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About the House Useful Hints and General Informa- tion for the Busy Housewife Apprtizint; Cheese Dishes. Cheese is u \vl\olcsome fixid that deserves nt least an occasfonal place on the ilininriT table. lb would ap- pear more frocjiicntly, perhaps, if the numerous attraetive and unusual way* of serving: it were more commonly known. Chee.se Salad. â€" Slichtly warm one pound of cheee, then work it until it ci-umhles. Add one quarter of a tca.spoonful of finely minced onion, two hard-boiled eirfjs, finely minced, two tnblesnoonfuls of mayonnaise dressinpr. V/hen you have thoro-jphly mi.xeil all the infrredients, form bhe mi.xture into small balls, and serve them with lettuce leaves on individual plates. and, indeed, anything eaten by very young chiUircn where fresh bread ia often po.sibively dangrerous. , Dried bread is also valuable for mixinff with various other foods for . feeding the household pets. Miscellaneous Recipes. 1 Green Tomato Sweet Tickles. â€" One peck of green tomatoes. One dozen larjre white onions. Six red peppers, ' coarBely chopped. One cup of sugrar. ' One tnblespoonful of ground all-spice. • One table poonful of ground cinna mon. mustard. One tablespoonful of whole cloves. Three pints of vine- gar. Slice the tomatoes the day be- fore pickling. Sprinkle them thor- THE ROMANCE OF AUSTRALIA IT WAS ONCE CONNECTED WITH OTHEll LANDS. Island Continent Has Strangest Men and Animals in the World. One of the oldest of all lands, Aus- tralia, Is the youngest of all nations. She is the reality of two thousand years of wise men's dreams, the vast southern continent which they fnnH^^in^'h^^* bs there to balance the ^f ^he earth. The animals remained ! naked, and cannibals. The lowest in ! panel in the front and back, and is one dared seek f" l^'^'^f^'^-J^" the very lowest type-animals which {the human scale, they lived, and still certainly most attractive, thought thwt «i,o w^o U' f J t '^"'"'â- y *â- *"-'"' young in pouches, which ; live, when away from white settle- A wonderfully smart suit from the rest of the w^rld 1 '" 7"* *'*''*â- ' *•'"' ^""""est of brains. There | ments, much the same sort of life as ! parig was made of navy blue gabard- One tablespoonful of giound | of fire and demons aifd "all Tvine r'/^" competition no hard struggle our old cave men lived in Britain ine, with a very long, full coat. The r,l On^ tahle^noonfnl nf I mist. """ "'""»>""» for life, as in the busier world With- hundreds of thousands of years ago. skirt also was very full. It extended She must bo there, they said, and .°".*:_"° "f*!.^".!â„¢?:?-'?- oT!^? __*!!:! P.!?" ^.^A '^"tf^} 3'Pl}"^^l^^.^.''}\uIZ "P *''°^« *^« 'i''â„¢^' waistline, where they drew fancy outlines of her on , \ CONTAINS NO ALUM - MADE IN CANADA Cut a and remove t*ie crusts. Butter each slice, and cover it well with grated cheese, building up the slices one on another in two mounds in a deep bak- ing dish. Boil a cupful of milk, and season it with salt; pepper and a dash of prated nutmeg; when the milk has, boiled pour ib over the bread; set the left out if bhe flavor i dish in the oven and let the mixture all their maps and globes, and showed her linked up to Africa and to Am- erica, and stretching unbroken to the South Pole. But when Diaz stag- gered around the southern foot of „ „ _ Africa, the Magellan found his way spri;ikle between each layer the sugar I through open water round the south- and all the spices. Pour over them I ern-most point of South America, the three pint.-) of vinegar, or enough I ?7 ''v ^ following, got blown away to cover the whole well and boil gent- I I,"l^ „.,., ""!'!.''^,^.^_°y*'^'''â- ,",^<=»^ ^«; ly until ten<Ier. The onions can be j oughly w th salt, but nob too heavily, Limpens Cheese (Belgian style).â€" !„ the morning drain off the liquor. mall loaf of bread into slices Have ready the onions coarsely sliced. Take a kettle and put in a layer of tomatoes, then a layer of onions, and mg. was very strik- Suit Fabrics and Colors. objectionable bake for a quarter of an hour, basting the bread frequently with the milk in the pan.. Fried Cheese Halla.â€"Mix hr.lf a cup- ful each of grated choese and an ('(iMal amounf of bread crumbs, add one well- beaten egg and a teaspoonful of n good relish. Roll the mixture into balls; dip them into bepten egg, then into very fin» bread cnimbs Ihat you have liirhMy seasoned with pepper and salt. Fry the balls in deep, hot fat. If you like high seasoning, add a da h of Cayenne pepper to the cheese mix- ture. With a lettuce salad the chcc:-,e balls make an excellent garnish for venl. Savory Cheese Kusks.