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The Brussels Post, 1912-10-3, Page 3SEASONABLE RECIPES, Rhubarb Wince—Put ten pounds of rhubarb oe a clean board and pound it. fine, A wooden potato masher will do. Then put the rhu- barb into a large crock with ane ,gallon of warm water and six le- mons out fine. Let stand ten days, strain through a piece of cheese- cloth. Acid five pounds of sugar and let stand ten days longer. Then bottle, lie sure the bottles are good or the wine will break them. Mushroom Catsup. — Break the large mushrooms into quarters and hall the smaller. Put a layer of the broken mushrooms into a stone- ware crock and sprinkle with salt. More mushrooms and more salt un- til all the mushrooms aro used up. Cover the crock and set in cool place for three days, stirring with a wooden spoon -three times per •day. At the end of thie time turn the salted mushrooms into a kettle and set them over the fire, Stir often until they are fairly warmed through. Then mash to a pulp with a potato beetle and strain through a fine sieve, getting out every drop of liquid, Boil this for ten minutes and measure. Crabapples Preserved Whole. — Seleot for this purpose those that are most nearly perfect (leaving the stems on). Put into the preserving kettle, porcelain or enameled, and pour in enough warm water to cover them well, The water should not be too hot for you to bear your hand comfortably in it. Heat slowly to boiling and simmer at the side of the range until the skins crack and roll back. Drain and lay the apples in cold water. When they are cool strip off the skins and with a thin, sharp penknife, extract the cores through the blossom end. Weigh the fruit and to each pound allow a pound and a half of sugar and a teacupful of water. Put the sugar and water over the fire and cook until the scum ceases to rise. Then put in the apples; cover the kettle and simmer until they are of a clear red, and so tender that a straw wilI pierce them. Take up with a perforated skimmer and spread upon large, flat dishes to get cold and firm. Return the syrup to the fire, add the juice of a lemon to every three pounds of the fruit, and boil the syrup until it is clear and rich. Fill the jars near- ly to the top with the fruit; pour in the syrup until it overflows, and fit on the tops. This is a pretty and •delicious preserve. The red Siber- ian crab is best for it, although other tart apple's may be used. Apple Jelly.—Any well flavored tart apple may be used for this. Wash and cut thein to pieces with- out coring or paring, The seeds impart a peculiarly pleasant flavor, and the best part of the fruit lies close to the skin. Put the fruit without water into a stone crock ; set in a kettle of hot (not boiling) water and, let it cook all night, or seven or eight hours. Leave it in the crock, closely covered, until the contents are perfectly cold. Next day strain through a double cheese- cloth bag; measure and allow a pint of the juice for each pound of sugar. Set the kettle containing • the juice over the fire and bring to a boil. Meanwhile, weigh your Sugar and divide into several por- tions, putting each into a shallow pan or dish that will go easily into the oven. Set these vessels in the •open ovens and heat gradually, stirring now and then to prevent burning. Should the sugar heat too slowly, close each oven for ten minutes or eo, It should be so hot • that you can hardly bear your hand in it, Watch the juice in the kettle and take off the scum as it rises. Note the exact minute at which it begins to boil all over the surface, and in jet twenty minutes more take it from the range and "dump" in the hot sugar, which should hiss as it strikes to surface: Stir until the sugar melts; cook for barely one minute and fill glasses rolled in hot water to prevent breaking. When the jelly is gold and firm cover with melted paraffin and fit on the tope. The addition of lemon juice improves all kinds of apple jelly: FOR'AFTERNOCN TEA, Scald half a cupful of milk, add half a cupful of boiling water, then cool to lukewarm. Add one com- pressed yeast cake, mixed with throe tablespoonfuls of lukewarm water, then add half a tablespoon- ful of lard, two tablespoonfuls of molasses, one cupful of chopped 'English walnut meats, half a cupful .of white flour and three cupfuls of entire wheat flour, Knead and bake as ordinary,. bread, Favorite Sandwiches, — Cream two heaping tablespoonfuls of but- ter,, add [(cupful of grated cheese, two tablespoonfuls of anchovy es- sence, a quarter of a tablespoonful of paprika, a quarter of teaspoon- ful of mustard and a half cupful of •finely chopped olives, Spread be- tween thin slices of buttered bread, Date Finger Sandviclncs,-rut one ,and a half cupfuls of stoned, chop- ,ped dates into a saucepan, add half a cupful of water, then boil gently for half