have grown stouter and stouter. 0, melrcy! Obesity!" Mrs. Snow melted into tears. , "Cheer up, darling ! I will lead you to a realization of straight front dreams. See me. Am I not a sylph? Last summer I, too rolled under the chin and shook when laughed- like the proverb ial cup full of jelly." It was the Boston sister who spoke. Mrs. Snow perked up perceptably. "Tell me," was all she could say. The Boston lady then explain ed as follows : "It is a new treat ment and came here from Paris. The idea is that the only-Way to reduce is to exercise and the test, exercise is stooping. ' Following the advice pi a friend, I cut up a piece of paper, vchopping it into thousands of Bits. These I scat-' tered on the paflor floor. TheVF went down on my knees and pick ed these pieces up. I worked for hours, having no mercy on- my poqr ham bones or my tired hands. , You have rib" idea, by dear, what a strain that is, but I stuck to ft. When I had cornered and seized the last tiny bit of paper I fell over half dead. But Tfelt much betterwhen I weighed myself and found that I had lost two pounds. I kept at the plan day after day. Those scales in the kitchen com pensated me for alll suffered." "Have you any paper and scis sors handy?" inquired Mrs. Snow after her brother-in-law had re tired to bed that riight. From 10 o'clock until mid-night she pur sued the festive "scraps, losing three younds. Sh'e reduced to her during her six present weight weeks visit. In Boston everybody's doing it. Some of ' Mns. Snow's afflicted friends urthis city will probably be doing ?t, too, after reading this. v ,. ..- CHEESE RECIPES . r Italian Macaroni and Cheese. One cupful of macaroni broken ' into small pieces, 2-quarts of boil ing salted water, Jtonion, 2 cloves, y2 cupfuls. of tomato sauce yi cupful or more of 'grated ' cheese. , Cook-the macaroni in the boil ing salted "water .with the onion and cloves. Drain' remove the onion and clove;, reheat in, toma-, to sauce, and. serye'with grated cheese. ' Baked, Crackers andAChees.e. Nine br 10 butter trackers or soda crackers 2 cupfuls of hot milk, whole or skimmed, l'cupfiil of grated cheese,v - teaspoonful of salt. , J v t Soak the jrrackers in the milk; place tljem in a buttered baking' dish in alternate layers with the cheese; pour the regaining millc over them and bake. This dish may be covered with buttered crumbs. Variety .may be secured, in either this recipe o"r the pre ceding one, by puttfng a very small amount of niixed' mustard on each cracker, oo - Ten-inning games only post pone somebody's sorrow. V a -v -m m t: v. i' uiK