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About the House --< Useful Hints and Genera! Informa- tion for the Busy Housewife ted Recipes. Cocoanut Cookies--Take one cup of sugar, one-half cup of butter, one teaspoonful of cream tartar, one-half teaspoonful of soda, pinch of sells ene ree- bread crumbs, two cupfuls flour, one' te cupful chopped suet, one cupful raisins, one cupful molasses, one cup- ful milk, one chopped apple, one tea- spoonful soda in little hot water, one teaspoonful cloves, one teaspoo cinnamon. Steam two and re half hours. Serve with hard sauce. Cleaning Copper and Brass--Brass and copper can be brightened by wash- ing in salt and strong vinegar, rubbing until bright, then rinsing in clear, very hot water, and while still hot polish- ing with a clean chamois skin dipped in sweet ofl and a pinch of whiting or very fine sand. Vaseline on Linen.--Stains on white ¢ line can easily be removed by wash- ing in hot water and ammonia or hot soapsuds. If the linen is colored ap- ply magnesia or French chalk to the spots, allowing it to remain on a day, then brushing off. Rolled Oats Bread--Put two cups rolled coats into mixing pan, add even mixing spoonful of lard, one cup mo- lasses, one tablespoon salt and four cups boiling water. When lukewarm add one yeast cake and flour enoug ,to mix quite stiff. Let rise over- night and put in pans_in tthe morn- ng. Bake in slow oven. Buckwheat Cakes.--Mix two cupfuls of buckwheat flour, half a cup of white flour or corn meal, half a tea- spoonful of salt, two cupfuls of boil- ing water, half a yeast cake. Let stand over night. In the morning, add half a cupful of milk in which a quar- ter teaspoonful of soda is dissolved. A tablespoonful of molasses may be added before cooking, Date Cake.--Three eggs ar et well, one cupful sugar, ene cupfu! flour (rounded), one teaspoonful bak- ing powder, one teaspoonful vanilla, one package dates, stoned and quarter- ed. One-quarter of a pound pecan nuts, quartered. Mix in order given and bake in a low tin (7 by 4 inches) In moderaté oven for twenty-five min- [<3 = tes. Excellent Cake.--One-half cup of | granulated sugar, one-half cup corn syrup, one tablespoon butter, one oenet one-half teaspoon lemon, ter cup milk, one and Gne-halt cups flour, two level teaspoons baking pow- der, one-half teaspoon salt, three-quar- | ter cup chopped raisins may be added. | Mix in order named and cook thirty- | five or forty minutes in moderately | hot oven. T 'should be flavored with spices. gently until the vegetables are tender; then pass them through a sieve. Force as much of the vegetable pulp through as possible. e quart of beef stock and serve the soup very bot Cream of Potato Soup.--Boil one tupful of diced pota- toes and one half cupful of chest- nuts in salted water until they are tender. Drain them and add one quart ig of scalded milk; -- the mixture with a dash of nutm salt and Cayenne pepper; dices" it slightly and Chestnut : THE SUNDAY LESSON] I NTERNATION AL LESSON FEBRUARY 4. ---- Lesson ¥. Jesus The Saviour of The World--John 8. 1-21. Golden Text John 3. i6. ae 5. Verily, verily--This re- ted Amen w Water and--There f is some text- oubt about these words. genuine, they mean that the forerun ner's gospel is an innegeat part of the! Lord's own: by the d f a * with a tablespoonful of moistened with a little cold milk, and add one tablespoonful of minced pars- ey when it is ready to serve. Pot-au-Feu.--Choose a good-sized beef bone that has plenty of meat on it, cover it with water and boil it for three hours. Remove the bone and cut the meat into bits. Let the stock cool, then remove the fat, add the meat to the stock, return it to the-fire, add ne large onion that has had ten whole levies imbedded in it and has then been roasted until it is brown, add one ; pint of cooked tomatoes, one half cup- | ful of rice, and one quarter cupful each of chopped potatoes, carrots, and cabbage. Cook the whole until | e vegetables are tender, and add ' 9 salt and pepper. Just before you) serve the soup, add one teaspoonful of | white sugar burned to a good br own! color. That adds to the flavor of the! soup and gives a rich color, | ' | Things to Remember. Bread not thoroughly baked is very' ' indigestible. Corn