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Household Selected Recipes. Curried Eggs. Six hard boiled ggs, one teaspoon chopped onion, one tablespoon butter, one and one- half cups milk, one level tablespoon cornstarch, one-half tablespoon cur- ry powder ; salt and pepper to taste. Boil the eggs twenty minutes. Re- move the shells and cut into halves or slices. Fry onion in the butter, but do not burn ; add cornstarch mixed with the curry powder ; pour on slowly the hot milk ; add the salt and pepper to taste ; simmer a few minutes, pour over the eggs, al- ready arranged on a shallow dish, and serve. This is also nice served cold at a picnic. Spanish Rice. Cut up about four slices of bacon into small pieces in skillet and cook over quick fire till brown, then add one-half cup rice, well washed, and stir till rice is a golden brown. Add one-half can tomatoes, one-half green pepper, one-half small onion, and season with pepper and salt. Let simmer Chicken soup is improved if a little grated cheese is put into it. When packing a trunk, waiste will be less mussed if they are put into a flat paste-board box. In cleaning painted woodwork it THE BLACK SQUALL Louise, Virgil and I went botaniz- i better to use a strong kerosene ing on the south side of Lake Fend beach. AH she atrnck, I shut off the power, glanced up, and saw a white-topped wave towering above ua. It broke, and in an instant all was dark. Tho weight of water crushed both THE DEADLY BICHLORIDE. Virgil and me down into the bottom Discoveries Show Way to Suro Fu- ture \ ictinis of Error. The world-wide account of how Banker Baunders Walker, of Ma- water than any kind of soap. d'Oreille one day lost summer, ' of ^ e .boat. It seemed an age be- <*>"> <rgia, struggled nearly ton Do not allow chicken or fowl of writes a Youth's Companion contri- f ore t ], at wav started to recede, da J' 3 ag"nst faho deadly poison of any kind to soak in water before butor. That is, Louise and Virgil j an< j w hn it did, tho Papoose was cooking the flavor will be spoiled, were botanizing, while I watched a ! sucked back with it ; but one of tho If a soft piece of homemade bread pair of humm ing- birds build a nest men grasped the mooring line, and is rubbed on a scorch' on woolen on a cedar limb. Wo had crossed held her fast until we got ashore. bichloride of mercury tablet al- 1 SUWSCH90LIESSOI INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AUGUST 10. back with it; but one of thn r<J f' lv ha8 Btim '<l U P thtt lethargic '' * chemists, the ex pen- practicing help we shot the boat well out on the beach. . , . goods it will remove it entirely. the lake in our littlo power-canoe, 1 The next wave camo, and with its Physicians, ^and the^ooinplacent leg- Lacquered brass can be cleaned the Papoose. About four o'clock by washing in hot water, and a little we came back to the shore-. soap may be added if necessary. Onco out of the heavy woods, the An old piano stool will be found heat was intense, and it was so still useful in the kitchen, as it can be that not so much as an aspen leaf adjusted to different heights. ! quivered. Louise sank down in the Add a few minced dates to fudge shade of a willow and fanned hcr- as it comes from the stove. It will se lf with her sun hat, Virgil walked gives it a novel and delicious flavor, down the shore to find the nest of a When it is difficult to turn ice sandpiper that we had flushed that cream out of its can allow cold wa- morning, while I busied myself goi- ter to run over the outside of the ting the- motor ready. The town Liy can. | across the lake five miles away, but Water can be softened by boil- ' plainly visible in the clear mous- ing. A little borax or baking soda t ain air. We could even hear the added to the water will also soften w hine of the great saws in tho mills, it. When the head feels congested, and the labored breathing of the switch engine as it wrestled with try holding the hands and wrists tne . heavy loads of lumber. When as in hot water stand it. Cotton crepe waists are much until rice is tender.