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Recipes and Other Valuable Information of Particular Imccrest to Women Folks DAINTY DISHES. Lemon flavoring that will keep a long time, can be made as follows: Grate off the yellow rind of a le- mon, squeezing on this the strained juice,and then adding as much su- gar as the juice will absorb. Cover tightly in small jars. Baking Powder Biscuits.---The old method of making powder biscuits was the minute they were cut and in the pan to pop them in the oven. Try letting them rise from fifteen to twenty minutes before baking, and notice the difference in size, lightness, and taste. Gingerbread.--One cupful of light brown sugar, one cupful of molasses, three-fourths of a cupful of butter, three eggs, one cupful of wour cream, one-half teaspoonful of roda, one heaping teaspoonful of giner, one teaspoonful of cinna- mon, one teaspounful of cloves, and three cupfuls of flour, Scalloped Potatoes.--You will find this a very nice way of cooking potatoes, which are not quite good tnough to serve plainly boiled. Put » layer of sliced uncooked potatoes in a baking-tin with salt and pep per and a very light dusting of flour. Fill the tin in this order, and then pour in sufficient skim- milk to moisten thoroughly. Bake in a rather quick oven until the potatoes are cooked. Stuffed breast of mutton is a very good dish. Get the butcher lo remove the bones. Lay the meat flat on a board and cover it with v savory stuffing of breadcrumbs, sweet herbs, parsley, and chopped mutton suet. Season all highly and moisten with a little milk. Put » good thick layer of this over the meat, roll it carefully, and sew the edges. Then roast slowly till done. Komla (Norwegian dish).--Grate five raw potatoes and one bui'ed one, add one teaspoonful salt, one cupful flour; mix well. Drop from spoon into boiling water in which you have a small piece of salt pork or corned beef, boil about three- guarters of an hour. A few pieces of carrot or yellow turnip may be boiled in with the dumplings. Fry bacon or salt pork until crisp, slice thin four ovions, fry in fat until brown and serve with the komla. Baked Currant Pudding.-- Pick, wash, and dry a quarter of a pound of currants and chop finely a small piece of candied peel. Shred a quarter of a pound of suet and work it into three-quar- ters of a pound of fleur, add a tea- spoonful of baking-powder. Make all into a batter that will just pour with one egg beaten in a ittle milk. Pour int» a greased piedish, and bake in a steady oven for one hour and a quarter. Hand sugar with this, as there should be none cooked in it. Devonshire Pudding.--Wash and boil half a pound of rice in water till tender, then set aside till cool. When cold, sprinkle flour lightly with it, add a quarter of a pound of chopped suet, four ounces of washed currants, half a pound of self-raising flour, one egg, four sunces of sugar, half a teaspooan- ful of spice, and, if you can spare it, a little candied peel. The rice must cool before being used. Bake in a piedish in a slow oven for two hours. Stew of Meat and Haricot Beans. --For this. with care, the remains of the breast of mutton may prove sufficient, or a little more meat may have to be purchased. Cut the meat into small pieces and fry them lightly with an onion sliced, dredge all thickly with flour, and stir till browned, then add suffici- ent stock or water to cover, and let all stew gently for at least an hour. The haricot beans, which must vary in quantity to vour re- quirements, should be soaked over night, put on in cold water, brought to the boil, and cooked for s#bhree hours withoit salt. When nearly done add salt, cook for a little while, and drain thorough- .. Place a dish iff a circle, place | fe stewed meat in the centre, and on estamed Suan willbrel- 0 it in good order is not Dotaaccd 'How often have our 'and hats been saved by an , when . we have n part is not at all indigestible. n |. in a sudden downpour with Tr ear? A we 7 . When put away the umbrella should be left unrolled, for if it is constantly kept in a tight roll the creases are apt rapidly to wear through. One's best silk umbrella should never put in the stand where the common property ones are kept as anyone coming 'in in a hurry and placing stick or um- brella in the same place is very liable unintentionally to poke a hole right through, and no amount of darning or covering the place with blackcourt plaster will ever restore the umbrella to its original beauty. THE SEWING ROOM. Putting in Sleeves.--When put- ting in sleeves put the under arm seam of the sleeve just the length of your second finger ahead of the | underarm seam of the waist. I. find this an easy way and they are always sure to be in correctly. Turning up Hem in Skirt.