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-X â€" rrrrr Hints for Busy Housekeepers. Keclp«> and Other Valuable Informatlco of Particular Interest to Women Polka. !\ FAVORITE RECIPES. Walnut Cream Dcsaort.--Piit half B cupful of rico in a double boiler on the back of the stove : allow it to cook slowly, '*'ith sufficient milk to swell it. T\'hile this is cooking pick out throc-fuurths of a cupful of blar.k valctit moats, criiKh them with l^ rolling pin, make boiled ruKtard 4f the yaUcs of three eggn, one-half cupful of sugar, and one quart of milk. When thick enough boat in the rice (when soft), and the valnut meats. Let it cool and fla- vor with vanilla. Serve as dessert with whipped crram, sprinkling wal- nut meats generously over the top. It also makes a delicious frozen des- sert. In case it is frozen place can- died cherries in a ring around the «>dge of the cup with nut meats in the center. Fruit Salad. â€" One-half dozen arangcs cut in small pieces, one can r>in*applc, cut fide, one pound Malaga grapes seeded and sliced, one cup nuts, one large bunch cel- ery cut in cubes, one bottle of Maraschino cherries; sweeten the fruits a short timo before serving. Pour all the juice off before put- ting the dressing on. For this amount use one pint whipped cream and into that mix the mayonnaise that two egga would make. Mix all tfigclhcr. Serve very cold. This quantity will serve eight or ten. ground, ane-fourth i)0UQd of salt ynrk; se»»»n with salt, pepper, aage a«€ paprika; boil a calf's tongue tondor ; put a layer of ground meat in deep oblong pan, then the cooked tongue (whole) ; ♦ hen pack in rest of meat, cover top witu cracker crumbs, and bits of butter, and one-half cupful of boil- ing water; set pan with loaf in a roaKtcr in which is enough water to steam; cook two hours; uncover fifteen minutes to brown. This dish Is pretty when sliced. Quick Escalloped Oysters. â€" For one quart oysters use one quart hot milk, and ono pint of cracker crumbs. Put a heaping tablespoon- lu! butter in a hot skillet, into wliich put the oysters until plump. Have three layers of crackers and two of oysters, pour the hot milk and m<lted butter over each layer of crackers, and season the oysters with salt and popper. On top lay- e- of crumbs put pieces of butter, and brown fifteen minutes in a hot oven. â€" OJace aiglish Walnuts. -Sift two iP^^Avtlfi i sugar with one-eighth uivaH>)a«|djfl of cream tartar. Add ono cd|BB of boiling water, set sauce pi&cn the stove, and stir un- til sugar 18 dissolved. Boil without stirring, carefully wiping away with n Bwab wet in cold water the cry- stals limt form on the sides of the pan, a* these will spoil the candy. When the syrup begins tg discolor remove ana instantly set the pan in a difh of cold water to stop the boiling. Remove at once and set in pan of hot water during the pro- ccH"! of dipping. Take halves of walnirts on a long pin or steel ske- wer and dip in syrup to cover, then place on oiled paper or greased plate. These candies are inexpen- sive and delicious but seldom seen pvon at the best confectioners. .Apple Dumplings.- Two cupfuh I f flour, one large table spoonful of lard, pinch of salt, one tcaspoon- ful of baking powder. Add milk enough to make a soft dough and roll out flat. Pare five or six tart small, mix with pecans, pour over all the juice of orange and lemon mixed. Line a salad bowl with cri.sp lettuce leave.'), heap salad in center, and serve. Lettuce Salad. â€" First pick over all the leaven and cut out the tough veins and bad spots, then wash well iii abuut three or fwur waters, after wluch place in a granite or earth- ei'! dish large enough to have plen- ty room to stir, then cut up a small onion fine over this and add a tca- F.poonful of salt, a cupful and a half of vinegar, and to about two bunch- es of leltuc' use one-half of a nick- el's worth of fat bacon cut up fine and tried out, pour over all last while still hot and stir well and cut up leaves to nbout one-half their rf gular size. Best eaten while still warm, and is always well liked by those who do not like lettuce fixed vith sugar and vinegar, an old re- cipe like mother used to make. Potato Salad.â€" Potato salad for four persons : Cook potatoes with skins on ; use the ones that don't burst open ; peel and cut up rather fine. Three cupfuls of potatoes, two tablespoonfuls of chopped on- ion, one tablespoonful chopped green pepper, one level teaspoon- ful of salt, one-fourth teaspoonful of ground white pepper. Toss this lightly with a fork until well mix- ed. Dressing : One half cupful of thick sweet cf%am, one fourth cup- ful of vinegar. Beat vinegar into the cream a little at a time ; pour over potatoes. Toss again lightly with fork. All ready to serve. Salad Help.