TESTED RECIPES. Angel Pudding--One pound of Eng- lish walnuts, seven ounces of powdered sugar, three teaspoons baking powder, rnixed with sugar, nine ounces dates, whites of five eggs, well beaten. Break walnuts fine and cut dates in small pieces, add sugar and whites of eggs last. Bake in moderate oven twenty to thirty minutes. Serve with whipped - cream, Currant Marmalade.--Six pounds of currants, six oranges, one and one-half pounds seediess raisins, five pounds gerry sugar, Cut the oranges in fine pieces, being careful to remove the seeds. Mix fruit with sugar and cook forty minutes, Put in pint jars or jelly glasses. Hot Potato Salad.--Boil seven or eight latoes and use before they are cold, Chop half an onion and put into 4 pan with enough water to cover the bottom. Season with pepper and salt, cooking add- three them, serving hot. Sponge Cake.--Sif{t one level measur- ing cup of flour four times on néws- aper and set aside. Sift one and one- fourth cups of granulated sugar four times and set aside. Parlly beat the whiles of six eggs and add one-half .tea- spoon of cream of tartar and beat stiff, gradually beating in the sugar. Cream the six yolks and beat in one teaspoon of vanilla and one-half teaspoon of almond extract, gradually folding in the flour. Bake from thirty-five to forty minutes in a pan with chimney in a slow oven. Cracker Pudding.--One cup cracker crumbs, one pint milk, yolks of two eggs beaten with milk, one teaspoon sugar, om; teaspoon lemon extract, three table- spoonfuls cocoanut; bake ten minutes, take Out, put on top the whites of eggs beat in one cup sugar, gne teaspoon lemon extract; keep in oven long enough to brown. Tiptop Gingerbread. -- One-half cup butter, one-half cup sugar, one-half cup molasses, one-half cup sour milk or cold water, one and one-half cups flour, two eggs, not beaten; one tablespoon gin- * ger, one teaspoon soda. The secret of having it light and tender is in beating Me a and molasses together thor- oughly and in not beating the eggs. Add molasses and soda before the flour. Preserved Pears.--Pare the fruit with a silver knife and drop into a bow) of eold water to preserve the color, When al! are. pared, put into a pan of clear, -cold water, and boil until almost tender. Make a syrup of the water in which the pears were boiled, allowing one pound ol sugar to each half-pint of water, Drop the pears into the syrup and cook them slowly until they can be pierced with a iver fork. Put the fruit in hot jars and with the boiling syrup, Seal tightly. Calla Lily Cakes.--Make an ordinary sponge cake; drop baller by spoonfuls . on buttered, Paper lined, tin pan. Allow room for cakes to expand slightly while baking. Put into slow_oven, letting them just bake through ; when baked too long the cakes will break when made into lilies. Fold cakes while hot into cornu- copias, fastening with toothpicks or string until quile cold. Removo strings or pieks; lay on pretty dish; fill with whipped cream, flacing a strip of a to imitate fhe stamen. Garnish ith lily leaves and serve. Boneless Birds.--Grind a pound of lean beef slew, together with one large onion, through meat grinder five Umes. Season with salt, pepper, a little ginger, pinch allspice, sprinkle of ground nut- meg. Pound well on both sides two thin slices of round steak, and cut as mearly as possible into threeinch Squares. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and cover with thin strips of fat pork. Put a spoonful of the ground meat on each square, fold, and faslen edges to-| ro gether with toothpicks. Fry to a rich brown in hot butler and drippings; lilt them out and stir in flour to make enough gravy, aboul lwo tablespoonfuls. " Add hot stock, and. if necessary, some bat water. Put back birds, which should bs covered by the gravy, and cook forty- five minules. When ready to serve, pull out toolhpicks, arrange on hot platter, garnish with greens, ard serve gravy separately. Fudge Cake.--One cup sugar; two- thirds cup butter; three eggs, one cup milk, two and one-half cups flour, two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one-quarter cup of chocolate, one-half Engtish walnuts, broken up coarsely; cream the butler and sugar together, add the cur of milk, and stir in lightly the flour, into which the bak- ing powder has been sifted. Stir in the Mother's Ear 4 WORD IF MOTHER'S GAR: WHER NURSING AN IRPANT, AND If THE MONTHS THAT COME BEFORE THAT Ting, SCOTT'S EMULSION SUPPLIES THE EXTRA BTRERGTH AND ROURIGHMENT SO NECEGGARY FOR THE HEALTH OF BOTH-MOTHER 4nd CHILD. Send for free sample. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, 'oronto, . Ontaris, sec. and $1.00; all druggists. yolks. separately. : Fudge Frosting.