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As the stalks become older they must be peeled; this is best done by loosening the skin at the lower end and pulling it off in long, thin strips. Cut the prepared stalks in inch pieces and it is ready for use. 'At least one cupful of sugar will be needed for each quart of cut fruitâ€"frequently this may prove in- sufficient. The use of soda has been recommended by some economically inclined housewives, but we cannot indorso the suggestion. Put fruit ‘and sugar in an agate or porcelainâ€" lined saucepan, add about a teaspoon of water to start the syrup, coverl and stand over a. slow fire until the‘ sugar is dissolved and the fruit tender, but. not broken. Hard boilâ€" ing will quickly disintegrate the rhuâ€" barb, giving a stringy mush, which is by no means as inviting to the eye or palate as the tender pieces in a. clear syrup. Rhubarb fl‘apiocarâ€"Cook one heap- ing quart of prepared rhubarb and two scant cupfuls of SUgar in a. double boiler until the fruit is ten- der, then skim it out into a serving dish. To the syrup in the kettle, add sufficient boiling water to make a quart altogether. When boiling, sprinkle in twoâ€"thirds of a cupiul of fine tapioca and stir frequently until it has swollen; then cover and cook until clear. Pour this over the! fruit, chill and serve plain or with sweetened cream. ‘A variation of this receipt can be made by Skimming the fruit into a baking dish. When the tapioca is cooked, pour it over the rhubarb; drop over the top a tableâ€" spoonful of butter, cut into bits and bake in a moderate oven for half an hour. Serve with a foamy sauce. Rhubarb Breadâ€"Prepare two quarts of rhubarb and cook slowly, cutting it in half-inch pieces, so as to avoid stringincss. Stew with one pint of sugar, adding more if too tart. When very soft rub through a sievei and return to the fire until at the‘ boiling point. Have ready a num- ber of slices of twoâ€"day old bread, buttered generously. Spread theml on a platter and pour over sufficient of the hot sauce thoroughly to soak them. Add another layer of bread, cover with the remainder of thei sauce. Set aside until cold and serveI with cream and sugar. A simple, but very good dessert. Prepare and cook two quarts of rhubarb. Boil one cupful of rice in a large kettle of salted Water for ten minutes, then drain and turn into a double boiler. 'Add from time to time as much ofi the syrup from the fruit as it will absorb, cooking until very tender. Mix lightly with it the drained! pieces of fruit and mold in cups.i Serve cold, using any syrup which remains as a sauce; or a custard sauce may be substituted. , Rhubarb Slumpâ€"Peel and cook to~l gether until tender two quarts ofi rhubarb and two cupfuls of sugar. Mix together one point of flour, one‘ half of a teaspoonful of salt and two scant teaspoonfuls of baking; powder. llub in one tablespoonful of‘ butter and mix to a soft dough with sweet milk. Roll out in a. thick sheet the size, of the saucepan. Lay it in over the fruit, cover closely and keep the saucepan where thel fruit will boil very gently. Do notl uncOVer for three quarters of an hour. Turn out on a platter, pour the fruit over the crust and serve with it a foamy sauce. Baked Rhubarbâ€"Prepare in the same way as for sthed rhubarb. Put fruit and sugar in layers in an earth- en dish, cover closely and place in a moderate oven until the fruit is ten- dcr. Oldâ€"fashioned Rhubarb Frittersâ€"- Beat together two eggs, add one cupâ€" ful of milk. Mix together thrce cup- fuls of flour, one tablespoonful of' sugar, one half teaspoouful of salt. and two teaspoonfuls of baking powâ€". der. Stir into this the mixture, one pint of chopped rhubarb, one tablespoonful of melted butter and more milk, if necessary, to make [Ll thick drop batter. Fry in small, thick cakes in a frying pan, turning when one side is nicely browned. Serve with plenty of butter and grated maple sugar. ther’s Ear A warm IN Mpruea's EAR! was” Huggins AN INFANT. Ans m rue MdflrHs THAT COME BEFORE rHAr rrmt, a soo‘rr's smslom . sun'etLES rm; EXTRA srnsueru AND NOU'RISHMEHr'so nectaaiav Il'o’n' THE HEALTH OF BOTH MOTHER AND OHMG. Send for free sample. SCOTT 8: BOWNE, Chemis - Toronto, s 500.. and $1.00; all druggisis. is. Ontario. 