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The Brussels Post, 1918-5-2, Page 2���II�� i offie ersto start t rttin the wrong way, and' WHAT 'I'��I� �q JAPANESE EAS' Ifor • hen in the right one gun- room discipline is the most effective and ronvonient method, and as such TIE GUN -ROOM sttnttionect l,;v tradition that had 4. TR . _ mind had slung his "snottfe's" dirkgrown hoary ere our eldest living ad - i . PART OF THE EDUCATION OG NATION 'DOTED FOR PHYSICAL OUR "JOLLY TARS." The Most Effective School For Gentle men is the Gun -Room of a Buttieship. All naval officers below the rank of lieutenant mess in the gun -room when afloat. I•'ront time immemorial and that means much in the Navy—the gun -froom has been the liveliest spot in the ship. And there is every indi- cation that it will remain so, as mod- ern innovations do not noticeably change its somewhat riotous tradi- - STRENLI'li AND ENDURANCE. TWO FRENCH SOLDIERS. tory of r11"1e Leroux and Ills Com" I -se Moiled Rice instead of Bread and mandanl, Both Blinded, Very Little, if Any, When they brought Private Leroux- !ileac - into the Lighthouse, where they teach , the blind to read and work, says Mr, The Japanese, noted as a nation for Will Lwin in The Latin at 'Stiae, he that, physieel strength and endurance,' smiled, He kept on smiling until his are not meet eaters. Indeed, in Japan cheerfulness became a tradition, lie only the ride eat meat, and that not had less cause for smiles, perhaps, eta a rule. What, then, do they eat? i than anyone else among those victims Lady Arnold, the widow of Sir Ed- ef cruel calamity, for he had lost not vein Arnold and daughter of Kuroke- only his sight but also one hand. The wa Bianchi of Sendai, gives here some nursea at the Lighthouse say that, helpful hints to those who are wise nest of their mettles cry at times slur- enough to wish to study Japanese ng the period of adjustment to a new 1methods for their gttadrince in this two-dimensional world. But not Pei- season of restricted meat rations. vete Leroux. When he began to learn I Isere are the menus of a day's meats the Braille alphabet, when it dawned ,,in a homely family in Japan; 1 on him that he could react again, he; Breakfast—Thick brown soup; boil-; laughed like a boy. They have a eel rice; omelet; pickles; sweet beans; typewriter at the Lighthouse for the tea, mutilated blind; the spacing is done ; Luncheon—Clear soup; fried or by the feet, Private Leroux attacked ; grilled fish; boiled rice; stewed veg-! it with enthusiasm and made little i etables with small pieces of chicken; jokes when the instructor road him tea, his first results with the touch eye- Dinner—Soup; chicken; boiled riee;f tem. Everyone held up Private Le- fish, salmon or lobster"fried in batter roux as a model to those patients whoand served with Japanese settee; sal - cried or sulked. lad; chestnuts, or some other sweet He had been a month or two at the:dish, Lighthouse when news came unex- ( Serving the Meals. pectedly from his commandant, at, Everything is served at each meal whose side he had been wounded. The once to each person on a square tray; commandant, reported missing, lengethesoup in a lacquer cup, the rice in ago judicially dead, had suddenlyap-�a china cup and the fish in a fancy peered in Switzerland with a convoy china plate. There is a hint here for of prisoners, exchanged beeause they,. those who feel that to secure "fair - were too badly mutilated for any use; nese" individual dishes might be in - of war. The German medical corps I stituted in our households after' due had picked him up between the lines„weighing. In -Japan each person helps with his face shot across behind the ihimself with chopsticks. eyes. He, too, was stone blind. tions, says a naval officer. Every true I sailor is a boy at heart, and never i outgrows his youthfulness of spirit. -Even the staid ward -room frequently. indulges in pranks that would seem very strange if practised by grown-up alien ashore, But the gun -room has no dignity to be pushed aside by a spas -I enodic burst of irresponsibility. Never -1 theless, its code of etigaette and its'. rules are very definite. The senior sub -lieutenant rules it. even more autocratically than the Kai-' ser rules Germany. All the middies, and other officers junior to him, muse` bow to his will, or trouble falls upon them in a heap. Like all absolute monarchs, the 'teenier sub" has myrmidons to enforce - his behests, the said myrmidons