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Exeter Advocate, 1911-10-26, Page 7Hints for Busy Housekeepers. POIlees a4 °titer Valuable Information 11 Particular lakerest to Women Polka. CURING MEAT, The methods of keeping meats the rear around is well known to far- Merewives, but a myetery to most town housekeepers. A good sized piece of meat may be bought ad- vantageouely and cerned, after cut - thee, off a portion to be used in its fresh state. The rump is best to wen. Beef tengues, fresh ham, veal, or mutton are excellent when corned. A pickle for corning meat in email quantities is made as follow : Four Pounds of eoaree salt, eight quarts of water, twit pomade of browe eu- gar, one-half pound of saltpetre; stir until salt and sugar aae clis- eolved; then boil and skim, letting the mixture become cold before pourbig over the 'neat. Turn the meat in the pielele every day for 4 Week, Which will give it a Atm eoior and liaver, During the eummer this pickle may be boiled over with an )1,ddition a one cup of salt and one cup of brown sneer to one quart of water, when it will keep sweet for tieverel weeks, A. plete Clean flat stono )nust be used to keep the meat beneath the pickle. A lage beef tongue will have to be kept -in the pielde fourteen days before. it is ready for use. Dried Be--Seleet a. round of beef andedivide in two parts through thexuiddle, rejecting the bone, For twelve petunia of meat allow one- hal/ pounti of fine Salt, one qaert ter ounee a Pulverized saltnetre, end one-half pound of brown auger. Rub this mixture. iuto the meat every Morning until it is all used up. At the end of this time hang up in the'smokehouee for two weeks to dry. An excess of emoke will ruin the ilue-or, Pew town people have a &Poke- I:louse, and this method will be fennel a very good euleefitate. Drive nails around the top a a tight her - rel, fill an iron pan or pail half full aShos, build a fire, on top of these. Hang the meat by a tout twine on the nails, plaee a, hoard over the top of th.e barrel, and cover tight- ly with an old blanket. This me- thod has been tried in the back yard a a eity residence and found practical for smoking two hams, two pieces of beef, and two suet - sages. If two or three families will olith together and buy their meat whole- sale. they will find that their meat bills will be about one-third what it usually costs. GOOD THINGS TO EAT. Yellow Oucumbers.-Take six largo yellow cucumbers, peel and i cut n half, remove seeds and eut in pieces about two inches; add two and a half handfuls 'of salt and leave stand over night. Next moaning Wash off and lay pieces on cloth to dry. Put ono quart of vinegar on to boil and add three cupfuls of sugar. Put in cucumbers, fetv at a time, have jars ready when cucum- ber is clear, but not soft, then put in jars; add some white mustard seed and seal. Pickled Onions. -Take a, half peck of little white onions, leave in water over night, peel and put in water again over night, adding a hand- ful of salt. Next morning lay on- ions on cloth to dry. Boit three quarts of vinegar, three tablespoon- fuls of sugar, one-third handtel of round alspiee four or five bay, I.ea,ves, one-half handful of whole bla,ek pepper. Put onions in jaa- and cover with the vinegar; add a half teaspoonfgul of ground red pepper. Tie cloth over to keep steam in. Dill Picklesa-Take one-half peck of qul pickles, ten cents' worth of dill. Wash pickles and lay a layer of dill on bottom of a one-half gal- lon jar, then a layer of pickles, and so on until all is used, last layer being dill. Cover with enough salt water and a •stone, so -as to keep pickles well under water. Good Quince Jelly. -Take italf a peck of quince wash and eut in quarters and acid enough water to cover even, boil till soft, then pet in bag and let drain all night. Add a clipful of sugar to every cup.of juice. Boil until a little on ceneer thickens. You can do the same with grapes, crab apples, and skins of pea cites and pear. Do not add wafer when making grape jelly. M A LIMAI A ItE. Orange -Select one orange and • one lenion with a thin skin. Cut in slices and then in cubes. To this add six cupfuls of water. Let stand over night,. Next morning boil twenty minutes, measure liquicl, and to one cupful of mixture add hne cupful ef sugar. Boil evenly for one- half hour, or until it jells. This ill make eight medium sized glas- Ilittb;irli.-Six cups 01111 -pub cot in ,small pieces, ttx cups of grasp - lat,ed sugar, two large ca.