an hour, Remove from the fire add two heaping tablespoons: of sugar, ane teaspoonful of lemon juice, and half a oupful of whipped cream; beat till well Blended, then. slimed thickly between lady fingers: Use the Wheel Tray, -This wheel tray can be used for luncheons, dinners, teas, porch parties and also for functions where gefre.h- meets are served. Any woman who entertains needs this inbalualile es- Blatant to be up to date, to provide correct service and to save the use- less steps and unnecessary fatigue required to carry trays around. • HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS. Tar stains can be taken out with oil of turpentine. Use a milk skimmer to lift poach- ed eggs out of the water. One secret of good tea or coffee is to make it with water freshly boiled. Never call a new acquaintance by a Christian name unless request- ed to do so. If you wish to save a lemon that has been cut, turn it upside down en a butter dish, To remove fly stains from mir- rors rub with a rag dipped in methylated spirit, and polish with a dry cloth and powdered blue. When running a rod through a muslin curtain put a thimble en the end of the rod. This will pre- vent the curtain from becoming torn, To render boots and shoes water- proof in damp weather rub a little mutton suet round the edges of the soles. Beeswax is just as effica- cious. If stung by a bee or other insect, and no other remedy is near, a paste of damp turf laid on the place has been known to effect a complete cure. Cold vegetables left over from previous meals should be fried with potatoes, salt and pepper. Served in this way they are nourishing and palatable. When valuable vases are used :for table decoration they should first of all be filled with sand. This makes them stand firm, and there is less chance of their being knock- ed over and broken. Fresh water fish often taste mud- dy. To prevent this place the fish in well -salted cold water for several hours before cooking. Lemon juice gives flavor, hardening and whiten- ing to the flesh. A good white , hearthstone adds very much to the appearance of the kitchen. Mix some whiting with milk instead of water, adding a few drops of washing blue. This forms a paint -like mixture which does nob easily spot. TASTE WINE FOR A. LIVING. Women Who Have Been Successful In Peculiar Occupation. Of the list of strange callings followed by women, that of wine - tasting is one of the most curious and lucrative. As a. matter of foot, Mile. Collinere, whose servicee are in great demand in France, Ger- many and Italy as a wine -taster, is said to make an income of about £5,000 a year, many firms employ- ing her for regular work and fre- quently for special duty, says Tit - Bits. 'Only half a dozen women wine - tasters have been known to history, the most renowned of these being the wife of a famous London wine merchant, Mme. Pommery, who died in Paris .twelve years ago, and Signora Sousa, who has a great re - nutation in Spain on account of her judgment and knowledge of wine. Wine -tasters, it appears, are Born, not made ,and must possess the gift of a rano and delicate pal- ate. To this, of course, must be added a knowledge of wines. Mlle, Collinere's taste is so fine•and her knowledge of wines such that she can discern from the first taste of a wine just where the grapes' grew from which it was made, whether they were raised in California or in the vineyards of France, Germany or elsewhere, She can easily detect adulteration of any sort, or if there is a blend, and of, which wines, and can tell the age of a wine almost to a day. As a matter of fact there aro no secrets that a bottle of wine can, withhold from this remarkable Frenchwomen once she has had a spoonful of it in her mouth. She does not swallow the wine. In fact, she is a teetotaler, and if she were to drink' wine warild lose her subtle magic of taste. Further- more, she is obliged to take' the greatest care of her health, She must be well in order to do her work, for her sense loses its cun- ning when she gets ant of health. NOT THE SAME. At an athletic meeting 'a cyclist broke the record .for a certain dis- tance and was greatly cheered. A boy who witnessed the reception asked his uncle svhy they carried him round the ground, "Why, he has broken a record Ott his cycle, and they are proud of him l" "Well, I broke a record on Father's greaten - phone yesterday, but I got a thrash- ing for it!" THE BULGARIAN ARMY SKIRMISHING AT THE RECENT AL1NOEUVRES NEAR SOFIA. WALKING FGR EFFICIENCY SUITABLE SHOES AND CLOTII- ING .ARE NECESSARY. Place Heel on the Ground First, With Feet Pointing Straight Ahead. i can say from experience that one should never begin a long walk in new shoes or oxford ties. Buy shoes with heavy soles and soft up- pers, which lace two or three inches above the ankle. The shoes should also be