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Dainty Dishes.
Prune Pudding—The whites of three
cage beaten until stiff, one cup of
eugar, one cup of chopped cooked
prunes. Mist carefully, pour into
a buttered baking dish and bake
slowly for twenty minutes.
Cranberry Pudding—Sift together
two cups of flour, three teaspoons of
baking powder and a pinch of salt,
Add milk sufficient to make a dough
about the thickness of any batter pud-
ding, stir in a cup of well -sweetened
and strained cranberry jelly and steam
for an hour and a half. Serve with
hard sauce.
Velp:tab"le Pie—Put into a buttered
pie dish layers of sliced potatoes and
of half -cooked Spanish onions. Then
season with salt and pepper, and mois-
ten with vegetable stock or milk.
Fill with cooked carrot and turnip,
cut to dices. Put more cooked car-
rot teethe top and bake in a hot oven
for about an hour,
Griddle Cakes—Crumble bread into
a bowl, first removing the crust. Pour
a pint of boiling hot milk over the
crumbs and let them stand until they
swell, then beat in the yolks of two
eggs, a pinch of salt, a tablespoon of
melted shortening, two heaping table-
spoons of flour and the beaten whites
of the eggs. Beat well, then bake
them in the regular way, being care-
ful when turning them not to break
them. These are very good.
Hot Salad—Take a good beet root
and its email of bulk In potatoes.
When the beet root has been boiled
until it is tender cut it into slices.
Then slice the potatoes and lay the
alternate slices .of beet and potatoes
in a dish. Sprinkle with pepper and
salt and pour a wineglass of lemon
juice carefully over the top. Vine-
gar will do just as well as lemon juice,
but the flavor of the lemon juice is
more distinctive. Place the dish and
its contents in the oven until very hot.
and then the salad can be served with
hot roast meat.
Kidney and Onion—Take a sheep's
kidney and a moderate-sized Spanish
onion. Skin the kidney and season'
according to taste. Peel the onion,
cut from top to bottom, but not quite,
through, hollow out the inside suf-
ficiently to hold the kidney, then place;
the kidney inside the hollow, close the
onion and tie together tightly. Then'
place the onion in a covered stewpan
with two or three tablespoonfuls of
water and stew gently for about two
hours. The gravy it has been stew -I
ed in should be served with the onion.
Porridge Scones—For these, cold
oatmeal porridge can be used. The
scones must, however, be eaten at
once, as they will not keep. Make a
stiff dough by adding flour to the
porridge, and flavor with a few drops!
of vanilla essence. Roil out the
dough to half an inch thick, cut in
scones and bake for about half an
hour in a moderate oven. Butter
should be liberally spread over the,
scones when they are cut open.
Bacon and Split Peas.—Put the peas
to soak the day before required. Wash
them well and remove any that are
discolored. Tio the peas loosely in
a muslin bag, then boil until quite:
soft. While the peas are cooking ;
trim off the rind of some fat bacon,
and just before the peas are ready fry
the bacon, place on a dish and keep
hot. Rub the peas through a sieve,
then add the seasoning and some of
the bacon fat. The bacon and peas
should be served in separate dishes.
Spanish Soup—To make this vege-
table soup peel eight Iiotatoes, eight
small onions and one Spanish onion.
Cut the Spanish onion up small, fry
in dripping and add salt and pepper.
Cook the potatoes and small onions
in a pint and a half of water, and
when perfectly soft and tender add the
fried onion and one pint of boiling
milk. Draw to the side of the fire
and add two well -beaten eggs. Stir
till the mixture thickens, but do not
allow it to boil; then add half a cup-
ful of grated cheese and stir again.
Rub through a sieve and serve with
toast.
Chicken Salad—Cut cold, boiled
chicken into dice. Take two cups of,
this meat and mix a cup of celery
cut into dice with it. Sprinkle all
with salt and pepper. Into three
tablespoons of oil stir a tablespoon of
Vinegar. Pour this over the chicken
and celery and toss until well mix-
ed, Line a chilled bowl with crisp
lettuce leaves, fill with the chicken
salad, and -pour mayonnaise dressing
over all.
