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Hints for Busy Housekeepers. Recipes and Other Valuable Information of Particular Interest to Women Folks. FAVORITE RECIPES. Walnut Cream _Dessert.â€"â€"Put half a cupful of rice in a double boiler on the back of the stove; allow it to cook slowly, with sufficient milk to swell it. While this is cooking pick out threeâ€"fourths of a cupful of black walnut meats, crush them with the rolling pin, make boiled custard of the yolks of three eggs, one-half cupful of sugar, and one quart of milk. When thick enough beat in the rice (when soft), and the walnut meats. Let it cool and llaâ€" vor with vanilla. Serve as dessert with whipped cream, sprinkling wal- nut meats generously over the top. It also makes a delicious frozen des- sert. In case it is frozen place can- died cherries in a ring around the edge of the cup with nut meats in the center. Fruit Salad.-â€"Oneâ€"half dozen oranges cut in small pieces, one can pineapple, out fine, one pound. Malaga grapes seeded and sliced, one cup nuts, one large bunch cel- ery cut in cubes, one bottle of Maraschino cherries; sweeten the fruits a short time before serving. Pour all the juice off before put- ting the dressing on. For this amount use one pint whipped cream and into that mix the mayonnaise that two eggs would make. Mix all together. Serve very cold. This quantity will serve eight or ten. ground, oneâ€"fourth pound of salt pork; season with salt, pepper, sage and paprika; boil 3. calf’s tongue tender; put a layer of ground meat in deep oblong pan, then the cooked tongue (whole); then pack in rest of meat, cover top WILJ cracker crumbs, and bits of butter, and'one-half cupful of boil- ing water; set pan with leaf in a roaster in which is enough water to steam; cook two hours; uncover fifteen minutes to brown. This dish is pretty when sliced. Quick Escalloped Oysters. â€"- For one quart oysters use one quart hot milk, and one pint of cracker crumbs. Put a heaping tablespoonâ€" ful butter in a hot skillet, into, which put the oysters until plump. Have three layers of crackers and two of oysters, pour the hot milk and melted butter over each layer of crackers, and season the oysters with salt and pepper. On top lay- er of crumbs put pieces of butter, and brown fifteen minutes in a hot oven. - ‘ Glace English Walnutsâ€"Sift two cupfuls of sugar with oneâ€"eighth teaspoonful of cream tartar. Add one cupful of boiling water, set sauce pan on the stove, and stir un- til sugar is dissolved. Boil without stirring, carefully wiping away with a swab wet in cold water the cry- stals that form on the sides of the pan, as these will spoil the candy. When the syrup begins to discolor remove and instantly set the pan in a dish of cold water to stop the boiling. Remove at once and set in pan of hot water during the pro- cess. of dipping. Take halves of walnuts on a long pin or steel ske- wer and dip in syrup to cover, then place on oiled paper or .greased plate. These candies are mexpen- sive and delicious but seldom seen even at the best confectioners. Apple Dumplingsâ€"Two cupfuls of flour, one large tablespoonful of lard, pinch of “salt, one teaspoon- fu‘. of baking powder. Add milk enough to make a soft dough and roll out fiat. Pare five or six tart apples, slice on dough, roll into a ball, and put into a pan. Take one and a half cupfuls 'of sugar, one and a half cupfuls of water, a litâ€" 'tlc nutmeg, let it come to a b011, pour over the dough dumplings, bake threeâ€"quarters of an hour in hot oven, keep covered the first fifteen minutes. SIYLES. ' New Saladâ€"Arrange srisp let- tuce on each salad plate, and upon this grate a sufficient quantity of Roquefort cheese. Over this squeeze orange juice. . . Apple Saladâ€"Secure large red or green apples, with stems on if possible. Wash and polish them up. Cut off the tops with a sharp knife and scoop out the centres. Cut the apple that has been scooped .cut in small cubes add a stalk or two of celery and a handful of large green grapes. Cut all up in small pieces, and, if desired, a few Engâ€" lish walnuts chopped fine. Mix all ' well with mayonnaise. Fill the cen- ters of the apples and place the top on each one. Garnish with large grape leaves or lettuce. A bow or VJ "l.