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and As i 3 d a teaspoo: ful of orange flower water or the grated zee of half a lemon. If va- nilla is added it is usually put in the last thing ipstend of bite. Mix in 1s, part at a time, a large half-cup of dried and sifted flour, and then cut in thé stifly beaten whites of four eggs, The old test in reference to the stiffness of the beaten eggs required that they be firm enough to hold a silver piece about the size of a half dollar. Shaping and Baking.,--All sorts of fancy and plain moulds are used for lady fingers, or the paste is pressed out on to white paper from a. pastry bag, using small plain tube. There are several. sorts of biscuit molds, in block, which make cakes about the size of a lady finger, and if the time or facilities are lacking the cake may be baked in a thin sheet and cut up. . If molds are used, butter them, and then dredge with sugar. Take the paste up in a teaspoon, start at one end of the mold and draw the paste along to the other. Most of the fancy or plain oblong molds will hold just about a heaping teaspoon- ful of paste, which rises or swells from a third to a half in baking. One way to bead the top is to sprin- kle granulated sugar over it, then shake some drops of water over the sugar. Bake in a moderate or slack oven for eight or ten minutes, if cakes are of the teaspoon size. If the oven is too hot they will not bead. The true lady fingers, baked on a paper, have the form best adapted to the ornamenting of various dish- es, and so baked they can be put together with a syrup or jelly. To shape, prepare a pastry bag by sliding into it a number two tube, and then fill in the paste, closing the bag firmly and letting it lie a few minutes. Have the sheets of paper ready, take hold of the lower part of the bag, near the tube, with the left hand, holding the upper part with the right. Press with the right hand and drop the batter on the paper in a line three inches long and about half an inch wide. Leave ab least three-quarters of am inch between each. These may have granulated sugar sprinkled over them, or another way to bead the surface is to sprinkle powdered su- gar over them three times, at min- ute intervals. Shake.off superfluous sugar before baking slowly. Work together until light and smooth three-fourths of a cup of powdered sugar and four egg yolks. Add to this, a little at a time, one cup of boiling milk, stirring all the time. Put on the fire and stir to boiling point, remove from fire, fla- vor and strain. Stir frequently while cooking. This, with the same amount of cream, makes a fine ice cream. It may be used hot as a sauce, or cold, in the same way, for trifle. With the addition of gelatin and whipped cream it makes the finest of Bavarian creams, ete. Fine Butter Cream.--The finest of all butter creams; 'the smoothest, handsomest and' more wholesoms than the ordinary French butter creams, may be made by adding one-half cup of this custard, when lukewarm, to four ounces of cream- ed sweet butter, and then beating the two until light and smooth. Snow Eggs.--One way. to utilize the whites of eggs left over from making this custard is the follow- ing: Beat these whites to a stiff froth and sarelylly add to. them a good tablespoonful of powdered, su- gar for each egg. In a flat pan put enough * sweetened milk, flavored with vanilla, to poach this quantity of meringue. With a teaspoo shape globes of this in egg form, drop them in the boiling milk, turn them onc¢e or twics, trying not to break off any pieces, and after they have cooked a few minutes take them outrand drain them on a sieve. 'Berve with some of tle custard or 'make a less expensive ilk uged for nl custard 'of | Kha 'Wooden spoons and pastry boards will repay a good scrubbing with sand in preference to soap. ; Be eure to iron garments with the straight of the goods, and thus Sams. ie Do mot be annoyed by a squeaky hinge; use a little butter, lard or kerosene, and have the unpleasant noise disappear. : Lettuce will keep crisp some days if 'washed and put into a cheese cloth bag and hung where. it gets a current of cold air. To remove spots from the handles of ivory knives dip a chamois skin in water and then in_ powdered pumice and rub the spots vigor- ously. : § An expert cook says that the se- cret of roasting meats is to keep a small enameled dish, partly filled with vinegar; in the oven when roasting meat of any kind. ; Sometimes the white of an egg may be saved from waste by whip- ping it very stiff and adding it to creamed butter and confectioners' sugar for a pudding sauce. To clean plaster ornaments, such as busts or vases, dip .in clean starch mixed with water. ' When dry, brush off the starch and the polled parts will disappear. . Any upholstered furniture, whe- ther covered 'with cloth, damask or chint2, will look much the better for being cleaned occasionally with bran and flannel, Have a hook or staple in the end of the ironing board, so that it may be hung up when mot in use. There is less danger of the covering be- coming soiled if this is done. Heat your plate before putting hot pies on them when first taken from the oven. The hot pies on cool plates cause a sweat that makes saggy undercrust. When ironing circular centre- pieces, tablecloths, see that the iron moves with the straight grain of the cloth. In this way only is it possi- ble to preserves the circular edge in its true line, : Housekeepers are more or less bothered with the appeatance of ants or other insects on their closet shelves, but if these are wiped with cayenne pepper the insects will keep away, says an authority. When peeling Florida oranges set them in the oven to heat thor- oughly for a few minutes. Then, when you peel them, you will find that the tough white skin can Bs easily removed with the yellow rind. A moistened newspaper resting on dryer layers makes an excellent dust dump for either the contents of a carpet sweeper or a dustpan. Dust and scurrying lint does mot escape when a stray draft strikes ib, owing to the moistening paper hold- ig ib. : To preserve eggs.