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The Brussels Post, 1916-6-15, Page 3sow e er Eggs Out of the Usual Form, Eggs With .Mushroonis.-Slice the canned mushrooms<into halves: stew 10 minutes in a little butter seasoned with pepper an salt and a. very little water. Drain, put the mushrooms in, ap]e dish, break enough egg to cover them; pepper, salt and scatter bits of . butter over them, -strew with bread crumbs and bake until the eggs set; serve in the dish. Pineapple Omelet. -Cook . togeth:r two tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour, add a cupful of grated pineap- ple, sugar and salt to taste. Add the well beaten yolks of 'live eggs. Fold in the stiffly beaten whites of five eggs, cook two minutes in a buttered pan; dry in the oven, fold, turn into a hot platter and duse with powdered sugar. Serve with grated pineapple. Jam Omelet. -Feat the yolks of five eggs light with a tablespoonful of powdered sugar; into this 'stir a teaspoonful of cornstarch, dissolved in three tablespoonfuls of milk, then the stiffly beaten whites. Cook in a frying pan until set; spread with strawberry jam, fold and serve as dessert. Egg Timbales. -Beat five eggs slightly, mix with one cupful of milk, season with salt and pepper, add two cupfuls of chopped cooked ham, put into buttered custard cups and bake in a pan of water until firm. Serve garnished with curly parsley. Egg Jelly. -Half a pint of water, half an ounce of gelatine, the rind of half a lemon, two eggs and two ounces of sugar. Place the gelatine and water in an enameled pan, add the thin yellow rind of the lemon and let them soak until the gelatine is soft. Strain the lemon juice into the pan, add the sugar, bringing to boiling point, stirring all the time, till the gelatine is perfectly dissolved. Cool slightly, add the well -beaten yolks and cool till the yolks thicken, then,str"ain into a Iarge basin. When the jelly is nearly set add the whip- ped whites of eggs anti whisk all to- gether till jellied. Serve in a glass dish. Egg Curry Balls. -After stewing a chicken mix four hard-boiled eggs, some finely grated bread crumbs, fresh butter and a little curry pow- der, moistening it with the well -beat- en raw yolks of two eggs. Farm into dainty balls and drop into the stew- ed -chicken about five minutes before removing it from the fire. A Relish for Tea. -Hard boil six eggs, remove the shells and cut the eggs into halves crosswise and care- fully take out the yolks. Mash to a paste with a little finely minced cold fowl, season to taste with salt and pepper art'] add one tablespoonful of minced parsley, one teasponful each of melted butter and made mustard, and a dash of cayenne pepper. When thoroughly :mixed fill into the whites. Heat a cupful of fowl stock, season with salt, pepper and atablespoonful of minced parsley, add three table- spoonfuls of cream mixed with one tablespoonful of cornstarch. Let boil two minutes and pier over the eggs. Cover closely and set in the bven for five minutes. Serve at once. Orange Omelet. -Beat the yolks and whites separately of five eggs, com- bine and season; add five tablespoon- fuls of cream, in which has been dis- , two tablespoonfuls of corn- starch. Pour into a buttered omelet pan and cook slowly on top of the stove until the egg is "set," then place pan inside the oven to finish cooking. Spread one-half of the omelet with orange preserves and serve on a hot platter. Chicken on the Nest. -To melee this nest carefully hollow out a large sponge cake; prepare someshredded gelatine by soaking in coldwater till moderately soft; mix a little spinach juice with it to make it green, then over the cake, outside and in, with it. Fill either with the bought candy eggs or those molded of fudge in egg shells. Place a toy chicken on the eggs anti present each' guest with an egg at the conclusion of the meal.' Curried Eggs. -Fry an onion in but- ter; add milk and a teaspoonful of curry powder. Cut hard boiled eggs into halves; arrange on a dish; pour the curry cream mixture over them a.nd put boiled rice around the dish. A tiny sprig of parsley put between the eggs gives the dish an inviting .air. To six eggs use a cupful of milk and two teaspoonsfuls of flour or corn - sleuth; if more eggs are used make the dressing accordingly. tee soup. -Two pints of chicken stock, . a cupful of cream, one tea- spootifui of sale, a saltspoonful of popper; pour ,it boiling hot on the beaten yolks of four eggs, diluted with half a cupful of