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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1915-7-29, Page 7• useiiis earer Witl .Gooseberries, cions drink, especial y combined with Gooseberry Creams. -1 quart goose- grape juice and lemon, berriek, 3 tablespoonfuls sugar, third Lemon . juice with a little sugar cream, wafer biscuits. Method—Stew added, is bettor than vinegar for the gooseberries until tendor and rub making up vegetable salads, through a sieve. Add the sugar and If bicarbonate of soda is spread the cream whipped lightly. Stir all around where ants congregate, it will carefully together ,and pile the mix- kill them and drive them away tune' in,eustard ;lasses with wafers Boiled' cauliflower arranged with stuck in each. layers of grated.chesse between and ' Gooseberry Dumplings.—'/h lb. self- baked is a delicious luncheon dish. raising flour, 2 tablespoonfuls beef Brown sugar used in place of gran - suet water to mix, 1 pint ,goose- ulated sugar in sweetening brown berriee, 2 tablespoonfuls sugar, Meth- Betty will make it taste much richer. od—Prepare the suet crust carefully When early breakfasts are requir-. and line some small cups with this ed, prepare themas much as possible rolled thinly. Fill these with goose- overnight to save time in the morn - berries and sweeten with sugar. Cov- ing. er each with a round of suet pastry Always save the. corners of linen and tie down with greased paper. after cutting out large centrepieces;. Steam these for anhour and • serve they can be used for the centres of turned out on a hot dish, tiny doilies, Crumbed Gooseberry Pudding. — Use the outside leaves of the let-' 1 quart gooseberries, y, pound sugar, twee head for sandwiches. It will 2 eggs, 1 ounce butter, brown bread- add a great deal to the sandwich and crumbs. Method—Stew the goose- save the lettuce. berries until tender, adding just :Braes polished with oil and rotten - enough water to prevent them burn- stone will have a deep' rich yellow ing, and rub them through a sieve. tone. The whiter, more. brilliant tone Add the sugar and half the butter is caused by acid polishes. melted, and likewise the eggs well Practical keeping places should be beaten. Butter a mold thickly 'and arranged in a child's room so that freely. Sprinklewith brown bread- it can learn order by putting things crumbs. Half -fill the mold with the intheir places at the end of the day. gooseberry mixture, and then add 'a Before broiling ham, it should be layer of crumbs. Continue this un- soaked one hour in lukewar mwater. til the mold is full. Cover with but- Then drain, wipe and broil three tered paper and bake in a moderate minutes. The slices should be thin. oven for about 40 minutes. Turn out Cranberries can be kept fresh in - carefully and serve. definitely if put in a jar and filled Gooseberry and Rice Pudding. — up with cold water. Place a lid on pia pound rice, 1 pint gooseberries, ee lightly and change the water.. every pint sweet sauce. Method—Place the day or two. rice 'on a scalded and floured"cloth, If, after a pumpkin has been cut, add on top a pint of gooseberries. you do not use it all, pour melted Tie up the cloth securely, leaving paraffin over the cut surface; it will room for the rice to swell. Boil for keep the pulp of the left -over portion an hour. Turn out and coat with sweet and solid. sweet sauce. Fruit jars should be sweet and Gooseberry Turnovers. — One-half clean before they are put away. Put pound short pastry, 1 pint goose- a pinch of soda in the jar when you berries, sugar. Method—Prepare give it its final rinsing. This will some- good short pastry and roll this destroy all old flavor. out to the thickness of one-quarter A delicious pudding is made as inch. Cut out rounds with a saucer. bread pudding would be, only with Place some gooseberries, topped and crackers instead. This should have tailed, on ene half. Turn over the a thin sauce flavored with vinegar other half and pinch up the edges to- (or lemon) nutmeg. • gether. Bake on a buttered tin for Rice, either used separately as a half an hour. Sprinkle freely with vegetable, or combined with other castor sugar. Serve hot. ingredients in entrees and desserts, Gooseberry. Trifle. One-quarter makes a very acceptable addition to pound Savoy biscuits, 1 pound loaf the everyday menu,, particularly in sugar, M., pint water, 1 quart goose- these times, as it is. inexpensive. berries, 1 pint custard, white of egg. Photographs that have not been Method—Cut up the biscuits into protected by glass and have become slicesand place in a glass dish. Boil fly -specked, can be cleaned by dipping the sugar in the half-pint of water a piece of absorbent cotton in pure for 10 minutes to make a syrup. Top alcohol and wiping the photograph off. and tail the gooseberries and stew The cotton should just' be dampened. these in the syrup until soft, but un- broken. Place these on the top of the. biscuits. Prepare a custard and SETTLERS START FOREST FIRES pour this oyer the berries, and lastly -- Close Season Necessary to Protect Forests During Dangerous Period. During the last few days in May' and the first week or ten days in pile up a beaten white of egg and serve cold. Gooseberry Tam.