Tested Recipes. . French Toast.--Take and on a sieve rail serve hot. "An Egg -Saver.--When a cake or cooky recipe calls for two or more eggs, use one-half the number re- quired. After turning the egg from the shell fill the shell with real cold 'water and add to the egg. -Then beat until foamy. You will be sur- prised to find that your cake or cookies are as light as if the full number of eggs had been used. Plncapple Pudding. -- Grate one pineapple, and measure by- weight an equal amount of sugar, and half as much butter. Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, and add five eggs, one cupful of thick, sweet cream, and the pineapple. Beat the. mixture thoroughly. Put the pudding in a deep pudding dish, cover it with a crust that has been rolled a bit thicker than for pie, and at has been pricked : let the steam escape, and Dake Pickled. Figs, --- Wack 'carefully two pounds of dried figs, and soa them for an hour in cold water. Make a thick vinegar syrup of one cupful of vinegar and three cupfuls of sugar. Tie a teaspoonful each of ground cloves, mace, and cinnamon in a thin muslin bag, add it to the syrup, and cook the syrup fifteen minutes. Drain the figs, and add them to the syrup. Let the mixture simmer slowly for thirty minutes. The result is a pind relish that will keep in an open Strawberry Pudding. -- Mix x eagr tablespoonfuls of corn flour in little milk, add to it the yolks of four eggs and three tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar, Stir it well for six or seven minutes into, nearly a . quart of boiling milk. Stir all the time, pour into a pie dish and let it stand ten minutes. Take some strawberry preserve and put it over the dish on the corn flour pudding. Beat the whites of four eggs with ~half a teacup of sifted white sugar to a stiff froth and spread over the strawberries. Bake for twenty min- utes in a cool oven with the door open and keep in a cool place till wanted. Cooking Cold Mutton or Venison. --To three tablespoonfuls of meited butter add a little mustard, salt and red pepper. Stir until it is pip- ing hot, Then add a full . table- spoonful ot seuteant jelly. When za put in the cy and baste it with the 'gravy for a minute, then let it . simmer fox three or four minutes more. Add a glassful of sweet cider, and let the mixture stand over the fire for two or three minutes. This ~ receipt is for mutton already cook - ed. Fur treating uncooked venison, the me at must be allowed to sim- mer until it is done before the cider is added. A New Way of Serving Turnip. Pare and cut in halves or quarters one cor two large yellow autumn tur e nips. Havqready on the fire a good- sized a. hoes filled with boiling water, to which you have added two teaspoonfuls of salt. When the turnips are washed, throw them at once into the boiling water, and keep them boiling for half an hour; - then draw the sancepan to one side of the stove, add a large stalk of celery, -leaves and all.~-and let the turnip and the celery cook slowly together for another half hour. When the turnips are cooked, turn them into a colander and drain and mash them. Have ready a gravy made as follows: Put into a sauce- pan a large handful of celery leaves; add boiling salted water, and cook the leaves until they are ténder enough to mash with a 'fork. Add creamed butter and flour, and stir the sauce until it is smwoth. Add the turnip, and keep the mass hot, but do not let it boil, Dressings, Dressing for Fruit 9 Salad. Squeeze one- -half lemon in a bowl, add one tablespoonful of Taragon vinegar, one tablespoonful of mar- aschino cherry juice, two table- spoonfuls of olive oil. Stir up quick- fae ly and serve on fruit salad or fruit s. tity of water, for too cocktail. Dressing for Cucumber Salad. Squeeze one-half Jemon in a bow, add a pinch of white pepper, one tabkespoonful of' chopped chives; and one ounce of sweet cream, one cup o* whipped cream; mir up and Bery Roquefort Cheese Dressing.---For a party of four or more, grate one pound of garlic, add salt and pepper 'to season. Take two tablespsonfuls of vinegar, three of tomato catsup. 'three of olive oil. Mix well, and then pour in grated roquefort "cheese to taste. -- Rules tor Making Pastry. Sake it in a cold place if possi- ble. Keep hands, utensils and in- jents as cool as possible or the . pastry becomes heavy. Be careful to add the right quan- little' will Keep utensi!s and mle for heat. make it heavy. hands someol as twiyes the pastry : Fends shou'i be a thor- with even bread dough ai hating ps Ranger | is past: the flour. ea oa Sasbonio sich gas e eowa off by the baking powder when it comes in contact with.the moisture: will ge its way out of the paste and its tion will be lost. Useful 1 Hints. Raisins and cream cheese make a delightful sandwich for the school asket. Enamelled ware onlv should be used for holding