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1 wife practical recipes j even homemade awnings ana naro- lemon butter this is an excellent mocks if oe cannot have any other filling or tarts or spread for bread kind will add greatly to the comfort atvl is delicious on hot biscuits juice j of a farm porch of two lemons three eggs beaten lightly piece of butter the size of an egg mix all together and cook in a double boiler until about the consis tent of custard this will keep fresh if preserved a3 jelly or pre- serves apple relish chop or coarsely grind in food chopper enough apple3 to make about six pints also mimento or sweet spanish peppers to make about two cups mix with two cups sugar and two tablespoonfuls salt cover with cider vinegar and seal in fllass cans chopped celery or cel ery seed added gives a delicious flav or gooseberry conserve one quart gooseberries one orange onefourth box seeled raisins two pint gran ulated sugar onefourth pint water put whole orange through fine knife of meat grinder mix all ingredients and cook for twenty or twentylive minutes pour in jelly glasses and when cold pour over a thin covering of parafin fill six glasses quince and cranberry jelly cut in pieces one pound of quinces add one- half pound of cranberries cover with cold water and cook until soft drain measure the juice boil five minutes add threefourths quantity of sugar boil five minutes and pour into sterilized glasses pickled crab apples soven pounds whole apples four pounds sugar two cups vinegar one stick cinnamon cloves in blossom end boil until apples are tender then renov boil syrup down and pour over canning cherries select medium ripe cherries wash and pit carefully to keep fruit firm fill a kettle full of fruit and allow it to come to a good boil stir and pour all this through a colander to allow all the juice to be taken from the cherries take a ket tle and fill half fujl of clear cold water adding sugar to sweeten well put in the cherries which have grain ed thoroughly by this time and cook slowly until they come to a good boil the cherries should be cooked and the juice a bright pink color pour into cans and seal pineapple whip onefourth box gelatin one can grated pineapple one- half cup sugar one pint cream soak gelatin in as little water as possible mix pineapple and- suprar together andbrmg to boil add gelatin and let stand until it begins to get stiff about three hours beat in whip- pal cream serve very cold in tall glasses topped with maraschino cherry raisin puffs two tablespoons su gar onehalf cup butter one egg one dip milk two cups flour two tea spoons baking powder one cup chop ped raisins cream butter and sugar add egg well beaten milk flour sift ed with baking powder then chopped raisins pour into small butter jelly tumblers and steam onehalf to three- quarters of an hour this recipe will make six large puffs red cabbage pickles chop two heads of red cabbage one large cauli flower onehalf pint of red kidney beans ani eighteen cloves of garlic boil and then drain them on a sieve and then separate them leaf by leaf and salt them and let dry now pre pare the pickle boil together one gallon of vinegar two pints of water onehalf cupful of salt one ounce of pepper and let stand till cold cut four ounces of ginger in pieces and sprinkle it with salt let it stand for a week wash dry and bruise onefourth pound of mustard seeds put a layer of cabbage in a jar then a layer of cauliflower and beans and sprinkle between layers the bruised when bleaching linen or lace keep the sunday school international lesson august 6 lesson vl the greatest thing in the world 1 cor 13 golden text 1 cor 13 13 chapter 12 verse 81 this last clause belongs properly to the new chapter which it introduces the it in the bright sunshine to kee i wakes us to him who said i am dust out of the bowl place a piece of glass over it an excellent omelet is made in the usual way with two cupfuls of cold boiled and chopped cabbage added to every two eggs when milk soup or other foods boil over on the stove cover the spot quickly with salt it will do away with an unpleasant odor a good sanovich lilumjr is made of hardboiled eggs combined with finely chopped sweet peppers and moistened with mayonnaise the small pin feathers that are so hard to clean from very young chick ens can be wiped off with a damp cloth in much less time it is wrong to put shoes near a fire to dry the heat is bad for the leather fill damp shoes with paper and start them where it is warm help the verdun refugees to the editor on friday july 14th the toronto branch of the secours national cele brated the french national holiday by a flag day in aid of the verdun re fugees the receipts amounted to more than the sum asked for being 25000 this contribution generous though it is is small compared with the needs of our brayo ally refugees are coming in in nuridreds from the war zone and the relief committees have been able to give them only army bread these suffering people have lost all their possessions and are in danger of los ing life itself since the need has become known several cities end towns throughout the province among them oshawa goderich and seaforth and far away saskatoon have written expressing wish to help these suf fering people they propose having french days and joining their gifts with that of toronto in this practical way expressing their sympathy with and admiration for france in order to facilitate the holding of these french days the executive of the secours national offers to send free of all expense tiiu shields flags and decorations used in toronto for july 14th also the small flags to sell to any townor city