en eggs, one 'enpful milk, one scant teaspoonful Beat well. Put Po 'wf butter, oue and one-half pounds of 'A' sugar, ten eggs (whole, ad- Wed one at a time), one pound of sifted flour, one and one-half pounds of seeded raisins, one-fourth sund of citron, one pound of shel- id hickory' nuts, one grated niit- 'meg, one-half glass of good whisky. Prune Cake.--Cream ong table- spoonful of butter with four table- 'spoonfuls of sugar; add grated rind of 'lemon, one egg beaten lightly, . mix all togethér. "Add a cupful of " mifted flour, a teaspoonful of baking powder (not full), sift: again. Add ore-quarter cupful of milk, just to in. 'Place dough in pan and un p place lightly prunes which have been pitted and 'Cooked. If usual- "Jy takes 'one pound "of prunes for wre large layer; Whipped cream'on top of same makes it delicious. But 38 can be eaten without." Nut .Cake.---~Cream one cupful of granulated sugar with one-half cup- * ful of butter, then stir in the well 'beaten yolks of three eggs and one- * fourth cupful of milk. Have sifted togethed one and one-half cupfuls "of flour with one-half teaspoonful of baking soda and two level teaspoon, fuls of créam of tartar, and add to ae 'other ingredients, then flavor with one teagpoonful of lemon. ex- tract or the grated rind of one le- mon, ther stir in one' cup of ¢ocoa- "mut and one-half' cyphal of sliced % eitron; last stir in. the . beaten whites of two eggs. "Bake in' mod: 'erate over. Icing---Boil one cupful "of sugar and one-balf cupful of water til it forms a soft-ball whep Ticking. Tf you have adi carded, mattress ticking rip it apart, | wi out and sew as for earpet rags, and Lave woven with en ave. a border at each end of plain rags! to. match; Let gk To Darn Matting. matting is worn in the'center it may be darned to look as good as new by thread- ing a darning needle 'with raffia and darning 'it. yas you = wonld alto | stocking. = If the worn part is: on | the oldest bi the edge buttonhole stitch the' last) ape 'oan: cad with' row as a border aud it. will not feuriche 'a well known Hostelry fray. If rafiia is not fine enoughiat Tom Ugly's Point, near Sydney split it to suit. =~ Riffia comes in| New South Wales, He about three colors--nuatural, red,! When he had feathers enough Yo. aid blue. ~ Natural colored rafia-is| distinguish his species he was re- about' the same color- as matting | cognizable as a lemon crested cock. | ent of their. anid is cheap. . atoo, but as he has been. "under|bird like a pheasant w Pressing Form.--A good form for {Baro poles'" for half a century, ats way for more than t pressing waists, coats, and hips of | fay living . people can yeriember yotds. xh * palo skirts--Cet a sawdust ham from |when he had moré covering than| Crouse have a rapid wing motion meat market, cover with outing he shows at present. ~ |sithout any great speed, but when flannel. It gives the round curve| He wasowned for eighty years by they sail; i ) with the required, tags Capt. Lieorge Ellis, a well know d, as Curtain Help.--When, waking a) niastey matiner of Sydney, who die : curtain to hang up to a cupboard atthe Solomon Islands 'in 1887, aged (fl or war 'robe stitchia piece of tape|£p. The bird v-as presentéd. to the| rapidly, li or goods of same across the wrong! captain, when the latter was 9 yéars| Most birds after . gliding gids of the gathers and let end of{of age, and he was then informed te tape gxtend out at cach end. of cur-1that Cocky was just the same age. tain and run through a sma Yass! The bi y 7 to ring and few. Your curtain is al- shir was left asa legacy ways. ready to hang up when laun- a archal ag sionally withot ow ngs several | ke t e clapping of 1 1g 'do this [Docs it correspond to putting - onl' the brakes or reversing the engine | : to | in the case of mechanical 1 Mi... Bennett of Sidney; but she did {tion With little aj x not get him until 1801. Since that 00d pige dered and saves time and bother of period, says the Wide World Maga- stopping to insert a string or wire. zine, the bird has lived at George's Skirt Braid. An easy way $0 pub! River, within- sight- of where Gapt:{ 8! oa a new skirt braid is+to insert ai Cook landed, and where 'the first|at: piece of thin cardboard (an old cal-iflect!' anchored about! the year of | Wind ling card is best to use) in the hem | his birth: ' g of the skirt and run it along as you | He ha 3 ¥ asl sew on' the braid; This will help! thes foi you bo mark + quickly. vent ne for the last twenty nt, and the few tat ant sropped in "cold water: while hot gradually pout over' the beaten white of an egg, add one-half tea- spoonful of vanilla and one eupful of cocoanut. Spread on cake. German Cherry Cake.--As pre- "pared by: a German = chef:' Three eupfuls of red sour cherries (can: med), one oupful of flour, six table- . 