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ma Favorite Recipes. -,‘ Sponge Layer Cakeâ€"Cream toâ€" gather, one’ level tablespoon of but- iter and a cup of powdered sugar. {When those two are beaten till the Almixture is of a. feathery lightness, I .add four eggs which have been beatâ€" ‘en at least three minutes.;..Beat'a,ll :-together until the mixture is per- nlfectly smooth. Sift one level cup? of i'flour, into which one slightly heap- ‘ed teaspoon of baking, powder has been sifted, and gradually stir into the above mixture. Bake in two layers” being careful not to put *more of the batter in the centre of lthe pan than around the edge, 01‘ ybhe cake will not be level. This cake requires about fifteen minutes lin a rather quick oven. When cool, i remove from the pans and put the {following filling between and on itop: Two tablespoons of sweet cream, three-fourths of a cup 0f powdered sugar, and two table- spoons of unsweetened chocolate, gwhich has been melted. Mix the cream and sugar until there are no :lumps, add the melted chocolate land a halfâ€"teaspoon of vanilla. It ' fis xbetter eaten when it is perfectly 'cold, for then it cuts better. pr Mother’s Chewohow.â€"â€"Four and Zone-half quarts of green cucumbers, tor cucumber pickles may be used, Lmedium sized ones, four and oneâ€" ihalf quarts celery or celery seed, ;two and one-half quarts green to- }matoes, four and one-half quarts ired tomatoes, not too. ripe, five 'tquarts cabbage. Broil in salted wa- iter till perfectly tender but not too isoit, then drain well. Dressing.â€" One gallon and three pints of vine- Egar. Take two cups of sugar, two ; ups of flour, one ounce of turmerâ€" I,',o, and one-faurth pound of ground l‘mu'stard. Put in a vessel and mix all together thoroughly until there are no lumps left, then gradually "add part of the vinegar until you have a thick, smooth paste; thin still more with the vinegar. Pour this, with the rest of the vinegar, over the vegetables. Cook until dressing thickens, stirring constant- ly to keep from sticking. This makes Quite a. good deal, although the vegetables boil down some. Make in a granite or porcelain vessel; tin or brass is poisonous with the vineâ€" gar. This is delicious served with "either cold or hot ’meats, and this quantity will last throughthe whole winter season, : Chicken Pie.-â€"-One cupful flour, One teaspoon baking powder one ta-blespoonigl lard, one-halé tea- oonful salt. Ruib this "together, 17‘ en moisten with one. egg and one- half cupfuvl milk. This will be a bat- ter. Take left over stewed chick- en and cut up fine and heat in the navy. Then pour this batter over t and bake in moderate oven for about one-half hour. Pork Tenderloin Bakedâ€"Split rk tenderloins almost through. ke a stufiing as for fowl, using fine crumbs, a seasoning of salt, pepper, a little thyme and gratevdl onion; two tablespoons of butter or pork fat {or each cup of stuflin‘g. Spread a. thick layer of this over one of the Opened loins, cover with the second loin, tie together in three or four places. Roast in a quick oven, basting often. This is equally good when cold to serve in thin slices. Cooking 3. C‘hicken.-â€"Prepare a food fat hen as you would for bak- ng and cut the. skin under the wings and .put in some pieces of bla- _con and rub a little salt inside. Steam over. three pints of water in which has been placed a medium sized onion and two, or three sticks of celery. Steam until the chicken is tender,‘ filling in hot water if the fowl requires a. good deal of cook- ing. Cut up dry bread for dressing and moisten with some of the broth after you have strained it. Add salt and pepper and a little sage. Stuff Your chicken and .add a, little of the lit-0th and brown it nicely. Set aside some of this broth to cool, re- move the grease, reheat, and add salt and pepper, and serve in bou- illon cups with wafers. frDe'licate colors shouid be dried in the house, or at least in the shade. 1 Alum .--in the rinsing water will Corn Mufiins.