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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1915-2-4, Page 3Hints for the Home Miscellaneous JLeeipes, Bran Muffins—Two cups'bren, one cup whole wheat flour, sine table - et -monad molasses, two eggs, ,two (tips milia, sane teaspoonful sa'l't, two teaspoonfulteespoonfule baking powder, raisins, Bake twenty-five minutes. Bran Broad•—same recipe as for muffins, but no egg's or baking pow- der. Use one yeast cake, To Roast Potatoes -Peel and wash Potatoes, and put them with the meat 14 the roasting :pan, Leave them until they are 'well, browned and serve them on the acme Martex with the roast. Gravy—.Take seine of the fat from and while they :are still on the lino THE GREAT GRANA DUKE. but ,nearly dry, beat them with a Freseni Commander»In-ahlef of the aaxpgat heater and tiro, will be win- RuseIan Army,. derfully light, ; A:• od way to clean mirrors is to If the Wash= army is a more Be Y, looking - t'. Lt .1'1't fitted 071 wipe tlrenn 'with ra Pa•d dipped in efficient instrument today than it was. mic,dir of the job, when, on a x n g a one or three p „rn t t, e h t 'whiting end warm Walter. 'Their dry tau years ago, It bas the Grand Duke into the ;trench, 1, fui1W1 it full of live' ant,ther chassis, is; a' w lr Jae., -equip- with a (oft ,oloth and pulish with 'a Nicholas, its present coanmauder In Germane, who at .ones opened fire. rlrent ear, two supply "tender" elr mots skin ebief to thank, After the disasters 01 Iiow they miesed me I don't know, cars, aa:d a Red arosecar, so that lose of a the Japanase war, the grand duke, al• ,as 1 was absolutely on the point of the whole sqi a ],oaf to rr e•,mplete If eggs ars placed in Spot w:ttter• a, ready well known as a brilliant etas stepping few minutes before breaking alta st:• vi.n across the tren•cll. wathhila :an wh r' Their extreme f t airy office •, undettooli to reorganlre "Tire thin: ave me Roach a (Beek nobility be r,v,d ih n ur : at the whites will separate from the yolks the army, ttind tiro event has p1'aved ilia( must' of theGrrnan�s gotae'ay'. front, especially in vela g righting, very easily, They E+hotil:d be aoolcd that ho really performed wonders, In before startingto whip the white, speed of mobilization agility at move - A. the staff aro awfully Besides the armored cars, e:a(h i' f sP he pleased :at us having eleare l them'squadron hes a number of muter .a paint .tertsh will get dust, nut a . meet, and Intoiligent response tot ' ••1 k he Ger- mallets att:aelied a,a scants. Fleet alas bettor than :an dust•(, wibl, alis ottani opportunrt'es of the cam- out at ,all. I ,,un't thinl t. fos,a llthe •eor- g for a eloth cannot Teeth a news. Try the biueh when you are cleaning baseboards, window sash- es, etc., and you 'will .appreciate it. After you '(lave washed the mur- rains for a pudding, dry thein, and five minutes before you need diem steam them well in a colander. This partly cooks them and 'stakes them swell, and their full flavor out, the pan, use four , tablespoonfuls Many people throw boots and with four tablespoonfuls of butter shoes away when they have plenty and stir them togeth••er and let this of life is them to serve their own mixture dredge in the pan. Add ors. This is especially the case with gradually one and St half ()ups of children's boots, linsteaal of dis- boiling water, cook five minutes, carding the hard :boots, soak them season with salt ,and pepped, and well in warsn oliva oil and then dry them and polish with a duster. Af- ter•ward clean them with ordinary polish, been 400. oa• 600 d?ad, I gave in- Vasa are many squadrons of these struetiens for a lieutenant to tni- in r x a tune says the London Morn - main out with a covering party, and lag .lelrg'reph, ,each eunisting• of went to search the dead to see witty four cars, fitt:,d with Msx,m guielc- the 'b.eltnged to, lava's just in the Jlrers in revoiviog ermared turrets, strain Timbale of Pumpkin.—Oras pint of stewed and sifted • pumpkin, .one tablespocnfml of butter, four eggs beaten, 'half a cupful of ,sugar, one- fourth teaspoonful of einnernon and half a pint of milk. Pour into but- tered m•olcls, Set in a pan of water in a moderate oven until firm. When the timbales are cold, un - mold and serve with whipped cream. Steamed Fruit Pudding.