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X 4 4 I About the House j •n:.STED HECIPES. nnked Brown Breod.-Two cups sour milk, three cups gralium (lour, one cup fk-ur, onfrhalf cup New Orlonns nio- l»>sos, two even teasixioiiB soda, suit, one Imlf-cup raisins it liked. Tonmin Catsup.â€" Take a tulilMpooniul of llw l)0,st corn starch to cacti quurl of Juice. Stir the corn starch in while llie Juice Ls cold and boil down in ihe usual way. This will niiike twice tlie quantity of calsup and also will keep Ijeltor. Ix'ft Over Siilmon.-Take equal parts or salmon and iiiiislioil or ljHke<t potato ; mash or cru>li potato, add salmon, pinch of (Salt, and piece of butler; mix thir- oughly; make in .small palties, roll in cracker crumbs, and fry slowly until blown. Bread .Scraps.- Don't waste the scraps of bread, but cut them up in small square. I'ut in pan in a liot oven and brown nicely. They are splendid for soup, or in hot milk for children, or for tomatoes. Have a bag to keep the toasted squares hung in the pnnlry. f:i'eani Puffs.â€" Hoil with a large cuptiil of hot watcr-one-half a cupful of bulter, BtirrUig in one cupful of flour during the boiling; eel aside lo oool. Wtieii cold 6tir in four eggs, one at a lime; do not beat. Dro]) <jii buttered paper and bake twenlyllve minutes in a fairly hot oven. SeiTO with whipped cream. Delicious Hoosts. â€" NVasli the meal well, place it in a large stone crock, and cover the meat with cold water. Dredge well with flour, salt, and pepper to <asle, place a lump of Imlter on top, cover tli(! crock wilh a tin cover, and put it in a moderate oven. (j«t the meat in the oven tiy 'J o'clock for a 12 o'clock dinner. The gravy will be made In the crock, and tlio diimer will be easily served. Canning .Strawberries. â€" In canning or preserving strawberries if eacli can is wrapped in new.spaper (while the fruit ifi etlll hot), to exclude the light, llie berries will not lose their rich red col<ir. If ex- pc«ed lo the light they turn a brownish color. There often is consideiuble juice left after canning strawberries, use it to can rhubarb. ThU ninkes a delicious sauce. Eggless Fruit Cake. â€" One pound of sail ixirk, chopped fine, pour one and one-half pinlb lioiling water, stiiring c<.mstuntly, add one pound chopped rai- sins, one pound currants, oiie-fmirth pound citron, two cui>s sugar, one cup molasses, one teasiiwjii soda diss<jlv(!d in warm water ; one teasjioon (uich of cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg, and enough Hour until quite thick. A wine- glass of brandy may be added. IJako in nioderutc o\en. I'ork chaps may bo made delicious by pulling thetn into a shallow baking i>an and iKiiirliig over them a well beaten egg (about one egg for every six chops), eeiisoned well wilh pepper and salt, and Ihen baked in a ralher slow oven for an hour. The egg, forming a light crust over ttio chops, ulksorlis the fat and retains ihe full (lavor of the me^it. Uy this me- thod chops, even ttuiugh not lender, arc rendered deliciously so. [)rip Coffee.â€" 'I'o make drip coffee in any coffee can, get a pair of small wood embroidery liooi«s that just lit the top of coffee can. Make a bag oighl inches long. A lwenty-(i\e pcjiaul Hour bag di- vided in three makes three bags. Then measure to 111 amimd ring. Cut c<iriier.s olt at bolloin. .'>ew on uiaohine lo f«ii-m l.ag ; hem over hoop. Place it in coffee can. Put in two tahlespcKiiis of pulver- ized gr<iuiid coffee, add one (|uait of boiling water to tiller through, and fof- Ice is done. The sack should be cniplied, rinsed in cold water, uuil hung up to dry. Left Over Itoiusts.