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'^ ^':> i\ ffousclioM Btpartmcnt i-:': Useful Hints and Qeneral Information for the Busy Housewife I'seful lieciprs. Bran (iemsâ€" ^lix a cup of white flour, two cups of Ijran and a cup and a half of milk, a teaspoon of soda, two tablespoons of mola<<sos and one egg. Bake in gvm pans twenty minutes. Coroanut jumblea â€" Cream a cup of BUgar and half a cup uf butter. Add a cup of milk, half a cup of cocoanut, i two I'KK.s, two tcusiiooiis of baking i powder and flour enough to roll. Drop I by spoonfuls on a buttere<l pan. | Cottage I'ie â€" Lino baking dish with mashed potatoes. Fill with chopped . meat of any kind, after seasoning with ' onion, salt and pepper. Over this pread a layer of any codked vegetable- Cover with buttered cracker crumbs and buke in moderate oven about one- half hour. Cornatarch Cake. â€" One cupful com- Rtarch, two of flour, one of butter, two of sugar, one of sweet milk, one teaspoon of cream of tartar, one-half , teaHpuon soda, yolks of six eggs. Split I the cake after it is cold, take the ' whites of the eggs, and, with sufficient] -Mtgin; to ffWB^en, t.pt.euii-*u layeCr.lhett j put on top; presb a few pieces of pop-! corn over top. | Fruit I'ulls. â€" .Sift together one and , one-half cups flour, one and one-half teaspoonfus baking powder, two table- 1 spoons granulated sugar and one- j third teaspoon salt; add two-thirds, cup dates, stoned and chopped, two i tablespootig melted butter, one cup , milk and one egg. the white and yolk beaten separately. Bake hi gem ' pans in a hot oven anil ser.e with' lemon hj«uce, or any preferre<l. Use ' raisins, chopped figs and fruit instead ; of dates for u change. Pudding Sauce. â€" Mix two table- spoons flour with one cup -^ugar, add; a little cold vater to stir smooth, then] one and one-half cup Ixjiling water, a pinch of salt and butter the size of a | walnut. Let cook until clear, and: flavor with a generous teaspoon lemon extract ur the juice of half a lemon. Minced Ham. â€" Two cupfuls minced ham, four eggs, u scant half-cupful flojr, one cupful milk, one-quarter teaspounful pipper. Dissolve the flour ii: the milk, bring to a l>oil, and add the ham and pepper. Separate the egK-, beat yolks thoroughly and • the whiles till stiff. Add yolks to . mi.xture, and fold in the whites. Put in a buttered baking dish, set in a pan of hot water, and let the puff rise to the top of the dish. This takes from ' otie-haU to three-i|uartcrs of an hour. Hemovc from the water and brown. , Kice Cake. â€" Cook, drain and cool half a cupful of rici-. Mix it with a quart of milk, a little salt, the yolks of four eggs and beat. When il is ; smooth, adil alternately half a pound of flour and a l.ea| ing teaspoonful of baking powiier mixed with the stiff whiles of the four eggs. Cook in spoonfu'.s on u hot jcreased griddle. KggleHH Dutch Loaf. â€" I'se one cup- ful of light brcuil .lough, add half cup of sugar and ttw tal)l(-spoi>nful of but- ter. Work all tijjtethoi' until very smooth. Add halt cupful of raisins and any desired spico. Shape into loaves. I,et rhisi- to double the size. Hake forty-five minute.< in moderate oven. Nut ltr«ad. â€" One egg, one cup gran- ulated lUgar, one iind one-half cu|)S sweet milk, fmir cups flour, fmn- large leasppons bakine powder, one and one- , ijuartei cups clioppfil nut nicnt.s .-tiid a I |)iiich of salt. I'our in two baking; pans, let stand (if'fieii minutes, then J bake forty-five minutes in :i "low oven.! Tea Crumpets. â€" Put two well-beaten , eggs in one quart i.f milk ami as much j flour as will mal.c them rathi-i- thick-: er than baiter pu 'ding. Then make; bake stone or griddle very hot and , grease it well; pour a large spoonful of lialler so that it may run the size | of II saucer. When ready to use, toast' them crisp on both sides and butter them. Boiled potatoes are ever .so much better if they are boiled gently. T"-e simmering burner of the gas range is just right for this. Test with a fork at the end of a half hour, and when mellow drain off the water, and if they must