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Hints for tbc Home 1 1 MiHcellain'oiiw Roeiites. Bra-i Muffinsâ€" Two ciips bran, one cup whole wheat flour, one table- tpoonfiil molasses, two eggs, two cups milk, one teaspoonful salt, two teaspijonfuls baking powder, raisins. Bake twenty-five minutes. Bran Breadâ€" same recipe as for muffins, but no egga or baking pow- der. Use on<? yeast cake. To Roast Potatoesâ€" Peel and wa»h potatoes and put them with the meat in tlie roasting pan. Leave thean until they are well browned and serve them on fchs smae platte.r with the roast. Gravyâ€" Take some of the fat from the pan, use four tiiblespoonfuls with four tablespoonfuls of butter and stir them together and let this mixture dredge in the pan. Add gradually one and a half cups of boiling wat^r, cook five minutes, scapon with salt and pepper, and strain. Tiuibuh' of Pumpkin.â€" One pint of stewed and sifted pumpkin, one tablespuonful of butter, four eggs beaten, half a cupful of sugar, one- -fourth toaspoonful of cinnamon and half a pint of milk. Pour into but- tered molds. Set in a pan of water in a moderate oven until firm. When the tira'bales are cold, un- luold and serve with whipped cream. iSti'uiued Fruit PudtUiift â€" Coyer the bottom of a butter mold with dices of bread lightly buttered. Over this place a layer of stewed apples cr peaches, then another layer of bread and butter, alternat- ing with the; fruit until the mold is three-quarters full. Pour over this a custard composed of two eggs, one-half a cup of sugar and a pint of niilk. Fasten the cover of the mold tight, dr>>p into boiling water and steam one hour. Serve with foamy sauce or sweetened cream. Ginger C'reaiuw. â€" One cupful of white sugar, one half cupful of bak- ing molasses, one cupful of sweet milk, one teaspoonful of soda dis- KoJved in the milk, one teaspoonful each of ginger and cloves, three cup- fuls of flour. Add ingredient* as named Spread thinly in tins. Bake and wiien cool frost with powdered sugar and cut into squares. This is a good recipe to help cut the high cost of living, as there are neither eggs nor shortening in them. They are fine for children's luncheons. Mixed Fruit Pudding.â€" Peel and core enough tart apples to fill a doep haJcing pan. Fit them in .^inug- ly and fill in the hv^les left by the cores with seedless raisins and bits of shredded citron and lemon peel. l)u'=-t with sugar. Pour over them half a cupful of water and bake in a slow oven until perfectly tender. Remove them from the oven, sprin- kle lightly with bread crumbs, dust with sugar and bake 10 minutes longer. Serve with the following sauce : Beat together in a Sitewpaii one tablespoonfui of flour and one- half cupful of sugar. Pour over this a cup of boiling water and bring to a boil. Remove fmni the fire and pour this slowly over one egg well beaten Flavor with a dash of le- mon. PoTir over the baked fruit and serve immediately. I'Mt'ful Hints. Linen is a fabric which can be easily dyed at home. Never mix any salad with dress- ing until you are ready to use it. Macaroni as an article of food is rather more valuable than bread. A very practical w*y to finish a floor is to p«int it with linseed oil. A wire bread or cake cooler is a handy thing to have in the kitchen. It a felt hat is faded or sihabby, the crown may be cut off to form a toque foundation. A pretty way to serve hot biscuits is folded in a napkin on a sweet- grass basket, with a handle. When a box of sardines is opened it should be drained of its oil at once and the fish turned out. To have dumplings fluffy and light keep the pot boiling steadily from the time they are dropped in. It is best not to serve the same 4ish twice a week, unless it be a â-¼egetable, as everyone likes variety. Damp salt is an excellent thing to remove stains on cups and saucers caused by tea and careless wa.sihing- If a room is filled with smoke, open windows and wave a towel wet in vinegar and hot water around in it. The thoughtful housewife saves all the waxed paper that cofmes to the house for cracker and other boxes. Salt on the fingers, when cleaning Jowl or fish, w'll prevent slipping, and a little