iss a re Me my a Hints for Busy Housekeepers. * Reslpes and Other Valuable Informatica ef Particular lacerest to Women Folka, BREADS. Southern' Spoon Bread--One pint of sweet milk, one-half cupful of cornmeal, one-half teaspoonful of "oa. one tablespoonful of butter, one egg beaten light, one level tablespoonful of baking powder. Scald the milk in a double boiler, stir in the meal and let cook three hours, then beat iu the other ingre- jients. Note that it is one table- spoonful of baking powder. Turn |\nto a baking dish suitable for the table and bake forty minutes. Berve hot from the dish. Morning Bread--Pour one cup of boiling water into une cup of milk; when cool stir in one cake of com- pressed yeast dissolved into two tablespoonfuls of cold water), one teaspoonful of salt. Add flour to make a soft dough; turn on knead- ing board and knead 20 minutes, or until it will not cling to board. Set to.rise for three hours, knead thor- oughly, put in pans, and let rise one hour. Bake forty-five minutes. This will make three medium sized loaves. The bread is splendid and far less trouble than to bother with bread a night. Bron Bread--Four cups of brown sifted flour; two cups of sweet milk, one cup of molasses, one teaspoon- ful of soda, one teaspoonful of salt. Steam two hours and bake one-half hour. Dissolve soda in tablespoon hot water, then add to the molasses one cup of water and one of milk can be used insteau of two cups of milk. A Bread Help--During cold wea- ther many women who do their own baking find it difficult to get their bread to raise without the sponge getting chilled. With this recipe make the sponge at 10 o'clock and the bread is done in time for sup- per. Take six medium sized pota- toes, slice thin, and boil in two quarts water; mash in water and add one-half cupful of sugar, one- half cupful of lard, 3 cents' worth of compressed yeast or one-half cupful of dry yeast in water; flour enough to make a stiff batter. Set ou back of stove and stir from bot- tom every hour. In two hours will ready to knead down. When ready: to make into loaves knead well for twenty minutes. Make DVé large loaves. ~M°AGiun dhe little extra time re- quired in making them. They can- not be excelled in their delicious feathery lightness and flavor. One quart of flour, two egg yolks, one teaspoon of salt, one-half pint of liquid yeast, three heaping tea- spoons of sugar, piece of butter size of an egg, two large white pota- toes, milk enough to make dough as soft as can be handled. Boil and mash potatoes, cream them into the butter, sugar, and eggs. Work this smooth, add gradually the flour, then the yeast, and the milk last. Be careful and do not get the dough too soft. Knead until light, put in a well greased crock, and place in a warm oven to rise for eight hours. When well risen turn on a floured board and roll out an Inch thick. Cut with a medium sized biscut tin. Put rolls in a greased pan far enough apart to aot touch; let rise until light, which will require one hour; bake In a quick oven. CAKES. Delicious icing --Soice each four oranges, one can of sliced pineapple, one- half cup of red rasp erry juice, two and one-half cups sugar, enough water to make two quarts. Strain all and freeze. When nearly frozen add beaten whites of three eggs. Stir in well. The sliced pineapple can be used for salad. There is no waste. fhie Lincoln Cake.--One and one-half cups sugar, one-half cup butter, two-thirds cup milk, two and one-half cups flour (sifted five times), four eggs (whites only, beaten stiff), two teaspoonfuls bak- ing powder, one teaspoonful vanil- la; cream sugar and butter thor- oughly; add milk, then flour( re- serve one-half cup to mix with bak- Ing powder), whites of eggs; baking wder with remainder of flour and astly, flavoring. Fudge Filling -- One and one-third cups of sugar, one-third cup milk, one square un- sweetened chocolate, piece of but- ber Bize of an egg, one teaspoonful vanilla. Boil sugar, milk, choco te, and butter unti! it bubbles. | emove from the stove and add va ailla. Beat to a cream, spread on | take. -Do net make filling until cake has baked. this cake is de- licions and the recipe is reliabie, always turning out fine. Banana Float Cake.