- -.After a roast has eervcil for two meals there is often meat eryiugh for another, although not in good ishape. When Ibis is the case cut Up the meat, mince line an onion, and the giavy if necessary, slice cold lj<jiled potables and ariange in a baking dish. Set back on the stove where it will heal through while you are iiiiiking a lin of baking powUer liiscuit. Mler culling out your biscuits. Instead of pulling them on a tin put tlieni on the top of Die nieut pie, slip the whole lliiiig into Ihe oven and bake until Ihe biscuits arc done. Chicken pie can lie made in the snmo way and can be served without carving In a neat miinncr. Pi'uil Jelly.- Wash and prepare fruit, removing all mipcrfcel parts, l)oil lo ex- tract the juice, using only granite or p<jrcelain kettle, and solid silver .spixm (or slirring. Never ii.-.e tinware if you w<uld liave clear jci.y, and never drain juices over night, as they are apl to .Miur and U)ok muddy when made into jelly, r^irumence in the morning, boil, and drain immediately. Prepare two bags, one of thick, the other of thin niuslin. Make bags with two tape IfHjps, one at the lop, the other half way down seam at side, to raise or hiwer; hang on con- venient hook over table or sink, squeeze but litllo through the Ihln bag, and not at all tlirough the thick one. To one pint of sour juice allow the same of sugar; W juice boll until clear, then add sugar, which previously has been heated in the oven. A few minutes' boiling will suf- fice. Pour contents into a large pitcher thmugh a cheesecIoUi bag drawn over top of pitcher to carry any articles which might \yo in sugar. I'ill glasses at once from pitcher; place solid silver spoon in glasses, and you will never brealc IJie thinnest glasses. SSk DONT THIlOW ANYTIll.N'G AWAY. Save coffee grounds for stulTing pin ciistiion.s. To keep butleriiiilk iwur cold waler on it. When desired for use pour off the waler, and after using pour more cold water on. Milk treated in Ihis manner will slay fresh for days. Use for .Sweaters.â€" With the approach of warm weather sweaters are IXJing dis- carded. Do not throw away those that have the sleeves and utpper parts worn. Cut off as close to the top as [jossiblc and gather to a band or muslin waist for a petticoat for smaller child, finish tlie Ixittom with a h';m or crocheted edge of yarn. Haking Powder Cans.â€" Save these un- ti". you liave enough to contain the differ- ent spices. .Soak oft the wrapper, let dry, buy a small ran of while jiainl, also one of gold enamel, paint cans while. When dry letter them with the gold enamel ; it never will wash off. They are airtight, pi-eventing the spices from Uaing their sIrengUi. Napkins for Children.â€" Children soil and stain Iheir napkins badly. For little folk-s have a supply of napkins made from a giwid grade of checked toweling, neatly hemmed. The^se are inexiiensivo and are easily washed. Ixmger jiieees are nice to put under the cliildren's I)lates to ])rotect the tablecloth. Sandwiches often arc left over from picnics and other special occasions. Usually they are not inviting the next day, but may be made .so. Warm slight- ly in the oven and to three ordinary sandwiches made from chicken, veal or longue m^ike a white sauce wilh one tablesiKxmful of bulter, one tablespoon- t'.il of flour, one pinch of salt, and one of p*!|)per, and one cup of milk, cookixl until thick. Then add the yolk of one egg, well bi'aten. I'our this over the sandwiohfts, serve at once. Holders for kitchens can be made from old stockings folded lo size required. Mun across diagonally each way two or Ihree times to permit wrinkling when washed. Cover ,vith strong, washable material, lightweight baic denim is good; run across as in the filling, sew a brass ring in one corner and hang on a hook near ttie stove. Six are none too many to be lliero at one time, and have a pile hi reserve when some are in the weekly wash, as holders are a necessary article in any kitchen. Waxcfl Paper.