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T .4, A * HOUSEHOLD New Forms for Old Recipes. New recipes often are demanded by housekeepers who do not realize tho possibility of making some for- mula with which they already are familiar take an entirely new form. Let us consider the quick biscuit, often called soda, cream-of-tarcar or baking-powder biscuit from the materials used in making the:n light. It is quite an art to hand:e these skillfully without mak.ng them too stiff with flour, and no recipe can supply the dexterity that comes only by much practice. Un- trained hands may be more success- ful with a quick muffin ma'! ; by combining with each cup of flour, two level teasyvoonfuls of baki'.ig powder, a little salt and one-ha.f cup of mil-k. These should be r.-n- idly mixed, put at once in muffin pans and baked quickly. The qu.vi- tity of liquid may be varied si ghtlv according to the particular brand cf flour used. One trial will show whether they better be made soften next time. Onc we learn the na- ture of the ingredients and the effect they have on each other, we may venture upon varieties of a fundamental recipe. The same pro- portion already given are suitable for dumplings for a stew of meal or fruit. The mixture should be rather stiffer, so less milk is used than when it is to be baked in the muffin pan. Here it is to be drop- ped from a spoon over the meat and gravy or fruit and syrup, and will not keep its shape unless fairly tiff. Whe.i fat is added to dump- lings they are likely to be sog?y, and a similar result is reached if they are not cooked rapidly. Most good cooks prefer to have the ket- tle closely cohered for ten minutes and then the dumplings, if not too large, will be ready to serve. Eight or ten dumplings may be made from one cup of II >ur and will cook more uniformly than if made larger. For dessert use the same dump- lings over stewed fruit, such as canned peaches, stewed apples or cranberries. Be sure there is suf- ficient juice to avoid danger of burning. These may be cooked in a chafing dish at the table whi'e the family are disposing of the previous course. Sweetened or whipped cream is the best and simplest sauce. Again, a portion of the fruit may be put in a but- tered cup like some of the little Japanese ones that are pretty enough in which to serve the pud- dings at the table a spoonful of tho batter is put over the fruit and the cups placed in a steamer for half an hour. Any good pudding sauce may be served with these. Eggs, butter and sugar often are added to such a foundation for the muffins, dumplings, etc., but do not improve the quality of the product] in proportion to the added ex-' pense. The baking powder biscuit usu- ally is made in this fashion : Flour is sifted, then measured and sifted tgain with the baking powder and alt. From one to two level tca- poons of baking powder are used with each cup of flour, according to the degree of lightness desired. If shortening is used, it is then chop- ped or rubbed into the flour, one teaspoon to each cup of flour ; for bread a larger amount, up to 1 ounce to each cup for shortcakes. Then the dough is formed by cut- ting into the flour about one-third as much milk, or milk and water. The dough is then tossed on the board, which is first sprinkled with flour. The rolling pin is used gent- ly to pat the dough into shape un- til it is half the thickness desired in the biscuit after baking. Twin biscuit and individual shortcakes are made by spreading soft butter on one layer and placing another pa top. After baking they separ- ate readily for filling. Or some thick jam may bo placed between the two layers before baking. Such "jelly biscuits" are a delight to children. Try malting very thin crisp short- cakes with n&nanus sliced into a lyrup of the juice of a lemon made j thick with sugar. After cutting! rounds for biscuits there are many j ragged edges left. Here is one way to use them, which often is better than shaping more biscuits : Bring them together and sprinkle with grated cheese and fold over and roll out, thon cut in narrow strips about 6 inches long and bake until orisp. These are best served with oup or salad. Thus at one time might be prepared enough dough for a fruit shortcake, chicken pie and cheese sticks, but, of course, they are too much alike to serve at one meal. Tho