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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1910-9-22, Page 6"Tints for Busy Housekeepers, iteoilpes and Other VaIuable Information of Particular itltereet to Women Polka, BREAD, Icahn Bread,—Have your tea kettle boiling. Into your breadpan put a •ono of rolled oats. Poul' over it three cepa, boiling water, one-half cup molasses, one bible - spoon lard, or butter, one table- spoon salt; . s let cool, when blood p , warm add one yeahstcake which has been dissolved in cold water; Add breadflour until firm andcan be kneaded. Let rise over night, make into two loaves, ,and bake one hour and twenty minutes. Quick Breadmeking, — Dissolve two oaken of oompi+essed yeast in a little lukewarm water. Into a crock pour ono pint of sweet milk and add one pint of freshly boiled water, and one tablespoon of salt. Into this stir enough flour to make u soft batter and if it is cool enough to admit of holding the finger in it, add the dissolved yeast, beat swell, and continue to•'add more /flour till it is pretty stiff. Now turn it out on to -a floured board and knead till smooth, adding nec- essary rY flour gredually. Put into a bread bowl that ha greased s been and set in a warn place to rise. Whenit has doubled its original size it is ready to mold into loaves and rise again before baking. Bake one hour: Brown Bread,—Two cupfuls gra- ham flour, one cupful wheat flour, one-quarter cupful ,sugar (brown or white), one-half cupful molasses, one small teaspoonful salt, two cup- fuls buttermilk, one level teaspoon- ful soda dissolved in a little boiling water. Put into greased covered quart lard pails and bake in a moderate oven for two hours. By putting ingredients together as given this brawn bread never fails and is so easily made compared to the old way of steaming first and then baking. Scotch shortbread.—One pound. of flour„ one-half pound of butter, one-fourth pound twist brown su- gar. Sift flour into mixing bowl, roll sugar free from lumps, rub su- gar and butter thrrugh flour, turn out on board and knead like bread tillit sticks together in one lump ; roll three-tourths of an inch thick; mark in small diamond shaped squares cut with a knife; put on baking tin and bake about twenty minutes in a moderate oven. Bread Hint.—(To be made up in the evening and to raise over night). Take three quarts of flour, sift into a large pan or bowl and make a. good sized cavity in the center of the flour, crumble cue cake of com- pressed yeast, then add one-half teacupful of sugar, one small table- spoonful of salt, one good table- spoonful of lard ; then pour in two and one-half pints of lukewarm water; mix well until moderately stiff and smooth; then put into a greased vessel that is as near air- tight as possible, let raise over night in a warm place so as not to chill; in the morning make into loaves about one and one-quarter pounds each; let raise until loaves are as higb as pans, then bake in a moderately hot oven. Never Fail Bread.—At noon soak one yeast cake in half glass warm water. Hash fine two potatoes and about one quart potato water, and stir in while boiling hot one cup flour. Let stand in warm place un- til next morning, then add one tablespoon lard, one of salt, and --.one of sugar and one pint of warm Water and mix stiff. Let rise and punch clown. Let rise again and put in pans. CAKE.. Oatmeal Cookies Help. --Almost every one is fond of oatmeal• cook- ies, but there is one thing disliked by marry, that is the 1.1n21oked taste that the oatmeal has if not ground. I have learned by experience tha; by using the coarsest knife on your food chopper and grindi.rg the oat- meal through it improves the cook- ies very much. This d ,eA not pal verizo the oatmeal, lint maims the grains finer and distribute.; the fia- vur more evenly, and the: never have that uncooked taste. .U'c;oe u my favorite recipe ; One cull shortening, half lard and half but- ter; one large cnpfnl C. sugar creamed with butter, two eggs well beaten, nine tablespoonfuls sour milk, one scant teaspoonful soda dissolved in milk. one teaspoonful cinnamon, half teaspoonful nutmeg, pinch of salt; one-half cupful chop- ped out meats; on' cupful chopped raisins, one small teaspoonful bak- ing powder sifted with t•wa cups flour. Adel one cup ground oatmeal last. I bake these 1n muffin tins, but can he baked as drop cnolcies if preferred. Iii. W. 17. Hot i'atei• (.rake.