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. .~.Ti<',‘r~ ‘ “- 3% About the ~53. l ....l'louse . ____________________ MD?»939§DE§>9§§§9)BDD V. IIOW TO MAKE FRUIT SYRUPS. No homeâ€"made beverage is at once so beautiful and delicious as those made. With fruit syrups and Shrubs, and every housewife should provide a few jars of each in the season of small fruits. Properly made and stored, they keep as well as canned fruits, and are fine for flavoring ices, creams, custards and various kinds of puddings and other desserts. 'They require more sugar than jellies, .and unlike that consert should be made of perfectly ripe fruit. Use granulated sugar, earthen or granite- ‘wnre vessels, and woooen or silver :spoons in all the various operations. When done they can be bottled, but are more convenient when kept in pint-size fruit jarsfi Currant Syrupâ€"Wash, drain on a cloth, and stem red currants; place in an earthen or graniteware vessel, .mash thoroughly with a. wooden :masher, and set in a warm place for twontyâ€"four hours, or until fermentaâ€" “tion begins. (This destroys the pec- 'tin contained in the fruit and pre- vents the syrup from jellying.) Drain ‘l i.ۣێ6fl€€§€€<¢l¢£€€€§flfi€@, in threesquarter cup of cold water.‘ g Stir until the gelatine is dissolved, then use as above. With Asparagusâ€"Mold tomato jelâ€" ly in a shallow dish, having the jel- lv half an inch thick. Turn on to a clean sheet of paper, and, with a knife dipped in hot water, out the jelly in cubes. Pour over the cubes enough French dressing to moisten' the jelly and dispose these on a bed of lettuce leaves that have been care- fully dipped into French dressing. LIVINGSTON’ S TREE. .____. Where the Heart of the Great Ex- plorer W’as Buried. lllr. Weatherby, the explorer, has just returned from Africa, where he has been for eleven years, the only white man among hosts of blacks. In that long period he has had many thrilling adventures, says the Lon- don Daily News. He has succeeded in making corrections on the map of the interior of the Dark Continent Above; these (“$113099 00‘31fe‘1 ‘fspéra’ and in discovering the spot where the {3‘13 UPS» arcs-‘9“ “uh 011' “mega” heart of the great Livingstone was salt, and pepper. Finish with a large spoonful of mayonnaise and two or more lengthwise quarters of hard boiled eggs. : IIINTS FOR HOME LIFE. Lamb should be well basted when cooking. Mint sauce should stand two hours before being used. To keep meat fresh, as soon as you get it cover it with a clean mus- lin cloth wrung tightly through vinegar and set in a. cool place When making fruit pies damp the edges of the pastry with milk inâ€" stead of water. The juice is not so liable to boil over when this is done. Don't scrape a burnt saucepan. Fill it with cold water, put in a bit of soda, heat slowly, and let boil gently for some time. Then scrub with a saucepan brush. When steaming potatoes, put a "1:110 lUiCO Ull'o“gh ‘1 Cheese'cmth bag ncloth over them before putting the that has been wrung out of hot "water, by suspending the latter over .a deep bowl and occasionally pressâ€" ing against the sides with two wood- ven ladles or spoons. Wringing or squeezing is sure to make the syrup ~‘-eloudy. Measure, allow two pounds of sugar for each pint of juice, set m’er a slow fire, and stir constantly 'until every particle of sugar is disâ€" solved. As soon as it is boiling hot, take from the fire, skim as often as .any scum rises, and when cold, pour‘ into jars and seal. Wrap in heavy brOWn paper and store in a cool, dry place. Make cherry, raspberry, or .a combination of raspberry and curâ€" rent syrup, in the same way. , Spiced Blackberry Syrupâ€"Black- ‘berry cordial, an old and effective remedy for summer bowel complaint, 'is objectionable to many mothers beâ€" mause it contains brandy. Used 1plentifully to flavor drinking water, the syrup here given is an excellent preventive and remedy for such ill- ness, and contains no spirits whatâ€" ’ever. Mash the fruit, bring slowly to a boil and strain; measure, and .allow one heaping cupful of sugar for every pint of juice, one teaspoonâ€" ful each of cinnamon and nutmeg, and half as much cloves and ginger. ’Tie the spices in a piece of muslin; ‘put. all over a slow fire; stir until the sugar is thoroughly dissolved; let boil two minutes, skim, take out the .Ispices, and seal at once. Spiced Elderberry Syrupâ€"Has the :same properties as the above. Make in the same manner, using ginger .and nutmeg, with mace and cloves. Lemon Syrup.