About the H ouseheld \ iss for Dainty Dishes. p Scones.--One pound of self- sae oor add four ounces of but- ter or dripping, two ounces of sugar, an ounce of sultanas, one-half pint of milk and a tablespoonful of golden Th syrup. Mix all together thoroughly, ai cut into shapes and bake in a hot oven for 20 minutes. These are: ca scones. Saucer Potatoes--Take cold boiled potatoes, mash them with milk and, a little dripping and pepper and salt! a little minced parsley. Fill saucers with this mixture, allowing} one for each person; sprinkle the top; of each with brown bread crumbs and | a little grated cheese. Bake in quick ,4 oven till browned. Potato Fritters.--Boil half a dozen| " potatoes, beat them and mix with! three well-beaten eggs, a gill of 4 'a little oiled butter. Mix well t gether and drop into boiling dripping. ! Fry a light brown, dish up and: sprinkle with sugar. Serve hot. Vanilla Cake.--Beat a quarter of a pound of butter to a cream, add half a pound of sugar, the yolks of three! eggs beaten up with a little milk, and a few drops of vanilla essence. Sift in half a pound of self-raising| flour, beat the white of the eggs to a stiff froth, and add them to the mix ture, stirring all together for | five: minutes. Bake in a hot oven. Raisin Bread.--Half cup butter, 3 eggs, 1 cup milk, 1 teaspoon salt, 7. cups white flour, % cup sugar, 1 yeast | cake, 1 cup boiling water, 1 cup chop-| oq ped seeded raisins. Scald milk and. add water. Dissolve yeast in half of this lukewarm mixture. To the re- maining milk and water add four cups | of flour and make a batter. thoroughly, then add the yeast. stand unt# bugar and add eggs one at a time.' Now add egg and sugar mixture to the sponge, together with raisins and remaining flour. Place in a buttered bowl and let rise until light. into loaves, place in buttered pan, let rise again and bake 40 minutes. Stale Bread Fritters--Cut the bread in slices, about a third of an inch thick, fry in fat, from which a faint bluish: smoke is rising, and when each piece if fried on one side, turn it over and spread the browned side with marmalade or jam. When cooked, lift out and sprinkle with caster sugar mixed with a little cinnamon. Irish Potato Cakes. -- Take one te of flour, a teaspoonful of bak- ng powder and three ounces of drip- ping with a pinch of salt. Work these together, then add one pound of cook- ed mealy pokaives and mix Be a ae Beat Let ntti "tts neat ps sia one inch thick. Place on a greased tin and bake for 10 or 15 minutes. Split open, butter and serve hot. Fish and Rice Croquettes.--Put a quarter of a pound of rice into a paucepan with an ounce of butter and a pint of milk, simmer slowly for an hour and a half, by which time the rice will have absorbed all the milk, and do not stir it while it cooks. When rooked, add a seasoning of salt and stir in the yolk of an egg. Turn on h plate to cool. Have ready some told cooked fish, mixed with a little thick white sauce (previously season- ed). ake portions of the rice, roll into balls, make a hole in the centre, fll with the fish mixture, close up the hole and brush over with the white of the egg. Roll the balls in fine bread-crumbs and fry in hot fat. Drain and serve with sauce. Fritters --Hard boil two eggs for half an hour, then shell and mash to a fine paste. Mix with an _ equal; quantity of boiled chopped ham and} pounded to a paste, add a high sea- soning of salt and pepper and the beaten yolk of a raw egg. Cut stale bread in thin slices, put together in/' sandwiches with a thick filling of the | paste, then trim off crusts and cut in| pieces two by four inches in size. Beat | together two raw eggs and mix with | a quarter of a cupful of milk, a pinch | of salt and sufficient sifted flour to make a thin batter. Dip each piece, fn this, then drop in a deep smoking! hot fat and fry golden brown. Drain! for a moment on soft paper and serve spread on a dish; do not heap on one another. Household Hints. 4 cupful of anything means a half- pin Sagar needs a dry, cool place; so does jam Cake tins should be scalded once a week. The good housewife utilizes every scrap of fi To soften fruit can rubbers, add a little ammonia to the water. _ Green pepper shells, stuffed with corn and baked, make a dainty lunch- eon dish. To keep eggs--To a pint of salt add one pint of fresh lime and four gallons of water. If curtains are allowed to dry thor- oughly before being starched, it will be found that they will last clean longer. A piece of sandpaper is of the greatest help in removing stains and from cooking utensils. o remove a rusty appearance of black suede shoes, use.a mixture of olive oil and ink in equal parts. ' Clothes that have been sprinkled will not mildew for days, even in out summer, if kept away from the fire. Nextt you. -make