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The Seaforth News, 1919-09-25, Page 2Dollars saved n { ,t!•vr1 . gamath eTBovril used in the Kitchen means dollars saved in the Bank. It. makes nourishing hot dishes out of cold food which would not otherwise be eaten. But s e that you get the real thing, it is not in the Bovril bottle it is not Bovril, Aud it mat be Bovril, T E SWAL ..O By MARY RAYMOND SHIPMAN ANDREWS•,offn•Sampson, and one ofThe Chateau Frontenae at uebec sir." f Your genestis, s a turreted pile of masons waanderin down the cliff o y I gava my order and act bade itg ver the very cel- study the ;;roup. 'f'ae' wailer hail ittars of the ancient Castle of St. Louie, straight; there was the horizon -blue A twentieth-century hotel, it sins cf France; there was the E'ng'lishman fates well a mediaeval fortress and tall end lean and ruddy and ex; reslifts against the cold blue northern sion:ess and handsome; � Psky an :atmosphere of history. Old more f the a anobian voices whisper about ,its towers ad ° ear awe At, with a ad his11 .alert face• The American had his, sound above the clanging hoofs in its backpaved court; deathless names are in tome car.l all I oonld les wgo :m 1 the, wind which blows fro h toecray and.uth a brown hfaa going m t e tograjt and the one• -star of a briga-"fleuve," the great St. Lawrence River d•ier-general on his shoulders. The' e far below. Jacques Cat -tier's voice beginnings of my dinner went fast. f was heard hereabouts away back in but after •soup there was a lull before, i 1630, and after him others, Champlain greater food, and I paid attention'and Frontenae and Father Jogues and again to my neighbors, ' They were s Mother Marie of the Conception and talking in English,.Montcalm—upstanding fighting men "A Huron of Lorette—doss that s and heroic women and hardy discover- mean a full-blooded Indian of the ers of New France walked about here Moran tribe, such as one reads of in m once, on the "Rock" of Quebec; these ` rkmen? It was the Englishman f is romance here if anywhere on earth. rho asked. responding to something s To -day a new knighthood .hails that I hai not heardppast. Uniforms are thick in steep `There's no such animal as a full- Bmstreets; non are wearing them with blooded Huron," stated the Canadian, m empty eleases, on erutches, ,or maybe -"They're all French -Indian half - whole of body yet with racked faces breeds now. Lorette's an interestingwhich register a hell lived through. scrap of history just the same, YouCanada guards heroism of many know your Parkman, Yau remembers wvintages, from four hundred years how the Iroquois followed the defeated back through the years to Wolfe's Hurons as far as the Isle d'Orleans, time, and new a new harvest. - Cen-' out there?" He nodded toward where turies from now children will be told,' tile• big island lay in the slackness of with the story of Cartier, the tale of the St. Lawrence, "Wel1.,,what was Vim,-. Ridge, and while the Rock left after that chase tooledrefuge f1.f- ands the recone o. Canadians in teen miles north of Qoebec;::101il found -Fm ,nee will not die. i ed what became and stayeettho village Always when I go to the Chateau of Indian Loretto, Then,. are now I ret a table, if I can, in the smaller about five or six hundred people, and dining room. There the illusion of it's a nation. Under its own laws, antiquity holds through modern lux-! dealing by treaty with Canada, not cry; there they have hung about the subject to draft, for instance. Queer, walls portraits of the worthies of olds isn't it. They guard their identity Quebec; there Samuel Champlain him-. vigilantly. Every one, man or woman, self, 'made into bronze and heroic ofi who marries into the tribe, as they size, aloft on his pedestal on the ter -1 religiously call it, is from then on a race outside, lifts his plumed hat and1 Huron. And only' those who have stares in at the narrow windows, turn-; Huron blood may' own land in Lorette. ing his back on the river and the lower; The Hurons were, as Parkman put it, city. One disregards waiters in swal-' 'the gentlemen of the sava es,' and low -tails and up-to-date table