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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1913-8-14, Page 7SeN oted, :Recipes. Cream Dressing foe 1 reit Salad— One teaspoon salt, one-half table- spoon mustard, three tablespoons sugar, three-quarters cup cram, four egg yolks, five tablespoons mel- ted butter, three-quarter cup cream one quarter cup lemon juice. Mix first seven ingredients together. Cook in a double boiler, stirring constantly. When the mixture be- gins to thicken, add lemon juice slowly. Brown Br'eail-Two cups sour milk, one egg, one-half pound cur- rants, two tablespoons lard, one cup corn syrup, one teaspoon soda, one cup white flour, graham flour. Com- bine ingredients, stirring stiff with graham flour. B.tke twu hours cov- ered. Sour Cream Cookies—One and one-third cup sugar, two eggs, one cup butter, one cup sour cream, one teaspoon elude, four cups flour, cara- way seeds, nuts or raisins to taste, Mix at night and place on ice. Bake in the morning. Or they can be mixed in the morning and dropped from a spoon into greased pans. Baked Eggs—Butter four earthen ramekins: into each break an egg. Beason with salt and paprika; put in a warns even until the whites are firer. Baked Whipped Potatoes— Bake potatoes. Cut lengthwise and hol- low out. Mash potatoes. Whip up light with butter, milk, salt, pap- rika and onion salt. Pub back in skins and brown. Beef a lir 3iodc—Buy a piece of steak from the shoulder. Have it rut rather thin. Cut into four strips.' Dampen each side of meat in milk, roll in breacicrumbs, add a little onion ; roll up strip and fasten with skewer. Bake from twenty to thirty minutes. (oma nut Soup—Three cups veal atock, two tablespoons cornstarch, celery, Balt, nutmeg, ono cup cream, salt, paprika, one-half cup grated cocoanut. Blend cornstarch with a small amount of cold water. Acid veal stock, salt, paprika, a few grains of nutmeg, and one-third teaspoon of celery salt, Cook until the mixture thickens. Add cream and cocoanut. Reheat and serve with dots of whipped cream. Ceriunel Salad Dressing—One tablespoon flour, one-quarter tea- spoon mustard, ono tablespoon brown sugar, one tablespoon butter, Crean together these ingredients and acld very slowly one -hall cup of vinegar, then put over fire and stir until thick. Use cream to thin to proper consistency. An egg can be used with one-half tablespoon flour, Salt and paprika are not needed. Veal. Cutlets—Wipe or remove the bone, skin and tough membranes. Cut into pieces for serving. Cover the bone and tough pieces of meat with cold water and cook at a low temperature. The stock is to be used in the sauce. :Small pieces may be put together by using wooden toothpicks for skewers. Season the veal with salt and pep- per. Roll in fine breadcrumbs, dip in beaten egg, then in crumbs again, Melt two tablespoons of • dripping or butter in a French pan, and brown the cutlets in the hob fat, When- browned, put the cutlets into a double boiler. Serve with sauce. Sauce for Cutlets—Twotable- slimes dripping, one-fourth cup Moor, sine pint stock, or water and atoek, one teaspoon or more . of Worcestershire sauce, tablespoon salt, one-eigt.h teaspoon pepper, two tablespoons chopped parsley, Pre- pare es a brown sauce, pour over the cutlets and .cook at a low temp- erature until tender, which will take at least one: hoar. potato Puff—Four cups hot mash- ed potatoes, four tablespoons milk, one teaspoon salt, two eggs, two tablespoons butter, one-fourth tea- spoon pepper, Cook, dram,, dry and mash potatoes, Then add seas- oning, milk and butter. Separate eggs and add well -beaten yolks and boat well. Theta add whites of eggs which have been beaten stiff. Turn into a battered dish and bake in a ,quick oven until brown, Oatiirt'al 1[aeareons—Otte table- apoon better, ane -half cup sugar, one egg well beaten, one-fourth tea- epoon salt, one and one-half cups relied eats, one-half teaspoon bak- Ing powder. Combine mixtut'e. Do .tot add water. Drop from spoon en to greased pans. Bake in hot oven until brown. :Roxbury Cakes—One-quarter cup butter, two eggs,.one-half cup sour piillc,.one teaspoon cinnamon, one- half cup raisins, one-half eup sugar; one-half cep molasses, cite -half cup flour, one teaspoon soda, cam -half sup English wain it meats, Cream putter, add suger and beaten yolks nf�eggs, Mix end sift ingredients and add to first mixture alternately With molasses and sour milk. Add whites of eggs, beaten dry, chopped ' ais]ne and nuts, Bake in gem darts, cover with ineelia ft'ostrlrg, hire should make eighteen to twenty bakes, Pll°eha .1`rosting--.One-tlt]rta cep, :latter one and one-half Cups eon feetiancrc'sugar, ane lablespoesi breakfast cocoa, coffee infusion, Cream, butter and add sugar grad- ually, cuntintting the .beating; then acld cocoa and coffee infusion until ,f right consistency to spread. 