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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1912-08-08, Page 3• -arra) TUB WIIITE OR, WHAT THE THRUSH SAID. CRAMER V1.—(0od) Pie wae a quiet, little fellow, and was • glad of hi company. We shared our cop- pers while they lasted, and when they Were spent we foraged for food by day and slept .in the streets by night. Some- times we got a box to carry, or a horse to bold, axid,earned a few pence by that. 33iit bread woe dear, arid nines were hard, and we could barely keep body and soul together. . I eonld get no work. Trade tans slack, mane raen were out of employment, and my muorance of the eity, as well as inY provincial dialect, were against ine, sold my spare shirt, then my waistcoat; then I sold mY Pew boots and bought Some old one, netting a shilling on the exchange, but at the end of a week we were at the end of Our tether, and 'steno - tion Oared us in the face. • It was a Friday night, wet aud diemal, and after many fruitless efforts to earn the price of a crust, we stole into a court off Drury Lane, and went to sleep in a doorway which afforded some shelter from the rain. • When I awoke in the morning I found Mreelf alone- Barra had gone, and had pinned to neY coat his note cif farewell, written on a bit of tho Margin of a news. Dever. The note said aimply: Good-bye; T'm off. Thank you for being io geed to me. Look to .yourself. X will try the road. Beep up your merits.— Yours, Barry. P.S.—If you can't hold out, try the soldiers. It was useless to look for him. He might be miles away by this. I walked down to the dook gates and tried for a...job; but there was a crowd, and the men shoul• ,derete me out of their way. each one try. ing to get Bret, and I was too miserable to fight. Why should I? What did it matter? I left the dooks and wandered about the streets ter nightfall,when untie my way to the poliee-office to ask tor a ticket for the menial ward at Clerk. enwell Workhouse; for it was raining, and the wind wits oold, and I waii wearied out. There was a strange mob or vagranta camping round the entrance to the police - Mace waiting for the doors to open. I set down on the pavement close to a mid. dleaged woman in a ragged frock aud a dirty red shawl, She was a swarthy wo- man, her skin tanned by long exposure to the weather. She wore no bonnet, and was smoking a short black pipe. 1 watched her for some thins, and thought what a bold, hard, wicked face she had, aed at length, more from curiosity to hear her speak than from any desire for -information, I ventured to ask her a ques- tion about the tickete. She turned upon me with a scowl, which gradually melted away, as sbe looked at me, and at lest seid, not unkindly, "What do you want to know for, boy.? 'You're not going to Clerkenwell, are you?" I said I was, She sat emoking for a few minutee, then took hor Pipe from her lips, and stroking her ehin with her great brown hand, mid, very much to my surprise, "You mustn't; no, you mustn't. You're only it boy, and not used to no kind o' ;wickedness, 1 can see. Don't you go, boy; don't you go." "I have no other place tosleep," I said. She shook her b,ead. 'Sleep in the Streets; hoe, sleep on the bridges; allY, where but there. It's the worst work- houee in all London. No, yott mustn't "But you are going," I hinted. * Tee woman laughed. "Ole me," she said. "It's good enough for Me, But you are different. Ah, don't be irtubborn. Take an old woman's advice. Ite; a cruel place. Don't go, don't go." "I'm not a °bed," I said. She laughed again, not pleasantly, and answered, "You know nothini. nothin'. know it all. Been through it all." Then, very earnestly, she continued, leaning demo to me; "Be advised now. Be 'told. I know those places; and I've had sons of me own. Don't go, don't go. D'ye hear?" I reee up wearily from the pavement. will Wm your advice," I said. She nodded, and put the pipe back in her mouth. "Good," she said, "good boy. Now you'ra talkite," and turned be at- tention another wee', I Wandered through the mud and rain as tar as London Bridge. Then' •being wet . and cold, I turned into one ofthe neon gm and was about to take poesession of a oorner when, reaching out my hand, / felt it Duelled away, and a girlie voice said, "What do you went? Pied