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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1913-8-21, Page 3a wooden spoon or lurk, never metal ones. Never use a jar or bottle which has held anything greasy. Pickled red cabbage does not improve by keeping, but walnuts du, Onions do not vary either way. Vinegar which has lost its etrength and color should be poured J off, and new hot vinegar poured on the pickles. All pickles are ime proved, and kept better ---the vine- gar remains strong, too—if one or two small pieces of hereeradish aro placed in the jar. Jars should be corked tightly. An excellent plan is to dip the mouth of the jar when corked into melted parcel wax or rosin. All vegetables for use in pickling must be absolutely sound and fresh, Both points aro important, the first particularly so. A tiny piece of alum, the size o£ half a hazel nut, to a quart of vine- gar, will snake pickles crisp. Store 9 Ile o' from direct light 1 dry place away. Some Favorite Recipes. ,Apple Snow,—One quart of apple eance forced through a strainer, one pint water, one cup sugar, juice of two lemons, whites of two eggs well beaten, This may be packed into a freezer and frozen, but if placed on ice and served ice cold it is also good. . This recipe will serve twelve people. ( rnhread.—Sift one cup of four into three cups of yellow or white corn meal, and two teaspoons bak- ing powelex and a teaspoon of salt. Mix thoroughly, Beat three eg light, and two and a half cups sweet milk, a level tablespoon sugar, and one tablespoon of melted butter. Make a hole in the centre of the meal and pour in the liquid, beating well while addiug. When thoroughly mixed pour into a but- tered tin and bake in a steady oven, French Dressing. — One garlic bean on three or four lumps of sugar, four tablespoons taragon vinegar, four tablespoons catsup, ten tablespoons olive oil, one tea- spoon, Worcestershire sauce, juice of one large orange, juice of one lemon, salt and paprika to taste. Mix until sugar is dissolved. Pocketbook Biscuit,—Otte quart of light eponge, one tablespoon lard, two tablespoons sugar, one egg, one teaspoon salt, to make dough stiff as bread. Put all ingre- clients In pan, enough flour to mix up not too stiff, let rise until light, then roll out on board, butter all and eat into rounds and, turn the 'half over, and this forms a pocket- book. Let rise until light; bake in hot oven ten minutes. Date Drop Cookies, — One and one-half cups brown eugar, one- half cup butter, one-half eup sour milk, one teaspoon soda, yolk of two eggs, one and one-haif cups flour, one-half teaspoon cloves, one- half teaspoon nutmeg, one-half pound dates, stoned and cut into pieces, drop in small spoonfuls on well buttered pan and bake in quick oven. M eat Casseroles,—One cup rice, two tablespoons melted butter, one pint chopped meat, one-fourth tea- spoon popper, one-fourth cup milk or cream, one-half teaspoon salt, Boil rico nutil tender, drain and add while hat the butter, Dream, salt. and peppier. Line a greased mold (or individual dishes may be used) with a thin layer of rice. Make one cup of white sauce, sea- son we)], and add to it the chopped meat. Put this creamed meat in the centre, cover with rice, place the casseroles in a pan of hot wa- ter (about an inch of water is all that is required), and cook in a hob oven about twenty minutes. Serve at once. Raisin Bread,—Four caps flour, four teaspoons baking powder, one- half teaspoon salt, one cup sugar, three eggs, and one and one-half cups of mills, one-half package seed- less raisins. Sifb flour, baking pow- • der, salt, and sugar several times then stir in raisins. Add milk and eggs to flour, baking powder, salt, sugar and raisins, and bake one hour in slow oven. Bride's. Crake. --One-half cup but- ter, one and, one-half cups sugar, one-half cup. milk, two and one-half cups Hour, three anti one-half tea- spoonfuls baking powder,•whites of six eggs, one teaspoonful vanilla. Bake forty nrinntos'in a (Thep pan. White Rusting- ;One cup sugar in one-half cup sweet cream or rich milk; cook; when cdohle add one teaspoonful vanilla; whip until cool; spread do cake, Celery Relish.