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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1916-8-24, Page 6About the Iiouse Useful dints and General Inform. tion for the Busy Housewife Miscellaneous Recipes. half. After Booking an hour add salt For a new dessert, try this: Take and more stock, if needed. Serve sponge cake and cut it into squares. from the casserole. The vegetables Pare, halve and core some large pears, may be browned in one-fourth cupful' Boil in a syrup colored with half a of drippings before being put into the cupful of cranberry or other red fruit casserole. For this style of cooking juice. When tender remove from round steak gives a richer dish than d - sirloin steak. THE FASHIONS Popularity of Georgette Docks The white Russian frock of Geor- gette, with., perhaps e touch of con- trasting color on cuffs or collar, is one of fihe favored- designs for afternoon . and evening wear, Georgette is de- lightfully cool and graceful and lends itself particularly well to the season's styles, both for daytime and for even- ing wear. It is -one of the sheer ma- terials which really washes and wears very well, making it practical for the Useful Hints. modish transparent sleeve, the cos - the syrup and place one of the halves oes on each sponge square. Decorate with cranberry jelly and serve with tome blouse and the dance dress with Celery d pineapple make a de • - Here is a Belgian recipe for vege- It is better to cook carrots whole r of these have printed borders, and table soup: Take four celer'es, four and then skin them. lain white or colored grounds, leeks, .two turnips, a. cabbage, two After a whiskbroom has become : p r gr , and onions, a few bones, pepper and salt ragged, trim off evenly and use as a then again the sorely tinted rose or and five quarts of water. Bail for sink brush. l conventionalized design is scattered ever the material, on a ground of about three hours keeping the vege- Prick the small end of a potato be - white, or stripes. It is most effec- table always well covered with the fore putting it in the oven and it wall five and satisfactory for many pur- water. Take up and rub the vege- nob burst. table through a sieve or cloth and let A salad of onions, sardines, tome- Poses. them boil again for at least an hour. toes and peppers is properly served One -Piece Frocks White Ginger Rre d.—One pound with brown bread., I Although many cling to the tailarecl are, sifted f.�u', one-half pound fresh Never hoard old clothing or house- suit with its contrasting blouse, evens, b:.teer, one-half pound granulated su- hold articles -E --,give them to somebody in the warmest weather, the one-piece gar, grated rind of one lemon, one who can use them. dress is becoming more and mare ie e ounce new ground ginger root, one—„ Yellow will light up the gloomiest favorite. One of the most attractive half grated nutmeg, one-half' teaspoon "of rooms, just as green will cool and , of •simple series noticed recently, was soda, one gill milk. Rub flour and soften the most garieb. ! made of two straight widths, belted in butter together, add sugar, lepton ; Skim milk need instead of water' loosely with a belt of the material. eme rind, ginger and nutmeg. Warm . in the cooking of cereals adds to ; broidered in a dark red soutaehe. The milk slightly, stir in sale and mix to , their nutritive value. r armholes were cut out deeply and smooth paste. Shape according to ; Pushing screws in common soap be- bound. Wath this frock was worn a fancy and babe fifteen minutes, w fore using will cause them to enter i white Georgette underblouse with " o make croquettes of boiled treat, !the wood more easily. loose flowing sleeves the lower edges mince your meat and put it into a " It's always more economical to bound with rose color; the wide al. thick, white sauce well spiced with measure materials an sacking than it lar vas also bo utd with the rose, lxt pepper, oat and nutmeg, and let it . is to guess at them. was a charming little model because remain for two hours. Then pre- a It is the greatest economy to pure . pare your eroquettes by rolling the chase the best spices; poor ones are Mixture in white of egg and fine 'usually adulterated, bread crumbs. Put a piece of but- If a small piece of velvet is glued ter in the saucepan, sufficient to take a inside the heel of a shoe, stockings ell the croquettes, and let them will not wear out so fast. brown in it for about 10 minutes. A ! Split a elothespin down the centre, white. :auee served with them is a'and you have a good tool for serape good addition. ing pans and. kettles. Egg Salad.