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S(€€(€g€€é€€€¢l€((¢((€€€@, I“ About the ....House »b>»»»»»>>a>»>_$ . " ’9’) 92939) 73 'l‘ CSTED RECIPES. Lemon Cream Saladâ€"This is a deâ€" licious fruit salad, made by a flop‘ ular caterer. Heat the, yolks of three eggs very light; add gradually one small cupful of sugar, two tea- spoonfuls of flour, and the juice of two lemons. Melt one tablespoonâ€" ful of butter in one. and oneâ€"fourth cupfuls of boiling water; add the beaten egg mixture and boil until thick. Remove from the. fire, cool, and Whip in one cupful of whippc‘d cream. Chop one large fart apple, peeled and cut into small pieces, with four sliced bananas and six thick slices of canned pineapple. Chill the fruit; mix it with the salad dressing and heap on lettuce leaves or serve in fancy fruit glasses. Chicken Scallopsâ€"One quart of prepared creamed chicken, heated and made still by the addition of three tablespoonfuls of flour rubbed with as much melted butter; and half a cupful of stewed and seasons ed mushrooms, drained, and two tablespoonfuls of minced celery. But- ter the scallop shells; sprinkle thickâ€" ly with fine bread crumbs; fill with the stiff creamed chicken; cover with crumbs; dot with butter, and brown in a moderate oven. Almond Islandsâ€"Beat the whites of three eggs very still; add six tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar, half a toaspoonful of almond extract, and half a cupful of chopped al- monds. rl‘urn into a buttered pudâ€" ding dish and steam twenty min- utes. Serve with boiled custard. Salted Pumpkin Seedsâ€"These saltâ€" ed seeds, which are very popular among the Italians, are sold on the streets in the Italian quarter at a penny a .cupful. They are extremely appetizing, and take the place of our salted nuts. Wash the seeds free from the sticky shreds which surround them, then dry in the sun or in a rather cool oven. When ready to salt spread on a. baking tin, salt liberally, then set in a hot oven, shaking and stirring often until crisp. Pumpkin Chipsâ€"Take what quanâ€" tity you choose of good sweet pump- kinâ€"the old Connecticut field pump-. kin makes the nicest sweetmeat::â€" halve it, take out the seeds, and cut into chips the size of a dollar. For each pound of the pumpkin allow a pound of fine white sugar and a gill of lemon juice. Put the chips in a deep dish and sprinkle on each layer a layer of the sugar. Turn the lemâ€" on juice over the whole. Let it re- main for a day, then boil the whole together with a half pint of water allowed to each three pounds of pumpkin, a tablespoonful of ground ginger tied up in bags, and the peel of the lemons cut in shreds. When the pumpkin becomes tender turn the whole into a stone jar and set away in a cool place for a week. At the end of that time pour the syrup off the chips, boil it down into a rich syrup, then turn back, and seal. Boiled Icing for Cakesâ€"Two cups of granulated sugar, one of water. .Whites of two eggs. Boil in a saucepan until the syrup hardens when dropped in ice water. Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth and drop a little at a time of the hot. syrup in, beating steadily c’ Emulsion the '2 not the not _ is a food-medicine for aby that is thin and well nourished and for mother whose milk does .nourish the baby. It is equally good for the boy or girl who is thin and pale and not well nourished by their food; also for the anamic or consumptive adult who is losing good flesh and strength. I In fact, for all conditions of wasting it is the food- medlcine that will nourish . and build up the body and give new life and energy when . I“ all other means fail. 50c and $1.00, all druggitss. scorr & gowns. Chemists. Toronto, On}. all the time. After all the syrup has been poured in boat a few drops of vanilla in. Spread on the cake at once. Care must be taken that the syrup is boiled to just the right point. If it cooks too long the icing will he stiff and dry; if not long enough it will soak into the cake. Sponge Dropsâ€"Beat to a froth. three eggs and one cup of sugar.I Stir into this one heaping cup of sifted flour, in which two teaspoonâ€" fuls of linking powder have been mixed. Buffer tin sheets with wash- ed butter (free from salt) and drop in teaspoonfuls three inches apart. Bake in a Quick ovcn. Flavor With vanilla. Soup made from Turkey Bones.- Put the bones in a boiler with about. two quarts of water. and boil until all the substance is out of them, and then take them out. Add to the, soup one tablespoonful of rice, one or two stalks of celery chopper] fine, chopped onion, and salt and pepper to taste. This makes a deliâ€" cious rich soup out. of a part. that is usually thrown away. HOW TO MARI“. CANDY. Fondant.