The Brussels Post, 1916-6-22, Page 314,
Dainty Dishes,
Red Kidney Bean Salad.—One eau
beans, one finely cut onion, six sliced
cucumber pickles, salt as desired.
Pour over salad dressing of oil, le-
mon juice and paprika, thee and serve
on lettuce leaves.
Tomato and Bean Salad.—Peel medi-
um-sized, ripe, n13/1 tomatoes; scoop
out seeds and part of pulp, salt and
invert. To one cup baked beam add
one-half cup_ tomato pulp, one onion
chopped fine, anti two stalks of celery
chopped very fine. Mix with French
dressing, fill tomato cups and chill
Roast Fillet of Veal.—B,emove bone
from fillet, which is thick piece from
upper part of leg, and fill cavity with
highly seasoned and very moist stuff-
ing. Tia or skewer into round shape,
Dredge with salt, popper and flour.
Put strips of pork over top and bake,
Allow onahalf hour to pound. Cover
with buttered paper to keep meat from
burning. Add water when flour has
browned and baste often.
Cherry Bread.—Fill deep earthen
pudding dish two-thirds full of cher-
ries, blackberries or green apples.
Add a little sugar, but not enough
to make very aweet, and put in just
enough water to keep fruit from stick-
ing and grating or two of nutmeg.
Pat end pull into hap e piece of
bread dough just ready to knead into
loaf for cover for fruit, It should
be one-half inch thick. Lay over
fruit incl cover with ..eoup plate or
another pudding ilieh that fits tightly.
Hoke or steam pudding with fire that
is not too (Leith for at least one hour.
When done, turn out on large, round
Matta, fruit on top. Serve hot,
with sugar and cream, Delicioue.
Baked Cherry Dumplings.—Sift to-
gether one pint flour, ono -half tea-
spoon salt and one teaspoon balding
powder. Rub in one tablespoon short-
ening. Add sweet milk enough to
make soft dough. Roll out one-half
inch thick and cut into four -inch quar-
ters. Fill each square with as many
cherries as it will contain and sprinkle
generously with sugar. Fold edges
of dumplings over and place tbem in
floured pan, Bake one-half hour and
serve with hard sauce, or cream and
eugar.
hlargaret's Cake.—One cup sugar;
2 egg:; 1-3 <cup butter; % cup milk; 8
teaepoonfuls baking powder; pinch of
salt; le teaspoonful powdered cinna-
mon; emoigh flour to roll. Cream
the butter and sugar and then add the
woll beaten eggs with milk and the
4 other ingredients, mixing in the flour
gradually until there is enough to en-
able you to roll the mixture out about
is-mch thick. Have the oven very
bot, mid sprinkle the cookies with
sugar just as you are putting them in.
Scotch Shortbread. —Half -pound
flour; 11. poling butter; 2 ounce e sue
gar; rind of las lemon; 1 tablespoon
rice flour; a few strips of angelica.
Take cut one tablespoonful of the flour
and put in the rice flour instead,
then add the butter and the grated le-
mon rind, and work into a smooth
solid dough. Roll out thin and cut
into triangular pieces. Pinch the
edges into s' little up and down wave
prick all over the top with a fork and
put a small strip of angelica in the
centre of each. Bake very gently for
20 or 30 minutes, and let them cool in
the baking tin.
Berry Sandwich—Close white bread;
butter; powdered sugar; berries; le-
mon Mee. To about 12 large berries
take a tablespoonful orbutter mid an
equal quantity of the sugar; •eream
the butter and sugar well together and
put on ice to harden. Mash the straw-
berries and a tablespoonful of lemon
juice together and rub through a sieve,
Blend the fruit into the creamed but-
ter and sugar and put back on the ice.
Cut the band into very thin slices
and cut off the crusts. Spread even-
ly with the mixture, and either put an-
other slice on top and cut into sand-
wiches or roll up and tie with a white
ribbon.
