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A little ring of goldâ€"a battered shoeâ€" A faded. curling wisp of yellow “mirâ€" Some penciled picturesâ€"playtnings one or twoâ€"- A corner and a chest to hold them there. Many a woman’s fondest board is this, . Among her dearest treasures none so dean; Though bearded lips are often here to kiss That once made only prattle to her The sturdy arm. the seasoned form, the brew That arches over eyes of manly‘ blue 1 Mean all joy to her living memory now. And yetâ€"and yet~she hugs the other, tool With that rare love, mysterious and deep, Down in a mother-heart Lhro‘ all the year, That placid age can never lull to sleep And is not grief, yet oft brings loolis'h tears. She often goes those boarded things to view And lingers the wee treasures hid.- den thereâ€"- To touch the little ring and battered shoe And kiss the curling wisp of yel- Low ha'ul The following isarecipe for ,aking French crullers. Four ounces of flour, two ounces of butter; four eggs and oneâ€"half pint of water. Out the but- ter into small pieces. put it intol the water, and stand over agood tire to boil. As soon as it boils, add the ileum quickly, and stir over the fire until it; sticks together and rolls around in the saucepan like a ball. Then take it from the fire, beat thoroughly, and stand it in awarm- place, 7:). F., [or half an hour. Add one egg unbeaten, nnd beat” the mixture until smooth. Add another egg and beat again, and so continue unit] the four eggs have been added. Next beat the entire mix- ture for five minutes until smooth; cover and stand aside for another half hour. Put one pound of lard or clarified dripping into a deep frying- oumommmmo-gu o: pan; stand it on Lhe fire lo heat grad- ually. Put one cupful of sugar on a dinner plane. add to it one leaspodsful of ground cmnumon, and mix. Now flour the baking board, put on a table- spoonful of the mixture. and roll very lightly. The mixture will be very soft, but a little practice will make it possible to handle it wilhout adding mruch flour. After rolling the mix- blue down In a quarter of an inch, out with a round cutter, take out a center w1th .u small cutter, lift care- fully into cake turner, and slide it unto the bot fat. Fry brown on ne aide. turn and brown on the other side. Take out, drain, then roll in the sugar and cinnamon. These are very troublesome to make, out when well done are most dehcx- ous. Pomts to be remembered; 1. After adding the last egg, let Lhe beat- mg be rapid and continuous. 2. Have the fat; hot, but not smoking hot. 3. Use very httle extra! flour in rolllng out. ’l‘en BiscuiL.-â€"Successtul Lea biscuit are made by sifLing half' a pint, of flour with a small teaspoonful baking powder in a bowl; add quarter tea- spoonful salt and half teaspoionful butter: rub the butter fine in the flour; add ’half cupful milk and mix into asoft dough, turn on toafiour- ed board and give. afew twrns w1Lha knife to smooth the dough; then roll it, out“ to one inch in thickness: cut it out; with asmlall biscuit cutter; set them in a smaH. shallow tin-pan close together; brush? with milk and bake till done. This will make nine small biscuits. The work on many of the embroider- od doyleys and centrepieces. carving- ctlotha, etc., in almost every home is so handsome that they might well be considered works of art; and should receive the cure necessary to preserve their beauty. The embroidery silk used is warranted to be fast in color and will not fade if they are washed properly, yet the fact remains that many a beautiful piece has been ruin- ed by the careless laundress. If the cloth hus been stained, the stained portion should be placed over a basin, and boiling water poured through it. Or if a little salt, and a few drops of lemon juice are put on it, while still fresh, and the linen placed In the sunshine an hour or two, all traces of the stain usually disappear. Of course the lemonjuice should not be applied to the colored silk, or it will fade the colors. Table linens should not be used long enough to become badly soiled, as the hard rubbing necessary to get them clean is destructive to their beauty. Heat the water until it is luke warmI dissolve alittle borax in it, and add enough soup to make a good suds. “rash each piece between the hands until clean. rinse through two waters with a little blning in the second. The hurax softens the water making very littio mp or rubbing necessary. A ORULLERS AND TEA BISCUIT. About the House. ’WOO”OW THE MOTHER. rau‘ V‘VASHI‘NG TABLE LINEN '00. it the stiffness of new linen. Hang where the wind will not whip it out, and iron while it is quite damp. The embroidered parts