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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1909-11-18, Page 7t�. eft I1ints for Busy Housekeepers. Recipes and Other Valuable Inform sIon of Particular interest to Women Polka,. IN THI LAUNDRY. Laundry Bag, -Take a piece of linen about twice the size of a eons- won laundry bag, fold it and scal- lop it, around in light blue or pink, Work the monogram in the centre of the bag. Pad both the monogram and the border heavily. Work large eyelets about two and one-half inches from the top of bag and run through t':ese a cord to match the work. It makes a useful as well as dainty gift. Removing Obstinate Stains. -Put a teaspoonful ofpowdered sulphur in a saucer and add a few drops of 0eoho1 and ignite, Place a funnel Vinegar Pie. -Two cupfuls of sub over thia, point upward. Wet stain- gar, scant one-half cupful of vino - ed linen and hold over point of fun- gar, heaping tablespoonful of flour, nel. Fumes will stoneye the most water enough to fill pie, a little nut - obstinate of stains: Good for fruit meg on top; have top and bottom • stains of long standing. crust. Lace Curtains. -Out. strips of Pis Crust. -One and one-half oiup strong, unbleached muslin, about full of sifted flour, one-half cupful one and one-half inches wide the of lard (or butter). one-third cup- desired length 'of curtains. Sew fol of icewater, ono even teaspoon- str'ips onto plain edges of curtains fug of salt: Knead as little as p0s- with a long machine stitch. Pin Bible, also as dry as can bo knead - curtains into frame the usual way, ed together. This makes -two crusts. and when dry the stitching can eas- Lemon Pie Filling.-Three-quar fly be ripped, (while still in frame)^ters cupful of sugar, one heaping with sharp, ripping .knife. By this tablespoonful of cornstarch, one method the curtain edges are per- cupfulof cold water, grated yellow fectly straight, thus avoiding the and juice of one lemon, one dessert "points" always made in pinning spoonful of butter, yolks of three into the edge. The same strips, can eggs'white of one. Cook carefully •be used year after year. This idea till it becomes a thick paste. Turn can also be utilized in laundering into ungreased pan and then cover centerpieces on which it is difficult with meringue. Mix the cornstarch toobtain a straight edge. with the sugar before adding the Peach Stains. -The best way is to water. pour boiling water through stained Cream Peach Pie. -Mix well one article before washing. If this pro- cupful of sugar with one table - cess is neglected, however, there is spoonful of flour. Make bottom another that takes the stains out crust for pie and spread with half after article has been washed. this sugar mixture. Fill with peach - Dampen and lay on iso in refriger- es sliced thin. Cover with remaining ator with stain next to the ice. It sugar and enough cream to cover may require two or three freezings, the peaches well. Bake. but is a simple .and sure way.. For Irons. -Place a piece of a ce- Sift together three times one and one-half cupfuls of flour and twe teaspoonfuls of baking powder and add slowly to the' mixture one cup- ful of finely chopped walnuts, light- ly floured, one teaspoonful of va- nilla, and lastlyadd the stiffly bea- ten whites of two eggs. Bake in a loaf tin, in a moderate oven, for one-half hour, When cool enough ice the top thickly, either with boiled icing or any other kind de- sired. PIES. dar bough upon the ironing table USEFUL HINTS. and occasionally rub the hot iron on the cedar, especially when ironing Verdigris on metal can be speed - starched articles, and you will be By removed by rubbing with liquid delighted with the ease with which. ammonia on a cloth. you complete your ironing. Any Bottled fruits 'and jam should bo kind of cedar will do, but the stored in the dark. A dry cupboard prickly kind seems best. The cedar is the best for them. thus used is far more satisfactory Pacls for stair carpets can be than paraffine or beeswax or any- made from pieces of old blanket. thing else we have tried. Lay them smooth under the carpet. Soutache.