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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1917-7-5, Page 6Between Cousins; OR, A DECLARATION OP WAR. CHAPTER IL—(Cont'd,) "I think she will;' he said briefly, but significantly, while Janet groaned louder than ever in the inarticulate cf. fort of expressing her feelings. Fennella herself was the last to speak. She was still gazing into her own eyes in dumb astonishment, It was her hair which astonished her most. Personally, she had always tions," he added in a tone of general hated its color, because of the kinship it. proclaimed to the populace around. concession, "All I ask of you is that Until to -day she had regarded it as the You should not set your mind against blot upon her beauty for she knew that she was beautiful,—now suddenly it occurred to her that instead of being the blot it might possibly prove'to be the cr a great opportunity. You see, I can not forget what I promised mother at the end, From a practical pon of view, she knew quite well that you were being virtually left fatherless as well as motherless, That's why I feel more as though 1 were talking to my daughter than to my sister," smiled the youthful monitor. "Of course, nobody thinks of forcing your incline - the idea. It's a great chance this new man being a bachelor, and on the look -out for a wife, as they say. You've got nothing but your face, re- member; and the chances of its being own. seen are not many, in this wilderness. All oncet sheiclappedherself her in hands "Oh, no; I'm not setting my mind glass. together, curtseying to the against it," agreed Fenella, almost glass "Of course I'll do. I hadn't an readily. idea I'd look like that! Had you, As the beauty of the family, she Julia? Yes, I suppose you had, or knew what was expected of her. In - you Wouldn't have taken so much trou- deed, she had heard of little else al- ble. Poor dear! and you haven't got most since she had attained the age your own dress ou yet, and the ma - In reason. chine will be here in a moment. In the next instant excitement pure and simple had retaken possession of Oh, please, please be quick!" "Oh, I!" laughed Julia contentedly. "What do 1 matter? I'll be dressed in a flash, somehow or other." that Janet coming to tell us?" "You know Mrs. Perkins said that But at the same moment the door they would begin sharpdat nine, the, opened to admit not Janet, but.a long, it would be too dreadful to miss the first dance. Oh, Julia, do hurry up! the cshoullders,sand with scanty silver I will help you: hair framing a high and narrow fore - "And crush your flounces and dis-:head. The neck appeared to have arrange your flowers in the process?' lengthened, whereas it had only No, thank yon. I've had work en- shrunk and the small face to have ought with them already. Janet will grown et smaller, as is the manner you will sit here—no, you had better tion to those countenances to whom her shining eyes and smiting lips, as she stood still, listening. "Surely that's the machine? Isn't come upstaiith nd m anwhile grs wme, a e of some thin faces, in contradistmc stand. Bertie, will you see that she age invariably brings expansion. But doesn't do anything foolish until I'm the brown eyes were not changes; down again? Come along, Janet! they gazed out as mild and as child' You can look at yourself in the glass like from beneath the grey wisps as meanwhile," remarked Julia, from the they had ever done from under the door, by way of consolation. luxuriant shadow of the ruddy -golden Submissively Fenella remained locks; yet through their very mildness standing upon the spot Julia had there pierced at this moment a deep pointed to, but she no longer saw her agitation. own reflection. Visions of the com- "Oh, Father," exclaimed Fenella, ing event had risen between her and turning quickly towards him. "You her bodily image; for a dance within have just come in time to see my an available distance was an event dress. You know you promised to there. What a splendid idea that had look at it, but I do believe you had been of Mrs. Perkins, the wife of the forgotten!" quarry doctor employed by the com- With a startled sort of surprise, and pany, to celebrate her only daughter's yet with evident blankness,_John gat - corning out in this fashion! Miss ed at the dazzling vision. Perkins, being five feet high, with the "I am afraid I had forgotten,' he well, Sort the fruit over carefully, gait of a duck well prepared for the admitted, in a tone which verged on removing all blemishes and all soft market, could not easily look to more apology. "I came in only to say—" cherries. Remove the stems and disadvantage than she would in a ball- "Has anything .happened, father?:' stones. Pack them into 'sterilized room;is circumstancease enc PLAN FOR NEXT YEAR'S SEED. Select the Best Part of the Field and Give it Special' Attention. - Of 400 farmers visited in Dundas County, Ontario, .by the Commaasion of Conservation, during the summer of 1016, only three were found to be following a really systematic selection of their seed grain; only 23 per cent. were saving the beat part or parts of their fields for seed, Practically all of the farmers visited stated that they cleaned their grain for seed, but it was found that 74 per cent, cleaned it only once through the fanning mill. It is quite plain that sufficient atten- tion is not being paid to the seed grain. It has been shown, time after time, that, other things being equal, the best seed will produce the best crops. Itis, therefore, surprising that not more than 23 per cent. of the farmers were found to be keeping their best grain for seed, and that 74 per cent. cleaned it only once through the mill. If the grain from the best part or parts of the fields is stored and then graded or fanned until all the small and inferior kernels are re- moved, the quality will be greatly im- proved. By improving the seed the net profit on a grain crop can be greatly increased, such action increas- ing the yield a little without increas- ing the cost of production. It is not much trouble to keep apart the best portion of the Crop for seed. It would even pay to give special care to a special lot or small field from which to obtain seed for the following season's crop. There is, perhaps, no- thing on the farm that will give a more profitable, return than the time spent in securing a supply of good seed.' 