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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1910-7-7, Page 3Hints for busy Housekeepers. Recipes and Other Valuable rnformatlop 'ef Particular Interest to Women Polkr, CANNING. To Prevelit Jars Breaking,— When Banning fruit, if a silver tablespoon le placed fn a glass jar before pouring in the hot fruit, it -will prevent the jar from breaking. 'This also applies when it is desired to put Trot dessert in a cut glass drab. Peeling of Pineapple.—First talo .held of the green top, give it a turn and draw it out, Trim off the end so it will not hurt the hand. It also gives a place to start from. Held the apple stem end down on the table. Start peeling from the top down to lower end. When all aro peeled out in quarters, core, and slide. You'll find this easier and less waste than any other way •cf preparing them, Pineapple Helps,—Canning pine- apples made easy! No more ruf- fled tempers and sore, pricked hands! First, a good sharp paring knife. Then, when all is in' readi- ness, plunge a pineapple into boil- ing water, let stand about three :minutes, remove and cut into slices not more than one-half inch in 'thickness. With the paring knife the now softened rind and eyes may be removed easily, quickly, and with a considerable saving of the fruit. When the apples are all sliced and pared half the quantity may be shredded through the food chopper to be used for puddings, sherbets, cakes, etc., and the re- mainder cut into pieces as desired before "boiling zip" in the prepar•- •ed hot syrup and canned in the usual way. The method is a great saving not only in fruit and time, .but one's hands are spared much. SEASONABLE HELPS. How to Cook Peas.—Take the outside leaves of lettuce, lay them in the bottom of the pan, then put the peas on top of the lettuce and .gradually bring them to a boil. The 7uioe from the leaves is sufficient to cook them without water and gives a delicious flavor. Cook slowly, then season. Place butter just be- fore serving. To Bleep Parsley Fresh.—To keep parsley fresh, wash and dry fresh parsley and place in mason jar. 'Cover and keep in refrigerator. Parsley may be kept in this way for several clays. To some house- keepers parsley is a necessity for ;garnishes, soups, and sauces. this is a more sanitary method than the old unpleasant way of keeping in water. New Potato Hint,—The disagree - .able taskof scraping new potatoes is entirely unnecessary and takes a great deal of time. Boil the pota- tees with the skins on, and remove skin when done, and and as de- :sired, left whole, mashed,- or serv- •ed with white sauce. Once tried, you will never scrape them again. LAUNDRY. Starch Hint. -To have nice, smooth starch, put few drops kero- eene in and stir till all taken up; this prevents the starch sticking. Care for Ironing Board.—Makea slip of unbleachable ' muslin to fit the board and this can be slipped on and off and washed. To Smooth Flannels.—Insteaad of ironing flannels, fold smoothly as if •to iron and.weing in rinsing water through the wringer, then hang tr to dry, and they will look as, jsnrooth as if ironed. This saves time and no danger of scorching. To. Shrink Gingliams.—An easy and satisfactory way to shrink ging- ham is to -lay'the cloth in a large tub (a bath tab is best) without un- folding the cloth at all Let it soak in lake warm rain water to which e cupful of salt has been added un- til all the folds aro thoroughly wet through, then take it out and un- fold without wringing a particle, and pin on the line where there is a brisk wind. When the cloth is dry you will never know that it was not most carefully ironed. Col- �- ored goods treated in this way will nor run. SEASONABLE SALADS. Tomato Jelly. --Wash and put on to boil ten tomatoes, one onion, ten cloves, three black peppers, and a stick of mace. Cook twenty min- utes, strain well. • Soften a table- spoonful of gelatin in a cupful of ecld water, which add to the toms- toes while hot. Turn into small melds and when told serve on let- tuce leaves. Bean Salad, --Take a can of kid- ney beansor a pint of navy beans boiled tender, add a few leaves of lettuce finely chopped, a small hit of onion, whites of two hard boiled eggs chopped fine, a sprinkle of salt, and white pepper. Mix all theroughly with a good mayonnaise dressing, arrange