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HOME il A little salt diwolved in water »8 rooamiuended fur eyelids reddeiivd in the wind. When couking a oust-ard stir slow- ly and regularly. Thia is the ouly way to prevent curdling. Tiie celery and cheese sandwiches are delicious. A little mayonnaise is mixed in witii the cheese, â- which ia finely gratod, the celery being put through the mincing machine. To clean .brass that ha« been ex- posed to the weather, make a paste of aalt and common vinegar ; rub the brass wit>h the niixture and leave for ten minutes. Then clean in the usual way. Prevent a steamed pudding from becoming heavy by puttdng a cloth over the steamer before placing the lid on. This prevents t4he moisture from setbling and making a pudding heavy. 'When there's c<>mpany for din- ner a man stands at the back of his rfiair and waits untdl all the guests are seated; when they're alone he dives into hia chair and says : 'Come along with the food.' " When a brown stew or curry ia too greasy, mix a teaspoonful of flour into a smooth paate with a little water, pour it into the stew and let it boil up again, when all Cat will have disappeared. IMn Tbia Ip. One teaspoonful of aalt to one quart soup. One teaspoonful salt to two quarts of flour. One teaspoonful of aoda to one pint of suur milk. One teaspoonful <A exitract to one plain Joaf cake. One scant cup of liquid to t^wo full cup.s of flour for bread. Oue scant cupful of liquid to two cups of flour for muffina. One scant cup of liquid to one cup of flour for batters. One quart of water to each pound of meat and bono for eoup stock. One-half cup of yeast or one-quar- ter cake compressed yeast to one pint liquid. I'our peppercorn*, four clovea, one t^-aspoonful of mixed herbs for each quart of water for aoup atock. Wlien darking table linen tack a piece of »tiff paper under tie rent and make a nuntberof fine stitches backwards and forwards carrying them a g<)i>d inch over the edges. Then tear the paper away. Sfcw Hiiap fasteners on each pair of stork ings at the top and have the wt-arerit snAj) them together when takinn tlieni fl. They can be laun- dered this way and save all tlie b<fther uf trying to mat<^ tihe stock- ings. Jewelry ran l>e succeisrfully clean- ed by washing it in hot soapsuds in which a little ammonia has been dissolved. Hliake off the water and lay the jewelry in a snia'l box of fine Ha,wdu*t to dry. This me'th kI leaves no scratches or marks of any kin<l. edible portion is two-third» as ' tra acre or two which can be de-' Lombaertzyde and beginning one uouriahing as potatoes. voted to tree fruits and growing Also, few persons have any idea vegetables. What cannot be oon- that oranges can be served in more sumed by the family may be sold to than half a dozen ways, and those 1 neajby residents. The garden will ' in the raw state or used as a flavor- 1 help conaideraibly to pay the house- ing. 1 hold expenses. Yet nothing is more delicious than an orange omelet, a breakfast diah fit for a king ! Yes, the orange admits of so many different ways of preparing and serving, some cooked and others uncooked, that it is possible to serve a whole course dinner with almost notihing but orange dishes in the menu. And this meal, aside from being novel, is tempting and nourishing. Here it is : Orange Juice Orange Omelet Orange and Rice as Vegetables Orange Salad Ice Cream and Cake Candied Orange Peel Orange Juice In serving such a diniier, the table decoraitions should be made to carry out the orange idea. There sfhould be a centre piece of fine, bright oranges witih green leaves â€" orange leaves and blossoms if pos- sibleâ€" dnterworked among the fruit, and the color scheme should be fol- lowed in candles, candle shades and place cards. TIIE DAY THE FRENCH REACH- ED LOMBAERTZYDE. An Expoditiun to the Front. .\boiit ran gen. Two of the housewive'a most vex- ati'iiiM problems, "How to lessen the c<«l of living?" and "How to vary the menu I" could easily be solved l)y n greater use of fruit, de- clares one of America's 'best-known food e.