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_gâ€"â€"r‘r . “SecceeescésééecoeoeeeseQ . A Abe at the Q . ft ....Heuse a Woooasamoabsaoabbapag‘l FOR THE COOK. Pickled onions must be small. 01' even sizo and perfectly round. Peel them but do not cut the tops and roots close enough to break them apart. As fast as peeled drop into strong brine and let stand for twen- tyâ€"four hours. Then drain in collanâ€" der or on sieve and dry with a cloth. Drop into glass jars. Spice vinegar with whole cloves, cinnamon stick, mace, peppercorns, using about a tablespoonful of the mixed spices for each quart jar of onions. Heat the vinegar scalding hot and then cool it and pour into the jars over the onions. Cover jars to keep out the dust and let stand three days, on the second and third days pouring off the vinegar, scalding it and pouring it over the onions. On the third day seal them up. Some housekeepers boil the onions in equal proportions of sweet- milk and water to keep moved. Have everything rea‘dy be- fore the washing begins. Make suds with soap and not too the water. Glass must always be washed first, next, the fine cups and saucers take. their turn and any other pieces of fine china. Following these comes the silver. Then the things that are least greasy and fin- ally the large meat dishes and the pots and kettles. Everything, of towels for the glassware, a wash cloth, mops for soap, the ammonia, and a knife cleaner. It is a good plan to put dishes of one kind in at one time and of another the next. Every glass should be emptied before it is placed in the pan, which is a rule that applies to other dishes. Any- 'glishes that have had milk in should‘ be rinsed before they go into the. dish water. After the dishes have drained awhile, hot water poured over them cleanses and renders them easier to dry. The silver should be placed in fresh suds and the different lines of dishes should be submitted to the lsame treatment. Dishes must ‘bo left lying in the water and the :pan should not be crowded. First it .retards progress and renders break- age more imminent. Delicate china placed in hot water will surely them white. Others parboil them in crack. salted water, blanch and cover with spiced white vinegar, adding a very little sugar. For mustard pickle use about equal proportions of tiny green cucumbers, large ones cut into dice, thinly sliced green tomatoes, cauliflower broken in small tufts, small string beans" or large ones out in small strips, green grapes, green radish pods, nasturâ€" tium seeds and very small white on- ions. Make a brine with a pint of salt to one and one-half gallon of cold water. Soak the vegetables over night in this. Drain off the brine in the morning, scald and pour over the vegetables again, and let get cold. Again drain. To each gallon of vinâ€" egar allow a pound each of mustard and curry powder, half cup of salt one cup brown sugar and half a tea- spoonful cayenne. Add salt and suâ€" gar to the vinegar while heating. Mix the mustard, curry powder and cayenne to a paste with a little of the vinegar and add to the rest, and when scalding hot pour over the vegâ€" etables. If you prefer a thick musâ€" tard dressing, mix a little flour with the mustard, etc. To candy, violets, get some fine double blossoms, break oil“ the heads, dip them in water into which pre- viously dissolve a little isinglass, and put them afterward into a. little cooled spun sugar. Sprinkle the viol- ets with the finest powdered sugar and lay them in sheets of white pap- er in the sun or some warm place, . . . n - sense is not deficmnt or lacking ill a great many people; this seems some- times ,the only possible solution of but on no account put them in an oven. Spun sugar is made by taking a quarter of a pound of loaf sugar to half a pint of water. Boil it until it forms strongs on a spoon - when dipped in itâ€"hence the name. The violets may be gathered on a dr sunshiny day, otherwise there is danger of their not keeping. Queen Frittersâ€"Put one cup of water in a saucepan, place over the fire, and when boiling add two table- spoons of butter, then stir and cook ntil it forms a ball and leaves the sides of the pan. When cool beat into it, one at a time, four eggs. Ilip out by spoonfuls and drop in hot fat. When done drain on brown paper. sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve. They may'also be split open, filled with fruit, and served with a sauce. Fish salads are good supper dishes, and take the place of cold meat. Use any kind of good-white fish,halibut, if possible, or salmon. Flake it with a silver fork, and mix with an equal quantity of chopped celery or white If the day is exceeding busy and something must be neglected do not