The Brussels Post, 1917-3-8, Page 311
Tea is Delicious and Pure
ed Thu M`Lareri "I'd be sorry to
miss seeing you there, Not that
there's any, over -great hurry about it
either,' he added jauntily, remember-
ing that this acicnewledgmett of ago
was, under the circumstances, impol-
itic, "Let it be within the next ten
years, and it'll do richly."
As elle three pair's of eyes once more
fixed themselves upon the fgeee in the
white duck trousers it was not hard
to guess that, mentally, he was being
put into clerical black. Not one of
i� xt 9' them doubted that that priestly garb
Sealed Packets OnlyNever !n ]t3Ulk was safely hanging.Keen
w the wardrobe
of the future, Kean workman though
£218 he wee, even the dullest among them.
BLACK, MIXED or NATURAL GREEN vaguely felt that there was something
else beside the workninn in John. To,
picture that long, narrow figure in a
Between Cousins;
OR, A DECLARATiON OF WAR,
white surplus required no great effort'
of the imagination,
Lest the "white surplice" should
startle in this locality, let it be briefly,
interpolated that here too the "Mas -1
sacre"—that crowning sin of the.
House of Orange—had played its part,
by riveting the descendants of its vic-
tims to the church of the Stua+tts, For
centuries past Ardloch and its district.
had formed one of those Episcopalian
CHAPTER L—(Cont'd),
"So it's hey for Glasgow to -mor-
row?" remarked Tim D'i`Laren, as,th
fathful to his role of clown,he grin -
nee within the frame of his woolly
whisker_,y. John nodded without tutn-
stiudant in spring, no doubt, eh? not
knowing a double -handed hammer
from a single, hi, hi!"
"I don't think so," said John, with
his slow smile, while Willie Robson
solemnly gaped.
No need for enforced gravity now;
merely to look upon a man who was
.so soon to look upon Glasgow bred
ewe, automatically, as it were.
islands
pieces, whirling about the cliff like a which t l rave successfully with
-
flack of startled birds Within stood the Presbyterian ocean.
the same half -minute another puff, John's plan was generally approved
from another point—another detona- 02, and yet between hum and his well -
tion. Like a dull cannonade theylwishers there existed a complete mis-
followed upon each other. The four understanding. They knew that; f6r
ing. " e'll be coming back a regular men in the both y cowered with craned years past he had been laying shilling
necks, silently watching the familiar. beside shilling, in order to reach the
sight, whose interest never staled.
Upon
which would make study possible,
Upon one or two distant levels out and saw therein nothing but a very
side the blasting area the men stand praiseworthy ambition which others
in groups, fascinated spectators. The before him had cherished either sue -
air began to smell of gun -powder, cessfully or otherwise—since the
I Church is, after all, the most attain -
"That's ours!" said Willie Robson' able of the rungs in the social ladder.
presently, in an accent which teemed To a man they approved of his plan
of the pride of possession. I of "bettering" 1'irnself without ever
Adam, sitting doubled u, , • Even after the cannonade was still, guessing that his own idea of "better -
Adam, pthe men remained cowering and ment" bore no resemblance to theirs.
grimy elbows on knees, and cheeks cramped, waiting for the releasing So careful had highland shyness been
pressed between two broad fists, spoke whistle, which would not sound untilof keeping its own counsel that not
protestingly:
"Strikes me you might have put it
off till next week. Would 'save the
having that gowk, Davy, as best man.
It's the usual thing to come to wed-
dings, not to run away from them.
Doesn't seem cousinly, somehow.
What's eight days over the books,
triter alt?"?
a mar
gin of some minutes had allow- even his daily companions guessed
eel for a possibly forgotten blast. - that they had a fanatic in their midst.
