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ink drawing by "article of last ing their work. ~ By MRS. MELVILLE GILSON, Sonya. Farm women above all classes néed easy methods for their work; yet it sometimes seems as if city women score one ahead in this respect. It was city women who first seize upon the advantage of salads, wholesome and so easily made; and now it is the city women who are finding out the blissful- | ness of easy desserts, especially in hot weather. Plum puddings are all very well in winter time, when one can make a {number of them with practically the sie trouble, and keep them hanging in 4 cool place all ready for use. Itis no trouble to make steamed puddings | when one has a fire on. : heh In many homes of late the quantities of fruit used for. summer desserts are quite striking, And really, What can be more dclicious or more whole- some than raw fruit served" with cream and sugar, and brown or nut bread! and butter? Pineapples; ranges; bananas, strawberrics, cherries, ripe irs) ants, raspberries, thimbleberries, peeled plums and peaches, musk melons and pears ctit info pieces--there is something, you ean see, for almost every month in the yea irse; one wants 4 change once in a while, buf there isstill no need : s ings. Stewed fruits often, come iri very nicely For instance; stewed figs served with cream "or whipped cream, wholesome and easy to setve; and a splendid laxative. Stewed prunes cut fine, and mixed-with stewed rhubarb are also good. ~I might mention a few desserts. Bananas and dates. Wash the dates, 'soak until soft, thén drain, remove the stones; and cut into bits with the | Tsessors, add some sliced bananas and serve with cream and sugar. il Trifle... Put layers of stale cake and fruit (raw or canned) and nuts into I] 2 glass dish. Pour over all a thin chilled custard, The custard may easily be made of one pint of milk, one egg, teaspoonful of corn starch, and vanilla = 4 favoring. = Stir over the fire until creamy Finally cover the trifle with a | , meringue of the whites of eggs beaten with a tablespoonful of sugar, If pre- ferred whipped cream, flavored with juice of lemon, may be used instead "of the egg meringue. | Banana Foam. Mash bananas and mix with the whites of three eggs beaten stiff. Use yolks for a boiled custard to pour. over. The delight of a.summer meal is a cooling vegetable. It stimulates the the appetite; © gives zest' to the warm food, and cools the mouth "without later imparing the digestion, as is so often the case with frozen fare and cold dessert, instead of a hot dinner. The family will be grateful for the change, and you yourself, provided you aré the the housekeeper, will be spared needless work and discomfort. | i WILLIAM TAYLOR ~~ INJURED Wm Taylor, a young Englishman wha is working for Mr. Wm. Graham Scugog Island, was seriously injur- day afternoon. He was "+. Occasionally during: the hottest weather try serving cold meat, a salad, ! i Letters from a Self- Made Farmer to His Son Bobcaygeon, Ontario, July 24, 1912 To Mr. James Tompkins, Port Perry, Ontario. Dear Jim-- Your Cousin Phil's youngsters came in from school the other day: they was all het up with excitement. Jeanie had passed her exams and Will had failed. And such a time as they had around that house of theirn. Phil, he scolded the boy, and told him he reckoned it wasnt no use spending money 4 trying to give a youngster hike him a schooling, about all he'd ever be fit for "ud be to hoe the turnips and drive a team. Jeanie, she was a planning what she'd do when she went to High School, and what she'd wear. The whole house was all sixes and sevens, and 1 went out into the orchard to figure out just what this education business means to a lot of us anyway. I've been visiting Phil nigh onto a month now, and I ain't never seen him studying nothing but the papers. He don't seem to be no hand to help the youngsters with their lessons: and I reckon that if he'd been the one to try them exams instead of his boy, there would have been a mighty poor showing in marks. ; How on earth Phil expects his boy to be a success at school I don't know. He don't know what the boy is studying, and what's more, he aint a mite interested. All he knows is that the law says that children of certain ages must go to school, and that when they pass exams, they are a bit nearer the time when the law hasn't no hold on them. : And there's another thing that ain't just pleasant to see-- Jeanie knows she knows 'more than her did, (and, by the way, I reckon that there's some lines she knows more about than I does myself.) Now it's dead certain sure that when a youngster gets to know she knows more than her folks, it ain't going to be more than a month of Sundays before she'll be ashamed of them same folks. Education was a' mighty uncommon article in my young days. It was served out--three R's on the end of a birch gad, and we had lots of work to keep our bodies in fettle while our minds was wrastling with our book larning. ! i ' Boys and girls had oughter be proud of their fathers and mothers and if they be proud of them they're going: to try to be. like them- That's all right, but there's a fly in the jam when the old folks is all run to work and weather and gos:1p and grumbling. Parents had 'ought to be to their children what a feed of oats js to a colt. They ought to make them feel good, and willing to pull. H they wants their children to be scholars, they've got to do a bit of studying themselves. If they don't care what becomes of them. so long as they earns their keep, then there ain't no need to do nothing, I ain't saying that grown folks had oughter study everything their children is studying. But they ought to {get the habit," they oughter keep in sight of the rurning. It seems to me 1f I was Phil, I'd want to know what road my boys and girls was tiavelling. If they was leaving me behind in the race I'd be for trying to get down to a steady jog trot, and take a bite of the feed that puts ginger into them. "Fhe 'chief thing that causes the split between parents and children is that the parents quit studying as soon as they quit school, and don't never take no notion of starting again. RL Phil has let his brains grow rusty fof want of someting 'to do, bathe expects Will 10 BEAR SMA a8 8 steel trap. Away down in bis boots he's proud of Jeanie, and that tickles ber vanity; but' she ain't none t00 proud of tiér dad, and I can see trouble ahead for Phil when old,