Homemade Salted Nuts. fe Salted nuts are always accept- able as a part of the refreshment | - for afternoon and evening enter- tainments, and as an adjunct to fhe simple home dinner as as as to the one. : They are expensive when they are bo ught r salted, and unless these are bought of a reliable cater- er they sometimes taste stale. They tan be made easily, inexpensively . and well made at home. colander full of them over a kettle Peanuts are appetizing and so half full of boiling water, Keep much less expensive than almonds the kettle covered on the back of that it is a wonder they are not the range. more often substituted for almonds,| Colored goods shouldsbe ironed To salt them buy unroasted peanuts' while damp and upoi the wrong. --which can easily be purchased side. Delicate colors should not be! from any street vendor of peanuts, | subjected to a hot. iron, because | Shell them and remove the inside this' fades them quite as much as, skins by letting them stand for a hanging on the line in the sun. few minutes in. boiling water, after! A good Juncheon dish is made of which the skins may be removed the macaroni and stewed tomatoes easily between the thumb and fore-|left from the night before. Heat finger. Leave them in the hot wa- them over again together and serve, ter only long enough to wilt or or pour into a baking dish, cover cook the nuts. with bread crumbs and bake till There are several ways of brown- | brown. Ing the nuts. ne way is to put two teaspoonfuls of olive oil--it must be of good quality--in a pan and roll the nuts in it. Then put them in a brisk oven and - leave them there until they are brown. Another way is to put a table- spoonful of oil in the bottom of 4 chafing dish, turn the heat full on and drop in enough nuts at a time to cover the bottom of the pan. eep the nuts moving over the flame until they have turned a de- licate brown. Almonds shelled and _ blanched, 'and pecans, carefully cracked but . not blanched, can be salted in the| Brassey is seventy-seven years old same manner as peanuts. and was born with the first rail- When they are brown turn them; ¥8y- 'in a paper and sprinkle them with Of his parentage he mukes a re- isalt. Let them cool before taking; cord: "For myself, I am proud to 'them from the paper, which absorbs| know that I am the son of a con- the superfluous o}] and makes them| tractor for pub! ic works, whose pleasanter to handle. good reputation was the best part of the heritage which descended to his sons." When the first of Eng- lish railways was in contemplation, Stephenson was shown over the tion of gelatine, straw- ah ce and hot water--makes a bated ie "alae. served. on lettuce leaves. Tt is _an excellent idea to. havea cee chest. in guest room. uld-contain emergency things-- a alebiecen, a bathrobe, slippers, soap, sree 'cloths, even a: bra: Tt h. an cloths are needed con- ante in time of sickness, keep a a LORD BRASSEY. Has Resigned the Post cf Warden of Cinque Ports. Lord Brassey is not unknown to Canadians, and the news that he = resigned the Wardenship of the Cinque Ports has been received in this country with interest. It. is only a couple of years since he and his famous yacht, The Sunbeam, were seen at all the principal har- bors on the Great Lakes. Lor Creole Secrets for Soup. Here are some rules that the old Creole cooks give for soup making brown, is also a savory luncheon} a ' Bey jelly--apples, bananas. le chopped and put in-} xp board the Sunbeam have given him the clue to many of the difficulties | ' of the labor question. As a sailor he has the respect of his men; he has their respect, too, for own: ing a thoroughly serviceable and sporting yacht. is sporting be- cause she goes vast journeys; be- | cause she is a little boat that faces big waves.. She can round" 'the world with a complement of no more than eighteen seamen and three stokers. Lord Brassey has never been a timid master, He be- lieves with Browning that-- "The honest earnest man must stand and work, Accepting serfdom." And he believes that most men, at the call, are honest and -- Thus he has taken on, in obse foreign ports, men left behind by ether vessels for insubordination, and found them excellent. He is not primed full with the anxiety--the curb = curse of the conventional man--of doing exactly the right hing exatly right. Even 'to cricket he brings something of a sailor's happy- go-luckiness; and his tenacity at the wicket shows his zest for the bat. This tenacity. perhaps, was in the mind of the Normanhurst butler, who, as um- pire in one of Lord Brassey' 8 most delightful ,stories, found it a very delicate matter to give a decision against his master. Lord Brassey had got his leg in front of a straight ball. "How is it?" yelled the field. The batsman turned a severe eye on James of the white coat, who said, after a pause: 'I'm occasion and Departure of the Old Yea Compare] Isa Moment of rred to as a scribe. Hath| f not where to lay his head--The pub- "Oh, God: on help in ages past, wity and travel, so that he |oot heard and responded - ing the kingdom of God. Evy aden the man had either offered a ficti- tious excuse for not make a rule for everybody to tok low literally. he makes very plain in the ne sentence, in which he makes sicad ness for the kingdom of God As they went on their way-- in the paragraph on cal sequence' that lesson. closely in time with what diately precedes. A certain village--Bethany, the Mount of Olives (John 11. 