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s €Q€<€€€€Q€€€Q€€€Q€Q€€€@ 3 About the . fore the washing begins. Make suds with soap and not too much soda. The soap must not be left in the water, (llass must always be washed first, next, the fine cups and saucers take. their turn and any other pieces of fine china. Following A} A. A A 6’) B)’DD))9D)))DDDD é“ FOR THE COOK. Pickled onions must be small, even size and perfectly round. them but do not cut the tops roots close enough to break them apart. As fast as peeled drop into Strong brine and let stand for tWenâ€" these comes the silver. Then the things that are least. greasy and fin- ally the large meat dishes and the pots and kettles. Everything, of course, has been made ready, plenty of drying ttiwels, towels for the glassWare, a washi cloth, mops for soap, the ammonia. and a knife Cleaner. It is a good. plan to put dishes of one kind in at one time and of another the next. livery glass should be emptied before of Peel and ty-four hours. Then drain in collan- it iS Placed in .1110 Pan. “'lm‘h _i5 av der or on sieve and dry with a cloth. “110 that aplml‘S *0 OUICI‘ filSht‘S- Drop into glass jars. Spice vinegar Any dishes that have had milk in should be rinsed before they go into the (lish water. After the dishes have awhile, hot water poured over them cleanses and renders them easier to dry. The Silver should be placed in fresh suds and the different lines of '(lishes should be. submitted to the same treatment. Dishes must, nevor be left lying in the water and the pan should not be crowded. First it progress and renders break- with whole cloves, cinnamon stick, mace, peppercorns, using about a tablespoonful cf the mixed spiCes for each quart jar of onions. Heat the vinegar scalding hot and then cool it and pour into the jars over the onions. Cover jars to keep out the dust and let stand three days, on the second and third days pouring off the vinegar, scalding it and pouring it over the onions. On the third day! . retards seal them up. Some housekeepers boil the onions in equal proportions age more imminent. Delicate china of sweet milk and water to keep placed in hot water will surely them white. Others parboil them in Crack. If the day is exceeding busy and salted water, blanch and cover with something must be neglected do not spiced white vinegar, adding a very drained 1 allow that something to be the little sugar. dishes. For mustard pickle use about equal proportions of tiny green cucumbers, large ones out into dice, thinly sliced green tomatoes, cauliflower broken in small tufts, small string beans or large ones out in small strips, green grapes, green radish pods, nastur- tium seeds and very small white on- ions. Make a brine with a pint of salt to one and oneâ€"half gallon of cold water. Soak the vegetables over night in this. Drain off the brine in tli'e morning, scald and pour over the vegetables again, and let get cold. Again drain. To each gallon of vin- egar allow a pound each of mustard and curry powder, half cup of salt one cup brOWn sugar and half a. teaâ€" spoonful cayenne. Add salt and suâ€" gar to the vinegar while heating. Mix the mustard, curry powder and cayenne to a paste with a little of the vinegar and add to the rest, and when scalding hot pour over the veg- etables. If you prefer a thick mus- tard dressing, mix a little flour with the mustard, etc. To candy, violets, get some fine double blossoms, break off the heads, dip them in water into which pre viously dissolve a little isinglass, and put them afterward into a little cooled spun sugar. Sprinkle the violâ€" ets with the finest powdered sugar and lay them in sheets of white pap- er in the sun or some warm place, but on no account put them in an oven. Spun sugar is made by taking a quarter of a, pound of leaf Sugar to half a pint of water. Boil it until ODORS IN THE HOUSE. This question of odors is one over which the homebuilder has to fight her hardest battles, even if she starts with a house properly equipped for the struggle. They say that animals have. no discrimination in odors; that is, that their senses make no distinction between the pleasurable and unpleasurable. It often seems as if men were made on the same plan. Many a man will sit contciitedly reading his paper in an atmosphere of cabbage or fresh soup that would set a woman’s sense of smell on edge. The mother of a family has often to fight her family as well as the odors, the necessary, the inevita- ble airing of a house after meals being accomplished only against proâ€" tests. Food odors are not the only one she has to fight against. Many fur- nishings and floor coverings have odors, more or less unpleasant. This .is