—Cover the bottom of a butter ,mold with- dices ithdices of bread lightly buttered. Over this place a layer of stewed apl'les c•r peaches, then another layer of bread and butter, alternat- ing with the fruit until the mold is throe -quarters full. Pour over this a custard Composed of two . eggs, one-half a cup of :sugar and a pint of milk. Fasten the cover of the mold tight, drop into boiling water and steam o:ne hour,. Serve with foamy sauce or sweetened cream. (Huger tresis.—Ova cupful of white sugar, one-hhalf cupful of bak- ing molasses, one cupful of sweet mdlc, one teaspoonful of socia dis- solved in the milk, one teaspoonful each of ginger and cloves, three cup- fuls of flour. Add ingredients es named. Spread thinly in tins. Bake and when cool frost with powdered sugar and cut into squares. This is a good recipe to help cut the high cost of living, as there are neither eggs nor shortening in them. They are fine for children's luncheons, Miami Fruit Pudding.—Peel and core enough tart 'a:ppies to fill a deep baking pan. Fit them in smug- ly and fill in the holes left by the cores with seedless raisins and bits" of shredded citron and lemon peel. Dust with sugar. Pour over them half a cupful of water and bake in a slow oven until perfectly tender. Remove thee( from the oven, sprin- kle lightly with bread crumbs, dust with sugar and bake 10 minutes longer. Serve with the following sauce: Beat together in a stew -pan one tablespoonful of flour and ene- h'alf cupful of sugar. Pour over this a cup of boiling water and bring to a boil. Remove from the fire an pour this slowly over one egg well beaten. Flavor with a dash of le- mon. Pour over the baked !fruit and serve immediately. • L''sefnl flints. • Linen is a fabric which can be easily dyed at home. Never mix any salad with dress- ing until you are ready to use it. Macaroni as an article of food is rather more valuable than beead. ' A very practical wary to finish a floor is to paint it with linseed oil. A wire bread or cake cooler is a handy thing to have in the kitchen. If a felt hat is faded or shabby,. the crown may be cut off to form a toque foundtation. A pretty way to serve hot biscuits is folded in a napkin on a sweet - gra' -ss basket, with a handle. When a box of sardines is opened it should be drained of its oil at once and the fish ttiam:ed out. To have dumplings fluffy and light keep the pot boiling steadily from the time they are dropped in. It is best not to serve this same dish twice a week,' unless it be a vegetable, as everyone likes variety, Damp :salt is an excellent thing to remove stains on cups 'and saucers caused by tea and 'careless washing, If a room is filled with smoke, open windows and wave a towel wet in vinegar asul hot water around in it. The thoughtful housewife, saves all the waxed paper that comes to the house for cracker and other boxes. Salt on the fingers, when cleaning fowl or fish, willl prevent slipping, and a little vinegar on the Lands will prevent odor, You will have no trouble with your thread kinking if you thread the needle before breaking thread from the reel, Bread should not be put into: a too hot oven; it should not brown for the first ten minutes, and only gradually afterwards. To renovate a white enamel bed- stead rub the inn parts all over with a el'otlr dipped in Paraffin; then paint ib with white enamel paint, toheating the oven, the drafts rha:u:l d be closed when the 'coal is well started. In :a word, to save fuel plan ahead enol 'then wateh. 