1, 18). | in the house of Simon the leper, the Master's feet. Simon's daughter or even wife. not be present, manded the separation of from other people. trouble in order to do to their distinguished guest. centering her mind wholly upon the of dt vel a0 of ae Our 'hope 'for years to come." }eickneas with health reBO entirely the usual ¢om- fi home dife. Leave the dead to bury their own dead--Let those who are so engrossed with the af- ,<} fairs of everyday life that they ver call Of the gospel attend * ro pe matters as'you put forth-as an ex- cuse for not immediately proclaim- following Jesus immediately or by his entire manner manifested a flippant and superficial attitude toward the in- vitation. extended, thus calling forth the Master's. stern reply, © which he himself- would hardly What Jesus would have all excuse makers a or fastness and fidelity the test of fit- this point we resume the narrative of our last lesson, though here too we must remember what was said to contemplate what is to come and *'chronologi- to consecrate the interval of tran- in connection with sition by new and solemn dedica- The passage which tions of the spirit. follows may or may not be related | imme-; this summit of the days, what comes In Mark 14. 3 and Matt. 26. 6 we, read of a feast prepared for Jesus Martha serving and Mary anointing It has been con- jectured that perhaps Martha was his In either case Simon would since the law de- lepers Cumbered about much serving-- Martha evidently had gone to much due honor In --Isaac Wa tts. Again, the 'New Year! 'Agata; pha ega--the beginning k= ed road--before us the road that is still untrod ; behind, the written re- cord--before, the empty page; be- hind, the dead actualities of the living possibili- It is true that, in the changeless process of the uni- versal order, this passing of time between the last day of December and the first day of January indi- care nothing more than that the arth has turned again upon its aii, as it has turned innumerable times before, and has advanced one step upon that circling course about the sun which has no end. It "is true that, in the sight of God, thousand years are but as pil day when it is past, and as a watch ,in the night.'? Therefore, do we At Pause, as a traveller halts when he comes to the crest of a hill, | To Survey What is Passed, And as we thus gaze about us, on 60 readily to our minds as the words near'of the famous hymn which I have |taken for my text {--"God, our help in ages past,"' and , "our hope for years to come.'"' Is not this the abiding message of the new year! Behind us is the definite experience of the Divine Spirit working at the task of its creative handiwork, Here is God fashioning worlds out of the early fire-mist, clothing the earth in verdant garments, guiding the evolution of organic life from the amoeba and protozoa to "Shakes- peare's brain and the good Christ's heart;" leading mankind onward and upward through long centuries of agony, struggle and defeat; dis- and Pe the end!- Behind us the travel- | N. r and Coming of the . New ~ Vast Significance {placing ignorance wit i kceledion with civilization ; i "Breathing in the Seiabents creed, "Pulsing in the 'hero's blood, - erving simplest thought and deed Freshening time with truth Consecrating. art and song, Holy book and pilgrim track, ee floods of tyrant wrong From the sacred limits back !" This is what is behind us. And be- cause this divine "help"? has been |constant i in the past, so do we have \ 'hope"' that it will continue in the future. We may have doubts aboug the years that are ah It may Pag as though the worst and not the "best (was) yet to be." Sorrow and failure may be besetting us as a|individuals, and forces of reaction or destruction may seem to be threatening to overwhelm the race. But surely, however dark the hori- zon, We Can Fear No Evil. God is in His world to-day just as He was yesterday, and He will still be in His world to-morrow just as He is to-day. The sun will follow the course which He has traced and the stars shine on the posts which he has. set. Prophets and poets will reveal His inspiration in burn- ing words, heroes and martyrs at- test His will in sacrificial blood, the multitudes climb to heights of joy and peace and righeousness as yet unknown, in witness of is perpetual guidance. "God is not dumb, that He should speak no mete"--God is rtot dead, that He should help no more! Thus, as we stand upon the sum- mit of the days, may we survey the past with thankfulness and the fu- ture with confidence. As God has been "our help in ages past," so is He '"'our hope in years to come." Hail to the glad New Year !