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1 ' IM How (o Cook Asparagus. _ Much haa been written and 6*id •bout the lioaltii-giving qualitica (>f anparagus. Taking all these quali- ties for grante*!, here are some in- teresting ways of oooking Uiis vege- table Eoihat'it may be Bcned many times without paJling cm tilio most exacting and fattidioua appetite. Baked with Cheese.â€" Drain boil- ed asparagus and arrange the etaJki' neatly on a buttered baking diili. Fry a chopped onion in but- ter and pour this o\T&r the aspara- gu». Sprinkle over it bread crumbs and grated cheese and binke brown. The asparag>iR caai be cut into onc- incli lengths for this dish. Fried Asparamis â€" Boil the as- paragus, drain it, dip each stalk in beaten egg and crumbs and fry in deep fat. Serve with cream sauce. (reamed. -Cut a bunch or two of aispara^us into one-inch lengths and boil until tender. Drain and put into rich white sauce, rather tihick, for the asparagus contains water that thins it: heat thorough- ly, season with salt and paprika and .-ierve verj' hot. lu lloll.s â€" Remove the centre from sUle, rather long, poijited roils, and fry the roJl.s goJden brown in deep fat. Drain on brown paper and keep hot. Cut a bunch ol asparagus in the meantime into one-inch lengtlis, and boil un- til tender. Drain and put in a double boiler with a cupful of mill?, Add the yolks of five eggs and stir until thick and smooth. Season with salt and a little grated nut- meg and pour into tlie hot rolls. White sauce may be used instead of the egg sauce if desired. Uuked Asparagus.â€" Cut aspara- gus into inch leaigths and boil. Drain and put a layer in a buttered baking dish. Scasijn with salt and pepper, dot with bits of butter, aprinkle with crumbs and finely minced boiled eggs. .\dd nore as- paragus and repeat in the order nventioncd uaitil the dish is filled. Hav« crumbs on top and bake brown. Sened Cold.â€" Boil until tender •talke of asparagus and drain them. Chill tliem and serve them with mayonaise, with Hollandaise or with tartarc sauce. It can al.'o be •erved with a sauce of oil and vine- gar, sprinkled with chopped cucum Der pickle. Boiled.â€" Boiled asparagus can be i^rved with melted butter, pejpper and sa't. cither on toast or without it; v.ii 1 <' awn butter or white Bauer', with a little hot cream jMJured over it or with melted but- ter and lemon juice. AsparaguH nud Eggs. â€" Cut a bunch of asparagus into lengths of an inch or two and boil in «alt*d water. Drain amd put in a dish. Add butter, melted, and pepper, and tJien four well-beaten eggs. C'ook in the oven until the eggs are »et. Hfrve immediately, but he- fore 8«'nding to the table garnish witJi minced imrsley. Asparagus in a Mold. â€" Mix a cupful of whito sauco w-itih a quar- ter of ft cupful of chopped chicken or veal and a cupful of a.sparagii« tips, boiled uiitil tender and drain- ed. A<ld four eggs, beaten well, and pour into a mold. Place the mold in a panful of hot water and cook in tli« oven until firm. Then turn out on a, hot platter or dish and serve. equal quafltiitieB of milk and water, and then dry before the fire. A silk cap front for la baby's hat or bonnet ia much better tJuui a lace one. It does not crumple so quickly, or cliiafe tho tender skin, while it is quite as cheap in the end. While oool weather lasts, save water from potatoes and all other boiled vegetables, put in iars, stand in cool place ; uso to boil meat scraps or soup bono. It makes ex- ceJle«ift soup. Polished floors .should be rubbed witili a mixture of one-third raw lin- seed oil and two-thirds paraffin. Uso it sparingly, or the polu-.hing afterwards with a dry cloth will be a long busine-ss. To Slave time cook enough oat- meal for two or three mornings while j\>u are co<ikiing dinner and put in glass jar and keep in the refrigerator. In morning take out amount needed aiid mix with wa- ter. When cooking oatmeal or any other article of food without a dou- ble boiler and food shotild &corc3i, set it imiued lately in a vessel of cold water about five or ten min- utes, and the scorched taste and odor will disappear. Do not throw