HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1919-08-28, Page 2years of strictly masculine , cooking
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broken only by an occasional "church
YIiB l�i a 1 ��� y amaze.. Fhjffy biscuit—happy Pre -
agar day -crowned with golden butter
By LI2bI>;ST • ELWOOD STANFORD.. •d•.slash as the' "creamery" may but
rer•1 of delicately browned chicken
a with dressing pungent: with Araby's
II,
On Dcrena's return an enormous
bulldog trotted behind her. With an
involuntary' start Marcellus calculated.
the distance to the nearest tree. Dogs
wave ono of the two things he 4.eared'
more than women;
"Ddtat mind Babe," said Dorena
assl.•rmgly, "He won't bite 'less
tell him to. Now about these Wealt
apples--"
The eonsuitationwas soon finisbe
and Dorena and Iter adviser torn
homeward. Marcelli:s
peering bac
ward anon or oftener at the harmle
Babe, who trotted, .tongue out a
teeth bard;, uncornfortahly close
the Brealey heels.
Presently a vista between t
orchard' rows disclosed the farm
house.
"'Where's my team?" ejaculate
Marcellus, "I told Sam—"
"I told him, too," interrupted, Do
ena placidly. "Sent I:im horse with
ridicule) 1'Rs trinity of terrors loosed
on him at once.'If ever'this got
obb-
I' hen his avowed owner's back was
turn„d he took a desperate chance. He
slipped through the door, whisked out
ey, and locked it on the outside.
Then he it on to
re_ ed terror -winged feet.
Dorena threw up a windon'. ` Babe;
by went through the screen lifce''a cirtt s,
hoop. Marcellus gained a timely but'
dubious sanctuary in a limbarsiipling,i
ed' "Look here, 'Callus," said Dorena'
1{_ in a voice' of iron, "1 aia't a Patienti
ss -roman, and Inn plumb wore out with
rid you. Next time you try that you pick'
to out a perch fey the night., Come,
Babel"
i
he Shamefacedly 'Marcellus followed
his captor into the house.
"I. ain't ever let any o' my stock
d critters to the table before," remarked
Dorena, "but it's too much work t' set
;_ ye ogle by yourself: Fall`tol"
IKnrcellus fell to, slowly' at first,
but; like all falling bodied, with rap-.
ut idly increasing velocity. Some twenty
•
it." .. _
Marcellus' mouth popped wide, bis
no sound Issued. Somewhere in lr
cranial 'interior the ideas had suddenl
jammed.
"Sam was getting through to-
night," , continued . Dorene, "so I
thought yot might's well begin right
now."
feebly.
"Of
a The idea rebounds
Y.
"Of course. After supper you ca
milk the cows—"
"Wella Dcrena's voice took on
tinge of sharpness. "When. you sold
out to me you didn't expect all play
ant no earl:, dict you?"
d
n
a,
"S -old out?"
bee, flanked by onions steaming in
say. ry "cream"; coffee odorous of the
blasted isles; pie -mince pie,iii par-
ell short of Paradise itseIIi 1'or•,the�
nsc;irent the shadow lifted from the
face of Marcellus, leaving its reflec-
tion by the way on that of Dorena,
"You be a master coelan; Dorealy„?.
oighed Marceline, pushing , bao}a, his
chair when map cotilcl, do. no more.
"I do well by all my critters,"
vouchsafed Dorena. "Specially''the
pigs.. You c'n go Milk now. I• can't
bother to feller you up,'`'biit Babe'11
do. If,I was you I wouldn't •try' -any'
funny business: That dog's the know,.
in'est male ertter I ever did see. And
he's some like, me, too,. Itt,a drew chill,'
hard •to pry him ,loose, f'rri: anyt}ili',
he once gets ,a holt en."
She watched her prop sty, do
cast again, plod avid dew n the , a -
Y p, ,
Babe trotting close behind `Theft she
turned back to the devastatedrtable
with a certain softehuing''in her •eye,
"The pore started critter•!". anus-,
moved Dorena;
(To be continued,)
Plan To Save. Steps.
