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Or, .the Belle of the Season
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CHAPTER XV.-..—(Centintled);
, °You never were further outs be
egad, "He flirts—oh, my 'Lunt, how he
iiirts!—but as to fallingin love—Did
You eVer See an iceberg, Miss Falcorier?"
Sire shook her heal
"Well, it's one of the biggest, the
most beautiful frauds in -the world.
When you meet one sailing along in the
AtlantieS you think it one ot the nicest,
sweetest things you eyev SAW: it'S so
dazzlingly bright, with it thousand -
and -one colors glittering in the stmlight
You fall quite in love with 11, and it
looks so 'harmless, so enticing, that
you're tempted to get quite close to it;
. which no doubt is amusina, to the ice-
berg, but it elightly embarrassing for
, you; . for the iceberg is on you , bet oae
Yoti know it, and—and there ain't enough
lett of you fon a decent tuneral. That's
Stafford all the way. He's so pleasant,
, so frank, So lovable, that YOU think him
quite harmless; but while you're ash -rar-
ing his confounded ingratiating ways,
while you're growing enthusiastic about
his engaging tricks --he's the best aides,
the best dancer, the best shot—oh, but
, you must have heard of himl—he 18
bearing down upon you: your beast goes
ander, and he—ah, well, he Just stale
'over you, smiling, quite unconscious of
having brought you • to everlasting
smash." •
aYou• are indeed a friend," she said,
with languid irony.
011, you think Ian giving him away?"
he said. "MY dear Miss Falconer. every-
body knows him. Every Veal room, every
tennis court, is strewed with his wrecks.
And all the dine he doesn't know it; bat
• 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
'Oulticas' novella" she remarked, aa
• listlessly ,as before.
But' behind her lowered lids her eyes
Were shining with a singular brightness.
Howard turned to her delightedly.
. "My dear Miss Falconer, it you were
a man I ehouicl ask to shake hands with
Y01.2, It so exactly describes him,That's
And what be is. Frank as a IMY, as
gentle as a woman,as staunch as a
, bulldog, as brave—he would have stop-
ped a drayman's team just as readily as
yours last night—Etna as invulnerable
as that marble statue." _
He pointed to a statue which stood
whitely on the edge et the laaan, and
she raised her eyes and. looked at it
dreamily,
"I could break that thing if I had a
big hammer,' she said.
"1 daresay," he said. 'Biot you can't
break Stafford. Honestly"—he looked
at her—"/ wish you could!"
"Why?" she asked, turning her eyes
on him far the first time.
Howard was silent for a moment
then he looked at het with fL curious
gravity.
"J3ecause it would be geed for him:
beoause I am afraid for him."
'Afraid?" she echoed.
,"Xee," he amid, with ,a nod. "Some
cleat he will run against eomething that
will bring him to smash. Some woman
a-- But I beg Your pardon. 1)o you
' know, Miss ll'alooner, that you have a
'dangerous way of leading one toanal:Lk
the truth—which one should nweer—or
very rarely—do? Why on earth am I
telling you all this about Stafford
Ortne?a,...
. 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 nuite unworthy of him. It's
always the eaea The block of ice you
cannot smash with your biggett ham -
111e1 is broken into smithereens by a
needle. That's the peril before Stafford
—but let no hope he will prove the ex-
ception to the rule and esoape. lie's
safe at present, at any ratea
She' thought of the scene she had *its
nessed, the girl sitting sideways on
Stafford Orme'S horse, and her face
flushed for an blatant,
"Are
you sure?" she, said, '
"Qtfitel he responded, confidently. '7
knoW all Stafford's filth:tame, great and
email': if there wag anything serious
be would tell me; and ea he hasn't—
She ,Ittughecl; •the slow, soft !MIMI
which made Howard think suddenly,
strangely, of a sleepy tigress he had
once watehed in a rajah'e zoo, as she
lay basking in the sew a thing op soft-
ness and beauty and—death
"We Ye had. a Most amusing- conver-
sation, Mr. Howard," she said. "1 aorat
know when I've been so interested—or
ea tempted."
"Tempted?" 1 -Ie looked at her with
a slow, expeetant smile,
"Olb yes," she.murmureci, turning her
• eyes upon him with a half-rnocking light
,in them. "You Int-ve forgotten that 701.1
have been talking to v. woman."
