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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1913-1-16, Page 2- .40 JIM BRIINIER'S BABY ..41.4,4..¢1.o111.44,./x4.44%.*4,0410,40.4011:44,0.40.0..90.0'. ri3Bruater A.B., OfTreiel Num- ormto, ent'ered empty third- eon/part-meat. at Waterloo, Lined a huesile serape -eel "in 'Cheek adkerchief on the veck, seated eelf iu corner tieing the ell- , planted his feet on the out,. seat, and promptly weattu had that moruing been paid off frora H.M.S. Belliaerent, 'est returned to Chathain from the China- stestion, and was -uow pro - reeding on the fortnight's leave granted to all ranks on return from • foreign • service. • His destinatiou wae Plymouth, where his old mother kept a small chandler's shop rn Tre- ville Street. The train rattled acroesehe South of Enghenel, but Jim Brunter, sway- • ing- from. ei,d,e t,oBide with the swing of the earriage, slept soundly, as if rocked in his ham/look in a heavy seaway. Salfshary had just been pad when he woke up, yewned, and eteetched himself. Then hie mouth, opened for the yawn, remained open in amazement. He rubbed his eyes with the back of his hand to leer their vision. On the eeat in front of him, elose to where his feet had been, laer a, ohild about twelve months old. Except for hiraself and the baby, the compartment was empty ! "Great Jack Beresford!" ejacu- lated Jim Brunter. As if at the sound of the righty 1141110, the youngster epened its ,eyes, and regarded the bluejeciket solemnly. Jun Brunter returned the look vritet interest; and not a little trepidation. How on eerth had the morsel of humanity got there? The -carriage was not a cor- ridor one, so that the supposition that its mother had left, it there temporarily was untenable. "Seems to me uncommonly like a case of desertion," said Jim. "I wonder what the -dickens I had bet- ter dot" Suddenly the youngster's fact • erinkled up, its lip went -down, and it began yelling in a manner that testified to the excellence of its lungs. Though the 'weather was cold, and he had just come from a hot climate'the perspiration gath- ered in beads on the saileres fore- head. "Here, I eay, don't cry, my pop- pet!" said Jim, in what he intend- ed for soothing tones. But the youngster only yelled the louder. Jim looked desperately at the communication -cord, but. the it - emotion that its improper use would sablece him to a, fine of five •pounds -eaused him to shake his head. • His married sister down at Cha- pelford hed-children'end he had often been amused at .the baby -talk with which she soothed their infan- tile troubles. He rack -ed hie brain in vain endeavor to recall the expres- sions she had used. "Here, I say, popsy-wopsy, I wouldn't be a bloomin' ery-baby!" he ventured, but the result was not enconreging. • • "With 1 could remember the bloomin' lingo 1" he muttered de- spondently. He hoped that the child's yells would reach the people in the next compartment, but loud as they were, the roar of the train drowned them. Spurred by the terrors of the sit- uation, he bent over, and, lifting the little one from the seat, took it on his knee. The child stopped vett- . • -. mg, and looked up in his face with wide-open blue eyes. Then, though the tears till lay on its cheeks, it broke into an angelic smile. "Come now, that's better 1" said Jim approvingly. "Wieb to good- ness you could tell rue syliere your mother ie:" The youngster gurgled up at him, hunger for a (1ce vexemrne ot her eons/tiara tions, and be laid her ruefully on the fleet betide him, and lit his pipe. As the after- noon drew in, it became colder, and he took off hie heavy blue greatecat • and• wrapped it. with a tenderness at strange varianee with his ap- pearenee, round the tiny form. The ohild was lost in it folds, At the next station, which was the last but one before reaching Plymouth, the guard hurried along the train, look- ing into every window. He just glanced through the window of the compartmsnt in which Brunter was sitting, then ran on, "Not in the train,» Jini hoard him shout to -someone. Then the engine shrieked, and • they -started again, "Now, I wonclei--" muttered Jim Brunter him.self, • When they arrived at North Road Station, Jim took up the baby, still sound asleep, in his greateoat, and with it on one arm and the bundle in. his ether hand, he took a cab to the little shop in. Treville Street. "Why, Jim." -cried his mother, "I didn't expect you so esion—" Then she ebopped, and stared open -mouth -ed. jim calmly laid the -eleeping in- fant on a. -south., and, placing his bundle on the floor, threw his arms round the old woman's neck, and kissed her heartily. 