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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1913-2-13, Page 3„ Latter end oi!e tw +N�, emful of bak- t' 11, ing soda. Beat ul:, the eggs eel', ',old to them the buttermilk; then ere) went NM the salt nod aux thoroughly, t tel i1 Me. nissulve ilio r°uda in two table- spoonfuls of boilnrg water, then stir It into the butt.criuilk. Now gradu- ally add the flur, stirring all the van Dainty Ways of Cooking Oysters. Oysters rolled in bacon and then dipped in hatter and fried are well known, but this delicious savory is often spoiled in the making, and is rdi,'Jappcinting when it makes its appearance at the• end of the cours- es, The oysters should be breaded, and, if large, the muscle part should be removed. Tho bacon should be sliced so thin that it is almost transparent. The strained liquor of the oysters should he added to the batter, and the seasoning should oonsist of salt and cayenne pepper, The batter is lighter when made with oil, not batter melted, but the oil should be pure and free from any particular taste, Never use oil if it is in the least rancid; it will ruin the flavor of the kromeskis, The best proportions for a light batter are two table- spoonfuls of oil warmed in a quar- ter of a pint of water, beaten into a quarter of a pound of the finest wheat flour, adding the yolk of an egg. When all is well beaten whip up the white of the egg to a stiff froth and mix it thoroughly but lightly with the batter. Make this batter just before it is needed for frying. Another oyster savory, which is quick and easy, is to heat together till frothy three eggs, with six table- epoonfnls of thick cream. Acid a liberal amount of seasoning. Place in small china ramekins or small savory cups a native oyster, cover a little chopped tarragon and set in the oven for two or three min- utes. Stand the china 'cases in a tin filled with hot water before put- ting them. into the oven. A rather more elaborate savory may be made as follows, and should be served in small cases made ei- ther with butter; egged, crumbed and fried, or batter fried in the shape of cases with a, solid dariole- ehaped cup with a long handle. Make the batter like an ordinary pancake batter, but almost double as thick, and acid two eggs to each three ounces of flour to the ordin- ary cup, season well and add a lit- tle nutmeg or mace, if spice is ap- proved of. The butter cases are very easily made. For as many cases as are required roll some pieces of fresh butter into balls, using one and one- half ounces of butter for each case. Egg and crumb with very fine bread crumbs three times. Press each oase lightly on the board to flatten it slightly, and on the top mark a round with a small plain cutter for the lid. Fry a good golden brown in hot fat, drain the cases, remove the lids with a sharp knife, and pour aw.av all the butter from the inside (this butter can be used again for cooking). Keep the cases hot till they are filled, Pound equal quan- tities of cooked roast beef and game, and one-third the quantity of butter,; season well, and add a 'little ground nutmeg or mace and a squeeze of lemon juice, Pass through a sieve, adding one or two spoonfuls of good, strong and well flavored stock. Heat up and half -fill the cases with this mixture, which should be about the consistency of thick sauce. Heat the oysters in their strained liquor, a glass of white wine and a few drops of lemon juice. Season well, add one-fourth pint of thick cream to each dozen of oysters add fill up the cases with this mixture. • Sweet Sandwiches. Dainty sandwiches easily prepar- ed fair afternoon tea have sweet fil- lings. Brown, white or rye bread, with crusts removed and sliced very thin, may be used, or the mixtures are nice on unleavened wafers or buttered orackers. A pleasing va- riety is to spread orisp buttered toast with the fillings instead of making in sandwich form. A stiffly whipped cream makes a good hese for many fillings. Sweeten with confectioners' sugar and stir in chopped dates and ground English walnuts; again freshly grated cocoanut or grated sweet chocolate and melted marsh- mallows. Hot marshmallow fudge is especially nice sandwich filling, especially when used on thin slices of "coffee cake.” A nice orange filling is made from a syrup of sugar and water, the grated rinds of oranges and the strained juice. Thicken with a lit- tle ittle cornstarch. - Cool and spread thickly on the bread. •Cherry butter, mixed, with finely chopped pecans, .rnalces an appetiz- ing sandwich, Nuts are nice with any jam or preserves, and especial- ly good with spiced fruits or maies- ohino cherries, or bananas maria= ated in rum. Cakes. Buttermilk Cakes. --One quart of buttermilk, sites ' level teaspoonful of salt, two eggs, floor to make a thin time, until you have a batter that will pour smoothly from a spoon, Give a good beating and bake quick- ly on a hut, well -greased griddle. Children's Cookies.: Two pounds brown sugar, one cup warns water, teaspoonful of s•.,cla dissolved in the water, one teaspoonful cinnamon, ono teaspoonful allspice, one tea- spoonful anise seed, yolks of three eggs, pinch of salt, Use enough flour to make a soft dough. Cut with cookie cutter, place in well greased pans, and bake in hot oven. If a cup of nuts of any kind is added it unproven the cookies very much. Fruit Cake.