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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1925-3-11, Page 61113 .016. Mee for that reason is never sold in built. Your grocer sells this delicious blend. Try SALADA,.. wet it HOW I STARCH CLOTHES TO LOOK LIKE NEW. The purpose of starching is to pro- vide a gloss similar to that of new fabrics .and to give garments a sur- face that repels dust and moisture. My definition of a satisfactory starch is one that sinks into the pores of the m'rterial, producing the desired am- ount of stiffness without destroying the pliability. My first rule is to mix the starch with cold water first. This separates the grains and helps to avoid lumps. Next I add boiling water, stirring con- stantly, which thoroughly cooks the starch grains, discouraging the forma- tion of lumps. To make sure the starch is cooked, enough, I boil it three or four minutes, stirring con- stantly so it will not scorch. Then it is strained through a sieve and set in a pan of hot water. If it is kept hot, there will be no scum on top to appear an the clothing during the ironing. The amount of starch used will vary, depending on the kind. I always look on the package to see if there are any special rules. For a thick starch, I dissolve three-fourths cup cornstarch or one and one-fourth cups wheat or rice starch in two cups cold water, Then I add, whiie stirring constantly, three and one-half quarts of boiling water. For a medium starch, the best for almost all clothing, I use half as much starch and the same amaunt of water as in making the thick paste. I make a thinner starch for curtains and very sheer materials. One-fourth cup wheat starch or two tablespoons corn- starch are dissolved in two cups ce d water, and three and ane -half quarts of boiling water are stirred in, then the mase is cooked a few minutes. Various kinds of starehcs have dif- ferent traits. Cornstarch, for example,; has a greater tenacity or stickiness, while wheat starch is more pliable.j Rice has the least tenacity of all.! Many laundry starches are a combina- tion of varieties with or without the addition of other product,. Perhaps a little borax or paraffin! may have been added. At least I know the addition of these substances lame- � times imiirove., starch. Two teaspoon-, fuls of borax added to a gallon of hot' starch it erea-e,- its pliability and! gloss, while the addition to two tea -1 spoons melted paraffin or any cleat; white fat, such as lard, helps to pre vent the starch from adhering to the; inn:. Thi, usually can be done arty-' way, if a good hot iron is used. I always turn garments wrong side; nut before dipping in hot starch.; Then the eiothing is put through the. wringer to distribute the starch even-, ly and to pt'otert the heeds from ;het heat• ft ie ueeessary that e clean pan,: The Ritz-Carlton HotelAtlantic City C New Jersey America's Sin:triest Resort hotel. Famous for its Euro- pean Atmosphere, P,�rfert Cuisine and Service. Slagle rooms from $5.00 Trouble rooms from SO2$. Eur:pean Plan Now I-Tycloatric and h caro - Therapeutic -Department. r.,lSTAV1 TOTT, Manager For Your Cooking save work--money---time, trouble and incl --and make yaw cooking better. Teat( 4. zoret,cand 111 BE ISSUE No. 10--'25. one free from rust and scorch as well as dirt, be used for holding the starch, The spoon to be h oo for stirring needs I p g I removed when the starch is made. Raw starch is used for collars, cuffs, shirt bosoms and other garments that are supposed to be very stiff. I make the cold starch by mixing the raw product with cold water, stirring it well while being used, because the grains are not dissolved—merely see= arated. I sometimes buy starches that are manufactured especially for cold work. In using them the direc- tions on the package are followed. Cold -starched garments will iron, much easier, I have found, if the starch is rubbed into the cuff or col-, lar with the hands instead of immerse! Mg the fabric in the paste and wring- ing the surplus out. Sufficient' of the• starchy liquid is rubbed in to moisten' the material thoroughly, In several home economics schools) the girls nowadays are taught to use; a combination of cooked and raw'. starches instead of the ordinary cold starch. The recipe for this paste is as follows: Disolve one-fourth cup wheat starch in one cup water ands stir into it three cups boiling evater, Boil five minutes, stirring constantly.c Cool slightly and add one-fourth tea -I spoon each of borax and lard or par -i affin. Then stir in three teaspoons. raw starch which has been mired j thoroughly with one cup cold