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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1914-7-2, Page 3IN\ Hints for the Home ooseberry s Gooseberry Cimese.—Allow oee pound al loaf sugar th each pound of fruit, and jeice. Top end tail the ,gooseberrien, welsh them; and place in a large pan, with about a tea- cupful s)f water—just .sufficient to ,prevent them eticking th the bot- tom, StLi a-erosional:1y, cook until quite ,selt, then rub through a with eieve, Measure out pulp and juice, and put back in an, with sugar in the given proportion. Stir all well togethee, -and thole for half eun hour, or longer, until the cheese will set quibe firmly when a little is eooled on a plate. Place in small dry jars, and toyer when -cold. Gooseberry A mber.—Have thady one pound of picked .and washed gooseberries, s quarter of a pound of castor sugar, two ounces of but - lee, three eggs, one ounce of bread - crumbs or eake, essence of vanilla. Melt :the butter in s clean enamel :saucepan, and add the fruit and sugar. Cook gently until a aoft, thick mites, stir in the breaderumbs, which have been well grated, and then beat the yolks of the eggs into the gooseberry pulp. Slightly but- ter a pie -dish, and pour in :the mix- ture. Bake for half an hour in mo- derate oven, or until the mixture sets. Now beat ttp the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, adding gently three smell tablespoonfuls of castor sugar, and a few drops of vanilla essence. Heap this roughly on top of the baked mixture, and -sprinkle with castor sugar. Put in the cool- est pert of the oven till ceisp on the outside and pale brown. Place a frill around the piedish, and serve immediately. Gooseberry Fool.—Top add tail a pound of green gooseberries, boil with three-quarters of a pound of sugar and a cupful of water. When quite soft press them through a mane -sieve, and mix with them, very gradually. a pint of milk. Milk and eream make a richer dish, cream alone makes it delicious. Serve cold in custard glosses or large glass dish. Gooseberry Trifles—Cut up a quarter of a pound of sponge cake in thin slices, and plaoe ab the bot- tom of a deep gloss dish. Beek 'the cake with a little sherry; this is optional. Boil half a pint of :water with a pound of loaf ,sugor for ten minutes. Put in a pint and a half of green gooseberries, nicked, wash- ed, end drained. Boil till they ore tender, but unbroken. When cool, place on the sponge eake. Make e pint and a half of good plain boil- ed custard, flavored with lemon or vanilla. Pour it over the goose- berries, and ornament with a lit- tle whippecl cream, or with the beaten white of an egg. ooseberry iseu M.—Take some ful-grown, hut not ripe, gooseber- ries, put them into a jar, and set them to boil in a saucepan of water till soft; then rub 'through a sieve, To every pound of pulp allow a pound of sugar. Stir the mass over the fire until the sugar is dissolv- ed, then pour it into ,shallow diehes to dry in the 'sun or in a cool oven. When it begins to candv. it may be cut irito any desired shapes. Tarn them every day until they become dry and hard, and store in tin boxes in a dry pleas, Hints for (lie Home, Salt in whitewath makes it elicit, Kniveri are cleaned more easily and thoroughly with soda added to the -seeming brick, Minced ,beets, potatoes and (m- embers served with mayonnaise make good .ealach A hot water platter is a boon to the housewife whose "inen dello" ath frequently late for 4innr,, The neweet omelet pan is in tWO parte, so that the omelet may be flopped over and over. Onei quart of water glees to O er 12 quarts of water and turned )s,ver ceigibgiosne:, ith i11 keep ean in perfed eon- , If ohocelate is. to be served with eandwiches it ehottld be made tin hoar beforehand and allowed to stand in .the double boiler. If a room is filled with amoke open windows and oyave o, towel wet in vinegar and hot water around in it. Use ammonia vete; olways in- stead of soap if you are cleaning ovhite paint. It has the advantage of not dulling the au:de-0e. Grease ,stains on leather may be removed by benzine or pure tur- pentine. Wash the spot afterward with beaten white of .an egg or a kid -reviver. When isoree:ping wipe