HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1916-3-30, Page 3,, - �Z�S�hI�C�eamer
Dainty Dishes.
Foamy Sauce. -Cream one-half
cup butter with one cup powdered
Sugar, add one teaspoon vanilla and
one-fourth teaspoon lemon extract,
and just'be$ore serving add three-
fourths cup of boiling water and stif-
fly beaten white of; one egg.
Cocoa Cottage Pudding.-Crea
one-fourth cup butter and one cup au
gar, ad beaten yolks of two eggs an
beat until very light, Add three
fourths cup milk alternately with on
and three-fourths cups sifted flee
mixed and sifted again with two tea
spoons baking powder. Stir in one
third cup 0000a, beat well, flavor wit
two teaspoons vanilla, fold in stiff'
beaten -whites of eggs and bake in but
tered small' pans.
Potato Au Gratin. -Peel and slit
raw white potatoes very thin. Pu
in layers in buttered pudding dish an
sprinkle each layer with salt, peppe
and bits of butter. When all the op
tatoes have ben used cover with cu
of hot water or milk and sprinkt
top laxer of potatoes with cracke
crumbs mixed with salt and bits o
butter, Bake, covered, for one -hal
hour, then uncover and brown.
Rock Cookies. -Cream one cup but
ter, one and one-half cups white su
gar and one-half cup brown sugar
Add three eggs, well beaten; one
quarter cup water with one teaspoo
soda dissolved in it, thee -quarters
pound of chopped and seeded raisins
ens pound of chopped walnuts, one
half teaspoon nutmeg, one teaspoon
cinnamon, one-quarter teaspoon o
salt:and three and one-half cups floe
Dough. must be quite stiff. Dip with
spoon on tins quite fax apart.
Cream Tea Biscuit. -One cup thick
sweet cream, two teaspoon'
tartar, three-fourths teaspoon soda
one-half teaspoon salt, one and one
half cups bread flour. Sift soda
cream of tartar and salt with one cu
Hour. Beat into cream enough ad
ditionul flour so that dough can b
handled easily. Roll to one-half inch
thickness cut with small round cut
ter, and bake about twelve minute
in hot oven. This makes two dozen
small biscuits.
Spanish Rice. Wash one cup ric
thoroughly and cook in plenty of boil
ing water. Drain in colander; put
throe or four slices of bacon through
food chopper, then lay in frying pan
and fry until light brown. Also pu
through Chopper one good-sized onion
two 'cloves,. garlic And one lar
green pepper, after removing seeds
and white fiber. Add onion, one cup
stewed tomato, garlic and pepper to
bacon and cook thoroughly, seasoning
with salt, pepper and one-half tea-
+ spoon chill powder. When sauce is
done; add rice and one-third cup grat-
ed cheesc;,.cook until blended and
serve.
Potato Loaf. -Cold potatoes; .ore
onion; parsley and thyme; salt and
Pepper; a little butter or dripping.
'Mush the potatoes, boil the onion for
15 minutes and chop very finely. Chop
the parsley and thyme to a dust, melt
the butter and mix all together, Add
the seasoning. Heap on a greneed
tin in the shape of an oval mound,
brush over with beaten egg and bake
until quite hot and well browned on
the ouside. Slip carefully onto a
clean hot dish and serve. This mix-
ture may be made into small individ-
ual mounds or little rissoles, which
are very good' and look well when
served round n meat dish.
Orange Bread. -Delicious recipe
for fancy broad is the following: Dis-
solve ore -fourth yeast cake, broke in-
to pieces, in one-fourth cup of luke-
warm water; and add one egg well
beaten, one tablespoon melted lard,
one tablespoon salt, two tablespoonsar
sug, grated rind two oranges and
three-fourths cup orange juice. Beat
thoroughly, using egg -beater. Add
flour to make of right consistency to
move, amount required being about
three cups, and beat until smooth.
Turn on slightly floured board and d mallkneamall elastic. Cover and let
rise over -night, In the morning shape,
put into slightly buttercll parrs, cover,
let rise !ewe more ,and bales in hot
even. Dad fresh, Fine sand
lviel, bread for afternoon teas,
m
d
e
t11
To insure smooth cornstarch pud-
ding you must stir the cornstarch and
e milk constantly while they are cook -
t Ing•
d No baked potato will be light and
fluffy if it has to wait to be eaten,
✓ It should go straight from the oven
to the table.
e - Do not allow the top of the range
✓ to become red hot. It will cause it to
warp, and a red-hot stove always
f means a cool oven.