stand bef >re serving place a cloth over them rather than a tin cov- er. Old potatoes with a strong flavor should be pared before boiling and soaked in cold water. For creamed p(*atoes use chopped, baked or boiled potatoes. When these are mixed with the ingredients for the cream sauce, set the saucepan over the simmering burner upon an asbes'.os mat. This slow process will ensure a delicious creamy mixture. Kitchen Knowledge. Corn starch, arrow rott or tapioca may be used to thicken cream soups. Oranges, banana., a.n<l figs cut up to- gether make a very delicious (lessert. Winter fruits that need cooking are most whole.some cooked without sugar. Thin cold heef served with potato *alad and brown bread is a good sup- per. When making pudding soak the bread or cake ir. cold milk; il makes il light. Hot milk causes heaviness. Eggs, fruit and whole-wheat bread make a perfect early breakfast for a business man. Wheri mixiiijf fruit or nuts in a cake, they should be added before the flour. They will then be evenly dis- tribute<i. Dates are so nutritious and can be cooked in so many ilifferent ways, it is surprising they are not more general- ly used. Five cents worth of tartar emetic mixed with an equi>l amount of sugJir, moistened and place<l where the ants are, will drive them away. Il is a very wise plan to put shi.'its of newspaper under bedding and car- pets, anri in frosty weather to tie them around water pipes to prevent hursiinig. When the spring of a window shade is run down, it is a good idea to wind it up with a button hookâ€" putting tie hook around the .-^mall metal end which is to be turned. Beets are much better and sweeter baked than boiled. They should be put in the oven in n baking pan and turned freijuently, then when tender serve<I with olive oil and lemon juice. Shoulder of pork i.s deliiious when stuffed. Fluy a nice fresh shoulder; have the butcher bone it, then stuff it. Sew it up tight, roll it in a cloth and boil it two hour.s. Then remove the cloth from it, put it in an iron baking pan and bake it two hours. FOX-HUNTING IN ENGLAND FAMOUS BRITISH SPORT MAY PERISH AFTER THE WAR. .Many Prominent Hunting Men Are .\niong the Fallen on Europe's Battlefields. Fox-hunting circles in England are reported by the London Daily Tele- len Palmer, killed in action, F.H., of the Cattistock, and Cap M. K. L. Loyd, who hunted the Li erton hounds, was also killed in the ' war. Brig.-General, the Earl of Long- ford, one of the heroes of the Galli- poli expedition, himted the Westmeath hounds. He was for a long time re- ported wounded and missing, but is now listed with the dead. A famous hunting man and poloist who died in the Egyptian campaign was Major Leslie Cheape. Staggering Blow to Sport. Lieut. -Col. Harold Brassey, another noted polo player and devoted hunter, is among the fallen, as is Colonel R. . J. Garden, Mr. Cecil .\ltlin, noted art- General Nivelleâ€" of Verdun â€" France's .New (ieneralissimo. "I leave you after a splendid day. We have onco more tested our j methods, and th« result is conclusive. Once more the Second Army has- I shown its moral and material supremacy over the enemy. Victory is cer- I tain. I give you my word on that, as Germany will learn to her cost." With tho.se ringing words. General Nivelle bade adieu to his staff at Ver- ! dun, on leaving to take up the post of French (ieneralissimo on the western j front, lie cleared the outworks of Verdun of the enemy by his October I victory at Douaumont-Vaux. His last act was to witness the magnificent I victory between the Meuse and the Woevrc of December 15. He planned ; the coup; Generals Pctain and Mangin carried it out under his eyes. I General Uobert Nivelle is in l)lnod half an Englishman. His mother was ' the daughter of one of Wellington's cflicers, and other English connections I were Elizabeth Carter, Dr. .Johnson's friend, and a grandfather, the cele- ' brated writer; George Sale, translator of the Koran. ROAHB IN CHINA. .Made So Narrow That Cannot Pass. \'ehicles see some day that the welfare of the many is the welfare also .f the