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5. .‘ '€&€€<Q €€€€€€fi€€€§€€€€€@ ° About the 1....Honse * §§»9?9>BB ‘. bm3923999>99)}993999 . TESTED RECIPES. Baked Beetsâ€"Wash thoroughly some good-sized beets, being careful not to break the skin, and do not trim the tops off very close. Bake until when pinched they are soft all the way through. About one and a half to two hours is required for medium sized beets. Do not pierce with a fork, as the juice will boil out. When baked, peel (the skin is loose from the meat, and readily Comes off), slice, and season with salt and pepper and butter. Beets prepared this way retain the sweet- ness which is lost, to a great extent, in boiling. . Young Beetsâ€"The beets should be about the size of hickory nuts. If any of the outer leaves are ragged or rusty, remove them, keeping those that are tender and whole, Wash well, taking care not to break the skin of the beetâ€"root, and cook in boiling water, slightly salted, until .tender. Cut off the leaves close to the roots, drain in a colander, and chop fine, seasoning with butter, salt, pepper, and lemon juice. Set in a saucepan of boiling water, to get very hot, while you scraped and trim the beets. When the leaves are dished, lay the red beetlets about them as a garnish. Strawberry Dumplingsâ€"Roll out a layer .of cream of tartar biscuit dough very thin; butter? and spread very thickly with ripe strawberries which have been rolled in . sugar; .then roll the dough up, pinch the edges tightly together and steam for three quarters of an hour. When done, serve immediately, cutting slices from the end, jelly-roll fashâ€" ion. An egg sauce or whipped cream is delicious with this desert. Pineapple Custardâ€"Make smooth Ithree tablespoonfuls of flour with one of butter and stir into a quart of boiling milk. I-Iave ready the beaten yolks of eight eggs, add to .them twoâ€"thirds of a cup of sugar and turn into the milk, stirring conâ€" stantly for three minutes, add, when cold, a cupful of chopped pineapple and four tablespoonf'uls of lemon juice. Cover with a meringue of the whites of the eggs and four dessert spoonfuls of‘powdered sugar. Brown lightly in the oven. Fruit Jellyâ€"Soak one box of gele- tine one hour in one pint of cold water; when soaked, pour on one pint of boiling water, than put in a quart of fruit. Pineapples, canned strawberries or raspberries, or other fruits may be used. Add one-half cup of sugar and one tea- spoonful of lemon, then pour in mould to harden. Serve with whipâ€" ped cream. ' Veal Curry.â€"Veal is one of the meats especially adapted for cur- ries. Here is an admirable recipe, recommended at the New England School of Cookery: A slice of veal half an inch thick, weighing apound and a half, is cooked quickly in a frying pan without any butter. The surface should be quickly c"Jared. Take out of the pan and cut in pieces about an inch and a half square. Make the curry sauce as follows:â€" Fry two sliced onions in half a cup- i‘ul of butter, take out the onions and add to the butter the meat, half a tablespoonful of curry powder, and boiling water to cover. Cook slowly until the meat i" tender. Thicken when done with He \stirred into cold water and season with salt, cayenne and a squeeze of lemon juice. SCIVe with a border of boiled rice. IN CHOO SING BANANAS. Look at the thick end of the bunch in which they hang. If it be black the fruit will ripen too fast and rot. 'If the branch be green the bananas will ripen slowly and lusciously and be of a good flavor. If all the stem be green the bananas will keep a long time, but if half or three-fourths of the stem be black it shows that its time is shortening. ,The biggest and handsomest branches may look well to ignorant purchasers, but the' smaller are the juciest and best, the tiny “fig,” banâ€" ana being the best of all. The rind should be thin, and there should be no ridges or corners to it; the larger the ridges the coarser the fruit. All bananas contain starch while green, which upon ripening changes into sugar. They are therefore best while turning yellow but still streak- ed with green. Cabinet Pudding with Bananas.â€" Butter a quart mold and dispose in it a layer of sponge cake, cut in thin slices, and over this arrange a layer of sliced bananas. Continue in m â€"'â€"wn SCOTT'S EMULSION serves as a bridge to carry the weakened and starved system along until it can find firm support in ordinary food. Send for free sample. SCOTT S: BOlVNE, Chemists, Torcnzc. . Ontario. ’50c. and $1.00; all druggisls. f - seconds. this way until the mold is filled. Beat three eggs, add oneâ€"half cup of sugar, and pour in gradually one pint of milk, eithenohot or cold. Add a few grains salt and turn into the mold. The cake will absorb all the liquid by allowing it to stand a few Covergthevmold and let steam, or set in a pan of hot water in the ovegr until the custardis set and the plfdding is firm. Serve, hot. I Croquettes.