a place of your own." I turned away, but . as I left the recess looked baoh, and eaw a young girl sit- ting up ngainet the wall of the bridge lookieg at me. She was thinly oladt bare. headed, and without shawl. he rani was falling steadily; and the east wind was oIiilly enough for March. It was no won- der, then, that the girl shivered and hud. died herself together in her diurnal corner. I left ber and aniseed the bridge, but the wan face, so .hin. so very young, geemed constantly before My OW. and I returned and spoke to her, "What are you doing there?" I asked. She answered my question by asking another—"Who are your "An outoaet, like yourself," I said. She stood up, and coming close to me, looked' fearlessly in my face. "I see," she maids "you're lodging on the wrong side of the door, llave you got a bit of bread about Your shook my bead, The girl, with a shiver and a sigh, turned away and sat down again in her eorner. "Well," she said, "blood'e warm, chommy; conte and sit aside o' me." I set beside ber, putting my arms around her, and she nestled against my shoulder, and wo .were friends directly. She woe an affectionate little creature, and as grateful for my company as I was for here. Leaning her wet hair .against my breast, and holding my right hand &Mg- ingly in her cold, damp flngere, she told me, in the plaintive Balt -London tone, the history of her young unhappy life. I was touched to the quick, and felt as though r would 'have given my life most obeerfully to save her front the tender "' mercies of that cruel city. But I was penniless, friendlem; I could not help her, I could only comfort her, I put myself between her and the vied, I tied my neakerchief ever her head, and holding ,her olose to me used all the words of sympathy and kindness which such an Uncouth fellow as I could command, and ma she fell asleep, and slept for hours in the wind and rain, while I sat watching her and wonderieg how in wealthy Lon. don 'seoh things alight be. Very early in the morning the market seats began to rumble over the bridge. The child -women awoke, and looked at me with a anille. •-"vre onus go," she said; "early rieini sie late breakfasts is the rule in •this lipes-•••- hotel." She got up shivering, and tried to etiaighten her hair with her fingers. "Where aro you Being?" I coke& With you, if you like,". the said; "nei- ther of no has nothin'; and we might as well share." I shook tny head. "No," said I, "not that Dot me see if 5 can get a few cop- pers for 104.• "You're, not going to give me the slip ?" she said. hand, and her eyes fixed upon ine with a strangely wistful look, as she echoed my -geodtbYe," and then the groat human river swallowed her up and I saw her Ito 10080. But the expression of tier oyes haunted me, and my heart ached at the reoollee- -Mon. It was a strange look, and had in it soinething more than sadneen. I know now what I only dimly imagined then, that in the gloomy world of poverty there gra so many soule starved to death for lack of 'eve as bodies for lack of food. In a city of throe million Christians that poor girl was famishing 'for one little moreel of human synioathY. ' Two days after I and live other piece's ef social drift -wood Were looked up in a eattle-van on the South -Western Railway and bundled off to Devonport to join the South Munster Regiment We reached barracks ablaut six in the evening, and were taken before the ser- geant-Da/tier, who eyed tis disparagingly, anked which prison we had swamped from, andtold the orderly to "March 'em to the tramp -ward and lend 'era along scrubber and some sand till they clone theinselveg." ,The receiving -room, or, trente Ward, as the sergeantMajor called it, was very dull. and I soon became so melanoholy that I could not bear to remain alone. I therefore walked out into the lines, and hearing loud shouts of laughter and a noisy babel of talk proceeding from a square brick house of one storey. I an - preached and found it was teo canteen. / went in. About a hundred soldiers, alI dressed in shell Jackets and the hideous ICilmarnook caps, were lounging on forms round a big, low -roofed room. Most or them were smoking short clay nines, and all. of them were drinhing beer out of pewter pots. The noise was deafening. Some were singing, some talking, or