of sufficient length and width in the tread across the toes, writes William J. Oromie in Wom- an's World. Heavy stockings should be worn. When I go on a long trip I gener- ally wear two pairs of stockings, as this prevents chafing of the heels. In a long walk it is not the heart and lungs which give out first, but the feet. To toughen them use a strong solution of salt water, Do not open the blisters while on the walk, but wait till night and give them proper treatment. Hum a tune or whistle, and keep rhythm with the step. Make a hobby of walking and 'walk': the hobby good and hard. Clothing light in material and color should be worn in the summer time, as the dark colors receive and retain more heat from the sun than the paler colors. When one be- comes overheated from walking, he should .put en an over garment or a sweater especially if he rides• in an open: trolley car after the walk. In case of sprains of muscles or ten- dons, the best treatment is rest and hot applications. Elevation of the injured member is also effective in reducing inflammation. DRESS PROPERLY. Women should be properly cos- tumed for the long or cross-country walk. One reason that women do so little walking or become.-dis- ceuraged is because they are not properly dressed, There are, how' ever, more women walking for health and the reduction of exces- sive fat since such games as teen's and golf came into vogue, as these games called for a shorter skirt than was formerly worn. Never wear high -heel shoes nor clothing so tightas to restrict the movement of the chest. The most suitable skirt is one that comes to the ankles, made of some such ma- terial as denim, as this offers more resistance to briars and other ob- stacles likely to be encountered than most other dress goods. A parasol for a woman and an umbrella for a man is a prime re- quisite, as it protects one when the sun's rays are severe, is useful in time of rain, and may be used as a cane when ascending and descend- ing slopes. The person who is anemic, weak or sick, with no organic trouble, would do well to plan out an walk- ing regime in order to regain health and strength. Even in many forms of organic weakness walking is the best kind of exercise. Health, like any other investment, can be doubled and redoubled. Your principal at the start may not be very great, you may not be able to walk rose than a quarter of a mile at a time, but if you keep at it, in time you can multiply it BY FIVE AND TEN, and thus increase your phyeieal efficiency, After you get health and serengtli the best way to conserve ib is by walking each day the number•, of miles best suited to your physical condition. No rules regarding the amount of walking can be laid down, because just as one person's food is another person's poisons, so the amount of walking that benefits one .may be 'positively injurious to another. If women would walk more they wouldconsult the beauty doctor less, as walking •clears the complex- ion, brightens the eyes, aids diges- tion and iinakes active a torpid hips. In fact, walking will stimu- late and assist digestion, assimila- tion and excretion: Begin a mile walk today, contin- ue this for a week, The second week walk two miles each day. Add• one mile each week till you are walking five miles daily. On Satur- day or Sunday devote a day to walking in the country. Continue this for six months and you will find that you have increased your physical efficiency to such an ex- tent that you will make it a part of your daily regimen for life. I read an article by a prominent actress in a new.epaper in which she advised placing the ball of the foot on the ground first, and claimed that any other way of walking was wrong and would give the walker flat feet, This accords with the no- tion of the average person. It may be in good taste to tiptoe across the stage, but it is DECIDEDLY INCORRECT. A mile walk will convince one that it is a diff.ciilt way of locomotion, and unnatural. This absurd mode of walking is exemplified in the extreme high French heels worn by some woman. In tiptoe or ball -of -foot walking, the base upon which the body rests is too small, and occasions the turn- ing of the foot, thereby causing sprains. High heels are responsi- ble for ball -of -foot epreins. A great many women writers, and some teachers of physical training, advocate this method of walking, and they either have a very limited experience in walking, or they have not given the subject much study. The correct way to walk is to place the heel on the ground first, with the feet pointing straight ahead. Some authorities give consider- able credit to the bent -knee walk, but this method is confined princi- pally to the army, and will never become popular with the people. In addition to placing the heel on the ground first, and pointing the feet front, step