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The Brussels Post, 1910-12-22, Page 2'For Tea "ou Can't'.Eeatliptton's' Yea, Madam; It's the Same Famous Tea Thegt Is Sold All Over the World. LIPT:ON' Sold Only in Airtight Packages: HOME. ***********41 OYSTERS. Oyster Loaf. Cut the top from )load of bread and scoop and seral e pit the inside, looming the bottom ?rid sides whole. Set the hollowed paf with the top crust laid .by it, O open oven to get very dry and. arm. Cut four dozen oysters in alves. Cook them over the fire in their own liquor. When they Ise- lin to curl at the edges, add the numbs of the loaf, rubbed fire. A rge tablespoon of butter idled 1a one of flour; add a teacupful of bot milk; season with salt'aud pep- ;nee and cook for i,uree minutes of / ter the milk is added. Butter the inside of dried loaf. Fill with the oyster mixture, put an the upper crust and serve. Clear Oyster Soup.—Wash each oyster and strain liquor through fine sieve. One quart of milk, one int of oysters, one teaspoon of butter, one teaspoon of salt, 'e'bite' pepper. Put oysters in when the milk comes to a boil. Oyster Bouillon.—Mash and diep fine fifty good sized oysters, put 3n a double boiler, cover, and cock slowly one hour; add a pint o: WO - ler, a level teaspoonof celery seed, and strain through cheesecloth; re - :eat, add a tablespoonful butter, s>, little salt, and serve in cups. Steamed . Oysters.—Buy the • oy- _ eters unopened. Wash thoroughly with brush or coarse cloth. Place them separately in a steamer or coarse sieve over a kettle of boil- ing water. The deep shell must be undermost in order that no liquor May be wasted. As soon as oysters .open, they aro done and should 'be served at once with pepper, salt and butter on nice brown buttered toast. Panned Oysters. --Plump a quart of medium sized oysters in their own liquor, adding a tablespoon- jul of butter, a tablespoonful of lemon juice, and salt and paprika to taste. Serve on toast. POTATOES. Delmonico Potatoes. — Arrange alternate layers of cold boiled po- latoes cut in dice, grated cheese, a minced pimento, and white sauce, +., llow two cupfuls of potatoes, one- lhird cupful of cheese, and one and ine-fourth cupfuls of sauce. Cover With buttered crumbs and brown. Fried Potatoes and Celery.—To rix raw potatoes sliced in the usual manner add a medium sliced onion ;find three stalks of celery sliced ra- ther fine. Salt and fry in hot olive oil, or ham or bacon fat. (Use the outside stalks of celery, reserving the others for the cable use.) The celery gives the fried potatoes a delicious flavor, and all those who have tasted this recipe say it is fine. Brabani Potatoes.—Cut the pota- toes in dice and fry them for a few minutes in hot lard. Lone before hhoy are done take them f r es, tee suds will come out quite whits. and butter. Then add beaten whites and lastly the nuts, Will keep fresh for a week or ten days. Mexican Tomatoes and Rice. - Take four tablespoonfuls of rine, wash, and dry in a napkin. Place rice in the frying pan with a table- spoonful of lard, brown it over the fire a light tan eolor. Add to this three diced onions and allow to partially fry. In another kettle have a quart of tomatoes, salted and peppered to taste as for stew- ing. To this add four diced pota- toes,•two green peppers that have been prepared and allowed to lay in salt water a few minutes—a tablespoonful of butter and cold chicken cut in small pieces (al- though this latter is riot necessary to the success of the dish) and when boiling add the rice and onions and pack away in your cooker for an hour. Mexican Beef Stew.—Take 25 cent beef brisket, cover with wa- ter and boil until tender, strain, and let stand a few moments. To this add one cup stewed tomatoes, or two fresh ones, one-half teaspoon- ful of salt, Bermuda onion. Add last of all one tablespoonful of but- ter into which one-half teaspoon of chili pepper has been placed and fried. CHEESE. Potted Cheese.