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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1919-9-4, Page 2y RIGHT OF PURCHASE By ERNBST BLWOOD STANFORD. IL On Dorena's return an enormous Wein trotted behind her. With an involuntary start Marcellus calculated the distance to the nearest tree. Dogs were one of the two things he feared more than women. -aterdon't •mind Babe," said Dorena re- assttringly, "Ile won't bite 'less I tell him to. Now about these Wealthy apples— The consultation was soon finished, and Dorena and her adviser turned homeward. Marcellus peering back- ward anon or oftener t at the harmless Babe, who trotted, tongue out and teeth bared, uncomfortably close to the Bradley heels. . Presently a vista between the orchard rows discloses, the farm- house. "Where's my team?" ejaculated Marcellus, "I told Sam—" "I told him, too," interrupted Dor- ena placidly. "Sent him home with it." Marcellus' mouth popped wide, but no sound issued. Somewhere in his cranial interior the ideas had suddenly jammed. "Sam was getting through to-! night," continued Dorena, "so I! thought you migljt's well begin right' now," "B -begin?" The idea rebounded feebly. "Of course. After supper you can milk the cows—" "B -b -but—" "Well!" Dorena's voice took on a tinge of sharpness. "When you sold • ridicule! His trinity of terrors loosed on him at once. If ever this got out— 'u j When his avowed owner's back was • turned he took a desperate chance. He i slipped through theac!oor, whisked out i the key, and locked it on the outside. Then he fled on terror -winged feet. .i Dorena threw up a window. Babe went through the ;,preen like a circus hoop. Marcellus gained a timely but dubious sanctuary in a limber sapling. "Look here, 'Cellus," • said Dorena in a voice of iron, "I ah.'t a patient I woman, and I'm plumb wore out with Next Zr ext tune you try that you pick ' out a perch for the night, Come, Babe!" Shamefacedly Marcellus followed his captor into the house, i "I ain't ever let any a' my stock critters to the table before," remarked Dorena, "but it's too much work t' set ye one by yourself. Fall to!" Marcellus fell to, slowly -at first, but, like all falling bodies, with rap- idly increasing velocity. Some twenty -years •off'• strictly masculine cooking, bre • kezx only by an occasional a, church supper," looked out of the • past in amaze., Fluffy biscuit—happy pre- war day --crowned with golden butter such -as • the "creamery" • may but dream of; delncately .browned chicken with dressing pungent with Araby's best, flanked by onions steaming in v. savory "creme; cream ' coiTee odorous of the blessed isles; pie --mince pie, nonpar- 1 eil short of Paradise itself! For the ' moment the shndew lifted from the face of Marceline, leaving its reflec- . tion by the way on that cf Dorena. "You. be a ma ;ter conk, D•orena," ' s shed Marcellus, needling back his chair when man could do no more. . "I do well by all my critters," ,youchsafed Derma. "Specially the pigs. You e'n go milk now. I can't bother to foller you up, but .Babe'll do, If I was you I wouldn't try any funnybu sites,. That dog's the know- . in'est male crtter I ever did see. And he's some like me, too. It's -dreadful I hard to pry him loose Val anythin' he once gets a 'holt on." She watched her property, down- cast again, plod away down the path, Babe trotting close behind. Then, she turned back to the devastated table, with a certain softening in her eye. "The pore starved critter!" mur- mured Dorena. (To be continued.) 121607,0 out to me you didn't expect all play Plan To Save Steps. and no work, did you?" fbow to make work easier if we are "S -=old out?" to go without help, that is the great "Of course." Dorena waxed down- problem which confronts housekeep- right impatient, "When you loaded ems, city and country. Electricity and yourself onto that load'of trazhy hay labor-saving machinery go a long way and weighed yourself in it and signed towards solving the problem in town, the receipt you sold yourselfgfor but doesn't do much to help out the twelve dollars a ton,didn't you? I farm woman except in a small number cal'.late you cost me 'bout eighty-eight of cases. But there are a great many cente—mebee ninety. That's pretty ways in which the far-seeing country much—f'r a man; but I guess mebbe woman can make her work easier if I'll get my money's worth. I gen'ly she keep an open mind and is willing lay out, to." • to adopt new methods in the kitchen �,. "Dereny!" Marcellus' voice came as her husband is in the fields. \ back with a wheezy whistle. "Ugh -ah- Fireless