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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1918-1-3, Page 2exr'•°•c Between Cous nl ; QR, A DECLARATION OF WAR; CHAPTER XVII, In the Balladrochit drawing -room bright fire crackled upon the altar of approaching Autunnn, while the French windows, standing open to the! . ground, seemed hospitably to assure; departing Summer that the hour of ; her exile, though close, land not yet, struck. Framed in the doorway lay l'I the moonlit shrubs, with pale-lookingI grave walks winding among• them,! their pallor. chequered by fantastically.1' black shadows, and straight beyond ---1 the marvellous glitter of the sleeping' loch, At thu piano Mabel was s at d it a brief resie from her musicalceffartsI —for the evening stood in the sign of; . Harmony—and meanwhile exchanging' bantering comments with the company in general, and with Albert in parti- cular. Julia, who had no appreciation for - music, but, a -very vivid appreciation, for the quality of her foods -was trying hard not to fall asleep, and with this view had taken refuge in a mental re- capitulation of the menu just consum- ed, joined to speculations as to which of these wonderful dishes might pos- sibly be, within the scope of Janet's culinary talents. Straight opposite to her Lady Atherton was trying just as hard not to cry, though it was only. by keeping her eyes fixed steadily upon her embrbidery that she was able to conceal the moisture, ~apish at the bidding of Melody, had welled up from;. that hidden source of sentiment so un- suspected by. all but a few intimates. Close to hei sat Fenella, pretending to turn over a trayful of photographs, but, in reality, using her ears to the exclusion of her eyes; for that musical sense lacking in the elder sister was doubly present in the younger. So absorbed was she in listening that, for the moment,. she had forgotten that pursuing and imploring gaze which. had disturbed her during the whole of dinner. Since the reappear- ance of the two men, Ronald Macgily- ray's conduct had been a series of ex- tremely naive and easily -defeated manoeuvres for isolating her from the rest of the company. , Fenella had answered them by clinging to Lady Atterton's side, not because she had come to any conclusions with herself, but exactly because she had not come to them, and wanted a little more re- spite after the moral earthquake f p o yesterday. As she sat there in her white dinner -dress, with the lamp;! light illuminating the whiteness of her bare arms, and pouring an intensified flood of gold upon her bent head and' glowing tresses, Ronald's eyes would indeed have needed to be made of stone not to hang upon her. To -day . —oh, surely, to-day—he would find the long -sought opportunity of putting his ,, fate to the test. His mission at Balla -1 drochit. was accomplished. In ab -1 Bence of any very pressing invitation; vole°, so eloquently unsteady, tetra y - ed all,. Fenella, her heart hammering as hard as that of a bird caught in a net, faced him, wide-eyed and silent, know- ine that there was no eseapo from his next words, know!ng e1<o what they would be, but not yet knowing bow she was going to answer. "Miss Panetta, you know that I care' for you dreadfully, do younot, and that I eaa'e for nobody but you? I'm not worthy of you, of course --I don't think that any fellow is worthy of you; but Still I would do my best—if only`yole Would have me—•" He stopped, looking at her expect- antly; but Pendia neither moved nor spoke, and the Baine big blotch. of shadow which was upon his own face Veiled hers froin him. weu prolong his stay, Hence that pleading look; in the blue eyes, which Fenella would, not see, had, in fact, forgotten fora the moment. From her he glanced occasionally towards her brother, with a look that was significantly question- ing. The two had been alone in the dining -room for quite twenty minutes,; and the last words exchanged just out -1 side the drawing -room door had run somewhat as follows: "Leave it to me. . I'll manage it somehow." Had the speaker of these words for- gotten his promise in the absorption of the music? - Ronald' asked himself with anguish as the evening advanced. "Mabel, let us have another of the old English songs," came Lady