rather shouting, one was playing on a tin whistle, and in the centre of the crowd, where a ring had been cleared, two men, stripped to the waist, were fencing with single-stieks. They were both big and powerful mem and well matched. They fougbt with a kind of savage good humor, giving and taking very severe hite without winoing, and all the while keeping up a great stamping and laughing, mixed with vol- leys of the most horrible imprecatione. One of them 'had a great MA across the nose, and another lest at the parting of his hair, from which the blood was trick. ling. Ms opponent's right arm was red and swollen, and Won his face were tWo broad purple weals edged with crimeon.• whieh, added to tho fact that he 'had only one eye, and that his teeth wore large and prominent, gave him a very terrible ap- pearance. He was evidently a favorite with the oro)vd, who cheered him continually, eali- iog to him by his siekname of "Blood all' 011118," to "pale the hoide elf him," and to "make him smell timber." BIM once, when the other man got in a sharp out on the ear, there arose a ory of "Well bit, Buether, sure be's ito guard a on" 5.0 which "Blood an' Duns" replied, with many' oaths, "Thrue for yez, Banshee, der - lin', but wait till I'm aftlier puttin' a new mouth an the roof my him, an' it's the decent batin give yam," and at that instant "Buster" reoeived a terrific, cut on the nose, and in the return broke hie stick amen his opponent's skull. °This ended the bout, mid tbe two Conl. batauts, laughing, swearing and wiping the blood ' from their faces, made their way to the conifer and called for half a gallon of porter, wbioli was served in a tin °am from which they drank in turns. As for me, 5 had Been enough, and was making ray way to the door, when is hand was laid upon tny shoulder. X turned and 8517 "Blood and Guns" standing before "Hould on there, ',entity," said he; "yem belangs to us now, and'll bo afther dl. soririn' to pity yere footin' out o' yore bounty, avialr." I went book to the eounter and paid for half a gallon of beer, which was band- ed routid atnongst the dozen men who had followed inc. and Duns " or, to give him his correct name, Dennis Oassidy, drauk fire. "What'e yere name, 'entity?" he asked. I said. "William Romer." "Boded, thin," mid he, "we'll iist ohne- ten yet the Pilgrim for yme distIngulalled air o' misery. Have yes brought yore bands wid yo?" "I don't know what you meen," I said. "Mane, is it?" said Dennis, "I mane the use av ,thim, ate it's mighty green yez are. But this is an ()Irish ridgiment, and Jist 'aye to foight or turn tailor." I said I was no eghting man, upon which Dennis shrugged his eboulders con • temptuously, and. saying, "Thin plaze God Yea needs be a good runner," turned and shouted to a tall young fellow at tbe other end of the rooro, "Micky, Micky, ye divil, come here avick, and make the wel- come to this 'cruity." The young soldier,, with a broad, good- humored snuile on his facie. 'mile over to rae and ,held out his hand. "God save yea. 'cruity," he Said, "and the dive make gem welcome," I shook halide with. him, and the next instant received a sharp box on the ear. Dennis at once elbowed hie way into the centre of the room. "A ring, boys, a iiing!" he .cried, and before I knew what was going on 5 found tayeelf sitting ou Boater's knee, while the young Irishman rt opposite to sne• on the knee of Dennis, iiling pleasantly, as if the whole thing wits a 10110, As, indeed it was to the South Munster men. I had no wish to fight, but I could not escape. I stood up aulkily and defended myself without striking back for gome minutes, but a couple of nasty blown in the face and the jeees of the onlookers at my supposed cowardice roused my anger, and I made a sudden mei, hit out iously, and sent My opponent down with a heavy blow on the temple. Imagine nig Surprise When he tamped up laughingly and called out, "Well hit, 'entity, give Ile yere mitten," and the °thee men applauded, and breaking up the ring, came crowding round, me with hearty congratulations. "Yell do, boy, ye'll do," said Dennis; "12 yell only look more pleasant ye'll be Joel, and make it a rale trate for a mrade to CO ht wid er " But when 1 refused to drink with thesn. they were fairly netonished, and 1 left Buster