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'er;»wrir7!^rej?'< Aiboiit the Household Seasonable Diiihes. , Banana Ice Cream. â€" To the crushed pulp of six bananas add one cupful sugar, one-half tea-spoonful salt. Pour in a quart of milk and pint of cream. Mix well and freeze. Fruit Iced Tea.â€" Steep some fresh tea and put on ice. When cold pour in the juice of pineapple, strawber- ries, apple.^i, banana and any other fruit you like all mixed together. Huckleberry Pancakes. â€" Sift to- gether in a deep bowl one quart of flour, two teaspoonfuls of salt, three tablcspoonfi/ls of suf^ar, add three vell-bcaten eggs and four table- spoonfuLs of milk. Beat to a smooth batter, then add one pint of cream, one pint of milk, the grated rind of one lemon and two cupfuls of huckle- beiriei. Fry and serve very hot with powdered sugar. Baked Stuffed Cucumbers. â€" Wipe and peel cucumbers, cut in two-inch pieces crosswise and remove seeds. Mix four tablespoons bread crumbs, Iwo tablespoons finely chopped cooked ham and two tablespoons grated cheese (Parmesan is best). Moisten with tomato sauce and season with salt and pepper. Put cucumber cups in ."hallow pan, till mith mixture, sur- round with hot*\vater or chicken stock ami bake half an hour. Then cover with buttered crumbs and bake until brown. • Peach Fritters.^Remove skins from three or four peaches and cut in small pieces. Mix and sift one cup flour, one and one-half teaspoons bak- ing powder, three tablespoons pow- dered sugar and one-fourth teaspoon salt. Add one-third cup milk gradu- ally, while stirring constantly, and one egg well beaten. Then add peaches. Drop by spoonful into hot fat and fry until delicately brown. Drain on brown paper, sprinkle with powdered sugar and send to table on folded napkin, with lemon sauce. Lemon Sauce. â€" Put three-fourths cup sugar into saucepan, add one- fourth cup water and lot boil five minutes. Remove from fire, add two teaspoons butter, bit by bit, and one tablespoon lemon juice. Peach Cake.â€" Mix together two cups sifted flour, two teaspoons bak- ing powder, one heaping tablespoon butter, one-half cup sugar and milk enough to make soft dough. Roll out half an inch thick and lay on flat, buttered baking pan. Have peaches ready, peeled and cut into lengths. Press these into dough in rows. Sprinkle with granulated sugar and bake. Cut in squares and serve hot with sweetened cream. Potato Soup.â€" Pare four medium- sized potatoes, quarter and boil with small onion and two or three stalks of celery. When done, remove onion and celery, mash potatoes, add enough boiling milk to make of creamlike consistency (about three cups), one tablespoonful butter, one and ono- hnlf teaspoonfuls salt and one egg until light, put in tureen, strain soup through colander into tureen and serve. Mock Venison.^Make a sauce of one tablespoonful brown flour, one tablespoonful butter and one cupful stock of water. When thoroughly cooked and smooth, add one table- spoonful currant jelly, one table- spoonful mushroom or Worcester- shire sauce and bring to boil. Heat thin slices of mutton in this until hot, but do not let the mutton cook. Breaded Parsnips.- Wash and trim parsnips, scrape (if large, split them) and boil ten minutes in salted water. Take from fire, drain, lay in cold water half-hour. Wipe dry, roll in beaten egg, then in bread crumbs, set aside for about an hour, then fry in deep, boiling fat as you would dough- nuts. Take up in wire spoon and hervf in hot dish. Oyster plant 's good cooked in the same way. it up immediately with blotting paper, then wash out with warm water and clean flannel and dry with a soft duster. A solution of salts of lemon and warm water will remove iron-mould from linen. The article should be well rinsed afterward in clean water and allowed to dry. A good way to get rid of a mouldy smell in the cellar is to dust well over the walls and floor unslacked lime, leaving it on Jor a day or two then [brushing it off. When making small cakes I sprinkle a little flour over the tins, 'instead of rubbing grease on. This I answers the purpose just as well, and j is less expensive. Close green vegetables, such as