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About the ....House be- ! stretched and stiff, and will a \ split thus cared for. , 1 â- oooer moved. Have everythixig ready f<n-c the washing- begins. KaJce suds with soap and not too much soda. The soap must not be left in the water. Cilass must always be { ASXOK'S KARATELOTIS PAT.ACE washed lirst, next, the fine cups and ! FOR THE COOK. Pickled onions must be small, of even siro and perfectly round. I'cel them but do nut cut the tops and roots close enough to break thom .part. As fast a.s peeled drop into «trong brine and let stand for twen- tj-four hours. Then drain in coUan- der or ou sieve and dry with a cloth. Drop into glass jars. Spice vinegar with whole cloves, cinnamon stick, mace, peppercorns, using about a tablespoonful of the mixed spices for each quart jar of onions. Heat the vinegar scalding hot and then cool it and pour into the jars over the onions. Cover jars to keep out the dust and let stand three days, ou saucers '»ke their turn and any other pieces of tine china. Following (these comes the silver. Then the things that are least grea.sy and fin- ally the large meat dishes and the pots and kettles. Everything, of course, has boenjalizcd British subject, upon the made ready, plenty of drying towels, ! historic Hever estate in Kent, which towels for the gla.ssware, a wash | hy recently purchased, says the Spending Hillions on His English. Estate. Amazing wonders are b«tng wrought by William Waldorf \stor, the American millionaire and natur- cloth, mops for soap, the ammonia, and a knife cleaner. It is a goo<i plan to put dishes of nne kind in at one time and of another the ne.xt. Every glass should he emptied before it IS placed in the pan, which is a rule that applies to other dishes. .Any dishes that have had milk in I should be rinsed before they go into i the dish water. I After the dishes have drained ; ' London Daily Mirror. The artistic i owner is spending money with a lavish hand in beautifying the e.x- ! panse of two thousand acres that ; spread around the old moated i castle. Though the cost >jt the unr i dertakin^r is probably not definitely known to Mr. Astor himself, th» po- pular estimate is that a million and a quarter pounds will be expended the iniprovemonts during the dry. The silver should be placed in ] fresh suds and the different lines of â-  dishes should be submitted to the awhile, hot water poure<l over them i ''P"" cleanses and renders them easier to °"' ^^" years Tlierc IS no busier arL>a in indus- trial England to-day. About a thousand men of all trades have the second and third davs pouring off ^ same tieatment. Dishes must never t*!'â„¢ "P }^% '"'^''^'-'"::X '"rv.'^^^" the vinegar, scalding it and pouring j be left lying in the water and the "e'S*'''"" f^ood- R^^'^^V The Daily it over the onions. On the third day pan should not be crowded. First it 1 ^"['â- "'" P*'" * seal them up. Some housekeepers ; retards progress and renders bresik- I which nestles at boil the onions in e<iual proportions , age more imminoot. Delicate china of sweet milk and water to keep i placed in hot water will surely As a Thirst Quencher There Is no other bever&srs «an compare with II SALADA Ceylon Tea, which is absolutely the purest and most delicious tea the world produces. Btmok, WxMi or CrMn. Laad Paok.U only. B> .11 Croowm. Mgliaat Awanl «t. laulm, 190*. THE TELEGRAPHIC WIRE them white. Othe-s parboil them in salted water, blanch and cover with spiced white vinegar, adding a very little sugar. For mustard pickle use about equal dishes proportions of tiny green cucumbers, large ones cut into dice, thinly sliced green tomatoes, cauUSower broken in small tufts, small string beans or large ones cut in smalt strips, green grapes, green radish pods, nastur- tium seeds and very small white on- ions. Hake a brine with a pint of salt to one and one-half gallon of cold water. Soak the vegetables over night in this. Drain oft the brine in the