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Dainty Dishes,
Rhubarb Cream Pie. -Stew rhubarb
as for sauce and sweeten. To this
add a little cornstarch made into
paste with cold water, and beaten
yolks :of one or two eggs', Bake in
one crust and use whites of eggs for
meringue,
Tomato Tapioca Soup.—To one pint
of strained tomatoes add one-half
tablespoon extract of beef, one ounce
butter., two tablespoons minute tap-
ioca, one and one-half pints hot water,
salt and pepper to taste, and boil for
fifteen minutes. Serve with fried
bread or toast:
Harvard Salad.—Scoop out centers
of small tomatoes and fill with follow-
ing mixture: Three tablespoons
creamed cheese, one tablespoon minc-
ed parsley, chopped mushrooms to
taste, catsup, salt and pepper,. six
chopped olives—all moistened with
French dressing. Serve on bed of
cress.
Rice and Tomatoes.—Butter baking,
dish, put in layer of boiled rice, dust
with salt and pepperand dot with tiny
bits of butter. Add layer of canned
or fresh tomatoes and season with
salt, pepper and butter. Proceed in
thismanner until the dish is almost
full. Make last layer of rice. Pour
in which a little borax has been dis-
solved.
A piece of charcoal placed upon the
shelves of the refrigerator will absorb
any unpleasant odors and keep it
sweet smelling.
Window shades that have been
streaked can be cleaned by taking a
bard crust of bread and rubbing the
spots where the shade is streaked.
Wind wrapping twine into balls
when taken from parcels. It is an
easy way to dispose of it and it will
be found useful in a great many ways.
When doing a ,little home paper-
hanging the amateur will find the pa-
per much easier to hang if the paste
is applied to the wall instead of to the
paper.
Burning the fingers can be avoided
by equipping the metal knobs on pot
and kettle covers with good-sized
corks, wired on with bits of picture
wire.
- Never place a good piece of furni-
ture very neara fireplace or register.
The heat dries the wood and :glue, of-
ten causing cracks where the parts
are joined together.
When sewing stiff material have a
piece of soap handy and occasionally
stick the needle into it. You will
find the needle will go through much
one cup of tomato liquor over all and easier and will not break.
bake in a hot oven twenty or thirty -uI 'doe aqa woe; sag a es;od zanaet.
minutes. sort the poker at the bottom, and
Scalloped Eggs.—Boil six eggs un- raise gently, leaving the poker in the
til hard. Have ready three-fourths fire for a few minutes. This causes
cup buttered cracker crumbs and one a draught, and it makes the fire burn
pint white sauce, Sprinkle bottom brightly.
of buttered baking dish with crumbs. I To remove creases from clothes
Cover with one-half of eggs, chopped which have been packed away for
fine. Cover eggs with sauce and some time, hang in the bath -room,
sauce with meat. Repeat and cover then turn on the hot water tap. The
top with crumbs. Bake until crumbs steam will entirely remove the
are brown. Ham, chicken, sausage creases. Press afterwards.
or veal may be used. When popping corn put in enough
Bacon Roll. Stuffed With Chicken or
Turkey.—Spread thin slices very cold
bacon with minced chicken or turkey
mixed with the left -over gravy. Mix
a. little cream and dust with finely
minced green pepper or parsley. Roll
and fasten with wooden swekers, dip
in batter and fry in deep: fat. To
make the batter beat. two eggs, add
one-half cupful of tepid water. .Add
slowly to one cupful bread flour sifted
with one-fourth teaspoonful salt. Beat
well and add one teaspoonful olive oil.
Creamed Potatoes.—Peel enough pot-
atoes to make three cupfuls, cut into
small cubes. Mix in one tablespoon-
ful of butter, one of flour, salt and
pepper to taste, and one tablespoonful
of parsley. Cover potatoes with
boiling water, adding a teaspoonful
of salt; boil until just done, but not
broken. Heat milk in double boiler,
tub flour smooth, do same with butter.
Pour on some of the hot milk, then
add to milk and boil until thickened.
Season to taste, drain potatoes and
slide into hot milk. Let bubble up
once or twice. Then pour into hot
serving dish and sprinkle parsley over
them.
