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* utter. Cook about twenty'. . with cover on, then remove. IY pened the air of 'disagreeable cooking odors | cover and brown. Rien in Blueberry Betty.--Remove crust from slices of stale bread. Butter bread and alternate 'with blueberries | in pudding dish, Sprinkle each layer. of blueberries with sugar, a little nut- meg and lemon juice; Bake in covered' dish until berries are tender, remove cover and brown top, and serve either hot or cold with cream and sugar. | White Hashed Potatoes.--Bu omelet pan and put into it cold boiled potatoes chopped rather fine.! Sprinkle with salt, dot with butter and add a little stock or hot water. Cover and cook slowly until heated through. Turn out upon hot dish with-- out stirring, Dao not allow potatoes to brown, but merely to absorb stock and butter. Creamed Chicken~~One - and. .one- half cups diced, cooked chicken, two eggs, one . and one-half cups milk, three tablespoons butter, four table- spoons flour, one-half teaspoon cel- ery salt, salt and pepper. Boil eggs hard. = Melt butter, add flour and' stir | milk in slowly. = Season with salt and pepper, add eggs (cut up), diced chicken and celery salt. Serve on toast if desired. Plum Pudding.--Stew one quart plums, Remove. pits, sweeten taste, add a little grated orange peel or nutmeg and pour into well-buttered earthen pudding dish, or custard cups. Cover with spoonfuls of rich biscuit dough, soft enough to drop from spoon, or with drop batter made of one cup sweet cream or rich milk, one egg, one teaspoon baking powder and flour enough to make soft batter. Steam or bake one-half hoyr-enf@ furn out, into serving dishes, "With = fruit on top. Serro-with hard sauce. "%-FPdiry Salad--Use medium sized po- tatoes. Wash but do not peel. Scoop out soft part, and slice thin, making rings of red. Take. seeds out of green peppers and slice peppers into rings. Slice Bermuda" onions and separate into rings. Toss lightly in French dress, to give a shining coat to each ring, being careful not to break tomato rings. Serve in a glass dish, surrounded with ring of parsley. Parsley, by the way, is said to destroy the odor of onions on the breath. Brisket of Beef With Beans.--Put one quart of beans (or one pint, de- pending on size of family) to soak overnight. Drain off water and par-| boil, changing water three times, and | to the last water adding teaspoon soda. Boil slowly, until easily pierced; | put one-half into stone jar or pot, lay | on top, carefully trimmed brisket of | beef 'and follow with rest of beans. | Make a mixture of three tablespoons molasses, one teaspoon mustard, one quarter-teaspoon salt and a little cold water, enough to mix. Add Enough} hot water to make sufficient liquid to cover contents of jar, pour intoadar; cover and let cook very slowly seven' or eight hours. - Quick Brown Bread.--Two cups graham flour, two cups whole wheat flour; one and = three-quarters cups milk, one-half cup brown sugar, one' level teaspoon salt, one and one-half cups raising, three level teaspoons melted 'butter. . Mix dry ingredients thoroughly. - Add butter and milk and mix quickly." 'Add raisins, 'floured. Bake in well-greased pan in moderate oven, Forty-five minutes makes one large loaf. By substituting molasses for sugad and two 'cups sour milk and if burned on a flat tin. - : "If a mud stain I subbed with he cut, halves of & raw potatoe come out, though sponging with clear warm water to which a little alcohol | has been added may be necessary afterward. | \ It is unnecessary to spend time in ; tte Shelling peas. - Wash and place. the | - pods in boiling water. When they] crack, 'the peas go to the bottom and the pods float on the surface and are skimmed off. ' ' New agate and tin cooking uten- sils that require seasoning before use should be filled with a mixture of one teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda to a quart of scalding water, left for two hours and washed and dried as usual, ! fe in the back of a piano, by. raising top lid, will keep the wires from rus Sheets. of blotting paper slipped in ing at seashore or near wa or' when the house is closed, Let down|: the panel under the keyboard and put some in there. it If a kettle, to be used for fruit pre- servirig, has been slightly burned on the bottom, or if there is a fear of the syrup burning, put several ordin- ary china 'marbles. in the kettle and by their movement about this will be prevented. - L SMART SCHOOL DRESS. With the approach of the opening days of the fall semester, the young ladies will have to turn their atten: tion to the provision of their ward- robes with appropriate school clothes, The Ladies' Home Journal design here shown is excellent for "school use for it is simple and practical, yet very smart and up-to-date, Pattern No. 8908 has a slightly long shoulder and waist with vest effect, having roll collar and full length or shorter, sleeves. Skirt in four gores with "belt and pockets. Sizes 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 18 requires 5% yards 86- inch material, with % yard 18-inch or wider lace. Patterns, 15 cents each, can be pur- Hussars, quartered round an old teau in Flanders, have tethered their the ves of Ireland, England and Scote \ VN ! pageant in dr msiand ang more the streets that they order to allow the men to go to the front. A CURIOUS COINCIDENCE! Newsy Notes of Britain's Fighting Men In the Field. Soldiers are forbidden by, Interna- tional law 'to pretend' to be dead or wounded with the object of taking the enemy at a disadvantage. Eight