cream. • Re. heat anis serve at once in bouillon cepa,. Household Hints. Alcohol will dissolve medicine stains Rely on your boys and let them know that you de so. Clean cut steel buckles. and phis With powdered pumice stone, Cigar or good cigarette ash makes an excellent polish for silver Paper bags make very good cover- ings for ,lams with food in there The good housekeeper goes over her food supplies every day to avoid, waste In using canned vegetables for cream soups the liquor should be dis- carped Thick blotting paper under doilies will prevent hot dishes from mark- ing the table Worn table napkins are useful for drying the lettuce when preparing it for salad Blotting paper saturated with tur- pentine may be placed in drawers to keep the moths away A child's ten -cent washboard is a convenience in the bathroom for wash- ing out small articles When the man's velvet collar on his coat is soiled rub briskly with alcohol. It will look like new. When the color has been taken out of black goods it may be restored by the application of liquid ammonia. Before wearing your rubbers rub them well with vaseline, Let them remain a few days before using them. If your oven burns food on the bot- tom take your iron stand and put it underyour pan anis it will not burn. The systematic brushing of the hair every night will do much toward keeping the hair clean and glossy. If hot grease is spilled on the tab- le throw cold water on to harden it and ,prevent it from soaking into the wood. Put a cross-stitch in red on tiny children's garments to indicate the middle front, and they will have less trouble in dressing. To clean white buckskin shoes take a small brush and make' a lather of scouring soap; brush lather .thor- oughly into the shoes, and when dry brush off. If eggspooits which have become discolored after using are rubbed with a little common salt, when wash- ing up, the stain will disappear like magic. Kitchen oilcloth wilt last much long- er if pasted on to the floor instead of being tacked; the latter method causes it to wrinkle and to easily crack in consequence. When putting away a silver teapot or one that is not in everyday use place a little stick across the top under the cover. This allows fresh air to get in and prevent mustiness. If a hot water bottle is cracked and leaks, instead of throwing it away, fill it with sand, and put in the oven till thoroughly hot, and it will an- swer the purpose as well as a new one filled with water. Finger nails may be kept clean if, before undertaking a piece of dirty work, the nails are drawn across a cake of soap and filled. Afterward coin -meal is excellent to use with soap for removing grime from the hands. A zinc covered table in the kitchen is a most desirable part of a well- equipped kitchen. A zinc cover can be put on an ordinary pine topped table at a cost of less than two dol- lars, and the saving of work in scrub- bing is worth considering. In papering do not put the new pap- er on top of the old peel off every. bit of the old. Wet the wall with a brush to soften the old paper. Scrape it off, and then put on the new paper; The paste used for wall -paper should be welled cooked. After corks have been used awhile they sometimes bcome so comprssed that the contents of the bottle leak out. This may be remedied by put- ting the corlcs in boiling water and leaving thens until the water cools. They will then fit tightly. REMARKABLE WOMAN. Madame Dieulafoy Fought as a Sold• ler and Explored in Asia. In the sixty-five years of her life, Madame Jane Dieulafoy, who died in Paris, recently, passed through ex- periences which caused her to be re- garded as. one of the most remarkable woven in Fran She was boric in Toulouse, and was not yet out of her 'teens when she was married to Marcel Auguste Dieu- . lafoy, a young engineer, Ile went to the front during the Franco-Prussian wee and took his bride with him, She 'disguised herself as a man in the regulation French uniform and fought by her husband's side, Both returned unscathed from the battlefields. In the '80's her husband; who had estab- lished a high reputation as an engine- er, was commissioned to go • to Asia for archaeological researches, It was a dangerous ,and arduous task, but Madame Dieulafoy elected to accomp- any pini, She spent arid years with him ip Cbaldea and Persia, shar- ing Iris work and perils, They were rewarded by discovering the ruins of the palaces of Darius and Artaxerxes. After returning to France, Madame Dloulathy, who