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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1914-4-30, Page 3tiou5ehold iteinty Dishes. 'eel En Caseerole, .Get two poun.ds of the neck or .shoulder of veal and mieein smelt cubee. I-Medge with seat:soma flour. Put the veal in a casserole. Add n teaspoonful of chopped parsley,. .neassin with pep- per and salt and etiver with milk. C'over the etiserule and let it. cook very slOwly for ao hour and a half. 'Thicken the gravy- with a little Roue, essoked in butter, if neces- sary, end serve. Tomato ii nee. -Cook one ancl one-half ceps uf .tomato with a slice t.d union and eight whole Cloves ten minutes and strain: Suiten two tablespoons of buttes and 'blend 'with it toe table.spoun sif flour, .osie- half teaspoon of salt a»el on e -eighth teaspoon of pepper. Add the strain - •ed tomato and cook five minutes. 11 there is not enough strained lama- . to, add enough water to umke !cupful. Skirled Eggs With Tomato,- ' Put Mohali teaspoon of butter in each ramekin or shirring dish; -when me/ted add four 'tablespoons of strained tomato and a few drops •of onion joke and salt and pepper. Drop into each dish a fresh .egg and sprinkle over it -a spoonful .of grat- ed cheese. :Bake until the white .egg is set and the cheese is melted. N u t it na•Cheese oast. -One cup of sheee.e broken in small •bits, one cup of English walnut meats, one cup of soft breaderumbs, ,two ta- blespoon:, of chopped onion, one tie- blespoon vsf butter, juice of one -halt lethun, one egg and salt and pep- per. Cesok the onion until tender in the but -ter and a little water. Mix Lite cheese, nuts, and bread- crumbe, all the seasonings and the beaten egg. A,dd the onion. Pour into a battered shallow baking tin and bake twenty ininu•tes in an oven hot enough to brown it. " BI ue Ribbon" Do ugh nuts.-Ine to one ceffee clip of sugar beat two egge and a dessertspoon of melted butter. Sift two heaping teaspoons .of baking powder, ooe-fifth tea- spoon of ..a.da and a half teaspooa. of salt bite- it quart of flour and stir this with a coffee cup of sweet milk into the streamed sugar and eggs. Add a grating of nutmeg and a lit- tle mope their to roll easily. Cut and fry in balls. Cutter thould -about size id ordinate, napkin ring and the dough about one and cow- bell' inelte7 thick. A small hole shoul.:1 lie made in the deugh with thumb and linger. This Closes when fried. The tat should be so hot that mateh will light when drawn across it. Rull rakes in powdered sugar when cold. Make three and one-half dozen, 1,emen But ter. ---Wash, dry, then grate the yellow rind from one fine lemon into a small agate saucepan.. To it add half a pint of fine gram - dated sugar, one fresh egg,- a pinch of salt and a dessertspoonful of huger,hve tablespoons of cold wa- ter and the strained juice of one lemon. Over a slow fire dissolve these ingredients, then simmer the mixture until as thick as molassea. Stir cons.tautly. Remove the pan from the fire wheathe right etmeist- eney is attained, Pour into a glass dish or large tumbler. It is ready :to seitge soon as cold, with plain linked rake.. bread or .crackers. Sour oranges may be used in exact- ly the same Way With satisfaetory :results, but sweet ones will not an - ewer at all. ()Hien Se up. -cut six medium ,sized ()pions isi ilices .and cook 10 one-third of a cup of butter or but- ternut two Minutes. Add two ta- blespoonfule of acme, stir until well mixed. Add one and ene-half cops of boiling water and -cook until the (Miens are soft, about twenty min- utes. Rub through a strainer and add three snips of milk and one cup oi Creams or- (me gnarl; of milk and twotablespoons ef butter ; add salt and pepper to taste and two slices of gale bread cut one-fourth inch thick. Serve with grated cheese• • sprinkled eivesethe top. This is a good Soap to serve with a light din- ner or -fur lunch, as it isal-Most a • complete meal in iteelf. For dine nor for a family 11 nuty be .served followed by a salad and deesert, and frequently 'serve the salad with the 13011 11, Oa 1 Cookies.