Egg Salad With Cream Dressing—
Take equal parts of hard boiled, eggs
and celery and plate them on lettuce
loaves which have been put into a
chilled dish Over this pour the cream
dressing which has been made by
beating three eggs, yolks and whites
Together, until they ore light; add
one teaspoonful of salt, a pinch of red .
pepper, half a saltspoon of mustard
p
Mixed with a little water, and, lastly,
,
three or four tablespoons of rich,
Owed cream.
Hungarian Beef, Stew—Cheaper
Outs of meat can be made up in most
delicious stews. The following re-
011ie for I•Iungarian beef atm you will
fled n splendid dish and an inexpen-
sive one, too: Two Donde of lean
Ills vinegar,eef, shoulder steak, two tablespoon -
two tables oonfuls fine-
ly cut (Alon, two tablespoonfuls but-
ter or suet, one levet euutespoonful
flour, half -cup cream, sweet or sour,
one teaspoonful salt, one-fourth tea-
spoonful caraway seed, one-fourth
teaspoonful sweet marjoram, half -
cup hot water or broth, paprika to
taste, Cut the meat in one-half inch
tubes, put in a granite dish (not tin),
add vinegar and salt and let stand an
hour or two, Heat the butter in a
porcelain -lined iron kettle; add the
onion and cook until tender, not
brown, add meat and spices and cov-
er closely so the steam will not es-
cape; let simmer slowly until the
moisture is absorbed, and brown, stir-
ring often. Add a half cup of hot
broth or water and the flour mixed in
cold water. Just before serving add
the cream and shake in paprika, to
taste.
Useful Hints.
When the washing is done by ma-
chine, boiling is a Title less necessary.
Sugar gingerbread makes a whole-
some sweet for the children.
English walnuts added to orange
gelatine give it a delicious flavor.
When preparing pickles a wooden
spoon or fork should be used, never a
metal one.
A boiled custard with crushed ber-
ries added to it after cooking is a
delicious dish.
Good drainage is the most import-
ant thing to consider about foliage
plants for the houso.
Javelle water removes the most ob-
stinate stains from clothing, but it
also removes the color.
No one who has seen an electrically
equipped kitchen can doubt that it is
labor and dirt saving.
Even in winter green food, such as
salads, should play as large a part as
possible in every dietary.
Covering the furnace and heat
pipes with asbettos will keep the heat
from being wasted in the cellar.
To prevent custard from curdling
place the custard cups in a pan half
filled with cold water instead of hot.
Common lump starch can be used
for cleaning silver when no other
cleaner is available. It should be
applied with a damp cloth, allowed to
stand several minutes, then rubbed off
with cheesecloth.
To clean a sewing machine-gpickly,
moisten all the bearings" and metal
parts with kerosene,' then run the
machine rapidly for a few minutes,
afterward wiping off the oil with a
soft cloth.
You do not have to put greased
paper in the bottom of pans in which
cakes are being baked: Sprinkle
flour over the paper. You have
enough shortening in the batter with-
out grease on the paper,
When preparing French -fried pota-
toes they should be first soaked in
cold water, then immersed a mo-
ment in hot water and dried on cheese-
cloth. If this is done before frying
they will be soft inside and crisp and
brown on the outside.
To fry onions until they are tender
and brown without burning, slice them
thin, place in the frying pan with lard,
then cover them with cold water and
allow it . to come to a boil, boiling
briskly until the water has evapo-
rated; then allow the onions to fry in
the lard which remains in the pan.
IS THE KAISER A JEW?
Genealogical Descent From Psalmist
King Claimed by Kaiser.
Although the Germans are the most
confirmed anti-Semites in Europe,
and have treated the Jews worse than
any other nation, yet the Kaiser is
particularly proud of his supposed
ability to trace his descent from King
David, the second King of Israel.