should be ironed on the wrong- side and tasks the pat- tern Show to the best advantage. Linâ€" en that is treated in this way will look fresh and unfaded as long as it lasts. little boiled starch may be added to the second rinse water, and will__give A charming arrangement was no- ticed last summer. The plants employ- ed were nasturtiums only, and the entire cost code not have exceeded fifty cents. The box was of rough boards, evidently strongly joined, and set upon a pair of iron brackets. The box was covered with Dloor oil- ciloth, tacked on, and the design-was such that it looked like Lila work. The colors were cream and brown. A pine firame the width of the windOW, and six inches across, was nailed to the top of the window for attaching the strings on which tble vines were sup- ported. The nasturtiums were of boih the dwarf and climbing sane. A drapery of irailiiug nasturtiums fell over the edge of the box, and dwarf nasturtlums filled the center, and all were of the deepest, richest colors known to this flower. The nas- turtiums that were trained up the supports were of lighter colors, lem- on and orange and cream. The middle strings had been loosened and the vines had been drawn back from the center to each side by strong strings: the whole appearance being a diamond shaped aperture surrounded by a drapery of living green. The effemt was equally charming fromrwithin and without. Noodles and Cheese.â€"To 1 qt bonlmg water add 1 cup out noodles, boil _10 minutes, drain off the water, put noodles in; dish, add 1 spoon hu'tter, 4 spoons grated cheese, 1 teaspoon salt. set in oven 10 minutes, serve hot Noodles with 0mons.â€"-Boil noodles same as for cheese, salt, slice 301110115, fry in butter till light brown, pour dralned noodles over onions, stlr, serve at once. Noodles and Bread.â€"â€"Fry one-halt Inch to one inch cubes of bread in but- Ler, till brown, pour boiled noodles over them, season and sew? One of! the most curious plants in the world is what is called the tooth- brush plant of Jamaica. It is a species of creeper, and has nothing particu- larly striking about its appearance. By cutting pieces of it to a suitable length and fraying the ends, the na- tives convert it into a tooth brush; and a tooth powder to accompany the use of the brush is also prepared by pulverizing the dead stems. “Did you know,” said the old house- keeper, “that crushed egg shells are good for cleaning discolored or stain- ed bollles. I used to think I must have a small amount- of shot in the house for cleaning the inside of hot- tles. Of course. chopped pieces of potato are good. but egg shells are firstâ€"rate, too.“ Saluflnz the Deck. The poop or raised after deck of a ship over which floated the national flag was considered to be always perr waded by the presence of the sovereign. As the worshiper of whatever rank re- moves his hat upon entering the church so from the admiral to the powder monkey-every member of the ship's company as he set foot upon the poop “saluted the deck," the invisible pre. ence. But since in steamers there is often no lee side the custom in them has completely died outâ€"St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A Tough Joint. The boarder who was carving the roast beef at the request of the land lady laid down the knife and fork and took a short rest. “The spirit is willing,” “but the flesh is strong." Our Debt to the Barn Fowl. It Is quite possible. though of course not demonstrable. that the humble barn (owl has been a larger benefactor of our race than any mechanical In vention In our possesslon. for there is no lnhnbited country on earth today where the barn fowl is not a mainstay of health. There are vast regions of South America and Europe where it is the mainstay. and nowlmre Is there known anything that can take 1te place. which Is probably more than can be sald of anything In the world of mechanics.â€"Century. leHI ‘0 HII Gratitude. “I feel that I ought to make some so- knowledgment to the people who were so kind to us during my late wife's last Ilckneu." laid Mr. Phrooglo, “and I would like to have you Insert this card of thanks in I. prominent place m this week’s paper." » "We are obliged to make I charge for then. notices." replled the edltor of The Weekly Bllzurd, looklng over the manulcrlpt. "and this will cost you '1." “Then you needn't publish It.” re- Jolned Mr. Phroogle. “1 am not quite us grateful an all that comes to?» “- THE TOOTH BRUSH PLANT. A HOUSEKEEPER’S HINT. HOMEMADE NOODLES. \VINDOVV BOXES be remarked AT WUDLWIUH HOSPITAL. A HAVEN FOR SICK AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS. some Things of Interest Aboul the Dork- ynril and