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941474411Nnit.,..,
Or,,the Belle of the Season.
'were further out," he
Sa• id, ."He flirts—oh, my aunt, how be
rtsl—but as to falling, it loveDici
ever Sea en.icaberg, Miss Iralcoader
. She eboelt her head,
"Well, it's one of the biggest, the
moat beautiful frauds in the world.
-' When you meet one smiling along in the
. Atlantic,- you thialc it one of the nicest,
Sweetest things you ever saw: it's so
• dazzlingly bright, with its thousand-
• .and-orie colors glittering in the Sunlight,
OU l!all quite in love with it, and it
10010 so harmless, so enticing, that
• you're tempted to get quite close to it;
'• Which no doubt Is annzeing to the ice-
berg, but it slightly- embarrassing for
.,,you,;.for the iceberg is on you , before
•you know it, anti --and there isn't enough
• left of you for a decent funeral. That's
Stafford all the way, He's so pleasant,
So feel*, so lovable, that you think him
Quito harmless; but while you're adniir-
inghis confounded ingratiating ways,
While You're growing enthusiastic about
his engaging tricks—he's the best rider,
the best dancer, the best shot—oh, but
, you must have heard of himi—he Is
,bearing down upon you: your heart goes
• Under, and he—ah, well, he Just sails
'Over you siniling, quite unconscious of
having brought you to everlasting
smash."
"You are indeed a friend," she said,
, with languid irony.
"Oh, you think I'm giving him away?"
• ite said, "My clear Miss Falconer, every-
body knows him. Bvery ball room, every
tennis court, is strewed with his wrecks.
• And all the time he doesn't know it; but
goes his way- crowned with a modesty
which is the marvel and the wonder of
this most marvellous of ages."
"It sounds like a hero out of one of
'Oulda's' novels," she remarked, as
listlessly as before.
But' behind her lowered lids her eyes
were shining with a singular brightnesS.
Howard turned to her delightedly.
"lify dear Miss Falconer, if you were
a man I should ask to shake hands with
YOU. It so exactly describes hini,That'e
•Just what he is. Frank as a boy, as
gentle as a, woman, as staunch as a
bulldog, as brave—he would have stop -
'Ped a drayrnan's team Just as readily as
Yours last night—and as invulnerable
as that marble statue."
He pointed to a statue which stood
whitely on the edge of the lawn, and
she raised her eyes and looked at it
dreamily.
"I could break that thing if. I had a
big hammer," she said.
"I daresay," he said. "But you can't
break Stafford. Honestly"—he looked
at her—"I wish you could!"
"Why?" she asked, turning her eyes
on him for the first time.
Howard was silent for a moment,
then he looked at her with a curious
gravity.
"Because it would be good for him:
because I am afraid for him."
"Afraid?" she echoed.
"„Yes," lie said, with a nod. "Some
day he will run against something that
Will bring hint to smash. Some woman
• But I beg Your pardon. Do you
' know, Miss Falconer, that you have a
dangerous way of leading one to speak
the truth—which one should . never= -or
very rarely—do? Why on darth am
telling you all this about Stafford
Orme?"
. She shrugged her shoulders.
"You were saying 'some woman," She
'said.
He gave a sigh of resignation,
• "You are irresistible! Some woman
Who will be quite unworthy of him. It'S
always the case The block of lee you
cannot smash with your biggest ham-
mer is broken into smithereens by 0.
needle. That's the peril before Stafford
—but let us hope he will prove the ex-
ception to the rule n,nd escape. He's
safe at present, at any rate,"
She thought of the scene she had wit-
nessed, the girl sitting sideways on
Stafford thane's horse and her face
flushed for an instant:
'Are you sure?" she. said.
"Quite!" he responded, confidently. "X
know all Stafford's ilirtationts, great and
small: if there waS anything serious
he would tell me; and as he haslet—
there isn't."
She laughed; the slow, soft laugh
which made Howard think suddenly,
strangely, of a sleep), tigress he bad
once watched in a rajah's zoo, as site
la" basking in the sun: a thing of soft-
neas and beauty and—death.
"We've had a most amusing. conver-
sation, Mr. Howard," she said. "X don't
know When I've been So interested—or
50 tempted." •
"Tempted?" He located at her with
O slow, eXpectant smile. •
"Oh, yes," she murmured, turning her
• eyes anon him with a half -mocking light
in them. "You have forgotten that you
have' been ,talking to a woman,"
1. "I don't deny it" he said. "It's the
finest compliment I could pay you. But
-after?"
