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â- â- â- â- iBHBBi e About the Hou Useful Hints and General Informa- tion for the Busy Housewife rat* THE FASHIONS I'upularity of Georgette Frocks ^^^^ I The white Russian frock of Geor- E^SS* Kctte, Miscellaneous Recipes. For a new dessert, try this: Take sponge cake anJ cut it) into squares. Pare, halve ami core some large pears. Boil in a syrup colored with half a cupful of cranberry or other red fruit juice. When tender remove from the syrup and place one of the halves on each sponge square. Decorate with cranberry jelly and serve with plain or whipped cream or with a sauce. Here is a Belgian recipe for vege- table soup: Take four celeries, four leeks, two turnips, a cabbage, two onions, a few bones, pepper and salt and five quarts of water. Boil for about three hours keeping the vege with perhaps a touch of con- , ,. ... 1 • ,. .,„ u,.„- ,.,1,1 aalt trasting color on cuffs or collar, is one I half. After cooking an hour aua sail , . , ", . , â-  « , / land more stock, if needed. Serve "'the favored dcs-gns for afternoon I from the casserole. The vegetables «"i^rf"'"« T'^j Georgette is de- I may be browne 1 in one-fourth cupful hghtf Jlly cool and (fraceful anl lends of drippings liefore being put into the itself particularly well to the season's casserole. For this style of cooking styles, both for daytime and for even- round steak gives a richer dish than ^ ing wear. It is one of the sheer ma- does a sirloin steak. terials which really washes and wears very well, making it practical for the modish transparent sleeve, the cos- tume blouse and the dance dress. For dance dresses, bhe printed Geor- gettes are youthful and pretty; some of these have printed borders. Useful Hints. licfousTala? P'""''^''''' """^^ ° ^^' For dance dresses, bhe printed Geor- Serge and Silk CombinaUons ^t"is ^better to cook ca-rots whole ^^""^^ are youthful and pretty; some Many of the favored silk frocks are and then skin Ijhcm. | °^ tl^e^e have printed borders, and combined effectively with a wool ma- After a whinkbroom has become ' P'^'" white or colored grounds, and terial, serge, gabardine or cloth. CONTAINS NO ALUM - MADE IN CANADA ragged, trim off evenly and use as a j '^'^*" again the sofMy tinted rose or This is an idea which appeals to many conventionalized design is scattered ond which Is being used considerably sink brush. ..._.....„ ...- --„- ! Prick the small end of a potato be- j "ver table always well covered witih the | fore putting it in the oven and it will white, or stripes water. Take up and rub the vege- j not) burst, table through a sieve or cloth and let A salad of onions, sardines, toma- thcm boil again for at least an hour, toes and peppers is properly served White Ginger Bread. â€" One pound with brown brea'l. the material, on a ground of 'n the ready-made garments. The It is most) effec- lower portion of the skirt, bhe sleeve- tive and satisfactory for many pur- less jumper, wide cuffs and collar are poses. generally made of the serge, and the One-Piece Frocks body of the frock of the silk, taffeta. Although many cling to the tailored ^ *^"''' °^ ""* °* ^^^ Japanese silks, as dry, .sift'ed flour, one-half pound fresh Never hoard old clothing or house- suit) with its contrasting blouse even *^'** â„¢*^ butter, one-half pound granulated su- hold articles â€" give them to somebody j„ jf,g warmest wpathrr the on«.' T.i ' These patterr .,.,,, , . , in the warmest weather, the one-piece gar, grated rind of one lemoii, one who can use them J dress is becoming more and more of a ounce new ground ginger root, one- | Yellow will light up the gloomiest favorite. One of the most attractive half grated nutmeg, one-half teaspoon of rooms, jusb as green will cool and ^j gj^pj^ ^^^^^^ ^^^j^^^, recently, was made of two straight widths, belted in soda, one gill milk. Rub flour and soften the most garish butter together, add sugar, lemon i Skim