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8 into a pan containin #wo tablespoonfuls pork fat or but. Bor, dusk with salt and pepper, gover clowely and cook over very ow. fire tender. Increase. the eat and brown without stirring, ** adding more fat if necessary. When . nicely colored beneath fold over like an omelet and turn out on hot "platter, { ' Baked Potatocs.--Bake patatoas, sou off the tops, scoop out the in- .-side, and cream as for mashed po- tatoos, soasoning richly. | Return to the shaolls, Teaving the potato heap- Led up in the shells. Add the beat: [en white of an egg on the tops and brown a moment in the even; 'sorve hot. : Mealy Potatoes, ~To insure ¢ mealy potatoes when preparing po- tatoes to bake cut off a little pisce from each end of every potato. If S they 'ure at all inclined to be wet or fsogay, as they often are, this en- "ables tho maisture to evaporate and "insures you mealy potatoes. Potato. Muffins.--Boil four: pota- toes; mash in a bread pan, add one large tablespoon butter, three well beaten oggs, one and a half pints milk, with 2 cents' worth yeast dis- solved in it. Add flour enough for ou sponge like bread. Bet to raise, then wdd flour and knead almost as Ustift ms bread. Lec this raise. Turn out on board and cub like cookies and' leb this raise ten or fifteen minutes and bake in hot oven. Bmothered Potatoes. --For one quart of sliced or chopped raw po- © fatoes 'make a pint 'of sauce with one tablespoonful ~ of butter, two of flour, and a pint of milk. Sea- "son - with salt and peppér and mix with the potato, adding a small on- don; if dosired. Place in buttered dish, cover, and bake an hour or donger. Uncover and brown the "last twenty minutes, after spread- ing with a well beaten egp. Potatoes Raraquets.~Bake any amount of potatoes you wish; when "well dows remove from oven, let cool, when cool out in halves and remove the inside, then mix with following, mashing potatoes: One vunee butter, dash pepper, pinch salt, and half cup chopped meat {chicken is best); knead the same 84 you would dough, then roll into 8 volt about eight of. nine inches long--longer if preferred--bake ten minutes in an air tight oven: Serve cool with ferra sance. FAVORITE RECIPES. Carrot Pudding. -- One ' pound each of earrots;, currants, raisins, tatoes, suet, sugar, flour, Eng: ish walnuts; four ounces sandied lemon peel, one wineglass brandy, Little salt. Boil potatoes and oar rots until 'done; mash. The suet, sugar, and flour are mixed together, then well mixed with the pulp: then add currants, raisins; nuts; lemon ; brandy, and a little nutmeg, Steam in baking powder cans' four Hours. Serve with butter sauce. Crallers~One and one-half cup- fuls of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of! butter, one and one-half cuptuls of milk, dwo 'eggs and the yolk of an-|: other, one-half tékspooninl of gin- ger, ome-half teaspoenful of salt, 'one teaspoonful soda inthe milk, «and ome teaspoonful baking powder in the flour, one teaspoonful of va: "mills, and a little nutmeg. Out in a half inch 'wide and six inch- "fold 'together, twist and not powder with sugar un- to serve. ei) glycerin together until | will spin' a heavy thre; from the fire, and when it boils add the cream. of flavoring extract. Pour on ge buttered platter, and when suffici-| ently cool pull until Chocolate Fudg, ] 0 onpluls of granulated sugs y one cupful sweet milk, two squares bitter cho-|: colate, one-half teaspoonful butter, one teaspoonful vanilla, pinch of | salt. Boil: abont fifteen. minutes; adding vanilla: and butter after re- moving from fire. Pour upon a marble slab and stir with a pan~ cake turner until cool. Follow this récipe closely and you will always have oreamy fudge. Gingered Figs.