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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1915-8-5, Page 6About the Household. Seasonable Dishes. Banana Ice reanL To the crushed pulp ofsix bananas add one cupful sugar, one-half tea -spoonful salt. Pour in a quart of milk and pint of eream. I1tie well and freeze. Fruit Iced Tea. ---Steep some fresh tea and put on ice. When cold pour in the juice of pineapple, strawber- ries, apples, banana and any other fruit you like all mixed together. Huckleberry Pancakes.—Sift to- .... trier in a deep bowl one quart of• flour, two teaspoonfuls of salt, three ta!eespoonfuis of sugar, add three w eil-bs :ten eggs and four table- pooafr,ls of milli. Beat to a smooth better, then add one pint of cream, one pint of milk, the grated rind of on lemon and two cupfuls of huckle- ber rive. Fry and serve very hot v'ith powdered sugar. Mier! S.tufed Cucumbers. ---Wipe drain out peel cucumbers any - sings or insects. it up immediately with blotting paper, then wash out with warm water and clean flannel and dry with a soft duster. ' A solution of salts • of lemon and warm water will remove iron -mould from. linen. The article should be well rinsed afterward in clean water and allowed to dry. A good way to get rid of a mouldy smell in the cellar is to dust well over the walls and floor unslacked lime, leaving it on for a day .or • two then brushing it ofl'. When making small cakes sprinkle a little flour over the tins, instead of rubbing grease on. This answers the purpose just as well, and'. is less expensive. Close green vegetables, such as cabbage, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, etc., should be soaked for r*,l a short time in vinegar and water to ' cut in two-inch Wild flowers can be transplanted pieces crosswise and remove seeds. ".ix freer tablespzoons bread crumbs,successfully if care is taken to put t.ii taeur Tablespoons finely chopped cooked them in places with about the same e hh.' ‘Ptwo armesan ano) tablespoons lerated in before.exposureand It isowell to moveasea grweat e b te�niato eatee and season with deal of the natural soil with the roots. a' and pepper. Put cucumber cups ` rR =i1 �alc� r ran, till mite mixture, sur- After using cold.water starch many �� :,� with hat x:seer or chicken Mack housekeepers throw it away. This is and he ntil le re t ei.,? i, wi half an hour. Then cover wasteful. Allow it to settle en!) lutttered crembs and bake until pour off the clear water. Put t le own. basin in the oven and leave u Ph i Titters.--I:��move skins from the starch is dry and a hard ca three or law peaches and cut in useThishould.be put away for foto mall pieces, Mix and sift one cupluse. t'oer, one and onr•.ltalf teaspoons bake int.. p wider, three tablespoons pow- iier ei sugar and one-fourth teaspoon °7" Add one-third cup milk gradu- 'ty, while stirring constantly, and egg e, wellT,beaten. Then add p eeid: .' Drop by spoonful into hot . e. as d fry until delicately brown.. Praia on brown paper, sprinkle with pew -lead eager and send to table on s lied napkin, with lemon sauce. Lino•. Sauce. --Put three-fourths cep g 4:- into saucepan, add one - f ;rtre .stn water and let boil five r i'+"e Remove from fire, add two t loans butter, bit by bit, and one t,.ltleepooa lemon . juice. Peach Cake. --1111x together two • e ps sifted flour, two teaspoons bak- e powder. one heaping tablespoon , to ter, one-half cup sugar and milk mouth to make soft dough. Roll out hsdf an inch thick and lay on flat, buttered baking pan. Have peaches ready, peeled and cut into lengths. Niers these into dough in rows. Sprinkle with granulated sugar and bake. Cut in squares and serve hot with sweetened cream. Potato Soup.—Pare four medium- sized potatoes, quarter and boil with small onion and two or three stalks of celery. When done, remove onion aid celery, mash potatoes, add enough boiling milk to make of creamlike consistency (about three cups), one tablespoonful butter, one and one- half teaspoonfuls salt and one egg until light, put in tureen, strain soup May times is one confronted with 8937 SMART VACATION DRESS. through colander into tureen and the difficulty of deciding on the mos serve. satisfactory dress for the vacation— Mock Venison.—.Make a sauce of Is it to be an Empire, a Princess or one tablespoonful brown flour, one tablespoonful butter and one cupful stock of water. When thoroughly cooked and smooth, add one table- spoonful currant jelly, one table- spoonful mushroom or Worcester- shire sauce and bring to boil. Heat thin slices of mutton in this until hot, bait do not let the mutton cook. Breaded Parsnips. --Wash and trim parsnips, serape (if large, split them) and boil ten minutes in salted water. Take from fire, drain, lay in cold water half-hour. Wipe dry, roll in what? Shall it have a low neck, short sleeves, yoke skirt or ---_"Oh, on just what shall I decide!" A dress that will be found highly satis- factory in determining these little vexatious points by combining many of