HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1913-11-20, Page 3Catering For Large family.
Unronsoiously' or with . fore-
thought, writers on household mat-
ters show a leaning toward teach-
ing the young housekeeper "how to
cook for two," and the perplexi-
ties of the little cook are so appeal-
ing that we lose eight of the still
more serious problem that confronts
the mother of a large family, espo-
cially if the family lucerne has not
kept pane with the increased de-
mands made upon it or the higher
cost of living. It may be that we
take it for granted that years of ex-
perience precede the gradual ad-
vent of this largo family. However,
a mother's time is necessarily divid-
ed among many branches of home-
making, and unless she be well
trained in domestic economy the
cooking and serving of three meals
a day is likely to be subject to fine-
tuation•e whon the family will be
either under or over fed. Of course,
the quality and variety of food
must be determined by individual
taste and means, but many good
dishes suited to every purse and
palate can be made by judicious
marketing and management.
Chicken Economy.—To mention
chickens and economy at the same
time may seem rather far fetched,
but if all parts are used to advant-
age, you will find chickens no more
expensive than ohops or steak. For
a family of six or seven two medium
sized chickens, each weighing from
three to four pounds, will be liber-
al, allowing for one or two made
dishes to follow. To enable you to
stretch the birds, provide a few
suitable trimmings. They will take
a too keen edge from the appetite
and add materially to the enjoe-
anent of the meal, When the mar-
ket man outs off the feet, ask to
have them sent along, as you can
use them for stock. Have him draw
the chickens, and he will also out
them into suitable pieces, as for
fricassee. After washing all parts
well, remove the skin (to be tried
out and added to the drippings),
scrape and wash the feet, add the
first joint of the wings, neck and
giblets; cover" well with water and
simmer slowly with a few sprigs
of celery, a carrot and an onion;
'when meat is ,tender strain and set
the stock aside for further use.
Milk Baked Chicken.—When sim-
mering the stock, add the back of
the chickens bo the other less desir-
able parts and let this slowly come
to the boiling point. Then place the
jointed fowls on top, cover tightly
and let cook until almost done.
Now take out and season with .a
salt and pepper, roll each piece in
flour and lay closely together in a
buttered roasting pan. Dot top
with butterine or a little of the
fried out chicken fat and set in
oven until it begins to brown; then
pour one cupful of stock over top,
place back in oven and add one or
two cupfuls' of milk when almost
tender. When done the chicken
should be a light brown tinge and
the gravy must be rich and creamy.
This can be poured over the chicken
or served separately. A good ac-
companiment much liked by child-
ren is a celery and bread sauce.
Celery and Bread • Sauce.—(This
Is -also good with roast or fried
birds.) Ingredients; Three cupfuls
of celery, two cupfuls of bread
'Crumbs, one small onion, three
tablespoonfuls of butter, two to
three cupfuls of milk, salt, pepper
and celery•to taste, Method—Wash
and out celery into small pieces,
akin and cut up the onion, then
cover with 'weber, and simmer until
very soft, Drain through afruit
press, then add the butter and the
bread, which must be stale and
rolled or picked Into small bits.
Now add the hot milk,and season
to taste. Piece in a double boiler
and simmer until eoft enough to
mash the bread, The amount of
milk must be determined aecording
to the kind of bread treed or the con-
sisteney desired.
Hot, Chicken Sanl'tviches•—In
gredients:.Two to three cupfuls of.
diced or chopped chicken, three
cupfuls of chicken stock, one green
pepper, one tablespoonful of bet-
ter, four tablespoonfuls of flour,
salt and pepper to taste. Method
--Heat she stook, moisten the flour
with thesoftened buttes and
enough steels to rub emooth, then
:stir into, stook and add the minced
pepper and e'hieken. Stir and cook
'until thickened, then heap onto
toasted bread. A little parsley
garnishwill be an improvement..
