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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1913-5-1, Page 3Dainty Diel+ee, Mayonnaise Dreesing.—Use ono - half cup of sugar,- tablespoonful of flour, teaspounful of salt, one tea- spoonful of mustard, mix thorough- ly, stir in one egg and add ono cupful of milk, then pour this mix - lure into two-thirds of a cup of boiling vinegar, stir constantly while cooking, Angel Food Cake.—Ono cup bread flour, ono and three-quarters cups sugar, twelve eggs, one tea- spoon cream of tartar, three-quar- ters teaspoon lemon, throe -quarters teaapuon vanilla, one-quarter tea- apoun salt. Sift flour and sugar to- gether. Acid cream of tartar either to the flour or to the white of egg, Fold into the stiffly beaten whites half of the flour at a time. Add flavoring, and bake in an oven hot enough so that cake will be done in £rem twenty-five to thirty min- utes. This makes a cake which is not bready Foamy Omelet.—Four eggs, four tablespoons milk, one-fourth tea- spoon salt, speck of pepper. Mix beaten yolks with milk and season- ing; fold into this the stiffly beaten whites. Pour into a hot skillet in which a little fat has been melted. Cook with a very low fire until brown on the underside. Dry in an oven which has been heated, but in which there is no fire. Cream of Tomato Soup.—Four cups tomato, two tablespoons but- ter, four tablespoons flour, three- fourths teaspoon salt, one-eighth teaspoon pepper, few drops onion juice, whipped cream. Cook toma- toes with the salt, pepper and on- ion. Strain and thicken with flour and fat mixed together, Serve with a teaspoon of whipped cream on top. A. half pint of cream will, when whipped, give one pint. Cooked Salad Dressing.—Two tablespoons flour, two tablespoons sugar, two yolks of eggs, one-fourth cup of water, two tablespoons of vinegar, one-fourth to one -,half tea- spoon mustard, three-fourths tea- spoon of salt, two tablespoons of olive oil. This dressing may be made for about 12 cents a pound. It may be thinned with cream, milk or beaten egg whites. If put into a sterilized glass jar and sealed it will keep for weeks, so that when yolks are at hand it may be made. If eggs are expensive one yolk may be used and three tablespoons of flour. This makes a. rich, creamy dressing unobjectionable to those who dislike oil, and at the same time pleasing to those who do like oil. Method of Cooking—In mak- ing small quantities of this when the time, of cooking is very short, all of the materials may be put to-• gether and cooked over a low fire. This quantity makes about one-half cup of dressing. Bcceipes for Sweets. Cream Peppermints—Make a stiff paste of a pound of sugar with four tablespoons of water, put over the fire, and leave it there until it just reaches the boiling point. Take it off the moment it begine to bubble, stir until it cools partially, and a few drops of essence of peppermint —enough to suit the taste and drop the candy from a teaspoon on waxed paper, allowing enough to each portion to make a round the size of a penny. Care and piac- tice will be required to get the skill to make the candies of uniform size. Set them in a moderately warm place until firm. Chocolate Wafers.—Melt the sugar as directed in the preceding recipe. Heat in another vessel, set in boiling water, four tablespoons of grated chocolate ; add this to the sugar when the stage is reached to take ib from the fire, and drop the wafers on the paper, as in the ogee of the peppermints. Household Notes. The best time to begin the spring housecleaning is after the furnace fires are out. Apples and pears should always Le wiped with a clean cloth and then rinsed under the tap before using for dessert. To keep the light of oil lamps clear, the burners should be boiled every month in water with a lump of 'soda in it. Always cover newly baked bread with a clean clobh—preferably ati old table cloth--tokeep it free from germsand dust'. The white of an egg, whipped stiff, with a ripe banana, makes a delicious cream to be eaten on a simple gelatin pudding. Apples can be stewed with a lit tis left over canned £reit, such as blackberries, and the result will he a pleasant change. Sash curtains of Swiss muslin, hemmed by hand aro less likely to than when tun pucker when washed up on the machine. s of fat left ,From a the stri All t n steak should be left in a dish and tried out in the. oven. They will make excellent fab for frying, It pays ties housekeeper to get expected you, too," the best bedsprings and mattresses in the market, even if she has to economize somewhere else, Large patterns in table cloths ace lees economical than small ones, for the simple reason that the lung