- Hints for Busy 'Housekeepers, ; Recipes and Other Valuable Information ef Particular Interest to Women Folks. ee MEATS. - Lamb Chops en Casserole. -- Fut 'nto frying pan one teaspoon bu ter and one of lard. When melted _ and hot slice into it three small onions, them brown on ides. Remove onions, and into the pan put eight lamb loin chops, 'cut one-half inch thjck, and trimmed of: all fat. Sear on each side and arrange in bottom of cas- serole. Over the chops put first the onions that.were fried, then two good sized tomatoes, sliced, and three medium sized new car- rots, cubed in inch pieces. Now. _ add three good sized potatoes that have been cut into small squares and boiled for a few minutes in salted water. Pepper to taste and cover with the water im which po- toes were boiled. Put in oven and cook one hour. When ready. to serve pour off the liquid, thicken and return it to casserole. An ex- cellent dish and inexpensive. Jellied Veal Loaf.--For these warm days, when meat is hard to prepare and have it appetizing, I ve found this recipe most excel- lent, especially as it can be pre- pared in the morning, ready for 6 o'clock dinner, or on Saturday for Sunday's dinner. veal stew with joints; after wash- ing place in. stew kettle, cover with boiling. water,..and cook slowly a three hours or more, un... meat is a 'tender. When half done add one ES small onion cut fine, one table- ce spoonful salt, and enough pepper to suit individual taste. When veal is done remove from the firey but leave meat in the liquid until cool enough to put through food chopper; after it is cut place meat in narrow bread pan and pour the liquid over it. Stir well, then smooth on top. It wil] jelly and makes a delicious cold meat. D Chicken Salad.--An way of serving chicken salad is to a place it in a ring of ham _ jelly. E o cupfuls of the salad should be ce poured in the ring of jelly after it ae is placed oa a platter. To make the dish attractive the jelly should rest on lettuce or watercress. For the ham jelly whip one-half pint of thick cream until stiff, stir in a cupful of aspio jelly, cool a little add a jar of potted ham. By. adding a few drops of ne P| 4 BY he it will make the jelly pink. e Chipped Beef with Mushrooms.-- One-half pound of chipped bead, | cut in small pieces, soak in cold water fifteen minutes, squeeze dry in a cloth, and mix thoroughly in! plenty of flour, well peppered. | P two small tablespoonfuls of butter in a frying pan; in the but- ter have a piece' of onion which } has been cooked ten minutes, take out onion, put in the floured beef, and let simmer over the fire three minutes, stirring constantly; add BS thr.a dozen tiny button mush- 3 rooms or cne and one-half dozen R lar.er cut in halves, and one and a one-half cups of milk. Stir con- B i stantly until it starts to boil. 'Serve on six slices of toast. ; a Mock Duck.--Take a round beef- | Pe: steak, salt and pepper either side; prepare bread or crackers with | a turkey ; lay your stuffing on meat, | saw up, and roast about an hour; , Meat Loaf.--Whken making a meat loaf place three hard boiled eggs in the middle, end to end, so} } when you slice the meat .a slice of egg is in the center of each piece. The effect is pleasing. CAKE. Chocolate Layer Cake.--Reat to & cream one-half cup of butter and @ cup of sugar. When this is light |i beat in a little at a time one-half , cup of milk and a teaspoonful of \ vanilla;---bea@t the whites of -four SRES to a stifffroth. Sift together a teaspoon baking powder and two scant cupfuls pastry flour and whites of eggs alternately into the mixture. Have three deep caked tins well buttered and spread two- thirds of the batter in two of them. Into the remaining batter and spreasin the third plate. Bake ina erate oven for about twen- ty-five minutes.. Put one -of the white layers on plate and spread with white iting. Put the dark cake on this one, spread with ic- ing; on this put the third cake and sMead with either white or choco- late icing. Cake with Fruit Filling -- For the layers cream one-half pound of butter and one pound of sugar. Add six well beaten eggs, one pound and one ounce of flour, one- If pint of milk, and two.even teaspoonfuls of baking powder; beat hard and bake in round jelly t c cake pans. For the filling boil one puund of sugar ~ with enough water to it, until it "into the Four pounds | dered attractive |. have poison and fly paper, the first be- cause of its immediate filthy ef- fects on walls and ceiling, and the second because of its inconvenient stickiness. each hand, begin j corner of the room that you wish to clear of flies, and of which you have lowered the blinds and opened oysters or without, as for stuffing! wide the door, and brush the flies fee wi ary cornstarch pudding. licious. Lemon juice will alloy the irri- | tation caused by the bites of gnats = been beaten to a stiff froth, beat- ing steadily all the time. When all the syrup has been consumed add one-quarter of a pound of shredded citron, one-quarter of. a pound of chopped figs, one-half pound of rai- sins seeded and chopped fine, and one pound of blanched and chop- ped almonds, stirring the fruit to the icing gradually. has been thoroughly blended spread between the layers and on the top and sides of the cake. place in a stone jar. + Choo Cake.