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1 Hints for the Home 1 The Centre of the Great War Drama in Europe. With Tomatoes. To Prepare Tomatoes for Salads. Put the tomatoes in the frying basket or some sort of strainer, dip them in boiling water for one min ute so that they are completely cov- ered, lift out, peel, and chill. Sliced Tomato Salad. Slice the tomatoes in slices of the same thick- ness, place on lettuce leaves, and then vary as you please by adding chopped raw vegetables. A salad recommended for serving with fish is a sort of tomato sandwich. Cover one slice with well chilled chopped cucumber, another with cho,ppec green pepper, another with chop- ped onion, and then, place a slice o! tomato over each. Thick slices ol cucumber and then a little round o! tomato on top of that, cut out with a cutter, is another mode. Finelj shaved celery and chopped cress are sometimes added to alternate slicej Chopped mixtures of various sorts if well blended, are used on slices of tomato. Chopped cabbage with green pepper and chopped toma toes is one of the less usual combin ations. A French dressing am good conked dressings are .best for these salads. German Tomato Salad. Slice well chilled tomatoes and serve with little German pearl onions. Instea< of these very small cooked boiling onions may be used. Very decora- tive su!ads may be made with the little ye-How and red plum tomatoes. Scald quickly, peel and chill and ar- range on lettuce leaves wioh the 'yellow ones in the middle and the red ones around. Character is giv- en to this salad by adding a few drops of onion juice to the dressing or rubbing the dressing bowl with a clove of jrarlic. Stuff oil Tomato Salad.-- Cut off a cap from the stem end of peeled and chilled tomatoes, scoop out the cen- tres, and sprinkle the inside very light'.v -with salt. Chop the tomato taken out and mix with the finely mixed pulp of cucumbers thorough- ly chilled and seasoned to taste with salt and pepper and a little onion juice. Fill the tomatoes, put on the cape, and surround them with a wreath of water cress. Serve with A cooked dressing. Other chopped vegetables raw or even cooked may be used to fill the tomatoes. Serve with a i-iK'kcd dressing made as fol- lows : One egg, four tablespoons of vinegar, one-half cup of milk a small square of butter, one-fourth teaspoon salt, one half teaspoon of mustard, a pinch <A pepper. Mix the dry ingredients well together, add the i-icgand beat very thor- oughlv then the vinegar, and beat a minute. Add the milk and theo cook in double boiler, add the but- ter just before taking from fire. This is especially good for cooked vegetables. linked Tomatoes. \Vash and gash once or twice across the blossom end. juid bake in a small pan. They will be done almost as soon as they are well heated through. If stuffed before they are baked, do not uso cracker crumbs unless your toma- toes are as ripe as ripe can be. Bak- ed tomatoes with shirred eggs: Peel small and solid tomatoes, Scoop out the centre, and season Blight ly with a sprinkling of salt and pepper, then break an cg into each. Stand the tomatoes in a bak- ing dish and cook for ten or fifteen minutes in an oven <4hat is not too hot. Patahoi. This is an East Indian breakfast dish for one person, but doubled it makes an excellent luncheon dish for two. Cut one or two large peeled tomatoes in slicee and fry them in a little butter. When they ar tender add an egg well beaten, cook, while stirring both together, until of a very smooth consistency. A little minc- ed onion or half a red pepper mino- ed may be added, and if so. these should be cooked a little first before frying the tomato. Add salt to taste, the less the better. As any one can see. this is but scrambled gg with a tomato puree. Some Stewed tomato can be mixed with the egg and the two cooked like scrambled eggs, but the whole Would not be quite as delicious as this can be made. Sliced Tomatoes. If slices of fried tomatoes are to be used for a garnish, every precaution must be taken to keep them from breaking to pieces in the cooking; leave on the skin, cut in thick slices, dip in flour, and fry very gently. But the mixture of fried tomatoes with oni- OD is an excellent thing, when the result is something of a stew. Al- most without other seasoning this lakes a homely but very palatable ressing for plain lettuce. Some of summer squashes and other embers of the goiird family, not well known among us but oom- (non with the Italians, are very sav- ory when sliced and fried with to- toato and a bit o 1 ? onion. Hints fur il-< Home. Old velveteen should be saved for polishing cloths. ''w^rfin^nr- sSSES Ftess* & I ^--^43? &*,*<* r A^SPI gat* \ iSC^fcaS^ 1 1 M tfa* o r >,. p j^7 \ **STJ? a T afe < ^e^^^T^^^^ >*,</ r^ ^fT^rm^oL ew^^Si-^H"^. 7WS TIN. vPLJirfiftKuiJ.fcXSo'^ ^FWVJjf if*/ ' ; y itlV^^Sx] V-SL^4t^:''M1 ^s^l^^B^^fflBg^^ffl! NOTES OF SCIEiNCE This map is worth preserving, because it shows in greater detail t.'ian .'