â€" It is economy to .save every scrap of wa.xo<i paper that linds its way Into the house. Large sheets of this can bo saved from cracker boxes and many small bo.xes containing candy, raisins, and other fruits are lined with a gcod (pialily of waxed paper. This pa- per Is suitable for wrajiping up lunclus. It keeps bread, cake, cheese and other articles nioLsl ; Is good lo paste ovoj- jelly glases, pols of jam, and many other uses will present tliem-selvcs to the economical housewife. The use of un- sealed envelope Haps is a great tu'lp in the homo. Cut off the flaps and use them to label bottles of medicine, cans of fruit, and cups of jelly. They easily are stuck on and are large enough to hold all you wish to wrile. Washing Dishivj.â€" Take your old rusty dripping pan or roaster thai has out- grown the days of its usefulness, give it I a coal of painl within and without, buy a wire dish drainer, the larger the hel- ler, sel Ihe latter in the former, and you have a great time saver. To economize time still further, use the following me- thod of pi'oc.ediiro tlirec limes a «lay ; Wash gla.ss and silverware in hot suds ; p(iur iKiiling water on Iho silver, it pre- serves its briglilne.s.s ; rub on soft towel; rinse and wipe glassware ; wash and rinse in hot waler all lin, granil<! and lion ware; wipe dry; now in this liol rinsewater wash the ohiniiwarc, using -soap ; fix a pan of slightly .soapy luke- warm waler (hot or cold makes dishes dry iviugh) ; jiass dishes one at a time through this water and stand in drainer. In an hour lliey will be dry and shiny. Tin; CHILDREN ON THE FAHM. Many of our children on Ihe farm are gniwing up Willi bodies well fed and clrlhed l)ul they are starving for love. Their lives are so chwrless, so uiiehild- like, ,:an we wonder thai they gmw into liardeiied men and women? Now is Ihe liiiK! lo make children happy, while they are children, and tlu^ memories of tliis happiness in aflcrllfe will continue lo make them happy ; bo cnlhusiaslio will) the children in their .studies and play do not be indifferent or say the cruel words that will cause the countenance to grow sad or dim Ihe bright eyes. We are all living writers, recording on enduring talilels history nuide up of thouglils, feelings and aspirations. Ui>on this depends to a large extent the char- acter o( those who come after us. In this lies our most powerful training as well as lli« holiest form it can take. Home is Ihe sacred portal to the outside world, and to have and continue the closest, highest inOuence on young life is lo foster In all possible v\ays a love foi' home. * We hear constantly of woman's rights; rights to compflto witti man in every walk of life; the rigtit to guide and guard the state, so Itiat Ihe holiest, most sacred right is in danger of being ne- glected. The world needs womanly wo- men and manly men ; to produce them we must give from eighteen to twenty years of homo life where abides love, judiciously seasoned with reason and justice. As a rule, parents do loo much preaching ; talk is the weakcBl loot that can be used in the homo government. We need pei-sonal inOuence; this begins before words can be imdei'stood, and like all silent influences will be the most deep-seated ami i>crnianent. Children are investigators; and Ihe inner mechanism of many things will I hey lay bare and undensland just how they are made, if allowed to follow their own inclination. 