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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1917-9-13, Page 6etween Cousins; 02, A .DECLARATION OF WAR,. r 0H,0T.1R Vri.-•.:(Cont'd)., "Anything in that line is my line, "If it was not from the huge profit T'li1sottie ,hirnJultt x;igh him to me, and I intend to draw from your presence the heiress was eawplaining to ,li.er ".boats good," said Mabe1, looking cousin, "I should never have waited at 'him from under half-olosed lids. tea for you. Four -thirty is our hour, "You can"talk it out in the morning, you know, because of mamma's teaand in the afternoon, as. a reward, you pains \which conte on punctually at may row me over to the Burial Island, four, and make her very difficult to Int just expiring to get to .eloser qua'ters with that ruined chapel." Here signs of animation became ob- servable in Lady Atterton. "Yes, Mabel, that is' a very good idea; almost the first sensible thing you have said to -day. / If the water is smooth' enough I shall be of the of duty. I am not going' to do, and party., I ant told the island con- tains the grave -stone of a Scotchrnan who fought in the battle of Preston- pans, under George the Second, you know, Mabel, in the year seventeen hundred and---" "No; I know nothing at all," said Mabel, who delighted in stiffening her:- self er-self against the too ample information exhaled by her mother. From long practice she had developed a habit of ing away bread and butter, He an- excluding either direct or'indirect in- swered the, look with one which was! struction almost as automatically as very open and friendly, but with no- the valves of a submarine boat close. - thing excited or exciting in its quality. at the contact with water. "I never The person who had answered the ap- could remember a date in my life, you know, and I don't believe I ever heard of the battle of Prestonpans." "My dear Mabel, what will your cousin—" "Ronald knows, less about it than I- dealwith, Believe me -or not when I tell Hypo. that to come between • a lioness and her cubs, would be mere child's play compared to interposing yourself between mamma' and. her four -thirty tea. Judge, then, what hopes I build upon you for having dared that wait of an hour•I" Lady Atterton shook her stately head in a stately fashion. • "My dear Mabel; what extraordin- ary exaggeration! What will your cousin think of you?" "You don't seriously suppose that that question exercises my mind?" From ander her thick lashes a glance of provocative inquiry went to- wards Ronald, who during the whole of her address had been placidly stow - peal of the letter was a large, fair- haired young pian of about twenty six, with no particular features to speak of, but with that share of chief- ly animal good looks which are in- separable from health, youth, size,: a if possible," calmly assured Mabel; perpetual use of„ hot water, and an and the blank look on Ronald's' face expression which was at last nega- tively agreeable, inasmuch as, though perhaps a trifle somnolent, it was neither morose, fatuous, nor ill- natured. There was the merest sug- gestion of superfluous flesh upon his big, well -set-up frame, and ,occasion- ally malicious people might feel tempt- ed to run a pin into it somewhere, just in order to see a less contented ex- pression upon the fair, boyish face, and to ascertain whether the' sleepy blue eyes could ever fairly Wake up; yet, such as he was, he did no dis- honor to a nation which prides itself on producing a greater"proportion-of well -grown specimens of manhood than any other, "I'm sorry you waited," was all he now said, with a solid regret which however seemed powerless to affect his appetite. As once more he stretched his hand towards the dish o:" bread and butter seemed to confirm her estimate of his historictll kno w_ledge. • * Wlien, a eouple of hours later, the cousins met again in the same i'oonl respectively attired, in black cloth and in pink satin, the gaze with which Mabel measured her guest WaS plain- lyY one of disapproval. (To be continued.) What Mtn Have Said of the War. "My term of office isfor the dura- tion of the war, or for three years."--, Lord Kitchener. "Were in for victory, which must be won together." -.-Choate, "The future of mankind is ours to maintain and defends" -Lloyd George. "If we fail, all fail; if we break, all break; our dangers .are great; but our opportunity is 'incomparable.", --Win- ston Churchill. "We must fight and: conquer."— Bethrann-Hollweg. "The burning question in our hearts, however, is how much longer the war is to last."