milk, custards and vegetables . A delicious and eoomcaaiedl des- sert is of stewed figs and boiled rice served together. The rough efid of the roast can be ground up and it will make very good Hamburg steak, The water in which fresh tongun, mutton or chicken has been boiled, may be used for soup or adder to the stock pot. Do not expect good, light cakes unless the eggs are perfectly fresh and you have good, sweet butter. If eggs crack while cooking i in the saucepan, as often happens in cold weather, a spoonful of salt will pre- vent the white from coming out. ye-smarting can be' awit' if the onion is pecled from the root end. Afterward, rub the hands with salt and wach to take away the smell. Parsley leaves re- move the odor from the breath. It is quite-possible to fry Potatoes whole, and not as "chips." When they are nearly boiled, but not cracking, put them in a stewpan with a piece of butter or beef drip- ping: shake them about to prevent burning until they are brown and crisp; drain and serve. If the children are fond of candy and you fear bad results, do not allow them to have it just before a meal, but be liberal with the sweets right after they have eaten a hearty meal. They will not eat so much, nor will it do them harm, if this method is- followed. = Fo WHERE.INDIANS EXCEL, . = "Fearful" to Look at and "Terrible to Fight."*" (Related by a bombardier of the Royal Horse Artillery who has late- ly returned from Flanders.) We were able to do some great work. There is no finer eee in the world than to see 2. Ho orse Te E: at-a & : watere ought slow if we eke" more than 30 secoia in the air in it and thus| of Men should > getting to work after the signal to unlimber. On one occasion we were firing | continuously for several hours, and | used 800 shells, We were "dead | on' that time, and must have ac- counted for hundreds. One of our | guns was dropping shells near a gap in a hedge which the Germans were trying to rush, It was excit ing tu watch a score of their in- fantry time after time make a dash for the gaps but never suceeed in! r reaching it. T saw through glasses a troop of | our cavalry wiped out when trying |: to rush a trench on foot. It was a plucky charge, but quite hopeless. | Two men only reached the top of | the ridge. One was shot down, and | the single survivor, after bending | over his comrade to see if he were | dead, turned and commenced to | walk down the slope. He had not | gone far hefore he also fell, { 'It is wonderful how our men become to fire and the con- stant death around them. Tt js a little terrifying at first, but that does not last. It is when we are ont of action, but still under fire, that we feel it most. There js time | then to think of things, and we do! ' not have the comfort of read 1 back. I saw a good deal of the Indian troops out there. The Pathans and the Sikhs are fearful fellews to | look at, and they are terrible fight- ers. They are awfully proud. of themselves, and particularly -- of their arms, which they keep as clean as new pins, It is funny to gee them squatting in the mud dust- ing specks of dirt off their rifles. hey are great at close fighting, where they have the adv antage over our own men, who sometimes get too close for bay onet work and have to use their fists. But the Ghurkas just push the German 'bayonets aside, and then leap in with their knives Their night work is terribly de- moralizing to the enemy. When thes oneee they sweep everything before them *. "Why do you feed tranips who come along? They never do any work for you. id "No," said the wife, "but it is quite q satisfaction to see a maneat a mea! without finding fault with = cooking."' "T hear that yow hay ea college graduate for a cook. Isn't that very expensive?" "Not very. She orks for her board and clothes Why, how. does she come. to do that?' count. | F i who would appreciate -+unto the water.---The *'Bhe is my a "@ Trench Diggers (Pioneers) of the Belgian Army, still looking well and healthy, and now thoroughly accus- tomed to the hard work of the trenches. Int the Belgian Trenches. -------- Te SHADY SCHOLL STUDY INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JANUARY 24, Lesson IV. Gideon and the i=ree Hundred. Judg. 7. Golden Text. Zech. 4. 6. Verse 1. Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon. --See chapter 6, verse 32. Gideon was called Jerubbaal, which means, "Let Baal contend.' The spring of Hared.--That is, the spring, or place of trembling or fear. In verse 3 Jehovah says to Gideon, "Proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and trembling, let him re- turn and depart from Mount Gil- ad." Practically every proper noun in Hebrew, whether it be the name of a person or of a place, is indicative of something particular about the person or the place. The spring of Harod has been undoubt- edly located by modern exploration. There were three springs, or 'wells, lying in_the valley of Jezreel. One lay by Jeureel itself, and one out upon the open plain. The third was 'overshadowed by. the -precipi- tous banks of Gilboa. The first two were controlled by the Midianites. The third, the well of Harod, now: called 'Ain Jalud, was commanded ny the Israelites. And Jehovah said unto Gideon, | sey people that are with thee are too many.