_ pour oyer the steak on 'with left over gravy ; if one re no Hints for Busy Housekeepers. Recipes and Other ef Particular laverest to Women Folks, - bf Valuable 'lalorinditen INE Sm Sv LO 2 fe ny ste itched details of a tragio af- INTERNATIONAL LESSON, "FEBRUARY 26. | é Fs Yt set BP -- TASTY RECIPES. Little German Cakes.--Beat one dozen fresh eggs and three pounds |the front edge of your sewing ma- of pulverized sugar for fifty-five po a sewin, A a bit of .butter is often an minutes, then add as much as will Jay on the end of a knife sure and don't stop beating. Add flour enough to knead. Set it aside | or caramel. in a cool place, just so it doesn't freeze, until evening. Then roll a little thicker thar. pie crust. The| frying bacon. Germans have little fancy molds |more delicate. for these, but any small cookie cut- ter or baking powder can lid can and let lay over night. oven for three-quarters of an hour. ese 'are favorite little cakes 'among the Germans and are excel- jon a piece of emeryboard _ If a lamp wick will not work eas- Orange Marmalade.--Take five |ily "try pulling out a thread at hoe addition to the lent. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. begin to get dull they are rubbed 'Glue a tape measare-fitmly across In the south: they often add a teaspoon of Orleans molasses to the Sewing machine needles may be used much longer if when the cen both's Vineyard, I. Kings 21. Golden Text, Enke 12. 15, 'stood on the eastern side of the Brown boots may be blackened | |; Pa by rubbing the blacking well into |vas'on these was e tower which held|®, nice little sum would be added -be used to cut them with. . After|the shoes with a raw potato and they are all cut spread. out on a|then polishing. table and cover with a thick cloth In the morning sprinkle baking pans with ing. caraway seeds and place cakes in|mint adds to the lamb. pans on seeds and bake in slow the approach up the valley in full ivory. There were other indica- of the royal pair. 3. Jehovah forbid--Naboth had something besides sentimental rea- sons for desiring to keep the in- heritance of his fathers. The vine- yard (2) would no doubt prove a gocd sized oranges and two large jeach edge. This will make jit Ahab. with witch he wished to en- lemons. Slice thin, peeling and all; th three quarts of water, bring to a boil, and allow to boil briskly one-| becoming soggy, break the half hour, then add three quarts|upon taking them from the oven. of sugar and boil for three-quarters i of an hour. Then remove and pour | escape Dates cut up and covered with cream make a simple but delicious into jelly glasses. It will be thick and delicious. 'This amount will make fifteen glasses. This is fine and will be a great help to make s change where fruit is scarce. Lobster Fabric in Seallop Shells --One-half pint of ,obster meat and four hard boiled eggs chopped fine and add to a cream sauce made as follows: Melt three large table- spoonfuls butter and rub into it three large teaspoonfuls flour, gra- dually add one cup warm milk and salt and pepper to taste with two br three dashes of cayenne. Cook ap once and then add four table- spoons minced parsley. Butter wallop shells, fill with farcie an@#/is made by mixing a pound Bf fine- sprinkle on top of each shell one aspoon buttered breadcrumbs. lace in warm oven to brown [his amount makes eight shells. Shrimps, crabmeat, and salmon may be used in the same manner, making a delicious dainty for a Bunday night supper or a luncheon, _ bs it may be prepared hours before eeded and then warmed in oven before serving. + FISH. Sait Mackerel.--Salt mackerel is less popular than it should be be- fause most. people have not cook- ed it the way to bring out its best points. Here is a way to make it the best Sunday breakfast dish in the world: Select a good, firm mackerel. Soak it over night in icy cold water, flesh side down. In the morning melt in the frying pan a heaping tablespoon of - butter. Put in the mackerel, fry one side, turn carefully, keeping the fish whole. Lift out onto a hot dish and pour in the pan a pint of thick sour cream. Let it boil up well, stirring it thoroughly, and pour it over fish. The salt of the fish takes out all the sour of the cream and makes a delicious gravy. Serve with hot buttered toast. Salmon Patties.