vinegar on the hands will prevent odor. You will have no trouble with jxiur thread kinking if you thread the needle before breaking thread from the reel. Bread sihould not be put into a too hot oven; it should not brown for the first ten minutes, and only gradually afterwards. To renovate a white enamel b€<l- stead rub the iron parts all over with a cloth dipjved' in pafiaflSn ; then paint it with white enamel paint. In heating the oven, the drafts shoul.d be closed when the ooail is well' starte<l. In a wortl, to save fuel plan ahead and then watch, drafts. ^Utof Wiashing quilta and comforts and while tibey are still on. the iine but .nearly dry, beat them with a carpet beater and they will be wou- dertuHy light. A good way to clean m.irrors is to wipe tliera with a pad dipi>pd in whiting and warm waiter. Then dry with a soft cloth and polish witli a piece of chamois skin. If eggs are pliaced in hot water a few minutes before breaking the whites will separate from the j»lk8 very easily. They thould be cooled before starting to whip the white. A paint brush will f.-tdust <niit of crack.s better than any duster wilil, for a cloth cannot reach all the cor- ners. Try the brush when you are cleaning baseboards, window sash- es, etc., and you will appreciate it. -After you have washed the cur- rants for a pudding, dry them, and five minutes before .you need them steam them well in a colander. This partly cooks them and makes them swell, and their full flavor comes out. Many people throw boots and shoes .away when they have plenty of life is them to serve their own- ers. This is especially the case with children's boots. Instead of dis- carding tlie hard iboots, soak them well in warm olive oil and then dry them and polish with a duster. Af- terward clean them with ordinary polish. New Deadly Weapon. This little steel arrow, about the same size as a pencil, i* in great favor with the French aviators. The Flechette, as it us called, when dropi>ed from a height of 3,000 feet, will penetrate a man from his hel- met to his feet. Members of the French Aviation Corps have also been experimenting with this arrow for use against dirigibles. Because of the easier manoeuvring and great spee<l of the aeroplane it can readily .Soar over the dirigible and drop these Flechettes on the ga« bag and probably explode the enemy's craft. + GERMAN TOYS. A Movement Has Begun to Reform Their Character. Certain cities of Germany, particu- larly Nuremberg, have since mediaeval times been celebrated for their toys. The Nuremberg dolls, with porcelain faces, have enjoyed a celebrity that began In the fourteenth century. At «.tie same time, the people of Nurem- berg began to make dolls' houses much like those that children admire so much to-day. In the year 1572, the Elector Augustus of Saxony ordered a table service for his three daughters, consisting, among other things, of seventy-one plates, 150 glasses, thirty- six tablespoons, and tweuty-eight egg cups. That collection has been pre- served to this day. In a sense It is an historical document, as it contains no forlts. Forlis came later. Albert IV of Bavaria had a very realistic house made for his children. It was com- plete from cellar to greenhouse, and it included even a household chapel and a ballroom. In the grounds were stables and a menagerie. In recent years there is a movement in Germany to reform the character of the toys, a movement that has the hearty support of educators. Those who lead the movement have set their faces agamst the kind of toys with which the market is too often crowded â€"realistic imitations about which there is no atmosphere of strangeness or romance, and which, for the most part, are commonplace and ugly. The Dresden toys, so called are de- signed to remedy this fault; to hold the child's attention by the beauty and simplicity of their design, and by some fantastic deviation from the actual. The toys are the work of men who are Interested in encouraging an artistic instinct in the young. Most toys do not foster the child's inherent feeling for beauty and harmony, but actually repress it by reason of their conven- tionality and ugliness. The new toys