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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1916-1-6, Page 6useivite &rrter Recipes for Simple Malice.. Baked Finnan Heddle, Wash ha die, put flesh side down in drippin pan, cover with cold water and 1 stand on back of range for, ten min- utes. Drain and rinse with cold wa- ters -Place on platter; cover with milk and bake twenty minutes, Cream Raisin Pie,—Make custard yolks of two eggs, one-half cup su gar, one level 'tablespoon flour, lu of butter and one large cup swe milk. Mix: in order given- and co' in double boiler. When done add or cup raisins. Fill baked crust an cover with beaten whites of eggs, Re turn to oven to brown. Porcupine Apples (Baked).—Par and core without breaking six lar apples. Cook in sweet syrup, bo clown syrup and roll apples in 1 Place apples on oblong dish. Pi middle of every apple with finely chop ped nuts and on top of each place tea spoon of red jelly, Into apples stic'. blanched almonds or pine nuts. Mak and place on ice the morning or th day before using: Foamy Sauce For Plain Pudding.— Beat one tablespoonful of butter wi one cupful of powdered sugar. Ad two beaten yolks and little by little squall amount of light wine or vanill and if you use the vanilla flavor sea son with a small amount of grated nutmeg. Set the bowl into the top the teakettle of boiling water and hes for a minute or two. Serve at once. Vegetable Dressing. ---Six large car• rots, three onions, one egg, five crack- ers, one-fourth cup butter or drip- pings, one teaspoon salt, one-half tea- spoon poultry seasoning. Chop car- rots and onions very fine. Break crackers in mixing bowl and add as much boiling water as they will ab- sorb. Add remaining ingredients, mix thoroughly and pack around meat roast Dressing should cook at least one and one-half hours and may be added either before or after meat has browned, Mock Oyster Soup.—One Spanish onion, one cup diced celery, two cups diced potatoes, one tablespoon butter, salt and pepper to taste and milk as needed. Use outer stalks of celery, re- serving hearts for table use. Skin and slice onion, then place three first in- gredients is saucepan and cover well with water. Cook until very tender and rub through sieve er fruit press. Add butter and as much milk as will make soup of creamy consistency. Season to taste, then bring to boil- ing point. Cauliflower Cream. — Wash the cauliflower carefully. Allow it to stand in slightly salted water for an hour. Drain and boil up enough of the water to keen the cauliflower from burning. When boiling put in cauli- flower and cook until tender. The best way, however, is to steam the cauliflower and thus retain the salts. When cooked pass it through a po- tato ricer and cover with the follow- ing sauce: Mix six tablespoonfuls butter into a cupful and a half of hot milk. Add the juice of half a small onion, a Chili pepper and an egg. Oyster Soup.—Put a quart of milk into a double boiler, When it is scald- ing hot add a pint of milk in which three tablespoonfuls of cornstarch have been blended. Add a piece of butter the size of an egg, a half tea- spoonful of pepper. Stir slowly while adding this to the milk in the double boiler and continue stirring until it is as thick as boiled custard. Drain a quart of oysters end add them to the mixture. Let them cook until they begirt to shrivel a little and then serve hot. (teaspoonful each .of baking powde and of vanilla, and a, quarter tea g spoon of salt. Put the baking pow et' der and the salt (or use cream tarta instead of baking powder) into th flour, and sift it seven times, if yo use cream of tartar, add it with the last sifting. Sift the sugar ? time, of Beat the whites of the eggs to a very . stiff froth, and add the sugar gradu- mp ally, mixing very carefully, Then add et the flour gradually, beating all the coo wit 'Ilio STORY OF 13 RBE WIRE. Invention of a Boy Named Latta, Aged Ten Years. Barbed wire, says the Manchester Guardian, the origin of which Sir Ian Hamilton recently attributed with uubistoricnl picturesqueness to the devil, was actually the invention of an ingenious lad named Latta. Fifty-four years ago, the boy, then aged ten or years, saw on a fawn at some die- - tante from his home in New York State a novel kind of fence, with a 1, boarding at the top and another at e tire. base, two strands of thin wire n . strung between, On his asking the reason for that peculiar arrangement, he was told, that it permitted the free passage of