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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1916-2-10, Page 2What Farmers' Wives Want. , and take out the s ones. Make paste; The farm women of the country, line your pie plates and put in layer in t'esponse to' inquiries from the of fruit cake and one of sugar in the United ptates Department of Agri- proportion of three-quarters of culture, have bean telling of the needs pound of sugar to one pound of fruit. of housewives in rural sections. Roll out some paste, cover the pies They represent the average farm- and bake in moderate oven. Leave bowie as a model of inconveniencean opening in the centre of the lid and the housewive's facilities for ef-, to allow the steam to escape while ftcient work as inadequate, clumsy baking' ,+ and nerve-racking, 1 Guernsey I a dding Half -pound of They pronounce many of the mon best suet, one pound of flour, half - indifferent as to how hard the women pound of dried currants, half -pound may have to work, what they must be of stoned raisins, two eggs. Nutmeg deprived of, or as to any share they and cinnamon to taste and half a should have in farm finances. saltapoon of salt. Shred the suet, They say that women must carry int shop it fine and rub it through the wood, carry out garbage, pump water' flour. Wash, pick and dry the cur - from outdoor wells and cisterns, work rants; seed the raisins and mix the in poorly -lighted rooms, waste hours currants and raisins together and in cleaning and filling old lanterns dredge over them as much flour as and lamps that even then give no will adhere to them. Beat the eggs light, fight the fly pest in unsereened until they are very thick and light porches, put up with a thousand un -and add enough milk to forma batter. necessary hardships, and take mil- Stir in the eggs, then the spices and lions of needless steps every year, all salt and lastly the fruit. Dip your because men don't care so long as pudding bag into cold water, turn it they get their food regularly and inside out and flour it well. Then their own comfort is provided for, 1 turn it back again and pour in the One woman says she has to do the batter; tie the mouth of the bag with; churning by hand, while her husband a strong string, but take care to leave drives to town after a pound of nails space enough for the pudding to or a pouch of tobacco, swell. Have ready a pot of boiling Another says her greatest work is water; with a plate in the bottom to carrying wood and cobs to the kitch- prevent the pudding from touching en range and removing the ashes, the bottom of the pot, put in the pud- Another says the main entrance to ding and let it boil for two hours and her house is the kitchen door, a half. Keep a kettle of boiling wa- up through which everyone enters, let- ter to fill he the pot as may be ra- ting in flies, tramping in dirt, and quired. When the pudding is done, that in her kitchen all the men wash take it out of the pot, dip it for an in - their dirty hands and comb their hair, stant in cold water, untie the bag and sometimes within three or four feet turn it out on dish. Serve with a of the stove or table where the food sweet sauce. ts. -- Uniting the Family. Another says her house is infested with mice and rats, that none of the How many households have a fam- roonis are decorated, and most of ily hour—a definite time in the week the floors are without carpets, rugs when all the members of the family or matting; that there is no drain gather in perfect serenity for an from the sink, no indoor sanitary interval of genuine communion? Al - closet or conveniences, no bathroom though civilization brings many ad - or hot-water heater, vantages in its train, it has the great Most women want pretty homes, or fault of tending to disrupt family in - at least convenient ones, not just tercourse. Each member has too many boxes with a few partitions and ill- individual activities. Fathers have advised arrangements. their business; sons, their business or They want blooming shrubbery in education; mother, their domestic their yards, good fruit in their or- duties or social occupations; daugh- charcls, and gardens that yield sone- ters, their business, their education, thing for the table, They want their or their social life. lawns mowed and flower beds sped- All these things are right and ed. They do not want the chickens, worthy in themselves, but they do not hogs, horses and cows around