(Ga + Hints for the Home WE Made With Apples. Bakeé Apple with Meringue.-- Pare and core good apples. Place in a baking dish and fill cavities with a mixture of sugar, blanched ard ground almonds or ground wal- nuts. Pour on a very little water and bake until just done but still retaining their shape. Now make a meringue of one white of egg for every four apples, place @ mound on top of each apple and sift a little sugar over. Return to oven and let meringue bake so as to be tender and the top just tinged with color. This is mice for a change and one need not serve cream with it. Meringue.--For each white count two tablespoons granulated sugar. Beat white with a revolving egg beater, add*sugar, a tabléspoon ata time, beating eggs two minutes be- tween and after the last sugar is in. This long beating makes meringue tender and firm. When baking the apples let them cool before putting on meringue, and when done let meringue cool gradually in a warm place or it will fall or become tough. French Apple Tarts.--Line lititle patty pans with rich pie crust, run- ning a little crimped rim around the edge. Into a cup of very sweet strained apple sauce beat 'the yolk of an egg, a pinch of cinnamon 'and one tablespoon of cleaned currants. Fill patty pans with this and bake until crust is done. Wien cold put a meringue on top as directed for the apples Holland. Apple Rusks.--Buy round toasted rusks, soak in cream, and then pile wir loa sauce on top. Chill and ser Old Cetntry. 'Apple Mash.--Cogk twice as many potatoes as apples In a steam cooker. When done mash with a Lab lempocin of butter to each pint of the mash. Season with salt and pepper and mound in centre of a platter. Brown two spoons of minced bacon in a spider and when crisp grain off most of the fat and pout bacon over potatoes. Serve with small] friend sausages ire Nests. -- Ingredients (four | helpings): One cup of milk, one egg, one cup of sifted flour, one rounded teaspoon of baking pow der, a pinch of salt, four small ap- r and seasoning as need apples with white, ten- ~ to cook readily. re, core and roll in sugar, ten set in a buttered pudding dish, = fill each cavity with sugar pe dash of cinnamon or a little gated putnog. Sift, salt, r; then beat eggs well, radd to milk.and beat into flour to make a smooth paste. Pour this over the apples and bake in a mod- erately hot: oven' until apples are tender and batter done. Serve hot or cold with cream or a thin lemon custard Lemon Custard, Ingredients: One cup of water, one-half cup of sugar, juice of half a lemon, one tablespoonful of cornstarch, yol of one egg. Dissolve cornstarch with a little of the water. Boil su- gar, lemon and water in double boiler, stir in the cornstarch, and boil until it thickens. Beat yolk, ke sat into sauce and cook one min- " aipele Flummery, Ingredients : Two cups of strained apple sauce, whites of three eggs, a few grat- ings of nutmeg, currant jelly as needed, Have the sauce thick and well sweetened. Whip whites stiff, then beat into the apples, adding the nutmeg if liked. Pile into pret- sherbet glances or saucers and a dot of jelly on top of each. yy > eold with thin cream. Water Glass and Its Use, The chemical name for water giass is sodium silicate or silicate of oda. It may be obtained in a eranular or powdered form, and as is page ae difficult get into «lution we torm. This is a degrees Be, of melagses. = % following formula used for preserving eggs; To ten quarts of water which has been} boiled and ,cooled add one pint of | water glass and stir thoroughly. Place the solution in a jar or tub and add the fresh eggs in sufficient quantity to have at least two inches of the -- above the eggs. This quantity s' ne «sufficient ~ for about five peso to solution, the strong about may be Useful Hints. Rub the butter paddles with salt if you have any trouble making but- ter balls. Pour boiling -- oyer ink or iodine spots and come out in two or three Ai Do not throw beet tops away ; re- re i are* ap. excellent sub- stitute for spin Sponge ee a with clear 'cof- fee to freshen it, and iron on the wrong side when partly dry. When ghopping euet, if it is sprin- kled with a little ground rice it will _not stick tg the knife, and will chop quite ny Ice cream soda stains can be re move ed. age sponging with gasoline or chloroform, with a blotting paper under the spot. When dry, aponge @gain = tepid water, en! oe would-adyise the liquid i 10-42 consistency | If you wish to ake a custard be sure that the eggs and milk are strictly fresh, and be very accurate measuring the ingredients and combining