To remove dust from steel, cover
it with sweet oil and let it remain
covered for a day. Then rub it with
- a lump of fresh lime.
All small pieces of laundry soap
- can bo put into the boiler in which.
n the clothes are boiled. In this way
they are not wasted.
Boiled or roasted meat that is to
- be cut cold should be wrapped in a
f
r.
fore frying mash; it will prevent the
fat from sputtering and frying.
Cotton crepe is a good material for
children's underwear, because it does
not require careful' laundering.
An old piano stool is very good for
a sewing. machine seat, because It
can be raised and lowered at will.
Hard. boiled eggs should be cooked
20 minutes to be easily digested.
Less cooking makes them tough.
In mixing fruit or nuts into a cake
they should be aded before the flour.
They will then be evenly distributed.
A square of wire netting, bound
and mounted on four little feet, is a
good thing for the cooling of cakes,
clean moist cloth. It will then slice
thin without breaking.
A photographer's paste can ho made
of ordinary starch not cooked so much
as for stiffening. If you need a easto
',in a hurry, it is a good thing to re-
ef member.
Fertilizing Roses: -Save your coffee
grounds, dry them out and put around
' your roses with equal parts of soot.
Ir It is a good fertilizer and insecticide.
Cut your lard into small pieces and
e run through the meat chopper before
rendering, and you will have almost
all lard and very few cracklings when
through cooking.
Apple' pie made with a layer of
finely shaped cheese over the season-
o ed apple, and baked in the usual way
- is liked by many who are fond of
cheese served with apple pie,
Cooking utensils ,should never be
allowed to dry before they are wash-,
t ed. After drying they are ;twice as
, hard to clean, and the chances are
e they will not be thoroughly cleaned.
A new way to cook cabbage. Cook
some new cabbage delicately by keep-
ing it under boilirig water for 40
minutes only; cut it up, season well.
Cover with crumbs and butter and
hake. brown.
When cooking cauliflower always
a
Hlousehel(d Hints.
- All fruit jars that have beet used
5110111(1 he sterilized before they are!
used again.
]rood cnolced in vessels that nee
not thoroughly whets 1 cannot have
fl
a good wet'.n
Housewives e.hould regard nuts,
raisins anal dz'to,, nuc i'node rather than -
luxuriee.
' A:l soon ae the spring open:; 1;,:-
tlea pet 1•nseh11slu•s all the soapsnnle
yon ran conte by.
A.n 1 , n : Lind wh•rh Cur be fa';tf ))
ed to I h iru , i i, bo..1'd- 1:.41 1115111 help
on ire sins; day.
Never titan out a bailed pudtling th)
minute 11 10 done. 11 is very 81.t to
break rf Ibis is dour,
Iloihd u... covered ith krat.ul
r 1•
ite;n n,) ha Ind brows 10 Lha 0,011
mtih •s n 13,01 Inmai (sell dish.
'Vega table soups depend hlrr;::;y to
their 1.. r.rry. hin m 1 1 i1' r..11 t, !1 leak
or creno that h.; in ib0ln,
bit a 1U-00 (1out' 111tcl 1:1:2''1 1)!.
1 place the vegetable in the pan with
the flower downwards and pass a•
meat skewer through each side. In
theis way it can be lifted out when
cooked without becoming broken,
I To remove water stains from varn-i
ished furniture, pour olive cit into a
dish and scrape a little white wax
into it; this mixture should be heated
until the wax melts, then rubbed
sparingly on the stains. Finally, rub
the surface with a soft linen rag until
it is restored to brilliancy,
at, _- lit
SHUN GAUDY I3IRI) HOUSES. i
Semesters Avoid Shelter Painted in
Bright Colors
Many people who have built haul-!
some birch houses and painted them
neatly in some bright color have
been disappointed to find that the
birds gave them a wide berth and
refused to become tenants.