Anyone who is even casually ac-
quainted with the teaching of the
Anglo -Israelites is aware that one of
their strongest beliefs is that the
Royal Family of England is in direct
succession from David, in keeping
with the prophecy that the sceptre
should never pass from his house.
Queen Victoria firmly believed this
teaching, one side -issue of which is
that the Coronation Stone is the some
upon which Jacob laid his head when
he dreamt of the ladder.
Now mark! At Potsdam is, or was
previous to the war, a genealogical
tree with King David at the root and
the Kaiser at the top! He believes it,
too; but he has to fall back upon his
British mother in order to give this
clesceht even the semblance of truth.
The story goes that the reigning
house of GreatBritain is descended
from the Psalmist through the eldest
daughter of Zedekiah, who fled to Ire-
land in charge of the prophet Jere-
miah, and eventually parried Here -
mon, King of Ulster.
Evidently the "All -Highest" was
fond of gazing upon this "proof" of
ancient lineage, since it occupied a
prominent position in his study.
Not That Class,
"Who was that gentleman that
came in just now, Mary?"
"That wasn't no gentleman, ma'am,"
said Mary, the maid. "It was only
the master eome back for his um-
brella."
A New Portrait of Premier David Lloyd George
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON
JANUARY 28.
Lesson IV.—Reverence of Jesus For
His Father's House—John 2. 13-
22. Golden Text—Matt. 21. 13.
Verse 13.'Of the Jews—The phrase
reminds us how the old feasts had
passed out of the Christian's world
since the day when "Christ our Pass-
over" was slain.
14. Temple—Not the word of verse
19. These suppliers of "felt wants"
—animals fox' sacrifice, and temple
coinage for gifts to the treasury—
were in the "Court. of the Gentiles,'
the outer court where proselytes were
allowed to worship.
15. In view of some absurd uses of
this verse which have been made, it is
well to note that the whip was only
for the animals. To talk of the Lord
as using force on this occasion is
singularly beside the mark: it was
obviously the tremendous moral force
that cowed the crowd of traffickers,
who would not have found the whip a
serious weapon had -'they combined
against him!
16. In the Synoptic account. (Mark
11. 17 which is associated with the
end of the ministry—Jesus quotes
,the words that make the place "a
;house of prayer for all the nations."
His words here are much less severe;
but they stress the personality of the
speaker, who comes to purge his Fath-
(er's house.
17. See Psa. 09. 9, where the repres-
ientativo Israelite speaks.
18. The traffic was, of course,
licensed—indeed, the shops were called
I "the booths of the sons of Hanan
(Annas)," who no doubt charged a
high rent! To interfere with such
vested interests demanded credentials!
19. If we add "made with hands,"
we probably restore the full form of
the saying perverted by the false wit-
ness in Mark 14. 88, and alluded to in
the Epistles. It was clearly recent:
this 1.? angelist is not concerned with
the order of mere history.
20. The forty-six years count up to
the time of speaking, for it was only
just complete. Temple—The inner
building, Holy Place and Holy of
Holies. Thou --Emphatic.
21. Compare John 1. 14 (margin)
and note above.
22. The scripture—John 20. 9 is the
key, showing in combination with Acts
2. 26 that Psa. 10 was chiefly in mind.
Note how the Old Testerment and the
Words of Jesus are put together—
they formed the Bible of the first
Christian generation.
BOTTLES AND WASTE PAPER.
Fortunes in Material Once Regarded'
As Useless:
A week or two ago a couple of men
visited a little out-of-the-way town in
mid -Devon, England, and made a
house-to-house canvass for old bottles,
says London Answers. They took
everything they could final, from medi-1
cine -bottles to big glass jam jars,'
paying cash for all they were offered.'
Eventually they filled two railway
trucks with their purchases, and one
afterwards confessed that their pro-
fits on the transaction were over ten.
pounds. As they were only two days
at the job, this works out at some-
thing like five shillings an hour a
head.