--Jehovah' is -made us speak agin. z so large a body of have defeated. t themselves and spi Wem strong ae on Tr own ac- " Gideon saw this' and ap- !preciated its importance. But, as a true military leader, he saw what was of more significance : that be- cause of the nature of the battle- eld so large a number of men 3 , Would be in their own way and ex- ceedingly difficult for him to dis- | pose properly, 3. Fearful and trembling.--Doubt- less many of the thirty-two thousand were fearful and trembling. At any ate, we read that "there returned Lol the people twenty and two thou- sand :and there remained ten thou- sand."' 4. Bring them down unto the wa- ter.--A further weeding out was necessary, and therefore a test was mut to the ten thousand, The well /of Harod was over against the Midianites. From their battleficld they could see what the Israelites were doing. In facet, the ten thou- sand were in danger of being indifferent 'pounced upon at the well, as prac- | 'tically the whole position of Gideon was exposed. It was necessary, therefore, for Gideon to be sure of his men. He could only use those their danger. Strength and bravery were not the only qualities which Gideon needed in his men at this time. It was not question of, mass-movement, © simply pouring men into the ranks of the enemy; it was, primarily, a question of individual initiative, of acting upon the moment with judg- ment and clear-sightedness. Hence a small army, even a very small army of men, of men who could be left to their own judgment was ao better fighting force for Gideon than a large army, the individual members of which were not able to o their own thinking, but needed to rely upon Gideon to think for them. The men whofstood the test which Gideon put them were thinkers as well as fighters.. Each one had ip him not only deep- seated and Mdomitable bravery and courage, hut also the power to think clearly in an emergency- and fo act promptly. 5. So he brought down the people soldier who bowed down upon his knees to drink necessarily could see only what was | er him; he could not see what was in front of him. 6. The number of them that, lap- P . . was three hundred.--Only three hundred out of ten thousand realized the hragie es of keeping themselves in i readiness either to repel an prev or to make onslaught upon the enemy. These. were the men Gideon wan 16. And he divided the three hun- dred men three « Other: eyecentipamiennnern nine npn same peaee re min battle. (See 1 Sam. 'i. 2 Sam. 18. 2 17. And. he stid unto them, Look on me, and do likewise.--Gideon was ready to stand as much as and -- than any one of his men. When I blow the trumpet . hea blow ye... and say, For Je- hovah and for Gidzon.--Frem time immemorial soldiers have gone into the fight with a battle-cry. There | are men living to-day who can tell] of the awful terror which struck in-} to their hearts 'as the. enemy came! upon them with terrific yelling and erying. 20. And the three companies blew the trumpets.--The Midianites had ne idea, of a night attack, and when the were awakened and heard the noise of battle and saw the flaring lights, they undoubtedly thought that a great host was upon them, and er' fled precipitously. 93. the men of Israel were gathered together.--When the en- emy was put to flight, Gideon brought up all the forces he could muster out of the different tribes. Now he could use men, as the enemy was in the open, and the more deci- sive would be his victory. It is interesting to note that in the later border wars between Is- rael and their neighbors there is no further mention of the Midianites. Gideon with one fell swoop effec- tively put an end to those peace dis- turbers from across the Jordan. Gideon himself did not want war, bye he realized that the militarism his country's neighbors could be deatfoped only by the force of arms. - ve ained 'Mew-of France 1 fence in| b +, the Works "What might be called the aiviltas administration of the French army is probably the most gigantic busi- ness proposition the world has ever seen. It is as though all the rail- ways of the United States with their 1,668,809 employes, all the steel and iron industries with their 260,762 employes and all the quarries, coal mines and metal mines with their 1,005,281 warkers, were al] under the direction of one office. The French War Office, through its civilian administration, must as- semble, transport and, distribute food