DR. TALMAGES SERMON SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. ■Subject: A Joy Inspiring liflteion—Solo mon's AVlsdoul—Swept Spire* of Chris tianity lt Counteracts All Trouble Xo Dolorous Munic Needed. I Copyright 1901.1 WASHINGTON. D. C. --In this discourse Dr. Talmage corrects so.no of the false notions about religion. and represents it as being joy inspiring instead of dolorous; text, if. Chronicles i.\, 0, "Of spices great abun lance; neither was there t>ny such ?.picc as the Queen of Sheba gave King Solomon." .. What is that building out yonder, gist "Wiring in the sun? Have you not heard. It is in the house of the forest of Lebanon. King Solomon has just taken_ to it his bride, the Princess of Kgypt. You see the pillars of the portico and a great tower, ,idomed with 1000 shields of gold, hung on the outside of the tower. 500 of the -.hields of gold manufactured at Solomon s order; 500 were cantured by David, his father, in battle. See how they blaze in the noonday sun! Solomon goes up the ivory stairs of lus throne, between twelve lions in statuary, and sits down on the back of the golden bull, the head of the huge beast turned to ward the people. The family and the at tendants of the king are so many that the caterers of the palace have to provide every dav 100 sheep and thirteen oxen, besides the birds and the venison. I hear the stamping and pawing of 4000 tine horses in the royal stables. There were important officials who had charge of the work of gathering the straw and the bar- Icy tor these horses. King Solomon was .iii early riser, tradition says, and used to take a ride out at daybreak, and when in his white apparel, behind the swiftest horses of all the realm and followed by mounted archers in purple, as the cava.- ,-ade dashed through the streets of Jeru salem I suppose it was something worth getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to look at. , , . Solomon was not like some of the kings of the present day—crowned imbecility. All the splendors of his palace and retinue were eclipsed by his intellectual power. Why, he seemed to know everything. He was the first great naturalist the world ever saw. Peacocks from India strutted the basaltic walk, and apes chattered in the trees, and deer stalked the parks, and there were aquariums with foreign tish ;ind aviaries with foreign birds, and tradi tion says these birds were so well tamed that Solomon might walk clear across the <-itv under the shadow of their wings as thev hovered and flitted about him. More than this, he had a great reputa tion for the conumdrums and riddles that he made and guessed. He and King Hi ram, his neighbor, used to sit by the hour and ask riddles, each one paying in mone> if he could not answer or guess the riddle. The Solomonic navy visited all the world, and the sailors, of course, talked about the riddles and enigmas that he made and solved, and the news spread until Queen Ralkis. away off south, heard of it, and sent messengers with a few riddles that she would like to have Solomon solve anil a few puzzles that she would like to lmve him find out. She sent, among other things, to King Solomon a diamond with .ihole so small that a needle could not pen etrate it. asking him to thread that dia mond. And Solomon took a worm anil put it at the opening in the diamond, and the worm crawled through, leaving the thread in the diamond. The queen also sent a goblet to Solomon, asking him to lili i' with water that did not pour from the sky and that did not rush out from the earth, and immediately Solomon put a slave on the back of a swift horse and galloped him around and around the park 'iintil the horse was nigh exhausted, and from tVie perspiration of the horse the goblet was filled. She also sent to King Solony)" 500 boys in girls' dress and 500 girls in boys' dress, wondering if he would lie acute enoueh to find out the deception. Immediately Solomon, when he saw them wash their faces, knew from the way they aprilied the water that it was all a cheat. Queen Balkis was so pleased with the ncutcness of Solomon that she said. "1 II just go and see him for myself." Yonder it comes —the cavalcade-—horses and dro medaries. chariots and charioteers, jing ling harness and clattering hoofs and blaz ing shields and flying ensigns and c'anping cymbals. The place is saturated with the perfume. She brings cinnamon and saf fron and calamus and frankincense and all manner of sweet spices. As the retinue sweeps through the eate the armed guard inhales the aroma. "Halt!" cries the char ioteers as the wheels grind the gravel in front of the pillared portico of the king. Queen Balkis alights in an atmosphere be witched with perfume. As the