threads break sooner than the short ones. In pressing silk or satin, do not use a very hob iron nor dampen them. Lay Bane clean, dry mus- lin over the seams and press with a warm iron. A left -over dab of mashed pota- toes can be made into a cupful of gond soup with the addition of milk, a bit of butter and some celery salt, Old rubberized raincoats can be cup up to make cases fur rubbers or slippers. Also to cover the clothes basket when laundry is sent away from home. It is always better to trim the selvedge from material before mak- ing into pillow cases. The oases will be much smoother, nut wrink- ling along the seams. Wear a sewing apron while iron- ing and you will often find it pos- sible to do a bit of mending while waiting for the iron to heat. To prevent the window shade from flapping when the window is .lowered, place an extra set of catches for the shade about a foot lower than the regular place. Try wiping a greasy frying pan with a piece of newspaper before washing it, Much of the grease will wipe off and can bo burned, thereby saving soap and labor. When sharp knives are kept with other articles in kitchen drawer each blade should be protected with a sheath, which may be easily made THE MAIAGFM[ T, OF ROADS A FEW SUtiUESTIONS FOR IIIGIIVi'A,Y DEVELOPMENT. A. Radieel Change Will Be Neees- nary in Methods of Manage - meta Now Prevalent. The best system of real building is that which will 'get the greatest mileage of standard roads built at the least cost. Af course, cost is largely a matter of the availability of material and labor and of the nature of the road constructed, but the cheapest road is the one that in the end will last the longestand at present the ' system of road im- provement most needed in Ontario is that which will build permanent roads rapidly and cheaply. Provincial assistance will ger a long way towards providing a broad plan of highway development and towards assisting financially in the construction of the main roads, but ib will of necessity remain to each municipality to provide the executive machinery and the train- ing and experience necessary to carry out the details of its share of the general scheme. If the whole road system of the Province is to be systematically and effectively overhauled, a radical change will be necessary in the methods of man- agement so ,prevalent at present. During the Past Two Decades in paper. Ontario has spent over $30,000,000 from heavy wrapping g P p in cash and statute labor on its Sandwiches prepared in advancs township roads. This expenditure, of serving time can be kept as fresh as when made by wrapping them in a napkin wrung out of hot water, then placing them in a cool place. During the canning season many women stand for hours stirring the fruit to prevent it from burning. If the preserving kettle is placed in a pan of boiling water it can cook all day without burning. A convenience in the kitchen is a set of kitchen knives, including four knives, one for onions, one for parsley, one for lemons and the fourth for vegetables. On the han- dle of each knife is distinctly let- tered the article for which the knife is to be used. If you wish boiled potatoes to look pretty, peel large potatoes and cut balls out of them with the help of a potato scoop. Cook in boiling salted water for ten minutes, drain and pour over them a little melted butter, then roll in minced parsley and sprinkle with salt' and pepper. 0� CANARY VOICE CULTURE. Time Required for Instruction Varies From Two to Six iLLonths. The development of singing ca- naries to meet the European de- mand has resulted in the establish- ment of schools for young birds where the feathered singers receive an early course in voice culture. The natural musical aptitude of canaries, says the Scientific Ameri- can, varies as much as that of hu- man pupils. Some birds never learn more than a few notes. The musical training of canary - birds is conducted by means of a bird -whistle or a flageolet. A fort- night after the young bird has learned to feed itself, it is put into a cage by itself, where it soon be- gins to warble if it is a male. The cage is then covered with white muslin, and its occupant is fed on colza seed and bread soaked in water. During the first week of isolation, the bird is notallowed to hear the song of any other bird, and during the second week a few notes of mecliuni, - pitch are played each morning before the cage. After this, an experienced canary -breed- er advises that the cage be covered with very thick green or red serge. The bird is thus kept in darkness until it has learned a few short musical phrases. Ab Anclreasberg, and the neigh- boring villages of the Hartz Moun- tains in