--Three well beaten beat with eggs until creamy; add one cupful of flour, one scant teaspoon- ul of salt, one scant teaspoonful eggs, one cupful of* sugar; of soda dissolved in a little water one cupful of dates chopped fine, and one cupful of nut meats chop- Bake in loaf tin in mod- This cake is without shortening or milk, but is delicious. ne. erate oven. TASTY DESSERTS. Stuffed. Chersjes. -- Take one pound of fresh candied cherries, open carefully, and place in cen- rt nut meat. Press into shape and roll in pow- These are dainty, to ter of each a r sugar. e and especially appropriate serve with a birthday luncheon. Pieplant Marmalade.--Out pie- plant very fine and to each cupful add the pulp and juice of one orange and one teaspoonful of the grated rind, one tablespoonful of lemon juice, one and one-half cups Let stand until sugar is dissolved. Boil rapidly until trans- cupful of in pieces. of sugar. parent, then add one blanched almonds, cut Boil up once and put in glasses. ALL AROUND THE HOUSE. in winter. sky is clear spare the coal; | southwest and 'cloudy, spare stil more, for it is apt to rain. If win is in west with clear sky, stir up re and give moderate draft, but if wind dies down at sundown be generous with coal and open drafts. If.in morning wind is northwest with a steady blue sky and ragged clouds, prepare for rough weather, put on more coal, drafts. If wind is east in morn- ing, with a heavy sky in southwest save coal, for snow er rain is at hand. heavy snow storm, or a dead calm with a clear sky means cold wea- ther; spare no coal? but watch the drafts; if draft; if wind rises shut it off. A {calm at night means colder and a (calm at sunrise warmer weather, | wind falls give more Ridding House of Flies. -- This advice is meant for those who become disgusted with fly Break from maple or full leaved one in in the farthest raight ahead of you towards the r ; open door. The rustle of the leaves , and if you do not see the wingS)as well as the fact that the end legs you will think you have branches brush right up to the roast duck. ceiling and the width and depth that they cover make of the job 'a quick and easy one. When you 1ave shut the door hang up the branches on the walls of the room and when evening comes any stray flies that yet remain will settle in the leaves. branches side. the branches is the fact that they After dark take the gently and shake out- What makes it nice to use mpart such a pleasant "woodsy"' odor to the house, especially when they first begin to wilt, and they are economical also, taking four or five days before they become un- fit for use. USEFUL HINTS. Save egg shells to settle the cof- h. Save inside soap wrappers to - stir one ounce chocolate, melted {rub irons on when ironing. An oyster shell put into a ket- le will prevent the kettle becom- ing furred. - Add chopped dates to an ordin- It is de- es. Save cold coffee left from break- fast and use in place-of water on your fern. Sugar is a valuable foodstuff for hildren, but it should be eaten with moderation. In order. to make good tea never allow the water to boiltwice!each leaf shows that they before making the tea. ' Save tea leaves, rinse in cold water and use on the carpet when' ing to the dust.~ in- When all It} bright can be kept some time in a cool of, Wind and Fire.--A weather vane is an excellent guide to save coal If wind is south 1" i and shut off A northwest wind after a 'and if which hitherto only frag- gar to water, and wash glass in A little ammonia added to. the "water in which you wash silver will make the silver come out unusually Stir cakes, gravies, and gems or muffins with a fork. It will make them more smooth, as it does uway with all the lumps. ing is caused by too hot irons. The fading of colored articles ig due often not to-the washing, but the ironing. For a dresser scarf take three pretty handkerchiefs, joint them together with lace insertion, and finish with a lace ruffle. Save old cold starch that is left over on wash day; allow it te sot- tle, pour off water and dry, when ib may be used again. Keep an old too-brush with the stovo polish to reach around be- hind gas knobs and into crevices where large brush won't go. amp hands*are a great source of trouble to their owners. For a dusting powder try equal parts of starch powder and zinc powder. Roughness round the finger nails is very unsightly. Rub the finger tips every night with some good emolument and sleep in cotton gloves. --rI WESTERN IDEAS IN CHINA. Spread of Militarism and Modern Education. ' Dr. Geil, the American traveller, who has already crossed China five times, has completed a_ twelve months' tour of all the provincial capitals of the Empire, says t London Standard. During a long overland journey to Cheng-tu, in Szechuan, he passed through parts of Kwangsi and Kwanchau, where the people had never before seen a white. Here he visited a tribe, whose women wear a dress resemb- ling Scotch kilts. Dr. Geil says :-- 'One of the things