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Hints for Busy Housekeepers. Reelpes asd Other Valuable Information ot Particular laverest to Women Polka. DAINTY DISHES, To use up cold pork out ib into neat slices, sprinkle it with rT and salt, fry on both sides, serve with apple sauce. Potawo and Cod Salad. -- Take some oold potatoes and cut them into slices, mix these with about . #n equal quantity of cold, boiled 0od. Pour over them a thick salad mixture and serve. Marmalade Sauce. --This is very od with boiled puddings, but per- ps best of all with boiled bat- Set a gill of water and two tablespoonfuls of marmalade in a small saucepan, add a teaspoonful of brandy. Boil up and strain over Mashed Oabbage.--Boil the cab- bage until tender, drain it, and chop 'like spinack. it-a teaspoonful of butter, half a teaspoonful of vinegar, pepper and salt to taste. Return all to 'the saucepan, make it very hot, and serve with sippets of fried bread. A Good Bunday Pudding.--Take six ounces each of flour, stoned rai- sins, currants, breadorumbs, two ounces of chopped teaspoonful of mixe: with a oupful of milk and half a cupful of molases. boil for eight hours. can be made seve. al days before it Stuffed loin of veal makes a nice little roast, and i» good either hot or cold. Bone the meat and lay it skin side downwards on a board. . Cover it with slices of lean bacon or ham; chop the kidney and stew over, and then spread with a layer of highly seasoned Roll up and sew the flap. with greased paper and roast, re- moving the paper for the last half hour so that the joint will brown Make a nrce gravy, flavor ib with tarragon vinegar ,and pour round; garnish with rolls of fried bacon and slices of lemon. Try Ham Steaks.--Cut slices from a raw ham, put them in- to a frying pan with a small cupful of water, and cook slowly, turning once or twice till the water has evaporated and the steaks are Dredge lightly with flour. Have ready a sauce made by boiling a teacupful of milk, a small piece of butter, s teaspoonful of mustard, and a few grains of cay- enne. Arrange the steaks on a dish boiling sauce over them, garnishing the dish with tri- angular-shaped sippets of toast. one pint of water to boil with one Directly it reaches boiling point throw in an onion, ad two ounces ot macaroni, bro- kén into short lengths. gently for an hour, and then add some breadcrumbs, and cook for a quarter of an hour longer. Pass all through a wire sieve, return to the jnn and season to taste with white pepper, salt, and a few grains of When in the tu- rcen scatter a little chopped pars- Hand-grated Parmesan cheese can be used with this soup. Bachelor's Cake--Rub four qun- oes 'of butter and lard pound of flour, then add half a pound of currants, three ounces of chopped peel, six ounces of sugar, and half a teaspoonful of mixed Dissolve one small spoonful of carbonate of soda in a gill of tepid milk, and beat into the dry ingredients, making a stiff bat- Pour into a well-greased tin, and bake for about one hour and a half in a moderate oven. Baked Lemon Pudding.--Place three ounces of breadcrumbs or in a basin, then pour over one pint of boiling milk. Cover with a plate and set to cool. Beat the yolks of two eggs till very light with three ounces of caster Warm two ounces of but- ter and add to the other ingredi- ents with the grated rind of a large Beat all the ingredients with the soaked bread, and pour the mixture into a greased piedish. VA a powdered mace. pieces of bread lemon curd, and on the to the frothed white of egg. the pudding to the oven to brown Scatter chopped almonds . over and serve. "i HINTS FOR THE HOME: to put a pinch of " sult into every bottle of food baby ; it is most necessary for its collaréttes and muslin can without starch umy, or two INTERNATIONAL LESSON. JULY 16. 0 sri ssesseeioay fi ---- wed] | Lesson IT1,--Manasseh's wickedness soft flannel sprinkled with plaster and penitence, 2 Chron. 33. 1-20. of as. 3 Golden Text; Isa. 1. 16, 17. appearance of black bed-| ho ARE steads is greatly improved when |, Verse 1. Manasseh--The account they receive an occasional rub with | in & Kings 21, from which the first a cloth moistened with parafin. Use | ten verses of this chapter seem to a non-flufy duster for removing |have been taken, adds the name of traces of the oil. Hephzibah, the king's mother. Vaseline has quite a number of| 3. Did that which was evil -- A domestic uses. When the brasses|common formula for sins gonnect- are cleaned it is like extra work|ed with worship. In the verses to rub them over with vaseline and | which follow a catalogue' of these polish with a soft duster; but this | sins is given, 'their chief 'condem- willsave much work ultimately, as, | nation being that they were a re- after this treatment, they will not | petition of the abominations of the readily tarnish. Canaanites. * This was especially Let children understand that |true of the Baal and Asherah cults. disobedience is sure to be followed | 3. Built again the high places-- by punishment. A child seldom | Hezekiah had destroyed the coun- disobeys Nature more than onceser| try sanctuaries as seats of corrup- touching a hot lamp-glass. It will|tion (2 Kings-18. 