OUR SPOILT PETS.

"Cottage, suitable for pigs and poultry."--_Birmingham
Daily Mail_.

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"SUSAN'S PUDDING.--This is a super-excellent pudding, and,
as times go, the cost of the material used is not excessive.
Required: One cup each of flour, breadcrumbs, raisins (stoned
and chopped), currants (washed and dried), also a teacupful
of baking powder.... If served only on occasion--a special
occasion--the most scrupulously careful housewife should not
be troubled by uneasy sensations."--_Bristol Times and Mirror_.

We should--after a teacupful of baking powder.

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[Illustration: THE BELGIAN "MENACE."

KAISER. "IF I GRANT YOU MY GRACIOUS PARDON, WILL YOU PROMISE NOT
TO TERRORISE ME AGAIN?"

{"Belgium would be required to give a guarantee that any such
menace as that which threatened Germany in 1914 would in future be
excluded."--_German Foreign Secretary to Papal Nuncio at Munich_.}]

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