'Useful :lints. \Vet shoes should be stuffed with paper before they are put away. 1'hey will dry more quickly and nut be so hard. Sheets that are wearing out should have their selvedge sides sewn together, then be cut down the middle and have the new sides hem- med, ., In malting a fruit cake, pour half the batter in the pan before adding the fruit, then the fruit will nob be found ab the bottom of the cake. When preparing chicken or turkey for roasting, try rubbing it inside with a piece of lemon. Ib will whi- ten the flesh and make it more tend- er. A satisfactory wash cloth is made' of two or three thicknesses of mos- quito netting. The edges are finish- ed by crocheting a scallop in pink or bine. When boiling cabbages, try plac- ing a small vessel of vinegar on the back of the stove. The odor of the cabbage will not be so unpleasant. Buckskin shoes can be cleaned by making a lather of good scouring soap. .Take a small brush and rub the lather thoroughly into the shoes. When dry brush off again. Discolored bronze should be thor- oughly cleaned of dust, then apply a mixture of two parts warm water and one part muriatic acid. Wipe dry with a chamois skin. A. small package of absseebent cot- ton is excellent to keep in the nurs- ery, for if cream, butter or gravy gets on the ohildrens' clothes it can be completely absorbed if the cot- ton is applied at once. Carbonate of soda will remove the most obstinate of mud stains. Rub off with a, cloth of flannel dipped in the soda, then press well on the wrong side of the material with a warm iron. Velveteen is successfully washed by making a lather of soap and warm wale •, then soaking the vel- veteen in it, squeezing it, but not rubbing. When this is finished, rinse in plenty of clear water and hang out to dry. Many housewives have bemoaned the fact that their tarts and pies do not have the delicious brown desir- ed. Always keep in your cupboard a sinall pastry brush and brush your tarts and pies over with milk just before putting them in the oven. If the tablecloth is quite clean ex- cepting one or two spots, slip a folded towel between the table- cloth and the padding, and 'on the towel place an empty bowl, having the stain directly over the bowl. Pour boiling water through the stain until it fades away. Lay an- other towel over the wet place and iron until dry. -g SX'OKE HIMSELF TO SLEEP. British Statesman Relates an Anus, ing Experience. The historic feab of the late Duke of Devonshire in yawning, to the de- light of Disraeli, ' in the middle of his own maiden speech in the Com- mons is generally reckoned unique of its kind. But ib is positively obliterated by an incident that was described lately by Sir Guy 'ifleet= wood Wilson, who has just retired from the office of Finance Member of the Council of India. Sir Guy was recalling in a speech at a farewell dinner the great changes that had come about in the Vicer'oy's legislative Council as a re- sult of Lord Morley's act. Four years ago, when ,Sir Guy Wilson be- gan work in India, it was a body of only twenty-one members, and he remembered well the day on which he was required to answer the criti- cisms on his first budget: Sir Guy said ; "It was on the 29th of March, 1909, and the day was abnormally hot and close, even for that time of year fn Calcutta. Partly owing to the heat, but largely no doubt ow- ing to the wearisome effect of my first attempt at oratory, one by one every single member present went to sleep; and it is the simple truth that after a While I actually fell asleep in the course of the delivery of my statement 1" I Business Failure. ',Tramp-Yes'm, I wunsb had a good job managin' e hand ]sundry, but it failed on me. Lady—Poor num! How did it happen to fail? Tramp—She left an' went home bo her folks, She 1)ilL Bet— "Mamma," naked Willie, "now. that I've been such a good boy in Sunday school,, you don't distrust me any, more, de yeti?" "No, Willie; I feel that 1 'can trust Iny little man now." • "Then why do you keep the 'pan- try doer locked?" 