—Twelve stalks eel- ery, five grains garlic, twelve green tomatoes, six large onions, two large green peppers (cut part of seeds out), ono -half teaspoon,mus- tard, one-fourth teaspoon red pep- per, one-half teaspoon black pep- per, three cups sugar, two quarts eider vinegar. Salt to taste. Boil slowly three hours and put in Ma- son jars. Chicken en Casserole.—Cine three pound chicken, three sweetbreads, one can mushrooms and one-half pound almonds. Boil chicken and sweetbreads until tender in 'well salted water. When cold, cut up and add blanched almonds and mushrooms, Cut in small pieces, Coven with sauce niacle as follows Five tablespoons butter and five tablespoons flour rubbed together; add five cups of Cream. Bake half an hour in oven or an hour in the fireless cooker,' Points, 00 Pickling. Every Housewife sboul d make her own pickles, He, are some,prae- tical flints, based on experience, and tested, which, if followed care- fully, means success. Always use the very best white • vinegar, and do not•get.to° "sharp" kind; Never was glazed jar=s. Common unglazed oarthenwaro jars or wide- matithed bottles are best, When boiling vinegar, always use a lined saute an and keepthe lid stn all the time. Five minutes is thelongi,et time Lh'at vinegar should buil, In preparing pickles, 'always use Here aresame recipes dealing with the more popular sorts of pickles. Onions. — Select small silver - skinned ones, and peel the outside skin only. Make hot salt and wa- ter, and let them soak in this for three days. Drain and dry, and place them in jars, and pour on hot vinegar, in which has been boiled black pepper and spice (an ounce of each to a quart of vinegar). Add the pieces of horseradish, and then seal down the jar. Cabbage.—Choose a medium-size cabbage, trim off the outside leaves, and then quarter it, not using the main stalk. Slice up email, sprinkle with salt, and leave in a sieve for a clay. Shake well at times, and then pubinto jars. To one quart of malt vinegar add half an ounce of black pepper and one ounce of allspice, and boil well to- gether. When cold, pour on the cabbage and seal down. This pickle should not be used for a WOMAN WORI(fD MIRACLES week or so. Celery and tomatoes pickle well. Take twelve tomatoes, just ripe, and two large celery heads. Re- move the outside leaves and roots from the celery, chop up the hearts with the tomatoes, and put them in a Lined saucepan, with a cupful of vinegar, a tablespoonful of salt, and a pinch—a short.tea- spoonful--of cloves, allspice, mus- tard, and celery -seed, with a quar- ter of a pound of sugar. Bring slowly to a boiling -point, and then A striking example of the religi- let ib simmer for an hour. Stir oe- one fanaticism that still prevails in casionally, then fill the jars and some parts of France is found in cork while hot, the recent happenings in, the little town of Magny-sur-Tille, near Di- jon. There lived a woman whose reputation for working miracle's had spread throughout the neigh- boring villages so that her follow- ers when she .died' urged that she be made a saint of the Church, At her death she predicted that her body would resist the destructive forces of nature for seven years. She died on April 22, 1908. The "Sorceress," as'the enemies of Francoise Sauvestre called her, or "Sainte Francoise," as she was known to her followers, was born of humble parentage in a village near Fauverney. She was a cripple and as a child she went begging from village to village. Then she disappeared and for many years no one saw or heard of her, One day she reappeared at Fauverney, a grown woman. At this time `the village priest of Are had acquired a reputation throughout the coun- try as a doer of miraculous deeds. This strange woman announced that the priest had confided his se- cret to ,her and that all who suffer- ed ,should came to cher and they would be cured. Ono by one they came,: the lame, the halt, the blind; then in groups and later in multi- tudes. Francoise Sauvestre'e for- tune was made. But the physicians of the district, who had lot all their clients, sought legal means to stem the tide of their ill fortune, The woman was finally prosecuted for practising medicine without a license and put in jail. Instead of the people losing faith in her she immediately became a martyr, PRINCE PAUL OF SERVIA AND