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1 Select, of course, the prettiest and firmest you can find, peel them careâ€" fully; take out the core, and scrape out as much of the inside as is pos- sible Without allowing your knife to burst through. In serving them, place each apple on a ted of watercress, lettuce leaves, grape leaves, nasturtiums, or other, daiu'y green thing. They may be‘ decorated, too, with red beets in fancy, shres. Many delicious salads may} be :.rved in these pretty apple cupsfl A bit of crisp cabbage or lettuce: ahes a good combination with the: pples and celery, and a few chopped uts are always a splendid addition. Different combinations of fruits" ay be used for variety, and a cream! ople, pour one and one-half table-j poonfulls of vinegar over one table-I oonful of granulated sugar, flavor, ith a little lemon and vanilla extract,i nd just before serving add three blespoonfuls of rich cream, either weet or sour. Mix the ingredients} our over the fruit or vegetable mix-' res, and toss lightly until well comâ€"E 'ngled. When vegetables are used. ey should be slightly seasoned with“ It and pepper. , To serve salad in cucumber boats, 1 oop out your cucumbers after cut-i‘I ng them in two lengthwise, and cut em in boat shape. Then refill with ur salad mixture. Take some wafers the shape of triangles and fasten 1 ' e three-cornered sails upright i the front of the canoe-shaped cu- mber, lay a wreath of greener-vb m 5 '3? A good little salad which the house- wife should have at her fingers’ ends is made of apples and celery chopped together and dressed with mayonnaise. This salad can be charmineg served in apples. A word about preparing your apples: , a a ....... J 'ound on the plate. For a very easdly preparred dish on e salad order, there could be nothing Lintier and more appetizing than hole tamatoes served with mayon- "V “0.. -uu.uu walb, the British. conquest, coming of the f‘ ited Empire Loyalists, the War of 1812, and pioneer life in Ontario, there is much to be draivn upon for paâ€" geants with a provincial appeal. Then nearly every locality has its own par- ticular history which is replete with local interest. A pageant written, di- rected and acted by home talent should furnish enough entertainment to keep a neighborhood busy almost a season. ,,.. .. l'n4AU \41 L. C work as one-act playlefs with a half dozen actors. Ontario. with its wealth of historical stories, all drip- ‘gping with dramatic interest, offers un- bounded material for pageants. Start- ing with the coming of the French and following with the many thrilling events of the French and Indian wars, the onnmmd nnwu:h~ 41.- u Of course, a suitable hall must be :found. If you have a consolidated school with an assembly room, this may be utilized. In lieu of either school or community house which is suitable, a town hall, or unused loft over a store, or even a barn, may be made to do, with the aid of an ingen- ious carpenter. Many manuals are published which give directions for building the stage, and on scenery and costumes, making; up, etc. Pageants, in which e‘fel‘vnnp nah More and more since the boys came back, country folk are coming to real-1 dze that if We keep the young folks‘ on the farm we must not only elimin- “ate a lot of the drudgery, but we must provide entertainment for them. The days when early to bed and early to rise. and all play and no work makes Jack a lazy boy, had power to move,’ .mlongsince passed. The cities with their dance halls and movies. or per-; haps their concerts and lecture course,’ areatoo easy to reach. Factories ancl_ stores offer to both boys and girls a means of earning a living easily, with severa/l hours of fun besides. So if’ the country is to hold its young- folks; it must hustle up and establish some way of catering to the pleasure-loving side of normal, healthy boys and girls. A form of entertainment which is growing more and more popular in country places is home talent theatri-ll cals. In communities where the idea has been worked out thoroughly the method of organizing has been to send out a questionnai1;e, asking those who will join to tell what they can test do. The volunteers are then divided into seen? painters, costume makers, or ‘ act rs, according to individual talent. To ‘Ic successful the Little Country The affair, with everybody and his wife working. A one~person show will noti work out. ‘ tre must be a real community . l . ( Start a Little Country Thent mart. are as one-r1 a wreath of greenery Tasty Salads. ’one make to fix table- table- flavor 5 However high a. bird may soar, it seeks its food on earth. ving Did you ever stop to think that for ‘1-15, about ten dollars you can purchase at I is any good hardware store some twenty- in five conveniences that will save you tri..lalmost as much labor and trouble as dea the more expensive improvements? the] You may have to wait for the furnace, It Mu§t Be. Young Husbandâ€"“It seems to me, my dear, that there is something wrong with this cake.” The Bride (smiling triumphantly)â€" "That shows What you know about it. The cookery book says it's perfectly doliclous.’ ' “I understand. But I mean to *be the best myself some day, and I want to know what I have to correct.” Mr. Copeland glanced at the card. “You are a little slow. Still, speed is not the first requisite. Your chief trouble seems to be your spelling." “I was afraid so. I’m a wretched speller. I’ve worked and worked at it, but evidently I’ll have to work “You understand, Miss Ellis,” he said, “that neither we nor anyone else would con§ider you a failure. You do good average work,â€"even above the average,â€"but naturally we are keep- ing the best.” “I'm one of the blue envelope girls, Mr. Copeland," she said. “I’ve come to ask you for a little help. I know of course that I am being dismissed because my work isn’t so good as that of the girls who afe staying. Would you mind telling me where I have failed? You see, I want to get some- thing out of this. I may be dismissed somewhere else, but I don’t intend that it shall be for the same thing.” Mr. Copeland’s keen eyes looked interested. He turned to his files and took out her rating card. She had to wait half an hour before she could see him. At the end of it she was facing Mr.Cope1and across his desk. Her eyes met his steadily. She even managed to smile. Others of the dismissed girls sputter- ed angrily. Of them all only Gertrude Ellis walked straight to Mr. Cope- land’s office. Worrk had never been serious. She only laughed at her dismissal and remark- ed that she should not let it worry her. Nellie Scott, who also lost her place, turned pale but s'aid nothing. Others of the dismissed girls sputter- Eight of the office girls were disâ€" missed. Florrie Evans went, of coulfse; Florrie’s attitude toward her or me comm it neverthele bolt. The Blue Envelope. Everyone knew that the vel‘opes were coming. Like of other firms, Copeland & doubled its business during and now saw it shrinking ag normal size. That meant t} employees could no longer The firm had given a montl Take for example the inexpensive dish drainer. It is estimated that a dish' drainer will save at least thirty minutes a day or a total for one year of over twenty working days of nine hours each. This is only one of a dozen or more simple, inexpensive conveniences that will give the work- er in the home a total of hours and hours of leisure. Think this over and make a few purchases the next time you go to town. néise. The tomatoes are dropped in hot water [to loosen the skifis, which are very carefully stripped off. Ar- range each tomato on a bed of green, pour a spoonful of dressing over it, and chill before serving. or the lighting plant or the wartVeVI: system but you need not wait for the little conveniences. ’ Would You Spend Ten Dollars? In cohsidering the matter of home conveniences, a common tendency is to think in terms of the hundreds of dollars that are necessary in order to buy the furnace, the lighting- plant, the water system or other fairly ex- pensive necessities. Every farm home is entitled to such modern conven- iences but they come only in time as the purchase money becomes‘availâ€" able. mm It, ye emed lil‘ ,gain to its th that many p1, r be kepthhv blue en- hundreds Co. had the War s not came nder- western half of t rant, and in 60 deg on the Antarctic ci seen these lands Sim landing a terrific storm sv from the land and drove hi; to the northward for 150 m he could regain control of h “In 1833 Kemp, with anot derby’s little ships, coming eastward, made the most passage yet accomplished western half of the Ende naval officers of high attainments as skippers for their ventures. “Between these two known quad- rants that of Enderby interposes a sec- tor of unprobed possibilities, for no vessel has yet succeeded in getting as far as the seventy-second parallel of latitude Within it. The great expedi- tions have for the most part passed it by. Cook, in his hunt for the tem- ‘porate southern continent that haunt- ed the minds of the theorists of his century, first crossed the circle at one point, and Belling‘shausen succeeded in crossing it at three points nearly fifty years later, but the great British, American and French expeditions of 1840 all kept far to the north. It was a field of fame for the small sealing vessels sent out in the ‘305 of the last century by the London firm of Enderâ€" by Brothers. romantic shipowners, who preferred geographical discovery to financial gain, and who secured ex- â€"the latter following in the faotsteps of Shackleton, who had come within 100 miles of the goal some years ear- lier, while in the Weddell (or Ameri~ can) Quadrant, on the west, Bruce, Filchner and Shackleton had traced new land to nearly 78 deg. S. the meri these he the mos “A11 oceanographica 000 miles in a ZOO-t1 fail to be as full of e discomfort, for ever; touched at is a focus terest to British saik science. from the vow “That the romance of exploration not dead is perhaps the most delig in] of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s (l Hcoveries, and the very programme his new expedition in the Quest aglow with the true fire which dro the explorers of old without the z of steam into the furthest and colde recesses of the ocean To any one w knows the difliculty of sighting a sm oceanic island. not to speak of t risks of landing upon it, the progra might seem extravagant. Sir Erne Shackleton has, however, spent twe ty years in the performance of almc impossihe programs, and those w? know him believe that he can occom lish this too. “An oceanographical cruise of 3 000 miles in a ZOO-ton craft cann Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Pro- posed Voyage of Discovery Attracts Keen Interest. ADVENTURES LURE EX- PLORERS OF TOâ€"DAY. Dr. H 'imes ays 011 nographical cruise [1 a ZOO-ton craft ; full of exciteme1 for every island 5 a focus of his ‘itish sailors and 1 the voyage of ti Mill, writing Shackleton u wun Halt ms crew hted black cliffs and through the snow in Ince. The ( r island to be of historic in- ms and 'men of ‘ge of