cookers—home-made or oh—" store—make it possible to go without "Don't look so like a born idjit!" a fire during the heat of the day. admonished Dorena 'sharply. "Reach Gasolene or charcoal irons, mangles -,.aa and pat your hair dowrm ` I'won't which will do the unstarched pieces, 13.ert yt ,'i` you're, reasonable," a home-made kitchen wagon. for "B -but—" Marcellus' ashy face and wheeling the dishes to and from the shaky knees betokened his dread of table, water in the house before there the worst—"I won't marry—" is a car for pleasure Hiding in the "Marry!" The sounding aisles of the dim orchard rang to Dorena's scorn. "Marry! I should say not! No, Babe, you needn't bite him—yet. But 4f you say `marry' just once more, "Ceilus Bradley, I dunno what will happen to you. Marry! You!" Mearcellus bent beneath the storm, but in his humility a certain relief was mingled. "Quit foolin', Doreny," he begged. Dorena stamped her foot. "Of all the aggravatin', thick-head- ed critters, give me a human male f'r the aggravatin'est and thick -headed - est. You sold yourself to me, Mar- cellus Bradley, same's if you were a cow or horse. You done it of your barn, these are only a few of the things which the country woman can have and should insist upon if she wishes to retain a vestige of youth and health. Thera is one thing, though, which can be gotten more easily than any of these in many country houses and that is the elimination of miles of needless walking. The thing which impresses the city visitor most when she takes stock of her country sister's work -a -day problems is the countless number of steps which the farm wo- man takes during the day. Used to small, compact houses, the city wo- man wonders that the country woman has lived to her present age, whatever it be, when she sees the steps which, own free will, too; I didn't ask you. the arrangement of the house makes You can't say I didn't warn you you'd necessary. put trash in the hay. I've got witness- es. You'll stay, and you'll work, jest like any other bought livestock." "But—but I—" "Oh, you needn't say I ain't got a home and helped mother were the clear title. I make no doubt you've fashion. Those days are now numbered sold yourself often enough before, but with other good things of the forgot -1 nobody's claimed you. The only party ten past and only the houses are left! 't ever will 'Il wait till I'm through as ,a legacy to the twentieth century with you, I guess. I ain't worried housekeeper with her "no help prob- about your soul. I reckon it don't dem." Mammoth rooms are fine if weigh nothin'." you have help, but, 0, the backache "But 'tain't legal!" With a mighty if only one poor woman has to keep effort Marcellus exploded a whole sen- in order. And, 0, the tired, aching tence. feet after a day of trotting from stove Dorena shrugged carelessly, to table, table to sink, sink to pantry "I should worry—me an' Babe." and pantry to woodshed, all at the greatest possible distance from each other. Small kitchens, with every inch of space utilized, is always my slogan. My present kitchen is just 11x8, about the size of many a farm home pantry. There is no pantry, only a small re- frigerator room. Table, sink and stove ferocious bulldog. Woman, a dog, and are all near enough together so that A large number of farm homes, it is all too evident, were built in the days when Iumber was cheap and large families with daughters who %tayed i "But—" MarcelIus quailed before a new terror overmastering that of wo- men and dogs—"folks'll talk." "Let 'em. Twon't be me they'll laugh at. Come and eat— You've talked more'n enough." Marcellus obeyed. He was no man to gainsay an insane female with a Le Ex -Kaiser's Pec crit es The ex -Kaiser will be brought to trial by the Allies for his public ac- tions during the war, but Mr. Poultney Bigelow, the well-known American author, brings against him accusations of petty meanness almost incredible in a monarch of his pretensions. They • were personal friends and companions in their younger days, but Mr. Bige- ' Iow, in his recent book, "Prussia.nism and Pacifism." makes the German. Emperor practically a kleptomaniac. Re was the owner of a valuable minla• ` tare of the famous Queen Lftise, which was a gift to him from the aged Queen of Hanover, whose hue - band was dethroned by Willi rm 1. in 1866. William II. manifested such an intense interest in this miniature that Mr. I3igelow let hien have it to look at, mentioning how much 'be valued it on -account of the' circumstances under which he acquired it. "ever was that miniature handed •back to