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Zurich Herald, 1919-04-28, Page 2?reserving lenge With Water-Glatas. -';then the housewife fin& an over- abundance of eggs from a prolific' poultry yard in the summee months,' and the cold -storage speculator is, capitalizing the opportunity, she too can make provision for the pro- verbial rainy day. The abundance of eggs in June, July and August, and the consequent cheapening of price, suggest the use of the water -glass method to preserve the, eggs. Select fresh eggs that are clean, but not washed. Use infertile eggs, if possible. Take nine quarts. of; water that has been boiled and cool -I eel, and adcl one quart of water -glass (sodium silicate). Place the mixture in a five-galon crock or jar. This amount of liquid will preserve fif- teen dozen eggs. For larger amounts, znix the solution in the same pro- portion. Clean the crock thoroughly before using. Place the eggs in the solution. If the poultry yard has not supplied an adequate quantity of eggs for im- mediate use, they may be added from time to time. See that at least two inches of the solution covers the eggs at all times. Place the crock or jar in a cool,' dry place, well cov- ered to prevent evaporation. Wax - paper placed on and tied around the top of the jar will serve the desired end. As a substitute for water -glass, this method has proved good: Dis- solve two or three pounds of un- slaked :ime in five gallons of water that has previously been boiled and allowed to cool. Let the mixture stand until the lime settles and the liquid is clear. Place clean, fresh eggs in an earthenware crock or jar and pour the clear lime -water into the vessel until the eggs are covered. Earthenware crocks are good con- tainers. They must be clean and 'sound. Scald them and let them cool completely before use, A crock hold- ing six gallons will accommodate 18 dozens of eggs and about 22 pints of solution. Crocks that are too large are not desirable, since they increase the liability of breaking some of the eggs and spoiling the entire lot. It must be remembered that the eggs on the bottom crack first and that those in the bottom of the crocks are the last to be removed for use. Eggs can be put up in smaller crocks, and the eggs put in the crock first should be used first. Inspect the crock from time to time and replace with cool boiled water ' any water that has evaporated. • When the eggs are to be used, re- move then, as desired, rinse in clean, cold water and use immediately, Eggs preserved in water -glass can be used for soft boiling or poach- ing up to November. Before boiling such eggs take a needle and prick a tiny hole in the large end of the shelf to keep them from eraeking. The eggs are satisfactory for frying until about December. From that time until the end of the usual star - age period—that is, until March— they can be used for omelettes, scrambled eggs, custards, cakes and general cookery. As the eggs age, the white be- comes thinner and harder to beat. The yolk membrane. becomes more delicate and it is correspondingly difficult to separate the whites from the yolks. Sometimes the white of the egg is tinged pink after very teeny; keeping in water -glass. This is ,due, probably, to a little iron which is in the water-llctss, but which does not injure the egg fo: food purposes. 1lwers and Chickens.. Chicken, end Rowe ea:'ziens have long been c^rr,. t.': ,.'.1 an impossible eomliinntion, but for several years I have hem vide egrebine the two in a mere profitable manner. Tho y ;r:1 where I '`eel} my crops ref hr;;;, With Iml e elllelsene has .ittle or n`'r 'l .,le, TT t.