- ftittr alines cut in thin slices. skin aid Boil all together ttntil snd.1 irt pitit fruit ,jaree cions. '- Goldenrod Nlai'malati rece ,and rad troin riud watermelon. Cut white rind !nto equares and lay in iield tveter over night. Next mornput threugh food choppait, c Aver with cold water, and let eome to boil; then drain. Repeat twice, then boil until tender. Put pulp through hopper and when the rind e are tender, put all into one kettle with five' pound e of granulated sugar, bail for two hours and put into jars. This marmalade is a beauti- ful golden color and delicious. CELERY. Celery and Olteese.-Stew until tender celery cut into one inch pieces. Take opo eup of water left after removing the eelery and add. it (the water) to a rich white sauce, Sfir into this sauce enough grated cheese to make in a rieh yellow in eolor. Put the previonely prepar- ed eelery into a baking dib, pour the' eauee over it, and cever thickly, with bread crumbs that have been browned in melted butter, Heat in ovee a few Inieutee. Creamegl Celery and Almonds. Deop celery eut into inch lengths int() boiling water, Stew anal ten- der. Make a rich cream sauce and stir into it one-half eup of blanched chopped almonds. Add this sauee to the drained celery. Serve hat. Pried Celery Sticks. -Cut celery into pieeee four inches in length. Stea,rn until partly tender. Take from water, eool, roll in egg and eracker erumbs, fry in hot fat. Pile in log cabin fashion en plate and Serve hot. POPULAR RECIPES, Quick Coffee Cake. -One table- epeonful butter' elle tablespoonful 111,1Vd, one pinchsalt, one -cupful eugar, one egg, beat all together; three and oue-half eupfuls flour, two teaspoonfuls baking polder, add enough milk to make a Wit bat. ter. Put sliced apples on top, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. Sliced peaches are also nice. Sour Cream Cookies. -Two eggs, one and one-half cupfuls sugar, three-fourths cup butter, three- fourths eup sour cream, or milk, ono -half teaspoonful cinnamon, one- half teaspoonful nutmeg, 'oneefourth teaspoonful cloves, one teaspoon- ful soda, a pinch of salt, three and one-half -cupfuls flour, ono -half tea- spoonful baking powder. This re- cipe will inake about fifty cookies. Apple Snow. -Boil about five ap- ples to a, pulp, sweetening to taste. When cool placo in a large bowl, together with the white of one egg, juice of one lemon, and •one cup of sugar. Beat the. mixture about thirty minutes with a wire egg beat- er. The result is three times the amount you started with, enough to serve ten people. Tomato Relish. -One peck ripe tomatoes, chopped and drained over tight in a bag, two cups chopped celery, two eups chopped onions, three green peppers chopped, one quart strong vinegar, two pounds brown sugar, three tablespoonfuls salt, two tablespoonfuls oinnamon, two ounces mustard seed. Stir all together well, bottle and seal. No cooking. Keeps any length of time. • GRAPES. Grape Juice. -To two gallons of grapes put three quarts of water; cover' and let boil until grapes break. Steam, and to six quarts of juice add two pounds of granulated eugar. Itet,, come to a boil, skim, put into bottles hot, and seal.,. Grape Sherbet. -Two pounds Concord grapes, two lemons, one quart water, one pound sugar; lay a square of cheesecloth over a large bowl; put in the washed grapes and mash thoroughly; squeeze out all the juice and add an equal amount of sugar, the lemon juice. Ilse sugay enough to make, it quite sweet, then freeze. ATTRACTIVE RECIPES. Pumpkin Pie. -One cup pumpkin cooked fine, one egg, one level tablespoonful of flour, two-thirds of a cupful of sogar or sweeter if de- sired, a pinch of salt, one-ha,lf tea- spoonful ginger, one-quarter tea- spoonful cinnainon or allspice, enough milk to 'fill one pie. Balte, with lowercrust only and brown slightly on top. Tart Filling --Lembn or oranne paste for tarts t Juice of "on.elenaen or orange and pulp; One egg, one cupful:(..7f sugar, one tablespoonful of nieltecl butter. Set it in boiling water to thicken. Put on the tart crusts. If they are -deep enough telt ca,n be floated. liChUSEHOT.,D HINTS. Scrubbing brushes, if hung in,the air. will last twice as long as they v-ould if allowed to lie in a clanip :SVIon, sticking label.s on canisters add a little' honey to the ilottr and water paste,- anc. then tlo paper wifl not peel • off. , After triinmirige,a letup. turn ,the wicks,.dowti•a: • Se when lighted the 'bo.711 fO1.1,41, be cover- Steaming is better than boiling for fish fowl, or poultry. All the; juices of the meat are retaioed and nothing is wasted. A Larder Ilint.