'But whet, for goodness gra- cious' sake'have you got 'ere, Jim?" .askeel his mother, when re- leased from his embrace. "A kiddy," answered Jim laconi- cally. "Give me some tea, mother] I'm etarvin' 1" • "But—but----." the old woman Ives persisting, when a sudden thought seized the sailor, and he rushed to the ehild, and booked anx- iously into the little faee. "Shouldn't youn.g,sters 'ave milk V' he demanded. "Yes, of -course," answered the old lady. "But where on earth did you get 'err Then she looked with startled eyes into her eon's fee°. You ain't been an' got mar- ried. Jim, out in them furren parts 7" "No, no, mother; I ain't married, an' I ain't again' ter be. Get some milk for the kid!" Among the miscellaneous articles in the old Ivo/nal:0e 'stock were babies' feeding -bottles. One of these was soon prepared, and filled with warm milk, which the little one sucked with evident enjoyment. "She's a wonderful peetty baby, Jina; but 'ow irr the world do you °erne to 'eve 'er?" Jim, while he drank his tea, en- tered into a brief explanation of the cireumsteneee under which he had assumed the duties of a, guardian. "Poor little mite 1" said tho old lady. -"To think that &eine heart- less wretch of. a, woman has got rid of 'er baby in that way! I suppose she'll 'aye ter go to the workeo-use, but it seems a pity." "She ain't agoin' to no work- ouse 1" said Jim firmly. "I was almost afeared that you 'ad got married, Jim," ,said his mo- ther, as Brunter was smoking his pipe after tea,. "No fear!" said Jim. "I ain't egoin' ter trust no more women ter make a bloomin' fele o' me!" "You are still thinkin' o' Entity Cosgrove. Well, she lived ter be sorry for the way as she treated. you,', "What d'yer mean, mother?" asked Jim, in ten,es that showed that his interest in his faithless sweetheart was by no Means dead. "That 'ere brute Trevenria treat-, -ed her badly," said the old woman, shaking her head. "It was a mercy for 'er, poor soul, when 'e died." Jim Brunter sprang to his feet. "Is Trevenna, dead V' he asked huskily. "Dead a year agone," rejoined the sild woman. "Died from. drink. 'e wa,s a brute, if ever one lived!" "An' whisre is Emily new?" ask- ed Jim shakily. "Lordaraussychildcan't tell and Se1.1331g (Ille of his work -rough- 'e , , I They moved down along ter ened fingers; -carried it to its Saltath about four or 'five months . metal( ; then it contentedly fell afore ,e tlit,de, a.sleep. "Well. this 'ere' t a queer set - out said Brunter. The eland, a pretty little girl baby, wee well rlreseed and clean "An' 'aven't yer seen 'er since, , . mother ?" askod Jim, anxiously. "No; I claret expect as she ud want ter see me after a-treatin' you se a nese pee Lath. tendrils of as She did! faiscit hair eseaped frem its berib- ilamed cap. Whatever .reasen eia Wed for its beieg left, in the train, , earl 4,!ortainty not been neglected befit Pe. AS Seta Brunfar see teeking down into the sweet baby fere, his own • tort!”-wd.. He might, be. thought, have had a little one of his oWn like "I must try to find "er, mother," said Jim. "She was led away by that brute Teevenn.a." Two hears after the arrival of the train which heel bronght Jan Brim,: 'ter and tire etirieusly acquired addi- tion to hie respensibilities, a wild- eyed weireiri heaiself from a PRINCE LOUIS OF RATTENBERCe. Admiral Sir Francis Bridgeman having resigned, for rea- sons of health, 11.S.H. Prince Louis Alexander of Batten - berg, G.O.B., G.O.V.O., K.O.M.G., A.D.O., the Second $ea Lord, has become First Sea, Lord of the Admiralty, His 'Serene Highness, whose experience of naval affairs is of the feet order, was born on May 24, 1854, at Gratz, in Austria, eldest eon of the late Prince Alexander of Hesse. In 1884 he married