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© & pin, being care even "bake, slowly Beans. --Soak one quart of beans: in gold water over night. In the morning put them in fresh-cold water, and sim. mer until soft enough to pierce with not to let them boil enough to break. Ti desired, boil one onion with them. 'When soft turn into colander "and pour cold water thfough them. Place them with the onion in a bean pot. Pour boiling water over a quarter of a pound of salt pork, part fat and part lean ; scrape the rind un- til white. Cut the rind in half inch strips. Bury the pork in the beans, leaving only the rind exposed. Mix one ul 'of salt--mone if the pork is not salty--and add one teaspoonful of mustard with one- Panter of a cupful of molasses. ill the cup with "hot water and when well mixed pour over the beans. Add enough more water to oover them. Keep them covered with water until the last hour; then Milt the pork to the surface and let $ crisp. Beans should be baked at least eight hours in & moderate oven. Use more salt and onp-third 'of a oupful of butter if you dislike pork, or use half a nd of fat snd lean combeef. ¢ mustard gives the beans a delicious flavor and also renders them:more whole- some. Yellow eyed and lima besns are also good when baked this way. Cream of Baked Bean Boup. -- Melt one-quarter of & cuphul of | but- ter and add one-fourth of a cupful of flour. When thoro blend- «J add two cupfuls of cold milk and cook until thick. Add twe cup- fuls of €old baked beans: If too thick dilute with 'milk or stock to the proper ~ consistency. Season xa salt, pepper and minced pars- ey Bean Soup.--Boil a small soup bone in two quarts of water until meat falls from the bone. Take out the bone, add a ocupful of white beans which have been soaked over night, and boil for two hours. Add three. potatoes, half a turnip, and a carrot all cut fine. Boil for half sn hour longer. Beason with salt ==d pepper. Puree of Beans and Rice.~Put a quart of beans which have been' soaked in water over night in a saucepan with a pinch of salt, & small onion, a slice of carrat, a tablespoonful of butter, a sprig of parsley, and boiling water £0 cover. k until beans are soft, rub through a fine sieve; and add suffici. ent stock to make the desired quan- tity of soup. Season to taste, add two tablespoonfuls of butter and one cupful of cold boiled rice. Re- heat and serve. THE BAN ON BEANS. Apropos of the recent ban on beans it is well to remember these 91 'Beans should be soaked over- They should not, be cooked in the water in which they are soaked. "They should be cooked for at least t hours in a odemie oven, bean soups the soup she strained to remove husks, whi ocntain no nutriment and are in: r in which the beans are! boiled the sar destroy the acid in the | with pulve: AR cake: sugar, one cupful supful buttermilk, on ie vo otal ve scant teaspoon the buthermilk Cinnamo meg and: 'Winter Pie pie. M bake. with: l gar, with suffciént water to cover. Allow this to cool, then place in] 'B shell. Beat stiff the whites of two eggs. Add two tablespoonfuls of granulated sugar. Spread over pie and brown in oven. To be eaten cold. = } Eggless Cake.--In these days of high priced eggs, the following re- ceipt' for apple sauce cake, with- out eggs, will be appreciated, as it has been tested and found to be excellent: One cupful of sugar, one- half cupful of butter, one cupful of unsweetened apple. sauce, With one scant teaspoonful of sods stir- red into it; one and one-half cup- fuls of flour, one-half teaspoonful of salt, one-half teaspooninl of cloves, one teaspoonful of cinna- mon, one cupful of raisins, chopped and mixed with the flour. Bake as a loaf cake and ice. WORTH KNOWING. A corn may be eased by the ap- plication of a little oil of pepper: mint. To improve tough meat and make it mon, Paint on window panes may be removed by washing it with vine-|3, gar. . When buying fish: remember it | shionld be stiff and the flesh firm to e touch. Blankets while drying should be well beaten with 'a cane carpet beater to make them fluffy.' To boil a cracked egg wrap it in a piece of newspaper, and this will prevent the white from beiling out. A thin strip of orange peel placed in the bottom of a tea caddy im- parts a delicious aroma and flavor to the tea. : If the little 'ones are obliged to