bad become accustom- ed during her travels to the. constant, wearing of man's costume, received authorization to appear in public in this apparel, She wrote a large num- ber of booke cn historical, stchaeo- logical and romantic tlhemes, one of which w,as cited by the French Academy as of especial excellence, Nothing to Brag of. "He's been 35 years in the same position." "". la ought to beashamed sal , 1 Iof him self. Y, Six years at the Weir Office and GREATEST FIGURE IN THE GREAT WAR SIR WILLIAM ROBERTSON'S ME- TEORIC RISE.. Ile "Is Now Spoken of as the Man the I3ritish Nation Wants. I-lere•is something about the man who has succeeded the late Lord Kitchener as British Secretary of War. This article -Ives written before Lord Kitchener's death: Some bums ago an English general feund himself at dinner beside a wo- man for many years famous in Lon- don society. In the course of conver- sation he mentioned, quite naturally, that the last time he had seen her he was standing behind her chair in "uni- form" -not the King's, but a private employer's, and not of khaki, but of plush. He had been a footman before he became a soldier. The general was Sir William Rob- ertson, whose name has been so fre- quently quoted in recent speeches, especially those of Sir Edward Car- son and Mr. Lloyd. George, and who has been advertised elsewhere (not by hie own wish, you may be sure) as the man the nation wants. The story has more meaning than most anecdotes of great men, because ib does illustrate the simplicity and unaffected character of this gifted organizer. He does not, like some self-made and self-educated men, weary alt and sundry with the mir- acles of his success; he does not, like others, shrink from all recollection of humble beginnings. Ile simply ac - SIR WM. ROBER- SON. New British Secretary for War. cepts the fact, as all others, with per- fect balance, Ib is nothing to be ashamed of, but nothing very remark- able after all. Was not Murat a stable lad, Lannes a dyer, and Ney a peasant? Balance -the balance of energies and not of doubts or hesitation -is, in fact, the leading characteristic of Sir William Robertson's character. His face bespeaks, quiet strength, the massive head set on broad, square shoulders, the shaggy eyebrows, the penetrating glance tell equally of mental and physical strength. His ordinary expression is one of pur- poseful gravity, but there is hunter and sympathy in his clear eyes when occasion calls, and he knows how bo. laugh as well as any North -country- man. He belongs, in short, to that plain, simple type, strong and kindly, but forceful in word and deed, com- mon in Northern Britain, , Rise to Fame. -, But though he belongs to the High- land Robertson's, the only mountain clan of Saxon blood, he himself was born fifty-six years ago at Woburn, being the eldest son of Mr. Thomas C. Robertson. After the start in life to which reference has been made, he enlisted in the Royal Scots Greys, and soon attracted attention by his ability, his extreme thoroughness, and his high sense of duty. In 1888 he avas given it commission in the Ord Dra- goon Guards,, and from that time his career hits been one of ever-increas- ing distinction. Yet the man is so modest, so averse from any kind of display, that oubside of the army few had heard of him until he became ono of the greatest figures of the war. Sir William was railway transport officer in the Miranzai and Black Mountain Expeditions on the North- west frontier of India in 1891, and almost immediately after was appoint ed a staff captain and D•A.Q.M.G. in the Intelligence Department, at army headquarters at Simla. He served as. intelligence officer with the Chitral Relief Force in 1895, and then nearly lost his life. His party was bt•eachor- ously attacked and he was left for dead by his escort. He survived, how- ever, his very serious evouirds, and came out with a reputation that en- sured his employment; as D.A.A.G. for intelligence with army headquarters in South Africa during the Boer Wer. At the WA Office. eix at Aldershot added tci Sir Wil- 11am's reputation ea an administra- tor, His three years as Commandant of the Staff College made his nano a household word among the corps of officers, He wee strict without un- due severity, thorough without pe- dantry. As a lecturer this highly practical soldier, the ideal of a man of action, was a .most coneplcgous suc- cess, In 191.3 Sir William Robertson went to the War Office as Director of:Mili- bary Training, On