—Three pounds well flavored cheese, three 'quar- ters of a cupful of butter, soft enough to mix; three-quarters of a cupful of vinegar, three-quarters of a tablespoonful of mustard, mixed with two tablespoonfuls cold water; two and one-half ueaspoonfuls salt, speck of cayenne pepper. Put cheese through meat grinder, using the finest cutter. Add vinegar, but BATTLE OF TIIE LINERS THREE CORNERED FIOUT 1'O1t SUPREMACY AT SEA,. White Star Giants to be Excelled by the Hamburg and Cuuard Companies. The fight for the supromacy of the sea between Clreat Britain and Germany is by no means confined to the building of Dreadnougets and super -Dreadnaughts. Both countries are striving to excel iu the matter of mercantile fleets, and the fight is centered mainly upon the passenger and freight traffic of the north Atlantic. The struggle has been going on for many years and vessel has fol- lowed upon vessel, each eclipsing its predecessors in speed or size. The Lucania and Campania, built for the Cunard Line in 1893 to steam 22 knots an hour, were real- ly the first to set the pace for speed. The Lucania in 1894 reduced the passage from queenstown to New York to 61=3 days; her best day's run being 502. knots, and this re- cord stood for many months. The next ocean greyhound to ap- pear was the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse of the North German Lloyd, built in 1897, with a speed of 22% knots. In 1897 she did the passage from Southampton to New York in 6 days, her best day's run being 580 knots, The Hamburg -American Line then made a bid for the record with the Deutschland, built in 1900, which easily proved herself the fast- est ocean steamer afloat at that time. In 1903 she did the voyage from Cherbourg, to New York in 5% days, and she has also steam- ed from New York to Plymouth in 5 days 7 hours 38 minutes. THE NORTH GERMAN LLOYD replied with the Kronprinz Wil- helm, built in 1901, and the Kaiser Wilhelm II., built in 1902, of 23 and 23% knots respectively, but the Deutschland's ocean record re- mained unbeaten :until the appear- ance of the Cunard company's Lu- sitania and Mauretania, both built in 1907, of 24 knots speed and 70,000. horse -power. The • North German Lloyd launched in 1908 the Kron- p linzessin Ceeilie, a fast boat of 23% knots. She has covered 590 knots in a day, but has never been able to lower the Mauretania's re- cord of less than 4'3 days from Queenstown to New York. ter mustard salt and cayenne And so for the present the lour - pepper. Mia and rub the whole to- els for speed rest with the Cunard gether until smooth. Taste care- fully and season more highly if Line, and the Mauretania's record is likely to remainunchallenged necessary. Pack in small Tars. for many days, for it has been found Pour one teaspoonful of brandy that the addition of a knot to the over top of each jar to prevent speed of a ship is too costly in coal spoiling. Cover tightly and keep in a cool place. Cheese Sandwich, Grate one- half pound cream cheese with three pimentos cut fine. Add a mayon- naise dressing of two eggs, well beaten, three even tablespoonfuls of sugar, a lump of butter the size of a walnut, one-half teaspoonful of dry mustard, three tablespoon- fuls of vinegar, and two of water. Boil until thick, set away to cool, when add a little milk to thin, then add this to the cheese and pimen- tos; spread between slices of bread. USEFUL HINTS. Fresh milk applied to boots and shoes has a presentative effect on the leather. Never wash game, inside or out; merely wipe it with a cloth rung out in hot water. To remove iron rust, dampen cloth, rub on cream of tartar, rub well, and let stand an hour, then wash. Coffee or tea stains if rubbed with butter and then washed in hot soap and and turn them inti, a *14 pan With a generous lump of fresh butter; fry them until a golden brown, after which sprinkle some shopped parsley over them; season with salt and pepper, and spray them with lemon juice. FOREIGN DISHES. Liver, Spanish Style.—Plaeo in baking dish :layer of sliced onions, then slices of liver rolled in flour, en liver layer' of onions, a medium sized sliced tomato, two small green peppers chopped fine, salt and pep- per to season, two orthree small slices of bacon ---or a tablespoon of lard may be substituted for bacon. Cover with boiling water, bake in raotlerate oven for about an hour, ,adding water if neecssary. Potato Calcc.-•'-Two cups of sugar, testi cups of flour. one sup of but- ter, one large cup of English wal- nuts, one cup of potatoes mashed and soasoned ready tb serve, one and it half cups of chocolate grated, Ono -half cup of tnilk, five eggs, rising all the yolks and whites of three, keeping two whites for boiled teaspoons belting powder. one eaolt of Cloves, eirina- nlon, alisplee and nutmeg; one each of lemon and vanilla. Bake either In loo£ or layers. .Cream butter Oki sugar. Add milk, then ;mike Lamp chimneys will not break easily if placed in water, which meat be very slowly brought to the bail When washing flannels put teaspoonfuls of ammonia into gallon of water to soften the rio. In cleaning wall paper with bread crumbs use two -day-old bread in small pieces; clean