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About the House Useful Hints and General Informa- tion for the Busy Housewife J Selected Recipes. Curried Totatoes. â€" Cook one table- spoon chopped onion in two taV>le- spfioii.s Imtter until yellow, add six dircil rooked potatoes, sprinkle with one teaspoon curry powder, one tea- spoon salt and one-fourth teaspoon ;„;iti^;ff;;;' ;he"diet"ar;r,y pepper. Pour in one-half cup stock, ^^j, ^^^^ ^^^ and one tablespoon lemon juice and , . ^ ' . cook and stir until liquid is absorbed. Turn into heated dish and sprinkle with chopped parsley. turn black, boil tomato parings in them. It will clean them. Never use the fingers to pinch the t'dfre of the pie crust for the heat of the hand keeps the paste from risinfi. Fresh gieen vcKetables and fruits are a natural tonic and should not be season lettuce Hearts.â€" Set aside four Lime m'xed with a little si:!i>hi:r and stirred into the soil about plants I is said to be an antidote .for fungus diseases. Take the fat from chicken broth tablespoons double cream until thick ^^,j,g^ j^ ^^^^^^ clarify it, then use it and just turning sour. Beat yolk 103^^3,5 „£ ^^^^er for pastry or de- of etrc and one teaspoon sugar until ij^ate frying. very thck, slowly add one teaspoon ' ^ jg ^ „iJe ije„ to have a guest lemon juK-e or light vinegar, beat hard ,.,,ggj j^ ^j,^ ^^^^^ ^.^^^ H g^^^^u and add cream gradually. Place well- ,.„„j^i„ ^ nightgown, a bathrobe, blanched hearts of lettuce on plate .Uppers and even a tooth brush. and pour dressing over just before; ^ g^^^,, ^^^^, ^^ prevent wear under serving. .Appetizing as well as nour- ^ ^^^ ^^^ of "corset covers isning. j ii^force them, when made it to re- with a shield-.shaped piece. Try a toasted cheese sandwich. Make the same as the usual cheese .sandwich, and then toast it in the over or in a thaflng dish. If you would have crisp crust on your cake, mid a spoonful of ice water to the dough, or dust the top of it sugar, just before baking. Put the scrubbing brush to dry with the bristles diiwn, preventing the wat- er from soaking into the back and tausng the bristles to come out. When marking linen handkerchiefs Into cup put whites ''''^\ indelible ink, first starch the .. one-half cup m^k, {»a'""<e'-chu.fs and iron them smooth. Walnut and Cheese Roatit. â€" One cup grated cheese, one cup chopped English walnuts, one cup bread crumbs, two tablespoons chopped onions, one table.^poon butter, juice of one-half lemon, salt ami pepper. Cook on"on in butter and a little water un- til tender. Mix other ingredients and moi.-iten with water, using water in which onions was cooked. Pour into shadow dish a)id brown in oven. Quick White Cake. â€" But into mix- ing bowl one cup sugar and one and one-half cups sifted Hour, into which has been sifted one rounding teaspoon baking powder, of two eggs, fill to makine one cup of liquid in all. AM a little flavoring, put all into bowl and beat five minutes. You will be Burprised at results. Bake in one loaf Then you can mark them dearly with case. A good mixture to roll fish in be- fore frying is made of a cupful of recent faBhimi show, there appeared a most attractive costume, a three-piece suit of Dicroll's, reviving etaniine. ' Wbetlioi- this is to be taken as an indi cation that •'.amin<.- will again bej modish this season, or not, is a ques- tion. It is rumored that materials are so acarce on the other side of the| ocean this year, that many an old fab- ric i.s being brought out from its al-j most forgotten rest'iig place an«l fash- 1 ioned into a spring or summer cos-; tume. E'limine was a particularly satisfactory summer fabric, cool, dur-j able and soft. It v.'ould not come| at all ami.ss were it to be revived this year. Serge is as popular as ever, al- I though it is sa'd that ve may havej lour troubles in dyeing it later on. An etfcctive suit of Cheruil's i:; fashion- 1 cd of mixed dark blue covert. At a distance it cunnol be told from serge; | and of course, for the sport suit, tweed is very popular. A particular smart suit, made by Lanvin, is a light; gray tweed trimmed with French blue braodcloth. There is very little ofi the leather, introduced earlier in the I season, to be f een about the late coats and suits, whether for sport purposes or the regulation tailored use. Beer clings to the notion in a novel cape coat suit. The coat is fashioned of a new waxed silk, which greatly re- ; sembles leather, especially at a dis- tance; it