--Make ao rich, flaky pie crust and line a bak- Ing pan--according to size of cake desini--and with a fork thoroughly periprato the crust, ancl bake to ight brown. Make a cream as fol- ! lows: Gae qnart:of milk, yolks of three Pass, three tablespoonfuls of maonetoech--flour mav be used--and £: t teasnementule of granulated ssuidar; boil like wustard and _|Their diet should while bee stirring lightly, the whites ree. eggs n to a stiff froth. Flavor with vanills. Crumb the stale cake by rubbing between the palms of the hands, and place a generous layer on bot- tom of the baked crust; on top of this place a layer of sliced bananas, with a sprinkling of sugar over api then over these layers pour @ portion of the prepared cream ; again place a layer of the cake crumbs, a layer of bananas and cream ; continue in this manner un- til the crust is filled. Two layers make an excellen& cake. Serve while fresh or the crust gets soft and the bananas lose much of their flavor. This cake is delicious and may be served with or without whipped cream. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. To make potatoes white when cooked, they should lie pared in cold water for tww or three hours. Stockings washed before wearing will last in good condition far lon- ger than those not was To keep milk from scorching, the saucepan shouXd be rinsed in cold water before pouring in the milk. YWae habit of biting off thread among young women damages good teeth and is prolific of sore throats and even blood poisoning. If a saucepan be burnt rub with a damp cloth dipped in fine ashes, or a damp cloth dipped in coarse salt will have the same effect. If new koots won't polish rub them over Yith a cut lemon, and then leave yntil thoroughly dry. Repeat this remedy once or twice if necessary. Give children their tea early, so that they may have a good hour's play before going to bed. This play will induce a healthy tiredness, ahd sleep will soon follow. Cold water soothes the pain of any sudden inflammation of the ey. Hot water will help to dull the pain, and a weak solution of boric acid is always good for the eye. If you are distressed to find that some careless person has scratched the new white paint with a match, try rubbing the darkened surface with part of a cut lemon. Glycerin as an application for dev-amaréuncediy' waived 'an ir dent. Strips of linen or rag soak- ed in glycerin should be gently laid over the affected part. Fat skimmed from the water in which bacon or meat has been builed should be kept for frying cr pas- try. Superfluous fat from joints may be melted--while sweet -- and kept for frying purposes. To keep a skirt placket from tear- ing out at the bottom sew on a hvok and eve at the extreme end ef the placket, fasten and then crush flat. This is a simple but very useful thing to know, as it saves many a stite Flannels may be washed by hay- ing boiled soap suds poured over them in a tub; in 20 minutes pour off the suds and p-ar in clean boil- ing water; pour off and on again more boiling water; squeeze the garments and stretch on line, press- ing water out as it settles down. Women who are addicted to nerv- ousness should avo! peppers, spic- es, eggs, too much meat, and high- ly seasoned sauces and dressings. consist of fish, soup, celery and lettuce. Both cel- ery and lettuce form an excellent food and tonic for the nerves. The tissue paper that you get arcels rolled up in should never be crumpled and thrown away, but carefully smoothed out, rolled up and laid away in some drawer or 'handy place where you know where to find it when you need a nice, soft, clean piece of paper. ---- 4, ENCOURAGE THAT YAWN. Doctor Recommends 'Gaping'? for Respiratory Organs. Dr. Emil Bunzi, of Vienna, Aus- tria, in speaking of diseases of the throat and their remedies, said that yawning had its great value: Yawning has recently been recom- mended, independently as a valu- able nee for the respiratory orga " According to Dr. Naegli, of the University of Leuttich," said Dr. Bunzi, 'yawning brings ail the re- | spiratory muscles of the chest and throat into action, and is, there- fore, the best and most natural means of strengthening them. He advises everybody to yawn as deep- ly as possible, with arms out- stretched, in order to change com- Fee the air in the lungs an stimulate respiration. 