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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1911-12-14, Page 7111,(ISCELLANEOUS RECIPES. Baked Mackerel -Soak salt mack- erel over oight to remove brine; wash woll, butter pie ,disii, roll mackerel 3a flour and put in dish, skin side down; cover with milk, add few small pieces ,of butter and bake forty-five, minutes. Apricot Sauce. -Use one pound of evaporated apples, one-fourth Pound el dried aPricots, stew to- , gether, stirring while boiling, to mix, and prevent burning. Sauce Coloring. --Burn sugar in a roast pan until it is black. Then pour a little water at a time on the sugar, let it boil every time it is liquid. Pour -it in a little bet - tel and when. needed lake a tea- spoonful •of this eolor and mix with the sauce. Baked Mushrooms. --The caps or tops of mushrooms, after they are washed, can best be cooked by lay- ing them on slices of buttered bread with a dash of salt mad pepper and Srilan bit of butter in each eup. Rake them in a hot oven, The Mushrooms will be done by the time the bread is brown. They should be served at once on a hot dish. Good Biseuits.--One cup flour, one teaspoon lard, one teaspoon baking powder, one-fourth tea- spoon salt.. Mix flour7 lard bak- nig powder, and Salt with a spoon; add sufficient sweet milk or cold water to make a stiff dough. Flour board and roll till about a half inch thick. Ont out and bako in quiek even. Some flour takes a little more watev than others, but :scant cup is the averago. Escalloped C. Vise one can six eggS4bntte. SiZcs a 'an ,egg, large pinch o1 snit. and pop- per:. mix well, then add three- tplarters quart milk and thicken 'with bread erust or broken cratek ors Bake onc-balf hour in ineell- im (wen. Chicken and Celery Soup, --Take the best part of two beads of 0014 cry. Cut it up fine and add a heap - ng tablespoon of rice. Cook till soft. Take one quart of chicken broth, oie pint of milk, and cook all together and season with salt and pepper. You have a fine soup. Brown Cake. -Break our eggs nto a large howl, add one scant cup of butter and lard, one large eup of brown sugar, one-half cup of black molasses, one heaping tea- spoon of soda in cup of hot wa‘ter, eirmamon, nutmeg, spires and juiee of half a lemon. Beat long and well, utBng ftve cups of sifted flour beating it in thoroug,hly. Bakenin a large cake pan. DESSERTS. each Dessert, - Drain juice a bottle of peaches and put n a baking dish or loaf tin. 'ago batter over to the depth -half inch and bake. Serve nice of peaches or whipped Stewed apples, sweetened avored with cinnamon, or fruits may be used in the same net Pudding. ---Mix in suitable 1 two cups of bread crumbs, a of flour, one and one-half of et, chopped finely, two (nips rai- s, seeded and chopped, and one- alf cup sugar. Add liberal pinch of salt and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Moisten with two eggs beaten in milk enough to make stiff. Pot into well buttered bowl, cook .by steaming .three to six hours. Servo hot With cream sauce. Luella's Pudding. --A most delici- ous pudding is made by taking one min of uncooked rice, one cup of sugar, one Cup of raisins. and ten cups of whole milk, measuring 'all in same sized cup. Stir together and bake ,in well heated oven for two and one-half hours. Do not stir while baking. This makes enough for six or eight people. ,•- • SALADS. Sardine Salad. -Select two boxes of sardines and arrange on a plat- ter with chopped celery. For dress- ing take the yolks of four hard - boiled eggs, put in a bowl, and rub to a paste. Add a tablespoonful of French mustard, three of vine- gar, a teaspoonful of sugar, and a little cayenne. Mix well together and pour over the sardines and cel- ery. Garnish with sliced lemon. Turnip Salad. ---Pare and cut in dice four medium sized turnips; boil in salted water until tender, changing the water several times. Drain in colander and when cool add One cupful of rich mayonnaise. Serve on lettuce leaves. 