milk used instead of water ; ;-~;;,y'^i;-j;;'-;;-;^ ^j;;';;;;-^"^^^^^ nnd, ginger and nutmeg. Warm in the cooking of cereals adds to u,„; j „, „ . , . , j "'auriai em milk slightly, stir in soda and mix to , their nutritive value. I ^JZlZ dark red soutache. The smooth paste. Shape according to | Pushing screws in common soap be- I """'""^s jere cub out deeply and (ancy and bake fifteen minut-es. fore using will cause them bo enter t „",• „ With this frock was worn a â- o make croquettes of boiled meat, the wood more easily. wmte Georgette underblouse with mince your meat and put it into a' It's always more economical to '.* ,*^^',"^ '*'^^^*?' tl'e lower edges thick, white sauce well spiced with measure materials in cooking than it pepper, ;\alb and nutmeg, and let it , is to guess at them, lemain for two hours. Then pre- It is bhe greatest economy to pur- pare your croquettes by rolling the cha.se the best spices; poor ones are mixture in white of egg and fine , usually adulterated, bread crumbs. Put a piece of but- I If a small piece of velveb is glued ter in the saucepan, sufficient bo take j inside the heel of a shoe, .stockings jill the croquette.^!, and let them will not wear out so fast. brown in it for about 10 minutes. A whit'j sauce served with them is a good addition. Egg Kalad. â€" Cover the, eggs with boiling water and reduce the heat at once, cooking the eggs slowly from 25 to 28 minutes over the simmer burner of bhe gas stove. When the eggs arc (lone, cover them with cold water. Prepare mayonnaise, when thick, add four or five sardines that have been skinned, boned and pounded to a pa.»te Cut the egg engthwise, lay on chilled lebtuce and serve the dressing. Pickling Brine. â€" A "universal" Splib a clothespin down the centre, and you have a good tool for scrap- ing pans and kettles. Always rinse black stockings in blue water, and they will keep a good color right on to the end. If su^ar is too high-priced to pre- serve fruib, then dry it. You can't starve to death very well on dried fruit. Before cleaning knives on a knife- board, damp them slightly. They clean more quickly and gain a better polish. A few drops of ammonia in the bound w^flh rose color; the wide col- lar was also bound with bhe rose. It was a charming little model because patterns may be obtained from your local McCall Dealer or from The McCall Co., 70 Bond Street, Toronbo, Ontario. continuous, and the Serbian army haa been reequlpped and restored to a magnlficlent fighting force very largely by the workshops and workers of tli« United Kingdom. "The labor iltuatlon has been to a j considerable extent saved by our wo men. There were 184,000 Tomen en- THERE ARE 4,000 CONTROLLED gaged In war Industries In 1814. To GREAT BRITAIN IS | A VAST ARSENAL l\^UNITION PLANTS. High Tide of Output For War Pur- poses Not Yet Reached. day there are 643,000. The total Dom- l>er of war workers la 1914 was 1,198,' 600. It has now increased to 3,50MOO. There are 471 different munition pro cesea upon which women are now en- gaged. The women of France are do ing wonders in munition making, but our women munition workers beat the _. world." -^ sc : â-  The enormous stride made by Great Work of the Scientists. • Britain toward solving the problem of Referring to glass Mr. KelUwaj munitions was made clear in the jj . K°°^®t?'„'' ^^^^""^ recenUy delivered j ..^^^ problem facing the Govertt by P Kenaway ParUameatary secre-l^^^j , fl„t to discover the formuU lt7,Ji°.,.