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EF iraTer in glasses topped with whipped Ze cream. spose phil N pv; pe L 3 J . quarter of "cuptat sach of 'cold: i= | spots from any Zi Worth Knowing. Camphor will remove fresh peach stains from linen, © Borax will remove leather stains | on white s ! When frying liver, if each piece is JUSt | dipped in milk, then into flour, it . kind without injuring it. Apply a little of the oil with a clean piece of fla | and rub the material gently until the stains disappear, To prevent cakes from burning put {two or three ~ the tempera juices in the outer surface are co- underneath the tin. white. of id y a pinch of salt should be added. Salt cools and 'causes them to froth rapidly. To boil meat for serving, put it in 'boiling water, allow the water to boil for a few minutes, then lower ture; by this A means agulated ard the inner juices are prevented from escaping. It is a good idea to have an * {Journal Patterns shown above, it is Big Guns - | uses up 200 pounds of guncotton every nnel | firing of a field gun 160 times. ethod of 'moving the bucket when SMART, YET SIMPLE, LINEN FROCKS. =~: «ii Always practical and comfortable-- yet smart--are 'summer frocks of linen. With the advent of full skirts linen has become more popular than ever, and when applied to simple dresses, such as the Ladies' Home Sestined 'to remain a favorite. Such dresses are not only easily made, they launder readily and well. © Pattern No. 8980 is a Misses' dress, having high neck with standing collar or low neck with roll collar, full-length sleeves in either of two styles and a five-gored skirt with slightly raised waistline, = The pattern cuts in sizes 8934 (14, 16, 18 and 20 years, requiring in {size 18, 6% yards 86-inch material. Pattern No, 8934 is also a Misses' dress, consisting of a shirt-waist and skirt. The waist opens in front and has pointed collar and full-length or shorter sleeves. The front of waist is pleated to the back, which extends over shoulder in yoke effect. The' four-gored skirt has slightly raised waistline, The pattern cuts in sizes 44, 16, 18 and 20 and requires in size 118, 5% yards 86-inch material with 6% yards 86-inch contrasting goods. Patterns, 15 cents each, can be pur- 'chased at your local Ladies' Home Journal Pattern dealer, or from The Home «Pattern Company, 183-A, 'George Street, Toronto, Ontario, WHY EUROPE NEEDS COTTON. .Consume Ten or Twelve Bales in a Minute. There is no bullet or shell propelled in modern warfare unless there is a supply of cotton for the explosive which sends it from the gun, says Pearson's Weekly. . It is the big guns that eat up gun- cotton. For instance, a 12-inch gun time it is fired. That is as much as is employed in the firing of 42,000 shots from the ordinary rifle. It is equal to the amount that would be used in the Guricotton is @lso burned at a great rate in any conflict between battle- ships. A single battleship can use from 5,000 to 6,000 pounds a minute, or from 10 to 12 bales of cotton a minute, in firing all its guns. In fact, it has been calculated during the war that every innocent shipload of American cotton the Atlantic to Germany is the cause of killing or wounding 500 of our men. i 'Another estimate shows that every 100 yards of trenches require for their defense 26,000 rounds of small arms ammunition. Now, assume that the lines of trenches along both : fronts at the present war in the East and West should cover 500 or 600 miles. For their defense a daily expenditure of 200,000,000 cartridges would be re- quired. That is equivalent to '340 tons of guncotton. x / This guncotton has entered so thor- oughly ammunition of all nations that it is difficult to realize that the compound was. only discovered in Swiss v itt ohoheln. 'it ow co mixture of nitric and sul-- He then it washed A Lesson for the Steward. "King Frederick William III of Prus- gia was a man of few words; what- - {éver he had to say was always brief and to the point, as the following anecdote from a foreign journal shows: The king, who was accustomed to interest himself in all the details of 'dotrt management, ordered his stew- ard to take special pains to see that all the carriages and waggons were amply supplied with food and drink whenever they left for a journey of a day or so; but it sometimes happened that the steward failed in his duty and "dispatched the drivers without any food, giving them a coin, perhaps, to. buy what they wanted. Tha usually meant that the driver went hungry, as he did not have much op- portunity to leave his horses and dine at a shop or restaurant. At length the king became aware of the steward"s failure to carry out his orders, and awaited the next op- portunity to bring the fact to his at- tention. He had not long to wait. That night the king stopped his coachman- as he entered the' court- yard, and upon inquiry, found that the man had had nothing to eat since breakfast. He held out a dollar in his hand that the steward had given him to buy food with. Without a word the king took the dollar. He went into the castle and sum- moned the steward. That worthy ap- peared immediately and made a pro- found bow; but as he raised himself up, he was surprised to feel a_coin placed against his mouth. "Eat it!" ordered the king. "But, your Majecty, I--" + "Eat it!" the king again roared. "Why, Your Majesty, I can't eat ite: : "Oh, you can't? "But you expected the coachman to! = Well, in the fu- ture just remember that--the people eat food, not money, Do you under- stand?" . ste understood; in the fu- ture the king's coachmen were amply supplied with provisions® whenever they: w 7ent upon a journey. " ; CANDY RELIEVES FATIGUE. but this view appears to err on the optimistic side, and if we neglect it and: assume that 18 months of war is a" practical possibility, then the Ger- man navy is likely to prove a much more powerful argument than it is