Germany, where the best singing canaries are trained, ex- cellent results are Obtained by keeping several young birds to- gether, and taking care that they do not hear the chattering of gold- finches, linnets, or other inferior songsters. After, a few months, the young canaries that have shown the highest musical talent are put with a very fine -singing canary, and con- fided .to his tuition for two years, Sometimes they take the pupil from the teacher in the first autumn, and after ten months' rest and the next season's molt, send hien back for a few weeks to refresh his musical memory. Very good ' singers, aro educated in this Way: Canary -birds have very sensitive threats, and must be carefully pro- tected from drafts'; evert a slight hoarseness may result in pennan_ out loss of voice. It makes some girls awfully tired .to do anything but go visiting, 141ike—Why do Aim false ayes_ be made of glass, new'? ;Prot—Slitom, an how. else could theyy see throo iout i k -head M1 a th a r y. "Are your father and mother in, lvcbbie4" "N'o.'' "hen can I see your sister.?" "Not in. She however, was largely in the hands of inexperienced men, and the work undertaken was in consequence of- ten in the way of experiment. The result is ,that little work of a perma- nent nature is to be found. In the early days, of course, when the country was in a. disorganized con- dition, no elaborate system of road management could have been main- tained, but modern conditions are making ever-increasing demands on the highways and the establishment of more efficient and less wasteful methods of construction and main- tenance has become imperative. In a number of districts improve- ments has been effected by comnnit- ing statute labor at from fifty cents to one dollar per day. The town- ship is divided into districts of about 15,000 to 20,000 acres and a commissioner is placed in charge of each district and made directly ac - 'countable to the council for the work performed. He is responsi- ble for the, task of keeping the roads open in winter, of attending to all repairs and of superintending the construction of new stretches of load. A still ,better system, of manage- ment and one whose geed results have been proven by experience consists in abolishing statute labor altogether and putting the road system on a straight money basis. A superintendent of roads and bridges is appointed for the town- ship ; his position is a permanent 'ane and he is paid a yearly salary. It has been estimated that an able superintendent could save at least twenty per -cent. of the road and bridge payments of any township in Ontario and lois salary could there- fore be based on his ability Supervision of Work. • Under this system of management it rests with .the council to outline the roads and bridges to be con- structed during the year. The su- pervision of the work, however, is left entirely in the hands of the superintendent. Stroh a system is a saving not only to the finances of the township but also to the work Of the councillors, and it enables the municipality to. Gerry on under continuous management a consis- tent plan of road development. A few of the leading features of such a •system of ananagement may be tabulated as follows : 1. That the superintendent be re- sponsible directly to the council and to no one else. 2. That the functions of the super- intendent be that of an executive officer carrying out the instructions of the council. 3. That the functions of the coun- cil be legislative only, and that the actual work be left entirely with the superintendent. 4. That the roads receive continu- ous attention throughout the year, overseers covering fixed heats being appointed subject to the direction of the superintendent. 5. That an accurate method of keeping accounts for labor tied ma- terial lie installed. As the .success of this system will in ,a large measure be dependent upon the way in which the gager or superintendent fills his position, 'the duties of his office should -be set forth in some detail and authorized by a resolution of the council, Superintendent's Duties. Under such a resolution the su- perintendent should be required 1. To attend meetings of the teen,- ail, reporting as to the work in.pro- gress and recoiving instructions re- garding work to bo undertaken. 2, To report to the oouecll early each year the work required for the corning sceson. "THE WIDOW," As the guillotine is called in France. "A horrible way of sending people to Eternity." 3. To supervise all work of con- struction and repairs on roads and bridges within his division. 4. To acquaint himself with the equipment of the municipality and the beet methods of construction and maintenance. 