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: m â€" .â€" SQWQQAW About the DOMESTIC RECIPES . lirown Breadâ€"When the sponge is ready for white bread, take 1 (it- out and acid to it J,- cup molasses. Have two dozen blanched almonds boiling is done will also bleach it. Percale waists, aprons, etc., may be made white in the same way. Rinse thoroughly. Rub grass stains ' with molasses, and they will wash out with no furâ€" ther trouble. Or pour alcohol through them. Oxalisâ€"common sour or sheep so-râ€" relâ€"will remove iron rust if a lemon or oxalic acid is not to be had. Rub the spots with the leaves. This takes out the rust. Then take out the green stains by washing in alco- hol, and finally wash in soa’p suds. Blood stains on silk can be removâ€" wnd 4 dozen boiled chestnuts pound. ed by soaking in a fairly strong so- ed to a mortar; stir into the above nnxture,‘add 1 tablespoon softened butter, a}: teaspoon salt and 1 teaâ€" spoon soda dissolved in a little cold Water.’ Mix all well together, enough whole wheat flour to make the dough quite stiff and finish the same as white bread. Something Goodâ€"Pick over 2 qts. strawberries, squeeze them through a COlandOI‘, and add two teacups white sugar. _When the sugar is all disâ€" solved, add 3 tablespoons gelatine that has been soaking an hour in {.- a cup tepid water, Place it on ice, stir smooth, and when it begins to set, stir in one pint whipped cream. Put into molds and serve with whole strawberries around it. Colcanon.-â€"Boil separately potaâ€" toes and cabbage. Mash the former and squeeze the latter dry in a clean cloth, then chop fine; mix thoroughly and to 1 qt. of the mixture add 1:}- teaspoons Salt. 1 saltspoon white pepper, and dot with 1 tablespoon of butter after turning into a butterâ€" ed mold. - Brown in a hot oven. Carrot Puddingâ€"Mash or squeeze 1 lb. boiled carrots, add 1 lb. flour, 5: lb. each of raisins and currants, 1 oz. sliced Citron, butter size of egg, 1 teaspoon each of salt, cinnamon and ginger and 1 lb. sugar. Mix toâ€" gether, putting 2 teaspoons baking powder in flour. Steam two hours, and serve hot with hard sauce. Rhubarb Custard Pieâ€"-Stew rhuâ€" barb slowly until tender, then put through a flour sieve or beat with a spoon until smooth and fine. To 1 cup of this allow 1 cup sugar, 1 tablespoon cornstarch, 2 eggs and a piece of butter. Bake with an under crust. Sift: sugar on top when placâ€" ing in the oven. We think it is fine. Steak Stewed with Walnutsâ€"Place 1 lb. steak in a stewpan with 5- pt. water, 1 onion and a pinch of red pepper; let stew for one hour. Pound smooth 2 pickled walnuts and stir into liquor. Add salt to taste. Place on a hot platter, garnish with Potato balls. A Delicious Salad Courseâ€"Take a new cream cheese, and with a pair 'of butter sticks, which must be very .wet, roll it into little balls or pats in. the same way butter is molded to serve individually. A cup of milk must be close at hand into which the Sticks should be dipped each time a fresh piece of cheese is to be molded. If the cheese is rather dry, enough milk should be added to it to make it soft and pliable. Carefully wash, dry and pull apart a head of crisp bleached lettuce. Twist each leaf into a shallow cup, place one or two of the little cheeses in it, and moisj ten with French dressing. Serve very cold with dainty sandwiches made by putting together a slice each of brown and white bread, which have been spread with soft butter and finely chopped English walnuts. For the French dressing, take 1 saltspoon salt, i saltsp-oon pepper, 3 tablespoons salad oil (melted butter may be used if the oil is not liked), 1 tablespoon vine: gar and a dash of cayenne pa] per. Mix oil and vinegar very slowly, stirring carefully all the time. M HINTS FOR THE LAUNDRY. Sometimes a lawn, muslin or or- gandie gown or waist has faded so that it is no longer pretty, tlnugh too good to discard. Try bleaching it white. Boil in a good pearline suds and hang in the hot sun to dry. A little chlorine water will operate to the same purpose. water 01' cream of tartar in the in which the Soaking in sweet milk (and paâ€" |tience) will take out the stains of lcoffee, tea and cocoa in table linen. i lution of borax. add gRub, soak and squeeze till the stain ! disappears. Fruit stains may be taken out by :pouring boiling water through them, !or by dipping in boiling milk. If water is used, it must, be actually Iboiling; if not quite at the. boiling point it sets the stain. Mildew can be removed from white [linen and cotton with a weak soluâ€" ltion of chloride of lime. The fabric lmust be Well rinsed to remove the 'lime or it will rot it. Diluted ammonia will remove mil- dew from woolen goods. To renew silk, pour a. pint of boilâ€" ing water on a tablespoonful of al- cohol