--One egg, one!the soup kettle is good to warm cup sweet milk, one can of saimon potatoes, make sauces or cook (remove bones), one and one-half | meat in. cups cracker crumbs rolled fine. Beason with pepper and salt to! |: | taste. Drop in tablespoons in hot | frying pan in butter or meat fry- ings Beefstead with Oysters. --Bratl- a: Birloin or*ténderloin' steak ; season ; take a quart of- oysters and: Grain off the liquor; put. into: stew with half, cupful of butteg=-less butter if y6n "have 'a litth: dteam to add. "Balt 'and- pepper fo: sea- son it. When 'this ¢om § 'to a boil" othe: platter. Serve very. hot. PIv. a: ae Potato. ,Pie.--Cut up left 'over meats inten rebar ope: chalf i aiiie dich squares 'and 'put in to ab ish gravy use a little stock and season to taste; boil" mash potatoes or use left "over potatoes, and cover 4s crust.for the meat. It if notf necessary to use. milk-.or "butter in mashing potatoes. Run a fork lengthwise to make grooved top and bake until browned in a moderate- ly hot oven. Mock Cherry Pie.--One cup chop- ped cranberries, Half. cup.chopped raisins, half cup cold "water, one cup sugar, one teaspoon melted butter,.one teaspoon vanilla; "one tablespoon. flour; bake between crusts. Pie Shell.--So pu -have.trouble making @ shell for'a pie keep its ghape. Turn a pie bas upside a. press the pastry -on's : the > sake. dessert. Pile it lightly into a ery- walnut cake. thread will never kink in sewing. li a Brussels rug persists in roll- ing up at the edges it should be applied. Let it dry before turning, and there will not be any more trouble. A delicious filling for layer cake lwitminced shelled almonds with two eggs, a cupful of confectioner's su- gar and a teaspoonful of vanilla. Hemstitched tablecloths and nap- kins can be nicely mended when the hemstitching breaks by fagoting the edges together with strong thread. This will: wear ag long as the article, Apple and celery salad. may have the addition of nuts to the advant- age of the salad. Grapes,.celery and nuts make another combina- tiun; oranges, apples, grapes, cel- ery and Puls make salad not to be improved o Hamm salad is good made as fol- lows: Grate some -vld boiled ham and add some chopped celery. Mix lin some mayonnaise dressing and serve on lettuce leaves, adding a spoonful of mayonnaise on top of | each serving. If a polished knitting needle is dipped into a pail of milk and with- drawn, to be held upright, some of the milk will adhere to the needle if the fluid is pure. Even the smal- Jest amount of water will keep any of the milk from adhering. Many vegetables may be season- ed with salt pork or bacon. Salt pork fat is, by some, considered tc render a better flavor to fish, veal, poultry and game. Fat from To touch up an old and faded rug, get dyes of the various colors in the rug and a number of camel's hair brushes. each dye in boiling water, and af- ter. the rug has been well cleaned, pa\nt- the dyes on where they are ne Olten there i¢ a little difficulty in turning cakes, especially -ginger- bread; out of the tin. This difficul- ty may be avercome by greasing and dredging a little flour over the tm hefore adding the mixture. Then, efter taking it from the oven, stand éhe tin on a damp cloth for a minnte or two before removing FACILITIES FOR THE BLIND: Proposal to Carry Them Free in PS Street Cars, The proposal by Glasgow Cor- poration to-allow blind people to travel' on the street cars free of charge is expectrd to be in opera- tion soon. Mr, Dairymple, the man- ager of the department, has re- ceived from the various societies wha 'work 'in the: interests of-the blind the names of between 700'and 800 persons, to whom a special form has been sent with a view to secur- ing itiformation regarding the ec- cupation,; business address ang, other circumstances of the reoipien Several' of the' associations have agreed to co-operate with the Tram- ways Department in carrying out the schéme.