-Stretch the embreid• Beetles can be got rid of 'quite ered parts to remove all wrinkles, easily. Sprinkle their haunts with .Iron over the braid to smooth it. borax and they will speedily van - Yon will not be pleased with the ap- ish. pearanoe of the linen beneath, but When food cooking starts to burn, turn the garment, lay the embroid- place at once in pan of cold water; ery upon a double or triple thick it will remove all scorched taste. ness of a white Turkish towel which Greasy plates are much more eas- will permit the braid to sink into ily washed if first wiped with soft its soft surface and the back of the paper. This also applies to frying linen, following it with a medium pans. iron. Iron all parts perfectly dry Muslin window curtains can be or they will wrinkle again and be made non -inflammable if alum be unattractive. Iron embroidered dissolved' in the last rinsing water. scallops in the same manner and '° cleanse the collars of garments clip any loose threads that may es- dissolve one part salt in four of al - cape from scallops or edges. A pair cohol. Apply with a sponge, and of manicure scissors is good for this rub well, carcase- After washing the lamp chimney polish it with dry salt. . It makes CAKES. the glass bright and will prevent it breaking. Apple Cake -One cupful of sugar, For corns -The milky juice of a one-half cupful of butter or lard, dandelion stalk if applied will of - one cupful apple sauce with one tea- ten give relief, and cause the corn spoonful of soda stewed in it, ono to disappear. - cupful of raisins, one teaspoonful A vanilla bean kept in the sugar cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful of box will impart a delicious flavor cloves, pinch of salt, I/ cupfuls of to the sugar. This is a bit of ad - flour. vice from, a French chef, Economy Cake. -When a cake has Salt thrown into the oven im- been a failure on account of being' mediately after anything 'has been too rich, do not throw out, but take burned in it will make the objec- one-half cppful of sugar, one small tionable odor less disagreeable. tablespoonful of butter. ane egg,' . Place a box of lime in the closet and two cupfuls of milk. Break in which jams, preserves, etc., are cake up in small pieces and stir all stored away. It will prevent mold thoroughly until smooth. To one from gathering on the fruit. cup of flour add one heaping tea- A fruit jar rubber slipped over spoonful of baking powder and the projected encl of a teapot licl flavor to taste. This is especially will prevent the lid from dancing good as nut cake. up and down when the kettle bolls. Brown Cake. -For a delicious and Felt hats may be cleaned .by dip - inexpensive Dake, especially when ping a hard brush•which has short eggs and butter are high, the fol hairs into spirits of ammonia. Rub lowing recipe will be found most well until the grease disappears. acceptable. No eggs are required: When buying table linen, cut off Cream together one ".cupful brown a small strip of it and keep, so that sugar and one-half cupful butter, the unravelled thread may bo used add one cupful thick sour milk, one for darning the table clothes or nap - teaspoonful soda, one teaspoonful kins when worn. cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful To glaze a tart dissolve a tea- b cloves, one cupful or more of seed- spoonful of sugar in two of milk; DIVISION ())?r-'2°11)SUPaFAC'I . -ed raisins or any other fruit desir• and brash the pastry with the tnix- rd, two cupfuls of flour. tore. This is quite as efficacious Asia comprises 32 per cent. of the Virginia Fruit Cake. -One pound and much cheaper than an egg. total land surface of the globe, and butter', two eggs beaten separate, When running dates, figs or rai- has a population of 820,000,000; two pounds dark brown sugar, two sins through the food chopper, acid America comprises €8 per cent:, pounds four, sifted, two pounds a few drops of lemon juice. It will population 125,000,000; Africa 22 seeded raisins, chopped, two pounds do much toward preventing the per cent., population `130,000,000; citron; chopped, one pound cur- rents, two cups molasses, one cult of clear, strong coffee, one clip of Lrandy, two tablespoonfnls cf' sloops, two tablespoonfuls of all. spice, two tablespoonfuls if einna- mot., two teaspoons of baking pow- 'det'. Cream sugar and butter; nor all together; white of eggs last. Sift flour in slowly. Bake in a slow oven for two hours. This will make two largo cakes. • 1)ebutante'•s Cal<e,•--Ono cup nl i Faarntlatod sugar and yolks of two eggs beaten together to •a while eroaun. fork in slowly one-half cupful cif melted hotter, Add very Slowly one scant cupful of (milk. • STERN AND NARROW LIJIJI • Grand Doke Ooustal►tinov'fteh