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Spring A Prominent Ontario Woman . Speaks. Welland, Ont.-- "I am glad I heard about Dr. Pierce's remedies. When J ABOUT THE HOUSEHOLD was tired-out and ! worn-out I used { 'Golden Medical lot milk, a teaspoonful of fldnt and a tablespoohful of butter and seasoning. This is the simplest of dishes, but it is an ever welcome one. Stuffed Mutton Chops. -- Remove bones from six double-ribbed mutton chops, or have butcher remove them, replace with sausage meat (about one- fourth pound) and fasten with skew- ers^allowing "skewers to project, two or Dainty Dishes. .-- a .. . PL-_ _ j pL PrgP Salad---Arrange three inches. Lay chop> in dripping ■uoiaen ivieuiutu i Cherry and Cheese b • dredge lightly with pepper and Discovery' and 1 individual slices of cream cheese on pan, areage agnuy >> f ^ 'Favorite Prescrip- ïrequentiy with" - two tab^ has been replaced ^ peanut. Put spoonful mayonnaise dressing on eacn f - The War Against Health Is Quickly . Ended By "Fruit-a-tives". tion.' It is true that they are grand remedies, and 1 found that they made me feel like a new person. 1 believe I used „ . seven .bottles in all. I have recommended Dr. fierce's reme* dies to several of my acquaintances. "I have one of the Common Sense bvrift me up a^d ! cheese slice and garnish with maras chino cherry. A little cherry juice added to dressing adds to its favor. Mushrooms.--Just let them simmer gravy from drippings in pan. In serving, arrange chops in circle on round chop plate, with peas or vegetable vegetable of day heaped in center, allow- Mushrooms--Just let tnem frills on skewers to edge gently in browned butter until trio- rughly cooked. The flay or/ and. sue cess of the mushrooms depends upon • l nave one oi me vommuu oeust --- -- ------ - T , ■ ■ Medical Advisers and think very highly the slowness of the process, n you 117 State use a chafing dish, turn the flame down to low, or if it is electrically -l' 1 - xicxvGo uu ; u 1 l,u -. P* 3 ' fitted use lower power. At least a covery is a.tonic and builderthat brings half _ hour is required in cooking, new activitv to the liver, stomach and I m of it."--Mrs. Mat Clark, St., Welland, Ont. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical new activity to the liver, stomach and bowels in a short time, thus causing sallowness, indigestion and constipation to disappear. -- Good blood means good health; good health means strong men and women, full of vigor and ambition, with minds alert and muscles ever willing. Anv medicine dealer will supply you with Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery in either liquid or tablet form. Send to Dr. Pierce, Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y., for free medical advice. Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser--a great doctor book--of 1008 pages, cloth bound--answers many important important questions. Copy will be sent, customs prepaid, for 50 cents (or stamps) to pay wrapping and mailing charges. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels. Sugar-coated and easy to take as candy. If people were as wise as they think they are the unexpected would seldom occur. New Dessert.--Take a pint of rhubarb, rhubarb, cut it into inch long pieces, then cover with a cupful of sugar. Let this stand for an hour: Now have a large pudding pant at hand, into which you can put the rhubarb, a pint of bread crumbs and a cupful of raisins in layers. Add a half-cup- fiil of hot water. A final layer of bread crumbs should be added to the top, and the whole cooked in the over for 40 minutes. Cover thé top of the dish during the first half-hour of bal% ing. Serve with whipped cream. Creamed Asparagus.--'Tie the bunch up with a soft string, cut off the necessary part, and cook, for at least 25 minutes in salted water. Have ready a few slices of crustless toasted toasted bread. Dip these in the asparagus liquor, .then butter well and. arrange on a platter. Drain the asparagus and place it on the toast. Now make a good cream sauce, using a cupful Many women with disfigured complexions never seem to think that they need an occasional cleansing inside as well as outside. Yet neglect of this internal " salit Wk bathing shows itself in spotty, and sallow complexions--as ^ / well as in dreadful headaches and biliousness. It's because the liver becomes sluggish, and waste matter accumulates, which Nature cannot remove without assistance. The best remedy is Chamberlain's Stomach andLiverTablèts, which stimulate the liver to healthy activity, remove fermentation, gently cleanse the stomach and bowels and-tone the whole digestive system. Sure, safe and reliable. Take one at night and you feel bright and sunny in the morning. Get Chamberlain's today--druggists 25c., or by mail from Chamberlain