The glass famine gets worse every
week, and at the present moment old
bottles are worth more than they have
ever been, Jam jars also are riling
rapidly in value,
Corks, too. Even before the war
cork was increasing in price. Good,
sound corks can be eceured in very
diluted acid, and used agele; broken
ones ere ground, pulverized, and used
for inside shoes and boots, far mak-
ing cork lino, for bath -mats, for hat-
linhige, for bicycle -handles, and other
purposes too numerous to mention.
As for paper, everyone knows by
this time that our imports of wood-
pulp, from which paper is made, have
been cut down by one-third, with a
possible further reduction to follow.
Most people have a notion that this
affects nobody but the owners of and
contributors to papers and periodicals.
Never was a bigger blunder. There
is not a man, woman, or child in the
country that the paper famine does
not affect directly or indirectly.
Paper houses have long been com-
mon; ceilings and wall -decorations are
made of paper. Motor -car bodies and
railway wheels are composed of the
same substance. Paraffin drums,
drainpipes, ornamental bowls, furni-
ture, leatherette, trays, dishes, plates,
and a hundred other articles of every-
day use are made of paper pulp.
We say nothing of the thousands of
tons of brown paper used by the
tradesmen in every shop in the coun-
try. There is perhaps nothing so in-
dispensable to modern life as paper,
and it is the duty of every one of us
to -day to save every sheet of paper,
using as little as possible for fire -
lighting. For old paper can be made
into new. The commonest sheets of
newspaper can be worked up into
cardboard for boxes, while recently a
method has been perfected for clean-
ing printed paper of the greasy
printing -ink and manufacturing
afresh into white sheets, fit for writ-
ing or printing.
Wastepaper is already worth money.
Therefore, again we urge all our
readers Co save all the old paper, stuff
it into sacks, and keep it carefully un-
til enough has been collected to make
it worth sending to the mills.
Rags of all sorts are rising in price.
Old woollen stuffs have always been
worth keeping for the purposes of
transforming into shoddy—a material
which has n worse name than it really
deserves. Shoddy dust forms a useful
fertilizer for hops and other crops.
Even cotton rags now have their
price. They can he cleaned and used
for hospital work. No old handker-
chief is so worn but that it has a use.
Bones have always found a market
in glue and fertilizer factories. One
of the valuable by-products from
bones is glycerine, and glycerine, ow-
ing to the enormous amount require
ed for explosives, has reached a price
hitherto unheard of. So by all means
save bones. After they have given
up their last ounce of food -value they
aro still worth money.
FACTS ABOUT TUNNELS.
Length of Proposed Channel 'Tunnel
Would Eclipse All Others.
However opinions may differ on the
proposed English Chancel Tunnel, it
certainly would eclipse all others
where the question of length was con-
cerned.
Even the famous Simplon , Tunnel
throughYthe Alps would have to take
a back seat, with its 12 „'a miles. An
interesting fact, however, would still
accord it a certain place in the tunnel
world. Such was the exceeding care
and skill of the engineers responsible
for the work that, when their plans
were put into practice, the tunnel
proved accurate to, the minutest frac-
tion of an inch. This gigantic strum-;
time, opened in 1906, cost something
like $20,000,000.
The Severin Tunnel is the longest
tunnel in England, Thirteen years
were necessary for its construction,
while the Mersey Tunnel, between
Liverpool and Birkenhead, was com-
pleted in six years, says London An-
swers.
The very first tunnel to pierce the
Alps was the Mont Canis, 8 miles in
length. Another famous tunnel, the
St. Gothard is 9b ranee long, and was
opened in 1881. The Arlberg (61
miles), connecting the Austrian and
Swiss railway system, was first used
in 1884, while America takes it steed
with the I•loosac'funnel, 4sa milts in
length.
An interesting point to note is that
none of these "underground links"
can heart a very great age.
Choice of Freezing ;Mixtures.
"Motorists should be very careful'
as to what and -freeze mixtures they
use to guard against the frecsing of
the water in the cooling system of
their cars," saga an automobile man
of lung experience.
"The most easily prepared solution
is calcium chloride; it is a 1 eelutaly
the wrong anti -freeze mixture to nee.
