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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1915-08-13, Page 6NOTES AND COMMENTS A report from an Associated Press correspondent at Warsaw shows that the misery and devastation in Poland have, if anything, been underestimat- ed, It declares that of the smaller nations which have suffered so ter- ribly as a result of the war Poland is in by far the worst condition, An agricultural population of about 7,000,Q00 is on the verge of starve-. tion, Hunger, misery, and disease abound on every hand, Great num- bers of people hide themselves in the forests or under the ruins of their former dwellings and have as food only roots, barks, rinds and the de- caying carcasses of animals killed on the battlefields. Congestion in cer- tain cities supposed to be safe from irnmediate war dangers is adding to the sum of misery produced by insuf- ficient nourishment and bad sanita- tion. The devastated portion of Poland embraces more than 40,000 square miles of territory. Within that area 200 cities and towns and over 9,000 villages have been partially or wholly destroyed. The agricultural produc- tion of this part of Poland is valued at .$500,000,000 per annum; and this has been stopped in its entirety. The work horses have been requisitioned in great numbers by the fighting armies and the cattle have been con- fiscated. Moreover, the trenches and holes and other incidents of military campaigns on a vast scale have ren- dered a resumption of cultivation doubly difficult. It would assuredly he difficult to draw a darker picture. But the pic- ture of Poland needs yet a darker shade to be complete. This is the fact—thaele unlike 13-eigium and Serbia, has not even the consolation feelingf that all this suffering is for a national cause. The terrible fact that Poles are forced to fight against their brothers in the two great con- tending •lines of battle renders the case of Poland unique and incredibly piteous. *14 If an efficiency expert applied his tests to war, what would he make of it? Putting morals and humanity aside and concentrating on the mere physical facts, could he name any business in which a larger effort is spent for a smaller outcome? Of the millions of shots each day, how many reach their mark? The proportion of misses to hits is literally so stag- gering that it has been said it takes -the weight of man in lead and steel to kill him. Some one of the short -story cameos of French literature pictures a peas- ant whose village fame has lived on the fact that in 1870 he killed five Germans at Sedan, That, of course, is the boyhood impression of every soldier's career. And yet it cannot be one in five who has killed a single enemy with all the myriad shuts and bayonetings of a war. When Sergt. O'Leary kills eight Germans in a single charge, it is verily a case for King George to honor him with a per- sonal handclasp. A SQUARE MEAL. An Author's Experience at a Dinner in Madagascar. The longest and noisiest dinner that Mr. James Sibree, Jr., the author of 3tA. Naturalist in Madagascar," ever attended was given by the governor IA a toevn called Ankarana. About a score of officers were at the table and seven ladies. After a long grace be the pastor, dinner was brought in, and consisted of the following courses: First, curry; second, goose.'third, pigeons and waterfowl; fourth, chick- en cutlets and poached eggs; fifth, beef sausages; sixth, boiled tongue; seventh, sardines; eighth, pig's trot- ters; ninth fried bananas; tenth, pan- cakes; eleventh, manioc; twelfth, dried bananas. And lastly, says Mr. Sibree, when I thought everything must have been served, came haunches of roast beef. Claret went about very freely, and at length some much stronger liquor; and the healths of the queen, "Our friends, the two foreigners," then those of the prime minister, chief secretary, and chief judge, were all drunk twice over, the governor's com- ing last; and each was followed by musical and drum honors. There was a big drum just outside on the veranda, as well as two small ones, besides clarinets and fiddles, and these were in full play almost alt the time. Then the room was filled by a crowd of servants and aides-de-camp, and the shouting of everyone, from the governor down, was deafening. The old gentleman directed every- thing and everyone. I was glad when I could take my leave, after two hours' sitting, but I was root to leave quietly. The governor tookme by the hand And escorted me home, while the big drum was hammered at ahead of 115 all the wey. At the elose of the seventeenth can bury a tax was placed on widowers, About the liousehold Recipes for Dainty Dishes. Syrup Scones.