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I FOR™ HOME! 1 Recipes for the Kitchen. § ; Hygiene and Other Notes 1 © for the Housekeeper. , e «S THESE ARE VEGETARIAN. Many people have an idea that to make soup there must be meat or meat stock, or an animal basis of some kind. This is a mistake. The water in which cauliflowers, carrots, turnips, onions, celery, beans, macaroni, ate, have been boiled should be eaved o.nd used as stock for vegetable soup. Another good stock is the water in which bran has been boiled for some hours and then strained. Julienne Soup--One-half pt cai 1 pt turnips, j lb onions, 2 oi leeks, i head celery, 1 lettuce, a little sorrel and chervil, 2 oz butter, 2 qts water. Cut the vegetables into striptj about, 1J inches long', and be particular that they are all the same size. Cut the lettuce, sorrel and chervil into larger pieces. Fry the carrots in the butter, and pour the water, b/rlling, to them. When this is done, add all the other vegetables and herbs, and stew gently for nearly an hour. Pour the soup over thin slices of bread aboi • of « serve after seasoning. Vegetable Soup--Cut fine any kind of vegetables, such as carrots, turnips, onions, potatoes, celery, parsnips, tomatoes or whatever may be in season. Boil them well in a suitable quantity of water, adding a piece of butter size of walnut. When quite tender, rub through a colander and thicken with entire wheat flour, seasoning with pepper and salt to taste. This soup may be varied in many ways, pearl barley, rice, hominy, macaroni, semolina or other farinaceous flour may be used to thicken it or give it variety. Potato Soup--This is very easily made. Pare and cut raw potatoes into a saucepan, allowing 1 pt water to each pound of potatoes ; shred in an onion or two, add a little salt and pepper. Boil until potatoes are done, then rub the whole through a colander, warm again and serve. To add more nourishment to this soup use milk and water in equal parts, instead of water only; a little butter or minced parsley may also be added. Bran Soup--Mix 4 oz good clean bran with 2 qts water and 4 large onions. Boil half an hour and then strain. Flavor with some tomato sauce, pepper and salt, add a good pinch of sugar. Leek Soup--Thoroughly wash or 3 bunches of leeks. If old, seal them. Take off the roots and pai of the heads and cut them inf lengths of about an inch. Put int pot with 4 qts water, and sirnmt slowly until quite tender. Add piece of butter and pepper and salt to taste. Onion Soup--Six large onions, small turnip, 1 parsnip, a piece celery, blade of mace, salt, pepper and sugar, flour and butter. Peel and cut up the onions, also cut up into small pieces the turnip, parsnip and celery. Put in a pot with 2i qts water along with the mace, salt, pepper and sugar. Let all boil spoons rich, sweet milk, a very little sugar and a little grated nutmeg, or other flavor, if preferred. Set the bowl or cup into a basin of hot water, stirring the egg continually, until it is warm, pour into a dainty glass, and let the patient eat it slowly with a spoon. This makes an agreeable change from soups, broths, etc., and is very strengthening. Break a fresh eg"g into small cup or basin, beat thoroughly, add 2 tablespoons milk and a tiny piece of butter, with salt and pepper to taste. Bake quickly in a hot oven, and serve immediately. This is much more easily digested than poached or boiled eggs. Broiled eggs in paper cases is an attractive dish. Take confectioners paper about six inches square, make a small box by turning up an inch and a half all around, and twisting the corners to make them stay, place the little paper pan on a moderate-j ly warm stove, over slow fire, break i an egg into the pan, and let it stand ' until the white cooks through. Slip j pan and all on to a warm plate, sprinkle lightly with salt and pepper, add a little melted butter, and serve with a dainty cracker or a small bit of toast. This will tempt a capricious appetite often when an egg prepared in the ordinary way would be rejected. USEFUL HINTS. Try keeping tea, coffee and spices in a tightly closed jar if the flavor is to be properly retained. To fry liver cut very thin and drop in boiling water until white I outside. Then roll in a mixture of one tablespoonful of flour, one of | salt and a teaspoonful of sage savory mixed. Fry quickly in butter or drippings. The fat bits of mutton, beef pork saved every day and fried make an excellent substitute for and butter in cooking. A thrifty butcher said to his boy, "Thomas, pick up that nice bit of mutton fat from