Unless one can secure the chemically
pure form, calcium chloride is a
mighty dangerous solution to use.
The commercial calcium c•hluride com-
monly sold for an anti -freeze mixture
is highly injurious because of the ac-
tion of the components of the cooling
system. Such alkaline solutions are
productive of an electrical action
wherever two dissimilar metals are.
utilized, such as the brass tubing of a
radiator and the solder used at the
points; the iron water packets and the
brass or copper plates, etc. And,
too, I strongly advise against the use
of all soluble salts because of their
harmful action on the metal.
"In addition to damaging the' radia-
tor, the use of calcium chloride may
work havoc with the cylinders, the
pump and the inlet and outlet water
pipes.
"A summary of the opinions of
motor -car manufaetm•ers as to the
value of various anti -freeze solutions
shows a decided preference for dena-
tured alcohol and glycerine. The pro-
, portions for the use of the alcohol
depend upon the temperature. It
will require a 6 per cent. solution of
alcohol to prevent freezing at 25 dee
grees and a 23 per cent, solation: will
take care of the water system down to
zero. As low as 10 below, the solution ;
should be 30 per cent., and if the
meicury happens to drop to 15 de-
grees below zero, the percentage will
be 35 per cent. of alcohol, whereas 10
more degrees beitw will require a 40
per cent. solution.
"Alcohol has one undesirable fee:-:
ture, however, and that is its evapor-
ating proclivities. But if you add a
small amount of glycerine to the al-
cohol as you prepare it foe° the militia
tor, you will greatly reduce the eva-
poration rate."
in HEIR TO
BRITAIN'S THRONE
AUTHENTIC STORIES OF TIM
PRINCE OF WALES.
Considered at Good Fellow at Oxford,
and Popular at the
Front.
When a young officer first joins the
Stall at Headquarters it is considered
the fitting thing among the young
but more experienced officers on the
Staff to play certain wall -known,
tricite 00 Ilii, says London Answers.
Nut even a Prince who is the heir to
the Throne is regarded as of too high
rank to escape from this ordeal. But
before the Prince of Wales went to
the Front he was well posted in this
natter, and his Royal Highness did
not therefore fall into any of the traps
laid for him.
Shortly after his arrival at Head-
quarters the Prince was greeted by a
young Staff officer, who informed hila
that he had been requested by a com-
manding officer to send a despatch
at once to—, and that the C.O. had
said that the Prince would take it.
"Here is the despatch," said the
young Staff officer, "and there is one
of the despatch-cars"—indicating an
immense, raking glittering Rolls-
Royce. "You had better start at
once!"
Prevent 'Tire Punctures.
An ingenious device consisting of a
magnet carried in front of each of the
two foreword wheels of an automobile
and in close proximity to the ground
has just been invented, according to
the Popular Science Monthly for Jan-
uary. It will prevent the puncturing
of pneumatic tires by automatically
picking up magnetic particles such
as chips of metal, tacks, nails and the
like.
The magnet is pivoted to the front
end of
anextending arm attached to
the front axle wheel spindle, so that
it will swing with the wheel during;
steering and always remain in front
of it.
LTRY human consumption which may be i
cooked and hung up in the poultry
house for the birds to pick at. Some-
times an animal is accidentally kill -
1' ed and the carcass can be cut up and
frozen and $ed to the birds daring
the winter, care being taken that the
meat is not diseased. There is usual -
Increased Egg Production. ly a supply of green feed about the
farm. Mangels, turnips, cabbage,'
With eggs retailing round five cents clover leaves, etc.. are all good. The
apiece, the hen is receiving a good deal ration may be varied by sprouting
of publicity. If it holds true that the some oats, which will be much re-
supply and demand rule the market, lished by the birds. A little char -1
it is a safe conclusion that the major- coal might profitably be added to the
ity of hens are off duty at this season feeds. It is really necessary to the
of the year. It is really unnatural health of the birds. This material
,for a hen to lay eggs during the cold may be purchased, or it may be secued'
!winter months, However, by care- from wood ashes from the cook stove.
