4 Hints for Busy Housekeepers. Reelpes and Other Valuable Information of Particnier laverest to Women Folks. CURING MEAT. The methods of keeping meats the = around is well known to far- Ts' wives, but a mystery to most hown housekeepers. -A good sized piece of meat may be bought ad- - yantageously and corned, after cut- - half teaspoonfgul \ ting off a portion to be used in its Iresh state. The rump is best to porn. Beef tongues, fresh ham, veal, or mutton are excellent when torned. A pickle for corning meat in small quantities is made as follows: Four pounds of coarse salt, eight quarts of water, two pounds of brown su- gar, one-half pound of saltpetre; stir until salt and sugar are dis- polved; then boil and skim, letting the mixture e cold before pouring over the meat. Turn the meat in the pickle every day for a week, which will give it a fine color and flavor. During the summer this pickle may be boiled over with an addition of one cup of sult and one cup of brown sugar to one quart of water, when it will keep sweet for several weeks. A plate or clean flat stone must be used to keep the meat beneath the pickle. A large beef fonque will have to be kept in the pickle fourteen days Wefore it is ready for use. ried Beef.--Select a round of beef and divide in two narts through the middle, rejecting the bone. For twelve pounds of meat allow one- und of fine salt, one quar- ter ounce of pulverized saltpetre, and one-half pound of brown sugar. Rub this. mixture into the meat every morning until it is all used up. At the end of this time hang up'in the smokehouse for two weeks to dry. An excess of smoke will ruin the flavor. Few town people have a smoke- house, and this method will be found a very good substitute. Drive nails around the top of a tight bar- rel, fill an iron pan or pail half full of ashes, build a fire on top of these. Hang the meat by a stout twine on the nails, place a board over the top of the barrel, and cover tight- ly with an old blanket. This me- thod has been tried in the back yard of a city residence and fouad ractical for smoking two hams, wo pieces of beef, and two sau- sages. If two or three families will club \_together and buy their meat whole- 8 e they will find that their meat bills will be about one-third what it usually costs. GOOD THINGS TO EAT. fellow Cucumbers.--Take -- six large yellow cucumbers, peel and eut in half, remove seeds and cut in pieces about two inches; add two and a half handfuls of salt and leave stand over night. Next morning wash off and lay pieces on cloth to dry. Put one quart of vinegar on to boil and add three cupfuls of sugar. Put in cucumbers, few ata time, have jars ready when cucum- ber is clear, but not soft, then put in jars; add some white mustard seed and seal. Pickled Onions.--Take a half peck of little white onions, leave in water over night, peel and put in water again over night, adding a hand- ful of salt. Next morning lay on- ions on cloth to dry. Boil three quarts of vinegar, three tablespoon- fuls of sugar, one-third handful of round alspice, four or five bay leaves, one-half handful of whole black pepper. Put onions in jar and cover with the vinegar; add a of ground red pepper. Tie cloth over to keep steam in. Dill Pickles.--Take one-half peck of dill pickles, ten cents' worth of dill. Wash pickles and lay a layer of dill on bottom of a one-half gal- Jon jar, then a layer of pickles, and so on until all is used, last Jayer being dill. Cover with enough salt water and a stone, so as to keep pickles well under water. Good Quince Jelly.--Take half a peck of quince, wash and cut in quarters and add enough water to cover even, boil till soft, then put in bag and let drain all night. Add a cupful of sugar to every cup of juice. Boil until a little on saucer thickens. You can do the same with grapes, crab apples, and skins of peaches and pears. Do not add water when making grape jelly. MARMALADE. Orange.--Select one orange and one lemon with a thin skin. Cut in slices and then in cubes. To this add six cupfuls of water. Let stand over night. Next morning boil twenty minutes, measure liquid, and to ene cupful of mixture add one cupful of sugar: Boil evenlydor one- half hour, or until it jells. This will make eight medium sized glas- &6S. Rhubarb.