being. a number of midshipmen who act as "dogs of war"—that is their time- honored and official title. When the senior sub desires anyone removed from his presence, he orders, "Dogs' of war, out So -and -Sol" and the "dogs" gleefully obey his command. "The Dogs of War." • Promptly they fall upon "So -and so"—an avalanche of hefty youth— and if he is as big as a church out he has to go, neck and crop, from the gun -room. Naturally, this "outing" business does not go through without some commotion. Whenever the mar- ine sentry on the half -deck outside ears the glen -room furniture begin to fly round, he knows that the dogs of war have been unloosed, and that the dogs and their quarry will soon come hurtling madly through the floor. A man may be "outer for breaking rules, m• just because the senior sub thinks he ought to lee out - ed. The sub has not to give any reason for his decisions to anybody.. When, after dinner, the sub picks pp a fork and strikes an overhead beam with it, or sticks it into the table, all the junior members of the gun -room must leave helter-skelter. ' Ansi they obey the signal in the quick- est possible time, tumbling over each ether in their eagerness to get out, for the last to leave will be grabbed by the "dogs of sear," who, in their awn effective way, teach him the de- sirability of being quicker in his movements next time. INDIAN "WITCH DOCTORS." Medicine Mem Discovered Thal Ie. sects Carty Many Diseases, That hn*eetw are confers of many diseases was an accepted idea among Cherokee medicine men long before it was thought of by modern pitted - dans. The theory of these nboriginal "witch doctors" was (and is to -day) that insects, being constantly crushed t otherwise destroyed Uy human 1>e - Ings, eeek revenge by establishing t communitiee under people'e slcins, 1 thus producing an irritation that ee- sults In fevers, boils amt other male-, dies. Primitive medicine is mostly magic,' and the treatment of a patient con slats largely in incantations that are supposed to drive out the evil spirit or other mischief -maker that causes the trouble. Somewhat elaborate paraphernalia is employed, all of it magical. The Sioux doctor at the bedside wears a hideous mask, It is very desirable to "stand in" with the medicine man, who may in- cidentally deal in dangerous spells, selling them to good customers who wish to hill or afflict an enemy. The possession of a little of a per- son's salivia, collected on the end of a stick, enables the Cherokee doctor to make life very unenjoyable to that in- dividual. He may cause It to breed animals or sprout corn in the body of its former owner. For extreme cases the doctor has a specieprescription which fs prepared by putting into a point of the poison- ous wild parsnip seven earthworms beaten to a paste and as many splin- ters from a tree that has been struck by lightning. These are buried with proper ceremony and the person aimed at is expected to shrivel up and die within seven days. All this ie done in an outburst of buoyant, roystering animal spirit, which intends no harm, and succeeds in accomplishing some good. Every goung officer has to go "through the stoop," and it does not hurt him either. Rather he is all the better for the Tough -and -ready disciplining he gets pt the hands of his exuberant mess - mates of the gun -room, who certainly possess this virtue, that they are no sycophants, and will not tolerate any fellow "putting on side" whoever he may be. And there is no bettor way lf teaching any person sense than by etting all the nonsense be knocked Out of him by those of his kind. "Sent to the Sub." The gun -room is an adept at this ¢ort of thing. Licking half -formed material into the right shape, and in- culcating a due respect for discipline ire among the most time-honored of ts functions, for tinder all the rough- and-tumble of theelife there lies some- thing of deeper import than mere high spirited frolicsomeness. One might possibly not regard the gun -room as g, school of manners, though it is— and the disciplinary centre for junior Officers as well. Should one of its (denizens be at fault he is "sent to the Sub," who duly and emphatically cor- rects him. The Navy does not allow its young 1 "Chicken, duck or other birds are On the day after Private Leroux sometimes added to the luncheon or heard this he sat down and wrote his: dinner menu," continued Lady Are commandant a letter. He did not nold. "The meat is always cut in trust