'In many cases he has found the practice to relieve the difficulty in swallowing and disturbance of the sense of hearing that accompany catarrh.of the throat. The patient is induced to yawn through sugges- tion, imitation of a preliminary ex- add | ercise to --_ breathing. INTERNATIONAL LESSON. FEBRUARY 19. ---- Lesson VIII. Elijah's Flight and Return, 1 Kings 18.41 to 19.21 Golden Text, Isa. 40.31. Verse 41. The sound of abund- ance--The Greek Old Testament has here the suggestive words, "the sound of the feet of the rain- storm." All the evidence the pr». phet had was the word of the Lord "Show thyself to Ahab, and I will send rain." Faith was not difficnit after the miraculous exhibition of Jehovah's power in the sending o fire and the blotting ont of the heathenish priesthood. So Elijaa urges the king to renew his ex- hausted vitality with food and drink, at his tent up on the slope of the mountain, before the expect downfall should make a journey to Jezreel impracticable. 42. Elijah went up to the top of Carme!|--The rugged haunter of the wildernesses forgot his own need c refreshment in his eagerness to sec the hand of Jehovah displayed still further. The attitude he assumed was one of earnest prayer. 43. His servant--Tradition sav this was the widow of Zarephath's son whom he snatched from tie jaws of death. The sea was © course the Mediterranean from which rain would naturally sweep in. Six times the lad weat up to the point from which the great ex- panse of water was clearly visthle, but each time saw nothing but what had appeared in nes brassy sky for three weary year 46. The hand "of Jehovah was on Elijah--That is, he was filled with a divine impulse of rap™urous exultation, which carried a be- fore the rapidly moving chazict of Ahab even to the gates «f the city Jezreel, where the king maiutained a palace. Here he halted, fur he had no liking for cities and could easily find shelter in the neighbo-- ing Gilboa. 2. Jezebel--To her the events cn Carmel meant more than they pus- sibly could to her husband, for her deyotion to the cult of her father, who had been a high priest of the Baal-worship in Tyre, amounted to fanaticism. She could not sit idly worshipping re fas of Israel, and for 1 Elisha s ' "nase stat feck hie at ry Ato ae ea ine plan for the swo of Jehu {and Hazael-to fall upon the Baal- 1 fo carry the relormatory work still farther. There is ere cord of Elijah's fulfilling all of this mission, ut it came to be fu | ls successor. 19. He with the twelfth--Elisha was guiding but one yoke, the oth- ers being in coarge of servants. Cast his mantle upon him--'"'It meant the adoption of Elisha by Elijah to be his spiritual son; and}' it meant a distinct call to the pro- phétic office.' 20 Let me kiss my father and my mother--An expression of the tenderness characteristic of the younger prophet, and not an act of hesitation. Elijah dy in the words, Go back again, gives him full per- mission, disclaiming any other pur- pose in throwing upon him the mantle than simply to summon him to a high duty. 21. Took the . . .oxen, and slew them--A kind of burning of the bridges behind him. a BIRD CHARMER DECORATED. French Government Pays Honor to Familiar Figure. M. Henry Pol, the faméus bird- charmer of the Tuilleries, whom all Paris knows and admires, has been decorated by the French Minister of Agricultiire. Hit daily 'receptions' of his binds in the Tuilleries form one of the most fascinating entertain- ments in Paris, and are always watched by hundreds of interested sightseers. M. Pol feeds his chfrp- ing flock regularly every morning, to the delight of children and grown-up strangers. He has very appropriately been called the Saint Francis of the Tuilleries, and right- ly so; for like the Saint of Assist, he has only to call the birds from the trees and they fly down to perch on his hand or his shoulders. gives them the names which remember, speaks to them, they listen. His charm over birds is really remarkable. sparrow has its name, and pictur- esque names, too, they are. They range from the Christian names of Jean and Jeanette to those of re- volutionary celebrities. "There iz Phillippe, " he will say. 'I now, by and see her work of years oblit- erated. It was to be expected that she would send just such a message to the prime mover of the threat- ened revolution, pronouncing unon 3. Beersheba--Tliough this wasa town of Judah, about thirty miles feel himself secure there, inas- much as the king of Israel was in alliance with the king of Judah at this time. So he took himself, in characteristic fashion, to the wil- derness (4). 