--Six eups rhubarb et in small pieces, six cups of granu: lated sugar, two 'arge or four sna!) oranges cut in thin slices, skin and all. Boil all together until thier. seal in pint fruit jars. This is de- 1eions. ~Jdenrod - Marmalade. -- Cut o> and asa rind of ore watermelon. Uut white rind into squares and lay in cold water over t. Next morn.ng put through food chopper, civer with cold water, and let come to boil; then rain. Repeat twice, then boil until tender. Put pulp through chopper and when the rinds are tender, put all into one kettle with five pounds of granulated sugar, boil for two hours, and put into jars. This marmalade is a beauti- ul golden color and delicious. CELERY. Celery and Cheese.--Stew until tender celery cut into one inch pieces. Take one cup of water left after removing the celery and add it (the water) to a rich white sauce. Stir into this sauce enough grated cheese to make in a rich yellow io color... Put the previously prepar- ed celery into a baking dish, pour the sauce over it, and cover thickly with bread crumbs that have been browned in melted butter. Heat in oven a few minutes. Creamed Celery and Almonds.-- Drop celery cut into inch lengths into boiling water. Stew until ten- der. Make a rich cream sauce and stir into it one-half cup of blanched chopped almonds. Add this sauce to the drained celery. Serve hot. Fried Celery Sticks.--Cut celery into pieces four inches in length. Steam until partly tender. Take from water, cool, roll in egg and cracker crumbs, fry in hot fat. Pile in log cabin fashion on plate and serve hot. POPULAR RECIPES. Quick Coffee Cake.--One table- spoonful butter, one tablespoonful lard, one pinch salt, one cupful sugar, one egg, beat all together; three and one-half cupfuls flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, add enough milk to make a stiff bat- ter. Put sliced apples on top, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. liced peaches are also nice. Sour Cream Cookies.--Two eggs, one and one-half cupfuls sugar, three-fourths -cup butter, three- fourths cup sour cream, or milk, one-half teaspoonful cinnamon, one- half teaspoonful nutmeg, one-fourth teaspoonful cloves, one teaspoon- ful soda, a pinch of salt, three and one-half cupfuls flour, one-half tea- spoonful baking powder. This re- cipe will make about fifty cookies. Apple Snow.--Boil about five ap- ples to a pulp, sweetening to taste. When cool place in a large bowl, together with the white of one egg, juice of one lemon, and one cup of sugar. Beat the mixture about thirty minutes with a wire egg beat- er. The result is three times the amount you started with, enough to serve ten people. Tomato Relish.--One peck ripe tomatoes, chopped and drained over night in a bag, two cups chopped celery, two cups chopped onions, three green peppers chopped, one quart strong vinegar, two pounds brown sugar, three tablespoonfuls salt, two tablespoonfuls cinnamon, two ounces mustard seed. Stir all together well, bottle and seal. No cooking. Keeps any length of time. GRAPES. Grape Juice.--To two gallons of grapes put three quarts of water; cover and let boil until grapes break. Steam, and to six quarts of juice add two pounds of granulated sugar. Let come to a boil, skim, put into bottles hot, and seal. Grape Sherbet.--Two pounds Concord grapes, two lemons, one quart water, one pound sugar; lay a square of cheesecloth over a large bow]; put in the washed grapes and mash thoroughly ; squeeze out all the juice and add Grave amount of sugar, the lem juice. Use sugar enough to make it quite sweet, then freeze. © ATTRACTIVE RECIPES. Pumpkin Pie.--One cup pumpkin cooked fine, one egg, one level tablespoonful of flour, two-thirds of a cupful of sugar or sweeter if de- sired, a pinch of salt, one-half tea- spoonful ginger, one-quarter tea- spoonful cinnamon or allspice, enough milk to fill one pie. Bake with lower crust only and brown slightly on top. Tart Filling.--Lemon or orange paste for tarts: Juice of one lemon or orange and pulp, one egg, one cupful of sugar, one tablespoonful of melted butter. Set it in boiling water to thicken. Put on the tart crusts. If they are deep enough this can be frosted. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. x Scrubbing brushes, if hung in We air, will last twice as long as they would if allowed to lie dn a damp place. When sticking labels on canisters add a little honey to the flour and water paste, and then the paper will not peel off. After trimming a lamp turn the wicks down. or else when ligh the lamp will be found to be cover- ed with oil aS seth is :) A ; Cs A Larder Hint.