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fie Bde a bem >! About the Household Selected Recipes. Savory Roly-Poly Pudding.--Make a plain suet crust with three-quarters of a pound of flour and a quarter of a pound of suet, finely minced; roll it out rather thin and cover it, first with a layer of finely sliced or minced raw potato, on this put a layer of finely. chopped meat of any kind, with a very | small quantity of minced onion and! a seasoning of salt and pepper. Wet the edge all round, roll up, tie in a scalded and floured cloth, and boil for two hours. Yorkshire Tart.--Line bottom - of deep baking dish with pastry, and spread on it one layer of preserved peaches or peach jam, mixed with a little preserved ginger cut into small pieces. Weigh two eggs, take their weight in sugar, in butter and in flour, cream butter and sugar, add the eggs, whipped light, and put in flour, mixed | with one-half teaspoon baking pow- der. Pour this mixture. over pre- serves in dish, and bake good brown. A few minutes before taking tart from oven rub top of paste with but- ter or with raw egg. Butter Balls.--Select young fresh green neas, and, after podding them, | put to boil in the usual way. Sift into a bowl a cup of flour, a pinch of salt and a pinch of baking powder; | rub into this one tablespoonful of butter, mix with cold water as for dumplings, break the dough into bits | and rub into tiny balls between well- floured hands. Flour the balls again lightly, and when the peas are tender | and still boiling drop the butter balls | among them. Boil a few minutes, cover and serve. Fish Balls.--Take half a pound of cooked fish, free it from skin and! bones, and then chop fine. Have six potatoes nicely boiled and mashed, mix the fish with these, add a little melted butter, some beaten egg, a teaspoonful of anchovy sauce and a! ley, with pepper and salt to seaso The mixture should be of a work consistency, and it is then pas t balls with floured han Ta dno egg, and tossed in The balls are they; ing fat until of 75 teaspoonful of finely chopped we away moths. Aine breadcrumbs. fried in deep smok- pretty golden color, 22 BIE 'ned served hot and Map "© Tishet on which a doily ! v laced. To" rrepare Cauliflower.--Prepare cauliflower as for boiled cauliflower and steam until soft. Separate in pieges and pour over the following satice. Mix one and one-half tea- spoonful of mustard, one and one- quarter teaspoonful salt, one tea- spoonful of powdered sugar, one and one-quarter teaspoonful of paprika. Add yolks of three eggs lightly beat- en, one-fourth cupful olive oil and one- half. cupful vinegar. Cook over hot water until mixture thickens. Re- move from fire and add two 'table- spoonfuls butter cooked with one tea- spoonful finely-chopped parsley. Old-fashioned Ginger Bread.--Sift one teaspoonful of baking powder and half a teaspoonful of salt twice, with two cupfuls of flour. Stir to a cream, half a cupful of butter, the same of sugar and the same of mo- lasses. Warm the mixture slightly and -beat light before adding a well- whipped egg, a half teaspoonful of ginger. Dissolve half a teaspoonful of baking soda in a tablespoonful of hot water; stir this into half a cup- ful of sweet milk; lastly, stir in the flour, beat hard for one minute, and bake in two shallow pans, well but-| tered or in pate pans. Banana Cream Pie.--Two cups. milk, three eggs, three-fourths cup granu- lated sugar, one-fourth cup = corn- starch, one-fourth teaspoon salt van- illa, two bananas,' three tablespoons powdered sugar and pastry. Scald milk and stir into sugar, cernstarch and salt well mixed. When smooth and thick cool a little and stir in one! whole egg and two 'egg yolks beaten together slightly. Flavor with _one- half teaspoon vanilla and pour into' plate lined with pastry. Oven should be hot at first, then moderated to pre- vent boiling. When pie 'is done slice peeled bananas (after carefully re- moving bitter threads) over top, cover with meringue of egg whites, powdered sugar and one-fourth tea- spoon of vanilla and bake ten min- utes in slow oven. What Salt' Will 'Do. Salt will revive a dying fire. Salt will remove stains on marble. Salt--coarss--is a good cleanser of irons. Salt in water or other fluid retards the