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What "They" Do in Flanders
shouldn't put too much weight Nothing -could 'have been less m
aeing than the first entry of the Lh-
lens, which Mr. Hasselaer watched
from Ms window, A dozen of them
came trotting along tbe highway
and rode through the village until
they readied the church. They
were Bavarians. Some of them dis-
on these 'atrocity' steries, They
are moetly 'imagined by people who
den't know anything about it."
•duell were the words of Colonel Bur-
eays, a high edfieer of the British
line? Department, - in his
ouartere at Villers-Cetteret, In
thee -ern Franee, whew I asked him mounted and sent for the eure. w
e hat ize thought 4)t the i,lermens as: officer . spoke excellent French and
L't;1:;.-•, IA ritee Oliver Madan Hhef- explained that the village had noth-
• • • •• • mg to fear if it respected the pee-
t-,, e. • • ..
'ti I Lid yea %%hat I have seen sage of the army. They aeked for
-4i.la nly own .-eyesyft..-.--low they the Mahe or eume 4)ther ealeial, but
girls—and b1 little die effteials had beeu among theo
ehineranaand mutilate, so that first to leave. • All of the Uhlans•
eeenet speek eof •sueit thiugs, thereafter rede away, except four,
yeu eeald say that they were not . of whoin three entered the cafe de
nien. but deviled' Mae were the l'Etor.e and ordered beer, which
C.1C,IC: werde u Mr. 3ne Shnet, a they drank and pad for very civilly..
belkiillei gentleman. fortlehrkt a city I Half an hour later came more 4
• eille,471E -41E 144,NtVailt, at OW present ;cavalry and tanowine it the arraya
lame a refugee in Londini. • • : a gree sinuous serpent of horsesi
To . rektferee Colonel Barrows and foot and artillery, with a great
view that the German fights hon i' grey. 4.1raeon of an airship hying
ably, 1 ceute. adduce those of prate ii,,`eneve ea head. They neareneen raid
tiealie were seldier, Freneh .orlMr, Hasselaer, as though they hail'
English. with whont 1 have diseusel but tale 'leg between them, and the I
ed the matter; an Mr. de Sliact s; eseiten watched them silently from!
eide are ranged ' praetivally everY t the windows. For benn• upon hour
• ciYirian whh has seen anything of the serpent unrolled its' mighty
,, ,
woe a happeniug in 4 -matters., Inv
+dealing many preminent American
ear eorreepondenta
At first sight it would seem (lit W revoncile such divergent tes-
timany. From what 1 have neveelf
' seen. in France and Flanders., eince
length, always peacefully, like some
VaSt piston rod of a machine, until
the children forgot their fears and
escaped from their anxious uiothevs
into the roadway and watched the
soldiers and began to play among
theniselves. And thws. it was that
the vutbreak of uar. however, it is the tragedy happened. i little girl
not. I think, impossible. Let me of seen—'it might have been one
first recall a scene which took I:dace of these" vernmented Mrs.Hassel-
in the earlier dues of the wer, when aer, shuddering -4 i
ot* itinto her
the A.Ilies were sullenlyraihug back head to run across the road, be -
from Mons and three-quarters .ef tweets two companies of grey infan-
teenthern Flandere was streaming try. Riding between them was an
terror-stricken aeroes the frteeteer aka,- en a spirited horse. Tir watches and Freneli and English
into. Frame.. Imagine the failing child ran right under the horse s,moneY. from the pockets of a Prus-
light of a clear day. a long white nose, heeitated, tried to run leaelcd shin infantryman captured wander -
road. lined on either side with tall The horse reared. Any of the inir on a battlefield not far from
irate= and everywhere, on the road lagers would tell you, said Mr. Has -
and in the eids on either side of it, Felaer, for he did not see the inch.
the dim figures of soldiers and dent himself, that the officer deli-
t..r-es and guns trailing away herately drove his horse at the elnid.
eeutieeasteard. I had hest all very At least one of the rearing hoofs
Fashions for Young and Old.
Left: Child's dress of fancy net, trimmed with tinybuds. Right:,
White chiffon dress with silk corsage; three-tier tunic of laee with
white spanks. White silk sash.
definite eerie? of locality, except
that 1 knew 1 we somewhere in
trance awl fur the moment, iu no
art:eider danger from Ildans,
e
be just ae the read dropped down
a little descent I came =ties a very
desolate little family, sitting be- the
roadside, their feet in the ditch.
eaught her on the temple and she
died there and then. The officer did
not express any regret, only annoy-
ance. The child's parents did and
their fellow -villagers protested
The grey snake continued its pas-
sage, so unmoved that you might
Dainty Dishes.