ful selection, breeding, housing and It has often been noticed that where
feeding, birds have been produced only a few birds are kept, so that the'
which lay every month of the year. It table scraps furnish a considerable,
is especially desirable that "biddy" be portion of the feed, a higher percent -I
induced to lay when eggs are high in age of eggs are produced than in a
price. To do this it is lteeeasany to larger flock. This goes to prove
start the bird on its journey in life that the proper feed for a laying hen
early in the spring. It has been is similar to that on which humans
proven that tho April -hatched pullets subsist.
is much more likely to lay during the A dry, well ventilated pen is es -
cold weather than the chick hatched sential, and it is advisable to cover
! the latter part of May or June. The the floor with about a foot of chaff
pullet must be developed before she or straw. Scatter the grain in this,
can turn the feed she receives to the and the birds get necessary exercise
production of eggs. With good feed in searching for their feed. If milk
and attention this development should • is available, by all means let the
be reached by the time the bird is six poultry have a liberal supply, and this
months of age. However, many pule will permit of decreasing the amount
lets oto not commence laying at this' of meat feeds. A large portion of
age, for the reason that they have not the egg is water, which points to the
sec ived the proper amount of the fact that the hen requires a constant
right kinds of feeds. It is too latesupply of clean water. Grit, oyster'
now to rectify any mistakes trade shell and a dust bath are other things
along this line for this year, but an which should be found in every poul-
endeavor can be made the coming; try `house. Poultry requires atten-
snring to hatch chicks early and feed; tion and good care if it is to be a pay -
them properly. There are certain' ing proposition.—Farmer's Advocate.
treatments which are essential for
w inter egg production, even with the
early -hatched pullet. In the first THE FLOOR OF THE OCEAN.
place she requires to be fed feeds
which contain the material found in Dust of Meteorites Found at Bottom
the egg. Wheat and corn make sat -I of Deepest Seas.
isfactory grains for winter feeding,
but good results follow the feeding It is believed that to an enormous
of a greater variety. Oats are an extent the bed of the ocean is covered
excellent grain for poultry; their with lava and pumice -stone. Stili
chief fault being that they contain more remarkable is it to find the floor
ton much hull. However, we know
of poultrymen who feed no other
grain through the winter and yet
they are able to secure a large per-
centage of eggs. One of the best
ways of feeding this grain is to crush
lit and keep it before the birds, in a
hopper. They will seldom eat too
much of this material. It seems
strange that two poultrymen can be
'located side by side, keep the sante
!breed of fowl hatched about the same
time, and feed the same varieties of
grain hi the same proportion, and yet
one secures a large percentage of eggs
while the other gets hardly any.
Give Poultry Proper Care.
There is a good deal in how the
birds are looked after. It is the lit-
tle attentions which count a good
deal; for instance, one poultryman
twill heat the drinking water and give
a warm mash every day. Another
will sprinkle a little pepper in the
mash, and it is possible that this may
net as a stimulant to egg production,
although one must be careful not to
overdo it. There is a difference in
the way trashes are prepared, and it
is believed to be as essential to make
feed appetizing for the hens es it is
for other kinds of live stock. Too
many neglect to supply meat and
green feed during the winter. With-
out these the bird cannot produce
many eggs, even though she is fed
an abundance of grain. There are
various ways of supplying the meat.
Linseed meal, blood meal, or beef
scrap, may be feed in the hopper or
mixed in the mash, On many farms
an animal is slaughtered for meat
during the winter and there are Cor.
A Joke That Failed.
The Prince looked at the young of-
ficer, then at the despatch which he
had been handed.
"I shall certainly start at once,"
said the Prince, "but can you get me
the 0.0.8 written order? I ought
to have it, you know."
The young Staff officer burst out
laughing.
"Olt, I see you know more than I
• thought!" he said. "It is rather an
1 old joke, I admit."
The joke, if it had come off, would
have consisted in getting the Prince
'to enter the car, which belonged to a
highly -irritable brigadier who was
standing near it, and in listening to
the brigadier's language when he saw
the Prince starting off in it. The
Prince of Wales, in writing home to
the Princess Mary and his brothers,
related with glee how all these little
attempts to get him into a fix all fail-
ed.