4. Juniper-tree--More properly a species of the broom plant, which grows everywhere in the deserts of the Holy Land. It afforded a poor shelter, but sometimes the best that could be had. 8. Went in the strength of that food forty days--The journey to Horeb, being not over 180 miles, would require a much less time} than that. The number forty, -how- ever, is often taken to symbolize a period of testing (compare the cases | of Moses and Jesus), and _ here! doubtless refers to the time of Eli jah's seclusion. 9. What doest thou here, Elijah? --Dr. Farrar gives a vivid inter- pretation to this question by en- phasizing the successive word:: "What doest thou here " "He was doing nothing. Was there ro work to be done in Israel Was he tamely to allow Jezebel to be the final mistress of the situation?' "What doest thou here:" "Is it not very significant of thy name, 'Jehovah he is my God?' he to to be the God of but one fugitive 7' "What doest thou here?' "This s the wilderness. There are no idd- ators or murderers, or breakers of s commandments here.' 10. I only am left; and they sed my life--A confession of conscio.s failure, on th» .vart of a mm thoroughly disc + e caged. 11-12. Jehovah passed by---Hea was present in the strong wind, ani south of He bron, yet Elijah did not! have not seen him for several days. | Come ea Phillippe, you little ras- cal; where have you been all this | time 1" And Phillippe, a ng bp a Apnea whila ty out of a crowd of twenty or thirty watching for crumbs on the gravel and perch on s fin nger. His success is the result of years' of effort, as he use to pass through the garden on his way to work. -- GOLD IN SCOTLAND. -- Believed That it Can Be Mined in Paying Quantities. One scarcely thinks of Scotland as an Eldorado or a Klondike, yet it is a matter of pride, witn the oorer Scots especially, that in its THE SUNDAY SCHOGI STUDY we. the long' tains 1) ; "THEY DO NOT USE SPANISH = one way and another, throughpther Amusements of Citizens of HT THE MO0ER HAN-OF "MA UNDER-GARMENTS OF THE NEWEST BATTLESHIPS. The Interior Coating Is Produced Chiefly From Cocoa- nuts. METHODS IN THE RING. * 2 the World's Youngest Republic. The Portuguese is essentially a leasure-lover, He is not especial- devoted to the theatre but takes is ee much in the same way aniard, although his taste i 'aud to bull- fights is by no eans so sanguinary. In the Span- hh fight gore is the predominant jature, and in the Portuguese it | @ display of elegant horseman- Aip--the bull is never killed. The Bull Ring at Lisbon is situ- éed at the extreme end of the fam- as Aveneda di Liberdale, which Battleships wear coats of stout armor plate, as everybody knows, but everybody does not know that they woar undergarments which is produced 'chiefly from cocoanuts, says Pearson's Weekly. Your most powerful man-of-war is really & very delicate object, and requires special underclothing so that some vital parts of his anatomy may not become too cold, and so that other equally vital portions may not be- come too, hot. ' From stem to stern, which is aad ws the scene of the most severe| other way of saying from head to - fthting between the Republican | toe, your enormous super- Dread- ad Monarchist troops. On a fete) nought is enveloped in an under- dy, when the bull-fight is to take! garment placed immediately behind plee (and this is generaliy on @| its topcoat of armor plate. This Smday), the concourse of people is) is its especial mackintosh, or rather enrmous, and a stranger might) waterproof, which acts as a pro- we) imagine t2at an infantile re-}tection from fire as well as water. volition had bicxen out, for from! In the gery way, if a shot early morning u.u the time of the} pierced the side of a battleship, bull-ight, at tv.o or three in the af-| water would pour in at the hole, and possibly the ship might sink, but this is obviated by providing & | backing to the armor. Great sec-, open' recy is kept in the various --- an ternog, there is a succession of IXPLODING BOMBS, shells, ynd rockets fired in spaces, ind especially in the vicin- | regarding the material used ity of th railway station and the) its arrangement. famous oly-Poly Square, the stones of which are laid in such an erratic fashnn that they resemble the waves of the sea, and which ev-| powever, the coating: is made er way the tarist walks them he involuntarily raises his | from the fibrous cocoanut . nd. C foot as though o step over @ rise Jyjose possesses