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vo the moss Which comes for the pur- = Sm and then fit the muslin snugly ~~ sugar, one-fourth teaspoon salt, one- to have none at all, if you ¢ materials that you will require for upholtring ove stout webk ng, tacks, twine, upholster- er's needles, 'brade, a long, sharp shears and a small hammer, = Press; | out the old covers so as to take out| all wrinkles so that they will be used as patterns. If "you are using ma- terial that has a decided pattern, see Shes you get a complete unit 'of the Sign in the centre, as othe effect will be lopsided. STise Sos Ir Ar kettle, hat a good brown. Serve roatt surround- ed by browned potatoes and with brown gravy made from or h of 'pot: roast and after | po s have een ramoven. ering : Useful Hints. Raisins added to the nut salad will make it taste better, ~~ 'To roll a jelly cake 'successfully the edges should: be pared! off. Muffins, biscuits and griddle cakes are appropriate supper dishes. . has only a seat to be covered; but if : begin by fixing" the webbing in a bas- ; ket weave, pulling it as tight as you + can and nailing it down Airmly, It is best to begin with a chair that the back and arms are to be done, | Sauces: and salad dressings can al- ways be made in the morning. Rose bushes will thrirve if soap- finish them before attacking the seat, +suds and dichwater are put on them, as they are easier to manage in that way. When you get to the bottom | " leaving little space between the brads. - On| the way ifi which this foundation web- k bing is done the success of the whole work largely dépends. Then put the springs in place, stitching them stead- ily with the twine, and over them draw a piece-of the muslin and nail down to the frame. Get the thick layer of buffing in place now, using either hair into place, taking great care to get it quite smooth and fight, to prevent future wrinkling. The chair is then ready for the outside cover, but be- fore putting it on mark where the centre comes and get it squarely in place, fit smoothly, draw tightly down on the sides and tack firmly in place with the brads. Cover the raw edges with a harmonizing gimp, using small gimp tacks of the same color. It is best to experiment first with Some inexpensive material, but make sure to have it of a firm, close weave that will not drag and pull. After the first chair is done you will feel greater confidence, but do not let it tempt you to any relaxation from your first care. Selected Recipes. Frozen - Pear ' Dessert, -- Without opening, pack can of fine pears in ice and salt, as for ice cream. Let it re main three or four hours. On taking out, wipe carefully and cut open Lmiddle. If frozen very hard, towel dipped in hot water, A "will come out in perfect rounds. Slice and serve with spoon- ful of whipped cream on each slice. . Sour Cream Sauce--Yolks of two eggs, juice of one lemon, one teaspoon half cup rich, heavy sour cream, mine- ed parsley as needed. Beat yolks and sugar until = thick, add lemon juice slowly, then salt and cream. Mix well. * Serve either in sauce boat, or pour-over fish before serving. Pars- ley is sprinkled over sauce on fish, or r half cup mo- lasses,' one and one-half melted butter, one-h I one teaspoon soda, on Warm water and a good white soap can be used for cleaning almost any After an electric iron is overheated it, will require more current to /make it hot.» / I § Most: any . objectionable weed will die if it is cut off close to the ground and a little gasoline poured on the| roots. Spinach is very good if cooked until tender and then put through the col- ander. It should be dressed with drawn butter, Bread should never be kept wrap- ped in a. cloth. The cloth absorbs moisture and imparts an unpleasant taste, 4 - Stubborn marks on white paint can sometimes be removed with gasoline in which a little plaster of paris has been dissolved. A good way to keep the cellar or dairy from having an unpleasant odor is to whitewash the walls with lime that contains carbolic acid. One ounce of carbolic acid to a gallon of whitewash is the proper proportion. When stitching chiffon or any such|- material on the machine use the finest possible thread, and put a strip of thin paper under the goods and stitch them together, The paper can be torn away when the work is finished, A good silver polish is made with one-half pound of prepared chalk mix- with as much household ammonia as the chalk will absorb. Add about four tablespoonfuls of denatured al- cohol; put the mixture in a jar that 1 seal sufficiently to keep out the lust. A good substitute for stair rods): a ho a tart i e 'ear. Just : it nis power. almost # rod saway and just coast up to the curb. He saves gas, tires and his car all at once. An- Es other man will drive right up to the TWh a izing at not know 'as 'much as he y. ted: to know a reali 3 A . t came hornie to him each day as he sat at his editorial desk, he ind went to Paris toibecome an art student. 