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I Hints for Busy Housekeepers. Rcdpcf and Other Valuable Informatloa el Particular Inereat to Women FolkA TESTED IIF.CIPES. Bran Gems. â€" One egg beaten, Dne-half teaspoon salt, one-half cup •<nir milk into which dissolve one level teaspoon of soda, three table- â- pt^uns of molted butter, two cups of biaii, about two cuiJS of while flour with one heai]ing teasiKiou of baking powder. This ret-ipc makes two dozen small gems, but will keep for days and are fine cold. The bran gems or bread are recommen- dod by physicians. liaked Veal. â€" Buy two or more vral steaks or as manq as needed, and season with salt and pei)i)er to taste. Have yolks of one or two rggs well b(.aten, and a, crock of Ci-acker crumbs ready for use. Dip voal in egg, then in crumbs, and fry until a, golden brown. Have one or two cans of peas opened and drained, or use fresh peas in eoason. Put veal in baking pan and cuvcr with jicas. Season with salt, pepper and butter. Do not quite cover with water. Put into oven and bake for half an hour, Lasting at intervals to keep jwas from hardening. Celery Toast.â€" A dainty dish for Bunday evening is celery toast. For a small family clean one moderate sized stalk of celery, using all of the stalk and the tender leaves. Cut In small jjieces and place in dish over fire, with just enough w^ater to cook it. Add a generous pint of milk and let it remain over the fire until scalded. Thicken slightly with flour and add a small pinch of butter. Pour over slices of well browned toast. Fricasseed Potatoes. â€" Place a email onion sliced in a saucepan. Add to it a dessert spoonful of but- ter, a dash of paprika, and salt, and fried a light brown. The potat(jes cut in small squares are poured in- to the saucepan and covererl with boiling water. When the water has boiled away the potatoes are soft and mealy and tinted a golden red from the paprika and butter. They &re excellent. and brown, salad. Serve hot with creole PUDDING. Banana Pudding.â€" Slice three largo bananas thin. Make a custard of the yolks of three eggs, two cups milk, one-half cup sugar, small piece of butter, pinch salt, two tablcspoonfuls of flour, a little va- nilla. Beat all together and boil in a double boiler until it thickens, then pour over the bananas and serve with whipped cream. This is delicious. Grai>e Pudding. â€" To one glass of grape jell yadd one quart of water j and one.-half cup of sugar. Put on the tire to boil. While boiling stir in one-half cup of cornstarch, which I has been first mixed with a little cold water. Boil until it thickens, j)our out in dish, and serve cold with cream. This is simple and nourishing. CAKE. Sponge Cake.â€" Three eggs, one cupful sugar, one cupful flour, six taiilespoonfuls hfjt water, one tea- Bfxjonful flavoring, iieat eggs and sugar with wire boater until light, fold in sifted flour, a<ld boiling water, and lastly any desired flav- oring. This, if you ncitice, has nei- ther shortening nor baking powder, ytt is light, tender, an<l delicious. Fruit Cake. â€" One cup butter, two cups yellow sugar, one cup molas- ses, five C(<,gs, yolks and whites bea- ten separate, one jound raisins, one p<jund currants, one pound of figs or dat(s, half cup of brandy, one pound citron, one nutmeg, one cup of chopped nuts, one tablespoonful cinnamon, one teaspoonful each of all spice and cloves, one teaspocm- ful of 8<xla in a cup of sour milk, flour enough to stiffen. Bake one hour and forty-five minutes. Pound Cake.â€" Eight eggs, two cups of butter, four cups of sugar, one cup of molasses, two cups of milk, ten cups of Hour, two and one- half pounds of raisins, two and one- half pounds of currants, two pounds of citron, two tablesrxjons cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice mixed, lemon »t'<l vanilla to tasU;, two tablespoons <>i soda. One large loaf will bake four hours with a b1<jw fire, or fo\ir smaller loaves. You will lind this an <'xcellent re- eipe for special occasions. It is a regular wedding cake recipe. Nut Cake. â€" Two tablcspoonfuls of butter, one cup sugar. Heat to- gether, then yolks of (wo eggs, one eupful milk, two eupfuls oflur, two tea^poonfuls baking pow<ler, one- half teaspoonful vanilla, oiu' quar- ter teaspoonful of salt, <ii,e cupful of English walnuts. When all bea- ten together, beat stiff the white of one egg ; bake in layers, and bake in slow oven. When cool eover with wliite or chocolate icing. Mock Angel Food. One half cup- ful flour, one cupful sugar, three roundid teasixxinfuls of baking pow<ler, and a pinch of salt. Sift all the alxjve together five <jr si.