-If a ham, a piece ef -bacon, ois some spiced beef is on hand, be sure to turn the meat daily and put it on a clean dish., When buying apples select the heaviest, for they are the beet, also take those which, when pressed with the, thumb, yield te it with a slight cracking noise. Stewing is the best and most eco- nomical way of cooking meat, It needs very little heat, and tlee vege- tables, so necessary for the flavor, increase the bulk, A Discolored Teapot. -If your not is of rough ehina. or pottery you may. have eome difficult- in gettiog rid of the stains. Stand ammonia and water in it and then scrub well with erystal soap, Repeat till clean, Diffieulty is often met with ii heating 'whites of eggs, -when, they absolutely refuse to froth. Do not be discouraged, but for every egg , white add two drops of pure glycere; ine, then they will whip quickly to a froth light and stiff. The glycer- ine is harmless and merely has a drying effeet, causing the eveporee tion of moisture from the egg. It is an excess of moisture which exe eludes the air from the cells of albu- men, Also add the glycerine to fresh eggs and they will froth in half of the usual time required. The boy() has been proved by repeated experiments, • • THE SUNDAY SCI1001. STUDY INTERNATIONAL, LESSON, OCTOBER 23. Lesson psalm of deliveranee, Psa. S. Golden Text, 1.>$4., 126. 3. A Pabu of the eons af Korah - There are two groups of psalms in this third book of the Psalter. The sons of Korah, who were, respell,ible for those from 64 to 80, made up a guild of singers connected with the temple, and these psalms were collected by thein for the temple service. The yest of the book, Psalms 73-83, were collected by the sons of Asaph, who held a similar position. Verse 1. Thou has been favorable -The first three verses breathe a spirit et gratitude for the mercies of Jehovah in bringing home the captive people, forgiving their ini and taking. away his wrath. Thy land --Judah was in a. special sense the chosen territory of God for the working out of his redemp- tive purpose. The captivity of Tucoh-Referring in particular to the period of sev- enty years in the land and under the sway of Babylon. Jacob is an- other name for Israel (Gen. 32. 2. Selah-This word occurs 74 times in -the Hebrew Bible and 71 times in the Psalter. There is no uniform tradition as to its precise meaning. The most acceptable theory makes it a kind of musical interlude, -the 'instruments at this point sounding forth loud, while the voices of the singers ceased. 3. Taken away all thy wrath -All the prophets looked upon the cala- mities -that befell, Israel as sure signs of -the displeasure of God. The smile of prosperity meant that the divine anger was averted, and had given place to favor. All these de- scriptions of passion in God are, of course a human way of epeaking. But they deelarea great fact. The wrath Of God is nota weakness in him. It indicates the intensity oE his antagonism to all evil. 4. Turn us -We have here a pray- er for the restoration of God's fa- vor (verses 4-7). "Turn to us" ex- presses this more accurately. A dis- conraging hour has arrived. It may be that hour fust before the ,build- ing of the temple, oreit may reflect the state of things in the troublotts times of Nehemiah. • 5. Draw out thine anger --It seem- ed to the. weary people, after their hard captivity that , the tokens of Jehovah's displeasure ought now to cease, and not be dragged out for the coming genera -Herm 6- Quicken US again-Ezekiers vision of the valley of dry bones, and the wonderful reawakening of life within them may have been in the mind of the singer `a The pro- phecies of restoratiot,2 imply a be- lief in the spiritual and temporal resuscitation of the nation. ,' 7'. Thy loving kindness -A prayer for that particular manifestation of ib Which would be at once' eviden t in Prosperity attending the efforts to re -'establish the nation. Salvation, in like manner, was, in this case, a deliverance from threatening evils. But in a, deeper, inner sense, these words can even now he made a prayer of any humble heart seeking the evidences of God's loving re- gard. 8-13.---4 delightfal intim of the sure results of answered prayer. 