---Fonr eggs separate them, heat • yolks light, graclually stirring in two cupfuls of gr+anulatrd sugar, Ileal we'll to- gether, and ono' 00001 of boiling water, two cupfuis of flour, one tea- spoonful of baking powder. :Beat winos to a froth and flavor. This ivakes a good, large, three layer cake, Bake valowly. Orange Vane, ---Ono cul sugar, three tablespoonfuls butter, two eggs, half cup orange juice,grated rind of one orange, one and one- half cups flour, one and one-half teaspoonfuls baking powder. Cream butter, add sugar, beat; add eggs unbeaten; • beat thoroughly; add orange juice, then the flour sifted with the baking powder. Bake in gent pans and roll in powdered su- gar while warm. Kisses;=The reooret of good kisses. Hee in the beating. Beat the whites of two eggs to a stiff froth, then Ladd two cupfuls of granulated su- gar and one teaspoonful of vine- gar. Beat well for twenty minutes. Turn your baking pan upside down and cover with ailed paper. Drop the mixture in teaspoonfuls on the pita. In baking they swell quite a bit. Do nob turn the light -on the oven until they are in. Then bake slowly twenty-five minutes. This. quantity makes two dozen, SALAD. le SaladDressing.—Two lev- el dSa a s f f el table pout itis o butter, two levet tablespoonfuls of flour, two level teaspoonfuls of sugar, one level teaspoonful of salt, one level teaspoontul of mustard, a few grains of cayenne, one cupful of milk, ane -hall cupful of hos vine- gar, yolks of two eggs. Make a white sauce of dry ingredients, butter and milk. To make white sauce put butter in a saucepan, stir until melted and bubbling, add flour mixed with seasonings and stir until thoroughly blended. Pour on the milk gradually until well mixed. When sauce is smooth add hot vinegar. When thickened pour on to beaten yolks, then return to the stove and cook a few minutes. Be careful not to cook the eggs too much. This makes one pint, and if kept on the ice in a sealed Ma- san jar it will keep a week. Add a little cream to thin the dressing when you want to use it. Spanish Salad.—Select ripe but not soft bananas and cut into thin slices with a silver knife. Shell English walnuts until you have one- third the quantity of the bananas. Pass the nuts through a grinder or chop fine. Mix fruit and nuts lightly and keep them on a plat- ter covered with crisp lettuce leaves. Pour mayonnaise dressing, over the whole, taking care it is seasoned quite sharply with cayen-; ne pepper. Pineapple Salad.—Three medium • sized apples pared and cut into dice, two stalks celery cut fine, one pound English walnuts cut in piec- es, one pound dates cut in pieces (not chopped), one-half pound white; grapes out in half .and seeded. Mix thoroughly with mayonnaise dress- ing, one can pineapple, eight slices. Serve on bread and butter plates, placing first a large crisp lettuce leaf, a silce of pineapple, and then the above mixture. This quantity will serve eight people. Banana Salad.—For individual salad arrange .one-half banana cut in finger length strips on a lettuce leaf and over this sprinkle one heap- ing teaspoonful of chopped celery, a few seeded California grapes or shredded pineapple cut into small pieces, and one teaspoonful of chop- ped nuts. Chill and serve with oire teaspoonful of mayonnaise dressing. USEFUL HINTS. To remove stains from ivory im- merse it in benzine and go over it with a brush. Boil six peach kernels in a quart of milk to' he used for custard; it will improve the flavor. For cleaning tinware there is no- thing better than dry flour applied with newspaper. Keep all the kitchen utensils in one place and a small one at that; it will save time and steps. To shell pecans throw nuts into boiling water, which softens shells and kernels can be extracted whole. To remove coffee stains rub the spots with glycerine and water and they will disappear ns if by magic. When beating eggs take care that your whisk is clean, for any grease un it will prevent the eggs from frothing. To save time in straining pump- kin use a perforated vegetable press instead of rubbing it through a col - lender. Rubbing beeswax upon a hot smoothing iron, and at once clean- ing it off again with cloth, removes all kinds of dirt. ' A piece of bread soaked in strong vinegar and applied to 8 corn soft- ens it so that the kernel can be easily taken out. 11 ar piece of glass is placed over bas cook book when in nsc it will mold the book ;pan arid prevent its getting .oiled. Dipping e S for 20 seconds in eggs ]oiling water, then packing them in bran, is said to keep them fresh for ions months. If the knife and fingers are slightly buttered when seeding rai- sins the work will be robbed of its stickiness and ,discomfort, .