his eousin Princess Victoria., daughter of the .Grand Duke Louis IV, -ef Hesse and Princess Alice, daughter of Queen Victoria. He became a naturalized British subject and entered the Navy in 1868. He became a lieutena,nt ou the "Inconstant" during the Egyptian War, and, in charge of a battery, landed with the Naval Brigaele for the occupa- tion of Alexandria. He has held command of a Cruiser Squadron. in the Mediterrauean Fleet, of the Atlantic Fleet, and in the' Home Fleet. Amongst various other appoint- mente he has held the most important one of Director ef Naval Intelligence. Prince Louis visited Toronto at Fair time a. number of years ago with a detachment of sailors from' the fleet, the latter of -whom gave very interesting gun drills in front of the grand stand. end that she required some milk for the child's bottle. Leaving the little one in the oompertment, she went to the refreshment -room to get the milk, and was horrorestrick- en on her return to find that the train had started. "Was -anyone in the compart- ment?" asked the station -master. "Yes; th,ere was a -tailor asleep in a oorner," replied the woman distractedly. "Oh, my baby—my baby!" • '"Can you describe the man?' "No; his face was covered by his arm. You—you don't think he eauld have harmed my ohild? Sure- ly he woulclu't harm my little baby?" A crowd ha -d gathered round the woman, who was almost insane with grief. She tore her hair, and wail- ed for her lost child. A young -sail- or touched one of the onlookers on the arm. "What's the matter, chum?" -he asked. • "Woman lost 'er kid. Seethe ter 'eve left it in the train," answeied the man addressed. Jim Brunter had returned to the startiee for his kit -bag, which in his exeitemeiat had forgotten to get from the guard's van. He now el- bowed his way through the crowd. Is his eyes tell on the women, he stopped and gasped. "Emily!" he exclaimed, incredu- lously. The woman raised her grief- stricken face to his. "Jim Brunter The -sound of his name from the mouth of the woman who had jilted him resteseed Jim's faeulties. "'Ave yer lest e baby?" he asked awkwardly, as he might have ask- ed: "Have you frost 'sixpence 7" The woman Seized his arm, and shook him. "My baby—" Then a light seemed -to break on her. "Why, it was you, Jim, that was in the car- riage 1 What have you done with my baby 7 'Tell me what you've done with my baby I" . "Great Jack Beresford ex-' elaimed Jim. "Was -that 'ere kiddy yours, Emily?" Before she had time to reply, he had thrust her into a oa,b, and they were deshing towards T r evil) e Street as fast as the horse oould gallop But, short as the journey was, there was time for -certain ex- planations, 'which embraced other the' if Emily Cosgrove had not earriage in a train which had met matters than the loss of the child. /Herd him or a -„ergrant of mar- -some in from Salisbury. She rush- When they eagived at the little awe was iti',: hpeere his de. 1 ed to the first official she saw, which sholo. Emily jumped from the cab; porters for the China etation, and loppened to be the, stationenaster, and in a ra-ornent was holding her este, l4 tee immediate eater' ,` "My baby !" At: wailed,"Have baby in her arms, and -crooning over IP eohnilesrhis, fer that warm car' I nn my baby?'" it, while tears of joy ran down her mer '" the glebe, .es the reinene 1 "No. madam,- replied the sta. cheeks. erse,s, fame te li hn lie sieled best] tionaltaster- ''We "Why, H'irilY,” said the eld wth tereiri Is The ba1v weirs, ;smiled ! have receiee,d a telegram from Sal. met, "who would ever 'ave expect. fp hi his faee, and went to gloep isbury that e ehild had been left in cd that it was your baby? jim dld ;tire. Jim gale m hurried glance ! a third-class comperemeet of the take to it .ge, YOU 'might 'eye relied him then, wLth a/meta/frig 13.50 from London, and eo, -of course, thought as 'ow 'e wae its father 1" tantt,MM1()O1Y MO' a blush on his ti1.6 train Was ,Settr011ed% but there Sim, Ieho had" been standing aPeet min asiny-t fl ined fa, he hent wee, no child in it except, with with a happy grin on his face, now "wii. gen fly kmied alt.) llttieI riends , 1401v <lid, they child 6Orrie to came, f oilseed, ftealesel Snd wih he eiss eanie be in the -compartment byitself 7" "Well, thother, you see," he said er I i-tsu1utiun. The woman was in a retake borrier. sheepishly, again' ter "Be Oripps, lake lier 'erne tt, ing en, hysterics, and it wee difficult he. Ain't L Emily 7" - stoeher 1" 'he said, !kir Slome tirrie lelSt )44)t, into thO train at Salieleuery, and I It's more than I deserve, Jim," I to get a timid explanation from her. Emily raised her rase, and looked He eat with the labs. en his knee let s metered, lasseeeere that she had at "nee o; l,t h,/ -and-by just before' it sterhed ",eliti:disseess, she intid.