wear glasses, see that they are tak- en off two or three times a day and polished. it 3 New flannels niust «always be washed in two lathers. There is & certain amount 'of dress to get out before the dirt will move. Do not bang: doors and clump about noisily. . If you do not re- spéct the nerves of the family, con: mder hinges and floors. Stains on mirrors and window glass may be removed by Tubing with ' spirits _ of camphor, whic leaves a brilliant polish. When making pastry add the juice of a lemon to the water for mix- ing. It will make the paste lighter and dispel the flavbr of lard. i To keep kitchen tables white-- Scrub them well with cold water, soap and a little silver sand. ) not use hot water on tables, as it tvrns them. yellow. Ld Old tablecloths should not be dis: carded for rags = Cub out the be parts, hem and se for face els are desightfully soft the purpose. make a 1 French plate, tender rub it well with a cutle-{ = tables destroy and it is to restore the backing with siderable expense, Dampness willl 'destroy it in the same manner. To stone raising easily yon re- quire to pour boiling water on and let them remain over night, when it will be found in the morning that they are not only easier to stone, but stoning does not tear the fruit. Dry in nsual way, only they will require a little longer. 5 Have a small bottle of bensine at hand, and when a spot of grease gets on to clean tablecloth put a clean paper under the spot and wet a clean' cloth with the benzine and rub the grease into the paper un- derneath and your tablecloth will be as clean as ever. Keep the bot- tle away from the fire. : A ---------- HOT IRON KILLS GERMS. Clothing May he Batistaetorily/ Js. Ironing linen has a greater affect than is commonly believed. = As the mperature of the iron may great- Iy exceed 266 degrees Fahrenheit it has been suggested that the process of ironing may suffice to sterilize surgical dressings and hence be of valuable service, esp districts and elsewhere, in & sence of disinfecting '© sterilizers. Nearly < all mi can be killed by a sufficiently long application of & tem ture 19% degrees Fahrenheit, but a tems perature of 266 degroes Fahrenheit is 'required to kill certain spores of bacteria and tp produce abso- lutely complete sterilization. 1t has bg¢en proved by experiment Shoat it is io beg ne ting very satisfactoni ironing. Clothing which hag been worn by childremraffected by various 'oon- tagious diseases 'and which con- tained bacteria or pus, diphtheria and the like, was- sprinkled 'and ironed: : pen 'It was then rubbed on plates of gelatine prepared for<theé culture cf bacteria, but not a single color was developed. 3 ; Smm----_-- % i BTRONG ON DISCRETION Discretion: is a beautiful ¢ and hore is a story about an {tailor who had a heap of it. One morning Mrs. Murphy, a tomer, came into the sho found him busy wi n : paper. Bhe asked him what he 0m makita lish av the is town who Oi kin lick. ly ih Turall i an 7 This 'was > se tl ying flesh 8 sweet again and 1 skin' white, partly because it meant restoration <f ceremonial cleanness and return} to the worship of Th 3. Tonched - him--Contemporary |. rabbis would have driven him out or hidden their faces, It was con-|; sidered unsafe to of ithin six} foet of a Teper. To touch one was| sah become Polluted before the 1a 'supremacy 'of Jesus is seén:in the fact that not sale did he not become defiled; but p instantly to. pronounce the leper] . he. (ole Ses thon tell no man that way per show ogy to au relieve Jesus of suspicions of inter foring with the course of law. The gift that Moses commanded--- Two he-lambs without blemish, and ont grelanh of the first year with. ou : 2 "A testimony unto them---A proof | that the cure was genuine. After due examination the priests would accept his gift, thus acknowledg- ing cure.' Of course Jesus did not 'contemplate the disclosure to the priests of the manner of the is: urg:" The fact that the Jeper.dhis-| obeyed his injunction helps to ae- count for the opposition Jesus had to meet later tt. 9.8, 34). 5. He was entered into Caper- nanm--Events' following the leper's| then. publication of his story were as Jesus had feared: The gaping mul- titudes crowded around him, fore: ing him inte the desert places, and | N ay rity, and would bei African bungalow. [day in the d does happen