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Old-fashioned Rhubarb Fritters”-l Beat together two eggs, add one cup- ful of milk. Mix together three cupâ€"I fuls of flour, one tablespoonful oil sugar, one half teaspoonful of saltl‘ and two teaspoonluls of baking pow-‘1 der. Stir into this the egg mixture.g one pint of chopped rhubarb, onei tablespoonful of melted butter and! more milk, if necessary, to make a thick, drop butter. Fry in small,‘ thick cakes in a frying pan, turning! when one side is nicely browned! Serve with plenty of butter and} grated maple sugar, Rhubarb Slumpâ€"Peel and cook toâ€" gether until tender two quarts of rhubarb and two cupfuls of sugar. Mix together one point of flour, on». half of a. teaspoonful of salt and two scant teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Rub in one tablespoonful of butter and mix to a soft dough with sweet milk. Roll out in a thick sheet the size, of the saucepan. Lay it in over the fruit, cover closely and keep the saucepan where the fruit will boil very gently. Do not uncoVer for three quarters of an hour. Turn out on a platter, pour the fruit over the crust and serve wilh it u foamy sauce. Baked Rhubarbâ€"Prepare in the same way as for stewed rhubarb. Put fruit and sugar in layers in an earth- en (liSh,. cover closely and place in :1 moderate OVen until the fruit is ten- der. m»3)9fih»9,»bbb))b) Q" WITH RHUBARB. Stewed Rhubard.â€"â€"thn very young and fresh the skin is thin and tender. so that occasionally peeling is un- necessary: At the base of each stalk, as it is pulled from the root, is a. tough, white end from one to two ‘mchcs long; this should be discarded as it is quite bitter. The lower half is frequently flecked with a reddish color; where the skin can be retain- ed, this pretty tinge is imparted to the sauce, giving a pltuxdnt change In appearance. As the stalks become older they must be. peeled; this is best done by loosening; the skin at the lower end and pulling it off in long, thin strips. Cut the prepared stalks in inch pieces and it is ready for use. At least one cupful of sugar will be eded for each quart of cut fruitâ€"frfiuently this may prove inâ€" sufficient. The use of soda has been recommended by some economically inclined housewives, but we cannot lndorso the suggestion. l’ut fruit and sugar in an agate or porcelain- lined saucepan, add about a. teaspoon of water to start the syrup, cover and stand over a slow fire until the sugar is dissolved and the fruit, tender, but not broken. Hard boil- ing will quickly disintegrate the rhu- barb, giving a stringy mush, which is by no means as inviting to the eye or palate as the tender pieces in a clear syrup. Rhubarb Breadâ€"Prepare two quarts of rhubarb and cook slowly, cutting it in hall-inch pieces, so as to avoid stringiness. Stew with one pint of sugar, adding more if too tart. When Very soft rub through a sieve and return to the fire until at the boiling point. Have ready a num- ber of slices of two-day old bread, buttered generously. Spread them on a platter and pour over sufficient of the hot sauce thoroughly to soak them. Add another layer of bread, cover with the remainder of the sauce. Set aside until cold and serve with cream and sugar. A simple, but very good dessert. Prepare and cook two quarts of rhubarb. Boil one cupful of rice in a large kettle of salted Water for ten minutes, then drain and turn into a double boiler. Add from time to time as much of the syrup from the fruit as it will absorb, cooking until very tender. Mix lightly with it the drained pieces of fruit and mold in cups. Servo cold, using any syrup which remains as a sauce; or a custard sauce may be substituted. Rhubarb Tapiopa.â€"Cook one heap- ing quart of prepared rhube and two scant cupfuls of sugar in a double boiler until the fruit is ten- der, then skim it out into a serving dish. To the syrup in the kettle, add sufficient boiling water to make a quart altogether. When boiling, sprinkle in twoâ€"thirds of a cupiul of fine tapioca and stir frequently until it has swollen; then cover and cook until clear. Pour this over the fruit, chill and serve plain or with sweetened cream. A variation of this receipt can be made by skimming the fruit into a baking dish When the tapioca is cooked, pour it over the rhubarb; drop over the top a tableâ€" spoonful of butter, cut into bits and