—Michaelis. "The desire of our enemies to an- nihilate us has not yet been broken." —Count von Virestarp" "We stand unbroken, far in the en- emy's land, and in the defence we are invincible."—Herr Scheidemann. "We will make English-speaking nations one."—Lord Northcliffe. "We shall prove that we are ready to fight and capable of achieving vic- tory,"=Herr Fehrenbach, ".Foe God's sake, hurry up."— Ribot. "We must make the world safe for democracy."—President Wilson, An Indian turban of the largest size contains from ten to twenty yards of the finest and softest muslin. DOMESTIC SCIENCE AT HOME Ninth Lesson—The The growth of the human body is likened to that of a tree. In order that we may know just what foods are necessary for us, we will begin a study of digestion. Chewing or mastication of food is there was a shriek from Mabel, •the firstfact in the process of diges- "Traitor! And on your own native noir; fcr this operation one should soil! How dare you eat bread and have good teeth. If the teeth are de - butter from a dish flanked by oat- cayed or gone the food will not be cakes on one side and scones on the thoroughly chewed; if this L the ease, other! Need I tell you that a then a large portion of saliva which Scotch cook was the first article I the mouth secretes will be lost. The procured ? The bread and butter adult with good teeth will secrete wouldn't be here at all if it wasn't as about one quart of saiva -. day. a concession to mamma_ And, by- The purpose of the` saliva is two- thn-by— • fold: first, it lubricates and softens' the She put down the t t act the Queen -Mother breathed a sigh of relief—and stared at him with mock -tragical seriousness: "What on earth do you mean by daring to present yourself without a kilt ?" "A how -much?" asked Ronald, his hand arrested in mid-air from the sheer shock of the astonishment. "A kilt—the Celtic garb. Is that clear enough?" "Great Scot!' But I don't possess such a thing!" "Do you mean to tell me"—the sternness in Mabel's tone was increas- ing—"that you call yourself a High- land tea- —at which gentleman, an d that your ward- robe doesn't contain a kilt?" "I don't call myself anything, but the last kilt I wore was got on my sixth birthday. It's only a gillie here and there that sports one, and even that's giving out. What the blazes should I do with a kilt, if I had one?" "What would you do with it? Wear it, of course, and pay your mite to- wards the preservation of the custom of your country"" "I don't see what good I'm doing my country by making -A, guy of myself." Mabel sketched another shriek, and sinking against the chair -back, went through a show of feeling momentari- ly fait - "Good gracious! Is this what Scotch patriotism has come to! Oh, you degenerate scion of kilted• ancest- ors! You'll have to come out very strong in other ways if I am to for- give you this. If these are your principles, then. I suppose you don't speak Gaelic either?" "Don't know a mortal wordof it." "This is becoming serious. But you can't help knowing some Scotticisms. I've learnt to say `feckless' and 'frugal,' and I've mastered the differ- ence between a `bairn#' and a 'burn," but I'm thirsting to enlarge my voca- bulary." "My dear child," interposed the ex- t governess, "it is only the lower classes i who use these expressions. You can- not possibly employ them in' drawing- rnnmc food so that it may easily be swallow- ed, Second, the saliva brings about a chemical chanee in the starch contain- ed in the food, which, when thoroughly chewed or broken up, is transformed into a convert sugar called glucose. The food is then swallowed, and, on entering the stomach, this process ,continues from twenty to thirty min- utes. If the food is carelessly chew- ed or hastily swallowed, this action ceases as soon as the food reaches the stomach.' Starchy indigestion, is the result. Food, Adjuncts. Process of Digestion When starchy foods are chewed well, the starches have been' partly acted upon by the saliva in the mouth, and then, when they are transformed into the glucose state, the action is. continued by acid fluids in the`stoan= `a ash, . ah A BATTLE OF 100 AEROPLANES. TURNING THE HEAVENS INTO A 'VERITABLE HELI. Hairbreadth Escaped in the Ae Service Are Matters of Every- day Occurrence. Alt ofIllcer of the ',Royal Canac Flying Corps tells the following story;— There- were one ' hundred of u fifty on a side—but we turned heavens into a hell, up in the there, more terrible than ten thous devils could have made running r pant. in the pit. • The sky'blazed and crackled w bursting time bombs, and the mac guns spitted out their steel ven while underneath us hung what see ed like a net of fire, where shells fz the Archies, vainly trying to re us, were