the Para- .stronomer Hal- :entury, through in the I ‘peak of the the program Sir Ernest spent twen- 9 London dventure. of 30,- cannot 1t as of to be me who ,1 small ne of rove aid dest dis 1D in 1874, like the Pagoda, in 18 a gallant push into the unkn‘ retired in a. sorely battered co “The Quest is a tough littl activity necessitates amount of exercise place of organized e companies inquiring into this .matter on issuing policies. One reason why strenuous exercise is inadvisable after youth has passed, is on account of the blood pressure in- creasing as the years go by. That the kind of exercise one takes in mid- dle life is of importance from a health standpoint is shown by insurance However ,physi‘oally fit the best athletes may appear, they seldom show their best form after thirty. Very few of the players in the major leagues of baseball are over thirty years of age, the most notable excep- tion, however, being Ty Cobb, the fa- mous Detroit outfielder. In pugilistic circles Jack Joh-snson retained the world’s championship when over thirty, but such men as these are the exception rather than the rule. How to live at various ages is a matter of very great importance. The young personvhas more reserve power, more activity, and requires more food. Older people show less activity, sleep less and do not require so much food. Besides, they have to go more care- fully and are inclined to avoid even necessary exercise. cannot play baseball or tennis, .al- though he was formerly an enthus-last at these games. ‘ Many people worry a lot about so- called bodily infirmiti-es when there really is little cause fpr worry. What they need to know is that 2,5 the years go by the changed incliriations and requirements are natural, and needs of the body adjust themselves to new conditions. For instance one has often heard people complain about their inability to sleep as many hours as they used to do, and think in con-1 sequence that they must be on theI verge of a nervous breakdown. An- other will lament the fact that he Willggb, h“ all is said and done, youth is age deferred, and the strenu- the bubbling viva‘city and a1- xseless energy of youth can- Middleton will be glad to answer questions on Public Health :1: lers through this column. Address him at the Parliament Bldg Toronto. U1A and the worSt is yet to cam \V EEAL'E'E'E EBflflA’E‘Efifi BY DR; J. J. MIDDLETON Provincial Board of Health, Ontari to be rated ,ife, too, the professional considerable h takes the it? fit the best they seldom after thirty. in the major expected veil than nd play 3 land 6 and made x. bu1 out 11d stamped Middleton is an 135er 2113; ms Egzflmby Qan rant 0!" anibther pé‘rt of the Anta‘i‘ctiq will be worth exploring from a utili- tarian point of View, but the human race has a right to unveil the whole face of the earth, and the world will be morally richer if Rowett and Shackleton complete what Enderby and Blscoe began." of unexplored waters tracks of the Challenger and south of that of the is an Likely £1133 ths: EJ} rant of anibther pzi'rt of t will be worth exploring 1 tarian point of View, but race has a right to unve: face of the earth, and th: while at sea, and so her longitudes ought to be far more precise than those of earlier expeditions. She will be the first to carry a stafl of scien- appl‘im one of active tain'ed The People approaching the old age lcf life frequently complain of not be- ging able to sleep well at nights, but it should be remembered that this con,- fdition is often not insomnia as it is 1the custom generally for old people to {take naps through the day. With ad- ‘vancing years, care should ever be -taken to avoid infection, there being {a great tendency for old people to de- Ivelop'bron‘chitis and pneumonia. To | guard against these it is advisable for jaged folks to avoid crowded places [and not get overheated or chilled. {Sunshine is an excellent tonic at this (time of life as it is at any stage of ,existence. When the heart’s action lshows signs of failing, rest is far bet- ter than medicines. Moderate exer- cise, graded to suit different ages, is one of the best adjuncts of health to all classes of the community, and for old people, especially those who have lived an active life, it is essential that they continue to take an interest in the affairs of the world and some interesting hobby 01; pastime that will keep their minds serene and enable them to get about and keep their blood in circulation. How often we hear and see instances of men who have had a busy life, retiring to seek a well-earned rest in their old age, and passel away a few weeks or months later when out off from the interests and activities which kept their minds active and their bodily health sus- Y.M.C.A. cehtres, too, modified exer- cises for business men have been ar- ranged, which should be developed by the municipalities till indulged in by all the citizens who possibly can ar- range the time. VViI'I such as is indulge ing is one of the even in cities [)6 couraged to do In frorfi their place increasing po‘plulm opening up of mu some cf our 131‘2'5 WW and he m old saying “Remain in harness," i in moderation, is very often. the guideposts to a longer life. the lady signing herself “Mrs. Bothwell, Ont,” kindly send 1 addressed envelope to Dr. ,on at' the Parliament Build- 1d he will reply personally. Ls into the n in youth. Walk- Wide stretch between the * and Scotia Valdivia. It derby Quad- iod move in many of the rodified exer- ouI-d be en- king to and siness. The golf and the golf links\ in is from the