- Special brass tokens close, Prk with a fork in "several alace ce gectt 5 Vaomreonatingha iis to- quali are being prepared, and these will fied slightly smaller, and generally end remove the seeds. Add to these |the difficulty. To prevent baked potatoes fom skins This gives the steam a chance to stal dish and serve with a white If you tie the knot in the end of the thread just broken from the spool and run the other end through the eye of the needle, the turned over and a good coat of glue Dissolve a little off rich his possessions at Jezreel. But there were sacred considerations why Naboth could not yield it to another, even his king, for any price. It was an unwritten custom (Num. 36) that property should de- scend in the same tribe and house. This ancient law was a guarantee of the liberties of the people. At some time, possibly before this, but more likely after, this custom came to be written into the statutes of the nation. 4, Heavy and displeased . . . laid him down upon his bed----Like a boy who has been thwarted in fatify- ing some fond desire. Little won- der that Jezebel came upon him and rebuked his peevishness with . Israel? (7). words which the Septuagint has fittingly rendered, "Do you play at being king in this way Jezebel had qualities mure masculine, as well as more malic- ious, than her husband. - Besides, 'she was a Phoenician, with pro- nounced foreign views as to the per- rogatives of kings, and she did not scruple, therefore, to form a plot or the possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite. 8-10. Notice the insolence of her writing letters in the king's name, and putting his seal upon them, and of proclaiming-a f so as to deceive the people intd believing some public calamity had befallen, besides the added touch of venom in her setting the innocent victim on high, in a conspicuous place. Surely Ahab had weakly abdicated his pow- er 'in Israel, when such corruption could be practiced by an idolatrous woman. The climax was reached when the base fellows, in response to the orders of a fawning local tri- bunal of elders, were hired to per- jure themselves by accusing the guileless Naboth of blasphemy. 13. Stoned him to death -- This was, of course, in keeping with the law, that blasphemy should perish by stoning outside the city. e P. Arise, take possession -- Ac- cording to 'the custom, the sons of Naboth would perish with him, leaving no heir to his possessions, whereupon the property would re- vert to the king (compare 2 Kings 9 26, and 2 Sam. 16. 3, 16. Ahab rose up to go down--It seems likely he was in his capital at Samaria, twenty miles from Jez- reel. He made the journey in his chariot, accompanied by two war- rior- youth, Jehu and Bidkar, to whose later testimony we are in- debted for.some of the details (2! Kings 9. 25, 36). The Septuagint | says that Ahab greeted the news of} Naboth's death with violent mani- | festations of grief. But he, no doubt, went to claim his new pos- sessions with ardor. 17, Elijah the Tishbite--The last glimpse we had o im was as he+ strode 'off from the "fields followed by Elisha, son of Shaphat. Six years had passed. Was Elijah all this time in: reti re in the caves of Carmel? We do | not know. But it was like him. He comes forth now, uot as the cham- pion of orthodoxy, but as the indig- nant foe of inhumanity and injus- tice. 20. Has thou found me How much this whole situation re- minds us of the fate of many a worldling. Ahab was just about to glut himself with ,the ill- -gotten fruits of his sin. And now, as if the tshadow of some lurking fear had been trasformed into life, there stands before him the dreaded ser- yant' of God, the God whom Ahab had basely thrust away for the sake of a degrading alliance. The man who has sold himself for supposed plessure or influence will find that has received but a pittance for his pains, and that the voice of con- science, unheeded for a time, comes back with remorseless accusings. "21. Cut off ey Ahab every. man- child--T! of the a Meets Ahab ig Na-|Thenoeforth h Verse 1. Jezreel--A city in the|him to do It saves much time when |t.rritory of Issachar. It occupied an attractive and strong position, | 9gain. being shut in on the south by Mount and beat five minutes-longer. Belimprovement to cake frostings, Gilboa, and buttressed on the north especially golice, chocolate, = by high cliffs. It is famous mostly as the place where Ahab and Jeze- What the Recent*New Ycar Honors bel built their magnificent resi- dence. This palace, as we nie It makes