allow that something to be the dishes. ODO‘RS IN THE HOUSE. This question of odors is one over which the homebuilder has to light her hardest battles, eVen if she starts with a house properly equipped for the struggle. They say that animals have no discrimination in odors; that is, that their senses make no distinction between the pleasurable and unpleasurable. It often seems as lif men were'made on the same plan. Many a man will sit contentedly reading his paper in an atmosphere of cabbage or fresh soup that would set a. woman’s sense of smell on edge. The mother of a family has often to fight her family as well as the odors, the necessary, the inevita- Ible airing of a house after meals being accomplished only against pro- tests. Food odors are not the only one she has to fight against, Many furâ€" nishings and floor coverings have odors, more or less unpleasant. This is an important objection to materials, they are rarely odorless. IYou should select your furnishings with your nose. Even if the odor is not actually disagreeable, the presâ€" -ence of any odors that are not a disâ€" tinct pleasure gives a second rate atâ€" mosphere to a house. I wonder if the their indifference to the abominable odor in their houses. 110w lhouscs pervaded otherwise understand. SENSIBLE S'UG GESTIONS . To cut hot bread dip the knife in warm water. Corks can be made sound and air tight by boiling. Lettuce leaves floor will attract and destroy beetles. New potatoes are given a delicate flavor if a few leaves of mint are placed in the water in which the poâ€" tatoes are boiled. Clean windows with a flannel dipp- with a clean duster. It imparts a. fine pol- ed in paraffin, and polish ish, and warns off flies. Lemon coffee is delicious. Rub each side of a lump of sugar on the rind of a lemon and pour on the coffee in cabbage. Place on lettuce leaves and tho ordinary way. pour over it a thick mayonnaise. For salmon use a white mayonnaise, but for white fish, color Slightly with much epsom salt green. WA SHING DIS HES. Ability to wa‘h taken as a sure test of a can wash them acceptably. One of the primal ventures in a well ordered household is the duty of dish washing and if you are in expect from your new maid observe when doubt as to what you may the first meal she serves. Then you will know just what you may dope-m upon in everything else she does. If she tumbles all the dishes in at once --or if she neglects to change the waâ€" ter when it has become cold and dirty she is not neat, and unless you dispense wish to train her you will with her services. This is the science of good dish washing. First, do not allow any length of time to elapse after the meal before the soiled dishes are re We like bestt cll SCOTT’S EMULSiON a food because it stands so em- phatically for perfect nutrition. And yet in the matter of restor- ing appetite, of giving new strength to the tissues, especially to the nerves, its action is that of a medicine. Send for free sample. SCOTT & BOWNE. Chemists. Toronto, Ontario, 506. and $1.00; all druggists. i. a ."- dishes can be maid’s neatness, carefulncss, and adaptal.>il- ity, for it is not the simple processl some would believe and not every one Imitation frosted glass is made by ‘dissolving in a little hot water as s as it will absorb. Paint the glass with the water whilst it is warm. When choppong suet sprinkle with a little ground rice; it will not then stick to the knife. a splendid meat cause the blood to run out. \rub on the silver. v and how she washes the dishes aftei , ternal parts. 1 without injuring the at a time and with a small UMBRELLA WISDOM. position: the water cover dry uniformly. top of the umbrella, and the ture is there retained in the of time, umbrella is left open to i Istretched and stiff, and will sooner a’split thus cared for. much soda. The soap must not be left in course, has been made ready, plenty of drying towels, | thousand men never 1 cheap people ,can, except under compulsion, endure V with the smell of ‘ ’ moth balls and gasoline, I cannot strewn about the In turning steak do not use a fork, as the holes which it makes in the . ' \ ' - ‘ ' “ :1 01d Incandescent gas mantles make be Without them in the house. Th_.se polish for silverware. Crush a little on a soft (luster and Grease spots on Silk can be remov- ed by splitting a visiting card and rubbing the spots with the soft inâ€" After washing hair brushes they can be quickly and thoroughly dried bristles by brushing them briskly with a whisk broom, and there is no better way to dry the hair after it has been washed than to hold up a few strands whisk broom fan it. letting ‘the broom act at the same tim as a comb, gently drawn through it. This method is a good substitute for suulight, which can neither be had to order nor reâ€" m lied upon with certainty. After coming in out of the rain, let the umbrella down and stand it On the handle that it may dry in this will thus drip from'the edges of the frame and the When placed with the handle upwards, as is fro- quently done, the water runs to the mois- lining underneath the ring for some length causing the silk or fabric with which the frame is covered to become tender and soon rot. A silk much injured by being dry; the silk becomes ' with it a good deal of interest has ..