\ times ami a<ld llie stiffly beaten whiles of two eggs with flavoring ; bake in a tin with a tube. Dcj nut grease the tube, but as soon as taken from the oven turn upside down and as the cake cools it loosens. TWO NEW KECIPEfi. Creole Salnd.- Two cupfuls white (rapes (halve<l), one cvipful chop- ped celery, two cupfuls oamied sal- mon, one eupful mayonnaise dress- ing. Shred tb(^ salmon with a sil- ver fork and add grapes and cel- ery; add dressing and mix thor- oughly; garnish with lemon and celery leaves. Li/.eltP Wafers.â€" Mix a eui]ful of peanuts, ground fine, with enough mayonnaise dressing t<> sprea<I easily. Spread on 8nrnt<iga flakes, cover with meringue ma<le of liea- â-  n vMt,'. of one egg antl <ino table- , ImI if .sugar. Place in oven PIES. Pineapple Cream Pic. â€" H.ive your crust partly baked and a<ld filling. Take two small cupfuls of milk, add a pinch of salt and a small lumi) of butter; set over a slow lire to scald then get a can of grated pineapple at the grocery and pour it out in a saucepan ; just take a cup of the pulj) and into this add the yolks of two eggs (retaining the white of eggs for the frosting), a euji of su- gar and two tablesiwjons of corn- starch; mix this ivell and add to scalded milk; stir till it thickens; add all of this to the crust and also to the frosting. Place in oven till this is ;,rown. Custard Pie. â€" Two cups of sugar, one cup of new milk, three-fourths cup of melted butter, two table- spoons of flo\ir, yolks of five eggs, any desired flavoring (if preferred, nutmeg). Stir flour in sug.ar, add milk, then well beaten yolks, then b\itter and flavoring. Whip whites of eggs stiff, add five tablespoons of sugar for meringue. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. To remove black ink stains on children's colored frocks, etc., cover them immeuiately with red ink and then wash. Jn this way the damage may be made good, not a trace of either ink remaining. Grai)e-fruit seeds, if planted in extremely rich soil, well watered when needed, will yield a pretty foliage suitable for a dining-room table decoration. It is interesting to watch the growth of the plants. When ironing an embroidered ar- ticle see liow nnich better it will look if ironed on a Turkish towel. ! Phue the right side of the article on the towel and iron on the wrongs' side. The pattern will stand out | remarkably well if treated in this i way. The smell of paint may bo taken ' away by closing up the room and ' setting in the centre of it a pan of lighted charcoal on which have been thrown some juniper berries. I Ix-avc this in the room for a day; and a night, when the sniell of! paint will be gone. One of the most handy things to' keep in the kitchen soap rack is a jiieco of rough hearthstone about one inch thick and three inches long. Stubbornly burnt sauceijans will invariably yield to a little gen- tle rubbing with this, ami it has the advantage of not wasting away when wet. Never cover up nail or tooth brushes on the wushstand. The bristles will s(jften and smell un- plcjisantly if not allowed fresh air. jfx.riges, also, should never be cov- ered, and should occasionally Itc washed in strong soda, or ammonia an<l water, to extract any grease that may be in them. To keep oilcloths looking well wash them once a month in skim milk and wat< r, eipial quantities nf each. Rub them <ineo in three months with boiled linseed oil. Put on very little, rub it in well with a rag and polish with a piece of silk. Oilcloths will Inst for years if kept in this way. Ink spots may be removed from certain dress materials if moisten- e<l with turpentine which should bo allowetl to remain one the spots for five minutes or longer (half an hour, if necessary) before the ma- terial is rubbed between the hands, as in washing. Tur|>entine should never bo used near an open fire or ilame. If when bfiiling or baking meat you fin<l it is smelling somewhat tainted, take a small piece of stick, i)Ut the end of it in the fire, and burn it just enough to make it black. If bakinff, place the burnt en<l in the <lripping pan. If jwil- ing, i)lacc the end in the sauce- fian. The taint will be found to liave