- tAl ix thoroughly • • •• • Pests of Spring, The spring. upon os, and begot life will eoun beanne liveely So here you may learn how to exter- minate unwelcome visiture in •the shape of ants, beetles, moths, sings, and the like. Nut a pleasant task alwaya, but it has to be done, and it's the woman's priyilege, to thi itt Ants.-Darep eponge., and sprinkle it with sugar. Place it wherever the ants are, and you will fled it will soon become choked with them. Plunge it into a gallipot full oF boiling water, slime and clean it, and reset until there are no ants left, Camphor on a Ingler ,shelf will always keep ants away from these parts. ' Red ante are very /mete. Smear a plate with lard, and place some calcite fur the insecte to crawl up. When you have a, plateful, hold if; over the fire till they drop in. Re- peat until no more ants appear. Cockroaches. --As with beetles, it is better not to "Move these on" - which turpentine poured into their holes would do -but to tempt them out, to destruction, Place two or three basins or •t ins half full of eold water and a little trea,cle, on the ground, and arrange sticks for -them to climb up. There will be a full watery grave next morning. When you seem to have caught every one, pour a strong eolution of alnin and boiling water into the crevices of the boards. Mottos -Prevention is nosch .eas- ier than cure 1 Once these teigors have obtained a footing in a gar- ment, etc., there are two remediea which may be tried. One is to bake the garmen•ts, and then thoroughly beat them. The other is to sponge them with a solution of acetate of potash in .spirits of rosemary, 15 grains to the pint. Turps, camphor, sheets of newspaper, etc., are all good moth preventives. Mice. -Apart from cats and traps, .11 oil of pepPermint is squieted about and into their holes, the mice will depart elsewhere. Not de- stroyed, you see, only banished. Slugs, the amateur gardener's peat, can be exterminated by col- lectiou. Cut a turnin in slices, and place it about the flower -beds in the evening. to out later, and col- lect for destruction the dozens of slugs on the slicee. A cabbage -leaf • at -neared with dripping -not salted -is even better. Repeat occasion- ally during the slug season, Fleas. -There are advertised pow- ders which are quite effective, but a certain method of banisthing these little pests is to boil an ounce of quassia in water, add that to 'a bucket of warm water, and then on "turning -out" day scrub all the woodwork in the bed -room with earbolie soap and the quassia wa- ter. There will be no more fleas. • ".1re You 1)onald 4" Dr. Norman:Maxleo.d, before his visit to called on am old. Highland woman in Glasgow.' "When sant go to India," she said, 'you'll be voila' my Dona that went away to sail to Ineliaten year ego, and never wrote the ecrape of a pen to his mother since." - "But; Retie," said 'the doctor, 'India is a very big place, and how can expect to find him?" s."011, but jutet be aakin' for Donal'. • What, for no?" So to please the old lady the &otos prem- ised to itale for Donald, and consci- entiouely he kept his woad. At) vari- ous .ports he made inquiry among British iships, although it seemed to him very much like looking for A needle in a hale of hay. Put it- is the teneXpeetted, that .happens, . As Dr, llifiteleod's steamer went up the Hooghli, an ontwardisound veasel passed close ley. Over the bulevarks of this vessel was leaning a sailor, and to him. the doctor, moved by some 'midden impulse, shouted "Are yeti Donald Mactavish?" To his intense .surprise, the man answered, "Yea," Meolead had only time to shout --"You're to write to. your mother!" as the von - eels drew apart. The result of this ain.asing me.ebing was that the old woman received a penitent letter from her long-negle.obeaful Son, . Electric Heating System, • In 5•Witeterlana, &wedeln and Nor- way, where electrical energy can be obtained for approximately one cent per kiloweitLhour, heating serateins using elect/1c current aro now ins Ju, homes, affording a eon - First Mormon Temple on British