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Cheese Straws: Mix together 1 cup pastry flour, 5- cup grated cheese, i teaspoon baking powder, salt, the yolk of 1 egg, a. dash of cayenne pepâ€" per and enough cold water to make n. rather thick dough. Roll into a very thin sheet, cut into narrow "trips not more than one inch wide, and bake golden brown in a, hot oven. Salmon and Cucumbers: Drain. canned salmon from oil. mince fine and mix with highly seasoned to- mato sauce. Take cucumbers that have been in cold water for several hours, pare and cut thin, lay on slicâ€" es of brown bread and cover the euâ€" cumbers generously with the salmon. Muskmelom salad: Have the mel- ons not» overripe, cut into halves, remove the seeds and soft part, take out the edible portion. and fill the empty shells with cold water. Cut the melon into dice, and mix with the contents of a. pint can of pineâ€" apple, 1 cup, mashed bananas and 2 tart oranges which have been sliced and quartered. Turn the fruit into a large bowl with the syrup from the pineapple. Let stand for one hour, then pour off the liquor, sweeten to taste, and add enough dissolved gel- ntlne to‘ make of creamy consistency. Pour over the fruit and place in ice chest. .When ready to serve, fill shells wito chilled fruit and put on separate plates with a garnish of crisp lettuce leaves. Stuffed Pickled Eggs: Boil 1 don eggs for half an hour, drop in cold water, and let remain ten minutes. Remove the shells, cover with hot vin~ agar, add salt, cayenne pepper and celery seed, leave until the next day, and in the early morning cut the eggs in two lengthwise. Take out the yolk With care, put in a bowl, mash fine, and mix with olive oil, mustard, lemon juice and finely chopâ€" ped nusturtium pods. Fill the whites with the egg combination, mass the centre of a platter with nasturtium blossoms, stand the eggs upon them, surround with overlapâ€" ping slices of raw tomatoes, and have the nasturtium leaves about the edge. Watermelon Cake: Make a. white cake, divide the mixture, and in one half stir red instead of White sugar. Turn in a cake tin that has a tube in the centre,- have the red portion around the‘tube, and arrange the white about the sides and top. When the cake is cold, cover with icâ€" ing colored green with the juice of pounded spinach. Cinnamon Buns: Sift 2 cups flour. I and add 2 cups milk, 1} cup melte'lg butter, 4 eggs, the yolks and whites! beaten separately, 1 cup sugar, alj cake compressed yeast, 1 teaspoon, cinnamon, a grated nutmeg, salt. and a, pinch of soda, dissolved in warm water. Knead well, set to rise, make into rather large biscuits and lay inl a. row in a. buttered baking pan, Stand in a warm place for onehom: make a, deep cross on each With a, knife, bake until light brown, and roll in powdered sugar mixed with pulverized cinnamon. One of the foremost surgeons, who} is a. medical ’adviser to the throne,! was called in to prescribe for a. ladyi friend of mine who is very active in' fashionable life, Writes Julian Ralph.‘ She was suffering from nervous breakdown, and he found her generâ€" ally out of order in brain, eyes, heart and digestive organs. I am, going to tell you freer What; he} said, though it cost .her $50 to hear him. “I cannot; cure you,” says he, “but you can easily cure yourself. All you have to do is to go to bed} at 10 o’clock every night, no matter what company you are entertaining" or what temptation you have to go out, and stay out late. I do it, and have for years refused to allow any business or pleasure to interfere with my habit. If you don’t do it your friends will say, “Mrs. â€"â€" Was a, clever Woman. How Well she used to entertain us. But she is dead and gone. If you do it they will have no chance to declare y'ou dead and gone for many a year to come: There, that’s my prescription. You will not follow it, I know, but it. is all I have to offer or suggest.” Milk will keep much better in a shallow bowl than in a jug. A lump ofksugar dropped into the milk will help to keep it sweet. Meat may be kept if it; is wiped with a dry cloth and hung up in a cool, airy place, with a muslin bag filled with charcoal on each side. The best way to keep the houSe cool is: Mix whiting with size, add a little linseed oil, and Whitewash the outside of the roof with it. Fish which has to be kept several hours should be well cleansed, wiped dry, and rubbed over with a little coarse broan sugar. Wash before usmg'. n, quLzub . If gnats or carwigs get into the ear. 0. pufi of tobacco smoke will ren- der them helpless. Afterwards a litâ€" tle Warm water put in the car will bring them out. I “.1 [Au .1! vx‘ub “n”... V", When you’re very ho’ and feel all over alike, you may indulge in P pleasant cooler by Wetting the backs of your ears with cold Water; or, better still, use two strips of wetted cloth, after the manner of spectacle grips. b..y.;. Whenever your feet feel hot 'and tired, rub the soles of your socks with a. little pure yellow soap. This SOME GOOD RECIPES. USEFUL HINTS GOOD ADVICE. will not only keep the feet cool when walking, but it will go a long way to prevent co‘rns and other common ailments. The secret