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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1915-12-23, Page 21E881 ABOUT THE L::. HOUSEHOLD I x t Result: A splendid jelly for washin flannels 'and so on. To perfume linen use rose leaves dried in the shade or at about fou feet from a stove, one pound; cloves Economical Recipes. caraway seeds and allspice, of ea.. Rice Pudding. -•- One quart milk one ounce; pound in a Mortar '(sltim:med is all right), 1-8 eup wash- grind in a mill. Mix all these to ed rice, ? cup sugar, teaspoon ;ether and put the compound into salt, 1 teaspoon vanilla. little bags. Sago Pudding. --- One cup sago. It has been found an exeelient plan Soak 2 hours in 1 quart of water, when making soldiers' gloves or mit tens to stitch a piece of leather on: the palms. This effectually prevents the rifle rubbing and wearing the wool, as well as gives the wearer a firmer grip upon his weapon. Pieee. of kid cut from gentlemen's old glove are very suitable for this purpose. The sink should be washed down after the washing up after each meal, andonceeach day a handful of soda eheuld be placed over the sink grat- ing and a kettle of boiling water pour- ed ever it in order to dissolve and wash away any grease that has accu- mulate.l in the pipe and which, if al- lowe�i to remain, would decompose and give rise to an unhealthy odor. As soon as a picture nail driven in a wall gets loose and the plaster be- hether. This makes 1 loaf or 1J small gins to break around it, it can be eakce bak��cl"in gem pans. made solid and firm by the following Whale Wheat Nutmeat.--gineeetee process: Saturate a bit of wadding n, � #e� t stela, with n isthick 1 do >c ssvee,. mine, ., glue, wrap its much as cup vhele wheat flour, =n teaspoon possible round the nail and reinsert east, ' eFm m6•ls.ses, 1 cap reisnas, 1 the latter in the hole, pressing it cup broke': walnut meats, 1 teaepoon home as Strongly a., po sible. The baking p;rwader. Dissolve soda in milk; nail will thus be firmly fastened in odd ileur, salt and molasses; beat its place. hard. Add raisins, stoned and flour- When preparing to pack a trunk ed rets and whet? n c:awdee, elle have four or five pieces of cardboard mei tern into a grea�;e;i mold, steam the size of your trunk, so that they three hours and serve with any hot will slip in easily. Wrap dresses or pad ling sauce. blouses in tissue paper and attach Marshmallow Pudding ---Prepare a them to these boards with tape. You lemon jelly; pour a very tittle into a can then pack and unpack many plain mold on' deal; da a layer of times and your dresses will not be ha t m:arshmatllow Cut the marsh- disturbed, halt will come out when m.,t �.+,s with scissors- When this needed as fresh as when first packed. layer er =cts, add more jelly', add more__nee•- -- .. maarohmuf'ows ane proceed until ; MIMED SOLDIERS. jelly is all used. The lemon jelly can; be7ak' pt in �awarm roans, so that it ScienceRNow 'Knows Why They Can will t jelly bei+xe ready to be u -ed. i Still "eel" Their Lost Limbs. St, .4 with whipped cream. Roily Poly i'udclitrg.�.1;ake a suet d A nurse recently returned from 'I crust; roll to the thickness c l tine P anis said that soldiers who had lost • half a:u inch; place any desired jam a limb "frequently complained of in the centre end spread equally over feeling a touch upon it" though the the paste, allowing a margin of about limb was perhaps far removed from half en inch fur the melding to join. their sight lying somewhere along.' Roil up lightly, join the ends secure - 'the battle front. ly, place upon a floured cloth and bind A well-known English surgeon !, with tape, allowing a little room for gives the reason for this peculiar sen - the pudding to swell. Plunge into sation in an interesting article he boiling water and boil two hours or' has prepared on "Surgery in the steam for the same length et time, [ Army." He says: "It is a. well-known fact that not merely for a few hours but for weeks and even months after a limb has been cut off or taken off, the person cooked cabbage should be cut into i seems to feel sensations in it, or re-" stripee and fried in I Liner. Wash thor in the place where it once was rice and boil until tent;" in stock, and is conscious of it in different posi- which should be v 11 sea ened. Add tions as though it were present, These' cabbage, let them br..il together until sensations are very vivid for a time, the patient says that he feels his lost; arm lying by his side, or on his breast or even that he has a peculiar ting- ling or aching in the fingers that are gone, and the like. "Precisely similar sensations are noticed when a leg has been amputat- ed. But the common idea that these sensations have anything to do with the lost limb itself is very childish, for this may be thrown in the fire im- mediately after removal, or otherwise destroyed or mutilated, and the pa-; tient will know nothing of it if he is not told. 