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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1911-11-9, Page 3Hints for Busy Housekeeper . lgealpei arad Other Valaabie treforrottos •t t arttcgtar laterest to Women Polka. n..,n,.nw....ra..w.n.. n,.....reemo .a..W+...w...m. C]:IRIST'MAS 11,330IPES, Grapes for Christmas,—Take a Targe pumpkin and out off a round .q, piece of the top. Take out the seeds and then fi11 the pumpkin with largo bunches of sound' grapes, When filled place top back, do carefully, and the top will seam to grow is place. Place in a cool dry place until the holidays, when you will find the grapes most delicious and sound. The pumpkin can be used 'as a center piece for the table Ailed with fruit, This is worth trying, and I can pouch for it being a very satisfactory way of keeping grapes for Christmas:—C, • Christmas Fruit Cake -Christmas fruit cake and pudding should be made now, as. both improve with time, and eggs are rewaonablein Price to what they will bo later in the season. Appended are the re- cipes. There are none bettor. One pound of flour, one pound sugar, one and one-eighth pounds of but- , ter, ane -half round candied citron,. four pounds currants four pounds raisins (stoned and chopped), nine eggs, one tablespoonful each of mace, nutmeg„ cinnamon, cloves and three gills of brandy. Beat sugar and butter to a cream, add eggs, well beaten; flour and spices. well sifted together, and last the fruit, well dredged in flour. This amount wil] make two cakes or one large one. Can "be baked in a low earthen crook lined with oil paper. For half the quantity it will take three hoop's in moderate ovoli. It will keep for years and improve with time. Wrap in oiled paper and keep in 'airtight box Plum .Pudding Ona pound of butter, one pound of suet freed from strings and chopped fine, one pound of sugar, two and one-half pounds of flour, two pounds of currants picked over carefully after they are washed, two pounds of raisins seed- ed, chopped, and dredged with flour, one-quarter of a pound of citron shredded fine, twelve eggs, white and yolks beaten separately, • one pint of milk, one cup of brandy, one ounce of cloves, one-half ounce. of mace, two .grated nutmegs. Dream butter and sugar, beat in the yolks when you havo whipped them smooth and light; next put in the milk, then the flour alternately with the beaten whites; then the brandy and spices; lastly, the fruit, well dredged with flour. Mix all thoroughly, wring' out your pud- ding cloth inhot water, Hour well inside, pour in tho mixture and boil five hours. Steamed Christmas Padding. -- For For the best recipe• in a competi- tion open to the world Queen Vic- toria, gave the prize of two guineas to this recipe: Ono pound of seed- ed raisins, three-fourths of a pound of stale bread crumbs, one-fourth pound of flour, same of brown sugar, one pound of currants, one - halt' pound of minced candied orange peel, one pound of chopped suet, a +scant teaspoonful of salt, five eggs, ane -half a tumblerful of coffee or brandy, one-half nutmeg, and the grated peel of a lemon. Mix flour, fruit, and spices scroll, add crumbs and suet, beat the eggs, odd to them the coffee or brandy, pour over the dry ingredients, and mix well. Pack into sihall greased melds -and steam eight hours at the 'time of making and two hours when wanted for use. Better re- -stilts are obtained by steaming than by boiling—it is more tender and better in every way. The • water must be kept boiling stead- ily, adding to it occasionally. This oa'n be made weeks before Ohriet- mas and will keep, indefinitely, Serve with any preferred sauce, though German sauce or currant !eliy sauce aro favorites, TESTED RECIPES. Plum Pudding.