How to make work easier if we a
to go -without help, that is 'the great
- problem which confronts housekeep-
d era, city and country'. Electricity 'end.
laborsaving machinery go a long way
d towards solving the problem in town,,
✓ but doesn't' do much to help out the
r germ woman except in a small number
t; of cases.' But there are a great many
ways in which the far-seeing country
woman ban make her work easier
she keep an open mind and is w•illin
I to adopt new methods in the kitche
as her husband is in the fields.
Fireless cookers—home-made h
oma -ma
de
o
t•
so
se-
m
a]c
e it
possible to
o wit
g
hon
a fire during the heat` of the day
relonly a couple of steps' are necessary
in moving from one to the other. This
has beenlargetenough to do. the work
for seven people,
Immediately I hear a cry arise, "No
milk to take care of, and no washing-
done in the kitchen.' All very true,
but had it been necessary to 'do the
laundry work it could have been done
in as 'small a"'loitchen by: irittalling
laundry tubs instead of the table, and
building a cover for the tubs which
g could be utilized as a table -when wash-
ing was not being done. This is work-
ed out in many cit Plats and' has as Prov=
✓ en satisfactory. As to the mills, care-
t fill planning and a little alteration•of
the average farm cellar would make it
possible to care for the milk there, If
we weren't so wedded to custom.
"Or coarse." Parana waxed down
right impatient. '"When you leads
yourself en}.. that load of trashy hay
and weighed yourself in it and sign
the receipt you sold yourself fo
twelve d illee a ton, didn't you?
�...a emit ir!e'bout eighty -sigh
row " ^ a" r ret'y. That's pretty
; rn au; but I goose mebbe
' .r money's worth. I gen'ly
1 n t f "
"f- .v!" 'srarrellus' voice came
barku'i
.1. a wheezy w•his
tie. "Ugh -ah -
oh—"
"Don't look so like a born idjit!"
admonished Dorena sharply. Reach
un and pat your pair down! I won't
hurt you if you're reasonable."
"B -but--" Marcellus' ashy face and
shaky knees betokened his dread of
the worst -"I won't marry—"
"Marry!" The sounding aisles of
the dim orchard rang to Dorena's
scorn. "Marr') "I should say not!
No. Babe, you needn't bite him—yet.
But,if you say 'marry' just once more,
'Callus Bradley, I dunno what will
happen to you. Marry! You!"
Marcellus bentbeneaththe storm,
but in his humility a certain relief was
mingled.
"Quit foolin', Doreng," he begged.
Dorena stamped her foot.
"Of all the aggravatin', thick-head-
ed critters, give me a human inane f'r
the augravatin'est and thick -headed -
est. You sold yourself to me, Mar -
cellos Bradley, same's if you were a
cow or horse. You done it of your
own free will, too; I didn't ask you.
You can't say I didn't warn you you'd
put trash in the hay. I've got witness -0
es, You'll stay, and you'll work, jest
like any other bought livestock."
"But --but I—"
"Oh, you needn't say I ain't got a
clear title. I make no doubt you've' f
sold yourself often enough before, but
, nobody's claimed you. The only party t
't ever will 'Il wait till I'm through I a
with you, I guess. I ain't worried! h
about your soul. I reckon it don't, 1
weigh nothin'."
"But 'tain't legal!" With .a mighty! if
effort ivlarcellns exploded a whole sea- in
tense. f
Dorena shrugged carelessly. to
"I should worry—me an' Babe," a
"But—" Marcellus quailed before a
new terror overmastering that of wo-
men and dogs—"folks'll talk."
"Let 'em. Twon't be me they'll
laugh at. Come and eat— You've
talked more'n enough.",
Marcellus obeyed. He was no man
to gainsay an insane female with a fr
ferocious bulldog. Woman, a dog, and a
the teal in a granite fish, with as little{ UNIQUE- TAXES OF OLD DAYS.
water as possible, letting at cool,
at the
, last minute pumped in, the e
est water to be had. From thre
six glasses to the man te?ls what ti
thpught about that.
Another thing, perhaps not so e
omical as the before mentioned,
on the rapidly disappearing order,
-brown bread, Our recipe is, as fol!