a-mayon- siaise, . rs other salad - dressing peanut oil instead of olive oll, light. Cream butter and! Form | h t To clean ribbon, sponge with alco- hol and rub over the spot with clean white -- holding the. ribbon 8 "Use wask Pillows Wwhenev sible for living rooms and) dens. ey are more hygienic and more nitary. Y 4 A most effective way to, \lean linoleum is to wash first' wi a little water and then polish by ap- | plying milk. | To remove ink spots from colored | goods, dip the stain in pure melted (tallow. Wash out the tallow and ink | goes with it. | A teaspoonful of boracice acid add- ed rs a cup of boiling water and allow- to cool is excellent for inflamed, eyes. Tt is said that a rag soaked in a 'eayenne pepper solution and stuffed jin a rat hole 'will set them all scam- ° | peri ing off the place. Stains on flannel may be removed pw yolk of an egg and glycerine in equal quantities. Leave it on for ha an hour, then wash out. | If cream will not whip add white of an egg. Let both become | Thoroughly chilled before WRENS. ; Keep cold until ready to serv F An excellent way to eats a new iron kettle for use is to fill with cold -| water and one cupful of rye meal. Keep at boiling point several hours. Keep a supply of old plates and | saucers on which cold meats, scraps, etc., can be put away. Avoid leaving j anything on the dish it has been serv- the | Saree ee peers Tee ~{A! MAN and his wife who recently refugee camp. Prussian war of 1870, returning after mime agency later in their lives. + Refugees of Two Franco-German Wars lines arriving at a Red Cross Station from which they were sent to a Both were driven from their f passed from Lille through the French homes during the Franco- the war only to be driven out by the or eibcsidered garments should al- {| d ways be ironed on the wrong side upon several thicknesses of flannel. This makes the pattern stand out quite boldly. One pint of tar and two quarts of. water in an earthen vessel will keep ;red ants away. Keep this in your | pantry or cellar and you will never 'see one. jis just as good to the taste and alf the price of olive oil. HEALTH wv u Eczema. Genuine eczema is one of the com- monest of skin diseases; and in most cases is due to bad habits with neglect of healthy cleanliness. You stop up S the pores of the skin--either by as ' mulated dirt or by wearing 'woo ------ ae. TO under-garments saturated with per- spiration; and nature duly punishes you for the sin against her just laws. In a patch of true eczema you find little orifices, the mouths of the sudo- riperous duct-glands, which "weep'"-- i.e., exude a tiny drop of fluid. The latter congeals, and forms a crust or scab. There is always itching, and discomfort, even when the patches are not actually inflamed, as they may be. With courage and unusual firmness, America has sent to Germany her last word. The note contains the final summing up of the position of America's 100,- 000,000 people to the Imperial Gov- ernment of the Kaiser, and admits of no more quibbling from the over-seas power. It now rests with Germany to say whether she desires the con- tinuance of friendly relations be- tween. the , so Rabat. Towards cure, glycerine in some form or other is the sheet-anchor. ritould: be iuearad on- xe hich ycerin pant and irrelevant. With cutting) tion, it is sometimes Eabee to put logic and designedly severe in its} the glycerine in a bottle of lead lo- bluntness, Secretary Lansing and} tion--an ounce of the former to a Gia ter Senter oor caadkeest aie Teen aoreig ff there be eae clay sack ; THE ARCTIC MAIL The_mail service to the hinderland of Alberta, although it still leaves much to be desired in the way of regularity, has improved a great deal in ten years. A decade ago there was only one mail a year--that con- veyed by the Hudson Bay winter pac- ket. Passing travelers (in the sea- son of open navigation) who were thoughtful enough to take the trouble might bring in infrequent let- ter mails, but magazines never ran the gauntlet of picture-hungry trad- ers and roustabouts. They were ap- propriated en route; and newspapers accumulated wherever these volunteer mail carriers happened to drop them. On my journey to the north in 1901, writes a Youth's Companion contribu- tor, I found, piled in the corner of a log-walled house, at the western end of Lesser Slave Lake, a collection of het tre: my wagonload. At Peace River sing, I arranged for my passage down the river three hundred miles to Fort President Wilson have framed a dip- lomatic note and hammered in the | facts so unrelentlessly, that even the autocratic Kaiser will not fail to un- derstand. It is final, and it may be assumed that friendship between the two na- tions concerned has ceased. The logic of it is manifest, but we know that Germany flings logic to the