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Selected Recipes.
Savory Rely -Poly oly I'uddin�,--14lake
a plain suet arast with three-quarters
of a pound of f our and a quarter of a
pound of suet, finely minced; roll it
out rather thin and cover it, first with
a layer of finely sliced or minced raw
potato, on this put a layer of finely
chopped meat of any kind, with a very
small quantity of minced onion and
a seasoning .of salt and pepper. Wet
the edge all ro, ,.d,. real up, tie in a
.ealded and feared cloth, and boil for
two hours.
Yorkshire Tart. ---Line bottom of
deep baking dieh with pastry, and
spread on it one layer of preserved
peaches or peach jam, mixed with a
little preserved ginger cut into mai
pieces. Weigh two eggs, take their
weight in sugar, in butter and in flour.
cre. r. ?'utter and sugar, add the eggs.
wrapped light, and put in flour, mixed
with erre-h •lf teaspoon baking pow-
der. Pour this mixture over pre-.
serves in dish, and bake geed brown.
A few minutes before taking tart ,
farm oven r• h top of paste with but -1
ter or with raw egg
Butter Ball.-•-Seteet young fresh
secaia peas, and, after podding them,
pa»�^ taa hoil in the usual way. Sift
into a bowl a cup of four, a pinch of
salt and a pinch" of baking powder;
run into this one tablespoonful of
butter, mix with cold water as for
dumplings, break the dough into bits
and rub into tiny balls between well -
f lured kende, Flour the balls again
lightly, and when the peas are tender
and still boiling drop the butter balls
among them. Boil a few minute;
cover and serve;
Fish Balls. ---Take half a pound of
cooked fish, free it from skin and
1<c nes, and then chop fine. Have six
potatoes nicely boiled and mashed,
mix the fill with these, add a little
melted batter, some beaten egg, a
teaspoonful of anchovy sauce and a
teaspoonful of finely chopped pars-
ley, with pepper and salt to season.
The mixture should be of a workable
e arisistenc y, and it is then made into
balls with floured hands, brushed with
egg, and tossed in fine breaadcrumbs.'
Salt sprinkled ona range will
sorb al
1eau
gr � e splutterings,
Salt, warmed, and rubbed on a
ed light coat, will clean, it,
Salt added to the rinsing
prevents clothes from freezing,
Srlt placed under baking -tins
an oven prevents their burning.
Salt stops neuralgia if sniffed into
the nostril on the affected side.
Salt will quickly clean a discol
bath or enamelled utensils.
Salt --a lump of—placed in the
will keep the drain wholesome.
Salt placed first in the frying -
prevents grease from spluttering
Salt and water rubbed into the s
is good for falling hair after illn
Salt, and water removes the lim
:ew curtains, and makes wash
easier.
Salt and water cleans all crock
more easily and better than plain
ter.
Salt --a tiny pinch—added to
whites of eggs makes them fr
more quickly.
Salt, thrown on the fire once a d
prevents the accumulation of soot
the flues,
Salt -a teaspoonful to a pint
warm water—rubbed into weak ardt
strengthens them.
Salt added to potatoes when ne
ly done ensures flouriness and p
vents them going to pieces.
Salt sprinkled over carpets bef
sweeping preserves the colors 'an
keeps away moths.
Salt rubbed on to an inkstaiu on
deal table, after the spot is damp
moves the mark,.
Salt thrown on fallen soot preve
he carpet marking, and enables
ect to be swept up cleanly.
Salt sniffed into the nose in
only morning, and the mouth th
ti cashed out with warm water, cur
atarrh.
Salt and water will prevent the r
aorders in towels, etc., from runni
the towels are steeped in it
wenty-four hours.
MORE WHEAT IN BRITAIN.
'MEANING OF TIE
WAR TO CHILDREN
HOW DO WE KNOW THAT WE
ab-
ARE ON GOD'S SIDE.
Soil-, oil.
water' Wonderful Opportunity: for , Parents
in
to Teach Virtues of Honor,
Duty, and Sacrifice,
"I would set lessons on the war—
, downright lessons with goad marks
and bad marks --in every nursery in
sink thee kingdom; and•if a child of • aver -
g ability, at seven years of age;
could not answer any of my questions,
pan be should stand in the corner till he
• could," writes Mr. Stephen Paget in
calp the Cornhill Magazine, "It is pitiful
ese in that a child should know more about
.inn William the Conqueror than about
+� the King of the Belgians. To older
cry children, from twelve to fifteen years
of age, I would give, each term, an
wa- . examination paper. Here are some
the questions for that purpose:
What has been the effect of the
oth war on you and on your home?
t "Imagine that you have 850 to
ay, spend on the relief of suffering cans-
in ed by the war, How would you pro -
"It
of : "It bas been suggested that chit-
-.es dren should say, as a grace, Thank
God and the British navy for my
ar- - good dinner.' What significance, if
any, do you find in this form of
words?
