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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1906-7-26, Page 6The Future Queen of England Personality o£ the Hums of Wales—Reserved and Retiring, a Careful Housekeeper, a Good Mother and a Devoted Wife, Among all the royal ladies of Europe there is not a more interesting person - Mk than that of the present Princess of • Wales. Some day, whets her husband wears the crown of his forefathers, she will share a great throne as the consort of ICing George V. of England, ornto .while she is very little known eve the British public, before whom she will eventually appear as first lady of the land, for the present Princess of Wales bears slight resemblance in either tem- perament or appearance to her imnedi- ah predecessor in the title, her mother- in-law, now Queen Alexandra. From the first hour of her arrival In Great Britain Queen Alexandra has been considered one of the most beautiful end popular woolen who ever appeared at the English Court. Naturally and gracefully she has always accepted and enjoyed the publicity of her great posi- `ion and has done much to adorn and dignify it. J•Ier daughter-in-law, on the other hand, is neither a beauty nor a favor- tle. She possesses only the simple gild locks that are the result of superb heal end of keen intelligence and she is ra- ther too reserved and retiring to win the hearts of the show loving public. But underneath her cold and `tiff manner and bearing lies, so say friends of this Princess, an extraordhn- ary amount of fine, individual character. What is even more interesting and le the point is their assertion that when she comes to the throne sire will show io the world how very strong a. resem' bloke, both moral and mental, she bears to her own cousin, the late Queen Victoria. Her love of a quiet and domestic life goes in a pleasure to prove this. The Princess of Wales, unlike Queen Alex- andra, shirks whenever it is possible all the pomp and circumstance and so- cial functions necessary to her position. Yet, In common with Queen Victoria, she cherishes a sense of duly that car- ries her through the ceremonies in which she is required to participate. Duty, indeed, is the watchword of her exist- ence and the guide to most of her ac- tions, and in no way does she prove this more clearly than in the ordering 01 her family life. The greater part of the year she and her husband and her children live by choice in Marlborough House In Lon- don, which atone time was 111e ducal residence and consequently is less for- mal and inconvenient In its arrange- ments than the average royal palace. It is quite big enough for stateliness, is modern in ire fittings, its broad rear windows look out on a charming garden and also on the beauties of St. James's Park, and the only indications given that royalty dwells within its walls are afforded by the red cottage guards who occupy little boxes to the right and left of the gates. These sentinels are an approved tor- mality to which the Princess yields, but inside the doors of her city residence she has made a refuge for herself and her family that is as nearly like the simple, orderly, middle class Engle n home as it is possible for the dwelling place of royally to be. Everywhere throughout the house comfort and cosi- ness are allowed in the fittings -and i furnishings to take precedence of ele- gance, no more servants are employed than are absoittlely essential to princely dignity, and unlike most ladies of ex- alted rank the mistress of Marlborough House personally directs and oversees the upkeeping of her big establishment. Every morning she is up and about at a surprisingly early hour. She not only knows the duties of every em- ployee, but she sees to it that they aro fulfilled. and woe betide the servant who thinks to hide a mistake or careless action from her quick glancing, bright blue eyes. Tb1 Princess is wonderfully prompt to see rind to reprimand. An artist who was called to Marlborough I•Iouse in or- der to paint the portrait of the Prince gives an amusing little bit of evidence as to her housewifely care and thrift. The Prince in full uniform was posing In one of the big drawing rooms when a call from tiro King came. The artist Said that he could point in the tall, shiny military boots if the Prince would leave them behind him. Accordingly a valet soon returned with the stately ob- jects and quite on his own responsibil- ity placed Ihealn one of the satin up- holstered chairs that adorned the long salon. It vas in the opinion both of artist end valet a splendid position from which to view and paint the boots, but not so did it seem to the Princess. At that vary hoar, unfortunately for these masculine. culprits, she was malting her daily rounds of inspection, and on entering the big fine room her sheep glance lighted on the boots In one of her most cosily chairs. 