Atter- ton's voice, as measured as ever. "They know." Thr 'a • myfavorites, you .y r e o s, "All right, mater! What shall it be? g , ,..rRipe'? r ,Butterfly'? ..;°„Cherry I d be a Oh, here's one of your prime favorites, `Meet me by Moonlight alone,' most appropriate with the moon in its pre- sent quarter. Don't you think so, Mr. 14I'Donnell?" "So appropriate, in fact," said Al- bert, svhose eye had just encountered that of Ronald . Tvlacgilvray, "that I should suggest an adjournment of the 'audience to the garden. With the -eal article rippling around us the of-• feet will be enhanced by at least a hundred per cent. Come along, Pendia! Come along, Julia!" he brisk- ly commanded, while Mabel herself laughed immoderately at what she de -1 fined as a coup de theatre. "Julia, I say." "I believe she`s asleep,'• laughed Fenells, but Albert, who considered that 'two gooseberries were better than one, was inexorable, and so irre- sistibly brisk that presently the dazed Julia was wondering to find herself standing in the night air, with her cloak about her shoulders, and her eyes blinking at the gleam of the loch. Her brain, not sufficiently awake to grasp his motive, could only puzzle over it, aggrieved,—for that chair had .been so comfortable. Not two steps from her a white female phantom leaned against the low wall which separated; the Shrubbery from the road, and in the background hovered two black, phantoms,not verydis- masculine tinguishahlfrom te shadows "Meet me by moonlight alone, And thesis' will tell you a tale, • Must be tend by the moonlight alone, In the grove at the end of the "I can't expect you to care for me as I do for you, of course; but you have been so kind to me this summer that I can't help hoping." , Still Fenella stood opposite to him dumb as a statue, and white also 'as a statue, in her flowing dress and even- ing cloak. The pure- lines of the youthful figure were enough to quick- en the blood in his pulses, while at sight of a passivity so very like ac- quiescence, hope hastened to apply her spur. "I am right, am I not? You do care for me a bit?" he urged, drawing sud- denly close, and thereby into the full moonlight, whose knife laid bare the smile of dawning, but not over -in- telligent, beatitude upon his honest face. His arms spread irrestibly, in expectation of the sweet burden which they hoped, within -a moment, to be supporting, He had all but touched her, when vehemently she dtew back. "No, no!" she said, in a voice which terror had made almost guttural— "not that—I did not mean that!" He stopped, disconcerted, but, not convinced. • "But you do care for me, surely?" be asked, with a little of the rich suitor's appreciation of his position piercing right through his very sincere depreciation of his person. Then Fenella gave that same lame answer which is the stereotyped ans- wer of those women who have allowed themselves to bo led to market, but who, feeling the buyer's hand upon their baiter, decide to wrench them- selves free at all costs. ' "Not in that way. I mean, I could not marry you. I am sure now that I could not. It would be wrong —even towards you. I can't explain; but it is like that." She spoke in short, breathless sen- tences, averting her eyes and tighten- ing the folds of her cloak around her, as though the more effectually to isol- ate herself from her companion. "Then you mean that all this sum- mer—" "I was not playing with you; no—I can swear to you that I was not. I really thought that I should be able to da it; but now I find I can't. Don't be too angry. with me, Mr. Macgilvray. I can't help it now, though I ought to have helped it before. Please forgive me if you can!" She had to Look at him now; and immediately was pierced to the heart by the anguish of his face; but it was an anguish which only made her more determined to act fairly by the man —at last. "Oh, Mr. Macgilvray, I didn't think you would take it like this!" came over her lips, conscience-stricken. His answer was another stereotyped question: "Is there no hope for me at all!" She shook her hoad with comas- s o compas- sionate eyes, but closed lips, and a iv tightening of the further defensive g g cloak about her figure. "What a brute I must be to deserve thisl" said the poor boy, after