bake in a moderate oven for half an hour. Serve with a foamy sauce. A €Q§§<g§€é€fiQ6€¢(fi(€€ About House the There was no more trouble from Johnny until his turn came to read. and then. instead of standing up, the poor little fellow made no sign, ex- cept that two big tears rolled down his cheeks. "Johnny Smnkins," said school teacher impatiently, is _itr you are Iidgeting with?" "The finest opal known in Australia is obtained at White Clifi's, near Wil- cannia, in the colony of New South Wales, Where about 800 miners are in constant Work. The best quality of these stones realizes occasionally as much at $350 an ounce. To the end of 1904 $4,000,000 Worth of opals had been exported from New South Wales. Johhny did nofreplguz, but, the class sneak was ready, as usual, with in- formation. "Please, teacher," he said. "it's pin he's got." "Take it away from him, ‘nnd bring it here,” was the next Cull]- mand. And the oflbnding pin was ur- COrdingly brought. "Why, don’t you go on with the reading?” cried his muchâ€"tried men- tor. "If you don’t, Iu-me bcnur, young man, I shall have to make an example of you!” f'i‘hificrkefih’lg should be poured into gravy when the saucepan is 0” the fire or gas, otherwise it becomes lumpy. Love shows itself in our Willingness to do little or big things that will please our loved ones. A man may not care for violets, but he shows his love for his wife if he will for her sake go down on his knees in the grass, and gather a bunch just for her. He may think that they ought to know he loves them clearly, be- cause every day of his life he is working for them. But his love is not all that it, might be until it leads hllll to do the things that are especially pleasing to his family. Numerous cares. deep thought, an absorbing life work; a crowded day, free no man from the duty of show- ing his love at home in ways which are wholly of his wile’s or his childâ€" ren’s choosing. The man who comâ€" plains of the useless demands his family makes upon him had better right about face, and ask himself how much he is doing to make such lov- ing claims seem no longer like' de- mands, and all this is equally true of the wives and Children. "P-please, mum.” whimpered Johnny, "Iâ€"I can't stand 21p! That pin you took keâ€"kccps me u'ouscrs up!" Cistcrns should be thorOUghly cleaned out periodically. Grease spots on leather can he re- moved with the white of an egg and dry in the sun. "Why do women wear such ugly clothes in their kitchens?" lamented an artistic young woman. "They Wear out their old things, and the colors of their aprons are, ugly be- cause those colors do not wash out," responded her practical friend. "That’s the melancholy part about it." Was the sad reply, “but if a woman has to spend half her life in the kitchen, why doesn’t she put a little thought on what she wears there, instead ol‘ saving every penny and every stitch for her after- noon frock and wearing any old thing in the morning? When I am married I shall wear the perkiest sweeping caps I can devise instead of doing my head up in a towel. My husband shall admire his kitchen wife as much as his sittingâ€"room wife.” The practical friend, roused by this, responded, "A kitchen wife is known by her cooking, and the skill with which she boils and broils and bastes and bakes is more im- portant than the way she looks when she does it.” “A man's stomach is not the only way to his heart,” proâ€" tested the theoriser. "His eyes must be feasted also. There are cheap and practical kitchen gown materials which are pretty as well, so I shall Wear pretty frocks, and I know that their becomingness will not cause my meats to burn nor my cakes to fail.” horsehair in a tub of warm. soapy water, and so‘flse it up and down for some minutes, then rinse in cold water and dry on sheets of paper in the sun. Clean paint by using a small 'qunntity of whiting on a damp rag. In using a mould keep it full of cold water until the moment it. is required. To clean «vhite fur procure some plaster of paris, finely powdered; rub it gentbr but thoroughly into the fur, and then shake out thoroughly and brush with a soft, perfectly clean brush. Stewed apples are healthy eating. When peeled, place the fruit in Coll] water. Add sugar and lemon-l'ind to taste. Stew gently in an open saucepan for about forty minutes. Serve cold with jelly or chopped al- monds. ’l‘o