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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1915-11-18, Page 7usewife. eorifer. Selected Recipes. Souffle of Duck. --.Two caps cooked duek meat, cut very fine; two ounces boiled rice, one ounce butter, salt and pepper to taste, ono tablespoon Parsley, minced fine, and ane -half cup stock, Mix well and pass through sieve, Add yolks of four egg's and stiffly beaten whites . of two. Stir 1 and pour into well -buttered mold -and bake a nice brown. Serve hot, Prune Charlotte.—Wash prunes thoroughly in many waters, soak over night in slightly sweetened water, and simmer' (not boil) on back of stove until tender. Soak two table- spoons of gelatin in a little water, and add to it one cup boiling prune juice, sweetened to taste. Linemold' with slices of stale, light cake, fill with prunes, pour in juice and set aside to harden. Soave with whipped ) cream and sugar. Dried Pea Soup.—After washing, soak two cups of dried green peas in five cups of water over night, adding pinch of soda. Rinse in morning and put on to cook in fresh water with extra bones left from duck, or from roast, one celery root, two diced caa•- rots, small piece of bacon or sausage and seasoning. Boil gently until peas are done. Takeout bones and celery, mash peas and carrots through colander and return to strained liquor. " A piece of boiling beef may be cooked with peas, and 'serve as a meat course, with celery, diced. English Hot -Pot. -Cut two pounds of shoulder or best part of neck of mutton or lamb into pieces conveni- ent for serving and wipe each piece over with a damp cloth. Peel and slice over 'two onions and peel and cut into "chunky" pieces six or eight potatoes. Dipeach piece of meat into mixture composed of one table- spoon flour, ono level teaspoon salt and one-third . teaspoon pepper, Put layer of potato into bottom of deep baking dish or casserole, add layer of floured meat, then some onion and so on until dish is full, with potatoes on top. Add cold water until dish is 'al- most full and bake in moderate oven three hours. One or two lamb kid- neys improve flavor for most per - Sons. Braized Duck.—Fry two slices of salt pork until well tried out, and in resulting fat cook one tablespoon each ofdiced celery, carrot and turnip and one teaspoon each of parsley And onion. After five minutes add one rounding tablespoon butter, lay duck in pan, arranged as if for roasting, but not stuffed, and turn until well browned. Place on trivet in large sauce pan, pour over fat and fried vegetables and one pint boiling water. Cover closely and bake in slow oven, adding more liquid if needed. When partly done add two tablespoons fine- ly chopped orange rid. For sauce strain liquid in pan, remove fat, and thicken with brown flour. Garnish dish with overlapping slices of orange peel which has been heated in gravy. This way of cooking makes a tender dish of an old bird. Young ducks should be roasted. Smothered Round Steak.—Try out on hot iron frying pan three thin slices of fat salt pork, three by four inches, and add one onion peeled and cut in thin slices. Cook, stirring con- stantly until brown. Wipe two and one-half pound slice of round steak, put in frying pan, pour over one and one-fourth teaspoon salt. Bring quickly to boiling point; cover closely, remove to back of range and let sim- mer 'slowly until tender. Remove steak to hot platter and strain stock. Thereshould. he one cupful. Melt one tablespoon butter, add two table- spoons flour, stir until blended and pour hot stock on gradually, while stirring constantly. Let boil two minutes, season with salt and pepper, pour over and around steak, and serve surrounded with stuffed baked tomatoes and overlapping slices of tomato with sprigs of parsley in centre. milk for a minute, then rebake be- tween tine in slow oven. Putting a coat of varnish on your linoleum 'each year will preserve it and make it look bright. Joints cooked in casserole - do not Waste nearly so much as those cooky ed in the ordinary way, When making a cake always 'mix, the „ spices and baking powder with the flour before it is sifted: By keeping household supplies al- ways on hand a gregt deal • of the sense of rush and Weariness is saved; If the soup, stook is thin, there is nothing that will add more richness of flavor thantomatoes and a good quantity of butter. Pour boiling water over the raisins and let them stand a minute; then pour oil and you can pinch the seeds off at each end. All of the strips of fat left from a steak should be left in a dish and tried out in the oven. They ,will make excellent fat for frying, Granulated sugar makes a coarse. grained cake, powdered sugar a fine one, but a moist, light brown sugar is one of the best kinds to use. In pressing silk or satin do not use a very hot iron nor dampen them. Lay some clean, dry muslin over the seams and press with a warm iron. Instead of melting butter when you want to mix it with sugar, place the butter in a double boiler and allow it to get warm. It