The Brussels Post, 1916-1-27, Page 3r1l3'ek!%
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Selected Recipes,
Stewed Chit ::en, Delaware Dump-
lings. --Take large chicken for stew-
ing; cut up joints,, dust each piece
with salt and pepper and roll in flour,
eareful!ereoyering all parts,' Fry un-
til brown in hot fat, removing each
piece as soon as brown; now put in
the stewing pot and add three pints
of boiling water and a finely minced
onion. Cook gently until tender,
generally about two hours; do not let
water boil away. Season with salt.
and pepper about 15 minutes before
serving.
To make Delaware dumplings take
one cup of flour, one teaspoonful of
baking powder, two tablespoonfuls of
melted butter, one teaspoonful of
salt, one egg and about one-quarter
of a cup of milk. Separate the egg,
beat the yolk well, then add butter
and milk, gradually work in the flour,
and when well mixed put in the white
of egg, beaten until stiff. Drop this
batter by the spoonful into the stew-
ed chicken, cook 10 minutes, then lift,
send to - table on large platter with
the dumplings around the edge of
platter and the chicken in the middle.
Pour gravy, in which the chicken was
cooked, over all, and sprinkle with
finely chopped parsley.
Cherry Pudding. -.Take two eggs,
ing and every grain will stand apart
of itself, beautifully white and dry,
not the sodden mass many people
call boiled rice. Served with meat
and gravy, it makes an appetizing
dish.
Rice Croquets With Parsley,—One
cup of rico, 1 quart of milk, 1 table_
spoonful of chopped parsley, yolks of
4 eggs, salt and pepper to taste. Wash
and prepare rice, then put to cook in
a double boiler; , when cooked . take
from fire, beat until smooth, mashing
all the grains. Then add well -beaten
yolks of eggs and cook for eight min-
utes longer, add seasoning and pars-
ley, using white pepper; mix thor-
oughly, take from fire and cool. When
cool form into croquettes, dip in
whltee of eggs (left from yolks) and
breadcrumbs, fry in boiling hot fat,
drain on soft paper, put sprig of pars-
ley on top of each croquette and serve
instead of potatoes.
Rice Dumplings.—It was the old
Creole cooks who first evolved that
famous Creole dessert, rice dumplings.
They are made as follows: V cup of
flour, 3 cups of ground rice, 8 apples,
tart and not overripe; 2 quarts of
milk, sugar and cinnamon, 1/2 of the
peel of an orange and 2 of a grated
nutmeg. Pare the apples and take
out the cores, leaving the apples
one. cup of milk, two and one-half 1whole. Take the ground cinnamon
Cups of flour, three-quarters of a cup
and sugar, mix well and fill the cores
of sugar, one tablespoonful of but -!with this mixture. Ll the meantime
ter, half a teaspoonful of salt, one boil the rice in milk until it comes to
teaspoonful of baking powder, and the consistency of flour, having added
one pound of cherries, stoned. Sepa-!the grated orange peel and tea -
rate the eggs, beat the yolks until spoonful of grated nutmeg and 1/2 cup
light, adding the butter, salt, flour . of flour. Take off fire and let cool.
and baking powder; beat well, then Then cover each apple with a very
fold in the well -beaten whites. Mixt thick coating of the rice and tie' each
all this, then put a layer of it in a !dumpling in a cloth very tightly and
well -buttered dish or mold, then a put them in a pot of cold water, Bring
layer of cherries, then a layer of bat- the water to a quick boil and boil the
ter, and so on until all is used, hav- apples for ii of an hour, When done
ing batter on the top. Sprinkle•with,untie the cloth and place the dump -
granulated sugar and bake 30 minnteslings carefully on a large dish.
Sprinkle each with a little nutmeg,
put on top of each a dot of butter, set
in oven for 5 or 10 minutes to brown,
and serve with hard or cream sauce.
