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I' Vs. w About the House U&cful Mint* and General Informa- tion for the Busy Housewife Useful Recipes i A delicious pudding is made with cooked and stoned prunes spread over the bottom of a baking dish and cover- ed with a ri h biscuit dou^h. Serve hot with cienm and sugar or hard sauce. i GingiT Snaps â€" One cup lard, one' cup KLjiar, one cup syrup, half cup, boiling water, one teaspoonful balving Koda di.^j.olvcd in the water, one lab'e- spoonful ginger, one tablespoonsful cinnamon, one teaspoonful vanilla, half teaspoonful salt, a little grated nut- meg and flour for a pretty stiff dough. Cut with cookie cutter and bake quickly. Codfish Balls. â€" 1 pour.d codfish, 1 ouncu butterine, 3V4 pounds potatoes (pared), 3 eggs, few grains cayenne. Soak fish several hours. Cook in frt'sh water until it flake.;; easily. Drain and put through food chopper. Add to potatoes which have been cooked and mashed. Add butterine, seasoning and egrgs elithtly beaten. Cool and .shape into balls and fry in deep fat. Ginger Fudge. â€" Sugar, two cups; milk, one cup; butter, two tablcspoon- fula; vanilla, one-half teaspoonfol; salt, a pinch; ginger (crystallized), one-half cup, chopped f^ne. Put -sugar, buttor, milk and salt In saucepan to- gether and allow to boll 10 minutea, or until it hardens when dropped into cold water; remove from the stove and add vanilla; b«at until creamy, add wringer and pour into buttered pans or plates. Cut into squares with a buttered knife. Emergency Apple Pudding. â€" One cup of flour (prepared wheat pan- cake), one cup brown angar, one egg, one-half cup milk, a little nutmeg, four lui'ge apples, peeled and sliced. Butter a pudding dish, lay in the ap- ples and pour the batter over them. ' This tukes only about as long as the I ordinary apple pie, and yet it l.s not ' heavy or indigestible. It may be eaton with cream or a hard sauce. i To Cook Rice. â€" After washing rice, put it on in just enough cold water to prevent it burning at the bottom of the pot, which should have a dose fit- ting cover, and with a moderate flr« the rice is steamed rather than boiled until nearly done; then the cover is re- moved, the surplus stoam and mois- ture, allowed to escape and the rice turns out a mass of snow-white ker- : nels, tnch separate from the other and as much superior to the usual soggy mass es a fine, meal potato is sup- erior to the watcr-cioaked article. j Wliitr Caki! Like China Dishes. â€" ' Take the yolk.s of two eggs and a | spociif jI of fialt and as much ro.sewat- ' er, b( iTie curruway seeds and as much flour as will make it a paste stitT en- ough to roll out very thin; if you would have them like dishes you must bake them on dishes buttered. Cut them out into what work you please to candy them. Take a pound of per- fumed sugar and the white of on egg and three or four epoonfulM of rose- 1 water, stir until it looks white; andi when that paste is cold do it with a ' feather on one side. This candied, I let it dry, and do the i>ther side and also dry it. , I Almond Cakes, Take a pound of I .Jordan almond.>i, blanch them, beat ; them very fine with a little orange' flower water to keep thoni from oil- 1 Ing; then take a pound and a quarter j of fine sugar, boil to a high candy, j then put in your almonds; then take two fre.sh lemons, grate off tho rind very thin and put in as much juice as to make of it a <iuick taste, then put it into your glasses and set it in your stove, stirring often that they do not : i-andy; so when it is a little dry put i it into litllo cake:? upon .'sheets of glass j to dry. j Fondant. â€" ^To one pound of granu- 1 lated sugar add a gill and a half of boiling water and fctir in a saucepan over the fire only until tho sugar is dissolved; then allow the mixture to j boil without stirring for about six minutes, or until the syrup spins a thread when held on n fork. When it can he made into a very soft ball between the fingers turn on to a large ; buttered platter. Do not scrape off â-  the sugar which adhero.s to the side ' of the pan. WTien it is only blood warm stir it with a wooden pa<ldle or spoon until it begins to crumble; then it Rhould be kneaded in the