Arsenal 'I‘lml are Also [menu-1| In [he lingllsh Town. The Herbert Hospital at \Voolwich, England, has 21 wards in all. In one corner of a ward, again, a poor fel- low's eye peeps out of a bewildering array of sticking-plaster patches. ID number, astalwart infantryman hob- bles along with a. bullet in one foot. All around are signs at war; but not asyllable of boast, no posing, not the slightest trace at brag at having taken part in agreat historic strug- gle. The Herbert Hospital boasts of a library of some 600 or 700 volumes, which are well patronized by the wounded Tommies. The hospital posâ€" sesses an“ uncommonly handsome little chapel as well as a theatreâ€"not an operating theatre -'- complete with stage, scenery, and every historionic requisite. Just now the auditorium is strewn with the kits of the re- turning troops, and similar articles which tell a tale more moving than any that have been, or could be, enacted on its pretty little stage. There is nothing of the mushroom groth about the town of VVoolwich. The Earlier chronicles carry us back, if vaguely, to the days of Alfred the Greatâ€"when there was a parish church there, now nearly 1,100 years ago. Woolwich has been varied in spell- ing from Hulviz in the Doomsday Book, 1086,â€"which has been inter- preted "the dwelling on the creek," to the modern method by the way of Owilwiche, Wooldwich, Wolnewich, Woollidge, Wulenic, and Wulewich. From the very earliest times Wool- wich has been the starting point of expeditions, from those of the early Britons, who harried the coasts of Gaul in Caesar‘s day, to the Arctic exploration undertaken by sir John Franklin in 1845, and that of Sir James Ross in 1848. VISITS 0F ROYALTY. In the early years of their married lLte it was the custom of the Queen and Prince Albert to depart from the dockyard, both for Scotland and the Continent, and many important launches have taken place there. The two most notable visits of the Queen to Woolwieh were in 1841 and 1854. The launch of the Trafalgar, 1% guns, took place on June 21, 1844. The roads from London swarmed with coaches, gigs, phateons, and over a hundred sxeamers and yachts carried sightseers to points of vantage on the river. On that day her Majesty wore a bright blue silk dress and a white- drawn silk bonnet trimmed with roses. The bottle of wine with which the christening was performed, was one of those which Lord Nelson had on board the Victory at the battle of Trafalgar. ThénGLa-me the launch of; the Royal Albert on SuLurday, May 13, 1854, when the Queen uccgngpanieq p‘y the Princess Royal, the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, and the Duchess of Kent was present amid some 60,000 spectators. England and Russia were at the beginning of the war, and the bombardment of Odessa had just drawn attention to the navy, to which the Royal Albert was to be added. CONVlC’I‘ LABOR U SE D. The dockyard was not finished until 1843, but additions were made to it earlier in the century, the extension works being carried out by convict labour, but the immense graving dock, the great basins, and the building No1 asingle day passes but we are reminded of the value of keeping the body supplied with an abundance of rich, red, life-sustaining blood. Heart failure, brain troubles and nerve paralysis can only exist when the blood is in a thin. watery cnndi- Lion. uvu. Deadly pneumonia and consumption cannot tlnl a beginning in the healthy body. which is supplied with plenty of pure blood to rebuild and reconstruct ihe tissues wasted by disease. To guard against disease. to pro- long life. to insure health. strength and vigor to every organ you cannot mqsihlv find a means so effective as To guard against disease. to pro- long life. to insure health. strength and vigor to every organ you cannot possibly find a means so effective as Dr, Chase's Nerve Food. the blood builder and nerve restorative. Dr. Chase's Nerve Food is compos- ed of the very elemeute of nature 7, 2 LI-“ . Dr. Chase's Nerve Food ed of the very element which go to form new, ric and this accounts for its success as a system bui as certain as the laws of cause it gets away down dation of disease and cure the blood pure and rich wing}? fiéLaughan, 95 Parliament St, Toronto, “atomâ€""My daughtor Throbbing Through the Arteries Weak- ness ("asi Disease are Impossihe--Dr. Ghasegs Nerve Feed Shakes the Blend Pure, Rich and healthy, v.v.