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33B Hints for Busy Housekeepers. Rcdpes and Other Valuable informatlos •f Particular Ixcrett to Womea FoIIca WITH CORN MEAL. Com Meal Dodgers. â€" Two cups Ine whii.e corn meal, one table- ipoonful sugar, two eggs, one tea- ipoonful butter or lard, half lea- ipoonful salt, three tablespoon bLs rich milk, boiling water. Mix and «ift corn meal, salt and sugar; add sufficient boiling water to wet I he meal, but not to make it soft; add butter and milk ; when cold add the yolks beaten very light; then cut and fold in tho whites beaten stiff. The batter should drop readily from the spoon, but not thin enough to pour nor stiff enough to be scraped from the bowl. Shape in oval cakes, and lay in a hissing hot, well greased dripping pan, and bake in a very hot oven until brown and puffed; split, butter and serve with fried salt pork with cream sauce. Rioe Corn Cakes.â€" Three-fourths cup corn meal, one cup white flour, four teaspoonfuls baking powder, four tablespoonfuls sugar, one tea- spoonful salt, one cup thin cream, two eggs, one tablespoonful melted butter. Mix and sift the dry in- gredients, add cream slowly, beat- ing continually, add melted butter and eggs beaten very light. Pour .mixture into a shallow well but- tered pan and bake 20 minutes in a hot oven. Spider Corn CakB.â€" Three-fourths cup corn meal, fourth cup flour, two tablespoonfuls sugar, one tea- spoonful salt, one teaspoonful soda, half cup sweet milk, onf ^^^ w il beaten, half cup »- • rni'i. '.wo tablespoonfuls mel''M ijut'A.-r, iij.li cup sweet milk. Sift together, corn meal, flour, su^^ir, ,il:, and soda. Add half cup sweet uiiik and egg well beaten. Add sour milk and butter. Mix thoroughly and pour into well buttered hot spider. Pour half cup sweet milk carefully over th« top of corn cake. Cook 10 minutes on top of range and 20 minutes in the oven. Corn Meal Sponge Muffins.â€" Half cup corn meal, one cup scalded milk, one tablespoonful butter, half teaspoonful salt, four tablespoon- fuls sugar, one-fourth cup flour, two tablespoonfuls baking powder, two eggs. Add corn meal to scald- «d milk, add butter and salt, let <X)ok until thickened ; cool ; add ^sugar and eggs beaten very light, flour sifted with baking powder; beat 2 minutes. Pour into hot but- tered iron gem cups and bake 20 minutes in hot oven. "Pete's" Com Meal Griddle Cakes. â€" Two cups corn meal, one cup flour, two eggs well beaten, one teaspoonful salt, one and a half teaspoonfuls soda, two an<l a half cups buttermilk or loppered milk. Mix and sift corn meal, flour and lalt, add eggs, mix well. Dissolve loda in milk ; add to first mixture. Beat thoroughly and fry at once. [f allowed to stand too long mix- ture thickens ; may be thinned by adding more milk The sour milk DC 'mj .U!i. liutkTBiilk is best ff â- < ftrjx'tws. ua..; . oi-^- â- >t Coin Cakeâ€" Onc- tourth cup corn woal, one tea- spoonful butter, two teaspoonfuls «ugar, one-half teaspoonful salt, ithree eggs, two cups scalded milk. Stir meal into scalde<l milk, add «alt and let cook until mixture is slightly thickened, add butter and sugar ; add yolks beaten very light- ly, lastly cut and fold in the whites of eggs beaten stiff. Pour into but- tered pudding dish, bake i,i:irty )ninutes in hot oven. Serve from baking dish with spoon. Southern Spoon Corn Bread. â€" Pour two cups boiling water over one cup corn meal, cook five min- utes, stirring continually. Add one tablespoonful butter, two eggs well beaten, one cup milk, one teaspoon- ful salt ; beat thoroughly, pour in- to well greased baking dish and bake thirty-five minutes in hot oven. Serve from the dish in which It is bakel. CANDY. Corn Taffy.â€" Take a 10 cent can of syrup, one cupful brown sugar, two tablespoonfuls vinegar, one tablespoonful butier; boil until it snaps in water. Pour on to a but- tered platter and pull. Vanilla Cream.â€" Break into ft bowl the whites of one or more eggs, as the quancity you wish to make will require; add to it an equal (luantity of cold water, then stir in powdered sugar until you have it stiff enough to mold into shape with the fingers. Flavor with vanilla to taste. After it is formed into balls, cubes, or lozenge shape, lay them upon plates or waxed paper and set them aside to dry Hiis cream can be worked in can- dies similar to th6 French cooked cream. THE LAUNDRY. To Whiten Linen. â€"Linen that fcas become yellow with ag» may be made beautifully white by boil- iag it in a lather made of one found of wt>ite soap to one gallon of milk. After boiling rinse in two waters, add bluing to the last water. Ironing Hint.