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Take about three good- sized thoroughly ripe bananas and shred finely with a fork. Spread 8. layer of the fruit on the crust addâ€" mg the least bit of salt, and sprin- kle well with powdered sugar. Add the next layer in the same way. On the last one spread fruit very thickâ€" ly well mixed with sugar, so as to form sort of icing. Serve with soft custard flavored with vanilla. .- Egg Croquettes.â€"â€"Four hardboiled eggs, three tablespoonfuls of Cream, butter the size of a large nutmeg, a heaping saltspoonful of salt, a daSh of pepper. When the eggs are very hard and perfectly cold rub through a fine wire sieve, add the cream, salt and pepper, beating in gradually. Melt the butter and stir in. As eggs sometimes vary in size, a. little thickening may be needed to give the right consistency, Use ’the finest cracker dust, adding a little at a time until the mixture can be mould- ed into very soft balls. Roll in cracker dust and drop into a deep kettle of hot fat -to fry. When they are brown, drain on a wire sieve, and serve with lettuce salad. For this purpose the croquettes should be cold. When hot, serve with crisp bacon. ‘ Lemon Snapsâ€"One pound of flour, half a_ pound of butter, one desert spoonful of allspice, two of ground ginger, the grated peel of half and the juice of a large lemon. Mix all well together, add a, cup of molasses, beat it well, pour it on . buttered sheet tins and spread it thin- ly over them. Bake in a rather _slow oven, and roll each Square around the finger as it is raised from the tin. These are quite as deli- 'cious as the best brandy snaps sold by confectioners. Beef 'Rool‘.â€"â€"Two pounds round steak, chopped fine, two wellâ€"beaten Eggs, oneâ€"half teacupful rolled crackers, one-half cup warm butter, one-half cup sweet milk, one small onion and a little sage; season with saltand pepper, mix all together with a stiff spoon. Put in a deep, square bred tin and bake one hour in it hot oven. Ilaste quite often after it begins to brown. The onion or and any kind of other flavoring for meats added. This is very nice hot for dinner 'or sliced cold for lunch. Almond custardâ€"One pint of milk, oneâ€"fourth cupful of sugar, fourth pound of almonds, blanched and'pounded fine, two eggs and two teaspoonfuls of roseâ€"water. Stir ovâ€" er the fire till thick as cream, then set in oven till firm. Just before serving cover with whipped cream, tinted delicately with strawberry syrup or red currant jelly. I Virginia Corn Muffinsâ€"Three eggs, well beaten; two heaping cups Indian cornmeal and one of flour; sift into the flour two teaspoonfuls baking powder; add one tablespoonâ€" ful melted lard, three cups sweet milk, one teaspoonful salt; beat well; bake quickly in rings or small patty pans; serve hot. USEFUL HINTS. To prevent articles of silverware from tarnishing warm them' when cleaned and paint them over with a thin solution of collohion in alcohol, using a wide, soft brush for the purpose. Articles so treated be wiped only with dry cloths. Every housewife in ,whose homes lamps are used realizes the annoy- ance that comes of less brilliant light than is given by the new bur- ner. What is not generally under- stood is that the difficulty arises from dust which settles in the tiny apertures and prevents the free pasâ€" sage of air. If the burners are un- screwed from the lamps occasionally, freed of’their wicks and boiled in a one- | an and beginning to brown. At the end of the third it is “set,” and evenly, but lightly browned. At the last look the cake should be ready to take out. - . ' In making lemonade, increased richness and flavor can be obtained by stirring granulated sugar into the lemon juice until a thick syrup is formed about two hours in ad- Vance of one’s need. This should be placed in a refrigerator until wanted, when shaved ice is to be added 'and the stirring resumed. Just before serving pour in water. still stirring while letting the water drip in slowly from a funnel. It may shock tidy housekeepers to hear it, but the poor coffee one gets in the average household is due largely to the washing of the pot. It is plunged in with other pots in all but exceptional cases, and washâ€" ed with the common dish cloth. “A coffee pot,” says a cook where coffee is famous, “should never be washed. It should be filled with cold water and left to stand for a few moments after using. Then it should be brushed out carefully with a long- handled brush, scalded with hot waâ€" ter and left to dry with the lip open till it is to be used again. Coffee made carefully in a pot so treated becomes a neater fit for the gods." Doilies and small center pieces, es- pecially with quantities of open work, can be laundried with very little trouble at home. Castile or any white soap is the best cleansing medium. After washing and rinsing in slightly blued water, stretch them upon a window, taking care that every scallap and petal is well smoothed and let them dry. They will require no ironing and look like new. ._.