appoint-! the tradition lasts, The halfbreed of meats, and. one looks at Champlain1to-day is a good sort, self-respecting and the "fleuve," and the Isle d'Or -f and brave, not progressive, but intelli-leans lying long and low, and one gent, with pride in his inheritance his thinks of little "ship,, storm -beaten,' courage, and woodscraft' creeping up to this grim bigness •ig- The Canadian facing me, spoke dis- norant of continental events trailing tinctly and much as Americans speak; in Choir wake,I caught every word. But I missed I was on my way to camp in a club' what the French general threw back a hundredm'lems northofthes - raidSTY 1 Ip wendY eredwh twall heed Frto vn I Y ench- r when I drifted into the man -should he excited. I myself was little dining room for dinner one night' interested because my guides, due to in early September in 1918. The headrmeet me at the club station to - waiter was an old friend; he came toi morrow, were all half-breed 'Hurons. meet one and piloted me past a table-1But why the French officer? What ful of military color, four men in i should a Frenchman of France know service uniforms. about backwaters of Canadian his - "Some high officers, sir," spoke the tory? And with that he suddenly bead waiter. "In conference here, I spoke slowly, and I caught several believe. There's a French officer, and 1 sentences of incisive if halting Eag- an English, and our Canadian General fish. "Zey are to astonish, ze Indian Hur- ong. For ze sort of work special-ment, as like scouting on a stomach. Quvick, ver' qu-vick, and ver' quiet. By dark places of danger.. One sees sat nozzing at all af-frightens zose Hurongs. Also zey are alike snakes, •,one cannot catch ahem—zey elide; zey are slippy. To me it is to admire zit courage most—personnel—selfeesh— because an Hurong safe my life dere is six moat', when ze Boches make ze drive of ze moat' of March." At this moment food arrived in a flurry of waiters and I lost what came after. But I had forgotten Chateau Frontenae; I had forgotten the group of officers, serious and responsible, who sat on 'at the next table. I had forgotten even the war. A word had sent my mind roaming. "Huron!" Memory and hope of that repeated word rose and flew away with me. Hope first, To -morrow I was due to drop civilization and its tethers, "Allah -does not count the days spent out of doors." In Walter Pater's story of "Marius the Epicurean" one reads of a Roman country -seat called "Ad Vigilias Alba's," "White Nights." 4, sense of dreamless sleep distils from the name. One remembers such nights, and the fresh world of the awakening in the mornin . There are such days. There are days which ripple past as a night of sleep and leave a. worn brain at the end with thesame sataslaction of rens iwhite days. Crystal they are,likee thewater of streams, as musical and eventlesi; as elusive of description as the ripple over rocks or brown pools foaming. The days and months and years of a life race with accelerating pace and youth goes and age comes as the days race, but one is not' older for the whito fO days, The clock stops, the blood runs faster, furrows in gray matter smooth ,�+otat and eat out, time forgets to put intiny crow's-feet and the extra gray hair a day, or to withdraw by the hundredth of an ounce the oxygen from the veins; one grows no older for the days spent out of doors. Allah does not count them. It was days like these which hope Miaards ' I, l .p6oPe How To Do Things. Sweet peppers should be shinned before using for seasoning. The skin Peels off easily if the peppers are dropped for a moment' into boiling' water or heated in the, oven. ICeep cider so et by petting grated ho aeradi �h, a tablespeonful .to a-'ga'l- 1 on of juice into the cider while.it .i fresh;then,,. bung it up tight. The horseradish gives a pleasant tang. Frankfurter sausages are' popular cooked thus. Pare large lotatoes, and with an apple corer make a tuaagl through each' and drove a sausage through the tunnel. ;Pitt into a baking. pain with a' slice of fat- salt pork or bacon over each potato, pepper lightly. and bake until the: potatoes are done, basting occasionally with