Oatmeal Gents.—Take one cupful
of cooked oatmeal, one eueful of
sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls of
sugar, one beaten egg, one-half tea -
81)00014 af soda, d'nd one teaspoon-
ful ef ere= a tartar (oi one heap
ing teaspoonful ef baking powder
instead AA the soda and the ereara of
tartar), and ills; enough flour to
hold the mixture tugether. Bake
the dough in hot gem pans iu a
ehiek oven.
Savory Paneakes.—Add a. dust of
cayenne pepper and a pinch of salt
te a cup of flour and sift. Beat two
eggs well, mix with them a cup of
sweet milk, and add this mixture
gradually to the flour, beating the
batter until it is perfeetly smooth.
Cover the basin with a cloth and
!et it stand for an hour if possible
Just before using stir in one and a
half teaspoonfuls of grated cheese
and a quarter of a teaspoon of bak-
ing puealer. Cook in the ordinary
way, shaking the pan *hen the un-
derside is lightly brown and turn-
ing. These are often served rolled.
Fillet of Whitelleb.—Skiu the Ash
and rinse in cold water. Form it in
several long portions of fillet by
means of your bends. Cover theta
with a little sat 3/num .$41t, pep-
per, onion juice, lemon juice or with
creamed butter flavored to suit
your taste. Add. a few slices of
olive, ehives, some capers and a lit-
tle parsley. Roll the fish into tight
rolls and fasten with skewers, bake
zu a pan creased with butter. Baste
with the stock made of the fish bone
veiny -tied districts in Germeny. It mixed with a small amount of egg1
was a large undertaking, the vice -
bet it would and erum. Remove the skewers
wachmeister agreed,
certainly be done in due course, ete• and serve on a. hot platter. Before
serving add a few oystere, that have
msons. I never heard the story cording to schedule. In France,
been simmering for a few minutes,
of the little foot. for they shot him of vourse, which Germany proposes
at come. only to crush, rather than to des -1 to the sauce.
troy, needing her as a vassal state, Ginger rudding.—One-half pound
I do not want to pile on horrors,
. afterwards to be used for attacking of lerownebread cruralis, two ounces
or 1 coukl mention other similar in
eidents. But I have said enough to England, no such measures are ne- of preserved ginger ehopped, fine, flour used to be cooked in this bat -
•show you that these atrocities even cessary, or indeed advisable. d datest inIIpieces
under two headings and that far the Such, I am inclined to think, one-half teaspoonful of powdered ter an cu sum pi,
and_well floured may be used to -
is ginger, two large tablespoonfuls of
golden syrup, one tablespoonful of d to make this eake more whole-
onl,y secondarily responsible, in officially let loose in Belgium. It is brown sugar, some grated lemon oaine. The batter, with or without
worse the German authorities are the real reason why Hell has been
that they cannot ' ahvasa enforce
. at least so believed by the rank and Peel, and ewe eggs, whieh must be some
dd. ofl'btlmelted but.-
thent e a then a, i e.
file, and the evidence is overwhelm- ter, males a good little muffin.
own iron discipline. But. there
THE CLEANLINESS
OF SINK,S,OLOSETS,
E3ATHS, DRAINS. ETC,
IS QF VITAL IMPORTANCE
TO HEALTH.
the frying pan until just short of a,
heat that will burn the cakes,
grease well, turn on batter, and
when the (Ake is full of bubbles and
before they 'break shake it leose
from the pan, toss and bake on the
other side. This -tossing need not
he a lost art. Tt is easy. I'eep your
mind on getting the pan under the
eake as it comes down. Half corn-
meal or ball pint of berries rolled in
well beaten. Soak the bread midis
in boiling milk, to which. you have W -hen sour milk is -used the eggs
added an ounce of butter; then mix are sometimes omitted entirely from
the crumbs and -milk with all the these eakes.
other ingredients. Put the mixture
into a smell rno•uld, and steam it Household Hints.
for one hour ; it, will then turn out A flannel dipped in turpentine
easily on a little dish, and should will clean a porcelain tub excellent -
be served with the diluted syrup of ly. .
the ginger made hot and poured Excellent bibs' for babies are
over it. • made of small Turkish towels cut in
Spinach, Soup.—Thoroughly wash two.
the spine& in plenty of water, an& The new -laid egg is one of na•
if it has not come directly from the tares greatest gifts to the sick
garden, put it on a, eloth and lay it room.
