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The Brussels Post, 1911-11-16, Page 3G Hints for Busy Housekeepers, Recipes end ()titer Valuablelelormatlop !f Particular Interest to Women Polkas ...�......o..._........ �.� �,. .,nr.�..o. DAINTY DItiSHIaS, salt, Beat one egg thoroughly and Dreamy Scrambled Eggs. tallow mix with one and one-half cupful of ate egg for each person served and milk; a lel this to the meal mixture, lye extra for every our persons stirring well together, Stir in half the meal, Separate the yolks and a tablespoonful of butter, ;molted eat with a half teaspoonful of salt after measuring, and bout to a ntil broken, Whip the whites un- smooth batter, Fill hot muffin pans 1 stiff; ,ben pour the latter in a two-thirds full and bake thirty min t ,fryer and add a tablespoonful 'utas in a hot oven; melted butter. Pour the yolks on Pear hitters,—Ona cupful of milk e whites and add four. tablespoon- add to the yolks of two eggs, half le of cold'va'or to each ix A a tablespoonful of melted butter, ts eggs Beed. As soon as the bottom begins one teaspoonful of ;salt, and ;lour )o 000k lift it carefully with a fork, enough 'to makca smooth batter plowing the, yolks to run down. stiff enough to adhere to the fruit.. Dominus the lifting -process until Mix in the whites of eggs, boatou She eggs are a creamy mass of white stiff and dry. Dip .,pared, ;calved end yellow. Tho cold water, being and cored pears in the batter and converted into steam, will make the fry andeep hot fat until thee flc at eggs puffy. As soon as they are aro delicately browned. sierve • done serve on a warm dish. hot. u"auted Cucumbers,—Large green Lemon Sauce.—Mix one level vegetables must be used. As soon tablespoonful of flour with one cup - as they turn the least bit yellow ful of granulated sugar and ,odd to they become tough and will not half a cupful of cold water; :sex to do• Pare and slice lengthwise, a paste and stir into one and uao having the slices an eighth of an half cupful of boiling water; rook inch thick. Dust with pepper and until creamy, then add a level sable; salt, then tip in beaten egg yolk spoonful of butter, the grated rind diluted with a tablespoonful of of half a lemon and the juice of one. milk; cover with flour and fry un- Cook slowly until clear. til tender and brown. • Escalloped Corn.—Plane in a but - .Short -cake. --stub one cupful of tered dish alternate layers of un. butter into three cupfuls of bread cooked corn from the cob and bread flour, three teaspoonfuls of baking crumbs, adding bits ,f 'buster, psi: - powder ei:- powder and one-half teaspoonful of per and salt to each layer. have salt. When the flour is the consis- the top layer of crumbs mixed with tency of •ornmeal add enough sweet grated Canadian cheese. Pour on milk to make a dough soft enough enough milk between each layer to to lift on a floured board, and form moisten the bread, then rover the into two layers to fit a biscuit -tin dish with a pan and bake in a hot greased with drippings. There lay- oven twenty minutes. Remove the ers should be half an inch thick. cover and finish cooking until the Pat the lower one to fit the tin, haw- top is ,puffy and brown. Servs r:u- ing the center much lower than the mediately it is done, sides, as the tendency of dough is Cold slaw.—Chop crisp cabbage to rise higher in the center. Spread very fine, then with a potato masher well with softened butter; then pat pound the cabbage until it becomes the other layer on it. Bake twenty very juicy; add salt, sugar, pepper minutes in a quick, oven; then split and vinegar. and bake the dough side five min- Fruit Float.—Cut fresh fruit into sites to prevent its being underdone, small pieces. Whip •ne whites of The crust thus formed on both cakes two eggs until stiff, teen kid two will prevent soaking, when the fruit tablespronfuls of granulated sugar is put in. When the dough is.bak- and whip again until it will keep its ing pare the peaches by dipping shape when dropped from the them asecond in boiling water, then spoon. Sprinkle the feuit with le - plunging into cold water, when the mon juice and place in a dish, al- ekins may be rubbed off, leaving ternately with the meringue. the blush adhereing to the pulp. Vanilla Wafers.—Beat one cupful Remove the pits and out the fruit of butter to a cream; add one cup- into slices. Place between the hot ful of sugar and cream again, tl en cakes and sprinkle generously withbeat one egg and add with three sugar, tablespoonfuls of milk and two tea- er Graham Rolls.