the floor. The sheep stooped a great many times before he picked > hour and stra: rubb : all well through the strainer. Then return the soup to the pot and add 1 small tablespoon butter and 2 tablespoons flour, mixed together, and a breakfast cup mtil i Alio' VARIOUS CAKES. Quick Sponge Coke--Beat yolks of three eggs, add on sugar, the whites of three eggs en until stiff, one cup flour in < has been sifted two teaspoons ing powder and one-fourth teaspoon of salt, flavor with one teaspoon extract and add ten teaspoons hot water. Bake about thirty minutes. Pound Cake--Cream one-half cup of butter, add three-fourths cup flour, the yolks of three eggs well beaten and three-fourths cup powdered sugar. Beat well and add the beaten whites of three eggs wi one-half , teaspoon bakihg powd< Bake in individual tins fifteen twenty minutes. Nonpareil Cake--Beat the yolks of four eggs, add gradi powdered sugar and whites of four eggs, the ; melted, beaten f cup chop-peu amionus, one teaspoon baking powder and three-fourths cup cracker t'.rumbs.Bake in a moderate oven ; When cool garnish with one-half cup tDf beaten cream, one-quarter cup of sugar, two teaspoons of Madgr ■wme and candied cherries ai Fairy Gingerbread--Cream one-half cup of butter, add one cup sugar, when well mixed add two cups flour in which has been sifted one-quarter teaspoon soda, one-half tablespoon ginger and one-ha^f cup milk. Spread and bake. Delicate Cake--Cream one-half cup butter, add one cup sugar, two and one-half teaspoons baking powder sifted with one and three-fourths cups flour, one-half cup milk and the whites of three eggs. Flavor and bake in layers about twenty min- Fig Filling--Mix one-half pound chopped figs, one-half cup sugar, one tablespoon butter, one tablespoon lemon juice and one-third cup water. Cook until thick enough to spread. Caramel Filling--Boil one and one-half cups brown sugar, one-half cup cream and one tablespoon butter ; add one-half pound melted marsh-mallows, beat until thick enough to spread. . INVALID DISHES. A pleasant and noui ' 1 a sick pet-on with .- , i» an egg vroU beaten with 3 table- i up. Walnut cookies like mother used to make : Use two eups of sugar, two eggs, half a cup of melted' butter, six tablespoonfuls of sweet milk, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, half a one of soda and one cupful of fini ly chopped walnut kernels and only enough flour to make them roll out A lady who bad been much annoyed by various insects infesting her pantry and kitchen cupboard has been greatly aided in her fight by having all the woodwork freshly painted with common white paint and with a final coat of white amel. Every shelf is painted, she has discarded all papers, which formerly were a means of refuge for the beetles and ants. The paint easily cleaned and is both cool and hygienic in effect. STRAIN Of MUTALITL Passion for Cruelty Towards Minor Animals -- Joy Taken in It. The well-born and well-to-do persons who find pleasure in harrying a tame stag are not alone in their enjoyment of sportive brutality. Poor and lowly-born "sportsmen" in other parts of England share it with them, though tho thought may not be grateful to the Surrey squires. The Spanish taste for bull-torture and the delight of Surrey gentlemen in the chasing of tame deer are expressed in less distinguished quarters in a passion for cruelty towards minor creatures. It is only necessary to go to the northern counties of England to find "sports" which give ample evidence that even in this age of progress and higher education there is still a strain of brutality in the "sportsman's" character, says the London DEATH SHRIEK OF THE HARE. The coursing of hares has been defended on the ground that the hare has a chance to escape with its life, and so it has. But those who have stood close by when the dog has fixed its cruel teeth in the victim's loins, and have heard its piteous outcry like the shriek of a suffering child, will not deny that there is the contentii those who are sneered mentalists. But th popular amusements quarry has no chan noble sport, rabbit little creature has n< away, for the sport an enclosed ground. ce. In that ig-,-coursing, the 3 chance to get Rabbit-coursing is now conducted, it is alleged, under better conditions, but there are stories of the destroying thumb inserted in a rabbit's eye, so that it might run only in one direction, and these stories were current not very-long ago. Less is heard now of the sport which was derived from the slaughter of rats, and that ennobling and refined pastime seems to have lost