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Cocoanut Pis.â€"One cup shredded cocoanut, four tablespoons sugar, two tablespoons cornstarch, t,wol ecups sweet milk, one quarter cup cream, one half teaspoon vauilla‘} dash of nutmeg, two eggs. é:h':aldI the milk ; beat the egg yolks untili licht with the sugar, add the cornâ€"| starch and mix with the scalded | milk. Cook, stirring constantly un-‘ til it thickens. Remove from the fre, add cream and cocoanut andl set away to cool. Beat egg whites to a stiff froth, add vanilla and nutâ€"| meg and fold into the custard. Have a pie tin lined with pie crust, prick all over with a fork, brush with & little of the egg white and place in the oven to bake until firm. When done, hll with the custard, replace in the oven and brown. Serve cold. Cocoanut Macaroons.â€"Whites of five eggs, one and a half cups shredâ€" ded cocoanut, one half pound powâ€" dered sugas. Beat the egg whites until stiff and very dry, fold in caretully powdered sugar and the gocoanut. Mix very lightly. Drop by teaspoonfuls on oile«f paper ; bake in a slow oven twenty minutes, Take out of the oven when a golden brown and, when cold, moisten the under side of the paper so that the‘ mavcaroons may easily be removed. | Coccanut â€" Custard. â€" One pint sweet wilk, two eggs, half cup coâ€"| coanut, two tablespoons of n;‘.u’,‘ half salt spoon of salt, half tsa| spoonful of cornstarch, half tea-’ spoonful of vanilla. Dissolve the cornstarch in a little of the cold milk. Have the remainder of the‘ milk hot in a double boiler and stir‘ in the cornstarch. (Cook ten minâ€" utes. Beat the eggs and sugar toâ€" gether, pour the boiling milk over them and return to the fire until thick and creamy. Remove at once from the fire, set in cold water and stir until almost cold. Add the fiayâ€" oring and cocoanut and pour into «dish in which it is to be served. This is a delicious custard to pour over fruit or broken cakes or macaroons. Waldort Salad with Coceanut.â€" Mix one bowl each of sour apples, nuts and celery chopped _ fine. Sprinkle the top with shredded coâ€" cvoanut and salt to taste. Whip some thick cream until very stiff, salt slightly and mix with the salad. Coceanut Drops.â€"Grated â€"cocoa nut, white of one egg, sugar. To one cup of grated cocoanut add half its weight of powdered sugar, the white of one eg@g and flavoring to taste. Beat to a stiff froth. If not quite stiff enough, add a little more sugar. Drop on buttered paper and bake fifteen minutes in a hot oven. When cold moisten the under side of the paper and the drops will Tasty Coconnut Delicacies. Cocoanut Pudding. â€" One pint asweet milk, one half cup sugar, two eggas, two tablespoons of cocoanut, them and retu thick and crea from the fire, stir until almo oring and coc «dish in which i is a delicious Waldort salad w Mix one bowl each nuts â€"and celery Sprinkle the top w Fried Calves‘® Hearts.â€"Cut two, hearts into long strips, roll in fiour,l and fry in a tablespoon of butter. Take up the meat and add to the skillet a tablespoon of parsley and a tablespoon of onion, both chopped \ fine. Let cook five minutes and pour over the meat. ‘ trape Juice Lemonade.â€"Make a lemonade in the usual way, thef juice of three lemons and half a cup | of sugar, a quart of water and a| tumbler of grape juice ; be sure and , rerve it ice cold. Here is another| lemonade which is perfeotly deliciâ€" ous, the only drawback to it being that it cannot be served the moâ€" ment it is made, but must be made a couple of hours before serving. ‘The juice of three lemons, grated rind of one, one cup of powdered sugar, â€" Take one quart of boiling water, pour over the rind, Juice and sugar, let it t cold and then strain, _ This fimonado either with the grape juice or just plain is worth trying. _ Receipts for Yeast _ Cakes.â€"A farmer‘s daughier asks how to make yoeast cakes, Those wil!_k_ee;: to » ; Boi adf\ inpp ty fed i cce then wnrps J UWe (uwâ€"svg ui Wared, inen strain ; scald two cups of flour with (.u.ml Di s’x' x=8 “"‘{* es fTalse dver nignt day stir thick v let raise once m a board, kuead y slin off Miscellaneous Recipes. 