4B in the famous Latin Quarter at night and spent the days in Colarossi's Atelier. Then he went to Italy and Algiers, Japan and China, by many other countries. ; r he .one day, an official position was offered him by the Canadian Pacific Railway. At the age of forty-one he has achieved distinction as a practical rallroad man, despite all those years of preparation that were spent in pur- suits so popularly believed to unfit a man for the practical life. The busiest men are the ones who find the most time. In the past two years, John Murray Gibbon has been attending to 'his railroad duties with one hand, and with the other hand has been writing a novel, which has ' Just been Issued by the famous publishing house of John Lane in England and 8. B. Gundy in Toronto, - - "Hearts and Faces" is the story of an artist it treats of the artistic temperament as it sallies forth into the warmer world from the somewhat unpromising environment of Scotland. George Grange Is found amid rather commonplace surroundings in the first fev lines of the novel. There his character, or at least the foundation for his charactdr, Is being formed. He never escapes from this environment, because he carries {ts effect with him wherever he goes. Delightfully true pictures of Scottish Ideals are sketched in the earlier chapters, and then with the first fling at the biting satire which frequently flluminates subsequent pages, George Grange throws aside his university . studies. ' He longs for freedom and life, and falling in with a lovable old character, a Scottish painter, he also learns to paint. He goes to London in the great quest of success and gradually climbs the ladder discouraging and diligent toil, ontil a committee waits upon him and offérs him a commission to paint a portrait of the king for a fashion- able club. Gibbon draws a steady and grim picture of the intriguing London society folk--whom he knows well enough--and occasionally he pays his respects to the American "climbers" in the smart set. There is no venom in his satire of his own people, nor of the foreigners, but he paints portraits in words that are carefully chosen and forceful. His hero is thrown into this pulsating, human pot pourri, and "keep his skirts clean" up to the great moment of his life, when he falls a victim of a designing woman and loses all. Again Scotch pluck to the rescue, however, and he to Paris, where many of the scenes are doubtless somewhat autobiographical. It is the Latin Quarter life of reality. Not that musical comedy version which we too often mistake for the reality, and not even that fascinating life sketched so in- delibly by Henri Morger, which did more to popularize "Latin Quarter life" than any of the pictures ever painted there. But life on the banks of the Seine, as It is lived by the students of art and the girls who know no other world. * Sometimes these pictures are gay, sometimes sordid; but they are never vulgar, Through them move many characters with whom the reader has become acquainted in the earlier chapters. . Amid these stenes, as in London, and later tn Germany and Italy, George Grange moves as the most important figure. It Is the adventure of a soul. And each adventure Is traced with a canny knowledge of life as it is, rather than as many writers would like to believe it should be. And it was written by a raflroad man! Still, there are enough examples of versatility in the art world to prove that such an achievement is possible. A merchant of Russia composed music that is now sung In the opera houses of the world. It does not lessen Padirewski's ability as a pianist because he {s a hote] keeper in 'Warsaw. John Alden Carpenter, of Chicago, is a "busi- ness man," yet he composed "Adventures in a Perambulator," which caused the staid musio critics of the country to prick up their ears In the last two years, Caesar Franck was a school-teacher, even when he was writing his when brass ones cannot be afforded is this: Buy rome thin canes which can be 'purchased cheap, cut off the bent part and shorten them to the! length required; then paint sach piece with brown paint. Wheh fastened with staples _these rods look tidy and wear quite a- long time, thus saving exs pense and labor in cleaning, So ix fic ) Appliances Ha "5 Nai After Them. echa 3 his work upon a jor bi nd he punches or it by a convenient bear. Hoist- i by a crab, a convenient of the outfit of a shop a kit of tools is ever at lift it; a machi which' a donkey-en _ | civilian's life a misery, have often] e Been | helps to straighten work, br mule pulley helps to, , most | symph LIFE-SAVING A CRIME. he wanted, so he rejoined with a vol- ley of insulting expressions Sencar ing the Kticer. That did the trick, German Authorities. hoo. he was rewarded with asentence The weird and wonderful laws of which kept him in "quod" very nicely Gtrmany, which