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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1915-10-14, Page 3ousewife eo e Selected Recipes. , I have the smallest yolks, The equality Rye Biscuits.—One cup IT, ' flour, of eggs is decided by the dietary. 000 cup bread flour, one-half tea- Little savings are by no means to spoonfulyealt, five teaspoonfuls bak- bo scoffed at if we .can have, them in. ing powder, two, eggs, well beaten, abundance. Let us take care of the one cup milk, two tablespoonfuls mo- hundreds and thousands and the•m!1 lasses. Beat thoroughly, fill hot bet-' lions will take care of themselves. tered gem pans two-thirds full of the I Patched elbows may easily be avoid - mixture and bake 25 minutes' in hot ed by placing a piece of velvet ho- oven,i tween the lining and the material Sour Cream Cake Filling. — Boat when the dress is being made: This cup cream until stiff; also white of hint is especially useful to mothers of one egg, combine the two,' '' add yolk of Young give eggs, one-half cup powdered sugar. • To give a rich, creamy flavor to eof- Nuts cocoanut cherries strawberries fee, before adding the water, unix and peanut butteo. may be combined well with the dry coffee as much mus - with powder as will cover a five -cent with this filling to place between the p layers of cake and on top. Molded Spinach Salad,—Cools spin- ach early in the day, chop fine, sea- son with salt and pepper, and add one To brown meat nicely a very little tablespoon melted butter or olive oil brown sugar rubbed on before cook - to each cup of spinach. on let olds and , place on ice. Press firmly ing' is a help; the meat should be bast- intoed often, Tainted meat should be Servs on lettuce leaves with French dressing and garnish with slices ofwashedg. in a little vinegar before cook - hard tin hard boiled eggs. When windows are difficult to open To Cream Butter.—Put the requir- When close rub the cords with a little ed amount of butter in a bowl and with a wooden spoon work until soft soft soap. Try rubbing a little yellow and creamy.' Pour off any water or soap on anything that is rather hard buttermilk which may come from the to work on a machine, and it will be butter during the process of cream- found to, go much easier. Always ing. Butter should be creamed for keep a piece of soap in the machine spreading on thin slices- of sandwich drawer; it is very handy for that Weed, for making fairy butter purpose. hard sauce, or for making a butter or Starched collars " often get"the' cake, studhole broken before they are half piece and same quantity of salt for every pint of coffee required. • Sprinkle your roast beef with flour before roasting; it•keeps in the juice. Pea Puree.—Boil a quart of shelled peas in salt water, with a young onion, a few sprigs of parsley and six mint leaves. Rub through, a colan- der and return to the fire, adding half a cupful of good sugar. When it has boiled two minutes stir in a table- spoonful of butter, rolled in flour, cook one minute longer and pour upon croutons of fried bread dice in the tureen. Housewives can economize on but- ter by the use of beef fat. One way ofutilizing the fat is the following: Suet is cut in small pieces, covered with water, allowed to soak for a day, the water being changed once. When drained, it is put in a kettle with one-half cup skim milk to each pound of suet, and cooked slowly un- til sound of boiling has ceased. When partly cooked the, clear fat is drain- ed from the scraps. Graham Bread.—Four cups graham flour, 3* cups white flour, 1 table- spoonful molasses, 3 cupstepid wa- ter, 1 yeast cake, 1 heaping teaspoon- ful salt, 2 tablespoonfuls brown su- gar, 11/4 teaspoonful soda, 2 table- spoonfuls butter, 1/a cup ,milk. Sift flour, sugar, salt together; then rub in the butter. Dissolve soda in the molasses and add it. Then add luke- warm water and yeast dissolved in milk. Knead lightly, cover and rise. Form into two loaves; place in butter- ed pans and bake for l3(o hours in moderate oven. Duchess Pudding. — Three-fourths cup bread` crumbs, one-half cup desic- cated cocoanut, two eggs, one-half cup sultana raisins, one-half cup su- gar, one cup scalded milk, one-fourth teaspoon salt, one teaspoon lemon juice, two cups whipped and sweeten - worn out. To make them wear longer sew a piece of fine white tape neatly across the hole and work new hole in the tape. If this is done before go- ing to the laundry they will look quite neat and tidy when theycome back, and -will wear quite a long time. Every scrap of clean bread not usable in other ways should be dried and then ground in a meat chopper. After this sift it through a strainer somewhat coarser