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flOUSEHOLP [tightly. Oook for forty-fir* min- ! utes until meat is tender. Spread with butter, ialt and pepper and serve heaped with onions sliced very thin and fried until slightly brown in butter. The liquid left in pan should be thickened and poured over the whole dish. COUNTESS OF ABERDEEN. The work of the Countess of Aber- de flwt in Ireland) by en box than in tin. Salt of alum sprinkled on the Dainty Ulshe*. Prune Pudding. Eiuse prunes in old water, split and remove pits ; lay the fruit in alternate layer with tale graham bread crumbs, crumb- led iry fine. Dot each layer of bread with bits of butter and add sufficient milk to moisten. Have top layer of bread dotted with but- ter only ; cover and bake f or tw ;n ty minutes, then uncover and brown. Nutmeg Hard Sauce. Mix one- half cupful of sugar, one-fourth cupful of butter, and one-fourth teaspoonful of grated nutmeg to a oream, then beat into this the stiffly beaten white of one egg ; heap on a diih and set in cold place until wanted. Stuffed Bass Any fish may be served this way. Clean the fish. Dip soda crackers into boiling water a second; then mix in one dar id to be a good way to nints to Housekeepers. Bread will keep bettsr in a wood- oarpet will keep insects away. Save old felt hats to make felt insoles for slippers and rubber boots. Olives, celery and cold macaroni on lettuce leaves make a good salad. A few shreds oj candied lemon peel will give a delicious flavor to bread pudding. A good idea is to wash stockings by themselves in a small tub. This does away with lint. Piano keys may be cleaned by a soft rag dipped in lemon juice and then in silver whiting. Some people tliink the flavor of pumpkin pie much improved by a little quince preserve. Wiping the shelves with oil of ce- tablespoonful of butter, and salt *nd pepper to suit ; add as many mall raw oysters as desired and tut? the fish, drawing the loose flec-h over the opening, together Sh clean twine. Lay the fish on D slices of pork and place a few more on top. Bake from twenty to lorty minutes, according to size of Ash. Creamed Celery on Toast. Cook tbe outside stalks in just enough water to make tender ; then press all through sieve. To one cupful of pulp allow two cupful* of milk, and when heated thicken with flour to make Just creamy. Season with alt and pepper, adding one tea- poonful of butter. Pour over toa8t and serve. ) PL-- Poached In Tomato Sauce- Cook the hard parts of the toma- toes and one chopped greeU pepper, after discarding the seeds 'and all white membrane. Add three sprigs of partley. When the tomatoes are tender, press through a iieve and add one-half cupful ot milk to each two cupfula of sauce. Place in a hallow pan and bring to the sim- mering point ; then ilip in the eggs and poach. Place the cooked eggs on toast, season the sauce with but- ter, and pour over all. Potato Salad Boil the vege- tables, and when cold pare and cut, adding one-fourth as much carrot and one-half a green pepper cut in- to ilivpri, and one tablespoonful of minced chives ; mix thoroughly. Heat one-fourth cupful of melted bacon fat, one-fourth cupful of vine- gar, one-fourth teaspoonful each of dry mustard and pepper, and one- keep the mold from books. Boiled rice covered with grated cheese and baked brown in the oven makes a good luncheon dish. A good lotion for burns and scalds is lime water and olive oil, applied with a soft muslin rag. In house decoration the pieces of bnass and copperware should be used to light up dark rooms or baUs. If you have 110 curtain frames, stretch your curtains on a clean carpet to dry and pin them in place. If a lamb chimney does not clean easily with soap and water, try wiping it off with a cloth wet in vinegar. Crackers covered with grated cheese and toasted in the oven are good served with salad for lunch- eon. Dip tooth brushes in boiling water occasionally to disinfect them and always rinse thoroughly after using. Dried bay berries and leaves thrown on the fire will fill a room with a pleasant and lasting frag- rance. If soft-boiled eggs remain from breakfast, boil them hard at once ; then they can be used in salads or fish Kauces. A little turpentine sprinkled among the clothes or put about the closets will make moths flee and exterminate cockroaches. It will take spots out of muslin, and if a tableepoonful be added to a boiler- ful of clothes it will whiten them much It is good for a cut or burn. An easy way to clean decanters or bottles with small -nocks is to chop a potato into small pieces. . , -. ,. ., ujiju u mjiawj mi*; siiiHii ijirctin. * a * P " f "l, f _ 1 * lt .. ; .. POU _ r , t . h '!