\. tineup filled with vinegar and placed on the back of the stove will prevent the odor of ;oohing front pervading the house. To polish a looking glass first rub it with e duster wrung out of oold water and dipped in whiting, and then polish with it dry cloth, Handkerchief corners will meet more exactly if the handkerchiefs are :folded with the fifst crease on a line with the widthwise threads of the linen; Heat a lemon thoroughly before squoozing and you will obtain near- ly double the quantity of juice that you woald if it had not been heat - eel. By rubbing a fresh lemon thor- oughly into a soured sponge and rinsing it several times in lukewarm water it will become as sweet as when new. Dip half -a lemon in ealb andrub. on knife' handles ; then wash im- mediately in warm water and the handles will be„as white as when they were new. Scrubbing brushes, hair brushes, and, indeed, all household brushes, should be rested on the bristles to dry; otherwise the water will de- stroy the brush. A glazier's knife will be found an excellent tiling with which to eorape and clean the bottoms of pans and kettles. This .need only be tried to prove its value. A .soft cloth slightly dampened in milk and rubbed over piano keys will have a splendid effect. Be sure 1 to rub keys dry with sett cloth. Us- ing water makes keys yellow. When nuts have become too dry to be good remove the shells, let stand overnight in equal parts of water and milk, then dry in the oven. They will taste perfectly fresh. As soon as a salt ham or tongue is cooked remove it from the boil- ing water to a pan of cold water for a few seconds. This will loosen the skin, which may be easily peeled oft. Take a piece erf denim about. twelve inches square; after being hemmed all around, form a box plait at bettom and tack t back of ironing board for a picket to hold iron -holder, wax, etc. The best thing for cleaning pen- cil erasers is .a_ piece of old plas- ter. Keep a. small piece always Bandy and when the snbher gets soiled a' rub on the plantar makes it as clean as when new, A good mucilage can be made from potato peelings; put as many peelings as desired in kettle, cover with water, boil one boor; strain then add one-half teaspoonful of alum; this will keep indefinitely, Cover your kitchen taLle with zinc ; then the hottest pots and pans can be put on it without spoiling it. Soap and water will easily clean it and a rub.ring once ',i a while with kerosene keeps it Lriglet. A good tapestry can always be safely washed. Do not put soap on it, but wash in the same way as flannel. Rinse very thoroughly, put. through a wringer if pos,ibte, and iron on the wrong side when nearly dry. THE AIR FLEETS. It really begins to look as if the next war—if war there must be— will mark the introduction of aeri- al manoeuvres on a scale which would hardly have seemed possible a few years ago. At the end of 1909 there were already in exist- ence, either finished or promised to be ready for service very short- ly, 32 dirgible balloons and 56 aero- planes belonging to the various Eu- ropean nations. Of these Germany has 14 dirgibles, of six different models, and five aeroplanes; France, seven dirigibles and 29 ae- roplanes; Italy, three dirigibles and seven aeroplanes; Russia, three dirigibles and six aeroplanes; Austria, two dirigibles and four aeroplanes; England, two dirigibles and two aeroplanes, and Spain, one dirigible and three aero- planes. It is interesting to remark how Germany mins to dirigibles and Franco to aeroplanes. Yet France was the first officially to ex- periment with the former type.. t' DOWN TO DATE. Professor McGoozle—"It is astonishing how little the young people of the present clay know of mathematics. For example, Miss Tartun—or you, Mr. Sparks-- do parks—do you remember what the rule of three ail" Miss Tartun—"Oh, yes, profes- sor; I haven't forgotten that, I think. 'Three is a crowd.' That right 'l" 0---� • UNSELFISH. Mrs. Backhay—Why are you leaving us, Bridged Boston Cook—Me reasons are philanthropic. I want to give some wan else a chancel at the joys of living with yez. ARTISTIC. ibir. Blinks (in art museum) --"I didn't know you were an admirer of curios, Mrs, Bluudcrby.' Mrs. ilimderhy—"Oh, yeq, le - deed; I just delight in iniquities." "Thiene are times when 1 clivi my hair, remarkm ed the an who I "• failed i r seventeen business en - had fa l 1 , t t 'terprises, '.Ifcepetse why queu- ed his wife. "Because it is com- ing out on top," explained he of , the many failures. • IRE S:S,,LESSON iNTElll'{APIONAL Ll(SSO1it 1if?T'. 