an important objection to cheap materials, they are rarely odorless. You should select your furnishings with your nose. Even if the odor is not actually disagreeable, the pres- ence of any odors that are not a dis- tinct pleasure gives a second rate at« mosphere to a house. I wonder if the sense is not deficient or lacking in a great many people; this seems someâ€" times the only possible solution of their indifference to the abominable odor in their houses. How people it forms strongs on a spoon when . dipped in it_hence the name. The can, except under compulsmn, endure violets may he gathered on a drv houses pervaded with the smell of sunshiny dayy otherwise there 'is’ moth balls and gasoline, I cannot danger of their not keeping. Otherwise undersmnd' Queen Frittersâ€"Put one cup of SENSIBLE SUGG ESTIONS. To cut hot bread dip the knife in warm water. Corks can be made sound and air tight by boiling. Lettuce leaves strewn about the floor will attract and destroy beetles. New potatoes are given a delicate flavor if a few leaves of mint are placed in the water in which the po- tatoes are boiled. Clean windows with a flannel dipp- ed in paraffin, and polish with a clean duster. It imparts a fine pol- ish, and warns of’f flies. Lemon coffee is delicious. Rub each side of a lump of sugar on the rind water in a saucepan, place over the fire, and when boiling add two tableâ€" spoons of butter, then stir and cook until it forms a. ball and leaves the sides of the pan. When cool heat into it, one at a time, four eggs. Dip out by spoonfuls and drop in hot fat. When done drain on brown paper, sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve. They may also be split open, filled with fruit, and served with a. sauce. Fish salads are good supper dishes, and take the place of cold meat. Use any kind of good white fish, halibut, if possible, or salmon. Flake it with a silver fork, and mix with an equal quantity of chopped celery or white cabbage. Place on lettuce leaves and pour over it a. thick mayonnaise. For salmon use a. white mayonnaise, but for white fish, color slightly with green. of a lemon and pour on the coffee in the ordinary way. Imitation frosted glass is made by dissolving in a little hot water as much epsom salts as it will absorb. Paint the glass with the water whilst it is warm. When choppong suet sprinkle WASHING DISHES. with Ability to wash dishes can be a little ground rice; it will not then taken as a sure test of a. maid’s suck to it“) kmfe’ neatness, carefulness, and adaptabil- In turmng Steak do “0t use a fork’ as the holes which it makes in the meat cause the blood to run out. Old incandescent gas mantles make splendid polish for silverware. ity, for it: is not the simple process some would believe and not every one can wash them acceptably. a One of the primal ventures in a . well ordered household is the duty crUSh 8' ht“? on a so” duswr and of dish washing and if you are in mb on the silver' . doubt as to what you may expect Grease Spois 0“ mike?“ b“ removâ€" from your new maid observe when ed by splltung a “slung cam aim and how she washes the dishes after I‘Ubbmg the Spas With the so“ m- tlio first meal she serves. Then you tom!” parts‘ . . will know just what you may depend After washing hair brushes they upon in everything else she does. If fiftihgfltqufchk and Lihoroggi‘la druid x ‘ .‘ b . _ lll l‘lllg 0 PIS OS she tumblcs all the dishes in at once brushing them briskly “uh a “.hisif or if she neglects to change the waâ€" ter when it has become cold and dirty she is not. neat, and unless you wish to train her you will dispense with her services. broom, and there is no better way to dry the hair after it has been washed than to hold up a few strands at a time and with a small whisk This is the science of good dish broolm ian “filotling me bnmm 3“ washing. First, do not allow any at tic mine imi as,f‘.('°ml')‘ “with; length of time to elapse after the drawn tliiough it. ihis method is a good substitute for sunlight, which 'can neither be had to order nor re- lied upon with certainty. meal before the soiled dishes are re- UMBRELLA WISDOM. After coming in out of the rain, let We like best to call the umbrella down and stand it on . the handle that it may dry in this a because It Stands 50 em‘ position: the water will thus drip phatically for perfect nutrition. And yet in the matter of restor- ing appetite, of giving new strength to the tissues, especially from the edges of the frame and the cover dry uniformly When placezl with the handle upwards. as is froâ€" lquently done, the wafer runs to the Ymoved. Have everything ready beâ€"isiretched and stiff, and will sooner alsplit thus cared for. .