'The true explanation is very sim- I pie. "We learn from infancy to asso- ciate certain local sensations with cer- tain er tarn musclar movements. The nerve carries the impression of the sensa- tion to the brain, and the brain be- comes conscious of the feeling as be- longing to a particular muscular ac- tion. After this muscular action is no longer possible the nerves may still, through irritation, weakness or dis- ease, take an impression to the brain, which is intensely localized through habit with the remembered muscular action. "This is one of the proofs of what physicians call a muscular sense. This is not to be regarded as an actively conscious sense, like slight or touch, but is rather of the nature of organic sense, giving its information and working its effect without definite consciousness. This internal sensi- bility corresponds to every changing condition of the muscles, and even af- ter the removal of a limb, or any part of the body, the sensations as- sociated with it by the consciousness may remain." TRIBUTE TO TEMPERANCE. It Has Ameliorated Condition of Rus- sian Refugees. 0 , Present Great War Has Greatly Belle - number elle-number of ends, of soap shred theta into an old saucepan, and add t every Ye lb. soap one pint of water Let this just simmer, and then cool THE CZAR'S FAMILY. a The war has made a great differ - r ence to the Russian royal family. In the days before the war the Czarina cin lived in constant dread of her husband or and children I,tging assassinated and _ could scarcely ear them out of her sight. Indeed, so ill did she become with worry that to please' her the great ballroom at 'the `Winter Palace '' in Petrograd was turned into a, bed- room for the whole family, in order, to quote the Czarina, that in the case of an outrage they "might all die to- gether." s That is all changed now, however. s The Czarina cheerfully said "good, bye" to her husband when he went to take his place at the head of his armies, and she and her daughters are working indefatigably on behalf' of the wounded, The Czarina has no time for morbid worrying and is con- sequently in splendid health, and is one of the most energetic and hard- working women in Russia. The Russian Grand Duchesses are charming and clever girls, and have profited by the careful training of To Dowager Ruecu 1lexandra, their mother, The Grand Duchess «�isrlborough itotmse, Londton►. Emtg- land, borit at Copenhhgeia, J)etwnrarlt, Olga Is an excellent musician and the fine. *, nee, Grand Duchess Tatiana paints like .a ' professional artist. Both sisters '" speak several a eral ] a n _a ges with equal Aching n; Hearts. fae:ity, and are very fond of"All seems gayly* at a ball. Xet l; likes her children to prac- here to -night has a heart that is aCh- fited Them. then tied a few grains of salt, 4 table- spoons sugar and S large apples quar- tered. Bake 2 harts, Tapioca Rouge. ---Soak- four table- spoons tapioca in told water for sev- eral hours. Boil until thick and clear. Stir into this while boiling a cup of red currant jelly. When thoroughly blended put into a mold. Serve cold with cream. Delicious Cake Without Eggs or But- ter.—One cup thick sour milk, 1. cup sagar, he cup lard, 2 cups flour, 1 cup chopped r`aisinns, a few grains of salt, I tease aloe soda, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, teaspoon clow;, hO teaspoon nut- meg. Stir soda into flour, add melted lard, sager, salt and spices, Add rais- ins to flour. Beat all ingredients to - riding and of outdoor exercise. The suppose manya lady who is dancing Empress tise every kind of sport and to spend ing,,' as ranch time as they can in the open "Yes, or a couple of corns," air, and she has tried to give them an education on strict English lines, ;' Happiness is less apt to b P e a case of like the one she received herself. luck than pluck. e�' �; Genere.l F. S. MEIGHEN rime and Cabbage Soup. --Three cups Avoided, half -cooked cabbage, one-half cup ries, two quarts stock, butter and Parmesan cheese. Half- cable-ere alf- cable-e a n.