|Put these into the decanter with over the vegetables, cover and set away until cold. Meat Id-' j" -. ..Beef Curry with Kioe Take two pounds of beef from the 'round, rump, or ohuck and cut into pieces about three inches square. Place in a atewpan three tablespoonfuls of finely chopped onion and a good ized apple cut into small pieces ; fry in two tablespoonfuls of fat or butter until slightly brown. Stir in two or three cloves, a pinch of cinnamon and ginger, one table- warm water and shake vigorously up and down. When the glass be- gins to shine empty out the pota- to and rinse several times with cold water. An excellent way to clean a car- pet is to put into a pail a small quantity of soft soap and two or three teaspoonfuls of ammonia. Pour in enough hot water to make a good lather, stirring with a stick. When the soap has dissolved fill up virtuc of her husband's poaitkm as Viceroy, shows what a woman of influence can do when her heart is vitally occupied with the people's welfare. "Her Excellency" has long been devoted to philanthropic work, but her great service to Ireland has been through the Woman's National Health Association, organized by her about five years ago. This soci- ety has its headquarters in one of the most Dublin, venerable sixteenth buildings in century resi donee which belonged to the Mar- quis of Khys, until the Countess purchased it. Tne officers of her organization occupy the lower floor. On the second storey, reached by a wonderfully wrought staircase with large golden lions, spreading eagles, and raging boars carved in its panelings, are her apartments. Here she works with untiring en- ergy, managing the work of the large organization grown now to a membership of 19,000 with 160 out- side branches, and connecting with the most remote corners of the is- land. Every work that can benefit public health or conduce to the wel- fare of the people is undertaken. Housing, town planning, the mak- ing of empty town spaces into gar- den playgrounds, supervising the milk supply, campaigning against consumption, instructing mothers and older girls on the care of in- fants, maintaining a system of dis- trict nurses to visit the schools and Countess of Aberdeen. with more hot water, bing brush in the Dip a scrub- solution and brush lightly over the carpet, af- terward rubbing with a dry cloth. u se poonful of curry powder, half a tableipoonful of flour, and two cups of boiling water. Then add the beef and stew slowly for au leak anything, indeed, except pots hour and a half. When the meat | and pans, or things which are ex- is tender put in salt, pepper, and j posed to fire heat. An nnaniel ba- paprika, also a squeeze of lemon | ''in, for instance, may have a hole fuioe, and it ii ready to nerve. | filled with sealing-wax and be in fitramrd or boiTt-d rice should be j daily heaped about the platter, the curry being in the center. Brained lleef Select 3 pounds of be<-f rump, rinse in cold water, wipe dry, sprinkle with pepper and salt, and dredge, thoroughly with flour and brown in hot fat, which may be taken from the boef itself, un- til the entire surface of beef is browned over. Place on trivet in ! the homes of the poor throughout the country, are some of its activi- ties. Recently a rather unique work has been started- -a system of health lectures. The association sends lady health lecturers out to Sealing-wax is usefully employed various districts und they give talks to mend househokd articles which "'"strated by lantern slides on such subjects us "Tht Breath of Life," "The Health of the Child," "Town Planning," "Making Gardens of Wast-e Places," etc. The lecturers travel in a huge van, the "bluebird . v . for long afterwards. I caravan," drawn by a pair of splen- Chinaware and zinc articles maybej dld horses, and create much excite- successfully treated in the same way. M MM MILLIONS TINKERING. MUMHU Character Enjoyed Howl- ing Like a Dog nt l>HH!