and let it stand till just warm jthen sponge the silk with it. SANITARY CELLARS . Too much cannot be said on the necessity of keeping the cellar per- fectly dry and in a. wholesome condiâ€" tion. It is more important to have ithe cellar, kitchen and other rooms of utilitarian value, perfect. in clean- liness and sanitation, than to have the parlors attractive and pretty. In most cellars there is more or less dampness, and it is unwise to clean the woodwork with water as it will become mouldy before it dries. The cellar walls after they are brushed Idown should be whitewashed, and all the woodwOrk rubbed with a dry cloth dipped in kerosene. Obstinate spots can be scoured until removed. The cellar windows should be wiped off first with a. cloth and rubbed thoroughly with alcohol and a chamâ€" ois skin. It is entirely unnecessary to use any water. The alcohol alone cleans and polishes the glass beautiâ€" fully. Only a little is needed at. a timeâ€"just enough to wet. a small corner of the chamois skin. Windows in other parts of the house may :11- lso be cleaned in this way. Alcohol ,is better than ammonia, because am- imonia makes the glass cloudy, and lharder to polish. A gill and a. half of alcohol will be enough for a small houseful of windows. 'All portable pieces of woodwork in a musty cellar should be taken up about once a year and placed near “he kitchen stove to dry out. Where .thcre is danger of mould unslaked 'limc should be used freely. Place it in small boxes in out-of-the-way cor- ners. Equal parts of powdered glass and cement (thoroughly mixed itogether) will permanently stop up all rat holes.. All fruit stored in the cellar for any length of time should be carefully wiped off before it is leaten. As has often been stated, ‘the almost invisible mould clinging Ito it can be a cause of diphtheria. I DID YOU EVER ? Did you ever try canning pie plant with cold water ‘2 If not, you’ll find 'it worth your while. Just wash {and peel the stalks, then cut into linch pieces and fill your cans with the fruit. Cover with cold water and make each can airtight. When you wish to use it next winter or spring, you have only to pour off the water and sweeten to taste. Did you ever put horse-radish through the meat chopper, instead of grating it? It's fully as good and twice as easy. Cover with vinegar, iand if you sprinkle a bit of sugar over it, when you take it upon your plate, you will find it much more palatable. Those who are fond of caraway Was a Great Sufi-‘erer and Almost in Des- pairâ€"New Hope and Strength Game With the Use of DR. GHASE’S This great food cure is doing won- ’ders for weak, wornâ€"out and discour- aged women. Many medicine: which are prescribâ€" ed in such cases are merely stimu- lants which give temporary reliel and arouse false hope. Because Dr. Chase's Nerve Food actually forms new, rich blood and increases the vitality of the body, its benefits are thorough and lasting and its cures permanent. Mrs. M, A. Clock, Meaford, Ont., writcszâ€"“Three years ago I became .very much run down in health and suffered from weak, tired feelings, indigestion and rheumatism. At times I was So badly used up that I required help to move in bed. While sick and downhearted I received Dr. NERVE FQQ Chase’s Almanac and sent for of Dr. Chase’s Nerve Food. “Under thi(s treatment I soon be- gan to improve, and by the time I had used eleven boxes of Dr. Chase’s Nerve Food I was happy to find myâ€" self strong and Well again. I often think of What a lot of money I spent Ifor medicines which did me no good, .and believe I owe my life to Dr. Chase’s Nerve Food. I hope women who suffer as I did will benefit by my experience and use Dr. Chase’s Nerve Food.”~ ' Dr. Chase’s Nerve Food, 50 cents a box, at all dealers, or Edmanson, Bates & Company, Toronto. To protect you against imitations, the 501110' 'portrait and signature of Dr. A. W. Chase, the famous receipt book auâ€" thor, are on every box. . s... n... .- m... . .._...,..un.¢-».a.:......... .«uâ€" Jinn. seed in cookies will find them equalâ€" ly good in gingerbread. Did you 'ever try it? , ~ Did you ever cover pineapple with cold water, when preparing it for the table? It keeps it very tender. Pare the fruit, and cut it up in small pieces and place in the fruit dish, with water to cover it. When ready to serve, add the sugar. If you add the sugar at first it extracts the juice, but hardens the fruit. THE HOME BANK. The home with a. steady income should have a family bank. From this all living expenses should be paid. Each member of the family should have his or her own pocket- book. The profits above living should be equally divided between man and wife, after .each child has been given an allowance. Money bor- rowed from one another should be paid back with interest, as at bank. .