--One tablespoonfuls of butter, dered cocoa, one and one-half one-half cup arter ioner's: sugar, & pinch of} milk, one tea- ti Pour over cake to depth of one-quarter inch. USEFUL HINTS. -Remove Stopper from Bottle --Také a thin piece of wire, loop it, and insert loop into bottle.. Get the cork in the loop and you can draw it out easily. Moth Preventives.--The essential oil of cloves, cedar, and cinnamon are sure preventives against moths or bugs. Protect Quilt Edges.--Baste a width of calico or cheése cloth across the top of quilts, likea binding. When soiled rip off, wash, sew on again, and your quilts always look like new. Slocking Saver.--Sew pieces of cloth inside the legs of children's stockings, Have the pieces extend well over the knee, as this will keep the knees from wearing "out and also will serve as a firmer hold for the elastic. nne Bed Cover.--Durin weather, when 60 much dust blows into ths room, a cover of figured cretonne, made large enough to cover the bed and pillows, is useful. It can be of colors to harmonize with the color scheme of the room. It not only protects the bed frm dust but is ornamental as well. I! will save the laundering of bedspreads and shams, "Sure Cure" for Ants.--Put one table- spon of water and one of paregoric in a small saucer on the cupboard shelves, or any place infested by the ants. They avill leave. Strips of blotting paper satu- rated with the paregoric placed on the refrigerator shelves will exterminale the little red ants. ; : To Drive Away Mosquitoes.--Pul a piece of beef on a plate near your bed and you will sleep untroubled. The morning finds them full and stupid. Mend Lace Curtains.--Take a strip of net or the good parts of an old curtain. Dip curtains into hot starch and .apply these parts to the worn places and they will adhere. Time Saver.--Keep on each floor of a house, duster, dustpan and broom. Short-stemmed Flowers.--To arrange short-stemmed flowers, such as violets, pansies, and small English daisies, cul a piece of wire screen to fit top of vase. Fill vase with water, pul on screen, and arrange flowers and leaves with slems through mesh of screen. Bath Towels--When bound on the edges with firm tape 'théy will not pull or strain along the sides as they other- wise would do. Cars of Silver.--Never let silver be near rubber of any 'kind, as it will mark it badly. Hanging Curtains.--To prevent cur- tains from tearing when pufling on a rod, place a piece of thin cloth over the end of rod. The curtain will slip along smoothly, saving much fime and pa- lience. Mend Broken Crockery.--When a plate or dish is broken in two, bind together with strips of soft cloth, cover with skim milk and boil four hours. It will be as good as new, and can be used in either hot or cold water ever after, Burglar-Proof Window Fastener.-- Where the sash of the upper and lower g the hot/fg 'Writer in London Daily Mail Tells How Companies Treat the Insured, Every year enormous amounts are paid by the' British public as premi- ums for the insurance of their houses joods against. the risks of fire. ere is not a single householder in this country who can tell me how 'nuch he would be able to get out of {ie company which insures him if his Ecuse was completely burnt out and his goods were totally destroyed, says 'A. M. Barrington in Mail. And the reagon-of this lies in the absurd fact that, although I, as a house- 'holder, pay a fixed annual premium on a fixed insurable amount to protect me from the risks of fire, the company Will not pay me that fixed insurable amount, even though all my are last. Although the company cheerful- ly scoops in the premiunis on £1,000 cr £5,000--premiums, mind you, ip Strict proportion -,to the insurable mount--it is under no obligation to pay that amount, and in practice it fever does, : WHAT COMES OFF. It is only when the fire Nas come and destroyed all his goods-fhat the house- 'bolder finds this out, Then, when he claims the £1,000 or whatever the sum may be on which he has paid his pre- miums, he is met, for the first time, by a demand for proof as to what goods 'vere burnt and whether they were worth that sum. He is required to produce an inven- 'ory comprising every article, to give evidence of their value to show ac- 'ccunts and receipts concerning the articles he has bought, to prove that they are all his and not belonging to is servants or his friends, and then, when he has done all this, he is told that he has not allowed for deprecia- ticn, and that 20 or 30 or even more fer cent. must como off his claim on that head alone, A HEAVY LOSER. The result is that, while fire insur- ance as at present arranged acts well enough on partial and inconsiderable Iesses, when a total, or practically