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Zurich Herald, 1919-07-18, Page 7.Avoid a Ideated Kitchen in Dog Days. If "signs of the time as .displayed in. -store windows count. for • anything, Canadian women are about to plunge into an orgy of household machinery !buying. Certainly the signs are plentiful and portenttims iii thatedirec tion, for department store windows which once were filled with smart hats and gowns, or with period furni- ture and near-or?ental rugs, are now showing a "full and complete" line of washing machines, mangles, ironing• machines, gas, electric and oil stoves, -electric :]roes, gas irons, ^ •, charcoal irons, bread -mixers, 'cake -mixers, in short, everything so far put on the market to make woman's work' lighter. And best of all signs, the women are pausing to study these same win-. doves. Even greater crowds surround the window where foamy suds splash about in an electric washer, than before the window where Parisian models of robes no woman could wear are displayed. Women are beginning to see that it is more extravagant to spend $50 for a sleazy silk gown than it is to spend $100 fora washing ma- chine ,and mangle. And' When: they once begin to think it is only a step to putting the thought into deeds. iVIany are already buying, and when the knitting club meets now the rela- tive merits of vacuum cleaners di of cylinder washing machines come up for discussion before hobble skirts and capes. Certainly something most he done to make woman's labor lighter if fam- ilies are to be raised, for no woman can take care of a honie and a 'family of children and do all of her work unaided, without killing herself or leaving undone many things which should be done if health and happiness are to he maintained. In the city and in some farm homes electricity solves the problem, but there are still_hun- dreds of farm houses where electricity must continue to be something to be hoped for in years to cone. Many things may be done, however, to light- en the burdens of the women in these homes, and it is up to the woman her- self to see that they -are done. Take the matter of a stove for one thing. Wood --is- becoming almost iii kilotrltt-aeea fuel 'in the overage farm home, and the experiences of 1917-18 show as that coal is not 'always to be had. Furthermore, the price of that fuel is going up so that it can no-lon.g- er be regarded •as cheap. Both wood and coal make extra dirt, and thus extra work, while the labor of build- ing a fire and keeping it going is no small part of the day's work. Much of this unnecessary work .could be cut out by buying a good oil or gasoline stove, .Once filled it is good for at least a day, and in homes where it is not so much used as a stove often does the cooking for several days with one filling. Then how easy to simply turn a burner and apply a match when you want a fire. No splitting kindling or sending the children scurrying for chips when you suddenly discover you are out of bread and have biscuits to make. No cooling of the oven with a delicate cake baking, because you forgot to fill the stove and the wood has all burned out. Best of all, think of the comfort in summer. The hours of standing over a scorching stove are eliminated. The meals may be prepared and fruit can- ned in a cool room. And en ironing day you can have the stove moved out- side onto a sheltered porch and do the ironing in comparative comfort, if you have not yet attained the luxury of a charcoal or gasoline iron. Get the iron, however. They may be purchased for a small sum and the steps they save you in traveling back and forth for a hot iron more than pay back £hti money you spend,'Along with the iron get a mangle. You pro- bably will not want to pay $150 for -an ironing machine,' but ' the 'mangle will do sheets, towels, unstarched. kitchen aprons, and even men's work shirts. quite satisfactorily... With your stove and laundry appli- ances eliminating unnecessary heat, you will get through the summer in Much better shape than ever before. The Health -Giving Salad. Salads are a popular summer dish. They should be made from fresh vege- tables, which contain the health -giv- ing elements that are so vitally es- sential for our physical well-being. There are also the mineral salts, which help, purify the blood stream, and thus keep us physically fit. 1 Eggs, etc., that are used in prepar- •i ing the• dressings, have a food value that may 1a figured upon it our daily ration. Heavy salads, composed of meat, are best to be eliminated for the hot weather. Replace them with light, dainty and attractive salads, that are not only appetizing, but also easily digested. The making of a successful salad is an art indeed. The proper blending of the various ingredients. and then using a well blended dressing