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The Exeter Advocate, 1915-9-30, Page 2About the Household Selected Dishes, I Humors of the Pulpit The advice given by a famous par- son that the three essentials of a good preacher were that he should "Stand To remove paint and varnish stains ; up, speak up, _and shut up" has be- Currant Jelly Sauce.—Make sauce from woodwork, apply Javelle water; come axiomatic, Failure to act ac - of three tablespoons browned butter, by means of a brush, Repeat if ne- I cording to that advice . had led to four tablespoons flour,one cupmilk; cessary and rub with a cloth. !many humorous incidents, but for all p When grease is spilt on the kitchen" that it is far from easy to follow such or brown stock, and one-fourth tea- spoon salt. Add one-half cupcurrant table or floor pour cold water on it at, excellent counsel. There is not much p jelly and one teaspoon oon lemon juice. once to prevent it soaking into the , difficulty in standing up, but many It will ui corn six minutes to insure partial be lifted with a knife. cooking, remove to bread toaster and i To prevent the juice running out of able amount not only.of assurance toast over hot eoals or in broiler of a fruit pie make a roll of clean paper„! but of knowledge of the subject As gas oven until evenlybrowned. The hold it upright, and insert it through for shutting up—well, that is a sheer the crust. The steam then escapes, : impossibility to that rather large clees delicious flavor imparted this way is worth the extra trouble. and the juice remains in the pie. ; of preachers who are either so earnest Pineapple Pie.—Cream one-third' , The flavor of an apple pie may be that they lose all sense of time and cupbutter withhalfr '. improved by sprinkling the fruit with 3 proportion, or are "inebriated with the add two cups grated pineapple vela:? lemon ,juice after it is filled into the; exuberance of their own verbosity." has been heated to the boiling point, i crust, Then cover with tiny pieces of One of the classical stories con - Then add two beaten egg yolks mix- • butter, and add sugar and nutmeg or . cerning the long-winded type is that ed with half a cup of rich milk and cinnamon. 1 of the preacher who was holding forth Toasted Corn: After boiling new wood, q cloy hard en and can' preachers, particularly at first, find that speaking up requires -consider - one tablespoonful lemon juice and the For white spots on furniture hold at interminable length on the major grated peel of a lemon. Fill pie, bake, a hot stove lid over the spots and and minora. prophets.. And now, and cover with a meringue made of they will soon disappear. They can : brethren," he said, after an hour and' the whites of the eggsalso be removed by applying spirits of ; a half or so, "We come to Habakkuk. Vegetable Jardiniere.—For this dish camphor or ammonia. What place shall we give to Habak- ase cauliflower, green string beans ' Always scrub the way of the grain - kuk?" ,� and carrots. Cook ve etables se a- of the wood, Have plenty of clean Habakkuk can have my place, ratel °, seasoning each butter, warm water, Only scrub so far as called out a man at the back, as he 5 the arm can reach at a time, then rose and left the church. pepper and salt. Arrange on serving wash and dr that art, Chan a the dish, with cauliflower in centre, ear- ,water o y pir g We have mentioned the self-assur- rot tubes at each end and beans at ; as s on as it s dirty. Do not anee which is necessary to the man either side of cauliflower. Pass plat- - use more water than is necessary to who wants to speak up. Lack of that ter, allowing each person to help him- clean the boards. When scrubbed quality, it has been alleged, was the self to vegetables desired, clean rub the boards well with a secret of the ill -success • of the local Duck Stuffed With Potato.—Choose -choose clean flannel wrung out of clean wa preacher who tried to begin a sermon young, fat duck, with webbing of feet ter, and then dry with a dry cloth, on Zaceheus, who, it will be remem- soft. Dress, stuff and truss for roast- rubbing the way of the grain. After bored, climbed a tree to see Jesus !Mg, as chicken, For potato stuffing, . scrubbing wash the brush immediately pass. Vain was the preacher's efforts have ready two cups hot mashed po- find hang up to dry, so as to harden to collect his scattered thoughts, but tato, one-half cup salt pork cubes, two the fibres. T out of his confusion came an epi - tablespoons onion, one teaspoon poul- try seasoning, salt and pepper. Cook anion in pork until yellow; add re- maining ingredients. English Professor Gives Advice to Six . 8' Apple Soup.—Wash, quarter and H'yndred Students, remove cares of six tart apples, but Six hundred bachelors, some young do not peel. Put into saucepan with and some two quarts water, one teaspoon salt pretty old, spent their and one -Half cup rice. Cook until luncheon hour the other day receiving fatherly advice from Prof. Winfield tender, rub through sieve and return S. Hall, of North-Western University to fire, with one-half teaspoon ground Medical School, England, on "Chaos - cinnamon and one-half cup finely jag a Wife!, TIPS TO BACHELORS. chopped citron added and sugar to ei don't see aey bald heads in the taste. May be served hot or ice cold. B audience," said Dr. Hall, "so I take it Cornmeal Muffins.