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Vegetable Left.Overs.
The English have an odd way of
-using left -over vegetables for a
very pretty as well as a palatable
dish. It is ;called vegetable mould
and can. be made from almost any
combination of vegetables. Dub
cold cabbagethrough a wire sieve,
also some avid carrots and turnips,
keeping; each vegetable separate,
Add to `eaw1'' a little melted butter
and season with pepperand salt.
Grease a small mould and put the
vegetables in in layers. Then bake
or steam until the mould is hot a.11.
through. Turn out ,carefully and
serve.' Other vegetables may be
used in the same way, and the light-
er the .cofor of the vegetables the
more unusual and attractive the
mould will be.
"C•olcannon" is another English
,dish, simple to prepare and. seldom
seen in this country. This is made
from cold left -over cabbage and pa:
tatoes. Cut the potatoes 'in slices
.and fry brawn ,iii dripping; when
they are browned add the shoed
Per cold cabbage and fry lightly to -
, getter. Season well and serve. •
e k. • A puree of peas, made in very
ens 1 mach the same manner, offers. ;a .so-
'ior;' lution for left -over peas, and may
n also be made with the dried peas if
xeelt1 they are soaked and boiled a suf-
ad- i fxeier::tly long time. Mash and press
.d the boiled peas through a sieve.
,ole •t Place them in a s.auoe•pan and stir
bq ;l into them ,enough bot milk and pep-
1per . and salt to well moisten and
_veet season them; add also butter and
"very little sugar. This may be
est ;served like mashed potartoes, or if
in'g preferred it can be turned into a
:baking dish and slightly browned in
the oven.
2 F Uses for Stale Dread.
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Not a crust of stale bread should
Pe* ri be thrown away, for it is not only
,a Useful for the crumbs whirl every
4 householder keeps on hand to use
:in frying and scalloping, but may
be used in countless other ways.
Toast, of .course; is always better
when made from ,yesterday'.s ieread
and to make good toast is no mean
art.. Buttered .,toast, which makes
a very good luncheon- dishy is made
from slightly :stale bread. Heat a
diet and stand it over hot water ;
toast several evenly sliced pieces' of
bread' and spread -them generously
with ,slightly softened butter.
Sprinkle with emit; place them in
the hot dish and stand for a minute
or two in a hot oven; serve in a
covered dish.
Milk toast is delicious when pro-
perly made, but it is so simple that
people are apt to make .it careless
ly. Here is •a recipe that, faithfully
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followed, makes perfect milk toast.
Make a dry toast, spread with 'but-
ter'and sprinkle with salt. Place it
in the dish in which it is to be serv-
pd. Pour over it a little boiling wa-
ter; cover and place in the oven for
a, few minutes to steam. "
Put into a saucepan one tea-
oonful of butter. When it bub -
bleb, stir in a teaspoonful oaf flour
and let it cook without oolo,ring.
Add slowly, stirring all the time,
one cupful of milk. Cook until
Slightly thickened and •add a salt-
epoonful of salt. Pour this thicken-
ed milk over the softened toast just
before serving.
Stale bread as crumbs or soaked
in milk, custard, or stook, may be
,.zsed in the making of'many sweet
puddings, .such as bread and butter
pudding, apple Betty, plum pad-
ding, cheese pudding, etc.
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Whiting and ammonia are best
for cleaning nickel.
Vinegar placed in a bottle of
dried-up glue will moisten and
ake it liquid again,
To keep irons from rusting rub
with mutton fat and wrap in brown
aper before putting away.
Cereals will not beeome pasty in
ooking if they are stirred with a
!abed fork instead of a spoon.
To isoften brown sugar when it
become lumpy, stand it -over a
asset filled with boiling wage..
acted silks ma,.y be restored in
gior '•by immersing them in soap-
els
oa
Gals to whieh a little pearlash has
len added.
,:Wail stains may be removed from
'od by scrubbing with a solution
oxalic acid, half a pant of acid to
quart of 'boiling water.
rColored handkerchiefs should be
ked iii Cold water for a short
e before they are washed. This
1 prevent the colors from run -
ng or fading.
When baking, the •'soissors are
efu:1; a snip and the 'biscuit dough
quickly apportioned; a quick out
and the drop cooky .falls into place
on thebaking tin. .'
