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Lemon Buns.â€"Have eight pounds of dough prepared and rub into it one~ half pound sugar, one quarter pound lard, one-half pound finely cut lemon peel, lemon flavoring and egg coloring. Lighten the (dough up with a little flour and place in a warm place until light. Weigh off into pieces of almost three ounces and 'mould up in the hands. Put on cleanâ€"greased flat tins and lightly wash over the top with egg. Set in a [warm place to prove light and when nice and light ‘put in a thin strip of Lemon peel on each bun, also alittle crystal sugar, Cook in a moderate heat. VARIOUS RECIPES. One way of Preparing Eggs.â€"Any.. one who has ever been ill has a realiz« ing sense of how wearisome the eterâ€" nal diet of 'brotlm and eggs may 'beâ€" come and how necessary it is that ev- erything should be prepared in as an. petising a manner as possible. One good way of [preparing an egg is to separate 'the white from the yoke, keeping the latter unbroken. Add a pinch of salt to the white and beat it to a stiff froth. Put it in a very small baking dish and drop the hyoke in the bentre. Place the dish in ahot oven [or a few moments. Add a bit of butter and salt and pepper, if that is allowed. _ l {Honey Scotchâ€"A tin of condensed milk, four ounces of. glycerine, two ounces of honey and half a pound of sugar make a honey Scotch palatable and nutritious. Thin children sup- plied with these sweets derive benefit quickly, owing to the food elements of the milk and the fattening proper- ties of the sugar and honey, the glycer- Jne acting aaa stimulating vehicle for Ithe whole. A Squash Pieâ€"One and one-half cup- !uls sifted squash, one cupiul boiling milk, oneâ€"half cupful of sugar, one- half teaspoontul salt,‘one saltspoonful cinnamon and one egg beaten slightly, This is enough for one pie, and if the mixture is too thick add a. little more milk. It the squash is waters! use less milk and two eggs. A squash pie should be firm enough to out without any breaking down or oozing out of the filling when divided, this quality should be obtained more from the texture of the squash than from too great use of egg as a thick- ening agent. A squash pie rich with eggs is too much like a custard. When watery squashes are used and eggs are high a little powdered cracker may be added. Fried cucumbers are a new and sat- istactory breakfast dish. Pare and slice very thin. Season with salt and pepper and dip in beaten egg, then in bread crumbs. Heat 2 tablespoons of dripping "in a skillet, drop in the cucumbers and fry brown on both sides. Stuffed Cucumbera.â€"Ha1ve 6 green 'cucumbera and take out the seeds. Make a filling of 1â€"2 cup of bread crumbs. 2 tablespoons of boiled 1mm chopped very fine 1 tablespoon of minced parsley, 1 of chopped onion and salt and pepper to taste. Fill the cu- cumbers with this, tie two halves to- gether, place in a covered pan with'l flip of water and bake for 45 minutes. Serve hot with drawn butter. (the cucumber is a sadly-unaligned vegetable, but when in good condition it is cooling and refreshing, and when cooked it is as harmless as a potato, For instance: Stewed Cucumbers.â€"In 1 tablespoon of butter. fry - a sliced onion until quite brown. To this add 6 cucumbers, pared, quartered lengthwise and all the deeds removed. “Khan brown, take out zoarefully and rub a table- spoon of flour into the butter. Add 1â€"2 pt of soup stock, season with salt and pepper. Return the cucumbers, cover closely and stew gently for 20 minutes. Creamed cucumbers on' toast are a. novelty that an epicure will appreciate. Pure and cut lengthwise into quarters 6 good-sized cucumbers. Soak in cold water 1-2 hour, drain, cover with salted boiling water and simmer 20 minutes. Meanwhile prepare several slices of thin buttered toast and arrange on a .heated platter. In another saucepan blend together 1 tablespoon of flour, ltafilespoon of butter, 1-2 teaspoon of salt and a dash of cayenne. Mix over the. fire, adding 1-2 cup of rich milk and 'L-Z! cup of water in which the cucumbers are. cooking. Stir until the sauce is thick and smooth, then simmer five minutes