â€"â€"..-â€"-+â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€" ASTOR’S MARVELOUS PALACE Spending Millions on His English Estate. Amazing wonders are being wrought by William Waldorf Astor, the American millionaire and naturâ€" alized British subject, upon the historic l-Iever estate in Kent, which he recently purchased, says the London Daily Mirror. The artistic owner is spending money with a lavish hand in beautifying the exâ€" panse of two thousand acres that spread around the old moatcd castle. Though the cost of the. unâ€" dertaking is probably not definitely known to Mr. Astor himself, the poâ€" pular estimate is tha'tsa million and a quarter pounds will be expended upon the improvements during the next two years. There is no busier' area in indus- trial England toâ€"day. About a of all trades have taken up their residence in the neighborhood. Recently The Daily Mirror paid a visit to the place, which nestles at the foot of a hill. The road which hitherto led close to the castle has been diverted, and now passes some hundred yards fur- Black, Mixed or Green. lead Highest Award St. Louis, l904. Till: TELEGkAPHiG WIRE TRAPEZE FOR IVIONKEYS NEAR VICTORIA NYANZA. ..â€"â€"â€"â€" Object of Curiosity to the Giraffe â€"-Hippopo-tamii Drag Up the Poles. The world is now so much covered with telegraph and telephone wires that. civilized human beings scarcely ther away. To make this new road notice them. They run alongside it has been. necessary to build two Inc-St 01 the hlghways in England, and the oft announced coming of an underground system seems to have no influence in the direction of re- ducing the number. There is good evidence, however, says the London Globe, for, supposing that the aniâ€" mal world has by no means grown as accustomed to the swing above their heads. Cows, for example, have been. seen standing at the corner of fields lis- tening in awe-struck fashion to the Aeolian strains which smite their ears as a high wind blows across the iron and copper strands. Birds like the topmost wire for a. perch. It offers them apparently a. finer view than the boughs of trees, which are understood generally as being ‘naâ€" lure's device for the purpose. Curiâ€" ously enough, a' bird will not sing from the wire; whether it is silenced by th.- Aeolian rivalry or whether, on the other hand, it has come to see the utilitarianism of the strucâ€" ture and to feel that song is inconâ€" gruous cannot be explained with our present knowledge. BEES IIATE THE WIRES, and there are well authenticated casâ€" es of a swarm of bees altering their flight to avoid adjacency to the lines. Rooks show the greatest parâ€" tiality for them, a partiality which they hold with the sparrows, and in some of the older lines, where the wires are closer together than} is now thought to be wise, nests are built, and the insulation of the lines damâ€" aged accordingly. It has been calâ€" culated by one of those statistical persons who had time for the enterâ€" prise that there is a bird swinging on the lines each mile of the disâ€" tance. which when summed up gives us a total of some 500 birds amus- ing themselves in this fashion beâ€" tween London and Ildinburgh. In distant countries there are amusing instances of the use to which wild animals put the telegraph wires. A report has just reached England giving the details of the ideas of monkeys to telegraphy. These. animals are convinced‘apparâ€" lently that the wires are put up merely for the purpose. of giving l'them a long trapeze for their perâ€" formance. Near Victoria Nyanza there is a line of three wires, along which there may be seen hundreds of. monkeys enjoying themselves to their hearts’ content. The authorities have tried, by shooting them in considerable numâ€" bers, to remove this disposition, but the monkeys still run the risk, and travelch report that they often see them in dozens swinging by the tails and chuckling in. their own chattering fashion with delight. This does not serve to improve the’ tele- graplnc service, for in the depths of the forest the monkeys’ tricks OFTEN TWIST THE WIRES, and currents pass from one to anâ€" other, giving a