Strawberry Sponge Pudding.—To
yolks oe two eggs add two table-
spoons of cold water and beat until
very light, using egg beater. Add
two-thirds cup of sugar gradually,
still beating, and two tablespoons
lemon juice. Mix and sift one and
one-third cups flour with twotea-
spoons baking powder and one-fourth
teaspoon salt. Combine mixtures and
cut and fold in whites of two eggs
beaten until stiff. Turn into butter-
ed mold, adjust buttered cover and.
steam one hour, never allowing water
to fall below boiling point. Wash
and hull one quart berries, cut into
quarters and put into bowl or brush
lightly and sprinkle with one-half cup
sugar. Let stand in warm place un-
til serving, time. Remove pudding
to serving dish and pour around pre-
pared strawberries.
Apple Sauce, Right and Wrong.
Judging from the results seen here
and there, one must come to the con-
clusion that there • are many wrong
ways of making a simple dish of
apple sauce.
We may cook apples so that each
piece shall remain whole, but this is
not a true sauce. For the latter the
more completely the apple goes to
pieces in the cooking the better—
that is, in the end it shoudl be per-
fect "mus" or puree.
Another advantage of sieving the
cooked apple is that it need be neith-
er pared nor cored, both the seed and
the skin adding flavor; It will not
take as long to sieve the apples as to
pare and core them, so time is actual-
ly saved and additional flavor, gained,
For plain, apple sauce: Wash and
quarter fruit and just cover with
boiling water, which hastens cook-
ing. Mash the fruit as it softens and
stir so that the uncooked top will get
to the bottom. When all is soft, put
through a strainer and sweeten to,
taste, No two varieties of apples
requirethe same amount of sugar,
and in general too much is used. Tho
saute maybe cooked after itis sweet-'
ened but if it is to be eaten at once
this is not necessary',
Household Hints.
Just try drying the wool blankets
on Curtain stretchers if it is wished
to retain their usual length and width,
To remove tea or oolfee stains pour
through the stained part boiled water
corn to cover the bottom of the wire
popper; then drench with water just
before placing over the fire. Every
grain will pap, and much more quickly
than without the added moisture.
For mud stains on dresses dissolve
a little carbonate of soda in water and
with it wash the mud stains. Another
plan is to rub the stains with a cut
raw potato, afterward removing the
potato juice by rubbing it with a
flannel dipped in water.
To prevent dust when cleaning
rugs, instead of sweeping with a
broom, use a carpet sweeper or a
small vacuum cleaner, and then take
a cotton cloth saturated with gaso-
line and rub your rugs over. They
will look like new; and be perfectly
free from lint.
Embroidery of very kind that has
been washed or cleaned with petrol
should be ironed on the wrong side to
throw the embroidery into relief.
There should be a soft pad of several
thickness of flannel, so that the em-
broidery can sink into it without be-
ing flattened.
An improvement over boiled corn is
toasted corn. After boiling the ears
six minutes so as to cook them partial-
ly remove to a bread toaster and
place over hot coals, turning until
they they are browned evenly. The
delicious flavor thus imparted is well
worth the extra work of preparing.
If your white shoes have become
too dark and dirty looking to be clean-
ed they can be turned into smart look-
ing brown shoes by rubbing them over
with a mixture of twenty drops of saf-
fron and two tablespoonfuls of olive
oil. Two applications will be requir-
ed to make the color dark enough.
A useful addition to the kitchen
table is a cross -bar for hanging up
spoons and other utensils. Two ver-
tical laths are nailed to the side of
the table, one at each end. The trans
verse bar is fixed to these, This is
provided with hooks, and forms a
convenient rack, The hooks may be.
screwed to the edges of the table.
To wash woollen stocldngs so that
they will not shrink is quite easy.
First shred some yellow soap into a
small tin saucepan. Cover it with
cold water, and let boil slowly on the
stove till a jelly. Take some tepid
water and, with the boiled soap make
a good lather. Wash the stockings
in this, rnbhing well and using no;
other 'soap. Rinse in tepid 'clear
water, wring out, and set 10 the air
to dry quickly.
Ocean "Deeps."