—Peel two large spoonfuls e.Sift two of ate spaoni to tee �isLof potatoes and cover with sufficient baking -powder with two cupfuls of boiling water to cook them tender; flour and stir into the wet mixture; then mash them very smoothly, form into a smooths dough, adding add two cupfuls of scalded milk and more flour if necessary to roll out rub through a sieve. , Add to the mixture half a teaspoonful of salt, to a waferlike thinness. Cut into size of a silver dollar, place on one tablespoonful of sande and greased tins and bake a pale golden enough sifted graham and ,white yellow. flour to make a stiff_ batter, usinghalf ofFruit Pudding. -Soak half pack- Usingach kindwarm add half flour. When age of gelatine in .half. a cupful ef lf a cupful of left -over fruit juice until soft, then yeast or half a cake of oompresaed yeast, softening the latter in a lit- tle cold water. Dover and stand in a warm piece until very spongy and light. At this point mix in half a cupful of softened butter and half a teaspoonful ef baking soda wet with a tablespoonful of cold water. Mix in onough white and graham flours, sifted together, to make the dough olastlo and smooth. being careful to use as little as possible to accom- plish this. Conor' and let rise again, then knead, and roll out and out i 'to biscuits; let rise again, then bake about twenty minutes in a quick oven. If eggs are reasonable the white of one beaten stiff may be added to the dough after the soda is mixed into it. Roiled Rice -Wash one oupful of the rico in several cold waters to re. move the flour, then add it to a kettle with two quarts of water ab- solutely boiling, and one level tea- spoonful of salt. Beep the water replenished as it evaporates, and cook until the grains can be easily ' crushed between the fingers. Drajbs. it into a sieve and dash cold water over it bo remove the gelatious sub- stance, then return the tico to the kettle, which set in boiling water. Cover the kettle, This teethed will 'give a dish of rice absolutely free from mushiness and dtickinees. Stuffed Tomato Salad,—Dip firm ripe tomatoes into .boiling water, to moment, then prongs .into cold water and rub the skins. Cut e sltoe from the top and witha small spoon scoop out the pulp, Minoo one green sweet pepper--eftyet• die. (tattling the seeds and white 'mem- brane—a small piece of firm cab bane and a small niece of cucumber. Add a toaapooeful of celery salt and a dusting of sugar. In, a bowl unix one teaspoonful of dry muetard, and teaspoonful of minced onion, two tablespoonfuls of vinegar. Let stand until ready to send toniasees fro the table. then mix with the etuf- Rug anti fill the tomato shells, which ave been en lee. The tomato r•ulp may be used for a cream soup or added to beef broth, .:. !Cornmeal Muffins, ---Sift together enc oupful of cornrdeal, one-half' tablesuoonfel of sugar, oho eugfulI rf bread doer, two tev.srnc stele. of; baking powder, one teaspoonful of i wbce you aro stewing apples faa sauce. There is usually some ilia can bo spared if the apples are juicy, Add .,;agar and buil to syrup. When readyusre to e, bea it 'Axed beat unto, it the junco of lemon. It is diflioult soniethnes, when us ing essences for cakes, eta., to mea euro correctly the number of drop sequirod.,.Try'this: Dip the Tinge in water end wet the rim of the bottle in one place, and the essence will be found to drop quite cagily. ••Perhaps rainy housekeepers may not know that A is neeessa•t'y to Peel a' pumpkin in preparing it for, pigs. Wash; your pnnspkin careful- ly and remove seeds and, stringy portion inside, the eat the shell, skin, and all into small pieces and. cook with just enough water to pro - vent burning till dry and mealy. Rub' through a colander and you will have your pumpkin prepared with half' the trouble of tie old r a HE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESION, NOVEMBER 111. s' Ezra's journey to Jerusalem, Ezra r 8. 1548, Golden' Text, Alzen 8. 