the tend to weld the family. If members dooryard. of a family will make it a rule to de - One woman affirms that her men vote themselves for one hour in the have all the modern farm implements week wholly to one another, the spirit and machinery they require, while she of family life will be quickened and has not an oil stove, a washing ma- strengthened. Often the members of chine, a gasoline iron, a bread mixer a family pursue parallel courses that or other such utensils about the house. clo not intersect. It is mere platitude She says her men are not unselfish or to point out that great events—travel, penurious, but they do not stop to marriage, death, and the like—must Lesson VII.—Humbled and Exalted. think. inevitably cause disintegration. But There is complaint of lack of walks so long as the family is together un- Phil. 2. 1-11. Golden Text— about the house, absence of poultry der one roof, the spirit of union and 2 Cor. 8.9. fences, destitution as to handy helps, common interests should be fostered. like vacuum cleaners, dumb waiters and kitchen articles. Useful Hints. Poet water supplies are the draw- backs in many cases. One protests Run a thread around the hole in in this way: "Why, here is dinner all ready; the men are coming now; baby is crying; the kettle has gone dry; no water in the bucket. She has to let the baby howl, run to the creek or pump, if such is in order; come in all heated up; hustle around; snake things appear pleasant, so these men suits some ancient evidence. Exhort- ence, omnipotence, omniscience; but, Ventilation of the Boiler and Engine - can enjoy their meal. Now, can be wet, but cleaned with a dry anon in Christ --The preacher who not love, for God is love. And since! Rooms. this woman get any benefit from her chamois. "cheers" hispeople is speaking in a man was made in God's image, love dinner?" Unless a turkey is very young it divine atmosphere: Christ is all is the essence of'- the Perfect Man, One of the most difficult problems in There is no bound to the expression should be steamed for an hour before round him and within him, so that' The "self -emptying" is described as building a modern battleship is to se - of want, but the burden of it is that roasting. his words are not his ownConsols- taking the form of a servant: the cora satisfactory ventilation. She is country women want at least some of Mix mustard with vinegar instead ti . on •of love -When Love lies bleed- King of kings becomes the subject of such a complicated creature, made up the comforts, conveniences and con- of water and it will remain fresh ing, it is only Love that can heal.' subjects. Likeness—As in Rom. 8.3, � of so many steel boxes, large and twice as long. small, for the accommodation of ofti- Fellowship—For we can never enjoy • Paul is thinldng of human nature as ! When chestnuts are in season they the Spirit alone: the Gift is '`forever it is, which makes him put it the cern, men, coal, ammunition, and are a delicious addition (boiled) to a tittered forever whole,"," as Whittier . word that suggests the immense dif stores; dotted here and there with so "1 wL Canadian `ort+try Adaa"athn, Ottawa The Visitor: "What crime brought you here l• The Man in Stripes : "1 burned down a fifty -dollar sh.ai," • The Visitor; "Great Scott! We settlers burned down 0 million dollars worth of Ontario's . forests last summer and nobody said 'Boo!' " (Newspaper note: "Eighty-five out of every hundred forest fires in Ontario during 1915 ,were caused by careless settlers. Unlike British Columbia and Quebec, settlers in this province have no supervision of their clearing fires during the clanger season.") THE SUNDAY SCHOOL lemosmisil INTERNATIONAL LESSON, FEBRUARY 13. ,STIADE 'TREE BUTCHERY. f THE DEATH PURL, "Rights" of 'd'elegraph and Tolet/bone Anzac and 'i.'urk Fought Like Cham. Linemen Is a diction. 