oe 'curly lettuce leaves on plates, and sprinkle eaeh plateful with grated yolks of hard boiled eggs. Tomato Salad. --Cook together far one-half hour the following: Ond can of tomatoes, a small onion,. An excellent pen wiper is .a'raw, one bay leaf, two stalks of celery, three eloves, salt and pepper to taste, enc cupful of water, Pass through a sieve to remove seeds, Scak three-quarters of a box of ge- latine in cold water until soft, add to other ingredients and stir until dissolved, Pour into molds, and set away in cool place. Serve on Crisp lettuce leaves, on individual plates, with the following dress- ing: Cucumber cream dressing'— Pare and slice one large cucumber, place in salt water for one hour; whip one pint of sweet ere= until stiff; just before serving salad press encumber through a sieve, and pour the juice thus obtained into iho whipped cream. This is a very delicious salad dressing. CHERRIES. Cherry Ice.—Scald a quart of ripe, sweet 'cherries and squeeze out the juice. Allow an equal amount of water and sugar, boiling the two latter together for five min- utes. Skim, cool, and add to the fruit juice with the juice of two lemons. Freeze hard or soft and serve raw cherries, halved and stoned, with each portion. Cherry Dumplings.—Make them like apple dumplings with same made from the juice of, the cherries. Two cups of flour, We eggs, two teaspoonfuls of butter, one tea- spoonful of sugar, one teaspoonful of baking powder sifted with the flour. A cupful of water and a cup- ful of stoned cherries. Drop the mixture by spoonfuls in salted water, a few at a time, as the water must not stop boiling. Cover closely and cook ten minutes, with oar: uncovering. Take from the water and serve on hot plates., Sauce -Cream together a cupful of pcwdered sugar and a tablespoon - ell of butter, add gradually one beaten egg and half a cupful of cherry juice, beating constantly. WORTH KNOWING. In making puddings always beat the eggs separately, straining the (yolks andadding the whites the la•t thing. If boiled milk is used, let it cool before adding the eggs. When fruit is used stir it in last. Let raisins lie in hot water a minute or two to plump them. Add flavorings to puddings when cold, as much of it will otherwise rams off in steam. Dates are an excellent substi- tute for sugar and an addition in themselves. When eggs are scarce substitute a small grated carrot for each egg in a plum: pudding recipe. Boil rice until thick and soft in cherry juice and serve with cream and sugar. Mix sugar and cornstarch dry, stir in a little hot milk until smooth, then stir into tho desired quantity of hot milk. le dumplings are put to cook in cold water they will not fall apart, When making shortcake roll out one crust, spread with soft or melt- ed eltod butter, lay the second cake 'rn the first and put to bake. When done this cake will separate in the middle without cutting. When two layers are baked separately, in the old way, cut the .cake a little larg• er than the pie tin in which it is to be baked, and turn up the ex- tra width in a margin to hold the juices of the berries. Make large biscuits for individu- al shortcakes. Always bake puddings as soon as mixed. As a rule, boiled puddings require double the time necessa'y tor. baking. A steamed pudding is lighter and more wholesome than either boiled or baked. Puddings will be lighter if steam ed in a cake mold than if cloth 1., used. Rice, 'bread, custard, and fruit puddings require a moderate twin ;. batter and corn starch a rather quick oven. Egg shells maks attractive pud- ding melds. Cover tooling, custards, gela,urs, etc,, with glass to protect h'rn dust and germs, Add geltain to custards just af- ter removing from the oven, first, dissolving. When using au egg beater do n rt keep it in one place, but move it about the bowl. The cellar, larder and pantry should be whitewashed every spriug if you want a healthy house. Tins should be well dried over the range after washing, otherwise sliest will rust, Shirt fronts blister when'starshed because the polishing iron has not been ustsd with suffiment force. Cover pantry shelves with white oil cloth, which can be wiped with a damp cloth and kept clean veru easily. Mud stains on an umbrella poly ho eradicated: by rubbing theist wills a .solution of rock ammonia end boiling water. potato. Out