—Seven pounds green gooseberries, 8 pounds sugar. Method—Top and tail the gooseber-' June, the weather conditions in both ries and place them in a preserving Ontario and Quebec were very dry, pan. Add the sugar and slowly bring resultingin the spread of many fires, to boiling point and boil for 40 min- some of which,aseumed large proper-. Utes. If the jam jellies quickly when tions,and, did considerable damage. a sample is placed on a saucer, it is Infomation secured by both the Con - quite ready and must be bottled at servation and the Railway Commis once. To Bottle Gooseberries.—Gather to- gether some bottles with •wide necks. See that they are perfectly clean and dry. Fill them with gooseberries and place in the oven until thoroughly hot through without breaking the skins. Remove from the oven, add two • Situp e Patterns for Tub Frocks. Everywhere this"Suumter one sees linens and linens, an evidence, not only of their popularity, but also of their practicability. Linen, in spite .of the fact that numerous other kinds of goods have come into favor, will perhaps .lead because of its unques- tioned coolness and freshness of ap- pearance due to the ease and frequen- cy with which it can be laundered. It goes without saying that they make up best in simple styles, and it hardly need be added that the simpler garments are not only easier to fash- ion, but nine times out of ten, look better. A well -cut pattern of few pieces should be used, such as Ladies' Home Journal Pattern No. 8961, shown above. The sleeves the waist and the upper part of the skirt are cut in one piece, while the lower part of the skirt consists of a circular flounce, giving the new full 'effect at sion indicates that, while the •damage done by railway fires was small, much ,,Carmen," that wonderful daughter property has been destroyed through of France, Mine. Calve, but they are the spread of fires started by settlers not among the audiences -she loves to for the clearing of land. 'In Ontario, sing to to -day. Her heart is with the there, is- practically, no restriction French and English soldiers, "her chil- upon settlers brush -burning opera- tablespoonfuls sugar to each' bottle, tions, and the result has been that, and fill up with boiling water, - Seal during every dry .season, fires start - with paraffins and store. ed by settlers for this purpose have with Gooseberries in Batter. —Four spread beyond control, causing great tablespoonfuls flour, 2 eggs, pinch lose of property, and, in some cases,. salt, le pint milk, , pint goose-a.loss of life. In Quebec, the law en - salt, s, 1 tablespoonful sugar, 10 deavors to regulate the setting out of ounces dripping or butter. Method— during fires, by establishing a closed season, during which no such fires shall be .. Prepare the batter by mixing the set, unless a permit is issued by an flour and salt with a little milk and officer of the Forest ' Protection the eggs beaten to a froth. Beat Branch. However, great difficulty this thoroughly until smooth and the has been met in securing satisfactory surface free of bubbles. Stir in gently the remainder of the milk, , observance of this law, and nearly Heat the fat until smoking hot in a every year great damage is caused on baking -tin and pour in the batter and this account.. The modern tendency gooseberries. Bake in a hot oven for ,tn forest fire protection is very dis- half to three-quarters of an hour. Cut tinetly toward the establishment of into sections and sprinkle freely with a closed season, during which no fires ,pulverized sugar. 1 for clearing operations are allowed Gooseberry Souffle. — One pint to be set out, unless upon permit by stewed gooseberries, e, pound sugar, an authorized officer. Coupled with 20 ounces butter, 11/z ounce flour, 2 this must be an adequate and compel- tablespoonfuls corn flour, 3 eggs, 1 ent staff to make the law effective. teacupful milk Method—Prepare a The past difficulties in eastern Can - teacupful milk, Method—Prepare a oda have been largely due to either sauce with the flour, corn floor, milk i the lack of such a law, or of its ode- and butter, Stir in the gooseberry quote a rule,enforcement. railwa s are now de - pulp and the yolks of eggs, also the , s ' crailwadsble work in sugar. Beat the whites to a stiff froth ing thoroughly and fold these carefully into the mix- fire protection, and in many cases tura. Prepare a souffle mold by ty- , have . expended considerable a sums in unary bly due ' Warfare ons Insects. -, Inserts have always been consid- ered in the light of disagreeable min- ute pests, but fele persona have look- ed upon them as dangerous. Careful housewives encountering them in "'a- dieu sinks or cupboards have hasten- ed to sprinkle some sort of dea'th- dealing poison around merely because they were annoying, and then, too, dinner guests have a disconcerting habit of shrieking aloud when finding one of the wee things crawling along a lettuce leaf in the salad. Basket picknickers have always tak- en pains to ]]rush the tiny creatures off' their sandwiches; pedestrians have promptly proceeded to trample on them when meeting them along the walks, principally because they had no