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Show Zj NY one can carry his burden, - -f however heavy, till nightfall. Any one can do his work, however hard, for one day. Any one can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. , And this is all that life ever really means. ECONOMICAL LIVING. It is a necessity for the majority of people to buy meat to learn to cook those cuts which are cheap, or cheaper cheap-er than the choice cuts. As meat Is One of our most expensive foods, wise buying will lessen the monthly bills. Get a pound of meat cut from the rump of beef, cut the pieces in size for serving, -roll in flour and brown in a frying pan with beef drippings or suet. When well browned, add two table-spoonfuls table-spoonfuls of beef drippings and two tablespoonfuls of flour, mmix well and add three cups of stock or water; let this boil. In a cassarole put thin slices of a small carrot and onion, and pour over this the boiling mixture with a teaspoonful of salt and a' few dashes of red pepper. Cover and place In a slow oven for an hour. A medium flank steak if carefully cooked is tender, well flavored and palatable. Score the steak .on both sides and sprinkle with a tablespoon-ful tablespoon-ful of lemon jouice or vinegar, which softens the fiber; season with salt, pepper, a dash of nutmeg, cloves and a little chopped onion. Cover thickly with fine bread crumbs, roll up and fasten well with skewers. Sear ove? well in a hot frying pan, add a pint ol stock or water and bake an hour and a half. A dish which may be new to some Is an old one to many of our friends across the water. Bonny clabber. This is simply milk that has become thick, before It is very acid. If It has stood and acquired cream all the better. Serve as one does a custard, prinkled with a little grated maple sugar or with brown sugar. It is a most wholesome whole-some dish for hot weather, good for all ages and especially good for those who have alimentary troubles. Junket is another easily prepared food, which is both good and cheap. It Is never economy to buy Wilted vegetables or questionable fruit. The waste makes them more costly than those which cost a few cents more. NEVKR bear more than on kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three all they have now, and they ever had and all they expect ex-pect to have. GENERAL HINTS. If the sweet peas, cucumber vines and rose bushes are infested with the ubiquitous bugs and lice which destroy de-stroy the plants, use the following spray: Melt a third of. a bar of ivory soap, add a teaspoonful of kerosene and eight quarts of water. Use this in the sprinkler and spray everything that needs it, as it is a universal killer. A Famous Cholera Cure. Mix together to-gether a fourth of a teaspoonful of soda, the same of ginger, fifteen drops of peppermint; add to a glass of hot water. Take a glass of this every three hours. A Splendid Lotion for Tan. When preparing cottage cheese, save the whey, and in this cook a good-sized cucumber, peeling and all; cut It in slices before cooking, let stand until cool, strain and add a tablespoonful of alcohol and a teaspoonful of benzoin, ben-zoin, two drops of oil of rose. There should be a cupful of the whey and cucumber juice. A fine shampoo for dark hair is the well-beaten yolk of an egg. Rub it well into the scalp and rinse with several sev-eral waters. The rinsing of the hair Is the important point to have well done. Add a few drops of any desired perfume to the rinsing water and a delicate odor will remain in your tresses for a week. White hair should be rinsed In water quite well blued with bluing. When buying grape fruit, oranges, lemons, or in fact any large fruit, weigh them in the hands, as the heavier heav-ier ones are most profitable, are more full of juice. Carry some sheets of asbestos paper with you when camping; they may be rolled Into cone shaped dishes, set point down into the camp fire and will hold any vegetables to be baked, without being troubled with ashes. Keeping the feet from the floor of the car when riding on the steam cars will relieve car sickness. Support them on a cushion or bag. The vibration vibra-tion of the car causes the illness. |