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s^ About the House Useful Hints and Qeneral Inlorma- tion for the Buiy Housewife Dainty Dishes. Rhubarb Jam. â€" Five pounds of rhu- barb, cut as for stewing. Five pounds of granulated supar. One pound of finely cut figs. One-half pound of al- mond meats, blanched and cut fine. Mix these ingredients and let stand over nighN In the morning boil the mixture for forty-five minutes. Pit in glasse.s when cold and cover with paraffin. Onion and Potato Puree. â€" Two cups diced potatoes, one cup minced onion, three cups water, one (x"a.=poon salt tj,g g^^j, ^pj. (or half-teaspoon each salt and cel- ery salt), ore-fourth teaspoon pep- per, two t«blcspoons butter and milk or cream as needed. Boil potatoes and onions until well done. Rub throuRh fruit press, season and re- heat, adding a~ much milk or -cream as needed to thin to right consistency partly baked break an egg into each hollowed center and return to the oven until the eggs are set. These are good served with a drawn butter sauce, tomatoes, mush-room sauce or I a da-sh of chili sauce. Egg Gems. â€" Line the bottom and ! sides of each cup in a gem pan with t'he usual sour milk biscuit do.igh. Prick the dough with a fork so that it I won't puff up, and set in the oven to I bake. When done grate cheese and I break an egg intjo each cup; cover with cheese, salt and pepper and let Rice or wacaroni to UNSEEN HAND THAT FEEDS THE ALLIES THE COMMISSARIAT DEPART- MENT IN LONDON. Buys Munitions and Supplies For the Varied Needs of EUght Nations. outrival in extent the most sensation- al of transatlantic deals, has been at work now for 22 monthaâ€" almost without the general public becoming even aware of its existence! During this period the orders it has officially placed on behalf of the Allied Gov- ernments amount to no less a total than £220,000,000, and this stupend- ous flgrure, if we add the purchases made by Allied Government contract- ors, which are submitted for the ex- amination of the commission, is in- creasied roughtly to £300,000,000. Here is an approximate record of the quantities of some of the more common articles of war bought for the Allied armies: of which a well-beaten egg and a table- , i l- -u t ^ , , , a 1 • J I 1 ' raw and aching wilderness of red spoonful of flour have been added may j,^;^^ g^^ ^.j^^j^ j^^ immense walls be u.^ed m place of the b.scu'.t dough. I ^^.^„j^^., „„^. ^^ ^^^ least-known and Creamed Eggs. â€" Chop whites of At the corner of Kingsway, Lon- don, where that royally wide and straight street merges into the semi- circle of Aldwych, there rises the great triple building which contains Empire House, India House and Can- ada House. It is in aspect half noble and half commonplace the front hav- 1 ^he figures in respect of the more ing both strength and dignity, white . .iggj^^^^ive munitions of war cannot, stone columns and wide and high win- 1 f„^ ^^ /ious reasons, be cited here, but dow .spaces, the sides being merely a I they are no less impressive. Ten million pairs of boots. Thirty million yards of cloth. One hundred thousand miles telephone wire. One hundred million sandbags. eight or ten hard boiled eggs and Serve with minced parsley and crou- | to which two cupfuls of sweet milk *""^' have been added slowly. Let boil up Baked Onions.â€" Four cups peeled once or twice, season with salt, pcp- omons, one cup milk, two tablespoons ' per, mustard or red pepper and add each of flour, bjttcr and breadcrumbs, the chopped whites. Place pieces of one and one-half teaspoons salt, dash hot toast on a hot platter and cover of pepper. Put onions on to cook each piece with the mixture. Season with enough boiling water to cover; the yolks with rait, pepper, mustard and a little vinegar, add sweet or Four cream and smooth to the consist, cncy of creamy paste; place a heap- ng tahlespoonfu! on the center of ' most important of all the many wheels I of war. It is the headquarters of the grate and mash the yolks with a rdl- , Coii'.mission Internationale de Ravi- ver fork. Make a sauce of two , tillement, the Commissariat Depart- tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour j ment of the Allies. The Universal Buyer. The Commission de Ravilaillement is the unseen hand that feeds the many great fires of war. In all the markets of all the world â€" that is to say, all the world outside the coun- tries of the enemy â€" it buys the guns. It is hardly necessary to remark â€" i that is, in fact, the whole raison ^ d'etre of the commission â€" that tTie sums expended, vast as they are, ' would have been much greater if there had been no official organization to regulate prices, to control