the season's most popular features, is Ladies' Home Journal Pattern No. 8937. The pattern includes a Quak- er collar and cuffs, a waist with a gathered yoke and a one-piece skirt gathered to a two-piece hip yoke. The pattern cuts in sizes 34 to 44 inches egg, then in bread crumbs, I>eate-tset bust measure, ' requiring in size 36, aside for about an hour, then fry in (i yards , 15 h material. deep, boiling fat as you would dough- Patterns, 15 centso each,Lcan be pme g chased at your local Ladies' Home nuts. Take up in wire spoon and Journal Pattern dealer, or from The serve in hot dish. Oyster plant is Home Pattern Company, 183-A, good cooked in the same way. George Street, Toronto, Ontario. Household Hints. Bran is far better -than soap for cleaning paint. Charcoal powder is excellent for cleaning fine knives. Pie crust should be rolled in one direction—away from you. Bread should be kept always wrapped up in a clean cloth. A cloth moistened with alcohol is effective in cleaning piano keys. Housewives will find the butcher's apron a great Convenience, as it cov- ers even the sleeves. When a bedroom' floor is id be washed, see that it is thoroughly dried and aired before night. Never leave a package of coffee anywhere near butter, eggs or milk —they will absorb the flavor. To polish a black marble clock rub over with olive oil and finish with a clean chamois leather. Soups suffer less than anything else by being heated a second time but they should be re -flavored. Raisins kept in a covered or other dish with a small cup of water in the centre will keep moist and fresh Salt curdles new milk, so gravies, etc., should not be salted until., the dish is prepared ready to serve. 1 If you have an earthenwarebread cad pan with a cover,the loaves of bread can be put in it without wrapping up: Kerosene will soften boots and shoes that have been hardened by water~ and will render' them pliable as Finger marks are best removed from furniture by - washing a with water': colored with vinegar, then wipe With a dry cloth. H you spill ink on a carpet, soak Water on a Red -Hot Stove. Why it is impossible to throw - a few drops of water on a red-hot stove? Perhaps you never knew that this cannot be done. The water can never touch the stove at all. What you see is a few drops rolling rapidly over the surface. These become smaller and ' smaller until they •entirely disappear. If' the drops are on a perfectly level place it can be proved that they are not in contact with the stove itself by, the fact that onecan see under them to the other side of the room. What is the explanation? The bottom of the drop changes at once to steam or vapor on coming close to the hot surface. This vapor is supplied by the drop as it gradual- ly goes away -in otherwords, the drop rests on a cushion of vapor until it has entirely disappeared. You may ask why the drop is not - immediately evaporated or changed to steam. The answer is this: The water vapor that intervenes between its undersurface and the red-hot stove is not a good conductor of heat; consequently the full, intensity of the heat cannot get to the water itself, the only amount available for this purpose being ` that transmitted through the vapor, Goldfish in a globe usually 'swim round' to the right. ' Electric fishes, such as the electric ,eel, the African catfish, and the elec- tric ray have the power of discharg- ingan electric shock sufficient at times to disable a; man. • Re: ti F R 1ORED. eRUI 2 F E�SEKc • Oil, SVFFt t,K ,E'LA55. AS $ Et -t FRQf� THE PORT.'*ME- "rlt sgrl;,. W,RsntP AS SEEN FROM nine, 3TAR506R,D site, BRITISH CRUISER DOES .LIGHTNING CHANGE ACT The British armored cruised of the Suffolk and Essex class which follow- ed the America's Cup yachts appeared off Ambrose Channel Light Vessel recently and it was noticed that she is equipped to do a lightning change on the high seas. , Her port side is the same as it was originally, painted a dull, dark gray. But on her starboard side her bow has been painted out with a sil- very white color that is not discern- ible at a distance. This odd paint is carried in a line along her topside and down around her stern, making her appearance small, and at the bow the painting is carried out in a curve giving her the appearance of having an old clip- per stern. Painted revolving screws also have been placed above two of her three funnels, the fore and aft Ones, The screens have the disappearing paint on one side only. To identify herself to a friendly flag she has only to show her port side, If in doubt of a. vessel she falls in with or of she wishes to disguise herself she need only show her star- board side. Then she can appear as a clipper hulled vessel with either one, two or three funnels •t^. ltMni 5 !els a ?a, ,y "It's a secret invention. I daren't let His Darkest Hour to the purchasers." "Well, there's an easy way out`of tet elto er eei%�'%d•MISII e that difficulty. Let them wait an - Sir George Trelland, the famous other six months for it, till you come