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ms eyes. - '7‘ STEAMER VS. DOUBLE BOILER. I For cooking oat flakes. rice and JAPANESE LETT many other forms of cereal food, the . steamer fitted over a kettle of boiling The Japanese address .’ . . the reverse of what we do} water, 18 by far the most convement try first the state applxance. Oat flakes or cat meal mm. -- Aâ€"’ V“ 9'. next then the t , my be stirred Winto a basin of proper. all 01 y the 51 number and m flomn I--. _â€"______ sunshine and air. healthy. They should be made aim};- ted crochet-cotton In a square or ° . . , sult- able sxze. When you wash them, if you will aghd a tablespoonfnl of Gold Dus Va ashmg Powder to the hot water, i: will VVASHING DISH CLOTHS. Kitchen cloths, must, of course, be washed daily, otherwise they harbor grease and odors and become un- There is a great need; of an ocrderly arrangement of facts in several lines touching household methods and ex- ner or home washed linen that we may fairly compare our price with that of some outsxde agency. Few housekeep- ers are able to assxgn to each. loaf of bread, for example, its share of the aggregate running expenses, fuel, ser- vants, wage and board, wear and tear of plant and possible waste of. materials. ' ITEMIZIN G HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES Cut your rags as they accumulate, and when you have enough colors take your sewing machine, with your rags at your right hand and- a small box or basket cm a chair to catch the rags us they fall. Lap the ends of the rags and fold together. Lengthen the stitch and sew the folded rags about an inch, Pull the threads as if you were going you go. By this method three times the amount can be sewed in a. day. fior baking powder or short biscuit. Roll it half an inch thick, line a basin or pan with it, put in the chicken, \that has already been cooked tender and seasoned, fill the dish half full of the gravy, add a generous lump of but- ter, put on the top crust,- cutting a slit for the steam to escape, and bake. Serve the remainder of the gravy with it. The gravy that iq put in with the chicken should be slightly thickened. Few cooks know the secret of “the boss chicken pie." Make a biscuit crustâ€"a crust as you would prepare it a boil. Then let the glassware 're- main in the water until it becomes cold again. A headache will almost invariablyi yield to the simultaneous application j of hot water to the back of the neck and the feet. A large glass 0f 110“ water taken before retiring is much.: better than cathartics in cases of ob- g stinate constipation, and taken night; and morning is excellent in ordinary: cases of dyspepsxa. ' A good bacon pickle is made as fol- lows: To each peck of salt addj'twoé ounces of refined saltpeter, and one: and a half pounds 0! brown sugar or molasses. Make the brine strong I enough to float an' egg. Keep! theI meat in this pickle for six weeks, then 1 take out and smoke; or when dry rub 3 with wheat flour and put in a dry? place. 5' Thin and valuable glass can be hard- ened after this fashion. Tie it around with hay, place over a fire. in cold wales; andjllow‘ the water to come, to Knitting wool can be made a fast color by soaking it in a) strong solu- tion of salt and water, taking it out after a few minutes' immersion and hanging to dry in the Open air. To clean sponges thoroughly dls- ! solve a handful of coarse salt; in a; pint of water. Soak and knead the sponges in this mixture for some lit- tle time; than rinse under a water]: faucet, and they will be as good as i One of the best mouse preventives is the foliage of the walnut tree. Even after the foliage has been dried} it 18 enid to be effectual in scaring away mtoe. SOME HOUSEHOLD HINTS. To thin the buckwheat pancake bat- ter wirth sweet mélk is to Imake the cakes tender, and they will also brown more delicately. Of the two evils, extravagance and scrimping, the last is certainly as de- plorable as the first; with the one a. fleeting pleasure is at least obtained, perhaps given, but the scrimper min- lsters neither to her own happiness nor to that of others. â€"-vv vvubvl’ LB cmt'the grease anfiv clean them i . n the tlme, dry them out in the kin“ A.) A:- The person who scrimps waStes as much as is saved. 6 Failure 'to provide 8'00‘1 nourishing food, when able to at- ford, is in reality an extravagance of the most reckless kind, for our bodily vigor, and mental power as well, is quick to feel the lack of. proper sus- tenance. 