the. ;drip- - Pings and a little hot water,; Peanut cookies are nice for school, nncheons.. They require one-half cupful of sugar crearned with four tablespoonfuls of butter, two eggs, our tablespoonfuls of milk, .one cup -1 ul finely chopiied peanuts, one heap - ng cupful of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Drop from a tea -I1 poen on buttered paper cad place two half peanuts or each. ' ' ', a low oven. I f Corn which is too old to boil will, i eke good , chowder, Cut the corn; f nom six ears and put it, along with, t ix potatoes, an onion; and a sweet epper, through a food chopper. •own two tablespoonfuls of chopped eat in a little fat, add a tableepoon- f'ul of flour, then the minced vege- es, a tee.spoenful of salt and a saltspoonful of pepper. Barely cover l i ith boiling water, or stock in which' C eat has been boiled, and simmer i o gently for an hour; -then add a cupful! p of milk and bring to a boil. Serve' th hot. - I th of canned or freshly stewed tomatoc•, two tea spoonfuls of salt and a sprinkle of rid pepper•. Cover and let cook slowly for an hour, or until the rice is soft. -If not quite thick enough add a• tablespoonful of cornstarch, mixed with 'water, and stir until. the cornstarch is 'cooked. Iacarond with minced 'nam affords an, .o'gportu;city to use loft -overs. To one cupful of macaroni (Ise a cupful of minced cooked hank, -a cupful of corn (canned, fresh or left -odea• cools- ed %half a' cupful of bread. crumbs; ono tablespoonful butter or butter substitute, salt and pepper.- Cook the macaroni in a large amount of boiling. salted water,', drain and ,rinse in cold water. Azrangem ecaroni, ham and corn in ale mate layers in balling dish, coven with the crumbs. mixed with the butter, and' hake in,' a holt Ovaluntil brown. Serve cucumber loaf with hot or cold roast meats. The loaf is Made thus: Into • two cupfuls . of :boiling water turn six pepper corns, a 'blade of mace, one-half of a bay leaf, one- half teaspoonful of celery salt and a slice of onion; steep twenty minutes; drain and add to the liquid three - marbles of a. -box of gelatin dissolved it a little cold water; strain and add our tablespoonfuls of vinegar. Cover he bottom of a mold to the depth of half inch with the mixture, add aiayer of diced cucumbers and re- peat the layers until the dish is full, Serve very cold on a bed of water- cress. LA 'S Sp a h f j Tom to Sauce Cheese Is really deIi�tos. w. ust,`n:3r, ur*Mt'AEll.fs Heavenly jam is all that the name mplies. It calls for five pounds of oncord grapes, four large oranges, ne pound of seedless raisins, four minds of sugar. Wash the grapes °roughly. Remove the pulp from e skins, saving the skins. Heat the pulp and run through a sieve to re- move the seeds.. Wash the oranges. Pare the skin very thin and grind it" in a meat-gainder. Take out the juice of the oranges. ,Chop the raisins fine or run them through a meat -grinder. Put the grape skins, the grape pulp, oraege' juice, ground orange skin, chopped raisins end sugar together in a granite pan, and let the mixture ak slowly until a syrup is formed. sure that the grape skins are well iced. Chopped nuts may be added to the ingredients, if desired. Put in jelly glasses and cover with paraffin. Mont apple jelly: Steep a cupful of mint,leaves for one hour in a cupful of hot water (don't• -boil), then press through a cheese -cloth bag. Use kreen, unripe apples and cook them in enough waterto keep them front sticking to the kettle. Add a teaspoon- ful of the extract of mint to one cup- ful of apple juice P P (strained), d allow- ing a pound of sugar to a pint of the juice. Cook for about twenty min- co utes, then pour into molds or glasses.) Be mt• coo is makes a clear, delicately colored jelly, very pleasing to the eye and most appetizing with a roast of meat. Tomato chowder makes a meal in itself: Dice salt pork to make four tablespoonfuls; put into a hot frying - pan; brown with it two chopped on- ions. Add a quart of boiling water, a quarter of a cupful of rice, a quart held ahead as I paid earnest attention to the good food set before me. And behold, beside the pleasant vision of hope rose