fruit shortcake may serve for dinner at night. For the next day's luncheon reheat the others and fill with creamed IIKV:- ea, while the cheese sticks may bo crisped in the oven a few minute* to serve with the next day's saiad. The ordinary paper bag TIA.V be trusted to hold the.se while they re heated in the oven, and they ill be as good as if freshly baked. Often cold biscuits may be reheat- ed in the gravy of a stew and it quickly served are M satisfactory .M dumpling* freshly made. The Systematic Woman. When asked how she accomplish- ed so much work so easily the mo- ther of a large family replied, "I work by schedule." That is the secret of all e.isy work. If you live in a nerve-racking ru.sh, try what keeping a schedule will do for you.- Buy a notebook and head oppo- site pages with the day and date. CANADA'S PKEMIER LUiMBER MERCHANi IS JOHN R. BOOTH His First Rig Financial Stroke was Buying of the Canada Atlantic Railroad. Canada's tawa banks. Hn -was peering into the future when the Grand Trunk premier lumberman is Before going to bed plan and write J j *' *' h - Amon * the frie ds down the work of the next day. In ?' B ? th "!'!! M ,* ^ Ue8tlon whe ' *k~ .=;.,,, ,. .. v,o* v,.. k ther he made his fortune in lumber ing, but it is the that his estate ia . m the evening sum up what has been accomplished. [ Ol It does not take long to keep this en rai " elitst . simple schedule, but it is sv.rpris.ng about q uall y indebted to these two how quickly you learn system from 8ource8 * revenue, it. Busy women go so far as to I Booth was born in Ottawa, Can- plan certain duties for certain *<**> * n 1811 - His father was pos- hours. | sessed of more than the average Do not plan to do too much in means, but before his death, which one day, for then the opposite page occurred when the present head of is a disappointment which spurs the family was a boy of 15 years, you to unwise, efforts or neediess he lost all of his money and thus discouragement. What is left un- compelled his son to depend upon done one day may be carried over to the next day's planning page as a jog against procrastination. i Reading over such a notebook is He saved and worked, worked and an object lesson to the shiftless saved, and at a comparatively early housewife who works by fits and age built a lumber trust on the old- starts, gets nothing accomplished, fashioned lines from a tiny sawmill has no time for leisure, and ends n the Ottawa River. He did not himself. This enforced independence brought out all there was in him. by being a nuisance to herself and a burden to her family. Household Hints. When mice trouble you, hunt their entrances to the pantry or capitalize, but paid hard cash fcr all that he bought. His first big stroke in the w I of finance was when he bought the. Canada Atlantic railroad, an in- different sort of institution with IK MM mi SJJJY creation of heaven and earth (vrs 1), or the formation of VOUKCJOJ* life (verse 21). 31. It was very good The final verdict pronounced upon i!'a whole woTk of creation, in wij.cli each portion was in perfe;t har- mony with the reat. RAZOR ENDED TOOTH - Detracted Han Slew Himself and Little Blind Son. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JANUARY 5. Lesson I. The Creation, Gen. 1. 1 to 2. 3. Golden Text, Gen. 1. 1. Verse 1. In the beginning The Toothache called by the poet beginning of the order of things Burns "the hell of all diseases" which we see, aud ill the inklst of j seems to have been responsible re- which humaa history unfolds. 'cently for a terrible double tragedy God iilohim, the oittuary He- [ in the Ea<t End of London, brew word tor God, thougu not' Startled by the words, "Daddy is quite aa common in the U.d Tes-jdead," muttered by his little son, lament as Yahweh (iihg., Jenovoh), i neighbors rushed upttaira at a the personal name of the God of ' house in Fern Street, Devons Road, Israel. The name here occurs in I Bromley-by-Bow, and found Henry the plural, though used with a sin- Agar, a laborer, and another of hit gular verb, created (Heb. singular), children a blind boy of nearly two This usage of the piural, wnioh is years, named Cecil lying on a bed very common in the Old Testament, i with their throats cut. It appears that Agar had suf- fcn?d recently from violent tooth- ache. He went to the hospital in the morning to have