longer and put in 1 tablespoon of vinegar and 1 table- moon of butter. Drain the boiled cucumbers, arrange on the toast and pour the white sauce over all. CUCUMBERS IN NOVEL WAYS. 0n somewhat the same ordt ad | l as. [‘6 "stem." ohatacters. joimed \vttn twelve " branch ” characters. These are used in: an ingenious way that could be described anly by a lengthy article. and would probably then be not quite intelligible to the “'estern mind. To go straight to anything is A Possible Reason Why the lintcs In Iabie lbespnlclnes Are Sometimes Confusing. The Sojourner in the Far East is sometimes driven to wonder why the Chinese have a calendar at all. They view the passing of time with superb indifference. punctuality. if such a thing were ever to enter into the Cel- estial calculation, would be regarded as undignified. Nevertheless they have a calendar which is by no means a bad one when one considers its imâ€" mense antiquity. A wise monarch named Yao some time about 2300 BC. revised the calendar in use before that date to the form vin which it is found at present. A volume would be need- ed to explain all its peculiarities. but now that despatchea are mentioning Chinese date: it .is well to have some idea as to wherein the Celestial cal- endar differs from the Gregorian. THE CHINESE YEAR Although the year is lunar, its be- ginning is regulated by the sun. Thus the new year comes between January 2 and February 6. unlike the Mohame- ten new year, which is regulated en- tirely by the moon, and comes at any time, winter or summer. The year is divided into twelve lunar months, call- | ed by numbers, as first, second and so i on. The extra month that comes about every three years is not added at the end, as one would suppose, but is in- serted anywhere, probably according to ome system too subtle for \Vest- ern minds. The months are subdivided into three parts, which are not again subdivided, so that a Chinaman may speak of an event without mentioning the exact time within ten days. The days are also numbered, so that exact- ness may be Secured if a Chinaman should ever happen to want such a thing. There is no week, but foreign- ers are gradually teaching the mean- ing of such a division. The Chinese hour is 120 minutes long, but in this instance again the foreigner is mak- iizng some impression on the‘ ancient custom, and the Chinese in and near 1, the treaty ports are familiar with the .‘ Western method. It may be added, in- cidentally, that Pekin is just about ,twelve hours ahead of New York in 1point of time. The Chinese gather the years to- gether finto cycles, as Occidentals do, 1 but for some extraordinary reason the cycle consists of Cucumber Saiad.â€"S'iice thin 3 fresh cucumbers and one onion. Lay them in cold salted water for 1-2 hour. Drain and pour over them 1-2 cup of vinegar mto which has been stirred 1-2 tens- upoon of sugar and a dash of pepper, Latly add 1â€"2 teacup of rich cream, stir quickly and serve at 011064 green sausages. r‘or ID'PSE, puke uuu Split large cucumbers and scrape out the seeds. Fill the halves with saus- age meat and place, meat side up, in a rather deep pan, well buttered. Pour over them 2 tablespoons of water and bake slowly, adding more water if re- quired. If one has a quantity of cucumbers they can be put up for winter use by slicing and placing in glass jars, pouring over them hot seasoned vine- gar. Seal tightly. SOMETHINO QUITE NEWâ€" Gama is lunar, and therefore consists of 435 days. Befotre the time of Yao tradi- tion' has it that the year consisted ofA 360 days, and that comfusion had reâ€" sulted. That ruler decreed that time should be measured by the moon and that every nineteen years should con- tain seven additional monthsâ€"almost one extra month every three years. This reckoning is excellent; it varies only about an hour every nineteen years from the true time. This cycle is Very ancient and prob- ably has something to do with old astrological superstitions. Another method of numbering years 1.5 by the reigns of the Emperors. The present year is the thirty-sixth year of the seventy-sixth cycle. or the year 4536 since the adoption of the