- 'rendes, and pail freshly grate :I Parmesan cheese when serv- ing. Tia;, is an Italian recipe. Pumpkin Pie Without Eggs.—He. e is a recipe for pumplti.i pie without eggs. Rereve the pulp and seeds from the pumpkins anti cut into inch cube'; dos not remove the skin. Stew until dry anti of a rich brown color. Then sift. To make the pie use one cupful of sifted ptunpkin, one cupful of smear, one full tablespoonful of flour, one-fourth of a tablespoon each of salt, cinnamon and ginger. Mix these dry ingredients thoroughly, and then add slowly one pint of rich, sweet milk that is scalding hot. Have ready a deep pie plate lined with pas- try cut to turn up at the edge far enough to be pinched into scallops. Wet hi cold water a strip of white cotton cloth one and one-half inches wide and pin it around the scalloped Edge. Fill the crust and bake in a moderate oven until the middle of the pie is quite firm. Hints to Housewives. A Iittle saltpetre in the water will keep flowers fresh a week. Baking soda wet and bound on warts will remove them, it is said. New pails or tubs should be paint- ed with glycerine to prevent shrink - Ing. Did you ever try adding a cup of cold, cooked oatmeal to beef orto- mato soup? To keep pancakes from being greasy and heavy, do not have batter too thick and be sure that the griddle Is piping hot. Mirrors spot when the light falling on them . is too strong. Place them • &o that the light comes from the sides. When water is spilt on a highly polished table rub with furniture cream as soon as the water is wiped off and no mark will remain. Rub a little vinegar on the skin if your hands get very cold whilst you are hanging clothes out to dry. The trick makes the hands much warmer. Ink can be removed from washing material by sprinkling a little tomato huice on to the stain; after leaving for a few minutes wash in the usual way. In washing dishcloths, instead of using soap or borax, put a quantity of soap - in the water and boil them. The grease and, soda make a soap that does its own work and cloths melt sweet. If you -wish flower slips to bloom while plants are young, put the cut- tings in small crocks. As soon as the crocks are filled with roots, plant nd they will begin to bloom, especial v geraniums, Whenever you have collected a The editor of the Russky Slovoe, who has made a personal tour of the roads on which there is a great con- gestion of refugees from western Russia,:: writes of the terrible condi- tions prevailing. But, he says, "we have to thank the work of public or- ganizations, the mild autumn with Iate rains, and the temperance of the people for the fact that the crisis is passing without grave disturbances, To temperance, more than any other factor, is due the heroic calm with which the homeless wanderers are pursuing their melancholy pilgrim- age." Js It may be easier to coax a woman than to drive her, but it's a lot more expensive. 7' wan the inest logical tiling tar the greatest transportation corporation In the world to reach out and plc.k Fran It Stephen itletgimen oil` the financial laud. e mtpe, When the shareholders o tale Oapadiat>i Pa- citi' Railway Company, at its r e e e n t annual meeting, head in. Montreal, tate d "Yes" .to the addi- tion of this "coin - lug" young Cana. Mae to its Direct torate, the bustt, rices world the wide world over teod'ded its ap- provaI. He was the man that fit, the square post for the square bole, the ri;ht man, branded and labelled "C, P, R." Back from the trenches of France and Flanders, the smell of the pow- der still on him, his ear -drums still quivering w jet b the shock of the bursting shrapnel, Brig ad ieeighen—for Nety Director Such is his title—makes a picturesque entry into the larger field, Well has be served his bleeding country. The best evidence of this could prob- ably be obtained from the few surviving Germane who engaged the then Colonel Meigben's Fourteenth Battalion at St.. Julien. • Called home to lend his experienced advice to the Militia authorities of Canada, the honors of war gained only by duty well done have overtaken the young regimental commander. But military prowess is not essential to the make up of the Canadian Pacific Railway Director, and mendo not graduate in the service of their country in an industrial way by leading gallant Canadian soldiers to victory in Europe. In the veins of this man runs the blood of Mount Stephen. The first President of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Lord Mount Stephen, was General Meighen's uncle. Robert Meighen, father of the new Director, was a railway associate of Mount Stephen, and himself a Director of the road. Here, then, is the Meighen pedigree: it is a piece off the C. P. R,'s family tree. Robert Meighen was a big man in his day and he left his imprint on the country. His C. P. R. affiliations were extensive, and it Is appropriate that his son should resume the connection direct. One of the father's achievements was the founding of the Lake of the Woods Milling Com- pany, and in more recent years Frank S. Meighen has been widely known as Its President. 