the outbreak of war he joined Lord French's Staff as Quartermaster -General, and was spe- cially mentioned for his services dur- ing the retreat from Mons and - the subsequent advance to the Aisne. Such is a brief catalogue of dates in the career *of the man who has worked a revolution since he took up his dubies as Chief of the Imperial Staff. But the record, remarkable as it is in its barest outlines, gives little notion of the peculiar abilities which enabled a private soldier, starting life with every handicap and owing noth- ing to fortune or favor, to attain the unquestionable confidence of every of- ficer in the. British army. SIr Wil- liam has vision, a way of seeing what ought to be done and getting it done, and a -tempered energy that is equal- ly adapted for avoiding and overcom- ing obstacles. A False Impression. His department, if we are to be- lieve Sir Edward Carson, stood in need of improvement before he was ap- pointed; and this has been interpreted in some quarters as an indictment of Lord Kitchener. It should rather be regarded as a compliment. The busi- ness of the Secretary for War is to ' be responsible for the work of the War Office as a whole, and not, as some people seem to think, to attempt the impossible task of bearing the whole burden himself; and if, as is un- doubtedly the case, the work of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff is better done -than formerly, et is to the credit of Lord Kitchener that he found the right man and put him in his present office as soon as he could be spared from France. That Sir William is the right man few will be rash enough to deny, and certainly none who shared with him the labors and perils of those terrible early days of the war, when a grave mistake on the part of his department would have spelled disaster. One needs to have been in touch with men with memories of the Mons retreat to understand the confidence they felt in this quiet, strong man, of the steady gaze and sturdy, assured carriage, who seemed to carry on his shoulders with the ease of Atlas all the multitu- dinous worries of his complicated job, and knew everything that had happen- ed, and would or could happen in his department. HIS OTHER SELF. An Incident of Comedian Foote's Visit to Dublin. In a recent collection of anecdotes of famous mimies there isan amusing story of the celebrated comedian, Foote introduced' a scene in which he mimicked the carriage, speech and personal peculiarities of several local celebrities. The imitations, although presented with a touch of caricature, were not ill-natured, and most of the victims accepted the jest at their ex- pense without protest, i£ they did not wholly enjoy it. But there was one, a well-known printer with several ludicrous little oddities of manner, who angdily resented both seeing him- self as others saw him, and being a source of public amusement; He re- solved to put a stop to the clever act - lees impudence. Collecting a score dor more of street urchins, he treated them to a supper, gave thein each a ;shilling to buy a seat in the gallery, and' promised them another treat the next day if they would hiss Foote off land stage. They promised if1 glee; ' but his friends who attended the per- formance that night reported that not a hiss was to be heard; on the eon- trary, the obnoxious scene of mimicry was recieved with more boisterous ap- plause than ever. Naturally, the man was disappoint- ed; when, the next morning, the troop of boys turned up in exuberant frits clamorous1v demanding th sP promised reward, he repudiated the claim, ant] heaped reproaches upon their faithlessness. They in turn were indignant and reproachful. "Plane, yer Honor, we did all we could," explained their spokesman, "for the actor man had heard of us, and did not come at all, at all. And so we had nobody to Hiss. But when we say yer Honor's own dear self come on, we did clap and clap and clap, and showed you all the respect and honor in our power; sure, ye Hon- or must have seen and heard? And so yer Honor won'tforget us because yer Honor's enemy was afraid to come, and left yer Honor to yet.' own dear self?" Freemasons of the World. The Masonic fraternity of the world has a very largo membership. Engv land has a membership of 160,000; this ineludos English lodges ie dif- ferent# parts of the world on the English register, Ireland has 19,000, Scotland 16,000, Australasia 16,000, the United States 1,005,879, and Can- ada from the Atlantic to the Pacific