bread with raisins in it is an! agreeable chan Remove rust = garments by boiling in cream of tartar water. i Keep the fat hot if you would have the whites of fried eggs fluffy. PA Household refuse is better pi than disposed of in any other wa |. ave eandle ends and melt together! use as paraflin covers for jelly. | ° Raisins will be easy to stone if they, stand in hot wated a minute or two! before stoning. | Economical frying is possible only cog the fat is carefully saved after ; c 3 important| it Whenever soup is an art of a meal, as a luncheon, should be thick and nourishing. Brown bread -c used for bread pudding just as white can, byt it Stale bread wilt make good hot If the cookies are not very rich, cut them in animal shapes and the children wil! be just as well pleased. f Plain boiled rice, liberally sprink-: It is not likely that he means tT and title to the British throne than any served with, my Father," for there is no context to 'member led with raising and }hard sauce, makes a nourishing des- | Boston Brownies.--One cup of 8U- | gert 'gar, one-third cup of butter, two eRSs | well beaten, two equares of bitter! chocolate, one tespoonful of erm powder, one cup of nut meats brok in pieces (English walnuts), one- 'half cup of raisins, one scant cup of flour. Drop by the teaspoonful on waxed paper two inches apart. You can bake them in tiny cup cake tins, placing an English walnut on each before putting in oven. Bake in a moderate oven. Hot Potato Salad--Wash and cook medium-sized potatoes without paring; cool, peel, and cut in thin slices. Arrange a layer of potatoes in the bottom of a dish, season with salt! and peppers and sprinkle with finely} chopped parsley and celery; gether four tablespoonfuls each of vinegar and olive oil, add a little lemon' juice und heat just to the boiling point. Pour over the potatoes and cover tightly. Stand in a warm place un- til war.ted, then serve with crisp fried | bacon or cold sliced meat. An Egegless Recipe.--Put one quart: milk, after cream has been taken, into! double boiler. Mix five even table. spoonfuls of cornstarch with four: tablespoonfuls of sugar. This may be' put into the milk without blending. Add very slowly, stirring all the time. | When it begins to thickea add one-half' teaspoonful of salt and either a piece of stick cinnamon or a strip of orange' or lemon peel. This should cook----' not rapidly--for half an hour. Stir often to avoid a skim forming on the. top. Pour into molds that have been wet with cold water. Set aside to cool gradually. May bg served with any fruit Juice or crea Winter Sc Soups. Spme one has said that there are as many soups as there are days in the! Probably there are more, but only a very smail number of them ap- pear on the dining table of the aver- | t age family. Among the follcwing receipts are some that are little, known, 'but they are especially ap- petizing on cold winter evenings, when a hot, rich soup seems the moat appropriate beginning for a meal. French Onion Soup.--Chop two med-! i ium-sized onions, and fry them to a rich brewn in two ounces of butter over a moderate fire, for onions burn quick- ly. To them add a quart of boiling soup stock of any kind, or simply water or milk, and cubes of lightly toasted bread. When the soup is ready to serve, add a little grated cheese, and season it with salt and white pepper. A Flemish Soup.--To two pounds of washed and picked Brussels sprouts add ten potatoes, two onions, two leeks, salt ana pepper. Cook all ' \ Fly a" to the realms of endless de- | t Don't imagine you're the most un- lucky person that ever lived. Other! ; people have had troubles and setbacks 'to an must men enter the new world where the Spirit reigns, at the water is more than a symbol never occurred to a in the age be the New Testamen 3. Flesh--See the nate on John L " (January 7). aul enlarges on this antithesis more than once, as 1 or. 3, 1, 7. Ye ee pang a Jews who think the kingdom of God is yours by mere physical descent from Abraham. That even such i cleansing was message. new--That the word does mean again here, and not from above (as in verse 81), is sufficiently proved by ---- astonished answer in verse 4. her proof is Peter's bee ---- te the doctrine (1 Pet, 1. ere he uses a compound verb which ne unambiguous, a compound of the verb used here, 8. The Wind bic veth--As in the Old Testament, the word Spirit re- | tains its original meaning, which opens the way for a parable. (The margin | The Spirit breatheth is less probable.) 