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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1913-8-28, Page 3ousehold 11 Selected Recipes, Eggless Cake.,Cream together one cup sugar tend one-half cup but-. ter. Add one cup sour milk, one ou,p dry Cocoa, one even teaspoon soda dissolved in hot water, pinch of salt and flavoring. Mix with enough sifted flour to make stiff bat- ter, Tv make a good spiced cake use brown sugar instead of white, leave out the caeca, add to the flour a. half cup or more of seeded raisins or currants and flavor with tea- spoon each of ground cinnamon and allspice. Beat very thoroughly. Jtrhnny Cake. One cup flour, one-half cup corn meal, one.table- spoon sugar, one teaspoon salt, one- half teaspoon baking powderone tablespoon butter or lard, Sift all together, then add one and one- fourth culls sour milk, beat until smooth, pour into a greased pan and bake for about twenty minutes ill a quick oven. Soft Gingerbread.—One-held cup butter creamed, one cup brown sugar. two eggs, one cup molasses, one cup sour milk, three cups flour, one teaspoon soda dissolved in Milk, one teaspoon ginger, one tea- spoon cinnamon. Bake in a made"- ate oven. This will make two. Sour Milk Griddle Cakes.—One egg, wet.beaten, one cup sour milk, •half teaspoon 'soda dissolved in a little of the milk, half teaspoon salt, and flour to make into medium thick batter. Beat thoroughly and cook on hot greased griddle. Brown Bread,—Two cups sour milk, two-thirds of a cup dark brown sugar, two level teaspoons socia, pinch of salt, three cups gra- ham flour. Bake one hour. Cottage Cheese,—When curd has separated from whey in souring, turn the curd into a coarse cotton bag and let drain in a cool place for twenty-four hours, or until free from whey. Adel salt and sweet eream to taste, and shape into small balls. Process may be hastened by heating thick. sour or clabbered milk first, but the cheese is tougher. Cheese Cakes.—Nice to eat with stewed fruit or preserves. Ore and one -halt -cups cottage cheese, one- third cup sugar, two tablespoons cream, grated rind and juiee of one lemon, three eggs, one-half cup juice of one lemon,. three eggs, one- half cup currants and citron, one- fourth cup sherry wine, nae table- spoon melted butter. Press cee3Fe through colander or uotato rioor. Add sugar, cream melted mutter, juice and rind of lemon, eggs beat- en light, the wine and .fruit; cut in- to small bits. (Both wine and fruit may be" omitted.) Line small tins with pie crust, fill with this mixture and bake about fifteen minutes. or longer if necessary. When done sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve while warm, Frosted Peaches: —Select some peaches that are not too ripe, and dip them one at a time in water ,that has just, boiled, so that the skin may be easily removed. Then cook the peaches in a syrup until they arc soft to the fingers. Strain them and plunge them into the whites of eggs beaten to snow, roll them in powdered sugar, and leave thein for a few minutes in a gentle oven. Hash some macaroons and angeliques, and on removing the peaches from the oven roll them in this haeh, - Old-fashioned Almond, Rings.— Roll in s.—Rell one-half pound of uff paste very thin, and cut out with biscuit, - cutter. From each round cut a smaller one from the centre so that the ring'will be about an inch wide. Beat the whites of six eggs to a stiff froth ; add one-half pound of pulverized sugar, and stir with the dish in boiling water until the mer- ingue is thick. Slice one-half pound of blanched almonds very thin, Stir thein into the meringue. 'Cool. Then with a silver knife place this mixture on the rings, Bake at the temperature proper for cake, These almond rings will keep !fresh for several weeke, Scotch Short Bread. --{Mix to- gether one pound of flour and one- half pound of butter' stir in one- quarter pound of sugar, and the . yolk of one egg. Work with the hands until ,stiff; cut in two por- tions. Sugar the board instead of flouring it, an<l mold the dough, pinching the edge like pastry ; prick with a fork to prevent its rising in •blisters, Mark it before baking, wed break it when serving. Put on a tin or in a round tin, ungreased, and bake a long time in 0 very slow oven,, It is of a fawn color when done, and is soft until cold, It is improved by putting the dough into a cool place kr an hour before bak- ing. Spinach Pate. ---Finely crumb the "inside of one-half of a loaf of stale bread; soak the ertumbs, in water, and squeeze them dry, Out the Meat into small :squares, and fry ahem to a golden brown in hot but- ter or pi], To the bread -crumbs add a small onion, cooked soft in tbtttter and chopped fine, ono -hale of a peek of spinach, .ptoked over, washed, and shopped, a teaspoun- ful of whole-wheat meal, a pinch of salt, and