--Pour 8 quarts of boiling water on to 8 lbs. of fine lime, 1 oz. of ¢ream of tartar and % 1b. of salt." When quite cold pour this over fresh eggs, carefully ar- ranged in jars, and see that all are covered: Tie over with paper and stand on a shelf in-the larder or in a cool storehouse; mi om RAILROADS IN SOUDAN. Over 1,500 Miles Completed--Khar- tum Is a City. There are now 1,500 miles of rail- road in the; Soudan. Through the completion of the line from Wadi Halfa, in the north through the de- sert of Khartum, a distance of 580 miles, and the establishment of com- fortable express steamers on the Nile between Shellal; on the south- ern boundary of Egypt, and Wadi Halfa, it is now possible to m the journey. from Poin o Khar: tum in 'nine and a half to ten days: with a population of 90,- oe 10 of both the alc alto ot) the Sadan prevent, stretching of the bias|ihas | Noah and Lot--Many people will be Yim, ' he mentioned rly date, a y. SaW 88 yeh no signs of its gpproaching,, Adits 3 od that no confidence was to in his words. ble. No signs or sounds will an- Pe its Sri, A spiritual kin is always slow in produc- Natur ei they aay. 21. Neither yi Lo, here! or, There |--In bid: ol says that men will say these words, but their 'statement will be false. The Kingdom is not a. visible object that can be located. = : = Lo--That is, Behold! Used to bring out the contrast between the statement which follows and "that which precedes it. : The kingdom of God is within you--Or, in the midst of you, that is, "'among you," sinee the King- dom was not "within" or' 'in the hearts of' the Pharisees to whom he was' speaking." Instead of com- ing with outward signs upon a defi nite date, the Kingdom was already there in the person of Chrsit and of his disciples, Another equally per- missible interpretation of this clause takes it more literally, em- phasizing this inwardness and spiri- tual nature of the Kingdom. Bo interpreted Jesus may be regarded as stating a general principle or truth without reference to its par- ticular application to the Pharisees whom he is addressing. ¥ 22. And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man--Perhaps the Pharisees have retired, or it may be.that his words about the Kingdom bring to the mind of Jesus the years of toil and persecution awaiting' the 'disci ples. « He foresees that there will be days of bitter discouragement and tells them that they will long for a foretaste of the coming glory of the Kingdom. 'And ye shall not see it." "This glory must be Pasiently waited for. It will come, buf at the time of their discouragement and their great longing for it. One of the days of the Son of man may also be translated '"The first of the days of the Son of man." It would then mean the day of his re- turn. This may be what Jesus! meant, since the verses which fol- low refer to the second advent. 23. The disciples must not be in- duced to lea their work, nor fol- ve low after things which they might suppose would lead them to the place of the Son of man's appear- ing. No faith is to be put in the statements of those who predict ex-' act dates or places for the Lord's re-appearing, 24. The second advent will be as sudden and as generally visible as' the lightning in the heavens. No one can foresee it and all will know | it_at onee. ; 3 . 95. But first must he suffer many eratlon--In his teaching Jesus ever} guarded against the emphasisof one | feature to the exclusion of others. Thus, days of discouragement were. to be brightened by the thought of future glory, and the future glory chastened by the thought of the suf- fering which must precede it. 26-28. As in 'the days of wholly occupied with external af- fairs and their own selfish enjoy- ments, busied with the things they and unmindful of the things of eternal value. 4 yi 80. In the day that the Son of man is revealed--Note the certain- ty of the expression "is revealed." The second advent. will be simply a manifestation of the Christ, 'already invisibly present, 31. In that day © placed Not with observation--I is invisi- | things and be rejected of this gen-| must some time leave behind them, |- 0 is; 9 sizes two things: of his ; ---- pl Be "HUMAN EYES LIKE PI1G'S. ; Sa Bee 5 Lids Responsible for Variations of Oculzr Expression. - Your eyes are like a pig's, If anybody told you so you would doubtless feel insulted. And 'yet such a statement would be quite correct. Your éyes are very much like a pig's--more so, indeed, than they are like any other animal's, This is one of the most curious truths of physiology. A pig's eyes so closely resembles that of a hu- man being as to serve a very impor- tant practical purpose. Young men who aré-learning to be eye doctors are taught the rudiments of their business with the help of pigs' eyes. They dissect them and practise all sorts of operations on them, from removing a cataract to the snipping of the muscles which 'control the movements of the eyes in their or- bits. If am oculist happens to