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Hints for the Home Your Siot-kpot. No kitchen cain be called fully furnished without a stock put. It prevents a great deal of waste, and is an extremely valuable culinary asset. The old-fashkmed earthenware stockpot, such a is used widely in France, is the best kind to have. Any sort of metal pot should be avoided. Where so many women make a mistake is in thinking that the stock pot is a receptacle for all and any odd scraps of food. It is nothing of the kind. Nothing that is not quite clean amd fresh mutt ever go into the stockpot, and the contents must always be chosen with discrimina-l tion and culinary common-sense. For an everyday sbockpot, a foundation should be made first ofj all from meat or meat-bones, or both. Bones and meat must be| finely chopped, put into the stock- pot, and just covered with cold wa- ter. Do not add anything else not even salt. Bring slowly to the boil, and then simmer as long aa possi- ble, line stock miutt be made the day before it is wanted, and any fat that rises must be skimmed off. The stockpot must never be left in a slow heat. The contents should be boiled up daily to prevent their going sour, and then the pot should be kept gently simmering. During the night, the earthen pot should fee put in the larder, or else the stock should be turned into a basin. To the foundation stock may be added any trimmings of meat, ba- con, poultry, bones, etc., clear gravy and sauce, and uncooked cut vegetables except very starchy ones, such as turnips and potatoes. Cooked vegetables, fat meat, bread, thick gravy, etc., must not be put into the stockpot. A special stock, which is highly useful for vegetarian cooking, can be 1 1 :,!! from vegetables alone. Celery, carrots, onions, and mixed herbs can be used for it. \Vash ^h vegetables, and cut them into small piece*, then fry in butter to a nice, brown color. Put them into the stockpot, cover with water, and add a liberal supply of salt. Bring slowly to the boiling point, skim, and simmer gently for several hours. Strain into a basin and use as required. Fish stock us made entirely from the bone* and trimmings of white fish. Allow one quart of water for each pound of fish, and put all into the stockpot with a small cut Span- ish onion, a tablespoonful of chop- ped parsley, and some seasoning herbs tied in a muslin bag. Bring lowly to the boil, then remove the herbs, and simmer for an hour. Skim and strain the stock, which is ready for. use in fish soups or other dishes. Stock ought always to be made at least a day before it is wanted for use. but sometimes it is wanted in a hurry. In such a ca.se quite a good stock can be made in about half an hour. Take any bones or lean cooked cold meat, chop up fairly small, and fry brown in a. little dripping. Put into a stew- pan, cover with cold water, and gea.son with herbs and parsley. Boil up, then simmer gently for twenty minutes. Remove any scum, strain, season with salt and pepjier, and u as required. w Apple IV. Do not go moaning around won- dering wlwiit you way have for des- sert that everybody likes. Every- body likes apple pie apple pie with rich, sweet cream over it and here is the proper way to make it. First make your crust. For a single pie take one measuring glass of fifted flour and a little sak. To this add one-third measuring glass of stiff, cold krd or lurd and but ter mixed. Cut with a knife and fork until combined, never touching with the hands. Moisten with ice- cold water, a very little, only enough to enable you to roll the crust out upon the pie board, or, better still, the marble or gla.s.s pie slab. Dust the board with flour, divide the dough in two parts and roll the under crust out lightly until it is very thin. Lift it with knife BJK! cake turner onto the pan and p<aint it inside with the white of an egg, to prevent the dough get- ting soggy. Into the orust slice hart apples, gweeten with a full cup of sugar Add a lump of butter, a little touch of grated lemon peel and a few cloves and allspice, also grate a trifle of nutmeg over the fruit to give flavor. Under no circumstances use sweot or tasteless apples. Cover with upper crust, sliashe<] in several places to permit stew-m to escape. Bake in a steady and hot oveni and 1 bear in mind you can ne- ver expect crisp pastry unless the oven is dry. To try and cook a pie in an ove:, with say a com pudding baking, <w a roast of liamib. spells failure- for the pastry. The oven must be dry and yor will know vlkto the pic i\ haked, k becoming curling and brown around the edges. When the pie is cooled a little, sift it over with powdered sugar and pour cream over the indivi- dual pieces as they are served. Or