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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1911-10-26, Page 3Hints for Busy Housekeepers. aedll1Ser Valuable lnleemetlen el Particular lusereat to Women Polkas eseeen1.........=esesee'enesseTh'ereeeen—leneelreese....."—""lee""-"'saissealett"`sisee=snie setae.. OURINQ MEAT. The methods a keePing meats tho you around ils weli known to far- mers' wives, but a mystery th meet town housekeepers. A. good (sized piece, of meat may be bought eel- vantageou.s/y and corne•d, atter cut- ting off a pordoe to be tesed in its fresh (state. The rump is best to corn, Beef tongues, fresh hann veal, am mutton are excellent when eorned. A pickle for (zoning meat in small quantities is made as follosvs ; Four .pounds of coarse salt, eight quarts of water, two pound* of brown su- gar, one-half • pound of saltpetre; .stir until salt and sugar are dis- solved; then boil and skim, letting the mixture become cold ,before pouring ever the meat. Tern the meat in the pickle every day for a week, which will give it a fine color and flavor. During the seinmer the( pickle may be boiled over with an Addition of one cup of emit and ono cup of brown sugar to one quart of water, when it will keep sweet ter several weeks. A plate or clean flee stone must be used to keep the meat beneath the pickle. A large beef tongue will have to be kept in the piekle fourteen clays before it is ready for use. Dried Beef.—Select 'e round of beef and divide in two narts through the middle, rejecting the bone. FOC twelve pounds of meat. allow one- half pound of fine salt, one quar- ter ounce of pulverized saltpetre, and one-heef pound of bro•wn sugar. Rub this mixture into the meat every morning until it is all used up. At the end of this time hang up in the smokehouse for two weeks to. dry. An excess of smoke will• ruin the flatter. Few town people have a smoke- house, and this method will be found a isery good substitute. Drive nails around the top of a tight bar- rel, fill an iron pan or pail balf full. of ashes, build a fire on top of these. Hang the meat by a stout twine on the .nails, place et.. board over the top of the barrel, and cover tight- ly with an old blanket. This me- thod has been tried in the back yard of a city residence and found practical for smoking twohams, two pieces of beef, and two sau- sages. • If two or three families will club together and buy their meat whole- sale they will find that their meat bills will be about one-third what it usually costs. GOOD THINGS TO EAT, Yellow Cucumbers.---Takesix large yellow cucumbers, peel and cut in half, remove seeds and cut in pieces about two inches; add two and a half handfuls of salt and leave ete-nd over night. Next morning wash off and lay pieces on cloth to dry. Put one quart of vinegar on to boil and add three cupfuls of peigar. Put in cucumbers, few at a time, have jars ready when eueura- ber is clear, but not soft, then put in jars; add some white mustard seed and seal, 'Pickled Onions.—Take a half peck of little white onions, leave in Water over night, peel and put in water again over night, adding a hand- ful of salts Next mereing lay on- ions an cloth to dry. Boil three quarts of vinegar, three ta.blespoon- fuls of sugar, one-third handful of round aleplee, four or five bay leaves, one-half handful of whole i black pepper. Put onions n else . • and Cover with the vinegar; add a hall teaspoonfgel of groend red pepper. Tie cloth over to keep etcam in. • • Dill Pickles.—Take one-half Peels of dill eiekles, ten cents' worth of dill. Wash• pickles and lay a layer of dill on bottom of a one-half gal- lon jar. then a liver. of pickles, and iso an until nil is used, last layer being' dill. Cover with enough salt water and a stone, so ase to keep pickles well under water. Good Qeinee 'Jaye—Take half a peck of quince, wash and out in • quarters and add enough water to Dover everi, boil till soft, then put in bag and lot drain all night. And ne cupful of sugar to every cep of juice. Boil until a littlo on aaueer thiekens. You can do the same with grapes, crab, apples, and skims of peaches and pears. Do net add water when making grape jelly. MARMALADE: Orange.—Select ane orange and one lemon. with a thin skin. Out in elices and then in eubes. To this add six cupfuls of weber. Let stand over night. Next Morning boil twenty minutes, rneasere limed, and to one cupful of mixture add one (rueful of slime', 13oil eveely for ane - hall hour, or until it jells. This will(mike eight medium sized glee- Rhubarb.