Fifty-seven ocean "deeps" of more
than 18,000 feet, based on 500 sound-
ings, are now known -32 ,in the Paci-
fic, 18 in the Atlantic, 5 in the Indian!
Ocean. The total area covered ' by
these deeps altogether !s only about
7 per cent. of'oeean floor.
d .
8,000,000 Cossack Boots.
Three hundred thousand steers will
yield up, their hides to make the 3,-
00.0,000 Cossack boots just ordered in
London, Each pair of logstakes nine
feet of leather and each pair of fronts
two feet.
After the Argument.
Judge—Now tell what passed , be-
tween yourself and the complainant.
Defendant --Well, your horror, there
wee two pairs of fists, one turnip,
Oven fire -bricks, a dozen aasorted
hard names and it lump of coat
`(1) Orchards and mighty tides: (2) Automobile traveller is never out of sight of blossom -laiden orchards. (3) Four hundred miles
of blossom -embowered highways. (4) This tree has a record of 32 barrels of fruit.
LOSSOM Sunda "' hh
ave ever have an o ortunit to e
B re wi
y , youmay pp Y a th famous not only for their quantity but
heard of it—that Sabbath day of for their fine quality. Every farmer
enchantment and poetry in thein this long, sheltered valley raises
land of Evangeline in early June, when this delicious fruit, even though he
:mile upon mile of fruitful orchard- does it on a small scale. There are
lands is white -and -pink with count-: scores of orchards with from 200 to
less millions of apple blooms, and, a 1000 trees, and the Largest of all, locat-
great seventy -mile long valley is filled i i t ed near Kentvillo, contains 20,000
from end to end with intoxicating frit- trees.
creme that recalls the orange groves The entire crop of the valley aver -
pt Florida or the glorious heliotrope ages between 700,000 and L000,000 bar-
o! Del Monte? ,els year and nets the growers any-
where from
from ;1,500,000 to $2,500,000 ac -
Santa Barbara has a Flower Pesti- cording to size of crop price, and other
al, and the happy dwellers In the conditions. The greater part of this
in
ants Clara Valley revel In the beauty. blossom -cover -
output is. sent to the British market;
rune blossoms, but only in Nova Sco- and the apples from a the orchardists themselves in the rare
beauty of the landscape 1n King's and
Annapolis Counties. Large numbers
patronize these excursions especially
eciallY
from Halifax, the capital city, and
many find a double pleasure in walk-
ing through the petal -carpeted orch-
ards and highways or viewing he
great ocean of white from the pearly
hills.
Apple culture in the Annapolis Val-
ley through which the now famous Do-
minion A on t1
antic runs, now grown to
such Immense proportions, had its in-
ception a couple of centuries before
the horticultural possibilities of Cali-
fornia were even dreamed of. The
first apple trees were planted there by
the early French settlers, about 1633,
and there are still existing trees that
are thought to date back pretty near to
that time. Ina long -abandoned orch-
ard In the lovely Valley town of Para-
dise, not long ago, the writer saw sev-
eral gnarled apple trees that must
have been at least a couple of hundred
years old.
From the small beginnings of the
peaceful Acadian has developed one
d luxuriance of their peach and
tia is there an annual feast of blos- ed .ree which particularly attracted
some that is worthy of the name. the admiration of a June bride last
The tourist in Nova Scotia, linger- summer may later have reposed to the
ing until mid -September, -goes into
cellars of Windsor Castle, or been die
raptures over the marvellous color- played in the show windows of some
mosaic that fills the valley during the London fruiterer
3iarvest time; but he little realizes the Gravensteins, whose pure white
Kfeast of color and of fragrance he has blossoms are the first to reach
in early perfection, are a favored product
missed by not being there
June, What so rare as a day in June, of the Valley, and Baldwins, Red As -
indeed, when it is spent in the Anna- trachans, Greenings, Northern Spies,
polls Valley. Bishop Pippins, King Tomkins, Non -
Week -end excursions are arranged of the largest and most profitable ap- pencils, Ribston Pippins, Golden Rus-
hy the railroads in order that the pie -growing industries on the Contin sets, Ben Davis and Sweet Boughs, are
Young trees begin to bear five or
six years after setting out, and one
farmer has packed 32 barrels from a
single tree. The orchardists here fol-
low the most approved methods of ap-
ple cultivation, allowing about 30 feet
of space between the trees, plowing up
the ground, and spraying on the most
modern principles.