desire. to. go out of their way express ly to• save the lives of the unneces- sary little objects. Now it is learned that these insects which we have' never taken very'ser- iously are responsible for many dis- eases that afflict mankind. Common examples are malaria, yellow fever, possible sleeping sickness of Africa, Rocky New Class of Disease mountain spotted fever of this coun- try, typus fever, which occurs every- in which the insect is concerned. where and which recently attracted Recently in the canal zone an in - great attention on account of its rav vestlgation •was made to determine ages in the armies engaged in the whether or not ants would carry the. European war, dengue fever, bubonis bacillus of typhoid fever. The in - plague and, in addition, a long list of vestigators stated: maladies of domestic and wild ani- "One can readily see the danger of mals. our situation in ants acting as car- To most persons the insect -borne riers of pathogenic micro-organisms, diseases are of little importance, says for it is absolutely impossible to keep the Washington Star. The mention them out of t he house, and they get of them merely recalls maladies like into food in spite of our efforts." sleeping sickness and kola azar, The buffalo gnat is responsible for which are peculiar to tropical re- spotted fever in many cases. cions or to remote corners of the Not only is man in danger because earth. It is not generally realized of disease -bearing insects, but ani- that there is a considerable number mals are also among the victims. The of important insect -carried diseases list of animals in which insect -borne that are of direct concern to people diseases may occur is undoubtedly in - of this country. complete, 'but includes rodents, cattle, There are numerous groups of dis- horses, dogs and birds. eases occurring in this country which "The discovery of the causation of the action of the disease is accidental. diseases by parasites opened a great This group is represented by tuber- biological field," said Mr. Hunter, in culosis, typhoid fever; and possibly referring to the connection between pneumonia and other maladies.. inset'ts and 'disease. Bubonic Plague. "It became evident that the forces was also not mentioned. But this of diseases were parallel to many of illustrates one consideration of great the biological processes with which importance: That our increasing in- naturalists are familiar. .m>tg tl•e tercourse with other parts of the concerned many complicated tncthis biology which ora of disr.cse world furnish op rt"unities -for—the Sa.. tsects. The first knowledge Cie - cases introduction J -o diseases, in many c byinsects,with tamed orrtha.eubject was i th tad Certain common household Insects,. like the flour moth, have relation to men which is frequently overlooked. A malady due to direct attack is known as tick paralysis, and is just coming to be known, The attach- ment of a tick . causes progressive Paralysis ascending from the lower extremities until all parts of the body are involved. The malady is unique, but is found to be the first -represen- tative of .a Special class of.injuries caueed by insects. It is possible that several new groups of diseases in which insects are concerned will be found to exist. In the investigation of beriberi and similar disoases in recent years much has been. learned about the effects on the system of the presence of toxins of various kinds. Insects are responsible for that strange disease known as elephan- tiasis, in which the limbs are Swollen into gigantic proportions. The house fly may be partially to blame for the. dissemivation of the hookworm. An apparent connection is shown between a germ carried by cockroaches and cancer -like lesions in the internal or- gans of mice. The work is not all complete, but may be suggestive of a t,cs1F.gt• egoe4earte�ee.+s odd Wedding Customs Did you know that most of our twentieth-century wedding customs are remnants of barbaric days? With modern adaptations, of euwso? Ever since there have been wed- dings there have been customs, so we have to go back a long, ,bgpg way to find out how they started, Marriage was first .capture, then, later, 'pure chaser Same principle applies pretty ou think? In fernerlltimes cathe groom started out on the warpath with some chosen com- panion who was to help in the cap- ture of the bride, Now this assist- ant is called the host man.. Wedding rings date back to Bible times, only then they Were to convey the idea of a fetter instead of the more lenient present significance. The first wedding ring on record was made of iron and adamant, Later choice seem to have varied between copper, brass, leather, sedge and even grasses, until gold gained predomin- ance. It's only the daring suitors of the present day who have broken the golden spell and changed. to platinum. Chances are this fad, for we must call it such, will not be enduring, for it certainly has not met with the ap- proval of the older generation. In more respects than material was the betrothal or gernnal ring of olden times different from to -day's. Made in two fitted sections, it was divided; at the service, one half for the bride, the other for the