—One and a half pounds soda erackers,:buttered and soaked in sweet milk- over night. Mash fine, add foti'r beaten- eggs, one and one half pounds seeded raisins, a oupful of good molasses, the -half teaspoonful ground cinea- eon, half' a nutmeg grated, one- )ighth teaspoonful of ground cloves, rho mixture mast be as thick a s tanoake batter. Pitt a layer of the 'Satter in the bottom of a baking fish, then a layer of raisins sprink-. ed with hour, and continuo nntil ill material is used, with a layer if batter on the top, Bake two and t half or three hoursin a ra;tliet' dew oven and servo either hot or mid, Settee for the same is made is follows : One cupful of butter, we onpfuls of sugar beaten till bight, then add bons tablespoonfuls if thiel;, sweet cream, Flavor with ranilla, This is delicious for Ch ist- nas and is a tested recipe. • Beef Loaf, ---Beef Loaf with To- eato-Celery Sauce—Three pounds tf beef from lower round and a piece of suet the size of a lemon ground twice; two;small onions despite' fine, two tablespoonfuls of parsley chopped fine, ;three-fourths crumbs; one tablespoonful stat, cayenne to taste. Mix all the in- gredients well together and pack firmly into a greased square bread tin. Turn upside down into a greased baking or roasting part and bake in moderately qui* ,oven ono hour. I3y leaving it in a 'square tin the loaf retains all its moisture and has no crust. When None put away with cold and then cut in thin slices and servo with tomato celery sauce. Fox the sauce take twelve large ripe tomatoes, four ripe or green, peppers, two onions, three large heads of celery, two tablespoons of salt, two tablespoons of sugar, and three cupfuls of vine- gar. Peel the tomatoes and onions and chop very fine. Add the other ingredients and boil one and one- half hours. If you like it hotter, add cayenne or hot pepper to poste. Pint• sauoo away in well sealed bot- tles, ORIGINAL RECIPES. Pickled Figs.—For every pound of pulled figs allow three-fourths pound sugar and one cupful of water to each pound of sugar; boil five minutes and sldm. Drop in Ergs and let simmer until fork will penetrate them, being careful that they are not toe sate, Put in jars with a few cloves, bits of cinnamon, and very little . macs. Cover well with syrup. Do net close jars for three mornings. Each day pour off syrup without removing figs; re; heat to boilingpoint and pour over figs. On the third morning mea- sure syrup and allow one cupful of vinegar to three cupful of syrup. Boil and pour over figs; seal ;while het. Spaghetti, Bacon and Tomatoes. —One 5 cent package of spaghetti, five slices of baron, mit into small squares ,and fried crisp; ane -half can of tomatoes. Empty spaghetti into two quarts of rapidly boiling salted water, add a half teaspoon- ful of pepper (rod or black) and boil hard for twenty' or thirty min- utes; stir frequently to_prevent scorching; drain spaghetti in a col- ander and rinse thoroughly in cold running water. Now add to bacon and tomatoes, .season to taste, and boil thirty minutes. This will serve six persons. It is just as palatable when reheated. Delicious Salad,--.One-halfhead of cabbage, finely shredded. One sup of celery out in half inch pieces. Two medium sized • apples cut in. small squares. Juice of half a le- mon and a teaspoonful of sugar. Mix with the following dressing, While dressing is het. Dressing To one cup of vinegar add two tablespoonfuls of sugar, one tea- spoonful of dry mustard, a gener- ous pinch of salt, and a sprinkling of popper. Put over to boil. Cream four tablespoonfuls of flour, add to the .boiling vinegar, stirring con- stantly to prevent lumping, cook five minutes, and as soon as taken from the fire add two eggs well. beaten. This amount will suffice for ono pint of salad. ' Serve salad cold. on a . nasturtium leaf, garnished with two nasturtiums. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Onion skins should be boiled in soup, as they make the liquor,a nice color. Sweet orange ,peel, if .dried and powdered, makes an excellent .flav- oring flavo`ng for cakes and puddings. When stewing prunes add a hand- ful of storied raisins to every pound of prunes. This is a great improve- ment on the ordinary method. Delicate, cretonnes may be wash- ed in a lather made of Castile soap and warm water, This' soap con- tains nothing whieh will injure the colors, Badly stained lamp chimneys may be 'cleaned by rubbing with methy- lated spirit. It the stain be very obstinate, add a little whiting. , Boots that have become hard from wearing in snow or wet woo then can be softened by being rttb •bed with smitten fat. To keep carpets fresh looking, wipe them ever onto a month with a cloth: wrung 01111 in ammonia and water. This must be -done after sweeping. After washing a teapot dry