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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1915-8-26, Page 26 uiTe &riier IM my Dishes. Bananas . in Casserole, ---feel six bananas, lay in shallow casserole and Sprinkle with three tablespoons sugar Mixed with pinch of salt. Acid a lit- tle lemon juice and one tablespoon melted butter. Cook about twenty minutes with cover on, then remove cover and brown. Blueberry Betty_ Remove crust from slices of stale bread. Butter bread and alternate with blueberries In pudding dish. Sprinkle each layer of blueberries with sugar, a little nut- meg and lemon juice. Bake in covered dish until berries are tender, remove cover and brown top,'a.nd serve either hot or cold with cream and sugar. White Hashed Potatoes.—Butter omelet pan and put into it cold boiled potatoes chopped rather fine. Sprinkle with salt, dot with butter and add a little stock or hot water, Cover and cook slowly until heated through. Turn out upon hot dish with- out stirring. Do not allow potatoes to brown, but merely to absorb stock and butter, Creamed Chicken.—One and one- half' cups diced, cooked chicken, two eggs, one and one-half cups milk, three tablespoons butter, four table- spoons flour, one-half teaspoon cel- ery salt, salt and pepper. Boil eggs hard. 'Melt butter, add flour and stir milk in slowly, Season with salt and pepper, add eggs (cut up), diced chicken and celery salt, Serve on toast ,if desired. Plum Pudding.—Stew one quart plums. Remove pits, sweeten to taste, add a little grated orange peel or nutmeg and pour into well -buttered earthen pudding dish, or custard cups. Cover with spoonfuls of rich biscuit dough, soft enough to drop from spoon, or with drop batter made of one cup sweet cream or rich milk, one egg, one teaspoon baking powder and flour enough to make soft batter. :Steam or bake one-half hour and turn out into serving dishes, with fruit on top. Serve with hard sauce. Fairy Salad Use medium sized po- latoes. Wash but do not peel. Scoop out soft part, and slice thin, making rings of red. Take seeds out of green peppers and slice peppers into rings. Slice Bermuda onions and separate leto rings. Toss lightly in french dress, to give a shining coat to each ring, being careful not to break tomato rings. Serve in a glass dish, surrounded with ring of parsley. Parsley, by the way, is said to destroy She odor of onions on the breath. Brisket of Beef With Beans. Put one quart of beans (or one pint, de- pending on size of family) to soak, overnight. Drain off water and par- boil, changing water three times, and to the last water adding teaspoon soda. Boil slowly, until easily pierced, put one-half into stone jar or pot, lay. on top, carefully trimmed brisket of beef and follow with rest of beans.' Make a mixture of three tablespoons molasses, one teaspoon mustard, one quarter -teaspoon salt and a little cold water, enough to mix. Add enough; hot water to make sufficient liquid to cover contents of jar, pour into jar, cover and let cook very slowly seven or eight hours. Quick Brown Bread.—Two cups graham flour, two cups whole wheat flour, one and three-quarters cups milk, one-half cup brown sugar, one level teaspoon salt, one and one-half cups raisins, three level teaspoons melted butter, Mix dry ingredients thoroughly. Add butter and milk and Mix quickly. Acid raisins, floured. Bake in well -greased pan in moderate oven. Forty-five minutes makes one large loaf. By substituting molasses for sugar and two cups sour milk and one and one-half level teaspoons soda for sweet milk and baking powder an equally good, wholesome and satisfy- ing bread can be made. Nice for pic- nic sandwiches. Remains fresh for several days, Just Common Salt. Salt in so]ution is an antidote to many poisons. All skin diseases are relieved by salt added to water. A pinch of salt added to mustard prevents its souring. Salt in the water cleanses glass bottles and chamber ware. Cut flowers may be kept fresh by adding salt to the water, Brooms soaked in hot salt water wear better end do not break. Salt dissolved in ammonia or al- cohol will remove grease spots, Salt thrown in any burning sub- stance will stop the smoke and blaze. Around the House. Ni matter how clean your home may be, milk will deteriorate if ex- posed to the air. Loft -over sandwiches especially cheese mixtures, are appetizing if slightly browned in a hot oven. Iron ruet can be taken out of a gar-, ment by continued wetting on the spot with a paste of cream of tartar and water. Tomake jam or marmalade look! clear, without