an- other pause, and speaking in the dazed voice of one who still reels under a recent blow. The tears rushed to Fenella's eyes. "You don't deserve it, that is just it. It is I who am the brute. Oh, Mr. lilacgilvray, couldn't we be friends?" Once more a stereotyped question one which has probably been answered by more lies than any other question in the world. Fenella, as she asked it, released the edges of her cloak, and in the exaltation of her remorse held out both her hands, But the hands were not taken, nor was the conventional lie spoken to - clay; not because Ronald was so far above picking up the scrap thrown to him, but because just then, from among the musical sounds pausing out through the open door, her nervously alert cars disentangled another and far more commonplace sound—that of a heavy step upon the gravel. For one instant a movable shadow detach- ed itself from the background of im- movable ones—to bo swallowed up again in the: next, to the sound of now retreating steps. "We had better go in,—we are not alone," said Fenella, hastily putting back her' hands under the shelter of �, P • cloak, and sinatc.hnn just as hast- ily at the pretext offered, "One of ,the gardeners probably," muttered' Ronald, as with lowered head he followed her. Nor did he even hate the intruding gardener very hotly, not being calm enough yet to find any comfort in the charitable plaster offered to Inc bleed- ing wound. Oh, how_thankful was Fenella for the bustle of. departure!' how thankful to the loch -end, whose urgent claims tepee the .young engineer separated the siaterrs from the brother at. the very landing stage of Balladeochitl Ques- tioning loolcsl however keen, are easy to evade.cluring a few minutes,. Owing; to which circumstance Albert was able to enjoy his long, moon -lit row with a mind as unclouded by doubts ae Was the firmament allude linin of, shadows .'' (To be continued.) "Miss Fenella!" The hand which lap upon the top of the low wall jerked with the sur prise, as Fenella, sharply, turning her head, discovered that, she was alone with Ronald Maegilvray, "Miss Fenella, I have been trying all evening—allthis fortnight, I mean to --to speak to you. You will listen to nle now, won't you? Perhaps you can make a guess at what I want to say, But I don't know how to say it -not one bit," buss face -was in the shadow of an overhanging hough, but the young SIGNIFICANCE 1 the heroic little baud, 'i.'h a theruin i who had savers the army was caned for he proved to be a diwnmer boy, 1 OF DISCIPLINEanti he afterward received the Vnetori:r' t;t'oss from the kande of the bine'.F The lesson at' ihls incident is not the valor of the drummer boy, but the magnificent dieeipllno of the Wren s bieh enabled them instantly to Obey the order without hesitation or' cines time, although they knewit blight mean death. r The .best, and nothing but the beet, , will win success le this war, and the best begins with voluntary discipline by every officer and soldier and aleo by every man, woman and chile! in the nation. QUEER BEASTS OF LONG AGO. That Did NM Survive Because Not SALUTE, .AS 17' ORIGINATED IN THE MIDDLE, AGES. The Training of n Soldier Means That t He Will Instantly. Obey Orders, At this stage of the tear llo one can, deny that the British have borne a heavy weight in the war, not only the little army of 100,000 that, saved the world at Mims but the big ,British army now standing between the world and the khans of Attila, The most necessary thing to win the war is discipline, says Lieut. -Colonel W. Applies, D.S,0„ of the British army. It hardly requires any explan- ' ation that discipline is the first and last word of modern war. Look at Russia. Comparatively unprepared in 1914, she was able to defy Germany and enter East Prussia, thus giving us valuable time to prepare, Yet the moment she lost her discipline she was unable to prevent an inferior force from over- running the country. Italy is another example of the vital importance of discipline. If we have learned anything in this 1 war it is that discipline and efficiency are the same thing. If Germany -had not had iron disciplinewe should long ago have been in Berlin, and the reas- on we are now able to drive back the Germans and capture ground, guns, and prisoners