thor- oughly and leave the lid off so that air may. enter, Renombeisit is im- possible to dry the spout,and if you ()lose thepot tightly, it will very likely smell musty, To keep lemons 'hang thein .up separately, so that they do not come into contact with anything, This prevents the juice remaining in one place, which is certain to decay the fruit. - A. hair -ribbon should never' bo ironed, Make a warm lather,, wash the hair'ribbon and rinse it in warm water, then wind it round a glass bottle. When dry it will look as good as. new. When ironing, place a newepaper between the sheets- of the ironing-. is very often the oase if The :nows- papex fs not employed, To 'Dry -Clean Lace Oellars, Mix white flour and bran together and gently rub Chia mixture with a clean piece of flannel into the eol- lax, whieh shonld be stretehod out. on a bard surface, Beat Mit the mixture with a stick.. If necessary repeat the process. For Cooking Vegetables,—,call vegetables except potatoes should be ..put into boiling'water. All ex- cept peas and beans. should be boiled with :salt -boil peas with sugar; beans with ,fat. Roots should be boiled slowly with the lid of the saueepan on. Boil green vegetables quickly with the lid off, MISTAKES ABOUT SHARKS ' T ARKS EVIL REPU` A,TION ATTACHES TO TILE 'WHOLE TRIBE. cc - Their Voracity , and Diigestion— Fights to Death in She Sea. Sharks are both cowardly and cruel but it is difficult to study their ways from the deck01 a ship, as they move slowly in a refractive medium such as water some twenty or thirty feet below the observer,. Hence the- many erroneous deduc- tions of seamen with respect to , these unsociable denizens of the deep whieh appear to justify net only the statement of Le Conte thrt the evidence of the senses if often unreliable but also the jocular op- inion p inion of a novelist that "no story with a shark incidentally thrown in can. fail to be interesting." Yet the shark belongs to a type which has survived the flight of time, while other more attractive species have ceased to. exist. The early voyagers were .want to attri- bute ,supernatural prescience to the shark. Often during light winds one of these sea scavengers will follow a slow sailing ship for several seems - sive days and nights, and it was er- roneously assumed that he 4oe'sso because aware in some myterioaa way of an impending death on board which will insure for him a sumptuous repast Heredity has similarly been .put forward as an explanation of this tendency for a eohtary shark to keep company with a ship, writes W. Allingham in Chambers's Mag- azine, although the experience el countless generations has not sof- Heed to impress, upon Trim that DEATH BY TORTURE awaits any shark who dares seize a bait that trails attractively from a ship's stern and 'encloses a stout hook that will not pe denied. Na- tural history notes, by illiterate sea- men on. imperfeotly. appreciated data are worse than useless,. for they are misleading Many a shark is preceded by a few shimmering companions known as pilot fish 'misuse they are sup- posed to warn the shark of danger ahead, but they never prevent this hastis humani generis from swal- lowing the tempting morsel and its cunningly concealed hook. ,These irrideseent pilot fish move hither and thither in close proximity to the shark's cruel mouth, and some assert that they occasonally take refuge therein should danger threat- en. Inasmuch as the shark's mouth is inconveniently placed behind his snout and underneath his body this can only be discerned from above when be turns on his back and despite travellers! tales to the con- trary ie is simply unbelieveable that either pilot fish or young ,sharks seek safety within the cavernous jaws of a mature shark, for he would never permit egress to any bonne bouche so easily obtainable. A aSHARK'S VORACITY is not less marvellous than his dig- estion. Whether he be a man eaterby choice (as seems the more probable) or by the compulsion of hunger (es is occasionally asserted) the fact remains that any one who happens to fall overboard in the vicinity of • a shark is likely to be snapped tip by the latter without ceremony. It is the evil reputation attaching to the.wlrole shark tribe as regards indifference *Bence comes .a meal