'In addition to the large interest held by the Robert Meighen estate in the great railway company, this Lake of the Woods Milling Company, one of the largest of its kind in the world, has been for many years one of the biggest of the railway's customers. • Let to one imagine, however, that this new member of a galaxy of Canada's captains of industry, is without merit of his own, or that he Is riding into the C. P. R. board room on family prestige. At the present time he holds the following important offices: President of the Lake of the Woods Milling Company; a Director of the Bank•of Toronto; President of the New Brunswick Railway Company; -a Director -of the Canadian North-West Land Company; President of the Montreal Opera Company; a Director of the Paton Manufacturing Company. To figure thus promi• gently in the business life of the Dominion is to prove his great personal ability and mental acumen, "Level-headed" is the adjective that the big business men of Canada apply to Frank S. Meighen. While filling so large a, place as this, General Meighen has still found time to play. Throughout Eastern Canada he is noted as an expert exponent of the hazardous game of pony polo, and many a careering battle has been won by his own skill and daring. He is an enthusiastic sportsman in many directions, as is evident in his membership in the following clubs: The Forest and Stream, the Montreal • Hunt, the Back River Polo, the Montreal Jockey, the Toronto Hunt, and others. General Meighen was born at: Montreal, December 24, 1869. He was educated at Montreal Higb School and graduated in Arts from McGill tJulversity in 1889. He began hi business life in the steamship office of the Robert Reford Company, later enteringthe service of the Lake of the Woods Milling Company, In their Montreaofce. For manly years be was Treasurer of the Company, succeeding to the Presidency on the death of his father in 1911. Besides the clubs mentioned General. Meighen .Is a member , of the St. James and University Clubs of Montreal; the York Club of Toronto; the; Junior Athenaeum, of London, England; and the . Point Judith Club, of Narrangansett Pier. His. public-spiritedness Is indicated, In the fact that, he was Honorary Treasurer of the local committee for the Quebec Ter- centenary Celebration in 1908, and was one of the principal promotersof the Typhoid Emergency Hospital, in Montreal, in:1910: For most of his life General Meighen has served an the • militia et. Canada. He was formerly adjutant of the 5th ,Royal -Highlander's' and became Lieutenant-Colonel commanding theregiment in 1906. He velum - Veered for service in South Africa,; When the present war broke eut he wept to the front in command of the 14th Battalion, leading his men through several of the mast famous - and - Important engagements of►e war on the west front. He was recalled; in an advisory capacity 'and la' now engaged in organizing and: rerruitfng the 87th Overseas Batten -my; Canadian Grenadier Guards, His promotion has taken- side• tai turuIng to Caked _ 31 LIE SAW PRESENT !the inefficient. He broke a, high oiii- eer, who was alsoa personal friend. because that officer made a bad blurt ARCOR r1der, Private considerations were - swept aside, as they alwayswere with him. He spares nobody, least of all himself, but his men love him almost P` as much as they trust him, and he, watches over their proper comforte with a jealous eye. Deep Student of War. SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF SI JOHN FRENCH. Countess of Warwick Describes Br tisk. Commander as a Man of Iron Will:. In the London Daily Express th Countess of Warwick gives an into eating sketch of Sir John French She writes:— My first meeting with.Field Mar shall Sir Jahn French, commander -i. chief of the "contemptible littl army," dates. back to the South Afri