certain of people refuse to ea-t their new apple pie without some cheese,. Iliiiiie-Mailc Ollll'nts. Here axe some recipes for home- made cements : One of the best and moH endurable cements is a home- made one. It is very simple, just the white of on egg well beaten and mixed to a creamy paste with French chalk, prepared limo, or even flour. This is good for earth- enware. If iron filing?, are added' to the mixture a cement for mending broken parts of iron is the result. An excellent cement fc.r mending glassware and fine- china is equally simple aaid inexpensive. Isinglass dissolved in its own weight of whis- ky, gin, alcohol or other spirits, ap- plied as before directed, will hold and the join be scarcely visible. One of the finest and most, deli- cate of cements made is a mixture of one ounce of isinglass and one- half ounce of gum arobic covered with a good alcohol. This should be put into a bottle and be loosely corked because the whole is set into a kettle of boiling water until thor- oughly dissolved. This is used to mend the finest woods (as a piano marred) or to set pieces that may have come out of an inset table top. Jewellery is also sometimes repair- ed with this cement and so is polish- ed steel. The parts to be mended should be warmed first. A good cement which will liold labels to metal is made by dissolv- ing one part of borax to five of gum shellac in a quart of boiling water. Boil until the whole is clear. Be- fore applying wash the metal in hot water containing sommon washing soda and wiarm the cement before using it on the labels. Things Worth knowing. Corn should not be put up 'in glass jars, as the light darkens it. To keep suet fresh, chop roughly and sprinkle with a little granulated sugar. To remove the smell of cooking sprinkle a little cedar <lu-t. on the top of the stove. Allow cabbage water to become quite cold before pouring down the sink and there will be no unplea- jit. smell. A pinch of salt on the tongue., fol- lowed ten minutes after by a drink of cold water, often cures a head- ache. When baking potatoes, cut a snip from the end of each. This will let out the moisture and ura-ke them appear mealy. When cooking vegetables never allow the water to stop boiling all the time they are in the saucepan. To do o will make them s*xlden. After washing lamp chimneys, try polishing them with dry salt. This gives the glass a brilliant shine and prevents it from cracking. A good treatment for unduly moist hands is to bathe them fre- quently in warm water to which a little alum or vinegar has been added . When you desire to keep meat and have no ice on which to keep it, wrap it in a cloth wet with vine- gar. Wash the vinegar off before cooking the meat . To renovate a blue serge costume or suit, put half a pint of white vinegar into a quart of hot water, and spong'' 'he serge. Press while damp with ,i clean cloth laid over the material. When short of eggs for cake-mak- ing, dissolve one tablespoonful of gelatine in a little cold water, then add enough boiling water to make a cupful, beat with an egg whisk, add to the cake, and it will equal three WHAT AIR NAVIES COST. Britain lias Spent Ono-Ninlli Less I'll a M Germany. An estimate of the total expendi- tures of the different Governments for aeronautical work during five years approximates $100,000,000. The division is as follows : 1. Germany $28,000,000 2. France 22,000,000 3. Russia 12,000,000 4. Italy 8,000,000 5. Austria 5,000,000 8. Great Britain 3,000,000 7. Belgium 2,000,000 8. Japan 1,500,000 9. OMle 700,000 10. Bulgaria 600.00(0 11. Greece 000,000 12. Spain 550,000 13. Brazil 550,000 14. United States 435,000 15. Denmark 300,000 10. Sweden 250,000 17. China 220,000 18. lioumania 200,000 19. Holland 150,000 20. Servia ;... 125.000 21. Norway 100,000 22. Turkey 80,000 23. Mexico 80,000 24. Argentine 75,000 25. Montenegro 50,000 26. Cuba 40,000 A War Scene in Paris Soldiers Off l< (he Front. One of the six army corps which are now engaged on the frontier, marching through the streets of Paris to their camping ground. THE SONDiy SCHOOL STUDY IM'KHNATIONAL I.KSSON, Al.'GLST 311. GERMAN EMPEROR'S SISTER RIIHCl LES HIS ATTITfDE OF DICTATOR. Has Cuiwcd the KaiHiT Many I n- cumfortublc .Uonipnt* Now a "Crowned Head." By the death of the romantic old Grand Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, the Kaiser's eldest sister has just been elevated to the position of a "crowned head," for she is the con- sort of the new ruler of the State of Saxe-iMeiningen. Only one other of the Kaiser's sisters is a Sove- reign the wife of the King of Greece. The Kaiser's eldest sister, the new Grand Duchess of Sax- Meiningen, is a lady of rare person- ality, and one of