that renders them so. abhorrent of eoafarers, Old sailors never weary of e lagging upon the voracity and digestion of sharks W'lpen i China Seas, as related by the ate Capt.' Basil Hall, a large shark was eaugbt by H. M. S. Alceste which was fotind to contain,' among other things, a buffalo hide that had been thrown overboard the preeed- ing day. One of the sailors explained this in a way which seemed irresistibly logical in' the opinion of his ship- mates "There, my lads," said Jaelt, "what cl',ye think if that? Ile swallowed the whole buffalo right.. enough, but he couldn't digest the bide," As it matter of fact the carcass of the buffalo, unknown to these amateur makers of histo tvaa still on board the Alcestc,. There are not :wlsnting wr. who would have us believe men lose their lives owing tc sunful of., milk, three ettgs, eight cloth, This will prevent the article when in the presence of a sl pods oreekers rolled lite, fine boing ironed from curling tip, us his native,rleniegit, bit p the result is equally against the man did he bane all 'its wits about blot. Nevertheless circumstantial accounts are in evidence of in- sk hes where the 'sharas been defeated by the man, At Jamaica a huge shark is said to liaise been a terror to frequent" ere of the harbor he affected, Once lie overturned a boat carrying pro- visions to the shipping and devour- ed evoured the wife of tate boatman, The maddened widower reached the nearest ship, SEIZED A SHARP invoked the aid of his patron leaped into the water, gave battle to the shuck despite •the awful odds and succeeded in avenging his wife by slaying her destroyer. At Bar- bados similarly, if we may accept the report as authentic, a seaman fought with and killed a shark that had eaten, a shipmate, Young Maoris, male and female, were once proficient in the slaying of sharks in open water. They would swim into the surf armed with a knife, dive under the near- est .shark, rip open their enemy and return to the shore. During the last decade it is eel(' the sail - maker of the "American warship Alliance, then at anchor at St, Thoinas, West Indies, leaped over- board and killed with a knife a huge shark which was gaining upon some of the vessel's crew who had disobeyed orders by venturing on a swim A. dog which was with them was seized by the shark, but the latter did not get beyond this hors d'oeuvre. A single female shark is quite capable of etooking a modern aquarium with young of consider- able size at one birth, and were. it not for the want of something to eat and the liability to be eaten, oertain parts of the ocean must teem with such voraoibue and fecund visitors In July, 1910, on the passage from Australia to New Zealand, the Drew of a sailing vessel caught a shark containing 44 young, and in 1906 a nine foot long. -specimen captured on the Australian coast had 27 young al- most mature. Records of catches set forth in ships logbooks show that the numb- er of young sharks produced at one birth vary from 83 to 2. With this minimum total e, doubt is pardon- able, because parturition may have been nearly completed just prior to the shark's capture. STRANGE PLAN OF SUICIDE. Gave Instructions to Kill Poachers and Then Ran Into Danger. Suicides often adopt ingenious methods, but the art of the felo de se ,seems not to have advanced materially during the centuries. The modern ease of aheavily in- sured broker who on a feigned hunting trip stoop bare -legged in a quagmire for hours and so wil- fully contracted a fatal pneumonia, is matched in cleverness by one five hundred years old. The following facts are well vouched for, and, in- deed, were never questioned Sir William Hankford, ajudge of the King's Bench in the reign of Edward III., Henry IV., Henry V. and Henry VI,, and at the time of his death Chief Justice of England, was a man of melancholy tempera- ment. He seems to have contem- plated suicide the greater part of his long life, and during his later years the idea became a fixed pur- pose. The act was of peculiarly serious consequence in those days, for the reason the law treated it as a capital crime,. The offender was buried at the cross roads, with a stake driven through his body, and all his goods and property were forfeited to the Crown, to the