applyingforthem perhaps it is too much to ask but it has occurred to the writer that if following the precedent of trafalgar day a sum could be raised in the pro vince equal to that raised in toronto what a magnificent tribute it would be to france france struggling bleeding yet triumphant these are days of deeds wo realize as never before the futility of words it is empty to say as we sit at our well filled tables be thou fed our expres sion of sympathy must go further go forth accompanied by a gift which will helpto feed the hungry homeless wanderers a gift in some small measure commensurate with our great plenty and frances dire necessity for information as to flags etc apply to mrs w a johnstone hon secretary secours national 51 king st west toronto jean mcphedran toronto the chinese postman the training he must go through before he is qualified to get into the postal service in china i3 not an easy matter in the first place an applicant must have strength and courage and in order to gain these he must be prepared to mustard seed some whole mustard undergo a very queer method of train- r seeds ginger garlic pepper allspice and one ounce of turmeric powder pour in the pickle and seal this will be ready for use in about two to three months and will be found to be very delicious useful hints an aluminum spoon is excellent to use in preserving fruit wood ashes mixed with kerosene will remove rust from iron to prepare horseradish quickly put it through the meat chopper string beans are good cooked with tomatoes and a dash of onion a new way to cook squash is to slico it and cook like eggplant to mend matting simply darn it with raffia in colors to match ice cream eaten slowly is a per fectly good food in hot weather a small square of asbestos kept on the ironing board will save the iron ing sheet a slice of lemon added to tho water in which clothes are boiled whitens them beautifully a tcaspoonful of vinegar put into homemade candy will prevent it from being sticky to prevent broiled chicken from being dry butter it occasionally while it is broiling to bleach n garment hang it on the line during nice weather and let it tnko dew iyd sunshine but no rain i ing he must wander through moun tains and valleys forests and coves the exact time to be occupied in a trip of this sort is fixed by tho law and a very heavy fine is imposed for any unnecessary delay the wouldbe postman must repeat these trips at night and if he listens to tho bad spirit thereby failing to appear at the required time at a spe cified place he is sure to lose his chanco of being a postman but that is not all for he is oblig- ed to carry enormous weights for many miles and must return with his burden within a given time though his road usually takes him through dis tricts thick with bandits in training the postman eats very little though ho is used to this and tries every straining exercise then comes his real examination under the direction of tho government officials he is taken into a large room where suspended from a high beam are very heavy sacks filled with rocks he must give a swinging motion to all theso sacks run to and fro between them carefully guarding himself against a blow from the heavy weights the way whose name may be set in each of the jeweled places where love is named chapter 13 verse 1 tongues- clearly languages in the usual sense this passage is enough to disprove the conception of mere abracadabra which some scholars have found in the tongues of this epistle the meaning is identical with that of the pentecost story the afterthought and of angels merely heightens the note of scorn and need not be pro saically interpreted else we might say that tho angels or princes of of the nations in daniel might be sup posed to speak the languages of their peoples as well as the one language of the heavenly world cymbal specially used in the orgiastic wor ship of cybele characteristic of asia minor 2 mysteries there is more than a half reference to the sham mysteries the people of knowledge were al ways professing to have fathomed to tho scorn of plain folks who coull not see below the surface of a stone wall knowledge or rather insight gnosis whence came the later name gnostic was the special boast of these clever people to whom paul at tributed the falsely named know ledge 1 tim 6 20 in its full development it answers exactly to the always foolish and often foul stuff now called theosophy but pauls words would still be true if the my steries divine even the deepest theology futile without love the heart makes the theologian remove mountains the phrase of course suggests matt 17 20 but it may have been proverbial the question might be asked how such faith is possible in a loveless man a question often recurring in these verses paul does not say it is he is only isolating these graces for comparison 3 all my ptovik the rich young ruler was told that for doing this he would have treasure in heaven a good illustration of tho danger of prosaic literalness in interpretation to be burned the marginal reading that i may glory differing only in a single letter is ratherbettojittested but the jpoihtl seems rather to demand a heightening of the sacrifice than a scornful belittling of it both read ings are well illustrated by the fam ous story of the philosopher who to be deemed a good leaped fondly into etnaflames empedocles 4 suffereth long or is patient as rendered in james 5 7 is kind the word is one often used of god who is love puffed up a favor ite word of paul compare 1 cor 8 1 which we might colloquially render insight gives swelled head it is love that builds up 5 unseemly perhaps the leading thought is of