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Zurich Herald, 1916-09-08, Page 2NOTES AND. COMi IENTS PALE, WEAKGIRLS.1 LESS INSANITY Those who' are following certain -- 1 tide issues of the war cannot but note i DURING THE, With a degree of suspicion the cur- 'Grow Into Weak, Despondentious dispatches that are now coming from Germany with regard to the de- Poration from Lille and nearby towns of over 22,000 French civilians, men, Healthy Girlhood is the only path women, youths and girls, from the age to healthy womanhood. The passing of fifteen up. This wholesale exile from girlhood to womanhood lays a I has probably done more to arouse a i new tax upon the blood, It is the !Presents Remarkable Picture ref the overtaxing of the blood that makes Tonic Value of .Greet growing girls suffer from headaches 1 Conflict. and backaches, from paleness and ; weakness and weariness, from lan- ! An interesting sidelight on P'r, esi- guor, despondency and constant in , dent Wilson's remark about; the giriation in its bitter depiction of the !health. Unhealthy girlhood is bound I world going mad is given in the. an- enforced midnight exodus duringto lead to unhealthy womanhood and i nual report of Dr. William Graham, Holy Week. The accaanb reads like I a life of misery. Nothing but the I of Belfast, one of the most highly re- some black page from the days of I blood building qualities of Dr. Wil- 1 puted Irish alienists. Dr. Graham savagery or the wars of the Babylon- !Hams' Pink Pills can save a girl when i presents a remarkable picture of the fans, — 1 she undertakes the trials and tasks 1 tonic value of war. He says: of womanhood. That is the time I "It has become common practice Stung by these criticisms, the Ger- when nature makes new demands ? since August, 1914, to say the "world man officials, through neutral corres- upon the blood supply, Dr. Williams'; is growing niad, and there is a wide- pondents, are now doing their best to 'Pink Pills actually make new, rich I spread popular notion that the dis- reply to the charges, but they really I blood to meet these demands, In this tress and agony of a conflict so, ter - seem to be laying on the whitewash a simple, scientific way Dr. Williams' I rible as the present one must end little boo thick. Out of three differ- Pink Pills give growing girls new I in -a profound disturbance and , alien- ent versions as to why they did it' health, and makes theirdawning 1 ation. Yet the fact is indisputable none agrees save in presenting the womanhood bright and attractive. i that insanity, like corns, has lessen enforced exile as a humanitarian ex- Miss A. Sternberg, Haileybury Road, hed during .the period of the wax" periment, something like the "conn- New Liskeard, Ont., says: "I have .. Improve Health of Men. try -week" style of charity on a big much reason to be grateful to Dr. So far as the future is concerned, scale. It is said by them, for in- Williams Pink Pills as they restored; Dr.- Graham is equally encouraging. stance, that they "wanted to wive me to health, if, indeed, they did not f• He says: "There are solid grounds sunlight and fresh air to the factory I save my life. In 1914 I began to feel ;for the hope that, especially' al- hands in these industrial centers who i run down, and the doctor who was !though exclusively among women, lived in cramped quarters"; that the f case of anaemiad in said liat mine was a bad i lost flesh always j we shall find a great diminution in English forced the seemingly Barbar- i those. neurotic disorders that. form ous order "by bombarding Lille in a , felt tired, and I got so nervous that i lity manner not according totherules of II could scarcely hold a cup to take j of thousands of men a part of the who have gone,a war"; that the thing was done "to 1 a drink. My heart would flutter ; or are preparing to go, to the .front, give free employment" to "conserve alarmingly. The doctor did not seem j who have all their life been sub - in conse the food supply"; and that the exiled to be able to help me at all and my family and friends all thought that' ject to the bondage of neurasthenic uence "are well fed q , , happy I weakness and incapacity of :psy- arr i sunbrowned'', though some chafe ' 1 was in a decline and could not re-1chasthenic fears or hypoehon- "because they do not like. the simple cover. I was in bed for some weeks driac fancies. They have never country life and long for metropolitan when an aunt came to see me and known what it is to live, but at the high living." Of coarse—in Lille! urged that I try Dr. Williams Pink country's call they have flung from Pills. My father got a supply, and off them the spell of anet nt inhabit by the time I had taken three boxes ations and long established imprac- there was a noticeable improvement, ticalities and have gone forth to and from that on I steadily progress- face wounds and death. Only when ed toward recovery. I continued us- summoned to possible surrender of ing the pills for some time longer, life have they learned how wonder - and they restored me to my old time ful life really