morning, scald and pour over the ^vegetables again, and let get cold. Again drain. To each gallon of \iiv- egar allow a pKjund each of mustard crack If the day is exceeding busy and something must be neglected do not allow that something to be ODORS IN THE HOCSE. This question of odors is one over which the homefauilder has to fight her hardest battles, even if she .starts _ with a house properly equipped for j '^^"^â- '^^,J- ^^^^ "gi"g^Uc {iart the struggle. They say that animals ; have no discrimination in odors; visit to the place, the foot of a hill. The road which hitherto led close to the castle has been diverted, and now pa.sses some hundred yanJs fur- I ther away. To make this new road i it has b<-en necessary to build two the ; bridges over the Hiver Eden, which | winds through the estate. Round the castle masons and car- penters are budding a pictur.sque model village, toned to harmoniic j with tte gi-ey old walls of the cas- • tl«-. A bridge buitt acros.s the moat I joins the new bui il n^is with the old. f the I which this has upon the tran.sinis- ' sion of mi ssages can be ima^^ined. It is as injurious as the influence TEAPE2^ FOE MOKKEYS NEAS. I of the hippopotamus, which creeps up VICTORIA NTASrZA. j *o '^® poles, looks cautiously round to see if any one is watching his per- Object of Curiosity to the Giraffe ' formancc, and then, by a long pull -Hippopotamii Drag Up i ""''^ » '""""S P"^'- ^^SS over pole. .. Ti . = *^ Wires, the Poles. ItfSULTAORS AN*D AIX. The comfort is that occasionally the entangled in las and curry powder, half cup of r.<ilt one cup brown sugar and h«lf a li-a- *V « woman « sense spoonful cayenne. Add .saH and su- *^5«- .^^^1 f"'*'*''" "' » f"""'-^ ..^"^ gar to the vinegar while heating 1""*° }° ^S*?' ''*''" ^^^^>' '^ **" ** Mix the mustard, currv powder andi'^* "**""• **'*â- ' necessarj. the lueviia- cayenne to a paste with a little of!^'" """'"f °'.\ ^""^' '^'^" ""**'* the vinegar and add to the rest, andi'^'"^ ac-comphshed only against pro- when scalding hot pour over the veg- work is the making â-  t a ia^e. where ' formerly green mead»>ws stretch<?<l ,...., . . .. , ,, 'This lake will cover an area of distinction betwwn the pleasurable , ~.,. , „.,, ,, ,,:.,, .^„ ,1 1,1 i» ,. ' nearly hftv acres and will be sixteen and unpleasurable. It often seems as ! :]J" .* , ,h if men were made on the same plan, i "*' "* depth. Manv a man will sit contente<llv â-  J° '^^ P'"'^'*-"'^ topsy-tur^y state reading his paper in an atmospheii i »»»= estate suggests tlapham Junc- of cabbage or fresh soup that would 1 ''°°- '°'' everywhere run railway of smell oui '"'*'=* *"•* fu"i»y little engines sport etables. If you prefer a thick mus- tard dressing, mix a little flour with the mustard, etc. To candy, violety, get some Cne double blossoms, break ofT the heads, dip them in water into which pre- viously dissolve a little isinglass, and put them afterward into a little cooled spun sugar. Sprinkle the viol- ets with the finest powdered sugar and lay them in sheets of white pap- er in the sun oi* some warm place, but ou no account put them in an oven. Spun sugar is made by taking a quarter of a pound of loaf sugar to half a pint of water. Boil it until it forms strongs on a spoon wlwn dipped in itâ€" hence the name. The violets may be gathered on a dry, sunshiny day, otherwise there is danger of their not keeping. Queen Fritters. â€" Put one cup of water in a saucepan, place over the fire, and when boiling add two table- spoons of butter, then stir and coik until it forms a ball and leaves the sides of the pou. When cool beat Into it, one at a time, four eggs. Pip out by spoonfuls and drop in hot fat. When done drain on brown paper, sprinkle with powdere<l sugar and serve llioy may also be split open, tilletl with fruit, and served with a sauce. Fish salads are good supper dishes, and take the place of cold meat. I'se tests. Food odors are not the only one she has to fight against. Many fur- nishings