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Leave them in the hot water water only long enough to wilt or cook the nuts. There are several ways of browning browning the nuts. One way is to put two teaspoonfuls of olive oil--it must be of- good quality--in a pan and roll the nuts in it. Then, put them in a brisk oven and leave them there until they are brown. [4*.; Another way is to put a table- spoonful of oil in the bottom of a chafing dish, turn the heat full on and drop in enough nuts at a' time to cover the bottom of the pan. Keep the nuts moving over the flame until they have turned a dedicate dedicate brown. ' Almonds shelled and • blanched, and pecans, carefully cracked .. but not blanched, can be salted in the same manner as peanuts. ' When they are brown turn them in a-paper and sprinkle them, with salt. Let them cool before taking ihem from the paper, which absorbs the superfluous oil and makes them pleasanter to handle. Creole Secrets for Soup. Here are some rules that the old Creole cooks give for soup making --and if you have ever^ been, in Louisiana you know that their soup is worth emulating : To get the most goodness out of a soup bone it should be fracturéd every inch of its length. The soup should never, stop cooking frota the time it is put on the stove until "it is done, although it should at no time boil furiously. Once the soup is started cooking, no water should be added, -as this spoils the flavor.. The soup bone/should be put into cold water and no salt should be added till the soup is done, as the salt stops the flow of the juices. ■ The soup should cook from five to seven hours at least. All spices used in the soup should be put in whole-^that is, whole blank and white peppers, cloves, bay leaves, cloves of garlic, etc.® One quart of water should be allowed allowed for every pound of meat and bone, to begin with. This is a rule of the Creoles, but they make rich soup. It weaker soup is to be made, or if vegetables as well as meat are used in the stock, the amount of water water can be increased. nothing like a delicious enp of Tea as a delightfully refreshing stimulant and brain soother.. ' v-v, CEYLON TEA e a d s t h e Wo r 1 c Sealed Lead Packets Only. Beward of Substitute., HI Hints for the Home. Common soap, rubbed on the hinges of a creaking door, will do away with the trouble. Fasten a pincushion to the top GIN PILLS are just as good for the Bladder as they are for the Kidneys. If there is trouble In retaining urine--if yon have to get np three or four times or oftener during the night--if the urine is hot and scalding--Gin Pills will quickly relieve the trouble. They cure the kidneys and heal the irritated bladder. 60c. a box; 6 for S2.50. At all dealers or sent on receipt of price. 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Baked apples are delicious with their cores filled with orange marmalade marmalade or chopped nuts and sugar. Irons will heat more quickly and stay hot longer if a cake tin. or other cover is turned upside down over them. An ordinary piece of mince pie is said to be the equal in food value to a piece of beef, a slice of bread and a potato. A faded carpet can be brightened and cleaned by. rubbing with warm water and ammonia, with a little borax in it. The dessert that fails in its appeal appeal to the palate is a wasted attempt, attempt, for desserts are eaten for pleasure,-not hunger. Wet the kitchen stove while cold with a cloth dipped in kerosene oil ; then apply the blacking. The stove will kee'p clean much longer. "All odors end here" is the inflexible inflexible rule of charcoal. If the charcoal is made red-hot and then cooled before using, its virtues are increased. Borax is the best hairbrush cleaner. cleaner. Add a t-easpoonful of borax and a table'spoonful of soda to the water in which the hairbrush is to be washed. A change the children will appreciate appreciate is the baking of mincemeat, in tart shape. Simply line patty pans with the pastry and then fill theîn, covering the top ; _ „ Tomato sauce is peculiarly good with baked beans. Cold baked beans covered with tomato sauce and baked in the oven till the whole is brown, is also a savory luncheon dish. __ À fruit jelly--apples, bananas and pineapple chopped and put into into a foundation of gelatine, strawberry strawberry juice and hot water--makes a delicious salad, served on lettuce leaves. It is an excellent idea to have a guest chest in the guest room. It should contain emergency things-- a nightgown, a bathrobe, slippers, soap, wash cloths, even a brand- new toothbrush. When hot cloths are needed coni' coni' stantly in time of sickness, keep a I colander full of them over a kettle half full of boiling water. Keep the kettle covered on the back of v the range. . Colored goods should be ironed while damp and upon the wrong ■ side. Delicate colors should not be «. subjected to a hot iron, because . this fades them quite-as