Next year make the houses out of
old weather stained wood or paint
them some dull color, as nearly as
possible like that of the wood in old
decayed trees, and your labors will
move 1rl.ely be successful, Mnrtms, v
wrens and bluebirds particularly
have an aversion to new bright wood;
they prefer nesting places as much as i•possible_ limo those they find in the
,hoods... It
The bird lover who wank' attract e
birch; to his houses must build to Fn' e
his lnospectve tnum111 rsthe • thanj 1
his own fancies, ! p
.,H.. _ .. !o
THE SUNDAY SCHQQL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,:
APRIL 2,
Second Quarter. Lesson L --Conversion
of Saul-A9ts 9. 1-31.. Golden
Text: 1 Tim. 1: 15.
Verse 1. Threatening, by which he
"strove to make them blaspheme"
(Acts 26, 11); slaughter, when he
failed, as the imperfect tense in that
passage suggests he generally did
The high priest-Caiaphas, whos
adroit subservience to the Roman
kept him in office till A.D. 87: he wa
!the Jewish "Vicar of Bray." 2. B
imperial decree, the high priest an
Sanhedrin had juisdiction over Jew
in foreign cities to the same exten
as they had in Jerusalem. The Way
-More fully "the Way of the Lord,'
"of God," "of salvation." Often i
Acts, as here, it has become a tech
nical term standing alone, appropri
ate to a religion which consisted in
la pilgrim's progress to God along "a
true and living way" (compare John
14. 6).
8. Paul's own story must be care-
fully compared, in Acts 22. 6-12 and
26. 12-19. The surface differences are
ab=urdly ea•v r., 11,, • rs tall...
had been writing fiction, he would
have had the sense to be obviously
consistent. The repetition is due to
the special purposes with which the
story is told. Shone -The verb means
literally lightened. That the other
men knew of nothing but a lightning
flash and peal of thunder is likely
enough: it was only in Saul's case
that they shaped themselves into a
vision and a voice. A light -"Above
the brightness of the sun" (Acts 26.
13) at noon (also Acts 22. 6).
1 4. He fell, with the others (Acts
26. 14), who, however, quickly recover-
ed (verse 7). Saul -The form of the
name is not Graecized at alt So in
Acts 26. 14 the voice is "in the He-
brew (that is, Aramaic) language."
The doubling of the name is quite
characteristic of Jesus. Compare his
"Martha, Martha," "Jerusalem, Je-
•rusaleen," and rather similarly "Ver-
ily, verily," "yea, yea." Me -Compare
Luke 10, 16; also John 15. 20.
5. Who art thou? -This is con-
sistent with the probable fact that
Saul had seen Jesus on earth, and
joined in the "persecution"•which had
its climax on Calvary. He might
well fail at first to see that the glor-
ious Face was really the surae as that
"
one "marred beyond any man"son
which he had looked "with what bitter
triumph" so lately.
6. It Acts 26. 16-18 the Lord's
words are expanded, by incorporating
his own commentary received by: Paul,
in his own within the days of darkness
and heart:searching. Must -It is
deeply significant that this great
little word begins Paul's new life.
Even as persecutor he had followed
what he thought to be duty (Acts
26.9). for him truly the "stern daugh-
ter of the voice of God." The (Greelc)
concordance will strikingly show how
the human life of Jesus was ruled
from first (Luke 2. 49) to last (Luke
17, 25, etc.) by the must,
7. Hearing the sound (margin)-
The noun is the same as voice in verse
4, but in a different case( which in
this context is significant. They
thought it had thundered, like the
multitude in John 12. 29.
9. Three days -Till the appointed
time for a resurrection.
10 Behold. I -A literal rendering of
the Hebrew idiom, used by Luke from
his fondness for Old Testament
phrase.
e
s
s
rid
5
t
GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO,
n paean poet, injured in an aeroplane
accident.
11. Straight -There is still a street
in this ancient city which goes straight
through from the eastern gate.
17. Laying -A favorite Jewish
symbolic action, adopted early in
Chritianity. It suggested to the mind
-as it does among all sorts of poonle
in all times -the passage of a quality
or gift from one man to another. j
Thus it could signify the transference
of sin to a victim, as in the ritual of
the Scapegoat. In this case it sug-
gested that Holy Spirit, manifestly
possessed by Ananias, would pass to
Saul; and the symbol helps the -de -i
dormant of an appropriating faith, 1
Saul -Again the Aramaic form, The1
Lorcl-Saul. had thus addressed hint
verse 5).
