I -I- Woman's World By Mair M. Morgan Dried Fruiti In the Winter menu whil» dried fruits do not supply vitamin C they do retain all other essential properties of freah canned fruits. Vitamins A and B, mineral content, fuel value, laxative properties, alka- line reactionâ€" all these qualities are abundantly supplied by the dried fruits. Prunes, dates, raisins and figs are excellent sources of Iron. Peaches, apricots and apples, though less rich In iron, contribute other mineral con- stituents In goodly amounts. The fact that these dried fruits are always availablt and are Inexpensive makes them worthy of the consideration of all home-makers and particularly those who are trying to maintain a well-balanced and adequate dietary on a greatly reduced food budget. The uses of dried fruits are many and of great variety. Plain cakes and simple steamed puddings are made interesting and given more food value by their addition. Raisins or figs may be stewed In a little water until tender to make good sauce to use over rice pudding. Corn- starch pudding too, is Improved by the fruit sauce. Cooked Prunes The reason many people do not like dried fruits is because so often the home-maker does not prepare rhem to appear appetizing or attractive. Prunes, for instance, delicious as - they are when properly cooked, have been the butt of boarding-house jokes for so many years, that many folks com- pletely Ignore them simply tor this reason. The packaging and preparation of dates, prunes and tigs have been great- ly improved within the last few years. Torday the home-maker may buy dates already pitted; figs, too, may be pur- chased all ready for use. Housewives may well afford the luxury of attractive looking and dell- clous tasting desserts, it they mako liberal- use of dried fruits. The cost ot these fruits is comparatively small and the food value great. Properly cooked prunes do not need the addition of any sugar. Those prunes which require soaking should be covered with cold water and allow- ed to soak for several hours or over- night; then simmered until tender without changing the water. Other prunes that require no soaking should be boiled briskly for ten minutes and simmered lor Hfteeu. Or they may be placed in a casserole and baked in a moderate oven until tender. The baked prunes have delicious flavor and thick rich syrup. It sugar Is add- ed, it should not be until the prunes «re almost tender. The mistake most women make in cooking this fragrant and delightful fruit is in adding too much water, with the result that the prunes are taste- less, and the juice thin and unpalat- able. There are many sizes of prunes, the smaller ones are just as good as the larger for dishes in which they will be stoned and chopped, so use discretion In purchasing them. Prunes For Salads Prunes and figs steamed and stuffed with cottage cheese make nourishing and inviting winter salads. Prunes stuffed with peanut butter in a salad are a treat for the children. Long, slow cooking is essential tor all dried fruits In order to soften the skins. If prunes are soaked overnight in water to cover and then simmered always below the boiling point for three or tour hours and allowed to stand again overnight before serving^ they will be deliclously tender, firm and well flavored. If sugar is added it should be put iu just after removing from the fire. Prunes and Cranberries 1 cup raw prunes. 1 cup sugar, boil- ing water, 1 cup cranberries chopped, % box plain gelatin, '3 cup cold water. After cooking prunes until tender, drain and measure the juice. Add enough boiling water to make the total volume three cups. Wash the cran- berries In ruuulng water In a colandur, then add the berries to the hot water and prune juice and cook 10 minutes. Add the gelatin, previously soaked In the cold water for Ave minutes, and the stoned prunes cut In quarters. Defies Injunction Turn into a mould, rinsed with cold water, and chill. Baked Prune Whip Stone cooked prunes and press them through a sieve. To 1 cup prune pulp add 2 tablespoons sugar and the beat- en whites of 2 eggs (very stiff). Beat the mixture well with a large strong egg beater, turn into a greased baking dish or 4 Individual greased custard cups. Bake in slow 300 degree oven about 20 minutes or until firm. Serve plain, or with