the wind and prevented snowdrifts in winterthne, On the boy's suggestion, his father adopted that sort of fencing on his own farm. Then a neighbor allowed his hogs to roans on the highway, and they found Mr. Latta's pasturage at- tractive. The thought then occurred • while, Lastly add the flavoring ex- e� tract. Pour the mixture. into an an- d gel cake pan and bake for 45 zein- - otos in a moderate oven. Test with a ibroom wisp, and handle as above. e ge Hints for the Home. 11 I Put fruit jars away clean and thy. • ' A clean heater means a warm Il house. One way to save work is to keep - things in order as you go. Sponges are great germ collectors o and should be scalded frequently. e Begin at the root of an onion, peel- ing it upward, The juice will not fly '1 your Always heat the butter and milk d for the mashed potatoes. They will a be much lighter. The filling in roast fowl will be bet- " ter and richer if you moisten it with a little white stock. of Never hang a silk garment out to t - ry, Roll it up in a clean white cloth for about an hour, and Iran whilst - damp. When making plain raisin pudding use a grated carrot instead of an egg. It is just as good, and effects a con- siderable economy. To find the right side of huckaback towelling, feel it with finger and thumb and the rougher side will proove to be the right. The only way to insure a return of the small person's handkerchiefs when he scatters them over schoolrooms, friends' houses, streets, stores, etc., is to write out his whole name plainly, Sometimes the writing Iooks blurry and blotted. Try this: "First make) your letters with an ordinary lead pencil and then trace with ink over' the pencil marks. The pencil will prevent the ink from spreading and giving the linen a blottecl appear- ance." Secret of a Light Cake. Angel cake is a great favorite with most people, and to make it well stamps one as a graduate in cake bak- ing, because the requirements are so deceivingly simple. The following re- cipes include a Southern recipe for both angel cake and angel's food, which are not quite the same, con- frere- to the general opinion. The se- eret in light angel cake, like the se- a eget of any light cake, is in following t your directions literally, and in hay- a ing your flour well sifted. One sift- ing is by no means enough, the flour , must be sifted through the sieve at t least four times, Required for the Angel Cake -104 Ie cups granulated sugar, 1 cup of sifted P flour; the whites of 11 eggs, a tea- ee spoonful of cream tartar, a teaspoon. t f"ul of vanilla, and ee teaspoonful of a salt. Sift the flour four times, then a put do the cream of tartar, mix web, and sift a fifth time. Sift the sugar' four times. Have the whites of the I - eggs. beaten to a very stiff froth, so 0 stiff that it may be cut with a knife clearly. Then add the dour by de-'_ gr eel, beating all the time. Lastly add the flavoring extract, Do not but. ter the pan for this cake, but turn l the mixture quickly into an angel t 'cake pan, and bake for ea of an hour, b in a moderate oven. `Test with a g broom wisp. When done, turn the m Niko upside down, resting on the tube s of the pan; and let it coni. The cake in will fall out of the pan, Angors rood is :something like the g Ake, but is s little harder to make, The requirements are, 1% cups of sifted white powdered sugar, a cup of sifted flour, the whites of 11 eggs, a in' T() WELCOME AN ALLY.. English Cavalrymen Were Re- ceived in France. 'In the early days of the war, when English troops were first landing in France„ they were often greeted by their allies in the French fashion— with eager kisses and embraces. An American who witnessed the debarka- tion of a troop of tall English cav- alrymen laughed to tearfulness—so he reported afterwards—at the spec- tacle of small and excited Frenchmen excitedly waving little English flags and reaching up, or actually jumping up, to peck the abashed Britons first on one cheek and then on the other. The victims of the affectionate on- slaught endured it patiently, although unhappily; occasionally a resolute suf- ferer would even rise to the point of reciprocally patting a French back. But no kisses were returned, even when bestowed with laughing auda- city by pretty- girls, dashing out of the crowd for the purpose, and hastily running back. The only difference s was that the man -kissed dragoons looked dazed and miserable; the girl - kissed ones, dazed but complacent. "The funniest sight I ever saw!" the American pronounced it. "And one that could only have happened in France." 