--Rev. John Haynes Holmes. barbarian : etd ; '_and if you have ever been in Louisiana you know that their soup is worth emulating: To get the most goodness out of a soup bone it should be fractured every inch of its length. The soup should never stop cooking from _the time. it is ei on the more. until it Once rey ip -eooking, 'ho water should Se "added, as this spoils the fi avo The soup tom should be put into cold water and no salt should be added till the soup is done, as the salt stops the flow <f the juices. The soup shonld cook from five to seven hours at least. All spices used in the soup should be put in whole--that is, whole black and white peppers, cloves, bay leaves, cloves of garlic, ete. One quart of water should be al- pra for every pound of meat and ne, to begin with. This is a rule of the Creoles, but they make rich soup. It weaker soup is to be made,' or if vegetables as well as meat are: used in the stuck, the amount of wa-! ter can be-increased. Hints for the Home. Common soap, rubbed on the hinges of a creaking dvor, will do away with the trouble. Fasten a pincushion to the ei of the sewing machine arm an whole minutes will be saved. A hot water platter is a boon ta | the housewife whose "men folks" frequently late for dinner. The business man's lunch of a) gluss of milk and a piece of apple' pie is really a well-chosen meal. Add a pinch of borax to the rins-! ing water of handkerchiefs, if you would have them a little stiff. 3aked apples are delicious with their cores filied with orange mar- malade or chopped nuts and sugar. Irons will heat mere quickly and stray hot longer if a cake tin or other cover is turned upside down over them. An ordinary piece of mince pie is gaid to be the equal in food value to a piece of beef, a slice of bread and a potato. A faded carpet can be brjghtened and cleaned by rubbing with warm water and ammonia, with a file borax in it. The dessert that fails in ith ap- peal to the palate is a wasted at- tempt, for desserts are eatgn for pleasure, not hunger. Wet the kitetien stove while cold with a cloth dipped in kerosene oil; then apply the blacking. The stove will keep clean much longer "All odors end here" is the in- flexible rule of charcoal. If charcoalsis made red-hot and then cooled before using, its virtues are increased. Borax is the best hairbrush clean. er. Add a teaspoonful of borax and a tablespoonful of soda to the water in which the hairbrush is to ewan A change the children will appre- 2| of a brig in bad weather to say the Lord Brassey. Brassey works by their owner. On leaving Stephenson said: "Well, young man, there is something | promising about you. I see a great. field for railways. jfor you to fallow my banner." The | young man did, tendered for a por-! tion of the Liv 'erpool Railway, and! got it; during the construction o | the first ten miles of that railway Lord Brassey was born. The sequel is well known. "Here | comes a man with brass on his face, brass on his tongue, brass in his pocket, and his name is Brassey," was the description--the first clause }of which demands that one should have seen the tanned sailor recent- j | ly returned from a scorching voy- | age---given by one of Lord Brassey's earliest opponents at the hustings. |'The tan has never been allowed to disappear; the brass has given out. bord Brassey bas his museum in his house in Park Lane. Like all sailors, he comes home with, so to speak, a parrot and a handkerchief full of treasures. In Australia he found opals for Lady Brassey's hair, and a whole stock of proper- tiés for his glass cases. To the or- dinary man some of Lord Brassey's exhibits may savor a little too much of the Imperial Institute. There is the mark of the British possessions on most of his trea- sures; and his interest, in things is essentially a Britisher's interest. Lord Brassey's style, as a writer, reminds one of his museum. It is constructed on a conscientious ba- sis. That is to say, he is at no pains to be picturesque or lively. He breaks away from a description right thing about owners and "in- surance; and the right thing is like oil on the waters; it spoils 6 storm. At_evyery foreign port his habit, when he arrives, is to make a dry survey of the commerce, pop- ulation, character of the natives, elevation of surrounding hills, main buildings, and beauty of the view. Inasmuch as he is able to gr the | J ciate is the Micnk, of mincemeat in tart shape. Sim line patty pans with-ihe pastry aid then fil! 