all the dust off the furniture and put it outside the room; then sweep down the walls wit,h a broom covered with thin cloth. To keen a pet palm in order, the leaves thould be sponged carefullsr every week. Don't water pelms too often; let the earth become dry; then -401),k it liberally, The great secret of frying is to have plenty of fait and to haare it boiling hot when you drop things into 11, so that the inside cooks without absorbing the grease. To -dean a vinegar cruet put a teaspoonful of lye in it land then fill 'with water. Let it remain in it for e. few days, then rinse the 'cruet out thoroughly. It will be perfectly clean. A damp wall ,should be papered with thick brown paper, upon which ,thating of lilackleael has been speeml. Place blacklead Gide next to wall, then paper with ordinary wall paper, and the damp will not come through. Cut glass may be made very bril- liant by -washing in warm 'suds and drying in :sawdust. Put the dish down in a pan of .sawcluet and cover well with it. When all the mois- ture has been ,thsorbed lift the dish and wipe with a soft piece of linen. Ordinary glass gamy bo made very brilliant by the same treatment. ITALIANS SHUN ARMY. Fail to Obey 'When Summoned to Army. Sandwiches. Green Sandwiches. — Lettuce leaves, nasturtium leaves and blos- soms, 'and water erees, with mayon- naise or cooked ealed dressing, make acceptable fillings for little :tea sendwithes eat in strips, little squares, or even in crescent shape-, Lemon So lidwieh.—A wholesome beine sandwich for hot weather is that made by peeling a lemon, cut- ting it in thin ,slices, plaeing these on one of the buttered slices of bread, sprinkling with segar to taste, and covering with the other slice, Little butter or none is used by some people. Mrs. Rorer maket a lemon sandwich by eacking away slices of bread in a tight box with :lemon peel foe a few hours, then buttering this bread with butter ((nixed with lemon juice, in the pre - portion of one cup of butter to the juke 01 one lemon. Saralee Sandwiches.—The ear - dine is variously dressed for sand- wiches and may :be ,made into a sar- dine butter, fresher than that pur- clamed in tubes, and costing leas. Remove ,sandines from estn, pour 'boiling water over them and oft ina anetliotely, ,ancl then skin if neces- sney, The skin will mum off with- out the boiling water' hut eemes off inech more readily ifde nsed. A thin pointed knife is a little bettee :than the fingers for -the 'work, and with this remove any little block inner akin. If nab boned, open ,e,nd remove the back bone, then put the fieh threugh a sieve .0,0a blend with an equal quantity of butter ,and .perliapsa Betio lemon juice. Woe- eflatersbire Sallee la alSO 'USW. In- stead of mixing the sieved fish with butter it may be mashed Neill hard eooked egg yolk and •thasened with telt, pepper, and it little lemon juice. INDIAN CONSERVATIONISTS. Tillie A-elive Interest in Foreet Pro. teetion. The Indian has frequently—and nob always unjuetly—becn aectoted of eriminal el:melees:mai with fire, and to the ancestral habit cif setting dill; fires in order to improve grim- ing for buffalo has even ,been etc- eribed the :cease of :the prairies, 00 which trees are Once snore being grown. Bub (roving. bo Lls precepl 'Reid exainple of Dos inion fiseeeVar-. -demi this ingrained careleseqess hits —111 northern Mitnitobe, ot least— been supplanted by an eethuelasen fur foreet conservatioa, Several hundred Indians blab eummer prom- ised to observe every preemution to prevent forest fires, and, el•B the Chief Fire Ranger 'writes, "Phobia of no fires this summer -is proof positive that the anajoeity of them have faithfully kept their ple,clge." During the cettree of the summer sixty-three Indians_ voluntarily vis- ited the Chief's headquarters to discuss the plans of the Forestry Branch in ths matter of conserving the remainieg forests in Westein Canada. Many of the -se Indians are TRIM- eiently well ethical:ail as fire -rang- ers, and, following its policy of ob- taining the best Teen possible for this work, the Dominion Govern- ment has enlisted quite a number of Indians in the fire -ranging ser- vice, for which their knowledge of the muntry and :their