and garnishing, so that it will not only i satisfy the eye but will tempt the palate as well—that is a real salad. The proper combinations are very important; harmony must prevail.. As, for instance, a combination of beets, 1 tomatoes and carrots would not only be inartistic but also a poor combine- ' tion of foods. Care must be taken in preparing the lettuce or other greens used, All plants that form into heads . must be separated and thoroughly washed in order to free them from dirt and insects, and then they should be given a final washing in water that contains one tablespoon of salt to every two quarts, then rinsed in ice water. The bath in salt water will re- move the tiny and almost invisible `mites and slugs that cling to these greens. I Boiled Dressing—Mix 3 tablespoons sugar, 1 tablespoon mustard, 1 tea- spoon salt, speck red pepper, add 2 well beaten eggs and 1/ cup vinegar; stir over boiling water until thick, remove from fire, add 3 tablespoons butter. Cool and seal in glass jar. Thin with sour cream when needed. Russian Dressing—One cup of boil- ed salad dressing, one raw beet, one raw carrot, one raw onion. Pare and then grate the vegetables into the salad dressing and then add one tea- spoon of salt, one teaspoon of red pepper, one-half teaspoon of mustard. Beat to mix and then use. This dress- ing will keep for a week, if it is placed in a bottle and then stored in a cool place. French Dressing—Place in a bottle one-half cup of salad oil, three table- spoons of vinegar or lemon juice, one teaspoon of salt, one-half teaspoon of mustard, one-half teaspoon of pepper. Shake until creamy and then store in a cool place. This will keep until used. Pimento Dressing—Add four finely chapped pimentos to one-half cup of prepared salad dressing. Paprika Dressing—Add one and 11PP POTA 1 N MINIATURE It seems incredible, but there exist hippotarni that do not exceed thirty Moles in height. For a long while no- body believed that there were any pygmy hippos in Liberia. The natives insisted that the Hippopotamus Lib- eriensis lived sleep in the forests; but that was another reason why explor- ers and hunters shook their heads in Incredulity. The hippopotamus lives along the rivers, they said, and this talk about pigmies of this species in the forests is nonsense. Nevertheless a pygmy 'hippo was caught as far back as 1873 and brought from Africa to the Zoological Gardens in Dublin. It might have convinced the world, only it arrived in a• dying condition, and perished before it could :be exhibited. After that people took to doubting it again, and considered the one recorded specimen as a freak. but Carl'Hageriback,-the famous ani- mal man, made up .his mind, at last, that the pygmy hippo could be, and should be, introduced to mari. He' sent -an intrepid hunter, Schomburgk, after it, and Schomburgk, after spend- ing a year and a half in the jungle, re- appeared with three pygmy beasts, tWO of Which were at once brought to the New York Zoo and placed on ex- hibition. The Liberian hippos do not live in dense forests; they do not frequent the rivers. A small forest stream satisfies them, but they do not enter it, at least by. day. They burrow into its banks, wherever there has been a washout, and in these burrows they sleep during the daylight hours. So it is very difficult to trace them. The first specimen that was seen could not be caught, because all the native car- riers were sick,,and the whole country was so flooded by talus that Schom- burgk could not camp therein. .After trying various ways to capture the shy little beasts, Schomburgk decided to dig pits whereby they might be en- trapped on their* nightly strolls through the forest. As the pygmy hippo usually mains about alone, and rarely uses the same track twice, this pit -digging was con. ducted over wide areas, More than a hundred pits were dug, each at least seven feet deep. They were carefully covered with grass and leaves, so that not the sharpest human eye could de tect them, Yet the hundred pits trapped only three hippos, after all. • one-half teaspoons of paprika to the French dressing. Shake well to blend. Paprika is a sweet, mild red pepper that will not bite the tongue. During the warm weather use salads twice a day, beginning the day with water- cress, radishes, or crisp young oniolis or leaves of lettuce, for your health's sake, Vegetable Timetable. The time required for cooking vege- tables depends on the kind, size and age of the vegetable. You must use your own judgment in deciding when they are done, but a timetable may help you. Timetable for cooking , fresh vege- tables in water: . ,. Asparagus /15-2 minutes Beans, Lima (green) 1 '.hour• • 13,ea.nth string• torr 1-3,hour`s • Deets, -old 3-4 hours Beets; young si'a-1 hair 20-30 minutes Carrots 30-60 n j totes: Cauliflower .... 