LADY 'CURZON. Lady Curzon is the best dressed of the matrons of England. She is here seen in London handing Prince Paul, son of King Peter, of Saralee a newspaper containing important Balkan War news. SKELE'T'ON FOUND IN TOMB OF THE "SORCERESS." Francoise Body Sauvestre Predicted Her Would Resist De- struction. RANCHES OF ARGENTINA. Vast Tracts Recovered front In- dians Supporting Great Herds. "It. is almost impossible 0t con- ceive of the enormous growth of the stock industry of Argentina in the last quarter of a century," said Ernest Maffei, a large cattleman of Buenos Ayres. "Less than forty years ago the .great rich tracts of grass land in Argentina *ere prac- tically unproductive. The Indians roamed the plains and general set- tlement on the land was •clangerous and well nigh impossible. The In- dians, however, were subdued in 1878, and that date saw the incep- tion of tho estancias or ranches and the systematic reclamation of the land to pave the way for an indus- try the magnitude of which to -day is stupendous. "The immensity of. the 'cattle business can be estimated from. the o#ficfal returns recently published, which show that last year in the Argentine these were 30,000,000 cattle, 70,000,000 sheep and" 7,000,- 000 horses. The cattle and horses are bred in the warmer parts of the &entry to the north, where alfalfa abounds, and the sheep in districts in the .southern provinces. "Some of the large ranches carry as many as 60,000 head Of attle and provide hunting grounds for many Englishmen. The 'gaucho' is - one of the most picturesque as well as useful figttres on these ranches and forms the counterpart of this famous "brother the oowboy of North America. Life on a ranch is far ;from unpleasant, and on some of the big .ranches. under British control evening dress for dinner is the custom. The Argentine aldol is of high grade and a large part of it goes to supply the home mar- kets." --*- INSANE q._INSANE SINCE WEDDING DAY. Lord Dutham's Wife IIas Been iu Asylum Since 1884. , Wlien the Icing and Queen visit Lambton Castle in the nutunsn one off Lord Durham's sisters will act as hostess to his royal guests, Lamb - ton Castle hes rt0 Chatelaine, for the meet terrible of blows diarken- edthe marriage of Lord Durham to Miss Milner' in 1882. On the very wedding day tho bride and Count- ess of only a few' hours lest hoe rea- son, It was a.repetition in real life of the tragedy of the "Bride of Lam- mermoor," but accentuated by the fact that site 8611 lives and is legal- ly Lord ,l)urhain's wife, as the 0curits in 1884 refused to annul the omen because its was not proved that else was insane when Married, though she bottom se tt few house afterward; Acootapliehed Many Miracles. After sowing her term in prison, Francoise Sauvestre went to Mag- ny-sur-Tille. There sit., opened a chapel consecrated to Sainte Philo - memo and the venerable priest of Ars. Her eult resembled in 11 great many ways thp Christian Science of Mts. Mary ITaker Eddy, "Have faith and pray with all the fervor of your ,belief, was her, cardinal principle. In front of the statue of the saint she burned a little oil, mixed with it some melted wax, and with this inoffensive mixture she rubbed the part of the body which was diseas- ed. The ceremony ended by invo- cations in`wltiolt she mingled indis- ceiminato111 the names of the 00- thentie Catholic saints with :such names as "Saint Bain: de Broid" and "Saint Barba en Mom," Ac- cording to the statements of Icer fol- lowers this citrioue woman cured. diseases said to be ineusablo, and caused' horrible wounds to ]seal. She also road the past of her olionts likean open book, and even pre- dicted the future, Brit oven stick a saint could not live for ever, and on April 22, 1008, at the advanced age of 88, Fran- Not allgood mon are great, but seise Sauvestre passed away. just some great When are pretty ;geed before death alae sent firs' the /Sliest considering. of lenagny' and asked for the last rites of the Church. The priest refused unless the wo- man would restore to the Church the sums she gainedthrough the in- tercession of Sainte Philomene, The woman refused, and the priest lefther deathbed. Just before death ehe made the prophecy that during seven years her body world