â€"-«Sift together threeâ€"quarters cup cornmeal, one and one-half cups flour, three table- spoons sugar, three teaspoons bak- ing powder, and a pinch of salt. {Add two well beaten eggs to which has been added one cup sweet milk. The 13.3%; thing add butter (melted not hot) the size of an egg. Bead; about five minutes. Bake in muifin panIS'in a quick oven about twenty minutes. This makes one dozen. Rouge powder is the best cleaner {or wrto'ise rshellerqqmenfis.‘ Homo Hints. prgyent greenâ€"colored dresses from V_VAii'Uand sunfshine are beneficial to the hair, but extreme heat will fade and burn it. fading. dréése spots may be removed from gowns and draperies with the help of French chfalk. _ 1 __-7r , A mixture of rainwater, lavender and benzom Is an excellent remedy for a sunburned skin. "findâ€"Le rifigg of) a curtain pole stick when you draw the curtains, rub the p‘01e§ Wipl} paraffin: w The‘ haii'r always be brush- ed out and left free at night, that the air may cig‘cruilatez WIE‘Iosiery ighoruidflbe pinned to the clothesline by the open end of the stocking instead of the toe. Printed linen c'hintzes, so muCh liked for the summer-house, may be washed indefinitel . ‘ The fashionable wifes with raised dots or figures should always be ironed on the wrong side. CANADA’S SOLE SURVIVING FATHER 0F CONFEDERATION. In measuring a room for wall- paper, remember to allow for a great deal of waste if the pattern is a, large one. -' v A solution of orange shellac and alcohol applied to the heels of ‘white shoes will leave them with a satiny finish. All summer dresses should either be ironed till dry, or thoroughly aired aft-er ironing, if you would avoid creases. Net collars and colored embroidv ery should be washed in soapy waâ€" ter and rinsed first in warm water, then in cold. The latter should have 2’1 libti; vsfiailtrar and vinegar added to set the color. Pure chloroform will remove; paint, grease and other stains from colored garments. Put cl-e-an blot- ting paper under the spot and pour the chloroformâ€"4% few dropsâ€"0n it, in the open air. If .a, book gets grease spots on its leaves, they can be removed by dip- ping }; camelshair brush in recti- fied spirits of turpentine and moist- enling the spot. When the latter is dry, moisten it with spirits of wine, and the turpentine _will disappear. When making a, baked custard, add two tablespoonfuls of bread- crumbs. Delicious with stewed fruit. When making a boiled cus- tard, add a, spoonful of corn flour, mixed with a, little cold milk, and boil in the usual way. This just thickens it and prevents burning. A. good summer dessert is made by lining a pudding dish with sponge cake and filling the dish with stewed fruit. Put more sponge on the top, press till cold and coat the whole with boiled custard. _ To make green pea puree, boil good grean peas in light stock with two or three young onions and a sprig of mint. When cooked, drain and rub thmugh a cheesecloth. Mix with a very _1itb1e t_hick white s-auca. In preparing salads, the lettuce, endive, etc., should be perfectly cleansed, but not left in the water. Dry them by tossing in a napkin, and do not prepare with dressing, eta, till the last moment before serving. 7 . c One of the best ways to keep the eyes clear and healthy is to give them a bath night and" morning in a, salt solution, using a level tea- spoonful of salt to a pint of boiled Sif Charles Tapper. "Salad jellies are an excellent way Vto utilize all sorts of’ leftâ€"overs. I Sometimes the foundation jelly may be made with the water vegetables have been boiled in, combined in lbhe usual way with gelatine. All ‘ such jellies sheuld be sliced with a i warm knife. water. Let the salt settle and use the solution with an eyeâ€"c_1_1p.r A cooling lotion for sunburn and freckles is made with six ounces rosewater and two drachms of tinc- ture of benzoin. Delightful scent bags or pillows may be made with any dry, frag- rant, leaves of flowersâ€"geranium leaves, rose petals, heliotrope, Iem- on verbenas. Tie in bags of gauze, or make pillows of gauze. Table jellies nuxed are delicious â€"«pineapple and raspberry, or lemâ€" on and cherry, according to tests. A jelly added to stewed firuit im- proves it and thickens the s rup. Sufficient may be added to malw a, mold and turn out to serve with cream or custard. A substitute for egg is made by