its favor. But very few years ago it was common enough in the north. The landlord of a public house, in which such delights were regarded with approval, usually took the matter in hand, and advertised that he would give £5 "to be coursedfor at rats, by all classes of terriers, dogs barred." The entry added to the landlord's on, and a sweepstakes i the usual way. A professional rat-catcher found the rats, id generally acted as referee. When I was ready, and the excited and imoring crowd had assembled ound tho enclosure, the first rat is dropped and the coursing went i in the usual way, with o. betting companiment, til. the rat was fight in doubt it is still carried titiously--was a rat-killi proceeding from a bet between sportsman and another as tc capacity of their respective for slaughter. In these cir stances the local connoisseurs proceeded to bet about it, and make a prodigious fuss--for betting and fuss are indispensable on these occasions--and each side provided say, 20 rats. The vermin were kept awhile, and were often starved a little so that they might become lean, lithe creatures, vicious and hungry and fierce. They were all shaken up in a bag, and then the judge took out 20, which were placed in a circular pit, and made to run round it. Then one dog was dropped in, the timekeeper touched his stop-watch, and the massacre began. So rapidly was the slaughter effected that a clever dog has killed the 20 rats in less than 25 seconds. The rival dog then had his turn at the second batch of vermin, and upon comparison of the times recorded depended the victory. A monkey once excited tne envy of the dog-owners of some Lancashire towns, for it killed rats faster than any dog could by tapping them on the head with a hammer as they circled round. COCK-FIGHTING NOT ENTINCT. The sporting man who owns a dog in the North of England will "back it for all he is worth" if ho considers it clever at any of the dog sports, and some of these, it should be said, such as dog-racing and the interesting trail hunt, in which the dogs follow a scent laid by a man drawing behind him a bag filled with material which has a pungent smell, involve no brutality to the animals, but require that they shall be treated with care. But the dog does not monopolize the possibilities of sport in the north. It is generally supposed that cock-fighting is extinct in England, but from time to time the owners of fighting cocks manage to evade the police and carry their birds to secluded spots, where the main is fought. Only a few years ago an "inter-county" match was held on the moors above Rochdale, and birds representing Lancashire and Yorkshire fought the battle of supremacy. Nor are dogfights, on which heavy stakes and bets change hands, merely memories of the dark ages. DODGING PIGEONS. The gun, also, plays its part in the minor sports, among which are such variants of pigeon-shooting as sptarrow and starling shooting. So highly organized are some of these competitions that there are men who gain at least part of their livelihood by supplying pigeons which have been trained to beat the gun. The young or "green" rocks are placed in a trap, which is a kind of hinged box. When the string is pulled the box turns over, and the bird is free to go. But in the training period a long thread is attached to the leg of the pigeon, and to that a squib or cracker is tied. The cracker is lighted and exploded once or twice while the bird is still in the box, and then the lid is raised so that the frightened bird flies away with a succession of small explosions like the crack of a gun in its wake. Naturally it darts this way and that in the effort to avoid the annoyance, and after a few experiences of this kind it becomes a dodger in its flight, and does not give the marksmen a steady object to aim at. There are records of a bird which was shot at 20 times before it met its fate, and of another that slipped out of the trap in the manner which fear had taught it to adopt, and, being missed, took refuge in a barn, where it laid an egg. It was recaptured and again placed in the trap, and was twice shot at and twice missed in the same afternoon. THE CRAZE FOR GAMBLING. There are some northern sports, it is true, which do not involve cruelty to animals, but they are only acceptable if they provide an outlet for the gambling instinct. There is no form of chance on which money will not be staked. One announces that he will play any man in the world at skittles for £?5 a side ; .nother will venture twict, the sum in a test of his skill at high-Kicking r eccentric