The Brussels Post, 1912-2-1, Page 3r
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TESTED RECIPES.
Qui^ -k Ereadmaking.-Mix the
bread at night, kneading it all that
-it acquires, Set the raiser over a
pan of warn water, covering well.
In the morning it will bo ready to
be made into loaves, This should
be done with as little kneading as
possible. Sot it in a warns place
and it will be light enough for the
•oven in en hour.
Cheese Pudding. -A delicious
cheese pudding is made from ono
.5 cent loaf ofbaker's bread with a
half pound of goad cheese about
the strength of that used in mak-
ing Welsh rarebit. Cut off the hard
••crusts of the bread, slice and but-
ter, laying slices loosely in the bak-
ing dish with alternate layers of
•oheese, out in thin slices. Beat one
egg and add a quart of milk with
.a pinch of salt. Pour this mixture
over bread and cheese and let it
.soak until every slice is moistened.
Bake thirty-five to forty-five min-
utes until brown on top as in bread
pudding. Servo on hot plates and
•quickly. The hotter the better,
Dainty Orange Service. -With a
sharp knife pard the orange just
..as you would an apple, being care-
ful to take all the white lining of
sire skin from the pulp. Now place
your sharp knife on the left side
of ono ofthe little divisions of the
orange and lift out the pulp, which,
if carefully done, will come out in
one piece, and continue the pro-
cess until the pulp has been lifted
out from each natural division.
This frees the pulp from all the
.fibrous matter of the orange.
Sprinkle sugar upon the pulp and
let it stand for an hour before serv-
ing.
Best Waffles. -Use two eggs, one
tablespoon sugar, one tablespoon
melted butter, one-fourth teaspoon
salt, two heaping cups flour, one
cup sweet milk, one cup milk or
cream, one-half teaspoon baking
soda. Yolks and whites of eggs are
separated, with salt added to
whites, sugar to yolks. Yolks bea-
ten until creamy and lemon col-
ored and added to sweet milk
mixed with one cup of flour. Then
add melted butter. Mix in the other
cup of flour. Dissolve socia in sour
milk and add to mixture. Whites of
eggs beaten stiff and dry are then
added.
Mix Mustard with Mill:. -When
mixing mustard always use milk in-
stead of water and the mustard will
not dry so quickly.
Doughnuts in Rhyme.-
One
hyme-One cup of sugar, one cup of milk,
Two eggs beaten fine as silk;
Salt and nutmeg -lemon will do -
Of baking powder, teaspoons
two;
Lightly stir the flour in,
Roll on pie board, not too thin.
Cut in diamonds, twists, or rings,
Drop with care the doughy things
Into fat that swiftly swells
Evenly the spongy eelis.
Watch with care the time for
turning;
Fry them brown, just short of
burning.
Roll in sugar; serve when cool.
This is a never failing rule.
BREAKFAST.
Buckwheat Cakes for Two. -One
quart lukewarm water, one table-
spoon cornmeal, one teaspoon su-
gar, one-half cake of compressed
yeast; one cupful buckwheat flour,
one cupful white flour; let rise over
night; in morning add one tea-
spoonful salt. Leave two-thirds
cupful of batter for starter, and put
in cool place until, following night,
when you repeat as before, with
the exception of the yeast (which
you do not need again). and the
sugar. The second morning turn
out tilt batter you want to use in
another dish and add the salt and
sugar and 'a pinch of soda. If any
of this batter is left do clot put
back with the starter, as it is not
good to keep after the sada is in
it. ` :fly leaving a starter each time.
and doing as directed, these cakes
can be kept going for several
weeps, but be sure and not put in.
Salt until just before baking, and
they always will be light. This re-
cipe is sufficient for two people.
Popovers, -Beat one ogg light;
add gradually ono cup cold water
and one cup flour; continue beat-
ing ancl thin with one cup milk'.
Add a pinch salt and one table-
spoon melted butter. Pour into.
buttered muffin tins andbakeone
hour in a good oven. Thehatter
must be as, thin as cream. When
properly baked they will be crisp
•shells, to be 'eaten with syrups:
• 'Coffee Ro11s,-A nice breakfast
roll, to be made when making light
broad, is as follows: One pint of
bread sponge, one-half cup sweet
ilk, one well beaten egg, one-half
p butter, and one-half teaspoon
cinnamon. Use floor enough to
nead into a stiff dough, let raise.
the second time, then roll out one-
half inch thick. Cream pimp of
butter size of walnut, one-half Cup
sugar, one-half teaspoon cinnamon,
and one tablespoon of cream, spread.
his evenly over top of dough, than
not close enough to touch, let raise
light, bake a golden brown. To bo
served with coffee,
FISH.