'eree = "Describe and comment on any re-
cent cartoon in Punch.
"Write out any one true story
ed, ; which you know by heart of the
heroic spirit of our soldiers and sail-
,
nts ars.
the l Any Prayer Better Than None.
"It cannot hurt a child to say God
the save the King, Neither can it hurt
en a child, I think, to say God punish
es England. We read of German school
children learning to say that; and I
ed am glad, to think that it will harm
ng neither them nor England. How can,
for it hurt a small child to repeat this
9 over -advertised curse? After all, it
is a form of prayer; and almost any
form of prayer, among children, is
better than none,
rd'`"If I had to choose between teach-
; ing a child to pray God to punish his
country's enemies in this war, and
y teaching a child to think of this war
e without any reference to God, i would
gn choose the former. Patriotism, at;
e1- its worst, is better for children than
e atheism at its best, Besides, if these
rt- flaxen -haired boys and girls do pray
o God to punish England they doubtless
with equal fervor, pray Him to help
Germany; and the Name coming twice
t on their lips, scores twice in their
u- heads, It is nonsense to say that the
s children are.too young to mention the
e war to their Maker. If they are old
e enough to call His attention to mo-
ther and daddy and Nan and pussy,
e they are old enough to pray on wider
- lines.
"I am inclined to advise parents not
- to encourage small children to play
Y at the war. They may with _advant-
age play at soldiers; but I dislike to
• see In English child pretending that
s he is a German, and you can play at
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The halls are then fried in deep amok-
lag fat until of a pretty golden color,
and when drained served hot and
piled on a hot ashet on which a doily
has been placed.
To Prepare Cauliflower.....prepare is
cauliflower asfor boiled cauliflower is
and steam until soft. Separate in B
pieces and pour over the following .te
sauce. Mix one and one-half tea. t
spoonful of mustard, one and one-
quarter
teaspoonful salt, one tea-
spoonful of powdered sugar, one and th
one-quarter teaspoonful of paprika.'t
Add yolks of three eggs lightly beat-
en, one-fourth cupful olive oil and one-
half
cupful vinegar. Cook over hot fi
water until mixture thickens, Re-' th
move from fire and add two table, ex
spoonfuls butter cooked with one tea ti
spoonful finely -chopped parsley.
Old-fashioned Ginger Bread.—Sift; ra
one teaspoonful of baking powder `xvn
and half a teaspoonful of salt twice, th
with two cupfuls of flour. Stir to a, Th
cream, half a cupful of butter, the a
seine of sugar and the same of mo-
lasses. Warm the mixture slightly
and beat light before adding a well -
whipped egg, a half teaspoonful .of
ginger. Dissolve half a teaspoonful
of baking soda hi a tablespoonful of fa d
hot water; stir this into half a cup- h
ful of sweet milk; Iastly, stir in the'
flour, heat hard for one minute, and
bake in two shallow pans, well but-
tered or in pate pans.
Banana Cream Pie.—Two cups milk.
three egg,, three-fourths cup granu-
lated sugar, one-fourth cup corn-
starch, one-fourth teaspoon salt van-
illa, two bananas, three tablespoons
powdered sugar and pastry. Scald
milk and stir into sugar, cornstarch
and salt well mixed. When smooth
and thick cool a little and stir in one
whole egg and two egg yolks beaten
together slightly. Flavor with one-
half teaspoon vanilla and pour into
plate- lined with pastry. Oven should
be hot at first, then moderated to pre-
vent boiling. When pie is done slice
peeled bananas (after carefully re-
moving bitter threads) over top,
cover with meringue of egg whites,
powdered sugar and one-fourth tea-
spoon of vanilla and bake ten min-
utes in slow oven.
ncreased Production Urged by La
Milner's .Committee,
Following the report prepared .b
Lord Milner's Committee on the Horn
roduction of Food a strong campaig
waged for the further dev
opment of wheat cultivation in th
ritish Isles. Lord Milner's comm•
e was appointed on the assumpti n
hat the war may last beyond. the ha
est of 1916.