â€"Take two cups of sugar (one pound) and half a cup of water l‘lacc these in a smooth agate sauceâ€" pan, over the fire; stir until sugar is dissolved and the syrup begins to boil, then remove your middle or spoon and be careful that you do not disturb the syrup again while boiling. As the boiling syrup throws crystals of sugar up on the sides of the saucepan: carefully wipe them off with a soft cloth dipped in cold water. Cover the saucepan and let the syrup boil five minutes. this point add a quarter of a teaâ€" spoonful of cream of tartar dissolv- ed in cold water. Cook until you can form a soft ball between your thumb and fingers. When done pour the syrup out carefully, on an oiled meat platter or marble slab (do not oil it too close to the edge). When it wrinkles up when the platter or slab is tipped stir rapidly, one way, until you have a creamy white mass, then quickly knead with the hands into a ball, place in a bowl, 'cover and set away in a cool place until needed. it will keep several days. You can repeat this process until sufficient fondant has been made, but will find it always bet- ‘ter to boil a smart quantity at a time. A box of fine cream candies from a gdod confectioner will give you ideas of many varieties which may be made by adding to the fondant color and various flavoring essences. Many varieties of which may now be obâ€" tained at small cost. Many, howâ€" ever, prefer to keep their candy free from all such things. and dainty Color and a variety of flavors may be obtained by the use of‘ a small quantity of syrup from home preâ€" served fruit. The yollx‘ of an egg for yellow chocolate and strong coffee for brown, boot juice and cranberry juice for red and crimson, there is no end to the variety an ingenious worker can get out of the materials at hand in every household. Then a few nuts, dates, figs, raisins, a little peel, everything in fact that is good can be utilized. A very little practice will enable you to mold them satisfactorily. 1f the fondant gets a little dry and crumbly do not be worried, but knead it like bread or putty to a proper consti- tuency, a. little flavoring added will make it soft, or, if too soft, a little confiectioners’ sugar added will make it hard enough. Lay each cream when moulded on a piece of clean paper buttered or dusted with cou~ fectioners’ sugar; do not let them touch each other until dry. Don’t be disappointed if your candy has not the sharp moulded outlines of the factory-made creams for it will, instead, look like the expensive hand made creams turned out only by the best confoctioners. H0 L‘ SEHOLD HIN TS. Bedrooms are furnished very sim- ply nowadays. Carpets bave been banished in many houses, and nothâ€" ing is allowed in the way of hang- ings that may not easily be washed. ’l‘he bedspread and bureau linens may be as elaborate as one chooses. Very handsome spreads are made of heavy linen sheets inset with heavy lace bands. Pillows are smaller and are usually kept by day in a box slipped under the bed. A round bolâ€" ster with a cover to match the spread is substituted. Marseilles spreads are not in vogue at present, dimity and linen having taken their place to a large extent. Few peoâ€" ple use the gay colorod chinty. spreads once so popular. People who are lucky enough to own them use old-fashioned pierced quilts, alâ€" though strictly speaking, these arc not. appropriate execpt on old maho< gany beds. Order is a beautiful thing ill the house, but. as a writer in a recent magazine points out, it is not ab ways understood pl'opci'ly. She says: “The ordcr that makes for rcslfulncss and for comfort is \ital. It cannot exist in crowded rooms Furniture is made to bc uscd and books are made to bc l'uiltl. if the disarranging of a room or the misâ€" order someâ€" Get l‘(l|)lllS placing of a book upsth the something is wrong and that thing is the crowded condition. rid of the snpcrfluous. Most have too many pieces of and all rooms have things." If a double layer of brown paper is put under oilcloth on shelves tables, it will \Vcal‘ three timcs long as if laid directly on the wood. llllv lllille At' furniture, , l '10 I l l i solved gum arable. A useful thing remc her is that the iron will not stic' to the clothes if the starch ‘ i . lused has been mixed with soapy waâ€" for. To ward off a cold first bathe the feet in hot water and drink a pint of hot lemonade. Then sponge with salt Water every three hours. l“0lll‘ill, inhale ammonia or menthol. Fifth, 'take four hours" exercise in the open A tenâ€"grain dose of quinine will usually break up a cold in the be- ginning. Anything that will set the blood actively in circulation will do it. llut better than all if your cold is inveterate or serious consult your doctor, and at once. _â€"â€"._+___ WORK SEWING MACHINES. ._.._ Life in the Ameer’s Harem Is Be- coming strenuous. air. Mrs. K. Daly, who has returned to England from Afghanistan after eight years' uninterrupted residence there, has an interesting story to tell. She held the post of medical officer to the Government, and (lur- ing the past three years was the onâ€" ly European lady living in the coun- try. The life in Kabul, Mrs. Daily in- formed a Renter's representative, is always one of great anxiety. There is a. universal atmosphere of suspi- cion and espionage. The System of cspionagv is so comâ€" plete that the British Agent is pracâ€" tically a prisoner. lie, dare. not visit any one, and she never saw the. Agent in the street, Sometimes a member of his staff