______+____. ASTOR'S MARVELOUS PALACE Spending Millions on His English Estate. Amazing wonders are. being wrought. by William Waldorf Astor, the American millionaire and natur- alized British subject, upon the ,liistoric llevt-r estate in Kent. which he recently purchased, says the. London Daily Mirror. The artistic owner is spending money with a lavish hand in beautifying the exâ€" panse of two thousand acres that around the olsl inoated castle. Though the cosl. of the un- dertaking is probably not definitely known to Mr. Astor himself, the poâ€" pular estimate is that a million and a quarter pounds will be expended spread lupon the improvements during the next two years. There is no busier area. in indus- trial England towlay. About. a thousand men of all trades have taken up their residence. in the. neighborhood. Recently The Daily Mirror paid a visit to the place, whiCh nestles at the tent of a hill. The road which hitherto led close to the castle. has been diverted, and now passes some hundred yards fur- ther away. To make this new road it has been necessary to build two bridges over the River Eden, which winds through the estate. Round the. castle masons and carâ€" penters are building a pictui-quuc model village, toned to harmonize with the grey old walls of the. casâ€" tie. A bridge built acress the moat joins the new bui d ngs with the old. But the, most gigantic part of the work is the making -f a. lake. where formerly green meadows stretched. This lake will cover an area of nearly fifty acres and will be sixteen feet in depth. In its present topsy-turvy state the estate suggests Claphani Juncâ€" tion, for everywhere run railway lines and fussy little engines sport up and down. Each day seven hun- dred and fifty truckloads of soil are carried away to make a bed for the great lake. Round the outer edge of the estate runs a fine deer fence, and a pond is being dug. High up on the hill a model farm has been built, with every modern and most perfect appliance. Close behind the castle an Italian garden is being laid out, surrounded by high Walls, with many niches and stone brack- ets for statues. The utmost rigor is observed to keep the public from entering the estate and from taking photographs of the building as it rises. Workâ€" inen have been discharged at a mo- ment’s notice who have tried to snapshot the operations. Only a few days ago a well known member of the peerage motored over for the purpose of taking a snapshot or two of the place. No allowance was made for the distinguished visitor; he had to depart empty liandcd. Mr. Astor himself takes the keen- est interest in his great project, and is constantly down at Hover watchâ€" ing the working of the. miracle. Hev- er Castle is of great antiquity and was built by Sir William Hevre. in the reign of Edward ill. It was here that, Henry VIII. domiciled Anne of Cloves. â€"b SICKLY CHILDREN. More children die during the hot weather months than at any other season of the year. Their vitality is then at its lowest ebb, and an attick of diarrhoea, cholera infantum or stomach trouble may prove fatal in a few hours. For this reason no home in which there are. young chil- dren should be without a box of Baby's Own Tablets, which promptly cure. all stomach and bowel troubles. if the Tablets are given to a well child they will prevent these ailâ€" ments and keep the little one well and strong. Mrs. Joseph T. Pigeon, Bryson, Que.., says: "My little one was attacked with colic and diarrhâ€" oea, and I found Baby's Own Tablets so satisfactory that I would not now be without them in the house. "Th:sc Tablets not only cure summer trouâ€" bleS, but all the minor ailments that afiiict infants and young children. They contain no opiate or harmful drug, and may be given with equal safety to the new born baby or well grown child. There are imitations of this medicine and mothers should see that the words "Baby‘s Own Tablets" and the. fourâ€"leaf clover with child’s head on each leaf is found on the wrapper around each box. As you value your child's life do not be persuaded to take a sub- stitute for Baby‘s Own 'l‘ii‘nletsâ€"thc one inediCine that makes children well and keeps them well, Sold by all druggists. or you can get them by mail {if 25 cents a box by writing the Dr. Willi-inns" Medicine “0.. lirockville, ()nt. -___+..._.__ FLYINH liXl’l-lllliil'TN'i‘. A thin: ixg‘»,,riment which carries with it a good deal of interest has been turned on: at ilillaiicourt, in vl-‘i'anre. The x.