This is a fine luncheon dish for hin-
•gry children,
Leftover Sallee and Chicken. -
1f some of the sauce as well a,s
ohieken is loft for a second day, try
to scallop them with the addition,
of a cupftti of oanned tomato pulp
and rolled eraokers, Method -••-
?lace a layer of the seasoned theta -
toes in pudding dish, cover walla
layer of relied crackers and bits of
butter: Mix the chopped ehiclren
and bread armee and spread over
tomatoes, Now put on rest +.vf te-
matloes, creekers enough to fen a
crust and dot' with hatter. Bake in
moderate oven to heat well and
brown top,
Peach Sago Pudding•--ingre-
clients : Three and one-half cupfuls
of but water, ene- half capful of
pearl sago, ane can of peaches, a
pinch of salt, sugar as needed.
Method ---Heat water in double boil-
er, add salt and stir in the sago.
When quite clear place a can of
peaches in a large pudding dish,
acid sugar to teeth, then pour on the
boiled sago (sprinkle a gaud layer
of sugar over top), and bake until
peaches are tender, (Do not use
too much of the liquid en the
peaches, but reserve for other uses.)
If cream is too expensive to serve
as sauce, make a thin custard to
pour over. This will serve eight
persons.
Househoili hints.
If the cuticle around the nails
seems dry and stiff there is a ten-
dency to hangnails, rub in well a
little vaeeline er cold cream every
night before going to bed. -
In packing away summer clothes
bo sure to let them be put away
rough dry. If they aro starched
there will be great danger of their
cracking when next brought out to
use,
To toughen glassware , or lamp
chimneys, immerse the glassware in
cold water to which some common
salt has .been added. Boil well,
then cool slowly. The glass will
resist a sudden change of tempera-
ture.
To clean white felt, make a soft
paste with magnesia and milk.
Cover the article thickly with 'the
mixture, applying it with a brush.
Leave this on until the next day,
then brush off with a clean, hard
brush.
The coffee pot should be cleaned
once a week in the following way:
Put a tablespoonful of washing
soda into the pot, 1111 it nearly full
of water and let boil for a little
while, thea rinse thoroughly with
hat water.
To prepare a painted wall for pa-
pering, wash it first with a solation
of half a pound of washing soda in
a gallon of water and than apply
a warm mixture of half a pound of
ground glue dissolved in a, pail of
water.
When working on velvet use only
the finest pine or needles to pin so
ail not to injure the pile and when
bastings are essential do not draw
the thread tight. Clip each stitch
with scissors before pulling out the
beatings,
The measures for the ordinary
French dressings are: Three table-
spoonfuls of oil, tablespoonfuls
of vinegar, a fourth of a table-
spoonful of salt, an eighth of a, tea-
spoonful of pepper. This is enough
for a pint of salad.
Wash leather furniture very
gently with warm water in which
there is a little vinegar, wipe with
a dry cloth and then restorethe
polish by mixing the whites of two
eggs and a little turpentine whioh
is applied with flannel. '
After thoroughly washing white
lace curtains, part them in a solu-
tion of one teaspoonful of chloride
of lime to three quarts of warm wa-
ter. Let the ourtain•s stand in the
solution for abort an hour.
If t'h'e •seats of caned chairs sag,
turn them upside down, wash well
with soapy water, soaking se as to
thoroughly wet them, and in drying
they will stiffen to almost, if not
quite, their normal condition.
A few :pieces of large .macaroni
inserted in the top crust of a berry
pie will prevent the juice running.
over into the oven. The juice will
force its way up into the macaroni
tabes, When the pie is baked and
the steam escapes, the ice will fall
baok into the pie. ce
A vary fine spool Bolder is made
with a brass curtain rod. Select
one small enough to allow the specie
to slip over it easily. Place on the
rod as many spools as it will hold,
then. fasten with email brackets.
which come with the rods and place
in a convenient position on the sow-
ing room well.