Be" ' comes a Meek, The Grand Duke Dmitri Oonstan- tinoviteh, cousin of the Czar a Rus- sia, has suddenly announced We in - tendon of abandoni»g his immense fortune and entering a monastery.. As son of a Ozer's brother, Deer - tri Oonstantinpvitcit was born in the midst of unlimited luxury. His high rank gave him the usual benefits of an army of servants, courtiers, and slaves, the richest of rooms, the heaviest of gold plats, and the most splendid of jewels. • Large tracts of forests were hie; mines filled with gents and farms populated with a thousand slaves belonged to him: Dmitri Oonstentinovitch enjoyed his wealth to the utmost. ' But it is said that satiety has brought'a dis- taste for things worldly, Were he an Anglo-Saxon, he would talk about the simple life. As it is, he choses to retire from the world altogether and live as a monk. He takes no evidence 6f his wealth with him. Tho endowments he. will give to the monastery are not for his use, but for the poor. His earthly possessions are to con- sist of a wooden bed without a mat- tress, -a blanket of coarse brown wool to cover him, a pillow of wood, with a niche carved for the neck, a rush -bottomed chair, a wooden can- dle -stick, one pair of wooden pat- terns, one haircloth shirt, one cas- sock of .coarse wool, a cowl, and a rosary, During more than three months. i' the year he will eat neither meat,: eggs, butter, cheese, nor fish. . His fare will, at such times, consist of barley boiled in water,. cakes fried in oil, and black bread. At other times. he will eat broth, a slice of boiled beef, or an egg: He will keep his own cell clean and cultivate with his own hands the little garden allotted to him. He will rise for prayers at two in the night 'and 'get up at six for the day. He will not talk to his bro- ther monks in the refectory except' on rare occasions, when called upon to do so by the abbot. His name, let alone his title, is to be left outside, and he is to be known to the other inmates by a new one, chosen on his entrance. This life, to one who has had all that, wealth, birth, and social po- sition can give, would seem to be somewhat stern and -narrow, and yet Dmitri Constantinovitch has de- liberately chosen it. • FORTY YEARS IN EXIILE. Capt. O'Meaglter Condon's Recep- tion in Manchester. Manchester Irishmen in their thousands gave a welcome recently to Captain O'Meagher Condon, who 42 years ago was sentenced to death for his share in the Manchester Fenian outrage in which Police Ser., geant Brett was killed, but was re- prieved and condemned to penal servitude. . After eleven years of this sen- tence Captain Condon, who was an American citizen, was released on condition that he did not return to Ireland for twenty years. It is eleven years since this ban expir- ed, and now on his return he has been receivedby Irishmen with open ,arms. _ Captain Condon was the organiz- er of the plot in 1867 to release two noted Fenians, ColonelIceelly and Captain Deasy, from custody at Manchester. They were being driv-. en along Hyde roach in the prison van,- when a band of armed men appeared. The horses in the van were killed, and two constables in Once . . .stoned -At Lystra, at cl'argo were wounded: Sergeant the instigation of Jews (Acts 14. 19). Brett, who was inside the van,re- fused to open the door, and he was shot, it is believed, by a bulletfired through the door,. A ;female prisoner in the van handed out the keys, and Kelly and Deasy were released and got clear away, and, so far as the public is concerned, were never heard of again.,' Twenty-three persons were arrested in connection with the crime, and, of these :five, including, Captain Condon, wore sentenced to death. Seven others were sen- tenced to penal servitude. Maguire was pardoned, and Condon repriev- ed, but the other throe -the "Man- chester martyrs" -were executed. E S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL IXSSON, NOV, 2t Lesson VUI. P8ltl'.s Story of :Ilia We, 2 Cor; 11. 21 to 12. 10. Golden '1.'.eyt, 2 Cor, 12. 