—Six cups rhubarb ee in small piece*, tix cups of gresel. Wed sugar, two large or font small oranges cit in thin slices, skie sod all, Boil all together mail the*. .eel in pint fruit jars, This is de- licious. Goldenrod Marmalerle. — Cut green and red from eind el' ire. watermelou, Cut white rind into squares and lay in cold water over .night, Next mornmg put through food ()kipper, a ver• with cold water, and lee eome to boil; then drain. Repeat (mike, then boil until tender. Pet pulp through (shopper and when the rinds are tender, pub all into one kettle with five pounds of granulated sugar, boil foe two heers, and put into jars, 'Tills •marmalrecle ia a beand- ful golden color and delicious. , CELERY.' Celery and 0hoese.—Stew until tender celery out into one inch pieces. Take one eels of water left after removing the celery and add it (the water) to a rich white sauce, etir into tide sauce enough grated cheese to make in a rieh yellow in color. Put the previously prepar- ed celery into 'a baking clish, pour the settee over it, and cover thickly with bread crumbs That have been brownedin melted butter, Ifeat in oven a few minutes, Creamed Celery and Almonds.— Drop celery eut into inch lengths into boiling water. Stew until ten- der. Mille a rich cream settee and stir into it one-half cup of blanched chopped ahnonds, Ade this sauce to the drained celery. Serve hot. Fried Celery Sticks,—Otia celery into pieces fear inches in length Steam until partly tender. Take from water, cool, roll in egg and cracker crumbs, fry in hot fat. Pile in log cabin fashion on plate and • •POPULAR RECIPES. Quick Coffee Clince.—One table- spoonful butter, one tablespoonful lard, one pinch salt, one cupful sugar, one egg, beat all together; three and one-half cupfuls flow, two teaspoonful& baking powder, add enough milk to make a stiff bat- ter. Put sliced 'apples on top, sprinkle withsugar and cinnamon. Sliced beaches are alas nice. Sour Cream Cookies.—Two eggs, one and one-half cupfuls sugar, three-fourthe cup .better, three- fourths cup sour cream, or milk, one-half teaspoonful -cinnamon, one- half teaspoonful nutmeg, one-fourth teaspoonful cloves, ono teaspoon- ful soda, a pinch ofsalt, three and one-half cupfuls flour, one-half tea- spoonful baking powder. This re- cipe will make about fifty cooldes. Apple Snow.—Boil about five ap- ples to a pelp, sweetening to taste. When cool place in a large bowl, together with the white el one egg, juke of one lemon, and .one cup of sugar. Beet- the mixture about thirty minutes with a wire eggbeat- er. The result.is three times the 'amount you startedwith, enough to serve ten people. . Tomato Relish,—One. peck ripe tomatoes, chopped and drained over night in a bag, two cups chopped celery, two cups chopped onions, three ,green peppers chopped, one quart strong vinegar, two pounds brown sugar, three tablespoonfuls salt, two tablespoonfuls cinnamon, two ounces mustard seed. Stir all (together well, bottle and seal. No cooking. Keeps asny length of time. • GRAPES. Grape Juice.—To two gallons of grapes put three quarts of water; cover and let boil until grapes break. Steam, and to six quarts of juice add two 'mullets of granulated sugar. Let cenne to s, boil, skim, put into bottles het, and seal. Grape Sherbet.—Two pounds' C'oncord grapes, two lemons, one quart water, one pound sugar; lay a 'Omar° of cheesecloth, over a large bowl; put in the washed grapes and mash thoroughly; squeeze out all the juice and add an equal amount of sugar, the lemon juice. Use sugar enough to . make .it quite sweet, then freeze, • ATTRACTIVE RECIPES, Pumpkin Pie—.Oe cup pumpkin cooked fine, one ogg, ems level tablespoonful of flour, two-thirds of a cupful of sugar or sweeter if de- sired, a pinch of 'sea, one -hell tea- spoonful ginger, one-quarber tea- spoonful ciiinamon or allspice, enough milk to fill one pie: Bette with lower crust only and brown slightly on top, Tart Filling.—Lemon or orreige paste for tarts ; Juice of one lemon 01 orenge and pulp, one egg, orie cupful of sugar, one tablespoonful of melted butter. Set it ie baihing water to thicken. Put on the tare cruets. If they are deep enough this can be frosted, HOUSEHOLD RENTS. Serubbing brushea,, if hung in the air, will last twice as long as they would if allowed to he in a damp place. When slicking labels on eaaisters edd a little honey to the flour and water paste, and the the paper will not peel off. After trimming a hemp tern the wicks down. or Is when lighted tee teem will be found to be cover- sti with all, • Steaming is bettor than Wiling fox' fish, fowl, or poultry: All the juices of the 'neat are retained and nothing is wasted. • A Larder Hint.