back from your holiday. -You can fin - oculist, sat silently at his desk, his ish the model then." head a little aslant, his glasses poised "No, I can't do that, either. You delicately on his finger tips. Opposite see, I've got an agreement with them. to him stood a young man, white and The model has to be finished by to - tense with anxiety, waiting to hear the verdict, morrow morning. I have an appoint - a soul see it till I've handed it over "Well, doctor?" he managed to ask! hoarsely, "Well, Mr,—Mr. Cardew," returned the other, glancing at the card on his desk, "I suppose you'd prefer that I should speak to you quite openly and bluntly?" ment then with the purchasers. I must get the thing finished to -night. I've been working very hard at it of late, but my eyes seemed • to trouble me more and more, otherwise I might have finished it days ago." "I see," said Sir George. "And then you were rushing to get it finish - "Oh, please!" begged the other, ed to -day, and your eyes smarted and with a little shiver of apprehension. burnt, and became blurred more and "Very well, Mr. Cardew. Let memore, so you came to me to -day to say at once that you'll have to take' see if I couldn't miraculously cure care—very great care, indeed—of them in a flash, so that you might those eyes of yours." "You you don't mean—" stam- mered Cardew. "Surely it's not so serious as all that?" "I mean that if you wish to preserve your sight, you must take six months' holiday at least. You must have a complete rest. Otherwise, Mr. Car - dew, I can't answer for the conse- quences." "I—I understand," said Cardew slowly. He nodded his head and stared round the room as though -he found the whole circumstance fantastic and incredible. "You mean I'm threatened with blindness?" he asked sharply, almost angrily. "Oh, but -but you must be making a mistake! Surely you're wrong, quite wrong? Oh, you must forgive me!" he exclaimed apologetic- ally, hisface twisting upin a wry, pathetic little smile. "Your verdict is a bit of a facer, you -know. $lind- ness!" "Come, come!" urged the special- ist. "It's not 'so bad as all that yet. Six months of laziness—that's all I enjoin. That's not such a dreadful request, is it? Go away somewhere and do nothing; give your eyes as complete a rest as you can for six mouths, and I give you my word that eticany. "It is. hard! you'll have nothing to fear. I suppose Out in the -open air again, Cardew's ' emotions began to comb themselves out. The numb, paralysing surprise and terror which had held his ver ,complete your work unhindered?" • "That's about the truth of it," con- fessed Cardew. "You see how im- portant it is—how essential it is that I should finish the affair to -day." "Yes, I understand," said Sir George. "But I can do nothing for you—nothing. Time alone can put your eyes to rights again. You ought to have come to me days ago, when first they began to trouble you. Then I. might have been able to help you. But now—. " "Then I—Isuppose I. may as well go back again," said . Cardew, in a dull, `strained, voice. "I may as well go back again." "Not to that model of yours!" ex- plainred Sir George. "Youunder- stand me? I definitely and absolute- ly forbid it! Not another minute's of comfort inseparable from -the tea - things, did much to comfort and Soothe buna, He felt better, .much bet- ter, after the 'meal, and steeled him- self into facing the future with resig- nation, if not with equanimity. He rose and wandered into his work -room. For a moment he paused WHEN THE TRENCHES CONTE with his hand on the *itch. of the electric light, as though, fearful that the sight of his beloved model might probe his bruised mind too deeply. Then he peessed down the switch, and the big, dark room sprang into vivid illumination, Be went over and. stood • by his, model, gazing, at it sadly, and think ing over the months whit Trench warfare has. gradually and h mu t now s elapse before he could complete it, A by force of circumstances led to tiny screw, only half drive. homes mine warfare. The first line of caught his attention, and almost with- trenches in the fighting zone const! !RINE WARFARE A NEW PROBLEM CLOSE TOGETHER. "Listeners" Guard Against Explosion of the Enemy by Countermining. out noticing what he was about,he tutes an advanced defence of points tightened it down. There was a om- of support (villages, woods, chateaux,. pinion screw to be inserted on the farms, deep roads, etc.), and serves to other side of the model, and this he establish communication between did too, quite' automatically, them. So long as the two adversaries He pulled himself up sharply when are not in complete touch with one he found what he had done. But the another and remain separated by dis- tance of 500 to 600 yards, this ad - spell of work may have making a vaned line is not continuous, being after all," he beenld himself.gsimply occupied by sentries and pick - mistake "And, after all, a few hours can't then When pi rushes in the advanced lines make much difference." thenrbyr