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00.0.9.00.000000909000060 O O O ."..""U 000...... O O 3.0.00.0“000090090000000 STEAMING PLANTS. her A Woman famous among lriends for thrifty house plants luscribcs her success to her practice of steaming them. “Whenever they begin to droop and look as if they needed ‘toxling up’ they get u. treat- ment," she said recently. She has n row of hooks urranged on the bathroom wall over the tub and from these suspends the pots by strings to within two feet of the water, the plunts having previoust had a thorough watering. The door and window are closed with the exâ€" ception of a nurrow crack left at the top of one of the latter, and the tub is filled with water hot enough to allow a gentle steum to rise and per- Vnde the atmosphere. In this posi- tion the plants are left for an hour. and the operation is repeated until they are restored to health. This, of course. can only be done in a room with painted walls. as the conâ€" stant steaming will loosen paper. If the cause of blight is a Worm at the root, the steaming will not avail, and, according to this suc- cessful gardener, an investigation is a. simple matter. A plant of aver~ age size can be removed from the pot by turning it upside down, holdâ€" ing the base of the plant firmly, and letting the ball of earth fall into the hand. A gentle tapping on the side of the pet will facilitate this. Usâ€" ually the worm will be found near side of the pot. If. however, it cannot be seen. another test can be made. A round stick with rough edgesâ€"or, better yet. a round fileâ€"pushed into the soil close to one side of the pot, and gently turned so as to produce a soft grinding sound. will after sevâ€" eral minutes drive the worm to the surface. The experiment is one sure to entertain children. “There! Tell me a worm doesn’t think!" said A woman the other day as along slender angle-worm wriggled out of the pot to the floor. This method is not unknown to boy fishermen, who employ it. in the soil to call forth the bait. Few people meet with success in the care of fern balls, and this is probably due. to tWD causes: either‘ cheap ones are bought, or they are not kept wet enough. Once the roots suffer from lack of Water the fate of the plant is sealed. Like all plants which are surrounded on all sides by the air, they should have a large quantity of water. A good plan is to arrange a hook over the shelf in the butler’s pantry or some similar place, and every morning fill the sink with tepid water, plunge the plant in it and soak it for ten or fifteen minutes, and a longer time will not. hurt it. . the hook over the sink and let it the drain thoroughly before returning it it before serving, as The fern bull wants pleasant to bite into to the window. :soup plate. t a. whisk. Major W. C. Henekcr and the Officers of the Third West African Force Enjoying a Meal After a Hard Day’s Work. The \Ve‘st Afgriean expedition now progressing towards Benin City is of especial interest to Canadians, because its commanding officer, Major Hencâ€" ker, is a Canadian son of Mr. R. \V. Heneksr, of Sherbrooke, Que, and the transport officer is Lieut. \V. F. W- CiLI‘StalrS, formerly a captain in rthe 50th Prescott Battalion Canadian mi- litia. The expedition started from Old ‘Calabar for Benin City early in Feb- ruary, and had, up to recent advices, a verly 'hard time of it. Lieut. Carâ€" stau‘s, under date of Immcrtermiga, March 25. said: "For the past two weeks it thus been fight, fight, fight, every day, but we have wiped the enemy out or nearly so. I was wound- ed on the 20th inst. in the right fore- arm and left leg, but am happy to say, that I am fast recovering.” In colours ill 1 nun another letter from Ekisiga, .on February 14, Captain Cnrstuirs, said: "W'o have dust capturch this town of about 30,000 'or 40.000, without a single cnsunlly. \Ve expect .to add at least 4,000,000 people to the empire in this expedition." , The scene of the above illustration is laid in the Ubiom country to the north of Opobo, in Southern Nigeria. A lruculcnt tribe lmd closed the mail Ironic, and threatened to kill any white men and soldiers who appeared. Major Hc-neker was ordered to take two companies, one sevenâ€"poundcr, one Maxim, and one rocket tube, and to proceed to the place. end there bring the tribe to its proper state of submission. This was achieved with twenty casualties only, after twelve towns had. been attacked and destroyed. \XVhile not as exciting in the way of Sensational incidents as Sir Fred- erick Hotdgson's journey to the coast from the Ashanti capital, this exâ€" pedition, in which Canadians have fig- urcd so prominently, has been of great value to the Empire. and