Braised Beed and Carrots.—Have
butcher cut nice piece of brisket or
shoulder into suitable pieces for serve
ing, rejecting superfluous fat. Rent!
a little bacon fat or drippings in
kettle, toss meat in fat and seer it
quickly on all sides, then let it simmer
until puma that have been liberated
are absorbed again. Let the meat
hrown, but do not let it scorch, Sea- I
son with grated onion, salt an dpeper,
then pour on enough hot water to
make nice brown gravy, almost cove '
ening meat. Cover and let simmer
about two hours, then add scraped ,
carrots, sliced lengthwise, laying them
on top. In about an hour everything
ehould bo -tender: However, this de- I
pads on age V, beef. When serving
heap carrots in center of dish, thicken
gravy with a little dissolved dour,1
boil smooth and pour around carrots,
Some Ways of Saving.
By thie time we aro all of us marc
pr lees ['minor with advice on the
subject of economy and do not need 1
reminding to use, un odds and ends of ;
bread in puddings and to save vege- '
tabln neeliniee for soya,
Hu' Ili re me 'many little wave of
120 oat e :I, generally 'known or apt to er, nothing ion onimporiat ;
reieseled ail too trivini to matter, !
to collie in these days, and even frac-
those I ',,is soon teal up iota donor&
egeleitee
It is surmising what a lot of waste
goes on if you try to hurry your cook -
Mg. '
Milk puddings, for instance, should
always be cooked slowly, because if
is cooked quickly it wastes by
evaporation. The same rule applies
to soups, which should always be sina,
mered in a covered vessel. On the
other hand, if you are boiling biome
for etock they should be boiled fast
to extract the goodness'.
After washing currants for calces or
puddings they should, not be dried too
quickly or they will lose some Of their
goodness. The best plan is to wash
a quantity at a time instead of wash-
ing just the number you require for a
"
particular dish.
Most of the moisture may bo re-
moved by shaking the currants in a
clean dry cloth kept for the purpose,
and afterward they can be spread out
on a large dish to dry.
It is more economical to add pepper
to such dishes as stews at the last
minute. If you season them at first
much of the aroma is lost in the pro-
cess of cooking, and therefore more is
required.
It is not always economy to cook
slowly, especially in the case of hari-
cots or lentils. These take so long to
cook that if you are cooking on a
gas stove a great deal of gas is used
Haricots, lentils and split peas should
always be left to soak over night in
cold water anli a small lump of drip-
ping added to the salted water in
which they are boiled. This helps to
eaten them and cook in almost half
the time.
If you want to economize in plate
and knife powder try rubbing knives,
forks and spoons with a soft rag dip-
ped in potato water. This removes
all stains ,and warm soapy water and
a chamois leather, are sufficient to
keep silver as bright as need bo.
Paraffin is an excellent substitute
for metal polith; people who have once
used it generally think it much better,
Things to Remember.
The secret of a light omelet is to
froth the eggs. One egg well beaten
is worth two not well beaten.
When a pudding is boiled in a
basin, it shoold fill the basin. '
Roasting meat cannot be basted too
much or too often,
The part which is to be topmost in
the dish should, when boiling be down -
most in the pan.
Salted and smoked meat should be
put into cold water, brought slowly
to the boil, then simmered.
Water boils when it gallops; fat
when it is still.
Puddings' made with suet should be
stiffly mixed.
When ketchup is used, be sparing
with the salt.
Green vegetables. should be boiled
fast, with the saucepan lid off.
To leave bread or vegetables in
stock or soup turns these eatables
sour.
Root vegetables should be boiled
gently, with the lid on the pan.
All vegetables, excepting old pota-
toes, should be put into plenty of
fast -boiling salted water.
The liquor used in boiling meat or
roots should never be thrown away.
Soups and sauces may be made of it.
Broiled meat must be turned often;
put the cut side to the fire,
A. handful of salt will often clear a
fire from smoke for broiling.
When baking powder has been used
there must be no delay in baking.
Thebars of n gridiron should be
greaSed and made hot before being
used.
Meat from which soup or gravy is to
be mud should be put into coldwater.
If a pie or cake browns too quickly
while baking, a sheet of paper should
be laid on the top.
Puddings -should be plunged into
plenty of fast.boiliog water, and kept
boiling hard till clone.
MUNICIPAL SANITATION,
Proper Facilities for Destruction of
Refuse Should be Provided.