and Dennis standing with open mouths, and young Micky looking on with an expression which said plainly that he Was deceived in me. After this I went no niore to the can- teen, but sat in my own antler of an ev- ening' and moped dismally. In the day. time I was kept well employed at drill. The drill was almost inceesant, and the drill instructors Jor the most part were brutal bullies. I hear that the army is much altered since my time. I gra Clad of it; there was abundant room for. im- provement. CHAPTER VIII. The worst of all the inetructon was an English corporal named Estee. / comely - ed an intense hatred for this fellow at first sight, and be returned it. 'I could do nothing right for hixn, and es he gener- ally drilled ray squad,he managed to make my life more miserable than ever. Yet I waa 80 .2)1101180011017 and took such small heed of what Paseed around roc that I never rebelled against his tyranny nor resented Inc insults, until one afternoon when, having exhausted all his, stook of proftunitY, he auddenly rushed up to me and said: "Yon blockhead! If your sister had no more Renee then you—e Be never finished the sentence. Withont it thought of the consequences I struck just OS I had struck Bloch !tack, and he fall in a heap upon the gravel. There WPM a la.nce-corpbriut named En- nis acting a• aSsistant instructor, and this nmae, seeing hie euperior attacked, palled" OW to the men Of . the hound to seize me. But my Wood, was op. I tripped one mom knocked another down, and 0111 across the leered° and through the side goes into the road, with a dozen i'eeruite est raY hee/s. It was a steep road, a•nd at the hand of it stood it sentry„ • As 1 approaehed he Mune to the charge, and eelled upon Inc to hall. 8 wade a sudden term veulted the wall into a Meld, and got into the high -road leading totvards ealtash, Here I had a straight run •with 18 clear front, anti behind me, at a dietance of about Bite yards, the lance,corporal and sten of My .squad. Per a time nay DUI% suers kept well togenher and Maintained a good speed; but after going about half a mile' r tooled heck and saw that' only 8100 of them 18000 likely to give 010 any "I'm nothing to nobody, I ain't," she geld, her eyes filling with tears; but you won't leave it, poor girl all aeone„will you, ehopuny?e '1 said would tome ba.c.k if I was olive. She gave me tier hand then, end I bent down ar4 kissed her. I had never Mimed a woman before.. And, bidding him eheor up, I sel off morose the bridge, • When8 had ,gene hundred yards or so 1. heard e whistle, and looking beck saw the little creature standing on the eeat of the bridge waving my neekerehief Pa a eignal of fereWell. And then, thinking ,of 1110 lister, who bad been a mother to me—God,' blees her —2 went down to the Tower Gates aud 000 listed for a soldier. And en poor Carrie got a splendid shil- CHAPTER vn, I hal-not tbe heart to tell poor Carrie what I had done, or that I was going away from her for good, I gaVe her the elitiling, and saying 5 had Borne work th do, and would meet her in the evening, bade her goodhye. She ethed at the end of tho bridge, a little way out of the orowd, with 1350 seilling °limped in her SIMPLIFY ' YOIJR COOKING Much of the pleasures of life ie lost in the worry of preparing meals. Bovril in the hands of a resourceful woman solves the 151< 1.1001, Bovril stirred simply into hot water and flavored to taste makes an excellent bouillon, Meats reiteated have their original flavor reamed and onhanoed by a little . Bovril b'andwithee aro in oonstant demand by old and young, espeolallY by children. Doeril Tea,— hot or cold—eau be served at any 'thee with erathers, and as a last thing at night to induce sound sleep, hot /300011 iO 11.110q1101106. trouble, Theae wen> two brothers named Daly. They were about the eame «18 bane behind me, and were coming on at a steady. Winging pace like practised runners. I decided to try, first of all, to make the Pace too hot for them, and failing that, to pump them out ai much as I could, and, then turn suddenly- itrici attack them. Ac- eordingly I put on a .spart for a hum dred yards, and then looked round again. They had not responded. I had gained upon them, but they were still running with the same eteady, businese-like ethele. They meant staying. The