and floor coverings have odors, more or less unpleasant. This up and down. Each day seven hun- dred and fifty truckloails of soil are carrie«l away to make a bod for the great lake. Hound the outer edge of the estate runs a fine deer fence, and a pond is being dug. High up on the hill a model farm has \g^ built, with every modern and most perfect appliance. Close behind the castle an Italian garden is being is an important objection to cheap laid out. surroundinl by high walls, materials, they are rarely odorless. | with many niches and stone brack- You should select your furnishings j ets for statues. with jour nose. Even if the odor is j The utmost rigor is observed to not actually disagreeable, the pros- i keep the public from entering the ence of any odors that are not a dis- estate and from taking photographs tiiict pleasure gives a second rate at- of the building as it ri.«os. Work- mosphere to a house. I wonder if the I mon have been discharged at a mo- sense is not deflcient or lacking in a cent's notice who have tried to great many people; this seems some- 1 snapshot the op<.iation.s. Only a The world is now so much covered with teleifraph and telephone wir^s \ that civilized human beings scarcely i '"PP^'P"''^"^ ,f^^=* notice them. Thev run alongside i 0"° <i«v,ces. He is not a very dex- most oi the highways in Engrand, j '^rious animal, even at the best of and the ofl announci-d coming of an 1 1""''^; ^'^^ ''hen he s wrapped round und«r . .^ no in ine oil announced coming 01 an;-â€"--- â€" - r ; .rground svstem seems to have ""»> "'""^ tâ„¢enty^f«e' <^f wlr^^-and influence in the dir.M;tion of re- â-  »" '"'«'-" '•â- '^'S '"'^ ''*^°'y f*-'' . «»* times the only possible solution jf their indifference to the abominable odor in their houses. How people can, except under compulsion, endure houses pervaded with the smell of moth balls and gasoline, I cannot otherwise understand. SENSIBLE SUGGESTIONS. In To cut hot bread dip the knife warm water. Corks can be made sound and air tight by boiling. Lettuce leaves strewn about the floor will attract and destroy beetles. New potatoes are given a delicate Uavor if a few leaves of mint are placed In the water in which the po- tatoes are boiled. Clean windows with a flannel dipp- ed in paraffin, and polish with a clean duster. It imparts a fine pol- few days ago a well known member of the peerage motored over for the purpose of takinj; a snapshot or two of the place. No allowance was made for the distingui.-;he\.l visitor: he had to depart empty handed. Mr. Astor himself takes the ke<>n- est interest in his great proJL-ct. and Is constantly down at Hever watch- ing the working of the miracle. Hev- er Castle is of great antiquity and Was buill by Sir William Hevre in the reign of E<tward I If. It was here that Henry VIII. domiciled j Anne of Clevts. Rub each any kind of good white fish, halibut. | ish, and warns ofl files if pos.sible, or salmon. Flake it with Lemon coffee is delicious a silver fork, and mix with an equal : side of quantity of chopped celery or white! of a lemon and pour on the cotlee in cabbage. Place on lettuce leaves and the ordinary way SICKLY CHILDREN. More children die during the hot weather months than at any other season of the year. •''I'heir vitality is then at its lowe.st ebb. and an attack _ of diarrhoea, cholera infantum or alump "of Vu^r on the rind st"">ach trouble may prove fatal in a few hours. For this reason no pour over it a thick mayonnai.se. For salmon use a white mayonnaise. but for white fish, color slightly with green. WASHING DISHES. Ability to wash dishes can be token as a sure test of a maid's neatness, carefulness, and adaptabil- ity, for it is not the simple process some would believe and not every one can wash them acceptably. One of the primal ventures in a well ortlered household is the duty of dish washing and if you are in doubt as to what you may expect from your new maid observe when and how she washes the dishes after the first meal she serves. Tben you will kno^ just what you may depend upon in everything else she does. If she tumbles all the dishes in ut once or if she neglects to change the wa- ter when it has become cold and dirty she ia not neat, and unless you wish to train her you will dispense .with her services. 