20-30 min' tes;. Corn,..green i 10-15 sn nu£es.;. Onions ' 10-30 minutes: Parsnips 30-45 eninutesS Peas, green 20-30 minutes. Potatoes 30-40 minutes Spinach 15-30 minutes Squash 20-30 minutes Turnips 30-45 minutes What Salt Will Do. Dip a piece 'of flannel in salt and whiting to clear. knife handles, stain- ed teacups and glasses. Salt scattered on the carpet before sweeping is very good, but be sure to sweep it all up, as the dampness might make it run. By adding a tiny pinch of salt to milk eedien fresh it will keep a much longer time. Egg stains on silver can be removed by rubbing with a little salt and a damp cloth. RED HOT JULY DAYS HARD ON THE BABY. July—the month of oppressive heat; red hot days and sweltering nights, is etremely hard on little ones. Diarr- hoea, dysentery, colic and cholera in- fantum carry off thousands of precious little lives every summer. The mother must be constantly on her guard to prevent these troubles, or if they come. on suddenly to fight them. No other medicine is of - - such aid to mothers during the hot summer -as is Baby's Own Tablets. They regulate the bowels and stomach, and an occasion- al dose given to the well child will prevent summer complaint, or if the trouble does conte suddenly will banish it. The Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cts. a box from The Dr. `Williams' Medi- cine Co., Brockville, Ont. Canadian Cattle Records. Among cattle in Canada the princi- pal breed is the Shorthorn, which num- bers 53 per cent, of the total. Here- fords come next, then Holsteins, with Aberdeen -Angus, Ayrshires and Jer- seys following in the order named, as shown by figues compiled by the Do- minion Statistician. High-priced feeds have done one thing—they have wiped out thousands of poor cows. Good thing. ItUSSIAN MENTALITY WRECKED BY FAMINE Physically normal persons no longer are to be found in Petrograd nor in all Russia, says T, Hessen, a well-known Moscow journalist and member of the second Duma, who has arrived in Copenhagen after a long stay Ito Pet- rograd. The mental state produced by starvation, disease and nervous strain, lie says, forces Russians to lose their mental balance. "Their mental condition so changes their appearance that .often one ,can- not recognize' diTe's • neatest friend: I remember the ,impression ,I had when I met the "well-known lawyer, Rajeff• ski. At first./ did not 'recognize hint. Soon afterward I learned that he had hanged himself, - "Similar things happen daily,, .'c I thinkit is to be wondered at that Ouch, suicides do not become general. it all the _sta Bets one meets well- dressed pepple, -men and women, beg- ging There tbey.stand, some of them ;with , their;bpatis' down, dumb as if tun8c7 to iatoxTe; others tonelessly re- pe'atizig tfi dm dying. Give me some- , ome- to eat •"Even. if -orie has. sufficient money to pay -•the: enormous prices, one may make acquaintance with starvation," wrote Mr: Hessen to the Copenhagen Politiken, . , "One has to get hold of a seller 'and, pursuade him to Sell. by treating him to some coffee, giving him the place of honor and so ou. • Money does not tempt him He can always get money. He needs it only in order to continue his trade or to buy luxuries, such as sable fur coats, gold ornaments or gems. It is not the seller who looks for a buyer, but -just' the contrary. "Not rarely mothers are seen (who have left at home their underfed "sick children) pleading with a milli woirian • to yield up half a bottle of milk at. quite. a shameless sum, and it may - happen that the niilkwoman suddenly becomes capricious and does not even answer the unhappy applicant. "Add to this the terrible typhus and smallpox epidemics, against which there is not the slightest possibility of protection. Remarkably enough the cholera epidemic that flourished last summer ceased suddenly as if by a whim of nature. But now the typhus and smallpox edipemics are developing more and more seriously. The govern- ment has no means to check them. The government cannot even procure wood enough for coffins nor transport to the cemeteries. It is obvious that people under such esitions, with such superhuman ef- forts of energy demanded of them, cannot continue to keep their mental balance." War Privations. A major of the intelligence bureau of the War Department tells the fol- lowing anecdote: On the other side of the water the civilian has had to endure all sorts of queer privations and hardships. In many parts of France, for example, there were no matches, . no coal, no kerosene. A man was staggering along a Clark street with a grandfather's clock on his back. Another man stopped him and said:. . "Hello, Gaston! Moving?" "Moving? Nothing of the kind!" Gaston answered. "I'm carrying this clock to the nearest lamp -post so that I can see what time it is." CANADIAN PREIGHTEI3. The S.S. Canadian Recruit, the latest addition to the Canadian Govern- ment steamship service, loading at Montreal for Jamaica and Cuba. She was built at Collingwood by the Collingwood Shipbuilding Company and is 1,455 tons. The Great West Permanent Loan Connpany, Toronto Office, 20 King St, West, 4% allowed on Savings. Interest computed quarterly. Withdrawable by Cheque. W2% on Debentures, Interest payable half yearly. Paid up Capital $2,412,578, THE BUFFALO OF THE lEAST,, The buffalo of the East, while a do- mestic animal, is used in transport service equally with: the' fapiiliar "cgs, from which he is -easily ilfstingttisli-` able by his low. set, down curving horns and muzzle carried almost straight forward:' '' "' ' • People who are obliged to travel by buffalo cart are- 'ddserving " of sym- pathy, for. the 'buffalo is the slowest of all draught beasts. It ii `hie great strength that gives him the -advantage over the ox. The lda* that a • single" yoke of buffalb'es wilt pull; is astonish- ing. Iii India they are always -given the kind of load which is assigned to drayhorses here, oro inery°3iorse,work, except passenge,r'tr'a.$p 17eixig: per- formed by the r humped 5ixen, known elsewhere as zebus. '. India, indeed: is _the;fiative,home of the buffalo, and it' still exists there as a wild 'anitr a'1= Very witA indeed it is,,'.' too, and a'n old Ault;<is very apt to at- tack unprovolte`tl, aeiitearv;•to the usual ctistein of almost ail =wild "annals. Even its tame descendants retain plenty 'of spirit' It IS said that when in a herd they do not, fear the tiger, 'and' a !recognized method..of getting "stripes" tp' bolt. when hehas taken to .epver is to drive .in a,herd of buffaloes f:e rent him out, which they Nv411 do to a certainty if they get on.,his-scent. • Even tame •buffalos` can make them- selves very unpleasant .to, people they do not' know, and they are.not at all safe for a Westerner to approach in India, but, and here appears the most attractive side of their character, they display toward their owners a faith- fulness one usually associates rather with dogs than with cattle. The true Indian buffalo is to a great extent an aquatic animal and when off duty likes nothing so much as to lie up to its ears in water, but, like the duck, it can if necessary resign itself to existence without a bath. That an animal so nearly naked of protecting hair as it is should thrive in so cold a climate as that of Eastern Europe is a remarkable fact of acclimatization. Its presence in Italy is less surpris- ing, but even there its introduction seems to be merely of medieval date. Scientifically, the tame buffalo is of in- terest as having, like the ass, varied so little from the wild type. Pied buf- faloes are as rare as pied donkeys, though *bite and fawn colored varie- ties occur as well as the natural black. Like the ass also, the buffalo is a des- pised animal, yet in local utility both beasts may surpass their more aristo- cratic relatives, the horse and the ox, while in intelligence and "force of character" they are certainly far su- perior. Judging Character. That the hand furnishes a most pre- cise index to character may not ap- peal to those who have a preconceived antipathy to what they regard as gypsy fraud—palmistry. Nevertheless, one of the most painstaking seekers after truth, Captain d'Arpentigny, a French army officer in the time of Napoleon` Bonaparte became convinced that the bony structures of the hands and fingers was in some mysterious way connected with the spiritual na- ture of than. With painstaking care he examined many thousands of hands, classifying them, until the result of his researches assumed the foram of a veritable science. For instance. he found that long fingers indicate a mind which delights in performing minute, delicate work and revels in details, whereas short fingers are indicative of quite the op- posite propensity. A person with very short fingers, he found, has no patience at all with detail, but wants things presented at once and in their entirety. And, moreover, he cares only -for big undertakings. • • The 'Height of Economy. The sergeant major had the reputa-• tion of never being at a loss for an answer. A young officer made a bet with a brother officer that he could ask the sergeant major a question that Would baffle him. The sergeant major accompanied the young officer on his rounds in the course of which the cook house was inspected. Pointing to a large cald- ron of water just commencing to boil, the officer said: "Why does the water only boil around the edges of the copper and not in the center?" "The water around the edges, slr," replied the veteran, "is for the men on guard; they have their breakfast half an hour