might be met, but to be, Seen speaking to them Would entail being packed off to the frontier next day. One hears a good deal in Kabul of Russian intrigue, but there is cer- tainly not much visible evidence of such. Last year two soâ€"callod Rus- sian orderlies, supposed to b:- spies, were taken prisoners at llcrat and brought into Kabul. One died of fever in prison; the other disappearâ€" edâ€"no one knew where. Mrs. Daly says that the advances made by ltussia have not, met with a favorable response from either the Ameer or his advisers. The ideas of life in the,harem as portrayed in popular novels are erroâ€" neous. Sewing machines take the place of Turkish delight, and Engâ€" lish Costumes that of the diaphanous attire usually attributed to the ladies. The ladies are all busy, and take great interest in knitting, embroidâ€" ery and other feminine pursuits. The chief wife has a sewing machine, and with it makes the clothes for her children. The Amcer has one wife who is of royal birth, and who lives in a sepâ€" arate house. She is an ambitious woman, and wears English dresses, although it should be said that they are Costumes of the style of thirty years ago. E-aCh of the Ameer's married wivcs‘ Has distinct from his slmc womenâ€" lias a separate house, where she, lives with her children. Next to the Ameer himself, the chief political factor in the country is the Queen. by which title the roy- al wife of the late Ameer and the mother of Prince Umar is known. She is a. woman of considerable beauty, about forty years of age, and particularly intelligent and well informed. Her sympathies are so distinctly British that her palace is regarded with almost as much susâ€" picion as the British Ambassy. â€"â€"â€"+ WITHDRAW BRITISH TROOPS. oi Occupation to be placed by Native Forces. Army Re- lt has been decided by the. British Government that the army of occu- pation shall be practically withâ€" drawn from Egypt. The native army will be left in possession, and a new police force. will be created. The. command of the British force in Egypt now held by Majorâ€"General J. R. Slade will bl' abolished, and a minor olllcer will act as military commandant over a British garrison at Cairo. For a year this garrison will consist of a field battery and two battalions. There will be a further reduction subsequently. The new police force, which is to be called the. Egyptian Military Mounted PoliCC, will consist for the present of about 100 men, half of whom sail in the. llllllt‘l‘d from Southampton shortâ€" ly. The force will be under the comâ€" mand of Captain C. Burroughs, of the Dublin district stafT. The withdrawal of British troops is approved by Lord Cromer, Lord Kit.â€" cbencr, and the. finance authorities. Egypt pays £87,000 a year for the loan of British troops, a sum which will now be greatly reduced. It will be remembered that Great Britain gave a pledge to withdraw the troops as soon as the country could take care of itself. The Egyptian army. which is in an oflicient state, will remain as it is at presan constituted, with British oflicers in command, and under the orders of a British Sirdar. Nine years ago the army was 12,â€" 000 strong. 'I‘oâ€"day it numbers over 18,000 incl). ____+._.____ ‘ Irish Barrister (addressing the Dentinâ€""Your honor, I shall first absolutely prove to the jury that the prisoner could not. have committed or ,the crime with which he is charged. as if that does not convince the jury. he was insane I shall show that “Uli'bl SHIT“ ’15 “ll-V11 i“ll‘l‘O‘T‘d ll)’ lwlicn he committed it. If that fails, the addition of .1 little salt or dis‘ 1 shall prove an alibi ” jwithout. opponents on water, for 'ltussian connnanderâ€"inâ€"chief overruled The Most Economical and Profitable Form, to Buy Tea in is to Use Only Ceylon Tea. value. ets. Guaranteed to be absolutely Pure and Black, Mixed or GREEN. Sold only By all grocers. at St. Louis. .c 3! incomparable in sealed lead pack- Received the gold medal and highest award ESCAPADESEF WARSHIP NOT ALL ON THE SIDE OF THE RUSSIAN NAVY. Great Britain and the United States Have Had Many Catastrophes. The unjustifiable outrage of a. Rusâ€" sian war fleet in the North Sea, though practically without precedâ€" ent, brings to mind some other ex- traordinary examples of the misâ€" handling of warships which have oc- curred within recent years. Small need is there to point out that. a modern battleship, with her marvel- lous appliances for destroying and preserving life and enormous stores of explosives, is in the hands of inâ€" experienced men an dangerous engine, whether in peace or war. The succession of awful, selfâ€"inflicted tragediesâ€"for they are really nothing elseâ€"which overtook Russian warships a few months ago is an eloquent reminder of this. llut this is not the first time that. the. Russians have lost millions of dollars in expensive warships, little or nothing to show for the outlay. In the Crimean Campaign the allied fleet, though manifestly no match {or the great Sebastopol forts, aided as the latter were. by a fine Russian fleet, soon found themselves the admiral and promptly to bar the