boiling. Salt mixed with soda is a remedy for bee stings. Salt and water makes an excellent throat gargle. Salt. and hot water will frozen drain-pipe. Salt will remove tea stains from de- licate china cups. Salt "spread in blackbeetle haunts will kill he "pests. thaw a . the nostril on the affected side. , warm water--rubbed into weak ankles 'Williams' Pink Pills have saved thou- "It gives me great pleasure to tell '{-little, tif any, 'benefit. Salt added to snow makes the mix- ture much colder. Salt and water, warm, chilblains from itching. Salt thrown on a fire will extinguish a burning chimney. Salt and lukewarm water'is an ex- cellent lotion for styes. Salt and warm water is an emetic in cases of poisoning. Salt mixed in cold water will move bloodstains from linen. Salt sprinkled on a range will ab- sorb all grease splutterings. Salt, warmed, and rubbed on a soil- ed light coat, will clean it. Salt added to the rinsing water prevents clothes from freezing. Salt placed under baking-tins an oven prevents their burning. Salt stops neuralgia if sniffed into will stop re- in Salt will quickly clean a discolored ' bath or enamelled utensils. Salt--a lump of--placed in the sink will keep the drain wholesome. Salt placed first in the frying-pan prevents grease from spluttering. Salt and water rubbed into the scalp is good for falling hair after illness. Salt and water removes the lime in new curtains, and makes washing easier. Salt and water cleans all crockery ; more easily and better than plain wa- : ter. Salt--a tiny pinch--added to the whites of eggs makes them froth more quickly. Salt, thrown on the fire once a day, prevents the accumulation of soot in the flues. Salt--a teaspoonful to a pint of strengthens them. Salt added to potatoes when near- ly done ensures flouriness and 'pre- vents them going to pieces. L-sorinkled over carpets before Sweeping preserves tie. colors andl Salt rubbed on to an inkstain on a deal table, after the spot is damped, removes the mark. It thrown on fallen soot prevents ¢ 1B Bhrpet marking, and enables the bis to be swept up cleanly. Salt sniffed into the nose in the ; morning, and the mouth then 4. out with warm water, cures urd 'h. it and water will prevent the red botders in towels, etc., from running if the towels are steeped in it for twenty-four hours. PALE, FEEBLE GIRLS Weakness Generally Comes on as Womanhood Approaches. Girls upon the threshold of woman- hood often drift into a decline in spite of all care and attention. How often one sees girls who have been strong and lively become suddenly weak, de- pressed, irritable and listless. It is the dawn of womanhood--a crisis in the life of every girl--and prompt measures should be taken to keep the blood pure and rich with the red tint of Health. If the blood is not healthy at this critical stage the body is weak- ened and grave disorders follow. Dr. sands of young girls from what might have been life-long -invalidism or an early death. They are a blood-builder of unequaled richness, strengthening weak nerves and producing a liberal supply of red, healthy blood which every girl needs to sustain her strength, , Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have proved their great value over and over. again to young. women whose health was failing. Miss Min- nie Duffield," Eramosa, Ont., says:-- you 'what- Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have done for me. When I was ap- proaching the age of womanhood I suffered greatly from 'bloodlessness, or anaemia. 'me, I had no appetite and never felt rested in <4he mornings. I could scarcely. walk for five minutes at a time without taking a rest. 1 was troubled with severe headaches, and things looked gloomy indeed. I doc- tored for a long time and got but I was advised to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and did so, and after taking them for a time, felt better. I continued taking the Pills until I had used six boxes, when I felt like a new person, and was again enjoying splendid health. I would strongly advise any girl who is weak or run down to try Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills." © = You can get these pills from any dealer in medicines or by mail at 50 ! cents a box or six boxes for $2.50! from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Br Spa, Ont. 4 - The carcase of a horse. yields four hundred and fifty pounds of meat, a AF My work was a drag to | THE ALLIED ARMIES ARE WELL FED THE PRINCIPAL FOODS ARE MEAT AND BREAD. the Best Fed in the British Forces Are Ever Placed Field. No branch of the non-combatant services of the British army has won greater praise from soldiers at the front or more admiration from the public at home than has the Army Service Corps. It is only owing to the untiring efforts of this little army of provision merchants that the Bri- tish forces have gained their reputa- tion as the best-fed army that has ever been placed in the field. The knowledge of this splendid pro- visioning of the army has uncon- sciously given rise to the theory that the soldiers of the other Allies are comparatively more or less insuffi- ciently supplied with ammunition for the inner man. These impressions, however, are en- tirely erroneous, and a comparison be- tween the official rations allowed to the soldiers of the allied nations will prove that the Frenchmen and the Russian are, like the British soldier, among the best-fed fighters in history. In each of the allied armies--DBri- tish, French, Russian and Belgian-- the principal foods are meat and bread. A glance at the following fig- ures, which indicate the daily allow- ance of meat and bread to every man of the four armies, will show that the fare of the others compares very favorably with that of the British: Meat, Bread, Ibs. "Ibs. British ki... ..v0 1% 1% French ui ive oo 1 13% Russian... ..... 024 2% __ Belgian .. TOA 12 1% : How Russians Arc Fed: The Briton, it will trus be seen, actually receives less .hr2ad than any of his comrades; bits n the other hand, his allowance 'of meat is con- siderably larger. In examining the soldiers' menus more closely, that of the Russian may be taken first, sihet- is the least known. In every dase "the allowances have been translated into English terms in order to make a comparison easier. The Russian breakfasts later than any of the allied soldiers. He does not receive his first ration until just before 8 o'clock. These are: Half an ounce of Tchai (tea), Three ounces of sugar, Three funt (23% Ibs.) Cherni Chieb (black bread). The tea and sugar have to last all day. The bread is usually served out on alternate days, six funt, (a little less than six pounds) each time. For dinner, which generally takes place just before noon, each group of ten soldiers receives a large dish of "Borsht." This contains cabbage and potatoes mixed in various gravies. The ten men sit around the dish, each with a big wooden spoon, and all help themselves at once. After this comes the national dish "Kasha," a kind of porridge. This the men eat in the same fashion as "Borsht."" "Kasha" is very cheap in Russia, and soldiers ¢an have as much as they want. When this has been disposed of the meal finishes with an allowance 'of half a' 'pound of meat per man. ie thi SR The meat is cooked with] YEAST CAKESY | MAKE PERFECT BREAD Bread made in the home with Royal yeast will keep fresh and moist longer than that made with any other. Food Scientists claim that there is more nourishment in a pound of good home made bread than in apound of meat, Consider the difference incost. EWGILLETT COMPANY ey MADE IN CANADA 8 2 Be TORONTO, ONT WINNIPEG ~~ MONTREAL The third and last Russian meal is served about 6.30 in the evening and consists of more "Borsht," together with a quarter of a pound of meat. It often happens that the Russian soldier receives more bread than he needs, and the surplus he is allowed to sell in order to increase his meagre pay, which, it may be interesting to add, amounts to 50 kopecs, about a shilling, a month. The Belgian Soldier is allowed nearly 134 pounds of bread per day. This is known as "pain gris," a mixture of white and black | bread. His meals are: Breakfast, 6.30 a.m.----Bread; coffee, containing milk and sugar. As a gen- eral rule butter has not been served, though it is expected to be added to the rations in future. Dinner, 12 noon.--About 2 pints of soup ,to which plenty of salt is added; % of a pound of meat, which is boiled with the' soup and afterward taken out and served separately; 2% pounds of mashed potatoes, in which bacon and vegetables are mixed; sometimes pudding. Supper, 6 p.m.