‘ This syrup makes a delicious lemonade. . Grate the yellow rind from six fresh lemons and stir it with three tablespoonfnls of powâ€" «dered sugar. Squeeze the juice from one dozen lemons and strain out the seeds; remoVe the pulp from the ’skins, boil it five minutes in two cupfuls of water, adding the sugar- -ed rind; strain, add the juice, meaâ€" sure, allow one and OUC‘i-Oul'th cupâ€" fuls of sugar for every cupful of the liquid, put over the fire; stir until ~-dissolved, boil five minutes, skim and seal hot. . Aâ€"uâ€"‘a TOMATO TIDBITS. Tomato Jelly and asparagus Sal- :a(l.â€"I-Iave Charlotte russe molds rstanding in ice water. Crumble the yolk of a. hard cooked egg and chop the white fine. Put the yolk into 'the bottom of the molds, add a few spoonfuls of tomato mixture to each mold, and, when set, fill the molds nearly to the top with the mixture. When this is set dispose the chopped white against the inner and upper edges of the molds, and fill to the top with the tomato. When firm un- .mold, put a rounded teaspoon of mayonnaise dressing in each cup, .and with this set asparagus tips, dressed lightly with French dressing. ‘(larnish the dish with lettuce. Tomato Jellyâ€"Pass the contents of a can of tomatoes through a sieve ‘l‘OjC‘Ctlllg nothing but seeds and! --coarse fibres, if any. Put two cups --of this puree over the fire with two slices of onion, two cloves, a sprigi of parsley, a piece of bay leaf, four pepper-Corns, or a bit. of green pep- per, and two teaspoons tarragon! 'vinegar. Let simmer fifteen minutes 1 then skim out the vegetables. et.c., ' .add half a teaspoon of salt and half of a two ounce package of gela~ ‘ounce of sugar, and three ounces of llid on. They will take less time to cook and be more mealy than when done in the ordinary way. For most cakes it is not absoluteâ€" ly essential that eggs and each inâ€" gredient as added be beaten separâ€" ately, but the materials can be put into a dish at once. and one long drawnâ€"out stirring will satisfactor- ily blend the whole. If you are afraid of lightning, here is a very simple safeguard to re- member. Simply put on your gum shoes or rubbers, and then stand up so that your clothes won’t touch anything. Whether you are in doors or out of doors you are perfectly safe, for rubber is a nonâ€"conductor, and you are perfectly insulated. looseberry fool requires two pounds of gooseberries, threeâ€"quarâ€" tors of a pound of loaf sugar, and one gill of water. When the goose- berries are cooked soft rub them through a wire sieve. To each pint of goosebcrry pulp allow half a pint of boiled'custard. Sweeten and serve in a glass, dish. The care of spongesâ€"If uszd for soap they should be rinsed out daily, otherwise they are sure to become slimy and most unpleasant. In any case they requireperiodical cleaning. Dissolve some borax or soda in warm water, and let the sponge soak in it for an hour; squeeze it. Well out, and then rinse in clcan warm water. Many people make a habit of putting their sponges outside the window after using them in order that. they may air and dry‘in readi- ness for the next time of using. Temperature in Sicknessâ€"The orâ€" dinary temperature of an adult when the thermometer is placed in the armpit is 98.4 deg., in the mouth, 99.5 (leg; the blood is about 100 deg. Fahr. In fevers this is much exceeded, and the heat of the patient may rise to 105 deg. A higher tem- perature than this will generally prove fatal unless it descend very quickly. The highest temperature reâ€" corded have been in some cases of rheumatic fever, when that of the body rose to 109 deg. and even to 1.1.1 deg. , Kitchen Necessities â€"â€" In every kitchen there should be a very high chair or stool, and also a very low chair. Plain ironing and much other work can be done as well seated on a high stool as standing, and at a great saving of strength to the worker. The low chair is useful for resting, or for sitting to shell peas ,or sorting cur-rants, when it is con- venient to have the bowl on one's lap into which to put either one‘or the other when separated from shells or stalks. Sultana pudding is appreciated at this time of the year if nicely boiled in a cloth for three hours. Rub three ounces of finely chopped suet into six ounces of flour, add one teaspoonful of baking powder, one sultanas. Make all into a light .dough with one egg beaten up in a little milk. Caneâ€"seated chairs can be furbished up by washing the cane with warm water on both sides, and then put- ting them out in the. air on a sunny day to dry. This treatment not only adds to the cleanliness of the cane, but it. causes it to tauten, which im- proves its appearance and makes it more Wearâ€"resisting. ~tine, softened by standing some time A WORD m MOTHER'S EAR: WHEN NURSING IIN INP‘NT, AND 1:? THE IWONTHS THAT COME BEFORE THAT TIME, SCOTT'S EIWULSION BUPPLIES THE EXTRA STRENGTH AND v NpL‘RIEHMENT 80 NEOESBARY FOR _ THE HEALTH OF BOTH MOTHER AND CHILD. Send for free sample. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists. ' Toronto, Ontario. 50c. and $1.00; all drugzlsts. _._._........_+. TWO TABLETS . Johnnyâ€"Paw, did Moses have the dyspepsia, like what you've got? Fatherâ€"How on earth do I know? What makes you ask such a ques- tion? _ Johnnyâ€"Why, our Sunday school teacher says the Lord gave Moses two tablets. +.._.._..... REA DY FOR ANY T l-IIN G . Doctorâ€"(making diagnosis)â€"-Now, as to drink; what do you take? buried, the locality of which has been instrumental in raising a per- manent memorial to the famous mis- sionary in place of the decayed tree which marked the site, and he has brought back to the British Museum that part of the tree which bore the original inscription, cut by the na- tives, who loved and mourned their white chief. My object says Mr. Weatherby, was to circnmnavigate Bangweolo Lake and to find the spot where Living- stone’s heart was buried. Glave, the American who died while attempting ' to find the tree, was the last man who had any accurate idea where it was. I accomplished both tasks. Old Mshaota, the chief who helped me find the Livingstone tree, told me a strange story. He remembered Liv- ingstone, who, he averred, was shot. Everybody, he said, knew that it was so. One of my greatest friends was Mewenge, a chief, but it was some time before we understood each other. He had never seen white men, but, had heard of them, and when I sent word I was coming, he grew muc alarmed. When I went to his tent he rushed out, and seizing me by the arm, slashed his ax over my head into a tree behind me. The next minute he pulled up my Shirtâ€"sleeve to see if my arm was white. That gave me time to tell him he might kill me if he wanted to, but that it would be more interesting not to. I also had a "scary" greeting from Kasoma, a muchâ€"dreaded chief. I set out by boat to visit him, with nine men. When we neared the vil- lage, and two thousand armed men rushed to the edge of the lake, I found we had left our rifles behind us. With my heart in my mouth, I jumped ashore alone. As I stood be- fore the chief I could see his heart throbbing in his naked chest, and I knee he was in as bad a way as I myself. “Good morning! How do you do?" I shouted. The chief gaVe a signal, and I put my hands in my pockets to meet the end calmly. The same moment the chief and every man clapped their hands in unison, knelt dowri and bowed their heads. ' After all. a little blqu is a. great help in dealing with natives. I stood once surrounded by four hundro'dgmen who had rifles, each waiting either for me to move or for his neighor to begin the firing. I got one of the men to bring me a shotâ€"cartridge, and opening it, I sent the handful of shot to the chief, with the message that he would be more likely to hit me if he used that instead of a bul- let. The joke set the whole lot laughing. 4,... nor WEATHER AILMENTS. The best medicine in the world to ward off summer complaints is Baby‘s Own Tablets, and it is the best medicine to cure them if they attack little ones unexpectedly. 'At the first sign of illness during the hot weather give the child Baby's Own Tablets, or in a few hours the trouble may be beyond cure. These Tablets cure all stomach troubles, diarrhoea and cholera infantum, and if occasionally given to the well child will prevent them. Mrs. Edward Clark, McGregor, Ont., says: “I used Baby’s Own Tablets for my lit,â€" tle girl who suffered from colic and bowel troubles and I found them the most satisfactory medicine I ever cine. Keep the Tablets in the home you can feel that your children are safe. Sold by all druggists or sent by mail at 25 cents a box by writ- ing the Dr. Williams’ Medicine 00., Brockville, Ont. ____+___..__ ECONOMY OF HEAT. The average humidity in artificial- lyâ€"heated houses is about thirty de‘ grees; the average temperature, sevâ€" enty to seventyâ€"four degrees. It has been found by conclusive tests that a room with a humidity of Sixty de- grees and a temperature of sixtyâ€"five degrees seems warmer and more com- fortable than a room of seventy-two degrees of heat and humidity of thirty degrees. Dr. Henry M. Smith says that. if a room of sixtyâ€"eight degrees is not warm enough for any healthy person ' -., because the hu- midity is too low, and water should be evaporated to bring the moisture up to the right degree. In other words, water instead of coal should be used to make rooms comfortable when the temperature has reached sixty-eight degrees. As water is cheaper than coal the rule should be- come {rpopular one. .