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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1920-09-09, Page 2Three Kitchen helps. I wish every woman had these three things. in her kitchen: A kitchen stool—made the right height for her to iron, wash dashes at to a tarry platform under the reel, so her sink, and beat cakes at her cab- Ido not have to wade around in the inet. I ever have withoutbeen able to stand mud on rainy days. The clothespins bamya,re kcfeet long getting a bad hang in an apron bag in the laundry, lme, and haddbegun to fell that „4 . never could be an efficient farmer's and in another bag is a 'ball of line wife. But my farmer-husband—bless that can be put up in the cellar on rainy days. On the stroke of 12 Mrs. X. comes to the cellar stairs and calls to me that my dinner is ready. In the kit- chen window is' a little folding table with a little blue Japanese cloth and napkin, and I have my dinner on that, and such a ndoe (linteri italways is, a little china pot of piping pretty dishes and always a little indi- vidual dessert that she has made specially for me when she made the dessert the day before for the family dinner, a mold of cornstarch, a turn- over, or a small cottage pudding. Sometimes in the :summer there is .a little vase of flowers in the middle of the table that. I can take hone with me when I go. And I smooth up nay hair and take off my apron and feel like a real lady while I eat. I' am ready to go to ironing now, and I am in a much better mood than I would be if she had slammed some food onto the corner of the kitchen table for me. The ironing board is always smooth and clean, and there is a sleeve rack and a nice big rack for the folded clothes. And there is an electric iron. And yet I know Mrs. X.'s friends are always wondering how it is that - she is able to get so much out of her washerwoman in a day, and why she stays with her so long. This is why. things. Instead of a clothesline, Mrs. X. has a reel that slips into a socket in the back yard; and you can stand in one spot and hang out the clothes. And there is a little flag walk down his. Heart!—solved my difficulties by mysteriously shutting himself up one afternoon in his workshop. He emerg- ed after an hour or so with a kitchen stool, and it is almost as dear to me as, is my $500 piano. A built -in -cupboard for dishes over the sink. I used to have to trot into the pantry with my dishes, and I was trotting most of the time. Any cup- board except one that was built in would have been awkward and in the way in my kitchen. Now my dishes are washed and put away in about half the time they used to demand, and I can use that- extra energy that I spent -trotting from pantry to "kitchen. and back again in some other way— doing soine of the many things that we farmers' wives want to do but never find the time. And thirdly, a landscape window in the kitchen, with a window ledge wide enough for a plant box or individual "pot for flowers. Why shouldn't Moth- er get all the light and view possible while preparing the food that is to keep Father and Johnnie well and remake them effioient? She cant do it in a dark, glocmy kitchen. It's a pretty good investment to keep Mather healthy in a light kitchen, with a window in it wide 'enough for her to see the blue sky and trees— say a window four feet wide by two feet high. And how her plants will grow on this window ledge! The Washerwoman Speaks. The other night I came across a sen- tence in a book which read: "No man can be a hero to his valet," and I couldn't help thinking that this was almost as true about,a woman`h an.�,er washerworaan Of course every day le Mor apes to a woman who washes for her hiving, and the person who called Monday ,blue certainly knew what he was talk- ing about. But I would just like to say that it can acua' y '• e ma t lI b de e. rosy flour to make a dough that et olly' together. drop by spoonfuls a akaut tered pan and bake in a atioderete. oven. Honey Cookies, ---Use a''foe th of a' cup of water, two cups of slit am, .half a cup of lard, one cup of he ey, two egg yolks, teaspoonful . of sada, six cups of flour, a teaspoonful of cinntti- mon and half a teaspoonful cd.evened. ginger, bleat the water, sugar, 'lard and honey until all is melted, Wben cool add the yolks of'the eggs;. and flour sifted with the spices anti soda, doll otit on floured hoard :asci cut: into desired shapes. Bake in a mod- erate oven. a WHY FADES A Condition Due Entirely to, Dollars From Gingham and Beans. A few years ago a young girl found it necessary to earn some money if she was to continue to live at home, as she wished to do. The family resi- dence is on a much -traveled highway, over which great numbers of motor cars pass every day and along which crowds elf children .go to and from school; - oceurred'to: the girl that the site *offered a good chance' tosell things. She spent ten cents for seeds of eominon garden bush beans, which she planted in an unused sunny spot in her father's garden. When she had harvested the crop, she `bought five day, 1 you willn see farm the descrip- yards of strong, bright -colored ging- wit I am going to give of my day ham and macre it into