a happy -minded appy -minded sister call- ed memory. She took the word "Hur- on," this kindly spirit, and played magic with it, and the walls of the Chateau rolled into rustling trees and running water. I was sitting, in my vision, in flan- nel shirt and knickerbocicers, on a log, by a little river, putting together fishing tackle and casting an eye, off and on, where rapids broke cold over rocks and whirled into foam -flecked, shadowy pools. There should be trout in those shadows. "Take the butt, Rafael, while I only string the line." The Rafael slipped across—still iii my! If th vision of memory—and was holding, may my rod as a rod should be held, not ointm too high or too low, or too far or too easel' near—right. He was an old Huron, is ex a chief of Indian Loretto, and woods- wounc craft was to him as breathing. TO "A varry light rod," commented is to Rafael in his low voice whicl, held ! soap, no tones out of harmony with water; he us in streams or wind in trees. "A varry; should light, good rod," paying meanwhile' lint w strict attention to his job. "!4I'sieur' ore m go haf a luck to -day. I t'ink m'sieur olive go catch a beeg feesh on dat river. Cas Water high enough—not too high. icdnal And cold." He shivered a little. "Cold Tient. The Home Dispensary. A mother cannot hope to cope suc- cessfully with little ailments and mis- haps unless shesets up a family medi- cine Chest, which need not be either elaborate, expensive, nor 'a thing of beauty. If her husband is a 'handy man he might knock one together for her; if not, then she can make use of a small wooden or even a tin biscuit box. Either 'will serve her purpose ad- mirably, but if it contains poison, she would 'be well' advised to place it on the topmost' shelf, as far as possible out of the reach of the children. One of the commonest troubles of child life, perhaps, is the cuts and bruises which they get an falling on hands, ;knees, legs and faces. The injured parts should be at once bathed in warm water to which a few drops of carbolic acid has been added. correct proportion is one in forty. e skin is not broken, then arnica be applied; if it is broken, boraeic ent, compounded"of one ounce of ins and one drachm of boric acid, cellent for healing and cleansing is. the case of burns the great thing exclude the air, and flour, starch, and the white of an egg may ed with goad effect. Blisters be pniciced with a needle, and ell soaped in Garcon oil, a mix - f equal parts of lime water and oil, put on. for oil, in addition to its mod- properties, is a splendid emol- and even if the• disease is to be in the innermost layer of the the effects of the oil penetrate root of the evil. A very little d into the eye rids jt of an ction, and cools the eyeball at, me time. melder medicine than castor oil elioate children 'is magnesia, fluid or calcined, and ginger e is useful in cases of flatulence. ore children are liable to croup, anha Wine is indispem,sable. A end'should, ul be administered on st sign of •a crow, and the dose be repeated every five minutes e cough is relieved. o in• p g cough is relieved b a tablespoonful of glycerine n a f hot milk, nseed meal must be included in of contents for the medicine vis $t is necessary for poultice&. important is mustard for an in case of 'poisoning, choking, a hot' bath in ease of convul ernianganate of potash, besides ne of the best disinfectants, is od as a. gargle for sore throats, a suffexer'from dipht'heav'sa. It be used in the proportion of grains ,pure perm'an,?tanate of to eight:.ounees of water. ate of a slog or the sting of er is rendered. innoctsou-s by hnediate application 'of lunar. last night—varry cold nights begin found now. Good hun-ting wedder." skin, "Have you got a moose ready for to the me on the little lake, Rafael? It's the droppe 1st of September next week and I obsltn.'u expect •ayou to give me a shot before the 'ea the 3rd." A Rafael nodded, "Oui, m'sieur. First for d day." The keen -eyed, aquiline old either face was as of a prophet, "We go et essenc moose first day. I show•you." ' nth Wh that the laughter -loving Frenchman in ipecaeu him flooded over the Indian hunter; teaspo