I '.tipped ler a moment to light a have thought the tiny tragedy had
The German attitnde towards the
is another point to be remembered. ing that while military excesses on
the part of individual, soldiers have
eigarette—they had not then be. never been. But within Ave min- civilian population has been abso- been firmly suppressed in French
"" Preehlw'—and 'ne E3f then'' a utes an officer sent for the cure and lately different in Belginin and in districts, nothing of the sort has
arum, evoke to Inc. We fell a explained to him that he and four-
te king. and thus I ranee to the France respectively. There is been attempted anywhere in Bel -
teen other notables—he had their
clearest account 4.4 the destructionscarcely a Belgiau village that has giurn, where pillagers and ravish -
names as pat as though he had lived not its own terrible memories
of a Flemieh 'tillage by the invad- among them all his life—would be ruthless se'verity, if of nothitig by
of ers have been actually encouraged
held responsible in their lives, for worse That was not the case im ' their officers. Here is a story
ers ef any that I had ever heard or
seen. Since then I suppose I have . told me, by another German pri
been a dezen destroyed or in course France. Some towns, it is true, goner, who strongly disapproved of
I.f ilestruetien. but that was in ae- were practically destroyed, such as it. And let me say that the vast
Wei fighting; this earlier essay in Seas, where actual fighting took majority of the German prisoners
bellielinese, nes. tarried out when place. Others, such as Villers -Cot- with whom I have talked, even in
net a gun vas being fired in anger teret, Crepy-en-Valois, and a dozen the feiv cases where they admip that
withintwenty miles. others through which the Germans
passed, were left practically un-
scathed, except for the wine confis-
eated and a widespread looting of
clocks and watches, for which they
showed an amazing hunger, In the
any attack made upon the troops.
Of these one was Mr. Hasselaer.
Later the hostages were arrested,
for no -cause given, and shut up to-
gether in the ane big room of the
-cafe l'Etoile. Still later there
came to them the noise of a distur-
I itould ask you to imagone a eaeee outside,
little village of the poorest exter- followed by firing.
The same grey officer entered and
nele, half-agricultinah half-indus- told them that the troops had been
LU. forming ilYle .1ung street along fired upon—by the dead thild's fa-
ille highroad from Brussels to Na- ther they had no doubt—and that town
mur. Eacept that the wash -color five of them must die. He gave of 'Crepy, which was in their
hands for something like a fort -
faces, draggle -white and grey and them five minutes to choose which night,
tak. ,some of the houses are a, of them should represent the rest, only one house was actually
destroyed by fire—I could not find
eteide shabbier, the brick of the rest and when they could not, he told his out why; and some stores were loot -
a shade darker, it is the duplicate of men to seize the five nearest ihe
door. They led them out into the ed for groceries.
a hundred others that you have
The Maire, an elderly doctor, was
passed. and thought supremely un- little place mid shot them against especially struck by their craving
intereetine. anywhere .01) your tour -, the waIl of the church. The grey
ist trip; to see the beauties of Bel-
gium. At one point the street wid-
ened a little into a sort of "place"
before the brick ehureh, with its
towerapire and immensely high
nave. Beside the thurch was tuck-
ed away a grey -faced presbytery
and opposite, at the corner of a bye-.
lane leading across the fields to a
big factory where many of the in-
habitants were employed, was the
principal cafe—of the Star. Mr.
Hasselaer, who told me the story
as we at together by the side of
the ditch. was a foreman in the fee -
tory and lived eomfortably- but not,
I imagine, luxuriously, in, a little
house near the church. With him
lived his wife and two smelt chil-
dren, of six and eight_ They were
with us in the ditch. Lodging with
them, sc., to put it, were his sister
and a soung woman related to his
wife. They 'had disappeared, and
there was little hope that they
• would ever be seen again.
The village was not actively in-
terested in the war, except at sec-
ond hand., The big thread factory
was closed; most of the young men
were away at the front—which
.
'grew, it is true, every day nearer.
The older men went about their
work in the ftelde, or discussed the
;situation, doubtless breathing very
terrible threats against the invad-
ers, in the cafe de l'Etoile. But
they had certainly no idea of ever
putting them into effect.