dromeda ries are driven up to the king's store houses and the bundles of camphor are unloaded, and the sacks of cinnamon and the boxes of spices are opened the pur veyors of the nalace discover what my text announces: "Of spices, great abundance. Neither was there any such spice as the Queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon." Well, my friends, you know that all the ologians agree in making Solomon a type of Christ, and in making the Queen of Sheba a type of evevy truth seeker, and I will take the responsibility of saying that all the spikenard and cassia and frankin cense which the Queen of Sheba brought to King Solomon is mightily suggestive of the sweet spices of our holy religion. Christianity is not a collection of sharp technicalities and angular facts and chro nological tables and dry statistics. Our religion is compared to frankincense find to cassia, but never to nightshade. It is a bundle of myrrh. It is a dash of holy light. It is a sparkle of cool foun tains. It is an opening of opaline gates. It is a collection of spices. Would God that we were as wise in taking spices to our divine King as Queen Ualkis was wise in taking the spices to the earthly Solo mon. The fact is that the duties and cares of this life, coming to us from time to time, are stupid often and inane and intolerable. Here are men who have been battering, climbing, pounding, hammering for twenty years, forty years, fifty years. One great, long drudgery has their life been, their faces anxious, their feelings benumbed, their days monotonous. What is neces sary to brighten up that man's life and to sweeten that acid disposition and to put sparkle into the man's spirits? The spic ery of our holy religion. Why, if between the losses of life there dashed the gleam of an eternal gain, if between the betray als of life there came the gleam of the un dying friendship of Christ, if in dull times in business we found ministering spirits flying to and fro in our office and store and shop, everyday life, instead of being a stupid monotone, would be a glorious in spiration, penduluming between calm sat isfaction and high rapture. How any woman keeps house without the religion of Christ to help her is a mystery to me. To have to spend the greater part of one's life, as many women do, in planning for the meals, and stitch ing garments that will soon be rent again, and deploring breakages, and supervising tardy subordinates, and driving off dust that soon again will settle, and doing the same thing day in and day out and year in and year out until the hair silvers, and the back stoops, and the spectacles crawl to the eyes, and the grave breaks open under the thin sole of the shoe—oh, it is a long monotony! But when Christ comes t.) the drawing room, and comes to the kitchen, and comes to the nursery, and conies to the dwelling, then how cheery becomes all womanly duties! She is never alone now. Martha gets through fretting ind joins Mary at the feet of Jesus. All ay lone Deborah is happy because she can eln Lapidoth; Hannan, because she can aake a coat for voung Samuel; Miriam, beenustt she can watch her infant brother: Rachel, because she can help her father water the stock; the widow of Sarepta. be cause the cruse of oil is being replenished. 1 must confess that a great deal of the religion of this day is utterly insipid. There is nothing piquant or elevating about it. Men and women go around humming psalms in a minor key and cul tivating melancholy, and their worship has in it more sighs than raptures. Wo do not doubt their piety. On, 110! But they arc sitting at a feast where the coolc has forgotten to season the food. Every tliing is flat in their experience and in their conversation. Emancipated from sin and death and hell and on their way to a magnificent heaven, they act as though they were trudging on toward an everlast ing Botany Bay. Religion does not seem to agree with them. It seems to catch in the windpipe and become a tight strangu lation instead of an exhilaration. All the infidel books that have been written, from Voltaire down to Herbert Snencer, have not done so much damage to our Chris tianity as lugubrious < 'hristians. Who wants a religion woven out of the shadows of the night? Why go growling on your way to celestial enthronement. Come out of that cave and sit down in the warm light of the Sun of Righteousness. Away with your odes to melancholy and Hervcy VMcditation < Among the Tombs!" 