ut- ter ruin of his fancily. Hankford made good use of his wits and succeeded in accomplish= ing his purpose without incurring either unpleasant penalty. He gave open and notorious instruc- tions to his gamekeeper, who had been troubled with poachers in the deer preserve, to challenge all tres- passers in the future, andto shoot to kill if they would. not stand and give an account. One dark night he purposely crossed the keeper's path, and upon challenge made motions of resistonce and escape. The faithful servant, failing to <re- cognizo his master, followedin- structions to the letter as was ex- pected of him, and Sir William fell deed in hie tracks. th of the affair was but it va THE SUNNY SCHOOL LESSON Far, es the latngaage of verse 11 may I FRENCH (IOYB11'!E$S TRICKS imply, 10, Then wits Daniel brought in Gerin;;; Officer Scoured Her Cells —It seems strange that bis excel- viction as a Spy, LN'1'EItNA.`!'lCONAIa LESSON, (12), hent, ad'bean overloor ulued aseingBtait th The conviction before a Ger'. voviouput 12, was generally the ease until the court itt. Leipsib of M,'ila. ot'itieal motnent arrived: `There is Thiiion, a young Ireneb govern•esar M-- nothing Oxiontals esteem tnoro accused of boing a epy,.has arouse Lesson YII.—Belsbazzar'ri least curl highly ;Iran riddles unless it is the ed no lit'1;1e indignatian in Prance,, man who can solve thorn, 1'be Daae was tried in rearb t, and pate, Ilan, G. (Toutporait90 Snti� 17. Let th ifts be to th self— 'nothing olllcial le known about it, da$), .Golden Text Meet, 12. 14, . �p 2 yig r '`y bit the at05 o-6 g1Yan by Fr neh; COmI a o xs ugs o. 16. Wlten he y has time (sleazed ltfmsolf •o£ any ob• has re as fel/owe; ligation to the kinghhas paved Mlle, Thirion belongs roan Also - e 1 tian family which settled down pot the way for his fearless denuncio tion of the king's eonduat. far from patio after the Dud of the 18-24.eprefaces his intoe war in 1870, Her ambition was to " travel, so s pretation with a daring reference he visited, England. to the affliction whish cams upon where .she earned her living by Nebuchadnezzar for his presump- tion, and an arraignment of the GD°xmuny. Among her pupils at present king .for his impiety, brut usseldorf was a German officer, Lieut. W., who fell in, ishness, disobedience, and irrever- love with her once. The. blackness of Belshaz- and wished to marry lror, His zar's guilt is intensified by the light family would not hoar of it, A in whieh he had sinned --thou know- council was held, at which est sal this (22), Capt, Tsehesmer, variously desorib.- 25. Mone, Mene, Tekel, dlpharsin ed as a friend or a relation, under - Much thought has been expended took to relieve the aristocratic in an effort to decipher these words, The theory of it Frenchman, named Clermont-Gannoau, that we have here the names of three weights, a mina, a shekel, and two pores (or a half -mina), has met with most favor. Just why Belshazzar and the magi experienced any difficulty .in read- ing these words on the wall cannot be determined, but it seems to have been because of some peculiarity in their arrangement. The mystery of their interpretation is another mat- ter. But the key appears to be miserable payor found in rendering each word tutee ; a Gamer( g subaltern, and took pleasure,zn thus, the first word means both drawing out his sweetheart's en - counted or numbered, and thusiasm for France, until one da "handed over" ; the second means y "weighed" and "thou art light" ; while the third means "fragments," and "the Persias" or "Media and Persia." From this key it is easy to obtain the interpretation of the thing (26-28), 29. CIothed Daniel with purple— In accord with the promise made him. In view of the near approach of the army of Cyrus, the coolness with which Belshazzar gives this command is inexplicable. VALVE OF S1LE11 CE. Too Ruch Talking as the Cause of Failures. Verse 1. A great feast to a thou- sand—Everything about the ban- quet suggests Oriental magnificence. The palace in which it took place; with its immense halls, its columns, its tapestried walls, and its statues, was one of the wonders of the world. Before his princes and the rest Belshazzar (known by the ,Babylonian inscription as "the Crown Prince"), seated on a raised dais at, the and of the banquet chamber, and faxing the guests at a separate table, drank wine. This was the customary manner of con- cluding a feast, wine flowing freely, and everyone becoming intoxicat- ed in the spirit of wild revel. The unusual feature was the presence of the king, inasmuch as he ordin- arily banqueted in solitary stats in his own private chamber, none be- ing present but the queen and at- tendants. 