—One pound of self- raising flour, add four ounces of but- ter or. dripping, two ounces of sugar; an ounce of sultanas, one-half pint of milk and a tablespoonful of golden syrup. Mix all together thoroughly, olive oil and ink in. equal parts. cut into shapes and bake in a hot oven Clothes that have been sprinkled for 20 minutes. These are called will not mildew for days, even in scones. summer, if kept away from the fire. Saucer Potatoes.—Take cold boiled To clean ribbon, sponge with alco- potatoes, mash them with milk and hol and rub over the spot with clean a little dripping and pepper and salt white soap, holding the ribbon and a little minced pareley. Fill straight. saucers with this mixture, allowing I I Use wash pillows whenever pos- one for each .person; sprinkle the top sible for living . rooms and dens. of each with brown bread crumbs and They are more hygienic and more a little grated cheese. Bake in quick , sanitary. I oven till browned. A most effective way to clean Potato Fritters.—Boil half a dozen linoleum is to wash first with a potatoes, beat them and mix with little water and then polish by ap- three well -beaten eggs, a gill of milk, plying milk. A little oiled butter. Mix well toToTo remove ink spots from colored gether and drop into boiling dripping; goods, dip the stain in pure melted Fry a light brown, dish up and tallow. Wash out the tallow and ink sprinkle with sugar. Serve hot. I goes with it. Vanilla Cake.—Beat a quarter of a A teaspoonful of boracic acid add - pound of butter to a cream, add half ed to a cup of boiling water and allow - a pound of sugar, the yolks of three ed to cool is excellent for inflamed, eggs beaten up with a little milk, weak eyes. and a few drops of vanilla essence. I It is said that a rag soaked in a Sift in half a pound of self-raising cayenne pepper .solution and stuffed flour, beat the white of the eggs to a , in a rat hole will set them all scam - stiff froth, and add them to the niX pering off the place. ture, stirring all together for five Stains on flannel may be removed minutes. Bake in a hot oven. with yolk of an egg and glycerine in Raisin Bread.—Flalf cup butter, 3 equal quantities. Leave- it on for half eggs, 1 cup milk, 1 teaspoon salt, 7 an hour, then wash out. cups white flour, 3 cup sugar, 1 yeast If cream will not whip add the cake, 1 cup boiling water, 1 eup chop- white of an egg. Let both become ped seeded xaisins. Scald milk and thoroughly chilled before whipping. add eater. Dissolve yeast in half of Keep cold until ready to serve. 'this lukewarm mixture. To the re- I An excellent way to prepare a new maining milk and water add four cups iron kettle for use is to fill,with cold of flour and make a batter. Beat water and one cupful of rye meal. thoroughly, then add the yeast. Let Keep at boiling point several hours. stand until light. Cream butter and 1 Keep a supply of old plates and sugar and add eggs one at a time. saucers on which cold meats, scraps, Now add egg and sugar mixture to etc., can be put away. Avoid leaving the sponge, together with raisins and anything on the dish it has been serv- remaining flour. Place in a buttered ed on. bowl and let rise until light. Form , Embroidered garments should al - into loaves, place in buttered pan, let :ways be ironed on the wrong side rise again and bake 40 minutes. I upon several thicknesses of flannel. Stale Bread Fritters.—Cut the This makes the pattern stand out bread in slices, about a third of an inch thick, fry in fat, from which a quite boldly. I One pint of tar and two quarts of faint bluish smoke is rising, and when water in an earthen vessel will keOp each piece if fried on one side, turn it red ants away. Keep this in your over and spread the browned side with ' pantry or cellar and you will never marmalade or jani. When cooked, lift see one. be found that they will last clean longer. A piece of sandpaper is of the greatest help in removing stains and food from cooking utensils, To remove a rusty appearance of black suede shoes, use a mixture of out and sprinkle with caster sugar I mixed with a little cinnamon. Next time you. make a mayor, Irish Potato Cakes. — Take one naise, or other salad dressing, try peanut oil instead of olive oil. It pound of flour, a teaspoonful of bak- . is just as good to the taste and ing powder and three ounces of drip- half the price of olive oil. ping with a pinch of salt. Work these I - together, then add one pound of cook -1 Professional Pride. ed mealy potatoes and mix to a stiff paste with a little lukewarm milk or water. Flour a board and roll out, cutting into neat squares one inch thick. Place on a greased tin and bake for 10 or 15 minutes. Split open, butter and serve hot. Fish and Rice Croquettes.