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3" . ' About the House SUMMER CARE OF THE BABY. Summer time is danger time for young babies. Everyone knows that babies feel the cold, but it is not so generally realized how very sensitive they are to heat. ' Foodâ€"Unsuitable food and unsuit- able care of good food help to cause the digestive troubles that. kill so many babies every summer. The only safe food for a young baby is mother’s milk. Most of the. babies who die in 'the summer are bottle~fed. It is very important that the mother should not wean her baby during the summer except on the doctor’s ad\ice. If the baby is bottle fed, be sure to keep the feedings covered and on ice. A homemade ice box is easily made as follows:â€" Get from your grocer a deep box about 18 inches square and put 3 inches of sawdust in the bottom. Place two pails in this box, one a smaller pail, inside the other, and fill the space between the outer pail and the box with sawdust. The nursing bottles filled with milk are placed in the inner pail. This pail is then filled with cracked ice, which surrounds the? bottles. The inner pail should have a tin cover. Nail several thicknesses of newspaper on the under surface of the cover of the box. This ice box should be kept covered and in a cool place. The water from melted ice should be poured off and the ice renewed at least once each day. In hot weather less food is required; than in cold and the mother should1 not expect a rapid gain in the weight of the baby. In fact she should be isalad dressing, used on fruit or gela- i tractive by serving with tinted mounds of meringue. Instead of dustâ€", ‘ing the top with nutmeg, try a little ‘ground cinnamon. Or serve the jun- kets with fresh sliced peaches ori 'blackberry preserve The secret of making this simple dessert seem extraordinary is to leave it undisturbed while chilling, adding i the final touches only just before servâ€" ing. CLEANING SUGGESTIONS. Coat collarsâ€"To one tablespoonful of ammonia add salt to make a paste. Spread on soiled streak of collar, let dry, then brush off. If the collar is not thoroughly cleaned, put on a sec- lond application. Gilt framesâ€"Brush gilt picturei lframes with water in which onions! lhave been boiledâ€"three or four to a; ,pint Apply liquid with soft fianneli Lcloth and touch lightly ' Straw mattingâ€"Wash the matting iwith clear warm water and dry at lonce with a soft cloth which will ab- isorb the moisture and prevent colors ifrom runningâ€"I. M. K. SALAD HINTS. Cubes of lemon gelatine are both appetizing and economical in either a fruit or vegetable salad. Fruit juices are nice additions to tine salads. Lettuce that is intended to be eaten in a salad should be cut in ribbons with a pair of scissors. The quickest way to dry lettuce for a salad is after washing to toss it lightly in a colander content if the baby does not lose, weight. Though the appetite for foodf is less, an abundance of cool, boiledI water should be given between meals.i ' At the first sign of diarrhoea stop' all feeding, giving as much cool, boil- ed water as the baby will take and consult the doctor at once. The sooner the doctor sees the baby, the sooner will' the baby be cured. The Bathâ€"Jn addition to the baby’s daily bath, it is well to give a cool sponge bath two or three times a day in hot weather. If the baby has prick- ly heat, sponge several times a day' with a solution of baking soda made by dissolving a teaspoonful of baking soda in one pint of water. Clothingâ€"The clothing should be light enough to avoid perspiration. In hot weather, a diaper, thin shirt and muslin slip are enough. In very hot weather take off all but the diaper. Flies are Enemiesâ€"Flies are baâ€" bies’ enemies. They carry disease germs and must never be allowed near the baby nor upon anything that touches him. Use screens to keep flies out of the house, kill those that do get in and cover the carriage or crib with. white mosquito netting. COOL DESSERTS FOR HOT DAYS. There are no simpler and yet en- tirely satisfactory desSerts for sum- mer than those made with milk and rennet tablets. Most cooks think of junkets only in relation to sick people and they fail to appreciate the possi- bilities in using them in place of the puddings which take so much longer to prepare. - To make a good junket, .the milk should never be heated above low blood warmthâ€"simply taker ofl’ the chill, but never heat to a steam. It is well to pour the desired quan- tity of milk into the pan and let it‘ set a‘ little while with the sugar to dissolve it. Also have the rennet. tabs let dissolving in a little cold water; crush it well and have the molds ready, set in the place where they are and then wipe with tissue paper or paper towelling. Sour cream makes a nice, rich and economical dressing for cabbage salad. It should be flavored with cinnamon or nutmeg. All salads are nicest served ice cold.l Parsley flecked with a sharp knife is the daintiest garnish for potato