out as if -you meant it; swing the arms and hold the chest High. The posture of the body is an important consideration in the walk. Lie back on the floor, chin in toward the -chest. Try to assume the same posture while standing, lean forward a little from the hips and you are ready for your walk. SOME STARTLING CASES. Do Twins Suffer Pain Through Sympathy? Improbable thouglh may seem, there is good foundat?n for the statement recently made to the Chertsey, England, Board of Guar- dians, that a girl, now sixteen ,ears of age, was struck deaf and dt.tab when she was two and ahalf years of age, following the sudden death of her twin sister. Scientific inves- tigation has revealed some curious instances of "sympathy," as it has been termed, between twins. For instance, of thirty-five specially no- ticed cases, in no fewer than seven did both twins suffer from some special ailment or other exceptional peculiarity, One curious instance is of two girls Who, at the age of twenty, both found they experienced great difficulty in coming downstairs ex- cept very ,slowly and awkwardly. curious cases of coincidence in the three were attacked by toothache, and in each case the same tooth hod to be removed. There were also curious eases of coincidence in the falling off of the hair. There is another case of twins in a Government office, one of whom sickened and died of Bright's die - ease, Seven months later Ms bio they died of the same complaint. In pie out of the thirty-five eases, twins found they sickened from the same disease simultaneously, al- though neitherwas infected by the other. Darwin has recorded a French case of two •twin brothers, one liv- ing in Paris and the other in Vien- na, who were attecked'by rheuma- tic ophthalmia at the same moment, Each was certain, when consulting a specialist, that the other was suffering from a like complaint, mi mentions the fact. Subse- quent otters ceefirreed this. sons of a Birmingham manufactur- er, who were passionately attached to one another. For close upon twenty years they had never been separated. Then one of them came to London. One day he was knocked down by an omnibus and killed. At the identical moment, as it was afterwards proved, that the accident occurred, the brother in Birmingham eomplained of be- ing attacked by sharp and violent pains in the head, and he, too, died a few days later from some mys- terious disease that the doctors failed to diagnose. A KNIGHTLY KING. How Young Italian King Rifled Itis Spanish Subjects. The numerous experiments tried and rejected by the Spanish nation during the last century included the short-lived government of 1871-3, when a very worthy prince, Ama- deus .of Savoy, second son of the great Victor Emmanuel, undertook the difficult business of being King of Spain. Amadeus had to contend not only with the Republicans and with those who desired the restora- tion of the Bourbon dynasty, but also with the country's rooted pre- judice against "the foreigner." In a book entitled "The Secret His- tory of the Court of Spain" are given instances of that bravery that won for the young Italian king the admiration, at least, of his Spanish subjects. On a hot evening the king and queen were returning to the palace after listening to some music in the gardens of the Been Retire. Sud- denly a vehicle opposed the,passage of their carriage by crossing just in front. The coachman checked the horses and prevented a collision, bob just then a, shot was directed toward the royal party. At this the king sprang boldly to his feet, and exclaimed: "Here is the king! Fire at him, not at the others!" But no further attempts were made at assassination, and the re- tinue reached the palace in safety. To the ]ring the late hours of the court were particularly disagree- able. At work at six in the morn- ing, he rang for his breakfast at eight. Astonishment was on the lackey's face; it had never been customary for their ex -majesties to be served before eleven .o'clock! So Amadeus,, to avoid friction, adopted the habit of going to a cafe for his early meal. Thus the maids, who sally forth in Madrid with baskets.on their arms, would often return to tell their mistreeses how they had brushed against his majesty as they did their business in the market- place. In one of these early peregrina- tions Amadeus noticed that Caste - lar, the famous leader of the Re- publican party, raised his hat to him. Surprised at this sign of re- spect from the enemy, the young man stopped, and said that he won- dered that one of Castelar's opin- ions should salute royalty. "My salute was not to rov.o.lty, sire," replied the orator, with the grace of the Castilian, "but to the bravest man in Christendom." BRITISH GROWN TOBACCO. The British Empire holds a pre- eminent place amongst the nations of the world in the matter of tea planting, and