'TRUTH ABOUT GREAT BRITAIN" A PROMINENT GERMAN'S CAN. DID CONFESSION, Says lits Country Has Hardly er. or Inflicted a Scratch on Britain. An active and prominent pan -G manic politician, Privy Councils Flamm, who is also recognized es an authority . on naval matters, being among other things Professor of. Mar- ine Architecture at theCharlotten- burg Technical College, has published a grave warning to his fellow -country- men in Geemany not to underrate Bri- tain's efforts in this war nor the mag to young Latta that small barbs in- nitude of the task of breaking the serted in the wire strands at distances British Empire's power, says the Lon - of six inches might discourage them. 1don Standard's Switzerland corres- The hogs did not mind the scratches,pondont. After pointing out how much, but the owner of them object- small the British losses have been in ed, and kept them at home. proportion to the population of Great The first patent taken out for barb- Britain, Councillor Flamm continues: eel wire was registered in the harm- Britain is the only country which less name of Smith, in 7:867, has so far achieved through this war a great increase of territory. Since the outbreak of hostilities last year 13r1- taie has won territories in German Vessels Seized Become the Property South-West Africa, Cameroons, Togo- land,of the Crown. the South Sea Islands, Egypt, and so forth, covering an area of What becomes of vessels hrch arc something like 2,000,000 square kilo.o- seized during war time? Theoretical -metres; or more than five tineathe ly, they belong to the nation captur- I size of the German Empire. Britain ing them, and they are either retained' has gained all this without being ser - by that nation or sold, and the profits piously injured herself. She has no derived therefrom divided among the alien armies sweeping over her land as we Germans had the Russians over- --_----3 ---- SEA PRIZES. officers and crews of the ships respon- sible for their seizure. In Great Britain, vessels that are seized become the property of the ' Crown, and it is the custom for the i men on board the ironclads that cap- s ture them to be given a sum equal to $26 for each person on board the "prisoners." A good many years ago, however, British sailors fared better when ships were captured. Between the years 1740-7 Admiral Anson seized two vessels, one having on board $2,000,000, and the other $1,500,000. as the working classes are concerned The whole of the money was divided any rise in the price of food has been among Anson's crew, more than counterbalanced by higher It is interesting to know that the wages and liberal warallowances. alio a •. w private individual is a lawful object' The working classes of Britain are of attack at sea if that individual is !actually more prosperous now than helping, in some way or other, the? : before the war. The moneyed classes nations that are at war. The Great of Britain may feel the pinch of high - Powers have acknowledged that any i er taxes, but the general commercial prosperity of Britain seems likely to be augmented by the results. of the war. It is absolutely incorrect to pretend, as many blind and foolish Anglophobes are doing, that Britain's naval supremacy has been destroyed. I have already demonstrated in an- other publication that the British Fleet is stronger to -day than before the war. British naval supremacy is so overwhelming that it has reached the superlative degree. British mari- time superiority cannot become great - er than it is at the present moment. It is only dangerous and mischievous when Germans have a false impres- sion of these matters. It is a far bet- ter policy to see things as they are. Nothing could be more perilous to Germany than to underrate Britain's power and resources. Practically Unassailable. running our provinces of East Prus- sia, or as the Austrians suffered the devastation of Galicia. The handful of bombs and shells dropped on Bri- tain by isolated warships and air cruisers have been as nothing com- pared with the sufferings of all the other belligerents. No, we have hard- ly inflicted a scratch on Britain. British Naval Supremaey. There is very little increase in the cost of living in Britain, and so far trading ship smuggling coal, or ra- tions, or ammunition can be seized, or sunk if she refuses to surrender. In a neutral country's water private ships cannot be interfered with, but on the high seas, off the