water.' Beat with a wheel egg beater until. thoroughly mixed. Rub this mixture' into the surface which is to be starch-+ ed very stiff. Roll, and let stand an hour or so before ironing. A DAINTY FROCK FOR A SMALL GIRL. 4027. Printed crepe and crepe de chine are here combined, This is a c good style for dimity, pongee and cot- ton prints. The Pattern is rut 3n 4 Sizes: 1, 2, s 3 and 4 years. A 3 -year size requires 2' , yards of 27 -inch material. Collar and cuffs of contrasting material re- quire 38 yard '27 inches wide, Pattern mailed to any address on receipt,of Lac in silver, by the Wilson 5 Publishing Co., 73 West Adelaide St., ' Toronto. Allow two weeks for receipt d of pattern. i Send ltic in silver for our up -to- fo t date derma and Summer 1:121; Book 0 >3 , att,•CROCKl TT CHAPTER X11.—(Conti.) Upon the first day he had no we have sten, been put into this "Ten - penny,". school beeps being to Gal' -o - way known by theta prices as far as the "Shillin'-boolcl" After that came the ;.Serie;; of Lessons,' and that ad women -folk. 11listresa Hutcl coli, a mirab:0 con>pendimti cf ltnatvIedgo and thin-fesetl, sweet e •eel woman, frith an excellent reading, illeCuilech h Col- y have err of being perpetually tired,. did her '.Phis arrangement wee' en admit - able one—in theory'. Hut in practice it had its drawbacks, For Kit pos. seseed one of those heedleos, cheerful, happy-go-lueky disporitlolls, which since the world began have commend- ed their owners to elle hearts of ail lection, of which (and vainly) I'1 -part,en int as personal re roof went, long desired to possess a' copy, In thisp' oirly the very oldest pupils were ex with admirable firmness; . It was in cities(), but Kit 5000 found it tvvr'th the report stage that she failed most while to stay 10 school during the dila-1 conspicuously, nee hour in order to spell over the At the first ridding this was some - lessons' in a purloined copy till he had what her form: mastered them, carefully avoiding, „Kit,Kennedy, ye are a regardless, however, the numerous scientific anis m'Isrl 11aed us'lAL'It, to ester ed (i.e., philosophical disquisitions. truantised) the,scl+u'.e yesterday, and as true as (kith Ill tell your grand - Duncan Duncanson, deposed min- milker on you the very first time she comes to Whinnyliggate. Forbye I hue heard 0' your ill gangiegs on at the echule, and how the mister lickit ye for outtiir the taws into finger- lengths and fiiugin' them up the ven- tilator. Diana think that I'll conceal your evil deeds. Na, they shall rise in judgment against ye. Your granny shall hear it every word, as sure as my name is Nanuie Ilutcheon. Ye shall sup sorra', ye misleart young reprobate, that wad bring disgrace on a God-fearin' hoose, and especially on your air grandfeither, that's ruling elder in the Kirit! Think shame o' yoursel', Kit Kennedy!" trophyfwhen he was five minutes late. This sounded threatening enough, One of the first lessons Kit learned .but I{it knew his entertainer too well in school was that of "Brave. Bobby," to be very anxious. For when at last the ATewfoUncllanci dog of eclueatinnal his grandmother did come into Whin - fiction. In ten minutes after the call- nyliggate, riding in state in a red ing of the class Kit had won his way cart, driven by her strong son Robert to the top by dint of correct spelling Armour, the fashion of the speech of and "trapping" 111 the reading lessen Mistress Hutcheon was changed. • —that is, informing a stumbling lnstead of `cursing, like I#alaam, neighbor of the correct prutlunciation she blessed. of a word, But his crowning achieve- _after the accessary and essential meat came last direuse:one of the price of eggs, the The master, mere,. Arcing point war r new tune the .precentor put up lest not geography, which he looked upon Sabbath at the first diet of:worship, as a vain thing, rose to point out the i the remarkable and shamelessly mist -veiled island of Newfoundland, gaudy bonnet worn by Mistress Altar - Bobbie's original hone. But finding dyee, the grocer's young wife ("a fair that his short-sighted eye 1 cou:d not' peeve wi' pride an' gumflooers"), the discern the name, he was tracing the good.vife of the Black Darned turned, coast line of America with the short to heirs topics, and instantly a wary pointer, hoping to arrive at his I sire, look in mistress Iiutcheon's eye told by force of n policy of exclusion, when that she was on her guard. Kit broke in abruptly: "And hoe's that ill boy o' mine be "Eh, man, can ye no find it? It's,hetvin' doon here at Whinnyliggate? uist that whack (elbow) that slicks I inn get naething oot o' him