proves once more how capable the Sons of the Maple. are to do any work that they may be called upon to do in be~ half of the flag and the extension of the. Empire. “mm with spinnach green, or white icings. in which half a cup of finely chopped pestachio nuts have been stirred, this cake is very ornamental. Soft ginger cakes are made as fol- lowm One cupful of molasses, one cupful of sugar. one cupful of butter, one cupful of sour cream, four eggs, one teaspoonful of soda, ful of ginger, and flour to make a. stiff batter. Bake In small pans. | l ' IT HAS BEEN NOTICEDâ€" -â€"__ i That some cooks teat eggs on at using a. fork instead of That in making fish balls, croquet- tes, etc, an agreeable flavor is im- Then hang it on (parted by putting a, whole clove in article to be fried and removing it Would be un- the clove. Ex- plenty of light, but no direct sun. tract of clove may be used instead, It should never, even in the summer. [but it does not impart quite so fine be hung does not take kindly to drmiglits. TESTED RECIPES. Creamed Cod.â€"-To one pint of hot mashed potatoes add one beaten egg, u gill of milk, and salt and pepper to taste; beat with a fork until very light. Tear one pound of boneless cod in pieces and scald it, put over a. slow fire putting it on in cold water; when it comes to a boil, drain and repeat the process: drain again and press until dry. Make a sauce with a tablespoon of butter and two level spoonfuls of flour; add one pint of hot milk. and when it ~thickens season with pepper and add the fish. Butter u. pudding dish, and line the bottom and sides an inch ‘thick with the mashed potatoes; fill with the cod and white sauce; cover 'with the mashed potatoes and bake -a. nice brown. Potato Pullsâ€"Boil and mash the potatoes, and while hot make into bulls the size of a large egg. Butter -u tin sheet, brush over the balls with yolk of an egg and brown them quickly in a. hot oven, which will take from five to ten minutes. Slip them from the tin with a knife to a hot platter and serve at once. Watermelon Cakeâ€"This cake conâ€" sists of two parts, the white and the red. For the white part take two cups of sugar and one of butter; beat them to a. cream, add u scant cup of sweet milk, the whites of six eggs, two teaspoons of cream 0' tnrtnr. one of soda. or three level teaspoons of baking powder, and three and a half cups of flower. For the red part. take one cup of red sugar, which 'may be obtained at a confec- tioner's or it drug store, and half a cup of butter, :1 third of a cup of milk. two cups of (four, the whites of four eggs, u tenspuonful of cream 0’ tartar, half a teaspoon of soda, two level teaspoons of baking pow- der, tfild one teacup full of stoned raisins. Take an oval pan. or if you have none a round pan will do. line it carefully with buttered paper, and pour in a little over an inch in thickness of the white cake. Line the sides with the remainder. making the thickness of the white cake uni- form everywhere with the bottom. Pour the red cake in the centre. It is better to have two persons at. work in filling the cake mould, as there is Some difficulty in keepingr the red and white layers apart at the sides. Baked in a melon lnould and iced thickly with icings colored l moulded ’ into shapes, which out of doors, because it‘o. flavor. That butter or cream may be sub- stituted for olive oil in almost any recipe if the taste of the oil is disâ€" agreeable. That eggs can be beaten more quickly and will stand up bet a. pinch of salt be added. That a croquette mixture may be dropped into hot fat in small quan- tities from the end of a spoon and will be found nearly as nice as when requires tcr if so much time and care. In using gelatine great care should i be taken that it is thoroughly dis- solved: It is a good plan to strain it through cheesecloth. Less gelatine is required, if it is to stand over night before using than if needed as quickly as possible. If it is desired to cool gelatine jelly very quickly the dish which contains it may be placed in a pan of cold water, to which some rock salt has been added. In separating eggs be careful not to let any of the yolk become mixed 1 with the whites, as they cannot be beaten as well. Moulds should always be dipped inl cold water before the jelly is poured in. -â€"â€".-â€"-__. FIRE! FIRE 1! FIRE ! ll The room was on fire, and at the window stood a fair and lovely crea- ture. Frantic with horror. he push~ ed through the people and called up- on the firemen to save her. Stan-d back, roared a policeman. forcing him back into the crowd again. Stand back, shouted the mamand see a fell:o.