the fried cruets, To bind the mixture, add two eggs; form it into small pats. Just them 'with bread -crumbs, cracker -crumbs, or fine flour, and fry to a golden bruwn on buth sides in a fiat frying -pan. The pats are particularly good serv- ed with baited ham, Baked Eggplant. --Cut in halves a medium-sized eggplant, from stem to tip, leaving the half -stem in plaee. Put the two halves in boiling water for about five min- utes, until the meat can be readily scooped frum the skin. Chop this meat fine, and adcl to it one gill of (raw) pine -nut or one pint of (boil- ed and (hopped) chestnuts, one-half pound of chopped boiled chicken (or any kind of meat preferred), one-half pint of boiled rice, 000 tablespoonful of chopped celery, one large onion, one large tomato, one-half green, sweet pepper (all chopped), salt to taste, and add four tablespoonfuls of olive oil, and two eggs (well beaten). Mix these ingredients thoroughly, replace in the egg plant skins or shells, and bake one hour in a slow oven, pre- ferably in a dish in which the vege- table can be also served, as remov- ing it from the baking dish is likely to spoil its appearance.. Household hints. • , Use boiling water for tea stains. Use salt and lemon juice on ink stains, Mud stains should be soaked in kerosene. Rub grass stains with and wash. Turpentine or benzine move paint stains. Scorch stains, remove by expos- ing to sunshine. Tar stains should be soaked in warm millc and salt. To remove acid stains use ammo- nia or chloroform. Perspiration stains will be re- moved only by boiling. Fruit stains should he soaked in milk er use oxalic acid. Chocolate stains, soak in kero- sene and wash in cold water. Blood •stains should be soaked when fresh, in cold water. Put clry salt on fresh wine stains and warm milk on old ones. Coffee stains should be treated with boiling water when fresh. Taps of old shoes, cub into shape and covered, make excellent iron holders. A cont lemon will remove the mark made by striking matches on -white paint. Never allow a mirror to hang in the sunlight, or the backing will become clouded. Equal parts of beeswax and tur- pentine rubbed on dull floors will brighten them. Cook carrots and beats whole, then skin and slice, .Avoid cooking vegetables in an iron kettle. Save a ham bone to cook with dried peas for pea soup, and thus add to the flavor of the dish. A teaspoonful of ammonia, mixed 'with half a cupful of cold tea is said to be excellent for cleaning black felt hats or men's black coats. Ap- ply with a bit of cloth. Some housewives believe that If the pitcher containing milk or cream is put into a pan of water it will ,he more likely to keep sweet during an electric storm. A pinch of soda added to a berry pie before the upper crust is pub on will keep it from running over. Pieces el wood soaked in cedar oil, and laid in drawers el an ordinary chest, closet or bureau will impart all the virtues of the. most costly cedar chest. Stains fromtinware, agate or crockery may he removed by rub- bing with ad mpctokhand sifted wood ashes. When the nickel chafing dish be- comes dull, wipe it off with a soft cloth moistened with ammonia, and then polish with another soft rag. Sew a small button to the corner of a dish towel. This will prevent the necessity of getting a knife to scrape a dish or plata. To prevent custard dishes or cups- hem uspsfrom cracking when pouring boiled custard into them, place the dish or cloth ori a clamp cloth. If hot vinegar is used instead of cold when Making meat sauce, it will greatly improve the flavor and give the sauce a better color. White enameled furniture can be cleaned by dissolving one table- spoonful of baking soda in one pint of warm water. Saturate a soft cloth -and wash the fnrnituro. A quantity of quicklime put into a dampoupboard for a few days 'will absorb the dampness. When the hoL-water bag starts to leak do nob throw it away,. but heat clean white aand and put it into,the bag, The sand is hotter than wa- ter, It retains the heat longer, The best way to cook an egg is to.'do it ono's:'•self at the breakfast table Take a quart of,boiling wa- ter and carefully drop the egg in, At the end of five or she minutes it -will be 'beautifully cooked. A delieiotus hot weather sandwich is mads of whole 'wheat bread, stale, buttered with unsalted bet- ter, and spread with chopped olives and welnlrts. Raisins also make a good filling,, Spiced j.elly for decorating meat 'dishes IS made • with. gelatine;• --a boxful soaked 'in a cup of these - molasses will re - THE KING'S PRIZE WINNER. Private Hawkins, photographed just after winning the prize. mime. Lot the liquid simmer and add a cupful of tarragon vinegar, two tablespoonfuls of fruit juice, any kind, and two of lemon juice, and a teaspoonful of salt. Cook five minutes, strain and