1l was the wrath of the careful house- keeper that flashed in her eyes while she ordered the boots down on the floor, duster brought, forth and in no un- certain tones reprimanded the crestfal- len valet for his ill treatment of one of 1bee choicest pieces of furniture. She has 111tle or leo patience with nerel ss- ness, and if the Prince of Wales were n mole eal5rie1 bank clerk instead of the son of n king nn keener pare could he taken of hls expenses and his income by his wife. In all her big and compiicated an(1 Costly household not penny (if reekle,s, (1851000 expenditure is permitted and, 111to Queen Victoria, she helloes In wise economy end safe investments. Every yeer nut of her allow/owe 510 saves enough i.n enttle her to the reputation she'boars al court of hying an excellent manager, and it is signitlrnnt of her character that site has profound tides - teflon for an unpnld hill. Until. the time of her merrhnge she knew a great deal Ino munch of these docmnenis. Her mother, the gay, witty, popular Burliest( of Teak. was es noted a spendthrift e5 she was 15.1110(10 fee her wit and her kind belief. On upon It itria long Angering creditors even tried VI flack tuhe. Duchess's jewels. a C ls, 1 w andel uncertainty made little difference. Her only daughter, Victoria Mary, felt, however, very deeply over this painful situation. She was desperately proud and sem attire and when the romance of her girlhood ended with the drain of her fiancee, the Duke of Clarence, and her marriage to his brother, Prince George., site set about ordering her home anis her life on a basis that would simply not allow of extravagance in matters of money. In other ways besides her love of thrift and order Is the Princess almost unique among royal ladies, She don not affect any fads whatever. Wifehood and motherhood she says give her little or no time for pets and accomplishments. She is too busy to collect fans, utile dogs or priceless cats or to study photography, and it is an open secret in London that while site is not an easy hostess nor fond of society and shows rather poor taste in dress she has made her husband absolutely devoted to and contented In his home, No Darby and Joan ever lived in more charming accord than these two quiet folk, and if it is possible the royal wife always accompanies her husband on his rips away from home, whether he pends only a few days at some noble- man's country place or circles the globe. \Viten visiting or travelling they al- ways manage to slip away, usually af- 00 luncheon, for a full hour together. Then the Prince lies down and his wife cads aloud. History they select, as a elle, for perusal, and though the Prince often drifts off to sleep under the soothe ng influence of her voice, she always continues gently at her task until the all lime for Ills nap Inas expired, for by this means she insures to him his midday rest and meantime pursues her one form of recreation. Unlike most of her family, she is pas- ionalely fond of books, and good Dues. 51 r s She has read widely and with so autive and retentive a memory that a states- man who once had the courage to pene- trate through the trying silence of exces- sive diffidence that sire preserves in public found her possessed, he declared, of a marvellously well stored mind, and, what was more astonishing to tin, a profoundly ambitious one. The first and greatest ambition of her life is centered In her husband and his future, but his health keeps her in a constant state of alarm. One day last November when fog had crept up tnick and white through the streets of Lon- don the Prince and Princess of 'Wale's drove through Hyde Park in the wake of 5.11 King and Queen of Portugal, who had been lunching solemnly and sump- tuously with the Lord Mayor. Court etiquette exacted that the royal folic should drive in four horse open car- riages, and it was a fine sight to see her sitting very erect, bowing stiffly, her cheeks glowing June roses and her blue eyes glinting with health and vigor. Be- side her was the Prince, pale, smiling, wrapped in a fur -lined coat and salut- ing constantly, but when for a moment the gay procession halted near the pant gales ne coughed once or twice. Then it was easy to note how quickly the Princess could forget everything in ler wifely anxiety and how clearly, through all the noise and shouting, she heard those two restrained little coughs. Turning in her seat, she gave her hus- band a look of tender solicitude and then bending over pulled up and luck- ed in the fur rug that lay over 111s knees. Her stern fare relaxed as she r11(1 this and the Londoners evidently likecl the very lomat) touch of loving concern she betrayed, for they burst into a hearty cheer, Their compliment, how- ever, she only answered with a deep blush, for, In spite of leer birth and rearing and position and the fart that her mother was one of the best poised, most talkative and self-confident wo- men of her time. the Princess of \Vales is almost painfully shy. When, for example, she was travelling incognito on the Riviera and at Nlee she came nut on the lawn to see a tenni: ournament and a tall, pretty American girl stepped to one side gracefully, in order to give her good position l0 1he Princess. she received no thanks for her courtesy. The royal lady merely blushed. looked confused and hurried away. Later the