be puzzled about an operation he ex- pects to perform, he sometimes gets one or more fresh pigs' eyes from the butcher and rf experiments with them. : ne A pig's eye in a live pig's head does not look much like a human eye. Tt is amall and not very intel- ligent in expression. is dead, however, and the eye is taken out it is hardly distinguish- able from the eye of a person. Human eyes do not vary much in size, and in themselves they have no expression whatever. en it is said that a person has large eyes it means simply that the opening be- tween the lids is larger than ordi- nary. It is the lids that are wholly responsible for ocular expression, which is capable of such wonderful variation. : --_-- 'SURGEONS OF THE' DESERT. Wonderful Skill of Medical Men Among Algerian Bedouins, oN {thou ria instruments, native surgeons among. the Bedouins of the Algerian hin. terland have become so skilful that they donot hesitate to undertake: to London from. a scientific expedition 'among thése almost unknown noma- dic tribes of the desert. The ex- plorer and his wife lived among the natives and established the relations with the ruling sheiks of remote villages. They found that surgery had grown to be a et skilled profes- sion. Hylton-Simpson was lucky enough to come into contact with a friendly Arab; ysician who ar- ran re Roy fom with ight of the tribal surgeons. From them he collected a of 'interesting 900 'members is the ] | in the combination, operation betwe, When the pig An or modern Lee suard H g bi Jalnters and Jately the upper rT | his wife, has just returned Pa tavge. SOOM od. "Witn "the uders ers. x A t Smillfe, = HO Rey en will do- a A f ¢ en will be sure to rec sideration; while of ters, ) s. Social these ued, receive the t. be bination 5 Sombigh will cer i attention of 'pal 1 Vindication of a Reports . Ten years ago Henry W. Nevinson, then a rather obscure Yondon journal- ist, Investigated conditions of slavery alleged to exist in Portuguese West Africa, especially with respect to the laborers of the 'cocoa' isl nd Principe. He wrote what he HAW. aid his report. was received with ughter, then w! sneers, hey SHeniat But the. Whit recently published by the British fo- reign office proves that he understated rather than overstated the truth. It was difficult to ge! dal because e Asing this slave labor, ars of noncon: Contributors to liberal party funds. Fin- ally the Portuguese government was brought to promise to sénd home these entrapped negroes, who mnow number 38.000. "Phe recent. "White Book" shows th Slats T 1 10! 1Ses ot repatriation are m Z d that with practical una Kent, and wish to "go home." Y Caste in India Up. '. Bir George Macalpine, ur olaims of India, at the aptint Mission to-da. society's "meeting = recently, that ir 'hate was one fact clear 0! years more life, | hat ten ) | » 1» which 'if wculd no longer exist. casts gone, there' would be a great 'influx from India. into 'the Christian church. tad a > Howards _ Disco . Bir ald discoverer of the aria rastig of the mosquito, has nite the an sh parliament for a pension of $6,000 a year in the effort to 'establish the principle that there should be public rewards' for scientific discov- eries which are of such a nature that they can bring no commercial return. oy 2a el) a I Murvan vos. oney as well as ey by. the case of Jue Suez Canal company's. works at Ismalia, "which were about to be removed because so many of the wonkers were dying with malaria. Sir Ronald went fo "Egypt three times without fee. As a result of his investigations and advice e mosquitoes were removed instead of th works, and the British nation. whic! owns a ority of the canal shares, was saved far more than $56,000 a year in public revenue.' % Prepare Connaught's House. be Stee cy la .prepar or the home- uke and Duchess-of Lonna, ht. Since Howes ce ho has dally Fi pene fae ttn 'has-been an Invasion -of op on an tensive alterations to al or at the side of the house king out over the Mall and St. s's Park. Scaffolding has en Sheena and some of the windows have been removed. : 'Women Guides in Xondon. For some years an Englishwoman] i n has made a capital liv Ine 45 a: and advertisement "peared in a "wo Ranh ing ve languages" o > ace visitors of her ora hex around London. EE Noch Eas n ; on, but an 0! ola) at Thomas Cook and Son's head office did mot oie Hot he 801 £0 A. tesponden "Bt we are very rarely asked for th services." ~~ - Sr an a le other hand the Women's oi & 5 ue organizes t ": ie three working | ryt ei . believe they can} ree. better: conditions from the em-| and ands of San |. at | the ro- | the thousand-foot boat. de) ye ng imagine, | on: | 1, dimensions, it is said, will exceed those of the German Vessels now building, while the Cunard Com: pany have drawn up Iams for a ves: 2{ sel, which, it is d 4 - Why They Are Built, lin this length Jet ie nt der being carried in the , This of 56,000 reqvctiors soul no less $3,500,000 in; money, amd the company has over $1,000,000 of this is pro~ ib. pen 2 . This vessel, it, may be added, cost $8,500,000 to build, and when shel took her maiden rip represented 'the last word in shipbuilding. She has. accommodation. for 700. firgt,! 600 second; amd 900 third, wnd- 1,800 sheerage Ase ,. while her crew total 1,180, making a comple~ ment of '5,200 ls. : Beforé she came into service - 'then largest ship only carried a to- tal complement of 8,360 passen and crew. Her 62,000-h.p. tu: i sels being mere tanks. 0) take this view, | 82] ber of women Euldes cal 'Inter-| ps abroad | ti