One 'cup of sour cream, two' cups
buttermilk, one scant cup of su
four tablespoons , -of cooking mol,.
stirred together' well. ;'Mit in grab
flour, to which has been added
tea,gpoons level,gf soda, and say h.'
ing full of baking powder, also.
teaspoonof salt,,Stir rather thiels
bake in two loaves. It is better
bake a sample •tine first tifne,'far
less the/ batter is 'thick enough
bread' will fall and it is rather, too
'pensive to waste. For.gems you':
find.. this recipe hard to improve up
I. also put is mirror, soap, comb, to
els and dishey to, wash;in,,at the 'w
,ppdyr .a big shade tree, sgt ing,
table `'on the verandah, and fancied
got along easier this year than e
before. I find '•th'at,simplidity•e.ombin
With plain substiiiitiiui•fdod{ -suits 't
men better than all the fano'' "d'is$fe
used to make lidera the old H. C.
Z. past his foot on. my neck.
folio framed so- as not to place too great
of a burden upon any particular class.
gas, i For originality of schemes to re-
'se
e-
sse5 plenish the Exchequer few have rival -
am led William Pitt. It was he who de -
two vised the dog tax, an institution which
he
old- Crest- Britain's Exchequer Was En -
• to rihhed by Many Qripin l Methods,
eY Ond of Pai'llements_ hardest tasks
amt-
it the preparaticm of the Budget.
0 • Taxes must` be inspoa;ed,' bur, as no
one. Ifhrns paving user,, they rr,ust bo
still thrives. He also originated the
nee • income tax, which, during his achnin-
g . -• istration, was fixed at 10 cents In the
a to 'dollar on all incomes exceeding $1,000.
It ,wars the,fashion of hiy,,tinlp to
the • wear the, hair in a •pow erred deue,
and hair powdered 3a Revealed Y'ftt
ex- as a vanity for 'whi fib,, every' man
will• would bo'siy17'i'iiig to pay'flvie`'dollars'a'
on. year, He expected the Treasury,.' to
��� benefit to''the' extent' of over $1,000,-
000 a'n s all
the '?t y but everyone had his
u'
For the Pickle Shelf.
Cucumber Catsup -1 dozen large
cucumbers, 1 quart vinegar, 1 table-
spoon salt, la teaspoon cayenne pep-
per. Gather cucumbers before the,
sun strikes them and keep in a cool`
place until used. Peel and grate the
cucumbers and drain off the water,
Heat the vinegar andspices to boiling
point,; pour at once over the, grated
cucumber, bottle and seal. Cucumbers
bottled'in this: way retain their fresh-
ness and make a particularly good
sauce for steak.
Curry Pickles—Boil together for
five or ten minutes, two quarts of
vinegar, one tablespoon of salt, one
easpoon of black pepper; take one
ablespoon of curry powder, one an
one-half 'tablespoons of corn -stare
our tablespoons of ground muster
nee -tablespoon of sugar, or more I
esired, Mix these thoroughly wit
little cold vinegar, then put int
of vinegar mixture and' stir all tint
t thickens.. Take about three hundre
mall cucumbers and wash thorough!
medium-sized ones are used, c
n small•pieces. Pour the boiling sauc
ver the cold cucumbers, bottle an
eel.
Apple Catsup -1 quart apple sauce
teaspoon vinegar, 1 teaspoon cinna
mon, 1 teaspoon'cloves, 1 teaspoon
epper, 1 teaspoon mustard, 1 tea -
peon onion juice, 2 teaspoons salt;
pint 'vinegar. Simmer slowly until
hick, •bottletand seal. A similar cut-
up can be made from plums or
rapes, and •spiced to taste. Sorghum
r molasses may be added if a sweet
use is lilted.
clue ecu,off,
i i A tax op shopkeepers, though only
ver :a small ,impost arranged on a sliding
he emailbbased on,theamount of rental
he paiwas stoutly res ted and even -
of tually defeated: A tax on female ser
vents, amounting to 60' cents -for one,
$1.25 for two;, and $2.50: for three or
mare, was more. successful, Births,
marriages; and deaths were an mad.
to contribute to the national purse
A duke's bride cost hint a trifle over
$250; the arrival of an heir meant a
contribution of $150,, and subsequent' -
male additions to the family each
called for $125. The death of the.
wife necessitated the' payment: to the
Government of $250, and smaller sums
were payable on: the,,death of other
members of the family.