enthunaern for the work -makee them admirably adapted. Although the forest -fire loss on the 125,000 :square miles of Crown :timberland patrolled by Do- minion fire- rangers was very small —the ar-ea, of :timber burnt over be- ing le.ss than nine one -hundredths of one per eent. (0.09%)—yet this low loss was not a little :clue to the frequent showers of ram during the danger season. In order to insure safety in seasons of drought, the Forestry Branch proposes to inetal lookout stations which will increase the efficiency of the yet somewhat inadequate patrol. Already several towers have been establiehed, en- abling rangers to :scan at otie glonee several hundred square miles of country. Wireless telegraphy has also been brought into use and frem The Pas :and Fort Churchill it is now possible for ,the rangers in these remote regions en communi- cate almost instantly with the For - &try Branch at Ottawa in snot -tem of special urgeney. This is proba- bly the firet practical opplie.ation of vireless telegraphy Is forest fire protection in America or eleewheee. According to recent statistics is- sued by tbe War Office, of about 600,000 men called to observe their time in the army every year, more :then 10 per cent. are declared "renitents." That is, they fail to obey the Genre -One and iiender :them- thlves liable to arrest and punish- ment. As a rule those who refuse to ;serve their time in the army are sons of emigrants, who rather thee return to Italy for testi years pre- fer to remain abroad despite the fact that their trayelling expenses would be paid by the. state. The rembents cannot return to Italy, as they ore eerested and gen- erally sentenced th serve beside their time in the ormy also a, couple of years in prison. Italy is thus losing aboet 50,000 eitizens every year, and M some of the eouthern province -e, like Naples and Cajahrie, where emigration is increasing, the proportion of reni- tents averages frein 20 to 23 per cent. of the total number of yoeng men tailed -to -arms every year. A HUDSON BAY lunvEsT. Valuable Fisli Are of Great Market The land is not •the only source of wealth in Canada, Mere is ample room for ,the fisherman, the miner, and many more. Ill official re- port to the Marine ond Fisheries Depastment,Mr., Tanner, Cana- dian Dominion Fieheriee Officer, etates -that the waters of, udson Strait, as far as fisheries are con- cerned, relay he regarded as a gin Ivrea, ond albhough no thorough exemination of these resources has yet been made. the result of his investigation,s shows there are -sup- plies of valeable fish which could be made of great market value, and , which are well worth elevelosyment. The difficulties to :be enoountered are the sparse population, the lack of Reims:men, and the short -season, which would involve all the work being done it a, brief period. Mr. Teener, hoesever, thinks these dif- ficulties anay be overcome, and -cites the ease of British Columbia, which, in spite of a former limited Doyle- tien .and short season, ,cari -now boast of a total anneal anthill to the value of over ten million dollars, Mr. Tanner points out that there are three kinds of Octillion ie Hod - eon Strait, including the true -mon, tbrgi mehlion trout superior to the hest Pacific epodes, bluing the -slimmer months these fish are very pjentiful plotig the :shores of Baffin, as well' as on the :South Shores. THOUGHT READING. NEE ACROSS THE BORDER WHAT IS GOING ON OVER IN THE STATES, Infest Happeninge in Big Republic • Condensed for Remy Readers. Ali Hoboken, Mayor. Cooke order- ed the pollee tu close all concert 11sa115 in the city, bemuse of rowdy - 1 01, Sautes C. Fargo, who has been 70 years with the American Express Company, 33 of them as president, has resigned. While the auto of Mr. and Mrs, Nathan Armor, of the Breex, Was on its way to a wedding, it ,etruck a bay, fracturing (his skull. At the Jewish Maternity Hospi- tal, Ease Brooklyn, four eete of twins were born in one day. It is believed that a record was broken. Secretary of Stake Bryan says that ten months of effort on the part of the U.S. &lid japan to reach an understanding about land tenure in California. have failed. Superintendent of Scltoole Max- well, of New