\pert.H. Kays slie : â€" "I have been tenting out fruits as fijod.s ; onliuary freth and dried fruits such as we ail have around the huisc !ill the time. M'lrk well what I say, fruits as foods, Nearly every one has been using oranges, l>ananat<, ))runes and ap ple.s simply as fruits or for different kiiruls of desserts. Rut hardly £-»iy one ever h%i thoiighit of these things being worth niuoh more than their delicious flavor. And almost no one h.'is attempted to use them AM tiii'nt substitutes or in place of vegiital)les, or even in Noups ! Well, for nu)nths I have been ex- perimenting wiitii these and other everyday fruits, and with riee, for I have found it is such an indinpcii- Hitble thing w'lien working with fruits as food. I Ii/kI always known that in/iiiy fruits |> issessed far more nutritive value than is commonly attrlbuited Ui them. l''or instance, a pound of ripe bananas ooiituins more fond value than a pound of white pota- toes. .And a pound <vf dates Is far niore product/ive i^f energy in the human b xly than a similar amount of beefsteak. These, and all other staitcments T make concerning tlie foiMJ value of fruits, «ire based on figures furnished by the United Btntes IV.jiarlmemt of Agriculture. Also, I had realized that people did not make free enougili use >f fruit*, allhouf^h their oonsumjution has increased largely during recent years. Stilil, more should be eaten. And with meat prices steadily climbing and otiher food staples ad- VATioing aa a result of t.he war, I sot to w<irk to see what we could do wlih frul'ba as food. . I aupipose ffvw persons have an^ U]«a that im orange Ih as real food 1r*lue. Yet, pound for {>ound, the The morning the French troops secured their first permanent foot^ hold in Lombaertzyde, on the Bel- gian coast, the morning the alow eastward movement of the Allies aorosa the low oountrie* began, Pierre, "The Coasack," and I drove in an open Flemish cart through the lines of French and Belgian trentiies on the Yser, and, before we knew it, were within a few yards of the German outposts. The Cossack was a sharpshooter and a ecout, and, though a can- noneer by enlistment, he always went out along the enemy's lines alone and came back with accurate information of the enemy's move- ments. The road between La Panw and Coxyde was full of people going both waya. Pierro offered a ride to three women, the eldest at least fifty, but with cheeks as hard aaid red as applea. They laughed amd joked with Pierre and paid no more attention to the bursting shells to- warda which we were driving than to the cutting ice blowing into their facea. They had arrived at the point of view of soldiers toward sheli-flre ; There m no use paying any attention to it. Tlie shells you hear do you no harm. If you are killed by one you never know it. Directly aliead of us, as we pass- ed through Coxyde'a mud-splashed buildings into the road beyond, swimming with dirty slush, lay Oost-Dunkerke, and the area un- der fire. The country was open except for the bare clusters of buildings and the scrub brush in the dunes, but, scattered through tlie Country over which we were passing, there were whole batteries of French guns, mostly General Jotfre's favorite "seventy-fives." We could hear their sharp "ping" all about us, but we knew no more of their whereabouts than did the German aviatora who passed through a bombardment of shrap- nel every day trying t<) locate bliem. I am running no danger of giving away a military secret in saying they were buried and tJie only way the German sihells c^ould -reach them was to drop directly on theim. The chances of their doing this were not much better tlian those of an ex- |)«rt golf player dropping tlie ball directly into the hole with a drive from the tee. Even the numerous and each ye*r marketing the cock- erels of the hatch as broilers. Others combine egg farming with meat growing- selling the eggs at a season of the year when they bring the highest prices, and turn- ing them into table p<jullry .when the price falls below a certain fig- ure. The .sale of eggs for hatching and fowls for breeding is very profitable but It calls for expert service. Be- ginners are a<lvised to keep away from that end of the business un- til they have had a general exj>eri- eiioe of at least three years. The selection of breeds is a mat- ter that must be governed by the object in view. If it. Is intended to have an exclusive egg farm, tho shipmenLs to be made to a market that prefers white eggs, lUicn suoh breeds as the Leghorns, Minorca*, or any of the white egg-jlayors should be chosen. Where It Is Intended to combine eggs, broilers and roasters, such breeds as the American olass should bn kejit, with possibly a white-egg l)ree<l if there is a call for white eggs in the market. The matter of location is worthy of consUIeration, One hundred miles from a olty like Toronto ia not too far, provi<iing there are ?