sapping, the advanced o His fingers were itching to continue are brought sufficiently close to their^ labors. make all progress impossible without "`It'll simplify matters so if . I can heavy losses from bombs and gren- -warfare commences. g e t the thing done," he muttered a ! Inthis new phase the distance be- y tweon the French and German He inserted another tiny screw, toy- trenches varies from about 25 to 50 ed with some conponent part for a yards. Bya rapid and unexpected few moments, and then fixed a bolt in p cted place. rush it wouldseem easy to throw one - "I'll chance it!" he resolved, 'My self into the enemy positions, eyes feel quite all right now. And to- Driving Saps. morrow, six months' ho idey, who- But while the works of the atta' - they it's necessary or not."his He drew up a chair and set to work tutug partys linked advance,. thee enemy in his eagerly. The time slipped past, min- advanced has iupa elements with his ute after minute, half-hour after half- line, elanke, themp nu - em hour. His eyes began to smart and w with bomb-throwers,machine requipped them blurr, but he noticed nothing, heeded dth and M nenwer- nothing, except the task which en -for, and thrown up in front of the grossed him. parapets network of iron `vire, access eery defences of all kinds, At last the model was finished—fin- ished! Cardew rose with a great sigh. Thus and parallels , fact of driving of relief and stretched wide his arms. saps and parallels alone effect to fixing He rubbed his smarting eyes and stood enemy has the initial eff spot, f back to survey his completed handi- work. of his men to the and of work. keeping them constantly under threat mp of an attack. If such attack takes And in that second darkness ca place, it can only be crowned with swiftly upon him. The blackness of night enwrapped him about. complete success after making So—it had come! The specialist breaches, bye the destruction e thencing had been right. He had. disregarded accessory defences, and the silencing g of the flanking fire. These results Trelland's warning, he had faced the may- be achieved by heavy artillery risk, and now here was the penalty. fire, and even by the prolonged use For a long, long time, Cardew of machine guns; it has been found stood inert, his brain a slow-moving that with 10,000 cartridges a gap of tangle of incredulity and bewilder- some twenty yards can be made, But meat. these methods are noisy, and must, Presently he began to feel, to real- ize. He put out a hand and groped to remain effective, immediately pre- cede the attack, Hence their use his way forward to the work -table. 'warns the enemy that it is going to His fingers touched the model, and take place. He is then on his guard, he had almost the mind to snatch the all take up their firing positions, the thing up and fling it down to the breaches made aro immediately swept ground. by a flanking fire, and the success of But—his model ? The model.fox, the he had unwillingly bartered hishe attack is all a matter of chance. sight? ' No—that was all that was Listeners at Work. left to him now. And his hand slid The problem was how to find the from the metallic surfaces and fell means of making a breach in the limply to his side. enemy lines and abruptly destroying So this was what;blindness meant! ' his flanking dispositions at the very This utter darkness, this 'suffocating moment the troops leave for the at. blackness, this pitiful helplessness! tack. The solution has been solved The land, the sky, the sun itself, were by mine warfare. Mine chambers, blotted out to him forever. Hence- placed under the accessory defences forth he' lived in a world apart -a 'or under the machine guns of the en- world where everything was black emy make the breaches. The difficulty and hopeless! He was blind blind! is to place the chambers at the vital His fingers sought his chair, and points. he lowered himself into the blackness The enemy knows their importance which s'eenied to take dim shape be- and protects them by a system of fore him and taunt him with his help- counter -mines, charged as soon as lessness. the works of the attackers indicate a resort to mining. To locate these, listeners are placed at the end of each branch of the counter -mine. When the first noises are reported, suitable measures are taken. Mine warfare will then begin in earnest. Contact by listening is established. Some- times the entanglement of galleries and .branches is suchthat an enemy gallery is arrived at or even a cham- ber discovered; thereupon the fusee. are immediately, cut. "I can't face it—I can't face it!" he groaned. • Presently he heard footsteps draw- ing near the door of his work -room. He rose to his feet and fumbled across the floor. He would have found in- trusion at such a time maddening. He could not discover;the door at first,. and this accentuated his help- essness. .He began to, sob --the dreadful tears of 'a man overwrought, "Are you• all right,' Mr. Cardew?" called his housekeeper's voice