18. Scalos-One of Luke's nodical
eros, As sight came to his physical
yes, his spiritual being was ilhnminat-'
d by the Holy Spirit, and he r°cog-'
bard haw wrong he marl been in op -
using Christ. Was baptized, -An-
thea symbol that helps faith, The j
rominetco of these symbols it not
nconnected with the temperament of
people who were specially susceptible
to such appeals of the external. Even
among Western people they have
great' effectiveness, and the Contin
ued use of them justifies itself by this
fact. There are those to whom -they
do not appeal and this purely prac
tical reason for, using symbols does
not make them essential to salvation
AIR REPRISALS.
•
LITTLE GIRL IS
REGIMENT'S DARLING
INTERESTING INCIDENT OF THE
GREAT WAR.
Wee Waif Adopted by British Sol-
diers Played In Safety on
Parapet.
The story of how a little girl, found
in the firing line, was adopted by a
British regiment has been told by a
soldier back from the front to a tra-
veller who relates his experiences in
the Northampton, (England), Daily
Echo,
"About eight months ago," he said,
"the company were trudging along for
the first line of trenches when one of
the men -his name was Philip Impey
-found• the child in a ditch by the
roadside. No one could go back, and the
soldiers took the girl into the trench
and made her as comfortable as pos-
sible. In a few days she had recover-
ed from the ill effete of, the wet and
exposure and was running up and
- down the trench, the pet of all the
officers and men,
I "One day a bomb nearly filled in
- part of the trench. When the men
had recovered from the shock the ser
• geant-major asked a man to go and
j see that the child, was safe. They had
left her asleep in a snug corner, and
there they found her, still sleeping.
Offered Chocolates from Germans.
"The German trenches were about
e 150 yards off, and the level, open
space between the two lines wasn't
healthy No man who valued his life
would go there unnecessarily, or
recklessly put his head above the par-
- apet. One morning, to their horror,
the men, through the periscope, saw
the child standing above the trench
on the German side. Cries came from
the enemy, but they were not hostile.
' The sight of the girl little more than
an infant, had touched their senti-
mental side, and she had offers of
chocolates and invitations to go and
see them.
"After that the girl went over the
parapet quite often. She was as safe
in that danger zone as if she had been
behind the lines. No German would
harm, her, and once she went close up
to the first line trench."
The eight days trench duty ended,
the little daughter of the company
was taken back and was not allowed
to get between the lines again. She
was taken charge of by the company
storekeeper, who had children of his
own and was mightily proud of his
skill in dressing and undressing the
child and his strictness about the
morning bath. All the men made a
fuss of- her, and she of them. The
boys in khaki are her playmates and
she goes up to any Tommy with a
smile of complete trust.
Prof. J. H. Morgan Says Britain
Should Retaliate in Kind.
Professor J. H. Morgan expresses
the view that a concerted raid by th
airmen of the Allies on undefended
places in Germany' is legitimate. Sucl
raids are justified and salutary, be
cause they would hit the civil popula
tion of Germany hard, and because
Zeppelin raids are largely, if not
principally, designed to gratify the
civil population of Germany with sen-
sations not only of military prowess
but of sanguinary delight. Inspired
articles in German newspapers be-
tray a ghoulish satisfaction in the
feeling that the war is being carried
into every village and every home.
The only way to deal with this is to
convince the civil population of Ger-
many that their lust for slaughter
will recoil on their own infatuated
heads.
The article continues: -Far be it
from me to advocate that we, or our
Allies, should we get .the chance, prac-
tise the same barbarities on the en-
emy as they have practised upon us.
God forbid! But I do spy that the
consideration of a military operation,
designed nob to avenge the Zeppelin
raids, but to put an end to them,
should not be obscured or deprecated
by a misplaced tenderness for people
who have shown anything but tender-
ndss themselves. Until we realize
what the French have realized long
ago, that the German people are bes-
tial people, whose only conception of
international law is `heads I win,
tails you lose," we shall be flghting
with our hands tied behind our backs.
I confess that Canon Satday's solici-
tude for "the whole world which is
looking on" leaves me very cold. The
greater part of the civilized world is
already fighting on -our side.
Evidence has come into my hands
quite recently which goes to show
that the cruelty of the German troops
to our men, ferocious as it was in
the early stages of the war, is even
!the
ferocious now. The French un-
derstand the import of these things.