shimming it add a piece, of butter the size of an egg before; removing the fruit from the fire, With pea soup serve croutons; with, mock turtle soup serve lemon cut inuarrters and palmed ea q A , sd aep arate- 1 1y; with znulligatawnay soup serve boiled rice. Add the grated rind of an orange and a few tablespoonfuls of juice to a sponge sake, It gives it the right flavor and prevents quick drying out. Dry brown paper that has previous- ly been treated with saltpetre water land a little dried lavender will clear the air of disagreeable cooking odors if burned on a flat tin. t If a mud stain is rubbed with the cut halves of a raw potato, it will come out, though sponging with clear warm water to wbich a little alcohol has been added may be necessary afterward. It is unnecessary to spend time in shelling peas. Wash and place the pods in boiling water. When they crack, the peas go to the bottom and the pods float on the surface and are skimmed off. I New agate and tin cooking uten- I sits that require seasoning before use should be filled with a mixture of one 'teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda to a quart of scalding water, left for two hours and washed and dried as i usual. Sheets of blotting paper slipped in the back of a piano, by raising the !top lid, will keep the wires from rust- ing at seashore or near water or when the house is closed. Let down the panel under the keyboard and put some in there. If a kettle, to be used for fruit pre- serving, has been slightly burned on the bottom, or if there is a fear of the syrup burning, put several ordin- ary china marbles in the kettle and by their movement about this will be prevented. SMART SCHOOL DRESS. With the approach of the opening days of the fall semester, the young ladies will have to turn their atten- tion to the provision of their ward- robes with appropriate school clothes. The Ladies' Home Journal design here shown is excellent for school use for it is simple and practical, yet very smart and up-to-date. Pattern No. 8908 has a slightly long shoulder and waist with vest effect, having roll collar and full length or shorter sleeves. Skirt in four gores with belt and pockets. Sizes 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 18 requires 6%yards 86- i inch material, with to yard 18 -inch or wider lace. Patterns, 15 cents each, can be pur- chased at your local Ladies' Home Journal Pattern dealers, or from the Home Pattern Company, 183-A George ITALY'S KIND QUEEN. What She Did to Help the Coral Fish- ers of Torre del Greco. A kindly little act that shows some- thing of the quick wit and ready sym- pathy of Queen Helena of Italy is re- corded. Some years ago the coral fishers of Torre del Greco, near Na- ples, were in hard straits. The value of coral had fallen so low that they were no longer able to find purchasers for their harvest. At last in their despair they besought the Queen to come to their aid. At the first great court ball that was held that year at the Quirinal, the Queen, to the surprise of all behold- ers, wore about her neck a collar com- posed of six rows of coral instead of her superb collar of pearls, and her black hair was crowned with a dia- dem of coral and brilliants. From that evening the mode changed. Old coral ornaments that had been hidden away for years and years were again displayed at the jewelers, and were snapped up by eager purchasers, Queen Helena's object was attained; and that court ball marked the begi.- ping of more prosperous days for the coral fishers of Torre dol Greco. Not Hard. Hove long did it take you to learn to run a motor car ?" "Oh, three or four," "Weeks?" "No, motor cars," IN BRITISH WOMEN'S PAGEANT IRELAND., ENGLAND. SCOTLAND. The picture shows the representatives of Treland England and Scot- land in the recent munition workers' pageant in "London, when more than 50,000 women nurrohed through the streets denunnding that they be allowed to take the places of the men in the munition factories in order to allow the men to go to the front. A CURIOUS COINCIDENCE. Newsy Notes of Britain's Fighting Men In the Field. Soldiers are forbidden by Interna- tional law to pretend to be dead or wounded with the object of taking the enemy at a disadvantage. Eight companies of cyclists can carry 256,000 rounds of ammunition as against 72,000 carried by a whole cavalry division of nearly 2,500 men. The Life Guards are the only regi- ment who now retain their own medi- cal and veterinary officers and have mounted pioneers, who ride before the regiment bearing the axes. It