away your celery tops or tlie stalks you oonsider ttx) tough for table us2. Put them in paper bags, tie string aiound top to keep out du.st, and hang behind stove. When making stjup use t/hese dried celery stalks to flavor; large pieces may be strained out. It also make's potatoes more pala- table wlwn boiled with them. Try These Hints. Miaetird potatoes are fluffier if beaten with am egg-beater. When making ajKinge cakes in patty tins, sec that the oven is very hot. WDwTi jelly will not set, add the juice of a lemon or some white vine- gar. l'"ast<-n a safety pin through the last stitch of cro<iheting, thcTi it cam not possibly "pull out." Biscuitfi should always be Btarteil in a very hot oven, which can bo Dcoled a little later on. A bucket of dry Ume placed in the centre of a room whicJi i* not being used will absorb all damp- ness. To keep your linen which is mot rn everyday use frumu tuiniing yel- tv, wrap it in a towel which has en bkied. Wlw-n frying ohi<k<'ns or fish, to avoi<l tlifl greasft from spattering, gift in a tiny bit of flour just before putting theiri taii. It has been img^jeBted that one of tlie beHt ways to darn stooJcingis it to placo tJie wtocknaig over a boot- jj'ce or Jiad, and tlwn proceed to atirn Umn. l<\^r an egg ou«taid take onA egg, b*at niorly ; fl/dd two ta)bllo«iX)onful« of ftugar, iJi outM of milk, one tea- ppoomitil of voniJIla or nutmeg; biike ofve fliaJf hour. "IV) polirfi DraHK\ llraii? i>oJi*he<j wi-Ui •'weet oil n«id rotte«i«tOfi« wil have a ikep ri<4i t<«i«. TImj whit«ir, m^no bfiiU'Uuit tojie ia ca/iiwd ay acid poMioe. To clean white eatifi edipperi ru the mirfftco tOireadi wn^jh * P^ white flannel dipncd iti »mn W4n<*. li but oldgJitly »oileid|, < vim stale brcodi of ftr^ gum. A iffBod way of utiffemiinff tftiio bri»- tlen tA hair brushes alter washing is to ^'V tihem into a mixture ol CAMNE ClIAHACTKR. Two Ineidents Which Show His Great Inlelligcnce. "Nanook was a most independent dog, a thoroughly bad dog, a thief who had no shame in his tliievery, but rather gloried in it," says the Ilev. Hudson Stuck of one of his dogs in 'Ten Thou.sand Miles with a Dog Sled.' "If you left any- thing edible within his reach he re- garded it as a challenge." Mr. Stuck ct)nl.inues : There comes to me a ludicrous incident that concerned a compan- ion of one winter journey. He had carefully prepared a lunch and had wrapped it neartly in paper, and had placed it on the sled while he put on liLs scarf. But in that mo- ment Nanook took the package and was gone. Through the snow, over the brush, and in and out among the stumps the chase proceeded, until Nanook was caught. We re- covered most of the paper, but t4ie dog had wolfed the lunch as he ran. Nanook's acquaintance with horses began in Fairbanks the first season I owned him, when he wa» a little more than two years old. I was staying at the hospital wait- ing for tiho winter. One of the min- ing magnates liad imported a sad- dle horse, and a.s the mild days of that charming autimin still deferred the snow, he \ised to ride out past tlie hospital every day for a canter. The dog liad learned to lift tlie latch of the gate with liis nose, and when I put a wedge above the latch for greater security, he learned also to circumvent that precaution. And whenever the horse and his rider passed, Nanook wmild open tlie gate and lead the whole pack in a noisy pursuit that changed tlie canter to a run, and brought us natural but mortifying remon- strance. The rider liad just passed ami the dogs had pursued as usual, and I had rushed out and recalled them with ililTicully. Nan<M)k I had by the collar . I dragged him inUj the yard, nJuit the gate, put in the wedge, pi<-kf'd tij) a stick, and gave him a fe^' sharp blows with it. Then flinging him off, I said, "Now, you stay in here I'll give you a sound thrashing if you <lo that again I" The moment I lo<ised his <-«)llar the d<jg went deliberately to the gate, stood on his hind legs whiile he pulh'd out the wedge with his teeth, lifted the lat-cfli with his nose, and swung open the guite. Then, sta.nding in ihv opening, he ttirned round and Mii<l to