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ae ' Put into a sa ' over the fire the juice of one can of pineapple; the juice of one le- mon, one-half eupful of sugar and td paper or plate in rough ape. Wheat Confection.' Heat one dro church; Essex, "En, ears of wheat containing ilie astonishing 'harvest half box of lemon gelatin that|Package of puffed wheat in the oven | from this one seed, 'and scald, then pout over the well beat: en whites of four eggs. Cut the pineapple into small pieces and add one-half pound of Malaga grapes halved and seeded: Arrange the fruit in a mold, then pour the liquid gelatin over it and let congeal Serve with a dressing made by cook- ing 'to a soft custard one pint of milk and the yolks of four eggs and sugar and vanilla to taste; drop flakes of whipped cream on top. English Plum Pudding. -- Three pounds raising, two pounds cur- rants, one-half pound citron, one- quarter pound each of lemon and orange peel, dandied, one and one- |! half tablespoontuls - ounds 'dark brown sugar, three oaves stale bread centers, one und candied cherries, one pound nglish walnuts, one-half pound-al- mongds, one-half pound suet, chop* ped, eight eggs. Roll the chopped suet, almonds, walnuts, and cher- ries, cut in halves, the raisins and currants, and the sliced citron, le- mon and orange peel in flour. Shake the loose flour from them and add the bread centres broken in small pieces, or better if grated; the su- gar and allspice. Stir until all are thoroughly mixed: Beat eggs slight- nd add to above mixture. enough flour and water to make a good paste, or enough to make the pudding hold together firmly. Put Jidding into strong square of un- leached muslin, pull corners of muslin to center 50 as to form a ball and tie tightly with strong cord. Fill large kettle with 'water, and when wubar is boiling rapidly drop in the pudding. Boil four hours. >atee must constantly be boiling all o cover the top of pudding. : This pud- ding can madé two or three weeks before Christmas, as age -im- proves it. allspice, four > tomatoes: put through meat er, cover with water and boil One-half peck of apples $ od fine ; one pound of raisin, one 'pound of currants, oné-half - pound of heel siiet chopped + : : pounds: of one teaspoonful "cloves, einnamon, Mix all ingredients les' are soft. Be- : a wine glass of . brandy to edch pie. 'Mincemeat.~ Two" pounds lean |. beef, one-half pound suet, two and ne-ba mk 1 $ If po pples, one ; One po until crisp. For the syrup take one cup granulated sugdr, one- water, pinch sods, pinch salt, one tablespoon vinegar, one tablespoon butter, three tablespoons corh syrup and boil wuptil it spins threads. Then mix with wheat and press in- to shallow pans. Cut into squares whencaol: en ia ---------- STALE TOBACCO ODOR. There is no odor more disagree- able to some people than that of stale tobacco smoke and tobaccd ashes. Sometimes a room becomes Ro permeated with 'it that it be- comes hardly possible for delicate persons: to breathe in it. There" is a remedy suggested by an Eng- lish woman who suffered and"over- came : : Close the room up well overnight, with doors and 'windows tightly shut, and 'leave in it a large pail full of water, with a few wisps of straw. For some teason the water and the straw together absorb the smoke and even. take up the odo: of 'ashes. 'Needless to say; all dis- coverable ashes should previously have 'been . removed and thrown away." THE LAUNDRY. Heavy - Articles. Make enough warm---not hot--spapsuds to cover what you want to wash. ' Take your washboard, lay part of the article flat" on it, and scrub 'with your scrubbing brush until all is scrub- bed. When all is clea; several clean waters. but lift out of water on' will be more than pleased with this easy. way. To Wash Blankets, --All that is ter and soap without resin: in it, Resin hardens the fibres of wool and n, 'rinse' in till harvest-tide the of 'the wonderful 'crop is : who was following out a thes. year old : Hussian i wh planting' experiment. & It will be reembered that < eral:Levitsky, the author § periment, sowed a single grain of wheat in a conical pit t- een inches deep, "AS the grain be zap to sptout above the surface of: the thin layer of oil placed over av in: the bottom of the pit, it was sarthed over. The next ..me itap- peared 'there were several shoots, and the whole were covered again. Thence, 'till' the pit was filled up, the eatthing over pr peated every time the peared, the shoots ha while multiplied ill the ed the whole breadth of the top of "the hole... One grain of whent treated in this; way by General Levitsky produced neatly 20,000 shoots; and necessarily increased its = product- iveness in an amazing manner. . Mrs. Gentry dug out a conical pit of 'the requisite measurement in' a corner - her: garden. Thére was only" half an inch of soil between the grain of - wheat which she placed 'in, the bottom of the pit-and the sub-soil of gravel, $8 4 : ne. som ¥ March, 1900, and the grain "was just covered with earth, . The next time, about hres Frocks Ta- ter, the grain appeared there were halt a dozen shoots: From then and a gress of wheat 'clothed the whole of the yard-wide circle; on During the ensuing winter the four hours and thoroughly necessary is abundance of soft wa-| Dibisture crop of wheat, should never be used in washing any: 20 kind of flannel goods. Blankets treated as above will always come out soft and clean. A little bluing may be used in washing white blan- kets. They. should be: shaken and snapped until almost dry ; it; will require two persons to handle thei. Woollen shawls and all woollen ar- ticles, especially" men's' wear, are| the much" improved by 1g pre with a hot rom under damp r ulin: pot JA el a. Ari : La Pont during 8 soreness without . 'a ar Eighty-five Stalks of w ing [37ain 'was. covered over over; Po not Wong again; until the pit was leveled up nearly three thousand grains is| close 'of the. padsover "th urally turn back to their ii 6% were to make Jerusal secure place for them to 1 they 'were to be sea when they had 'returned haunts, they would find had "gotten there ahead 33. But Peter--In his. self-reliant way answerin ff 'He aterst 'of thé promised tion and 'meeting in Galilee. impetuousness leads him to contr: dict his Master, to assume a iority to all 'his' mrades, and to claim for himself 'an' invicible self- sufficiency. © : : irs hus, intro ing his ion le strong ly unto thee, is equally emphatic. reiterates that on that v Peter will gh eXpression agree that there are to. be three denials, although there it} g some confusion #8 to just the form | in which Jesus made this declara- tion to: Peter. ar : of those to be-of- | Ireland: fo