Some of the finest of the Nova Sco-
tia orcharde are situated at the east-
ern and of the Annapolis Valley, in the
vicinity of Kentville, Wolfville and
Grand Pre, so that the very ground
which Evangeline and Gabriel are sup-
posed- to have trod in the happy dare
before 1755 Is stippled with the wind-
blown petals; and the mighty currents
of the tide -vexed Minas Basin bear
thousands of them over the very
course of the vessels that took the hap-
less Acadians into exile.
It Evangeline could only return to
earth today and time her visit for the
first week in June, what a new and
strange vision of lovinesa she would
behold. Even in those ancient days
when "The Sunshine of Saint Eulalio"
lived and loved in Grand Pre," "a foot-
path led through an orchard wide, and,
disappeared in the meadow."
;dwellers in the cities and larger towns eat,' for Nova Scotia apples today are among other popular varieties raised.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON.
JUNE 11.
Sowing and Reaping (Temperance
Lesson).—Gal, 6. Golden
Text Gal. 6. 7.
There is a single thread uniting the
whole paragraph, the right relations
toward "the other man" (verse 4),
who belongs to the Christian family.
They are all centered in the duty of
using the microscope for our own
faults, and looking at the other man
mostly to see how we can help him.
Verse 1. We seem to hear the echo
of a boast that they could not be tol-
erant of "trespassers." The whole
verse is reminiscent of the Lord's
ncounter with men who brought him tht measure of such men.
a woman overtaken in a grievous
trespass, when he bade "look to them- 4. Prove—To apply a rigid and
selves." Restore—The idea of the impartial teat to our own performance
verb is that of putting something in is the surest check to conceit. Glory -
order so as to be ready for use again, ing—The thought seems to be that
like tumbled nets after a night's fish- when a man has really tested his own
ing (Mark 1. 10). Note the corres- work he will feel no temptation to
ponding noun in Eph. 4. 12, o`f the compare it with his neighbor's achieve;
,"fitting of the consecrated for work of ment: he judges it by an absolute,
serving." It is God' work to estimate not a relative, standard. I£ then he
and punish guilt: our only concern is "glories" in it, it will be with no sort
that one. of God's tools is out of re- of pride, for he knows its faults, but
pair, and we must see it in working only with thankfulness to God, who
order again. Spirit -Neither here has helped him. Pent very often
nor in verse 8 do we use the capital. uses this word 'boast' in quotation
It is, in fact, usually impossible, to die'- marks, as it were,
tieguish in such phrases between the 5.. For his responsibility for this
Divine and the human spirit, for the work he can never share—he must
latter is the part of man where God bear it himself before God. What
dwells. In ' an "unspiritual" man then has he to do with other people's
(called psychical in 1 Cor, 2. 14 ---one responsibilities and the possibly in -
who has nothing higher that the mind ferior faithfulness with which they
in him, the psyche, or "evil;' being shoulder them ?