me." says _ Ir.. Bigelow, "although I spoke efetli earnestly to the Emperor's princi- );ia1 AAide'de•camp, the late Gen, von Zitzewitz. Not only did William rob me of that precious portrait, but his ' courtiers looked at one another with stupefaction when I made so strange a claim upon one who was evidently not accustomed to restoring what had once come under his all -coveting hand: Mr. Bigelow achieved some fame as a canoeist and made a 1,500 -mile voyage clown the Danube, being the first to pass through the Iron Gates lin a canoe. The • Emnpercr borrowed • thi,A canoe, the d'Carihee," on' the ex - muse that he wanted his sots to learn to be expert canoeists. "While I have lost my matchless "tearibee," says Mr. Bigelow, "the Kaiser has broken his word, for when I visited her in 1013 she was hidden away amid other dust- • r.nvezed nautlr,,l twice; in an obac'uro cr?ner cf his bo rth•.;tisc at l'otsciatn. The old t:'m dian did not know who I was; end I slayer! but long enough to learn that in:' ran to haci never been neva rzz i the t 1 h t.I been the victim of a Iaee •ia,, proine:e,'. • the tea in a granite dish, with as little f water as possible, letting .it cool, and at the last minute pumped in the cold- est water to be had. From three to.! six glasses to the man tells what they thought about that, Another thing, perhaps not so econ-! omical as the before mentioned, butt on the rapidly disappearing order, was brown bread.• ! Our recipe is as follows.. One cup of sour cream,. two cups of buttermilk, one scant cup of sugar, four tablespoons of cooking molasses stirred together well, Sift in graham flour, to which has 'been- added two: teaspoons level of soda and one heap- ing full of baking powder, also -one' teaspoon of salt, Stir rather thick and bake in two loaves. It is better to bake a sample the first time, for un-. less the batter is thick enough the bread will fall and it is rather too ex-! UNIQU TAXES OF Sx4p.-RAYS• Qreet Britain's. ,Exchequer a ;x � quer "1Nas >mzi* niched by.Many..Orieinat Method;+,.. One of Parliament's hardest tasks is the preparation of the Budget: Taxes, must be imposed, but, as no ono likes paying them, they must be framed so .as not to place toad great a burden upon any lzarticsglar et tss.; For originality of schemes to re- plenish the Exchequer few have rival- led William Pitt, It was he who de- vised the dog tax, an institution which still thrives. He also; originated the :income tax, which, during' his admin- istration, was fixed at 10 cents in the dollar on all incomes exceeding $1,000.' Tt was the fashion of his• time to wear the hair in a powdered queue, and hair powdered appealed to Pitt pensive to waste. For gems you willas a vanity for which every man a find this recipe hard to improve upon, be willingexpc to pay fiveTdollars o year.. He expected e I also put a mirror, soap, comb, tow- be1 ct d the Treasury 0,- 00, - els and dishes to wash in at the well, 000net tothe extent 'yof over •$d0 his annually, but everyone had his under a big shade tree, setting the queue cut off. • table on the verandah, and fancied I A tax on shopkeepers, though only got along easier this year than ever a small impost arranged on a sliding before. I find that simplicity combined scale based on theamount of rental with plain substantial food, suits the paid, was stoutly resisted amid even - men better than all.the fancy dishes I tually defeated. A t - on female ser - used to make before the old H. C. of L. put his foot on my neck. e Pe ug min s 'ta vents, amounting to 60 cents for one, $1.25 for two, and $2.50 for three or more, was more successful. Births, marriages and deaths were all made to contribute to the national purse. A duke's bride cost him 'a trifle over $250; the arrival of an heir meant a contribution of $150, and subsequent male additions to the family each called for $125. The death of the wife necessitated the payment to the Government of $250, and smaller sums were payable on the death of other members of the family. These life and death taxes were as- sessed on every subject in the king- dom who had anything to pay, the smallest sum collected being for mar- riage, some 60 cents, paid by the man whose income was less than $250 a year. This man paid 50 cents each time he became a father and $1 ap- t roximately upon the death of his wife or son. Bachelors of every rank were taxed from 1695 to 1706, the payments vary- ing with the,, rank of the individual, and ranging from $1.25 to $60 a year. A man over twenty-five and unmarried was a bachelor under the law. Two of the most short-sighted