A garbage "dump" is a disgrace to
any city or town. Of what advantage
is it to remove the numerous. private
rubbisb-heaps 'to build up -a gigantic
cominimal rubbish-lreap 1 Is the un-
sightliness or the dangerous filthiness
in any wise reduced by piling all the
refuge into °nee vast, festering, dis-
ease -breeding mass? It may be some
advantage to those parts of the town
remote from the dump, but only at
the expense of some other portion of
the city and it is- grossly unfair.No
true citizen from a high-class residen-
tied district could feel satisfied if the
cleanliness of his particular portion 01
the town wero achieved by the utter
spoiling of some other portion. Any
man who is proud of his city would
feel as much shame that there should
be. a filthy civic backyard as that) his
own backyard should be dirty. The
only satisfactory method of removing
refuse is to burn it la an Meltwater
or, failing that, to have it buried,
"Your husband i a great home -lov-
er, len't he?" "Ycs, especially 011 the
evenings when were invited out
giether."
wocr-lascw,pauesmagemor
NO. 2 CANADIAN STATIONARY HOSPITAL AT 13OULOGNE.
The picture given a view or the main inflicting which was formerly a
girls' school, now being used tinder an,efflelent Canadian staff a doctors
as a military hospital. It has been in operation almost since the beginning
of the war and has rendered 'avowable service. The hospital is under the
command of Lt. -Col, J. T. Clarke, formerly or Toronto.
ROOFING FOR FARM BUILDINGS.
Metal Covering Is Far Superior to
the Old -Fashioned Shingle,
The distinct advantages of Sheet
Metal coverings for buildings of all
classes has rapidly brought them to
the fore during recent years, especial-
ly so because of the development of
mechanical appliances to perfect the
manufacture of various types of metal
shingles, sidiags, tiles, etc.
Until recent year's however, the
wooden shingle was the most popular
on account of its durability and cheap -
nese. Fifty years ago, when good
stock was in abundance and labor
theap, the farmers used to manufac-
ture their own shingles by sawing,
splitting and shaving, .and there are
many roofs yet throughout the coun-
try where eplit or shaved cedar
shingles were applied fifty years ago.
These shingles were generally about
from % to Sa inch thick and time
and weather have reduced the thick-
ness of the exposed portion of these
shingles to that of cardboard. Under
the natural tendency of things, how-
ever, the days of split or shaved cedar
shingles are passed and in recent
yeas or toward the latter quarter of
the 19th century, the shingle became
the product of the saw mill, and the
manufacturers of shingles were not
always very particular as to the kincl
of stock they used and employed butts
and all kinets of sap, and the outcome
of all this was that the shingles wero
put on the market at a price that
Commanded trade, but gave little sat-
isfaction. The farseeing farmer, how-
ever, when he could afford it, employ-
ed steel and it was a common thing
and is to -day a universal practice to
use metal in some form for covering
their buildings.
Until recent years a galvanized
iron roof was a luxury, hut the intro -1
duction of modern machinery has re-
duced the cost of galvanizing to a
minimum, and through the perfection
of up-to-date machinery, many safe
and prosperous firms in Canada have I
been able to put on the market a very,
substantial and practically everlast-
roof in the form of metal shingles at a
very moderate cost.
Tho great feature about the metal
shingle and roofing is that it does not
take an expert workman to apply it.
Any unskilled buyer with a moderate
degree of adaptability, a pair of snips
and a hammer can apply these up-to-
date shingles and roofing and sidings.
The greatest virtue of the metal
covering and one recognized by In-
surance Companies is that the Tisk
from fire and lightning is minimized
by the use of metal roofing.. They
now offer the farmers special in-
ducements in -the way of reduced
premiums to encourage the use of
galvanized iron covering. The peo-
ple themselves, recognizing the opin-
ion of the best authorities, soon found
that a building covered with an iron
roof, which roof was connected -to the
ground by a water -spout or even a
wire contact, was absolutely proof
against a lightning bolt, They also
recognized that burning embers from
another fire lighting on a metal roof
did no damage whatever, and all these
factors leads to- a larger consumption
and use of metal roofing to such an ex-
tent that the wooden shingle fire
hazard is being steadily eliminated.
turbance, the sheets are fitted with
locks on all sides which give ample
room for contraction and expansion,
and metal shingles aro giving the
same degree of satisfaction to -day as
they did when applied nearly thirty
yeans ago.
When speaking of durability of a
I metal roof, galvanized materials only
are referred to. Farmers in this
country nearly twenty 5 -ears ago ap-
plied painted roofing, and the repaint-
ing of this roofing, which in some
cases should have been an annual af-
fair was neglected, and the cense-
!
quence was that corrosion set in, and
their roofs rapidly deteriorated, but
this is not the case with galvanized
roofing.