his own imperfeet typewriting, small pieces before it is cooked, and but dictated it to a nurse; and so the;then it hi stewed with vegetables also people of the Lighthouse knew what cut in small pieces. Everything goes he wrote. He told of all thee' had clone !.much farther this way. When beef is for him, of all they could do for the `used it is cut up also. One pound of commandant. Would he not conte? It' steals in small pieces cooked in Jape was a great thing to read again and :mese sauce with leeks cut, small to know that one might work again. I makes a dish for several people, "I didn't think there was any more 1 ..We cook a great many thing, in light for ma," he concluded simply, Japanese sauce—shoyu—which we "but now I have found light, Won't buy ready prepared, and add to it the you conte, too, my dear command - flavoring we want—a little sherry or ant?" Then every day he waited for •sugar if it is for a sweet dish. Shayu an answer. I is made of white beans, and when eve The commandant never replied to use it the result is much the same as this letter. But one morning there if the food had been cooked in gravy appeared in the doorway of the Dnee- ,Butter is not used for cooking in tory a tall man, "as tall," said Miss' Japan, We fry fish in oil, having first Halt, the directress," --a tall as—a I dipped it in batter—not in egg and Albert of Belgium," He wore an o breadcrumbs. serfs uniform, and he was leaning on I the shoulder of the little nurse who! How Rice is Cooked, had brought him all the way from! "Several vegetables are served to - ^h as Switzerland. He introduced himself gether nt Japanese sauce, as the commandant, and asked for bamboo shoots, sweet potatoes and Private Leroux. ;the roots of lotus flowers, also mush - Miss Holt took him to the garden rooms, and many green vegetables are and sent for Private Leroux. Presently:used in soups and stews. Chicken is there came a tapl tapl tap! tap! of a] always the chief ingredient in these blind man's stick nearer and nearer' stews. In this country I should put along the corridor, and Private Le-', carrots, turnips and mushrooms to - roux stepped out, reaching eagerly gether. with hie stick. I "Boiled rice is used with every meal "Leroux," said the directress, "here:instead of bread in Japan; we have is your commandant," and "Command-, no bread. We do not boil the rice in ant, here is Leroux." She led them plenty of water as you do in this together. 'country. WY take one teacupful of They stood silent, holding each rice and wash it well and then cover other by the forearms. Then Private it with two teacupfuls of water and Leroux's good hand and his stump be -,cook it in a fireproof pan. It should gan to travel up, up—feeling. He not be stirred. After about ten min - reached the commandant's shoulders, I utas the water should have been ab - his neck, his face; the fingers of the I sorbed, and then it should be steamed one good hand rested on the bandage' until quite dry. The grains should be covering that place where the eyes whole when it is ready, but sticking had been. together. We do not put any salt "My commandant! My command - .with the rice, which, cooked ie this ant!" cried Private Leroux, And,; way, is very nourishing. dropping his head upon his command -1 "We use boiled macaroni also, but ant's breast, Private Leroux, whohad that is usually served in soup, Our never shed a tear over his own blind- clear soup is made with stock from tress. wept like a child. PLANT A GARDEN. Day of Victory is Hastened by Every Effort at hood Production. The average person who, for pat- riotie purposes, plants a garden thinks of it simply as a means where- by the food supply of the nation may be augmented. In this way, of course, it is import- ant. • But it has a larger significance which the food administration is anx- ious to have realized. 