These life and death taxes were as-
sessed on 'every subject in the king-
dom who shad anything to pay, the
smallest sum 'collected being for' mar-
riage,
ar
riage, some 60 cents, paid by the man
whose blooms- was' less than $250 a
year: This man-. petit 50 cents each
d time he became a father and $1 ap-
h rroximately upon the death of: his
d wife or son. •
hBachelors of every rank were taxed
from 1695 to 17060 the payments vary -
O ing with the rank of the individual,
it and ranging front $1.25 to $60 a ,year,
d :A man over twenty-five and unmarried
y•
was a bachelor under the law,
ut Two of the most short-sighted
taxes ever, levied were
e those on paper
d and on windows, William III, origin-
ated the paper tax, which at one time
was as high as $140' a' ton. On the'
' paper used by Charles Knight to print
his Penny Cyclopaedia the tax amount-
ed to $100,000. Later there was im-
posed a tax of eight cents a sheet on
newspapers,' with an additional tax of
85 cents on every advertisement. •
solene or charcoal irons, mangles
'which will `do the unstarc]ned pieces,
a home-made kitchen wagon' for
wheeling the dishes to and from the
table, water in the house before there
is a car for pleasure raiding in the
barn, these are only a few of the.
things which the country woman can
have and should insist upon if she
wishes to retain a vestige of youth
and health.
There is one thing, though, which
can be gotten more easily than any
of these in. many country houses and
that is the elimination of miles of
needless walking_ The thing which
impresses the city visitor most when
she takes stock of her country sister's
work -a -day problems is the countless
number, of steps which the farm wo-
man takes during the day. Used to
small, compact houses, the city wo-
man wonders that the country woman
has lived to her present age, whatever
it be, when she sees the steps which
the arrangement bf the house' makes
necessary.
A large number of farm homes, it is i
all too evident, were built in the days;
when lumber was cheap and large:
families with daughters who stayed'
home and helped mother were the
ashion. Those days are now numbered
with other good things of the forgot -
en past and only the houses are Ieft
s a legacy to the twentieth century
ousekeeper with her "n0 help prob-
em:" Mammoth rooms are fine if
qou have help, but, 0, the backache
only one poor women has to keep
order. And, 0, the tired, aching
eat after a day of trotting from stove
table, table to sink, sink to pantry
nd pantry to woodshed, all at the
greatest possible distance from each
other..
Small kitchens, with every inch of
space utilized, is always my slogan.
My present kitchen is just 11x8, about
the size of many a farm 'home pantry,
There is no pantry, only a small" re-
igerator room. Table, sink and stove
re all near enough together so that
e
a
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If
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Many women, however, find a larger p
kitchen better for their particular s
needs. With small children who' al- 1
ways must be where mother is, an t
11x8 kitchen is not just the coziest s
place in the world. If your kitchen is g
Iarge and you want it so, then the 'o
next thing to do is to plan to snake it sa
convenient. The sink must remain
where it is, unless you wish to engage gain
a plumber, which perhaps at his pres-
ent rates you do not care to do. But
even that would pay you in the Iong 0
run, if moving the sink would save
you many steps. You can move the R
table, however, and the cupboards if
they are not built in. And by buying
a fewlengths of stove pipe and an
I elbow or two yob may have the stove
where you will. Sit down and studyI .
your own kitghen. Figure out hew you
can re -arrange things to make it pos-
sible to take the fewest number of
steps in getting a meal and washing
dishes, and then proceed to have a
The Ex -Kaiser's Peculiarities
The ex -Kaiser will be brought to
trial by the Allies for his public ac-
tions during the war, 'but Mr. Poultuey
Bigelow, the well-known American
author, brings against him accusations
of petty meanness almost incredible
in a monarch of his pretensions. They
were personal friends and companions
in their younger days, but Mr, Bige
low, in his recent book, "Prussianisns
and Pacifism," makes the German
Emperor practically a kleptomaniac.