--,Louston ';Answers, Algid A. PROPER ESKIMO BOY. An Instance as to HOW They Obey Their Parents, There is no each thing as punish- ment in an Eskimo houeehold, writes Dr. S. K. Hutton in "Among the Eskimos of Labrador." And by way of illustration he toile of a small boy whom he met one deer -clambering down among the rocks and hummocks that strewed the reach, in open defience of parental commands. He Was a sturdy little fellow, and quite a baby. I judged him to be about two years old, certainly not more than three, but as he was clad in the dignity of ridiculous little trousers, I must speak of him as a, boy. He seemed to have esea,ped from his mother, and to be making for the beach on an adrventure of hie own; and when I looked toward the line of houses, I saw a, young wo- man standing at one of the doors and calling to him. "lealgit 1 kaigit 1" (Game back!) she (shouted. The ehild took no notice at all.• . "Kaigit, ernera I" (Come back, my sone -cried th-e another. ' This time the child leoleed round, but he went steadily on barking his little knees against the champ rock paints, and tumbling into hole's in his hurry. "Niel nial" he sere em•ed I half expected the mother to come and fetch hira after that, for "Niel" is anything but polite it was the equal of a very cledant "Shaiii't" that the child 'shouted at his mother. She took no notice; she wa-s beaten, end accepted the situation, and turned back into the house to go On with her work. Meanwhile I was interested in the doings of the email Eskimo boy; there was some grim purpose in his little mind. and I stayed to- zee the finish ef the play. He scrarabled on until he came to a, dog that lay surming itself behind tt stone. Very likely it was one of his father's sledge dogs against which he had a grievance, for he -caught it fear- lessly by the scruff of the neck and heat ib with his tiny fists. The dog, great, powerful brute, could have eaten the boy whole; but it made no resistanoe, simply cowering and whining ander the little patting blows. Having fulfilled his pur- pose, the boy administered a last peeling smack, and started on his journey homeward, followed the little fellow to his "home, and forted his mother busily brushing the snow off him, and smil- ing with pride at her hardy little son. He was disobedient hut what cared the 1 He was growing strong and fearless; some dav he .vould he, able 0., drive a team of dugs and peddle a kaiak, and hunt the deer and seals and walrus, Hee wee a proper Eskimo boy. A Gragumatival Points Carrie and Madge, egedele. fostet:rnrrly five, were making mud • pie," said Carrie. "Me nen going to mai a - "Don't say 'me am' n., anti/oriel. rejoined 1VIerige with 'dye air. ted Reeipes. Oat Saue.---Melt all ounce of tit- ter and pour it over an oun 01 oat flour, Stir rapidly over a elY art , ry, or fire, adding little lay little a I of water. Prepare in hot wat sierra, an onion and a little 01 Add ttO the roup with salt and per, and ceek. Serve on pia buttered toast. • `"' Rice Cora Bread.—To one c of boiled rice mixed with one Rd of core -meal add one pi/ milk, three eggs imatee togeth piece of butter end lard tog, about the size of an egg, and , tle salt. Beat well, and bake at three-quarters of an hour. This fill two bread -pans. This is a ed Southern recipe, and one oi best het breeds. A. Novel Way to Cook Steal Out about 'two pounds of beef small strip ,s and put them in porcelain -lined kettle with a of mined tornetoes. Add sertspoonful of sugar and th.e s quantity of salt, one-half teasp. ful of cloves and two °hopped ions. Stew slowly two hours, W done, take out the meat, fait the liquor, adding a little but Pour over the meat, and serve. Amber Pudding.