'We may'imagine a cust of wind sweep- jing up the silent street and givin 'the Lord his illustration, with whic henpapr rite ere may well irect xilision, for the second ene "of that ver, bain ig very apposite. So actly wot s it with everyone who."". The stirring of the Divine life \is a mystery, and, like al! God's ac- ge it has infinite variety. The say- should be pondered by doctrinaires i ree bigots who think all men's spirit- ual experience must mold. 9. The bewilderment is natural to one brought up in a ritual religion; in which the way of salvation was rigid and external. Such religious tend to | Produce "physical" men, who "receive not ~ ---- of the Spirit of God" ( Cor 2. 14)--men in whom the spirit- ual neal is dormant and there is no- characteristic} door of repentance} glory --T he night 0 bof ga lg bid : erpent-- 2 the universally prevalent idea that a cure may be fou Judg*. In both cases, therefore, God's judgment becomes mercy when men receive it in fai on rms. ~ 15, Eternal life, in this Gospel, is not future, but present (see John 17. jective connotes time without a visible end; and in this by the very nature of the de. Fnition quoted, there is no end at all sible. 16. With this at verse begins the Evangelist's meditation on the won derful saying he bg just reported. Ba is in a sense his comment; but would certainly haw said that he oat it spoken within him by Voice that gave the text Nicodemus he fo before. God loves, he loves G 7 I God te -- aie ves his Son.' Norl Which 3 this Gospel regular-| rs denotes the world as it is, rebel to! 's authority. Only begotten--So. ohn 1, 18, "God Bay | and begotten"'| margin). We are God's sons, but this gag = Sonship is unique. Be- lieveth o --The Greek significant- ly differs. from that in verse 15. 17. To Judge--Which in this Gospel always ae the guilt of the pri- soner at the Believers are "not judged," as the next verse tells us. KING GEORGE'S 300 COUSINS. His Majesty Is Closely Related to All Warring Nations. As far as the crowned heads of Europe are concerned, this war may virtually be called a civil war, says London Answers. The Royal Houses of Europe are inextricably inter-related, and many an anguished and tortured heart must be beating now in the palaces of this continent. As Queen Victoria was the grand- fmnother of Europe, and as Kind Ed- ward was it uncle, so is King George t | tie | fa DRUNKENNESS AND ITS REMEDY Christianity is The Religion of Redemption, The Living Force That Will Save The World. "Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be ay with the Spirit." --Ephesians, v. the saint. Both are conditions of. enthusiasm. Both are states of ex- altation. In both the universe is The ini spicable glutton. The! number of gifted men who have fallen victims to this particular vice sug- gests that it has a peculiar tempta- tion for those who under better aus- pices might have climbed higher and rther and more daringly than their fellows--men who fret and chafe at limitations, desiring to break bounds and to exc Days of Miracles Not Over. And this, in turn, suggests the remedy. Such men are not to be re- claimed by vetoes, on and penalties. It is against e nega- tions of life that they rebel. them be reclaimed then, by something which is positive enough to arouse and enlist their loyalty; some power of enthusiasm; some power of hope.! For this we turn to religion. Men! ® o constitution of their natures. thirst for stimulants is due to a pro- | found misconception. What they are really athirst for is heightened life, | feeling, all the setting free of latent' the cousin of Europe. He has cousins in Prussia, Denmark, Greece, Russia, ' orway, Sweden, Belgium, Spain,} Portugel, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Hol- urtemberg, Saxe-Meiningen, Scha- umburg-Lippe, Hesse, and Brunswick. In fact, it has been estimated that his first and second cousins, all told num- -ber close on three hundred. His most famous cousin is, of course, the Kaiser, whose mother was King Edward's sister. It is not generally Known that the Kaiser 'stands twentieth in the order of succession to our throne. Fortunately, however, thing sigher than the intellectual, and not very much of that! 10. Israel_--How Spm Gre ents stitu- tion of 'God's people; when My teachers c could 1 AB, Cc af 5 1 a = bs seophets hs spake in the! of God, just as in John 9, 4! (We must work") he links with his; humanity all other servants it would be a mere ow--Tke word is that! Hiadtes the possession of knowledge' {as in 1 John 6. 