1 have to say also that we need lo put more spice and enlivenment in our relig ious teaching, whether it be in the prayer meeting or in the Sunday-school or in the church. We ministers need more fresh air and sunshine in our lungs and our heart and our head. Do you wonder that the world is so far from being converted when you find so little vivacity in the pul pit and in the pew? We want, like the Lord, to plant in our sermons and exhor tations more lilies of the field. We want fewer rhetorical elaborations and fewer sesquipedalian words, and when we talk about shadows we do not want to say adumbration, and when we mean queer ness we do not want to talk about idiosyn crasies, or if a stitch in the back we do not want to talk about lumbago, but, in the plain vernacular of the great masses, preach that gospel which proposes to make all men happy, honest, victorious and free. In other words, we want more cin namon and less gristle. Let this be so in all the different departments of work to which the Lord calls us. I promise a high spiritual blessing to anv one who will sing in church and who will sing so heartily that the people all around cannot help but sing. Wake up, all the churches from Bangor to San Francisco and across Christendom! It is not a matter of preference; it is a mat ter of religious duty. Oh. for fifty times more volume of sound than has yet rolled ! up from our churches! German chorals in German cathedrals surpass us, and yet j Germany lias received nothing at the hands of God compared with America. And ought I the acclaim in Germany be louder than | that of America? Soft, long drawn out i music is appropriate for the drawing j room and appropriate for the concert, I but St. John gives an idea of the sonorous i and resonant congregational singing ap- j propriate for churches when in listening j to the temple service of heaven he says: I "1 heaj'd a great voice, as the voice of a i great multitude and us the voice of many waters and as the voice of mighty thun derings. Hallelujah, for the Lord God : omnipotent reigneth!" Join with me in a crusade, giving me not only your hearts, but the mighty uplifting of your voices, aud I believe we can, through Christ's grace, sing 5000 souls into the kingdom of Christ. An argument they can laugh at, a sermon they may talk down, but a 5000 voiced utterance of praise to God is resistible. Would that Oueen Balkis would drive all her spice laden I dromedaries into our church music. "Nei- j ther was any such spice as the Queen of i Sheba gave King Solomon.'' Now, I want to impress you with the ; fact that religion is sweetness and per- | fume and spikenard and saffron and cin namon and cassia and frankincense and all ; sweet spices together. "Oh," you say, "I ' have not looked at it as such. 1 thought it was a nuisance. It had for me a re pulsion. I held my breath as though it were a malodor. 1 have been appalled at its advance. 1 have said, if 1 have any re ligion at all, 1 want to have just as little oi it as is possible to get through with." Oh. what a mistake you have made, my brother! The religion of Christ is a pres ent and everlasting redolence. It coun teracts all trouble. Just put it on the stand beside the pillow of sickness. It catches in the curtains and perfumes the stifling air. It sweetens the cup of bitter medicine and throws a glow on the gloom of the turned lattice. It is a balm for the aching side and a soft bandage for the temple stung with pain. It lifted Samuel Rutherford into a revelry of spiritual de light while he was in physical agonies. It helped Richard Baxter until, in the midst of such a complication of diseases as per haps no other man ever suffered, he wrote "The Saint's Everlasting Rest." And it poured light upon John Bunyan's dungeon, the light of the shining gate of the shin ing city. And it is good for rheumatism and for neuralgic, and for low spirits and for consumption. It is the catholicon for all disorders. Yes. it will heal all your sorrows. Why did you look so sad this morning when you came in? Alas, for the loneli ness and the heartbreak and the load that is never lifted from your soul! Some of vou go about feeling like Macaulay when he wrote, "If 1 had another month of such days ns I have been spending. I would be impatient to get down into my little narrow crib in the ground, like a weary factory child." And there have been times in your life when you wished you could get out of this life. \ou have said. "Oh, how sweet to my hps would be the dust of the valley!" and wished you could pull over you in your last slumber the coverlet of green grass and daisies. You have said: "Oh, how beautifully quiet it must be in the tomb! 1 wish 1 was there!" 