will beat up very. I easily with the sugar, and will not cause the cake to be heavy. Good living is as much a case o£ careful planning as it is of spending money. Think before you buy, and do not put off planning a meal until almost mealtime. Haste in this, as in anything else, means waste. STUDY YOUR TEMPERATURE. Home Hints. People are very apt to use more sugar than they need in cooking. Cereals for milk puddings should be soaked before cooking begins. Batter puddings are quite light made with part water instead of all milk. To clean eggs wet common baking Soda in a small dish and wipe the eggs, Olives and English walnuts chop- ped together make a nice winter salad. Linen should have a long soaking before washing, if you wish it to look nice. A stovepipe can bo .out With the help of a can -opener exactly as you would cut a can. Sally Lunn calte, fresh and hot, is a welcome accempaniment to the af- ternoon tea table. A pinch of bicarbonate of soda added to stewed fruit makes it pos- sible to useless sugar. If there is a fruit stain on a gar. Ment, pour boiling water through the stain until it disappears. To .remove manes of paint, rub thein with a out lemon. To freshen etas breed, dip it in ridge may do it. Anybody Can Read a Clinical Ther- mometer. In health, the temperature of the Eskimo at the Pole and the Zanzibar- ian at the Equator differs not by a single degree. In fact, there are only ten degrees between health and certain death. The temperature of the atmosphere some- times varies forty degrees in twenty- four hours. No such variation occurs in the body. Put a clinical thermometer—you- can buy hermometer you- can:buy a good one cheap—into your mouth, and leave it there several min- utes. Now examine it. If it does not stand—i.e., the mercury, of course— at about 98.6 there's something wrong with you. Doctors call that point "normal." That's when they let you sit up and talk when you have been i11 in bed. The range of a clinical thermometer is from 95 to 110 degrees. These points mark the extremes. Life is impossible outside those limits. Any- body can take a temperature, and read a clinical thermometer as well as the most skilful doctor. Thus, any- one can tell whether he is in normal health, or in need of more or less attention. If everybody kept a clinical ther- mometer it would be an absolutely un- erring guide as to when to call the doctor -99 degrees, nothing worth a thought. 101, be a trifle careful. 102, stay indoors and keep out of draughts; 105, go to bed instantly and send for the doctor. In fact, you might do a great deal worse than to send for him' if it show- ed a temperature of 108. Mora: Get a clinical thermometer and use it. STATISTICS OF THE WAR. An Answer That "Germany Has Shot Her Bolt." The statisticians are naturally fig- uring all the time and giving their results to the public. The latest is that the combined population of Ger- many and Austria at the beginning of the war was 121,000,000, of which 46 per cent. were Austrian and 55 .per cent. German. The Germans claim that of those there aro about 24,000,000 men be- tween the ages of 18 and 45. Of this number 75 per cent. are available for war purposes, or about 16,000,000. As a matter of fact, eliminating the unfit of various descriptions, this would make about 12,000,000 actually avail- able. Of these, it is estimated that 5,200,000 have been. permanently re- moved from the firing line, leaving a balance of 6,800,000, and of these at. least 1,500,000, or about 7,600 to the mile, will be required to hold the Wes. .tern front, and 2,600,000 to hold the Russian front with 500,000 an other fronts, leaving Germany and Austria. a reserve force of 2,300,000. This vast reserve is the answerthat the Teutons make to the allegation that "Germany Itas shot her bolt" They say they can go into winter quarters with comfortable antieipa- tions of what they maybe able to do next spring.• ' If a woman nags her hatband it's up to him to supply her with plenty Of cause. When everything else has failed to take the conceit out of -a man, mar - SURVIVOR OF FORTY WOUNDS The picture shows Lo1,4 Newlands and Lieut. Martin escorting Corporal Angus to his home. in Carluks, Scotland. He was wounded fort': times in rescuing Lieut, Martin and gained the Victoria Cross. HAVE NEW TRENCH WEAPON. Is Made From Shrapnel Case at Cost of $1.25. The French troops are using a new bomb thrower of extreme simplicity,. with which they are obtaining re- markable results, according to experts who have seen them at work. This weapon, which is known as the "era pouillot," consists of a shrapnel shell case mounted on a wooden stand, with a spike in front to anchor it firmly. The case of the shrapnel shell remains intact after it has been fired, as its object is to act like a little cannon; its end opens and the shrapnel with which it is crammed is driven out by a charge of powder at the bottom of the case. These shrapnel cases are carefully picked up by the French to be used against the enemy. They are cut clown