0. Verse 21, 1 speak Paul has been making a defense of his ministry (chapters 10-13 comprising the full statement) against charges of weak- ness and cowardice, ' In chapter 11 he enters the lists against the false teachers of Corinth. . They have glorified themselves before the church, and Paul, thought deprecat- ing such a Course as folly, to which he is only driven by a desire to rout his adversaries,• adopt their tactics, and begins, a forced cons-. mendation of himself. Thus he ex- poses the emptiness of the claims made by 'these- Judaizers, and re- minds his diseiples of what they have forgotten -the independence and sacrifices of his service, upon which his authority OS an apostle are based. Disparagement, as though we had been weak-Paulwaives all right. to the exercise of such arbitrary authority as the false apostles have claimed and the Corinthians have blandly endured (verse 20). He is willing to concede his own weak- ness if their high-handed actions aro the measure of strength. Still, though seeing that to speak in such a way is foolishness, if they have any ground for their bold preten- sions, he has as much ground.. 22. Here the boasting to which he is compelled begins. His foes rest their case upon their Jewish ori- gin. Thee' terms are used in a rising scale. Hebrews refers to their nationality, together with the greatness of their past. In Israe- lites are implied the peculiar privi- leges of a people called God's (compare Rom. 9. 4, 8). .Seed of Abraham is a way of describing the direct and exclusive interestof the Jews in the fulfillment of the prom- ises (John 8. 39). Pride of race was one of the strongest marks of the apostle, and 'it is with hot passion he says "So am I" to men who charge him . with being faithless to his natural prerogatives. 23. Ministers of Christ -Paul does not admit that they are, but, as they rate themselves as such, he is willing to Make a comparison, even if his boast does seemlike that of a man bereft of his senses (beside himself). I more -If, as a Jew, he. is equal to his enemies, as a minister, he claims superior authority. As a matter of fact, though he speaks of labors and prisons more abundant- ly, there is no comparison, and the apostle neglects to make any. His service is unparalleled. • In deaths - -Various occasions when he was in danger of death (Acts 14. 19). 24-33. "Themost vivid light we have on the apostolic age and the apostolic career." 24. Of the Jews forty stripes save one -A Jewish punishment. Only thirty-nine were given, as a precau- tion against violating the legal number, forty. Luke gives no ac- count of the five times Paul endured this torture (compare 2 Cor. 4. 10). It shows hots fragmentary is the history found in the book of the Acts. 25. Thrice ... beaten with rods- Roman punishment. Only one is mentioned by Loire, that at Philip- pi (Acts 16. 22). See Word Studies for July 11. fruit from clogging the chopper, For the sink, there is no better cleanser than two gallons of boiling water in which has been dissolved two tablespoonfuls of soda and two. teaspoonfuls of rock ammonia. Worn brooms or whisks may be dipped into hat,' water and uneven edges trimmed with shears: This Makes the straws harder, and the trimming snakes the broom almost as good .08 new. Salt moistened with vinegar will remove burnt marks from enamelled saucepans and dishes, but don't Target they should be soaked in Gold water for a few hours first to loosen the stains. Europe 7 per cont, population 380,- 000,000; Australia (3 per cent., po- pulation 5,000,000. Three-fourths of the area of Japan is mountain- etts, and less. than 16 per cent. is under cultivation. GOOD REASON. Hannah--"Yes'rn, lint if I do yotuah laundry work, ma'am, I must have do undahstandin' dist my hos- ban' collects -de pay." The lady -But why can't you collect it yourself, Hannah?" Hannah --"Well, you sec, ma'am, I don't want to rob do of man of de only job he's oval's likely to got, ' ;Thrice I suffered shipwreck -Not mentioned in Aots, as that describ- ed in chapter 27 came after the writ- ing o,f this epistle. Five other sea journeys are recorded in Acts. Probably there were still others. In the deep -Another unrecorded experience. On a raft or piece of wreckage, is meant. . 26. The ungrammatical form of this verse shows the sleep emotion of the writer. The eightfold repetition of perils indicates that he was se- cure nowhere. In his journeyings he. often had to cross rivers at the risk of his life, and in many parts of Syria and Asia Mirror he would encounter robbers. The account in Acts abounds in the hatred which his oountrynlen bore him for his teaching, and shows how they stir- red the Gentiles to violence. Hard- est to bear, .and so last mentioned, was the apostasy of false brethren (Phil: 3. 18).. - 27. Labor and travail -In 1 Thess. 2, 9, and 2 Thess. 