is said that one of the newest types of British torpedo has an effec- tive range of four miles and a force sufficient to blow a hole as large as a haystack in the side of a battleship. A British army corps is approxi- mately, 38,000 men; an Austrian is about 53,000 men; while the strength of French, Russian and German army corps varies from 40,000 men to 55,- 000 men. An artilleryman invalided from the front relates that in one 6 -inch Ger- man shell there was discovered a brass candlestick, whilst another con- tained a bicycle crank and a quantity of broken glass. Motor -wagons used by the allies on the Continent have their hoods paint- ed in a gigantic check design of vio- lently contrasted colors, thus making them less easy to "spot" from aero- planes. By a curious coincidence, the 15th Hussars, quartered round an old cha- teau in Flanders, have tethered their horses to stout iron rings used for the same purpose by the 15th Hussars a hundred years ago—after Waterloo. All our guns at the front are peri- odically examined by experts, and it is said that though some of these wea- pons have now fired many thousands of rounds, they are, for all practical purposes, as good as when they left the shops. 1' THE FUSSY "FATHERLAND." In Germany Freedom of Utterance Is Not Allowed. Rules and regulations are para- mount in every branch of Getman life. It. would be hopeless for anyone not born and bred in the land not to sin, through ignorance, against some of the innumerable petty laws and customs. As an example of the absurdity of social etiquette, It is looked upon as the height of bad manners for a visi- tor to occupy the couch in a drawing- room, unless expressly invited to do so by the hostess, as a mark of spe- cial favor. Should a hapless foreign- er from a more free -and -easy lanai commit such an offence she is looked at askance, but never told in what way she has transgressed. Tor anyone, except the very poor, to occupy a seat in the gallery of a theatre is, to use the German phrase, "online," What must the Germane in London think of the nightly queues of well-dressed people outside of the West -End theatres? To play a musical instrument or to sing in a room with an open window is an offence against the law, and punishable by imprisonment. Woe betide the lusty singer with a taste for fresh airl In Germany, even in normal times, freedom of utterance is not allowed. Rail against the Kaiser or the Gov- ernment at one end of the street, and you will be arrested at the other end. A copy of every paper printed has to be lodged with the police authori- ties. Bach paper must bear the name of a nominal editor, who is held re- sponsible for its contents. Some pa- pers run a prison editor. Should an action be brought against thepaper, this man undertakes to suffer the im- prisonment inflicted. To dwell in safety in the Father- land, it is a wise plan to carry about a condensed list of the regulations and -laws "Made in Germany." TRIBUTE TO BRITISH NAVY. "Saved the World From Destruction By Barbarism." The London Daily Express pub- lishes an interview with M. Augag- neur, the French Minister of Marine, who said that the British fleet "sav- ed the world from destruction by the barbarians of the twentieth century; it saved us all from utter desolation. I have no patience with people who hint that France is not satisfied with the British efforts. You promised na- val co-operation, you gave it, and you created an army for our mutual bene- fit. The question of munitions has nothing to do with it. All our ideas of modern warfare were at fault; we based them on what had taken place in the Russo-Japanese war and in the Balkans. We even went back to 1870, and what happened? We had to be- gin all over again. "But do not you think that Germany made mistakes. too? She thought of a war that might last four months. I know that the enemy was not prepar- ed for a war that will last as long as this one will. If she had she would not have left undone certain things that have been so left. "I read your British papers and I have seen some of them keep calling on the British to wake up, but what country in the world could have pro- duced a voluntary army such as yours has done? "After a year of hard fighting I see the path leading to victory. "What reasons are there for being pessimistic? I know of none. In the Dardanelles we have a hard job be- fore us, but this is no time for fault- finding or for seeking broad shoulders to bear the blame of possible mis- takes. We have to force the Narrows, and force them we shall. With