18-20 three times, not the fourth), as distinguished from that which describes the getting-of it; angi est it, and dite. We kno 1 overcome that the world never (as John 17. 3). Ye receive not--As | iknew about. You can do as well as jn verse 32--a recurrent note in this they. Keep on trying. Go al It starts from "the i Soap and water rubbed on zinc only, make a bad matter worse. First wipe! off the zine with a dry cloth. Next rub with kerosene. Let that stay a few. hours. Go over it then with a cloth wet with kerosene, and polish with a dry ¢loth. Setms natural to leave the wet um- brella wide open till it dries. It isn't the best way, though. First thing: you know the covering will be stretch-: ed all out of shape. Shut it and: mix t0-/ stand it up, knob down, till the water; 18--he speaks runs off 'and it dries out. See if the wood above the furnace or behind the stove is charred. If it is,| a sheet of zinc or tin should be put. there, rot in contact with the wood; a! _ Sheet of asbestos is better yet. Clean! 'the pipes and look for cracks. Make a list of all the spring sewing you must do, then check off ,each garment as it is made and put There is no time to stop and make a forgotten garment after house-. © cleaning and other spring work has, comme! ced. en ! DREAMS. | oe | dreams of the past leave relics' oy i That time in its flight can neved de- | | str: Like a vial fatter of Roses contains, Though shattered to fragments, the perfume remains. FS Kingdoms may flourish in brightest array And vanish again e'er + the light of the, ay, j | No rule can be made, no bound can be sot-- { Dreams have no limit, in any respect. ' Then let our dreams, in the stillness | i | Let the wath and a care each aay! Be --, = seep, when Peace Sweet dreams of the past--some never | fulfilled; Yet ~-- as the breath of roses dis- With faith, "hope and trust, then look | to th And dream golden dreams in the dave. | ness of night. F. TALLING, Vancouver, B.C. historical Tejection of their Messiah, o fact ad been ever wit writer on sixty arthly t! ings ---The ont 'of a non birth. Compare Heb. 6. Heavenly--The eaymeering "Oe his own , Person sud eternal Sonship. ere were many bi Pag took to tell of secrets of hea But; ™ the only one qualified to conn 'had told them far less advanced truth and they would not belitve. The Son of man-- The title depends mainly on Dan. 7. as the future judge (see John 5, 27). 0 is in ear 'Probably but not certainly genuin e words remind 2 that heaven is} 'wherever God's will is perfectly done: he came therefore "trailing cnoda of glory" that never left him. 14. Lifted up--In this Gospel the verb always has a note of "exaltation"} . about it. It.is the verb which Paul uses in Phil: 2. 9, with a "super--" re it. It was not so easy in those oe as in ours to see that the su eme splendor of Jesus was not in ie" King George by marriage. King George has five sons, so that even the Ceoseg-F nines in-not. likely. to: eet ins" nd white on the subject: sion, it may be mention that the present heir to the throne of Rumania 'has, as far as descent goes, a better of our ,own Royal family., 'Prince Carol of Rumania, who is now twenty-two years of age, can trace his descent in a direct line from Henrietta, the youngest daughter of Charles I King George's cousins also include the Tsar and Tsarina of Russia, and, incidentally, King Constantine of Greece. King Alfonso is a cousin of nother cousin is King Christiag of Denmark, but he married Princess Alexandrine of Mecklenburg. The sympathies of King Haakon of Norway, however, should be strongly pro-British, inas- much as he is a nepkew of Queen Alexandra and married ofe of King George's sisters. -- op ----~------~ Conscientious. Mrs. Jones