bursting. We had gone out -early in the mo ing, , fifty of us, from- the Royal C adian Flying Corps,barracks, back the lines, when the sun was low my courage lower, to bomb the Pr sian trenches jaefbre the infan should attack. Our machines were stretched across a `flat tableland. Here a there in little groups the pilots w receiving instructions from their co mender and consulting:rnaps and p tographs. At last we all climbed into our m chines. All along the .line engines gan to roar and sputter. Dere w a 300 h.p., Rolls-Royce, with a thigh throbbing voice; over there a $10,0 Larone rotary engine vying with t others in malting a noise. Then the were the little "fellows, "humming a spitting, the "vipers" or "maggots as they are known in the service. At last the squadron command took his' place in his machine and ro with a whirr. The rest of us rose a' circled round, getting Mar formation Over No,Man's Land. Crack! At the signal from the co mender's pistol we darted forwar going ever higher and higher, whi the cheers of _the mechanicians an riggers grew fainter. Across our Quin trenches we saile aid out over No .Man's Land, like uge, eyeless, pock -scarred earth fa rial Tian s_. the air and am- ith hive om, M- O m ach rn- an- of and us - try out nd ere m - hoe a be as ty, 00 he re nd er •s'e nd m-. d, le • d. d a ce- The remainder of the food is con- st verted into a thick fluid, consisting of I - solids and undigested particle`s, sus co pended in a yellowish liquid called bo chyme. This is the food now prepar- ,b ed by the saliva and stomach ferments to for further digestion in the intestinal si canal. •.th In the intestines this liquid food be comes mixed with the bile, pancreatic re fluid and the ferments from the vari- ous intestinal glands. Each of these fluids has a part to perform.The bile emulsifies the fats and prevents decomposition. The pancreatic fluids complete the digestion of fats. The intestinal fluids finish the pro- cess of digestion for the albumens and sugars. Digestion is a complex process, where any 'interference from wrong or im- properly cooked, foods, combined with careless mastication, is very liable to produce serious -results•. acing up at us. There was another signal from the mmander. Down we swooped. The nib racks rattled as hundreds of o'nibs were let loose, and a second la- r cane the crackle of their explo- ons over the heads of the Boches in. eir trenches. Food adjuncts cannot be termed foods because they do not furnish nutrition, but rather act as a stimulant to the digestive organs and: thus be- come an aid to the digestion of, true food. • Food adjunct's are classified as bev- erages and condiments. Beverages.—The primary service of beverages is to quench the thirst. Thirst is nature's callfor water. Wa- ter constitutes the fifth class of food principles. It does not produce heat, and is therefore incombhstible,'but be- cause it has a great many uses in the body it is an absolute necessity -Wa- ter is the best known of all .solvent. It acts as a carrier to all parts of the body and assists in regulating the temperature of the body. Coffee is the berry or seed of a tropical tree that bears fruit similar to our common cherry. Itacts as a stimulant to the nerves, relieves'fati- gue. The flavor is extracted from the berry after it has been roasted and ground; then it is boiled, percolat- ed or steamed as in drip coffee. Tea is valued for its'theine, which is a pleasant stimulating constituent of ea. It also contains tannin, which, f allowed to develop by premitting the tea to stand considerable time after brewing, is injurious to the stom- ach. The use of fresh boiling water when making tea is a necessity. Do not boil tea. ; Chocolate and cocoa have a re- cognized food value, whether they are eaten or made into a drink. Cocoa s insoluble, but when added to boiling. ater the starch thickens sufficiently o hold the particles' in solution. Condiments. ----Flavoring extracts,. eeds, herbs, spices and sauces are called condiments, Tlteyy are used to give food a pleasing flavor and ah9uld be partaken of moderately. Salt is classed as a condiment as well as, a food. Persohs living,' in hot climetee soon learn to like pungent hot spie e which become necessary articles of diet. They act directly upon the liver. Vinegar is the fermented juice of apples, ;fruit or ;sour wine. Catsup and Pickles • Great care must be taken if you wish to avoid muddy, soggy pickles, "What's to prevent me, mother dear? I mean to be an innovators in this respect. Great reformers have always got to put up with a certain amount of persecution, I am aware; but I'm quite prepared for my fate, I'll propound my views on the subject i further, as soon as I've done putting w Ronald through his paces. Let's get t along, Ronnie! No hints: for either language or dress to be got from you, as I perceive; but perhaps you'll do s heifor in other' departments. I've booked'vdu for an interview to-mor- ro'tw with the head -keeper. Hae has a list of geievanees, partly against poachers, of which they seem to breed fire Iot in these hills. Also, he has annething connected with the health Of the grouse -broods weighing on his Mind, of which I feel powerless to re- lieve. It na You'll be able to prim; hthi }peace, I expect?" "'lather!" 