the peculiar pro-" in the groun: perty of swelling immeaiately All over Lisboa, and especially | comes into contact with salt water. along the Aveneda, there is a cur-| Therefore the moment tne water ious fashion in pavements, and alli jours in at a hole in the ship's kinds of weird scrolls and twisting, | side, the cellulose almost instantly are made in tesselated tiles--either tyre, Of course the cellulose is white upon black, or black white. ider it fireproof. On the days of the bull-fights the, 4 j.an-of-war has its vitality en- victors are escorted through t Sl eemaaaly diminished if certain por- streets. In gaily decorated carts) +i546 of it become too cold, and is with their lady 'admirers in oer 'much the same way as its human ling costumes, and the constant) ¢.nants. Accordingly, the boilers cracking of fireworks mingles with. and steam pipes are clothed with the cheers of the crowd. A Portu-' "jackets." In some cases the jack nese bull-fight is worth seeing, | ets are made of ordinary blanket ana even the Humanitarian League 'ing, in others of a fibrous clay-like could 4nd little to cavil at it. It is: composition, or even of close- -grain certainly no more cruel than fox-| ¢q wood. In general, the materia unting or steg-stalking. The bull -| used for a ship's underclothing a fighters earn i1rge salaries, an Some of them are quite en. THE LIVING PICTURE craze|t has long ago seized upon the Port- | uguese in a manner which would! astonish the owners of picture pal- | wealthy | The great ship is more likely ta suffer from the effects of heat thar those of cold. There is always tht anger, owing to the newer type o! |machinery employed, that the pow |der magazines may get too hot. BY aca. the latest men-of-war the From noon unti! the small hours| stores are surrounded by a. thicl coating of mineral wool. Mineral of the morning the streets of Lisbon | and other large towns are a perfect | pandemonium with the clanging ot | bells and the shrieking of steam- blown organs at the doors of these | scores of picture palaces almost side by side in the main thorough- | fares. The price of admission is| wool, by the way, has nothing what. jever to do with wool, as it consisk of a mass of snowy threads of 4 petal of glass. It is made by blow g jets of high-pressured stean t | theough the streams of liquid slag which flow from the furnaces in the | manufacture of iron and steel. "JACKETS" FOR THE BOILERS. ;, In many of "the latest battleships,| across cellulose, which again is -- . seb fis it . | this description consists of minera i-' than a tradition. exoeedingly low, for, although the Portuguese is a great pleasure-lov- er, he likes to get enjoyment as cheaply as possible and to have as much for his money as he can. The shows aie coitinuons, and one an stay as jong us one likes or rather as long as one can stand the din ut a forty-horse power engine blaring | out every noisy tune that was ever compose we heat in these badly ventilac- gold long, and narrow rooms is im- Mt sutterabte the air is thick with to- acco fumes, for everyone smokes the refreshment-bars and stalls therein do AN ENORMOUS TRADE. |The Portuguese looks well afte: "little Mary." When some porv- lar or political scene is thrown on But when a few grains were recoy-| the screen--and the films, by tho ered it was noted that the expense| "@Y, are very flickery and bad from made further mining impossible, so| Constant juse--there is sometimes a it was abandoned. At Kildonan, demonstration, for a very little where gold is said to be deposited | /ures on the lower orders, who are in considerable quantity, opera-|the great patrons of these resorts, tions have always been forbidden. | 4 Scrimmage. -- Now it is reported that the Duke|_ Like the Spaniard, again, the of Sutherland is about to permit Portuguese is a born gambler, and jriver beds Scotland has real gold, which in the days of Macbeth and | the early kings was worked inte | crowng and coins, jewelry and the like. For centuries the ancient> ; deposits have been nothing more From time to time gold seekers have dug pits and channels in the river banks to the annoyance of huntsmen, but no- thing worth while had been discov- ered until recently. In the = ' days of the Scottish kings mining in the Leadhill district" Lanarkshire was said to have been quite an industry, and certa coins of that period were struck from native gold. The