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f Useful Hints and General Informa- tion for the Busy Housewife Choice Dishes. I'arsiiip Fritters. â€" Thoroughly wash the parsnips and bake them In their skina until tender. Peel and cut into thick round slices. Sprinkle with flour, dip in egg and bread crumb-, and fry in deep fat till a guhien brown. Date Pie. â€" Simmer one pound of dates in milk enough to cover. Mash and add one-half cup sugar, yolks of three eggs, one pint hot milk and sprinkling of cloves and cinnamon. Bake like custard pie, adding, when set, meringue of white of eggs, andi three tablespoons sugar. Browned flour will impart flavor and coloring and make soups and! gravie.s especially good. To brown] flour, sift it into a granite pie pan] or flat pan, using about one cupful. I Then place it in the oven to brown; it must be stirred and not allowed i to burn. Remove from the oven and sift it as .soon as it is browned evenly;! keep it in a tin box or fruit jar. It! . will always add flavor to warmed over meats. I Stewed Parsnips.â€" One-half pound' salt, lean pork, two quarts cold water, three pints sliced raw parsnips, three! tablespoons flour, pepper to taste. Cutj pork into thin slices, cover with water and boil three hours. Half an hour before serving time, add parsnips, and when they are tender, thicken! with flour wet with cold water. There! should be about three pints of liquid left. If not, water should be added to make this amount. .\dd pepper to taste, and if necessary, a little salt. Caramel Pudding. â€" One cup sugar,' two cups water, four egg whites, one; and one-fourth teaspoons gelatin, one- third teaspoon vanilla. Caramelize, three-fourths of sugar, and dissolve' by pouring over boiling water andj cooking for few minutes. Turn in re-j mainder of sugar and gelatine, which should have-«tood ten minutes in cold: water lo cover. Beat egg whites' stiff, flavor with vanilla and beat liq- uid into them. Beat thoroughly, pour into welt«tl mold and when stifl', un- muKl ard serve with boiled custard made of i-gg yolks. Soft Kaisin Cookies. â€" One cup brown sugar, one-quarter cup butter,! two egtrs, one teaspoonful of vanilla exl7act, flour, one tablespoonful of; warm water, one-half teaspoon bak- ing suda, one-quarter teaspoon salt, raisin iilliiig. Cream sugar and but- ter. Add eggs well beaten, soda dir-j solved in warm water, salt, vanilla: and enough sifted flour to make soft: dough. Roll out,, cut in rounds, spread layor of raisin filling between two cookies, press flllod cookies light- ly with rolling-pin and bake in but- tered pans in hot oven until lightly browned. Cream of Tomato Soup. â€" One two- pound can tomatoes, two small oni- ons, one teaspoon salt, one teaspoon sugar, one-half teaspoon soda, one- fourth teaspoon pepper, dash cayenne pepper, small sprig celery or dash of celery salt and one cup water. Boil all ingredients e.\cept milk together for twenty minutes. Strain through colander. Add milk, first warming it, and U t all come to boiling point, then serve. If thicker soup is desired, cream equal amounts of butter and flour together, say one tablespoon of each, and add to soup at a boil. To make orange cake take the weight of two eggs in butter, sugar and flour, the grated rind of one orange and the juice of a half. Beat butter and sugar together, then add! gn"ater rind and flour, mix with the^ beaten up eggs and juice, beating the mixture till quite smooth; add half' a teaspoonful of baking powder, and bake for half an hour in a moderately! hot oven in a well-greased sandwich tin. When cold, ice with six table- spoonfuls of icing i^ugar, which has been well rolled until a fine powder and mixed into a paste with the juice of the remaining half of the orange. Anyone who will try the following recipe will never buy corned-beef; from the butcher again: For 10, pounds of beef take one pint of salt,: one teacup of brown sugar, one table- j spoonful each of ground doves, all- spice and pepper, and one tablespoon-; ful of pulverized saltpeter. Rub the beef with this mixture and place in a jar. Rub each piece on all sidei' with tl'.o mixture twice a day for a week, then wash oflf the spices, put! in a pot of boiling water and let sim-j mer for five hours. Remove fromj lire antl press under a heavy weight until cold. Thn same pickle will do for another 10 po'.nids of beef by first rubbitiff into it a handful of salt. Preserving Eggs. Now is the time to preser\ e eggs. The water glass method is very sim-| pie. Kggs put up according to it willj Main 'heir original flavor. The eggs! must h,' fiesh and clean. Washing an egg spoils its keeping qualities.' Galvanized iron ves.sels, crocks, jars' or wooden kegs may be used. The I vessel mu.st be clean. It of wood it' must bo thoroughly scalded. Use j goodt pi'.ide of wa':ei: gla^a. One like! a heavy white jelly that flows like cold, molas.so.s. Use one quart of the wa-' ter glass to 10 quarts of pure water I that ha.