Soil to Cost $300,000 anDitareALISIF est s, *.es.71;i:6411 ..4.7ett-'1.4=f1'is'eetsetles'S' esessessave :see -se • o • :nesse asses sever Sketch of Mormon Tem p le now b ng Cards ton. Work on the first :Mormon Temple on British soil is now well under way in the Mormon centre for Can- ada, eardston, Alberta. The struc- ture will lie of granite front the Rocky Mountains of British Wore- bia, Masildinery valued at $10,000 has been installed' on the temple ground a,nd cutting will be done there as fast as the rotigh material can be delivered. As each stone is eut and dresSed it will be placed in the wall. The structure will cost at least $300,000, This money will come mostly from tithing eenb to head- quarters at Utah, and the contrac- tors have, the assuranee of the church that' all money' needed will be forthcoming when asked for, Bishop Nibley, who has charge of the business affairs of the -Mormon Church throughout the world, will have direct control of the mettle, but will not be on the ground. A loofa inspeotor and superintendent of oartisvtation will direct the local The Church of Jesus Christ. of batter I./ay Saints have no temples at present: outeide of the State of Utah, where the great Salt Lake Temple etands. The new C'ena,dian building will be the fleet to be ereeted on British soil and the first outakle of the Med States, The Salt Lake Temp e cost $4,000,000, and was 45 years in building. The other 'Utah temples, Monti, St. George, and Logan, cost all told, ithoat $3,000,000. Material at the time they 'Were erected wa,s very costly and transportation difficult: It is stated by the •authorities to -clay that as good betiding can be done today for about one-third of, the cost. So it would seem that the Canadian Temple will compare fav- orably with any of the Utah struc- tures outside the great Salt bake Temple. There are in Canada to -day close to 10,000 Mormons, and the C'ard- ston Temple will be for their use. ?slormone in the northern United States, who are noteh nearer to the International Boundary than the State uF Utah, will also have the Canadian temple as their shrine, for receiving the higher ministrations of the church. As a regular place of meeting, the Mormons of C'ardston have an im- mense tabernacle Dealing some 1,500 people, and this on all apecial occasions is filled to overflowing. It has been necessary to divide tho Cardston church, making two sepa- rate organizations. -Max McD„ in Toronto Star•Weeldy, THE SUNDAY SCHOOL STUDY INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MAY 3. ' Lesson T. The Prodigal Son Min- peranee Lesson/HE/Ike 15. 11-32. Golden Text, Luke 15.15. Verse 11. And ,he said -This intro- duction eeparates the, parable front -the twtO preceding, and we cannot be ,sure it who Spoken on the same occasion, -However that may' be, the connection in thought must be recognized by all- those who read these parables, and it could- not ha,ve it more fitting' position than •the one in which Luke has placed it: 12. The younger . . . said, Give me tile petition of thy Substance that falleth to me -The portion of asehe youn.ger would be half of what ....title elder received, that is, one- third of the estate, if the'father had but -two sons (D,eut. 21. 17). The younger son's demand for his 'por- tion during the lifetinie of his fite they was unusual; but such cases were not_ unheard of in the East. And he divided. unto them his living -The father gives the elder ion his portion also, but he remains at home. , 13. Not many days aftes.'the younger son gathered his posses- sions together. He had already made his plans; now he carried them out. Selling the land and tt'sening everything into mon,ey, he takes his leave, apparently not to return, Wasted his substance with riot- ous living -The youth knew nothing of the labor and self-denial with which the property had been ac- quired, and being away from the restrains of home and of those who knew him, he agnanclered the Monev. as thoughtlessly as be had ,acquired it. 14, Began ,to be in want -His as- sociates in his "riotous living" were not the kind of friends who would etared him when his money was gone and he needed asistance. 