the world's | markets and to apportion the avail- 1 able supplies of food and war mater- 1 ial to the needs of each Government concerned. And always this main object has been kept rigorously in view, that none of the munitio.is re- quired for the adequate pursuit of the war should be withheld or delaved in HUNS PETITION FOR END OF WAR THE GERMAN SOCIALISTS ACTIVE. ARE Captured Soldiers Don't Claim Vic- tory, But Say They Can't Be Beaten. add one teaspoon ; alt and boil until tender, without covering, Bru.sh baking dish with a little butter, put in onions, and pour over cream sauce. Sprinkle wit-h breadcrumbs and bake ! each piece of the covered toast. Serve until lip-ht brown. Cream sauce; Melt butter in sauce pan, add flour, mix well; add cold milk slowly, stir until smooth and creamy. Add pep- per and one-half teaspoon salt and boil throe minutes. Combination Conserve. â€" Twelve peaches, twelve pears, one pineapple, rix oranfres, six lemons, two quarters of crabipples. Peel and quarter the crabapples and measure after quarter- ing. Peel the peaches, pears and oranges and divide into eighths. Peel the pineapple and cut in dice; slice the with crisp strips of bacon and garnish with lettuce leaves. Useful Hints. Hard sauce is delicious on apple pie. Ilalf-ripe grapes always make the best jelly. Soup should never be made in a metallic kettle. All greens should be blanched bo- fore canning. Milk and custards should not stand i in any but enamel vessels. the shells, the rifles, the ammunition, transit by reason of any overlapping the saddles, the boots and the uni- , of orders or confusion of interest, forms, and all the rest of the multi- 1 Regulating the Supply, farious equipment required by the , fighting ships of England's Allies. I The services of the War Office in The commission buys in tons by the thi.-. connection in regard both to the million, and pays in pounds by the purchase of personal equifiment in the hundred million. In .short, a myriad quantities referred to and the sup;jly quartermaster sergeants in one. of munitions cannot be overestimated, But it rose from very small begin- 'â- ""• '^e complelene.ss of a .system of nings. In August. 1914, a few days "rKamzat.on which .. able to provide ,. 1 1 . t , „ 1 T?-„.„.K for the .supplies both of the British after war broke out, several French ', . , '' i r .u • ah- l „â-  .11 . 1. . 1 „„t,. fighting forces and of their Allies, not offuers came to London to buy boots "t-'"-' ^- l . /•. j j , . ., .• , r .. n.„ c „u only in Europe but in Canada and and similar articles for the trench " •' . . / ,-^^,^ ,:__j l. ..i.- army. These were the first of a long lemons very thin without peeling i ^^^ ^'â- "'*' °^ vegetable to be eaten them. Weigh all the fruit; add three fourths pound of sugar for each pound of fruit; mix gently in preserving ket- tle and simmer for two hours, stirring a.i 1 ttle as pos ibie. Pour in glasses. New Way With Sandwiches.â€" Roll- ed sandwiches look pretty, and they are just as ea.sy to make as the other kind. Any housekeeper who makes sandwiches often appreciates some- thing different in this line, for t>he .'•nme old kind is very likely to become decidedly unwelcome with a critical family acting as judges. The next time you prepare sandwiches cut the bread real thin, then put your minced meat, olives or jelly on the buttered bread as usual. When you are quite satisfied with the result, and all the edges have been trimmed off the bread, roll the bread firmly as you would do with a bandage Secure with a toothpick, then tie with a bow of colored ribbon. Remove the tooth- pick and your sandwich is complete. Mustard Pickles. â€" Two quarts green t<imatoes; joak overnight in weak brine and drain. Two quarts {â- mall cucumbers. One medium head cabbage. One quart small onions. Six large red peppers. Chop all fine and l)oiI all together, except cucum- bers, in clear water until tender, drain well and add: Two (juarts cider vine- gar. One-half cup ground mustard. Three cups sugar. One cup flour mix- ed with vinegar. Two teaspoons red pepper. Two teaspoons black pepper. Bring to a boil, add the chopped cucumbers; bottle and seal while hot. Plum Conserve. â€" Though we give plums as t-ho fruit to use in the fol- lowing recipe, any fruit in season may be used in the same manner. Stew two and one half quarts of plums with one and one-half cups of water until they are very soft. Strain through a colander, then add as much granu- lated sugar as you have pulp. Put through a food chopper two oranges, one small lemon, one poun<i of seeded raisin , one-half pound of Ivalnut meats and one-half pound of sun dried figs. Use Ihe rind of the oranges and lemon as