cabbage, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, etc., should be soaked for [a short time in vinegar and water to â-  drain out any slugs or insects. Wild flowers can be transplanted i successfully if care is taken to put , them in places with about the same I exposure and character as they were I in before. It is well to move a great I deal of the natural soil with the roots. I After using cold water starch many I housekeepers throw it away. This is wasteful. Allow it to settle and I pour off the clear water. Put the i basin in the oven and leave until ; the starch is dry and a hard cake. I This should be put away for future use. r -» * ' rr-^' \ r-V BRITISH ftRMORED CRUIS^ER. OF ESSEX. OR SUFFOLK eLASS. AS SEEM FROM THE PORT SIDE 8937 SMART VACATION DRESS. Household Hints. Bran is far better than soap for clcaiiiiig paint. (Charcoal powder is excellent for cleaning fine knives. Pie crust should be rolled in one direction â€" away from you. Bread should be kept always wrapped up in a clean cloth. A cloth moistened with alcohol is cfl'cctive in cleaning piano keys. Housewives will find the butcher's apron a great convenience, as it cov- ers even the sleeves. When a bedroom floor is to be washed, see that it is thoroughly dried and aired before night. Never leave a package of coffee anywhere near buttiT, eggs or milk - they will absorb thi' flavor. To polish a black marble clock rub over with olive oil and finish with a clean chamois leather. Soups suffer less than anything else by being heated a second time, but they should be re-flavored. Kaisini! kept in a covered or other dish with a small cup of water in the centre will keep moist and fresh. Salt curdles now milk, so gravies, etc., should not be .salted until the dish is prepared ready to serve. If you have an earthenware bread pan with a cover, the loaves of bread can be put in it without wrapping up. Kerosene will soften boots and shoes that have been hardened by water and will render them pliable as new. Finger n>i"*k8 are best rcmovctj from furniture by washing with water colort-d with vinegar, then wipe with a dry cloth. If you spill ink on a carpet, soak May times is one confronted with the difficulty of deciding on the most satisfactory dress for the vacation â€" Is it to be an Empire, a Princess or what? Shall it have a low neck, short sleeves, yoke skirt or "Oh, on just whet shall I decide!" A dress that will be found highly satis- factory in determining these little vexatious points by combining many of the season's most popular features, is Ladies' Home Journal Pattern No. 8937. The pattern includes a Quak- er collar and cuffs, a waist with a i gathered yoke and a one-piece skirt ' gathered to a two-piece hip yoke. The pattern cuts in sizes 34 to 44 inches bust measure, requiring in size 36, 6'/4 yards 3C-inch material. 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. + Water on a Red-Hot Stove. Why it is impossible to throw a few drops of water on a red-hot stove? Perhaps you never knew that this cannot be done. The water can never touch the stove at all. What you see is a few drops rolling rapidly over the surface. These become smaller and smaller until they entirely disappear. If the drops are on a perfectly level place it can be proved that they are not in contact with the stove itself by the fact that one can see under them to the other side of the room. What is the explanation? The bottom of the drop changes at once to steam or vapor on coming close to the hot surface. This vapor is supplied by the drop as it gradual- ly goes away â€" in other words, the drop rests on a cushion of vapor until it has entirely disappeared. You may ask why the drop is not Immediately evaporated or changed to steam. The answer is this: Tlie water vapor that intervenes between its under surface and the red-hot stove Is not a good conductor of heat; consequently the full Intensity of the heat cannot get to the water itself, the only amount available for this purpose being that transmitted through the vapor. â€" + Goldfish in a globe usually swim round to the right. THE 5AMF. WARSHIP AS SEEM FWOM THE STARBOftRD SIDE.. <â-  BRITISH CRUISER DOES LIGHTNING CHANGE