The celery and cheese sandwiches
are delicious,' A little mayonnaise
is mixed in with the •cheese, wh.inh•
is finely grated, the xielery being
put through the inineing maehine.'
Don't buy a ,chicken if the eyes
are not bright. When the eyes are
dull and sunken, you can 'be sure
that the fowl has been killed some
tem o.
To keep curtains from blowing
out the windows, conceal thin -iron
washers in the hems and corners.
It ;will make ; the curtains han
evenly and without constant stir-
ring in a breeze.
If you have any icing left over
after the; rake is iced, spread it on
buttered crackers and •sprinkle with
nuts, raisins or dabs of peanut but-
ter,
If the turkey is not very fat,
avoid its being dry after roasting
by spreading butter over the out-
side. and baste it frequently while
it is roasting.
Dresses that have been laid away
in drawers for some time often be-
come very much creased. .Hang.
them in front of the fire .for a while
and the creases will disa.ppe•ar.
A teakettle should be given fre-
quent bath's, else lune and other
salts will settle on the sides. Keep
an oyster shell in the kettle to pre-
vent this.
In cooking rice, if you wish to
keep every grain separatecook in
rapidly boiling • water; with cover
off the vessel,
To remove stains from white flan-
nel shirts and similar - things,
smear with equal part of yolk of
egg and glycerine. Leave for an
hour and wash them in the usual
way.
Never •throw away cake, no mat-
ter how dry, but the next time you
bake a custard, slice the dry cake
on top just before you place it in
the oven. This makes a delicious
caramel.
Bake pastry in a hot oven; this
will expand the air in it and thus
lighten the flour. Handle pastry as
little and as lightly as possible.
Use rolling pin :lightly and with
even pressure.
Flannelette may be rendered non-
inflammable by rinsing it after
washing it in alum water. Dissolve
two ounces of alum in .a gallon of
cold water.
When a °Woman Suffers
With _ Chronic c -Ba
There is Trouble Ahead:,
Constantly on their feet, attending
to the wants •of a large and exacting
family, women.often break down with
nervous exhaustion
In the stores, factories, and on a
farm are weak, ailing women, dragged
down with torturing backache and
bearing down pains.
Such suffering isn't natural, but it's
dangerous, because due to diseased
kidneys.
The dizziness, insomnia, deranged
menses and other symptons of kidney
complaint can't cure themselves, they
require the assistance of Dr. Hamil-
ton's Pills which go direct to the seat
of the • trouble.
To give vitality tautand
power to the
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kidneys, to lend aid to the bladder and
liver, to free the blood of pofaons,
probably there is no remedy so suc-
cessful as Dr. Hamilton's Pills. For
all women's irregularities their merit
is well known.
Because of their mild, soothing, and
healing effect, Dr. Hamilton's Pills are
safe, and are recommended for girls
and women of all ages. 25 cents per
box at all dealers. Refuse any sub-
stitute for Dr. Hamilton's Pills of Man-
drake and Butternut.
SHE .DIDN'T KNOW I ' iIIill_.
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$ubby Home from the Trenches
Needed a Bath..
One faithful and anxious woman
has had a pleasant surprise, says
the London Chronicle. There ap-
peared a man on the doorstep. He
had a horrid growth of beard, he
was muddy from, head to heel and
from no outward point of view
savory. But the woman, after a,
moment's puzzleinent,, fell on his
unsavory neck rejoicing, It was
her husband, home for ten days'
leave.
Early `f;
in the trenches.
tea time
a bath--
dp,ys off.
a taxicab
that 'morning he had been
Leave came. By
he had reached London,
just .as h
e was, etakmg the sasimplestmeans.
W'•hat he really wanted was
which he hates abandoning
for six -
weeks on end ---,and a few
So if you meet a filthy
searecro
w emerging modestly from
don't be alarmed. Prob-
ably it is
a British officer ora• a bit
of a holiday.
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The men wino, tell you nothing is
impossible •would • even .eat an onion
and try to lie cut of it,
.Rector --.These pigs of yours are
in fine condition, Hodge, Hodge—
Yes, zur,' they be. .An' if we was
all on us as fit to die as them are,.
zur, we'd dol—English paper.
Cigarett4s':_are Always Welcome iu the Trenches.
