HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1917-04-13, Page 7Preparing Rhubarb. barb roll. Cut after rolling in four -
The spring months bring in an I inch squares. Fill the squares with.
rb t in one-
abundauce of nature's best gifts, the pieces of uncooked rhubacui hach, blocks. Fold over the dough,
freeh\fruits,
Masai, is the earliest of our na- then tie in dumpling cloths and boil or
tive triit,, it contains valuable mineral steam for twenty -fixe minutes. Serve
salts of an acid nature, which have with sweet cream sauce,
very beneficial effects upon the liver
a,. and kidneys by causing a free secre-
tion of bile, This is very desirable
after the prolonged winter when, easiest, method of decoration.
through lack of exercise and eating The uses to which a stencil can be
rich foods, these organs become slug- put are almost too many to rnention;
gish arid inactive, producing the so- all kinds of articles for personal wear
called Iiphitig fever, which is nothing can be so treated, such as scarves,
but a 'lack of energy and ambition, due
dresses, sunshades, bands, Ace and
in many cases to a torpid liver. for the home such things as lamp
Eat freely of this very desirable
shades, cushion covers, curtains, bags,
fruit. Its tonic properties are a. hangings, table covers, etc.
valuable addition to the diet. Below
A useful little stencil to purchase
are a few Inethodods of cooking rhu-
• is based on the wild rose and, is very
barb; simple to work out; it can be applied
Rhnharb Baked in Casserole.—Wash to various articles, such as scarves,
and drein a bunch of rhubarb, then cut
covers curtains, bags, shades, etc.; the
in one -inch pieces. Put in a caSeerole
stencil' is repeated, of course, as often
and add one half a cup of brown sugar. !
as it is thought desirable—this will
Place a lid in position and bake for
depend upon the nature and the size of
three-quarters of an hour. Do not add the article that is to be decorated.
any water. This is delicious. The i The colorings used for this stencil
casserole confines all the aroma of the , may
be varied, such as red and green,
fruit, so that none of it escapes. 1 pale pink and greens the coloring
RIvelearb Pudding.—Two cups stew- will depend upon that of the rest of
ed and sweetened rhubarb. One cupful the room. If the stencil is to decor -
brad crumbs. One-half teaspoonful
ate a hanging or cover, and if for
nutmeg. Mix thoroughly and then dress purposes it will depend upon the
pack hi a '701 -greased mold. Steam
general color scheme.
for one hour and serve with hard 1
Somoil colors will be needed, one
sauce. or two stenciling brushes, and if the
e
Rhoherb Roll.—Drain all liquid work is to wash well it is wise to buy
from enosigh cooked rhubarb to meas- I
t a bottle of stenciling medium.
are two cups, then make dough as ,
Put out on an oil plate or palette,
follows; One cup fleur, one-half tea- ' some Alizarin_ crimson, white, lemon
spoentul salt, two teaspoonfuls bak- chrome and blue.
If the material to be decorated is
delicate pin it down with drawing pins
on to clean white blotting paper, then
pin the stencil in place.
Use of a Stencil.
Stenciling is one of the daintiest, yet
ing powder, two tablespoonfuls short-
ening, Six tablespoonfuls milk or wa-
ter. Sift dry ingredients, then rub
in shortening. Mix to dough with
milk or w. ter. Roll on floured pastry
board one-quarter inch thick. Now
.speeeel the drained rhubarb over the
Economy A National Duty.
dough, leeving a space of one inch all i It is said that Canadian women
amulet the edges. Now roll like jelly i scarcely know the rudiments of econ-
roll and then pit in a well-greasedlomy, Though this may be too strong-
bakires lien, pouring over the roll: . ly expressed, it is certainly true that
One-helf cup rhubarb juice and. one- I considerable quantities of food are
quarter cup of sugar. Bake in a ; wasted in the average Canadian home.