are i once simpler and more the pro- duct ci! the imagination. They strongly resemble the wood carvings of primi- tive peoples, whose imaginative facul- ties were much like those of the child- ren of to-day. The toys manufactured on the Dres- den plan do not look at all machine- made. They have a novelty, an in- dividuality that pleases the child. Be- sides the single figures, there are groups designed on the same plan â€" farms, villages, or menageries. In such series, the toys are colored on a simple and effective basis of color harmony. Among! the prominent reformers of children's toys is the author, Frank Wedeklnd, who is also the Inventor of the "German discus" and the "bicycle swing," which are intended to develop in older children agility as well as control of tho body's movements through will power and sureness of eye. THE GREAT GRAND DUKE. Present Commander-in-chief of the Russian Army. If the Russian army Is a more efficient instrument to-day than it was ten years ago, it has the Grand Duke Nicholas, its present commander in chief to thank. After the disasters ol the Japanese War, the grand duke, al- ready well known as a brilliant cav- alry otiicer, undertook to reorganize the army, and the event has proved that he really performed wonders. In speed of mobilization, agility of move- ment, and intelligent response to the stragetical opportunities of the cam- paign, the Russian forces actually showed something that approached even the high standard of their Ger- man enemy. During the Japanese War Nicholas was given no opportunity to distin- guish himself; some observers believe that the Czar's jealousy of his more brilliant cousin had something to do with that. But with the collapse of the other military leaders, the grand duke's chance came, and no one else was suggested for the chief command when the present war broke out. Not only is he in authority in the field; no one else has so much influence with the Czar. Indeed, his position in Rus- sia to-day is said to be almost that of i a dictator, without the trappings of the office. In person, the grand duke is a strik- ing figure; he is six feet and six inch- es in height, spare and active, with the delicate features and graceful bearing of the aristocrat. In youth his head was covered with short golden ; curls; now at fifty-eight their is not I much hair left, and that has turned gray. His eyes are blue and very ' keen, his nose is prominent, his mouth I determined and a little cruel in ex- ' pression, and his chin strong. His personality is so much more remark- able than that of any of the descend- , ants of Alexander II â€" he is himself , the son of a brother of that monarch ! â€" that he has always had to bear j some suspicion and dislike both from \ Alexander III and from the present Czar Nicholas II. It is because he has made himself indispeusible to the latter monarch that he has risen to power at last. I No one was of more service than I the grand d'ike in restoring order pnd I confidence after the humiliating break- ! down of Russian credit at the end of I the Japanese War. No one could ac- ! cuse Nicholas of being anything but ' a believer in the essentials of Russian j autocracy, but he is said to have sup- i ported Count de Witte against the re- actionary party at that time, and it I was his arguments, so we are told, 1 that finally persuaded the Czar to summon the first Duma. The father of the grand duke was a ' man of very dissipated life, and the conduct of the son has not been above reproach, yet he has an Intellect, an ambition, and a patriotism that would ' not let liim wholly waste his life in ignoble ways. In blood he is half Ger- man, for his mother was of the ducal I house of Oldenburg. As a young man I he recouped the family's financial j fortunes, which his father's extrava- ' gances had brought low, by a moiga- I natic marriage with the rich widow ot ' a Moscow tea merchant. After her death he married the Princess Anas- tasia of Montenegro, who is sister ot ' the Queen of Italy. Both princesses I spent much of their girlhood in the I royal family at Petrograd, and the Grand Duke is said always to have I been in love