, In the rural municipalities, \there
Rut hure •d not pi'oval-
ont, a galvanized roof made of good
material and properly applied should
give satisfaction f h If e century
at least. In fact, it will give satie-
faction—the test of time has proven
In the march of progress, some of
the up-to-date farmers recognizing the
many superior qualities of metal over
wood aro now adopting a steel super-
structure for their barns.
This method of construction has
many advantages over the old thribe
constructed barn inasmuch as extra
mow space, convenience in operating
, hay fork and slings is obtained as well
as far easier and quicker erection of
building. These steel brace barns
are supplied complete in every detail,
saving the farmer the worry and thou-
' ble of assembling materials.
HOW HE GOT 1015 DISCHARGE.
Soldier Picked Up Bits of Paper Until
He Found Right One.
A man in the West Kent Yeomanry
who fought at Gallipoli and is just
back in London by way of Alexandria
says that the following veracious talo
is a favorite one with the lads out
there,
A certain Tommy suddenly develop-
ed something like a mania for picking
up loose scraps of paper. Wherever
heaves, in the trenches or out of them,
he spent most of his time looking for
any stray bits of paper and gathering
them up. This soon became a nuis-
ance, but drastic orders to refrain and
long terms of "CB." alike failed to
cure him. He went on picking up bits
of paper.
Finally, in desperation, they sent
him to France, thinking a change of
scene might affect a cure, but, ar-1
rived there, his mania for gatheringi
up paper fragments got worse instead ,
of better. Finally he was ranovedi
to the base,. where he continued his
paper chase. At last giving him up
es a hopeless case, they sent him to
London for examination as to the
soundness of his mind. A board sat;
on him. They decided that he was
dotty and should be invalided out of
thd. army. They gave him his dis-
charge, written on a neat piece of pa -1
per.
The soldier surveyed this with
gratification.
"Alma" said he. "That's the bit of
paper I've been looking for!"
Operation of the Clutch.
A great many people who own and
drive automobiles have a very hazy
idea of the operation of the clutch,
and to the brand-new motorist this
part 00 the car is a mechanical DISAse
tem
The purpose of the clutch is to
connect the motor with the gearset.
As its names implies, it grasps or
clutches the rotating crankshaft or
flywheel and thus acts as the connect-
ing link between motor and gearset.
The cone crutch is merely a cork
in a bottle arrangement, according to
a writer in Motor Print. When the
cork fits loosely in the neck, the
bottle cannot be turned by rotating
the cork, but if the cork is driven in
tightly, turning it will move the bot-
tle with it. In the cone clutch the
cork is forced in by a spring and re-
leased by depressing a pedal.
The disk or plate clutch is Muse
trated by placing a quarter between
two nicicols, and holding these three
. disks between the thumb and the
forefinger. When no press,ure is ap-
plied tho larger coin may he readily
rotated with the fingers of the other
hand, but when the three are pinch-
ed together it is very difficult to turn
the quarter.
The contracting clutch is most de-
selintive of the term "clutch" and
resembles a breke. When the band
is loose the clutch is dieengaged, and
when contracted it grasps the drum
tightly and thus drives the car.
The expanding clutch likewise re-
sembles an expanding brake.
Tho cone clutch id efuriplest and
consists merely of a conical member
' which fits into tho conical hole in the
flywheel. A stiff spring forces the
cone surface into engagements, and
pressing the clutch pedal releases it.
The neccaeity for a clutch arises
from the fact that a gasoline engine,
unlike an electric motor or a steam
engine, cannot be started from rest
under its own power. It is neces-
sary to have the gasoline engine run-
ning while the car is still, and then a
device must be provided for trans -
Another important factor in favor of
the metal shingle and roofing is the
weight. Wooden shingles would.
average about 250 lbs., to the 100 sq.
ft. Slate would average about 600
lbs., whereas a fleet class metal roof
will not average 100 lbs., thereby les-
sening the strength of the superstruc-
ture and trueses. Likewise it has
been proven beyond any shadow of
doubt that heavy and wet snow will
not remain on sloping metal roof,
whereas it will attach itself to wooden
shingles as readily as plaster will to
lathing, and this snow load flounce
sometimes 60 lbs. to the square foot.
