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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1914-1-22, Page 2Tested Recipes: Banana .Salad,—Cut bananas in cubes and dress with French &eas- ing, thee put back in skin. Chop parsley and nuts together and sprinkle over it and serve on lettuce leaf, Rice and A p ales.—One cup of rice and five large cooking apples. Wash the rice well in several wa- ters, pare and slice the apples;. eoire>.r with water. When boiled sweeten to taste. Eat with cream. To make it look nine whip the whites of two eggs, sweeten, cover the dish, brown in the oven for a. minute, take out, and put drops of current jelly on top, Cranberry Conser've.—Four cups cranberries, four cups granulated sugar, four cups water, one cup seeded raisins, one cup English wal- nut meats,; broken in small bits, l one orange and one lemon cut in small pieces. Mix ingredients and cook until it thickens, then pour into jelly glasses_ Cover with par- affin,. King's jam. --Four pounds of grapes, two pounds of sugar, three- quarters pound of raisins, one- quarter pound of English walnut kernels, pulp of two oranges, one- half pound of figs, seed grapes, cut nuts and figs in small pieces, stir all together and cook until thick. Put away in glasses, This is a de - Helens conserve. Nes.slerotle Pudding. — One cup whipped cream, one-half cup pul- verized sugar, one tablespoon gela- tin, one cup chopped candied cher- ries, pineapple, and English wal- nuts. Dissolve the gelatin in one- third cup hot water and mix all. lightly together. Flavor with vanil- la and pour into mold and stand on ice for several hours. Serve with whipped cream_ Dormers.—There is a good way of using up scraps of oold meat. Boil three ounces of rice in salted water until tender. Drain. Mix with half a pound of minced cold meat and two ounces of well -chop- ped suet.' Add chopped parsley, salt and pepper to season. Form into little rolls, dip in beaten egg sprinkle with bread crumbs, and fry in boiling fat to a golden brown. Duchess Potatoes. --Select ennooth, flat potatoes of medium size. Scour thoroughly., Bake in a hot oven. Pierce the potato with a fork to let out the steam, work it with the fingers till the inside is soft and mealy. Cut an _opening in the fiat top and scoop out the potato. Season with salt and pepper, and butter and milk, beat, return to the shell heaping up lightly. Smear the top of the mashed potato with melted butter, return to the oven and leave until the surface is gold- en brown. This makes an excellent dish for lunch or supper. Cabhage.—Cut a small head in Emir parts, soak for one-half hour in salt water to draw out any in- sects which may be in leaves. Drain, cut in slices, put into a large quan- tity of boiling water. Add one ta- blespoon salt and cook twenty-five to forty-five minutes, depending on the age of the cabbage. Dram in a colander two minutes, chop fine, season with butter, pepper, salt. AIlow one tablespoon butter to a pint of the cooked vegetables. Cab- bage cooked in this manner will be of delicate flavor, and may be gen- erally eaten without distress. Fish Chowder.. Two pounds fish (haddock, ood or a whitefish), two cups, potatoes cut in cubes, one-half onion sliced, one -inch cube fat salt pork, one-half tablespoon salt, one. and one-half tablespoons butter, one tablespoon flour, two cups milk. Remove head and tail of fish. boil fish in one pint salted water for twenty minutes, add potatoes five minutes before removing from file; remove skin and bones of fish, sav- ing water. Cut salt pork and onion in small pieces and fry five minutes, strain fat into fish and potato stew. May add onions if wished. Make a white sauce of butter, flour and milk, and add to stew. Season with salt and pepper, and add broken crackers, if desired. ' Hints for the Home. When making a cake always mix the spices and baking powder with. the flour before it is sifted, A good black ink mixed with the white of egg will restore th•e color of black kid shoes or gloves, A little alum added to the water in which children's clothes are washed will render them fireproof, To prevent carpet from ravelling when cat run two, rowe of machine stitching where it is to be cut, To wltiton cloths which have be scene yellow soak. in buttermilk for one week, then wash in the usual way, Rico may be substituted for xnaos caroni as a. dinner dish, Prepare it with grated cheese and bake it in. the oven A few drops of ammonia, in the water in which silver is washed will keep it bright for a long time with- out cleaning. When a window is difficult to raise pour a little melted lard be- tween the frame and the casting, and put a little, also, on the cord. To remove a fishbone from the throat,cut a lemon in half and suck the juice very slowly. This will