moderate river for forty minutes. This i This may be due to ignorance or care -
roll may be eaten hot oe cold, akrth ailessness, or both. But if the women
sauce merle from the rhubarb. once grasped the fact that conserving
Rhelearb Sauce.—One cup rhubarb i our food supply is, in a very real
juiee, one-half cup sugar, one table -d sense, war work, and a definite duty
spoonful vornstarch. Cook until clear, ! tosthe country, more intelligence would Paraphile, Que,, writes: "I have used marl prisonees a e .
usually eheut five minutes. Serve hot ' be brought to bear on the problem. Baby's Own Tablets and am well satis- upon the well -guarded dslands of its You corn -pestered men and women •
his business as a furrier, and has
or cold , t There is a thndency to put the erneh- fied with them and would use no. other harbor. need suffer no longer. Wear the shoes
RhoI-nr.b. Dumplings.—Prepare a; asis on patriotic work outside the home medicine for my little ones." The Tab -1 that nearly killed you before, says this been so successful since his blind -
dough, wane; the recipe given for rhu- , to the neglect of national service lets are sold by medicine dealers or by l An Historic Pert.
Cincinnati authority, because a few tress that he has been ohliged to
. mail at 25 cents a box from 'The Dr,1 During the Napoleonic wars Halifax
drops of freezone applied directly on a move to larger quarters. Still another
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which is waiting for us in the kitchen. 1r4
No appeal has been made for us to
undergo hardship in our eating. All
that is 'asked of the women is that
they serve simple, wholesome meals,, OF IPI
eliminating all available waste. This ,
rized
avoidable waste may be summa
r12
follows:
(1) Loss through poor cooking, (2)
cooking in larger quantities than nes-
sary, (8) buying materials' of small
nutritive value, (4) food out of season,
(6) buying imported foods, (6) buy-
ing staple foods in too small quanti-
tieb, (7) buying more of some foods
than can be used before spoiling, (8)
buying cooked foods that could be
more cheaply prepared at home, (9)
failure to make use of left -overs, (10)
careless seasoning . and unattractive
serving, (11) too many meat dishes
and too few cereal, egg, cheese, milk
and fish dishes.
Utilizing Old Linoleum.
Don't throw away old pieces of
linoleum. Trim the edges, punch
holes evenly in each end, bring ends
togetherndace up with leather thong
or ribbons, bind top, make a round
wooden bottom and you have a decid-
edly handy waste basket, which can be
kept clean inside and out by wash-
ing.
SATEFED
A t
E
ONCE SEAT OF BRITISH NORTH
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT.
New Developments Will Make It One
of the World's Greatest
Ports.
From its foundation, in 1749, Hall -
fax has been a centre of British mili-
tary activity, and it was established
at the instance of the New England
A LIG
FOR THE BLIND
the new, left the States and renewed
their British allegiance in Nova
Scotia. By them was laid the founda-
tions of the now considerable city of
St. John's, while many of them settled
in Halifax.
A Great Harbor.
Halifax has always been essentially
English. It is nevertheless surround-
ed by the settlements, which the ear-
lier French had established in that
part of the world, beginning as early
as 1604, and it was not until 1710 that
British sovereignty was definitely set
up.
The environs of Halifax are de-
lightful. the city is capped by its
citadel, a picturesque Martello tower;
and the Arm, a three-mile fiord, is
marked by Chain Rock, whence a
colonists, who had recognized the ad- boom used to be stretched, with a
vantages of the wonderful harbor, frigate moored inside, to repel the
whence d'Ariville's fleet had made its enemy.
futile descent upon the New England The harbor is never closed by ice,
coast in. the course of the long war and the development of the port as
11*,1•01,
BENEFICENT WORK OF NEW
YORK WOMAN IN PARIS.
"Le Phare de France" Established for
Re-educating Men Blinded
in Battle.
Of all the sufferers :from the cruelty
of war, there are none so afflicted as
those whohave been blinded in battle.
Stumbling and uncertain as children
in a great darkness, they come back
to the world that they had known, the
world that was color and old reineras
bered places, and where nothing re-
mains but a great darkness forever.