can \Var. My latest meeting wit him was in August of last year On each occasion he was on the poin of leaving for the front. In the wide space that separate the Boer War from the great inter national conflict, we met very often he was frequently our guest at Easto Lodge and sometimes at Warwic Castle, and I visited him at Govern talent House, Aldershot. I have ha many opportunities of hearing hi views of the 'world problem that con fronts us now, forh hadseencoin e a it ing nearer and nearer, and had labor- ed night and day to meet it.. Otli men had doubts; he found no room for any. It was at Claridge's Hotel we met during the Boer War. My eldest son, Guy, Lord Brooke, had then arrived at the rise age of seventeen and stil at Eton, had sold all his personal et feets, including his fur coat ,and jetv ellery given him by family and friends, to provide himself with the means of getting to the froht and equipping himself when there, We only learned his intentions when it was too late to stop them, and I do not think that either my husband or myself was really anxious to keep him from serving his country. The only difficulty was to find him some- thing usefulto do, and Sir John offere ed to take him on his staff as a gal- loper.. alloper.. To -day I am pleased to think that he is still serving under , .. now as brigadier -general Has an Iron Will. I do slot think Sir Johnreads much save books dealing with military questions, He does not hunt or shoot. i or play polo, indeed, acirrowledge the o claims of any form of sport, He r„ stands as far apart from the ordinary mundane interests of life as any pro- fessor in the cloistered peace of an „ old university town,, and yet he is full n- to the brim of visualizing enthuse- e asms not to be overlooked by his _ friends because they are so finely°con- h , trolled, i He lives in his profession, and s: breathes the very air of it; soldiering claims his every thought, and yet he sIis in no aspect the "beau sabreur" of Ithe Ouida novels. If you were to drive ; with him through the most exquisite landscape, his mind's eye would at he once select the salient points of at- tack and defence, he would grasp - every military possibility of what lay s !before him, but the surrounding t beauty would pass him by. Seine- I i a timeswe talked m have l.e 1 d of war. I ha to ,- war muchs as a u o yo d , he has said en, to me more than once, "but-.,." There it ends, and he is looking with far- seeing eyes at encounters yet to be. Much of the recent gossip in Lon- don has endeavored to suggest that he has been a party to the intrigues 19 of others. I venture to say that no- [body who understands Sin John could - i make such a foolish mistake, The . !personal interests and trickery` of small natures have no meaning for him, First and last and all the time he is a soldier, probably the one sol- dier who could have overcome the enormous difficulties by which he has been faced,. THE FIRST CUP OF TEA. Origin of the Great Chinese Teta Industry. The Chinese claim to be the first users of tea as a drink, and bow it originated is told in a pretty little legend that dates from 2,009 years be- fore the coming of Christ. A daughter of a then reigning sovereign fell in love with a young nobleman whose humble birth excluded him from mar- rying her. They managed to ex- change glances, and he occasionally gathered a few blossoms and had them conveyed to her. One day in the palace garden the lovers met, and the young man endeavored to give her.a few flowers, but so keen was the watchfulness of her attendants` all she could grasp was a little twig with. green leaves. On reaching her room. she put the twig in water and, to- wards evening, she drank the water in which the twig had been kept. So agreeable was the taste that she even ate the leaves and stalks; every day afterwards she had bunches of the tea brought to her, which she treated in the same way. Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery the ladies of the Court tried the experiment, and with such pleasing results that the custom spread throughout the kingdom—and the great Chinese tea industry became a fait accompli. 