They may be served without setting
in a hot oven. Serve with the follow-
ing sauce: '"eke a pint of milk, two
tablespoonfuls each of butter and
flour, half a cup of sugar. flavor with
vanilla or masa, and two tablespoon- in oven, immediately after they have
fuls of butter. To serve, lift the pad- been taken from the water, or they
ding into the dishes, pour over it the may be served cold.
sauce and place a tablespoonful of
hard sauce on top. Half a cup of su- Handy Hints for the Home.
gar worked in cream with three table-
spoonfuls of the butter, workuntil
good and creamy, add four tablespoon-
fuls of finely minced cherries. This
is a most delicious pudding
When making plain raisin pudding
use a finely -grated carrot instead of. Players in London.
an egg. It is just as good and cheaper, I Margarine is now being supplied to
A pail of boiling salted water the household of the Princess Alex -
EXPLAINS HIS RECALL,
CPJN. sm IAN STANess541 MOM IEMI{ 11Adtrmlroi, G.C.13„ D.S,o.
and a veteran of eight campaigns, Including the Ill-fated expedition at
Savin Bay and Anzac, of which he tolls in a thrilling narrative ,lint
made public, In it he explains how his recall came about. Sir Ian
has almost as many decorations front foreign Powers as from Great
Britain, including two from Germany., Although several thues re-
commended for rho Victoria Cross, this honor has never been award.
ed trim, for what reason remains a mystery,
PERSONAL POINTERS. 30,000 ARE INTERNED.
Little Paragraphs About Some Pro- Costs Ten Shillings a Week to Sup-
minent People. port Each Alien,
Sardines -on -toast are a favorite There are almost 30,000 aliens of
breakfast dish of the British Prima military age interned on the Isle of
Minister. Man, all men, and they are being sup.
The Prince of Wales has worn out Ported by the British Government at
five uniforms since he went to the an approximate cost of 10 shillings
front in November of last year. per capita weekly. Elaborate camps,
Sir Frederick Milner has made over with modern sewage systems, have
five hundred speeches on behalf of been constructed, and a beginning
the interests of our disabled soldiers has been made in establishing work -
and sailors. shops where idleness can be turned
The Countess of Beckendorff, wife into industry. In time all the intern
of the Russian Ambassador in Lon- ed aliens may be taken to the Isle of
don, is one of the best 'lady bridge Man. There are almost 4,000 at Alex-
andra Palace, in London, still. There
are no longer any internes at Frim-
ley, near Aldershot.
There are still many thousands of
Germans and Austrians who have not
been interned, and all have a chance
of appearing before a tribunal estab-
lished for the purpose of deciding
whether internment is desirable.
When interned they can communicate
with their home Governments through
of his clothes in London, where he the American Embassy, 'which still
says the best tailors in the world are maintains two men at the former home
to be found. of Prince Lichnowsky, in Carlton ter -
Two different kinds of tea are race, London. For many months
these two men have been Edward G.
Lowry, of New York, and Leland H.
Littlefield, of Providence.
The agitation calling for the whole-
sale internment of enemy aliens, which
a part of the London press carried
on most vigorously last year, has
now died down, and there appears to
be no general criticism that the Home
Office is not handling this difficult
problem fairly and successfully.
fl
OLDEST BRITISH SOLDIER 70.
He's Probably More, But Doesn't
1800 Bread Pudding.—A pint of should be poured down the kitchen I ander of Teek for the use of the
bread crumbs shredded into three sink every week to prevent its be- Princess and her family.
cups of boiling milk; dust lightly with coming stopped. General Sir H. Smith-Dorrien
cinnamon, sweeten with one-quarter Ground coffee sprinkled freely smokes a cigarette daily after his
of a cup of sugar and two tablespoon- amongst the fur or feathers of game morning bath, a pipe after breakfast,
fuls of butter. Beat four fresh eggs when packed for travelling will keep and a cigar after dinner.
until thick and smooth; then add to it fresh. M. Delcasse, who has retired from
this mixture, when lukewarm, juice Before home made bread is put into the French Ministry, purchases most
of an orange or lemon. Bake in a the oven brush the tops of the loaves
deep dish or mold. Eat while warm, with butter, and the crust will remain
with the sweet juice; and flavor with moist.