—Two and a half pounds white sugar, enc pound but- ter, one pound flout, dozen eggs. Beat eggs, add sugar and butter creamed together, knit flour. Add two pounds currants, ono and one- half pounds raisins, and one pound shredcled citron, dredged in flour, and two ounces each of allspice anti cinnamon, and one uunee grated nutmeg. Bake in a very slow oven about five hours and wetoh con- stantly, as it will burn easily. Coffee Spies Cake—Three table- spoons butter, one-half cup sugar, one-half cup molasses, one-half cup cold coffee, one egg, one-half tea- spoon soda, three-quarters teaspoon cinnamon, one-half teespuon cloves, one-half teaspoon allspice, one-half oup currants, two cups dour, one- half cup raisins. Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, then the egg well beaten and molasses. Mix flour with -spices and soda, and add fruit. Add to mixture alternately with coffee. Bake in a long pan and frost with coffee or brown su- gar icing. Layer Cake= Rub one cup of hut - ter to a eream with • two cups of sugar, add the beaten yolks of four eggs,'one cup of milk, the whipped whites of the eggs, three cups flour, three teaspoons baking powder, one cup of milk. Bake in three lay- ers. For chocolate frosting or fil- ling boil one cup sugar and a third of a cup of water without stirring until it threads, pour on the beaten white of an egg, beat steadily, ad- ding two heaping tablespoons of grated chocolate, two tablespoons cream, a half teaspoon butter, and a teaspoon vanilla. When the mix- ture is lukewarm use as filling or icing for cake. Household hints. Boiling water poured over apples will loosen their skins and make paring ail easy matter. If oilcloth be occasionally rubbed with a mixture of beeswax and tur- pentine it will last mnoh longer. Very old furniture is much, im- proved if washed with lime water and a coat of oil immediately ap- plied. The time to eat a turkey (says an authority), given crisp, cold wea- ther, is ten days or a fortnight from the date of killing. People who live long are usually small eaters. Gourmands so tax the liver by excessive eating that that organ soon wears out. When poaching eggs a few drops of vinegar added to the water makes them set properly, and keeps the white from spreading. If people world be happy they should never live on credit. The most economfoal way to live is to pay as you go. It is also the best way, because you then escape the possibility of the disgrace, slavery and dreadful misery of being in debt. When boiling new milk, to pre- vent a skin from forming on the top as it 000ls, add two tablespoon £uls of cold milk to every pint when at boiling point and stir for a min- ute, The so-called skin will then be re -absorbed, and the milk will not be so impoverished. Before taking nauseates medicine, such as cod-liver oil, or anything with a strong taste, chew a small piece of lemon -peel, and the dis- agreeable taste will never be no- ticed. Another easy method of tak- ing castor-oil is to hold a little ice in the mouth. The tongue is chilled, tans preventing . the disagreeable after-taste of the dose, Day of Street Car ilpnc. The day of the street oar in Eng - lend is over. The demand for roil - less cars and motor omnibuses is eprcading throughout the country. Leaden proposes to ram services of tramway cars without rails in many suburbs. Some twenty provincial towns are arranging tor the intro- duction of rained cars or motor •omnibuses. The schemes now be- fore Parliament suggest that the ordinary street car is doomed and the railless car and the motor ornni- bus•arc to be the vehicles of the fu- ture. So Long As It Isn't Work. "Your husband is very fond of exercise." "Yes, 11 he can get it in any other way then with the snow shovel," TABLET ERECTED TO ROYAL NORTH-WEST 31OUNT- Ei1 POLICE HEROES. Perhaps no event in the long and splendid history of Canada's famous Royal Northwest Mounted Police was received with such a nation-wide feeling of mingled re- gret, . pity, and pride, as the loss in the month of Febru- ary, 1911, of the Fort MacPherson -Dawson patrol, head- ed by Inspector Fitzgerald. When