winds| with a facility that is astonishing, and it is to be presumed that con- sideration of policy and expediency, and not those of international law and humanity, will govern her con- duct as it has ever since the war be- gan. Germany now has only one course to pursue if she expects to maintain the friendship of the United States, that is, she must abstain from injur- ing neutrals. Another holocaust like the Lusitania, or of lesser import ;even, will drive America to arms ; against the autocrat and war lord of; the Hohenzollerns. assured the Kaiser that America will contend national law and right espoused, "at ,any cost," and the American people | will stand squarely behind him, and quickly prepare for the most critical result whatever that may be. The note is void of the customary diplo- matic frills, and there js no longer ; any possibility of an evasive or ar- | gumentative reply. Our case is stated, and there is no- thing left to argue about. It is now up to the German government to lis- ten to the voice of reason or take the consequences. She can maintain peaceful relations with the U.S. only om refraining from murdering Ameri- can citizens. She can break those re- lations by returning to the savagery and cold-bloodedness of her under- seas assaults. We shall see in the sequel what her action will be, and whether her diplo- macy is sound enough to steer clear of further complications in arraying the world in hostile attitude against her. CHAS. M. BICE. Denver, July 25, 1915. ok Additional clasps may be added to the Victoria Cross for subsequent acts of bravery. According to Chinese history, the custom of small feet among the fe- males of China originated several cen- turiegback, when a large body of wo- men rose against the government and tried to overthrow it. To prevent the recurrence of.such an event the use of wooden shoes so small as to disable them from making any mag use try |of their feet was enforced on all fe- male infants. " for the principles of inter-| } Pres. Wilson has | baby vaccinated when he is a year | mouth all the time, his nose is stop- mail packet | walk. He will walk as soon as he is Vermilion. The craft was a huge raft, then loading in shallow water about fifty feet from the shore. The next day we pushed off and be- gan our long drift down, stream, and two or three days later I thought of the mail, which was no where to be seen. - An anxious search followed, and at last, from under a pile of hay at one end of the raft, we pulled soggy, dripping mass--my precious mail sack. The spot had been dry enough when the sack had been pint of the latter (you must get the lotion made up by a chemist)--and dab on plenty with a sponge. No soap should be used, and no wa- ter should directly touch the patch of eczema. But withal every precaution should be taken to maintain the entire skin in a cleanly and wholesome state. Cotton, or linen, not woollen, undergarments should always be worn next the skin. Sometimes there is a gouty disposi- tion; and then that must be counter- acted by a diet of little or no meat, thrown there and inadv ntly cov- plenty of fruit and vegetables, no salt- ered with hay, but the. subsequent ed fish or meats, no alcohol.--A Physi- | loading had completely submerged | that end of the raft. I was advised to tie a rock to the |sack, sink it, and keep "mum." What 'I did do was to put the sack where it would drain, and on reaching my 'journey's end to open every paper out to single sheets and dry them. They |were very wrin to be sure, and 'the operation used all the floor space in my friend's house for some days, Id. jbut the six-mohths-old news was so Fourth. Don't consult a neighbor ' eagerly devoured by the setlers that | when the baby is sick. Get a doctor. we felt well repaid. Fifth. Don't fail to give the baby' Some two weeks after we left the water to drink. When he cries he may, Crossing, a Hudson Bay clerk arrived be thirsty, not hungry. {from Scotland with his bride, also Sixth. You are to blame for any hound for Fort Vermilion. e sea- bad habits the baby may form. |son was late. Daily the freeze-up If the baby is sick to-day, do not Was expected, but Tom Carr hurriedly wait until to-morrow to call in the built his little raft and started down doctor. Things that seem little may the river. Besides himself and his be really very serious. See a doctor wife, their camp outfit and food, their at once, if there is: |only load was a late packet of letters, cian. - Hints for Mothers aad Nurses. First. A cross baby is nearly al- ways a sick baby. Second. Never urge the baby to strong enough. Third. Don't neglect to have the 1. Vomiting and diarrhea. These brought direct from Edmonton, and are danger signs. \a gramophone for the factor. Shore 2. Sore throat. ice had formed, and daily pushed