'Cabbage Salad. -Chop small, firm head of cabbage in your chopper, add ealtand pepper to taste, then about four tablespoonfuls of good eider vinegar, stir well, let stand in a cool place for two hours, just be- fore serving, add half cup of cream and heaping tablespoon of powder- ed sugar, mix well, serve on criep , lettuce. CARE FORSMALL FAMILY. To make a layer cake, bake one g.ao4 iayer,eut in either halves or tlifids,," lay one, pieee an �p ,of the ..ether, and proceed to frosten or ate as usual. variety is wanted take the f mil amount of material for an d ordinary cake. Divide batter izi four parts. One part may be baked as a marble ealre, after dividing it into three parts add one-half cake grated chonolate, to one-third leave lain and add tivo teaspoons straw- erry flavoring to the last third. Pour a little of each ie pan until all is gene and you have a fine marble cake. One-half pound chopped nuts ,ad- ded to the second part will mt.er.e a nut cake, One-half cup each of chopped dates and nuts, one-quar- ter -cup each of chopped figs, eitren and raisins, one-half teaspoon each of grated nutmeg, cinnamon, and cloves will make a fine fruit cake. The last folirth, will make a, nice loaf cake. MAKE OVERS. A nice, warm petticoat can be made from old stockings. Take four pairs, cut off the feet, and slit up the back. Stitch together, open the seams, and feather stitch down the right side, then put ell a yoke belt, placing the ankle part at the Waist, Finish by adding a ruffle, also feather stitched to correspond with the ,seams. Boys' Overalls, --Take a gunny- sack, cut it through the middle the long way, length of the leg, Sew up the seams, and you \via have a nice, cheap pair of overalls for the boys to do their chores in after sehool. Rope Portieries.-Take an old pair of ehenille curtains, ravel out the different colors, and wind in balls, taking care to remove every thread of warp, Select shades that blond nicely or color with dyes and twist loosely into longropes, Pretty designs may be found in catalogues. Ute a brass rod. The result is a, drapery handsomer than many found in the shops, Suit for Boy, -Take the best of the castoff trousers, rip, wash and press. Pin Your Buster Brawn pat- tern carefully on the pieces before euttiiir and with eare and tact you ean gel a suit nicely. When ruffled muslin cartains have done service at bedroom win- dows they may be made into the following artieles if the best oart of" the curtain is used Plain or ruffled sowing aprons, ruffled dres- ser or bureau scarfs to he used over slip of any color desired, roffied pillow shams, ruffled splashers nsed behind washstands, sash curtains, AROUND THE II OMB.' To clean woodwork add borax. TO clean nickel wash with hot oapsuds. When washing woodwork wet the lower part to prevent streaking. To remove the strong taste from game leave a quartered onion in it over night. When tilling a fountain pen run cold water through the pen to clean it. Adel cocoa or melted chocolate to your plain cake for a change. Polish the dining table with sweet oil or melted beeswax. „ A simple way to keep mirrors and other glass polished is to rub it well over with some tissue paper. Any ,stains or fly marks also can be re- moved in this way. Any disagreeable odor in the room in which a sick person is kept may be obviated by putting a few drops ot oil of lavender in a cup of hot water. The 'steam which arises from the -cup will be refresh- ing and fragrant. . When putting up curtains in a low room, put the cornice to which the curtain is to be fastened cltsse to the ceiling. The curtains meeting at the top, will conceal the wall and it gives the effect of greater height to the room. Sometimes the lamp wick obstin- ately refuses to be turned up in an orderly manner. It will seem firm- ly wedged at one side, whil& the other side runs up at a point. To overcome this take a new wick, draw out a single thread near the selvage, and the wick will be found quite tractable when introduced in- to the burner. - When, one hates to take. the table- cloth out of doors for shaking, yet wants it cleaner than a scraper Can make it, she can accomplish her wants. by placing' some shallow dish, as a soup pate, in the centre of the cloth, and shakingthe cloth up and down a few times.- Every crumb will have lodged in the- dish, and the table cloth can be laid away as clean as from a good shak- ing; CiliNESh MAKE GOOD SAILORS' Ship Owners Find They Make Best Help on Vessels. There is a growing disposition on the part, of ship owners and officers in various parts of the world to send to China for complete crews. For most ships, particularly when first employing such crews, it is necessary to carry about a third more Chinese for the same service. Oa the other hand, t,here ar many officers anel owners who claim that with such additional allowance of help a vessel is run more easily and efficiently, and that, all things considered, the Cliinese sailor is the best all-around man aboard ship to he forma anywhere. He is adapt- able from fire -room to galley, is industrious, has little Or no desire to leave the ship in port, and there - ore gives little or no trouble from A SUNDAY SCI1031, STUDY NTERINATIONAL LESSON, DEOEIIBER 1.7. Lesso: XII. Ezra teaches the law, NO, 8. Golden text, Psa. 19. 