>r*hy. There has recently died one of ment as they go through the coun- try. In some of the poorest districts branch societies supply meals for tile school children. In others, the work of the school is ttupplemented by ! classes in gardening, poultry and bee keeping, or in musical and dra- matic societies. Indeed, every phase of life, physi- cal, mental and *ocial is minister- deep granite pan surround with ' the be , t known characters in Mos- , ,.,_ _ , 11I1 , llol ,, 1 . vegetables cut into dice ; one-fourth (COW! thfl Vfl ,. y wea .i, hy Bala-sheff, I | to through its relation to the who worked his way up in the world i heaUh of the comnunity. The juglinn and wrangling! of parties cup of carrots, onions, turnips, and celery, together with one-half tea- spoonful of peppercorn. Pour over this three cups of boiling water, cover closely and bake in oven for four hours. Baste every thirty minutes. After two hours turn from a mere tinker who mended the samovars (tea urns) to a full and (xilicies are silenced before the roast on other^side. ^ Serve with a ! dog kennels at his door and would howl and bark a.s much like a dog as his talents would allow at all the passersby. Another idiosyncrasy was to go round to a theatre just before the end of the performance and hire every one of the sledgo drivers and get them to drive away, while he remained to enjoy the eight of the people shivering in the cold and trying hard not to believe that they were abandoned to " Shanks' 8 mare." Most of the begging let- ters he received he had printed and distributed the books free to all fledged man of millions. That lie | straightforward, practical, coimium- was more than a bit "cracked" is undersirable. At times he would crawl into one or other of the two brown sauce made from liquid in the pan. lii'ff a La Worcestershire Either frebh or cold leftovers -from roasts or sU-ks may be utilized for this dieh. If fresh beof is used a longer time is required for the cooking. Place some fat ur butter in a sauce- pan to heat. Cut the beef into thin slices about pile-fourth of an Inch thick ; fry in the fat until brown, then add salt, pepper, and two tablespoonfula of Worcester- shire sauce, and enough boiling water to almost cover beef. When the meat is ready thicken the gravy nd pour over some thin slices of hot buttered toast and serve. This is an excellent savory dish for lunch, Sunday night tea, or even dinner. Panned Ntank Heat some fat in a ekillet until it smokes. Then put in a thick round or flank steak and sear until brown on either side. P>-T about one pint of boiling V-;,- ovt,r *.)<-k and cover skillet comers. One of his last freaks of fantasy w.-is the burial of his two feet that he had to have amputated. He had t.ficrn burled with all ceremony and , erected a monument inscribed, | that which once seemed the very best of which you were capable was only a breathing place for a fresh start. sense basis of such methods of ser- vice. The plan, its system and logic and its effective operation are. due to the wisdom and clear vision of the leader. The Countess of Aber- deen, in this great sane work, is preparing the ground for the new era, when men and women may unite politics -and humanitarianism. Put No Limit. Never put the limit on your own growth or achievements. Never let yourself think that you cannot get beyond a certain point or do more than mediocre work. Every human being has undeveloped pow- ers. The man who makes the most of himself is a rarity. The major- ity let themselves become satisfied with doing a small portion of what thu.v are able to do. Look ahead and go forward, and you will find 'Here rest the feet of BaJaeheff." About half a million foot-passen- gers pass the Mansion House, Lon- don, daily. The chronic kicker is the first to set up a howl if he gets kicked. NEWS OF THE MH WEST BETWEEN ONTARIO AND BRI- TISH COLUMBIA. Items From Provinces Where Many Ontario Boys and Girls Are "Making Good." Edmonton will spend $12,000,000 upon civic improvements. A farmer's elevator has just been completed at Gerald, >S;u k. A company has built a pipe line 170 miles long to supply natural gas to