__.__+.._..__ NERVOUS TROUBLES . ..._.. Promptly and Permanently Cured by Dr. Williams Pink Pills. There is no torture more acute and intolerable than nervousness. A nerâ€" Vous person is in a state of constant irritation by day and sleeplessness by night. The sufferer starts at every noise, is shaky, depressed, and, although in a constantly exhausted state, is unable to sit or lie still.If you are nervous or worried or suffer from a combination of langour and irritation you need a nerve tonic, and Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are ab- solutely the best. thing in the world for you. You can-only get rid of nervousness. through feeding your nerves with rich, red blood. and Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills actually make new blood. There is no doubt about thisâ€"thousands can testify to the bloodâ€"making, nerve-restoring qualiâ€" ties of these pills. St. Vitus dance is one of the most severe forms of ner- vousness, and Mrs. H. Hevenor, of Gravenhurst, Ont., tells how these pills cured her little boy. She says: “At the age of eight my little boy was attacked with St. Vitus dance, from which he suffered in a severe form. I-Iis nerves twitched to such an extent that he was almost help- less and .had to be constantly watâ€" ched. He was under several doctors at different times, but they did not help him, so I decided to try Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, and these have completely cured him. and now not a. Sign of the trouble remains.” When you buy these pills aIWays look at the box and see that the full name, Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, is printed on the wrapâ€" per, and refuse to take anything else. You can get these pills from all medicine dealers or they will be sent by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes, for $2.50 by writing The Dr. Williams' Medicine 00., Brock- ville, .On't. â€"-~â€"â€"¢_..__â€".~ HOW LANDSEER WORKED. An Incident in the‘Life of the - Great Painter. The man who can accomplish work at a dash is probably the one who has spent patient years in preparaa tion for it. An enthusiastic English sportsman, Mr. Wells, of Redleaf, Penshurst, had engaged Landseer to paint the portrait of his favorite dog. But the artist was one of those who put off their duties as long as possible, and one day Wells, who had been growing more and more impatient, shovved his feeling by some sharp expression. "I ,know I have behaved shameful- ly," said Landseer, "but I will come down next Thursday and stay till Monday, done before I leave.” On Thursday he arrived, just in time to dress for dinner, and his first remark was, "Oh, your man tells me you are going to drag the great pond to-morrow! Hurrah! I am just in time. That is a subject I have often meant to plant, and I shall get any number of sketches done." This was an unpleasing announce- ment; but the host bore it. Landâ€" seer did a capital. day’s work for himself, and the next morning, when he came down to breakfast, he said: "Mr. Wells, I hear you are going to shoot toâ€"day. I’ve been looking forward To‘that for a year or two." So it wont on until Sunday morning and then Wells, who was very partiâ€" cular about seeing his guests at the early service, said to Landseer: “I suppose you are going to church?’ ’ "I don’t feel like going,” said Landseer. “I think you must. exâ€" cuse me.” “Oh,” said Wells, in a blaze, "do just as you think best! You know well enough that this is liberty hall â€"for you, at all events.” "Thank you," said Landseer. "And I am going to ask you. to let me keep Charles Mathews with me, to amuse me.” Wells vouchsafed no answer, and away the people went, leaving these two to their own devices. The minâ€" ute the house was clear they hurried to another room, which Landseer had specially arranged for the purpose. The head gamekeeper was there, holding the dog. and Mathews as- sisted when there was need, at the same time amusing Landseer. When the party returned from church the picture was painted, finished, and framed on the wall. Written on the trunk of a tree in the background were the words: "Painted at Redleaf in two hours 'nnd a half.” -.-.». mm...