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Canning Meat at Home. Some of the fru't jars have been emptied by this time, and can be used for canning meat. Here are two methods: ava Hn ' M * flavour Germany , .according to what G. V: 'Williams, formerly correspondent ¢ 'Reuter's Agency in Berlin, tells A 'plece of ice wrapped in a towel 1s 5 Sood compress to hold against flabby skin, # Sometimes it seems as though all! your muscles took a downward course. Method L: 'Free the meat from| This often happens after a long sick- bones, gristle and excessive fat. into pieces to fit the jar. Pack in jars that have been sterilized by plac. ing int boiling water for a short per- iod. Add one teaspoonful of salt for each quart and fill the jar with sterile meat stock, for which directions fol- low: Put on a new tested rubber and adjust the tdp by turning it snug, and then 'turn back a fourth of a turn. Cut | ness or some mental troubles. i Try giving thesé muscles a little internal treatment. Build up your general e health. Don't allow yourself to have 'the blues. This often is much better than sitting indoors massaging away, and thinking all the time, "Oh, dear! I'l never get these musclés back to where they belong! And how old I do look!" Massage is 'a good thing, but Place in a vessel of boiling water or healthy circulation.and 'a detérmina- In a commercial waterbath for five |tion not to worry will work wonders hours, or under five pounds steam |in keeping the face young. pressure in a pressure cooker three and one-half hours. Remove jars and tighten covers. Tested Recipes. Baked ham with cider--Select a Method II.; Remove gristle and sur-| ham of medium weight and fat, and plus fat from meat. oven, -or in hot fat, or boil slowly in enough water to cover until the meat! hours; is three-fourths done. Brown in a hot| wash well in cold-water. Cover with | cold water and soak for twenty-four then take out of this water Remove the !and place in the kettle'and eover with bone and cut the meat in pieces to fit | fresh, sweet cider. Let come to boil- the jar. Pack in sterile jars, adding one teaspoonful of salt to each quart, minutes and fill the jar with sterile meat stock, . Put on a new tested rubber and ad- just the top as in Method I. Place the jars in boiling water or a commer- cial 'water bath three and one-half hours, or under five pounds steam pressure in a pressure cooker for two 'and dne-half hours. The meat stock referred to-is made as follows: Place bones, gristle and any meat scraps in a kettle and cover with water. Boil ten minutes, then . 8kim, Simmer for three hours, then strain. Celery, a bay leaf or a red pepper may be added for seasoning, if desired. After slaughtering, meat shduld be cooled quickly and kept cool for twenty-four 'hours before canning. Meats which are to be served in stews or boiled are easily canned by Method I. Roasts and steaks have a better flavor if browned first; hence Method IL. gives better results. Meats which are to be canned for roasts should be cut in one piece the size of the can. A two-quart, wide- mouthed jar will hold a roast that will serve six or eight pegple. Steaks should be rolled tightly and put into the jar; when desired for use, they may be unrolled and reheated. Meat which has been canned can not he "served rare. When canning chicken follow either method, preserving that which is to be 'used for frying by Method II. Drain the pieces upon removing from 'the can, then dredge with flour and brown in fat. Chicken may be packed as follows: 1. Pack the saddle with a thigh in- side, 2. Pack the breast-bone with a thigh inside. 3. Pack the back-bone and ribs with a leg inside. 4. Pack the leg, large end down, alongside the breéast-bone. 5. Pack the wings. "6. "Pack the wishbone. 7. Pack the neck. i 1 ing point, then simmer gently fifteen to the pound, or until perfect- ly tender. Remove from kettle and carefully take off all the rind. Sprinkle lightly with brown sugar and add raisins and whole cloves one-half inch apart.. Place in a baking pan, and cook in 'a moderate oven until nicely browned, basting with the cider from time to time.: Garnish the platter with parsley, and cover the bone with curled lettuce leaf. . Maple Cup Custard--Y; pound maply sugar, 8 tablespoons powdered sugar, 2- tablespoons flour, 8 eggs, 1 cup milk, 3 teaspoon vanilla. Grate the maple sugar, add it gradually to the yolks of the eggs, and beat until light. Moisten the flour with a little! of the milk, add to the milk, and strain in to the eggs and sugar. Pour the mixture into six custard cups or one large baking dish. Stand in a pan of water, and bake in an oven until the custard is