The piano, to be kept in ,good
condition, should not stand against
an outside wall, nor should it be
placed very near a fire. It should
be kept free from dust inside and
one If the keys become yellow,
make a paste of whiting ,and potash,.
lay it an them and leave for 24
hours, then polish. Heavy articles
on the top of the piano disorder the
soared,
New York es building the largest
hotel in the world, containing 1,800
theme, at a cost of, $12,500,000.
Greek athletes of old trained on
new cheese, dried figs, milk, and
warm wat81, bet never touched
Raab,
"You knew old Dempster, who
o.
.t
was said to be .so well off ? As yon
know, he died the other day, and
now the story goes that his one and
only possessson was an old grand-
father's °leek,' "A11, well, there's
one good thing eubout that, '.Ilhe.
trustees won't have much difficulty
in winding. up his eetato,"
T1iE RO5'Ai, CO le PEE A('leNOWLISDGE (HEEDING.
Prince Arthur anti Bride o i the Balcony.
Prince Arthur of Connaught and his wife, who was the Duchess, of
Fife, repaired to the ,bride's mother's home after the ceremony. Vast
orowds cheered them and forced them to make an appearance on the
balcony.
Our London Letter
Think Militant War Ended.
Tho Home Office is in a more cheerful
frame of mind regarding the "wild wo-
men," for it regards till back of the mili-
tant movement as having been broken.
The police to a largo extent share this
view. There are very few recruits to the
ranks of the militants and the Suffragette
has dropped rte lewd artielee by Ohrieta-
bel Pankhu st. Fearer women have been
aeon selling the paper in the street title
week than for several weeks. For the last
couple of Thursdays, publication day, not.
one woman has been Been distributing the
Suffragette fn the Strand, where for a
long time there was oneevery week ,fust
wont of the Hotel Oeoll and auothor meth.
site Simpson's, the famous restaurant,
Hop Growers Reaping Profits.
The London hop market is experiencing
a crisis unprecedented eine the famines
season of 1882 when hopsattained a price
never reached before or since:
For several years English hope have
been plentiful, but of poor eua)ity, and
the ruling price was so low that all of the
weaker growers wore driven out of Mai -
nese, leaving only the independent farm -
ore in the field. This season the crap in
England and Austria 00 very short, and
the market had hardly opened -when
prices' began to Boar.
In the United States the crop is Phintf-
ful and good and, almost from the open
ing of the market, the prioe on rho other
side hail boon 10 Bents lower than hero. In
spite of the high. price no hone have been
brought to market, and the surviving
growers are enjoying their vengeance t0
the fullest extent. All of them can hold
on as long as they pleeee and with the
season two weeke old there are no signs
of weakening on their part. ' The only
buyers who are happy are those who fore-
saw the conditions early enough to buy
American crops in advance, some of whom
hayo made fortuueo on their deals.
Windsor's Treasure Vaults, •
There is one thing no visitor to Wind-
sor ever sees, and that is the vast trose-
urc vaults that lie beneath the buildings.
Ae a matter of fact, the whole Oastle
Hill is honeycombed evith vaults, which
in olden days formed part of the system
of fortification of the plane againet a
possible siege. But to -day they are put
to more peaceable purposes and aro used
to store away the wealth of the palace
imine the absence of the court. Some
of them farm vast strong rooms, and it le.
iu these that the famous gold plate is
kept that Is displayed on the oeoasion°of
state banatuets. But very little of it, is
really gold; the bulk of it is only silver
gilt.
Royal Mint's Record Output.
From the annual report of the Royal
Mint it is Been that the output in 1912
largely exceeded, both in value and in the
rec
,ntuvberords. of opine produced, all previous
Nearly 162,600,000 Imperial corns were
struckthere during the year, and that
this number exceeded the highest previoue
figure of any year by nearly 34,000,000. The
gold coinage exceeded that of 1911 by about
400,000 pieces. The number of pieces struck
in silver has only ones been exceeded vise
in 1710, though, the value of the coinage
in this metal in 1912 was greater than Su
any previous year, .The coinage in bronze
numbered upward of 77,000,000 pieces of a
value of $1,267,010, figures again which are
unprecedented for any year. The heavy -
Imperial coinage made it again impossible
to undertake all the colonial ordure whish
were tendered, and only some 8,600.000'0f
Colonial coins were struck, a entailer num-
ber than 'in any previous year since 1890.