dis- solve the fishbone, and give instant relief, To distinguish cotton from linen moisten a spot. of the material. If the material wets through instant- ly, it is pure linen; cotton does not take up moisture so quickly. Black walnut furniture or furni- ture made of any dark rich wood should be cleaned occasionally with it a soft rag dipped ed in P araffane o , then polished with another soft rag. . There is always a cause for a flickering kerosene oil light, Eithaf' the top is clogged, the wick or chimney is a misfit or a draught of wind may be blowing into the room. To clean velvet stretch it taut, pile upward, over a basin of boil- ing water. As the steam rises through the velvet have a second person brush it briskly with 'a clean brush, When the eyes .ache relieve them by closing them for a few minutes. If there is a burning sensation bathethen with hot water to which a few drops of witch hazel has been added. To test silk, fray out the threads and break them. .If they snap eas- ily, it is not good. The warp thread running lengthwise should be of equal strength with the wool thread running crosswise. When frying doughnuts it is a good idea. to have a dish of boiling water on the stove. As each cake is done, lift it out with a fork and dash it quickly into the boiling wa- ter and out again. If your kitchen is small and crowded, take out the kitchen table and have a hinged shelf made. A shelf answers every purpose of a table and can be put down out of the way when not in use. An ordinary pie -chimney placed in the centre of a pan of milk pre- vents it boiling over. When it com- mences to boil it does so through the little chimney, and there is not the slightest chance of its boiling over. For a bad throat put some gly- cerine on cotton wool. Put it on, the front of the throat, then a piece of flannel, on. There is nothing bet- ter than glycerine poultice. To flower .pansies ing the house, sow the seed in shallow boxes of sandy soil. When they are rooted, transplant them to wiudow boxes or, separate pots. Keep them quite warm, give them abundance of water anal a great deal c,f sun. When darning table linen ib is best to use a ravelling from the goods. Where there is a hole, puts under it a piece of the same materi- al, carefully matching the pattern. If the darning is carefully done the hole -will not be noticeable, Cream alpaca is a splendid wear- ing material. for blouses, children's dresses, etc., and always looks , well. • Most women object to make it up, as it is• so springy and won't lie down nicely, To prevent this, when cutting out a garment place the selvedge across the width in- stead of the length: You will find it makes up beautiful in this way. When creamed potatoes are be- ing prepared you will boil them, to get cold, and then slice them, sprinkling them well with flour. Add some milk (much or little, ac- cording to the quantity of potato), and stir them over the stove in the stewpan. It will become a soft creamy consistency. and all it needs when done is a seasoning of salt and pepper. Had Heard of Burbank. Brown (to his neighbor Jones) He says he's experimenting with' a vegetable which will bring him in thousands of dollars, Jones—What is it 4 Brown :He's trying to rear an onion with a violet scent. FOR THE HAIR Restorees the color, strength, hearty and softness ' to Gray Hair . and is not a dye, At all Iti:t9ogiste, 50e. a 136ti, Fend of Children, .Angry 'Customer; "See here, sir! That dog you sold me yesterday. has bitten a piece out of any little boy's log," flog IF'a•ncior', "Well, sir, didn't T say he was specially Mond of ` chil- dren 2 ' p y DIED AND LIVED AGAIN. Ins Other Self Detached From the Earthly Doh. John 0,• Wheeler, now in his 7nd year, and living in Ivarxrest, Mich., has a notable history. Ile. experi- enced the sensation of dying and says it was delightful; he has spent 40 years of his life }walking from place to place delivering lectures, accepting only food arid clothing as recompense; lie gives all themoney he receives to charity and lives on the charity of his friends; he looks like Alexander Dowis and John Burroughs, and has • t{'en been mis- taken for ene or the her of them; he walks fourteen miles daily to get reading matter in the public li- brary; he believes in reincarnation and says he is not a fanatic. "1 believe I have, had the most wonderful experience of any human being living," he said. "I have practically died and lived .again. Not long after graduation I was swimming with a number of com- panions when I suddenly went down. It was several minutes be- fore my friends missed . me, and when they finally located my body I was unconscious. A doctor was summoned from half .a mile away, and when he arrived he pronounced me dead. I was taken to my board- ing-house and another doctor