of a. sandwich is entirely in the manipulation. Given good bread and butter, and the rest is largely a matter of‘patience. The bread must be delicately thin and crustless, the butter must be soft and evenly spread, cheese must be finely grated, and meat or fish chopped or pounded to a paste. ‘The best bread is bakers’ water bread a day old, though the loaf must not be cut beâ€" fore using. BrOWn bread being much more moist, may be used on the day of baking. Sandwiches should never be made long before serving. If, however, they must stand any length of time, their freshness is insured by wrapping them in .a thick brown paper, over which a doubled napkin wrung out in cold water is folded, and setting them in a cool place. A. couple of coats of White enamel paint on the shelves of the pantry does away with the necessity for shelf paper and the result is much more satisfactory. SUVEREIGNS WILL MEET. PROMISE OF PEACE IN THE COMING CONFERENCE. Pox'zerful Rulers Will Meet Each Other at the German Manoeu- Very high political significance Will attach to the coming meeting of Emperor Nicholas, King Edward, and Emperor William at the Gerâ€" man manoeuvres near Mayence. No decision, it is understood, has yet been reached as to whether the th sovereigns will be accompanied y their foreign Ministers, but such an arrangement is probable. It is as a. sign and guarantee of European peace that the meeting will have its chief value. The three powerful monarchs who will salute one another at Mayence can, if they are of one mind, realize the world’s ideal of peace. ANTAGONISM TONED DOWN. Nineâ€"tenths of the inflammable matter which exists is to be found in the conflict, of interests between their respective empires in various parts of the world. The quarter where political dangers might most easily arise is where British and Russian interests collide. Although the meeting of Edward and Nicholas could not be explained to terminate an antagonism that has existed for a, century between the two powers, the mere fact that it is being; arranged Warrants the infer- ence that the acuteness of the antag- onism is being toned dOWn. Gerâ€" many, in the opinion of her leading publicists, is playing, in Bismarck’s phrase; t‘h‘e‘y the operation PAINTED PANTRY SHELVES DANGEROUS STAGE PASSED. As the Berliner Post puts it, “When two great empires stand op- posite each other in furious antagâ€" onism, personal meetings of their sovereigns are impossible. Thereâ€"- fore, when such a meeting does take place, it is a, Sign that the dangerâ€" ous stage has passed.” International policy now finds it- self in more quiet waters than at any time during the last twelve months. While Russia is in Manchu- ria and intends to stay there, and While she is quietly asserting , her sway over the Mongolian proVinces and intends to maintain it, the Chiâ€" nese affair has been so far settled, that there is no present, danger of a. sudden collision between Russia and Great, Britain over this issue. NO PERIL IN SOUTH AFRICA. Military events in South Africa no longer threaten to lead to interna- tional surprises. Such suggestions as appear in some London sensationâ€" al organs about intervention by Em- peror William are dismissed in Gerâ€" many as absurd. It is well known that during her last illness Queen Victoria pledged the Czar ande the Kaiser to take no step that would be embarrassing to Great Britain until peace had been re~established in South Africa. There is not the least doubt that the promise will be kept by both sovereigns. All these conditions work powerfully [or the world’s peace. According to the Cologne Gazette, which is apt to be well informed in such matters, the three monarchs will not only meet at the review, but will also exchange visits at Darmstadt, where the Czar and Czarina expect to spend five Weeks; at Homburg, where King Edward will stay, and at Wiesbade‘n, where the Kaiser and Kaiserin will receive their august guests. EFFECT TO BE FARâ€"REACHING. It is inconceivable that these Vari ous interviews should occur without consequences of the most furâ€"reachâ€" ing kind. _ . 1115 nluu. In court circles in Berlin it ishlso said that King Edward will prob- ably pay a. flying Visit to Emperor Francis Joseph, Whom he has1 not seen since his accession, and that a meeting between the Russian and Austrian Emperors will be arranged shortly before, or after, the Czar’s return home. Altogether, there will be the most notable exchange of Imperial and Royal courtesies that has occurred of recent years. SANDWICH SECRETS . vres. t~lo£~honcst ‘brekeiL'ua KING EDWARD'S INUUME. REASONS WHY THE PUBLIC CAN’T TELL WHAT IT IS. The Unknown Revenues From His Inheritance From His- Mother. The civil list, as they call the appropriations for the maintenance of the King and his court, was voted by Parliament recently and brought two surprises, says-a. London letter. In the first, place, it was much smallâ€" er than the public generally expected it would be, and the opposition to it was much less. Three hundred and seventyâ€"six votes were cast, 300 in favor and only 67 against. The civil list carried a total of $2,350,000 for the King, $250,000 for the Queen, $190,000 for their sons and daughters ; continues the annuities granted many years ago to the brothers and sisters of the King, which amount to $365,000 ; allows $60,000 a year to the Duke of Cam- bridge, the cousin of the late Queen, and $15,000 to the Princess Auâ€" gusta, his sister, who is the wife of the blind Grand Duke of Mecklenburg making a grand total of $3,230,000, which is an increase of $335,000 over the amount. paid in Queen Victoria‘s time. 11'. is also a moderate appro~ priation' in comparison to those granted the other sovereigns of Europe. The following table will show the appropriations for royalty by the European powers : Russia ......... Germany. Austria..’