The total coinage of the year amounted
to over 171,000,000 pieces of a currency
value of upward of $102,500,000, the high-
est figure on record.
Int,16,800,000
d addition n to the output of the Boyar
Ei
pieces of Imperial pence
and 44,308,000 corns for Colonial Govern-
ments were struck by a Birmingham firm.
In addition to these coinages two outside
companiee' supplied the Boyar Mint vvit1,
over 316 .tone of unstamped coins for.
pence and farthings,
Washington's Homo For Sale.
Sulgrave Manor, the ancestral home of
the washingtons is open to the purchase
of any Ono who line 440,000 to enure,
It ishardly neceoaary to point out that
Washington himself never lived there, the
laet of his family to inhabit the old home
being hie groat•great-graudfather.
Rubbor For Street Paving.
"Facts and Problems of the !tubber In-
dustry" was the title of a lecture delivered
at the Northern) Polytechnic Institute,
Holloway, this week, by Prof, Wyndham B.
Dunstan, 0.10.0,, director• Of the Imperial
Institute. Dealing with the ousstion of
eynthetio rubber, Prof, Dunstan said that
artificial rubber could be produced by the
chemist 1)y elaborate procc arm without
the aid of the living plant, but' 10 could
not .be produced artiticially as cheaply
as it coltld be grown, With the prospect
of rubber being produced 9 ortly 'at Isms
than 25cents it pound, the chances of syn-
thetic tubber eonpoting against the real
product oomaneroially'were becoming more
ar�d 00005 molt,
1n his wproinlon there is a big future ter
rubber, which,lie believes, will in the. near
Futuro, be utilized for the - flooring of
o turohee, chapels, hulks, and other pub.'
ea bend:segre, if not fm' etroot pavans
7)1113)0$00. Ono timer now llecoeeary wad
to asoortain and define onceand for all
the oharaoteriatibs which the raw ina•.
serial Omuta 1100acee if) order to adapt
it meet effectually for manufacturing eta -
lases.
Now Mistress of the Robes.
Queen Mary has appeinted the stately
Deeheee of Portland mistress of the robes,
tate only Oho of the (-omen's "ladies' Who
has to go out of °fila° with a change of
ininietkry, 'rho inistree of robes, always
a du011050, 01100100 100011
ext t0 1,i0 51010011 0011
honor. Hneeen0 and controls alts maids ed
honor, )for lu,ebai4 i0 naturally sup00801
to be of Hie same politics ns the party in
power, Thorn was -no Liberal deka left i1
the country, ,id the best thing to 40 in
the view of the Quote ems to choose it
duchess .w11nes husband 11ne 1100 b0011 a
partisan. .
Has puehossos A.'Plonty,
Four deeheseee have 'Litton no their re.
ehleeee 01 tt.nnbmunt011 11, 0110 time fele
tenable suburb of Emmen, burl still eon-
sidered one of tbo most deeirable residers•
tial districts.
The du0beeses are their Graces of Marl-
borough tied ltosburghe, the Ducheee of
Westminster, who has left the more state-
ly residences of her husband for a house
in this district, and the recently widowed
Milicent,,Duchess of Sutherland,
There 10 no prettier pluco 071 the bor-
ders of London than Boehamptou. The
nearest town io Putney, although as a
matter of fact, the whale dietrict is a
part of Landon, and at Roehampton one
gets theA Ttrieet miooaAndrew Lancountry.
A handeome granite Celtic cross has
been erected at Andrew Lang's grave in
the Eastern Cometery, St, Andrew's. The
Inscriptioon the base of the crime ie as
follows: "Andrew Lang, born. March 31,
1044, died July 20. 1912. Tho 001110 of the
righteous aro in the' ]rands of God, there
shall no torment touch them,"
London, Nov. 1, 1913,.