â€"I{emove the skin and coarse threads from the bananas and trim the pulp of each to simulate a croquette. Roll with one table- water, and then in bread crumbs, seasoned with and fry about a minute and a half in hot deep fat. Drain on soft paper. Serve on the platter with roast lamb. cylindrical shaped in an egg, beaten spoon of cold sifted salt and pepper, HINTS TO I-IOUSEKEEPERS . It is- not generally known that eggs covered with boiling water and allowed to stand for five minutes are - more nourishing and more easily diâ€" gested than eggs placed in boiling water and allowed to boil furiously for three and a half minutes. In testing a piece of cloth to see if it is a cottOn mixture,if you cut a small piece off and put a match to it, if it is all wool it will only singe, but if cotton is there it will flare up. There is no nicer spring break- fast than a sliced green pepper out very small and cooked for ten minâ€" utes with two peeled and sliced to- matoes in a little butter; add four eggs lightly beaten and stir as for a scramble. ~ When the handles of steel knives and forks come off they can be easily mended with resin. Pour a little powdered resin into the cavity the handle. handle until it is 1‘0( into the handle. It 'will become firm- ly fixed by the resin when it beâ€" Protect the blade from in Heat the part of the ‘ 0t, and thrust comes cool. the heat. Don’t use bora'l. and rosewater to remove tan and freckles without putting on a little cold cream afterâ€" wards, for borax makes the skin dry. To remove old putty and paint, make a paste with soft soap and a solution of caustic soda, or with slaked lime and pear-lash. Lay it on with a piece of rag or a brush, and leave it for several hours, when it will be found that the paint or putty may be easily removed. REGARDING BLANKETS. Blankets are a difficulty to many people, mostly because they cannot make up their minds as to how often they should be washed, nor how they should be treated. In many houses they are only washed once a. year; but somehow this does seem rather too rare a proceeding. On the other hg’tnd, it is really not necessary to have them washed more than twice a year; but they must have proper care in the interval in the shape of airing, shaking, etc. A washingâ€"machine is ‘very good for the purpose, especially as they should never be rubbed by the hand. The water should be only lukewarm, and a little soap well lathered in the water is all that will be required. Wring the blankets‘very dry through a wring-er, shake them out, and wash again in the same way, 'wringing each time, until they are quite clean. Do not rinse themgbut pull them into shape and hang them out in the sun, which is a great help to preserving a good color. _â€".+__ PERSONAL POINTERS . of Interest About Suomo Prominent People. Notes The Empress of Germany’s private wedding present to her relations conâ€" sists of a very plain travelling clock, for she values chiefly among all other virtues that of punctuality. No modern occupant of a throne has travelled more frequently abroad since his accession than Prince Fer- dinand of Bulgaria. He became ruler of the principality in 1887, and since then has spent 1,700 days, or nearly a , quarter of his reign, abroad. His people know him by the nickname of the “'l‘x'.-Veller.” Sarasat‘e, the great Spanish violin- ist, has, like most musicians, at be- lief .in talismans. His particular lmascot is in the form of a tiny re- plica, in silver, of the famous Guar- nerius violin on which Paganini used to play. Sarasate would not dare to play at a concert unless this litâ€" tle violin were somewhere about his 'person. i King Edward receives daily no fewer than 3,000 newspapers and 1,â€" 000 letters, while the Czar and the German Emperor receive each from 600 to 700 letters and appeals. The King of Italy is troubled by about 500, and Queen Wilhelmina from 100 to 150. All these, however, are put in the shade by the Pope, who holds first place with from 22,000 to 23,â€" 1000 letters every day. I Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, the Amer- ican multiâ€"millionaire, is a big man every way. Thick of chest, with a big head set close down on burly shoulders, features large, an extraâ€" ordinarily prominent nose, keen grey eyes, deepâ€"set under heavy brows, a high, firm forehead, a square, bullâ€" dog chin, he at once impresses one as a large man. He is 6 feet in {height and weighs 210 lbs. For a man of his age and size he seems unusually active, moving about with almost