et any tithe, anywhere on the western front, whereas Ger- many has not gained a yard of ground or 5000 one military success in a year, is the fact that our system of discip- line is better than theirs. The Anglo-Saxon Discipline. Compulsion is purely German, whereas the discipline of the British— or rather of the Anglo-Saxon—is that of free wilt. It is absolutely volun- tary. I can only liken it to the discip- line of the football field, where every ,man submits himself willingly to hard Bdiscipline to win the match, and plays iot for himself but for the team, obeying instructions, whether he agrees that they are right or not.. i Fighting men must submit them- ' selves in the same way to Spartan training to meet the conditions of 'modern war—conditions far more se- vere than obtained in any war ever fought: If necessary to the ancient Greeks, if the Romans, whose legions conquered the world, needed it, it is infinitely more necessary to -day when millions instead of thousands are tak- ing the field and when arms have de- veloped and increased from the simple sword and spear to the thousand and one complicated means of destruction which make up the modern battle. When one thinks of the means of de- struction placed at the disposal of the human race one is aghast at the num- ber, size and variety of these imple- ments. Not only do we fight, as of old, upon the ground, but we have weapons in the air and under the wa- ter, and to enable us to co-ordinate and bring under the direction of one single brain this mass of material for waging war it is absolutely essential that every unit be perfectly disciplin- ed Whether it be the fighting man' in the trenches, the gunner, the flying man, the transport driver or the thou- sands of departments necessary to -and su l the mighty feed, clothe a PP Y g4 ; armies—the first necessity to the smooth working of this gigantic ma- chine is personal discipline of the humblest man. What the Salute Means. An American asked ' me the other day why a British officer drew himself up so stiffly and looked his brother of- ficer full in the face when he saluted. I asked him if he understood what the military salute was, He said he guessed it was•a sort of homage. I explained that he was entirely mistak- en: The military salute is a kind of Masonic sign between soldier and sol- dier and it originated in the Middle Ages, when only the highest classes of society were permitted to bear arms. When knights wore armor they rode out with -the visors of their hel- mets down, covering the face. When two knights met it was the custom for the new or strange knight to raise Inc visor and show his face, the other then doing jilcewise. If you perform this motion you will find that it is the same as that of the modern military salute. That is why, in our army, a man never salutes unless he has his cap on, It corresponds to the visor over the face. Unless this discipline is instilled and instant obedience becomes second na- ture, an incident which happened ear- lier in the war would be impossible. In company retiring before thiscase a c e y n g overwhelming forces of the enemy lost all its officers and non-commis- sioned' officers in an effort to hold an important bridgehead to enable the rest of'the army to retire. Suddenly a young man sprang up and shouted a few words of command and the little body of survivors instantly followed him to apparent death. When Discipline Saved.k!ie Army, Througha few yards of bullets they ran, :falling into a drain which the youth's sharp eyes had discovered, ]n abled to get on the flank of the Ger- mans; they poured a East desperate volley from .close range into the re= serves, wafting for the final assault Surprised and thrown into confusion these reserves began to retire in clic 1, IGAIN OF 100,000 IVIARRIAGES •tf ,� 1gY t f) M" t \ IN GR1 Al BRITAIN AS INSULT �. OF THE WAR. DOMESTIC SCIENCE .AT HOME Twenty-hourth Lesson --Children's k'aotl -thl•' The baby who must depend upon hers have no glneo in the mall ii• the bottle to supply nutriment to diet• d tare, maiutainlife needs good care end at- Good home-made bread an 1 scudo)). ni]lk contain the necessary elelIWO that are of vital irnoortanco for the Ther this baby; . 