Experts have established the fac
at Great Britain produces in an e
ire year sufficient wheat to feed it
cople for about ten weeks of th
fty-two., It is pointed out that pric
the ruling feature in determining
e wheat area, or in other words th
tent of land devoted to cultism
on. The main recommendation ad
need by the committee is that far
era should be assured that the
ould receive a minimum price for
e crop during the next four years
e price suggested was .45 shilling
quarter for wheat, but the Gover
meat has already announced that it
will refuse to incur such a liability
The committee concludes that th
only method of effecting a substantia
crease in the gross production of
od in England and Wales for the
vest of 1916 and later consists in
restoring to arable cultivation some
of the poorer grass land laid down
since the '70s. This increase ef. the
arable area with proper farming
would add to the wheat crop without
diminishing the capacity to -maintain
existing live stock and the output of
meat and milk.
A VERY SINGULAR METAL.
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A CANADIAN TWILIGHT—MAY, 1915.
By One Unfit.
Peace . . , peace , , the peace of dusky shores
And tremulous waters where dark shadows lie;
The stillness of low sounds•, -the, ripple's urge
Along the keel, the distant thrush's call,
The drip rip of= oars; the -calm of dew -filled air;,
The peace of after -glow; the golden peace
Of' the'noon's finger laid across -the flood,
Yet, ah! how few brief fleeting moments since
That same still finger lay at Langemarck,
And touched the silent dead, and wanly moved
Across the murky fields and battle -lines
Where late my country's bravest kept their faith.
0 heavenly beauty of our northern wild,
I held it once the perfect death to- die
In ,such, -a scene, in such an hour, and.pass
Proms glory unto glory—Time, perhaps,
May yet retrieve that vision—Oh! but now,
These quiet hills, oppress me; I am hedged,
As in that selfish Eden of the dawn
(Wherein man fell to rise); and I have sucked
The bitter fruit of knowledge, and am robbed
Of my rose -decked contentment, when I hear,
Tho' far, the clash of arms, the shouts, the groans
—
A world in torment dying to be saved,
Oh Godl the blood of Outram in these veins
Cries shame upon the doom that dams it here
In useless impotence, while the red torrent runs
in glorious spate for 'Liberty and Right!
Oh, to have died that day at. Langemarckl
In one fierce moment to have paid it all--
The debt of life to Earth, and Hell and heaven!
To have perished nobly in a noble cause!
Untarnished, unpolluted, undismayed,
By the dank world's corruption, to have passed,.
A flaming beacon -light to gods and men!
For in the years to come it shall be told
How these laid down their lives, not for their homes,
Their orchards, fields, and cities. They were driven
To slaughter by no tyrant's. lust for power.
Of their free manhood's choice they crossed the sea .
To save a stricken people from its foe:
They died for justice -..Justice owes them this:
"That what they died for be not overthrown."
Peace . , peace . . , not thus may I find peace:
Like a caged leopard chafing at its bars
In ineffectual movement, this. clogged spirit
Must pad its life out, an unwilling drone;
Iii safety and in comfort; at the best,
Achieving patience in the gods' despite,
And at the worst—somehow the debt is paid,
—October Canadian Magazine.
mese g, impatient, inquisitive chil-
dren hanging on to us, wanting to
know what we think of the war, They
drag us towards that central fact, and
we must approach it hand-in-hand
with them. And I believe that the
best way of approach, when we have
them with us, is through the Divine
/tame; 'because it is already -familiar
to thein., and it cannot be annulled,by
their most fantastical notions touch-
ing their Maker. As it is past their
understanding, so it is past ours,
therefore it brings them and us level.
"These older children, these .clever
boys and girls who think for them-
selves, need to be told not what they
can understand, but what they cannot.
understand, nor we either. I want
them to get - above the belief that.the
issues of war can be decided by mir-
aculous interfereince, the belief in a
tribal or national deity; I want them
not to see anything absurd in the
same prayers and the same 'Te Deum'
coming alike from our enemies and
from us; and I want them, through
all this clearance, to attain perfect
confidence that God is on the side of
n- soldiers quite well without that. 1
"To play at soldiers is to play at
• life; to play at war is to play at pain
e and death. I do not know that it can
do them
What Salt Will Do.
Salt will revive a dying fire.
Salt will remove stains on marble.
Salt—coarse—is a good cleanser of
irons.
Salt in water or other fluid retards
the boiling.
Salt mixed with soda is a remedy
for bee stings.
Salt and water makes an excellent
throat gargle.
Salt and hot water will thaw a
frozen drain -pipe. -
Salt will remove tea stains from .de-
licate china cups.
Salt spread in blaekbeetle haunts
will kill the pests.
Salt added to snow make the mix-
ture much colder.
Salt and water,warm, will stop COy
chilblains from itching. incli
Salt thrown on a fire will extinguish of r
a burningchimney. coney. p slur
,
Salt and lukewarm water is an ex- aerg
cellent lotion for styes.
tact
Salt and warm water is an emetic
in cases of poisoning, "H
in cold .water will re- «
Salt mixed e
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move bloodstains from etc
linen. cite
Mote Marvellous and Mysterious
Than Radium.