•ine a few dahlia --' / eats Vegetable fete and aieturel flower attracts give DART'S OWN SOAP its wonderfully softening and aromatic lather. Sold everywhere. Abort ,00ps Zimitr0, Mho., Montreal fcc'ts that I do not need in my flower garden I planted a row in this chicken yard twelve years ago. This roil was very rich, the plants made rapid growth and the baby chicks did not disturb them. Each time I gave the fowls fresh water I threw the stale water from the chickens' drink- ing receptacles on the plants. This added nothing to my work. The growing chickens were kept in this yard all summer and always sought the shade of the dahlias dur- ing the heat of the day. As the blooms faded I picked them off and threw then on the ground where the chicks devoured them greedily. Since dahlia tubers are used for food in certain localities I knew the blooms could not harm the fowls; in fact, I believe they are nourishing and beneficial. The next year I increased my dahlia planting, saving all of the tubers the first fall and buying some new ones in the spring. The result is that this chicken yard that form- erly had been far from attractive is now one of the show places on the premises; passersby stop to look at it. So many stopped and asked for bouquets that I put out a sign during the summer: "Fresh Eggs and Flow- ers, 25 cents a dozen." Part of the money* made from the sale of the flowers two years ago was used to buy eggs from blooded poultry, and choice varieties of dahlias. Last year I sold every blos- som from the new varieties of dahlias, which were of immense size and had exquisite coloring. This whole chicken yard is annu- ally a forest of flowers. The tubers are dug each fall and stored the same as potatoes. I no longer keep all of the more common varieties for plant- ing; these are stored separately and fed to the laying hens throughout the winter. As the chickens grow they eat some of the lower branches of the dahlias, but their scratching in no way disturbs the plants, for they become sturdy long before the chicks grow strong enough to harm them. REFUSED TO USE GAS IN WAR. Great Britain Rejected the Idea as Far Back as 1812. In their defence of the use of poison gas the German military authorities declared that the idea originated with the British admiral, Lord Dundonald, better known as Lord Cochrane. In the discussion a great deal of know - 'ledge considerably out of the beaten track has been aired. In a paper re- cently issued by the British Ministry 1 of Information the German allegation is dismissed: the grounds may be briefly stated as follows:— I It is a matter of history that in 1812 fmlddonald submitted to the prince re - i gent, afterward George Iy., secret war i plans which included the use of as- phyxiating gas. A committee of ex- ir,arte to whom the proposal was re- ferred expressed the opinion that the nio:le of attack was "infallible and Ir- reeietible," but it was not sanctioned. lu 1s40, when there was a threat of was, Dumiunild again submitted his pl:,n : to the British government. The Duke of Wellington thought well of the idea. 1111 with hie practical good ease ',enact' out that "two could play at that gaple. ' In i846 the plan was again referred to a "committee," which reported that it wa;; not desirable that any experi- ments should Le glade, on the ground that part. of the Mans "would not ac• • cord with the prin,•iples of civilized Iwarfare," Later, when again ihr're was talk of war, Dundonald was a:4l:ed about Iiis scheme, but one more it was re- jected. - --- - - -- A Neglected Fertilezer. • i1Iany towns anti cities - have ex- perienced a t>f'arcity of manure since the vacant -lot get)'rl(rn movement has heccnm so popniar. The Ft. Thomas Tin tie iltnr .t Scciety, a very wide- :see:l.e ," ,tiii.tio:i, hes islet this diflt- enity lty collecting and storing an- rttatly �:1)trit •Hifi IOW's cf pavement sv:eepiug.,. amble manure and leaves. This is stored in a -conv nient plasee just outside the city where it eleeom- po5e.s, being frequently turned to has- ten rotting and prevent burning, It is after yards applied to the Society's beult:" :'r d beds and to reclaimed waste axone, 'ehilst some ie sold to members. It is important that as much leaves and stable manure as possible be mixed with the pavement sweepings as the latter are apt to be leached out and to consist of a good deal of dirt not of high manurial value. MORALE IS BROKEN GERMAN AN PEOPLE CONTRAST WITH THE ATTITUDE OF FRANCE iN 1871. Pride and Arrogance Changed to Un- dignified Humility In the Hour. of Defeat. The moral backbone of the German people is