them. Insects will never attack books which are dusted occasionally with powdered alum and white pepper; three pants of alum to one of pepper ar the right formula. f ezgs have boiled too hard, take the vessel from a a and quickly lace it in cold w . The shock of the change ihe 'hot to cold water -- the eggs. e of the secréts of cooking meats well, whether in broiling or frying, is in turning them frequent- ly. Steaks in particular retain the juices better and are much improv- ed if turned often. To remove ink from the hands wet a sponge with spirit of hart- shorn or ammonia and wash the stains vigorously. Rinse at once in clear water, as soap sets in ink and other acid stains. > e proper care of sponges, wash them in warm water in which a small quantity of tartaric acid has been dissolve This will keep them saft and in good color. Be careful not to use too much tartaric ways place it rind down and do not attempt to cut through the rind. When you have the desired number of slices slip the knife under them and ¢ut them free of the rind, keep- ing as close to it as possible. che, Neen apt ene WHY BRITAIN IS SECURE. Natural Fortifications Beat Scien- tifle Frontiers. A great BRitish statesman once made the phrase "a scientific front ier" familiar to newspaper readers, but the country which can boast " a scientific frontier merely, but natural one, has a huge act Ri in war time, says the New York "Nhat is why the little isle of Brit- ain, "set in the silver sea," ag the national poet says, is so secure from foreign invasion. Why can Italy at this moment maintain her neutrality in spite e pressure which Germany and Austria must undoubtedly exert to | bring her into the fight? One vo | suffices to explain the possibility of | this attitude. It isthe Alps. That | mighty barrier, built by Nature, | | those snow-capped peaks and wil | passes make. Northern Italy almost impregnable. For the rest, Italy is a peninsula--the leg of Europe-- and she knows that so long as she keeps out of the melee her coasts are as good as if protected by the presen of the British and French eects. Nevertheless even a mighty rock bastion like the Alps is not such a good natural boundary as the sea. Almost all the countries which have good natural frontiers have at one time or another been foremost among the world's powers. Although Spain has to-day fallen | from her high estate, vet it may still | be taken as a truism that the sre is not another country on in the con- tinent--exeept, pe 'haps, Italy -- which is more naturally adapted for attack or defense. The British race could hold Spain against the world. The true boundary of Germany on the west is the Rhine, that mighty river which has been cross- ed oftener by armies than any other | river in the world. Germany really | forsook ther ancient frontier when she annexed Alsace and Lorraine in 1871. The river of romance an beauty is the natural frontier of the empire, and if no foe may cross. it the Fatherland is really safe. The sea takes the first place in the cat- of natural boundaries, a big mountain range comes second and a big river thir | egory An object lesson in the value of all three is presented by India, Why | is India the jewel of Asia? Because vit is contained in a casket the base | | of which is the ovean, the Jid of which is the biggest range in the} world and key of which isthe River | Indus. Is it an accident that Japan is the first Asiatic country to emulate | the western world? Certainly not. | She owes if certainly to her clever people. but the thing that made it possible was the fact that her front- ier is of the first rank of effective- ness, ithe sea. It is the most remarkable fact in the whole history of mankind that betwixt the vast Dominion of Can- ada and the United States there is not a fort or redoubt or gun or military station along all that 4,000 miles of frontier. -- Giving Out ¥.C.'s, It will be er to see how many Viotoria Orosses will be awarded in the present war and compare the total with those of pre- yious wars. So far, the largest number gained was in the Indian Mutiny, when no Jess than 162 were awarded. mean comes sec- ond with 111, and the Boer War has 78 to its aredit. The Zulu war was responsible for twenty-three V.C.'s, the war for sixteen, an the New Zealand for fifteen. ----_--_t______. There is no royal road to any- thing. One thing at atime, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly ; that German Red Cross to the Front. Automobiles, transports and supplies for the Red Cross, loaded on trains in Berlin, ready to start for the INTERNATIONAL LESSON, DECEMBER 2% Lesson X11. -- Jesus the World| Saviour and King.