the meat/¢iom other: parts of the Kings, view. The unique thing about the Add a handful of chopped pars- palace waa the house inlaid with ed at times that the Chancellor of ley or onion to the veal when cook- It improves it as much 8] tions of the worldliness and luxury gardens of ed, however, since "the wisest fool the words, Dost thou now govern} fair, which made such an peg 97. Rent his slothaas Ths p :| sied' doom .of 'himself: and was. enough . to humble supemen he went. softly as Fs stricken man ~ 98. Elijah retires' aa suddenly as he appears, having accomplished the wore which Jehovah had sent ot until four more a TAXES ON TITLES, $16,850. Cost the Recipients. Should the exigencies of the po- litical situation wring about the creation of five hundred new Peers to Britain's revenue in the way of fees. "Indeed, it has been suggest- the Exchequer, wuaen endeavoring to make up a deficit on the budget, might do worse than folloy. the ex- ample of James I., who, when des- perately hard up, created, on suggestion of the Earl of Salisbury, a couple of hundred baronets, each of whom paid $5,000 for the dignity. Fees have been considerably reduic- " ® ? in Christendom,'"' as Sully eens ed James I., invented the order of baronets in England. Now-a-days the granting of lecters patent to a baronet costs only $500, payable io the Board of Inland Revenue. There were nine baronets in the list of New Year's honors, and six Privy Councillors, twenty-five knights, nineteen recipients of colonial bon- ors, fourteen recipients of South African honors, and fifteen recipi- ents of Indian honors, each of whom will have to pay $150. The Inland Revenue authorities will thus re- ceive $16,350 altogether. These amounts do not includo the stamp duty incurred in taking out a coat of arms, nur the charges of the Herald's College for the using of letters patent. For designing a coat of arms and granting letters patent for its use the Heralds' Col- lege charge $338. Assuming that the eighty-eight recipients of hon- ors all decide to taxe out letters pat- ent to the right of armorial bear- ings, the whole cost of the New Year's honors will be over 850,000. The absence of any peerages in the new honors list makes a con- siderable difference to this form of revenue, for a duke has @ pay 81,- 750, a marquess $1,500, aa earl $1,- 250, a viscount $1,000, and a baron 750. Then, again, the Knighthood of the Garter entails $1,080 in fees. It may be remembered that Lord Roberts objected to paring a bill for $3,750, which was presented to him after accepting an earldom in 1901, and complained still more when he found that his acceptance of the Garter entailed a total ex- penditure of close upon $5,000. Even this, however, was not quite such a costly distinction as being made a Scottish baronet in the time of Charles I., who compelled every man so honored ty pay $15,000. As a set-off to this heavy fee the pat- ents down to 1638 included a grant of specified land in Nova Scotia. Un- fortunately this grant did not prove of much advantage, for long before 1638 the colony had passed into the hands of the French. PAGEANT AT CORONATION. Precedent of 1902 Will be Followed as Closely as Possible. The arrangements for the Royal pageant associated with the corona- tion of King George V. are so far complete that one can new form some idea of the comprehensive- ness of the scheme. The precedent of 1902 is to be followed as far as possible.. The line of procession will be the same, so that the pro- gress of Royalties will be witness- ed by the millions of East and South London, as well as by the more se- lect inhabitants and visitors to the West End. There will be a grand naval review at Spithead, and pro- years have passed shall we see him Bolton for funds 4sion House fu.. AS WELL AS AT HOME. lions for the Relief of Those * in Distress, On the appeal of the Mayor of & generous s0 the miners was in 1878, when arly $150,000 was rais ish public to aid the widows and children left behind. ,. MANSION HOUSE FUNDS. those at home. $350,000 for th. - tinental neigasuis. the Germans in 1871. so much as food, for money was fairly plentiful, and John Bull re- ing by sending over sixty- eight tons a day or two after the siege was raised. the Mansion House