1 school and brush with a soft, perfectly clean brush. .. To polish a stove, place a quantity of stoveâ€"polish into a dish; add equal parts water and- turpentine, and a few drops of varnish; mix this Well together; apply with a small paintâ€"brush. Let the polish dry, and then rub briskly with a stoveâ€"brush. Stewed apples are healthy eating. When peeled, place the fruit in cold water. Add sugar and lemonâ€"rind to taste. Stew gently in an open saucepan for about forty minutes. Serve cold with jelly or chopped al- monds. To clean a mattress, remove all the hair from the tick. Turn the tick inside out and wash thor- oughly, dry, and mangle. Place the horsehair in a. tub of warm, soapy water, and souse it up and dowu for some minutes, then rinse in cold water and dry on sheets of paper in the sun. WHEN IN THE KITCHEN. “Why do women wear such ugly clothes in their kitchens?" lamented an artistic young woman. "They wear out their old things, and the colors of their aprons are ugly, be- cause those colors do not wash out." responded her practical friend. “That's the melancholy part about it.” was the sad reply, “but if a woman has to spend half her life in the kitchen, why doesn't she put a little thought on what she wears there, instead of saving every penny and every stitch for her after- noon frock and wearing any old thing in the morning? When I am married I shall wear the perkiest sweeping caps I can devise instead of doing my head up in a towel. My husband shall admire his kitchen wife as much as his sittingâ€"room wife.” The practical friend, roused by this, responded, “A kitchen wife is known by her cooking, and the skill with which she boils and broils and bastcs and bakes is more im- portant than the way she looks when she does it." “A man's stomach not the only way to his heart," proâ€" tested the theoriscr. “His eyes must be feasted also. There are cheap and practical kitchen gown materials which are pretty as well, so I shall wear pretty frocks, and I know that their becomingness will not cause my meats to burn nor my cakes to fail.” SHOWING LOVE AT HOME. Love shows itself in our willingness to do little or big things that will please our loved ones A man may not care for violet ,but.he shows his loV'e for his wife who will for her sake go down on his knees in the grass, and gather a bunch just for her. He may think that they ought to know he loves' them dearly, be- cause every day of his life he is working for them. But his love is not all that it might be until it leads him to do the things that are especially pleasing to his family. Numerous cares, deep thought, an absorbing life work, a crowded day, free no man from the duty of showâ€" ing his love at home in ways which are wholly of his wife's or his child- ren's choosing. The man who com- plains of the useless demands his family makes upon him had better right about face, and ask himself how much he is doing to make such lov- ing claims seem no longer like de- mands, and all this is equally true of the wives and children. ., ____,._____ ALL THROUGH THAT PIN. “Johnny Samkins,” said teacher impatiently, is it you are Iidgeting with?” Johnny did not reply, but the class sneak was ready, as usual, with in- formation. “Please, teacher," he said, pin he’s got.” “Take it away from him, and bring it here,” was the next Com- mand. And the offending pin was ac- cordiugly brought. There was no more trouble from Johnny until his turn came to rend. and then. instead of standing up, the poor little fellow made no sign, exâ€" cept that two big tears rolled down the “what "it's a ‘ his cheeks. “Why, don't you go on with the reading?” cried his muchâ€"tried mon- tor. "If you don't. holla’x'u better, young man, I shall have to make an example of you!” “Pâ€"please, mum.” whimpeer Johnny, “Iâ€"I Can't stand up! 'J'hz-at pin you took keâ€"kceps me trousers up!” .___.___;__.__._ AUSTRALIAN OPALS. The finest opal known in Australia is obtained at White Cliffs, near Wilâ€" cannia, in the colony of New South Wales, where about 800 miners are in constant. work. The best quality of these stones realizes occasionally as much at $150 an ounce. To the end of 100-9. $4,000,000 worth of opals had been exported from New South Wales. STEEL CARS. ' 6 â€"â€"- When Trains " Collide; The "Railway and Locomotive En- gineering” askszâ€"What is a railway collision? It is the violent coming together of two trains, either mov- ing in opposite directions, or moving in the same direction, or one moving and the other not moving. The re- sults are, as a rule, the