there is evidence that it will hold a similar position in the matter of tobacco and rubber growing. Already tobacco is cul- tivated fn British North Borneo, India, and Jamaica, whips crops are also cultivated in Rhodesia and Cape Colony, There is po reason, moreover, why tobacco should not be planted in other British tropical possessions. Samples of cigars, nado from tobacco grown in Cey- lon, show highly premising results. Rubber, of course, tis extensively grown in the tropical parts of the British Empire, and robber both �> from India and the Bahama Islands sausages I bought here last week4 Women will find that long -ads- d d 1 S b will probably soon be sold in Tem- ''My dear iusclam tilos only goes , i .. L hand, walk ug will reduce adipose 1 don at It siiThrli• smeller ' figure i s17ew that. the umrtor•rvar is re- water; hot waiter makes them re - Vague upon the neck, abdomen and This case recalls that of the twin 1 than the new, baro. I placing the horse everywhere." I taiu the odor of the onions, THE SUNDAY SCHOOL STUDY INTERNAT'IO.NAL LESSON, OCTOBER 6. Leeson I.—Jesus walking on the Sea, Itl.ark 6. 45-36. Golden Text, Matt. 14.27. Verse 45.—Straightway he con- strained his disciples- Immediately after the miracle of feeding live thousand Jesus dispatched the twelve, with great urgency, from the scene. The reason for this is given by John only (0. 15), who states that the effect of the miracle upon the multitude was such that they were about to take him by force and make him king. Jesus doubtless perceived that the dis- ciples would share in this move- ment and therefore sent them away in haste. Unto the other side to Bethsaida —They were directed to take a westerly course across the Lake to- ward Bethsaida in Galilee, a fishing village near Capernaum. ' This vil- lage is not to be confused with Bethsaida Julies, which was on the northeastern shore and near which occurred the miracle of the loaves and fishes. Luke 9. 10. Matthew's record (14. 22) is simply that they were to go "to the other side," while John (6. 17) says they "were going over the sea unto Caper- naum." Himself sendeth the multitude away—The state of mind of the multitude made the situation cri- tical and necessitated extraordin- ary precaution such as Jesus alone could exercise. 46.—Into the mountain to pray— One of the mountains near the scene of the miracle. The necessity for prayer grew out of the sudden po- pularity with which the crowd in-- vested n-vested Jesus. 47. When even was come — The early evening referred to in 6. 35 was from three to six o'clock, while the late evening here referred to was from six o'clock until night. In the midst of the sea — About half way across. John (6. 19) says: "About five and twenty or thirty furlongs." 48. Distressed in rowing — The night was divided by the Romans into four watches of three hours each. This was, therefore, the last watch, from three to six in the morning. Their distress is evident from the fact that they had rowed about eight hours and had covered only between three and four miles. Walking on the sea—This miracle is clearly not to be explained, as some would attempt to do, by say- ing that he was walking on the shore "above the sea." Would have passed by them—It was probably the deliberate pur- pose of Jesus to pass them to make opportunity for testing and in- structing their faith, 49. A ghost—The darkness made it impossible to recognize Jesus, and naturally they did not expect to see a person walking on the water. Whatever the Jews could not explain naturally they attribut- ed ea spirits. 50. All saw him—Conclusive evi- dence it was not a delusion. Be of good cheer : it is I; be not afraid—This immediate word of as- surance is also recorded by Matt. (14. 27) and John (6 20). John omits "Be of good cheer." Although they did not recognize the form, they knew at once the voice of Jesus, and this had the immediate effect of allaying their fears. 51. Went up unto them into the boat -We would infer from John's A GREAT ENGINEERING FEAT TUE WORLD'S LA'T'EST AND GREATEST CANAL. The Panama Is the Most, Wonder- ful Undertaking the World Ilae Ever Sean, Three centuries have gone since Gomera, the Spaniard, suggested the linking of the Atlantic and the Pacific by a waterway dividing the two Americas; more than thirty years have passed ,since the first pickaxe was driven into the Pana ma Isthmus at the bidding of Ile Lesseps, France's immortal engi- neer ng -neer and the "Magician of Suez" ; and at last the greatest engineering feat of all time is an accomplished fact. President Roosevelt pro- nounced the fiat, "The canal shall be built" ; and it is built, says Loan - don Answers. Thus the curtain is rung up on flier completion of the most amazing un- dertaking the world has seen, v,(ith all its comedy and tragedy and its glorious