Calgary. Many farmers in the Edmonton district are selling out and moving into /that city. Saskatoon is to have a new steel or concrete bridge, costing about a quarter of a million. There are no cases of infectious diseases at Souris and the health of the city is excellent. Simon Hartness, a B/'dvers, Bask., thresher, was fr.ied $10 and costs for working on Sunday. If the G.T.P. is to be completed by 1914, fifteen thousand laborers must be secured for the work. Fort William and Port Arthur require eight additional street cars to handle the rapidly increasing traffic. From Reston, Man., 250,000 bush- els of wheat have been shipped and 160,000 bushels are awaiting cars. In Alberta there are 2,019 organ- ized school districts. The demand for teachers is greater than the sup- ply. Cleveland capitalists propose to start a glass factory at Mirror, Alta. The name of the town suits the business. There are 2,798 miles of railway in Alberta. For the first ten months of 1912. 098 miles of new railway wore built. Turnips ranging in weight from 17 to 35 pounds were grown last year in the Roland and Darlingford districts of Manitoba. There are orders for sixty-five cars on the book at Castor, Alta., nearly as many as have been ship- ped since the season opened, the number sent out being sixty-eight. The sash and door factory at Veg- reville, Alta.. is running day and night in an effort to fill the great rush of orders resulting from build- ing actively in the town and dis- trict. Mr. and Mrs. Wilkinson Ridley, two of the best known residents of Estevan, Sa.sk., left this week for their old home at Newcastle-on- Tyne, England, where they will make their home.' Fred Holobo, of Canora, Sask., is hauling grain to market with his 20-40 Case gas tractor. The haul- ing of four wagon loads at a time a distance of nine miles, he claims, costs only two dollars a trip. C. McKinnon, of Kincardine, Ont. , has been appointed classical master in Saskatoon Collegiate, at a salary of 81 .900 a year. Mis Jean Dickson, of Portage la Prairie, has been appointed teacher of drawing. Traffic was so congested in the C.P.R.. yard at Minnedosa one day recently that there were twenty- nine locomotives there at one time. Quite a change from the day that tin- M. & N. W. only had two old, leaky locomotives altogether, says the Minnedosa Tribune. . * . The Umbrella. According to recent investiga- tion the umbrella is undoubtedly of high antiquity, appearing in var- ious forms on the sculptured monu- ments of Egypt, Assyria, Greece, and Rome, and in hot countries it has been used since the dawn of history as a sunshade a use signi- fied from its name derived from the Latin "umbra," a shade. In the. East the umbrella has ever been a symbol of power and Roy- alty, and in many countries it has become part of religious as well as Royal symbolism. The Chinese date the first umbrella back to 1,000 or 5,000 years anterior to the Mosaic dato of creation, which would make it about 10,000 or 11,- 000 years old. The largest umbrel- la in the world was made in Glas- gow for a king of East Africa. It can be opened and closed in the usual way, and when open is 21 ft. in diameter. The staff also is 21 ft. long. T7HEN XERXES WENT IN POMP Magnificence of Persian Soldiers In Battle Array. Plain khaki and simple, business- like accoutrements would never have euited the ancient Persian sol- di<M s, whose magnificenc in battle array is thus dscribed by Lu/cie GullW In "The Friendship of Nations" i Silver altars, surrounded by priests chanting sacred hymns, were first in line of march. They were followed by thrc-e hundred and sixty-five youths dressed in purple garments. A chariot dedi- cated to the eun was drawn by s now- white horees, led by grooms wearing white garments and carry- ing golden wands. Ten chariots embossed with gold and .silver preceded the cavalry of twelve nations, dressed in their various costumes and carrying their peculiar arms. Then came the Persian Immor- tals, ten thousand in number, wearing golden chains and robes embroidered with gold :nd glitter- ing with precious stones. Follow- ing at a short distance came fifteen thousand nobles, relatives of the king, dressed in garments wonder- fully wrought. A company of spearmen