R
A SISTER'S LOVE.
Gave Food to Her Brother Whish
She Required Herself.
kb -the Wood Public School in
Philadelphia they conduct a "food
clinic" eaoh morning for under-
eoulishodd children. It consists of a
nourishing ration of well -cooked
cereal and milk, which is given .at
recess, under the direction of the
medical inspector of the school, to
each child who suffers From malnu-
trition. The school nurse weighs
the children each week.
Little Monica was seven pounds
under weight. She had a little crip-
pled brother, named Robert, in the
kindergarten. At the end of her
first week at the lunch -table, the
scales showed that Monica had not
gained as the other children bad.
At the next day's launcheen an at-
tendant watched her to see how
much food and mills she really did
eat. He saw the child, when she
thought she saw an opportunity to
do so unobserved, slip down from
her seat, take her bowl of cereal
and milk and her spoon, go out
through the door and down the hall
to the kindergarten room. There
she fed her portion to her little
brother Bobby.
She ate none herself, quickly
went back to her place, put the
empty bowl on the table in front
of her, and sat demurely until the
children were dismissed. Then she
returned to her class -room hungry,
bat happy in the thought that her
little brother had been fed. She
had bean doing the same thing
every day—which explained quite
well why she had not gained in
weight.
CITY TENEMENT IS OLD IDE;A.
Poor of Ancient Rome Were Infin-
itely Worse Off Than 'Io -day.
The tenement house is not a mod-
ern institution by any means. So
great was the number of such.
houses in ancient Rome, and so
badly were they constructed, that
in A.D. 69 Emperor Otho, who
was marching • against vitellus,
found his way barred for twenty
miles by the ruins of tenement
houses .that had been undermined
by inundation,
The spontaneous collapse of tene-
ment' houses in those days was so
common an occurrence that little
attention was paid eo it. The ten-
ants havebean descioibed by a
writer of the times as constantly
fearing to be burned or buried
alive. Companies existed for' the
purpose of prepping and sustaining.
houses,
)n comparison with the modeled
tenements, those of Rome were ex-
cessively high. Martial alkides to
a poor man, his neighbor, who Was
obliged to mount 200 stops to roach
his garret.
That garret must, have been
perched nearly one hundred feet
above the level of the'street, Em-
peror .Augustus, to make less fre-
tiGelit the occurrence of disasters,
limited the height of now houses
that opened upon the attests to
about sixty-eight feet.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESION
INTIl1iNATJ0NAL LESSON,
NO' 115'4; 131.11 28.
VIM—joie:ea, the New
Lesson
Leader. Josh. 1. 1-9. .Golden
Text, Josh. 1,9.
Verse 1, After the death of Mo-
ses—'The Israelites are still en-
camped in the land of Moab, east
of the lowest Junta). In Deut.
34, 8 we are told that "the ohildree
of Israel wept fur Muses in the
plains of Moab thirty days," after
which it appears that Joshua took
immediate command of all the ad-
ministrative affairs of the nation.
Jehovah spake—It is not neces-
sary to think of an audible, verbal
communication from Jehovah to
Joshua in this couneetien. Jcshua
had long been second in command
as; the assistant of Moses, and the
situation naturally demanded that
he take up immediately the reins
of administration and proceed to
carry out the plans of Moses, which
were very familiar to him. His
duty, therefore, was most olear,
and se ho contemplated the work
before 'hien, and the best means of
carrying it out, he was conscious
that the work intrusted to him was
placed upon him by Jehovah, and
there was borne in en his heart and
mind by the Divine Spirit a strong
and overwhelming conviction . that
he should at once "arise" and
"go over this Jordan," and lead
the people of Israel unto the land
which Jehovah had promised them.