nutmeg. After being used for fish frying -
Spice Cake.—Take one and a half pans should be scoured out with salt. served at the Royal breakfast-table—
cups of brown sugar, one app of but- and hot water. This` removes the China tea, • at 4s. 6d. per pound, for
ter, one cup of molasses, one cup of fishy smell better than soda and eva-
cold coffee, four cups of flour, three tor. -
teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one; Scraps of bread should never be
egg beaten light, giro teaspoonful of allowed to accumulate in the bread
mace, two of cloys and a pound of pan. They should be made into pud-
currents; flame:, with half the flour. dings, or browned in the oven for
Mix -in the :: ter given and bake in raspings.
loaf pan ,a�" a medium 'oven for ones If when poaching eggs a teaspoon -
hour ful of vinegar is added to the boiling
Dougher,.tu.—Take one cup each of water it will prevent the egg from
Queen Mary; Russian tea, at Gs. per
pound, for his Majesty.
Sir Henry Kimber has rescued
over a hundred great commercial en-
terpn;ises from disaster, He has for
years made a sort of hobby of this
particular form of business activity.
Lord Cowdray has commercial in-
terests in more quarters of the earth
than any other great captain of in -
sugar a sweet milk, three eggs, five breaking. Also,tough meat may be dustry, and has visited every part of
tables- %funs of butter, one teaspoon- i made tender if placed in strong vine- the world where he has these inter-
ful ,,f mace, three teaspoonfuls of • gar water fora few minutes, este.
1p.:ting powder, and enough flour to! To spread the butter when very General Tekoff, the commander -in -
Make a soft dough. Mix well and hard have a cup of boiling water chief of the Bulgarian Army, was, as
`s roll out a half inch thick, then fry in handy, and dip the point of the knife a lieutenant, once courtmartialled and
boiling hot fat.
Potato Biscuit.—Boil mealy pota-
toes very soft, pare and mash them,
and to every four good-sized potatoes
add a piece of butter the size of an
egg, and a teaspoonful of salt. When
the butter is melted (work while the
potatoes are hot) add one.eup of milk
(that has been boiled and cooled) and
a quarter of a yeast cake, and enough
flour to mold. Knead and set to rise
in a warm place. When risen, roll
out on the board, using little or no
flour; cut out and let rise again for
20 minutes in n warm place. Bake in
oven for 15 minutes or on ±8p of stove
on a griddle. If these are made up
at night they can be ready for break-
fast,
The Proper Way to Cook Rice.
The old Creole way of preparing
rice, which must be of snowy white-
ness, leaves every grain distinct, ten-
der and perfectly dry. It must be
thoroughly washed and picked over,
then rubbed between the hands before
cooking. -Place pan over fire with a
quart of water, and when boiling add
cup of well -cleaned rice, a few
into it each time before spreading sentenced to be shot for striking his
the bread. This enables the thinnest superior officer; but the sentence was
bread to be buttered without spoiling remitted the day after it had been
the slice and wasting the butter. Passed.
Eggs, if cracked, can be safely boil- Mr. Lloyd George's many engage
ed if a teaspoonful of vinegar is add- meats prevent him from keeping early
ed to the water. When eggs are hours, but Mrs. Lloyd George, as far
scarce one teaspoonful of vinegar is a as possible, adheres to hours that have
good substitute in cake baking, and been the rule of her house for years.
will make a cake light in which drip-
ping has been used instead of butter.
Chapped hands during the winter
are often the lot of the girl or woman
who has to spend a portion of her
time over the sink. Keep a little jar
of oatmeal handy, and after washing
and drying the hands rub the oatmeal
well into the skin and dust off. This
dries and protects the skin.
Breakfast at 7.30, bedtime 10.30
p.m. To keep her husband company,
Mrs, Lloyd George will often take a
small second breakfast at 9 o'clock,
LONDON TO SEE WAR FILMS.