3. 8, those same words are used together in refer- ring to his plying his trade. He worked at tent -staking by night as well as by day, which may explain his watehings often, though we know he gave up his sleep for preaching and prayer ,(Acts 20.31; 1 Thess.. 3. 10). 28. Besides these things" that are without -The sedond reading of the margin, "the things that come out of course" gives the clearest mean- ing; as wewould say : "Not to speak of identical matters," The perils he has mentioned aro only a part of the outward troubles which. he leaves unspecified. 29, Weak, and I ... not weak? -- By sympathy, he identifies himself. THEY AR-EAHELS FOR,Abb For the Child, the Man, the Family, State. the Church. Tl 1 1 thef on the other az champions Matt. xviff. 10, right of the Divinity, and' protec- rllways,. and nob less now, men tors of all who rely upon their sue - consciously or unconsciously, have cos. God's commands are' being ex - turned inquiring glances toward ecnted tvitll snore than aerial.swift- that other world where the Deity swift- ness, and no mortal is unsafe, save reigns incl His cohorts d©ploy their the ono avho refuses the blessed activity in Hia service. ministrations of those who were This curiosity has never been faithful from the dawn of time, shaken off. It is an inheritance of If the .child has his angel, how, our nature, and, be Ire religious or much more certainly has the man, irreligious, every one is helpless for the roan needs him more, against its resistless fascination. It Much and everything needful does is all no weak proof that this Scripture tell us. Its pages are haunting desire springs from the vocal with the melody of the fact that we have not been made for• this world, but are destined, thanks RUSTLING QF ANGEL WINGS, to the gracious God therefor, for Iii ,fact, the 'uplifting and helpful a goal higher and ureic lasting. story is narrated in its entirety, as Men run in vain solicitings to those spirits energize in those last science and to rte r nee tto sa or- stretches of cru ation from the acres for some utterance to satisfy angel of the flaming sword to the this restless, chafing or curiosity, when bright ono who came to John and with Bible in hand, every reveres unveiled all the glories of the New tial Christian may in prayerful me- ditationstory, learn all that it behooves that of Him crucified, more satis- to know, and more than frustrated attempts or blatant' charlatanry can Eying, more consoling, more invig- evcr reveal orating. Why search elsewhere than fn Scripture? INNUMERABLE PASSAGES As early as Deuteronomy, Inc' in holy writ give the story of that world was warned against . trifling superamundane sphere. Therein is with those realms so near and yet recounted the rebellion against the so far away. Neither let there be omnipotent, the deaf, the punish- found one amongvyou that seeketh ment of the guilty and the reward ,the truth from the dead. For the unspeakable of those who were tree- Lord abhorreth all such thingss son proof. 'We read of the unseen Deut. xviii. 12. Stairs the- angels are climbing and : The attitude the Scriptures urge descending with messages from God fs so simple, so sublime. That atti- to man and with praise and thanks- nude in one of prayer and worship. giving and prayers from man to Such an attitude takes so much God. away from the loneliness of our pil- The Son of Man in His eternity grhntago. Wait, and be contrite and saw Satan and his minions fall like humble, and aur angels, when rho lightning from heaven. There is summons sounds, will lift us gent - flashed upon us that reign with its ly from our couch of death and two kingdoms, the kingdom of light Place us in the amts of the loving and the kingdom of darkness. In Father, whose face they always see. one the powers are set against God REV.' P. A. HALPIN. the Their angels a ways see eco and all that is godly. The powers Of my Father who is in heaven.- •s ham ions 01 the his disciples, and feels for their weakness as if it were his own. Burn not -With indignation. 30. I will glory -This is, first, a vindication of his "boasting" up to this point, inasmuch as lie has glori- ed only in what he has suffered, not in what he has done -not in strength, but in weakness. The verse also looks forward to the next chapter, where, in verse 5 and 0, he reasserts the same principle. 