'sScrimping makes life a dreary routine, robbed of all attrac- tiveness, for peOple who scrimp seem to think they must also limit the amount of enjoyment in the world. To be comfortable is a sin in their eyes. THE EVIL 0F SCRIMPING. SEW’IN G RAGS‘ FM Home é 1y 5: stezu cook 1y co or 01 “Ami-n his eyes; In one of the big circuses there ‘is a big elephant that has not lain down awake he stands gentl.y swaying to . ‘ 1' he closes “Now, every spemalist has his own method of testing the sanity of every person he meets. You see, so accus- tomed do we become to looking behind a man’s brain, we get a mania {or so doing. One of the commonest methods is that of gum-g some sentence gen- erally full of 'r's. ‘Round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran,’ to be repeated, apparently only for a joke. In reality this is one of the surest tests as to the condition 61‘ a gnan’s brain. If he fail to be able to repeat it without getting hopelessly muddled, we, if possible, keep our eye an him.” A Sentence Whlch will Test Young Inclpl- ent Paresls. “The first symptoms of insanity," said the head of one of the big asylums are generally apparent to a specialist some two or three years before the suf- ferer becomes actually insane. Again. many thousands of people who die sane are mentally balanced on the yer-ge of madness all their lives. There Is only wanting some terrible shock to unhinge their brains. in a hogshead open at the top and a small holle near bottom on side of Ihogshead. so you: can draw off juice {when time comes. Let pumace re- : main in hogshead ten days, then draw gaff juice through this hole near bot- .t'om; then pull: plug back‘ in hole and draw off more the next day. Repeat this foraday or so till no juice re- mains in hogshead. But in the mean- time have a barrel similar to old- fashioned kra-ut barrels; open at t0p; gut your cider or apple juice in this arrel, throw cloth over top, and in two or three weeks you: have vinegar. Can a few apples early in the season. i Choose those that will cook tender and 1 will keep their shape. Those put up early have a finer flavor than those left to get insipid and tasteless to» ward spring. There are no less than thirty ways of preparing potatoes for the table. A correspondent tells how to make apple cider vinegar quickly. He says: Grind or beat your apples as usual, but do not press. Instead place them l The pickle manufacturer takes the vegezables, such as onions, cucumbers, gherkins, walnuts, cauliflowers, red ’and white cabbage, beans, etc., and {puts them in casks that contain brine, and the casks are headed up until they are required for use. When taken out 3 of the casks, the vegetables are wash- ! ed repeatedly, to free them from the Esalt, after which they are well; dried jand then scalded in vinegar. Next ithey are put in Open tubs, covered with vinegar, and allowed to remain until needed for putting into bottles gor jars. When put into these they {must be well covered with vinegar, otherwise they will further absorb jvinegar, allowing those at the top to become dry, and thls in turn will cause mold A housekeeper advises cutting up pumpkin for pies withcmt paring it. Stew in the usual fashion until t'en- der, then putt through a colander. This will remove the outer rind, and it has t0 80 through a sieve anyhow. As is well known, the best part of the pump- kin lies close to the skin. SUGGESTIONS TO HOUSEKEEPERS. Brine for pickling is made by add- ing sufficient salt to water to allow it to float an egg. Boil this an hour or so, and remove the scum. The brine may be used repeatedly if salt be add- ed to mlaintain the original strength. About one-third the. original amount will effect this. ing squash, sweet potatoes and other vegetables, but its great usefulness for cooking cereal foods seems to be mnderscood by few. red up after any desired recipe; may be steamed from two to four hours, ac- cording to size, then set into the oven and baked 30 minutes. Many good housewives use the steamer in prepar- or other trouble. Othen breakfast cereals may be cooked in the same way. Rice is washed, put into the steamer in a suitable dish, with plenty of hot water, suitably salted, and steamed two hours. It comeSoout thoroughly cooked, with every grain unbroken. The most important pre- caution is to see that there is enough water to allow for the swelling of the rice to many times itS'original bulk. Corn bread, or “rye and Indian,” stir- 1y salted boiling water, set into the steamer, and in less time than it can cook in a double boiler. it will be nice- ly cooked, with no danger of scorching JAPANESE LETTERS. we cxty, » the nam the street :55 6 last of an. â€"____ HOW? TO PICKLE. ress thelr letters we do, writing the gtate or province LLA ‘ Old Billionsâ€"~Are you sure, young that you love my daughter? 