5 ;fimived in water. Letb r night. Early the next thick with cornmeal~ and once more. Then put on kueagd in more meal, _ if "«* * 0 cnâ€"<y a "a‘f mmeb ; Hints for the Home. To make cabbage digestible, when half boiled pour off the water and place in fresh boiling water. Soap should not be rubbed on black stockings. They should be imâ€" mersed in suds and rubbed till clean. When preparing the whitening for ceilings or pantries, add one pint of boiled milk, after you have put in as much water as you require,. The milk gives the ceiling a beautiâ€" ful gloss when dry, and keeps the whitening from rubbing off. s When the feet ache through walkâ€" ing in the heat, rub them with a mixture of lemon juice and alcohol thoroughly blended. When boiling potatoes put a teaâ€" spoonful of sugar as well as salt in the water. This does not give a sweet taste, but makes them dry and floury. (Grass stains may be removed from washing materials by careâ€" fully rubbing the spots with a little fresh lard. Then wash in the usual way, and you will find that the stains have entirely disappeared. To keep the hands soft have a botâ€" tle of olive oil on your washstand, and before washing the hands rub a little of the oil well in. Then soap and wash as usual. The oil loosens the dirt and also keeps the skin soft. A tablespoountful of vinegar should be added to the water used for washing as this keeps stockings a good color. _ An economical way of frying oniâ€" ons is to place sufficient cold water at the bottom of the pan to cover it, then slice the onions and put them into the pan with a plece of dripping the size of a walnut. Fried in this way they will not burn. If jam will not set firmly, cut a jelâ€" ly square into small pieces and put it in the preserving pan about five minutes before removing the jam from the fire. This will set it beauâ€" tifully firm, and will not make any difference with regard to flavor. When baking bread and butter pudding, sprinkle each slice of bread and butter with desiccated cocoanut instead of currants, and stew some on the top. This will make a change from the ordinary pudding, and will be found very When using white hearthstone or red ochre for steps, hearthstones, window sills, etc., instead of plain water, use thin starch, which may be saved over from washing day. This causes it to stick to the stons, and will not tread off, spot, or be washed off by the rain, and also keeps clean much longer. How many men are bothered with that sawâ€"like roughness at the edge of collars after being launderâ€" ed several times. A complete cure may be effected by merely rubbing the edge with a pieca of ordinary paraffin wax. Thus the collars do not soil so readily, and the material lasts much longer, for the wax fills up the roughness of the edges. a us ols oudith t ts oi i The following is an excellent polâ€" ish for the piano : Take equal parts of vinegar and paraffin oil, and put together in a bottle. Shake well before using. It will be found to give a more brilliant polish, and has not the sticky appearance of furniture creams. * : When mixing plaster of Paris for mending cracks in plaster use vineâ€" gar instead of water. It should be of the consistency of putty, and when the cracks are fMled with it the top should be amoothed â€" over with a knife. The mixture will not harden for about halft an hour, A soothing dressing for burns, sealds, . inflammation _ caused by wasp, bee, mosqulito, _ or other © t vos poe o. WmmE c oROc Gen!l stings may be made with ordinary household whiting mixed . to a smooth cream with linssed oil; apâ€" ply this frequently to the part afâ€" fected, and the inflammation will quickly disappear, 7 7 en sn o . ce es Lt mt o We t y Ciihuse Imt';od of cutting the frayed edges of cuffs and collars, as many {wople are accustomed to do, take a ighted taper and just singe the frayed parts, It will be seen that the linen will last much longer, Cutâ€" ting the edges has a tendency â€"to loosen the parts and singeing jJust takes the frayed edges off without injury, Velveteen which has served its purpose as a dress or blouse should be preserved and made jato polishâ€" ing eloths. In this cennection velâ€" vepgen is almast as good as chamo‘!s vobp Aptbptuataa ad h B MBA en n n n 9nn 0 weod and mahegany furniture, but ag a means of brightening silye® angd plqted goods. When sqiled the velâ€" veteen may be successfully cleaned by washing it in a soapy His Revenge: "Ther you won‘; marry me 1! No ; be} I‘ll be a