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; . Whip | it more like pusbty. eas snd old in. Bake in gap 5 When done cut ingo nd "sift confectioners' su- To make the blocks of r edge of cake before cutti ese rims can be used for a hg sod other day. io Tea Cakes.--Ingredients: Four eggs, one pound of fine gran- ulated sugar, one pound of sifted pastry flour, one teaspoonful of fine ~ anise seed. Method ;: Beat eggs and sugar for at least half an hour, then beat in gradually as much of the flour that is needed to be able to handle it. Take onto a floured board and using rest of flour knead and roll about half an inch 'thick and cut with small round cutters. Now brush flat tins with melted wax, strew anise seed over and lace the cakes half an inch apart. t stand over night then bake a golden color. They will look as though they were frosted. Walnut Jumbles. -- Ingredients : One and one-half cupfuls of sifted astry flour, one teaspoonful of ing powder, one-half cupful of franyiated sugar, one-quarter cup- f butter, one-half cupful of shredded walnuts, one egg, one- quarter cupful of milk. Method: Bift flour, baking powder and sugar together, rub butter in as for pie paste. Beat egg well and add to milk. Bedt this into flour, then add the njts. Knead lightly and roll half an inch thick. Now strew © sugar over, press down with rolling pin' and cut into small rings with a doughnut cutter. Spice Jumbles.--Use above recipe with these variations: Take three- quarters oupful of mixed chopped nuts, one teaspoonful of mixed spices, cimnamon, cloves and all- spice, and if need be add one more spoonful of milk if dough gets too thick. Top may be strewn with] aq, 'chopped: nuts also. Currant Cakes.--Method: Use recipe for walnut jumbles, omit nuts but use one cupful of cleaned currants, also one teaspoonful of lemon extract. Part of the our- rants are to be retained for top. aétrew them over rolled paste then press down light with pin. Cut with small round or oval cutter. Cinnamon Stars. -- Ingredients : Two tablespoonfuls of butter, one cupful of sugar, two eggs, one and {gue halt cupfuls of sifted pastry ur, one teaspoonful of cinnamon. one-fourth teaspoonful . of baking powder. Method: Cream butter, sugar and eggs until light, sift all dry ingredients together, then stir into egg mixture. Take onto a floured board, using a very little more flour if needed.' Roll quite thin, then cut with a star cutter. Bake on waxed tins in very moder- ate heat. Chocolate Fingers.--Ingredients : Three eggs, one-half pound of pow- dered sugar, one-half pound of sift- . ed pastry flour, two ounces of pow- . dered chocolate. Method: Beal sugar and eggs for halt an hour; gift chocolate and sugar together ~ then stir into the flour. Beat well then with a pastry squirt form ob- long cakes, size of a finger on wax- ed tins. Set away over night then bake as other cookies in moderate « heat. They too have the appear- ance of being frosted owing to the light components rising to top dur- ing night. If you have mo patsy tube or squirt form little roun "mounds by dipping tip portions with 'amall spoon dipped in cold water When baking any of ithe Sage to use only mi ve cakes from pan as done and place in: or 'cans as soon as vold. If kept in losed tin small cakes will keep a time and remain palataide. ---- Hints for tho ome, > remove the mark of a scorch : with over. is sco piace it in the sun, When the mark will haved fmt yh ty ot i sponge in naen: place : he white, Tt is as delicio Ta. have trosh lettuce all Jom out planting, instead ing + 4 a8 most oi weeps. do, Pon leaves ae ou Tuite: them, just lesv- ing the stalk. In a short while . it will again'be coyered with leaves. ' uging plaster of aris to All | fl, pl of p 3 oragk moisten it with vinegar of: water, which will make Work it in the 'and smooth with an old knife. Tt wilk not'then harden before you have time to apply: 'it &8 when wa- ter is u Ifa room becomes filled with smoke a towel dashed in vinegar and hot water end wrung out," then taken and thrown above one's head through the room, will remove all smoke in a few moments, Only a small portion of vinegar in.a little water is sufficient for the purpose. Place a bowl 'of butter into a larger basin containing sufficient salted water to reach nearly to top of the butter bowl. Cover with @ piece of fine white muslin, allowin ing the ends to reach the water, whi keeps the muslin damp.' By doing this butter can be kept firm and cool in the hottest day of summer. The virtues