God speaks to men to -day as truly
and as clearly as he did to Joshua;
yet we do not expect the audible,
verbal communication now—nor
need we think of such a communi-
cation here. That the language of
the sacred historian is figurative
and anthropomorphic does not de-
tract from the value of his narra-
tive. 'On the contrary, it adds
much to its forcefulness and beauty
and gives to this ancient record a
naw and more enduring meaning
and value.
Moses' minister—For forty years,
ever since the departure of the Is-
raelites from Egypt, Joshua had
been the principal assistant and
adviser to Moses.
3. Every place . , . to you have
1 given it—A supreme challenge to
conquest and faith.
As I spake unto Moses—The
The pro
mise referred to is found in Deut.
11. 24, which reads : "Every place
whereon the sole of your foot shall
tread shall be yours: from the wil-
derness, and Lebanon, from the
river, the river Euphrates, even
unto the hinder (western) sea shall
be your border."
4. The boundaries of the land of
promise, the new home of the re-
deemednation, were to be the wil-
derness on the south, fhe lofty
mountain ranges of Lebanon on
the • north, the great river, the
river Euphrates, on the east, and
the great seatoward the going down
of the sun, that is, the Mediter-
ranean, on the west. For other
speai'fic designations of these
boundaries, compare also the fol-
lowing references Gen, 15, 18-21;
Exod, 23. 31; Num. 34. 1-2.
The land of the Hittites—.North-
ern Syria, extending westward in-
to Asia Minor. The Hittites were
neither Semites nor Aryans, but.
probably Mongolians, whom they
resembled most nearly in physiog-
nomy and dress. Their facial type
is said s£bll to persist in the peas-
antry of Cappadocia, Their most
prosperous national period was
from about B. C. 1600-700 after
which latter date they were ab-
sorbed by the. Assyrian empire,
6. As 1 was with Moses—The nar-
rative is designed to impress upon
the reader the sense that the con-
tinuity of the nation and of its high
purpose was independent of, and
not broken by, a change in • the
person of the leader.
I will not fail thee, nor forsake
thee—A promise quoted by the au-
thor of the Epistle to the Hebrews;
"Be ye free from the love of
money; content with such things
as ye have : for himself hath said,
I'wili in no wise fail thee, neither
will I in any wise forsake thee"
(Heb. 13. 5). Compare also Deut.
31. 0, 8; 1 Ohron. 28, 20.
'T. Observe to do according to all
the law—The law is tobe strictly
and carefully observed if the great
work to which Joshua has been
called is to be successfully accom-
plished. He is to "read, mark; and
inwardly digest" that law, carry-
ing out its provisions to the letter,
Have good success Literally,
"deal wisely,"
8, This 'boob of the law—'This
obviously refers to the `law' de-
scribed in Dent, 31, 9 as written by
Moses and delivered to the Levitee
and elders. .That it embraces a
tionsiderable nucleus, of the Ponta-
touchal legislation (including, d:
course, the bulk of Excel. 20-23) few.
elitists would deny."—Dtunmelow.
0. Have not I commanded thee lee
ror similar enlpinasis on the per-
sonal, lelulerehip of Jehovah, com-
pare' Deut. 81, 7, 8, 28.
DOWN OY'FlE SOUNDING SEA
DIMS OF NEWS :FRO :II THE
MARITIME PROVINCES.
Items of Interest From Places
Lapped by Waves of the
A.tlantie.
A big party of shantymen and
cantraotorle have gone to Anticosti
to curb pulp wood this winter.- Ac-
cording to the agent who. engaged
the man, it is expected to cut 25,-
000,000 feet.
An I.C.R. baggatiemaster named
Wm, Landry, of Plotou, was com-
mitted for trial on a oharge of
stealing a letter containing $300,
given to him to mail by W. L,
Reid, of Welford, N.S.
In the St. John, W.B., police
court a man was up charged with
theft. The police had found a quart
of liquor on him, which it was :said :
"Looked like amber and tasted like
the fiery sword of Genesis,"
In Rothesay parish, near St.
John, N.B„ it is complained that
too many men go shooting on Sun-
days, and people going to church
complain that they are in danger of
their lives from the reckless hunt-
ers.