disappeared. IN A RAILWAY ACCIDENT HOW TO AVOID MISCELIANE- OUS FLYING AKTICLES. One Man Says (o Drop to the Floor and C'liug to the Fruuc of the Seat. What should one do when a train runs off the track? Fall on the floor and grasp the frame of the seat 'I Few would be able to act thus, and yet it is the proper and safe mode of procedure, we are told by a correspondent of Ivailway and Ixjcomotive Engineering. Ab- ove all things," says the mentor, "don't stand up and scream. Most passengers leap to their feet and do not hold on to anything; conse- quently they are tosiod about like pens in a bag, with what results may be imagined. The writer be>- gins by narrating an experience of his own when a train left the rails. Ho says : When the tumult began a pas- senger stood up and shoutod at the top of his voice: "What's the mat- ter f repeating the unanswered query several times. I knew what was the matter, but had no leisure to explain, and just dropped upon the floor and grasped the frame of my scat and held on. TAKING THE JOLTS as rigidly as possible. Hat racks, hand baggage, seat cushions, sjilin- tered head lining, ami mi:-cellane- ous articles began to lly about, and I found the seat frame afforded comfortable protection fro'u the missies that damaged some exposed limbs. "The tumult could not have last- ed half a minute, but it seemed a long time till the end came by the car turning over with a terrible jolt. At that instant the man who had shouted so vociferously 'What's the matt.?r f was shot through the window like a huge torpedo. Most of the people who had been on the upper side came down in heaps when the car turned over. 1 was on the lower side, and settled soft- ly on the iK'ad lining when the car came to rest. "I had been in a similar accident once before and knew, not only what to do, but kept my attention upon what the other passengers were <loing. Most of them stood or sat without holding fast to the scats, so that they were thrown about by the plunging and jolting of the car. Then a MASS OF HUMAN BEINGS seemed to drop from the higher to the lower level when the car went over. Many of them were badly bruised through being pitched ab- out, pains that might have been avoided had they <lropo<l upon the floor and clung to the wat frames. "It is difficult to instruct persons how to do in cases of the derailment of a train they are riding in, but sound advice is to drop upon the floor, preferably in the aisle, or cling to the seat frame. The im- pulse to stand up and luiwl shoukl he restrain<>d. In a former derail- ment accident that I experienced a woman on the «'at opp<isite to me stood up an<l proeeetled t<p scream. I shouted to her to sit down on the il(K)r, but she paid no attentiim, an<l when the car foil over on its side she was prt)jeeted ii,ion me like ft pile-<lriver weight. Sue was near- ly as big as a cow, and the impact of her body almost finished my car>- cer." 4k PAPER TEETH NOW. One of the oldest uses to which pajier has been put is that which luis resulted in the manufacture in (.}(!rmany of artificial te<-th. They are suul to retain their color well, and are less likely to chip than or- dinary false teeth. When the wine- growers of (Jreece were badly off for wood with which to construct their casks they u.^cd paper to make barrels. Out of tlut sheets of an Austrian paper, an ingenious en- gineer construc*e<l for his own use a small yacht, 20ft. long. In the c<instnietion of the hull, deck, masts, sails, and rudder several thnusami copies of the journal were used. Each ])lank required 2, ,^00 leaves, and enormous pres- sure was used to procure the neccs^ sary soliility. H<'verttl countries hove experimented with a view to utilizing paper for the paving of routis antl streets, but the cost was prohibitive. FISH STOPPin STEA.MKK. Huge SiinU.sh Ueeainc Lodged in Bracket of Propeller. F'ew maritime experiences have been recorded stranger than that which, according to an Australian newspaper item, recently befel the Fiona, a twin-screw steamship be- longing to the Colonial Sugar Ke- fining C'ompany of Sydney, New South Vv'ales. When the Fiona was ofT Bird Ireland, about forty miles north of Sydney Heads, on her way from th;' Claienec Uiver to Sydney, a little after 2 p.m., all hands were alarmed by a sudden shock, as though the stcamslni) had struck a solid substance or wreckage. This result was strange and remarkable for the port engine was brought up "all standing." The starboard en- gine was C(uickly stopped and a boat lowered and sent to investi- gate. On getting under th-? steam- ship's counter, the boat's crew- were astonished 1 j find tnat a huge sunfish had become securely fixed in the bracket of the port propeller. One blade was completely embed- ded in the creature's Hesh, jamming the monster firmly against the stern post of the vessel. It was impos- sible to extricate the fish at sea, so the boat was hoisted on board ag- ain, and the steamship pro-.