of bicarbonate of soda as a deoderant are known and appreciated by very few--most of them nurses and physicians. What woman will fot" be glad to learn, for instance, that it is a pertect neutralizer of perspiration odors! There are many expensive powders | P% put up for this purpose, and some of them are effective, but plain so- dium bicarbonate at 5 cents a whole lot, is quite as good as the best of them. It may be rubbed on the shields, or through the armholes of a white shirtwaist and 'be relied upon to neutralize any odor. ' The armpits may also be bathed with a solution of it before dressing.. The most fastidious of women, who have found constant bathing ineffective for this afflietion, will find this dimple precaution a great boon. a : i Postal Laws of 'Canada. Under the Post Office Act, Sec- tions 65 and 66, the Postmaster General 'has the exclusive privilege of receiving, collecting, conveying, and delivering letters within Can- a. Bills and accounts -whethey open or sealed envelopes, as well as circulars or other printed mat- ter enclosed in envelopes sealed or ready to be sealed, are "Listters" within the meaning of the Post-Of- fice Aat. There is a penalty under Section 136 of the Post Office Act which may. amount to $20.00 for each lét- ter unlawfully carried. It has been brought to the i at- tention of the Post Office Depart- ment that some business firms de- siring. to avoid - paying the = War" Tax which Seca effective: on the 15th April, 8. making a: fangements for i delivery of counts, bills, circulars, ey y through means other than the Post Office, contrary. 10: the Postal Act, and a warning is hereby given that the Post Office Department intends to insist that the law shall be rigid- ly lived up to, and will in no cir- cumshances allow these parties to avoid paying 'the one cent. tax has been imposed for war purposes. All letters conveyed, received, collected, sent or delivered-in con- travention of the Post Office Act will be seized and necessary steps il in pretty, os bs pull] t all the | as well as an important facto: Italy, from where they Ww warded as quickly 'as posite. the armies of the Allies at the f The horses pu the a ropean armies are as a rule Short legged, shaggy animals capable 0 great endurance. Probably 40. cent. of the horses sent army service have not bee to the halter. - Such horses are of little value for breeding, purposes and as far as the im provement of 'horsefiesh in general is concerned the country is well rid of them, The entire country is being ran- sacked to meet the European. de- mand. A large proportion of the horse suply is gathered from the Western plains. The great ranges] and the markets where the horses are gathered for sale are pictur: ésque surroundings of 'the wild Westarn life," which is now rapidly he 8 Mestion of this army of horses for Europe suggests a greak wild west show on an immense scale. Thousands of cowboys ~are required for the work and much daring riding and driving must be done before the tens of thousands of horses are rounded up on the' ranges and finally entrained for the East. The largest of the horse markets, which is located . at Miles City, Mon., has supplied thoftsands of the horses and will continue to ship them. No wild west show in the East can rival in' interest this great horse market. Months are requir- ed to round up the horses for a sin- gle sale, when thousands of horses, ol be displayed and disposed of in a few hours, At one of these horse auctions more than 10,000 horses were sold in less than three days. The horses are driven in of ship- ped from the surrounding country for weeks in advance. They are for the most part green horses, only a small percentage having ~felt the bridle. On arriving at the®market they are driven into a series of pens, each enclosure holding from thirty to fifty animals. . pens are enclosed by high board fences ig very strong constriction, Up- ward of a'hundred cowboys ate em: ployed in the a alone in rounding up. the - animals, driving them from one enclosure' 0 another) and displaying thei for sale, ¢ The horses are auctioned off in al "large arena. The purchasers are seated in a covered stand at one ' 'side or perched along the fences. "The buyers include some of the most expert judges of horseflesh in the "world. 