who lived a mile away was sent for. He, too, pronounced me dead. "While the .fact that I regained consciousness after so many hours is not so remarkable, it is remark able that while apparently dead I was never more fully alive in my life. But I was a part distinct from my body. I could tell the persons about me everything that happened while I lay unable to move. During those hours I- discovered' many things. Much was revealed to me that would sound preposterous to relate. ' But the one thing I do re- member is the queer sensation of dy ng, Dying is delightful; off that I am sure: After losing .consciousness my body, I am told, sank to the bottom of the lake, but the other self seemed to float away from my body and soar above the water. :I looked down and could see my body. I saw the rescuers find it, and place it on the bank. I then seemed to return to the fleshy prison and again become a part of it, but was incapable of giving it volition. I exerted all my :strength, but could. cause .no movement of the muscles, Finally, I seemed to secure a firmer grasp on things, and almost instant- ly regained consciousness. In that fleeting moment 'between the con- scious and ,the unconscious state the thought of returning: to -life was repugnant. It seemed lik,a re= turn to prison after a tour of the outside. "Prior to that experience -I had beeu an agnostic, disbelieving in a hereafter or a spiritual state of ex istence, but now my whole point of view of life changed, I have never since doubted the spiritual exists ence. A man is double, and the body is not a part of him. ' I don't want to be classed as a Spiritualist; in fact, don't care to be labeled -at all, although theosophy comes near- est to my belief. I believe in a re- incarnation, ` and that death simply turns a man inside out." WONDERED WHY And round the Answer. Many pale,sickly persons won- der for years why they have to suf- fer so, end eventually discover: that the drug--caffeine—in tea and coffee is the main cause of the trouble. "I was always very fond of cof- fee- and drank it every day. I never had much flesh and often wondered why I was always so pale, thin and weak. "About five years ago my health' completely broke down and I was, confined to my bed. My stomach was in such condition that I could hardly takesufficient • nourishment to sustain life. "Daring this time I was drink- ing coffee, didn't think I could dowithout' it. (Tea is just as harmful because it contains caffeine, the same drug found in coffee.) "After awhile I came to the con- clusion that coffee was hurting me, and decided to give it up •, and try, Postum, When it was made right -dark and rich—I ' soon became very fond of it. "In. one week I began to feel bet- ter, I could eat more acid sleep better, My sick headaches were less frequent, and within five months I looked and felt like a new being, headache spells entirely' gone, e'my health continued t� improve and' today I am well and, strong, weigh 148 lbs, I attribute my pre- sent health to the life-giving gttali- ties of 'Postuzn," Name given by Canadiafi. Postum Co., Windsor; Ont. Riad "The Road to Wellville," to pkgs; Pos ani now conies hi two f,ornt Jtr,gtilar Postutn—Must be well boiled, , ' instant 1'ostunt---Ts a fsoiuhl,e powder, , A teaspoonful,dissolves quickly in a cup of hot water arid, with cream and sugar, makes ade- licious beverage instantly. '; Gt r c- ors sel]. both kinds. .` a "There's :a Reason" for Postuitt. VOODOO TQ BE 10I KED INT( TRIAL IN CUBA Ukti REVEAL FACTS :Anovir Traveller Tells of His Experience WWI' the Society In Africa. A. returned 'traveller, P. ..Amaury Talbot, is telling the English press that ho found in. the Elect district cf Africa, hitherto unexplored, cus- toms and ceremonies which have come down unchanged from the days of the Pharaohs, Ile is; an official, .a district comanissioner Southern Nigeria. The "Devil" doctors of Samoa are being fought, by Surgeon -General Stokes, of the United States navy, through clin- ics, and publicity ise schools, and in the native press._ A court of jus - rice has recently acquitteda Jew charged by due process of : Russian law with having officiated at the ritualistic murder of a Christian boy. Charges of like character,, it will be remembered, have been made against the Jews for more than a thousand years; and were ma;dein Rome .against the followvers of the Nazarene before Christianity became the State religion of the empire. If these isolated facts be accepted as establishing the persis- tence of religious ideas or supersti- tions and the difficulties of arriv- ing at the truth regarding them, one may be prepared to admit the sporadic reappearance of serpent worship, traces of which are to be found in the history of nearly every pglobe.eople, and in every quarter of the Arrest of Doctors. The proof niay not be possible that an organized cult exists for the worship of the serpent in these clays, but in (Juba. several Voodoo doctors are under arrest oharged with many crimes, and with having terrorized a large :area, aided and abetted by political leaders. Per- haps the truth about Voodoo may be established in Cuba as -the truth about Judaistic human sacrifice was established in Russia, It may ap- pear that Voodooism is purely ima- ginary. Meantime, the ,investiga.