clerm a mattress, remove all the hair from the tick. Turn the tick inside out and wash thorâ€" OUghly, dry, and mangle. Place the horsehair in a tub of warm. soapy When washing lace add a teaspoon- ful of ammonia. to every quart, of water used. ' To polish a stove, place a quantity of stoveâ€"polish into a dish; add equal parts water and turpentine, and a few drops of varnish; mix this well together; apply with a small paintâ€"brush. Let the polish dry, and then rub briskly with a. stove-brush. SHOWING LOVE AT HOME; ALL THROUGH THAT PIN WHEN IN THE KITCHEN AUSTRALIAN OPA LS USEFUL HINTS. s should be thorOUghly said the W. ‘ ‘whut Bad blood is the cause of néarly every disease that afflicts humanity. It is because Dr. “'illiams' Pink Pills make new, rich red blood that [they cure such troubles as anaemia, 'licart palpitation, headaches and lmckachcs, rlmunntism, neuralgia, indigestion, kidney and liver trou- bles, and ailments of girlhood and womanhood. But you must get the genuine pills with the full name, “Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People," on the wrapper around {each box. Sold by medicine dealers ‘cverywhere or sent post paid at 50 {cents a, box or six boxes for $2.50, ‘by writing the Dr. Williams’ Medi- Jcine Co., Brockville, Ont. Their Effect on Passengers When Trains Collide. The “Railway and Locomotive En- gineering" askszâ€"What is a. railway collision? It is the violent coming together of tn’o trains, either mov- ing in opposite directions, or moving in the same direction, or one moving and the other not moving. The re- sults are, as a rule. the same: des- truction of life or of property or of both. There is one thing, however, that a collision is not the result of. It is not, and never will he, the reâ€" sult of locomotive or car construc- tion. It is in every case the result. of a failure in train operation. Our friends of the daily press ure very rightly insisting that something must be done to reduce the loss of life in railway collisions. They point to the results: of such an accident, In which heavy l’ullmans. steel (:an mid wooden Vehicles are involved, and from the fact that wooden cars are generally badly crushed, they are ndâ€" vocating; the adoption of steel curs as an antidote to the Collision evil. It is true that if collisions are one of the inevitable conditions of If two non-telescopable, indestruc- tible steel car trains came together at high speed the stopping of each train would take place in consider- ably less than. four rail lengths, and some of the cars would be up-vnded or violently wrenched to one side, or one or both of the trains would re- bound With considerable force. 'l‘he passengers in these cars not being fixtures and having at the time of collision the velocity of the moving: trains, would be thrown about with a degree of violence only measured by the speed of the trains and the staying qualities of the cars. We do not say that steel passenger cars are not a most desirable form of railway vehicle construction. rl‘hey would be most valuable in such con- tingencies as derailments or such like wrecks, for they would stand an enormous amount of side Wiping against tunnel walls or the slopes of rock cuts where they had space to stop in. When it comes to the vio- lent sfraightâ€"away collision, some- thing must give, and the success of the heavy Pullman or the allâ€"steel car has so far depended. almost enâ€" tirely, on the presence in the trains of cars that can be crushed or broken to fragments. We can give some answer to this question by referring to a newspaper cutting lately sent to us by one of our readers, in which it was said that a train going fifty miles an hour had been stopped by its engi- neer in four rail lengths. Fifty miles an hour is at the rate of 76.6 feet per second. Four rail lengths is 120 feet. If the train was not stopping, it would pass over the [our rail lengths in less than two seconds. It is, of course, obvious that this newspaper statement is in- correct, but what about the loose passengers in a train so stopped? They would be thrown with excessive violence against the ends and the interior furnishings of the car, and severe injury to them would result. of the inevitable conditions of modern railroading, it is far safer for passengers to ride in l’ullmans or steel cars. As things go now, the fact that such cars