--Two pounds of mashed potatoes, with other vege- tables, and bacon, which is added to make the vegetables a little fat." This mixture of vegetables and ba- cen forms the principal food of the Belgians." 1a cquenuly the soldier, af- ter his morning coffes; gets no other beverage but water. 'Upon going in- to the trenches he is ygually given a ration of condensed Imeat, equal in proportion to the daily ration. The daily allowance of the French soidier is somewHE™ imilar + a that of the Belgian. i FOR GRAVES OF HEROES. No Crosses or Memorials May be Sent to Battlefront. The British War Office announces that no crosses or memorials to mark | the graves of those who have died over sea can be accepted for transit. Durable wooden crosses, treated with creosote and legibly 'inscribed, are already in position on, or in pre- paration for, all known graves, and in addition all known graves are care- | fully registered. Numbers of graves are well within range of hostile shell | fire, which would as - gffectively de- stroy iron as wooden crosses. The former could not rapidly be replaced, | whereas the latter could be re-erect- ed immediately approach were pos: sible. Further, many graves are in close | proximity to the enemy and can only | be approached at- night; ' therefore | the weight of the cross to be erected | ! is an {important factor. These reasons make gin omic on 1-412 it necessary | 'that during the war only the regula- tion wooden crosses should be frett-( ed over gravas, i HOW SANDSTONES DIFFER. Unlike in Composition Are Our Sands of Which They Are Composed. Decomposed rock can be solidified again either by applying great pres- sure or by injecting cement, or by doing both. Thus sands are formed into sandstones, clays become shales, and calcareous deposits yield lime- stone. Aside from their cementing materials, sandstones differ in compo- sition exactly as did the sands of which they are composed. Sandstone may be nearly pure quartz, or quartz | and feldspar, or quartz, feldspar, and mica, and it may vary in texture from the fine to the coarse. Some sand- stone is so coarse that it will hold six quarts of water to the cubic foot, and underground deposits of such sandstone form excellent reservoirs, which may. yield a never-failing sup- ply of water. An arkose sandstone from the quicksilver region of Cali- fornia, made up of. granite detritus, was found to contain quartz, ortho- clase, obligoclase, biotite, muscovite, hornblende, titanite, rutile, tourma- line and apatite. In. short, all the rock-forming minerals that can in any way survive the destruction or grind- ing up of a rock may be found in sands, and therefore, in sandstones. J Off and On, Oftener Off. The general was inspecting a regi- ment the colonel of which was a very bad herseman. The battalion, says The Tatler, wos formed up in quarter colurhn, and as the commanding offi- cer oy 3ave the order, "Advance in col- 2 ha hand ctyndle un th i= mental march, with the result Hag the colonel's horse plunged and kick- ed furiously, and he was very nearly unsegted: Ag the leading company was near- ing' the saluting base, the captain glanced round to see if his men were marching well, and was horrified to | see the whole of the front two ranks bunched up in the middle and every man watching eagerly the command: ing officer's efforts to retain his seat. "Fase off, there!" he shouted an. grily. "No, 'e ain't," cried a recruit, "buf 'e soon will be!" ' C3 Lets i in Flies. "Your husband is rather stout." ; "Weighs over 300 pounds. He's 2 pest in summer time." "How. 502" "Takes him too Jong to" got Through a screen door." Weighing 73 1b. a cod lays nearly 7,000 ,000 eggs. "He offers me a platonic affection. "Well, take it, RR The ture at: she, Hehe, whele the "battle was fiercest. In the picture at the left the soldier above pictures are scenes at Pertheg which has. again been: the scene of desperate fighting "Fhe pie= shows the ground fairly ploughed by shell and littered with the branches of trees is standing over the graves of brave rench stretcher-bearers who were killed while carrying the wounded, A platonic affection i SE to the- real thing." *.. pe a