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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1919-1-2, Page 3ETIOUETTE For Winter OF SURRENDER CONFORMS TO STRICT HULKS OF WAR AND CUSTOM. Cireureetancee Which Attended the Close of Some Noted Wars of Recent Times. A parlementalre to a.rrto; iSer- render or an armietive han to follow a eertain etiquette wbieh is laid down by the rules of war ei; oeteidisbeel at The Hague and by eniemm, writee 11, W.1Vileon in ilio lennaon Daily mem A parlementaire conelete of an en- voy or envoys from the enemy, Ko- tlerIg authorized, carryitig the white flag and aceompaniee by a bugler or trumpeter to can attention. The per- - ei one of the parlementaire are invlole able, provided they do not commit treachery and provided the commaneer to whom they are sent Is wining to re- ceive therm Those who meet them met take all stops to prevent them ob- taining information, and • for that reason it is mend blindtole them when passing through the lines. A King's Mistake. Either the commander in chief or a prominent general of the defeated army gime in person with the -parte- mentatre. General Gablenz, after the defeat of the Austrians at Sadowa In 1366, proceeded to the Prussian lines under the flag of truce, and was there blindfolded that he might be conduct- ed tn King William, The King, e00- ing the bandage abnut his eyes, sup - Need that ite was a wounded enemy officer, and spoke some words of sym- pathy to him before discovering the mistake. At Seden, in 1870, after Captain von Winterfeld and Colonel Bronsart von Schellendort had summoned the French Army to surrender, a parte- mentaire consisting of General Mlle came out miller the white Rag, and Reine handed Napoleon (IL's letter ot surrender to the Ring of Prussia on the heights above Freimis. That same evening the French commander, Gen, Wimpffen, came In person to arrange the surrender. The terms were so severe that he refused at first to ao. cept them, and only after t e threat of a bemberdment. (11(1 by, gine way. Lord RobertsGreeting. After Appetit:Ater, in Lill, General I.ee came in pereou to Gene:eel Grant, connnanding the United States armies, to arrange thine; for (bebeaten Con- federate army. Grant had not ex- peeted the sarreeder that day; he was In a private's uniform, with only his ehnulder badges to show bis milk as the leader of the largest army which up to that date had ever fought in war. He was not only a great soldier but also a great gentleman, and he has told the world whet his feelings wore at that tremendous moment. "I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought - so long and valiantly and had suffered so -much for a cause, though that cause wasg-el believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought." And with - a characteristic tenderness for the conquered ho engaged in conversation on other topics with Lee. At Paareeberg, in 1900, General Cronje made his surrender in person to Lord Roberts, after his stubborn and gallant resistance. In honor to the defeated Boer leader Lord Roberts wore for the first time since lie opened eiegmnign hes ceremonial sword, a heavy sword with a jewelled hilt, and received his opponent with the words, "I am glad to meet so brave a man." Like Loe, Cronje was in want of food, ' and the last ham which the British staff could produce was sacrificed in his honor. Wide Awake School Idea. yellow Grass, Sask., educationalists. are shortly to undertake a new co- operative - school farm, The plan, which is now under waY, is to pur- chaee one Or two acres of land im- mediately adjoining the present school .grounds tr.d cultivate it by raising vegetabas al all kinds, which will be sold. Shares will be sold to the pupils of the school. or .their parents at $1 each, no one person being allowed to purchaee more than two "shares. In families where there are two or More children, share e may bo pm:ch.:feed for each child. parents may purchase shares ahead for 'children not yet at- tending, school. Girls' Clubs In New liteunswiek. Girls' clubs in New Brunswick did splendid work in canning and pickling. A report is just to hand which shows that during the fall over 200 active or- ganizations of girls awl women in elie province wore busy. These