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It seems to me every homemaker must study the question from her own environment; but study and plan she must if she would save time and wor- ry and get through this dreaded sea- son of the year with as little confus- ion as possible, writes a correspond- ont. If there is no vegetables in the collar, or if they were packed in dry earth when put in in the fall, and there is no decay, and especially if there is a window with hinges and an outside door so that the cellar has been thoroughly ventilated it vill not endanger the health of the family and will save work to leave the cellar till the seed potatoes are planted and the carrots, beets and other winter vegetables Will be safe from frost in the woodshed. ' It is a good lplan to begin with the attic» provided it; is so warm that one will not take cold while doing the Do not use any soap. . hardwood floors can be cleaned in the same way. . Laying carpets is hard work for a woman hampered as she is by her skirts, and would better be done by a man. The floor should be perfectly dry before putting down the carpet. When the furniture has been reâ€" placed, the window shades put up, the pictures hung and everything in the room where it. belongs, try to get at least a half hour’s rest before sup- per time, in which you do absolute- -ly not‘hing. By cleaning little by little, one room at a time, the whole family are not made uncomfortable throughout the housecleaning season, and the house wife does not become so exâ€" hausted that it takes all summer to get rested. 4...»...- SOME SPRING DISHES. Pie Plant Pieâ€"This is one of the most delicious pies ever eaten. Try it. In the spring when the appetite needs encouraging it will be found a very welcome dish. Pour boiling water over a cup of pieplant chopped rather fine, let stand a few minutes and pour off. Add to the pieplant one cup of sugar, one tablespoonful of flour, and the yolks of two eggs. Flavor with lemon. "Bake with an undercrust. When done pour over the whites Olf two eggs beaten stiff, and brown. r Rhubarb FOOLâ€"Steam the rhubarb soft, with half its weight in sugar; press through sieve. Mix a coffeeâ€" cufplful of cold pulp with the amount of Silllne whipped cream. Serve work. cold. . \Vhen cleaning closets it is well to Cream Pieâ€"Bake a good light crust hang all woolen garments on the on the inverted pie pan. When done clothes line exposed to the sun and wind after a good brushing. This has been my practice for years and I have never had any 11101115 in my clos- ets. Dresses or coats that will fade in the sun should be turned wrong Bide (mm two tablespoons of granulated sugar .I like to have the shelves and floors spread lightly ,on pic and set in mod- of closets painted to avoid (lulnpness crate oven until light brown. Cool after washing- I also like a hard finâ€" blaforé , Zeggiilggaiggfidis a delicmus ish plastered walls in closets so that we Elm. " e l ' . I can wipe them off with a cloth Dried Apply akaâ€"Soak over mght wrung out“, hot water. two teacupluls of dried apples. In Garments which are outgrown or the morning chop. fine and simmer for other reasons cannot be used in for two {hours in two culprfuls of New your family may be given away' Orleans molasses. When nearly cold Many People hesitate to do this for . , ‘ fear of giving Offense; but a “heart add one cuplful of sugar, oneâ€"half cup butter, four cu-ps Oil. flour, two eggs, that is kind” will find a way to be a bleSSlng- The school teacher can One dessert spoon of soda_,;one cup of sour milk, one cup of ralsms and it often give advice and hel ) in lacin . . 