broken, It was their nation al pride that ofn shocked us—their arrogance or sometimes a kind of childish delirium over the tremendous greatness of their kaiser, the empire, the people themselves, and their vir- tues. All this was based on the firm belief in the invincibility of the Ger- man organization., art, science and in, dustry. Now they have found that they had built their house on sand, and everything has fallen eto pieces. From one extreme they have gone. at once to the other, from arrogance' -to humility, from noisy boasting to 'la- mentable despair. There is no digni- ty in the way they carry 'their defeat: There is no honest self -scrutiny; no- body will accept any responsibility for what has happened and for the crimes committed; everybody lays the fault on somebody else --one the; Hohenzollerns, Ludendorff, Tirpitz. They try to get away from the fact that the whole people will have to pay for the debts the Hohenzollerns have incurred, but which they sanctioned. Tliey have forgotten how once they all sang "Deutschland uber Allies," which meant they would fight for Ger- many's suprerna,cy in Europe. Contrast With the French. The Germans had too much pride before. Many of them have none at all now. How different were the French after 1871! They dict not travel because outside their own frees tiers they felt the more acutely the shame of their defeat. Niue out of ten of upper-class Germans I have met asked, "How is Paris now, and Lon- don and Nice? You cannot imagine how we miss it. How soon do you think we can go back there again?" The French after 1871 at once •be- gan to work harder than ever 'with. new strength and with the Idea of winning back Alsace-Lorraine Within their new frontiers through a high development of industry, MOO art and science. The Gernie 'een1 to have lost all spirit of enitepriSe. Only the most necessary work is done. and even that is badly clone. Nobody seems to care. Nothing is done to transform the factories ' which had served the purposes of war into fac- tories of peace production. In some of thele the workmen are kept and paid, though the works stand stili. The workmen pass the dee;' playing Bards. But do not think they are sat- isfied. In one factory where not a stroke of work had been clone for months the workmen, or card -players, even asked for an increase of pay and a six -hour day. When this was re- fused they threatened to strike. Capitalists do not dare to invest their money in industry, mines, or commerce, but try to smuggle it out of the country out of reach of sociali- zation and taxes. Some offered large sums if agents w'buid smuggle their money and securities into a neutral country. German Industry. German industry really is now handicapped. It was able to compete favorably before the war because it had cheap transport, coal and Iabor. Now transport is expensive, and con- sequently cool is dear in most parts of the country. Labor, as compared with the rest of Europe, is very dear— even an unskilled workman gets six- teen marks ($4) a day. The employ- ers do not yet know if. and under what conditions, they will get raw materials, nor when and where they will be al- lowed to sell. But even If there were free trade throughout the world, and Germany given absolutely equal cnildl- tiotls with the other states, she would: not be able to compete for at least time years, except to a certain extent In the chemical industry. The national pride is gone, and wlutt is more, there is no money to make in the Fatherland; therefore, a r''1'eat luituher of Ger111Fllls lt'ive mole timed. their intention t') r11;?Stin i1.l.ttirt. Iiz<ltion in ul(,11181'' u2try r ;nn ;1 poSi 1h1c0.so'T^iley haPail t+till t1i poore- tension to speak or their 1811t01' mee ;e!on as colonist; iii Holland or nean- din.tvia. 'Pilose eountrie:a will cer- tainly have to protect themselves against German immigration through very special laws. 