the details of the loss of the brave little party were finally brought back to civilization by the relief force, they combined to form a story of calm, determined, self -forgetful discharge of duty and devotion to noun'ade- ship, which thrilled and ennobled all who read it. The pathetic record kept by the intrepid inspector during his last days of alternate hope and despair can never be for- gotten. It is a page sure of a place in the yet -to -be - written complete history of a force which has nobly done its part in upholding British justice and fair play over Canada's Great West. Faithful to the camaraderie displayed by those com- posing the ill-fated patrol, the members of the force de- termined upon the erection of a suitable memorial to their lost comrades. This took the form of a bronze me- morial tablet, mounted on a marble slab, the whole being placed on the wall of the headquarters ohapel at Regina, Saskatchewan. The formal unveiling ceremonies were performed at the morning service on Sunday, December 29th, by Lieut. - Gov. Brown of Saskatchewan, Commissioner A. B. Perry briefly referring to the event which the tablet commemor- ated, as one of the saddest and most tragic in the an- nals of the force. The tablet, which is 281/2x44 inches in size, bears as its chief decoration the police' coat -of -arms, so familiar throughout the Northwest. It is the work of a Toronto sculptor, Mr. A. J. Clark, and is inscribed as is shown. in the out, THE WORLD'S STORIES. Tinte May Come When Cinenrato- graph Will be in Every douse. Sir Hubert . von Herkomer, of London, England, draws a. striking ,picture of the future of the cinema- tograph in a letter he has written on the subject of the censorship of films exhibited in public. "The cinematograph has already shown itself to be a potent factor in daily life," he says, "and possibly the day will come when one film. will take up form, color, and sound and reproduce al,l these simultaneously; when a oiuematograph will be laid in every home as your gas or elec- tricity is now laid; when the world's eteries will be brought to you in pictorial and thematic form such as one has not yet dreamed of ; every child will be taught geogra- phy, natural history, and botany by screen pictures rather than by books; actors wind singers be ,re- corded for all time; rate progress of any great engineering feat be re- corded accurately; in short, the feature will be made of recorded facts. - "I will not venture to say it is all for the good of mankind; but man is getting more aid more subjec- tive, and his inventive faculties lean altogether that way:." Sir Hubert von Herlkorner oon:sid- ers that with the public rests the question whether the cinemato- graph can be made one of the greatest powers for geed so fer. placed in the hands of men. "Before it can attain its full de- velem/mut," he concludes, "the strong prejudice still existing among middle-class people must be overt -one." London's Motor Vehicles. The number of motor vehicles new in use im London, England far exceeds the total number of horse -dawn oonveyanees of all kinds. Aeeording to statistics se- eenily published by The Power Wagon, there are 66 to 00 automo- biles to every horse ether carriage. togtor--"You admit that I cured you of insomnia, Then why clon't yoir pay my bill!" Patient—"Sorry, doctor; but I sleep so soundly now that my wife goes through my pook- ets at nights and takes every penny." B:1.CK. FRO)I WAR HOSPITALS. Doctors and Nurses of England )s- tablish Great Record. The doctors and nurses of the Vramen's Sick and Wounded Con- voy Corps have returned to Lon- don, England, from their three months service at Kirk Kilissoh. Their service establishes a reoord. They got together and maintained a hospital by 4theanseiv.es without any man's assistance and the efficient way they carried the work through earned the admiration of thee au tho�ities. • Within forty-eight hours of their arrival at Kirk Kilisseh they re- ceived the first batch of patients, fifty wounded men from Tehataldja. Seven hundred men in all were re- ceived. Officers were ti+eater in the Bulgarian hospital, fine, decent men ;'ohivalrous, grateful and boy- ish, pleased with their treatment. Their marvellous recuperative pewee's, shown 00 many occasions by the rapid healing 61 long ne- glected gangre,uous wounds, Mrs. Stobart ascribes to: the,simplicity of their lives, plain fare and their gen- erally high standard of morality. Considering the rough hospital ar- ramgements and the bad sanitation it is amazing that only one patient died. The corps had reason to be thank- ful for its .earlier training, for in- genuity was demanded of all de- partments, and not least in the kit- chen. The 000lcs had even to akin and