has 110,000. Ceremonies ntay differ, but true politeness is ever the same, Overhaul Your Car. Every car needs a special examine ation and a general toning up in the spring. The amount of work which ought to be done on it depends on the ago and condition of the car. Some motorists "tinker" so much with their cars that they are never in good running order. Others don't pay any attention to a car as long as it runs at all. The following' ready reference gives a list of operations involved in a thorough overhauling, Few motor- ists would or should attempt such an overhauling personally, but the list will give some owners -new owners especially -an added knowledge of an automobile's mechanism and its chief points of probable wear and disloca- tion. Do what you can yourself al- ways, and continue to increase your knowledge of your car. When in doubt, make a list of what you think the car needs, and visit a good, reli- able repair -man, The overhauling reference list, compiled for a motor- ing journal, is as follonsc Engine and Chassis. Power Plant -Clean circulation sys- tem, drain crank case, clean oiling system, remove grease and dirt, clean fuel system, remove carbon deposits, clean pistons and rings, adjust bear- ings, resect valves, check timing, ad- just fan belt, examine water connec- tions, renew defective gaskets, clean grease cups and refill crank case and reservoir. Clutch Inspect bearings for wear, examine clutch facing, drain wet type jof dis clutch. Flush case with kero- sene, adjust spring or springs, ad- just clutch release,'inspect lever and linkage, adjust clutch brake, renew supply lubricant. Gearset -Remove old lubricant, clean guars and case, adjust bearings, test mesh of gears, adjust shifting rode, renew supply of lubricant. Rear Axle, etc. -Clean and, wash differential, adjust bearings, inspect pinion and gear, examine truss rod,, i adjust radius rods, clean muffler, ad- Ijust torque arm, clean universal joints, inspect brake linings, adjust j . bakes, and linkage, renew supply of lubricanrt. Steering Gear -Clean and inspect all parts, Remove lost motion, ad- just drag link, renew worn bushings, adjust spark linkage, adjust throttle linkage, repack gears with grease, re- new supply of lubricant, test action of linkage. Miscellaneous Requirements. Wheels and Springs -Clean and ad- just bearings, test alignment of wheels, clean and lubricante springs, inspect hangers and bolts, tighten spring clips, -clean and graphite rims, inspect tires and tubes. Ignition -Clean and oil timer, clean and adjust contact points, clean timer and distributor, inspect couplings for wear, check timing, clean and adjust spark plugs, examine and test wir- ing, tighten connections, clean bat- tery box, clean and test battery. Frame -Remove grease and dirt, try rivets is play, tighten nuts• and bolts, examine tire irons, tighten fender irons• Miscellaneous -Clean and inspect speedometer drive, replace and re- pack grease boots, clean and refill grease cups, lubricate motor starter, oil lighting dynamo, inspect lighting wires, clean top and curtains, tighten windshield, clean upholstery, over- haul tool kit, inspect accessories. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON JUNE 18. strong word, a favorite with Luke. ism was the outward and visible sign of a cleansing more vital than even the washing o f those sores that soon would fester. The well in the prison yard may be assumed to be the scene of both. 34. Set a table (margin -Compare Psa. 23. 5. Rejoiced greatly -A very Lesson AII.-The Philippian Jailer,- Acts 16. 16-40. Golden Text Acts 16. 31. Verse 19. Masters -A firm having joint proprietorship in this valuable chattle (verse 16). Gone out -The verb is significantly repeated from verse 18. 20. Prretors (margin) -A high- sounding title belonging to the chief judicial authorities in Rome, and a mere piece of vainty in these duumviri. See note in verse 12, Lesson Text Studies for June 4. Jews -There was no attempt to distinguish, and we have seen that Jews were not numerous in Philippi. 21• Romans -See the note just quoted. Note the skill of the in- dictment; the propaganla of these ' Jewish customs might lead to breach ! of the peace, and the formation of !illegal associations. Stephen was stoned on suspicion of wanting to change these Jewish customs. 