4, 22). The ac- |soon learn to obey you as well. |count in Kings mentions altars to Never allow it to ask why. Youl|a single Baal, and "an Asherah'" kfiow ; that is enough. (evidently referring to some one In cases where it is impossible to | Baal, like the Tyrian Baal of Ahab, obtain a filter, water may be puri-|and the erection of some: single fied by adding to it powdered alum | symbolic past representing the god- in the proportion of one tablespoon |dess Astarte, The-Chronicler, on ful to four gallons of water. Stir the other hand, has in 'ind. dis- quickly and allow it to stand. All| tinct Canaanitish Baals . at each that is impure will then sink to the | place, with corresponding poles. bottom, and the pure water on the |All this was a restoration of the top may be poured off for use. practices of the house-of Ahab (2 There is danger of giving house- | Kings 10. 18, and 1 Kings 18. 31). plants too much rather than too| Worshipped all the hosts of hea- little water in winter. During the |ven--This deifying of the stars, short days and long nights, with|sun, and moon was taken over little sunshine on We soil, it is|from Assyria, and was something hard to keep the earth at a tem-|entirely new in J udah. From the perature in which the, plants can |frequent mention of this form of grow vigorously. All the surplus | worship in the pre-exilic literature water added lowers the tempera-|(Jer. 8.2; 19. 13; Zeph. 1. 5), it ie ture and retards growth. evident that it became immediate- The care of small articles of dress | ly prevalent. The flat roofs of the is quite as important as that of the | houses afforded ample opportuni- larger garments. Much can be | ties. done, for instance, towards preserv-| 4. Built altars in the house of ing the appearance of a hat if it is | Jehovah--That is, altars to Baal always kept in a box. Boot-trees|and other foreign deities. The two are a necessity to the woman who [courts (5) were the great court, or wishes to look trim in the matter |inner one, immediately surrouud- of footgear. Coat-hangers, too, are |ing the temple, and the court in- a choap but effective means of keep- | closing the palace. ing mantles, blouses, and so forth| 6. Also--Here follows a list of six neat and shapely. The occasional | practices expressly prohibited by use of a hot iron and a little care | the Deuteronomic code: (1) Made in folding will keep veils fresh and | his children pass through the fire-- new for a long time. - A veil is soon | Ahaz was the first Judaean king ruined if it is left tied around alto perform this rite, which con- hat, especially if it is damp at the | sisted in actually sacrificing' and time. burning the victims. In later years If you would have your hair nice | of the kingdom, this mode of wor- and shiny, yet not greasy and |ship was not infrequent. The sticky, do this: At night, before valley of the son of Hinnom (so you retire, comb your hair free called perhaps from some hero who from all snarls first. Then break |encamped there), was situated an cgg and separate the yolk from |gouth and southwest of Jerusalem, the white. Pour in water to al-|and was the seat of human sacrifi- most the bulk of the white. You|cial worship. Later it came to be may use toilet waier or put a few |termed "Valley of Slaughter." (2) drops of perfume into the- water, | He practiced angury--This was done * if you prefer you need not scent |by observing the motions of the it. Then beat it until the water |clouds (compare Lev. 19. 26; Judg. and egg are mixed. Separate your|g 37, etc). (3) Used enchantments hair into small strands, dip your | _Compare the story of Joseph comb into the egg, and moisten the | (Gen. 44. 5). The play of light up- hair well, then twist the strand on the liquid in a cup was regard: around until it is like a Tittle rope. |ed as an omen. Other omens are Next put a kid or whatever kind of | included. (4) Practiced sorcery -- curler you use at the end nearest |Sce articles, Sorcery and Magic; in the head, and wind the hair cuto| Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible. the curler. You need only 15 this| This was an extensive field, and in every other night. It keeps the|general signified some mode of ob- hair in curl beautifully, and if|taining help from the deity by re- there is any trace of oil it immedi- | course to magical arts. (5) and (6) ately eradicates it. This also acts| Manasseh also fostered people pos- as a tonic to the hair. Your hair|gessed of supposed nowers of di- will look naturally wavy and there | yination, and who professed to have will seem to be twice as much as|intercourse with the: spirits of the usual. dead (compare 1 Sam. 28. 7, and Acts 16. 