â€" L _ A and the picture shall be' CALLIGATORS _I_ll HARNESS CURIOUS USES FOR ROOSTERS, BEARS AND MONKEYS. In Peru Monkeys Gather Nutsâ€"- Dogs Draw Carriages in Belgium. Mr. Lee, who lives near the St. John River, Florida, has to go Six miles down the river to post a. letâ€" ter and perform other necessary 81" rands, and the journey impressed him with tw0 factsâ€"namely, that it was hard work to pull a boat against stream, and that the river teemed with alligators that had nothing to do. After a little, further observa- ltion, he learnt that these alligators Iswim Well and easily against the tide. Then he remembered that somebody of his acquaintance once had a tame alligator. He got two baby alligators and kept them in a goodâ€"sized pond, teaching them to swim with a piece of timber attached by a line fasten- ed round the shoulders. As they grew, he made the floating burden heavier, and finally fixed reins to their teeth and taught them to anâ€" SWel' the pull. His neighbors laugh- ed, but he persisted and at length tried them in the river with his heavy boat behind them. There is more intelligence in the alligator than in some horses, and these amphibians did the journey of six miles and back in good style. They were kept hungry and fed with a good meal as soon as they returnâ€" ed from a trip, so that they quickly learnt to go to their destination and back, without stopping on the way to have larks with the other memâ€" bers of their species who have not enjoyed the benefits of civilization. Mr. Lee is delighted with the success of his experiment, and now has SIX ALLIG-A'I‘ORS IN USE. Draught animals and beasts of bur- den are almost exclusively confined to those which tread the earth, but the above-mentioned is one excep- tion, and a native of Thuringia fur- nishes another. In the latter case a gull, the descendant of a. bird from the coast, has been trained to fly steadily along with a collar and a trace, or line, by which holds a. cord attached to the collar round the neck, and uses this primitive guideâ€" rope in order to keep the bird under control. _ Dogs or goats drawing baby carri- ages are among the ordinary sights of great cities, but a Cochin China fowl doing duty in like capacity also comes within the scope of novelty. Mr. Plomesen, of the State of Iowa, has a lot of splendid Cochin roosters and one of them is a giant; of its kind, and the majestic manner in which it strutted about induced- its owner to try an experiment. He made a light hal‘nCSS, consisting of a collar to go round the breastâ€"- or the lower part of the neck, which- ever We may please to call itâ€"from which run the traces, and another smaller collar that goes round the bird’s nose, with reins attached. The rooster was then yoked to a. baby cart, and rapidly learnt to draw it steadily and obey the pull on the rein. Two of the owner’s children usually ride in the vehicleâ€"a baby and an elder girl who drives. ONE OF THE OLDEST TEAMS ever seen was that which recently met the eyes of Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, at a State meeting; 'this was composed of a pair of rhin- oceroses, with gay harness and rid- den by postillions, drawing a gorgeâ€" ous conveyance in which an Indian nabon was comfortably seated. The brutes .were as docile as elephants. An Austrian farmer, not far from Vienna, has an elephant to drag his plough. He bought the animal from a bankrupt showman, and he declares that he finds it better than a. horse; it does more work in a given time with the plough, and has been trainâ€" ed to pick up and carry faggots and pile them in ,a cart, which it afterâ€" wards pulls, betWeen the shafts, to the shed in the farmyard, and then unloads the faggots, where they are ready for use as fuel. Travellers in Belgium will not fail to notice the milk and fruit carts, with dogs yoked to them, which, in- deed, form one of the characteristic features of the country. In the old coaching days it was uncommon for some eccentric individual to turn out with a light trap and four or six dogs harnessed thereto, and race the coach along the Great North Road for miles. There was one man known as “Old Lal,” who took a delight in this sport about a century ago, while a certain Dumsdell, more recently, did a similar thing with a four-inâ€"hand of greyhounds. On one occasion, as it is recorded, this team did the journey to Brighton and back in a little more than twenty-four hours, including stoppages for refreshment and rest. _ Probably the quaintest turnâ€"out of that kind was the experiment of a man named Doller, of Vienna, who astonished and terrified the inhabi- tants of the Austrian capital by driving out in a carriage drawn by A COUPLE OF BEARS, and with another member of the Bruin family sitting on the box by his side. Doller retired for a while from the public gaze at the request of the public, but. he was not idle, and soon reappeared with a couple of wolves attached to his carriage. Once again vehicular and pedestrian traffic in the streets of Vienna was dislocated and l l l s ,. :â€"â€"-â€"â€"-â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"-â€"-â€"â€"â€"-â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"-’._ t _ â€"-â€"â€" I- , ‘â€" irthe police had to step in; aftern’t‘a- rebuff Doller retired for good. In England, the only instance of a curious team is that of the Roths- child zebras, which