at nicht, oot there into the sea on your richt except that he won a dozen and a half hand. Ye're glowering straight at it,;',ttanies' at the boot's (marbles), and man!" maybes an 'alley' --but is ha aught o' And while the other pupil of Rhin- a guid boy, thank ye, Mistress?" nyliggate sat dumb at his daring, Then the smith's wife would lift up Master Kit Kennedy went forward to' Iter hands in a sort of Perfervid ec- eke the pointer from the master's idnsy of admiration. hand, and finish the joh himself. "Margaret Armour," she would cry Ile got the pointer in due coal "to tell ye the truth there never wash but it was across the shoulders. rwran a guid boy as that Kit o' yours "Sit down, sir," cried the angry .I wad gic a pound note (or mair) gin master; "I was not looking foe NOV-ory 0' my air were lace him. He's oundland, but for the Gu f Stream!' ,ust the best laddie, clevei at'his And as the scholars retired they lees:.ns, an' quaite—indeed, civaite is gazed with awe upon Kit, and pointed nae name for him." him out to chance passers-by as "the rind "quiet" was indeed no name boy that had trappit the mister!" for Master Kit Kennedy, in that said But in spite of the dominie's search the smith's wife aright. But to 'her - or the Gulf Stream, he was SO much self she added, "I hope this i; no mpressed by the boy's general knowl- tu'en Boon Hp Abune, or I'll has edge that he immediately removed. heap to answer forty' im into the "Series" (full title, Mc- ''I am pleased to hear ye think sae Culioch's Series of Liss;ons), where west c•' the lad," said his grandmother, Kit underwent n most wholesome dis- eetllig her gossip, however, to ,ce if ipline from his elders and betters. that c was any trace of guile in her "Gin ye daur to trap us that's big- eyes. But the pale tired face of Nane ger than you, we'll thresh ye dile a nio 13utcbecn told nothing. There. heaf o' corn—hear ye that?" cried came even a kind of eager enthusiasm half -a -dozen of the senior pupils, after le her expression when sloe spoke of the promotion had taken effect. Kit Teennedy. "We are no gaup to be trappit by i (To he continued.) a wean like you!" ister, chanced to be en a good humor during the first days of Kit's pupilage in the' little schoolhouse of Whinny- liggate. No dark red bar crossed Ms hrow, He bad been disposing of his harvest of honeycutnb, and thele atilt remained in the corner cupboard so. much of the silver coin of exchange as sufficed Inc three trips to the "Red Lion" every day --"to change his breath," as the neighbors said. The schoolmaster was so regular tib the hoard was done that the neighbors looked at their clocks as he passed by to .see if they were keeping anywhere near the nark, and surmised a catas- Faggots, tole "yoga' faggots for MY wintgrl bilrnintit, 13u1 i3vt+ you back iniy candler slot)', '` lasted(), I cheated 'you of stones, tlrat 1 might leave } ell, 'Phis friendly bread. 'our cloak I wore a IlRle tone, unhid- den, hour•sandals borrowed Inc my weary feet, And In the slilehling dusk drank from your table Ilse it yourself after \1'aoil wine and sweet. smoking or wheal, workdreos.. itsa. Sec,. naw 1 offer careen bowis and ' jgreatintle freshener] llo qc4 Slipyour t when youto1 use to" Wil L Give the youngsters this wltolesoone,los - tasting sweet -for pleaaareand benefit, nagons Ivory polo, wrought through the tilled night, Wrought through a lonely tour by moon -dipped lingers For your aelight. Iofy. fia111e fills all your orange lamps at twilight, lay song upon your window curtain blows, 1 And where my tears fell on your gar• don trembles Another rose. I —Joan Dareth Prosper, ! t f h The command was punctuated hy! Answered. undry admonitory "punces" in then Filen (doubtfully)—Sion I the only ribs, and the exhibition of hall a-! girt you ever loved?" • ozen grimy fists in immediate prow-; Ralph (reassuringly)—" lly dear, mity to Kit's nose. Then it was that' you are one in a hundred.. Need I say r the first time 7{it felt the path: more?" f learning to be a thorny one. of Fashion-;. A B()X FOR EVERYTHING, • My husband partieu:tirly likes a bux just the right else and depth to hold all ehaving things. conveniently. They never get scattered. I me Loxes, too, to keep things traiget and handy on my- kitchen and pantry sh-aves. I''or. example, when I bake 1 lift down a box Full of extracts and spiced and another with the soda,, baking powder and cream o1' tartar' together. 'There i, then lin fumbling, for the right hottle, An ehumime:it oblong par holds my; cleaning Snaps, powders., Mops and; scouring things, so they are easily' moved about the house.