â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"+â€"‘â€"_.â€"â€"u Mrs. lchrideâ€"“Jmm, I’m simply disgusted! ‘i'hile I was out this morning the cat got into the pantry Patient (011(301‘5U11y)â€"0h» thanks. and ate every single thing except a You are very kind. I don't care if I,cake I had just baked!” lll‘r. Mc- do. Leave it. to you. sir. It is all the. same to me. illrideâ€""ll'hat a Wonderful thing am- and instinct is, to be sure!" Ceylon Tea. and you will then understand why its sale is so enormous. l3 Million Packets Annually Solo! only in lead packets. 40c, 500, 60¢: per lb BY ALL GROCERS. .a STRANGE JEWS 0F ClilNA $3133, ‘i‘ldsec'optwtf‘lfe 2.315203%: A WONDERFUL REMNANT IN THAT COUNTRY. A Colony Which Has Kept Its Jewish Ideals for Many Centuries. ponds very exactly with the ordinary Hebrew versions familiar to script- ists, although there are a few “char- acter” variations not affecting the text. VALUABLE DOCUMENTS. The synagogue at Kai-ion'g-fu, now in ruins, bore inscriptions which There seems every Pmbabnuy 0f {prove it to have been erected in the that valuable human relic of anâ€" tiquityâ€"the Jewish settlements of in- land Chinaâ€"â€"being lost without any further effort on the part of the scientists to trace out the informaâ€" tion and determine the character of the evidence afforded by these vanâ€" ishing communities and their ruined temples, says the London Standard. To one or two Oriental scholarsâ€" h Dr. Dyer Bull, Mr. Colquhoun, Dr. Griffiths John, and perhaps a few other writers, together with two or three Roman Catholic missionaries of the pastâ€"we one most of the lit- ;tle knowledge we 'do posses, rather Ithan to antiquarians or research ex- lperts, although there can be no ldoubt that. the subject is full of inâ€" terest, both human and theological. It is now some years since the in- quiries of a Jewish society elecitcd the statementâ€"whether correct or not it, is hard to sayâ€"that only one Jewish settlement remained in the heart of China, and that it was not only decreasing rapidly in numbers, but also losing its characteristic feaâ€" tures and worship on account of the death of all the rabbis. Further ex- amination should not, therefore, be indefinitely postponed. KEPT THEIR FAITH. Three and a half centuries ago, when the Jesuit Fathers first disâ€" covered Jewish settlements, they Were in a flourishing condition, with synagogues such as that wlmse ruins still remain at Kaiâ€"fongâ€"fu, and, though living peaceably among other natives, ,,carefully observing those sharp dividing lines which differen- tiate the Jew from all other races. Thus they neither made proselytes from among, 1101‘ inter-married with, the alien people. They kept the Sab- bath, Passover, Tabernacles, and the Day of Atonement, together with the ceremonial of the synagogue ser- vice, wherin the reader of the law was veiled after the example Moses, and the males of the congre- gation covered their heads and put off their shoes on entering the build- ing. These Chinese Jews prayed towards Jerusalem, of whose (leâ€" struction by the Romans they had never heard, while the name of Jesus Christ conveyed nothing to their minds. These facts, of course placed the arrival of the original colonists as prior to the Christian era and certain other data suggests more exactly the probable period. WHEN THEY CAME. The Chinese Jews knew nothing of what is called in the Gospels “the tradition of the elders,” which, in fact, was no more than the crystalliâ€" zation or detailed summing-up of the oral teaching of the past, with various ceremonial accretions of the ecclesiastically dark ages which folâ€"l lowed the time of the last of the lprophets. This. gathering together land promulgation of the “tradition” immediate successors seems, indeed, 'the most probable era for the foun- dation of the Chinese Jewish colonâ€"' ies, not only because that century was marked by a very considerable Jewish colonization movement-of which the Alexandria settlement was the most noteworthy and best chron- icled exampleâ€"but also because the vocabulary of the Chinese Jews when discovered by the Jesuits included a large number of Persian words and derivatives, indicating contact with that empire. across which the route from Palestine then lay. Moreover, at that period of their history the Jews were familiar with Persian rule and custom, which at. any much earlier time they were not. AN EARLIER PERIOD. Nevertheless, some Orientalists