'Co Ripens! tltc,Carrency. Ile had just given heir a shock for her first monthly allowanco. "I think," she said coyly, "I shall have this check phographod," "To 1. ir'eset've, as. a memento?" he asked. "No, an 'I can have it enlarged. BUILDINGS MADE OF GLASS GET ALI, 7'1.:1: SUNSHINE IN WOJtKI NG 11O L']IS. Less Dirt, Which Means 'net Molt Slekcess W111 Be A.voidctl. The day is coming when all our buildings will be made of glass. The age is near when rosy -faced girls will sing at their workin bright, sunny factories; when, in place of the glare of electric lights in depart- ment stores a stream of living sun- shine pours through the walls of crystal. Color will come back to pallid cheeks and eyes that have grown weak and tired straining over count- less buttonholes in the back rooms of dingy tenement -houses will glist- en with the joy of health. The streets will shine like those of the famed spotless town, with crystal facades and sparkling tur- rets. Cathedrals will lift their lofty spires, marvelous, cunningly fash- ioned combinations of vari-colored glass, through which the light filt- ers into the nave below in wondrous subdued glory of tone. The poorest room, the veriest ho- ve], will reflect the splendor of the bright and glittering world with- out. Sickness will end, squalor and. misery and dirt and filth will van- ish. There -will be sunshine in the heart and in the home. And when will this be? When strong sheets of glass can be manufactured by machinery and be able to resist fire and breakage. That sounds like a difficult order. But already the wird glass is used as .a preventive for fire, and day by day innovations are introduced in the manufacture of glass which make its power of resistance and its strength greater. Strength of Glass. Experiment has shown that a plate of reinforced glass less than a quarter of an inch thick, four feet long and a trifle less than two feet wide can support a weight of 1,107 pounds. And even under the weight of 1,422 pounds it did not break, only bent and °racked. A room built of this same glass can have a fire in it and the temper- ature increased from zero to 1,800 degrees before the structure entire- ly collapses, since the wire that is between the two sheets holds the piece of glass together even after is cracks. For years the aini of architects hag been to have glass houses, and, since that seemed impracticable, they have approached it as nearly as possible. Factories have gone up, the four walls of glass with narrow steel sup- ports, the staircases of glass, in- closed in transparent walls, the floors of the stockrooms of glass, letting in all the light possible. Libraries with glass roofs and railroad stations with curved domes let the flight pour into the darkness below. For economy, permanence, the liest environment of employees, fire protection, day -long illumination and perfect ventilation, the glass house is the ideal structure, And as they make plate glass stronger, as they studytiie.ossibil- ities of interior decorations of glass' and vitrified paneling, the new apartment -house will be a marvel of cleanliness, light and beauty. Maeterlinek's Palace. Think of a house as unreal, as ethereal, as evanescently lovely as Maeterlinck's palace of the Seven Princesses, a house where the sun ever shines and where the stars at night trace patterns on the crystal floors, and yet a house made with hands, a house strong enough to withstand the elements, warm in winter and cool in summer, The steel -supports are incased in sheaths of glass, glass bricks inclose the solid pens at the corners and are arranged in tasteful patterns along the cornice, casements opens out- ward above glass window -boxes trailing brilliant nasturt:c us and flaming geraniums and bels fact the expansive elegance of wide plate- glass windows woman sit embroider- ing the most intricate designs in the far corner of the evenly lighted rooms, • The main residential street of the city will look as if it were oracle of fairy palaces, and it will glisten and glitter as•does a forest. when Jack Frost has waved his magic wand. And in theslums, where before was darkness and filth, cleanliness and sunshine have entered in, The consumptive no longer ]anguishes in a stuffy; 'pitch-black room, so dark that no eyo can see the heaps of dirt and refuse that have accum- ulated in the corners, .Every corner