—Cover the eggs with Always rinse black stockings in boiling water and reduce the heat at blue water, and they will keep a once, cooking the eggs slowly from 25 . good color right on to the end. to 28 minutes over the simmer burner 1 If sugar is too high-priced to pre - of the gas stove. When the eggs jserve fruit, then dry it. You can't are bone, cover them with cold water. 9 starve to death very well on dried plain or whipped cream or wit a e cry an For dance dresses, elle printed Geor sauce I1clous salad. getter are youthful and pretty; some Prepare mayonnaise, when thick, add four or five sardines that have been skinned, boned and pounded to a paste Cut the egg engthwise, lay on chilled fruit. Before cleaning knives on a knife- board, damp them slightly. They clean more quickly and gain a better lettuce and serve the dressing. polish. Pickling Brine.—A "universal" A few drops of ammonia in the pickle—that is, a pickling liquid that water in which silver is washed will may Le used with nearly all kinds of keep it bright for a long time with vegetables and fruits—is made like out cleaning. this: A cupful of sugar ad led to four To prevent carpet from unraveA- quarts of vinegar, two dozen whole ing, when cut, run two rows of ma, black pepeers and a handful of cloves, chine stitching with the machine a few blades of mace and 18 whole where ib is to be cut. allspice. Boil all the ing:•cdients for Grind a handful of sunflower seeds five minutes and pour over the fruit. and give them to the canary, The Cream of Spinach Soup. — Two ' birds relish the little tender pieces quarts spinach, :-ix cupfuls cold wee; that are found among the seeds. ter, two cupfuls milk, one clove garlic Stains in table linen are easily re or two tablespoonfuls chopped onion, moved by plunging the articles in bit of bay leaf, one teaspoonful salt, :pure boiling water. The addition of cayenne pepper and celery salt, three soap or soda would have the effect of tablespoonfuls each butter and flour, fixing the stain. one-half cupful cream. Cook spin- If new enamel pans are placed in ach in water thirty minutes. Press ; a pan of water and allowed to come through sieve, scald milk with onion ; to the boil and then cool, t hcy will be and bay leaf, add butter and flour, found to last much longer without cooke 1 together, strain, add season- burning or cracking. Ings and spinach mixture. Cook five Watering Boston ferns with weak minutes, and serve, garnished with tea instead of water will cause them beaten cream. bo thrive wonderfully. When lice Baked Apple Pudding.—Butter an appear on ferns, stick some sulphur agate baking dish. Slice into this matches head down in soil. fart apples enough to fill the dish; For waterproofing boots and shoes, sprinkle with salt and pour in two or equal quantities of white was, olive three tablespoonfuls of water. Sift oil, and dectified lard, melted down together a cup and a half of flour, make an excellent mixture bub a little three teaspoonfuls of baking powder oil of turpentine should also be added. and one-fourth teaspoonful of salt. To wash brushes and combs, put a Into this work with the tips of the teaspoonful of ammonia into a basin Angers three tablespoonfuls of batter. of hot water and dip the brush up and Beat an egg, add three-fourths of a down in it letting the comb remain in cup of milk (scant measure), and stir the water for a few minutes. After - into the dry ingredients. When ward rinse in cold water. thoroughly mixed spread over the apples. Bake in a quick oven about REMARKABLE CONSCIENCE 25 minutes. Invert the dish so as to have the apples on the top. Serve hot with butter and sugar or syrup. Mixed Conserve.—Six pounds of the large blue plums, measured after the pits are removed and the plums halved. Four pounds of granulated sugar. Two pounds of chopped rais- ins. Half a pound of English walnut meats, chopped fine. Juice of one orange. Skins of four oranges, chip- ped and parboiled fifteen to twenty minutes. Pour boiling water on the raisins and let stand two minutes. Mix all the ingredients and let sim- mer fifteen minute; . Add sugar and Memory of Stealing an Apple Any. thing But Pleasant. A little knowledge, one recalls, is a dangerous thing. So, too, may be an apple which you may have inno- cently purloined in your earliest years. It may cause you to feel the prick of conscience for many decades. That, at least, has been the experi- ence of an Edinburgh denizen. Once, in the remote and shadowy past, he took that which was not his—to wit, one apple—from a stand in the Cow'- ; gate. The fruit was enjoyed, but the cook ten minutes in double boiler or 1 memory of the furtive meal proved g"til jelly-like. Pour into hot ster- to be anything but pleasant. The razed jars and when cool cover with ! consumer left the Scottish capital and paraffin. Do not peel the plums, as in time Fate carried him across the the skins give the conserve a pretty Atlantic. Fresh scenes and activities color. Do not stir the plums to engagedhim, but the thought of that pieces; keep them in halves. When apple dogged him everywhere. He done the mixture will thicken on a might have been a second Eve. At cold plate. I last his overloaded conscience, could Beef Stew.