the pitiful exhibition selfassertiveness often makes love never loses dignity when she stoops to the lowest service how supremely regal was jesus washing the feet of the twelve the adjective answer ing as opposite to the word here is the usual greek word for a gentle man as in acts 17 12 provoked the corresponding noun is rendered sharp contention in acts 15 39 so at least once paul himself walked not in love he was human taketh not account a commercial word loves ledger has no debit side g the antithesis of this is seen in rome 1 32 7 covereth all things margin is suggestad by the great declaration that love covers a multitude of sins 1 pet 4 8 where however the word used is different we must rather go back to 1 cor 9 12 love it is a common child disease the mysteries of french money vou owes me two francs and i owes you one thats got in the lining os mo coat that makes it right dont it drawn by captain bairns- father in the london bystander v 11 put away the same word as done away 12 in a miitor ancient miyors were of metal and to identify objects must often have deen like a riddle margin pauls figure reminds us of platos famous allegory of the cave- and insght were true and j confined a backs to the entrance and knowing j the external world only through the shadows cast on the inner wall even so men try to read the riddle of the universe awl fail the more egregi- ously as they show more confidence in their powers shall i know fully the greek verb is a compound as against the simple form in i know learn come to know in part but the rendering know fully is now dis proved the compound verb deals with particular kiowledge the simple with knowledge in general it was known by god 13 abideth it is a great mistake to suggest that faith and hope are less than love because they have n plag in usven the real distinction is that they belong to the creature while love belongs also to the creator the greatest it is perhaps not superflu ous to remii tho student of henry drummonds superb little book the greatest thing in the world few christian thinkers have been more fitted to comment on pauls master piece hardships of turks three to six persons share locfof 2 15 pounds a story of the tremendous hardships now being undergone by the turkish people and an estimate of the enorm ous losses which have been suffered bv the turks has been received from the rev charles t riggs for the rst sixteen years a missionary at con stantinople turkey mr riggs who is editor of the orient has recently returned from turkey after a hazard ous journey according to mr riggs the turks estimate that their minimum loss in the dardanelles campaign was 300000 and the number of killed is some times placed at 600000 the govern ment allotment of bread which is the principal food of the turks mr rigg states is almost on a starvation ba sis from three to c persons fre quently sharing juispjf two and one- fifths tlnnnhg jfel of ryujt1y is infantile paralysis say physicians adults are immune because they had it and did not know it there are probably a few adults who didnt have infantile paralysis when young a very few dr g wilse robinson and dr ii e pearse acting surgeon in kansas city of the united states public health service say medical science believes thats the reason adults cant have it they had it when babies and nobody knew it mild cases like colds many imperfectly developed cases of infantile paralysis occur without any parulysis the child will have la grippe a fever its bones will ache and it will suffer with constipation then after a few days it will recover and forever be immune from the par alysis which when severe may de form the little body if it does not kill horror of paralysis its the horror of paralysis which makes persons fear the disease so much doctor robinson says half of the cases dont develop paralysis in the mild cases there may be some irritation of the spinal cord or weaken ing and soreness of muscles but the paralysis docsne creep up toward the base of the brain high enough to stop respiration tho danger is in its distribution by other members of the family there may be one mild case in a family of twelve and each of those twelve may carry the germ of the disease in their throats and scatter it broadcast a severe case may re sult in this way from a mild one attack may be rapid while about half of the cases are so mild no paralysis develops the disease is so severe when at its worst that no chances of spreading the germs should be taken even in cases suffering with paralysis 20 per cent recover completely in others i celluloid splints are used to prevent from- sunset coast what the western people are doing k progress of the great west told in a few pointed paragraphs michael philips jp a western oldtimr is dead at tobacco plain bc a large colony of storks have cently taken up their nesting it ushucklesit harbor premier bowser unveiled the buri aby bc roll of honor at the muni cipal hall edmonds bc the steamer northland loaded 200- 000 feet of lumber last week at port alberni for anchorage alaska strawberries six inches in circum ference have been grown this year by mr carr hilton at quamichan to head off competition ice cream dealers at steveston bc are now selling ice cream cones at 5 for 5c as a result of the recent fete at duncan 527240 has been divided be tween the blue and red cross soci eties a planer named smith had his arm badly smashed last week in tho alberni lumber companys mill at vancouver mr george swanson second en gineer of port alberni has been ap pointed city electrician there were fifty applicants lionel d curtis father of south african municipal system and noted author was a