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. 3 fry ve bl i with the meat, and 1 . selves, have a fried et a vegetable and a baked 'dessert, per- haps. i 3 . One of the difficult points for the young 'is to _co-ordin- ate her cooking and to serve the dif- ferent portions of the méal complete-| ly done at the same time. ' The reason this is usually hard is beeause she has to. estimate the different Sime'for dif- ferent cooking methods. Jon the other -hand, she' follows the same method at the same meal, she could accomplish her work with less effort. We do mot mean that this done every day, but "eooking is 'easier ook | ly. "Melt four tablespoons butter, add two 'seasoning with salt,' "Add cel- be "| The War is Helping Many Half-for- xed with 3 salt keeps its water| | r for| "We'll have to stop every financial leak if we want t6 win " ¥ . Father Bull: Jack Canuck: = "Leave it to me. I'll put another million acres under wheat." Father Bull: "That is mere patchwork, my boy. Why not stop your forests ~~ from burning down? These acres of splendid timber ab your door re- present the easiest money you can ever lay your hands on." Newspaper Nobte:--"The Canadian Forestry Association makes the state- ment that if Canada would take the simple measures to stop the plague of forest fires, the timber saved would on the last Dominion loan of $100,000,000." pay the annual interest THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, ~ MARCH 19. Lesson XIL--Philip and the Ethiop- ian, Acts 8. 26-40. .Golden Text: Acts 8. 30. Verse 26. An angel--~The manner of the divine monition is not explain- ed. If we kfiow the plain prose of the event we might say it was only strange coincidence, . Luke is gotten Village Industries. me WHE T oF i: - ; ts being taken "One curious result of the war has ag nly Lord's doing. Philip. One of been to revive some of the ancient, the seven, as Acts 21. 8 makes fairly half forgotten English village indus- sertain, and not the apostle. Desert, es, © 3 ._|and therefore so absurd a place for Flint-knapping, for instance, which an evangelist to travel in that the be heen) ed on at Biandop, an Taonition or impulse can only be di- Juffol or many generations, an ne. . which almost received its death-blow . 27. A eunuch, and as such exclud- --but not quite--when the old flint- {oq prom the congregation of Israel by Tock ge ag ded ¥ bebe the law. He could hardly have been Sven & Sremaudoug filllp swine: to the us Tag, Was demand for flints for tinder-boxes by yw. ] 0 ont Egypt shows us how Greek was spoken the men at the on hich was in those distant regions--and in its ' Shar ha oal-bus Suing, Sgain, ar hin pages he would come as near as he weald hundreds of years ago before ould he re God as. the wo coal was thought of may now be een | oon implies. Since Greek MSS full swing there once again, the imp es. . rh Office el TE Tat ordered Vere written without division of words Ice sapien th trans J, Pc tuton, ening leu was the Charcoal makes an ideal fuel for this y e 5 shiny Yotag smokeless, and giving and it became a habit. The prophet ' $ 3 . ee ese FERRETS ARE BOOMING. Isaiah--The book that bore his name. 5 "higd Chapter 53 lies, in fact, within the of great section that was written a cen- tury and a half after Israel's time. n-| 80. Understandeth--The verb Green oak Io "must that of which readest is a compound, and those are all cut to the Dut it is hardly possible to reproduce same size, and stacked together in, in. English the play upon words. such a way as to form a low, conical-| (Such plays wére very common in -shaped heap. os Greek, and had none of the light as- This is then covered with freshly-' sociations * our plays upon words cut turf, and set. fire to; but it needs CITY.) | y constant watching and attention, for! 31. How cin I--The history of the if combustion proceeds too quickly interpretation of Isa. 58 is a comment- e smouldering pile may burst into ary on the question. me, when the resultant product will | . 32. The quotation is from a very im- 'not charcoal, but ashes. perfect translation, so 'that we must proper care be exercised, study the Revised Version of the or- "process is complete in iginal,or some modern commentary to ; after which the realize what the prophet meant. Of ! t to cool for a few days course detailed mistranslations do not being opened. "i {affect the general sense. The "ser- breeding of ferrets has been a vant of Jehovah™ in this great pro- in England almost phecy was Israel to begin with. Com- immemorial; but the Io pare the scathing denunciation of his le creatu infirmity in Isa. 42. 1812. But as € phet contemplates the work for has called Israel, he ideal- nm till at last his' is} that on this occasion the~preacher's text was chosen for him. 86. A certain water--The gospel preaching regularly began with the baptism of John (Actsl. 22), as our oldest gospel still shows (Mark 1. 4). This preparatory doctrine of cleans- ing, vividly presented in acted parable by baptism, was preached by the apostles as the necessary precursor of spiritual baptism, with "Holy spirit and fire." The eunuch has accordingly learned that he must break with his past and make open confession of his new Master. An interesting and an- cient interpolation (verse 37) gives us Philip's reply and the eunuch's brief, but sufficient creed, "Jesus Christ is Lord." 89. The manner of Philip's disap- pearance is not explained any more than the outward form of God's mes- sage to him. The main thought seems to be that Philip's work is done and the preacher--like every true preacher--is thankful to efface him- self .and leave the happy soul alone with its newyfound joy. 40. Azotus--The Philistine city of Ashdod, where evangelist finds new wark to do. In Caesarea he seems to have settled (Acts 21, 8), apd found enough to do for many years. four daughters were also preachers; they fortunately lived in a place where the public ministry of women raised no scandal such as forced Paul to dis- countenance it in many churches. ---- IRELAND IS PROSPEROUS. Never so Much Money There as at Present. a sphere of service where there was St. Dunstan's Hostel has been estab- lished at an expenditure of thousands of pounds, all voluntary