• -.Mrs. R, J. I'. i GROW HERBS TO Stud,. We stake money from our garden by growing c•,mmoti herbs and hon;se- , radish in 3t. Dry tinge )eaves also sail wr:1 for use in preparing meat. In two year.e we have so'.d about $60 worth, from foursmall rows. 1 Lill, to use in preparing pickles, is easily grown. Sweet marjoram is used as a re:teh for soups and dress- ings. IIol seradieh-roots can be bought from any eeedhouse. The relish sells for a good price if put in small hot- - • ties containing a few ounces. Rhubarb s i s to k sell welt some !planes, and are fine tied' as sauce or 'pieplant pie." y For So,ve Fest—Mtnerd's Lhilment. But soon he was so, interested in the school games and especially in the eternal one of dodging the master and learning as little as poesib'eethat he cared no more about trapping, and so escaped many troubles. As was the aastom among all the country Fcho:ars he tookhis dinner with him in a leather bag. For the most part it consisted of scone and butter with a piece of oatcake and cheese added thereto. Semi -occasion- ally a piece of cold bacon would be enclosed, and a tin flask of new milk was always placed in a separate com- partment, which beverage, when con- sumed shortly after noon, had a strong and composite flavor of tin and newly .tanned leather. But Kit dei not complain, for the natural hun- ger of healthy youth furnished as good sauce as any cook, however cole- brated,rou:d have invented. I{it took his meals with a kind and gentle old lady, the wife of the smith in the littlehousedown the lone from the schoolhouse. Bit's hostess was a friend and gos- sip of the goodwife of the Black Dar- nel. And site had a great and con- suming interest in Master Kit. Jt was understood that Mistress Ilutehcon, the wife of the Whinny:ig- gate smith, was to keep a more than maternal eye over the young man's morale and to panytrans ras- , report g slot at headquarters. Whereupon his grandmother would reckon with hits in, the gate. WOOLENS lose their warmth the minute they shrink or mat THA,Tis'.' by cher mutt be trash - 1 cd carefully, hatjrs MC Lux for anything containing itool. Lux won't ebrink or mat;no013dns - won't fade colour, Lux i, afe fur any fabric or garment rloat I, ;ale let pure watt) alone, Lever Srachers Limited, Toronto, 1.5)1 GREAT INCREASE IN TEA DRINKING The last few years have witnessed a tremendous increase in tea drinking. Production has fallen far behind de- mand. Tea now costs more than. at any time in the last 75 years. It may even reach` $1.00 per pound, for the price is expected to. rise still further. When such profits are being made by the tea plantations, ` over production and a sudden drop in prices is bound to come.' It may take a year or longer or the price might fall when least ex- pected, Not even experts can foretell wbat will occur. A Last Straw. Emily is aged three. She Is an only child, and she has a friendly, sociable disposition; She „dores pliiymates, and it 'has been a great grief to her that she is so oftea debarred from playing with her little friends on ac- count of bad colds, whooping cough, suspected measles, and what not ' Recently a .dew baby cousin arrived In her uncle's family, and Emily was enjoying the prospect of a speedy visit to the little newcomer. Her father casually remarked that the baby had dimples, whereupon Emily appealed to her mother in a tone of despair, "Olt, mother, can't I go near her if she has dimples?" Minard's Liniment Fine for the Halr. 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The confidence the rural communities have shown in, this Savings Office is indicated by the large increase in Ile - posits, which are now over 00,000,000, A,Il deposits are secured by the entire x4t;o, rt iers'oi' tile' Province of Ontario, Remittances should be made by Post Office money order, batik cheque, express order or registered letter, and shoul{i be addressed to your nearest Branch, where they will receive prompt attention. Province of Ontario Savings Office HEAD OFFICE: 15 QUEEN'S PARK, TORONTO Toronto :Branch Offloes: Cor, Bay and Adelaide Sts. Cor, University and Rendes Sts, 510 Danforth. Avenue. Other Branchessnt Hamilton,St, Catharines St. Mar't Pambro e' ke grantfart1, Woodstock, Owen ,S o d, Ottawa, Scaforth, Walkerton, Newmarket ,arid .Aylmer, SECRETS OF THE KREMLIN Small countries have sometimes ex, eralsod great Inflttonco oft world et Matra, aft witness the growth of the Bri. tish Empire. But it is ;tot generally realized flow considerable a share ono cit the partners in that Empire, Scot- land, has had in the deVe)opnlent of European hto, Tltis