distinguished visitor at victoria recently a japanese named t sato is under arrest at vancouver on the charge of obtaining money by false pre tenses from a number of his com patriots quarrelling about going to a picnic louis mann of vancouver bc threw a pot of boiling soup at his wife bad ly burning her neck and shoulders parcels of food sent from new westminster to a prisoner in germany were never received by him as he had been exchanged the parcels came back in good condition it has been found that the fire which broke out in victoria bc last week was the work of an incendiary who wished to hide his crime of stealing 850 from three chinamen edward w berry of murrayville bc has been awarded the highest deformities and the child is able to honor in the gift of b c cdu curious wagers the king and court witnessed a freak performance in the good old days extraordin ary wagers were more common than they are today in 1070 for instance lord digby staked fifty pounds that he would walk five miles round new market heath in a certain time bare footed and stark naked and had the misfortune of losing by the narrow margin of half a minute the king and the court being witnesses of the per formance says london answers in the latter half of the eighteenth century a liverpool scientist bet t brother scientist that he would read a newspaper by the light of a farth ing dip at a distance of thirty feet the wager was cheerfully accepted the first scientist merely coated the inside of a shallow wooden box with sloping pieces of lookingglass so as to form a concave lens placed it be hind his farthing dip and easily read the small print at the distance named the winning of the wager was wit nessed by a liverpool dockmaster who ultimately applied the idea to light- becoming worse it is stated says mr riggs in part morning by morning in constantinople around the different bakeries of the city gathers a crowd of women and chil dren with a sprinkling of old men whose official papers prove their right to secure a daily stipend of bread from that particular oven they often wait for hours and the supply of flour has become so short that when the bread finally comes each loaf of two and a fifth pounds must be shared by from three to six persons most natives of turkey live mainly on bread and with other staples from five to fifteen times their normal price it is small wonder that the poor are starving the people have tried sev eral substitutes for wheat flour among them rye bread corn bread and barley bread but these have been ob tained only in very small quantities it is a sad picture to see the ma terial from which the turkish army is now being made long lines of young men with bovine eyes shuffling gait and an expression of utter apathy are daily being brought into the city from the anatolian provinces to be made into soldiers shod with san dals coatlcss with homespun shirt i flapping outside their once walk probably within a year some it leaves unable to move around with out braces and with bodies crooked and its attack may be so rapid that a ists being selected to receive the rhodes scholarship for that province major w h belson who was organizer and inspector of cadets child well the night before may be british columbia for some time and found with high fever and even with who went away with the fijvk pion- paralysis in the morn i j w j i m rva ioi re been appom ed aidedecamp to lieutgeneral sir- percy lake commanderinchief of the forces in mesopotamia childhood disease its just a common childhood dis ease doctor robinson says medi cine is no preventive just keep the baby away from insects which bite and dont let it fondle pet dogs cats and other animals too much keep the babys nose and throat clean the virus enters through the nose and throat keep the teeth clean a 1 per cent solution of hydrogen peroxide is good to use in irrigating the throat give the baby clean food and especial ly keep away from public drinking cups let nature take its course doc tor pearse says keep the baby clean and cool and away from in sects and theres no use worrying prac tically every adult alive today had the disease in youth many doctors who have studied the paralysis be lieve farm home conveniences a soap famine every country is increasing its de mands for the article the increasing demand for soap white i throughout the civilized world raises nether garments they look as unpro- the question of a possible famine in mising material as one could imagine j that commodity be be time is money to a man who buys on time the first electric rairway in ameri ca and the second in the world was operated at tho canadian national exhibition puts up with insults and injuries be- requirements ai lieveth all things the words might mo reflected light be misinterpreted of sheer good-na- 1 about two tuied credulity hence the turn given in the paraphrase above 8 aye and when prophecy her tale hath finished knowledge hath withered from the trembling tongue love shall survive anil love undiminished love bo imperishable love young faileth literally fallcth com pare 1 sam 3 19 the young men shall utterly fall isn 40 30 but love will never stumble done away literally made idle a favorite word with paul the be3t comment ary is jer 31 34 which tells of tho day when the prophet will have noth ing more to do since all tho lords people will be prophets knowledgo time and discovery often make sup erior insight look supremely foolish i came across a gnostic in jam aica who fixed the millennia dawn for 1915 9 we know more exactly wo learn or come to know phophesy set forth gods message which in nature of things we can only partially realize hence the progressive