22. Rent -The order would be, "Re- move them, lictor, strip and scourge Ithem." It does not, of course, imply . that the prretors. tore their clothes themselves. Rods -The fasces car- ; Tied by the lictors as token of auth- ority before the magistrate they serv- o ed. 24. Inner prison -From which Paul was able later to see the jailer against the light, while himself in- visible. - visible. Made fast -A verb derived from the adjective appearing as safely in ve15e 23. 25. Pain and the cramped posture made sleep impossible, so thanksgiv- ing took its place! Listening wi'= attention and amazement as the ver imp fes, ey ut seen use bleeding backs as they were bundled in past thein• 2G. The chains were fixed in the walls, and the doors secured by bolts that such a shock might dislodge 27. The jailer was, of course, liable. with his life. Compare Acts 12. 19. 29. The astonishing forbearance of one whom he had handled so rough- ly finished the awe-inspiring effect of the earthquake. 30. Sine -In this case an exag- gerated rendering is adopted above to recall the identity of the title given to Jesus. So also is "deliverance" used to recall verse 17,•from which this rough, untutored man doubtless got the hint. 31. Thou and thy house -Compare Matthew Arnold's, "Thou wouldst not be saved alone, by father!" From the very first Christianity is social, On the great world believe on see note of verse 34, 82. . This verse suggests that Luke C1668 not intend to follow the order of time; verse 81 is the summary of an exposition without which the call to believe wottld have been unintelligi- ble. 'We may be sure the jailer re- lieved the missionaries' wounds and hunger as soon as ever he had talc* in their message of hope. The gospel story was told to the whole fancily when they were up in the jailer's house, and the be/Aisle was the climax, 33. Washed. , baptize,'t-The collocation in intentional, The beet. India makes the word vivid with its myriads of sad faces; then go to a students' Christian camp and see the boys frolic -they never knew how to frolic till Christ taught them! With all his house -How suggestive is the repetition! Luke evidently remember- ed something special about that fam- ily. Having believed God (margin) - Despite some belated commentators, there is all the difference between be- lieve and believe it the first, in Greek as in English, being limited to accepting some one's word. To take God at his word of course logically in- volves the higher trust, so that there is less difference; but in John 8. 80. 31 the two phrases denote very differ- ent people -watch the sequel with the men who had only "believed" Jesus! In Acts 27. 25 and 1 John 5. 10 we get the commentary for this verse. GERMANS WANT POLAND. Would "Liberate" the Poles is the Way They Tell it That part of the German . Chan- cellor's recent speech dealing with the "liberation" of Russian Poland and the Baltic Provinces has given fm mense satisfaction in Germany. It is not so long ago that Germany was credited with advising Pretograd tot take sterner measures against Polish nationalist pretensions, and to curb the propganda which the Lithuanians and Letts were carrying on for as- quiring local government. But now all this is changed, and Germany steps into the arena as the liberator of Poland and the Baltic Provinces Baron Von Engelhardt, a well-known Bavarian writer, has tak- en up the cudgels on behalf of what he calls the "German" Baltic Prov- inces. Although they were Russian Provinces two years ago, he finds now that the entire region is permeated, with Germanism, and that the domin- ion of Sweden, Poland, and Russia has not deflected the inhabitants front their German language "kultur," and sentiment. Those who have not re- mained German are renegades. .After an historical review of the provinces, Baron Engelhardt speaks of the various methods of Russifica- tion pursued by the Tsar's Govern- ment, and holds up hands of horror at the steps taken by the "Masco-. vites" to impose Russian ways on the inhabitants. 11 the baron had re- called the cruel and persistent meas- ures of the Prussian `Government against their own Poles, the suppres- sion of .the .Danes of Schleswig, a.nd the arbitrary system of rule which prevailed for 40 years in Alsace-Lor- raine he would have been more reti- cent with regard to Russian rule, The writer works out a grandiose plan for the settlement of the "Ger- man" Baltic Provinces with German colonists, "We badly require lands for colonizing purposes. It means daily bread for tis, It means also tlittt we will be able to retitle mil- lions of Geumans who aro otherwise in danger of breaking off from us." From the Middle l est NOTES OF INTEREST FROM TIER BANKS AND BRAES, What Is Gettig On in the Highlands and Lowlands of Auld Scotia. Calgary's assets are placed at $22r 269,141, and liabilities at $25,882,976,. 