with his present wife. I + FINKST FIGHT KVKR \V.V«iKD. been 400 or 500 dead. I gave in- ^•truction3 for a lieutenant bo re- main out with a covering party, and went to search the dead to see who t.hey belonged to. I was just in the niididle of the job, when, on looking into theitrench, I found it full of live Germans, who at once opened fire. How they missed me I don't know, as I was absolutely on the point of stepping across the trench. ''The thing gave me such a ahock that most of the Germans got away. However, the staff are awfully pleased at us having cleared them out at all. I don't think the Ger- mans can hold out much longer â€" I mean here. Their losses are enor- mou.s and their men give me tlie im- presision that they try to get wound- ed or taken prisoners." When Oxford^ Wert- Pitied .Vgainst the Germans. The personal clement in warfare â€" the battle of brains against brains â€" is strikingly illustrated in a letter from a captain of the .j2n<l Foot, 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire and Bucking- hamshire Light Infantry. Writing to his sister he says: "We were sent off to help the Guards to hold up a line previously held by a regiment which was al- most annihilated becau.se they were not dug in deep enough. As soon as it was light the Germans opened with all guns. Lots of our men were buried in the trenches, but we got out into others, ".\boiit three o'clock, I saw the regiment on our left retiring. This was the absolute devil, as it meant I had to get out. 1 was told to re- tire and try and stop the Germans getting past a certain road. From then on it was awful. As soon as we left the trenches they opened on us with every gun and rifle. •• Luckily I got the new pcjsition and collected about IbO men. Things looked real nasty, as the Germans were pouring in through the gap and filling the wood we were in. Under the circumstances I thought to do sivniething unexpected might upset their apple-cart. So we fixed ba.voivets ancl went straight in. We had the finest fight that ever was fought. We first came on some fifty of them, went straight in, and annihilated them. We were very quickly into the next lot, »nd in a few minutes we were shooting, bay- oneting and a.nnihilating every- thing we came acro.ss. 'To cut a long story short, we drove the whole crowd bac.k. I had five holes in my coat as a souvenir. We went on occupying this position in the trenches, which was vita.lily important, for about three days. The Grcnman trenches were onily twenty-five yards in front ot us. It was very unicomf^irtable having them so close. Two subalterns and two soldiers placed themselves so skilfully behind a big hump in the ground that they saw the wliblc length of the German trenches. They then let drive with their rifles, with the result that they starapedetl the lot and killed forty. "I afterwaixls took a party of twenty -five to reconnoitre, and wo found these forty dead. In fact, in a space of 150 jmrde there may hav« GET Fl > 01 T OF A FIGHT. Brithh Take Hunlshlps and Death LighlheiU'tediy. Nothing more clearly shows the excellent spirit of our brave sol- diers than the light-hearted manner in whicli hardship, and even death itself, is faced'. The man who marches to action with a rollicking song on his lips, who finds nick- names for the very guns hurling de- struction a.t him, and who makes a a jest even of his own sufferings, is a hard man to beat. First and last, Tommy Atkins is a sportsman, and even when en- gaged in the grim game of wiar he cannot forget entirely the pastimes of peace, as witness the following incident. One of our batteries was firing at a building occupied by tlie enemy, and out lads in the trenches watched the proceedings eagerly. At the third discharge the target crumpled up like a hou.se of cards, and a prostrate spectator flung up his anna excitedly and yelled: 'Goal I Hardy hims«.'lf couldn't have stopped that one." .