taxes ever levied -were those on paper and on windows, William III. origin- ated the paper tax, which at one time was- as high as $140 a ton. On the paper used by Charles Knight to print his Penny Cyclopaedia the tax amount- ed to $100,000. Later there was im- posed' a tax of eight cents a sheet on newspapers, with au additional tax of 85 cents on every advertisement. For the Pickle Shelf. Cucumber Catsup -1 dozen large cucumbers, 1 quart vinegar, 1 table- spoon salt, ee, teaspoon cayenne pep- per. Gather cucumbers before the sun strikes them and keep in a ,cool place until used. Peel and grate the cucumbers and drain off the water,, Heat the vinegar and spices to boiling point; pour at once over the grated cucumber, bottle and seal. Cucumbers bottled in this way retain their fresh- ness and make a particularly good sauce for steak. only a couple .of steps are necessary Curry Pickles—Boil together for in moving from one to the other. This five or ten minutes, two quarts of has been large enough to do the work vinegar, one tablespoon of salt, one for seven people. teaspoon of black pepper; take one Immediately I hear a cry arise, "No tablespoon of curry powder•, one and milk to take care of, and no washing one-half tablespoons of corn starch, done in the kitchen,' All very true, four tablespoons of ground mustard, but had it been necessary to do the one tablespoon- of sugar, or more if laundry work it could have been done desired. Mix these thoroughly with in as entail a kitchen by installing a little cold vinegar, then put into laundry tubs instead of the table, and: hot vinegar mixture and stir all until building a cover for the tubs which it thickens. Take about three hundred could be utilized as a table when wash- small cucumbers and wash thoroughly. ing was not being done. This is work- If medium-sized ones are used, cut ed out in many city flats and has prow-' in small pieces. Pour the boiling sauce en satisfactory. As to the milk, -care-hover the cold _ cucumbers, bottle and ful planning and a little alteration of seal. the average farm cellar would make its Apple Catsup -1 quart apple sauce, possible• to care for the milk there, if, 1 teaspoon vinegar, 1 teaspoon cinna- we weren't' so wedded to custom. mon, 1 teaspoon cloves, 1 teaspoon Many women, however, find a larger pepper, 1 teaspoon mustard, 1 tea - kitchen better fdr their particular spoon onion juice2 teaspoons salt, needs. With small children who al- 1 pint vinegar. Simmer slowly until ways must be where mother is, - an thick, bottle and seal. A similar cat - 11x8 kitchen is not just the coziest sup can -be made from plums or place in the world. If your kitchen is grapes, and spiced to taste. Sorghum large and you want it so, then the or molasses may be added if a sweet next thing to do is to plan to make it sauce is liked_ convenient. The sink must remain --w where it is, unless you wish to engage. reinard's Liniment Cures Garget in cows a plumber, which perhaps at his pres- �L ent rates you do not care to do. But Our Boys in France. even that would pay you in the long Over the wave, our children brave run, if moving the sink would save Have gone at humanity's call; you many steps. You can move the Ready to give that the tight may live, table, however, and the cupboards if Ready to give their all. they are not built in. And by buying In La Belle France where the foe's ad - a few lengths -of stove pipe and an vance elbow or two you may have the stover Had blighted the joys of life, where you will. Sit down and study They turned their guns on the cruel your own kitchen. Figure out how you . Huns, can re -arrange things to make it pos- And joined in the awful strife. sible to take the .fewest number of steps in getting a meal and washing Land of the West, your Gallant breast, dishes, and then proceed to have al Has nourished a race of men, general shake-up. Whose eager feet will scorn retreat, Don't run up and down cellar more And dash to the fray again: than is necessary. If possible make an iceless refrigerataor. And don't Rod by rod, oxer the bloody sod, run down three or four steps and a The invader's host recedes. half dozen rods out to the milk house While the shell -torn earth attests the for all your butter, milk and eggs, as worth some women persist in doing. Keep Of desperate valor's deeds: what you will need for a day's supply By the trenches deep, shall widows in the house. '7 u can keep the milk weep, cool by sitting it in cold water. And Or mothers kneel to pray, the eggs you will use in a day aren't For the distant ones, whose dauntless going