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.. °