—Put a quarter of a pound of rite into a saucepan with an ounce of butter and a pint of milk, simmer slowly for an hour and a half, by which time the rice will have absorbed all the milk, and do not stir it while it cooks. When cooked, add a seasoning of salt and stir in the yolk of an egg.. Turn on a plate to cool, Have ready some What Caused the Trouble. cold cooked fish, mixed with a little. "I always drank coffee with the thick white sauce (previously season= r ed). Take portions of the rice, roll est of the family, for it seemed as into balls'make a hole in the centre, if there was nothing for breakfast if fill with the fish mixture, close up we did not have it on the table. "I had been troubled for some time the hole and brush over with the white of the egg. Roll the balls in with my heart, which did not feel fine bread -crumbs and fry in hot fat. right. This trouble grew worse Drain and serve with sauce. steadily. Fritters.—Hard boil two eggs for "Sometimes it would beat fast, and at other times very slowly, so that half an hour, then shell and mash to I a fine paste. Mix with an equal would hardly be able to do work for a quantity of boiled chopped ham and an hour or two after breakfast, and pounded to a paste, add a high sea- soning of salt and pepper and the beaten yolk of a raw egg. Cut stale bread in thin slices, put together in sandwiches with a thick filling of the paste, then trim off crusts and cut in pieces two by four inches in size. Beat together two raw eggs and mix with a quarter of a cupful of milk, a pinch of salt and sufficient sifted flour to make a thin batter. Dip each piece in this, then drop in a deep smoking hot fat and fry golden brown. Drain for a moment on soft paper and serve spread on a dish; do not heap on one another. A quaint story is told to exemplify the pride that svery man should take in the work by which he makes a liv- ing. Two street sweepers, seated on a curbstone, were discussing a com- rade, who had died the day before. 'Bill certainly was a good sweeper," said one. "Yes," conceded the other, thought- fully. But—don't you think he was a little weak around the lamp -posts ?" NO IDEA Household Hints. A cupful of anything means a, half- pint. Sugar needs a dry, cool place; so does jani. Cake tins should be scalded out once a week. The good housewife utilizes every scrap of food. To soften fruit can aubbers, add a little ammonia, to the water. Green pepper shells., stuffed with corn and baked, make a dainty lunch- eon dish, To keep eggs—To a pint of salt add one pint of fresh lime and four gallons of water, If curtains are allowed to dry thor- oughly before being starched, it Will • if I walked up a hill, it gave me a severe pain. (The effects of tea are very similar to those of coffee be- cause they each contain the drug, caffeine.) "I had no idea of what the trouble was until a friend suggested that per- haps it might be coffee drinking. I tried leaving off the coffee and began drinking Posture. The change came quickly. I am glad to say that I am now entirely free from heart trouble and attribute „the relief to leaving off coffee and the use of Postum. "A number of my friends have aban- doned coffee and have taken up Pos- tum, which they are using steadily. There are some people that make Pos- tum very weak and tasteless, but if made according to directions, it is a very delicious beverage." Name given by Canadian Post= Co., Windsor, Ont. Post= comes in two forms: Postum Cereal—the original forth— must be well boiled. 15c and 25e package. Instant Postum—a soluble powder —dissolves quickly in a cep of hot water, and, with cream and sugar, makes a delicious beverage instantly. 30e and 50c tins. Both kinds are equally delicious and eost about the same per cup. "There's a Reason" for Postum. —sold by Grocers. ALEXANDER OF SERBIA. Formerly Crown Prince, Is Prevent.; ing a Balkan. Agreement. It is ono of the little jokes of fate that the young num, Crown Prince Alexander of Serba, who was treated with such contemptuous 'condescen- sion by the exalted personages as- sembled at London in June, 1911, for the coronation of George V.