- for is met at every turn with the impossibility of penetrating with certainty the inner tenets' of any secret society, Referring to the hard task of the African Governments in dealing with societies which, "at certain times of the year, still ,seek; to offer human` sacrifices," P. Ama,ury Tal- bot says: Children 111 -treated. "Toward :the end of September such an attempt was made by a group of towns in a distant part of the, district, never before visited by Europeans. My attention was first drawnto this particular• society, which bears the dread name of `Ekkpo Maw -haw' (Ghosts—the De- stroyers), by a poor woman, -who brought some fragments of charred, bone, which she ; asserted was all that was left to her of an only bro- ther who had fallen a victim to the vengeance. of prie- of the chiefs' of the society. , "A little later complaints began to come in from, missionaries as to -cruel < maltreatment of •school' ehil- dren and other converts ,peacefully proceeding on their way to church. Later I' discovered that a little girl seven . years old was ': nl.y .' rescued with great difficulty from being of- fered up, after the sacrifieitil ,dress had been placed upon her, while the great drum was beastef and the head ' priest . announced" `Ekkpo njawhaw will eat to -day,' It speaks volumes for the courage of the Christians, many of them mere boys, that they dared wrest her from the clutches of this dreadful society at the cost, ie several in- stances, of severe wounds: Court messengers were sent to summon before me those responsible for the outrages, -but the unfortunate- emis- saries were seizedabeaten and sent back with the message that further 'attempts to interfere with the so ciety would be punished by the death iof the messenger, or myself, should I venture thither. "A sudden: visit, however, plan - nod with great secrecy, found them unprepared. The inhabitants con- cerned went intohiding, or set forth to summon help from • con- federate towns. Word was left that all had gone to a 'far country,' but a simple stratagem brought thein tumbling back, and the expression on their faces was comical in the extreme when they discovered that the summons to return, beaten mit in drum language, had boon dic- tatedby the white man, Faced by tiro unexpected, tiffs ° guilty parties were persuaded to submit, to trial," Origin) of the Word. Even the origin of the word Von- doo is shrouded in mystery, The textbooks say it was applied by the French on their first encounter With the cult; beoaxise the 'Vaudois,' a people of France, "wore much given to heresy, therefore to the! Black. Art" l but among the Guinea tribes "V'odun" was the name of .. the all-powerful snake, call 1)alrxr- ghi in other .parts of Africa, and 'he natives of Guinea wore easy •ictims to ''the slave traders who applied the planters of. the West,. lion worship of the serpent per listed,. as we shall soon see, longer :n Africa than in any part of rho world, brit traces of this malign ieity influence the folklore, if not. they religion, of nearly all human- ity, Though after the temptation of Eve the serpent was condemned to crawl, it reappeared as a symbol of power in later . Jewish history. During the wandering's of the chil- dren. of Israel through the wilder- ness the Lord sent' fiery serpents to afflict a rebellious: people already suffering from famine ,and drought. When, at the intcrvess,ioi of Moses, the were forgiven, .the great leader was commanded to fashion a ser- pent of brass and place it on a pole, "and it cause to pass that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheldtheserpent of brass he lived." The serpent was among the gods of the Land of Egypt, whence Moses led his people, and they found it among the gods of the land they were to subdue. Clad- mus, the Phoenician who invented letters, became a serpent. The Tribes of -Central Australia, the most primitive people in 000- tact with modern civilization, have irx a,aaythical serpent of gigantic size and magical attributes their nearest approach to a deity. The African hasbeen content with his nature gods, though in contact with those of Greece and Rome, and ib is only within recent years that he has been greatly in- flueneed by either Islam or the Gross. If the beauty, the graoeful sinuosity, the