'When Germans discuss defeat, as they often do even with etrengers, they never admit that they were beat- en in a military sense, Otto often hears the expression "our invincible field grays," They admit two muses of defeat, the British blockade and British propa,granda: these together shook the morale of the people and prepared the revolution. That oven a decisive battle was fought between Camhrai and St, Quentin they ignore,' If you want to get sl lot of satisfac- tion out of life just go around, "happying" up Otho* . 4R�'7, i' inv,"'l driers: SVMt IX,92.7ram sera &Rov4MEEOFJP2Menzr gn... i 1 TF FF ems" Gl" 7 for «~ Kissable Child Nobody Rise 'Will Dr, Red Cross Girl of Mine rp• cC.7n L` C e" nviirete°3rn U ,�vx.ti:nivls a '_gar Sometime Between. Midnight and Dawn Alabama 1ie.11 Virgiula from Virginia hail For Ifo 1 Want to Hee if My Daddy's Come Rome. " The whole sever; cornets will be cent prepaid on receipt cf price together with our complete list of popular mete. We will else place your name on our mailing list to receive notice of the new songs as they conte out. Send the dollar now and get the music by return mall, r 17 AX).`e:LAID11 FST, :57 :9 'ronOx7"T!O. 62:42 02291 .aa7a�sv-nrz+se[�trr ty21=7 r.:.'-1sA".r1"=,i +%'c.' _, !"'„'' - ',:,3v7i;."l:'P.:.G,' y`J':�� mcc4,;yu*.F's: s. ✓g`w�(Si as well as the faet that the final blow of Marshal Foch's offensive was to be delivered by General Casteinau in the south albout November 15, which, of course, was known by the German ne- gotlatore and prompted their decision to accept unconditional surrender. , The Future Seems Vague. It seems to me that only the Social- ists in Germany understand that the basis of the armistice was an uncondi- tional capitulation; the others seem to imagine that the armistice was a kind of preliminary peace in which Germany obtained certaiu guarantees on the basis of Mr. Wilson's fourteen •points. Only the Socialists admit that the situation is such that the Gorman Government will have to accept the Allies' peace conditions, however hard they are. But the Democrats still make an attempt to show some na- tional bluff dear to the old government. They often say that if the peace con- ditions go one single inch farther than Mr. Wilson's points the Germans will have been cheated, and the govern- ment may refuse to sign them. The Socialists hate war too sincere- ly to think of revenge, even if they also would resent a diminution of Ger- man territory and heavy indemnities. But the Conservatives are chauvinists, and preach revenge whatever may happen. The Promises of Juliet. Juliet leaned forward with her pretty face alight. "Do you mean to say that you haven't yet read Stanfield's last book? Then you have a treat before you. Do let me lend you mine—no, please—it will be such a pleasure! .Tati knew there isn't anything that is si greater delight than to lend •n new treasure to a book lover." - 'Juliet and her sister Ellen had been calling on Sue Morse and her cousin, who was the guest of the Morses. As the two girls went down the street the visitor turned to Sue. "What a dear girl!" she exclaimed. "I never saw a mare charming one." "Which one ?"• Sue asked. "Why, Juliet, of course. No doubt Ellen is very nice, but that lovely thoughtfulness of Juliet's—and done in such a way that she makes you feel as if you were doing her the favor." Sue smiled, "Juliet has 'ways,' " she acknowledged; "there's no deny- ing that." Meanwhile, Juliet and Ellen were making another call. This time Juliet promyised to bring Chloe Sheldon's aunta pattern she wanted; and at the third and -fourth places she prom- ised Lisa Parks her new conservation cooky receipt and the minister's wife the names of the new guild members. She had a very happy afternoon. Juliet always liked making calls, Two days later the visitor at the Morses' received the book, but it was Ellen who brought it. Juliet was so busy, Ellen explained; she would have loved to bring it, but she had her committee meetings and so many things, and Ellen could run round with it just as well as not. As the visitor went back into the library Sue looked up from the books she was dusting. "So you. have your Stanfield. I knew EIlen wouldn't forget." "But it was' Juliet who promised it to me," the gnest protested, "Exactly. ;fent aiways does the promising. She's the