hands like dough. Pack it into a bowl, cover with a thill cloth slightly moistened and set it away until needed. Fruit Deserts. Whenever you peel oranges save the poel and parboil it, then preserve in a rich syrup and it is ready for a dozen uses in cookery. Banana Puffs. â€" After peeling some fairly ripo bananas, sprinkle the fruit with sugar. Prepare a nice short paste, roll il out thiiily and cut into strips rather longer und more than double the width of a banana. Inclose the banana neatly, and, after moisten- ing and fastening the edges of the paste, bake the puffs lightly, and after they are a faint brown color they will be ready for serving when cold. Orange Cream. â€" One-half cupful orange juice; one-half cupful sugari a small amount of gelatin; one-fourth cupful cold water; one and a half cup- fuls cream; orange rind. Heat the orange Juice and one-half cupful of lugar, over the hot water. Beat the yolks of egg.s, add the re.-.t of the' sugar, stir and cook in the hot mix- ; ture, until the spoon is coated with custard. Add the gelatin, softened in cold water, a grating of orange rind, and stir over ico water, until the mixture begins to stiffen. Orange Snow. â€" Take six fine oranges, the whites of four eggs, one pint whipped cream, half cip powder ed sugar. Slice the oranges after peeling, remove seeds, sprinkle sugar over them before adding the snow cream, which is made thus: Beat the whites of the eggs until foaming, then add by degrees the sifted sugar. Whip the cream, which must be very cold from standing on ice. When very stiff beat in the orange slices and juice, adding as much as the ci-eam and the meringue will hold without be- coming soft. Place in glasses and serve very cold. Cider Apple Butter.â€" Use sweet cider of good quantity and apples that cook easily. Boil tho cider down one-half. Waijh, peel, quarter and core the apples, carefdHy cutting out al! decayed spots. Boil together equal quantities of apples and boiled- . down cider. Boil the apples rapidly j until they become so tender aa to be mushy, otherwise they will sink to the bottom and Lcorch. Continue the cooking more slowly. If the quantity is small, run the aples through the colander, place the pulp in a stone tTock and cook it in a slow oven, stir- A Potato Day for the Belgian People. One of the central potato depots in Belgium established by the Germans. From here the people of the country are fed just so much a dayâ€" usually a potato has to suffice twenty-four hours. In this way the food supply is being kept track of. Even for a potato a ticket has to be shown. The Belgians have to dig the pota- toes and then turn them over to the Germans, who dole them out. ITALIAN DESTROYERS FOOLED AUSTRIANS QUEEN THINKS OF POOR. however, invisible, and consequently it is indispensable to have ii marked, ' a.s it were, in order that the torpedo Her Majesty's Interest in (Question of boats, once they crossed it and en- Froia Erin's Greeo Isk NEWS BY MAIL FRO.VI LAND'S SHORES. IRE- : tered the harbor, should find the way A sailor in a small boat ":^iVf\ 'I'f*';^!''".'.^^^.^."..'!'!"'!^: SECURED INFORMATION. FIRED | ^^^^ „„,„, ^j,, ^.^p,^, ^oats was ac otherwise stir it constantly from time to prevent it scorching and to make it smooth. If the butter is not smooth when it has the right consis- tency, add a little cider and continue the boiling and stirring. Add sugar at any time if butter xs, not sweet en- ough to suit the tatite. Useful Hints. An hour should elapse after a meal before taking a bath. Food Supply. Queen Mary, in view of her interest; in the question of food supply, recent- 1 lowered |y summoned Walter Runciman, pre- sident of the Board of Trade, to an cordingly lett to mark the passapo audience at Buckingham Palace. It is| j after the others had gone inside. This ^^^^ unusual for the Queen to send ! man knew that he was ri.sking his f^^ ^ Cabinet Minister. I Sleepy Enemy Cheered BoaU and Did , li'e, since in case of an alarm he had The conference was a long one, the! [absolutely no chance of escaping, but Qygg„ ^eing particularly interested in when the expedition to Pola was plan- jefinjte details as to how the proposed Too Late. : ^^'^ »"'• ^"s officer in command