a sauce made from the yolks of the 2 eggs. This may be a plain boiled custard sauce. Prune and Cereal Mould 1 cup raw prunes, V* teaspoon salt, 14 cup fine breakfast food, boiling water. Prepare prunes as usual. Stone them, measure fruit and juice. Add enough boiling water to make 4 cups. Add the salt, sift in the cereal while stirring constantly. Cook In a double boiler % hour, stirring at first to prevent lumping. Turn into a mould rinsed with cilld water, and let cool. Unmould and serve with cream and sugar. Bananas With Figs 4 ripe bananas, 2 tablespoons pow- dered sugar, 4 figs, M cup chopped nut meats. Peel, scrape lightly and slice the bananas. Wash, dry and chop the figs. Spread them over the bananas Sprinkle with the sugar and nut meats rfhd serve cold with whipped and sweetened cream. Sweet cracker crumbs may be used for this dessert instead of the chopped nuts. Fig Paste (Laxative) 1 lb. raw prunes, V2 lb. llgs, 1 oz. sen- na leaves, cold water. Soak the prunes in water enough to cover over night. In the morning add the senna leaves, tied in a cheesecloth bag. Sim- mer together until the prunes are done. Remove the bag of senna. Stone the prunes, chop them fine. Add the finely chopped figs. Place them both with the prune juice and cook together slowly until thick. Use as a spread for crackers, as a filling tor sandwiches or cake. This may be beaten into a boiled frosting as a flavoring. Dried Apple Sauce Soak dried apple slices over night, simmer in water in which they were soaked until thoroughly swelled. Drain them. To each 2 cups apple slices add 1 cup grape juice and simmer the ap- ples in this until they are tender. Sweeten with % cup sugar near the end of the cooking period. Cool. Serve on buttered toast or on day-old cake slices. Children's Sandwiches Soak assorted dried fruits, such as apples, apricots and prunes, overnight in water enough to cover them. In the morning cook as usual until tender. Add little sugar while cooking If apri- cots are used, and cook until thickened like a paste. Cool it and use on bread and butter as a spread. Evaporated Fruit Butters Evaporated or dried pears and peaches make especially fine fruit but- ters when the winter's supply of fresh fruit butters runs low. Soak the fruit as directed for the cooking of dried fruits. Use enough water to cover the fruit. In the morn- ing, simmer in the same water until tender, then press the fruit through a sieve. Measure the juice and the pulp, and for each cupful of it, use % cup of sugar. Cook down the pulp be- fore adding the sugar to prevent dark- euiiig of the butter. Cook it down 20 minutes to half an hour, then add sugar and cook until the consistency of jam. B'oston Brown Bread Mix together oue and one-half cups yellow cornmeal, oue cup graham flour, one cup white flour. Add lU cups milk in which is beaten one t"a- spoou soda, one cup molasses and ono teaspoon salt. Have batter thin, puur into cans and steam for three hour,;. If sweet milk is used put soda in with the molasses. Raisins or chopped dates may be u^.ed. if desired. Lemon Sponge Pie One and one-fourth cups sugar, 2 iabelspoous flour. 1 tablespooji butter, Vi teaspoon salt, 3 eggs, 1 cup water. 1 large lemon, plain pastry. Sunday School Lesson Mlsa Mary McCorralc on anival in London to sing at the London Palladium despite an injunction to prevent her singing except in Florida. Line a deep pie dish with plain pastry. Mix and sift sugar, flour and salt. Rub in butter and add grated rind and juice of lemon. Mix thorough- ly and add yolks of eggs beaten until thick and lemon colored. Add water and beat with a rotary heater. Beat whites of eggs on a platter with a wire whisk until stiff and dry. Fold into flrst mixture and turn into the pastry lined pie dish. Put into a hot oven for ten minutes. Reduce heat and bake 10 minutes iu a slow oven. The oven should be -125 deg. F. when the pie is put in and the heat should be reduced to 324 deg. F. to finish baking. Household Hints The drier the cheese, the better It is for cooking purposes. Add two tablespoons of tomato cat- sup to the pan in which the fish is bak- ing. Strips of crisp bacon make an at- tractive garnish for the steamed spin- ach. Stale cake may be sliced to line a mold for a gelatine or cornstarch pud- ding. Oranges and