25, Lessen XIII. Temperance Lemon Gal. 5. 15.26, Golden Text, Gal, 5, 25, Verse 15.'11 ye hire ((utuursts of anger) ,and devour (continued hatred)—'this is in eontrast<to the. spirit of love which Pawl has just said is the fulfillment of the lav; The Galatians were a. naturally contentious people, and. party 'spir- it at this time was rife', Note the repetition of one another; the. barns, done by their quarrelsomeness was mutual, and the outcome could only be the: disintegration of the spiritual' life (consumed) of both' parties: 16, But I say -What lie, has al- ready said is that, while a Obris tian is free, he is not to abuse his liberty. Now he is going to show wherein the highest freedom con- sists, ,namely, in walking, or mak- ingpersistent progress day by day, by the help of the indwelling Holy Spirit, If the Spirit is in full' con- trol, then the flesh, or sinful ten- dencies and perversities of the heart. is ruled out. 17. Flesh ltrsteth against the Spu'-it—This is ,o be taken in its dis- tinctly theological sense (compare Roin. 8.) Paul in this way distin- guishes between. the sinful elements in man's nature which have come to him through the flesh, and the di- vine life which comes through the regenerating influence of the 'Spir- it. Naturally these two are mutu- ally exclusive anti hostile. May not do the things that ye would—Tne best commentary on these words is the seventh chapter of Romans where Paul gives his pathetic description of the condi- tion of a man who remains in bon- dage to the flesh until Christ sets him free. 18. Led by the Spirit—The Chris- tian is thus represented as being held back from danger and sin by the controlling power of the Spirht. In this situation the struggle with the flesh has ceased. Here Paul shifts from the word "ftesb ' to the word "law.” The two are indeed interchangeable; so long as a man remains under the law, as his mas- ter, he cannot have dominion over the flesh; and so long as the flesh rules him the law stands over him to condemn. But where the Spirit holds sway law is no longer need- ed. Tire Christian does rigbt under the impulse of the Spirit of Christ. acting from within, and not from fear or .a sense of duty trying to meet the behests of law. For the mature Christian, therefore, the ideal would be for the law to be abolished, 19. The works of the flesh—They fall under four heads, which, how- ever, are not marked with abso- luteness: (i) Sensuality; (3) idola- try; (3) bitter variance with one's neighbor; (4) want of moderation. It will be seen that these evils touch every part of a man's nature, and are not merely "fleshly" in the or- dinary sense. They reach out also to his social relations and his re- sponsibilities to God. Fornication, uncleanness, and lasciviousness are general terms for vile sexual excesses which were so common among the heathen of Paul's time that he was obliged re- peatedly to rebuke them in unspar- ing terms. 20 Sorcery—Tho use of magic for evil purposes. Belief in magic spells, incantations, witchcraft was extremely prevalent in Paul's day- Enmities—Paul puts in one class eight words which describe the un- happy differences that exist among ,people who magnify the import- ance of their Own positions, or look narrowlyand selfishly upon the•ex- periences and acts of their neigh- bors, 21. As I did forewarn you — The in his teaclrin apostle has already, g among them, declared with pointed plainness of speech that such things are absolutely foreign to the king- dom of God, and that a man must cease from these before he can hoPe to become a member thereof. '22. The fruit—The things which are evil aro correctly described as "weeks," inasmuch as we produce them unaided, But fruit must have the fostering care of another. In this (1080 it is the Spirit who from the unpromising soil of human hearts is able to bring forth the meat astonishing results. Love rightly heads the list. The catalugue may for convenience be divided into three groups of three each, though there are no rigid lines. The members of the second group go well together, and signify a patient "holding out of the, mind before it gives room to action - or passion" (Trench). Faithfulness --The word here is aetually '.faith," .and :seems to stand for fidelity, for that quality of character which makes it always to lie relied upon. 23. Meekness -The absence of a von gran l sl,irit, Po the preservation of patience under pro- vocation. Sc1f-conire] --hlaisle ry : aver' the lower passions, Notice that while it is called the control of self by, Yell, it is really the outcome of the 13pirit'r; oontrolaing the self, that is, the entire personality, Against suoh , ...uo law — The law eannnt ocindemn that which is the vary fulfillment of the law. 94. Have crucified the flush—To take on (Theist Jesus by faith is viia tuelly to die to the lusts ofthe flesh, for, tie be alive to Olrrist le to be dead to everything opposed to his Spirit. 