is dark blue and is combined w'th a skirt of dark blue gabardine, j Paciuin show.i a coat of covert fori afternoon wear, trimmed with dark: blue patent leather, but, except fori motoring and such use, leather is not, to be reckoned with to any extent.' Now and then an odil leather motif i is appliqued to a hand bag, or trims | a sport hat effectively, but for mostj other purpose?, satin has superseded! it. I Taffeta and Wash Fabrics. A pretty notion in the new summer frocks is the touch of taffeta or other silk on the dress of batiste, voile,' crepe, or organdy. The colored Ex-President Taft in a recent article has made some very apt com- ments on Red Cross preparedness. He points out that the Red Cross is like an army. It cannot be creatied over night. It is like a fire department when the fire bells ring, there is no time to build engines, to train fire- men or to perfect a water supply. These tilings must be ready or they might as well not be at all. When news of a great battle reaches Canada, it is too late for us to ship Red Cross supplies. The Red Cross material must be on the spot ready for the emergency. In fact) the chief purpose of the Red Cross is to meet these unseen and sudden exigencies. W it is not prepared it becomes a ghast- ly mockery and failure. In Canada we have built up an ex- pert Red Cross organization admin- istered by trained specialists. Out Red Cross campaign is carefully plan- ned and vigorously carried out?. AH that is needed is the steady moment- um of public support. Carlton County Council, Ottawa, hat passed a by-law providing for a monthly contribution of $1,000 to the Red Cross and Patriotic funds. $58.25 was realized for t>he Berlin Red Cross by the sale of a tablecloth embroidered by Miss Maude Kumpf who has been working on it for thr«a years. \ .Matter of Moment. "What was that. Bill?" '"Trench mortar." "Ours or theirs?" â€" By Captain Bruce Bairnsfather. in London By- stundei . in pan about two and one-half inches ''rcadcrumbs and the grated yolks of deep and nine bv five inches across. '"'''''' ""''l-cooked eggs, seasoned with Rhubarb Baked With Figs.â€" Cover ^""^ "'"' PePP"- well-washed fig.s with boiling water '" working buttonholes on a ma- and cook until water is nearly evapor- ^^'^^^^ '^"'- f'""!'* easily, it is a good ated. Cut one pound rhubarb, un- idea to buttonhole it first with stit- The Fashions i* peeled if young, into piece.', put layer '•â- *"-'*' "'""^ distance apart and then in baking di.sh sprnkle with teaspoon f?" "'â- '^'^ '* '" f^e usual way. sugar, ad I a few figs, then another + . layer of rliubnrb, until one pound of _ rhubarb aid one-half pound figs have ^ been used Add a few teaspoons of hot water and bake, covered, in slow oven until rhubarb is tender. Dates or raisins may take place of figs. Braised Liver. â€" Make dressing of _ one-half cup finely chopped suet, one ^ T Z~I cup .tale brea.l crumbs, one teaspoon ^^'S^*"' Taffeta or Faille, sweet herbs, a little grated lemon Perhaps the most fascinating thing rind, and .salt and pepper to taste. Mix about the fashions this spring, is their well lind .^et to one side while prepar- seeming simplicity. Although a trifle ing meat. Cut calf's liver in slices, not more frilly and fussy than for a sea- too thin, anil loll each slice in m'x- son or two bark, this dainty little ture of flour, salt and pepper. Lay 1 1 -jcrie frock from .Jenny, and that thin slices of salt pork in bottom of summer afternoon dress of striped baking dih. Put liver slices on top chiffon and taffeta, from the Maison of this and dressing on top of them. Agrcs, look, as the dainty manne- Add water or stock to moisten and cov- qui:i,t bow and spread out the volu- er baking dish closely. Cook over minous ukirts before you, as if it fire or in moderate oven three-quart- would be the easiest thing in the ers of an hour, remove cover and cook wor'd to turn them out at home, twenty minutes longer in oven or und- Why, the skirt is merely a double er low flame of broiler to brown top. flounce of embroidered batiste on a Serve in dish in which cooked. taffeta foundation, and the sleeveless Jelly Canned Peaches.