same: des- truction of life or of property or of both. There is one thing, however, that a» collision is not the result of. It is not, and never will be, the re- sult of locomotive or car construc- tion. It isin every case the result of a failure in train operation. Our friends of the daily press are very rightly insisting that something must be done to reduce the loss of life in railway collisions. They point to the results of such 'an‘accident in which heavy Pullmans, steel cars and wooden Vehicles are involved, and from the fact that wooden cars are generally badly crushed, they are ad- vocating the adoption of steel cars as an antidote to the collision evil. It is true that if collisions are one of the inevitable - conditions of modern railroading, it is far safer for passengers to ride in Pullmaus or steel cars. As things go now, the fact that such ears are safer than wooden ones rests on their ability to crash into and to wreck weaker ones. If all the cars in two violently colliding trains wore equal- ly strong what would happen to the passengers? We can give some. answer to this question by referring to a newspaper cutting lately sent to us by one of our readers, in which it was said that a train going fifty} LllCS an hour had been stopped by‘iis engi~ necr in four rail lengths. Fifty miles an hour is at the rate of 76.0 feet per second. Four rail lengths is 120 feet. If the train was not stopping, it would pass over the four rail lengths in less than two seconds. It is, of course, obvious that this newspaper statement is inâ€" correct, but what about the loose passengers in a train so stopped? They would be thrown with exchSSive violence against the ends and the interior furnishings of the car, and severe injury to them would result. If two non-telescopable, indestruc- tible steel car trains came together at high speed the stopping of each train would take place in considerâ€" ably less than four rail lengths, and some of the cars would be up-ended or violently wrenched to one side, or one or both of the trains would bound with considerable force. The passengers in these cars not being fixtures and having at the time of collision the velocity of the moving trains, would be thrown about, with a degree of violence only measured by the speed of the trains and the staying qualities of the cars. We do not say that steel passenger cars are not a most desirable form of railway vehicle construction. They would be most valuable in such con- tingencies as derailnnmts or such like wrecks, for they would stand an enormous amount of side wiping against tunnel walls or the slopes of rock cuts where they had space to stop in. When it comes to the vioâ€" lent straightâ€"away collision, some- thing must give, and the success of the heavy Pullman or the allâ€"steel car has so far depended. almost enâ€" tirely, on the presence in the trains of cars that can be crushed or broken to fragments. __,._____.+.â€".._.__ POOR, 'WATERY BLOOD. m The Cause of Pimples and all Dis- figuring Eruptionsâ€"Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills the Only Cure. Poor, watery bloodâ€"pale bloodâ€"is the cause of every pale complexion llad bloodâ€"Ablood filled with poisonâ€" ous impuritiesâ€"is the cause of every bad complexion. Bad blood is re- SllOllSilJle for (.l'llpthllS, anti pimâ€" ples, and torturing, burning, itching eczema. 'l‘hese troubles can only be cured through the blood, and the only medicine that actually makes new bloodâ€"â€"ri:'h, pure health-giving bloodâ€"is llr. Vl‘iiliams' Pink Hills for I’nle People. 'l‘i'ic new blood which these pills make reaches every organ. and part of the body. It clears the complexion, banishes pimples and eruptions, and brings health, strength and happiness. Miss Lizzie Lobsingcr, Carlsruhc, Ont., says: “Dr. Williams’ Pink lr’ills- is thebcst medicine I know of for cleaning the blood of iirlpuritirs. My blood was in a had condition, and as a result I was not only weak and run down, with l l but was troubled pimples and eruptions. I tried several medi- cines, but they did not help me. 