—Sift together a for granted you are all good candi- cup of cornmeal and a half cup of dates for marriage. By that I mean flour, a teaspoonful of baking powder and a half teaspoonful of salt; into a ! you have smind health, are morally pint of milk whip three beaten eggs, a ` clean, can win a can support a wife if you n one. tablespoonful of melted butter and "Imagine the girls of your acquain- two tablespoonfuls of granulated su-, tanceship lined up before you. Out of gar. Make a hole in the meal mix- the possible six to twenty girls you Lure and gradually pour the liquid are to choose a wife. Which one will into this, beating steadily. Beat hard for about five minutes, pour into you choose? greased and heated muffin rings and Four things must be considered bake in a good oven. !her health, her hereditary qualities, Bread Bance.—Put crumbs from a her education, and her age. Exclude stale loaf into a saucepan containing health.rom the rakc the girl of poor ane pint of water. Tie in a cloth a Its a calamity for a man ty marsrhy few peppercorns and one small onion such a girl. Some of you may and a blade of mace. Boil a few mo- = say the youter before girl might get well. Let her. her meets and then remove them. The ;genet her go into the -woods for a sauce must be very smooth. Add a ' year or so and develop the ability to piece of butter and a little salt. Add walk fifteen or twenty miles and re - before taking from the fire a spoon- turn without fatigue and with Dame fill of milk; this will give it a nice Nature's priceless rouge upon her iolor. The sauce must not be too cheeks. Then you may marry her, thick. Serve in a sauce boat. ; knowing she is of good health. Baked Omelet.—Heat 6 tablespoon- "Don't marry a girl just because fuls of milk and melt a small piece of she has a pretty figure and large, his - butter in it. Do not let it boil. Take trous eyes, and is a beautiful dancer, if at twenty she has only the mind of a girl twelve years old. Among the other suggestions he gave to the man considering choosing a wife were: Don't marry an heiress. You may become unhappy with her and her money. Don't marry into a family where there are traces of insanity or feeble- mindedness. Look up the health record of her parents and grandparents. Avoid the daughter of a confirmed. alcoholic. When he came to the part' of his lecture referring to the ages for mar- riage he turned to the blackboard, wrote some figures, and said: "According to the best scientific research -the figures on the board show the relative ages at which men Hints for the Home. and women should marry." Here is the table as he wrote it:— Canned fruits make excellent pud- A man of 21 should marry a girl dings in winter. between 19 and 23 years. To keep suet fresh, chop roughly At 25—one between 21 and 27. and sprinkle with a little granulated At 30—one between 23 and 28. sugar. At 35—one between 23 and 30. Salt water, applied with a brush, At 40—one between 25 and 33. is the best method for cleaning wil- At 45—one between 25 and 35. ow ware. At 50—one between 40 and 50. Add a little ammonia to the water At 60—one between 45 and 60. in which you wash silver and glass- At 70—one between 50 and 60. ware. It brightens both of them won- At 80—one between 60 and 70. ler£ully. "When a man gets to be 50 years Before baking apples make a small old," he continued, "he should not ex - slit all the way round each with a pect to rear a family. I advise such knife. This will prevent their split- a man to marry a widow with several ':ingwhen cooking. children. When preparing rhubarb dip each "When a man of 60 or more mar - italic into boiling water. This will' ries it is only for the purpose of hay not; injure it, and it will require lessing a nurse during his declining years. sugar in cooking, It is unfair for him to marry anyone To prevent- blue from streaking younger than himself. He should clothes, mix one dessertspoonful of marry a childless widow or an old soda in the bluing water. Baking maid." • soda, of course. .. _ Old brass may be cleaned to look 3 eggs, beat the yolks with a tea- spoonful of salt, a dash of pepper and a tablespoonful of flour. Stir into the hot milk, adding lastly the stiffly beaten whites and a little parsley. Pour into a well -buttered frying pan. Put into a hot oven. In a few minutes it will have risen, delicate brown. s Slip on a platter, folding it in the middle. Corn Omelet. To 2 eggs, the yolks Ind whites of which have been beaten ight and separately as usual, add the pulp from 2 ears of corn grated. Sea - 3011, with salt and pepper and add a little parsley if liked. Mix with 2 tablespoons of water. Cook in a hot skillet in the usual way, fold, ' and serve on a buttered platter. Many variations may be played on this theme, just as with other omelets, us- ing tomatoes, cheese, etc., if desired. like new .by pouring strong ammonia Children may not be seen in the on it and scrubbing with a brush. streets of Bergen, Norway, after a Rinse in clear water. certain hour, which varies