road 'dipped at this point, running through a thiek vrood, where the birds were singing and where I could see the wild ilOwers gleaming amongst the trees Ea 5 linseed them. Again I quickened my pace, and agaiii 5 looked round, and saw the brothers coning on steadily, shoulder to shoulder. If 5 could only put land enough betwixt us I might sllp -them yet. At the bottom of the hill woe a little hamlet, with an inn on the right-hand side of the road, and before this inn a group of countrymen sat on benches drinking. As I came up at racing epeed they rose, and one of them ran into the middle of the way to atop me. I made ail if I would pose him on the left; but itti he reached out his arm I' doubled the other Way, and 'latching him off hie bal- ance, puelted hhn into the dust. Ms corn- Panions burst into a hoarse laugh, and he got up and shook the dirt off his clothes, but made no attempt to follow me. And I ran on without looking back Lor a. good quarter of an hour. ,When 5 did look back the Dalys were nearly half a mile behind, but still com- ing on at the game rate. Ahead of ine the road ran nearly straight, but as the cottages and gardens 87010 getting more numerous along its edges, I concluded I mut be nearing a village. I therefore turned off along a narrower road which branched to the loft. and went on at my best pace for a good mile. . was still running at my to speed, and had a nests' :ditch coming in my side, when there sudenly appeared from a way a butcher -boy driving rapidly in a light cart drawn by a strong mare. I dropped into a walk at once, and as tbe cart came up with me called upon the boy to stop. Ho reinedf up, and asked me sharply what I wanted. I told him I wanted a lift in his cart, but he refused very curtly, arid was whip- ping up his mare, when I called out that I would give hire five shillings if he would take Me a couple of males. This produced the desired effeot. Re pulled up again, I got into the cart, and we drove on at a brisk trot. "You seem in a mighty hurry, soldier," said the buteber-boy, "Yes," said 1; "I'm late of pass, and if 5 don't get to Saltash before roll-eall I shall be made a prisoner." Ile glanced at me yrather rompiciousle, but drove on. I looked back and saw the two Dalys 'turning the bond of tile road. When they saw what had happened they halted and tried to shoat, but they were too much puntped out to smelt. For a minute they leaned against the bank as if to got their breath, then they came on again. (To be continued.) Persian Woman in Street Attire. Her face is shrouded in a veil, re- lieved only by an inset piece of net- work that allows the wearer to see where she is going. KING WHO WOULD BE IsOVF,D. An eccentric monarch was Fred- erick the Great, whom his subjects called "Olcl Fritz." Ono clay, in passing along the streets of Berlin, he noticed that a maPb loft the side- walk as he approached and creamed over to the 'other side of the street. The king called him hack, aed ask- ed why he had &me se. • The poor fellow began to teen -utile, and stammered, "13ecause—you are --the king, and 1—am afreid of you." "Afraid of me 1" shouted the monarch. "I don't want my sub- jects to be afraid of me, bat to love me. I will teach you a lesson !" and he began to beat the man with' his mune, erying out : '"Next time when you meet me, don't eross the street, but greet me with eyes that betoken love ! Do you understand?'' , And the unlucky culprit, cringing beneath the vigorous blows of the royal walking -stick, promised that he would not fear but love the king MEMORY MAKES THE MAN. Ntemory is an excellent quality, 'and every business demands a spe- vial memory adapted to its particu- lar needs. \. Take the dector, for example He has to know the hu- man body bettee than. its -very owner, and"must car0 in his mind, perhaps 1.011(10 '81 little pointe that may be heeded for futere reference. Medieal eternory is quite as impor- tant as medical knowledge. Every lawyer is obliged to know, as a child knows its alphabet, the prin- nililez nf law, and:the judge must carry his training memory even fur- ther. Naturally, elergymen must allow their enemovies to ran upon religious matters, 'end there are many divines, who can literally re- peat whole chaptera from the Scrip- tures. Each profession, each busi- ness has use for a man whese me- ory can be trained for the one pui pose of applying it to the particular vocation in which he is eagaged 17163E1 0 .1V0,,6•0b4v.,•,* • w‘iid DAINTY DISHES. Nut and Vegetable Pie.