chill. Swiss eggs are a good luncheon dish for summer. Butter a pie dish, cover the bottom with slices of cheese, break the eggs over the cheese and sprinkle with' bread - crumbs. Bake until done. 0' . NEW SLEEPIIIG SICKNESS. British Savant Describes Fatal Disease. Surgeon -General Sir David Bruce, head of the Sleeping Sick- ness .Commission, who was sent to Central Africa nearly two years ago, reports that the work will.not be completed for another year. The object of the commission was to study the relationship of the Af- rican fauna to the spread of sleep- ing sickness in that continent, The work has been carried on in a -wild and remote region about fifty miles from the shores of Lake Nyassa, where the members of the coniinis- sion lived and worked in mosquito proof huts. Sir David Bruce finds that the so-called sleeping sickness in Nyassalancl is not the same as that of Uganda or the West Coast, although it belongs to the same category. It is more rapid and even more fatal. There has been no case of recovery. It .is now established beyond doubt that the disease is carried by glossing morsitans, a fly which is widely spread over the whole of Africa. The disease in Nyasaland and north and northeastern Ithodesia has been given the name of sleeping sickness, but the work of the com- mission went to show that it was the old tetse fly disease of South Af- rican hunters, which was formerly supposed only to. attack animals, Sir hasnowread man. r but s to S p David Bruce does not believe that there is any danger of the disease spreading. He is of the opinion that it has probably been in these areas from time immemorial, and that it Swill never assume the terrible pro- portions of the sleeping sickness of the Congo or Uganda, BRIDAL FINERY IN SUMATRA. • The Dress and Ornaments Aro Heavy With Gold. Brides all over the World like to make the best display possible on their wedding day, and the bridal. attire of the various countries is in- variably both costly and beautiful. For sheer gorgeousness, however, says a writer in the Wide World,. it would be hard to rival the wed- ding finery of the helloe of the is- land of Sumatra. The dress is wov- en entirely of gold thread, and its weight is so groat that the wearer can hardly move; oven standing up requires a distinct effort:. Apart from this • shimmering;, golden gar- wont, the bride is loaded down with gold ornaments, rings, .bangles, ear- rings, pendants, girdles, end neck- laces, and sundry ornamental pur- ses of the same molal, The huge ornaments hanging on chains round her sleek are hollow, but all the smaller charms are of solid native gold, mast massively wrought, One "night almost think that the natives, having heard something about a good wife, being worth her weight in gold,' had .sot out to prove the fart by loading their. quaint little brides with the aetual"equivalent of their weight in the precious meth], SUSPEND LIFE FOR MONTHS. Professor Bakhmetileff Makes ; a Bold Assertion. Professor Bakhmetileff, Of Mos- cow, announces that he has been ex- perimenting to determine the source of life and has obtained some re- markable results along a collateral line, the suspension of life, by the use of a substance which he calls "anabiose," He has .been a specialist for seven- teen years in the study of hiberna- tion, and the results of cold upon animals, particularly bears, and his discoveries are in this fiell. He has progressed to a point, he says, where he can place an entire herd of cattle in a state of suspend- ed animation during the severe Russian winter, thereby saving the cost of fodder, shelter and attend- ance, and revive them in the spring in good condition, The treatment, which he has ap- plied suoeessfully to several differ- ent kinds of animals, reduces them to total unconsciousness; respira- tion and digestion cease completely. They are kept for months at a uni- form temperature, regulated by a thermometer, and when they are brought into light, humidity and warm they recover eoneciousness, apparently not weakened by their experience. Professor Bakmetieff has not -yet been able to apply "aniebiose" to human beings to determine if healthy persons could be transfer- red to complete suspended anima- tion and then restored at will to their previous health; ,but he is in negotiation with the prison depart- ment to obtain volunteers among condemned men who will submit themselves to the treatment. The other clay he brought back to magpie, after a decent lapse of full life a large sturgeon which he had ice t under "anaboise" since time, admitted the stranger to its winter without any kind of nourish -.L companionship.