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; HOUSEHOLD NEW DISHES FROM ITALY. Although French cooking is tra- ditionally regarded as the best of any country in Europe, there are those who cherish a weakness for Italian dishes. The following re- cipes were culled by the- writer when* she was on a visit to Italy, and made the discovery that many new touches were given to our own familiar foods. Some are well worth duplicating at our tables by way of achieving the especial sauce of appetite variety. Spinach, for instance, is served in a ring mold, the vegetable being tender in the usual way, drained, chopped fine and when hot passed through a \re sieve. At the point a little white, thin sauce, with the white of an egg, is added, and the mixture pressed into a mold, which is set in hot water until needed for table. Thin, hot slices of tongue are laid in groups of twos and threes on the top of the ring. Of celery, the green stalks are cut iu pieces two inches or so in length and stewed until tender, and served like asparagus on toast, with buttered sauce a delicious dish, more especially if grated Par- mesan cheese is sprinkled oil top before the celery is sent to table. Plain boiled rice, cooked tender and well salted, becomes a dish of consequence if served with a cream cheese sauce. A rich white sauce is made and grated Farme. ; .v.i cheese stirred in thickly while the sauce is very hot. Serve with this course oblongs of dry thin toast. The following dishes are even more typically Italian than the fore- going, and if the recipes are faith- fully carried out will be found quite excellent : Pizzella Add to rather less than three-fourths pound of flour three potatoes rubbed through a sieve and a pinch of salt. Dissolve a piece of fresh yeast tho size of a small marble, in a little tepid water. Make a hole in the center of the flour and add the 'dissolved yeast, working the paste lightly un- til it comes away easily from the baking board or slab (a marble slab ia the best). Put the paste in a basin and place it aside in a warm place until it has risen (about three hours). Heat some oil in a frying j/in, dip your hards in tepid wat*r, tear off lumps, of the paste and fry. rinsing your hands each tinio to prevent the paste sticking to them. Place a little thick tomato sauce in th cen- ter of ?ach "pizzella" and serve very hot. Kolle of Rice. Boil a cabb.ige. Boil some, rice (do not overboil it), and when ready add two well-beat- en eggs, a little butter, pepper, suit lid grated Parmesan cheese. Spread a small quantity on a leaf of boiled cabbage, an4, roll it round and tie it. When as many as required are prepared, fry them in boiling oil. Serve very hot. with tomato sauce to which some butter and grated Parmesan have been added. CARE OF THE DISHCLOTH. During the^ast few years scien- tists have endeavored to awaken the people to the vast importance of bacteria. To-day every one is be- ginning to realize and to recognize the important part which bacteria play in home sanitation, writes an experienced housekeeper. Bacteria comprise a small class of law plants which are possessed of wonderful powers. There arc hundreds of different species and forms, all of which are extremely minute and wliich are never visible to the naked eye. The fact that they are so universally found in nature, together with their groat powers of multiplication, renders them of tho greatest importance in nature. We should not got- the idea that all bacteria are to be condemned, be- cause some of them iiro our friends rather titan our enemies. How- evei', there is a class of bacteri.-i. called pathogenic, or disease-pro dueing bacteria, which are harmful, and it is acarist thcs." that \\ e ! should \v.-i:;o our war. To mo -t people the caro of the dishcloth seems a very dimple and unimportant phase i'l our house-- hold duties, and yet the dishcloth is a very important factor in the kitchen, ami may be the cause of serious trouble. \Ve all know of a housekeeper (of course we never do IttQO a thing), who is ica'ly very cleanly nnd con- sidered a number one housekeeper, who. after w.