jumping. For a race 7ith navvies' barrows £25 a side as been staked, and two factory ads have been matched to win £20 rem any other two in South Lan- button. Even if there be no tality there must be a stake ; there is brutality enough in most of the lower sports of the north justify the suggestion that when the Surrey gentlemen weary of tortv, tame stags they might find genial recreation a little farther rs, will rs, will : ale of a: The art shall ha' tip-it,' is ing in opponent holds a of dis. reman kaiser's yiew BRITAIN'S NAVAL PROGRAMME IS A MENACE. Article Declares British Threats Against Germany Ridiculous. An article, believed to have been either written or directly inspired by the German Kaiser, has just been published in The Grenzbote, the Berlin periodical in which the Imperial views on "Babel and Bibel" recently set forth. It is an essay on the comparative naval forco of Great Britain and Germany. Som« of the most striking passages are as follows: "The Emperor, if wc understand the matter rightly, is anxious to make it clear to Germans what the shaking of Teutonic fists and the press campaigns against England really signify. There is no sense in unnecessarily exasperating and provoking a state, in comparison to which our strength is so inferior. On the other hand, the Emperor desires the English and their papers to comprehend the fact that they make themsel1 sarily ridiculous in contl ing and talking about German threats against England. A natii which can only place 12 against 42 battleships of England, 2 against 14 English armored cruisers, and 17 109 English ironclad cruis-never be able to formnn nn tever be able to perform the l attacking party." icle then shows that, even e been completed, in 1916, England's strategical position will f no means be worse as compared i that of Germany. . . The Emperor's programme does not signify, is some English journals imagine, a 'delenda Carthago,' but it reveals to Germans the futility of abusing England WITH CLENCHED FISTS, and it intimates to the English that, replying to German threats, they speak contrary to their own knowledge." "ne writer points out that the construction of British North Sea squadron quite independent of the establishment of a new naval base on the British east coast is a menace not only to Germany, but to other powers who, in the light of such an excess of naval strength, raust seek protection in a coalition. England, it is contended, would have to fear Germany if Germany were to build a fleet of cruisers commensurate with her growing commercial importance. "We are not suppliants of England, neither our laffld ■n^v-.ovx people. But we require' the free navigation of the seas by her side and the right of carrying our merchant marine to foreign lands under the protection of our flag." The article closes with the following strking passage: "Should our present protection as indicated by our naval policy become insufficient, first of all, we shall confidently address ourselves to England, with the feeling that no sensible English Government is likely to devise a policy which might make it impossible for the German flag to float with that of the English. German and English interests should certainly be able to thrive side by side if they are sustained by reciprocal good-will, honesty and fair-mindedness. The Minister who, either in Berlin or in London, should give the first signal for a conflict between the two nations, would take upon himself a grave responsibility. inch V S do i ; belie be produced in the present It is, perhaps, unnecessary ic peat that ho one was furthei moved from promoting such a flict than Bismarck." vill ■a fury. Lady (to understand (To66 herself.) itivation, sun t. Wid the iv servant)--"You quite ridget, that I shall be rry Wednesday from " Bridget-- "Yis, mum Bridget, me swate woman had a hivenly ) it's yersilf has got istress only at home ivery wake, phwat a the flights of oeators AND SOME NEW EXAMPLES OP THEIR FALLS. The Orator Who "Cannot Open His Mouth- Without Putting His Toot in It." A certain well-known Irish m ber of Parliament recently c ed an eloquent speech in Connaught in this • brilliant fashion: "The blaze that is lighted here to-day will not be quenched till it spreads a wave of indignation over the land which will bring the bigoted di their knees. The mayor of a provincial tow no doubt meant to be very compli mentary when, in welcoming the representatives said: "With the hammer of unity you have welded yourselves into harmonious whole, and so produced the cream of perfection." Even the august chamber