Day by day the fightin.g came
• nearer; the sullen grumbling °Mlle
• big guns was heard every clay more
'.(31early and along 'the highroad flick-
ered all kinds of alarming stories,
but the village as a whole accepted
them phlegmatically. Some of the
more active or timorous fled across
the frontier into France ; the ma
jority, including Mr. Hasselaer,
took counsel of the 004 and the
doctor and a retired^ captain of
Guides who formed their local aris-
tocracy and &aided to stay where
they were. They heard eonflicting
accounts of the behavier of the in-
vaders; their little houses and pos-
.
sesseons were very precious to
them; no doubt if they did nothing
to anger the Germane they would
come to no harm.'
snake was still passing, but the was a
for watches, of which he h'neself
At the time "thee'
lege was no longer peaceful. There
were everywhere shots and screams
and the red light of fine. It seem-
ed as though a regular force of de-
stroyers was eraployed, for the rest
of the army went its way.' The de-,
arrived he was sitting before his big
desk in his room at the Mairie, his
gold watch, as it happened, lying
on the desk before him. Five offi-
eers, one of them, a, general, enter-
ed the room, to give him their or
stroe•ers went into the houses and
you heard shots and screams, and a clers for the conduct of the towns-
men. They were polite, almost
little later smoke and fire came out
of the windows. friendly. When the General went
away he offered his hand to the
Mr. Hasselaer thought that he
must have gone temporarilyMelee, who indignantly refused it.
mad "When they went," concluded the
with terror, which probably saved Jyjaire, who told me the story him -
his life. Somehow, in the confusion self, "My watch was gone with
and the red darkness he escaped them. How, or by whom it was
from the cafe, fled to his own little taken, I do not know. At -least it
house, reached it before the exe- had gone." And he added that
cutioners, got his wife and ohildren scarcely a clock .or watch in the
town to -which the Germans hael-ac-
cess but went too.
The stealing of watches and bur-
gling of wine -cellars are annoying
enough, but they do not compare
to thetreatmentmeted out to the
unhappy Belgians. The reason for
this distinction usually put forward,
eourse, is that the intention has
been all along to terrify the Bel
gians into abject submission' so that
they may not dare to attempt any-
thing against the German army be
hind its back. Another, to my
mind not less probable, was sug-
geeted to me, by a Bavarian ser -
out by the back way, and hid in a
ditch for the rest of the night, and
watched the flames dancing where
the village had been. The army
kept marching past, but the furnace
was grown so hot that it, was forced
to leave the road and pass across
the fields. In the morning the dis-
tracted man crept back to. see if he
could save ,,s,omething of his former
possessiores. He could not find even
the place where his house had been.
The village was no longer there.
Many of the neighbors were still
there, he added. .
That is one kind of "atrocity"—
and I can imagine that a high Ger- geant, a wounded' prisoner to whom
man officer, if he Were more mah I rendered some slight service for
chine than reaff,, might defend it on which, he was ,oyer-geatefuleHe told
the grounds of exiSediencye At least it to me as an undoubted fact, aer-
it„ was carried out in:cold blood, al-
most irripersonally,, 'as though. by
machinery.
There are other outrages, that
m
haps. regietable,..but .altogether ne-
cessary. I ay add that he was a
man of superior education and per-
sonally a very good fellow, amaz
even he could not defend. I have ingly domesticated, a .smalh.trades-
myself seen two children, their man from Augsburg or -thereabouts..
hands 'cut off at the Wrists. One of He had it that I3elgium was 'des
them, a little girl, was from Lou- tined from the beginning • by the
vain, where her. parents had a little Teutonic Gods, to become a It
parents
Three soldiers entered and eland, like Alsa,ce, , but that the,
attacked her mother. The child ran GOvernment was not going to take
instinctively towards .the mother, any risks of having another clisaf
and one of the men slashed at her fected subject -population on their
with a "knife" --se . she put it hands. Accordingly the Belgians'
Nothing has since been heard of the
parents; the ehild has .been adopted
by some charitable Lendoners.
I have seen another'thing. I saw
a child's foot, half -dried; that was
taken along With a number of
such outrages have occurred or Thirty' minutes before the
could occur, condemn such outrages "
as strongly as any one else, In a soup is wanted, wash it again, let
the water drama off Tor two or three
village near Ypres a Germa,n troop-
er was seen by my informant chas- ininutes, and put the apinach into
a double boiler without any water,
ing a, -woman elown the centre of the
roadway, thrusting at her, as she except the little that clings to in
ran, with his lance. In th end she Leave the double boiler open, for
escaped, amid the laughter of other spinach loses its color if it is cover -
troopers who were watching the per-
formance. My infornaant believed
that the man had no intention of
killing her, but that it was merely
his idea of a good-natured practical
joke. At least an under -officer, who
also witnessed it, reproved the man
angrily—for his inexpertness with
his weapon.