groom, a significant ceremony. the hem. ' The pattern cuts in sizes 32 to 44 inches bust measure, requir- ing in .size 36 five yards of 42 inch material. The young girl's wash dress is most practical when it de- pendsVttponits own tucking for trim- ming, as does- the misses' dress out by Ladies' Home Journal Fattern No. 8963. This has a drop shoulder 'f'orced to contend. The quarantine blouse with the front eased into -'a service is efficient, but there is always slash underneath the collar, full a chance that certain diseases may length sleeves, turn -back cuffs, a deep escape. In fact, this is shown very shaped girdle and a one-piece straight clearly by the introduction of bubonic gathered skirt with three graduated, plague in two greatly removed locali- tucks lengthened by a one-piece gath- ties. ered flounce with a tuck and a deep An illustratino of the complicated The attain cuts in sizes 14, 16 ares transmitted wt n e s y :hien` heretofore we have not been of an important nista a of cattle in hem. p 18 and 20 years, size 18 requiring ten yards of 27 inch material with .one- half. yard 36 inch contrasting goods. Patterns, 15 cents each, can be pur- chased at your local Ladies' Horne Journal Pattern dealer or from the Home Pattern Company, 183-A George Street, Toronto, Ontario. CALVE'S SINGING CHEERED SOLDIERS. Prima Donna Delighted Many of the Wounded Frenchmen. Kings, Queens and Presidents have listened delightedly to the golden notes, of the world's most famous ing a greased paper round the top. controlling fi 1- 'a* Place the mixture in the tin and steam to outside sources. The next big step door loads to another hall where there for an hour. Turn out veryycarefully in forest fire protection throughout area number of wounded Germans. eastern Canada should be itt the direct The: are sad and suffering as badly and serve at once. tion of securing better control of set Gooseberry Jolly. =Seven pounds g as we are, and S. am sure'they would tiers' slash -burning bperatiotts dui- t, green gooseberries, 2 quarts water, 1 . lore to hear you, "I . thought to myself," dren," as she calls them, who live in the hospitals. "I wanted," she said to the inter- viewer, just before she departed for America, where she is due to fulfill a long-standing contract, "to serve as a trained nurse in the Red Cross Hos- pitals of,France, but I was told that I could do a greater work by soothing suffering men with the songs they love. To my suffering countrymen in the larger hospitals and cathedrals I sang the old French songs. Selec- tions from the operas and other songs which I ventured to sing they liked, but they invariably asked me to sing the oldgongsof France. "One soldier paid me one of the most delightful compliments of my lif e. i - "Ah, madame,' he said, "it is as refreshing as a drink of pure water, your singing, when one is perishing with thirst.' " Perhaps Mme. Calve's most curious experience was that of singing to a number, of German soldiers. Otte of the soldiers in a certain hospital ask- ed if she would mind a certaiii door being open while she sang. "Not at all," . replied the famous singer; "why do you ask?" "Oh," replied the soldier, "that pound sugar' to each pint liquid. ?ng dangerous seasons. Method—Crush the gooseberries with het•. r rolling pin ' orpotato mos Per 1 t gP called after • soch e were Hansom cabs w Place these in n pan with the water eephL. Strain Joseph.l,Iansom, who invented theta. and molt until soft and telly,tMattritius has, ott an average, only the mixture very carefully, cloth. ever eighty years. sgaeozing,;through acoarse Add one thunder-stormY g a pound of sugar to each pittt of liquid Secretary birds are so called be- l about and boil to half On hour to three- cause of the quill -like plumes quarters. 'Useful Hints, . Baked apple juice makes a deli their ears. During the present century, the King's Prize at Bisley has been won three times by Canadians. said alma. Calve, as she related the incident, " `I cannel be less Christian thea this roan,' so I went to the door and sang the German prisoners. It happen- ed very often afterwards that I sang to the Germans in hospitals, Mme. Calve, as she bade her friends adieu, proudly displayed n Red Croes bade set in brilliants with which she bas been decorated by t Red Cross Soeiety, "I nursed at the front for nearly three weeks," she told the interview- er, "but it was too terrible." The War and Class Distinction. The effects of the war upon the life of rural England are discussed in an interesting paper by Mr. S. L. Ben- susan. In the course of his theme Mr. Bensusan says:— "A welcome result of the war has been the collapse offelass distinction. As far as the old -established families are concerned, there has been no con- straint—they are unconscious of any need of it; the new -comers who have bought or hired the home of some im- poverished family are the people who grate upon peasant and yeoman alike. The latter suspect their intentions, resent their patronage, and misrepre- sent their best-itentioned actions. War has altered'all this. It has given to the old landowner, the non-veau riche, the farmer, and the ploughman, a common interest, a single anxiety. A