coasts, and in the harbors of the enemy, they can be seized. NERVES FROM NEWS. Everyone Should Keep as Normal as Possible. There are many folks, especially women, who allow themselves to lapse into a state of nervous depression owing to the tumultuous times through which we are passing. None would seek to under -estimate the seriousness of the great issues that are being decided, but everyone owes it to the community to keep 115 normal as possible. On the face of it, it appears cal- lous, but if we go about our work and The fable spread in Germany that Britain's immunity from invasion has our play in the ordinary way each will been destroyed 'is dangerously mis- be doing his or her little bit towards leading. It is true that a few air - keeping the calmness and normality , ships have flown over the island, but o desirable. 1 it requires much more than individual Above all, work. Although not al- ways appreciated, work is the great- est boon given to mankind, especially in a period of the type through which we are passing. Every woman can do her part towards her country; and never were willing women's hands more needed than at the present mo- ment. Inside the home her needle can bring comfort to our fighting men, and both inside and outside her' leave British ports it cannot be said aid is needed for those who have fought and for those who will fight. FO LISTENING R BULLETS. Physicians Can Now Discover Thein By Sound. X rays have enabled doctors to ae- omplish miracles in the way of find- ing foreign substances in the human nody and of treating internal wounds, nd now there has come an invention hat actually enables physicians to iscover embedded bullets by sound, t is described in London Tit -Bits: The apparatus consists of a special elephone, with double receivers. One nd of the telephone wire is attached o a small piece. of platinum, which is laced on the patient's skin near the ounce and held in position by pias- er or by a bandage. The other end f the telephone wire is in the form of disinfected thread of silver, which is sed because it can bo readily attach - d to any of the surgeon's instruments a knife, a probe, a needle, or a pair f forceps. The only precaution ne- essary is that the terminating wire should be very firmly attaches! to the nstrument. When the surgeon puts the tele - shone receiver to his ear and begins o use his instrument on the tissues, e will heal with great distinctness a rating sound that is known as a ierophonic rattle the instant the in- trumont touches any meted embedded the patient's tissues. The value of this apparatus to sur - 0008 on the battle. -field is naturally try great. There is only one good point about g troubles ---they eat up little ones. Zeppelins to abolish Britain's insular- ity. There may be some vulnerable points of the British Empire overseas, but Britain herself is practically un- assailable. Do Germans realize that British imports and exports are go- ing and coining with the same regu- larity as in times of peace? When in every week from 1,600 to 2,000 ships of appreciable tonnage enter and EVER VICTORIOUS GENERALS. British Commanders Who Have Ne- ver Been Defeated. The number of generals who have met with uninterrupted success is small, for some of the most renowned have suffered defeat at one time or another. It has usually been the cus- tom to look down on British military genius, because Britain has been en- gaged in no first-class war for many years; but the chief critics, the Ger- mans, would probably have fared far worse if they had been engaged in South Africa, for instance. Marlborough was one of the gener- als who never knew defeat. He was perhaps Britain's greatest military commander•, and though he fought the most experienced generals in Europe he beat them all. Wellington, of course, is another leader whose military genius was :et �rreme. Lord Roberts thinks that Britain has never given him his due as a general, and cel'tahhly he met with remarkable success considering' that everything was against him in the Peninsula, yet he defeated every- one of Napoleon's most brilliant gen- erale. Moltke never lost a battle, and .the same may be said of Wolseley, while Lord Roberto never met with what may be called defeat, that British trade has been injured or British maritime supremacy destroy- ed, Equally misleading is the state- h ment that British credit has been t shattered all over the world. Let us abandon these infantile imaginings and face the hard facts of the formid- d able task of crushing Britain, "our supreme enemy." 