—If a ham, a,plece of bacon, or some spied beef is On hand, be sure to turn the moat daily and put it on a clean dish. When buying apples select the heaviest, for they are the best, also take those 014, when pressed with the, thumb, yield to it with a alight cracking noise. Stewing is the best and Mod eeo- nomical way of cooking meat, It needs very little heat, and the Vege- tables, So necessary for the flavor, inereale the bulk. A Diseolorect Teapot.—If year pot is ef rouge china or pottery you may live some difficult.- in getting rid of ,the ((stains, Stand ammonia and water hi it, and then scrub well with ormstal soap, Repeat till -clean. •• Difficulty is often met with in beating whites of eggs., when they e,beolutely refuse to froth. • Do not be discouraged, bub for every egg white aced two drops of pure glycer- ine, then they will whip quickly to a froth light and stiff. The glycer- ine isharmless and merely has a drying effeeb, (musing the evapora- tion of moisture from the egg. It is an excess of moieture -which ex - eludes the air from the cell& of albu- men. Also add the glycerine to fresh eggs and they will froth in half of the usual time required. The above has been proved by repeated experiments. • . THE SUNDAY SCHOOL STUDY INTERNATIONAL LESSON; OCTOBER 29. Lesson V.—Apsalm of deliverance, Pszi. 85. Golden Text, Psa. 126. 3. A Psalm of the sons of Korah There are two groups of psalms in this third book of the Psalter. The sons of Korah, who were respon- sible fax those from- 84 to 89, made up a guild of singers conneeted with the temple, and these psalms were collected by them f or the temple service. Tha rest of the. book, Psalms 73-83, were collected by the sons of Asaph ; who lield a similar .position, •' Verso i. Thou has been favorable —The first three verses breathe a spirit of gratitude for the mercies of Jehovah in bringing home the captive people, forgiving their ini- quity, and taking away his wrath. . Thy lancl--judah was in special sense the chosen territory of God fax the working out of his redemp- tive purpose. The oaptivity of Jacob—Referring 10 pareicular to the period of sev- enty years in the land and under the sway of Babylon. eacob is an- other name for Israel (Gen. 32.. 28). 2. Salah—This word occurs 74 times in the Hebrew Bible and 71 times in the Psalter. There is no uniform tradition as to its precise meaning. The most acceptable theory makes it a kind al musical interlude, the instruments at this point sounding forth loud, while the voices of the singers ceased. 3. Taken away all thy wrath—All the prophets looked (mon the cala- mities that befell Israel as sure signs '-of the displeasure of God. The smile of prosperity meent that the divine anger was averted, and had given place to favor. All these de- scriptions of paesion in God are, of course a human way of speaking. But they declare a great fact. The wrath of God is not a weakness in him. It 'indicates the intensity of his antagonism to all evil. 4. .Turn ns—We have here a pray- er for the restoration of God's fa- vor (verses 4-7). "Turn to us" ex- presses this more accurately. A dis- couraging hour has errivecl. • It may be that hoer just before the build- ing of the temple, or, it may reflect the state of things in the troublous times of Nehemiah. 5. Draw out thine anger—It seem- ed to the weary people, after their hard captivity that the tokens of Tehevah's displeasure ought now to cease, and not be dragged out for the corning generations. • 6. Quicken us again—Ezeikiel'e vision of the valley of dry bones, and the wonderful reawakening of life within them, may have been in the mind of the singer. The pro- pheceee of restoration imply a be- lief in the spirituel and temporal resnacitation of the nation. '7. Thy loving kiedeoes—A prayei for that paeticular manifestation of it which would be at once evident in, prosperity attending the efforts to re-establith the nation, Saleation, in like manner, 'wee, in this case e deliverance from threatening evils. But he a deeper, Miler sense, these words can even now tie 'made a prayer of sew ‚humble heart seeking the evidences of God's loving re- gard. 8-13.---A delightful seam) of the sere results of answered peasier, 8. I will Iteas"—He has been speak ing to Jehovah ; he now listens to Whit Jehovah has to say. It ie o wise ceunsel that directs the ' ens shipper not only to speak ,often with God, but to let God spies' often to him, ere will sperec peace links lee Imo 1:ae—Thilire is sure to be peipee TO. stored in the heaits of the forgiven. And there is eartain forgiveness for those who have ne disposition to turn again to folly. Sineere re- pH:twice has its fruit in a stern re- fusal to turn back again to the old 0, Salvation is rtigh—Ba has prayed for salva„tion, and now he receives this message concerning it —that it is ever present to those ;who reverence Jehovah with be- coming fear. The presence of God's (salvation is like the glory of the Shekinah which abode in the taber- nacle (Exec', 40. 