York, said that 40,000 children left the public schools of that city annually before they had mut leted their primary education. ishop Sohn S. Nilan, of the Catholic cliceme of Hartford, Ct., issued an order prohibiting the clergy 10 bis parish 1 roso perform- ing marriages on Seturdaye or Sundays. The Interborough Rapid Transit Company, of New York, will give free transportation during the eum- rem to poor women and children to Van Coition& and Bronx Perks. Samuel McKie, who lost e. leg in the Spanish-Ametican War, hanged himself in New York, leaving a wife and four childeen. Ha had sold papers on Longtime square for Polies Commissioner Woods of New York, has appointed a com- mittee to visit owners of vacant lots in New York and ask permis- sion to use them as playgrounds for choildpeTat'iests, of the -switchboard in Newark, N.J., City Hall • were held up for 15 minutes while Miss Edith McKeon, thief telephone operator, dodged a mouse which had invaded her room Residents of Hanover Heights, a fashionable suburb of St. Louis, lost 100 of their pet dogs through unknown parties feeding the, dogs sponges which hod been soaked in gnosis -find sausages stuffed with ground glass. Representative Graham of Illi- nois, a member of the Public Lands Committee, told Congress that the faiMre of the U.S. th grasp its op- portunities the develop hydro -elec- tric energy was ,costing the country 985,000,000 tons of coal a year. New York Central employes, es- pecially office eleeks, ore snuch worried over a reported general retrenchment plan. For years they have enjoyed a Seturday half -holi- day, with pity. The new plan may give them a whole holiday on Sat- urday without pay. James M. Clams warden of Sing Sing, who has resigne,d, has con- sented to hold the job six hours longer im os -der to ,electrocute eondemned murderer. The new waecten did not relish the idea of beginniag his administration by Hputting -an imnate'to death. • An Unusual Feat Recently Per- formed in Vienna. An intereseing feat of thought:- Deeding was performed in Vienna recently. A young man named Ru- bini undethook- to discover within Iwo hours one or two things hidden in any of the 21 districts in Vienna, All that Rubini was to perform was written down ancl signed by responsible witnesses, including one lady, who was the medium. Her task was to tioneentriute her mind on ordering Rubied to- do what was laid down in the conditions. There were about 20 automobiles of interested people following Rubini and :the medium, These two each hekl one end of a bronze rod. Bel- lowing them were representatives of the Austrion and foreign prem.: We started in the inner town, and went on ovitheut a. 'hitch for about 20 minutes. 'Rubini, who directed the chauffeur, soon got the "scent," and halted in feont of a florist's store, :e 'writer house. He entered the ethre, found a wreath and took it. This was, indeed, the first part of his task. . ' The seeond path wth m as ninore difficult. Ritbini ordeted the ehauf- teur drive towards a rather dis- tant ,suburb. When we reache,c1 a district where there •Were many this tagee ve deofor a long time through some of the lowliest of Vienna's outskirts, Suddenly we halted in front of a large villa. Here Rubini ring the bell of the adjoining house. He at tones noticed Ms mistake, and rang the eorrect bell. On the door being opened he rtiehed eo the first Boot, still holding the red' and &mom - ponied by the lady medium. After et time he went into the drawing thou], where he found a key in a box. , With key M hand he ran down to the do -or el a non, opened it, and found a bust of the Emperor Francis Joseph, He car- ried the, boot to the garden .His His task was not yeti at an. end,' He el,eXt raveled to the upper rockti and took a young girl who wes there down to the -gerclen end made her lift the :wreath hb Ise ad placed:there. On a pedestal in tho garden Was fi, figure of o young lion. He took this figure- down mid placed the Empexor'eMeet upon the pecles- f4 instead. Then he me& the young. 