â€" If you run short of chicken when making salad take pork chops and cook them in the broth. They will absorb the chick- en flavor and look the samo as the chicken. ferret out the slightest indication of grease, and your pickles will not keep. Should you go for the glue pot to mend a broken household treasure and find the glue is hardened, use a little vinegar to soften it; it is far better than water. To reinovp hardened glue around the finished task, use vinegar, too, otherwise you cannot call your mending neat. Vinegar will remove paint stains from the window glass, and when boiled with wormwood it will make a sovereign remedy for sprains, while every child knows that when you make taffy you must add a tea/- spoonful of acid if you want your candy to be crisp. So don't let the bottle get empty. at LITTLE HELPS. When a recipe calls for both fruit and nuts, mix thoroughly before passing through the food chopper. There will be no clogging, as there would be if the fruit is chopped alone. .\dd a few grains of rice to the salt when tilling the shakers and there will be no clogged shakers, no matter how damp the salt be- comes. To secure a lasting luster to the range or cook st <ve add vinegar to the stove polish. Dampen a square of chccsedolh with a furniture polish made of equal parts of sweet oil, vinegar and kerosene. It will brighten the fi'iost mahogany and makes floors and furniture look like newly waxed. Use an empty baking powder can to chop cooked potatoes when they are fried or warmed over for sup- per. It is more tiuiekly accomplish- ed than using a knife. A bag of tennis flannel cut loosely to fit the broom and held in place by a discarded round garter can be made in two or thre<- minutes. Cut to the selvedge is at the top and there will be only two seams to sew across bottom and at one side. Such a one costs but two or three cents. When boiling tongues add two cloves for each small or veal tongue, throe or four for a larger tongue. The flavor will bo found most c'e- lieious. Cilass Water Bottles.â€" Cut up a largo potato fine and put it in the Ix.ttle with some warm watt-r and a KING'S VI8IT COSTLY. The Tipping Evil, as Found Windsor Cafiile. It is not a cheap experience for a monarch to pay a visit to the King of England, aa young King Manuel of Portugal has found out. The habit of tipping servants at the close of vi-sits in England is of- ten mentioned as a cause of com- plaint, for so heavy are the fees expected that staying at a countrj' house becomes more expcn.sive than stopping at a very high-priced ho- tel. Wiad.sor Castle is no excep- tion in this respect, and a royal visitor is supposed to leave a trail of presents behind him at the close of his stay. There is not only the lump sum handed over for distri- bution among the lower servants, but also the diamond pins, jeweled cigarette cases and watches pre- sented to every one who ministers to the safety and luxury of the visi- tor. King Manuel seems to have done all that was expected of him in this rtspcct, though he will not, of course rank with certain sovereigns who have left a record for gener- osity at the castle. Windsor has its traditions of munificence, and royal seivants can toll one another the status of tlic late Shah, Na- poleon III., the Oerman Emperor and all the rest of the visitors there by the amount of their tips. Napoleon III. left a great impes- sion of generosity, but even he is outranked by the Emperor Nicho- las of Russia, who excelled all roy- al guests in his munificence. When hn left the castle he handed over $30,000 in tips to the servants, and he left nearly half as much again t) be distributed among various charities. Another very expensive affair for THE S. S. LESSON INTEBNATIOXAL LESSON, JAN. 9. LesBon II. Baptism and Tnaptation of Josns, Matt. 8. 13 (o 4. 11. Golden Tc.\t, Heb. 2. 18. Verse 13. Then cometh Jesusâ€" To get the point of this statement one must keep the background of the crowds coming to John's baptism. To be baptized of himâ€" Not con- fessing his sins, a.€ all the others had done, but for the purpose men- tioned in verse 15. 