prei•tiest prom- iser I ever saw in my life, but it's Ellen who watches. and keeps her promises for her. Maybe that's why Ellen doesn't make so many of her ' own—it takes ro Tnry h of her time to keep Juliet':. We ell love Juliet---- nebody could help i't---hilt we don't think of depending .cn her any more then on a hl'i1;ni1;^,' bird. When we: want sense one that eve can depend on eve go to lanes," "I see," the visitor said slowly and then ghtfuily. To remove brown marks from dishes caused by burning in the oven, rub them well with common salt, April. Now fades the last long streak of snow, Now bourgeons every maze of quick About the flowering squares, and thick I3y ashen roots the violets blow. Now rings the woodland loud and long, The distance takes a lovelier hue, And drowned in yonder living blue The lark becomes a sightless song. Now dance the lights on lawn and lea, The flocks are whiter down the vale, And milkier every milky sail, On winding stream or distant sea. Where now the seaman Mime, or; dives In yonder gleaming green, and fly The happy birds, that change their sky To build and brood; that live their lives. From land to land, and. In my breast Spring wakens leo; aril my regret Becomes an April violet, And buds and blossoms like the rest. —Alfred Tennyson (In Memoriam), In South America two dainties aro lizards and baked centipedes. Note from a mother to a teacher asking •him not to flog her boy: "You are not to cane niy boy, or he will drop down dead. at your door, the same as he did at Hire. Cary's." rnetTI&T_ZER GARDENS. LAWNS, N'LO WEIRS. Complets Fertilizer. 'Write George Stevens, Peterborough, Ont. q.P.Pce. ldidt. tATr oN BRAND Ready Roc.Titt,; Asphalt Slate Shing- les, Wall ?Board. Building Papers, Roof Paints, ete. Write' for prices and samples. �� �Saavee money by buying direct. n'vtcriAEA'@NI BA9OS 797 n vil.1*oSe' ��yt tl�� Ilan ei��{�I will pay ° " #" � est market ip price for 51E17SER€nTS and Ginseng Root. 22 years of reliable trading. Reference—Union Bank of Canada Write for Tags, N. SILVER, 220 St. Paul St. W. Montreal, 1".61. NATIVE SEED CORN Grown in South lissom Selected at husking time. Pegged and crate cured. Limited amount. ORDRR 7iA)tLY. Wis. No. 7 $i•25 per bus, White Cap Bailey Gooden Glow 4.00 " " North Dakota 4.00 " Dares Proc. Cash with. order, Darius WIgle, Kingsville, Ont. n o5 Mt „ a.z611 „ VARICOSE VEINS? Wear This Mon -Elastic Laced Stocking SAa 110,1Zir, a.s they may be washed or boiled.. A.YJ'CYSTa1Srsr„ laced like a legging: always fits. CtD.i 't'°O1sTAB3.n, made to measure; light and dur- able. COOL, contains No liubber. 1,500,000 SOLI) BOOtYoac:sc n,, cost $2.60 each, or two for th., same limb, $0.60, postpaid. Write for d'otalague and. Self -Measurement Blank. Corllcs Ximit ;occislty Co. 014 3arw Flirts `restate. aToui ezl m i9 r-. 'OR SC LB, CaunSl ton;; S.,od rr„tn the i x I : + t, , ;inion F'8c ..riuir-r,t.il ST'1'I'L.Y tet :?!'I'88r. Prices as conniver: -..- T miosis --- 0!0 li+s, ;tint over ill-. lb, 21(1 ., 50o, ' 111,), ts('. „ 2000 " " 43c. " Swc-Je T. S rrir)3 - 85e, lit. 4r?C. 75r " lar. " 00 11 , and over 5111? l nein ield CMtrottt- 5 lbs. and over ........ , , 90e. 111. To prevent damping -off, " water the " „ S"n, hotbed only in the horning during zos , 78(1.the time when the frame has to be freight Maid and soles free kept closed meet of the time. All Net. payment batik draft. CO dates front d('ttn oi' frivoler and I''i, 1,11=itvorl t'nr cash night witlinllt air, while the soil -is io clays from date of int oice, wet and she) e is mrieh bottom heat, caPanticulars about varieties on ap'pl1- is almost sure to 'case the trouble, Dti, hi, 0. nr.ed.rla, Sulphur sprinkled 011 top of the soil, Central I0zperitnental Vertu among the plants is also helpful, r,tto,>i' r,4,t Ileafth Itete r Hygiene of Old Age. Cicero never got so far away from the truth as when he wrote that old age is in itself a disease. Indeed, sl far is 'old ago= from being a diseas 1 that the old man 10 actually immune to malty of the contagions that afflict and often kill the young. What mis- led Cicero was that the clock is running