__aâ€" CHILDREN ’8 SUMMER HATS . Lovely summer hats can sometimes be evolved from old ones with very little trouble or expense. Children never object to wearing old hats made over if they are pretty and beâ€" coming, and while their every-day hats should be plain they need not be ugly. Pretty and serviceable hats may be made of soft, odd crowns of linen or silkolene sewed into brims from old hats; and a nar- row quilling of the same material on the edge of the brim will be all the trimming needed for the hat. An old leghorn hat was transformâ€" ed into a. lovely summer hat by makâ€" ing a new crush crown of green and white chip and net weave and adding a twoâ€"inch chip straw braid to the brim. These braids come in every grade and color, and help out won- derfully in transforming old hats. There is no limit to the possibilities of. an old leghorn hat, as it can be cleaned for a few times with a paste made of lemon juice and flowers of sulphur. When they cannot be cleaned any longer in this way they can be colored black or any of the bright colors. It is easy to lower a high crown by removing several rows of braid, or to give height to a low one by adding several rows and the brims can be made any desired width by adding rows of fancy braids. Black or tan straw hats can be freshened by brushing them over once or twice with liquid shoe polish of the desired color. A white straw hat that is only slightly soiled may be cleaned with corn meal moistened with warm water. You can color a white hat any shade you would like by dissolving some diamond dye for wool of the color wanted in a. little alcohol and applying to the hat with a soft Ibrush. Colored hats that have fadâ€" red can be freshened by using dye of the same color, then the hat must be given a coat of thin varnish. Many of the pretty summer hats be- gin to fade and show signs of wear long before the summer is over, and sometimes a very small outlay of money and a little trouble will make them prettier than when new. ' MP“- MAKING SURE. An old farmer, writing recently to la railway company’s head office, ask- !ed for rates, distances, time, and so forth for many important kinds of freight over the principal lines. The letter probed deep into traflic‘busi- ness; it was indicative of a keen mind; plainly its writer, provided he got fair treatment, would become a valuable patron of the line. So the railway company sent, post ihaste, one of their brightest young mUSt ltraffic agents to see him. lg iwalk five The agent and had to miles to reach his house. Arriving, with some disappointment, at a small farm, the agent took from his pocket the long list of rates that three clerks had spent half the night in compiling, and he said to the old man:â€" “I have come, sir, to allSWCl‘ your recent letter in person. Here, on these papers, you will find ,each of 0t off at his station solution of washing soda and water, your questions “'03th in detail- May they will come forth brilliantlyclean we hope to do some DUSinOSS and the light will be once more all that- can be desired. Wicks, too, should be more often renewed is commonly the case, as they are apt to absorb the oil less readily af- ter prolonged usage. Often the sim~ ple plan for boiling the burner and fitting it with new wicks will mean all the difference between the discom- fort of the dim, uncertain light- and .tho. gratification that comes of a clean and bright one. ‘ A domestic magazine advises that the baking of a cake should be div- ided into four equal parts. This necessitates looking at the cake only four times. At. the end of the first quarter the cake should be some- what risen, with bubbles on the top. The second quarter finds it well risâ€" Ikind of diet You don’t like!” with you?" The farmer loooked over the list than of anSWers with a. grunt of satisfacâ€" tion. - "You’re from the railway comâ€" pany, e’h?” he said. "'Well, you can’t hope for business from me, but I’m obliged to you just the same for all this information. It’s for my son. You see, he’s got to take an examination next month, and a lot of it will be about railways, so I thought I’d get him some facts first hand.” ‘ .Iolmnyâ€""Maw’s about a hygenic hygenic diet?” aIWays talkin' diet. What is Tommyâ€""It’s any i - their a. a Russian cruiser. I says, \ A AAAa/u/‘hn A AAA A,,A_ A_ A_ [\{AiAHAAAlAH/‘AA . , , .. . ,l V'VVV.VVVIVVVV\'VVVVVVVV - I SEAL POACHERS IN v (1;. . RUSSIAN WATERS d) ‘ SQ FPS ................................. . (i) (a; The War lecu Yankee and Other Rsid- ._. erso Chance to D:pletc the Rock- as. (g cries in the Osboth Sen. 9, +3: There are somewhere in the 0in0- tsh Sea a. score or more schooners of less than a hundred tons register whose crews are joyful, writes a corâ€" respdndent of the London Post. Since the RusSian fieets are hold fast at Port Arthur and Vladivostock