astonished young Am- erdean was slopped in the grounds by nn English Countess, who begged her to accept the Prhleess's belated thanks for her kindly action. Shy and even haughtily severe ns she seems in public, the Princess of \Vales is, in her nursery, an ideal mother. No children are brought up more sanely or simply than hers. Unless her andel engagements are loo long and too many she, eels one, meal every day with (helm, bellies her betties wil.h her own hands. nurses the Mills ono when they are ailing and gives the elrictrst mire to their diet. Befog sterl- ing off for a trip round the world with leer husband she wrote out the menu of every meal to bo served in the nursery, drew tip a long net of precautions earl runes to he observed by her nurses, and flnnily oddod a series of little (asks lo inn fulfilled by each one of the yeemg- stars before the date set for her return. Now, so well during her ahsenee diel the children respect end obey her 00111 - mends, that upon one occasion they even ventured to oppose the wishes of their adorers encs aciorilg grandmother, Qneeu Alexandra. This was when the Queen brought. them n lox of hon Vons. To one child after another the sweets were offered, but by thorn all they WOO gently, respectfully and firmly refused. The eldest Prince frankly confessed lie liked sweel.a, but that his mother had forbidden therm "Never mind," soothed the indulgent Queen, i will melte It right with 1111011. Ina and you can have the sugar plums if 1 say you 1111!." Little Prince Eddie moors his ground like a horn. Greatly annoyed, the Queen put the bon bons on the nursery table, and Thera for mmenthe they slay- er() unlielehed. or 1111111 the Princess enure hone And her permission could be 151(011. Thin; s,n'rnunrlrrl in her twin by n1rn1 h love n.nrl rrspereful rlcvnlinn, given by 100 hneband and elhl1dren, the l?rineess. To this br111iant, buoyant spiriind gayety -loving woman these periods nt eitorrn and stress and these years of fin. 1 of Wales is quite indifferent to society and careless of its estimation, end the saying is that when she does come to More her husband's Huron,° her court Will be n model of dignity and the high- est proprieties. The daughter of the case and leisure and laugnler loving Duchess of 'Peek holds no way at all with easy going manners or morals. She le ne great a stickler ler the observance of piddle eli- quete lie was Queen Vietoria, and as determined to hold remittal makers and scandal plungers at arm's length. Across the threshold of Marlborough House none of the card playing, gossip- ing and felonious spirits who 1100111 the present court nt Windsor or Bucking- ham Palace finds his way. In spite of her diffidence the Perneree of Wales Is quite nppailingdy [mink old repreeeingly haughty when the need arises Io show not only that her dlsnp- proval is sroueed. but that she Is every inch a princess and a woman whose duties ns a wife and a mother and a guardian of a home come nest and fore- most in the list of great obligations which she owes to her position, to the state and to the public over which her husband and her son will in turn sante day rule, _t TILE POVERTY-STRICICEN KAISER. Cannot Keep (Ml of Debt on 85,000,000 a Year. Recent press despatches hove an- nounced that the kaiser has been forced to appeal to private bankers for a loan. Altogether his income reaches a total of 85,000.000, the civil list proper being 83,852,770 (whim 1s paid the emperor as ruler of Prussia, the position of Ger- man emperor being without salary), The emperor has to depend on the five mil- lions of his moil list, a sum which is entirely Insumcienl for his most neces- sary expenses, and this though he Is not extravagant personally. In -only one particular, that of keeping up his court with imperial magnificence, on a scale never before attempted by any king (.f Prussia, the kaiser goes to the extreme point. The support of his relatives is a heavy charge on his civil list, and upon his shoulders falls the burden of caring for his six sons end one daughter. Many of his relatives have separate courts. and the court of the crown prince, recently married, is very elab- orate. the whole affair testing the em- peror no less than 8.250,000 per year. The imperial court of the emperor is ex- tremely costly. It he wishes 10 1110'01 he is surrounded by the same splendor es during the ordinary 11fe of the court, He is always accompanied by an army of officials. chamberlains, and 80 forth; he carries his own horses, carriages, cooks. end other attendants. "During the recent Mediterranean trip the Maisel' gave away 800 diamond rings, 150 diamond pins. 33 necklaces, 30 gold watches, 100 gold snuff-boxes,i and other articles, the east of which was not less Than s300,000. And during his trip to Palestine, six years ago, lie gave away presents valued ai 8500,000. Apart, however, from the money be spends 011 royal and Imperial luxuries, the kaiser devotes large sums to the arts and to the drama IIe is constantly building statues at his expense and pun•. chasing pi lures to present to public galleries. i10 supports with his private