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Hints for Busy Housekeepe and Other Valuable Information of Particular Interest to Women Folks. prevent the odor of cooking from rvading the house. - To: polish a léoking glass first rub 1it with a duster wrung out of cold nd dipped in whiting, and then polish with a dry cloth, andkerchief corners will meet INTERNATIONAL LESSON, crease 2 line with the widthwisethreads- . BREAD. "Health Brend.--Have your tea} °S8* kettle boiling. Into your breadpan pat a eup of rolled-oats. Pour, boiling -water; over it three cups one-half cup molasses; one table- spoon Mrd, or butter, one table- spoon salt; let cool, when blood warm add one yeastcake which has boen dissolved in cold water. Add bread flour until firm and can be kneaded. Let rise over night, make into two loaves, and bake one hour and twenty minutes. > -- Quick Breadmaking. -- Dissolve two cakes of compressed yeast in a little lukewarm water. Into a erock pour one pint of sweet milk and ddd one pint of freshly boiled watet, and one tablespoon of salt. Into this stir enough flour to make a soft batter and if it is cool enongh to admit of holding the finger in it, add the dissolved yeast, beat well, and continue td add more flour till it is pretty stiff. Now turn it out on to a floured board "and knead till smooth, adding nec- essary flour gradually. Put into a bread bow) that has been greased and set in a warm place to rise. When it has doubled its original size it is ready to mold into loaves and rise again before baking. Bake one hour. Brown Bread.--Two cupfuls gra- ham flour, one cupful wheat flour, " ome-quarter cupful sugar (brown or white), one-half cupful molasses, one small teaspoonful salt, two cup- fuls buttermilk, one level teaspoon- ful soda dissolved in a little boiling | stir until thoroughly biended. Pour water. Put into greased covered/on the milk, gradually until well quart lard pails and bake in_a@j mixed. i rate oven for two hours. By | hot vinegar. pitting ingredients together as) on to beaten, yolks, then return to given this brown bread never fails : and is so easily made compared to the old way of steaming first and then baking. Beotch Shortbread.--One pound of flour, one-half pound of butter, one-fourth pound moist brown su- gar. Sift flour into mixing bowl, rol] sugar free from lumps, rub su- ger and butter threugh flour, turn eut on board and knead Jike bread till it sticks together in one lump; roll three-fourths of an inch thick ; mark in small diamond shaped equares cut with a knife; put on baking tin and bake about twenty minutes in a moderate oven. Bread Hint.--(To be made up in! the evening and to raise over night). Take three quarts of flour, sift into | a large pan or bow! and make a good sized cavity in the center of the flour, crumble one cake.of com- pressed yeast, then add one-half teacupful of sugar, one small table- | apoonful of salt, one good table- spoonful of Jard; then pour in two! and one-half pints: ef lukewarm} water; mix well until modérately | stiff and smooth; then put into | Serve on brend and butter plates, greased vessel that is as near art placing first a large crisp lettuce tight as possible, let' raise over deat. a silico of pineappie, and then night in a warm place so as not the above mixture to chill; in the morning make into .; " ; loaves about one and one-quarter pounds cach; let raise unt! loaves moderately hot oven. Never Fail Bread.--- At noon soak one yeust cake in half yinss warm water. Hash fine two potatoes ame 'about one quart potato water, anc stir in while boiling hot one Arp flour, Let stand in waim place un- til next morning, then add one | tablespoon lard, one of salt, and | one of sugar and one piut of warin | water and mix stiff. Let rise and | punch down. Let rise again and) Merse mt in benzine and go over it pul in pans. CAKE. Oatmeal Cookies Help.-- Almost | every ere is fond of vatmeal cuok- thing better than dry Hour applied ies, but there is one thing disliked | with newspaper. by many, that is the wa-.oked taste that the oatmeal! has if not ground. I have Jearned by expericnce tha. by using the coarsest knife on your of ievei tabiespoonfuls of pared three tablespoonfuls bytter, two cup orange juice, grated orange, ope and one- half cups flour, one 'and -one-hal teaspoonfuls baking powder. Cream butter, add sugar, beat; add eggs beat thoroughly ; orange juice, then the flour sifted baking powder. gem pans and roll in powdered su- Kisses.--The secret of good kisses lies in the beating. Beat the whites of two. eggs to ao stiff froth, then add two cupfuls of granulated su- gar and one teaspoonful of vine- gar. Beat well for twenty minutes. Turn yeur baking pan upside down and cover with oiled paper. Drop the mixture in teaspoonfuls on the In baking they swell quite a b Do not turn the light on the oven until they are in. slowly twenty-five minutes. quantity makes two dozen. e a SALAD. . | Boiled Salad Dressing.