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taste. When cold | "whites of three eggs and bake in + pudding dish thirty minutes; sorve: with melted butter for a sauce. French . Mayonnaise. -- Fifteen iS Seto with egg beater until stringless or, say about ten or fif- |, teen minutes. Add five cups strong cider vinegar and ene cup water, stirring all the time. Add one-half 'cupful sugar, and - one-quarter pound mustard mixed into' a. paste with water, and add gradually. Place in 'a double boiler dnd boil fram one-half to three-quarters of an hour, until thick. Stir occasion- ally to keep mixture smooth. Scal in self-sesler jars: This will make about two quarts when done. - Will keep indefinitely, sealed or unseal- ed. Peanut Twist.--To 'one cupful of bread kponge add one egg well bea: ten, one cupful confectioner's su- gar, one cupful sweet milk, and one: cupful salted peanuts, chopped (not ound). , Thicken with flour as for read; let raise, rol out, cut in strips fiftoep. inches long and one inch wide, twist, fold ends together, and twist again, putin greased hak- ing pans, let raise, brush top with white of egg, bake thirty minutes, doe tops. Fine for breakfast or luncheon. : ruit and Nut Rolls, --Bift three times three cups flour, six level teaspoonfuls baking powder, one- half teaspoonful 'of salt., Rub in ene-third cupful of butter, and add, gradually; one cupful of milk, cnt- ting in with a knife to a soft dough. Turn. out on the floured. board and roll into a rectangular sheet ome: third inch thick. "Brush with soft butter and dredge with two table- Spoons' sugar mixed with one-half teaspoon cinnamon. Then sprinkle with chopped filberts and raisins. Roll up like a ielly cake, then cut across it in<imoh 'slices.' Set these on end in a buttered pan close to- gether and bake twenty minutes. White Bread.--Put three cupfuls of flour in a bowl and at noon; when you cook potatoes pour the . boiling hot potato water on the floury 'mash 'three good sized pota- toes; mix well. Have a cake of yeast dissolved in a cup of luke- warm. water and whep the flour and potato water 'is abeut lukewarm, stir in the yeast well. At night take one and one-half yuarts of warm water, one tablespoon of salt, the same of sugar, one-half cupful of lard and butter mixed; add the yeast and stir well. Put in enough flour to make a firm sponge ; leave to rise all night. In the morning roll out a small 'pan of biscuits, which will be as white as snow ; the rest mold into loaves. This recipe; if followed, will make excellent bread. CAKE RECIPES. Devil's Food.--Put on stove one- half cupful of auger) beat one egg, cne-half cupful of milk, two squares of chocolate. Let boil. Set aside to cool. Ome cuplul of sugar, one- half oupful of butter; one-half cup: ful of sweet milk; two eggs, one ted- "spoonful of vanilla, ene and three: fourths' cupfuls of flour, one' tea: nful of seda. Stir in boiled late, and bake.in loaf." French Date CakeTake two cupfuls of granulated sugar, six eggs, two cupfuls of flour, twe. tea- spoorifuls of baking 'powder, one pound' English = walnuts chopped, one pound dates chopped. Beat the hite and yolk of eggs separately." Preani sugar and yolk of Add the white of egg. wdd flour without baking Then the chopped nuts brittle also beat it in. 1} quarter 'of a' pound of wal dates; figs, and candied cub in small pieces; m cious. bread board with a spoon. Chocolate Marshmellow, <= Two || cupfuls of sugar, three fablespoon- | fuls 'of chocolate or cocos, one tea- spoonful of buttere. Mix well and add one-halfse " When boiling drop in the marsh mallows. When done beat well and: add one teaspoonful 'of vanilla ex tract. © Pour into a buttered pan. Wher cold cut in squares. Peanut Candy. --Two cupfuls of molasses, one cupful of sugar, one cupful of water, one-half cupful off vinegar (4 small one), butter size of 'an egg' Boil until brittle, then stir in the peanuts (take the skins off first), and pour out on greased plate, Can use English walnlits or lackory fut meats. IN THE LAUNDRY. © Boil Starch.