purse the Royal Opera House and the Royal Theatre of Berlin, and the Royal Theater of Weisbaden. The returns from these enterprises are trifling." -- Public Opinion. I 10002:5 LORD WANTED. Polished Englishman With Six 'Wives Kept on the Run. The police throughout the United Stales are hying to (discover the where- abouts of a notorious bigamist calling himself John Cavendish and Lord Shot - to Duuglns. Under these miners the unknown reds - meant, a good-looking Englishman of polished manners, is reporled to have contracted numerous marriages, subse- quently deserting his wives, in some cases robbing them, and even threaten- ing to murder them. Last December, posing as John Cav- endish, a wealthy Englishman, the big. mist married Miss Josephine Hood, a beautiful young Southern lady, -;highly connected, at New Iberia, Louisiana, The couple started for the honeymoon shortly afterwards, (he'bride telling her mother that she and her husband were going to Mexico, where he had a laege estate. Since then the bigamist has nal. been heard af. "Cavendish" ordered letters to be sent to' the care of the, British Consul at Vern Cruz, whence they have returned marked "Unknown." \Vlren shown a photograph of the bogus Lord Douglas, ,Vers, ITood immediately Iden- tified Mtn as her daughter's husband. The Stale Department have been 1 0 - quested to search for "Cavendish" and his bride. Douglas, or Cavendish, Is Icnown to have taken nt least three wives to Mexico, having married two under the name of Cavendish and four es Douglas. MORE COSTLY THAN GOLD. Thio. value of glass may far exceed Mal of gold when mode tip into 01lcro- scople objectives, The front lens of a miere-nhjective (costing about 85) does not weigh more then n11mh1 0.0017 genuime {which weight of gold is worth Rhein one cent), and so the value of n kllogr01n of such lenses 5vould he about 83,000.000. The cost of Lhe. raw material for melting This weight of glass is from In 8e, rind thus, when worked up info the 5linpr, of a tons, the glass has been increased in value about 50,000,000 sloes, Sunk dispnrIly between the cost of the raw material and the minutiae - lured article is probably a record in Industrial sec mics, a • A WRONG INFERENCE, "See that old chap?" renlnrlted the ah leinm, pointing out the window In a peddler, who carried n basket, of shoe - levee, "Well. he cane to this country from Tlusefa ern years .ago. Ile h0r- ro(00 some money to purchase a bas- ket t and began to peddle ellen laces, ITow much do you think ids worth lo- des'? Just make a guess." Several large arms were inentinned expeetenty, 'Wong, said the clubman. "ile len't worth a mint, and he sill dwa5 for the babkele THE PQVERTY OF RUSSIA NEW ERA BEGINNING IN 1805--. ENDER IN DIHASl'lsBt, Out of 180,000,000 Population 125,000,000 Are Poor—Scarcity of For- eign Capitol. truth some nine or len years ago 1110 industries of Russia were cunlinc(I pracileally to the cultivation (f the sot, even r t is being cu1t1( d nnet hap. Imzurd fashion, rus a St, Petersburg correspondent. Agriculture wee 1 Agriculture t1 only pussible industry under the polit- aul rand national condilioas width then held. Each of the serfs, at the lino of his ernnnc'ipution, in 1801, received from the Government a strip o1' ]and to serve as a nouns of support, the land to be paid for In iusteltuenls, These men, then lately set free, had litho initiative tower() the acquisition of modern methods of ngrlculture, and under e' 1 d 1 the primitive attempts al culti- vation the land did not yield enough profit to pay the taxes Imposed by the Gorer•murnl, and also support the bunter unci his family. AL the some lime, this 1101(1 was a burden of which the peasant could not be 11(1, in order to devote himself to becoming skilled in some trade. Found to 111e soil, the peasant met the heavy financial obliga- tion imposed by the Government by emigealing to the cities during the lengthy winter months when the farms were necessarily unproductive, and there hiring out es a driver, servant, messenger, or at any unskilled em- ployment which he could gain. this time Russia was completely lacking in skilled workmen. '('11e year 1805 witnessed the begin- ning of a new in(luslriul era. At this time in Russia there were Sante small factories for weaving clops in the larger cities; also scattered efforts at llie man- ufacture re of iron. On the coast were unimportant industrial cities, whose trade was 011(110(1 on mainly under the leadership of German and English firms, Neither the capital nor the skill - e(1 mechanic's of these enterprises were Russian, and this served as an excuse for the refusal of these foreign interests to move intend when pressed to do so by the Russian Government. The foreign captains of industry re- fused to clove too far from the base of supplies, true to Ilse Indies of all war- fare. An inland (celery aright be closed down for weeks for lack of a skilled machinist to patch some temporary brealengo of the boilers or other similar misrhmeo. The interim' of Russia con- tinued as a vast farming conlmunIty, the farming being carried on not as a means