â€"These are parbiailarly appetizing u.s a luncheon dish. Grate one and one half c-uf>- fuls of strong cheese, add one tea- spoonfj! of olive oil, one tea-poonful of ilry mustard, and two tablespoon- fuls of mild vinegar. Sea.S(>n it highly with a good relish and with salt and pepper. Add one eighth of a Kv^spoonful of soda and beat the mix- ture until it is very light and creamy. Spread it on rounds of rusks or on plain white bread and brown it in a very hot oven. If you wish as the pickles are equally good with- out them. Pepper Hash. â€" Twelve large red peppers. Twelve large green pop- pers. Fifteen onions. Take seed.-? from peppers. Chop fine in food chopper and pour over boiliuR water. Let stjind five minutes and then drain. Make a weak solubion of vinegar to two parts water (three-fourths pint vinegar to one and one-L ilf pints water <"or the above amount of pcpers and onions. Put in bhe chop|)od pep- pepers and onions. Let boil, then drain again. Add one pint of vine- gar, two and one-half cups sugar, I three tablespoons .salt. Let all come i to a lioil, put in jars and seal. Pickle Crapes.â€" Take ripe grapes, remove all ipnperfect and l)roken ones, I divide large bunches. Pub in can.h- en jar a layer of grapes leave (the j tannin in leaves helps preserve the firmness of grape-). To four quarts of vinegar take two or three pints of white sMgar, or more if desired, one ounce of cinnamon, half-ounce ca.ssia yond, and none found southern land â€" then they gave it up, and struck Australia from the map. There could not be a southern continent after all, they said. But Australia was there all the time, with the .'^^trangcst men and the strangest animals in the world, lying, as under a spell of en- chantment, asleep within her borders of pearl and coral and her girdle of salt sea foam. veloped on the old lines Some grew i tools, and their successors have them j^ ^^s attcahed to a blouse of brown to be giants, as big as any elephant, ' still; they do not possess houses, un- ^^j black checked silk with small and then died out. The smaller types ' less it be a rude, temporary shanty checks. The coat was Uned with bhis survived, though of these smaller made of bark or twigs. j gi,k, ami when thrown open the effect ones, the grea kangaroo ,s bigger And yet these ancient savages made of the whole costume was very strik- than the tallest man. one of the most wonderful of all na- • " "•"* The story of the Australian animals i tui'al weapons, the boomerangâ€" the ' is one of the wonders of the world, curved piece of wood which, when | The huge continent experiences in its cleverly thrown, circles strangely There are charming suit materials diferent ranges three climatesâ€" tro- through the air, strikes dead a bird for fall, which will perhaps make it pical, sub-tropical and temperate, so or an animal or, if it misses, returns diflficulb to decide on what to get. Be- that we might expect to find there to the thrower. And these boomer- sides the old stand-by, serge, there is animals resembling those of Africa as ang men with their tools and flint its staunch companion, gabardine; well as of Europo. But there is noth- , and their f^res made by friction, shar- then there arc wool pcplin, wool vel- ing of Wie sort. There are no lions \ ed with the animals this continent of ours, broad-cloth, cheviot, mixtures, or tigers, or wolves, bears, cats, wea- nearly three million square miles, and many fancy twills and suitings. sels â€" indeed, not a single flesh- eater stretching 2,400 miles from east to For dressy wear, velveb, velveteen e.\cept a little so-called cat. There ia west and nearly 2,000 from north to ^ that, and there is the wild dog, or south. W'ith this primitive living dingo, but" he is a mysterious new- host for her keepers, the great land comer, not a native. There are neith- slept on; she slept. like Sleeping er apes nor monkey?:; neither oxen, Beauty, until the prince should come. For long, long vears Australia had '''^'''â- ' "°»' antelopes; no elephants. â€""My Magazine." lain preparing for" the coming of man. 