your army you have achieved the appar- ently impossible. Your navy is work. ing in the dark, -without a word of its daily doings being chronicled. Vic- tory is in sight. I do not pose as a seer, and when I say that victory is in sight I, do not mean that it will cone within the next few weeks, or even months, but in the spring, well, you will see," Most Patriotic Word. The drill sergeant of one of the crack regiments has discovered that "Lewis" is the most patriotic word in the English language. He informed a body of recruits the other day that "B" stood for England and "W" for Wales, "I" for Ireland and "S" for Scotland. "And what . does the 'L' stand for?" inquired one of the re. emits. "'L,' oh, that's for the Kais• er," explained the sergeant, rejoiced atgetting an opening for the com- pletion of his joke," LLOYD -GEORGE NOT A SMALL MAN. Short, But Weighs One hundred and Bighty.Nino Pounds, In all his ways Mr, Lloyd -George is very human, To give a little exam- ple: Hearing Mrs. Lloyd -George tele- plioning for one of the maids to go from Downing Street to Walton 'Heath, he at Once said, "I shoultPlet her stay at Downing Street to -night: This is the girl's night off.' I expect she will want to meet her sweet- heart. It would be a pity to disap- point them." Not only is Mr. Lloyd -George very human, but in his own home he is one of the most domesticated of men. But there is one task he does not like, and that is carving. Mrs. Lloyd- George usually carves, and when she is away her husband's performanees with the carving knife are the sub- ject of much amusement in the fam- ily circle, No one, however, enjoys the fun more than Mr. Lloyd -George himself. Incidentally, it might be mentioned that on Sunday afternoons he always has a special dish—an ap- ple pasty or turnover prepared for his tea. Owing to his shortness in stature many people think that Mr. Lloyd- George is a small man and lacking in physical power. This, however, is quite a mistake. The truth is that Mr. Lloyd -George, who weighs thir- teen and a half stone, is a very stur- dy, powerful person, with a wonderful physique and nervous system. Gift of Sleep. He has a great gift of sleep. When he is tired he will go into a room, lock the door, lie down, pull a shawl over himself, and go to sleep for half an hour. When he awakes he is as fresh as a new pin. Being by profession a solicitor, it is Scarcely surprising to learn that Mr. Lloyd -George takes a keen interest in criminal cases. He will folio* the evidence of a big murder trial very closely, and will afterwards describe to you, in course of conversation, what questions he would have put to the witnesses, and what verdict he would have given if he had been on the jury. Tit. Hon. Lloyd George • He is a great reader of newspapers. Very little escapes him, from foreign. news to breach of promise cases, while in regard to books he loves most historical novels, Mr. Lloyd - George is a great philosopher and has carefully thought out most of the problems of life, placing courage above all other virtues. Sometimes, he says, patience is the highest form. of courage. Possessing the Welshman's natural love of music, Mr, Lloyd -George rarely misses an opportunity of go- ing to hear an oratorio. But walling seems to please him better than to spend an hour singing Welsh hymns, accompanied by his daughter Olwen on -the piano. When he has finished one of his favorites he will usually say, "That is a splendid old hymn; now let us have so-and-so." Theatricals and Music. Furthermore, everyone present must join in the hymn, and those who cannot sing Welsh have to do their best in a foreign language. Theatricals as well as music inter- ests the Minister of Munitions, for be himself is a born mimic. When he returned from a recent trip to Wales he gave a most graphic description of the manner in which the various types of soldiers --the collier, farm laborer, mechanic, shop assistant, etc.—marched, finishing up, however; with the appropriate observation, "But they will all bayonet the Ger- mans the same way. They are all actuated by the same marvellous spirit' His friendship is coveted by those who know the human character of Mr. Lloyd -George. Five times in the history of Eng- land the British Navy has stood be- tween the would-be master of 'Europe and the attainment of his ambition. Charlemagne, Charles V., Philip Ih of Spain, Louis XIV. of Prance, and Napoleon all aspired to univeXsal do - minima but each of them was check- ed by British sea power, THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AUGUST 29TH, Lesson IX,•a-God's Care of Elijah, ?i • Kings 17. 