with downward light stroke. Never go over the same surface, anti never work "noxi • zontally. Cut away soiled part of bread continually. • Macaroni or rice, after -being cooked, if put into a colander, and rinsed with cold water, will not stick together in a solid mass, As it is otherwise inclined to do. The rico can be put in the oven after - weeds to reheat it. To prevent the skin rising on the top of milk that has been boiled, as soon as the milk is hot, put the leis- sei containing it bete a pan of cold water, Leave the milk until it is cold, and you will find that there is not the slightest skin formed. Mustard is thenearest approach to a universal ours-alL Few pains will .not give way before a musters' plaster, and a wide range of inter- nal inflammation honk colds and other causes may bo stopped by this timely application. It is the first of egg beaten high, then potatoes, and best resort in threatened peen - soft spices, chocolate and baking mollis, congestion of the 'Snag, op tpowder iia flour, and al d to eggs rle4ermined colds I ebtr%, two one fab - consumption to be remunerative, and experience has also shown that the average traveller is not so keen on making record trips as on hav- ing a comfortable voyage. Compe- tition, therefore, is now taking the form of increased tonnage and bet- ter accommodation for passengers. Speed is being sacrificed to luxury. The lines which are pitting their resources against each other are the White Star, the Cunard and the hamburg -American. At pre- sent the North German Lloyd does not aim at ships of great tonnage, and indeed: it is doubtful if it has any present intention to strength- ening its fleet. It may be said that the two English companies are as. active in competition against each. other as they are against the Ger- man line. THE LARGEST VESSEL. When the White Star Line plac- ed on the stocks the Olympic, re- cently launched, and the Titanic it was believed that the limit in sizo had been reached. Both of them are of 45,000 tons and over 880 feet in length. But it has since been learned that the Hamburg - American Line is actually building a vessel destined, it is boasted, "easily to displace the Olympic as the largest vessel afloat." The vessel, which is being con- structed at the Vulcan yard at Ste - tin, has not been designed for speed -•-twenty-two knots being aimed at —but in other respects she will be a remarkable .advance upon any vessel at present afloat. Her length will be 881 feet and her gross ton- nage .50,000. Her captain's bridge when the liner is fully loaded will be seventy-seven feet above the water line and the flag at her mast- head will be 208 feet above the water. The hull of the new liner is so enormous that the Deutsch- land couldfloat within it as in a basin, even her funnels being hid- den. The Deutschland is 602 feet long and her gross' tonnage is 15,- -500, The Hamburg -American: Line an- nounces that besides this leviathan it has fourteen other steamers building with a joint cargo cape city of 110,000 tons. This German compan3P already the largest steamship owner in the world. The boast that its new vessel will be the biggest steamer afloat may, how- ever, prove unfounded. THIi CUNrARD LINE pa, s i cl.fleati ns - and invit-. has i a...,.,1 fro o. ,etcf tenders for he construction of hugs yteate Used in Comedian, home& to produce, delicious home-made treat, anti a taupe ply is alvealys included ;In. Gportsmena' and Campers' Outfits, Decline all imitations. They never give aatlefection and cost just ae pouch. is. W. GILLET f CO. LTD. Wlenlees Toronto, Ont. Montreal 4Warded bighs,t honors at all rte. lei Erposittons. New York trade which will exceed in every measurement the White Star liner Olympic, now the largest vessel in the world, and will equal in size the Hamburg -American lin- er now being built. The following table shows that the new Cunarder will be longer and narrower and two knots faster than the German vessel, but will have the same gross tonnage: Length Breadth Ft. Ft. Speed Tons New Ounarder 885 95% 23 50,000 Mauretania . . 