companies of cyclists can carry 266,000 rounds of ammunition as against 72,000 carried by a whole cavalry division of nearly 2,600 men. The Life Guards are the only regi- ment who now retain their own medi- cal and veterinary officers and have mounted pioneers, who ride before the regiment bearing the axes, It is said that one of the newest types of British torpedo has an effec- tive range of four miles and a force sufficient to blow a hole as large as a haystack in the side of a battleship. A British army corps is approxi- mately, 88,000 men; an Austrian is about 58,000 men; while 'the strength of French, Russian and German army corps varies from 40,000 men to 56, 000 men. - An artilleryman invalided from the front relates that in one 6-inch Ger- man shell there was discovered a brass candlestick, whilst another con- tained a bicycle crank and a dGantity of broken glass. Motor-wagons used by the allies on the Continent have their hoods paint- ed in a gigantic check design of vi betide the lusty singer with a taste for fresh airl' & ee . In Germany, even in normal times, freedom of utterance is not allowed. | Rail 'against the Kaiser or the Gov» ernment at one end of the street, and you will be arrested at the other end. A copy of every paper printed has to be lodged with the police authori- |. ties. Each paper must bear the name of a nominal editor, who is held re- sponsible for its contents. © Some pa- pers run a prison editor. Should an action be brought against the paper, this man undertakes to suffer the im. prisonment inflicted. , w To dwell in safety in the Father- land, it is a wise plan to carry abdut a condensed list of the regulations and: laws "Made in' Germany." aa oA TRIBUTE TO BRITISH NAVY. , "Saved the World From Destruction]. 1 By Barbarism." The London Daily = Express pub- lishes an interview with M. Augag- neur, the French Minister of Marine, | who 'said 'that the British fleet "say ed the world from destruction by the barbarians of the twentieth century; it saved us all from utter desolation. I have no patience with people who 'hint that France is not satisfied with the British efforts. You promised na- |: val co-operation, you gave it, and you created an army for our mutual bene-| fit. The question of munitions nothing to do with it. -All-our ideas| lently contrasted colors, thus making B them less easy to "spot" from & planes. 7 . By a curious coincidence; the horses to stout iron rings used for th same purpose by the 15th Hussars a hundred years ago--after Waterloo. . ) ast this one will. If she had not have left undone certain a war that know that the en ed for a war that' George is a small fresh as a new pin. Being by profession a soli re ing to learn that Mr.|, Lloyd-George takes a keen interest in criminal cases. He will follow the : urd : one'and one-half level teaspoons soda' chased at your local Ladies' Home| for sweet. milk and baking powder an Journal Pattern dealers, or from the equally good, wholesome and satisfy- Home Pattern Company, 183-A George ing bread can be made. Nice for pic- RY A -- nic * sandwiches. Remains fresh for ITALY'S KIND QUEEN." several days. ---- Fela What She Did to Help the Coral Fish- Just Common Salt: . ers of Torre del Greco, - Salt in solution is an antidote fo| A kindly 1i¥tle act that shows some- many poisons. dah thing of the quick wit and ready sym- All skin dizeases are relieved by pathy of Queen Helena of Italy is re- salt added to water. ' 1 corded: Some years ago the coral A pinch of salt added to mustard fishers of Torre del Greco, near Na- prevents its souting. ples, were in hard : val Salt 'in the water' cleanses = glass | of coral had fall bottles and chamber ware. ~~ |were no longer able Cut flowers may be kept fresh by | for their harvest. adding salt to the water. 'Brooms soaked in hot salt water wear better and do not break. i Salt dissolved in ammonia or al- 'cohol will remove grease spots; Salt thrown in any burning sub-, stance will stop moke and-blaze, All our guns at the front are peri- | that have been so left. =. | odically examined by experts, and it! '"I read your British papers and is said that though some of these wea- [have seen some of them. ke pons have now fired many thousands the British to wak: ; of rounds, they are, for all prac country in the world c ve: pro- purposes, as good as when the duced a voluntary army such as yours the shops. ro 3 has done?: RL eo iF Kata ss in-stature | E t Mr. dioydot Jericho, but "before the Jordan," ' low 'thought' to mean "east oy the brook is to be thou {as one of numerous water courses flowing into the Jordan from the ea: 4. I have commanded the ravens feed thee--These birds would ; their nests in the coves of ray: ines. The word ravens in Hebrew can be made to mean "merchants" "Arabians" As the "ravens" were "unclean" birds, the Jews have favor: ed the reading "merchants" or "Ara bians" (that is, travelling caravans)! wl gave Elijah to eat as they pas 6. And the favens brought -- | tradition is that they brought bri in the morning and flesh at night. § low of Zavephath * (Verses 8-16). 0. Zaréphath--0On the sed-6 about eight miles south of Sidon 1 have commanded a to sustain thee--This 'For with a drought land, a widow would not havi than enough for herself and f 10. Gathering sticks--The p of the widow is indicated by the she .was obliged to pick up stray bit of wood for fuel. . 11, Was going t6 fetch it -- Her hospitality, even with starvation ing her, was as ready as her faith, montent- later, was responsive. . may eat it and die--Th another evidence of "her