-- Review. Golden Text, Gal. 6.14. Lesson I.--Christ anointed' for burial.--Where did Jesus spend the evening before Palm Sunday? What did Maxy do w <= Jeuus wae sent vepronb her? minent among these? sus say of ee she had done? Lesson --Tihe Last Supper.-- Where lid lanes and John prepare! for Jesus to eat the passover with there with the disciples ? out before the feast commenced? t Why did he go out? What new | feast did Jesus institute for his dis- | ciples in place of the ancient Jewish passover ? J ; OY. --In with the distiples after Supper? Of what did he 'oe them on the way? Where did = leave them while he-went further pee the gardén? What was he do- ng while alone in the garden? For un did he pray! What did' the disciples do during this time? Lesson IV.--Jesus and Judas.-- Who was Judas Iscariot? Why did esus choose him as a disciple? What was his great failing? How he receive Jesus's rebuke? What did he bargain with the priests to do! When did he learn that Jesus knew of his treachéry? | sus's body was no longer Ht ile eight questions dealing with 3 to the tomb? What-did they 7 1en they reached the tomb ? they fee] when they saw Penge! ! What did the angel tell m? What did he bid them do? in the Lesson XI.--The Great Commis- sion.--For what purpose did Jesus appear to the disciples after his resurrection? What did tell them concerning his power? What did he bid them do? What did he say of his presence with them? For what did he tell them to wait at Jerusalem ? was he finally Lesson XII. erThe Reign of Peace. --Who was Isaiah? W hen did he prophesy! Of whose coming did he tell? Of what family did he say the Messiah should be born? What did he say of Messiah's r In whom were the prophecies of Isaiah fulfill ed? SCHOOL BOY ON THE WAR. ommy Traddles Gives Quick Re- plies to Eight Queries, 8" school in the South of e teacher asked his pu- eiika down the answers~ to the war. Five minutes later little Tommy Traddles handed up the following: What are the most disagreeable features igi this horrid war ?-- The Kaiser! Why should the War Lord be pitied 1--Because, like the turtle's, is is'a hard case Why should the "Wainer be reckon- ed to be a very poor man ]--Because he has only one crown, and cannot '| change it. Lesson V.--The Arrest and Trial, of Jesus.--Where was Jesus arrest-, ed? Before whom was he trial? How was his trial unduly hastened ? ipriests have in getting evidence jagainst him? How did they finally succeed in getting two witnesses to agree! Of what did the Sanhedrin find Jesus guilty ! does he owe his neighbor? Who is never deceived by a man's conduct? , What law of the natural world did | Paul apply to conduct? How are | these teachings related to the cause of temperance ? 5 Lesson VII.--Jesus and Peter.-- Of what did Jesuy warn the. disci- ples on the wa}-'to Gethsemane? What did Peter declare? What es- pecial warning did Jesus then Fre | on Peter! Where did Peter go when| © tJesus was arrested? What was hej asked by those who saw 'him there? What did he answer] How many times did this occur? How w 'e- = -- a his broken pr id he show his eee i VIII.--Jesus and Pi i Why was it necessary to take Jesu before Pilate to be sentenced death? Of what did they accu him to Pilate? How did this mee differ from the charge of which the Sanhedrin had found him guilty? Of 'what did Pilate suspect the priests? How did he try to avoid dealing with Jesus's case? What did he offer to do with Jesus? What did the Jews demand Z 7 hat did Pilate finally decide to_d Lesson IX.--Ohrist Grasibed.-- Where was Jesus crucified? What sign was put upon his cross? Who were cruci on either side of him? What did the onlookers do as Jesus hung suffering on the cross? What strange con tion, prevailed oe the ea: What was Jesus's ying prayer for those who ecruei- fied him Lesson X.--Ohrist Risen from the ho b When is it dangerous for the Kaiser to enter a church /--Whea for} there is an English canon in front. Why is the Austrian Army like What difficulty did the} wool ?-eBecause it is worsted. xh New Balm for the Wounded. Esolessor The eme, deserves rize "te all the assertions concern- Kocher, of second Nobel odor a Lesson VI.