few, and that service is worth while accord- ing to the benefit il affords, these troubles will doubtless have an end. Meanwhile, traveling in the and of Confucius is, not a pleasure, but a penance. (;K<)W FOOD IN .St HOOL PLOTS. j Every Chinese road is a forced contribution on the part of individual ! Chinamen to the public welfare. But j nothing on earth is of so little interesi I to a Chinaman as public welfare. I That he should be compelled to make |any contribution to it is extremely ../-., galling to him. Add to that the fact ! Minister of Education Lrges the Cul that the road is made across his land j tivation of (Jarden Space. is still counted as part of his land I That the value of , when it comes to paying taxes, and L,.o,iiiction could be increased by $10,- |you may form some idea of the re- oOd.OdO by proper cultivation of gar- luctance with which the Chinese land-j^,.,, pi„tj „„d vacant land in urban I owner gives up his portion of the i n,„„i,.jp„iitiej. ^j fmn, 0,,^ to nine I public- highway. The very sight of jj,„usan(l population, is the statement I neighbors and strangers making use u^,,, p^ p^.^p j, making to school ^of that .strip of land brings the bit- j tpj^chers anil inspectors in an endeavor terest resentment to his bosom. | ^^^ "speed up" food production in the I In order to lose as little soil as pos- 1 p^Q^jupg ^p^^ year. .sible. he puts the roud at the end of i ^he Minister hasissue.l instructions jhis field, where the adjoining owner L^ teachers of agriculture and horti- Imusl share one half of th.- public ..^,1^,^^^, j,, ^^^^, ..,ohools to devote their I donation with him. liul his neigh- . „„p„,i„„ ,^ practical food growing ,bors land may not I.f of the same [ „p^, s„n,mer, increa.sing the .«pace de- length as his, so that the two piec- \.^,^^,^ ,^ ,,ia„t^ „f f,„„, value and lim- graph to be seriously disturbed over . jst and master of the South Berks, has the prospects for their sport after the 'â-  logt his only son at the front. Mid- war. They are now trying to combat ; shipman Eden, Lieut. J. Twinbarrow a movement which, if ' successful, ' and Lieut. R. As.'=heton Biddulph were would exterminate all existing foxes, ; ^\\ the sons of masters of hounds, and would thus absolutely destroy the | All have been killed, and the Tele- sport. In time of peace fox-hunting praph compiles a list of many noted has always been held in contempt by hunting men who were early in the a certain portion of the community, field and first among the fallen. Sev- It has been denounced as cruel to | grai hunt secretaries have been killed, foxes, as the sport of the wealthy, as , and it is no exaggeration to .say that a detriment to agriculture, and as a ' there is not a hunt in England or sinful waste of money. Now, in time ^ Iceland that has not mourned many of war, the attacks have redoubled, i members killed in action, died of and the champions of tho great Eng- ; wounds or so disabled that never lish outdoor sport fear that the re- ] again will they be able to take their formers may be able to destroy it ab- ' old places. The sport has suffered solutely. It cannot be said that fox- 1 not only from the loss of leaders and hunting is keeping eligible men out 1 prominent supporters in action, but of the army. No class rushed with I from the death of veteran masters, greater determination to arm.s than ! whose places because of the war are the sporting community in England, j not likely to be filled. Even the wo- nor the country gentlemen and their , men are working for their country, families. Now that there is conscrip- 1 Therefore, the great old sport is left tion, no man who is qualified to serve , naked to itx enemies. If the war can remain at home to chase the fox. should result in the destruction of It is urged, however, that there are i fox-hunting, there can be no doubt hundreds of thou.sands of acres of! that a great many thousands of fine land in the British Isles which are re- old English gentlemen and tlicir fami- ser\cd for fox-hunting which ought I lies will continue to cherish for Ger- to be used for the production of food, many a hatred, pa.ssing the hatred of though, as the hunting takes place women, as long as they live, only in the Fall and Winter, it is not plain how it interferes with agricul- tu rt Hunting and War. In defence of their sport the mas- ters who have remained at home be- cause they are too old to go to the : front or because the nation has de- cided that they are more useful on the north side of the English Channel, have been compelled to point out what a great part in the war hunting men have filled. Up to the present GRAVES OF .SOLDIERS. Prince of Wales .