34, 30), • 10, Merey and truth—When God brings his salvation nigh, he shows mercy, but he does not eorapromise lus clastracter. So the Word came (to dwell among men, full of both greee and treth (John 1). These at- tribetes of the divine life, together with the righteousness which is the fruitage ef the inward salvation, and the peace wheel abides in the heagt of the upright, are to adoen the lives of men also. A new won- der is to appear; truth, a charac- teristic of the life of God, is to spring up out of the son of earth (11). And righteousness (11), will& dwells alone with God., is to conde- scend to stoop from heaven to the lowly habitation of mee's hearts. Thus a perfect harmony is to be effected between earth and hes- yen. This was in keeping with the most advanced ideas of the Jewish prophets. Their heaven was a re- habilitated earth. 12. Yea, Jehovah will give . . good—Not only blessings of a lofty spiritual nature, but everyday mer- cies as well, such as an increase in the productiveness of the land. The psalmiet speak e of our land with a peculiar and patriotic affection. The Messianic reign, to the Hebrew' meant outward conditions of peace and prosperity as a pledge of di- vine' favor. 13. Righteousness—It is repre- sented as a herald going before Jehovah, opening up the way for the restored nation to walk in, that a bright and safe future may be assured God's people. All the ways of Jehovah are right ways. ELECTRIFIED CHILDRE.N. 'Reports of Experiments in. Sweden in )(Listening Their Growth. Interesting investigietions into the effects of electricity upon the development ot school children have recently been made in Stock- holm says the Dietetic and Hy- gienio Gaieetee The walls and ceilin'gs of a schoolroom were lined with a coil of wires through which a high frequency 'current ;was passed. The children in the room were thus in the position of an iron core in the centre of a magnetiz- ing coil. • Fifty ehildren were kept in this room, while fifty others of the same average age, size, and mental development were kept in an ad- joining withoub electrical treat- ment. It is stated that at the end of six months the children ander electrical 'treatment showed an av- erage growth of two inches, while • those without electricity grew only 134 inches. The ,electrified children showed an increase in weight in propor- tion to their height. The electrifi- ed children also showed an aver- age proficiency in their studies of 92 per cent., and fifteen of them showed 100 per cent. The unelect- rifled children, on. the other hand, were only 75 per cent. proficient on the average and not one of them reached 100 per cent. It is added that the eleetrified children appeared to be pinch brighter, quicker and more Active. They were prompter in cittendsince and much less .subject to fatigue.. The teachers also showed supedior working capacity in the electrified room. While there was an odor of ozone in thereale, it was held that the presence of ozone would not ac- count for the results observed. CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL. The consumption of alcohol is diminishing in Franco and the big- ger the city the more marked is the diminution. Dr. Jacquoe Bortillon has just drawn up stat- istics howing the consumption of alcohol since 1900 in thirty-three French cities. The main factor in causing the decrease is the ap- plication of the law of 18.07, whirsh exempted wine and beer and great- ly increasee the taxes on distilled beverages. Formerly the coliseum - tion of alcohol was in all cities uniform at 7 to 8 litres a head,. while it was only 2 litres 84 cen- tilitres in the cometry districts, Since 1901 the consumption lees dropped to 6 litres in towns of from 4,000 to 10,000 iehabitaets and to 4 litres 23 centilitres in cities of more than 50,000 inhabi- tants, In • the country • districts there has been no change. • GERM -PROOF HOUSE. A elector in Yokohama, Japan, has built pirsolf a house that proof agrenab miceohes. Thewalls ate bent of hollow hrieke of gla.s8, the interstiees being filled up wilth '1. solutionel salts and seem which • ineended to roeulate the temper.' Attire alt])? ilitetior. The windows `e• herineticelly