employdd over 3,500 girls and reports make it Oahe that between 70,000 and 100,000 parte of foodstuffs wore preserved Ihrough the work. 111 40 pointed out Mat this is by no means a complete return, for "if the full inflaenee and Improvement on hontee through the peel:Moe could be meastrod, it would thaw double that amount of work tone, Orangeade should be made with boiling water and a little lemon .Inice. To keep cheese frail getting hard end mouldy, cut and pub in glass fruit jag, tie -tight. To thake rugs, grasp them at the tide. In this way the fringe is pro - tooted and the eniat do not ravel. Day$ Simple middy dress for the little school -girl. A. suitable design for the combination of materials. McCall Pattern No. 8654, Girl's Middy Dress. In 0 sizes, 4 to 14 years, Price, 20 cents, The lines of this smart suit con- form with the winter modes. Fur trimming adds to the attractiveness of the design. McCall Pattern No. 8002, Misses' Coat Suit. In 4 sizes, 14 to 20 years. Price, 25 eents, These patterns may be obtained from your local McCall dealer, or from the McCall Co., 70 Bond Street, Toronto, Dept. W. When making jam tarts mix the MYSTERIES OF i"M siting to u ti.ei1... wore% lee= THFFpyetit i; Owaele.tltlEpitaph of Many lhipe.te emargy toe - .c1,RuF1,4 DE.4 I bor tiP!111 th: 'iV:•,:ntaiz, 14+44. coded (en of 'hi (01 geert010, !paving ne o 11.1t.e; eitiddlY tine el:ipt; base tmvor itt tl."af..1 :wide after ealiing away -all The. fleet leg ..teLimer 11, be tont .c1.vit ttu iesieg. WWI the 1 'remittont, which itil ed away from Nely y,1;71; at: !erg ago tie March, 1011. Perbeps it wig tie - cause big et eamere were teen marvels. in the eyes of the people of liolh the • Old and the New i,i ore] thet the whole 'itteecan is the home of myatery, public of America and Feeer.ethought. and eLe recalls many strange happen- of nothing but the miesing lime ever Inge which have occurred even in 01.117 a period of many weeks. 2h11 efter time. Ships have mile& away, well Ehip arrived which had started after built, and -in charge of skilful •offleero, the Presideiet, and still no tiding,t of but nut u trace of 'their. has over been the misting ship mine to hand. found— that fateful word "missing" On April 18th•-unluelty day a Int- im been their epitaph. But there ter was received by. out of the family have been Other ocean mysteries, in • of a passenger on the President, say - no way connected with missing ships. ing that the missing ship had been Some years ago a ship was found driven to Madeira with n damaged with all sail set and all her gear in guilder. Flags were hoisted, and there good condition, but without a soul on was joy on both sides of the Atlantic, board. A fire was burning in the bust,inacleastihiatt Sivirsttalrerieedieldha ;aux:hen the galley, and an untested meal was upon the table in- the cabin, and the whole President left New York there have of the cargo was sound and in good been many missing ships, and the condition. There was not the slight- story of the old American liner has est sig.,n of a struggle, and the log had been repeated again and again, with been written up peacefully and in a perhaps a slight variation in detail. proper Manner up to a short time of Some mysteries, although never ac - her discovery. 'The ship was salved, tuaily solved, give us something, on hut no one every solved the myetery,• which to found a theory. The ship and probably it must for ever be writ- which sailed away with a cargo of ten off as ono of those strange prob- railway metals, matches and gime lems which defy even the skill of the powder, and was afterwards reported "missing," may have sunk, but Sher- Likenautical Sherlock Hohnes. lock Holmes would probably have a Thief in the Night. INSTANITS OF SHIPS 'WHOSE FATES ARE UNSOLVED Ve'il' Cetalogued as "Miseluir and the Siletory of Their Adventures Will Never Be Known. _On January 22nd, 1873, the emi- grant ship Northfleet was run down and sunk, with the loss of two hun- dred and ninety-three lives, as she lay peacefully at anchor off Dunge- ness. Although many people on board the ill-fated ship saw the "long, black, straight -bowed steamer" which cut down the clipper, tbe mystery has never been fully solved to this day. Suddenly out of