‘, form new, rich. red blow! ounts for its phenomen': a system builder. It is s the laws of nature. he- s away down at the foun- wase and cures by making The Arsenal daleS back to at least 1667,W‘hen Prince Rupert was ordered by \he second Charles to raise works and batteries at VVoolwich, and build in the warren‘s plationm with Gibguns as adeience against the Dutch. Some authorities even date it back to Eliza- beth; but in any case it was not. until 1773 that it was visited by areigning sovereign. when George 111., went there on July 6. ABOUT THE ARSENAL. There was but little variation in the Arsenal until 1810, the Peninsular campaign keeping it uniformly busy for a series of years, but the new de- velopments consequent on the re- armanent all the navy, when the Ad- miralty rendered 10,000 guns obsolete at once, extended the work enor- mously. Steam power was intro- duced. and important machinery adopted. and the wharves and piers erected. The royal gin factories were built in 1854-5, for the manu- facture of the wroughtâ€"iron ordnance invented by Sir William Armstrong, but rifled cannon only dates back to 1860, when the first specimens were turned out, and nearly ayear later the first heavy Anmstrong. IOU-poun- der, breeohloader was pa‘oved at the ‘Arsenal. Severndroog Castle, an attractive feature of the landscape at Shooters Hill, isatriamgnlar tower, erected in 1784 by the widow of Sir \Villiam Jamesin honor ofher husband, who so distinguished himself against the pirates oi the Indian Seas, one of his exploits being the capture of the fort.- ress of Severndroqz, on the Malabar Coast, in 1775. This quaint war relic is only afew hundred yards from the hOSpilal. ...-.,r_‘,._ Lord Herbert, who married the daughter of Majorâ€"General Charles Ashe a Court. was a descendant of Herbert Fitzherbert, chamberlain to Henry I. The first earl was an ad- herent of the House of York, but his son exchanged his title for that of Huntingdon, which became extinct at his death. The dirst Earl of Pem- broke of the present line was \Villiam Herbert, who married the sister of Katherine Parr, the last wife of Henry VIII.. and the present heir is Reginald Herbert. born in 1881 who was educated at Eton and Sandburst, and is an officer in the Royal Horse Guards. Teresa Faluiola, a woman of Zuarna, Italy, recently found out how it feels to fly. Near her home, which nestles in a valley, is a high wooded moun- tain. Tuo it it has been her custom to go for fire-wood. .- , ,, LL, __4.‘:_\: To carry this wood from the precipi- tous mountain to her cottage was quite an arduous task. Therefore she sent it down by means of a strong metal wire, stretched from the valâ€" Ley up to the mounLain-top. 1 LA“ L..,,_ -v .._l. ._ 7 A few weeks ago she and her two little daughters ascended the moun- tain, and after gathering three goodâ€" ly bundles of wood, prepared to send them down. Just as the mother had fastened the first bundle to the wire. and had launched it on its downward course‘ her wedding ring caught in the rope with which the bundle-was tied, and in a flash she was carried off up: -VV‘. Halfap‘aralyzed with fear, her little daughters watched her as she sped from ‘heir sight, and then they ran down the mountain, fully exppcting to find her lying dead at the end of the wire. And their fear was quite her feet L “‘51 natu'r'a‘lhfsince the mountainâ€"top from which their mother had been torn is eight hundred yards above the valâ€" le . y u... 1‘ ,,,,_1 LL.:.. “AIL W... But the children found their mothâ€" er entirely uninjured. Her fall had been broken as she was teaching the earth by some friendly branches. The bundle of wood, ton. was in some mea- sure a bulwark against the shock. WIas pale, weak, languid and very ner- vous, her appetite was poor and changeable, she could scarcely drag herself about the house, and her nerves were completely unstrung. She could not sleep for more than half an hour at a time without starting up and cry- ing out in excitement. L A -_..I “ As she was growing weaker and weaker, I became alarmed, and got a box of Dr. Chase‘s, Nerve Food. She used this treatment for some weeks and from the first we noticed a decid- ed improvement. Her appetite became better, she gained in weight, the col- Imxucu, uuv emu..