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eseeeemssegoecse$efiaefl run when? o ? Hygiene and Other Note a for the Housekeeper. o 6 qeeeeooaeaeoeasseoseé APPLE VARIATIONS. Apples with Sweet Potatoesâ€"Boil 6 good-sized sweet potatoes. When cold, scrape and out into slices lengthwise. After dipping each piece in melted butter, lay into a baking pan. Pare and slice 4- sour apples place on top of the potatoes and add a Sprinkling of sugar. Then pour over the apples and potatoes 1 cup milk and bake in a slow oven. Apple Saladâ€"Form baskets of well shaped rosy apples by cutting off the tops and with a spoon scraping out the inside so as to leave only the shell of the apple. Refill the apple with a salad composed of equal parts apples, hickory huts and g e 3 6 Recipes for the Kitchen. g 8 o 5% celery chopped fine and seasoned with salt. L‘over the tops of the baskets with salad dressing. Ar- range on small plates, garnish with celery leaves and red beets cut in fancy shapes. A Novel Way of Baking Applesâ€"- Place a laycr of thinly sliced apples in the bottom of an earthen ware pudding. dish. Cover with finely chopped raisins, walnuts, grated nutmeg, a generous amount of sugar and a. tabl-espoonful of Water. Conâ€" tinue the layers until the dish is full with the apples on top. Cover and cook in a moderate oven until Soft, turn into a glass dish and let , become cold. J ust before serving pour over the mixture a custard made of the yolks of 3 eggs, 4 tablespoons sugar, 2 cups milk thickened with a little cornstarch. Flavor with nutmeg. Sour Apple Juiceâ€"~At any time during the year appleade is a de- lightful drink. To make it you will need to wash and cut into thick slices 1 dozen scar apples, cover with water and allow to simmer un- til soft. Strain, sweeten to taste, bottle and ice before serving. Quince anld Apple Pieâ€"Line a deep pie dish with flaky piecrust. Cover the bottom with a thin layer of quince marmalade and spread apple sauce thickly on top of the quince, then another layer 0f the marmalade and so proceed until the dish is full. Bake slowly, and when done top with a meringue made of 4; tablespoons powdered sugar, the beaten whites of 2 eggs flavored with lemon essenCe. Spread smoothâ€" ly and brown slightly. Apgple Cakeâ€"Three eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1 heaping cup flour, 2 table- spoons hot water and l teaspoon baking powder. Mix the dry ingre- dients together and rub through a sieve. Add the eggs which have been beaten, and lastly the water. Beat well. Bake in layer tins in a. rather hot oven. and spread while warm with the following fillingâ€"- Pare and slice 6 large, firm apples. Put into a saucepan, cover with wa- ter and cook until tender. Then rub through a colander and add 1 toas);‘.1oo-n butter, the white of 1 egg beaten to a, froth. Sugar and flavor to taste. Cover the top of the cake with frosting. Sweet Apple Picklesâ€"Take 4; lbs sweet apples. Pare but leave whole. and stick in every apple 3 or more -cloves. Steam until tender but not soft. Into a preserving kettle pour 245 pts vinegar, 1} oz mace, 1 oz green preserved *ginger, a sliced lemon, 1‘} IT) sugar and 1 teaspoon each allspice and cinnamon, tied in- to separate bags. After the syrup has boiled‘lS minutes put in the apples and simmer five minutes longer. Fill cams wi'th the fruit and seal. Apple Chili Sauceâ€"Pare, core and cut into small pieces 4 lbs sour apâ€" ples, 8 tomatoes, 3 onions finely minced, and 2 red peppers. Put into a porcelainâ€"lined kettle with 1 lb brown sugar and 2 qts vinegar. Cook until thick. Turn into a pan and add to the mixture chopped raisins, 1 oz each ground mustard, ginger, salt and 1 teaspoon pepper. Stir thoroughly and when perfectly col-d put into wide mouthed bottles, seal and keep in a cool place. This recipe makes a delightful accom- paniment to meat, and istjust the thing for many kinde of salads. HOMEMADE GRAPE WINE. Bruise the grapes, which must be perfectly ripe. To each gallon of grapes ptut a gallon of water. Let the whole remain a week without being stirred. At the end of that time draw off the liquor very careâ€" fully, and put to