The question now is which is the
most economical kind of metal roof to
use when service is to be considered?
Most of the farmers in the Dominion
have in recent years used an enormous
quantity of corrugated iron, but all
the best authorities on metal roofing
are unanimous in their opinion, based
upon long experience, that the corrug-
ated iron roof, while cheap at fleet
cost, is not an economical material to
use, inasmuch as all nail heads are
exposed to the action of frost and
stow, and after only a, few' years the
whole roof is liable to become loose
and be susceptible to high winds
which would damage same.
The metal shingle of to -day is the
last word in roof covering; it is rain-
proof, fireproof, lightning -proof, frost.
proof; all nails used Lo apply a metal
shingle roof are covered up with the
succeeding sheet which prevents the
BMW and frost from causilig any die.'
Horseflesh Eaten in Hungary.
Horseflesh and dogflosh are com-
monly eaten by the lower classes in
Hungary because of the food scarcity.
There are three meatless days a
week, and substitutes for meat, such
as rice, are very scarce. The action
of Germany in clearing Hungary of
corn and flour earlier in the war caus-
ed a dearth from which the country
has never recovered. It also caused
much bitterness against Germany.
SCIENCE FACTS.
A new motor atbachment for bi-
cycles is carried behind the saddle and
imparts its power by friction against
the rear wheel.
Official figures put Russia's petro-
leum production last year at about
09,000,000 baerels, n gain of 2,000,000
barrels in a year.
Around the central tube of a new
antiseptic telephone mouthpiece is a
container for disinfectants that gives
off fumes in such a way as to kill all*
germs that enter thedayien.
For lessening automobile Headlight
glare there leas been invented a set of
spiral plates so mooted on the outer
rim that they can bee Om* across
the lens as much as iesireci.
The government of lfaw ?egitlend is
building a five -Mile land tuartel nt
Nat of nearly $5,0 0,000 to give
close connection between Lo Oast and
west coasts of South Islet!,
According to an Italian physician
the chanael 'from the mouth to the
stomach is the seat of the settees ot
hunger and thirst, which he chains to
have suppressed by cocaine injections.
minting this power to the rear wheels,
This is; the function of the clutch.
How Car is Started,
A clutch must start the car smooth-
ly so that no shook will be given to
thei oar or its occupants. Conse-
quently the cone surface is faced
with leather or an asbestos; fabric.
The give in these materials provSles a
much gentler engagement than if bare
meati wero used. At first the amount
of power transmitted through these
lightly rubbing surfaces is so small
that the car does not start, but as
the clutch cone movesi further the
leather is compressed more and more;
the pressure between the surfaces
gradually increaths, and, ,as it does,
the force transmitted becomes greaten,
until it 1 sufficient to move the car.
Still further engagement of the clutch
cone causes the speed of the gar -sot
mainsheft gradually to rise until it
becomes equal to that of the crank-
shaft, when the two revolve as ono
without slippage.
Multiple Disk Clutches*
In addition to easy starting the
clutch ithould be capable of con-
siderable slipping as is required in
traffic, and should have a small mass
so that when it is released it will
soon hese it momentum.
With a multiple disk clutch half the
disks are keyed to the clutch casing
anti the alternate ones to the trans -
minion shaft. Tills construction
allows the disks a certain amount of
endwise movement SO that when the
dtutch is engaged they are forced
tightly together by a spring. When
the pressure of the spring is removed
the clutch is disengaged.
The disks aro made of steel, as a
rule, although sometimes the alter-
nate ones are bronze. They are thin
and comparatively light, eo that gen-
erally speaking this cluteb, slows
down very quickly and permits easy
gear changipg.
Some mulitiple disk clutehem run in
oil anti some are dry.
When clutches are used without
loil they generally have asbestos fac-
ings on one set of plates. This clutch
is also provided with cork inserts to
improve the smooth action to the
limit.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
1••••••••
INTERNATIONAL LESSON.
JUNE 25.