14. I have need to be baptized of thee â€" Though John and Jesus were closely related, it is not necessary it assume that John knew him. His very bearing was enough to convince the Baptist that here was no ordinary candidate, but One beside whom he was most unworthy. 1.5. It bccometh us to fulfil all righteousness â€" He must leave un- done nothing which had been re- vealed as the will of God. The symbolical act of baptism would not necessarily mean the same to all who submitted to it. While, to most, it meant a break with the past, and an entrance upon a bet- ter life, to Jesus it meant an en- trance upon "a new phase of the acconiidishnicnt of his mission." Thus it took the place of the anoint- ing which marked the assumption of their duties by the kings of old. But, by submitting to this ordin- ance, ho was numbered among transgressors. 17. The Spirit of God descending as a doveâ€" We learn from John 1. 32 that the vision was given to John aa well as to Jesus; whether the multitude saw it or did not see it »T are not told. The dove is a fit- ting symbol of the Spirit, because of its gentleness and innocence. A voice . . . saying. This is my beloved Sonâ€" The voice and the vision were a complete disclosure of the Messiaship of Jesus. By a Jew no fuller attestation that he was not the applause of the gaping crowd but the homage of believing hearts. From one of his favorite books, Deuteronomy, he refutes the suggestion of Satan, showing that he cannot expect the shelter of God in such a selfish and spectacular course. 8-10. Finally, the devil taketh him to an excceeling high mountain, from whose height he beholds Jeri- cho, the City of the Palms; west- ward the shining minaretes of the holy city ; on all sides the land of Israel ; the roads leading to Da- mascus, Persia, Egypt, Arabia, and the Mediterranean coast. Here was the vision at least of all the king- doms of the world, whose glory was unquestioned. The people were looking for a victorious king who should liberate Israel from the hated yoke and restore, in greater splendor, the throne of David. Doubtless, also, it was in Satan's power to give Jesus these things, in this way : His acceptance of the earthly kingship would be equiva- lent to his consenting to fall down and worship Satan ; for his ordain- ed course was not one of comprom- ise with evil but of the worship and single service of God. His answer t.i the question as to the kind of kingdom he should establish was that it should be an alliance with God for spiritual ends, not with evil for a worldly kingship. 11. Then the devil Icavethâ€" In the threefold temptation he had ex- hausted the avenues of approach to the soul of Jesus, whom he found unassailable. Angels ministered unto himâ€" The ministry of angelic spirits seems to have been precious to Jesus (Luke 22. 43). It ought to be a comfort to all Christians to know that the family of God in heaven have an abiding interest in all that per- tains to our human lot. POISONED SOUP. French Corporal .ittenipts to Kill Eighty Coiiirndcs. Eighty men of the Eighth Regi- ment of Hussars, in garrison at Verdun, Fj'ance, have, by the mer- est accident, escaped death by pois CONCESSIONS TO INDIA SYNOPSIS OF BILL PUBLISHED IN GAZETTE. The Viceroy and Governmeiit ot India Have Worked Out New Scheme. The great reform schema which Lord Minto has been working out in conjunction with the Govern- ment of India and the Indian Of- iico for over three years, has at last taken definite form. A special Gazette was published in Calcutta recently consisting of 450 pages, from which the following facts aro gleaned ; THE IMPERIAL COUNCIL. The Imperial t'ouncil will consist of si.xty-eight members in each of the Provincial Councils will be as fo)lov/8 : Bengal, 51 ; Madras, 48 j Bombay, 48 ; the United Provinces, 49; Eastern Bengal and Assam, 43; the Punjab, 27 ; Burmah, 18. The Viceroy's Council has an of- ficial majority of three, while the Provincial Councils have non-offi- cial majorities ranging from four- teen in Bengal to three in Burmah. In the Viceroy's Council the Ma- hometans will have in the first Council si.x members elected by purely Mahometan electorates. All members are required to take the oath of allegiance to the Crown before sitting on any of the Coun- cils, and no person is eligible for election if the Imperial or a Pro- vincial Government is of opinion that his election would be contrary to public interest. This provision takes the place of the old power to reject members se- lected by the electorato. THE PEOVINCIAL COUNCILS The new Provincial Councils will assemble early in January, and the Imperial Council in the course of that month. The Gazette states : "It is a source of great satisfac- tion to the Viceroy and to his Council that the deliberations,; was the Messiah could be asked than I oning. The^ 80 men had just sat , ^.j^j.