—Use two pounds of bear the =strain no longer. Nothing round steak cut from one to one and short of`y written confession to the a half, inches thick. The steak may' Lord Provost of Edinburgh would beleft whole or cut into pieces two ' appease the 'gnawing at his heart So Inches square. Heat an iron frying ' —40 Yeats, after the dark deed had pan, rub over the surface with a bit been dozier -the letter was written and; of fat from the neat, put in the steak conscience, money to the extent of one end cook, first on one sidle, then on dollar paid. the other, to harden the meat an the 1 outsirle and .thus kceP in the juices. Put the meat into the casserole with A Slight Matter. i a dozen and a half pieces each of i "I don't see you ea Miss Golder's carrot and turnip, cut in similar sli9.p-'1 receptions any more, old mane" ed slices, cubes, or triangles. Add a "No; she and I had a little differ - dozen vex y small peeled onions, one I e'?ce of opinion." tablespoonful kitchen bouquet and a ; "Nothing serious, I hope." generous pint of brown stock or•'hoil- ; "Oh, no; only I thought I was the $ng water. Cover aro let cook gent- man sho ought to marry and she ly in the o eo about, an hour and . a thought 'I wasn't" yr4i Russian Blouse Costume. of its simplicity, and very youthful in its straight lines. The heavy linens, too, are effective for street wear. Ivory white, French blue, the soft pale grays, and cool looking greens are among the favored shades in these linens. Many of them are cut along the straight lines of the serges being pleated often on to a shoulder yoke, and belted in loosely with a belt or sash of the same material as the frock. An especially pretty white linen on this order. was made with a , touch of black on the collar and sash. The sash is quite smart just now on all types of dresses, from the simple serge to the afternoon taffeta or pon- gee. It is usually narrow, and made of the material of the dress, ,or of 7296 Smart Flowered Voile CONTAINS NO ALUM - MADE JN CANADA Serge and Silk Combinations Many of the favored silk frocks are combined effectively with a wool ma- terial, serge, gabardine or cloth. This is an idea which appeals to many and which is being used •considerably in the ready-made garments. The lower portion of the skirt, the sleeve- less jumper, wide cuffs and collar are generally made of the serge, and the body of the frock of the silk, taffeta, satin, or one of the Japanese silks, as the ease may be. These patterns may be obtained from your local McCall Dealer or from The McCall Co., 70 Bond Street, Toronto, Ontario, GREAT BRITAIN IS A VAST ARSENAL continuous, and the Serbian army has been reequipped and restored to R magnidcient fighting force very largely by the workshops and workers of the United Kingdom.. "The labor situation has been to a, considerable extent saved by our woo' men. There were 184,000 women en. THERE ARE 4,000 CONTROLLED gaged 1n war industries in. 1914. To - MUNITION PLANTS. day there are 643,000. The total num- ber umber of war workers in 1914 was 1,198,- 600. It has now increased to 3,500,000, There are 471 different munition, pro• ceses upon which women are sow en. gaged. The wonnee of France are do- ing wonders in munition mating, but our women munition workers beat the world." Work of the Scientists,. High Tide of Output For War Purr poses Not Yet Reached. The enormous stride made by Great Britain toward solving the problem of munitions was made clear in the course of a speech recently delivered by ee. Kellaway, Parliamentary secre- tary to Dr.. Addison (Parliamentary of glasses, and having discovered it, to tabib ea Referring to glass Mr. Kellaway said "The problem facing the Govern" BY WAY OF ILLUSTRATION. went is, first, to discover the fannies Defendant Shows How He pushed Secretary to the Ministry of Muni a industry. It is fortunate tions)', me. Rollaway,said the most that in this crisis we have available a