--If a ham, slight cracking noise. Stewing is the best and most eco- nomical way of cooking meat. It needs yery little heat, and the rege- tables, so necessary for the flavor, inorease the bulk. Discolored Teapot.--If your pot is of rough china or pottery you may haye some difficult~ in getting rid of the stains. Stand ammonia and water in it, and then scrub weil with crystal soap. Repeat till clean. Difficulty is often met with ia beating whites of eggs, when they absolutely refuse to froth. Do not be discouraged, but for every egg white add two drops of pure glycer- ine, then they will whip quickly to a froth light and stiff. The glycer- ine is harmless and merely has a drying effect, causing the evapora- tion of moisture from the egg. It is an excess of moisture which ex- cludes the air from the cells of albu- men. Also add the glycerine to fresh eggs and they will froth in half of the usual time required. The above has been proved by repeated experiments. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL STUDY INTERNATIONAL LESSON, OCTOBER 29. -- << Lesson V.--A psalm of deliverance, Psa. 85.° Golden Text! Psa. 126, 3. A Psalm-of the sons of Korah -- There are two gtoups of psalms in this third book of the Psalter. The sons of Korah, who were respon- sible for those from 84 to 89, made up a guild of singers connected with the temple, and these psalms were collected by them for the temple service. The rest of the book, Psalms 73-83, were collected by the sons of Asaph, who held a similar position, Verse 1. Thou has been favorable --The first three verses breathe a spirit of gratitude for the mercies of Jehovah in bringing home the captive people, forgiving their ini- quity, and taking away his wrath. Thy land--Judah was in a special sense the chosen territory of God for the working out of his redemp- tive purpose. The captivity of Jacob--Referring in particular to the period of sev- enty years in the land and under the sway of Babylon. Jacobwis an- other name for Israel (Gen. 32. 28), 2. Selah--This word occurs 74 times in the Hebrew Bible and 71 times in the Psalter. There is no uniform tradition as to its precise meaning. The most acceptable theory makes it a kind of musical interlude, the instruments at this point sounding forth loud, while the voices of the singers ceased. 3. Taken away all thy wrath--All the prophets looked upon the cala- mities that befell Israel as sure signs of the displeasure of God. The smile of prosperity meant that the divine anger was averted, and had given place to favor. All these de- scriptions of passion in God are, of course, a human way of speaking. But they declare a great fact. The wrath of God is not a weakness in him. It indicates the intensity of his antagonism to all evil. 4. Turn us--We have here a pray- er for the restoration of God's fa- vor (verses 4-7). "Turn to us' ex- presses this more accurately. A dis- couraging hour has arrived. It may be that hour just before the build- ing of the temple, or, it may reflect the state of things in the troublous times of Nehemiah. 5. Draw out thine anger--It seem- ed to the weary people, after their hard captivity that the tokens of Jehovah's displeasure ought now to cease, and not be dragged out for the coming generations. 6. Quicken us again--Ezekiel's vision of the valley of dry bones. and the wonderful reawakening of life within them, may have been in the mind of the singer. The pro- phecies of restoration imply a be- lief in the spiritual and~ temporal resuscitation of the nation. 7. Thy loving kindness--A prayer for that particular manifestation of it which would be at once evident in prosperity attending the efforts to re-establish the nation. Salvation, in like manner, was, in this case, a deliverance from threatening evils. But in a-deeper, inner sense, these words can even now. be made a prayer of any humble heart seeking the evidences of God's loving re-| gard. §-13.--A delightful picture of the sure results of answered prayer. 8. I will hear--He has been speak. ing to Jehovah;-he now listens to what Jehovah has to say. It is = wise counsel that directs the wor shipper not only to speak often ted| with God. but to let God specu. often to him. : He wiil speak peace unto his peo- rye ea "yes to turn re is ce forgis or 0 ha isposition to e re- in a stern re- back again to the old io. 9. Salvation is nigh--He has prayed for salvation, and now he receives this message concerning it --that it is ever present to those who reverence Jehovah with be- coming fear. The pres€nce of God's salyation is like the glory of the Shekinah which abode in the taber- nacle (Exod. 40. 