^ have extended over the »reat vi -j.rt-i n •„( „ «l'ake it rapidly until it is clean. a^vUar *hce on dotigli, t«11 into a ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^,,^, ^^,j„^ ^.^t ^^.ta ball, and put into a pan. lake •»»»*K'â€" • ^^^^ „,oro effectual, and a half cupfuls of sugar, one and a half cupfuls of water, a lit- tle, nutmeg, let it come to a boil, pour over the dough dumplings, bake three-quarters of an hour in hot oven, keep covered the first fifteen minutes. SALADS. New Salad.â€" Arrange crisp let- tuce on each salad plate, and upon this grate a sufficient quantity of Roquefort cheese. Over this squeeze orange juice. Apple Salad.â€" Secure large red or green apples, with stems on if •possible. Wash and polish them up. Cut off the tops with a sharp knife and scoop out the centres. ( ut the apple that has been scooped • lit in small cubes add a stalk or two of celery and a handful of large green grapes. Cut oil up in small pieces, and, if desired, a few Kng- IikIi walnuts chopped fine. Mix all well with mayonnaise. Fill the cen- ters of the apples and place the top on each one. Garnish with large grape leaves or lettuce. A bow of ribbon, any desired color, may be tied on each stem. ThiK is an at- tractive salod, and adds greatly to make up a pretty luncheon. Do not prepare this salad until ready to servo. The ingredients may be hcpt cold in the icebox until ready to prepare. Fruit Salad.- Five lurgo apples, two bunches of celery, one half ciip- fu' of pecan kernels, juice and pulp cif one, orange, juice of one l.Miion. Pure and dic«j apples, cut celery Fltttiron Help.-- When ironing try setting the iron on a heated br;>'k instead of a perforated flatiroa stand. The iron will keep hot much longer, which will save time. To Clean Rugs.â€" Lay them out straight anrt brush with a stiff dry scrubbing brush. You will be sur- prised at the amount of dirt to Cfinio out in this way, which is much bet- ter than shaking or bc.^t^ng- Celery.â€" If you find your celery i., tough, squeeze the juice of a le- mon over it and let it stand for ten or fifteen minutes. VINEGAR HELPS. How little hou.sckerpcrs know about the chemical action of acids and the result they may obtain by the intelligent use of the provisions already in the house ! Take, for iu- stanoe, vinegar. Surely every one's cupboard conceals a bottle of this useful acid, for the cook always needs it. But even some cooks do ii' <â-  know how useful it is in other n.iyT beside supplying acid for the Bbliid dressing. When cooking cabbage or other vegetables where the odorous steam is likely to permeate the house, a cup of vinegar allowed to simmer on the back ot the stove will make an aroma which will neutralize the other. This is a nice bit of infor- ivation to renumVjer. When pickling do not expect to >ise jars in which greasy substances have been kept. If yon do all your careful nieasurcinents will have been taken in vain, for vinegar can to-morrow." the King of Portugal was becom- ing a Knight of the Garter. He had to purchase all his insignia, of course, with the exception of the ribbon and the actual garter. The star of the order is the most costly item, and he had to spend on this not less than $10,000. The star that was worn by the Earl of Bca- ecjusficld was sold after his death foi- $00,000 and there are several knights of the order to-day who carry a small fortune on their breasts when wearing their robes and insignia. The collar of the order is another targe expense, and then there are the disbursements th.at have to be made to the various officials of the garter. Every one who can pre- tend even remotely to have taken .share in the investiture seems to look upon the new knight as his prey and bills for fees set out in true commercial fashion soon pour in upon him. * • .TROUT WITH A HISTORY. . Had Tr.avolled Thousands of Miles in Tank of an Engine. The mascot of the Inverness (Scotland) railway men passed away last week, in the shape of a brown trout, whose life history vv a. s somewhat peculiar, says the Fiold. The fish had been landed at Mill- burn by t.n son cf Mr. McDouald, engine driver, was kept alive, and soon became a great pet. Upward of ten years ago the engine driver nad it irriarfeii' (I