of gain and advancement, but merely to wring from the son the bar- est necessities of living. GOVERN\IENT AIDS. Failing the effort to induce foreign capital to forward the industrial ad- vancement, of the nation, the Govern- ment attempted the task under the wise and capable administration of Sergius Witte, whose profound knowledge of economies and of Russian conditions made him the mal needed for such n gigantic undertaking. \Ville raised enormous SUMS of money in foreign countries. The railroads throughout the colossal Russian En'.piee were en- larged and new ones were built, this work necessitating the production of supplies, which necessity, 1n turn, caused the founding of factories every- where. The iron industry, one of the few native to the county, received ad, ditlonal impetus. The mineral interests of llussfa, rich in coal old ores, began In bo adequately wnrlt0(1. In five years, from 1804 to 1800, the Russian Government chartered almost one thousand stock companies, with a cepdt•.1 estimated at over 81,400,000,000. Industrial production increased by 50 par cent. The steady advancement o1 values went on until by 1807 it amounted to some $1,810,000,000. The new-born industry of the nation was largely dependent on these Govern- ment railroads. In lima prices wore de- pressed through a new policy, the Government contracts being reduced in tho prices paid for building supplies. The factories, which had grown up in a night nt Minister Wh,le's bidding to supply these materiels. ceased to be paying ventures. In buying supplies the Govermnent gave preference to high-priced native manufactures, ra- ttler than buying more cheaply in Euglnnd and Germany, thus adding to the financial confusion of values which was steadily increasing. The exports of the country did not keep pace 1v1111 its productiveness, the farmer averaging 828,000,000 yearly, while 111e latter aggregated $1,800,e()0,- 000. 1,800,000;000. The appalling poverty of 125,000)- 000 25,000)- 000 out of the 130,000,000 05 Russians prevented their purchasing the native manufactures. Tile great industries were either directly controlled by the Government or were fed by its patron- age. INDUSTRIAL Mists. The first serious industrial crisis came In 1800, when many large failures look place owing to a scarcity of capital coming from outside sources. At this lime there were 146 foreign corpora- tions in Russia, the ca1111111 00111(11g from France, Belgium, Germany, and Eng- land. A greeter rimmed crisis follow- ed hard upon the first In 1000, Politi- cal complications, connected with the Boxer troubles In Chinn, comhlned to embarrass the Ministry of Finance, and, owing to 1110 paternalism of Die R1t.salon industrial system. the private banks cif the empire became involved in the difficulties of Ihe,.Governmenl. 7'hn., arlificlal in0atirnl of Russian 111(11181MM values fell like a pricked balloon. A terrible (in0neie) pane ensued, In 1001. the loss to Rel - glum investors Slone approximated' to 836,700,000. Twelve million dollars were lost by the. Ministry of Fi110000 by the stoppage 'of building operations for which the ,Government lied no further use. Interests to the arnounl of $1,000,- 000,000,000 (alrproxdnlalely) tver•r, closed nut. Faolori0s were dosed, mines eased to be wo'lcecl, blast Menem shot down. Men were thrown out of work by the thousands, and the dis- tress multiplied from duy to day. The efforts of the Government to re- trieve. this situation were, in the multi, unavailing. hlilltous of dollars have been lost, and the country's endush'ial ncicancelueut set back at least fifteen years, The present political situation 111 Russia is pertly the outcome of Mope Russian yoreians of "frenzied finance," The present situation is 1101 so much a struggle between the Emperor and his subjects as the first nluniicslalion of the spirit of new Russia. EXTRAORDINARY CASE. Englishman whose Appearance Changed to Oriental, The extraordinary case of an English- man whose appearance changed to 111at of an Omental is described by Dr, II Wart: Dodd, an oplhalmic surgeon, In The London Lancet. The clump has occurred during the lust seven years. No one has (115cov01'- ed the effuse, although the men has been examined repeatedly and most thor- oughly by Dr. Dodd and his colleagues. Dr, 1)odd in giving particulars of 111e (1(100 say8;- 1'Ile man came to the 'Royal West- minster Opthaludc Hospital to see 010 in June, 1809. He was in the hospital for tore weeks and nothing abnormal was detected in any organ or system. "1t was after this illness that the changes of appearance begun to take place, and lluue have continued until now he has practically changed M15 identity, for from being a finely devel- oped erect man of 5 feet 10%inches in height and sixteen stone four pounds in weight, vigorous, athletic, with plenty of hair of a tight brown color, a long blonde moustache and altogether !thin appearance. he hes become in a few years smaller, stooping, 5 feet 8 inches in height, weighing 11 stone 11 pounds. "Ile is weak, his hair Is changed lo mouse color, hls moustache cannot grow a lair longer then a