â€" Drain can taffeta bodice is, well, just a little taf- of peaches and add to one pint of feta bcdice which could be made from peach syrup juice of one lemon and that ttrip of blue, pink, or changeable one-half cup sugar. Set over fire to taffeta left from the frock of other become hot. Dissolve two level table- dayp. The full .straight skirt on an- ipoons gelat nc in one-half cup cold o'her frock is made from three water and turn into hot juice, stirring straight lengths gathered at the top, until gelatine is dis.solved, then strain the fulness evenly dstributod, and through cheese-cloth. Take one one- finished at the bottom with a quilling half cup and cool remainder. Beat of the same silk. The puff sleeves are whites of three egg.i until stiff and dry, and when syrup begins to thicken beat it into whites until mass holds its shape. Place by spoonsful into cold dishes, placing halved peach, pit downward, in each dish. Pour a lit- tle of reserved juice over each peach »nd set in a cool place until wanted. Inexpensive Pot Roast. â€" Wipe four- p(jund piece of beef with <lamp cloth, kioking it over carefully to see that it 1r clean, and place in kettle on end, large part down. Have ready four good sized carrots cut in two length- wise, four or five medium sized onions, one white turnip cut into (piarts and add these to beef, with two cloves and three pepper corns. Pour one quart Water into kettle, let come to boil and set kettle to .â- -immer on back of stove <or about three hours. Much of water will boil away, but marrow of shin will finish cooking. Make paste of one level tablespoon flour and one salt.'^poon pepper. Take up moat, add flour mixture to contents of kettle, let s'mmer two minutes, dish vegetables, pour gravy over meal and serve. En- ough for large family. Household Hints. Food carele: sly exposed invites germs. Keep the house clear of rubbish. It breeds disease. A red-hot stove at any time is a needless waste of fuel. A biith in soda water is very re- freshing when one is tired. If fruit for stewing is very acid, add a pinch of borax. It will correct the •cidily. Novel candle holders are made of, J-ound rerl apples cut out to hold the' candles. { To vary a dish of scrambled eggs, I add a few slices of sweet green pep- 'Ui'dnt mid pretty, very dainty and per chopped fine. 1 youthful. Pine jhavings make very good bed- Serge, Taffeta and Faille, ding for hens' nests and they avoid the ' These three materials arc the Icadesr blading of vermin. I ,,gain this spring, with here nn.l there 1 When aluminum rook'ng utennils a quaint revival; for instance, at • 68<)i-(i678 Dyed li.kliHie I'lounring and Taffela. 6546 Simple Taffeta Frock. batiste flouncings, organdies, and silk- embroidered crepes and voiles, not in- tended for tubbing, are often ma<le over foundation sl'ps of taffeta, and have bodices, collars, cuffs and girdles. Bins bands of taffeta or satin trim the skirts, and black velevt ribbons lends a touch of "old-timines»" to the dainty .sheer cotton* modish this sea- son. The taffeta bod'ce.i, such as illust- rated here, may be worn with any lingerie dress, if made dctnchablo; they add a fini.sh, particularly pleas- ing, making the simple dress appro-! priate for any occasion. j The Slip-On RIouse. j Tile new "long-line" blouses some of them are called; Cheruit sends us an especally pretty one fa.shioned of handkerchief linen, made to slip on over the head, with a draw bolt to gather it in loosely about the waist. Many of thc.io slip-on waists are made on kimono lines, low in the neck and wonderfully easy and graceful in every Inc. Tiiffeta, satin, crepe. Georgette, chiffon, and the Chinese an(l| .Japanese silks, me being u.scd for these models, as well ns the novelty! cottons and sheer linens. The sum- 1 mer girl will appreciate their charm' and comfort. These, too, are so simple that they may bo fashioned at home with no misgivings at allâ€" and what possibilities for becoming effects and ccdor combiiuitions they do af- ford I . These paVerns may be obtained from your local McCiill dealer or from The McCull Co., 70 Bond St., Toronto, Ont., Dept. W. "Ma." ••Well." ••Woul.l Willie's ItequcHt. .