the potato in half and rub the pen with it carefully, when it will be as clean as new, Te remove varnish rub with tine Meg Parer and then with spirits of ammonia. A great deal of '`e•1- bow grease" will be required. Coins should never be placed in the mouth or between the teeth. Money is handled by all sorts 4.1 people and never cleaned. Fungus growing in a cellar—this pest will disappear if you keep a box of lime in your cellar, The lime absorbs the damp, which is the life of the fungus, To renew black lace make a weak solation of green tea, soak the lace in it, roll in a cloth and then iron under a silk handkerchief. A boy in the habit of playing on the floor was always wearing his stockings out at the knee. Finally Ins mother made a deep inside tuck on the stocking right over the knee.This made the stockings Ms -atter and bare knees were not al- ways peeping out. Housewives are often troubled by mildew and pan rust from damp oiosete. By putting an earthen bowl or deep plate full of quicklime into the closet the lime will absorb the moisture and sweeten and disinfect the place. Rats or mice have a groat dislike for lime and this will prevent them from coming. To remove the odor of fish from knives wash them in hot vinegar, then suds. A wire brush is excellent for eieaning milk bottles, and a little sada in the water sweetens them. Leather covered furniture may be cleaned by using warm milk with;a soft cloth•and rubbed until dry. .1. - SLAVES SLAVES AT LONDON ZOO. Ants Forced to Act as Nursemaids and. Scavengers. There are some hundreds of wretched little nursemaids at the Zedlogical Gardens, London, Eng- land, who never get a day's holi- day and whose services are never paid for. They are the uncom- plaining victims of a barbarous sys- tem of slavery, for the homes of their childhood were raided by swarthy savages, their kindred slain, and the babies carried off in- to captivity to act in the menial capacity of nursemaids and scaven- gers. They are members of the i11 - fated Formica•Fuscanation of black ants, and their brutal task -masters bear the suitably bloodthirsty title of Formica Sanguinea. The latter are big, reddish ants, who show fight in their glass case in the insect house if a finger he beld up. They are becoming very rare in England. One spot alone is known to harbor them, so, in the interests of science, the habitat of these slave -making ants is vaguely given as "South of England." When they make a raid they exter- minate the entire nest of Formica Fusca and spare only the larvae and cocoons of their victims. When these hatch out they are rarely allowed to see daylight. In the. Zoo's colony I saw a wandering bask slave hustled into an earthly tunnel when the keeper opened the case to place some honey within. This makes the second ant colony in the insect house, and the nest of wood ants which has already been established therefor over a week, is flourishing strongly. The wood ants evidently were dissatis- fied with the hastily designed nur- sories they at first constructed, for they exhumed all the ant cocoons and dragged them down into fresh tunnels which they had been busy upon, and which apparently led to a safer fortress. A WOMAN'S HAT. Paris Court Takes up the Problem of Defining it. A Paris court has attempted to solve the problem of what is a wo- man's hat, and has been reduced to postponing its decision for e fort- night. The point was raised in an action for breach of contract brought against the proprietor of a house who had let one of his flats to a tenant who, having an antipa- thy to hatters, stipulated that the shop below should never be let to anyone following the hat trade. . Some weeks ago a milliner rent- ed the premises and the landlord is being sued by the hatting tenant fo:r breaking the agreement. Tho landlord in his defence pleads that a milliner is not a hatter, as her craat!ons are not intended to be a protection' to the head, but aro eventually nothing else than an adornment of the lace, while the tenant replies that the headgear of a Woman is still a hat, its services as an ornament being merely an in- cidental function. A HIGHER COURT. "'The courts have decided that a woman has no right to open .her husband's mail,,, "My wife reversed that decision before it was made,." • Give sone people a bite of an ap- ple and they'll want all but the THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL IF.SSQN, JULY 10. eview. Golden `!'ext, John 6. 