25. "Tho inner" life 'should rule the outer life." 26. The faults hero mentioned, of indulging'in foolish rivalries, and giving way to jealousies, and cher- ishing grudges, wore the sort that brought the Galatians under Pauns condemnation, So the lesson eon - chides where it began; and proper- ly, for there are no more insidious fees to the spiritual life than these.' A CA.T AND 11061 biilit111SII. In 'Which the Cat Won by Superior Strategical. Ability. "I never fancied cats very mush," says a limited lover of nature, "but certainly the cat is a fairly courageous animal and mere than ordinarily shifty and resourceful, and so it's •quite likely to be able to hold its ownagainet an enemy much larger acid mare powerful than itself. "Here yellow cat Moro was a w, y moving at a walk leisurely across the street while at the same time there was coming along this block a dog When the deg saw the cat it start- ed for it as fast as it could go and when the cat saw the dog it turned on full power at once and fairly jumped to clear the remain- ing space to the other side of the street, where, it halted with its back against a tall iron picket fence and faced the dog. "Instantly the dog jumped for the cat, but even more quickly up went the cat's paw to sweep the air downward, and a, cat's claws are very sharp and a dog's nose is very tender and delicate, and the dog didn't close. In a moment he jumped for the cat again, but again the cat clawed him off, or the fear of the claws was enough to make the dog shy again. "But theaiext tune evidently the dog was going to close iu and rough ]louse things and take the chances; and do you know what the cat did now '1 The eat is a very cum- l pressibie creature; it can get. through a very small .space; and now this particular yellow cat backed in between two of those iron pickets to the inner side ofthe fence; but it didn't run away. It stayed right there, close to the in- ner side of the fence, which the dog couldn't get through, and when the dog came up for that last time the oat struck at it again through the fence with that swift, silent sweep of its paw, swung this time, as it seemed, with a sort of savagely cool contemptuousness. Then the foolish dog ran away, "We may not fancy the cat, but we should err if we failed to give it at least •ecce measure of admir- ation for the shifty anility with which it holds its own against its natural enemy." THEY RARELY COMPLAIN INVALIDS LESS TROUBLE THAN TRIVIAL ti49U1iA.UN'J'S Sante Wait Too Long Before Scour- ing Advice—Others Worry Constantly. Two extreme classes of invalids are desoribed in a nate in the Lan- eet, namely, those who, though striokon with sumo serious, 'or even fatal malady, say nothing about it, and these who complain long and loudly about trivial ailments. Says the writer:—"The. really'sick pati- ents who' do nut seek medical ad- vice or complain tray be divided in- to four cheeses. Firstly, there is the patient who suspects some very serious or fatal disorder—fol' in- etanee, a woman who suspects she has a cancer, We say suspects, but slie practically knows, and yet alio dreads to be told the fact, with the result that alio hesitates to submit ,herself to a medical'verdiot until she is past the reach -of .effective aid. Secondly, there is that class composed. of people who take a somewhat fatalistic view of life or death and who tell themselves that it is no sae Worrying and that they will justge on THEY CAN. it AS LOislr,l AS Gr . m Thirdly, there is rho class co pus - ed of persons sultori.ng from some very chronic complaint, such as, fur instance, the• business man suffer- ing from granular kidney. He is; conscious of feeling vaguely unwell, but having so much to attend to, and never 'bothering much about himself,' ashe expresses it, lie goes on with his daily occupation until one day a cerebral hemorrhage or an acute .pleural effusion strikes him unexpectedly down, or perhaps one morning he wakes to find him- self partially imself'partially blind. And lastly, there are those brave souls who, knowing that they are doomed with- in it few 'years at ,the most, take up