salad. Grated hard boiled egg is pretty on tomato salad. Shredded cocoanut adds sweetness and richness to a fruit salad. Creamed cheese makes a good stuff- ing for peppers, tomatoes, cherries, dates and prunes used in salad. Celery salt will take the place of fresh celery to give a salad a pleas- ing flavor. The liquid from mustard pickles is good in the dressing of meat or fish salad. To make a salmon salad from one can of fish serve more than the Usual number of people, cold cooked green peas and cucumbers may be mixed with the fish and, also, a little of the heart of the lettuce. Cold slaw makes an appetizing stuff- ing for ice cold tomatoes. Pears, canned or fresh, with nuts and cheese, are an especially nice lun- cheon salad. o o Bargain. \Vith his unspent youth Like a penny in his hand, See him stand! There's a look on his face Like a child that comes To the market-place After tops and drums. . With his» youthâ€"his youth I As a thing that he can spendâ€"â€" See him run! And What will he have for His bargain at the end “'hen it's done? I have asked old men to chill. Moving them about is apt to break the junket and spoil its appear- ance. With this foundation, there is no end of flavors one can use to make the desert really interesting. When cher- ries are stewed, chill and drain them of their juice, place a large table- spooizful in the bottom of each dish, and pour the junket into it. When ready to serve. add another table- spoonful of cherries on top, or, if pos- sible, whipped cream. plates and filled with junket which has been simply flavored with vanilla, is excellent. A few pieces of chopped canned piniupple with a tablespoonful of shredded cocoanut also combines well with vanilla. l-‘izivored with lemon extract, a desâ€" 801‘! is quickly made with chopped' peanuts spread over the top after it has <eL. .\ very good chocolate junket is made I y adding two tablespoonfuls of cocoa. softened in a little milk, to the vanilla puddingr and adding a few Chuppul iints as it sets. I" the whites of two eggs are beaten v.=y stiff and two tablespoonfuls of nie'icd currant juice folded in Wth a lllllr sugar. plain almond, vanilla or lemon junkct can be made very at- Cantaloupe: scooped out and chilled, set firmly on- \Vlth their empty purses, i I have heard the tale ‘ Each one rehearses, And on the last page They have all bought age. They have all bought age. “'lien youth is spent A penny at a fair. The old men tell Of the bargains there. There was this and that For a price and a wage. But when they came away I They had all bought age. 1 â€" Louise Driscoll. W.â€" A Long Chase. .»\ negro boy. a regular visitor to a certain library. was noticed by the at; tend-ant always to Lake the same book, :open it eagerly at the same place, and then laugh heartily. ‘ The attendants curriosiiy being; ,aroused. he followed the Negro boy" one day and saw him (pen the book» Glam-ing over his shoulder, he noticed the picmre of a small boy being‘ , chased by a snorting bull. , The attendant, was about to ask what there was to laugh at, when the‘ , Negro chuckled. i "Golly. 'e ain't taught 'im yet!" ISSUE No. 3lâ€"â€"'24. iilmers and ardent youngsters speak , learned French. .es to be polite. must listen to many ‘ palgn, .addreSs and (‘Otlltiilltflil to the sea atj '51an return it to me." she wrote. I been found ALSACI: BASKS iii in UNDER FRENEH rut GERMAN“ RULE FAILED TO KILL PATRIOTISM. People of Province Take Ut- most Interest in All Affairs of the Republic. The writer had not been in Alsace Since two years before the war the. great war of deliverance, as it is call ed there by the fervent editors, the jolly priests, stocking-cap wearing oldv ing with great pride in their newly- Surely the long-awaited reunion with Mother I<rance has wrought an immense change over tranquil Alsace. her busy little cities; her sleepy vilr lages, that will appear strange to the: mind uninitiated in the philosophy of her staid inhabitants. A signing of a treaty. a hoisting of a tricolor, a triumphant entry of a re giment, the “Marseillalse.” - - And all the fiery nationalism that fifty years of German kuitur has been unable to extinguish, is reawakcned. A long, restless slumber it. was. they will tell you in Strassbourg and Col- mar, a “caucheinar” out of which they had been roused in 1918. But once again her proud citizens are “more French than the l‘nrisians," and de- cidedly more, nationalistic. Scarcer a question comes up in the Paris (‘hamber of Deputies that is not Instantly hotly diacussed. debated, 0p- posed, approved and disposed of in the cafes and auberges of Alsace and the ed'torial pages of the newspapers. That the matter conccrns the granting of a subsidy to an airship company operating in the Department of Seine et Oise, hundreds of kilometers from Alsace, is of small moment. The ‘ques- tion is one for Frenchmen to decide. and in Alsace today they are French and eager to assert it. A story is told of. a Deputy from Nether Alsace who failed