63. QUESTIONS I'OIR INTERMEDI- ATE .SCHOLARS. Lesson I.—The Power of Faith- How wero Jesus and his disciples met on their return to Capernaum? Who was Jairus? . How did Jesus answer the request of Jairus? On the way to-Jairus's house, whose faith (lid Jesus reward? What message did they receive, by the 1 the way? What did they find on their arrival? What did Jesus do and say? ' What was the result? 'Jell how some others on that day had great faith, and how Jesus helped them. Lesson II.—The Mission of the Twelve.—How long had Jesus and his disciples been traveling about together? What were some of the things he had tried to teach them? What was it now time for them to ct s'1 How did Jesus send them forth? What was their message, and what power did they have? Name the twelve anti tell what you know about them. What were some of the directions Jesus gave them? Hew can we help to give Jesus's message to the world? Leeson IIL—The Question of •John the Baptist.—How had John the Baptist angered Herod and Herodias? How had they punish- ed him? Where was his prison? What question did thetwo disciples of John ask of Jesus? How did he answer them? What message did Jesus send back to John 1 Lesson IV.—Warning and Invite- hon.—What nvita- tion: What change in Jesus's preaching is shown in this lesson? To whom had Jesus given the most, of this time and labor? What then was expected of them? What caus- ed the grief and sadness of Jesus's words? What invitation did he give? What did he . mean by his 'yoke"? Have you accepted this invitation 1 Lesson V.—Two Sabbath Inci- dents.—What miracle did Jesus per- form at Bethsaida? What effect did this have on the Jews? How did Jesus and his disciples again arouse their criticism? Why did the Phari- sees say that this was unlawful? Where did the next discussion of the Sabbath take place? What question was asked of Jesus? What miracle did the perform before them? How do you keep the Sab- bath day? Lessor. VI.—The Temperance les- son.—What do you know of the au- thorship of the book of Proverbs? 'What is the character of the book? What are aur lesson verses said to be ? What results follow the use of intoxicating liquors? What- is the only safe rule for us to make? What rs our duty to our neighbor in this connection? Where do you stand in the battle to -day against intem- perance? Lesson VII.—Growing Hatred to Jesus. -What miracle is related in the verses just preceding this les- son1 What did the people in gen- eral say of it? What was the cri- ticism of the Pharisees? Give some arguments of Jesus. Against what did Jesue.warn them? For what did certain of the scribes and Pharisees ask? Why was this a wicked de- mand? What was the great sign that would finally be given them? Lesson VIII.—The Death of John the Baptist.—What was the cause ef John's imprisonment? Why did not Herod kill him at once? Who Bas most anxious for his death? What happened on Herod's birth- day 1 What foolish promise (lid he make to Salome? For what had she planned with Herodias to ask? Flow did Herod fulfill his promise? What did John's disciples do? Lesson IX. -The Multitudes Fed. -Where did Jesus and his disciples go for rest? Who followed them, and why? At evening what hap- pcned? How were they fed 1 Where did Jesus again seek to go to rest with his disciples? How long did the multitudes remain with Jesus? Vow did ]re care for them? Lessen X.—Jesus Walks on the Sea.—What did Jesus do after the feeding of the five thousand? What did Jesus wish to dol What occur- red when the disciples were on their way 1 How did Jesus go to help them? How did this affect the dis- ciples? Tell about Peter and the trial of his faith. When Jesus and Peter were in the boat, what hap- pened? How was Jesus welcomed. when they reached the shore? Lesson. XI. -The Canaanitish Wo- man.—What were some of the rea- sons why Jesus wished to go away 1 Where did he and his dis- eiples got Flow did they live while there? Who sought theta and ask- ed for help? How did Jesus test her belief? What did lie say of har faith finally 1 What did he do for her 1; What lesson did the disciples learn from this incident? Lesson XII. --Tho Parable of the Sewer.