eleaed end air 'deleted to the eouse only through filters, ROYAL CITY Of RICHMOND ^TT TRE BFA.T.MFUL OLD TOWN NFU LONDON. A. Fieverite ,Place of Residenee the Kings awl Queens of England. The fact thet Ring Maimed has been living at Richmond reminds one of the numerous associations with royalty whieh the old town possesses, says the English Lady's Pictorial. King Manoel really only followed the example of early Kings of England. Edwerd I, and II, resided at Sheee, as Richmond VMS then cell- ed, and Edward III. died there in 1377. Riolierd. II. after the death of hist Queen at the palace partially demolished the Melding and Henry V. restored it. In 1498 the palace wee burnt, but Henry VII. rebuilt it, giving it his own name of Rich- mond, and died there in 1609. It is recorded too that a foreign King was entertained there in the sixteenth century, foe Philip I., King of Spain, having been driven upon the coast of England by a storm, was entertained in this palace with great magnificence in the year 1506, end in 1523 Charles V., Emperor of Germany, was lodg- ed at Richmond, Henry VIII, \VEI,S only an oeca- storm' resident, preferring Hamp- ton Court, and when Wolsey's pelace was transferred to the King the Cerdinal received permission to reside at Richmond. Being ac- customed to THE PRESENCE OF ROYALTY. Riehmond did not take kindly to the change and Hall says: "When the common people, and exspecially such as had been ser- vants to Henry VIL, saw the Card- inal keep house in the Manor Royal of Richmond, which that monarch so highly esteemed, it was a marvel to heer how they grudged, saying, 'So a butte -sores dogge cloth die in the manor of Richmond,'" Queen Elizabeth was fir a short period a prisoner at Richmond during the reign of Mary, and even forcible detention there could not blind her to the eharms ef the place, so that in her own reign the palace was ene of her favorite residencies, and a royal visitor in the time of oe Queen Elizabeth was Erin 1r,, Ring of Sweden. Queen Elizabeth died at Richmond in 1603. One may assume that the place was a favorite of Charles I., as he enclosed the Richmond Park, Lord Buckhurst and Edward Sackville in 1636 performed a masque before the King and Queen at Richmond, Rich- mond Palace suffered very greatly during the civil war; practically the whole piece was pulled down and oely a eery small portion of the old building now remains, Richmond, too, has many associa- tions with the Georges, as has Twickenham, just across the river, Marble Hill, Twickenham, one of the estates in the neighborhood now devoted to public uses, was built by George II. for his favorite, Mrs, Howard, afterward COUNTESS OF SUFFOLK, ancl the plain looking building is hardly perhaps so magnificent as one would expect from a place of which, aecoeding to Swift, "Mr. Pope was the contriver of the gar- dens, Lord Herbert the architect and the Dean of St. Patrick's (him- self) chief butler and keeper of the icehouse." Mrs. Fitzherbert, the beautiful morganatic wife of George IV., whom he married when Prince of Wales, also lived at Marble Hill. Twickenham .is associated with France's royal family and Orleans House received its »ame when the Duke of Orleans came to reside there in 1800. York House, Twick- enham, where Queen Anne was horn, was for many years the resicl- enee of the Comte de Paris rind is now in possession of Ratan Tate, a wealthy Indian. Crossing the river once name, we ground over elm Thaneee Talley ai matchless. The chief associations .of Ilic mond Park of recent years been in connection with Win Lodge, tha residence for, so man years of the Took family, where th present Queen spent her early li and where the Prince of Wales wa Everything is royal at li,iclunon down to the ancient watermen' regatta,and even the humbl oheese calco is there a ".maid, o honor." Ben:manta of ,royal barge quite recently lay in the boat yard and doubtless the surroundings' in duced a former M. P. to be dis contented with ordinary modes o prOgression on the river and t make stately journeys upstream i a canopied barge rowed b gay coated watermen, But tha has gone with the Maria Wood last relics of.ancient City procession upstream, and Richmond is no content to be modern, but not s modern as neighboring places whk disfigures their roadways with use ful but inelegant and unromenti trams. Richmond has its share of water side men, who as King's Waterme show eomething of -the old page entry of the river on state <ma sions, among them ehe, King' Brirgemaster, who in private i the host of A RIVERSIDE INN, but on on ,such as State occasion as eoronation