5. To employ foremen and inspec- tors for necessary work, these to be subjcob to dismissal or suspension by Lion at any time, and such dis- missal to be reported forthwith to the council. 6. To employ and discharge all necessary men and teams -and pur- chase materials. 7. To give immediate attention to all cases of emergency or unfore- seen damage. 8. To keep an accurate record of the men employed and the work done and to furnish (on forms pre- scribed by the council) pay sheets, accounts and vouchers to the coun- cil or road committee at proper in- tervals for their approval,, in order that the municipal treasurer, under authority of their certificate, • and upon being satisfied with the cor- rectness of tate statement, may is- sue cheques for the payment there- of. 9. To examine and certify all bills or accounts against the eonpera- tion for material and labor, and to make or to cause to be made, the surveys, measurements and exami- nations necessary ler such purpose. 10. To have the custody of, and to .be responsible for, all such plans and estimates as may from time to time be prepared for the use of the municipality. To keep a "Plan Book," which will contain a list of all plans, profiles and drawings in his custody; no plan to be allowed to go out of his oifrce until al receipt for the same has been signed by the person to whom it is given. 11. To prepare (if a civil engi- neer) plans for bridges, supervise the performance of all work done. by contract, and certify as to com- pletion, - A township has been compared to a jointstock company, with the Reeve and the councillors as presi- dent and directors and the rate- payers as stock holders. Carrying out this analogy it shoukd be the duty of the oounoillors as directors to insist so far as they are able on the employment of business meth- ods in road management. �p Danger in Petting Horses. Horses are petted as much as dogs or eats, and many people will oven caress sbrange horses in the street. A disease that is rather common to horses is glanders, one of the most terrible diseases man can catch. It Las a far worse effect on human beings than it has on horses, literally eating away the jaws and throat, and even the bones. Glanders in human beings, in fact, is worse than caner, and nearly always fatal. A horse euffer i.ng from glanders sneezes at infer vale and scatters the germs all round. The disease spreads very rapidly, Inspectors of State Table. Be£ese the big semi-official din- ners which the King gives at Buck- ingham, rPelaco bhe table *le State dtnxng-ioom is always in- speofeid by the Palate "upholster - ors," whose duty it is to .see that this special pinto of furniture is At to boar its burden. Tho enormous weight of the Royal plate fenders li . It this preliminary y necetsar y is said to havebeeninstituted after a supper table had collapsed at a, tout given by George III. DOMINION FORESTS. How the Federal Forest Reserves Are Being Developed. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON IN'I'LRNATION.AL LESSON, MAY I. Lessen V. — Joseph interprets dreams, Gen. chap. 10. Golden text, Job 32. f. Verses 0, 10. Chief butler --- Cup - bearer to the king. A vine was before me --Ls his dream the king's eup-bears s sees the whole process of wine malting transpire 'before his oyes in a few moments of time. It was as though the branches of the vine budded, and as though their blos- soms shot forth, and these in turn grew and brought forth ripe grapes. Verse 11. Pressed them into Pharaoh's cup --The usualinterpre- tatiou given' to this 'verse would lead us to think of unfermented grape -juice, refreshing and as highly prized in ancient Egypt as it is in America to -day, But if we follow the suggestion given in the preceding paragraph in connection with verses 9 and 10, we can im- agine the drama enacted in the vis- ion, to include the transformat'.un of the graps-juice into wine before the cup is given into Pilate Ch's hand. It is well known that fer- mented wine was a common bever- age among many ancient peoples, including both Hebrews and the Egyptians. 13, Lift up thy head—Reinstate thee in office; do thee honor. Com- pare 2 Kings 28. 27: "Evil-merod- ach, king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, did lift up the head of Jehoiachin, king of Ju- dah, out of prison." 