. > t!i.>-; sn.a! ;<;!. i-. s the part of Eur _ |v m \vl.icli : : . - war are to be decided. Present indications are that the Germans' main attempt to reach Paris will be through Belgian territory. The out- look is that battles will be fought around Brussels, Liege, and Naniur. and it may be that another conclusive engagement will take place at Waterloo, which is not named on the map. but is located just west of Brussels. Other German armies are operating t_> the west of Metz, and near Epinal, lower down on the French border. The North Sea is also shown, with the principal ports plainly indicated. Beef immersed in sour milk will keep for months. Two quarts of soup will serve from six to eight persons. Scraped raw potatoes put into de- canters will rlean them if left for two or three days. One gallon of ice cream, if served on plates, will serve 24; if in sher- bet glasses, 30 at least. A daily bath, into which a little bicarbonate of soda is put, will al- lay the burning of the feet. When selecting poultry see that the feet are soft and moist, the eyes clear and the tlesh plump. One medium sized loaf of bread will make 20 three-cornered sand- wiches, or 10 large squares. Pack glass and china in hay that is slightly damp. This will prevent the articles from slipping about. When you put your tennis racket away, rub vaseline over the strings. This will prevent their breaking. An orange or grape fruit that has been cut in halves and left can be kept from drying if fastened to- gether with a skewer. A nail, if it has first been stuck in a cake of soup, may be easily driven into hard wood. The same treat- ment applies also to a screw. To kill the worms around the root of a rose, pour a mixture of a tea- spoonful of ammonia to a cup of water around the stalk, but not on it. After exposure to poison ivy the ill-effects can be warded off by vig- orously washing with soap and wa- ter; use- a hand brush. After this wash with alcohol. To test bread dough and to make sure it has risen sufficiently for bak- ing, press the finger on the dough. If the hole remains the dough is in proper condition. To test a broom press the edge against the floor. If the straws re- main in a solid mass, the broom is a good one, if they bristle out and bend down, it isn't. In broiling steak or chops the fire sometimes dies down too quickly. When this happens sprinkle a little granulated sugar over the coals. This intensities the heat and the smoke from the sugar imparts a de- licious flavor to the meat. When cleaning white shoes the first thing to do is to clean off dust and clay by means of a hand-scrub dipped in water and a fine white soap. Let the shoes dry before ap- plying any cleaner, sometimes the scrubbing is all that is necessary. A good method of keeping butter from turning rancid in hot weather is to put it in brine. Take a jar and put water in, then add salt until you have a brine strong enough to float a potato. Put the butter in the jar, cover and keep in a cool place. TOE SUNDAY JCH091 STUDY INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AUGUST 23. Lesson VIII. The Wedding Feast- Matt. 22 1-14. Golden Text. Luke 13.34. Verse 1. Jesus answered Replied to the angered Pharisees when they sought to lay hold on him because of his alluding to them as the wick- ed husbandmen (see preceding les- son). His reply is couched iu the words oif another parable even more pointed and direct than the one which so greatly offended them. 2. A marriage feast In accord- ance with Oriental custom, the fes- tivities connected with the wedding would last for days; Judges 14. 17 gives the number as seven. 3. His servants The messengers whom these Pharisees had heard speak were John the Baptist and Jesus, though other prophets still spoke to them through their writ- ten messages. Them that were bidden The com- pany to whom invitations had al- ready been seut. Perhaps Jesus hud in miud that the first invita- tion had been given by Moses, the lawgiver, and the earlier prophets, with whose -writings his hearers were all familiar, and that the sec- ond invitation, which custom re- quired to be sent out when the hour for the festivities to begin arrived, had been given by John the Bap- tist and hirnseJf, who had preached "the kingdom of heaven is at hand.' 1 They would not come This was the height of discourtesy and an open insult to the host. 4. Other servants In the inter- pretation of this parable, perhaps the other servants were the dis- ciples who had been sent forth to preach. Dinner This was the midday meal. Supper would come later in the day. My oxen and my failings are kill- ed Especially kept and fattened for the feast. This shows that it was to be a feast on a large scale. 5. Made light of it They treated the pressing ir,\ iiation of the .ser- vants and their description of the feast with complete indifference. The verb here used is th? same wihich in Heb. d. 3 is translated "neglect": "How shall we esr.