--Have the person for whom skirt is in-| tended put it on. Then take a yard: stick, put the end of it on the floor, and have the person turn slowly aroundwhile you mark it with tai- lor's chalk every little ways the! number of inches it is desired from | the floor. If two inches, mark it all the way around two inches up! on the yard-stick. Sew on the braid and turn up hem. I find that if al basting - thread is put in around where it has been chalked, it helps a great deal, as the chalk is li- able to get rubbed off and is not as plainly seen as a thread. This is a good way and is easily and quickly done. | HOME HINTS. When peeling apples pour boil- ing water over them, and the pro- cess will be more easily carried out. Tan boots will not easily stain if they are well polished several times before being wornfor the first time. Squeaking Boots--Prick the soles of the boots so as to let out the air from between the soles. This is the cause of the trouble. Carrots should be scrubbed and scraped, not peeled, for the nour- ishment lies in the red pulp. This [Sunlight and air are the finest dispellers of disease. They should, therefore, be freely admitted to every house. To clarify fat after frying, throw into the fat a few slices of raw po- tato and cook to a golden color. This will purify the fat wonderful- 1 - y. When beating white of egg be sure that the plate is perfectly dry. If the process is carried out in the open air it will be very quickly accomplished. An undefinable smell of cooking can generally be traced to a dirty oven. Wash the oven thoroughly with soda and hot water and the smell will vanish. To Color Kitchen Walls. -- Dis- solve some permanganate of pot- ash in water, and add sufficient of this solution to the whitewash to make it the color your. require. To cleanse a frying-pan in which fish or onions have been cooked, fill it with water, and bring it to the boil, then drop in a red-hot cinder. Afterwards rinse in the usual way. Black leather bags will be much improved if polished occasionally with a good boot: cream. This cream nourishes the leather and prevents it drifting and cracking, as is so foten the case with bags, especially those not constantly in Darning Hint.--After . finishing darned places with a flat object, for instance, the end of the darn< ing spool. Then the darned is nice and comfort or irritation to tender} et. SL pops Use for Old Stockings.--Exce lent dust cloths can be made splitting 'and sewing together the' ton hoce. Place these dust cloths in an airtight pail with a fow drops leave stand twenty-four Then all dust can be gathe easily without the Urs. anyw even in its legend -- | Los Angeles Times, no use. + pl plaintive 'La Golondrini" or pos- |i darning a stocking, beat down thet ll bly the latest. importation. from, aps § ooth, causing no dis: upper halves of old silk or fine cot-1" : The little village of Pannco de® Coronado, in an of re the represents an average I one that can be du i the Dortheru two- country. , typical --all mining towns here have the same. Once upon a time its mines yielded so much rich ore that the owner could ave with silver the street rom his house to the church on the occasion of his daughter's mar- riage. Panuco, like all Mexican villages, is a transplanted bit of the Orient. There is the same low, adobe house with flat' roof and no chimney and usually no window. Women carry tae same jars of water on their heads and men clad in loose white cotton trudge lazily behind their little burros or more likely add their, weight to the already over- burdened animals. The glaring sun beats down from a tropical sky on the same palm and cactus, and a general air of emptiness and sil- ence pervades the streets. . The universal building 'material is adobe, which is faced with plas- ter only in the better houses. These are always built in the form of a hollow square--the rooms opeming into the patio in the céntre. ~The more pretentious homes haye win- dows, barred on the outside be- cause the houses are built snug vil re in thirds of the | up to the street, which gives them the appearance of cells in a prison. There is no patch of green or anything bright to relieve the uni- form dust brown color of house and street, writes Jessie Fawler in the spear of grass is in sight, and all the flowers are kept in the patio. The particu- lar village can boast of two trees, one cottonwood on the outskirts and one pepper berry. To enter one of these huts is to step in on a mud floor, rarely a brick one, to see a few earthern bowls and saucers in one corner, a little pile of charred ashes in an- other, and a rude altar made of a couple of packing boxes, decorated with a few gaudy bits of tinsel and scraps of ribbon and empty beer bottles with withered flowers, an offering to the virgin of Guadaloupe who looks down from the walls. Chairs, bed and table are luxuries not commonly found. Mexican wo- men are fond of flowers and the patios are bright with blossoms throughout the year. One traveller describes a Mexi- can village as "sun, silence and adobe," and this is one's first and last impression. Whatever life is, is around the plaza: for away from here one sees only an occasional water carrier or a peon closely wrapped in his serape squatting on the ground in the sun. Pigs and dogs are everywhere. They come from every open doorway and fol- low us, yelping and barking. 