15. Went and joined himself to one *f the citizens of that country -From the Inkurions quarters in whieh he had doubtless lived and entertained, he is thrust out to earn hie lo-od as best he may. Hav- ing no one to aid or recommend him, he must attach himself like a bona servant to a foreigner, who tient him to feed ewine-to 'a Jew tt most odions task and an .abomin- ation, since swine Were poseenely unclean, bolls actually and accord- ing,. to Jewish rituelistic cleesilica- 61'1110: Ilueks that the swine did eat -The pods of the earohlree, atill Lound Paleatine and other Medi- terriinean eouritries. sentient and economi.cal method of ceeiti.ing an even temperature in s,gar 11\10 g eine. laecently h new typo :half a pine of light brown of /al:duet-or has been constructed, in with one large tablespotothil or blater, tRid two eggs beaten light, 1161,ating eiealleats are t rtb] p,,, niill of awo.e,i; mile., cased 211 slebs of '',steatite,'' a sari - hair a teaspoonful of ground ginger els- of tale, found to I3e paseicitlarly o t. einn n en 1 itt 1.11110 grated mil:. n<1 ipieti to (this use, not tinily s1sssdtes'sasspeemiel of sass highly lneulating, brit has groat one teaspoonful of cocoa, ono tea-, licaleetermS et/email:le The retlia- epoon fssl af vaisilIa extract, 4)110 pin t, •of. roiled oats (or wheat), :1,wo tea- spoonfuls of halting powder, one gill of white fluor, sifted aftee measuring. When these are thor- • oughly; blended drop by tea:I:eon- . 'a qniek oven. Give them plenty of room, as they spi.ead. Remove front pan with at cake tiirnee, They aro eobb no field, but beeenut erisp when cold. The vaisilla, and <>erica, esn Ito *Milted and all OXtr11, apoon.ful of gitt gar betitsi teas or chopped seed- less raisins pinasent Change. fula on wall grensed tins, Da ere in tore are, In fad, a litlfrt of heat ae- cumulathee or stosage. batteries. 'Why Knock? Mrs. Ellaneorth Intel a new color- ed Maid, One morning, as the maid came downstairs, the mistress said : "Emma, did you knock at Miss Elerals doer when I sent you up with her breakfast?" "No, malani," replied the maid, with preternatural gravity, "What was de use of a-letioelein' at her do' Wen I knowed to' sues alto was in dar 1" No Man gave unto him -These people had no interest in a half, starved -foreigner who could not earn enough to eat. Would the SOMA of many rich rnen to -day be as incapable of Jupp•esting them - salves if their money Armlet be lost I . 17. When he easme to hinssclf- Ilis bad shut out the thoughts of 'home, The loss of his money -and hie social devastation •11fed made him lethargic. Now that he faces starvation he arouses him- self, and sthe thoughts of home bring a' longing to return. Hit,ed SeTtritilts—Iaboreve Who had no steady work, but were lur- ed during a busy season. They were regarded much as tramps are regarded in our country, thei po- sition being inferior to 'that of household slaves. 18. Against heaven -That is, against God. The prodigal knew that miscondutt toward parents was a sin utterly displeasing 'to God. ss' 19. Make rne as one ef thine hir- ed servants -His penitence is real. He askathis as a favor. It is so toniclh better than MS present posi- t20. He arose -He acts upon hie resolution- at once. • He makes his cOnfeesion and offers no excuse. 20. While he was yet afar off, his father saw. him -Was able to re- cognize his son even though cloth- ed in filthy rags. Was moved with compassion and ran and fell on his neck, and kiss- ed him -The father's welcome is given before the sun has spoken a word. The father does not know in what spirit he has come ; it is enough that he has returned. 21. The son makes his confession as he had planned, but the father's forgiveness is se complete and his generosity so great that the son eannot meet it with it proposal -to be made a hired servant. 