New Brunswick vendors of pro-
bate and law stamps have received
notice from the provincial Ines-
surer that, beginning en November
1, those instruments will be sold
through the Bank of Montreal in
future.
Roy Anderson, a messenger far
the Western Union at St. John,
N.B., drew $52 for the month of
September, which is said to he the
largest sum ever earned by a mes-
senger in one month in that city.
Joseph Thayer Gilman, a million-
aire car manufacturer of Chicago,
spent his holidays in Moncton, N.
B. There he met Miss Marion V.
Mackenzie. On October 4 Miss
Mackenzie and Mr. Gilman were
married in Bacton.
Over 150 Nova Scotian vessels
were engaged in the deep sea fish-
eries this season, an increase of
400 men and $250,000 in capital.
Throughout the province 30,000 peo-
ple are directly dependent on deep
sea fishing for a livelihood.
At Moncton, N.B., a police officer
prevented a man from jumping over
a high bluff, intending to oonerdt
suicide. He took the man to the
station, and two hours later dis-
covered him in the act of hanging
himself with his, suspenders,
The three -masted topsail schoon-
er Destinana, from Carboncar,
Nfld., to North Sydney, O.B., ran
ashore at Gooseberry Cove, in a
fog and was a total loss. One sea-
man jumped on the reeler with a
line .and saved the lives of all the
crew.
THE ORIGINAL JACI( HORIER.
Brow It Occurred That an Unfor-
tunate Cleric Was Hanged.:
"Little Jack Horner," the famil-
iar nursery rhyme, had its origin
in a real tragedy, according to the
story that a London correspondent
tells.
Daring the Reformation, the
head of Glastonbury Abbey in the
west of England resolved to make
his peace with Henry VIII., and,
in token thereof, sent certain title -
deeds of abbey property to the king
at Whitehall. For security's sake,
the abbot placed the documents in
a pie dish, and covered them with a
cruet; The dish he gave to a rustic
lout, named Jack Horner, and he
told' him to carry it by the highroad
to the king in London.
On the read, Jack Horner became,
hungry, and came to the conolnsion
that it would be kebob. to starve
'while he bad a pie in hie hands. So
he broke the crust and pub in his
thumb and pulled oat a roll of
parchment. The disgusted and cis-'
appointted fellow threw both pie
and parchment into a• nett .by
brook,
`Then trite deeds did not appear,
tloo king charged the abbot with
contumacy, and commanded that
the unfortunate cleric "should be
hanged,
Step Lively..
Yeast—"Nothing will make a per-
son walk eo quickly as good cold
weather,"
,Crimsonbeak — `'Ori, I don't
know, 'There's the dinner bell,"
It was the class in 'the ascend
reader, and little Willie had just
been called upon to rise and take
up the reading where Martha had
left elf. 177111ie stood ab attention,
his book held in the proper position
before; hind, elutohed the corner of
his desk ,with his ;free hand, swal-
lowed hard, and rend: "This is a
waren dougb.nut, step .. on it:".
"Wheel" gasped the teacher. "Wil-
lie, that is not eor)'eet: head •it
again,)' ;Willie did, withthe same
'esult, Moreover, rte maiiitained
'toutly that that was what his book
vied, So the teacher had bin' bring
it to her, Perhaps there ilial bone
a misprint, .and 13nt this its
what the teaaiter read in Willie's
book: "This is a worm. Do not
iatep alx it,"
RAS ' SAVED TRB LIVES 90
RrNDREDS OF PEOPLE,
The ' That Sas San>, Sea;
DiSignalsasters of. Thou ho
Wox'st
Terrors,
art
Although the recent burning of
the Volturno in mid -ocean" was 28
terrible enough catastrophe in all
conscience, it obviously might Have,
been much worse, says London An.
swill's,
In the days before Wireless tele-
graphy had been invented, and
when ships were built of wood, .in-
stead of steal and iron as at pre-
sent, a vessel once well in the grip.
of the fire fiend was doomed, and
that quickly. Practically the only
hope of salvation for the passers'-
gels, or the bulk of them, at all i
events, was that some passing ship
might be "attracted to the epee
through seeing the glare of the can-
flagration reflected in the sky,
A typical and terrible instance of
a fire at sea in such circumstances
was the burning of the Cospetriek
in mid-Atlantic in the year 1874.