'girl place the, wreath on the BITIPOPOeslsusii, When the ,condieione of the test were read 'they ageeed in every &- Mil with What Itubiei had done, "Men Che minister snakes ,the happy eauple one," asked little Rollo, "which 'one aro :they 1" "Otie 10o many promptly (replied his badltelor Couetess Ina de Besserwits.' Mehl of honor to the Empress of Germany, whege morganatic mar- riage to Prince Oscar of Prussia,' has been sanctioned by his father, the Kaiser, t, IHE SUNDAY SCHOOL NUR, Ow English Leiter Radium eduree in Doubt. Out of nearly 500 cases of nialignant' cancer treated by the Radium Institute during the year 1011, fifty are described In the annual report of the institute as apparently cured and 153 as "ImProv- ed," In a number of eases the results are not yet noted. The institute declines to treat oper- able cases, radium being used only as a last resort. "Time only can show," the Lancet "if anY of these satisfactery re- sults are permanent, and not until some years have passed Without fresh mani- festations of the disease, could even the most favorable cases be described as cured." Meat Will Soon...be a L0=037. An examination Of the position with regard to the existing and prospective scarcity of meat discloses a number of factors which make the outlook for the future 'scrim's. If present conditions continue meat will within a feW years come to be regarded as a. luxury, The increasing prosperity of large classes in different countries has reef:- forced the ranks of the consumers of meat. Population has increased. while the heads of cattle ha,ve In some coun- tries—notably In the United States— Shown 15 considerable decline, The supplY Of meat in England is gradually being handed over to the con- trol of American organizations. The sole source of chilled beef is now Ar- gentina, and the trade from that coun- try is passing into the hands of .Ameri- eau firms whose working agreements permit them to control not only the price but the quantity Of meat that is sent to England, Recently one whose knowledge of the conditions is undoubt- ed predicted that -within two years the whole of the trade from Argentina will be controlled by three American firms. Working in concert they would be able to dictate to Great Britain the price to 13e paid, Side by side with this absorption of the foreign trade by America. there are conditions at the London markets which make the cost of meat to the consumer higher, than it might otherwise be. The system' of tolls is still continued. Rents which were fixed at two cents a foot a Nveelt are now doubled. Ali Malden, Moses a Plymouth Rock rooster attacked a 3 -year-old &Ed. The girl's uncle tushed to her theme, stubbed hietee and fell, dislocating his shoulder end break- ing his arm. The warlike bird then left the ehilel and went after the uncle. A doctor dres•sed the wounds of uncle and niece. The rooster was unmarked. The will of the late James Camp- bell; of St. Loeis, -whose will has jamb been probated, leaves an e1 - tate el $40,000,000 to the St. Louis Universityfor a hospital for the care of sick and injured 'Persons and the Promotion of the sciences -of medicine ,and .surgery. The widow and daughter are to Share evally in tate Meanie of the estate for life. Then all goes to hospital purposes. Charles Meamor, an employe of the 'Union Switch and Signal Com - Pony, of Pittsburg, was seriously injured in an aecident at the works there eighteen months ago, aed fellow -workmen gave 102 square inches of their skin -to save hisiife Recently there was a strike, and Mensor went book to work -against the wishes of his fellow -employes. Now they demand back the eltin they gave him, otel eay take it if they meet him en the etre-et. Policemen are esoorting him te and from woek. IN T'ERN A.TI 0 N A L LE StiON, JULY 5. Lesson I, The Laborers In the Vine- yard, Matt. 20. 1-16. Golden. Text, Ill a tt. 5.45. Verse 1. A wan that WWI a Inoue- holder—The manager, or pethaps the oovner, of :au 'estate. One who had authority to hire and .dismiss laborers. Who went out early in the morn- ing—When the gropes were ref:sly to :be gathered, many laborers svould be required in order that the DfIlib might he cared for at once, so that there would be co loss, Into his vineyard—The care of the vineyerds was one of the chief eecupsitions of Polezeine. 