a a Hints for Busy Housekéepe . Recipes and Other Valuable Informatics eof Particular laccrest to Women Folks, SELECTED RECIPES. Fried Tamale.--Chop fine beef which has been boiled until very tender. Boil it again in the same water that was used before, stir- ring in corn-meal and seasoning |® with pepper and salt. ress t mixture into a mold. When the ig is cold, cut it into slices and Geléry and Egg; a Belgian dish. --BScrape and cut into inch pieces three or four stalks of celery ; cook them in boiling salted water 'about twenty minutes, drain, and mix with white sauce; put in individual stone china dish, 'break an egg over the celery and sauce, and bake in moderate oven about ten minutes. Sparrow Cake.--Cream one cup of butter with two cups and a halt of sugar; add four eggs well beaten, one cup of milk in which one tea- spoonful of soda has heen dissolved, and four cups of flour in which two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar have en mixe mace, cloves, ¢in- namon and allspice to taste, and bake in a moderate oven. Date Pie.--Stone and wash well one pound of dates; just cover them with water, and cook until they are soft. Rub them through a sieve in the same way that squash is strain- ed. Beat well three eggs; add a pinch of salt and three large cups of milk--about one and one- -half pints--and mix with the dates. The mixture should be about the consis- tency of the filling for squash or pumpkin pies. The whites of the eggs may be reserved for a merin- gue, or whipped cream may be spread on when the pie is cold. Squash Soup.--For a luncheon or dinner where the color is yellow this soup ¢carrics out the color scheme, and it alse offers a new way of pre- paring a useful vegetable. Boil enough Hubbard squash to get two tups of mashed squash. Add one quart of milk and one onion, and took one-half hour in a double boi- ler. Remove from the fire and -- oo with salt and pep- 'So aste. Just before sending he as to the table add a cupful of Whipped cream. If the soup is terved in bouillon cups place the tream in éach cup. India Rice Rings.--To two cups oa" water add one tablespoonful of ® shopped onion, one tabltspoonful of anchovy paste, salt, pepper, a dash of tarragon vinegar, and finally one "tpoonful of butter into which has been worked one spoonful of flour. Cook until all the ingredients are well blen stirring constantly ; then add diced or finely sliced duck | meat or chicken. Let this heat thor- Ddughly add the juice of one large orange, * and take from the fire. Have in readiness small mounds of boiled rice, make a depression in tach and fill with the mixture. Spanish Spaghetti.--Rub through 1 strainer one pint of stewed toma- woes. Brown in the frying-pan two tablespoonfuls of butter and one tablespoonful of flour. Add the ttrained tomatoes, four cloves, three bay leaves, three teaspoon- uls of sugar, one-half teaspoonful of salt, a generous shake cach of pepper and paprika; add one tcea- spoonful of Worcestershire sauce. Allow to simmer slowly. covered, pn back of stove for an hour. Re- move, strain, pour over boiled spa- thetti which has been well drained ; rate cheese over top and brown in pven for ten minutes. Serve very rot. BREAKFAST DISHES. Bread Sponge Cake.--Griddle eakes made from bread sponge and enriched with one egg and well bea~ ken never lie heavily on the stomach and can be eaten by a dyspeptic. Pancakes Without Eggs.--To make nice pancakes without eggs, with sour milk and soda or sweet "milk°and baking powder, also use| add one cup of sweet miik and pour up scraps of the day bread, soak bread in-the milk or cold water to soften. Beat bread and milk to- gether, add little salt. If you use tour milk, dissolve the soda in a little hot water, cnough to swecten |' the milk, and add to the bread and milk. _Seive in flour to make a lit- ile thicker than if eggs are used. If sweet milk is usel; put baking owder in flour and seive into the read and milk. Use bread enough to thicken milk considerably. Deat lor three minutes. . These are nice, light and tender. Coffee Cake.