Complainant. prominent fact of the war was that the few seientiflo men who have been. It happened in the court room Jur- price of victory was unlimited muni* working for years almost without re• ing the trial of a huskyyoung roan tions, says a London correspondent. ,, cognition, and we have also institu- y g Tisa British army in the early days, tions such as the imperial College at who was charged with assault and he said, "was so outmunitioned that South Kensington and rite National battery. the British soldier ought to have been physical Laboratory at Teddington. Throughout an especially severe beaten before the lighting began, But The Government went to these men cross-examination the defendant he,proved that he was a batter iigbting and asked them to discover the form;e, stoutly maintained that be had mere- man than the German, What he )ick-, ula used by filo Germans in their pro- ly pushed the plaintiff "a little bite'• ed in munitions lie made up In devil, duction at optical and chemical glass. "Well, about how hard?,: queried in"initiative, and in endurance. "These British scientists, atter a few the prosecutor. Ido not think anything that Ger, weeks' experiments, discovered many "Oh, `just a little bit,' " responded many has ever done equals the work of the formulae, and it then became the defendant. this country has accomplished in the' possible to begin manufacture on a "Now," said the attorney, "for the wtheelast twelve of montrial hs, Gxeat IlrnizatIon it during n4, commercial scale. The result was that benefit of the Judge and the jury,you whin a year atter rho outbreak of the ; which has„ throughout been eke treas-; war the output of optioal glias 1n this will please step dawn here and, with ury of the Allies, has now become their. country was multiplied four and a half ma for the subject, illustrate just armory. There aro now scattered up times. It has now increased to four - how bard you mean."and down the country some 4,000 con- teen times the output previous to the trolled firms producing munitions of Owing to the unmerciful badgering war, and there is good ground for say which the witness had just been giv- war. l ing that by the end of the year it will en the prosecutor thought that the "The vast. majority of these previous have multiplied twenty -fold. young man would perhaps overdo the to the war never produced a gun, a ""The Ministry of Munitions has built matter, to et back at him and thus shell or a cartridge ; Yet in tea or is building, housing aceammoda- g " months the Ministry of Munitions has tions for 60,000 persons, and canteens incriminate himself. obtained from these firms a number of and mess rooms in munition works The defendant descended as per shells greater than the total produc• now provide decent aecommodation, schedule and approached the waiting tion of all the Government arsenals 'where 500,000 workers take their meals attorney. When he reached him the and great armament shops in existence every, day, spectators were astonished to see him at the commencement of the war. "For a long time our anti-aircraft slap the lawyer in the face, kick him increase of Arsenals. gunners have been crying out for an. in the shins, seize him bodily, and, "Speaking in the House of Commons improved height finder for Zeppelins, finally, with a supreme effort, lroft him coo astt y by saying Lloydar Mr. t atrelevenrtled new are clumsy sand having a. margintinders oferror from the floor and hurl lilt" prostrate senals had been. provided. Today, not of hundreds of feet. You will realize across a table. eleven, but ninety arsenals have been how that handicapped our gunners in. Turning from the bewildered prose- built or adapted. Our weekly output their attempt to bring down Zeppelins. cuter, he faced the court and ex- of .303 cartridge is greater by millions "Three men set to work on the prob- plained mildly: than our annual output before the war. tem, and In two or three months they "Your honor and gentlemen, about There is a certain machine gun being produced a height finder which gave one-tenth that hard!" produced by the hundred every week rapidly and exactly the height of a —_• in a factory ordered, planned and built Zeppelin. It is an important discovery, A FAMOUS ROAD, during the past twelve months. The but the problem is only one of hun- dreds which are continually cropping. up., The 'War and Finance. First Traveller—"This ere's a ter- rible war, Bill." Second ditto—"Yus. What's the price o' beer now?" From deep water to deep water the Panama Canal is fifty miles in length. Riches may not bring