1-18. Golden Texts 1 Peter 5,'7. 1. Blijah's Prophecy Concerning Dew and Rain (Verses 1-7). Verse 1. The Tiahbitc—A native of Tishbein Gilead on the east side of the Jordan River. The place has not been definitely identified. Elijah's ap pearances are always sudden, and he does not remain long. Hie coming to Ahab is abrupt and his prophecy without any warning whatsoever. Other prophets appeared in the same way: for example, Ahijeh (1 Kings 11, 29); Shemaia (2 Chron, 11. 2); Azariah (2 Chron. 15. 1). Where evil is rife the word of the Lord is sure to come with all the force of the unexpected. -- As . . the God of Israel liveth— Elijah spoke not on his own author- ity, but on that of Jehovah. "God," he said, "will speak through mo, ac- cording to my word." 3. Hide thyself—His life would bo in 'danger because of the anger of Ahab and Jezebel his wife. They would consider Elijah not the "announcer," but the 'cause of the drought. Brook Cherith — Not elsewhere mentioned. It was not a brook in the ordinary sense, but a ravine, down through which the torrent rains of winter were rushed to the Jordan. It was dry except at the place where Elijah was to hide. As it was long and narrow and deep, it would make a good hiding place. Tradition lo- cates Cherith in the neighborhood of Jericho, but "before the Jordan; is now thought to mean "eastward," hence the brook is to be thought of as one of numerous water courses flowing into the Jordan from the east. 4. I have commanded the ravens to feed thee—These birds would make their nests in the coves of the rav- ines. The word ravens in Hebrew can be made to mean "merchants" or "Arabians." As the "ravens" were "unclean" birds, the Jews have favor- ed the reading "merchants" or "Ara- bians" (that is, travelling caravans) who gave Elijah to eat as they passed by. 6. And the ravens brought — The tradition is that they brought bread in the morning and flesh at night, II. The Widow of Zarephath (Verses 8-16). 9. Zarephath — On the sea -coast, about eight miles south of Sidon. I have commanded a widow there to sustain thee—This was as precari- ous a source of sustenance as the dried-up brook and the food of the ravens. For with a drought in the land, a widow would not have more than enough for herself and family. 10. Gathering sticks—The poverty of the widow is indicated by the fact she was obliged to pick up every stray bit of wood for fuel. 11. Was going to fetch it — Her hospitality, even with starvation fac- ing her, was as ready as her faith, a moment later, was responsive. 12. Jar ... cruse—The jar (or bar- rel)' and cruse were .thenecessary domestic articles of every home, and would thus be particularized. That we may eat it and die—The last meal, another evidence of her material poverty. 15. She went and did—Faith, the substance of her spiritual riches, was great. • RUSSIAN PEOPLE AROUSED. Situation Is Looked Upon With Op- timism in London. The London newspapers look upon the Russian situation quite optimistic- ally, The Times declares: "While the po- sition of certain portions of the Rus- sian forces still remains critical there is every reason to believe the excel- lent order with which their with- drawal has been executed thee far will be maintained until all have reached the new line of defence." Little additional news has reached London regarding the Russians' last days in Warsaw. The Times corre- spondent in that city, describing the retiring Russian troops, says: "There was no feeling of hopeless- ness, although disappointment was written on every face. The long Rus Sian retreat, culminating in the fall' of Warsaw, has touched the lethargic temperament of the Russian nation and to -day the war has the support of the entire Russian people. There is not the vaguest suggestion any- where of peace without a decision," Tho Daily Mail quotes from the Berliner Tageblatt an account of, the situation in Warsaw the• day before its fall, written by an eye -witness, who says: "The main flight has ended,. and chaos was left, A ghastly silence rejgned in the city, broken only by the thunder of cannon, Shops were shuttered and barred. Theatres were closed, but moving picture houses were crowded. In some plane mobs were plundering empty homes and factories, Russian secret police still were busy in every corner, and execu- tions frequently wore conducted from the citadel. As I fled I passed thous- ands of wagons piled with wounded." NEWS FROM ENCLAI NEWS '#1X MAIL AxioUT JOIN BULL AND WS