- appetizing dish. It is a most Spice Cake. ream one-half cup more wearable if they are starched in very thin starch and hung on a hanger to dry. To dampen clothes quickly sprinkle them with boiling water long as you can a u wa& rea dy I called to Virgil, and he and Louise took their places in the boat. "I feel as if something unusual were going to happen," Louise said, as she seated herself. "I feel that way, too," I replied. I feel that this motor is going to butter with one cup of granulated instead of cold. They can also be behave properly and start the first sugar. Add one egg, one teaspoon ironed more quickly. | time I give the fly-wheel a turn." When a cake or pudding runs over j NO) rca n y> L ol ,i se insisted. ach of cinnamon, cloves, allspice, and ginger. One cup of chopped and floured raisins, juice and rind of one lemon, one cup of buttermilk, in which dissolve one-half teaspoon of baking soda. Then add two cups of flour with one teaspoon of baking powder. Nut Bread. One cup of sugar, two cups of sweet milk, three- fourths cup of chopped nuts, two cups Graham flour, two oups of wheat flour, four teaspoons of bak- ing powder, one-half teaspoon of salt. Put together sugar and one cup of milk. Sift flour, baking pow- der, and salt together and add to milk and sugar, after which put in the beaten eggs and the other cup of milk ; klst the nuts floured. Set on back of stove for fifteen minutes before baking three-fourths of an hour. Apple Fritters. Here is a fine re- cipe for apple fritters : Flour large round apples, peeled, cored, and cut each into four slices ; one-half gill of wine, two tablespoons of sugar, one teaspoon extract nutmeg. Place slices of apples in howl with sugar, wine, and extract ; cover with plate ; set aside to steep two hours, then dip each slice in plain fritter bat- ter ; fry to light brown in plenty of lard made hot for the purpose. Serve with sugar. Graham Multtns. Two Table- spoonfuls melted butter, two table- spoonfuls sugar, add one egg beaten light ; three teaspoons baking pow- der,, one teaspoonful salt, one-half cupful white flour, one cupful Gra- ham flour, one cupful milk ; add dry ingredients and milk alternately to first mixture ; bake thirty minutes. This recipe makes eight large muf- fins. Light Rolls. One sifter of flour, on the stove sprinkle salt on it at "jj ave you never experienced a once, and the unpleasant odor will feeling as if something dark were disappear. On children's every day garments, such as rompers, it is a good idea to use soutache braid instead of making buttonholes. When cleaning the mop boards, the wall can be protected with a piece of cardboard held at the up- per edge of the mop board. When polishing the stove, first rub the hands thoroughly with soap and allow it to dry. The polish will then wash off easily. The brine in which salt beef has been boiled can be poured on the garden walks. In this way weeds can be kept down, and hanging over you 1" "I wish I could experience some- thing dark, a cloud, for instance, that would shut out some of this heat," said Virgil. " 'Have then thy wish,' " Louise quoted, and she pointed to the range of hills south of the lake. A huge black mass was rolling above the hilltops. "That isn't cloud," "It must bo smoke. prob- ably a forest fire beyond the hills." "It is neither," I broke in; "it's dust. Wo are about to experience on travellers on the desert." leasing and simple dessert is " '^' " " f "" "ll V,,* A. , ,. . i j i i wo worB now well out on tnc by adding a few chopped wal- 1 and hes ; tated whet . her to ;o .apple sauce and serving it ^^ or on _ j ^.^ t))fl nuts to with whipped cream. keep coming storm, and decided that it us before we could shore, and that the Papoose Every kitchen should have strips . ' of carpet placed on the floor. Rag " rugs are the very best to buy, as * '" )re ' V """ l l ". r *f these wash well and last for years. uld ** m * k head "' lt - If a pair of shoes has become stiffened with walking in the wet, they should first be wa-shed with warm water and then have oil rub- bed into them. A common brass cup hook, such So I reached down and increased the speed of the motor. The little craft tore through the water. The cloud of dust had by this time dark- ened the- sun. Already we could hear the howling of the gale and two tablespoons sugar, one tea- spoon salt, two tablespoons butter, two-thirds cake (1 cent) compressed . MVIT yeast dissolved in one pint of luke- CAN CAR] > M warm water. Mix and let raise over Xi 1.AJ1III1HJ11 uiaao \-ULJ UWA, - , , * . as is used in china