The more I see of that great nation
the more profoundly do I admire it,
!and in nothing more than this, that
the most idealistic nation in the world
refuses to be under any illusions as
to the character of the enemy with
which they and we have to deal, The
Frenclunan is generous, but he is
above all clear sighted. I sometimes
fear that our own idealism is only a
form of stupidity. This in a time of
deadly peril. Things are what they
are, awl will he what they will be.
Why, then, in the words of the wise
man, should be deceive ourselves?
Let us by all means do nothing which
offends our self-respect, but let ns 1
look facts sternly in the face.
Garden on a Table. i P
'u
Cn' does not tuunlly think of roomst
en a flat in connection with any form!
of gtirrlening, pays the Loudon Chron-1
left, a 11 the more remarkable, then,;
is rho lint of 1 e getallle' which 0 friend'
of th writer grew la"t 809 ,..,3)11011 aj.
table in front of a window. '111e li6:t1
included T,'r ech board, lettuee, 'rad -I
isbe., and even carrot and omens.
A11 'these plants vire grown in jloe,1
fart-cbr,nchnat, crops of mu;cterd- and'
r•res.t were p104100ed nn pieces nf!
dram flannel stretched )1,•rei,4 lhc'
,:idc r1 ol.' :t box. In addiclnn, (''911101'1
101811ie0 of tynt :.c,r a s 101.••3' obtained :
in the fnllcaving manner \ penny
lee eId 01 the .mall vats herb-, nn<l;
11•, late .l i' Ow dant Manta] 11 pole •
then penned in' howl; e!' t e.r,'.
:.1.:1 1 •;ot than quit," ..soli tlnr',
1.r t t nit .: ntad in'grow, )bel 11111 '': h , .1 ; , ! l:.
lateen -.1, �nt vane nicked n'1" tis re- alas the !Ilia 13! '11
1 "'alas
shoo in ]ch111,i'?'"
Mineral Output of B.C.
The annual mineral output of Brit -
jell Columbia is valued at approxi-
mately
pproxi-
nr t ,ely $30,000,000, The figures for
1913 exceeded that amount, while the
product last year was some $4,000,-
000 short of that of the previous year.
The decrease in the value of minerals
Produced in the province last year, es
compared with 1918, was due to the
European war which disturbed the
metal markets t1,,' ,, feat the World
Pet in the Hospital
A month after she was found the
men thought that she ought to have
a name. Philip Impel, who found her,
was now dead and they gave her his
surname, with Phyllis as the nearest
approach to Philip. After she had
been six months with the company the
sergeant -major was wounded and
came to a hospital in England. The
girl crime with him and stayed in
hospital, too, the pet of patients and
nurses.'
She has now been taken by her
adopted "daddy" -the sergeant -major
to Bedford, where she will have a
woman's care and still be attached to
the regiment.
The parentage of the child and how
she came to be deserted in the ditch
at LI. Bassee remain an unsolved my-
stery. She was too young to know
her name or to give any account of
herself. There is a suggestion of
terror stricken flight in the fact that
she is afraid of a German helmet. For
the khaki and becapped soldier she
has an affection, but if a Tommy pots
n helmet 'on she shrinks away as in
fear.
Dim Starlight a Blessing.
If the entire vault ofheaven were
covered with innumerable strata of
stars, one behind the other, as with
a widespread starry canopy, and light
were undiminished in its passage
through space, scientists say the sun
would be distinguishable only by its
spots, the moon would appear as a
dm'k dish,
She Understoed Children.
Applicant -No ma'am, I could not
work where there's children,
- '
Madam -But we advertised for a
1 girl who understood children.
Applicant --Oh, I understand 'em
Ma'am, That's why I wouldn't work
where they are.
i But an heiress never has cause to
doubt, her'buel,atd's love for her,
money.
husband --"if a man steak ---no
:matter what it is --.he will live to re-; A
1;001 iL" Wifee-• Din•ing our court- h
ship you Used to rtteal kisses from 1 o
roe." ilushrinrl "ih'ell, 7011 heard fr
what 1 said." id
"Are you going to 11131r'S Mr.'' ..
\ I Simple?" "No, 1 think ne l 13tlter
is not ::at.isi�•r•t 01)11 h. 1,0010e, motherv
truly, 1'01 fed up wall the Alley! 'Sleet. if 1 itiu't do, on't la e. h'•. ^ , 1 A r 1 1111013 -
0030 old li,ly'it a,:ntr along• and teak me 'Wil bin' 1r.'., rare- b n11' '0'; ,_ ,
hasn't ;el .4..