'them, covering the top. It would be well | never | afraid I must say. 'Not at home', your Lordship." "What do you mean?" queried Lord Brassey, still hesitating. "Well, then, if you will have it,'? came the answer, tea mean you are hout!' INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JANUARY 25. Lesson IY. Serving Jesus. Luke 8. 1-3; 9. 57-62; 10. 88-42. Golden Text, Matt. 25. 40. Grouping Events According to Subject Matter. The materia) for our present lesson comprises three separate events taken from differ- ent portions of Luke's longer nar- | rative and having no direct chrono- ogical connection with each other. n chosen rather on a relationship in | thought and teaching, a principle of selection permissible in all our istndy of the Bible, and. quite in harmony with a method followed by the gospel writers themselves in various parts of their several nar- ratives. In the lesson outline we have indicated the sequence of thought which this grouping of our lesson outline presents. Verses 1-3. Soon afterward--Fol- lowing the events which transpired n the home: of the Pharisee an which are recorded in the closing verses of the preceding chapter. Good tidings--This is the literal meaning of our word gospel; of the word evangel, ithe words "evangelism,"' "evan gelical," etc., are derived. Mary that was called Mentsians _ Meaning probably that her home was at Magdala, a village which is commonly identified with the mod- ern village of Mejdel, on the west- ern shore of the Sea of Galilee. It' was customary so to distinguish from each other persons having a very common name. The afflictions from which this woman had been freed by Jesus external service and hospitality she lost, in part at least, the deeper joy of fellowship with the Master which the occasion of his visit made ways an opening in the middle of the window that ensures a free cur- rent of air. In addition, whenever ee tee ot ey eh ee a il effects. ° The enemy is really @ also} possible and of _ whic spir: eae mindéd was not utely ep and '| when Rema to rob "her ap the greater 'blessing which the oocasion an encum- of afforded, brance blessing. it became rather than a& source her. more sister enna the room.is empty for a short time. the windows may be opened se Tt is not a good thing to we be' light and HOE too m many "Exer cise will supply the best "kind of warmth because it makes the blood circulate freely. And if, despite such precautions! as have been suggested, a cold at- pS = ~~ os Go's oe HEALTH: bec ecceceeed A Cold in the Head. We often hear of a cold "going through the house," and many peo- ple are content to take no steps to check its progress. They see one victim after another succumb to the infection, and calmly await their own turn. An ordinary cold in 'the diphtheria is, though fortunately much less severe, and as a rule un- attended by any complications. Its cause is not, as we formerly sup- posed, exposure to fresh air, 'or rain, or fog, for workers in mount- oy observatories are often expos- to such conditions without any microbe, or rather various mi- crobes, for while diphtheria, example, is always caused by one special germ, a cold may be brought about by many germs totally dif- from whieh a ferent from each other. there are predisposing causes in the case of certain individuals who take cold more easily than others. It would be well for such people to try and track their frequent colds to the real source. In many cases it will be found that they spend the greater part of their time in close, hot, overcrowded, ill-ventilated, or dusty rooms, These yeonditions tend 10 lower the system's power); of resistance to germ attacks of all': kinds, and the man who gets off;? were doubtless such as affected the | brain and nervous system, since it. was these ailments that were com- | monly attributed to demon posses- | sion. Unless Mary Magdalene ja. to be identified with the sinful wo-| man mentioned in the preceding! chapter, and there is no sufficient | ground for such identification, de- | mon possession is\nowhere in the New Testament. associated 'with'! low moral character. Both Mary: Magdalene and Joanna are men-| events of resurrection Anorning. Chuzas, the husband of Joanna, is nowhere else mentioned unless we identify him, as et suggests, with the*nobleman mention in Jo 4, 46-53. state-and chances of shipping here, there, and everywhere, his ohserva- tions are of considerable value, but @ his whole house." of Herad Antipas, lee, he wouldbe manager of fhe with nothing worse than a cold jn}° 'the head may count himself lucky. Then again the victim of constant; colds may possibly suffer from some 'abnormal growth in the nose which, 'lowers the vitality of the mucous, membrane, making it specially sus-; ceptible. In such a case an opera- tion may be necessary, but fre quently this is not a very seriou ;one, and