()od shipping facilities. Private amily trade is very ])rofitab!e, but it may take some time to build up a good retail custom. The market in the vicinity of the location of the farm should he carefully looked up before the inveatment and start ia made. It Is A good plan to have an ex Other Means of Income. On one jwultry farm five acres are used. Two of these are devot- j ed to poultry, one to a vegetable j garderf, and one to peach trees, j The living expenses in summer are virtually paid by the vegetable* Consumed and sold, so that out of the profits from the poultry only the winter household expenses must be drawn. When the peach crop comes in there is a sufficient profit to pay the heavy bills, like taxes, insurance, repairs, etc. This *arm ih not only "making a good living for spiesâ€" one with au American pass- port that belonged to some one elseâ€" had not been able -to give the German gunners any information that helped them get the range. So they were dropping shells over the w^hole area, where they beli.ned the batteries to be, in the hope of silencing an occasional gun. Between Oost-Dunkerke and Nieu- port there ar^ a few patches of wood, offering cover. The hidden French guns were thicker here. "The Germans, knowing this, were giving it the most severe sihelling. In every shelled area in which I had been before it was possible to pick a comparatively sa£e course by watching the exploding shells and seeing whether they were breaking any nearer. Here they were drop- ped here and there, as if by the caprice of the gunners, and vou were about as unsafe in one place as another. When I expressed iny apprehensions Pierre replied, "Ne- ver mind, we shall soon be in too dose for shell-fii'e." At a turn in tho muddy Toftd we came upon a one-roomed Flemish farmhouse which was serving as a field liospital. All about it in a widening circle were the graves of the men who had died there, each grav^ marked with a wooden cross beanng the soldier's name. "We get very few wounded here," a young surgeon told me. "The men from the trenches are usually carried past. We have mostly gunners, and they are so well protected in their under- ground aihelters that they get hurt only when a shell breaks through their shelter. If it breaks ten feet to one side, they are untouched. If it breaks right on them they are torn aU to pieces. The four men with this gunner," said the sur- geon, pointing to a huddled mass, "were all killed outright." Our road into Nieuport ran par- allel witli the railroad and the ca- nal. Here was the second line of trenches, and, as soon as we reach- ed it, wo could see Ix>inbaertz,yde, scarcely a mile away in a direct line. Though 1 looked carefully I could not see a sign of life. For that matter the trenches, past whioh we were driving, might have been empty, except for. one soldier who showed hi* heatl. I offered him some little French cigars out of a fairly large box, and, within ten seconds, heads, then bodies and legs, began to appear from the whole line. All were wearing sa- bot«, into which many had stuffed straw for warintli. All were plas- tered with mud. of the first consistent aggressave movements of the Allies. They were so astoniahed to siee us there, as tliey told us afterward, they did not attempt to warn us from driving on. We were well into the town and about to make a turn into the sti-eet when a French sol- dier began frantically waving us back. But the hard-inoutihed horse went another twenty feet before he stopped, and by this tiraie we were partly around the corner. There was no one in eight in the stretch to the next turn, but I could see a ragged hole in the blank wall of a projecting building on the near side of the street, whidh gave me a sickly feeling. Through it the muzzle of a machine-gnn was pointed. Though there was not a gray uniform or helmet in sight, I gathered the Germans were still holding the other end of tlie street. The gunners could evidently see only me, but if we had gone for- ward another two feet, Pierre would have been in sight, and the machine-gun would have opened fire. His Belgian uniform would have drawn fire where my civilian clothes did not. Directly behind us, as I noticed as soon as we had backed