"1 den'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."
nodded and pausedwith his cigar
half -way to his lips
"I'm greatly tempted to accept it, do
You know!" she said.,
He latighed.
"Deiet: aoual be vanettished. Is that
too catitlia, too brutal?" he said.
"So aut that I will aseeat it," she
said. • that ring of yours 0 favor-
ite?"
• "I've had it ever since I can remem-
ber, it was any mother's" -he said, ra-
ther gravely,
She held out her hand, :men whieh
the costly gems gli tterod in the sun -
Ugh t.
"Choose One to set agaiikst it," she
saia quletly.
Howatd, roused for once from Me
sleepy cynicism, met her gaze with
something lace astorishment.
"You mean—?" ho said, in a loW
voice.
el mean that I am going to tey to
meet your iceberg. ' You will play fair,
Ma :Howard? You will sated and look
On ancl—be silent?"
He 'smiled and leant back as if he
had eonsidered her strange, audacious
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," sho said, meaningly,
"Ah, no. Pardon! Let me see." Sic
toolt her hand and examined the rings.
"This—I think it's the most valuable."
It does not matter," she said. You
will not *in it May I look at yours?"
He extended his hand xvith-an arnus-
ed'laughl but without a smile, she said:
"Yes, it is a quaint ring; I like
quaint things; I shall wear it on my
:little finger,"
She dropped his hand quickly, /mast
that moment Stafford rode round the
bend of the, clvive. His 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 meaning, Stafford," called
Howard. 'Where have yon been? Hal-
lo! Anything happened? You're coat-
ed all 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 wifh
set air of languid indifference.
"What a lovely day, Miss Falconer!
Where are all the,' others? • Are you not
going for a drive, on the lake some-
Wherer
"I have just been asking Mr. Howard
• to take me for a, row," she said, "but
he has refused,"
• Stafford laughea and glanced at his
watch,
"I can ouite,believe it: he's the lazi-
est wvetch i.n existence If you'll trans -
ter the offer to TUC, we'll go after lunch,
13y aeorge, there'o the bell!
, "Thanks!" she murmured and ehe I
rose with her elow grace. "I'd better
got into an appropriate costume. ' Mr.
Howard', what will you bet me that it
does not rain before we start But you
• aever bet, you tell me!" -
N
"ot unless am sure ot winning,
Mies Falcoaer," he said. signifleantlY.
Sh5. looked after Stafforti as he rode
) away to the atable. •
"Nor I," She ratorted, with a smile.
"As you wilr see." •
the 13.110011, Anse' Valconerra eaid Staf-
ford; but she shook her head,
"No, thanks," she said, languidly. "I'
bate crowds of that kin11,. rather
stick to our original prn; epositioit vvill
bore. the less. But le
t pert:wee Ydd ra-
ther jolt? them?" ,
Is it likely?" said Stafford, with
smile, as lie signed to the man to Min
up a skiff. "Now, let me make you a
comfortable as I can, We ought to hex
a gondola," he added, and he handed he
to the seat in the atern.
She leant bacic with tbe sunshade ove
her slioulder, and Stafford, as he row
ed out towaras the centre of the lake
looked at her with unconscious atimir
talon. She was simply, perfectly drese
ed in a yachting costume of white an
pale -blue, which set off to the tulles
advantage her exquisite coinpleixiorsam
her red -gold bale But it wami
s adra
Bon of the coldest kind, tor even 0.1 tha
moment ha was thinking of the girl I
1110 well-worn habit, the girl he lOve
with a, passion that made his slightee
thought of her a psalm of worshila
And Maude, though She appeared hal
aeleep, like a beautiful wild animal
'basking in the Warmth of the su11, glare
ed at hire now and again. She haa mad
her Wager with Howard on the emir o
the moment, prompted by the vanity o
O woman piqued by the story of Ste
ford's indifference to her sex; but as 811
looked. at -him she wondered how a wo
man would feel if 8110 fell in love -wit'
him. But she had no fears for herself
there was a coldness in her nature whic
bad hitherto guarded her from the teve
whieh men call love, and she though
herself quite secure. There would b
amusement, triumph, in making hint
love her, in winning ,her wager win
that cynioal Mr Howard, who boaste
of his friend's lavulnerability; and wile
she had conquered, and gratified he
vanity— Ah, well, it would lie eas
to step aside and bring the curtain cam
upon her triumph and Stafford's discern.
fiture She Would wear that cynical Mr
Howard's ring, and every thne she look
ed at. It, It should remind hdr of hei
conquest.