-^ Iie?n boiled. Pour into the vessel, wli«n cool F'esh eggs caft be put int.) it from time to time until the jar is filled. There should be two inches of the colution above the eggs. Keep the preserved eggs in a cool place as in a cellar. The eggs will contain some gas and so crack when boiled. This can be prevented by making a pin hole in the blunt end of egg before bdiling them. Household Hints. Honey should be reckoned as food and not merely a confection. Whole wheat bread is always best made up in very small loaves. O.xaHc acid, dissolved in hot water, will clean paint from windows. A red-hot iron will soften okl putty so that it can be easily removed. Do your own thinking, and do not be afraid to overwork your thinking machine. Never hurry with the family mend- ing. It is not worth doing unices it is done well. Blunt skewers are fine for poking out contrary comers of pillow-cases,! bags and such articles, when turning. An iron stand which can be fasten- ed to the ironing board is a great help on ironing day. Patent leather shoes should be cleaned with milk, or a little sweeti oil may be rubbed into them. i To tiike the shine off a serge skirt! sponge with hot vinegar and rub un-' til the shine disappears. j In decorating the home have all thej rooms that are closely connected tint- ed in harmonising colors I A small square of velveteen is e.\- cellent to use as a poli.;hing cloth, and, is cheaper than chamois. Spoons used in cooking should be of wood as far as possible. A fewi metal ones should be kept for mea- suring. Do a lot of baking before begin- ning hou;ecleaning. You may not have time ;ior strength for it after you get busy. Many soaps are injurious to painted walls and woowork. It is safer to use a little borax powder or ammonia in the water when doing such cleaning. Flies may be kept from damaging gilt frames by going over them with a soft brush dipped in a pint of wa- ter in which three or four onions have been boiled. Do not u^:e water or oil to clean gilt picture frames, as both are injurioqs. Instead, apply the white of an egg with a soft cloth, which will solve the difficulty. When a pot or teakettle has boiled dry, pour boiled water into it, never cold water. There will be little dan- ger of the vessel crocking, or of the enamel peeling off if this is done immediately. Children do not love working alone, but enjoy laboring in a pleasant, com- panionable way, especially if their co- worker is a cheerful mother, and not one who considers them as a bother. A towel with an initial on it has a dainty appearance. By using a little ingenuity one may work the ini- tials in the form of a monagram that looks neat and gives he towel a dis- inction all its own. ' | When Buffalo moths or common moths are in a carpet lay over it thick wet cloths and press these with very, hot irons, driving he steam down through the carpet. Repeat to kill later hatches. j When washing lamp chimneys wash; and rin e them in hot water and stand' them in a safe place to dry. Put: them on a wire dish-drainer, and the glass will emerge bright, clean and sparkling. Shears in the kitchen are very use- ful. Use them to trim lettuce, cut raisins and figs, dre:-9 chickens, pre- pare grapefruit, and for many other uses th-it may be discovered daily by ;he thinking housewife. -, f season of color and one may indulife to the heart'j content. I For the sports blouse, handkerchief and butcher's linen are both popular;; pongee, the rough Chinese crepes, and the coarser voiles ai e also practical and well liked. Costume-blouses and tihirt-waist.i are mostly fin'shed with the open throat or adju table collar. although with the strictly tailored suit one sees now and then a fetching choker. | The,'!e patterns may be obtained from your local McCall dealer