1 see all around about me widowhood and orphanage and childlessness, sadness, disappointment, perplexity. If 1 could ask all those in any audience who have felt no sorrow and been buffeted bv no disappointment —if 1 could ask all such to rise, how many would rise? Not one. A widowed mother, with her little child, went West, hoping to get better wage* there, and she was taken sick and died. The overseer of the poor got her body and put it in a box and put it in a wagon and starteil down the street toward the ceme tery at full trot. The little child, the only child, ran after it through the streets, bareheaded, crying: "Bring me back my mother! Bring me back my mother! ' And it was said that as the people looked on and saw her crying after that which lay in the box in the wagon, all she loved on earth—it is said the whole village was in tears. And that is what a great many of you are doing—chasing the dead. Dear Lord, is there no appeasement for all this sorrow that I see about me? Yes, the thought of resurrection and reunion far beyond this scene of struggle and tears. "They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them nor any heat, for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." Across the couches of your sick and across the graves of your dead I Hing this shower of sweet spices. Queen Balkis, driving up to the pillared portico of the house of cedar, carried no such pungency of perfume as exhales to-day from the Lord's garden. It is peace. It is sweet ness. It is comfort. It is infinite satisfac tion, this gospel I commend to you. May God grant that through your own practical experience you may find that re ligion's ways are ways of pleasantness and that all her paths are paths of peace; that it is perfume now and perfume forever. And there was an abundance of spice; "neither was there any such spice as the Queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon." THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOU"* THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Drink mid American Womanhood l nebriety Is Upon the Increase Among the Fair Sex. Hs;«ecially In High So clntjr-A Traffic That Oelmses. We fancy that we hear the chorus of in dignation that would have sounded from end to end of the country had the Ne» Voiee—"the prohibition sheet" —ventured to make the assertion that drunkenness is upon the increase among American wom en. and especially American society wom en. The New Voice has not made such a charge. At this moment we do not recall that the matter has been referred to in these columns, at least not recently. The charge has been made by people who are not prohibitionists, has been emphasized in publications that are not prohibition publications, and has been testified to by numbers of reputable physicians who. in their practice, have met with the results of the growing inebriety among American women. Lamentable as the state of affairs is, it is nothing other than might have been expected and confidently prophesied, and perhaps is no more menacing to the wel lare of the nation than has been the simi lar appalling inebriety of the American men for half a century past. We look upon it as inevitable that if the American people will continue to sus tain the saloon, and the saloon system, and the saloon's standard of morals, they must pay the full price therefor. No peo ple have ever succeeded for any consider able length of time in keeping any marked difference between the moral character of their men and of I heir women. Debauch ery begins with the men of any nation, but it reaches the womanhood of the na tion sooner or later with infallible cer tainty. The Rome of Nero and the France of Louis XV.and the full fruit of the An glo-Saxon surrender to vice in the court of Charles 11. are illustrations in point. The American people for almost half a century have been fostering an organized institution which we call the liquor traffic with full knowledge that it debauches and debases everything that it touches. VVe know, and have known for years, that it takes of the brightest and best and clean est and purest of our boys, and transforms them into loathsome beasts without the beast's excuse for bestiality. We have let that vile traffic extend itself till it touches practically every avenue of our national life, domestic, social, business and political. We have granted every new demand that it made for further sur renders of the national virtue. We have expected our women to submit to the de bauchery and butchery of their sons. We have bidden our maidens take uncom plainingly diseased and besotted youths for husbands. As a people we have de nounced as fanatics and cranks all who have opposed or protested against the domination of the traffic. And now, for sooth, shall we wake up with a start and hold un our hands in horror because the same fiend that has devoured our men is reaching out after our women? The New Voice would welcome a cru