769 88 25 32,000 Olympic .882M 92 21 45,000 H'mb'g Am'ka 881 100 22 50,000 The internal arrangements' of the new Cun--der will be of the most luxurious character and will in- clude Turkish and electric baths, a printing establishment for a daily papera swimming pond, a theatre, I etc. t is roughly estimated that the new liner, which will carry 3,- 790 passengers (650 first class, 740 second and 2,400 third), will cost $10,000,000.. She will have a coal capaity of 6,500 tons and will carry four funnels. She will be propel- led by turbines. Perhaps the most important fea- ture of the design of the vessel lies in her double bottom, which has been so arranged as to permit the use of, oil fuel. When the Lusitania and the Mauretania were being laid down there was a rumor that they. were to be run with oil, but the project was abandoned because of the cost and the difficulty of ob- taining a supply. Now the condi- tions aro quite different and the Cunard directors have taken the departure which in the opinion of shipping authorities must lead to a Reliable Bcvcra CS Have gained a reputation for excellence which makes them popular favorites everywhere.. ANIMALS AS CRIMINALS DUMB BRUTES ARE BROUGHT INTO COURT. All Due to the Superstitions of People so Prevalent in the Past. The Saint James Gazette in are-' cent issue relates that a woman liv- ing in Etampes, near Paris, was counting her money as she walked along the street and dropped a note of $200.,, The bill fluttered to the ground and was picked up by a goatherd who was passing with'a herd of she -goats. As the goat- herd was about to hand the bill to its owner a goat grabbed it and immediately ate it. The weman accused the goatherd of having purposely fed her money' .to the animal, and called an officer, The man and goat were arrested and taken before a magistrate. To prove his honesty',the goatherd of- fered.to sacrifice the goat. The animal was killed and the bank- note was recovered, somewhat dam- aged, amaged, but with the number intact, so that the woman' was able to ex- change it. The goatherd then .de- manded that the woman pay for the goat, which she refused to do. The case is still in the courts. This is not the first time that an animal has been haled to the bar of justice in France. Herbert Spencer, in his Descriptive Socio logy, qtkeeks' Du Boysas relating. several . stances of the prosecu- tion of az,imals for crimes of one sort or another. It is stated that A COW WAS EXECUTED REVOLUTION IN SHIPPING. It is just seventy years since the Brittania, of 1,139 tons, the first Cunarder, crossed the Atlantic, with Samuel Cunard aboard, taking eight hours over two weeks to do the trip. The ship now under construction for the Hamburg -American Line will be with a device invented by Herr Frahm of Hamburg for re- ducing the rolling of vessels at sea. It consists of U shaped tanks ex- tending from port to starboard through the hold. The water in them rises and falls as the ship rolls, thus counteracting the 'oscil- lation of the vessel. The tanks have been tested on the two Hamburg -American liners Ypiranga and Corcovado, plying be- tween Hamburg and Buenos Ayres. Without the tanks the vessel rolled up to eleven :degrees on each beam. This was reduced to two degrees' when the tanks were in operation. The German Emperor has congra- tulated Herr Frahm on his inven- tion and expressed the hope that the system would be introduced on. board all vessels. The pitching tank of Herr Frahm is not the first device .for the pre- vention of seasickness tried by the Hamburg -American Line. Four years ago a trial was given to the invention of a .German engineer, Herr Robert Otto. This consisted of an arm chair the seat of which was moved sideways, backward and forward by a small electric motor, The rapid and varied motion was supposed to neutralize the effeets of the rolling of the vessel. Many of these chairs were placed on the Patricia, running between Ham- burg and New York. The correct accompaniments to all ,game are bread sauce, fried crtfinhs, good gravy and potatoes fried in any fashiu.i. Try mixing flour -and water for thickening with a fork instead of the usual spoon. It is less likely to turn lumpy. 1 . In hemming the armhole of a cor- set cover fold the hem over a cord, tearing down. for To cream butter and sugar cake in told weather place crock with butter and sugar input of hot water while berating and it will cream quickly. Rust on steel can bo removed by rubbing sweet oil well into the 'til- face, Let it stand two days; then rub the steel with'unslaked lime no til surface is clean Wlren Tusking salad dressing beret eggs thoroughly, then beat in the vinegar a little at a time, and the dlessing will not curdle. If yolks only are used the dressing will be for the Live'pools much smoother. with all due Ceremony after con- viction for a capital offense, ' in 15460. Insects which ravaged a vil- lage il lage were tried before an ecolesias tical tribunal in due form in 1587. Counsel was granted . them and several months passed in the usual