preparing‘a thick paste of flour and water, then dip the fish or outlet to be fried into batter, and sprinkle with breadcrumbs. You will find this answers well, giving a beauti- ful brown appearance and preserv- ing the delicate flavor. “It’s never too late to learn” is a variation of a maxim that Mme. Ortinans has apparently made her own. Mme. Orinans lives in Liege, she is a Widow 71 years old, and she has just begun to go toâ€"~school. D'id Frenchwoman With Thirst For News of Crimes. Madame wanted to learn to read newspapers with the particular obâ€" ject, she says, of reading reports of crimes and accidents. Her daughter used to read the news to her, but the daughter got married. So, on the advice of a neighbor, she went to the Adults’ Commercial School at Liege, that the world’s news and the police court news might not be a. closed book to her. The result, was surprising. In a few weeks madame made such good progress that she can now read newspapers almost with ease, and, further, she was invited to attend the annual prize distribution beâ€" cause she had made sfich good pro- gress that ehe had won a. prize. When called upon, Mme. Ortin- ans was poring over a copy of “Vic- tor Hugo’s Letter to His Friends.” She confessed «that she found the book very uninfierésting. “I much prefer reading about a, murder or an accident in the news- papers,” she added. “I also find the advertisements in the streets very interesting. Before I went to school I often wondered what they were all about, now I read them all.” He-the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. Don’t for- get that. Sheâ€"Then you come‘in and rule the world awhile. I’m tired. LEARNED TO READ AT 71. | IHE mm Rivwl On his return from England. Sir Ed- mund Walker, president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce. expresses himself very hopefully on the money situation, and in an interview stated that there was no need of anxiety among reputable Cana- dian business men engaged in ordinary busipees yentuxjep of & ecungi‘nataure. "AWAJ- n uuuluwn vcuuuovn w .. new... . "There is nothing wrong with Canada," said Sir Edmund. “The whole trouble is with the world-supply of money. The pro- duction of gold has increased, but not sufficiently to keep up with the world- wide prosperity of the last few years, and the tightness in the money market is due mainly to this cause. though. of course the war in the Balkans has also helped by diverting money from commercial chan- nels. The only reason why Canada has been singled out for criticism," went on Sir Edmund, “is that she is the most pro- minent borrower, and therefore attracts most of the attention when capitalists bo- vin to discriminate in making their loans. ‘ Canadian credit. is not in the least injur‘ ed. and interest in Canadian investments has not flagged. but, investors in England are obliged to discriminate more care- fully and to charge a. higher rate." WIdow of Slr John A. Maodonald. Baroness Maodona’ld of Earnsclifle‘ is the only Canadian woman. almost the only British woman who holds a title in her own right. The Baroness is the widow of Sir John A. Maedonald, and was creat- ed a ‘peeress in 1891, on the death of her husband. in consideration of his public services. She was a Miss Bernard, daugh- ter of the late Hon. '1‘. 0. Bernard, of Ja- maica. Her marriage to the Canadian statesman took place in 1867. the year of con-federation, Lady ' Maodonald makes herhome‘ in, England, but’oontinues to take an interest in things Canadian,<al- though she has reached the ’age of seven- ty-seven. A woman of intellectual power. Lady Macdonald in earlier years did a service to Canada by writing for the Eu!