Mrs. Gwynne distributing cigarettes to the men in the'tz':enches. This picture was taken in one of the
trenches a few miles beyond Pervyse, and gives a• graphic idea of them. Nate the 'snow on the ground'
and the wrecked condition of the surroundings.
HIE ATTRACHHO d OF -
3IEN AND WO1IEN•IN ALL IDES
HAVE -FELT IT.
Curious Powers Which Are Ascribe
ed to Certain of the
Stones.
'illze fascination of precious stones
goes far deeper than is thought by
those who have seen them only in
the shops of the jewelers and on the
necks of 'women. A•' friend of the
London Spectator writer who visit-
ed the ruby manes in Burmah some.
years .ago• and brought back with
handful
her
sap-
phires
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of unset rubies, �ap
phires .and aquamarines, haa neve;
reconciled herself to having theta
madeeinto conventional ornaments,
but keeps them by her in the rough
to feed her,..eyes at these little foun-
tains of pure color.
It is a notable fact that the names
of the precious stones are, almost
without exception, as beautiful as
the stones themselves. Few pas-
sages in literature illustrate this
better than Saint John's description
of the New Jerusalem. "The first
foundation was jasper, the second
sapphire, the third a chalcedony,
the fourth an emerald, the fifth sea-
donyx, the sixth sardius, the sev-
enth chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the
ninth a topaz, the tenth a chryso-
phrasus, the eleventh a jacinth, the
twelfth an amethyst. And the
twelve gates were twelve pearls,
every several gate was of one pearl.
To these we may add diamond and
ruby, turquoise and opal, avantur-
ine, carnelian, lapis lazuli and tour-
maline. A friend reminds us that
the Jews, with their racial instinct
for beauty,, have often adopted sur-
names derived from genas, like those
of Rubinstein, the musioian,and the
Austrian satirist Saphir,
Dr. George Frederick Kunz has
garnered the learning of a. lifetime
in his delightful book on The Cur-
ious Lore of Precious Stenos, and
acultely suggests that
The Charm of Jewels
Bags of fiery opals, sapphires, ams-
thysts,
Jacinths, hard topaz, grass -green
emera•Ids,
Beauteous rubies, sparkling dia-
. monde,
• And seld-.seen costly stones of so
great price.
•
cannot but be moved by' the thought
of the dormant forces which lie
waiting to be call•ea into action if
he chooses to throw them on the
market. As he tarns over • these
little sparks, of fiery light he
dreams of the envies and ambitions,
and activities and labors, even the
crimes and violence to which they
would give birth if released from
their captivity.
It is hard enough to say, as By -
eon said of the similar belief about
influence thenfluenc
e of the stars on human ,,
li£e, that .diamonds . and rubies,
emeraIds and opals are
A beauty and t mystery, and create
In us sub love and reverence from
afar
That Fortune, Fame, Power, Life,
have named themselves
a tutelary and directive jewel. Dr.
lion makes a careful examination
of all those ideas—often curious and
far-fetched in appearance — and
shows that "they have their roots
either in seine intrinsic quality of
the stones or else in an instinctive
appreciation of their symbolical
szgnifioanee."
Occult l:nzfluence of Stones.
Folk-lorists, it seems, are not yet
agreed whether the custom of wear-
ing genus in jewelry did not origi-
nate in the idea of their occult vir-
tues and influence on the wearer's
character and fortune, rather than
in the mere wish for personal adorn-
ment; though what we know of the
savage taste for bright and spark-
ling ornaments, fortified by the ha-
bits of the magpie and the bower -
bird, inclines us to hold that the
talismanic use of -gems .must have
been a secondary growth. In the
Middle Ages, at any rate, the be-
lief in the occult influence of pre-
cious stones had come to be strong-
er even than the admiration of their
beauties.