bean bags. Some ging- with Mrs.mX. she made square, some round, some in If women only knew how very short- the shape of animals, and on them treated they were inthe way they she embroidered eyes, mouths and treat their washerwaman, they would noses in colored worsted, certainly turn over a new leaf. And Thesen bags •dhe displayed sale because I think that I may !help them on a large bags she of plcaayed forrt she to see this, I want to write this little article for some paper. How much time do you suppose is lost in this country every washday just dun waiting while Johnny scoots down hundred bags that she made sold at athe store starch,to get a cake of soap or ten cents apiece, so that she had a a box t, t for the water theto profit of nine dollars and fifteen cents. get hot, or. . for the woman i p' The next year she made six hunt - up her dirty clothes all the forenoon? fired bags, and by making then a It would be very interesting, I think,i little more elaborate sold them for if one of those fellows you read about twenty-five cents apiece. Her profits who works in figures would take time that year were a hundred and f orty- te work this out. ;five dollars. By degrees she added When I get to Mrs, X.'s, as soon as, other things to her stock, such as pine - .I take off my things and get into my needle pillows, the materials for which apron, I sit down at the table, where she collected while the beans were there is a cup of hot coffee, two or growing. Now the profits from her '.:three slices of nice buttered toast and little business keep her in spending .e.a dish of steered fruit. I go to the money the year round. laundry, and there are the clothes in' Using Honey in Cakes. the tubs, where they halt been put to Soak the evening before; the table-, The flavor of honey combines espe- i+oloths, napkins, etc., in one tub, the daily well with spices, and for that Underclothes, towels, etc,, in the other, reason it may be used with very sat- and the colored clothes in the basket- isfactory results in cake making, The on the floor. A narrow shelf extends use of honey also makes the cake across the end of the room, and on. keep fresh and soft for a longer per- it is soap, ammonia, starch, bluing—i iod. Rarely is honey amore economical everything I am going to need hi my than sugar, nor is it often much more day's work, and never in the three expensive. It is the ex'ellence of the. year`s. I have been washing there has flavor imparted that commends it for Anything been missing from that shelf . use in cakes. when I got there. The water is hot,' Honey Pound Cake,—A good pound and there is a good glass washboard, cake can be made by using equal ea red wringer. Another thing that' weights of honey, eggs, sugar, flour Would surprise you is the number of and butter. A little soda should be Women, who expect you to do a good added on account of using honey in day's work without any of these three stead of sugar, and flavoring used that se. will give the desired taste. The recipe may be varied by using some sugar instead of all honey. The mixture. should be beaten for ten minutes, and cooked in a deep pan in a slow oven for an hour. )=Loney Drop Cake,—Take three- fourths cup of honey, one-fourth cup of butter, half a teaspoon of cinnamon, a fourth of a teaspoonful of cloves,' one egg, two oups of flour half tea- spoon soda, two eh•opspoons water, one cur of raisins chopped fine. Heat the EROBBER. By Mine, Lucie Delarue-Merdrus The convent at the White Fathers of Carthage stands on one of those historic hills of Africa on which two great races once fought for world em- pire,- Near It is a pale and . lonely cathedral, the 'gigantic and glorious tomb of Cardinal Lavigerie, In the shadow of that cathedral - sepulchre the Fathers, silhouetted like Arabs, their bodies robed in white and. their heads turbaned in red, live be- tween the past and the present. Above is their museum, below aro their cel- lars. To the past belong the glass win- dows, lined with statuettes, the rows of urns, the golden jewel boxes, the Punic sarcophaguses in which skele- tons of high priests and -priestesses re- pose. To the present belong the cellars, with their urns, their casks and their bottles. There in obscurity, silence and coolness repose the red and white wines which constitute the wealth of the convent. A garden of cactus and eucalyptus blooms within the low walls in which the Fathers have incrusted all- sorts of antique fragments—pieces of stat- ues and vases, of sculptured marble and ornamented stone -;•all eloquent vestiges of, that tragic 'civilization of which nothing now remains.' On the horizon, at the end of the immense fields of barley which cover the site of ancient Carthage, is the sea. In the month of March masses of wild poppies run in red waves from the ruins of the city Gown, the hill slopes to the blue waters. It is as if Carthage again poured its life -blood into the sea. Under the indigo blue afternoon sky a Fatherwho had come up from the cellars was forced to shield his eyes from the violence of the sun's rays. He walked through the garden where the eucalyptuses, refreshed by the eternal wind from the Mediterranean, smell so sweet