"To come back to the sheep and the I Unsuspected, he carried about with
whiskey," observed Adam, with fine him his dream, having brought it out
tenacity, "you haven't told us yet what of his very boyhood. When it had
harm it would do you to stop a week' been born he could not himself have
longer." I said. Perhaps on seine summer day,
John ttuned his :face towards his as he drowsed among the heather to
• "levee one day is much when one cousin, a whimsical smile brightening the nmsic of the bees and Che murmur
has wasted tan years," said John, his its seriousness.' of. the nearest burn; perhaps on some
wide brown eyes following the more. "No harm, perhaps; but no good, winter night, when the awfulness of
monis of a couple of men still linger- Adam, neither to wave and blast had taken his soul
p g you nor s me. A and shaken it free of the trammels of
ingon onel t
0 of the crises of the cliff,roomful sa mful 'f
u people always strict mo
P p es earth! rias, But it had been there
and now, in answers to a second shrilstupid, as you well know." nt„,,,,, l•
summons of the whistle, running to "And how about a clturohful of peo-
shelter. plc, eh? "quavered Tim, "You'll have
s111ee to had Begun to thrtllc
the thoughts of a man.
,Jr perhaps it had been born furth-
But two sheep, John—think of to be trampling on that sheepishness er back yet. The angel, charged with
that!” urged Adam, warming up to of yours when once you get into the ushering human souls into Time, from
his subject. "We've reckoned, Jean pulpit.' Eternity, does not always sing over
his work—or else sings to closed
ears. But once -and again the song
lives, and is remembered as in a
whist e gruffly, yet with aside- dream, and sought after during a life -
Y— asserteo Adam ruff! time, as a haunting melody is sought.
A dull explosion covered the next tong look at his cousin, which showed Such men and such women always run
words, preceded by a small puff of no want of faith in him. the risk of being a little ridiculous, as
smoke, followed by a spurt of slate "You'll hurry up about it, eh . v ' urg- the abnormal. is ridiculous; and if, in
addition, they are shy, the opportun-
and I, that one would go round just a "Will I get into it ? mused John,
hit tightly, so to say. No end of with wistful eyes.
mutton -chops, my lad, 1 tell you; and "As sure as we're all sitting here
the cake oz•dcred from Oban, and the growing as stiff as salted herrings,"
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Then shall the King say unto them
on his right hand
"<I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat•,
1 was thirsty, and ye gave .me drink.,.....
naked, and ye clothed me......."
Thenshall they answer him, saying--
"Lord, when saw we -thee an hungered, and
fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
....or naked, and clothed thee?"
And the King shall answer
"Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of
the least of these my brethren, ye have
done it unto me".
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ities of misunderstanlling between
them and their fellows are exception-
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If ,John M`Donnell was not consid-
ered "feckless," it was only because he
kept his own counsel; partly, also, be-
cause he could handle the double -
handed hammer as could few mon in
the quarry.
Ile was going to appear unfaithful
to the quarry now, but only, so to say,
through an excess of faithfulness. By
dint of studying his fellow -workers,
he had arrived at his own conculsions
concerning their wants. To all but
the infirm and the incurably lazy
bread was assured—laboriously earn-
ed, and sometimes at the tisk of Life,
but .fairly plentiful. Their bodies
tt or...” .,i)
PAINS AFTE
EATING
{PINI) iN THE STO@?ACII--ACIDITY,
11EARAC 13ES--COPSTIPATi011
ARE SIGNS
OF INDIGESTION.
Indigestion—tile complete or partite
failure of the digestive processes—fre-
quently throws out of gear the whole
machinery of the body, You can't ctijoy
the vigour and vitality of good health
unless your stotnacti, liver and bowels
do their work regularly and efficiently.
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ASSISTS
DIGESTION
The eowl.deslze coatalns iArre limp as march
as the trial slue sold 1150e per bottle,
---a1==uatz==ai
plight be considered provided for—but
their souls?-
'
- Even to pronounce the word in
public, outside a church, would in his
present character, be a sort of moral
indecency, its he well knew; and there-
fore it was that John M'Donnell had
determined to earn for himself the
right of speaking both in and outside
church walls, Not that the pulpit
had ever stoop empty, but that the oc-
rupiers of it—strangers usually, if not
to the country, then to the life of the
h n
1 workmen—so seldom found the word
that went to its goal. To John it
had been torture to sit out nine out of
every ten sermons he had heard since
childhood. He had begun by re -
snaking them in his own mind; be had
ended by resolving to stand one day in
that pulpit.