~-~~ . . , aka-am; m ribbon, any desired color, may be tied on each stem. This is an at- tractive salad, and adds greatly to make up a. pretty luncheon. Do not prepare this salad until ready to serve. The ingredients may be kept cold in the iccbox until ready to prepare. Fruit Saladâ€"Five large apples, two bunches of celery, one-half cupâ€" ful of pecan kernels, juice and pulp of one orange, juice of one Lemon. Pare and dice apples, cut celery small, mix with pecans, pour over all the juice of orange and lemon ,mixcd. Line a salad bowl with crisp lettuce leaves, heap salad in center, and serve. Lettuce Saladâ€"First pick over all the leaves and cut out the tough veins and bad spots, then wash well in about three or four waters, after which place in a granite or earth.- en dish large enough to have plen- ty room to stir, then cut up a small onion fine over this and add a teaâ€" spoonful of salt, a cupful and a half of vinegar, and to about two bunchâ€" es of lettuce use oneâ€"half of a nick- el’s worth of fat bacon cut up fine and tried out, pour over all last while still hot and stir well and cut up leaves to about oneâ€"half their regular size. Best eaten while still warm, and is always well liked by those who do not like lettuce fixed with sugar and vinegar, an old re- cipe like mother used to make. Potato Saladâ€"Potato salad for four persons: Cook potatoes With skins on; use the ones that don’t burst open; peel and cut up rather fine. Three cupfuls of potatoes, two tablespoonfuls cf chopped onâ€" ion, one tablespoonful chopped green pepper, one level teaspoon- ful of salt, one-fourth'teaSpoonful of ground white pepper. Toss th1s lightly with a fork until well m1x- ed. Dressing: One-half cupful of thick sweet cream, oneâ€"fourth cup- ful of vinegar. Peat vinegar 1nto the cream a little at a time; pour over potatoes. Toss again lightly with fork. All ready to serve. Salad Helpâ€"If you run short of chicken when making salad take pork chops and cook them in the broth. They will absorb the 0111ch- en flavor and look the same as the chicken . M LITTLE HELPS. When a recipe calls for both fruit and nuts, mix thoroughly before passing through the food chopper. There will be no clogging, as there would be if’ the fruit is chopped alone. Add a few grains of rice to the salt when filling the shakers and there will be no clogged shakers, no matter how damp the salt be- comes. Dampen a square of cheesecloth with a. furniture polish made of equal parts of sweet oil, vinegar and kerosene. It will brighten the finest mahogany and makes floors and furniture look like newly waxed. Use an empty baking powder can to ‘chop cooked potatoes when they are fried or warmed over for sup- per. It is more quickly accomplish- ed than using a knife. A bag of tennis flannel cut loosely to fit the broom and held in place by a discarded round garter can be made in two or three minutes. Cut so the selvedge is at the top and there will be only two seams to sew across bottom and at one side. Such a one costs but two or three cents. When boiling tongues add two cloves for each small or veal tongue, three or four for a larger tongue. The flavor will be found most de- licious. Glass Water Bottlesâ€"Cut up a large potato fine and put it in the bottle with some warm water and shake it. rapidly until its is clean. Some use shot and soda, but pota- to is even more effectual. Flatiron Help.-â€"\Vhen ironing try Letting the iron on a heated brick instead of a perforated flatiron stand. The iron will keep hot much longer, which will save time. To Clean Rugsâ€"Lay them out straight andbrush with a stiff dry scrubbing brush. You will be sur- prised at the amount of dirt to come out in this way, which is much betâ€" ter than shaking or beating. Celery.â€"â€"If you find your celery is tough, squeeze the juice of a le- mon over it and let it stand for ten or fifteen minutes. VINEGAR HELPS. T-lnw liLtle housekeepers know about the chemical action of acids and the result they may obtain by the intelligent use of the provisions already in the house! Take, for in- stance, vinegar. Surely every one’s cupboard conceals a bottle of this useful acid, for the cook always needs it. But even some cooks do not know‘how useful it is in pther ways beside supplying acid for the salad dressing. When cooking cabbage or other vegetables where the odorous steam is likely to permeate the house, a cup of vinegar allowed to simmer on the back of the stove will make an aroma which will neutralize the other. This is a nice bit of infor- mation to remember. When pickling do not expect to use jars in which greasy substances have been kept. If you do all your careful measurements will have been taken in vain, for vinegar can ferret out the slightest