somewhat confusmg result at the ends. bridges over the River Eden, which winds through the estate. Round the castle masons and carâ€" penters are building a picturesque model village, toned to harmonize with the grey old walls of the ras- tlefl A bridge built across the moat joins the new bui d ngs with the old. But tin; most gigantic part of the work is the making -f a lake, where formerly green meadows stretched. rl‘his lake will cover an area of nearly fifty acres and will be sixteen feet in depth. In its present topsyâ€"turvy state the estate suggests Clapham Juncâ€" tion, for everywhere run railway lines and fussy little engines sport up and down. Each day seven hunâ€" dred and fifty truckloads of soil are carried away to make a bed for the great lake. Round the outer edge of the estate runs a‘ fine deer fence, and a pond is being dug. Ifigh up on the hill a model farm has been built, with every modern and most perfect appliance. Close behind the castle an Italian garden is being laid out, surrounded by high Walls, with many niches and stone brackâ€" ets for statues. The utmost rigor is observed to keep the public from entering the ‘estatc and from taking photographs of the building as it rises. Workâ€" men have been discharged at a mo- ment’s notice who have tried to snapshot the operations. Only a few days ago a well known member of the peerage motored over for the purpose of taking a snapshot or two of the place. No allowance was made for the distinguished visitor; he had to depart empty handed. Mr. Astor himself takes the keen- est interest in his great project, and is constantly down at Hover watch- ing the working of the miracle. I-Ievâ€" er Castle is of great antiquity and was built by Sir William Hevre in the reign of Edward Hi. It was here that Henry VIII. domiciled Anne of Cleves. ‘~â€"â€"-â€"-~+ SICKLY CHILDREN. More children die during the hot weather months than at any other season of the year. Their vitality is then at its lowost ebb, and an attack of diarrhoea, cholera infantum or stomach trouble may prove fatal in a few hours. For this reason no home in which there are young chilâ€" dren should be without a box of Baby’s Owu Tablets, which promptly cure. all stomach and bowel troubles. If the Tablets are given to a well child they will prevent these ailâ€" ments and keep the little one well and strong. Mrs. Joseph T. Pigeon, Bryson, Que, says: "My little one was attacked with colic and diarrhâ€" oea, and I found Baby’s Own Tablets so satisfactory that I would not now Tablets not only cure summer trouâ€" 'bles, but all the minor ailments that afflict infants and young children. They contain no opiate or harmful drug, and may be given with equal safety to the new born baby or well grown child. There are imitations of this medicine and mothers should See that the words “Baby’s Own Tablets" and the fourâ€"leaf clover with child’s head on each leaf is found on the wrapper around each box. 'As you value your child’s life do not be persuaded to take a sub- stitute for Baby’s Own Tabletsâ€"the one medicine that makes children well and keeps them well. Sold by all druggists, or you can get them by ports that the earlier ideas of the monkeys as to the pleasures of stealing the wire have passed away. Now-aâ€"days it rarely happens that wire is stolen. The idea has spread that some kind persons, recognizing the needs of the monkey tribe, have way merely that the monkeys may have perfect swinging, and the mon- keys are perfectly loyal to the idea and refuse to steal the wire appar- ently for this reason. mail at 25 cents a box by writing “The curiosity of the giraffe is an_, the D1" Wimams’ “romaine "0" other disturbing element. Cows Bmckvme’ Om“ here at home stare up at the lines *4” when music is being emitted; horses rub themselves against the poles, but these two do but little damage. The giraffe, however, has the ad- FLYI NE} EXPERIMENT. A fl in'r ex erimcnt which carries .5 D been carried out at Billancourt, in France. The experimenter was M. Voisin, who seated himself ready for flight on a raft towed by an autoâ€" boat. At a given signal the auto- boat put on full speed, the machine began to riso, and M. Voisin. cut- ting himself adrift from the autoâ€" boat, maintained a steady flight for about 300 yards, at a height of about 80 feet. He then brought himself gently down to the surface of the water. long neck and to reach the wires themselves. He has a wonderful re- gard for the pottery insulator. I-Ie reaches up and seizes these not very succulent dainties, and pulls them down, drawing the strands with them. The arms of wood on which the insulators are placed also allure the giraffe, and when he gets fairly settled at the base of