cabinets and the crashing of the great trees up- on cup racks, can easily be screwed "*>** y the fury of the blatt. The into the end of a broomhandle, making an inexpensive and handy broom hanger. In a large family where there are many children, much loss of time and annoyance lake was still calm and unruffled, but there was a sullen coppery tinge to tho water. We saw the storm strike the lake three miles below. Instantly the calm water saved "if, "before , was lashed into foam, and a broad . . * tearing up a smother this of , putting stockings into the wash each > cam? week, each person will tack the two "ke ^ preceded by stockings of each pair at the h^ms. blinding choking dust. It filled our TU . +.^i,W in t.rvinir to e yes until we could not sec, and our There is no trouble in trying to eyes make them afterward, as each per- ! son may use a different thread. until wo could hardly colored breathe. In a few moments tho white wal] of water rolled upon us. The Papoose carao near capsizing. "Port," I ca,lled to Virgil, "and. T<1 1' U I'T 1 OtMtT. night, then make into light roll, let raise about one-half hour, and bake three-quarters of an hour in mod- erate oven. Potato Salad. Slice boiled pota- toes, one or two cucumbers, and a small chopped onion, pour over fol- lowing dressing : Mix one-half table- spoon salt, one teaspoon mustard, Concentrated Food Tablets Make Living Easy. A Spanish doctor is the latest in- ventor of concentrated food tab- lets. Although some concentrated tab- lets of this sort have been on tho market for some time the Spanish physician is perfecting these tab- , , ,. t-i uujojwu io v^iLwv*t*m ^iv*. one and a half tablespoons sugar, j J-J h&fc J food bc one-half tab espocn flour, few grams half tablespoons melted butter, three-quarters cup milk, one-quar- ter cup vinegar. Cook over boil- ing water until mixture thickens. Add two tablespoons cream if de- sired. This dressing without the cream keeps for a week. Mix it all while hot and let stand for eome hours. Boiled Dinner. Get a half shoulder ham, two large carrots, one yellow turnip, one parsnip, and a small head of cabbage, put on to boil in large kettle, add one onion pricked with a clove, salt and pep- ' per, boil slowly nbout three hours. Half an hour before serving set off of stove for a. few minutes, skim off fat, and add potatoes, and put on to boil till potatoes are done, and serve with prepared mustard or ketchup. Ginger Cookies. One cup brown lugar, one cup molasses, one cup melted lard, one teaspoon baking oda dissolved in about one-third oup of boiling water and add as much flour as needed to make a tiff dough. Mix with sugar, one teaspoon ground cinnamon, one- fourth teaspoon ground cloves, one cant teaspoon ground ginger. Roll out either thick or thin and cut with round or fancy cutter. Bake in moderate oven. Household Hints. Vegetables to be tender should be cooked slowly. In making French dressing uo tvtea aa much oil as vinegar. in concentrated form. With the ad- dition of a little water and a little heat a full meal may be served if one uses the new tablets, it is claimed. The only tablets heretofore that have been a success are tablets that are a compound of beef and that, when dissolved in water, form bouillon. The Spanish doctor's tablets are concentrated vegeta- bles, meats, soups and sweets. By tho use of five or six tablets of var- ious kinds ono may prepare a whole meal in a few minutes. The tablets are light in weight, and are being especially prepared for explorers, aviators and for antomobiHsts who are making long cross-country runs. They mnv later be intro- duced into practical housekeeping, if they can be reduced in cost bv manipulating large enough quanti- ties. Many of the tnWets may be eaten without being altered in form, but, according to their inventor, they improve in taste bv the addition oJ water. Thoy arc a dull brown in color and are a sort of powder. This powder is compressed with great force into a solid cake, whioh is wranned in oiled paper and tin foil. Oiled silk will be used to pro- tect those taken by explorers. What Puzzled Her. "I understand the text all right," remarked Aunt Ann Peebles after ths sermon was over, "but tho preacher's explanation of it puzzled mo a good" deal," run before the gale I He swung the boat, and the next wave