at present. Early in the war the superior value of the battle cruiser was emphstical- ly demonstrated, and if the big ship facilities of the German yards were concentrated on rushing out this class of ship the squadron would be imme- diately strengthened. Firms such as the Germania at Kiel, Blohm and Voss and the Vulcan Company at Hamburg, and the Schichau yard at: Dantzic, could probably between them complete seven or eight battle cruis- ers by the end of next spring, when the Germans would have available something like 20 dreadnoughts and 156 battle cruisers. The above figures 'can only, of course, be quite general, but they serve to indicate that if the final sea battle be postponed till next year the tussle is likely to assume propor- tions hitherto undreamed of, and far beyond the general imagination. En ea Saving Their Honor. Your true diplomatist is nothing if not. touchy concerning his own dignity and that of the nation that he repre- gents. The lengths to which they have carried their sensitiveness in the past is shown by an amusing episode that occurred when the Peace of Kar- lowitz was negotiated in 1690. The war between Austria and Tur- key, which led to the siege of Vienna by the Turks, had just been brought to an end by the Battle of Zenta, in which Austria was victorious. Prince Eugene at once gathered the diplo- mats at Karlowitz in Croatia to dic- tate the terms of peace; but for weeks the congress made no progress because the representatives could not agree as to their proper positions in the council hall. That the represen- tative of Emperor Leopold should have the seat of honor was taken for granted; but the other parties to the congress, the Turks, Russians, Eng- lish, Dutch, Poles, Venetians, all clamored for the next highest seat. Finally the situation became so cri- tical that it was feared that the peace would never be negotiated; so drastic measures had to be taken. As the diplomats could not be coerced, Eu- gene immediately employed a number of workmen and had them build a new council chamber. It was a round building, with -a special entrance built for each representative. In the middle was a circular table surround- ed by chairs all the same size and finish, The diplomats now came wil- lingly to their private entrances, and at the sound of a trumpet they en- tered, each standing beside his ap- pointed seat.. At a given sign they all sat down, and everyone's pride was satisfied, Thus at length, says Das Buch fur Alle, was the Peace of Karlowitz signed, after several weeks' delay be- cause of the foolish caprices of the diplomats, - 2 THOUGHTS. FOR THE DAY. He that lives in personal suspicion lives the life of a sentinel never re- lieved.--Young. 2 A prudent man won't swallow a po- tato-bug and then take Paris green To be nay. must know 1 to Kill 1| how to derive some benefit from every o| incident in-one's fate~La Rochefou: | above that of the elders. younger men were the privy counsel ors of \Rehoboam, just as the elders were the privy councilors of Solo- mon. Rehoboam, doubtless, asked the advice of the elders in deference to the regard of the people for the wis- dom of his father Solomon, and in'the hope that they would agree with him, 11. Whips . . . scorpions--In despotic countries scourging men to induce obedience is not OWI There is, however, no record of Solo: mon ever having chastised his people in this way. Just as "my little fiinger is thicker than my father's lions" is metaphorical, so is the ex- pression of chastisement with whips and scorpions, Some define "scor- pions" as "whips having laden balls at: the ends of their lashes with hooks projecting from them." The Ro- mans had such a whip or rod. Per- haps one was used on Paul (see Cor. : 11. 25). Others suppose the term to refer to the thorny stem of the egg plant, which, when used as a whip, leaves an irritating wound. = These figares of speech. are sufficient to show what kind of a burden Reho- boam's young friends advised him to place upon his people. Their advice suited Rehoboam's haughty spirit, and he was not long in deciding upon his course of action. III. He Adds to the Yoke of the Peo- ple (Verses 12-16). 16. What portion have we in David ~--David had been able to unite the tribes of Israel. Rehoboam's conduct brought about a division. These words of the people, which express their intention to revolt, are very like the words of Sheba, the son of Bich- ri, who carried on the revolt against David after Solomon's death, and are a clear indication of the spark of tri- bal jealousy which had never been put out. To your tents, O Israel--A rallying cry (see also 2 Sam. 20.1). The wordy literally mean, "Go to your homes and prepare to protect your- selves. We shall have to fight for our rights." ™ See to thine own house--The tribe of Judah was now all that was left Rehoboam. He must look to it for support. --g A VERY HUMAN KING. How Victor Emmanuel Cheers His Soldiers. An Alpino on patrol duty met King Victor, who, hearing firing at the top of a mountain, asked him to accom- pany him thither, says Reuter's cor- respondent at Udine. His Majesty climbed like a chamois and asked questions constantly. When the King and the soldier reached the top of the mountain they examined the positions through - glasses while bullets came nearer and nearer; but Victor Emmanuel was as calm as at a theatre. The King shar- ed his own luncheon with the Alpino, Seeing an elderly soldier silent and sad, the King asked the reason. The soldier replied that one of his children was ill and he had received no news. The King said he himself for a whole week had received no let from home, adding, "I am also a fa<' ther." His Majesty ordered an in- quiry about the child. a A Bersagliere borne on an ambu- lance with his leg almost severed, pointed to it, saying, "For you, your Majesty. Victor Emmanuel! saluted and re s | plied, "No, my son; for Italy!" ; o |