15,000 trees were used in the city of Calgary for Arbor Day planting last week. Reglna's fire report for March was 19 alarms with a loss in goods and buildings of $1,992.41. The Western Hotel, Saskatoon, is to be remodelled and made into suit- able quarters for the C.N.R. offices. The Calgary Dept. of Natural Re- sources of the C.P.R. has supplied 249 men for the defence of the Em- pire. Mrs. Hannah Brown, a resident of St. Jean Baptiste, Man., since 1874, died there recently at the age of seventy-two. Walter Gray, of Wainwright, 15 years old, shot his father, Wm. Gray, and fled to Hardisty where he was arrested. The father is expected to recover. Rice Malting Company's plant at Winnipeg was completely destroyed by fire. Loss believed to be $350,00f`1.; insurance was to the extent of $200,000. The question of the Patriotic fund applying to women who are operat- ing their husband's farms while they are at the front is a very pressing one in Alberta. Charles Gorsuch, blacksmith, who forges little horseshoes and sends them to notables, sent one to Win- ston Churchill and received in return a letter of thanks. Little five-year-old Jimmy Caulder of Pasqua, Sask., broke his collar bone, his jaw bone and was badly crushed by falling off and rolling under a load of grain. At Camrose recently the 1,200 acre ranch, six miles south of the town and formerly owned by Thos. Evans, was sold to Messrs. Merton and Har- old Bowes of Ingersoll, Ont. As a result of a new ruling laid down by the provincial department of education recently in Alberta, all school teachers are now required to take the oath of allegiance. To have two children burned to death and all their household effects destroyed by fire was thesad experi- ence of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Riemas, who live near Wetaskiwin, Alta. Indian chiefs, upon a visit to Re- gina, were taken as guests to the Rose and Regina theatres where they evinced great excitement at pictures of themselves thrown on the slides. The report of the Department of Agriculture shows 1916 the banner year for Alberta farmers. The wheat average was 85 bushels for the entire province and the butter output 1,000,- 000 pounds. As a result of the Dominion Gov- ernment's policy of assisting mixed farming in the west, two new com- petitions, that of wool and that of eggs, have been announced for this year's summer fair. WHERE THEY CAME FROM. Words Which Have No Connection With the Subject. The word "sweetheart" seems every- thing it ought to be for expressive- ness. One would naturally think it had been coined for the occasion, like such a word as "honeysuckle." But that is a delusion and a snare. It has no more to do with "heart" than it has with `lungs." It is a ward that belongs to the class which in- culdes "sluggard" and "coward" and "dullard" and "niggard". Pretty company for a poet's wordl But it is true, though sad, that "sweetheart" ought to be spelled "sweetard"l When you say that you have made an opponent eat humble pie, you are quite certain it means that he had to humiliate himself before your super- ior wisdom or righteousness or dign- ity. As a matter of fact, the word has no connection with 'stumble" whatsoever. But in olden days they used to make the "ambles," or en- trails, of the deer which provided the venison for the baronial table -the giblets, so to speak -into a pie for the serfs. Thus, if you ate "tumbles pie,' you were an underling. Who has not joined in a country dance? Of course, the country dance reminds one of maypoles and merry- makings and harvest homes. Sir Roger de Coverley and his quaint rural manners and ways seem insep- arably coneeted with the dance. But it has no more connection with fields and haystacks and cornricks than the turkey -trot. The partners in the. dance face each other, and our allies, the French, therefore called it a "centre dense"! There you are! The secret's out. What are "kiokshaws"? Just the French "puelques choses," which tneatts "anything." What is the origin of tramway? • It is short for Outram way, because a man named Outram invented them, just as a man named Macadam invented macadamisod roads.•• --London Answers. 1 - Prepared. "Preparedness is a fad with het." 'That so?" "Yes, site evert sets the breakfast table the night before!"