In Central Russian Asia, and pre-
cisely in the territory of Ferghana, a
Iocal explorer has discovered a new,
harm to play at pain and
death, but I do not see that it can do L
them any good; and, for this year it
seems ill-suited for then
the allies. And the only question is:
Can they? -
Are We on God's Side?
"I say that they can. It may help
them if we tell them what Abraham
insole said of the American war—
that he could not know for certain
hat God was on his side, but that he
oped he was on God's side. That is
the sort of text which is able to stick
n their heads. I would start from it,
nd I would begin right away with
the "violation • of Belgium. I would.
ompel them to - see that God, being on
the side of decency and . of honor is on
he side- of Belgium. -
"Belgiihn, I would say to the chit -
ren, is crucifixa etiam pro nobis. She
aved others, herself she could not
ave. I would hang the story of Bel
:;ium straight on to the story of the
assion.
could find a hundred ways of approach j "If we begin here, with this great
but we are not by ourselves. Iconcept of the love in a: man who
Lei znem t
dress up and march to their hearts', h
content, but let them draw the line
there.
Best Way of Approach. I1
a
.# "The name of the war, in the hearts
of us who are grown up, is attended c
' and encircled by other great names.
Among these are honor, duty, cour- t
age, obedience, sacrifice, God.I
Through this great circle of names, d
one and all of them names of author- s
ity and of immemorial age, we must s
approach the central face of the war
itself. If we were by ourselves we : P
metal even more marvellous and more "We have got children with ,eus— lays < down his.life for his friends, we
mysterious than radium. The .scien-
tist in question, while handling min-
erals, • put his hand by chance on a
soft body, of a considerable weight,
of opaque color. This,, being abso-
lutely unknown, readily absorbed his
atj;ention. - The new metal was car-
ried to the Moscow chemical labora-
tory, and subjected to minutely care-
ful experiments, which afforded sur-
prising results. In the presence of
an acid, it developed 'so intense''a cold
as immediately to reduce to powder, a
without gas emanations and without
explosions, the receivers of glass,
iron, and particularly thick, granite,
into which it was successively intro-
duced. Treated with alkaline matter"
the substance, which has not a name
yet, and which remained refractory
to all the analytical processes, lost
one-fifth of its weight. A sufficiency ,:;..;. .,:::+ • .,:,1:::;.•::•y s .
of it has now been collected for the yewtHe
purpose of systematic observations,
which will have to be conducted with
very great care, and will reveal,; it is
hoped, the true importance of the dic-'
e-ry, which the Russian scientists
ne to regard as superior to that.
adium itself:. Meanwhile the
fact sur -
ng is the loss ssweight •
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a21e vy all aojG,.ts placed in con -
with the new metal.
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shall help the children to admire the
love wherever they find it, and to re-
cognize it, whatever nationality be
put over the man's grave. I do not
say that we can help them to under-
stand the meaning, or the purpose, of
pain anti of death, or of the horrors of
the war we should be the blind lead-
ing the blind :but I do say that a
child who starts with the Divine
Name, and with the Passion, will find
himself on the right lines, if the
war brings death, or pain, or poverty,
into the circle of his own home. It
will not help him, then, to call the
German Emperor a wicked man, or
to hate Germany; he will feel the
need of something more final than
that.
"We are a better lot of men and
women than we were a year ago.
This corner of the world, for many
years, will be a grand place to live
in, a good spiritual nursery for the
children to play in,' a wholesome
school for them; where they may learn
the graver virtues not as extras, but
as regular lessons."
Lets in Flies.
"Your husband is rather stout."
"Weighs over 300 pounds. He's a
pest in summer time."
"How so?"
"Takes him too long to, get through
a screen door."
Pat's Joke on the Bank.
"Sure, 0'11 write me name on the
back o' your note, guaranteein.' ye'll
pay ut," said Pat, smiling . as he
endorsed Blllup's note, "but Oi know
we won't pay ut. We'll have a laugh
at th' ixpense,of the' bank."
Unskilled seaman 'in,'a ship's crew
are called "boys," no matter "what
their. age. , -
Madge -"You 'shouldn't say re's• a
confirmed ,bachelor unless you know."
Marjorie—"But I do know; I con-
firmed' him." -
WHEN THEY FO UG -IT: FOR COMMAND OF I'ERTHES
e offers me a 'platonic affection."
11, take it. A platonic affection
n leads to the real thing."