the most interest- ing women in Europe. She has caused her imperial brother some tempestuous moments and many a hard word during her fifty -four years, and now that she is a Sove- reign princess and, as it were, "jn her own," she may cause him more. Charlotte of Prussia, as she was in early days, was born at the New Palace at Potsdam, on the 24th of July, 1860. Her mother was Eng- land's Princess Royal, and she was Queeu Victoria's first grand- daughter. For seventeen years Princess Charlotte of Prussia remained the chief joy and consolation of her mother's life. The Family Feud. W r hen old Bismark and his dour diplomats in Berlin were intent up- on making life miserable for the English princess who was destined to be the ''Empress of the Hundred Days," it was always her daughter Charlotte to whom she went for sympathy. From her eldest son. the Kaiser, she got little comfort. Wilhelm II. was from infancy com- pletely imbued with Prussian junk- erdoni, and he yearned for the day when he would -be an Imperial Ma- jesty. There was a considerable af- fection between the Kaiser and his sister Charlotte, who was but a year or so younger than himself. But as the future Kaiser and his sister grew up to years of discre- tion, a wide breach gradually de- veloped between them. Kaiser Wilhelm. as all the world knows, was always giving himself 'airs"; and his sister, who had in- herited her mother's strong English common sense and hatred for pos- eurs, became addicted to a habit of ridiculing her brother. But the Kaiser had his revenge, and his sis- ter is said never to have forgiven him for it. One day young Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, as the Kaiser then was, brought home to the New- Palace in Berlin a voung student who had just arrived at Potsdam. who was of Royal blood, and destin- ed to be Grand Duke of Saxe-Mein- his new brother-in-law, (firtempt- uously the Kaiser referred to Mein- ingen as ''The Professor-in-Arms/' The latter, a refined and scholar- ly gentleman, hated Junkerdom like poison, and was not afraid to tell Wilhelm LI. "what he thought uf him!" And ructions followed. The new Kaiser practically turn- ed the heir of Meiningen out of the German army ; and his brother-in- law's stern denunciation of Ger- man military methods, when the ar- tilleryman Heinrich committed sui- cide in 1903 rather than suffer bully- ing from his non-commissioned of- ficers, has become historic in Ger- man military annals. And Char- lotte of Saxe-Meiningen and the Kaiser have never been friendly since. She is devoted to her hus- band. ISK OF BOTH EYES. Apparent Distance of Objects De- pends on Use of Both Eyes. I Most people are unaware that the ' apparent distance of an object de- i pends upon the use of both eyes. I This fact however, can be striking- I ly shown. Place a pencil so that two or three inches project over the edge of a table. Then stand alongside the table, close one eye I and attempt to knock the pencil off by quickly hitting the projecting end with the tip of the forefinger. Almost invariably the person mak- ing the attempt underestimates the distance by an inch or more, and, much to his surprise, misses the pencil entirely. One-eyed people, accustomed to estimating distances only with one eye, of course have no trouble in hitting the pencil at the first trial. To make a person think there are two marbles where only one really exists, have him cross the second finger over the first, close his eyes, and tell how many marbles he is touching when you hold a single one in contact with the ends of the two crossed fingers. The illusion is very startling and the person al- most invariably has to be shown the single marble before he believes there is only one. If a marble is not convenient, the end of a pencil or other small object may be used. To test your ability to make your muscles work as you desire, try | sliding tile forefinger of the left j band backward and forward along the sides of a table ; at the same time, tap in the same spot with a pencil in the right hand so bhat the end touches the path the forefinger follows. At first it is extremely difficult to make the pencil tup in the same spot without hitting the finger, but after a little practice you will find that quite the contrary is the case, for it soon becomes al- most impossible to make the ob- ject with which the tapping is done touch the forefinger or vary from the same spot on the table. UKK.MAN CKOW.N IMUNCE. Anxioii* for War anil Deplored (.riMHh of Democracy. "Williaui tin; Younger," as Vor- woerts, the battling organ of the German Socialist party, contemp- tuously calls the German Crown Prince, broke forth shortly before war commenced with a crop of fresh "incidents." The eruption, like the "incident" of Zafaern laat wintcM- was again telegraphic, and it throws interesting light on the future Kaiser's attitude The Prince sent several effusive "wires" to Lieutenant-Colonel Frobenius, author of "Tho German Empire's Hour of Destiny," a rabid jingo production, predicting a European war conflagration in 1915, and to Professor Buohholz of Poscn, a pa- triot of the same calibre, who in a pamphlet, "Bismarck and We," ,flays thu present Government for permitting the unrestrained growth of democratic seninient." To Frobenius the Crown Prince telegraphed: "I hope your book will find a way into every German home." To Buchholz he wired: "I have read your most excellent trea- tize with the liveliest interest. ' Both Crown-princely effusions having been reproduced in the press, the boom in the sale of tho Frobenius book and the Buchhol?. pamphlet has been promptly in- augurated. The Liberal Vossische Zeitung called for "regulations" suppressing the political indiscre- tions of the Kaiser-to-be, but they have been going on for the matter of ten years now and nobody, not even the austere Kaiser himself has evolved effective ways and means of muzzling his ebullient heir. The Crown Prince's popularity has not suffered much in consequence of re- curring "incidents." He is re- garded as the best liked royal per- sonage in tho country without ex- ception. ingen. Forced to Marry. Total .$86,570.000 Prince Bernhard, was a clever youth. But he was no soldier. His inclinations were in the nature of Greek research and a uniform was a source of annoyance to him. Prince Wilhelm. having poked no end of fun at the young officer, cool- ly told his sister Charlotte that she had to marry him. Charlotte was j but sixteen years old. Charlotte' ' laughed at Prince Wilhelm. But it turned out to be no laughing mat- ter ! Young Prince Wilhelm's fa- ther was already a hopeless invalid ; his mother, as became an English Princess Royal, was a lady of the meek and gentle order, and before his own parents clearly re_cugni7.ed wnt their son had done Prince Wil- helm had betrothed his sister to tin; heir of Saxe-Meiningen, and all Germany was talking of the match. And but a few months later the Princess was married a id taken to Meiningpn ! Queen Victoria wiis .\iexpressibly shocked. Priacf \Villi:ii.i .Jiinatcd The Size of the Waves . The most experienced sons of the sea are apt to have very exagger- ated ideas of the size of towering waves which break over the vessels during seu storms, and frequently waves are reported as having reach- ed an almost impossible height. As a matter of fact it is extraordinary for a wave to attain a height of sev- enty feet, while the average si/.e of great waves is considerably less. The mountainous seas often encoun- tered by liners in the North Atlan- tic usually measure about forty | feet, though the upward-shooting, quick- falling waiter attains a greater altitude. The big waves of the North Pacific rarely measure more than thirty feet, while the highest wave ever met by an Aus- I tralian -bound liner in the South Pacific reached fifty feet. The big waves yf mid ocean are much larger : than those- encountered elsewhere, 1 and it is very rare that a height uf even twenty feet is reached by a wave in the Mediterranean. "Many a girl." .said the philoso- pher. 'thinks she has broken her hear! when she has really only sprained her imagination." HOLLAND 'S Ql'KK.N. Weighs as Mueli as Kings of Spain and Italy Together. Queen Wilhelmina of Holland does not make the gastronoinical sacrilices of her figure that the large majority of wnmen of to-day do. In- deed. Her Majesty is the greatest epicure among present-day ruling > sovereigns. According to a party of French i journalists returned from Holland. ! where they had tlie run of the royal palaces. VVilhchnina favors fish, meal, fruit, burgandy, and cham- pagne at nearly every meal. The Prince Consort is his own cellar- inun, taking the greatest interest in his wines. Here is a typical day's menu : 8 a.m. Coffee with whipped cream : a do/en pieces of cut bread and butter. 10 a.m. Two hot meat or fish pat- ties : cheese. 2 p.m. Lunch. usually hors d'oeuvres, fish, roast beef, fowl, dessert, wine. 4 p.m. Tea; ham sandwiches. 7 p.m. Dinner, consisting of eight courses. 10 p.m. Biscuits, limners, and bed. The Queen looks remarkably well on this diet, and weighs as much as the Kings of Spain and Italv to- gethe*. Her great gain in weight of late years is attributed to her fondness k>r good things to eat, especially sweetmeats and notably chocolates. Angry Customer. "See here, waiter," exclaimed the indignant customer, "here's a piece of wood in my sausage !" "Yes, sir." replied the waiter, "but I'm sure er "Sure no thing ! I don't mind eating the dog but I'm blowed if I'm going to eat Time never hangs henvv on the hands of a boy with his first watch. \Vifey-- Anyhow, a woman's mind is always cleaner than a man's. Hubby- It ought to be It changes of tenor. Lesson IV. A Day of Malt. 2. i ..