fetches the regalia fro the Tower and takes his place i quaint, olcl fa.shioned costume a the head of the sovereign'.s pro ceIsfsion. rumor that residence .for the Prince of Wales may eventually be found in Richmenn proves 'correct the town will rejoice greatly. Mean- while it has this year welcomed as a resident not the heir to a throne! but an exiled sovereign, and on may hope that the residence in the town of Ring Manuel m.ay have some effect in making Richmond once more a fashionable centre, for of late years the place has suffered through the motor car making it "too near town." In turning over old books of the Thames one is apt to muse over old masques, fetes and pageants and compare them favorably with mod- ern efforts at the picturesque; but one must doubt if Pepys or Evelyn saw anything so brilliant as the Thames fetes which Richmond still gives es at times or if the dandies at Ditton offered to their guests anytleng more charming than the modern carnivals. _cor_SUDAN. TREE E IIIODERN ATRIMS, By Strange Custom, Oioreo nave No Fixed Price or Oyiblag. Athens, famed in aneAint history, whioli half centuryago WAA only a large town, is growing so fast now that the inhabitants of the East felita-01.4 ion laifse having taken new The ;town lies under the rooky Acropolis, filled with and surround- ed by ruins. Nevertheless, Itis the brightest, gayest and busiest city of the near East. It has some of the most elegant homes of the world; its marble buildings vie with those of the beat °idea of Europe, and its atom aro fell of fine goods. The town grows ae fast as beackberry bushes. About fifty years ago it had something like 10,000 people, who dwelt 1 e00 miserable houses, To -day it has al- most 200,000, and Among them are Greek millionaires who have made fortunes in Alexandria, Cairo, Con- stantinople, and other oentres about the Mediterranean sea. It is the aim of the Greek to go to Athens to die, end the rich bring their savings and live there in luxury. They spend so much that the finest of everything may be bought in the stores, and the cost ' of living is about as high es • 11 The Natives' ladled of Obtaining Water in the Dry Season. In view of the many suggestions mad.e for the bringing down of rain it is interesting to note that in the Gezira district to the south of Khar- tum whenever a drought is threat- ening all the children are sent into the fields and are made to clap their hands and shout vigorously, writes a Cairo correspondent ef the Pall Mall Gazette. The idea, is that rain will be brought down, and the little boys and girls axe kept out in the open at this game until the wished for result has been obtained. This year there have bean rainstorms in superabundance in the district, so the children's intercession has.not been required, or perhaps the ab- normal rainfall is due to their vigoroes action in the past. The latest Sudan Times gives a most interesting account of one of the means of which the inhabitants of Kordofan provide themselves; with a copious water supply in that arid springless reigon. It is nothing more or less than the adansonia digitate, called by the natives homr, bIt com m. iy k n c ten as tebeldi. Mese tebeldi trees are from 10 to 25 feet in diameter; they grow to a considerable height, with trunks about 20 to 30 feet and fine branches, giving a vast amount of shade. Strange to say, the trunks are aturally hollow and are thus sed as cisterns for tha storage of ater. Should the cavities not be 'go enough the natives scoop min out further, An opening is ade either M the side of the 'link near the top or right at the p where the branches start. In e former case the tree is filled ith buoikets from pools which at'- ig at the, foot of the tree to eel - et the rainwater during the rainy eason, In the latter case the iee. is filled by nature when the ain falls, the brancnes acting as rt of gutters At times the trees tracks, but is occure very rarely, and the unks are no longer of any use resere'oirs. However, lately the sourceful native has adopted merit as a means ef ,stopping up o cracks and a large number of Inclis have been repaired in this anner. Curiously enough the titmice of etteli a large efultptity water in the trunk in nowise nu- des its growth, and it is tertain- one of the p06t, ingeninq . ceA o? nature for draftee/Wee a terse dillien4ev' • EVery AtiliaVatoi, has his tebeitii ee, which is indispdiksable to his Those 'trees aro look44 'anon eareenal prepoeity and on tile alb of a land owner his tebelais ss as heirlooms to his sons, can inspect the romantic Ham es House, which is full of legends of I tl the past. In its earliey t:lays Ham m House had royal associotions until ti it came into possession of Sir Lionel Tollemache through Inc wife, i th Elizabeth. Countless ef Dysart. Her ; w second husbeeed was the 1)e1e d Lauderdale anti it was et Beim le House that the meeting of the CabaltOuk s, place. 