â€" While ironing stand on a piece of old carpet or folded comfort and the feet will not get so tired. « Ironed Clothes.- Stretch a wire line across your clothes closets and across your kitchen ; purchase a lot of coat hangers. On ironing day put the baby's freshly ironed pet- ticoats on a coat hanger and a dress the same length over it, and hang it on the wire. In ironing grown folks' clothes do the same way, and push them along the wire out of your way. When through ironing remove and hang in your closets on the wire, which is a space saver and prevents rumpling, and you have a complete suit with- out hunting out the two garments. It also saves so many handlings of the < clothes. WORTH KNOWING. Toast water is a soothing and healing drink during bronchitis. Cheap cuts of meat can be serv- ed palatably in stews and cro- quettes. After trimming, turn the wick of a lamp below the burner or the oil will ooze. A sick room should never be made a thoroughfare or gathering place for the family. Whenever the throat becomes ir- ritatcKl a gargle of salt water is ni<j.st excellent. Mud stains can be removed from black cloth by rubbing them with a raw potato. One teaspoonful of lemon juice in a small cup of black ooffee will help a bilious headache. A boiled egg which is done and dries quickly on the shell when taken from the water is fresh. Dried lemon peel sprinkled over coals will destroy any disagreeable odor about the house. Paperhanger's paste is made by adding a teaspoonful of powdered alum to every pound of flour. Matting may be cleaned with salt water, applied with a ..mall brush. Rinse and dry thoroughly. If the handle of the spoon used for basting meats and fowls be bent close to the bowl of the spoon it will "dip up" . asily. If you will bend the point of your paring knife you will find it muoh easier to remove eyes from pota- toes, pineapples, etc. If a little baking powder is sift- ed with the flour of which pie crust is made it will be more healthful and require less shortening. Most efficient and serviceable dust cloths may be made from stockings that are no longer mend able by splitting and sewing to- gether. To remove a glass stopper which has become fixed in a bottle plunge the bottle into hot water for a short time. The glass will expand and release the stopper. To make soup meat balls, put cooked soup meat, cold boiled pota- toes and onions in the food chop- per, add pepper and salt to taste, form into balls, press flat and fry brown. Keep gelatine covered when you are soaking it for a sweet ; a piece of glass makes an excellent cover, and quite prevents any dust or garms settling ou this tempting sur- face. In a convenient spot in the kit- chen keep a box of new wood tooth- picks for uso in testing bread and cake when baking. The old way of using a broom straw is, to say the lea.st, unsanitary. When boiling oomething which boils over easily, place a stick of wood across the top of the vessel, and it simply can't boil over; try it and see. Exceptionally large vessels use two sticks. If you object to the thick, hard crust ou baked potatoes, put a dish of cold water in the oven when they are being bake<'. • The moisture will do much toward keeping the skin of the potato aoft. Bathe chilblains in very hot water, as hot as can be borne, and rub well with paraffin and ums- tard, and they will soon disappear. This remedy has Deen trie<.t vith success when other remedies failed. In making sandwiches, bear in mind that all crusts are amoved with a sharp knife, and that but- ter just melte<l but not piping hot, can be spread with a fine paint brush much better than firmer uut- tor with a knife. Hard water is rendered soft and pure, rivaling distilled water, by merely boiling a two ounce bottle say, in a kettle of water. The car- bonate of lime and many impurities will be found adhering t<i the bot- tle. The water boils much quicker at the same time. How a man does admire people who let out a laugh at his jokes ! The proof of the auto is the bill for repairs. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JAN. 8. Lesson IT. â€" Jeroboam Makes Idols for Israel to Worship, I. Kings 12. 25 to 13. 6. Uoldea Text, E.\o«i. 20. 4. Verse 25. Penuel â€" The name means "face of God," from Gen. 32. 