'may th physician the mother should,•clan snocessful growth Miring .child} ood . fo havethe ill r That the bread contain all the nee.°s factoribo a s impos that .nvjll agree 1 Id with the child, Cleanliness is a big Bony elements of wheat, factor, 11 1s impossible to keep 1!t- tie' bodies, clothing 'and the utensils in which food is made, too clean, Re- ;iember that surgical cleanliness is the price of freeclom from much of baby ilhiessos. Plies, dirt, impure 'milk and i sanitary conditirone are the enomiea of chik'aood. The baby approaching one year o.d must begin to suet solid' foods. It is at this period that the mother must use care and fore -thought. The de- licate digestive organs are easily dis- turbed. It must be realized that the child should be furnishce with 'nods that will provide growth of bone, mus - cies and tissues and also furnish it with sufficient energy to exercise its body, , Adapted to Environment. i Nature seems to have imide a whole lot of experiments that were not very suci•essful. There were the Titano- theres (meaning "huge beasts") for example. Some of thein were nearly as big as elephants but no human be- ing ever saw one 'alive. They passed out of existence a mil- lion or moreyears ago, and ` such Y g knowledge as we Have of them to -day tis derived from their bones, dug out of the . rocks in the Western part of North America. They were of. many species, and undoubtedly in their time l were very numerous. 1 The Museum of Natural History, in !New York, has•made great collections of their osseous remains; and many of the skeletons it has secured are so nearly complete that, its experts are able to make good "restorations" of the creatures, showing what they looked like in `life. They were contemporary, in this country, With horses the size of mod - ern foxes, tapirs not much bigger, j camels no larger than cottontail rab- 1 bits (which seen to have been exceed- ingly numerous in the plains region of the West), bear -like cats and giant dogs four times the weight of a St. , Bernard. In those days there was a land- bridge across Bering Strait, and ani - male migrated to and fro between Asia and North America. Our bt..hd from Asia (say the naturalists) , that path; and it was by the same route that' the Old World obtained from this continent the horse and the I camel.. But, the Titanotheres failed to sur- vive.somehow. Perhaps they were wiped out by bear -cats and other big !carnivores. Whatever the reason, they I.ceased entirely to exist, being re- placed by other herbivorous mammals better adapted to the American envi roam ent. HOW WAS FIRE OBTAINED.• • ;Natives of Bay of Bengal Islands De- pended on Volcanoes. It has been argued that primitive man must first have obtained fire from volcanoes. -'Perhaps he did; there is no telling. !But one should remember that man was originally a forest dweller, and that forests are often set on fire by lightning. There is plenty of burning wood at hand on such occasions. Man, originally, did not make Are; he found it. And having found it, he may soon have discovered uses for it. But it is an incontestable fact that the natives of the Andainan Islands, in the Bay of Bengal, depended until very recent years for their supplies of fire upon an active volcano. ! These people are black pygmies. The 'men average no more than four feet ten inches in stature, and the women he shorter. An odd bice me s s t thing them is that theneerseem to I about tl e icy v grow up;they look like pot-bellied 1 babies all their lives. The Andamans are a very consider- able. archipelago, comprising many islands,, large and - small, on one .of which is the volcano allcfrementioned. Visits to the burning mountain; to get fresh fire, were not 'often necessary, because the"'little niggers" (as sailor- men call then) knew how to keep firs alive almost indefinitely in logs of de cayed wood. Nothing introduced by the whites astonished the pygmies so much as friction matches. To produce fire with. ;such ease offhand struck them as a supernatural accomplishment, To use fire is one thing; to be able to make it quite another, Ages must have intervened between the earliest knowledge of the former and the achievement of the latter. The man who first discovered how to procluee a spark by rubbing two sticks together was