22. Verse 15. Gathered them --T1 previous part of the chapter is de voted, to a list of the heads al th fathers' houses, who went ,up wit Ezra to Jerusalem. Ezra's fire step wee to,assomblc: hie company on the banlei of goo of the artiileia re,o canals; in the neighbor hood .of Babylon, at a place called Ahava. Thus enabled hint to make a review of his forces before actu- ally beginning. his march, 'The in- terval of three days, lasting from the: ninth to the twelfth' of the first month, gave him time to secure the services of Levites. The sons of Levi—Zoruibabel g brow ht back with hem 4,289 priests, of whom only.74 were Levites, Ezra has difficulty in obtaining even few- er. Tho reason seems to have been their absorption in the service of the high places, and other forms of idolatrous worship, In the later reforms this class took a prominent place. They were chosen men of patriotic: impulse and religious spirit, who wore willing to sacrifice their 'position in order to serve God. 18, Thenr•sent I for Eliezer — The proposition here. has a peculiar value, the meaning being, appar- ently, not that Ezra summons these leading men into his presence be - for sending them upon a definite mission, although the English says so much; but, that he actually com- missioned them, on' the spot,, the following verse giving the details of their mission. Tho marginal reed- ing of verse 17, "I gave them com- mandment," is in that case prefer- able to I sent them forth, 17. Iddo—He held some position of authority, perhaps over the young Levites, and Nethinim (a body of temple servants who were detailed to do the more menial tasks, such' as drawing water' and hewing wood). At:; Casiphia, a small settlement in the vicinity of Babylon, there may have been a kind of 'college of these young men. We need not suppose, however, that' Iddo belonged:to this_second class of mere drudgers. The text is difficult at this point. But the meaning must be that Iddo presid- ed over all these ,young men, the brethren- mentioned being the Le- vites. 18. The good hand of our God up- on us—This is a frequently cocur- ring phrase in the chronicles of these times. It signifies the merci- ful favor of God. In times of ad- versity, the hand of God is repre- sented as • turned against his peo- ple. It is looked upon as a provi- dential occurrence that a man of discretion (which, as the margin suggests, may les the name, Ish- sechel, of this otherwise unnamed descendant of Levi), together with thirty-eight Levites and two hare dreg and twenty Nethinim (10 and 20), are found to accompany the Jews on' .their journey. Although, these were •all mentioned by name on the list before the writer, he does not think it worth while to take up space with their names. • 21-38. Events of the journey, in- cluding preparations, and a descrip- tion of the journey itself, and the arrival at Jerusalem. 21. A fast—That it was a strictly spiritual exercise is evident in the An easy way to wash a white sweater to avoid shrinking. .Add to three pails of cold water three tablespoonfuls of borax; dissolve one-half stake bf wool soap in about one cup of boiling water, and add to the above; let sweater soak in this fore twelve hours, then put through two cold rinsing waters. Do not wring it out, but gently squeeze it and lay it out in the shade to dry. This is a most successful way to wash a sweater. It comes out like new. A . simple way of making hand tucks in baby clobhes and other fine work is to use the tucker on .0 ma chine . which i$ not threbeled. At- tach the tucker setas for regular tucking. The needle leaves perfora- Pens, which can be followed in running in the tacks by hand, and the space is made by the 'marker. Hand tucks made in this way are just as true and as evenly spaced as the machine tucks. This requires very little more work than ifsdone entirely by machine. To Wash Lace. -First let :the lace soak some time in water in which borax has been dissolved in the pro- portion of a teaspoonful to a pint of water. Then make a nice lather of good 'white soap, fill a wide- mouthed bottle two-thirds full, put in the lace, and shake it well, 1f much soiled change the water. Rinse in warm water, then in cold, still in the bottle, so as to; handle it as little as possible. By steeping yellow lace several hours in hot sweet milk •one can get it back to its original color. Remember that old, lace should not be white; a cer- tain creamy tint -that comes' with age is greatly admired. Valuable lace should never be'ironed while wet. Pin it on a board covered with flannel, being careful to pick out all the points. Leave,until dry, then take out the pins and press with a moderate hot iron on the wrong side to raise the pattern and it will look like new again. 3• EGYPT'S WINGED THIEVES. Kites That Rob Tea Tables and Golf Courses. add onepint of boiling.nice and Out at Gezia, where all 'Cairo has j its rendezvous ati.the Sporting Olub stir until the gelatine is dissolved. 