^gain. when at Mons the long days of retreat became days of ad- vance for our troops, a jubilant Bri- tish private described the situation tersely as "Half-time. Change over." Another football enthusiast, limping painfully away from the firing-line, answered a sympathetic inquiry with a aanile. and the ex- planation, "Got fouled in the pen- alty area." That magnificent bit of marks- manship, when H.M.S. Birmingham shot away the periscope of a Ger- man submarine, was aptly described by one of the crew, who remarked, "Well bowled. Just took the bail nicely." During the early days of the war the scarcity of blankets was a fiie- quent topic in the trenches. "I hear there'll De a lot of chaps without blankets to-niglit, " said one ' "Tom- my. " No sooner had he spcjken thaji a perfect hurricane of lead swept over them. "If wc get much of this there'll be blankets without men, I'm thinking, " came the grim rejjly. .\ private in the trenches, raising himself to get a glimpse of the foe, had his .sleeve ripped open by a b\il- let. "Well, I'll be darned," he said, quizzically. .Vnother, on being told by his pa! that they were fac- ing a million of the enemy, took careful aim, fired, and replied, ••No, lad : only 999.999." Two riflemen were d.iscussing the enormous amount of lead used daily, and one suggested the possi- bility of a shortage. "No, fear," said his chum. '•Lead's economical stuff ; you can make a little go a long way.'' It was an Irishman who, on hearing that the Gcnnan soldiers have an aversion to "cold steel," promptly retorted, '•Shure, then, we'll jist make it hot for them.'' There are many sqnadrons of these in exi.steruce, says the London Morn- ing Teltgraph, each consisting of four cars, fitted with Majcimi) quick- firers in revolving armored turrets, a one or three-pounder gun fitted on another olwissis, a wireless equip- ment car, two supply "tender" cars, and a Red Crose car, so tliat the whole squadron is a C4)mplete warship on wheels. Their extreme mobility has proved their use at the front, especially in village fighting. Besides the armored cars, each squadnni has a number of motor cyclists attached as. scouts. Fleet Street last week had the presence of a motor cycle carrying a Ma.Yiui gun as its side-car equipment, with a gunner and driver. The Motor Cycle Uun Brigade and the .Armor- ed Car Naval Dinsion are growing daily, so that the latter has now a complement of nearly 2,000 officers and men. THE CROWING OF t.i:SAR. Mr«. Fraley Slept I'ndistiirbed By His Loudest Suinuions. Mrs. Fraley poured her hus- band's coffee, and absently put in !ii.s two lurii>sof sugar. She looked paJe, and there were tired shadows under her eyes. With a sudden ges- ture, she pushed back the sugar bowl ^nd faced him resolutely. "I can't stand it any longer. Hen- ry, ' she said. â- Something must be ^*'''- ^ done." 7. W • Can't stand what V ' her husband asked. He was a peacable man. and , <^^u'*t*>mary for the host U> accom-( he had a faint hope that the trouble I pan.v tl>e guest a certain distance! might not be what he knew it was. ' along his way. Doubtless Naomi/ ••You know what>â€" the Redmonds' thought that her two daughters-in-j rooster. I never heai-d such a crow ! 'aw would go with her for adifctance/ in my life. He begins at three I a"<l tihen would return to tlieir own! o'clock, and he keeps it up at inter- i Iwnies. As the next verse showsJ vals until seven. It's all right fori when they had gone with her as far you to say it's a little thing.â€" y<ni j «-^ she thought they ougiit to. she; ; I can't, i s'li^J to them, ••Go. return each ofi Ti mm SCHOOL study INTER.VAnONAL LE8S0!« FEBRIARY 7. L<>N«on VI., Rulh ChooNeN the True! Godâ€" Ruth 1.. Golden Text, r Ruth 1-16. Verse 8. That she might reti rn from the country of Moab. â€" Najoanl went out from Bethlehem- J udaJi with her husband and two Bonft. Tliey were called Ephrathites. This is another word for Eplirainiitea aa, found in Judg. 12, &-: 1 Sam. 1 1 J I Kings 11. 28, Bethlehem is spoken of as Ephratali. It -waa too "smail, to be among the faaniliesiof Judah, ' but it was "the finest site in ali the proN-ince of Judsea'' (George Adouu) Smith). Bethlehemi oa is well known, is made up of two wooxIb,, •Beth," meaning •'house,'' and "Lehem, " meaning "bread". The! name •house of bread" indicates! that the country was exceedingly. fertile. Jehovah iiad visited his people. â€" This is a common expret»sion in the Old Testament to denote tlie bene- ficence of God (see Gen. 21. 