in this context the mai: on his im- 0, • Communicate—An unintelligible
material side) the "spirit" is asleep; archaism, It means go shares wit*
and the sleep may deepen into death, the "catechnmen"—for the word hate
Gentleness --Supremely seen in Christ got a technical meaning before long;
(Matt, 11, 29; 2 Cor, 10. 1). The word compare especially Luko 1. 4—is to
meek is eu unfortunate rendering share meals and other things with '+I can't read. nor 1 can't write nor
there, for it now suggests a man who hint who has' ben telling him the gas- T Gantt. sin1;; o I'd like to know what
cannot rosont.or repel alt injury,, ht- pet story. Compare 1 Cor. 0, 11, good I'd schooll"
stead of a strong man who will not 7, There is probably no immediate
do so. link with the previous vxerse, but the
2. Burdens—A significantly differ- thought is not far away, as the return
ent word from that in verse 5, where to it in verse 10 shows. Selfishness
the Toad is that which we must carry is the "sowing to the flesh." God is
for ourselves. here the thought is not mocked—This is the converse of
of times when such Old Testament conceptions as
"Mighty love doth cleave in twin Psa. 37. 13, representing Jehovah as
The burden of a single pain, deriding the creatures of a day who
And' part it, giving half to him." dare to defy him. The New Testa -
The law of Christ—Compare especial- merit would never say this, but it can
ly John 13. 34, A better reading here picture man deriding or (Rom. 2. 4)
is the future, ye will fulfil. despising the patience which man's
3. Something—So in Gal. 2. 6. The folly mistakes for importance. Yet
man who thinks so much of himself all the time wild oats are sown, by
could, of course, not stoop, to do what God's inexorable law wild oats come
in India is called "coolie work" for up and are harvested, unless the sow -
his brother, especially if he had been er has grace to pull then up and sow
caught in some lapse. Those who another tardy crop in the enfeebled
have learned Christ's law from see- soil.
ing him at "coolie work" for men 8. Flesh here is the antithesis of
(John 13. 5; compare Mark 10. 45) spirit, and includes the whole of hu-
willcount it their privilege. When man nature when God is left out, just
he is nothing—In 2 Cor. 12. 11 Paul as spirit is man's highest nature in
humbly uses this phrase (nearly) of vital union with God. Corruption—
himself, Deceiveth himself—Not "What are men better than sheep or
other people, who can generally take goats?"—destined for nothing but the
grave—if they deliberately starve the
one immortal part of them?
9. Well -doing — See paraphrase
Two different words appear for "the
good": here what is aeen to be good
has the emphasis, in verse 10 the em-
phasis is on internal quality. Due
season—Rebuking impatience: har-
vest cannot come a month after sow-
ing.
10. Opportunity -The same word
as season. The marginal while we
have seems preferable. Household—
An American scholar has lately sug-
gested that here and in Matt. 5. 47
and 1 Tim. 5. 4 there is an allusion
to a lost proverb like our"Charity
begins at home" (which in Greek was
"The shin is farther off than the
knee"
hemmed In.
"How did emu get that stitch in
your side?"
"Oh, I got hemmed in a crowd,"
steadfastly declared the little chap.
GERMAN FAIRY TALES.
Late Governor of Cameroons Told
Wild Stories of Victories:
The following extracts from a tele-
gram addressed by Dr. Ebermaier, the
late Governor of the Cameroons, to
the German district authorities of the
Protectorate after the surrender of
Duala to the allied forces on Sept, 27,
1914, are instructive.
The doctor authorizes his subordi-
nates to say:
The Kaiser has first taken the coun-
try which inflicted horrors on the
natives, namely, Belgium, to which the
Congo belongs. We have occupied
the whole country and driven out the
King.
Then the Kaiser has sent his sol-
diers deep into France and is bom-
barding the largest French city, where
the Governor of the French lives.
The French have no longer a Kaiser,
The Kaiser has captured General
Kitchener, whom the English regard-
ed as their best commander, together
with 10,000 soldiers. Kitchener was
indeed the worst enemy of the Mo-
hammedan blacks, and took a whole
country from the Great Sultan.
So many English ships have been
destroyed that the English have now
no more than we have.
The English were not strong enough
to take Duala, but had to can in the
help of the French. We have, more-
over, only surrendered Duala because
there were so many white women and
children there, to whom, according to
the law of the whites, nothing can
happen if no fighting takes place in
a town.
The black soldiers of the English
and French have already deserbed
them in masses, and come 't0 us to
fight on our side, because they see that
we are stronger,
Too Few.
Iittle (during the spat) --I don't be-
lie° in parading my virtues.
Wife• --I dont see how you could,
10 totes quite a number to make a
parade,
ACROSS THE BORDER
WHAT IS GOING ON OYER IN
TITS STATES.
Latest happenings in Big Ileptibilo
Condensed' for.Ilusy
headers.
Harry Anderson, a bellhop in "a
Toledo, 0., 'hotel, has inherited
$25,000.
To dodge a spite fence twenty-six
feet high, a Freeport, L.I., womanis
to have her house raised.