30. The place is connected his- torically with the three names of Gideon, Jacob, and Jeroboam. Its chief feature was a strong tower (Judg. 8. 8-17), anu it was this that Jeroboam rebuilt. His purpose in doing so was to strengthen himself against a possible) invasion from tho desert tribes on the east. 26. Now will the kingdom return â€"He apparently forgot, or placed little reliance in, the promises which Jehovah had made to him (L Kings 11. 38). A fear arosp. in his heart that his people, attract- ed by the glories of the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem (27), might at last, from going three times a year to the feasts, turn again un- to .. . Rehoboam, king of Judah. His fear was also personal, as well as patriotic, for he saw that, if the people turned to Rehoboam, he himself might be tho victim of some treacherous assault such as was made upon Ishbo;>heth (2 Sam. 4. 7)). 28. Made two calves of gold â€" "He broke the second commandment under pretense of helping the peo- ple to keep the first." His mo- tive, despite his plea that he wisli- ed to relieve the people of the bur- den of the long journeys to Jeru- salem, is evident in what he said in his heart (26). Political a3c--.idancy and personal safety were his first concern. We are compelled to de- tect, under all his outward acti- vities in behalf of the religious needs of his people, the shrewd de- vices of worldly policy. Behold thy gods â€" Doubtless he had no desire to establish an idola- trous system. He seems to have been a believer in a personal acti- vity of Jehovah. The calves, or young bulls, would serve as suribols and reminders of the strength of their God, and were perhaps copi- ed from the calf set up by Aaron in the wilderness. They would hardly come from Jeroboam's resi- dence in Egypt, as some suppose, inasmuch as the bulla worshipped were alive. The two images were alike and represented, of course, only one God. They were really in- tended to encourage the worship of Jehovah, the sin of the king being the substitution of political expedi- ency for faith in God. 29. Beth-el â€" An ancient sanctu- ary of the Israelites, connected with the names of Abraham and Jacob, and with the capture of Ai (Josh. 7 and 8). The importance of this shrine increased with the advance of the northern kingdom, reaching the zenith of its greatness under Jeroboam II, when it is called "a royal house and sanctuary of the kingdom" (Amos 7. 13). Dan â€" As Beth-el was at one end of the kingdom, only twelve miles from Jerusalem, so Dan was at the other. It had been, from earliest times, "the seat of a chapelry and ephod served by the lineal descend- ants of Moses in unbroken succes- sion." It does not reappear in the Bible after the invasion of Benha- dad (1 Kings 15. 20). Its history thereafter is obscure. 30. This thing became a sin ~ It resulted in a lowering of the relig- ious ideals and worship of Israel, a gradual degeneracy which at length comes in for the sternest reproba- tion on the part of the prophets, particularly Amos and Ho.sea. •'The whole subsequent history is a record of the mode by which, with the best intentions, a church and nation may be corrupted." 31. Houses of high places â€"l^olh the Canaanites and early Tsrao'iteB used to worship on hiUtjps, pio- bably as bringing them netirer tht supposed dwelling place .'f Jeho- vah. Though the law prescribe<l a restricted f(jrm of worship, the u^*e of high places for burning sacri- fices and other religious litcs was continued till the time of Heze kiah. Priests . . . not of tr.e son.i ( f Leivi â€" According to the Dcuterciio- mic law, the priesthood was re- stricted to the Levites. Jeroboam may have felt that he was acting from necessity, because of the mi- gration, in large numl>crs, to the soufli. of Levites who pret.^rrjd to abide by the worship of Jer.isalem .\t any rate, both David and Solo- mon. Ijefiire this, had treated hjhkv what indifferently the matter of priestly rights. 32. A feast in the eighth monthâ€" This irregularity, according to *he law, was an act of arbitrary .vill- fulness, as the set time for observ- ing the feast of the tabernacles was the seventh month. But, as tr.e vintage was later in the north, ihe condemnation of Jeroboam ought not, perhaps, to be too harsh. It only goes to show, that, having adopted a wrong policy, a man be- comes involved in other sins as a consequenco Chapter 13. Verse 1. Jeroboam was standing by the altarâ€" Ho was himself officiating as priest. 