struck her squarely astern, and drove her like an arrow into MISS LLOYD GEOP.GE. A charming portrait of the eldest daughter of the British Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Lloyd Georee. Miss Lloyd George was presented at Court this year. Like her father she is becoming a golf enthusiast. GERMAN B1RT1I-RATE FALLING Will Be us Low as France in a Few Years' Time. According to a statement made in the Reichstag by the German Min ister of War, and corroborated in part by the Minister of. the Inter- ior, tho birth rate in Germany is steadily falling, and if the present rate continues it will in a few years be as low as that of France. In 1870 tho birth-rate in Germany was 39X per 1,000 inhabitants; in 1912 it had fallen to 2S>, indicating that in the pericd named the decrease in births amounted to about three- quarters of a million per year. Since tho beginning of the cen- tury the falling off in the birth-rate has assumed alarming proportions. In the 24 years from 1876 to 1900 the decline in the rate per 1,000 was 3%, whilo from 1900 to 1912 it was 7, or more than d<u:hlo in 12 years what it was in the preceding quarter of a century. Should this decrease continue, it is p'-timnted by Professor AVo'ff. the di;.l:iirruish- the one ahead. Louise sat perfectly ! c d mathematician nnd cMii"iiiist, still, holding to the thwarts, and watched the boiling sea. I blessed her courage, for if she had become frightened and made a movement, the tiny boat would have foundered. The last sight I had of the shore, it was more than a mile distant. Now the dust was so dense that it was invisible. I took off my coat, knelt in the bottom, and held it over the motor to protect it from the flying spray, for our lives de- that by 1920 Germany wi'l be con- fronted by tho painful f;u:b and problem that her birth-rate will be the lowest in Europe. But if the birth-rate in Germany has declined, so also has the death- rate, and to this alone is due the fact that in the 12 years since 1900 tho population of the empire has increased by eight and a half mil- lions. The death-rate in 1"8 was 26 per 1,000 inhabitants. In 1000 islative bodies. While one or two over-suggei,tive persons have since committed suick'.o from tho publi- city given to tho Gcvjrgia victi:n, the^e would havo received a similar sugg?stion sooner or later by word of mouth, ardj tho good already wrought by the newspaper accounts has resulted in at leatt two discov- eries that m'^y bc the incaris <jf sav- ing such patients in the future. Dr. Bertram Bornheim, of Balti- more, as one instance, has invent- ed a little inBtrumL'iit that is not unlike a glass and rubber gas hose with two stop-ccx'ks on it. Since Dr. Alexis Carrel invented his me- thod of transfusing bleed from ono person to another merely by jn- serting a Y-shaped tube into the arteries of one and connecting them with the veins in the arms of the une who is to receive the blood, it has beon a compar-itively simple matter to save many lives where formerly almost suro death occur- red. Dr. Bertram Bernheim, who has improved on many of Dr. Oar- rell's devices, can now insert one of these glass tubes, shaped like a bow, in the arm of any one so that the patient's own blood will leave the upper part of the arm and enter his crescent-like canal, through which it flows, to finally return to the individual's own blood stream in the lower arm. This is the first time that any one has ever sug- gested handling a man's blood while it was alive and flowing through his veins. This invention places all of the blood in your body at tho disposal of the surgeon, who can examine it, dilute it, weaken it, filter it, analyze it, and finally allow it to flow on like the swoet, gentle Avon, after it has been purified and strengthened. The stopcocks in- serted in two places in the tube allow tho doctor to flag the flowing blood as ho long as he pleases. Thus every ounce of blood in your body can be brought to a pause for a longer or shorter period, and any kind of harmless manipulation can bo carried on. Meanwhile, the rest of the blood is switched off in another channel, and tho circulation is in no wny in- terfered with. At the same time a solution of a certain salt keeps the stationary parts of the blood from clotting, and at the same time this is transpiring the