each gallon of liquor 3 lbs granulated sugar. Let it ferment in a temperate situation. When fermented, stop it up tight. In the course of six months it will be fit to bottle. Fine results will be ohhained if directions are carefully followed. When the grapes are just half ripe gather, then pound in a tub, and 'to every quart mashed fruit add 2 q'ts water. Let this stand for tw0 weeks then draw oli‘ liquid and add 3 lbs loaf Sugar. When the sugar is dis- solved, cask it, and when done Working, bung it down. In six months bottle and wire corks tight- ly. This wine will be found equal to fine champagne. Pick the grapes from the stems and pound them to a pulp with pestle. in a, large stone jar. Let them remain for 4.8 hours, without. adding any water. Then strain the luloe [and add 3 lbs sugar to every galloni WINDINEUPTHEBUER wu‘ of juice, in a, wideâ€"mouth jar, tiedl over with cheesecloth. Skim the' ferment every day for one weekp keep the jar covered with the cheesecloth, and continue to skim it twice a week for six weeks longer. Then strain the wine again, through a flannel bag, which will make it perfectly clear. Bottle up, cork and seal, and if fermentation is over when bottled, this wine will keep for 20 years and more. This recipe is for wild grapes. Pick 00‘. the grapes, measure and mash with a potato masher '(an old- fashionéd wooden one is best). To: every gallon of grapes add 2 qts. Water, and put all together in an earthen or granite iron vessel. Set on the back of the stove, where it will get hot but not boil. Stir oc- casionally and keep blot for from two to tln'ee hours. Pour into a muslin bag, let drain but do not squeeze. Sweeten the juice th taste, tie a thin clot-h over it and set in a warm place until it ferments, then bottle and cork, and keep in a cool place until wanted. This wine is excellent, especially in sickness. Mash the grapes and put them through a cloth; put the skins in a tub after squeezing them, with b. re- ly enough water to Cover them; strain the juice thus obtained into the first portion. Put 3 Ibs sugar to one gallon of the mixture, let it stand in an open tub to ferment, covered with a cloth, for a. period of from three to seven days, skimming every morning. Put the j,uice in a cas'k, leave it open for 24.- hours bhem bung it up, and put clay over the bung to exclude the air. Let it remain until March, when it should be drawn off and bottled. A reliable recipe? The following recipe is for unfer- mentcd grape, wine for church (or home) use, which I helped make last fall. Take half a bushel of ripe grapes, stemmed, and washed, put in an agate kettle with Water enough to keep from burning, cook till the grapes are done, strain, then add more water to the pulp and strain. Add the second mixture to the first, with 8 lbs white sugar. Simmer slowly for threeâ€"quarters of an hour, bottle and seal. A COLD DINNER. Really, a. cold dinner can be eaten with a relish very Often on warm days, especially when we stop to think of the saving of labor and un- necessary heat that it brings about. Cook vegetables enough the day before. You don’t need to have po- tatoes, but peas, beans, beets, cabâ€" bage, onions, cum and tomatoes are all good eaten coltd. Of course there are numerous meats that are frequently served cold, and any numâ€" ber of drinks. The only difference Jbetween this sort of dinner and any other is that everything is served cold instead of only a few things. And, after all, it is a good deal a matter of habit, this eating so much hot food. We can taste food that isn't smoking hot from the stove, and it will taste good, too. ' After one begins to eat an oo- casional cold dinner, it will be sur- prising h'ow many palatable dishes can be served” in that way. There is the list of. cereals that are delicious eaten cold with milk or cream. They can be poured into a. pretty mold when first cooked, so as to appear in an appetizng manner. Whatever can be served without any cooking, even the day before, is a still further economizing of en~ ergy. Nuts are one of the nourishâ€" ing raw foods that are not always appreciated. They must be thor- oughly nmsticlated, so ' never