a fatal, loss occurs, the unfortunate tcuscholder is a heavy loser. In ad- dition % the mental trouble, such us complete destruction of his home brings on him, he is compelled within 'a very short time fo renaer all these innum- erable-particulafs, and eventually, to escape the anxieties and expense of a lawsuit, to. accept practically what the insurance Company determines to give him. And this is why I say that the lime 'nes come for a drastic reform of the tire insurance system--for it is the sys- tem and not any individual company r group of companies against which I now protest; and that the public should freceive, wilhout question, the full fmount on which they have annually paid a proportionate premium, direct- jy they have satisfied the company that fhe fire has taken place under. bona de circumstanoes and thatthe loss tias been as complete as they claim it windows meet, drill a hole with a brace} {o be and bit deep enough to go completely through the sash of the lower window and half way through the sash of the upper window. Insert a heavy nail or small spiko of the same length as the hole which you have drilled. This fas- tens the window together so firmly that nothing short of a crowbar, with its at tendent noise, can pry them apart. The nail is removed only to open the win- dows. : ° + PITH, POINT AND PATHOS. Happiness is sweetest if ils light shines through a mist of tears and sor- Ww. A mistake is something that is recog- nized last of all by the fellow who made it. The value of anything you are buying is determined by how badly you want it. Love is a continuous succession of fond farewells and joyous greetings that follow. Respect for office often falls off when there is no way fet the office to effect you. The value of a fact depends largely upon what it is you happen to be trying te prove. One essential of success in this world is the ability to make your work please your boss. | It is as haru for the average man to altend to his own business as te let another man's alone, The hardest thing to learn for most men is that {hey are not absolutely essential to this (world. Your wife is a person who Knows the difference between your characler and your reputation. It-is mighty mean to send a penniless man a booklet descriptive of ideal places to spend the summer. The best proof of the existence of a strong imagination' in women is that they fall in love with men. it must make a monkey. mighty happy to hear certain-people denying the Dar- winian theory of evolution. io man ever got very far-if he-kept thinking of the journey rather than the goal at the end thereof. When you are making the excuse it sounds a lot more satisfactory than when some one is making it to you,. _UNSATISFACTORY SYSTEM. That is say, on a total loss we want a "valued policy'--a policy which val- mes our goods (after inspection by the company). at a fixed sum, and gives us a right fo that sum on the proof 'o! the \. At present one loses heavily under the most unsalisfactory. system in wcgue, and as there is nothing like a concrete case' to illustrale the working of a system, I will give my own un- Yorlunate experience of my heavy loss 'by fire, although [ had thought I was "fully insured against its risks. CASE IN POINT. Some fifteen years ago I insured my furniture for the sum of £1,200, and fever since then I had paid the annual premium proportionate to that amount. Six months since a fire broke oul in 0 the middle of the night, and practically all my furniture and effects were de- stroyed before the local fire brigade had 'got the fire under what they called "control." Thereupon I sent in my ciaim for £1,206, with such general de- Nails as I could compile within the fort- 'night allowed to me by the terms of the policy. Then the trouble began. I was ce- quired by the company to sect out each article that I had lost, to place against §t its value at the lime of the fire, and 4a preduce accounts and vouchers in connection with these articles. impossible for me to do any of these Ahings properly. RACKED THEIR BRAINS. My wife and I racked our brains to. the pitch of torment to compile a list 4vhich probably Jeft out a hundred ar- \icles--most of them small, I do not Moubt. 'ered we could in some inslances gauge, 'bul in many instances we could not. We could only draw "bows at a ven- "ure," and we had to be very careful not to be too venturesome, for we had efore us a warning in large type thal fin the case of a Claim keing so exag- lverated as !o be considered fraudu- fent, all benefit under the policy would ce forfeited. ' Finally, as to accounts: and vouch- as London Daily | books It was: The value of those we remem-' we these had disappeared in the fire which | had overw helmed our home. 