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is perhaps less clanger of thinking too
much in social terms because all the
personal interests et life tend eei make
us think in individual terms. Very
few of those who in all nations ardent-
ly desire world -peace are willing to
have their nation pay the necessary
price; for example, the submission of
undeveloped territories and peoples
Lesson MIL—The Philippian Chris- which are now under national eontrol,
and also of the highways of com-
merce, to international jurisdiction
How many people would he willing
to ave their income limitcI in older
to provide a fair income for folks
now below them? Most of us have got 1
to go a long way in the development ;
of social emphasis in our thinking be- 1
fore we are in danger of losing our
balance. We need the discipline of
social thinking in order to meet one of
the greatest needs of the church to-
day, the development of socialemind-
e bless.
4, The method of cultivation, "If
there is any virtue or anything deem-
ed .worthy of praise, cherish the
thought of this thing," sails Paul. In
other words, think positively; Those
who have a social mind too often
think in negative terms. They are
mere critics constantly finding fault
with the existing order of things, but
never touching the community life for
its improvement. Those Who have
the vision of the thetal ideal of Jesus
will never be harmed by constantly
thinking of the best in life. They can
never settle down in contentment.
They can never be mere shallow opti-
mists as they contemplate the gains
which have been won. Such Con-
templation will not lead them into the
arm chair, but, as the earnest of what
may yet be accomplished, it will inspire
them to continued endeavor. Chris-
tian social workers need constantly to
think in positive terms. The earth
is always pulling us down; we need
ecmatant sight of the sten to pull us
pp, The inhale of thildren should be
filled with big things. They should
be led out from their own narrow -fir
terests into contemplation of the great
needs of child life in the community.
Such mental discipline will develop big
lives and efficient social servants,
tians.—Phil. 1. 1-11; 1-9.
Golden Text, Phil. 4. 8.
1. Goging on to perfection. At
Philippi, where the gospel was first
preached in Europe, there was evid-
ently an excellent Christian com-
munity life. Paulcommends them for
their good fellowship and does not re -
bake them for any pagan sins. Yet
lie would stimulate them to further I
development. Therefore he twins his •
attention to their mental habits, He
urges them to get the mind that was 1
in Jesus. To this en cure suggests a
discipline of thought. Was theSr
weediness a tendency to lightmind-
edness? Were they subject to being
blown hither and yon by the varying
winds of Grecian th.ought? He sug-
gests to them the cultivation of the
habit of fixed attention.
2. An attitude of mbid. The de-
velopment of a definite attitude of
mind is essential to the prosecution of
any line of conduct, individual or so-
cial. Before the social program of
Christianity can be carried through
the peoples of the earth must learn to
think in Christian terms. The world
cannot have peace while people con-
tinually think about war. When the
European war first.broke out the peo-
ple thought mostly of its horrors.
They were talking about it being the
last world -war. They wero think-
ing how methods of world -peace could
be propeosed. Gradually their minds
became accustomed to the awful hap-
pening's of the battlefields. The
tragedy lost its power to move them.
It; is remarkable that. events which
have thrilled the 'world before the war,
are now regarded as very ordinary
happenings. It is an outstanding ex-
ample of the law that what fills the
mind for any length of time will uleia
mately determine conduct. The teach-
ers of Christianity to -day must fol-
low Paul's example and endeavor de-
finitely to fix the minds of the people
upon the groat principles taught bY
Jesus.
8. Wanted—A social mind. The
real reason for the slow advance of
the Christian social program is that
the majority of Christians have
thought of e1iglon o ly in tame of
indreichialga va eon cuid ainalucie The
eesult is they carmot see the woods
for the trees. On the other head,
there are, of cause,. some extremirits
who cannot see the trees for the woods
The igtio, a0 the scientist, however,
When they go oat. walking, eon see
o* pp the Cluistiari Must leann
o uink o life in both its individual
and ribald; aSpects and to apply the
leaching uf jesus to both of them
jointly, knowing that only so can that
teaching effect life 43 a allele. There
Jape Exporting Umbrellas.
The export teed° in Japanese um-
brellas is rapidly increasing. In re-
cent year the exports amounted. in
value to $8,500,000, and this year the
figures nee expected to be exceeded.
Manufecturers in Japan are now over -
belated with orders from Chinas India
and other countries in the South Pu-
nic because of ho falling off of im-
ports from England and Europe gen-
erally.
Mr. Sliocie-e"I was reading the alit
en day that thae aro eight laundacd,
Ways of cooking potatens." Mrs
Slidee---"Yesr Mr. Soliceree."
my dear, dont you think that i you
tried hard you could learn one oe
them?'
