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The Exeter Advocate, 1916-9-28, Page 6aatt A out the House Useful. Hints and. Qeuet.at lnto!'ua". tio'u for the Busy Uou eW ire Dainty Dishes. Rhubarb Jana. --Five pounds of rhu- barb, crit as for stewing. Five pounds of granulated sugar. One • pound of finely cat fig,. One-half pound of al- mond mats, blaanehed n red egt fine. Mix uses: ingred^eats and let stand over :.m ire. In the morning boil the mixture fer forty-five mint's. Pat in g!=,ese wvs; n cold and .over with par. ffiLL. Onion and Potato Puree. ---Two cups diced ce •tets.eeo, one cup minced onion, three eerie teeter. one teaspoon salt (or half-teeseseen e:telt salt and cel- ery s a:t i, ! a -f ,sue tli teaspoon pep- per. two tabloepoone butter and milk or creeet :s s:eexleti. 13Ui1 poeatr.ee, tt--t3ii*ns until well done. Rub t:tfie.; •Tel: tr,iit passe. season and re- heat. ta.lhasi es saheb milk or -cream as s:esd .l two thin to right censer tete. . Serve with na',ie d parley and;, emu - tens. Baled Onions. ---Four cup: peele•<I taldone. ere elm it..',ti, t'we tablesr sans e eh , f Peeve l ttt r sestet bre•:.?w ru-ribs, tyre ani _.c, -half teeeteoene salt, ciaelt ejf reaper. Put eni*;iie en t:, ee k ww:th en :nab hailing 1Cnter tf3 f.'0ver; add tit t• t".,roen •:alt and Wesel until wws*;,t• gat c,>vering, Brush a: li a:7th a little bettor. r. eat En ori-n::Brei pair over ere:m eaaate. Sorin ;le :Vole nretele •umne and bake tint!! t eht brawn. Cream sauce; 'Melt nave r Er atuse pan, a',l.:l flour, ri: x teal"; ^ I sett milli sheeny, , stir r;i:til sea wth erl er<>:.:is }. Aldi pep - pe ..t - eelu e teilepoa+n emit and '. l .1 :I Carel..:iaiiiwn t'o'iserre. -- Twelve ve t3R o"•v 4 r;,ar.e One pineaprie, Ex , teir. sin lar erre. ttv:,e efi ° wrens a:' want. Pel aii:!.I gine ter the teal . p]e ..r tl reeneure eftir G'jtualrter- a:r<� " .P` the peaches, }'a"i.'.'; glial er„ r e tied ,l.vi,,se into eighths. Peel the pineapple end eat in LI:te; edicts the lem:as berry thin without peeling thine Wt rola cel the fruit; add three- feertho p era t f eager for each pound a fruit: min tteratly in preserving heet- tle ,arcl rammer for tate hours,. stirring ..^. l {fie ne ties irk. Peur in gla .e3. Never Way With Sandwwiches.--RolI- ed eavilwithee ic,T' pretty, and they ere jest a" easy to maize as the other hint, A:.y linusel.eepee who makes ran w he ifansome- thing �prrec it•a c ear - th lq d"s, e?t't in this line, for the Mme , l,l kind ie wary lit ely to become deeidedly unwelcome with a critical family teeing ns jefiesee. The next frac ck u prepare sandwiehes crit the bread real th'n, ellen put year minced meat, olive": ca• jelly on the Buttered bread as usual. When you are quite satiied with the result, and all the edge; have Leen trimmed off the bread, roll the bread firmly as ycu would do with a bandage Secure with a toothpick, then tie with a bow of colored ribbon. Remove the tooth- pick and your sandwich is complete. Mustard Pickles.— Two quarts green tomatoes; soak overnight in weak brine and drain. Twe quarts small cucumbers. One medium head cabbage. One quart :mall onions. 1 Six large red peppers. Chop all fine and boil all together, except Cucuta- Lars, in clear water until tender. drain l well end add: Two quarts cider vine- gar. One-half cap ground mustard. Three eups sugar, One cup flour mix- ed with vinegar. Two teaspoon.. red I pepper. Two teaspoons black pepper. Bring to a boil, add the chopped cucumbers; bottle and seal while hot. Plum Conserve.—Though we give plums as the fruit to use in the fol- lowing recipe, any fruit in season may be used in the same manner. Stew two and one-half quarts of plums with one and ore -half cups of water until they are very soft. Strain through . a colander, then add as much. granu- lated sugar as you have pulp. Put through a foodchopper two oranges, one small Iemon, one pound of seeded raisins, one-half pound of tvalnut meats and one-half poured of sun dried figs. Use the rind of the oranges and lemon as well as the pulp, but re- i move the white skin and seeds. Cook all together fifteen minutes, being careful not to burn. This is delici- ous for sandwiches or to serve with chicken or turkey. • Chili Sauce.—Tweiteta large, ripe, solid tomatoes..,ur cups of vinegar, two teaspoons of ground cloves, two teeepoons of ground cinnamon, one- half teaspoon of ground ginger, one tablespoon of mustard, one red pepper pod, four large onions, two table- spoons of salt (more if desired). Wash the onions and tomatoes. Re- move the outer skin of the onions and chop them fine. Put the tomatoes in boiling water for a few minutes and then, remove the skin. Put in all the 'other ingredients and boil on a slow fire for abotit tan hours. Put this in sterilized glass bottles which have been standing in hot water, while hot, and seal. Beep in a enol, dry place. Egg Recipes, Nest s Eggs.