'â- ^'""^â- "o*^"'- P'*^^' ':'>»n<"'s, horses, . . ^ . Her history is written on-her wide '""''^ °'" '"''""s; "o true mice, squir- bosom. Once she was part of greater ""'''^ °'' I'orcupines; no hedge hogs or land masses, connected, perhaps by shrews. And yet. lacking all these land bridges with Asia. Beneath the ^''''^tui-es. Australian wild life is surface this vast continent was boil- amazing. ing. Burning mountains were heaved A multitude of forms fol.ow the up and blew their heads off, and thou- kangaroo line of development; there sands of miles of lava and ash re- """^ '^â- *^"' '^^^ ''^"*''' kangaroo hares. THE FASfflONS main to tell the tale of her great kangaroo rats, kangaroo mice, simply ; volcanoes. because they suggest the forms of i j these originals in other lands. Where Were the Men? i But her tires died out, and more enduring mountains were formed, which, age upon age, epoch after epoch, have been attacked by heat and wind and rain, have been worn A Forecast of the Fall Styles. Before very long, bhin r.ummer frocks and light suits will have to be put away for the heavier fall gar- There were no flesh-caters, other than the so-called cats, in Australia, before „„„, . » i .u • i t » , -^ 1 »!. 1 .• i J • nients to take their places. It often v.hite man, and the domesticated am- . ,, ^ i. cu i/ia<.c • »<â-  ;«-^ mals arrived. I ''aPP**"^ t^^"* the first chill wnnds ... j - , ,„ . , ., catch us unprepared, and certainly Wonderful Plant Life. t»,o.-o :„ „„*vi« _ ».• .u .tnere is nothing more upsetting than , , , , ,, . . , Tl"-' plant life of the sleeping land , to realize that we had not given a down lower and lower, their summits wa.s wonderful, too. Ihe great feature thought to th,. comino- of ftn «„H ground by the agencies of time into ' here is the eucalyptus tree, of which "r^ ronll.In" .^ ' ''"** dust and powder, and cloves, bo.l vinegar, sugar and ground Dy tne agencies of time into here is the eucalypu.s u-ee. oi w.ucn were conseouentlv not re-Hv f r th« spues together a few minute., and dust and powder. Their chemical there are 150 species, many of them ihaneeTn the wi^'th^r ^ when cold pour over grapes. By properties, containo.l in the boiling unknown elsewhere. Like the ani- ''^ '" **'" '^*'^**'^'^- pouring bhe vinegar over the grapes lava from which they first solidified, mals, they took to being giants, and a beat each one t-horoughly. Add half a cupful of tale grated cheese and place the mixture in a pastry bag that has a st-,r tube. I,i„e n bi.scuit pan W'th paper and shape the mixture in- to rings upon it. Snrinkle lightly with grated cheese them in a modcrnte are thoroughly done. them and bake oven until they Making I'se of Stale Bread. Of all the left-over reniimiits of food fnm the kitchen bread is the most common,, perhaps, iiikI many pieces me daily thrown away which a little thought wiwld turn to excel- lent use. If the left-over pieces are not utilized the same day, an excel- lent plan is to wrap them in pieces of waxed paper and store them in a nie a small (|uantity of the liciuid and set to cool, and repeat this process until the .-â- ample-, set-, to the desired thickness. Put in glasses, and when cold cover the top with a thin layer of melte<l paraffin. Household Hints. Every tidy housekeeper would like to keep her cooking sbove clean and new looking. She can do so if she will wash the .love while it is warm with i; s^jnge dipped in soap !:iul water. Charcoal on the shelf eratcr will keep the sweet and pure. Then bhere is the ...ilvor that will tarnish. If the good hmiHewife will lay a little camphor in the drasver stone jar. They will keep well for a ' ^''^'''"'^' "'^'^ keeps her silverware, sb forming the great nuggets that have I there is the famous bush or scrub since been found in the soil. | which covers hundreds of square miles ' But where were the men? The ' at a stretch. I men were not ready. They hud not! There are' trees whose blossoms are emerge.l. But the animals had. so brilliant that they seem to set hills | W'arm-blooded animal.s which suckled | on fire and can be seen miles out at th. ir young had appeared upon the sea. There are trees that have no earth, ami, roaming far, had reached leaves, and trees that are really giant grasses. There is a mahogany that The autumn styles are already well established, so no one need be afraid to make her selection in suits and gowns early, for there is no danger bhat they will not be in good style lat- er. The suit models that have come , over from Paris are as attractive