—Pet one poi of pared apples, three °tine E butter, three °unties of sugar, the yellow rind and juice of t lemon into a par with a little w and cook 'lintel tender. Take mixture off the fire, and beat in yolks of three eggs. Prepare a ci pie -dish by lining the edges 4 sides with puff paste. Pear in apple mixture and bake nntil apples are brown. Beat the wh of the eggs, add a little sugar, on the top, anti return the, pad( to the oven to brown. Eggless, Butterless, Milli Cake.—Mix together two cupful. white -sugar, two cupfuls of wl ,(cold), two tablespoonfuls of sh enieg, and one package of see raisins, and boil for five mine a When the mixture is cold, add ti cupfuls of flour with one teasp - ful of soda and one teaspoonful h of different spioes. Bake one In a. fairly "'hot oven. This m two good loaves ef cake; they re improved by keeping. For slit t- eeing, use chickeu fat or beef pings. Egg Cu/Tee—Boil six eggs minutes, put them in cold wate a few minutes until cool .enou handle, then remove the sl - Fry one small onion until' be in one tablespoonful of butte•r a. tablespoonful of curry -pe that has previously been ra with cold water, and fry it for t minutes more. Add about a qua of water, and boil rapidly kr twee ty minutes. Add the eggs cue in el 1- 11 8 0. Mil the dry ingredient* t,04 - and add euet, mixixte their - ?uglily. Lastly -add the liquid. Put 14 night and steam for three houes.- erve with vanilla sauce. Meet and Kidney Pudd--Si4 a quarter of a pound of flour itree' a basin, add a pintail of salt and ono' level teaspoeuful of baking peweler ; theri put through the meat chopper a quarter of a pound of, ewer and mix it in, rubbiug it into the flour with the finer. Add as much cold water as will wee it and make it up into a stiff paste; then flour the baking board and roll it out into a retuiti piece eeareely half an inch thick. Then line a bettered basin with the paste, then cut oven round the edges. Mix together on a plate one tablespoonful of flour' , one tea- spoonful of salt aed half a teaspoon- ful of pepper for seasoning. Cut one pound of lean meat in thin slices, dip them in the. seaweed 'flour and place them lightly in the basin; split one sheep's kidney, skin and cut it in thin slicee; dip them else in the iteur and put them into the howl and pour in one cup- ful of water for gravy. • Wee th.e edges of dm paste on the bowl; roll out the scraps; place it on? press clown at the edges' and sprinkle a little flour verthe Nov diP a pudding cloth in boiling watere tie it tightly over the top and plunge ehe pudding in plenty et boiling -water; then boil it for three heroes Remove the cloth and turix! the pudding onto a dish. Serve hot.; Tips to Housewives. Instead of sewing matting with carpet thread, , use raffia in appro- ptiate colon. Dampen the raffia and sew over and over. To clean discolored enamelled ware rub with fine emery cloth and afterward wash in hot water. Dis- colored earthenware jugs, dishe, etc., can also be treated in a lar manner. . A paper bag or a quart jar slip- ped -over the food chopper -will pre- vent crumbs flying about when' s bread is being ground. Raisins and figs should be plurap. ed by dipping for an instant in boils, ing water before serving To keep pies arid pastry flaky dos, not put them away until they are cold, and do not then store them in the refrigerator or the flakiness of the pastry will be spoiled. To clean mica in stoves take its out and thoroughly wash it with' vinegar -slightly diluted. If the black dos e not come off readily let: it soak in the vinegar a little while, When reeking pastry that is to be served eold milk should be used for mixing.as the pastry will keep crisp longer than if mixed with water. When baking or sealloping pota- toes, chops can be baked in a pan triEethe oven, eteak broiled under, neeth or pudding or pie cooked at 'theTosaprareelfteilnae. ltartieholces frora turn- ing dark when they are cooked add a little vinegar to the water ha which they are boiled. A teaspoon. ul will be enough for a small quate halves, season with salt, and belle moderately for ten minutes longer,tity of the vegetable, ., to serve. when the egg (perry will be readyl Wheli weebilig 'windows add a sniall quantity of bluing to the dium-sized onion until brown in two tablespoonfuls of butter; add one a, heaping tablesPooriful of curry -pow- der that has been previously mixed )a kr aleout ten minutes, stirring fre- co quently. T.b.en edd one quart of shelled green peas—or one can of peas—six medium-sized potatoes es or5. Vegetable Curry.