alone has re ceived nearly $30,000,000 out of the pockets of the generous Anglo-Sax- C 5 dramati¢ suddenness and its conse- quent misery Great Britain was the foreign country that contributed most to the relief of the refugees. ed and dispatched to Italy, Ger- many coming next with $400,000, and France with $300,000. News- papers all over the country opened their columns for the receipt of money from their readers, :and the FAMOUS FAMINE: RECORDS. In 1878 the Mansion House open- ed a fund for the great Indian fam- 000 in one yay and another to re- lieve our fzllow-subjects in India. and showed what she was capable of in emergencies. . The Mansion House left all its glorious records were three other funds lar kind in existence at John Bull's pockets. nearly 220,000,000 was subscribed sailors geve ber. given to a iund, permanent bably a military review. As the over-seas dominions of the Empire will be well represented, and the great and small powers of the ,world, the people will once more have a unique and powerful illus- tration of what the British Empire signifies. When it is considered that the varied units that make up the British Empire have been wel- ded together by a generous applica- tion of the principles of justice, self-government and religious and polit'cal liberty; citizens of the Brit- ish Empire may well indulge in the festivity of prospect of this great fact being represented once more in"the metropolis of the world in a way that will strengthen the strong bonds that*already hold them NEW SWORD FOR OFFICERS. The British War Office is said to be contemplating the provision of @ new pword for caval officers, which is to. resemble t weapon now catried by troopers. Instéad of the slightly curved blade, in- tend ceive funds t help the unemployed to emigrete. a few polery pounds were collected and, as s result, the Lord Mayor was compelied ty close the fund and to returyv the few amounts that had been sent. funds will show how wide are their sympathies : ter, Hungerian floods of 1879, relief '}of persecuted Russian Jews, Ice- land famine, Egypt cholera, Gor- don memorial, Ottawa fire of 1901] proved economic conditicrs, which and the St. Vincent volcanic erup- tion of 1902. 1897. British public refused to give, and give handsor:ely. On April 13th, 1882, the Lord Mayor of London announced that he wished to re- In twelve days only a A slight sprinkling of orange juice ives a delicate "finishing touch" to ed for onvting: as well as for} }j aré to "be : butter and ht wheaten pancakes served wih ee su jnice \o™ 70 SUFFERERS ABROAD MODERN -SRGLIEIOEAN SURES AGAINST sai Pa gs ed on be- accident is common enough, half of the sufferers from a mine ex: |urance against broken plosion in Wales. Since then every | Marriage, triplets and other colliery disaster has found the Brit- | called -t..u0 over nearly | an girl, The British Public Has Given Mil-| National Betting" Craze" Revealed at Lloyds, the Great Insur- Hearts, fingers, eyes and even in the recent mine | the family cat are being insured i in ster no less than $350,000 was | England subscribed in a week! That alone |course," says dloyds, the big im 4 enough to show that John Bull is| surance combine, "we insure cate, A cat is a fine risk. Why, everyo aus first time that he publicly | knows.a cat has nine lives." Insurance against death, fire and ne hearts, Rox catastrophes is rather new.'* ker ns ' declare the A titled Englishman wishes hig "The Britisher is as generous to|son-and heir to marry. He goes t€ his fellow-beings abroad as he is to| Lloyds and gets ineurance that hi¢ When the Seine] son will rose and caused such widespread | wants insurance that it will be damage a year ago the British pub-| chorus girl. His son finally becomes lic, through the snes wi of a Man-| engaged. If it is to a rich Americ the whole family often » of their con-} wakes to the terrible independence of that liberty-loving person, Strange ww say, the first Mansioa| several policies may be taken out House tund was inaugurated to re- | to insure that the son and heir shall lieve Paris. This was for the re-| not be jilted. Such policies are is- lief of the sufferers in the siege by | sued to net mother, brother or h¢ and Over $630,- | sister. 