to tho tank ot his engine, and it has since passed a somc'vbal curicus existence in the tanks ot three separate railway engines. "The trout was so tamo it would feed from tho engine driver's hand and when a pail was dropped into the tank to take it out would flop into it at once. Occasionally the driver took his pet home with him, and on the last occasion that ho did so an accident happened â€" a box of matches had fallen into the tank, with the result that the trout wos poisoned. The trout is lamented by all tho railway men. It travelled during, its stay in tho engine tank thousands of miles, and once when there was a snow block and the water ran down was only saved by pouring water sparingly over it. Tho fish was a beautifully spotted specimen. Its ten years residence in a railway tank had made it fam- ous, and it is intended to tiaiipfer it to some museum. Judge -"How old are vou ?" Wit- ness (a ladv)-"Thirty." Judgeâ€" "Thirty? I have heard yon give the same ago in this court for the last three years." Witnessâ€" "Y'es ; I am not one of those persons who ^«y one thing to-day and another this voice calling him Son of God In whom I am well pleasedâ€" This would make it impossible to clas- sify Jesus with the multitude who, wliile being b.aptizcd, were con- fessing their sins. The words also imply that those who arc found in him arc also well pleasing to God. This and the preceding verse con- stitute a strong scriptural support of the doctrine of the Trinity. Chapter 4, verse 1. Led up of the Spirit â€" Indicating that this momen- tous event in the life of our Lord was specifically ordained of God (compare Hcb. 2. 10). Into the wildernessâ€" The wild desert waste west of Jordan was infested with wild beasts. "The temptation of the first Adam took place in a garden, that is, in a uni- verse as yet unspoiled by sin. The temptation of tho second Adam took place in a wilderness, that is, in a world rendered desolate by his fall, and tho ultimate effects of his victory will be to make it a garden again." Tempted of the devilâ€" The exist- ence of a personal power of evil is plainly taught by Jesus. It is ex- tremely difficult to conceive of an impersonal o\il force existing in opposition to the purpose of God. Some will find it easier to think ot Satan confronting Jesus face to fnce on the threshold of his minis- try, for the decisive struggle, while others will think of his tempting Jesus merely through evil sugges- titm. Allowance must be made for Oriental metaphor 2. He had fasted forty days and forty nights-Luke and Matthew differ as to the order of the temp- tations, but there seems to be no attempt to give them a strict chron- ological order. 3. If thou are the Son of God-- An expression of doubt as to his Mossiahship. Command that these stones be- come broadâ€" The problem of Jesus was how to gain ascendency over men, and what sort ot ascendency it was to be. First, he is tempted to build his kingdom on bread. Why shoulei he, possessed of superhuman powers, perish in this wilderness for want of foodi 4 Man shall not live by bread alone â€" His mission could be fulfill- ed only by his obedience to tho will ot God. To use his miraculous pow- er for his own advantage would be to set up his will as against the Father's. By accepting this con- dition he proved his utter willing- ness to share the full hvnnan con- flict. Dxity became more than food. 5-7.â€" The second temptation was to gain the ascendency over the souls of men by dazzling their sen- ses (Denn«y). TSie crowds would ba gathered at the pasBover feast, and his casting himself headlong from the dizzy height of the tem- ple parapet would awaken the wonder of people who loved mar- vels and sought a sign. Would not his Father's angels bear him up on their hands, according to the prom- ise of tho ancient psalm, and he bo preserved from danger 1 But Jesus shrank from any such cut to do- minion over men. What he desired down to table, and the soup had been served, when the peculiar odor it gave forth aroused their suspicion. They refused to touch it. The matter was :it once reported tj the colonel, who ordered an an- alyyis to be made. The soup was found to contain cyanide of potas- sium in such quantities that if the Hussars had oaten it the whole 80 would have been dead within a quarter of an hour. Every man of the squadron was at once carefully searched, and in tho trousers' pocket of one traces of cyauide were found. The man | was questioned, and declared that h:3 had