of the Lords is by no means free from these rhetorical vagaries, for did not a noble lord, when defending his class, recently remark: "Is it not right that, in order to hand down to posterity the virtues of those who have been eminent for their services to their country, their descendants should enjoy the honors conferred on them as a iward for stuch services?" "As I have already said all that I ish to eay," an oratorical M. P. ice declared, "I willingly retract what I was just about to observe"; while a fellow-countryman, after ly resisting the temptation to join in a debate, opened his speech the startling statement, "I keep silent any longer without saying a few words." There biguity in ho referred little am-the speech of the man ,o "some tattle which this is lucidity itself ASPIRANT TO CONGRESS, who compared the Opposition to some flaunting vessel sailing proud-v on in ignorance of the hidden reef that should tear the masks from their false faces and send them howl- j for h: ing back to their lairs, the mockery jewel nd derision of the world." This is no doubt excellent rhetoric, ut it must pale its ineffectual fires before that member of the Louisiana House of Representatives when he referred to "the need of legislation to ameliorate the condition of our own people in the riparian districts, that been so recently visited by inundation and overflow and devastation by almighty flood, that has t animated and inanimated matters and objects before it in its vol-ious march"; after which he touched lightly on a certain recent time "when man spoke nervously to i, and the destiny of their great on was hung in Atlas scales, and balance was equipoised, and the gods suspended judgment other than the arbitration of the sword, and this mighty nation appealed to the Courts of Mar, and Mar went forth from his dark chamber to redden the orld with a sanguinary gore." From such a dizey flight as this it : quite a relief to turn to the sim-le confession of the speaker who, when he was assured by the chair-an that the audience welcomed him th the greatest pleasure, answer-;, "I--I am always glad to be here, or indeed--er--anywhere else." "The British Lion," exclaimed one itriotic orator, "whether it is pac-g the deserts of Africa, sits throned among the snows of Canada, or ns the jungles of torrid India, is the animal to draw in its horns and seek safety in its shell; but, th the keen eye of an eagle and e wary crouch of the leopard, it is always ready to pounce on its enemies and hurl them to destruction." If this orator was a little CONFUSED IN HIS SIMILES 3 had a worthy companion In the American politician who spoke ol treaehery of an opponent "who Id take my hand in both of his the simulated grasp oi friendship and with a Judas "d stab me in the back with the other," thus clearly showing r and dangerous man h amals with dowries CREATURES THAT HAVE FORTUNES IN THEIR STOMACHS. A Pet Goat Ate Up §250 in Notes --Mouse Brought a Little Fortune. It is not often the case that an old she goat is possessed of nearly $250. Such a case was that of the poet gaat of a Flemish peasant woman. The old lady had a number of bank notes of small denomination in the pocket of a jacket or cloak, which she laid on the grass whilst doing some work. Her pet put its nose into the pocket and ate the notes, the value of which amounted to $240. After this calamity there was only one course to pursue, so the goat was slaughtered. The macerated remains of the notes were extracted, and were sent to the National Bank of Belgium, together with a claim for the replacement of the notes. After the circumstances were verified, the bank made good the old woman's lose. A wealthy mouse was the one which caused Madame Jacques, an old Paris hawker, a great amount of trouble. It had its hiding place in the chimney. Madame Jacques, in endeavoring to dislodge it, laid bare a cavity which contained no less than $8,000 in paper money. The little creature which brought old hawker this fortune managed to make its escape. An eel was recently discovered which had quite a little fortune in " possession. It was a peasant of Province of Brescia, in Italy, ■> discovered the hoard in the shape of a large black pearl. Ho ng the eel pickled when he "oss the stone, which he took to Milan, and sold for over $5,000. A rich hen was that belonging to Paris cab driver. It was killed in order to deck the board at a family gathering at Levallois. In its gizzard was discovered a valuable dia-The stone turned out to be t was.lost by a lady who rode in the cab. It was of great value