.... . England ...... Italy ...... Spain .......... Belgium ...... Saxony ...... . Bavaria ...... Sweden ...... . Portugal ...... Holland ...... Denmark ...... France ...... Russia ........................... $13,751,000 Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,929,825 Austria..' ..................... 3,625,000 England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,230,000 Italy .................. 3,210,000 Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,850,000 Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,375,000 Saxony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 940,000 Bavaria ........................ 700,000 Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560,000 Portugal ...... 400,000 Holland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330,000 Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330,000 France ............ ......... 2,130,000 It was expected that King Edward would ask at least $3,000,000 for himself alone in place of the $2,000,â€" 000 granted to Queen Victoria, for his greatuncle, King William, had an allowance of $2,500,000 sixtyâ€" five years ago, when the purchasing power of the pound sterling was double What it is now, and the ruler of England was not obliged to pay the expenses of many court cere- monies and public functions, which are charged to him these days. Fur- thermore, everybody familiar with the subject, knows that the revenues from the crown property have MORE THAN DOUBLED. since 1837, when Queen Victoria, sur- rendered them to the public treasury in exchange for a permanent civil list of $2,000,000, and apromise from Parliament to provide liberally for her family. The Government and not the Queen got the best of this bargain. Owing to careful manage- ment and the increased value of the lands, the Treasury, during the greater part of the Queen's reign, has enjoyed a net profit from the proceeds of the “crown property after all the expenses of its management and the civil list and the aliowance for the royal family have been de- ducted. It is estimated that this profit has aggregated at least $30,â€" 000,000 during the sixty years. In 1837 the surplus revenues from the Woods, forests and lands of the crown alone were $51 75,000. In 1900 they were 852,1 ,000, and there are several other sources of revenue to be added. It is a popular mistake that thel $2,000,000 a year, which was paid to Queen Victoria throughout her reign, was in the nature of a salary for her services as sovereign, just as $50,000 a, year is paid to the. President of the United States. This impression has been strengthened by the frequent attacks that have been made by the Radicals upon the ex- pense of supporting the royal iamily and the continual complaint that they are a burden upon the British taxpayers. The ruler of Great Britâ€" ain and the royal family are by no means pensioners upon the national treasury. The sovereign possesses an immense amount of property by right of inheritance which is entailed and cannot be alienated or disposed of except during life. Formerly all the lands of the realm belonged‘ to} the king, but by the extravagance and generosity of various sovereigns they had been reduced to such a deâ€" gree that Parliament, upon the ac- cession of Queen Anne, passed a law prohibiting any further alienation, and at the same time gave the crown perpetually the revenues from cer- tain sources which are MORE OR LESS REGULAR. King William originally made the arrangement I have alluded to, unâ€" Ld‘er which the revenues from all these sources were collected by the finance officers of the kingdom and paid into the treasury in exchange for a stated sum, and, following the example of his mother and her preâ€" decessor on the throne, King Edward has agreed to surrender all of them for an annual appropriation of $2,â€" 230,000, although like them, he retains for himself the revenues of the Duchy of Lancaster, which amount to about $300,000 a year, and for his son those of the Duchy of Cornwall, which have been the property of the heir 10 the crown for more than three centuries. The civil list, as it, is called, is not Voted in a lump sum. however, but it is allotted to speciai purâ€" poses. For the salaries of the royal .1 - ,1 household That is u hoidfli $829,000 is provided. is u reduction of $31,000 from the amount allowed Queen Victoria, which is due to the abolition of the department of the buckhounds, which originated in inedideval