had a new maid, who ©: | &ppeared at the door of the library one afternoon, where her mistress be cast in one|/and, Rumania, Bulgaria, Montenegro, | WwW powers and dormant energies that the' apostle has in mind. The remedy {for drunkenness is conversion . and, inspiration. oer ver and over -_<" iy have seen ' couraged that they were on the point awe sordid which venione. us that the days of miracles have not yet passed. The Mission of Christianity. Days of such miracles wil! never ass. While there is life there is hope, and where hope is God is not far absent. Christianity is no conven- tional, cut and dried religion. Its mission is to exalt and to redeem. In churches and cathedrals, where decor- ous, réspectable people meet for wor- ship, according to His Promise, Christ is present to the faithful. Often His presence glows there with a soft and steady light as of a sanctuary lamp. But there ure other places where at times it shines with blinding splendor. There are places of shame, of need, of broken hearted penitence, 3 and women are religious in the very | life's abysses; Their | | where the light of it shines back from faces that have been lifted up from men and women who were going down into the pit, then | caught at the hem of Christ's garment 'and were saved. Christianity is the | religion of redemption. It is the faith whose keynote is the resurrection. It is the living force, the conquering energy, that has it in its power to save the world.- . Howard Chand- ler Robbins, D. D. -- Keart Strain. By keart strain we mean a tempor- ary dilation of the heart caused by sie. excessive muscular f sedentary | ae a of en! Babies avack Genueee ceés-| heart may have been already es a weakened state through disease of tion of its musculer wall, although it) may have been apparently healthy; or, | pre reg not actually diseased, it may | able by excessive tobacco smoking. The dilation is brought about by a = increase of blood pressure in e heart cavities, which is in turn the | result of the obstruction to the flow, of blood through the tissues or in the' lungs that attends the strong con- tractio: of the muscles and the ing of the breath. Lifting a seen heavy weight, running after a car, or) any other sudden increasc in muscular : effort may be enough to strain the heart. The affection is not uncom- college after the summer vacation and resume their athletic contests before they have got back into training; sometimes it occurs in the well trained | when they are temporarily run down! with a "cold" or a billous attack. The signs of heart strain are great shortness of breath, pain or distress | in the region of the heart, and a mark-} was reading. ° . "There's no coal, mum," said sag gel ee aps are goin' out." " al!" ied the mistress, in; oe "Why didn't you tell me! before?" "T couldn't tell you there was no mum," replied the girl, "when @ 'dazzling glory of the Resurrection,|t Switzerland's Presiden Left, Edmund Schulthess, new President of Switzerland; Should a peace conference. be held in Swit- Calonder, new Vice-President. coal, ; there was coal. t and Vice-President. right, Felix zerland or one be held in which Switzerland would take part, the two men pictured above will play prominent parts. Mr. Schulthess, President of Switzerland, has just affirmed the intention of his country to maintain strict neutrality. A peculiar law of To-day's President waa Vice-President last year. in Switzerland. 'succession obtains ¢ is Felix Calonder, who now Vice-President, will next year automatically step into the Presidency. - The term of office is for one year only, and to become President a man must first sit as Vice-President. the | | ofthe keart is to be seen, is usually: ed feeling of weakness or faintness. The front of the chest, where the beat | tender to the touch, although steady -- with the flat of the hand is| ratefu!. The pulse is irregular and} rapid. It is not possible to say how long such a condition will Inst, for its ; duration depends on the intensity of | | the strain, the state of the heart be- ~|fore the strain and the treatment the condition recgives. Generzlly, com-; plete rcst in bed for a day or .wo and | staying quietly at home for .nother! day or two will bring back tone to a normal heart; but if the sfs®in was very severe, a heart tonic ay be! necssary to help the organ to recover! its strength and poise. Since « strain untreated or w rongly , treated may result in a permanently} injured heart, or even in death, it-is \& mediately in all such cases.