"And that to a woman your account
of your hero -friend is --a challenge."
He nodded and paused, with his cigar
half -way to his lipS
greatlY tempted to accept it, do
you know!" she said.,
He lattghed.
"Dpiet: you'll be vamp:Li:shed.. Is that
too candla, too brutal? 1m said
the launch, 11,11as Falconer?". said Staf-
ferd;, but she Shook her head.
"No, thanks," she said, languidly.. "I'
hale crowds' of that kind. I'd • rather,
stick 11 our original proposition; it will
bore; rim less. 'But perhaps' you'd ra-
ther Join them?" •'
"1.0 it likely?" said Stafford, with a
smile, as he signed to the man to .bring
up a skiff. "Now, let 100 0110100 you as
comfortable as r can, We ought to have
O gondola," he added, and he handed her
to the seat in the stern,
She leant back with the sunshade over
her shoulder, and Stafford, as he row-
ed out towards the centre of the lake,
looked at her with unconscious admir
n. -
atioShe was simply, perfectly dress-
ed in a yachting costume of white and
pa,le-blue, which set off to the fullest
e.dvantage her exquisite complexion,and
her red-gobl hair. Bw
But it as adm
n ira-
tioof. the coldest ken kind. for evat that
moment he was thinking of the 010 in
the, well-worn habit, the giel he loved
with a nossion that made his slightest
thought of her a psalm of worship,
And Maude, though she appeared half
asleep, like a beautiful wild animal
basking in the Warmth of the sun, glanc-
ed at hint now anhm
d again. She ad ade
her wager with Xioward on the sour of
the moment, prompted by the vanity of
a woman piqued by the story of Staf-
ford's indifference to her seX; but as she
looked at Min she wondered how a wo-
man would feel if she fell in love with
him. But she had no fears for herself;
there was a coldness in her nature which
had hitherto guarded her from the fever
which men call love, and she thought
herself quite secure. There would be
amusement, triumPli, in making hito
love her, in winning her Wages with
that cynical Mr Reward, who boasted
of his friend's invulnerability' and when
she had conquered, and gra:tified her
vanity-- Ali; well, it would be easy
to step aside and bring the curtain down
upon her triumph and Stafford's discom-
fiture She would -wear that cynical Mr.
Howard's ring, and every. time she look-
ed at it, it should remind 1101' 01 her
conquest.
Stafford rowed In silence for some
minutes. His beautiful companion did
not seem to -want him to tallt; and
certainly showed no desire to talk her-
self; so he gave hiinself up to thinking
of Ida—and wishing that it was she who
was sitting opposite Mtn there instead
of this girl with the face of a Grecian
goddess, with the Justrous hair oil a
hour!, At last, feeling that he ought to
say something, he remarked, as he gaz-
ed at the marvellous view.
"Very beautiful, isn't it?"
She raised her eyes and let them wWan-
derthfrom the glittering water to e
glorious hills.
"Yes, suppose it is. I'm afraid I
don't appreciate scenery as 1110011 as
other people do. Perhaps it is because
one is always expected to fall Into rap-
tures over it Does that shock you? I'm
afraid I shock most -people, The fact is,
I have been brought up in a circle
which has taught m
,Te to loathe senti-
ment. hey were always gushing about
their feelings, but the only thing they
cared for was money!"
"That ought to have made you loathe
money," said Stafford, with a smile, and
O certain kind " of interest; indeed, it
was difficult not to feel interested in
this beautiful girl, with the face and
form of a goddess, and, apparently, as
small capacity for emotion.
"Oh, no," she said, languidly; "on
the contrary, it showed 1110 the value of
money. I saw that if I had not been
rich, the daughter of a rich man, I
should have been of no account in their
eyes. They were always professing to
love Me, but I was quite aware that it
was only because I was rich. enough to
be able to buy pleasure for them,"
l.'
Icind of people," re-
marked Stafford.
"No; just the average," she said,
coolly. "Nearly all men and women are
alike—worldly, selfish, self-seeking,
Look at 1113, father," she went on, ea
eeolly as before. "He .111111105 of nothing
but money; he has spent his life
sertunbling, s,tr....oggling for it; and
look at yours—.
"Oh. hold 001" said Stafford, laugh-
ing, but reddening a, little, "You're
Very much mistaken if you think my
father 10 that kind of man."
She mailed.