000 was collected and sent to Paris, | often has one > himeelf. partly.in ufoney and partly in cloth-| may have to raise money before the ing, food and other necessaries | wedding day. The Parisians did not want money] INSURE FORTUNE HUNTERS. If the rich girl marries him, sponded to the appeals of the starv- pays his debts out of her millions. If she changes her mind and does- policy Since that first fund makes good, and 'the tail ors, jew- elers and florists lost nothing. insurance stop when the titles and the mil- lions are finally married 1 n't, When the terrible earthquake at ee - begun. Messina startled 'the world with its| ack to Lloyds and gets insured that there will be issue of the mar- Gets insured that it will be Gets insured that the son Gets insured that he will Over $600,000 was rapidly collect- | ch "es majority. riage. & son, will live. Pike "girl This falls talks with her, sounds during the days of the war. Bri-| Lloyds gets reliable data on tain paid generoushy for the mag- number of double or treble births nificent he!p that her soldiers and! on each side of the house. premium is large or smal! accord. In one year four wise Eng: reason ta AN UNPOPULAR APPEAL. ° |j28IY; In one ye The greatest individual sum ever | think the stork might deal bounte-: apart from the| ously with them charitable orgkniza- | against triplets. tions, was tne $125,000 given by Sir} was a history of triplets on one side Thomas i.ipton to the poorest of the | or the other of the house. poor Londco jubilee dinner fund in family had them. ance was considerable enough te Practically only once has the clothe, feed and educate three very 1910. im- And on it he he Does it! Milord hikes 'A father with ore denghnene on his hands gets insurance that they will marry. A funny part of issuing such a policy--or tragic, 8B ' . the case may reas the appeal] thus made was not in vain. carefyt su chances in mairincny, to the lot of an old man, long in the ee who says a knowledge of psychology and physiology is neces- rae os renee: in ~ appeal - sary for this work. He stes each e Lo ayor, the huge sum of/ girl twice, for half h $3,450,000 was extracted from the fime, e om aeey Eee pockets of the nation. In 1897 an- reads her. other fund was organized to aid the| social function and the girl doesn't Hindus, over two and a half mil-| know who he is. lion being sent to India. Alto-| father keeps to his agreement she gether England has sent $10,000,-| does not. (But if the father puts the old n Such figures are a splendid tribute te an almost Sherlock. Holmes to vs generosity of the British| ability to fathom deceit, reports to pu Lloyds, and not for love or money During the Boer war, however, | will papa be able to get a policy Britain really rose to the occasion, | written now. PROVIDE AGAINST STORK. Not all Englishmen approve of far behind when it raised 85,659,-| large families. Those who do not 200 for the Tramsvaal war fund. Tr sometimes get insured against such addition iv tins $850,000 was given! @ calamity. Some get insured that to the fund for the Transvaal refu-| they will not have a child. gees and $645,000 for the C. 1.-V.'s. | get insurance that they will That was the Mansion House alone | have twins. and wher it is recalled that there | pessimistic, want insurance against a simi- triplets. hat time | insurance are often taken out after one is astonished at.:the capacity of| the stork has announced that he is Altogether | about to make a visit. Before such policies are issued the her, He meets her at some That is, if the girl Some not Some men, naturally of And the policies In each case there Only onq And the insur« FEWER PAUPERS IN LONDON, Old Age Pensiouers Said to Explain There were 11,985 fewer paupers in London, England, on January 7 The British public are, as a rule,| than on the correspond: ng day of however, only too willing to sub- scribe, and the names of a few| the figures are given attributes the decrease mainly to the removal of Princess Alice disas- | the pauper disqualification for ol- age pensions, but it is due also in a@ certain measure to the already, existing pensions and to the The official return in which have been telling on the pauperism statistics for some maths. Thus{ on December 31, 1910, there were