Stafford rowed in eilence for 5001?minutes. His beautiful cempanton (11not seem to want him to talk; 81188certainly showed no desire to talk her
self; so he gave iihnself up to thinkin
of Ida—and wishing that it was she wb
was sitting' opposite lihn there !nates.
of this girl 31818 the face of a Greciat
goddess, with the lustrous hair ot a
houri. At last, feeling that he ought t
say something, he remarked, as he gaZ
ed at the Marvellous view.
"Very beautiful, isn't it?"
She raised her eyes and let them wan
der from the glittering water to 1.!,glorious hills.
"Yes, I suppose it is. I'm afraid
don't appreciate scenery as much 0,
other people do. Perhaps it is becalm in
one is always expected to fall to rap
tures ovcir It. Does that shock you? I'm
afraid I shock Most people. The feet is
I have been breught up in a circle
which has taught me to loathe senti
ment .They were always gushing rbou
their feelings, *01.18 the only thing theY
oared for Was moneyia
"Tbat ought to have made you loathe
Money," said Stafford, with a smile, and
a certain Raba of interest: Indeed, 1
was difficult not to feel intereated in
this beautiful girl, with the face and
form of a goddess, and, aneareatlY, as
small capaolty for emotion.
"011, no,' she said, languidly; "on
the contrary, it showed, me the valtte 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 theit
eyes. They were always profeesing tO
loYe Me, but I was quite aware that it
waS only because I was rich enough to
be able to buy pleaeure for them."
"Unpleasant kind of people," re-
marked Stafford.
"No; just the average," she said,
coollY. "Nearly all men and women are
alike—worldly, selfish, self-seeiciag.
Look at my father," she Wont oil, as
.000lly as before. "He thinks of nothing
but money', he 1100 spent Ms lite light-
ing, scrambling, struggling for it; and
look at yours --"«011
--
"Oh, hold on!" gala Stafford, laugh-
ing, but reddening a, little. 1 ou : e
1 'very much mistaken if you think my
tattier is that Idea of man."
She smiled,
"why, everybody has some story ot
his—what shall I call 1t8—acutenees,
sharpness: and of the wonderful way
Iii whieh he has always got what he
wanted. I don't want to be Offensive,
Mr. • Orme, but Pm afraid botlt our fa-
thers are In the same category. And
that both would sacritice 0011111113 01'anyone to gain theie ends,"
Stafford laughea again.
"You are altogether wrong, Miss Fal-
coner," he said. "I' happen to lenow
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 Bn
in 'him. at the
you are a very enviable man, Pin told.''
"As how?" asked Stafford. "Pretta'
here, isn't it? Ilere's One one of those
beaStly steamers coming: they Spoil the
lake, but they're very eonrenient, I
.1
'0;0'e" s,
glaneed at the big 5800,0008'put-
11
ling towards them obtrusively and
sending a bail of melte across the
greett and violet of the hills,
"Oh, I'm told you are the Most popu-
lar man in London; that you have the
World at your teat, that you are only
waiting to See which duchess yeti pre-
fer to throw your handkercbief t0—"
Stafford colored,
"What rotl---I beg your Pardee, Miss
Falconer. Of course / know you are
0019'Chaffing me."
',love. it true—about the *11.1001800,I
mean?" she asked, so coolly, 80 hall?-
1' alt-
e:Tatty, that Stafford was convened to
take her 0001011e17,"8101)' a \void,' he said, brightly;
then, with a sudden gravity: 'If you
'happen to hear such 8101180850 again,
Miss Falconer, you can, it you care to,
contradict- it flatly. I am not in the
least likely to mairy a duchess; indeed,
I wouldn't marry the highest and great-
est of them, it she'd have ma which is
!highly improbable." 0
"Do you mean to say that you have
110 ambition, that you would' marry for
—love?" she asked.
Stafford stopped 103103 tor a mo-
ment and looked at her grimly.