Oysters a la Chainber•]ain,-Melt
a piece of butter the size of an egg
in a double boiler or a chafing dish,
add half a cup of celery chopped
fine; let cook slow until tender;
add the liquor off a pint of oysters.
'When it comes to a boil add a pint
of cream,' salt to taste, and a gen-
erous pinch of paprika. Boll three
minutes, then add the pint of oys-
ters. Just before removing from
the fire add a wine glass of sherry,
a little at a time. Servos twelve
people and is delicious. •
Finnan Hadtlio with Peppers. -
Have the fish thoroughly washed,
and after it has stood in cold water
about an hour put . it in boiling
water for five minutes, then wipe
dry. Rub butter and lemon juice
well into the fibre of the fish, then
broil over a clean fire fifteen min-
utes, er in a brasier, in some but-
ter, with the cover on tight. Serve
with hot butter sauce.
Fried Green Peppers. -Split the
peppers and remove the seeds, then
lay them in salted water. When
they feel crisp, wipe them off with
a Cloth; melt some butter in the
brasier, and, when smoking hot,
fry the peppers in it until tender.
Salmon Scramble. -Empty' a can.
of salmon into a'skillet and cook
thoroughly, then break in a few
eggs and stir till the . eggs are
cooked rare or Well done, accord-
ing to taste. The dish is best when
the eggs are cooked rare. Butter,
pepper, and salt as required,
Stuffed Fish. -A fish weighing
from four to six pounds is a good
size to bake. Make a dressing of
bread crumbs, butter, salt, and a
little salt pork chopped fine. Pars-
ley and 0211008 if you. like. Mix
this with one egg. Fill the body,
sew it up, lay it in a large pan, cut
gashes across the side and lay in
thin slices of salt pork, Put a pint
of water and a little salt in the
pan. Bake it an hour and a half.
Baste frequently. After taking up
the fish thicken the gravy and pour
over it.
SALADS. .
Sweetbread Salad. - Mix and
boil until tender one pair sweet -
broads, three stalks of celery chop-
ped fine, one-half cup of English
walnuts chopped fine. Pour over
mayonnaise dressing.
Oyster Relish. -Broil the oysters
until the edges curl, then arrange
them 00 slices of bread that have
been daintily toasted and generous-
ly buttered, cover them with some
finely chopped celery, dust with
salt, and pour a goodly quantity of
warns cream over the mixture.
Pimento Salad. -Drain the con-
tents of a small can of red peppers,
after drying them in a cloth, slice
in rings, cut fine an equal amount
of celery, and mix; add one teacup
of tiny balls made from cream
cheese, which should be rolled in
fine cracker crumbs. Rub the yolks
of two hard boiled eggs to a paste
with the oil drained from the pep-
pers. Rub the salad bowl with gar-
lic and put in the salad, over which
pour a good French dressing. Serve
on crisp lettuce leaves,
Banana Salad. -Take bananas,
slice lengthwise, and have •a may-
onnaise dressing made and also a
cup of ground peanuts. Dip the
bananas in the dressing and then
in the nuts and lay them on lettuce
leaves. This is a pretty dish as well
as delicious in taste. Make the
dressingfollows: as
Ons half cup
vinegar, two tablespoons of sugar,
two eggs well beaten, butter the
size of an egg, a pinch of salt, and
cook until thick. Cool and add two
tablespoons of sweet cream,
DESSERTS.
Apple Pudding. - Cook apple
sauce, 'Sweeten, and season with
ground cinnamon; take toast and
grate it in a separate dish. Melt
a large lump of butter in frying
pan, but do not let it become brown.
Stir grated toast in pan until it
becomes light brown. Remove
from the fire, take a pudding dish,
put in a layer of the browned
crumbs, then a layer of apple
sauce; continue until dish i fittest,
with a layer of crumbs on top.
Bake in a moderate oven for fif-
teen minutes.
Custard Dumplings, -Take six
stale buns, grate crust from buns,
mix with sugar aiwl cinnamon.
Then make a boiled custard, soak
buns in custardone hour, then fry
in hot lard. When a ,nice brown roll
m the crumbs, sugar, and cinna-
mon: If buns are large cut in two.