sade to gave the womanhood of America from the drink curse, but such a crusade must mean a real determined effort to save the whole American people from the drink curse, for in this age nf the world no people can build a zenana wall around its womanhood. The New Voice. Alcohol and Hospital*. Some years ago Dr. N. S. Davis, of ( hi rago, suggested that there might be found a close relationship between the mortality and the spirit bills of large hospitals. A committee has been looking up this mat ter, and, while not ready to make a for mal report, have already found some start ling facts which indicate that the connec tion is very close, and no doubt the death rales rise and fall with the amount of spirits used. In one metropolitan hospi tal, where the physicians prescribe spirits freely as tonics and stimulants in all cases, the mortality was from three to five per cent, greater than in another hospital of like character whose spirit bills were halt' as much. In one hospital, typhoid fever and pneumonia were treated very largely with spirits. The mortalitv was greater than in private practice, although the con ditions for treatment were more favorable. One of the visiting physicians became con vinced that Ihe free use of alcohol was a large factor in these fatal cases and nave up its use. The results were so startling that he has become an anti-alcoholic ad vocate. Several hospitals which received soldiers after the late war had widely dif fering statistical results, which, in a large degree seemed to be due to the treatment. There is a growing sentiment that the free use of alcohol as a stimulant is a most disastrous remedy, although the hos pitals are very slow to adopt this view. VVe hope to publish some figures u liii h will bring out these facts more clearly in •he future.—Journal of Inebriety. No Denunciation Strong Knougli. In the cities of Switzerland every 'rentli man dies from drink eithei Krectly or in directly. These are not all rricd off by specific alcoholic diseases. Quite frequent ly it is some other sickness that would not have resulted in death if alcohol had not diminished the power of resisting dis ease. Any wound, or any contagions dis ease, consumption among others, develops more seriously and with more danger in an organism weakened by alcohol. The statistics of English life insurance socie ties clearly demonstrate that. They have there millions of total abstainers, people who never touch a drop of alcoholic liquors. Many insurance societies give ihc-m a reduction of premium because they nave discovered that the death rate anion* total abstainers is one-fourth less than that of moderate drinkers of the same age. Considering all of these facts we are obliged to agree with Dr. Max timber, professor of hygiene in the University of Vienna, who has often declared in public: "We cannot think evil enough of alcohol; even moderate quantities of it are always an injury." False Idea of Liberty, Liberty to get drunk ciyinot be regard ed as one of the fundamental rights of humanity. Since the Legislature has de cided to limit the freedom of the individ ual to ruin himself by closing gambling dens and surrounding the kale of poisons with complicated measures, it surely will also be permitted to extend precautionary measures to the sale of this poison which ruins a thousand more victims than any other. The Young Victims. The majority of people dying compara tively young of paralysis of the heart are victims of intoxicating drinks, and their dangerous condition never became appar ent until it was too late f(jr medical science to be of any help. The disease be gins with difficulty of breathing under any severe physical exertion and terminates with dropsy of the entire body. The Crusade in Brief. The demand for temperate men and ab stainers i» more imperative every year. In Munich, every sixteenth man dies of what is called "beer heart," according to tiie testimony from the dissecting rooms of the hospitals. A recent telegram from Warsaw indi cates that rigorous enactments against drunkenness in Russia have been brought into operation. A bill has been introduced into the Ore gon State Legislature making it a misde meanor for any person to treat another to drink in any saloon or other public place Where liquor is sold. I A New World Pyramid. | It Will Exceed in Size the Ancient M )£ Structures of Egypt. & SIDNEY LEE. a St Louis archi tect, has planned a colossal pyramidal structure for the Exposition, which, if erected, will doubtless be one of the most striking features of the Fair, surpass ing in immensity the Pyramid of Cheops at Gizeli, Egypt, which was considered by the ancients to be the first of the Seven Wonders of the