\<ni just as soon cut your finger nails iieroie you wash my ears again?" Many a bachelor has made a wo- niiiM happier by not marrying her. BRITISH HAVE FIVE ' REASONS TO FIGHT HEU ALMS .AND IDEALS IN THE PRESENT CRISIS. Viscount Brycc Says Government of Germany, Not People, Is England's Enemy. Viscount Bryce has written an article on "The Attitude of Great Brit- ain in the Present War," in which he snys: "We in Britain who respect and val- ue the opinion of the free neutral peo- ples of Europe and America cannot) but desire that those peoples should be duly informed of the way in which we regard the circumstances and pos- sible results of the present conflict." Lord Bryce says there are five prin- ciples on which the aims and ideals of Britain in the present crisis are es- sentially different from those of Ger- many, namely, ns to individual liberty; as to nationality, which sympathizes with the efforts of a people against foreign domination; ns to the main- tenance of treaty obligations; ns to the regulation of the methods of war- fare in the interests of humanity; and as to a pacific as opposed to a military type of civilization. He compares the British and German attitude on each of these principles. Continuing, he says: Government for the People. "Our English ideal for the future is of a world in which every people shall have within its own borders a free national government resting on and conforming to the general will of its citizens, a government able to de- vote its efforts to improving the con- dition of the people without encroach- ing on its neighbors or being disturb- ed by the fear of an attack from en- emies abroad. Legislators and admin- istrators have already tasks sufficient- ly difficult in reconciling the claims of different classes, in adjusting the interests of capital and labor, in pro- moting health and diffusing education and enlightenment, without the aildi- tion of those tasks and dangers which arise from the terror of foreign war. "I cannot believe that the German people, as I have hitherto known them, ever since I studied at a German uni- versity more than 50 years ago, could possibly approve of the action of their (lovernmcnb if their Government suf- fered them to know the facts relating to the origin and conduct of the war as those facts are known to the rest of the world. We have had no hatjred of the German people. We did not grudge them their prosperity. Neither have we any wish to break up Ger- many, destroying her national unity, or to interfere in any way with her internal politiica. Fight Till Victory la Won. '•Our (iiiarrel is with the German Government. We think it a danger to every peaceful country ami believe that in fighting against its doctrine, its ambitions, its methods of warfare, we and our Allies are virtually fight- ing the battle of nil peace-loving neu- tral nations as well as our own. "We must fight on till victory is won, for a government which scorns treaties and wages an inhuman war- fare against innocent noncombatants cannot be siifi'eved to prevail by such methods. A triumphant and augros- sive (lermany, mistress of the seas as well ns of the land, would be a men- ace to every nation, even to those of the Western Hemisphere." 1,01(1 Hryce concludes with a plea for a leiiguo of peace. ''The obstacles in the way of creating such a league arc many and obvious," lie says, "but whalwer else may come out of the war, we in England hope that one re- sult of it will be the creation of some machinery calculated to avert the re- currence of so awful a calamity as that from which mankind is now suf- fering." RED CROSS PUBLICITY. Canadian Red Cross Society oper- ations in England are characterized by a warm personal solicitude for the individual soldier. The democracy of the Red Cross is a very real thing. Almost every week drafts of invalids are now being sent home to Canada from Shorncliffe. The Red Cross speeds these unfortunates on their way with every comfort in its power. While t»hey are waiting at the station to entrain they are provided with warm refreshments. They are also given a small bundle of personal com- forts, comprising a muffler, a pair of socks, a pair of warm gloves, hand- kerchief, a pipe, some tobacco and cigarettes. This comes to our returning wound- ed as n comforting forecast of the I sympathy of their Canadian comp- i patriots in their misfortunes. Any I Canadian who desires to make his : sympathy tangible, can not do better than to contribute to the Canadian I Red Cross. I Public schools of Guelph, Ont., have I contributed $139 to the Red Cross. London, Ont., Red Cross has pledges which secure it an income of $100,000 : for 1916. A raffled cow netted $100 for Shell- brooke Red Cross. In Moncton, New Brunswick, lady Red Cross workers by acting as street car conductors, raised $110. I Kamloops Red Cross has given col- â-  ors to the 172nd Battalion Rocky i Mountain Rangers. I Government employees in Ottawa I are maintaining a Civil Service Red ] Cross nurse at the front. Italian Red Cross Fund in Vancou- ver now amounts to $()()4. I Windsor, N.S., Red