Its 3. Crying most of the time. edge farther into the current. Ice 4. Sore eyes. pans, varying in size from tea plates 6. Running ears. to huge disks fifty feet across, drifted 7. Cough. with the stream. Hourly they grew ~ 8. Sore mouth. lin size, jostling each other, crushing For constipation, give baby two to viciously against the advancing one three tablespoonfuls of orange juice, ice as they fought their way down not at feeding time. If it continues, the curent. Then came a day when see a doctor. ;the ice pans jammed and froze into For colic, see that the baby's feet a solid mass. are warm. Put a hot-water bottle at! As soon as it was safe to do so, his stomach. Don't burn him. | Tom and his wife made their way to If the baby breathes through his shore, where he made a cache of the and the gramophone. ped up and he needs treatment. | Above the cache he placed a tripod of Enlarged joints and deformed feet poles to identify the spot when, later should never be overlooked, resulting in the winter, he should pass that as they usually do, from Pte: in way. iet or some general disea The seventy-five-mile tramp back to Skin eruptions of all inde should the Crossing was very trying, and be attended to. Most of them are due Mrs. Carr's "store" shoes were in to food which does not agree with the shreds when they trailed wearily into baby, but some are caused by con- the settlement. Then, late in Febru- tagious diseases. |ary, with his wife in a cariole and ac- Convulsions: Put the baby in, a companied by the annual Hudson Bay warm bath. Don't burn him. Send packet dog-trains. Tom once more set for the doctor at once. i his face northward. Arrived at the x | cache, what was his dismay to find J that, af after freezing, the. river had on a map, with a few disjointed words . | between, formed the body of the let- ter from home. On inquiring at the fort I was told that the block. of ice containing the letters had been placed by the fire, and as fast as they thawed, the let- ters were one by one peeled off the lump. The gramophone, except for a spreading of the dovetailed ' corners of the box, was not injured in the least. wi Trade in War Time. Soon after the war broke out, says the London Telegraph, a friend called on an English merchant, who did a large Continental business. "This war must have hit you hard," he ven- | 95, " "Very ha said the merchant. "T've over $10,000 owing me in Ger- many, and it's touch-and-go whether I ever get a penny of it. Still, we've got to put up with something for the Pi "Dm glad you take it so cheerfully," said the friend. "Well, of course there's profit and loss in war time. I owe $18,000 in Germany." English and Italian Crops. Grain crops in England and Italy promise greater yields this year than the last harvest. Forecasts cabled by the International Institute of Agricul- ture at Rome, place the Italian wheat crop at 189,000,000 bushels, some 20,- 000,000 bushels more than last year. The prospective wheat crop of Eng- land and Wales is placed at 63,000,000 bushels, or 8,000,000 more than last year; the barley crop 44,000,000, a decrease of 7,000,000 bushels, and the oats crop at 89,000,000 bushels, an in- crease of 10,000,000 bushels. Professional Pride. A quaint story is told to exemplify the pride that svery man should take in the work by which he makes a liv- 5 g. Two street sweepers, seated on a curbstone, were discussing a com- rade, who had died the day before. . 'Bill certainly was a good sweeper," ass one. cece | the Parcs thou Unselfish. Doctor--Is your wife strong-minded enough to see that you positively re- spunk enough to. ma the candy and pastry and all that a long as she's allowed to eat it her- self." Wearing collars which squeeze the neck tightly is said to be conducive to baldness. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AUGUST 22. -- Lesson VIIL--Asa's Good Reign, 2 Chron. 15. 1-15. Golden Text: James' 4. . 1. The Prophecy of Azariah *. (Verses 1:7). * Spirit of God--See Num. m. 20. 14; 24. 20. Oded--' father of Azariah was Iddo (or Oded), the prophet and his- torian of the two preceding reigns. 2. If ye seek him--Finding God is a self-evident fact if he is sought after (see 1 Chron. 28. 9; Jer. 29. 13). 8. Without the true God--Israel became disobedient and repudiated "Verse 1. 24.2; 2 12; 4.1; 6. 1; 8. 83; 1 Without a teaching pehbat terol always had priests and prophets, but sometimes these were false. The ex- pression here, "a teaching priest," means a true priest or prophet. Without law--See Judg. 17. 6; 21. 5. No peace to him--See Judg. 5. 6. This refers to the time when lawless- ness reigned supreme, "when every man did what was right in his own eyes"; that is, what he wanted to do and could do by force of fis own strength. Of the lands -- The district into which Palestine was divided, such as Galilee, Gilead, the Jordan valley, Mount Ephraim, Sharon, etc. 6. Nation against nation--The other ray: against Benjamin (Judg. 20, City against city--Judg. 9. 