<<peaks at Meeting of Committee on This Work. The Prince of Wales attended a meeting in London recently of the committee for the care of soldiers' graves at which there were present Sir Geo. Pcrley and other representa- tives of the Dominion. The Prince mentioned that l.'iO.OOO graves were now registered. "Over sauce, sauce, goose- Suitable Accompaniments to Meats. Uuast beef Tomato sauce, grated hoiHeradish, cranberry sauce, pickles. Roast pork Apple sauce. Roast veal - Tomato, mushroom and onion sauce, Roast lamb Mint sauce. Roast turkeyâ€" (,'ranberry currant jelly. Boiled fowl â€" Bread sauce, sauce, lemon sauce, jellies. Roast mutton -Caper sauce. G(Misj or duckâ€" Cranberry jellies, apples saur^.. Boiled mackerel^Stewed beriicH. Bidled bluefish Cream or lemon •auce. Boiled shad- -Mushroom sauce, piii- slcy or egg sauce. Fresh salmon â€" (ireen pens and cream sauce. Boileo halibutâ€" Egg sauce. Time and Heat in Cooking. Roast.s of meat should be put in a very hot oven and the heal reduced in fifteen minuteg. The usual allowance of lime fur a medium rare roast is fifteen minutes fgr every pound of meat. The length of time required for baking potatoes ilcpends on the size of the tubers, but i n average time for fair'.y large potatoes is forty-five min- ut*!. BlILI) MERCHANT AKM ADA. Britain Will Construct VasI Fleet of Mercantile Shipping. Th>* creation of a mighty armada of British mercantile siiipping within six months after the end of the war was prophesieil by a high naval authority in a statement made in London re- cently. Facilities for shipbuilding in (Jreat Hrituiii, il is' asserted, have been HO greatly nugumcnted during the war that British yards can easily outdistance all German competition. "Once our effort is concentrated on merchant shipping," this olTlrial said, "it will be possible to build vessels in less than ninety days, and perhaps faster, if they are standardized ships. Even with so much labor diverted to war purposes wo have been able to construct 9,000-ton liners in three months' time. "The stimulus to shipbuilders work- ing under war pressure and on war ve-isels will continue when it comes to building merchantmen, for the men will accept the challenge of the Ger- mans. Never in her history has Bri- tain had at her disposal such a highly efflcient and large body of shipbuild- ers as she will have when the war closes. We can view the future with equanimity, regardless of German pre- dictions." j of roail do not fit together well. I (hint-so highways have a wonderful j I tendency to zig 7.«g. ( The road is the exact wiilth of the jChinesi- vehicle. Il is true that carls I must meet somesvhere, but for such 1 inevitable meetin(;s no provision is jmade; in such ca.se the drivers must! , turn (Hit on the planted Itold. To; prevent that, the it ing that given to flower<< ] "With the same object in view the I home garden projects should be en- i largeil and extensive use made of va- cant lots and other unoccupied areas ' in order to take advantage of the ]w- teiitial labor of boys and girls from eight to sixteen, much of which in thi' ordinary course of events is not cavalry has not played a very import- ,jo of 400 burial grounds have already ant part in the fighting along the i,een laid out under advi.-e of the Western front, although there are ex- Direetor of the Roval Botani.