7, Verse 1. The broad place -This was it PoPular meeting place, be- tween the temple and the water gate, so called beeause the water - carriers' path leading from the spring of Gillen, the Virgin spring, entered the city at this point. It was at the east end of the city. They snake unto Ezra -It was a request of all the people. It was an unusual step, The people were in- spired with a fresh sense of a com- pact life, and a new hope, now that the work of Nehemiah was com- pleted. Now, after mere than a dozen years of indifference to their sacred law, they were ready to fall in with Ezra's ineasures, by which he sought to make Judah a, sep- arate nation on the basis of their religious life. The book of the law of Moses -A study of the iferences to the law, in the book of Nehemiah, will dis- cover elements of every part of the Pentateuch. The entire system of priestly and saerificial regulations, with -the many enactments concern- ing cleanliness and nonsecration, made up this document. It was the book of instruction, the Torah, "the old covenant," 2. Ezra, the priest.--Ele is called both priest and scribe, and in verse 9 and elsewhere is given the 'two- fold appellation. His priestly line- age is traced hack to Aaron in Ezra 7. /-5. His response to the request of the populace is no less remark- able than the request itself. All that could hear with under standing -A comparison with Neh. 10, 28 indicates that children as well as 3nen and women were ill - "The law is for the sinia?- lest minds, the religion of Israel is to be pOpular and domestic." The first day of the seventh month -This gives us our line upon the year also. The wall was corn.. Pieta on the 25th day of the sixth month. That was in the year B. 0. 444, and there can be no doubtthe writer meant to convey the impres- sion that the reading of the law followed immediately after. It was an especially appropriate time, for on this day the people had gather- ed in "holy convocation" to cele, brate the Feast of Trumpets (Lev. 23. 23-25). 3. From early morning until mid- day, When the hot autumn noon would compel a cessation of the reading, would be seven hours, and of course the process would not be ,nonsecutive. Others were standing by to relieve the great scribe, a.nd interrnptions would occur for ex- position. 4. A pulpit of wood -The first mention of a pulpit. This erection of a temporary -wooden platform gives an indication of the import- ance of the event. Ezra could in this way be seen by all in the vast assembly. Beside, him: -The high priest and his party are not mentioned in this list of those who supported Ezra. The reason is obvious. These thir- teen men were laymen and Levites, as was fitting in a movement which meant the overthrow of, priestly monopoly, and the deliverance of the law into the hands of the peo- ple. The Levites were no longer a part of the priesthood, but were ra- ther concerned with the instruction of the people. It is likely that one name has dropped out of those on the right hand, as there ought to be an equal number on both sides, probably seven. 5. All the people stood up --As an evidenee of their reverence for the book of tbe law. Probably they did not remain standing during the en- tire reading. Standing as a pos- ture for prayer was a token of hu- mility. It became the custom to, stand during the reading of the law in the later services of the syna- gogue. 6. Amen, amen, -The response of the people to the prayer of Ezra, ratifying his sentiment. Lifting up the hands was an expression of de- sire to receive and to embrace the divine` blessing, the hands being open and the palms turned upwarct ab if to accept. Bowing with faces to the ground was an Attitude of Lowly worship. 7 And the Levites--Better, omit tile "and," or translate "even." The phrase defines the function of the thirteen men just mentioned. Of these, four are mentioned as ',elites in Nell. 9. 5, and the same four, with three of the others, are called Levites in Neh. 10. 9-14. They aro all probably representatives of Levitical families. Caused the people to understand -Gave popular expositions of what Ezra read, interrupting at, fre- quent intervals. This work of in- struction in the Levitical law was intrusted to the priests alone. 