the schooner crews are free to raid certain rookeries where many of the sealers have more than once encoun- tered the rifle fire of the guards when in close proximity to the islands. Hidden in the everâ€"present mists that fill the northern sr-es lies ROULLH Is- land, where the bark of the real herd that haul on the smooth beaches and where the noises of the fights be- tween the whiskered’“matkas” can be heard long before the island is seen. It is not far from the coast of Sakhalin. On any of the few clear days shoreâ€"line of Cape Patience can be plainly seen. Until the wigâ€"wag of a Russian Signalman on Cape Pat- ience told of Admiral Togo’s descent on the Port Artgur fleet there was a. Russian guard on Robben Island which patrolled the beaches and watâ€" ched through the mistâ€"curtain for the boats of the poachers. More than once the rocks have echoed with the crack of the guards’ rifles. I have seen a shot-riddled boat which bore witness to this, and I have spoken to a man who struck his knee while he was rowing desperately through the surf to escape the fire of the guards. But that was in peace time. Now the Kotik lies at Sasc» ho, a prize of war, and the Aleut and Zabiaka, which also guarded the northern sea against the seal poachâ€" ers, have scurried off to shelter, and the guards have gone from both Robbcn and Commanderofski Islands. So, the raiders may raid unhindered. Perhaps they have already done so. Who knows ‘P VALUABLE PELTS. It is at Hakoclate that the sealing fleets, which will doubtless use the advantage given them by the war to raid the Russian rookcries, make their headquarters. They all fly the Japanese flag, but if enquiry was made into the ownership, it would be found that many of the shares, and in some Cases, the whole schoonâ€" er, was the property of citizens of the United States, who by reason of the fact that their government has prohibited pelagic scaling in order to protect a monopoly that leases the rookcries of Behring Sea. are unâ€" able to hunt seals in vessels flying country’s flag. There are many other nations represented in the mixed throng made up by these sealers of Hakodate. For example, as Kipling has put it : “English they be and Japanese that hang on the BrOWn Bear’s flank, And some be Scot, but the God Wot, and the boldest thieves, be Yank!” Now that the brown bear has to guard his throat his flank is unpro- tected, and there will probably be such raids as have not occurred for many years. For, of late years, the guards have been plentiful; the cruiâ€" sers have maintained close patrol; and the sealers llgVe keut without the prescribed limits. But nowâ€" “Away by the lands of the Japanese Where the paper lanterns glow, And the crews of all the shipping drink Imthe house of Blood Street Joe,” you can hear the talk of the raids that may be. Already the schooners may have anchored off the beaches, where thousands of seals crowd each other and fight for the better haul- inggroun-ds, and, with their clubs swinging, bloodâ€"stained, in the thron- ged rookcries, the raiders may be leaving many carcasses on the beach- es after tearing away the valuable pelts. At least this is the opinion of some men with whom I have spoâ€" kenâ€" men who have hunted the seal herds in that vicinity. For the war has given the sealers a chance such as they have never seen. LIKE A FOURâ€"INCH GUN. It is years since the schooners have made dashes on the seal islands such as the dash of which Kipling sang in his “Rhyme of the Three Sealers,” The men who made that memorable raid are scattered. Many have gone where there is no raiding and no seals. Captain Snow is living a re- tired life in Yokohama and will talk little of the incident. Captain Payne is also in Yokohama, but he says he has blotted the matter from his memory. Captain Kearney is in manila. All are scattered, and the fleet which has recently sailed from Hakodate aumbers few of the adven- turous spirits of whose deeds Kip- ling’s verses tel]. As the men who know will testify the poet used his license to put in some tragedy. There was no killing. As the story was told to me Snow had gone to the rookery at_Robben Islandâ€"it was there and not at St. Paul that the affair took placeâ€"and Payne foiiowâ€" ed. On the Arcticâ€"Kipling has callâ€" ed her the Balticâ€"Snow and his felâ€" low-raiders had looked back into the mist when the mud-hook clanked down off the rookery, and they thought the schooner which they saw observed in the fog behind them was. . Payne had run out a stov’epipe, and,~ as the poet ,”â€"a stovepipe seerr‘ through the blackâ€"green volcanic worst » to preserve, our I tion to our sovereign, but also that Veterinary surgeons. we are to remain the first class men ,aSk?” the bearers of old Iwondering who cured bacon!” fourinch gun.” And there was what seemed to be a Russian flag, in realâ€" ity a white sheet with a pair of blue overalls spread to make the St. An- drew’s,,cross