with the To get onion juice, slice off the season. The church bells of the town end and proceed toput peal a signal for them to return home root half of the onion a you would.half a lemon and the police see to it that they obey: in the juice extractor. If the stains on a dirty mackintosh Germany's secret police are fur - will not come off with brushing take nished ' with "police. eye -glasses." a raw potato, cut it in two, and rub These have tiny concave mirrors on the soiled parts with it. the side next the face, which may be Washing fabrics that are inclined to extended sideways or folded hack so fade should be soaked and rinsed in as not to show, and give the wearer, very salt 'water to set the color be- if he has normal sight, an image of fore washing in suds.. what is going on directly behind him. gram. "Zaccheus," he said, "was lit- tle of stature, but be wasn't as small as I feel myself to be now; he was up a tree, and so am I; and 'he made haste and came down,' which is just what I shall do myself," The preach- er suited the deed to the words forth- with. Pulpit and pew have a humor all their own, and often enough it is at each other's expense that the jokes are made. In the sense of a famous prize-fighter turned evangelist the pulpit had the best of it. The former boxing friends of the revivalist were unnecessarily annoyed because he had castoff his old-time habits, and one day they decided to spoil his meeting. So a row of them took their seats im- mediately below his rostrum, which was quite a small affair,- bearing a particularly heavy Bible. From the outset they interrupted frequently, despite their quondam boxer's earnest appeals for better treatment. At last the old Adam rose in the preacher, and he issued not an appeal, but a warning. "If the men just below the pulpit did not behave themselves he would have to make them do so," he said. The interruption proceeded. Then something happened. "If the brethren will not hear the Word," said the preacher, "they shall feel it." And lifting the big Bible in that powerful right hand which laid many opponents. low, he leaned over his rostrum and swept three of his hearers out of their seats. Thereafter the sermon went on in quietness, In Disagreement. The story that used to be told about Bishop Bloomfield is one illustrating a "score" by the pew against the pulpit. When he was a rector Bloomfield went to preach at a neighboring village, and forgot to take his sermon with him. It was too late to return, and so, for the first and only time in his life, he preached extempore, taking for his text the words, "The fool hath' said in his heart there is ' no God." Anxious to I,. -now how he succeeded, he asked one of the congregation on com- ing out how he liked the sermon. "Well, Mr. Bloomfield," replied the man, "I liked the sermon well enough. But I can't say that I agree with you. I believe there is a God," Of witty sayings attributed to gen- tlemen of the cloth the list is endless. Possibly some of them are too good to be true, and others too bad. A High Ch h 1 't' t the famous Dr. James Freeman Clarke, dated his letter "Candlemas Day," whereupon Dr, Clarke, with a rare sense of fitness of things, dated his reply "Washing Day." Dr. South was a witty divine of the time of Charles IL' A young curate once complained to- him that he had received only £5 for preaching a ser- mon at Oxford. "Five pounds!" ex- claimed the doctor, "why, I wouldn't have preached that sermon for £501" It is not said whether the curate ap- preciated the keen satire. A Shrewd Reproof. The people of a certain parish were not less shrewdly reproved by the clergyman who, at the close of the sermon one day, announced to his con- gregation that in the course of the coming week he expected to go on a mission to the heathen. His parish- ioners crowded round him, reproach- ing him for having kept his intended departure a secret till the last min- ute, begging him not go, and asking him what they should do when he had gone abroad. "Oh," said he, "you will see as much of me as ever; I don't expect it will be necessary for me to go beyond the boundaries of the parish." We have already mentioned the cut- ting wit of Dr. South, .and another story of that cleric, who must have been capital company, comes to mind. On one occasion when South was preaching before Charles II. and his profligate Court he soon perceived that his reluctant congregation was asleep. He stopped short in his har- angue, and, changing his tone, he. called out to Lord Lauderdale three times. His lordship stood up. "My lord," said South with inimi- table dignity, "I am sorry to interrupt your repose, but I must beg of you that you will not snore quite so loudly lest you awake His Majesty." Sidney Smith. Many are the good stories of the g urc c ergyman, wri mg o SMART, SIMPLICITY FOR SCHOOL. With the opening school days, the young ladies will all have to be pro- vided with suitable clothes .for; the Fall semester. The • Ladies' Home Journal patterns shown herewith are. excellent for the purpose. Pattern No. 8804 is a ; Ladies' and Misses' Single-breasted Box -coat, having a notch collar, full-length sleeves,: with turn -back cuffs, and