lent his trousers for four days to a lance-corporal. The j lance corporaFs belongings were carefully overhauled, and among them was discovered a valuable cigaretta case which had been sto- len from one of the officers. Further nequiry elicited the fact that the lance-corporal in question had some time previously borrowed 150f. ($30) from a young soldier who had been pressing him to pay tho money back, and he had also bor- rowed money from other men of his squadron. It is conjectured that the debtor hit upon poison as the surest means of getting rid of his creditors. It has been proved that on the day th.; soup was served out tho lance- corporal was ne>ticp,d several times in the kitchen looking into the pot in which the food was cooking. Be- ing asked what he was doing, he re- plied, "I am seeing it there are po- tatoes inside." The corporal has been arrested. DIED OF STAUVVTION. in re- Sad End ot a Solicitor's Clerk London, England. Pathetic evidence was given cently in London at the inquest held on Charles Richard Harrington, aged 78, who died from sheer star- vation. "Until last Christmas my hus- band was a solicitor's clerk," tho widow stated, "and we were in comfortable circumstances. Then he was dischargetl from his employ- ment because of his ago. "We sold up our home and went into one room. My husband ob- tained an old-age pension of 5s. a week, and we have since lived on that. "I denied myself everything for his sake," she added, weeping, "but no doubt he missed the good living we had been used to. During the last few weeks he had a littl<> extra nourishment owing to the kindness of a friend." "You will be worse off now," the coroner remarked, "as you will uot even have the pension money." "Death was due to sheer starva- tion," said Dr. Stubbs, of Brixton Hill. "The bodv was totally devoid of fat." Tho jury handed their fees to the widow, and Dr. Stubbs, who had brought her to the coroner's court in his motor car, add«d a piece of gold to the sum. er part of Lord Minto's Viceroyal- ty, have achieved their purpose be-' fore his Excellency lays down his, office*. "The maximum strength of the Councils was 12G; it is now 370. Tborc are now 135 elected menribers against thirty-nine, while an elect- ed member will sit as of right, need- ing no official confirmation. "The functions ot the Councils are greatly enlarged. Members can demand further information in reply to formal answers, and dis-; cussions will be allowed on all raat»' ters of public interest. PEOPLE WILL HAVE SAY. "They will a!.*o in future bo en- abled to take a real and active part in shaping llaancial proposals. "They will have liberal opportunity to cri- ticize and to initiate and suggest definite resolutions. "The Governor-General foelslhat these momentous changes consti- tute a generous fulfilment of the gracious intention forshadowed in the King-Emperor's message to en- trust the leaders of the Indian peo- ple with a greater share in legisla- tion. "The Government confidently looks forward to those extensive powers being loyally and wisely used, in association with the hold- ers of the executive authority, to promote the prosperity and con- tentment of all classes of this great country." * LASSOED IN THE AIR. Soldier Carried 13.000 Feet High bj Balloon Trial Rope. Hans Auspitz, a young soldier of, the German army, went through a- remavkaVj'.e experience at Gocttin-| gen whither he had been despatch-^ ed by tho colonel of his regiment to assist at the ascent of the bal-' loon Segler. Ho and some other soldiers of the same regiment were holding the tow rope.s of tho balloon before the ascent. When tho commander ot the balloon gav<: the order to let go .A,u8pilz alone among his comrades failed to loosen his hold in time. Tho balloon, liberated from tho group of soldiers, rapidly ascended, and the unfortunate .Auspitz was carried up holding by two hands t;i the rope. The three men in tho cage of the balloon were for some minutes the only persona who were unaware of Auspitz'a plight. Finally their at- tention was drawn to hiu d.inger- ous situation. With great difticuHy they succeeded in dragging him into the cage by looping ropes- and las- sooing him in mid-air. The balloon had reached a height i|f 1,3,000 feet! before .Auspitz was hoisted into the cage. i The balloon landed safely some hours later more than a hundred miles from the .starting point. 1 IN A SHOWER. "May I offer you my umbrella and ray escort homel' "Many thanks, I will tak« th« umbrella."