eat them when in a humry. Nothing is better than plain fruit, as it is in season, for dessertâ€"if one must have something different at the end of a. dinner. We handly need a great variety to make an appetizing meal. CHOCOLATE PIE. Did any of you ever eat a real good chocolate pie, one that Would fairly melt in your mouth ? First line a deep pie pan with rich pie cnust, and bake in a quick oven. If you wish you can make two or three cmusts at a time and put them away for the 'morrow. After yourl crusts are baked, grate oneâ€"half tea- cmpful of chocolate, and put into a pan with one cupful of hot Water, butter the size of an egg. one table- Spoonful of vanilla, one cupflul of mgar, the beaten yolks of two eggs. and two ta’blespoonfuls of corn starch dissolved in a little water ; mix well, and cook on top of the stove until thick, stirring con- stantly. Pour into the pieâ€"shell, and let cool; beat the whites of two eggs to a stiff froth, adxd tw0 tablespoom‘uls of powdered sugar, spread on top of the pie, and brown in the oven. If prepared correctly it will be thick and firm, like 'jelly when cool, and will not run when cut. The chocolate mixture can be used in tarts. +â€"~«- 13v MEDICAL ADVICE. ’ A distinctly twentieth century idea is that of a hotel-keeper who proâ€" vides for his patrons a diet list made out by a physician, showing the food best suited to each per- son. The fat, the thin, the dyspep- tic, the anaemicâ€"all are Catered for; and not only so, but, so far as pos- sible, dishes are ‘provided which, while they are adapted for each parâ€" ticular. case, do not offend the palate. . . 80,000 people live within the dam through a cheese cloth bag. g‘er radius of Mount Vesuvius. LAND BLEAK AND DLESOLATE, BUT BURGHERS GLAD. â€"â€" A Correspondent Describes the Boers lie-Taking Their Farms. The correspondent of the London Daily Chronicle at Ermelo, Trans- vaal, writes the following interest- ing letter on the present situation, and the condition of the country immediately subsequent to the deâ€" claration of peace. “So now it all stands bleak and desolate. It looks the worse because. all the hills are black with burning as the Yorkshire birks with heather. I coulddraw a terrible picture of a land blackened by the flames of war. How thrilling, but how great an error ! For the flames were the flames of peace. As soon as our men saw the whole land flaring to heaven in long lines of fire, they knew the burghers meant to accept the terms and peace was certain. To burn the veldt in winter is as peaceful an occupation as ploughing in spring. “011,” said the knowing ones (and every Tommy is knowing now) “so they are preparing the veldt for the rains and young grass. We can wind this show up.” And now they are hard at it, winding up indeed. The first thing to be wound up is the 100,000 miles of barbed wire which made the entanglements along the blockhouse lines. As soon as peace Was declared, the civil and military, represented by Milner and Kitchener, began to bargain over the blockhouses and wire. There are, I believe, 7,600 blockhouses in the whole of South Africa, and apart from the labor (which came from the sappers and other soldiers) they cost about £20vto £25 to build. “K.” stood out for £10 apiece from the Civil Administra- tion. Milner demurred. “K.” who is a mighty keen bargainer, offered to throw in 1,000 yards of wire with each blockhouse. Finally, I believe, the price will be about £8, but I think no wire is included. Well, that is the wire I have watched the Leicestcrs winding up over mile after mile, as I trekked for the last. two days along their line from the deâ€" pot at Standerton, where all life is dust and curses and railway staff officers, up into the silent heart of the country here. Winding up the entanglements is a symbol of peace, but do not suppose the sons of the Midlands like it better for that. You should hear their appeals to the gods as the barbs tear their hands in the cold wind, and they know that every gash may produce a “veldt sore” that will last for weeks. THE FIRST FAMILY HOME. 0n the second day out we came upon an old Dutch trekâ€"wagon lumâ€" bering along