mystery of the ser- pent have appealed to the primitive folk of all the world, how lunch more powerful must be the effect on the people of Africa, where it attains a size, a forniidable charac- ter elsewhere unknown save in the valley of the Amazon But while the secret societies ramifying throughout. Africa to -day may defy the skill of British official investigators, serpent worship as practised in Dahomey half a cen- tury ago is a matter of record. Na- tives of Whydah held an annual procession in honor of the serpent until 1857-8, when the ceremony was suppressed by European in- fluence. People were forbidden to look outfrom the houses while the pre- cession was pa sing : under penalty of death, and if was said that some Europeans who;. proved too curious regarding the rites performed were poisoned. ' According to the Da- . cult the serpent conferred vision on the fust huinan pair who same into the world blind. The na- tives aenerated a-tives..venerated the serpent as the God of Wisdom and the God of Earthly Bliss, who ruled the pro- ductiveness of plants and animals as welt as. of mankind. They called. the serpent "master, father, mo- ther, benefactor," and offered both, men and women as sacrifices. Young Girls Were Sot Apart as thewives and priestesses of the great python, and both priests and priestesses officiated in his honor. This description is in perfect ac- cord with the hearsay narratives of Voodoo practices- in America, for it is well to confess that no account of the Voodoo cult either in this country, Cuba, or Haiti . is more than hearsay,' l:;afaeadio Hearn, a trained ob- server with < more than average tal- ent fo'r taking on the 'color of his environment and expressing the in- ner consciousness of strange peo- pleas, failed to obtain an authentic account of Voodooism either in the West Indies or hi Louisiana. A Catholic priest told arecent investigator in the Republic of Haiti that he could affirm "with- out violating the secrets of the con- fessional that during his years of service he had heard the avowal from his penitents .of, the most frightful crimes conceivable, but that never had a black man admit- ted to him that he knew anything of Voodoo." There seems to be no reason for doubting, ;however, that the color- ed ; people brought with them from ,Africa serpent worship and the practice of Voodoo, just as the Wnrtt,KOcroyc9P,„,6a,r1/44Qiiwci's" $tui'Pl „NG1bf,ETTCOMPANY „IMiTE as TORONTO ONT FOR MAKING SOAP SOFTENING WATER DISINFECTING LOD SpAI QTS �S SINKS, &�'&:: Puritans brought from Europe be- lie.f. in witchcraft and in drowning as a sovereign remedy for the evil, it anay be that some lingering trace of both superstitions taint .the d•ea- cenclants of both races of early set- tlers. UNIQUE GOLD COIN. Recently Part+horsed by the British Museum. A unique gold coin has just been purchased by the trustees of the British Museum with the assist. ince of some private subscribers. It is, the only known example of the gold coinage of the Anglo-Saxon King Offa (A. D. 757-79a),' the most celebrated of all the Mercian prin- ces; •chs friend of Charlmagne and the recipient of many presents from that Emperor. The coin is remarkable nob only on •acootint of its uniqueness and of the fact that it is the earliest gold coin that can be definitely as- oribed to any English king, but also because, although it was struck by. a:Christian king, it bears a Moham- medan inscription in Arabic. At the time of the issuing of the col1 the Arabic dinar formed a large part of the gold curreimy of Eu- rope and it is believed that ib waa• for this reason that Offa caused an exact imitation of an existing Ara- bic' coin to be made for his own 1.180,The coin is in a very fine state of preservation. The existence of this specimen has been known since 1841. Ib was obtained in -Rome by the late Duc de Blaeas, but from 1841 till 1907 nothing was known of its whereabouts. Minch Worse. "What's the matter 7" "My wife found a -letter in my pocket." "I see.•, One you had•forgotben to mail." "No; one I had .forgotten to burn." A"man who had been absent for a considerable time, and who dur- ing his travels had cultivated a great erop of whiskers and mous- taches, visited a relative whose lit- tle girl had been his special favor- ite. The little girl made no offer to salute him with the usual kiss. "Why, child," said the mother, "don't you give your old friend a kiss 2" "Mother," answered the child, "I don't see any place." "There's a great art," an Irish- man once declared, "in knowing what not to know whin yez don't. want to know it." We offer for investment, subject to,prioi' sale OCILV IE FLOUR, MILLS CO., LIMITEPP 6% FIRST .:IORI AGE GOLD BONDS, DUE 1932. Price •100 and accrued interest. 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