retain its natural farm, and by this her followers would know her su- pernatural powers. In the cemetery at Maguey a handsome chapel was erected to hold her .body until the day when her coffin would be opened by the believers. Within the chapel were statues of Ste,, •1:'hiloptene and the famous ,priest of, Watts; while all around lay crutches and canes dis- carded by ithose who had been heal- ed. A society other followers was formed and on the twenty-second of each month there were pilgrimages to the chapel. If these pilgrim- ages £e11 on rainy days the pilgrims even drank the water that dripped from the roof of the chapel, in the belief that this water, being sacred, would cure their ills. Skeleton Found In Tomb. The followers of the cult of Fran- coise Sauvestre endeavored to have their leader made a saint, but the Church objected, The Bishop of Dijon, Mgr, Monestes, demanded proof, and the members of the scot pointed to the woman's prediction that her body would remain un- touched by the destructive forces of nature for seven years after her death. Finally, under the pretext of transferring the Woman's body to another place, the authorization was procured to open the tomb. Three hundred of the faithful gath- ered for the occasion, and with much oeremony the lid of the tomb was lifted. An unmistakable- odor went forth, and when the lid was finally removed it contained noth- ing but a human skeleton, Not withstanding this the enembers of the sect threw themselves upon the ae1et n, and, praying and chant - g, .dipped heir moistened hand- kerchiefs into the tomb, .and then wiped their faces. Others gathered tip the dust of the body, mixed ib with water .and drank this weird concoction. Despite this ocular proof that Francoise Sauvestre was only an ordinary mortal the members of her sect insist that ab the end of the seven years, April 22, 1915, the body of their saint will be reconsti- tuted, and that when the tomb is opened on that date they will find her body as it was when laid to rest five years ago. 3 Chilean Guano Outranks Coid. The guano deposits of Chile are worth more money than the riehost gold mine in the world. It would seem that the precaution taken by the Chil- ean Government 10 restricting the ex- portation of this fertiliser is hardly warranted when we realize that tate deposits of the Glducha Islands, where this material abounds, are computed to lie 180 feet in depth, and as the re• moval proceeds tho quality improves. The value of the guano of these Is- lands is computed to be $1,000,000,000. 1' .In order to ascertain a man's true oharaeter ib is necessary to know what he ie in private life. Some men are too tender-hearted to beat a rug, 31 UCH IN SA N Pl'Y C• URA BLL. Fashionable women are cultivatin They have about them the harmle snakes, which are easily tamed. The man who has clone more the anybody else to establish this hobb is ginjiro Nakamura, who ha ]leen engaged in the snake bnsines reptiles. The most productive dis trios for snakes in Japan are cer- tain mountain sections. rear Tol.-i in large numbers. Japanese soak catchers drink sake before startin they will not bo �stupified by th "poisonous breath" of the reptile A real combat occurredupified byfora,ThereIsPost.amofdue 115mated between three men and a serpen t ito head about six feet above they are popular as tonics for the the food question, tea. Nakamura -s s powdered form or eater with Japa- n c stomach trouble, if taken soaked Japanese sake, 0 t h u c 0 t a.. be th fu Po th at CI at do 00 Co for the authorities tit once' demand- ed the preeenee of the Governor of Itostronta at 5t. Petersburg, and the sequel. to an interview with M. Koltovtzeff• was the °Meisil's dis- in.t men in any way hetoio, goo THE SUNDAY SCHOOLLESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON. August 24. Leeson VIII. Thi' Bread from heaven—•-Exod, 13,27 to 16.36. Golden Text, Juhn 6.35. Verse 8. Murmured against Moses and against Aaron --The hardships of the desert journey were real. A scarcity first of wa- ter and then of food was among the more grievous trials that the peo- ple encountered. 