dismember the •ess'easses of bullocks' and sheep with which they were supplied and everything had to be ,smothered with rid pepper to please the taste of grateful pa- tients. syttoation for Every .Horse. Every horse in the employ of Philadelphia, is to have a two weeks' vacation this summer at the expense of the boatel of manage% of the Byers' Infirmary for Dumb Animals, It will cost $1,500 bo give the 80 polies and fire horses this rest. The board has appropriated the money and appointed a commit- tee to take the details of working out of a system whereby the horses can be spared from their work, The society has figured that the horses are entitled to a vacation juet as touch as the polioenten acid firemen. r"l !!.'",11V+.! �e ' err 9•' s r rpt ^' ,41 INT1'.ii'i 4110N l:L LESSON, FEBRUARY 10. Lesson VII, 'i'he fedi. of .Abram, Gen. 12, 1 9, Golden test, Urn, 2, Verse 1. NTow Jeh0142::th said unto Abrams- These words give the se- quel of the last verses of the pre- ceding chapter, the country which Abram is commanded to leave be- ing not Ur, but Haran, Just how God :write to Abram we are not told. His voice is to be thought uf, however, nut as something exter- nal, but rather as heard within Abram', inmost. soul. Get thee out of—Depart from. Thy country . . thy kiecired — Ah'.'am was to leave beth his Mime tied his reletivev. This to sever his fancily ties and warnd,r forth into tui unknuwn land was no small demand or test of faith. 2. The promise, however, is es great as the requirement. In this unknown land to which he is com- manded to go Abram is to become a great nation and an example and a blessing to many nations. Be thou a blessing—Aecnrdingto the Hebrew idiom, the irnpersuna- tion of blessing, must blessed (com- pare Psa. 21. 0; Iso. 19. 24; Zech. 8. 13). 3. I will bless them that bless thee—Thus indirectly will Abram become 'a source of blessedness to others, who will be blessed with prosperity or visited with misfor- tune according as they are friendly or unfriendly to him. In thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed—A promise re- peated to Abram in Gen. 18, 18, and again to Jacob, Gen. 28. 14. The simplest interpretation is that all nations shall be blessed through the revelation given to Israel, a promise fulfilled in the later ex- tension of the religious ideals of Abram and his descendants to the Gentiles. The Hebrew, however, permits of another rendering and interpretation, according to which the sense of the verb translated "be blessed" becomes reflexive, "bless themselves." The rendering would then become "All families of the earth shall bless themselves by thee," that is, in blessing them- selves they will use thy name as a type of supreme blessedness and wish for themselves the blessings recognized to be the special pos- session of thy descendants. Ac- cording to the first interpretation, Israel is to become the organ or channel through which great bless- ings are to be communicated ulti- mately to the world; according to the second, the great blessings which Jehovah will bestow upon Israel will attract the attention of other nations and awaken in them a longing to participate in these blessings. In either case the pro- mise remains is the wider sense of the term a Messianic promise. 4. Lot—Son of Haran and nephew of Abram. The story of his life will be found in this and the two succeeding chapters of Genesis. In character, a strong contrast to Abram in that he was selfish, weak, and worldly, though relatively, in comparison with Ma heathen neigh- bors,•he was still accounted "righte- ous," his personal character being sufficiently free from reproach to render him in the sight of God worthy of special deliverance. He stands in the Bible narrative as a trope of men who think too exclu- sively of worldly advantage and present ease. Haran—The name both of a city and of a district in the northwest- ern part of Mesopotamia un a tri- butary of the Euphrates. A long range of mounds still marks the. site of the ancient city. On the slope of one of these mounds there is a^ modern village of small huts, and near by the ruins of a very ancient castle or fortress, The city of Haran is mentioned in some of the Assy4'ian insoriptions recent- ly brought to light, On one of these Sargon, king of Assyria, boasts that "he spread out his sha- dow over the city of Haran, and as a soldier of Anu and Dagon wrote its laws," Sennacherib also men- tions Haran las having been de- stroyed by his predecessors. The city of Haran still flourished under the Romans and its inhabitants were among the last to give up the Chaldaean• language and the wor- ship of Chaldaean deities. 