34, 35). 10. Mercy and truth--When God brings his salvation nigh, he shows mercy, but he does not compromise his character. So the Word came to dwell among men, full of both grace and truth (John 1). These at- tributes of the divine life, together with the righteousness which is the fruitage of the inward salvation, and the peace which abides in the heart of the upright, are to adorn the lives of men also. A new won- der is to appear; truth, a charac- teristic of the life of God, is to spring up out of the soil of earth (11). And righteousness (11), which dwells alone with God, is to conde- scend td stoc> from heaven to the lowly habitation of men's hearts. Thus a perfect harmony is to be eff between earth and hea- ven. This was in keeping with the most advanced ideas of the Jewish prophets. Their heaven was a re- habilitated earth. 12. Yea, Jehovah will give... good--Not only blessings of a lofty spiritual nature, but everyday mer- cies as well, such as an increase in the productiveness of the land. The psalmist speaks of our land with a peculiar and patriotic affection. The Messianic reign, to the Hebrew, meant outward conditions of peace and prosperity as a pledge of di- vine favor. 13. Righteousness--It is repre- sented as a herald going before Jehovah, opening up the way for the restored nation to walk in, that a bright and safe future may be assured God's people. All the ways of Jehovah are right ways. eA ELECTRIFIED CHILDREN. Reports of Experiments in Sweden in Hastening Their Growth. Interesting investigations into the effects of electricity upon the evelopment of school children have recently been made in Stock- holm says the Dietetic and Hy- gienic Gazette. The walls and ceilings of a schoolroom were lined with a coil of wires through which a high frequency current was passed. The children in the room were thus in the position of an iron core in the centre of a magnetiz- ing coil. Fifty children were kept in this room, while fifty others of the same average age, sizé and mental development were kept in an ad- joining without electrical treat- ment. It is stated that at the end of six months the children under electrical treatment 'showed an ay- erage growth of two _ inches, while those without electricity grew only 1% inches. The electrified children showed an increase in weight in propor- tion to their height. The electrifi- ed children also showed an aver- age proficiency in their studies of 92 per cent., and fifteen of them showed 100 per cent. The unelect- rified children, on the other hand, were only 75 per cent. proficient on the average and not one of them reached 100 per cent. It is. added that the electrified children appeared to be much brighter, quicker and more active. They were prompter in attendance and much less subject to fatigue. The teachers also showed supedior working capacity in the electrified room. While there was an odor o ozone in the room, it was held that the presence of ozone would not ac- count for the results observed. A CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL. The consumption of alcohol is diminishing in France and the big- ger the city the more mark is the diminution. Dr. Jacques Bertilion has just drawn up stat- istics showing the consumption of aleohol since 1900 in thirty-three French cities. The main factor in causing the decrease is the ap- plication of the law of 1807, which exempted wine and beer and great- ly increased the taxes on distilled beverages. Formerly the consump- tion of alcohol was in All cities uniform at 7 to 8 litres a head, while it was only 2 litres 84 cen- tilitres in the country districts. Since 1901 the cénsumption has dropped to 6 litres in towns of from 4,000 to 10,000 inhabitants and to 4 litres 23 centilitres in cities of more than 50,000 inhabi- tants. In the country districts there has been. no change. 7 \ pe Os GERM-PROOF HOUSE. A doctor in Yokohama, Japan, has built himself a house that is proof against microbes. The walls are built of hollow bricks of glass, the interstices being filled up with a solution of salts and soda, which ta intended to reculate the temner- ature of theirteriar. The -rindows ora hermetirat!