and Magic BAKING POWDEK :>oczz>. READ THE LABEL \ POR THE PROTECTION Of THt CON- I ^ 8UMER THE INGREDIENTS ARE X PLAINLY PRINTED ON THE LABEL. IT IS THE ONLY WELL-KNOWN MEDIUM- •) PRICED BAKING POWDER MADE IN I CANADA THAT DOES NOT CONTAIN ALUM AND WHICH HAS ALL THE INGREDIENTS PLAINLY STATED ON THE LABEL. MAGIC BAKING POWDER CONTAINS NO ALUM ALUM IS SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS SUL- PHATE OF ALUMINA OR SODIC ALUMINIC SULPHATE. THE PUBCIC SHOULD NOT BE MISLED BY THESE TECHNICAL NAMES. E. W. GILLETT COMPANY LIMITED WINNIPEG TORONTO. ONT. UHOMTREAL I (aougril with Mtu-hino-giin Fire. Nieuport it8«'lf, ripped and goug- ed with madhine-gun fire, where it had not been crumpled ^' bursting shells, did not even offer us a pass- able street. Finally we rumbled across the bridge over the canal- locks, the turning of which bad flooded all tho territory between the Yser (!anal and tJic Yser River, and, twisting among the holes in the pavement, drove at a nangle to the nortiliieast on the elevated road to lx>iuba«rtzyde. The open fields on botili «idos were fliMided, and the only building of importance be- tween the two towns was a preten- tious house whidi had been blown into a grotesque Kha]>e. lt« gro- tesqueness was in keeping wiUi ita surroundings. The ct)untry lay dead, with no one in sight. F.ven the trenches we had just pasised were hidden behind the railroad tracks. Over on th<* e<lge of the sa^nd <lunes to the left, we knew there must be thousanda of Fronch eoldierH "dug in" against the rain and prote<'t«d from attack by baiib- ed wire entanglennents conce^aleil in tllie rolling dimes, flud behind the low-lying road to the right, a half-mile across the flooded fields, was the first lino of German trenches. But all wo could see was the highway to St. Georges, Just before wo reached Ix)m- baert7..vdo wo passed the forward Frenflh trenches, shii.ll<iwer and leiM protected than the oMver.s. Ov»r toward the isand dimes we oould see they were <H'cuvied by ortmching, alert figures, hut tho trenChea under the shelter of the town itself were empty. The <yiin- panie« that hnd occupie<l them the alght before were in the town around fires in the houws. As tliey hear<l tlie crunch of the cart wlijeels and the pi)nnding of tho horsc'^ luH)fa they came to tilie <loors an<l windows. They were the most un- kempt-looking soldiers I have ever seen. Their licardu were straggly and uncombed, and tJicy were cov- ered with ft muddy paste, Tlieir knees and elbows wew crusted d^-'op with it, and it was even in their hair aaid on tlioir caps. But that Clawed Our Way Out of that line of fire, the buildings were gouged so deep by the bul- lets from the machine-gun that, the walls were, at points, almost cut away. All night, the French sol- diers told us, the German grunners had kept the muzzle swinging in a narrow arc, making the street im- pas>sable. It had not taken any French lives, but had prevented a rush. The town had to be captured house by house. Each house in line was rushed by a squad from be- hind. This, too, had to be done in the dark to prevent the invaders from being seen. As soon aa they forced their way through the im- provised barricades at windows and doors, they threw a light in each room with a hand searchlight, and killed every one they encountered. Unless a man had his hands in the air there was no time to learn what his intentions might be. They had worked their way to a ihouse leas than fifty feet from the machine- gun, and on the street behind held the house in the rear of it. They were waiting fo- night to make the final daah and clear out tihat end of the town. We were standing on th« narrow sidewalk talking and Pierre hod walked nearly to the turn in the street. Suddenly he waved to ua eagerly, his face allight with pleased excitement. "Come here," he said, "I hear some voices in the oellar. W'll either got a drink down there, or some German sol- diers." Without stopping to see if we were followed, he pushed open the door and plunged down a flight of stairs to the left. Before we could get past the door we could hear him shouting menacingly and loud guttural cries in resp*inse. He was shouting in Flemish, and the answering cries were in German. At the top of the stolirs he had en- countered three German .soldiers coming up, and now, with his car- bine covering the three, he was bullying them into throwing down