There is one woman who is help-
ing to make life possible again for
these. men. Miss Winifred Holt, foe
twelve years previous to the war, had
been giving up her life to the work of
her Lighthouse for the Blind in New
York. She realized that she could
continue in France the work that she
had been doing in America of re-edue
sating the blind, and sailed for Ens
rope in the spring of 9115.
between France and Great Britain.
The town was the first English-
speaking settlement in the midst of
the French colonies of Acadia, and it
speedily took on importance. Within
five years from its founding it became
the seat of British North American.
government. Its harbor is deep and
ample, and said to be sufficient to
float all the navies of Europe.
V forts command its spacious
planned by the Dominion Govern-
ments looks to one of the largest
centres of water transhipment on
this side of the ocean. When com-
pleted these improvemeets will find
Halifax as the climax of the grand
Canadian transcontinental railway
scheme—the transhipment point in-
tended to guarantee that Canadian
goods will be entirely carried over
• Le Phare de France.
She began by .establishing in Paris
an institution for re-educating these
men. Here they are given instruction
in commercial courses, stenography,
foreign languages, poultry farming*
and braille, which fits them to take
'up the work that they have been ac-
customed to.
With an astonishing rapidity they
are learning to read and to write
according to new methods.. With a
wonderful courage they are acciis-
toming themselves to new conditions
and- sucdessfully combatting the dif-
ficulties. So well are they availing
themselves of the opportunities that
Miss Holt is giving them that already'
many of them are taking positions
and earning as much as in the old
days when they had sight.
Difficulties Overcome.
One of the supreme difficulties has
been to teach the armless blind and
British soil, the link in the great
o__ Ithis had at first been considered as
Pt waters, and up to 1905 Halifax was a British "All Red" transport I ystem.
IILIS busy British military point. In that I quite hopeless. But a press cam -
No ether medicine gives as' great i troops were withdrawn and the . care '
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YES I LIFT A CORN .1 paigniandthe offer ofp z sforin
ri e
year, however, all British regular I o_o_o_o_o_o_e_e_o_o_o_0-0 1
OFF WITHOUT PAIN I ventions has resulted in suggestion
satisfaction to mothers as does Baby's eof Halifax and its fortifications was ?Id value, and the committee are
Own Tablets. These Tablets are equal- ', committed to the Governnient of
ly good for the newborn babe or tb.3 canadae
____ 7 present doing all in their power to
•growing child. They are absolutely i With the outbreak of the European '11' Cincinnati man tells h ow to drY 7
, a. ain up a corn or callus so it lifts 0 :pupils of the Lighthouse is attend-
_ give aid to these men. One of the
free from injurious drugs and cannot • oveever, '
Halufax with fingers. ing college one is a regular pupil of
possibly do harm—always good-, Con- de military and naval headquarters off. 0
cerning them Mrs. Jos. Morneasi, $t. for British America, ,and many Ger-
the Conser0a.tOray -of Music, where he
has received the first prize for sing-
ing, another graduate has resumed
• t rued
Arzr,\r 4-. 4st, - f,:.." 9 eph‘,...„, Best
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*Rennie's Prize Swede Turnip, for table or stock —.4 ozs. 20c, lb. 65c
Rennie's Derby Swede Turnip, biggest cropper 4 ozs. 20c, Ib. 70c
Perfection Mammoth Red Mengel, for stock 4 ozs. 15c,
lb. 25c, Ib. 45c.
Yell:Apt Leviathan Mengel, good keeper, ..4 ozs. 15c, Vi Ib. 25c, lb, 45c
Rennie's Jumbo Sugar Beet, for feeding 4 ozs. 15c
iA lb. 25c, lb. 46c,
Improved Early Ohio Seed Potatoes Peck $1.00, bus. $3.50
High Grade Longfellow Yellow Flint Seed Corn—Peck 85c, bus. $3.25
Hirsh Grade Compton's Early Yellow Flint Seed Corn Bus. $3.25
High Grade White Cap Yellow Dent Seed Corn. -.Peck 75c, bus. $2.75
High Grade Wisconsin No. 7 White Dent Seed Corn Peck 75c,
boa. $2.85.