days, when the King and the court went on hunting excursions throughout the kingdom and kept a professional huntsman and bounds for that purâ€" pose. There are a number, of other equally absurd sinecures which ought. to be abolished, but they are held .by men of importance and influence. and Parliament does not like to medâ€" dle with them. For household expenses $965,000 is allowed. With this money eight or ten palaces have to be kept upâ€" Windsor, Buckingham, “St. James, Hampton Court, Osborne. Balmoral, Sandring‘ham, Kingston, Claremount Frogmore and others, although the greater part of the expenses at Os- borne, Balmoral and Sandringham which were the private property of Queen Victoria, are paid from the Privy purse. The official palaces are an enormous expense, and the main- tenance of the stables, carriages and parks must be paid from this fund. For repairs the sum of $100,000 is appropriated, and to this the cost of the new furniture, now being put into Windsor and Buckingham pa1~ aces, is charged. Over all of these expenditures the officials of the Government have practically control and an account is' rendered to Parliament ; but the Privy purse, which amounts to $550,000, the King can use as he pleases. NO ACCOUNT IS RENDERED. From this are paid the personal expenses of the royal family and the court, the State ccremonials, balls, dinners and other functions, travelâ€" ling expenses and food for the house- hold, which usually cons-fists of 100 persons or more. Added to the Privy purse is the $300,000 which the King gets from the Duchy of Lancaster. This gives him a total of $850,000 for his personal ex- penses, of which he is required to render an account Alexandra has an allowance of $250,000, from which must be paid all of her expenses and salaries of a large number of retainers required by the Queen. She has reduced the num- ber considerably, but is paying about 30 per cent. larger salaries than Queen Victoria allowed, because the ladies in waiting upon the present Queen will be subjected to many more expenses in the way of Ward- robe. Queen Victoria was exacting in many respects, but she entertain- ed so little and dressed so simply herself that her attendants did not require elaborate and expensive toil- ets. Under the present regime things will be (lilierent, and none but ladies of Wealth can accept such positions. Queen Alexandra has notified her ladies in waiting that their Services will be required only at important state functions. She Will be attend- ed regularly by Lady Suffier and Miss Knollys, who have been her secretaries {or several years, and are intimate confidential friends. therâ€" oughly acquainted with all her Wishes, ideas and preferences. Wlbuca, Lubuâ€"a w“... tin/“fiche” Queen Victoria. left a. large estate in jewels, stocks, bonds and landed property. She owned some of the most profitable buildings in London, and inherited from 1101' husband whole blocks of residences in the fashionable quarter of the city. Her holdings were so large that it required a stall of eight or ten men L0 look after them. No one knows what disâ€" position she has made of. them, be- cause the will of a sovereign is not probated, and the facts have not leaked out. It, is the general iniâ€" pression, however, that the estate has been placed in trust for the per- petual benefit of her heirs, and the King no doubt gets nflfi .~.-~.“fi An Tm “5A LAfiGE” SHARE OF IT. so that his 'income will be increased thereby. BAH” J.’ v ..... w. Queen Victoria had seventyâ€"four di- rect heirs, and when the revenues of her estate are distributed among them no one can receive a Very large amount, although she was a very rich woman. She had nine Children, of whom six survive. and thirtyâ€"seven great-grandchildren, all xrs-Kiqfira Summit ‘eAyuns 1110in go in all, of Whom seventyâ€"four survive. Of the greatâ€"grandchildren twenty- two are boys and fifteen are girls. Six are grandchildren of the present King, eighteen are grandchildren of the Empress Frederick, eleven are grandchildren of the late Princess Alice, and six grandchildren of the late Duke of Saxeâ€"Coburg‘. This would appear to make a total of fortyâ€"one, but several are grandâ€" children of tWO of the late Queen’s children. Eight of them are direct heirs to the dili‘erent throne of Euâ€" rope, and there are enough remaining to rule the rest of the kingdoms of the world. Several of them will no doubt reach thrones. rl‘he civil list also contains an anâ€" nual allowance of $100,000 for the Duke of Cornwall, and $30,000 to each of his sisters, the Duchess of Fife, the Princess Charles of Den- mark and the Princess Victoria. The Duke receives about $310,000 a year from the revenues of Cornwall, which makes his income $410,000. His wife has an allowance of $50,â€" 000. The allowances to the King’s brothers and sisters are as follows 2 Duke of Connnught ...3125,000 Empress Frederick... ...... 40,000 Princess Christian . . , . . . 30,000 Princess ‘Louise ............ 30,000 Princess Beatrice 30,000 Duchess of Albany'... .. .. 30,000 Duchess of Coburg . . . . . . . . . 