--Sowing and Reaping. --Of what two aspects of Christian ing "coagulen" are substantiated. conduct did Paul sneer What is @fHis new preparation, a powder to man's duty towards himself? What fixe dissolved in water, will, it is as- serted, stop the flow of blood from wounds almost instantly, and save thousands of lives of soldiers on the battlefields of Europe. The solution can be applied, accordmg to the cabled description of the dis- coverer, by hands untrained, that is, by a stricken trooper himself, or by one of his comrades. If coagulen does at the front. what they say it n do, there will be less need of Pspefusion operations, which are now being performed in pe French hospitals on a large scale for the first time in any war to revivify the wounded, weak from the loss of blood, after removal from the firing line --_--_4---_--_--_ Kilt a Handicap in War. Wounded soldiers belonging to eaptiand regiments who wear the kilt action now state that thelr Sipeelence at the front has con- vinced them that the kilt in modern warfare is a serious handicap. They have been in the trenches through wg vigils and protrocted periods of fighting often under heavy rain. When they require to advance from the trench they the extra weight of the soaked kilt a hind- rance. In rushing the enemy in a charge the kilt keeps flapping against the soldier's limbs, so much 60 that the friction has often left sores behind and made marching painful. Another disadvantage of the kilt is that is offers a> clear mark about the knees for the rifle fire of the enemy. Evidently the b of the old Gaul is destined to were the women concerned on their whieh grows slowly endures. go out of fashion on the battlefield. A BRITISH DIVISION. Guns, 20,000 Men and Large Train In Half a Corps. _ What is a division? What is an army corps? How many corps are there in an army of a million men? These are questions that constant- ly occur to the readers of the war despatches. It is a difficult matter for the lay mind to grasp the sig- nificance of some of the moves re- ported from the war zones on. ac- count of the operations being con- ducted on such a large scale and over such a large area. One reads that a vast army of 2,000,000 men is encamped on a certain line which stretches across more than a hun- dred miles of territory, or that sev- eral army corps are being trans- ferred to a fresh scene of hostilities but fails to gain a clear idea o what this really means. Some idea of the immensity of the military operations now proceeding in Europe can be gained when one considers the establishment of one division alone with its accompany- ing guns, ammunition columns and transport trains. Imagine a column of men ots ve- 100 hicles on the march. One division |' isting of 20,000 men, 100 guns mearly 1,200 upAn line with spacing over more than ten miles of road and would take nearly seven hours to pass a given point. There are two divi- sions to an English corps in the Bri- tish military service and the two are self-contained, that is, while they can operate as one force they are distinctive and include units of all branches so that they can work independently of each other. There are three brigades of in- fantry to a division and the force includes artillery, mounted mfan- =. field engineers, army ps, and army medical units, as poe as details of every other branch of the service. Signallers, gus. farriers, veterinary surgeons an assistants, drivers and transport men, ~ Many other 'sections. are. at- tached to each division. A brigade consists usually of four battalions each numbering approxi- mately 1,000 officers and men. The new establishment of the British army comprises four companies to a battalion each of 950 of the rank and file, Formerly there were only 125 men drafted to each company. The companies are subdivided into platoons, four to each company and -- up again into four sections. Each 'brigade has units of field engineers, army service, army medi- cal, cyclists and mounted men in addition to artillery and machine gun sections, The division is draft- ed into two distinct bodies, one for service in the field and one for duty at the base. The ratio is given as 18,678 for the former with 1,886 for the latter. Two squadrons of mounted men are atitached to a Bri- tish army division for field eervice. One divisional train, three field am- hulances, details of the army veter- inary corps and army ordnance are wine include With a division are four 60-pounders, pounders, eighteen howitzers a twenty-four mac guns. lange number of vehicles are needed for the supply trains, ammunition and ordnance columns which accompany each division. Nine motor cars, 640 wagons and 229 carts are required for transport purposes. A number of auto -- ordinary and armor- ed motor cars also are used. Mo than 6, 000 horses are Included in, ' the establishment, including the mounts for the cavalry and officers' rgers > army of a million men would, if strung out, comprise 500 divi of the establishment described {n bik the foregoing paragraphs and allow- ing for gaps between numerous sections, would extend on march al] the way from the P. to the Atlantic coasts. A word to the unwise is wasted. declared with ARMS END OF WAR IN THE! LACK OF MONEY. 