Such a form of "joking" by the
men of a professedly civilized army,
brings us back to the second kind
of outrage, of the more devilish
he soup is made, may be chopped
kind, the cutting off of babies' hands t
and reheated witch butt er, to be
and women's breasts, the burning
alive of inoffensive old men and the served as a vegetable, or, cold, may
a salad with either
like, scores of which have been re -
be served as
corded by impartial -witnesses. French dressing and hard-boiled or
These cannot, I think, be charged with mayonnaise_
against the German nation as a Sour Milk Flapjacks.—To two
whole and only indirectly against cups of flour add one 'hall teaspoon
their military authorities. It to of salt and one teaspoon of sOda.
be added that in a number of eases Sift and mix thoroughly, then add
the .perpetrators have been duly two scant cups of sour milk—if part
punished—when the outrages hap- sour cream they are finer—and beat
well. Some people -allow this mix -
cannot imagine any British Soldier, ture, minus the soda, to stand over
even if made with drink, descending
to such depths of infamy as have;
beyond any doubt, a certain num-
ber of the Germans. But to be
strictly fair we must remember that
the English army is picked and cho-
sen, and that no man not of good
character and high training has a
place in it. The German hosts, on
the other hand, include all sections
ed, After twenty-five minutes of
cooking, strain the water learn the
spinach, and press it, hard to re-
move all the liquid. Return the
liquid to the double boiler, add wa-
ter if the juice is too strong, salt it
and reheat it. .Add two teaspoon-
fuls of olive oil for each dish of
soup ; stir it in, and serve the soup
at once. Upon each service place a
heaped tablespoonful of whipped
cream. The spinahh itself, after
petted in France. It is true that we
are to be driven out neck and crop,
until none are left. Either they are
to be frightened away, or, if terror
will not serve, they are to be killed,
utterly destroyed and 'their place te
of the population, good, indifferent
and bad. Anyone.who has travelled
in East Prussia, for instance,where
the peasantry are still held in iron
feudal subjection on the estates of
the great land -holders, knows that
among them are to be found types
that .are4sc roe y a so
are they. Yetthey rub shoillders in
the Kaiser's armies with the -best
educated and eaost cultured of his
subjects—and with them are ther,
denizens of the worst shims of Ber-
lin and the great indastria,l, cities,
men Whe would be , ga,ngsters in
New York, hooligans in London or
apaches in 'Paris: Take such men,
madden them with drink; preach to
'them that they are superior to the
ordinary' laws governing humanity,
and turn them loose, .Confident that
their superiors will, whenever possi
ble, turn a blind eye to, tkeir pro-
ceedings, when not- in the ranks,
among a cowed and helpless civil
population—and you would expect
u
just sch things to happen as have
be taken by settlers - from over- happened everywhere in Belgium,
a 1 buteabject
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44e.
night,, adding the soda, withthe two
eggs in the morning. Separate the
two eggs heat whites and yolks
separatefy. If the hatter is mixed
just before it is used, add the beat
en yolks • just after the beating
Which follows the additio-n of the
milk. Lastly, in any case, fold in
the whites beaten stiff. Slowly heat
To wash -colored silks; use cold
water and, a moderate amount of
soap.
The more fresh foods there are
on a table the better for the fam-
ily's health.
At a pinch. common whiteeblank-
ets can be cut up and used for baby
blankets.
Put a thimble on the curtain rod
when slipping it through etheadetteve—
of the curtain.
The tops of pale -colored evening
gloves make very dainty shoes for
tiny babies.
Chamois mittens, worn while do-
ing housework, are a great saving
to the hands.
Little bags filled with shot make
good little sewing room weights for
keeping a pattern in place.
Cookies Should be put into a
cloth -lined stone jaz When hot if
you would keep them melting and
crumbly. .
Buttonholes on heavy linen can
be done very satisfactorily, with a
fine crochet hook and thread.
Add the grated rind of an orange
and two tablespoonfuls of the juice
to a sponge cake for a ehange.
A glass of hot water with lemon
juice is excellent for the complexion
if 'taken just before going ta bed.
- Woollen materials can be cleaned
with a dry rubber sponge, care be-
ing taken to rub the wrong side of
the nap.
If you 'have to peek bottles in a
trunk, tie in the ,corks and wrap
them in soft towels, garments, ete.,
and place in the middle of the
trunk.
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