30.000 Parliament made grants in lump sums as wedding gifts to the Queen’s children and grandchildren when they were married, of which the total will probably reach $1,000,000. Englishmen have long been proud of the prolificness of their race, and consequently the story told by the last census, that. the English birthâ€" rate was declining even more rapidly than that of France, came as a rude shock. Dr. Fremantle, the Dean of Ripon, points out in a letter to'the London Times that “all Europe, ex- cept Russia, is going in the same direction, and England is leading the way. ' THE ENGLISH BIRTH RATE. DE CLINING- MORE RAPIDLY THAN THAT 0F FRANCE. Dean Fremantle of Ripon on the Declineâ€"Causes and Conse- ' quences. “In the year 1875," he says "there were born in the United Kingdom 35 children for each 1,000 of the people. In the year 1900 there are only 29. That is, for every 1,000 of our 413‘ millions there are now born six fewer than twentyâ€"five years ago; and this means a. loss of 249.- 000 children for each year. This is a new and strange phenomenon in England; but, what is still more startling, it implies a, much more rapid decline of the birth rate than that of France, Where the process has gone on gradually throughout the century. “A wellâ€"known statisticianâ€"Mr. Holt Schoolingâ€"hes recently sum- med up an exhaustive inquiry by pointing out that, whereas in 1875 the excess of births over deaths in England was 8.5 greater than in France, it is now only 6.8; and he adds that this has come to pass de- spite the continuous and material decline of the French birth rate dur- ing the whole period, a decline. how- ever, which has been exceeded both actually and relatively by the DECLINE OF OUR OWN RATE. “This state of things has been lit- tle noticed in England because of two causes: First: Pari‘passu with the decline of the birth rate there has been a large decline in the death rate. This stood in 1875 at 21 per 1,000; in 1900 at 18. That is, while W0 are losing six for each 1,000 by the lessened births, we are gaining three by the lessened deaths. We lose a quarter of a million annually by the death rate. Second: The immigra- tion has largely increased. Whereas in former decades the emigrants ex- ceeded the ii‘mnigrants by 68,000 a. year; in the last decade they have been nearly balanred. “Our loss by the birth rate is largely made up. like that of France. from abroad. But this increased im- migration is by no means a. satisfac- tory thing. And as to the death rate, it has reached a. point beyond which it. can hardly go, It now stands at 18. which means that every child born in these islands lives on an average fiftyâ€"five years. We must exp eet, that in the next decade there will be little or no compensaâ€" tion from this source for the dimin~ ished birth rate. "What, then, is the prospect which this diminution opens to us? We have seen that the decrease is going on more rapidly here than in» any other country, France not excepted. Since 1875 (the year, I think, in which Mr. Bradlaugh’s book “The Fruits of Philosophy" was publish- ed) the decrease of our birth rate has been 6 per cent, from 85 to 29. If this continues in the next twenty- five years it will have to come down from 29 to 23 per 1,000, and in less than fifty years from this time it will have been reduced to 17, the lowest figure which we can imagine the birthrate to reach. There will then be no increase of the nation, but, as now in France, the prospect of “But there is more than this. The process has hitherto affected only special parts of our country. In London the annual birthrate is about 29 per 1,000; in Westmoreland it is about 20. At Gateshcad it stands at 33; at Huddersfield at 22. In the latter town, though it is a. flourish- ing manufacturing centre, there are actually 400 fewer people in 1901 there were in 1891, and the school board cannot fill their schools. There is no reason to doubt that the limitations of families will go on beL yond any assignable limits unless the conscience of the nation awakes to its tremendous dangen “In every country this materialism finds reason for its existence. In America for a long time past and in Australia, as the recent cens 53 shows it has taken a firm hold, as it has now among ourselves. It is very natural for young people with small incomes to say, ‘We can more easily live in the station in which we were born, and bring up our children. if the family be limited to one or two.’ They forget that the ailection of a. large family and their mutual help - »- LL. ‘V,. D . Afiflv, in the struggle of life are often the stimulus of What is best in character and even in temporal wgll-being. “The French are justly alarmed. But the French have no real colonies and they have 'a comparatively small. commerce. To us the whole world lies 0pen.. Our three great groups of colonies, in Canada, Australia. and Africa, can absorb all the surplus population of the British Isles for an indefinite time to come; and coloniz- ation no longer means expatriationq In the presence of these possibilities is not the wilful diminution of our: race a crime against, humanity and its Author?” 1 Tb of sheep’s wool is sugcient to produce a yard of best quality chaths ACTUAL DIMINUTION