway line at Arbutos
Canyon in place of the wooden
structure which spans the ravine at
the present time, is making excel-
lent progress.
Immigration into the East Koot-
enay and Elko districts of British
Golumbia during the coming season
is expected to exceed all past re-
cords, and at least nine out of ten
of the newcomers will be interested
in some way in the fruit -growing in-
dustry,
RED ANA BLUE SOLDIERS.
Strange Memorials for Dead Servi-
an Heroes.
As a result of the Bulgarian -
Turco war ,Servian towns are being
dotted with strange wooden monu-
ments erected to the nation's fal-
len heroes.
Throughout Servia and the Bal-
kan kingdoms the custom has long
prevailed among the peasantry of
thus honoring their relatives slain
in war, The monument, usually
carved out of a single block of
wood, represents in baa -relief the
soldier whose death it commemor-
ates, They are usually put up near
the soldier's home or near the spot
where ho fell, if that spot happens
to be in his native country.
As the Servian heroes are falling
in the enemy's territory the menu-
menta are necessarily raised in their
homes, and very few farms are to
be found to -day in which one at least
of these crude carvings is not to be
found.
They are usually painted in vivid
reds and blue, Above the head of
the wooden figure is an inscription
giving the soldier's naris, and
eon acnesQ t:tte 'few details of the man-
ner un'svluch Tie mer his death,
The people who jump Out of the
frying pan into the fire had no busi-
ness in the fbying pan in the 'first
place.
CAN SEE BUT CANNOT LOOK
FRENCH PROFESSOR STUDIES
BABY'S VISION.
Observations in This Regard Should
Interest Parents and
Teachers,
Seeing is one thing—looking
quite another, for the Arst is purely
accidental physical reception of
light through the eyes, "while the
ether is seeing and something more
—seeing. right, and with thought,
Mr. Edmund Cramautasel, profes-
eor of philosophy at the University
of Montpellier, France, has been
devoting special attention to the
study c£ the child's method of '
learning to look, andthe results
ane valuable to every parent and
teacher.
Begins to "Take Notice."
The child opens its eyes very aeon
after it is born, he says, and from
the earliest moment seems pleased
with moderate light. It is not un-
til the third or fourth' week of life
that it seems, as .we say, to notice
rays of sunlight, a fire, or shining
objects, • It is awakened to looking
by changes in degrees of light, and
by the especially, brilliant glow, In
some children the noticing begins
very early. One has been known to
follow a light when only five days
old, and when 15 days old it showed
that it was looking by moving not
only the eyes, but twisting the head
towards the light. When 25 days
old it seemed to direct its gaze per-
fectly.
Learns Optical Self Defence.
The adaptation of the pupil to
light is automatic and innate, but
it is quickly educated in tel,f-de-'
fence. It has been noted that a
child five months old first closed its
eyes when the lamp was lighted and
then opened them gradually.
Adaptation to distance is acquired
only gradually. One babe looks at
an object with wide open iris no
matter what the distance, while' an-
other narrows it as the object is
taken further off. In this w,ay it is
learning to look. This explains why
most infants are blind to objects at
a distance—'they have not learned
to oontract the .iris, and really do
not see what is far away. Vision is
aided from the start by the eyelids
which close, partially or totally,
when the light is too strong. Clos-
ing at a sudden approach does not
occur until the fifth month.
First Observing Color.
It is difficult to fix the precise
time and order of seeing colors as
such. An experiment made upon a
baby in the fifth month, with a red,
a yellow and a white flower, showed
that the eyes passed over the white
and wavered between the yellow
and the red, giving all signs of de-
sire to grasp. It was proved that
the eyes dwelled first on the yellow
for two seconds, then on the red for
five seconds, then on the yellow for
thirty, on the red for one minute,
and on the yellow for forty seconds,
grasping this flower in preference.
Three days later the same infant
looked at the white flower arlittle,
but much more at the red and yel-
low, still preferring the yellow by.
half. The next day violets and
dahlias were shown the child, and
his eyes 'wavered between the yel-
low and violet, until she at last
looked at the violets. On the next
day she ignored the yellow and
reached for the violets. When the
red and violet were combined she '
reached for this in preference to
red aid yellow. The concluaion to
be drawn from these experiments is
diet after the fourth month a child
may distinguish colors, red, yellow,
violet and supple combinations,
Develops Sense of Place.
When the sense of teeth and sight
are eal.led into interaction the child
has to learn very slowly. At finstit
MOS the rattle, and tries to put it
into its mouth, but it goes all
around the mouth before finding it,.
and learns to raise the rattle to its
forehead, and then bring it down
to the mouth. It does not know on
wbieh side the object is. This is un-
doubtedly due to the erossing of the
optic nerves in the brain, and only
gradually :does it learn ;that what
seems to be on the right is really en
the left, and vice -versa..
coldMeatat Royal Dinner.
In Royal establishments most of
the dinner menus always contain
from three to four told roasts) shell
as cold lamb, cold beef and cold
chicken, and the Czar and Queen
Alexandra usually patttake of told
roast meat at dinner in preference
to het and other Royalties fre-
quently do the same thing,
Is Great Culinary Artist,
14f Cedard, the, chief ch 4f at
Buoknngliait Palace has a world- '
wide reputation and is admittedly
one of the greasiest living culinary
art obs. ; {l h , a „smarty of $12,.500
1 year, while sus assistant, Irl. "Os-
cox
s-car Ferry, is paid $4,000 a year, and
under them, is a abaft of 10 highly -
trained tnge cooks.