14. But have me in remembrance —Do not forget a friend who is suf- fering unjust imprisonment when thou are again in a position to show kindness. The Dominion Forest Service has Bring me out of this house — progressed farther than any other Bring about my release from im- service in Canada in the laying out of forest reserves and providing for their proper administration. Six- teen million acres have been defi- nitely set apart by Act of Parlia- ment to be administered as forest reserves. Additional areas are be- ing exaniined each year, and soma six million acres additional are now under temporary reservation and will shortly bo added to the re- serves set apart by statute. The mere setting apart of reserves, though an important step, is only a preliminary one. Although, un- fortimately, in some cases it has not been realized that anything fur- ther is neceseary, this mistake has nob been made in the federal ad- ministration. The reserves have been organ- ized by appointing an inspector in charge for each of the western pro- vinces. The inspectors selected are men who have had a thorough technical training in forestry and who have shown good administra- tive ability. In each of the inspec- tion districts the reserves areas are laid out iu units or forests, each under charge of a technically train- ed man or a man experienced in timber . administration. Twelve such divisions have already eben established, and others are being organized and manned with forest rangers as the development of the reserves and the fire danger may render necessary.' These divisions do not include patrol outside of forest reserves on the large area of forest not included therein. In sump areas there are in addition" twelve patrol divisions each under charge ()Use chief fire -ranger. On each of the forests houses have been erected for the forest rangers so that they may be close to their work and give it careful supervision. At different points throughout the forest, huts have been emoted as headquarters for summer patrols and in some of tho more inaccessible districts. 470 miles of trails and,.•roacis have been constructed so as to make the re- serves more' accessible. 10 bridges have been constructed, and- 100 miles of telephone have been put in operation. A much enlarged pro- gramme of such improvement work has been laid out for the owning year. A conference of the Inspectors was recently held at Ottawa to plan the work for the coming season, and the construction work on the reserves will, be pushed as rapidly as possible so as to have the re- serves made immune from fire, as they are in Europe, in the shortest possible time. The Habit of Unhappiness. Most =happy people have be- come so by gradually forming a ha- bit of unhappiness, conxplaining about the weather, finding fault With their food, with crowded wi C . l#altioil,fs`'dr week., .t - laining, of criticizing, io1 finding or grumbling over tri habit of looking for lsedows most unfortunate habit ftcon especially in early life, for, a w while the 'vioti�m� baernue R: slave. a All of the impulses become per- verted, re verted until a tendencyto pessi- mism, or to quietens*, la c,'hrgn,10. ya ri� r b er at prisonment and slavery and my restoration to deserved freedom. 15. Stolen away—And therefore not lawfully a prisoner or slave. 16. Three baskets of white bread —The meaning of the word trans- lated "white bread" is uncertain. Various earlier translations of the Hebrew contain different render- ings, such as "baskets of palm branches," "wicker -work baskets," and "all manner of baked food," that is, baker's goods, such as pastry. cakes, bread, etc. 17, In the uppermost basket — The presence of all manner of baked food in this basket does not har- monize with the statement that there was white bread in all three baskets. (Compare comment on preceding verse.) If we were to substitute in verse 16 the transla- tion "three baskets of palm branches" or "three wicker -work baskets," then the two lower bas- kets might be thought of as being empty, so that when the birds had devoured the contents of the up- permost basket there was nothing left for the chief baker to serve to the king. The baker experiences the helplessness so common in dreams and is not able to frighten away the birds, 19. Pharaoh shall lift up thy head—The interpretation of the dream begins exactly like the in- terpretation of the butler's dream. Three momentous words are, how- ever, added—from off thee. These change the interpretation from one of promise to one of dooin. Hang thee on a tree—To expose the dead body of a malefactor was to increase the degree of punish- ment. The binds shall eat thy flesh— The Egyptians believed that the preservation of the body as a mummy was essential to a person's immortality. The dire punishment predicted thus added indignity to punishment, and yet severer pun- ishment to indignity, 20, Pharaoh's birthday—An oc- casion for national rejoicing among the ancients was the birthday of their king. There are evidences that in Egypt it was customary to celebrate the birthday of the reign- ing Pharaoh with great formalities, including religious ceremonies and the granting of pardons to many prisoners. Both the chief butler and the chief baker ars summoned from prison, the one to be restored to his former office, the other to be executed, 22. As Joseph had interpreted to them --Both dreams bad come true, even as Joseph hoed foretold. 