- Gar- Ontario's food ""^P*'""* ,^° **^"* "''•^' ''"^ '" the Mons dg„5 , ^ave seen how beautiful â-  letreat the cavalry did work that will these cemeteries look when the flow- never be forgotten. But if jt is ad- ^^s are out. It is especially gratify- mitted that ca%alry is likely to prove i„g ,0 me to know my visit" from the important in this war or in future frum .should coincide with the first wars It is not to be denied that in the attendance of this committee of re- production of cavalry horses the sport of fox-hunting has had a leading role. The ideal hunter is the idea! charger, and that is as true to-day as it was in the days of Charles O'Malley. Sport .Makes Good Soldiers. The sport, however,:; one that makes demands upon those (|ualilles of manhood that are likely to be most valuable in time of war. A man can- not f«dlow the hounds without having plenty of nerve. Often the coldest kind of courage is needed. Quick thinking is stimulated. Riders get "an eye for country" which would be presentatives of the Dominion Gov- ernments. .\s the army in the field is now an Imperial army, so this com- mittee should be an Imperial com- mittee, entrusted by the Empire with the task of fittingly and cnduringly commemorating th* common sacrifice of the best blood of the generation, a sacrifice which forms one of the sacred links of the Empire." The committee subseijuently sidered the iiuestions of marking graves of the Dominion soldiers died in England. Mirk's Share Doubtful. con- the who ... , , ., ^ owner ha.s cut « j i.tiji^.ed," says the Minister. The in- ditch alongside th,- road, as deep and ,p^.,,„., „,„ ^j,^^,, ,„ ^„,j, ^^^ as steep as a Kas-mam ditvh n, "ur i ^,. ,^ „f agricultural education and to cities. I he drivc-r on the road can invaluuble for a leader of mounted troops; and if it were not for the Two Irishmen were one day going hunting there would not be nearly 90 over a bridge and saw the following many men who are at home on horse- notice; back. The sport conduces to j.hysical ".\ny i.erson stiving a life will jfet j hanlihood and t; longevity. Mr. W. â- $•"'. an<l for a dead biwly $J.."iO." de Salis Filgate was master of the I Said .Mick to Pat: "We ought to Louth hounds for more than fifty make some money out of this." years, and in that time he did not miss "Thrue for ye." said Pat. "You fall u single day they were out, either cub- [in the water, and I will pull you out." , bing or regular hunting, and he never "All right." .said Mick, and he drop- "^^ altered a meet for his own conveni- 1 petl over the bridge. Whal Belgium Wants. ence. Many similar instances might j Pat. after trying some three or four \t a meeting held at Paris in Janu- 1 he quoted if it were necessary, but 'tinies to get Mick out. was arrested I road causes dust, which is blown ary to protest against enemy deport- that fox-hunting has the advantages by a voice from the water, calling out: [across the near-by fields, and tramples j ation of Belgian workmen M. Vander- â-  mentione^l is not denied by those who "Beciad, if you don't look sharp, we ' neithei turnout for the driver he meets; nor can he pass under or over him. I .lust how the two will pass is one of , the many Chinese nuzzles, which the I landowner does not think thai il I his business to v\-i.rk out. , Constant travel ovei- this narrow 1 IS induce school boards that have not established classes in agriculture to imderlake the work, and so utilize scho(d and home garden space. the surface of tin- way down hard, vclde of the Belgian Cabinet, him.^elf j Both causes lower the road poiceiiti- a Socialist, read from a manifesto i.