31,03in ArivEnsToNc, forprer Chief .Justtee. -of England WAR'S FAIRY GODMOTHERS. Now Numbers in England Nearly The League of Fairy Godmother which was started in England soon after the beginning of the war by the wife of Gen, R. F. Johnson now num bets nearly 50,000. The object of the organization is to establish a link be- tween those at home and the gunners at the front. Because the heavy siege and moun- tain batteries are recruited from the whole kingdom the gunners have no local societies to look after their in- terest at home. During the first months of the war, when the soldiers in other departments were receiving little tit -bits through the various so- cieties at home, the gunners felt very much out in the cold, so much so that they become known as the "Homeless Hectors.." Being a fairy godmother to one of the Homeless Hectors is not very tax- ing, All that is required is the send- ing each week a copy of some weekly paper or magazine and at stated in- tervals a small parcel containing a shirt, a colored pocket. handkerchief, tobacco and a pipe, or some such use- ful .article, which will give the gun- ner the feeling that he has some one at home who thinks of him as an in- dividual. 1' INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JANUARY ll, • Lesson II, -The Cooling of the Holy Spirit, Acts 2, I.18. Golden Text: 1 Cor. 3.16. Verse 1. Pentecost ---The "fiftieth" PREPOTENCY. By A, P. Marshall. day atter' Passover, in Lev, 23, 15ff When a particularly good bird 10 ordained to be a Passover, for 41st- jzovo °ed, his veal vd ubt a breeder vest. Was being 1'ulfslled (margin) — y much in doubt until elle the samo phrase ill Luke 0; 31. That youngsters mature and show what has momentous $rat day of the week, been produced, It entirely depends on which began at Sunset oil Saturday tis power behind the bird to transmit + his iikoness and the lines coursing. was now about hdlf way through. In through hie veins in previous years of ono rpleee-,-Possibly in the "upper breeding, Rig prepotency determine room"; ,prdbebly in the temple, as has what effect he will have in the mat - been .plausibly argued, ing, The dictionary gives "very o .2, House—This was a recognizedinlet" Y ntp ry name for the temple, and there was no utias a definition for the word, ether piece large enough to hold such but in spealcrng of bar'da, prepotency a crowd as we hear of shortly, means the power to transmit their 8. Tongues parting asunder, or, muchgonlrthee�v vigor and l the strength margin, distributing themselves, Com- of the •blood lines+ In "ether words, the strength of the blood lines and the vigor of the birds used determine the breeding possibili- ties with them. This seems very bard to understand with most people,' and even fanciersofTong standing some- times will question the necessity for continuous reproduction of the same characteristics in order to fix and es- tablish thein. Line breeding, as this is rightly called, is a science that has developed the qualities that are made prepotent in the breeding of all gni- Birds Birds kept in confined runs and bred without regard to improving the vitality, which, in consequence, be- comes stunted in size, have' led many to condemn too close breeding, and rightly so, but to just as carelessly bring in new blood each year would be about as unsatisfactory, since lines of strength that would make the birds prepotent if continued to be bred year after year, might be absolutely lost through indiscriminate introduction of doubtful birds, • even .although out- ward appearance might suggest the right line of, breeding. Where so many chicks can be pro- duced from the same parents, and also birds of the same blood -lines making such a big selection of widely. different relationship, it is possible to make selections paying particular attention to the matter of vitality and retaining the prepotent breeding values thee the strain may have. If any new outside blood is to be used, good fe- males will be less likely to upset the work already accomplished, since males from them when used will then have half the blood lines of the flock. Single characteristics may be devel- oped in this. way, producing lines of breeding making the characteristic particularly prepotent. If a flock is weak, for instance, in combs, in eyes, in color, in spread of tail, special ef- forts can be given along any of these lines, even possibly at the expense of others, and then by introducing this line' of breeding without really losing the characteristics strong in the strain, improve in the special direc- tion needed. Introduction of absolutely foreign Wood, strong in the characteristic de- sired, might only introduce antagonis- tic traits that would invite a conflict for predominance that would upset the was passed on speakers with tongues work of years. If there was any ab- et Corinth (1 Cor. 14. 