—Prepare bread dress- ing as for chicken or turkey, omitting the wage and using only onion and red pepper for seasoning. Form it into nests twice the size of an egg, and place them ` into a bread pan well greased and set into the oven. When partly baked break an egg into each hollowed center and return to the oven until the eggs are set. These are good served -with a drawn butter sauce, tomatoes, mush -room sauce or a dash of chili sauce, Egg Gems...: Line the bottom and sides of each cup in a gent pan with the usual sour milk biscuit dough. Prick the dough ,with a fork so that it won't puff up, and set in the oven to halve. When done grate cheese and break an egg into each cup; lover with cheese, salt and ,pepper ai=d let the eggs set. Rice e;• macaroni to which a well -toe :ten egg and a table- spoonful of fi<..ur Imre leen added may be used in piece of the biscuit dough. Creemedd Eger, .. Chsop whites of eight or ten hard boiled eggs and grate and mash the yolks with a ell - ver frit. Melte a sauce of two taiwle.epooraftils e:z;li of butter and flour to ww•hieh tw e a ntif :a a ef :tweet milk have been e=:idesl elowlyLet boil up once el' twice, eeetiet tedth salt, Pep- per, mustard or red relater and add the chopped white-. Pince pieces of hot toast ore n het. plater ard ewer eneh piece with tilt mixture. Season the yell;:: with alt, pe mer, nmetard and a little vironar, mill sweet, or sour eream ;ensu ine:ail to the c endet- mice- of ere:'rny master til. ce a lean- ing teli!esp,eonfel 011 the center of eneh niece of the c"ver 'l toeett Serve wroth crisp stripe of bacon and garnish with lettuce leaves. Useful Hints. Hard settee ie delieio;r on apple pie, Half -ripe grapes away e male the hest jelly. Soup sheeld never he made in a n.etalli. Leets:. All greens ; houi'l ire blanched 1>e - fare entitling. Mi!k and eustar,ie eitaatld net stand in any lout enamel vessels. Any fruit or vegetable to be. eaten raw should he carefully washed. Small hits left from meet or fi h shkeultl b4 saved anti used in potato puffs. Siiceel pineapple is more delicious if sheet and sugared altsut 1.2 hours before Bering. It ehould never be fergott n that unclean sxtilk is as great a menace as unclean water. A rice ercum may be made like a thin rice pudding, only it should be cooked longer, poured into a mold and chilled. The bones left from roast beef or lamb can be pelt into a put with pota- toe i and boiled. They will give the potatoes a rich flavor. If a mother can invent little games to plat while the children are being washed and dre;=,sect those proee,sees may go on more easily. When you think the vaseline bottle is empty, heat it and lay at on its side to cool Sou will be surprised at this amount of vaseline you will save. A convenient way to boil macaroni is to put it in a wire basket. Im- merse this in a kettle of boiling wa- ter. When the macaroni is done, lift it out. To make cottage chce e of fine tex- ture, have the water with which you , scald the clabber merely hot. If it is bailing the curd, will be very hard and lumpy. If there is a stu',born spot on white paint that can not be removed with soap and water, dip a wit cloth in whiting and rub the spot: It will come off with ease. There comes a time when any hard- wood #ioar should be thoroughly clean- ed. Wipe it aver with a pure white UNSEEN HAND THAT FEEDS THE ALLIES e TUE'COMMISSARIAT DEPART. MENT IN LONDON. Buys 1llutwitions and Supplies For the Varied Needs of Eight Nations, At the corner of Kingsway, Loa, don, where that royally wide and straight street merges into the semi- circle of Aldtrych, there rises the great triple building which contains Empire Rouse, India blouse and Can- ada house. It is in aspect half noble and half commonplace, the front hays ing both strength and dignity, white stone columns and wide and high win- dow spaces, the sides being merely a raw and aching wilderness of red. reels. ut wvit _ nn tts immense walls revolves one of the least-knewn and most important of all the many wheels of wwar. It is the headquarters of the Cor, -mission Internationale de Ravi- tillement, the Commissariat Depart- merit of the Allies. The IVniversal Buyer, The Commission de Ravilaillement is the unseen hand that feeds the many arms fires of war. In all the markets of all the world—that is to Fay, all the world outside the cairn:- tries ai n?tries of the enemy—it buys the guns, the shells, the rifles, the ammunition, the saddles, the boots and the uni- forme, and all the re -t of the multi- farious equipment required by