^r„ M'^"'l,}^^j}'''T^}^n i Of glasses, and having discovered It. U establish the Industry. It is tortunat< Secretary to the Ministry of Muni tlcns). Mr. Kellaway said the most prominent fact of the war was that the price of victory was unlimited muni- tions, says a London correspondent. "The British army in the early days," pickle â€" that is, a pickling li(,uid that water in which silver is washed will may be usod with nearly all kinds of keep it brighb for a long time with- vcgetablcs and fruits â€" is made like out cleaning. this: A cupful of sugar ad'ied to four To prevent carpet from unravell- quarts of vinegar, two do/.en wl ole ing, when cut, run two rows of ma- black peppers and a handful of cloves, chine stitching with the machine a few blades of mace and 18 whole where ib is to be cut. allspice. Boil all bhe ingredients for Grind a handful of sunflower seeds five minutes and pour over the fruit. ' and give them to the canary. The Cream of Spinach Soup. â€" Two j birds relish the little tender pieces quarts .spinach, six cupfuls cold wa- : that are found among the seeds, ter, twi) cupfuls milk, one clove garlic ' Stains in bable linen are easily re- or two tablespoonfuls chopped onion, moved by plunging the articles in bit of bay leaf, one teaspoonful salt, pure boiling water. The addition of cayer.ne pepper and celery salb, three soap or soda would have the effect of tablespoonfuls each butter and flour, fi.xing the stain. one-half cupful cre.Tm. Cook spin- , If new enamel pans are placed in Bch in water thirty minutes. Press « pan of water and allowed to come throiigli sieve, .scald milk with onion bo the boil and then cool, they will ba that In this crisis we have available a few scientific men who have been- working for years almost without re- cognition, and we have also instltu- tlong such as the Imperial College at South Kensington and the National Physical Laboratory at Teddlngton. The Government went to these men and asked them to discover the form- ula used by the Germans In their pro duction of optical and chemical glass. "These British scientists, after a few weeks' experiments, discovered many 4!^ and bay leaf, add butter and flour, cooke i -Kjgether, strain, add season- ings and spinach mixture. Cook five minutes, and serve, garnished with aeatcn cream. Baked .\pple Pudding.â€" Butter an dgale baking dish. Slice into this tart apples enough bo fill the dish; (prinkle with salt and pour in two or ihiee tablespoonful.s of water. Sift togeth'.r a cup and a half of flour. found to last much longer without birning or cracking. Watering Boston fern.s with weak tea instead of water will cau.se thtm ?I4I RuB.qian Blouse Costume. of its simplicity, and very youthful in its straight lines. BY WAY OF ILLUSTRATION. Defendant Shows How He Pushed Complainant. It happened in the court room dur- ing the trial of a husky young man who was charged with assault and he "said, "was so out-munlUoned that battery. j the British soldier ought to have been Throughout an especially severe beaten before the fighting began. But cross-examination the defendant he proved that he was a better fighting stoutly maintained that he had mere- man than the German. What he lack- ly pushed the plaintiff "a little bit." ^^ '"^ munitions he made up In devil, "Well, about how hard?" queried 1^ 'n'tlatlve, and In endurance, the prosecutor. | "' <^o °ot think anything that Ger- _^ "Oh, 'just a little bit,'" responded â„¢f°y has ever done equals the work of" "the formulae, and It then became the defendant i '"'* country has accomplished In the possible to begin manufacture on a "Now " said the attornev "for the ^i^^ °' Industrial organization during commercial scale. The result was that benefit of the Judee and the' iur^ vou '^^,^^^'"^^1^ ""T^^' °'^^' ^'^^'''* ^-^^Wn a year after the outbreak of the beneht of the Judge and the jury, you ^-mch has throughout been the treas- ,^.ar the ^tput of optical glass In this will please step down here and, w;th ury of the Allies, ha. now become their eouatry was multiplied four and a half me for the subject, illustrate just armor>-. There are now scattered up nm^g. jt has now Increased to Xour- how hard you mean. i and down the country some 4,000 con- ^^^ times the output previous to the Owing to the unmerciful badgering trolled firms producing munitions of ^.