is made with or without -patch pockets. Sizes 32 to 42 36 requiring 2% yards of 42 -inch ma- terial. The Skirt to go with it, No: 8988, is made in three gores, opening in front and havi g slightly . raised c � Y waistline and with or without the pockets and cuffs at lower edge. Sizes 14, 16, 18 and 20, size 18 requiring 31/% yards 42 -inch material. The other pattern, No. 8899, in a Misses' Dress opening in the front and consisting of a blouse in shallow yoke effect, standing " collar, which may be worn high or turned . down, full-length sleeve, with shaped trim- ming bands, and a three-piece circu- lar skirt. Sizes 16, 17, 18, size 18 requiring 51/8 yards 36 -inch material with / yard 36 -inch contrasting goods. Patterns, 15 cents • each, can be obtained at your local Ladies' Home Journal ,dealer, or from the Home Pattern Company, 183=A George St., Toronto, Ontario, wit of Sidney Smith, and one of its particularly bright examples was on the occasion when the dean and chap- ter of a certain cathedral were die - cussing the propriety of making a wooden pavement round the cathedral. "Well,brethren," said Smith;' "you have only to lay your heads together and it will be done." John Berridge, who' was vicar • of Everton at the time of the great re- vival, in which he was one of the lead- ers, had critics who thought that he should jog along decorously and lazily as vicars used to do hi the bad Old days which he helped to displace. His enemies called him "an old devil." I "Don you know Berridge?" aeked a stranger of the man himself, "Yes." "They tell me he is a troublesome, meddlesome fellow." "I know him," answered Berridge, "and -I can assure you half his wicked- ness has never been told." They walked on to the church„ where Berridge preached, When the stranger ' saw him ascend the pulpit he was stupifled. Once when pointing out to a guest.. at Everton the pictures on the wan he ran through them thus;—"That is Calvin, that is Luther, and that," pointing to a frame over the fireplace, "is the devil." The guest looked, and saw his own face in the mirror. Following Suit. A certain Nonconformist preacher of some years ago had 'certain pecu- liarities in his appearance. His hair was red, he wore blue glasses, and these features, coupled with his white tie, Ied the young people of his church irreverently to call him, "Red, White and Blue." 'One Sunday, when he was preaching at Bradford, he looked round the church and saw that a good many of the people were asleep. With a smile, he remarked,' "If only a few more go to sleep I think I may have a nap, too." John. Wesley had a. gift of repartee and wit, as well as of eloquence lel preaching. On . one occasion, when about to dine, in company with one of his preachers, with a rich Methodist, Wesley caustically snubbed both his colleague and their ostentatious host. The table was spread with more than luxury, and Wesley's colleague ex- claimed, with more zeal than polite- ness, "0, sir, what a sumptuous din- ner! Things are very different to what they were formerly. There is now but little self-denial among the Methodists." "My brother," said Wesley, pointing to the table, "there is a. fine opportun- ity for self-denial now," Wesley's Brotherly Love. • On another occasion he was at one of the early conferences, when a preacher rose up and, with irrepresi- ble emotion, began to relate his reli- gious experience. Wesley's brother, Charles, could not tolerate this, and cried out: "Stop that man from speaking. Let us attend to business." But still the good man proceeded. "Unless he stops I'll leave the conference," cried Charles Wesley. John looked up with a dry smile. "Will one of the brethren reach my brother his hat?" he said. Charles subsided. It is inevitable that reference should be made. to Peter. Mackenzie, who was so popular an evangelist amongst the Wesleyans some few years ago. He was noted for .his pulpit humor, and on one occasion remarked, "It's a mercy Jacob didn't keep a refreshment room,, for he charged so much for his pooridge." Speaking once of a man with a -very wide mouth, he. remarked, "I should think a man with a mouth like that, could sing a -duet all by him- self." MORE PAY FOR SERVANTS. Problem of. Finding English Help Grows Daily. Domestic servants can demand, and are obtaining more wages than before the war, as they are becoming in- creasingly .difficult to find in London, England.. So many opportunities exist now for women to .obtain work previously given to men that young women who were, or would have become, domestic servants, now seek less monotonous employment, with. More' free hours and more spare cash to spend. The large majority of housewives, therefore, who were accustomed to have one or two servants, have now. to pay wages of from $100 to $125, it is said at a West End ` registry office, in order to attract to their ser- vice,girls who before 'the war would work for $80 or $100 a' year: Many curious advertisements ap- pear in different journals which pub- lish demands omen orrs. The old quesfortion,w."Whatwtokedo with our girls^?" is . quite dead, even with reference. to the girls'who have tp turn out and earn a' living, without having any