of recent re- election because he omitted to sup- port a project for the widening of the Marne at a point near its mouth; a river the source or mouth of which few Alsatians have ever seen. Always True to France. But the spiritual and moral trans- formation in Alsace is not to the visits or the most striking one. A true Ala satian v.ill tell you anyway that there has been no change at all. Always Alâ€" sace was French at heart; Alsatians, Frenchmen at home, though prudently not on the street. Not all of them in 1871 could take advantage of their‘ prerogative to “opter” (vote their 10y- alty to France and emigrate to the in- teriorâ€"or to America). However, eight hundred thousand chose banish- ment from their mountains and val- leys rathe‘ than submit to the con- querors. “But some of us had to stay to preâ€" serve Alsace for France!" said a wrinkled veteran of the Franco-Prus- sian War, with the air of one who has achieved a great life work. “and we have well accomplished our duty. Have you not heard how on the day of the armistice young ones and old ones alike knew to perfection all the verses of the ‘Marselllaise,’ fifty years forbidden? Have you not been apâ€" prised how instantly the blueâ€"white- red flags fluttered in the wind on each Alsatian house? Yes, 1 think that we have well done our work!" These lovable old menmthere seem to be more here than in any other countryâ€"dike nothing quite as much as to make their little “discours.” and the subject with a stranger is always the same. Always they go back “to that time!" Now that no fear of “strafen” stays longcontained and willing tongues, the visitor if he wish- stories of that clumsy Kultur-cam- Dieu merci, they have gone! which succeeded only in embittering. and poisoning against all things Ger: man the Alsatian mind. A Bottledâ€"Iliove-tetter. Fortyâ€"tux) years ago an Irish colleen wrote a love-letter, which she placedi in a sealed bottle with her name and Kingstown. "I hope some nice boy will find this i It was recently washed ashore on, the coast of North America. safe and sound after its long Voyage. and Mrs. Elizabeth liyrne, who had sent it on; its way as a girl. has now received? eight letters telling.v her that II has' Mrs. Byrne was married i‘crry years; ago, and has been a widow sincv the war. "I always, admired the smart soldiers who used to he brought overi to Ireland on the steamer Assistance in those far-off days." said Mrs Byrne. ‘ “It was one day just before the Asa; sistance was due to arrive that I putl that note in the bottle and threw it in-I to the sea. hoping that one of ihe Bri- tish soldiers would find it." "AND THE WORST IS YET TO COME Voices of the Air. But then there comes that moment rare J W'hen for no cause that. I can find, The little voices of the air Sound above all the sea and wind. The sea and wind do then obey, The singing, singing double notes Of double basses, content to play A droning chord for the throatsfi The little threats that sing and rise Up into the light with lovely ease. And a kind of magical, sweet surprise To hear and know themselves for these- For these little voicespthe bee, the fly. The leaf that taps. the pod that breaks, The breeze on the grass tops bending by. The shrill quick sound that the in- sect makes. r ‘ iKatherine Mansfield. ~â€"_ _ How to Get Decorated. W'ith the wholesale disappearance of crowned heads from the European scene ribbons and decorations are not so easily to be had as formerly. little was once useful, if we may believe the story that the late Henry Labou- chere told in his newspaper Truth. But 1 here is a way of acquiring them that‘ In once conferred, he said. a vast number of decoxations cn an individ- ual; that is to say, I told him how to get them. He was an Italianâ€"rich, noble and a fool. He confided to me that life was» a burden because he had no decorations. I said to him: “Pay some one to write a book upon the antiquities of your province; pay some one else to iillustrate lit; publish it in folio and send a copy, beautifully bound, to every crowned head in Europe. Two thirds of them will repay you with a decoration.” lHe had followed my advice. He was covered with pieces of metal attached to variegated ribbons. He piessed my hand; tears of gratitude glistened in his eyes. A “Clean” Town. The village of Valdese, in North Carolina, which is the home of the ,only \Valdensian colony in the South, [boasts that in the tliiriy~one years of its existence no inhabitant ever has ibeen convicted of an offense against the law. 55. _ Pearls Are Made in Layers. i Pearls consist of layers of delicate xmaterial, enclosing some foreign par- ticle usually a parasite. The blended essence _of choice good things grown in the tropic sunshine of farâ€"away landsâ€" Coca - Cola !â€" of courseiâ€"sealed in a sterilized glass packâ€" age that protects its goodness and purity. elicious and Refreshing The Coca-Cola Company of Canada, Ltd. Head Office: Toronto Two years later I saw him again.