01mg Deadbnokeâ€"Oh, yes, sir I Just It is often said that weeds are a preventive of good farming {that there would be much less culuvauon of hoed amps if it. were not that the growth of weeds made it necessary. Yet where the cultivator is kept going all through the season, crops. In a season when dry weather prevails these losses are comparative- ly small, though even then the Weeds ‘ take water from the soil, which is nor. all returned when they are uprooted and buried in it. a The weed that is buried is surrounded by air spaces keeping the soil more porous than it otherwise would be, and therefore dry-' ing it out fasten The case is still worse as regards the fertility that the weed has taken. It was originally en- tirely soluble, but the weed has to fer- ment and be resolved into vegetable mold before it can beput in the same soluble condition. Yet, says Ameri- can Cultivator, we have known farm- ers to delay cultivation of hoed cr0ps so as to have more grass and weeds to be PIOWed under. _.__w v.- v 'V “mum-nob. The farmer should try to produce paSLure for stock as many months in the year as possible. .It can be leng- thened by having an early patch of some quick growing grass and re- serving some until late fall. He should always provide some soiling crop to tide him over the dry spells that usually come in late summer or fall. A patch of sugar corn is excel- lent for this purpose. Never try to handle more cattle than you can feed and shelter well. ' The surplus cream or butter can be made to pay for feed and care of cows and a neat profit besides, if handled so as 1.0 command the highest retail price and delivered direct 1.0 consum- er with a strict guarantee that it will always be found the best. The better class of town peOple are glad to pay the highest price for butter that can be always depended upon as the very best rather than use the cheap and. in- ferior articles on the market. , -,__ 7~ O â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" ku u... stuo This alone argues in favor of. better breeding and feeding and the young animal makes greater gains for food consumed than the older and heavier ones. :L‘he toy place once held by the heavy and over-ripe steer is being re- placed toâ€"day by the young, well-fin- ished steer, and well it is for both producer and consumer. if kept steauig growing they should toy the market uL that age as a baby beef. ’Lhe demands of the market to-_ day is for large, well-formed cattle either as milk or beef stock and the diilference between choice and com- mon.SLock is greater than {or years. 1110 choicest heifer calves should be Specially cared for L0 tak‘J we place 0: old and oullcd out cows. ’1hey should not be kept too flat. » The best males may be disposed of for breed- ers and those no; sold for that pur- pose converted into steers and with cull heifers fattened at perhaps two years old and sold for beef. A: the end of three or four months the milk, rations may be dropped. Calves raised in Lhis way‘ can be kept growing steadily from birth and need not suffer from the loss of the mother. Some good cutie rangers eiu m that calves Lhus raised make the hardiest cattle in aiter years. The calves will learn to eat milk at the first or second feeding and at two weeks old should begin to eat shelled corn and nip grass or hay. Then add in small quantities at first bran and cotton seed meal and increase as the calf matures. When calves come teach them to eat and they can be cheaply raised on sen-armed or skim-milk with the ad- dition of some shelled corn, bran and cotton seed meal with grass, clover, buy or fodder for bulk. Then with fine, large, well-shaped and uniformly colored cows breed to a pure-bred male that will insure the reproxiuction of those qualities. PROFIT IN CATTLE. That the average farm-er may make the most out of cattle he should se- lect one of the leading breeds and keep only the best. It will be wise to only keep one bree¢ says Guy Carker, that the cattle may have a uniform apn- Pearance and be more easily kept pure. Select the breed that suits your taste and facilities for handling best. If you are so situated that you can have a few private customers to con- sume your surplus dairy products, se- lect the dual-purpose cows for such a! cow undoubtedly exists toâ€"day. I LOSSES FROM WEEDS. Wm um. war the growth made Lt necessary. Yet utivator is kept going all {are skilled rifle shots. The first prize :11 the last contest was carried off by :1 fifteen-year-old girl. Her father, ,laueu aonauons. On one occasion the Prince of W'ales offered a cup for the dog which should collect the largest rum-01ml for the hospital, and Leo won Leo, a famous dog, belonging to the Women’s and Children’s Hospital of Cork, Ireland, has just died in that city. Leo was well known in Ireland and in many parts of England, for the was a solicitor of contributions for the i: stitution with which he was con- nected, and had collected over £1,000 for charity. He roam-ed about the meets of various cities (with an Al- pine barrel slung around his neck, and .n this receptacle benevolent persons .