--Take two quarts of bread sponge, add one well beaten the hands and mold the mixture in- meal made ob flint cawn, like yo' |git in ole Kaintuck), one cupful ob white flowah, three heapin' tea- spoonfuls ob bakin' powdah. Beat yo" aiggs up light, melt yo' buttah, an' throw it in along wid de salt. Poah in yo' milk--it must be fraish an' sweet, honey. Now, stir in de cawn meal good an' hahd, an' , las' of all, de flowah wid de yeas' pow- dah mixed i in. Poah it inter a shal- ler pan an' pop it inter de oven. Ef you-alls is lucky 'nuff to hab a gas stove dis yeah cawn bread will be done brown in no time, but in an ole wood stove it takes a pow- ahful sight ob bakin'. Jellied Apples. --Pare, quarter, and core six tart apples, take one pound sugar, one pint water, boi until like syrup. then drop apples in and cook until clear, taking care to keep their shape. When tender skim out, place on platter to cool, measure and strain syrup; there should be one-half pint. Take one -package lemon jello, dissolve in two-thirds pint hot water, add to your hot syrup, pour over apples, serve cold with cream. You can serve with these small cakes. Delicious Corn Bread.--One pint |! sifted corn meal, one pint sifted wheat flour, one pint sour milk, two beaten eggs, one-half cup su- gar, one-half cup butter, one tea- spoonful! soda dissolved in a little milk. Bake in greased pan twen- ty minutes. Sweet Potato Buns.--Bo!] and mash two potatoes, rub in as much flour as will make it like bread, add a little nutmeg and sugar to your taste with a tablespoonful of good yeast. When it has risen work in two tablespoonfuls of butter cut finely ; then form it into smal] rolls and bake on tins a nice brown serve hot; split open and butter. Good either for tea or breakfast. CHEESE Cheese Desserts.--For the cheese | lover a simple and palatable des- | sert is made from any good cream | cheese. Work and mold the cheese | into round, flat patties, putting a patty in the center of each dessert plate. Scoop out the middle, and in lieu of the bar le duc, which is | expensive and not always obtain- | able, put in each patty a spoonful | of preserved red currants. Serve | with crisp salted wafers and coffee. | This is deliciously satisfying and | j most attractive. Cheese Pie.--Mix to one large cup of dry cottage cheese one table- ; spoon of flour, one egg, one half: cup sugar, and a little salt. Make | thinner than paste, put small lumps of butter andl sugar, and bake twenty minutes. Cheese Roulettes.--Season with salt and cayenne a cupful of dry grated cheese--Parmesian is prefer- ni Whip the whites of three eggs stiff and mix in the cheese. Flour to balls the size of walnuts. Drop into boiling fat and fry to a golden brown. Lay on crumpled paper to; absorb the grease. Serve hot. PIE HINTS. The Pie of Five.--One large, juicy lemon, one cupful of sugar, one egg, one good sized potato, one cupful of water. Grate rind of lemon and add juice and ege. Beat well. Grate potato; if possible, through a food chepper. Stir well with other ingredients and then add water. Put in double boiler or saucepan and let thicken and bake same in two cruste. Splendid Cranherry Pie.--Two cups of cranberries split or chop- ped, one cup and a half of sugar, two tablespoons cornstarch, three eggs. Line pie plate with rich paste and pour in chopped cranber- ries, Stir cornstarch, sugar, and beaten yolks of eggs together, and Cover with This over pies and bake. 'meringue and brown in oven. recipe is endugh for two pies. CARE OF HOUSE PLANTS. A moist soil does not mean a wet cne Cover the plants with newspapers when sweeping or throw a dust sheet over them. . Examine al] hardwooded tub of pot plants in your window garden for scale, mealy bug and spider. Do not let' them get a start. Make a blanket of newspapers to wrap around your plant stand on egg. half cup of gor xd lard, one cup of sugar, a little salt and cinnamen ; {E mix and let rise; wow roll eut in} theet, cover w ith tinnamon, and sprmkie with sugar! tnd when light press with a spoon deev holes aml fil with thick sweot| ercam and bake at ones. Delicious; i and warmed over only improves it: aot so good cold. Aunt Pinsh's Corn Bread. -~Two | tiees: bitttoh bie as 2 persimymons, f jes' a Eit'e alt, thres cuptuls of | ov Rare ana th ye' saller meal, hh ae Ca Dea et food melted butter, |arainage, ventilation levitable and go ahead. as. but fine white their keep. jeold nights. Drop papers Letween vlants and sash. For the fern case provide good every day; avoid much heat. and water judici- ously. Don't depend upon the moon; see. that seed, soi] and seasomare 'The moon 'lias business of its own. : 'tne date palin, develops. slowly from: seods but it Is easy té care for and some of them turn out» fine. Mane -- are not worth: t | bad, |}them with strength eral es "once, - "save you the: tirésome 'of the by putting the required ingredients in their usual order»into:'a small ice cream freezer. a successful cake. This is a reat improvement over beating with a spoon after the old fashion. To prevent the bottom of kettles from becoming smoked soap them well before putting on the fire. To preserve brooms dip them for three minutes in a pail of boiling soap suds once a week. This makes them tough and pliable, and makes them wear much longer. When boiling rice or beans, two things which will boil over, put in a lump of butter, size of a walnut and this will stop the trouble at o =] ce. In separating the whites from the yolks of eggs one will sometimes break the yolk into the white, in which case the whites do not beat light. Dip a clean cloth into warm water, wring dry, touch the yolk which has been dropped into the white with the cloth, and it kill cling to the cloth. " ee UNCLE HIRAM TO HIS NEPHEW Important for Him to Realize in His Relations With Men. "Stevy, my boy," said Uncle Hi- ram to his hopeful young nephew, 'you may not be old enough yet to fully understand or at least fully INTERN ATIONAL LESSON, MARCH 5. ' -- Lesson X.--Bliinh goes up by a whirlwind inio heaven, 2 Kings 2. 1-18. Golden Text, Gen. "1, Verse 1. Jehovall would take up Elijah--Elijah bursts upon the scene at the start with ndbne of the an- nouncements as to birth which we find in the lives of most heroes, and his departure is as full of mystery as his origin. Of no other, except Jesus, is it recorded that he was translated in this way, although Enoch, of course, shares the dis- tinction of not having seen death. Gilgal--Not to be confused ip the Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho. It stood on a lofty hill, about cight miles northwest of Bethel, and is now called Jiljilia. It seems to have been the seat of a school of young men in training for the work of a prophet. 2. Tarry here--The purpose of Elijah was probably to spare his successor the anguish of witnessing e stormy scenes of his departure. Fully a dozen years had elapsed since the call had come to Elisha at the plow, and during all that time he had no doubt enjoyed the closest intimacy with this most picturesque | character in the Old Testament. It to realize what I am about to say o you, but I'd better say it now | for I might forget to say it later, ' and some day, and perhaps to your | advantage, you will recal] it, the' rae { would now say to you being "Other people think of us what! we think of them "Do you get that through your; noddle? Other people think of us! what we think of them. "This is highly important, 'be- cause it applies to our inmost un- uttered thoughts. If we think ill of a man he will think ill of us. So you want to think well of men. "Our thoughts of other people appear to form a sort of circuit re- turning from them to us. They go out from us to the fellow we are thinking of, who seems to relay them back to us. Whatever our feel- ings toward him may be, good or he takes them in, re-enforces from his own batteries and sends them back to! us, with a feeling of friendliness if ; tion that was our instinctive feeling tq. | ward him, while if our feeling was one of antagonism that is the fee)- | ing that he relays beck to us. "Don't think ill of men, Stephen ; think well of them, as you may we do; there is more good in men than ! bad. Cultivate friendly relations ! amd friendly feelings, and be sure | that as vou feel toward men so will | they feel toward os TRAIN WRECKS (SIN (N YPALY. Attributed to Poorly Paid Em- ployees--A Strike Threatened. Quite recently there have been no fewer than eighteen attempts at train wrecking in various parts of | gan Italy, particularly im the southern : provinces, by means of false sig- ' nals and by placing explosives on | the tracks. These are the first re- f sults of a campaign of obstruction | and sabotage which has begun on | the State railroads because of the | Government's delay in satisfying the demands of the railroad men for higher wages. Ninety thousand of the lower grade employees out of a total of 146,000 railroad men are getting from 37 to 62 cents a day. Most of these are married men who have large families, and many of them have worked on the State lines from fifteen to thirty years. Prime Minister Luzzatti declares that the Governmant refuses to be coerced, and is relbived to punish severely the authors of such out- rages. The railroad men's federa- tion threatens that unless the ques- tions in dispute are immediately debated in Pse{iament and settled to the satisfav®on of the staff, a general strike will be declared on all the Italian railroads on the eve of the great international exposi- tion in Rome and Turin. SENTENCE SERMONS. Slander soon dies if you take it out of circulation. 