Mr. Walter Rothschild has tamed and drives about his country seat. There are f0ur of them. He is not the first to tame zebras or to employ them in the place of horses in England, for a pair of zebras were to be seen in the London streets more than fif~ ty years ago. A pair of quaggas, a similar aniâ€" mal, formed the sensation of the day in the vicinity of Hyde Park at a. still earlier date, and were much admired as they drew an elegantly appointed carriage. The ostrich as a. saddle horse may be seen in South Africa. A gentleman once did the journey from Lismore to Fermoy in an oyâ€" ster tub set on wheels and dragged by a pig, a hedgehog, two cats, and a badger. A planter in Peru has about one hundred and fifty acres of nut trees, ‘'and when the time comes for pluckâ€" ing the nuts, the work is done en- tirely by apes, which he keeps. The apes are separated into groups of four, and each quartette ascends a tree, after depositing a. baSket at the foot to drop the nuts into. Two or three foremen walk about the groves, playing lively tunes on some musical instrument, to en- courage tlie Workers, who are VERY PARTIAL TO MUSIC. They Work for several hours at a stretch, then they have a rest, with food and more music. A monkey as a lookâ€"out man on shipboard is a curious instance of the strange uses to which animals may be put. This occurred on a derelict vessel some months ago, when the Dutch ship, Geertruida Gerarda, was sighted about six hundred miles from Fremantle, West Australia. The crew of the rescuing vessel saw a monkey up the yards on approach- ing the derelict, and their surprise may be imagined when they observed the intelligent creature waving his hairy arm to attract attention, and learnt that it was the moneky’s cries that had reached them. The three men left on the vesselâ€" because they thought it safer than following the rest of the crew into the boatsâ€"told the rescuers that the action of the monkey was volunâ€" tary; it had seen one of the men go up and try to signal a passing ship, and had taken that duty upon itâ€" self during the remainder of the luckless voyageâ€"Pearson’s Weekly. -.._.__.+_____._. FRET’I‘ING CHILDREN. When a child frets and cries almost continously the root of the trouble in nine cases out of ten lies with the stomach or bowels. Fermentation and decomposition of the food means colic, bloating and diarrhoeaâ€"the latter is especially dangerous and of- ten fatal during the hot weather months. Baby’s OWn Tablets are just what every mother needs to keep her little ones healthy. These Tablets gently regulate the bowels, cure constipation, prevent diarrhoea, cleanse and cool the stomach, and promote sound, natural sleep. The Tablets can be given with safety to a new born babe. Mrs. J. Mick, Echo Bay, Ont., says: "I think Baby’s Own Tablets the best mediâ€" cine in the world for the ailments of little ones. No mother should be without the-m.” Sold by all drug- gists or sent by mail at 25 cents a box by writing The Dr. Williams' Medicine (30., Brockville, Ont. .__._,_.._..¢._____ COST OF A BICYCLE. . He was deep in a mathematical problem. “No,” he said settled yet.’-’ I “What isn’t settled?” they asked. “Whether it costs more to buy a bicycle one piece at a time or all together. You see, I bought my boy a bicycle, paying cash for the whole machine. Then he broke the pedals and I got some new ones. After that he punctured a tyre and a bought a. new tyre. A bad fall twisted the handlebars and called for a further investment. And so it has gone on for a month or more, but I haven’t had time to replace' the frame or the hind wheel yet, and I don’t know what they would cost, so I’m not. quite sure which way a, bicycle is the more expensive.” a last, “it isn’t .___.â€". WORLD’S BIGGEST PORTS. Antwerp, according to an official return recently published by the De’ partment of Commerce and Labor at Washington, stands third on the list of the world’s ports, with a total tonnage of 16,721,011 tons, entered and cleared. London is first, with a. total tonnage of 17,564,108 tons, and New York the second port in the world, with a total tonnage of 17,398,058 tons. These figures refer to ocean-going traffic only. Daisyâ€""Where my brother goes He's usually asked to call again." Dollyâ€""Isle must be very popular.” Daisyâ€"“No. I-Ie's a bill collector.” ;. E} To prove to you_ that 33?. ‘9' 4 Chase’s Ointment 18 acerlain 7' g g and absolute cure for each u E and every form of itchimz. blccrlingand protruding piles, ihe manufacturers have guaranteed it. Serif-es- linonials in the daily press: and ask yam-noun- xors what they think 0'”. I on can use it. and? ref; your monev back if not cured. (:00 a box, at '11 dealers or EDMAssomlu'rus 8: Co.. Toronto 9r. 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