than a flour sifter. Reserve the coarse crumbs remaining in the strainer for meat stuffings or scalloped fish or vegetables. The fine crumbs that pass through may be used for breading chops or oysters or croquettes: This fine crumb meal also may take the place of an equal meas- ure of flour in muffins, griddle cakes, etc. Usually it isnot best to use more than one-fourth to one-half of the crumb meal. HIS EAR AND HIS ART. The Portrait Painter and Lady Bridgewater. Anne, Henrietta, Elizabeth, and Mary, the four daughters of the great Duke of Marlborough, were all beau- tiful women, but Lady Elizabeth, who. married' the Earl of Bridgewater, was the most beautiful. Courtiers, artists, and poets united in celebrating her loveliness—her "angel's sweetness," as Pope, one of her most ardent ad- mirers, termed it in a letter to his. friend, . Charles Jervas. Jervas,. an Irishman of pleasing address, moder- ate talent, and exceptional good looks, good luck, and unashamed vanity, had become one of the most popular por- trait painters of the time. He had just completed a portrait of Lady ed cream. Soak bread crumbs in milk Bridgewater, when she died. ten minutes. Add cocoanut, sugar, salt, lemon juice and raisins, Beat Beauty, frail flower that every season fears, Blooms in thy colors for a thousand years wrote Pope,—who proved himself thereby both a poor critic and a mis- taken prophet, -and he added mourn well, add yolks of eggs slightly beat- en and whites of eggs stiffly beaten. Turn into well buttered molds, cover with buttered paper and steam stead - fly one hour. Serve cold, with whip- ped cream. Rice and Cheese Souffle.—Three cups boiled rice, three egg whites, one fully: cup light cream or rich milk, three teaspoons butter, one and one-half Alas! how little from the grave we cups grated American cheese, crack claim! er crumbs. Butter pudding dish and Thou but preserv'st a face, and I a sprinkle with cracker crumbs. Put rice, which should be wat3n, in bowl and beat till very light. Add egg whites, whipped stiff, and beat to- gether. Spread one-third dice mix - tore in pudding dish, cover with one- third cheese, dot with one teaspoon gave him for the picture. He fancied butter and 'sprinkle with cracker himself in love with her, and had been. crumbs., Repeat until there are three rhapsodizing about her beauty; never layers. Pour in 'cream and bake theleas, he suddenly and surprisingly qualified his praise by informing the lady that she had not a handsome ear. A trifle piqued, despite her sweetness, "And pray, Mr. Jervas," she inquired, "what is a handsome ear?" Pushing up the velvet cap that he wore in his studio, and thrusting aside a dandy curl or so which obscured the pleasing prospect, Jervas ingeltu- ously turned his head sideways and name! Jervas's portrait of the lovely Lady Bridgewater is unknown to art to= day, but, oddly enough, an - anecdote survives of one of the sittings that she thirty minutes in moderate oven. , Hints for the Home. Lemon juice will take oft ink stains. The canary loves nasturtium blos- soma.' Never allow a broom to stand on the broom end. Soiled linen should always be kept in a closed hamper, displayed his own ear. Whether or no Sweet oil removes finger marks Lady Bridgewater admiresl the ole- ' from varnished furniture. gance of the ear, she appreciated the Buttermilk will make -more deli- humor of the incident, and delighted in dons hotrolls than plain milk. -relating it. A joint of meat can be eked out Jervas was quite as vain of his wonderfully well by means of stuff- achievements 'as of his person. Hav- ing'• ing once copied a picture by Titian, Catsup poured over pork while it he looked alternately at the copy and is roasting improves the flavor won- the original, and at last 'ejaculated, derfully. "Poor little Tit, how.hs would stare!" Before peeling onions for pickle In reality, ids talent was less than pour boiling water over them and, mediocre.. Sir Godfrey Knellor, under they will not nialce the eyes smart, whom he had studied, hearing that his To remove fruit stains from linen growing vogue among fashionable stretch the fabric over the mouth of folk had encouraged the dashing Irish, a basin and pour boiling water on the ratan to set up a carriage and four, ex- stain. claimed; The value of so egg ort , "Ah depends upon if his hoes do not draw bet- e p "Ali, hones the richness of its contents rather to, than he does, he twill never get to than its size. The largest eggs often his journey's. end!" HUMOR IN TH'B CATECHISM. Laughable Answers to Some Simple t(ttestions. There must have been some curious specimens of Scottish humor brought out at the examinations that the mini- sters of the