and so fresh. The eucalyptuses have the function in Tunis of everywhere draining the soil, of pumping out the marshes with their deep and greedy roots. Nourish- ed by pestilential matter, they fabri- cate out of it the most wholesome and vigorous odbr in the world. The Father certainly seemed to be suffering from the heat. But the -Teat which . covered his brow wasn't ce eltogether to the African summer. e hath charge of the wine vaults. He he had discovered just . now that one of thehugetuns, which ought to.have been full to the top with red wine, sounded hollow. "Could any one be stealing mywine? _Perhaps I ani mistaken," he said to himself. "How could such a thing be possible?" • His uneasy suspicions shifted from the band of Christianized Arabs set- tled about the convent to the Bedouins who browsed among the city's ruins, and then to the little handful of Euro- peans employed in the cathedral. "I am going to investigate. I am going to cathh somebody." Being in doubt, he said nothing to any one else. But he multiplied his rounds, watched that night and set many traps. At the end of two weeks he made another test. The tun sound- ed a little hollower. The wine had run lower. "But their isn't any fissure! If the wine was leaking there would be signs of it. Robbers couldn't tap the tun now without being caught. What is the trouble?" Little by little the monk's super- stitions were aroused. He was afraid when he was alone at night in the cellar. By day the others noticed that he talked to himself. Once the su- perior surprised him saying over for- mulas of exorcism, as if to chase away evil spirits. The superior took him aside. "What.is the matter, my son?" The monk hesitated for some min- utes.' Then he told his story. A few days later he fell i11. Hewas feverish and had hallucinations, , "You must take a 'rest," said the superior. They put the monk out in the open air, tinder the most beautiful eucalyp- tus in the garden, a monster of a tree which surpassed all- the others and which every one admired for the ex- traordinary determination which it semmed to show to grow and flourish. The delicious odor, the warm wind andhis long reveries calmed the monk's nerves. The fever fell and the hallucinations. ceased. Nevertheless, he asked every clay about the cellar and the tun. But the superior had given orders, "Yon were probably mistaken," the Arab servants told him, "The tun has always sounded hollow. Nothing un- usual has happened. Put your mind at ease, master." But one evening, while the convales- cent was dozing happily in his chair ,to the far-off droning of the waves of the Mediterranean and the nearer murmur of the big eucalyptus, a tumult of exclamations aroused him. k mt.�l Five or silk aba and as many Fatale! white Fatre running toward him.. Poor, Watery Blood. The girl who returns home from school dr from work thoroughly •tired out will be fortunate if she esoapes a physical breakdown, because this get- ting tired so 'easily is probably the first warning symptom ot a thinning blood that must not bo disregarded if .,• her health is -to be preserved. ..•., • When the blood becomes thin and. impure the patient becomes pals; itag- gard and angular. She not only, tires out easily but suffers from headaches, palpitation of the heart, dizzy ells and a loss of appetite. This coaidition will go from bad to worse, if lfroiXi'pt steps are not taken to increase and enrich the blood supply. To mate the rich, red blood that brings the; glow of health, no other medicine can iequal Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. If given a fair trial their use brings rosy cheeks, bri; ht eyes, a good appetite anc`good spirits. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, have made thousands of pale, languid :girls active and strong. On the first' sign of poor, thin blood mothers should, in- sist upon their daughters taking a fair course of these pills. They will not'- only restore health, but will save fur ther doctor bills. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills can be ob- tained from any dealer in medicine• or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams' Medi- cine Co., Brockville, Ont. stretched on the roadside fence. The whole supply sold almost at once. The gingham had cost seventy-five cents and the beans ten cents. The Costly Carpets. The deal by which England secured. control of the Persian; carpet and Tug industry: is a•�good one"for, thin,: try—that Is if- the Boishevika gid overrun the--lana:of tiro sealalselala English writer. gnilENTION VISITORS Do not forget to inspect our stock of Note Piano Rolls Perfection Rolls, 6 for x1.00. Planoetyle Roils, 60e., 4 for $2.00. Word Rolls, 90o. Upward. 