render the simple | till the spring. rv Amazing Punishment Inflicted by AAR been dilated on, but the most amazing' HAVE A BANANA ? of all punishments inflicted by the au-| . | -- ihoritieal of the Fatherland has yef *°/ It Is As Much the Fruit of the Poor as the Rich. | The banana curiosities of the vegetable kingdom. One cannot €all it atree, a bush, a shrub, a herb, or a vegetable, but a herbaceous plant with the status of a tree. Though there is no woody fibre in any-part of its structure, it sometimes grows as tall bunches 'of trait 'are so prolific that they are often heavier than the stalk , that supports them. Of all fruits, the banana yields most food per acre. It yields forty times more by weight ethan Apfel, ant ea 188 It is immpne from diséase of any sort, and no insect wil attack Nervous people often reject bananas that have become brown and mushy, fearing microbes. But si A is n , | i eat as b-! soon as : (The by all Lo gid color, tland remains fit no matter how black it may be, so long as the skin is un- broken; for until the latter ccours, there can be no admission of air and S| no decomposition. | | "This offence was committed in a town in Alsace, where a schoolmast-| er, who Had caught cramp while bath- ing, was rescued, by an onlool "~, at the risk of his life, The German au- thorities decided' that the rescuer had committed ithe unpardonable : offefice of bathing in a prohibited place; and D fh § a married ? at you do wR BD » be taken to take the turns curb and then jam: on his. brakes. His car will slide several feet anc {in .that one time he put more wea: 'and gtrain on his rear tires than a mile's ordinary driving. x The matter of starting the car is another important feature, if long wear is to be obtained from the tires. Always start away from the curb slowly. Just ease in the clutch anc glide away. In this way the back wheels do not revolve uselessly two or three turns and grind the rubber tread off your rear tires. Sudder starting and stopping is not only hard on tices, but it is bad for the whole car. In going around corners care should 1 asily and smoothly, and slow down before get- oes this is tire Sompahies, though may ze it. os BL of wn? be kept filled with some good t filler. This will keep out water 'oil, two of the worst enemids fabric, and put hundreds of = miles on every casing. Oil will ruin an inner tube in a week. Don't throw the extra inner tubes in promiscuous- ly with the spare tools and oil can. Wrap them carefully in cloth, or. better still get a couple of a good strong cloth bags for them. But the real big rule of all is, keep the tires blown up to the proper pressure re- commended by the maker A pressure gauge that is accurate should be used. If motorists would observe these few simple rules and occasionally read some of the literature published by the tire compapies, they would find that their tires would last them a whole lot longer and that most of their tire 'troubtles that have been taking the fun out of their trips. would disappear for good. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON. MAY 28. The Council At Jerusalem.--Acts 15. 1-35. Golden Text, Gal. 5. 1. but they were in the Law, and we must not expect from men whose spiritual growth had been quiet and normal the complete emancipation which a cataclysm had produced in Paul. Finally note that the Decree concerns those regions only through which~communication with Judea was regular and free. . % 29. Things sacrificed--1 Cor, 10. 26, shows us that méat from a sacrificed animal was likely to be of- is one of the great' testimony as, to their devotion, and iE Verse 22. Elders--The term was fered to anybody who went to market taken over from the Jewish church, It or a dinner. Paul treats this with is found as a name of a religious of-| indifference: he fears no demons, and fice in pagan Egypt, as well as for only cares about not hurting timid secular officials. But it does not seem' consciences. But Jewish Christians to have lost-its original connotation of | like the author of Rev. 2. 14, 15 clear- age (compare the name Senate), for, ly retained the old horror, though they in I. Pet. b. b it is contrasted with the' would not give the same reason for it. "younger," The word presbyter, com-| Blood--The Jews still adopt special ing 'into our language through French,| methods of slaughtering for food, 'to took the form priest, which usage at-| drain all the blood away. Things tached to sacerdotal functions. Some strangled--The idea was that the of the most important officers in the| stopping of the breath retained with- Presbyterian Church are known as in the body all kinds of perilous influ- elders. Bar-Sabbas--Another - un-| ences. It was, moreover, a method known prophet (compare Lesson Text of killing which retained the blood Studies for May 7, verse 1). Silas-- | Fornication--It is a good illustration Paul's later companion. His name is| of the way in which nonmoral taboos wroungly regarded as a contracted| worked out moral reforms. There form of Silvanus, by which he is] are many examples of this working of known from 1 Thess. 