behind twelve oxen, yoked and halfâ€"strangled in the old Dutch way. Under the hood at the back sat the mother in her “kapje,” surrounded by a collection of child- ren, crockery and provisions. Of the flat in front was piled such house- hold furniture as had survived or been made in camp. With the oxen marched the Boer, followed by his little son. It was the first family I had seen going home. Perhaps it was the very first that went, for the ease was unusual. The Boer told me quite simply that he was a rich man and had banked his money be- fore the war. He had surrendered a month or two back, and gone to his family in the Standerton conâ€" centration camp. His wagon had been saved, and now he had bought the oxen at $90 apiece from the Government, and had come away, owing no man anything. He had even refused the rations and tent which Government issues to burg- hers setting out for a ruined farm. He had heard his farm was not ruined ; at'all events it still had a roof. So on he went in faith. The average Transvaal farm is about 7,- 000 to 8,000 acres, but this man, as I found from a map, with his father and brother owned about as much as six English parishes, and at the midday “outspan” I saw the big landed proprietor bring his oxen across the drift, let them loose, colâ€" lect dry dung for fuel, make a fire, cook, and help rub the thick coat- ing of dust from the children’s clothes and faces. Then he turned oil towards his distant farm by anâ€" other road to mine. THE SEARCH FOR HOME. Besides this family, I have already seen some thirty or forty burghers riding up and down the country on the tough little ponies which have served. them so well through the war. Almost without exception they are going to their families in some concentration camp or are still searching for news of them. Our signallers and telegraph men along the line do all they can to help, and I have seen the flags wag out such unaccustomed messages as . “Wire Meerbank Durban: is Mrs. Jan Breitenbach of Smutsoog there ‘2 seven children.” The telegraph sta- tion of the King’s Own (Yorkshire L.I.,) on the Tafel Kop, about this place, is crowded all day with the rough and bearded men who have just come off commando, and are calling to our orderlies to send wires to each camp in succession, and discover where their wives and children may possibly be. To many an answer‘ duly comes ; for in- stance “Mrs. Oosterhuzsen, at Barberton Camp, so many children. Inform husband." A great many of the burghers in the field also have followed the fortunes of their fam- vu‘ uvnwvurâ€"u-eâ€"J, .1....sm.mmw_«nw ua~vn-.~...éunna.«1.~u ‘ ' ilies by some hidden process of in- telligence, which the Boer seems to I share with the Hindu. They know, __ not only in what camp the families are, but whether any of the children have died or not. Probably most of this information comes through the Kafiirs on their own farms, but that will not account for it all, and , by I have not discovered yet to what we must put down the rest. It is part. of the strangely accurate Boer intelligence throughout the war. On the other hand, I have already met half a dozen or so who can get no news of their families at all. They telegraph to all the camps in the neighborhood, but nothing is known. In despair they generally ride oil with their bags of rations to tour round the camps themselves. They PEOPLE WHO ARE DEAF TC NATURE’S WARNINGS. â€"â€"â€"_ Mans Places Have Been Destroyei Great Volcanic Eruptions. The total destruction, within tlu past few weeks, of the town--with its 40,000 inhabitantsâ€"of St Pierre, Martinique, West. Indies, by volcanic eruption, is a by no mean: unique example of the ultimate fate of towns nestling, in apparent de- fiance of the laws of both of Na- ture and commonsense, at the foot of nonâ€"extinct burning mountains. . . . . ' fVcsuVius fox Will certainly hear thee news in time . Around the base 0 . ’ , 7 - v - ’ instance, numberless small Villagcd fox the camp registration has been exist, their inhabitants perfectly carefully done. The fault probably lies in the incomplete attempt to sort out the camps into districts, but wherever the fault lies it