\'~creature perish lefore my eyes? To his disgust the crowd gazed on in apathy. \Vretchcsi he shrieked. pointing to the poor lady at the win- dow. Are you blind? And \\'llh a m’ld ruah he had dashed up the stairs and seized the lady round the waist and had borne her to the outer air, in :1 few seconds. His agitation and the heat caused him to nearly faint, but he had juat enough strength to plaice her in the arms of a policeman, amid the shouts of the crowd. But good gracious! \Vlmt was that? Did his ears deceive him? [Instead of a great cheer for him, a tremendoua roir of laughter greeted the heroic act! He glanced at the lady he had rescued from a fiery fate. and the reason of thzir mirth was at once ap- parent, and amid 1h: laughter of the unavmpuhmic crowd h: fled. He lrzd rescued the milliner's dummy! one tablespoon- ‘ A CURIOUS MILLIUNAIRE, WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD TRANS- FORMED AT HIS WHIM.‘ t ' i yeâ€" limploycd 230 Workmen In Turning a “’nderness Into a Magnificent Place of ltesldeuceâ€"Relatlons With Ills Favorite Keeper. 4 Probably no more. interesting per- somality has been brought before thcpublic for many years than that of the late Sir 'William Cumliffe Brooks, against whose estate of some ‘£3,000,000 claims are being made to the extent of £800,000 says the Lonâ€" don Express. As will be remember- ed, the case is now, being tried in [Edinburgh, by which the claimants [are endeavouring to prove that his {chief residence was Glen Tana, near ‘ Aberdeen. . NVhein Sir \Villiam finst rented the property from Lord Humtley the i house was merely a small fishing box. So he immediately set to work and practically rebuilt it, pulling down a great deal of small property to make room for the new manor. From that .timc to the date of his death 200 workmen were constantly employed in turning the one-time wilderness into a. magnificent place of tresidence. Ac- cording to Sir VVilliam‘s own estimâ€" l ate, he spent regularly £20,000 a year iupon the property; and this exclu- ‘sive of the £150,000 which is stated ‘as having been the initial price of the purchase. 1 In place of the cottages which he ;destroyed, others, replete with every i.umdern convenience. had to be erect- led; the course of the river was deâ€" flected to form miniature lakes and cascades welre plan ted, and in one case l£10,000 was paid by the ecceinhric mil- ,lionairc for the "wood" of a. forest, so lthat by theilr becoming his property ‘the trustees would be unable to sell them to timber: merchants to be cut down. ‘ l I In short, the whole of the neighbor- mg countryside has undergone a comâ€" 'plete transformation at his hands. l EVEN A DEER FOREST 1 ‘has not escaped "improvement," “Within quite a short time of his ocâ€" ;cup;itiom Sir William encircled its 'vast limits with a wire fence, seven feet in height, which was constructâ€" cld in much a. way as to allow dear to enter but not to leave it. , He was never so happy as when lstulkfng in the deer forests, accom- 3panied by his favorite keeper, Donâ€" inld Macintosh. And of these two men [several amusing anecdotes are told. 'One of them relates how Macintosh lfouvnd a big rock in the Tana waters, I and said to Sir \Villiam that he. would ;very much like to have it placed upâ€" ‘on his grave when he died. As the lsame idea had already occurred toSir 1.\\'i_llhm he announced that " masters 1should come first and servants niv ‘ teanrds." The keeper, with the cus- ltcmdry’ license of old retainers, ‘promptly disputed the point, and ofâ€" 5tc.r :1 lengthy argument induced his 'Inzlsicu‘ to ugree that the first one lto (110 should have the stone. Poor ,“Mac” died first, and. the rock new 'forms the headstone of his grave. l As further illustrating the rela- l l Lion-5 which existed between these two the story is recorded of an incident which happened while they were travâ€" elling in the Far 1505!. Upon the quay where they had landed Sir \Villinm suddenly stopped short and asked Donald whether .he had any money in his pockets, "Lorâ€"r-d, yes," repli- ed the unsuspeciing gillic, pulling out a handful of gold and silver, from his pocket. “Here‘s :15 muckle us'll due for a day or two. "\Vliereupon Sir \Villinin, without .1 word of warn- iing, flung out his. hand und scatter- ed the coins ovc.r the qu-iysido, to the evident consternation of his canny companion. Nor did he lose the opâ€" portunity of reading him a long lcsâ€" son on the foolishness ofthus wzmâ€" lomly exposing on‘e‘s wealth, to the gaze. of possibly criminal eyes. Sundays seem 10 have been the cusâ€" tomary days for Sir William Brooks‘ tours of inspection around the pro- pcrly. He would give lavish ordch for the building of houses and col- lagesâ€"after his own designs prin~ cipallyâ€"o'nd would refuse to look at lhcm until they were fully com- pleted. He would then go iz‘ound.nn(l either praise the result. or, should he not like it, order it to be at once RAZED TO THE GROUND. ‘Arnother eccentricity lay in his love of inscriptions. If you please-d him you were [promptly presented with u cznrd containing some queer quoln~ lion written in red and blue chalk. These colours, by lhe way, soon be- come regarded as dislinclivc of the man. The lintels of the cottages he built, the doors of his rooms, and the ceiling of his diningâ€"room at Glen Tana were all covered with strangely illuminated moi tees. 