"What en 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 '801•OW set the 01 13111,
pareow skiff dancing and plunging' on
the waves , .
Meade uttered a. faint cry and leant
forward, and Staffoed, fearing she was
going to rise, stretched out his hand,
and touching her knee, forced 113 Into
hea seat again, and kept her there un-
til the swell had subsided, The color
flooded her face at the eressure of his
strong hand, which aas 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! I was afraid
You were going to get up—a girt 1 once
hacl in a .boat clicl so and we upset"
"The boat is very email," she said, in
O low voice, aim est one of apology,
a01*, it's all right, so long as• you sit
still, and keep your head," he said, "It
could ride over twice as big a swell as
this."
She lookd eat 111111 from , un1101der er
loWered lids with a new expression in
her face, a Taint tremor on her . lips;
and, as if she could not meet his eyes,
she glanced baok with an affectation of
interest at the steamer. As she did so,
something dropped from it into the
alas - .
• CHAPTER XVI.
When Stafford and: Maude Falconer
Went down to the lake gufter luncheon;
they found a party from the Villa lust
embarking on board one of the launches;
the air was ailed with laughter and
ia
Mater, and the little quay was bright
th the white flannels ,of the men and
. e gay tracks of the women. The party
reoted the two With exuberant welcome,
an*?, Bertle called out to a,s1ctheta if
they wen) coining on board. a
, Mperimps you would rather go . on
"What .evas that?" she said, "Seme-
thing fell overboard."
ed,ea,ptosppAthaman, do you mean?" he ask -
a018, ma something small."
..."A parcel, somebbdy's lunch, per-
haps," be said; Mal he rowed on,
She leant bacit her eyes downcast;
she still seemed to 'feel that strong ir-
resistible pressuae of his hand under
Which she had been, unable to move.
"There ought to be an echo Emma-
witere here," he said, as they came op-
posite one a the hills, and he gave the
Australian "coo-ee!" in a clear, ringing
voice, which the echo sent back tn
0000108.1 1111188,81011.
"Row true it was!" she said!" and
shO opened her lips and sang a bar or
two of the "Insio",.song,
-Stafford ilatened to tho echo, whicll
Nas almoSt 0,0 soft and sweet as the
gV
!rag notes.
"What a wonderful voice you have!"
he said, almost uneonsolously. "I never
heard a sweeter. What was that you
sang?"
"That thing of Wagner's," she re-
pliedl ana.quite naterally ahe began the
air and sang it threughe
Stafford let the boat draft and leant
upon the oars, his eyes fixed oh her face,
a 'raptand, very eloquent admiration in
Ili'
ovvn, .
Ahaabegiutifull" be said In a low
voice, "What ti delight it meet be te
you to be able to sing thaLl X am
undorstand• a whole theatre crvhIg over
that song, sung 0.8 son sing Al"
She glanced at him with an affecta-
tion of Mnguld amusement, but she Wee
watchtng hirn latently.
'That's not the ,best the operu,'.,' she
said, ' "I like this better," Ulla she aang
the Swana song; sang it eo low that
he leaned forward to catch the notes
whiali flowed like •tilver, from her Sett,
red 111)e1 and when she' flatehed it he
dreWa Meg breath and still leant gar -
wiled looking at hea, • '
"Thank yob, thana yotrI" ,the. amid,
811111 50 mutat admiration- and gratitude
in Ills voice that, as it to apoloaise for
it, he said: Tin fond of music, But
I'm forgetthig your ten.. Shall awe pull
back to the 'Ferry Hotel' and get
Some?"
"0')11 111 your hands," elle replied,
laaguidly,
Me turned the boat and palled back
along tile centre ef the Lake in eilence.
Suddenly she bent forward,
(To be continued)
J. A.. ill. ATKINS,
New Knight Spent Most of Ms 1,11e
ID Manitohtt.
Sir James. A. M. Aikins, M.P.,
who was the recipient of ,a, knight
bachelorhoed this week is the Hon.
Clifford Bittee's sieceeseor in the
representation of Brandon. Ha is
a son of the late Hon. James Cox
Aikinse who lime appointed a Sena -
191)r by Royal Proclamation et Con-
federation, and who, from 1882 until
1886, was Lieutemint-Governor of
Manitoba,. DfroAileine, while born
in Ontario and educated at Upper
Canada College and Teronlee Uni-
versity, has spent the beet paxe of
his life in Manitoba, where ate hag
successfully praoticed law in the
City of Winnipeg. At the present
time he is the .senior barrister at
the 1Vi18ni19ob5, Bar and was in 1912
president of the Bar Association.