down in the aged and the assimilative and other powers are less active than they were; but they are not t'.liseased---the clock is run- ning clown and the key is lost, but the machinery is not necessarily out of repair. Some persons may think that we are making a distinction without a difference, but there is, in fact, a great difference. Let anyone who cannot see it have a little patience; he will grow old himself, if he es- capes the perils of disease mean- while, and then he will see that, al- though he cannot run and dance and swim as he once could, he is far from being an invalid. His forces are merely slowing :down, and he slows down with therm. The recognition of that fact brings the knowledge of bow to treat the aged in health and in sickness. That old age is a second childhood is another saying that is 'far from fact. It is the very antithesis of ehiklhood so far as the response to disease is concerned, for, whereas in youth reactions are vi'.:ent, and a very slight cold may be narked by a raging fever and rapid pulse, in old age a fatal attack of pneumonia may run its course with scarcely any fever or acceleration of the pulse. Pain also is less acute in the old, for their sense are blunted and nerve -con- duction is less perfect. The principal diseases of advanced life are those of the heart, arteries, kidneys and digestive organs. The 1 treatment of disease in the aged must always be gentle; the heroic kill -or - cure methods that are sometimes the only way of sating life in the case of the young cannot be adopted in the old, for they would invariably bill and never cure. The management of the well old man muet also follow the same rule of moderation; no hurry, no worry, no excess in .food or drink, avoidance of meat and highly seasoned dishes, the use by pref.erencct of fruit, milk, cheese and salads; moderation in. the use of coffee and tea—especially of coffee; plenty of quiet exercise out- doors; eight cm nine hours' rest in bed, and sleeping with open windows.. BELGIAN STATE TREASURES. Guarded by Britain• "During War and Now Returned to Owners. When the Germans made their on- slaught on Belgium. the national tree, aures were lnu'i'ied across to England piecemeal, ally reasonably safe meth- od of transit being adopted. it is un- derstood •that at any rate the bulk of the State veluahlee were saved. On arrival in England they were all as- sembled at the Bank of England, hese they have been kept since. The task of getting them back to Belgium was obviously one of great responsibility, and every precaution was taken to ensure secrecy and safe- ty. The cargo was sent in charge of 1 bank and Government officials. At I Tilbury docks three special ships of the John Coekerill< Line were waiting to take it across. Ten or twelve "o ateiies" mounted guard on the voy- age. The etessels were escorted by destroy Nes as fax ns Dutch waters. It is impossible definitely to fix the value of the cargo, but it is said to be close upon $500,000,000. It consisted of thousands of sealed packages con- taining bullion, scrip, stud all the valu- able State documents of the Belgian Govcrnlnert and Crown, including a large puncber of secret papers which belonged to the late King Leopold, Post r~ , The 1 a. lets ,tf tho opt Office,a,.ti- I rags is ill; a gr,01. Coal i l actual 'Asir formed eine of the cnrgo, which ie cle:oril> d as the meet V0iittble load ever tilt el: neat,:s the seas. At .Antwerp the cargo was trans - revved to Fleeced trains and carried to }lints:gds. , where it was received by ofilolale ')f the Belgian iau Govs'i» cnent, Tombstone Evidence, The lawyer was exeminln g n. wit' nese and a; -ked loin about the charac- ter of lite dead man who figured in the case, to which tho witness re- plied: "Ile was e. 'mall without blame, be- loved and respected by all, purt in all his thought; "How did you learn that'!" ttemand- ed the judge. • "I react it on his tombstone," was the dtscoilcer'tiug reply, .,,..........,...rip._— ...._. "We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably be who never Made a miss take never made a diseovera,"--'-S. gie ilea