that remain uppermost in my mind is the gener- al spirit of revolution which I met with. By this I do not mean an anti-dynastic or anti-foreign feel- ing so much as what I would call an 'anti-baby' movement. Particu- larly among the senolars and thinking-men the opinion prevails that China is passing through a critical period of her history, and there is a feeling of resentment that a@ baby should be on the throne at such a puncture. "T have attended provincial par- liaments, I have visited schools and am surprised at the reality of the desire to bring China up to date. In Kwangsi, the great copper cen- tre, I found a large school and a widespread desire on the part of the young men to take the full mod- ern curriculum. There I found the youngest Governor of China him- self attending classes on interna- tional law. His private secretary is a graduate of Cambridge. Inythe remote province of Kwachau I found that tne prefect was erecting & great block of almshouses capable of accommodating hundreds of per- sons, and he had_ established: a school for the study of silkworms." Referring to the spread of mili- tarism in China, Dr. Geil says that everywhere he saw evidences of a general plan for the preparation of an enormous army. Not only in the provincial capitals, but in the smal- ler towns, drilling was in constant progress. ----_k__ UNKNOWN SPEECH FOUND. Remnants of Great Work in Un- familiar Language. The Calcutta correspondent of the London Mail writes that re- markably interesting documents from Central Asia have been ac- quired by the Asiatic Society of engal from a Montenegrin gen- tleman. They consist of five leaves of brownish-yellow 'paper measur- ing 8 inches by 5 3-4 inches. The true significance of these- five leaves, the genuineness of which cannot be doubted, is that scholars are confronted with con- secutive passages in a language to! which no clue has yet been found ments have been rescued from the sands of Central Asia. - It is quite possible that, by. It, you will find the glass easy to polish 0 Matt. 22, 15-22, 34-46. Golden Text, Matt. 23, 21: Verse 15. The Pharisees--They had failed to find any ground upon which they could legally proceed against Jesus, but there was a nee that they might ensnare ne who dared to pronounce suc wholesale conemnations, if only ape could get him to continue his alk. ~"16. Bend their disciples--"Young men who, like Saul of Tarsus, were tower trained in the rabbinical 8 " With the Herodians--We found in the last lesson (Matt. 21. 45), that in their common hostility to this "prophet," the Pharisees and Sadducees were willing to forget their differences. Now, as ona former occasion (Mark 3. 6), the risees join hands wit eir enemies in order to accomplish the undoing of Jesus. These Herodians were Sadducees, but their chief in- terest wes political, They sided with Herod in his arrest and execu- tion of John, advocated submis- sion to Kome, and were. generally unpatriotic. for all this, and tor their religious opinions, they were thoroughly detested by the Phari- Bees 3 We know that thou art true--It is little wonder that Jesus replied to these obsequious flatteries by denouncing his questioners as hy- pocrites (18). Their very tone and manner must have suggested not the sincere wish for instruction but the villainous devices of men who acted without conscience. 17. Is it lawtul to give tribute ~~ If the motive for asking it had been good, this question might have been asked reasonably enough. It was a much-mooted question among these people who wero chafing beneath the yoke of Caesar. Should the chosen nation submit to the ignominy of support- ing a hostile heathen world-power ? Both the Herodians and the Phari- sees had a cunning interest in the answer of Jesus. If he answered in the affirmative, it would be equivalent to a counsel of submis- sion to Rome, and this would em- bitter against him the common people, whose enthusiasm for Jesus up to this time had kept the rulers from violence. On the otner hand, the Herodians knew that Jesus was from Galilee. which was the center of popular revolt against any for- eign power, and among his follow- ers was one of the party of Zen- lots., It was natural to expect therefore, that Jesus would de- clare -against the payment of tri- bute, and so lay himself open to the merciless vengeance of Rome. 18. Why make yo trial of me ?-- He knew that in the wickedness of their hearts they were simply putting him to a test. 19. Show me the tribute money-- Mark says ho bade them '"'bring" the piece of money. 'Ihis 'agrees with the statement, they 'brought unto him a denarius (a coin bear- ing the emperor's head and super- scription). It i; unlikely that they would have on their person this ated reminder of the Roman au- thority. 21. Render unto Caesar -- They were not merely to yield this money to the imperial power as a gift, as their question indicated (17), but they were to pay it as a debt. It was more than a lawful provision, it was a moral obligation. 