'Iliis is the science of good (li.«h washing. Fii-st, do not allow any length of time to elapse after the meul before the soiled dishes are le- Intitation frosted glass is made by dissolving in a little hot water as much epsom salts as it will absorb. Taint the glass with the water whilst it is warm. When choppong suet sprinkle with a little ground rice; it will not then stick tu the knife. In turning steak do not use a fork, as the holes which it makes in the home in which there are young chil- dren should be without a box of Haby's Own Tablets, which promptly cure all sti'iiiach and bowel troubles. If the Tablets are given to a well child they will prevent these ail- ments and keep the little one well and strong Mrs. Joseph T. I'igeon. Uryson, Que., says: "My little one was attackiil with colic and diarrh- oea, and I found Baby's Own Tahlots so satisfactory that I would not now them in the housi-. 'Th'se ou- meat cause the bUuHl to run out. Old incandescent gas mantles make IJ® without a splendid polish for silverware •>'•'''«'' ""J/'u^^ *•â- "''" *"T""", •>.♦ Crush a little on a soft duster ttudibU'S. but all the minor ailments hat rub on the sUver. "'""' '"'""'^ ""** 'â- """*^ O.Ulien^ Ore«.so spots on silk can le remov- I "Ihey contain no op.aU- 01 harnioi ed bv splitting a visiting curd and,'''-«g. ami may be given with .-q-'al rubbing the spots with the soft in- 1 "^'^ '^^ to the new bon, baby tcrnal parts. After washing We '%%%V%^<'%%'%%%%'%%9 We like best to call scorrs emulsion a food because it stands so em- phatically for perfect nutrition. And yet in the matter of restor- ing appetite, of giving new strength to the tissues, especially to the nerves, its action is that of a medicine. SttKl for free ^iinpl*. SCOIT & BOWNE. C-.imitH. Toruiiiis Onuii... IPCUtlfiAivi allilntulata. :i hair brushes they can Ih? quickly and thoroughly dried without injuring the bristles by- brushing them briskly with a whisk broom, and there i.^ no better way to dry the hair after it has been wa-"!hetl than to hold up a tow strands at a time and with a small whisk broom fan it, letting the lu-oom act at the -same tiiu as a comb, gently drawn through it. This method is a good substitute for sunlight, which can neither l)e had to order nor re- lied upon with certainty. IMRRKLLA WISDOM. .\fto.' coming in out of the rain, let the umbrella down and stand il on the handle that it may dry in this pusitii<n: the water wilt thus drip from the etIge.H of the frame and the cover dry xinitormH. Wh;>n plai.\tl with the handle upwards, as is fre- quently done, the water runs to the top of the uiMbiellrt. and the nioi.s- tuie is then- retained in thi> linini; underneath the ling for so;ne leii.s;th of time, causii'.s;' the silk or fabric with which the fi-nm- i>! covered to become tender and soon rot. .\ silk umbrella is much injured by being left open to dry: the silk becomes or well grown child. There are imitations of this medicine and ini>thers should see that the words 'Haby's Own â- nxblets" and the four-leaf clover with child's head on each leaf is found on the wrapper around ench box. .^s you value your child's life do not be jiersuaded to take a sub- stitute for Uaby's Own Tablet.sâ€" the one me<!icine that mnkos children well and kei'ps them well. Sold by all druggists, or you cail get them by mail at 2."S cents a box by wiitiiig the Dr. Williains' .Medicine Co.. Ilrockvillo. Ont. FL VI NU KXI-KUIMENT. A (lyi:>g experiment which carries with il tt p)od deal of intei-est has been curried out at IlitlRucourt. in France. The exjioruneiiler was M. Voisin, who suated hinwielf r'ttily for lliglit on a raft lowed by an auto- bout. .