111'411;3. After washing quilts arid •comforts New Deadly Weapon. This little steel arrow, about the same 'size ars a. pencil, is in pleat •reproach, yet ha has an intellect, an favor with the French aviators, The ambition, and a patriotism that would Flechette, as it is called, when not let him wholly waste his life in dropped from a height of 3,000 feet, ignoble ways. In blood he is half Ger- will penett:ate a man from his Lel- man, for his mother was of the ducal met to his feet. Members of the house of Oldenburg. As a young man French Aviation Corps have :also he recouped the family's financial been experimenting with this arrow fortunes, which his father's extrava- for use against dirigibles. Because gances had brought low, by a motga- of :the easier manoeuvring and great natio marriage with the rich widow of speed of the aerroplame±1nan readily deathshe matrcow iedetheaPrin essnt eAnas soar over the dirigible and drop tasia of Montenegro, who is sister of these Flochettes on the gas bag and the Queen of Italy, Both princesses probably explode he enemy's craft. spent much of their girlhood in the royal family at Petrograd, and the Grand Duke is said always to have been in love with his present wife. FINEST FIGHT EVER RAGED. Wlien Oxfords Were Pitted Against the Germans. The personal element in warfare— the battle of brains against brains is strikingly illustrated in a letter from. a captain of the 52nd Foot, 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire ami Bucking- hamshire Light Infantry, Writing to his sister he says; "We were sent off to help the Guards to hold up a nine previously held by a regiment which Wes al- most annihilated because they were not dug in deep enough. Aesoon as it was light the Germans opened with all guns. Lets of our men were buried in the trenches, but we got out into others, "About three o'clock, I saw the regim:ent on our left retiring. This was the absolute' devil, as it meant I had to get out. I was told to re- tire and try and stop ,the Germans paign, the Russian forces actually mans can bold out much 7'onger-1 showed something that approached mean here. Thein! losses are veer - even the .high standard of their Ger- l Inerts?and their men give me the un- man onomY., Presaron that they try to get wailed - During the Japanese War Nicholas ed or taken prisoners.'' was given no opportunity to distin• • - 4, .. -•— guish Mineolf; some observers believeGET 1'?t OCT OF A. FIG:liT, that the Czar's Jealousy of his more • _ brilliant cousin had something: to. do; Ilrftftsli 'I'tlita llnrdaleips rind 'Death with that. . But with the canalise of ; Lightheartedly.Ifiipu the other military leaders, the grand' duke's chance earns, and no' one else! Nothing snore elsarly shows the was suggested for the chief command .excellent spirit of oto• brave sea when the present war broke out. Not • diets than the light-lieartcd manner only is he In authority In the field; no .• One else has so much influence with in which 'headship, and even death the Czar. Indeed his position in Rus- itself, fe faced' The man who Dia to -day is said to be almost that of . marches to aation, with a rollicking a dictator, without the traps•:nes of the .song ea his lips, who finds nick - Street last n ek had the presence of a motor cycle carrying a Maxim glut as its .side -car equipment, with a gunner hard driver. • The Meter (t3"e1'e Gun Brigade and the'Aa'rnar- ed Car Naval Division are growing daily, se that.the• latter has now •a complement of nearly 2,000 officei:s and men.. THE CRONYING OF 0�1:S 11t. Mrs. Fraley Slept t'ndisturbed By ilia Loudest numinous. Mrs; Fraley poured her hus- band's epffee, and tabs'enbly put in his two lumps of sugar. She looked office, - names for the very guns- hurling d•e- pale, and there were tired shadows In person, the grand duke is a stint- i etruetion .at him, and who makes •a under her eyes. With sudden ger,- Mgfigure; he is six feet and six inch -1 a jest even of his..own sufferings, is titre, .sine !pushed beak the sugar es In ](eight, spare and active, with a bard man to :bean, ' the delicate feature:; and graceful First and last, Tommy Atkins is bearing of the aristocrat. In youth his a sportsman, and even when en - head was covered with short golden 'gaged in the grim game of war he dupe," 7, Went on the way to return cures;' now at fifty-eight their to not cannot forget entirelythe pastimes 1'unto the land of Judah,—It was much hair left, and that has turned g"Can't stand what her husband gray. His ayes are blue and very :of peace, as witness: the following asked. He was .a peas able man, .and customary for the host to acoum- lceen, his nose is prominent, his mouth i incident. One of our batteries was he had a faint hope that the trouble Pally