nervous alertness. Ile is a man of few words, always shortly and sharply spoken. I The King of the Belgians once [left his umbrella in a hansom when with hard oréré'llrrant jelly saucer? v.3. driving in Brussels. This was reâ€" turned to His Majesty a few hours afterwards by the proud "cabby,’-’A who was offered for his honesty by King Leopold the sum of 100fr. The astute Jehu, however, begged a great favor of the King. Could he have tliqgtinibrella instead ‘of‘the. moneny Théi-f'avor was granted,‘and before" maiiy‘days had'passed thetg'cabman had put, up the umbrellaifor, sale, and "it; was' knocked (foam to some Royal enthusiast for 1,100fr. King Leopold heard of this he V claimed, "Well, I’ve heard of. an um- "brellzib‘eing put up to keep off showâ€" ers of rain; but this seems to have been put up to bring down showers of gold!” _...___+_____.. PALE, FEEBLE GIRLS. A Great Responsibility Rests Mothers of Growing Girls. A great and serious responsibility rests upon every mother whose daughter is passing the threshold of girlhood into womanhood. She is at a crisis, and if she is to be a healthy, happy woman, she must deâ€" velop rightly now. She must not sallow, lan- be pale, sunkenâ€"eyed, guid and bloodless at this time. She must have additional strength and on rich, pure blood to help her to strong, healthy womanhood. There is only one absolutely certain way to get new rich, healthâ€"giving blood, and that is through the use of Dr. Willialns’ I’ink Pills. Every pill helps to make rich, lifeâ€"giving blood, that brings strength to every organ in the body and the glow of health to pale, sallow cheeks. Thousands of; pale, anaemic girls in all parts of Canada have been made well and strong through the use of Dr. Wilâ€" liams’ Pink PilIS. Mrs. Rachel Johnâ€" son, I-Iemford, N.S., result of over-study in health of my daughter, Ellen, beâ€" came greatly impaired. She grew extremely nervous, was pale and thin, and suffered from most severe headaches. She had no appetite, and notwithstanding all we did for her in the way of medical treatâ€" ment, her suffering continued, and I began to feel that her condition was hopeless. Indeed I began to fear her mental p0\vers were failing. One of my friends strongly urged me to try 'Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, and as I was willing to do anything that might help her I sent for a supply. After using the pills for less than. a month, we saw that her vigor was returning, and’in less than three months her health was fully restorâ€" ed. Considering the fact that she had been ill for two years and that doctor’s treatment did her not one particle of good, I think her cure speaks volumes for the wonderful merit of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills.” The new blood which .Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills actually make, is the whole secret of their great power to cure diseases. That is the reason these pills cure anaemia, heart palâ€" pitation, headaches and backaches, rheumatism, neuralgia, kidney trou- bles, and a host of other due to bad blood and weak But be sure you have the genuine with the full name, “Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People,” on the wrapper around each box. If in doubt, write direct to the Dr. Wilâ€" liams’ Medicine Co., Brockville. Ont., and the pills will be sent by mail at 50 cents $2.50. says:â€"-"As a school, the ailments nerves. a box or boxes for THE MIKADO’S PRE CEPTS. Emperor of Japan Issued Them to His Army. On the walls of the barracks, on the sides of the tents, at the foot of every Japanese soldier’s cot hangs a printed copy of seven moral The Emperor of Japan is At any precepts. supposed to be the author. rate, he, as genetalâ€"inâ€"chief, issued them to his. army. The last thing the soldier sees on retiring, the first thing to greet his eyes when he awakes, are these precepts. Every morning after rollâ€"call an ofâ€" ficer of each company reads the preâ€" cepts to his men. Then he makes the mom recite them in concert, and afterward .calls upon individual solâ€"‘ diers to repeat them. In barracks the ofii'cers drill the men in the knowledge of the precepts, and explain them in detail, illustratâ€" ing their explanations thh examples drawn from history. Deeds of Washâ€" lington, Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, Grant and other famous commanders are related, that ‘the soldiers may know the precepts in practical apâ€" plication as well as in theory. Baron Kancko, a Japanese states- man who recently visited this counâ€" try on a, confidential mission, as» serts that the personal valor of the Jal anese soldiers is due to the prac- tice of the seven precepts. Here they are, as translated by Baron