--Boil starch well to avoid sticking" when 'irdning thin dresses and shirt waists. ve a yard of 'cheesecloth ' well wet and dampen article as reqifired ; it will save both time and patience and as- sure good work. A goéd sleeve board can be made by smoothing off a piece of board and pad and cover; screw to under part. of. ironing board, where it wqill be ready ofr use. 5 2 Madras OCurtains-~When launder: ing madras curtains instead of put- ting on the stretcher try this sim- ple but practical way: Take curtain while still wet and put on the cur tain rod; also put a heavy rod os a weight in the lower hem. Hang one 4% a time at an open window and stretch the desired "width, This scheme is especially good for barred curtains, as they are Sure to be even. Lingerie Ribbons,--~ Narrow rib: bons such as are used in lingerie nay be freshened by this. method: Wash with any scented tdilet soap, ar white soap will do; rinse in sev: eral clear waters in which a bit of borax has 'ben added, and : while still wet' draw over a. dull knife 'or scissors, and they will be almost as good as new. Washing Fluids. '-- Five cents' worth of lump ammonia, five cents' of salts of tartar, one box potash. Dissolve in a gallon of cold water and keep in a jug. When washing use. one cupful with a bar of soap te a boiler of water. This recipe is fine to wash flannels int when' luke- warm. i Starch Help.--A teaspoonful of kerosene added ta starch gives a fine gloss to clothing and prevents starch from sticking while ironing, USEFUL HINTS. Scrubbing brushes should always be hung up when not Pull lace : gently, opening the mesh with the left hand as you iron pedple with the right. ar Cutting onions, turnips the Akze ih powder, ful of sweet milk. + through on the wrong side. 'the ugh ont out after the completed. Ta : To remove marks of m 'mantle take a damp cloth and 'the place marked with. the rain; work in| then take a hot iron and iron the |= mantle allover the wrong side and the marks will 'be Yemoved. ~~ = {3 When ironing box-pleated waists: & 'and the plaints are twisted together with the starching, take & stick of wood and insert in the plait is it up, and you will find the can be ironed quite readily. : = Blankets need not ibe thrown aside when they become worn and ghabby. Washed and put. togsther be in thicknesses of two or'three, covering of pretty cretonne or ity, they make very mice, quilts. : iB & Flannels should be w 5 r before they are made up into ments: The process of shrinking is yery simple--merely soak the flan. nels, first in cold; taen in and leave them in the latter for time (until the water is cold). When boiling a ham always add a tescupful of vinegar and 'six or dim- ight cloves for each' gallon of} water.' Th I the = flaver | water. They improve | wonderfully. Let the ham cool in the 'water in which it was boiled, and it will be deliciously moist and nice. Hi THe habit of playing = with the baby, making it laugh and crow to sliow off its intelligence may. delight the mother, but if repeated with any frequency is simply paving the way for a normal baby to grow up into a nervous . child. = The best treatment for baby during its first year is to attend carefully.te its physical wants and to absolutely neglect the fact that it has'a mind 'atall. . ay EERE be A PLAGUE OF BABOONS. Ate the Crops in Nigeria so Fast Natives Gave up Farming. In many parts of Nigeria, and especially among the hill regions of the northern provinces, baboon ater, | father {brother and also his g > : t ty were conatistent with the of decaying vegetables an Pecillar Relationship of an Ifallan {7 Satter fo Himself 1t is. seldom that a 'man claims to' be his own grandfather. However, that is the position of sailor who omnis years ago married a widow with one child, father fell in love with this gi married her.' Consequently r became ine Jenin daughter m a , Rpduighte 'wife gave birth a son, who, naturally, was his fa- 'ther's stepbrother and; at the same time, his own uncle, since he was his stepmother's brother. = _ In due time his father's wife also | gave birth to a whe : ndson,- as one of the greatest plagues to the i farmer and a source of menace property and even to life. tectorate officer while ' engage business in & mountaio village was! { business th informed by a local queen cs Se Lys not continue the ning owing to the raids of U3 8 | to