Views From the Allied Fronts To Be
Exhibited.
Know.
Although he must be well over 70
years of age, Private Bill Hall of the
Royal Engineers- is fighting against
the Germans with the British army in
France.
Hall's approximate age—he does
not know it exactly himself—has just
been found out by his comrades as a
result of the discovery that he has a
son also at the front who is 49 years
of age.
Sergt. W. Flux, of Hall's company,
who is himself beyond middle age,
writes: "The most remarkable man
out here is Bill Hall, an old soldier like
myself, who enlisted as 47 years of
age, but when lie produced his mar-
riage certificate we found he was
married in 1861, end we have since Monday is far from being a joke,
discovered that his son is aged 49. He Social science in its quest for the
1 is a marvel for work, and lie has never problems that most affect humanity
When you are fixing a piece of wood Official War Office films of the once fallen out, though we were has stumbled on this clay of the week,
with a screw, always rub a little nal- British army -in France are about to marching and fighting once for five Dr. Thorndyke claims that it is shin,
on the screw before putting it in; be shown in Leedom The first batch days en end. ply because Monday is Monday. The
Ln.
then it can be taken out much easier, has just passed the final censorship "The soldiers have found out about skilled hand has lost its technique
even 20 years after. This Is fat bet- Ii im and wherever we are you can and finish, and humanity int
n general
and is now in the hands of the flim 1 y finds it hard to start afresh a habit
ter than having a heat one's screw- hear such remarks as `Where's old
driver, because heating the screw- Bill ?"Good old Bill,' 'Stick to it, Bill,' that had been broken—the habit of
driver will ruin it, as the heat calces and so on. So far as we ate able to work.
all the temper out of it, figure it out Bill must be well over The reasons why 14iondey is "blue"
The best thing for cleaning Earn- 70 years old." are thus summarized.
tore is just ordinary brown boot poi- On that day persons have to go
ish, Rub it well in with a piece of back to work.
P „ Not Used to Her Standard.
It is washing -day.
Have you any references, in Collectors and agents call,
quired the lady of the house, The school bell rings again,
"Yis, muni, lots of thim," answer- Too much money was in circulation
ed the prospective maid. on Saturday night.
"Than why did you not bring The big Sunday dinner.
some of them with you?" No moderation in Sunday's exer-
"Well, alum, to tell the troot, vise.
they're just loikc me photographs. New regulations -,and schedules
None of thin don't do me justice." start on Monday, -
"MAY EACH BOMB HIT."
Translation of Germany's New Hymn
Of Hate,
The Deutsche Tegeszsitung.prints a
new "hymn of hate"'oi which the fol•
lowing is a translation:
One day is like the other, and every
day is gray; each day is full of fog Lesson V.—The Lame Man Leaping,
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
JANUARY 30,
and every draught is cutting, Acts 3. Golden Text:
There is no fire on the hearth, there
isno.glow in any stove. Acts 3. 6.
We warm ourselves with internal
anger, we warm ourselves with rage, Verse 1. Ninth—There were three
for outside our walls there is loud hours of prayer: forenoon;
no, and
rejoicing, and many a golden palace afternoon. It should be remembered About one hundred Germaiti-soldiers
is being built on false victories. that these Urine of our are quite as
in ed, muscular
They revile us with words, they Precise as "third, eixtb, and ninth mentllfor Fe church burly,well
l- cot SStation,
spit in our Patios, we suspect the
hours"; accuracy could be secured
truth, however, and do not believe only by the use of a Sundial, and only London, recently, on Choir way to Til
what they say, a few people eared to define time by bury, !''lashing, and Germany, They
to recti native
were being sent bas
intermediate hours.back
We suspect that the German battle la
cry has long been resounding through 2. Beautiful.. --We have no informs- sonldiors.dinexchange for captured British
Russia, that our comrades are gain- tion as to the gate thus described,
ing victories . , . and we are not though the epithet was appropriate to There was some consternation on
more than one. the crowded platform, says the Lon -
with them, 4, Fastening his eyes—See Acts L don Daily Express, when this fact
The thunder of our cannon—which q
is the German tempest—penetrates 10, where the same word appears. was realized. The tiring was hardly
thick walls, and reaches us in our With John — Who characteristically credible. Anyone who has seen
dun eon. takes the subordinate place. British soldiers returning from Ger-
many 6, What Ihave—The same erase many as exchanged prisoners knows
We fear, for we believe that it is as Mark 14.8 ("what she could");
that they are half starved, thinly
so, we see it as clear as daylight, clad, and generally helpless cripples.