31. The best explanation of the introduction of this solemndoxol- ogy at this point is that it looks for- ward to the statements about to be made, the supernatural experiences et the next chapter, especially, be- ing almost incredible. It would be necessary to call to witness the liv- ing Gocl, who, to him in secret, had revealed Jesus as Lord. 32, 33. Compare Acts 9. 23-25, and see Word Studies for April 18. This experience was also a part of Paul's weakness, in its peril and ig- nominy, for in Damascus "the per- secutor because the persecuted." Tn Luke's account, it is said "the Jews watched the gates." But, as' there were 10,000 of them in Da- mascus, they could easily influence the governor to have the gates watched. which is the same thing. Acetas IV. was king of Arabia from B. C. 9 to A. D. 40. Chapter 12, verse 1. I must needs glory, though it is not expedient- He unwillingly resumes his boast- ing in hos own defense, but is con- scious 6f certain disadvantages in such a course. Visions (things seen) were, only one method of revelations. Of the Lord -Christ, here, is the Author of the vision, not, as in other New Testament cases, the One revealed. I know a man in Christ -A typi- cal Pauline expression for a. Chris- tian man. Though speaking of him- self, Paul is to himself as a third person. And he treats of himself, not as a natural man, nor a delud- ed man, but as a man having a Christian experience. Fourteen years ago -Six or sev- en years after his conversion, when ho was in Tarsus or Antioch. He evidently does nut mean to connect it with any other experience he ever had. 11 is a solitary experi- ence vouched for as a fact by the date. Whether in the body, I know not -The event was thoroughly incom- prehensible to Paul. He was caught up out of himself in a transcendent way -whether bodily, or only in the spirit, leo is unable to tell, Even to the third heaven -It is idle to speculate as to Paul's ecu- ecption of the heavens. "It adds nothing to speak of an aerial, side. - real, and spiritual heaven, and to suppose these are meant by Paul; we can only think vaguely of the man in Christ rising ' through one Celestial region after another till he carne even to the third" (Den- ney). In the next two versos he resumes, docs not repeat, and Paradise (4) signifies a further stage 23), can hardly be meant, but "the paradise of God" (Rev. 22), "far above all heavens" (Eph. 4. 10). 5. On behalf of such a one (a man in Christ, fourteen years ago, un- able -to say whether in the body or disembodied, rapt to the third heaven, hearing in paradise things too sacred for human speech), he will glory; for, the events were not - of his making, and belong, there- fore, to his weaknesses. 7. A thorn in the flesh was giv- en him in order to keep him hum- ble, victorious over the constant temptation to spiritual pride which such revelations would naturally give a man. The main conclusions which have been reached fromthe endless controversies about this affliction are these ; it was painful anci bodily; was connected with his special revelations; was extremely humiliating (Gal. 4. 14);: was re- current, if not chronic; was per- manent; and cannot easily be iden- tified with such maladies as head- ache, sore eyes, and epilepsy. 9. He hath said -A solemn ws"y of asserting that a final answer to his prayer has been trade, Christ refusing him freedom from suffer- ing, but assuring him of grace (di- vine help to meet human need) to endure it. Rather glory in my weaknesses - Than complain of them; for through them becomes possessor of the pow- er of Christ. Thus, his glorying, which he began with such diffidence, turns out Co be to the honer of Christi for the exaltation of his weaknesses brings out in contrast the strength of his Lord. go 3u,si suet •A "CHILDR.EN OF THE QUEEN." Queen Elena of Italy has treated a small colony of poor children, af- ter whose education and well be- ing she looks with quite motherly care. Lately the Queen has estab- lished a home for these children near the sea at Santa Marinella. In this place these fortunate ones are called "tire children of the Queen." There are about thirty boys and girls who aro render the care of an experienced teacher, eho has known how to gain the love of her little pupils. In a plainly built house these children live in a number of rooms on the ground floor overlooking neatly planted gardens and the beautiful sea. The gardens, a large and narrow strip of bare foreshore not so long