a pole he finds rich amusement for a couple of days dragging doWn the arms and peeking at the insulators. The influence As a Thrst Quench’e There Is no other beverage can compare with wires which l Iall manner of sea animals find that l Oddly enough, it is stated by exâ€"I put the wires up in such a secure[ vantage of being able to stretch his! “' '- x Ceylon Tea, which is absolutely the purest and most delicious tea the world produces. Packets ‘ only. By all Grocers. W which this has upon the transmis- sion of massages can be imagined. It is as injurious as the influence of the hippopotamus, which creeps up to the poles, looks cautiously round to see if any one is watching his perâ€" formance, and then, by a long pull. and a strong pull, drags over pole, wires, INSULTAORS AND ALL. The comfort is that occasionally the hippopotamus gets entangled in his own devices. He is not a very dex- terious animal, even at the best of times; but when he’s wrapped round with some tWenty feet of wireâ€"and in some cases with twenty feet of three wiresâ€"he finds progression somewhat retarded. In time, no, doubt, he will learn that it is as. well to leave the wires untouched, but it seems as if it will take some years yet before the lesson has gone home. What the denizens of the deep think of the great sea cables is as much a mystery as the others. In some places the deep cables swing from the ridge of one plateau to the ridge of another, and upon the bight they can disport themselves. Ono cable which was picked up recently Was merely covered for a mile with all manner of barnacled creatures. They had encrusted one after another on the cable, until that which was only half a foot in diameter was to be measured in feet, the Cable itself being hidden by the encrustations. Of course this did but little harm to the transmission of messages, except in a few cases where the cable shield was damaged, when, of course, there was a severance, with all the inter- Inational trouble which this involked. Ilats are a similar nuisance in re. spect to cables hidden under the earth. A rat seems to think that everything which is enclosed in lead is a pipe conveying water, and with intent to get at the water he gnaw: at the outer covering. Sooner 01- later the result is disastrous to the efficiency of the cable, and this must be written down as one of the diffi. culties in the way of underground itelegraphy. On the whole. there fore, we see that animals have a big- lgcâ€"r influence than is generally sup- lposed. But what they think of it all is another matter. One would so like to discuss the matter with the monkey, the giraffe, and, not least in importance, with the rat. ______.+______ MADE I-IER CHOICE. "Choose between us!” Winkleton folded up his evening newspaper and savagely threw it or the floor. “Yes, madam," he continued, "I tell you once for all that you can’t "have both of us. The last time thai |dressmaker was in the house for a ‘weck I vowed that I never would stand it again, and I won’t, As f0) being under the same roof with two half-crazy and absorbed Women, and lrequiring a rake every morning tc {get the odd pieces of cloth out of my Eclothes; to hear the rattle and whii ‘of that confounded suv'einganachine, fand to sit at my meals and listen to ’ja lot of cut bias, ruffled and 11011110- ied, and pleated talkâ€"I’ve. had all I’m :cver going to have. If I’m to be iturned out of my own house, all right; but you can't have both of Ins. I leave. the day she comes. ’You’ll have to make your decision ,quick. Come, madam, which shall lit be, the dressmaker or me?” Mrs. Winkleton looked at her hus- ‘band with a hopeless, halfâ€"despairing :look, in which were discernible some [traces of indignation and a sense of :injustice. "If you must go, dear," she said, gsoftly, “why, I have nothing more ‘to sayi” #4....â€" A Frenchman was boasting that [he had thoroughly mastered the Engâ€" lish language, when he was asked to Â¥write from dictation the following 'spccimen of our choice eccentric Ver- nacularzâ€"“As IIugh Hughes was hew- ing a Yule log from a yew tree, 9 man dressed in garments of a darn hue came up to Hugh and said, ‘Have you seen my ewes?’ To which he replied, 'If you will wait until 1 how this yew, I will go with you to look for your ewes.’ " After an at- tempt the Frenchman admitted his mistake. He used to imagine he was used to English speaking, but he would be more careful how he used 'the language in future. “Now, boys, said the Sunday- ischool teacher, addressing the juvenâ€" ile class, “can either of you tell me anything about Good Friday?” “Yes, ma’am, I can." .-:plied the boy at the foot of the class. 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