23; Yet 'did not the chief butler remember Joseph—The request of the fellow prisoner is entirely for- gotten amid the old surroundings of prosperity and power. Pollee WeoarbTop^VVatts, Savories, Italy, is probably' the ie tlty townt eain the, }v rld ytbere ppo- lioemieii copl hats. Onecannel help wondering what the polpolka- Men's's "to pors�' look like efteir the o eeP�p, tai hadr641and Wuin- le Aglxf with hooligans. leerhaps, . owt vor Savanna liras up to the e evxil oerespeotability indicated by the silk has and does not possess Hooligans, k NEWS FROM SUNSET COAST WHAT THE WESTERN PEOPL]IT ARE DOINGo Progress of ilio Great Weet TOW. in u Few Pointed Paragraphs. Two schools are to be erected in Port Coquitlam 'at a wet of $30,- 000. Farmers in Lulu Island may co- operate fur the marketing of their eggs. It is proposed to pass a by-law in Victoria limiting the height of, buildings to ten stories. A resident of Maple Ridge was fined $150 at Port. Haney for an in- fraction of the auto by-law. No attempt will be made to do any great amount of improvement in Port Moody this year, says the Mayor. Representations have been made to South Vancouver council to give preference to Britishers for posi- tione, It is expected that the new pro- vincial voters' lists in Victoria will run to between 10,000 and 11,000 names.. Thirteen Chinese and six Japan- ese were fined $50 and $20 each re- spectively at New Westminster Inc gambling. A four-year-old child died sud- denly at Cranbrook after being given a teaspoonful of carbolic acid in mistake for medicine. It is reported that the Dominion Government has arranged for the purchase of a site for a new mill- tary drill hall in Vancouver at a cost of $200,000, Constable Gibbs had a desperate encounter at Kamloops with two armed burglars, one of whom was .. arrested and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. The Kitsilano Indian revenue has been taken over by the Domin- ion Government, Twenty Indians disposed of their rights for eleven thousand dollars each. Another important industry is about to be established in South Vancouver and a large factory will be constructed for the manufacture of telephones and light fixtures. The agreement between the G. N. R. and Vancouver city council is complete, and the company pro- mise that the bridges in the city will be the widest in the world. Vancouver has lately been visit- ed by many railway men enquiring into the potentialities of British Co- lunibia as a traffic -producing area, and especially as a centre for tran- sit travel. 011ie Armstrong, of South Van- couver, while on a fishing expedi- tion, was seized with a fit, and pitching heacl first into the small creek near the bridge at Lynn, was killed almost instantly. Much gold mining is being car-, ried out on Glacier and Miller Creeks in the Yukon district, fifty miles west of Dawson. The roads are improving, but heavy expendi- ture will have to be undertaken to make them more passable. Patience G1vee Out. Scene—A Police Court. Solici• - tor—"Do you know the prisoner well I" Witness—"Never knew him ill, sir." S.—"But did you ever see the prisoner at the bar?" W,—"Yes, sir; end took a glass with him once or twice." S.—"Then how long have you known this man?" • W,—"From 2 feet up to 5 feet 10 inches." S. (petulantly)—"Stand down I" W. (cheerfully)—"Can't I I can only stand up—or sit down I" 5 Getting It Straight. He—"So you have decided that you cannot marry me," •She—"You are mistaken. I knew all along that I could marry you; what I've decided is that you can- not marry me." No Debate Admissible. Gibbs—"I never argue with my wife." Dibbs—"Same here. I always plead guilty and take a light tieri- tence." Knew Ilfnt. His Wife --Jerry, you're Lateto dinner again, What kept you? Me Medlar ---I had some busi- ness to look after, His Wife—O, I know that -- but whose business? 1-laepy is the young than who loses the first time he gambles. Many a man who weighs his words uses crooked scales, Things-i�p! n,_1; ,t1,ongg y "" I i is right do ib bobdW halves. F 'b g ;� if it is wrong leave it ureloite, Ever da le a little life, itnd our whole life is but a d,r e ea, ia+,1 .�� .�: cirri. __ .�t Bookkeeper er Co a x lr.. ' m ( get . �hlrn going to married," atom: ill, g g Grctroh-"(Aad to hear it! You won't be so terribly annus to got home early now ("