character of old testament prophecy years ago during a yachting trip of- members of the mer sey docks and harbor board mr a w willmer a leading liverpool pot- tonbroker was presented with a pair of wooden shoes for his birthday and another member of the board offered to contribute a sum of money to two charities if mr wilhncr would go to the cotton exchange wearing them for sweet charitys sake mr willmer appeared on change wearing the wooden shoes and the stakes were handed over to him perhaps the limit was reached in a certain town in canada where a man propelled a green pea with a tooth pick for about eighty yards along the pavement within half an hour of the stipulated time and won his wager lucky smith is a lucky guy isnt he remarked brown he sure is agreed jones why if he tumbled out of an aeroplane ho would fall right through ahospital skylight and on to an operating table in these days the recruits include boys of seventeen and men of fifty- five and among them are the half- blind the sick and the crippled after a few weeks of drill they make a far better impression as they march away in their smart new german imported accoutrements to entrain for the east every govcrnorgcnerai since duf- fcrin has opened tho canadian na tional exhibition cargo made rats weep sat round sacks of onions and wiped tears from their eyes the french steamship ville du havre arrived in new york harbor recently from gandia spain bringing 1000 tons of spanish onions- the odor from the forchold was so power ful it was said that the crew in the focsle were in tears all the voyage and were forced to sleep on deck vhen tho customs inspectors went into the focsle to see if the men had any tobacco or cigars concealed in their bunks tho heat and the onions combined drove them out for air old jules bibot the quartermaster declared that when he went down in to tho forchold to get up a coil of rope he saw hundreds of rats sitting in a circle around the sacks of onions wiping the tears from their beady black eyes with their paws which was quite pathetic old jules said the worlds increasing cleanliness presents a weird problem to those who deal in soap the average yearly consumption of soap for every person in britain is estimated to be as much as 211b america comes next and orrleu eu ropean countries use loss and less un til one comes to russia with 21b a year consumption per hsad but the trouble seems to be that we are all increasing our demands for soap- this advance is illustrated by avail able figures proving that while in 1900 the bulgarians for instance bought 315000 kilogrammes of soap in 1911 they imported 2138000 kilogrammes in 1900 britain exported 43630 tons of soap in 1910 74712 tons wcro exported to china we send about 6020 tons a year to south africa 6311 tons to the east indies 14806 tons to other british possessions 17767 tons and to other countries 21864 tons lon don answers electricity as a street illuminant was introduced to canada at the can adian national exhibition in 1882 leather and canvas covers to be laced over automobile springs to keep them clean and drv have been patent ed howard said the visitor are you going to be a minister like your fath er when you grow up no maam answered howntjd im gor ing to be a waiter why queried the surprised visitor cause papa says all tilings come t him who waits was the reply needed improvements to make tho rural home attractive at the last annual meeting of tho commission of conservation a report of a survey conducted on 400 farms during 1915 was presented some in teresting data were secured respecting conditions in many rural homes keeping the young people on the farm is one of canadas national pro blems many causes have been sug gested for the yearning for the city the conveniences of the city home con stitute one of the chief attractions notwithstanding this however very few farmers have introduced theso conveniences into their homes of the 400 farmers visited 53 per cent have young people in their fami lies with this large percentage of young people it is a regrettable fact that only two farmers out of every hundred have bathrooms in their homes only 62 per cent have water closets only 25 per cent have a com plete service and only 22 per cent have electric light in these 400 homes only 105 per cent have the water piped to the house and but 175 per cent have furnaces in the home these conditions are entirely within tho con trol of the farmers 867 per cent of whom are the owners of farms aver aging 1265 acres in contrast with the foregoing the conveniences which have been supplied by tho government and public utility companies and of which the farmer has availed himself stand out promin ently the post office department has carried to 76 per cent of these 400 farmers rural free mail delivery al lowing 77 per cent of them to be sup plied with daily newspapers while 582 per cent have the convenience of a telephone only 25 per cent have complete sanitary service in their homes while 5 per cent have automobiles and 315 per cent have either automobiles or horse and buggy for the young peo ple much has been said and written of lafco to interest the farmer in the auto- piobile but little is heard of such household conveniences as the bath tub kitchen sink sanitary closot otc the automobile may carry the rural housewifeaway from her drudgery for a few hours a week nnd to that extent proves a blessing but tho price of on automobile would provido d water supply and other conveniences that go with it and render tho home a home both tg the housewife and tho young people from 1858 until 1878 the toronto fair was held in the old asylum grounds on king street west