flock conducted before ad- ministering the communion. Thus, a clergyman asked one parishioner, "What kind of man was. Adam?" "Ou, just like ither Rink," he re- plied. The minister insisted on a more ac- curate description. "Weel," said the catechumen, "he was just like Joe Stimson, the horse eouper." "How so?" asked the minister. "Weel, naebody .got onything by him, and mony lost," A lad had come for examination previous to receiving his first com- munion, The pastor, knowing that his' young friend wee not very pro- found in his theology, and not wish- ing to discourage him or keep him from the table unless compelled to do so, began by asking what he thought a safe question. So he took the Old Testament and asked him how many commandments there were, After a little thought the lad put his answer in the form of a supposition, and re- plied cautiously, "Perhaps a hunner." The clergyman was vexed, and told him such ignorance was intolerable, and that the youth must come back for another examination when he had learned more. As he went away he met a friend, and on learning that he, too, was go- " ing to the minister for examination, the young fellow asked: "Weel, what will ye say if the mini- ster-speers hoo mony commandments there are?" "Say? Why, I shall ten, to be sure." To which the other rejoined with great triumph, "Ten! Try ye hint wi' I ten! -I tried him wi' a hunner, and he wasna satisfied." A better example of an answer to catechetical examination was offered in the very conclusive reply made by an old body to the minister who pro- posed the question of the Shorter Catechism, "What are the decrees of God?" Wisely the old man replied, "'Deed, sir, He kens that bestHimsel." Another answer from a little girl was shrewd and reflective. The ques- tion was, "Why did the Israelites make a golden calf?" and she replied: "They hadna as mucicle siller as wad mak a coo." N 3 ARMY SWORDS VARY. Different Regiments Have Their Own Type of Weapon. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LRSSON, OCTOBER 17. Lesson III, — Elisha Heals Nauman the Syrian, 2 Kings 5. ,Golden Text; Exodus 15. 20, 8922-8935 STYLE AND BECOMINGNESS COMBINED. The new Fall dresses are, to say the least, refreshingly delightful. There is so wide a range of choice and the garments are so easy and simple to make that there is little excuse for one's not being well supplied with clothes. Overblouse dresses are fash- ionable, and one of the .smartest' is Ladies' Home Journel Pattern No. 8935, which has a four -piece skirt, plaited on the'. hips. The shirtwaist worn with it has one of the smart convertible collars. Blouse No. 8922 cuts hi sizes 32 to 46 inches, bust mea- sure, requiring in size 36 3* yards 27 -inch material. No, 8935 cuts in 8937. • sizes 32 to 44_inohes, bust measure, requiring 8 yards 36 -inch material. Pattern No. 8937.—Smart and sim- ple lines are combined in Ladies' Home Journal dress pattern No. 8937. The waist opens in front and has a deep yoke and two styles of collars, a small round collar and a large Quaker col- lar. The one-piece straight -gathered skirt is attached to a two-piece hips yoke. The pattern cuts in sizes 34 to 44 inches, bust measure, requiring in size 86 , 8* yards 27 -inch material with k yard 27 -inch contrasting ma- terial>,for collar and cuffs. Patterns, 15 cents each, can be ob- tained at your local Ladies' Home Journal dealer, or from the Home Pat- tern Company, 183-A George Street, Toronto, Ontario. MASTER OR SERVANT? Do You Manage Your Mind or Does It Manage You? Despite the difficult look of the word, psychology -is a most interesting and intensely fascinating subject. Briefly,ii: is the science which deals with the extraordinary effect of the mind on the body. To make matters clearer, here is a simple instance of .ordinary psycholo- gical effect. You are :cycling, and come to a long, steep hill. If you let your . eyes dwell on the . hill and its length, 'a feeling of depression and discouragement at once effects you. That is ,communicated to the body, which instantly tires and loses energy. The hill, sight, mind, muscles—there's the psychological sequence. But if you keep your eyes fixed on the road just ahead, and pedal on, that strange "tired -out" feeling doesn't come. It's quite weird. Soldiers, tired to the point of ex- haustion, will revive and march with energy if the band plays, Why do we„prefer a twisting road for a long walk in preference to one which, if shorter, stretches out Itke an endless ribbon straight in front of us? To avoid the psychological de- pression of spirits which the long, straight' road gives. Now you can see thata study of psychological -effects is practical and useful. An