2, A shilling—Liberally, a dello,- eious. Under Tiberius two thirds of a. denarius Wail the pay of a Roman soldier. The amount paid to these laborers was considered a liberal daily wage at that time, and was sufficient to supply the necessaries of life. 3, About :the third hour --That is, at nine o'clock in the forenoon. A day meant twelve ;hours, extending from 0 a.m. to 6 p.m. (John 11. 9.) Standing in the marketplace idle —As in our cities to -day, the un- employed were accustomed to con- gregate in the public squares, which in the cities of Paleetine were the marketplaces. The &Ski - ren also gathered there (Luke 7. 32). 4. Whatsoever is Tight I will give you—Ne :definite agreement isinode with these laborers as with the first. There is ,sim:ply a promise of fair payment. These men are glad to get employment, and at once begin their work. 5. The sixth a,nd the ninth hour— Twelve e'elock and three o'clock in the afternoon. 6. The eleventh hour — Five o'clock., an hour before the day's werk closed. Why stand ye heee all the day idle ?—Their willingness .to go to work- as soon ,as em-oloyrnent was offered to them shows that -they were net idle men from choice. Perhaps this is true of many "idlers" of our own day, though the thief difficulty, no doubt, lies in the fact that men, and women also, have not been trained for use- ful employment in which there is a demand for workers. 8. And when even was ecsme—Ac- cording to Dent. 24, 15, laborers were to be paid every day before the sun set. The prodigal son en- vied "tbe hired servants" who re- ceived their daily compensation. The aord of the vineyard—That is, the householder, mentioned in verse 1. His steward—An assistant in the management of the estate who paid the laborers for their work, (Com- pare Luke 8, 3; Gal. 4. 2,) Beginning from the last unto the first—This order was unusual, Per- haps, sinee this is only a story, it was siniely told so for the purpose of bringing out the moral, or the lesson whith the whole story was intended to teach. 10, The first . . . supposed that they would receive snore — That was only natural, because of the nmeh longer time they had labored, and therefore the greater -amount of work they had accomplished, 12. The burden of the day—The full day's work, The .scorching :Imat—This was sometimes so severe as to drive la- borers from the field (James 1. 11; 2 Kings 4. 191. 13. He answered and said to one of them—Addressing, probably, the spokesman of the group of those who, among themselves, Mal been murmuring against, his seeming in- juIds tieie. thee no wrong: elitist it thou. agree with me for e- .shilling? --go was 'receiving the wages for which he lied contracted, and in 'Inc sense it was no conthen ef how much the others reeeived. The details of this parable cannot, how- ever, be pressed. • 15, Is thine eve evil because 1 am good ?—"Art thou jealoes bet:come 067 1sccrtehre°1,1Vb' shall be first, and the first last—See ie troductery paragraph. Militants Mar Beauty Spot. Wargrave, the historic church of which was destroyed by militants re- cently, long ranked as one or the beauty spots of tire Thames. The inn close to the waterside boasts of a sign painted bY two royal academicians—Leslie and Rodgson—one side of the sIgn-bottrd showing St. George slaying the dragon, and the other side depicting England's champion drinking a tankard of ale to refresh himself atter the exploit, The churehyard was the burial place of Thomas Day, the author of "The True History of Sandford and Merton." Almshouse Seeks Inman:tee. There are less pleasant backwaters to be stranded in than the stately build- ing of Wrens period that stands in one of the pleasantest parts of Blackheath as a .memento of the safe return of cer- tain vessels. Mere than two centuries ago 'a pros - Perces merchant er Turkey, Sir John Morden, being much perturbed respect- ing three ships nf his which were long overdue, vowed if they rams back to do something substantial for other mer- chants in distress, Admission Is strict- ly limited to merchants who have fallen 011 e\11 ie tingtse nr of the "college" draws a yearly allowance of $550. There are well trained men serva.nla, and to every three members one maid servant is allotted. Merchants are prosperous just now it would seem, as the