- lish press of the resources of the oountrY- How many Canadians knew that the' fam- ous states-man’s wife was still living? Temperance and Insanity. One of the speakers at the medi a1 con- gress now in session in London (1 cussed the remarkable growth of the temperance movement in Great Britain. He referred to the improved habits of army and navy oflicers. who are now expected to set a good example to the men under them. as well as to the enormous change among the commercial and professional-onstage. Other observers, including the chun- cellor of the 'exchequer, have been calling attention to the same gratifying phe- nomena, and the average man, without so much as a glance at, statistics, knows the statements regarding the spread of tem- perance to be true. It is undeniable, moreover, that the progress of temperance is'dnot confined to England. It, is world- WI 6. Now intemperanoe is a potent cause of insanity, and there should be observable everywhere 3. decrease of insanity as one of the results of the radual elimination of the drink evil. et, according to speakens at the medical congress. insanity is growing. and growing at an alarming rate. In England it has increased 276 per cent. since 1860, although the population has increased only 87 per cent. Is the increase largely apparent rather than real, because of better registration and diagnosis. or is it actual? If actual, what, are its causes? Conditions of life have improyeti, and so have conditions of la.- . . nu, LL-x Jnuvvuy mu“ w “w”. vv..e.---~.__ u.” v_ , bor. Is it our modern pace that kills the minds of so many? Light is wanted. Th8 Peach-G rower's "0. When the city man gazes upon the carmine-tinted peaches in the fruit stores. ‘ his imagination conjures a. life of pleas- ure and ease in growing the luscious; fruit; The reality is not quite so prim-1 rosey, according to’one who has tried it. “The peach-grower’s life is a. life of anx- iety. He watches the clouds, he marks the winds, he studies the thermometer, as another man might the tape from a stock- ticker. He has ploughing to do and for tilizing. He must cut back the young trees and prune the older ones. There are insidiouu diseases he must treatâ€"yellows, twig blight, leaf curl. black spot. Insects dispute the possession of the orchardâ€" bark beetle. aphis. peach tree borer and an occasional stranger with an appetite for destruction quite as strong. The price of land in the peach growing district in- :dicates that the orchards pay. But there is one thing the peach grower will swear 1m by the deadliest oaths. This is that he earns his money. There are none who can readily dispute the fact.”~ canada WIII Exhibit. 1 As the Dominion Go'vernment has de- jcided to exhibit at the Panama. Pacific Ex- ‘position in San Francisco next summer it twill be hoped that a, really fine illustra- tion of Canada‘s resources and products ‘will be made. It is altogether a different 1thing for Great Britain to take part in ‘this exhibition. The United States and Canada run parallel for over 3,000 miles and yet there are vast diflerencea in their resources and possibilities which can only be gauged by a. close comparison. While it is unfortunately impossible to illus- trate Canada’s resourceful climate the products of that climate» may be seen, This will be a fine opportunity for the individual provinces to advertise their wares. Only a. man without compassion could help being sorry for the Governor of New York State, who has been impeached, and who may indeed be threatened with crim- inal proceedings for falsifying! the docu- ment in which he was required to account for the money spent in his election cam- pa‘ign. In the course of that campaign, while he was denouncing the corporations and pledging himself to the service of the peopleu he gppeairs to have been speculat- ,, Li fir-“ cum...» mH-k mnnnw ycvy‘v, “u rho“ ing privately in Wall Street with money that had been given him to be used in se. curing his own election and that of other 1 candidates of his party. Governor Sulzer has been something of a. demagogue, climbing to prominence as a champion of the "plain people,” and as the uncompromising enemy of privilege and graft. Since attaining oflice he has sincerely tried to carry out the promises he made in the course of his campaign, and the reason he earne the enmity oi Tammany Hall was that he did try. If he had continued to be a. mere shouter for reform, and at the same time an enemy of progress, he would not now find him- self at the end of his political career. He has been pursued and ruined not for his faults, but for his virtues. There is reas- on to believe that responsibility made a new man