the greatest inventor in the his- tory of the world, order, and before they could be rallied fresh forces chine up to the relief of A POISONED SEA. Poisonous Gases Released by Earth- quake Shock. Foreighth time since 1844 fish the ° g have been killed along the west oast of Florida in an area of poisoned water, Not only the water, but the air has been charged with a suffo- cating gas, odorless but irritating to the air -passages, The last mortality was reported in October and Novem- ber of 1916. The Bureau of Fisheries sent experts to the spot, but they•vvere obliged to admit, after a careful in- vestigation, that the cause of the strange occurrence' is a mystery. One explanation advanced is' that earth- quake shocks, possibly due to West Indian hurricanes, released poigonous gases Piton the sea bottom• To keep lemons .have ;some (ley clean sawdust in a box and buy diem h1 it and they will keep for weeks, For growth protein is necessary, This is found in milk, eggs and cereals for the small child; and in meat, fish, peas, beans and lentils, in addition to the above mentioned foods, for older children. Baby receives his energy from cereals, bread and butter and milk: The fats in the mjlk, buttex and yolk of egg also. act as energy- Large quantities of sugar overheat giving foods. The juice of an orange the blood stream and upset the diges- may be given in small amounts to the tion. .It is possitively criminal to child under one year of age, with Ivo pennies to the children and allow bonefieiai results: The value of tghem to buy cheap candies of unknown orange juice in the child's 'diet is of origin. If candy is necessary, make a laxative nature. The small child it at home and be assured of its from one to three years may have the purity. pulp of a baked apple and prunes in Plenty of cool drinking water additio., to the orange juice. should be gjverto the children, even Children from three to six years. of the smallest baby may bo given a 155 - age may have cereals, milk, eggs, fine- spoonful of water three or four time° ly chopped meats, fish boiled and leak during the day. Do not give small chil- ed, fresh vegetables and fruits, Corn, dren ice water; for safety's sake the beans, tomatoes, cabbage and cucum- water should be boiled and cooled. thei' it sunt be made from whole wheat meal or flour; This gives the child the volua-, ble vitanninee that are conteine,l in which it is cared for before it reaches; tohene whand eat. tothe struoutercture. covering of the b grain eontaifs valuable material 1'or, oth Know the source of your milk sup ply and also the conditions under, you. Upon receiving mills, if it is, not already pasteurized, then paste- urize it at once, then cool and store' in a place where it will be free from all contamination. Remember that milk will spoil very quickly if it is kept in a careless or dirty manner, or if it is permitted to stan.l in a het t- ed kitchen. Physicens will tell you that thousands of babies die each year because of the careless manner in which mills fed to them is handled. Always wash, of possible, under running water, the top of the mills bottle o_• jar, before opening it. When once the bottle is open turn a jelly glass down upon the top of the bot- tle. This -forms a sanitary covering that can quickly be removed. Do not give small children candy. COOL{IES FOR WAR -TIME. Germany mauy and ALIStrill, However, , Show i0Y a Marked Decrease in Births told Weddings. Crudely stated, said Sir Bonnard !1laUet, in hie hresideetial address to the Statistieai Society, according to the London Daily Chronicle, the war had resulted in 200,000 persons in the United' Kingdon being married be- tween August, 1914, and. June, 1917, who in the m'dinery course would :lot have married. The marriage rate for 1915 was the highest recorded --l9.4 —the previous maximum being in 1858, which .was 17.9. Referring to the marriage statis- tics in enemy countries, in Hungary the effect of the war had been that more than 600,000 persons who in the ordinary course would have married, had not done So. In Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Hesse, Hamburg and Bremen, six States containing more than eighty per cent, of the German population, the total number of marriages, 10 1912 was 