ploughboy may come home wearing the Victoria Cross, the heir to the es- tate may lie by his side on some stric- ken field. The poacher, resolved to :find a new character and to exercise his love of adventure for his coun- try's good, may find himself in a trench next to the magistrate who sentenced him; the loafer of the way- side inn, properly fed, clothed, and drilled, may be smartened out of all recognition and recover his hold upon Manhood and self-respect. The values of people and things have changed. Many good men would not wait for a commission; they preferred to join the ranks, and out of this will come a great levelling tip, a wide fel- lowship. relations between insects and human parasites can be mentioned at this point. It is a rather common occur- rence in tropical America for fly lar- vae to be found causing tumors en- der the skin in various parts of the human body. It hod been supposed until recently that the eggs of the fly were deposited on the akin of a hu- man being by the parent insect, and this seemed to be sufficient natural explanation. However, it has been discovered that the process is by no means so simple. The adult fly does not deposit its eggs on the human subject, but on the leaves of plants. this. country known as `sy.?eneticfe- ver, and this was as recent as 1361. -e -1.t - developed from this study of the bur- eau of animal industry in the cuurse of experiments conducted near the city of Washington that the organism which caused the malady had a cycle outside of the cattle. "In other words, it was necessary lotion of t he life cycle of the parasite for it to pass through a certain species of tick, in which it ty'ent through transformations neces- sary to complete maturity. This dis- covery laid the foundation for remark- able progress in The Study of Disease. Since that time many other disease or- ganisms have been found to be depen- dent upon insects for their develop- ment. "The time has not arrived for the classification of the conditions under There they come in contact with car- which insects may transmit diseases, tain mosquitoes which frequent such as our knowledge is being extended places, and adhere to their legs. almost daily and unsuspected condi- When they attack human beings the tions or sets of conditions are coming to light. eggs have had ine to hatch w and the Some of us are led to inquire minute b make their way from whether there is no end to the possi- bilities insect's body to theb ,skin of the bilities of insect connection with dis- subject and soon burrow beneath it. eases, and must every disease, the na- Another Explanation tura of which is not known, be con - shows the intricacy of the organisms. sidered as possibly carried by insects. There is a fatal disease of dogs oc- Of course, there is a limit to the pos- curing in South Africa and elsewhere, sibilities, and other modes of infec- known as malignant jaundice, which „tion must be well considered. This is transmitted by a tick. The peculi- ] leads us to mention a danger—namely, arity of transmission in this case is a possible tendency to exaggerate and that the infection can be established overlook, even in cases where insects only by the adult tick of the genera- may be occasionally concerned, the tion following the one in which infec- • greater importance of other modes of tion is acquired.. infection. The function of air, water, There are no definitely established; food and contact will always be im- cases at present, but it is likely that Portant, and the enthusiast would do there will be found to be another class well to weigh them deliberately. of disease in which insects are of im- "What is the conclusion from all portance, where the essentiol condi- this consideration of insects and dis- tion is accidental contact with food. ea If cockroaches become definitely con- nected with tuberculosis or similar maladies, as seems likely to be the case, they will present such a class as will ultimately be found to be impor- tart. Even itt hospitals where everything is conducted in the most sanitary fashion` mankind is not free from dis- ease -carrying insects. An example of this is a fly, ' The house fly is' the most conspicuous example of an in- sect which may be concerned in the transmission of diseases in this man- ner. In this country and in Europe a cer- tain species of beetle is responsible for infestation of swine. Occasional Mercian cases are also recorded. • The destruction of white grubs is undertaken on account of the injury they do to the crops, but it is a known fact that they are of direct annoy ance to man. In the Case of Tapeworm some animal is necessary for the de- velopment of a certain stage of the parasite. Usually it is a pig or cow which :performs this function, And in the other ease non is directly con- cerned to at least a certain extent sinee Blanchard summarized not less than 60 cases which have been record- ed itt man up to 1007. Iin the comp The Ring Finger has always remained the same, as there seem to be not only sentimental but physiological reasons for this custom. The fourth finger is sup- posed to contain a blood vein that connects directly with the heart and also this finger