-islihig her dishes, washes off the gas plate, the sink and probably a little of the wood- work with tho same cloth. She throws out the dishwater, rinses out the pan and cloth and lianas it over tho pan or over IN some dark corner to dry. Then after ach meal this process is continued, until tho cloth is simply in string*. I know a woman who says that she "always makes it a rule never to use her dishcloth after it gets to be over a yard long." Now, when we stop to consider the seriousness of pathogenic bacteria and the dis- eases which they cause, we realize that a slimy, greasy dishcloth would be very likely to breed disease. A noted physician relates an ex- perience which he had in a familv where a daughter was taken ill with diphtheria. After her death two other members of the family were taken with the same disease. As there were no other cases in that town and apparently no cause for it, he began to investigate. He searched the whole house and sur- roundings and found everything perfectly sanitary. He was about to give up his investigation when he caught sight of the dishcloth. Upon examining it he found it to contain millions of microbes. So the cause of the diphtheria was at- tributed to the dirty dishcloth which the mother had thoughtlessly used. We should always wash the dish- clcth thoroughly with hot water and soap after using it, rinse it and shake it cut and then hang it in the sv.n to dry ; never using it for anything excepting dishwashing. And do not use it until "it is a yard long." We must realize that "it is the little things which count," even in sanitation. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. When bread making, do nt use too much salt or the leaves wil! not be light. Sponges will not get slimy if rinsed in clean water and put in the air .liter using. Save every spoonful of gravy or stock, for a small quantity of ei- ther is a great improvement to made ..'ishes. If the oven is too hot, p'.ace a basin of cold water in it; this will spee-aily lower the temperature. Suet puddings must be boiled fur at least two hous, and if cooked from three to four hours they will be better. To Remove Varnish. First rub with sandpaper and then ap- ply spirit of ammonia on a soft rag. To Clean Paint. Dip a flannel into powdered whiting, and rub the surface of the paint, and you will be pleased with the result. Steel table knives should never be used in t'ue kitchen, for if any- thing greasy is stirred with them they immediately become blunt. When cake tins are worn thin, scatter a little sand over the oven shelf before putting down the cake tin. and it will not burn in the bak- ing. Where moths' are troublesome scatter powdered bitter apple under the papers of drawers and cup- boards. Turpentine, too, is useful for the purpcso. If yon v.i-sli to keep books ingix-d condition,, ha. : open shelves. Glass doors certainly exclude dust, but they are apt to keep in damp and harbor moths. Tar stains may be removed from cotton fabrics by covering the spot with butter, and allowing it to re- main for a few hours before wash- ing. Fat and suet will keep for a long time if finely shredded, mixed with flour, and put in a cool place. Great care should always be taken that fat is chopped very finely for pud- dings. To Stain (.'hairs Scrub the chairs well and let them dry. Then paint with a solution of permangante of potash and water. If not dark enough apply a second coat. Next apply a eoat of thin size, and, last- ly, a eoat of common varnish. Leghorn hats may be cleaned with sulphur and the juire of a lemon. Stir a teasnoonful of sulphur int.) the- juice of a lorn >n. Brush the mixture well into the hit with a toothbrush. Hold under the tap for a minute to get rid of the sul- plrir. then dry in an airy phu-e. STORY LIKE A PROPHECY TALE OF A GREAT SHIPWRECK BY AN ICEBERG. Author's