\l a given signal the autv.>- boat pu! on full svHH-d. the machnie begun 10 rise, and M. Voi-^in, cut- ting hiiii.-;elf adriil from the auto- boat, maititatn-d a steady ilight for about Itt'O yards, at a height of about 8»> t<.vt. lie then nrought hiw.^elf j;>^'<tly down to the surface of the water. ducing the number. There is good evidence, however, says the London Globe, tor, supposing that the ant- 1 mai worlii has by no means grown i as acciiatomed to the wires which , swing 'above their heads. j Cows, for example, have bi>oa seen , standing at the corner of fields lis- I tcning in awe-struck fashion Aeolian strains which smite thei three wires â€" he finds progressioa somewhat retarded In time, no doubt, he will )e:i;'n that it is as well to leave th? wires untouched, but It seeess as if it will taice some years yet before the lesson has gone home. What Uh- denizens of the deep think *o the '*'' '^'-' S<'cat sea cables is as much a ' mystery as the others. In some ears a-? a high wind blows across the , pl-^-'es the deep cables swing from iron and copper stmnds. Birds like i ^^^ "«*«* °' °°e Pl^-eau to the the topmost wire for a perch It '"^(5^ of another, and upon the bight offers them apparently a finer view j ^11 manner of sea animals find that than the boughs of trees, which are ; "'«'>' "^a" '''"Port themselves One understood generally as being na- <-'»'^''- **''«*> ^'^ P"-*"^ "P â- â€¢'^â- ""3' turo-s device for the purpose. Curi- ^'^ ""^"'>' 'â- overed for a mile with ously enough, a bird will not sing »» manner of barnacled creatures, from the wire; whether it is silenced Th*?^ ^»<* encrusted one after another on the cable, until that which was by th.- Aeolian rivalry or whether. on th-> other hand, it has come to .«iee the utilitarianism of the struc- ture and to feel that song is incon- gruous cannot be e.xplained with our present knowledge. BEB» H.\TE THE WIRES, and there are well authenticated cas- only half a foot in diameter wtm to be measured in feet, the cable itself being hidden by the encrustations. Of course this did but little harm to the transmission of messages, except in a few cases where the cable shield was damaged, when, of course, there was a si-verance. with all the inter- es of a swarm of bees altering their j nati.nal trouble which this involked. flight to avoid adjacency to the ! Rats are a similar nuisance in re- lines. Rooks show the greatest par-|Spect to cabl.s hidden under th« tialitv tor them, a partialitv which (earth. A rat seems to think that thev hold with the sparrows, and in [everything which is enclosed in lead some of the older lines, where the wires are closer together than) is aow thought to be wise, nests are built, and the insulation of the lines dam- aged accordingly. It has be«'n cal- culated by one of those statistical persons who had time for the enter- is a pipe conveying water, and with in ent to get at the water he gnaws at the outer covering. Sooner or later the result is disastrous to th« efficiency of the cable, and this must be written down as one of the diffi- culties in the wa.v of undergroumi prise that there is a bird swinging j telegraphy. On the whole. ther»' on the lines ea< h mile of the dis- \totx: we «re that animals have a big- lance which when sunmied up gives ! g^-r influence than is gi-uerally sup- us a tola! of some 500 birds amus-! posed. But what they think of it ing themselves in this fashion be- jail is another matter. One would iwcen London and Rdinburgh. I «f '-'ke 10 discuss the matter witi In distant countries there are , the monkey, the giraffe, and, not amusing instances of the use to which wild animals put the telegraph wires. A report has just reached England giving the details <â- ( the ideas of monkeys to telegraphy. These animals are convincetl appar- ently that the wires are put up merely for the purpose of giving them a long trapeze for their per- formanci^, there is a line of three wires, along least in