."Two
lit .4."
LUXURIES ARE NOT
WANTED IN BRITAIN
ALTHOUGH THE COUNTRY IS
PROSPEROUS.
Shortage of Ships Will Require Pro-
hibition of the Import of
Many Things.
A far-reaching Order -in -Council,
which will totally .prohibit importa-
tion into the United Kingdom of a
large number of articles which come
under the general heading of luxuries,
will be issued by the British Govern-
ment at an early date.
Among the things whichwillbe
placed under the ban will be auto-
mobiles for private use, musical in-
strumenta, cutlery of all kinds, hard-
ware, yarns, chinaware, fancy goods
and soaps. The order will apply
equally to all countries, including the
British dominions. and colonies.
Workers Well, Off.
Walter Runciman, President of the
Board of Trade, in outlining the above,
said there had never been greater act-
ivity in the larger industries, that
wages were higher than ever before,
and that the percentage of unemploy
ment had never been so small in the
history of the country. The only
trades relatively quiet are the build-
ing, linen, and some of the luxury -
producing trades, bub even in these
the wofkers have found employment
elsewhere, or enlisted. Longer hours
are being worked 'in nearly all the
trades, and it is estimated that this
overtime represents an increase of
431, per cent. in the number of persons
employed. A few firms have had to
shut down, but among the active firms
only seven per cent. of their machin-
ery was idle during December. This
is a better record than for peace times.
Wages Increased.
About 5,500,000 people have receiv-
ed raises, and the increase in wages
has been roughly a million pounds a
week. An example of the rise in
wages may be seen in the case of the
seamen. Before the war they got
about four pounds ten shillings a
month and their keep. Now they re-
ceive between eight and eight pounds
ten shillings per month. Exceptional
men in the engineering trades, work-
ing overtime, have earned from five
to ten pounds and over per week.
One toolmaker in Coventry, by great
efforts, made more than sixteen
pounds in a week,
Employment for Women.
NEWS' FROM ENGLAND
NEWS ET MAIL ABOUT JOII
DULL AND BI8 PEOPLE,
Occurrences In the Land Thai
Reigns Supreme In the Cem,
menial World,
Mrs. Moore, of Torrington place,
Plymouth, has just celebrated her
106th birthday,
Every master of military age at
Rugby School has offered himself for
military service.
There were 359' new cases of moa -
files in Birmingham last week, against
129 the previous week.
Guildford and West Surrey Agricul.
Lural Association have abandoned
their summer show this year.
During the last six weeks the
wholesale price of English new -laid
eggs has dropped 40 per cent.
Reading Jail is now occupied en-
tirely by Germans, including civi-
lians of the professional classes:
For the purpose of economy, it is
proposed to close Highgate Public
Library. It will enable $2,000 a year
to be saved.
Lord Tennyson has received offi-
cial intimation that his youngest
son, the Hon. Harold Tennyson, R.N.,
- has been killed.
The Nottingham Iace trade is en-
joying a remarkable spell of prosper-
ity and manufacturers parrot keep
pace with the orders.
Mr. Freeman, parish clerk at Sys -
ton, near Leicester, has just retired
after 57 years' service, His ances-
tors held the office for 200 years,
Northumberland miners have de-
cided to oppose the introduction of
female labor at the pit head, and re-
commend the rearrangement of male
labor.
The annual show of the Ormskirk
and Southport Agricultural Society,
which has been held for 60 years
without a break, will not be held.
this year.
Licenses have been granted by the
Kent Education Committee to 247
boys of 12 and upwards to enable
them bo work on farms for not more
than 48 hours a week.
Warwickshire Education Commit-
tee are considering the closing of 15
small village schools and the trans-
ference of the children to other
schools, thus saving $10,500.
Dr. Gibson, assistant medical of-
ficer, reporting bo Dover Health
Committee on the serious outbreak
of scarlet fever, attributed the ex-
tension of the disease to the cinema.
The British War Relief Association,
of which Major Louis Livingstone
Seaman, M.D., is president, shipped
its one thousandth case of supplies
for wounded soldiers in France and
Belgium last week.