of the ^^^^ ^^^ regulations woald affect the TORPEDOES, ESCAPED. Not Discover Mistake Till Three Italian torpedo boats have succeeded in breaking the boom at Pola, the best defined and most forti- I ficd navul harbor in the world. They k linen case to hold a pair of rub- spent two hours "exploring the har 1 flotilla said he needed one man for : this job all the crew volunteered and ; added that they were all willing to ] sacrifice their lives if necessary. One of the torpedo boats entered i the harbor of Pola and came out after bers is an excellent gift. Earthly roots should be well scrub- ' bed before peeling. | Green vegetables should always bo cooked in salted water. poor, especially the working women and women belonging to the so-called professional classes. From the very beginning of the war, the Queeti han shown particular interest in the posi- tion of middle-class women, women of bor a few hundreds of yards from the , two hour.s. There was absolutely no ^jucation and breeding, who have forts and came out safely after they | sign of life inside the port and few ^^^^^ f^^ yggrs in one' groove, and had accomplished their most difficult i lights were to be seen on shore. The ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ longer young enough to ftud delicate mission, when numerous | Austrians relied so much on their ^^ ^,,,g ^^ Yt^ntfyt by new openings powerful searchlights vainly illuaiin- | mine field.s, barrier.4 and batteries that ,^,,,p„ ^^^j^ p,j occupations or incomes There is no use telling a boy to i ated sky and sea and the batteries , they were quite convinced an atUck gradually became insufficient, stop doing something he ought not to ftred wildly and inefficiently,' writes a was impossible either by day or by -j.,,^ subject of food economy, also. do, unless you show him better to do j Rome correspondent, in its place. , . „ ' The most difficult and delicate mis- To clean plaster-of-paris figures, l^j^^ consisted in torpedoing a man- sprinkle them with a thick coating of 1 „..,,.g,. In fact, when the torpedo starch and water. When this is dry . ^o^ts reached the "cu.Uomary anchor- age of part of the Austrian fleet," night and they slept soundly without -^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ engaged the heartiest watching. I attention cf the Queen. "The Queen is herself a remarkably good house- possibly tho good roadstead in channel of Fasana, the entrance the dirt will brush off with the dry powder. Clean your sewing machine fie- (juently if you would have good ser- vice. Kerosene oil and absorbent cot- ton are admirable for the purpose; follow with a good lubricator. "I haven't enough suit hsmgers to ; â-  .. . » »• .. , 1 ii. .. n o ..I.- I '" the nets protecting the hang my clothes.' Roll up a thick section of the newspaper, and tie a string around the miii<lle with a loop. That will do just aa well. To soften brown sugar that has be- come lumpy place it in a cloth sack and hold tho sack over the steam from a boiling tea-kettle. This is easier than rolling It on the bread- board, and takes less time. To ilo away with tho smell of fresh paint, put a pail of water into which an onion has been cut up in the newly painted room over night. If windows I Empire. It is situated and doors are closed the odor will be i southern extremity of th Results Not Known. The results of the torpedo boats ex- keei>er," writes one of the newspapers ploration Inside Pola are of course not In commenting on the audience with known. Undoubtedly they mu.st have Mr. Runciman, "and if she belonged to the j been very valuable, judging by the the middle clas-ses she would be extol- of fact that no attempt was made to tor- led as a wonder among her peers. which they had successfully forced, i pedo any of the enemy ships before Years ago, before war with Germany toifedoes were fired against a largo I two hours, and it is to be presumed . was thought of, she used to be quot- eiumy war vessel, but it was asver- j that all this time was not lost. Be- j ed as as example of thrifty manage- taitied that both remained entangled j sides, had not dawn been so near the ' mcnt and sound common sense. In ship and as they failed to strike a hard sub- stance their charges were not ignited and the torpedoes did not explod?. Had the torpedoes exploded the torpedo bout would have surely pro- those days, thrifty management and longed her exploration inside Pola. It : sound common sen.se were was about 6 o'clock in the morning ! popular nor fashionable, and when the two torpedoe.