for nearly 4,000, men. It must supply the men with transpor- tation. from one part of the fighting line to another, the front to the in- terior and from the interior to the front in their periods of recupera- tion. It must provide clothing, medical attendance, dentists and every variety of service necessary to kéep a man in health. Benes all this, it must Jock out for the families of the men at the front, supplying their wives with the equivalent of 25 cents a day, and in case of children with the equivalent of 10 cents a day. The smooth working of these im- mense business transactions is only possible because the work is distri- uted among the trained railway managers, steamship directors, great corporation officials and busi- hess men of ¢apacity, who, al- though they are wearing uniforms, have been trained and prepared by civil life for this sort of work in war time. me thousands of the most competent business men France have been paleo inte this supply side of the wa: Zany political leaders, senators, deputies, ex-presidents of the Chamber and men prominent in scientific and intellectual life have been called upon to help im this gigantic work. ° en 0 erenrervenreresn fanantic ocemereesnaes Scored. on Father. He was tlteson of a worthy manu- facturer and h tu rom abroad. His father, a brusque, matter-of-fact man, surveyed his offspring, who was togged out in-the latest London fashion, with distinct disapproval. 'Young man," he idiot out, '"'you, look like "an i Just at that moment, and before the youth had time to ouake a fitting , & friend walked i Billy got t back, have "By Ge ou?" he ex 0: jen much you resemble your i ag ther." Society. BELGIAN SOLDIERS' SURPRISE Captured Gen. Von Buclow and a Sachel Full of Money. There is no prouder. soldier in Belgium to-day than Jean Jacques Rousseau, who, at the moment of writing, is being tended in a. hos- pital at Ostend. Jean is~ only twenty years of age; but on his left 'breast he wears the Military Cross and two ribbons, one of the latter representing the Belgian Legion of Honor, King Albert having promis- ed to present him with cu medal] on the first occasion possib! The deed which won 'the young Belgian soldier this proud. distine- tion was no less than the capture, single-handed, of General Von Bue- low, son of the famous German ex- Chancellor, and the story of the epi- sode will, no doubt, inspire many a youthful Belgian in years to- come. usseau was with a company of 150 men at Zelk on August 12th, when they were attacked by over- whelming numbers of Germans, and "it was while I was in ambush," he says, "that I saw about 900 yards distant an officer studying a map. "Crawling quietly towards him, I managed to get within 400 yards, took careful aim, and fired. The officer fell, and when I went up to him I found, to my. surprise, from the satche], writing-case, papers, te., that it was General Von Bue- low. As he was only wounded in the leg I took him prisoner to Diest, riding with him on his horse. In his satchel were 165,000 frances, which was handed over to the Oss But I retained his cass en ah rse, and is § to nee to the fighting 'Tine anor His -great ambition is to marry an Eng- lish girl if he can. "TI idve English as much as my own countrymen,"' he says. "but there are many years vet to serve my country.'"' a ae GUNS DON'T PRODUCE RAIN. English Scientists Ridicule and Dis- prove the Theory. - English scientists hae ~ again been compelled to assure the public that neither the smell of powder nor Turkey Committed 'Suicide wal 'She: Took Up the Kaiser's" Cause. ; The diplomatic fiction, as ae may be caHed, under w Egypt no inally remained & part of the Otto! man Empire, whereas in fact sche was a British protectorate, has at last been discarded. The flag 'of Turkey has been hauled down for all time, and in*name, as well asin - fact, Egyot is part of the Brit ish Empire, with her own Sultan and a igh Commissioner, appointed by, the British Crown, at the head of its local gov ernment. When Turkey took up the Kaiser's cause she was warned that she was committing' suicide. She has now been kick Say of Africa; in the end she will be kicked ont of Eurepe, and in' Asia she will be forced back to the mountains whence her peorile emerged many centuries ago, says a writer in The Montreal] Standard. About Size of Ontario. Excluding the provinces recon- quered in the Soudan, Egypt has an area of 400,000 square miles, just about equal to the area of the Pro- vince of Ontario; but only fourteen' thousand square miles of Egyptian territory are settled, And yet on that comparatively smal! area there is a population of twelve millions. The settled population of Egypt ia only one half the extent .of New Brunswick, but its population is about one-third | ae the ' population of all Canad British Hule. For almost the third of a century