"Why, ever3,heay has some story of
his—what shall call it?—tteuteness,
sharpness; and of the wonderful way
In which he has always got what he
wanted. X. don't want to be offensive,
Mr. Orme, but afraid both our fa-
tha
ers re in the sameeg
catory. And
that both would sacrifice =3 -thing or
anyone to gain their ends."
Stafford laughed again,
"You are altogether wrong, Bliss Fal -
00050," he said. "I happen to know
that my governor is one of the' most
generous and tender-hearted of men
and that whatever he has gained It is
by fair means, and by no sacrifice of
others."
She shrugged her shoulders.
"I envy your faith in him. Hut then
you are a very enviable man, Ian told."
"As how?" asked Stafford. "Pretty
here, isn't it? Here's one one of those
beastly steamers corning: they spoil the
lake, but they're very convenient, I sup-
pose.
Se 1,,a1 that I will accept it," she She glanced at the big steamer put -
said. ' that ring of yours a ,favor- I 1105'
ite?"•• sending ti all of smoke across the
towards them obtrusive/y and
"I've had it ever since I can reraern- green and violet of the bills.
011, I m told you are the most pope -
lar man in London; that you have the
world at your feet, that you are only
waiting to see which duchess you Pre;
fer to throw your handkerchief to—,
Stafford colored.
"What rot!—I beg your pardon, Miss
Falconer. Of course I know you are
only chaffing me."
",Isn't It true—about the duchess, I
mean?" she asked, so coolly, so indif-
ferently, that Stafford was compelled to
take her seriously;
"Nary a, word," he said, brightly;
then, 'with a Walden gravity: 'If you
hannen to hear such nonsense again,
Miss Falconer, you can, if you care to,
contradict -it flatly, 11 am not in the
least likely to mairy 5 duchesS; indeed,
I wouldn't marry the highest and great-
est of them, if she'd have me which is
highly improbable." s
"Do you mean to say that you have
no ambition, that you -tvould marry for
—lova?" site asked.
Stafford stopped rowing for a mo-
mentand looked at her grimly,
"What Oil earth else should I marry
for?" he asked. "Wouldn't you?"
Before she could answer, the steamer
came abreast of them, and so close that
the swell from its screw set the slight,
narrow skiff dancing and plunging on
the waves.
Maude uttered a faint ,cry and leant
forward, and Stafford, fearing she was
going to rise, stretched out his hand,
and touching her knee. forced her into
her seat again, and kept her there un-
til the swell had subsided. 'I'M color
flooded her face at the nreSsure of his
strong hand, which was like a steel
weight, and she caught her breath.
Then, as he took'his hand away and re-
sumed rowing, he said:
"I beg your pardon! X was afraid
YOU Were going to get up --a girl I once
had in a boat dicl so and we upset."
"The boat is very small," she said, in
O low voice, alirmst one of apology,
sOli, it's all right, so long as you sit
still, and keep 3 -our head," he said. "It
could ride over twice as big a swell as
this."
She ieolced at hiM from under her
lowered lids with a new expression in
her face, a faint tremor on her lips;
and, as IT she could not Meet hiS eyes,
she glanced baok with an affectation of
interest at the steamer. A.s she did so,
something dropped 'front it into • the
"Thanks!" she murmured, and she lake: '
rose with her slow grace. "I'd better "What owns that?" she said., "Some,:
get in 10 an appropriate costume. Mr. tli • "
Howard, what will you bet nae that it "Bh? A man, do you mean?" he ask -
does not rain before we ?tart. 13ut you ed, stOPPIng.
never bet, you tall mei" "Oh, no; something small."
"Not unless I 5,011 5000 of winning,' -,"A parcel, solnebhdy's lunch, per -
Mies Falconer,' he said, eignIfica,ntly, haps," he said; and he rowed on, .
• She loOked 'after Stafford as he rode She leant ,back, her eyes downcast;
aWaY to the atable, she still seethed to feel that streng ir-
"Nor I," she retorted, with a smile, resistible pressure of his hand under
PAs you war :see." which she had been unable to moVe.
"There ought to be an echo some-
where here," he 8010, as they canie op-
CHAPTDR lIVI, posite one of the hills, and he gave the
Australian "c00 -eels in a clear,' ringing
When Stafford and. Maude Valconer voice, which the eoho sent back in a
Went down to the lake after binchoon,
they found a party from the Villa, Just musical imitatien'
"How true it was!" she said!" and
embarking on board one of the launches• she opened her 110' and sang a bar or
the air was fllled with laughter anci two of the "101010" song
char, tteand the little (May Was bright ltafford listened to the echo, Which
With the White flannelsm
of the en "4 was almost' as salt and sweat as tile
pie gay frocks of them
women, The party
rooted the two With exuberant welcome girl's notes. .