immediate supply probably worked out and the workings were abandoned. A few years ago gold was discov. | ered in workable deposits in Argyll. a food- in the earthquake and the fire, s well as in the still smal! voice. Bit the more tumultuous elements dil not speak to the soul of the pnr- phet as did the calm following tk storm. God manifests himself i the quiet providences of life a well as in its upheavals, mining on his estates at Kildonan,| ¢ it in the bets over the success of and experts believe that with im-|®"Y particular bull-fight, or at proved apparatus the gold can be| C2rds, or at the everlasting lottery, taken out profitably. there is always some money to go in these directions. There can be a --_----. no doubt that, if the Government 39 TO MAKE A CRIMINAL. 13. He wrapped his face in ba mantle--The solemn silence of th: | mountains filled him with awe even dread, and he felt impell¢d b! an act of self-abasement. His' cor dition smote him, and with re proachful iteration the question re a ia What doest thou here, El- a 15, 16. A threefold mission: To anoint Hazel king of Syria which would mean the founding d a new dynasty; (2) to set up Jehi as king over Israel, thus abolish ing the house of Omri; (3) to an oint as his own successor Elisha xon of Shaphat of -Abelmeholat The ib sire of all this is partly ¢ next verse. *I bad not bean, been whally purged of- | only among delinquent persons. alowed it, roulette and other games which are now sacred to Monte It costs $9 in Chicago to make @| Garlo, would flourish in Lisbon and recognized criminal of a man and| other Portuguese cities; and before $2.10 té make an honest] the revolution broke out there was working citizen out of an offender) said to be a project on foot for the ageinst the law, according to ay i statement made ore a women's fstarting of a gambling Casino on club bY Rollo H. McBride, whose ---- arlo lines at Funchal, in work for several years has been oe ieee asst jo pry of oe Mr. few solpnial possessions of the new Republic ures from] Jt remains to be seen what -the & rescue! present Administration may have ome, where every mgn who calls for aid gets it, and ffom records of to say as to deriving revenue for an the municipal] courts. The number impoverished country from this of men who actually were returned oe and a a concession to industry last year, he said, cost allow "gamblitig will be granted, an average of $2.10 each. ye ------_ McBride prycured ys | fi repor the nancial 'Butter will take the:soreness from a bruisé and will o prevent dis- AMMUNITION ROOMS COOL. | Enormous quantities of thix | strange variety of wool are ased on | board for the purposes of unde eebin the bulkheads and _ the more delicate portions of the ship's y. This invaluable substance |acts equally well as a protectos from heat'and from cold. It is suck a remarkable non-conducior of heat that it is used for covering the re- frigerators and the cold-storage chambers, and therefcre the explo- sive stores. In the dockyards ali the men wha are employed in packing the miner- al wool in the spaces.on the shipa are obliged to wear masks. Thit is to prevent the sharp, necdle-like particles from being inhaled and so causing chest troubles of a fatal character. It is a very different substance from the fleecy material obtained from sheep. The ammunition rocms_ them- selves are kept cool by a refriger- ating plant in addition to being clothed in mineral wool, the same applying to the amuinunition pas- sages. The wooi is also packed be- tween the double bulkheads which separate the boiler spaces from the other portions of the vessel. Al- together the uses of mineral wool on board are extremely numerous. Even reindeer hair is to bo met with on board in the capacity of a particular sort of underclothing. This material is very light, consid- erably lighter than cork, for ~ in- stance, and is not so subject 10 de- cay. For this reason, amongst ite many uses it is of great value as a filling for the lifebuoy. There are many other strings materials used on a for the purpose o to delicate portions of 'the vests, anatomy. Still, these are of wi ed importance compared with the mat- erials mentioned, tho ugh they, range from indiarubber to solid, slate. Bosom friends may be chums, or may be. chumps. -- 7 twirling, and dragorn-like figures expands, and so closes the aper- | upon especially treated in order to ren-.