at the masthead. So the raiders fled, leaving the pelts for the. men of the Silver Fleeceâ€"which the poet has called the Northern Light. As he tells: “When the Northern Light drove in- to “the hight and the sea. must drove with her, The Baltic called her men and weighedâ€"she could not choose but run, ,. ‘ a: stovepipe sene through the closing mist, it shows like a. four- inch gun.” For The Arctic ran. And there the inâ€" cident, for there was no second "fakâ€" ed” gunboat and following tragedy. The Silver Fleece took the skins the Artie had gone to take and fled, and the Artie returned to Hakodate with an empty hold. THE WHIZZING BULLETS. Many another tale is told of the daring raids of these adventurous men. ‘Sitting beneath the glowing paper lanterns on the clean matting, with the tinkling samisens and the chant of the geisha sounding from behind the thin rice-paper partitions, the sealers often tellâ€"as the kimonaâ€" clad maidens pour the saki~how they rowed with muffled oars into the covers, staggered over the rocks and wrigglch among the seal herbs; tell of the landings in the mist, the hurried clubbing of seals and the rush to the half-filled boats as the guards clattered over the rocks, firâ€" ing as they came; of‘ the boats that danced in the surf, almost swamping bers; and the sharp cry of pain ’and the inert body that rolled down be- tween the thwarts on the still warm skies. And they tell of the scurry- ing of little 60-ton schooners, wity every inch of canvas, set, into the fogâ€"banks which Providence had- sent when a cruiser steamer, with flame shooting from her stack, all too close behind; of how their vessel lay with bare poles in the trou h of the sea, and they watched the stem of a far-away steamer rising and falling in the swall, fearing all the while that her lookout would make out the shining masts, and, on overâ€" hauling the schooner, find a hold well filled with stolen skinsâ€"which meant black bread and scanty fare in a cell of I’etropaulofski‘s prison and the schooner left to rot on ’the beach. I all these thingsâ€"but the tales they tell are nearly all of bygone years. The last few years have been comâ€" paratively free from adventure, years of storm and poor catches on the face of the waters. But now the op- portunity has come, and the sealers will doubtless take advantage of it., But whether they. have done so or not none can say, for the rookcries of Russia are afar and 'the sealers not return to the lantered streets of most aristocratic regiments, are alâ€" ways to maintain the dividing line which separates us from common- ers." TROUSERS BUTTONS. Later on, when the great calamity of the admission of a commoner has been declared, the talk turns nat- urally to Winkler, the innocent cause of all this pother. The representa- tive of his majesty are bombarded with questions, once. champagne has loosened the tongues. “But, count, for heaven’s sake tell us. You must know something about him. Who is this “Gentlemen,” the adjutant said at. last, "all the colonel and I know- is what his majesty has just told us. Old Winkler is a factory owner.“ _ They all felt as if a load has been-1’ lifted. Factory owner! This “'38- not much, and of course could not be compared with the social position of‘ a, noble squire or a court official, but, after all, Krupp himself had1 been au fond 'only a factory owner, and the German emperor had called him friend before all the world. Yes, they felt relieved until they saw that, the count was holding something back, something relating to the facâ€" tory owner. “What does the man manufacture? Guns or engines?” "Neither of them. Trouser but-- tons.”' If a flash of lightning had: struck them they could not have rem coiled more suddenly, more horror' struck. "Good God!” theysaid. Presently the new man is introduc~~ ed. The noble officers have beenx hidden to ,mcet their new comrade in the barrack yard. "Gentlemen," the- colonel says, “I have asked you to- meet me in order that I may intro- duce our new comrade, Lieut. Wink-- ler. If you please, lieutenant.” Lieut. Winkler advanced a step and saluted by touching his helmet, standing in the stiff, prescribed attiâ€" tude. a figure of medium height, strong and slender. figure and looked extremely well in: the becoming gold embroidered uni~ form of the regiment. The healthy look on his young faceâ€"he was 27' years oldâ€"with the fair mustache,. and his clear blue eyes, suggested energy 'and independence. Many a. man Would "not have been able to hide a certain nervousness at such a. moment, but Winkler’s face remained serenely quiet. LOOK FOR RICH GIRLS. The contrast between the young commoner, with his innate tact and modesty, his sensible outlook, his, keen sense of honor and dignity, and , his aristocratic comrades with their boundless conceit, their cynicism concerning "women and money mat-- ters, their gluttouy and drunkenness, is triking. Perhaps it