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\l'hiten and keep white the whole pantry interior, and then moth rust, mold, or any sort of creeping thing is plain at a casualvglance. Preâ€" vention is better than cure when it comes to cleaning. No matter What the haste do not be untidy in the pantry. If supplemented with thor- ough cleanings twice a. year, a. monthly dusting ought to keep the place Clean. Spring and fall make everything smell fresh, and soapy, and limey, and let the scoured floor and shelves have a half day to dry. Never put either butter or vinegar [1. an earthen jar or crock, and to prevent the odor of cabbage in the house. put some coll’ee on a heated shovel and pour on vinegar and keep on back of stove. Egg stains on silver may he re- moved by the aid of salt, While strong; hot vinegar rubbed well on window glass will remove paint. To 1111 cracks in plaster, use vineâ€" gar instead of water to mix your plaster; after oneâ€"half hour it will Bet. To scour knives easily, use one- half raw potato dipped in brick dust. For cleaning glass water bottles, save your coffee grounds, add soapy Water, and let stand awhile, then shake thoroughly, wash and rinse. Omeletâ€"With a. sharp knife cut through the grains in each row of kernels and scrape out the pulp. Beat live eggs until you can take up y. spoonful, add five tablespoons Water, half or three~fourths cup corn pulp, a. scant half teaspoon Halt, and a dash of pepper. Mix thoroughly. Butter 9. hot omelet pan, turn in the mixture, and shake xhe pan, and cook as you Would a plain French omelet. Jellies, pickles, catsups, and so forth, keep best on the floor. Set, them in orderly rows beneath the lowest shelf. In front of them hang a thick curtain. Standing in the light, makes them insipid and pulpy. All things put up in sugar are imâ€" proved in color and flavor by sun- ning" for several days just after they go in a glass. Sunlight sometimes reforms jelly that will not jell into beautiful solidity. Any sort of pickles or preserves will run out in spite of hermetic scaling if the cans are set where it is alternately hot and cold. Wine in bottles should also be kept on low pantry shelves. ly with salt. Let, them remain over night. and in the morning mash well with a potato masher, carefully straining oti the juice through a fruit sieve or berry press. Add to this liquid half a teaspoon of black pepper, half a. dozen Whole cloves. and two sticks of cinnamon to a. pint, then boil slowly until reduced about oneaquartei', strain through cheesecloth and dilute with two tablespoons of spiced vinegar to every pint; seal in bottles. Spiced Grape Catsup.â€"Set an earthen jar containing six pounds of Concord grapes in a. larger vessel of boiling water and cook until the skins burst; carefully strain oll‘ every particle of juice, and return to the fire, adding to each quart of juice a pint of granulated sugar, one cup of vinegar, two teaspoons of salt, a tablespoon of whole cloves, half a grated nutmeg, a teaspoon of ground allspice and a. tablespoon of powder- ed cinnamon; boil slowly for about One hour and pour boiling hot into selfâ€"sealing bottles. Uelicious to serve with game. Tomato Catsup.â€"Boil tomatoes, strain. For each quart of juice take oneâ€"half cup- brown sugar, oneâ€"half cup cider Vinegar, two teaspoons salt, half a grated nutmeg, half a teaspoon allspice and cloves mixed, wet with juice and add gradually. Boil slowly for several hours and seal. Pickle bottles may be used to good advantage, but must have new corks, and are sealed hermeti- cally after the corks are put in by inverting the bottle for a second in melted beesewax. The flavor of all catsups is so much a matter of in- dividual taste that it is well before following any recipe blindly to add the seasoning sparingly at first, then taste and add more of whatâ€" ever the taste demands. Succotash.â€"-Scrape Aimfm file House TASTY CATS UPS WITH CORN PRESERVES nutmeg, half r nd cloves mixed 1 add gradually veral hours am wash and Another Way is to wipe each leaf with a cloth moistened in the oil. It, makes them look as though wwâ€" nishedâ€"h’ke artificial plantsâ€"for a few days, but gradually the oil will become absorbed. Boil two ounces of the best hops in four quarts of water for half an hour; strain'and let the liquor cool down to the warmth of new milk; then put in a small handful of salt and half a. pound of sugar; beat up one pound of the best flour with some of the liquor, and then mix Well all together. Let this mixture stand until the third day; then add three pounds of potatoes, boiled and mashed; let it stand a day longer, stirring frequently, and keeping it near the fir<+â€"i. e., keep Warmâ€"4n an earthen vessel;_then strain and put in bottles and it is ready for use. The advantage of this yeast is that it ferment’s spontaneouan not requiring the aid of other yeast. If Well cooked and kept in a cool plare it will keep six months or more. It has been thoroughly tested. and never fails to make delicious bread. The best thing to do is to make two or three little holes in the earth, close to the roots, and pour down a. tablospoonful or two of olive oil; it seems to feed them in a Way that keeps the leaves bright and glossy. Don’t try this latter process, though, if you are about to comâ€" mence houseâ€"cleaning or just bah-1'0 sweeping, unless they are sure to be removed beyond insidious attacks of dust. The oil attracts dust in quanâ€" tities not only to make the plant repulsive in appearance, but to in- terfere with its proper hl'czuhmg through its lungs, the leaves. the serving dish, slice the pox'l the scorings, arrange on the 1‘ the dish, and serve at once. ’1 move the pulp from the ears of without the hull take a sharp and cut down through the cent each row of kernels. then with back of the lmifc press out the and leave the hull on the cob. Paddy Doolan Wont into one day to buy eggs. “W eggs toâ€"day?" “Eggs are day. Paddy looking quit or three yox They’ll get over although it may some of the leaves drop. WHEN YOUR PLANTS "EULK." Sometimes when you first bring rubber plants and palms indoors for the Winter they do What florists characterize as "sulking." They’ll get over it after a little, although it may be in that time Take some Work with you, so that when your hostess has to work you may keep her in countenance by working also. More good times are to be had over work than over play anyway. Ofier to pay the little incidental expenses that will be caused now and then by your visit, but merely ofl‘er; do not insist upon it, which would be very rude. time to go when you arrive and stick to it. Conform absolutely to the house- hold arrangements, especially as to times of rising. going to meals and retiring Be ready in ample time for all drives or other excursions. Carry _With you all needed toilet supplies, that you may not be obligâ€" cd to mortify your hosts by point- ing out, possible deficiencies in the guestâ€"room, such as a clothes brush, the article most commonly lacking. Enter heartily into all plans for entertaining you, but make it plain that you do not care to be enter- tained all the time or to have every minute filled with amusement. Be ready to suggest little plans for pleasure when you see your hostâ€" ess at a loss to entertain you, says an exchange. Try how well you can entertain her for a change. Turn about is fair play in visiting as Wel‘. as in everything else. Be pleased with all things. Your high spirits and evident en- joyment_arc the only thanks your hostess wants. ' Do not argue or discuss debatable matters. Few things leave a worse taste in your mouth. carefully and accordingly; or ion may be cooked with th and then removed before ser Do not, stay too long. to break into the life 0 even for a few days. tontion to urging‘s to however sincere they se time to go when yo stick to it. tender. 1 one pint and, if He the beans pint sweo fifteen mi‘ butter or salt if it into a sa come hot. score in quarter i ous quarter pom and lean. Put in a. quart of boiling with the water jt ing point, for £01 G001) HULL Chan SELF-MAKING 1d )f the knife press out 1 ave the hull on the co lgc add a cup of redm pulp to the above, sc 3’01“ be in the hear you too long. It is much the life of any family days. Pay no al- triumphant] S FOR VISITING wl‘dingl or an will yellow and YEAST stay mn. 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A man, a. woman, and two horses have been stung to death bv bees at Pareng’, a village close to Budapest, Hungary. Hungary. A farmer named Makranszki, re- turning home from a neighboring town, left his twoâ€"horsed cart in the courtyard of his farmhouse. The horses, annoyed by the sun, shifted to a shadior corner. In doing so they kicked over eight beehives. Farmer, Wife and Horses in Fierce Battle. The bees swarmed out, and began a. furious attack on the horses. Makâ€" ranszki and his Wife rushed to the assistance of the animals, but were themselves attacked by the insects. Their cries brought the farm hands to the spot, but it was found impos- sible to drive away the bees, and at last the fire brigade was called out, and the hose turned on. When the bees were driven away it was found that both the horses were dead. The farmer and his wife, terribly stung, were carried away to the infirmary, where they died the same evoning from blood poisoning. their flower lime, soil. of my son. This made me more anx- ious to clear up the mystery. One day I got the keys of the house and made known my determin- ation to investigate. The neighbors gathered about the gate, but would not enter A few moments satisfied me that the little, feet which patter- ed about were those of the numer- ous rats. But how to account for the groans? I went from room to room. All Was still. ‘Then I opened the door of the. room in which my child died. Instantly I heard a deep, sharp groan. The people about. the door heard it, and called out in fear. The room was perfectly bare, but the groans and moans repeated them- selves, now 10w, now shrill. With difficulty I persuaded neighbors to come in. I disple the "haunt," and then I pulled down, and the groans ceased ever. I went to the chimney and tore away the fire-board. Looking up t'm fine, I discovered a shingle which had lodged halfâ€"way down and which swung back and forward, now almost closing the chimney, now presenting its edge to the draft. Here was the ghost. large, three-story humnng, _ lighted and ventilated, and in n thickly settled neighborhood, the last house one would have connected with the idea of ghosts. The neigh- bnrs, however, were much excitei. They heard strange 'sounds proceed- ing from the closed rooms: groans and sighs and unearthly Waiis. Some who had ventured to listen at the doors told of the patter of little feet on the bare floors. “All is not right there," they said. “Strange secrets lie withon those walls " I had In the house, if. I lost the good of ill-doln; connected Now and then a combination of strange, and appar comes to the worlc times such phenom always attributed power, and even many who retain 1 Experience and it demonstrated, hLWI always some I‘odso solution to such I Rev. John Todd h that principle, th( that town Rev. John Todd Tells of markable Case. ‘odd ography.” In the villagx as said to ht mo, threeâ€"s1 DEATH FROM BEE STINGS. LENDING NATI 'I‘EETHING WITHOUT TEA RS LAYING- A GHOST. 1nd thc 3011 the last Ono to occupy and just before I had lezt a litLlc boy. Of course people did not suspect me g', but in some way they the noises with the death This made me more anx- ezu- up the mystery. I got the keys of the made known my determin- retain the and invm Kl, hLWOVUr stood haunt 1d mysl Iad 1 circumstance or circumstances. ently inexplicable, ,‘s notice. In olden ena were almost to a supex-naLural toâ€"day there are IE A HAND fear of ghosts. (igation have , that there is 10 and natural )ildi It ;. If the worked on a. Re- ed at almost any time. The soil should be kept perfectly dry. Do not water potted plants too frequent ly. It is best to wait until the plant shows that it requires water, then give it a good dousing in the bathâ€" tub. A plant with its roots con- stantly in mud cannot thrive. If hothouse plants are .watered once a. week with Water in which there is a. little ammonia they will thrive Well. Sometimes small white worms are found in the earth. Ammonia. or limeâ€"water will kill them. Stir 1p Thaw? rawng fierts of Sold only in sealed lead packets, 40;, 50c, 60c. lb Ceylon Tea makes it the most satis- factory Tea in the world to use. BlacK, mixed or green. stale?‘ ' good fisl Yis, but mum m, I (10 not h in th' sax in your iver wuz ai n’t th’ air Miss Wecrie~What a pretty watch fob you are wearing. May I see it? Mr. Stoplatoâ€"Certaiuly; here it is. Miss Weerloâ€"Oh, and such a. beau- tiful watch! So charmingly engrav‘ ed. andâ€"dear me, if it isn't 12 o'clock! Just look! I'd never have thought. it was so dreadfully late, would you? the soil, to expose as many as pos- sible, before pouring it on. marryin bait gettin’ atrifle HER METHOD ht There are By all Grocers