'This coin represented Roman organiza- tion, security of person and pro- perty, facilities of transit, and other beneficent elements of stable government." They accepted alt these privileges, and they should do their part toward keeping them up. In fact, the money could not really belong to them, but was Caesar's as long as Caesar held sway. If that was true of their temiporal relations, how much more applicable was it to their re- sponsibility to God, upon whom they were dependent for al] things and from whom they were with- hc "ing about everything. In these words Jesus teaches that the sphere of the state are distinct. 34. He had put the Sadducees to silence--By exposing their ignor- ance of the Scriptures, and their indifference to the power of God as indicated by their foolish ques- tion concerning the resurrection. 33, A* lawyer--More commonly they were called scribes, or rabbis, their chief activity being in the sphere of the haw, both that con- tained in the Scriptures and that handed down by tradition. 'This INTERNATIONAL LESSON, : SEPT. 18. ih Lesson XII. Three Questions ad. arisen "welgnty~' How were they to tell? as and "ght. --Because it involves all the others. mentions only three human po ers, while Mark and Luke both Jews were perfectly familiar, as second because- comprehended ~ in the former. To love God supreme- ly is impossible- unless our love goes out to all who are the ob- not to be merely a negative love we do our own. 40. The whole law--So far as the man was concerned, it was enough that they covered the law, for they are a summary of the Pentateuch. But Jesus shows that they go be- of the Mosaic law, and utter the full message of the prophets. 'They are the life and soul of all the mor- al and spiritual teaching of the Old Testament." 41. The Pharisees were gathéred together--They had stayed by to hear Jesus answer the scribe, and being now completely at their wits' end, "no man after that durst ask him any question." So he under- takes a little quizzing of his quiz- zers. 42. 8on of David--So they had hailed him only two days before upon his entry into the city. He had seemed to repudiate the title. If so, it was not so much on ac- count of its loftiness, as that it was not lofty enough. By quoting from himself, he shows that he is more than Son of David, is indeed Da- vid's Lord (45), coeternal Sover- all. This would have to be admit- ted in toto by those who accept- ed, as these Jewish teachers did, the inspiration and Messianic char- acter of this psalm. 45. David--Did David write the psalm? That must be left to his- torical criticism. Certainly Jesus does not commit himself here in behalf of a Davidic authorship of this particular psalm. As in other places, he makes use of a current conception without necessarily in- dorsing it as his own. 46. The substance of this verse is inserted by all three synoptists at different points in the controversy between Jesus and his enemies. SS TS a BELIEVE IN YOURSELF. It isn't easy to be a winner; you've got to believe in yourself above all others if you want to suc- ceed. Believe in your strength, believe in your sincerity, believe in the truth of your soul and heart, and with these weapons of steel you may surely disarm the iiercest foe. Then forget the people, and you'll wonder a' the magic of your suc- cess. Even the crustiest and most hardened old business speculator isn't proof against this belief. Try it and _find-out--experience~ it? an COSTLY WINE. A fanciful statistician has been making a curious calculation. In the famous cellars of the Hotel de Ville, at Bremen, Germany, there are a@ dozen cases of holy wine. They have been preserved for two centuries and a half. On a fair estimate of the cost of maintaining the cellar, rent, interes# pon the original value of the "ne, and other proper incidental charges, a bottle of tu.s choice liquor is worth £400,000, one glass £54,476, and a single drop could not be profitably sold under £50. hese aatate ee SOCIAL EVENTS. Mr. Browning (pompously) -- "This"is a great day for us at home. My daughter comes out to- night."' Mrs. Diggle (surprized)--"You don't say so, mister? So does mv. 'usband ; 'e's been in for a month." THE STYLE OF IT. man appears in a Jess favorable light-in Matthew than in Mark, means of these leaves, an import- | ant literary language, of whose ex- | istence the world has had no sus- | picion, may be rescued from obliv- | ion. The paging on the reverse of | ence ' formed part of an extensive work... | mes It doesn't hurt us to fall in me--even if it consists of hard to/a -esnecially icant where his question is treated as an honest appeal for information on a debated subject. and the man himself is praised as being not far from the kingdem. Matthew's treatment of the incident is in keeping with his pronounced anti- pathy to the. Pharisees. This is noticeable in the scribe's ie i trying hi m0. f tin: . "Are you really taking lessons in fencing?' "Yes, I endeavors. & am making some feint AS USUAL. Vacation days To autumn haze Are rapidly declining, , We're fecling blue, 4s For not a sou Is now our potkets lining. were no less than six hundred sep- arate precepts, and much debate to which -- were 387, 38. Love the Lord thy God . .. is the great . . . commandment He who acts from that motive acts h with the highest sanctions of relig- 10) n. With all thy heart--Matthew w~ mention four. Of course Matthew intends that a man shall love God with every" power--mental, physi- cal and spiritual. With this the it formed a 'part of their daily prayers.) 