—Whore did .Jesus tell this parable? In what way did Jesus preach at this time? Tell the per- etre. I able in your own words., Whp was the "sower"? Tire .soil? What kin' kinds of hearers did it illus- trate? What ie the "seed"? What sort of a "hearer" are you? Lesson XIII.—Parable .of the Tares.—To what group of parables does this belong? When did Jesus `ell it? Why was it necessary? 'That is the story about? To whom did Jesus explain it later? What were the "tares" Bow did Jesus explain the parable? How are you preparing for the great "Harveat Day" Lesson I, (Third Quarter.—Pie- tures of the Kingdom, -How did Jesus continue his teaching? What parables did he tell to the multi tulle? What did they illustrate? Where did Jesus go to explain some of the parables to the dieeip- les? Whatother parables did he tell them? What was taught by the story of the finding of the treasure? How was the "pearl of great price" to be obtained? What was illustrated in the parable of the drag -net? ON DESERT ISLAND. The Czar of Russia Will Spend His Summer on One. In electing to spend his summer holiday on one of the uninhabited islands near Bjorko, off the coast of Finland, the Czar is merely follow- ing an example set byhis famous ancestor Alexander I. Alexander, when worn out with the burden of government, used to retire for a week or ten days to a flat, reedy island he owned on Lake Ladoga, and there while away the time, absolutely alone, in fish- ing and wildfowl shooting, varied by reading. Nor are royalties the only peo- ple to whore' the delights of an is- land s land solitude appeal after this pe- culiar fashion, for some little time back the New Zealand Government issued a protest to picknickers who. were wont to resort to Antipodes Island. Bounty Island, and Camp- bell Island, during the summer months, relying upon the visiting cruiser, which calls at regular in- tervals, to pink up on the approach of winter. "The vessel," ran the warning, "calls at the islands for castaways, and not to bring off people who purposely visit them in order to enjoy a cheap and novel holiday." Si- ce then, nevertheless, the fash-. ie n has spread, and regular par- ties are now formed each year to go holiday -making, not only on these comparatively near -by is- lands, but to spots so far distant as Amsterdam Island, St. Paul's, ana many lonely islets lying along the line of route to these remote and little visited places. Of course, however, a proper craft is charter- ed for the trip and ample provis- ion is made against all emer- gencies. • In the same way it is becoming quite common for people here who wish to get right away from the beaten track to spend their summer holidays in Spitzbergen, which, al- though icebound during about nine months in the year, is readily ac- cessible by steamer during the other three. It is lonely, of course, but those who have been there say that it pos- sesses an ideal health -restoring cli- mate, while the ice and cliff scen- ery is of surpassing grandeur and magnificence. YOU'LL ADMIT IT. The hands soon tire when the heart is weak• A good deed loses its virtue if it be advertised. Many a man's chief fault is his failure, to see his shortcomings. In theory, one marl is as good as ancther; but it isn't so in practice. If you give a woman plenty of rope, she will hang—her washing on it. Many a man attributes his fail- ure to his inability to- start at the top. He's a far-seeing man who pro- vides the home for the girl before he gets her. Not one 'man in a hundred has sense enough to talcs care of money after he gets it. When in doubt, it is best to wait until there is no longer any doubt in your mipd before acting. Doctors and lawyers have at least one good trait in common they never give advice before it is asked for. FISH PRODUCED LEPROSY. Men of former ages, unless they lived near the sea or a river, had great difficulties in gratifying their taste for fish. The great houses had their fish ponds oe stews, but sea fish, such as cod, bream, stur- geon, herring and sprats, were salted, and the excessive.eonsump- fie of highly salted fish in the mid- die ages is said to have produced leprosy. Fish was, .also baked in vies to enable it to be carried for great distances. INSPIRATION, hiss. A.—"My 1 but there was lots of fire and brinistone in Mr, Spout- t:r's sermon this morning," Mrs. B.