Kaneko from the Mikado’s edict: “To be sincere and loyal and guard against untruthfulness. “To respect superiors, keep true to comrades and guard against lawâ€" lessness and insolence. “To obey the command of superâ€" iors, irrespective of its nature, and never to resist or disregard it. “To [.rize. bravery and courage and be diligent in the performance of duties, and guard against cowardice and tinriidity. “To boast not of brutal courage, and neither quarrel with nor insult others, which will incite general hatâ€" red. “To cultivate virtue and practise frugality, and guard against extra- vagance and efl'eminacy. "To prize reputation and honor, and guard against vulgarity and greed. ’ ’ When‘ ex-i Deightfully Refreshing Aways Pure I '_hv-hny’ ) .- v Black, Mixed or Green Tea. Solo! only In lead packets. Highest Award St. Louis I904. sfifillnrs or ClTIES THERE, IS A "TOOTHPICK TOWN” IN MICHIGAN. Bufialo Wishes to be Known as the Great Electrical Centre. A rather cenunon fallacy is the be- lief that the World’s match industry is entirely cont-rolled by Sweden, France, and Germany. As a matter of fact Japan turns out more matchâ€" es in a year than any other nation. Match making was first introduced in the land of the Mikado in 1874, and toâ€"day there are betwoen 80,000 and 100,000 people who earn a living at the trade. Some of the towns given over to match are entirely making. According to the latest statistics obtainable,‘ the number of matches manufactured for export exceeds 25,â€" 000,000 gross, of an estimated value of nearly $10,000,000. Close upon 50,000 women and girls are employed at their homes in such work as makiâ€" ing match boxes and pasting on labels. _ _ Harbor Springs, Mich] gan, is called the “Toothpick Town,” for it. has a large and flourishing wood toothpick industry which pays the rates and taxes and keeps poverty a safe distance from. the city gates. White birch is largely used in the manufacture of the toothpick, and although it is one of the most triv- ial and least used of all articles in daily use, over 71000,000 are turned out daily. ‘ ’Ihe picks are made entirely by Ima- chinery. Logs of birch wood are sawn up in bolts and cut up into veneer inches in width. The veneer is then run through a machine of the sausageâ€"making type, and toothâ€" picks are turned out at the rate of THOUSANDS A MINUTE. While Harbor Springs controls the wood tooth~pick industry, Joinville 10 Point, near Paris, has the quill toothpick one in its hands. At one time Joinville made nothing but quill pens; 20,000,000 being sent out anâ€" nually, the product of some 2,000,â€" 000 geese. The town found that it was imâ€" possible to compete with steel pen manufacture, lfOWevcr, and turned its attention to toothpicks. It now proâ€" duces 25,000,000 quill toothpicks an- nually, and flourishes exceedingly avell on the profits derived from their sale. Shanghai and its neighboring towns are trying to make a living at cotton spinning. This is quite a new Chinese venture, and, as can be imagined, the competition of their mills with". the product of Lancashire is not very great at present. The in.»- dustry is gradually increasing, howâ€"- ever, and in a few yea'rs’ time John Bull may expect to feel it. A fresh market or two for his cotton exports will have to be found if he doesn’t want John Chinaman to trick him out of his trade in the Far East. BUFFALO’S AMBITION. Buffalo has advertised itself to such an extent that it is known to- day as the "City of Big B.’s.” Its gigantic Exposition of 1901 was opened, like St. l.ouis’sI,-.to put all other American 'shows in the shade. It didn‘t quite succeed, however.‘ Buffalo wants to become the world's centre of all the great elecâ€" trical industries, especially of the maimfacture of aluminium and carâ€" borundum. It made up its min-d to absorb the whole electric power from the Falls of Niagara some years ago. Professor Sylvanus Thompson declared that he wouldn’t be satisâ€" fied, and he l\l]C\V Buffalo wouldn’t until the Falls were doing some useâ€" ful work. . The citizens of Buffalo cut a, canal with a sloping bed in the solid rock from the main Fall, and now the terâ€" rific rush of water works the 5,000 horseâ€"power wheels in its descent, this power being used for the elecâ€" tric lighting of tha'town of Buffalo, which is twelve miles distant. Buffalo will not 'rest until the entire Falls in its power, is recognized as the world’s electrical centre. Liverpool boasts that it is the centre of the tobacco trade of the British Isles, and, not content with building a warehouse for tobacco on some thirtyâ€"six acres of land, it wants to erect a. riverâ€"wall all the way from Dingle to l-lole Point, and so have a dock a thousand feet wide