CLIMAX OF THE
WAR 15 PASt
THIS VIEW 15 STEADILY GROWe
ING IN EUROPE,
Belief That Struggle Cannot Last
Twenty-two Months
Longer.
Two currents of thought are clear.
ly defined in the European press cone
cerning the prospects of the war. On
is that Germany is certainly more and
more anxious for peace, and the other
that the allies do not propose to make
peace except on very definite tame
which will free all the invaded coun-
tries from Teuton dominion and fon-
ever prevent a rebuilding of Pruesian
militarism that would make it again
a menace to the world's civilization,
There seems to be such an inherent
contradiction between GerinanyV,
wish and the allies' cletermniation that,
one would expect a very long ethos..
gle. Nevertheless, there are signs
that the conflict has passed its climax,
and the sun of German absolutism
is declining toward the night of its
extinction, "Polybe" in the Paris
Figaro makes a striking illustration.
The Closing Act.
He supposes an eXperieneed the-
athegoor sudetenly taken to a play-
house where a piece to being enactecl
of which he never befare heard, The
man would not hav to listen to more
then two or three Ames to know
whether the play was in its earlier or
its lathy aete. Soon the spectator
would recognize eithee"the third act,
where the plot is perfected, or the
foueth, in which the catastrophe is
being prepared, "Polybe" concludes
that the fourth not of the world tra-
gedy is being unfolded, and deelaree
that the signs of this fact aro multi-
plying for any oae who has the habit
ofrending events in the light of his,
tory.
Among the eyreotoms of Germany's
failing power "Polybe" cites the
cruel eloughter before Verdun in her
repeated mail attacks, like the •ven-
tures of a gambler who knows he is
going to lose, and the Incoherence of
her foreign policy, which he declares
to bo an external manfeslation of
profound anxiety. All these things
aro considered signs. that the climax
is past and that the war at least will
not last twenty-two menthe longer.
Another Sign,
More outspoken views of German
Socialists declaiming against the
policy of spoliation and frightfulness
are other signs of the trend of events,
Herr Lieblinecht was only a little
ahead of the time, Other German
voices are being heard here and there.
A Dutch nowspa.per, the Amsterdam -
mar, has just published an article by
1)r, Johann Stilgebauer of Frankfort,
in which he affirms that German de- .
cadence began the day when Prussia
conceived the pernicious design Of im-
posing her maleficent sovereignty on
all the Guinan states. Ile proteste
against the annexation of Belgium,
the purpose of which, he says, is to
enrich the Prussian monopolists who
govet the miaes of Hainault and the
looms of Flandere.
Prepare Rebuke.
Again a professor in a German tulle
versity declares, according to the
Paris Tamps, that German scientist
and other learned men have signed
a manifesto protesting against the
venation of the neutrality of Belgium
and, the useless destruction committed
during the war, Knowing fully that
the document could not be publishe4.
without great clanger of prison oa
di te antatn4 feoorntsleaciutith authors, sibteh ace; rheaeol seated7
tinguished lawyer, so that through the
attestation of its date, they can peeve,
that they felt the duty of rebuking
German frightfulness before such
time as an open avowal would be con-
sidered merely a desire to please the
conquering allies;
More Appetizers,
Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, the Labrador
physician, tells the following mime -
mg story about one of his telps on
komatik, or dog sled. It ought
to be said first of all that Doctor
Grenfell often has samples of aim -
pressed eatables and nonfreezable
foods sent to him.
He and his guide were on the way
to a distant village whore a small
boy was reported to have "found him-
self in his stomach," which means in
the eemi-Chauceritin dialect of Labra-
dor that he was afflicted with Menges -
tion. The guide "cleft the split"
sjelit the wood.), and prepared the
luncheon of steaming tea and pork
buns, one of the few natural foods
that really cloos not freeze.
"Where," inquired Doer Grenfell,
"are the compressed -food tablets?
gave you a month's supply this morn-
ing),
ansveereal the. guide impas-
sively, "I. ate them after breakfast,"
and he hungrily lilt into his pork bun.
If They Don't Disagree.
"It takes two to make a quarrel.",
"5rea, and very often it takes a jury
to settle
The truly charitable tenth thinks the
bant he can n all uken, He looks for
'keecl po4its, and rpttheir bad
Ones. 1,
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