or from The McCall Co., TO Bond St., Toronto, ; Ont., Dept. W. "Fader, wlio Ufil you do diiriu;: Ihc i;ifai Wur/" â€"From John Halt THE FASHIONS . So'im: Summer A .'cessories. Hats, veils, shoes, parasols, dainty little collar and cuff sets, and all the numerous other accessories which go to complete the costume are charming- ly designed this season to fit in smartly with the new silhouette and the general lines of the costume. Shoe manufacturers are loud in their praise of the short-skirt vogue. In former years skirts have varied in width and trimming, but until this sea- son have always remained at a con- servative length. With the modish short skirt of the moment, smart, trim shoes are absolutely necessary to the general effect of the costume. The high lactd boot of tan, brown, black or gray is popular with the tailored suit; for afternoons, with the light silk or the novelty cotton frock, the old-time Colonial pump, with its huge buckle of silver or gun-metal, is once more a low-shoe favorite. Veils. Parasols and Collars. At the beginning of the season there were any number of novel effects in veilings, but with the advance of the season the call for veilings for street and general use, aside from motoring, dwindles usually to the face veil, of al- most invisible mesh, intend merely to keep the hair in place. The trick of arranging the veil over the hair, under the hat, is practical and clever, es- pecially with the larger hats. The hat may be readily removed and the' veil remain, keeping the hair smoothly', and neatly in place. \ Parasols promises to pay a mora prominent part in this summer's ward- Neckwear this season is is fascinat- ing and offers as many possibilities for individuality a.^ ever. Some smart little novelity ruches from Paris, now being shown in the shops, to complete a costume effectively, are narrow "and finished with buckle, or tie with narrow ribbons. [ Popularity of Lace and Embroidery The extreme favor being shown the typical lingerie frock has brought lace and embroidery into wide use again this summer. Lace is being BOOTS BY THE MILLION. British Factories Turning Out Sup- plies for Many Armies. No less than $1,600,000 wort>h of boots u week are being turned out by the Northamptonshire factories, who are supplying not only the Brit- ish army with footwear, but are also making boots for the French army and navy, the Belgian, Serbian and Italian armies. And now there is a likelihood of an order for three mil- lion pairs of high-legged boots for the Russian army being placed in England. ' It is pointed out that if this order ! should bo placed, it will have a re- 1 markable effect on the leather trade, ' for each pair of legs will cut into i nine feet of leat>her. and each pair â-  of fronts will take another two feet. It would, in fact, absorb well over , thirty million feet of upper leather,' in addition lo 250,000 bends for the soles untl 200,000 bends for repair- ing, the leather altogether being equal to "00,000 hiiles. Many curious boots, by the way, are being turned out by the North- ampton factories. There is a thigh boot for sailors in which he can al- most float; short- footed boobs for Gurkhas; sandals for West African soldiers; special boots for the Flying Corps; and last but not least, mos- : quito boots for our soldiers fighting in tropical countries. * ALL FOR THE CHILD. My folks an' me are g^ing to see The circus this here wreek. My Paw he'll go, an' my Aunt Flo, .^n' Maw an' Uncle Zeke, My Paw last night allowed he might Take me to see the show. "It's on'y just," sez he; "we mui<; .\mu3e the child, ye know. Of course, I've got an awful lot 0' work on hand," sez he. "But I suppose I'll fix it so's •Twon't interfere with me." Then Maw sez: "Jake, for goodness' sake! .\re you expectin' me To set home while you take that chile Where all them wild things be? Why, I'd jist :,et an' fret, an' fret. Lest somethin' might go WTong; So if you go I'll have ye know That I'm a-goin' along." Then Uncle Zeke, who come last weekj Along o' my .A.unt Flo To board with Paw an' me an' Maw. Allowed that they would go. ! "I'm sure," sez he. "that Flo an' me Would feel siek loneliness. i Left here alone when you were gone. We'd best go, too, I guess." , « • « « I Now, ain't my Paw an' dear old Maw .