is a bitter search, and when a war-worn figure, patched with bits of rawhide - and plush curtains, comes up and owned by the £01k below’ Who 11W says, “Not know- Where wouw and practically upon a foundation of kinder,” one can only make wild fire' - Since Pompeii and Herculaneum suggestions and h+ope for the best. were destroyed in AD. 79, them has been no notably tragical out< FAMOUS DETECTIVE‘ biu'st of the famous Italian volcano, although its crater is never actually idle. Smoke, hot stones, and mud, HOImeS of sunny France' with now and then a stream of lava, Emile Houlier, a famous French breaking through a, thin place in the detective whose exploits rival Sherâ€" crust, testifying periodically to its lock I-Iolmes', has just died at the present vitality. The curious part age of fortyâ€"nine years from conges- of it isâ€"as also. ,in all similar cases tion following drinking iced beverâ€" â€"that the people who have thus ages while hot. Among his feats planted themselves at the base, and was the capture alone and unarmed even a little way up the slopes ' of of the six Wilkinses, British des'perâ€" the mountain, seem to have no fear. adoes, whom Houlier handcuffed in of the possibility of fiery extinction, a railway compartment of a speed- living andldyin'g‘. as they .dO. in the ing express after a’ terrible fight in sun of a fancied security. Even which be twice was nearly thrown Naples, in the event of a great and( out. He traced the celebrated murâ€" overwhelming eruption of Vesuvius, blind to the danger that threaten- ingly hangs (literally) over theii heads. For some distance up thé slopes of Vesuvius vineyards flourish These are tended and, in. some cases. .auâ€" Emile Houlier, the Sherlock ' derer Eyrau'd to Havana. and ar- Would stand a, very good chance of rested him there. He arrested, with being wiped out. That it is still( three assistants, a whole secret extant, is due more to good luck‘ meeting of dangerous Anarchists. than to any great amount of dis- It was Houlier who found the clue I which led to the arrest. of Arton, the Panama briber, after he had eluded the whole police of Europe. applies in like manner to Etna. Houlier had just returned from Sicfl - . . , y. The vegetation for nearly “if”? ‘ZlhemHhe had beer} t0 "1‘ half its height of 10,963 feet above VB” lga‘ e le umber? 'fmmr' H." sea level, is even more prolific than was 8' Perm? to cnmlpals' H19 in the case of its Italian sister. pluck mtemgence' and Physifal Long immunity, too, from disaster,- strength were unmatched among deâ€" seems to have confirmed the in. tectives, while his cleverness at dis- habitants of the villages at the hm.ti guises and 1n tho use Of the Grim" of the mountain in their sense of inals' dialect, was remarkable. Three safety. Lying, as Etna does, mid, “mes 11.8 .t°°k.part "1 Ila-Famous way between the towns of Messina burglaries in order to remain un~ and Catania’ it is easy to imagine Suspecma and to gal” possessmn Of what would take place should the 1mm" taut semets' volcano exert its power. Both the 4“” towns would, without doubt, suffer NERVOUSNESS IN ANIMALS. to a terrible extent, with regard Accordin to M. Cou in, animals, ahke to hie am} Draperty' so re- like persongs, sufl‘er frompcrisis of the Gently as 1693 fifty-four towns and nerves. Fear of motor-cars, etc., produces trembling and “false” paralysis in horses. Fear of punish- ment or excessive joy acts injuriousâ€" cretion on the part of _ THE ORIGINAL FOUNDERS. What has been said about Vesuvius by a. Combined eruption and earth- quake. Of the town of Catania not a trace remained, nor of its 18,000 1y on dogs. The story of the Scotch inhabitants. Altogether more than dog which was reprimanded for a 100'000 I‘ves.wer° lost‘ . fault by its master, the minister, The Caucasmn range 15' Whony -us,t before he w t more or less volcanic, and a volcanid and seemingly toofinit osno gizfirneg’c; outburst in February of this present heart that it died during his absence yeatr' a’t’ schemac‘ha' Caucasus' is supported by a case given by M. which destroyed over 2,000 houses, Aruch‘ of the Veterinary school and by which 5,000 lives Were lost, Milan A dog of eleven years, intel: recalls a still greater misfortune ligent and afiectionate' took com which befell the same place in 1667, vulsions on receiving a. stern repriâ€" when 80'000 persons were mum:th mand from its master, and every into eternity. The .latter. .catas‘ time the master came home after- trophe’ contamed no warning for wards- it had a similar attack. The those Who ought to have profited by former joy of the animal on seeing it; and it is morally certain that its master was 011a d - _ people will still continue to live mg. nge Into suffer under the shadow of the very cause of .