well as the pulp, but re- move the white skin and seeds. Cook all together fifteen minutes, being careful not to burn. This is delici- ous for sandwiches or to serve with chicken or turkey. Chili .Sauce. â€" Twelve large, ripe, folid tomatoes, four cups of vinegar, two teaspoons of ground cloves, two teaspoons of ground cinnamon, one- half teaspoon of ground ginger, one tablespoon of mustard, one red pepper pod, four large onions, two table- spoons of salt (more if desired). Wash the onions and tomatoes. Re- move the outer skin of the onions and chop them fine. Put the tomatoes in boiling water for a few minutes and then remove the skin. Put in all the other ingiedients and boil on a slow fire for about two hours. Put this in sterilized glass bottles which have been standing in hot water, while hot, and seal. Keep in a cool, dry place. Egg Recipes. Nest Eggs. â€" Prepare bread dress- ing as for chicken or turkey, omitting the : age and using only onion and red pepper for seasoning. Form it into nests twice the size of an egg, and place them into a bread pan well (teased and s«t into the oven. When raw should be carefully washed. Small bits left from meat or fi h should be saved and used in potato puffs. Sliced pineapple is more delicious if sliced and sugared about 12 hours before serving. It should never be forgotten that unclean milk is as great a menace as unclean water. A rice cream may be made like a thin rice pudding, only it should be cooked longer, poured and chilled. The bones left from roast beef or lamb can be put into a pot with pola- toei and boiled. They will give the potatoes a rich flavor. If a mother can invent little games to play while the children are being washed and dressed those processes may go on more easily. When you think the vaseline bottle is empty, heat it and lay it on its side to cool â€" you will bo surprised at the amount of vaseline you will save. A convenient way to boil macaroni is to put it in a wire basket. Im- merse this in a kettle of boiling wa- ter. When the macaroni is done, lift it out To make cottage cheese of fine tex- ture, have the water with which you scald the dablier merely hot. If it i.'-: boiling the curd will be very hard and lumpy. If there is a stu'.diorn spot on white paint that can not be removed with soap and wal>er, dip a wet cloth in whiting and rub the spot. It will come off with ease. There comes a time when any hard- wood floor should be thoroughly denn- ed. Wipo it over with a pure white soap and water, changing the water often. Then go over it with a cloth saturated with a good floor oil. Fried cabbage is deliciou/. Cut the cabbage up as for stew, pub it into pan with enough water to cover and let simmer until almost tender, then put it in the fab and brown it as you would potatoes. It takes little time to cook it in this way. To the old-fashioned housekeeper and cook the methods of accurate measurement do not seem important. When our cooks begin, to learn that cooking is an exact science, there will be le H said about "luck" in cook- ing. The "hit or miss" methods of measurements are the cause of pocrt- results. scries of war purchases, whose extent, I beginning in thousands of pounds, ' ro.se rapidly to millions. They result- I ed in the formation by agreement be- ' tween the French and British Govern- 1 mcnts of a Commission de Ravitaille- mcnt (a revictualing commission, in the old blunt naval phrase), with the : following objects: I 1. To co-ordinate the purchase of I food supplies, munitions of war and military and naval equipment by the America, is too little realized by the public. The revictualing commission also enjoys the full advantage of the experience of the agents of the Minis- try of Munitions in America and else- where, and enormous quantities of metals and machinery have been pur- chased all over the world by this means for the benefit of the Allied Governments. j two Governments. 2. To prevent harmful competition tor and to insure that the articles in the same markets and a consequent bought are obtained from reliable inflation of prices. 