is. The physical re - health and strength. I shall never gime under which these men are cease to praise this medicine, and to compelled to live can have nothing urge all weak run down girls to give but the best effect on those subject it a fair trial, as I have proved in my to its discipline. own case their great merit." You can get these pills from any Women --How to Overcome the Trouble. A WHAT AN IRISH ALIENIST HAS TO SAY. • feeling of absolute horror in France than anything that has occurred since the stories of the Belgian atrocities first came to light. The French Yel- low Book leaving nothing to the ima- On the other hand, t- he Yellow Book contains these statements: The inhabitants have been forced by violence, by executions, imprisonment and deportation, to make trenches, bridges, roads and railways, to work In factories and mines, to make sand- bags for use in the trenches. They have been forced to work during in- human hours for no pay, in condi- bions of the utmost misery, without food, liable to flogging and to have dealer in medicine or by mail at 50 "Especially significant is the others odious punishment at the hands cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 ' change coming over the lives oft*: of the slave-drivers. They have been from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co,, men of the middle classes. ' ese deported and carried off to work in .Brockville, Ont. sheltered daughters of the foliamerchant, the mines and factories of the Rhine- of the professional man; victim of land and Westphalia. But the fact KING DRINKS AFP £R -HORSE. LLmed"Victorian tiati#��a�r which is the most appalling hnee"' R! --- • are. no* f4.iling into'Iene waif their Women Learn of Life. -.who-hrozee stud ed - the " question' of German acro • cities is that the women are employed in cooking for the Ger- man troops and as servants to the German officers. Interesting Anecdote Related About sisters of the higher and the . hum bier social tofB s al Alter Belgium. ranks,an g m. dare discovering The son of a leading manufacturer that life is something greater than of Brussels, whose two brothers have the latest novel or a game of tennis, • been killed at the front, tells the fol-! or even the tepid gossip of the church . lowing anecdote, whicn dates from the! sewing meeting, 'Idleness and ennui When it is remembered that those I first summer of the war : I have lost their hold. Healthy and wliu were taken iae night in the Lille "It had been a hot day and King Al -i unselfish activity is now the prevail- bert, who had not left the trenches for; ing fashion among war -enfranchised outrage had only a brief time in which hours, was suffering from thirst. He: women. It has set .them free from t:. get ready to g:?, that mothers went asked for something to drink, but not' the benumbing, conventionalities that crazy when separated from their chil- a soldier had anything left. Back of i threatened to stifle their psychic dren, going they knew not where, the the trench a man saw a horse drink i d!spatahes that are now coming ing and went over and started to pull; energy, and so far it has contributed Geiara;�ny read like an ill-timed jest the bucket away. g (to the soundness of mind and nerve Dont do that'said the Kin Let II among the mighty sociological forces in tie face of a great tragedy. the poor animal drink ; perhaps it which the present world conflict set —' - • needs it more than I do.' in motion." G0013 COMPANY. "It was not until the horse had fin• ished drinking that the King took up of the bucket and drank the few drops I When prosperity turns a man's that remained. I head it makes a pitiful sight of hint. When I sit by myself. at the close the day, And watch the blue twilight turn am- ber and grey, With fancies as twinkling and vague ne the stars, And as distant as they, -from this life's petty jars, 1 know not, I think not, where fortune may be, But 1 feel I'ni in very good company. • 'When I sit with a friend at the glow of the hearth, To fight some great battle of wisdom' or mirth, And .strike from our armor, the sparkles of wit That follow the shafts of our thoughts, when they hit. I ask not. I care not, where pleasure ; may be, Bet I know Pro in excellent company. When I Wit with Fry darling, who loves f me so well, And read in her eyes what no lan- grage can tell, Or trice or her ilea -free as cherubs1 from guile. The meanings and mysteries, hid in a senile. I heed not, I dream not, where Eden may be, 1 Bat I feel Tin in heavenly company. 