his tooth extracted, but the authorities, it is cupboard and plaster them with a few visible assets and fewer pr s- railroad, then a struggling organ- mixture of soft soap and red pep- pects. Booth was not dismayed bv ', ization, would be compelled to buy P er - i tn handicaps the project offered, him out. He kept the railroad A square piece of cotton, posted but set about his task with the con- j stock in the bank, unpledged, for at each corner of tne table oilcloth fidence and determination that hve five years, when the Grand Trunk before using it, will prevent the been his chi-f characteristics. The first made overtures for their pur- corners, from wearing out as soon road extended from Montreal to \ chase at a price many hundred as they otherwise would. Parrv Sound, and covered a dis- times in excess of what Booth had; paid for them. No one knows how much Booth mscie on this deal, but it is believ- ed that the amount gave him his long waited for boost toward great wealth. He is now one of the di- , , rectors of the Grand Trunk Rail- the situation with his peculiarly j road, while his attention is chiefly analytical mind, he put the rail- | devoted to a chain of lumber mills Soak a common floor mop in coal j tance of "about 7oO mi'ies! oil, it will make a good dust ab- sorber. Soak the mop thoroughly, Booth had no associates in th : s de.il. Out of his lumber earnings. c< , n!i .; deri ng the day and age, he attacked railroading on his own responsibility. Analvzinsj ,1 ., .-It t -' w v i..i i juuci \.a,L MI. i va. then hang it out in the aar for a which ha<i been rPAS4inab! , few days. It will then be ready ^ tnat ^- , ..*.** for use. A muddy skirt can be washed easily and white, if -ou will take some sour milk, dilute it with water and soak the skirt in it over night. Then wash in the usual way. Sometimes hamburg steak is dry and tasteless. Put two or three tablespoons of fresh cream or milk and a few bread crumbs in with it. You, will find it juicv and delicious. No matter how carefully a frock is laundered, if hooks and eyes are used for fasteners, the dress bears road's stock in a vault in the Ot- j located for the most part in Canada. ADVENTURE OX THE STEPPE. A Correspondent Describes n Terri- ble Experience with Wolves. There are still wolves on the had enough presence of mind to hide himself beneath the sleigh, and ' the mail driver and I. surrounded by wolves, could give them no help, j looked upon them as doomed, and t tell-tale prints has been ironed. whenever a hook A way of getti:ix around the difficulty is to reverse the position of the hooks and eyes, putting the hooks on the under in- stead of the upper flap. After be- coming accustomed to it. there will not be difficulty in fastening. EMPIRE'S POSTAL BUSINESS. Great Increases In the Various De- partments Arc Shown. The report of the British Post- master-General, just issued, states that the Imperial penny postage system now embraces the whole of the British Empire, with the excep- tion of Pitc.-nrn IsLa-rd. Following on a reduction to a penny per half- ounce letters from Australia to tho ret of the Empire there was an in- crease of about 33 per cent, in the amount of correspondence from Australia to England, as compared with an increase of about 11 per cent, in the five preceding years. The weight of newspapers, maga- zines and trade journals sent to Canada by magazine post during 1911 is estimated at 4.747,000 Ibs., compared with 3,836,000 Ibs. in the year previous. Money orders to British North America, while remaining station- ary as regards numbers, increased in nmourit to the extent of 36.000. Orders from the Dominion show an increase of 298,000 in number and 780,00 in amount. The increases w-ere mainly in remittances from Canada and Australia. Estimate of weight of mitter despatched from the United King- dom to Canada and Newfoundland : Letters and postcards, 713.000 Ibs. ; printed papers, commercial papers, samples, 6,998.000 Ibs. : sent from ( M ii.