interesting example of being psychologically "unsensed" is to be found in the attitude, of civilians liv- ing in the fighting; zone of Northern France. The effect on them has been such that they have lost the "danger sense," They go about their 'ordinary occu- pations apparently careless of shot or shell. It is not bravery, nor is it re-. signation; their attitude is a psycho- logical cue. -A commercial traveller has stated' that he always knew when the psycho logical 'moment had Come for him to snap the order he heel been angling for. That is, he noted the swing of a wavering mind, and booked his orders before his customer Was "balanced" again. Rhe best safeguard against being psychologically affected is to maintain your held over your mind. and to keep yourfeelings in equilibrium. Mtunige your mind, and don't let it manage you! The hest antidote to ordinary, everyday life psychological effects is to have many interests in life—one .main one, and the rest side -lines, as it were.' A busy mind keeps its equili- brium, and where stern common-sense reigns, psychological effects have no place: GENERAL "DUMPIES." • The Nicknames Given to Some Fa- mous Generals. All good soldiers love a nickname. General French, for example, has at various times been known as "Dumpies," "Soda Water Bottle French," and "Froggy." Sir. Ian Hamilton has been called "Hippo" and "Silent Ian." Sir Horace Smith-Dor- rien is familiarly' known as "Smithy." But French commanders do not get off scot-free, Napoleon lied half a hundred sobriquets. He was called "Nap,'and "the little Corporal," "Corporal Violet," "L'Autre," and "Roney." His opponent, Wellington, was known to fame, of course, as "The Iron Duke," but few people are aware of the fact that he was also, at one time, commonly referred to as "Old Bouro," owing to his successful passage of that river, American soldiers are very apt at re -christening, and the Civil War pro- duced a host of changes of name. Robert E, Lee was "Manse Robert" to his men. G. H. Thomas was "Old Re- liable," Philip Kearney "Fighting Phil" and "One-armed Phil," and Gen- eral Jabal Early "the Bad Old Man." Most famous of all, of course, 'was the alias of General Jackson. If you speak nowadays about General Jack- son, many people do not know to whom you are referring. But speak of "Stonewall Jackson," and you may be sure that there will. be . no mis— understanding,-London Answers, 843,000 Married Soldiers. Lord Devonport, . ie the British House of Lords, elicited the fact that there were 843,000 married men in the army whose wives and children were receiving, separation allowances, the cost of which from the time or mobilization was approvifhately $,125,- 000,000. Swords in the British Army vary to a very great extent, and practically every branch of the service has its own type of weapon. The difference is not so much in the shape of the blade as. in that of the hilt. The sword used by the infantry has a large ornamental guard, bearing the Royal cipher and cretin. There is a slot at the top of the guard for the sword knot, really a leather loop end- ing in a knot to prevent the loss of the sword. The infantry sword is perfectly straight and is sharp on one edge only. Rifle regiments have a special sword of their own with the rifle badge let into the open-work guard. Very much the same sort of sword, but with a still more open guard, con- sisting of three curved bars, is used by the Royal Artillery and Army Ser- vice Corps. The Royal. Engineers have a gilt hilt on their swords, a dis- tinction'they `prize. - The claymore of the Highland Regi- ments has a big basket hilt lined with red cloth and blue ribbons. The offi- cers of'some Scottish regiments carry a plain cross -hilted sword without a guard. Until a few years ago the cavalry were armed with sabres. Nowadays, however, they carry swords of a straight rapier pattern. The guard is a large affair, completely shielding the hand. • 3 "Black Watch" Irish? "The Black Watch are fighting so well in France that even the Germans praise thein. Wonderful fighters, the Irish!" The speaker was W. Bourke Cook - ran. He continued: 'When I think of the valor of the Black Watch regiment I recall the story of Pat McCann. "Pat came home one night with a black eye, a broken nose, and a split Hp; a front tooth was gone as''well• "' Tim Sullivan done it,' he told his wife, as he began to bathe his wounds in a basin of water, "'Shame on ye!' Bridget shier. 'A big fellow like you to be licked by a little, hard-drinkin' cockroach like Tint Sullivan! Why, he—' "'Whist,' said Pat from the basin, softly, 'Don't shpake evil of the dead!' "—New York Sun. 1. The Little Maiden of Israel (Verses 1-4)', Verse 1. But he was a leper -His eprosy, as yet, evidently was not of a' malignant kind; Had he been a Jew he would not have been permitted to mingle with his fellows, much less command an; army (gee Lev., chapters 13 and 14). 