'J'hero are varied fac- ulties latent within Iho ohild that will lead hhn lo the investigation of Ihe phe- nomena of the world he has entered. A child will grow .symmetrically if ho is not pushed loo much by the ambition of foolish parents or by the tcsichcr wlio de- sires lo push the cliild for show. We must never forget that each child is n peculiar king or queen in his or her in- dividual rca'm. No one hOis ever come into the world with just sucli a combi- nation of characlerlslics or iHissibilities. Tlie child is a broad, deep and grand problem which we are loo weak lo fully grasp. The l>csl we can do is lo be all wc would have our child to be, lo stand creel in our <iwn place, and hold aloft the light llml in Ihe darkness he may see the slunibling blocks, he may sec the sunshine and Ihe storm, and when tlie journey is fairly begun, each must sleer his own l-oal. Wc have inuny men and women, who, when they arrive at the age of maturily. arc twisted inl<i unnatural shapes, aiid their sliarp ai gles must be jostled and rubbed into sl-ai«; by coming in contact with solid facts, that nature gives us, for Ihe correction of those who are so un- fortunate fts to be forced into ill-lilting pallis by an unnatural training. Natural fitness for a vocation Ls a priceless ad- vantage; mental teiidenrh's usually manitrtsl themselves early. I'.ul there is u vast difference between u mere lient or taste for a pursuit and a lalenl or genius for It; and for this very reason many parentis make a sad mistake in pushing their children into a life of their osvn choosing. Too oflcn by moulding we perforin an act of roblMiry. Parents' love should not push and contixjl so much 'iLS it should inspire. Love must not fail to let the soul work out its own salvation. TO p*lnt YOtm HOCBB InM* and out with just the right toaoh of color for frathneaa, bMuty and â- trength. TO keep YOUR HOUBB oheer ful and brifeht thronghout sum- mer and winter. TO brand YOUR HOUBB with a quiet elegance amongst Its fel- lows. Price Just right for the purest and best. Write for our Post Card Series " C, " showing how some houses ere painted. A. EAMSAY t SON CO., • HMrtrMl, Bit. 1842 4S PAINT MAKERS tHE. RieKT PAUII â- nLanKT BiBirr MADE IN CANADA Complete Launches 2 and 4 Cycle Engines f^ HAMILTON MOTOR. WORKS. Ltd. HAMILTON. ONT. TO WASH wool, ni.ANKETS. Dissolve a cake of pure .S4)ap that has no salt or rosin, in it in a gallon tf water, by bfiiling. Have rofldy three tubs two-thirds full of cold water from the cistern. Into tub No. 1 pour two- thirds of your dissolved soap. Oiuv Ihird of the remainder put into tub No. 2. and enough into No. 3 to slightly linge the water; also stir into tubs Nos. T and 2 a tablesixKinful of ammonia <ir p<,wdered borax. I'laco a couple ft blankets into tub No. 1, and let soak from one-half to three-quarters of an hour; then rub any <lirly s|)ots lightly with Ihe hands, and wring wilh wringer into tub No. 2, putting other blankets to soak in tub No. 1, with a little more dissolved .sonp. Wring Ihe blankets from tub No. 2 lo No. 3. tlien into a bns- Uel, and hang iqion line iiiiniediatcly ly cne edge, and when half dry turn and hiing by opixisite (dge. Blankets wush- r^l In this way do nol shrink at all, and ore as fluffy ond soft as when new. Have used Ihe above method tor thir- teen years.â€" Mrs. T. E. Slubberlleld in the National Magazine for May. CHILDHOOD AIl.MKNTS. The mother who keeps Baby's Own Tabl^-ts In the home has a feehng t f security lliat tier child's health Is safe. These 'lahlets cure such ailments as o.ille, indigestion, constipation, diar- rhoea and slinpjo fevers'. They break up colds, destroy \*rii1s, make lc?lh- ing iiainless and give the child healthy natural sleep. .And the mother has Ihe* guarantee of a government analyst that the Tablets are absolutely safe. Mrs. Hoberl Watson. Comberniere, Onf., snys:â€" "I find Baby's Own Tablets just Ihe medicine needed to keep chirdren healthy.' Sold by all metlicine dealers or bv mail at 2.'S cents a ho\ from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Out. Scoffs Emulsion strengthens enfeebled nursing mothers by increasing their flesh and nerve force. It provides baby with the necessary fat and noineral food for healthy growth. ALL DRUQQI8T8I BOo. AND 91.00. PUBLISIIF.n FOB ENOACd'.D COUPLES. Switzerland has a newspaper specially