treasurer of the "College" is inviting applications from would-be inmates for this, in all pro- bability, the most luxuriously equipped almshouse in existence. °Dine, Dance, Itring a Man,. "To dine, danceand brine a man." Ten yea.rs ago snob an invitation would have been a social Impropriety. To-dity It is commonplace. In the last generation an affianced ilair could not travel together by train for half an hour without being thought fast. A wonum could not ride in a han- som cab without the same reproach be- ing levelled at her. Notv a young girl can take a comparative stranger out to dine with her at a house he has -never entered before and call dame most of the, evening with him, brit he cannot "see her home." That society considers far worse than Wieked, It is quite possible fur a young man, a nestetnnor to London/ to know 0,1111nst 110 one, and yet to go everywhere. The Phrase "Bring a man" is so common that hostesses may hardly know any of the pate ;de foie gras or drinking their churn- ii:ampinec,tly dressed youths eating their The amusing clement in the Whole thing is that none but the most Patentis of men ran deduce anything at ell flat- tering from what in other clays would have been considered such decided ad- vanees on the part of girls. It Is done for every one. Women Marc. 511101E1We Snits. - Jitpanese Well Insured. The total outstanding life insur- ance pelicies in japan aggregate approximately $425,000,000. The inerease in business lot the, present yeas has averaged ever $6,000,000 a month end it de estimated that at the end of 1013 the total Sife jump,. ance business affective in inerin will :amount to fully $500,000,000. :Mess see now 33 &amebic lite ire emanate oomponies doh% business In Seentle, The cigarette habit among Nvonien is responsible for a curious fashien in sMoldng stlits. One that resembles a fancy pierrot suit a black charmense is covered 'with it sthrtling design of em- erald green leaves, relieved with fleshes yellew and white. The trtmsers are loose and baggy, the neck, slightly de- collette, has n large blaek satin collar RIM green '181e Another suggests a Chinese vase with its background of blue covered with a,hawthern design, Flandlterchters also have Kneouinbed to the cease fov Puturistn. The Inteat have a wide border of Smile Startling color, with a enntresting flower In the ceetre, Whose leaves should he black. or blue, Or pltrple, any effinr, in fact, that is not usually finial in a leaf, 011 others tiro embroidered chickens, .or beetles, or peacocks, or AtorkS, or ole. nhantt,t, Mid the like, in natural colors. Vegetarians are especially eatured to in the handkerchief Which shows a 'carrot, a head Of IISSaragna, straWberry, oral other frnitei and Vegetables in one col, net', eadeee may Golf on Sunday. Judges. of the crInlinal colirta Who hays lmert eriticized for plying jeer on sunday hitve found the exeltsc that noxious OOPS 111110 gimes of 01e NSW Bailey, ea the court buildings aro call. ed, drive them to got all the fresh air posSible in the time they SONO free ram courts, s century ago the Old WaS notorious for Its otters, i'rho. New matey is late- merovemeet The poor wettest:on lute reused team a mimes headaehe nut undoubtedly Many prison- ers have sufforee an extra heavy mane lmeause of judicial irritation, REliiiiElENTS HIS 11,1AgiSTY A. CONSUL'S D LITIES THAT COIVIE HIS WAY.: l'he Ring's AgenClffust be Able fo Meet All Require- ments, A consul's duties are fantastical- ly voried. His ehlef semenu is with the relief of diatthes, "Inneeents" (there are others, too) are apt to gels into, a. variety of scrapes abroad, and call on their country's repreeentetive- to "rens - der his general good offioes" isa their favor. From the loss of & Gladstone hag to thee of a., runes way husband, no embarrassment iss judged ineapable 01 adjusement by The benevolent consul, eases London AllieWerS. The life of that offieial in a sea- port town is anything but a bed sof roses. Skippers are rough and ready in ihme method% and have a diseoneerting habit ef dumping' 'on him undesirable members of their ship's company. Stowaways, plague: patients, madmen, mutineere, all are handed over dio H.M.'s repro- se.ntatives to