—One eup fDesh lima beans (the dry ones telll do), one cup almonds and peanuts naixed, one cup thin white eauee, two hard-leolled eggs, two or three smell onions sliced, six medium- sized potatoes, seasoning of salt and pepper. Wash one-half of the po- tatoes, cook the beans and pota- toes and blanch the nuts. Place a layer of beans in the bott,orn of the baking dish, then a layer of -nuts and egg, followed by a layer of diced potatoes. Repeat until the materials have been 'used, Pour over all thewhite sauce. Cover the top with the mashed potato, brush over with egg and milk and bake for thirty minutes in a, hot oven. Apple Meringue Pie.—Ohootie ripe, juicy apples; pare and cook until tender; season with nutmeg and lemon; sweeten to taste; press through a sieve and fill a nicely baked shell with the mixture. Cover with a meringue made by beating to a, stiff froth two or three egg whites and adding a tablespoon of powdered sugar to each white. Fla- vor to taste. Bake in a moderate oven until meringue is firra. Cheese Souffle.—Two tablespoons butter, three tablespoonflour, one half oup milk, one-half teaspoon salt, a dash of paprika, three-quar- fere cup grated cheese and three eggs. Make a- white sauce of the butter, flour and milk in a double boiler. Add seasonings and grated cheese and stir until the cheese melts. Remove from the> hot 'water! and add the well -beaten yolks of eggs. Allow the mixture to cool then out and fold in the stiffly -beat- en whites. Turn into a buttered baking dish and bake in a moderate oven -very slowly, It ie well to stand, any custard or souffle mixture in a pan ef hot water to avoid cooking too quickly. This mixture may be baked and served 6 individual inolds or ramekins. Stuffed Tomato Salad. --Choose sinall tomatoes, remove the skins a,nd pulp. Fill with either clicescr'tlu- cumber and onion or with ea,bbage end green pepper salad. Serve on freak nasturtium leaves, using blos- soms for garnish. Frozen Pudding.—One quart milk, four eggs, three-quarters cup sugar, one-quarter pound each of dates, fags and nuts, vanilla. Make a soft custard of the milk, eggs and sugar. When cool freeze, adding the fruits when belt frozen. Sour Crease 0ookies.—One eup shortening, 000 cup sour cream, two cups light brown sugar, two eggs, one teaspoon soda.. Flour to make dough soft enough to handle. Flavor as desired, This makes a soft cooky. Glorified Rice.—Two tablespoons rice, washed and cooked in salted water and well di -wined; one-fourth box gelatin soaked in one-quarter cup cold water, one cup of cream whipped, one-quarter eup sugar. Any kind of fruit, dates, prunes, cherries, peaches, etc. Dihsolve the hydrated gelatin over hot water. Whip the cream and oda to it the sugar, rice and ,gelatin. Turn int() a mold rinsed with cold water. Part of the fruit may be added to the mixture, or it may be arranged at- tractively on the serving dish. Serve with soft custard or whipped cream. Fresh fruits, such as berries, peach- es or plums, are more apropriate at this time of the year. Hard -Cooked Egg and. Noodle &alb:we—Boil eggs until heed. Cook noodlee in boiling water un- til tender. Arrange alternating layers of noodles and sliced eggs in buttered baking dish; covering each layer with thin white sauce. Have layer of mushrooms in the mid- dle. Cover the top with buttered crumbs and grated cheese. Bake anitil very hot. it had been sho-wn with portal -lay that moh animal life played an portant part in the transmission of disease. Two varieties of mosquitoes are conceded to be absolutely neees eary to the transinigsion, reaPes: tively,. of malaria and of seallow fe- ver, sance the organism that causes 'these diseases must first undergo a complicated series of changes in the body of tho insect before it is cap- able of producing a new case. Thus, the mosquito bites a yel- low -fever patient and takes the micro-organism into its body, and there for some 12 days it is develop- ed to the stage of maturity, after which time seal eot before the mos- quito can tonvey the disease by bit- ing. In such