+ cleared ond nir is sdmitted to the b-~ -'~ through filters. THE BEAUTIFUL OLD TOWN | ss NEAR LONDON. os A Favorite Place of Residence for the Kings and Queens of England. 7 The fact that King Manoel has been living at Richmond reminds one of numerous associations with royalty which the old town possesses, sayS the English Lady's Pictorial, King Manoel really only followed the example of early Kings of England. Edward I. and II. resided at Sheen, as Richmond was then call- ed, and Edward III. died there in 1377. Richard Il. after the death of his Queen at the ape partially demolished the building and Henry V. restored it. In 1498 the palace was burnt, but Henry VII. rebuilt it, giving it his own name of Rich- mond, and died there in 1509. It is recorded too that a foreign King was entertained there in the sixteenth century, for Philip I., King of Spain, having been driven upon the coast of England by a storm, was entertained in this palace with great magnificence 'in the year'1506, and in 1523 Charles Y., Emperor of Germany, was lodg- ed at Michmond: Henry VIII. was only an_occa- sional resident, preferring Hamp- ton Court, and When Wolsey's palace was transferred to the King the Cardinal réceived permission to reside at Richmond. Being ac- customed to THE PRESENCE OF ROYALTY. Richmond did not take kindly to th change and Hall says: "When the common people, and exspecially such as had been ser- vants to Henry VII., saw the Card- inal keep house in the Manor Royal of Richmond, which that monarch s0 highly esteemed, it was a marvol to hear how they grudged, saying, 'So a butcher's dogge doth die in the manor of Richmond.' "' Queen Elizabeth was for a short period aprisoner at Richmond during the reign of Mary, and even forcible detention there could not blind her to the charms of the place, so that in her own reign the palace was ono of her favorite residences, and a royal visitor in the time of of Queen Elizabeth was Eric Y., King of Sweden. Queen Elizabeth died at Richmond in 1603, One may assume that the place was a favorite of Charles I., as ho enclosed the Richmond'Park. Lord Buckhurst and Edward Sackville in 1636 performed a masque before the King and Queen at Richmond, Rich- mond Palace suffered very greatly during the civil war ; practically the whole place was: pulled down and only a very small portion of the old building now remains, -- Richmond, too, has many associa- tions with the Georges, as has Twickenham, just across the river, Marble Hill, Twickenham, ono of the estates in the neighborhood now devoted to public uses, was built by George II. for his favorite, Mrs, Howard, afterwa COUNTESS OF SUFFOLK, and the plain looking building is hardly perhaps so magnificent as one would expect from a place of which, according to Swift, 'Mr. Pope was the contriver of the gar- dens, Lord Herbert the architect and the Dean of St. Patrick's (him- self) chief butler and keeper of the icehouse."? Mrs. Fitzherbert, the beautiful morganatic wife of George IV., whom he married when Prince of Wales, also lived at Marble Hill. Twickenham is associated with France's royal family and Orleans House received its name when the Duke of Orleans came to reside there in 1800. York House, Twick- enham, where Queen Anne was born, was for many years the resid- ence of the Comte de Paris and is now in possession of Ratan Tata, a wealthy Indian. Crossing the river once more we can inspect the romantic Ham House, which is full of legends of the past. In its earlier days Ham House had royal associotions until it came into possession of Sir Lionel Tollemache through his wife, Elizabeth. Countless of Dysart. Her second husbend was the Duke «of Lauderdale and it was at Ham House that the meeting of the Cabal took place. One of the most pic- turesoue traditions--a tradition dis- proved, however--is that the iron gates' have only been opened once since they were shut on Charles T. Returning to Richmond, the shooting box of George III. is one of the evidences of how the park 'waa used for sport from the davs of Charles I. upward, and it is only in comparatively recent vears that the numbers of plantations havel been reduced, the opportunities for sport diminished and incidentally much af the wild life of the park has suffered. Tho inaldents which led to the en- closing of Richmond Park as a royal pour ground have resulted now A LOVELY PARK l haing opened to the public general- 'he views [rom the higher -|Maturally hollow and present Queen spent her early = where the Prince of Wales