into a crutch and almost broke the top of his head off.  Once he invented a rope ladder to be worn as guard chain and lengthened out with a spring.  He put it round his neck, but the spring got loose and turned it into a ladder and almost choked him to death.  Then he invented a patent boot heel to crack nuts with, but he mashed his thumb with it and gave it up.  Why, he has a washtub full of inventions.  One of them is a prayerbook that always opens at the right place.  We tried it one morning at church, but the wheels and springs made such a noise that the sexton took William by the collar and told him to leave his fire engines at home when he came to worship.  The other day I saw him going up the street with a model of a grain elevator sticking out of his hip pocket, and he is fixing up an improved shot tower in our bed-room.”

RECIPES.

A hot shovel held over furniture removes white spots.

A paste of equal parts of sifted ashes, clay, salt, and a little water cements cracks in stoves and ovens.

Fried potatoes:  Chop fine cold boiled potatoes; heat some butter in a frying pan and put the potatoes in.  A few minutes before taking them from the fire stir in some well beaten eggs.  Serve hot.

Sardines picked up fine, and mixed with cold boiled ham also minced fine, and all well seasoned with a regular Mayonnaise dressing, make a delicious filling for sandwiches.

Rye Bread:  Make sponge as for wheat bread; let it rise over night; then mix up with rye flour, not as stiff as wheat bread.  Place in baking pans; let rise, and bake half an hour longer than wheat bread.

One of the best ways to cure sore throat is as follows:  Wring a cloth out of salt and cold water, and keeping it quite wet bind tightly about the neck.  Cover this with a dry cloth.  It is best to use this remedy in the night.

A delicious hot sauce for puddings is made of six tablespoonfuls of sugar, two of butter, and one egg; beat the butter, sugar, and the yolk of the egg together, then add the white beaten to a froth; lastly stir in a tea-cupful of boiling water and a teaspoonful of vanilla.

A Dish for Breakfast:  Take six good cooking apples, cut them in slices one-fourth of an inch thick; have a pan of fresh, hot lard ready, drop the slices in and fry till brown; sprinkle a little sugar over them and serve hot.

A little curry-powder in chopped pickle gives a delicious flavor to it.  A tablespoonful of the powder to four quarts of pickle is about the right quantity to use, unless you like to use the curry in place of pepper; then at least twice this quantity should be put in.

A good way to extract the juice of beef for an invalid is to broil the beef on a gridiron for a few minutes, and then squeeze the juice from it with a lemon-squeezer.  Put a little salt with it.  This may be given, as the sick one prefers, cold or hot, or it may be frozen, and given in small lumps.