~-Wash one pound of dried figs and remove the stems. Add cold water to cover, then add the juice and rind of one lemon and a large piece of ginger root. Btew until the figs are soft. ' Then romove them to. a dish. Measire the syrup snd add one-half as sch sugar. Bimmer until' thick, Serve with whipped créam. -------- OYSTERS. Deviled . Oysters. -- Drain the oysters, 'butter . individual' dishes, lay in each three or four oysters; dust with salt, pepper, and papri- ka, sprinkle with lemon juice, and dot. with bits of butter. Bake in hot oven till the gills begin to ruf: 0. ; Oysiers au Gratin.--In a sauce pan put one tablespoonful of but: ter, Melt, and add one tablespoon ful of flour," half = teaspoonful of salt, and a little white pepper. Mix smooth and stir in oné cupful of milk until it thickens. Add a little ancliovy sauce or Worcestershire if liked. Butter: either small 'dishes or one large 'one.' Put in « layer of sauce; then one of oysters, sal and pepper, other layer of oysters. Cover with bread crumbs, dot thickly with but- tor, and bake in a quick oven; A teaspoonful of chopped parsley and two tablespoonfuls of grated cheese added to the sauce improves it for 8Ome. Oyster. Pie.--Fill' a pudding dish with oysters. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and add bits of butter, Soak 'one cupful of bread crumbs in milk and with two well beaten eggs add to the oysters. Cover the dish with good pie crust, leaving an opening in the contre for the steam to ésoape. Bake quickly. USEFUL HINTS. Spiders will 'not come where sholves are washed with borax. Peppermint lozenges are' invala: | able to check'a cold or a elill; But they should be of the best quality, To have fluffy light pie orust; to each cup of = lard add unbeaten: white of one ogg; nse ice water; | mix same as usual. 9 To keep 'the feet warm in. gold more sauce and an-} 6 of asbestos the desired overed with drilling o bleached muslin are light ai out heat. There should be a or loop sewed to one corner fo the holder, Sy 4 on 'Japanued ware should be washed | witha sponge dampened in warm water 'and dried immediatel: a ey sloth. $ Obstinaty 8 7 quic! 8 rem y Tubbing cloth dipped thom with a woollen in a: little 'sweet oil' : Al German woman who suffered from 'neuralgia was cured by fast ing, 'and hence in hor opinion it is food and not money that is the root of all evil.' Medical anthorities are already countenanging hunger sures for different maladies. BS Many people make a great mis- take in' thinking ib necessary to koep their piano. religiously closed | ih, when it is not being played on. 0 the contrary, it ought to be always left. open; unless, of course; the piano is not to be used for some weeks, geet | Never amuse your children at the expense of other people; never al: low your children to ridicule other people: : Neglect this advice and the time. will assuredly. come when theso children will amuse | delves with your foibles and ok upon 23. If thine eye he defects in the eyesigh clouds' spiritual vision. If eo ence become 'entirely dominated by | tice evil, spiritual night will follow, and spinning. the man will not know wether hei and flax your authori ; ; When the kitchen range: looks rather bad 'and 'one has not the time. fo black it wet 4 cloth in par afin 'and 2ub 'on some Soap. over the stove with this, then ru with the usual blacking rag uni itis rather shiny, and finish off with' a newspaper. 0 t the meal were eaten slowh without pre-occupation of tne min 'and 'the stomach allowed af least half an hour's chanca to got i work well undertaken 'before the previous force is turned in another 'direction, patients suffering fromi dyspepsia would be 'comparativel few. ' rr -------- WISDOM LET LOOSE: Take things ag they are, and p ceed to make them béttor, 3 Women are as true as steel, an often as highly tempered. There is only evil 'in the go ness that makes other evil. "If you have a mouth, don't: sibilities of the 0 1 weather out a sole to the size of the | boot or shoe in thick brown and wear it. ; i Nervous people ought to cultivate the practice of sleeping after. the noon meal. A short nap at that time will strengthen the nerves.: When preparing a leg of lamb for. Jomsting: pin on thin slices of ba- con with whole cloves, and the yor of the meat will be' : To clean paper