An English lapidary, writing in
lies not only in 'their brilliance, but the middle of the seventeenth'•cen-
in their durability—a quality which tury, gives an imposing list of the
always possesses a, mysterious at- effects of. "Gonne and precious
traction for us writable creatures of stones," among which be enabler -
the moamenit. aces "thee making of men rich and
"Ali the fair colors of flowers and eloquent, to preserve men from
foliage and even the blue of the thunder and lightning, from plagues
sky and thg gglory, of the sunset and disease, to move dreams, to
clouds last only tor a short time procrti<; ; sleep, to foretell things to
and are subject to continual change, come, to make men wise, to
but the sheen and eolarati�on of pre- strengthen memory, to procure hon-
cious stones are the sane to -day cats, to hinder fascinations and
as they were thousands of -years witch crafts, to hinder slothfulness,
ago, and will be for thousands of to put ;courage into men, to keep
years to come." in a world of Men *baste, to increase friendship,
change and decay and deteniore- to lacutler ijifferenee and dissension,
tion, these symbols of eternity re- and to 'nioke men invisible."
mind us that there is:, something Alas, if we really believed that
fixed to cling oto. amidst the &lashing all these line • things could be
of waves of illusion, and many have achieved by the mere wearing of the
held +them: to be in some way insep- appropriate stones, should we not
a+rably associated with the one et- ruin oureelvea. in buying jewels and.
sentiai entity which knows no viiia.- go about bedizened like the deni-
blenese, neither &ladow of turning, tens 'of t3'atten Garden and Park
Phee'e is, of course, a third and Lane -who; for'rall the good it seem-
-in the logician's sense --aa more to deo there, might as well wear their
accidental. reason for the high esti- incorn,e tax receipts as their &e-
mote put on precious stones; this, is mends.?
their rarity ,and their 'consegttent - It es easy to understand how sone
market value. The man who Inas of the preeious stones have aceluired
made a hoard of their reputation for occult violates.
The world-famous belief in •`.`sym
pathetic" magic accounts for many
of them ; it is a form of homeopathy
based on the maxim that similia
similibus curantur, but unscientifi-
cally accepting any trace of similar-
ity as adequate. Thus, yellow
stones, like the beryl or topaz, were
thought to cure jaundice. Any red
stone would Check hemorrhage,
though the blood stone par excel-
lence is a dark -green chalcedony or
jasper, splashed with red markings
like blood drops. We may hazard a
guess that the well-known power of
the amethyst to prevent drunken
ness, hitherto unexplained, may
have -originated-in its resemblance
in color to the nose of
The Confirmed Drunkard!
But. there are many other beliefs
which it is well-nigh impossible to
explain; we must suppose that, like
the gxnmortal Topsy, they ` :grow -
ed." There seem no reason in the
nature of things why the agate
should make its wearer agreeable
and persuasive; the beryl brings
success in litigation (what about
contempt of court 1) ; the carnelian
stimulate the timid orator; the
catseye drive away evil spirits; the
emerald foreshow coming- events;
the jacinth insure a warm welcome
at an inn—we should pin our faith
in modern days to diamonds for this
purpose; the moonstone arouse
love; the ruby guard a vineyard
from destructive hailstorms, or the
sapphire protect its wearer from
envy --nowadays it often attracts it.
0'rth
f e other hand,nd� wecan readily
understand why the pearl should be
not merely the emblem, but the pro-
tector of purity; why the diamond,
hardest and strongest of all stones,
should endow its wearer with forti-
tude, strength and courage; why
the loadetone (which is seldom or
never worn in these cold-hearted
days) should make all women fall in
love with its possessor. The inti-
mate association of the turquoise
with its wearer's health is explained
by the undoubted fact that it some-
times changes color when its owner
is run down, though its power to
prevent the breaking of a limb
rests on less good authority.
"A. woman prominent in the Lon-
don world," is said to have' the
power of restoring the •color to a
faded turquoise. Lastly, we may
note that the opal—that most
adorned of "captain jewels in the
careanet," which foolish people to-
day often hold to be unlocks*—was
formerly thought to combine all the
virtues of the various gems, the
hues of which are united in . its
many -twinkling light.
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ffis First Company.
An English recruit was stopped in
the street recently by an officer for
failing to salute. The young follow
confessed bis ignorance of the re•g•
ulation:s having only just enlisted),
Ned received an impromptu Iesson,
The dialogue concluded the recruit
saluted eorreetly. "By the way,"
said the officer, "to what company
do you belong?" "Please, sirs to
the 'Wigan Coal and Iron sir,
was the reply.
fractured Language.
"You -broke your word,"
"I d -d -didn't."
"There you go, breaking
other."
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NA1'OI,1 ON'S let (LtS..:
a lle ('canoe to lout: Ilia=•Off;
Breit' Regimental t±lrwg.