«laced donations. On one occasion the P131108 0": “Yale’s nffnrnrl o nisn {nun Jinn 8 me â€"â€"vv“‘ “we. “(AVG ”CCU terribly congested with people, for yes- terday the Tilbury and Southend rail- way ran forty-five special trains. carrying 30,000 passengers, along their line, not counting the 12,000 who an”- Lâ€" .he prize; Where the figures are available, they tell an extraordinary story. Thus, the amalgamated Southeastern and Chatham and Dover raxlways dispatch- ed fro-m London stations 118,839 pas- sengers during the three days. The Great Eastern railway carried 136,082 passengersâ€"4,000 more than last year â€"the most favored resort on the line being Southend, where 19,000 persons were delivered, while many thousands made for Epping Forest, Rye House, etc. Southend, indeed, must have been ;,..._.‘L1__ _ ‘for many of the companies have not I been able to com with the mass offig- luses presented to them, but it must be nearly a million. Five companies issued at their London stations from ‘ Friday till noon Saturday some 350,000 tickets, and this leaves out of account great lines like the London and South- western, Brighton and South Coast, the Great Northern and others, all carrying an enormous traffic. With- out exception the companies announce that the holiday traffic has been un- precedently heavy. ~The prospect of fine weather brought out the cyclists in great force, No fewer than 4,300 cycles were booked for \Vaterloo alone, . necessitating the provision of specialé DOG COLLECTED FOR CHARITY lmmeuse Business Done. Then by the Rall“ :1 y Companies. :All things considered, it is best not to be a railway booking-office clerk during the August bank holiday rush, says the London Telegraph. From morning till evening for three solid days there have been unbroken pro- cessions of holiday! makers making their way to the ticket Windows at all the London stations, and the clerks have known the rest. Exactly how mmy tickets have been dated and de- “““ '“VJ eat almost everything of which it is composed, all or none, and thereby surfeit themselves. .’It is prOper to give soft food, so as to feed some need. ed substances, but we believe three times a week to be suificient. Give whole grain and scatter it far and wide, or mix it with litter, thvus com- pelling each hen to hunt and scratch for all she receives, which will keep her .in health and promote egg pro- Experience shows that hard food is better than soft food for poultry, not that it contains more nutrition, but because hens are tempted to eat more than they should of. soft food. It also supplies the wants of the fowl more readily than the hard food and the in- ducement to work and scratch, so es- sential to its health and thrift, is less- ened. \Vhen giving soft food, too, the poultryrnan, by mixing several kinds, is liable to give more of one kind than may be needed, while with the hard grains the fowls have a greater pri- vilege of selection of that which they, prefer. ”With mixed soft food they1 eat almost everything of which it is For persons who raise a number of hens the. following few suggestions may not prove untimely: It is'the- peculiarity of most weeds that most of their growth is taken di- rectly from the soil, and that both it and the moisture to make the plant food soluble are needed by growing cr0ps. Each day’s growth of a weed among hoed craps lessens the yield. If the weed if left until late, its roots will be so intermingled with those of valuable crops that one cannot be de- stroyed without u'prooting the other. A little care in destroying the weeds while small will save much labor later, besides the inevitable shrinkage of the crop among which the weeds have been allowed to grow. VILLAGE OF RIFLE SHOTS weed seed is much smaller and has far less fertilizing material in it than has a grain of _b_arl_ey. . by {he'ihrough Midland route. LONDON BANK HOLIDAYS. HARD 0R SOFT FOOD. you're worth a 2y hypnotization, t ~ 0:6 Uhus predisposed to fall victimi" h lme. .Dr. Sydney Kuh finds “r“ ' anptlsm is a pathologioa ' PhYsmlogicai condition; its “9‘ \Yuhen resorted to too n a u The POiSODings that occur in nov- els and on the stage are usually very amusing to a student of toxicolog " sand the physician, in conclusion“ remember in ‘ Samuel of Posen,’ will was produced with such success by}L B. Curtis, the drummer hero wastemi POrarily knocked out by “ Educated people seldom COMltdb liberate murder,” continued the duo tEM‘.” and the uneducated mind insane. tlvely associates poison with two sub stancesâ€"arsenic and strychnine The) are the deadly drugs