'DEDUCTIONS MADE. The upshot of the whole matter was prin tind £10 apiece) because they had not 'been expressly mentioned in the policy; for the same reason would not two fcr several valuable family. portraits in ils, on the ground that they were not 'absolutely mine, but were held in trust; freld that the damage in my study, 'where I kept guns, fishing-rods, some Svorling trophies, and a number cf ss and pictures, was caused not by the fire, bul by the explosion of a case ef cartridges I kept in that room, and 'therefore was not covered by the policy; Weducted 20 per cent. for general de- 'preciation, while allowing nothing for the appreciation of some old Georgian Silver plate; and finalls offecred me £750, or the alternative of an expensive and unsatisfactory arbitration the terms 'of the policy denying me the right to 'place my case before a judge and jury). "VALUED POLICY." That, in brief, is the story cf my fire insurance, and it must be the experi- ence of many -- persons after an over- whelming fire. Some companies are uudoubledly more generous than others; 'bul I maintain that the system is wrong, and that what we pay for we should be entitled to get; that the policy Should be a "valued policy"--in other 'words, if £1,000 worth of goods is paid fcr and is lost, £1,000, and no other 'sum, should be payable to the loser. je ___----_- ANXIOUS MOMENTS, Thousands of Little Ones Die During the Summer Months. of small children knows how fatal are the summer months.. Dysentery, diarrhoea, chol- era infantum and stomach troubles are alarmingly frequent at this time and teco often a precious little life is lost affer only a few hours' illnesg The mother who keeps Baby's Own Tabiets in the house feels safe. The occasional usc of Baby's Own Tablets prevents stomach and bowel troubles, or if the trouble comes unawares the Tablets will bring the little one through g#afely. Mrs. Geo. Rebb, Aubrey, Que., says:-- "I have used Baby's Own Tablets for stomach and bowel troubles with the best results. I feel quile safe when I have the Tablels.in the house." Sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25c. a box from The Dr. Williams' Medi- cine Go., Brockville, Ont. Every mother a LS ees A DEMORALIZED PLANET. (By A. Banker.) Is the axis of the globe suddenly al- tering its posilion; or has this poor old earth of ours become utterly demora- ized? We know that the "precession of the equinoxes" greately changes the climate of certain portions of our plan- el, but that is an extremely slow move- nent requiring more than twenty-five thousand years to complele an entire cycle. But in the Northern Hemisphere a most strange variation in the climatic condition of a considerable portion cf the earth's surface has of fale occurred, involving a comptele reversal of the or- dinary state of affairs. or instance, during the intensely cold weather of the past winter in Southern Europe and North Africa, the thermometer in Iceland registered as much as between filly and sixty degrees higher than in the province of Venice; and in the city of Venice itself it was impossible for a time -to perform any funerals as the canals were frozen hard and gondolas cquid not be rowed fo the cemetery. .And in Constantine, an inland town.in North Africa, many ctf the palms and other subtropical trees were apparently killed by the frost, while the snow which had fallen there was descri as having been nearly a yard deep, This, however, was pro- bably an exaggeration. Ail down the Riviera, that region of sun and genial warmth, too, it was at times intensely ccld and inclement. And in England, at_nearly the end of June, fires in the ms were almost a necessity; while in Scotland it is recorded that heavy snow has fallen on some of the moun- tuins; although at the same dime at Tromsoe two hundred and fifty miles north of the Arctic circle the weather was described as having been glorious and delightful, with the thermometer at seventy. ' Or is the glacial period again ap- proaching, and England instead of be- ing a land of sylvan glades and shady groves, of heath-clad hills-and flower- bedecked lanes and coombs, and cf Icvely fern-adorned glans and vales, once more to be mantied in a shroud of ice, every living creature driven from her dear and inhospitable shores, and, for an epoch, but a gelid wilder- ness, an icebound, storm-swept waste. And in other respects too, alas, the earth is becoming more and more de- moralized. The sotcalted "New Theo- logy" is causing the unstable to lose their {dith in the Holy Bible; the Lord's Day is being desecrated ever more and more; and in many of the pulpils of the land the -great atonement for 'sin madeon the cross