quarter of an inch,. and both nue soft and sparse. His chin never needs a razor, his complexion is snllm'. and his whole aspect is darker then bee "1118 fellforow-workers 11010 ehrisir110d Hint 'the Japanese, though I fancy the Ole war may have influenced shear in the choice of this nam0. for his type .s not quite Japanese. Formerly he sons n cheerful, capable, quick -moving in- telligent man, with something of a sell- er's randiness to lend a hand 111 any- thing that cane along. Now, when not occupied, he is somewhat apathetic, a condition which adds something to hit earn hng:" Dr.steDoddearimrnlinns another 1050 of a similar type, and says he remembers other patients who should be included in the some estrgor,v. It would seem, therefore, that there is some obscure 11(1- ense,_at present unknown to the medi- cal profession, which has the effect ( t changing Europeans to an eastern ap- pearance. ' CANNING T0111ATOES. 1 want a couple of kettles of hot wa- ter, plenty of clean cans, wax and girls handy, A sharp, well -pointed knife, a large pan in which to scald the toma- toes, a clean board on the table, a1(1 several holders or large cloths to use in lifting the cans about, are all needful. I put a layer of even sized tomatoes in the pan, pour over them just enough boiling water to nicely cover, and then get, reedy a second pan with cold wa- le'. When I see that the peel is be- ginning to loosen, I lift each tomato out with a perforated spoon or skim- mer and transfer it to the water in the other pan. Then I turn the hot water hack into the kettle over the fire. I have a good steady fire during all my operations. Nov 08 fast ns I tan cl0 so, 1 peel and cut into four pieces all large tomatoes ; the little ones I can whole. I put theta as 1 have them prepared right into the can in which they are to stay. \Vh.en a can is full I set e1 on the back of the range, and when the tomatoes are all ready and in the cans, I move thein forward where they Win (11(00 a chance to bail up. If the tomatoes aro all small ones, I add a little hot, water, but if they must be cut up, they give enough of Meir own juice. As I pack them into the cons, I shako them down well to fill all space to best advantage. The lids are laid on top when I have filled a can, so the warmth of the fruit from the scalding helps Them to a quick boil. I then trent another pan of fruit to a scald, and by the time I have shifted there into the cold water the calls on the stove need attention. I set them off one by one on to the board, and shake them down again, filling each from ono of the ether cans. It generally lakes Ohne can t0 fell u1) fotir'olhers. Then I set them back an the stove, but not so far forward, and hurry to 1111 the next, batch. As an ordinary dishpan will. not give bottom space enough to .al- low of tomatoes enough to fill 0101'0 than four or five qum't cane, you will ace that this slakes very rapid work. The lomeloes will be ready to seal after tat minutes on the stove, es all they need is the sterilizing that conies from the 011(100 contents boiling up good. After the {bird batch 1s un.iler way a stop has to be made now and then to lift off cans, press the lids firmly in Place, and wax thein. As I use the string wax, this is a short piece of work and a sure one. For quick work, when C tun ready to seal up a few jars, I open the oven, lay in it a feitled paper, and on this paper a couple of strings of wax. 13y the time I can lift from the ~love 10 the boned a couple of cans and press Ilse 11c1a down the wax is v alto of instant warmed enough to v curving into position. 1 find a bit of greased rag held in the hand and press- ed quickly around the wax -siring the best thing to make sure it is clown in place al every spot. Then 1110 cans are pushed bnolt on the hoard, and the work goes 00. 1 find by this method 1 have fruit so nearly Hkn the fresh that i can left it from the juice and, Serve It in selects, 00 even slice It and se serve, We like It Molest as well as when fresh from 1110 011110, Packing firmly 111 the cans will Wave oven a Mite extra juice In the fdlier ean,'so you need not worry about hav- ing in pour extra hot water into' the cans wihen they aro roll, SOME HOUSEHOLD FOES CONNECTION BETWEEN PARASITES AND DISEASE, Royal Institute of public health Inves- tigating Disease ilesponsibility of Various Forms of Life. A man's foes are 11105o of bis own 1lousehol(i. To be healthy he 1111151 live alone. Ills cal—mins, majestic, mys- terious creature --must be banisile(t Plies must be killed as soon as they nppea', before (hey reproduce them- selves In countess 111111ions. Alice must Me the death. The inmates we do 1101 want transmit disease to those we do, and those WO (10 pass 11 on to those we cannot dispense with, says the London Gazette, From the mouse to the cat, from the cal to the cow—that is, to the beef which lies in the larder—the ele- ments of disease run their direful course, 1111 they enter the body of man and make short work of him. For this warning thanks are not due to the medical press. The Lancet, for once at least, is innocent of intention to frighten