2. A little maiden—She must have been so attractive as to suggest to some soldier of the marauding band that she would be a welcome gift to the captain of the host, who in turn would be glad to present her tohis wife. . 3, The prophet that is in Samaria— Elisha's name had gone abroad so that it ivas not necessary to mention his name. 4. One went in—Doubtless one of the close friends of Naaman, who in rendering a service to his master Naa- man would doubtless serve the 'king. II. The Letter of the Syrian King (Verses 5-7). 5. Go now—The king would let no time be lost in putting "the prophet" to the test. T will send a letter—The relations of the two kings evidently were friendly,. Ten talents of silver—The accom- panying gift, which, according to Oriental custom, is always indispens- able on such occasions. The silver was worth about $18,750 in our mo- ney. Gold had a value of ten times that .of silver. The "piece" or. "she- kle" was worth about ten dollars. The six thousand pieces amounted to. about $60,000, making the total gold and silver gift about $80,000. The ten changes of raiment were also very costly. See Gen, 45. 22; 2 Chron, 9. 24. 7. He rent his clothes—The king of Israel seemed to have less faith than the king of Syria. But he may well have trembled, as leprosy was an in- curable disease, and hence the request of the Syrian king seemed to be noth- ing more or less than an attempt to provoke war. III. The Message of Elisha (Verses 8-10, 14). Deliver Me From My Friends. The gentle German misses no op- portunity of letting even his chief Ally know that ho, the gentle one, must always conte first. It appears that, in exchanging totally disabled prisoners of war, the Russian Govern- ment has had the insolence to return more Austrians and Hungarians, who naturally predominate, than Ger- mans. Up rises Berlin, nt'once, and through the medium of Sweden, de- mands that Germane must be released first.' How perfectly delightful it must: be to fight in alliance with ,such people!' 8. He sent to the king—The news of the message from the Syrian king was soon abroad and created fear. When Elisha hears of it he assures the king of Israel that God is still potent through his prophets and that, there- fore, no cause for alarm exists. 9. Stood at the door of the house of Elisha — This indeed was a kingly suite which came to the unpretentious house of the humble prophet. 10. Seven times—The usual sacred number. 14, According to the saying of the man of God—To wash in the Jordan seemed to be an inconsequential mat- ter. Naaman was Looking for "some great thing.". He was wining to obey, however, even to the seventh time. For, doubtless, no sign of healing ap- peared until he had done all that he had been commanded to do: RESOURCEFUL WINTER MOTH. The Most Striking Discoveries in Natural History. England's winter moth is one of the greatest pests with which the fruit growers of that country have to con- tend. It begins to appear in October, and the female, whose wings are very short and quite unadapted to flight, climbs the trunks of fruit trees and deposits her eggs. These hatch out in the spring, and the caterpillars soon devour the young leaves. Heretofore it has been comparatively easy to combat the ravages of the pest. See- ing that the female is unable to fly, fruit growers place bands of a sticky substance round each tree. The fe- male, in climbing the trunk, comes to the band, and is held fast. But a wonderful thing has happen - en, says the Manchester (England) Guardian. In recent years the female moth has been found from time to time above the band, and how she got there was a mystery. Finally, how- ever, an entomological expert unveil- ed it. He saw the male and female moths together above the band on the tree the male evidently having just deposited the female. There appears to be little doubt, adds the Guardian, that in this we have a remarkable adaptation to cir- cumstances. The female cannot fly, but the male can, and it would 'seem that he had flown to the higher part of the tree, carrying his .wife upon his back. 