memoirs, : pleadings and delays. Theywere finally condemned. Berriat Saint Prix enumerated more than 80 cases of sentences of death or excommunication pro- nounced against animals, ranging from an ass to a grasshepper, be- tween 1120 and 1741. A sow which had killed and eaten' a child was tried, mutilated and executed in 1356. alter having been dressed;; in man's clothes. The executioner received his usual pay' for the ex- ecution. During theeame century three swine and a pig were coil - skinned to be burned, felled . in buried, for having eatena young shepherd. The rest of the herd were condemned as accomplices and their sentences were remitted on- ly upon application to the •Dicke of Burgundy, whose pardon was granted with all the forms of chancery. That the ancients ascribed rets - ening powers to animals, we know becauso we are told in the Bible that the serpent was condemned to "go 'upon his belly" because he tempted Eve. IN THE MIDDLEAGES this belief was very general. The aaciont,Irish aro reported to have had such, a. veneration :,for ' wolves that they chose them tee godfath- ers for their children, while in oth- er countries wolves were regarded as lycanthropes or witches who had token that form. In Italy oats were often suspected of bong dis- guised witches. One story has come down to usof a hunter who cut off tate paw of al wolf and re- tained it 08 a trophy, ., but upon eliciting his hag lio discoverett it to he the hand of his * fe. ncredible that lulu have been prevalent when the thoroughly modern Montaigne was engaged in writing, but such was the case. The Demonomaine des Borders of Bodin appeared in 1581, .while the first great skeptical work in the French language was published by Montaigne in 1588. Of this work, which dealt with the superstition of witchcraft generally, Lecky said : "It would scarcely be . pos- sible to conceive a more striking contrast, then his -treatment of its presents to the works of Bodin and of Wier.". It was about this time, also, that Ayrault protested against the condemnation of ani- mals, on the ground that where there was no understanding there could'be no crime. VENERATION OF ANIMALS has always been .common in the East. The Indians have their sac• red elephants and, the Hindoos be lieve that the souls of men enter into the bodies of beasts and even of insects. A man who resided in Constantinople was bitten py a vicious dog a few years ago and when he applied to the authorities to have the animal killed, he was informed that the law did not coun- tenance the killing of dogs,. but that the beast would be banished to a neighboring island if he would pay the expense of transporting it. Many visitors to Constantinople,. ineluding Mark Twain, have cam- mented upon the plague of dogs in that city, and it has been within only the last few years that - the pro- gressive. element in Turkey has. succeeded in driving the curs from the capital Tho .Egyptians had deities who took the form of men and women and the heads of animals and birds. There' was Kneph, the ram -headed; Thoth, the ibis -headed; Pashi, the cat -headed; Bast,the lion - headed ; and Rather, the tow- headed. R+y ILhons and Horus were all hawk -headed. Set had the body of an ass, the tail of a Tion, and the ears and muzzle of -a, jackal'. The soul of the god Osiris was supposed to in- habity the•.bed of the emceed hull Apis, and after the death of the bull, the body of his successor. The Saint James Gazette does not state whether the lady of Etam pes thought the animal was train- ed or.whether she held ib morally responsible for the theft; but it is evident that whatever her feel- ings may have been as to the ani- mal, she blamed the man. And we must admit, in the language of the sporting writer, that she certainly "got his goat," It seems almost Much superstitions A POLICEMAN'S PARADISE. TUE POLICE ..IN ..GERUANY HATE A. HAPPY T 1lE. 10 He Carries a Small Library of Books Under Itis Blouse-• . Maker Many Reports. Someone has said that in Ger- many it takes one-half of the na- tion to control the other. Cer- tainly no foreigner visits the coun- try without being atruok by the immense numbers of police and the innumerable regulations they have to put in force. "Verboten" (It is forbidden) seems almost the nation- , al motto of Germany. In a twenty minutes' walk in a Berlin park you can count at least fifty notice - boards, all forbidding something or other, You would fend, for instance, that; you cannot sit Clown on any seat you like, Some seats are marked "For Children," some "For Nur- ses and Children