Germany's sun of triumph breaking they both remind us of the transeen The German soldiers this benefi-
through the enemy passes! 1 dant value of what we have—over-
looked utterly by those whose in- cent country returned were plentifully
We clench our fists savagely, and and warmly clad and soundly shod.
wish we were there. I stint is to count up what they have
In vain! They tore us from our: not. I give—More exactly, "I offer"; There was a ruddiness in their cheeks
ships to bring us here, every beat of all depended on his accepting it. In betokening English roast beef and
our hearts cried vainly for home, and the name—See Acts 2. 38. The man vegetables and other good food. Some
now hunger and thirst are reducing had presumably heard of the lame of them were smoking cigars, others
us day by day. !man whom Jesus had healed. Jesus's cigarettes, All were in the prime of
od.
We lie here like beggars, 10 the name therefore eould produce the vtgPe fecmanhtly a disgraceful," was the
frost, with open doors. We may not thrill of faith which made the heal -
comment of bystanders as the Gere
fight for Germany, we only starve for Ing possible when Peter gripped his mans marched between armed guards
her! + hand and showed that he really meant
But hark! That is the sound of nothing less than a complete cure. to the train. `Germany would not
propellors travelling inland along the! 7. Feet and ankle -bones -The words send any of our fighting men back.
course of the Thames! !are among the medical terms charas- only starved and limbless men,"
May every bomb hit you, accursed teristic of the Luken books—e, well- A sergeant in the Royal Flying
England, till London's factories are in known corroboration of the early tra- Catchedrsilenti fromesh he front on leave,
ashes, and her palatial banks are dition that assigns these writings to Y the procession of
Paul's "beloved physician" (Col. 4. well -clad, beef -fed Huns.
mere heaps of ruins! I I can scarcely believe my own
Each bomb will have said to your 14). o
"So we hated you!" 8. The picture is most vivid—the eyes," he said as they entered the
Y train. I suppose when I go back to
And if the bombs fell on us, we first spring followed by a moment's
the front on
should not complain, for that would standing, as if to test the new power, chaps again. Saturday I shall see those
mean an end to our :torments, and then with continued walking and ec-
would be preferable to an English static leaps and shouts of praise. "I shall tell the fellows at the front
court of law, "Then shall the lame man leap as an about this, and—well, they won't half
hart." As in the case of, the paralytic swear at the way things are being
We should neon die like other war- in Mark 2. 12, the miracle was too done here.
iters, simultaneously with our en.,, great to- admit of praise to any but Shortly afterwards about 150 civi-
God Tian British prisoners arrived al the
10. Wonder and amazement — A station. from Ruhleben, in Germany.
combination of two extremely strong They, too, had been exchanged for
noto produce the effect of a super- healthy civilian Germans sent from
natunsive. this country. Many of the returned
11. Porch—Or cloister, a colonnade Englishmen were poorly clothed,
named after the royal founder of the and their pinched faces and sunken
first temple. eyes, told a sad tale of prolonged
12. Answered — The form in the hunger and hardship.
Greek is at this period restricted to Treatment in Germany.
formal and solemn responses, and es-
"
pecially speeches of counsel in law Things are a bit Vetter than they
courts. It is appropriate for this were, but they are still very bad,"
great apologia which takes the case said one of the number, Mr. Albert
Charles Rothchild, an electrical en-
gineer. "The sanitary arrangements
are disgraceful. The food is very
scanty and at times so foul as to be
uneatable.