'W'e have the largest number oaj pelectione, best quality, cheaposti prices in Toronto. We Pay Special Attention to Out -of - Town. Cua.tomers. OCTAVE MUSIC SUPPLY a Adelaide St. East Toronte 6 doors from stooge St. "Tho tun is empty," cried the one group. "We have found .the robber,"cried the other. While all gesticulated and talked at the . same time, the youngest of the Fathers took the sick monk gently ay the hand. "Follow nie," he said, with a mys- terious smile. When he had descended once more to the cave of his vigils and terrors, the former guardian, guided by the other's lighted lamp, approached the tun. It lay open like a cavern. "Look," said the youngest Father, handing over the lamp. Bending down, stretching his neck, with fear in his eyes, the monk saw— and understoad. Through the foundation wall a long root, plowing its way with a patience and force found only in the vegetable kingdom, had pierced tree earth, the stone and the wood, and had succeed- ed in reaching the heart of the big tun. It was this root which had slow- ly drained the wine, while in the sun- light and the fresh breeze outside the beautiful eucalyptus which all ad- mired, the criminal eucalyptus, the drunken eucalyptus, grew almost while you looked at it, and, with its wealth of foliage secretly fed by the genial liquor, overtopped, like some incomprehensible giant, all the other trees in the garden. The genuine Persian rug is the'iiiost valuable thing of its kind it the world, a really fine specimen fetching any- thing from twenty-five dollars to one hundred thousand dollars. Shiraz and Kerman are the chief centres of the industry, though the products of Mesh- ed and Rejicl are also held in high es- teem. The trade is largely in the hands of certain families, who have handed down the art and its secrets from one generation to another. To the mak-, ing of even one comparatively small rug, ten or fifteen years of patient la- bor may be devoted. In the reign of Muzaffer-Din, how- ever, owever, this great and beautiful industry-- was threatened with extinction, This was when the aniline dyes of Ger- many burst upon an astonished world. These "split -your -eyeball" chemical products—German remade rugs—found their way to Persia, and, incredible though it may seem, the beauty-Ioving natives took kindly to them, and in their favor the weavers abandoned the dyes that had been in use for thesis - ands of years, and copied the appalling Hun designs. Fortunately, the Shah had an ar;•. tist's soul, and was also a good 'busi- ness usiness man. He saw that his country's carpet export trade was in imminent danger of being ruined by these ani- line atrocities, and, under appropriate penalties—boiling oil, and so forth— he forbade the importation of the Ger- man dyes, or their Ilse if already in the country, in the carpet trade. To this day, however, the traveller may see in the Persian equivalent cif our drawing -room, the place .01 honor given to some abominable German. hearthrug, while ancient Persian pro ducts, for which collectors would give their very souls, are scattered any where. —se ONT 1 IL rhe Dover 011 Company own oil leases, on 1,000 acres of land in Dover end Tilbury Townships and in . the Comber and Bello River districts. In the latter district they already have 22 wells producing oil in encouraging quantities. In order to finance and evelop this enterprise, we offer 00,000 shares of stock at par value of 1.00 each. Write Now for Pull Particulars t, John Pratt & Co. ' 19 Adelaide St. $i. s Toronto honey and butter till the butter ,pelts, and while it is warm put in the spices. When it is cool, add part of the Hour, the beaten egg, the soda ,l'ssolved in water cured the raisins. Add more electrical war His Hopes Were Dashed Away. 'A family in an Eastern city includes. several children, but only one—the eldest—is a boy. The little lad longed for a brother, Recently the house was rather upset. A nurse who had appeared on the scene came to the little boy. "What do you think you've gat?" she, asked him. "A baby brother!" fairly gasped the; youngster, "No, deario, it's a baby sister," re- plied the nurse. "Awl" groaned the youngster, "am I goin' always to have to sift those ashes?" .Snow has falle for the second tine, in three centui.'ie le Buenos. Aires, the storm being severe enough to stop the MANCE OF HUD.: SON BAY COMP. RECALLING THE DAYS OF POWER AND PRIVILEGE. Pioneers in Fur Trade, Agri. culture and Commerce of Northern . Canada. Linked with every phase of the his- tory of Canada is the name of the Hud• son • Bay Compauy, which,- in its hey- day, :governed a vast 'territory and those who lived there. For generations it was absolute ruler of the region north .of Quebec and Montreal. gust :half a century ago, when there was a probability of its being dispossessed by force if it refu,sed to come to terms, the company agreed to the transfer of its territorial rights to the Dominion of Canada for $1,500,000 and a twentieth of the lands to be `set out for settlement by the Government in the ensuing fifty years. This land, enormous in total quan- tity at the beginning, still forms great numbers of "little .oases of virgin soil that have remained untouched by tho, plough since Indian days, and rounded by the cultivated fields gat pastures of the richest farming sec-„ tions in Western Canada." Pioneers of Fur Trading. Time was when the founders of this famous concern, naw facing a new era with two and a half centuries of ro- mantic history behind it, went to Bos- ton and vainly urged upon the m.:ata, chants there the merits of thejr scheme for an extension of the Ca%h- dian fur trading enterprise, These pioneers