and a touch -hole is bored, in them. The cost of the finished bomb thrower does not exceed $1.25, and its weight is negligible. A charge of powder is poured into the shell case and a bomb well loaded with explo- sives placed upon it. The charge is fired by the touch -hole and the bomb is thrown into tae air; it turns clum- sily over and over like a large sau- sage, but it finds its target with re- markable accuracy. When in the vicissitudes of battle the Germans succeed in capturing a front trench their communique not in- frequently dignifies these bomb throwers with the name of guns. Peo- ple read that ten, twenty or thirty guns have been captured, and never for a moment suppose that these in- significant trench mortars are meant es Queen Alexandra refuses to wear ospreys cm account of the cruelty to birds which the collecting of the feathers involves. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, NOVEMBER 21, Lesson VIM—Jonah a Missionary to Nineveh, Jonah 3, 1 to 4. 11. G. T.—Matt. 29: 19, 20. I. Jonah Goes to Nineveh (Verses 1-4). Verse 2. Preach unto it—Jonah was not novice at preaching. He was chaplain to Jeroboam the second (2 I{ings 14. 25), 3. Three days' journey—That is,. twelve hours of the day, TWO LEADING Fro Erin's Green Isle GERMAN GENERALS NIiWS BY MAIL FROM IRELAND'S FALKENHAYN A STRATEGIST, MACI{ENSEN A TACTICIAN. They Are Very Different as Soldiers and Also as Men—Two Gen- erals Contrasted, Falkenhayn to plan and Mackensen to do, The sentence gives the Ger- man conception of these soldiers when the "drive" of the Russians was in . full swing. It affords an insight into the characters of the mien besidos— their characters as soldiers, for as men they present contrasts indeed. Falkenhayn is a strategist and Mac- kensen a tactician. Eric von Falken- hayn, chief of the general staffin Berlin, is a conspicuous figure at the court of William II., a statesman as well as a soldier, enjoying the confi- dence of both the Emperor and the Crown Prince. August von Macken sen is noted as a cavalry officer and a specialist, like Hindenburg, in ma- noeuvres. Horses are the hobby of Von Mackensen, who always com- plains that the Germans think too much of big guns. Mackensen is one of the gods of the IIussars of the Death's -Head, the regiment with which the Crown Prince was connect- ed for so long a time, Falkenhayn has travelled more widely. Mackensen has the build of the Saxon. Falkenhayn is more vari- able in his moods. He traces his an- cestry quite far back to Bohemian magnates and a branch of his family still flourishes in Austria. Macken - sen is very.much the elder of the two, having long passed his sixtieth year. Falkenhayn is a little past 50, and is the youngest Minister of War Ger- many ever had. Falkenhayn Unbending. That stamp of firmness and deci- sion which the military life of Berlin imparts to the character of a man is discerned by a writer in the Paris Gaulois in every pose and gesture of Von Falkenhayn. The intimacy be- tween himself and the Emperor by no means implies that the chief of the general staff is a puppet. He has not i the disposition that accommodates it- self to another's. Nor could he con- ! veal his contempt for unsound stra- tegy, though it were the Kaiser's. There may be truth in a report that Ihe and the Emperor have quarreled, !we read, but it by no means follows that they have permanently parted company. The explosive nature of William II. is consistent with the !keenest appreciation of capacity in a soldier, and while he has had sharp discussions with his commanders, he Idoes not part with them for any mere !assertion of their opinions and plans. Falkenhayn is the least conciliatory l of all the great military magnates at the court of Berlin. He is absolutely without the gift of dissumulation. Mackensen impresses the French press as apt for what they call "II- I nesse." He has the mind of the corn - mender who plays tricks upon a foe, manoeuvres him into impossible and untenable corners, fights a battle as if it were a game of chess. He has the quiet firmness in giving orders, the unruffled pose at headquarters, and the coolness that belong to that 1 type of military genius. Mackensen Quiet. He has given little evidence, at least, to the writers in the French press, of the genius that can play a campaign from a broad strategical standpoint like Falkenhayn. In exe- cution, however, he is unsurpassed. Nor is he committed to any form of tactics, like Hindenburg of the lakes. Mackensen is a cavalry officer, in- deed, but the French do not discern in him the dash of the cavalryman. He is too quiet for that. He lacks the Prussianism of Falkenhayn, hav- ing been brought up on the estate of his father, who was a territorial aris- tocrat in Saxony and an authority on political economy and administration. The youth moved in civilian circles and married into the Prussian junket class. His home is usually in Dan- zig. When the Crown Prince was banished to that city, he found Mac- kensen a difficult proposition. The heir to the throne was treated with all the deference due to his high rank, but he found "house arrest" a real thing,. II. The Ninevites Repent (Verses 6-10). 