the guest' a certain distance determined and a little cruel in ex. ;firing at :a building occupied by the might not be shat he knew it was. along leis way, Duubtless Naomi pression, and his chin strong. His • enemy, and out lads in the trenches yarn know what—rho Jbedmonds' thought that her two daughters -in rooster. I never heard such a crow I law would go with her for a distance sod then would return to their own homes. As the next verse shows, when they had gone with her as far as site thought they aught to, site said to thew, "Go, return each of you to. her mother's house." She presses them to return, ' bowl and faced him resolutely. "I can't stand it any kiuger, Hen- ry," site said, "Something must be THE SUNDAY SCHO)1 STOGY INTERN A'1'IONAL LESSON FEBRUARY '7. lesion 1'I., Ruth ('hooses the 'True God• --.Muth 1,, Golden Text, Be(Jh M0. Verse 6: '.Chat s,he might return' from the country of Moab,—Naomi went :qui from Bethlehem -Judah with her husband and two sons. They were called Ephrathites. This is another word for ]±phraimites.as found in Ju'dg, 12, 5; 1 Sam, 1 1; 1 Kings 11.26, Bethlehem, is spoken ,ef as Ephratah. It was too "s'm'all to be among the families el Juda,h," but it was "the finest site in a`ii the province of Judaea" (George Adam Smith). Bethlehem as is web known, is made up of two words, "Beth," meaning "house," and "Lehem," meaning "bread". The name '`hints( of bread" indicates that the country was exceedingly fertile. Jehovah had visited his people, This is a common expression in the Old Tes'tamient to denote the bene- ficence of God (see Gen. 21, 1; 50, 24, 25; Exod. 4. 31; 1 Sam, 2, 21 ; -Psa•. 60, 14). personality is so much more remark- , watched the proceedings eagerly. Able than that of any of the descend-; ‘1..t the third discharge the target, in my life. lie begins et three ants of Alexander II -he is himselt • crumpled up like a house of cards; o'clock, and he keeps ib up at inter - the son of a brother of that monarch and a prostrate spectator flung up vals ulna seven. We all right for ,that he has always had to bear his ;arms excitedly and yelled: yen to say it's a little thing,—you some suspicion and dislike both from „Goal 1 Headyhimself couldn't Alexander III and from the present sleep right .gh it,—but I can't, Czar Nicholas 11, '• It is because he Nave stopped that one," +. •and I'm getting completely worn has made himself indispensible to the I Again, when at Mons 'the long ons, I'm going over 40 see Mos, latter monarch that he has risen to days of retreat became days of ad- Redmond this afternoon and speak power at last, valise for our troops, a jubilant Bri- about it," No one was of more service than tish private described the situation "Well," 14Ir, Fraley said, slowly, the grand duke in restoring order and tersely as "Iialf•+time, Change "if yon'really can't stand it— But confidence after the humiliating break- over, Another football enthusiast, I'd put up with a good deal before down of Russian credit at the end of limping pelnfully away from the I'd have any trouble with the Red - the Japanese War. No one could ac- firing -ling, answered a sympathetic monde. They're mighty nice people, cuse Nicholas of being anything but inquiry with a smile, and the ex- you know." a believer in the essentials of Russian Y "If they're such nice people," his autocracy, but he is said to have sup• Planation' `"Got fouled in the pen- ported Count de Wittn against Olere• alt, .area. wife retorted, "they ought to be actionary party at that time, and it That magnificent bit of marks- willing to get rid of a rooster that was his arguments, so we are told, manship, when H.M.S. Birmingham tortures their neighbors! Anyway, that finally persuaded the Czar to shot away the periscope of a, Ger- Pm going," summon the first Duma, ' mann submarine, was aptly described Accordingly, after luncheon, Mrs. The father of the grand duke was a by one of the crew, who remarked, Fraley (trent upstairs to dress for man of very dissipated life, and the "Well bowled, Just took the, bail her gall, Just as she was putting conduct of the son has not been above nicely," on her hat, however, the bell rang, During the early days of