as 1 they can be. The coats are mostly I three-quarter length and some of i bhcm are shorter. They reach to the | hips, the fingers tips or the knees. ' The skirt-, are quite full; just as full 'and satin will be very much in the â- IS they were last fall, but not so flaring foregiound. The checked wo^^l vel- ours are very stylish in two tones. A .Moditied Empire Style. The lines arc straighter, as and the skirbs just a trifle f the refrig- rofrigerator I Australia from other parts of the I world. Then came the breakdown of the land bridges from Australia to Asia. The animals were shut up in a continent which had become an island. ^ The kangaroos and the wallabies, the [ bear-like koala, the egg-laying mam- mals, and many kinds of reptiles were imprisoned on the continent. These, ! waiting, and great birds which forgot how to \ Then from fly, were the lords of this vast urea makes railway sleepers and paves roails; there are palms and figs; there is a mistletoe which is not a parasite, like ours, but a true tree with blos- -soins of fiery scarlet. All these trea- sures of plant and animal life remain- ed locked up in the enchanted land, somewhere, we know j not from where, men appeared at lust, week in this way. Dried crumb': for : tuffing and meat frying: Put the cru.-'ts and small pieces in a baking pan and dry in the oven without burning. They may then be put through the food chopper and stored in clean jars until wanted. They may be used as a basis for meat croquettes, poultry stuffing and other things. French toast may be made from the whole :lices of left-over bread. It is an excellent luncheon pick-uj) di.sh Beat an egg and add a little milk. Dip the ; 1 ces of bread in this and fry a ni<'<. brown in hot drippings. Serve with bilt<.r, jelly or maimahnje. Bread custard pudding: Cut the bread in dainty shapes and butter lib- erally. Mike a plain custard of eggs, mi, k and sugar. Put in bak- ing dish and float the buttered bread I will at least help the trouble. In the event that, she wishes to cl<.an her sil- ver, a mixture of ecpial paits of whit- ing and ammonia with a flannel cloth will do the work satisfactorily. ; She will perhaps avoid falls when iihc goe ; to the cellar if i-he will painb the lower stop white .so that she can better see it. I As to .sweeping, let her soak a news- paper in wnber, unfold it and lay it in the center of the room. Much of the dust will be absorbed. A little milk added to the water will give a polish to an oilcloth. A liMlc tur- pentine in closets and drawers will ; prevent moths. A little sweet oil in the scratch of furnit'ire will improve bhe biuiie. When you iron, if you will place your iron on a hot brick whil.. you are ironing it will stay hot longer. If on t-np. Sprinkle with grutt.d nut- .<your irons are not clean, rub them on meg and bake in a (|uick oven until ' emery paper. If you will keep a â-  brown. This is excellent. [ paraffin candle with u white lawn. U'o make croutons for Uii. various ] yl'>th over the end and rub over the soups so much reli.shed in summer ''""" ""'a-'*'""»"y. you will thereby add cut the bread in eidies and fry in i ''"f***"' 'o your linen. -'''"iHJtter or dripping just l)efore serv- * ingSv.th Ihe !oup. Add five- or six to I P'ayed "Home, Sweet Home." eaclr' plM-e of .soup. These are de- I A soldier who has been bwice li.iou>t w.th almost any soup. | wounded, on the last occasion of jn- jelly for invalids: Scald the 'Jury was in the trenches when aud- Hreail Btule bread freW from crusts. Mash to a peste until of mwsriike consis- tency. Add a little sugar and flavnr- ing, molil, chill and i^erve with cream. Sterilized bread crumbs are espec- ially valuable for the young chiblren in the hou.sehold. A jnr should be kept filled with those. They may be heated when wanted and sprinkled in â- oft rgg.s, soups, milk, fruit juicM denly a man by his side was hit in the wrist. Chipping his hand upon the wound, he exclaimed: "Col it! I've been waiting for this .