From 1879 until 1896 he was Mani-
toba Couneerfor the Department of
Justice, and in 1880 he was one of
the Royal Commissioners to inves-
tigate and report on the administra-
tion of justice in elle North-West
Territories. He haa keen couneel
Lor the Goreamment 0± lifamiteba,
since 1900, so that his 'remarks on
(the boundary question in the House
were regarded as an expression of
the views of -that Government. Sir
James, who was appointed Q,C, in
1884, long before most of the pre -
Sir J. A.. 111. Atkins, .T.C.B.
seat members of 'the Manieoba, 'Bar
had be,en admitted to practice was
solicited in Winnipeg of the 0,0(1)0,-
(110,81 Pacific Railway, from the or-
ganization of the company until he
withdrew to conteet the Brandon
constituency at the last general
elections.
The pew knight is a man of wide
genet -al knowledge, and it is nob
surprising to hear that Ilte takes a
great intere,ee 111 educational mat-
ters, being honorary burse,r and a
member of the council of Manitoba
Universiby., and a dire.eter of the
lelan.itoba Ag-ricultural College, Sir
James is popularly known among
his numerous friends as "jani," by
reason of the initials of his names,.
His oratory is of 'the peelervid Beni
neb type. Some have oalled leen a
`'evincloanoner."
STRALIAN RA IL WAY S.
Eighteen Thoustutd Miles in Opera-
tion There.
In Aust,ritlia,, a country of "great
distances, ' one of the principal fac-
tors in athe settlement of people on
the fertile lands is the provision of
railway facilities, so that the new
settler may have his supplies
brought to him cheaply and his pro-
ducts taken promptly to the mar-
kets. The. railways in Australia are
therefore playing an increasingly
important pare. Over R170,000,00.0
have been epent, on the 18,000 miles
of railway in operation there. Prac-
eic;ally the, whole ef these lines ar.e
owned .and conerelled by the people,
end will remain State property for
all time. Recognizing the impor-
ten.ce of the railway facilities, most,
of the States are- aarrifing out active
consteuction polioiee, and as rapid-
ly -lbs the land is -taken up the trades
are rim into the vicinity. South
Ateetralie has recently eonstemeted
Rime which ere to tap the irrigation
eteas of that State, and has invited
tenders for a line which., with those,
just completed, will 'serve 3.51 area,
of over three million acres. In the
earldee days- of settleene.at io Aus-
tralia the new -coiner naturally hesi-
tated before. going to Places reenY
miles from the raelwaye, an81 out of
touch with the settled parts. The
obstacles which that isolation pre-
sented are now, happily, being
evereorne, and in very many par.ts
there are large areas of fertile land
available within reach of the rail-
way eervice, while in others, it is
only necesseay,•for the setelers to
take up the land, when Ithe Govern-
ment will puslt.e., railway into th.e
district, - '
' Nothing doing more to change
the appearance of Australia than
thie- railway conetruction policy,'
The great tranecontinental imilways
4 ilivirklbilADAVIO611,11Abill•
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kereilbliNOVAIIIAMAIAblik
Se115())1ab1e neelPes.
,
Clierriee.—Caneed with a 'thin
syrup with 11110 stones, or preserv-
edin a thick .eyrup af pitted; are
two waye of putting up cherriee.
'Panned cherrieC. are undoubtedly
beet.if steam Cooked, but e good.
deal -depends upon the cherry,
which is.best if put up 'shortly after.