and the cabman received $10 honesty in restoring the its fair owner, idersheim, a village in Germany, there have been great festivities and general rejoicings in honor of a hen. The houses in the village were decorated with bunting, a supper was given, and the health of tho hen was drunk amidst wild enthusiasm. An enormous omelet was the principal dish at the feast. Oi . mid Oireland ! The Irish people," Mr. D---- onc< said, "had seen their country ir rags and misery, their children go ing to destruction and themselves filling paupers' graves, but no man's hand had been raised to save them, whilst they had been exasperated t< crime and had ended their days or the gallows." As a witty M. P. observed: "Men who, after seeing themselves in their graves, can survive to qualify for the gallows certainly deserve a better fate." It was at, least generous of a well-known politician to declare that "such prejudice as 1 have against the honorable member is all in favor," although he should not have spoiled this amicable concession continuing: "And I am bound t prise when I heard vith lence."--Londoi marks such < ONE FOR THE SHOP WALKER. A certain shop-walker in a large establishment is noted for his severity to those under him in business. One day he approached a junior assistant, from whose counter a lady had just moved away. "You let that lady go out without making a purchase 1" he asked, se- "Yes, f "And : youi fully ten minutes "DountlesS ; but then, you "Exactly. I saw that, in of all tho questions she put 1 you rarely answered her, and ipted to get what she wi "Wei but-- "I shall, report your carelessness." "Well, I hadn't what she wanted." "Fifty cents. She's a. book can-asser, getting subscribers to the Life of Moses.' " And the shop-walker retired crest- for the celebration v the gallant fowl recently had laid its thousandth egg. But of all wealthy fowls none have surpassed the one which was the property of a very rich lady who died recently in Lisbon. She bequeathed her whole fortune to the bird. Her reason for performing this extravagant deed was that she was a fervid spiritualist. She was a firm believer in the theory of the transmigration of souls, and was possessed of the idea that the soul of her dead husband had entered the body of the rooster. The lady had a special fowlhouse built for the cock, and she compelled the servants to pay especial attention to the wants and needs of "the master." She was extremely jealous of the hens, and whenever one of them was found coquetting with Pedro, as the coclc was named, it was executed immediately. When the old lady's strange will was made known, the relatives' disgust was great. They discovered a way to avoid going to law over the matter with the rooster as defendant. This way was extremely simple and effective. They wrung the wealthy fowl's neck, and so came into possession of the fortune as next in succession. A somewhat similar case is that where a fortune was left to some bears. A very wealthy man of Canton Berne died not long ago and left the greater portion of his riches to the famous bears at Berne. This will is disputed--in fact, the case will come up for trial shortly, so the animals may not receive the fortune after all. After a fowl diamond mine, a human silver mine is not without interest. The case of the human silver mine is one of the most remarkable that ever fell to the lot of a surgeon. visit £ ived f i Hri . ploc called Dakhai. There he found force a decree of the Ameer of Kabul taxing every kind of property in the possession of those traveling through the district. To avoid the exaction the Afghan conceived the plan of swallowing his money. He did this, having sixty-five Kabu.li rupees with him. Next day he arrived at a small Government dispensary but there it was found impossible to recover the metal. The poor Afghan was greatly alarmed at the prospect of losing his cash, so he hurriedly journeyed on to the Egerton Hospital at Peshawar. For eight days he was a money box. At Peeshawar att sorts of methods were iexl but unsuccessfully. At last 3 stomach was cut open--in one operation the patient was two hours half under chloroform. All ered, and the ) Weekly. rily FRUIT CAUSES BLINDNESS. Strange ce total blindm traced, in tl ille district es of permanent and s have lately been i Cairns and Towns-of Queensland, to the ild fruit known £ mger cherry," with a long red berry. A young man, aged twenty-three, at Cairns Hospital has lost sight of both eyes. The blind-i, caused by the destruction of certain nerves, is said to be incur- He-"! make it up."