—"I expected there would be. Their cook left then vestor- day." . FROM BONNIE SCOTLAND NOTES or INTEREST FROM HER HANKS AND BRAES. 'khat 18 Going On in the Highlands and Lowlands of Auld Scotia. Edinburgh School Board have ap- proved of a school gardening scheme. Eight adders, the largest mea- suring 2 feet 4 inches, were killed rlt Ourrievax recently. There are 99 applying to the headmaster of Kilwinning Higher Grade School. James Dickie, for 37 years letter carrier at Skelmorlie, has, on re. tiling, been presented with $645. Tho West of Scotland Agricul- tural College has arranged for fourteen forestry excursions this sumnier. About 100 men in Dundee have r"ue'ved the Royal Naval Reserve long service and good conduct me- dals. Fifeshire has been scheduled for the execution of military manoeu. vres Bering three months, com- mencing July 15. James Doherty, late of Cowie, two recently sailed for Vancouver, has been killed there while working as a miner, Lynchburgh, Va., proposes tem porarily exchanging two teachers with Edinburgh, and the latter is quite willing. Miss Nelson, Union street, Dun- dee (now over 90), knitted King Edward's first pair of mittens in her early days in London. On retiring after thirty years' service, Constable Sutherland, I,eith, has been presented with a geld watch and a purse of sover- eigns. A Scottish inspector of schools hopes to see the time when every school will have "a daily sweep, a monthly scrub and an annual over- haul." The new reservoir at Beauly will contain 41,000 gallons of water, and this can be filled with a supply of spring water in 16 hours. Edinburgh citizens are threaten eded with an increase of 1°4d. on the rates, owing to the expendi- ture on the new slaughter -houses and markets. Lord Lovett wants the County Council to urge upon the Govern- ment the necessity for establish- ing a school for the training of for- esters in a woodland. district. At the Ophthalmic Institution, Glasgow, last year the attendances were 38,483, giving a daily average of 125.3 for the 307 days on which the dispensary was open. The Inverness Museum has been enriched with a collection of Jaco- bite pictures, miniatures and other objects—the gift of the late Miss E. M. Bowerbank, of St. Leonard's - on -Sea. Hughes, the Auld Kirk beadle, of Cowrie, digs the graves, cleans the kirlc, superintends the Sunday school, prays and leads the praise of the young and hopeful, and with stolid steps conveys the "Beuk" to the pulpit. Recently a cremation societywas formed in Edinburgh. The object of the society is to promote the practice of cremation and burial re- form by means of meetings, lectures and publications or otherwise. There are already about 180 mem- bers, including many web persons. MEANEST MISER IS DEAD. He Was the Wealthiest Man in the German Capital. A whole crowd of relatives aye beginning to fight around the will of Privy Councillor Albrecht Plaut, who died a fortnight ago. He was at once Berlin's richest citizen and its most notorious miser. Plaut, who was 80 years old, was formerly chief of an important stock broking firm, and was a speculator of the most daring or- der. At the time ho retired he was paying $50,000 a year in income taxes alone. But he lived in a tiny tw--room flat in a poor quarter, and did all the work of the place himself, He spent most of his days, after his retirement from business,. in the Zoological Gardens, where he ate his lunch and dinner, both consisting of bread and butter, which he carried in his pocket, wrapped round with is newspaper. Of stories of his penuriousness there is no end. Once at is family reunion all present gave gifts to the others. But the millionaire ]aid before each guest a Covered dish labeled "Gift of Privy Coun- cillor Plaut." The guests lifted the covers and found under each a quarter of an apple. On one occa- sion ho invested two cents in a glass of beer at the Zoological Gardens. The ;beer was not to his liking, and next morning the manager of the restaurant received an unstamped. letter demanding the penny back. Flihbe—"In i g into the manufacture of something there cnght to be money its," 17ubbe --• "What is that 1" 1 hibbe..''Pocket- books and purses. OVR WATCIIT:S,. Goutlkln Most Complicated, awl 11areelous of Mecilantstus,, We hear mush frmm time to times of the wonders of this or that eons - "sheeted and