now is pes light as day and the sun makes a path across to the bed where the convalescent sews on the homework oho is doing to help pay for her little vacation to the coun- try in the summer, • And in the Factory lDisixiet hundreds of thousands of square feet of sun illumined wall area .gimes antees a maximum amount of light and the uniform diffusion of clear, white daylight throughout the deep, est infieri.urs. Girls can perform the most. difficult and eye -tiring work without fatiguing the eyes. Accident: are eliminated, mis- takes are avoided, the health of the employees is conserved and almost ideal relations exist between owner and worker. This sounds likea modern Utopia, doesn't it. But it is possible -nay, more, it is probable, reasonable agd to be expected, Every day some- thing new is thought of further to this end, Recently a glass brick factory was established in Ohio to turn out glass bricks which, being hollow on 'the inside, might admit .light andyet regulate the heat, and, so to speak, insulate the building, This same. theory wil be followed out in the roofing of the future glass house. There will be an inner roof of glass, nob heavy or thick, and then, with about three inches space between, there is another roof, heavier and more capable of withstanding the weather. This dead air space be- tween the roofs prevents the trans- mission of either heat or cold and neutralizes the whole top of the building. Any Desired Color. If a man building a house desires one room a pale blue or a sunny yellow, he can have his bricks made of colored glass and suffuse his room with any desired color,, or he can have his whole house of one color, with daylight coming in only through the windows and the color of the room eliminating the neces- sity of inner glass paneling or pas- teled tiling. There are great possibilities in the glass house, and the economy of the scheme is nut the least. At present glass is expensive, on account of the loss through breakage, but the ma- terials themselves of which it is made are the cheapest and the eas- iest to procure, Since machinery has taken the place of hand blowing the expense of production has been miuimized, and now blip initial cost of a glass building exceeds that of concrete or wood by only five to eight per cent;, and, of'eourse, the upkeep and repairs are practically nothing. What a glackleningtsight-it would be to walk down some of our streets and, in place of the dingy, smoke - smeared brick walls of some of the best houses, to see the clear, shin- ing walls of solid crystal, airy and bright and radiant in the daytime, glittering and resplendent when the sun has gone and every room throws out a thousand streams of light into the night darkness, gleaming like a wonderfully cub gem. ?r LONDON :IASA G3"Paf CLUB. savors Open Air Life and Are Foes of Conventions. There are quaint clubs in London and one of the quaintest is the Gyp- sy and Folk Lore Club, in Hand court, Holborn, As befitting membershipof such an organization the members ars characterized by their bohemianism, as may be witnessed at their week- ly foregatherings on Thursday even- ings. The members declare them- selves to be the sworn foes of con- ventions, particularly all senti ee tat, hypocrital conventions They declare their o sects to be (1) Ti promote fell°, ship among those interested in gy' les and gyp- sies themselves and encourage study of and conversat in the Romani language; (2) To opp so the artificialities of node•n life; .3) To encourage camping; earava nine and every form of outdoor epos t and recreation. The members ai'e natural.] v very keen on open air Iffe, and t y havo just or•gamzed a novel 001111, etition, They or some of them pro rose ee take to the road and combii buss. ness with pleasure, and pri' es ere offered to those most succes sful in snaking their living on th road, Their desire is to prove tha it is Possible for any one, however steep- ed in city life and however ti ed to office life, to obtain a living or u the road, Competitors may arrie •e to have money payable at any post offiee or other bank, but will be c lie„ qualified from the competition if they draw upon it, NOT '111'-POSSIIRLL Jitnrny ;—"Dad, w in a minute, twig but not once in a •] Dad ;--"That's Jimmy :—"No, ter 'M,' ,r Fault finding many a hard jolt, There , 1 ole i s always plea the top because many' becothe dizzy and fall A man seldom disco gerous microbe in kisse a year after marriage.. .