1 : 60. 24, 25; Exod. 4. 31 ; 1 S*m. 2. 21 ;i 14). ent on the way to retuni\ unto the land of Judaii.â€" It waai sleep right through it,â€" but and I'm getting completelj' worn out. I'm going over to see Mrs. I Redmond this afternoon and speak | about It, " j "Well," Mr. Fraley said, slowly, '•if you really can't stand it But j I'd put up witli a good deal before I'd have anv trouble with the Hed- Siiel .you to her mother's house." prehS< s theiu to return. 9. She kissed them. â€" The kit*; wa»j the usual greeting at meeting andf paHing. It is still tJie salutation in the Orient am^ng: men an well aW woman (see Gen. 29. 11: 31. 55;i , E.xod. 4. 271. It was a mark of monds. They re mighty nice people, friendliness. There are two in- you know. ! stances where it wa* used) for foul "If they're such nice people," his i purposes. L'nder the guise of wife retorted, •they ought to be j friendship, J<-ab kissed Ama.sa. and willing to get rid of a rooster that thus taking him unawares, killei tortures their neighbors: Anyway, ! jjim (.^ ^u.^. 'i0.9»- Amther in-' 1 ID going. j stance in the well-known one ol .\ccoixlingly, after lunoheon, Mrs. Judas Fraley went upstairs to dress for ,„ 'jf ^^^^ ^^ ^-jj ^^„^ ^^^J^ her cal . Just as she was putting L,,^^ unto thv people. -Both of the on her hat, Ixnvever, the bell rang. ' j^,,^,^^^^^.;,,:!^^. \^ ^.^„,j ^^^ were determined to return with Xa<*ini. .\fter the fervent appeal of Naomi, as recited in verses 11-13, me over to speak to you , q^^^ weakened in her determin- iBsar, Mrs. Iraley-that bigi^^i„„ ^^ accompany her mother-in- and her maid announced Mrs. Red nuind. Mrs. Redmond's smile was lic'f aniiised, half anxious. "I came about C rooster of ours. I've been so afraid he would annoy .you with that ear- piercing crow of his. You see, (.'w- sar is a prize fowl, and Mr. Red- mond paid a big price for him, but we hadn't had hiin two days before I began to worry about his crowing. I told William I knew it must annoy the neighbors, and we should liave pany Uw : but Ruth (verse 14) '•clavti unto her." The friendlinesB of Ruth went far deeper than tJiat of C>rpah. 15. Behold thy sister-in-law is gone back unto her people, and un- to her god: return thou aSiev tli^yi tâ- â- ister-iJl^law â€" Even after Orpah luwi gone, Naomi insisted upon Ruth to get rid of him. Then Aunt Ellen ' »^"'"K- '^''^ waited to give Ruth came.. She is very deaf, but the first morning she came down to breakfast perfectly radiant. ••'Oh,' she cried, •what do you think has happened .' I heard your rooster crow ! 1 haven't heard a everj- opportunity to go back, not only to her people, but to her giod, as it was believed among the IsraeP ites that, the God of Israel did nn't have po- er over the people of other nati<ins. Pavid at one time pleadii A:!i ESKIMO'S TRADE. Give .Vnythint; He Po.'<sesses for What He Really Wants. .\moiig the Eskimos of the Bering Sea region, there is no fixed value for whalebone, furs, or anything they may have to trade. If one of them has anything of value, he will keep it until some white man ap- pears with something that appeals to his eye. .\nd the money value of what may take him does not make any difference to him. If he has a trinket that may be worth a dollar, and some one offers to give him for it something that is worth a thou- sand dollars, but of which he has no need, he will refuse to trade. But he will give anything he pos- sej-ses for what he really wants. An Eskimo uf St. Lawrence Is- land, in Bering Sea, made a catch one season of a big bowhead whale. The head of baleen was worth be- tween ten and fifteen thousand dol- lars. He knew the approximate value of the head, but he held on to it with no apparent desire to trade. One day a. trader appeared with a swiaiU gasoline launch, valued at perhaps two or three hundred dol- lars. The sight of that so took the native that he straightway traded his head of bone for it. Far out in the straits one day he ran out of gasoline. He abandoned the launch for the canoe he was towing, and paddled back to the island. But he di'<l not regret his trade. He was satisfied, and readiy to try f )r another whale, WAUSHIPS ON WHEELS. Naval Voswis Imitated in Buildine; Armored .