13is Work. i� ane of o:r most prominent citizens." "What eines hf d,r?" "He gets up diarity schemes fur other people to subscribe to." Thr dii[icult;y about foiiuwing the rigid xvay•is that it is not always the • popular way, too. }t pernetimes happens that even the people who complain that they. leave nothing to ,do refine to do it. A New Photo of Mrs. Herbert H. Asquith IS a woman of very pronounced personality. The daughter of thn late 'Sir' Charles Tennant, she was as Miss Margot Tennant renowned for her wit And high spirits, She was a member of the well-known "sect" of ,Souls. and the heroine of Mr. Benson's famous "Dodo" was. also supposed to have been .suggested by the subieet of our picture. Mrs. Asquith has a very fine and real appreciation of all things artistle. —SEE THAT Y00.1 GST FY O5TS ' , sf�± E THAN TEIE E2 DO AIR 6 out the ouse Useful Hints and General Ioforma' tion for the Busy Housewife Tested Recipes. Mexican Pickles. --Select four quarts green tomatoes,six large pep- pers, three onions, all chopped fine. Pub a layer of this mixture in an earthen jar, then a layer of salt al- ternately, and let remain overnight. Then drains the water off, and add one tablespoon each, of peppercorns, mus- tard seed and whole cloves. Simmer the whole for twenty minutes in three pints of good vinegar, and set away in a cool place. After three weeks pour off the vinegar and add as much fresh In another week the pickles will be for salads, sandwiches and. Spanis ready for use. rice. It is well to wear rubber love Fresh Pineapple for Occasions.— g Take a very fine ripe pineapple, pare in preparing the peppers. it and cut carefully all the eyes; then Watermelon . Rind Preserve Wit with a silver fork strip all the plup Orange and Lemon.—Take the rind from the core. To one pint of this one melon, pare and cut in sura add one and one-fourth pounds of pieces through a coarse meat or frui lump or crushed sugar and stir oc- chopper. Place in a preserving ket casionally until all the sugar is dis- tle, cover with water and boil about a solved. Put in glass fruit jars and hour or until fruit seems tender. Scru screw down the covers as tight as pos- four large lemons thoroughly and th sible. This keeps a long time and is same number of oranges. Cut i delicious. pieces, remove seeds and run throug Rhubarb Marmalade.—Wash and chopper. After fruit has been boil pare rhubarb and cut in one -half-inch ed rather tender add oranges and lee pieces; there should be two quarts. on. Measure up two-thirds th Add one quart of sugar, cover«and let amount of sugar in same measurin stand overnight. In the morning put cup in which the fruit was measured in stewpan. Add grated rind and Add to fruit, boil for one hour (no juice of one orange, one-half tap seed -too. fast) and stir fruit occasional ;e• raisins, cut in small .pieces and so it does not stink. to the bottom oz c=har cup ngin walnuts, broken Lower the flame at the end of an hour in pieces. Bring all to boiling and and if the syrup seems ter boildown let ' simmer until thiel. Seal in jars. too much add a little water now and Chutney Sauce.—Select twelve then. Stir all thoroughly, mix wa- green, sour apples, two green peppers ter with syrup. This preserve will six green tomatoes, four small one require often lifting and stirring to ions, one cup seeded raisins, one quart of vinegar (if strong dilute), two tablespoons mixed spices, two tablespoons salt and two cups brown sugar. Remove seeds from peppers, ficiently heavy one cup of sugar may add tomatoes and onions, chopped fine; raisins, spices, sugar, salt and viii- be added and boil a short time, stir- raisins, Put on and let simmer slowly ring well. for about three-fourths hour. Then add the apples and cook until they are tender but not mushy. Put in bottles and seal. Delicious relish for meats. honey to Keep Without Candying.— without honey all the year round without honeying, it is only necessary to place, the honey, which has been strained previously, in a pan or pail, which may be placed inside of another one, patting two or three bits of wood under the pail containing the Nearly all vegetables that are made honey, to prevent it from burning into pickles, especially gherkins, cu - upon the bottom. Then fill the outer cumbers and onions, require a preli- one with water and just bring it to urinary soaking in brine. Half a the boiling point, skimming off the cupful of salt is usually allowed to wax and foam which gathers upon the four quarts of the pickles. These top. As soon as it comes to the are placed in a stone crock, the salt boiling point remove from stove, and strewed over them, water is poured in after a few minutes skim and pour until it covers them, and a weighted into jars to cool. Cover tightly .and plate is laid on top to keep the pickles place in a cool cellar. It will pay from floating. This is left forseveral for the trouble. ` days. When the pickles are removed Cucumber Pickles.