Only," others "For Adults Only." There are sep- arate paths for cyclists, pedestri- ans, riders, light vehicles and heavy vehicles,, for children, and for ladies walking alone. WHEN ENGAGING A SERVANT. There are notices forbidding peo- ple to walls on the grass, and oth- ers forbidding dogs to walk on the grass. The German dog is said to be so thoroughly accustomed to obeying police regulations that any dog found on the grass is bound to be a foreign dog. No one in Germany can engage a servant without supplying the po-• lice with particulars as to her name, her age, her nationality, the color of her hair, her complex- ion, the state of her teeth, the per- iod she is engaged for, and many other points. She, too, has also to send in a report. Another report has to be given when she is dismissed, tel- ling where she is going, and giving all the personal details over again. When a householder changes his place of residence the police have to be informed of . his income, hie futureabode, the number of his family, and other things, to use the hallowed phrase, too numerous to mention. When a foreigner domes to a German hotel or takes a house he soon finds a policeman swooping down on him, pulling out a little book, and insisting on a full con- fession.• In Germany ono is forbidden to leave the front door unlocked, to hang a bed out of the window, to play the piano after eleven, to cross a bridge on the wrong side, to "ramble about in droves after dark," to shoot with crossbows or blow -pipes in the street. SHOWERS OF POTATOES. Students Bombarded Members. of Senate and visitors. Boisterous scenes marked the first meeting of the now National University of Ireland for the con- ferring of degrees, held at the Uni- versity buildings, Dublin, a short time ago. In addition to ringing bells' and shouting and singing, the students in the gallery showered cold and boiled' potatoes, squibs and bags, of flour on those in the body of the hall, end on niembsrs of the senate as they passed up to the platform,' Ladies' hats were favorite tar- gets and the reporters' table was so bombarded that the 'pressmen beat a retreat. The explosionof fireworks added to the deafening noise, No word of the speech of the Vico-Chancellor, Sir uhristopher Dixon, could be heard, and he sat down without having finished his address. Members of the senate, with their lady friends, -left the building, showing disfiguring signs of the bombardment they had un- dergone. ALL DOGS MUST BE MUZZLED. You must not break bottles of jugs in the street, too. If they do get broken, .you must not leave the pieces anywhere. Whether you are to pickup the pieces and carry them always with you the regula- tions do not say. You must not leave them there and must not put them anywhere else. But usually the regulations are very precise, .Bull -dogs and other large dogs must always make their public appearances in muzzles and be led by a leash nob longer than sixteen inches, and they must walk not on the pavement but in the street. If your dog barks in the street after ten a policeman soon runs up, shouting: "That -dog- must—not bark!" ." If your child- ren are making a noise in the street he soon lets you know of that, too. Waitresses must not chat with customers. Their skirts must be of a certain length, and their collars of a certain height Your clothes must be seemly. In Berlin not long ago a Highlander set out for a party in full Higblard evening dress. ' He met the inevitable policeman, To the question: "What aro you doing in those clothes I" he return- ed the answer :"Wearing them." "Whyl" (The' German polieemas always asks "Why l") "To keep myself warm." FOR HORSES ONLY, In the exec' the Highlander was escorted back to his hotel in a eke, ed carriage. It needed the British Ambassador to persuade the .polies that there is a country in which Highland dress is not regarded as unseemly, and to got the usual fine withheld. For all these crimes have a defin• ite fine. The watertroughs in the streets are marked "For Horses Only." If you mistook them for the public baths or fish -ponds you would not puzzle the ponce, Every contingency, possible and impoe- sible,is provided against in the bulky manual of police regulation' that every town issues. This man. nal, by the wily, points out precise- ly what breakages you may compel your servant to pay for and what you may not. Tho fines aro usually small, Soma are as low at two cents, while few are higher than $2.2e, But there 1* no worry. You always know ex• aptly what you will have to pay for your fun,—lt'earscn's Weekly.