The Prince is one of the most pop-
ular members of the Staff, and, like a
good officer, is ready to turn his
hand to any job he may be set.
He has superintended the loading
of food -waggons for the trenches, has
driven generals in his own car to dif-
ferent parts of the line, and has help-
ed in laying of telephone lines.
of the ocean covered in many parts
with the dust of meteorites. These
bodies whirl about in the heavens like
miniature comets, and are for the
most part broken into innumerable
fragments. We are all familiar 'with
these heavenly visitants as shooting -
stars; but it has been only lately dis-
covered that this cosmic dust forms
layers at the bottom of the deepest
seas. Between Honolulu and Tahiti,
at depth of two thousand three hun-
dred and fifty fathoms—over two
miles and a half—a vast layer of this
material exists. Falling upon land,
this impalpable dust is Indistinguish-
able; but, accumulating for centuries
in the sea depth, it forms a wondrous
story of the continuous bombardment
of this planet by cemetery bodies.
Breaking The News.
"Can you bear it if I --tell you some-
thing serious?" ventured the young
husband.
"Yea; don't keep anything front
ane," gasped the bride.
"Remember, this does not metre that
my love for you is growing less."
"Don't break my heart, What is it?"
"Well, my dear, I'm getting tired of
angel food every day for dinner.
Would it be too much to ask you to
have liver and onions?"
'Thankful.
"This ie the lest time I shall bring
this bill," said the enraged collector.
"Thanks," replied the imnpecunious
debtor, You ire so much More cone
siderite then the other fellow; lie saki
fain portions of the ca't'ers not lit for he was gohtg to comC again."'
"Hallo, Prince!"
The Prince's billet at the Front
consists of a small room in a house
with several other officers.. His
Royal Highness has one servant, an
invaluable person, who acts as chauf-
fenr, valet, and general handyman.
The Prince belongs to the Chauf-
feurs' Club at the Front, the most
democratic institution of its kind in
the world. The subscription is five
shillings, and anyone who drives a
mechanically -propelled vehicle of any
sort is entitled to belong to it. It
has among its members princes,
dukes, artisans, mechanics, and clerks.
Once, when the Prince of Wales
was having a cup of coffee at the cof-
fee -bar in the club in the evening, he
sate a very dirty -looking figure stand-
ing next him. It was that of a
man who had just returned from the
trenches with an empty food -waggon.
"Hallo!" said the dirty man, and
then his Royal Highness recognised
an Oxford chum with whom he had
had many a sparring match in his Ox-
ford days.
Oxford Days.
When the Prince of Wales went to
Oxford three years ago he came up
to the 'Varsity with the reputation of
being an exceedingly quiet, reserved
young man, who would live chiefly in
the company of Mr. Hansell, his priv-
ate tutor, and a few friends selected
for him by his parents.
This opinion was formed by men
who knew nothing of the Prince, nor,
indeed, of his father's wishes or
views concerning him,
To start, the Ring and Queen
partieularly desired that the Prince
should lead the life of an ordinary
undergraduate, associate freely with
his fellow -students, and take an ac-
tive part in the soetaI life of the
University,
All this the Prince did, and before
he had been six months up he had
won the reputation of being a good
fellow and a good sportsman, for
there was scarcely any form of sports
at Oxford in which the Prince did not
take part.
There are several of the Prince's
Oxford friends at the Front at the
present time, and one of his moat
intimate chums. Lord Wendover, was
recently killed.
Though the Prince would certainly
resent any undue familiarity or im-
pertinence, there is an utter absence
of side or swagger about hint, which,'
combined with a quiet geniality and
perfectly easy manners, renders 1)111
popular in any mompany hr which he
finds hilhself .
Doomed '1"o Bachelorhood. '
lir---T sitall never marry unless . T
find at woman who is my exert op-
posits.
She --You will never lied so p51'.
feet a being as that.
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