-ip if we neglect so great a salvation." 6. The rest laid hold on his ser- vants and treated them sii'inu'i'ully, ami killrd t'!if m those who no: eon teat with simply d/iregftixd ing the invitr.tiou. like tiu- .! ish people generally. b - .i. L like t-ii chief' priests and rulers, persecuted those who gave the invitation. 7. The king was wroth Their re- fusal of the invitation implied dis- loyalty and defiance of his author- ity. Sent his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned their city This was done at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans. 9. The partings of the highways Very likely the places where tie roads from the country came to- gether to enter the city gates. As many as ye shall find, bid The Talmud says that is was cus- tomary among rich men to invite poor travelers to feasts, so that this parable would not seem strange to Jesus's hearers. Being interpre- ted, it of ci-'urse means that the go.i- pel invitation was to be extended to all peoples. This was done by Paul and others before the destruc- tion of Jerusalem, and after that event its proclamation and accept- ation among the Gentiles became general. 10. Both bad and .good As in the parables of the net and of the wheat and the tares, this implies that bad as well as good will re- spond to the invitation, and may be found together in the church of Christ. It may also mean that ad mission into the church is not to be denied to any except known evil- doers. If the heart of a bad man responds to the gospel invitation, should not the church receive him and endeavor by means of sy in path etic training to help him correct his faults, put away his sins, and lead a new life .' 11. But when the king came in to behold the guests Not to look for possible offenders but to greet his guests and ! bid them welcome. A man who had not on a wedding- garment These closing verses are thought by some to be a part of an- other parable, referring to the last judgment, where each man's pre- sence is tested by his fitness. If it is connected with the preceding . verses, we will have to understand [ that it was the custom to have the j robes supplied by the king's ser- vants, since tJie invitation had been iirjrent and immediate, the p;uests MM 1-iiiTW in a hurry, and thei\' | would have been no time to procure : a wedding robe, even had these po.ir guests had the means of pur- i-ii-i-iinv: one. What the custom was is n.it indicated. The parable sim- ply states t!ru :i wedding robe was neee.---!ir.\ . and that the failure of his guest to have one was due to indifference on the part of the j-ui-st. or to open defiance of the rules of the king's househ >kl. In the interpretation of the para v th? wedding garment refers to a hol> life. 1-. And he was speechless Be- cause consciously out of place. 13. Bind him hand and foot, and cast him out into the outer dark- ness To our democratic views this punishment seems out of propor- tion to the offense, but not so to the hearers of Jesus, who knew how seriously matters of etiquette are viewed at Oriental court:- There shall be the weeping and gnashing of teeth A common phrase descriptive of the misery of one turned out into outer dark- ness. One commentator mentions that the suggestion may have come from the howling and snapping of teeth of hungry wolves, heard bv a lonely traveler in the darkness. The expression is used five times in Matthew and once in Luke. 11. Many are called, but few chosen This was especially true in our Lord's time. His message was for the "lost sheep of the house cf Israel." and of the multi- tudes who followed him and heard his message only a few were chos- en. In its application to the church of to-day it means that not al'l who belong to the visible church are members also of the sma-ller com- pany of thi's-e who have brought their lives into harmony with the teaching* of the gospel. The I'est. ''What nnde you think Mr. Lov- etwet had been drinking?" "Why, when the charlotte russe was set before him he tried to b'ow off the foam." A Woman'* Opinion. Mistress Haven't you any refer- ences ! Mwid-'I have, but there're lik? my photographs none of them do me justice. March of Progress. "Great times we live in." "How now i" "Heard a farmer to-day telling the druggist his soil v.as impover- ished. And the druggist had some- thing good for it, by gum '." A Had Case. \\liv Wi.V- If vou can't sleep, li'.T. 't you see a doctor! Tirsoairl (grouchily)--And then have one more bill to keep me a. \\ake ! S|ip;Tcilii(tls. Mrs. Nut-ox Our new bulldog is descended from the canine aristo- cracy. Little Willie N'nr.'X I thought so, mo'her, from the wii> he turns up his nose at us. A rich father is often yoiin.