ago, ,.4hlAry•IU,�M,wrNM. CANADA'S F1RSTSTCAME R JOHN M OLSON, 01? ilIONTl23);ttro THE PI011'1)E11. Over One hundred Years Sine e the Aeeomulodation's Initial Trip. It was in August, 1807, that Ful - ton's boat, the Clermont, made hes first trip to Albany under steam. While Fulton was working upon this enterprise John Molson, a Ca- nadian merchant, resident in Mont- real, was engaged in a similar un - de taking, with the St, Lawrence as the river upon which he pro- posed to operate. In 1809 he had his first steamer built, and on,Nov. :3 of that yearthis little vessel made her initial trip from Montreal to Quebec. MONTREAL TO QUEBEC.. A small affair was the Accotnnto• dation, as Molson's boat WAS calls ed. She was 72 feet in length and 18 feet beam, and her engine was of six horse power. She hacl berths for twenty passengers. These seem to have been very necessary, for, as the vessel anchored at night, the; trip from Montreal to Quebec, 180 miles, took -three days, while the return trip, against the current, took one day longer. All Montreal assembled to witness the departure of .the Accommodation on her first voyage, and all Quebec gathered on the heights' to welcome her arrival. A quaint description of the Accom- modation is given by the Quebec Mercury of that period. A DESCRIPTION OF HER. "No wind or tide can stop her," says the writer. "The great advan- tage attending her is that a pas- sage may be calculated upon to a degree of certainty in point of time whichcannot be the ease with any vessel propelled by sail only. The steamboat receives her impulse from an open, double -spoked perpendicu- lar wheel on each side, without cir- cular band or rim. To the end of each spoke is fixed a square board, which enters the water, and by the rotary motion of the wheel aets like a paddle. The wheels are kept in motion by steam operating within the vessel." GRANTED CHARTER. It is interesting to learn that the fare between Montreal and Quebec on this steamer was $8 going east and $9 going west, which included berth, and meals. It is also of in- terest to find that John Molson was encouraged to enter upon this en- terprise by the grant of an exclusive charter to navigate the St. Law- rence by steam fifteen years. Molson was two years behind Ful- ton, but his undertaking was novo the less worthy, while his success was certainly more marked, from the personal or financial stand- point. Unhappily, Fulton experi- enced business difficulties, while John Molson laid the foundations of a great fortune. FIRST OCEAN STEAMER. Canada did not float the first river steamer, but she had in the Royal William the first ocean steamer. so that honors are even. Fulton, let it be repeated, deserves recogni- tion. But so does Molson, the Ca- nadian pioneer who sent his first steamer down the St. Lawrence on Nov. 3, 1890 -one hundred years ago. A FAIR OFFER. Cook -"And sez I, 'I think I'll find another job.' " Friend -"What did the minis say?" Cook -"She sez, Bedad an' 0111 give you twenty-five dollars when yez don't go.' DEFINITION. "Pa, what's the difference be- i tween idealism and realism?" "Idealism, my son, is the con- templation of marriage; realism is being married." HIS RETORT. His Wife (during the spat) -"Oh, I wish I were a man I" Her Husband- -"I don't. If you were 1'd feel duty bound to mop the floor with you." -- BEWARE. "Sharp words," said Uncle Eb- en, "is like .razzers, useful now an' then, but danj'ous playthings." AN IMPROVEMENT. Said He -"Since I' met you I have are now en ideal playground with only 0115 thought.' shrubs and flowers and mounds of Said She-- ''Well, that's one more yellow sand, Near the entranee a tablet proclaims this haven of rest "The Seaside •Colony Princess Io- landa." SOME EXCUSE NEEDED. Wife -"Why did you tell the Jen. sons that you married me because 1 was such a good cook, when you. Mrs. Newlywed --'rat's just brutal . know that I can't even boil a po- of you to call it 'this stuff.' You tato?" said you'd be glad if I baked my than you had when we met." ALWAYS ON THE GO. Maytne-`;I understand the man' Elvira is engaged to is a great ' traveler." Edyth-"Yes, indeed I He's a ' street car conductor," as his passage through vast spaces. Hubby- "I had to give some ex own bread, and-" Mr. Newly The ,Tcwish abode of geed souls whoruse, clear, and I didn't ]snow what mrd --"Yes; but I didn't say I await the resurrection (Luke 10. else to say." 1V fisted you to bake miu0.'t