PEOPLE. Oceul!reneea In the rand Tha( Reigns Supreme' in the Cont- menial World. There are at present 435 chaplains with the British army le France, The Thames Conservancy has de- cided to construct a new lock for small craft at Moloney. A serious shortege'„of eggs and poultry is expected to be experienced during the coming winter. Applications for the employment of Women have greatly increased at Brighton during the past month. Miss Violet Asquith is suffering from a mild attack of typhoid fever contracted during her recent visit to Egypt. Birmingham isto be the centre of a special recruiting movement in the Midland district for the Royal Naval Division. The war has been responsible for the abandonment of the old world ceremony of "swan-upping" on the Thames, ' A dozen young women are now en- gaged in delivering letters in the. Gil- der's Green and Hampstead Garden suburbs districts. Owing to the scarcity of domestic servants the L.C.C. has experienced difficulty in getting a housemaid for a school for deaf children. One of the most remarkable clubs in England is the National Deaf Club, Which is set apart exclusively' for the use of deaf patrons. Eight hundred and figty-nine chil- dren have been released from attend- ing at elementary schools in Kent to enable them to work on farms, The L.C.C. has arranged contracts for the supply of coal direct from collieries, and is arranging for it to be stored in various parts of London. The Prince of Wales National Re- lief Fund has now reached $26,360,- 000, 26,360;000, and the grants made out of this sum for relief amount to $11,325,000. For the first time for a quarter of a century the Kaiser's name was omitted from the annual list of Royal Yacht Squadron members at Cowes. The Surrey Education Committee have decided to provide instruction for women who are willing to take up milking, dairy and light farm work. The Sheffield Wesleyan Mission has been compelled to suspend the work of its labor yard, as employment is so plentiful that men do not need help. Fourteen local borough council clerks are making munitions at a St. Pancras factory, giving two hours each evening and Saturday afternoon to the work. The free buffet for soldiers at Lon- don Bridge station which was opened recently is greatly appreciated by the men from camps and soldiers on leave from the front. Arthur Oscar Hornung, aged 20, son of the famous novelist, Mr. E. N. Hornung, author of "Raffles" and "Stingaree Stories," has been killed in action in Flanders. The widowed mother of Private Barker of Wilmslow was so overcome by excitement and joy at her son's homecoming that she had an apo- plectic seizure and died. To cope with the task of repairing the boots of British soldiers • at the front, a special boot repairers' com- pany, limited at present to 200 men, is to be raised for work in the base workshops. The Rev. George Dynock, superin- tendent of the Blacicburn People's • Mission, an evangelist of many years' standing, has answered the call and has proceeded to Flanders as a motor driver. Eton College boys have begun work in a munition factory. They are stok- ing furnaces and wheeling mud. They started in grey trousers and white alls. cricketing shirts, but are now in over - Sheffield Tramways Committee has authorized the general manager to present to the base hospital for the use of wounded soldiers, walking sticks which are left on the tramcars from time to time. Was She Bored? When Claude Grahame -White, . the famous aviator, author of "The Aero- plane in War," was in America when aviation was new he was spending a week -end at a country home. He tells the following story of an inci- dent that was very amusing to him: "The first night that I arrived a dinner party was given. Feeling very enthusiastic over the recent flights, I began to tell a young woman who was my partner at the table same of the details of the aviation sport. "It was not until the dessert was brought on that I realized that I had been doing all the talking; indeed, the young woman seated next to me had not uttered a siangle word since I first began talking about aviation. Per- haps she was not interested in the subject, I thought, although to an en- thusiast like me it seemed quite in- credible. "'I am afraid I have been boring you with this shop talk,'`I said, feel- ing as if I should apologize, " `Oh, not at all,' she murmured, in very polite tones; 'but would you mind telling ino what is aviation?'' A Belgian gentleman once set hints self the task of walking round the world backwards. He did rat watts plash it.