8. They read -Perhaps there were gr-oups af people, and the Levites were reading to them at the same time with Ezra. But it is MOTO probable that it refers to the Le- vites who one by one, relieved Ezra. They read distinctly that is, with clearness and precision: 1,s° they give the sense, by wayof forpretation. There are but, two ti runkenness and desertion, ItINCESS PA.:TRICIA Daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, clauses, not throe, as in tbo Au- thorized Version, 9. AR the people wept -Probably from hearing read the threatoning portions of the Deuteronoulic law, They eould not but compare their lives with the behests of the Book. 10. Eat .. , and drink -It was not an occasion for mourning, hut Ono rejoicingef and feasting. The cos - m on feast days was to eXehaliga portions, and to send them to the poor (Esth. 9. 19, The joy of Jehovah ---That is, the people's joy in him, not in them. Their sense of his care aud guidance through all the stormy $con -es of the past should drive away sorrow. To rejoice in God is to be strong, because it is to be conscious of the inspiration of his unfailing- help, 11, Hold your peace -Compare Hab, 2. 20, and Zeph. 1. 7. It W3S a bad sign to give way to grief on a holy day. 14. They found written -There are various passages in the Pen- tateuch relating to the Feast of the Tabernacles, but the one specifical- ly referred to here is Lev, 23, 39-43, where the only mention is made of preparing booths. The feast took place on the fifteenth of the seventh month, and was the great one of that ii,iontla. It was the final har- veAt home of the year, the, merry, but simple, celebration of the in - gathering of the fruit of the field, 15. The mount -The entire hill country of Judah, and especially the Mount of Olives on the other side of the Kedron. 16. Upon the roof -The roofs of Oriental houses were flat. The courts were formed by the houses being built in the form of a quad- rangle. 17. Jeshua-Joshua. It is not meant that the feast had ever in all that time been celebrated, but never so, with such gladness and ceremony. ALTAR OF TRE MOON GOD. Sanctuary Food -on a Hilltop Near Ancient City of Antioch: An important discovery which is fitted te throw light on the ancient religions of Asiaa. Minor has been made by Sir W. M. Ramsay on the top- of a mountain fully 5,000 feet above the sea, level about four miles from the ancient city of Antioch, where was found the great altar of the moon god, or ancestral god, "Men Askaenos," which is about 66 feet by 41 feet and stands in an open oblong ,space approximately 241 feet by 136 feet, says the Zion Herald. This open space is surrounded by a wall five feet thick, which like the altar is built of stones -cut from the mountain. Besides this heiron Sir W. M. Ramsay found also alit- tle stadium or 'thea,tre which pro- bably served for the games cele- brated in honor of tho god on- cer- tain feast days. ' • At some distance off a church was also discovered. The estates of "Men Askaenos" was very exten- sive, and although they probably passed over to Augustus along with the inheritance of Amyntas, King of Galatia, who was lord also of Antioch, the sanctuary of the god was not suppressed but an income was devoted to its maintenance. No fewer than seventy votive inscrip- tions for the good have recently been found which belong to about the year 300 A.D. In thirteen inscriptions the ex- pression ``Teknaoreusas"' &curs. r WhiCh is thought to express or regis- ter a kind of recantation of faith, when certain Christain families , (perhaps the farmers of the state e and temple territories) weakly re- loarliCa 011C0 more -to the ancient state religion and sought to make e amends to Men Askaerios for their ° abandonment for time Of the t pagan worship, Up to the present time no similar isanutu a, ry de d tuated to aknown god and iccognized ,thronghout the whole of Asia Minor has ever boon 1 CONCERNIN G SNAKES. Way to Rill Ordinary VarietiesIs TheTefill.stat n'irphueLnc,„ 0:f tzhme aBna 011 zee" ing a snake is to Stamp On its head, which, according to the Rosary Magazine, is unwise. snake's skull is very tough, as behoovesa part of the body that is always liable to be knocked against stones, &o,, owing to the extreme sliel4 sightedness of all serpents. The back, en the contrary, can be broken with a light rap, for it consists of a delicate system of ball and socket