3. To place the All orders are placed in such a man- ; any vital part or struck a blow which ner as to avoid competition between has reached to the heart of the Ger- the various purchasing Governments, [ man people. to exclude the irresponsible specula- Memorial for Peace. "You ask how far the peace move- ment has advanced. It is impossible to say anything definite, but we So- cialists are now going to present to the Imperial Chancellor a great peace memorial, containing the signatures of those citizens who want a speedy peace v/ithout annexations and with- out violence to other nations. These will put their names on the lists, and those lists will be collected from the whole empire and handed to the Chancellor. God grant that their names may be put down in millions, that the Governmc-nt may see that It is extraordinary difficult to the great mass of the people want an know whether all the British shell early peace, fire and all the dead have yet begun Distress is Acute, to shake the confidence of the Ger- "One may hope this accursed mur- mans in the strength of their war dering of peoples may come to an machine. Some of the officers who end soon, but, unfortunately, the ob- have come in as prisoners still keep ptinate ones have no wish for peace. I heir pride, writes a correspondent 'ihey are working in all countries v.ith the British Armies in the field, against it, working with all their They have feon the lo^es inflicted od power, for the international capital- thcm in and behind their lines, but ists can do no better business than say "You can't beat us. We can't they are doing now, and their purses bo beaten." appear not full yet. That is different from the oia "With us the distress gets greater phrase: "We're winning. Victory is from day to day, and already many certain for Germany," and it is a long poor people are suffering from under- way from the acknowledgment of de- feeding. We will, however, hope and feat or possible defeat. There are act, for surely the good sense of the times when the pessimists among us peoples may conquer in the end." «re tempted to think that the Ger-; .t. mans have mysterious reserves of ' strength from which they can heal ; their wounds, and that the success gained is only local, and has not yet injured the German war machine in ^ Many \ears. A WOMAN'S SECRET. Wife Masqueraded as a Husband for Letters Reveal Truth. French Govern- ment in communication with firms into a mold j capable of carrying out orders satis- factorily at a reasonable price; and, 4. To sjiread the orders in such a way as to (fistriliute employment, and thus accelerate delivery. How the Commission Ilegaii. The commission began with a Brit- ish staff of a dozen, established in a ' small office in Queen Anne's cham- ' bcrs. Since its inception its sources and are of the best quality, Co-operative Purchasing. This principle of co-operative pur- has been gradually extended to cover purchases made on behalf of all the Allied Governments, and it now in- cludes military, naval and civilian delegates from each of England's Al- lies (including even Portugal), to- gether with representatives of the War Office, Ministry of Munitions and other British Government Depart The cure for such pessimism is found in letters captured in the Ger- man dugouts and on the German prisoners. They draw the veil aside and tell the naked truth. Through chase has been followed very close in I all these letters, written by men connection with supplies of cereals, whose sons are fighting or dead, and which are purchased on behalf of the by comrades in arms, not hiding their Allies by a single committee consist- thoughts from each other, there is a ing of members of the Commission cry against the blood.shed and misery Internationale de Ravitaillement and of this war, and for peace at all the Board of Agriculture. j costs. Then there is the whole tremendous ; 'By now the town of Offenbach question of the provision of tonnage has five thousand widows, and be- scope f,^p ^|,p transport of these immense sides that there are the unmarried supplies and of the regulation of , men who have fallen." freightsâ€" a question which demands j "Our company lost all its officers the closest application on the part of and ten men, but that is the same the shipping advisers attached to the commission. When all the ships re- quisitioned from the British Mer- chant service for war purposes are reckoned, there remains only a limit- ed proportion of tonnage available -♦- A Deserted Village, The first time you see a destroyed and deserted village you have strange feeling, especially when you know that the smashing process may be resumed any minute, says a writer in Cartoons Magazine. Can you imagine a village which has no inhabitants â€" houses with only parts of walls standing, perambulators, chairs, bed- steads and pictures heaped up In confusion, churches destroyed as if stepped on by a giant, tombs a tumbled-up heap in the churchyards, no children at play, no shops, no sounds except the echo of your foot- steps and the roar of (listant guns? You'll find them in the war zone. ments, under the general direction of f^,. ^^^^ carriage of coal, wheat and Sir Edmund Wyldbore Smith, of the ^^y^^^ commodities. This tonnage is of necessity most rigidly regulated