and seven miles long with which to capture the lion’s share of the shipâ€" ping trade. Margate is straining every nerve to get the greater part of the pas- senger and mail service to the Conâ€" tinent in its hands. Its idea is to it has and great I By all Grocers. increase the length of the pier by some six hundred feet, and so reach the spot known as I-Iorn Corner. If it can do this it will achieve its purpose, for a fine bason could be obtained which‘ would be nearer to Ostenid than Dover. Last summer advertisements in the British and foreign press advised people with' A COUGII OR COLD to pack up their luggage amd take a ticket to Quito, capital of Ecuador, South America. It was pointed out that consumption Was unknown in. Quito, and was a splendid resort for people with chest complaints. The little city is situated on the equator, but in ten thousand feet abOVe sea level. Its greatest heat in summer is 60 degrees, while the thermometer never fails lower than 57 or 56 deâ€" grees in winter. When Munich" got its enormous reâ€" frigerating plant in good working orâ€" der it found that its deathâ€"rate fell from thirty-three to twentyâ€"two per thousand. This was because the whole city tingled with electricity. Munich now advises us, per adverâ€" tisen'ient, to give it a. look up and have our bodies braced up With a little electricity. “Mountain breezes, and 340 days’ sunshine a year. That is what we get in Mexico; the finest city and health resort in the world for people who suffer from heart disease.” so ran an advertisement in an Amâ€" erican paper a, little while ago. Only ninetyâ€"five Mexicans out of every 10,â€" 000 die from heart failure, while some six hundred in each 10,000 deaths in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales are due to disease to the heart. If you are too stout and want to become thin, the people of Bakoum, a town on the Caspian Sea, advise you to visit them. If you stop in .Bakoum for a few months- your Weight will drop to an incredible exa tent. Whether this is due to the cli- mate, or to the petroleum oil which soaks the soil, no one appears to know. Hardly any of the people of Bakoum weigh over nine stone, though some of them when they took up their residence there Were between. fifteen and eighteen stone.â€"â€"I’earson‘s \Veekly. ___+____ HAPPY DAYS EOR BABY. The healthy child is a happy child. All its little troubles vanish when it is digesting its food Well and is free from childish’ ailments. The greater part of these ailments arise from. stomach and bowel troubles, feverâ€" ishness, teething and worms. Baby's Own Tablets act like magic in these cases, and when Children are restless at night they always give sound rc- freshing sleep. Mrs. A. Lel’age, St. Florence. Que, says: “Baby’s Own. Tablets had marvellous results in the case of my two month old baby. He was nervous, troubled with colic and badly constipated, but after giving the Tablets he began to improve at once and is now in good health: I also gave the Tablets to my three year old boy who was troubled with worms and they cured him as well. Both children are now the picture of health, and I am always praising the Tablets to my friends.” You can get Baby’s Own Tablets from any drug- gist or direct by mail at 25 cents a box by writing the Dr. Medicine 00., Brockville, Ontg,’ --â€"-+--â€"- T' -,... WIâ€"IAT COBDEN THOUGHT. 'At the present juncture, views on Russia make interesting reading. About fiftyâ€"six years ago Richard Cobden travelled a great deal in; Russia, and penned the following inâ€". teresiing letter in 1849: It is not possible in a note to do more than indicate the grounds of my. opinion the subject to which your letter refersâ€"the power of Russia. I) wish the alarmists about the vast rem sources of the Czar could all take at trip, 51s I have done, into the inter-; for of that country. Russia is a. succession of villages, composed of: log-huts widely scattered over an inâ€" terminable pine forest, in a country where coal does not exist, and where; the winter lasts half the year. I’eople. confound in their minds the defensiVe- force and the aggressive power of Russia. She is invulnerable against foreign attack by land because no large army can be concentrated with- in her borders (unless it be in Mosâ€" cow or St. Petersburg) for want of accumulated stores of food, etc. She has, it is true, a large force of ships of war, but they are manned by serfs taken from the villages of the ins terior, who are undeserving the name of sailors, and it is pretty cer- tain they would never venture into an engagement with an English or American fleet, and if they did it is quite certain they would be taken 0, destroyed. Williams’ , ... 7», mar .- 15M» mg», ,. A