434,103 and in 1014 392,453, a decrease of 41,050, or nearly ten per cent., in spite of a great outburst of war marriages during the first month of the wwar. The Birth Rate, The loss of potential lives to the belligerent countries by the deerease, in the number of children born was, perhaps, the most important effect pby - ties. In births the United Kingdom had suffered ,far less than Germany and Hungary, the United Kingdom having lost 10,000 per million of the pulpulation,' Germany 40,000 per mil- lion and Hungary 70,000 per million, As regards infant mortality, the rate during 1914-1910 had been lower both i in the United Kingdom. and in 'Ger- many than jn any previous period of like duration, but the summer mortal Cookies loom large on the house-: Mix flour, bran, rolled oats, salt, ity in 1917 appeared to have been ex- wife's horizon just at present for win I spices and sugar. Then stir in ,the',traordinarily high in several German ter is near at hand and wherever there, raisins and add soda dissolved in milk. cities, and the German sate all are ehildrec there must be wholesome,1 Stir in melted shortening and add through remained at some fifty per nourishing ass delicious cookies to l beaten eggs and molasses. Drop on cent, higher than in this country. cheer their yon, 1.‘g hearts and Please' well buttered pans. Bance in moder- I Some curious results were noted. An 1 alteration in the sex ratio of birth ap- their palates. atony hot oven until brown. j peered to be established by the figure•° —rv, ries 1 In making the weekly supply the Fruit 800tcies (60`03 colo ) '-of the United Kingdom, especially by men', ,et the front ehould not be for- cups each shortening and light brown those of England, the proportion of. bonen` fors they wenlcome cookies all !sugar, 1/z cup whole wheat flour, 1; male births having noticeably Menem- led. e e m - the year roan •,,just as much as they teaspoon each salt, cream of tartar l ed Contrary to expectation, the war did when they iv,: e youngster3 at home with insatiable + appetites. A roduced the war on vital static and vanilla, 1f, teaspoon baking soda, had produced no effect upon the figures 1 cup seedless raisins, 2 'eggs beaten' of illegitimate births. Decline in sui- good scheme is to Fend the eeokies until light. Cream butter and sugar.' sides was another interesting feature. overseas in old baking powder tins. If Add the eggs and then the other in- Comparison between the natural in - well sealed they arrive at their des- gradients. Use enough whole wheat crease or decrease of the populations tinatjon in excellent shape and if the flour to make a stiff dough. Roll out showed that whereas the population of "kinds that mother /rakes" are good very thin. Cut in small shapes and: the United Kingdom was now some - at home how much 'better they are in put on a baking pan. Bake for about what greater than at t' a beginning of the trenches! ten minutes in quick oven. ( tine war, in spite of all losses of life in Wholesome economical and palat- Hermit Cookies (4626 calories) -3" the army and navy. Austria-Hungary able—these are the requisites for war- eggs, 1'4 cups each flour and brown' and Germany had each suffered a de time cookies whether they go overseas sugar, 1 cup . each whole wheat flour,' crease of some 600,000, in addition to or whether they grace the family table raisins and English walnut meats, 3i; losses -in the field outside of tileee this winter, cup butter, 1 teaspoon soda, 1,1 tea- countries—perhaps a total decrease of Whole -Wheat Meal Cookies. -3 cups spoon each of cinnamon and nutmeg.; at least four millions. fine whole-wheat. meal; 2 cups broad Cream the butter and sugar and add I , ar, short- the eggs well beaten. Sift the soda. RABBITS. flour, 1 cup each brown sug , HARES AND ening and warm water, 2 'teaspoon in the flour. Add the raisins and; — powder, 1 teaspoon oon salt, 3 tea- nuts well floured. Roll medium thin. I More Species of Hares in North baking p �v p Cut in any shape desired and bake : spoon vanilla. Mix dry ingredients uick oven. e hq eningalltogether. and add enoughThen wrubarmin watethsr andort- Gavelling to make a stiff dough. Roll one-quarter of an inch thick. Cut in desired shapes and bake in a quick oven. Maple or BrownSugar Drop ie Doodles. (3789 calor s )-1 cep whole Wheat flour, 15's cups flour, 1 egg, beaten light, 11 cup .each shortening and sour cream, `1 este each dark brown or maple sugar and chopped ` v 2•^ei.