the war and her maid announced Mrs. Red - the scarcity of blankets was a ire- mond, Mrs. Redmond's smile was quant topic in the trenches. "I hear half .amused, half anxious, there'll be a lot of chaps without "I came over to speak to you blankets to -night," said one "Tom- about Ceisar, Mrs, Fraley—that big my." No s rower tad he spoken rooster of ours. I've been so afraid than a perfect hurricane of lead he would annoy you with that ear - swept .over them, "If we get much piercingcrow of his. You see, Cre- of this there'll be blankets without ear is a prize fowl, and Mr. Red - men, I'm thinking," came the grim mond paid 'a big price for hint, but reply. we hadn't had him two days before A private in the trenches, raising I began to worry about his Browing, himself to get a glimpse of the foe, 1 told William. 1 knew it must annoy had his sleeve ripped open by a bol- the neighbors, and we should have let. "Well, I'll be darned," he to get •rid of him. Then Aunt Ellen said, quizzically. Another,. en being came„ She is very deaf, but the told by his pal that they were face- first merning she came down to ing a million of the enemy, took breakfast perfectly radiant. careful aim, fired, and replied., " 'Oh,' she tried, 'what do you "No, lad; only 999,999." think has happened? I heard your Two riflemen were discussing the rooster crony! I haven't heard a enormous amount of lead used rooster crew for ten years. Do you daily, and one suggested the pawl- know, I just Dried over it. It seem- bility of a shortage. "No, fear," ed so wonderful to hear something sai+] this chum. "Lead's economical that didn't come through am ear stuff; you can make a little go a trumpet!' long way," It was an. Irishman "William Looked at me, and I who, on hearing that the Getman knew what that meant. And so 1 soldiers have 'an aversion to "cold steel," promptly retorted, "Shure, then, we'll jilt make it hot for them." —4, - AN ESKIMO'S TRADE. GERMAN TOYS, A Movement Has Begun to Reform Their Character. Certain cities of Germany, particu- larly Nuremberg, have since mediaeval times been celebrated for their toys. The Nuremberg dolls, with porcelain faces, have enjoyed a celebrity that began in the fourteenth century. At the same time, the people of Nurem- berg began to make dolls' houses much like those that children admire so much to -day. In the year 1572, the Blector Augustus of Saxony ordered a table service for his three daughters, consisting, among other things, of seventy-one plates, 150 glasses, thirty- six hirtysix tablespoons, and twenty-eight egg cups, That collection has been pre- served to this day, In a sense it is an historical document, as it contains no forks. Forks came later. Albert IV of Bavaria had a very realistic house made for his children. It was com- plete from cellar to greenhouse, and it included even a household chapel and a ballroom. In the grounds were stables and a menagerie. In recent years there is a movement M Germany to reform the character of the toys, a movement that has the getting past a •certain road. From hearty support of educators. Those then on it was awful. As soon ars who lead the movement have set their we left the trenches they opened on faces against the kind of toys with us with every gum and rifle. which the market Is too often crowded "Luckily I got the new position —realistic imitations about which and collected sheat( 150 m:en. there is no atmosphere of strangeness Things looked real rats(,, se the or romance, and which, for the most. Germans were pouring in through part, are commonplace and ugly, The Dresden toys, so called are de• i the gap amd filling the wood we were signed to remedy this fault; to hold in, Under the circumstances, I the child's attention by the beauty and bhaught to do something unexpected simplicity or their design, and by some mi 'ht upset their apple -cart. So fantastic deviation from the actual. The toys are the work of men who are interested in enoornaging an artistic instinct in the young. Moat toys do not foster the child's inherent feeling for beauty and harmony, but actually repress it by reason et their unveil. tionality and ugliness. The new toys are at once simpler and