are safer than wooden ones rests on their ability to crash into and to wreck weaker ones. If all the cars in two violently colliding trains were equal- ly strong what would happen to the passengers? POOR, WATERY BLOOD. STEEL CARS. "I began to note the diflerevnt phases of vegetation on the magnifiâ€" cent chestnut trees outside my winâ€" dows, on the Avenue de l‘Observaâ€" toire. ’J‘hese trees were planted by Napoleon the First in 1807, and I soon got to know them and their peculiarities. I numbered them, starting from the. observatory, and noted the date at. which each of them bore bulls, then leaves, and ul- timately flowers. Some of the trees are forward, while others are slow to put forth shoots. I then made a chart, marking the date of flowering on each. This I carried on for thir- ty years, and finally drawing a. curv- ed line through them, found they corresponded With the solar spots. “I discovered the same thing With the return of the swallows. the ti'rst nightingale, and the song of the cuckoo, though all, of course. are modified by atmospheric conditions. I have. however, emphatically provâ€" ed that the more solar spots there are the hotter the spring in Paris. OTHER OBSERVATIONS” "I do not, however, spend all'lny time here, as half the year I am at the observatory at Juvisy, which is only about twenty minutes from Paris. There we have tWo astrono- mers workine: constantly, principally occupied with the study of Mars, Jupiter and Venus: we also careful- ly observe and regieter the temperaâ€" ture of the air, the ground, the in- For the Sake of Good Health ri E? k M. Flammarion Says They Enjoy a Mild Climate With No Violent Changes. THE GREAT FRENCH ASTRO- NOMER’S VIEWS. can watch the snow melting at the Poles in the spring, and, in fact, they nearly disappear in the summer. This, mind you, in spite of the fact that the year in Mars is twice as long as ours, that is to say, that it really cnnsists of 730 days, so that, naturally, the winter is longer. With regard to the inhabitants, I think they are very light in weight; for in- stance, a, man who Weighs 140 p0unds on the earth, if he could be suddenly transported to Mars, would only weigh 52 pounds. part of a second, and from observaâ€" tions, which have now extended over 100 years, we find the length of the day on the planet is 24 hours 37 minutes 22 seconds. The climate of the Martians is very mild, there are no gales, while the atmosphere is very light, with scarcely any clouds. The inhabitants enjoy fine weather, the climate being something like that of Davos Platz, dry and clear. We. know the globe of Mars perfectly, in fact, far better than the earth. SOLAR SPOTS. “I am one of those rare Paris- ians,” M. Flammarion continued, "who has never changed his abode. I have been here since. the or of 1871, in fact I took the flat (luring the war, when I was a Captain in the Genié‘, mm I am surrounded by trees and foliage, as if I were in the country. Thus, in 1871, qui'ing the Naturally enough, one of the first quo'stinns I asked such an authority referred to the planet Mars. "Ah, the planet Mars." he replied. "I have been studying that planet closely for 30 years, and I have prepared a regular map of it with all its canals. I think I am more interested in this than anything, for one reason, that I am certain it is inhabited. and 1)ro‘oably.l;y people much more advanced than We are. SEES THE SNOW MELT. “A thing which is particularly in- tei‘csting to us at. the Juvisy Obser- vatory, which I founded, is; that We Commum, while all Paris has fight- ing, 1 turned from the study of men to that, of nature, which to my mind, is Jar more interesting. On the top floor of an apartment house near the Ubsex‘vatoi‘x'e, I had the good fortune to find M. Camille Flammarinn, the eminent French as- tronomer, and one of the most, re.- markuhlc men in France, writes the London Chronivle's correspondent. ()n being ushered into his study, a. rather short man, with a leonine head and dreamy eyes, rose to greet. me, am] in a simple, unall‘ected man- ner bade me Welcome. He then inâ€" troduced me to his wife, who assists him in all his work. and acts as his secretary. The walls of his apart- ment are all windows, and a. broad balcony runs round the Whole flat, on “hich is mounted an astronomi- cal telescope. “The public at large does not real- ly know the precision of some of our astronomical observations. Thus We know the length of the day in Mars by diurnal rotation to the 100th It‘s the purest tea in the world. Sold only in lead packets. By all Grocers. Black; Mixed or Green. Highest award St. Louis, I904. 