010 af th' incest me- ; ti turesque treditions—tt tradition ells- I r proved, however—is that the iron so gates have only been oneeeel seeen ! sewn they were shut on Charles I. „la Returning to Richmond, the,1 tr shooting box of George ITT. is one as of the evidencea of bow the perk re wee useel for sport from the clays . ce 0! Charles T. DPward, And it is only in coarourativelv Jewel vcArn le the number of plantations havel m been rc ilteopuortunities for pr spore clisnieiehad end ieeidentelly of much of the wild life of the park lie hos sniTereel. ler The Imes/seesw1d1, led to the closing of It ichniotel Perk oe a royal nn elettsure ground levee resulted flow tr frbeing (moiled to the public' gefteta s t a ly tied the views free ti 11 1 where else in the world. The Acropolis is a hill of rose- tolored limestone which rises to a height of two of three hundred feet sotuatolthe plain upon which Athens ad It is right an the edge • of the town, and from the Parthenon, on its top, you can see the whole city. Your first glance flows a flat plain of greyish white buildings, the chief of which is the palace, a three- storey structure of marble, sur- rounded by trees.. Farther over are the Pailiament Building and museure and wheels, and scattered about the outskirts are the massive ruins of ancient temples, each as that of Jupiter, Olympus and Theseus, and also the new stadium, which was erected by an Alexandrian -Greek millionaire named. Averof. It is now being repaired and repeliseted, and its cost altogether has been about $800,000. The main part of the city is com- pactly built, and the business build- ings are foer and five storeys. The shops have plate glass windows, and the best of them are devoted to dry goods, fancy millinery, jewelry and other such things. The shopping hour is from 6 tO 7 every evening at wluch time the streets are thronged with fashionable women. The Greeks understand how to do business. They are smart traders., their character being well expressed by a saying which is current throughout the Orient. It reads: "From the Greeks of Athens, frem • the Jews of Saloniki, and from the Armenians .everywhere good Lord delivor us!" It is said in the near East that.. one Greek is equal to two Jews, • and, although the Jews are scatter-, ed throughout other parts of he Mediterranean you will find none in Athens. Tne storekeepers have no fixed prices, and you bargain for everything. You must dicker with your doctor, butcher and baker, arid even with your druggist. There are no price marks in the averages store, or, if so, the bargaining is done all the same. SWISS GUIDES FOR ROCKIES. C. P. Railway to Transplant Col- ony in Canada. . This year will witness the 'trans- planting of e colony of Swiss peo- ple to the Rocky Mountains. Tho nucleus of the colony will be the corps of Swiss guides now taken across annually by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company to assist mountain climbers. At the end of the present season, instead of returning to their native land, they svill be joined in Canada by their families, and will • make their homes permanently in a high- ly picturesque ready-made -village which is now being prepared by the railwaycompany. The name of Rde'lws. s will be given to tne . village, which is to be situated on the terraced slonee of the mountien , side. the houses having th.e high pitched roofs and other teatures ef distinctly Swiss architecture, Ulti- mately it is hoped that a, string of these Swiss villages will be °stab- lished througheat, the Rockies. As the work is permanent and the pay high, it is thought -Met some of the best Swiss guides will • emigrate with tb es families • AN OLD WHEAT ST'ACK What, may probably olefin to be the oldest wheat stack in, the world may be seen in efarmyard at Ai' by, South Lincolnshire, says the London Daily Mail. It has been tending there for 32 years this larvest. 11he reason sis has never been thrashed is nob definitely known, but loess!, erecetioss, beig tt that 1119, Taney 4)11(1'6 ratit gob to `sell the wheat under a cer- tale pries, and which it never La- tent:11i• Otteleisles else Rtack is black with ago, hielt inside both straw and wheat aro of natnral color, and dee grain le hi Aplandid condition. Tho -Ntmor is dead and now the Amok vil;1 'be sold.