22. The father said to 'his servants He speaks no: word of reproof 'to the prodie*al, Doubtless he recog- nizes the fact that the son has seen his own folly and learned his lesson. Bring forth quickly the best 'sobe -A long stately robe worn on cere- monial occasions. Put a ring on his timid -Perhaps a signet ring, whirls gave the wear- er some authority in the house. Shoes on his feet -Sandals, as were worn by free men. Slaves went barefoot. 23. Bring the fatted calf -Doubt- less one being reserved for An ap- proaching feast. But to the father this occasion is Of far greater im- portance than the feast, The remainder of the parable should not be overlooked either in private steely or in class discussion. The attitude of the elder aon to- wardethe returning prodigal is in sharp contrast with the generous forgiveness of the father. Glass Conking l'teiteils. A New York glass manufaetures is experimenting with the making of ,cooking utensils of glass. Al- ready glass srereolators and 'stew - pans have been made which, al- though they rest on the flames, give no evidence af eracking, and have proved heat -resisting ascii non - expansive, These uteneils are ap- parently not affected in any way by the intense heat under them or by the contraating 'tem pe rat ore -s ts1 t•he articles which they contain. Glass is fur many reasons superior to eithetr enamel tsr aluminuin, 'being arrPot.e.d by none of the arida • or alkalia formed or used in cooking aud not subject to the unsaoitary cracking which is charageristie a most ena- m•oiled ware. It Ind to Public.. Two days each week A daily paper •published at Eberswahle, a Prue - silo town near Berlin, is printecI on only olsis side of the sheet, and on these deys the napes is made twice as large cia uremia so that the public loses nothing in the way of reading matter. The Object of this envious arrangement is to make the panes oven] 45 well 45 inetrootive, nit it can then he use•el for • wrapping up preivisioua vettbout i,i tout+ of psi nte r s REROES FORCED 'PO BEG. Teial Reveals Pitiful Condition of Russian i1io Wou Honors. A pitiful story of a country'e in- gratitude was told in the District Court at St, Peters -burg /est week , when it volunteer seldier named Piraenoff, who received the highest order of St. George's Crosa„ wait brought up for trial an the ehaxge ,sp re ceding 'knowingly fisire statements calculated 10 excite en - Out London Lotter Tower Dungeons oven aeon. %%falters 11, 1.ondon • this Slimmer should on nu arcount omit a visit to the frfuut7erog laIWIRIVe" twhhterTv; t01,111 fIROft 11"111°11, public fur the first time. l'oderneath the old keel), now the shell celled the White Tower, ls a nest or intanai duitgeons, $01110 • or whiell are known 1)1 the pet noineri their old Pad,. 1.01,1 da/111.1/ 17111111. .11,4d 11ar5a/P" 18 111/ 01101, Some ,of the subterranean cells under the Wrille Tower are mere reeesses In the twenty foot foundatiott wan, with heavy doors that idmied the offender in a crouching position, with no room to tilt Or stand. These WON.' apt))' called 11111,, Base." (inc of 11,,,,, 11, wIlleh Guy Fawkes, or gun -powder 551 fame, was eoetined. Is to le. seen. But most Ile and 111/1/101ild a all Mayes of duress were the dungeons be- neath the 1500 Tower. a collection that was deseripth(dy called. "Little Heil." Periwinkle Street To Go. L01111011 Iles tia full quota or StmingelY named streets. one of whoth has recent- ly disappeared into the limbo of the past. The London ( .1) IA II t y 0011 lieil has sanctioned the transferniatIon of Peri- winkle Street Into Ratcliffe Cross Street. But there still rentaln other oddly named thoroughfares I ti the metrope- Ps, Snell as Ii#Pr Lane, Heide Herring Street. Shoulder uf hiatton Alley, llot Water ceurt and Tiger Bay, There was a time when London pos- sessed a far wider collection of cac0- p11011oU5 0101•01.1ghttAreil 151,,, 111 now the vase. Crackbrultt Court and Cutthroat .14111Q were in Whitechapel, and Dead - man's Piave adjoined Dirty Lune in Sontliwaric. liangittan's Gains stood near the Tower, 51111 there was Bundyleg Al- ley, off Fleet Street. Breakneck Court, opposite the 101 Bailey, where ()old - smith tired when he first settled in