„tie was the owner of a valuable malty.
tare of the famous Queen Lotils6,
which was a gift to him from the
, aged 'Queen of Hanover, whose hits -
hand was dethroned by William I. in
1866, William IL.,.manifested such an
intense interest in this miniature that
Mr. Bigelow let him have it to laok'at,
, mentioning how much he valued it on
account of the circumstances under
which he acquired it. "Never was,
that miniature handed back to me,"
says Mr. Bigelow, "although I spoke
of it earnestly to the Emperor's princi-
pal Aide -decamp, the late ;Gen, von
general shake-up.
Don't run up and down cellar more
than is necessary. If possible make
an iceless refrigerataor. And don't
run down three or four steps and a
half dozen rods out to the milk house
for all your butter, milk and eggs, as
some women persist in doing. Keep
what you will need for a day's supply
in the house. You can keep the milk
cool by sitting it in' cold water. And
the eggs you will use in a day aren't
going to spoil if you do keep them
in the house.
Plan to save steps. This is a thing
we can all do, Get all the kitchen
helps you can, everything that makes corn
work easier is a necessity these days, G
But while you are buying labor-saving
Com
devices don't continue to work over-
time walking several miles unneces-
sarily.
dishes the Threshers Like.
Did the drouth catch your early po-
tatoes and are you worrying about
how you will cook the old, ones, so
that th_ threshers will relish them?
Well, then, why not scallop them
and stake sonic potato salad? The
sheshers who come here surely relish-
cl these two dishes, or seemed tb.
"Scalloped potatoes!" you gasp
'with butter .sixty cents a pound and
alad dressing takes too much time t0
make." Wrong again, You need little
utter and can make a large bowl of
lad dressing in three minutes. In
bead of butter alone, use small_pubes
salt pork and salt, pepper and but -
es, cover with milk and hake in the
us
way If you have some cold milk
cavy left, add it in the place of part
erd's Liniment Cares (henget in clown
Our Boys in France.
ver the wave, our children. brave
Have gone at humanity's call;
eaidy to give that the right may live,
Ready to give their all.
In La Belle France where the foe's ad-
, vane
Had blighted the joys of life,
They turned their guns on the cruel
Huns, '
And joined in the awful strife.
Land of the West, your Gallant breast,
Has nourished a race' of men,
Whose eager feet will scorn retreat,
And dash to the fray again.
Rod by rod, o'er the bloody sod,
The invader's host recedes.
While the shell -torn earth attests the
worth
Of desperate valor's deeds:
By the trenches deep, shall widows
weep,
Or mothers kneel to pray,
For the distant ones, whose dauntless
sons
Have helped to save the day.
If bureau drawers stick, rub with
mon yellow soap.
eneral E. H. H. Allenby, formerly
mender of the British forces in
Palestine, and at present Special High
Commissioner for Egypt and Soudan,
and Lieut. -General Sir Herbert Plum-
es, Commander of the Second British
Army, have been raised to the rank
of Field -Marshal.' •
Zftzewitz. Not only chid William rob e
me of that precious portrait, but his
courtiers looked at one another with
stupefaction when I made so strange e
a claim upon one who was evidently
not accustomed to restoring what had
once come uncles- his all -coveting
hand.' '
Mr, Bigelow achieved some fame as
a canoeist and made a 1,500 -mile
voyage down the Danube, being the
first to pass through the Iron Gates
;'u. a canoe,r"
fir nper"r borrowed
this canoe, the "'Vgr,iiee" on tri!
cuse that he wanted his sons to learn
to be expert. canoeists. "While I have
lost my matchless "Caribee," says Mr.
Bigelow, "the. Kaiser has broken his
word, for when I visited her in 191''
she was hidden away amid other dust.
covered nautical curios in an obscure
carper of his boathouse at Potsdam.
The old guardian did not know who
I was, and I stayed but long enough
to learn that my canoe had never been
used' had that I had been the victim
of a Prussian promise,"
b
sa
s
of
te
g
of the milk, This saveqthe gravy and
makes the potatoes better,
For the salad I use cold boiled pota-
toes, onions and encumber pickles salt-
ed and peppered, and chopped to-
gether.
ogether. For the dressing I ute one
tablespoonful of prepared mustard to
two tablespoons of sweet cream, one
teaspoon sugar and vinegar to taste.