___.._._.._§ DEATH AND DESOLATION. PRACTICAL. Java, againâ€"and, indeed, most of the other islands of the Eastern The parish kirk of Drumlie had Archipelagoâ€"are largely volcanic, been rather unfortunate in its minisâ€" being, nearly all of them. submarine ters, two of them having gone on in upheavals. due 1:0 volcanic action. a decline within a twelvemonth of KTflJiatOiL. Java-’5 monal‘Ch moun- their appointment; and now, after tain. gave a magnificent display of hearing a number of candidates for its Powers in 1833. 35.000 Persons. the vacancy, the members were lookâ€" 1iVinlg round and near it, losing ing forward with keen interest, to their lives. ‘Krakatoa is the chief the meeting at which the election of Of a group 0f thirty or more volâ€" the most suitable applicant. was to Canoes on this island, and those who, on cruising in those seas at “weel' Marget’" asked one female the time of the eruption, were priv- parishioner of another, as they fore~ ileged to witness the scene. soy. gathered on‘the road one day, "wha that for a diStallce 0f fifty miles are ye gaun tae vote for?" round the island the air was dark “I'm just thinkin' 1'“ Vote for with hot mud, ashes, and burning none 0' them. I’m no: muckle o’ a dOCk"5‘Plinters- take Place. judge, an' it'll be the safest plan," That South America is largely was Margaret’s sagacious reply, volcanic is common knowledge, “Toots, woman, if that’s the wey though the great catastrophe. in this connection, in this part of the world, take the form of earthquakes “I’m gaun tag vote for the man and seismic waves. In 1797 the that I think has the soundest lungs, Wh010 COUHU‘Y between Santa F0 an, '11 no! bother us decin' again iniand Panama was destroyed, includ- a hurryhn ing the cities of Cuzco and Quito. I place, built in hare< o’t, vote wi' me." "An’ 1100 are ye gaun tae vote?” The latter 4’"""‘ brained-fashion right up the moun- THE BUSINESS TONE. tain side, hanging on to it, as it . I were, like Babylon’s famous gardens If you Want advel'tls‘mg to hell) of old, is ever in a periodical state your. bUSIheSS. you must DUt into of collapse from subterranean-â€" 1t the busmeSS Ping WhiGh Will 843- otherwise volcanicâ€"disturbance. On peal to the business sense of the one occasion 40,000 persons perish. average buyer. No advertiser can ed in a second. afford to waste opportunity by neâ€" Japan and China in the East, and glowing the chance .to t?“ his almost the whole of Southern Eu- friends about What he 13 domg and rope, afford countless instances of impressing upon them the value of man’s temerity in building his what he has to offer. dwelling, and establishing himself in ~+â€" spotswhich Nature has done her best to mark “dangerous.”â€"Pean On an average 700 British subâ€" , , jects are yearly born at sea. Son 3 Weekly' A member of a volunteer fire brig- -â€"'â€"-â€"â€"«x ade did not appear on the scene of the conflagration until after the fire was under control. He was severely , taken to account by the chief for been leading the life of a dog.” Mr. thus neglecting his duty. "I could Pennâ€""I’m sorry for him.” “I'm not help it," replied the fireman ; not.” “Don’t you sympathize wit! “I live a. long Way from the fire." him 7"" "Not at all. l-I'o has no- “That’s no excuse,” snapped the thing to do but to eat, sleep anfi chief. "You must move nearer "the amuse himself. It’s the life of 1 next fire." pet dog he leads." Mr. Pittâ€""Since your friend Blin< kins ‘married Miss Bonds he ha: 300 villages were destroyed in Sicily. 'LA .4 ,. ,: Fan‘s}. gWWIW'fiwe 77 I v