Joints. Should snake be harmless the best plan is to leave them alone; should they be dangerous a shot from a revolve is safe and effective. Isi e,nae no revolver is at hand a rap with a cane will be sufficient, but care must be taken to keep away from the head of the preature, snake does not normally go about hitting its skull against hard objects; it only does this when in a, hurry. Moving at its ordinary pace it feels its way with its long, delicate, forked tongue. In the same way when about to swallow its food it touches it all over with its tongue in order to ascertain where to take hold, and this process has given rise to the mistaken idea that a snake covers its prey with saliva prior to swal- lowing it. No doubt a consider- able quantity ef saliva is generat- ed during the process of degluti- tion, but it does not come from the 'tongue, whioli is merely used -as a fek'Il;ren it snake bites it bisects its bead up to the nape of its neck and orens its jaws till they are in the same plane, i. it,, at right angles to the body. These jaws are pro- vided with six rows of strong, sharP teeth, four on the upper jaw 49‘.1 two on the lower jaw, This is a very formidable nr- rangement, but when you remem- ber that a willow sized cons-trict- or can project its head with sufficient force to knock a man off bis feet, and will either on provoeation er sometimes without it, let go this catanult, rat trap nutehinery, you are likely to avoid constrictors so i far as s possible. Such a snake ean take hold of a man and shake N M or .;trin The skin and flesh ,from the part seized as if it were paper, °MA:TURES or HABIT. Some Remarkable Stories of a Flock of Sheep. A little contribution to the, trou- bled subject of animal paycliology is given, incidentally, in Rev, H. D. Rawnsley's book, ''Dy Fell and, Dale, at the English Lakes." Some apparently stupid and meaningless behavior, interpreted in tho light of' previous facts, would seem to indi- cate memory, and perha,ps even a species if imagination, Visitors to our lake country, as they ramble over the fells, must be constantly struck with the exceed- ing beauty of the delicate, lithe lit- fle sheep, with their shy, black, faces and their dainty feet, that give life to the mountainside. The most remarkble characteris- tics of these Iferdmick sheep are their homing instinct and their mar- velous memories. Of this there are many proofs. For example, a flock of sheep, driven down a road which was blocked at the time, had to pass through a gate, and so back .again through another opening in the wall to the roadway. They did not pass along that road again for many .months. The road was now no longer blocked, And the. wall had been built up, but as soon as they eame to the place they all topped the wall, and insisted upon going back again through the. gate. I myself have seen a flock sudden- ly, at it certain place, spring into Ile air without and apparent rea- son, and was told that at that parti- cplar point the year before a pole had been across, the road, and the sheep had jumped it when they came to the place. Although no: obstruction now existed, they leap- ed over an imaginary pole. LIVED IN GLACIAL PERI01). Child Skeleton Ras Been Found in A Cave in Ifungary. The first skeleton of a ,child that lived in the glacial period has 'been located in the Balle Cave, HIM ga,ry, The skeleton is tolerably welq. Pre- served, especially the skull, jaw, thigh -bones an.c1 the bones of the upper arm. Parts of the spine, however, and the small bones have crumbled away. Prof. Lenhossek, Budapest,01 has made a thorough .examination of the, ae- nai.us, had published , report in vhich he concludes, that the child it must a,e been about 15 months Thee-slull.is long arid narrow, is are the forehead and the face. l'be jaw is prominent, The -bones. how the ,same peculiarities as those of -the ancestors of the European 'aces, The",skeleton does not, 'of (purse, belong to the oldest races f 'which remains have, so far been ound, but to their immediate, desi- enclants, the .so-called Mediter- •an eam race. The ,intorest lies in he feet that never before 'have ari.,„7. -eniains Of ,P chllcl Of such a re- mote, period heen discovered. If von, ivduld hitve you own way -oil must be:Willing to travel alone t disedvered,'Ori a.aietintain`,`'top. JIA.R6ER TlfA More Befrinete-entItTittoon Teto Cell* Concrete buildings are permanent to an extent, never before realized, by architects. Office -buildings have, a