be- lieve the migration to have taken place eleven hundred years 13.0., roughly, about the time of Eli’s high priesthood and the youth of Sanmel. Expert investigation of the Scrip- tures in use in these settlements ought to make this point susceptible of definite establishment. If it can be proved that; the writings of the later prophets formed part of the synagogue lectionary in China, it must be evident that the settlements were not founded at this remote date. The roll of Scripture taken from Kaiâ€"long-fu to Hong Kong during the latter part of the last century, and now to be seen in the museum, is of the l‘entatvsurh only, but affords no 'r»‘.'it‘.:~u:~e that other rolls vane not [twelfth century, and probably several lolder foundations exist if proper ,search were made. Should it prove Etrue that, as separate entities, the IJewish colonies of China, after these ihundreds of years, are now lingering in the throes of final disappearance, it. will indeed be a loss to ourselves and to posterity if immediate steps are not taken by skilled investiga- tors to acquire all the evidence which they may all‘ord to historical and critical research. ____+__.. ‘WOOING IN GREECE. Young Aspasia Had a Great Many Suitors. Some travellers in Greece who stayed at a poor little inn, not much more than a hut, found there a beautiful young girl, whose name proved to be Aspasia, sitting at her loom at Work. Bread and wine were brought out, with raw beans and leeks, and the travellerssat down to wait. until a gathering storm should pass. Then, says Temple Bar, the Englishwoman of the party beâ€" gan to talk to the girl, Aspasia. "‘Are you making a carpet for your- self, or is it to sell?” she asked. Atpasia smiled. “It is for my ‘dowry," said she. “But I can’t ge_t_ -on very fast; my shuttle is broken." "I will send you" one from ,Athens." "One of my suitors has already promised to send me one." “But you are only a child. You are too young to have suitors.” “Oh, no, I am not a child! I am Ia grown woman. Why, I am fifteen, and I have many suitors. All the young men about here are my suitâ€" ors." “There are no young men about here. It is such a lonely place, you can hardly see any one." | The storm had increased, and the :shepherds from the hills had been driven in to shelter. They stood about, leaning on their crooks, and rwhen a tall muleteer gave the logs .in the fireplace a kick with his bOOE, land the flames flashed up, the pic- :ture was a vivid one. The girl Iwaved a little wine-dipper she Was iholding and took in the group. I- “These,” she said, "are my suit- ' ors." - They smiled, some of them bashful~ ly, and all delightedly, and seemed ito accept the statement as a com- ; monplace. Later, when the men were talking .together, the Englishwoman caught EAspasia’s eye. i “Which will you have?” asked the alady, slyly. The girl shook her head. “None of these,’: she said. As she spoke, 1; another figure, dripping with rain, :{glidm in at the door. He was a ital] Albanian, with flashing eyes. tried." This is the experience of all [took place during the Maccabcan pox--1 “Is it he?" asked the .l‘lnglishwo- mothers who have used thls medi- iod, so that the date of the set,t10_;man_ ments is thus again put back. Thei Aspasia meditath a little. “I (mung the hOt weather months and time of Alexander the Great and his‘don't think so. But there is one iup in the mountains, where you are :going. Take him a greeting from me." “What is his name?” “Oh. no matter! From far off :you will see him digging in his garâ€"- idon, in the first, village you come to .as you go to the lake. Say to him, ; ‘Gl'i‘t‘llll‘lg' from the khan!’ and he will ‘understand." .5”... GLASS BRICKS. The manufacture and use of paving and building bricks made of (levitri .fied glass have attracted some at- tention recently in Europe, especial- ily in France. Broken bottles, brok. |en windowâ€"panes and other glass re- fuse are turned, by a patented pro- cess, into tiles, paving squares and flags for sidewalks. A rough sur- face like that of common brick can be given to them. In the city of Lyons a piece of street pavement iformed of this material has with- gstood as hard usage as any pave- xment would be $11l),l(‘cterl to. 'l‘h/ ‘makel‘s claim that it possesses great; or resistance than stone. is impen meable to water, and is a “poo; conductor of cold.” In Hamburg. Germany, translucent bricks have been used for the walls of buildings which are required to be at once fire- ,pl'ooi and windowless. I ___â€"â€"+._._.. _ The man who rocks the boat Should never drown, I think, Because his empty hca'd Is far too light to sink!