contributions, to care for,the blind soldiers and sailors, of whom they some time ago had 148, among them several Cana- dians. This is now the centre of hope for the helpless. They are taught the Braille system of reading, steno- graphy, gardening, mat and shoemak- ing and carpentry, In Canada it used to be thought that the only trades the | blind could learn were basket, broom | and brush making, and a hundred! years' experience have shown it im- possible for him to thus support him- self, because of the competition and the centralization o. labor in these lines. Bub now under better methods the blind can undertake mental work | and enjoy the proper pride of being self-supporting, at stenography, real estate, law or medicine. Mr. C. Ar- thus Pearson, the magazine writer, is | best heart and lung specialist in the! United States, a blind man, 'took the full course and graduated with a class of men who had their sight. He is the author of an excellent texb book, accepted as an authority even! in Canada. Many surgeons will not! it. Mr. -Malloy, a blind graduate of blind, Dr. Babcock of Chicago, the | 4 operate unless he has recommended |; Queen's College, is now a Professor of English. Sir Frederick Fraser, the | blind principal of the School for the | Blind in Halifax, is a strong opponent of the indiscriminate teaching of! trades to the blind adult, and his | former training and profession enable | him to do good work in many lines; impossible to one who has never had sight. This institution in Halifax is one of -the finest in all Canada, and in all these there is almost no ac- | commodation and no way of instruct- ing blind soldiers. Ontario has a school in Brantford, but its system deals only with those of from seven to twenty-one years. Montreal has the Mackay Institute for Deaf and Blind, the Nazareth In- stitute in charge of the Grey Nuns, and the Montreal Institute, which has a literary school and a broom- shop, where they now have in addi- tion to their 16 inmates, 4 blind sol- There never was so much money in Ireland as there is at present. The annual meetings. maintained their dividends and showed increased profits. £10,000,000 ($50,000,000) was is as much money in the banks as ever. Several of the Irish banks ment passed in 1845 to issue land by the issue of one pound treas- ury notes did not: exist in Ireland, where the one pound note is an established feature of the currency. But as the act provides that money shall be held as: cover against all inotes issued in excess of the amounts general prosperity of the country was the theme of the speeches of the | chairman of all the leading banks, which have just held their 'semi-| The banks all] all! Roughly, ib may be said that though | sub- | scribed in Ireland to war loans there | | uncertainty that is harder for have | returned soldiers than facing the Ger- authority under an act of Parlia- notes, | and at the beginning of the war the crisis which had to be met in Eag-! | Library a 'whole floér has been set diers. The Halifax school will take as many soldiers as possible, if it can be done without interfering with pre- sent arrangements and system. The Government is working on the problem of how to prepare these men to be self-supporting, but if people had realized the great need and help had been given six years ago when it was urgently asked for by the Cana- dian Free Library for the Blind there would not now be the heart breaking the man forces. Ontario is the only Province that makes the education of the-blind cofn- pulsory. A law was passed two years ago compelling parents to educate a child either at home or at a school. The only public moneys given to- ward the education of the blind in Canada are Manitoba, $200; Alberta (through the kindly work of Mrs. Mc- Clung), several hundred; Ontario likewise gives a grant, ~ All" other funds are given by private subserip- tions. In the West Toronto Free apart for the blind, with a splendid tly | library, to which the Govznment gives a grant of $800, the best of its kind in America, aid facilities for a class in Braille and in typewriting, are to be commenced. fe y ; and France ex- Denmark, Russia 'hibit co-operation between state and | private assistance for work for the HYSTERIA AMONG GERMANS. Nervous Strain Causes "Nerves" and Insanity in the Army. In the latest German newspapers {and medical journals there are cir- cumstantial statements about Ger- ,many's nervous strain in the war. Apparently 'the increase of hysteria and insanity has been far greater than most people imagine. A article in the Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift is by Dr. Meyer, a surgeon back from the front, and des- cribes the nerve shattered effects of high explosives on the typical Ger- man recruit. "We mnst allow," says this medi. cal authority, "that the new offensive in the west and the poor quality of our recruits have brought with them an increase of hysteria™ It appears from other commurications that it has been necessary to have special wards in hospitals for the growing class of demented soldiers and mer- vous breakdowns. Evidently this subject presses more and more upon the public mind of Germany as the WAr wears on. Everywhere the press and the medical authorities, though : carefully censored, go sur- prisingly far in laying bare the less theatrical side of war. The follow- ing passage fram an article by Pro- fessor Gaupp is well worth quoting: "There are plenty of men," writes the German expert, "men otherwise cnergetic and normal, whose ner vous systems are not equal to the strain and harship of moders war- fare. The temper of their seals is not proof against the danger, cru- elty and terror." The professor has coined - a word, "granatkontusionen™ to describe the effect of an exploding Without causing a single ex- ternal wound it produces a shock, a concussion of the brain and spine. which often leaves men UNCOUSCIOUS ' for hours and even days. When they are awakened they ave often deaf and dumb and demented, or they mre delirions and rave over their experi ences. This is" the "kriepshystorie™ or war hysteria. FEA | Re SR © How Deptford Finances War. don, has. grown tired of flag-days, ba- Ere os other tions of colieting