2. He cried against tlie .altar â€" He said nothing about the other forms and signs of religious degen- eracy. Who he was is not record- ed, perhaps because his name had been forgotten after the lapse of so many years. But he was the first stern voice of disapproval, coming from across the border, and, by de- nouncing the altar, showing the di- vine disfavor against the entire new system of worship established by Jeroboam. Josiahâ€" For the fulfillment of this, read 2 Kings 23. 15-20. It is unlike the regular method of He- brew prophecy to mention a name in this way. "The theory is that this name was added many years e-fter, when the prophecy had come to ful- fillment. AN ANTISEPriC HEIRESS. Extreme Care Taken of Girl Who Will Have $25,000,000 Betty Tanner, daughter of John 8. Tanner, artist, and grandfather of Abraham Archibald Anderson, i'l being reared in a thoroughly antiseptic manner in Los Angeles, Cal. It is most esnential that she reach womanhood, hecause she will inherit a fortune â- >! $25,000,000. At present, however, she doesn't know anything about cents or dol- lars. She is versed only in •• .(i. septics. Everything she eats â-  drinks, touches or smells is thor- oughly sterilized before it is put near her. Even the air she breathes in her bedroom is filter- ed. The toys she plays with are antiseptic, and if she wants to make mud pies, why, antiseptic mud is put before her. Her play books are fumigated and she has been taught to study the thermom- eter, to be assured that when she goes out for a walk or a ride the temperature is adapted to her con- dition. LIKE TO WALK IN PL'DDLES.IkING GEORGE'S CORON.iriON Man Tries to Ascribe a Reason for ThLi Fancy of Boys, "It may not bo a matter of grave moment," said a grown up man, "but 1 would rather like to know why small boys liko to walk in mud puddles. "I don't refer now to th« boy in rubber boots; his motives in waJ- in)j; in puddles and in deeper water I can understand. He is proud of his waterproof boots and be likes to surfeit himself with the delightful consciousness and proof that they are waterproof; he likes to brave and pass unscathed the perils of the deep waters of the gutters after a heavy rain ; though with his first bi'i-ts anyway he in likely to overdo th)., a little, to keep on trying to see how deep ho can go till at last he steps inUj a place a little deeper than the rest and gets his boots fill- e<i. "Still, 1 can understand the boy and his rubber boots, but I don't Some of the .incient Castoms Which Survive to I'his Day. The crowning of the King of Eng- land has usually been accompanied by what was regarded as tiie still more solemn rite of anointing with oil, which dates from the days <4f the ancient Hebrews. And in EBtf> land, before the Norman conquest, the term used was '"hallowing," or consecration, rather than that of coronation. But from old records it seemt that the ceremony as then perform- ed at Winchester was in all essea> tials the same as that which now takes place in Westminster Abbey. Few people seem to be aware, says the Queen, that the coronation ce- remony was tho only religious rite of the Anglican Church which es- caped the pruning policy of the Re- formers.' Hence ito impressive rio. tual and gorgeous pageotries. The last coronation at which eT- ^, , ,. , , ery Old World ceremony was duly quite see through his fancy for , farmed was that of King George walking or stepping m puddles gen- ^y ^^ ^is crowning a coronatioa erally when he has leather shoes on Maybe here too it is because lie likes to take risks, or perhaps it is because of his innate defiance of rule and convention. "A bunch of small boys will one after another try jumping over a puddle to see if they can clear it, and then sooner or later one is sure to come <iiivrn within the edge of the banquet took place, there was a procession of peers, the herb strew- er scattered flowers and the chal- lenge of the champion of England was included in the ceremony. But at the coronatioM of William IV., Queen Victoria and King Edward these old customs were for various reasons omitted. However, much remains that is BELGIUM'S DRUNKARDS. One Every Drinking Place to Thirty-four People. Statistics just published show that there are in Belgium 811,617 "estsminets," or places where drink is sold, averaging one such place to every thirty-four inhabit- ants. Every yeai 