of Sulzer, that his solemn oath of oflioe drove him to break with his Tam- many partners, and eventually to defy them when they desired him to make im- proper appointments. No one should ex- ult in his downfall. least of all the people of the State of New York. who will have lost a. man who wrecked a brilliant car- eer, though in oiflce he tried to be true to the trust they had imposed in him. One may‘so'metimes guess how a young man will turn out by noting the time he turns in. ,. - Nothing Wrong With Canada. A Governor's Downfall. The Parents and Friends Arrange; the Match. ‘ The Coreans marry very youn-g,) generally between the ages oil twelve and fifteen. For a, woman to; reach twenty without marrying is“ considered a, terrible thing. A pe-l culiarity of these weddings it that they would appear to be a. matter) of personal interest to everyone‘ex-a cept the parties mostly eonlee‘rnedg,I who often ‘see one another for the first time on the wedding morning.‘ This is becauSe in a Corean house< hold the boys are kept apart from the girls, the father and sons 00- cupying the front of the house, and the mother and the daughters liv- ing in the rear of the establishment. 1Moreover, in their social life the ‘boys are not allowed to mix with the gentler sex. The parents and friends arrange the match, in ac- cordence with their own intereebsgf and; if both parties Vegree and the! bargain is concluded, theoformeli-i ties are of the simplest. There is no religious ceremony and no legal: contract. Ea'rly on the wedding morn the bestman arrives to tie the bride< groom’s pigtail in a knot on the top of his head, and this not only’ remains forever as an outward and visible sign of his condition, but one titles him to wear that for the first“ time in his life and to be treated as a man and enter public life. He may be a mere child, twelve years of‘age. but he has no longer any right to play with his boy friends," and must choose his associates among old men. He has now all civil rights and is expected to be‘, have accordingly. If, on the couf trary, a man i unable to afford the: luxury of a, home and a wife he’ may reach “the age of 50, but he must still wear his pig-tail down his back, has none of the advantages of citizenship and is expected to play with kites, marbles and such like. Any folly he may commit is’ excused in the same way as the naughtiness oi a child who is not responsible for his actions. ’ n.- The wedding ceremony ltself is most simple. The whole function consists of a procession, when the bride and bridegroom are conduct< ed by their respective relations to a dais. There they are put face to face, and probably, as‘ already stab ed, see each other for the first time. They merely glance at one another, then bow, and the knot is tied in~ Mark Twain at a dinner at the Authors’ Clu’b said: “Speaking of fresh eggs I am reminded of the town of Squash. In my early days I went to Squash to lecture in Tem-_ perance Hall, arriving in the after. noon. The town seemed poorly bill- ed. I thought I’d find out if the people knew anything at all about; what; was in store for them. So I turned in at the general store. ‘Good afibernoon,‘ friend,’ I said to the general storekeeper; ‘Any,en< tertainmen't here toâ€"night to help a. stranger while away the evening-'6’ The general storekeeper, who was sorting mackerel, straightened u‘v, wiped his rbrclny hands on his apron and said: ‘I expect there’s goin’ to be a lecture. I been selling eggs all day.’ ” dissolubly. What is a, young woman who re-. fuses you ’lâ€"Much too noâ€"ing. Why should a, teetotaler not have a wife rZâ€"â€"Beca.use he won’t sup- portpr._ on . .. a" , H.114 A»! u.uu-. 1’ Why is butter like a cowardly 301‘ dier â€"â€"’Because as soon as it is un-. der fire it rungaway; u GILLETT'S LYE EATS DIRT Why did William Tell ( ghudder when he shot the_ apple from his son’s head 7â€"-B-ecause*it was an ar~ row escape fqr his child. . Why are birds in spring like a.‘ banking establishmentfiâ€"Theyr 1,5. sue promissory notes, and rejoicu when the branches are: flourishing. COREAN MARRIAGES. V Wu um: wanna-run ammo»: 06W " w} , 1.1.8 m fdfiofi?b“6fi'f. Can You Gums? Prepared.