Sauce -One pint sweet cider, sweet-
en to taste, slice of lemon, add a
little thickening, boil and pour
over buns. Serve warm,
Filled' Torte. -Use six ounces.
butter, three ounces sugar, one-
half pound flour, two yolks and one
whole ogg, one teaspoon baking
powder. Moll this dough in spring
form strew bottom with, cracker
crus, add preserved poaches or
any other kind of fruit,: then an-
other layer of cracker crumbs, and
add the following custard. Six
eggs, yaks and whites, each beaten physicians among the Persians and
separately, add quarter pound Babylonians, They were versed in
sugar, quarter pound chopped al- astrology Booth -saying, and the
mends, and a little rind and juice interpretation of dreamt. That the
of lemon. Bak In moderate oven wise Men wore three kings is mare
It in strips foul' inches long, laws :and Caere with whipped ersam. tradition, 'nesting on very meager+
foundation,
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Ewins, of Carleton street, Toronto.Miss Ewins, a Wesleyan missionaryof the city note the onrush:::tg wave
of smoke and flame and the spGetators on the tops of the buildings.
SHE UIIUHI 7 SCHOOL LLLJOU magi avs nathe eastt(literally tea;
its rising) has been explained' by
some commentators as a ;comet or
meteor. This explanation, how-
ever, seems unsatisfactory in view
of the fact that • Herod, and all
Jerusalem with him, seem not to
have noticed the phenomenon until
their interest was aroused by the
inquiry of the strangers, whereup-
on the king still found it necessary
to inquire exactly what time the
star appeared. Whatever the na-
ture of the star may have been it
was clearly such a to be consider-
ed as a portent only by' practiced
astrologers. The celebrated astro-
nomer Kepler in 1603 called atten-
tion to a close conjunction of the
planets Jupiter and Saturn, which
occurred it the year of house 747
(B. C. 7-6); and a similar conjunc-
tion of Jupiter and Venus is said to
have occurred it the spring of 13. C.
6.
4. The chief priests -The priest-
hood of Israel eonstituted n whole
tribe (Levi) and was divided into
twenty-feur different "courses,"
serving alternately in the temple.
The chiefs or head -priests .of these
different divisions er groups, to-
gether with the chief priest proper,
are included in the expression,
"chief priests." The scribes were
a separate class (.Hebrew, Sophe-
rhn), and had been since the days
of Ezra. They were both copyists
of the sacred law and teachers of
religion.
INTERN:ATION_1L LESSON,
FEBRUARY 4.
Lesson V. 'Phe wise men led by the
star, Matt. 2. Golden text,
Is. 45. 22.
•
Verse 1. When Jesus was born -
Compare Text Studies for Tana-
ary21.
Bethlehem -Literally, house of
bread. A village five miles south-
west of Jerusalem_ The phrase of
Judaea is added to distinguish the
town from one by the same name
farther north in Zebuhin; men-
tioned first in 1 Sam. 16. as the
home of Jesse, the father of David;
called also Ephrath (1 Sam. 17. 12)
or Ephrathah (Ruth 4. 11), The
fertile valley in which Bethlehem
is situated as the scene of the story
of Ruth, and is mentioned in con-
nection with exploits of David (2
Sam. 2. 32; 23. 11-16). It was for-
tified by Rehoboam (9 Chron. 11.
6). Here refugee Jews, on their
way to Egypt at the time of the
exile (B. G, 586), stopped for test
and refreshment (Jen. 41. 17).
After the exile Bethlehem was re-
built (Ezra 2, 21 ; Neh. 7. 28), and
lifted into prominence as the home
of the coming Messianic Ring in
rho prophecy of Micah (5. 2). The
modern village is known as .Beit
Lahm (house of flesh), in which the
supposed site of the Nativity is
marked by what is probably the old-
est church in the world, the pillars
of the present edifice dating back
to about A. D, 330. Beneath this
church is the cave of the Nativity,
hewn in the solid reek and measur-
ing 88 by 11 feet. Rock -cut eaves
of this same general character are
still found in the Hebron hills, They
have been in common use as stables
from very ancient times.
Herod the king -Son of Antipa-
ter, governor of Idumea (Edom),
the territory south of the Dead
Sea, where .dwelt the descendants
of Esau. He was the founder of
the Iterodian .fancily and dynasty,
and was later known as Herod the
Great. A cruel, unscrupulous and
ambitious tyrant, his life was sur-
rounded by plots, suspicions, and
intrigues, which fact doubtless a-
mounts for the increased fear, mis-
ery and cruelty of itis old age.