\'§-ei'iiii«iitei‘ vas‘ M. Voisin. “iltl sealed himself ready for flight on a raft tower! by an autoâ€" lmaé, At e. given signal the autoâ€" “...ql put on full speed. the machine , . . Itop of the umbrella, and the inoiw to the nefYCSi‘ts acne“ 15 that ture is there retained in the lining-1‘ "1” l“ " “‘5 “rd “1- Vt‘i‘in' CUL‘ ofamedicu'le, l underneath the ring for some length "' hi3" “in” Hm“ 1h" “Uto' Sendforfrccsainpf. . of time, causing - sle or fabric beat. inaiit ~(l a simply Elizill Tm‘ Tarfrzctgn & BOWAL‘ Chtfiaiiftadrio. ‘With which the f‘rziitie i: roveriwl 1 about .‘il‘l’l Y'I‘l'dsx 3‘ “Viiâ€""ht 0‘ S'zc-andfii.oo;slldrugg‘-sts. llcfimlc (finder and soon rot. A si 'nl.uut 114‘ llt‘i. U“ “1“” Y‘ZV’lifs'ht _ umbrella is much injured by being liinissl. ently down to the surface left open to dry; the silk becomes of the water. As a Thirst Quencher There Is no other beverage can compare with Ceylon Tea, which is absolutely the purest and most delicious tea the world produces. Black, Mixed or Green. lead Highest Award st. Louls, l90c. Packets only. By all Croce". W THE TELEGRAPH“) WlRE TRAPEZE FOR MONKEYS NEAR VICTORIA NYANZA. Object of Curiosity to the Giraffe â€"Hippopotamii Drag Up the Poles. The world is now so much covered with telegraph and telephone wires that civilized human beings scarcely notice them. They run alongside most of the. highways in l’iiigland, and the off announced coming of an underground system Seems to have no influence in the direction of re- ducing the number. There is good CVidl'l‘iCL', however, says the London Globe, for, supposing that the. aniâ€" mal world has by no means grown as accustomed to the wires which swing above their heads. Cows for example, have been seen standing at the corner of fields lisâ€" tening in aweâ€"struck fashion to the Aeolian strains which smite their ears as a high Wind blmvs across the lion and copper strands. Birds like the topmost wire for a perch. It offers them apparéiitly a finer view than the boughs of trees, which are understood generally as being naâ€" ture's deviCe for the purpose. Curi- ously enough, a bird will not. sing from the wire; whether it is silenced by th.- Aeolian rivalry or whether, on the other hand, it has come to see the. utilitarianism of the strucâ€" ture and to feel that song is incon- gruous cannot be explained with our present knowledge. BEES HATE THE WIRES, and there are well authenticated cas- es of a swarm of bees altering their flight to avoid adjacency to the lines. Rooks show the greatest parâ€" tiality for them, a partiality which they hold with the sparrows, and in some of the older lines, where the wires are closer together than! is noW thought to be wise, nests are built, and the insulation of the lines dain- aged accordingly. It has been calâ€" culated by one of those statistical persons who had time for the enterâ€" prise that there is a bird swinging on the lines each inlle of the disâ€" tance. which when summed up gives us a total of some 500 birds amusâ€" ing themselves in this fashion be- tWeen London and Edinburgh. in distant countries there are amusing instances of the. use to which wild animals put the telegraph wires. A report has just reached England giving the details of the ideas of monkeys to telegraphy. These animals are convinced appar- ently that the wires are put up merely for the purpose of giving them a. long trapeZe for their perâ€" formance. Near Victoria Nyanza which there may be seen hundreds of monkeys enjoying themselves to their hearts' content. The. authorities have tried, by shooting them in considerable numâ€" bers, to remove this disposition, but the monkeys still run the risk, and tl‘aVL'llJ'S ieport that. they often see them in dozens swinging by the tails and chuckling in their own chattering fashion with delight. This does not serve to improve the teleâ€" graphic service, for in the depths of the forest. the monkeys’ tricks 0 li‘Tit'N TWIST Till“: WIRES, and currents pass from one to an- other, giving a somewhat. confusing: result at the ends. Oddly enough, it is stated by ex- perts that the earlier ideas of the monkeys as to the pleasures of stealing the wire have passed away. Now-a-days it rarely happens that wire is stolen. The idea has spread that some kind persons, recognising the needs of the monkey tribe, have put the wires up in such a secure way merely that the monkeys may have perfect, swinging, and the. men-- keys are perfectly loyal to the idea. and refuse to steal the wire apparâ€" ently for this reason. “The curiosity of the giraffe is an- other disturbing element. (.‘ows here at home stare up at the lines when music is being emitted; horses rub themselves against the poles, but these two do but little damage. The giraffe, however, has the adâ€" vantage of being able to stretch his long neck and to reach the wires themselves. He has a wonderful re.