preceded the king. He rode in an imposing chariot, high above the Kiirround- ing multitude, and wore robes of lurpassing magnificence, and a coatly mitre upon his head. By his side walked two hundred of his moet noble kinsmen. Ten thou- sand warriors, bearing spears with staffs of silver tipped by heads of gold, followed the royal chariot. The king's horses, forty in number, with thirty thousand footmen, end- ed the procession. At some distance followed the mother and wife of the king in chariots, accompanied by their ladies on horseback. Fifteen cars carried the king's children, their tutors and nurse*, and six hundred camels, guarded by archers, bore the royal treasury. The friends and relatives of the ladies followed, with the cooks and servants. Light- armed troops brought up the rear. When a king of those days looked upon his troops and saw their strength and splendor, it is no won- der he felt proud, and wished to lead them to battle. Such an army was not meant to stay at home, where only their countrymen oould seo them. Other nations must know how powerful a king he was. So he and his followers marched away, and war for conquest be- gan. Peoples were forced to give them- selves up to a life of war, either for conquest or defense, and the great highways, which peace would have dedicated to commerce and pros- perity, became military roads over which war took its cruel way. Mistakes (iirls Make. "So many girls who would make excellent wives and mothers go the wrong way of se-tting about getting married," said a matron of exper- ience. "They dress themselves up in such grand clothes that possibly suitors are far too frightened at the, prospect of having to pay for such luxuries to come to the point of a proposal. Again, many girls affect to be smart a; id rynit-al, and to look down upon everyone beneath them, ignoring the fact that there is nothing so attractive in a woman as sweetness, sympathy and good humor." Tourist (at Irish hotel) "You seem tired, Pat?" Waiter "Yiss, sorr. Up very early this morning half-past BIX." Tourist "I don't call half-part six early." Waiter (quickly) "Wll, half-past five, thin l' r A PROUD PASSENGER. White Cockatoo Tyrannized Over Everybody. Sailing from Sydney, Australia, for New Guinea, on the steamship Stettin, Mr. C. D. Maclellan en- countered an indubitable "person- age" ; namely, a large, white cock- atoo with a yellow crest, the be- loved property of the first officer. In "Scented Islands and Coral Gardens," Mr. Mackellan says that the bird tyrannized cruelly over all the pasengers. He is tied with chains or ropes to an iron stanchion, but no bonds can keep him. He gnaws through ropes, demolishes iron chains, digs holes in the deck, and is a perfect fiend of mischief. Once free, you see him stalking along the deck chattering and clucking to himself, saying thunderous things in differ- ent languages, and looking exactly like one of those stout, important, white-waistcoated old men who are "some-thing in the city." This bird makes straight for some one, generaJly for me, never goes round anything in the way, climbs up one side of a chair, over it, and down the other side, even if a doz- en chairs are on the route. Once it reaches you, it climbs up and in- sists on your scratching it on the poll and under its wings for hour* at a time. An attempt to leave off, or a hasty movement of your hand, and it turn* instantly and rends you. It has the most powerful beak. We are all afraid of it. I am so tattered and torn that I shall have to go into hospital to be mended. The creature does not really like me. I feel sure that it despises, me, but it is well aware that I have a terrified respect for it. It is a usual thing to see every one stretehed out in silence, overcome by heat and inertia ; then there is a sudden yell some one haa for- gotten to go on scratching. If you lean over the side of the ship, "Pretty Cocky," as we sarcastical- ly call it, attacks the calves of your legs. For all his pretense of au- thority, I have seen the captain trying obsequiously to curry favor with it. Youngly "Did you ever notice that the matrimonial process Is like making a call ! You go to adore, you ring the belle, and you give your name to the maid?" Cynicus THE SUMY SCHOOL USSOI INTERNATIONAL LESSON, FEBRUARY 2. Lesson V. The flood, Gen. ft. J-22J 7. 