surgeon can ab- stract every last vestige of such poison as bichloride of mercury. Moreover, this is all done in less than the seven minutes necessary for all of the blood to- complete a full circuit of the body. If, how- ever, there is any reason for the patient to rest, eat or attend to his business, or for the doctor to go nbout his affairs, a bandage is put around tho arm, and at some other time the filtering is continued. The boon that such a contrivance could have worked for Mr. Walker is evident. He lived more than a wee.k and the seven grains of tho poison must have circulated over nnd over again throughout the poor fellow's body. Yet no ono thought of a trap such as this, strangely simple as it is. RADIUM'S TRIUMPH. Announcement Made at Meeting of French Society. An important announcement was nin do at a meeting of the French , Radium Society to the effect that pended upon it. Virgil held tho this was reduced bo whie ast steering-wheel. Louise faced tho situation with admirable courage, although every time we struck a wave she was deluged with spray. Tho storm increased in fury, and as we neared the shore we could hear tho hoarse roar of the break- ers on the beach. I peered through year the rate had fallen to 10%- If the death-rate had not fallen, tho Minister of the Interior estimates that there would be a reduction -.:f the populatii'/i to-day. Throughout the period indicated from 1000 .<> 1912 tho mnrriage-rate rem.-ii ' ' the same about eight per 1,000 of the gloom, and made out dimly the I tho population so that, as thn fringe of cotton-woods, then the ! Minister of the Interior says, "the shore line itself. Our boat could not live in that sea much longer; she was halfr-filled with water al- ready. We were approaching the shore near tho outlet of the city sewer. The outfall, held in place by up- right piling, stood far out in the water, while nearer shore rose the long concrete tanks, over which the waves dashed. Virgil saw thnt tho water on the north side of the tanks was les turbulent, and turned the boat in that direction. Two men on shore had seen our danger, and hurried out upon tho flat tops of tho tanks to give assistance. They stood in water to the wnist, and the waves almost washed thorn off their feet. Louise rose, turned and crouched, ready to spring. Virgil drove the boat within a few inches of the concrete; Louise sprang up as the boat rose on the crest of a wave, and one of tho men caught her. The next instnnt tho Papoose was lifted and hurled upon the cause which might explain the sur- prising lowering of the natality of Germany is not to be sought in that direction." In a case in which a surgical operation was impossible a plati- num tubo containing two centi- grammes of sulphate of radium was inserted on several occasions and allowed to remain for several hours. Under the influence of the radiation the prostate gland shrank little by little, and at the same timn the hemorrhage which accompanied the affoct-ion in this case also dis- appeared. The result opens up entirely new possibilities for the curative use of radium. Character the Test. It is character, not congeniality, which is the final test of friendship. ' Went Too Far. A rich old woman had one hobby. It was the lavishing of money on interior decorations. Every room in her mansion was done over time j What holds us to our friends' is riot | and again to suit her changing j their compnnionableness nor their whims. One day she felt faint, and affection for ourselves, though thn j thinking a taste of claret would ' former is a source of delight and | brace her up, drank of a red liquid i tho latter is our prido. It is their j she thought was wine, but which | strength nnd independence, their' afterwards turncl out to be red. integrity, that win us, nnd that gen- ink. The doctor, hurriedly sum- erous spirit of theirs which defends moncd, impatiently shook his head. 'Mrs. B- he said, "there is such a thing as carrving this mania for interior decoration too far I" Going One Better. Angry Diner Waiter, you not fit to serve a p.g. Waiter I am doing my best, sir. are our conduct and our motives ajcninat the criticisms of a world that loves us not. Intuition. A fond mother can always toll just what the baby is trying to say, even when tho baby doesn't know itsolf. Lesson VI. The Passover. E.vod. 12. ML'. Golden Te.xt, Mutt. 20. 