'Plan now to save the choicest of this year's crop for next spring' seeding, GET READY THE MACHINERY.. Time May be Saved at harvest by Being Prepared. Time is money on the farm at har- vest time. Now is the time to repair the mowers, binders and rakes which will very shortly be required for ser- vice. All machines should be inspect- ed now and, if any parts are broken or missing, they should be obtained immediately, It is much better to se- cure what is needed now than to risk having to make a special trip to town during the busy season, thus causing a serious delay and, possibly, extend- ing the harvesting of the hay or grain crop into wet weather, It is also an excellent plan to keep on band a few extra pieces or parts which need fre- quent renewing, such as knife sec- tions, canvas slats, reel slats and braces, rivets, etc. These are conveni- ent to have and will often save time and annoyance. Clean out the oil cups and oil all running parts of the machinery a few days before it is to be used. This will allow the oil to penetrate to the bear- ings, and permit the machine to quick- ly get into smooth running order. The knives should all be sharpen- ed and in readiness. These things should be particularly attended to this year. Help is scarce, production is needed, and if crops are to be saved with a's little loss as possible good management must prevail. It is good business to be ready for the harvest season. Do it now. Some people's idea of war economy is to save ten cents painfully and spend ten- dollars joyfully. Preserving Cherries. cold water and used immediately after Cherries are ripening and may be taking them from the solution. They canned, preserved, made into jams, can be used for ..oft boiling up to No - jellies or spiced. To can cherries vember, frying until December, and wash the fruit thoroughly, then drain after that until March for omelettes„ scrambled and in cooking. The Useful'Tomato. Outside of such staples as potatoes but this could not asked Fenella, standing still to gaze jars and cover with boiling water or a and beans there is pkobrbly no vege- table that is more prized and more of irresponsible guests. She furnished "Yes; something has happened. syrup made of sugar and water, us - the used all the around re the pretext and that was enough. There has been a bad accident at the ing the formula:One cupful sugar, two geform or than year around in Viewed in this light, Fenella was even quarries—a premature explosion, it and one-half cupfuls water. Place in one form osanother easily, butahave oes. prepared to admire her, seems. Adam is half -killed, they say, a sauce pan and bring to a boil. Cook I growthey Presently, in the mirror, Fenella and Duncan too is hurt. I must be for five minutes. Place the rubbers an enemy that you must be on the met the eyes of her brother fixed upon off to them at once. I came in to and lids in position, partially fasten watch for—a large green worm so her earnestly and a little severely. tell Jalia that I shall require nothing them, then place the jars in a hot wa-' nearly the color of the plant he feeds "Fenella," he said, in the same mo- m"Oh! -night.' upon that it is hard to detect it in spite nt. "Oh!" said Fenella, genuinely start)- ter bath and process for thirty minutes "Yes, Bertie?" ed, and yet with the thought cross- after the boiling starts. Now re-, of its site. This must be knocked off "You remember all that Julia and I ing her mind that surely—oh, surely, move, fasten the tops securely, invert . and destroyed or sprayed with arsen- to test for leaks, then label and storejate of lead. in a cool place. I Tomatoes can be used in more ways fes —Stem and'than any other vegetable. For can - told you yesterday?" this was not going to interfere with "About not giving too many dances the evening's programme! to one person?" "Poor fellows! This is bad luck, "About not giving them to the certainly," remarked Albert, with a • Hing one must choose perfect fruit in stone the cherries. Weigh after sten-', wron persons. To the right ones subtle stiffening of tone; "that is to' , good condition, Dip them in hot you magive as many as you like." say, if it is true. You know how ing, allowing one-half pound of sugar , water for a few minutes and then re - "I'm afraid I'll be so excited that I'll thick the color is laid on whenever; to each pound of cherries. To each move the skins, cut them up and place mix up the right ones and the wrong anything happens in the quarries. pound of sugar allow one-half cupful ii an almuinum or procelain lined lace ones." Really, father, you shouldn't take on, ef water. Place in a saucepan and tie and add a level teaspoonful of saltket- "I hope not. You can't have already so. until you know how matters stand."' stir un 11 well dissolve. Bring