their burden for the sake of those near and dear to them, or for: very love of labor, and work with 'undiminished courage to the end. Robert Louis Stevenson was the typo of this class of sufferers, and our own profession can afford other shining examples. The name, of John Hunter comes at once to mind. "Contrast with these that large class of personswho with nothing whatever definite the matter with them, or with nothing but some ill- ness which is due to their own self- indulgence, fly from one medical man to another, while in the inter- vals of orthodox treatment they dose thernselses with all the 1 VARIOUS QUACK REMEDI)S which figure so largely in the ad- vertisement columns of the daily press and the popular monthly ma- gazines, They always are com- plaining, never satisfied, and are a nuisance 'to themselves, to their friends, and to their medical man for the time being. The type of this class is the man who habitually overdistends lus stomach and who translates the resultingfrequent'at- tacks of cai'diac palpitation into the warnings of approaching death pro- ceeding from a heart iu a condition of hopeless disease. Tho contrast is a remarkable illustration of the complexity of human' nature, and can only be paralleled by the way .in which the really poor suffer in heroic silence, while the loafer pa- rades the streets with banners in- scribed 'Curse your Charity' at one end of the procession and a collect- ing -box at the other,"—Literary Digest. STEEL BELTS. Steel has r•ocentiy •entered a new field, appearing as an effeotive ma- terial for power belts in mills, fac- tories and similar places. ,Its ad- vantages lie in the reduction of width both of belts and of pulleys, the consequent reduction of weight and expense, and a reduction in th.o distance between axles necessitat- ed heretofore to secure proper ten- sion of leather belts. Size of pul- leys can be increased, and therefore a gain in power secured, because of the reduction of weight and width. • Extraordinary speeds, im 'practicable with leather or rope transmission aro readily available with steel bets, and the savings ef- fected in all departments cover an increased initial cost easily in a season. The pulleys are provide4l with canvas and cork surfaces to give the steel bands the best pos- sible bold upon them. NOBILITY IN HAIpD STRAITS. A French paper published an an count of the straits to 'nvl,ieh cer- tain bearers of noble names were reduced to earn a. living, The Duchess de Saint -Simon is a work- ing h;n50keoper, The heir of the Last Doge of Venice is an actor ett the fat, Denis theatre, this li:eys of Venice in an ornate case, which were confided to the hereditary. keeping of his .family, reposebe- neath a glass shade on his mantel- piece, The Capital the Ptch, •a unique title, one of the noblest in France, is also an actor. The , Duchesse de San Severino earns tL pittance as assistant in a milliner's shop. FEATS 011' BLIND M. SICL•I.NS. Remarkable Powers of Gorman and h renchain n. • A few years ago all Germany was marvelling et tae teats of a blind youth called Schwarzkopf, -who had never had a lesson in music in his life. In spite of this drawback he was able to play the piano arid, in- deed, almost any other instrument, with a perfection of execution which any professor might well have en- v1od. If he heard an opera be could on returning home, repeat almost every note bo had beard. His most remarkable performance, as a feat of musical memory, has probably never been rivalled. Almost equally remarkable was the memory of M. Uhataigen, a blind musician of Paris, half a cen- tury ago. M. tibataignon conduct- ed hundreds of concert programmes entirely from memory. On one oc- casion he accomplished on the piano a rehearsal of en entire opera, at the same time trarisposing the mu- sic half atone f and he gave a score of piano recitals, chiefly of Bee- thoven's sonatas, striking no fewer than a million and a quarter of notes, each of which had to be re- tained in its exact position in his memory, ROSES OF TEMPLE GARDENS. Perhaps the two must famous flower's in history are associated with the Temple Gardens, for ac- eording to tradition it was in the gardens in 1430 that the two lead- ers plucked the red and white roses which 'crane the hedges of tire. rival houses of Lancaster and York,says the tendon Chronicle, The gardens wire for, ecnluries hennas for their roses, • Among their flinal eueinsities ((lie finds in the won nts for 1700 an expenclitrire oil two peeirnie box trees, and won - dere what a perimic'ti•ee