much as hanging on the line in the sun. À good luncheon, dish is made of the macaroni and stewed tomatoes left from the night before. Heat them over again together and serve, or pout into a baking dish, cover with bread crumbs and bake till brown. * OLD DAMASCUS. DURHAM COtTNTY BOYS. Execvtive meeting of the Durham Old Boys' Association will be held this Thursday Thursday evening, Jan. 15, at residence of Mr. Henry .O'Hara, 58 Elm Ave., Toronto, to which all members and their'wives are invited. Prof. Frank Ruse, Exeter, who for many years taught music and led church choirs and social circles is compelled by frail healih to retire from active teaching, and a large" concourse of his numerous friends met Wednesday evening in the Thames Road church to mark their respect respect for the - rofessor and their appreciation appreciation of his many labors in behalf of the musical art. Rev. C. Fletcher occupied the chair. Mr. Chas. Monteith on behalf of the gathering read an address and presented presented Mr. Ruse with a very handsome lounge and easy chair. Mr. Ruse with fine feeling very fittingly replied. Many happy -speeches, recitations and musical numbers followed. After the program refreshments were served and a most enjoyable enjoyable evening spent. Mr. Ruse carries with him the good will of all. Mr. and Mrs. Ruse left for their new home in Hampton.--Exeter Times. liiimHiiiimimifisimiiiiiiimr Hampton and all other friends of Mr. Ewart J. Creeper, Owen Sound, will rejoice rejoice to leavn that in his first candidature for public office he was successful. Eleven aspirants faced he electors for four vacancies vacancies on the Board of Education, and Ewart received 690 votes, standing 4th in the race and was 89 votes ahead of his closest competitor. 7 Tie Su t referring editorially to the contest savs: "Eleven candidates were in the field, every one of whom would have made excellent representatives representatives on the Board. Mr.E. J. Creeper made a splendid run considering the fact that he is a new man and it ; s the first time his name has been before the electors." electors." The Statesman is glad to see a so that our worthy Scotch friend and local option, "Sunday school and church worker, Mr. Tohn McQuaker was elected Mayor of Owen Sound by 336 majority, having received 1287 votes, his opponent being T. W. Thompson. CLUBBING LIST. The Statesman or The News will be furnished for 1913 in connection with the under named publications at prices stated :-- Daily Globe $4 50 Daily Globe, rural route 3 5° Daily Mail & Empire 4 5° Daily Mail & Empire, rural route. ..35° Toronto World , 3 50 Daily News 2 50 Daily St.,r, in country 2 50 Dailv Star, in town 3 5° Weekly Mail & Empire I 7-5 Weekly Witness 1 80 Weekly Sun' I 85 Farmers's Advocate. 2 50 Farm and Dairy I 85 Family.Herald & Wéekly Star 2 00 Home Journal I 75 Christian Herald 2 5° Christian Guardian.... 2 50 C nadian Farm . I 85 Canadian Countryman. 2 00 A Cold in the Head. We cffjten hear of a cold "going througnShe house," and many people people are content to take no steps to check its progress. They see, one, victim after another succumb to the infection, and calmly await 1 their own turn. An ordinary cold in the head is an infectious fever just as diphtheria is, though fortunately much less 'severe, and as a rule unattended unattended by any complications. Its cause is not, as we formerly supposed, supposed, exposure to fresh air, or rain, or fog, for workers in mountain mountain observatories are .often exposed exposed to such conditions withput any ill effects. The x enemy is really a microbe, or rather various microbes, microbes, for while diphtheria, for example, is always caused by one special germ, a cold may be brought, about by many germs totally dif- 1 ferent from each other. There are predisposing causes in Vie case of certain individuals who j take cold more easily than others. | It would be well for such people to : try and track their frequent colds to the real source. In many cases it will be found that they spend the greater part of their time, in close, hot, overcrowded, ill-ventilated, or dusty rooms. These conditions tend lo lower the system's power of resistance to-germ attacks of all kinds, and the man who gets off with nothing worse than a cold in the head may count. himself lucky. Then again the victim of constant colds may possibly suffer from some abnormal growth in the nose which lowers the vitality of the mucous membrane, making it specially susceptible. susceptible. In such a case an operation operation may be necessary, but frequently frequently this is not a very serious one, and when if ia.over the sufferer sufferer has no more trouble with colds. Where there is no such reason to account for colds -in the head they can generally be warded off if care be taken to keep all rooms, including including the bedroom, thoroughly ventilated. ventilated. There should be no actual draught