^r, and there Is good ground for say- which the witness had just been giv- j ^â- *'"- ' ing that by the end of the year It will en the prosecutor thought that the ' '"^''^ '^'^^^ majority of these previous have multiplied twentv-fold. young man would perhaps overdo the *° \^'^ *'"'" "©ver produced a gun. a ..xhe Ministry of Munitions has built matter, to get back at him, and ^n% ''^^ly.°\^^ l^ or Is building, housing accommoda- incriminate himself i T. '^L'^* Ministry of Munitions has (ions for 60.000 persons, and canteens incriminaie nimseii. obtained from these firms a number of .-d mM« rooms in munition works The defendant descended as per shells greater than the total produo^^^ provide deceit accommodation! schedule and approached the waiting ; uon of all the Government arsenals ^here 500.000 workers take their meals attorney. When he reached him the and great armament shops In existence every day spectators were astonished to see him at the commencement of the war. I ..ppr a long time our anti-aircraft slap the lawyer in the face, kick him Increase of Arsenals. | gunners have been crying out for an in the .shins, seize him bodily, and, "Speaking lu the House of Commons Improved height finder for Zeppelins, finally, with a supreme effort, lift him i last year Mr. Lloyd George startled the the existing height finders being slow, from the floor and hurl him prostrate j country by saying that eleven now ar- clumsy and having a margin of error across a table. Turning from the bewildered prose- cutor, he faced the court and ex- plained mildly: "Your honor and gentlemen, about one-tenth that hard!" A FAMOUS ROAD. It Runs Fourteen Hundred Through India. Miles senals had been provided. To-day, not ' of hundreds of feet. You will realize eleven, but ninety arsenals have been how that handicapped our gunners In built or adapted. Our weekly output their attempt to bring down Zeppelins, of .303 cartridge Is greater by millions ; "Three men set to work on the prob- than our annual output before the war. lem, and In two or three months they There Is a certain machine gun being produced a height finder which gave produced by the hundred every wee4i rapidly and exactly the height of a In a factory ordered, planned and built Zeppelin. It Is an important discovery, during the past twelve months. The but the problem is only one of hun- output of guns and howitzers has In- , creased by several hundred per cent. "We are not yet at the full flood of our output of guns and shell. If the Germans cannot be driven home other- Everyone who has read "Kim" will wise, our army will have such a sup- ' dreds which are continually cropping up." The War and Finance. First Travellerâ€" "This ere's a ter- Bgree with theNew York Sun that the j ply of guns that the limbers will touch | rible war. Bill." What's the bo thrive wonderfully. When lice appeal on ferns, stick some sulphur matches head down in soil. The heavy linens, too are effecbive '^â- """^ Trunk Road of India Is by all j each other In a continuous line from for street wear Ivorv w>iit» i.^„„ .u "'eans the most romantlo highway In the Sonime to the sea. France, Rus- bh.6 th.. \Ji' n„ / ' . ^ ""e worid. That paper says of it : sla and Italy have been supplied bv or Diue, mt soil pale gr.iys, and cool a stately avenue of three roads In through Great Britain with many of looking greens are among the favored oneâ€" the centre of hard metal, the [ the most Important munitions of war. shades in these linen.s. Many of roads on each side ankle-deep In sll- [ Many thousands of tons of steel have For waterproofing boots and shoes [them are cut along bhe straight lines ""^^^ dustâ€"fringed by double rows of! been and are being sent to France, equal quantities of while wax olive "^ '*"* serges being pleated often on ""''''''• '' "â- ""* ^"^ fourteen hundred | "Our Contribution toward the equip- ' but they have at least one advanUge oil, and dectified lard, melted' down to a shoulder yoke, nnd belted in 1?"^ I.*??"^.',' '^'n'''"',' "°'"'^!