'the best way to lift men meet them on a level. Heavy words in meeting will not; make up for short weight in mar- ket. Heresy hunting is merely an ob- session of omniscience. We find the worst in all by trying to get the best of anyone. With all our doing things for peo- ple they need most our being men to them. Magnify your personal rights and you are sure t create some social wrongs. is to, | lost one who had begn Ww | tary may be, also, that, with his love for solitude, Elijah 'wished in these }closing days to tear himself away from all human companionship. P +th-el--His object in halting 'here and at Jericho was, in all pro- bability. to reassure the young pro- phets s who were being schooled in these places. Bethel was insepar- ably connected with the patriarchal history, and had become renowned | as the abode of ancient sanctuaries '(see lesson for January 8). Went down to Beth-el--Bethel it- i self was higher up than Gilgal. But ie sUniAY 'StiHGOL sin ing between them lay a deep valley in- to which it was necessary to descend: in making the journey from Gilgal. | 3. Sons of the prophets -- These |! were some of the fruits of Elijah's strenuous loyalty to the true relig- | ion. These young men had caught: his spirit and were being trained | by the older prophets at Bethel and | Jericho and Gilgal, and it may be other centers. to continue the war against the heathen supersititions which threatened to destroy the na- pe Knowest thou ?--We have no ink- ling as to how the knowledge of Elijah' s impending departure had reached these schools. But, how- ever the news had come, Elisha was in no mood to discuss it, and warns 'the talkative youth that it is not 4 matter for idle gossip. 4. Jericho---A city in the valley of the Jordan, over against Ne made famous by the siege of Joshua, it being the first to oppose the pro- gress of the Israelites after their ois the Jordan. 7. Iifty . . . sons of the prophets . stood . . . afar off--They must have climbed the hills above Jeri- cho and watched the two as they descended the valley toward Jor- 9. 'A double portion of thy spirit-- Not twice as much zeal and inspir- ation as was possessed by his guide, but the portion of an elder son, by ithe Hebrew law, received twice as much as the younger. In spiritual 'endowment, Elisha wished to be foremost among the disciples of Elijah. - 10. Thou hast asked a hard thing --Spiritual gifts are-always hard to pass on to others. "Nevertheless, he assures his follower that if he proved his fitness for prophetic gifts by remaining with his master to the end, and looking without fear upon the messengers of the invisible world, his request will not be ne- nied." 11. A chariot of fire and horses of fire--The whirlwind is spcken of twice (see verse 1) as the agent of Elijah's removal, and there is no- thing to indicate with certainty whether the rest of the language is the picturesque description of a torm, or whether it is a literal ac- 'ound of what Elisha saw. There is, at any rate, a mystery here, as there was in the death of Moses, which it is useless for us to try to penetrate. Elisha's oy was a fit- ting expression of what he must have felt in his heart, that he had more to him than a father, and®who had been jto Israel more than her chariots and horsemen; that is, her mili- defenses. So it was natural that he should find a vent for his grief by tearing in twain his own clothes (12). 