3. When we eat by the flesh -pots —the expression may be taken lit- erally, but in a wider figurative sense it stands for the abundance of food of every kind which the Israelites, notwithstanding other. afflictions, had enjoyed in Egypt, 4. Bread from heaven --Literally, food, not bread in our sense of the word. (Compare note on verse 14, below.) The people shall . gather a day's portion every day—A severe test of obedience and faith, especi- ally when the supply each day was ample for a larger period. 7, 8, The glory of Jehovah— Quite evidently the reference here is nob to the glory of the cloud, mentioned in verse 10 below, bat to the miracle of providing food, The next verse seems to require this interpretation, This shall be, when Jehovah shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full. 9. And Moses said unto Aaron— Aaron is still the spokesman for Moses, who had a physical dif- ficulty of speech which he apparent- ly never overcame : "And Moses said unto Jehovah, 0, Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue" (Exod. 4. 10). 12, At even—Literally, between the two evenings, that is, in the late afternoon. 14. A small, round thing, small as the hoar frost on the ground— The word translated "round thing" may also be rendered "Hake," 16. What is its—Or, Is it manna; Hebrew, man hu, For a descrip- tion of the manna, compare Num. 11, 7-9. In looking for a natural explanation of the feeding of the Israelites in the desert, some com- mentators have assumed that the manna was a natural desert pro7. duct, the exudation of a desert tree still common and formerly much more abundant throughout' Arabian peninsula. The exudation referred to is described by travel- lers as a glutinous, waxlike sub- stance which in. the morning after its first appearance is white, chang- ing rapidly to a dirty yellow color; it melts quickly in the sun, and be- fore the day is over is absorbed in the ground; it appears each morn ing during certain months of the year and is sweet to the taste, he, ing used for food in times of fam- ine. A more recent suggestion identifies the manna with desert lichen, grayish -yellow in ^odor, which grows in great'abendance on rocks and stones of the desert. When fully matured, the leaves t curl tip, the plant loosens from the re ck and is blown absut by the wind, being gathered ultimately in d heaps in the ravines and sheltered places not unlike the leaves of au- toren, though of course vele much smaller, This plant is a not un- common substitute far corn among the natives in the steppe region of h southwestern Asia, being ground and baked like corn. The first of le these suggested explanations would c harmonize with the description in Numbers so far as the size and gen eral appearance of the manna is b concerned, but the narrative here clearly implies a supernatural pro- t vision, on account of the large h quantity which was needed, WIG WI�IARI;R',S Tlt0 UB'1',1�15, Broke Up a Concert and Mad to ray a Finc, A fine full bettomod wig such as the gallants of the seventeenth can tory used to `wear hsis just coat 05 well-known citizen of Cologne, Geri' many, a pretty penny. The wig has. been his property for �soms time, wad as he left the Rhenish -capital for a summer at one of the fashion- able watering places --Bad Bertrieh' —he decided to take it with hint for use at a faney-dress'ball .to which he was invited. On arrival, at Bad Box -trick he walked into the chief hairdresser's shop, and ae tho weather was a normally hot he ordered his Mair 1;0 be cut to the .shortest possible lim- its. After a thorough cropping his head was left as thinly clad with bristle as that of any young stn- dent with half a dozen duel soars to show•. Unfortunately the wea- ther stun tools a turn to the other extreme. The new cut which wad first so comfortable now seemed really dangerous. It was then that the owner thought of his wig.. One evening after dinner he hastily.. put it on for shelter from draughts and drizzles, donned a hat and walked into the Kursaal concert room, The orchestra was playing at the time, but soon stopped. The entry of an ancient -looking wig, crowned by a very modern -looking "bowl- er," had caused such a titter that the conductor had no choice but to stop the orchestra, But with the halt the titter increased, and soon there was a minor riot, which only ceased when the shamefaced' and •surprised wearer of the wig bad hurriedly walked away. Next day ' he received a lengthy summons from +118_ M-�� t ;nal. in cnnde; quull00 of his escapade Was fined: for disturbing the public ,peace. He appealed and after a lengthy trial won his case. But, it is reported, the worry caused by the ease and by'the un- due notoriety aegnired by his ab- sentmindedness has made it neces- sary for him to take a seeond "cure" away in southern Germany, and that to avoid a repetition he has disposed of the wig and has done so at a loss. y: WIDOW OF GRAND DUKE. Has Been a Sister of Charity Sinoo Husband Was Killed. The doing of royal personages who visit England are usually chronicled with patient persevere ante. One royal lady, however, who is at present in England, has managed with almost complete suc- cess to elude even the publicity of the court circular. She is the Grand Duchess Elizabeth- of Rus- sia., who is staying with her sister, Princess Louise of Battenberg, and doubtless the lack of information about her movements is due to the fact that she is a nun and abstains from the usual social rounds, She is certainly one of the most remarkable princesses in Europe. Her husband, the Grand Duke Serge, it will be remembered, was killed by a bomb while driving to he Kremlin at Moscow, The Grand Duchess Elizabeth moa very deeply attached to him, and since his. oath she has lived in retirement. She did not finally leave her palace intil her motherless niece, the Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna, to whom she was a second- another married; then she retired to a ouse in a quiet street of Mose-ow, and in company with several ladies egan to live the life of a. Sister of harity, The Grand Duchess is one of the most beautiful women in Europe, ut her face now bears signs of the acetic life she leads. She has in- rodueed a new fosvn of oonvent fe into Russia, modelled on that f the various orders ef Sisters of 14tercet working in England, The -m ussian nun is supposed to devote erred£ entirely to prayer; she does not, as a rule, undertake charitable rk.. The sisters of the•new;ordcr untied by the Grand Duchess ave under their care a .number of isabled soldiers, a home for eon - motives, an orphanage, a (lispen- ry and a fret library. �z QUEEN FORBIDS "AD." R Objects to ]',abed on Perfumes Made by Princess Christian. wo Queen Mary seems fated to have fo trouble with the occupants of the h royal gift residences. The latest of d these to be brought into a dispute su with rho Queen is ria less a person sa than Princess Christian, aunt of King George, who with her hus- band lives at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Park. For a couple ef months the Prin. lc cess has been adding to her bus- fa band's rather slender income by he selling bottles of perfum.e:ntade by hi herself .nt Cumberland Lodge, aa.nd, hi she has been actively aided by vu Princess Patricia of Connauglht. Princess .Christian recently began aaw putting labels on the bottles stat- e t ing that fisc perfume was made at dol Cntnberland Lodge. Wlien, this sro reached the ears of the Queen she Fran ordered Princess Christian 'o cease ,1 selling the perfume in bottles with vI such labels, The Prioress ma s- tains that sho has a perfect right to dor ao and rettrses to octnlply with the regtttst of the Qus'eu, hC .—,_ _rH— mie 1± takes a clever child to keen I from saj•ing'smartthins, P S g rt 1funcerity_..a: deep, genuine sin ro[iiv ins the first cllareeteristi f" How to Get Rid of a Visitor. 1, Leave a railway guide for. him his dressing -table,' 2, Forget to ave a place for him at the break- st table, 3, Toll him you, trust has enjoyed (not "isartjoying") stay with ,you, 4. Discuss with m the disastrous effects that in- riably follow when a man, is ay front his business for toe long ime, 5. Express a, hope that hie ativos will not he gaiting too /done eboul, him being separated! t ,them: for so long, 6, If he is dense or too hardened to take y of the foregoing' hints, risk hint tat train he is going by, Sclf-I'3videntt e•—''As I was saying, Mies May- when I start out to de a thing, slay on the jolt, ' I'm tie quittor•."• he (whit 4 wets* y=awn) --Don't now it." at every ideal lover makes ;Y d lnieband, seal: all