5. Believed God—Not only because they worn religious, but because Jo- nah mightily stirred them. They proclaimed a fast—This was not official, but a spontaneous re- sponse to the religious fervor created by Jonah's preaching. 0. The tidings reached the king— Just as the preaching of John the Baptist and of Jesus came to the ears of the Herods, Laid his robe from him—A king ; with bis robe on at a time of religious upheaval is about as incongruous as! a woman in party dress at a revival meeting. The Spirit has a subduing, effect, and pomp and display disap-1 pear.' 7. Neither man nor beast—Showing, the intensity of the revival. Even' the brute creation was to be affected. I Compare Rom. 8. 10. God repented of the evil—A broken and contrite heart God will not' despise. He cannot visit anger on the repentant (see Psa. 34. 18). SURGICAL MIRACLES. I Remarkable Operations Are Now Per- formed. War will lose half its terrors if sur- gery continues to make the rapid progress of the past few years, for arms and legs will be replaced by new ones when necessary. A millionaire lost an ear in an acci- dent, and offered $5,000 to anybody who would supply the missing article. A man agreed; the patients were !placed side by side for eleven days, which pompleted the grafting process. Inanother case, a whole finger is said to have been transferred from one woman to another, the hands be- ing bound together for twenty-two days. The fee was $500, but the new finger was somewhat shorter than the iriginal member. America is the home of remarkable surgical operations, says London An- swers, and it was at St. John's Hos- pital, New York, that a man, whose face had been badly injured in ma- chinery, was supplied with a new nose and mouth, both quite service- able. The operation was a lengthy one; grafted muscles and skin formed the mouth, and by careful and skilful operations the little finger replaced the nose. British surgeons can be quite as cle- ver when necessity arises. A man was badly wounded in South Africa, And lost most of his ribs, which were replaced by a steeljacket which al- lowed him to do light work. Then a London hospital took him in hand, and provided him with a set of silver ribs. A small boy had what amounted to a hole in his skull, caused by a fall when very young. The London sur- geons replaced this by a piece of his shin -bone, and the operation proved successful. Wounds from bullets and knives in hearts have been sewn up; a weak aorta was strengthened by a silver spring being placed in it at the weak point; a pig's eyelid replaced one which had been removed; a broken back has been set; and the story goes that a blind man was made to see by transplanting a cornea. WHAT YOUR WATCH WANTS. Should Wind It In the Morning, Not at Night. "Oh, yes," said a well-known watchmaker, "a great deal depends upon how you treat a watch as to the quality of service it gives. "For instance, always wind the watch in the morning, and not at night. Directly after winding a watch works best, and can thus stand the constant movements of its wearer during the day. Another good tip is to wind a watch slowly, carefully avoiding jerks. "During the night you should keep a watch in much the same position as it has occupied during the day. A watch worn in the pocket during the day should not be laid down flat at night, In the same way, a watch that spends its days in a warm pocket should not rest on the marble slab of a washstand at night. "Oh, and clean out the pocket in Which you carry your watch, or dust is certain to fled its way into the works." Teachers Get Pensions. School teachers who serve in the British navy or army during the war may reckon the period of such service as equivalent to service hi a Public elementary school for pension pur- poses. .. Jackdaws have been known to entei open bedroom -windows and carry off ladies' jewellery, thus causing inno- cent people to be suspected of theft. 9124; One -Piece Dresses Smart for School of plaits"front and back below a deep Mid Afternoon Wear. , yoke, full-length sleeves, turned back to form cuffs, Medici or military cols lar, revers and Belt. Can be made with or without pockets, Sizes 14 to 20, 18 requiring 6% yards of 86 -inch Material. Patterns, 15 cents each, can be pur- chased at your lean) Ladies' Home Journal dealer, or from The 'lone Pattern Company, 183 George Sereet, Torento,Ontario. A young girl cannot have too many dresses for the rough service demands ed of school clothes -they must be simple, sturdy and good-looking. The dress shown herewith, Ladies' home Journal Pattern No, 9124, !ills those retpliremonts admirably, at the same time making a dress suitable for win- ter afternoon wens-. It has clusters GREEN SHORES. Happenings in the Emerald Isle of Interest to All True Irislts then. Women clerks have been employed by the Royal Bank of Ireland with most satisfactory results. $820 a ton was the record price for flax obtained at the second flax mar- ket of the season hold at Coleraine. Tho death has occurred of Dr. John Stewart, Medical Officer at Belfast prison and one of the best known medical men in Ulster, A young man named Nelson Allen Bell received serious injury by being caught in the belting of a machine at Whitehead quarries. Mr, J, S. Dunn, manager of the Macroom (County Cork) branch of the National Bank, was remanded on a charge of appropriating the sum 01 $7,500. The Presbyterian Church in Ireland has 054 ministers, 2•,325 elders, 104,- 077 communicants, 982 Sabbath schools,. 