lemons to be grated should be washed well beforehand to remove soil from handling. Boll onions In milk instead of water if you are looking for a real delicacy. It takes away all strong taste and re- sults in a delicious dish. In darning stockings, it is best to use caretully matched yarn, and re- inforce with a long and short stitch on the Inside before the holes actually appear. It you are using wool for darning, hold it to the steam of the kettle for five minutes. When sweaters need mending and you have no wool to match them, care- fully remove the pockets and unravel them, and wind wool on a wet rag. A good way of mending a towel is to bind the edge with gingham. Child Was Father Of the President Franklin Roosevelt Said as a Boy "If 1 CKdn't Give the Orders, Nothing Would Happen" New York. â€" Mrs. James Rousevelt recently recalled the first birthday of "my boy, Franklin." While the United States celebrated his 52nd anniversary, the President's mother remembered the sunny up- staii-s room in their house on the Hud- son/the room where Franklin was born. It came near being a dark day that January day -52 years ago. For, as the Pre.sident's grej'-haired mother recalled in her book published last j-ear, "When he was born I was gi\'en too much chloroform, and it was near- ly fatal to us both. "The nurse said she never expected the baby to be alive, and was surpris- to to find that he was." Pictures from his boyhood recur bo Mrs. Roosevelt; such pictures as the time when she adnionishetl him, "Franklin, wher: !.â- < your obedience,'' and he grinned, "My 'bedience has gone upstairs for a walk." She sees, too. that moi-e significant scene when she said. "Don't give all the orders. Franklin." -•Vnd her son answered. "Munimie, if I don't give the orders nothing would happen.'' Lesson VII. â€" February 18. jeau«' Power to Help â€" Matt. 9.1-13. Golden Text â€" I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; for I came not to call the righteoM, but sinners. â€" Matt. 9:13. TIME â€" Midsummer and autumn of A.D. 28, the second year of Chriat'i ministi-y. PLACEâ€" Capernaum. "And he entered into a boat" The same boat in which they had crossed the sea, probably Peter's. "And cross • ed over. 'I They left Decapolis because the foolish Gagarenes, dismayed by ChrLst's supernatural power, had beg^ ged him to leave their t.erritory. "And came into his own city." Capernaum, the city of his adoption. "And behold." Matthew's iiiti-oduc- tdon of a sipecial marvel. "Tliey brought to him a man sick of the palsy." The disease known as palsy (shortened form of "paralysis") was sometimes painless, causing only a deadening of the parts involved, and was sometimes a form of catalepsy or cramps, causing the most Lntensu agony. "Lying on a bed." The thin mattress which constituted the East- em bed. "And Jesu3 seeinij thtir faith." For the full story we must turn U Mark 2: 15; Luke 5: 17-?'). "Said unto the sick of the palsy. Son." Or "child," a term of pity and of love. "Be of good che?r." This seems to have been a favorite greeting with Christ. "Thy sins are forgiven." Christ sees not only the paralysis of the man's body, but also the sin in the man's soul. ".A.nd behold." Matthew is filled with awe at the spiritual miracle ra- ther than at the phj'sical miracle. "Certain of the scribes." A party of scribes ( and Pharisees, see Luke 5 : 21 ( was sitting there, seeking to catch Jesus in some unorthodox statement. "Said within themselves." They did not venture in that comp:vny to speak openly. "This man blasphemeth. ' Mark 2: 7 adds their thought, "Who can forgive sins but one, even God."' ".\nd Jesus knowing their thouprhts." Fcr "he himself knew what was in man" (John 2: 25). "Said, Where- fcTe think ye evil in your hearts?" There is One who knows our thoughts befoi-e they clothe themselves in words that fall from our lips. "For which is easier, to say. Thy sins are forg'iv-^n; or to say, .A.rise and' walk?" Christ piopo.