1 The output of such a garden is ready delivered on the spot to the con- sumer. It takes the place of just so much food which otherwise would have to be fetched from more or less distant places. Perhaps it would be :only a wagon haul; more likely it would be a haul by railroad. Whatever fn the way of food pro- ducts is produced and delivered by the garden on the spot where it is to be consumed saves just that much trans- portation. In these days transporta- tion is precious. Every ton of it that Ican be saved is just so much help toward winning rho war, Every ton of foodstuffs produced for local consumption releases a transpor- tation ton for other purposes—for the carrying of food, fuel and munitions. The forwarding of supplies for the use of our fighting men abroad—the very pushing to the front of the can nen on which we must chiefly depend for heating the Hun—is helped by even, a small patch of vegetables that a householder anywhere in Canada may grow in his backyard, Batter, with finely chopped can- died peel and raisins, makes a much - liked sweet sandwich, and honey with chopped nuts is another sweet filling. To save wheat plant fruit of all ]rinds—strawberries, red and black raspberries, blackberries, currants, gooseberries, grapes, All these pro- duce fruit within a short time after planting, dried tunny fish flavoredestvnth Japa- nese sauce and sherry. Thick brown soup is made with white beans, fish or vegetables. Eggs are often added to the luncheon or dinner menu, and fish will be mashed and made into an omelet with beaten eggs. Be sure to give the children whole milk. Keep the hens confined to the own- er's land. 12.95 NI -11 DIDN'T °LIVIA COME DOiIM (OyiPi wlYi� you, HELEI l z r, THIS 15 PANs'I's DAY oFN AND OLIVIA is arrTtNG THE DINNER. fit, , NaLgt4, Do `lou WANY Yo SroP FN HERE ANO GEi- A So DA 2 No Tom- °LIVIA SAID SRe- ►S GOING `fo 14AUE SOME— THING SPECIAL. ANDsODA W11.1 -SPOIL APP rieftS Spring. Spring has a thousand voices, A thousand notes of song, And every heart rejoices Her chorus to prolong. She sings of brooklets dancing Along a pebbled Way, Of forest glades entrancing And blue birds' roundelay. Spring hath a thousand glories, A thousand fairy bands, She tells us wondrous stories, She reaches lavish hands, Her gifts are golden fruited, She pledges joy divine; In goblets willow -fluted Of maple -sweetened wine. o r �-Q ' DEATH RATHER oil THAN EXILE HINTS FOR Roadside Patching, An ingenious expedient for hurry - ng a tube -patching job to completion. s this: Have two small slabs of wood, apply the paish to the tulle, then place the job between the two 1 blocks of wood, Next place the jack on the upper block, slip the whole' under axle or frame of the machine) and raise it so that the car is lifted an inch or so, This brings several' hundred pounds •of Pressure on the patch and materially hastene the com- pletion of the repair, Straightening Wire. Stray pieces of copper wire have many uses, but it often is neces- sary to straighten out wire that has already been used. See that there are no sharp bends or kinks in the wire and straighten out by hand any such that are found. Fasten an end of the wire to some firm anchorage; grip it in the vise if need be. Loop the other end of the wire around a ham- mer ]candle or similar instrument and then pull out the length of the wire.. Repeat the operation as often as nec- essary, If the wire is of soft copper it will stretch a little, which improves it. Excellent polishing cloths are made from old velveteen. The extermination of all flies is the aim of two British physicians who are experimenting with a parasite that kills the insects. 31.1.13 Pleat -Resisting Cement. It is often convenient to have a ce- ment that will resist considerable tem- peratures. Here Is the recipe for a good heat -withstanding cement: Take fifty parts of sulphur, one part of resin and one part of tallow. Melt these ingredients together and add fine powdered glass to form a paste. This cement must be heated before being used. ver,"'r CAR 011'Nb.II�. CoppCn It is possible toer deposoatiitg. n thin coat- ing of copper on iron or steel by the following process: Clean the metal thoroughly, Washing with a soda sohl- tion of sulphate of copper, which is also known as blue vitriol, in propor- tions of two ounces of the eulphate to eight ounces of water, While the copper coating will not last as long as electro -plating and will not stand heavy friction, it is a good rough -and ready method of copper coating, so as to prevent corrosion of the under metal, Old Platinum Contacts. In the old days platinum was not quite so expensive as it is now, and in the screws of old magnetos and contact coils there was often inserted a good-sized piece of platinum, By using a filo carefully it is possible to remove the brass and reclaim the platinum, when it can be soldered upon the end of a new screw. Emergency Carbon Brushes. The small rods which are part of the ordinary pocket lamp battery can bo filed and trimmed down to make a very acceptable temporary replace- ment for worn-out carbon brushes