â„¢ Plaln ^ ment of the Belgian army has been over poverty, they do not prevent ib. ', 11 . â-  I t ,. , L^noolu wfV, ,. i„.if «^ o„ \. f n. '*>â- *' skirts the Himalayas, from Cal- | make an excellent mixture oub a little '"oseiy w.tn a belt or sash of the same ~^ Second ditto â€" "Yus. price o' beer now!" From deep water to deep water the Panama Canal is fifty miles In length. Riches may not bring happiness, cutta to far Peshawar, which keeps I three teasijoonfuls of baking powder oil of turpentine should also be added, material as the frock. An especially sentinel at the gate of Afghanistan." ' '^ nnd on(!-fourth teaspoonful of salt. To wash brushes and combs, put a pr»'lty white linen on this order, was Frem horizon to horizon It stretches Into this work with the tips of the j teaspoonful of ammonia into a basin made with a touch of black on the '"^e a broad white ribbon, as straight fingers throe tahlespoonfuls of biititer. .of hot water and dip the brush up and collar and sash. as If traced by a gigantic ruler. And Beat an egg, add thieo-fourths of a : down in it Icbting the comb remain in ~ cup of milk (scant mi'asurc), and stir the water for a few minutes. After- «u lypes oi aressea, irom ttie simnle ." ,"" "; VJT ^ T'". â€" •â€" • yvi <lry ingredients. When th(;ii]ughly niixo"i sprt-ad over bhe apples. Bake in a quick oven about 25 minutes. Invert the dish so as to have the apides on the tup. Serve hot with biit'ler and sugar or syrup. Mixed ConHerve.â€" Six pounds of the largo blue plums, measured after the pits are removed and the plums halved. Fojr pounds of granulated ward rin.se in cold water. REMARKABLE CONSCIENCE. Memory of .Stealing an Apple Any. tiling But Pleasant. A little knowledge, one recalls, is a dangerous thing. So, too, may bo , an apple which you may have inno- BUgar. Two pounds of chopjuul rais- | cently purioined in your earliest ins. Half !! pound of Knglis^h walnut years. It may cau.se you to feel the meat.", chopped fine. Juice of one prick of conscience for many decades. orH/ign. Skins of four oiangcs, chip- That, at least, has been the experi- ped nnd piirboiled fiftvon to twenty ' enee of an Fdinburgh denizen. Once, minulf's. Pour boiling water on the in the remote and shadowy past, ha raisins an I let stand two minutes, look that which was not hisâ€" to wit, Mix all the ingredients nnd let aim- one appleâ€" from a stand in the Cow- mer ft'iven mniites. Add sugar and ' gate. The fruit was enjoyo<l, but the cook ten minutes in double boiler or memory of the furtive meal proved Jintil j'!ly-like. I'our into hjl ster- to be anything but pleasant. The S.ixi(l ,jui3 and when cool cover with consumer left the Scottish capital and paraffin. Do not i)eel the plums, as in time Fate carried him across the the (duns givo ('he consci-e a iiretty Atlantic. Fresh scenes and activities color. Do not stir (he plum:; to ' engaged him, but the thought of that piece;; kooj) them in halve;. When apple dogged him everywhere. Ho done tho mixture will thickvn on n might have been a second Eve. At co!<l plato. j i„„t his overloaded conscience could Beef Stew. â€" II o two pounds of bear the strain no longer. Nothing Khorl of written confession to tho Lord Provost of Kdinbiirgh would appease tho gnawing at his heart. So 40 years after the dark deed had been done the letter was written and conscience money to the extent of one dollar paid. round steak cut from one to one and R half inches thick. The steak may be left wh<)I(! or cut into pieces two Inche.i M(|uare. Ile.-it an iron frying pan, rnb over tho surface with a bit of fat from the nient jiiit in the steak and co,.k, fir.m on eno si-le, then on the other, (o hnrdtn (he meat on the' « outHi.:o .ind thus keep in the juices, i . on u. m *, Put llie me.il into Ihi- casserole with > " Matter. a do/en and a half pieces each of "' ''""'t ^^^ >"'" "'' ^''-'S C.older'a carrot iiiid turnip, cut in similar .