more the pro- duct of the imagination. They strongly resemble the wood carvings of primi- tive peoples, whose imaginative facul- ties were much like those of the child• ren to -day. The toys manufactured on the Dres- den plan do not look at all machine. wee. They have a novelty, an fn- dividuality that pleases the child. Be- sides the single figures, there are groups designed on the same plan— farms, villages, or menageries. In such series, the toys aro colored on a simple and effective basis of color harmony, Among the proinlnent reformers of children's toys is the author, Prank Wedekind, who is also tile inventor of the "Gorman discus"'n,nd the "bicycle swing," which aro intended to develop in older children agility as well as control of, the body's movements through will power and sureness of. eye, we fixed bayonets and went straight in. We 'had' the finest fight that sve'r was fought. We first came on ,some Eby of them, went straight in, and annihilated theme. We were very quickly into the next lot, and in a few minutes we were shooting, bay- oneting and annihiiabiug every -- thing we came across, "To err a bong story abort, we drove the whole crowd back. I had five ito'les in my eoat as. a souvenir. We went on ooeupying this position in the trenches,' which was vitally important, for about three days. The German trenches were only twenty-five yards in front of us,- It was very un'co'mfo'rtable having them so close. TWo subalterns and two soldiers placed themselves so skflfnlby b•ehiricl a big huutp in the ground that they saw the whole length of the German breathes. They then kb drive with their rifles, with the result that they stampeded the let and killieal forty. "1 afterwards took a party of twenty-five to reconnoitre, and we found these forty dead. In fact, in a space of 160 yards there may have Give Anything Ile Possesses for 'What Jia Really Wants. Among the Eskimos of the Bering Sea region, there is no fixed value for whalebone, furs, or anything they may :have to trade. If one of them has anything of valve, he wild keep it until some white man ap- pears with something that, appeals to his eye. And the money value of what may take him does not make any difference to him. If he has a trinket that may be worth a dollar, and soma ane offers to give him for it something that is worth a thou- sand dollars, but of which he has no Head, he will refuse to trade. But he will give anything •he pos- sasses for what he really wants. Au Eskimo of St, Lawrence Is- land, in Bering Sea, made a catch one season of a big bowhead whale, The head of baleen was worth be- tween ten and fifteen thousand dol- lars, He knew ,the approximate value of the'head, but he held on to it with no apparent desire to• trade, One day a trader appeared with a small gasoline launch, valued at perhape two or theca hundred dol - Jars, The sight of that so took the native that he ,straightway traded his head of bone for it, Far out in the straits one day lie ran ort of gaisoline. Hs abandoned the launch for the canoe he was towing, and paddled back to the island, But 1m did not regret iris trade, He was satisfied, and ready to try for another whale, WARSHIPS ON WHEELS. Naval Vessels Inrileted Bs Building Armored Autos, For many weeks the commons and open 'spaces 4101011/ IL,ndon Loire witnessed the practising et the Roy- al Naval Air Sepik* armored oars• carie over to ask you if you could possibly endure Caesar's racket just 'could be no other : question in Naomi's mind as to Ruth's determ- ination and steadfastness. The beauty of the language of these two verses is captivating and shows that "out of the fullnessof the heart the mouth speaketh, that beauty of form is associated with beauty of thought Asan! conviction. (See 2 Kings 2. 2-6 for a similar epi- sode between Elijah and Elisha). 17. _ Jehovah do so to me, and more also.—This is a common form of oath among the Israelites and among other people who carie in close association with the Israelites (See 1 Sam, 3, 17 ; 14. 44; 20, 13; 2 Sem, 3. 9, 35; 19. 13; 1 Kings 2. 23; 2 Kings 6. 31). 