most familiar to. the public, and fortunately ' THEY ARE EASILY DETECTED. Murder by arsenic is infinitely clumsy. To begin with, the symptoms are maria ed and peculiar, and being a metalliii product, its traces remain in the body; an indefinite time. Last summer my man in Barcelona, Spain, confessedthal she had poisoned her sister with arso- nic fifteen years before. The grave was opened and the coffin found to contain nothing but dust and ashes, but: chemical test showed unmistakablyth presence of the drug. Mrs. Maybriei was accused of killing her husband with arsenic, and the test revealedn plainly not only in the remains, hm in certain medicines. The demonstra- tion was so conclusive that she final- 1y arose in court and admitted gmng him a ‘ white powder,‘ but insistedihat she followed his own express direc- tions. One of the most ingenious case: E of poisoning I have ever heard of co curred some years ago. A young Phi' sician plotted to kill a wealthy farm er. He knew the latter was taking quinine, for a cold, and meeting him one day, asked to see what 5129631) sules he used. While. pretendingta examine them, he slipped in one con- taining strychnine. The farmer hala- pened on it nearly a week lateral! died in convulsions. An autopsy re- vealed the poison, but the affair Will a deep mystery until the doctor 0011* mitted suicide, leaving a written 003' fession. possees the requisite skill. Educated people seldom commita. ‘Hknâ€"m 4” crime ? It represent ? It is ~~J wees ' the sum 0: uvw wa a..â€" fine! mbdrahvién. I t ’ grows ‘- tgéy 1r ' s pleridid t designates a peculiar class' hi“ one which 18 particularly Um ‘ in . » - Bfidwhich TOHOW,‘ during the summer ; ~ tumn, the complete flow- ary flowers arrested in growth, 50: that they never open; the pollen ofI the anthers fertilizes the pistil Wthâ€" 3 3;. in the enveloping calyx and seeds are i 2; thus produced. ‘ ke. Take, for example, the common vie-g 1h: lobâ€"Viola culc,ulla:ta V. pedata, V. sag- ; 10 ittata and others. The complete flow-l ‘ are very rarely indeed produce seed. :2 Examine them and you will be surâ€"i ( prised at the absence of pollen andlj“ the usual floral organs or reproducp'; 1, lion. It tool: as close and painstaking ‘ I an observer. as Mr. Darwin to discmer . " that violets, as we know them, ever. gave seed. He found they do in Very: \T‘ rare cases. They descend for seed pro- 3 ‘f’ . . . , , .\ duction on their cleistogamous Loun- ersâ€"aborted flowers that are hiddm out ofl sight at the bases of the clus- tering leaves, as if the plants \Vcl‘tf 1! anxious they should not be seen. éoxne- times these pale, colorless blossoms, lie 1 ”l" close to the ground or are even buried "”‘ in it. If we force them open we find i. '55 within the cap-like calyx a few an-i them laden: with pollen grains, and the I 1' PiBfilâ€"the necessary organs to mast '“ a flower. i 1.1 . v t (V . n \‘, o L) L (1. The name for this class of flowers is meflratively new, but the fac: of their existence ’has been known for many years. Salmon, a writer of an tine 0f Queen Anne, nearly two cen- > fillies ago says: " The flower of the ; . ViOIG't consists of five petals, and a ‘ Short tail; after these come forih 111%: round seed vessels, standing likewise i on their short footstalks, in which is , 1 contained round {white seed. but these I Stalks rise not from the 813.le in which 3, j the flowers grew, but apart by Ihem- I Solves, and being sown, will produve o"llmlike unto itself.” 3 1 30, if y'm see a seed capsule on a no. ? -_ m. H‘ plant you may be quite certain 111:1: i 21:.» It was none of the pretty blue bluér‘uul m8 that produced it, but that 501114: j m».- pale, wan, deformed flower buried in mould, or laying its head c1086 1“ < the earthâ€"a flower you would motive : lowers are d the violet mefleartnâ€"a flower you would motive as (1310.81. ” and regard, perhaps. :1: What. R is, a. floral abortion or munâ€" am‘tYâ€"Was its source. .It is quite likely that it was in 111v: "deb“wfilch is the most common . 313.131; aqucfied to the cleistogamic bah- , 3 lone. riSP_ c ’S with their laughter {he violets. ,5 sweet as dawn, no heart forgetsâ€" and spicy air, mt'is just before, bright and fair, at winter’s (1001”! r ice and 5!}th 3 their splendid and snow. the case,l nesults fl conspicuc seeds to vigor or} extinctioq ism mig‘ ers are t plantsâ€"fl luxury. 1 flowers ever for so m tr habit as tion to a rank) Keep 1 If old c boxes, it better, , cans. A always ‘ tings in as they seed un have g time s , venient dressin should strong son of be equ of the/5' plied 011I ing plal of the l Japan the A keeps thirty tions Their was: a The s< XVIII 858 01 on m a )1 “VJ JAPA 3.588 3} If 5 low 16 nd SQ! bag fort cou ma {1‘ wn‘ he " w 3111! Th1 If