1 pions of Old, • Tor years the people of Ontario ,• The Australian Eye-Witnese has it have permitted themselves to be vie- rare sense for dramatic incident. timized by all aorts of specious claims here Is a story --of the days when regarding the rights of telcpbone and the A.nvaes were still fighting the telegraph linemen, building eontrac- Teas in Gallipoli—which Captain tors and others to destroy or mutilate Bean tdlis in a recent despatch: shade trees, i You occasionally ee*ne aci:ess inert Ae a matter of Ontario haw, no ono of the madly daring sort of whom other than n specially deputed mond- any story might Ulm. cipal officer has the `'right" to remove Two months ago an officer was go - or trim a shade tree. Linemen, con- ing along his section of fire trench, tractors, etc., Imo on authority when be found a matt standing up whatever in snchi matters and eanngt a head and shoulders above the para- legally remove any part of a tree pet and blazing at something over it, without the perrnissoin of the owner and then calmly lowering his `ilio or municipality. A few legal contests and standing there looking Over the such as have recently ocaurtod jn rho parapet, with a trench of the enemy's United States would impress this.fact not 300 yards away. ' once and for all time upon the shade It turned out that he was having a tree ownera of Ontario. Only a few duel with a Turk! months ago a contractor tree obliged I I do not know by what quaint sys- by .an American count to pay nide tem of signalling they arranged jt, hundred dollars for cutting down two but each one was having one shot at trees: ,the other nand then standing up there The chief flaw in our system or pro- for the other to have next shot ac tection is that we have very few slcill- him. ed tree inspectors in municipal em- I So they blazed at one another while ploy, so that municipalities are them- , the men along that section of the selves responsible for a great deal of trenches looked on through their peri - the everyday butchery. :scopes and loopholes, and no doubt The Ontario statutes give a muni- the Turks were looking through theirs cipal officer delegated by the City En- also. gineer power to remove a tree from The officer told the man to stand private or public property on forty - down at once and not to hex fool. eight hours' notice, but the owner The duellist stepped down when he must be recompensed for planting and was ordered to, but the moment the protecting the tree. No live tree, un- officer had passed he jumped up less within thirty feet of other trees, again and went on he the game, may be removed without consent of His rival's shots had almost grazed the owner of the property -in front of his ear. Both sides were• eagerly which the tree stands, looking on and observing quite hon - The municipality shall not be liable for damage for the trimming of trees orably the rules of this extraordinary in parks or whose branches extend game, when the Australian fell back over streets if reasonable care has into the trench, shot through the been exercised in the operation. temple. Any person destroying or injuring The shot came not from the Turk (even tieing a horse to) a street tree opposite, but from a distance to the is liable to a fine not to exceed f25 south. While the Australian was and costs or imprisonment for not shooting some other Turk had shot more than thirty days, half of the fine him. to go to the informant. "— 'p The "rights" of telegraph and tele- SPORT AT THE FRONT. phone linemen to butcher trees is a fiction. They have no rights whatever -How the British Soldier Spends His over any tree on public or private pro- ! Spare Time. petty. This Association submitted ; The curious phlegmatic character of several questions to the Attorney- Tommyat the Front is strikingly General who replied: er think it is !illustrated by a couple of stories which quite clear that the owner would have, Mr. Ian Malcolm, M.P., tells in "War the right to prevent a telephone coin -;pictures Behind the Line," pany from stringing its wires in a tree „ „ f One day,"he says, I was talking planted by him in the street, because to some townspeople at Trilport, near Meaux. They were telling me stories of the retreat, and how highly they thought of our Army. 'But we shall 5I0 -U of the Criminal Code to destroy never quite understand you,' they or damage a tree in park, pleasure added. `What other army is them ground, or garden or in any land ad- which, after retiring for so many days jaeent to or belonging to a dwelling and nights with the enemy .at their 1 !house, injuring it to an extent exceed- English?would They reached Meaux, ehaved like the G. Discussion of this problem versa : of that Name isthat it alone can be; mg five dollars. sieur, and what did they do? They at mon- being impossible, we will simply ex-' brought as 0 warrant in prayer. An -r It was expressly enacted by 4 Edw, pound the view that seems most suit-' gele and man living and dead whis- VII., Clause 10, Section 74, that a tele- once began to play foot -hall, they able. Since the purpose of this pass-' per his name and are heard. 