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iliorouRhly, antl whan si'ifficicntly 

 dry, they should In- pl.ucd in hot 

 supiir svDip, and kopt there for a 

 few davs, ski (hat \\w supar may 

 enter the fruit cells and displace 

 what juice remains after (he hoil. 

 inp or scaldinjr process. The fruit 

 shoidd then 1>e li»hth- washed in 

 clean cold water and i>acked in 

 dry white sujjar while wet, and 

 allowed to remain there and drv 

 off in a drauQ'ht, until it is hard 

 enoui^h to be packed away for 

 storing. A common home re- 

 cipe for iireparins^ suj^ar svrup is : 

 One pound white si'Kjfar to i pint 

 of water, addinsf the white of an 

 eEfgf to everv 4ltis. of surrar ; hoil 

 this mixture over a fast fire for 

 twenty minutes, and strain throug'h 

 a cloth while hot, \vhen it is 

 ready for use. 



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\ Children. 



f A child's bed should slope a lit- 

 tle from the head to the foot, so 

 that the head mav be a little 

 hif!;'her than the feet, but ne^er 

 bend the neck to sret the head' on 

 to a, pillow. This makes the 

 child round-shouldered, cramps the 

 veins and arteries, and interferes 

 with the free circulation of the 

 blood. Kven when a child is se- 

 veral vears old the pillow should 

 be thin and made of hair, and not 

 on any account of feathers. 



Scalds and burns are more fatal 

 in children than in adults. Th-e 

 blisters arisino^ from them should 

 never be cut. 



Every part of a child's body 

 should be warmly clad except the 

 head ; to keep the h°ad too warm 

 increases the tendency to brain 

 disease. 



Next, after warmth, children 

 need freedom— freedom for move- 

 ment in all limbs. Thev want to 

 exercise their muscles even more 

 than their brains, and they never 



Flower Seedlings ! 



^ for present Planting. 



Bsters, Balsam, Zinnia, Cosmos, 

 Eorreopsis, Sunflower, Centaurin, 

 phlox, Petimia, etc., at 2/- per 

 100 ; posted, 2/6. 



Plants for Bazaars, etc., at whole- 

 sale rate — Coleus, Ferns, Begonias, 

 Palms, Fuchsias. 



E. A. LASSCOCK, 



LOCKLEYS. 



'Phone, Henley 34. 



will be c;uiet or staid unless thev 

 are ill. Do not startle a child ; 

 many nervous diseases can be 

 (I'aced to a sudden noise or alarm.- 

 iug object frightcnint.- and startling 

 the infant. 



Don't allow a child to sleep 

 with an elder person ; its rest will 

 be less disti'irbed and more belic- 

 licial alone. 



.\n excellent dish for the nursery 

 is made in the following manner : 

 7'lace in boiling water for five 

 minutes half a turnip, half a car- 

 rot, and a large onion. Cut up 

 half a t^ound of neck of mutton, 

 brown it slip"htly in a frying pan, 

 and add half a pint of warm 

 water and the vegetables. Simmer 

 for an hour, and serve in a veget- 

 able dish with all the g-ravv. 



♦ 



To Tell Anyone's Age. 



Ask the person, writes an ex- 

 chantre, who.se asre you are to tell 

 to take the number of the month 

 in which he was born and multiply 

 it by two. 



.Tanuarv is counted as number 

 one, February as number two, and 

 so on through the year. To this 

 product he must add five and 

 multiply by fifty. 



To this last number he must 

 add his pre.sent ajre, and from the 

 sum subtract the number of davs 

 there are in a year, or 365. 



All the work up to this point 

 must be done bv the person with- 

 out letting anyone see his fi<rures; 

 but now YOU ask him to tell you 

 what number he has found, and to 

 that number you add T15. 



The result obtained by this last 

 operation contains the information 

 wanted. 



Point off two figures on the 

 rijiht, and the number will be the 

 acfe sought, while the number on 

 the left will give the month in 

 which the p'erson was born. This 

 triclc never fails. 



Always keep carbonate of soda 

 in the house ; it is useful for so 

 many purposes. For burns and 

 scalds it is an excellent remedy. 

 The surface of the bums should be 

 covered with it, either drv or just 

 damped. It relieves the pain 

 caused by the bites or stines of 

 insects. A small saltspoonful in 

 half a tumbler of water will relieve 

 heartburn and indigestion, and if 

 taken with tepid water the last 



thinjf at night will fre(inently in- 

 dtice sleep in restless persons. 



Varnish on (he hands should be 

 removed with iiuthvlated spirit, 

 and i)aint or tar by rubbing in 

 butter or lard. When the stains 

 are loosened, wii)e the hands as 

 clean as mav be with soft i)ai>er or 

 'rag, and then gi\-e them a good 

 washing with soap and warm 

 wafer. 



Tried Recipes. 



— VcslI Shape. — 



Pass two pounds of veal through 

 a mincing machine with half a 

 pound of fat ham. Grate half a 

 pound of bread-crumbs and add 

 them to the meat ; add two well- 

 lieaten eggs, salt, and pepper. Mix 

 well and press into a butter mould. 

 Put a few tinv bits of . butter on 

 top, cover with buttered paper, 

 and bake for two hours. Turn out 

 when cold. 



— Conserve of Apples and Pears.— 

 Take a pound of hard green ap- 

 ples and a pound of hard .stewing 

 pears, peel both, cut the apples in- 

 to quarters and the pears into 

 halves, corin"- both, but retaining 

 the pippins. Put them in a deep 

 earthenware pan with two pounds 

 of sifted s"p^ar, t>vo o'^nf^es of can- 

 died peel, the grated n^d of a, le- 

 mon, an orano^e sliced and freed 

 from riiris, and thp i"ioe if both 

 an^ oranjre ond le""on, h-ilf a stick 

 of cinnamon, a fpw ''-nobs of gin- 

 p-er, and a dass of mm or water. 

 Cover the rnn and rince it in a 

 moderate o^-^v. t^^.p-^p it should be 

 allowed to rpm^iin till the fruit is 

 perfectly cooked and the svrup is 

 a rich red colour. Tt will take 

 six or eiorht hours. The fruit shotild 

 not be broken. Serve cold with 

 whipped cream. 



— Rabbit Pie. — 



Prepare pastry as for beef steak 

 "ie (about p pound of flp'^i,- crust"), 

 Unin? the edo-ps of the dish. Cut 

 the rabbit into neat ioints, season 

 them with pepper and salt, and 

 put them in p Pip-dis^ with a nuar- 

 ter of a Pound of salt Pork cut 

 into thick nieces. "Pour in hqlf a 

 oiut of water. Cover with pastry. 

 Make a hole in the ton and decor- 

 ate with nastrv le3"''es. Bake for 

 about an hour and three ouarters. 



— Russian Salad. — 



Scrape and cut a carrot into 

 thin strips, cut a turnip into 

 somewhat thicker slices boil them 

 in separate saucepans in salted 