ACT The British armored cruised of the ! small, and at the bow the painting is carried out in a curve giving her the appearance of having an old clip- per stern. Painted revolving screws also lightnlng"changei'',«^« ^*=" .P'^'^e'* ?b°ve two of her three funnels, the fore and aft ones. The screens have the disappearing paint on one side only. To identify herself to a friendly flag she has only to show her port Suffolk and Essex class which follow- ed the America's Cup yachts appeared off Ambrose Channel Light Vessel recently and it was noticed that she is equipped to do a on the high seas. Her port side is the same as it was originally, painted a dull, dark gray. But on her starboard side her bow has been painted out with a sil- very white color that is not discern- ible at a distance. of comfort Inseparable from the tea- things, did much to comfort and soothe him He felt better, much bet- ter, after the meal, and steeled him- self into facing the future with resig- nation, if not with equanimity. He rose and wandered into his work-room. For a moment he paused with his hand on the switch of the electric light, as though fearful that the sight of his beloved model might probe his bruised mind too deeply. Then he pressed down the switch, and the big, dark room sprang into vivid illumination. He went over and stood by his model, gazing at it sadly, and think- ing over the months which must now elapse before he could complete it. A tiny screw, only half driven home, MINE WARFARE A NEW PROBLEM WHEN THE TRENCHES COME CLOSE TOGETHER. "Listeners" Guard Against Explosion of the Enemy by Countermining. Trench warfare has gradually and by force of circumstances led to mine warfare. The first line of , ^ , . . ,. , , . .^, I trenches in the fighting zone constl- caught his attention and, almost with- jj^^g ^„ advanced defence of points out noticing what he was about, he.^j ^^ ^ (villages, woods, chateaux, tightened it down. There was a com- ^^ ^ ^^^^ ^^^ )^ ^^^ ^grvea to panion screw to be inserted on the ^gt^^blish communication between other side of the model, and this he did, too, quite automatically them. So long as the two adversaries are not in complete touch with one He pulled himself up sharply when | ^„^^j^^^ ^^^ ^^^^j^ separated by dis he found what he had done. But the tance of 500 to 600 yards, this ad- vanced line is not continuous, being simply occupied by sentries and pick- ets. When by rushes in the open and then by sapping, the advanced lines ,,. - . , . . I are brought sufficiently close to His fingers were itching to continue i^^^e all progress impossible without f.Vln. • '.., - . I heavy losses from bombs and gren- Itll simplify matters so if I canj^j^g^ mine-warfare commences. spell of work was upon him. "Trelland may have been making a mistake after all," he told himself. "And, after all, a few hours can't make much difference." get the thing done," he muttered weakly. He inserted another tiny screw, toy- ed with some conponent part for a few moments, and then fixed a bolt in place. "I'll chance it!" he resolved. "My eyes feel quite all right now. And to- morrow â€" six months' holiday, whe- ther it's necessary or not." In this new phase the distance be- tween the French and German trenches varies from about 25 to 50 yards. By a rapid and unexpected rush it would seem easy to throw one- self into the enemy positions. Driving Sapa. But while the works of the attack- ing party advance, the enemy in his He drew up a chair and set to work turn has linked up the elements of his eagerly. The time slipped past, min- advanced line, flanked them with nu- ute after minute, half -hour after half- . merous machine guns, equipped them hour. His eyes began to smart and ^ith bomb-throwers, and Minenwer- blurr, but he noticed nothing, heeded fgr, and thrown up in front of the nothing, except the task which grossed him. At last the model was finished â€" fin- ished! Cardew rose with a great sigh of relief and stretched wide his arms. This odd paint is carried in a line | board side. Then she can appear as along her topside and down around 'a clipper hulled vessel with either one, her stern, making her appearance two or three