'spoonfuls of sugar, the yolks of two "eggs; one-quarter of a cupful of milk, 'one tablespoonful of butter, onehall teaspoonful of baking pow- der and one-quarter of a teapston- ful of salt (all level measures are used). Bift the flour, salt, and Daking powder and two teaspoon- "fuls of the sugar into a bowl, then rab in the butter. Beat the yolks of the eggs, add to them the milk and quickly mix the liquid through flour. Shape with the hand, int' a greased pan, one-eighth of an nel thick. Drain cherries, spread 'them over the dough and sprinkle over them the ' remaining sugar. Bake twenty = minutes, in a brisk oven. Sauce: To the strained cher- ¥y juice, add one cupful of sugar, level tablespoonfuls of flour, a the stitches from showingon the ffuffs ars' are white. outside of the hem. .iisnow.' None 'of his faculties is Wall Pockets.--Take a large piece | weakened, aid he is as loquacious of strotig material to fit a suitable | us youngsters of his tribe who may|! space on the wall 'near the sewing !bs a hundred years younger... In { may, when 6 his Bon Jesusto & >| to our old earth to help others | ng €lto make them see the power and | beauty of a good life marred by no tain of evil. We thought that war a wonderful story, Now for Sever: al weeks we have been studying some of the poke and goes home to God's othe id infinite beauty we should remem that same message "of 3 comfort. Jesus said, - ie 10 gunil 'While Christmas it a happy du | Euster it even sw nd d : it' tells A Ald itiful, clean heir wings sailing throu in over. the sad, adness to ourselves. vo After J J old: people, sad people 41 people all around us longing cheer of that message." 'P. Yo A TARM NOTES. \ theca ay 1t has Been shown by experiments {the 8 5ke 'that he" might that the carefut-prepatation of the burial in his own garden. seadbed by early plowing and suffi-Ithis because he: loved J cient surface eultivation so as tolwanfed pulverize and 'settle' the soil results lc i ja largely increased yields. Xi h 'every dairyman this ¢ machine or: elsewhere and there on | hilarious moments he will flap his| cut clipping motion of the. air, while their ferent needs such as' for daruig By gee, T'll iy?' a palpably men- daci ¢ His beak is fully four inches long, | ful A their motion ing T has it will pr be in pla the way. Use | Mrs: Bennett: has besides three marked deg pocket would. - : es in length. Cocky is known to stockings as if a hole were there! freely with anybody, Among -his wear you get out of those hose. | Miss Rawson, who, were delighted 1 ipo before wearing. When knee shows | ; 0 Boldly venturedsis half won. sew a series of gathered pockets of | sfumps--you could not eall them |aud:look like yachts large and small sizes to' suit dif-|wings--and yell, "I'll fly, TI fiy! terials; patterns, darning to Tie ee ibd materials, patterns, darning tate ! ile. Peeswee, done and odd materials for mend. Dus Sboment a against the wall and | but he can pick wp and erack look like enormous huts handy Ss ey maize: as easily as ever. | flights = Bwall and in gathered ckets because they hold pieces: of beal--cut' off when: it wing. moveme more and will not-tear as a straight | grew too long--each about two inch- Darning, Before wearing, oare- thousands of Australians and-globe fully weave heels and toes of new | trotters, and at his levees will:chat und reinforce any weak places. You! recent visitors. were Lord and Lady will be surprised at the amount of{ Northcote, Sir Harry Rewson and Beye" stockings will wear 'again: as! with the ancient bird. long if you will sew a tuck at ankle] ieee A =r § WORTHY OF NOTE. signs of wear, rip out the tuck and worn part is raised high enough tol 7, be happy, you must forget ourself. 1° : come under trousers. Wash new pinch of salt, one level teaspoonful | stockings before wearing and they!" Whatever else you do with & wor- 'of butter. Cook eight minutes and | will last longer. You can easily! ry don't pass it on. ; h darn s large hole if you baste 8} "Benevolence is the only cure for 5 . piade of netting over it, 'weaving!y morbid temper. a : CHICKEN RECIPES. Cask und forth though Shs ieshes : Don't hold your head so high that : ; si en up and down, on finished |, it : : joke a this a draw out threads of netting. Work nt See where your: feel. arg ken, but many people. profet will 'not pucker. Yon : No duatselsonie man ever made tter. In any case, only a fn BTA success of any i ' or chicken should be wed, asf! FOR HUSBANDS AND WIVES. |tay updortaking. + hin chicken is almost tasteless. | 1: yy wan to have » happy home : feet ich gray 3 sot Hed S fart yon must act according to; these] Albee iarnier ag O10 Ea : i ' ST. Liniol ohiekon uid be © Learn to govern yourself. ay ih y ia Di not axpect angel ualities in edd]