[ "TIiR ALL! art occurs once iu a moment, undred years?" npossible," ad; it's :the let - vas friendship sty of room at vho get there ff, ers the Clan - until about THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON XNTIII(NA:..I O NA [, LIISSON, GUST 17. Lesson VII. Grassing the lied Sea. Exod, 13. 17 to 24. 31. Golden Text, Asa. 65. 94. Verse 19. The angel of God—The divine presence which manifested itself in the pillar of cloud called "Jehovah" (]:xod. 13, 21; 14. 24), and sometimes ''the Angel' of God," as here, Stood behind them—Took a fixed position between them and the en- emy during the night. 20. And there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night—While this translation is the more accurate, the King James Ver- sion, by the insertion of tite phrases "to them" and "to these," makes the intended meaning of the passage a little plainer : "And it wee a cloud and darkness to them (the Egyp- tians), but it gave light by night to these (the Israelites)." 21. Caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind—Nob an unusual phenomenon at this place. It is quite possible that the waters of the Red Sea once extended as far north as the Bitter Lakes ; if so, there must have been many points at which it was exceedingly shallow. I A strong southeast wind, therefore, I by 'driving' the waters of the lakes northward, together with a simul- taneous ebb of the tide in the lower gulf, might easily produce the effect described in the text. 24. The -morning watch --Between 2 a.m, and sunrise. Jehovah looked forth upon the host of the Egyptians—In Psalm 77, verses 18-20, where an epitome of the events here -narrated seems to be given, the meaning of the words of this verse is explained as follows : The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lightened the world : The earth trembled and shook. Thy way was in the sea Thou leddcst thy people like a flock, By the hand of Moses and Aaron. 25. Tooke off—Literally, bound, hampered in their turning. They drove them heavily—,Liter- ally, "And made them to drive heavily." The reference is to the wheels, which sinking into .the moist ground .froth which the waters had receded were clogged with sand and mtid. 27. Overthrew—.Literally, shook off ; the hosts were scattered here and there. 28, $B—agn_ehs morning watch, at a natural time for atmospheric changes, but in obedience` fo the rod of Moses, the furious wt veered or fell, and the sea to its accustomed lini'' as the sands beneat ated, the char' and the in dow urned and first, became satur- were overturned -clad charioteers went e lead,' and then the hiss - ng line of foam raced forward and closed around and over the shriek- ing mob • which was the pride and strength of Egypt only an hour be- fore. "But, as the story repeats twice over, with a very natural and glad reiteration, `The children of Israel walked upon dry ]and in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand and on their left' " (Expositor's Bible). 31. Great work which Jehovah did —This wonderful deliverance natur- ally made a deep impression upon the Israelites. Believed in Jehovah, and in his servant Moses—But when they turn- ed away from this, the scene of their marvellous deliverance, and again, faced the stern realities and hard- ships of the wilderness, their faith was all too soon displaced by dis- trust and discontent. ^a• Grains of Gold. Few causes of war can steed his- torical examination and. test; --Lord Rosebery. You never knew 'shat ria• enough tnlese you know what is more than e nough.-Wm.'Blake. 'It's more important to court the miustts when you've married her than before.—Will Crooks, M,P, We are not in this world. to ,be happy and enjoy. .ourselves, .bob to fulfil our responsibilibies.—Bis- merek, The determined and ;persevering need never despair of gaining their object .in this warlcl.-Beaconsfield. Good humor may be eaid to be one of the very best articles of. dresus one can wear in soolcby: Thacktray. There is tib life of a .man freith- Tully recorded but it is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or un- rhymed.—Carlyle. Many in the world run ,after feli- city like the absent-minded men hunting for his luau, while all the time it is on his • head or in hie viand,—Sydney Smith. 