cases the insect is called an "intermediary host." Both diseases are now successfully fought by exterminating the breed- ing places of the mosquito and by the screening of dwellings.. The canal zone, with the cities of Pana- ma and Colon, are the best ex- amples of this method. The case against flies is well proved and yet they are. allowed to infect the joint of meat exposed by the butcher, the bread and sweetmeete of the confectioner's counter, ber- ries and other fruits, the edge of milk pails, the kitchen table and utensils and ih_e fond of our table. USEFUL HINTS. Ink stains are sometimes remov- ed by goaking in sour niilk and then rinsing in a weak solution' of chlor- ide of lime. Iron rust stains yield to the fills 'lowing treatment Soak the stain in lemon juice, sprinkle with salt and bleach several hours in the sun. Fine ginghams and percales will emerge from the tub with the gloss and dressing of new material if dipped iia sweet ming instead of starch. Bread boards and other WOOdell utensils may be kept white and stainless by scrubbing with soap and lukewarm water, to which may be added a little common arida or household ammonia. When cooking spinach cook in a cheesecloth bag, easily lifted and drained dry. A. teaspoonful of glycerin added to the rinse water makes woollen blankets come • oet like- new. An ordinary dish mop, moistened with kerosene is better than rag or brush to remove dust coils. In a mixture of two ounces of salt to a pint of water good eggs will be found to sink, while indif- ferent ones will always fleet. To take out a, scorch frona a shirt- front, or any article, lay it where the sunshine will fall on it. It will leave it clean and white. Canned fruit should be ope-ned an hour or tees before it is uscel. 11 becomes richer after the oxygen of the air has been restored to ib. Next time you make mustard, mix it with milk instead of water, and you will find that it will not become dry, bub will keep fresh until it is used e To keep yolk of eggs fresh, if onl,y the white is needed, cover the yolks gently with a little cold water so as not to break it, and it will keep fresh several days. Never allow silver to stand over- night without washing. If impos- eible to "do dishes,," take enough time to wa,sh the eilver in warm water, wipe it dry, and pub it away careftilly. FLIES AND FOOD, The intelligent housekeeper of this generation has at her command a wealth of scientific knowlede.e that may be applied to the solution of problems in home sanitation. Of great value are the means which have been devised to prevent the spread of disease by insects oeid other forms of animal life. In the nature of things the importance of this matter was not recognized until A good way to Use up odd pieces of soap is to put them all into a pan with a little wailer and let simmer until dissolved. Add enough sil- ver sand to form a stiff paste, roll into balls, and set in a cool place to harden. This will be fotand ex- cellent for scrubbing kitchen tables, wooden doors, etc. Loops for hanging garments are always wearing out and breaking, particularly on cloaks and coats. To make a durable loop cut.a strip of kid from an old kid glove, roll into it a piece of coarse straug, and sew the edges of tehe kid neatly together. This loop, fastened securely to ae garment, will stand any amount of pulling without wearing or break- ing. —se SUMMED UP HIS CASE, "You DeVer get what you want irt the restaurant," saiel the irri- table person. • "You can if you know how to or- der," replied the mei, eareastie man. "If I want something cool ask for a cup of hot coffee, and if. 1 want something warm I asked for iced tea." eianfel,1 LOOK e42 FOR, THEI3LUC PACHAitt Jae CAREFULT01 SitE THAT LABELON _PACKAGt IS BLUE.. NO OTHER COLOP EVER USED ON 1 ROYAL YEAST fitEMeMBER THE COLO* BLUE E.W.GILLETT CO. LTD, • 'TORONTO es- ONT. "FUNG-SRUI." Superstition Has a Strong Reid en the Chinese. , The first telegraph -line construct, ed in China ran between Hongkong and Canton. The thought of this mysterious wire paseing over their land, says Mr. J. D. Ball in "The Chinese at Home," reused in the people the most superstitious dread. Canton is the 'City of Sheep"; the mouth of the Canton River is known ao "The Tiger's Mouth";. the district opposite Hongkong