=ed a*' once to say the second, which was much the more difficult, because the falsity of the claim to work the physical cure would be at once expcscd if he should fail, whereas no one could prove him false in claiming to forgiv-3 sins. The first was infinitely harder to do; the siecond, to say. "But that ye may knew that the Son of man hat'-i authority on earth to forgive sins." He here puts himself forward simply as the Son of man upon eai-th, Lrt contradistinctlo.i to God Almighty in heavcii. "(Then saith he to the sick of the palsy), .A.rise, and take up thy bed, and go unto thy house." If we are to arise and walk, and manfully fulfill our destiny in the world, rising from the paralysis of â- -V.urotic excitements and overstrained pleasures, we nmy never forget thit first we have sins to be forgiven, and that still the ^on of man hath power on earth to forgive sins. "And he arose, and departed to his house." The New Tostr.ment seldom takes time to describe the feelings uf these whom Christ healed, but we may easily imagine the cured man's exulta- tion and the joy of his loved ones at home. "But when the â- lultitudes s;iw it, they were afraid." Filled with solemn awe at this exhibition of divine power. Even the scribes and Pharisees hush'?d their criticisms. "'.A.nd glorified God, who hrd given such authority unto men.'' Men. for >ur Lor.l hr.d identi- fied himself with his fellows. "And as J.'sus passed by irom thence." Matthew records his sum- mons to discipleship with all modesty, devoting to it only one verse of two sentences, though it meant everything to him. "He saw a man, c;dled Mat- thew." His name was Levi, but prob- ably he signalized this great step in his life by the adoption of a new and significant name, for Matthov means The Gift of God. "Sitting at the place of toll." He belong-ed to the despised class of publicans, or collectors of the public revenues required by the Ro- mans. "And he saith unto him. Fol- low nie." In Levi's ears rang Chri.>?t's sentence which he himself recorded. You cannot serve God and mammon. ".A.nd he arose, and followed him." Think of all thai obed-'ence involved. ".A.nd it came to pass, as he sat at meat in the house.'' This was at the great feast (Luke 5: 29-32) which .Matthew gave to signalize his entrance into Christian dis -ipleship. "Behold, many publicans and sinners .same and sat down with Jesus and his disciples." Public.ins and other sinners, for the Jews i-egarded the tax-gatherers for Smart Simplicity By HELEN WILLIAMS. lUuatmted Dressmaking Lesion Fur- nished With Every Pattt<i-ti France Recalls War Train Crash With 535 Killed If yu want to look really smart, you must have a new right woolen dress. The original was diagonal pattern in flame colored rabbit's:-hair woolen with toning suede belt ajui bone but- tons. It is a simple straightline model, yet distingui.;hed for its charming and different look. Its slimming bias lines make it suitable for quite a number of figures. It's so quickly and easily fashioned. Printed or plain silks would also be smart. Style No. 3286 is designed for si7.es 14, 16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38 and 40 inches bust. Size 16 requires 2% yards of 54- inch material. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 15c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West .Adelaide St., Toronto. the Romans as supremely wicked. Matthew evidently used the occasion as an advertisement of Christianity, and invited all his publican friends to meet Jesus. "And when the Pharisees saiw it." With the freedom of Eastern ways, they had entered the dining hall and were looking on sneeringly. "They said unto his disciples." Not daring to ap- pro.ach the Master with their criti- cism, so majestic was he, with all his boldness. "Why eateth your Teacher with the publicans and sinners?" No- thing in the life of Je-sus gave so much offence to the religious people of his time as his attitude to the publican and the sinner. "But when he heard it." Christ may have conjectured the Pharisees' <^b- jection by their loweringlooks, or have overheard their mutterings, or may have been informed of them by his disciples, or may etisily have had sup- ernatural knowledge of tlieir incen.sed words. "'He said, They that are whjle have no need of a physician, but they that are sick.'' The Saviour takes the Pharisees at their own estimation, that they were spiritually sound, if all other were unsound; it would have been wasted time to try to convince' those souls seared by pride that their spirit of vain-glory and exclusiveness was a most terrible disease. "But go ye ami learn what this nieaneth." They, these self-appointed t-^achers of the Jtws, were themselves grossly ignorant of the r«il meaning of their Scriptures, and neeled to go to school again. "I desire nwrcy, and not sacrifice." A f.