^ were fired _ considered the smart thing against the Austrian battle.ship in the Italian warships would not have been Fasana channel, almost simultaneous- able to come out of Pola and probably ly and at a very close range. They would have been lost. In fact, they , both got entangled in the nets protect- o\M;d their safety to the non-explosion ing the shin. Evidently three nets ab.sorhed by morning. of tho torpedoes, Principal Naval Harbor. Pola is the principal naval harbor and arsenal of the Austro-Hungarian near the peninsula protected the ship, because two were out, but the third prevented the tor- pedoes from striking the hull, and neither j it was to be I wasteful and frivolous, and complete- i ly ignorant of what w ent on in the kitchen and the store room. Even yet, not everybody has come around to the Queen's point of view, although they will In time, even if they have to be forced Jnto it. A vast deal of unnecessary Spending still goe.s on. ()f Istria, at the head of a bay of the their propellers kept going outside the especially among the so-called smart water with a loud noise resembling ^et, which is still lunching and dining that made by the propellers of an and going to the theatres and buying aeroplane. expensive furs, and goinp in for e.v- 1 In fact, the Austrians on board the tremes in evening dress. Only nn acti Belts made of colored calf leather same name, and is almost completely :. "V' ;:\r.,r ' h„«r on V^oard """"^».'" "vemng uiess un.y I w • 1 IT. 1 • ,1 , I < . • . t imttloship aa we 1 as those on Doara n( narliament will stop them, become shiny m places. To remedy | andlockcd. An extensive system of ^^^er ships nnd on .shore mistook the P-^''''^"'""^ ii^_op_u>em. .11 . • M n % I ,* Ti X* t 1- * -It uviiLTi villus ;»iiu uii ,; ♦1 i" iFT*". " >" r l'f,-''«-I"V'*-'"' • ^"'â- V*^^'"*"'"/* "" \^" surrounding hills , „„,^g ^„j ^^^^ j^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^at Pola hold the belt tjiut, and lightly rub in enclosing the harbor defends its en- one direction with the glaas-paper, trance and protects the good road- when the "blnom" will be restored. | stead in tho large channel of Fasna. Buy from the stationer's a package | This channel separates the mainland of strong manilu envelopes, size about ; from the Krionian Islands, which do- 4x0 inches, and start a collection of minatc the entrance to the bay. The clippings. Use one envelope for each I harbor has an area of over three subjects, and you will soon have a i Bquare miles and is divided into two valuable depository of information. It basins by a chain of three small is- had been attacked by hostile air craft. The alarm was raised at once with the rapidity of lightning. Searchlights were put on and illuminated the sky, while all the guns of the aerial de- THE SIIPRE.ME HONOR. Victoria Crosses Dealt Out Great Caution. With Happenings in the Emerald Isle ot Interest to Irish- ' men. The King has approved of the ap- pointment of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Bryan Mahon, R.C.V.O., C.B., D.S.O., to be General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Forces in Ireland, in succes- sion to Lieut,-Gen. Sir John Maxwell. A public meeting of the citizens of Limerick was held in the town hall in support of the application of the Association of Irish postal officials for an increased war bonus. The strike of Carrick-on-Suir boat- men, and the consequent complete suspension of the barque traffic be- tween Waterford, Carrick-on-Suir and Clonmel has now entered upon its eighth week. When a passenger train from Cork to Dublin was just near Mallon Sta- tion, a pipe of the boiler of the en- gine burst. The fireman, Michael Stafford, was killed, and the driver, Patrick Dunlea, badly scalded. It is understood that Lord Chief Justice Cherry is about to relinquish his ofSce as head of the King's Bench Division in Ireland, and