'every afternoon in and out of sea - Season with enough lemon juice to son; there exist large colonies of give it zest, then pour in a fancy kites and crows. No sooner are the mold, and when cool set on the icetea tables laid out than the ferra- te orm to become firm. When ,ready to � er, who have been perched on the qui vive on the adjacent trees, start circling round and round. .:With a sudden dive one of these hawk- like birds will swoop down on 'the table he has chosen oand pick. off the bread and' butter and cake. Now arrivals in Egypt ase alsyays very disconcerted by ,these antics. When clothes have aoquirod en It matters not how many people unpleasant oder by being kept from are seated- around the tables: The the air, charcoal laid between the kite is no respecter of persons and folds will remove it. on one crowded afternoon last sea - Instead' of filling the salt and son, when the German Grown pepper shakers with the tedious Princess was taking tea, I sigh mesas of a s don, have two small iter seeing no -fewer than eight tables swept'of their eatables by as many kites in the space of a few minutes, writes a correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette. • These monster birds add to the boil rapidly a few spoonfuls of water terror which they strike to the (enough; to just cover tho bottom of hearth the new arrival by the fact that their flight is so sudden and the theft is committeed without stopping. They describe a curve, the lowest point of which is the plate of broad anljt!•r`•kter or cake, .pd o 0 • err l e• 1e el} ascent serve dip thefish in hot water a moment and inert over a cold dish, and the pudding will . slip out un- broken, Garnish with pieces of oranges, shredded .'pineapple or other fruit. Serve with plain cream. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. paper funne s for this purpose, which help wonderfully. The fun- nels aro glued to make them firm. To prevent milk from burning, be- fore .' putting it into the saucepan the pan), and ib will never burn, however fierce the fire.. A quick and effective way to !clean white felt hats est much worn new is to make a paste of flour and gaso- line, rub it into hat, ani halite i the air. When dry it will. likd hew, with all marks gone, One houeowifo` apron" 'which ea minutes, Ib is lawn apron in the po is kept some bit of sowing sore, thread, needle, thumb e, reedy for work. Tender }tam. ---Have ham cut from one and one-half to two inches thick;-acoording to amount requir- ed. Parboil once and then simmer or cook in the fireless ,inti] tender, Then bring to a fry This is not dry er tough as fried ham usually is and Iran Avon a better (lever. Never sOrltb oilcloths with a brush. and never use soap an clean- ing them. Those which have lain in 'stook for sevoral years ere the best to buy, as the paint is thor- oughly hardened. Wash with a soft roe ''• as,''1 in melt nod water, When you want a cheep pudding r settee, strain off a cup of the juice fi 1e 0 h t 1 anguage used to desoribe its pur- pose. It was a symbol of humble submission before God, a season of prayer fora course free from dan- gers and hindrances. 22. A band of solders—Such • as Nehemiah had (Nell. 2. 9). The en- emy in the way was not any spec;- 1 lit SIR J. P. WHITNEY, Premier of Ontario, N. W. ROWELL. Leader of Ontario Opposition. tion of the God of their fathers would cause their mernories to turn baok•upon a past in which the hand of God was evident. 29. Watch ye, and keep them — They are precious treasures, con- seorated to a' high purpose, and are to be vigilantly and jealously guard- ed, Chambers—Storerooms (1 Kings 8. 5) connected with the outer build- ings of the temple. 31. Departed . - on the twelfth day—The actual march did not, therefore, begin entil this day. Alleva was simply ..a convenient plane of assembling and taking pre- liminary steps for the long journey. Tho first month was Nisan and cor- responds to our March -April. 32. We came to Jerusalem—This was on the first day of the fifth month, or about the middle of July. In all about 108 days were consumed in going a distance of not less than 900 miles. It was in the midst of the heated term, the company was large and the caravan was heavy. 