0F MARS AND ITS PEOPLE to raise her. She was weakly, 'did not, have any flesh on her bones, and a bluish color. The doctor th‘ht- tended her told me she would not: live. After reading what other mothers said about Baby’s Own Tablets I decided to try them, and I must now honestly say I‘ncvcr had such a valuable medicine in my home. It has changed my poor, sickly, fleshless baby into a. lovely child. now as fat as a, butter ball. Words fail to express my thanks for what the Tablets have done for my child, and 1 can. only urge that other mothers do as I do now, keep the Tablets in the house always.” Baby's ()Wn Tablets positively cure all the minor ills of babyh‘ood and childhood, and the mother has a, guarantee that they contain no opiâ€" ate or harmful drug. Sold by all druggists or sent by mail at 25 cents a box by writing the “1“ Wu- liams' Medicine 00., Brnckvillc, Ont. “What do you know abafify his past?" asked Mabel. “Jfi’é‘fiough to make me a little ,911‘ refills nbout his present," . . Qéxamjning with a, the diamond The invalid called in his !awyer and said:â€" "I wish to explain again to you about Willing my propertyâ€"" The attorney held up "his hand reas- suring)y. "There, there,” said he. surlngly. "There, there,” said he, "leave that all to me!” The patient sighed resignedly. "l supposé I might as.\Ve]l." said He turning upnn his pillow; "you'll get it any way!" terior of the trees and underground streams. to study how the sun at- fects climatic conditions. “We have, as well, din‘erent col- ored‘glass houses for studying the chect of solar heat on the plants, and here We made. the curious dis- covery that red plnss hastens vege- tation, while blue glass suppresses it. For instance, sensitive plants, like mimosn', grow fifteen times higher under red glass than minder blue, und another curious thing we have succeeded in doing is to change both the shape and color of leaves like the onions and geranium under din‘ercnt colored glasses.” I then asked M. Flummarion about some of the startling articles he had Writtnn on the emf ol' the world. “I was not a believer in advertised medicines," says Mrs. Chas. Vanâ€" Tassel], Digby, N.S., “until I began using Baby’s ()wn Tablets. When my last baby was born “'0‘ never hoped ring the}??? "I have so often dealt Witli all the difler‘vnt hypothvsos, but you and I need not bother about that. as it will not occur in our time," he re« plied drily. “The earth has really the 'umharras du choix' of deaths, but the most probable hypothesis is that the end will be intense cold." On leaving M. Flammm‘ion saidâ€"- "They have named a cirque in the moon after mo, but prziy 'do not mcmion it, as the Budget Commis. sion may want to tax it, as being landed property.” coast, says a writer in Cornhill, every year, in the beginning of the last century, there were terrible wrecks, and in all the little settle- ments near by material from the lust vessels made a part of the house furnishing. Nearly every good thing in the pos- session of these people came Irom the: seal One travelling clergyman, a. good and gentle man, was holding service in a little village there, when he found his host eyeing him sharp- ly. At last the old fisherman luid his hand on the parson’s coat and smoothed it down. "Wracks, men!" he shouted, bring- ing his heavy fist. down on the rail of the bridge. "There's many a. branv hoose, mony a braw farm in Orkney got out o’ wracks; but the Brcctish government has put a. leaf- hoose here and leethoose there, and yon,” pointing to a d0ub1e light- house, “yon’s twa. There's no chance of \vracks for a puir fisher body n00." In the old days, when commerce was carried on in wooden sailing ves- sels, the loss of life and the destrucâ€" tion of ships were far greater than at present. 'Along the Newfoundland “That’s a, mighty fine piece of cloth, sir,” said he. "Never seed such a splendid bit, of cloth in my life before Get ’9, out of a wrack, sir?" Wreckage made greedy hearts. The; writer at one time said to an Orkâ€" noy pilot, “This must be a great. place for wrecks.” A MEDDLESOME GOVERNMENT SAVED THE BABY; $3“ *‘ 5X sent. her.