--Youth's Companion. Expert Explains Values of Foods. In a recent address, W. Earl Flynn: tained sixteen elements, the same as those of the soil, and that it shared the need of the soil for scientiti-: treat- 'ment. For anaemia, especially in chil- cium and potassium, bread, rye bread, fruits, dates, figs and raisins. For nervous irritability, ium is the proper salt. Eat spples,! oranggs, grapes, lemons, grapefruit, tomatoes, onions and lettuce. For insomina, eat onions, cabbage, ! lettuce and celery. For skin dis- vases and boils, gat strawberries; prunes, spinach, lemons and green vegetables. If your hair. is falling out, you need sulphur, silicon and flourine. Eat green vegetables and fruits. For keat energy eat butter, c: eam, have been weakened and made irrit-| office is called upon to enter into 'bond for its safe custody before he is mon ic boys who return to school or+ inches, advisable to seek medical advice im- | told his audience that the bady con-, dren, he prescrtbed foods rich in cal-' is whole # wheat ' vegetables, | magnes- | \ i hecon, tke, olive oil and ripe olives Olemargarine can be 'substituted for | butter, but it is harder to digest, ac- cording to Mr. Flynn. For iron eat spinach, strawberries and 'For silicon and sulphur eat and green vegetables. For phosphorus ;and chlorine eat beans, peas, lentils. | For iodine eat all serts of green vege- t | table a ee * THE LORD MAYOR'S CHAIN. Holder Must Enter.B Bond for Ate. Eaten, "Keeping. The Lord Mayor of the City of one of its valves or fatty degenera-| London wears the most costly badge of office in the country. It contains diamonds to the value of £120,000, and each holder of it during his term of a 'sworn in, and thus becomes entitled to its possession. The jeweled collar worn by the Lord Mayor of London is of pure gold, composed of a series . links, each formed of the letter "S," junited York and: Lancaster rose, 'and a massive knot. The ends of the chain |are joined by the portcullis, from the | points of which, suspended by a ring of diamortds, hangs the jewel. The centre coilar contains 28 "S's," i 14 roses, 18 knots, and measures 64 The jewe)] contains in the cen- tre the City Arms cut in cameo of a delicate hue, on an olive ground; sur- | rounding this a garter of blue, edged iwith white and gold, bearing the City motto in gold letters. The whole is encircled with a cost- ily border of gold "S's," alternating | with rosettes of diamonds set in silver. !The jewel is suspended from the col- lar by a portcullis, but when = worn without the collar is hung by a broad i blue ribbon.--London. Tit-Bits. i 1} i SOLDIER MUNITION-WORKER ' Heroes All Are . They Whether in Khaki or Not. A young man, fired at the beginning Kee the war with patriotic ardor, joins . He sees himself covering his une with glory while striving to up- 'hold the country's prestige and honor. | Then one day the unexpected hap- pens on parade. - Private Jones!" "Sir "Your occupation before the war!" "Turner, sir. I worked on a big screw- ~cutting lathe, too, sir.' No more is thought of that until, a month after, an order comes through: i"Private Jones to proceed to munition factory at----- 'There is the end of his ambitious dream of glory. Glued to a lathe in- side a building for twelve hours a day till the war ends! The wonder is these men are not going down under it. Why do they keep up and strug- gle on with it?) They are heroes, that why! Heroes, whether seen or. un- seen. At the same time, we must not for- the men not in uniform who are strug- gling along in munition factories all 'over this country of ours. To those 'who have not-been in such a factory I ! would say that the men may not leave to join the Army; they have to work twelve and even more hours per day, _whether they wish to or not. It is quite impossible to realize the noise 'and strain to be endured for such a long time each day, and the whole body of men are heroes, whether ir the much-admired khaki or not, .