Now is the season of the fruit short-cake, and from this, on the household journal and the domestic departments of the dailies that do not contain several receipts for mailing the different varieties of this delicious dessert will be deficient in their make-up. As a matter of particular information it should be stated that whenever a cooking receipt calls for a baking powder the "Royal" should be used. The receipt will be found to work better and surer, and the biscuit, rolls, cakes, short-cakes, dumplings, crusts, puddings, crullers, or whatever made, will be produced sweeter, lighter, finer flavored, more dainty, palatable, and wholesome. Besides, the "Royal" will go further or has greater leavening power, and is therefore more economical than any other powder. The greater consideration, however, is the added delicacy of flavor, the uniform fineness of the article that are always insured. Many receipts as published still call for cream of tartar and soda, the old-fashioned way of raising. Modern cooking and expert cooks do not sanction this old way. In all such receipts the Royal Baking Powder should be substituted without fail. The greatest adepts in the culinary art are particular to use the Royal only, and the authors of the most popular cook-books and the teachers of the successful cooking-schools, with whom the best results are imperative, are careful to impress their readers and pupils with the importance of its exclusive employment. The Royal Baking Powder is the greatest help of modern times to perfect cooking, and every receipt requiring a quick-raising ingredient should embody it.--_The Caterer._ ADVERTISEMENTS. Right KIND OF Tires * * * * * FOR RACING No. 75 Hartford Single Tubes--the standard racing tires, the kind Bald rode in 1895. FOR PLEASURE No. 80 Hartford Single-Tubes--the standard fast road tires, delightful, buoyant, comfortable. [Illustration: Hartford Single Tube Tires] FOR SECURITY No. 77 Hartford Single-Tubes--the standard tires for those who are willing to sacrifice a little speed for greater security from puncture. The ideal tire for tandems. FOR ROUGH SERVICE No. 70 Hartford Single-Tubes--the standard tires for rocky, hilly country. * * * * * THE HARTFORD RUBBER WORKS CO. HARTFORD, CONN. NEW YORK. CHICAGO. Arnold Constable & Co * * * * * FASHIONABLE FOULARDS. Importations by latest steamers. CANVAS GRENADINES, MOHAIRS. * * * * * Broadway & 19th st. NEW YORK. [Illustration: THOMPSON'S EYE WATER] [Illustration: BICYCLING]