the darkness a big steamer came rushing at the emigrant ship, and struck her fairly amidships, in spite of the warning cries and whistles raised by the latter. Like a within his valise, sometimes securely thief in the night the steamer backed, strapped on the top, and when he dons turned, and finally steamed off at full fighting order I am usually found speed, leaving the unfortunate mi - i suspended beneath the haversack grants to go down wit a t le rapt Y" ' carried upon his back. In camp or be - filling sailing. ship, As the steam" . hind the line I journey up on the hook backed the crew were seen to run at tbe back of his tunic; or, when he forwerd and cover up the figurehead ' is affectionately inclined, he gives me and name of their craft, calling out a swinging ride in his hand. at the smile time something in a for- Officially, I am an utensil in which eign tongue. ' he is taught to produce a plain, brown The mystery of identity of the 01' an Irish stew, and to make the tea steamer which ran down the North- of which he is so fond. But I am vise - fleet has never been solved. A Span- fill M other ways. I nm frequently ish steamer was detained for some the means of cheering him with months at Cadiz, on suspicion of hav- steaming hot cocoa, cafe au lait, and ing been off Dungeness on the night really good beef tea. ' in question, but in the end the matter When he chips the wood finely—as dropped, and another mystery was he usually does—I am at his service, added to the long roll over which even in daylight; and rarely am 1 the Father Neptune keeps guard. =nee of one "coming over," because I Before we leave the subject of col- am quickly ;heated and do not smoke. Haines it should be mentioned that In me he boils eggs; or if his stock, there is a story of a sailing ship which combined with rations runs to eggs and bacon or steak, then my lid ac - was run down by another wind -driven thought otherwise. TOMMY'S MESS -TIN An Indispensable Ally Talks About Itself. I am a small tin can, with a lid covering my body, inside of which is a folding handle, which, when With- drawn, converts my lid into a minia- ture frying pan. Totnniy and I have been together many years—in fact, we are not only great pals, but insepar- able companions also. On the march I am often hidden jam with a little hot water before, slip, which approached her contrary putting it in the pastry. It tastes.' to' all rules and usages of the sea, just as well and the jam goes far- struck her, backed off, and finally dis- thee. appeared—or, rather, drifted astern- -- and was seen no enore. The remark - "It had allowed overnight. The fields were all sheeted up; they were tacked in among the snow, and their shape was modelled through the pliant ctitinterpane, like children tricked in by a 8 fond mother."—Robert Louis Stevenson. complishes the rest. I have in my time turned out steak puddings, boiled rice, porridge, and potatoes nicely cooked. Respectable batter has, under adverse conditions, able part of the story is that not a been made in nay body, and the pan soul was seen on the strange ship, no part of my anatomy has put the fin- i• one answered the hail of (he astonish- ishing touches to an eatable, though ed ereey of the first -named craf t, and, crude pancake. as the colliding ship drifted off, no one Quite frequently amidst the roaring cense forward to clear away the of the guns, and within a. few yards wreckage. of Fritz's front line, I have added potato chips to a doubtful piece of steak.ir Ted, weary, and worn after hard nights, Tommy has desired above everything a wash. Agteln have I come to the resale. In shaving. the exterior of my lid has frequently been of invaluable service to him as a mir- ror. But my best times are spent when we aro at rest in n little estam- inet, where the worries of war aro temporarily forgotten and everyone seems happy. GROWING SUGAR UNDER PAPER Novel Method Which Has Proved Successful in Hawaii A new and very odd method of growing sugar cane is proving highly seecessftfi in the Hawaiian Islands. When the eane is beginning to sprout, yited-wide strips of a heavy kind of paper are laid lengthwise over the rows of little plants and held in Piece with cane -field teash. The paper is strong enough