200,000 cas«a of illnesses are occasioned by excess of drink, 2,000 of which result in death. "There are from 600,000 to 800,000 beggars â€" brought to that state by intemperance. Fifty per cent, of the suicides and seventy-five per cent;, of the case-s of iniprisonuicut can be at- tributed to alcohol. In twenty- five years the consumption of al- cohol has increased fifty-four per cent. The recortl for "estamin- ets" is held by the small hamlet of Sivry, with 2,000 inhabitants, there being 163 â€" all doing excellent busi- ness â€" or an average of one to every sixteen inhabitants. j«J wHtvr. But that doeank disturb L{ ^^^p interest and stately splen- v„i. on liio contrary he rather en- dor. The dean and chapter o< that experience, and then you I Westminster claim the right to in- may see the bunch wind up by all | struct the sovereign in the duties running or walking through the Lf ^jiig goiemn service, and on coro- wator^ Why do they do this, get- nation day the regalia are deliver- tmg their shoes wet and muddy and | ^ into their custody, getting them wet causing them to According to old records £100 wear out the sooner, to say nothing -^ p^^^ f^r the anointing oil supplied of causing their mothers care and by the royal apothecary. The core- worry not only over shoes and stockings. But all boys like to slush through mud puddles, and for that matter so do some older peo- ple, too. "I like myae.i when I have on rubbers to walk right ahead re- gardless of the pools of water on the sidewalk. In fact, I am likely to step in them deliberately if they are not too deep, so that I may get the water over my rubbers to wet my feet. I like to slash ahead un- hampered and really in doing this simple little free action I find en- joyment. And I guess it is a sense of this sort that makes the boy find a pleasure in. .<!campering or stamp- ing or walking through mud pud- dles ; h« likes to take the risk and see how much water he can get in- nation chairs are of interest. Thai of the King is the chair of Edward the Confessor, used by every Brit- ish sovereign since the time of "EA- ward II. It is of oak, and is re- covered with fresh crimson velvet on each occasion. Beneath it is placed the storTe of destiny, an ancient relic which came original- ly from Ireland. « NO DREAMS FOR MAND.\RIN„ Awakeniu;; of China Hai Brnughi Great Chanees. The reforming of the political as* pect of China lias brought with it some changes in social conditions and it seem;, as though many mora were to follow. Among those who to without getting his feet wet, but have felt these changed conditions the thing he likes best about it is its defiant unfettered freedom." SERMONS. » seldom peace- BLOWN UP. Meekly made up his mind that he was not going to be dictated to any longer by his wife, so when he went homo at noon he called out imperi- ously to the servant: "Laura! Laura '." Mrs. Meekley came out of the kitchen. "What do you want with Laura?" she asked. Meekly staggered, but braced up. "I want you to understand, ma- dam' â€" and he tappe<l his breast dramatically â€" "thi»c I am the en- gineer of this establishment, that I am " "Oh, you are, are you? Well, Joseph. I want you to understand that I" â€" and she looked dangerous â€""I am tho boiler that might blow up and pitch the engineer over in- to the next street. T^o you hear the steam escaping, Joseph J" Joseph hcaixl, and quickly got out of the way. DREW THE LINE. Pat had been at work for three days digging a well, and as the foreman wanted it finished within the week he had promised Pat an- other man to help him. It was get- ting on for 11 o'clock, and Towser, the foreman's buUdoj/,, was looking over the edge of the pit, when Pat said to himself, "I'll have a smoke." He ha*l just filled his pipe, and was about to light it, when ho glanced up and beheld Towser's handsome features. Slowly removing the pipe from his mouth, he said, "Be-c-egorra, Oi 'vc wr-rked wid Germans and Hengs r I riiiiis, and Oi've wor-rked wid OH;i!i.ins .'ind Niggers, but if a man w' I a face like that come down her'' to work beside me, Oi gets up." SENTENCE Pacemakers ai maker*. It's easy making money and bard mastering it. Shrinking from suffering may be fleeing from strength. The coldblooded are hotheaded when you hit their pride. Repentance as a habit would keep one turning in a circle. There can be no bending in wor- ship without stooping in service. Men miss happiness because