World. It Is to Ik> constructed of stone and cement and to measure at the base 500 feet square, covering space equal to nearly four city blocks, tho apex rising to a height of 500 feet. From its great size and the whiteness of it's cement sides it could be seeu at a great distance by the incoming visitor to the Fair. In form of exterior construction, only will it present any likeness to tho pyramid of Cheops, which was merely a solid mass of stone, contain ing a small burial chamber for the Egyptian King, for the interior is to be arched Into an immense circular amphitheatre, 300 feet ia diameter. GREAT PYRAMID WHICH MAY BE CONSTRUCTED AT THE ST LOUIS EX POSITION. and rising In a vast dome 300 feet above. Winding about on the outside of tho chamber, to a height o? nearly 200 feet, It is proposed to build galleries dedicated to various purposes and large enough In themselves to contain a large exposition. High above th<s colossal rotunda of the amphitheatre, and near the apex of tho structure, there will be an observation chamber, with openings through the four sides of the pyramid. From this chamber, more than 150 feet higher than the Ferris Wheel of the Chicago Fair, tho visitor will get a birdseye view of tho Exposition and the panorama of city streets with the Mississippi River and the green hills of Missouri and Illinois in the distance. This chamber and in termediate galleries will l>c reached by an inclined spiral railway, con structed on the principle of a moving sidewalk. Hy the side of this railway will be a carriage drive and a foot path, so that three modes of ascent will be ottered, the incline being so gradual that vehicles could ascend and descend In perfect safety. Ample provisions are made for lighting the interior or the structure, sunlight, beiug admitted into the gallerinos by means of aper tures through the walls and into the amphitheatre through openings in the same, where the decreasing walls of the pyramid render tills an easy mat ter At night it would be brilliantly lighted, both inside and outside, by electricity. George C. Stlnde has charge of the plans, aiul effort will at ouce be made to interest capitalists in the project. One plan is to erect it by popular sub scription, similar to the method em ployed In raising the money for the erection of the Washington Mouu- Good Housekeeping Diet Primer SHOW INO TIIE SORT OF DIET TO HE AVOIDED BY THE PBBSOS WHO WOULD LOSE FLESH. AND THE FOOD IIE MAY SAFELY EAT, IN MODERATION. SWEET CORN IS DEBARRED IN EXTREME CASES. THOUGH SUCCU LENT VEGETABLES, AS A GENERAL THING. ARE ALLOWED. MILK MAY BE TAKEN IN SMALL QUANTITIES. ment, charging Stales, cities, societies and individuals for the privilege of having their names engraved upon tho walls of the corridors and other pnrts of the structure. Considerations in its favor are that it being built of stone and cement would render it fire-proof, and a per manent building for the exposition and other purposes. The cost is esti mated at about $1,000,000, which sum the promoters think should be fußy realized by charging admission, selling concessions of space, etc. While tho project is one requiring an enormous amount of labor and study for its <-on snmmation, it is entirely practicable, and St. Louis may boast, in the future, of a structure eclipFlng in grandeur the Egyptian mountain of stone, known as the Pyramid of Cheops. A Question nf Rill*. A traveler iu England rested at noon nt a wayside inn and took luncheon. The landlord was a social person, ami after presenting his bill sat down and chatted with his guest. "By the way," the latter said, after a while, "what is your name?" "My name," replied the landlord, "is Partridge." "Ah," returned the traveler, with a humorous twinkle in his eyes, "by the length of your bill 1 should have thought It was Woodcock"' This story, as it appears in a recent book by a distinguished English diplo mat, is credited with having amused Bismarck. I.ittle Kangaroo* Fount! In Death Valley. The quaint little animal in this pic ture is a miuature kangaroo, which has now been found out West. It is an exceedingly Interesting creature, and strides around like a kangaroo, lrekinji great jumps on its hind legs, which are long ami powerful. It also has a surprisingly lonu tail, which adds to its resemblance to the mar supial after which it is named. This curious creature has been found in that weird place called Death Valley. Its color varies from light pray to dark brown, according to its habitation, nature making its hue similar to that of its surroundings as a protection against its enemies. Although called a kangaroo rat it is mot a rat at all in the true sense of the word, as it belongs to quite an other family.