--Two } butter, two tour, two of sugar, one level teaspoonful of salt, one level of mustard, a few cayenne, one injik, one-half cuprul of hot vine- gar{ yolks of two eggs. white sauce of dry seasonings and When sauce is smeoth add When thickened pour the stove and cook a few minutes. Ee careful not to cook the eggs too This makes one pint, and if kept on the ice in a sealed Ma- son jar it will keep a week, a little cream to thin the dressipg when you want to use it. Select ripe but not soft bananas and cut into thin i knife. Sheil English walnuts until you have one- third the quantity of the bananas, Pass the nuts through a grinder or hop fine. fruit and lightly and keep them on a plat- crisp lettuce Pour mayonnaise dressing over the whole, taking care it is jit seasoned quitt-sharply with cayen- per. ple Salad.-- Three medium and cut into dice, two stalks celery cut fine, one ;peund English walnuts cut in pice- es, one pound dates cut in pleces i} (net chopped), one-half pound white grapes cutin haif and seceded. Mix theroughly with mayonnaise dress- ing, one can pineapple, cight slices. : This quantity will serve eight people. For leaf and over this sprinkle one heap- ing teaspoonful of chopped celery, a few seeded California grapes or shredded pineapple cut inte small pieces, and one teaspoonful of chop- Chill and serve with one teaspoonful of mayonnaise dressing. HINTS. i ; : : To remove stains from ivery im- Boil six peach kernels in a quart 'ef milk te be used for custara; it ,will upprove the flavor, For cleaning tinware there is no- Keep all the kitchen utensils in one place and a small one at that; 11 will save time and steps. To shell pecans throw nuts into food chopper and grindisg the oat-| boiling water, which softens shells meal through\it improves the cook very much, This dsves not pul verize the oatméal, but males the my favorite recipe: Ore cup shortening, half lard and half but- ter; one large cupful C. sugar creamed with butter, two eggs well beaten, nine tablespoonfuls sour milk, one scant teaspoonful soda ee dissolved in milk, one teaspoonful cinnamon, half teaspoonful nutmeg, pinch of salt; one-half cupful chop- ped nat meats; one cupful chopped rajgins, one small teaspoonful bak- bil powder sifted with two oups flour, Add-one eup ground oatmeal last. 1 e these in muffin tins, _ but can be baked as drop cookies if preferred, M. W. D * Hot Water Cake.--Four eggs ' peparate them, beat yolks light, gradually stirring in two cupfuls of granulated sugar. Beat well to- gether, add one cupful of boiling water, two cupfuls-of flour, one tea- n beeswax and kernels can be extracted whole. T'o remove coffee stains rub the spots with glycerine and water and they will disappear as if by magic. When beating eggs take care that your whisk is clean, for any grease on it will prevent the eggs from To save time in straining pump- kin use a perforated vegetable press instead of rubbing it through a col- upon a hot smoothing iron, and at once clean- ing it, off again with cloth, removes _A piece of bread soaked in strong vinegar and applied to a corn soft- ens it so that the kernel can be If a piece of glass is placed over the cook book when in use it will hold the book open and prevent its Dipping eggs for 20 seconds in boiling water, then .packing them in bran, is said to keep them fresh the knife and fingers are. slightly buttered when seeding rai-; the work will be robbed: of its ed his. + Heat a lemon thoroughly before squeezing and you will obtain near- ly double the quantity of juice that of anger) aud devour (continued hatred)--Ihis 1s 11 contrast to the spirit' of love' which Paul has just said is the fulfiliment By rubbing a fresh lemon thor- oughly into a soured sponge and rinsing it several! times in lukewarm t will become as sweet" as add Bake:in contentious people, and party epir- it at this time was rife. Note the repetition of one another; the harm done by their quarre!-emeness was mutual, and the outcome could only be the disintegration of the spiritual life (consumed) of 'both Dip half a lemon in salt and rob on knife handles; then wash im- mediately in warm water an handles will be'as white as when 16. But' I say--What he has al- ready said is that, while a Chris- tian is free, he is not to abuse his Now he is going to show wherein the highest freedom con- and, indeed, all household brushes, should be rested on the bristles to dry; otherwiee the water will de- h A glazier's knife will be found an excellent thing with which to ing persistent progress day by day, help of the indwelling Holy If the Spirit is in full con- he flesh, or sinful ten- dencies and perversities of the heart, is ruled out. ; "17. Flesh lusteth against the Spir- it--This is .o be taken in its dis- tinctly theological sense (compare Paul in this way distin- guishes