'This is one of the most strik ing discoveries itt natural history, and is eventing much interest among na ture students, 4' Two ,Reasons. The Optimist --Don't bet on a sure thing, It isn't fair to the other tel.. low. Tho 'Pessimist --Besides which yo arse generally apt to lose. Blind fish are found in the waters Of the Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. NEWS FROM ENGLAND NIIWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE, Occurrences in the Land That Reigns Suprerne in the .Catamer- tial 1VoIrld, Lord Kitcitener at Brighton inspoct- ed the Indian hospital which bears !itis name. Onions, which are very plentiful, are now: being sold in London street markets at 8 lbs. for 4 cents. After holding the position for over 46 years, Mr. R. Larkin line resigned the headmastership of the-Culeheth school, Manchester.. While yachting at Bridlington Bay, lir. David Robertson, of Leeds, was struck by the boom and knocked over- board and drowned. According to a statement given in the House of Lords, 'out, of Britain's soldiers now serving with the colors, about 848,000 are married, Thousands of women took part in n great procession in the west end of London to demonstrate their eager- ness to assist in. war work. The Ring intends shortly to pay a round of visits to the principle mili- tary centres around London. The royal tour will begin at Aldershot. An alarming fire oecurred on Yar- mouth quay side, when a warehouse, 80 yards long, stored with various kinds of goods, was burned to the ground, It is stated that the new medical bathe at Torquay will becompleted and ready for use in the autumn. A sum of $75,000 is being expended on the works. Albert Healey, of Kingston-on- Thames, b gston-on- Thames, the winner of manyprizes at Thames regattas, has been appointed a King's Waterman in place f the late R, Turk. The Rev. P. R. Monk, Retford Baptist minister, has resigned his position to take up work the fee- tory line. Ile will start at munition factory in Essex. Mr. James Parker, M.P., for Hali- fax, says he has in recruiting work during the past eight months travel- led 21,000 miles by train and address- ed 485 meetings. • The War Office has decided to. pro- mote lieutenants in the Special Re- serve and Territorial Force,,R,A.M,C., to the rank of captain after six months' mobilized service. In trying to avoid running into a woman near Southend Military Hospi- tal, Mr. Charles Cheesman, of Thorpe Bay, was flung from his bicycle and was fatally injured. • No fewer than 6,388 rats were trap- ped in ships at Liverpool last year, a considerable inerease over the pre- vious year, due to the extension of plague in certain foreign ports. The local munitions tribunal held a sitting at Barrow, when complaints were laid by Messrs. Vickers against 28 of their workmen engaged on shells, who had ceased to work for two days. Mr, Dyer Edmonds, father of Lady Rothes, has presented a lifeboat called Lady Rothes to the Lifeboat Institu- tion as a thankoffering for he saving t 0 a g n a t d e P m a i t 0 n g e b a t of Lady Rothes from the sinking of the Lusitania. A descendant of the great Admiral Drake has died in the person of Mrs. C. A. Griffin, wife of the rev. Dr. C. A. Griffin, vicar of Dunham Hill, Chester. Mrs. Griffin, when Miss Lucy Brown, was thrice Mayoress of Chester. There was a: fatal termination to a boxing contest in a soldiers' encamp- ment near Chatham, Pte. James Strange, of the Northamptonshire Regiment, being killed by a blow struck by Lance -Corporal Fry, of the Middlesex 'Regiment. Quartermaster-Sergt. John Fletcher has died at Edgeley, Stockport, at the age of 87. He was at the siege of Sebastopol, and was the only 'surviv- ing non-commissioned. officer. of the,. 88th Connaught Rangers who fought at the battle of Inkerman. Police Constable W. Weldon, of the Metropolitan Police, who has been presented with a gold watch on his retirement by comrades at Wands- worth, has ands-worth,has prosecuted 3,500. motorists, including Prince Maurice of Batten- berg, the Duke of Westminster, load Viscount Curzon. WILHELM THE VAIN. The German Emperor Is Notoriously Conceited. Ho once wrote a poem which he sub- mitted for criticism to Ludwig Gang- hofet•, the Bavarian novelist. It was a shocking piece of dogerei, and Gang- hofer, after much knitting of brows, said that the poem seemed to need alteration in certain respects. With puzzled face, the Kaiser took the poem and read it through, Then his brow '' cleared, ' " - "Ah, I see," he exclaimed; "it re- s quires my signature." And, calling for _ a pen, he put in the finishing touch. On another occasion he'needed a knife to cut the end of his cigar. A young officer lent him one, and when he returned it, it was•with the words: "Preserve that carefully. One day it will be historic." He has a passion for, dressing up. Uniforms are his delight. It is re- lated that the Crown: Prince one day found him about to go out, attired itt the, full dress of a German admiral. "Where aro you going?" asked the. Crown Prince. ""To' the- aquarium:" boomed Wilhelm'the vain. n