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Phe above pictures are scenes�e'
at Perthes which lass again been the '•r ,
ture at the ,rili a 1 e littered
of tic. 3��rutebranches Of
�' xt shows the �,z^ontnd fairly'ploughed 1>;y shell and :lift .rdfighting. �Ac'
where the battle was '' fiercest. Iii the picture a1;the left thesoldierc s c with the thea s of
brave French stretcher-bearers who wer]tilled while uirrying the wouudetl. standing over the graves of
'THE ALLIED ARMIES
ARE WELL FED
THE PRINCIPAL NCIP
AL F
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MEAT AND BREAD.
British Forces Are the Best Fed
Ever Placed in the
Field.
No branch of the • non-combatant
services of ,the British army has won
greater praise from soldiers at the
front or mare admiration from the
public at home than has the Army
Service Corps, It is only owing to
the untiring efforts of this little .army
of provision merchants that the Bri-
tish forces have gained their reputa-
tion as the best -fed army that has
ever been placed in, the' field.
The knowledge of this splendid Imo.
visioning of the army has uncork•
sciously given rise to the theory that
the soldiers- of the other Allies are
comparatively more or less insuffi-
ciently supplied with ammunition for
the inner man,
These impressions, however, are en-
tirely erroneous, and a comparison be-
tween the official rations allowed to
the soldiers of the allied nations will
prove that the .Frenchmen and the
Russian are, like the British soldier,
among the best -fed fighters in history.
In each of the allied armies—Bri-
tish, French, Russian and Belgian—
the, principal foods are meat and
breade.A. glance at the following fig-
uses, which indicate the daily allow-
ance of meat and bread to every man
•of the four armies, will show that
the fare of the others compares very
favorably with that of the British;
Meat, Bread,
lbs. lbs. "
British 1 1%
French1
Russian 1%
Belgian . 0%, 1%.
How Russians Are Fed.
The Briton, it will thus be seen,
actually receives less bread than any
of his comrades; but, on the other
hand, his allowance of meat is con-
siderably larger.
In examining the soldiers' menus
more closely, that of the Russian may
be taken first, since it is the least
known, In every case the allowances
have been translated into English
terms in order to make a comparison
easier.
The Russian breakfasts Iater than
any of the allied soldiers. He does
not receive his first ration until just
before 8 o'clock. These are:
Half an ounce of Tchai (tea),
Three ounces of sugar,
Three funt (2% lbs.) Cherni Chid
(black bread).
The tea and sugar have to last all
day. The bread is usually served out
on alternate days, six funt, (a little
less than six pounds) each time.
For dinner, which generally takes
place just before noon, each group of
ten soldiers receives a large dish of
"Borsht." This contains cabbage and
potatoes\ mixed in various gravies.
The ten men sit around the dish, each
with a big wooden spoon, and all help'
themselves at once.
After this comes the national dish
"Kasha," a kind of porridge. This
the men eat in the same fashion as
"Borsht." "Kasha" is very cheap in
Russia, and soldiers can have as much
as they want. When this has been.
disposed of the meal finishes with an
allowance of half a pound of meat
per man. The meat is cooked with
the "Borsht."
The third and last Russian meal is
served about 6.30 in the evening and
consists of more "Borsht," together
with a quarter of a pound of meat.
It often happens that the Russian
soldier receives more' bread than he
needs, and the surplus he is allowed
to sell in order to increase his meagre
pay, w rich, "it' may beinteresting to
add, amounts to 50 kopecs, about a
shilling, a month.
The Belgian Soldier
s allowed nearly 1% pounds of bread
er day. This is known: as "pain
ris," a mixture of white and black
read.. His meals are:
Breakfast, 6.30 a.m.—Bread; coffee,
ontaining milk and sugar. As a gen-
eral rule butter has. not been served,
hough it is expected to be added to
the rations in future.
Dinner, 12 noon.—About 2 pints of
soup ,to which plenty of salt is added
34 of a pound of meat, which is boiled
with the soup and afterward taken
out and served separately; 2i/e pounds
of mashed potatoes, in which bacon
and vegetables. are mixed; sometimes
pudding. '
Supper, 6 p.m.—Two pounds of
ashed potatoes,: with other` vege
ables;� and bacon, which is• added to
oke the vegetables a little ;fat.
This mixture of;vegetables and ba -
on forms the principal food of:the '
elgians. Frequently the -soldier, af-
r his morning coffee, gets ,no other
everage but_ water. Upon going in -
the trenches' he is usually, given a
tion of condensed meat, equal in
roportion to the• daily_ ration.
The daily allowance =,of the"French
Mier is somewhat'similar to that
of
eBelgi .
Belgian.
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