sister to you." "I can syegest a better scheme than thas. fift me call you mother." Then he made a quick getaway. "'{.:‘! PW ECCC Oe ce n b. ather, and con a°* only be used & L’---‘-ML us Hinm n ngtis lather "I wonder whether you would come and dine with me?" he said, looking round with boyish eagerness, his eyts resting, however, on the beautiful face beside him. "I‘ve got rooms at Prince‘s Mansions. They‘re not mine, really; they belong to a friend of mine, an awfully good fellow, Lord Ganntâ€"* Mr. Morgan Thorpe, who alone heard this, was mixing h@mself m eecond glase of whisky. He was just pouring in a small quantity of water, and with an awkwardness scarcely to be expected of so coolia hand, he let the caraffe elip from his grasp. The water poured over the table, and in the confusion Bobby‘s speech was almost unnoticed. "How clumsy of me!" exclaimed Morgan Thorpe. "Forgive me, my dear Laura. We shall be delighted, my dear Deaneâ€"deâ€" lighted. Must you rea‘ly be going? Ab, well, the happiest hours come to a finish." Laura+went out into the emall hall as the two men put on their light overcoate. Bobby found some difficulty with his, and she helped him with her small white hands. "You will come again?" she said. "Yesâ€"yes, indeed!" said Bobby, "if you will be so good as to ask me." He got outside, and the cool evening air struck upon his heated brow. He felt as if he had come from some enchanted palâ€" ace in which a beautiful creature with roft black eyes had reigned like a queen of the fairies. ‘"‘Nice people," he said to Trevor, with boyish enthusiazm. Trevor grunted. "You know them _ very well?" said Bobby. "Oh, yes," said Trevor, sullenly. "What a lovely creature Mre. Dalton is!" eaid Bobby, looking up at the sky. There was so much suppressed eavageâ€" nees in his tone that Bobby stopped and etared at him. Trevor eyed him with a kind of sup pressed ferocity. 5 i _ "Oh, you think &o, do you?" he said "Look here, Deaneâ€"* Bobby woke with a beadache the noxt morningâ€"champagne and port do _ not mix very well. As he woke, he was conâ€" scious of a faint odor of perfume in the room. It proceeded from his dress clothes, and it was the scent which breathed in Mre. Dalton‘s hair, the eubtle perfume which emanated from her dress. Bobby must have been standing very near to her before it could have got into his dreasâ€" coat. It recalled the previoue evening, and Bobby, as he got into his bath, thought of Mr. Morgan Thorpe and his fascinating sister, and of Trevor. . Trevor bit hie lip, and looked from side to side. Now, Bobby wae not altogether a «imâ€" pleton, and there were some things about the small house in Cardigan Terrace which rather jarred upon him; a headâ€" ache makes you rather critical. Mr. Morâ€" gan ‘Thorpe was a little too eauve and smiling; the rooms certainly were raiher soiled and vulgar; and Mrs. Daltonâ€" gut Bobby could find no fault with her. She was altogether beautiful, and charming, and sweet, and he ilowed when he thought how gracious she had been to him. _ _ Eo e o en e t o ons He thought of her all the morning while he was grinding French and German with bis crammer; and lo! in the afternoon who should call at Prince‘s Manzions but Mr. Morgan Thorpe himself. s "I was just paesing on my way to the club, my dear Deane," he eaid, with his winning smile, "and I thought I would look in and ask you to go down with me." Bobby said he should be delighted, and gave his visitor a chair. Mr. Morgan Thorpe looked round the handeome room with interest and admiraâ€" tion, as if he had never seen it before. "You have tremendously swagger chamâ€" bere, my dear Deane," he said. ‘"Your friend must be a man of nice taste as well as wealth. What did you say his name was? ,I didn‘t catch it last night." "Gaunt," eaid Bobby. ‘"Lord Gaunt. He‘e a splendid fellow, and awfully generâ€" ous. I‘m half achamed of nceepting his offer and living in this splendor. His place, Leatmore, is near where we live, and we see a great deal of him. . He is doing wonders for the place, rebuilding the cottages and setting up schools, and all that sort of thing." 3 ¢ "Ah, playing the model landlord?" said Morgan «Thorpe. "Is heâ€"erâ€"a married man ?" "Oh, no!" «aid Bobby. Morgan Thorpe nodded, and _ looked round the room; and Bobby following his eye, said, with a little blush:. e ulA ts 2cA s ie w it lt sA td "Iâ€"I hape Mre. Dalton, if she will be o kind as to dine here, will like the "Ob, Laura will be sure to admire ll."