f.»r engag«'(l c<iui>les, says Woman's Lite. Agents all over the country col- lect particulars concerning couples who have become eiigagtxl to Ih> married, and their names. odilrcssp.s, and parti- culars of their social ixisition appear in Ihis weekly journal. Every girl whose name is thus mentione<l receives the pajier for one year free, Ihe sulwerihers to It being chie'lly tradespeople who send adverlisemenls of their good^'lo those wliosc iiumos arc so published. WUFBE WOMEN BULE. In cerlain villages In I'inland tliere exists a ri^ligious .sect whose disci))les are forced not only lo marry, but alsti to lake a vow to submit lo the wife In nil things. The women chofise one of liieir niiiuler as leader, wlioso duly it is to sec thai the men behave Ihetn- selves, and to punish them U Ihey Iraiis- giess. UKEEN Sl'N OF I:GYI»T. ncason for Appeftrunre of Color in nclirs Itehilive lo I>eulh. Perhaps it is the 6un, and not Iho moon, lliat is made of gi-ecn cheese. The appearance of a green light at sun- oet, like many other phenomena sup- posed to bave only recently atlracled at- tention, wits noticed and comntenled upon by the ancient Egyptians, and more particularly so because in Ihe clear aif of Egypt Ihe tinlJ of sunset are pe- culiarly distinct. As the hun there descends neai\'r and nearer to the horizon, and is immensely enlarged and flaming, it suddenly be- comes, for an instant, a brilliant green color and immediately a series of red rays suffuses llie sky in any directinns, well nigh to the zenilh. The .same phe- nomenon appears at sunritie, but lo a smaller extent. Sometimes, jfisl as Iho lasl part of the sun's disk vanishes, its color changes from green lo blue, and S.1 also aflcr it has dteappeared the sky, near tlie tioriz<in often is green, while towards Iho zenilh it is blue. This was alluded to in Egyptian writ- ings. Day was ttio emblem of life and niglil that of death, and the nocturnal sun, being identilled wilh Osiris, thus rendered Osiris king of the dead. The setting sun was gri'en, therct<ire Osiris, as the nocturnal deity of Ihe dead, was painted green. The sjilendid Collins of llic, high priests of Amnion freiiuently de- picl the green sun and the funeral dei- ties are all coUu-ed green. I'liero are innuiiierable Instances in r the Egyptian relics of represenlalions relative' lo death bi'ing colored green. The praclice undoubtedly aro.sc from ttie' green lints of sunrise and sunseL The i-reen sun disk Is referred lo ->,(m yeai-s ago in Egvpl. Tills is the earliest known liuuian iwjrd of an astronomical ptieno- meiion. CALENDAR CL'RIO.SITIES. There are some curious facts aboul cur calendar. No century can Ix'gin on Wednesday, Friday, or S^unday. The same calendars can be used every years. October always begins on iho same day of the wcMi as January, Al.ril as July. September as December February, March and .November also be- gin on the same days. May, June and August always begin on different days from each other and fcoiii every other month in Ihe year. The first and lasl days of the year are always Ihe same. These rules di not apply lo leap-year, when roiiiiKirison is made between days before and after February 291h. THE GBE.\T CURE. The powers of hypnol ismâ€" derided by Pie faculty of halt a century ugo--are now found of the greatest value by doc- tors and surgwms. Many a patient, whilst in the mesmeric sleep, has g<ine without a pang through the most excru- ciating oiR'ralions <irâ€" more wonderful sIHlâ€" has challed nonchalanlly wilh the surgeon all the liim". 