5. All their substance—Consist ing principally of cattle, sheep, and horses; clothing, silver, and gold; and Household possessions, The souls that they had gotten— 'Including children, servants and slaves. A little later Abram is said to have had 318 trained servants (Gen. 14. 14). It was, therefore, quite a company or 'tribe which mi- grated westward under the leader- ship of Abram, Canaan—The name "Canaan" 10 derived from a root meaning to bow down, and signifies "lowlands," It was at first applied only to the coast region of Palestine; later and secondarily to the Jordan valley; r ONCII HOME OF MARY TLTI)OR. and finally it came to be applied to the whale country, looluding the' An Old -bene Ducal Pained UneoYere mountainous districts as well as the cd In a ititrenge Way. lowlands. Whiles ourilinnally growing on theFs. Sheehem- A ioenlity and later outskirts inter startling newness, a .sty in Palestine, situated between Lgndee stlii holds undivulged. myee Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim teries hidden in 118 ancient gimes west of the Jordan in the territory ; tem Strange accidents, however, allotted to Ephraim, some distance are frequently bringing.to light uti- north of Jerusalem. One meaning suspected 1,0111,410011 in stone, and o1 the name i3"'addle" or "shuui- indications of the storied past. der," and the name of the city may The district of Southwark, well therefore well have beet derived known because of its flee .Oki 'cathes.- drat and its memories of Charles Dickens, has lately given another pieturesque secret to the world. A shoeblaek died suddenly in a. deme ,non lodging -house. The coroner startled the members of the jury by Demouneiug to them the intense interest of the quaint old plea* where the shoeblack died. This was the "Farm 'House," A strange title for a residence now peeked away and hidden amid tones of sordid bricks and mortar. To fltrd it is like lcukiag for a needle in a haystack, Only by dint of per- tinacious search iia the neighbor- hood of the site of the old Mar- shalsea prison is the Farm House reached. Passing through a slit o4 brickwork rather than a lane, you come across what is probably the only relic of Suffolk liuuse, a nota- ble mansion in Henry VJII.'s day. Tho ever -open door is heavy and panelled and has twin knockers. Over the doorway there are richly carved eerbels, through which ele- gant Jacobean dames and gentle- men used to pass. Now tramps go through it to their six -cents -a -night latter place and the Jordan valley. beds. The whole house is oak pan - Apparently a city of importance at elled from top to bottom, and the the time of the Conquest of Pales- original balusters remain. Faded tine by the Hebrews (compare Joshua 7). 9. Journeyed—By easy stages, as is customary in Palestine. The word in the original means literal- ly to pluck up, that is, to move the tent or camp. Toward the South—Literally, the Negeb, the name given to the southern tract of Judah, a restrict- ed district lying between the hill country about Hebron and the wil- derness of the Sinaitic peninsula. front its location on the saddlelike vale between the tw•o mountains. Another suggesrw.,n is that the place resolved its name from Mech- em, the son of Hamer, the Hivite, prince of the land (Gen. 33. 18, 19). The former suggestion, however, seems the more probable. Oak of Moreh--The reference ap- pears to be to a sacred tree, the word "Moreh" tuning from "Horah," the word used regularly of the authoritative direction given by the priests. The word trauslat- eat "oak" is rendered in the mar- gin of the Revised Version Tere- binth. The tree, which is rine re- sembling the oak, is still common in Palestine, as is also the oak pro- per. Canaanite—Lowlander. 8. Beth-el—The ancient Luz, in- timately connected with the his- tory of the patriarchs. Tu be iden- tified with the modern Beitin, about twelve miles north of Jerusalem. Ai—The name means "heat." The location of Moreh was a little more than two miles southeast of Beth -el, •rr the road between the VIOLIN CURE FOR BALI) HEAD Brass Instruments Fatal to hair, Says Henri do Par'ville. "If you are bald, learn the. vio- lin," 18 rthe moral ire be drawn from a startling statement made by M. Henri de Pasville, of Paris, France. According to this authori- ty mirsio exercises a m,anifost no- tion upon the nervous system which itself oleo affects the nutrition of the bodily tissues; therefore it seems reasonable to conclude that in a general way music has a.n in- fluence upon the physiological in- dividuality. Musicians, it appears, are bald in the proportion of 11 per cent„ but among instruanentalists the influ- ence of musical vibrations makes itself felt in two opposite directions, according to the class of instru- ment. Thus, while string instruments prevent and arrest the falling off of the hair the brass instruments exercise the moat deadly influence upon the scalp. The piano and the violin, especially the former, have an undeniably preservative effect. The trombone, however, is the most deleterious of ell, for in five or six years the player has lost at least 60 per cent. of .his hair. This disagreeable result is known as "Pam -fame baldness," because the evil pantdoulasly punishes regimen- tal rnusicaahs. 