—New York Herald. %SfFB Perforated Bre» When bread is take> It should be exposed t perfectly cool before b; a bread blanket or p' box. A bread box sv a perforated so the ai <?ss to the bread. .at in an air-tight box it > 0 lS t an< * grows moldy. * / ;/ O, */> Colored 1' v Q VT. Horse-hair is nf "'"'rjlng into fa vor, but in such an attractive guise as haruly to be recognized as the same kind of glossy black furniture covering that so long held sway in inartistic homes, and in some districts has not yet outlived its usefulness. A restful shade of green, rich garnet and deep yellow are the colorings now to be had and the material is figured as well as plain. The first mentioned colors are the more popular, but for decorative pur poses the yellow-toned fabric is very effective. To Clenn Dull Mirrors. If mirrors are very dull and speckled, the following fluid is excel lent: Take a small portion of whiting and add sufficient cold tea to make a paste; rub the specks from the glasses' surfaces with warm tea, dry with a soft cloth; rub a little of the paste well on the mirror and polish dry with tissue paper. Stains and finger marks may be removed from a looking glass by rubbing with a soft cloth wet with alcohol. To Clean Upholstered FnrnHtire. To clean upholstered furniture, cover the material with a towel and whip with a rattan, shaking the towel when ever it grows dusty. Wash all visible wood in tepid soap suds, dry it very quickly, then rub hard with a flannel f.nd a few drops of kerosene. This for walnut, cherry and oak in any fin ish. Mahogany needs to be merely wiped with a damp cloth, then rubbed for half an hour with a clean flannel. Brush the upholstered parts very hard, then wipe them quickly with a cloth wrung very dry out of clear, hot water. Follow this witn a clean, white flannel dipped in alcohol. As soon as the flan nel shows dirt, wash it clean in tepid water. Otherwise the alcohol will dis solve the dirt and deposit it in streaks upon the surface of the fabirc. Clean out tuftings with a little swab of cotton wool tic-tl on the end of a stout skewer and wet in alcohol. Throw away the cotton as soon as it gets dirty. Clear alcohol lightly used will not mark the most delicate bro cades. The swab must not be wet enough to trickle under pressure. Clear the intricacies of carved work with the same sort of swabs but take especial pains not to have thom too wet. With very delicate carving one must sometimes have recourse to a sand blast, using very fins tripoli and small hand bellows. Direct a quick stream of sand against the carving. In flying back from it, the sand brings away the dust. Veal Cutlets with Tomatoes—Dip each cutlet into a beaten egg, then into cracker crumbs and fry slowly under cover until a light brown. After they are taken from the pan fry a few sound fresh tomatoes sliced in the same fat the cutlets were fried in. Put the cut let* in the centre of the platter and the tomatoes about the edge. Cucumber Salad—Two fresh cucum bers; thoroughly chill in ice box, cut away the tops. Carefully scrape out the inside into a dish. Mix this with a chopped tomato and the small on ion. Moisten with French dressing. Fill the cucumber shells with this mix ture, fasten on the tops with tooth picks. Serve the whole in a pretty shina dish on a bed of watercress. Broiled Veal —Butter the gridiron well and broil the steak over a hot fir?. When quite brown on both sides, take out and putin a shallow pan. Into the pan put a little stock and about two ounces of butter. Set this in the oven for five minutes, take out the veal, and to the stock in the pan add a gill of tomato sauce with a bit of horseradish, and pour over the veal before serving. Sponge Drops—Beat three eggs light ly, add three-fourths of a cup of gran ulated sugar, one heaping cup of flour sifted with one tcaspoonful of seda (or one heaped teaspoonful of baking pow der). Flavor with one teaspoonful of lemon extract. Drop In teaspoonfuls, three inches apart, buttered tins. Bake in a quick oven. Bake the first cake to see if more flour is needed. The cakes should spread in the oven and should be half an inch thick when done. Rhubarb Preserves —Take a pound and a quarter of bright red rhubarb cut in short pieces, add a pound of sugar. Ivet it stand in porcelain-lined dish on back of range, so that the juices are drawn cut and no water is necessary to cook it. Add to the pre serve an ounce of sweet almonds blanched and cut in bits and half a lemon cut in three slieas. Let this cook slowly for one hour, remove the lemon peel and putin glass cans. Keep in cool, dark, dry place. This Is very good and healthful
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