-imiliar passage, Hos. 6 : 6, oTK uf the loftiest sayings of the Old Testament, brining it very close to the New. "For I came not to call th« righteous, but .*inn«rs." Thus does Christ summarize a great pur- pose of his life. His life was all love, bo^lying forth he infinite love cf Gtjd. Recent Accident Brings to Light Catastrophe Long Kept Under Cover by Censorship Paria.â€" Sixteen year.s after it hap. polled, the worst disaster in railroad history â€" the wrecking of a French troop train with 535 killed and 243 in- jured â€" has betin brought to light Investigation into the recent Lag-ny train wreck, in which 200 die(^ bi-ought forth details of the 1917 tr*. gedy, long hidden by war censorship. Of th« 1,200 French soldiers on leav« who boarded the military train by de> tachments at Modane, near th« Franco-Italian border in the Graian -•Vlps, more than half were killed ot, injured less than half an hour later. ENGINEER PROTESTS. -Another troop train catastrophe had been credited with the larg<5st number of rail fatalities in a single accident until the French wreck ^Mas brought to light This was the death of 227. troops at Gretna Green, Scotland, ia 1915. Despite the protests of the engineer of the French troop train at Modanei, who insisted that two engines wer« needed to control the heavy train on the sharp -â- Upine grades, he was giv6^ only one locomotive. Coming down « grade about 30 miles from Modane, h« lost control and the whole train piled up in a tangled mass at the bottom ot a slope near the towTi of Saint Jeaa de Maurienne. The first few coaches were derail^ and the rest crashed into them. SURVIVOR'S STORY. The ti-ain was composed of wooden coaches, as was the wrecked express at Lagny, and fire was responsible foi the terrible loss of life. The wooden cars burned like tinder and hundreds of soldiei-s ti-apped in the debris died before their comrades could reach Uiem. Jules Brice, attached to the Eighth Engineering Corps and one of tlie sur- vivors, told the storj' of it after thf Lagny disaster. He himself as badly injured and trapped in the wreckage of the troop ti-ain. "I had almostr succeeded in freeinj myself." he said, "when I found that my foot was caught and I was unabk to move. My comrades tried to fret me, but I told them to help those wors< injured than I. Then the fire brok* out and the flames began to approack me. I felt that I was lost. Fortunate* ly other soldiers came to my help an<J I â- \\Tas pulled out of what was left oi the coach in which I had be«n ridingy A few minutes later it was nothing but a blazing mass." Beau Bruimnel Styles , Appear for Women Paris- â€" Beau Brummel modes of th< 18th century have now made an ap. pearance in the 1934 pageant of fem- inine fashions for spring. Reversible satins and heavy cravat silks with fitted jackets and lacy jabots, affected by dandies more thaa 100 j-ears ago, have been adapted for wear by modish modern women. Styles include suits of black quilted satin, do- signed with fitted jackets and worn with high cravats of white elastic lace^ Sport stj'ies are fashioned on easy« fitting lines in contrast to the formes square-shouldered geometric silhou« otte. Skirts are slightly longer and jacket shoulders smoothed to a naturai line. Sports sui'is of beige crmkled linen, pale blue cloque pique, and heavy beige shantung are designed v.-ith plain skirts, fitted hip-length, or loose three-quarter length jackets, ao- comijanied by blouses of multi-colored piquue plaid cotton. Two new fabrics api>eared in everv ing modes. A heavy midndght^blui artificial silk, interwoven with celled phane, gives a luminous effect to ( long-sleeved dinner gown. Beigi crinkled washable velvet gives slendel fitte<l lines to a flwr-Iength gown witi low back. HER PARTY The damsel wept To see accept The girl she fairly hated. While those thought fin* Had to decline Or ao they iweetly stated. Sand'wich Man, Jeff is ( HELLO, MISS 1?0SE! -VeS, \ r 60T A MAN - don't wORRV v' VOOR AOVERnSEMENT WILL 'A GET PLENTV OF PUBLICITY* 'i^ I'LL HAVe rtiM HIT W A r? STREET CftR". /r\^- Merchant