11.24. Golden text, Bom. 6. 23. 6. 9-12. The story of the flood begins wltK Gen. 6. 5 and extends through D, 18. In the form of the narrative a* it has come down to us there ar a number of repetitions, togethel with several striking -difference! that seem to indicate two earliei narratives which have been pre- served to us In the account as if was finally incorporated in ouj canonical book of Genesis. Th student interested in tracing tb,8 parallel accounts, each of which 14 measurably complete in itself, can do so by reading in order first on* and then the other of the following groups of passages : A. Gen. 8. B-8i 7. 1-6, 10, 12, 17, 22, 23 ; 8. 6-12, 1* (beginning with the words, "Noah, removed the covering of the ark"V 20-22; 9. 18. B ' 13-16 (omitting Jes-us shut him 1-5, 13 (first half), 14-19; 8. i-17. Verse 9. Righteous . . . perfect . . . walked with God A threefold description of Noah's goodness. The word "righteous" emphasizes his moral integrity; the word "per- fect" his blamelessness in conduct) while the third characteristic seta forth his life of common with Je- hovah. 12. All flesh Here denoting man' kind alone, though- sometimes (ai in 6. 17; 7. 21; and 9. 11), including both men and animals, or yen ani- mals alone, as in 6. 19; T. 16 14i 8. 17. 7. 11-24. 11. The second month According to the Jewish calendar this woula correspond to our month of May. Fountains of the great deep Springs and other channels througk| which the floods from the grea* 6. 9-22 ; 7. 0-9, ll, the words, "Ana in"), 18-21, 24; 8. waters broke forth' the surface of tb* subterranean and covered earth. Windows of heaven Openings L the firmament. 12. The rain Literally, th* heavy rain. Forty days The parallel account mentions a hundred and fifty day* (verse 24.) 14. Every bird of every sort Every winged creature, including insects. Birds are mentioned sep- arately in the preceding phrase. 13. The selfsame day The day specially mentioned in vere 11. 15. Two and two According to the parallel account (verses 2 and 3) there were seven pair of each of those animals regarded as clean, and also seven pair of every kin* of bird. 18. The ark For a description of the ark, including the manner of its construction, compare Gen t, 14-16. The face of the waters The u>. per surface. 19. The waters prevailed exceed^ ingly This and the following verse^ (19-24) gives a more detailed scription of the great depth universal prevalence of the flood. 20. Fifteen cubits upward That much above the tops of the high- est mountains. The exact length of the cubit varied greatly at differ ent periods. The cubit referred tot here was probably a little less thaw two feet, being determined by t.h* length of the forewarn) from the fc bow to the point of the middle finger. 21. Creeping thing that creepeth Or, swarming thing that iwarra- eth. 22. Of all that was on the diy land Not, therefore, including e _i_ . ^ . , . . fishes and other which were thus aquatic animal% exempt from th general destruction caused by th flood. 23. Destroyed Heb.. blotted ou, 24. A hundred and fifty days IB verse 12, above, forty days are menn tioned as the time duration of th* flood. The divergence is best ex- plained on the theory of two snpars ate original accounts as suggested! in the first paragraph. Umbrella Making Hazardous. The manufacture of umbrellas 1* not generally regarded as among the hazardous industries, but th statement is made by one fully ac- quainted with the. conditions that if an examination be made of tb physical condition of the employe of a large umbrella factory half of them will be found to be afflicted with tuberculosis, bronchitis, fib- roid tissue and similar disease*. This is due to the dust of the plaoa and the fumes of paints and -var- nishes used in the various oper*- tions of making an umbrella. Ba*. teries of circular saws are used la, "Yes, and then you're taken in." tivos. shaping the handles, and the from the wood is disastrous when introduced into the lungs. Th vaf-J nishing solution consists o ghe.lloo^ naphtha spirits and red or w.hlt* . lead, and the fumes from combina- tion breathed repeatedly are <lan- . geroua to the health of the