Wise -mon -Greek, magi, a title
given to learned men, priests, and
aches wide ; place on buttered ,tins, This cake is delicious,
3. Written through the prophet -
Micah 5. 2, which reads: "But thou,
Bethlehem Ephrathah, which ant
little to be among the thousands of
Judah, out of thee shall one come
forth unto me that is to he ruler
in Israel; whose goings forth are
from of old, from everlasting,"
8. Worship -Show him reverence.
8. Went before them -Continued
to guide there. Herod had himself
directed then to Bethlehem, where
according to Luke, 9, 17, the shep-
herds had already spread the news
of the wonderful Infant's birth. It
would seem, therefore, that further
miraculous guidance would be un-
necessary, and because unneces-
sary, implorable. In harmony with,
the suggested explanation of the
sta:", given above, many commen-
tators regard this verse as the au-
thor's method of carrying out in
beautiful and poetical language the
thought that the star pitied the
Wise Men to Jesus, •
11. House -Not necessarily the
same in,whieh the Babe had been
bora,, some days, if not some weeks,
before,
Frankincense and myrrh -Both
resinous gums obtained from trees
found in Arabia, used for medicin-
al nutposes and for. embalming,
and very expensive.
12, Another way -Possibly pro even when they pay for it.
Jeeding south from Bethlehem, past
Hebron, and through Idumaea
eastward, or to the northeast
across Jol+clan, leaving Jerusalem
to the west.
15. The death of Herod - This,
according to secular history, oc-
curred in the year of Rome 750-751
(B. C. 4-3), We have no way of
knowing how long Joseph remained
with his family 01 Egypt, but al-
lowing some months to have elapsed
between the birth of Jesus and the
slaughter of the babies at Bethle-
hem, and an even longer period
between this event and the death in
Matthew to determine approxi-
mately the date of the birth of
Jesus, which is usually fixed at B.
C. 7-6. Compare Text Studies for
January 81.
The prophet -The reference is to
Hosea. 11. 1, which reads: "When
Israel was a child, then 'I loved
stint, and called my son out of
I gypt." In its original setting,
therefore, the prophet's expres-
sion, "my son," referred not to
the Messiah, but to Israel. In
the light of the life and teachings
of Jesus many Old Testament pro-
phecies seemed to the New Testa-
ment writers to have had a far
more glorious fulfillment than oven
the prophets who originally utter-
ed them had dreamed,
16. From two years old and en-
der -According to Herod's calcula-
tion this allowed a liberal margin
beyond the actual age which the
infant Jesus could possibly have al-
ready attained. The verse thus
furnishes part of the data used in
fixing the tinlo of the birth of
Jesus.
18, A voice was heard in harsh
Rachel weeping -Rachel's
sepulcher was at B.amah and at the
time of the captivity Jewish exiles
on their way to Babylon were pro-
bably led past her tomb. Jer'emiah
(81. 15) poetically represents Rachel
as coming out of her grave and la-
menting over her dead and exiled
dessee±jdants.
23. Nazareth --In a lofty valley
among. the limestone hills to the
of the plain of Esdraelon or
Megiddo. It was a place of se little
importance that it is not mentionei
either in the 0id 'Testament or by
the Jewish historian, Josephus.
•
RIGHT OFF THE BAT.
It doesn't require an earth-
quake to shake our faith in same
people.,
0'f all human virtues, the world
is apt to regard success as the
greatest,
'Tile people whoose as mart rs
seem to .get a heap of satisfactiioti
out of it,
Any lawyer will tell yea that
some people hate to take :advice,
FAMINE ADDED P.D WAIL.
Floods flare Laid Waste Hinny
farms in Chinn.
VIE DISCARDED •QEE'UE.
China's Change of Co1fi'ure and Ed
Moral.