- ... V. or returned to her face, and she grad~ wally became strong and well. I can- not say too much in favor of :his won- derful treatment, since it has proven ‘me]; a blessing to my daughter." To allow the blood to get weak, watery and vitiated is to prepare the xy for pneumonia, consumption. kid- mry disease, or other dreadfully fatal ~umplications. Dr. Chase‘s Nerve Food orevents and cures disease by creat- ‘ng an abundance of rich blood and nerve force in the system. In pill form, 50?. a lfox. at all dealers, or Ed- manson, Bates & 00., Toronto. A PERFECT DESCENT One of the Strange" Sn5cntlflonl of the English Navy. One of the very strongest and most lnefl‘acenble of all superstltlons in the royal navy. a superstitlon that In Ill- mast as strong today as ever it was, in that vessels bearing the names of roy- al personnges are doomed to lll luck. and, strange as lt may seem. there 1. an undeniable hlstorlc basis for thin teellng. Some of the most terrible disaster- ever known in connection with our na- vy have concerned war vessais with royal names. Two vessels called the Royal James came to disastrous ends. One of them exploded. and some 800 officers and seamen perished. The oth- er ship so named was actually carried out of the mouth of the Thames by the Dutch Admiral do Ruyter under ctr cumstnnces disgraceful to those In charge of the craft. Then there is the forever memorlhlo disaster to the Royal George, an un- lucky ship previously. that turned over and sank in sight of crowds at Spit- head, over 1,000 souls. among whom were 800 women, being sacrificed. And second only to this hideous disaster in that which afterward befell the Royal Charlotte, which. after a career of much vicissitude. was consumed by fire at Leghorn. over 800 of the very flower of the navy perishing with her. When in 1893 the Victoria. a new vessel and the very triumph of modern invention so far as naval architecture went, was rammed and sank at once in sight of the whole fleet and when hundreds of lives were lost, there was not a sailor. however matter of fact he might be, who did not remember the dire fate of the royally named craft. These Instances are only the great,“ ones. A score of smaller ones are reel. ed ofl’ by every royal navy mamâ€"Tit- Bits. ROYAL NAMES A HOODOO. Paid For “In Joke. The editor is fond of a joke and has the good sense io appreciate one at my own expense. A‘ few weeks ago he was walking with a friend. and at the corner of a busy thoroughfare he saw a dilapidated looking Hibernian standing at the opposite corner gazing listlessly into vacancy. "Watch me surprise thls old fellow." said he to his trlend. “Look rlght into his face and see If It won't be a study." A second later they were abreast of the son of Erin. and the editor pulled out a silver coin and said as he thrust it lnto the man's hand: “Here's thal half a crown I owe you. Now. don't go round any more telllng people that 1 don’t pay my debts." For a second the man’s face was a study. He was amazed at the unlook- ed for kindness. and then. as its pur- port dawned on him. he ralsed his hat and said: “Heaven bless yer 'ounerl I'll never say another word ng’in yo. But." and hls eyes twinkled merrily, “are ye sure It wasn’t a. crown ye owed me?” The friend roared: “0h. pay the man in full! Don't try to beat him out of a paltry half crown." The lrishnian got his crown. but the editor no longer pays his debts It sight nowâ€"London Telegraph. Used Olive on. A mistress before going out told he! negro cook to try some Saratoga chips in olive oil. The first thing that greet- ed the mistress upon her return was an unrecognizable and awful odor that penetrated every cranny or the flat. Rushing to the kitchen, the mistress found the chips sizzling away in a pan full of what proved to be vinegar. “But 1 told you olive oil!” cried the mistress. "Oh. diver brooklct. flowing clan. Forever speeding put me here, 1 stand uud ponder on thy flow; Whence cement thoui When dost the! cef. “Yes, ma'nm, 1 know. ma'am." re- turned the cook. who. by the way. can read and Write and is “up” upon mat- ters of geography and history. "But. you see. ma‘am. I didn‘t know what it was, and 1 saw that bottle there," pointing to a jar of olives. “and I just poured the stuff out of that over the potatoes. 1 a‘posed that where thero was olives there must be olive oil."â€" New York Sun. "Prom out the rock'l deep hurt I glide. O'er flowers and mcu my course I (um; There flout. upon my mirror true The picture of the heaven“ blue. "So, like I child withouk n cue, l bound along, I know not when; He will. 1 mm. my Lender be, Who from ennh'l bosom summoned me." ‘ J. Underwood. From the Gem-n o! Goetlu Wonder. of New Hampshire. The average rendm‘ will be amazed to learn that little New Hampshire, with less than 10.000 square mlles. has no less than 406 lakes and ponds. 154 brooks. 58 rivers and 294 mountalns. ’l‘llls mnken lowa look small. Colora- do. a big state. has 556 creeks. Texas has comparatively few rivers. lakes and creeks. Alalmma has ($63 creeks and 87 rivers. Iowa cannot approach that record. Minm-sma has 222 lakes and 140 riversâ€"New York Press. nookl. Books are sweet. unrepronching paniona to the' miserable. and if cauuot brfing us to enjoy Im- {he} at lens! teach an to endure it.â€"" of Wakefield.” THE BROOKLET. enm- Ihoy will