'±88 1110385 the tree; It is -quite COM -
Timely believed that the flavor of 'the
seed .gives a richness to the pre-
served Cherry Hoyt it iteede, and
various ways are weed to secure this
flavor, even when the -cheery ie pit-
ted. One way is to wath and re-
move 'the steme 838 the cherries, then
put them in an earthenware 'baking
dish in the oven till hot. This is
'the method used to get the flavor of
the -seeds when they are to he ee._
moved ,and the cherries used for
making pies or tares. 'When pre-•
pared this way for the later eer-
vice no •water is needed other than
the juice,. eonae of which is premed
out in seeding' them. •
Syrups.There are three grades
of -syrup properly, bab many varia-
tions from these—the tlie
medium, the heavy. The light syr-
up ,is for canning, and evhen 'the
steam Method is used, it mai be
thinner than when the fruit iS sim-
ply cooked in the cane. For the
heavier fruits four Cups of water to
two cups of sugar, cooked to syrop
stage and-cooleff'before it is pour-
ed over the tin -Cooked fruit packed
in the cans, is one 'which 80111 1181113
perfectly if the cans .a,re well -ster-
ilized. People who use one -syrup
for all fruits generally u -se El, small-
er number of cups of water than
sugar, lour oups of water to 'six of
sugar sometimes, and have •the wa-
tee -boiling, The less ogar there is
in se -miner preserves the better they
will be relished. A heavy syrup
has four parts of sugar to one of
water.
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 noise
be unquestionably thorough if fruit
is to -keep for any length of time.
Heat is the sterilizer, and it must*
be applied in sufficient amounts
and at the 'beginning of '1118 process
of canning. It will usually require
less heat 'to sterilize fruit than it
will glass jars that have been used
several times -ever. Most of the
smaller fruits need no more than
five minutes of boiling, and the
jars need much more than this, A
washboiler with 0, false bottom, a
towel, or even paper over that,
then the glasses filled with cold wee,
ter, set 111 and 'surrounded with
cold water to their necks, brought
-510831y•to 41 boil, and boiled for fife
-teen minutes, these are the require-
ments. But boiler, &asses, etc.,
should be as Clean as possible to
stalt with, and it is anythieg hut
desirable to put a dish cloth on
the falee bottom of the boiler, as
some women have been known to
do. It may -contain germs that ie
would take an hour of boiling to
kill. A circumstance like this may
be th-e explanation of spoiled pre-
serves.
The length of Lime to cook de-
pends upon the kind and ripeness
of the fruit, If a, eruit,stews up
quickly. about the same time as
it requires to cook- in the open pan
should be given to it when in the
jams. Gooseberries require but
five minutes, while eberries not
stoned 'might well be given twenty
minutes.
jelly Bases.—Befere the apple
eolues rhubarb juice may` be used
with etrawberries, peaches, and
other fruits for jellies. The Spring
rhubarb anakee the best jellie.s, but
188 may be used well. into 'the sum-
mer 1.1 one learns how to cook it.
The thing to keep in mind is that
the juice is raeher mucilaginous,
so that when it appears thick ib may
not be .sufficiently cooked so that it
will jelly. A few <Trope of lemon
juice will help it to jelly.
Currant and Raspberry Jelly. —
There is considerable differenee 011
opinion as to what is the best way
to extract the juice from the cue -
ran -t. A good jelly may be made
by covering them, in 'the cluster,
with cold water and cooking. Or
a few of. the currants are pressed
and broken in the bottom of the
kettle and the others pat M whole.
Tee Cream Recipes.
Orange' Mousse.—Take one and
one half -cupfuls of the juice of
sweet eranges and one fourth of a
cupful of lemon juice. Mix with
two cupfuls of -sugar. Whip, one
pint of heavy cream untilit is firm.
Arid the fruit juice and the sugar,
anti one (moral of English walnut
meats that have been choppedfine.
Fill a andulti and pack it in 108and
salt. Leave 188 ±01 10111 101118
• Chocolate Ice Cream with Cin-
namon Sanee. — Those who have
never combined the flavors of cin-
namon and chocolate balm a treat
in Stare. Make a syrup of one pint
will traverse portiens hitherto
shown as blanks on the inap and.xe-
garded as deserts; and will make
accessible inamense areas now be-
yond the reach of the 'settler or
prospector. 'They will prove that
these portions' lhave -been left blank,
not because (the soil is barren and
worthless, not because they ore dee-
cid lands, but heatless the, facilities
have not been provided for reaeh-
ing anti using the land. There have
been. available more conveniently-
situat,ed areae nearer the eumeb, but
the time ig; -coming when the great
districts mow.being 'tapped by rail-
ways in Australiw will be among the
meet productive an 'the Cot -Malmo
wetult ,
of granulated -eugar and„ere, half
cupful of water. Where' I so -
gar is dissoleed, .syrup
gently for 'perhaps a minute, then
add ene-fourth bewspoonful of cin-
namen extract. Serve the same
cold with chocolate ice eeeaan.