us out, of our lives. liesponsi- bilily rests with the Royal Institute of Public health. That useful body is just now ln01(111g a close inspection of 1h0 foes of our household. Bottled rats, mice, flies, cockroaches and other fear- some wild -fowl decorate the shelves of the new laboratories in Russell Square and the workers are engaged in die - covering the connection between para- sites and disease. Some maladies are already traceable Lo CRAWLING AND FLYING THINGS, but others have to be looped into. Al- most every animal comes under suspi- cion. If its honor be not cleared, we can see nu future for it. The mouse, for instance, is suspected of conveying cancer, As it suffers from malignant tumor, it may conceivably be an active agent of evil. So with others. 11 would be easy to make a nice, readable, horrific, nerve -shaking article out of the war innocently waged on mal by the creatures he calls his own—line members of his household. We prefer, however, to hold our hand. The laurels so gracefully worn by those weekly tarninntors of malkilld, the medical journal, are not for us. Let it be our Lash to suggest remedies rather than dwell with fiendish glee on the possibilities of evil. Thera conies tete rub. How can the householder—supposing the charge be definitely proved against his mice, his cockroaches, and his flies—do more than 11e does at present, and has been doing for years, to clear his dwelling rf things he never invited to live with him? Alice are his wife's chief terror— ihat is wiry he keeps a cal. If he dis- Penses with the one propagator of dis- ease, the oilier will swarm. LeL the guinea-pig go, end the cockroaches flourish. IC... the spider, and you con- tribute in S01110 small menses to the prosperity of the fly. The householder increases his establishment, or his menagerie, for the purpose of preserv- ing a balance of power h1 the animal kingdom. Already he helps his cat against what (night otherwise be over- whelming odds by setting mousetraps and scattering vermin powder, his ter- rier hy- the employment of that useful weapon known as "death on rats." His sideboard is ,nada hideous by flypnpers and flycatchers of impious designs. I -le wars to line extent of his ability against THE FOES OF HIES HOUSEHOLD. \Vhat more con he accomplish? flow on enrlli can he banish cat and 101100 at one fell swoop? We would answer meso questions if we could, but we confess they aro be- yond us. After all, the poor man who pays rent likes to be as comfortable as possible. Ile will not consent—no, not in lite face of disease and death—to change Ills walls completely from the environment of a home to 111e boun- daries of a torture -chamber. Iie will de- cline, to go na farther—to sell his pic- tures in order that room may be found for flypapers on every available inch of space. The best advice we can offer is that the householder, before agitating him- self unduly, should w1UL and see what the Royal Institute of Public Health can tell him for certain. 'T'heir investiga- tions may be valuable to the patholo- gist. They may throw light on the source and dissemination of diseases which have been hitherto wrapped in obscurity. The householder will be glad to Know whether his cat or his mice must be accounted the more den- -gems enemy of itis health, and when he does know he will be able to take measures according to the peculiar cost of his philosophy. The most difficult point to decide will be : Whether it is better to suffer and keep the cat, or loll the cal and run the risk of suffering still. Cheese Pudding.—Grano cheese, told crush Melte() and dried bread and crusts into fine menthe. There should Ito two cupfuls of these to one of the Cheese. Wet the °rumba with two cup- fuls of milk in welch has been dis- solved a bit of soda no larger than a lima bean. Bent two eggs light, whiles and yolks apart; whip Inc yollcs 11110 1.110 soaked crumbs with a tablespoon- ful of melted butler. Season with sell and a dust, of cayenne, add the frothed whlofty ad rap; balke greasediles, (puddbigndish in id17a brisk ovenhta, fondu has puffed high and is crusty on lop. '!Thou brown 1lgiltly and serve at once. IL may 11e merely n supm'slillan, but I have always hnoghned lint tomatoes kept bathe in lin, writes a correspon- dent, I have a way of putting them up that I prefer to any other, both of ac- count of its speed and its ease. This Is when I have a large quantity to do up at once, Wo do not like our tomatoes put up with sugar, as we like to eat tion all Sorts of ways Villein any- thing, or with salt, etc. So when I get a sixty -pound box of this Iruit, 1 pre• pose things for a speedy pulling of 111010 ell. About Ihn lard thing on earth a 1rm11 wants to think of is his finish. SUPERSTITIOUS SOUNDS HAVE GIVEN 111511 TO MANY STRANGE RELIEFS. Celtic Poetry is Full df 'P)lena but Their Folklore Is Not Limited to Ceitie Lauds, In Ileo stillest nlgltls there aro mime - 111100 sounds that are Morally atellUle, for which ave cannot account F1'0n1 the earliest lines superstition 11118 mode melt sounds her oven, says the London Globe, She has dealt seriously