—Fry one me- wslter• ' pinch. of soda in the fruit jar r being washed will sweeten it. , of course, is to he put in the before being scalded or rinsed to a paste with cold water, and cook or. exd, leaving it sweet and free from 1 t almonds after being blanolied are plunged into cold water they wili1keep snow white. To blanch them it is best to put them into out in eighths, tsvo nearly ripe to- naatoes peeled and sliced, and ene- half teespoonful of salt. Fry all for about ten minutes more, or until the paste and vegetables are well blen- ded, cover with oold waeer, and set the -curry over the fire to boil until th.e 'potatoes are thoroughly cooked, and most of the water has evapor- ated. Buttermilk Soup.—Put about two tablespoonfuls of butter into an iron kettle. When it 'is melted stir into it almost a quart of dried bread out into little pieces, 8,nel let it brown as you would toast, sterling often to keep is from burning. When the bread is of a light brown pour in two quarts if buttermilk and bring to a boil. Wet up two tablespoonfuls of flour with a little water ancl -stir into the mixture. Simmer gently for ten minutes. Sweeten to taste when you are ready to eat it. A. little nutmeg may be added if one wishes. This is good for 8,n invalid, being diges- tible, ,and the aold makes it ageee. able to the feverish patient. It is much liked Iv children. Pudding Recipes, Orange Cream Pudding.—Two heaping tablespoonfuls of powdered gelatine'ane eupful of boiling water, two cupfuls ef orange blithe, two cupfuls of whipped creel-reel/0 cepfuls of sugar and the yolks J.sf three eggs. Dissolve the gelatifie in the boiling water, then add the sugar, orange lido& and yolks of eggs, beaten well together, then add the whipped cream. Pour into a'wet meld and turn out when. firm, Steamed Fruit Puilltling.—Three cupfuls of flour, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder, 'one-half tea- spoonful .of salt, one cepful of thee chopped finely, one eupful of milk, one cupful of molasses, one tea- spoonful of seda, ane -half cupful of currants, orie-helf eunfitl oi, raisins and an teaspoonfel of bred Mai eh 2ricle'1882, the boiling point. 00141 water and let it come just to After washing a floor if one will sweep it up at once they Will be suptised to find many little parti- cles that come from the mop, which,, if not removed, soon get tracked back on to the floor again. The floor stays clean much longer. W ite enamelled kitchenware ean be 1 pt in excellent condition if it ' is oquesionally cleaned by placing the htensile in a large veseel with cold water, to which a tablespoonful of lye has been added. Place on a stove and let the water boil, then wash the enamelled ware in ordie- are dishwater, The• housewife who Wishes to keep her hands in good condition should wear housemaids' gloves. To keep sleeves up when washing dishei get a pair of bicycle clips and attach to the rolled -up sleeves. hot dishes on the dieing table, use camp rated oil, rubbing it in well. To remLove vili_te iip:s, 1,,eft, by , A. Wise Dog. • A arty of sportsmen on their way 1mome alter successful day's shootingpassed the time in telling dog stories, each one being an ef- fort to "cap" the previous one. Hero is the last story told. "1 have got e dog that makes all yours seem fools," said, a little man. "I gen- ally feed him myself after dinner, he other day e friend -dropped cl the poor beast slipped my iter the meal we went into a IL er4.,• The dog seratthed up ower and laid it at ray Seet, with most yearning look in his eyes was a forget -me -riot he in mali the the Five attempts were made on the lifted the late Queen Victoria -con June 10th, 1840; May 80th, 1842; jei 3rd, Illey 19th, 1849; and