Realistic Details Might Be Narrative of Actual Eveut. The current number o! the Popu- lar Magazine, issued a few days ago. contains a story of a great ship wrecked at sea by collision with an iceberg". In its essentials it fits with such uncanny exactness the tunnel," came the response. "Nearly up to the grates jiow " That was all. The man left tlie tube to rush on deck, and the cap- tain knew the forward bulkheads had gone ; had either jammed or burst under that terrific impact. The ship was going down. The Admiral had struck straight into the wall of an iceberg that reached as far as the eye could see in the haze. It towered at least three hundred feet in the air, show- ing that its depth was colossal, probably at least half a mile. Brownson stood calmly watching the press gain and lose places in the boats. The ship was sinking. That was certain. She must have struck so hard that even, the 'mid- INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MAY. 3. V. Poverty and riches, Luke 6. 20-26; 16. 19-31. Golden Text, Luke 12. 13. 6. 2 ,_ j * l_ I " u * i*vw ?-' ii<i i xi i_.ji*c ^r * T -i. tii". uiiu sparse details yet received of the ship bulkheads gave way. or were Titanic disaster that one would be Ifd almost to believe that the au- thor. Mr. Mayn Clew Garnett. was endowed, like Cassandra, with a gift of dire prophecy. Some of the most striking paragraphs of Mr. Garnett's story are givea below i The Admiral was a giant liner, a ship of eight hundred feet in length, and the snoring of the bow wave told of a tearing speed. She was d. ing 22.'., knots an hour, or more than 25 miles, the speed of a j train of cars. There was a puff of colder air than osual. A chill as < self came floating over ocean. A man on lookout stood staring straight into the mist ahead. a-:d then sang out: "Something right ahead, sir," he yelled in a voice that carried LIKE THE ROAR OF A GUX. Capt. Brownson just seized the lever shutting the compartments, swung it. jammed it hard over, and screamed : so twisted out of place that the doors failed. The chief engineer below him and glanced up. As he did so, a tremendous roar- Verse 20. His disciples Jesus is speaking- to a larger group of his i followers, including but not con- I fined to the apostles. It is quite j possible that we have before us in this part of Luke's narrative a shorter, variant account of the same incident described in Mat- thew 5. 1-12, though in all proba- *- *- --,* jru, A v t *- U-1V UWI li-a * '-It** - j . . . . . ing blast of steam blew the super-; 9 Jesus T^V: *-f e .?f^ . ! structure upward. gone. The- boilers had i substance i different of his beautitudes on . The decks grew more and more | account largely for the difference wording between the ' f onn steep. The liner was settling by the head and to starboard. " She ; beautitudes as found in Matthew was even now twisting, rolling' and in Luke. over: and the motion brought- down I Ye poor One jf the chief differ- thousands of blocks of ice from the ences between Matthew and Luke berg. The engines had stopped ; in their accounts of the beautitudes the pers nal *- long since. She still held her give her no support. She. slipping away AWAY TO HER GRAVE BELOW.: I-esson for April 23.) This differ- ence in the two evangelists may be as occupying the place of honor next to Abraham. The imagery ot the parable is Jewish throughout. 23. Hades Compare Introduc- tory paragraph above. Seeth Abraham afar off The language is still figurative. Vis note, however, that even in tho figure used Lazarus is not in Hades, which, in the parable, is no longer a realm for departed spirits in gen- eral, but a place of punishment for the wicked only. We must dis- tinguish clearly also between the ethical use which Jesus makes of things referred to in his parables and his doctrinal statements or more direct teachings. 24. Send Lazarus The despised outcast of further years is recog- nized by the rich man, who now becomes the suppliant. 