"What a wonderful voice yeti haver
ancl Bertie called out to as0 them he said, almost unconsciously, neVer
theY were comingon board. -
, heard a sweeter, What waS that you
, "Terhaps you would rather go . on sang?"
ber. It was -my mother's" he said, ra-
ther gravely.
She held out her hand, upon which
the cosily gems glittered in the sun-
llght, „
"Choose one to set against it," she
said quietly.
Howard, rouse.d for once from his
sleepy cynicism, met her gaze with
soinething like astonishment.
"You mean----?" he said, in a. low
Voicc.
":I mean that I am going to try to
meet your iceberg. ' You will play fafr,
Howard? You will stand and look
. on and—be silent?"
He smiled and leant back as if he
had considered het, strange, audadouS
Proposal, and felt confident.
"On my honor," he said, with a laugh,
"You shall have fair play!"
She laughed softly. "You have not
chosen my stake," she said, meaningly.
10.11, no. • Pardon! Let me 500," He
took her hand and examined the rings.
"This --X think it's the most valuable."
..!It does not matter," she said. "Yeti
will not *in it May I look at Yours?"'
He extended his hand with...an amus-
ed laugh; but without a smile, she said:
"Yes, it is a, quaint ring; I like
quaint things: I shall wear it on nty
'little finger."
She dropped his hand quickly, for at
that moment Stafford • retie round the
bend of the arive. Rio face was grave
and almost 'stern in its pre -occupation,
but he caught sight of them, and raised
,his hat, ,then turned his horse and rode
up to the terrace.
"Good morning, Stafford,", called
Howard, "Where have you 1,000? Hal-
lo! Anything happened? You're coat-
ed ail -over with mud: had a fall?"
He nodded carelessly as he turned to
the beautiful girl, lying back now and
looking'up at his handsome face with
an' air! of languid indifference,
"What a lovely clay, Miss Faldoner!
Where cub all the others? Are you not
going for a drive, on the lake, s01110 -
where?"
have Just been asking Mr. Howard
to take me for a row," she said, "bat
he has reused,"
StaffOrd laughed and glanced at his
"I can quite,,belleve it: he's the lazl-
e.st wretch in existence. If you'll trans-
fer the offer to me, We'll go,,,after
"Tha31 thing of Wagner'e," ohe re-
plied; 01111 110110 natiirally she began the
atr and sang it through,.
• Stafford let the boat drift and leant
upon' tire oara,liis oyes fixed on her face,
a rapt and, very eloquent admiration in
his own, • •
"Ah—beautifull" he said in a low
Voice‘ "What a delight 11 111051 be to'
you to be able to sing rake'thatt I ain
understand it 1811010 theatre CrY, frig over
that 80115, sung aS 100 sing itl"
She 'glance0 at him with an affeeta-,
Hon of languirramueement, but she was
watching him intently,
'That'a not the best the °pestle she
said: ' like this better;" and slieeseng,
the "Swan" song; Sang it so low that
he ,leaned forward to catch the note's
which' flowed, like "Silver, from her 1,08ft.
red, lips; and orlienshe finished it lie
are* a Iditg breath and still leant ,fOr-
ward looking at her, , •
. "Thank yob, thank Your Am. 'said,
With '00 much' a.dintration and gratitude
in his •Natice that, as if to 'apologiSe tor
it, he said: "I'm fond of. music, nut
I'm forgetting YOur ten„ Shall ,ve pull
bac1 . to the 'Ferry Hotel' and get
some?"
"?'in in your ' hands," she replied,
languidly,
He turned the boat and pulled back
along the centre of the Lake in allenoe.
Suddenly she bent forward.• ,
(To be continued.)
SIR J. A. M. A,IliINS,
New Knight Spent Most oiRis LIN
in Manitoba.
Sir James, A. M. Aikins,\LP.,
who WaS the recipient of a knight
bachelorhood this week, in the Hon.