and apportioned, and the existence of the commission, which can centralize all information as to the requirements of the the dif- ferent Allied Governments and the possibilities of meeting them, is of invaluable assistance to those in whose hands rests the final decision as to the distribution of the available ' Board of Trade. I Its personnel is now numbered at j nearly 500; its huge office has miles ] of corridors, containing about 300 rooms. Harbored happily on its many floors are no fewer than eight separ- ate national colonies â€" French, Rus- sian, Italian, Belgian, Serbian, Portu- guese, Japanese and English. Multiplicity of Arteries. with every company and every regi- ment on the Somme. I, alas, could not get the much-desired wound to send me home." An amazing story of a woman who masqueraded as a man and was found out by the Mill Hill Medical Board was told at a North London tribunal. Her employer appealed for the worker as his "foreman." The chairman, holding up a letter, expressed surprise that the employer urged that this "man" was indispens- able to him in his work. Did he know that "he" was a woman? 1 The employer smiled incredulously, and suggested that the chairman had made a mistake, for his foreman was married, with two children. The chairman read a certificate from the Mill Hill Medical Board, which stated that the person named 1 upon it was unfit for the army "by i reason of the fact that the doctors' examination disclosed that the per- son was a woman. It transpired that the "man" had been before the Advisory Committee, I and on a certificate then produced The commission, whose purchases British mercantile marine, I was sent to the Medical Board. On Riots Are Told Of. | the deception being discovered there There have been riots in Hamburg ' ^a\«o'n«^^''"^ "'^f consternation in and other places, according to letters t^e barracks. It is understood that found in the trenches, and in the .'•?! T'"^'! ^^^ passing as a man to spirit of civilian Germany there â-  is i rising anger against those who made I the war and caused all this misery, j and who keep it lasting for political and dynastic reasons. The German Beautiful Creatures That Live Below Socialists, it seems, are at last be- ; ginning to find their voices again, hide from her husband. •> _ SEA BUTTERFLIES. if one may judge from such letters as the following written by an edu cated hand: the Surface of the Sea. "Just as there are sea flowers," The marriage ceremony in France, in very remote times, consisted of the man paring his nails and send- ing the pieces to the girl of his choice. Then they were man and wife. Great War Chiefs of Britain and France Who Planned Drives of Alhed Armies on Western Front "I 10 FT to rlfhl: Artlatldo Hriand. Fronuh rremler; fJeneial .toffrc. General de Castleiuiu, Chief oC the l''iench General ataif ; LJoyd Oenrge, Great Britain's Minister of War; M. Thomas, l-Yench Minister of Mtinltions; and (ieneral n.(%icB, French Mlniater of War. This gathering of the greatest of l<Yance'.s War Chiefs and Lloyd Qeorge, Britain's Minister of War. la oua of the moat notabla conferences that have taken place since the be- ginning of the great war. said a naturalist, "so there are sea butterflies. They are beautiful trans- parent creatures, found in the Medi- terranean. They are caught in nets much as you would catch land but- terflies, but, of course, it is necessary to collect them in jars of siea water. "There are a number of varieties, the most beautiful being known as the 'needle butterfly.' Its body con- sists of a shelly substance clear as glass, to which are fastened the wings, composed of a gauze-like ma- terial and as full of color as an opal. "Sea butterflies are without eyes, like some species of fish, and, unlike the butterflies of the land, they are rarer in sunny than cloudy weather. In midsummer, indeed, they leave the surface and descend into the deep, many fathoms down." A Real Jail Bird. "If you don't mind, sir," said the new convict, addiessing the warden, "I should like to bo put at my own trade." "That might be a good idea," said the warden. "What i •- your trade?"' "I'm an aviator," raid the new ar- rival. Formerly the bridegroom endowed his bride not, as to-day, "with all his worldly goods," but with his "cattle." The more a man brags about him- self the less use he is to his bors. ITtJBSSS WANTED. A number of aupllcant.s are desired fi>r the Training School for Nurses, Mo.'ipltal for Iiisniie: Toronto. Three J''"in'..J our.sc. lieoluroa start October 1. i»16. I'robatloners begin at $13 00 H montli, with board, uniform and laundry. Apply Miss E. V. West Tlead Nurse, flag Queen St. \V , Tcuoii- lo. J" r y