7,786 teachers and 90,275 scholars. An outbreak of fire occurred in the engine room of Messrs. Watts' distil- lery, Londonderry, and considerable damage was done to the machinery, Ex -Head Constable W. Dunlop was fatally injured at Armagh, when a branch of a tree fell and pinned him, inflicting severe injuries to his chest and back. The Corporation of . Dublin were aroused on the reported commandeer- ing of hay, but it was stated that there 'is no intention of interfering with the supplies of dairymen or the producer. An outbreak of fire occurred in the cork manure factory of Messrs. Goulding, and the sulphuric acids de- partment was totally destroyed. Some 300 people are thrown out of employ- ment. The large wheel of the windmill used for pumping operations 011 the sea embankment at Limavady Junc- tion, and which measures 32 feet in diameter, was recently blown down in a heavy gale. The saw mills of S. McCunn, Lima- vady, were wrecked and one man named J. M. Wallace seriously injured when a bench of machinery was drag- ged from its base and shattered the motor gas engine. At the annual meeting of the Royal Bank of Ireland, in Dublin, it was stated that the year's workings show- ed an increase of profits of about $20,000. Twenty-five per cent. of the staff are serving in the army. Reports from the Donegal coast re- garding the herring fishing are very satisfactory. At Kincasslagh, fi to the value of over $10,000 have Been landed within the last few days, one yawl making over $1,500 for the week. Captain John Edward Vernon, Roy- al Dublin Fusiliers, son of Mr. Fane Vernon, D.L., chairman of directors of the Great Northern Railway, has re- turned to his home at Belturbet, County Cavan, after having been de- tained in Germany a wounded pri- soner of war for nearly twelve months. Mr. Lynch of Arvagh, County Ca- van, has already eight sons in the army distributed over the Royal Irish Fusiliers, the Dublin, the Leinster, the Inniskillings and the Connaughts, and at a recent recruiting meeting her ninth and last son joined the Royal Irish Fusiliers. SHOT WOMAN IN SWOON. How German Officer Carried Out Sentence of Murder. GERMAN DENSITY. A Hun Professor's Opinion of Nia- gara Palls. The following story told by Mr. Andrew Carnegie illustrates the dens- ity of the German mind. Long be- fore the war he was once travelling with a German financier, and together they went to Niagara Falls. The won- derful scene sent Mr, Carnegie into raptures of praise, but the German merely looked stolidly on and said nothing, Mr. Carnegie was astonish- ed at Buell indifference, and, hardly able to contain himself, be turned to his companion and said: "Don't yo. think that's a wonderful sight? "What?" asked the German. "Why that gigantic body of water pouring over that precipice?" The German stared silently at one of the most ex traordinary sights in nature, and the he looked up blankly and asked "Why, what's to hinder it?" The London Mail's Amsterdam cor- respondent sends the following de- tails of the execution of Miss Edith Cavell, an English woman, who was charged with aiding Belgian men to escape to England by hiding them in her house and helping to smuggle them over the frontier after she had given them money and addresses in England: Tho execution occurred ho a walled garden in Brussels. The firing party of six men and an officer was drawn up to await Miss Cavel, whom other soldiers led from an adjoining house. She was blindfolded with a black scarf and was deadly pallid, but step- ped bravely forward until passing the firing party. Then she dropped in a swoon 30 yards from the wall where she was to have been shot. The officer' commanding the sol- diers advanced, took a large revolver from his belt, aimed steadily and then shot the woman through the head as she lay ouietly on the ground. sunken treasure, To Recover Ocean Treasury. , The newest plan for recovering treasure from wrecked ships at the; bottom of the sea, where the water is too deep to approach them' in a div- ing suit, is to break up the ships with dynamite and then bring their con- s, tents to the surface through a suction tube. Long lists of sunken treasure ships on Mach this plan might be used are undergoing compilation, but there are shrewd investors convinced " there will be more money made by n selling stock in the device than by operating it for the direct recovery of sunken. treasure.