to spoil if you do keep thein in the house. Plan to save steps. This is a thing we can all do., Get all the kitchen helps you can, everything that makes common yellow soap. work easier is a necessity these days. General E. H. H. Allenby, formerly But while you are buying labor-saving Commander of the British forces hr devices don't continue to work over- time walking several miles unneces- Palestine, and at present Special High sarily. Commissioner for Egypt and Soudan, and Lieut. -General 'Sir Herbert Plum- er, Commander of the Second British Dishes the Threshers Like. Army, have been raised to the rank of Field -Marshal. ° sons Have helped to save. the day. If bureau drawers stick, rub with Did the drouth catch your early po- tatoes and are you worrying about how you will cook the old ,ones, so that th-i threshers will relish them? Well, then, why not scallop them and make some potato salad? The sheshers,who come here surely relish- ed these two dishes, or seemed to. "Scalloped potatoes!" you gasp; "with butter sixty cents a pound and salad dressing takes too much time to make." Wrong again. You need little butter and can make a large bowl of salad dressing in .three minutes. In- stead of butter alone, use small cubes of salt perk and salt, pepper and 'but- ter, cover with milk and bake ins the usual way. If you have -some cold milk gravy left, add it in the place of part of the i--'- . Th',....r,.-A; the gravy and Makes th_ ,.oieLoes better. For the trcl 7 117.2 cold boiled pota- toes, or,'nd cucumber pickles salt- ed and lreeeed, and chopped to-' gethfr, 7'-.r the dressing I use one: table6pee t: of prepared tnu tard to `. two ta:, 7ortl of- sweet cream, one teaspoc r Aeon' r and vinegar to taste. Line tie. dishes with eels') lettuce! leaves, garni h with a couple of sliced! hard-hoile 1 eggs, salted and peppered, and then watch the men wade in. ' I found. that the men preferred cold t tee, and as we had no ice I . steeped `. He Had Hopes. It was a beautiful little place. The house was small, but perfect, and the 'garden Iovely, with , flowers and fruit and vegetables and hens, and all. And the surrounding country matched it for prettiness. "However did you get such a fine house?" asked the friend after the host had proudly shown him around. "It was this way," said the host, casting a. cautious look round to where his lady was inspecting and condemning the gardener's work. "The property was for sale, so I brought my wife to see it. When she had looked round the house and the gardens, and admired the views from the windows, I asked her what she thought of it. 'Henry,' she replied, is so pretty it leaves me speech- less!' " Corrected Proverbs. "The clothes do not make the man," remarked the ready-made philosopher. "No," answered the friend who was studying a tailor's bill. "They don't make him. They break him." vo ice,. r r AND it least twice ar week economical Mid wise Housekeepers serve `` Cl u'k's " Perk and Beans either with To- liLa..to, Chili or Pilin Sauce, W. CLARK, LIMITED MONTREAL Manufacturers of Clark's Pork and Beans and other good things. C.289 MEN'S MILLINERY ININDIA. Oriental Turban is Composed of Nine- ty Square Feet of Cloth, Modern women haven't a thing on a man from India, .when it comes to wearing expensive hats. And they'll have to get busy to crowd as much on their heads as do the men from Bom- bay, Calcutta and Punjaub, for those red, yellow and white turbans are as long as three tablecloths put end to end. Each turban is made up of ninety square feet of cloth, thirty feet long by three feet wide. The average person wonders why men in these burning countries wear a hat which covers the head as com- pletely as the hood of an Eskimo. Both do it for the same reason. One seeks protection from heat and the other front cold. The heat of one's own body is far more endurable than the burn- ing rays of India's sun. A man wears a turban thirty feet long, while a small boy wears one from ten to fifteen feet long. But Indian youngsters have found that the cap of the Canadian boy takes far less time to put on than his turban, and they are generally -discarding the headgear of their fathers for that worn in America. . easnard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria. To understand all is to forgive all. All grades. Write for prices. TORONTO SALT WORKS G. J. 