-iiice last. August." Then, putting his left hand into his pocket, he pulled out a mouth organ and played "Home, .Sweet Home." Who but an English Tommy could or Would do that? Long Suit Coats are Fashionable, than A True and Pretty Story of a Sympathetic Queen. rpHW otlier day. Queen A.melte ot rortugiil wua visiting one of tlio hospitals for lYencli aoUUers. Ailor h.ivinjt spokon witli pnictlcuUy every nmn In th* different w*iid», ahu wan InUen to ii room In wlddi « llttlo "pollu" lay llyinc Th« doolors ami iuubch were greiitiy worried, because the poor man |wa» to have been decoiuted Hint day, and the officer who should (lorforui tho rorciuiiny had nol y«t arrtvoii. ' The •pollu" niipht lni>ea Into unconsolousness at any moment â€" what •houkl they do? The Queen, on Leliig Informed on the cnuRo of thi'li anxlpty, aakcl Blmply: "Shall I decoi-atti lilni, before It is too Ult, lliough it is not coricet under the clniinistances .'" Till- doctors df elded In tlif affirmative and Queen Auielie speriklng lov- ingly to the brave little "pollu" pinned on the much coveted military cross. Then turning to the <10R|or8 asked If she inlght not also glvo him thej •'accolade''" And gathering tho dying man In lior aMiis, she kl.s..iod htm' tenderly and lovingly i.n each cheek .ind he'.' Well, ho died Hint aamol night- happy and Kiniltng pearefully, for had not a Queen and .iliove all. a' niiither, Ughteuf<l his last hour.^ of darkiiras'.' And tbu (Joeeii .' Well, on lauvlng the hi.gpltnl .she niei thr officer whom .she li.id niispUuB,! offielnlly for a few moments, and told hlin in frank and fmui.Ip words what she had done. He. though at first aiirprlaed, waa so eliaiuied by hi.r kind ami .â- twroH m«nn»r that he could only say "she had dor.e the right thing, and that hel -was glad ah* had been tber« to d» U." they have been worn in bhe past seasons. Strictly tailored suits, of course, do not ha\ :.- vcrv wide or long skirts. Amonn' the cat styles there are some Russian efl"ects seen, which most ^ women will bo happy to learn. One : of the favored models is fitted ai)ove • the wai b and ciuite full below it, and I there are many variations of this idea. j A suit that gives promise of being ! very well liked on account of its gen- erally becoming lines is illustrated here. It has deep pockebs which are cut in one with the fronts of the coat, and a narrow bel!, going around the I sides and back, but not the fronh. I The skirt that completes this suit hai I pockets corresponding in cut to those I on the coat. In the other suit shown here, there is a suggestion of the Hinpire style, bhe return of which we have been hearing so niilcli about lately. It comes in a modified form, having a a rJe, longer as, for instance, black and brown, tan and brown, and gray and brown. They are most practical, too. for they wear very well. The fa.xhionable self bones are navy bluo, dark brown, green, taupe, gray, burgundy, and black. Fur for Trimming. Did any woman fear that the fur on her suit last winter would not be fashionable this year? If so. let her fear be turned into jov, for fur is to be used even more lavi^ly thiin it wa-. last winter. The bands of fur on skirt' are wider, the fur collars on coats just as high and the cufl's on the sleeves jusb as deep. Rabbit and skunks, are the furs most commonly used, and there are also H:idson seal, beaver, fox, lynx, moleskin and erm- ine, all of which were used lart win- ter. And not only on suits and cloaks is there to be an abundance of fur trim- ming, but also on evening gown.s. Even the very sheeresb fabrics, such as net, Georgette crepe and chiffon. are to be decor-ited with fur. A very stunning - vening dress of net had the skirt ev'j;ed with a deep band of fur. The cress ib elf was elabor- ately beaded. Beadtd fabrics, me- j tallic embroidfry and sttiu'ns are ex- ] tensively used on evening gowns. The I wonderful effects an.l bjauty of these [under the lights can readily be im- I agined. I These patterns rnay be obtained I from your local McCall Dealci. or from the McCall <'ompany. VO Bond Sbreet, Toronto. , Ten Sons Serving. Mr, and Mrs. Sullivan, of Foster road, Walthamstow, England, have ten sons serving their country. Married forty-one years ago, Mrs. Sullivan has had a family of seveateeu -fifteen sons and two daughters. Thirteen of the boys are alive. The oldest Is over forty, the youngest has gone to work In the coalfields till he ia old enough to join up. Selling Enemy Goods. Mr. Hughes states that enemy good« Imported Into Aus>tralla l>efore the war are bHII being sold. The Government has decided that wholesale houses must I'.ot sell such goods after Septem- ber 80, nor retail houses after Novem- ber 30. Sometimes people ask you for ad- vice just to be pleasant to you. Thin,i;s you cau't understand are generally none of your business. ^ ♦â- . .. I. i: