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fHWWWkfiflW Fried Chickenâ€"Joint the chicken in the usual way. salt. peper, and roll each peace carefully in flour. lnto a healed frying pan put a large spoonful ol lard and the same of butter. In this lay each piece of chicken, cover with a lid and try for thirty minutes. tumlng each often and trying a golden brown. it must be carefully watched, and when cooked is perfect. Nut Croquets.â€"-Grind in meat-chop- per twenty-four blanched almonds. one cup pecan mentst one-quarter onion,end several sprigs of parsley: and an equal quantity of cold boiled rice. one-quarter teaspoonful salt. one sallspoonful of pepper. and one egg. Mix thoroughly. form in croquels. roll in shredded wheat biscuit crumbs. and fry in deep fat. Hygenlc Cookies. -â€" One cup sugar, three-fourths cup of butter. two eggs. well beaten, one teaspoonful- cinnamon, one level teespoont‘ul of soda dissolved in a little hot water. one cup chopped raisins, one and oneâ€"half cups flour. one and one-half cups oatmeal. Add salt and vanilla at discretion. Roll them. Bake until light brown, or about three minâ€" utes in hot oven. § . +++++++++++++++++ Caraway and Coriander Seed Cakes. â€"â€"Beat the yolks of three eggs until light with a tahlospoonful of cold water; this insures their whipping up frothy as the whites. Aadd the grated rind of a lemon and beat in gradually two oupfuls of sugar, and two and one-half cupluls {If flour, sifted with a little salt and a tea- spoonful of baking-powder. Stir in the flour gradually. making the dough just stilt enough to roll out nicely an eighth of an inch thick. Set away in a cool place for a couple of hours to chill. then roll a small piece at a time. With a very fine sieve. dust over with flour and press a wooden mold down hard, to imprint all the different designs, each one separate in its little square. There usually are a dozen different designs in n mold. Cut. out these small squares with a knife. and set aside on a board. slightly floured. to remain over night: in the morning transfer to shallow bak- ing tins. Butter the tons with melted butter and Sprinkle with anise seed. After the rakes come from the oven brush them over with the white of an egg and sprinkle with sugar-coated caruway or coriander seeds. Heart‘s Delight Cookiesâ€"Cream a cun- t‘ut of butter with two cupfuls of sugar. add a little 0! the grated rind and the juice of a lemon. Beat three egs light and mix with the creamed sugar and butter. Sift. n tonspnonfut of cinnamon and a tensnoontul of baking powder in with three bunfuts of flour. Roll out to a thin sheet and cut. out with onnkv- cutters. Rake on tin sheets. Reinrc placing in the oven brush over with the white of an ear: beaten with a teaspoon- ful of milk. Then sprinkle with a mix- ture of chopped nuts, sugar and cinna- Impoverished soil, like impov- erished blood, needs a. proper fertilizer. A chemist by analyz- ing the soil can tell you what fertilizer to use for different products. If your blood is impoverished your doctor will tell you what you need to fertilize it and give it the rich, red corpuscles that arelacking in it. It may be you need a tonic, but more likely you need a. concentrated fat food, and {at is the element lacking in your system. IEWEHSM Si! Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil There is no fat food that is so easily digested and assimi- lated as 5 It will nourish and strengthen the body when milk and cream fail to do it. Scott’s Emulsion is always the same; always palatable and always beneficial where the body is wasting from any cause, either in children or adults. About the House i We VII! and you n ample free. SELECI‘ ED RECIPES. Be sure that this pic- ture in the form of a label is on the wrapper of every bottle of Emul- sion you buy. SGflTT & BMW CHEMISTS Toronto. 0111. 500. and $1.00. All Druggists. mon. pressing a raisin in the centre 0! each delicate little round. Ginger-Nut Wafers. â€" To a haU-cupful each of brown sugar and molasses add a quarter of a cupful each of lord and butter. Heat over the fire to boiling point. Remove and add three cupfuls of flour, sifted with n teaspoonful each of ginger and cinnamon, hall a teaspoon- ful of cloves or mace, and a third of a teaspoonful of soda. Mix the ingredi- ents well and set away over night in a cool place. In the morning roll out the dough until it is a quarter of inoh in thickness and sprinkle with Choppud English walnut meats. Cut into strips an inch wide and bake on sheet tins in a moderate oven. I Circus Ringsâ€"With the cake mixture just described and a quantity of animal crackers many fascinating combina- ting combinations are possible that will remind the children of the circus. Cut the thinly-rolled dough into a large. cocky with a coffee cup. then into a circle by cutting out the centre with another size cup that will leave a ring a little less than an inch wide. The rings being just large enough for the cracker ani- mal to show. as it stands within the circle. Use all the animals in the "zoo." as lions. elephants. monkeys. dogS, cats and the like. A vine. flower, or scroll design in white icing will serve to ornament the rings. and where the animal should have stripes or spots.ns the tiger. zebra, and leopard. use White or chocolate icing. These “circus rings" should be at each plate as souvenirs. Nothing gives a more untidy look to the room than window shades out of order. Unevenly hung. ragged at the edges. soiled or discolored. they make it discordant note in the room which no amount of care in other things can get into tune. The little art which is neces- sary to adjust these furnishings, it is well worth any housekeeper's while to master. Here is what a salesman in a department store. who handles quanti- ties of shades. had to say on the sub- ject: n “Many patent articles are made with directions for renewing them attached. Take yours of! the rollers, and you will probably find the printed ‘Just how' glued on the rollers. ' “Shades usually need overhauling at least once a‘ year. The fall is a good time, when the house is reopened and remmished for winter. Repairs may be needed in any one of the several ways. The goodse may have ripped at the side casings. or there may be signs of wear, making it necessary to reverse the whole shade. or course. to readjust a. shade necessi- tates sacrificing a fraction of its iength. but this is unavoidable. Frst cut away the lower hem, and take out the stick around which it is cased. Nnroii the shade and be sure in taking out the lit- ,tie nails which fasten it to the roller. that these are carefully iaid away for future reference. Now turn the curtain bottom side up. Rule off a straight line and by this turn up a hem deep enough in cover the stick. Use the sewing ma- chine to sew this horn. If the cord for raising or lowering the shade is fasten- ed to a ring, this iast must be taken out. it is often a screw attachment. When the rod has been passed through the new hem. carefully read the direc- tions to learn how, to attach it properly lu the roller. Be sure that the top of lhe shade is in plumb. It may be. nec- essary to use a foot rule to make sure. II must be perfectly straight and more- over at right, angles with the sides. It you neglect this you wlll have a lopsid- ed shade that will work badly. The trick some people have of pulling down a blind to cnver an onen window is responsible for many of the disorders in window curiains. The moisture dic‘ colors them. and the knocking about they receive in the wind also means breakage. _ For ordinary shades stained wilh grease n 'little French chalk of fuller-’5 earth laid on long enough to absorb iha grease and then brushed off is frequently successful. Apples quartered and cored make a more dehcious pie than when sliced. Spin and butter thick biscufls’ before toasting tor the table. It a sugary crust. is desired on merin< gue. sift powdered sugar over it before [I is placed in the oven. and have the latter cool. To have fried oysters crisp. tender, and plump, they should be breaded, then dipped in beaten egg, and again rolled in crumbs. After this allow them (0 stand at least an hour before trying. Drain oysters on a napkin before mulc- ing a slew. Rub the saucepan with butter. heal very hot, put in the oysters, and turn and stir unlll well plumped and ruined before making the slew proper. If an egg poucher is lacking. cook "n av ordinary frying pan. and shape each egg with a round biscuit cutter before serving. Keep a fry-pan expressly (or omeleLq. Dlp Hamburg steaks in melted butter before broiling. Spread 0. properly shaped piece of manila paper on a. warm platter under tried fish. Drain fried bacon on m [he minute. it is done, and oven five minutes to crisp iL Squeeze a few drops ‘of on broiled fish or ham just ing. It is the general opin be opposite a window open that. window for But that is just the Wil placed for being openm surers a perfect renewu msin LITTLE NICETIES 1N COOKING, T0 ADJUST SHADES HOUSEHOLD nights window HINTS 1y smilu paper stand in the lcmon juice before serv- lil‘ arcs )OI‘ One of the finest conservatories in the world is owned by the Duke of Con- naught at Bugshot Park, Englnnd. The interior represents a gorgeous tropical scene. in which ferns. palms, orchids. and other exotics flourish in luxurious profusion. watered by miniature cus- cades. fountains and dripping wells. At one end is a stnlnetite cavern, which, by an arrangement of mirrors. appears for larger than it really is. Along the floor of this cavern flows {1 rather deep stream, beneath which are concealed a, number of colored electric lamps, =0 that at night numerous little pools in the dark recesses appear to glow with a mysterious latent tire. This conserva- tory was designed by an eminent London firm and cost $15,000. Mean Aching Backs and Sharp Stabbing rains That Make Lila Almost linen- An aching, breaking buck, sharp slabs of painâ€"that is kidney trouble. The kidneys are really a spongy litter-o hu- man filter to hike poison from the blood. But sick, weak kidneys cannot filter the blood properly . The delicate human [liters get clogged with iinpuri< ties, and the poison is left in the system t) cause backaches. headaches. rheu- matism, dropsy and fatal inilamuiion. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are the one sure cure [or sick kidneys. They make new. rich blood, which flushes them clean and gives them strength for their work. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills set the kidneys right. and make lame, aching backs strong and well. Mr. George Johnson. of the village of Ohio. N. 8.. says:â€" “My son, now eighteen years old. sui- fered from kidney trouble and severe pains in the back, which caused him many a sleepless night. We tried sev- eral medicines, but they did not help him. and he grew so weak that he could not do the work that falls to the lot mi 11 young boy on a term. We were ad- vised to try Dr. Willinms' Pink Pills, and this was the first medicine that reached the cause of the trouble. He took the pills for a couple of months, when every symptom of the trouble was gone, and he was as healthy as any boy of his age. I am satisfied Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills will cure kidney‘trou- Die in its most severe forms." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills actually make new rich blood. In that way they strike at the root of anaemia, indiges- tion, kidney trouble, liver complaint, erysipelas, skin disease, neuralgia. St. Vitus dance, and the special ailments of growing girls and women whose health depends upon the richness and regular- ity of their blood. The genuine pills have the full name. “Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills [or Pale People." on the wrapper around each box, and may be had from all dealers or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 by writing the Bat Wiltiams' Medicine C0,. Broclcville. n . The use of salt. as a necessary supple- ment to diet has had much influence in shaping the civilization and exploration of the world. It is most probable that lhe oldest trade routes were created for the salt traffic. as salt and incense form- m' the chief necessaries of the ancient dayse. This was certainly the case with the caravan routes in Libya and the Sahara‘ whilst the mines of North in- dia were the cenere o! a large trade before the time of Alexander. Another interesting fact is that salt has pluyw a. considerable part in the distribution of man. When it became absolutely necessary for him, as it dirl at an early stage of his development. he was forced to migrate to places where it could be obtained. This brought him to the seashore, where he gained his ideas of maritime commerce. Lastly, the preser- vative effects of salt on flesh food mm.- iong oceanic voyage possible, and thus opened up the world to commerce and civilization. Little tongues that cannot talk tell mothers just as plainly that their own- ers are not. well. When Baby's tongue Ls white. or coated, or yellow. especial- 13 toward the root, it is a Sign of stem. och trouble, lndigesllon. cold or (ever- lshness. Baby's Own Tablets act like magic in curing these and the other minor ills of babyhood and childhood. 'l'hoy as good for the new-born baby as (or the well-grown child. Absolutely safe and absolutely harmless. Mrs. f) ln. Kerr, Elgin, Ont. sayszâ€"“Baby's Own Tablets are the best medicine I have ever used for stomach and bowel trou- lzles and destroying worms. 1 could hardly feel sale without the Tablets in the house." Sold by all medicine deal- ers. or by mail, at 25 cents a box. by writing the Dr. Williams' Mcdiclne Co , Brockvllle, Ont. durable. REMABKABIE CONSERVATORY. BABY‘S TONGUE TELLS. mes SALT THE CIVILIZER. went SICK KIDNEYS. Le a: com a noted phy his health. ldrcssed the .ll' Lloosi :\n_vlhin [anners nian to In pom. are Instinctivrly people think of speed in the iirnt and most interesting: feature of the railroad, and in view of the develop- ment; of railroads in the United Status most Americans will be surprised to learn that this country is not first in the Limitth of last trains. says the New York Sun. England‘holds the load and France is a close second. In this statement reference is made not to the short bursts of speed which this or that engine has shown and may never show again, but to the regular schedulei runs of trains. In looking first at Eng- land one is apt to be surprised to find how many fast trains and long runs without stops are made their: daily. The fastest regular long distance run without stop in the world is on th: Great Western from London to Bristol. 118% miles in 1:20 minutes, or practical- ly sixty miles an hour. in order to drop pasengers at Bath :1 car is dropped from the train without stop. a time saving de- vice in operation on a number 01’ Euro- pean roads. though still unknown here. Ceylon Natural GREEN Tea. is daily Canvertln thousands of drlnkers of the artlfi ‘ g teas of Japan. clally colored BRITISH TRAENS FIRST The Absolute Purity Germany Comes Fourthâ€"«1m sh Roads Remarkable for Long Runs. AMERICANS ONLY THIRD F0“ RA". ROAD SPEED. The longest run without stop made in any country is London to Liverpool on the London and Northwestern, 201 miles, made at the rate of The next longest is on the Midland, from London to Leeds. 196 miles, at the rate or fifty-two miles an hour. The train in this country coming near- est to these long runs without a stop is the Empire State Express on the New York Central, from New York to Albany; 143 miles. at the rate of 53 64-100 miles an hour; and the time of the same train to Buffalo, 440 miles in 500 minutes. iq just a trifle faster than that of the MM- land Express from London to Glasgow, 44’? miles in 510 minutes. Each makes four regular stops. The Northwestern runs a train from London to Glasgow. 401}; miles. in eight hours, making only two stops. The Great Northern runs a it‘an from London to Doncnstei‘. 156 miles, with- out stop, in 160 minutes. at the rate of 55%, miles an hour, and the Great Cen- tral train runs over England's new mud, from London to Slieflield, 165 miles, in 170 minutes, better than 58 miles an hour, slipping a car at Leicester without stop. These fast and long runs are common to all the. trunk lines in England, while. in the United States the fast runs are all confined to two roads, the New York Central and the Pennsylvania. Com- pared to many English fast runs the time between New York and Washingâ€" ton and Boston is slow. The distance from the two cities to New York is about the same. and in both cases the fastest trains make it in five hours (or a little over. now. to Boston). at the rate of 46 miles an hour, three stops being made in each case. For runs of nearly 1,000 miles no country can Show trains to compare wilh the New .York and Chicago trains, 0n" the New York Central, the best, trains making the 980 miles in 1.080 minutes. or at 54 miles an hour. While this is not quite so fast as the time made by the Inst trains from Paris to Lyons and Marseilles the distance is twice as great us across Manon. Coming to short runs and special summer lmlns. undoubtedly the fastest are from (Zmndcn to Atlantic City. [lei-e some very last. lime has been made over an ideal country for fast time; by both the Reading and the Pennsylvania. The reading has set the pace and 1118 Penn- sylvania followed. The best Reading time is 56% miles in 50 minutes. or u; miles an hour. while the best Pensyl- vunia time is 59 miles at the rate of SIXTY-FOUR MILES AN HOUR. These constitute all the fast regular trains in the United States. The fastest run in New England outside the Boston New York run is from Boston to Port- land at the rate of M miles an hour. and the showing is still poore1 in the West and South. Chicago, in many respects, the greatest railroad centre in the world. has no fast trains outside the New York Central and the Pennsylvania trains m- [crred to. 'l‘hrughout the trains are vely most up to date are all short, av between stations averages 40 mile the South there ‘ FIFTYâ€"FOUR MILES AN HOUR. South there are n fess trains other ' York city or Ch *isL travel at cert; lEAD PACKETS CNLY. lort, averaging about 30 miles lations and the speed nowhcw 40 miles an hour. Throughmx‘ West. while the best luxurious. perhaps the in the world. the runs e no really her than tl ETs (ENLY. 400, 500. and 600 lb. HIGHEST AWARD ST. was. 1994. 11 Irry It would probably surprise New York- ers to know that the South Terminal in Boston not only is the lmgest station in the world but sends- out daily more than /.00 trains. nearly twice the number dosputched from the Grnntl Central Sta- tion by the three mst starting from there. The next largest number sent from any station in this country is about 350 from the Boston and Maine terminal in Boston. and the next about 325 from the Broad Street Station, Phil- adelphia. Then come the Grand Cen- tral Station, New York. and the Read- ing Terminal. Philadelphia. But these figures do not equal those 0! the great London terminal. There one station sends out nounced difference appears in different countries with almost equal population. Why should the people of one region crowd hundreds of trains daily and thoaa of another region be satisfied with only two or three trains? 'l‘hus more trains leave the Great South Terminal in Bos- ton in one day than are mOVOd in one direction on all the roads of Spain and two or three trains? Thus more trains leave the Great South Terminal in Bos- ton in one day than are moved in one direction on all the roads of Spain and Portugal in two weeks. From one ter- minal in London more trains leave daily than move in ten days to supply 125,000,000 people of all Russia, in 125,000,000 people Europe and Asia. It would probably the greatest number from any one sta- tion in the world. and all of the twelve great terminals send out large numbers of trains, as the suburban travel is great. and the trains often smaller than in America. Including all suburban trnlns such as those of the Staten Island road, which is still operated with steam, and figuring on u mean average of winter and sum- mer, the regular scheduled trains leave the four great centres in the following numbers daily. the figures being for all roads and approximately correct: New York city. 1,400; Boston, 1,000; Phila- delphia. 850; Chicago, 850. No other American city has 400. As might be expected the roadbed and the operating equipment are better in England and some parts of France and Germany than in America, and owing to the ever prevailing precautions taken both by the roads and the State accidents are only about one-fifth as frequent as in America. All the principal roads in England have two tracks and many main lines have four. In this respect Americans are making great improvements now. as the Pennsyi- vania is four tracked from New Yerk ‘n Pittsburg and the New Haven and the New York Central is three tracked part or the way to Albany, and four trucked from [here to Buffalo. Turning to Europe outside of England it is found that France alone indulges In really fast trains. and pOSsibly she is [list in the number of trains running regularly above [lily miles an hour of all the great nations. The greatest travel route in all Europ‘e out of England LI from Paris south to Lyons, Marseilles and the Mediterranean. and here are found fine and fast. trains. The run from I‘m-is lo Marseilles, 585 miles. is made in 750 minutes, with only six stops. Many of the shorter runs. such as from Paris to Calais, to the Bel- gian frontier, etc. are at the rate 0! from fiflyâ€"eighl. to sixty-two miles an hour for the regular schedule. According to a German unthmity the average speed of the fastest trains In Europe is as follows: French, fittymght miles an hour: English, fifty-flu) miles an hour: and German. fifty-one, but fast trains are HARD TO FiND IN GERMANY, and the service in this respect does nob compare with France. It takes the fastest, train 227 minute: to go from Berlin to Hamburg. 178 miles, which is my, miles an hour, and the “luxe” (rain, the one fast goer. be- tween Munich and Vienna. runs at only 45.60 miles an hour; bul. lhere are as a rule frequent. trains throughout. Ger- many and the service is good. For all the rest of Europe the speer. drops to about. 30 miles an hour for ex- pross trains. Italy is surprisingly slow. It takes the express 965 minutes to go from Turin to Home. 418 miles, or only 26 miles an hour. though the Milan- Romc express makes nearly 40 miles an hour. Between Rome and Naples. 155 miles, there are only four or five trains daily. the fastest at 34 miles an hour, while it takes 920 minutes to go 439 miles on the best train from Rome to Brindisi, a rule of loss than-30 miles nu hour. The express from Stockholm to Goth- enborg, the two large cities of Sweden, barely makes 30 miles an hour, and other European countries are still worse. On the English trains third class din- ing cars are now run in which the same meals are served as in the first class coaches, but at considerably lower rates and the high back seats give a privacy greatly appreciated by small parties OS iis 700 TRAINS DAILY, small Llner. sen [11