23). New wine solute cut and dried way to get the —Evidently strongly intoxicating. biggest results in breeding the matter 7 might he simple, but we doubt very THE HORSE IN BATTLE. 1 much if a plan or table can be evolved _ that will answer in every case. It Knows the Truminet Ca]] as Well Every problem is an individual one, as the. Rider. Extreme styles are indulged in aften at the general expense of the flock, It was recently announced that the and if carried too far, real injury may Dutch across the border thought the result, but, on the other extreme, de - Germans had been routed by the velopment along certain lines Mamas - riderless horses they saw galloping ed from year to year produce a line about in troops. prepotent in that respect and capable The return of riderless horses to of improving other lines very much amp is an almost certain sign of a lacking in the same trait. rout that amounts almost to annihi- To be able to so dandle a big flock atioh, A horse may lose its trooper, so as to develop to perfection desir- able traits, make then decidedly pre - potent, and use or sell them where zheeded is a big work for the true breeder. The men who have done this have built up every existing breed, have made and improved the new ones, and have carried on a work of which the average poultryman is really unaware. The close study of this subject is worthy of every true fancier, To understand it will mean more good stock of greater value that must improve market quality us well as fancy ideals. A POPULAR BELIEF. Rest Milk Not Produced in Summer, But In Winter, pare Pauls rather similar phrase in 1 Cor. 12. 11. The symbolism comes from a thunderstorm accompanied by s a hurricane—one blinding lightning flash, and then a curling tongue of flame is seen for a moment on each - head. It is the grandest of Old Testa- ment visions repeated with a differ- ence: "after the wind . , . a fire," hut Jehovah was in both, But there is a eloser connection with the New Testa- ment Elijah, who proclaimed that his greater Successor would "Baptize with Holy Spirit and fire." 4. Began to speak with other tongues—The first impact of this ec- static state produced a great uprush from the subconscious, very sensa- tional in its spectacular effect, and fulfilling accordingly its pr amary pur- pose of arresting attention. Paul found the Corinthians exalting this wholly subordinate "charism" above the greater and more characteristic gifts of the Divine Spirit, and he puts it back into the place it occupies here; it is, as it were', the church bell that gathers the congregation and pre- pares them for higher things. It will be seen from Acts 14. 1111', that the "gift of tongues" was not used in missionary preaching. Despite 1 Cor. 14. 18, Paul did not understand the Lycaonians, and he preached in Greek. The subject of these frag- mentary utterances was always "mag- nifying God" (verse 11), brief ejecu- lations of praise. 5. Devout men from every nation under heaven—And therefore away from home in the Holy City 'for a period of worship. 6. Came together—Front other parts of the spacious temple court, if our assumption is correct. 0. The catalogue is a striking sign of the extensiveness of the Dispersion. Jewish faces, like Greek speech, were to be found in every country of the then known world, The orderof the list, if not intentionally fortuitous, is not explained. Judaea seems out of place, and may even be miswritten for some other district: Ayodhya (Oudh). has been suggested. 10. Proselytes—In this book also called "God-fearing men"—foreigners embracing Judaism, allowed to fre- quent the outermost court of the tem- ple, that "of the Gentiles." 