'A dozen dogs are not too many for an average family. And the pigs--they sleep in the middle of the street, and not until our horses' feet are almost on them do they grunt and lazily move a step to the right. But in the evening all is changed and the place is full of life and stir. Everybody comes out to enjoy the music and to stroll around and around the plaza. Men and women do not walk together unless mar- ried or engaged, but the men walk three or four abreast on the inside of the promenade and the women on the outside in the opposite dir- ection. Through the open doors of the pulque shops may be seen groups "of men - drinking- the nau-| seous beverage. - These shops, as well as all the stores, 'are not known by the names of their owners, but by some such fanciful name as 'Flowers of the May," "Afternoons.in April" and "The Surprise."" No vil is too small to have its band, a good one too, that plays at the plaza one or two evenings a week throughout the year. The natives are very musical and one hears everywhere the tinkle of the guitar or mandolin ing some native air, like the ying of kerosene sprinkled on them and" transm 'the infection to a min- -- San) meters of cloth, : No wrapping is used, but every- thing, lard excepted, is dumped in- to this cloth; Orackers-he takes either inside his hat or on the out: side. He never looks at the qual- ity or asks the case of Hobson's choice, no object with these . it is almost night before the last one goes away. The fiesta of Santa Cruz, the day of the holy cross, is the miner's dav of the year, when all the mines throughout the country stop work. Crosses are placed on all unfinish- ed buildings as well as a huge one in the plaza, and are decorated with flowers, bits of ribbon and glass, while around the main cross are placed palmillas with their five feet stocks" of . beautiful flowers. There is incessant firing of guns throughout the day and the cele- bration ends with music and danc, ing in the evening. : em aprerntpeeti HYGIENIC AUSTRALIA. Health Conditions There Said to Be the Best in the World. Health conditions 'in Australia are better than in any other coun- try of the globe if the low death rate of 10.95 a thousand a year may be accepted as an index, says the Medical Record. The death rate from tulercalosis has steadily been declining during the last twenty-five years and now is less than 9 per cent, of the tial deaths, which is a lower percent- age than -any published by any other country which compiles its statistics in an equally accurate manner. In New South Wales the notific-, ation of cases of pulmonary and throat tuberculosis has been com- pulsory for over ten years. = The walls and ceilings of houses in which cases occur are sprayed with a golution of formalin and the floors are washed with a solution of cor- rosive sublimate. The effectiveness of the education. al campaign is shown by the fact that open air sleeping is more gen- eral than in any other country. There is scarcely a dwelling house constructed nowadays in Australia even a laborer's cottage, which is not pfovided witha suitable veran- dah for outdoor sleeping. There is very little expectorating on the sidewalks or other public places. Ordinances to prevent the con- tamination of milk and other food- stuffs are well observed. In shops where fresh meat is offered for sale it is customary to find sheets of water running over the front windows and walls for the purpose of catching dust. All large cities, like Sidney, Melbourne, Adelaide and others have tuberculosis-sana- torium and also & large number of beds for chronic cases. The Green- vale Sanatorium, near Melbourne, will. compare favorably with simil- ar institutions in Europe and Am- erica. rticularly open cases of tubercu- osis. In New South Wales, Vie- toria and South Australia it is es- 'timated that at least Cp per cent. of these cases have been placed in hospitals and a good proportion of the remainder under supervision. The health officials believe that on- ly a few years will elapse before every case of pulmonary and throat | tuberculosis will be under such con- danger of o ER BARE price, for it is af po = Gratilying ing. progress has : been} made in isolating chronic and more ere M xplain that, there is 4 rea- 0. 