In spite of the war the Birming-
ham overseers report that the total
sum collected on account of the
rates during the first 19 days of this
year was $1,473,970 or $150,000 more
than in the same period of last year.
URGES T.I. S. TO ENTER THE WAR.
Sympathies of Republic Should 13e On
Side of Freedom.
It is estimated that the number of
women who have been substituted for
men in the metal trades is 77,000, in
the leather trades 14,000, and in the
miscellaneous trades 274,000. Besides
these, many are in the Government
employ, an increasingly large body
are in commercial houses, and a great
number are employed in the dilution
of labor and in agricultural work.
More women are needed badly on the
farms. Two hundred thousand could
be used in the south of England alone.
Women are performing every kind
of work which is not too heavy for
their strength. In one firm they are
making electric motors; in another
they are doing all the work in manu-
facturing two-inch howitzer shells, in-
cluding the testing of them.
When Peace Comes.
"On the return of peace," said IYIr.
Runciman, "the men will leave the
army gradually. There will be a dis-,
appearance of overtime work and a
reduction in the number of hours of i
work, which will call for the employ-
ment of more people. The whole ques- 1
tion hinges largely on the restoration!
of our export trade and tonnage to
cope with it."
3,
7,000 LOST THEIR PARENTS.
Homeless Children in Serbia Placed
in Asylums.
The saddest result of tate war in
Serbia is the large number of chil-
dren who lost their parent.;, a corre-
spondent writes from Nish. Nearly
seven thousand waifs, whose ages
range from a few weeks to fourteen
years, have been gathered up by the
German, Austro-Hungarian and Bul-
garian troops and are now taken care
of in hospitals and temporary asy-
lums.
The fathers and mothers of many
of the little ones are undoubtedly
dead, but a majority of the children
simply were separated from their
parents on the flight to mountains
of Albania..
Nearly six hundred of t'he children
have died ih the camps and asylums
M which they found temporary Homes.
---,a--
Wonderful Artificial Arms.
Two MAI,types of artificial armswith hands are shown at the Paris
cademy of Sciences. One is for
cavy . work, with fingers line elaws
f a lobster. The other has artificial
ngers, enabling the hand to repro- I
1100 closely the actien of natural 511-•
ors. Successful experin'ents' more
made. in the presence of members' of
he academy 117 two mein, each of
hole had lost an arm, One of thein'
awed through a beam of wood with-
diffis ell, and tine other played n
1'101111. _ l
Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president
emeritus of Harvard University, in
an article in the New York Times,
says:
The American people -of all the
various stocks, English, Scotch, Irish,
German, Austro-Hungarian, Polish,
Slavic, Swiss, French, Dutch, Flem-
ish, Scandinavian, Finnish, Russian,
Italian, Greek and Syrian -have now
had ample opportunity to make up
their minds, if they have given atten-
timh to the subject, what the gigan-
tic war is about, in what spirit or
temper it is conducted on each of the
two sides, and what the desires or
hopes of the several belligerent na-
tions are concerning the settlement
when peace comes.
Relying on accomplished facts and
revealed tendencies, thinking Ameri-
cans have concluded that the great
combat is between autocratic gov-
ernment and constitutional govern-
ment, between rule by persons and
classes commissioned by God or some
Church, and rule by persons elected
by the people to be governed between
political systems which exercise a
strong centralized authority Duet• the
individual as free as possible.
In such a combat the sympathies
and interests of all America, North
Central and South, are necessarily on
the side of freedom.
I1 these are the opinions and judg-
ments of the great majority of the
American people oe the conduct of
the war and its rightful results, have
the people any corresponding litter-
osts to maintain or duties to perform?
In view of the unprecedented horrors
and destructions of the p2eseet war
it is undoubtedly the interest of tho
Americans to protect themselves at all
costs from invasion by Germany; sup-
ported by any possible allies, even
the risk be very small and the'
price of insurance high. The prompt,
est, surest arch most advantageous
method of accomplishing that result
is entrance by the. Vetted States
into a permanent offensive and de
fensive alliance with Great Britt&
std France to mei-Main the freedom
of the seas for these allies muter nil
circumstances, anal ea oppose ethnic
by sea on any ono of them.
It is time for the deepest rooted
and . strongest of republics to hrdlue
direct help to harassed and bleeding
Prance and Great llri1.,1..