"Fre had to sleep in stables with
empire, where the, people are far deed. Our own power—There is a leaking roofs, and our blankets and
p p mattresses were frequently soaked
worse situated than here and where all climax, the apostles as magicians in
not even any
necessaries of life have reached prices their own right, then as men of
with
hiram . Tlseexeeptethose provided
unheard of in Germany. Here better saintly life whose prayers have power out of the prisoners" own money. If
organization has alleviated the in- with God. Neither is true; this is
evitable sufferings of the poorer one of the "things which esus did" You could not afford to buy one, then
classes.
In the Dresdener Volks Zeitung the
following paragraph appeared in an
editorial which deals with the suf-
ferings of the very poor in the Saxon
capital drying the present spell of
cold weather.
"Last Thursday while passing
across the Karola bridge I saw a
sight so pitiful and horrifying that I
could hardly believe nay own eyes,the military authorities make 71/2 per
Between 40 and 50 women and chil- Ireland is making a bold bid for
dren were wadingabout in the is the capture of several markets kith- cent, profit on everything they sell to
s cite dominated by "enemy traders." ins, even medicine. We have not had
water of the Elbe up to their waists butter or margarine for three months,
fishing for little pieces of coal and Toys, carpets and cigarettes are the and eggs—not new-]aid—are three -
wood which had been carried down most successful examples of new in-,
by the river during • the recent floods. dustries thus far developed. pence each.
The new workshops for the menu- "The mattresses are stuffed with
Foralmost an hour I stood looking at shavings, and mine had not been thisr dreadful scene, and when I left facttraded
of dolls and toys have at- re-
newed for seven months, and was
the poor starving people were still traded large numbers of girl works consequently full of dirt and dust.
continuing their search. Passers-by ars who were thrown out of employ ..I was not able to learn much
stopped and talked in low voices, One ment by the hard times prevailing in about the internal condition of Ger-
of them said to me that a law ought the lace and millinery trade in Bel- many, but I do know that the people
to be passed to prevent such revolting shim and Dublin. The financial re- cannot get butter, margarine, or con
sights, but I answered him: `Neves- sults of the new enterprises are said lensed milk."
BURLY GERMANS
ARE SENT HOME
IN EXCHANGE FOR CAPTURED
BRITISH SOLDIERS.
Runs Muscular and Well Fed,
Crippled and Half
Starved.
riffs!'
emies. Now, like the dogs, we feel
only our adversaries' blows.
The others are dying in battle and
their blood flows gloriously, while
we are dying, without honor, of miss
ery, hate and rage.
The new "hymn of bate" was writ-
ten by Georg von Kries.
WADED ICY RIVER FOR FUEL.
Pathetic Plight of German Women
and Children.
In Saxony and Bavaria, where the
old-time hatred es Prussia has al- of Jesus of Nazareth to a court of
ways been smouldering, the situation appeal above the Sahedrin. Why—A
has at times given rise to consider- superfluous question, we might think;
able uneasiness, says a Berlin de -
snatch. Even more serious is the
outlook in the heterogeneous Austrian
but of course the people were already
giving the wrong answer; they were
crediting the two apostles with the
(see Acts 1. 1), the Suffering "Ser-
vant" of God who is still at work
among them in "glory" shining out in
deeds like these,
e•
WAR HELPS IRELAND.
Many New Industries Are Springing
Up in Cities.
you had to go without.
"We had meat three times a eveek,
but in such insufficient quantities
that you could hardly see any in the
stew. Fish once a week—but as a
rule it was so rank that it could not
be eaten.
"The five shillings a week which
the British Government allows to
each prisoner buys scarcely any-
thing, as the food is so dear, and
sity knows 310 law,'"
CAUSE OF BLUE MONDAY.
Scientists Say There Are Many
to be most encouraging.