funnels. side. If in doubt of a vessel she falls He rubbed his smarting eyes and stood in with or of she wishes to disguise I back to survey his completed handi- herself she need only show her star- work. I His Darkest Hour parapets network of iron wire, acces- sory defences of all kinds. TTius the simple fact of driving saps and parallels close up to the enemy has the initial effect of fixing many of his men to the spot, and of keeping them constantly under threat, of an attack. If such attack takes "It's a secret invention. I daren't \k J!,'"',,^**'? "«'''• a soul see it till I've handed it over to the purchasers." "Well, there's an easy way out of that difficulty. Let them wait an- other six months for it, till you come back from your holiday. You can fln- And in that second darkness came , place, it can only be crowned with swiftly upon him. The blackness of i complete success after making night enwrapped him about. j breaches, by the destruction of the Soâ€" It had come! The specialist accessory defences, and the silencing Sir George Trelland, the famous oculist, sat silently at his desk, his ; jgj, tj,g nj^del then." head a little aslant, his glasses poised ..^o^ i can't do that, either. You delicately on his finger tips. Opposite! gg^, I've got an agreement with them. to him stood a young man, white and i^^ moAiA has to be finished by to- tense with anxiety, waiting to hear the verdict. "Well, doctor?" he managed to ask hoarsely. He had disregarded Trelland's warning, he had faced the' risk, and now here was the penalty, j For a long, long time, Cardew i stood inert, his brain a slow-moving tangle of incredulity and bewilder- ' ment. \ of the flanking fire. These results may be achieved by heavy artillery fire, and even by the prolonged use of machine guns; it has been found that with 10,000 cartridges a gap of some twenty yards can be made. But these methods are noisy, and must, to remain effective, immediately pre- morrow morning. "Well, Mr.â€" Mr. Cardew," returned the other, glancing at the card on his desk, "I suppose you'd prefer that ' have finished it days ago." - e- I have an appoint-, ^,. , -. , , ment then with the purchasers. I must I *"'"«f "P *"" "'"K it down to get the thing finished to-night. I've i S^"""""**- . ^ ,, ^ . , , been working very hard at it of late, I ^°"'t"'* model? The model for but my eyes seemed to trouble me I **"'^" "® *""' unwillingly bartered his Presently he began to feel, to real- ize. He put out a hand and groped \ c;de"'the ' aUack. Hence their use his way forward to the work-table, i ^^^ns the enemy that it is going to His fingers touched the model, and, ^y^ place. He is then on his guard, he had almost the mind to snatch the the I should speak to you quite openly and bluntly?" "Oh, please!" begged the other, with a little shiver of apprehension. "Very well, Mr. Cardew. Let me say at once that you'll have to take care â€" very great care, indeed â€" of those eyes of yours." "You â€" you don't mean " stam- was slid fell more and more, otherwise I might "''f*''' Noâ€" that was all that j left to him now. And his hand "I see." said Sir George. "And ! ^^°^ ^^^ metallic surfaces and then you were rushing to get it finish- 1 '""P'y *» ^is side, ed to-day, and your eyes smarted and' ,*° ^'"^ ^*^ ^*"'* blindness meant! burnt, and became blurred more and P'" ""*"" ''"â- 'kness, this suffocating more, so you came to me to-day to Slackness, this pitiful helplessness! see if I couldn't miraculously cure ' ^"® '""'*' '"* ^^"^' '^"^ ^"" ''**''' w®*"® them in a flash, so that you might '''""*'* °"' '° '^"" forever. Hence- complete your work unhindered?" I forth he lived in a world apartâ€" a "That's about the truth of it," con- i *"''''[ ^*'^'"« everything was black mered Cardew. "Surely it's not so'fessed Cardew. "You see how im- 1 ""f'.""!