8' Bird Tribunals. Ravens, starlings and crows are believed to hold courts of justice to mete out punishment to offenders. Sometimes they assemble in great numbers as if they would give great dignity to the occasion. The trial eumctimes apparently endures for many days. Some birds' sit at the conclave with lowered heads, some merely cocks their heads on the branches and look grave, while others are most garrulous and 511 the air with their complaints. Naturalists etudyiug these strange proceedings have seen au apparent- ly selected number of birds fall upon one or more of their number —at the close of the "trial" --and put then to death, after which they dispersed in orderly fashion and went Meek quietly to their nests,— Harper's Weekly, ' 10 - Marriage Lottery Held. At Smolensk, Russia, the annual marriage ' lottery recently tock plane and was remarkably success- ful financially, The young girl who was to be the prize wen ohosen by the municipal council ten days bo - fore the lote were drawn, and the ticket holders at once visited her house to make her aequaintamee. `Five thousand one -rouble tickets were sold,, and the money, which would have been egnall,y divided be- tween the prize and its winner had, she retireed hioa, its she grad the right to do, was, as is customary, presented to the ehung couple as a wed:ling gift. paintings are shown y-•ou in the domain. In the ground floor is a handsome carved overmantel with foliage and flowers. Tlie authorities contend that the Farm House was built about 1518 by Charles Brandon, Duke of Suf- folk, as part of the palace for his royal bride, Mary Tudor. After several vicissitudes, it was partially pulled down and small cottages were built on its site. In oouree of Hine it became the haunt of °einers and .small debtors, who shielded themselves under the right of sanc- tuary supposed to be conferred by the fact that it was once the site of '• a royal residence. d+ SKIN HAS 2,000,000 PORES. • Some Other Remarkable Facts About the Body. The skin contains more than two million openings, which are the outlets of an equal number of sweat glands. The human skeleton eon - gists of more than two hundred dis- tinct bones. An amount of blood equal to the - whole quantity of the body passes through the heart once every min-_„ • uta, The full capacity of the lunge is about 320 cubic inches. About two-thirds of a pint of air is inhaled and exhaled act each breath in ordi- nary respiration. There are said to be more than five hundred separate muscles iri the body, with an equal number of nerves and blood ves- sels. The weight of the heart is from eight to twelve ounces. It beats 100,000 times in twenty-four hours. Each perepiratory duct is one- fourth of an inch in length, the ag- gregate of the whole being thus about nine miles. The average man takes five and a half pounds of food and drink each day, which amounts to nearly one ton of solid and liquid no•urishmeet annually. A man breathes eighteen Mimes in a minute, or from 36 to 400 cable feet of air every day of his existence. FIRE DOOR SHUTS SELF. This Type of Door Preferred for Factories. The eon trnetion of a fire door and its installation may be stair dead in every way, but for the door to be of service it most be closed at the time of fire. As employes of a plant cannot always be depended upon to close the doors that may be left open during the operation of the plant, because of panic or other reasons, fire doors should bo either self-closing or automatic. A self-closing door is one which closes by itself as soon 58 a person has passed through. This door is ane- molly always closed and never should be allowed to beblocked open.. The .automatic type is held open by means of , a weight or catch, which has connected with,it a series of fuelb]•e links, In case. of fire dile solider on one or more of ,the fumble links molts from tiro' heat, releases the weight oe oartoh and the door closes; automatioally. This type of door .should be employ- ed wherever it is necessary for the door to be kept open at times, but otherwise the "self-closing• door is preferable, • 11 Some men make the mistake of thinking that experience doesn't know what it's talking about. Maud --"I wasn't award that you knew Mr, Jones. Where did: you meet him?" Kate•—"Oh, I fart in withhim while skating!"