^ ..I , bly. As ppose the sport. How Are the Mighty Fallen! soon as the rains begin sued by his countrymen, the victims ,\ notable list might be compiled of ami the land has received its fill of of German slavery, as follows: "What- ,he prominent hunting men, masters water. I he remaining moisture .seeks ever be our tortures we want peace .,,,,1 others, who have fallen in the present war. The Earl of Faveisham, shall only get $2.60." WAR FOOD FLOW ER BEDS. Convalescent HomeH Plant Gardens in I'olatofH. Sir Alfred Miind, the First Commis- sioner of Works, London, England, is setting an example to local authorities in dealing promptly with fooil produc- tion in parks and open spaces. With the King's approval he has given in- structions for the grounds of the Con- valescent Home for Officers of tho NaVy and Army, at Osborne, Isle of Wight, to be planteil with potatoes. Before the war those portions of the grounds open to the puiilic, iiot- ablf the Swiss Cottage gardens, were a b^axe of color all the summer. Very littki gardening has been dime since, but the decision of the First Com- missioner of Works cannot fail to be an object-lesson in the use of iillc ground. Worcester Cathedral schoolboys during the ('hiislmas holidays ilii),; up the ('athedral close, an acre-plot, whose ancient elms were blown down last year. .Some folks don't know the value of money and others over-value it. the lowest level -which is the road, only with the independence of our lUit one road is still lower than an- eountry and the triumph of justice." other, so that the water flows in the It is as natural forjiormal individu- (lirection of the lower "highways." als to applaud this heroic stand as it The higher roads form creeks, and the ' is to condemn, even impatiently, the lower ones collect the watery into, agitators for peace who afford the lakes. In any case, travel is out of secret agents of dastardly, enemy in- the question during the rainy .season, trigues a golilen opportuni'ty for .ser- The action of the flowing water is vice, not favorable to the roudbeil. The water tears away the looser soil and who fell last Septomber, not only lill ed a large place in public affairs, but was master of the Sinnington hunt in Yorkshire. Lord Lucas was an en- thusiastic fox hunter, as well as a great authority upon agriculture. He fell on the fioKl of honor. Sir Robert New Regulation. .According to the German papers a new regulation has been issued in re- gard to old boots and clothing. For the year liMT only two pairs of so- called "shoes de luxe" will be allow- ed each person in return for cast-off but still wearable pairs. The utiliza- tion of cast-off dolhing is entrusted to communities which will have a monopoly of purchase of the articles. ruts great gaps in the path. (Iradual ly the roadbeds become well-nigh ini passable. The farmer does not trouble him- self about the uneven road; he is con- cerned with his field. In case some soil has been carried away by the water, he digs into the road and throw.s whatever soil he can get back into his field. It sometimes happens that a road is lowered as 1 much as (Uie foot during a single year.' Next year's rain.s will woik still worse 1 havoc; but why should the farmer! worry? Public welfare is concern-! ed, not he. If fidks wish to travel by a better road, they may look for one. j The obvious suggestion that roads lie built higher thar the fields falls on deaf enrs. One farmer could not do il by himself. To find two farmers agreeing on this one issue would be too much ti) expect in China. As for the traveling public, not one of them would raise a finger to encourage or assist the farmer; that would help too many other people The municipal government on its part has enough to do keeping tho imperial highway in order; rural roads are none of its con- cern. Should the Chinese villager come to Don't save all your smiles for the parlor use a few in the kitchen! No man has a ri(fht to expect his ; jor Lancasitcr, who was killed last wife to he a good cook unless he is ; May, also left a bequest to the Hunt that kind of a provider. Servants' Benefit Soiietv. Major Al- Filmer, who dieti of wounds several The exchange of old for new articles months ago, was formerly master of | will be carried out on tho ticket sys- the Blankney, and that he treasured tern, the number and character of the memory of his early (lays is proved by I changes allowed each person being the fhct that he left fJ.odO to the regulated by appropriate ticket. widow of his former huntsman. Ma- Women may live longer than men, but, as a rule, they don't live ipiite as much. CIGARETTES â- -â- Jftj B -J caEjgjC3 i.j i LjLm ncac:m-jrjci :«:hc .-.^