How differently, living their daily
lives, being of their very bone, he
could speak to these toil -worn men!
He knew, where those others only
guessed or imagined. It requires
experience to teach howhard it is for
men ever tied to the elementary ma-
terial, ever at war with its laws, ever
in contact with stone and earth and
metal, and all the other brute physical
facts, not to lose complete sight of the
side of life which is not physical,
which cannot either be cut or weighed,
or measured, or calculated. And no
one who has not been in it himself
knows how depressing is the purely
physical groove. To lift his fallow -
workers a little way . out of that
groove, such was John's ambition; for,
well his big, unpractical soul he lov-
ed them all too well to look on content
' at their slavery. He felthimself as
distinctly called to this deliverance of
his brethern as ever Catholic mission-
ary felt drawn to the conversion of
savages.
(To be continued).
Rice As Potato Substitute.
Rice is really our best starchy food.
It contains also . a shall amount of
protein, a trace of fat, and some min-
eral natter, Starchy foods supply
heat and energy to tho body, and are,
therefore, really more valuable than
meat, which produces muscle. It is
four time as nourishing as potatoes.
Most of us in the past have only
associated rice with eggs, milks, raisins
as the principal ingredient of pud-
dings. The majority of Canadians
have still to learn the use of rice as a
vegetable which our American friends,
especially the Southerners, learned
long ago. It is the host -easily -digest-
ed of all the starchy foods. It is
readily absorbed and leaves little or no
waste iu the intestines. All starches
in their final digested are converted
into sugar.
Rice is about the most abused of
alt our foods in the cooking. "Just
boil it," they say, but "just boiling"
may result in a -delicious appearing.
and tasting food or—a cross between'
paste and porridge. ' Let no house-
keeper cone•out of the war days with-
out learning !now rice grains nifty
quadruple themselves in the cooking
and be the nourishing, delectable food
that doubtless they were resigned to
be.
Wash the rice in leveret cold wa-
ters. have ready a large dish nearly
full of rapidly -boiling e-ater.
Sprinkle in the rice slowly so its not
to stop the boiling, Boil rapidly
Without the cover for twenty minutes.
If the Tice seems hard at the end of
Cleat tame boil ten minutes longer. It
must be dry and mealy, like 'potatoes,
not wet. Drain it In a colander and
pour ever it there, quieldy, a quart of
cold water. 'Place the colanderona
plate and tom the rice about with a
fork from the centro to the sides.
Stttiul it no 111e hark et the stove Or
at the over. door', where hent will pass
through and dry it. Turn it at once
;into o o allow dish or platter, tossing
it out with a fork, being careful not
to break the grains. If these direc-
tions are followed each grain will have
swollen to four limes its natural size
and no tivo grain, will be sticking
together. It should be as white as
show.
A nourishing steal for school chil-
dren at 1100n is a plate of boiled rice
with a slice of bacon on top, followed
by apple puddii.g.
Household Helps
it is n mistake to soak fowl of any
kind in water. It will destroy the
flavor. ,
The ironing Weed which' is thickly
padded is the easiest to iron on.
Bone stock can be matte from hones
alone, with 'egetablos to flavor.
it
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in it is a nutritious winter soup.
A delicious vegetable stew can be
made from any kind of left -over vege-
tables, put together and cooked for a
few minutes in white stock. When
they ars thoroughly heated through,!
thicken the gravy a little and serve.
Cream soups are always thickened;
I and soetimes made of vegetable and
i fish, witmh milk and cream and a little'
;seasoning.
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CANADA'S AREAS
OF SPHAGNUM MOSS
MOSS IS REAL WAR ASSET; USED
FOR SURGICAL DRESSINGS.
Ras Greater Absorbent Qualities Than
Best Cotton and Will Take
Its Place.