• The wild, larder - meet and in complete stillness. It , less bird, however, had little time proved to be perfectly healthy, with h roe in fine condition which to e w would not be the ease with a fish kept frozen. AIit•SIfiP IN REAL EARNEST. Graphic Recount of Its Work in the Turco -Italian War, An interesting eurnsnent on the progress of avistien and the influ- ence it is exerting on evident meth- ods of warfare is furnished by 011 account of the work (,f a dirigible in the 'Turco -Italian War, publish- ed in the Stamps of Turin. The dirigible left its hangar at six in the morning, with the com- mander and two pilots. The object was to carry .out an offensive recon- naissance, econnaissance, Rising over the sea to the height of one thousand meters, the balloon turned eastward toward Koefia, and passed over that oasis. The crew could see that, for the moment, at least, thorn were none gible turned south toward Sidi Mufta, in the neighborhood of which were scattered the tents of the Turk and Arab camp THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON I.NT131tNATIONtL LESSON, AUGUST. 31. Lettson XL -Israel at Mount Sinai. I,xod. Chap. 19. Golden Text, Ifeb. 12,28. FEARS OF CZAR OF HU .GAS S 1NLAS' LIES TUE HEAD 7'IIA7` WEARS 1e-. (1tOWN. "If Only They Spare, iiy Boy," Says, "I Don't. fill.trd:" Tho narrative intervening be- Ferdinand, self-styled Czar of tween our last lesson and this ono the Bulgars, is,in perpetual fear of includes a number of important assassination. Night after night he events. At liephitiirn the people , stays up, `afraid to go to bed, When murmured against Moses because members 'of his suite urge him to of lack of water, which, after' get sleep he replies; Moses's earnest intercession with! "History tells me that a monarch Jehovah, was mirevelously sale: surprised in his bed never gets, plied. Then came Israel's war with; away alive." on thek, familiar to Bible readers; Rio equerries, who include Ger principally because of the incident' mans and an Englishman, but no mountain top in which AaronBulgarian, take turns sitting up No sooner had it, reached the edge and Her supported the hands of ] with him. M of the encampment than numerous little puffs of white smoke were- bb- semved on the ground beneath, and the unmistakable crackle of rifle fire made itself heard above the roar of the air -ship's motor: The Turks and Arabs had begun a vio- lent fusillade against the dirigible, which promptly answered by drop- ping its first bomb. A flash of fire and a dense cloud of smoke rose from the middle of a group of tents, and men were seen to rush out and away from them. The Turks, realizing the futility of their rifle -Tire, brought their ar- tillery into action. From the edge of the sand -dunes came two flashes, soon followed by others. Evidently the Turks had prepared the artil- lery beforehand for this purpose, for the shells took an almost verti- cal line of flight, The Turks had posted their guns on the slope of the ,sand -hills, and buried the tail of the carriage deep in the sand in order to prevent the recoil from overturning the gun. In spite 01 all the preparations, however, the aim of the gunners was wild. The dirigible, on the other hand, let fall other bombs, which seemed to be as effective as the first. The aeronauts, moreover, while carry- ing on this aerial combat, which lasted almost en hour, accomplished also the chief end of their yoyage— an exact reconnaissance of the en- emy's camp. They took numerous photographs, which, when put to- gether in proper order, gave a per- fect plan of the position. The diri- gible returned to its hangar at eight o'clock; it had been two hours in the air. INVENTING A GAME. A Magpie and White -eared Fly- , catcher Have .Some Fun. A young magpie came into the possession of Mr. E. 7. Banfield, who, in his book, "My Tropic Isle," gives an interesting account of the bird's accomplishments. It went in and out of the kitchen at will, and if by chance food was not spread out at the accustomed place, it protested loudly, and al- ways effectively. The bird spent many hours en- deavoring to sing. No cultured relative was present to teach the notes of its kind, so that in default ib learned the complete vocabulary of the domestic poultry, besides the more familiar calls and exclama- tions of its mistress. A white -eared flycatcher took up its abode near the house, and the What It Was. The small boy was the first to an- swer the telephone. The person on the other encs of the wire was a friend of his ,mother, and the fol- lowing conversation ensued :-"Is this Mrs. Blank's residence?" "No, ma'am, it's Mrs. Blank's little boy." Speed and Endurance. "Money went a whole lot further in the old days than it does now," said the Old Fogy. "That's s because it didn't go so fast," explained the Wise Guy, The Difference: He stood beside the altar, And his face_ was grave and sad; She stood beside the altar, With a smile both sweet and glad. .Once is Enough, Groh—They a� s