Twelve thousand acres of land in
the north half of Johnson County,
Kas., have been leased by oil men.
Booksellers in convention in Chi-
cago, blamed movies and autos for
a general decrease in their business.
A bullet from underneath the eye
of John Forster, aged 12, accident-
ally shot two years ago, was remov-
ed at Mahoney City.
Assorting that she makes "three
times as much as her husband," Mrs.
Mary Anderon, a nurse, of Brooklyn,
seeks a divorce minus alimony.
The United States torpedo boat
destroyer Wilkes, which is of an
improved type, was launched at
Cramps' shipyards, Philadelphia.
Salvation Army lassies will patrol
the New York beaches in bathing
suits this summer, not only to save
souls but to save lives as well:
Thirty-seven girls, manacled and
dragging a ball and chain, will re-
present non -suffrage states in Wo- -
men's parade in Chicago.
Andrew Babinsky of Youngstown,
0., has sixty-one relatives in the
European war, none of the family
having been killed since hostilities
began.
Magistrate Fitch, New York, com-
mended Policeman John T. Flynn for
forcing John Flynn, of Astoria, to
drink milk and whiskey after taking
poison.
Deaf persons can hear through a
new contrivance invented by Con-
necticut man which operates by touch-
ing any bone or nerve, it is claimed.
While a hen, a rooster and a guinea
fowl were fighting over a crippled rat
at Brookdale, N.J., a jaybird picked
up the rat and flew away with it.
Four hundred students at Pennsyl-
vania State College have earned more
than $4,500 to help pay for their edu-
cation during the present college year,
A decision has been 'rendered by
the Common Pleas Court of Stark
County, O., that the finder of money
is the keeper, providing the loser is
never discovered.
Wellsburg and Wierton Railway
Company in Ohio have prohibited the
carrying of more than half a gallon
of liquor on their trains by any one
passenger.
Forty young men have submitbed
to skin grafting operations as a des-
perate resource to save the life of
Mrs. Mayme A. Bennet, of Cleveland,
0., who was seriously burned a week
ago:
Confronted by a burglar, Mrs.
Charles F. Bond, of Beaver Falls,
Pa., pleaded with him to steal any-
thing and bo leave the house quietly
because her husband was seriously i11,
Mr. Burglar complied.
IT CAN BE DONE:
Tackled the Thing That Couldn't Be
Done, and He Did It.
"Somebody said that it couldn't be
done, but he, with a chuckle replied
that 'maybe it couldn't,' but he would
be one who wouldn't say so till he
tried. So he buckled right in, with
a trace of a grin on his face. If he
tvorried, he hid it. He started to
sing as he tackled the thing that
couldn't be done; and he did it"
Somebody scoffed: "Oh you'll never
do that at least, no one ever has done
it," but he took off his coat, and he
took off his hat, and the first thing ,
we knew he'd begun it, with a lift
of his chin, and a bit of a grin, with
out any doubting or quiddit; he start-
ed to sing as he tackled the thing that
couldn't be done, and he did it.
"There are thousands to tell you it
cannot be done, there axe thousands to
prophesy failure; there are thousands
to point out to you, one by one, the
dangers that wait to assail you; but
just buckle in with a bit of a grin,
then take off your coat and goto it;
just start in to sing as you tackle the
thing that "cannot be done," and
you'll do it.
HIGH -FLYING EAGLES.
They Can Sour to 40,000 Feet Above
Sea Level.
There are two animals that puzzle
naturalists more than any others,
says Pearson's Weekly, They are
nature's submarine and aeroplane, the
whale and the eagle. It is known
that whales occasionally descend as
much as 3,000 feet below the surface
of the sea -a depth at which, by the
pressure of water they ought to be
crushed flab: Why they are not in-
jured scientists have yet to discover.
It is this pressure which prevents a
modern submarine descending even
800 feet, let alone 8,000.
Eagles have been seen through tele-
scopes to fly with apparent east from
90,000 to 40,000 feet above sea :level.
At that height no human being can
live, owing bo the rarefication of the
air, How the birds live and fly at Dar
greater heights than nun can endure
for long is 'a question still ,tobe an.
aurora