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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..