intricate machine,. but there lire few pieces of machinery more marvelous than that of this common watch. A watch, it may be stated aa. 4 general proposition, is the smallest, mcst delicate instrument of the same number of parts that has ever been devised. About 175 different pieties of material enter into its construction and upward of 2,404 separate operatious are eomprisod' in its manufacture. Certain of the facts connected with its ;performance are well-nigh incredible, when considered as ia. whole. A blacksmith strikes sever- al hundred blows ou his anvil in day and, as a matter of course, is glad when Sunday comes; but the roller jewel of a watch snakes every day—and day after day -432,000 im- pacts against the fork, or 157,080,- 000 blows during the course of a. yea^, without' stop or rest -some 3,- 153,600,000 blows during the space of twenty years, the period for which a watch is usually guaran- teed.to keep good time. But the wonder of it does nob. cease here. It has been Calculated that the power that moves the watoh is equivalent to only four times the force used in a flea's jump. The watch -power is, there- fore, what might be termed the equivalent of a four fleapower. One hcrsepower would suffice to oper- ate 270,000,000 watches. Furthermore, the balance -wheel of a watch is moved by this four fleapower 1 to 11/2' inches with each vibration, or 3,558% miles continu- ously in one year. Not much oil is required to lu- bricate the little machine on its 3,- 500 -mile run. It takes only one- tenth of a drop to oil the entire ma- chinery for a year's service. STRONG AND HEARTY AT 101. Bing Sends Message of Congratue lation to Old Lady. The King sent a message of con- gratulation to Mrs. William Oolver, mother of one of the oldest mem- bers of the Sheffield City Council, who celebrated her 100th birthday. "Moderation is Duration," is the motto of Mrs. Neighbour, who celebrated her 101st birthday at Sunningdale, Ascot, England. Re- siding with her daughter and Bon- in -law in Cowarth road, she spent the day very quietly, not having a family gathering as last year. She has several sons and daughters liv- ing, and her eldest son has great- grandchildren. The old lady is tall and upright and looks quite thirty years young- er thanshe really is. Her eyesight and hearing are good and her fac- ulties unimpaired. She was born near Egham, and has lived within a ten -mile radius of that village all her life. One of her greatest de- lights is to stand at the garden gate and watch the motor cars speed by. She has always been a believer in hard work and fresh air. In a list of inhabitants who have lived in six reigns which is being compiled for the Isle of Wight two ceetenarians and twenty-three nonagenarians are already includ- ed. Tho centenarians are Mr. Charles Pratt, 101, Byde, and Mrs Saunders, 100, Wootton. One ` the nonagenarians,- Caroline Wil- son, while in service at a'residence in Brighton when Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort were visi- tors, had the honor of taking the late King Edward as a baby in her arms. A BULLDOG'S DEFIANCE. Ile Resisted Being Handled by Strangers. The inflexible determination of a bulldog not to allow himself to bo handled by strangers gave Great Western Railway officials at Pad- dington, London, England, a -live - 1y time a short while ago. The dog was one of a number of valuable members of his breed that had been forwarded by train to London for shipment to South Af- 'ere for breeding purposes. With the exception of this particular brute, all the dogs were removed without difficulty from the train when it reached Paddington about midnight. Ho had succeeded in freeing him- self both of cellar and muzzle, and all attempts to approach him were met by growls and snarls, and gleams of useful teeth set in pow- erful jaws which induced every railway official in the neighbor- hood to agree that 'discretion was the. better 'part of valor. So the dog, completely master of the situation, held all his would-be captors at bay, and at last in de- spair the van in which he had tray, tiled was shunted into a siding. Even the loneliness: of his situa- tien did nut induce the boast to sur • - reixler until noon next day, when with evident reluctance he allowed himself to be persuaded to with - No, Ccrdelia, hops do not grow in a ball room.