Napoleon, great in conquest, was
not great in soul, Ise delighted iia
the picturesque details of warfare,
glory and empire. Often with the •
aptitude of a stage manager, he do
signed them himself, heightened •
their appeal with the eloquence of ua.
spread-eagle orator, and reported
the result, in his bulletins, with all
the effectiveness and sometimes.
with all the exaggeration, of a "yel-
low" j•caernalist,
In the "War Drama of the Ea-
gles," Mr. Edward Fraser has
traced the history of one of his most
su•ecessful ideas. When the com-
mittee that was considering a suit-
able emblem .for the newly estab-
fished ernpire suggested the tradi-
tional Gallic cook, Napoleon would
not hear of it. "Bach 1" he cried,
contemptuously, "The cock belongs
to the farmyard. It is far too feeble
a creature 1" Overriding their final
choice, which was a lion couchant,
he ,substituted the eagle.
"It affirms the imperial dignity,"
he explained, "and recalls Cherie-
magne."
It is doubtful if it wooled have re-
called Charlemagne without a good
deal of prompting of the public
mind ; but it really did recall. the
conquering eagles of the :Roman
legions; and this association Nap'o-
leo•n emphasized by putting an
eagle, Roman fashion, on the staff
of every regimental flag, These
eagles, he decreed, rather than the
perishable tricolor that streamed
below them, should be regarded,
honored and cherished as the stan-
dards of the army. The artist Isar
bey designed them, they were made.
of copper and gilded, weighed three
pounds and a half, and were .eight
inches in height, and nine • inches
from wing tip to wing tip.. They
were received only from the hands
of the emperor; to lose one was to
incur dishonor that' could be wiped
out only by the capture of an
enemy's flag in battle; no Iost-eagle
night be replaced except by special
permission of the emperor.
The "Presentation of the Eagles,"
when Napoleon, crowned and scen-
tred, and attended by the Empress
Josephine, the court, and the mar-
shals of France, bestowed the ne-w
standards on the regiments on the
Champs de Mars, was one of the
moat magnificent pageants that the
world has known.
"Soldiers! Behold your stand-
ards !" the emperor declaimed, with
a sweeping gesture. "These eaglee
shall ever be to you the rallying
palate _- Wh•erexesr . your Kers>r
shrill deem it needful for the def ii
of the throne and people, there sh. •l . '°''s.
they be seen. You swear to sacri-
fice your lives in their defense, to
maintain them by your courage
ever in the path of victory ? You
swear it ?" There wa.s a' mom•ent's
breathless pause; then athundering
shout amid the Iiad' of raised sae
b res : "We swear it 1"
Often, indeed, those who swore
kept their oath, and many are the
tales of devotion and heroism that
centre round the glittering golden
birds—the "cuckoos," as the sol-
diers nicknamed them. with affec-
tionate familiarity. Yet by the
ironyoffate,
it was
th e sighb of
the
t'
g
golden eagle that tipped a captured
battle flag, projecting through the
carriage window of young Colonel
Percy, 'the messenger from Water- -
loo, that gave the first inkling of
Napoleon's final defeat to the Lan-
don crowd. The people followed,
and gathered beneath the windows
of the house where be delivered his
message to the prince regent.
Presently a window on the balcony
above was thrown open, and the bat.
tered eagles, with the tattered tri-
color drooping below them, were
thrust through for all to see, . They
shone in the light of tapers that the
excited and triumphant guests
snatched from the banquet table,
and held up to illuminate them.
France still fifes her tricolor, hon-
ored at hone and abroad; but the
imperial eagles vanished with the
empire and its bloody glories.
Japanese Women Cheat Old Age,
Japanese women have d•iecovered
the art of keeping young that is
worth passing along time line. Iln
Japan ababy is called one year old
the day he is born, because he halt'
lived in that year. If he is born the
day before New Year's he is two
years old in less than 24 hours. The
women reverse thistrick, and when
a. daughter is• born in the latter pant
of Deeem'ber her birth is not +n-
nounced until d`auuaay. This nna •ea
the difference, as the child grow
up, that she is 20 years old inatead
of 22. After that she can knock off
the years to suit herself.
.Eggs-a.etll•,
Friend—wI've noticed Cutts,
tailor,, going up to your st;l-_--
every dray for week. •Is be eftt oC
for you 3
Ambi t No, he's laying 'for lett. wa•