1 graph or telephone company should took boats and rowed on the river, age is to commend humility by 11. The phrase, combined with that! not acquire any easement by prescrip they even bathed; and then they went on fighting. Very amusing, too, is the story of a certain Tommy, whom Mr. Malcolm no part. He counted not his equality which the prophet reserves this tri-' and a friend discovered when they with God a reason for grasping what but to the one God. Paul this tri- phone wires have been attached to a 1 were motoring behind Ypres on a road he teas entitled to. He was always' atm( it for Jesus and gives n0 sign tree, the municipality or owner, if he to which ,Tack Jacksons earl Black surrendering - even the elementary that anyone would find the appropria- has property in the tree, could compel Vtaries had dug immense holes, The rights of a man born in lowly station. • tion startling. le is just this incident- the removal of the wire." heavy Belgian rain had filled these The profoundest theological ex- And he did this because he was exist- al allusiveness of New Testament Since the law gives considerable lat- with water, and by the side of one position in Paul's writings gets its ing in the form of God, and was writers which makes the most im- nude to any amateur municipal officer, such sat Tommy, solemnly fishing supreme importance from its therefore embodying in human life , pressive evidence that they took his it is our plain duty as citizens to ob- . b- with rod and line. "What are you do- tica p_ p prat- God's own activities who uses not dei for granted as a truth that lige our city and town councils to en- ing, my lad?" asked Mr. Mateolm's and force, but love, to Will his way with needed no proof. Jesus Christ is Lord trust shade tree supervjsion to a skill- friend. "Fishing, sir," replied the r angler, without a smile on his face. "But you,ean't catch fish in a shell hole like that, you know;" to which the answer was, "Wait and see," So my friend waited and saw. Tommy soon landed quite a big fish, to the ut- ter amazement of the onlooker, who asked how it was done. "Well, you see, sir, yesterday I was off duty and went down with my not to the river yonder, 1 eaoght lots of fish and put them into these holes for me and my pals to catch when we wanted them." Either Way. "It would be nice if everything one touched turned to gold, wouldn't it?" mple salad, says. lference between Jesus and other many steel ladders, automatic lifts, keeping her commerce from the seas, asked he dreamer. touched Pour olive oil into the bottle if you men. The phrase in fashion (verse' steel bulk -heads, and water -tight says the New York Herald, The situ- turned over gold," suggeeed the dead- In days gone by the mistress of the open a large bottle of olives, It will 2. Make full—Paul has more joydoors, varied here and there bymiles house did not trust to her cook and reserve the flavor. out of the Philippian church than 8) similarly hints that while the re_ anon of her armies may be likened to beat, maids to prepare dainties and special, p from any other. But their ver ear -'semblance was'deep and real it was; of electric wires belonging to lights, a blockade by land—to a great siege. dishes intended for the honored when boiling vegetables never le, nestness had induced an element of temporary, }telephones, bells, and motors, to say Within a circle of many thousand thorn stop boiling until they are done,' nothing of the endless mileage of miles the Teutonic and Turkish forces guest, With her own hands, waited or they will be soggy and heavy. strife on by cook and maids, she made puff 1 Silver that is in daily use can be paste, fine poundcakes, custard,, eel- kept bright if it is left for several Iles and fancy trifles. 1 hours in very hot, strong borax water Sugar must be sifted, sometimes once a week under Section 2, of the Ontario Tree Planting Act such a tree is deemed to be his property, "It is also an offense under Section Christ's example, the central thought of verse 10, is taken over from Isa. must be' that the earthly life of Jesus 45. 23 (compare Rom. 14. 