1. 1 and elie.) primitive religion in J. G. Frazer's where. The latter is really a simi-| lectures, "Psyche's Task." lar-sounding Roman name chosen like| 31. Consolation (margin, exhorta- Paul as an alternative to Saul. We tion), or better, encouragement. The cannot, however, explain why the Ara-| verb in verse 82 is the same. maic form is used in the narrative of| 32. Confirmed--We can hardly ex- cts. Chief men--Or leaders. = The| aggerate the effect of such lighten = became later on a technical name! ed instruction on tht minds of men for church officers, like leader in Who had been haunted by a great un- Methodism: see Heb. 18. 17 (rendered easiness since Jews had told them of otherwise). {a God-given Law without which they 28. With the rendering in the text, could not be saved. Even Paul could brethren, unto the breatren, we have, NOt altogether allay it. But Judas an attractive collection of like terms; ard Silas, coming officially from Jeru- but the margin, the elder brethren, is| salem with the judgment of the per. better. Antioch, Syria, Cilicia--Not- sonal disciples of Je:us, could set all ice how restricted in local range is| their doubts at rest and so "strength- this Apostolic Decree. It was meant en" their faith. for the special conditions of the coun-| try between Antoich and Tarsus.| Paul's letters never suggect that his| addresses knewy of it. Thus there is| 4 3 A no abstinence 'from "flesh offered to A British Sailor Saved From Four idols" enjoyed upon the Corinthians, | Notable Shipwrecks. unless for the sake of a "weak broth- er's" conscience. 24. Troubled--A much stronger word than the English. Thus in John | mera cris cram iii A SECOND JONAH. a The proverbial cat with nine lives cannot claim more honors than one Charles Dunn, a seaman; though while the former is regarded as a charm refused to oblige him to the extent 14 1. 12, 27, etc., dismay would come against evil, the latter is not looked nearer the meaning. | Unemphatic Your souls-- upon as a mascob to the ships he fav- according to Semitic' ors. idiom, and meaning little more than A recent case brought by the Ad- you. To whom we gave no command- | miralty against Dunn Liverpool for | ment--The church repudiates them as failing to join his transport disclosed i no repre-entatives of the Jerusalem the fact that the sailor had been in | brethren in any sense. four notable shipwrecks, and though 26. Having come--The unanimous others had suffered a watery grave, { vote was a very wonderful thing, for he had come up smiling on each occa- both parties gave up a great deal sion. Both the ill-fated Titanic and | Note how they indorse the teaching of the Empress of Ireland carried Dunn | Barnabas cand Paul with the emphati on their last voyages, and he also served on the Lusitania and Florizan then appoint actual members of their, When they were torpedoed, own number to enforce the same Charles Dunn, 'consequently, is teaching. There is no half-hearted-| shunned like the plague by the super- ness here. | stitious sailors, who have on gota | : . | sions flatly refused to sail with him, ort a aie ukes and his luck in this connection has 'he made no distinction between Sir. Prved Wis. greatest misfortune) : Samited | # iF Mucire er A remarkable coincidence that bears {but they only meant that their deci.|°u¢ ® sailor superstition occurred | sion was & registration of one which Some While ago at Belfast. A firm i they clearly' saw: to have been al. PUilt a ship, that leff Belfa Lough, Je : {and as. Subdegignily_ = For such was indeed the keeping of the | 3¢ON ,bearing the same name Naw, as h was iden the Je red in Suffered the same fate. Th Builders TIL Eh fo eS ll 'answer seems to be that all four were alec, id [to the Jéw taboos pure and, cimple, The pn ately left fhe Lough due to a lonig-establi-hed belief that|®nd has never been heard of since. Rewonié perils attended fhe iE gitke lai ad exual impurity was not banned for! RT moral reasons, but just because jt in- | 'I tell you, Il be master : of my {vo ved the same demonic activity as house when I'm a man." said :Httl | eating the flesh of an animal impro- : 8 perly killed. The aDatiench from 'thought when he was your age, Ben. the 6 taboos was a nheces-ary condi-;fie;" replied the boy's mother. BP... tion to be observed by Gentle Chi | bors Ce 1 ei tians if they were to eat with Jewish She "That's ull very pretty, Chiristians--they would 'otherwise be|but do you think we can live on love infected, as it were. It surprises wo|and kisses?" He--"It's much the that Jews who: had wecsived Christ safest--everything nse is. A Alterated. or poisoned, or: tains thould not have outgrown such taboos; & ennie. "That's. what your. 'fathor . | =