With melons use a little corn bread.

Cucumbers in a salad with other vegetables will be found an eliminator. Still, there are some who cannot digest cucumbers, and such should let good enuf alone.

Krepleks for lunch are always satisfying, providing they constitute all of the menu to be ordered. Cottage cheese rolled in a hot pancake and then rebaked makes the better kind of krepleks.

Waffles with strained gooseberry sauce also make a fine lunch. Cottage cheese cobblers or fruit cobblers prove a delicacy for lunch or dinner.

Blinzeks are eggdoughpancakes in opposition to eggless griddlecakes or wheatcakes.

The manually engaged will find clabber and true buttermilk a tonic, and most wholesome in combination with tubers of all kinds.

Abstain from creams that are sold over the bargain counter. If a good, reputable cream is not handy, simply resort to almond oil.

A hot bath and a cup of hot tea will prove far more refreshing and invigorating than a frugal meal.

Teas are more effective during the hot season. Coffee retains the heat and is apt to dry the skin. Be wise.

Cold cream and vegetable essence rubs cannot be too highly recommended at this

season.

Live according to the dictates of the season, but should you be taken unawares with cramps, belching, gas or any irritation causing discomfort, remember oil of eucalyptus, in drop doses, will always bring about the desired effect.

Permanganate of potash, in quantities of three crystals to a tumblerful of warm water, is still the most powerful mouth wash, while a mouthful of the permanganate water swallowed will sweeten the breath and cleanse the stomach.

With the advance of the season use less fried foods; confine yourself to sunbaked and sunkissed dishes.

Altho it is best to abstain from fried foods, fried and baked dishes are permitted occasionally. A baked dish is to be preferred, as in frying there is a possibility of scorching.

Steamed and boiled dishes should not be indulged in freely; in fact, abstain altogether. Do not tempt nature or God, even if you do have an iron constitution at present. Time shall tell.

PRACTICAL RELIGION

Hygiene aims at a healthy mind in a healthy body, and it will help us to understand the psychology of the times if we reverse the common conception of sanity which assumes that all but the few in asylums are perfectly sane. But there is no definite standard of sanity, and it is only a question of degree.

The world has never been so insane as it is today. Young men and impressionable women are most affected.

Threats of revolution and the elements of discontent, nerve strain, unrest and unemployment were present to give it birth, but the element essential to any revolution-a

great cause-was wanting. Revolution is an attempt to reach some goal in a hurry, and generally destroys more than it builds up. The whole nation, but especially labor itself, is indebted to the restraining influence of labor leaders, who saw that revolution was bound to fail-with disastrous results.

Two peaceful revolutions are prominent today: The labor cause and woman's socalled emancipation. The one affects the country's future and the other the future race, but both are going too fast.

The woman's movement is marked less by emancipation than by climbing down to the level of men. Many desire to save women from the strain of professional and commercial life, but, while disproportion of the sexes remain, justice demands that every vocation should be free and open to them. But where women are up against the laws of nature, nature is bound to win. The primary duty is maternity, and, if this is evaded, there is an end to all things.

I have investigated the question of the falling birth rate in France thirty years ago, and conclude that the chief cause affecting maternity was the psychological influence

traceable to the degree in which French women shared their husband's worries in business as well as in the home. Excitement and gaiety also adversely affected the birth rate, and, altho we are advised to take particular care of our baby boys, we must also see to our future mothers, who hold the destiny of the Empire in their lap.

Hygiene is a very practical religion, closely allied to Christianity, and, as its principles require temperance in all things, it is suggested as a remedy for social unrest. Foods and feeding are one of the chief means by which to restore bodies and minds to normal condition. Dissipation in drink is not so harmful as dissipation in food. Both are poisons when taken to excess, but the first is got rid of more quickly than the second.

The doctrine of prohibition is scientifically false, because stimulants serve a useful purpose in their proper place and are a necessity to the weak and aged. But no young, healthy people require stimulants, which should be prohibited to all under twenty.

Slums have always been a problem, and many of those who live in them would make slums wherever they went. I suggest as a