‘ eaid Mr. Morgan Thorpe, "These etchings, and brouzes, and fur rugs are all in her way, for, &e 1 dare say you noticed, my dear fellow, she is artietic to her finger tips. But I‘m not sure that she will come. She is quite a home bird, and rarely goos anywhere; but of this I am very certain, that if she were to make an exception, it would be in your favor; for, between you and me, my dear Deane, I must tell you that you made quite a favorable impresâ€" @.on last night upon my dear flrl.“ Bohbby colored to the roots of his hair, ‘"By the way," contivued Mr. Morgan Thorpe, "I think it would be as well, perâ€" hap«, uot to tell ber that these rooms are not your own; she is so very particular, and she might object to come. In fact, if I were you, I shouldn‘t mention it to any one." a L Bobby scarcely eaw any reason for this concealment, but he nodded in mseent, and was full of admiration of Mrs, Dal ton‘s delicacy, * ie k They went down to the club, and there met Trevor, and the three men went into the billiardâ€"room; and Robby took his firat lesson with all the eagernose of & novice. The{ dined together at a restaurant, and Mr. Morgan Thorpe in@isted upon paying for the banquet, much, sppnrem,ry, to Trevor‘s aurprise; for he eyed him with a aullen eurfosity and suspicion, 5 | He met Mr. Morgan Thorpe nearly every ldzny at the Orient; and in a day or two | received ancther invitation to dine at | Cardigan Terrace. As on vhe previous 0câ€" |cagion, he anrd Trevor were the only guests. Mrs. Dalton received him with a | softly murmured welcome. $ From the theatre, which followed, they went to a little club where Mr. Morgan Thorpe eaid they could get some decent grilled bones, oc se R It was a very different club to the Orient, and neither so larga nor so quiet. A pilano was going in one of the rooms, and a gentleman was nh:ging a popular ditty, and there was a good deal of lJaughâ€" ter, excepting in one corner, where some men. were gathered round a green table playing baccarat. & As he called for champagne, Mr, Morâ€"| gan Thorpe explained somewhat . apoloâ€"| getically that he rarely visited the club, but shat it was a capital place to look in at late in che evaning, nn(r for a few minâ€"| utes,. On this occasion the few minutes | extended to some hours; and with cham'| pagne and cigrrettes Bobby had a reâ€"; markably good time of it. As he went| home in one of the small houre, with a flushed cheek and a hot head, he felt that ) he was "seeing life;" and there is nothing | more fattering to youth than this conâ€"| viction. ‘ We part here," he said. "Goodâ€"night." "I.'t'.h.»u;lzln you weral nevolr l‘OD‘in.v * The worg a ’3‘}:’." o]}“im"‘;iu".;"?'u,"‘.‘:d 1 she looked, if that were possible, more , 131:adxm?‘!l imignim than she had Aqme , fare "the ze pef becilent" jod s 194| wuvn glaet . saareane o @ dorp t Eaprd ifi Al 466 A B9 weuf into the a.-'.a#fi%‘om‘f nnfi the aâ€".v'. ine Lagra gllayea and sung, and Bobby ;\ung over her, drinking in every note hisg pyeq fixed on her face. Thorpe and Wreyor were playing cards, and every now and then Laura got up and went bghingd Trevor, leaning her bhands upon his é\?u{l erg and spgaking in a low, soft vole?; sn iiP o poult sB heie ble. ot eyed, a in * Hips apart, 'wgflg igte *=Oon which his face always wore he looked at her. _ _ Presenily, in the middle of a song, Morâ€" gan Tho;ge exclaimed : "Oh! is is really too slow. Can‘t we have a liftle nap? Deane, you play nap, surely? Come and join us, for Trevor and 1 are boring each other to death." CHAPTER XVIâ€"(Continued) Her Great Love; CHAPPER XVII Or, A Struggle For a Heart OEERD BMCDL CCC a nothing | Every now and then he looked up from this conâ€"| his plate and regarded Laura and Bobby iwith a filerce and gloomy scrutiny; but irly every ; Lanra caught the glances and smiled at y or two‘ bim, when Bobby was not looking, and dine â€"at> Trevor would return to his plate comfortâ€" evious oc.