33. Weighed ... into the hand of Meremoth He and his three com- panions were doubtless chosen by the leaders to receive the offerings, after carefully determining if they corresponded with the written lists, and to convey them to the trea- sury. There were two priests and two Levites, corresponding to the two groups'commissioned by Ezra. The number (34) of the vessels anis gifts, and the weight of the silver and, gold were exactly inventoried, and the list preserved. 38. They furthered the people — This was a new turn in events. It was a great thing to have officials like. the satraps, and governors be- yond the River Euphrates, helping instead of hindering. The royal de- cree determined everything. The king's commissions are set forth in Ezra 7. 21-24, TEA. AND COFFEE. Moderation in Their Use Advised for All. Tea and coffee are classed among the stimulating beverages and as stimulants which are "liberators of latent energy." Givingscarcely.any-I thing atall tarenew or restore the. energy utilized, their use needs con -1 stant supervision. There no tangible evidence that moderation in the;use of tea and coffee causes ill effects in entirely normal persons, and it does not seem justifiable to deprive careful indulgers 01 these bever- ages except for very good reason. With th persons, however, of irritable, impressionable, nervous systems, tea and coffee are harmful and their use must be carefully regulated or entirely prohibited. Tea and coffee are valuable be- verages, -medicines, and, if. used unwisely, poisons. Used moderate- ly they are often beneficial to active persons who are much out of doors, but are likely to injure the young, nervous anti impressionable, those with poor • divestions and those ceding sedentary lives. It is hest for young people and hose •especinlly susceptible to ab - fain from the use of tea and .cof- fee, and it is wise for all to keep within the strictest limits of moderation. The Affects of the abuse of tea ad coffee are in most respects. dentinal. Tea is more alit to »ro- re ronctipation and indiuestion, held' coffee 15 more apt to sraduee ell e and esrdiae hvpertronhv. a and eon's. _leets, treebie- r ohek a Stie es , fie foe, like the Samaritans, b bands of robbers in the desert. Ezra t had confidence that, if they sought , the Lord with faithful hearts, they a a would need no help of kings .and rmies, for the Omnipotent hand would be upon then; for good. The ;s reat loader had already intimated his to the king. If mow they were unequal to t. -"OW,. .,.' u viden. t a in •h' an 0 0 AU N.., Rolf ec of enelrs, and ;henries l•n the anlf hall tintioual • thing f wlyf G" nurse prof a i a PEARL FISHERS' RISKS. The Penalty Sometimes Inflicted on a Thieving Diver. At one time pearl shelling as an industry was native to Great Britain, and pearls are still found in mussels got from Irish rivers. But the chief centre of pearl.shell- ing has long been the tropical region around the north of Austra- lia and the East Indies, Thence comes nowadays the bulk of the world's supply of pearl shell and of pearls, says the Empire Magazine, It is a common mistake to sup- pose that a pearl shelling fleet seeks gem pearls as the silo source of its profits. That is by no means so. The chief quest indeed of the snarler is not the gem -pearl but simply the pearl shell oyster, which yields "mother of pearl," a mat- erial used extensively for erne - =nation. for the handles of knives and for buttons The pearls are really incidentals of the industry. On a good patch of pearl oysters a fleet would make handsome profits if never a pearl were found in the mollu'ses. It is estimated that on an average a pearl of valve (that is worth over E1) is found in every 4,000 shells. But almost all these shells would be valuable otherwise for their mother of pearl, and when the oys- ter shelters a large pearl of good shape or a curiously colored pearl its value may run to hundreds or oven thousands of pounds The divers are always alert to thieve pearls. They are said to know an oyster which is likely to oontain a pearl by a little bulge on the outside shell. To guard against theft by the divers is one of the cares of the pearl Sheller. Gruesome are the stories told of the punishments inflicted on dis- honest divers by their overseers. In a pearling fleet working in sav- ego seas, with the men engaged mostly savages, no civilized law rune Punishment follows quickly on the heels of crime or the sus- picion of crime. Neither judge', ,fury nor form of trial is needed. Who is to know if a diver or two has disappeared? The methods of the