set. = Beat the whites 'of the eggs to a stiff froth, and add the powdered sugar. Cover custard with egg whites; and place in oven'a few minutes to brown. Popcorn candy--1 cup molasses or corn syrup, 1 quart popped corn, 1 tablespoon vinegar. Boil the molasses or syrup with the vinegar until the mixture hardens when dropped in cold water. - Pour over the freshly popped corn, and mold into balls of fancy shapes. Little popcorn men and wo- men will please the children. Mark the features and outlines with nelted chocolate. Tea rolls--Sift together one and one-fourth cupfuls flour, three-fourths cupful cornmeal, either white or yel- low; three teaspoonfuls baking pow- der, one teaspoonful salt," Work two tablespoonfuls shortening into the dry ingredients. Beat one egg into one- half cupful milk and add gradually to the above, adding more milk if neces- sary. bo make a soft, easily-kneaded Giblets are difficult to sterilize, so! dough. Roll out one-half inch in thick- "should not be packed but used in daily menu instead. Looking Your Best. Keep the youthful contour of your face. You can do it if you'll only try hard enough. Don't sag. Don't bag, the ness on a lightly-floured board. : Cut and fold like Parkerhouse rolls, brush with liquid shortening, melted butter or milk, and bake in a brisk oven. Wedding Anniversaries. Such anniversaries are miost enjoy- London Daily Mail. 3 "The German mind," he says, "d not seem to have altered. "Albeit sadly puzsled to.acconnt the utter break-down German system, in his' outlook on life the German of 1920 is to most inten ® world which to British eyes ds strangely changed by five years of | World War the mental isolation of the German is absolute. To talk to nim -1nakes you feel that the German of day is the loneliest creature on arth : "Yet with heavy deliberation 3 examining his conscience. : "Any Berlin bookshop will show yon the chaos prevailing in the Ge: mind. x experiments, Einstein's theory of light, "Profesfor Steinach's rejuvenat on Mayard Keynes and Norman Angell] on the Versgjlles Peace--both' books in German translations and prominent | ly displayed--{reatises on spiritual ism, atheism, free love, and the like-- works of this description stand side by side with a mass of frankly pornogra- phic literature. 'Here will you find reasoned explanations complicated schemes for the future, but nothing practical to deal with the problems of the present. And, above all, no contrition for Germany's crime against mankind, : ! The German surveyed the world fro; dering in a seg of doubts 'and fears. The Germans with whom' I have spoken expect us to hold them guiit- less of the past because, they say, they have rid Germany of her mili: tary caste. "Willing to Forgive! "They have, it is true, expelled the bloody-minded blunderers surrounding that eminent nonentity, William. the Second-rater, because they failed to keep their promise to establish Ger- man 'world-domination. But the Ger- man people are governed by the hero instinct, and the expulsion of the Old Gang in the circumstances of military defeat and home panic in which the Hohenzollerns were sent away re- quired weightier evidenca.of a change of heart than is forthcoming in Ger many to-day if it is to be accepted as & proof of the death of German mili- tarism. " "Talk to a Frenchman of any class; and you will, sooner or later, come upon a well-banked but fiercely smoul- dering Republican ardor. Talk to a German about his government and you will find, at the best, lukewarm in terest; at the worst, resentful ridicule towards the German Republic. "The average attitude is ome of blank indifference. The German men in the street never thought for him- self. - He does not do.so io-day, The question of thé future is, What party will emerge from the present chaos to do his thinking for him? 5 ; "The Germans are perfectly 'willing to forgive us for the war. They talk glibly about 'this unhappy war with the air of a man making perfunctory excuses for some social lapse, In some may be detected inaddition a little air of condescension in speaking of the late unpleasantness as. though to draw attention to their magnanimity in ac- cepting the war as an inevitable catas- trophe, 'an act of God,' as the insur- ance policies say. And even to-day I find thet the great majority of Ger mans have no idea of the abhorrence for the past, |" | years do what they like with him." M¢ Dougall many' - Reprerentative ® ] au # Semereniai and 3 Spec the lower of which which captured his castld of militarism, Now| that it has collapsed he is left floun=} "Old Age is a Pose." | Sir James Cantile flatly challenges Aa -current misconception in his state: ment: "Old age is just a pose. A man 'usually grows old because he thinks it is dignified. He sits back and lets the It is not so with this sfurdy septuage- marian, who rises at 4.30 and dances Highland flings. He shires the spirit of Tennyson's "Ulysses," who could not: bear to sit idle amid his island crags, or of Barrie's "Peter Pan," who refused to grow up, or of him who, &c- cording' to another poet, kept the im- mortal child tarrying all his lifetime in his heart. 