-i'f'i to United Kingdom : let- ters, 544.000 Ibs, ; printed papers, etc., 1,742.000 Ibs. The number of parcels desmtch- ed t-o Canada in 1911 was 505,151 ; received from Canada, 209,405, aga ; nst 410.898 and 164,760 in the yar previous. Facts ami Fnncv. If tho world is round, how can it ever come to an end? A fifth of the people of France are farmers. Manv a man puts his monev and his faith in a s>eculation, and later on draws out his faith. It takes a month to weave one square foot of Persian rug. Half truths mak whole troubles. Valparaiso haa female conductors on its trolley cars. It's easy enouprh to shut up chicken* at niirht, but it's another story to shut them up in the early morning, Watoh were invented in Nurem- burg. The first watches wer egg- shaped. Feather your neet but don't rob the other birds. Every lazy man can remember when he uted to bo ambitious. steppes of Russia, aa appears from fplt sure tnRt we should quickly ; this story sent to a Swedish paper i share their fate. by one of its correspondents who | suddenly our pursuers disappear- ! was travelling in the winter , cd < and "Chough bleeding badly, ; through the wastes of what was for- merly known as Lithuania. It was a bright, frosty winter day, the snow was excellent, and the the horses became calmer ; the gleaming eyes of the wolves were seen only here and there out on the steppe. A shot rang out, then a mail-sleigh glided forward at great ' vo "y- succeeded by yells of pain. I speed. A troika with three P<iW in ! A dozen <M wolves lay on the j speed. A troika with three Poles in 1 A dozen dolid wolv es lay it followed behind. Toward sunset TOIIU . tt d tw<) ! beas i s actual- we emerged from the dark pine woods upon the steppe, which stretched away in front of us as far as the eye could reach. Soon the stars made their appearance, and the moon rose. It was bitterly cold, and tin snow craticled beneath the runners. The horses' breath rose in the air like thick smoke. The songs and shouts of the Poles died away, and profound silence reigned. Suddenly one of the horse whin- nied, then another, and a third shied violently, uttering that ter- rible cry of which the horse is capa- ble only when in extreme fear. I could see by the light of the moon the shadow of an animal about the size of a dog flitting over the frozen surface of a marsh pool which lay some twenty paces from us on one side of the road. No animal can ly expired be.nentli the hoofs of the horses as our rescuers came up in their tinkling sleighs. It was a landed proprietor with his servants whose solitary farm lay only a couple of versts away. None of us were dtngerously wounded. The wolves had treated the Poles worst, for their clothes were nearly torn from their bodies ; they were bitten, too, but not seriously. The following morning our host. Herr Stanski. cnme across the skeletons is best explained as the "plural of majesty," used to express great- nesa or dignity. The verb "cre- ated" means, in the original, shaped, fashioned. It docs not ; necessarily mean that God created said, thought that considerable the heavens and the earth out of danger would attend its immediate nothing. But it does denote "the | removal. production of something fuadamea- j Agar accordingly returned home tally new, by the exercise of a sov- j in great pain, and went upstairs to ereign originative power, alto- 1 lie down in a room, where his baby gether transcending that possessed ; s <:n, a blind boy, was lying, by man. ' Nothing apparently happened to 2. Waste and void A compound ; arouse the suspicions of his wife, expression, signifying formica mat- j and at dinner time she sent another ter, or chaos. The expression oc- : son to tell his father the meal waa curs again in Isa. 34. 11, where it ready. is rendered confusion and empti j The child came down hurriedly ness, and in Jer. 4. 23, where it is i with the dramatic announcement, translated as in our lesson. I "Daddy is dead," and neighbors The deep Primeval, undivided f oun d both the man and the baby waters, conceived of by the writer l y i ng w ith their throats cut. Near as enveloping the chaotic earth. by was a blood-stained razor. bpirit of God. The Divine En- 1 Agar was a m iddle-ag:d man in ergy which creates and sustains life rfgu ] ar employment, and he is do- 33. 