is until one remembers the custom of trim- ming box trees in a symmetrical of "perimetric" fashion. + ++++++44+++++++++++++, The cant' + ++++++++4+++++.444++0.4 . The sturdy oloelrwoi'lc figure paces the ground under the dark arch- wey; a chill winter's night, a grey mist rising, blurred figures flit across the wide, bare barrack- square. A long, wailic,g note from e'clistent >rugle, the sentry pauses en instant in his stride, gazes at the dully ticking clock ,overhead, takes absolutely iio notice of the hundred and one khaki -clad figures bustling . past lg sghing faces, young lads back from some local music -hall; grim, older faces with much to do with their shilling a day, A. patrol hurries past the mili- tary police! In yonder low room thirty tongues are chattering: "Woodie's bolted!" The deserter; trudges a dark, country road. He's left the Army, now. Uniformgone; dropped in a tidy heap by a lonely oak, He's free; but he: is a criminal. When dawn comes he is far beyond the reach of that scurrying patrol. He • pauses at an eating -400m; appetizing fumes pour out of the open door. The workingman is . there in force. "Coffee an' two Blebs" are much in demand. He enters stiffly, .sits stiffly, and two keen -eyed men, whe have waited make a signal. He's caught,, but eats his breakfast happily in ignor- ance. Pays like a man. I1e'11 start afresh. He'll bury the past. He rises, slouches •across the room like a tramp. "Halt 1" Instinctively he stands stiff, plays into the enemy's hands. Two keen -eyed men block the way. A glitter of handcuffs, a mur- murs of sympathy from a crowd of ne'er-do-wells, then a brief strug- gle. His Army' training stands him ingood stead.' A smashing blow, and one is down. A rush, and he is free! A roar of encouragement from the mob, he darts across the street, gives ,one look behind, and "(Mang! Clangl'' a jar, of brakes, a scream, a harsh groan, and shud- der as the big ear comes to rest. Two white-faced men of the law stand silent as the mangled form is withdrawn. The deserter has gone to be judged !—London Answers. CURING FATIGUE,/ Discovery of an antitoxin for fa- tigue has been announond in Ger- many by Dr. W. `r,eichardt, lec- turer at the University of Erlan- gen. Ho claims to have discovered the poison that is liberated in the human tissues by the breaking down resulting from effort, and that he has found the natural antidote- for it, which the body itself pro- vides. He has succeeded, in some remarkable experiments in produc- ing both fatigue and restoration from fatigue, in annuals iuoculat ed, first with the fatigue toxin and afterward with his antitoxin. He noted that all animals show increase of ,endurance, following rest after work. He argued that this indicat- ed an overproduction of an element in the Mood, capable of neutraliz- ing the fatigue poison. Deducting that thiselement could be isolated, and that the bodies of animals could be made Le produce it in usable, quantities, he experimented till he accomplished those results. Bis success has been so rem :rkable that it has attracted wide attention, and. promising results have been attain- ed. in treatment of serious diseases' by other scientists. r• "N0 -fill"' HOTEL WINS.. Guests Turned Away Prove Success of London's Venture. The "No Rip" Hotel which siert- ed on the Strand, London, last year is enjoying great prosperity. The hotel has been open for 344 nights; the director says that not one room has been empty during all that time, while scores of -would- be guests are turned away daily. Guests who are discovered giving a tip are informed that their rooms have been let for the next night; any employe who accepts a tip is discharged promptly. Tho hotel was established by Jo- seph Lyons, the caterer, who does the largest business in lixtgland, and who occupies hi:eespare bine by painting in oils and writing sensa- tional stories and melodramas. The eyes of the proprietors of ri- val -hostelries have been opened by the public's eagerness to keepsome of its money in its pocket, 0' - NO GOOD. Caller (on crutches and with a bandage over one eye)—"I have 'come, sir, to make application for the amount clue on my .accident in- surance policy, ' I fell down a long. flight of stairs the other evening anti sustained clottage, that will dis- able me fee a month to come." Managsir of Company—":Young man, I "have taken the trouble to investigate your case, ,and :I find you are not entitled to anything. Ie could not be called alt accident. You certainly knew the young Lady's fa - titer ryas et home,".