that he will be succeeded by the Attorney-Gen- eral, Mr. J. H. Campbell, K.C., M.P. At the meeting of the Thurles Ur- ban Council a crowd of women from the poorer quarters of the town at- tended and asked the assistance of the council to secure a reduction in the price of potatoes. CANNOT TRUST GERMANY. Russia KesenU Underhand Approaches of Hans for Peace. Russia resents Germany's insidious and repeated attempts to negotiate a separate peace with her, .says the Pro- ndence Journal. She realizes that the greatest menace to her ambitions is embodied in the eastward schem- ings of Berlin. She is bitterly hos- tile to the German desire to dominate the Slavonic peoples of the Balkans. She remembers that Teutonic uggres- sion in Serbia was the immediate caude of the continental war. More- over, she distrusts Teutonic diplomacy. Like the rest of the world she appre- ciates the difficulty of binding faith- less Germany to the faithful perform- ance of her future engagements. This sentiment of suspicion crops out in tl:e comment of the Pi-esident of the Duma, who says: "We cannot Irubt our adversary. He is a worn- out felon." An official of the Foreign Office declares that the lack of sincer- ity in the German proposal is evident. A Ehima re.-iolution, unanimously adopted, characterizes the offer as hypocritical. The Foreign Minister, addressing the Duma, brands Germany as deceitful. The German Govern- ment cannot ignore the extraordinary â€" the worldwide â€" emphasis put upon its duplicity. Russia's stunly opposition to Ger- many's desire to control the Balkans is a reminder that in the final settle- ment of the present conflict it will be futile to ignore racial and religioua lines. So far as possible nationality and tradition must be respected. Trieste and the Trentino must go to Italy because they are, by every test except that of government, Italian. The national ambitions of the South- ern Slavs cannot be evaded. Bohe- mia's age-long aspirations for liberty must be given fuller play â€" or else pea£e will be but a travesty on the world. is much more convenient than pasting clippings In a book. HIGH PRICES AND WAGES. Increa.'tc of Wages Does Not Necea- surily Mean Juliip in Prices. The notion is jomewhal widely cur- rent that the raising of wages in a period of rising prices simply keeps up the action of a vicious economic circle; that you make wages higher to meet the high prices, and that then you have to make the prices still higher to meet the high wagss, says New York Post. In soma par- ticular instances, the highest wages do cause the rising of prices; but broadly speaking, the idea is quite false. The process is one of read- justment to a new scale of prices; those who carry on various business enterprises reap an abnormal profit through the rise of prices, and when they have yielde<l up some of this to the workers, things have simjily gone back to a condition of e(iuilibriuro. When wages are raised in tho steal industry, for example, in such condi- tions as exist to-day, that Is not in the least a factor tending to raise prices; it merely affects the distribu- tion of the surjihis (over normal re- turned), which existing prices yield. When it comes to solid comfort there there is Very little tt> choose between an easy conscience and an easy pair of boots. Victoria Oosses are dealt out as fence on the hills and on the islands, grudgingly as though they were com- as well es all those on the ships and p^ggd of radium. This is because the of tho shore batteries, opened fire honor is the greatest that can be won simultaneously, wildly and ineflU- by a British subject, and also because ciently. ^ jn the present war all previous stand- Picked Up Sailor. ^^ds of gallantry have been surpass- The Italian torpedo boat headed ed, or rather what one man did in the straight for the small boat with the Crimea and three In South Africa, a sailor left to mark the place where hundred are doing in the present war. j the boom had been lowered. She To give a V.C. to every heroic soldier i slowed down until the man was picked in the British army would be to raako aboard, and the Au.striana in the pat- the cross as common a.i corporat.i' rol boat watching the