-h'lp- ^''t'options any more, old man." ed slicea, cubes or tfiangle.i. Add a i "'^"J -^^ ""'' ' '""' " ''••"^ differ- dozon vciy <-mall pceltd onions, one <''"^'' °^ "l''"'**"'" tablespoonf.il kitchen bouquet and a "Nothing serious, I hope." iranerou.s pint of brown stock or boil- "Oh, no; only I thought I was tho Ing water. Cover and let cook gent- '""n s-ho ought to marry and she Ijr In the ovon oboub an hour and a thoughb I wasn't." i The sash is quite smart just now on ''""^^ along the entire length are all types of dresses, from the simple l^""^'"'^?' "f ^^f.^^^ (wayside rest »„,.„« ♦., ♦»,.> „rf»,„ ♦ n . houses), each with Its arched and tur- serge to tho afternoon taffeta or pon- reted gateway, Its spacious Inclosure. gee. It IS usually narrow, and made where humans share shelter with oxen, of bhe material of the dress, or of camels and goats, and Its central well of sparkling water. For throe thousand years tho Hima- layas have looked down on this road, and have s«>en it as they see It to-day. It has seen a hundred generations of men come and go ; a 8CC>ro of dynas- ties rise and fall. .And yet to-day it Is to the eye exactly tho same as In the long-gone time when Nlnevah was a proud olty. and our ancestors gnawed bones In their caves. ^ CHRIST IN FLANDERS Two Anglers. A barefoot boy, A white birch pole; A can of worms, A swimmin' hole, .\ baited hook, A tug and swish; A steady haul, A string of fish. A white duck suit, A canvas boat; A cosbly rod, A patent float, v' .\ gaudy fly, A cash and swish; A pretty sight. But nary fish! We'd Like to Know. Too. "You mu.st learn to 'tswnt bhe fly,' Ethel. Flies carry typhoid fever." "Will typhoid fever kill any one Smart Flowered Voile who gets it?' "Cortainlv " satin, when (he frock 'a sorge; gener- "Mother, why doesn't ib kill tho ally a mot:f ih embroider -d on the fly?" ends, in colored beads or wool. ' Many .;f the^^e sashes cr.-a.-, ;n front ! ]„ the case of a photoinapher suc- nnd are knotted in the bark losaely ' ee.s depends on hi.s ability to take anil gracefully. j ^i„gg „s ,hey come. We had forgotten You or very nearly. You did not seem to touch us very nearly. Of course we thought about You now and then. Especially in any time of trouble. We knew that You were good in time of trouble. But we are very ordinary men. And there were always other things to think of; There's lots of things a man has got to think of â€" His work, bis home, his pleasure, and his wife; And 80 we only thought of You on Sunday, Sometimes, perhaps, not even on a Sunday, Because there's always lots to fill one's life. And all the while, in street or lane or byway. In country lane, in city street or b>-way. You walked among us and we did not see. Your feet were bleeding as You walked our pavements. How did we miss Your footprints on our pavements? Can there be other folk as blind as we? •"' Now we remember over here in Flanders (It isn't strange to think of You in Flanders); This hideou.-i warfare seems to make things clear. We never thought about You much in England, But now that we arc far away from England We have no doubts, we know that You are here. You helped us pass the jest along the trenches. Where in cold blood we waited in the trenches You touched its ribaldry and made it fine. You stood bosido us in our pain and weakness. We're glad to think You understand our weakness, Somehow it seems to help us not to whine. We think about Y'ou kneeling in the garden. Ah, God! the agony of that dread garden; We know You prayed for us upon the cross; If an.\-thing could make us glad te bear it, , Twould be the knowledge that You willed to bear it, Pain â€" death â€" the uttermost of human loss. Though we forgot You, You will not forget us; We feel so sure that You will not forget us. But stay with us until this dream is past; And so we a.sk for courage, strength, and pardon, Especially, I think, we ask for pardon, And that You'll stand beside. us to the last. â€"London Spectatorw I » • 1