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OF iN-- DESCRIBABLE MIGFf-r AND - POWtrli From Height of the Fort a Wonderful'. Vista • Stretches 1,000 Feet Below, a Panorama of Incomparable Beauty. Viewed from the deck of au ocean, liner surging through the waves ' d*. the Mediterranean one can never for- ir get tate thrill lie experiences at first sight of Gibraltar,' - Spanish girls of' t smell ' i rare beauty come out hi sttm l lto tts to greet you. and when by the aid of ,.• a -rope they hoist grapes up along the - side of the ship it is seldom their bas- kets are lowered without a goodly amount of money in exchange for the - fruit. Sounds of drums and bugles add to the exciting din, and amidst. screeching whistles you descend to , one of the tenders which wait below to take you ashore. The little Spanish stuccoed houses. • are to be seen everywhere, and the . women and girls with shawls of bril- liant hues and mantillas upon their - heads laugh and dance. to the twang - of a guitar. Driving through the narrow cobbled. streets, visitors are constantly stopped by the •natives, who attempt to sell them all sorts of trinkets, for jewelry .shops appear at almost every corner. Eating places of every variety, with food at reaching distance from the curb, occupy the tiny sidewalks, and little children crawl in front of the phaeton -like cabs with the hope of' collecting a few pennies The Pride of Gibraltar Finally the Alameda is reached, and this park, with its palm and cactus plants, is the pride of Gibraltar. Ge- raniums in abundance crown the en- trance and tropical trees and bowers • help to create a scene well to be re- membered. Fountains play about on the east and west sides, while several small boulevards twine in and out through the park. Attractive pony carts carrying little rosy faced Enfid lish children accompanied by the Spanish servants, occupy the roseate driveways in the Alameda, and the liquid songs of the birds give a touch of softness and pathos _to the spot. And now we come to the scorpion rock of Gibraltar which cannot be ap- preciated from the water front, for the town stretches along the western side for over a mile, and only when t� directly in the interior of the colony .7—•, can the gigantic size of the rock right- fully be estimated. It stands as if against the sky with a prepossessing r dignity of indescribable mightiness and power. Tarik, the one -eyed Moor, landed at the foot of the rock of Calpe (now known as Gibraltar) in the year 711 to reconuoitre Gothic Spain, and therefore from Gihel Tarik (which means the bill of Tarik) the name of Gibraltar originated. Low wheeled, two seated; so-called vans accompanied and drawn by ponies take the visitor to the base of the fortress, and a steep climb must then be made on foot. It is an ex- tremely tedious trip, for the ascent•is rocky and uneven. Vista of Snow -Capped Mountains. Perhaps the most striking view, from a small opening in one of the caves built in the fortress, is the white wall of Algeciras and San Roque, both parallel with the snow-capped moun- tains of Andalusia. El Hacho,_ lite signal tower, is not always open to visitors and many of the heavy guns are also kept under secrecy. In the tunnelled portions of the fort old batteries and cannon are pointed out by sentries, and secluded spots had been set aside for punishing purposes in bygone years. In one of the dark passageways the stone is cut in peculiar points which stand straight upward, representing icicles because of the shiny, silvery gloss on the ends of the highest,iteedles of the rock, and one can readily imagine fireplaces to have been inserted in the walls. Having attained the height of tri fort and emerging suddenly into open sky, a wonderful vista stretches out. 1,000 feet below. Ships anchored at bay seem but dwarfs, and the polo grounds, once famous for bull fighting, can also be observed. Far below the barrack yards look up at you and the smoky houses with their sloping roofs keep cover over the lounging sol- diers. As the sun takes refuge behind the fleecy lining of clouds, the mountains, hills and ocean form a panorama of wide scope and incomparable beauty. • Thrust and Parry. Pangs of jealousy were in Miss Coldfoot's heart when she heard that her late admirer had been accepted by Miss Lovebird, and when she Imp - petted to ran across her in time bar- gain rush could not resist giving her a thrust. "I hear you've accepted Jaele” she gushed. "I suppose he never told you he once proposed to ale." "No," answered jack's fiancee. "He once told me that there were a lot of things In his life he was ashamed of, but I didn't, ask biro what they were." Pepper cost $175 an ounce in Eng- land in Henry VXIJs reign.' • The world's skating record is '10 aside^ t' 31 minutes 71/2 seconds, made by a Swedish skater.'