happiness, but they have at least one advantage over poverty, they do not prevent ib. It Runs Fourteen Hundred Miles Through India. Everyone who has read "Kim" will agree with the New York Sun that the Grand Trunk Road of India is by • all means the most romantic highway in the world. That paper says of it : A stately avenue of three roads in one—the centre of hard metal, the roads on. each side ankle-deep in sil- very dust—fringed by double rows of trees, it rune for fourteen hundred miles through the vast northern plain that skirts the Himalayas, from. Cal- cutta to far Peshawar, which keeps sentinel at the gate of Afghanistan. From horizon to horizon it stretches like a broad white ribbon, as straight as if tracedby a gigantic ruler. And dotted along the entire length are hundreds of serats (wayside rest houses), each with its arched and tur- reted gateway, its spacious inclosure, where humans share shelter with oxen, camels and. goats, and its central well of sparkling water. For three thousand years the Hima- layas have looked down on this road, and have seen it as they see it to -day. It has seen a hundred generations of men come and go ; a score of dynas- ties rise and fall. And yet to -day it is to the eye exactly the same as in the long -gone time when Nineveh was a proud oity, and our ancestors gnawed bones in their caves. •a'•• - Two Anglers. A barefoot boy, A white birch pole; A can of worme, A swimmin' hole, A baited hook, A tug and swish; A steady haul, A string of fish. A. white duck.. suit, A canvas boat; A 'costly rod, A patent float, A gaudy fly, A cash and swish; A pretty sight, But'nary fish! We'd Like to Know, Too. "You must learn to 'swat the fly,', Ethel. Flies carry typhoid fever." "Will typhoid 'fever kill any one who gets it?' m ` - satin, when the frock is serge; gener "Certainly.""Mother, why ally a motif is embroidered on the fly?„ ends, in colored beads or wool.' Many of these sashes cross in front In the case of a photographer suc- and areknotted in the back lossely cess depends on his ability to take things as they come. doesn't ib kill the and gracefully. output of guns and howitzers has in- creased by several hundred per cent. "We are not yet at the' full flood of our output of guns and shell. If the Germans cannot be driven home other- wise, our army will have such a sup- ply of guns that the limbers will touch each other in a continuous line from the Somme to the sea. France, Rus- sia and Italy have been supplied by or through Great Britain with many 01 the most important munitions of war. Many thousands of tons of steel have been and are being sent to France. "Our Contribution toward the equip- ment of the Belgian army has been CHRIST IN FLANDERS We had forgotten You or very. nearly, You did not seem to touch us very nearly. Of course we thought, about You now and then, Especially in any time f trouble, . We knew that You were good in time of trouble, But we are very ordinary men. And there were always other things to think of; There's lots of things a man has got to think of— His work, his home, his pleasure, and his wife; And so we only thought of You on Sunday, Sometimes, perhaps, not even on a Sunday, Because there's always lots to fill one's life. And all the while, in street or lane of byway, In country lane, in city street or byway, You walked among us and we did not see. Your feet were bleeding as You walked our pavements. How did we miss Your footprints on our pavements? Can there be other folk as blind as we? Now we remember over here in Flanders (It isn't strange to think of You in Flanders); This hideous warfare seems to make things clear. We never thought about You much in England, But now that we are far away from England We have no doubts, we know that You are here. You helped us pass the jest along the trenches, Where in cold blood we waited in the trenches You touched its ribaldry and made it fine. You stood beside us in our pain, and weakness, We're glad to think You understand our weakness, Somehow it seems to help us not to whine. We think about You kneelingin the garden, Ah, God! the agony of that dread garden; We know You prayed for us upon the cross; 12 anything eould'make us glad to bear it, - 'Twquld be the knowledge that You willedd to bear it, Pain—death—the uttermost of human loss: Though we forgot You, You will not forget us; We feel so sure that You will not forget us, But stay with us until this dream is past; And so we ask for courage, strength, and pardon, Especially, I think, we ask for pardon, And that You'll stand beside us to the last. . -London Spectator.