their arms by bawling into their faces. The Germans evidently knew they were trapped and preferred to surrender. But the Cossack was enjoying himself making threats. As far as I could make out, he was promising to silioot them out of, hand, and I was afraid he meant it. Finally he agreed he would let them go if they had any children. The first two cried loudly tney had three apiece. The third said he had two, and produced a photo- graph to prove it. So Pierre ^vgreed to let them live for the sake of their children. We found one street by wiliicJi we could get to the centre of Kieuport, ami there encountered some of the mechanics attached to tJie English rtaval flying ct>rps. They invited me into a tower where, they said, wo tyuild see the effect of the can- non-fire. Stumbling up a circular stair- case in a tower which, I fancy, had been nearly dark inside, before tlie (Jernian shells let in daylight, we came out on a parapet from which we could 8ce the fiorrann Tronejies behind St. Georges, though we could see no men. \Ve also had a panoramic view of the inundate<I country. We were on the western bouiKlary which, raji in a straight lino soutili from the sea. The rail- road line stopped it tihere. I'last- ward it bellied out with the curve of the Yser, filling the ri\-er itself bank full and ftpilling it over tive fields on both sides. The soiittered, farm houses, built doubtless on the higlw'st ground available, were in Hoiue cases out of water, but they had been torn by shells and had been used only ais a<lTanoe }x>sba for many weeks. As far as I could see to the south there was water, with o<^ca*ional parties of soldiers picking their way along the raised patli.i. Across the flooded fields a few miles to tilie south ran the RDleiuliil highway which tllie "old King," Leopold, bad built to give automobiles, his own among the number, a smooth course on the wav from Paris to Ostend. We ha<l not been there fivtk min- utes and the mem of the flying corps were explaining how tihe Krenoh batteries, scattered over their fire at particular ptoints be- hind the enemy's line under the directions of a man on this tower, when we all dodged involuntarily to the sharp whizz of a ehell. It stung at my ear like the passing of a thousand bullets at once, and, before I had really had tinie to duck, broke overhead two hundred feet beyond. The rain of shrapnel on the broken roofs below was drowned by tlie explosion. "Come quick," cried one of tho Englishmen, diving down the stairs. "They'^"e seen us. They've got the range of this tower and they'll have us, too, in a minute." I think I slid down most of the way and I was not sorry when Pierre, who was waiting below, aaid it was getting late and time we ntade off for the ooal. Before we had wound our way out through the debris of the town it began to rain with a freah violence. We passed a continuous tstnjig of cov- ered trenches beside tihe road and another set along the railToad em- bankment. The road waa six indhea deep in soft sluah, seeping off into the trr.iche8. Behind were ditches full of water and back of them the sodden fields pitted with shell boles, full also to the brim with water. It was as dreary and depressing a eight as an enemy could ask, and the soldiers gathered together in shelters were dreary, too, if not depressed. These were Belgian trenches here, and it takes a good deal to keep a small group of Bel- gians glum. We came ahortly to the farm, w^here Pierre found the coal as he expected. A small body of infan- trymen with a mitrailleuse were^ renting their doga tliere before slipping forward under cover of the approadiing night to another deserted farm liouse. They were muddy and wet and their faces showed the strain of hardship. One gave mo his military coat to lift and it weighed, 1 judged, thirty pouude. He liad not been able to get it dried out for days. I ooin- miserated with tiieon on the weari- ness of their task. "It is wearj', indeed," one of them replied, sadly. "Here we have flooded this country and we cannot get across it ourselves now. We hoj^ to have the King back in Brussels by Christmas." Pierre helped himself to a full load of coal, and then we went on. It was almost four o'clock and nearly dark. At a temporary bridge across tlve Y'ser Canal near Kamscapnt-Ue, we hod to back out of the way i o make room for two autuiiiobile.H. This Pierre did grum^^bling, and the