Line the dishes with crisp lettuce
leaves, garnish with a couple of sliced
hard-boiled eggs, salted and peppered,
and then watch the men wade in.
I found that the men preferred cold
tea, and as we had no ice I steeped
He Had Hopes.
It was a beautiful little place, The
house was small, but perfect, and the
garden lovely, with flowers and fruit
and vegetables and hens, and all. And
the surrounding country matched it
for prettiness.
"However did you get such a fine
house?" asked tine friend after the
host had proudly Shown him around.
"It was this way," said the host,
casting a cautious look round to
where his lady was inspecting and
condemning the gardener's : work.
"The property ,was for sale, so I
brought my wife tosee it.: When she
had looked round the house and the
gardens, and admired the views from
the windows, I asked her what sho
thought of it. 'Henry,' she replied,
'It is so pretty it leaves me speech-,
less!' " 1
6.
Corrected- Proverbs.
"The clothes do not make the man,"
remarked the ready-made philosopher.
"No," answered the friend who was
studying a ,tailor's bill, "They don't
make him, They. break him.",
i
AND
At least twice a week
e
economical and wise
housekeepers serve
°Clark's" Pork and
Beans either with To-
nnatQ, Chili or 1blai
,nie!e.
W, CLARK, LIMITED
MONTREAL
Manufacturers of Clark's Pork and
Scans and other good things.
0,200
MEN'S MILLINERY IN INDIA.
Oriental Turban is Composed of. Nine-
ty Square Feet of Cloth,
Modern women haven't a thing on a
man from India, when it comes to
wearingexp
en iV
e hats. And they'
lI
have to get busy to crowd as much on
their heads as do the Wren from Dom.
bay, Calcutta and Puujaub, for those
red, yellow and white turbans are as
long as three tablecloths put end to
end.
Each turban is made up of ninety
square feet of cloth, thirty feet long
by three feet wide.
The average person wonders why
niers in these hurtling countries wear
a hat which covers the head as cons•
pletely as the hood of an Eskimo. Both
do it for the seine reason. One seeks
protection from heat and the 'other'
front cold: The heat of one's own' body
is far more endurable than the burn -
lug rays of India's sun.
A man wears a turban thirty feet,
long, while a snail ,boy wears one
from ten to fifteen feet long. But
Indian youngsters have found that the
cap of the Canadian boy takes far less'
time to put on than his turban, and
they aro generally discarding the
headgear of their fathers for that'
worn in America.
SSinare's Liniment Curse lilnntneria,
To understand` all is to forgive all.
All grades. , Write for prices.,
TORONTO SALT WORKS
G. J. CLIFF TORONTO
2 Keeps Hardwood Floors heautif0
For ! Sale by Qgi Dealers
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ENSON'S is ptuee prepared corn starch
delicate i' and: nourishing, uneecelled for all
cooking' purposes.
It improves'' the torture 'of bread `biscuits . and rolls
g . if
one-third of the -flour is substituted with Benson's L7 1130n S, Corn
Starch' It makes pie crusts Ii, ht and "flake',.
There is a recipe 'for the 'Most delicious B1alic Mange
On the package;, together. with '.a dozen other arses,
I3enson.'s is the best corn starch for maldisg'sauces and
graviessmooth, and''crearmy.
Write for booklet of recipes
THE GRANDEUR
OF GIBRALTAR,
ROCK HAS APPEARANCE OF IN-
DESCRIBABLE MIGHT AND
POWER
From Height of the Fort'a Wonderful
Vista Stretches 1,000 Feet Below, si
Panorama of Inoomparabie Beauty.
Viewed 7}'oni thio dec10 of,. u oceatx
liner surging through the .waves of ..
the Mediterranean olio can,np5'eh: for-
get the,t rill. he experience's 'at first`
eight of Gibraltar. Spanish girls; of'
rare beauty come out in Innen!boata
to greet you. and when iiY•,the
a rope they. hoist grapes up' along tlae
side of the ship it, le'seldom their ball-
ets are •lowered without a goodl(-
amount of money in exchange for the
f)'uit. Sounds of drums and bugles
add to -the : exciting din, and amidst
screeching whistled you descend. to'
one of the tenders which wait below
to take you ashore.