lightning never strikes twice in the same piece. Kohn—Well, what's the use 1 No man is happy unless the thinks he is, But there is little marrow iu the bone of contention. Lots of failures 000 be trained 'to the belief that other people are tot uniteas smart as we aro. But why this awful ciifforenee Between the man grid maid l I3er clothes were made to order While his were reedy made, to play. All its wits and energies weredevotedto e ser the serious busi- ness ness of life. It knew none of the games that the magpie invented .ex- cept one—s. kind of aerial "peep - bo," to which the more intelligent bird lured it by means of a prize. The magpie found a moth, big of abdomen, fat and brown, a tempt- ing morsel to any insectivorous bird. Envious of thedainty, the wagtail fluttered and skipped about the magpie with cheerful chatter; but the fluttering moth, daintily held by the extremity of its body, was alternately presented and de- nied. While they danced about a bush, the magpie tantalizingly held the moth for acceptance and hop- ped off as .the wagtail was about to snatch it. To the. tante bird, :forti- fied by the knowledge that its meals were provided, it was all fun. To the hungry wild one, the meth. dangling teonptingly before it and whipped disappointingly away, it \vas a gams equally .sincere, but of varied interest. The one assumed a whimsioai air, chuckling in sir eouraging tongs; the other took it all in earnest, At last, unable to restrain an ex olamation of delight, the magpie unwarily ,slaolcened its hold, and the moth fluttered off, to be snap- ped up on the instant by the wild bird, and gulped without ceremony. After this the game was frequent= ly played, but the magpie had in- variably to make it worth the while of the wagtail by offering it prizes in the shape of ootoa tit -hit, A suooesful man is not eeeesear- ly, a cleverer mat than the failure, Ito may merely have worked a little harder.. Moses while he prayed for Israel's He refuses to sen ns misters, victory.Not ion afterward, Jeth- !but transacts much business during ro, thpriest off Mi•dian, Moses's these vigils, reading reports and father-in-law, visited the camp of dictating orders. Sometimes, over - Israel in the wilderness, giving come by fatigue, he dozes over his Moses wise counsel concerning the writing table, but starts up dedar- thating way is which he might best admin j ries to enter the revolpalace.tioaIt is someit me later the important affairs of his :before he can be assured all is difficult office (chapter 18), Our of the story immediately following lesson passage takes up the thread quiet. Inieie the morninghe takes refxesh- merit, his hath nd sleeps aa few the departure of Jethro. terra in an armchair. He often Verse 1. In the : third month— talks of Prince Alexander of Bat- parturAccorde o to raei f o2. 1, 2, the des tonbur his predecessor, and the pasture of Israel from Egypt was g, commemorated :by way the Bulgarians entered the pal - tion of a new calendarthe :inaugura_ "This ace at night and dethroned him. He month shall be unto you the begin - fortune mentions Mancini, the famous ning of months; it shall be the first fortune teller, who once told' him month of the year to you." But that he would have unexpected glo- the first month of the Jewish calm ries in 1912 and a terrible catastro- dar corresponded approximately Phe in '1813. Be complains that, to our month of April, which would though gifted with second sight, he fix the time of the year for the cannot tell what his own immediate events of our lesson .as midsummer, future will be. The slime day --Three months to Thinking of 11i6 DQy- a day after their departure out of Egypt. Wilderness of Sinai—The unhab- ited district iu the immediate vicin- ity of the mountain. Sinai itself is usually identified with Horeb, and located near the southern point of the peninsula between the Gulfs of Suez and Akabah. Rephidim—Somewhere in the vi- cinity of Sinai, perhaps just north- west of the mountain itself. 3. Moses went up unto God— Went up the mountain to be alone in med Cation and prayer. The house of Jacob—Jacob's de- scendants, the Israelites. 