2. Tasted the wine—Gradually Fame under its powerful influence. Commanded to bring. the vessels—See on Dan. 1. 2, Word Studies for September 10. The act was one of wild and irreverent folly, The well-known example and decrees of Nebuchadnezzar ought to have been a warning. Assuming that the feast was in honor of some Babyloniandeity, there could hard- ly be conceived a more impious in- sult to Jehovah than this public profanation of the sacred vessels which had been seized in the holy temple. His father—We know that Bel- shazzar was the son of Nabunaid. But by marriage Nebuchadnezzar may have been his father-in-law, or his grandfather. In either of these cases the word father, according to. Hebrew usage, would be permis- sible. Wives , . . concubines—The pres- cense of women was not in keep- ing with ancient custom. In the Septuagint these words are omit- ted, as if there were an inexplicable impropriety hero. Bat there was nothing too rude or shocking in this feast. 3, 4. Drank in them—It was na- tural that lips which wantonly praised their heathen idols of every description, from gold to stone should also defile the holiest things with embruting wine. 5. And the king saw—It was pe- culiarly fitting that retribution should descend upon this heedless, riotous company in the same hour with their bestial revel. But as a sort of prelude of warning, seen at first only by the king, there appear- ed over against the golden chande- lier, and therefore en a part of the wall conspicuously bright, the fin- gers of a man's hand. As the wall was either painted white, or con- sisted of slabs of alabaster, this would render the moving hand still more, visible. 6. The king's countenance teas changed—The color of youth and the flush of wine gave way to the pallor of fear. His conscience trou- bled hini deeply, so that he lost corytrol' ofhimself and fell into vio- lent trembling. The events of Ne- btichadnezzar's reign were too re- cent for him to be ignorant of the awful power of the God whom he had trifled with. 7. Cried aloud -Not merely a forceful command, but a shrieking cry, filled with alarm. For note on Ohaldeans, consult Word Studies for September 10. The whole troop of ,Babylonian soothsayers and as- trologers, in the hook of Daniel, prove themselves an inane and worthless class. But the king's re- course to them was all that was left to him in his utter godlessness. He bad joined in the praise of graven images, but. now he knows they can do nothing for him,and he turns to the equally impotent magi, Clothed with purple -A sign of royalty. The chain of gold reminds us of the honor done Joseph (Gen. 41. 42). A golden necklace was sometimes given as a compliment, and was worn as a token of rank. The expression, third ruler in .tate ki,n•dons, is difficult, but seems to rice ; "The W. of the "adventuress," Capt, Tsehesmer began by taking French lessons, and soon induced Mlle. Thirion to move to Cologne, where she could find more pupils, especially amen the army officers, than in Drueselderf. The captain, a well-preserved, man of 50, kept his word. He introduced pupils and made himself the friend of the lone- ly French woman. In time he pro- posed marriage, and eventually won the heart of his teacher. At this point he began to deplpra Many of the failures in, business and professional as well as social life are due to injudicious talking. .A young ,man of apparently very moderate ability has, recently as- tonished his fellow workers by his notioeable success in business. "Pure luck" it has been called, but a policy or natural habit of silence is the real cause, says the Youth's Companion. In his first position he succeeded a man of long experience and ex- cellent judgment, a circumstance that grade his youth and inexperi- ence conspicuous by contrast. He made no apologies and asked little