15,000,000 UNDER of Swiss Bankver¢in Cest $55,000,000 a Day Will Bank- Says rupt All. The war financihg provided by the belligerent nations of Europe, | with the exception of Germany, "trifling," according to the finany, cial review just issued of the Swiss Bankverein, 'whose opinion is high-| ly regarded in Europe. But the; Bankverein also sees an element. of future disaster in Germany's meth- od of raising funds. The review estimates that the wa is now costing the five principa belligerent nations alone a total of $55,000,000 a day, and that tha losses in men now exceed 2,000.000. At this rate, the. review says, «he war cannot go on much longer. The review says "The amounts raised up to the present for war purposes by public. issues except in the case of Ger- many may be described as trifling in comparison to what the require ments may be if the hostilities are prolonged for a lengthy period "But Germany's method «f se- curing subscriptions for its issues and for raising funds, if correctly' reported, calls for severe criticism from an economic point of view and must result in A Serious Financial Disaster. "The issues of the Imperia! Gov- ernment having evidently abserb- ae all the means which the publia as had available, or was able wobilive by pledging securities. the to Pruss overnment is now said to have issued £75,000,000 sterling onueokan. which loan will handed over in toto to the Reichs bank; the bank can pledge the War JAe sue to the Loan Society, (Kreigsdarlehenskasse), and wi] receiye there against notes issue by this society which the Reiche- bank is authorized to regard Ya gold cover for the issue of en equal amount of its own banknotes. "This procedure amounts in rea! i+ ity to an issue of Reichsbank nutes against the Prussian loan and see mq to be adopted with the -object disguising the enormous growth in the fiduciary note issue of the Reichsbank. The heavy deprecia- -- in German exchange already hows to what degree German cre-| dit has suffered, 'The probable duration of -- the! war naturally oonstitutes a vital: factor in any forecast of its ulti? mate consequences. If it is to be al fight to the bitter end, as has been' determination on both sides, it would mean the ex- haustion of the physical and finan- cial resources of one group of com- batants and unparalleled sacrifice for the other. "Tt has been stated with some au- thority that there dre about 15.000, G00 men under arms at the present moment, while the losses in killed! 'wounded and prisoners are and probably will continue to be on an unprecedented scale amounting al- ready, in expert opinion to 2,000,000 or More, since the 'beginning of-the struggle. As regards daily expenditure in connection with the war, the folley ing estimate has been made: Germany « coscsccccees: $15,000,000 UBSIA . cccccscsesoorsce 15.000. 000 France . .secececeeesee ss 10,008,000 Austria- Hungary e eseeee 10,006,009 England . .......sseseees 5.000, OO "In addition to this the war cost of Belgium, Servia, Japan, Turkey and the oe ion cost df ne utral countries like , Holland. Swit- zerland, Sena idinavia, Rumanii &e., have to be take n into acce "Tt seems obvious, even mak nef liberal allowance for miscalcula- tion, that the wastage both in meu and money at such a rate cannet gu on very long. Under anv circum stances, however, the war (ae re- sult in a destruct ion'of wealth on an enormous scale, a gigantic in- crease in the indebtedness of the nations and a decimation of the pro- ducing forces in the countries con- cerned, all of which will lead teuan entire change in economic candi< tions and to a drastic readjustment of material values One Pound a Week. "One pound a week!' That, Tj believe expresses the determination, of the great mass of the British peo-, ple with regard to the dependanta of those who meet their deaths on the field of honor, writes a corres- a et of an English paper. Any Government refusing this siniple ustice will see an -angry nation, Thatever other demands this awful war mpey 'bring we wilt meet, but this 13 the most irrefragable and claim of all, and being Engy lish 'Christians, and not barbarisne,, 'we will rn it to the full. "Tell mé,' said the lovelorg "what's the best way to find t a woman thinks of you?" her," replied Packham, "la