| ed _ and reaseured, _ â€"â€" the only| _ The dinner was a . snceess. It wou‘d m with a| have been rather strange if it‘:vl not | been, considering t pains a money c coming‘ spent upon it; and an ‘Thorpe, when sar voias | Laura bad retired o the adjoining apartâ€" Bobby hesitated. He had not promised anyone that he would not play cards or ‘bet on races; but he was conscious that he was not rich enough for either amuseâ€" ment. Trevor growled contemptuously, and Bobby, as he seated himself at the table, said, with a flush: < "I‘ll play for anything you like." The little nap commenced, and was playâ€" ed for some time to the accompaniment of soft music. At intervals, Laura moved about the room, arranging some flowers or looking over & ladies‘ fashion paper, "Don‘t play unlees you like," murmured Laura. Something in her voice nettled Bobby. "Oh, I‘ll take a band, as they want me," he said. ‘‘Then you must not play high," she said, letting her hand fall upon his arm lightly, but with an almost tender little pressure. "Morgan, you must not play high." "We‘ll play ‘for love, if Mr. Deane likes," said Morgan Thorpe. * As is not unusual with the novice, Bobby held good cards. Fortune smiled upon him, as the Goddess of Luok has a trick of doing when she wants to lure the young devotee etill closer to her shrine, and he won steadily. _ B a o and now and again she would come to the table and Jook on at the play with a litâ€" tle yawn and gesture of petulant impaâ€" tience. " ‘"‘Really, my dear Deane," said Morgan Thorpe, "you play remarkably well; for, let me tell you, there is more play in nap than is generally suppoeed." _ ‘The cards are not everything," said Morgan Thorpe. ‘"Deane plays with dieâ€" eretion; he has a cool head and a quick eye. °ol l o9 ns t danh w ol % than is generally su]’)goted." M o% & "He held all the cards," growled Trevor, who was the larger loser, _ _ s Now, this is the kind of praise which is as eweet as honey to the inexperienced youth, and Bobby, as he gathered together the little heap of sovereigns, was delightâ€" ed with himself and his new friends; and ae he went home with his winnings jingâ€" ling in his pocket and the divine Laura‘s musical voice humming in his head, he felt that he wae indeed "secing life" unâ€" der peculiarly pleagant auspices. _ _ It was true that on his next visit he lost; but not so much as he had won; and on this occasion Morgan Thorpe resured him that he had only lost because he had held such vile cards. Excepting when he was working with his craimmer, Bobby spent nearly all his time with the Thorpes and Trevor; and he was rapidly becoming quite a man about town. liie learned to play billiards, and other card games less inrocent than nap; he could drink a fairly large quantity of wine without growing hot and buzzy about the bead; and he did not blush @o freâ€" quently; not even when the divine Launra‘s emile grew more tender and her voice more soft and thrilling when she looked and @poke to him. $ â€" After a week or two he grew bold enough to give them a formal invitation to dinner. j s M | "Are we late?" Then she looked round. | ‘‘What a delightful room, Mr. Deane! Why, you are quite a sybarite!" a It was his first dinnerâ€"party; and for days beforeâ€"hand he was in a fever of anxiety and excitement lest everything should not be right, and the entertainâ€" ment not be worthy ofâ€"of the beautiful woman who ; cious Iio him He epent hours thinking over the menu, and flled his cook with amazement by ordering a meal which would not have discredited a Rothechild. en : "I whall have to have some help, sir," ghe said; "or perhaps I‘d better get some of the things from Fortnum & Margon. It won‘t cost much more, and they‘ll eure to be firstâ€"rate." _ 0 _ uh * ! Bobby in his nervousness was about to blurt out, in forgetfulness of Morgan ‘‘Thorpe‘s injunction, that the rooms were ‘ not his; but Morgan Thorpe frowned at lhim warningly, and Bobby stammered: "Notâ€"not worthy of your presenceâ€"Mre. Dalton." | "How nicely yow eald that," she murâ€" | mured. ‘"And, oh, what lovely flowerk!" She looked at the bunch of orchids in her hand, and raieed them caressingly to her red lips. "And these I found on the dressâ€" ing table. Were they meaut for me? I l-p’ggoprlntegl__t@egn. you m."