1 p g little cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. garments where most needed. P, _ _ _ _ _ Those 1,0 be made Over for your own 'lms cake 13 so delicious it is well worth trying. family should be ripped and brushed . . and dlzlipod in gasoline, net gasoline Jcllicd Chickenâ€"Boil a chicken in- as little water as possible till the rubbed on the spots, but: two or three g-u lotus put in the v.'asi1 boiler out , . ~' .. . , . , doors and the “gm colored or cleanest meat “falls from the bones. lChop 01 pick it to piecesâ€"not too fine, sea~ son with salt and pepper. Let the clothing dipped first. It should be liquor get cold, after which take off rubbed a little with the hands in the gasoline, squeezed out, and rinsed in all the fat. Then warmthe liquor, adding a little water slice a banana into the crust and fill with a. cream as follows: Two cups sweet milk, yolks of two eggs half- cup: white sugar, one tablespoon corn- starch. Cook in double boiler until thick, then flavor with vanilla. Whip upl the whites of eggs until stiff with clean gasoline. Men‘s coats and gowns that do not 3.2".“.Jfiii‘a‘i‘é'fiifit? rims?“ ‘“ it“ the” is “t “n‘lu'gh t9 “'9'; the “at” , . {’1 ‘5 “no on a “’9 and when the liquor is warm stir in the gasoline Will soon evaporate. If I th c. C- r r 1- tin Thro the gasoline becomes dirty allow the 9”?" our - 01m." 0k .E’e a. e' ' - ~w - v , .. this gelatine liquor over the meat 111 dirt tosetlle to the bottom and i our . . i 1 ~ - ‘ .~ . , p a mould. bet away to get cold. Over off the top. Clothing that needs - ht is be“ such treatment can be put by when mg , ' '_ - the closets are cleaned, and attended A breakfast Danâ€"one and oneâ€"half to after the houseclcaning Is finished. CUPS 0f 00” boned ham minced fine Sonic housekeepers wash their bur- and a cup and a half of potatoes euu drawers and dry them in the sun at least one a year, others fit newsâ€" papers in'to the bottom of their bureau drawers, putting in fresh ones 0c- cusionally. If there are any traces of moths the drawers- should be thor- oughly washed, the inside of the hu- reau cleaned and insect; powder blown lllll) every crack and pulling anything drawers. Furs and flannels which are to be laid away during the summer should be brushed and beaten, wrapped in newspapers and then sewed up in un- bleached cotton sheeting. Some peo- ple sprinkle them with crumbs of gum cumplhor or place moth balls about them before wrapping; but I have known people who have kept furs free from mollhs for more than thirty years by simply brushing and beating them before' l sewing them up. ‘ The malress may be taken to lbel piazza and placed in the sun and al-l lowed to air well, pillows hung in the wind but not: the sun. blankets, if not soiled enough to wash, hung on a line for several hours. Window shades should be taken down,unrollcd,dusled rolled up again and put aside till the room has been cleaned. Unless repairs make it necessary to do otherwise it is usually best to clean one room and 'p-ul it in order before beginning another. Carpets should be taken up, even at some inconvenience. when the "men folks" can heal them. i believe many sliced thin. Arrange the ham and potatoes in alternate layers, seasonâ€" ing the ham with a little pepper. VVhon the dish is full pour ot’er it a pint; of cream sauce, made as follows: Melt tablespoonfu-l of butter, stir in a heap-ing teaspoon of flour, add very slowly one pint of milk and apinch of pepper. Let the sauce boil up; pour .a little (if it over two beaten eggs and then add the eggs to the rest of the sauce. Sprinkle a tablespoon of bread crumbs over the dish after adding the sauce ‘and set it in a hot oven for about fifteen minutes. Mary’s Ginger Bl‘ead.-â€"Olle cup of molasses, one-half cwp of butter or lard, two eggs, one cup of sour milk, one cup of brow-n sugarpo‘ne table- sp-o-onful of ginger, one, teaspoonful, 'geven, of soda“, three cups-of flour; beat well together and’bake in a slowoven. receipt _ and one that corner before back Into the wra p-pin g and An excellent never fails. SOME’I‘HfNG ABOUT OLD FLOORS. Newspapers torn into small pieces and soaked in water are excellent for filling up cracks in old floors. The wet paper forms a soft pulp that. can easily be pressed into a small space; and if putty is spread over this filling it will last a long time. The paper should be presesd fir.me into the cracks with a knife blade. The coat- ing of putty gives it a smooth appearâ€" ance and the floor may then be stain- \v n Iv ' - i , ‘ A v “< u w . - . 