entrance the Russian sank his ships ' to the harbor. It is a remarkable fact that for selfâ€"inflicted British naval catastroâ€" phes one must stick to times of peace. Perhaps the. most calamiâ€" tous of these Was the ranmning of the MAGNIFICENT FLAGSHIP of the Mediterranean f‘lcet, the Vic- toria, by the Camperdowu; and what Briton old enough at the time to experience the painful thrill caused by the dread news cannot take his memory back to it? The sickening crash of the great rain, which the thousands of horrified spectators, folâ€" lowing on the mystifying and fatal signal, was inevitable several nioâ€" ments before it happened. Then came. the strenuous efforts to stem the in- rush of water and the, equally futile (lash for land, and finally the great ship turned Llll‘tlu ten minutes after the collision and went down with 320 of her ‘nlt‘ll, so completing the last act. in this noverâ€"toâ€"beâ€"forgotten tragedy. ()ur American cousins too, suffered some dire naval mishaps in times of peace, the most recent of which was the explosion a few months ago on board the battleship Missouri. Then, who cannot take his mind back to a certain February ev- ening, seven years ago, when the warship Maine, in Havana Harbor, was so mysteriously blown up along with 254 of her crew, percipitating the war with Spain? The lermans also have bad to mourn tho result of a. fatal piece of naval mishandling quite unconnected with battle. This was the. accidentâ€" al ramming of the ironclad Grosser have exceedingly l with v Kuriusf. by the Konig Wilhelm in the English Channel 'l“VlCNTYâ€"Sl X YEARS AGO. Five minutes after the collision the magnificent ship and nearly 300 of her crew were out of sight beneath the waves. llut what a warship in the hands of rash and indill'erentlyâ€"trained men may be made to do was show‘n a. quarter of a century ago when a. powerful Spanish insurgent force solved the important dockyard of (,‘arfliagonn, along with several fine Iironclads. ln fbe bay outside the town was a pretty strong Govern- Elllonll squadron, which, however, in- ‘stead of attempting to force a way linto (.‘artbagcna Harbor, sensibly ,waited outside for something to turn ;up. And something did turn up, for 'one of the finest of the insurgent ,warsliips, the. Vitoria, was one mornâ€" ‘ing seen steaming serenely towards them, and while the Government ‘crews marvellcd if this was to prove ‘a piece of heroic madness, down came her colors with a jerk; she had surrendered. ’l‘he astonishing truth ‘transpired later, that the Vitoria. ,had only come out for an airing, but ‘so utterly inexperienced were her so- called engineers that, try as they might, they could not get the engines ‘sfoppcd in time. Another stirring passage in this singular little. war was some time later provided by the insurgent flagâ€" ship. This fine vessel was equipped with a ram. which her officers hadn‘t the heart to use, in actual battle, ithongh many A SPLENDI ll OPPORTUNITY presented itself; but one day she- buried her ram into the armored side of one of her males, and down the llatter sank like a stone, drowuing nearly 100 of her crew. So rash was the handling of some 'of the ships in the Cbiliau War of 1879 that they were positiver more- {dangerous to friend than foe, and disasters Were frequent. in the strangely unequal (fuel between the ;I’cruvian ironclad Indopcndencia and ‘tbc Covadonga, a little Ubilian gun- lbont built of wriod, the former for [two hours strove, her hardest. to ram iher small but slippery foe. Probab- vly some temper was lost in the pro- ]‘ccss, as in her last attempt the In- ,dependencia clca n missed her objec- . , . tive. and smashed With such force into a rock that she couldn't be got off, and fell an easy prey to the very :enemy, she. had despised so much.â€" London Titâ€"Bits. __._+__..._. . An annual nigntingaic competitive concert is held in various cities of Japan. The main feature of the ‘quaint event. is to bring together :some tame nightingalcs of melodious .voice, according to the accepted standard of the connoisseurs, and to let each of them sing in turn. By this singing the grade of the songâ€" ster is determined. ___+_ “Is this true about Silas gettin' swindled in a horse trade?” “Well he says so." "He‘s a fool not to keep it quiet. then. flow does he. expect to work on" the horse?” Gan’t an} Cure is Cheapwat Any Priceâ€"â€"Benefit den. rd ill l-Ieafdi tain if You Use DR. CHASE’S Only the wealthy can afford to be invalids. They alone can bear the expense of constant attendance by doctors and highâ€"salaried nurses. Your tinic is your win-flier your daily task is in the home or abroad, you must make every day count of prove a burden capital, and, to yourself and friends. Weakness is the greatest source of illâ€"health. Weakness of the blood and nerves, weakness of action of the heart, lungs and digestive organs. Dr. (.‘hasc's Nl-rvc Food is well suited to the nccfls of a multitude of people because it ness, first weakness of the blood and nerves. and through them the weak- ness of the organs of the body. 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