life of twenty, thirty- forty yeart;'. as the ease may be, and tnen, if they are built of »rick or stonn or terra-cotta they fall into the wrecer hands, an are re o' 'd veel s with ljttle difficulty but much dust,i to let ether and greater buildings rise in their stead. But with concrete buildings, says tho Construction _News, the case is different. To induce the concrete to reletiee its hold on the re -enforc- ing reds of steel inPO ,easy matter. The steel rods are wound in and out of the mass, crossing and re- crossing and lapping OST,r each oth- er until thoroughly tangled, like the hairs in tny lady's coiffure, a TV -1 muck Ikarder to separate. It is infinitely more trouble to tear down a house of re -enforced onerete than it is to build ane, and, although loss skili i reqnired, will be found that the cost, will:, ot be Inc difTerent. The removal, a, small concretObuilding in: New York recently coat, twenty-tv.-cf thouaand five hiindreel dollars. The use of the inedern, re-enforeet4 nonerete for building constrnetioi goes haelc hardly twenty years, and, there are few buildings of the most apProYed type that arc ten years old. For this reason knowledge 0! the lasting qualities of cement care. from what is known it is believed ilint the ordinary house of bricle or stono is at the peak of its °facie -110Y the moment it it completed. From not be said to he complete, but that time it begins to deteriorate. The peak of effieiency in the caSe of it concreto lionse has not yet' been determined, As concrete gets cilder, it becomes harder and mere that, is, of cour,7a, if the eoperetci is properly made. The usual means of 'wrecking moo have nut tile slightest effect u concrete. The sledge -hammer, tho drill and dynamite must he Acids might be- used to ditinte ate the concrete, hut the expenno would be enormous. Murtatie acid will dissolve the binder in the cm- nt, but the trouble is that ns soen itt it has soaked in a little the cscrn- ent the aeid, and it is necessary to wash away the 'soluble material with a. hose before further progress can be made. The only thing to do it, to loosen material with, explosives and then break it free, from. the /steel re-en- forcotneut with sledge -hammers, and that is a long, tedious job. A concrete house, re -enforced. ha - comes -what is called raonilithie. It is AS if some one had chiseled the houre out of a single piece of stone, with the added strength furnished by the steel. 1,825,000 USELESS rtirms. lidiquated Stock Kept in Storage in France. France's enormous stock of anti- quated rifles hat been tho subject of grave cogitation on the part of tho budget committee. Struck las, tho large suns required by thci French War Department for stor- age and maintenance of material the committee asked for a detailed statement, from which it was learn- ed that in the French arsenals there are no fewer than 12825,000 old ser- vice, rifles and carbines. which are not the slightest use in case of a mobilization, as the cartridges re- , , quired for them ate no longer made. They are weapon of the 1974 to 1960 patterns and have a calibre of 11 millimetres,. Most of them t are reported to be in "fair" condi- tion, but more than half a million are admittedly quite useless. These are the remains of a hugo ac - Cumulation of out-of-date arms that found good purchasers for a time at a dollar or two apiece among African negro tribes. But civilization has made great strides since even in the wilds of Africa, and now the African negro is as good a judge of a Mauser or Winchester repeater as his white brother and when he has the means to pay he insists on having the best,. The budget committee has now re- solved that' the out of-cla,te goods must be immediately 'scrapped. It is hoped ,thate the rifle- ,stocks will sell at ..sontething like six eents each, while the metal parts will go as old iron, so that these ob,solote weapons which NYlere once so expel. - sive will realize, no more than may- be ten cents apiece. er. RING OFF, WILD BE,LLES. Maybelle--"See the beatitil'ul on gageinelit ring Jacli.. gave me las' Estelle --"Graelonsi. Has just got a:J.:carer:1y Loth: Taeof gsiuting what you want. Some men haven't eli.srit. ,nn u to cover their own si is. 3/1ani-ying an heiress is the, cui' Loi 1{5.vel's It's almost as easy- to gine advice as it is not to follow i Some men can't make a pression even with a rubber st Some daughters wonder what* use mother had for loritiging.fa," nto the faigi te. 11 11 11 bit