horse stubbonily. The first aut-o- mobile had already passed wlien one of the oflioers in the tonneau caught sight of me, and stopping it, jumj)ed out. Pierre recognizing a general, gave a short account of how he got the coal, but the gen- eral was iiitci^ested in ine. He was willing enougdi to acn'ept Pierre's explanation of his bcjjig i-esjxinai- ble for ma. The second automobile came up behind «nd stopped a moment to give the general time to return to his seat. Two men were sitting in the tonneau, both aiknt. The nearest I reoogniased even in the poor light. It was the Kiiig, wihom I had not seen before on thia visit to the Belgian army. But no one c-ould have recognized him from his photogpajilv. He was no longer t3»e spruce young man who wallcetl briskly down the aisle in the Bel- gian parliament that <liay last Aug- ust and threw his gauntets on the dcs»k before him as he declared his defiance to the invading German army. His hair had grown long • and hung over hia collar. His . blond moustache, too, was long and bushy. His la,oe had set into* severe lines. As he pa».sed on. Pierre and I crossed the makeshift bridge and ' turned west on the broad highway, . the beautiful road the "old king*' built so his automobile could go faster from Ostend to Paris. Germany Never Dreaded Ruasia., ' Charles W. Eliot, President * Emeritus of Harvard University,' . gives the following denial to the^ GermAn excuse tivat the war was' ' caused by the fear of Russian de- velopment I Many Gorman apologists for the war attribute it to Cierman fear of Russia. Tliey say that, although' Germany committed the firstactual aggression by invading Belgium and Luxemburg on the way to attack France with the utmost speed and fierceness, the war is really a war against Great Britain, that of defense against Russia, which might desirably pass over, after France has been crushed, into a war again>st Great Britain, thai perfidious and insolent obstacle to Germany's world-empire. The an- swer to this explanation is that, as a matter of fact, Germany ha< never dreaded, or even respected, the military strength of Russia, and tliat the recent wars and tlireatenings of war by Germany have not been directed against Rus- sia, but against Denmark, Austria, France and England. In her colo- nization enterprises it is not Russia that Germany has encountered, but England, France and the United States . The friendly ad- vances made within the last twenty years by Germany to Turkey were not intended primarily to strength- en Germany against Russia, but Gern»any against Great Britain through access by land to British India. In short, Germany's poli- cies, at home and abroad, during the past forty years have been in- spired not by fear of Russia, or ol any otlker invader, but by its own aggressive ambition for world-em- pire. In the present war it thinks it has staked its aJil on "empire or downfall." Those nations which value publi< liberty andhelieve tihat the primary object of governanent is to pronwt* the general welfare by measurei and policies founded on justice, pood-will and respect for the free- dom of the individual can not but lioive tlkat Germany will be con^• pletely deieated in its present un- dertakings ; but tlvey do not believs tliat Gemianj- is compelled to choose between a life of domination and national death. They wish that all her humane culture aivd her geruus for patient research may survive this hideous war and guide another Germany to great achieve me utb for humanitv. hod not kept tbem trom entering that wide are*, oould concentraite two A stit-ch in time ia worth needles in a haystack. She was standing on a chair on the pier watching the roi-ing. On a chair behind were two French- men. The lady turned around and said : "I hope I don't obstruct youti view;^! â-  "iVI^emoisellc," quicklyi replied one, "I much prefer 'the ob-,^ struction to the view.'' At an evening party a very elder-' ly lady was dancing with a young partner. A stranger approached Douglas Jcrrold. who was looking on, and said: "Pray, sir, can youl tell me who is the young gentleman dancing with that elderly lady V "One of the Humane Society, I, should think," replied Jerrold. Schmidt tho Spy and His Me««agr to Ilerlln. "AJJ *fc« Indian »:>ldiers in lion^lon are wounded in tlie head. Thef rnust lis a verj- liard^- racie, as »i>porently uon« io< ths wound* prov« fot«l," â€" London Op^iuion,