'Although an Englishman by birth his. heart and soul seem to have been centred on the bank‘s of Tana water. He dressed his dependants in u larâ€" tn'n of his own invention, und gloried in the " pipes” that called him in the momnimg and played to him after din- 511011? at night. ‘ For Mr. Ian Cecil, his heir, he had a great affection and is said to have induced him against drink, and to have induced him to sign the pledge. Not that Sir William was an abstain- er himself, for this he vms not. In fact, so proud was he of his port, of which he had nrenowncd cellar, that he frequently referred to his hot- tloa as his "babies.’ Visitors to the estates were gsn- elrally surprised to find curious cairns bearing equally curious inscriptions, dotted about in outâ€"ofâ€"i lie-way places. These find explanation in the. fact that whomever n deer was shot Sir \Villiam ordered a monument, bear- ing full particulars as to weight and date, to be erected. In addition to dee'r~stalking, how- ever. Sir William took a keen interâ€" est in salmon fishing; and as the Tn-nais only atrout stream he rentâ€" Cid. a portion of the Dec. :Apan‘t from these sports, his ideas of exercise neem to have been some- what primitive. It is related that, like the man who chartered two cabs and walked between them, our cc- centric millionaire used to make the clenchman drive his trap .while he himself Eran behind it. -â€"â€"-oâ€"-â€"-â€" aJAPANESE SHIPYARDS. One In ‘l‘oklo “'lilch Covers Nearly Slxly Acres. The determination of Japan to beâ€" come in every sense a modern nation is llll no line of development made more plain than in the matter of ship-yards. The Tokio shipyard, cov- ering fully 65) acres, is reported as em- ploying 3,000 men. who have all the latest machinery, including pneuma- tic riveters, and six steamers of 180,- 000 tours are on the. stocks, two ‘of them for the Nippon Yu‘sen Keisha. The fact that the works; are equipped with electricity is a further indicaâ€" tion of the progressive spirit now ruling. The shipâ€"building lyzu‘d at Nagasaki also going ahead, but special inter“ est attached to the new Government steel works. Some. 5,000,000 yous have already been spent, but 15,000,000 have been voted. The works are on the eastern shores of Kiushis, the most southern of the large islands, form- ing the empire, and it is, therefore, contiguous to China. The establishâ€" ment, which covers 239 acres, is close by the coal fields connected with the railway, and u seaport having over 20 feet of water, will be convenient for the shipping of the finished proâ€" ducts, to the northern islands, and also to China. which ultimately must become alurge customer. The works are thoroughly equipped. In addition to blast furnaces there are coke ovens mud in the steel department open hearth Bessemer furnaces, with a full set of rolling mills for ploughing, three bar mills as’ well as rail, sheet and plate rolls. There are steel and iron foundries, boiler shops, laborn~ tories, testing and other departments. The work will soon be put in opera~ tion, construction being for advanced. __ #â€" EPITAPH AND FUN. One evening at a small puny which included the two friends, Dcuglls Jerrold and Charles Knight, the. nuâ€" thQr-publishgr, th Lil's turned on cplinphx‘. As they were walking home togeth~ er, Knight, h-ilf lightly and lulf in earnrst, asked the “it to write his epitaph for him. Jerrold made no nnnrer, but wth they came to the parting of 1h ir noys, 2 suddenly 2131: I've got your epitaph. \\'3‘.l. whit is it? Good Kuightl 1T ‘IS NOT HEREDITARY. DRUNKENNESS TRASSMITTED FROM PARENT T0 CHILD. Erll of Environment :1 Strong Factor h the Spread of Drunliennessâ€"llnporlnul Report on the Subject or luckeflaly. It is now. nigh-teen months since ,lhe Society for the. Study of Inebri- ety appointed a special committee to consider the relation of heredity to inebriely, gil'lys a. London batter. The committee nus compose-fl of five phy- ricin’lls, two surgeons, a professor of liictrri-ulogy. an army surgeom and five general medical practi- tioners Eighteen months lllVO been spent in