—Over one-half from the brine they should be looked a peck of small cucumbers pour a I over to see if there are any soft or spotted ones. All pickles should be closely watch- ed after they are put up, at least for a month or so. This to ascertain if they are keeping well. They should not be eaten Curless they have had at gar add two green peppers, chopped, least a two months' enellowing, al- one -half pint white mustard seed, one- though longer than this is safer still, half ounce each of whole cloves, cin- Sweet pickles are usually made from peaches, pears, plums and wa- termelon rind, and, except when the fruits must be peeled, they are less trouble to prepare than the tart pick - o colander and let them drain dry. Put into a quart jar and pour over them one and one-half cups of boiling hot vinegar, to which has been added one cupful of sugar and two small pieces of cinnamon stick. Let the peppers stand for three days, then drain off the vinegar, heat boiling water and pour over them again, then seal. Use mostly the red peppers with a few of the green. It will take two dozen peppers to fill a quart jar. These canned peppers are much superior to the imported "pimento," and should be used more generally than they are h about a tablespoonful. A breakfast cupful of bread crumbs equals about h four ounces. ' together until it is very thick, Pour into jelly glasses and seal. Kitchen Measures. It is so much easier to measure in- gredients than to weigh them out that the housekeeper saves time and work by acquainting herself with certain equivalent weights and measures, Without staggering her with an array of items and figures, which nine wom- en out of ten forget, here is an equiva- lent table that any housekeeper can keep In mind. A cupful of flour or milk means half a pint. Two scant cupfuls of butter packed tightly snake a pound. Ten eggs of ordinary size make a pound. Four even cupfuls of dry flour make a pound. A gill of liquid is a half -cupful. Two cupfuls (one pint) of water or milk make a pound. The juice of an rdinary lemon is 11 b n b e n h e g • t ly keep juice evenly distributed with fruit. The proper proportions of sugar to melon rind are twelve cups of sager to eighteen cups of rind. When preserve is finished if rind is not suf- Pickling Wisdom. When pickles are under considera- tion the most important item is vine- gar. All things taken into account, it is best to use the vinegar obtained from cidar, since many of the color- less varieties are often made withan acid that is injurious to the stomach. The difference of cost between the cider vinegar an dthe white is not much. boiling brine made of five pints of wa- ter and two cups of salt. Stand twenty-four hours, drain and wipe and cover with five pints of boil- ing vinegar. Again stand twenty- four hours and drain. To fresh vine- namon, allspice, ginger root and alum, two pounds of brown sugar and one tablespoonful of celery seed. Scald and pour boiling hot over the pickles. Do not tie the spices in a bag. The les, since they do not have to be laid cucumbers will shrivel up wben the in brine before preparing. Spiced currants, gooseberries, cherries and grapes may be put up a little at a time, as one has the fruit and the lei - hot vinegar is poured over them, but after standing for a fortnight they will be plump, firm and delicious. They will keep indefinitely stored in sure for the task. Other fruits may a covered jar or crock, be spiced. Canned Sweet Peppers.—Cut off the stem end, remove the seeds with a pair of shears and cut the pepper round an'1 round in a long strip, one- fourth of an inch wide. Put the strips into a deep dish and pour over cnough boiling salt water to cover enern. Close the dish with a cover end let the peppers stand all night in the water. Turn them out into a Here is a good recipe for spiced grapes: Remove the skins from the grapes, pub the pulp over the fire and stew gently until it can be rubbed I through a sieve, thus removing all the . seeds, Weigh the pulp, and to every five pounds of this add a pint of cider vinegar, four pounds of brown sugar, four tablespoonfuls of ground china - mon and two of ground cloves. Stew Useful Hints. The cleverness of a cook is gauged by her use of leftovers. Tired, aching feet may be refreshed by soaking in hot water. Stale breadcrumbs are crumbs freshly grated from a loaf of stale bread, One of the secrets of successful coffee is to wash the pot every time it is used. Enamelware can be cleaned with soap and whiting rubbed on with a damp cloth. Never dry a silk blouse before iron- ing- it. It ie a good plan to oil 'stout walk - mg shoes with kerosene and vaseline, half and half, before going on a wet tramp. Flesh fruits and green vegetables I supply the iron and mineral matter I necessary to the general well-being of the system. A. simple salad is made with any i kind of seasonable fruit sliced, served on lettuce leaves and sprinkled with chopped nuts. When you want to thread a , sew- ing machine in a hurry, remove the spool already on it, but do not un- thread the machine. Put a new spool in place, tie the two threads together and pull the thread gently through bo the eye of the needle. Break off the first thread and thread the needle. Two Fellows are trying to get ahead' It's easy to see who'll win. If you have any doubt about tea or coffee holding some people back—in fact many ---leave the hesitating class, stop both tea and cof- fee ten -days, and use This delicious pure food - drink, made of wheat, roasted with a bit of whole- some molasses, has a de- lightful, snappy flavor. It is free from the drugs in tea and coffee and all harm- ful ingredients. Postum is good for old and young, and makes for health and efficiency. "There s a Reason Canadian Postum Cereal Co,, Ltd., "Windsor, Ont.