Egypt. has practically enjoyed Brit ish rule, the fruits of which are now' being enjoyed by the people of the' Ancient Land. Taxation-has been reduced, Jaw and order maintained, : justice administered, industries fos- tered, great public works con- structed, and a general uplift of the people brought about. Since the blighting effects of Tyrkish oppres- sion and corruption have been re- moved. the people of Egypt have Pd ed in peaée the fruits of their The greater part of those : agricultural, for fully two-thirds of the »opulation are on the land--the fellaheen, or small cultivators. A cleverly "devised scheme of financial assistance | has enmbied these cultivators to im. rove ition. rcon 1,500, the loan being limited - fifty per cenit. of the calling value ot the land, To this policy is due to a large extent the developmént in te- cent years of the country's com- merce and indusiry, and a sieadily increasing: prosperity, Blessings From British. The cultivated arca éan never be extended beyond the region capable of being w atered by the, Nile, bu this region has been enlarged 'by ir- rigation systems that are wonders of engineering skill and workman- ship--blessings conferred -- upon Egy, "pt 'by her British governors the concussion of the gunfire has the slightest connection with rain- fall. From sevefal sources it ha been asserted that the heavy and} persistent rains recently experi-| enced in southern England andj northern France were attributed, to atmospheric disturbances pro- | duced by artillery fire at the seat: of war, i "Like the supposed influence of the moon upon weather, the popu- lar belief that powder brings rain is baseless," writes a ecientist in| the Times. "About four years ago | the First Lotd of the Admiralty | was gravely asked in the House of Commons whether he would in- struct the fleet to carry out heavy gun practice at some other | | peried of the year than in the mid- real, We of harvest time, 'when the re- | its| population of 660,509, here are 1,500 miles of ste ate: owned railways, and 500 of light agricultural railways. owned -- by companies. The products of the temperate zone and- of the sub- tropies flourish in Egvpt, for she produees cotton and sugar as as wheat and other cereats, Apart from the commercia! ad. vantages accruing from the posses: 'Egypt's principal city, sion (and now the ownership as i well) of Egvpt, the holding of. the icountry is of great Impurtance -- to Britain, ago it controls "ohe 'Suez Cangl, essentint part of | Britain's shotben ¢- route Lo _ India Cxtive, has a here peing, "es - somewhat larger than Mont while the second city, population . of almost fore, A lexan- dria, has a sultant heavy rains may cause seri-! four hundred thousand ous loss to the farming eo mmunity,' | The idea is absolutely without foun i dation. Experiments made America. and on the Continent chow | that in dry weather no amount of | j}concussion has the slightest in the production of rain. '"'At the present time there is one| fact which should at once dispose of | the cherished theory. There is no reason for, thinking that. gun-firing at the front is more. violent than it was in the earlier stages of the war. 'The rain should, therefore, have commenced shortly after the out- break of the war. 'As a matter of fact, nothing of the kind took effect | HIS FIELD GLASSES, 'Hit by a Bullet While in Odicer's Hand A British soldier writes to Coun- try Life, London: "I have just re; turned from another tern in "the ltrenches. I-am going to send you alf a pair of fieldgiasses which have done me g great' service. J Was standing up in a trench--a 1'/, tle over-confident--watching the re- sult of our shooting through 'the glasses, when 'biff!' and I received a terrible bang in the eve. Of course + knocked me down; and I] wonder place. : In August and September rainfall was much: below the aver "At buryness, where big almost dailx;) ut, the average annual rainfall is "euralier than in part other part of the United King- om guns are bein sige -_-- ----F Perhaps some brides blush be- se of the kind of husbands they Gare. run to cover. ib 'Bo he's been telling me,"' 'said | 4d for a minute or two why on earth I was stil alive. 1 distinctly heard one of the men say 'Pore devil, 'e's got it in the neaal:? A bullet aad hit the lens of the glasses and been deflected by the prism, passing out at the side, ag you will see. I found half the glasses one side of the trench and half the other; the right half is still quite serviceable, so behold your son with a beautiful black eye. I only wish I could send you the bullet, too, but it went the way of all bullets. | I am back with the battery' now---rather glad te get rid of a rather nerve-trying job, ima is eg kinde at animals?' _ ' ry = ae it aut his: moni, a to abd Sarwar. it was a great experience. eye' and wei worth well .