25. Receivedst The verb in the Greek has an intensive meaning of receivedst to the full. So far as the simple statement of this verse a re- versal of fortune, leaving the mor- al reasons for this reversal to be inferred by the hearers in the light of the entire parable. 26. Besides all this Or, in all these things. .V ureat guif fixed The barrier -n the evil and the good occasions. This would ig conce rned it shows merely each blessing to the di scern ibl e from one side only. The was ' disciples immediately addressed by w ;,.' KOl j man seldom appreciates j Jesus. (Compare Introduction t whv he is ; hut ' ut from the f^,,. T A<n *-.-. * . i. B VhMBl .1.1 \ Tli .. ,1 . ff .-\ f Brownson decks. ship of good people. None may cross over The gulf paint was so clean and the fbraa hin ^ Th* w was *> *hmy. i he whole structure was so thoroughly clean, s ' ' I well ...counted for by the character and oannot be brk , ^ ^ eithor direc . He wa e-i. -i the crowd mi- habits of thought of th? two men. t : , personally and it seccned it i. !:-,:,> Matthew, the tax gatherer, ex- j '"^ Sen<1 h ; m f mv lVWs to him that so much valuable labnc pressing himself more naturallv in , ^ ZT. should go to the bottom so quicklv. ' * ,1 t __ m< _. v The paint was so clean and bright i v:vod tao s P ark of so ' rant. phvslcian , r eveah the more inti- lu . ltu<ie for <jthers . wh ;, h had j. mate persona! toucn. The priB st beea quenched, pal thought of the first beautitude ._,,, y .; the pr0 p Ue ts-Th as here recorded is that, th. ; aw ami t!le writings of the pro- in this world's goods, while . These wore the v.-ell-kn -wn out from many of the privileges an d sufficient guides to right bring. which wealth ana - 3I v , he perauad- offer, may. through the ;i ,, v j if one rise from the u--.i 1 A re- U)f the gospel. ..-,.ine into ; ; i0 tlj t ), Jewish craving for the I of the best of all things, the king- f marvelous signs, dom of God. 21. Ye that hunger n ' re is: to be a reversal of condiii >n- ia the , kingdom of heaven, when- the oh- ^ { . rm . ia j ol!rua l Bids Soeieiy Lend- stacles of accidental social i 1 *:: ^ v ( . ep> >ave Nation. shall not interfere with IIKI:-. idual advant-iLio. The Loka! Anzciger publishes an 2-2. When men shall hate y.'u urgent appeal , Entertain bitter prejudices a.-unst leaders i-> return to ' simple eat- vou . I- -Mies that the luxury era Separate you-Kxc.nnnnnv ue ->r. i! > Germany has caused an extrava- ostracize vo'u from their comaiiv. '. , l!l dlnln ? , wll:ch threatens Reproach-Speak evil of finance impoverishment and dige*- RETIRN TO SIMPLE EATING. t.\e ruin. -:>ad. Man 'iibad, and other spas, wlu'ch the needs of "penitent are. says the journal) \ >ited by nutubers, annually in- prophets creasing, who go there iu spring which Jeremiah and summer to make amends for his conn- o\er-eatiup and over-drinking in winter. "It would be a genuine public service, on the part of lead- 22. Rejoice in tint d-iy An ex- ^..s nuen ample of such rejoicine ia tho faro O ., t( , r ^ of dire persecution is f mud in tho enthusiqpm of the early martyrs. Their fathers unto th ; The persecution j suffered at the hands of . try men are an outstar '. ei r.uple.. 24. Woe This is not merely a | denunciation or pronouncement of ing eociety personage* if they would doom on the rich, as such, any be.JMi by practical example to l Iga i more than the promise of the so.-- ( war on the ven-uil '.\i\uriousue-- ..! j ond beautitudo is au assurance >; IV^'-TII entertaining, as far as tlw i reward for poverty, in itself. The! culinary end of it is concerned. I four expressions of woe- must be Only by a return to simple and j taken together us constir.itiun a la- sensible dinners can we avert genu- lii. 