â- \s knd as they kin be ! To plan so much, providin' such A splendid treat fur me? *_ WHERE FRANCE WAS BORN. Verdun is Where Charlemagne's Sons Divided an Empire. It is a curious thing, worth mir.ark In passing, that at Verdun, wben- the turning point of the war between France and Germany is likely to be. these two great nations were born, says an article in the Philadelphia Re- cord. The empire of Charieuiagrio. 1,000 years ago. took iu under om? sov- ereignty the lauds that are now France and Germany. At Verdun In 84S the SODS of Louis I., Charles. Louis and Lotbaire. met to portion out among themselves their father's empire The map of Europe as It is now be- gan with this memorable meeting at Verdun. The cy then fell to the lot of that portion of the empire which became Germany. For 700 years Verdun was German In lJo2 it wa« ceded to France, FVom thn' day on It has been a great fortrebs. commanding the great highway along the River Meuse to Belgium and ;he road that runs from Motz to Puris The fortlti- cations date from an old keep bui'.t by Vauban on the site of a Benedictine moaastery. which wus torn down to make room for Uio fortress. Gradu- ally the ring cf enc rcling forts has been built. Of late years they have been modernized, until at this day they are as nearly impregnable as luilitary science can make tliem. + SCHOOLS FOR HORSES. of ,-'54 â-  Spanish Dance Dress. robe than for tnany a summer past; they are oddly shaped and vividly col- ored. One of the newest ideas is the blue-bird parasol; these are embroid- ered, stencilled, or appliqued, and spread their wings all around the out- side edge of the wh'te or softly tint- ed parasol, or scatter here and there over the inside .surface. It i.; an ex- tremely dainty notion, completing the summer frock in a most fascinating manner. Ostrich feathers edging the parasol is another effective fancy. ' ;i3S Voile and Embroidery Flouncing used for trimming dresses v>d blouses, and often forms the greater portion of the garmant. The sheei' lace flouncings are particularly pretty for summer dance and evening dresse. Metal laces are effective on the more formal gowns for daytime and even- ing. .\ particularly pretty u^e of lace flounc'ng is illustrated in the Spanish dance frock shown here; up- per portion of skirt and bolero are of taffeta, bodice and flounce of a thread- lace flouncing. An effective bit of contrast is introduced in the dark gir- dle and the narrow ribbons banding the short puff sleeves. .\nother. a simpler, even more youthful dress, is illustrated of voile and embroideiy, flouncing; it i.i eharmiiigly suited te] the young girl for summer wear. i The tub-frock is more popular than for many a year; Paris herself en- I dorses the cotton dress this summer. I Many atraclive novelties are being sent us from the French loems: among them are the artirtic piques. , voiles, and other fabric;; of Rodier, with their quain* patterns and effec- tive coloring;!. A particularly pretty ' voile for blouses and frocks is a fine check in color, with a solid el- I vage; this colored selvage is used a a flnif^h for collar, cuffs, jabots and the like. [ The Colored Lingerie Blouse. The colored blouse of organdy, voile. Georgette, and wash satin, has taken .â- ^uch a hold on the popular fancy that it is qu'te difficult to find a really at- tractive plain white blouse, cexept- ing tho e for sports wear. Pale pink, all tones of tan and yellow, soft blues and grays predominate. The co.-Jtume-blousc of pale cream loce or Georgette, usually has an interlining of the palest flesh chiffon; tho blue waist is p'ped with pink, or another' harmonious contrast. It is indeed a Methods .\dopted by Instructors (he British .\rmy. The method of educating a horse is rather a lengthy process, and that fol- lowed by the horse instructors of the British army has answered splendidly. A horse is lirst taught to lie down at a given signal. Then he is taught t)o trot around a fielil: then to jump hurdles. He is always rewarded for doing well. Gradually he is accustomed to vari- ous pieces of harness, until, when the time comes for him to be mounted by a man, instead of plunging about and having to be thrashed into submis- sion, he sees at last v. hat tho whole thing is al>out. and thoroughly enters into the spirit of it. Then he is trained to charge at dum- my figures, and he is always coaxed and soothed if frightened, and soon learns that the dummies do not harm him; and after that he is