13. The mantle of Elijah--This was his reward for fidelity unto the end, and his taking it back with him was a svmbol of his possession | of the spir:tual authority of his | great master. imposed upon him. and shown him- | right position. self a worthy successor of the old A man may go up when you kick him, but you cannot claim credit He per to proof at once this newly | by another stationed at the rear for kindness. Boasting of saying what you think| eceere of the Jordan and goi~g strange as the-world-as_ they in- is often an excuse for not thinking over dry shod (14). This was suffi- habit, are brought up" from: what , you say. hero who had been feared by kings. wed power. by smiting the cient to convince. she cons of the proviets that Elisha: was not lack- in the 'gifts @ great prophet, and they humbly make acknowledg- ment of their allegiance. Still, as verse 16 shows, they remain some- what skeptical as to the departure of Elijah, and suggest a search by fifty strong men. ere is a cer- tain humor in the persisteney with which they urge this upon Elisha until he shamefacedly gives in and bids them send and look seer, after three days, left Elisha as their undisputed leader. WONDERFUL SILVER PLATE. In the Collection are. Five Wine Coolers as Big as Footbaths. The Spencer family has inherit- ed the greater portion of the once world famous Spencer Churchill plate housed at Blenheim -Palace Sisitig the lifetime of the great Duke of Marlborough, for whom by a grateful Queen and nation this country palace was originally built.' This plate came to Althorp through the intermarriage of an heiress of the Spencer Churchills and comprises one of five marvel- lous wine coolers or "foot baths" (one was actually veed as such by its great origival owner, the Duke of Marlborough. . a is campaign in the Netherlsncs). This woneriul pieces of solid sil- er plate, with the Churchill] and ducal Marlborough arm: impaled, 'is one of the magnificent pieces ak Ways on view in the State dining room on the occasion of any great festivity in the house. "T have often gazed with wonder and admiration at this 'wine 'cool- er' (capable of hording I can't re- member how many dozens of cham- pagne bottles) on the occasion of a dance in St. Patrack's Hal! " says a writer in the Lady's Pictorial. This famous piece always formed the centre of the wonderful collec- tion, which, closely set together on raised baize covered panels, reach- Me practically from fleor to ceiling of this huge hall in Dublin Castle. "Lord) Spencer's plate includes solid gold Russian cups, Old World silver water bottles of Charles II.'s time, more resembling great cans in size, with the corks, Jacobean ashion, secured with silver links and chains; then there are two gold pails, reckoned the largest of the kind in any private collection in the world. and among the compara- tively modern pieces is the beauti- ful silver gilt jug, one of the four subscribed for by the English na- tion, and presented (each receiv- ing one) to the Lords Althorp. Rus- sell, Grey and Brougham, in recog- inition of their final triumph after years of struggle over the great reform bill of 1832." ---- SPELLING. BAD Schools and Colleges are Blamed For It. To spell badly is no longer con- sidered particularly illiterate--that is to say, it does not betoken a want of education. An eminent lawyer, who is considered one © the most "brainy" men of his time, said recently that until he was mar- ried he had always eg husband with an "i" after the "u," and a noted physician w hen takin his ex- aminations at the medical college tripped un on "medicine.' Another funny case was that of a young man who, having graduat- ed with the highest honors from his university, sent out cards, which he had written personally, saying that he had formed a "buisiness" partnership with Mr. So-and-so. The fact of the matier is that spelling is so neglected in the cur- riculum of schools and colleges now- a-days that it is a hit-or-miss kind of accomplishment. Those who have accuracy and "'ear" remem- ber the varios combinations, and others fail utterly to retain the im- pression made while reading or studying, the provision made in modern boys' schools and colleges to train the sense of sound and its expression being of little account. ----_4,--_--_------ SECRETS OF THE SEA. Everybody has read of the dis- coveries made by dredging the sea- bottom along the shore of the an- tarctic continent but few have any idea how the work is done when the surface of the ocean is covered with ice five feet or more in thick- ness. The method employed is in- terestingly illustrated in the recent reports of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-9. Holes are made in the ice a considerable dis- tance apart, and a cable, to which a dredge is attached, descends through._one hole and emerges through the other. The dredge is so arranged that the open side is drawn ahead by pulling a cable. Ahead of the dredge a weight is at- jtached which serves to keep the He stood the sent