‘ hi 3 8 _ "All right," said Bobby, cheerfully and innocently. "And you‘d better get a man to walt." m x se â€" On the morning of the diuner he rearâ€" ranged the rooms, ehifti and rechiftâ€" ing the furniture that"At h all â€" apâ€" pear at the best advantage. He had orâ€" dered a huge basket of flowers and orâ€" chids from the man in Bond Btroetâ€"it was the bill for the flowers then, more than any other, afterward made Bobby‘s hair stand on endâ€"and he set a great bunch on his dressing table beside the wilverâ€" backed brushes and combs he had purâ€" chased for Laura‘s use; also he placed @nother, but smaller posy, beside her plate. £ When at home he drank beer; but for this occasion he ordered some of the most expensgive wines on the wine merchant‘e list, and procured cigare of the choloest brand. He was very particular about the coffee which Fortnum & Mason were to send iced at the precise moment it would be required. _ 7 C is Concerning the cost of the affair he did not trouble himself, seeing that everybody was willing and more than willing to give him oredit; and having dreesed himself with extraordinary care, he surveyed the table glittering with Gaunt‘s plate and wilver and the coetly orchids, with a feelâ€" ing not quite of satisfaction, but, at any rate, cheerful anxiety. _ _ How his heart beat and the color rose to his handsome face when he heard the bell ring and Mr. Morgan Thorpe‘s soft voice. Btifling his nervousness, he went forward to meet his gnests and stammerâ€" ed his welcome. He could scarcely believe that she was really here in his (that is, Lord Gaunt‘s) room, until he felt the soft pressure of her gloved hand, and heard her musical voice murmuring:. f _ "If you will deign to accept them," ealid Bobby, glowing with pride and pleasure. Then they sat down to dinver, and Mor» gan Thorpe praised the «soup and the hockâ€"and the wine deserved all his praive if it was as good mas the price was highâ€" and praised the red mullet, and praized the entree which the wellâ€"trained waiter handed round with the gravity and noiseâ€" lessnees of a ducal retainer,. Bobby was nervous at starting, and, like all novices at the same, watched the waiter anxiously; but ae the dinner, the costly dinrer, proceededâ€" and Â¥organ Thorpe grew more laudatory, he gained confidence, and rattled on with his usnal boyish candor and spirit. He allowed the waiter to fill his glass rather frequentiy, and the good wine set bis heart beating and his tongue wagging. _ _ \ 3 The divine Laura toyed delicately with her dainty fare, amiled seweetly at him, and murmbured soft and musical noâ€" things; Morgan Thorpe |talked fluently and in his best atyle; and omly Trevor eat glum and silent, eating the costly and veverâ€"ending dishes with eullen appreciaâ€" tion. | lecting himself. Tt is the way of hosts" | Trevor shoved the decanter along sul}â€" lenly. and Bobby Alled his glass and drank ; to Mr. Morgan Thorpe. ment, which was enly divided from the dintugâ€"room by a curtain, and was furâ€" highed as a drawingâ€"romu, expresoe his ;:;} '('finnerhfu for z's“'pnlnce!“\ly dear ane, you have proved yourse rfect Macsenas! My dear fellow, you :vfien:f have a genins }ar this: kind o? thing. { envy you, for I ~can pot imitate you, ye "Ah, I goel fBave your cook carte blanche.â€" We!). she has proved herself a cordon bleu. It was bevond prafse. What wine is this?" He filled his glassâ€"and Trevor‘sâ€"with the Cha&esu claret. "Fit for the godz! My dear Deane, I drink to vyou! Pill his glaes, Trevor. He is neg. lecting himself. Ti is the way of hosts‘ | oi) wlA whit dut Aioit starc â€" m muion and wprwisn'osm had been «o sweet and graâ€" hx ce es en n ‘"Laura will not object to such cigars as these, my dear Deane," remarked. Morgan Thorpe. R / A soft and subtle Chopin floated from the piano in the next room. Laura was pluyzu. Bobby‘s bead began to swim with the wine and Morgan Thorpe‘s praise and the exquisite music. His heart was filled with satisfaction; the beautiful creature was in his (that his, Lord Gaunt‘s) roome; his dinnver had been a success. ‘They went into the little drawingâ€"room, and Bobby leaned his elbow on the piano and gazed into the lovely, piquant face, and she gazed back at him with a soft and tender emile. Then Trevor came up to the piano, and as Bobby moved away to answer a remark of Morgan Thorpe‘s, she amiled up at him and murmured something in a low voice. "My dear friend, why bo angry with me?" ehe whispered. "You know that I am pot a free agent. I am under orders, and I amâ€"ah, can you not see?