*'*'*^' "^ ^*^ blindâ€" blind! serious as all that?" portant it isâ€" how essential it is that - "'* ""tfers sought his chair, and "I mean that if you wish to preserve I should finish the affair to-day." Fleet lie fishes, such ns the electric eel, the African catfish, and the elec- tric ray have the power of discharg- ing an electric shock sufficient at times to disable a man. your sight, you must take six months' holiday at least. You must have a complete rest. Otherwise, Mr. Car- dew, I can't answer for the conse- quences." "I â€" I understand," said Cardew slowly. He nodded his head and stared round the room as though he found the whole circumstance fantastic and incredible. "You mean I'm threatened with blindness?" he asked sharply, almost angrily. "Oh, but â€" but you must be making a mistake! Surely you're wrong, quite wrong? Oh, you must forgive me!" he exclaimed apologetic- ally, his face twisting up in a wry, pathetic little smile. "Your verdict is a bit of a facer, you know. Blind- ness!" "Come, come!" urged the special- ist. "It's not so bad as all that yet. Six months of laziness â€" that's all I enjoin. That's not such a dreadful request, is it? Go away somewhere and do nothing; give your eyes as complete a rest as you can for six months, and I give you my word that etically. "It is hard! you'll have nothing to fear. I suppose | Out in the open air again, Cardew's you're not â€" not financially unable to eniotions began to comb themselves afford a holiday?" out. The numb, paralysing surprise "It isn't a question of money," mut- and terror which had held his very tered Cardew. "I can manage to keep sou' gradually merged into less poig- myself going for six months longer,' nant feelings. The hopefulness of if necessary. But just at this junc- youth began to come to his aid, sus- all take up their firing positions, the breaches made are immediately swept by a flanking fire, and the success of the attack is all a matter of chance. Listeners at Work. The problem was how to find the means of making a breach in the enemy lines and abruptly destroying his flanking dispositions at the very moment the troops leave for the at- tack. The solution has been solved by mine warfare. Mine chambersi placed under the accessory defences or under the machine guns of the en- emy make the breaches. The difficulty is to place the chambers at the vital points. The enemy knows their importance of he lowered himself into the blackness , "Yes, I understand " said Sir w'^'*^^ seemed to take dim shape be- and protects them by a system George. "But I can d'o nothing for ''"^® *'''" ""'' taunt him with his help- ' counter-mines, charged as soon as youâ€" -nothing. Time alone can put 'e^sness. j the works of the attackers indicate a your eyes to rights again. You' '^*"'* '*'* '* â€" ^ *'â- "'* '"*^* it!" | resort to mining. To locate these, ought to have come to me days ago, *"* K''"*"®''. j listeners are placed at the endiof each when first they began to trouble you. i Presently he heard footsteps draw- ] branch of the counter-mine. When Then I might have been able to help '"*^ "*"'" ^^. '^°°'^ "^ '^'^ work-room, bhe first noises are reported, suitable you. But now " I ^^^ rose to his feet and fumbled across measures are taken. Mine warfare "Then Iâ€" I suppose I may as well **â- * ^°°'"' ^® would have found in- pwill then begin in earnest. Contact go back again," said Cardew, in a dull, strained voice. "I may as well go back again." "Not to that model of yours!" ex- claimed Sir George. "You under- stand me? I definitely and absolute- ly forbid it! Not another minute's work must you do to it! Disobey if you like, but you know the risk â€" blindness! It'll come upon you swift- ly, like the turning of a key in a lock. But there!" he concluded reassuring- ly, patting Cardew's shoulder, "I know trusion at such a time maddening. He could not discover the door at first, and this accentuated his help- lessness. He began to sob â€" the dreadful tears of a man overwrought. "Are you all right, Mr. Cardew ? " called his housekeeper's voice anx- iously from the passage. "Yes, quite all right, thanic you, Mrs. Dennington," he forced himself to reply. "Quite all right." He was feeling his way round the wall, and now he had come to the by listening is established. Some- times the entanglement of galleries and branches is such that an enemy gallery is arrived at or even a cham- ber discovered; thereupon the fuses are immediately cut. TELL THEIR GREAT DEEDS. ^By James L. Hughes.) Stories of dauntless heroes you won't be" so fooli'sh"as"to 'ignore j J°°f- "!