Like the Volturno, thee was an ends.
grant ship, but, unlike the Voltur
no, she was built of wood, and was,
of course, unfitted with wireless'[
which had not then been even so
much a8 thought of, let alone per•
faded,u
Hndreds Wore Drowned.
The fire broke out at midnight,
following a concert in the fore -
cabin, and ,spread so rapidly that
numbers of the unfortunate pes-
sengere were burned to death or
suffocated in their berths. Ie nese
than two hours the whole ship was
a raging inferno of flame, to escaPee
eesei
which the poor, doomed emigrants
leaped overboard into the sea by
soores and by hundreds,,
Some boats were launched, but
they were mostly either crushed
against the sides of the rolling res-
eel—as happened in the case of the
Volturno -mor they were swamped•
soon afterwards. One only suc-
ceeded in getting away, but minus
either oars, or food, or water. She
held thirty-two people—men, wok
men and children. Ten days later
she was picked up by s, passing
ship, and she then contained three
living men and several dead bodies.
Thews three •poor' wretches consti-
tuted the sole survivors of a crew
and passenger -list numbering near-
ly five hundred persons.
Survivors Would Be Pinked Up.
To -day, on the other hand, it is
safe to say, such a, tale of horror
would be practically impossible of
enactment, For even if the
signal did net bring help quickly
enough to save the people actually
on the burning vessel, or if, owing
to exceptionally bail weather, they
could not be transhipped—as very
nearly happened in the case of the
Volturno, it will be remembered—
any survivors actually afloat in
boats would be sere to be picked
up long before they had been driven
to have recourse to thea last dread
alternative of shipwrecked people—
cannibalism. One hes only to re-
call how the Titanie's boats were
picked up one after the other by
the liner's raring frantically to the
rescue to bo sure of this much) a'b
all events.
But when a flimsy wooden ship
catches fire, even with help quite
near, the consequences are apt to
be as terrible as of yore: This was
proved in the case of the excursion
steamer General Slocum, burned in
Long Island Sound, near New
York, in the summer of 1904. Wire-
less even if it had been installed
on board, would have availed her
nothing, for she , blazed up all at
21nce like the gigantic tinder -box
site was, and in twenty minutes o
so al was over, v a
1 v above u�san}}•
, rho d
of her hapless passengers being
burned or drowned.
Story of the Sarah Sands.
This: bythe way, constitutes the
4 h
bigge.t death-rollassociated with
any fire at sea, and, barring the
Titanic, of env _marine catbbast,rophe
that has ever been recorded.
But, of course, not, all even of the
old-time sea -going vessels were se
flimwily construoted h♦a wee the ill. -
fated General Slooum, or even es
the Cospatrick, which had been an
Bast Indianan, and had a ltet,ser
wooden top -hamper, dmngerows
deck houses and galleries,
If one has any doubt about this,
it is (ally necessary to recall the
story of the Sarah Sands, wlhielli
was actually navigatbed .into the
Mauritius—a ten daty's voyage --of-'
ter being peactioally gutted', by fires
and with her port -quarter )blown
1 q
out intothe baa•gitin; owing to. the
explosion of a barrel of guitpowcllere
Fermi whets agonies of em1ele+ty
would 110th Wirole'ss have saved iter
gallant.
t ,
eaptai� tied the hundreds
o,
souls uloard f her, t( say n"btxng
of ihc, -torture' from, hlingee and.
thirst that they underwent doting
t a
voyage,ha' 0l i-:
t has .abs utory no cool
tel'parlt in the stirring ,annals of the
seal