18. She left off speaking unto her. —It is an easy play for the imagin- ation to see these two women talk- ing in the road together, stopping as they frankly and firmly express their views one to the other, but when the matter m settled, going on their way with gladness. 9. She kissed the-m.—The kiss was the usual greeting at meeting and parting. It is still the salutation in the Orient among men as well aa woman (see Gen, 29. I1; 31, 55; Exod. 4. 27). It was a mark of friendliness, There are two in- stances where it was used for foul purposes. 'Under the guise of friendship, Jamb kissed Amasa, and tints taking him unawares, killed him (2 Sam, 20.9). Another in- stance is the well-known one of Judas, 10, Nay, but we will return with thee unto thy people.—Both of the daughters-in-law, it would seem, were determined to return with Naomi. After the fervent appeal of Naomi, as recited in verses 11-13, Orpah weakened in her determin- ation to accompany her mother-in- law; but Ruth (verse 14) "clave unto her." The friendliness of Ruth went far deeper than that of Orpah, 15. Behold thy sister-in-law is gone back onto her people, and un- to her god: return thou after thy sister-in-•law.—Even after Orpah hadgone, Naomi insisted upon Ruth going. She . wanted to give Ruth every opportunity to go back, not only to hes people, but to hergod, as it was believed among the Israel- ites that the God of Israel did not have power over the people of other nations. David at one time pleads that he be not sent away from his own country and from the protec- tion of the God of Israel (1 Sam. 96. 17-90). 16. Entreat me not to leave thee. —This and the following verse ex- press so emphatioally Ruth's desire to remain with Naomi that there while Aunt Ellen is with us. Could you?" Mrs. Fraley's eyes were warm with sympathy. "Indeed I cant" she cried. "When I hear aim crow, I'•11 just think how your Aunt Ellen is en- joying it. I'm sure that's little enough to do ,when she has to miss so much," So Caner crowed unmolested. And, curiously enough, before Aunt Ellen left, Mrs. Fraley found that she could sleep undisturbed by his loudest summons, FORETOLD BY ANIMALS. ',!'here Are Many Superstitions Con- nected With Them. - In the ease of a lion, it is believed that the wearing of a claw of this animal will bring great strength. People connected with circuses and shows have a saying that when lions get restless and uneasy either illaluok or extremely bad weather is at hand, and that when they con- tinually wash their faces in cat -like fashion they are likely to have fibs of ill -temper in the near future, Numberless ,are the superstitions associated with the tiger. The na- tives of India believe that its whisk- ers are a deadly poison, and that when finely ohopped and secretly introdnoed into person's food they will assuredly eanse death. 'What is known as the evil eye" is greatly drea(((d in India, and to avert this parents hang the claws of tigers round the necks of their children, To te'ee a •wolf is supposed to be a good sign, but if a man sees a wolf before the wolf woet.him then. he will either become dumb for the time 0x lose his voice, For ar hart to .rim across anyone's path is euns$dored a very had :eipo 1n some pants of England, because in oddest tines it was belieicd that witthr•s irams'fornled 1heinsrltes hi- t° 1 crew in cadet to bring Karl luck to their enemies. FROM. ERIN'S GREEN IRE NEWS BY MAIL FROM ,IME" LAND'S SHORES,Iluppenings In the Emerald laic of Interest to Irish, teen, Lord Kitchener was born on June 24th, 1850, ,at Ballylongford, in the County of Kerry, exactly 200 years after the famous Duke of Maraborough was born in Devonshire, The tCity of Dublin ibranch of the British Red Gross ,Society has 'de- cided to abandon the erection of a hospital in the Phoenix Park at a coat of $60,000. A telegram has been sent to Lord Kitchener stating that the Ulster Velma teen desire to place at his lis- , p•osal a fully equipped hospital with ons hundred bed's in Belfast, ' The total number of men who have joined the new army and Spe- cial,Reserve in the :province of Ul- ster since the outbreak of the war up to last week was 20,768. Mr. Thomas Marshall, a; well- known Holyhead resident, bee been charged :with signalling with a Morse code to a passing ship, He avis