if a window be fitted with a board some three inches deep that rests on the lower part of the frame, so that the sash shuts down upon it. In this way there is always always an opening, in the middle of the window thatonsures a free current current of air. In addition, whenever the room is empty for "a short time Hagig baking powder Ie& IsHyZ this TO GUARD AGAINST ALUM ^ IN BAKING POWDER SEE THAT ALL INGREDIENTS ARE PLAINLY PRINTED ON [J.THE LABEL,AND THAT ALUM OR SULPHATE OF ALUMINA «OR SODIC ALUMINIC SUL- 3 P H A T E IS NOT ONE OF THEM. THE WORDS "NO ALUM" WITHOUT THE.IN- 1,-.G ft EDI ENTS IS NOT SUFFICIENT. SUFFICIENT. MAGIC BAKING .POWDER COSTS NO MORE THAN THE ORDINARY KINDS. FOR ECONOMY, BUY THE ONE POUND TINS. Gillett Company Limited TORONTO, ONT. [fc 8 uia;jL tniacmr cak£.*£J DIRECTIONS^ ■*** www I mm » w* l '■ I'M I H»lg| B/BîüSSwBeRxS ■Ztt COMPOSED OF THE\51 VF4UMMM IfMREDMÜ leWS AND NONE OTHttjti A PHOSPHATE BLCAFB-1 laAONATEOf SOBA/UIM ■■ 3ÎARCH.* I r* I M I ~~ I • niiÎÏ!!"" ifwwi I I MONTREAL the windows may be opened wide. It is not a good thing to wear too much heavy clothing in winter, for this tends to make the skin sensitive sensitive to draughts. Wear woollen garments certainly, but let them be light and not too many. Exercise Exercise will supply the best kind of warmth because it makes the blood circulate freely. And if, despite such precautions as have been suggested, a -cold at-, tanks you go to bed for a couple of days, and by keeping away from the rest of the family spare them exposure to infection.--A Physician. * THE EDITOR'S BOUQUET. I appreciate the excellent features of The Canadian Statesman, its articles on stock and seed judging, the synopsis of Rev. Mr. Anthony's paper in "Thoughts on Education" and your, giving of a list of persons who have passed away thru the year. This is a feature that other town journals might imitate. JOHN MacDOU GALL, Spencerville. Heaven Below. - Suitor--I have no bad habits. I don't smoke or drink.- Father--Neither has my daughter. daughter. She doesn't play or'sing. A Pill That is Prized.--There have been many pills put upon the market and pressed upon public attention, attention, but none has endured so long or met with so much favor as Par melee's Vegetable Pills. Wide- ^ spread use of them has attested their great value, and they need no further advertisement than this.W' Having firmly established them-® selves in public esteem, they now rank without a peer in the list of standard vegetable preparations. The late hours kept by boys and girls nowadays was being discussed. "Yes," said Mrs. Newlywed, "I suppose they acquire the habit while they are babies V A Carelessly Treated Cold the of most sickness because drugged . source pills, syrups and alcoholic mixtures are uncertain and unsafe. Scott's Emulsion has been relied upon by ^physicîansforïorty years as the safe and sensible remedy to suppress the cold and build up the enfeebled forces to avert throat and lung troubles. 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INVESTMENT BANKERS (Established USD Union Bank Building, N Toronto Mr. Hitchens Says It Is In Truth a City of Dreams. - Damascus, - with its ancient sacred sacred associations, its 48 mosques, the tomb of Saladin, and its-clusters its-clusters 0 f houses, hidden in its world- famous roses and jasmine, is in . truth a city of dreams. . "Why is it so fascinating 1 ?" asks Mr. Hitchens. "Why will it be for , ever a delicious memory in my ! mind ? I can scarcely tell. Two. i young Arab boys lean on the edge i of the basin dreamily listening to the fountain, and'casting sprays of jasmine upon the surface of the water. water. The -guardian draws slowly at his narghile, as he squats on the sofa with his, legs tucked under him. A blue pigeon flits under the white arch. j "The" noise of the- city, in the j heart of which we are, does not 'penetrate to this place. We hear ! i only the fountain. Who dwells in : those shuttered houses, behind, the fretwork of wood, behind the climbing climbing .flowers V, I shall neyer know. No voice drops down from them, no eyes peep out. : vW e are in a-hermitage, a-hermitage, deep surely in old Damascus, where the feet of Abraham trod." :Y.:r: ;;i ^ /V/^ Highly Ingemoiis. " "Is. your; boy a good student V ' "Yes," replied Mr. Wealthy; 'To. a certain extent. The way he gets his mother and me to put up .with his 'expense accountsi - shows -that he's a wonderful ; student., of. human nature; * ' • ' Bad politicians often resort to good politics. Buy St. Lawrence Sugar in original packages. Untouched Untouched from refinery to your cupboard, you are sure of sugar absolutely free from contamination or impurities of any kind. . St. Lawrence granulated white pure - cane auger is packed in thjree sizes ot grain--fine, medium and coarse, in 1001b.,2S lb. and 20 lb. sealed bags. • and 5 lb. and 2 lb. cartons. 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