5 We do not have to 'look long for monumental examples of great men who, like Oliver Wendell Holmes in his poem, "The Boys," and in his per- sonal example, defied the calendar: To one such perennially young gentleman, namely, Dr. W.W. Keen, the com: munity that affectionately reveres him i fiends a pe The sky over Old Patience Mouritain was of the brilliant, yet. cold, blue of the Rockies. It was cut hére and there by the prows of swift white | clouds "driven by some wild: current in the upper air, = : ; An eagle passéd between sky and earth. read beneath him twas the jagged slope of the mountain, thickly grown with pines formed a rag- ged fringe on its summit, A moving speck caught his eyes and caused him to swerve. ER Jt wag a girl swerving up the moun- tain, towing the. ghandoned gold mine {s even now preparing to do honor: known as Sucker Rubus th ole, ihe The will to keep youthful in the spirit tanned = Dn Souder. Te ae once he. the biggest part ot in- ane of that Spring © pine 3h "The thought of growing old is chief- a len partly in gt entrance, Tres ippressive to those who never grow anything else, Most of those Who pro-|a mass of. earth ai duge, create, achieve, are too busy to.|way that a slight weigh study -crow's feet in the mirror or cal-|of tl aptom; "tree inside the culate percentages of lime in "the: might dis ge ® the srt slide. i ; bones or acid in the blood, They are Was a large, 's ow-moving girl; ot forever in a lonely observatory on |? she. climbed directly the outlook for new symptoms. "They | are up and doing, with a whetted ap- oh lie petite for fresh adventure. There is| There was Sden and 5 iolent dis. siabrador Gator, of Boston, Who Is | Hole, The inl part Sot Toot orever starting out on a one-man ex-| the oid nine, 'and. the pine. tree There was a pedition among the Indians of the bara i eo We ! : rens not very far from the desolate! 'The 'eagle' ventured nearer earth, spot where the balloon came down |Smell of ibn of wild roses and of with Lieutenant Hinton and his com: | chokecherry rades. It is useless to tell him that he at of the slo is too old. You might as-well try to|a mighty thunder persuade "Oom Johi" Burroughs to! 1 quit exploring swamps and forests and 'playing with squirrels. Nature, the tell us, hag no fayorites, but she | 'rose in a cloud. At )e a river went with imenr of, Brook Trout ir Mu Jérrup's the Trophy---- By: MARIANNE GAUSS: creep ont came. - It was totally dark. Minutes ; Her eyes did not - accustomed to the Ines darkness. he Gk e 100) at it and began to push with her broad, strong shou at the mass of earth that imp#isoned her, at 'the same time reaching with both. hands for the roots of the piné tree. : The tree was gone. Her shoulders came into contact with a mighty mass of rock, A great boulder had slid be- . fore the entrance to the mine.- She pushed with all her might against it and only felt how weak she was Her whole 'body grew cold; [eistare started on her ) now she began jin a trap. "the She 8-W her 'hands; she shel above her: | eagle continued scout«| while ~ Would ed from a di 'hole on the side scarcely a 'speck : many mou a 'Bring up your muscles in the way|able when they are least formal, and "they, should go, and when you are old} Sometimes even older persons like to they won't sag but will stand by you.| join in a little good natured frolic at Flabby, relaxed skin always gives such times. The decorations. should the appearance of age and, incident-| always be carefully planted with an lly, carelessness. A good -astringent| 8ttemipt at a novel effect. For a tin massage given regularly will take| Wedding supper the dishes might all off woman's age, especlally|be of tin, the different courses being served in tin plates. For the paper > 'might all be of | a way of granting to the naturalists in 'whieh the very name German is | spe Er ' "old." held in the Anglo-Saxon countries and | life of Fabre, which began in 1823 in France and Belgium." nd 1915, be : : or that of Chevreul, 1786-1889. tite, order, are ; "I want to marry your daughter," : > the young man said to his beloved's "Does she love you?! the "Yes, air," answered th her!" - Ise, hut. | 1 taken things: quis "but - i Fg en nc J