Sele,!t Yellovv Dutch Onion Setts Ib, 35c, 6 lbs, $1.70
English Multiplier.: Potato Onion Setts lb. 300, 5 lbs. $1.40
Gold Medal Gladioli Bulbe (no two alike).....10 for 85o, 100 for $6.00
ilerinIers Mammoth Squash, specimens 403 lb, weight Pkg. go
XXX Scariet Round White Tip Radish .. -Pkg. 10c, oz. 20c, 4 ozs. 50c
XXX Melting Marrow Table Peas (dwarf) 4 am 15c,
1lI. 40c, 5 lbs. $'1.90.
Round Pod Kidney Bush Butter Beans. ,4 ozs. 15c, lb. 55c, 5 lbs. $2.40
Cool and Crisp Table Cucumber Pkg 5c, oz. 15c, 4 ozs. 40o
XXX Early Table Sugar Corn (very fine) ..Pkg. 10c, Ib. 40c, 5 lbs. $1.90
Rennle's Fireball Round Table Beet ....Pkg. 10c, oz. 200, 4 ozs. 50c
XXX Early Summer Cabbage (heads 12,Ibs. each), . Pkg, 10c, oz. 80c
Rennie'a Market Garden Table Carrot ....Pkg. 10c, oz. 25c, 4 ozs, 750
Pkg. 5c, oz. 20o,
Early Yellow Danvers Onion, black seed
4 els. 60c, lb. $1.90, ,
Seed Corn and Potato Prices do NOT include .
freight charges.
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"Pakro" Seedtape. "You plant it by the yard."
• 2 pkts. for 25c. Ask for descriptive list.
Rennie's Seed Annual Free to All.
Order through your LOCAL DEALER or direct from
NIEM e Wm RENNIE Co., Limited
4 u coiLLAN hint and Market Sts., Toronto
at MONTREAL WINNIPEG VANCOUVER
+eves the scene of many a demonstra- m ' short • the aching corn or callus, stops space of five dee ..e lh
a
tender
tarely self supporting as a
Williams:Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. tion of British prowess. The priva- soreness at once and soon the corn or •
lteers, fitted out by enterprising Han -
hardened callus loosens so it can be machine knitter. He has aleo been
WOODEN sums COME BACK. 1140n/ens: facqualatlY returned with
lifted off, root and all, without paiu. taught to write correctly' on the type-
- !their prizes. Distinguished French ' writer, so being able to attend to alt
f th.his
A small bottle of freezone ccsts very correepondence. He has
mm
Wind -jammers Are Recalled Front prisoners ade use oe enforcek
Beach Graveyards. hospitalityEdwasdof the citadel,GebuW
ilt by little at any drug store, but wall posa
ti' ely o off every hard or soft corn now sent sufficient funds to buy other Priece , son of orge ., ,mh
callus. This should be tried, as it knitting niachines, and is able to em -
Through all the centuries Of his- ' teatiaa still . caps the highest ground . or
inexpensive and is seldnot to irri- ploy other blinded men to help him
in ills work.
Work Must Go On.
It is not only for the French for
which Le Phare de France has been
t:Iiiinielestuff and acts like a charm every established; there have been English
. officers, there have been Belgian, there
Deets Dairy in Canada. It is said of these men that they
have been Russian.
are always cheerful, that they never
Grand Trunk Pacific officials: say eomplain. Many of them are re -
that 8 square miles of grazing hind mining at Le Phare to teach others,
beyond their most northern station in for there will be more blind, and for
Saskatchewan has been leased to a these others the work must be en-
Dutth syndicate for a large dairy . lerged; more teachers will be re -
farm. This is supposed to mark the ; (mired, more funds needed.
beginning of a Duteh colony. Thor- i
Already three thousand men have
oughbred cattle from Holland are to been helped; come of them are resi-
accompany the first comers as the alants of the Lighthouse, some of
tory until the last. the world went . to and is a landmark fu. o
tate the surrounding skin.
sea in eldpe of wood, says a United first prizes of the was: of 1812 a eie
battle of the Monitor and Merrimac, Halif
'brought ,by their Britieh .captore to If your druggist alasn't any freezone
States newspaper. Then, after the
iron supplanted wood. Later, steel shelter that the Shannon brought the from
ax, and it was to this capacione tell hihmis iNovhgoeite:taisemilsarliligbohtdtuleseforiyto is
supplanted iron, and gradually our ! captive Chesapeake. It was from
shipyards from Maine to Florida, ' Halifax that the successful naval ex -
where the American clippers which pedition against the, oast of Maine
were the pride of the maritime world set all, . •
had been built. became abandoned. 1 e Uttited. Empire Loyalists.