for a second the two inheritances flay- 'the fir ed like colors in shot silk, producing should an elusive fabric, Rafael's charm. "H malls tin nights r• s • g get so colder,mneed h rWho go mooseslcin keep him warm." large; I was looking over my flies now, the glee's o book open before me, Its fascinating Ld pages of color mors brilliant than an the, list old missal, and maybe as filled with chest, religion the:• peace of God, charity No less which endureth, love to one's neighbor, emetic I chose Parmachene Belle for hand or'for.; fly, always good in Canadian waters,' 'lions. A mooaeskin hasn't much warmth,; R, has it Rafael?" be€ng o The hunter was back, hawk-eyed. very,go "But yes, m'sieur. Mooseskin one time or for . safe meso I don' freeze to death. But should it hol' me so tight so I nearly don'.; four get loose in de morning." potash (To be continued.) The 'b —' — an acid Elie' ion Llaiment- for Yale everywhere. e caustic, which should be well rubbed' into the wound for about ten seconds. Lime water, for use in cases of weak digestions or sleknees or stom- r h troubles, is easily made at home Pet" Put a piece of quicklime the size of. loth your hands in a basin, and covert with two quarts of cold water, stir well, and leave for six hours With out d'istnrb,:ng the seclimnent, strain the liquid part through a double cheesecloth, Bottle, cork tightly, and keep in a cool place. Before using this, pour a quantity off the top if it has been kept for any length of time. A teaspoonful to et tablespoonful -is a close, and should be given in a glass of milk. Strips .of bl'eac'hed or. ,onbleached cotton; and phme'a, muslin or flannel, from half a :,yard to • one and a half Yards. in length and four inches wide, should be reserved and kept rolled up for band'a.ges, also a bundle 'of clean rags for binding up woufds's1n'd cuts, and"fdr poultices, foinentations, etc. Adhesive and court plasters are also needful. liece is a short list of necessa• ry sat -dales for the medicine chest: Arnica, boracie ointment, boric acid, Carron oil, easter oil, Cod liver oil, caanphou•ated oil,,'point plaster, ginger essence, ipecacuanha wine, Erne water, lunar caustic, linseed meal, magnesia (fluid' and' -calcined), mustard, perman- ganato of potash„ and'easeli,ne. A man who is inherently good de- serves a lot of credit for having select- ed such excellent ancestors, One of the new electric motor - driven washing machines washes clothes in a revolving tank, then ihees them from water in 'a centrifugal dryer. All grades.. Write for prioea 'TORbNTO 8At,T WORKS GI '. CLIFF'• TORONTO Showing: Them What Was What. New Curate—"What did you think of the sermon on Sunday, 'Mrs, Jones?" Parishioner-" Veryg cod indeed sir. So instructive. We really didn't know what sin Was tillyou cane here,, MinarcVe Liniment Cares Dandruff. The blood travels tlwouh our art enieset a rate of about 12 feet pee second, Gives Stovepipes and Radiators 8 a Silver -like finish For Sale byAll Dealer - Parkers r1 s" �ao By cleaning or dyeing—restore any articles to their former appearance and return them to you, good VAS new. Send anything from household draper- ies down to the finest of delicate fa'ln'.ies. We pay postage or express charges ane way. When you think of © o Ceati.ing -r Dy& Think of Parker's. Parcels may be sent Post or Express. We pay Carriage one way on all orders. Advice upon Cleaning o2' Dyeing any ar- ticle will be promptly given upon request. Parka 's o t ' orRs p.PQtf ;ted Cleaners acid Dyers, 791 Yonge St. Toronto aft Half Lily White and Half Sugar You will have wonderful success with your preserves if you follow the, example of the Technical Schools and replace half. thsugar with LILY WHITE Corn Syrup, The initial saving in money may be small, but jams and jellies will keep better, will hae finer flavor, willl be just the right consistency and will not crystallize. LILY WHITE �°r, makes Dandy Candy Endorsed by good housewives every. where. LILWHITE Corn Syrup is sold I byall grocers I n•Z,5;1(�aiid ZO lb. tins• THE. CANADA STARCH, CO., LIMITED, MONTREAL. 