'The transfoeraation on Ronald';; face was remarkable; even the blue eyes .abruptly wakened Up.. watery catsup, etc. Do not use alum- inum, copper or tinwara in making catsup or pickling, owing to the action of the acid in the vinegar. Cucumber Catsup.—Six cucumbers, four large onions, one cupfuk-of salt. Peel the onions and cucumbers and then cut in thin slices. Cover with salt and then stand aside for twenty- four hours. Chop -fine and place' in a porcelain preserving kettle.' Add one pint of good cider vinegar and then boil for thirty minutes. Rub through a fine sieve and then add: one tablespoonful of cayenne pepper, one tablespoonful of mustard,, one tea- spoonful of allspice, one teaspoonful of cinnamon. Boil gently for ten minutes, then fill into sterilized bot- tles and cork. Seal by dipping • in parowax. Store in a cool, dry place. Sweet Pickles.—Peaches,; pears and plums may be used. Peel and remove all the blemishes and then cut into small picees. To three pounds of mixed and prepared fruit, weighed after cutting, add:. three cupfuls of brown sugar, two cupfuls of best cider vinegar, one cupful of seeded raisins, Bring to a boil and 'then stand aside for twenty-four hours. Repeat this and then on the third day, add: one tablespoonful of cinnamon, one table- spoonful of allspice, one-half table- spoonful of cloves, one-half table- spoonful of ginger one-half table- spoonful of mace. Tie the spices in.a piece of cheesecloth and cook until thick. Then store in 'glasses and jars. Seal in the usual manner. Cabbage Catsup, -One large head of cabbage, . three Iarge onions, four green peppers, four large encumbers. Chop veryfine and cover: well with salt. Stand aside ,over night, In the morning drain well awl adcl. en- ough good cider vinegar to cover, Place in a porcelain preserving kettle and cook tntil soft enough to 'tub through a fine sieve, then add: One- fourth pound; of Mustard, one table- spoonful of cinnamon, one tablespoon- ful of allspiese, one tablespoonful .of. cloVe3, ofle.tahlosPobnfni of made., OIO tables oohful of. celery seed, one table- spoonu1 of cayenne Peep er, one � o p•. fur ofl br0inn sugar, Stir Wel and. tied cook enntl fo • o -ii 3' for n� Waif our. - ��otl into e l� exllized hotbles �n caxk, Seal hyv dipping the top"i' o tie bottles'in Melted paroWnhc, Store in a' cool dry place, power 'and lower we flew, We skim- ed the trenches and sprayed bullets from our- machine., guns. The crash= ing of• the weapons drowned the roar of the engines. I. saw ahead of me a column of flame sh6ot up from one of our ma- chines, and I caught a momentary glance at the pilot's face. It was eenish-ash color. His petrol tank d been hit. • I• hope ,the fall killed m and that' he did not burn to gr ha hi death. Away in the distance a number o specks had risen, like vultures scent ing the carrion that had already been made. It was a German squadron The Archies had not bothered us much while we were spraying the Prussian trelaches, but now we had that other squadron to take care of. Our orders were to bomb the trenches. We, could not spare a bomb or a cart- ridge from the task of putting the fear of Britain into the hearts of the infantry below before our own "Toni mien" should start over the top. A Parting Message. I don't know what it was, hilt sud- denly, just after' ray partner had let go a rack of bombs, there was a ter- rific explosion just beneath us. My machine leaped upward, twisted, then dropped suddenly.