All along the New England coast'
lie the skeletons of old ships—schoon- I Framing the capture of 1,Vashing-
ers, barques, •fullerigged vessels, cast 1 ton ti British brig and a transport
at Halifax bearing a
up on the beach graveyard because , ship arrived at
competition was too great. i large:number of fugitive slaves from
The shortage in tonnage brought ' Virginia) whose descendants still
about by the, war is bringing the old populate negro colonies on the out -
wind -jammer into her own again, and skirts of the town. Another and larger
old vessels almost forgotten where • and mere important addition to the
they lay are in commission -once PPPP.141911 of Halifax> foundation of la -Cuter!? . herch Dairy them have been taught its the magpie
however, came
more. New vessels are beieg tom- ' at: the products have wen Filming in import- tale or have cense as day pupils. Six
eonclusion of pence between
Country and the Ameri- eeelaings, have taken place from the
'sided as rapidly as possible. Maine • thO' DriotlIcr
1783, when theusands ance, and the eetablis ment of the in .
Lighthonee, two of the men marry -
ports are doing business as in the duetry nerth of the wheat lande shows ,
old times. lof .havalitts,preferring the old flag to
can eolonies, in the possibilities of the country in the ing the nurses wise saved their lives.
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' •.----------..aa, ie work that must go on: but
Conditions have also given else to ase es, a* athaa,aaht_futurIt a .
, to theee men there aro none who
a new plan. It is proposed that :the i . t".ralM' ,AeariraMPraRtaktneathWarlees . could refuse to give. They are ask -
United Statee build a thoueand littiea , irg eilently; only with their poor
wooden boats of a thousand tons I
each. The cost, we are told, would 'be
this, fleet could easily dodge subMare ,• P
tfii) 0 Ziff,
about $100,000,000. Driven by motors, el V rk7,. . ;i I.,
Mind eyes are they asking to be
helped, to be givan a chance at life.
. To whntever oleo we may not give,
iries. Their draft would be so small', to ell of us, for they are of nil nations.
to these we must give. .They belong
that a torpedo would pass bencatti
thou, and their size would aicl iri.cS
caping unwelcome attention front sea
pirates.
America may go to sea again in
the wooden boat.
Kitchener's Prediction.
There may be nothing to it, but In
seeking for the explanationof the
slow German retreat on the. Somme,
there comes to mind Earl Iiitchener's
oracular utterance in the fall of 1014,
after the trench warfare had begun,
"The army that first leaves the
trenches," he eaid, "will he beaten." If
this prediction le justified it will de -
EOM' '19 b0 set alongdide • his then
vtartilLg prediction that the war
et .-i1last three yeas.
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Excellent WeAc
Send for our Catalogue
on Cleaning and
Dyeing
Moderate Charges
lare Pay Carriasa Charpsc
Ons Way.
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Wooden Shoo:.
i account of the high price of
leather, sabots., or wooden shoes, Asee
in such demand in Engiand that an
teglieh in m has had to decline a Bel-
: gine orates fer berthed thousand
pairs. The mill wetict rs and the
boo' ,(41-iltir..n, :ire again to
the that were worn in earlier
time- . Those 'fcr children cost about
scveLty-five cents a pair.
—
i f 4. in einem ever
• $ Chintee province, but it is Mined •exa
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Trute (,re $
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Markers and Dyers ter.sively in only n
'791 Yonge Street Toronto
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f.treat of ut:tatt, seed
heluce eia,.„ in selection and
treatment of the seed before. plant-
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