between the sinful elemnenis én man's nature which have come to him through the flesh, and the di- life which comes through the regenerating influence of the Spir- jt. Naturally these two are mutu- ally exclusive and hostile. May not do the things that ye would--Tne best commentary on hese words is the seventh chapter where Paul gives his pathetic description of the condi- tion of 2 man who remains in bon- dage to the flesh until Christ sets be tried to prove its value. A soit cloth slightly dampened tn milk and rubbed over piano keys will have a splendid effect. Be sure to rub keys dry with soft cloth. Us- ing water makes keys yellow. When nuts have become too dry to be good remove the shells, let stand overnight in equal parts of water and milk, then dry in the eyv- cupful of Make a ingredients, 'ro make white sauce put butter in a saucepan, stir until melted and bubbling, add As soon as a salt ham or tongue is cooked remove it froffi/ the boil- the skin, which may be easily peeled off. Take a piece of dea:m about twelve inches square; after being plait at bottom and tack t back | of ironing board for a prcket to hold iroa-holder, wax, etc free. : Led by the Spirit--The Chris- The best thing for cleaning pen- tian is thus represented as being held back from danger and sin by the controlling power of the Spirit. In this situation the struggle with the flesh has ceased. Here Pau shifts from the word "flesh" to the Add handy and when the cubler gets soiled a rub on the plaster makes it as clean as when new. from potato peelings; put as Many | interchangeable; so long as @ man remaius under the Jaw, as his mas- ter, he cannot have dominion over the flesh; and so long-as the flesh rules him the law stands over him to condemn, But where the Spirit pa holds sway Jaw is no longer Lbed- he put on it withvut spoiling ed, The Christian does right under Soap and water will easily clean | the impulse of the Spirit of Christ it and a rubbing once '1 a while! acting from within, and not from |fear or a sense of duty trying to A good tapestry can always be! meet the behests of law. For the isafely washed, Do not put soap on isti iit, but wash in the sam> way n¢ Rinse very thoroughly, per! abolished. ithrough a wringer if_possib'e, and irun on the wrong side when nearly! fai! under four heads, which, how- ever, are not marked with ubso- luteness: (1) Sensuality ; (2) idola-j we should err if we failed to give itry; (3) bitter variance with one's; jt at. least eome measure of admir- neighbor ; (4) want of moderation. | ation for the shifty ability. with It will be seen that these evils touch } which it holds its own against its ' with water, boil one hour; strain then add one-half teaspo.ntul of Fim ; this will keep indefinitely. Cover your kitchen takle with then the hottest pots and pans nuts with kerosene keeps it Lright. Christian, therefére, the ideal would be for the law to be 19. The works of the fesh--They It really begins to, look as if next war--if war there must be--} will mark the introduction of aeri-: every part of al manoeuvres on a senle which! are not merely "fleshly"' in the o ld hardly have seemed possible | dinary sense. At the end of to his social relations aud his re- already in exist-;sponsibilities to God. ence, cither finished or promised ; to be ready for service very short- ly, 32 dirgible balloons and 56 aero- planes belonging to the various En- | common roptan nations. Of these Germany | Paul's time that'he was obliged re- of six different! peatedly to rebuke them in unspar- aeroplanes ; | ing terms. France, seven dirigibles and 29 ac- | tenia individual (salad arrange one-half banana cut are as high us pans, then bake ina 5; . : , Ni P vein 2 in finger length strips on a lettuce Jasciviousness are general terms for | | vile sexual excesses which were so among the heathen of 20 Sorcery--The use of magic for purposes. Belief in magic 'apells, incantations, witchcraft was tremely prevalent in Paul's day. 1 Enmities--Paul puts in one class acruplanes; England, two dirigibles | eight words which describe the un- and | happy differences that exist among magnify the import- i three dirigibles and six aecropla | Spain, one dirigible and three aero-| people who planes. It is interesting to remark | ance of their own positions, or loo runs to dirigibles! parrowly and selfishly upon the ex- } eriences and acts uf their neigh- France was the first officially to ex- 21. As I did forewarn you -- The apostle has already, in his teaching among them, declared with pointed plainness of speech that such things are absolutely foreign to the king- dom of God, and that a man must cease from these beforo he can hope to become a member thereof. 