to keep down and smother the starting weeds, but not to kill the stout and hardy "IT): gfive aaaoar. six weeks the weed -seeds beneath the paper have all germinated end been Mothered to death, but the cane shoots have either forced their way through or erected themselves sufficiently to make little tent -like elevations. Laborers then pass along the rows and with long knives make slits in the sheets, permitting the shoots to come through. The liberated sheds at first ,are llanthed white, but quickly turn gem and lusty. Weeding thereafter is almost wholly needlese, because there ere very few weeds. There 88 art inerease of ten tens (about 20 per cent) in the yield 0 of cane per erre. Half the labor is saved and the production of naval sugar pet' OM augmented by more than a ton. The pallor used lit IMO) oaf of "bagaese," which is the residue if to • cane after the segary ex, he Iwo squeezed out of it CA MP (gifTEfIN LAPLAND Method. ef Servieg lJitiiir Amorig, the !MN to 1111110 of ;Attic Count, ev. - .411 A Legerneen et-mei:ter efliedr etegaiiiike;a thf, Fee mek- ; bee etiftee among. the Lapps, when they are o fert Lunge ee tie faire 10 1:1 I Di11111'r all. Wa." eaten eut don', awl the one dish of the mom" i•ori,de1e,1 ier titt10 t1r til;LOA', oti geinea pig ceel a cal, I find nt 841 111-?er admit.; "eeiiiiieitelY peculiar" a to their !laver. The perty squatted in a ring about the fire watching the rousts, all except o W Hulled eld woneri, whe tie an «7. pert wed: intent upon a more tedione eeremeny, Out of a skin Itharieack elle bed taker, a small skin bag. From (bit elie extraeted Fume twelve green • coffee beans, whieli in proceeded to roast one by one in a nall iron epoon. When they were cooked to her taste site bet:Ise:I them to coarse frag- ments between stones and put the re- sult with water into a eopyier kettle, which had one lid in the usual place and another on the end of the spout to keep out smoke and feathery wood ash. Then the whole mixture was boiled up together into a bubbling froth of coffee fragments and coffee extract. She cleared it by an old trick which si known to campers all over the world. This was to throw into the kettle a small splash of cold water when the coffee grounds were prompt- ly 'precipitated to the bottom. Then she poured the clear, brown, steaming liquor into a blackened bowl of birch root and handed it to the good man, her husband. After he had taken the bowl in his fingers the woman hunted in a lea- thern knapsack and produced a lump of beet sugar. The host bit a frag- ment from it end lodged it in his teeth and then he lifted the bowl to his lips and drank. In a more civilized man this would of course been rudeness; in a savage it walea simple act of courtesy. It was o pla•ti assurance that the bowl con - tabled no nOison. Then he handed it on for hit guests to drink in tt1T11, autO the .A.meriean says that he does not knew that he ever tasted better coffee. SPAN OF HUMAN LIFE The Human Machine is Built to Last . One Hundred Years. In the last belf-century the lif e - span of the average lauman being has been lengthened by about twelve years. But seven or eight of these gamed years are due to the lower death rate between birth and the age of five. In other words, babies are not dying anything like so fast as formerly. On the other hand, there has not been (and presumably never will be) any lengthening of the extreme dura- tion of life. The human machine ie built .4o last just so long, - and no imaginable expedient ean extend the limit. j Scientific obeervation, however, does I not place the normal span of human I existence at seventy years — the "threescore and ten" of the Psalmist. All study of the subject goes to prove ' that the human machine is built to un:'1 St Under Allied Flags Immediate Help Needed to Relieve Starvation ant! Suffering—Cannot Hold Gennany Responsible NOW! There is pressing need for our help in Belgiuni today,and there will be for many months to come,; it. As OUP troops occupy the evacuated territory, untold misery stares them in the face. Emaciated children, hollow. checked women, roofless homes, clothing so worn it offers no protection from winter's terrors—miseries that cannot wait but MUST be relieved at once to avert