â€"but obeyâ€" ing' these orders. Don‘t be angry with me! Trevorâ€"his face was fiushed and his eyes bloodshotâ€"bent until his lips nearly touched her hair. ‘‘Don‘tâ€"don‘tâ€"try me too far," he said, hc;anely, "or I sha‘n‘t be able to stand it!" And she smiled and sighed up at him, and the next instant she wae emiling up at Bobby with a pathetic, pleading exâ€" pression in her dark eyee. Travelliers on Continent Spend at Rate of $30,000 Per Hour. A wellâ€"known statistician has just calculated that during the holiday season tourists in Eum‘:o spend $30,000 per hour, and that they spend more than $160,000,000 per ‘"How‘s this going to end?" he asked in a hoaree voice. "What‘s it mean?" Of the countries which reap the principal harvest of the tourists‘ money Switzerland is easily first, with 3,000,000 visitors annually, reâ€" presenting about $32,000,000. 7 The expense of holidayâ€"makers, both foreign and provincial, in Paris; with 1,000,000 visitors ; Lonâ€" don, with 600,000; Berlin with 500,â€" 000, and Vienna, with 350,000, amount to at least $45,000,000, not counting the purchases of souvenirs and various minor articles. _ The Riviere, Spain and Italy have fower tourists, but not over £#60,000,000 among them. h Finally, the European watering places and seaside resorts aro estiâ€" mated to gain $16,000,000 from the annual invasion of tourists. Boyâ€""If you please, father‘s sent the ladder back wot ‘e borrered. He‘s broke it, and will you please ‘ave it repaired at once, ‘cos ‘e wants to borrer it agin next Friâ€" day." Murphy‘s wife was ill, so he thoug t he would make himself useâ€" ful in the house. He bought a pound of bacon ; also a pound of soap, and he set about preparing a nice meal for his wife. She, however, wondered what was the smell, and called to Murphy what was he doâ€" ing. ‘‘Cooking bacon,‘"‘ he replied. ‘"Bacon! Why, that is soap." ‘"‘Then, bedad," said Murphy, "I must have washed my shirt with the bacon."‘ The cigare were lighted. ‘Laura will not object tc "Of course, I want my daughter to have some kind of artistic eduâ€" cation. I think I‘ll let her study singing."‘ ‘"Why not art or literature 1" "Art spoils canvas and literature wastes reams of paper. Singing merely produces a temporary disâ€" turbance of the atmosphere." TORONTO $160,000,000 FOR TOURS. Useful in the House. (To be continued.) NERVE! Economy. Prefers to Lio on the Mud or Sand Instead of the Water. To compare a person who is unâ€" adapted to his surroundings to "a fish out of water‘‘ is no longer acâ€" curate, for men of science have learned that severel species of fish are quite at home out of their naâ€" tive element. The climbing perch and the lungâ€"fish are examples. In the "Marvels of the Universe," Bir H. H. Johuston describes another ‘"land fish,‘‘ the ‘bommi. Its scientific name is periophthalâ€" mus. Englishmen in West Africa speak of it af the "mudâ€"skipper,"‘ but the natives always call this eurious fish the bomini. The bommi is a member of the goby family of marine or estuarial fishes, most of which are remarkaâ€" ble in one way or another for their fondness for walking or jumping over the ground, rather than getâ€" ting through the water by the use of their fins. The bowmmi, indeed, is fast becoming a land animal,. It takes to the water during the breedingâ€"season, but at other times it prefers to lie on the mud or sand, or to climb the trunks of manâ€" groves or pandanus,. â€" However, it always stays near the water; in fact, it usually prefers to lie with the end of its tail in the water. It has been said that it can oxygenmate its blood through its very vascular tailâ€"fin, which thus replaces the gills. That explanation, however, hardly accounts for the fact that the bommi often remains for long periods of time on the trunk of a tree a long way from the water. The _ traveller Pechuelâ€"Loesche writes of the bommi fish that he obâ€" served on the Loango coast: "By bending and stretching their bodies and supporting themselves by the tail and fins they advance in a series of very small hops. When they are basking in the mud, one of them will often give a sudden joyful jump ; sometimes a whole school of them will be jumping and hopping about at play. 1 could never obâ€" serve just how they climbed trees. but suspect that they work upward by using their fins and tail as much as they use them on tht ground. ‘‘They are very timid. At the first approach of danger they raise themselves slightly by means of their fins; at the next alatm they duck flat, and then begin to hop vigorously in the direction of the water. When in full flight, their jumps are often two, three or four times the length of their own bodâ€" ies, In crossing shallow water, they prefer to hop over it, instead of swimming through it; a large number of them passing over the water in this way makes a curious splashing sound."