16). Ventriloquism was -- one of the devices resorted to by these wizards (Isa. 8. 19). TO ESCAPE APPENDICITIS. 7. The graven image of the idol-- A simple way to prevent appen- |Jehovah had ordained that no name dicitis a recently described. P by | should forever be localized in the a well-known physician. Every | temple but his own, whereas this night and morning, he advised, go |act made Asherah (perhaps the fe- on your knees, bend backward un- |male deity Astarte) the presiding till 'you sit on your heels, and, at|genius of the house of God. the same time, bend the upper| 9. Manasseh seduced Judah--His part of your body forward as far as | influence for evil was stronger than ppssible. Do this six or ten times. | that of any previous king of Judah. ourmay vary the exercise by|Many years after Jeremiah atbri- standing with heels together and | buted to him the disasters which toes. poinuing straight forward, and | he prophesied should befall the na: then stooping in a sitting posture | tion. . until the knees touch the chest. Do| j10.13--The captivity, repentance, this also six or eight times slowly. [and restoration of the king. For The effect is to stir » the intes- various reasons, especially because tine in the neighborhood of the ver- | of the silence of Kings with regard miform appendix, and to keep it |, this part of the story, some Eve free from the obstruction which is} .ooayded this as a sort of allego the primary cause of appendicitis. | +7. nel in exile. or 11. The king of Assyria.--Esar- mentee eyrian inscriptions mention Manas- | WEERE GAMBLING PAID. oT as a vassal. Perhaps he had "I am afraid your husband plays | been involved in an insurgent move: cards at his' club every night for|ment against the ing, which was |' money, too !'* said the anxious mo-|aided by some' of the Palestine ther to her newly-married daugh- | states. The fetters by which he |g, ter. was dragged , Babylon were pro: | "That's all right, mother," | chee . responded the . young! wife, He gives me all his win older = document ( than our Kings. .: 19. zai--The sayings of seers. These historical data must have formed a part of the now lost |¢: records from-which the Chronicler and the author of the Kings drew. 20. In his own house--2 Kings 21. 26 says he was buried in the gar- den of Uzza; doubtless ane laid ont by Uzziah in the court of the pa- lace. * In this garden Manasseh may have constructed a bo Amon---Of his brief reign nothi is said, except that he followed in the evil ways of his father. a ae ROCKY MOUNTAIN FOREST 'fires, and make rec a8 to the protectio orsed. : Through all the territory re) on game was plentiful. mention is made of the bull, cut- throat and grey trout, among the | fish, and. among the game birds and. animals, in their: respective dis-| tricts, duck, grouse and prairie sheep and kinds of o Hig ) many kin ur-bear- . (Among the mineral resources of' the area are the coal-beds, oil-fields in tlie youth) and quarries of build- 'stone. ' | chickens, deer, the King and Queen | Who entertained them are Work Donec up te the. Present in Organizing its Administration. . Phe setting 'aside of the Rocky Mountain : forest: reserve has been | one of the most important advances yet made in the industrial history of Canada's central west, Not only is it important for the preserva- tion of the forests along the slope |. with a view to the future supply of timbe¥, but the preservation of these forests and their agement means much for: the pre; servation of the waterpowers. and the maintenance of that steady and permanent water-flow which meaus so much for their value. Moreover, the regulation of the water of these streams, so as to proyide a steady flow throughout the year aud ni' to have a torrential flow m spring and (what is of even more imppri- ance) the drying-up (complete cr partial) of the streams in summer, is of the utmost im farms of the £3 & ET ai a 2 EFFECTS OF HOT WEATHER, R Fil a a f +X amples Produc "+r romise of Prin 'is more 'than fulfilled in the reali of Queen Mary.' Buch was a phrase yesterday from one of those best uainted with the court. '"There can be no doubt that ueen has had an extremely diffic- t career. As a girl she was. the = sof her cheery brother, she" was suppressed by the overpowering geniality of he ble mother, whose volubils ity of manner was in curious cow trast to her daughter's severe self restraint. Her engagement to the two brothers had the effect of ine oreasing Queen Mary's strong na ural tendency to shyness. "Then as Princess 4 'mow universally 'admitted 'that. sh suffered socially from being , ke; in the background: when she herself was in Ireland in Greater Britain or, when the. sent Queen Mother was abroad" our Queen Consort had, i ology, 'any sort of a chance, "Yet wise folks always declar that when her time came s prove a.