^ mau's o.xcuse for being worthless. Horses sleep but three or four hours in each 24. Accurate measurement has shown that few raindrops exceed one-fifth of an inch In diameter. France has granted a patent for a process of bleaching and drying sear weeds for packing purposes. A clip (o hold a pen or pencil In a pocket has beeii combined with aa eraser In a recent invention. Pure food tests of butter have shown that disease germs become fewer In number as butter IB stored. A new pocket, electric flashlight caa be usod to display light of three cot ors, singly or In combination. An excellent waterproof brown pa- per in being made In England of which 80 per cent, of the material la peat. By packing finely powdered salt around a candle wick It can be rnadu to burn slowly and last many hours. Experiments are under way in Eng- land with a compound rail for street railways, the worn portions of which can be replaced without disturbing tho roadbed. Failure in power transmission ropea generally begins at the core, where the fibers are subjected to greater friction against one another than at the surface. A German scientist has Invented a process using superheated steam for treating aewage sludge to remove its fatty acids and increase its value aa fertilizer. It has been estimated that the heat received in a year by the earth from the sun la sufficient to melt a layer of ice 100 feet in thickness covering the globe. Yawning is favored as beneficial to the health by a Belgian scientist, who say.s that it aids all the breathing or- gans and exercises the throat and ! chest muscles. Doctors have decided that an elec- tric shock kills a man by destroying the rhythm of the heart beats and ar!i:ig upou the lunga like an over- dcsi: of an anesthetic. As au improvement on the telauto- graph a German has invented anpar- . atus which uses light rays to repro- duce on photograph films writings or drawings made at a distance. A.s a substitute for red in danger signals, which is the color less easily distinguished by the color blind, ex- ports have advocated blue circles with wide yellow rims. UYERPOOL'S GREATNESS. Ahvays Reign<'d Supreme in the .Shipping Service. No account of Liverpool'* niari- i tiniu greatness would be complete without a passing reference to the ; vastness and variety of her oversea traffic. A myriad vessels of every type and size ply betwivn it and the other great ports of the world. H : ii is that the argi;-ios of na- tions meet, richly laden with the products of the globe East. India merchantmen, whose fleecy cargoes of finest woo! from far Bombay and Calcutta are soon to be turned in- to cloth in the textile mills of York- shire, and whose dusty cargoes of Karachi wheat arc destined to be ground into flour in the numerous corn mills of the port ; steamers ami sailors laden with similar commodi- ties, and with frozen meat from the River Plate and the far-Hung ports of the Antipodes: schooners of t.he huge four-masted type bringing ni- trate of soda from the Chilian ports of South America, and others whose freight consists of grain from the Pacific slopes of North America-; lar^e steamships laden with mons- ter packages of provisions, tobacco, timber, leather, and other products from Canada and the United States, and with bales of raw cot- ton from the Rreat Gulf ports ,.| the Southern States: vessels with silks and cereals from China and Japan, rice and timber from Ran- goon, sugar from Java. Germany, and Cuba, barley and other grain from the B'a^k Sea. fruits from the Mediterranean, brandy and li- querurs from Bordeaux and Char- em. 1 , rubber from the Bra/.ils, palm-oil and palm-nut kernels from the West Coast of Africa, and cop- per and silver ores from Callao and other Peruvian ports; tank-steam- ers, specially constructed for carry- ing oil in bulk, bring thousands of gallons of that useful lubricant from American and Russian terri- tories: tramp steamers that have sailed uncharted seas, with nondes- cript cargoes from wherever they cin find a freight; fishing-trawlers with their finny freights from neigh boring waters and Icelandic seas; and last, but by no means lea?*, the great Atlantic liners for which Liverpool is noted, for it is from this port that the largest, finest, and f;iste-t sir'ariii'vs engaged in the North Atlantic, trad" st.-irt on their \ mrney to "Uy; other ^j.l?" the tusitania. the jJaureTauift, and th- 'iitt-M. i,*:V.f of them all, tlig, ^juibuua, whivh has just been added to the Ci;nnr<4 fleet'. ,\s a- 1 port Livi-ipol has always reigned supreme in this service. Some- times n. i f'.'wer than six /.if the s!,-i:e'y ships, ea-e'i with its comple- ment t'f passengers and cargo, drop down thi' tideway on a. single after- noon. an.i s\\niit out through the greal utitf'c:-- gut e way of the port en route for the land of t'<- setting sun. A h.ir.;v man and a iiaitgijijr. wo- man make a we!', inatrli. d air. No one kiuk 1 ; so r:;li:'iilous c.s the fellow who puts <>n a martyr's crown that does not fit.