is that of "The Nine Dragons. ' What more disastrous conditions could be eonabined—a line to lead the Sheep right into the Tiger's Mouth, or m the oppo- site direction arnong the Nine Dra, gonsr It was against the laws of fung-shui. A guard of soldiers was neceseary to protect the telegraph - line. Of ell the vagaries of the human mind, the most extraordinary 's surely the fung-shui, a mess of rules feurgle,d upori fables of pre- historic monsters the five elements, the four points Of the compass, the ten celestial stems and other prin- ciples—all applied with the most extraordimery and perverse ingenu- ity. The present awakening in China is having hale effect on this curious hodg...wpodge of supersti- tion, for fung-shui is rooted deep in the traditions of the people. . How far-reaching its influence is may be judged frem the fact that not long since numeroua high Chi - ease officials petitioned iffie throne that a stop be put to mining coal and iron at a point forty miles dis- tant from the Imperial Torahs. They feared that the milling would dis- turb the. bones of the empress Who had recently been buried. Before a, Clhinese can build a house or de anything that requires the displacement of earth he must oonsult the rules of fungsshni; otherwise the curse of evil epiribs .may bring disaster upon his family. His children may die or his business may be ruined. The position of windows and doors, the height of roofs, the slope of the ground and e hundred other things must be taken into consideration ; anel strangely enough, the influences that are friendly 10 0110 person may very likely bo hostile to. another. ‘4.11461,11,t1RTSNOM,141N,ALolri211, Chimneys are etipposed to eXerti an especially evil influence; comes quently Chinese houses 'have brenea openings in the roof through whieh the smoke escapes from the kitchen. When a high ehimney was pat up for the gas -works in Peking, pro- perty within a mile fell to half its former value. The effect of fung-shui on enter- prise and iedividual freedom might entirely 'block the progress of basis. Imes and social life and turn the whole nation into crazy fanatic's were tb not for the Chinese capeeity for adjustment and the patience with whieh they evade diffieulties, and compromise vrhere they cannot conquer. The French cathedral in Canton furnishes an illustration. Its twin spires, dominating the whole city, violated the rules of fung-slani. riot took plaee ; a, continuene guard of soldiers had to be stationed at the cathedral gates, until a wise old astrologer gave out the consoling statement that the high stone build- ing must surely exert a good in- fluence, for what could be more fat- ting than a pair of horns (each as the ewe spires doubtless were) for the City of Rams (or 'sheep), as Canton is celled! ae----- MILES OF MYSTERY, Despite the wonderful advance of exploration in various parts of the world, the Royal Geographical So- ciety of London have recently de- clared that no fewer tha,n 20,000,000 equare miles of the earth yet re- mains unexplored. Afrioa has the largest unexplored area, nearly 6,500,000 square miles; while Nerth America contains no fewer than 1.500,000 square miles of virgin ter- ritory. The largest continuous stretch of unexplored country is in Liberia, Africa. The tract consists of about 2,000 miles, all of which is within 200 miles of the seas Re- gions adjoining the Congo, the bit - of the Upper Nile, parts of Mor- occo, Abyssinia, Somaliland, have yet to be surveyed, snapped out,' and, if suitable, commercially ex- ploited. Visitor—"Where were you born, my little man?" Tommy—"Sect. land, Sir 1" "What part?" "All of me, sir 1" ,..sss4,"Swssss.s"s:•\ \,` 44. \\\\ 4\ XTRj1\e‘ • Ks t • §. §.\\\ MUM GO@ old,Sagen Lee&': ,or • 1804 THE CANADA , SUGAR RENttFacCh THE newest thing in sugar —and the best—is this 5 -Pound Sealed Package of sig0.Extra Granulated. In this carton 5 pounds full weight of Canada's finest sugar comes to you fresh • from •the Refinery, and absolutely free from any taint or Impurity. Ask your Grocer for the At52( 5 -Pound Package. CANADA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY, LIMITED, MONTREAL, OODEN cul- verts are un-* sightly, dangerous, expensive, short- lived. 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