'I'he power of suggestion again is used with success in nuile another sphere-viz., Ihe cure <,f sea-sickness, of liysleria, and even of insanity. Drug lialiits, tcxi, soon yield to the troatnicnt, and we may, wiltiout a great stretch of imagination, Unik for- ward to the dav when Parlianienl will lake the drug slave in hand and gel him mesmerised into a healthier mode of living. SORE ACIHNG FEET SOOTHED HY ZAM-Ul'K. Men, women and girls engaged in stores, who have to be on their feet all day, often suffer agonies from chaf- ing .sores, soft corns, horny patches, etc. In oilier coses long stfuulLng and walking leads I) bad leg, varicose veins and ulcers. Zam-Buk takes the pain out of chafed sores, prevents suppura- tk)n and [xiison from stocking-dye, and generally heals. Mrs. k. Walkins. of 20 Forgue Ave- nue, Montreal, says: ".My boy Ixad a sore on his heel which was rubbed by hi.': s'oeking until 11 became a very bad w lUiid. Zam-Ruk took the soreness out almost inslanlly. and healed the wound uj' wonderfully.'' /am-Buk is eipially g<x)d for cuts, biuises, eczema, scalp sores. Itch, bar- ber's rash, bl<Kid poison and all skin Iniuiios and di-^cdses. .Ml stores and dru4{gists sell at bOc a box. r.ltll>l>LUD WITH SCIATICA. Made Well and SIronfl by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills .\(ter Doctors Had Failed. •Mr. II. W. Awall is one of tlio lead- ing merchanlii of Hemtord. .N. S.. .A tew years ago he was a great' sufferer from that most evciuciutiiig trouble sciatica. He says: "At Ihe time I was atnicted I was living at Baker .SelHe- mont. The attack was so severe lh:il I IkuI been off work for some lime. The ccrds of my leg were all drawn up and I could only limp akuig with the aid ot a stick. The pain f suffered was ter- rible. I was in misery both day an. I I'lght. Every moment caused me such pain as only those who liavc been Irir- lured with sciatica can know. I was treated by several doctors, but Ihey did not help me a bit. In fact I almost tic- gan to feel that my condilion was helpless, when Dr. Williams' IMiik Pill.s were brought to my allentioii. 1 got a halt dozen twxes. 1 had ii.'-eil almii' the entire quantily bef<iie 1 found anv bc-nefil. But 1 was cninuragcd and got a second half dozen l«xes and bet<irc these were all gone every vestige of ihe trouble had disapixMired. Nol oiilylhLs. but I was improved in health in every way, as it will be readily undeislood that Ihe long siege of pjin I had suf- fered had loft me badly run down. 1 can't s|x^ak too highly of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. I can't recommend them loo strongly to other sufferers." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cure sciali- 0-1 simply because they make the rich, red blood that soothes" and strenglhen.s Ihi jangled aching nerves. That is why they cure such nerve troubles os neuralgia, SI. Vitus dance and imrlial paralysis. That is why they cuie all ailmeiils due lo poor watery blood. That is why they make weary, dcsiion- d(nl. broken-down men and women bright, active! and siniiig. But only the grnuiiic pills can do Ihis. and Ihey have the full name. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills foi' Pale Pe<iple. on the wrapper around every Ixix. Sold by medicine dealers everywhere or by mail at SO cents a t-ox or six boxes for $2.50 by ad<ln«v^- ing Ihe Dr. Wilyliums' Mislicine Caj.. Brockville, Onl. TO MABBY AFTER FIFTY YEARS. A broken village c<iurlship has just bad an interesluig .sequel. Afler more than tifly years of seiiaration. Mrs. El- len Briggs. of Stevenage, Herts, is go- ing out of Australia lo marry Ihe lover oi her early days. Mrs. Briggs who is seventy-six ye^ars ot 8 ^e lost trace t f hei sweetheart, and has since been Ihreo times marrieil. The man himself has survival tour wives. Now he has com- municated wilh Ihe object of his youth- ful affections, and is anxious lo marry his .sweetheart of half a century ago- SOME USE. .\unt- "Ah, my dear, don't docciv* yours&ltl Fine feathers don't make fln< birdsl" Nieceâ€" "Perhaps not; but they mak« Jolly nice hats." 4 A Cliinese doctor's fee raiiges (rou { cents to 10 ceaUi.