by fhe Son of God is ullerly '"7nored, and n ethics and meralily--though imperative of course, te those who would attain to ofernal life--are subsliluted for faith in the Re- deemer's. sacrifice. For through that alone can an entrance be gained to the: glory-land. ay fo pianos; . disclaimed responsibility as Men and Women Who Were More Thar Eight Feet in Height. ~ gazed open mouth ata still taller giantess who looked down on her admirers from a height of eight feet two inches and who was said lo be "still growing." "Marian," as this remarkable maiden was called, had been born only sixteen years earlier in a village near the Thur- ingian Mountains, and the "Amazon Princess" was for some months the greatest attraction in the spectacle of "Babil and Bijou" at the Alhambra Theatre, London--a. character in which sh wore a wonderful suit of armer and was crowned with a towering head- dress, the topmost plume of which was a good ten feet from the stage. Nor was Marian distinguished enly by hier great height, for she had a beauti- fully proportioned figure, a. distinctively pretty face and a most amiable disposi- tion. This magnificent creature had a very brief tenure of life, for sho died at Berlin less than two years later and be- fore she had seen her eighteenth birth- ay. 7 In 1869 and 1870 Miss H. Swan, the Nova Scotia giantess, caused consider- able sensation. Miss Swan seemed des- tined from the cradle to be a woman of abnormal 'dimensions, for though her father, a Scottish immigrant, was barely five feet six inches and her mother was halt a foot shorter still, Miss Anna reached six feet at the age of 11, and at 13 was the tallest person in Nova Scotia. For a time she was the chief attraction of Barnum's great show, and during this riod twice narrowly escaped death from fire. She had, too, some histrionic ability, as was proved when sho ap- peared as Lady Macbeth in New York, and before going to Englan 1e made ¢ triumphal tour of the Unite. states. In her prime Miss Swan was but a few inches short of eight feet, and she found an appropriate husband in Capt. Martin Bates, the Kentucky giant, who was actually two inches taller than herself. Chang the Chinese giant who ended his days at Bournemouth, Engiand, not many years ago, was a man of enor- mous size, standing over eight feet in iis socks, but he used to declare that he had a sister at home in China who could easily look over his head. This remark- _J able lady was eight feet four inches in height. and had a hand with a span of two feet. 7 Robert Hales, the Norfolk giant who ca t sensation in England about half a centurfpeago, was a mem- ber of a very remarkable family, which included some women of extraordinary stature. His father, a farmer, was six feet six inches high, and although his mother was but a paltry six fect, it is said that she had an ancestor in the six- teenth century who stood four inches over eight. feet. Of the children of this couple the four sons averaged six feet five inches, and five daughters but one and one-half inches less. Robert, the tallest member cf the family, was a lilile over seven and one-half high, and measured sixty-four inches and sixty-two inches around the waist and chest, respectively, while the tallest of the sisters; who died al 20, was seven feet two inches in height and of proportionate build. a The number of deaths occurring among.young children during the sum- mer months is simply appalling. In fhe city of Montreal last week, 175 children under the age of flye years d:ed, and nearly all the deaths were due to sfomach and 'bowel troubles. +With ordinary care most of these little lives might have been saved. Watch the food given the little ones. Do not feed meats; seo that the milk given is puré; and give an occasional dose « Baby's Own Tablets, a medicine which surpasses all others in preventing and curing stomach and bowel troubles. . SUSPICIOUS. "1 guess Mr. Roxley ain't as rich as some people think," said Tommy. "You said he didn't have to work, but could jest go 'round enjoyin' hisself wherever h» pleased." "So he kin," said Jimmy. "Well, he wasn't alt that dandy Sun- day school picnic of ours yesterday, an' the tickets wuz only 25 cents." AWFUL WARNING. Pa: ."Yes, my son; the Egyptians were the most intellectual people on the face of the earth at one time; but finally {he nation decayed." Tommy: "And what caused them lo decay, Pa?" . F Pa: "Smoking too many Egyptian cigareties, my son." SAUCE FOR THE GANDER. Mr: Fussy: "I don't see why you wear thes ridiculously big sleeves when you have nothing to fill them." -. Fussy: "Do you fill your silk When a man boasts of -how he loves his work, it is a sign that he realizes he cannot afford 19 Youl, :