orn. Everything is royal at Richmond dostn to the ancient watermen'¢ tta, and even the humb cheese cake is there a honor." quite recently.lay in the boat yards and doubtless the surroundings in« duced a former M. P. to be pe contented with ordinary modes ©! (progression on the river and te @ ocanopied barge row by, ay coated watermen. But that as gone with the Maria Wood, last relic of ancient City processio upstream, and Richmond is no content to be modern, but not s@ modern as neighboring places which disfigures their roadways with use- ful but inelegant and unromantio trams. | _Richmond has its share of waters. side men, who as King's Watermen show something of the old page- antry of the river on state occas, sions, among them the King' Bargemaster, who in private life the host of A RIVERSIDE INN, but on such a State occasion as L ' coronation fetohes the regalia fro the Tower and takes his place quaint, old fashioned costume at the head of the sovereign's pro-| cession. j Prince of Wales may eventually be found in Richmond proves correct the town will rejoice greatly. "Mean-| while it has this year welcomed as, a resident not the heir to a throne but an exiled sovereign, and one may hope that the residence in the' town of King Manuel may have some effect in making Richmond: once more a fashionable centre, for of late years the place has suffered; through the motor car making it "too near town."? , } In turning over old books of the' Thames one is apt to muse ovér old, masques, fetes and pageants and! compare them favorably with mod-' ern efforts at the picturesque; but! one must doubt if Pepys or Evelyn! saw anything so brilliant as the: Thames fetes which Richmond still | at Ditton offered to their guests! anything more charming than the mcdern carnivals. pericrrmmsitnicnnis OR rans: secant pom TREE CISTERNS OF SUDAN. The Natives' Method of Obtaining Water in the Dry Season. In view of the many suggestions made for the bringing down of rain it is interesting to note that in the Gezira district tothe south of Khar-' the fields and are made to clap their hands and shout vigorously, writes a Cairo correspondent of. the Pall Mall Gazette. ; The idea is that rain will be brought down, and the little boys and girls are kept out in the open at this game until the wished for. result has been obtained. This year there have been rainstormsin| superabundance in the district, s0 the children's intercession has not! been required, or perhaps the ab-| normal rainfall is due to their. vigorous action in the past. , The latest Sudan Times gives a most interesting account of ane of the means of which the inhabitants of Kordofan provide themselves with a copious water supply in that arid springless reigon. It is nothing more or less than the adansonia digitata, called by the natives homr, but commeniy knewn as tebeldi. These tebeldi trees are from 10 to 25 feet in diameter; they grow to aconsiderable height, | with trunks about 20 to 20 feet and' fine branches, giving avast amount of shade. } Strange to say, the trunks are are thus| used as cisterns for the storage of water. Should the cavities not be} large enough the natives scoop) them out further. An opening is, made either in the side of ty trunk near the top or right atte top where the branches start. In the former case the tree is filled; with buckets from pools which are dug at the foot of the treo to col-| lect, the rainwater during the rainy season. In the latter case the; tree is filled by nature when the rain falls; the branches acting as' sort of gutters. i At times the trees cracks, but; this occurs very rarely, and t 2 'trunks are no longer of any use} | as reservoirs. However, lately the: ;resourceful native has adopted, 'cement as a means of stopping tp 'the cracks and a large number , tebedis have been repaired inthis 'manner. Curiously enough presence of such a large quantity 'of water in the trunk in nowise im : pedes its growth, and it is certain- ily one of the most ingenious de- | vices of nature for circumventing natural difficulty. sf Every cultivator has his tebeldf tree, which ig indispensable to hit work. These trees are looked upos as personal property and on the death of a land owner his tebeldig pass as heirlooms to his san). mnake stately journeys upstream in in. | e If rumor that a residence for the gives us at times or if the dandies| tum whenever a drought is threat- ening al] the children are sent into - »