present olnromology. wu- Wynn-16] . Each year has a ‘ separatg name. formed by some combination of [651‘ “steal” chamucters. joimed with. a flavor THE CHINESE CALENDAR. CEY LON GREEN TEA iy some combination characters. joimed branch ” characters. SIXTY YEARS Japan For these, pare and only more delicious l [AC-EC my that'- w . I “W! W act/v then be § y \Vestern I with These that 13th)‘ impossible to the Oriental and the complicated system of nam'mg the years is proof of Chinese ingenuity. Of late years it has been supposed that the Chaldeans and Chinese had some inlea‘wu/rse at the time when Of late years it has been supposed that the Chaldeans and Chinese had some inmroaurrse at the time when Yao reformed the calendar. and that the two countries worked together in making the change. Certain it is that a similar event, occ/urred in Chaldea about the same time. But whenever the calendar was adapted it is like- ly for a long time to withstand the march of progress. It is correct en- ough, and the inconvenience does not worry the Chi'nnman in the. least. Georgy. on dy. did Ham Georgyâ€"Did i. anpe~ Geovrgy Proud Parentâ€"If you call in the evening you probably will hear my daughter singing. Artless Friendâ€"â€" Oh. I shan’t mind that. You ought to hear the fellow down our way' prac- hit you Cine Well, dad. cried the prodigal son flippanlly, wouldn‘t you better go out and kill the fatted oalf now? Yes. 1 guess I would. returned the old man slowly. One cahlf is enough to keep at a time. Fuddyâ€"They have adeal to say about the brotherhood .of man, and yet wars and rumors of wars con yet wars and rumors of wars con- tinue. Duddyâ€"That' all right. There always has been more or less fight- ing in families. Tessâ€"So sh-e’s to marry the son of the wealthy Mr. IMillyuns. How on earth did she manage to land jhim,. I wonden‘? J assâ€"She’s musical. you know, and so it’s no trouble at allfor her to catch an heir. tici‘ng awful A large dog in trotting still more leisurely ahead of hLm. The man rings his bell. “Chen he hears that, he soliloâ€" q‘uizes, he will turn out. See the Mam. He is riding along leisurely an his bicycle. E of Dodd's Kidney Pills are legion. The box is imitated, the outside coating and shape of the pills are imitated and the nemeâ€"Dodd'n Kidney Pills is imitated. Imiutions are dangerous, The original in safe. Dodd'e Kidney Pills have a reputation. Imitap tors have none or they wouldn't imitate. So they trade on the reputation of Dodd'l Kidney Pills. Do not be deceived. There is only one DODD’S. Dodd’s is the original. Dodd'e is the name to be care- {ul aboutâ€" Dâ€"O-D-DJS KIDNEY PILLS 'But the dog Bwervea not ahair’s breadth. and the man runs into him and takes a hard fall. This is always the case when Nerviâ€" line is applied to any kind of pain; it is sure to disappear as if by magic. Stronger. more penetrating, and quicker in action than any other remedy in the wocrld, pain cannot stay where it is, used. it is just the thing to have in‘ the house to meet a sudden attack of illness. Well. you are all right except as to you: head, commented the other part of the conversation. How’s that? The part you talk with is out of proportion to the part you think with. W “a of Dodd's Kidney Pills are Ionian. Thn hnv in imitxfnd This shows that things do not always turn out a: we expect in this wm‘Ld. OMITTED THE ATTIC. I am aself-made man. said the proud individual. on the Garnet. It is simply will As If by Magic. the _warpat.h-â€"Say, Ed- 'ry hit you? Eddyâ€"No. Immy hit you? Eddyâ€"- â€"\Vell‘ if nobody hasn't . -I’ve got to lick some INSTRUCTIVE TiHE REASON. Aekingtonâ€"‘Why don’t you get mar- ried, 01d fellow ? Is it because you can. not afford it? Borrowby, franklyâ€"No; it is because the girl’a father can't afford it. Impossible, exclaimed the caller to the proud mother 7 can’t believe that your son, who has only been in the employ of that greaf corporation for six months is already a director. \Vell, I can. James ls 'a splendid penman, and here is the news in his last letter. He has just flinished di- recting 10,000 circulars. 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