me, "Bowwowwow I" It was fo p<iinted that a passer by, whi^ had paused to watoij tlie proceedings, said to me, "Well, you know now what he thinks ct you. That's the dog- gondest dog I over saw 1" HOMi: OI)l> FACTS. According to a British scientist color blindness ia hereditary, but is transmitted by women to their children, n'-ver ny men. A hul»hling fountain for horses, in which the water is turned on by an animal slepping upon a plat- form surrounding it, haa been in- vented. A wlieolharrow has been patent- ed which is emptied by resting the legs on the ground and pressing down thn handles. New ehackles f<ir conviots pennit a man to walk as usual hut, lock chould h* bend hia knees far enougli to try to run. A N«w York ornithologist has in- vented a collapsible galvanized \rop i>\n\ house than can be token apart for cleaning. A t>a<'k rC'St for molorcyclists, tio be fastened around thn waist from tbc Kandle Ibars of a machine, is an English noyelty. A gun wmich fires a si .v pound proje<:tile without reooil has been invented for uae on aeroplanes. CLOSEST SHAVE ON RECORD SYDNEY WHKJHT'S NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH. Lost His Balanee, FVII Ten Stories and E.scuped With a Few Scratches. lllieie is a jXiung man in Sydney, Australia, to-day â€" Sydney Wjight, a builder's laborer â€" wlio recently experient^ed one of the most re- markable escapes from death ever chronicled. He was fixing a scaf- fold on the tenth story of a very- lofty building in Bridge street, Sydney, when he lost his balance and went hurtling down toward the roadway far below. I^verybody ex- pected to see him dashed to atoms, but by marvellous good fortune, af- ter falling 50 feet, he dropped int^v a cluster of telephone wires, caught hold of them, scrambled along to a pole and slid down to the pave- ment, says tihe Wide World Maga- zine. After the narrow escape he ac- tually went back to his work, but presently "came over dizzy," and accompanLed by a policeman, walk- ed to tlio Sydney liospital. Here it was found that, apart from a few cuts and bruises on legs, arms and liea<K and a general feeling of shakiness, he was quite uninjured and in no meed of medical threat - menb. In a very few days, in fact, Wright was fit for work again. This astonishing affair was fully refKirted by the Sydney Evening News, which interviewed Wrigdit at his hoane in Great Bucking^ham Street, Iledfern, aiid other well- known journals. Wright's own story of his remarkable experience is as follows : "It was my first day on the job. I'd been out of work for a month -drifting round Sydney for four weeks looking for a billet â€" andi on the very day I got a start this busi- ness happened Up Ten Stories. "I went to work first thing in tJie moniing. It wa* a lofty new build- ing in Bridge Street, being erected for Messrs. Birt k Co. I tackled the job with a will, for it was quite a change after being idle for so long. In t/he afternoon I was put on erecting scaffolds. I was up ten stories â€" about 225 feet above the f<M>tpath â€" and before I got busy I had to look down into the street. 1 noticed the telephone wires that later saved my life, and it occurre<i to me, just in a ca.sual sort of way, that they might c<.>mie in handy if a man happened to fall. I little thought tliat before very long I liliould be daishcd down lieadfirst to- ward th(>«e same wires. "Well, I was up on the scaffold, with my back turned toward the street and ha<I started to nail a board tmto an upright, when I rea- lized that the post wasn't firm enough. I took it between my knees and was about to haimnier at dt, wlien all of a sudden the top of the poist ivSiifted outward and I lost niy baJance. "I couldui't do any tiling to save myself ; I just had to go over. For- tunately, howe\-er, I kept my head. I dropped my hammer and grabbed at the post OA a forlorn hope, but it come witBi me, and the ne.xt in- stant I felt m,jsielf going. 