—that he Prince Alexander, shoulcl be, in June, 1915, the arbiter of the immediate destinies of Europe. • , Bulgaria's entrance into the war on the side of England, France, Rus- sia, and Italy would, it is quite open- ly stated in each of their capitals, help to bring about an early termina- tion of the war. It would release Rumania, now fearful of a Bulgarian attack on her flank if she flung her- self at Austria's throat in Transyl- vania. It would furnish the allies with a veteran Bulgarian army to march upon Turkey through Thrace, and it would give the allies the Bul- garian port of Dedeagatch, on the Aegean Sea, for the landing of their owmm troops to co-operate with the allied navies at Constantinople. Bulgaria's Demands. Bulgaria makes no secret of her willingness to be bought for such assistance. But she has only one price. The Crown Prince of Serbia. Regent in his country, can alone pay it in full. This he persistently re- tuses to do. Bulgaria demands, above all else, that part of Macedonia which is in- habited by Bulgarians and which is in the possession of Serbia. To re- claim. Macedonia from Turkey, and 'Mace Alexander oL Serbia in pursuance of the ideal of national! ity. Czar Ferdinand began the first Balkan War, fortified by a solemn agreement with Greece and Serbia that, in the spoils, Macedonia was to go to Bulgaria. The blood of thous - Prince Alexander of Serbia. ands of Bulgarian patriots was shed in the victorious campaigns of Ferd- Wand. Greece and Serbia became fearful of Ferdinand's ambitions to dominate in the Balkans. They pre- ferred to entrap and betray him. Alexander, the twenty -four-year- old commander-in-chief of the Serbian army, captured, Monastir from Tur- key, thus bringing about the fall of the whole of Macedonia, and from Monastir the Bulgarians were bar- red by the sword as from Salonika. Prince Stands Firm. Rumania is to -day feverishly eager to restore the Dobrudja if thereby she can quiet -the dogs of war upon her flank and rush her force of a mile lion men into Transylvania. It com- prises thousands of acres of territory and millions of inhabitants, Rumanian in blood, to the thousands of the Do- brudja, Austria-Hungary, at the pre- sent moment, could not defend Transylvania. Greece will not give up Thrace to Bulgaria, but England, France and Russia have offered com- pensation elsewhere which is accept- able. It is only Serbia which is the stumbling block, because it is Mace- donia which Bulgaria demands first and last, and for which he will not be compensated elsewhere. • June 24 of last year Xing Peter a man of seventy-three and weak in health, left his capital and the Crown Prince was appointed Regent. Alex- ander has coldly rejected every com- promise which included the giving up of a foot of territory now held by Serbia, His father is ensconced at some watering place away from Bel- grade. His elder brother, Prince George, has been dancing and dining in the hotels of the Riviera. POWER .FROM VOLCANOES. Italians Are Using Steam From Craters to Generate Energy. Italy's newest product is electric energy from volcanic steam. Not far from the little city of Volterra, hi Tuscany, is a region of volcanic hot springs that for a century have been a source of boric add, and that in is the Sugar for Jams ,rad, Jellies. When you pay for good fruit, and pend a lot of time over ft, you naturally want to be sum that your lollies and preservesWill turn Out just right. you can be,, -if yOu use • Sugar. Absolutely pitre, and always the same, REDPATI-1 Sugar has for sixty years proved most dependable for preserving, canning and jelly -making, Itis just as easy to get the best -=and well worth while. So tell your grocer it must be REDPATH Sugar, in one of the packages originated for REDPATH- 2 and 5 lb. Sealed Cartons. 10, 20, 50 and 100 lb. Cloth Bags. "Let 142 Sweeten It" CANADA SUGAR REFINING CO., LIMITED, MONTREAL. crystals and for the power needed in preparing the material for znarket. Borings of 30 or 40 feet are said to yield an unfailing supply of steam at pressures up to more than three atmospheres, and of temperatures up to more than 700 degrees Fahren- heit. The steam has been wastefully used in small engines of an old, non - condensing type, but in recent ex- periments the heat of the springs— addition supply heat for drying the on account of the impurities contain- ed—id`made to generate steam from fresh water, and this is employed in low-pressure turbines for driving electric generators. The large area to be served with- electric energy from the earth's own heat, if present expectations are realized, will in - elude the neighboring cities of Vol- terra, Siena, and Leghorn. r t et s Our Boys are in the trenches. But we Canadians have a man's work to do,—right here at Home. • We are threatened by cowardly enemies. From these we must protect ourselves. 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