The little Spanish stuccoed housed
are to he seen everywhere, and the t.
women and girls with shawls of bril-
liant hues and mantillas upon their
heads laugh and dance to the twang
of a guitar,
D iving through, the narrow cobbled
streets, visitors are constantly'etopped
by the natives, who attempt to sell
them all sorts of trinkets, for jewelry
shops appear at almost every corner,
Eating places of every variety, with
food at reaching' distance from the
curb, occupy thedthty sidewalks, and
little children crawl in front of the
phaeton -like cabs with the hope of
collecting a few pennies,
The Pride of Gibraltar
Finally the Alameda is reached, and
this park, with its palm and cactus
plants, is the 'pride of Gibraltar. Ge.
raniums in abundance crown the en•
trance and tropical trees and bowers
help to create a scene well to be re.
membered. Fountaind play about on
the east and west aides, while several •
small boulevards twine in and out
through the park. Attractive pony
carts carrying • li
Y g tNe rosy faced .tag-
fish children •accompanied by their
Spanish servants, occupy' the roseate
driveways in the Alameda, and tire
liquid songs of the birds give a touch
of softness and pathos to the spot.
And now we come to the scorpion
rock of Gibraltar which cannot be ap-
preciated front the water front, for
the town stretches along the western
side for over a mile, and only when
directly in the interior of the colony
can the gigantic size of the rock right-
fully be estimated. It stands as if
against the sky with a prepossessing.
dignity of indescribable mightiness
and power; Tarilr, the one -eyed moon;
landed at the toot of the rock of Calpe
(now lnrown as. Gibraltar) in the year
711 to reconnoitre Gothic Spain, and
therefore from Gibol Tarik (which
means the `hill of Tarilt) the name of
Gibraltar originated••
Low' wheeled, two seated, so-called
vans accompanied, and drawn, by.
ponies take the visitor to the base of
the Yortreea, and a steep, climb mast'
then be made: on foot. It Is an ex-
tremely tedious trip, for the ascent Is
rocky and uneven. •
Vista of Snow -Capped Mouptains.
Perhaps the,. most, striiking, view,
rein a smell opening , iu dna of the
ayes built in the fortlese, is the white
all of Algeciras and San Roque, both,
arallel with' they snow-capped moon -
Mins of Auilalusla,
El Haclso, the signal tower, is not
aI-ways open 'to visitors and many of
ie heavy guns 'are also kept under
eerecy. In the tunnelledportionsof
e fort old batteries- and cannon are
Milted out by sentries, and secluded
pots had been set aside for punishing
urposes in bygone years. In one of
e dark passageways the stone is
t in peculiarpoints which stand
raiglst upward, representing icicles
cause of the shiny, silvery gloss on
o ends of "the highest needles of the,,
ek, and one can readily imagine
Is/daces to have been `inserted in the
alts.
Having attained the height' of the
and emerging suddenly into open
y, a wonderful: vieta- 'stretches out,
00 feet•below,r' Ships anchored at
y seem but dwarfs, and the,,pel(1:
ounde, once famous for bull fighting,u•'also he observed, Pati below the
crack yards look pp at 'ors and thf♦'
ropy houses with then sloping roofs
cis. cover over the lounging . sol-
AT
the dun takes refuge behind the
eey lining of .ohouds„the;inountaAne,
le and .ocean : form a panoriatna sigde scope and incomparable' beauty,
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Thrust and Parry.
Pangs of atialourcy were al 2fieS
ColcIfoot's heart When she heard that
P•er, late,Adnitrer had been accepted
ay Miss Lovebira, anti when she hap-
pened to run acresn her in the 'het.,
gain rush could not resist giving her
a thrust.
hear you've aocepted Jack,” she
hed, "I eappoae, he neyer told you
he oime proposed to me."
"No," answerea Jack's gancee. "He
once told me that there were a lot .
things in his life be was ashamed of,
but I didn't aglt hint what they wereal
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