DEATH! Need you be reminded how Belgium was the first to jump into the breach and so melte our Victorious Peace possible? Don't let it be said WE let Belgium starve. Let us cable over your offering to the mothers and children of Brave Little Belgium AT ONCE! Make &cones payable and send contributions -to ta (Regis ored et doe ilio WlrelaW111(4 Act) 122 to your Local Corn nittee, or to Ontario 13ranch-3elgian Relief Fund -95 King St. \V,, To2onto last 100 years. If people ordinarily do not live so long it is because of disease or other physical accident. Evidence in behalf of this proposi- , tion is afforded by the fact that some men and women do actually survive '1 100 years. But in cases where it is claimed that ti much greater longevity has been attained investigation proves that there is either mistake or fraud. • Not long ago. the United States men; himeau made a special study . of this interesting problem, and the conclusion it drew from an immense mass of data was • that no human being had ever lived longer than 106 years—which may be accepted as representing the utmost possible term of human life. There is no doubt of the fact that parrots live longer than that. So like- I wise 05. elephants. Crocodiles and they aro alive, but they grow very asiearire rantincat olives nietemuer. ell:raters may not be very lively while slowly, and it ie beyond question that they live for centuries. Indeed, it is altogether possible that a huge allie morrow may have been alive, a vigor - gator killed in a Louisiana bayou to -1 ous young saurian, when Columbus discovered America When we read of "Old Tom" Parr, Who is alleged to have died at the ago of 152; of the Countess of Desmond, who reached 145; of Margaret Patten, wile passed away at 137, and other such instances of extraordinary lon- gevity, we may take it for granted that there is some mistake. Folks do not live to any such ago nowadaye, THE onzc INAL T NK iThe Snell Pelee:Am a itreembianee to Modere Jtettrusertit. of War, 07 iesii.xi;4teisii(!ii th 148e: 111fa,,,, (griller" tree for. but wieen one ex - antler.: the neettge it 1.14.0111,?ii apPar- ect that there ie realty not moth 1 1 ilt,c1.,pilltir and tank in', their mode of gelling over greand. 81I. ie the that offerreal and oh- eioue leglimbegge, to the tank. Move 1 ing mg.,. tee irro71011 11V e 1601'1110 of 1 wa ,t111„,. :41,,haat.ions, progresss itt hI Why stroleely migeeestive of the pevi- patelie fort, PIA 1T1111 en equal dis- regard af obstaelee of terrain. "111011. (.1 courre, may he re- garded spc:ruli,1 to the ar- mored Ingle: ef the terik. It is 'gen- ' pied Infante by the expended lungs the snail, when the ereeter, 10 promenading. But when the nail re- treals into its oi.i4I, room for the inanoeuvre is made by the cohere:, of Ithe lungs. Mot:strut% 19 aftyg in tit,, JaVri ry was suffet ing. wit', pain of ett,lirultIFIrl in the foot. I tried ail 1. but nothing did III« 4,1,y qac tar- . 11141111)14 LINI- itiliNT; o, teen Le, T tried it the Setur- Uty nightth,. next raorning 1 was 1t,1... an1" niece that Stilt tOl 1.1' to 1:1%tt eiDEIE/Z!.,... could telt them '*111 tide remedy • Your. trulY. ietteoesr LEVEILLE. els nap Ontario least, le:entreat. Feb. 14, 10111. Home Again. Ransacked and ruined are the war - swept lands Of Northern France—their fields a sodden mire, Cut by old trenches, crumpled by long fire; Their homesteads pillaged by rude, wanton hands, Or burnt to ashes at cold brutes' com- mands; Their little gardens trodden brown and bare, Their orchards battered down and plundered where of witalows glazed gornp.ete. any December. Dark -eyed December, you are here— Peculiar maid 'with brooding brow; Your sullen VOICE' brings me no cheer, In dreary woods you wander now. oh. that I had a wild birds wings To lure me far from you the while; rd soar away where nature sings Or. some e'er fragrant laughing isle. I'd float afar, and leave you, maid Of cloudy IWOW; the hills of green Where bright-eyed summer long has stayed Would lure my footsteps to my queen. ---se ErinarfPn Liniment Cures Glargot in Cows Envelope nighties will keep baby warm at night. They are made by attaching a wide band all around the hem of the ordinary nightgown. 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