Clifford Sifbon's .successor in the
representation of Brandon. He is
a son of the late Hon. Santee Cox
Aikinse who -was- appointed n,Seri.a,-
tor by Royal Proclamation at Con-
federation, and who, from 1882 until
1886, was Lieutenant -Governor of
Manitoba, Mr,Aikins, while born
in Ontario and ,educatted at Upper
Canada College and 115ronto Uni-
versity, has, spent the hest part of
his life in Manitoba, where -the ha's
su.coessfully practiced law in the
City of Winnipeg, At Om present
time he is the senior barrister at
the Manitoba. Bar and was in 1912
president of the Bar Associsution.
FrO111 1879 until 1896 he was Mani-
toba Counsel for the Department ol
Justice, and in 1580 -he was one ;of
the Royal Commissioners 'to inves-
tigate and report o'n the administra-
tion of justice in the North-West
Territories. He has b.een counsel
for the Government of Manitoba
since 1900, so that his remarks 033
the boundary question in the House
were regarded as an expression of
the views of that Government Sir
James, who Wag appointed Q. 0, ni
1884, long before most of the pre -
Sir J. it. If. itiMits, K.B.
sent members, of the Manitoba, 'Bar
had been .admitted to practice ,was
,,solicibed in Winnipeg of the Cana:
(lien Pacific Railway, from the
ganization !of the company Uu31IL he
withdrew to contest the Brandon
constituency at the last general
elections,
The new knight is 11, anam of wide
general knowledge, .ancl it is not
surprising to hear that takes a
great interest in ,edireational m.at-
ters, being honorary bursar and a
member of the -council of Manitoba
University, and a directer of the
Manitoba Agricultural College. Sir
James is popularly known a.mong
his numer,oas friends .as "Jam," by
reason of the initials of ihis. names.
His oratory is of the perfervid Beu.
net type. Some have called him a
"wind-jam.mer."
AUSTRALIAN RA ILWAYS.
Eighteen Thousand Miles in Opera.
tion There.
In Australia, a, country of "groat
cl1stances7" one ,of the principal tap -
tors in the settlement el people on
the krtile lands ia the provision of
railway facilities, so that the new
settler may have his supplies
brought to Mm cheaply and his pro-
ducts taken promptly to the mar-
kets. The railways in Australia are
therefore playing an inoreasingly
important part.. Over 2170,000,000
have been spent on the 18,000 males
of railway an operation there. Prac-
tically the, whole of these lines are
owned and controlled by the people,
and' will remain State [property for
all time. Recognizing the impor-
tance of the railway facilities, most
of the States are carrYing otut active
construedon policies, and as rapid-
ly as the land istaken up !the trains
are run into the vicinity. South
AuStralia, 11,as recently ,corie;tructed
lines which are to tap the irrigation
areas of that State,. and has invited
tenders for a line which, with those
just completed, will !serve an area,
of over three million aCres. In the
earlier clays of settlement in Aus- traverse portions .hithesto
tralia the new -coiner naturally hesi- shown as blanks on the, map anaLTe_
ta,ted before gOing to planes many garded ini deSerts; and will make
miles from the ralways and out of moeessible 11311118800 n'rens now 11)n -
touch with the settled parts. The yond the reach of the 'settler or
obstacles Which that isolation pre- prospector. They will prove. 'that
seated axe now: haPPI;15r, 'bei'ng these Portions, have been left blank,'
ovoicante, and in very, many parts not beeau'ee the soil is barr,en and
there are largo areas of fertile land worthless, not because they ;arc de -
available Within reaeh oI.the rait-: ert lands', but because the facilities
Ivey Se4VICA3, 14ile in others it is have not ;been provided for reach-
OrtlY rieeessary:.for the settlers Ito ing and' using the land. There have
take up the land, when the Govern- been. available more conveniently -
anent will •push railway into the siittratimi
ede.arrscsotrunigheu6hg
e:reilv. the eoaest,rbeitatt
tie
districts mow„.being !tapped by rail-
ways in Australia will be =ag5 the
most productive in the CommOn-
The great transcontinental Mailways wealth.
tva...:Asosaesiiesesa‘40:-..
anssagilsala4tasa,
Seasonable ReCiPes, ,
thertieS.--L;Csuirred. . with a thiti.
syrup. With the stenos; 'ok prqffe,kV:
ed in A . thick' 'syrup :df pitted, are
,tWo ,,Ways of pitti'i1g. up, cherries.