entrance of the stripes. So it is bestowed as cautious- Pola is surrounded with i*'''""*^ ^'^^ ^*'''' ""' quite awake as- ly as though the candidate for It were Bumed that she was one of their tor- applying for canonization. Not only pedo boats going out to sea in search must the deed that wins tho cross be oil the Italian aeroplanes that were of exquisite heroism; it must be as raiding Pola. duly witnessed and attested as a sig- 1 While the torpedo boat steamed out nature to a will. A veritable court of the Austrians shouted encouragingly enquiry sits on each case, and unless | "QutI" to tho crew and the Italians It presents some features far out of shouted back "Gut!" So the Austrl- the ordinary even among heroic deeds,! ans cheered and the Italians cheered, the supreme honor is withheld and a ' too, as they joined the two other tor- Military Cross or medal given instead, i . „„^„ •vfor.^i.,^ o„^«u= Ivl â„¢r,!'/C P^do boats waiting outside, and the That is why only about 200 Victoria and nets extending across the mouth f, » .u T » i <• n \ ,, l v j , • three of them started full speed Crosses have been awarded In the lands. Three Italian torpedo boats left port on the evening of November I, and toward midnight they were off Pola, The distance between Pola and Venice is about eighty miles, and as presumably they started from Venice they must have steamed at half speed, with lights out, as silently as possible. The sea was very calm and the night dark extensive mine fields, which the three torpedo boats successfully crossed. Evidently the exhibition had been carefully planned and the exact loca- tion of the extensive mine fields as- certained beforehand. Shortly after midnight the warships were near the entrance of the Fasana channel, closed by means of Iron chains, steel cables, enormous beams Kvery woman knows it's easier to coax a man than drive a nail. A small child who was the youngest member of a very hard-up family was told one day by her father that she had a new baby sister. "I^n't that nice ?" he asked . But hard lessons of domestic economy had already taken hold of the young lady, and she an- swered .severely: "We'll daddy, 1 s'pose it's all right, but it seems to me there's a lot of things we need more." ^ of the channel as a protection against submarines. The barrier is formid- able, and its removal seems Impos- sible. A patrol boat is moored along- side the boom. The men on board are supposed to be on watch; instead, they are asleep. Lowered the Boom Two out of the three torpedo boats silently approached the barrier and their crews got to work. In less than twenty minutes the boom was lowered sufficiently to allow their passage. How the boom is lowered is naturally a secret. It is known, however, that n special mechanical contrivance was used with success. The small passage opened across the barrier where the boom was "broken" or lowered is. ahead toward their base. British army and navy since the be- Meanwhile Pola's "searchlights ginning of the war. vainly illuminated sky and sea and the <> _ batteries fired wildly and inefficient- ly," and it was only when the three torpedo boats were well out at sea and safely out of range thr.t their na- tionality was discovered. Until dawn the Austrian fire continued, mainly directed skyward. I'redictions and Facts. The British Empire, according to the German Minister of Finance, will go down like Belshazzar's empire. He also said that food la cheaper in Ger- many than In England or France. If ihis predictions are no more accurate ^ . ijjjan his utatements of fact, British In the Indian Army all orders are need not worry.-â€" New York Evening given In English. Post Teacher (during geometry lesson) â€" Why are these angles correspond- ing? Pupilâ€" Because they are friends. Neces.sity is the mother of inven- tion; promotion is the step-ful.her. It's easy fjr a woman to under stand why a man can't understand her. Instead of Worrying about the high cost of living, just buy a pack- age of Grape-Nuts â€" still hold at the same fair price. Enjoy a morning dish of this dellcioas food, and smile over the fact that you've had a good breakfast and Saved Money Isn't that a fair start for any day? 7 »'â- â€¢â- â-