importance, with the rat. MADE HER CHOICE. "Choose between usi" Winkleton folded up his evoninij newspaper and savagely threw it u'. the floor "Yes, madam," he continuo«l, "I tell vou once (or all that you can't Near Victoria >>•»"»! have" both of us The last time t'na! dressmaker was in the house tor a which there may be seen hundreds of 1 ^^^ij i vowed that I never woulti monkejs enjoying themselves to their : stand it again, and I won't. As foi hearts' content. I being under the same roof with tw« The authorities have tried, by ' half-crazy and absorbed women, ui-« shooting them in considerable nam- j requiring a rake e\ery morning t« bers. to n-move this disposition, but 'get the odd pieces of cloth out of m.t tlje iiionkevs still run the risk, .\nd clothes: to hear the rattle and whii tra^oli i-s report that they often see of that confounded sweing-machino, them in dozens swinging by the and to sit at my meals and listen to tails and chuckling in their own a lot of cut bias, ruffled and flounc- chattering fashion with delight. This'ed. and pleated talkâ€" I've had all I'-.u does not serve to improve the tele- i ever going to have. If I'm to b« graphic siTvice. for in the ilopths of turned out of my own house, all the forest the monkeys' tricks j right; but you i;an't have both ot ,^i-i-..v- i-iiiv:^-i- -i-iii.- vvioTTvi ;"" ^ leave the day she comes. OHKN I WIS I 1H>. WIRES. |y„u„ have to make your decision and currents pass from one to an-, quick. Come, madam, which shall other, giving a somewhat coniusing it "be. the dressmaker or me'.'" result at the ends. ! '*â- '* Winkleton looked at her bus- band with a hopeles-s, half-despairing tjie look, in which were discernible sonu traces of indignation and a sense ot injustice. "If you must go. dear." she Faid. I have nothing mora Oddly enough, it is stated by e.v perts that the earlier ideas of monkeys as to '.he pleasuivs of , stealing the wiiv have passed away. , Now-a-days it rarely happt-a-* that ' ,. wire is stolen The idea has spread p">' :,.,'"' •"• that some kind persons, recogni/ing '" "^-^ â-  the needs of the monkey lril)e. have j * put the wires up in such a secure; .\ Frenchman was boasting that way merely thai the monkeys may he had thoroughly uiasteiVil the Eng- have perfect swinging, and the mon- , lish language, when he was asked to keys are perftvtly loyal to the idea write from dictation the following and n.'fuse to steal the wire appar- sj>ecimen of our choice eccentric ver- ently for this reason. ""The curiosity of the gfrafte is an- nacutar: â€" ".\s Hugh Hughes was hew- ing a Yule log from a yew tree. » other disturbing element. Cows , tnan dressed in gannents of a dark here at homo stare up at the lines hue came up to Hugh and said. when music is being emitted; horses rub thems«'lves against the poles, but these two do but little damage. The giraffe, however, has the ad- vantage of being able to stretch his long neck and to reach the wires theuiselve.>«. He has a wonderful r^ gnrd for the pottery insulator. He reaches up and seizes these not very succulent dainties, and pulls them down. drawing . the strands with them The arms of wood on which school teacher. mKlressing the juvon- vhe insulators are plac-d als(^ allure I ile class, "can cither of .vou tell mo the vtirafle. and when he gets fairly j anything about (?ood Friday'.'" "Ves. sotlleil at the b^ise of a pole he finds ! nta'ani. I can." replied the boy ab rich amuseineiit for a couple of days i the foot of the class. "lie was the drugging dtiwn the arms and pecking â-  fellow what done the housework tiar at the insulators. The iiiUueDce 1 Robinson Crusoe." 'Have you seen my ewes'.'' To which he replietl. "If you will wait until I hew this yew. I will go with you to look for your ewes.' " .\ttcr an at- tempt the Frenchman admitted .Ma mistake. He used to imagine he was used to English speaking, but he would be mori- careful how ho used the language in future. •Now, boys, said the Sunday-