investigation. The report of this committso has just bien pub- lished and it is signed by nine of the fourteen members, some of “1mm him made comments, while one has sent in an independent report. The reference to the cornimillee was in these terms; to investigate the con- ditions under which the tendency of drunkenness is e_ip.ible of transmis- sion to offspring. It does not ap- pear to be contended that inebriety is in itself hereditary, but that u capa- city or tendency to it is heritable. ..he report declares that the ine- bricty of ill“ individuil depends upon three ocnditionsâ€"thc first being- an inlorn o'ipacity for enjoying the sen- mile-LB ‘whlch alcohol produces. and lib-2 second and third being acquired I~pcrscrnzil experiences of’the pleas- urea of alcohol and the increased dc- light which continued indulgence con- fers in the. case of the inebriatc. That one drunken generation often sucâ€" ceeds another suggests a hereditary, taint. The committee odds that there is no evidence that acquired characters of any kind are heritable. This appears to have been a muc.’ debated question. Popubur opinion has taken for granted that the acquired character- istics of puremta are likely to be in- herited, and, Of course, “temperate reformers,” well-meaning, but often ignorant and misguided, have not theeun allow to urge upon the public that catch man's drinking is pretty, sure to produce [or him a generation of children who will become drunk- ards. If this be (not true the tom- pounce reformer, who is generain in flavor of entire abstincnce rather than of temperance. must bear a heavy re~ sponsihiliity for the wst amount of mental torture which by. has inflicted on the moderate drinking citizen. INFLUENCE OF HE'RED'IT'Y. The last word of science, however. as declared by teachers of physiology, biology and botany, is- a very definite assertion that no instance of the hereditary tranmmlssion of an acquir- ed characteristic has ever been de- mcmstruted either in the animal or the vegetable kingdom. If this be a fact a man can only transmit to his son the hereditary taint with which he was born, and if a man having no inborn tendency to excess yet acquir- es drunkm habits his progeny are in no more danger than are tho:e of his neighbor, leaving out of considera- ticn thl'l effect of environment on youth. It in not denied that drunk- en pirents who b:com2 thus mental- ly and physically weak are liable to have (-hllrem who are degeuemieâ€" weak in body and feeble in mind: such persons, in fact, as under pro~ pitious circumstances lend to become paupxrs. cr'm'nils, epil pies and drunkards. The point which is de- nied is that the drunkard’s child has the spaczalizad tendency to become inebrizite rather than vicious in some other direction. It seems probable that the question of environment is of more importance after all than that of heredity, and a man of strong will is just as like- l‘y to exercise it in tha gralilization of his desire as in the contrary di- rection. If a man of powerful will finds that alcohol gives him. pleasure he will take good care to repeat the experience. The habitual drinker is one to whom alcohol bring; enjoy- ment, either as positive pleasure or cessation of pain, whereas the volun- tary abstaimer is one, who from con- stitutional peculiarity, find; little pleasure in alcoholic exhilaration. Alcohol weeds out from every race individual); who most enjoy and in- duLg-e in it. The races of Southern Europe, who have had the longest ex- perience th alcoholic drinks are now. more temperate than the British, the Scandinavians. and the Russians. This committee. is of opinion that thy: ocntinue‘d abuse of alcohol tends to render 0. race less innately proae to inlebriety than it would otherwise hnve been. tliia result being brought about by the elimination of the drunken unfit and the vurvivnl of there with a weak tendency to ul- coholism.. â€"~â€"â€".¢__.._. A VENTILATOR. To make a ventilator in aha] mow prspzire a square box about five or six feet long and 16 or 18 inches square, of thin boards, and place it “here a flu: is to be made in u mow, and draw it up as the mow is built. Th) top of the vcntiluor nhoull be left open. The tube [may be kept from dropping into lh) flu“ by neil- ing :1 Disc: of board near \he bottom: “hem mow is done. Then pile hay around 1h" tuba until it will stand alone. lly this means an efficient ventilator will be formed. By thu‘: letting coal air into the middl- of a mow. or .tack, buy that would otlurwie "mow-burn" will be kcp; coal and mve well. A barrel is somvrtimls employed for milking a. ventilating flue. Thn barrel must be drawn up a few inches nt :1 time ' as the hay is stored around. it.