293 Write for Cook book. zaareseargegotterot- CANADA LAGS IN ROAD BUILDING EXPERIENCE OF ENGLAND CHOWS, WHAT TO AVOID, Overseas Men See Great Contrast to. the Well Built and Well Main- tained Highways of France. Returned, eoldiers,,,yelia took part in. the "big push"• during the autumn of 1913, will recall the frequent algae. Dry weather track," They ✓worq,•Y3oiy ' useful, these troche; not beim; mark., ed on the map, the Hun did not have them registered, and even if•,me,!,aid' disco,yem.dna, it was easy to abandon it for another.' Thus, as „the ;weather was gpod on the wliole,.these tracks. were, gulte eervicettbl'o. But, if -it had been rainy, that would have been an- olhstory;', Awayer , frim shell -fire, however, as every eoldier knows,- the French roads were serviceable In all weathers. They stood up admirably against: the rough ueage of the swarms of motor trucks and other abnormal traffic brought by the war, What would have happened to our Canadian roads under the same coa- litional -Alas! theyare nearly all only "dry weather tracks," A good road is a road which is good In bad weather. In road construction, -we.are a century behind Prance, although we ride ourselves on being a very pro- greesly° people. Worst In Oldest Sections. It is not sound argument to say hat. this condition is. dire to the -fact that Canada is still a "new" country. The fact is that seine of the oldest ections of Canada have the worst cads• It islargelydue to the continuance n' force of au antiquated system of roviding for public road -building and maintenance. The same system has eels tried in England and found want- ng`amd yet we••refuee to profit by the (J Id: Country's. -experience, which the rltannica describes as follows: ' 'be almost incredibly bad state of e -roads -in England towards the lat. r:part of the loth century appears urom tato accounts cited by itiacaulay.., was duo chiefly- to the stets of the la which compelled each I 1C m parielr to aintain its own roads by statute la- r, but the establishment of turnpike lists and the maintenance of roads tolls do not appear to have effect - any groat improvement." Let us hope that the Canada High - aye Act, passed at the late session, ells the end of statute labor and of rnpike.-trusts' in Canada. Toll- tes have been found unsatisfactory ewbere—let us abolish them here. men governments themselves' under- ce the construction of roads, we y look for bettem. daye. The Penniless Millionaire. Tho recent t ace t death of Andrew Car- ie has removed one of the utmost mantle figures from our -midst. 'negie was probably the second west man In the world—Rockefeller o first—and gave away mama troom other millionaire. ills gifts total - about $360,000,000. A curious rectertstl° of his was his dislike of ting with small change. Libraries y 'all means! Twenty-ive cents? The worried him, He often went it wills nothing in his pocket, in ✓ that the might not bo pestered, this once led to an annlsieg in- nt. r. Choate, then Anterlcsn Ambas- r.in London, was astonished to Mi', Carnegie bursting in upon him. It here, Choate, lend me a shill- ' said Carnegie. Choate thought as a joke, "But I mfght never see again!" he protested. "Come, It's no laughing matter!" re- d Carnegie. "My ca.,bnman's wait. at the door, and X haven't a y Carnegie was unfavo'ably die- d towards drink, smoking, and , whereby hangs another tale, It of an occasion when lie was ap- ched one evening by a coed - 2111 you join us at poker?" he was "No he replied. "Crib Is my doff he went to bed, re Is another story, however, suggests that, when he wished eourtooue, Mr. Carnegie sat up• dislikes and did not obtrude hie al -opinions, He had sent for alter of the Carnegie Conmpany, Moreland, who subsequently be. ocr secretary, and lathing the con - on offered him wine. , 'blanks, I don't drink," said and: fie then refused- to -smoke, sero nt )] P a l Y Cards 1 me why yore do none of those ?" asked Carnegie,. interested, u"ve kept ane working too hard asp years," replied 'ryloy'eland bluntly • blinked at hail, and aid. exclahued: ' .going'to'•ive you..theee•-:mosmths' n, and, for I-Ieaven•'e sake, go do sontethhig beside worse!" 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