were two dissatisfied French employees of the French monopoly of Quebec which had me, fused to expand its field- to the Hud, son Bay. , Britain Profits Through War Materials. Lord Inverforth, formerly Surveyor General of Supplies in. the British War Office, by world-wide purchases of raw materials on behalf of the government, was able to turn into the British treas- ury on March 1 last $25,000,000, repre- senting profits on all transactions since 1914,, according to his report re Gently_made to the Ministry of ,Muni- taersaasaya a London deli -tole- „ While the profits were*;• ;air Arthur Goldfinch, Director General of Raw• Materials, points out that the economic benefits were far greater. The raw materials obtained were largely used in the manufacture of military equipment with a- direct sav- ing estimated at mare than $500,000,- 000. The purchases were of wool, hides, leather, fax, liens) and similar materials. Insurance, generously taken out, served to more than make up lasses from submarine warfare, it was stated. The record of Lord Inverforth's activi- ties is in contrast with results obtain- ed by similar departments in other Al- lied countries: Among the purchases were nearly 24,000,000 pounds of American sole leather and 82,000;000 feet of American upper Ieather. Included in the chief items of tex- tile and leather equipment for the army and navy, air force and other branches of the public service and for the Allies from August 4, 1914, .. to March 31, 1919, were 61,899,626 pairs of boots, 81,538,000 yards of cotton drill, 60,917,000 yards or l:lialci, 16,259,- 000 ground sheets, 1,156,000,000 sand bags, 49,508,669 blankets, 23,776,345 jackets, 164,314,787 pairs of socks and 20,190,810 pairs of woolen gloves. Contracts made with British manu- facturers for the goods afforded them a larger profit than they made for similar work in pre-war days, it was said, and served to speed up produc- tion. Earth's School. In her own way doth mother earth Sure consolation give, Bringing to hearts bereft re -birth Of will, new power to live. At the French Court the two adveti- a turers fared no better. Finally tlrey obtained access fa a company of mer- chants at London, and to Prince, Ru- pert, cousin of Charles II. A charter was filially issued, giving them such amazing rights as these: A monopoly of the right to trade within the bay or on its coasts, and to expel anyone entering its territory without its license; the right to build forts, to send out ships p1 war and privateers, d.to.declare war on and make peace 'fti`aRE`a'u.,otliristian peoples. ''`"There. followed wars and rivalries • with France when trappers starved and Indians lapsed into cannibalism; rivalry and warfare with the Great North-West Company, and that near approach to war with the United States which terminated in the bound- ary arrangements of 1846. And to -day it is one of the great merchandizing corporatians of Canada. Uuder the new policy a chain of de- partment stores reacniug acrcds. Canada has been established. There are company stores in such centres as Winnipeg and Calgary, Vail couver and Edmonton, Victoria ii Qu' A.ppelle. While the company ..still has•` i posts scattered over Canada, and "Ye ly sends to England valuable con meats of raw furs, its mercha business has developed so gr that it does not care to retain the 1 that formerly made its empire. This land is located. in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Western Ontario. The farmers, who long have surrounded it with their cultivated d -i mains, look with yearning gaze upon it. Ere long it will be dotted with set; tiers' homes. And when the grain -fields come, the vast empire of the Hudson 73 pany will have terminated its. nating story. ,tea List of Premiums for the TORNIO Fat Stock Sh Now ready for distribution. Write To -day for Your Copy. Show will be held at Anion Stook Yards, Toronto December 9th & '10th C. F. TOPPING, 'Secretary Box 635 - We'st Toronto Deserters Honored by Fete. Survivors of the famous "handker- chief regiment" were feted recently near Saint-Biaize, in the Vosges, on the occasion of the sixth anniversary of the surrender by these faithful Frenchmen, who had been mobilized by Germany at the outbreak of the war in 1914. Several of the veterans will be decorated for their heroism. The organization was known as the Ninety-ninth Reserve Regiment of.the German army, and was composed .en- tirely of Alsatians. The Germans, trusted implicitly in their professions of loyalty and assigned to them the defence of an important part of the front line. On August 15, 1914, French patrols sighted them and a plan for their wholesale desertion from the German army was quickly drawn up. A, . French corporal trumpeted the signal, whereupon the Ninety-ninth left their trenches with handkerchiefs tied to the barrels of their rifles and joined their French compatriots, cheering -:• and singing parodies on "Deutschlai " ober Aller." - Five hours later t were fighting their one-time Germ< t7, comrades., The regiment is accursed in many, but the French regard it a tli example o affeetldn for .their Maltese, land which not even forty-five years a Pru.ssianism could 3sill,