4 i . mechanical. herwaist it is - because; like her mother-in-law, Queen Victoria; like the late Empress of Austria, and Quéen Christina, ¥ Spain 3 ; a species of mechanical contriv- ances fixed to the seat and back cushions of her carriages, which en- ables her to bow continuously from the, waist, without any exertion or fatigue, while the carriage is in motion. It is something in the nature of the sliding: seats used in rowing. Queen Mary. declines to make use of this contrivance, 'on the plea that it disposes her to seasicknédss, a malady by which she is extremelv-prone; and it is be- cause without this contrivance 'she would be overcome by fatigue if compelled to bow continuously from the waist, that she merely contents hérself with an inclination of the head, which she endeavors to make as gracious as possible, but which is less suggestive of old-fashioned courtesy than a ' BOW FROM THE WAIST. This matter of bowing in re- sponse to the salutations of the public is a 'perpetual source of dif- ferenes, and even disputes; among the members of royal and imper- ial families, and has created nol end of bad blood amongst them. According fo the rules of etiquette, it is only the lady of highest rank in the carriage or party who is per- mitted to respond to the saluta- tions of bowing, and when, for in- stance, during the late reign the then Princess of Wales was driving with 'her mother-in-law, Queen Alexandra, the former was pre- cluded from acknowledging any sa- lute, even on the part of her per- sonal intimates. The Countess of Flanders, mother of King Albert of Belgium, in the days when her sister-in-law, the late Queen Hen- riettd of the" Belgians, was 'still alive, 'absolutely refused to drive! anywhere with tle latter, on the ground that it was injurious to her dignity debe upable. to return salutations "addressetl to her per- sonally. ] sare - The-most distinguished courtesy paid by old Emperor Francis Jo- seph to his royal guests, when driv: ing ther ack to the railroad sta-] tion at Viena, is when he abso- lutely declines to acknowledge any of the salutes of the people lining the street, leaving that entirely to his visitor, so as to convey to the latter the impression that the po- pular homage is addressed to him, the guest, and not to himself, the Emperor. -- 'BIRD SONGS: DIFFER. mes Gives Quite a Musical Sound. Some people cannot see any dif- ference at first between the songs of the robin and the wood thrush, but to the initiated they have no- thing in common. Beginners usually see little dif- ference between the songs of the Baltimore oriole, the robin,. the | ola and the roses scarlet tan breasted roabek ary or hs : this, which may be de- [tl en Alexandra bows from |i has | written, not by mgin portion of Deute later time, and was made up materials of an earlier date. 16, Shaphan carried the hoo e king--A comparison h Kes 29. '9 shows that this men- tion «of the book should not been made, at thie poi troduction here, ip: narration "in 'verse 18," makes awkward statement. att scribe actually did 'was, first of all; tion of his work iu connection with the-repair of the temple, which had been intrusted to the care of the Levites. Aer 18. Read therein--The writer res cognizes the repair of the temple, which had been intire Pentateuch' tothe king, and so says he read only portions of it. "Admitting that that was read, the statement in 2 Kings that "Shaphan read it" is at once credible and natural. 19. He rent his clothes--The de: nunciation and cures found in Deut. 28 would be apt to move the king deeply as he thought of his Jehovah. 20. , Ahikam--Spoken of by Jere- miah (26. 24) as a worthy courtier; who defended the prophet on a-eri- Gedaliah, who governed the cities of Judah after the fall of Jerusa lem. : The king's servant--Some speciax 'office of whose natnre we Are not certain. 4 21. Go . . . for great is the wrath of Jehovah--The king 'was fearful of the threatening calamity which the reading of the law led him to expect. , J 29, Huldsh the prophetess--The t6Tm was applied to several womer in Old Testament--Miriam, De- borah, the wife of Isaiah, Noadiah" (Neh: 6: 14). H must have: been a woman of 'acknowledged re-: 'pute as a prophetess, inasmuch as the messengers of the king sought her out at once, when directed to "inquire of Jehovah," We have no: further information. concerning her than what is contained in 'this, | and the parallel account in 2 Kings 22. 14.20. Her husband's grand: father was keeper of the garments kept for special festive occasions at the palace. 24. All the curses--See Deut. 28 15.28. - A more terrible fate for the city and the nation could hardly be imagined: \ 28. Gathered to thy grave in 'peace~As" Josiali was 'slain in° the battle of Megidde, these words, itl taken literally, are at least a testi- mony to the genuineness of the prophecy. As a matter of fact, be. cause of his personal piety and hu- mility, the kipg was spared the agony of witnessing the evils which befe!l 'his people. : i +29. All 'the. olders--No official 88 is meant, but 'rather 'the heads of houses and clans. , © 30. All the people--It was a po- the. pular assembly, consisting of all : a and ages. } . 31. Made a covenant-- Literally 'an = expre S10 aut-a covenant," an expr to report to the king the comple. it- was the book -of Deuteronomy 'péople's neglect of the covenant of tical occasion, and the father of € i.