Lon- don, has also disappeared. Bello of Charles T. round. nany royal relics are not ti5i0Ve suspi- cion, but the Southampton Corporation ZilISA17111 has acquired an unquestioned and remarlcable relit, or Charles 1. In the form or a heart shaped locket. hearing upon one side the legend: 'Prepared bee to follow mee," the Initials ('. Sc. (Caro- lus ilex>, and a death's head. 011 the reverse side is a heart pierced with two arrows and the wording: "1 live and Me Itt luyalty." Inside the locket is fastened a silver niedallion portrait or the martyr Bing. King George a Great Shot. King George is and always haS been gt•eat sportsman. loIrst and foremost be is a wonderful shot. It 1.5 only a few months ago that lie established some jw.cn(tdue.tt•ft:1 records while on a visit to the Bald and Countess of Powis at Pow - In some wonderful overhead shooting he achieved the remarkable feat of 1,t0.- ing four dead birds in the air at once. Bmploying one barrel, he pulled a bird sixty yards high. Changing 01:( gun. and firing the right and left barrels, he killed again, and before the -first bird Int ten „aril trete the isoune itat While King George tuts supported arid witnessed the playing of many games. he always held that sport should be participated in solely as a relief from the more serloas fatlirS of life. Seifest, Superlative oity, ago c lenge gun, tired and e Belfast is a city oisuperlatives. Every one knows that Messrs. Borland mity toward the Government.'' arm Wolff's shipyard, the Queens Island The prisoner ve,e(ave,a five wounds tliogcgt- ,Itirtati,m,:rairt(tris 17117 Isla, add"). but the during the Japanese war ; seven I every elm 1k041.1.1 that '1,ilti"ttosl has" als°oL times he had hits horse shot under g.tr eget btiobarttro. factot:y (chola. wurks (he :him, and he waa one of the :handful /select stone tt,1= Colo:a al Russian survivors of the Homeric gioeettiemsxt Aipsb,enninKranoaretilneg Cam - fight on Eagle's Nest. His only eon was killed in battle, and when Pi- menuft returned from the front he found himself without means uf subsistence. pony, Ltd.) In the world Belfast also builds the biggest bouts in the world. Belfast, however, is not entieely super- lative, A Belfast man will admit almoSt proudly that Belfast has the smallest number or bookshops or any eity of Its size in the world. Many other maimed "knights. of I Strike Against Clain T.abor. Ste George were.. in the seiner London is experiencing the it:Welty or plight, and in order to draw eaten- aan'teugl,s: hrelrettevsiVglej.N1,`,b,„°,1teasethet,e„PaluM ton to their deetatute state. Prine- noff wrote a pamphlet called 'Frain the Diary of an Arthurian," in which he described how they were thrown onto the streets and forced to beg for food, which he said, was a diegritee tio• the Russian unifoxm. Cuusid.ering the pity and indig- nation excited in SS Petersburg and other cities by th.e appearance of these starving cripples, 11 10 hardly surprising t.hat Pintentoff has been acquitted. • Newly ill the witnesses for the defence had won in battle the dis7 tinction for valor." Their evi- dence was as pathetic as their ap- Peimance. One poor fellow was led into court by a little girl. He was completely blind and had an a.rtia- cial threat, his utterance being al- most incomprehensible. The only pension he received waa tine of $75 year. Another witness, twice wounde,d at Port Arthur, who Isas three chil- dren, of whom two are now in hos- pital, related that the War Ministsy gave • him only $1 annually, and therefore he was obliged to beg. A third witness, also wounded at Port Arthur, said that during the lag three years Ise. had received in all $22. A veteran of the Russo-Turkish was who participated in the storm- ing of ICalts, deeenibed how h•e too WaS reduced to beggary. Then again, there was an unpension.ed soldier who fought in twenty en- gagements tinning the Ruseo-Japace- ese war, and after being wouatical at Port Antimr lay for three days and nights among the dead. He Wadi recommended tor the St. George's Cross, but through some mistake or other did