to a! forgotten all the directions I gays you. "What's he not to take on about?" boil and cook for five minutes, then add for each quart. Bring slowly to a boil, And mind that even if Mr. Berrell inqun•ed Julia s high voice, as she ap- two pounds of prepared cherries. Cook should not ask you at once, you must geared behind her father, her massive after the boiling point is reached for keep at least two dances, in case he shoulders and arms emerging triumph- twelve minutes, then fill into glass asks you later." antly from, a blue tulle gown. "But if he doesn't ask me at all?" The minister hastily explained. "That could only be through your (To be continued.) own fault. He can't help noticing; you, since he isn't blind; and after, A Blind Editor. that—well, I don't know how women manage these things, but if you play your cards at all well, he is bound to ask you." I'll do what I can," said Fenella, a little doubtfully. "But—but some- body was saying the other day that he is very ugly." "Ugly? Not a bit of it! IIe's a very striking looking man; and be- sides, he's the only eligible person for miles around. His income must be at least eight hundred; and he'll mount Whall, by means of the Braille system, higher, for he has no want of push.1 Poor father never thinks of these, was able to take up reporting on a things, of course; but I should not be! weekly newspaper. In 1891 he was doing my duty as your brother if I did appointed editor of the Middlesex not call your attention to what may be I Chronicle. stirring frequently, and boil for at least half an hour. If you are using the screw top type, jars. Place the rubber and top in immerse the jars, tops and rubbers in position and partially tighten; now boiling water. Remove the jars one place the jars in a hot water bath and at a time, place a rubber around the process for ten minutes after the boil- neck and fill with the boiling hot toma- Mr. John Whall has the distinction ing strats. toes. Take the top of the jar from of being the only blind journalist in Cherry Jam.—Three-quarters pound the boiling water, being careful not to England. The son of a Crimean and st mined and stoned' touch the inside with the fingers for veteran, Mr. Whall had the misfortune of losing his eyesight when quite a child. After completing his educe - sugar, one po a fear of introducing spores into the jar, cherries. Place in a saucepan and and screw it on tightly. Invert the cook until thick. Fill into jelly glasses; jar and let it stand in this position un_ allow the jam to cool, and then cover il cold. Have everything sterile that tion at a London college for the blind, the gasses with parowax. Seal and is put into the jar. When using a he became organist at Hounslow store in the usual manner for jellies. spoon, fork or cup with the tomatoes Parish Church, a position which he Cherry Jelly.—Cherries do not make first immerse it in f oiling water. held for nearly thirteen years. Turn- good jelly, owing to the absence of Another method of canning tome- ing his attention to writing, Mr, pectin. This pectin may be added in toes is to take off the skins and drop form of apples. Peel one large lembn the tomatoes, as nearly whole as Dos - very thin, discarding the peel. Cut sible into wide-mouth peeled. lemon in small pieces. Cut jars. Pack a sufficient number of apples in small them in until the jar is full and add pieces to measure three cupfuls, then add: Three pounds cherries, one quart water. Place in a saucepan and cook until soft enough to mash. strain in Don't PAINT YOUR SHOES FEED them With 4 ,shoe Polish "Nugget" does not put on a surface shine that disappears In an hour. "Nugget" feeds the leather. Keeps yottr shoes soft, makes them waterproof and gives a brilliant shine that will last all day, Ask for "Nugget" at your dealers. BLACK, TAN, TONEY RED, DARK BROWN, 10o. per tin, "TAsrr DARE ON :ova as OLO." one level teaspoonful of salt to each quart. Put on the rubber and top and fix the spring to leave the top loose and allow the steam to escape dur- ingthe usual manner for jellies and meas- the twang. t ure the juice, allowing an equal meas- In the wash boiler or sterilizer set as ure of sugar. Return the juice to as many jars upon the false bottom the preserving kette and boil ten min- the boiler will conveniently hold and nice, Then add the sugar. Cook pour in enough cold or tepid water to until it jellies when tried on a cold come about two inches up on the jar. saucer, usually about eight or nine co is not immersery to have the jars saucer, If a thermometer is used, ing; the y immersed the during the bot cook until 221 degrees Fahrenheit is ing; the steam does cooking. Put. reached. the top on the boiler and set it on the 5 How to Preserve Eggs. Eggs must be fresh and perfectly infertile; the shells must be clean and free from cracks. A single cracked egg may cause the whole batch to spoil. Get water glass solution from the drug store, dilut., with nine parts of cool boiled water and place eggs in small crocks containing the water glass. The solution should cover the eggs to a depth of two inches above the topmost layer of eggs. Cover the erock and place in a cool place where it will not have to be moved about. Repave the water which evaporates with cool boiled water occasionally, Limewater may be used in place of water glass, Make the solution with 2141 pounds of unslaked limo in five gallops of cool boiled water and use N, 13.