'illation over the existing un- , i fortunate and unjust social distinc-| 1 tions and conditions. Ye have recei\ed your consols- ' I tion Such a* wealth, taken by it- Artist Or:uv. I'li-Momer. :'n<l Sket;-!i self apart from the other blessings: of life, can give. economic aiul physical perils. * Mll.UNKK'S DEVICE. Sent Home Unli Hal. FUJfRES. IX HOME Ull,E HISTORY. Premier Asquith and his illustrious predecessor, the Ewart Gladstone. late \Yilliam of the leading milliners of 25. Ye that laugh now Laughter Paris. France, have introduced a and mirth in Jesus's dav wore sel- nvw de\ : ce fi-r paying a pretty corn- do m met with apart from the oase plime,nt t> their l>es; ' and luxury of woi'th and position. Jesus well knew h"' a::d one that t< <:. ci ciliated to please them When a client of dis- mucll of the prosperity ol this day tiuction enters tho shop and pro- came through .tho ncquis-'tion of ill- ixvds to try 0:1 the \arivu< new "Stop her stop her hard over neat, and in proper order. It W* jJ gotten gains, and was f absurd. The liner suddenly shifted, ed to starboard, heole.l fir condemnation. self-indulgonei WISH SAYINGS. A rolling stone gathers some haul knocks. Small men fee! big wheji standing on their dignity. It's his .running expenses that keeps many a man behind. A prufessi-mal politician is a man who has no candid opinions. If you want other iv.xjph* to look d"n on yon look up to them. There are times when a ood bluff is as effective a^ mvat nchos. In the game of hearts, when a man is in doubt ho should lead dia- monds. Dancing would be awfully hard work if it wasn't for the fun of the thing. Every girl with money Icoks like a ge.t rich quick pro-position to sonic young man. \o man can profit altogether by the experience, of others. He must buy sonic cf his own. A man can remember to his dying day ;i.l! the tbin;s he learned at col- lege -outside- hi.< textbooks. If a man is too proud to beg and too I'.onest- to steal he should leave, politics to those who are fitted for it. A girl is awfully disappointed shortly n'ter marriage to discover that her husband is merely an ordi- nary man like- her brother. your wheel hard over His voice ended in a vibrating screech that sounded wild, weird. p <' to starboard, heeled tar over. <L ^ ^ ^ iij% uncanny in that awful silence. .'V 'and her bows slipped from the berg, ^f,^/'^,,,',!! hundred men stopped in their . sinking down clear to her dr -ks. stride, or work, paralyze I at the: clear down until tin- sea> w.i-h-'J. to tows cominu; f roin the- bridge the fix't of her superstructure just With agrir.dii,. ,m ;lS hi.,VrcarJbel, livownso,. SLweB of ic 6 fell * P .P~ V " as of thousands"^ tons c -ming u- from h,r into the M*. The grind- gether. the huge liner plunged '"!< splashing no;s<- aw.-ko t ; -. heiidlong into the iceberg iluit rose ! Pie again among the remainiii-,- grim and silent right ahead, tower !':is-etii: -r s and crew. They strove " !:li ing over her in spite of her groat 'ti maniac fury to get the rafts taki noffl its context in Luke's it. e*> . i i .1 bv "cre*tions'' whi'-h the meriting milliner piTdiices. all unknown to herself the customer is sitting, or. 2iv When all men shall speak well rather, standing, for her portrait f v., u - Universal popularity is to-> to al! artlst 1!l concealment behind surrender of deep ;l "yeen. Absorbed in the fasei- f principles in an I1;ll ' ! '-S occupation of trving on a effort t.> plac-ue prejudice and win ';' 1W , ' KIt - u - th l" ir .* ho -J > 1 iltl ' M '' ; '" fixed on the resection ot her sen in the g'.a-^. she is quite ob'i\. - ; the artisi's prc^once. MoanwhiU he swiftly trans - t pap--.r the feature of ins inicon^.-'-nis >;ibject. ^ hat is her surprise, tin'rei'.-'re, on n-ceixiiii; t!v r.-xt day the hatbox the. full side. Two boats drew away ''> '-'ur -tud\ . as illustniuiii; one of *- -- - tt _. j . , . i i v v t > i > ! k. . LEV- .x i; %wajr b tic 1 uckwmjA height. The shock wns terrinc. and and other stuff that might tl..at over llan ' ? and inserttxl : int containing her j.-.u-chise. to find I'.i-tcd upon i!\e box an original drawing cf hersc.'.f wearing the now chapeau ! to the nun wales with people', the b.