"Sphagnum moss," says a natural-
ist, "usually a light yellowish green,
grows plentifully in the temperate
zone, and there are nineteen varieties
' on the North American continent. It
forms the soil in which orchids flour-
ish, and ss it dies it transforms itself
into the peat bogs which give the
Irish peasantry their fuel. In Canada
and the States, its chief users have
been florists and nurserymen, the for-
mer snaking it the bed for floral de-
signs because of its capacity for hold-
ing moisture, the latter wrapping it
about the roots of young trees and
shrubs to preserve them during trans-
portation."
Wonderful Absorbent Qualities.
Not the most careful examination
with the naked eye would lead the ex-
aminer to suspect the moss of its won-
derful absorbent qualities, but the
microscope revealed its lace-like struc-
ture and the way in which nature en-
ables it to take up and hold in the
minute cells of which it is composed
liquids, such as blood which soaks
through absorbent cotton to bandages
and bedding and to render antiseptic
whatever fluid passes through its own
filtration plant.
"0f course, the best moss in the
world is gathered in Ireland, said
the professor. Se far we consider that
the bast Canadian specimens conte
from Nova Scotia and Cape Breton,
where atmospheric conditions are
something similar to the climatic con-
ditions in Ireland. It is also found in
Northern Ontario, In this part of the
world I find that the most luxuriant
growth and the largest leafage is to
be found under trees where the mois-
ture is held for a greater length of
time.
"Medically and economically the dis-
covery of the properties of sphagnum
seems a godsend. Its absorbent qual-
ity is six—some authorities say seven
—times greater, weight for weight,
than cotton or gauze; it is aseptic,
that is, bacteria will not grow in it;
it is said to be springier and, there-
fore, does not pack as does cotton
wool, and its cost, as you see, is prac-
tically negligible.
Canada to Supply Dloss.
"The moss is handpicked, to free
it from leaves, sticks, evergreen
needles, etc., and it is then allowed to
dry in wide, shallow bags. Subse-
quently it is enclosed in cheese cloth,
or gauze, of the size required for vari-
ous pads, different qualities of the
moss being put to different uses.
Splint pads, bed pads and elbow
cushions are made of slightly coarser
moss than that used for the absorbent
pads, which are made in four sizes.
Voluntary workers were given per-
mission, a year or more ago, to gath-
er sphagnum in the New Forest for
the British Red Cross, and it is be-
ing used also in the French and Bel-
gian hospitals and in Malta, Alexan-
dria and Serbia.
With the famine in the cotton mar-
ket and the discovery of sphagnum,
which lies ready to the hand of Bri-
tain and her allies, there comes cor-
roboration of the assertion of many
men of science, that somewhere
Dame Nature has provided for every
need of man. And devout souls will
add to this their conviction that
when men's need is sorest and when
they have made use of all possible
ways of supplying that need that
there is a Directing Mind leading
them to further sources of supply
and the hest means of adapting it
to their necessities.
'1liE BROCCOLI PLANT.
New Cabbage Recent Achievement of
An Tinglish IHorticulturist.
If the man who succeeds in grow-
ing two blades of grass where only
one grow before is one of the greatest
benefactors of mankind, what shall be
said of him who is able to produce six
or eight heads of the cabbage -like
broccoli where only one grew pre-
viously, and, what is more, has made
the plant a perennial?
I That is what an English horticul-
turist recently achieved. A writer in
Chatnbers's journal tells of one - of
these new plants from which the
grower cut fifteen fine heads six or
seven inches in diameter.
The broccoli should be of Inestini-
able value to the small gardener,
especially if he 'hrppt`11a to have an
odd corner where he can let the planta
grow undisturbed. Once they become
I established they assume the proper-
; tions of young bushes, and throw out
their heads in all directions. They
demand very little weeding; and as
their roots thrust themselves deep
1 into the soil, they are not appreciably
affected by dry weather. In the spring
as s0011 AS the shoots begin to run,
: the plant needs some thinning; but
there is no waste, for the shoots when
coked Corm an appetizing dish of the
flavor of asparagus,
- The factthat to cut seventy-two
massive heads from a dozen plants is
!
no unusual achievement gives an idea
Ie2 the proline, yield of this novelty.
among voltages.