1 was on the outside edge of the seaffohl. and as I slipped hack into space I thought again of tlio.s<' telejilione wires far bel»>w. "They offered a bare chance of life. I knew that if I dropped straight down I sliould be smashed to pieces. But those wires might break my fall. Turned a Soniersault. "All tliisi passed thirough my mind in the verv act of fielling, and as 1 lopi)letl liai'kward from the scaffold 1 pushed off frohi tho edge with my toes in tIhe Ikum- of reach- ing them. At the same time 1 twisted myself around so that I <'ould see where I was going, ami liurJii'<l tlie post that I had been clutching into the street. These vio-lent movenieiits caused me to turn a complete gomersiault in the air, but I was now looking where I was going, and that co^ntented me. I wouldn't have liked to have dirop- pe<l <lown with my face towar<l tlie sky. I IwkJi a sort of i<lea I couUI pick out where to lull. You may not helie\'e dt, but I had my wits practically everything that was go- ing on aiMuiid me. I could see the workmen on the building. I no- ticed the people walk in g in t<lie streets and I could hear them abotit me all tllie time an<I' knew pfliouting out. "What did Uie fall feel like? It was woiulerfulâ€" ^giloraous I I ii>ally eouldin't describe it; it was awh a Btnvngo mixjt.uro of seii'-ations. But, <xl<lly enough, I wasn't af rad<l not in the least. Though I kiu-w I was travelling fast, tine drop neeined to take a t'romendous time. Of courne U. lasted only a few seconds, but it seemed like an hour. "I cann<it explain it, but all the time I was dropping I ix>ekone<l I had a clliance ; I Never Expected to Get Killed. I Could see niyseilf riajlit <vve.r those telephone wires, and they we^re Bwittly turning up U> meet me. I felt certain I luut a oliaaice, and I was hopeful even when I saw men Wealthiest Titled Woman In The Duchess of Devoniilhire, wi land, Sir Victor Christian William to relief work for the En|lM soldi tlefields. The Duchess was former daughter of the 5th Marquess of five daughters. Her husband sue death of his uncle. Some of tlie D been tlvrown open to the care of th World Aids In ReUef Work. fe of the largest landowner in Eng- Cavendish, is devoting all her time ere who were wounded at the bat- ly Lady Evelyn I'itzmaurice, eldest Lansdowne, and ba-s two sons and ceeded ito the title in 1908 upon the uke's finest estates and homee have e wounded. down below getting ready to gather up what was left of me. "Then there came Uhe bump. I hit the wiresâ€" I thank with my head and Sihouldersâ€" and some of them snapped under my weight. My head went right through them, but my legs caught, tangled, and in a twinkling I got a Wld with my hands. "Even tlien, however, I wasn't out of the woods. I wias frightened of causing a slioj-t circuit or some- thing of the kind^I don't know- much jj.bout electricity â€" and I moved very carefully. The fellows down below, wildly excited, yelled to me to stop where I was, but the wirea weren t comfortable enough, and I thought I might fall into the road. So I scrambled along to tho post and slid down to tlie footpath. "You sliould have seen the fuss they made of me I One of the boys told me that 'the devil always took care of his own.' Maybe he was right, but I wasn't worrjing about that just then. I feilt all right, but just a bit sliaky. "There was a huge crowd round me in mo time, for hundreds of peo- ple, it seems, had seen, me fall, and they came running from all direc- tions. They were amazed to see me flilive and able to walk. "I wa.«n't a bit sore, amd after a few niinutes 1 went back to the building. I clinihed up to the s<.'af- fold again and was goimg to start my job o|jce moro when they made me come in ; tlhey said I'd Done Enough for One Day. Shortly after that I came over very dizzy. My limbs felt sore and I ha<l a sensation of sickness, so a pt>liceinan went with me to the hos- pital. "They found sovno cuts amd bruises, but nothing calling for treatment , antl they told me to go home unti rest. "Curiously enough, my accident was pnutically foretold! On the Sunday night I was playing about with a j>a<'k of cards at h<uiie, and a friend of mine killed time b>' telling n\v fortune. Being dark, 1 was repreKciited by til* jack of ;ipa<!i''s ati<l almos'b every time the cards were ahufiled the jack thowed up with the acfi of spades upside down on one side and the nine of spiuh's on the other. That, said my frien<l, was a euro sign of sickncfrvs or <Iieath - and' the pi-ophecy came verj' near proving true. I suppose a piu'k of oartls can't deal with such tOiings as telepOione wires ! 1 thought of the pro^Vliecy jurt. be- fore 1 fell." l^eopile with a superstitiouH turn of mind will he intereatexV to know that Wright was horn with a *\aul over his fn('<', and .•â- â- o, nvxHvrding to an ancient belief very )K>pular among siiilors, is immune from <leatli by ai-ci<lenl. He luas twdce been nearly drowned, but the fall here <lescrihe<li is likely to i-emain hia closest .sJiiave. No man is so illitenate tliat h« cani\ot teiu-li others something. A paste made of salt and vinegar will cleanse enameled ware. Ho tliat forgets Hub friend ia un- grateful to Kim, but he who forgettt nis God is ungrateful to lhiim«eilf.- Bumyan, An attachment has been invented for fare registering Ixtxes on street cars that cancels tiakett ai tliey are dropped into it. PURELY PERSONAL. Interesting (hat About Famous Folk of the Day. Miss Marie Corelli i« a sikilled mandolinist. Mr. Asquith, t!!»e British Prem- ier, is a Yorkshireman iby birth. General Joffre never has less than two hundred officers working with him at headquarters. The German Crown Prince will be thirty-three years of age next May. He married the Princess Ce- cilie of Mecklen'burg-Schwerin in 1903, and has four sons. Lord Curzon once wrote a book which has never been published. The subject of it was India, and when "C. of K." was appointed Viceroy it had almost reached the proof stage. Then tho authorities inter\'ened. A book on India by the Viceroy was not considered "the thing," and in proof the work has remained ever cince. Emperor Francis Joseph, when he ascended the Austrian throne, had a bitter cuise pronounced upon him and his family by an infuriated countess. Since then his daughter has been poisoned, one of his bro- thers shot, his wife and his nephew assassinated, )iis niece and his sis- ter-in-law bunied to death, while his son and one of his <x)usin8 have committed suicide, and his son-in- law has become insane. "Rita," the famous novelist, has just had a great compliment paid her, for a complete set of her works lias been ordered by Queen Marj-. "Kita," whose real name is Mrs. Desmond Humphries, never dic- tates. iShe writes everything in her own hand, and it is afterwards typewritten. She writes for five hours a day â€" three in the morning and two in the eveningâ€" and can produce a bt-'ok of 90,000 or 100,000 wi)rds in two months if she ia put to it. In the afternoon she never writes. That is a time when her brain refuses to act, so she goes out into the f*«sh air to Interest herself in something that will take her mind from her work. Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy. is a keen fisherman and spends hour after hour with his rod, though the best of luck does not always attend his piscatorial expe<lition8. "Once, after several hours' angling hod brought him only three po<^ir fish and he was returning to the castle, he was met by a j>easant with a magnificent oatch of trout. "You seem to be no great fisherman, to judge by vour catch," commented i\\(f peasant. "I should say you were about as lucky as the King." "Whyl" inquired his Majesty. "Oh," replied the peasant, "he thinks a great deal of himself as a sportsman, htit ho is a poor body, much more fit to Ibe a king than a fisherman." EBIlf'S VALIAIfT POLICEMElf^ Ireland Is Proud of the Royal, Confitabulary. In an article which appeared m London Answers, September 20tll> 1913, it was foretold that, in thtf; event of war, the men of tne Royal Irish Oonstabulary could provide* contingent for active service. Thlrf statomemt haa been more than real.