is even a lit- tle overdone, and' might 'be still more convincing if painted in less startling colors. After the absolute worthlessness of the aristocratic officers has been revealed in the“ course of some chapters shown up. Hakodate for some months to come. m varlous ways, the author devoms IN THE nuns ARMY “FIRST CLASS MEN”- CREATE A SENSATION. some time to an explanation of the usual means adopted to escape from the degrading into which the large majority of officers of his class, find themselves. The one remedy towards which they all look, and which they discuss with a callousness which shows the depths to which they have sunk, is marriage New Military Novel That Aims at with a rich girl. Here their pride of Reform of German Offiâ€" cers’ Corps. The officers of the German army are writing under another lash of scorn. Freiherr von Schlicht, a re- tired oflicer and a scion of a noble family clique, has written a book called "First Class Men,” and in its 350 pages he has dealt exclusively with the shortcomings of the officers in a typical crack regiment in the kaiser's army. The book is similar to the famous “Life in a Small Garrison Town,” written by Lieut. Bilse, the young officer who was imprisoned and dis- missed from the German army for revealing the scandals of army life. Capt. Freiherr von Schlicht was carful not to publish his book until he had retired and was beyond the reach of the kaisqy’s wrath. The government forbade the publi- cation of Von Schlicht’s book in Germany, but it was brought out in Vienna where it is being printed in enorumus editions and sold all over the world, except openly in German bookstalls. COli'fMONER BECOMES OFFICER. The story, in outline, is this : On_a festive occasion, when the noble officers of this regiment entertain a number of equally aristocratic friends, the representative of the sovereign announces that his majesty has added a new and promising offi- cer to the corps. On hearing the name of the newcomer, which is that exception behave as if some dire misâ€" fortune had bcfallen them, and the feast ends in a gloom that could not be deeper had the honor of the regiment been touched. Just be- fore the calamity is announced the conversation of two members of the party has enlightened the reader as to the code of ethics obtaining among these gentlemen. "Do you know,” says one noble officer to another, “I have lately thought a good deal about the pride of nobility and the spirit of caste. When we regiments of the Guards at a fraternal meal drink to the spirit of the officers’ corps and exâ€" press the hope that it may remain always the same, this, in my opin- ion, does not only mean that We are loyalty and affecâ€" which we are, birth leaves them entirely in the lurch. All they require is a father- in-law who is able and willing to pay their ownâ€"and probably their- relations’â€"â€"debts, and a trouser but- ton manufacturer’s pretty daughter does as well as a dame of the bluest. blood in the country. DOESN’T WANT TO BE SOLD. As soon as it becomes known that Wrinkler is a man of great wealth, a retired ofl'icer of an old noble famâ€" ily, steeped in debt, is ready to sell his only daughterâ€"who, by the way, is the only creditable representative of the crowd of “first class’l people in the book. This is the advice of the father to the poor girl : “Never mind your pride of birth till you have a husband. There are plenty of commoners’ ready to exâ€" change their miserable gold for a beautiful aristocratic wife who can introduce them into good society and preside at their table. When you have got a husband you can be arisâ€" tocratic again; that will impress him, and the more you show him what sacrifice it. has cost you to be- come his wife the more he will love and honor you.” The girl, in the present case, reâ€" sents proudly and fiercely her fathâ€" er’s and brother’s baseness, and by her reticcnce and honorable pride attracts Winkler, and ends by be- coming his wife. The absolute lruth with which the author exposes these disgraceful doings will be paâ€" tent to all who know anything of the life led by the average German of a commoner, the officers without officer. Poor Winkler shows a fortitude unâ€" der his trials which is truly heroic. He bears ‘unnumbered luimiliations, and gains some sort of position among his noble comrades by sheer force of character. But he ends as the hero of Lieut. Bilse's book ended â€"disheartened and disappointedâ€"he leaves the regiment to engage in busâ€" iness life. Meeksâ€"-“The- man who tries to change a Women’s views is a foo-35’! Weeksâ€"“How do you know?" Mocks -â€"“My wife told me so. ‘ Little Willieâ€""Papa, do they have doctors to treat pigs?” His‘ Papa-â€" l “Yes, my son; only they are called Why do you Little Willieâ€""I was just Winkler? ' "‘ He had a goodi‘ impecunious position», » 1. t l 9. c. .4 .‘ i [i i i 9 :5 .x L f g Q} . a: i ‘ l ' using.“ mum‘s.“ A A k . r l y ,7. ,1 rm