not ()Main its He travel- led nearly 6,000 Miles to tsy In grt, the error rectified, but hitherto los efforts hacl bran fruitlese, and he was now is beggar. So the pitiful ethelea eentioned. The impseess of truth was upon -them and the Puldie Prosecutor asked Iltat the mininoint aeutenee ehould be passed on Pimeneff. The court, however, acquitted • theprisoner, rho had previonsle. KWesi. that his only object in iesning his pall11)11 Irt WAS 10 Pilli51 the summit of influen- tial persons on behalf el the unto's- innate eh -biros 'of the. war. Correct. the wedding aonse oft all right I" "Yes, thera. wee only e,tlt hitch in the cerenumy," provision firm have gone 011 strike be- cause the firm advertised l'or girls 1(11- det the age of 1.5 years. For years It hes been the boast of this firm that, in spite of the practices or its rivals, it bad never employed a girl un- der 15 years or age, Last week giviS of 11 and 10 years were advertised for, and placed at work in the int box making room ou maelfines, which have never beet, vonsidered safe for inexpert opera - "VI% older girls protested against the child labor. and when no attention was paid 0, their protests went out on strike. The 500 nien employed by the firm join, ed the girls because last year when the men protested against girls being gheli men's work the girls loyally St/111ed OINM 111 a strike. Laborer Writes Great Book. Further details or the beim written by a building laberer. W-1111.11 Is to he published shortly by Grant Richards, have been given to the 1111blie. The 511- thor. who Med recently, was Robert Tressal. Re spent Me years writing the book, the manuscript or which con- tains dou,odo weeds, devoted to 11(5 &V- raignment of capitalism. After his death the manuscript fell into the hands of his daughter, who was employed as 0 nurse in prhate faintly. She showed it to helmistress. who WIls struck with Ole intense reali8in of the book and showed It to 'Miss Jessie Pope, the well-known contributor to Punch, who ln turn passed it on to Orton Mel,- ar981. nonfess." said Mr Richards, "that I delayed reading the 111511 USer1pt. 111 Song]); rather frightened me, bet after itighhatcleatekIed 11 I Was amazed and de- Tressal was 0 711511 or little eduration In the conventional acceptance of the . word, and evidently haft no clearly de- fined intention of writing the book for publleation_. Certifleates of Nobility. Although French titles of nubility were abolished at the 'Gine of the Revolegon by a acere.e revived in 1871, yet the Ministry (If Justice la - sues certificates of nobility. Mem- bers of the French diplomati, see - vice': who use titles have to obtain one of these certificates, and pay stiffly fur 'the tonsaotism, The fees in the (1/1,0 Of a (III ICI' 1111 1{111 11 1 to i1720, a marquis pays blfhl, a t -omit ,11280, it baron £60, anti itt clan:alter 1152. The e,,ttifienti, ont that, the pedigree ef the helder having been ioveetigated, hie claim In the li•tie he hears has been folly eitablislied mid the seal of ilic 11e - public is itilixted to this patent sof nobilitY,-,Lonclun Daily Chroidele. The superintendent of 4 Sutelay school was illustrating ter the child - on the text, "Arise and take the yining child and his mother, and flee Into Egypt." Showing them it large picture, she asked isn't that splendid 1. .Iierte is the Mother. Here is the young ohne]. There's ligypt in the diatanee." The children,' however, • looked &sap- peolnt,ed, and finally a little boy pip - t.4 ow;•'areas/her, where's the tia7, C-HEL-gfil• 'SOLDIERS' HOME •A N 01.11 PENSIONER TELLS 1111,1 FE 'I'llERN. 110,1111 a1 Chelsea I Supported By the Britielt (I Deere men t. 