8. I will hear -He has been sppak ing- to. Jehovahhe now listens to what Jehovah has to say. It is a wise counsel that, directs the w shipper not only to , saeak often with Cocl, but to tie .4 oftei to him, cwsl soeolt p9ace runt( his peo- ,ple-There' is sure to be peace re- stored in the hearts of the forgiven. And there is certain forgiveness for those who have no disPesition to turn again to folly. Sincere re- pentance has its fruit in a storn re- fusal, to turn back again to the old life, 9, Salvation is nigh -He has prayed for salvation, and now he receives this message concerning it -that it is ever present to those 'who reverence Jehovah with be- coming fear, The presenee of God's SalVatiOU is Eke the glory of the Shekinah which abode in the talter- naole (Excel. 4-0. 34,3'5). 10. Mercy and truth -When God brings his salvation nigh, he shows mercy, but he does not compromise. his eharacter. So the Word came to dwell among men, full of both grace and truth (John 1). These at- tributes of the divine life, together with the righteousness which is the fruitage of the inward salvation, and the peaoe which abides in the heart of the upright, are to adorn the lives of men also. A new won- der is to appear; truth, a charac- teristic of the life of God, is to spring up out of the soil of earth (11). And righteousness (11), which dwells Alone with God, is to condet scend to stoop from heaven to the lowly habitation of Inen'e hearts. Thus a perfect harmony is to be effected between earth and he,a- n. This was in keeping with the most advanced ideas of the Jewish. prophets. Their heaven was a, re- habilitated earth. In. Yea, Jehovah will give good --Net only blesainge of a lofty spiritual nature, but everyday mer- cies as well, such as an increase in the 'productiveness of the land. The psalmist speaks of our land with a peculiar and patriotic affeetion, The Messianic reign, to the Hebrew, meant.outward conditions of peace and peosperite, as a,. pledge of vine favor, 13. Righteousness -4t is repre- sented as a herald going before Jehovah, opening up the way for the restored nation to walk in, that a, bright awl safe future may be assured God's people, All the ways of Jehovah are right ways. ELECTRIFIED CHILDREN. Reports of Expe--rintents in Sweden in Hastening Their Growth. Interesting investigations ioto the effects of electrieity upon the development of achool children have recently boon made in. Stock- holm says the Dietetic) and Hy- gienic Gazette. The walls and ceilings of a schoolroom wore lined with a coil of wires through which a high frequency current was passed. The children in the room were thus in the position of an iron core in the centre of a magnetiz- ing coil. Fifty children were kept in this room, while fifty others of the same average age, size and mental development were kept in an aid - joining without, electrical treat- ment. It, is stated that at the end of six months the children under electrical treatment showed an av- erage growth of two inches, while those. without electricity grew only 1.3 inches. The electrified children showed an increase in weight in propor- tion to their height. The electrifi- ed children also showed an aver- age proficiency in their studies of 92 per cent., and fifteen of them showed 100 per cent. The unelect- rified children, on the other hand, were only 75 per cent. proficient on the average and not one of them reached 100 per cent. It is added tha the electrified children appeared to be much brighter,. quicker and more active. They were prompter in attendance and intichl less subject to fatigue. The teachers also showed supedior working capacity in the electrified room. While there was an odor of ozone in the room, it was held that the presence of ozone would not ac- count for the results observed. CONSUMPTION ° OF ALCOHOL. The consumption of alcohol is diminishing in France and the big- ger the city the more marked is the diminution. Dr. Jacques Bertillon has just drawn up stat- istics- showing the consumption of alcohol since 1900 in thirty-three French cities The main factor in causing the decrease is the ap- plication of the law of 1807, which exempted wine and beer and great- ly increased the taxes on distilled beverages. Formerly the consump- tion of alcohol was in all cities uniform, at 7 to '8 litres a head, while -it was only 2 litres 81 cen- tilitres in the country distracts. Since 1901 , the' consumption has dropped to 6 littes in towns of from 11000 to 10,000 inhabitants and to 4 litres 23 centilitres in cities of more than 50,000 inhabi- tants. In the country districts there has been no change. GERM -PROOF HOUSE. A doctor in Yokohama ,*Japan, lias built himself a house ,that is iteini:nctnedyesat.ietelsrl,e).egiing 7:..,,oiNt.111. proo against nncrobes The walls are built: of hollow bricks oF glass, hutIon7c ,alt and ° al'en,n11.3: whish r adtthe hou "twat; throi atited l ROYAL CITY OF RICHM0110 THE BEAL:MI.1.M OLD TOWN NEA.R LONDON. A Favorite Place of Residence for the Kings and queenof England. The fact that King Manoel haa beeu tiring at Richmond, reminds one of the numerous associations with royalty which the old town possesses, says the English Lady's Pictorial. King Manoel really only followed the example of early Kings of England. Edward I. and II. resided at Sheen, as Richmond was then call- ed, and Edward TIL died there in 1377. Richard II. 4fter the death of his Queen at the Palace Part1.-411Y demolished the building and Henry restored it, In 1498 the palace was burnt., but Henry VII, rebuilt it, giving it his own name of Rich- mond, and died there in 1509. It is recorded too that a foreign Ring was entertained there in tine sixteenth ceptury, for PhilipI., Xing of Spain, having been driven upon the coast of England by a storm, was entertained in this palace with great magnificence in the year 1506% and in 1523 Charles V., Emperor et Germany, was lodg- ed at Richmond. Henry VIII, was ouly an ekoca- sionel resident, preferring Hamp- ton Court, Ad when Wolsey's palace) wart transferred to the King the Cardinal reeeived permission. to reside at Richmond. Being ac- euetomed to THE PRESENCE OF ROYALTY. Riolunend did nottake kindly to the *hang° and Hall says: "When the commen people, and oxspecially such as had been ser - Yenta to Houry VII., saw the Card- inal keep house in the Manor Royal of Richmond, which that monarch so highly esteemed, it was a marvel to hear how they grudged, saying, 'So a butcher's clogge doth die in the manor of 'Richmond,'" Queen Elizabeth was a short period a prisoner at Richmond during the reign, <>I Mary, and even forcible) detention there could not blind her to the charms of the place, so that in her own reign the palace was ono of her favorite residences, and a royal visitor in the time of of Queen Elizabeth was Eric V., dKiielidga°:Rtlecimaenli. dinQuIe6e0131. Elizabeth Ono may assume that the place was a favorite of Charles L, as he enclosed the Richmond Park. Lord Buckhurst and Edward Sa-ckville in 1636 performed a masque before tho King and Queen at Richmond, Richt mond Palace suffered very greatly during the civil war; practically the whole place was pulled down and only a very small portion of the old building now remains. Richmond, too, has many associa- tions with the a eorges, as has Twickenham, just across the river. Marble Hill, Twickenham, one of the es,tates in the neighborhood now devoted to -public uses, was built by George II. for his favorite Mrs. Howard, afterward C/OTJNTESS OF SUFFOLK, and the plain looking building is hardly perhaps so magnificent as one would expect from a place of which, according to Swift, "Mr. Pope was the contriver of the gar- dens, Lord Herbert the architect and the Dean of St. Patrick's (him- self) chief butler and keeper of the icehouse." Mrs. .Fitzherbert, the beautiful morganatic wife of George IV., whom he married ,when -Prince of Wales, also lived at Marble Hill.' 'Twickenham is associated . with France's royal family and Orleans House received itS name when the Duke of Orleans came to reside' there in 1800. York House, Twick- enham, whore Queen Anne was born, was for many years the resid- ence of the Comte de Paris and is now in possession of Ratan Tata, a wealthy Indian. Crossing the river once more we can inspect the romantic Ham House, which is full of legends of ;the past. In its earlier days Ham House had royal associotions until it came into possession of Sir Lionel Tollemache through his wife, Elizabeth. Countless of Dysart. Her second husbeed was the. Dillso Lauderdale and it was a.t Ham Honse that the meeting of the Cabal 'took plaoe. One of the most, pie- Ituresomatraditions---a tra than dis- proved, however --is that, the, iron sir,j'e thev werb shut on Charles 1. shooting box of GeOrl,;(' 111. is one Of the evidences of how the park of Charles T. upward, and it is only in comparativelv recePt 1112,t 'din numbers of plantations have' ben redluaed the oPflortnilitie-$--fr'r sport 'clitnini;litni. pncl iniidentaUv , - 4 much or tho wild lite of the, park cs1 1.1 wh ,lonno fRii:JIM An plcape ground over the Thames