—A course in Domestic the clear liquid after the lime settles. Science, complete in twenty-five los- dontainers for eggs must be clean and sons, will commence next week. If should be scalded with hot water after you clip out the lessons as they appear washing. and paste in a scrap -book you will Eggs preserved in water glaas or have the complete series for future re• liniewater should be rinsed in clean, ference, stove; bring to a boil and sterilize for one hour. Remove the top of the boiler, allow the steam to escape and press down the spring at the aide of the jar. This will clamp on the top and prevent any outside air from get- ting in. In the vast majority of cases this one sterilization is all the treatment that is necessary, but it is not always safe to rely on it, As relishes and flavorings there are numerous ways in which tomatoes may be used, This year it is not recom- mended that the green tomatoes be used for chow -chow and other pickle combinations, as it is better to let everything mature and ripen so that the supply will go further to meet the great dentand. 'ROTECTING WATER SUPPLY. 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Writing to lier friends in the United States, a nurse gives extracts from the letters she receives from French soldiers wild have been nursed at her convalescent home. Our great source of joy is the de- liverance of our towns and villages. The letters of some of my soldiers, though often most illiterate, are act: ually hymns of joy. Unfortunately the gist is lost in the translating. One • man writes, "What happiness, my vil- lage is now in the hands of our brave French soldiers!" But a pang of anguish seizes him, for he has as yet no news of the family he left there— old parents, a young wife and four little children—did they remain there through all the fighting, and will he soon see them? Or have they been taken off into captivity, farther even from him than they were ' before? Many are living through these alternations of hope and fear. Many also have the hope of long ,months dashed to the groend, and the `pgtient waiting must begin again for them Another, a more fortunate one, writes: "I wish to tell you that I have found my little family. They were at C— when the French troops enter- ed, and now we are at last reunited. They suffered greatly during the oc- cupation, but are well now. We will come to see you some Sunday" (this man lost a leg at Verdun. His bro- ther is a prisoner in Germany). Joy and Sadness. Still another: "I'm out of it once more, out of the blazing furnace. 1 was made a sergeant on the field of honor. We entered the town four days ar,o under the bursting shells. The church bells were ringing all the morning and the few remaining inhab- itants had put on their Sunday best. It was a fete day; and we were satis- fied that in all this joy there was a good share of our efforts. We have made a big push and captured many prisoners, and even at the rear the number of our celebrated battalion flies from mouth to mouth, and how- ever mud-becoated we may be, a great welcome is given us wherever we pass. You cannot fancy what this de- vastation means. Even the papers`' give no idea of it. , . . What was my - joy to find my sister-in-law and her child, also two aunts—but alas, my two young girl cousins each with a German baby. Think of thc horrible thing! How can they return among us? We dare not think of it, and the future lies before us all terribly black." Innocent Victims of War. One of my faithful young soldiers of twenty-two, who has come to Inc after each, of his three wounds, has just written me: "Your servant is lying in a, hospital near the front, not restored yet because of all the blood he has lost, and a bad heart owing 'io shock from bursting shells. The hospital is outside the town and therefore expos- ed to the enemy's fire. Most every evening German aircraft are flying above us and we can see the effect of the bombs as they fall on the city. A terrible strain it is for those poor wo- men and children, to be awakened by that infernal noise, to see the flames, and to hear the crackling of the fires lit about them. It wrings my heart to read the terror on the poor haggard faces of those innocent victims." "For God and Country." From a Belgian private: "In . spite of all we will hold out, for we are fighting for God and country." Time and again my French soldiers have used the same words, proving the same ideal. They are all so pene- trated with the justice of their cause that they feel that it is actually "for God." Allow me to close these extracts with one from yet another young son of martyred Belgium, a poor miner of ' twenty-one: "We feel we are fighting to redeem our clear homes over there, II know you will think me brave, and I take pride in that feeling; and yet I only fight like any other. I sleep in the mud, I fear the shells, and I long for a cozy little bed; but since I must keep on fighting for peace, I will stick it to the end. Should I, however, keep .ilent some day, do not accuse me of ingratitude, In his turn the little sol- dier would be dead, that is all." Ditk He Wished to Read. "Nurse," moaned the convalescent patient, "can't I have something to eat? I'm starving." "Yes, the doctor said you could start taking solids to -day, but you must be- gin slowly," she said. Then she held out a teaspoonful of tapioca, "We must only advance by degrees," she added. Ile sucked the spoon dry, and felt more tantalizingly hungry than ever, He begged for e. second spoonful, but she shook her hear, saying that every. thing at the start must be done in similarly small proportions. Present- ly he summoned her again to his bed. aide. • "Nurse," he snid, "bring me a post- age stamp; 1 want to read,"