-eeded on her passage to Sydney with the starboard engine only working. On reaching Port Jackson the Fiona was anchored in Mosman Pay where all hands were set to work to remove the fish. After much difficulty and with the aid of the steamship's winch the sunfish was hoisted clear and swung on board. The Fiona then proc<'e<lod to the sugar company's wharf. The fish wjjs put on the company's weigh bridge and found to weigli two tons four hundredweight. The measurements were : Length, 10 feet, across the body, G feet; acr,-)sr, the body and fins, 14 feet; mouth, ^ inches wide; dorsol fin, 4 feet high and 2 feet 6 inches across ; anal fin, 3 feet G inches ; and the caudal or tail fin, 22 1-2 inches long. FROM ERIN'S GREEN ISLE NEWS BY MAIL FRO.H LAND'S SU0R2S. IRE. Rome are never sure of the lov« of the lord until their neighbors got into trouble. MISSED HIM. "When I was in I'Airope this sum- mer," said (jayman, trying to en- tertain the minister, "I got quite int<'reste<l in some of them old churches." "Iiuleedl" responded the Rev. Mr. Gassawiiy. "I suppose you know St. Paul's in I.rondon i" "No! You don't tell rae? What hotel's ho stopping atl" "Kind lady," he foltered, point- ing to his dilapidated, soleless biKits, "my feet are absolutely fro- zen. Have you a pair of boots to give a poor man?" She rummaged in a cupboard, ond then remarked : "How you must suffer this bitter w-eathor. I've no Iwots, but here's a pair of old skates ye can have ond welcome." LOVE-MAKING IN CHIRCU. Modern Students Want to See Wives Before .Marrying. Dr. Isaac T. Headland, president of the I'ekin University, and a resi- dent of the Chinese capital for many years, where he enjoyed the frindship of the late dowager em- press, throws a new light on the new women of China. He repeats a conversation with a young Chin- ese who had recently become en- gaged to a Chinese maiden with whom he had never spoken. "We students have a very great advantage over the old Chinese method of getting engaged," said my celestial friend. "What do you mean?" I enquir- ed. "'Well, you see, by the old meth- od a man can never see his wife until she is brought to his home." ".'Vnd what advantage do you have I" "We see the girls in church," he answere<l. "They can also see us. We have sisters in the girls' school ; they have brothers in the college, and when we go h,;nie during vaca- tion we can learn all about each other." "This is an advantage?" "In my judgment," ho continu- ed, "we have a better method than even you foreigners have. After we have selected the l:»dy we want, we can have a middleman go and ask her for us, while you nave to go and ask the lady yourself." "But," I objected, "we can get so iniich better acquainted by our metluxl." "Yes, that's true," he admitted, "but doesn't it make you awfully angry if you ask a girl to marry you and she refuses i" It was necessary to admit that there were u<Ivantages in the mid- dleman metho<l, which had never occurred to me, an<l I could too see that the force wliich brought it about was bringing woman out of her seclusion and placing her on a level with her brother and her fu- ture husband. Happenings in the Emerald Ible of Interest to Irish- men. Four companies arc engaged in the whaling indubtry on the west coast of Ireland. Fire demolished the '^s^ewry. County Down, oatmills, the Newry Keporter office and dwelling house in Mill street. Mr. G. A. Washington, of Wat- ford, died from injuries received in the Willesden railway collision. This makes the fifth death. The tenants on the Jiodney es- tate, Creggs, about 100, have re- fused to pay rent until certain grass lands are distributed amongst them. Thirteen thousand ejectment cases are dealt with yearly in Dub- lin, and there are 21.702 families living in single rooms in the fity. The fine mansion of Elpi:i, Co. Roscommon, known as the "P;"!