11). Noth- was one in which self-assertion had ing could exceed the emphasis with tion or otherwise as to wires attached to private property or passing through or carried over such property, so that no matter how long telegraph or tele - the stocking before you darn it.casual nature Paul nachos us to bring the commonest thingseel person, and inthe case of large Insects dislike both salt and alum, into the light of the Incarnation. us. was the creed of the first age, suf- usAlway s boil new ironware before Verse 1. The Greek is a little un- 7. Emptied himself—"Of all but fiolent t and all-inclusive.-iCor. Co12Spare trained municipalities to appoint o" "city forester" technically - certain ly- g certain and is hardly translatable as love," as Wesley adds in his as great i C ec he is called in the United States, Mu- nicipal initiative is the weak point in shade tree inspection; the Ontario law is quite sufficient,—Robson Black, Secretary The Canadian Forestry As- sociation, Ottawa. _,s STRANGLING'ON LAND AND SEA. The Allies Are Strengthening Their Grip on Germany. Germany is starving in consequence of the cordon of battleships, cruisers, destroyers and submarines which is Don't put simple milk puddings in a very hot oven or the milk will curdle. Turquoise ornaments should never it stands; the omission of a single let- hymn. To become a real man he must; - J' --- ter in one thrice -repeated little word leave behind all divine attributes in LUNGS OF A T3A'I"TLESHIP. makes all clear and grammatical, and compatible with humanity—omnipres sideration shown to their sisters in city hones.—Selected. Fatuous Old Desserts. anti Paul deals with this one , 8. Humhled—The keynote again, pipes for flooding,draining, pumping, are hemmed. They have overrun danger. Of the same mind—Like the for "lowliness" in verse 3 is the same stronger phrase at the end of the Greek word. It had an undiluted verse, this was never meant to for- flavor of meanness in non-Christian. bid honest differences of opinion, Greek, which used iL only for grovel- ttlatmg of the boiler and engine- always extending their fighting line ullets. His Choice. "Whiskey, my friend, has killed fresh water, fresh air or compressed Serbia, but they have put themselves mere amen than bullets," air, and speaking -tubes. in a pocket. They may overrun Ara- That may be, sir; hut, bejaUers, First in importance comes the ven- bia, but they will do the same thing, 1 d rather be fall of whiskey than rolled or °rushed fine, spices ground Put a -gond big piece of charcoal in the word does not include mental 1tng, but In the life and death of the rooms When you begin to think of but getting any r e thet h gratifyour es caterers. Some delicacies which have been t Water window plants through a handed down from one generation to tunnel, holding the small end close another: I to the soil and you will have no Peach Potpie. ---Line the s1dc of n ?pattered wallpaper. deep dish with a paste matte in pro-( A teaspoonful of powdered borax portion of one-half pound of butter or added to the water in which clothes Lard to a potted of flour. Then pare are rinsed will be found tr, whiten end slice in stele peaches and sugar them considerably, them to taste, The canned fruit will There is poor economy in buying make a fair substitute at 1101 sea&on, cheap blankets; and all -wool blanket Fill with eltp of water, cover with top not only outwears the cheaper one, eruct; leave opening in centre to per- but is much warmer, `nit steam to escape, while baking in 1 if a boot o1• shoe pinches, damp a Wltich compete us to :supply you have; The chntax needs no expounding, A moderately hot oven, When cold sponge with very hot water and hold ht Christ jostle will thus have the death which was verily the master- 1-ervo with whipped ereltm. over the part that hurls. The lead` same meaning as elsewhere, the ntys- piece of Satan reserved for slaves and quince Pie, .Quinces are prepared' er will expand and so afford relief, tical, The "mind" they had "in ruffians, and by the Jewish law laid in the came way as for quince mar- Paraffin oil is excellent for water- Christ" Wei: it perpetual heavenly- ,uncles the special curs° of God --that m•tiade. Make the past, and 1100 the proofing • ttiteheri flour,♦. Apply it mindedness: lot this reign also in,was to be the foal lest of bis oberld- me .pleLes, Fill them with the 11iar-1 :old, with a eat rag, and it tvilnAry their relations with one another. But ence. malarle; cover with 1dd „f peel.? and I instantly. - the only way of attaining this is by! 0. Highly exelied -- Literally, 1 1cc, Quiuco 131°8 made in this ways When yeti (;'et anything in your•; Christ's living over again lit 118 his, "eueetrexalted," like "superconquer" with the canned variety are excellent, rye tin n"1 rul, it, but, if possible,, human life of utter ob°dlence. Bence in Atom, 8. 