9min, me“ ‘vhmnsellpf’ .um‘m ed or ptunted and wtth a rug In the mum“) and Shorten the”. I‘ve“ by center the crack will scarcely be even beating heavy carpets. Allow the ' " ' " J ‘ ' ' ' o rpets to air several hours if posâ€" s ble. ‘ After the pictures are taken down, cleaned and placed in the closet or ball. the ceilings, unless very high. may. by the aid of a stepladder, be lionuirc by letting him put you in wiped with a dry [cloth and all dust on the ground floor of a mining removed. The side walls may bc scheme? wiped in like manner- 011, J gave him 2:3 cents to bu)" A few drops of ammonia may be addâ€" his lunch. ed to the clear warm water used In wash the windows. To avoid streaked. TOO MUCH cloudy panes wash the windows where I the sun does not. shine on the glass. Papa. I‘PZU‘hhHr f“l' ‘he m‘l‘Now' Pu; a bar of ivory soap into the young 1mm. 1’“ al'l"‘llfl l0 .V‘lll- “That warm water, but. do not rub any soap have you to say fo'l' Your-9°” i: Tummyâ€"Let it, come, pop; but say, as a special favor, While you're doing;r “""'." + A CHEAP .ldXTRICA'l'ION. man who wanted you to become 3 milâ€" ~tint". \Vipe with a dry, soil (*lnl‘ll. ld. pain: that Is marred may requiri- napolln to make it clean. If the room not about ii. hurting you mure’n me. ~ Varnished, if you think' it, please don't spring that old (-hcst- explained to our ITEMS THAT WILL INTEREST YOU AT THIS TIME. The Boys on the Battlefield and Those on Their “'ay :0 the Capeâ€"nu! erlaln Looks to Deeds of Bravery. There are twenty-three field calls. A battalion’s war strength is 1,097. Streams and rivers can be effec- tively bridged with barrelSv ‘Inlfantry march at the rate of eighty-eight yards a minute. Instantaneous fuse burns at the rate of about a hundred feet a second. Fords should be marked by long pickets driven into the river‘s bed. The seamen in the Transvaal are served out with infantry great coats. High angle fire is that from guns at all elevations beyond fifteen deâ€" grees. Rear guards should be formed of the best and mostâ€"highly equipped lbroops. All British soldiers are volunteers, just as, of course, all volunteers are soldiers. Troops on outpost duty do not sal- ute their superiors or notice them un- less addressed. An infantry soldier on rough ground should be more than a match for a mounted man. - The Royal Marines number at pre- sent 18,300, of which, 3,750 are in the artillery branch. l The second line of attack carry a position, the firing line joining with it. in the charge. Walls less than [our feet high re- quire a small trench sunk on the msule to secure cover. The advance guard of a brigade usu- ally consists of four companies with two machine guns. The general decides when the en- emy’s fire has been sufficiently sub- duled to deliver the final assault. Masked positions so greatly adopted by the Boers were utilized by the Chinese'against our forces, notably ‘the Taku Forts. General Hector Macdonald sent his box of chocolates to one of the pupils at Trinity College, Glcnalmomd, to whom he writes frequently. There are 796 officers hollding rank in the army permitted to wear foreign orders, the Medijidie and the Osman- ieh framing greater parts of the de- emotions. The Ordnance Survey Sappers did not leave to make sketch maps of the country under active operations until after Natal had been invaded by the Boers. In making entrcnchments the pick must be used front and rear, and nevâ€" er across the trench, nor can men safely work (tlosorvlogether at such operation than four feet. The vehicle used by General Joubert when he headed for Mooi River has been 'found. It is an ambulance wagâ€" gloln, padded up to the roof for the convenience of the invalid. The Queen sent from Buckingham Palace a graceful letter of lhanksin reply to the congratulations- of the residents of