indication of. grease, and your pickles will not keep. ‘ Should you go for the glue pot to mend a broken household treasure and find the glue is hardened, use a little vinegar to soften it; it is far better than water. To remove hardened glue around the finished task. use vinegar, too, otherwise you cannot call your mending neat. Vinegar will remove paint stains from the window glass, and when boiled with wormwood it will make a sovereign remedy for sprains, while every child knows that when you make taffy you must add a tea- spoonful of acid if you want your candy to be crisp. So don’t let the bottle get empty. DlSFlGURlNG. TORTUR- lllG SKIN TROUBLE cannot be Band by Salves and. intmentEâ€"The .Blnod Must be Purified , ' _A blemished skin, irritating sores, pimples, eczema, salt rheum andl other skin disorders are all signals of distress, telling that your blood -lS impure or weak. You cannot cure eczema and other skin trou- bles with ointments and outward applications. These things may give I EEEE‘LEW‘ DEVELOPMENT: Weakness of the Modern and Rational Views of Religion “I saw a new heaven and a new earth.”â€"â€"-Rev. xxi., 1. _ One characteristic will certainly mvar1ably mark the religion of the future. It will have, and, indeed, largely it will be, a passion for peo- ple, a love of humanity. Its ulti- mate word will be love, not a mawkish sentimentality but an ear- nest striving after the highest and best in condition and character for all our fellows. . Religion will be the poetry and idealism of our modern social think- ing. It will give to the barren, dried bones of the science of socioâ€" logy the quickcning breath of a mighty emotion; it will compel it With a sweep of passionate feeling and convert" if from dead theories and classified data to a regenerat- ing savmg power. The religion that is all emotion, all feeling, is a paralyzing delusion. But the religion that is without feeling is a dead, helpless, deaden- mg thing. It is worthless to us and to our world unless it have in it those ideals and principles which can awaken in us great tides of feel: lng, can stir our passions, kindle our enthusiasms, and claim our un- reserved allegiance. The fact that old forms of faith were philosophically absurd, his- torically inaccurate, and even ethi- cally unsound makes little differ- ence to the great mass of people so long as these faiths move their hearts, so long as they hold out hopes that awaken longing and stir up the sluggish spirit with VISIONS OF FELICITIES to be enjoyed or of present wrongs to be righted. The weakness of the modern and rational views of religion lies in the fact that, while they are emin- ently satisfactory to many thought- ful persons, especially to those of academic dispositions, they seem to lack in vital significance, to the many; thev offer no great appeal- temporary relief, but cannot cure, ling programme Cf action; they in- because the trouble is rooted in the blood and can only be removed by purifying and enriching the blood. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills speedily cure skin troubles because they en- rich, purify and build up the im- poverished blood that caused the trouble. As they feed and cleanse the blood the Skin grows fair, the bloom of health returns and new strength is found. No other medi- cme has ever had such wonderful results in curing all diseases due to bad blood. Miss Elizabeth Gillis, Kensington, P.E.I., says :â€"â€"â€"“Words can hardly express how grateful I I feel for what Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills have done for me. For seven years before I began their use I was troubled with salt rheum. My hands and arms were nearly always a mass of torturing cracks and sores. I tried several doctors and spent a. great deal of money with- out getting any benefit. Indeed my hands seemed to be getting Worse all the time. Finally my bro- ther persuaded me to give Dr. Wil- liama’ Pink Pills a trial and I am happy to say they have completely cured me. I used in all seven boxes and I would not be without them in a case of this kind if they cost five dollars a box instead of fifty cents. I I how my experience will be of benefit to some other suiferer fromi skin trouble.” ' These Pills are sold by all mediâ€" cine dealers or will be sent by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes fori $2.50 by The Dr. Williams’ Medi-‘ cine Co., Brockville, Ont. l Vite neither indignation, aspiration nor endeavor. . You will never get a living relig- ion