^f '"P'P (""nd the key, and \ ^^^^^ ^/J", 'irutlT'and honor my advice." *>« turned it sharply in the lock. "inning lor irum ana nonor my "!•â€" I'll try not to," said Cardew, shaking hands. "But â€" oh, well, you understand. It's hard â€" hard!" "Yea," agreed Sir George sympath- Triumphant victory; Tell these great stories ever; We should forget them never. ture my work "You must put aside all thoughts of work," decreed the specialist. "Easier said than done," returned Cardew ruefully "You see, I â€" I've been working out an invention â€" mak- ing the model for it, you know." "Long hours of fiddling about by artificial light with little scraps of metal," said Sir George a trifle im- patiently. "Oh, I know! And then you wonder " "Ah, but I've all but finished it now!" broke In Cardew with enthu- sia.sm. "Jove, it's a beauty! You ought to see it, sir! And I've as good as sold it â€" I've only got to deliver the model. There's only about three more hours' work to be done to it, and " "And you'll have to get someone else to do them for you," interrupted Sir George brusquely. "I absolutely forbid you to touch that model! You know the ri.sk you run." "But I~I daren't entrust the work to anyone else," pleaded Cardew. taining him, and presenting to him the less dark aspects of the position. "After all," ho told himself. "I dare say I can arrange with them to defer matters for six months. It's only just a case of explanation. And six' months pass away quickly. I may be able to think out some new idea one never knows. I ought to be jolly thankful I was warned in time!" And then suddenly his sentiments veered round again to. horror. "Blindness!" he whispered. "Blind for lifeâ€" oh, I couldn't face it â€" I couldrt't face it! It's always been the one thing I've dreaded above all others!" - This, then, was his mental condi- tion when he let himself into his rooms. For n time he skulked with his wretchedness in the darkness of his rooms, and then, too highly strung to face any sympathetic queries from his housekeeper, he turned on the light and took his tea quietly enough. The homely glow of the fire, the air "Maybe you're busy?" suggested the housekeeper at that. "If . so, I won't disturb you." "Yes, I'm busy â€" very busy," he muttered hoarsiely. "Ah, I watn't sure whether you had any tandles or not," ahe said. "I was just bringing you some in case you hadn't any. A noosance, isn't it? I suppose it's a fuse or something. Any- \ ^^ should forget them never, how, I've sent post-haste for someone ! „„ to come and see to it." I What shall the coming ages "A fuse?" exclaimed Cardew, and I ^" **'"'>' ^^11 of you? repeated in louder, more eager tones- 1 Honor, and faith and freedom, "A fuse?" "That's what I suppose it is," she answered. "Either that, or something Either of shame or glory, wrong at the works. It must be one I or the other when the electric lights Never was freedom threatened goes out all over the house without I ..â- ^* ""w by despot power, a moment's warning, mustn't it? Gave me quite a shock, it did â€" I couldn't think whatever had happen- ed at first. " â€" London Answers. a-0 Johnnie's Demand. A young hopeful of four was table with mother on Sunday morn- ing, the father being from home for the week-end. Heroes of Balaclava, Heroes of Waterloo, Heroes who saved St. Julien, Fearless were they, and true, Tell their great deeds forever; Impel you right to do. You must record your story, Never was duty clearer Now is your testing hour. You must record your story. Shall it be shame or glory? Duty to home and Empire, Duty to liberty, Calls you to valiant action; What will your answer bet You must record your story. "Now, Johnnie," said Shall it be shame or glory? >u'll sit in father's chair this morning and say grace." Civilization weeping "Weel, mother, if I'm to be father I maun hao twa eggs," returned John- nie, imperiously, In some parts of Norway corn used as a substitute fur money. is Fof Belgium's heart that bleeds. Calls In the name of mercy ; "Wake and do noble deeds!" Wide are the gates of glory, Enter! Record your story. Toronto, July, 1916. v â- t.