the fighting ships of England's Allies. The coatirnission buys in tons by the million, and pays in pounds by the hundred million, In short, a myriad quartermaster sergeants in one. But it roe from. very small beegin- ringe. In Avg -est, I;t13, a few days after war brt^l;e out, several French officer; came to London to buy boots and similar artieles for the French army. These were the first of a long eerier of war pur;'hasee, whose extent, teginning in thousands of pounds, rose raei'ile' to millions. Ther result- ed in the formation lel agreement be- tween the French and British Govern- ment~ of a Commission de Ravitaille- ment {:i revietualint commis, ion, in the old blunt naval phrase), with the following objects: 1. To co-ordinate the purchase of food supplies, munitions •of war and military and naval equipment by the two Governments. 2. To prevent harmful competition. in the same markets and a consequent inflation of prices, 3. To place the French Govern- ment in communication with firms capable of carrying out orders satis- factorily at a reasonable price; and, 4. To spread the orders in suck a way as to distribute employment, and thus accelerate delivery, How the Commission Began. The commission began with a Brit- ish staff of a dozen, established in a small office in Queen Anne's cham- bers. Sines its inception its scope has been gradually extended to cover purchases made on behalf of all the Allied Governments, and it now in- cludes military, naval and civilian delegates from each of England's Al- lies (including even Portugal), to- gether with representatives of the War Office, Ministry of Munitions and other British Government Depart- ments, under the general direction of Sir Edmund Wyldbore Smith, of the Board of Trade. Its personnel is now numbered at nearly 500; its huge office has miles of corridors,. containing about 300 rooms, Harbored happily on its many floors are no fewer than eight separ- ate national colonies—French, Rus- sian, Italian, Belgian, Serbian, Portu- guese, Japanese and English. Multiplicity of Arteries. The commission, whose purchases soap and water, changing the water often. Then go over it with a cloth saturated with a good floor oil. Fried cabbage is delicious•. Cat the cabbage up as for stew, pub it into pan with enough water to cover and let simmer until almost tender, then put it in ,the fat and brown it as you would potatoes. It takes little time to cook it in this way. To the old-fashioned housekeeper and cook the methods of accurate measurement do not seem important. When our cooks begin, to learn that cooking is an exact science, there will be lets said about, "luck" in cook- ing. The "hit or miss" methods of measurements are the cause ;of poor. results. A Deserted. Village. The first time you see a destroyed and deserted village you have strange feeling, especially when you know that the smashing process may be resumed any minute, says a writer in Cartoons Magazine. Can you imagine a village which has no inhabitants•— houses with only parts of ` walls standing, perambulators, chairs, bed- steads and .pictures ` heaped up in confusion, churches destroyed as if stepped on by a giant, tombs a tumbled -up heap in the churchyards, no children at play, no'shops, no sounds except the echo of .your foot steps' and the roar ofdistant guns? You'll find thein in the war zone. The marriage ceremony in France, in very remote crimes, consisted of the man paring his nails and send - in the•pieces' to the girl h g l of leis choice. Then they were ma n and wife. . outtival in extent the most sensation- al of transatlantic deals, has been at work now for it2' anonths- almost without the general public becoming even aware of its existence! During this period the orders it has officially placed on behalf of the Allied Gov: ernments amount to no less a total than 8220,000,000, and this stupend- ous figure,. if we add the purchases made by Allied Government contract ors, which are submitted for the ex.- amination of the commission,is in- creased roughtly to £300,000,000. Here is an approximate record of the quantities of some of the more common articles of war bought for the Allied armies; Ten million pairs of boots. Thirty minim. yards of cloth. One hundred thousand miles of telephone wire, One hundred million sandbags. The figures in respect of the more destructive munitions of war cannot, for obvious reasons, be cited here, but they are no less impressive. R is hardly necessary to remark•-- that is, in fact, the whole raison d'etre of the commission ---that the sums expended, wast as they are, " would have been much greater if there had been no official organization to regulate prices, to control the world's markets and to apportion the avail- , Ole supplies of food and war neater- ial to the needs of ea eh Government concerned. And always this main object has been kept rigorously in view, that none of the munitions re- quired for the adequate pursuit of the war should be withheld of deleyed in transit by rea-en of any averla;:•ping of orders or confusion of interest. Regulating the Supply. The services of the War Office in •pa!rchase of personal equir'ment in the quantities referred to and the sup fly of muniti res cannot be overestimated, and the complete:1 .a of a .