The exciting news of war and dip- The "San of Heaven" has just
lomacy has caused the worldto authorized Ch:uamen to discard'
forger, the terrible crestiiutiu:1 the queue, or "pigtail," as we too
which now prevails in '(.hila. It is discourteously term this appon.
a side is10e, hut one which may dage of the hair, and no doubt the
have a vital effect 011 the settle- prufossion of barber hal become
utent k.if the revolution. suddenthroughout
In July and August last the the Celestial Rrnpire. We are al : ,
i.an tee 10 0 to an armor„ unpre- "roundheads" now, it may be•sa°d,
ccst.:iteel height, and the rosnitarg and although one must welcome the
de traction has caused ramie° disappearance cf. anybadge of ser-
arens now accurately defined First, cl , g'
there is the great Ilwai Valley re- tvi lent it scams kind of "bee to seri-
there
measuring about 100 by 200 so n thatonit of heb should,os
miles, where the fanners have had so nationally sfgaifxcant
only cane good crop since 1903. Not disappear abruptly, That blunt,
only is there no reserve to meet neat knob by hair turned gond, ry
present conditions, but the people
Inc r:cek, which the legendary
help themselves. have, lost hertat nd will not by to legendarys-Chinman thauled and hroe h ed the
The second area is shout li'uliu, many novelettes, will become to
where far some weeks the Yangtse our descendants as mystical and as
formed an inland sec fram 80 to monstrous as the farthingale or the
103 miles Ione, a:1 varying in widthpe1•ugtte-
from 35 to 40 utiles. The difference between the Chi-
The last district ie Hu -Ran, where nese change of head-dress and the
the floods were fecal. One section , changes which haveoccurred in.
30 miles square, and sam a:ini:eg at Europe, is that the former will prob-
least 10,000 people, was completely; ably be sudden and universal.
submerged. An estimate of 100,- i Here we have altered our fashiona
000 people facing absolute starva-; se gradually: that even in a long
tion in Hu -Nan al:ene is aons:dered ; lifetime one has not been able to
conservative, while in the three ; notethe widest divergences. Who.
areas the lowest estimate ,>f the; has rotted, in writing, that: in such
destitute is '3,750,000, Dc ' tut Y.11 and'such a definite year wigs cams
swell as is experienced in Chin„ is' to Ue generally worn, or that in
undreamed of in more progressive ; suchand such another definite year
c ,entries. There are almost no j hair came to be worn in 1angth and
charitable institutions, and many ; curl and coil? Of course, these
,i,milles are left shelterless and, queries apply only to the male see -
nearly unclothed to endure the; tions of the European communities,
rains. Pillage and destruction have; but it is certain that the ;altera-
commenced in the country, where i t?ons have been gradual and irra-
the rovelutionists are unable to i tional.
keep order. i Louis XIV., for instance, Imp -
In the towns which they have „pored to be 'a little too short for
taken the rebels keep fair order, his conception of Apollo -like per -
but their organization of govern -zonal 'dignity; therefore, our great -
natant does not extend to the coon- t grandfathers wore wigs. Because
try districts. The Central China;the fashion gave height to royalty,
Relief Committee, withheadquar,'t'it then proved c•r mfortable to the
ters in Shanghai, is making an 0p -1 -commonalty. C••-.'rles I., again,
peal in all countries for funds t9 l caught French fashions, and so by
carry on relief Tyork. The 0002081- • an accident the Cavalier became
tee is thoroughly represent tree of opposed to. the Roundhead purely
the best foreign and Chi:leas conn pl y e. visible difference of Coiffure.
munities there, and it is wor•kit>g The Puritan liked no fiorescenee or
in a businesslike manner. In re- glorification of the body. lid would
turn for relief the committee 21 „t not let the, face wreathe itself into
acting work from the recipients, smiles or the hair fall in ri les of
who are- required to de,:pa eY:-.••= vanity to the neck. He would be
water courses and strc:agtlen s, ited in a sober black, and his hat
dike, and guard against a recur- shoukl haveprim exaggerated lines,
rence of the flow -ds. Every effort and under it thee close -ere ed
is being made to avoid pauperizing crown should butt up into the air
the people, and much of the work like a cannon -ban
is planned to tide the farmers over In head-dress, more tile:,' in an
y -
until they can get 111 a crop. thing else perhaps, the influence of
WILL BRITAIN RETALIATE ITE copying is always at work ` Icing
1?•dward VII. wore a pard^.r1131r
In (:ane of Punishing Scafesf-Op- shape of beard. If you walk into
portunity to Came Soon. rho city any day nolo you will meet
In the game of tit fer-tub betwee
Britain and Germany, in whit
Germany ,made the latest move b
sentencing Max Schulz,_ an alleg
British spy, to seven years of ban
labor in a "zuchthaus," ? igiand
will very likely retaliate. She wig
have her opportunity in the case o
einrieh Grosse, a captain of th
4 R'German merchant marine, now
]Telt for trial at Portsmouth on
charge identical with that on whielr
Schulz was pnnishecl
- The temper of the two countries
is forcibly illustrated in these he
quently recurring espionage trials
As recently as two years ago spy
ing was regarded as a trivial of
fence. The secret service depart
ments of both countries l:new who
the spies were and arrested them
only when their setas iT became
mischevious. The punish/no:xts were
light.•
About e year ago, however. Cap-
tain Trench and Lieut. Breedon of
the British Army were. found guilty
of spying in Germany, and were
sentenced to four years each. It
would be hurtful to Germany:if the
military secrets (1i;eoveled by the
two officers were disclosed to -Eng-
land sooner than four years from
the date of their. arrest. Then it
came hngla:rd's turn, A German
ober-lieutenant, going under the
name of Max -Schulz, but n:•os elat-
ed to the Britisher of the same
name now imprisoned in Germany,
was sentenced to fourteen months'
solitary confinement for spying out
naval secrets at Portsmouth. Public
opinion in Germany denounced the
punishment as unduly severe.