- ace," the home of the 0'Coiiir.>r family for many years, was lately destroyed by lire. Being refused a reduction 'n their rents, the townspeople of Kil- kee, who h ive suffered from a fevi' scare and a railway strike, have de- cided to pay no rent this year. At Galway Petty Sessions, '.he testimonial of the Royal Humane Society was presented to Masi "r Win. Garrett for a gallant aticmot to save a life at Blackrock in Ju le last. Belfast corporation sanctione a new scheme for gasworks to be er- ected at a cost of $300,000. There have been disputes in the council on the question of the site for years. At the Munster winter assizes, Dec. 8, Wm. Scanlan. a United States army pensioner, was found guilty of having murdered his sis- ter-in-law, Bridgt-t Gayer, and was sentenced to <leuth. Alex. Clarke, a schoolboy of Great George street, Belfast, was going to school when a pellat dis- charged from a toy pist<d struck him in the stomach. He lies in the hospital in a serious condition. The Lord Lieutenant and the Countess of Aberdeen visited Tra- lee, where the Viceroy performed the ceremony of i.pening the new- viaduct at F'eult. built at a cost of 835,000, given as a grant by the Government. In Dublin a young girl, named Margaret Mary Gleeson, was awarde<l $2,000 damages against th<' Great Southern and Western Railway oi Ireland, for injuries re- ceived in the Roscrea railway ac- cident in July last. The Firoda Colliery, in the vicin- ity of Castlecomer, Kilkenny, will be reopened in the near future. The tenants on whose holdings those valuable coal deposits are, have decided on reopening them as soon as circumstances permit. Simon A. Bloom, a Jewish photo- praphis artist, was indicted in Dub- lin for murdering Mary .'\nn Wilde, by cutting her throat at Wrexford. He was found to be insane, and was ordered to be detained during the Lord Lieutenant's pleasure. WORK TILL NIGHT COMETH. Oh, never say your work is done Until the day is dea<l ! F'or man can work although the sun Has vanished from o'erhead. Press on with what you have to do Until the curtain falls. And sleep, like Lethe, comes to you Within the silent walls. It is wlien in the easy chair We let our missions die ; F'or while we sit and idle there, What chances may go by I And when the wasted hours have gone. How bitterly we learn No more on earth will ever dawn The day of their return ! Let not the anvil go to rust While there's a bar to beat; Too s(K)n the darkness and the dust Will fall where life's effete. Use up the moments, every one, By which the days are fe<i. And never say your work is done Until the dav is <lead. Many a man has created a good impression by keeping his face closed. PACKAGE FOOD. \n Iiinuvution With u (ireut DcjI to RecomuuMid It. Few things have done so much for the health and comfort < f thi family and economy in its •.•are as the putting up of food in packages. F'rom a sanitary point of view, says Leslie's Weekly, it is one of the great achievements of the age. Under the old method of selling goods in bulk, the food thus sold was exposed to all shirts of ct)ntain- ination and infection, and in a large majority of cases to deteriora- tion in quality. Almost all cereal foo<ls deteriorate quickly when ex- posed to the air, and their food value as well as their palatability is rapidly reduced. Any one familiar with the or<lin- ary grocery store knows how goods stdd in bulk are exposed in barrels or boxes to dust, flies and the constant handling by hands that are at best not overclean. If food thus sold could be bought at half the price of even the same quality of article carefully packed in airtight packages, it would be still more expensive than the pack- age goods. No method yet devised brings as much protection to the buyer of foods as the package system, which fixes the value of the package l)y a money rate rather than by weight. Food packages sole at five ten or twenty-five cents are measured by the buyer as to their wori.i in price, and the practical housekeeper knows whether a five cent package i» worth its cost, and she also knows whether the size of the package has been changed, and if it has, whether it is still worth the price she has to pay for it. The man who ventures nothing gains nothing except trouble. It takes an awfully small man to look down on hit neighbors. THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JAN. 29. Lcsiion v.