Torteni.--Boil 'together an even
half -capful of sugar and one-half
cupful of cold water until it elight-
ly -strings from the epoon. —Beal;
three eggS thoroughly, add the boil-
ing sugar slowly, beating all the
while (alma twenty minutes). Mix
-one-half pint of aroma, and one
cupful of milk, and whip the xnass
stiff, Mix all the ingredients to-
gether, and one, teaspoonful of van-
illa and ten dry maccaroons, pow-
dered fine. Put the-enixtuee in a
mould, and pack it in ice and salt
Mt.' six hour's or longer.
Sugared Ice flee/Am.—Make mea-
nie' sugar by placing granulated
eager in an aluminum pan over a
slow fire. When (the sugar is liquid
and a golden beown, eemove from
the fire and cool. Roll or pound
'bhe 511341! 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 iee cream, and
powder with the sugar. If -desired,
blanched alnaonels may be added to
the sugar jest before removing from
the fire.
Frozen Cherry Custard.--Seald
one pint of milk in a double boiler.
teat the yolks of six eggs, acid one
cupful of sager, and continue best-
ing until sin -0
e"th. 'Stir the eggs
and sugar slowly into the 'hot milk,
and continue cooking until the mix-
ture thickene sufficiently 'to coat
the spoon. Remove eyt once from
the fire. Add one pint of cream
anel one tablespoonful of vanilla,
and continue stirring metal partly
cool.' When cold, begin to freeze,
and when the mixture is hall frozen
add one cupful of candied cherries
met into small pieces, and finish
freezing.
Honsehohl Hints.
Cherries or strawberries com-
bitted with bits of pineapple is a
new combination for tarts.
Turpentine bee the same whiten-
ing, cleansing effect that kerosene
has on a boileeful of clothes.
Whitening dissolved in warm wa-
ter will easily clean white enamel
furnibure and help to keep it a
good color„
' A biscuit top over blueberries,
peaches, 'apples or strawberries,'
the whole steamed and -served with
hard 'melee makes a delicious pud-
ding,
The 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,
„etc.
Leather covered furoilarre should
he wiPed over with a clean cloth
wrung out of Immo soapy water,
and when dry rubbed over with
white ef egg.
Tapeitry-covered ohaire ean be
cleaned by means of a, mixture of
dry bran and calcined magnesia. lb
should be rubbed in and left some
time before being brushed away.
Save all the lemon hulle, drop
them into the vessel in which you
boil your tea towels and will
whiten them wonderfUlly, and there
will be a clean freshness about
them that is very desirable.
Sew the skint binding on the hem
of your skirt before you press it.
Pressing the goods flattens it. and
it becomes difficult to tell the braid
on a thin fabric without stitching
through.
If half a bottle of olives has -been
ased and you wish to keep •the met,
add a pinch of -salt to the brine,
pour a teaspoonful of olive oil into
the liquid and replace the oork.
•, To dampen sheer muslin waists
el infants' dresses in a hurry, dip a
cloth inwater,. wring thoroughly,
-place the piece to be ironed on it
-and roll tightly. 381 15 or 20 min-
uptes ib will he ready to iron,
To elean wiilow furniture or
straw matting scrub each pleee
with a etiaaSe brush and -water that,
is -strongly saturated with Galte,
then dry with a, eoft eloth. The salt
not only cleans but prevents the
abraW from 'turning yellow.
Wise is the woman who ,prepares
simple ,syrups of fresh fruits in
their season and *140851 811018 away
for 'future ose; for he realizes.that
with these same 'syrups as a baeis
a great variety,of healthful -summer
drinks can be easily and quickly
prepared.
Fees, our most highly concentrate
ed foods, come in 'theete, teener',
butter, meats, corn, beans and
oils. The most valuable pure fees
are olive oil and nut oils; starved
nervee, fjhin 'blood, and wasted
fiesh thrive upon 'them, they are
pusleying and heeling, aad in sum-
mer salads afford an ideal wao
obtain Mg 'them.