\uto». For many weeks the commons and open spaces around Limdon have witnes.sed tl>e practising '>f the Roy- al Naval Air Service armored' oars. rooster crow for ten vears. Do you 1 ^'""^ ^^ ^'' """^ T"* ***>' ^'â- "â„¢- ''^« know. I just cried over it. It seem- j *^.''" <'<J>'ntry and from the protee- ed so wonderful to hear something I .^"'" :'(/"^ ^^ ^^ ^'*''*«' <' ^'"'â-  that didn't come through my eari"'^^ l'-^'- trumpet:' " ' 18. Entreat, nie not to leave thee. •William looked at me, and 1 1 -This and the following verse ex- knew what that meant. And so I press so einphatica.l!y Ruth s desire came over to ask you if you could ; ^ remain with Naomi that there possibly endnrc Caesar's racket just ;«â- ""'*! he no other question ii» while .\unt Ellen is with us. Could i Naonii's mind as t<j Ruth's determ- you / " I inalion and st.ea<ifa8tnes*». The Mrs. Fraley's eyes were vwxrin I heauty of the lanjcnage of these two witli sympathy. "Indeed I can:" ehe cried. "When I hear him crow, I'll just thi'nk how your .Vunt Ellen is en- joying it. I'm sure that's little enough to do when she has to miss so much." So Caesar crowed unmolested. .\nd, curiously enough, before .Vunt Ellen left. Mrs. Fraley found that she could sleep undisturbe<l by his loudest summons. * FOKETOI.I) BV ANIMALS. verses is captivating and showa that •'out of the fiillnesis of the heart the mouth speaketh. " tJiat beauty of form is associiUetl with beauty of thougli,t and conviction. (See 2 Kings 2. 2-(3 for a similar epi- stKie between ElijaJi and Elis-hai. 17. Jehovaih do so to me, and more also. â€" This is a c<.iinnion f< rm of oath among the Israelites and, among other people who came in close association with the Israelites (See 1 Sam. 3. 17; 14. 44: 20. 13: 2 Sam. 3. 9, 35; 19. 13; 1 Kings 2. 23; 2 Kings 6. 31 ). Then- Are Maiiv Superstitions Con- >8. She left off sppaking unto her. neeted With Them. ; â€"It is an easy play for the iinagiii- I ation to see tiiese two women t.a'k- ing in the rn)ad together, »toppin.g In the ca.se of a lion, it is believed j that the wearing of a claw of this ! .,^, ^hev franklv and firmk express animal will bring great strength. j t|„.ir views one to the other, but I eople connected «ith circuses , ^|,p„ ,,,p matter is settled, going on and sliows have a .saying that when n,^;,. .y..,,,. ^.^^^^ gladness. Iixins get restless and: uneasy either ill-luck or extremely bad weather is at hand, and that when they con- tinually wash their faces in cat-like fashion they are likely to have fits of ill-teniiier in the near future. Numberless are the superstitions associated with the tiger. The na- tives of India believe that its whisk- ers are a deadly poison, .and that when finely chopped and secretly introduced into person's foi.id they will assuredly cause death. What is known as "the evil e.ve"' is greatly drefl.de<l in India, and to avert this p«.rent3 hang the claws of tigers round the necks of their children. To .see a wolf is supp<'sed to be a good sign, but if a man sees a wolf before the wolf sees him them, he will either become dumb for the time or lose his voice. For a hare to run aciwss anyone's path is considered a very bad siign in some parts of England, because in olden times it was believed that witches transformed themsejve<» i}-,- to hares in order to biing l>ad luck to their enemies. German Suldicrtt Go Mad. George Prade, special Paris cor- resipdndent at the f>-ont. declares that he saw a German train paint- ed red, go through Aix-la-Chapelle from Belgium, filled with German soldieis who had been driven mad by the war ••All exits were seal- el," he writes. ••The carriages were padded everywhere and each con- tained a dozen or more soldiers, who were writhing, shouting, foaming at the mouth, or scream- ing delirimisly. S'tation officials told me that the red train made fre- quent trips whenever the allies' ar- tillery had been active, and that after the murderous Yser fight ifr ran continuously," If it were not for your memory you would be unable to forget m^-