- Death himself wase trying ; to wrench thedontrol levers f n • from mygrip,. but. I clung ' to them Madly and we righted. A few more inches and I couldn't have told you about this. There was no longer any chance to worry about flying position. There were too many .things occupying' my attention—that line of gray down there that we were trying to erase and ,the :Bothe squadron thrumming down on us. One drum of our ammunition° was Emphasize Your Person lily Your photograph does not look like the photograph of any one .else in the world. Make your handwriting just as individual. The surest way is to use The Pen For School aunts College Illustrated folder sent on request At Best Stores .2.50 to �$50. Tliagreatva-riety. L. E. Waterman Company, Limited, Montreal —is fully guaranteed, Outdoors and ill, it -rill make things glisten like new. A. scientific, machine -mixed, .quality. paint that will never fail you. A. RAMSAY & SON COMPANY Makers'of Pine Paints and: Varnishes MONTREAL 4\; TORONTO VANCOUVER ESTABL/SHED 1542 already used up. My partner whirled around on his -stool--a sort of piano stool, which always made me think of the tuneless, tin-panny instrument back in quarters -grabbed another drum and slammed it into the machine •gun. It was to be a parting message for the Prussians, =for the commander was ' just 'signalling to retire. My partner Birched forward. He was hit. A thin `red stream trickled down his face. I raced westward, the air whistling through the bullet holes in the wings of the machine and my- partner' lean- ing against the empty' bomb rack, silent. As we sailed over the foremost Prussian trench some Scotch were just leaping into it. The "ladies from hell" the Germans call them because of their kilts. A'Race With Death. Several machines had landed before I took the ground. Ambulances were dashing back and forth across the fly- ing, field.' • They lifted my partner out of the aeroplane, but they did not put him into an ambulance. He had answered another recall. I walked to quarters ill -ill at heart, at 'stomach, at mind. I'll never know a better pal than was Toni, On the way I managed to help with. a machine that had just landed. A big Rolls-Royce it was, and the radiator had been hit by a.bit of shrapnel. The pilot and observer were both -terribly scalded. • Just by the aerodrome another bi- plane fluttered down. The observer was dead. The pilot -was hit in a doz- en •places. Somehow he brought the machine in, switched off his engine and slopped forward in his seat, stone dead. Ten minutes later-; I, was sound asleep. The next clay we were at it again. In battles of this kind it is more or less -a inaTter of good fortune if you escape with 'your life. Flying ability and trickiness can play but little part. It is in the lone adventure that stunt flying helps. An Englishman has" invented a grass trimmer, operated with both hands, which greatly resembles horse clip- pers. IF ALL THE SKIES. If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain. If all the world were music Our hearts would often long For, one sweet strain of silence To break the endless song. If life were always merry Our souls would seek relief And rest from weary laughter In the quiet arms of grief. Henry Van Dyke, For Acid S�®��hs - use .ansa Quickly Stops' Soni, Burning Peeling and Makes Digestion Painless. The almost universal use of magnesia by physicians and specialists In the treatment of stomach troubles, is duo to te and Pact tat it n utralizesstthe food aciflfotheentation direct cause, of nearly allstomach troubles. Of the many forms of magnesia such as oxides, citrates, carbonates, sulphates, etc., the most, suitable and efficient. and the one prescribed by leading specialists is bisurated magnesia, a teaspoonful of which to a little warm water immediate- ly after eating will instantly noutrali4e the acid, stop fermentation, and thus en- sure painless normal, digestion —Care should be taken to get bisurated magno- sia, as its action is infinitely more ef- feci:ive. It is also, by the°'way, usually stocked by druggists In convenient coin - pressed tablets as well as in the o�,din- ary powder form,:. Stomach suffd`rers, and dyspeptics who follow this plan and avoidthe use of pepsin, charcoal, soda mints, drugs and modioines are invari- ably astonished•to find.that-the stomach, relieved of the= irritating acid sand gars, soon regains its normal tone, and can do its work alone without the doubtful aid of artificial digestants. • See that the climbing roses and other creepers are properly tied up. Experiments inputting alfalfa and other leguminous crops in the silo , have not always been satisfactory. There seems to be no crop thattis so universally satisfactory for, silage as corn; The breeding of flies in manure - heaps is easily prevented. Use carba sul and water; oneapart carbo-si' and twenty parts water. Sprifikle the heap well and as fresh material' is plied up sprinkle it, and the. flies will be prevented from breeding. 2and 5fl.Car ons- $0.20, 50 and 100 lb. • Begs.; is made in onec�aa e radonly—the highest. . g qty there is no danger of getting "seconds" when you buy Redpath in the original Cartons or Bags. "Let Redpath Sweeten it." Inada Sugar Refining Co., Pitnitecl, Montreal.