'Clanned eherriee: are nadelibtedlY
b,e.stif steam enelted,- hat- a gamd,
deal depends upon the cherry,
which i's best if put up:shortly after
rt leaves the tree: 1131 is quite coni -
manly believed ithart the flavor of the
seed gives a richness to the
,
re-
soi'ved cherry that it needs, ',and
variouS wayS are tided to 'Secure !this
flavor, even when the .cherry is pit-
ted. One way is to wash and re-
move the .stems of 'the .therries, sthen
put them in an earthenware baking
;dish in the oven till hot. This is
the method used ;to get the flavor of
the seed.s when they are to be re-
moved and the cherrie,s used for
;making pies or tarts. When pre-.
pared this way, for the later ,ser-
vice no water is needed other ;than
the juice,, some of which is pressed
out in ;seeding them.
Syrups. -:–There ,are three grades
of syrup properly, 'but many varia-
tions from thesethe light, tIce
medium, bhe heavy. The light syr-
up ;is ler canning, and when :the
steam Method is used, it may be
thinner than when the fruit is sim-
ply cooked in the cans. For the
heavie,r fruits lour Cups of water to
two cups of sugar, cooked to syrup
sta,ge* and -cooled before it is pour-
e.d over the uncooked fruit 'packed
in 'the CallS, is one which will keep
perfectly if the cans are well ster-
ilized. People who use one syrup
for fruits generally use a small-
er number of cups of water than
sugar, lour .cups of water to six of
sugar sometimes, and have the wa-
tee boiling. The less sugar there is
'sunnier preserves the better they
will be relished. A heavy Syrup
has parts of sugar to one of
w
Jars should be 'thoroughly steril-
ized by boiling for at least fifteen
minutes before the fruit is packed
in them, even if it is to be cooked
in the jars. The ,sterilization must
be unquestionably thorough if fruit
is to keep for any length of time.
Heat is the sterilizer, :and it must
beapplied in .sufficient amounts
and at the beginning of the process
of canning. It will usually require
less heat to sterilize fruit than it
will glass are that have been used
severe times over. MOSt of the
smaller fruits need no more than
five minutes of boiling, and the
jars need much ,more than this. A
washboiler with a false bottom, a
towel, or even paper over that,
Shen the glasses filled with cold 'Nan -
ter, set in and surrounded with
cold water to their necks, brought
slowly to a, 'boil,' and boiled for fif-
teen minutes, these are the require-
ments. But 'boiler, glasses, etc.,
should be as clean as possible to
start with, and it is anything but
desirable to put a dish cloth on
the false bottom of, the boiler, as
aome women hare ben known to
do. It may .contain germs that it
would take an hour of boiling to
kill. A circumstance like this may
be the explanation of spoiled pre-
serves.
The length of time to cook de-
pends upon the kind and ripeness
of the fruit. If a fruit.,atews up
quickly. about the Same time as
it reqaires to cook in the open pan
should be given to it when in the
jars. Gooseberries veep:ire but
iM minutes, while cherries not
stoned might well be given twenty
minutes.
Jelly Bases.—Before the apple
comes rhubarb juice may be used
with strawberries peaches, and
other fruits for jellies. The .spring
rhubarb makes 'the best jellies, but
it may be used well into the sum-
mer if one learns how .to cook it.
The thing to keel) in mind is that
the juice is rather mucilaginous,
so that -when it appears 'thickmay
not be sufficiently cooked so that it
will jelly. A few drops of lemon
juice will help 131 3)0 jelly.
Currant and Raspberry Jelly. —
There is considerable difference ,z7q
opinion as 'to what is the best way
to extract the juice from the cur-
rant. A good jelly May be made
by covering them, in 'the cluster,
with cold water and cooking. Or
a Sew of the currants are pressed
and broken in the bottom of the
'kettle pd the others pub in whole.
lee Cream Recipes.
Orange IVIousse.--Take one and
one half cupfuls of the juice of
sweet -oranges and one fourth of a
cupful of lemon juice. Mix with
two cupfuls of .Sugar. Wfiip,,one
pint of heavy eream until it is firm.
Add the fruit juice and' the sugar,
and one cupful of Englissit walnut
meats that have been ehoppecifine.
Fill a mciuld and pack it in iee and
salt. Leave 131 1.01 four hours.
Chocolate lee Cream with Cin-
namon. Sauce. — Those 18a1.0 have
never corn.bined the flavors of cin-
namon 'and chocolate have a treat
in store. Make 'a syrtsp of one pint
-Nothing is doing in:ore to change
the appearanee of Australia than
Phis- railway construotion poliey.
of granulated ;sugar ;and one half
cupful of water. When ol the su-
gar is dissolVed, boil the syrup
gently !for *perhaps a minute, then
add one-fourth teaspoonful of cin-
namon extract, Serve the eaune
cold with ohocolate ice cream.