-iutitudes both on its positive i i 1 ' - . i the grinding, thundering crash of' falling tons of ice, coupled with the rending of stc.-l plates and solid planks, mode chaos of all sound. The Admin-l bit in. dug. plowed, kept o-^ going, going, and the whole forward part of her almost- A whi-thng roar arOM*above all popular title. ' Hives." disappeared in the wall of white., ."the,- j-ounds. 'I'he s:rc:i had the l.i;-i f..'v "rich A" thousand t.-n.s of huste ttakes j ceased, aivl Brownso-i knew tho -tir io. l.H/.anis Tho Hebrew Elea The air below began to make Mat and its neg-itix.- side, peculiar whistling sound that tells Faring sumptuously --Or. living of pressure pressure upon the vi- in mirth aiul splendor. The name given, the being only of the rich man is not popular title ;KAI\S or slammed and slid down her deck burying her to the fere hatch in the another. A th ni^a -d t>n- more crashed, slid, and plunged down t'ie slopes of the icy mountai i and hurled thconselves into the sea with gia it splashes, sending tor- rents of water as high as the bridge rail. The men who had IU-.-M forward were swept away by the avalanche. And then, with re- versed engines, she li'ially canv (, a dead stop, with her b >ws jammed a hundred feet t'e.'p in the uv wall; of the berg. Brownson tied town the gire'i cord, and the roar shook the at.no; pliei-o, THE TKEM11NDOUS TONES rose above the din of sere'imi ig men and cursing >.e;::i:en ; and then the master called down t.> the hoari of tlie sliip. the engine r.oni : "Is she goiin/ " he :ske<l. "Water couiinj; in '.ike through , wa,.; n-shrij; fr. ;n bk>W, The snip zar, me:rn;iij wou'd drop in a moment. He ; dre::-j:-d that last plunge, that drou int.i the void lielow . T'v thoiighl "he \\II<MH W-,, Hxl at bis A c ..,n,o: am "7 1 ""-' i;11 " t... BOUC ! aOBfl :it t'le Ultes to The wojilthiest kirutd, in can show nothing so beautiful as a virtuous home. K'diculo. is Pit t'ic test of truth, because truth inus- alwavs bo tlie ti-st of ridicule. hold him a little. The ocean was always so blue out theie. so clear tno " lu'.neVof the wealthy. apparently l.ott, tnle.-s. a Klv;ll j^jj ,,, ^...^ Tlu> yictim <)f ^ Ti: . '"rimial over-droppiim of iiK'HH-11!-. which fall d-<w-i ...no upon the otho: 1 and evaporate. Bappinen coosiek in activity. at the void of water. He depth, wlwt k"id would receive tint gii'.nt f-il-ric. tlv work >f so many human hands. The silence was coini'it; a^-iip. an-! the sounds on tho sinking shin wore dying out. Then, suddenly. o:i'iio ;. ease. .-. - wrfl i-- poorraod '.''.us i'i attuiv doubly pitiable plight not a -M. Tl;,' erumba th-it fol' from the Such ia the constitution of i, 0! our na- :l!'<i rich iu."'s i-\!ile The w > 1 crumbs. is supplied in iho K'mlish ir-i, - i i pool. is rk-h Init tlie ti.'ii The reference ' i the tible- wcalt': "f tiiitnr.-. <!,- ily stirfu-o, bul .: incxlvuis- * -v***.. ktiv.ii, a ttvivn 11 i , -, si : i n t;- . - . j cracking and banging of ice blocks ' "W '" lh f " lm ' h was left and the ship raised her higher. The.ii sht> plunaed ' stevi .\ or ,-i'td w.-;s: The d-\ifs These sti'l n downwar-.i. s-iaiiiht as'a plummet *'' "' " :l '""- t iill> --tivoi - if JeruM for the bottom' of tlv '\;'a-itic '^m a- 1 .-ther Syrian --ites J-.'. The a:i;;e'.> Belief in a w-is onimon ;IMI >im tho lev one W!M 'o 1 'i- < .1 N -ui, r.or t'lke will The Mean Man "Is there a-y- thini? tiioro hivn-treix!it)>t than t-< havi-s a wife wl- i can c.iok but won': do it \' l>yiiepti,- ' Vo*. t > Irive ,one that can't cook and will do it." The trii'- mai! neither took an i' bv a specious .1 ' - en re- a ;- <-'. f' 1 ' "so. N -. fn\\ th-' v.'tor.Ti, ''at of .'! tin!,- we were within an inch tlo-i ti, ne. except for the sect of the | free.- ; -\^ to death, l.'ickily. how- s ' ' '-i -ees. |ovri-." a:u' h ita/e 1 retU\-ti\-ly at ' Abraham's b..-oni T!ie fi^ip-e is tl:, 'cns "we hul taken from the --iistoin of ree'i iiiii{ of mind to fall into at table and l.i.-.mis is ih night of cussiou.'* the presenc a healed dis-