'The principal horse dealing finms are represented, together with buyers for the European armies. The sale proceeds very rapidly and often several thousand horses will be put through their paces before the purchasers and disposed of i ina single hour. A herd of peshars forty horses x | loading ho says a that which the Kaiser uses. when he - oh aing of crs ens Sanmong e horse pens and 'the wo 3 2 rapidly | + The most luxurious train in' E rope, a veritable palace on Xheols ' tributor: to Tit-Bits, - i travels between Berlin and the, fighting line. s Bix coaches, each weighing over | sixty = tons, compose 'bhe special train, and of these, four are resery- led for the Emperor and his suite, and the other two are used for kitchens. The second coach in the train is the one reserved by the Kaiser for his personal quarters, and it contains a salon, bedroom, dressing rooms, bathroom, and sleeping apartments for hie 'body- guard. The salon is paneled in the wood of an ancient cedar tree tak- en from Mount Lebanon, the gift of ex-Sultan Abdul Hamid of Tur- key. The floor is of black wood taken from the piles of a wooden bridge built across the Rhine by Julius Ouesar in the year 55 B.C., and the ceiling is decorated with o design resenting the six. great rivers of ermany-: "The windows of the salon are pro- tected by thick steel bars, and armed sentries stand at the doors lof the apartment night - and - day: The last coach in the train is used by an engineer, who has'oharge of [1 the machinery that operates a com- icated system | of emergency rakes. The Kaiser's two dach- shunds, Wardl and Hexl, have their kennels on the train, and they gen- erally accompany. their 'master on his' travels. m--T nin The Lightest Wood. According to the Scientific Amer- ican, the lightest wood in 5 Kishence is the wooed of bah nous plant that grows Chad and on h the botaries of the tree, Thich is Ambach wood te or orys- quickly dull the axes and knives ab the « x y other hand, ; makes lg substitute _ of . "re I tals of calcium oxalate, which Teattod on the Road, | An interesting of the train- pig of 4 the motor department No he Exhibition itary Catny, ia the holding of £Xlensive route tours by motor car for purpose of giving the members of the Service Corps a certain amount of sEperieite. in road work. Many motor v nearly all of which are iy Sruoke, ave used in she trips which coos y a period ot one to four eg of the corps Te at. the head of the flying coluton in tous- ing care and privates ride in the trucks, five to a truck. A A unique feature is that the col- [mh eae at the road-side each night lives exactly under ac- tive service sonditions, .The ache-| hai dules call for a fifty-milé drive each day,. which is a long distance when ~ Author of "An Englishman's Home'" Killed in Batt Lieut: -Col. Guy du Mauri OQ: ibe has has -been kil been in He ty yours. his name a widely known to the public. This remarkable play, says the London Globe, vas gn in 1909, anonymously at . est dramatic successes of the day. To ontally it led to trouble be- tween the censor of plays and the late Mr. Pellissier when the' ehtief to produce. a potted" "the play. : version [Tos Oldest Scottish University, a ri 'which hag just lost | 25 Jone Bolton, ie dts universities, beitig b, -W. io = fe y Beton Ee Er immediately taken for.the pros tion of the offenders in all cases vened. Post Office Department, Ottawa, Canada. 2, Sublinie Simphisity, There is a tomb in Luck- now, in. ino Spe cost no more 'than many a plain farmer's ve- stone in our Tuned, burying at Mr, Clarence Poe I Tie oy e saw ae hing sie be the Taj Mahal, and the view of Benares from the rivé¥: 36 3a thie tomb of the Tescie ix Ls Honey In i ib where the law has been contra-| and proved one of the great-| follies desired, but Was not : 43 cars, se toreyoles, thirty-eight 3-ton gine three tractors, two workshop tr and one store truck. For: a Dian wo sional Ammunition Park, 'w Aw duty it is to keep the iin) Ton supplied with sammy fol: tool trucks. The mote v peed for messengers emergency The motor cars are a Raed by, the the oficers to esp 18 She ion al front. tr. he "actors trailers containin 5 pls hoor if the' lorriéa are u ransporting héavy loads 2 : [I SUNDAY SCHooL we x INTERNATIONAL, "LESSON, MAY 9. Lesson VI.-- Friendship of David 'and Jonathan." 1 Samuel i Golden Text: Prov.:17. 17. oY I. Sanl Again Attempts to Take David's: Lite (Verse : Sona 8 . 11. Davids Dan Mad Kaowa warl ©" to Him V: net 3 35-40), 3 8 Ho 'the time ~appointed. 2 Boa 1 brat 20, 18-23 off Jie lak-G who wold Job were shot (1° an RI, For | Bipeae" of the story it wan the mmrrator" to dual arrows. ; 40. His "responsi bow: md, iver. ; ; The Farey tof Jonathan wad id an, 49).