Senttiisahryfltfluonco in Continent• al affairs Wile for the most part unot- . Aclai, I1 was the were of individual Scotsmen who had been forced to leave their native land, usually for pns, their . way toal µllreasothe courtandsv110 antifound campstof Europe,oliti They even penetrated to Russia, which, In those days, was hardly re - garde() as part 0f Europe at all, In- deed, but for then, it is quite possible that Peter the Oreat,would never have been born. • Emperor and Lover. Peter's father, the czar Alexia Ma hallo -stitch, frequently visited the house of Artamon Sierguefevlteh Matvielef, who was his favorite counsellor. In thosedays Russian women were strict- ly confined to the "terem," or wo- men's part of the hcuee, which was as sacred an the women's apartments in Oriental countries. But Allmon Nlatvlelef married a Ilamilton, a fem- inine -member ofone of the Scottish loyalist families which the triumph of Cromwell had sent into exile, This lady had brought the manners of her native land into her new Monte, and her guests met the women of her family on exactly the salrie tertian as if she had been entertaining at Edin- burgh instead of In Moscow. The Czar found this little oasis of Western culture and Western freedom very pleasant, especially after he met the adopted daughter of the alatvielefs Nathalia Naryehkiu. This charming brunette was the daughter of a needy and obscure country gentleman, but her beauty seemed to the Czar tar more important than riches. He fell in love with her, and she with him. - The Crown to the Fairest, Matvielef, however, was more alarm. ed than pleased at the turn affairs had taken, Ise had already many enemies, and he feared the new jealouates which this marriage would provoke. In the end ho yielded to the Czar's commands; but he begged that, in or- der, to protect him from the charges of intrigue and trickery which might otherwise be made against him, Alexis - .should follow the ancientcustom of Russia, and Nathalia should show her- self in the dormitory at the Kremlin. The ordeal which Nathalia had to face was' one strange and terrifying to a gently nurtured girl. Along with some dozens of other maidens, chosen by a rigorous process of selection' from among the loveliest in all ranks of Russian society, she had to enter the Kremlin, the ancient palace at the Czars in Moscow, and take her place in a special suite of six rooms set aside for the purpose, It was from these girls that the Czar would make his choice. Tho ono on whom the Imperial favor fell would become first a grand duchess, and thea Czarina of al the Russians, Russia's "Gay Gordon." On this occasion all the ancient rites were scrupulously observed, but the result had, of course, been decided beforehand. On January 22nd, 1871, A.lexis and Netbalto were married, and a -little over a•yeaf later Peter Um Great was born, e. Al that. time Russia counted „bout as much in world affairs as China does: to -day, but when Peter died, on Sanit- ary 28th, 1725, the Russian Empire was a force to be reckoned with. But would It have been so if a daughter of the Scottish house of Hamilton had not married a Russian nobleman, and so introduced into Russia these mere liberal manners which enabled the Czar Alexis to meet the beautiful girl whom he made his empress, any who became the mother et the great Ito - former? Nor did the Scottish influence atop here. One of Peter's earnest noun - dents and friends was Patrick Cordon, a consul of the thon Duke of Gordon. .Tames Bruce and.a soldier of fortune named Ogilvy, two other Seine, were also c''eseiy assnolatel w tb tIoe soe'at tzar, A Sportsman's Paradise. Then deet•-foro'sta. of -Scotland have now at serious rival _in„the wooded •' mountain iegicus of the North and South Islands of Nate !calami. Before Ise] doer were unknown in tris Etsaiune. ant in 'this year mitt stag and two binds, front Thorndon Park, in i :vex, twt.ti• let loose In the Nelson Province. Than, to I570. a few animals were 1o,oiogrled front ,the 1)al- hun.?ie fereeit. in Ferfarsl+tre. '1'!! a1 wall the L•egieniuf,• s f thevent o: en ?tetra • The p)i>•-:coo d te"oputemt nf, the dear int Iileir loss h+vn” hn 1 ren no leis 1us11'sUsti e than file rapid ln. crease of their numbers. 01 151110 has matte them Insono ptaf•es rather 0 nuisance to settlors. 'rus.Inset! have increased in silt' met weight,' until there is now nothing to squid inert in Scotland - unless indeed the prehls' torte deer heads sometimes found la. peat bogs Always wear n simile.. -it's beerseiag, • who conlat, OJi1y to lime.) 8ealc not lrow to' avoid obstao.os; but to overcome uteri,- Poonove,t,