22. The fruit--The things which are evil are correctly described as ' inasmuch as~we produce - people of the present day Miss Tartun--or you, Mr. Sparks-- do you. remember what the rule of haven't forgotten that, I the fostering care of another. In this case it is the Spirit who from the unpromising soil of human hearts is able to bring forth the most astonishing results. Love rightly heads the list. The catalogue may for convenience be divided into three groups of three each, though there are no rigid lines. The members of the second group go well together, and signify a patient "holding cut of the mind before it gives room to action or passion" (Trench). Faithfulness--The word here is "faith, and seems to etand for fidelity, or that quality of character which makes it always to be relied upon, . 23. Meekness---The absence of o spirit.. Positively, the preservation of patience under pro- tion. : + wan else a chancet at the joys of Mr. Blinks (in art museum)--"I didn't know you were an admirer of curios, Mrs. Blunderby."' e deed; I just delight in iniquities." 'There are times: when I envy my hair,' remarked the man who g rai-, of the law. were a naturally in walking; or mak- The two are indeed indulging i ly, for there are no than itseli. street, where it halted b ; a through a very small space; & man's nature, and} r- They reach oui also | { uncleanness, and | t But fruit must have wiery over the ene remembers the custom Y, 4 --_------_ 9 A CAT AND DOG SKIBMISH. | In Which the Cat Won by Soperior THEY R! w -- The a ich is INYALIDS LESS TROUBLE ee SEPT. 25, © 24. Haye crucified the | -- Lease ane tort Gel ee : ~ Be ee to the lusts of the'. ee 8 8 eee for, to be alive to Christ is) ™ Uap REO Ste ee er Bt t+0 'be dead 'to. everything opposed ing Advice--Others "Worry "S Gal. 5. 15-26. Golden Text, | to his Spirit. sis +g S @ckelaathe Gai 5. 2 2. 'The inner life should rule : ve : |the onter life."' " |. Two extreme classes of invalids, Verse 15. If -ye bite (outbursts| 96. The faults here mentioned, of are described in a note in the. Lan-! nd n foolish rivalries, and cet, namely, those who, though! giving way to jealousies, and cher- stricken with some serious, or even' ishing grudges, were the sort that fatal malady, say nothing about it, brought the Galatians under Paul's and those who complain long and' condemnation, So the lesson con-; loudly about trivial ailments. Says; cludes where it began; and proper- the writer :--"The really sick pati-! an 'more insidious ents who do not seck medical ad-! foes to the spiritual life than these.! vice or complain may be aivided in-' to four classes. Firstly, there is! the patient who suspects some very: serious or fatal disorder--for in- stance, a woman who suspects she: has acancer. We say suspects, but she practically knows, and yet she Sirategical Ability. { dreads to be told the fact, with the "'T never fancied cats very mu }."" says a limited lover of nature, "'but certainly th , . ' 'igero was a yellow eat moving nd faced the Coy. 'Instantly the dog jumped for the didn't eluse. In a@ moment the dog shy again result that she hesitates to submit herself to a medical verdict until e cat is a tairly she is past the reach of effective courageous animal and more than aid. Secondly, thero is that class ordinarily shifty and rescurceful, and so it's quite litey to be able somewhat fatalistic view of life or to hold its own agurirt an enery much larger ava muve powerful it is no use worrying and that they| j will just go on composed of people who take a eath and who tell themsclves that AS LONu AS THEY CAN. at a' walk leisurely across the Thirdly, there is the class compos- street while at the same time there od of persons suffering from sume: was coming along this block a dog. yery chronic complaint, such as, for, When the dog saw the cat it start- instance, the 'business man suffor-' ed for it as fast as it eould go, jing from granular kidney. He is and when tho cat saw the dog it conscious of feeling vaguely unwell, turned on full power at once and but having so much to altend to, fairly jumped to clear the remain- and never 'bothering much about ing space to the other side of tho himself,' as he expresies it, he goos: , _ With if8 on with his daily occupation until! ack against. a tall iron picket fence one day a cerebral hemor: hage or acute pleural effusiou, strikes an Ml him unexpectedly down, or perhaps cat, but- even more quickly up went one morning he wakes to find him- the cat's paw to sweep the air self partially blind. And lastly,' downward, and a cat/s claws are there are those brave souls who, very sharp and a dog's nose 1s very knowing that they are doomed with- tender and delicate, and the dog in a few years at the west, take ¢ . h® up their burden for the sake of jumped fer the cat again, but again those near and dear to them, or fer the cat clawed him off, or the fear very love of Jabor, and work with of the claws was enough to make undiminished courage to the end. Robert Louis Stevenson was the 'But the next time evidently the type of this class of