in the magneto. • Interior Examination. Whenever it becomes necessary to examine the interior of the motor, for any cause whatever, the car own- er should make it a point to clean the oil holes at the lower end of the connecting rods. These holes are peculiarly likely to become clogged, in which case the bearing is starved for its vital lubricant. LOSS OF SHIPS now bring $200 a ton, while ships of other nations, now neutral, which ®A brought $40 a ton now bring $300 a BY �S ton As the proportion of neutral and MANY CIVILIANS IN 1 Alt ZONE RI:FI.SE TO LEAVE HOMES.Incidents of Suffering by Plenlheh People During Preeent Period of Terror. Hundreds' of blemish homes, within the theatre of the present. offensive, have been shorn of their protectors, who have boon called to the Preneh colors, and for these this has been a time of double terror, writes. it war correspondent on April 17th. During the general exodus of civilians, now in progrese, some of the peasanta clung to their cottages, amidst the crashing of shells, until British sol- diers led them away. Some have died fighting by their own hearths before they could be removed, A host of these people must have realized their danger, but numbers refused to be dragged from the homes which they had been keeping so patiently, await- ing the return of husbands or bro- thers from the war. There were many pitiful cases of homes in which there were bedridden invalids, whom their friends had no means of removing without help from the soldiers. Kindness of British Officials. It was only yesterday that a British official photographer, who was re- cording the history of the war on his films, discovered a helpless paralytic lying in a house which had already been partly wrecked by shells, The invalid had no relatives, •Ind hie friends, who had looked afterhim, were dead or cut off from him. So the photographer, with the assietanee of a soldier, carried the man to safety, though their road lay through what might have been a horrible death at a anmymtmoment g, This is one instanee many. Sometimes there is no way of sav- ing valuables of bulk in towns which come first tinder the lire of the Ger- man troops. Relics and treasaree have been abandoned to the ilames and to American ships lost may be FIGURES GIVEN OUT BY THE BRITISH ADMIRALTY. Value of Vessels Lost by Great Britain is Approximately $832,949,000. One would be hard put to it to esti- mate the tonnage lost during the war from the submarine campaign and other causes if it were not for the figures recently given out by the Brit- ish authorities. The British Admiral- ty experts figure that 11,880,902 tons were lost up to the end of 1917. Of this amount 7,079,492 tons were Brit- ish ships and 4,807,470 were ships of other nations, including the United States. said, for plunderers. Many things have been I purposes of approximate calculation, deliberately destroyed by their owners 1 to have been about the same; one can in order that the Hermans might not strike a mean valuation of $250 a ton get them. for ships not flying the British flag, The `i'reclt of lI Home. which would give a valuation to the The correspondent. spent a night tonnage lost, outside a England's, of recently r a small hotel in a hamlet of English h Estimating the value whose doom seamed to el scaled. The of English ships at $100 a ton, the grey-haired matron who presided over value t those lost to England may be the destinies of the inn was getting fixed at $53,940,200, of 0. total Of $2,- reedy to leave. Her husband is an 14This 200. officer in the Frencher army, and she This lose has been to some extent was left alone to pelota not only for offset by the largely increased ship her establishment, but for her three production, which, however, is far be- children. It was a touching Menne to As the curve of submarine losses has been slowly descending it can be estimated that in the seven months of the present year, up to August 1, al- lowing for a substantial decrease bas- ed on the most optimistic suggestion. of the decreasing number of sinkings,� the loss would be 1,750,000. Of thisi probably 1,250,000 might be classed as British losses, according to the pre- ceding figures, and 500;000 tons might. be classed as other losses, including American. That would give a total of 13,577,- 572 tons of shipping lost in four years. In estimating the value of this lost tonnage one has to take into account' the varying prices ships bring at the present day according to whether they sail under a neutral or a belligerent flag. It will be found that although the British loss in tonnage is nearly twice that of other nations the value of the tonnage lost by other nations is nearly twice that of England. The reasons for this are the much higher price obtainable for a ship that has a chance of escaping a torpedo because of her neutrality and the much higher cost of production of ships in the United , IncreasedStatesValue of Tonnage. American ships which before the war brought from $75 to $80 a ton oN,01..IVIA, HoW AIzENOU ea:TYING oN WITH 1144 DiNNE1z?