so long aS‘you limit it to rea- sonalone, for, after all, reasoning 15 Simply the power to record and classrfy, examine, and analyze your impressions. We must keep our feet on the rational, but our eyes must see the inspirational, that which will awaken the life of feelâ€" ing, quicken the pulse, and nerve l l l l the heart, that to which we will an swer, without conscious process ol reaSOning, saying, this is right and nothing else will satisfy my soul. A new note is coming into modern religion which meets that need. It is the result of our social thinking. The new faith catches its vision in a liberated, glorified, perfected hu- manity. It turns from disputations over an ancient literature to ask, how can we make our modern liv- ing what it ought to be? It cares only for the history that is for the sake of the humanity that is to be. The new faith is a faith in the fu- ture. Accepting the doctrines of our slow development from lowli- est beginnings, it sees in this the prophecy of our greater growth, the hope of the coming man. It argues, if we have come so far we may yet GO MUCH FARTHER. It believes in an ideal man and an ideal humanity, not in some dist- ant star but with us and of us here. When you begin to think of city streets where no wail of sorrow surges, of homes where no dwarf- ed lives, pinched faces, and bent backs may be found; when you re-. ligion turns to wipe the tears from the faces of the children, to lift the burdens from the weak, to set the bound free, and gives eyes to the blind and heart to the fainting, you may be sure it will lay hold of the deep places in man. Such an idealism becomes a prac- tical working creed. One man may hold its premises in the will of a loving God and another in the up- ward dynamic of humanity. The premises are not so important as the conclusion, the goal. The ex- planations may differ, but the ideal, the hope, the aim, and the passion will be one. Men will gladly give themselves for the new heaven and the new earth as a realizable fact. Our modern theology springs out o f our humanity. We believe in a. deity with the best attributes con- ceivable for ourselves, and we be- lieve in a universe that will bear as its highest fruitage not angels nor harps, but man in his ripe powâ€" ers and a race living together in love, harmony, and growth into greater glory. And we come to beâ€" lieve in a law of life in which wrong to another isthe greatest sin and helpful, kindly love the fairest vir- tue. HENRY F. COPE. Present Conditions in England and Those a Few Years Age. The average age of the commun- l MARRIAGE AGE IN ADVANCE. l tween the ages of 25 and 30 increas- ed by just over 12,000. The average or mean age of all spinsters who married in 1896 was 25 years and one month. This has .advanced to 25 years and 6% “‘0’ is becoming Older, it WM POint‘ months in the lest available returns 9d 01117 by the Premdent 0f the Royal , Widows at their second and third Statistical Society recently. It 1Elmarriages are also older, having interesting to note that the age ofiadvanced from an average of 40 marriage has also the same ten- dency, says the London Daily "Mail. According to the available returns as many as 40,000 girls marry in 1 years 7 months to 40 years 11 months. Thus spinster brides are nearly Six months and widow brides four England in 8’ year under the age months older than those of a few of 21, that is in less than one-sew enth of the marriages registered. Thirty years, a generation ago, more than oneâ€"fifth of the women marrying in a year were minors. Another interesting fact that seems to prove this tendency to lat- er marriages is provided by the fig- ures for the last decade. In 1907 [the number of marriages of women between the ages of 21 and 25 were just over 6,000 more than in 1898, while the marriages of women be- years ago. _.... ._»ra___.,.._. To secure a lasting luster to the range or cook stove add vinegar to the stove polish. Chronic Grumblerâ€"â€""Here, wait- er, what are these chopsâ€"lamb or pcrk ’l” bv the taste '2” mI(No-}) Chronic Grumbler Waiterâ€"“Well, then, what difference does it make ‘2” Every dollar invested in Taxicab Stock will be a workan dollar. Tore .le’s Taxicabs, aller six months of actual working, have proven that the sloth can pay a dividend of 10% per annum or 2%% quarterly. commandos January 15!, 19m. The Time to buy Taxicab Stock is new. tale advise its purchase a! $6.00 per share, par value $5.99. 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