Medicine Company, Toronto 13 Behind Door? Y OU will find a gripping detective story in the May number of MACLEAN'S! MAGAZINE--"Behind the Bolted Door"--by Arthur E. McFarlane. Full of mystery, tense with interest, alive with action, passing strange in plot and incident, it is baffling until the last paragraph of the last chapter. This McFarlane story is but one of many 4 'specials" in the May MACLEAN'S--an issue really remarkable remarkable for its high quality, as witness the following writers. These contributors are, as you will recognize, a most exceptional company--the best'known of Canadian writers. ^ Arthur E. McFarlane Stephen Leacock Nellie L. McClung Robert W. Service Agnes C. Laut EDITORIALS BY : Sir Herbert Amea N. W. Rowell C. C. James "âmes L. Hughes P. Downey 1 And next issue (June), the first of ARTHUR STRINGER S new serial story, "The Anatomy of Love. has one feature which commends it to all readers --its Review of Reviews department. Here is reprinted the heart of the best things appearing in the. leading magazines and periodicals of the world. So in MACLEAN'S one gets the essence of many magazines. Rich promise in this May Number of many hours of genuine entertainment and profitable reading. A big 15 cents' worth- more than you find in a $1.50 work of fiction. For the price^of a new novel, you can have twelve numbers of MACLEAN'S. MACLEAN'S MAGAZINE Is Canada's best periodica: r^fe'lca- tion. It is out-and-out Canadian and Is doing a fine jvorlc for the encouragement of Canadian literature and writers. As a - good Canadian, you should be a yearly subscriber. Begin your the May ton $1.50 Just write your name and address on this advertisement; and mail to the publiabers--The MacLean Publishing Co., Ltd., 143 University Ave., Toronto. Bill for $1.50 will be sent later. Enclose remittance if you prefer. Get the May Issue ait your Bookseller's dish. Carrot Chowder.--Two cups of sliced carrots, one cup diced potatoes, one-half cup diced onion, one-fourth cup diced raw bacon, two tablespoons flour, two cups fresh or one cup evaporated evaporated milk, two teaspoons salt, a little little pepper, one tablespoon fresh or dried parsley or celery top. Put carrots carrots and potatoes on to cook in three cups boiling water and boil forty-five minutes. Fry bacon and onion light brown and add milk. Mix flour with a little cold water till smooth. Add to milk, bacon and onion in fryingpan and cook five minutes, then add to potatoes and carrots, with salt, pepper and parsley. Dust with paprika when serving. Crumb Pudding.--One cup rolled crumbs, one-half cup water, to moisten, moisten, one cup milk, one egg, one'fourth to one-half cup sugar as needed. Kind of crumbs used will determine amount of sugar. Good combination is rich cake or cooky crumbs and part rolled crackers. Stale macaroons are de-, licious. Roll crumbs fine, add water and let soak. Beat egg, sugar and milk together, add crumbs and bake, or steam in top receptacle of small double boiler. Baking require^ one- half hour in small, moderate oven ; steaming about an hour. This will make four moderate servings. Serve with fruit sauce, hard sauce or cream. "Last Minute" Dishes.--Did you ever think to make fritters, when the unexpected guest steeled himself complacently complacently in the best armchair and made plans, to stay to dinner ? No matter how little you have in the larder, you can evolve a fritter out of it. They're a Sunday evening "special" "special" in one household, where drop-ins are a common occurrence. Make your batter out of flour, milk, baking powder and salt. Two level tablespoonfuls of baking powder and a quarter of a level teaspoonful of salt are to be used to each cupful of flour. This for a stiff batter--one to which you add fruits. In making all good fritter batter, you use twice as much j lour as milk. More milk may be added added to soft batter, such as for corn fritters, and such. MRS. DEWOLFE East Ship Harbour, N.S. "It is with great pleasure that I write to tell you of the wonderful benefit I have received from taking 'Fruit-a-tives'. For years I was a dreadful sufferer from Constipation 'and Head- aches, and I was miserable in every way. Nothing in the way of medicines seemed to help me. Then I finally tried 'Fruit-a-tives' and the effect was - splendid. After taking one box, I feel like a new person and I am deeply thankful to have relief from those sickening Headaches". Mrs. MARTHA DEWOLFE. "FRUIT-A-TIVES", jjae medicine made from, fruit juices, has relieved more sufferers from Headaches, Constipation, Constipation, Stomach, Liver, Kidney and Skin Troubles than any other medicine. 50c. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size, 25c. At all dealers or sent on receipt of price by Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa. Canned pineapple fritters are easily made, as are any fruit fritters. Just cut the canned fruit up into very small pieces, then add them to the batter. batter. Applies should be cut up into slices, coated with batter, then cooked cooked in fat.. , .Oranges receive the same treatment-. All fried foods of this kind should be properly drained on paper, after being taken from the pan of fat. If you do not care to go to the trouble of making a sauce, roll each fritter in powdered sugar. FROM A HOSPITAL COT. By Carl Hawes-Butman. At first they saidT WaS^yW, But I prayed.*o my .God; not to go, There's the falks bock 'ome and Jimmie; I've been missin', 'em lately, you know. I fought best I could in the trenches, Do."you think that I wants to be 'ere ? But wot could I do? I was shot through and- through. An' they ordered me" back to the rear. We'd 'ad an 'ard fight with the Deut- s chers; I must 'ave plugged forty or more, Orders came to advance on the beggars-- beggars-- I must 'ave got 'it in the fore. But I never knowed that until later, When I~woke in a 'ospital cot, With a nurse fussin' round, 'andy some'ow; I was clean, but the fever burned 'ot. To-day I'm more fit an' quite 'op'gful, That last charge--it ain't 'arf been told ; We'd been waitin' and waitin', most tiresome, With weather first 'ot and then cold. When it rained you were wet to your middle, - You couldn't keep dry an* stay whole ; Everyone was clear out of tobacco, And the stench from the field 'urt your soul. Web, the charge Come at last, on a Sunday, • We was up an' away at the sign, i 'Twas me and Jimmie, me Bunkie, Were a-leadin' that khaki-clad line. There was bullets and shrapnel a- plenty-- Small wonder we didn't all die, But we fired from prone on our bellies At nothin' mostly, an' 'igh. From The Canadian Magazine for May. • Everywhere facts prove the menace of lightning. Once you realize that the danger of lightning lies in its concentrated action on a single spot in your roof, you will appreciate the safety and protection of a Pedlarized roof. Pedlar's '*Qcorge*' Shingles lock together on all four sides, forming a single sheet cr . ■ i - - -- s----, a 1 u O- metal from cave to ridge. Lightning cannot concen- trate on any single spot, for' Pedlar Shingles spread it over the whole surface of your roof. When properly grounded, a Pedlarized roof is practically indestructible. This summer know the saving and peace of mind of a safe, steel roof by Pedlarizing now with "George" Shingles. .Write for tho "Right Roof" Booklet B. S. THE PEDLAR PEOPLE, LIMITED (Established I86l) Executive Office and Factories; Oshaws^-Ont. Branches: Montreal, Ottawa. Toronto. London, Winnipeg {j£oc/c . Cook's Cotton Hoot ComponmL A tape, reliable regulating medicine. Bold in three de- f rees of strength--No. I, SI; lo. 2, S3; No. 8. |5 per box. Sold by all dra^gists, or sent prepaid on receipt of price., Free pamphlet. Address ii THE COOK MEDICINE CO„ T010MT0. ONT. (Fwewif WIsOw.) iiinimunnmn z This Sample of is for you, Madam ! WHAT is LUX? It is VT a soap of unusual purity made into the thinnest of flakes that readily dissolve in hot water. It makes a creamy, foamy lather that cannot injure the daintiest fabric or the hands. -LUX is a wonderful life lengthener of .all woollen and flannel garments. It absolutely prevents them. from matting, thickening or shrinking in the wash. Will you let us send you a sample, free ? Address LUX Dept., Lever Brothers Limited, Toronto. All grocers •eU LUX 11 A girl thinks she has made good as soon as she hypnotizes some young man into buying her an engagement ring. ' . " WASH AWAY SKIN SORES MADE IN CANADA. Helpful Hints. Alcohol will dissolve medicine stains. Paper bags- make very good covering covering for jars with food m them. Paint stains on the carpet can be dissolved with, spirits of turpentine. ' /Dark calicoes should be ironed on the wrong side with irons that are not too hot. » When the furniture looks sticky or smeary too much furniture polish has been used. Soak nuts in hot water before cracking and the nuts will be much more likely to come out whole. If roses are starved and otherwise neglected they are more apt to be attacked attacked by insects and other pests. Instead of grating cheese or the rind of a lemon, -pare it off carefully and put it through the meat chopper. An old flour-sifter that has lost its value as a sieve makes an excellent egg-boiler, as the eggs may all be placed in the water at once, and also removed at once when done. - Mix the batter cakes in a wide- mouth pitcher. It is easier to pour the batter cakes than it is to dip them. Coarse salt and water is the best cleanser for wicker furniture and summer summer matting. Use a strong brush, and be sure to dry the articles thoroughly. thoroughly. - ■ . While ironing it is