tdeedee on the bottom and in the The cable is pulled by a man advancing from the for- ward hole as fast as it is paid out Thus, as 'hole. living creatures, e- a neath Sigs eter: Sod ~- Canal. DAMN OF TE EUPRRTES MESOPOTAMIA TO AGAIN BE 3 FERTILE REGION. _ Three Million Acres to be Irrigated Under the Proposed Scheme. After the Nile the Hightates. Both are to be dammed, and botb by Englishmen. Sir John Jackson, the engineer and contractor, has just signed a contract with the Turkish Govern- or-General of Bagdad for the con- struction of a great dam at the Hindia section of the Euphrates, with the expected result that Mes- opotamia will again become one of the most fertile regions of the worid. This new Turkish irrigation plap is based upon the recommendation of Sir William Willcocks. This in- volved the irrigation of over 3,000,- 000 acres, at an estima COST OF $37,000,000 Since the. submission of that. scheme in 1908 a large staff of en- gineers has been at work survey- ing the ground and studying the conditions with the result that new plans of | a more limited scope were by .the an 'Turkish Government. The damming of the head of the Hindia Canal forms part of the new scheme. The canal is an ancient cutting which the Euphrates in re- cent years has followed, in prefer- ence to its own bed, with disastrous. consequences. The original Euphrates, passing. through Babylon, is now quite dry in Summer, all the water flowing. down the canal except in flood time. Cultivation on the Euphrates banks has, therefore, been almost aband- oned, the population having migrat- ed across country to the Hindia The canal, however, never having been meant to contain the whole of the Euphrates, has become badly water-logged, and much good land has become swam The Turks have been 'trying for years to construct a barrage which would force part of the water back into the bed of the Euphrates and permit regulation of the flow in the canal, BUT WITHOUT SUCCESS. Sir William Willcocks' engineers succeeded in filling up the space be- tween the two arms of the barrage, only to find the structure breached at another point when the water came down.in flood. Completion of this scheme will have the important result of restoring prosperity to the banks of the Euphrates proper, and of greatly improving the con- ia along the length of the can- al. 'tne principal crops in order of importance that would be planted are wheat, barley, rice, s¢same and cotton. It is estimated that about 800,000 acres of Jand will be slaved under wheat, and on the basis of a ton from every acre the Mesopot amian wheat would amount to ab-. out 30,000,000 bushels. \ eee MURDER ALMOST DAILY. Eminent Frenchinan Exposes Shameless Practices. Dr. Doyen, the celebraicd Paris surgeon, is quoted in a cable des- patch to the New York Times to the effect that civilization is plagued by hordes of physicians who are worse than the charlatans of the middle ages. He says:-- "Operations by incompetent sur geons are being performed contin- ually and actual murdé#?° ts com- mitted in this way almost | daily. Other physicians form a riag to-ex- ploit a patient, 'passing him from one to the other, saying '\.o to Dr. Jones for the eyes, tu Dr. Brown for the ears, abd to Dr. Smith for the stomach,' "One of the: Duaccent of witti cisms of doctors is "a millionaire always has a little pie e of cartil- age in his nose which can ce remoy- ed for a large sum of money.' On- ly last week I overheard one sur- geon ask another, 'Why did you operate on so-and-so for cataract before it was ripe: 'If t had done otherwise my patient would have gone to another ductor,' was the reply "T also know of several cases of alleged operations in laparotomy when the surgeon merely cut the skin and renewed it. + 'Other charlatans when -- they hear the name. of a man who is ab- out to bndergo an operation search for the neme of the surgeon in the case and sumetimes they come three and four at o time Hdemandi: lg com- missions, pretending that they are the family physicians of the pa) tien "Do you believe that. a. doctor should charge in proportion to the wealth of the patient!' was asked. "Yes," was the reply, "'because See babar make no charge to tne poor. Also I pelexe tliat a family physician should have a commi; son when he is forced to advise a pa- tient to go to a specialist. Haw-, ever, instead of the doe giv- ing the commission tha patient 3 should Bay a enc