enfferers, nnd' was going to close in an dog ; our own profession can atford other rough house thangs and take the shining examples. The name of chances; and do you know what the John Hunter comes at once to mind. cat did now? The cat is a very com- "Contrast with these that large pressible creature; it can get class of persons who with nothing and whatever definite the matter with now this particular yellow cat them, or with nothing bet some ill- backed in between two of those ness which is due to.their own eelf-! iron pickets to the inner side of the indulgence, fly from one medical! stayed right there, close to the in- ner side of the fence, wh) when the dog came up for that last time the cat struck at it again through the fence with that swift, silent sweep cof its paw, swung this time, as it seemed, with a sort of savagely cool contemptuousness. Then the foolish dog ran away. "We may not fanecy_the cat, but netural enermy.' ' ' ' mean ; ' ; ! FEATS OF BLIND MUSICIANS. -- Remarkable Powers of German and Preachman, A ftw pects age ail Germany was MarVvestng wb Woo scitty ve a bhnd youth Canca Sehwarzsop:, who had never hea w& lesson m insie in ms life. In spite ot this drawback he was abie to play the piano and, in-; deed, almost any other instrument, ; with a perfection of execution which , any professor might well have en- vied. Jt be heard an opera he could on returning home, repeat almost every nute he had heard. His most remarkable performance, as a feat of musical memory, has probably never beer rivalled. Almost equally remarkable was" the memory of M. Chataigon, a blind musician of Paris, half a cen- tury ago. M. Chataignon couduct-' ed hundreds of concert programmes entirely from memory. {Q@, one oc- cazion be accomplished oadhe piano a rehearsal of an entire opera, at, the same time transposing the mu-' sic half a tone; and he gave a score of piano recitals, chiefly of Bee-! thoven's sonatas, striking no fewer than ao milion and a quarter of notes, each of which had to be re- tained in its exact position in his' memory. a ROSES OF TEMPLE GARDENS. Perhaps the two most farnous flowers in histery are associated with the Temple Gardens, for ac- cording to tradition it was in the gurdens in 1430 that the two lead- ers plucked the red and white roses which became the badges of the rival houses of Lancaster and |, Yoyk, says the London Chronicle. The gardens were for centuries famous for their roses. Among their floral curiosities one finds in the accounts for 1700 an expenditure es two perimic box trees, and won- ers what a perimic tree is until 3. y Fae fenee; but it didu't run away. At man to another, while in (2 'nter- vals of orthodox trectment they 1 the dose themselves with al) the dog couldn't- get' through, and VARIOUS QUACK RENEDIES which figure so largely m the ad. vertisement ovlumns of the day, press and the popular i: nthly ma-; gazines. 'Yhey always are com-' plaining, never satisiicd, and are a nuisance' to themeeives, to their! friends, and to their mydical maw for the time being. The pe of! this class is.the man'whe tih.tuaily! overdistends his stomach aud. who translates the resulting frequent at, tacks of cardiac palpitation into the +warnings of apprfaching doach pro-| ceeding from @ heart in « conden] of hopeless disease, Tie contrast! is a remarkable illustrawen of the; complexity of human nature, and can only be paraileled bx the way in which the really poor suiier int heroic silence, while the icafer pa-: rades the streets with brnners in- scribed 'Curse your Charity at one exd of the precessien acd a collect- ing-box at the other." --Literary Digest, ee. oa STEEL BELT. Steel has recently emi: red a new field, appearing as an ©» wave mae terial for power belts i suits, fac. tories and similar placi- its wd- vantages lie in the rdnctian of width buth-of belts sud ei puaileys, the consequent redvction «f weight and expense, and a reduction sn the distance between. axie: ee eos iat- ed heretofore to secure proper ten- sion of leather belts. & of the reduction of ve pt width. Extraordinary -j: ds. i practicable with leather ui transmission, are'readity avi with steel] belts, and the sas me: fected in all deparimen 4 cover an increased initial cust casily in a season. The pulleys are provided with canvas and cork su:'2res to give the steel bands the best por- sible hold upon them, Pree gy en NOBILITY IN HARD &7TEAITS. A French paper pubhisied an ac- count o& the straits te which cer- tain bearers of noble naines were reduced to earn a living. Tho Duchess de Saint-Simon 1s « work- ing housekeeper. 'I'he heir of the last Doge of Venice is au actor @t the St, Denis theatre, the Keys of Venice in an ornete case, which were confided to the hereditary, keeping of his family, repose be- neath a glass shade on his mantel- piece. The Capital de Puch, a unique title, on¢ ¥{ the noblest in France, is also «a actor. The