when it is over the suffer- er has no more trouble with colds. | Where there is no such reason to tioned again in connection with the 'account for colds in the head they| where it had been introduced by can generally be warded off if care be taken to keep all rooms, includ- ing the bedroom, thoroughly venti- | lated. There should be no actual' ught if a window be fitted with o believed witha board some three inches deep! we do know, and that is that As the steward that rests on the lower part of the Drake. had nothing to do with it. tetrarch of Gali- frame, so that the sash shuts down Yet'Germany has erected statues to ests it. In this way there is al- head is an infectious fever just as} t; tacks you go to for a couple of days, and by keeping away from the rest of the family spare them exposure to infection.--A Physician. ee MONUMENTS TO POTATOES. Several German Towns Have Thus Glorified the Vegetable. beings, to animals, known to the writer, to a lifeboat, but it been réserved to many to rear monuments tothe po- ato. At Offenberg, in Germany, a pri- vate donor erected. a really! beautiful monument in honor of the | potato. The upper part is a statue of Sir Francis Drake, who is al- | leged to have introduced the plant inte Europe. This, and the pedes-! tal also, is draped with garlands of the potato plant, with full-grown | * tubers. On one side of the pedes- tal is Drake's name, on another side is an inscription in praise of the potato, on another the fame of the donor i is given. Nor is this the only German town having a monument to the glorifica- tion of the potato. Thy» ztown © Murz has a similar status 2) Drake and the potato, and in several of ithe emall towns of the empire there are similar monuments. The funny thing about these sta- tues to Drake in association with | the introduction of the potato is {that Drake had no more to do with! ie matter than you have. Accord-| g to popular belief the introducer | ate the potato was Sir Wilter Ra-! leigh. Raleigh heard of such a! plant from his people whom he had tsent out to colonize America, and he hae some sent to him in Ireland, | where he is alleged to have caused, ~ m to be planted. Such, at least, | the generally accepted version | of the introduction of the potato, | jis }s8 little to do with the matter as | Drake, for Raleigh found the pota- togalready growing in Ireland, the Spaniards before his time. But whether Raleigh or the Span- iards are the introducers of the po- tato we now stand little chance of knowing; of one thing, wever, Drake and the potato. Ger-| camera, 3 Young Folks playin the tiny back carton ot of Sale gt Dutch home when Betty and her father - and mother came by. Betty thought that they were the prettiest little gem girls she had ever seen. ad the reddest cheeks and the yalowet hair, and, such pretty dresses of gay striped rag with big black silk aprons. On their heads were dainty white caps, and they wore wooden shoes. They smiled at the strangers, and then they suddenly became shy and ran into the house. They peeped out of the window at Betty, who smiled and waved a friendly hand % at them. As she turned to go on, re monuments to human' the little girls ran out again, laugh- ae. & and, in one case, ing and waving their hands in turn, When Betty took out her little they looked greatly inter- ested, and made. signs.to her that she might take their photographs if she The. aiaele Dutch girls stood very still beside a bed of green cabbages while Betty focused the picture just right. Then she bent her head s0 that she would not embarrass them by looking at them. "Click" went ~ camers, and Betty had her pic- "When she looked at the little girls again, they were laughing and talking together as if it were: the greatest joke in all the world to have your picture taken. She call- ed out, 'Thank you!" to them, and ran on after her father and m> ther. When she reached home, and all of the picture films had been print-. ed, Betty looked eagerly to find the one that was taken in Marken, the one of the dear little Dutch girls in their tiny back garden by the cab- bage bed. But when she found the picture at last, it was a very nice | view of the tiny Dutch house, and the little garden, and the cabbage bed, but--just ag the camera had clicked; while Betty's head. was ' bent--those little girls had throwa their black silk aprons up over their heads, and there was nothing to be | seen. of them but their striped skirts and wooden shoes No wonder that they had laughed . so merrily after the picture was taken; and how Betty laughed, too, +! although we know that Raleigh had, when she saw the joke !--Youth's ; Companion. a His Foolish Father. "IT suppose you keep hard at work these days?" ; "No. *m Not doing anything just now.' 2 thought your father had given ou a position in the bank." "He did, but he wanted me earn my salary." to ee