Germany's retaliation inimpl•is
ening the Rs itish Max Shins, who
is a ship broker of Hull aced South-,
ampton, has caused -even a greater
uproar in Britain, The "zuchthaus"
sentence is the mast degrading
form of punishment known in the
German eocle. Ordinarily„only the
most depraved• criminals are ian-
prisonod there,
THIS LOCK -NE. DS NO KEY.
hundreds of meld]. d
e
e-agd men who
'l were evidently such ardent Royal -
h ists in his reign that they trimmed
y their chins just likewise.' It seems,
ed indeed, that the ecclesiastical ton-
sure is the moat permanent form of
distinct coiffure. Yet things that
1 are not essential to lamanit can -
f not avoid change, and the tonsure
e' will re doubt go. Meanwhile, what
of the lay fashions/ bVe are all
a, "roundheads" for the. moment -all
we of the civilized peoples -but it
fs quite possible that we shall be-
gin to find objections, say, to ball -
rocs, ' and shall take to wigs -or
• skull -caps; or that we shall take to
slaving half our heads quite clean
and letlieg the other half adorn it-
self -with ribbon and curl; er that
we shall-. But the possibilities
are innumerable. The Chinese, af-
ter altering their customs, will no
doubt find that they have eet out
upon an endless, futile movement
of change in coiffure. -London
Standard.
The old joke about rho gentle-
man returning home very late from
his club and vowing he couldn't
open the front door because some-
body had stolen the keyhole, is sad-
ly out of date at last, A foreigner
has invented a keyless lock which
requires neither key nor keyhole.'
The lock is moved by the knobs of
buttons projecting, at the tight hand'
side. It can be set in such a way
that only the members of the hausc
to which it belongs eon unlock it,.
and it is made in nofewer than
88,005 combinations. It is unlock-
ed by pulling ono or mere of the
knobs upwards a certain ntitaber
of thnca.
DARK DA oe ICOR I'TALI.
Propbeey of Diassler Made 30 Years
Ago is Revelled.
Thirty years ago a monk of the
Silesian Orden, known as "Don
Bosco, and credited with the gift
of prophecy, predicted sinister
events 111 Italy for the year 1913.
In May a great revolution was to
begin, with 400 clays of bloodshed;
the country would be visited by
i'.1n (ne, war and pestilence; the
Pope would leave Rome as a pris-
ons', but finally would be liberat-
ed by an alien army from the north
and borne through St. Petel's to
the strains of the. Te Douro;
Many Italians arc wondering
whether a part of this prophecy is
not already being fulfilled. Tho
war is in full swing, with little
prospect of an early finish, and
should serious disaster attend the
army popular discontent might de-
velop into revolution_
mrinrialt (:'mite has »nt ,aide it-
self felt, .the cast of living has
grown steadily higher.
As for pestileneo, cholera has al-
ready made havoc in parts of the
country, and nessimists salt it will
break out with greater violence }
n
the spring,
I mall ,the� ener : attitude' � ail at ]tale' bf'..:
Austria since the 'Tripoli enter-
prise suggests to some a liberating
army ' from the mortis -en .r 'wrested duringduring;;lT
to rmv
which would not leave. 'r n of
till the provincesI during
the previous struggle had been re••
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