-system of organisation whish is able to provide for tiie supplies, loth of the • British fronting Iones and of their Allies, not only in Europe but in Canada and America, is top little realized by the public. the revictualing eommission also enjoys the full advantage of the expe, ienee of the agents of the Minis- try of Misniticns in America and else - Where, end enormous quantities of =tale and machinery have been pur- eliaseal all over the world by this means for the benefit of the Allied Governments. All orders are placed in such a man - raw as to avoid competition between the various Aurelia: ing Governments, to exclude the irresponsible specula- tor and to insure that the articles bought' are obtained from reliable sources and are of the best quality. Co-operative Purciiusrn,,g . This principle of co-operative pur- chase has been followed very close in connection with supplies of cereals, which are purchased on behalf of the Allies by a single committee consist- ing of members of the Commission Internationale de Ravitaaillement and the Board of 'Agriculture. Then there is the whole tremendous question of the provision of tonnage for the transport of these immense supplies and of the regulation of freights --a question which demands the closest application on the part of the shipping advisers attached to the commission. When all the ships re- quisitioned from the British Mer- chant service for war purposes are reckoned, there remains only a limit- ed proportion of tonnage available for the carriage of coal, wheat and other commodities. This tonnage is of necessity most rigidly regulated and apportioned, and the existence of the commission, • which can centralize all information as to the requirements of the the dif- i ferent Allied Governments and the 1 possibilities of meeting them, is of invaluable assistance to those in whose hands rests the final decision as to the distribution of the available British mercantile .marine. - e CONTAINS '4O ALUM HUNS PET SON bI t' i r !f 0 Memorial for Peace, {`You ask how far the peace move- ment has advanced. It is impossible to4% itsayanythingd but weo- definite, b i S t eialists are now gain; to present to the Imperial Chancellor a great peace memorial, containing the signatures of those citizens Wha want a speedy peace without annexations and with- out violence to other nations. These will put their names on the listst and those lists will be collected from the whole empire and handed to the 1 Chancellor. God grant that their names may be put down in millions, !that the Government may sere that the great mass of the people want an early peace, Mistress is Acute. "One may hope this accur ed mur- dering of peoples may come to an end soon, but, unfortu ately, the ob- stinate ones have no wish fer peace, They are working in all countries against it, working with all their power, for the international capital- ists can do no better business than they are doing now, and their purses appear not full yet. "With us the dietre=.e gete greater from day to day, and already many Door people are zeffering from under- feeding. We will, however, hope and act, for surely the good sen€e of the peoples may conquer in the end." THE GERMAN SOCIALISTS ARE ACTWF. red Soldiers Don't Claim tory, But Say They Can't 13e Beaten, It is extraordinary difficult to know whether all the British shell fire and ail the dead have yet begun to shake the confidence of the Ger- mans in the strength of their war ninehine. Some of the officers who have come in as prisoners still keep their pride, writes .a correspondent with the British Armies in the field. They have even the losses inflicted an diem in and behind their lines, but Fey- "You can't beat us. We can't bo beaten," That is different from the old ehra?e; "We're winning. Victory is certain for Germany," and it is a long v:av from the acknowledgment of de- feat or possible defeat. There are times when the pessimists among us ere tempted to think that the Ger- mans have mysterious reserves of strength from which they can heal their wounds, and that the success gained is only local, and has not yet injured the German war machine in ' any vital part or struck n blow which has reached to the heart of the Ger- man people. 