4), and to which are at- 6cr ibod as having been very steady tributed the supernatural spiritual , and re c pe ctable spiritual gifts and extraordinary + powers of man : "I am full of power i DEMOCRACY OF GENIUS. by the Spirit of Jehovah, and of i judgment, and of might" (Micah O nly Two Hundred in Every Mil- 'Moved upon-Or, was brooding """ Roa<>h Rpul Ureatne**. upon. The dictionary of the names oi God said, L,et there be Note the ' eminent men compiled by S : r Fran- conscious and deliberate purpose cis Galton listed 2,000 persons who as well as the o/nnipote.ice im- reached eminence 111 the various plied in these words. We have fields of human achievement, and here the earliest foreshadowing of indicated that barely -200 in every the personal sense in which rhd million persons were entitled to ap- term "the Word" is used in Joh.i pear in his roster of greatness. A 1. 1 in the New Testament. m- study of these li;ts scums to show pare also Psa. 33. 3. "By the word that the world's famous men seldom of Jehovah were the heavens have left sons capable of the mea- naade." i sure of service that might hava Light Here thought of as a gained equal honor for themselves, thing in itself, independent of the Quly the members of royal families heavenly luminarieb. Compare ' are " specially environed and cdu- Job 38. 19, 20: | cated and mated with selected hus- ; bands and wives to-day, yet the Where is the way to the dwelling grcat monarch who founds a line of of light? kings is usually possessed by a ser- And as for darkness, where is the . j es O f mediocrities, often good and place thereof/ faithful men, but without the splen- That thou shouldest take it to the , <>j d abilities which created the dyn- bound thereof, j astv And that thou shouldest discern the; Upon the other hand Galton paths to the house thereof! | s |, ows that among English inven- ! tors, James Watt alone may be 4. Good-Suitable for the work ! rated as inheriting his talents from his father, while George Stephen- of a nvner, and the for which it was designed 5. One dav-In the mind of the son Wa8 the priestly author unquestionably a i ^p" o{ Thomas Telford was period of twenty-four hours. j shepherd of the f)0) . tSi ^^ Wa8 half a verst from the scene of our | . ? The firmament The vaulted the son of a Scottish lawyer, Tenny- of the three troika horses scarcely strugg'e. The poor cre-n hires were . dome of the sky is thought of as : wn o f an obscure clergyman, Shel- st : ll bound together with the har- ness, Grains of Gold. He is an optimist who can believe in the coming of the best while look- travel more silently than a, wolf ing at the worst. --Dr. Jowett. when in search of prcv, and none can nrtack so suddenly and unex pectedly. I was slowly raising m/ gun when a second wolf rose imme- diately in front of the horses with crest erect and green, phosphores- cent eves. At the same time points cf lischt appeared all over the mere, ard the howling of the beasts rang out. A shot was fired ; revolver in hand. Lescek, one of the Poles, stood on the driving seat of the trviVa. Then from the mail-sleigh j I discharged both barrels of mv gun, and a savage howl announced . that thev had taken effect ; two of I the rrost darincc of our assailants lav rolling in the snow. The three Poles kept firing furiously, although the attack of the wolves was direct- ed more against our sleizh, proba- bly because it was drawn by double the number of horses. Our driver had no other weapon than his load- ed whip, but with it he dealt tre- meidous blows. The horses struggled madly, and tried with all their strength to break the harness. At each shot from my gun the wolves scattered, onlv to collect again immediately and renew their attack on the h'-ri's. Suddenly there arose a wild yell behind us. The three Poles were rolling in the snow bv the side of their over- turned sleigh; Lescek 's badly driven horses had torn themselves loose from the troika in their ter- ror, and were careering wildly over the snow-covered steppe, pursued bv some of the wolves. They were soon pulled down, and in the still- ness of the night their death- svrpams were tenible. The Poles wallowed about in the snow, shout- In.?, weeping turns. and lamenting by TKir 'it"ation was. indeed, suffi- ciently SIT <iu, for only Lescek had Hope always strengthens to the ! performance of duty, gives courage, j and clears the judgment. G. Mac- Donald. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition ; oft got without i merit, and lost without deserving. ! Shakespeare. Riches have wings, and some- ' times (hey fly away of themselves, 1 sometimes they must be set flying ' to bring in more. Bacon. When one-half of the Sabbath is given to pleasure religion is not likely to share much of the other; half. Sir Walter Scott. So long as we love we serve ; so i long as we are loved by others I would almost say that we are indis- pensable ; and no man is useless when he has a friend. R. L. Ste- venson. Censure an'.? criticism never hurt anybodv. If f'llse, they cannot hurt! you unless wanting in manly char- i acter, and if true they show a inan his weak points and forewarn him ngainst failure trad trouble. Glad- stone. something beaten out, or pressed i ev o { a country gentleman, and down firm, and forming a solid bar- Southey of a Bristol linen <'rpr. neror partition between the waters It was ' a barber who fathered the which were above it and those on; art j 8t Turner, and Romney was the the earth's surface. The earth it- ; wn c{ a builder and cabinet maker, self was conceived of as flat and sir j oghua Reynolds offered the round like a disk, supported partly I stu<Jio o{ a eat master as an en _ by the encircling sea and partly by ! v ironment for his kinsfolk, but nei- ast abyss of waters eonstitut- i ther he nor Wrcn- t he architect, nor ing the great deep beneath the | gcott nor Wordsworth, nor Rom- earth. Up from these subterranean ; nev , eft ^cendants whose powort waters hidden channels conducted ined ^^ re< . ognit i on . the waters to the surface of the earth, while through openings in the solid firmament the waters from above descend from time to time in the form of rain. (Compare Psa. 24. 2 ; 136. 6 ; Job. 38. 9, 10. Waters gathered to- Blame the Geograph*. Ask any hundred English men, women or children what is the namo of a capital in Russia and every one of them will reply. "St. Peters- gether unto one place That part 'burg." says the London Mail. _It of the chaotic waters still envelop- ! may be a small matter, but in point ing the earth beneath the firma- : of fact, the proper na-me is "Peters- ment is now gathered together in- burg." The English are the only to seas. The Hebrew. conception of folk who insist upon the "Saint." the earth as relatively small, flat, The city was 'ounded by Peter the and round must be borne in mind. Great and is named after him. It 12. Grass Or, tender grass. i is quite true that Peter was one of Herbs Larger plants such as ; the rno=t extraordinary men that vegetables and cereals. ever filled a throne, but no one Yielding seed Capable of self would have been more astounded propagation and at the same time, than himself at being duhbed a producing food for man. ^ saint. He neither l ; ved nor died Above tho Average. Mrs. Wayupp "How much sleep do I need." doctor?" Doctor "Well, the average per- eon needs about seven, hours." Mrs. Wayupp-V'Then I shall take about fourteen. I consider that I am that much above the average." Wherein -That is, in the itself. 16. Two great lights The- fruit in the odor of sanctity, and it i j hard t fiii'.i out how it became the sun i Fnglish fashion to misonll the splen- and moon. These, with the. stars! did town he founded, also, were fur sighs and seasons. They are not, as in contemporary Babylonian mythology, thought of as dieties or the abodes of dicties. In the Market. "Docs Maud like dancing?" "She does." "And skating?" "Oh, yes ; she likes anything that may possibly lead to a proposal." Not one man in a hundred has sense enough to take care of money after ho inherits it. 81. Sea-monsters Tin; Hebrew word is one that is applied to rep- tiles, crocodiles, and other aquatic monsters. Every living creature that mov- eth. Both fishes and .other crea- tures that glide through the water or creep along its bed. 25. Cattle Here referring more especially to domestic animals, denoting wild 'Was your annoyed when you had used his razor to sharpen a lead pencil with?" "Annoyed? He couldn't have said more bad words if I'd to'd him the furnace fire was out." I' though sometimes animals. 27. Created The repetition of this word adds to the solemnity with which the creation of man is introduced. The author thus em- phasizes the fact that man's ere a- ' yng tion is a more wonderful revelation path. I God's omnipotence even thau Hani Lurk. Alfred "Your wife has a pri vate fortune?" Friend Parker "Very private) never personally been with it." ao> "At whom are you looking?" de manded the young lady of the man who obstructed her 'Atchoo !" replied the 'iay victim, and hurried aw*y. :'i