• Torten:I.—Boil together an even
half-eugul of 'sugar and one -hall
icyurpo,F;fud
trinogfacetthlrdanalyoualere. ,ig
,sli3.oehilt..b-
rth 8 eggS r add Ihe b
ing sugar slowly, beating all /the
while (about twenty minutes). Mix
one-half pint of cream, and one
cupful of milk, ;and whip !the mass
stiff. Mix all the ingredients to-
gether, and one teaspoonful of van-
illa and ;ten dry macearoons, pow-
dered fine.' Put the–mixture in a
mould, ancl ;pack it in ice and salt
for six hours or longer,
Sugared Ice „Cream. --Make cara-
mel sugar by placing granulated
sugar in an aluminum pan over a
;slow fire. 'When the ;sugar is liquid
and a golden brown, remove from
the fire and cool. Roll 'or pound
the sugar to a powder. When ;serv-
ing plain vanilla ice cream, powder
with the .prepared sugar the inside
of the ,cooled glass in which the
individual service is 'to be placed;
fill the glass with ice cream, and
powder with the sugar. If desired,
blanched almonds may be added to
the sugar just before removing from
the fire.
Prozen Cherry Custard.—Scahl
one pint of pailk in a double boiler.
Beat the yolks of six eggs, odd one
cupful of sugar, and continue beat-
ing until smooth. Stir the eggs
and sugar slowly into the hot milk,
and continue cooking until the mix-
ture thickens sufficiently to coat
the spoon. Remove \at once from
the fire. Adti one pant of cream
and one tablespoonful of vanilla,
and continue stirring until partly
cool.' When cold, begin to freeze,
and when the mixture is half frozen
add one cupful of candied cherries
cut into sanall .piece.s, and finish
_freezing.
Household Hints.
Cherries or strawberries com-
bined with bits of pineapple is a
new ;combination for tarts.
Turpentine has the same whiten-
ing, crlean'sing effect that kerosene
has on a .boilerful of clothes.
Whitening dissolved in warm wa-
ter will easily clean white enamel
furniture and help to keep it a
good color.
' A biscuit :top over blueberries,
peac.hes, apples or strawberries,
the whole steamed and served -with
hard sauce makes a delicious pud-
ding.
Phe best foods :to choose for cook-
ing in the fireless 000ker a,re those
which take a long while to pre-
pare—soups, pot roasts, beans,
Leather covered furniture should.
be wiped over with a clean cloth
wrung oub of warm, soapy water,
and When dry rubbed over with
white of egg.
Tapeitry-covered chairs can be
cleaned by means of a mixture o,E
dry bran and calcined magnesia. It
should be rubbed in and left some
time before being brushed away.
Save all the lemon hulls, drop
'them into the vessel in which you
boil your tea, towels, and it will
.whiben them wonderfully, and there
will be a clean freshness about
them that is very desirable.
S..ew ;the skirt binding on the Lem
of your 'skirt before you press it.
Pressing the goods flattens it. and
131 becomes difficult to tell the braid
,00rithrough.
113'
thin fabric without stitching
If half a bottle of olives has been
used and you wish to keep the rest,
add a pinch of salt to tam brine.,
'pour a teaspoonful of olive oil into
the liquid and replace the cork.
. To dampen sheer muslin waists
:of infants' dresses in a, hurry, dip a
cloth in water, wring thoroughly,
place the piece to be ironed on it
.and tightly. 15 or 20 min -
antes it will .be ready to iron.
To clean willow furniture or
straw matting scrub each piece well
with a coarse brush and water that
.stronglY saturated with salt,
then dry with a Softelatil. The salt
not only cleans but prevents the
straw from turning yellow.
Wise is the woman who prepares
simple ,syraps of fresh fruits in
!their season mad !stores them away
Tor 'future use; for ,she realiz,es that
with these same syrups as a basis
a great variety of he.althful summer
'drinks can be easily and quickly
prepared.
Pats our most highly concentrat-
ed.loods, come in 'cheese, cream,
butter, meats, corn, beans and
oils. The most valuable pure fats
are cave oil :and nut oils, starved
nerves, thin blood, and wasted
flesh thrive upon them. 'they are
purifying and healing, and in sum-
mer salads afford an ideal wa-: of
obtaining ,thein.