13. Essentially the same criticism NAVAL TRADITION. Mementoes of Some of Britain's Proudest Deeds.' At Canedon, a few. miles, from Southend, England, there stands a church dedicated to St. Nicholas, the patron saint of sailormen. It has seen the British Navy doing its work on many occasions, and even to -day it is not entirely separated from war- fare, for many military officers have recently climbed its square tower in order to see how things were going on at the mouth of the Thames. It stands on the spot where Canute camped be- fore the Battle of Ashington. Just now when British sailors are maintaining their fine reputation so splendidly, it is well to remember the great memories which lie behind them. They carry with them always certain mementoes of some of Britain's proudest deeds, The three rows of white tape round the edge of the bluejacket's collar commemorate the famous victories of Copenhagen, the Nile and Trafalgar. And the knotted hlacl' silk scarf worn by every sailor •is there as a sign of mourning for the death of Nelson. When it became known that Nelson had perished, these black scarfs were adopted by the men quite spontaneously, and have been worn ever since. TRIANGULAR BANDAGE. Japanese Taught Modern Armies Its Usefulness in War. r The triangular bandage first intro- duced by the Japanese during the 1 Russo-Japanese war is now being widely used in the European war, It 1 as been found that bandages of this'I ype are suitable for binding up w ounds in any part of the body, and that one can be carried by each eel...! c ler without inconvenience. The' lei but, unless it is wounded, it will nar- y always keep on with the rest. If the battle is lost, and the army s drivels from the field in confusion, the ownerless horses will return to amp or remain on the field, often alloping about in military formation, uL avoiding the wounded. An army horse knows the trumpet call as well as its rider, and when a squadron forms up to charge it will strain at the bit, anxious to be off; ut it does not like waiting doing othing, especially if exposed to fire. Many attempts have been made to xtend the Geneva Convention to ani- als; the proposal has received sym- ethy everywhere, but nothing clefi- ito has yet been done, though every soldier does his best for his steed so far as in him lies. H WAR TITS LAUNDRYMEN. $15,000,000 Drop in Yearly Receipts for Washing in Britain. Fifteen million dollars worth less collars and shirts have been washed in the British Empire during the last yearas compared with normal times; not because the British wearthe same collars and shirts longer than in times of peace, but because the khaki has replaced those things with thou- sands of men who enlisted, This de- crease of 23,000,000 in the laundry bill is only one illustration of how hard the warhas hit the laundryman..Tris working expenses have gone up and recruiting and munitions work have depleted his general staff, As a consequence the launderers have felt themselves justified in add- ing another 10 per cent, to the total of the weekly hill, The authority who gave the above estimate said the weekly average hilt for laundry throughout Britain is about two shit tinge and thitt the advance made by the Ineedeecrs covers ii no way the extra cost caused them by the war; Germans improved it by printing on the bandage itself, in sterilized ink, various figures showing how it is to he applied. The British War Offjce then adopted the idea, and every Brit-, ish soldier now carries one of the b printed bandages in a special pocket 15 of his tunic. This bandage is often applied without assistance by the I e wounded soldier, - - - ,t, — - The Coming Eclipse, Tt has always been believed that INDIA MAY GIVE WARSHIP. are butter and ocher fairy products are at their best in the spring and summer, when the cows have the best pastures. But recent investigations fail to bear out this widespread popu- Tar belief. They indicate, on the eon- trary, that under current conditions the milk obtained in summer is, 10 anything, somewhat inferior in qual- ity to that obtained in the wittier when the cows arc shut up in stables At temperature of 50 degrees t bacteria sn milk will increase fn Irom•s from three to thirty tim initial number, while at 70 they will iirnitiply 40,000 time is why milk should be kept ca will MIL sour for several dayq e'l in ice. . Rajah 0 Ttatlam Wants Princes to :Make Britain Present. The Rajah of Rathen, who is now on active service in France, writes to the Times of India, says the Bombay correspondent of the London Times, suggesting that the princes and people of India,"nhore purtieularly the latter, should present one dreadnought to the imperialnavy in recognition of the protoction afforded by the navy to India and its coast and commerce, The Rajah asks whether Indio should be content that the little islands of Great 'Britain should find the phoney to spend for all,