411 Some people take themselves so seriously that°there look upon them as a joke NEWS OF THE MIDDLE WEST' BETWEEN ONTARIO AND 131ti• TISII COLUMBIA. Items From Provinces Where Mani Boys and Girls Aro 9I1aking Good." Husnholdt,• Sask., will have a new $65,000 public school. The Moose Jaw City Council re- fused to make a grant of land to be used for freight terminals for the G.T.R. Winnipeg hotels have been crowded to overflowing this sum- mer, and :many visitors have had to apply ,to private houses for ac- commodation. • At'Yarkton, Sask., a by-law was passed to issue debentures for 5140,000, the same to cover an ex- tension of the town's electric sys- tem, y -tem, At Lloydminstcr, Sask., the au- thorities are on the lookout for peo- ple who have been stealing the Tungsten lamps off the street posts. Through the ,action of the Lord's Day Alliance, the hotels of Moose Jaw, Sask., have been compelled to Close their cigar stands on Sun- day.. North Battleford, Sask., will have a new school costing $145,000, and a new post office costing $50,- 000; ..also 50,-000;'.aiso a government armory to cost $25,000. The village of Asciniboia, Sask., which is not yet a year old, has an assessment of a million and a quar- ter, with the single tax system in vogue,` Saskatchewan is believed to be the most Christian province in the Dominion. In a population of 492,- 432 no lees than 478,638 profess the± Cler et:nn faith, At Indian head, Sask., five men who jumped off a freight were run in by the Mounted. Police after bar- ricading themselves in an empty house fox the night. The Saskatchewan department of Agriculture estimated that fully ten million acres of Saskatchewan land has been put under crop this year, an increase of 500,000 acres over last year. Representatives of an English syndicate have bought 8,000 acres of land near Clanmore, Alberta, and will develop it for coal. The price paid for the land was in the neighborhood of $9,000,000. Brandon's 18th. fire since March occurred on the morning of July 22 when B. and J,.Cristall's.aecond- hand store was gutted, with a loss of 510,000. It iseselieeved there is a fire bug iia a.J`uu,', :r:' •�.;,, Ralphr Dawson, a home - tea'' , was killed by. lightning at Assiniboia, He was standing on a load oi lumber when the lightning struck him, passing through his body and tearing off three of his toes. At Shellbrook, Sask., a man named Bird. was arrested by the Mounted Police, charged with tak- ing a shot at a homesteader' with a rifle. Re missed him, but the Mounted Police frown heavily on offences .of that kind. Dr. Montgomery, of Assiniboia, made up his mind to start a fox farm end bought nine foxes to be- gin with. He placed them in his stable for safe- keeping, and in the night the whole lot burruwed out from tinder the walls and escaped. Edward Lowe had a meal in Lew Sney'e Chinese restaurant in Craik, Sask,, and declined to set- tle. A row started and Suey carved Lowe with a long butchers' knife, afterwards throwing hob grease in his face. The Chink was fined 55 and costs, At Prince Albert, Sask., 50 men who were engaged in street grading work were laid off surmnarily, the city authorities saying that no more work in the way of civic improve- ment would be carried on unless the money to pay the nten were ac- tually in sight. During the past year the Saskat- chewan Provincial Department of Railways and Telephones received more than 150 applications for the incorporation . of rural telephone companies, representing More than 4,000 new subscribers to the 'pro- vincial system. Travelling in twe prairie schoon- ers, Mr, and Mrs, J, le, Mathen and seven children, ranging in age from 19 to one year old, passed through North Portal, Sask,, en route to the R,ed Deer country. They came front Flasher, N.D., and their total journey will be 1,200 miles. George Mawer found. some he_ man bones under a sand dune on his farm near Bradwardiite, Man., and the remains aro believed to partly explain the disappearance of two young Englishmen, Basil Walter Biill and A. Charles Tul- loch, who carne out to Canada 25 years a,go to learn to farm. They ee.ttled in flradwui'dino distrfet, They wore romittanec men, `.Cul- loch disappeared first, and shortly afterwards;flull also dropped out of . el htThe Sight. 