Kenilworth upon the re- cent successes of her soldiers in South Africa. * The America arrived at: Southamp- ton Tuesday from Glasgow. During her voyage four. of the horses perished. She has Lord Lovat’s scouts on boa rd and embarks further detachments of Yeomanry at Southampton for South Africa. I The Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University has been invited by lhe Secretary of Stale for \Var to nimiâ€" note ‘73 candidates for commissions in the armyâ€"25 in the cavalry, ZOin the Royal Artillery, 25 in the infantry and 3 in the Army Service Corps. .One of the Vatican organs, the Unita. Catolica, runs ‘a tilt against the Duke of Nm‘folk for telling the Pope and Cardinal Rampolla that Eug- lish Roman Cath'olics wore in favour of the war, whereas the bulk of them, according to this paper are pro-Boers. Six companies of Yconiam‘y embarkâ€" ed on the transports Montrose and Hilarious at Liverpool, for the front. There were 43 officers, 800 men and 500 horses. The companies hailed from Montgomcryshire, Dublin, Bur-lking- hamshire, Pem'brukesbire and Yorkâ€" shire. The vessels sailed on 'l'uesday night. Lon‘d L‘ansdowne in the House of Lords on Monday thanked those per- sons Who had offered the \Var Office houses of. all descriptions from cot- tages to palaces for invalid soldiers. There was no prospect of filling all these homes, for the private soldier as a rule very much preferred when he left: hospital to go home than to amonvalescenl home however comfortâ€" able. "The l’opolo Romano,” thesemi.~ official organ of the l'talian'llovernâ€" mcnt, says it is absurd to think that England, aft-cribs sacrifices she has HOW (lid F011 [infilllygl-‘L PM Of lllillf made, will be content: with the same conditions which, if they had been ac- cepted by the Transvaal before, would but e avoided war. Now, although England may give the Transvaal and the Orange Free State home rule, they must become part of the British Em- "pire. Unlike some of the imperial Yeo- manry, the Guards have not been supâ€" plied with khaki oven-outs. They re- tain their own dark ones. “[1 doesn’t matter at all," one of the Grenadiers represent a : ive re- ccnlly. "\Vc shan‘t wear them in ac- JUTTINGS IlillllT THE in] tion; we shall carry them rolled up on our backs. The black spot there,"’ he added with a winning smile, “ won’t | l l I l l i be a target, because the enemy won’t see our backs.” , The militia detachments of (the {oyal Irish Rifles, which went out with the line d-rafr. from Sheffield,to join the second battalion at the front, consist of 120 rank and file of the third, fourth and fifth battalionsâ€"40 men being drawn from each to com- plete the draft. The militia left Belâ€" fiast on Saturday night. Although not officially intimated, it is almost cer- tain that the fifth battalion will be embodied for active service. W SPRING SMILES. Tomâ€"Why isJones so unpopular in political circles! Dickâ€"lle’s launchâ€" ed a boom for himself as the popular candidate. _ Have you considered what matri- mony means? asked old Darla Mark. Oh, yes, replied young Spendy. That's whyI want to marry your daughter. lifeâ€"You don't. give me credit for doing anything well. Sheâ€"Oh, yes, it do. There’s at least one thing you can do better than any one else. [In â€"And what's that? fool of yourself. At the Dinner Tableâ€"Georgie, don‘t stare at Mr. C-ruqmley that way. It isn’t polite. Twas just waitin’ to see him pick up 'his glass of water, ma, I heard pa tell you that he drinks like a fish. , Pa, what is the inevitable? \Vcil, I don’t like to see you investigate such deep themes, Jimmy; but as a gen- eral proposition, the inevitable is any big scheme that a man tries to run without cash. Do you know what makes money so scarce? asked the 'man who was makâ€" ing an inflammatory speech on so- cial subjects. Yes, sir, anSWered a man in the front row. It’s sitting here, listening to you, instead of go- ing to work. That boy is going to make his mark in the world, said