before the remainder of the eompany. ' Expert knowledge mixed with com- mon sense makes a farming formula hard to beat - Health 4 Night Terrors. This is a nervous affection of child- hood, .akin to, but more severe than, nightmare ,in the adult. Most persons ' know from experience what nightmare is --a terrifying dream in which you And yourself in some very perilous situation without being able to make your escape; finally, however, you• awake, and, although the remenx brance of the dream is diisagreeable, you; feel it a blessed relief to find:. that it was only a dream. Nightiiare, may, indeed, occur in childhopsi;-but it always has those disting tushing - characteri•stics, and the ehildiplilea, tirely himself as soon as lie wakes In night terrors the brain. seeriis to' be temporarily more deeply sheerest The attack occurs usually early ii tlae night,..often before the eli'ild's e!decif have retired. A scream is hear-' ,p - stairs, •and the nurse or mother, rush- ing to the cot, finds the Aild-'sittii up- in bed, the picture of e-tearereeoreeee perhaps out of bed and attempting to hide from the bogey. The chid is. un- conscious of his . surrieundings; -lie recognizes neither mother nor nurse, and, so long as the attack lasts, is unable to be comforted by soothing assurances. That may be a minute or two only, ar • as. long as half an, hour, or even longer; hilt finally the attack breaks, the little sufferer seems to recognize those about him, although yet only half awake, and soon he drops off to sleep again, to awake in the morning with no recollection of his terrifying experiences of the night. Children who are subject to night terrors are usually of a nervous dis- position or .of nervous heredity, and the affection is said to he quite com- mon in children who belong to a rheumatic or gouty family. There is little to do to shorten the attack once it occurs, although, of course, the mother takes the little sufferer in her arms and tries to soothe his terror, but judicious tre t- ment will often reduce the frequency of the attacks or altogether prevent them. The child's evening meal should be very light, and if he is a hearty eater it would be well to divide the meal, giving him the heavier part early in the afternoon, and nothing except a cracker and a glass of milk - a little before bedtime. Avoid ghost stories and nurses' tales; show the child no gruesome pictures; and if he is afraid of the dark, humor him, for nothing is more cruel than to force such a child to brave the unknown horrors of inky blackness. If you have a light in the room, take pains to place it in such a position that it will not cast shadows. Putting a child to bed happy and leaving him with lov- ing assurances of an ever -abiding pro- tection will also fortify his little brain against terrifying night visions. "HOW DO YOU DO?" Various Greetings in Vogue Among the Peoples of the Earth. In most American and European countries, when we meet a friend, we shake hands and say, "How do you do?" but in other climes the methods of greeting vary considerably. When two Arabians meet one an- other they rub their cheeks together, while a native of Burma pretends to smell his friend's face, pronounces it sweet, and then asks for a "smell." The Australian natives have a greet- ing which, if it were practised here, we would consider very rude. They stick their tongues out at each other. If a Chinaman is riding, and anyone great passes, he immediately dis- mounts. Tlie Hindu falls in the dust before his superior, while the Turk crosses his hands upon his breast, and makes a very low bow, thus showing his re- gard without coining in personal con- tact wifh its object. ee A Jap removes his sandals, crosses his hands, and cries out, "Spare me!" But perhaps the greeting that weal strike us .as the. ntoet strange, both physically anti' nieeitaily, is. britt •o& the South Sea Islander. Ifo throws a' jar- ful of water over, the head of a friend when they "meet.' ' Remove Rhubarb Secd-Stalks. Seed -stalks which develop upon rhubarb plants ought to be removed before the blossoms set send. Seed development clraws heavily upon the plant. One of the most prevalent causes of failure with rhubarb in the home garden is seed -stalk develop- ment, This causes the leaf stems to become smaller and smaller year after year, until it hardly pays to care for the plants. No rhubarb should be harvested from the garden after about the mid- dle of July. After this date the plants should be allowed to develop normal- ly to make and store plant food in the roots. Prom this plant food the shoots and stems are produced early the following spring. If harvesting is continued too late itt the season, the plants will be greatly weakened and a lower yield will be secured during :the next few yea.. °