A lad being quizzed: aboub his
father's leek of accomplishmenes
was aeked—"What does your fa-
ther ,know i” There was no hesita:
tion in the enswer—"I 'don't be-
lieve he knows anything except, hie
cova-business.• 'but he knows that
--and mincl it."
There are two waye of atemening
an important end—force and perse-
verance. Force falls only to the lot
of the atrivilege'd, few, but austere
and sustained perseverance can be
,practiseel by the Most insignlficant,
lts 'silent power grows ieresistible
with 'time. I,
"Why, look here," said 'the mer -
client who wae in need of a, boy,
"aren't you the 'Sallie boy- who was
hi here a week ago?'" "Yes, eir,"
said the applicant. "I1 thought
so. And didn't I !tell 3011 18,1)011 'that,
I wanbed 1851 Oder boyl' • "Yes,
sir. Thab'e why I'm back. I'm old-
er now."
4 DA istls
The Standard Lue of
Cadultda. Has mang
Imitations but no equal
aarecii"P
INDIA'S POPULATION.
Census Over an Area, of 1,803,657
Square Miles Taken in Night.
.A.t a cost of only $675,000, and by
Means, of a etaff numbering about
two million persoos, a general om-
ens of Indi5, was taken on the night
of March 10, 1911, the results of
which are embodied in a darg-e, vol-
ume just issued by the India Offiee
in London as a blue book.
The difficultiee oe taking a cen-
sus of a population numbering
about 300,000,000, over an area of
1,803,057 square miles, were enor-
mous. They were especially great
owing, as the report, puts 119, "to
the long lines of railway, the big
eivere on whieh boats travel Borne -
times for days: without ooraing to
the bank, the forests to whom wood-
cutters resoot, often lor weeks aL 88
time, .and the numero-ue sacred
places, which, on occaeien, attraet
many thousaieftt of pilgrims. , Peo-
ple had to 'be enumerated wherever
they tvere caught. In tha ease of
railways, for instapee, all persons
travelling by rail who took tickets
after 7 p.m. on the nighb of the
census were enumerated either -on
the platforms or in the /trains. The
latter were all Stopped 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 th the
vase work done preliminary, the
results for the ethele of India were
received complete on March 19, and
were issued in -print 'the next day.
This rapidity, as the repeat men-
tions with justifiable pride, "is not
approached even in the emallest
European stertes."
The summary 'tables show that the
total population of India (including
the native etatus) on the night men-
tioned was 315,156,396 (as against
294,361,05(1 ten yeae previously) ,of
whom 217,586,802 were Hindus,'666,-
647,299 were Moslems, 10,721,453
were Buddhists, land 3,e76,203 were
Chrietiana The literates membered
only 18,539,578 persons., and agri-
culture clammed the labor of 224,-
695,e09 pereons, againee ,
041 persons engaged in industry.
The -Good Witness.
The l'awyer'e idea of .a good wit,-
ness is one who ean remember whet
to forget.
Worth Remembering.
We always remember those who
have done us cofactor—When we
want another fateor done,
• Insoennito
Wife—If you can't sleep why
don't you Gee ,s, doetor 1 Husband
(grouehily)—And then have a bill
to keep me awake!
Question.
Gibbs—I tell yon 110 one can fool
my wife. Dibbs—Then how did you
geb _tier 1
-
Employee -1"I would like a rise,
I am going to get married."
Dmployer-9S-orry, but have to
reduce your salary. I am going to
get married myself."
'Suspicious Mamma—Ethel, what
detained you at the door just now
when ISpooner went away?
Ethel (orreeethiog her ritrapled 'hair)
—Nothing to speak of, mamma.
• —
Patient --"But you promieed that
when I recovered you would be
my wife," Norse— 'Oh, I know.
Ttts my duty to keep my patients
theerful. Why. 31 promised talls
morning to run away with a man
who has lost both his legs,
Extra. Gran.tll
is put up at the
10 Pound,
20 Pound,
50 Pound
and
100 Pound
Cloth Bags,
and in
2 Pound
and 5 Pound
Sealed Cartons
S ar
Refinery in
When you buy
Extra Granulated Sugar in any
of these original( packages you
are sure of getting the genuine
W„ Canada's finest
sugar, pure and clean as when
it left the Refinery.
It's worth while to insist on
the Original Packages.
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