deal with. The Goings and Comings. A :consul, in addition, is -ofben called on -to perform unetartial acts." The' io include such mattere as the performance of the marriage ceremony, the registration of births and deaths, and the ailministr.ation of oaths. In •comm,ercial mothers the consul is theoretically onaniseieet. Queriee reach him from enterprising firms on every imaginable sub- ject, from the possible opening for collar -studs sarong the nativee of Topiocalancl -to the possibilities of migninette cultiration in the desert of Gobi. In -certain Eastern countries con- suls are, in virtue of "capitulife tions"—tha is te say, the conces- sions granted to foreign notions ex- empting their subjects from the jurisdiction of the local eourts, ins vested with judicial powene. Brie fishers in these districts have the right to be tried an eriminal charges by their own eonsulth. It is a curious fact that, in Tur- key and Ifgypt, English low, as ad- ministered in tlse eonsular courts, does -not sanction the inflietioe of . the death sentence for murele,r, twenty years' penal servitude being the maximum penalty. Never Mind. The honeymoon 1005 0051!, end the husband, returning from lbusinecs, was grieved to find his little WiFe crying bitterly, "Oh, George,'' she •sobbed, "such a dreadful thing hos hapeened 1 1 made o beautiful pie all by myself, and Fide went and ate "Well, never mind, dear," he said, cheerfully, "we ean easily buy another ;dog." ge abl e gh s '•1 think, father, thee you do Ai' - 111101' a• greet injustice when you say that he is penurious." Precocioes Brother—" lVhat's penurious, fa- ther?" Father--"Wly, 'penurious' meene Close," Pentiriotte Brother —"Then you've right, That young man is Itwfully penurious when he comes to see 515 11 In the "Death -Spots." A consul (must resigui himself to a ' life of exile. If he is luck enough to secure apost in one, of the Euro- pean -cities he has little to complain of, but he has .1),esicles to- satisfy medical examiners that he is fit for service in Eastern climates, and such -countries as South Americas West Airioa .and China aboued in "death -pats'' In the less eivilized ports of the world the tensul often comes in for adventheous experiences. Turkey. is a land full of perilous surprises. Our consul in Adrianople went through the entire siege, durine the recent war, and greatly distinguish- ed himself by his gallant behavior. In Tripoli, too, it will be retnem- bend that one of the British eon- sulates woe .ehattered by a shell dur- ing the Italian hombartiment, from the effects of which its °coupes:tee had &miraculous ethape, The heroics . military vice-consul at Adana was shot in the arm do ring the last Ar- menian inaesaeres which devaztated theit region. A consul's matrimonial proapects are poor. Few British Maidens are willing or fit to share an official's life in out-of-the-way ploce,e abroad, and it is a feet- that a large perthn- tage of British consular officers are Harried to Foreign Weres. The ,e•ocial position of his 11,1aje•s- ty' s repreeentative.s in f or eign etnintries loathe little to be -desired. The consul and his "lady" ore the official heads of their eolony, A con,sul's pay and prospects, if not princely, are adequate. A nee - consul receives from 2400 to 11300 O year, a consul 13000 to. 2700, and coneul-general about 21,000, with . an offisial residences Three menthe' leave on full pay is granted every two years, and snore in certain un- healthy plates, and a peneion of twe-thirds of the :salary is awarded at the age cf Majesty's salaried cons:slam officers wear a &mart eniform oi ofacia3 occasitme, and enjoy o defi- nite rank in relation ite the Army and Navy --t consul -general, for exainple, being tcpuil to 3. brigadier or eosnueiclore, and entitled 'to a salute -of eleveu sue& A certain kind of blunder is see - posed to los chawacterietically Hi- bernian, yet this, stiory is told' of a Feenehman Peinte Trilleyrand ovasi suddenly awakened one night by the diseltarge a a Disbol. soolqg isis velet in the &parte/lent, lie oak. al what the trouble WAS, "Your Hight ems,' replied the man, there was to -movie in the room, -mid fear- ing it -might :disturb yens slumber, shot it."