anx- ously from the passage. . "Yes, 'quite all right, thank you, Mrs. Dennington," he forced himself to reply. "Quite all right "• He was feeling his way, round the wall, and now he had come to the door. His grasp found the key, and he turned it sharply in the lock.. "Maybe you're busy?" suggested the housekeeper at that. "If so, I won't disturb you." "Yes, I'm busy—very busy," he muttered hoarsely. "Ah, I wasn't sure whether you had any candles or not," she said. "I was just bringing you some, in case you hadn't any. A noosanee, isn't it? I suppose it's a. fuse or something. Any- how, I've sent post-haste for someone to come and see to it." "A fuse?" exclaimed Cardew, and repeated in louder, more eager tones: "A fuse?" "That's what` I suppose it is," she answered. "Either that, or something wrong: at the .works. _ It must be one. or the other when the electric lights goes out all the:, house without a moment's warning, mustn't it? Gave me quite a shock, , it did -I couldn't think whatever had happen- ed at first."—London Answers. 'l 1 work must you do to it!. Disobey if you like, but you know the risk -- blindness! It'll come upon you swift- ly, like the turning, of a key in a lock. But there!" he concluded reassuring- ly, patting Cardew's shoulder, "I know. you woift be so foolish as to ignore my advice." "I—I'll try ,not to," said Cardew, shaking hands. "But—oh, well, you understand. It's hard -hard!" "Yes," agreed Sir George sympath-: you re not—not financially unable ' to afford a holiday?" "Itisn't a question of money," mut- tered Cardew: "I can manage to keepsoul' g gradually merged,into less pole- myself going for six months longer, taint feelings. The hopefulness of if necessary. But just at this junc- youth began to come to his aid, sus- ture my work " "You must put aside all thoughts of work," decreed the specialist. "Easier said than done," returned. Cardew ruefully. "You see; I -I've matters for six months. It's .only taming him, and presenting to him the less dark aspects of the position. "After'' all," he told himself. "I dare say I can arrange with them to defer been working ou t an invention—mak- ing the model for it, you. -know." "Long hours of fiddling about by artificial light with little Scraps , of metal," said Sir Geprge a trifle " im- patiently. "Oh, .I know! And then you wonder—" "Ah, but 'I've all but finished it now! broke in Cardew with enthee siasm.. "Jove,. it's- a . beauty! You ought to see it, sir! And ~I've. as good as sold it -I've' only got to deliver the models • There's only about three more hours' work to. be done to it, and—" And you 11 ,have to get someone else -to. -do them for you," interrupted Sir George lii°usquely >, "I absolutely forbid' you -to touch that model! You • „ know -the risk you run.". "But I—I' daren't entrust the work and took his tea quietlyenough. In some parts of Norway' corn ..: justa case of expianation. And . six months pass away .quickly. I may be able to think out some new idea I.... one never knows: ought to be jolly thankful I was warned in time!'' And then suddenly his Sentiments veered round again to horror.' "Blindness!" he whispered. "Blind for life -oh, I ;couldn't face it -I couldn't face it! It's, always'. -been the one : thing I've dreaded above all others!" This, then, was' his condi- tion c - tion when', he let himself into his looms . For 'a . time he skulked with his wretchedness in the darkness of his rooms, and then, too: highly strung to face any sympathetic queries from his housekeeper, he turped on the light Johnnie's Demand. A young hopeful ` of four was - a-2 table with mother on Sunday` morn- ing,.the father being from borne' for the week -end. "Now, 'Johnnie," said his mother, "you'll sit in father's "chair this morning and say grace." "Weel, mother, if I'm " to be father I. mann hae twa eggs," ,returned John, nie, imperiously. to anyone -else," pleaded Cardew. The homely glow of the fire, the air used as a substitute for money. _, TELL THEIR- GREAT DEEDS. (By James L. Hughes.) Stories of dauntless heroes Dying for liberty, Winning for truth and honor Triumphant victory; Tellethese ' great stories ever; We should forget them never. Heroes of Balaclava, 'Heroes of Waterloo, Heroes who saved St. Julien, Fearless were they, and true,. Tell their great deeds forever,;- We 'should forget them never.: What shall the coming ages In story tell of you? Honor, and faith and freedom, Impel you right to do. You must record your story, Either of shame or .glory. Never was freedom threatened As now by . despot power, Never was duty clearer Now is your testing hem. You must record your story, Shall it -be shame or glory?, Duty to home and Empire, Duty to liberty, Calls you to valiant action• • What will your .answer 1;e1 Yoti must record your story, Shall be shame or' glory ?;, Civilization weeping For Belgium's heart that bleeds, Calls in the 'mina of mercy; "Wake and do noble deeds!' Wide are the gates of glory, Enter! Record your story. Toronto, July, 1915.