4. Bare you on eagles' wings—A beautiful -figure illustrating solici- tude of Jehovah for his people. The habits of the parent eagle were not unfamiliar to the desert pilgrims. This king of birds is said to hover mind 'and beneath its young when these make their first attempts to fly, ever ready to support them on expanded wing when they become exhausted. Brought you unto , myself ---Sepa- rated you from other peoples wor- shipping other gods, 5, 0. My covenant—From this time forward Israel's relationship to Jehovah is to be a peceuliar covenant relationship. Israel be- burg -Gotha, his mother, refused to comes Jehovah's own possession, a give it to him, saying that it was an kingdom, ofpriests and a holy na- ambition which ought not to be en - "I'll stay with My people to the bitter end," he remarked one night recently, when he had recovered after a false alarm. "But something warns me it is close at hand. Il only they will spare my boy (Crown Prince Boris), I don't mind." When Ferdinand had himself crowned as Czar of the Bulgars, great indignation was aroused in Russia, especially as the coronation robes and diadem are copied from those in the Kremlin at Moscow. The vain glory of the ceremonial is partioularly apparent in cbntrast with his present position of discre- dit and abasement and the Slays are superstitiously inclined to at- tribute his misfortunes to his set- ting himself up in competition with the Russian Czar. The Brown and sceptre in his por- trait in his coronation robes have a strange history. They were order- ed by him twenty-five years ago, when Bulgaria had only just begun to develop after .its independence and he was a Prince whom neither Austria nor Russia would recog- nize, The Munich goldsmith . who made them refused to deliver them till $1.00,000 was paid. The Prince had not so much at his disposal and Princess Clementine of Saxe -Co - tion. "And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreign- ers shall be your plowmen and vine -dressers. But ye shall be nam- ed the priests of Jehovah" (Isa. 61. 5, 0). • Verses 7 to 15 inclusive record the preparations made by Moses and the people for the further manifestation of Jeh vah's will to- couraged. The angry goldsmith put them in his window with a notice reading: "Regalia, to be sold cheap; the Prince of Bulgaria refuses topay for it." Czarina Without Fear. Huge crowds flocked to see, them, qq so Princess Clementine felt oblig- ward'them, in harmony with Jeho- ed to pay to stop gossip. They have been worn by' him only onset at lois vats announcement to Moses. recently coronation at Tirnova, 16. The voice of a trumpet ex- Bulgaria's ancient capital, recently seeding loud—Jehovah's summons destroyed by On earthquake. After the battle of Lille Y Burgas the were g taken to T hi'ace, as Czar Ferdinand hoped to be crowned .with them in Constantinople ; but circumstances were against him. They are now supposed to be in Vienna as part security•for an urgent loft for this impoverished eonora, country. Czarina Ellobo fears no plot, never leaves her hospitals, where there are now 18,000 wpand- ed, She snatohes a nap from time to time in the refeetory of the Cle- mentine Hospital, where she has placed German nuns. The two young Princesses work. hard with her, returning to the pal- ace to sleep, 13. sen i e. le dcernible beta s to the p op the cal oi thunder, bunclef peals 17. Gat of the camp—Anel nearer to the mount. 18, ,Smoked . . . quaked — The whole manifestation was awe-in- spiring and overpowering in its ef- £aot upon the minds of the people. The language throughout is that of the early prophetic narrative, abounding in expressions in which the actions of Jehovah are brought within the range of human compre henskn. 21. Break through unto Jehovah --,Approach too near the sacred meltn To gazetain,—Merely for the purpose of satisfying their curiosity, a Mascot Ring for Duchess The mascot engagement ring is. the latest thing in jewelry. It is said that Prince Arthur has given the Duchess of Fife a delightful old ring, which belonged to the family of the Iced Prince, to which house Ids mother belongs. This jewel has a history, It was given by a for- bear of the Duchess to her flanee, a soldier prince, when ho was going to the wars, Itis in the shape of a nine, within which are nine magni- cent diamonds taking the form of an anchor, 'indicative of :faith and trustfulness. For years the mascot ring has been in theposeessioh of the Duchess of .Connaught,, .. ik ,i Cor ugal Amenities. Conjugal ICnicker-- Tou must take me for a bank, you are 'always asking for moy • Mneir. Knicker--' ou mutt take ma for a railroad; you are always thinking ]:.cm do with less: IRELAND IS 'LOOMING Low Deaill-Kato and. Population on the Increase. Ireland is 'improving in popula- tion and other vital respects, ac- cording to the report of the Regis- trar -General for the year 1812, pub- lished on Tuesday. The salient points are :—Lowest annual death -rate for Ireland since 1871—viz., 16.46 per 1,000; lowest annutal death -rate from tubercular disease :on record --viz., 2,18 per 1,000. Iuei•easo of 1,1.02 in pp. opulatsbn in the middle of 1912, there being 1,- 102 more births than deaths and emigrants during the year, Decrease in ihhfant mortality froln 04 per 1,000 births isa 1911 to83 per 1,000 in 14111. This fs the 1.08t infant mortality recorded for Ire- land, Tito birth rate was 23 Per 1,000 of p the;poptlletioti, being 0.2 hinder that of the preceding year,