industry makes easy one form of deadly punishment. The diving is now mostly in deep waters, the shallow reaches of pearl shell beds having been exhausted. So with all pos- sible care cases of divers' paralysis aro common enough through the pressure of the water on the man at work at the bottom of the sea. Wilflsl negligence—in leaving him a little longer than should be under water—and his death is prac- tically certain. That, they say is the penalty of the thieving 'diver. THE LEADER. IN FRONT 1'V'INA.. Alan in the 3diddle of RoadIsNot') Likely to Be a Fighter. The middle of the road is no place for a fighter. You will al- ways find the man who has not the returner of his nonvictions making for the middle of the road. You will always find the trimmer who wants to favor both sides or to on - pose neither walking in the middleof the rend, The middle of -the road is tho puce for a man who has no set- tled convictions. It is the place for the roan who is looking for favors from both sides sethelese. not opriose either. ,+amViti en 'MOM PEOiLS OF SOMOAMOHLISiM MANY CRIMES ARE (10111111IUT• TEA IN ,SLEEP. Is e plan O01evieted for Vrllcle 32o0 s»onsible for His Actfone 2 "Many more climes are enacted during a state of profound sompares bulism than is geporally known,'' Dr, Forbes Winslow, the mental expert, who is Vioe-President of the Psyche -Therapeutical Seeieliyr. of Ern.glansd, expressed the opinion on the oonneotion between sleep and'orime to an "Express" ea presentative recently, He was able to supplement the view of Dr. T, 13, Hyslop, until reg cantly euperunbendent of the Royal Bethlehem hospital"or the Insane. that many crimes are committed in a state enalagous to samnaps. bulism, Some intermitting •ex_ ns$les were given by Dr, v Winslowfrom isosvnDeiop, ex- perience. KILLED HIS WIFE, "There was the ease," he said, "of a man who suddenly awoke at midnight At the moment of waking he imagined he sew afear- ful spectre, He called out; 'Who is that? and receiving no answere imagined that the phantom was advancing on him, and having al- together lost his self-possession, he raised a hatchet and attacked the spectre. He found later he had murdered his wife. "Another case was that of a pedlar who was in the habit of walking about the oountry with an armed stick. He was awakened one evening while lying on the high road asleep, by a man, who suddenly seized him by the shoul- ders. This wee done for a joke, "The pedlar suddenly awoke and stabbed the man, who died. He !was tried for manslaughter, and his irresponsibility was urged by 'counsel on the ground that. in his semi -wakening condition he could not be held responsible. Medical witnesses were called to prove this, but the pedlar was found guilty, and, inmy opinion, very unjustly punished. SUICIDE IN SLEEP. "Numerous cases of suicide are reported under similar circum- stances. Many a. person who has retired to bed in comparative sanity, without manifesting any symptoms of mental disorder. on being aroused from a frightful dream, has destroyed himself. "I have known many cases of somnambulism in which the people have walked about apparently con- scious all the time in this .state, but really not responsible for their actions - "The divisions of sleep and som- nambulism may be divided ,as fol- tows :— "1. Profound sleep associated with unconsciousness, "2. Dreaming. Conscious mem• cry, fancy and imagination. "4. True .somnambulism, during "3. Acted dreams. which the individual knows nothing of any act committed by him while in this state. Neither can he in the waking state recall any act -of his, • "It A a curious, but signifiaeet fact, perhaps contrary to the belief of some persons, that insensibility produced by direct hypnotism A not followed by any criminal instinct. This does not, however, apply to those who have never exhibited any criminal intent. ALL DANGER AVOIDED. "Ogre- cirious thing connected with sleep -walking is the fact that all danger is usually avoided. The aleep-walker will go to the edge of the cliff and then stop and retrace his steps. This A due to the pow- er of the subjective mind. "No doubt, as in the case of Lady Macbeth, a guilty and uneasy mind facts as an exciting cause in producing general insomnia and restlessness, and often somnam- bulism. An actual confession of crime, however, es here depicted in Shakespeare, is of rare occur renre. "R.eer.rsling the question of the responsibility of any one co a crion:e- itnin P