with. them, and retuned mythologies from three mystery. Sometimes the sounds are 'simply isolated cries of a weird shrillness, and fancy has imagined the .spirits of the dead passing on lila lonely wind ; shepherds watching In solitude at night and sailors on the wide sea well know such cries. Al other tinges the cries are thicker and sharper, sounds as of shouting, yelping, harking, with a wild rush and hurry ; listeners have pictured a phan- tom huntsman passing with panting hounds and horses. Ottley records tell of sounds lilte the clash of armies meeting in the air, and the phenomenon has always been taken as significant of conning war. Teutonic folklore is full of myths founded upon mysterious voices. In the Martz di teles there is the demon huntsman; we read of hien in Burger's ballad, Every glade of German wood- lands Inas els spirit, such es the Sa- lting and his luring daughter, who be- guiles the very child from his father's arms. There was also the STRANGE PIPER OF HAMELIN, a tele that belongs not only to poetry, but to actual chronicle; what was the pipe that so magically drew first the rats and then the children ? There is a kindred legend of a steno - ger who came into the Hartz district, bearing a bagpipe. For every tune that he played a maiden died. Death has continually been associated with the crying of the wind, or the solitary voice of birds, or with a strange mys- terious nn1sl0 that trembling listeners have not been able to identify. Even extreme forms of orthodox faith have adopted the same popular fancies, con- verting the sounds Into voters of an- gels. Andersen's "Dying Child" and Tennyson's "May Queen" hear this celestial music, and understand its stunnlons. Mr. Barng-Gould tells of a Yorkshire farmer who spoke of hearing angel voices calling a dying girl, "when foingels gang that road they're hound to lek' bairns' souls wi' 'em," Some - tines the voice has not come to draw the child to Paradise but. to allure into mn under world of fairies, such as that reached by- "bunny Kilmenny." Ger- man peasants used to caution their little ones not to listen to the voices they might hear, or they would be car- ried off by forest spirits. -- AL times utero have been slrahg° voices heard at a ford—the cry of dead souls of Mose who have been drowned Were, or it may be that the ferryman has been roused at night by a sum- moning call, and has been compelled to row an invisible company across the strewn, his boat sinking low and his arms straining, yet seeing no 01011. In like manner the keepers of toll gates have been aroused at nights, AND CALLED Tu OPEN. Every lonely road, Indeed, has its Cries, especially such a road as, once busy, is now deserted; the echoing foot- steps of passers long dead can still be heard by those who lessen arigint, Thera are hollow places also whore a sound of burial bells comes as from the Leasee of the earth, and stories of lost churches 000- told, oe floe chines aro hearts by the sen roast, and Halters tell of bell's that have been lost in the wa- ters, 01' of rlmrch sewers sucked down among. the shingle and weed. On Dartmoor there aro the Wish Hounds, chasing the souls of unbap- lized 110bee across the bogs and tors; the 010001r10n closes his door trem- bling, the mother presses her child passionately to her breast. On the sea coast there are hollow caverns to emit eureous noises, and the surface of the water itself can convey sounds from long distances. In Corn- wall the fisher folic say that whei'o there leave been wrecks the dead sail - 01's may he heard "hailipg their own 11(1m05,' Sometimes when a fisher wife lhinlcs that .her plan 11109 be drowned, she goes down to the shore and calls his name, 1f he is dead, she hears an answer, Similar fancies linger among the Breton peasantry. - CRATER TI1IS SAP'S TOl\113. Left n Letter Decrying Life Before Ile Male the Leap. Yamada Nokuma, grandson of Baron Yamada, who committed suicide by throwing himself into 111e Aso volcano, left bentn(1 a remarkable leiter, which WAS found in his pocket, on 1h0 edge of the crater. i1e wrote: "The strongest will is his who can go down to a death that makes men shudder even to hear, The cow- ards to be vehemently denounced are the multitude who dare not die, be their circumslmnces what they may. Society is but it battlefield of sorrow and suffering, and throughout life men are as hungry dentone fed on Inrluring scepticism, Alasl for the infinity of it alll The tall mountain peeks pierce file sky, (ha broad ocean spreads out its unending azure, but human llto is as the (1001 of morning, ae the flash of the lightning "Ie waxes but to wane, inereases but to decline. All are plunged 11) darkness end know not, what to look for, Morey and benevolence ora as the fleeting 5011- 11m011s et a dream. "Why should loan torment himself with thriftless painful thoughts? Why - should he wonder in tiro paths 05 cone laminating sin? "Is not the most blessed ending• et 1111nan left to be l'ecefve(1 Into the lies• em of ore nature and Torevcr to nit the duet et 'oxistenoo?c q "1'111nit111, lh0sr !hinge, l ps s Mite 010 smoe of Aso1s crates'."