Cross has 55 I life members. ! The Western portion of Manitoulin Island recently sent $1(>1 to the Can- ' adian Red Cross. ' The great success of the Canadian Red Cross is a tribute to the energy and enterprise of the organized wo- men's societies of Canada. Among these societies the Daughters of the Empire occupy a prominent place with regard to Red Cross work. I The report read at the annual meet- ing of the Brandon chapter of the I.O.D.E. is typical of the activities of the society throughout the whole country. During the year the sum ' of $4,335.75 was collected â€" an in- crease of $1,335 over the previous ' year. Supplies were given to various ; regimental hospitals near Brandon ! and a large number of articles were j sent overseas including 4,000 pairs of socks, and (>15 Xmas parcels. In addition these ladies conduct a Red Cross sewing room from which 40 cases of hospital supplies have been sent abroad to the Red Cross. Money and supplies have been sent abroad to the Red Cross. Money and supplies have also been given to the Belgians and Serbians, to Convales- cent Homes for Soldiers, to the Pris- oners of War Fund, to the British Red Cross, and to a Red Cross Ambu- lance Fund. Recent shipments of Red Cross goods from St. John to England in- cluded 400 cases sent from Winnipeg, 80,000,000 Red Cross Christmas seals were sold in the United Stat<>s, .Inpan with a population of 40,- 000,000 has 1,800,000 Red Cross mem- bers. United States with a pouulation of 100,000,000 has only 31,000 members of the Red Cross. A national Red Cross movement is now under way to increase this membership to 1,000,000. .MY ENGLAND. An American Tribute By Wm. Winlfcr in New York Times. My England! Not my native land. But dear to me as if she were, How often have I longed to stand With those brave heart's who fight for her! Bereft by Fortune, worn with Age, My life is all I have to give. But freely would that life engage For those who die that she may live. Mother of Freedom! Pledged to Right! From Honor's patii she would not stray. But, sternly faithful, used her might To lead mankind the nobler way. Her task was hard, her burden great, But 'round the world her edict ran That reared ar.d ruled a Sovereign State, Securely, on the Right's of Man. No vandal foot shouhl tread her land, No despot hold her realm in av/e; The humblest peasant should com- mand The shelter of her righteous law. In vain her lion port was braved! Her pennant streamed o'er ev'ry sea, And wheresoe'er her ensign waved All fetters fell and Man was free. To-day be all her faults forgot â€" The errors of her nascent prime, Or wily politician's plot. Or blunder that was almost crime. I To-day, when desperate tyrants strain â€" By Greed, and Fear, and Hate com- bined â€" To blast her power and rend her reign, She fights the fight of all mankind. She fights for us â€" for this fair clime. Our home belo'd, where freemen dwell, Columbia, grandest born of Time, That Teuton malice burns to quell. I j My England! should the hope be crost I In which she taught the world to I strive, Then all of Virtue would be lost And naught of Manhood left alive. But 'tis not in the Book of Doom That Justice, Honor, Truth should fail; That earth be made a living tomb, And only brutal Wrong prevail. It cannot be the human race. Long struggling up to Freedom's sun. Is destined to the abject place Of vassal to the murd-rous Hun! In ev'ry land that knows the ills Of Bondage, and has borne its aches. The deathless pulse of Freedom thrills And Reason's noble rage awakes. See splendid Italy advance, j And grimly issuing from his lair, j To grasp the hand of glorious France, 1 Stalk forth th' intrepid Russian bear! I My England! Patient, valiant, true! I Nor foes without, nor frauds within Will shake her purpose to subdue ' The cohorts of embattled sin. I The swinish horde, t*e gilded beasts, ! In whom no touch of ruth survives, Who ravish women, murder priests, I And strew the sea with infant lives. I The Lords of War, who kill and maim, I Exultant, while their people groan. Steeping themselves in crime and shame. To keep a despot on his throne. That pigmy, to whose 'wildered brain Himself an Attila appears. Who takes the name of God in vain And drowns the earth In blood and tears! My Fhigland, strike! Droop not, nor pause, Till triumph on your banners shinel Then take a grateful world's ap- plause â€" Millions of hearts that beat like mine. â€" Wm. Winter, in New York Timeii I i