taught to knock them over. A course of noises of gradually increasing vioWce teaches him to keep his head, and hL- is finally put to charging figures stuf- fed with fireworks. _-- + Import Labor From Denmark. An employment bureau has bee.i es- tablished iu Copenhagen. Uenniark, for twenty large factories in Germany. Contracts are made for two mouths, with travelHng and passport expouse". Wages are about :!a cents an hour, the working day usually consisting of from ten to twelve hours. The bureau has already secured -lOO workmen. Sport and ^ Recreatkm Sold by all ^QfidsKoe dealers yihm by every membcrjiiemmfy From the Ocean Shore BITS OF NEWS FROM THE MARITI.ME PROVINCES. Items of Interest From I'laces Lapped By Waves of the .Vtlantic. Fre%li fish arrivals at Haliiax ou« day last week totalled 5:t.00u pounds. Twenty-one deaths were reporlod to the Board of Health at St. John, .N'.B.. during lust week. From February lOth, 191.V to .\pril 18th, una, over l.:.'OU men have iriilist ed in Froderlclon. The long-talked of bridge is to ba built across the Jemseg at Jem^eg Corner. N'.B.. this yecr. William Graham and .-Vlec Conrod, of Three Fathom Harbor, wen* last week reported drowned. Pi<' John Burke, who was killed in action last week, was one uf the first volunteers from Quebec Mr. .-Xbraliam Langille. of Pictou, celebrated his 94lh birthday last week by sawing wood in his yard Darinujuih will fall in line with Halil.i.i. Yarmouth and Windsor and adopt ;he daylight saving scheme A valuable permorming "sllkhalred" dog, worth J50W, strayed away und was lost in the Mouclon woods last we*k. Frederlcton is contributing at the rate of $100 per month to the fund for the Canadian prisoa .rs of war in Germany^ The famous "pavilion" Is now t>eing moved by stages from Victoria school at Moncion, to the race track. Liquor Inspector Jones is working energetically to eradicate the illegal transportation of Ihiuur into Scott Act towns in New Brunswick. The house and barns of Charles Gillespie, at Penntield, were totally destroyed by Are with loss at between tS.Ooo and $6,UUt). Tile building containing the office of the .\uicricai Consul at 3t. Pierre, Mlq.. was recently destroyed by tire ot undetermined origin. The returnln;; soldiers residing in Frederlclon hav" formed a European War Veterans' .Vssociatloii. and thus far the orgauizution has met with suc- cess. Colin McLean, contractor, who was born In Nova Scotia T'J yearn ago. died of pneumonia, t Baltimore, .Md. Hu built the Stature of Liberty and Brook lyn Bridge. A.t a result of the explosion of a dynamite cap which he was playing with, Harry Purcell. son of Robert Purcell, ferryman, at Halifax, had sev- eral of his fingers blown off. Lieut Col. F. B. Black, MP P of ^ SackvlUe. who has been home conval- escing after several months' service with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Flanders, has gone to tho front again. . + •THEY SHALL NOT PASS." French Officer Tells of Phrase Thai Saved Verdun. "The fundaniental secrr", of French resistance before Vi"-dun was psycho- logical." said a high French officer, incapacitated from service by wounds, to a correspondent. "It was universal auto-suggestion on a vast scale .\11 were »o self-hypnotizi d by a constant repetition of the phrase; "They sliall uol imss â-  (Us ue passeiont pas I. that no idea save that of resistance lo th** uttermost could enter their heads" (.'ontlnuing his novel explanation ot the French success, tho officer said: â- ".\nyone familiar with crowd psy- chology must have noticed that iiniue- diate response of bodies of men to stiggestion. Of all the peoples on earth the French are the most sensitive to such inf.uences. Imagine, then. rh« result when General Petalu transferred doubt and dtscouragetiien' Into iron determination, when throughout the whole army flashed his resolution that the t!ernian<« should not get through. That Is what enabled th.' infantry to undergo unexampled bumbarduientM and then push forward with the bay- onets as iNigerly as fresh troops. That is Uie explanation of the confidence in victory, seen even In captured Frenchmen, which has amazed their Gerin.in ciptors. If You Have Not a = Policy in the = CROWN LIFE You are not doing justice to yourself or your family. M»'- •^> *.> ^iiii.^ i:i^V <2itri Tf >'.^â- ,^^â- r^â- .'. :: i r!-!"-- •4^ •f. 'i'i' \ ' . t' '^ 4:^*4-4 ^^s '^^'