--'-'. (Million Text, Mull. i. 21. Verse Id. Tlicn After Inning heard the pointed parables wliicl; Jesus had spoken against them. Tin- Pharisee* Throughout his Gospel Matthew regards the Phari- sees as the moat bitter of Christ's enemies. T'jok counsel how 'it hey might en- xnarc liini in his talk The Jewish leaders were s<> incensed at Jejsut that they comm-led together in or- der t-j devise s'-nne means for accus- ing liim of treason before tlie Ro- man governor. Tliey knew it was necessary to do this, since he alone had the right to impose the sen- tence of death. 10. Send to him their disciple Or, agents, with the Herodians, partisans of the Heroda. who sup- ported the Roman government. Teacher, we know that thou art true, and teachest th way of God in truth Words of fawning hypo- crisy. C'arest not for any one Referring to the boldness of Jenue, who had not been deterred from rebuking sin and unrighteousness, even though his strongest statements were against the Pharisees, who, wero of the social aristocracy of the Jews. 17. Is it- lawful to give tribute un- to Caesar, or not? This question shows the astuteness of those who sought to entrap Jesus. In their company, PhadiseeiS. Herodians. and Sadduoees, usually at enmity witli each other, had now combined ag-aijist Jesus. The party of zealots held thait Israel, being t theocracy, with God as the only king, should not pay tribute to any foreign power, and with these the Phari- sees agreed. Had Jesus, however, placed himself on record as sup- porting this policy, the Pharisees would have cliarged him with trea- son and had him condemned to death. As the Herodians support- ed the Roman government openly. they would not liave aeked such a question in sincerity. 18. Jesus perceived their wicked- ness These ia, Ar > who came to ques- tion Jesus hiad not *>SA.J?pfh0nk4 his character. They thought he s would be flattered by the compli- ments they paid him. and that in his answer he would foolishly give' himself away. But Jesus -saw their motive, and did not hesitate to pub- licly denounce them as hypocrites. 19. The tribute money The Ro- man coin in which the tribute or tax was paid. This would probably correspond to our poll tax. Denarius A coin worth about seventeen cents, and we learn from the following verses that this one bore the image and superscription of Caesar. 21. Render therefore unto Cae- sar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's The important point in Christ's answer is that Jesus, in common with all the prophets held that "national independence is not an ultimate good, nor the patriotism that fights for k an ultimate vir- tue." To him the kingdom of (Jod did not. mean the restoration of the kingdom of Israel. His kingdom v\;ix not of this world in the sense in which the Jews thought of worldly kingdoms, and he implied in his answer that it is pi,.-<ililr to be a true and loyal citi/.en of the king- dom of God and vet submit to t.'io rule of u foreign potentate. We be- lieve it a natural deduction from this teaching thait church and state are separate institutions, e,ach with its peculiar claims and powers. But the Christian owes to his country not only "tribute money.'' but par- ticipation in I'MM'y movement look- ing toward the betterment of soci- ety in that country. _"J. They marvelled, .ind left him, mid went away .Tesus's f-es were a. -tonished that heeould su cosily avoid the trap that they had set for him. (lire For Snake-IJiie. Many are the curioii> tn.'l.hods adopted for curing snakebites, but surely none can l>e more >> than a way which a London Answers cor- respondent inform-- us. Two natives in a village near Hhuvnagar, India, were, he s,ays, brought Iwack to life after bektg bitten by a cobra. The victims were seated on the ground and there held, while from a height of 16 fprt ga-lli-ns and gallons of lift water were poured on their heads. Presently, according t<, the corres- pondent, the victims "took a new KAM of life," and are now :i> well as though they had ivver been in the jaws of den.th at all Tli.- explanation to this "cure" probn- hlv is that Uie Mi.ik'-. a-= ..fion ll'in- ,. .- r i , t i 1 ' ** pens, bit its viounu, bill injected no poi>on hit.> them. Thus the men were merelx k> r 'i fled mid continued to be t'figlii'.Mied until (In pain caused by the douche of hoi water Rave them losiictl'inp eW to think about.