12.  PIE FOR DYSPEPTICS.—­Four tablespoonfuls of oatmeal, one pint of water; let stand for a few hours, or until the meal is swelled.  Then add two large apples, pared and sliced, a little salt, one cup of sugar, one tablespoonful of flour.  Mix all well together and bake in a buttered dish; makes a most delicious pie, which can be eaten with safety by the sick or well.

13.  APPLE TAPIOCA PUDDING.—­Soak a teacup of tapioca in a quart of warm water three hours.  Cut in thin slices six tart apples, stir them lightly with the tapioca, add half cup sugar.  Bake three hours.  To be eaten with whipped cream.  Good either warm or cold.

14.  GRAHAM MUFFINS.—­Take one pint of new milk, one pint graham or entire wheat flour; stir together and add one beaten egg.  Can be baked in any kind of gem pans or muffin rings.  Salt must not be used with any bread that is made light with egg.

15.  STRAWBERRY DESSERT.—­Place alternate layers of hot cooked cracked wheat and strawberries in a deep dish; when cold, turn out on platter; cut in slices and serve with cream and sugar, or strawberry juice.  Wet the molds with cold water before using.  This, molded in small cups, makes a dainty dish for the sick.  Wheatlet can be used in the same way.

16.  FRUIT BLANC MANGE.—­One quart of juice of strawberries, cherries, grapes or other juicy fruit; one cup water.  When boiling, add two tablespoonfuls sugar and four tablespoonfuls cornstarch wet in cold water; let boil five or six minutes, then mold in small cups.  Serve without sauce, or with cream or boiled custard.  Lemon juice can be used the same, only requiring more water.  This is a very valuable dish for convalescents and pregnant women, when the stomach rejects solid food.

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SAVE THE GIRLS.

1.  PUBLIC BALLS.—­The church should turn its face like flint against the public ball.  Its influence is evil, and nothing but evil.  It is a well known fact that in all cities and large towns the ball room is the recruiting office for prostitution.

2.  THOUGHTLESS YOUNG WOMEN.—­In cities public balls are given every night, and many thoughtless young women, mostly the daughters of small tradesmen and mechanics, or clerks or laborers, are induced to attend “just for fun.”  Scarcely one in a hundred of the girls attending these balls preserve their purity.  They meet the most desperate characters, professional gamblers, criminals and the lowest debauchees.  Such an assembly and such influence cannot mean anything but ruin for an innocent girl.

3.  VILE WOMEN.—­The public ball is always a resort of vile women who picture to innocent girls the ease and luxury of a harlot’s life, and offer them all manner of temptations to abandon the paths of virtue.  The public ball is the resort of the libertine and the adulterer, and whose object is to work the ruin of every innocent girl that may fall into their clutches.