â€" Jeh'ishaphar.s Guod Ueign in Judah, 2 C'hron. 17. 1-13. (;oliien Te.\t, Matt.. U. 3l Verses 1-6 â€" The pity and prosper* ity of the king. These verges, and those which follow, are additionaJ material to the record of Jehosha- phat found in Kin^^s. 1. In his steadâ€" That is, in place of Asa. Strengthened himself against I:,raelâ€" .'\lthough Ue later made a firm alliance with .-vhab, the rela- tions between the two kingd<jms had been troubled, and it must have taken some time to establish peace. 2. Which Asa his father had taken â€"See Word Studies for January 15, with comment on verse S. 3. The first ways of his fatherâ€" ."Vs David is wanting in the Scptua- gint, this seems to refer rather to Asa, whose early reign was char- acterized by devotion to Jehovah, in contrast with the faithlcssnesi and cruelty of his .ast years. The Baalim â€" A term for the vari- ous false deities, especially those ot Canaan, each one of which waf given the title of Baal, or lord. 4. The doings of Israelâ€" .\ refer' once either to the calf-worship, or to the introduction of Baal-worship- by Jezebel. 5. Tributeâ€" To be distinguishe<J; from that jjaid over by the Arabi- ans and Philistines (verse 11). In- this case the money was probably a free offering and not an ex.ictipn. 6. High placesâ€" The word origin- ally meant "heights," any out- standing elevation ; then a place of worship, of Jehovah as well as other gods ; later, after the Deuterono- mic reform, not only an unlawful, place of worship, but one entirely- given up to the worship of other gods. In this sense it is frequent- ly used in Chronicles. A;-herira â€" Wooden poles set up- like stone pillars at sanctuaries,, perhaps to represent the dwelling: place of deity. By the Deuterono- mic law they were forbidden (Ueut.. 16. 22), and commanded to be de- stroyed (Deut. 12, 3). These sym- bols had grown up probably during the later and more careless year* of Asa's reign. 7-9â€" The king's provision for the . promulgation of the law. 7. Princes â€" These are, historical- ly, just so many names. It is men- tioned that their work was done in the third year of Jehoshaphat's= reign, to emphasize the fact that he began his reign with this pur- pose to instruct the jRHiple. 8. With them the Levites - Th«- author himself was partial to th«' Levitical order, and magniiiis them throughout his Chronicles. Heuc« it is natural for him to single out. this fact of their p«?rforming the- priestly duty of teaching the law. Jehoram â€" He is to be disi'^ngu- ished from the king of Judah by the same name. Of this man ail- that is known is that he w as a mem- ber of the royal commission. The- priests were the guardians of the- law, and hence its natural teachers. 0. The book of the law of Jeho- vah â€" This is the sole account of the geieral diffusion of a knowledge ot tho law through a mission, the other me^/hod (mentioned in connection, wit'i the reign of Josiah and the re- turn from the Exile) being to rca<i' it aloud before popular assemblies.. 10-13â€" The greatness of Jehosha- phat. 10. The fear of Jehovah The mar-, ginal reatling, "a terror from Je- hovah," is better. The people? neighboring upcm J .idah were visit- ed with a supernatural dread oH the growing power of this pious; king. Compare 2 t.hro>i. It 13, 14. This fear was a reward, the chronic- ler would have us believe for Je~" hoshaphat's zeal for the Inv. . ! U. Arabians â€" "People of the des- ert." Here, the |X)werful k-ngdom of Nabateans south and southeast of Judah. The tribute mentioned is very heavy (compare 2 Kings 3. 4)- 13. Works in the cities â€" Perhaps "property" would be a better ren- dering, the meaning evidently be- ing military suppl es Mighty men of valor--The num- bering of this vast army is given im the succeeding verses. There sems to be doubt as to the exactness of the chronicler's figures. Through- out he has a special interest in sta- tistics, ami his estimates are ge?ier*- ally higher th,-^, those in the Kings. HIS TROUBLE. Medical Student -' What did yo«> operate on that luan fe>r /" Eminent Surgeonâ€" "Two hui.'dretf dollars." Medical Student â€" "I mean, what did he have 1" Flminent Surgeon â€" "Two hundre^f dollars." Zeal is a consuming fire, but lol* makes it burn oi an jiltar The poorest way for the preaeV- er to make s"ur€ of the love of pe* pie is to worry over whether tti-** like his preaching.