� low the optimistic predictions made a few months ago. The primary reason for making public the figures was to awaken the public to the crying need for ships. BRITAIN'S ATTITUDE. Forced Against Her Will to Believe Stories of Germany's Outrages. At the outset of the war and for two years afterward there were ooea- sional suggestions that Germany's crimes may have been exaggerated, says an English correspondent, The humanitarians of Great Britain contended that no civilieecl country could possibly be guilty ofethe out- rages charged against Germany. The attitude of all has changed now, The other day the Bishop of London had this to say in public: "We know where we are. We know from what has happened in Russia that you cannot disarm the tiger by ! smiling at it. We know now from what happened yesterday that there is no repentance for the most awful crimes of violence which have again been enacted, when the seventh hos- pital ship has been sent to the bottom. "The cries of the drowning nurses will echo in our ears forever, and will brand us as a nation of cowards if we ever cease to strive that such ap- palling wickedness may be made im- possible forever." Grading potatoes for market in- ereuses the possibilities for sales and raises the price received. Keep the culls and save the cost of hauling, 1 YdioUGHT ID suRPftISE No0 AND HAVE RAeI31"f' FoR DINNER, sur I've INORKeD µARD ALL , AFYERNooN AND I HAUEii car Ilde THING HALF PIoKEO `JET - ;z i-reztur tia.t seo her going sadly from room to room of the place which had been her home since the day she was married. The correspondent found her at one time gazing at a priceless piece of an- cient Oriental embroidery, which had been intricately framed and hung on the wall, "have you a knife?" $he asked suddenly, as she reached up and re- moved the treasure. The knife was produced. She stood the frame before the correspondent and said: "Cut. it, please. I will not leave this for the beetle." And so the silken fabric was slashed from the frame. It seemed like sacrilege or vandalism, but there was ne other way, Thie embroidery and a few more valuables were the only things which could be removed Froin this combin- ed inn and residence of one of the most prominent families in that part of the country. As the matron pass- ed into another room she wee mur- muring softly to herself, "Oh, my home, my home!" THE SIZE OF THE SUN. Extra Depth of. Atmosphere Account- able for ire Appearance. During the day, when the sten is high, nothing is near it to compare it. with in distance, so we think it is small; but when we see it on the hori- zon, with hooses and trees and church spires intervening, we believe it to be. large, How often have you swallowed this explanation as the truth? To be candid, it is a scientific fib. To prove it, look at the moon from behind a lace curtain or from behind a bush. It will appear not a whit larger. The real explanation of the sun's ap- parent dilation is this: The sun is en- larged at sunsee becauee the air mag- nifies it. Of course the. air is in a con- dition to magnify objects alletlay, But when the sun stands high, we look tip through only a titin layer of air, whereas at sundown our eyes have to pierce the entire depth of the atmoe- phere---multiplied at least iii times. This accounts for the enlargement of the sun. Dust and heated air appear to be the causes of the magnification. Thus the phenomenon is more notice- able in summer and autumn, nut. dusty seasons. v Matte succession plantings of the quick -growing vegetables from April until the end of June. To snake potatoes mealy ai. retie: time of the year, pare than right after breakfast, cover with roll water until time to cook them, then put then in boiling water. When they are soft, drain and sprinkle: with a little salt, then toss then, uncovered. Serve in a hot dish with a folded nap- kin over them.