^ ized. A «hort time ago the inspector- general. Colonel Sir Neville Cham- berlain, Issued a circular asking for two hundred volunteers for the Icish Guards. In a few days two thousand applications were receiv- ed. As only young unmarried con- stables were eligible, this meant that practically every suitable man volunteered. Without doubt, the Royal Irish Constabularly is composed of tSw very pick of the youth of Ireland'. It is a military force, first formed in 1830 under the name of tho Ird«h Constabulary. In 1807 Queen Vic- toria conferred upon it the coveted prefix "Royal," to show her ap^ preciation of the effective manner In which the Fenian rising was quelled. Before being appointed to sta- tions recruits are given si.x months' rigorous militarj- training. They are armed writh rifles and sword bayonets, and every constable must secure a certificate of proficiency in musketry. Im country districts the sergeant keeps his men up to scratch by daily drill in the barrack-yard. There must be no laxity, for the monthly or quarterly "fuU-drese parade" inspections of the district and county inspectors are always searching in character. Occasional Morris-tube practice keeps their aim true. The officers, as well as the rank and file of the force, have also a wonderful spirit of sterling patriot- ism. Numbers of them have been ? ranted commissions as captains in rish regiments. Then, again, ex-sergeants and ex-head-constables, who were en- joving tiheir well-earned pensions, enlisted in Kitchener's army as in- structors. Ireland is proud of her soldier- sons, but it still prouder of her martial policemen. ETJQLETTE OF THE DROSHKT. The Gentleman Must Hold the I.ady In the Carriage. The SibcTian method of riding in a drofehky requires an etiquette all its own, which, although some- times surprising to the English tra- veller who encounters it for the first time, is based upon practical con- siderations. The danger of being thrown out has determined the pre- vailing usage, aaya Mrs. John Clarence Lee in "Across Sibexia Alone." If a gentleman escorts a lady, it is his task to hold her in the car- riage â€" not an easy oocupMition. He accomplishes it by ptitting his arm round her waist. A man who fail4 to do BO at considered as lacking in courtesy. When you hiave become acquainted with the custoirx, it seems entirely sensible and com- fortable, but it seems strange at first to find yourself settling back into a stranger's arms. •An American, who had li\ied in Ruseia amd whom we met in China, told us that he was driving with a woman phj'sician, a Russian, mid- dle-aged, and of the rotund Rus- sdan type. He knew nothinig about hie duty t</ward her, and they thrashed round that three-by-fiv« droshky until the woman turned angrily toward him. "Have you been brought up in the backwoods that you don't kneiw enough to hold me in this drosh-" ky t" she staid. He immediately put his arm roumd her waist, as far as it would go, and held on hard. 1 nihle in 600 Tongues. 'l^ie Bible is mow printed in 000 languages an<l dialects, and ev«krj' year from eight to ten ne^v la»*- giiages or <lialect« are adde<l to the list. It i» not known how many dialecl^s are fpn;ken on eiarth, but it is estimatetl tivat seven o\it of ei\-ery ten oif the htiman i>»pul«itixiTi had pjxnided for them tl»e Go«pel etory tm their owo tongue. POINTED PARAtiRAPHS. It's better to be ign^jred tlian bored. Even a new clock is apt to slww the marks of time. The woman wlio is thoughtful i« never a successful gi>ssip. High living doesn't help much toward the uplift oi humanity. Praise the m»n who asks .\x>u for o<ivice and ha will be tsatisfied. Cupid usuailly hit* the mark, but he seilecte some mighty poor ta-r- gets. It'fi eiasier for a man to shut up a 100 ton safe than a lOO-poun^ wife. A novxal uRuallv endls with th^ marriage of the hero aji<l heroiue, just aa if it was their finish. Tlie Avorld ia a cage in w^hich hu' monity is tamed. Y^our f riendla will smile if let your money talk. Tho mtile that gets in tho kick tisually win® tiho sorap. first Hbe British naval gtinner is <« good shot, aj><i knowj vt. In one of the recent battles a British warsMp was aiboul to engage » shii) tvf the enemy, when ^n onioer, pointing to the target, «aKl to tho pett^ offloeT in charge of the gtw i "Vott see tha^k uwn on the bridge. Well, I waul you to hit him in the e,v«." Like • flash came the reply, "Aye, *vr» nr. Which eyat"