â€" and for the pottery insulator. He reaches up and seizes these not very succulent dainties, and pulls them down, drawing the strands with them. The arms of wood on which the insulators are placed also allure the giraffe, and when he gets fairly Settled at the base of a pole he finds dragging down the aruis and pecking at the insulators. The influenre . ' _ ,have both of us. there IS a line of three Wires, along“ rich ainustziient for a couple. of days. which this has upon the transmis- sion of mtssages can be imagined. It is as injurious as the influence of the hippopotamus, which creeps up to the poles, looks cautiously round to See if any one is watching his perâ€" formance, and then, by a long pull and a strong pull, drags over pole, wires. INSULTAORS AND ALL. The comfort is that occasionally the hippopotamus gets entangled in his own devices. He. is not a very dex- terious animal, even at the best of times; but when he's wrapped round with some twenty feet of wireâ€"and in some cases with twenty feet of three wiresâ€"he finds progression somewhat retarded. In time, no doubt, he. will learn that it is as Well to leave the wires untouched, but it seems as if it will take some years yet before the lesson has gone home. i What the denizens of the deep think of the great sea cables is as much a. mystery as the others. In some places the deep cables swing from the ridge of one plateau to the ridge of another, and upon the bight all manner of sea. animals find that they can disport themselves. One cable which was picked up recently was merely covered for a mile with all manner of barnacled creatures. They had encrusted one after another on the cable, until that which was only half a foot in diameter, was to be measured in feet, the cable itself being hidden by the encrustations. Of course this did but little harm to the transmission of messages, except in a few cases where the cable shield Was damaged, when, of course, there was a severance, with all the inter- national trouble which this involked. Rats are a similar nuisance in re spect to cables hidden under the earth. A rat seems to think that everything which is enclosed in lead is a pipe conveying water, and with intent to get at the water he gnaws at the outer covering. Sooner 0] later thn result is disastrous to the efficiency of the cable, and this must be written down as one of the difl‘i culties in the way of underground telegraphy. On the whole. there.- fore, we we. that animals have a big- ger influence than is generally posed. But what they think of it all is another matter. One would so like to discuss the matter with the monkey, the giraffe, and, not least in importance, with the rat. _____+____ MADE HER CHOICE. “Choose between us!" Winkleton folded up his evening newspaper and savagely threw it oi the floor “Yes, madam," he continued, “I tell you once for all that you can’t The last time that dressmaker was in the house for a week I vowed that I never would stand it again, and I won't, As fOi being under the same roof with two halfâ€"crazy and absorbed Women, and requiring a rake every morning ta get the odd pieces of cloth out of my clothes; to hear the rattle and whii of that confounded sweingâ€"machine, and to sit at my meals and listen to a lot of cut. bias, ruffled and flouncâ€" ed, and pleated talkâ€"I've had all I'm ever going to have. If I'm to be turned out of my own house, all right; but you can't have both of us. I leave the day she comes. You’ll have to make your decision quick. Come, madam, which ' shall it be, the dressmaker or me?" i Mrs. Winkleton looked at her hus- iband with a hopeless, half-despairing look, in which were discernible some traces of indignation and a sense of injustice. “If you must go, dear," she said, :softly, “why, I have nothing more to say!” +_._â€"._ A Frenchman was boasting that: :110 had thoroughly mastered the Eng- lish language, when he was asked to write from dictation the following specimen of our choice eccentric ver- liaCUlfll‘Iâ€""AS Hugh Hughes was how- ing a Yqu log from a yew tree, a ,man dressed in garments of a dark hue came up to Hugh and said, 'Have you seen my ewes?’ To which he replied, ‘If you will wait until 1 how this yew, I will go with you to look for your ewes.’ " After an at- tempt the Frenchman admitted his iniistake. He used to imagine he was used to English speaking, but he .would be more careful how he used the language in future. “Now, boys, slid the Sundayâ€" sehool teacher, addressing the juvenâ€" ,ile class, "can either of you tell me anything about Good Friday?" "Yes, ina'ain, f can." replied the. boy at the foot of the class. "lie was the ;fellow what done the housework for Eltobinson Crusoe."- sup- g