Mrs. Corntossel, proudly. \Vhal makes you think so, Mandy? asked her husband. I’ve been readin’ some biographies of fam- ous .men. An’ a whole lot of ’em didn’t show any Iparticular smartness at school. He, as the curtain fallsâ€"My dear, I believe I will go into the lobby to stretch my legs. Sheâ€"You’ve been to the lobby three times to stretch your legs, and the last time when you came back they seemed real weak. I am afraid you are stretchinglhem too much. Sheâ€"Make a Mr. Peckâ€"Here’s a plucky girl. On her way to luer Wedding she was thrown out of her carriage and hurt, but she insisted on going to the church and having the ceremony per- formed. Mrs. Peckâ€"«Well, the poor, misguided thing deserves her fate then. 57 , A Far-Sighted Citizenâ€"llickeyâ€"fs a diplomat, a politician who knows what to do, Uncle Christopher? Unâ€" cle Clltristopherâ€"Noâ€"noâ€"Dickey; a diplomat is a politician who knows What he intends to do after other p-o- lilicians have done what his first move was intended to make them do. At the Country Postofficeâ€" Summer Visitorâ€"Is it: true that the postmasâ€" ter is supposed to read all the postal cards that come through the office? The Postmasterâ€"I s’p'OSe so; but it’s mighty hard to read some of ’em. City folks are glib enough at talkin’, but when it comes to writin’ they can’t come up to the boys in the low- est class in our country schools. ‘W-gâ€" ENGLISH TAILORS’ BLACK LIST. liar-Reaching; Record by Which "Plush ’I‘radcsmcn I’rolccl 'I‘Ilcmsclvcs. l l l REQUESTS TO CRIMINALS. lili""‘ .zerore ’l‘llclr Death “any of Thom Ile- cclvi- l'cculhlr Otters. When the notorious Charles Peace was lying under sentence of death at Alrmies goal he received several re- quests from morbid-minded persons for his autograph, one gentleman stating that he had collected the sign- atures of celebrated criminals for many years, and that he desired to add Peace’s penmanship to his list, says an English paper. The conâ€" vict’s reply was characteristic, and was to the effect that the only auto- graph he would furnish would take the form of an in-dorsement, on a cheque in favour of himself, though, in View of his approaching end, the value of the cheque would seem to have been problematical. An American criminal who some time since expialod a life of fraud and blemished on the scaffold was approached by a firm of enterprising publishers, _'who offered him a large sum of money, which they explained could be settled on his wife or othâ€" er relatives, provided he would finish- an autobiography of himself, incluld» ing all the most exciting features of his career. The gentlemen concerned, however, received the request with de- rision, and Sent a message to the publishers declining the offer in terms which, to say the least of them, were more profane than literary. It will, perhaps, be h'abdly credited, but when THE ASSASSIN VACHER, who murdered several helpless women in a French village, was on his trial, he received various requests from la- dies, soane of them moving in good circles, for looks of his hair. As. how- ever, this wretch’s locks were sparse 1n the extreme, he was unable to com- ply \Vllh the extraordinary and mor- bld demand, though he expressed himr self much flattered by the letters he received. Sarcastic or ironical requests are sometimes made to offenders against the law. Thus when Henry Faunto leroy, the notorious hank swindler, was being tried, he received a note from a gentleman residing at Head- ing, who begged him to furnish a few hian on the subject of "Successful Rogueryf' and the equally faimouo " Jim the Penman,” was asked by an- other sardonic individual for a few hints on the subject of penm‘anship. To address such requests to men in such positions seemed a little unkind, and the action of boih parties was certainly a form of’ bad taste, if of nothing else. . . Mrs. llIuybrick, who is still lanâ€" guishing in prison for poisoning her husband some thirteen .years ago, received from limo to lime various re~ quests on the