a good plan to get a clean brickr-ta white one if possible) possible) as a stand. The .iron will retain retain heat much longer than if an open iron stand be used. If vegetables are wilted they should not be pared or prepared in any way until they have been revived in water. The wilted surface makes waste m the preparation. When a baking dish .gets burned in using it should not be scraped; simply put a little water and ashes in it and the burned surface will come off easily without injuring the dish. Never boil dish towels with washing washing powders or soda in aluminum utensils. utensils. It will leave a ' blackened mark.f Clean aluminum with paste prepared prepared for- it, or rub blackened scorched surfaces "with mineral wool. Half a cupful of milk put in a dish- tub full of hot ✓water will serve as a substitute for soap. It softens the water, does not roughen the hands, And brightens dishes, cleaning off all greases, and 'leaving no scum in the pan. After cooking a new. laid egg it very often, gets cold through standing. When this occurs put the egg into a cup or small-basin and pour some hot (not boiling) water over the egg. You will then find the egg as nice as when freshly boiled. ' "For damp places round a sink, or similar place, paint over with tar. Give two coats, :letting the first dry thoroughly before-applying the second; second; Then paint with a distemper. -Strip off the paper from the .damp place*», take a sheet of brown paper, blacklead it on one side, and place that side agairiU the wall. Then cover with-the* wallpaper: The damp will not strike through. To the many sufferers of skin disease D. D. D., the liquid wash, has become a household word. They know it is reliable and they can depend on it, they do not hesitate to recommend it to their neighbors. neighbors. It has proved itself a remarkable remedy for all forms of Eczema. It is a germicide that is harmless to the most delicate delicate skin but still it is effective and quick in action. If you are a sufferer from skin diseases, including ulcers, pimples, scales crust or Eczema in any form, this remedy will not disappoint you. It has stood the test arid to-day is the master preparation for all skin diseases. Come in to-day and ask about our guarantee guarantee on D. D. D. Also about D. D. D. Soap, that keeps the skin healthy. Add play hours to your day Summer will soon be here and * you will want all the time you can get out-of-doors, free from work and worry. Get a house Telephone to help you ! Nothing can do it so well, and it will cost only a few cents a day ! No installation charge. Let us call and talk it over-- fill out the Coupon below and mail it to-day ! D n "H FOR 15 years the • U• Standard Skin Remedy Jury &>Lovell, Druggists, Bowmanville The Bell Telephone Co. of Canada. Gentlemen:--Please see me about Residence Telephone Service. Name .Address... CANADA'S CALL FOR SERVICE AT HOME Produce More and Save More The Empire needs food. If you arc not in the fighting fighting line you may be in the producing line. Labour is limited--all the more reason to do more than ever before. Grow food for the men who are fighting fou you. The Allies need all the food that you can produce. Every little helps. You-are responsible for your own work. If you cannot produce as much as you would like, produce all you can. Work with the right spirit. Put fighting energy into your effort and produce now when it counts. The more you produce the more you can save. Producing and saving are war-service. Make Your Labour Efficient In war-time do not waste time and energy on unimportant unimportant and unprofitable work. Economize labour.. Put off unproductive work till after the war, and, if possible, help in producing something needed now. Let us not waste labour. Canada needs it all. If possible help to feed the Allies: Make your backyard a productive garden. Cultivate it with a will. Make your labour count for as much as possible. Do Not Waste Materials There should be no waste in war-time. Canada could pay the annual interest on her war expenditure out of what we waste on our farms, 'in our factories, in our homes. Every pound of food saved from waste is as good as a pound of increased production. The way for a nation to save is for every individual to save. France is strong to-day because of thrift in time of peace. /The men and women of Great Britain are not only " doing " but are learning to " do withbùt." Spend Your Money Wisely lx finance the war. better investment. Practise economy in the home by eliminating luxuries. luxuries. Wasting our dollars here, weakens our strength at the Front. Your savings will help Canada to Save your money for the next Dominion War issue. There can be no THE GOVERNMENT /OF CANADA » V . 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