is the least active, so least liable to injury. In the days of myrtle and olive wed- ding wreaths the hair was allowed to flow at will, but with orange blossoms' a more conventional coiffure was ne- cessary. Then came the wedding veil, supposed to have been originated by Margaret Tudor. The modern gift from groom to bride is a remnant of the dow purse custom which in days of old was • a bag of money handed the bride at the "with all my worldly goods I thee endow," part of the ceremony, and was supposed to be the bride's first pin money. A decidedly heathenish custom was that of tossing the bride after a real or pseudo capture, and whoever 'yea tit her was to wed within the of the bride's year. The "inro..'ee _� bouquet is a beautiful 1mnant of this. Way, way back in capture"'lieeee �. the angry parents of the bride hurl- ed missies at the returning groom. And what do they do now? 01d shoes. The rice. Oh, it is symbolic, meaning "Increase and multiply." Matrons of honor, bridesmaids, men attendants, flower girls and pages are as old as royalty itself. Higher Death Rate. • Dealing with the high death rate among the wounded, nearly 24 per cent., as against 22 per cent in the Crimean War, end this in spite of the appalling sanitary conditions which then prevailed, the Lancet says that conditions generally are utterly dif- ferent to -day. Trench fighting re- sults in a much larger number' of in- juries due to shells and shrapnel. Wounds front rifle bullets are com- paratively rare, mid when they do oc- cur the body is so sheltered by trenches that it is generally the head Which is hit, and the probability of fatal results is. consequently much greater.' res? We think that it is clear that in the new or biological concep- tion of infectious diseases insects play an important role, and future addi- tions to our knowledge will certainly make this role more important than it seems to be at the present time. The very. abundance of insects and their remarkable interrelations with other animals furnish the foundation. "As Dr. Howard has stated, the physician of the future will be a na' turalist, because the control of in- fectious diseases must rest upon a full knowledge of natural phenomena and in this work entomology must be an important agency." The Nuptial Kiss comes down from the early Romans, as does also the nuptial benediction, hence, the bridegroom was called the benediet. Wedding favors were form- erly distributed in great numbers to goests present and to many absent, white gloves being one of the most popular gifts. Fifty years ago a smiling bride was decidedly improper. Often she would weep through the entire ceremony and be accompanied by all of the wed- ding party. Fortunately, our love of tradition has not seen fit to follow this gloomy custom to the letter, ex- cept that a bride is still supposed to weep some time on her wedding day if good luck is to be hers. "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue" clings with great tenacity, along with the time -worn rabbit's foot,' and its near companion, the yellow garter, an equally ancient bit of barbarism. As for the wedding day itself, there are many traditions, but this little, verse is known to most brides, whe- ther or not they obey its message: "Monday for wealth, Tuesday' for health, Wednesday best of all, Thurs- day for crosses; Friday for losses, Saturday no luck at all." Other Curious Customs. 1• Britain Has Billions, An eminent London banker states that Great Britain can raise five bil- lion dollars a year for war purposes and continue this for several years. The British banks have now on de- posit more than six billion dollars, the high record itt the two hundred years of British banking history. De- posits halve tripled since 1880. The monthly payments to soldiers' dependents in St: John will soon total $10,000 from the Patriotic Fund. The 55th Battalion at camp at Sus- sex, N.B., will not leave there until For this elusive thing called luck, tradition says, the bride must sneeze some time on her wedding day; that the initials of the wedded couple should not spell a word, that the bride must -throw away any pins that might • have been placed in her wedding dress and ad infinitum. Indeed, if you are inclined toward believing the super- stitions, you'll be kept busy keeping track of them on your wedding day: As for the unmarried guests, they have ample opportunity for trying out many other curious customs. One says if you put a crumb of wedding cake through the ,bridal ring nine times and lay it under your pillow at night you will dream of your future nate. Another is to out your piece of cake into seven bits, have as matey , pieces of paper, write the names of six possible lovers on the latter, leave one blank, take out a slip each morn- ing, and, of course, the last is the one; but pause! if the last is the blank pone fate is settled, you will be doomed forever to travel on alone! Riotous serenading, still prac'elcad. in smaller towns, originated in France, where it was called a chari- vale," meaning a clattering of pots and pans. A good deal of it remains in the various crude jokes which Borne seem to enjoy as much as did their barbaris ancestors.