.A lad being ,quizze'd .about his
lather's lack oi accomplishments
was 'asked, -"What does your fa-
ther knowl" There was no hesita-
tion in the .answer—"I don't be-
lieve he knows anything exce,ptehrs
0180 latisin_oss; but he knows 1111131
—and minds it."
There axe two ways of attaining
an important end—foree and perse-
verance. Force falls only to the lot
of th.e' privileged. few, but austere
and sustained perseverance can be
practised by, the most insigni:ficant.
Its +silent power, grows irresistible
"Why, look here," said foie
Cal&nt rW110 was in need of a boy,
"aren't you the some hey,, who was
in here a week ago'l" 'yps,
said the applicant. "Ll ;thought
so. And didn' b I tell yon'th'en that
I wanted an Older boyl". "Yes,
sir. That's -why I'm back. I'm old-
er
4.1(
(1 .10'")
INDIA'S POPULATION.
Census 'Over aTtirea of 1.,803,657
Square Miles Taken in .Night.
At a cost of only $675;000, and by
Meow' a staff numbering about
two( 'tn, persons, a general con -
MS , • '‘..iWaS taken on the night
of March 10, 1911, the results of
which are embndiecl in a large vol-
ume just issued by the India, Office
M London as a blue book.
The difficaltie.s of taking a
sus of a. population numbering
about 900,000,000, over 'an area of
1,803,657 square miles, were enor-
mous'. They were es.peeially great
owing, es the report pare it, "to
the long lines of railway, the big
rivers on which boats, travel some-
times for days without coming to
the bank, the forests to whom wood-
cutters resort, often for weeks. at a
time, and the numerous sacred
places, whiai, 011 occasion, attract
many 'as:mean& of pilgrims,. , Peo-
ple had to ;be enumerated wherever
they were caught In tha case of
railways, for instance, all persons
travelling by raii who took tickets
after 7 p.m. on the night of the
census were enumerated either on
the platforms or in the trains. The
latter were all .dtopped at, 6 o'clock
on the following morning, in order
to include any travellers -who up
till then had escaped notice.
In :spite of this, and owing to the
vast work clone preliminary, the
results for the whole, of India were
received corn!plete on March 19, and
were issued in print the next day.
This rapidity, as the report men-
tions with justifiable pride, "is not
approached even in the smallest
European ;states."
The summary tables show that the
total population of India (including
the native states) on the night men-
tioned was 315,156,396 (as against
lac'evi'ously) ,of
w9141o3n61210756,55t6e,18199ye.‘,aearap
3
A
647,599 were 1\400'l'esne, 10,,721,453
wore Buddhists, .and 3,676,203 were
ObriOiano. The literatnumbered
culture clamed the labor of 224,-
695,909 persons, as. against 35,323,-
6
only 18,539,578 persons, and gri-
041 persons engaged in industry.
The Witness.
The lawyer's idea of a good wit-
ness is one who ,can reraember what
to forget.
Worth Bemenibering.
We always reraenaher tho.se who
have done us a favorwlien we
want another favor done.
Insomnia.
Wile—If you can't sleep why
don't you ;see a .doetor 1 Husband
(grouchily)—And then have a bill
to keep 'me .awake I
Question.
Gibbs—I tell you no one ean fool
my wife. Dibbs—Then how did you
get ;her 7
Employee—"I would like a rise,
I am going to get married."
Embloyer—"ISorry, but I'll ha-ve to
reduce your ;salary. I am going to
get married myself."
Suspicious Mamma—Ethel, what
detained you at the door just now
when Mr. !Spooner went away 7
Ethel (smoothing her rumpled hair)
—Nothing to speak of, mamma.
Patient—"But you promised that
when I 'recovered you would be
rny wife." Nurse— `Oh, I know.
I't's ray duty to keep any patients
cheerful. Why I promised this
morning to run away with a man
who has lost both his legs.
Extra ranu1atei.S ar
is put up at the Refinery in
10 Pound,
20 Pound,
50 Pound
and
100 Pound
Cloth Bags,
and in
2 Pound
and 5 Pound
Sealed Cartons
When you buyaeL60
Extra Granulated Sugar in any
of these original packages you
are sure of getting the genuine
Aga, Canada's finest
sugar, pure and dean as when
it left the Refinery.
It's worth while to insist on
the Original Packages.
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