-temarkable wom oo estimated, her mor highly that King Edward. He m ae, no secret when she could lconque! her reserve of manner she would® set her mark on the nation. io [due hour has come, and it is Chicago suffers gr spétt, and the inhabitants resort to nds of expedients to cool themselves. One day, when the at- re was more than usually oppressive it actually provoked a dumb man to speech « Cl His name was 'Lou and he had not been known to speak for the long period of twen- e But on the day in question the heat became so intense that even the speechless could no longer keep silent about it. the amazement of the persons ldressed, he suddenly burst out with the - questiony "Is it hot On| { Quite & com- mon remark, but it sur, who "happened to hear. it. ¢ It effect which the E had on a couple of young lad- jest Douglas, in the Isle' of Man were strolling along the 'Marine Promenade, when the the i made the water so they simply walked into it justas ' : { £8 FFE a prairie provinces. Were the rivers to run short ,the resulting lack of moisture soil would seriously interfere with the quantity of wrain 'and other produce szeaped from the fertile During the whole of the past sum- mer (1910) two parties of the Do- minion Forest Service were in the field marking out the boundaries Both these parties started from Calgury; one worked south and succeeded in getting as far south as the international boun- dary, while the other, working north, reached a point almost due west of Lacombe (Alta.). the coming summer the location of the boundary will be continued, and it is expected that the entire east- ern boundary of the reserve (which extends some forty to fifty miles north of the latitude of Edmonton) will be determined. .. The..general praciple governing the fixing of the boundary of the Ireserve was [that only forest Jand |i should be included iin the reserve, 'all land fit for farming (unless in area so small that it was not worth while to make the exception) being excluded from the reserve. The al- titude, or height of the country above sea-level, was '6ne of the chief considerations in fixing the of the reserve. h indifference to their s and-span arrgy almost ; took ever, did not, trouble the. t: who splashed about and bout thezeourt are eve: rested in: the Queen; thi what. this naturally st * | the-nation the -purest.example what a goed woman should be at daughter wife and mother she if exercising a judicious effect on the 'moral tone of the court and th fore on the nation;:she does the right thing well and 'she has - the thoughtful brain that forsees and prepares for eventualities 4 "She is the perfect type of dom- One delightful 'trait to which justice has never been do in print is that the Queen is 'aw=- good to girls." 'Most augusb ies are oocupied with the elders. around them but the Queen is ine variably thoughtful for the young "'She never opens & bookexceph to read aloud to her children and she rarely glances at the social col umns of her daily newspapers; re: lying on those round to keep her~ osted in such topics. all rms of industrial de, elopment as- sociated with women, ' branch of domestic economy and charity. she evinces all her moth- - er's interest combined with a gr and breadth .pecu as at different "¢ I tion was placed onthe action of a well-dressed 'son of Erin whom. ad goaded inte plunging ames. X his plunge with his clothing on, the river watermen pulled off to the rescue. , This was more than 'the bather had bargain- ed for ; and, when he saw his would be rescuers preparing boathook, he felt it would be bet- 'ter to "take his 'hook" taken by theirs. proved impos- sible, and, to convince them that he was not on self-destruction bent he roared at the to "Can't you let a uiet swim on 'a day like this?' ut his roar was nothing to the roar of laughter which went . up from the spectators at this-unex- What was described as a "Sta, ling scene on the Terrace' was re- ported in the newspapers one hot: summer not long since. gers on boats on the Thames, pass- ing the Houses of Parliament, were treated to the unigué 'spectacle of numbers of our usually grave and. ators sitting in their It was found that the boundary fixed by the Order in Council by which the reserve was set apart was, to a considerable extent, un- It included, in the words of one of the writers, 'only alpine country, 'a large portion of which is above the trée limit and the re- unsuitable as regards timber supply for years to come. Large portions of it have been 'burned over, leaving bare, eroded 'hillsides which were formerly. cov- ered by a thin eoil and. coniferous wood growth. Much country east of the line has a ver 1hifr toil and is at a very high ait:iude and so is unfit for agricultural settlement.' Many valleys, however, were found | be quite ~ suitable for liarly. indivi ¢ THE SPEQULATOR!S HARVEST, Even as long ago #8 Queen Vi Coronation--seve years--money was plentif over $1,000,000.was p : IOS Di hn Sa indeed; were even minus' Fires have created terrib * the part from Calas no ~ |haddon, or Asurbanipal. The As- Sif i TENA ob Oh a et ah ub a W WB mam sea