subject of matrimony. rOne eccentric individual wanted to know if she would marry him, pro- vided he obtained her release; whilst another equally anxious to be inform- ed whether the unfortunate woman contemplated matrimony at all, not viding in time to come she olbla nod heir liberty. Naturally to all time strange and absurd requests the pri- s'0n regulations is FOlliBADE AN "1' REPLY, but: they are interesting up to :1 cs)» t‘ain point, as demonszrating how keen is the interest which some people take in crime and criminals. Not so very long ago an enterpris. ing Illinois showman wrote to anon- . vict who had been sentenced to death for a series of coldâ€"blooded murders in that territory, and requested him to give the Said showman an inter- view fvuu‘ the purpose of having his - voice recorded in the phonograph, so that future generations might listen to his tones. In England the prison officials would, of course, have barred ' such a morbid proceeding; but Yanâ€" kee gaxole'rs are different in their methods, and. sure. enough, the rev 'l.‘,here is to be no chance now forl‘lu‘iSl'v Wile {Il‘B'nte‘d- the gentleman who likes to go on Two days before llie execution, ac. cordingly, the showman drove up with without paying his tailor for twelvelhiS apparmus, and‘ having. been gm months, or even for an indefinite per-l ix'wlui-ed to the prisoner, the record led, and then change his tailor. Liverpool, Manchester, and In of his voice wbls duly taken, the con-'- sdcm'ned mun exhibiting a keen inter- other. , . _ . ‘,, ,. “d I lost in the busmess. the debg e .1310- lzu's‘e places the tailors are lendinsipriemr (if the speaking-machine then the way with well kept black lists,ishook hands with his worked on lines that are being copied by their trade brethren in other parts of the country. i l l I 41 subject,” and, having thanked him for: satisfying his: request, and wished him a " pleasant journey,” withdrew from the prison, evidently much gnuilificd with the suc- ’l‘he aim of some of the most oner- ' costs of his mission. gctic spirits is toi build up anational black list, which will make it impos- siblc fon‘ men without means to go about dressed like gentlemen at the expense of the tailor. The lists are being better kept every year, and it; is just. possible that. one day the man who has a superabunidance of tailors’ bills and is without the. wherewithal to meet them will be prevented from giving orders for new clothes by the great risk which he: will run of being detected and confronted with evidence of debts incurred elsewhere. A well dressed 1mm, Wllll more tail- ors’ bills. than clothes at- home, can approach a new tailor with comfort; and sangâ€"froid,torday; he thinks he is just as safe as the man who pays cash down, and never dreams that his i long list of credit Liannsactions in some ' far away town can passibly be got at by his London tailor. ' But this kind of thing will be. more difficult in the future. There are many traps into which the man who never pays may lfull. The brace but- tom: on his trousers show where he has done business most recently, and the chances are that a wire will bring information that: will put the tailor on his guard. __.._°_..__ THE FIRST THING Mrs. Mulrobnâ€"thai. would yoz (ii if yez wur rich? Mrs.(.‘asey-â€"()l think Oi’d hov me por- lhrait painted by wan av thim oubi', niasrters we do bc hcarin’ so much about. TH Id 1)! ’li‘ll‘lCl rLTY. Shure, said Mulcabey, removing the pipe from his mouth for a minutcntf I only knew how to say some av llqu Dutch “nines, Oi'd be afllicr denounc- in’ lilngland’s (‘OOI‘HP in the Trans- vaal. 'E’X At 1‘ T LY. Duishcrlwaou says she talks like a man up a tree? M a she rl y-â€"-\"cs. “ limb.” She calls a log a, U N 'I‘E R 111 13‘ l E I). lo away from here, exclaimed the two/man on the front step. lf you don’t ll’ll set the dog on you. Madam, said Meandering Mike, yer throats do noi terrify me. if yer dog‘s muzzlcd he can’t bite. 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