achievement. BANKRUPT AND WORKLESS. It was with a light heart that De Lesseps, with his Suez laurels still green, approached the task of driv- ing a canal through the mountain and across the swamps of the Pan- ama Isthmus. It was a "baga- telle," he thought; and he esti- mated its cost at £24,000,000—only four millions more than the Suez Canal had cost. To -day the total at the foot of the bill reads as near- ly as possible £100,000,000. An army of skilled workers, from engineer to navvy, invaded the isth- mus; millions of pounds' worth of the most up-to-date machinery was dumped on it. and eight years later the Panama Canal Company was hopelessly bankrupt, with debts of £70.000,000, and only a fifth of its work done! Then it was that the. world heard a story of extravagance and incom- petence and fraud such as made it gasp with horror and inoredulity— of highly -paid officials, who had spent their days drinking cham- pagne, their nights at the baccarat and roulette tables, flinging their silver and gold out of the window for the natives to scramble for; driving in costly equipages, and im- porting an orchestra of musicians from Paris to beguile their hours of indolence. BANG WENT MILLIONS. The company's money had been squandered with still more lavish hand. Stories were told, for ex- ample, of rubber boots bought et - ten times their value; and of one man who sold mules for 300,000 dol- lars, for which he had paid 20,000. Engines were imported from Bel- gium, dumped down hi the swamp, and never used; hundreds of tons of costly machinery were never even unpacked, and shiploads of concrete blocks were dropped into the sea to avoid the trouble of un- loading them! When the miserable fiascowas ex- ploded, millions of pounds' worth of machinery and plant was found rusting, and, in many oases, half sunk in the swamps ever a distance of forty miles—dredges by the hun- dred, bought at £3,000 apiece; •steam cranes, for each of which £2,000 or so had been paid; steam - pumps and reservoirs worth 410,- 000. from which even the orating had not been removed; small moun- tains of rested rails, and a mile of derelict wagons axle -deep in the mud! In the shreds were over a hundred fine locomotives ruined by rust; at account (6. 21) that the disciples the mouth of the canal a dozen fine were prevented from receiving tug -boats were rotting at their Jesus into the boat because by the moorfngis. In all, six million time Jesus had reached it they had pounds' worth of material had thus arrived at the shore. The wind ceased—Another ele- ment in the miraculous event, 59. Understood not concerning been abandoned to decay. And all there was to show for this mad ex- travagance was seventy million en - the loaves—This isgiven as the. sea- tic yards. excavated at a cost of over £10,000.000—work which com- son why the disciples chid not under-+ petent engineers declared should stand the .present miracle. Afters have been dons at a tenth of the witnessing the feeding of the moi- cost, titude they should have had less difficulty at this time. Their heart was hardened — The Jews considered the heart to be the seat of intelligence as well as af- fection, se that the phrase does -trot refer so much to dullness of moral sensibilities as to intellectual stu- pidity, 53. Came to the land unto Gen- nesaret--A fertile plain about three miles long and a mile wide extend- ing along the western shore of the FAILURE, FOLLY, . FRAUD. Never was such a shameful tale, .._ unfolded as that which bronghi ruin to thonsands of French share- holders in the year 1889. But it was only the prelude to a still worse scandal. More gold was squander- ed with prodigal hands es bribes to public personages and newspapers to suppress the ,•evelatiens, Prose- cutions "followed, with full pitiless exposures; greab"names were drag- lake. The place of landing was geti in the mire.. Lesseps and many several Miles south of Oapernauin another man el high repute found and Bethsaida, which is proof that ihemselves within,prisen walls, anti they hid been driven far ` out of the whole of France was shaken to their course, its vnry fnundn;tions, 65. Beds --Pallets, Failure dogged the steps of later 30. The herder of inns garment aitcmpts to complete the canal. The outer robe worn by the Iowa Earthquakes and tidal waves had fringe or tassels about the leagued .tnemselvee against every edge and corners to remind them adccntture ; and it tvaai only when of the law. the United States set its teeth grimly to the teak that aneeese came, Snell ' is acme of the nomed.y and IMPROVEMENTS, tragedy --•including the loss of thee- "Af'r, cisayosi how doou as- Panda of lives--wi ieh the story of y the Panama Canal recofcle, cerins for .the. fact. that I foiled a piece of rubber tyre in one of the To wash knives whieh have been used for cutting onions use cold