28. Verse 21. Then After hav.'ng re- ceived specific instructions from Jo- hovaii regarding preparations for 1 the departure trom Egypt a.id for , the eating of the mcmor.al ;.:i v over. The elders of Israel In the orig- inal and literal sense of ''older men,'' the htiids of patriarchal fam- ilies and tribes. Draw out Go forth. According to your families One for each family or group of sma'ler families or persons an speciiied in ' lixod. 12. 3, 4: "A lamb for a house- hold ; and if the household ue too little for a luinb, then shall he and his neighbors next unto his house take one according to the number of souls ; according to every man's eating ye shall make your count for the lamb." 22. A bunch of hyssop A species of plant growing on walls, yet furn- ishing a stalk of some length not positively identified with any known plant. The hyssop was considered as having purging or purifying qual- ities, and was used in different forms of ceremonial cleansing, as the cleansing of lepers or leprous houses (Lev. 14. 4, 51, 52); also as an element in the water of separa- tion (Num. 19. 6). Lintel The upper crossbeam, or rafter, of tho door, resting on the two sideposts. None of you shall go out of the door of his house Both the desig- nation of the hyssop as the instru- ment for sprinkling the blood upon the doorposts and lintel and this in- junction not to leave the house un- til the morning were added by Moses to the specific injunctions re- ceived from Jehovah ; at least our narrative does not record these as part of Jehovah's specific instruc- tions. 23. Jehovah will pass through to smite the Egyptians In reality a destroying angel, referred to farth- er on in this same sentence as the destroyer, seems to have acted ns Jehovah's agent in executing this severe judgment. 25. The land which Jehovah will give you Which he had repeatedly promised in turn to their forefath- ers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 26. When your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? Another injunction fol- lows, not specifically mentioned in the command of Jehovah to Moses. Moses assumes that the regular re- petition of the paschal ceremony will arouse in each successive gen- eration natural curiosity -as to the meaning and origin of the cere- mony. 27. It i the sacrifice To be of- fered in tho sanctuary (Dout. 10. 5, 8). Houses Families. The people bowed the head and worshipped Indicating a reveren- tial attitude toward, and a willing- ness to obey, tho command of Je- hovah given to them through Moses. 28. So did the) Loth the mir- acles performed by Moses and Aaron, and the earnestness of their exhortation had profoundly influ- enced the people, convincing tliom of the truth of all that they had just been told concerning Jehovah's beneficent intentions to deliver them from the hands of their op- pressors; wherefore they were ready to render implicit obedience in all things commanded them. 29. At midnight "About mid- night will I go out into the midst of Egypt" (Kxod. 11. -1). From the first-born of Pharaoh . . . unto the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon "From tho first-born of Pharaoh . . . unto the first-born of the maid-servant that is behind tha mill" (Exod. 11. 5). Both expres- sions mean the same thing, namely that the first- born of all persons, from the highest to the lowest in rank, as well as all the first-born of cattle should be slain. 30. Not a house where there was not one dead In reality there would be many families having no children, and in which, at the same time, neither husband nor wife wad a first-born child ; for all of which cases duo allowance must be made. 31. Get you forth-The urgency implied in the words indicates that Pharaoh is anxious to get r;d of the people whose prolonged pres- ence has brought so much distress on his land. Among my people Although the Israelites dwelt in Gushen, on the outskirts of Egypt proper, yet their services to Pharaoh nnd to the Egyptian people might well justify the uso of the expression us here. recorded. Two stewards on an Atlantic lin- er were having a heated alterca- tion, each pouring most bitter an- athemus upon the other's heud. A; a crowning insult one of them ex- claimed, "Aw, you eatc just likt A paesengcr 1" \