^ r,E a5 , bits belong, and the species Sylvaticus raisins, 1/1/1 'cup light brown sugar. /k (meaning of the woods). Thus we have "woodland hare." The terns rabbit was formerly more Properly- ,applied to the burro•^ing sl,ecies a the Old World, Leptis ai ni- culus (meaning to burrow), though by common usage our molly cotton - Wil has so long been termed a rabbit that the name will now stond, as will f Plenty) they (d that of jack rabbit for the big west- ern hale of the prairies and Pacific coast. All of the domestic varieties' of rab- bits, except the Belgian hare, are de- ecsnclants of the burrowing rebbits of the Old World,- and the big European hare, almost ds large as our western Ink rabbit, is the ancestor of the so- called Belgian form, which is now gttita popular as a domestic animal of salt Profit and is becoming mere so. soda and allspice, ',t teaspoon each i ce In the Northern Hemisphere of the cloves and nutmeg, 3 cup sweet -milk•! aIleet: P p s`asssee+$` tis't,aigaT•ain Now World wo have many more it ir.15' ) N''' msp ,. or [natural riar ods permanently mo noai tiveiy. • ur natural methods permanently restore natural eech. Graduate pupils every - aa A t a r - every- where. arc©advice and literature. whr. 1 THIS EltnlO`>I"I' INSTITUTE ITUTE KIA Rl'1'CIiL'NER, CANADA America Than in Europe: *here is a technical difference be- eer rabbits' and hares that is a spe- cific difference. All animals and plants are classified as belonging to kingdoms, classes, orders, families, and from the let- ter and species, a c genera a at meal tel• tivo the scientific or t h names are chosen, Thus our com- mon molly cottontail belongs to the gcn.us (plural genera) Leptis (mean- ing hare), to which all hares and lab - teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon vanilla. Mix ingredients and drop by dessert- spoonfuls on a greased pan and 'bake in a hot oven about ten minutes. Spice Tea Calces (3773 calories) - 2 cups etch brown sugar and whole! wheat flour, Iia cup shortening, 3 eggs, 4 ?s cup milk, 2 teaspoons baking pow -1 der, 1 teaspoon each ground cloves!. and ground cinnpmon, rib teaspoon' nutmeg. Sift the dry ingredients to -1 gether before mixing. Bake in small muffin pans. Brun Oatmeal Cookies (6070 calor -I ies)--2 cups each rolled oats and whole wheat flour, 11/a cups bran, 114P eups brown sugar, 2 tablespoonfuls molasses, 2 eggs, 1 cup melted short -1 ening, 1 cup raisins, 1 teaspoon each It and cinnamon, 1/s teaspoon each 2 12 Many People 11---8 Make a Toronto's B -Linea Famous fotol. for the Walker House (The House o assoonas t e arrive In Toronto. The meals, the service F and the home -like appointments ''5i constitute the magnet that draws t them there, Noon Dinner 60c. 0 lvening Dinner 75c. THE WALKER HOUSE Toronto's Famous Hotel TORONTO, CANADA Rates Reasonable �j Geo. Wright «1 Co., Props, .r, 0i seethes of bares than the Old World •-•" .-.`.: _-. ��remz,:I ,, boast of, as the cottontail, the �:aasr7asc•�ac .. aa�s�r'^•� rx iotci Dei Coronado Coronado Beach, California Near San Delo POLO; ' MOTORING, TENNIS, BAY 'AND SURF BATHING, FISHING AND BOATING U3 -Hole Coll Course Hotel is equipped throughout with Automatic Sprinkler System. AMERICAN FLAN JOHN J. HERNAN, •Manager xl sersintesszeseasmanaleeneseetiasszSanisamensurimenareai 'i,uthern swamp hare, the Arctic hare • snowshoe rabbit and two species Ji western jack rabbits or giant hares; tet we have not successfully domes. l sated one of these tomos, though this . n tight he done as a matter of profit in dm production of meat. • 1 Suspended Walls. One of the queerest structures in the world is an electric -station bujld- ing at Cristobal, in the Panama Canal me, The toot is supported by pow - r rful central columns and the side 'ails bear no weight whatsoever but ,e suspended from the eaves by means t cantilever beams.' On one side of se building, the wall is made fast to 1' e foundation with anchor bolts. 1115 unique co etruct.icn was oriented prevent .lie building from settling •r es angle should an earth- 1, e'r shift the foundation, •/ .