'lh'rn I was advised to take Dr. Wil- liams’ I’in‘c Pills, and these soon relieved me of all my troubles. I can recommend the pills to anyone Sui- fel‘in-g from had blood." Bad blood is the cause of nearly every disease that afllicts humanity“ It is because Ilr. Williams’ Pink Pills make new, rich red blood that lthey cure such troubles as anaemia, heart palpitation, headaches and backaches, rheumatism, neuralgia, indigestion, kidney and liver trou- bios, and ailments of girlhood and womanhood. But you must get the genuine pills with the full name, “Dr. Williams' I‘ink Pills for Pale chople," on the wrapper around each box. Sold by medicine dealers everywhere or sent post paid at 50 lcents a box or six boxes for $2.50, ,by writing the Dr. ll'illiams‘ ilchi~ lcinc Co., Brockvillc, Ont. For the Sake of Good ideal-tr: ».' «I ~1- “- lt’s the purest tea in the world. Solo! only in lead packets. By all Grocers. Black, Mixed or Green. Highest award St. Louis, loos. WM terior of the trees and underground I‘G‘ can \" 0F MARS he lTS l’tfll’LE THE GREAT FRENCH ASTRO- NOMER’S VIEWS. __..¢ DI. Flammarion Says They Enjoy a. Mild Climate With No Violent Changes . On the top floor of an. apartment house near the Observatoi're, I had the good fortune to find M. Camille Flammurion, the eminent French asâ€" tronomer, and one of the most re~ mark-able men in France, writes the London Chronicle's correspondent. (in being ushered into his study, a rather short man, with a leonine head and dreamy eyes, rose to greet me, and in a simple. unaffected man- ner bade me wrlcome. He then in- troduced me to his wife, who assists him in all his work, and acts as his secretary. The walls 0 ment are all windows, and a balcony runs ,round the Whole flat. on which is mounted an astronomiâ€" cal telescope. Naturally enough, one of the first questions I asked such an authority referred to the planet Mars. “Ah, the planet Mars,” he replied. “I have been studying that planet closely for 30 years, and I have prepared a. regular map of it wath all its canals. I think I am more .interested in this than anything, for one reason, that I am certain it: is inhabited, and probably hy 9001310 much more advanced than we are. SEES THE SNOW MELT. "A thing which is particularly inâ€" teresting to us at the Juvisy Obserâ€" vatory, which I founded, atch the snow melting at the IPoles in the spring, and, in fact, they nearly disappear in the summer. This, mind you, in spite of the fact that the year in Mars is tWice long as ours, that really consists of -~.-naturally, the winter is longer. _ regard to the inhabitants, I think they are very light in weight; stance, a man who weig pounds on the earth, if he 72-30 days, so that. suddenly transported to liars, would only Weigh 52 pounds. “The public at large does not realâ€" .lv know the precision of some of our astronomical observations. Thus we know the length of the day in Mars by diurnal rotation to t.lie.100th part of a second, and from observaâ€" tions, which have now extended over 100 years, we find the length of the day on the planet is :24- hours 37 minutes 22 seconds. rIhe climate of the Martians is very mild, there are no gales, while the atmosphere is very light, with scarcely any clouds. The inhabitants cu_§oy fine weather, the climate being something like that of Davos Platz, dry and clear. We. know the. globe 0f Mars perfectly, in fact, far better than the earth. SOLAR SPOTS. one of those rare Paris- lr‘lammarion continued, “who has never changed his abode. I have been here since the war of 1871, in fact I took the flat during the war, when I Was a. captain in the “I am ians,” M. streams. to study how the sun afâ€" fects climatic conditions. i his apartâ€" plied drily. broadlthe ‘cmbarras du ch'oix’ of is that we 1 wrecks, l for in-a ly. 'At 1 11's 140' his hand on the parson’s coat 1 “We have, as Well, different colâ€"- oredâ€"glass houses for studying the effect of solar heat on the plants, and here We made the curious disâ€" covery that red glaSs hastens vege- tation, while blue glass suppresses it. For instance, sensitive plants. like mimosa", grow fifteen times higher under red glass than under blue, and another curious thing we have succeeded in doing is to change both the shape and color of leaves like the Coleus and geranium under different colored glasses." I then asked M. Flammarion about some of the startling articles he had written on the end of the world. “I have so often dealt with all the different hypotheses, but you and I need not bother about that, as it will not occur in our time,” he re- “The earth has really deaths, but. the most probable hypothesis is that the end will be intense cold." On leaving M. Flammarion saidâ€" “They have named a cirque