remanded fur a week and allow- ed bail on $3,000. The'Chancellur of the Exchequer has informed Mr. W. Abraham, M.P. (Dublin), that the government have no control over the ,prices charged by 'brewers for beer sold to their customers. The Government ]las taken ac- tion against the seditious news- papers in Ireland by -warning them that proceedings will be taken them under the Defence of the Realm Act if seditious matter appears, A small daily paper started re- cently named '`Ireland," has been abandoned, as the printer, it is stated, declined to take the respon- sibility of printing it in view of the warning given by the military au- thorities. The Ulster volunteer force hold the record for big men. 'Sergeant 1. Bryan Stewart of the filth (U,V. F,) Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 32 years of age, is 6 ft. I% inches fn height, chest 43.45 inches, and weighs 24 stone. Cons'idera'ble damage was caused by a fire that broke out at the bleach -.works of Messrs. Kirkpat- rick Bros., Ballyclare. The gas - house was ,practically destroyed, al- though it is not expected that work will be interrupted. The Chancellor of the Exchequer states that the shortage of silver in Ireland has been. kept under con- stant observation, and the mint is still working at full pressure to overtake the demand. The total value of silver coin issued to Ire- land to Nov. 25, 1914, was 95,004,- 000. The :Senate cif Dublin University recently conferred degrees in medi- cine and surgery on a number of students who were anxious to go to the mar, Considerable damage was caused by a serious fire that broke out at Messrs, Frank E. Smith & Co.'s nurseries at Dundonald, and diddamage to the building. A large quantity of valuable bulbs were de- stroyed. TRE LAST MILITARY ARCHERS. Only One Hundred Years Since Mien Fought With Rows. • German Soldiers Go Diad. George Prade, special Paris cor- respondent at the front, declares that he saw a German train paint- ed red, go through Aix-la-Chapelle from Belgium, filled with German soldiers who had been driven mad by :the war. "All exits were seal. el," he writes. "The carriages were padded everywhere and each con- tained a dozen or more soldiers, who were writhing, shouting, foaming at the mouth, or scream- ing deliriously. 'Station officials told me that the red train made fre- quent trips -whenever the allies' ar- tillery had (beep fictive, and that after the murderous Yser 'fight ft ran continuously," 11 it were not for your memory you would be unable to forget ' We think of the bow :and arrow as ni,edioval weapons of war, abandon- ed by the nations of Europe four or five centuries ago ; the bowmen of Crecy axe the last of any promi- nence in English history. Yet it is only one hundred- years sante sod diens fought with bows and arrows in European ware., and that, too, on the fields of southern Belgium, where the present war began. It was in 1813, when all Europe was armed against Napoleon. Every one of the allied nations brought every possible resource of men anti means to fur:th:er this end, Among then. was Russia,. 'To the war she sent soldiers from the newly con- quered tribes that dwelt upon, the steppes of Asia: Bokharans and Turkomans and Tatars and other half -savage peoples, Many of these regiments were armed with bows and arrows. Jomini, the mili- tary historian, speaks of a great number of these that fought side by side with the Prussians in eastern Germany and in Belgium, and he says that these bowmen held 'their own against the French infantry. Their aim, he says, was, sualprisrttgiy good, and they could shoat an tar - row with effect almost as fns as a musket ball was effective—but in those days that -was not ranch more than a hundred yards. Kaiser's Own War Movies. Moving pictures 'which aro being used to arouse the patriotic im- pulses of the German people appear. to have been taken with the Em- peror's hearty co-operation, for they represent hint talking to his staff, inspecting his troops, and vo chatting with the Cwn Prince very near to the camera These ,!>±0 tures are 5a numerous and clear that no photographer could :poser- . hly have set n]: his camera so dose without royal approval.