1 authoritSas eve now trying to get into totieli with reit-t- ame of the young men ie. the old eonittry, DISINFECTING THE . SPOOKS MODERN METHODS 01' DEAr4's ING WI'1'JI ORO STS, Hygiene hobs Stories of Mystiffying 11'onders and Frightful • horrors. It is by no means a new exper- ience to find the miracles of ancienit days and the mysteries of occult arts fading away in the light of modern science. The bloody bread of the Middle Ages, for example, with its sinister forebodings and religious implications, has to -day become a simple demonstration in bacteriology. Unexpected luminous surfaces appearing inthe absence of any visible source of light are easily explained by any student of the biology of phosphorenee. )Even the almost impenetrable marvels o the active mind as well as those curious manifestations, like hypno- tism, which pass under the name of psychic phenomena, are yielding in the attempts at is, rational inter- pretation. Weird visions and strange ghosts have ab length be- come expressions of a disordered. mind rather than the visitations of an offended deity. And now the "haunted" house—chronicled in fic- tion and actually shunned in real life—has been deprived of • Its Mystifying Wonders and frightful horrors by the find- ings of twentieth century hygiene. Dr. Franz Schneider, Jr., of the Massachusetts. Institute of Techno- logy, has investigated a house in the Back Bay district of Boston, which had acquired the annoying reputa- tion of being "haunted." The ex- periences which led to the fnyesti- gation were too serious, the sympt- oms too real, the reports too often repeated and reliable to be'over- looked or rerded as mere hallucf- nations. Thgae slumbers of the in- mates in the upper storeys were die- Curbed by strange sensations such as those of oppression or paralysis; they frequently contineud after the sleeper was thoroughly awake, and even after the lights had been turn- ed on, The involved children ap- peared pale and sluggish in the morning, even cold water losing its power to enliven them. A careful inspection of the build- ing gave the key to the situation. The theory of undetected leaks of illuminating gas as a source of in- toxication could not be verified in this ease; but it developed that the _gases escaping from a "viciously de- fective hot -.air furnace were suffi- cient to cause the -trouble. The sep- aration between the firebox and the hot-air ducts (on which the hygienic inti ity of th utfit depends) wasaary�5i'� de ., .P, r it the inhabitants of the repeat ieere bath- ed in an atmosphere of Diluted Flue Gases. The Journal of the American Medi- cal Association is confident that this condition might be discovered in many other American homes. Flue gases contain, especially when the combustion is complete, consider- able amounts of distinctly poison- ous elements. The symptons in Schneider's cases pointed to carbon monoxide as the probable chief offender. Sen- sations of oppressions and other mental disturbances are typical cf acute carbon monoxide poisoning, as are also loss of psychic powers, the confused sensations andc.thc r features, which explain the -use of oppression that persistently entered into the delusions of the inmatesof the 'haunted" house, The belief is walking spirits is easily n,nn•.rhed by persons in whose minds real noises would be likely to becane exaggerated during the ;rito�i- cation. tp TITLED 111EUICINIs' MEN. Some 'Royal Personages Qualified to Act as Physicians. Baron Heni'i de Rothschild, who wrote the play "Cremes," is a pleveician of no inconsider•gble Skill, and the head of a hospital for the poor in Paris, and. the fact re- calls that there are even R6ydl per- sonages qualified to ao•t as physi- planex•. Foexample; Queen Amelia al Portugal is an M.D.s -the only Roy- allady holding the dietinetion—and 'the Duke Carl Theodore of Bavaria actually practises the medical pro- fession its the interests of the poor of Munich, and has long passed his five thousandth operation for cater - not,.. For he specializes its eye trou- bles, and he it was who successful- ly treated the kaiser when, sown twelve years ago, he was tempor- arily blinded by a swinging rope while cruising in t:heNorth Sea. The Royal duke is authorized to practise as a doetor by a special decree of the German Imperial Chaticeiior, and it is estimated that already nearly 00,000 poor people have received free 'treatment from him.' .And yet another Royal work - se in the 'noble art of:'Medicine is the Pei Bees So phi o' Bttvari n, l is f rt. 1Tc—•I suppose you have tried mo- txring,Judge? Judge -'No, I Banti not ; but I have tried a let of .peo- ple who have.