in the moon after me, but pray 'do not mention it, as the Budget Commis- sion may want to tax it, as being landed property." A MEDDLESOME GOVERNMEN’l“ In the old days, when commerce was carried on in wooden sailing ves- sels, the loss of life and the destrucâ€" tion of ships were far greater than at present. Along the Newfoundland coast, says a writer in Cornhill, eVery year, in the beginning of the last century, there were terrible and in all the little settlc~ ments near by material from the lost vessels made apart of the house furnishing. Nearly every good thing in the posâ€" ‘a_-9 session of these people came from the is to say, IL sea_ One travelling clergyman, a. good and gentle man, was holding With service in a little village there, when lie/found his host eyeing him sharp- ast the old fisherman laid. could be, smOothed it down. I a n “That’s mighty fine piece of cloth, sir, said he. “Never seed such a splendid bit of cloth in my life before. Get 'e out of a wrack, sir?" Wreckage made greedy hearts. The place for wrecks." ' “Wracks, men!” he shouted, bring- ing his heaVy fist down. on the rail of the bridge. “There’s mony braw hoose, mony a brow farm in Orkney got out o’ wracks; but the Breetish government has put a lect- hoose here and leethoose there, and yon,” pointing to a double light- house, “yon's twa. There's no chance of wracks for a puir fisher body noo.” â€"-â€"â€"~«â€"+ SAVED ’I‘I-IE BABY; m writer at one time said to an ()rkm ney pilot, “This must be a g1‘c.ttl and l l n l a . “I was not a believer in advertised ntlsdicines,” says Mrs. Chas. Van- 'l'assell, D'igby, N.S., "until I began .using Baby's Own Tablets. When my Gcnic. and I am surrounded by treesl and foliage, as if I were in the country. Thus, in 1871., during the Commune, while all Paris was lightâ€" ing, I turned fr to that of nature, which to my min is far more interesting. “I. began to note phases of veget cent chestnut (lows, on the t he Avenue de l'Observa- toire. 'l'hcse trees were planted by Napoleon the First in 1807, and I soon got to know tl‘iom and their peculiarities. I numbered" them, starting from the observatory, and noted the date at which. each of them bore buds, then leaves, and ul- timatelv flowers. Some of the trees are forward, while others are slow to put. forth shoots. I then made a chart, marking the date of flowering on each. ’l‘his I carried on for thir- ty years, and finally drawing a, cum]- ed line through them, found ih'ey corresponded with the solar spots. “I discovered the same thing with the return of the. swallows, the first nightingale, and the song of the cuckoo, though all. of course, are modified by atmospheric conditions. i ' .rn . ' "x ‘ _- . ' I hme' 110\v°“r’ mnphatuany plov “The attorney hold up his hand Teas- ed that the more solar spots there are the hotter the spring in Paris. OTHER Ol’lSERVA'l‘IONS. “I do not, however, spend all my time here, as half the year I am at the observatory at Juvisy, which is only about twenty minutes from Paris. ’llu-re We have two astronoâ€" mers workth constantly, principtu past?” asked Mabel. occupied with the study of Mars, Jupiter and Yours we l om the study of men tended her told me she would d, lliVC. l l l l l l 1"lrave that. all to me!" last baby jvas born we never hoped to raise her. She was weakly, (lid not have any flesh on her bones, and a bluish color. The doctor who atâ€" not reading what other about. Baby's ()wn After in others said different 1 Tablets I decided to try them, and I ation on the magniflâ€"lmust _now honestly say I'never had trees outside my win-,such a valuable medicine in my home. It has changed my poor, sickly, fleshless baby into a lovely child, now as fat as a, butter ball. Words fail to express my thanks for what the Tablets have done for my child, and 1 can only urge that other mothrrs do as I do now, keep the Tablets in the house always." Baby's Own 'l‘ablets positively cure all the minor ills of babyh‘cod and childhood, and the mother has a guarantee that lhcy' Contain no opi- ate. or harmful drug. Sold by all drugglsts or sent by mail at 25 cents a box by writing the llr. Wil- liams' Medicine Co., llrockville, Ont. v.‘ 6. 'lhe invalid called in his lawyer and s-aidzâ€" “l wish to explain again to you about willing my propert_vâ€"" . sun-iugly. "There. there,” said he, The patient snghed resignodly. 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