advice. He was courteous to his superiors, considerate of his busi- ness inferiors, but absolutely deaf to all the' gossip and irresponsible talk so prevalent in every large business office, Ho had held his position for a year ; gossip bad it that he had fail- ed, for in that time he had not sug- gested uggested a single innovation or en- larged his department in any way. But soon it became known. that he had proposed is. change that would result in an annual saving of $2,- 000. Gradually his step became firmer, his manner more assured, and he no longer outstayed the janitor at night. Slowly but sure- ly he gained the confidence. of the. general manager and the heads of other departments, and it soon be- came their habit to come, to him for advice. At the end of five' years, when his former associates were wondering if they could af- ford to get married, he was admit- ted to membership in the firm. In every establishment where a. number of persons is employed there is always an undercurrent of gossip. A dissatisfied stenograph- er talks her troubles over with a bookkeeper. The bookkeeper con- fides to the telephone operator that he expects to get an increase in salad-. The elevator boy explains that Ito is going to leave soon for a better job. These bits of news are exchanged until they become common; property. The eniployer, learning that the stenographer is dissatifiecl, tells her that she may leave at her pleasure. bookkeeper fails to get his in iu salary and the elevator '1 •-on aro dissatifled from discussing t get what e postman id isn't ttn're bo suggested that as she was ea` patriotic, and as he was in posses- sion of many military secrets of im- portance to France, they might, if she would act as intermediary make enough money to enable them to be married and live happily. Mlle. Thirion allowed herself to be won plained .over,: and the captain ex- "I have friends in Paris who will take the necessary, stops. It would be foolish for me to act directly, as I should -soon be sus- pected. Everything must pass through your hands, You will re- ceive is. letter from Paris, to which I will dictate an answer for you. when the `time Domes I will. bring you the documents to hand oThver,en" Mlle. Thirion received her lettere replied as the captain dictated and in a few days was arrested as a spy on information given by the captain. The court showed its sympathy with the prisoner by sentencing her to the minimum term in prison, six months, and the brief semi-official version of the trial given by the German press pointedly states that no other verdict but guilty was possible ow- ing to the existence of the letter she had written to France. h GERMANY LESS MILITARY. Trade A,ttraotiirg Class Whieli Hitherto Looked to Army. The London Times has been publishing a thoughtful series of expert articles on the Berman array manoeuvres, and.remarkable, conclusions are reached. The army is declared not to equal the repute wherein it is commonly held. The new naval enthusiasm is dam- aging in its effect upon the army,. and the popular navy isnow at- tracting officers more than the army,whose development has been starved by sheer lack of funds. The nation, moreover, is declared to be becoming less military and more commercial. The corps of officers are less simple in their life and tastes and less exclusively profes- sional than formerly. Oomm.eroo is beginning. to attract the class that hitherto regarded the army as a career for a gentleman. The army appears to ]rave train- ed itself stale, The creaseless round: of intensive training has reduced: it to a machine, while individuality„ freshness and initiative are crushed Out. The cavelry is said to be equipped with out-of-date material, and is slow and ineffective, and its methods of firing appear so inferior that the army can maks no pretext signs to superiority to the French army. Its' history of origin does • not present signs of superiority, over the best foreign models, and in some ways ft does not riso above • the level of the second rata, BEES AND THE WEATHER.. .According to the bee farmers, France is threatened with a very, severe winter. For sonic time the farmers have noticed -;s. consider, able agitation proceeding ithine the hl , s the Lon The for' ,t„