1 Letters Reveal Truth. The euro for .such pessimism is ! found in letters captured in the Ger- man dugouts and on the German prisoners. Theydraw the veil,side a e'i �P R and tell the naked truth. Through all these letters, written by men whose sons are fighting or dead, and by comrades in arms, not hiding their thoughts from each other, there is a cry against the bloodshed and misery of this war,' and for peace at all costs. By now the town of Offenbach has five thousand widows, and be- sides that there are the unmarried men who have fallen" "Our company lost all its officers and ten men, but that is the same with every company and every regi- ment on the Somme. I, alas, could not get the much -desired wound to send me home." Riots Are Told Of. • There have been riots in Hamburg and other places, according to letters found in the trenches, and in the spirit of civilian Germany there is rising anger .against those who made the war and caused all this misery, and who keep it lasting for political and dynastic reasons. The German Socialists, it seems, are at last be- ginning to find their voices again, if one may judge from such letters as the following written by an edu- cated hand: W tette .>,.eti.' rCif'R rS ty zeatte A WOMAN'S SECRET. Wife Masqueraded as a Husband for Many Years, An amazing, story of a woman who masqueraded as a man and was !found out by the Mill hill Medical Board was told at a North London tribunal. Her employer appealed for the z worker as his "foreman" Tlie chairman, hailing up a letter, expressed surprise that the employer urged that this "man" was indisnens- able to him in his work. Did he know that "he" was a woman? i The employer smiled incredulously, and suggested that the chairman had made a mistake, for his foreman was • married, with two children. The chairman read a certificate from the Mill Hill Medical. Board, which stated that the person named upon it was unfit for the army "by reason of the fact that the doctors' examination disclosed that the per- son was a woman. It transpired that the "man" had been before the Advisory Committee, and on a certificate then produced was sent to the Medical Board: On the deception being discovered there was something like consternation in the barracks. It is understood that the woman was passing as a man' to hide from her husband. SEA BUTTERFLIES. Beautiful Creatures That Live Below the Surface of the Sea. "Just as there said a naturalist, butterflies. They p creatu res t aten , terranean. They h :a �F•.'?%,yy7C s •S...`•;: ;:•r`.;'iw`5Er':'s.Ef'-�v+wf �µ��,g..k• r :gore:• ..3 ..,, % f r rr i y iJf'i:. 0WOMIR4Ve.oliaV, Great War Chiefs of Britain and France Who Planned 'Drives ;of Allied Armies on Western Front o . GST to right: Artisticle I3riarid, French Premier; General J f tr•e General Staff',, LloydGeorge, .Geor e, ,'Great Britain's Minister of War, MGeneral de C.astlenau Chief of the French : Thomas, ''French Minister of Munitions; and General Rcaies, rreneh Minister of "WarThis gathering of the. greatest of Trance's War Chiefs.,and :Lloyd George, tritain's Minister of War, is one et the most notable conferences that have taken, place since the be- ginning of the great war. are sea flowers," "so there are sea are beautiful trans - found in the Medi - are caught in nets much as you would catch land but- terflies, but, of course, it is necessary to collect them in jars of sea water. "There are a number of varieties, the most beautiful being known as the `needle butterfly.' Its body con- sists of a shelly substance clear as glass, to which are fastened the wings, composed of a gauze -like ma- terial and as full of color as an opal. "Sea butterflies are without eyes, like some species of fish, and, unlike the butterflies of the land, they are rarer in sunny than cloudy weather. In midsummer, indeed, they leave the surface and descend into the deep, many fathoms down." ' A Real Jail Bird. "If you don't mind, sir," said the new convict, addressing the warden, "I should like. to . be put at my own trade." "That might{ he a good -idea," said the warden. "What i^ your tva le ?" "I'm an aviator," mid the new as - rival. Formerly the bridegroom endowed his bride not, as to -day, "with all bit worldly goods," but with his "cattle." The more a man brags about him- self the less use he is to his hors. ITMSnS WEiNTrD. A 'number of applicants are desired for the Training School for Nurses, Hospital for Insane, Toronto. Three . years Course. Lectures start October 1, 1916. Probationers begin at $13,00 a month, with board, uniform ant laundry. Jtpply Miss E. V. west,Head Nurse, 999 Queen St 'W;, Toron- to. .