45. Il. Asa is Converted (Verses 8-15). 8. The Prophecy of Oded--Or Iddo, Azariah's father. A prophecy not re- corded, but what Azariah doubtless remembered having been uttered by his father. 10. The third month--That is, Si- van, our month of June. 11. Seven hundred . . . seven thou- sand--The number seven appears of- ten (Num. 29. 32; 1 Chron. 15. 26; 2 Chron. 29. 21; Job 42. 8; Ezek. 45. 23). In the larger sacrifices the num- er seven is not prominent (1 Kings 8. 63; 2 Chron. 80. 24; 35. 7-9). 12. Entered into the covenant-- That is, they renewed the covenant established in Exod. 24. 8-8. Three hundred years afterward, it was again renewed, following a backsliding (2 Kings 28. 8; 2 Chron. 84.31). It was |again renewed in Nehemiah's time rht- Neh. 10. sete cree | Ceaod B20 car Cpe a a "Rejoiced -- Beca "They Shad sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole de- sire." ae At the close of the seventeenth cen- tury a tax was placed on widowers. ananas are fit to eat as soon as 'nee have lost all their green color, and remain fit, no matter how black they may be, so long as the skin is unbroken. "And they shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they.learn war any more."-- Isaiah ii., 4. the dream of the world; disarmament the fervent desire of mankind. Isaiah, are greatest of the Old Testament prophets, in far distant Palestine nearly three thousand years ago, as indicated in the text, dreamed of such a time when nations "shall beat their swords into ploughshares, neither earn war any more." How far has the dream been realiz- ed? At the present time under the veil of the press censorship abroad the nations are waging the most tre- mendous, the bloodiest war in history, increasing each day in terror, magni- tude, and intensity, dragging nation after nation in' spite of resistance into its dizzying vortex, out of which we can with difficulty, though three ousand milés distant, remain. Nor is this surely the "last war," as many argue and all fondly desire. We may be entering upon A Century of War. true; it must, pd souls cry out, but apparently not yet. In spite of the clear teachings of history as to the dreadful probability of war for every land, there are mul- titudes of persons who are living in a "world of make believe." Their heads are in the clouds, their vision dimmed with rose water. They refuse to face facts as they are to-day. The facts of international life,a surely are plain enough, so plain that they have shoc the most dreamy eyed into realization. We see treaties --solemn promises of nations--under a near... argument -is one in which the thawed, risen several feet,' flooded j nobody gets angry. & [over his cache; and frozen solid' again. -|the bo Peace, Golden Peace, has ever been THE DREAM OF THE PROPHET War, Like Its Twin Evil, Pestilence, Must Be Banished From the Earth. vaded, works of art levelled, atroc- ities as barbarous as those of the Middle Ages methodically perpetrat- ed. We see a giant steamship loaded with women and children in a moment, without warning, deliberately sent to ttom. The world is a grimmer, sadder, more brutal world than we thought a short time ago. But it is better to face things as they are than live in the "kingdom of make believe." We hear a great deal of talk certain circles about war of every sort being opposed to Christianity. A false, effeminate conception # "Jesus of Nazareth is current in #opular Christian thinking. The Man of Galilee was of the stuff the prophets of old were made, His tenderness and love were displayed on a background of virility and strength. In words that writhe and_hiss and sting He de- nounced the. Scribes and Pharisees. With heavier weight than sting of words, "a scourge of small cords," He drove the money changers out of the Temple. What would the The dream of the prophet will come. i half dead he had arrived when the torn up We see helpless nations ruthlessly in- : Good Samarita have done if instead of finding the man on the Jericho road wounded and robbers were beating up their help- less victim? A righteous war is not opposed to Christianity rightly understood. As the pages of history amply disclose, it is gftentimes a flail in the hand of phe te God for the punishment of the nations. Is the dream of peace, then, only dream? Are the words of the pro- plist never to be realized:--"They shall beat their swords into plough- shares and their spears into pruning hooks"? Not so. War, like its twin evil, pestilence, - from the earth. --Rev. De Witt Lin coin Pelton." their God several times ae a This was one = a # in ~ be banished + | Peeve Seinen