experience. Avny'woman nowadays can get some kind of work if es. The war has esheffectivelywishkilled snob- bery, and the girl who now cuts tip the bacon in the provision shopmay have received;a better education, and be of " better birth than many of the i customers she serves. "Wanted, a vegetable maid, $2.50 • weekly and all found," is • one adver- recetl noticed. tislument this case Y the vegetable maid, would, be infinitely.. better off than many : girls in the City en a $6.25 a week salary, with omnibus; fares to pay and lunches out. irds o onsingin • at the $1 g g g N root, unperturbed by the heaviest shell -1 ! Rejoined ! rOne of the most striking features in many ruined parts of Flanders is the number of wild cats and dogs. run- ning about in the woods]. The beast stopped dead in the mid- dle of the village street, frozen in a flash to the rigidity of marble. Crouched, belly flat, wicked ears pressed down, lips curled back to show the grinning teeth, yellow, malignant eyes, staring • intently; it was not pretty sight. Youwould never have believed that a year before that beast had been a domestic pet cat, with a blue ribbon round its neck. It looked—and was -- a wild thing of the woods. Enemies of Old. It was the sound of a shod footfall that had frozen it and the next in- stant sent it sliding behind a wall, whence it—or he, rather—glared from between a smother of weeds at the man, who stumbled and cursed his course along, dripping blood by the way, A dog, as wild as the cat, shot, snarling, from some foul thing it had been at business with across the road, and the cat streaked to the wall. But it was too late. The dog launched at him with almost a roar. She was starving, that dog. It was a matter of ten yards for the cat, of many more for the dog, but she fairly ate up the distance. When the. cat jumped he could feel the breath from the slavering mouth on his back. Followed a wild and furious scrap- ing, a little 'cloud of dust, and down came that cat again, right on to the foe. For once he had missed his jump, and there was no time for a second.. Possibly that cat -touched the ground, but he rebounded again, like a great rubber ball, all hair sticking out, and even as the dog's jaws shut- snap! --on the place where he should. have been, he landed upon the dog's back. Seeking Human Aid. His ride on that strange steed was brief and grisly, because the dog roll- ed, foaming with fury, and the cat bolted, blindly spitting, and, instinc- tively, to the man. In that supreme moment that beast, which had been wild in a blackened, stricken land for ,. twelve months, went to the man. It was a close shave, and nothing on. earth could have saved puss except one thing—and it came. True to a hair, the heavy, nailed boot of the man landed just abaft the canine's shoulder dropping the brute as if she had been pole-axed—a clean kick over the heart. And in the same instant the cat leapt for the man's back, and the man laughed. The laugh echoed hollowly up the shell -pitted, deserted street, Then the man's hand slid up to the cat stroking him, and he purred. And then, :very quietly, almost thoughtfully, the man slid to the ground and was still. He had fainted from loss of blood and from starva- tion. It was very still in that desolate street. The moon threw. squat sha- dows of the houses athwart the road, and made a little inky blot of a single gigantic rat, his wicked little" eyes shining like gimlet -holes in a green lampshade, squatting, hunched, in the middle of the road. Saved by the Cat. These things the man saw as he re- gained consciousness, and heM could hear other rats in .the inky pools of black where the open doors of the houses gaped. He shuddered, and wondered dimly how long it would be before they got him. . And then, suddenly, as if a hand had come down and wiped them out, they were gone—utterly! The man lifted his head, listening, and in the ' silence that followed he dis- tinctly heard a deep and comforting purring at his elbow. Very slowly he turned, very slowly put out his hand, stroked, and started. He had touched feathers as well as fur! It was the cat, come back, and, with a dead fowl between his jaws And that is how a . "missing" got strength to ,regain' his regiment, and cif ever in your career'"' you' =come across a regiment with a tabby -and - white . cat as its mascot, ' just bow down to that cat and respect it. Next to their colors,, he'is,their most holy possession.—London ' Answers.. It is usually the man with the least to say that talks the most. . Type writing- machines that print syllables of two 'and three' letters by a single pressure of the key have been put on the market. During the first three centuries of the English •Parliament,- all who serv- ed in it were' paid: In the fifteentl, century the amount was two: shillings a day. A motor -car fitted with a horn, which warned pedestrians, of its ap- proach ' by playing, "We won't go home till morning," was heard in London not long ago. If multiplied by 2, 3, 4, or any other integer less than 9, the number. 1,176,- 470,588,235,294 will probably produce the same digits in the same order, simply beginning at• a different place in the set. r�, •