9 3- ~ 39. Love - thy>-neighbor--This is }ects of his perfect love. And it is a kind of freedom from malice, but a habit of regarding the interests of-others with as much concern as yond the fundamental requirements the 110th psalm, and applying it to eign with God, and so Gord' over th the 5 trial of h a Sierair se 36. Which is the great command-| Paris' F ment {--P sly, not. which com-| _ is' to mandment is ighest, ut, what are _ ee a > the marks of a Soimanialee that se of the best-known "sights' isto be regarded as greatt _Dis-| °F Paris_is doomed, tetohere tiittions between the importance | 0st said the most famous "sight' of this law and that were common | 2 the world, for the Paris Mos among the rabbis. It is said there|i8 known t world over. It controlled ~by + Departmen' Council of the Seine, and this bod has fens to and replace Yhere are very tew visitors to Paris who can boast that they ney- er hunted out the Morgue It lies behind the Oathedral of Notre Dame, and in it are exposed the bodies of all unknown persons whe have perished in the river or met with some other sudden or unex- plained death. Unless the bodies are previously claimed, they are placed in a refrigerator and are afterwards exposed, frozen, on the marble slabs of the "salle d'expo- sition,'"' which is kept at a temper- ature of 25 deg. Fahr. Those whe are seeking los. relatives or friends may go to the Morgue and examine the bodies through a glass partition and identification is helped by the unfortunate ' person's clothing, which is hung up over cach body. Of recent years over seven hun. red bodies have been brought te the Morgue every year, and in their trozen state they have been kept | \if necessary, for three months. ° Theoretically, of course, the Morgue is not a "'sight," and the genial public are not supposed to go there, but people whose tastce' lie in this direction can easily sag they are seeking for missingy friends. A grimly humorous story, and one that is quite truce, was told some. little time ago about the Morgue. One day a little boy en- tered the building, and after star- ing for a few minutes at the mar-! ble slabs, on which it happened that two bodies were exposed, he suddenly burst into tears. "'What's the matter, my little man?" asked somebody sympathe-; tically. 'Is someone you know dead?' ' Struggling between indignation and disappointment, the child way- ed an expressive hand towards the empty slabs. 'There aren't any bodies,' he sobbed, and refused to be comforted. ied Se JAPAN'S PRISONS GOOD. 'Reform Women Prisoners by Ia- creasing Self-Resnect. The cells in every Japanese pri- fon are practically sleeping dormf-' tories, as the prisoners are engaged in the work-sheds all day, or at- tending lectures and lessons in educational subjects, deportment and morality. The small Japanese woman prisoner is even taught how to serve tea properly, because the Japanese have grasped the fundamental truth that whatever raises a woman's self-respect help» to eliminate bad habits--in a word to reform her. The keen zest of the prisoners in Japan contrasts with the hopeless, hunted look of our woman prisoners in England. In Japan the wofmen prisoners are learning, learning,. learning all the time. Tney are given prizes and decorative rewards for excel- lence. They are being encouraged instead of repressed. Everything is done to instil a real desire for permanent reform. oe STRANGE LAND LAWS. At Corfu All Land Leases are Per- petual. Corfu, where a magnificent mar- ble palace belonging to-4hke German mpeéror has just been purchased y an American millionaire, can boast of the most peculiar land laws in the world. Tho landlords are. nearly all absentees and their ten- ants held the land on a perpetual - leaso in return for a rent payable: in kind and fixed at a certain pro-' portion of the produce. Such a tenant is considered a co- owner of the~ soil, and he cannot be expelled; except for non-pay- ment of rent, bad culture, or the transfer of his lease without the landlord's consent; neither can his rent be raised without his permis- sion. Attempts have been made to alfer the law, but both landlord and tenants are apparently satis- to the time of Homer. eeeesctt AN ARMY OF TURKEYS. If is.a novel sight to watch the arrival of the turkey = sellers in Madrid, Spain. Each one conducts '@ numerous army of 'well-fed tur- keys, and half the town turns out to see the procession. Tie "ay one man, with only a long slentter rod, can marshal some hundreds of noisy birds through the traffic and past 'other troops is astound- ing. Nox only has he to keep his subjects under the closest surveil- lance, but he wust be prepared for the attacks of starving vagabonds who wish to obtain a turkey luach- eon for nothing. eo , {. ie milkmae ; The old cow j benten to a frazzie to giving real mille. fied with a &ystem that dates back when it comes"