they seek goods instead of the good. Suffering is no proof of sin, but sin is always prophetic of suffering. It takes more than ability to cre- ate wealth to qualify you to dis- pense it. This is always an ill warld to those who nurse infection in thC heart. It is a bad thing to feel stirred over wrong and not sttir yourself to right it. It's easier to talk about dying for tho right than to get busy living aright. It is no use sighing to bo a sun if you are not burning the little lamp you have. It'.s no use praying to he deliver- ed from temptation unless you want to be divorced from siiiv More reforms have been prevent- ed by friends who demanded them immediate and complete, than by foes who did not want tliem at all. The humble man never believes he is worthless or he would have nothing being humble about. .\WFUL CALAMITY, had tried by Returning from school the other afternoon, little Edith proudly in- formed her mother that she hail learned to "piwu-tuatc." "Well, dear," said mamin.i, "and how is it •'lone?" "You soe, mamm.a," cxi)lain"d Edith, "when you writt^ Hark!' you put a b'ttjjin after it, and when you ask i ir.'slioii th<.':i you put a buttonhw\ ' AN Willie na'U tried by various means to interest his father in con- versation. "C^an't you sec I'm trying lo •ead ?" said tho exasperated par- ent. "Now, don't bother me." Willie was silent for almost a iniiiute. Then, reflectively : ".Awful accident on a, street car to-d.iy." Father looked up with interest. "What's that?" he asked. "Why," replied Willie, edging towards the door. "A woman had htr eye oa a seat, and a man sat on it." "There's no uso trying to deny it," remarked Mrs. DeFlatt, 'this is the worst cook we've had yet. There positively isn't a decent (Jiing to eat on the table." "That's right," rejoined DcFlatt. "But," continued his wife, "there's one thing in her favor. She can't be best when it comes to w.ishing. "Pity we can't eat the washing," sighed the hunjjvy husband. are tho mandarins, whose altered official routine is described by the North China Daily News. The old dreamy days when a mandarin spent hours in dolce far niente, "a demigod amid subservient crowds, delighting himself with tho philo-^ sophy and poetry of his land," ara all gone iiince the introduction of telegraph, telephone and railways. The national awakening, bring- ing with it the reorganization of tho army, the introduction of occiden- tal sanitary systems, of modern prisons, and other reforms, has made mandarin life not what it once was. Now that official has to raise regiments of modern drill- ed soldiers and find the money to equip and maintain them ; has to build expensive barracks , pitals, erect model pris- • i i must refrain from old timt) puaiiiU- ments and find the money for all these botliersoine novelties. He is bombarded with telegrams from Poking and has to withstand at- tacks by tho reform party and the free pres^'. Poppy growing is forbidden, but be must compel the reluctant agri- culturist to raise cotton and other products. Licenstd gambling has been suppressed, but ho must raise the revenue thus lost by increasing the tax on salt and other necessi- ties. This causes riots, and ho mu t put these down. The enraged and harried taxpayers no longer are in fear of the once revered mandarin, and they do not hesitate to attack his person when ho ap- pears on the streets. It requires the wisdom of a Confucius for a mandarin to maintain his dignity under the new order of things. ' * BLACK CARPET IN VOGUE. Queen Mnry May Thus Furnish li"*. Boudoir at Buckingham. Rumor says that Queen Mary itj going to have a black carpet in iice boudoir in Buckingham Palace andi if the rumor is true black drawing rooms will speedily become tha fashion in England. Some fiiteei^ years ago, there was a temporary! liking for black carpets, and smart peeople titled up rouge-et-noir sa-| Ions in their houses, but tho fashion/ quickly diexl out. It was found that black as »i background for certain varieties ofj furniture or pictures only appealed! to certain tastes. Although gilt' furniture goes very well with a black carpet, it is next to impos-| sible to have any light or delicato' colors in the room where the floor is dead black, and the effect in al small house is apt to be depressing/ especially in London. Besides, a black carpet wear%( very badly, the iightest speck oi dust or footmark shows It is a cav^ p(>t to look at, not to walk on. r-