Val etr are mond Park of aecent yeas have` ma''It'heehlecsislief masoelationo of been in conneetion with White Lodge, the residence for ,so many years of the Teck family, where the present Queen spent her early life; abnodruw. hers the Prince of Wales was; Everything is royal at Itiehniond down to the ancient watermen's regatta, ad eveu the humble cheese cake is there a “maid of honor." Remnants of royal barges quito recently lay 10 the boat yards and doubtless the surroundings in- duced a former N. P. to be ais- contente4 with ordinary modes of ;progression on the river and to arnekee a sntoapt j ed buar nr geey.S urposv,t,reeda m bir; gay coated watermen. But that has gone with the Maria. Wood, last relic of ancient City procession& upstream and Richinond s now content to be modern, but not so modern as neighboring places which disfigures their roadways with use- ful but inelegant and unronaantie trams. Richmond lias its share of water- side men, who as King'a Watermen show something of the old page- antry el the river on state occa, sions, among them the King'a Tiargemaster, who iu private life is the host of A RIVERSIDE IN, but on such a State occasion as a coronation fetches the regalia from the Tower and takes his place in quaint, old fashioned costume at the head of the sovereign's pro- eeeeion, If itunor that a residence for then Prince of Wales may eventually be found in Richmond proves eorrectl. the town will rejoice greatly, Mean-', while it bas this year welcomed as a resident Pot -the heir to a throne, but an exiled sovereign, and one't may hope that the residence in thet town of King Manuel may have' some effect in making Richmond' once more a fashionable centre, for, of late years the place has suffered through the motor ear making it: "too near town." In turning over old books of the Manses One is apt to muse aver old masques, fetes and pageants and compare them favorably with mod- ern efforts at the pieturesque; but one must doubt if Pepys or Evelyn saw anything so brilliant as the , Themes fetes which Richmond still gives us at times. or if the dandies nt Ditton offered to their guests anything more charming than the modern carnivals. CREE CISTERNS OF SUDAN. The Natives' Method of Obtaining Water in the Dry Season. In view of the many suggestions made for the bringing down of rains it is interesting to note that in the Geziradistrict to the south ot Khar- tum whenever a drought is threat- ening all the children are sent into -- the fields and are made to clap their hands and shout vigorously, writes a. Cairo correspondent of. the Pall Mall Gazette. The idea is that ramn. will be brought down. and the little boys and girls are kept out in the open gee at this game until the wished for. result his been obtained. This year there have been rainstorms in superabundance in the district, so the children's intercession hasnot been required, or perhaps the ab- normal rainfall is due to their vigorous action in the past. The latest Sudan Times gives a' most interesting account of one of the means of which the inhabitants of Kordofan provide themselves with a copious water supply in that arid springless reigon. It is, nothing more or less than the adansonia cligitata, called by the natives homr, but Commoniy katown as tebeldi. These tebeldi trees: are from 10 to 25 feet in diameter; they grow to a considerable height, with trunks about 20 to 30 feet and fine branches, giving avast amount of shade. Strange to say, tile trunks aro naturally hollow and are 'thus used as cisterns for the storage of water. Should the, cavities not be large enough file natives scoop them out farther. An opening is made either in the side of the, trunk near the top or right atthe top where the branches start. In the former ease the tree is filled with buckets 'from pools which are dug at the foot of the tree to col- lect the rainwater during the rainy season. In the latter ease the tree is filled by nature when the ram n tails• the bianc, es acting as sort' of gutters. " At tim,s the tiees ou his oCellr very rattly, and the , trunks are no longer of any use as reservoirs FOWCA latelY the resourceful' native Flab adopted eemont a, a means of stopping up the cracks aUcl a large numberof 1 b{1 js in 1.C1 anertet 11 \C4'1111.1.11)oertIc'sl ePeaiii1O'du, presence of such a large quantit of water in thi trunk 111 no wise 3n pedes its growth, .and it is certai ly °lie of the snot, iiigenione 'ices nftat.c.:t tor cireuniv t" ural•cli 515