‘ Like other members of the goby family, the bommi has turned its fore fins into very serviceable arms, with appendages that â€" resemble hands. ‘But~ the hind limbs have simply become a sort of pedestal from which the fish can leap, or which he can use as a kind of sucker in climbing trees. The back fins can be erected, and on account of their spikes, act as a slight protection. The creature‘s real saleguard, however, lies in its uneatable flesh, which even the shoreâ€"birds seem to dislike. The bommi is not in any way on the original line of ascent that was followed by the pristine types of fish that gradually turned into amâ€" phibians, and from amphibians into reptiles. It represents an indepenâ€" dent attempt on the part of a modâ€" ern fish to adopt a land life. Scheme to Connect England and France By Tunnel. Are England and France to be connected by a Channel tunnel! This old question is again being geriously considered. As long as thirty years ago a violent campaign was waged against this scheme. At that time a protest against it was CHANNEL TUBE PLAN AGAIN. THE "BONMXMI" FISH. signed by leading peers and digniâ€" taries of all churches, in England, including the late Cardinal Manâ€" ning, by members of Parliament and other prominent men, such as Bir John Lubbock, Browning, Huxâ€" ley, Spencer and Frederick Harriâ€" son; by the great London editors by army men, such as the Duke of Cambridge and Field Marshal Lord Wolseley, and by the heads of the Admiralty, while men like the late Goldwin Smith wrote article of virulent denunciation of the propoâ€" sal, The result was that Sir Edâ€" ward Watkin‘s scheme was for the time buried, but it was not dead. It was brought forward again in 1906 and in 1907 and found some friends, but none of great imporâ€" tance who would go wholehseartedly for it, and the London newpapers where they were not hostile were uncertain in tone. Meanwhile French approval of the scheme became practically unâ€" animous. The entente cordiale was of course used as an argument in its favor. The main arguments, howâ€" ever, were purely economical. The project for a tunnel is now seriously revived. The arguments opposing it are also revived. The first one to«dlay is the cost, which those who favor the plan estimate at $80,000,000, while its opponents say it might be much more, and add that it would not appeal to the orâ€" dinary investing public in France or England. Then comes the engiâ€" neering question. Great authorities are divided on this point as to its practicability. Thirdly, there is the strategic question. This is admit tedly not so important as it was thirty years ago, and to«day the British War Office and the Admirâ€" alty are not believed to be hostile to the project. The supporters of the scheme deâ€" clare that financiers are sufficiently well disposed toward it to facilitate the finding of the capital required. There â€"remains the sentimental difficulty in addition to others, but so strong and influential is the backing of the present movement in support of the tunnel scheme that it must be considered as a distinct possibility of the near future. Smith remarked that a certair person in the musical world led a very abandoned life. ‘‘Yes," reâ€" plied his friend, "the whole tenot of his life has been base." THE INCREASED NuUTAT:â€" OuUs VALUE OF BREAD MADE IN THE HOMC wITH Rovar YEAST CAKES sHoulo st sUFFICIIENT INCENTIVE To THE CAREFUL HOUVSEWIFE *o GIVE THIG iMPORTANT FOob ITEM THE aATTENT:ON To WHICH IT 16 JusTLY Enâ€" TiTLED. HOME BREAD BAKING REâ€" DUVCES THE HIGM Cost or LIVING BY LESSENING THE AMOUNT OF EXPENSIVE MEATS REGQUIRED To surpâ€" PLY THE NECESSARY Nourâ€" I6SHMENT TO THE BopY. E. W. GiLLETT Co. LTD. ToRronTto, ont WINNIPEG M ONTREAL Most PERFECT Mape