37 --favorite types with 7111/1111 the whinier when frtrhle are pluege th • eye inti, water, winking the significant addition of It us, and , Paul. We have allowed Nietzsche to seam.. When the eye to full, The speck Will the muster stroke l of the. appended translate Paul above`, The name— During Pie. Cut your prom? in two probably haat emt. - I piclure of that st.ipreme life an emelt.: Coinpare Acts 1, 12. The supremacy Ulankets and bedding well, ni never ge ing n ear r m tc and fresh butter made, but the delica- the dish in which bulbs are planted; processes: it refers to the heart, and, Nazarene men found that uncondi- gangs of coal -black demons working desired peace, They cannot move A Suggestion. cies that were alto result would to- ;t wkll keep the water from turning not the head, Itional self-effacement was the path away in the bowels of a ship at a south to Paris, they cannot move west �'Irs, Scrapp—I've talked to you da ratjf best t ' sour. 3. The cure of partisanship and to empire such as the world never temperature "of 120 degrees; When, to Calais, they cannot move north or till I'm tired to a frazzle, east into Russia, they cannot move Scrapp—Why not shut u1 for re - south against the Italians, they (=- faults. pairs? not advance against the intrench•• Very ('onsiderafo, mentg which have made the Allies ters in the squadron, you appreciate masters of the situation in Macedonia Mistress—I shall be very lonely, the importance of the steam -driven and able to choose their own time for I,rtdget, if you leave Inc. Fans to the furnaces and boiler -rooms, striking. Bridget -Dunt: worry, mum. I'll second occurrence, standing at the , of the atonement doctrine, For that The supply of air comes down through Thus the pressure is being applied not go until ye have a houseful of end of the verse in the Greek, may' Perfect Man has now taken up again largo water -tight trunks which are and will continue until all the fight is 1 company. possibly..lie transferred to verse 5. 1 all the power's of the very Gori, and continued right up to the weather squeezed out of the enemy. ti, 'Which was—It seems impossible he can live his life of obedience over deck, armored gratings being provided Torres-Vedres gave Napoleon his To wash hair brushes mix together t0 get "which WRs' Out -of the Greek, again in his disciple& heart. Yeti at the protective deck, first smaeltltlg blow,. which. was fol- a tablespgonful of ilgllid ammonia For ventilating engine -roams large lowed . by expulsion from the Penin -1 and about a quart of water•, Da electric fans are employed. So, too, sola, the retreat from Moscow, the not wet the back of thee Uru sh. Rinse . the coal bunkers have to be ventilated, abdication at Fontahreblcu and Wa. m dear cold water. owing to the gas which the coal gives terloo. Now comes every indication 1 - Milk will burn quite easily, but off, This gas when mixed with air irrevocable destiny is being worked this can be rectified in the following forme an explosive; so, in order to out 'Fire Allies have been slow but way: Pour the boiling milk into a prevent the possibility of injury to they have been sure, anti the ;;rip will clean piteler and stand 01 a basin of men cm ship, a supply crud exhaust- strengthen as time passes, on land, on cold 309101. torrid suite cool, pipe are fitted in such 0 manner as to sca. For nine dish r,ts sew two little cause a current of air, salt i,ags togethd•r, They will last .. `-- Other things are as scarc0 n:s the brags` thou tit° ordiniu•y ing of llwing th+, whiter it is hest to air teeth of a lien ---a roosters for in cL ,secleth, etc, Fh,iu tangs also stance. t-„tic+� ex1 a1lenl; r1+1, D°r•s, vanity is to be always looking for saw, Obedient—To the Father, as in too, you commence to realize that un - other people's virtues and our own Heb. 5,8. It is in this perfect human less the furnaces receive their. re - faults. This „does not Mean blindness obedience offered to God for the first quired draught the speed -of the battle- ship drops to below that of her sis- to our successes, if we are mindful time hi history, and crowned by to set them all down to the indwelling death itself, which was accepted he - Christ ! cause to avoid it would have been 4. The word each of you, on its apostasy, that Paul finds the kernel 1!