5. WAR ON THE LOCUST. I recall General French as I saw him at Claridge's, firm: mouthed, curt in manner, briefly incisive in speech, saying no more than was absolutely necessary, and looking at me with the curious glance that bespeaks the man of action who dreams and sees vi- sions. A. strong, -resolute figure, with an iron will behind it, a human war machine in perfect order. --that was my first impression. Many of my soldier friends were with nil in South Africa, where his gifts as a cavalry leader roused en- thusiasm. Writing home from the front, they told me he had but one fault as a commanding officer—he could not realize that horses do not respond as readily as soldiers to hu- man emotions. He could over -drive his men, and they did their utmost for him, because they had implicit belief in their leader's direction and unbounded faith in his skill. He came back to England wearing all the laurels of a successful gen- eral, and I met him several times in town, "The dust of praise that is blown everywhere" was no more to John French than any other dust. He brushed it sharply away. When the, Entente Cordiale was in the air, and there was a chance that Great Britain and France would work side by side, he was delighted. Such an arrangement was'for him an ideal one, and he was, I may say, one of the first, if not the very first, of our leading military men who :showed a full appreciation of its value. Un- fortunately, though a well-educated and, in a strictly professional sense, a deeply -read man, he had no know- ledge of the French language, and he could not rest until that defect was remedied. So in the summer of 1908 —I think this was the year—he set - tied in the little village of La Boulle, near Rouen, and lived ' for three months in absolute retirement, mas- tering the language. He would not claim to have acquired the Parisian accent, but he can at least speak fluently. ' We were motoring through France that summer, and stayed in the little hotel he had chosen for his headquar- ters. He was extremely anxious to take me on a motor tour -over the scene of Napoleon's last campaign, an ambition of long standing only now possible of fulfilment. Studied German Methods. Taking for his motto "Fas est ab hoste doceri," "It is allowable to learn even from an enemy," he adapted :what he thought was best from the German methods, and it is well known that he and his close friend, Sir Douglas Haig, in making the Bri- tish Army the perfect machine that' it is, bore well in mind the lessons to be gathered from the German ma- noeuvres: He objected strongly to the =Ger- man close formation, holding it waste- ful and, unwise. I•Ie had grafted South African experience on his stock of tactical knowledge; and if the drill- ing•'of' our men was terribly hard,he and Sir Douglas have found the ripe fruits of it in that wonderful retreat from Mons and ; in the battles round Ypres. For German thoroughness he hada generous and unstinted admira- tion. Prejudice can find no place in his mind. A boi•n,soldier, he is merciless to Russian Authorities Take Measures to Stamp Out the Pests. A remarkably successful campaign has recently been conducted by the Russian Government against locusts in Turkestan, where formerly the in- habitants, for religious reasons, did. hardly anything to check the ravages of these insects. Turkestan supplies almost half the cotton used ' in Russian mills, and raises other valuable crops. As re- cently as 1901 locusts caused an an- nual loss of more than $2,000,000 in this region, and only primitive meth- ods of dealing with them were in vogue. The loss has now been re- duced to virtually nothing, The methods employed by the Rus- sians include: Preparation in summer and autumn of forecast maps showing the position, age and density of egg: centres of each district; treatment of the infested areas with paris green, or, better, molassed sodium' arsenite, as soon as the larvae appear; scorch- ing by knapsack machine of larvae in places not accessible to sprayers, de- void of vegetation,` or far from water. courses of sufficient capacity to keep ^ the sprayers going; capture of larvae in pits' or ditches° Had a Heavy Voice. Some time ago the guests at a re- ception were discussing the relative` merits of several songsters, when one of the party turned to a man named Brown. "By the way, Brown;" said he, "you are something of a singer, are you. not?" "Not on your life!" was the, emphatic response. "I never sang a note that somebody didn't threaten to send in a riot call. You are probably thinking of my brother," "Perhaps I, am," was the thoughtful rejoinder of the other. "Has he a heavy bass voice ?" "Yes," smiled Brown, "so heavy that it makes him bow-legged to carry it." The man who knows enough- to at- tend to his own business knows enough.