'Where 1 left my right leg with the('b'ayMeek in • the Crimean War--.. left wing of the 40n4 Foot - I had , for hospital eompastion a French ! soldier who had beet; both legs, ' writes au old pensioner in London ' Answer's, 1 was a mere lad at the lime, and ' dempondent, • b ti•t the French he was quasi gay. ••1, UT see,' he eat/Meted in very 1 aia. Englieh, "I shall now be the gueet of the French Govern - went in the grand Hotel des I rea- lists fur the remainder of my days, with nothing to ti / tt,./.1 pleate. of time in whish to do it i - And now, atter having spent so many years far from the "madding strife,- in the cessi and security of the British Hotel dc -s• lnyttlittece--• that is, the Royal Hosnital at ("-rel- sea--1 see how right the Frew:Mei was. 1 often wonder if he ss aseo alive to -day, and remembess ams, • -The Royal llave-Beens." But it was many, many years I enlisted in The Royal Have- Beens---ae soldiers call the Cheli aea Pensioners, becautee of the H. an out taps. For on discharge; 1 tried jubs-etech as tailaning, I where a mooden leg is quite as use - fu! as the five -toed -variety; I triecl! hawking; then, when that fai1et11 through bad health, I trieat to 1 struggle aking with my disability pension; and finally applied for ad -I missiun to Cheltiett Hospit113 as an. 'in -pensioner,'' and got the ant' "STIamCY . firmly anchored here now, : until they earry me out, feet fore- ! most, on a gun -carriage, •under the Union Jack. But one's health soon' picks up in a life like this, and, be- lieve me, there's not many better. For it's home-soldiesing, wiye 411 i.shfi1e, art) Icr onrirgte; 4811,:ve'llselir:3:git l'eilkle•ere,' We Ite no buglers to ?send 'Shia- . , ers down our vines at unearthly when we 111o, and can lie in bed all! reveille hours -fur we • rise just day if it pleases us to. Each pen- sioner has a little curtained eubiele to himself. 'We have • our meets ' served in the dormitories, and they are geed enough for any man. A pound of bread st day, with a pat of butter to go with our coffeel for breakfast, o•r witili our tea fur t the evening meal ; and a well.couked dinner: of meat, two vegetables, and , pudding -and sometimes soup aa we . Those Extra Needs. Of eourse, -we have -to give up onr pennies when eve come in here', be- sides the above, they give us eaelt a pint of beer daily, four ounces of tobacco every month, and twopenee pocket -money each day. That usual-, ly goes on some little linsury-al' rasher of bastes, an egg, or • SUMO fish -for breakfast O•r tea, for we, have few wants indeed :that are nob' supplied ln our large hall, whiefi leas -a„ fine collectioa of warotedils and old Bags, v. e have all the papers and books and initiudr games that one ootrld desire -it WAS in this great hall, by the way, that the fainotta eourtanartial was held on the in- famous General Whitelteek, in I808; and hese, too, the body of the fnstate. ttle)ke of Wellington Was laid We add to our pocket -money in many Vva.ys. For instanee, if we do any tabus about the buildinge we ale paid for it ; find is good many of Ise are given little plots of land •to ' cultivate in mg. grounds. Any pro - at tve make out of this goes: into, our own pockets, and, the name 1.ous visi- tors to 1IIIV hospital grounds in the sninmer readily buy up our flowers. We are practirality free to etuillte aytd go as .ete likeand, indeed, residence in the hospital is not/even! enforced, and I could reborn to 'ma -pennon ' to -morrow 0.1 1 evieh- ed. We are not require.d to per- form it single fatigue -duty, and .evan all aur eooking and cleaning is dono for us by younger ex -Army Men. At the "Last Post." . Our serimis pima& days are end. ed for gond. Our riflee" have long yielded to, rust, and Men WW1 ettrit , lrgs 0011 '001 well Ferep 11 etcp, , senietimes wo =An. in einung fora,' in aim ionar 1,, eld -world tint- I forme, and rockiid hats and rocks ' ad :'e at St ist ,‘ evrestronia18, We aleio vs: ;:k fse olnireli evesy eeneday, our elutpel tieing adorned, ! to revive our yid meotosiee, with ' thirteen,. eastured Frencli eagles, and flags taken fr•oin the Ansestitionse Disletb, Biasesialle, and:Afghans. I' 1111101, not, omit mention of out all - too -frequent, parades for the Loner - ale of fellow-pensionerS, ' , MI6 WO W110, have seen an many i fall in:battle itodept it all at eel- 1 diera, and philosophers. IN used to be a tpentIthrift, • But that came to an end ; roe new being:two years marri ITe's nothing left to epend.