The "Turkish" carpets made in
Ireland are of a type which experts
declare are destined to deceive even
the elect of Constantinople. It is not-
able that many of the largest of re -
Reasons and Lists Several. cent orders comes from Egypt. The
manufacture of hand tufted car ets
is about 15 years old in County Done-
gal, and gives employment to hun-
dreds of peasants who have inherit-
ed through all the troubled ages of
Irish history the subtle "knack" for
form -and color that distinguished
their Celtic ancestors,
Cigarette factories have sprung up
as if by magic in several cities, and
are employing great numbers of nim•.
ble-fingered girls. There is also talk
of a commercial glass factory in Dub-
lin,
Scientists are declaring that Blue p
manufacturers.
Among them are excellent and in-
teresting pictures of the Indian
troops. There is also a aeries of pic-
tures of British troops marching to
the trenches and other returning
grains at a time, so as not to stop the from the firing line smothered in mud,
'water front boiling; stir gently occa- flannel, and polish up with a soft, dry but soiling and cheerful. Another
sionally with silver fork to prevent duster. The effect is magical. Be- series shows the training given in
France at a school of instruction for
officers who have been promoted from
the ranks.
These films are distinguished from
all other war movies hitherto shown
in England by the fact that they show
the actual country in which the fight-
ing in the west le taking place. The
.fact that they are official War Office
films further Mauna that no faking Grandmainniit—"What are you do -
of any kind has been permitted, as ing lit the pantry, Tommy?" Tommy
they are intended to form part of the —"Oh, I'm just putting a few things
Government archives th
"
Go hivesof c c war. away, gran rna.
sticking to bottom of pan. As soon
as the grain commences to soften, do
not stir on any account; let it con-
tinuo boiling until grains begin to
swell out and appear to ehicicen; us-
ually this takes about 20 minutes.
This can bo nscertained by mashing
ate of the grains between the fingers;
drain and set pot in the oven without
a cover.
The rice may puff or swell for 10
minutes; it must not brown, just sire -
,ply dry out; shako the pot bolero dish -
sides polishing the wood it tends to
darken it, and preserves it front in-
sects. As a very little polish is ne-
cessary one small tin heats a ton-
siderable time. Less "elbow grease"
is needed than if you used the ordin-
ary polish.
Judge (discharging prisoner)—
"And fn the future see that you keep
out of bad company." Prisoner --
"Thank you, your honor, You won't
see me here, again."
Proud Father—I believe, my dear,
that the baby knows as much as I
do. Mother (gazing at the infant)—
Yes, poor little fellow.
Proverbs of the highway.
When we meet Happiness on the
highway the great mistake we make
is failing to eels him to go home
with us and spend the rest of his life.
Trust in Providence is all light
till you come to trust that it will
clothe, feed and sleep you without
you ever striking a lick. Provi-
dence likes a hustler just as well as
this old world does.
The optimist becomes a pessimist
after he thinks he hears' the Dollar
ringing and opens the door on a hard -
up old bill collector.
One of the returned British pris-
oners obtained a glimpse of Berlin on
Sunday, when he was allowed out un-
der guard to obtain a passport. He
saw very few men, but many -cripples
and widows, and food seemed to be
very scarce.
N
BRPPISH FISHERMEN.
Despite Mines and Other Dangers
They Make Large Catches.
A tribute to the patriotism, cour-
age and energy of the British fisher-
3nen is contained in the Government's.
annual report on sea fisheries for
1914.
No industry, says the report, has
been so greatly affected by the war as
sea fishing, and "when the history of
the war is written the country 'will
realize, as it never has before, the
supreme maritime power of an organ-
ized fishing industry and a daring fish-
ing population."
Notwithstanding the limitation of
fishing waters by naval regulations,
mine fields and German submarines,
there were landed in England and
Wales in .1914 some 10,125,000 hun-
dred weight of fish exclusive of shell
fish of the value of $89,285,000, as
against 16,152,000 hundred weight it
1918, valued at $50,045,000. The shell
fish catch dropped from the value of
$1,640,000 in 1013 to 111,445,000 in
1914.