HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1917-04-27, Page 7Too Much Dessert.
In the average family the dessert
problem takes, up more time than the
more substantial courses.
Traveling through a farm district
recently, the writer found that the
particular branch of cooking in which
peas, bread and butter; frozen custard
or plain ice cream and plain cake
T. Lamb chops; baked potatoes;
bread and butter; sliced mixed fruits;
cookies.
8, Baked omelet with spinach, kale
or other greens; bread and butter;
women were most interested was the apple sauce; cake.
making of cakes and desserts. At `J• Milk toast; string beans; stewed
a- demonstration lecture at a western fruit; cake.
university befure 600 women the 10. Boiled potatoes; codfish gravy;
whole time was devoted to serving bread and butter; lettuce; custard.
afternoon tea and showing how the
cakes and ices and other desserts
should be made.
Now I do not wish to disparage the well-equipped kitchen, says a good
arts of confectionery and the making housekeeper, is the table, which is
of delicious sweets, but I do think movable. We bought four ordinary
that perhaps our women over-empha- casters, which we fitted in the legs of
size the need and time for making the table, so it can easily be rolled to
desserts. Many girls proudly boast the sink to receive the dried. dishes,
that they can make cake and fudge then to the pantry, where they can all
and concoct delicious,, if overly rich, be "placed" with a single effort (thus
salads, but can these girls make equal- saving much walking hack and forth),
ly good bread, prepare meats so that or to the stove when canning fruit,
they are luscious and tempting and etc. You will find such a movable
stew the plainer fruit; so that they table a great source of help in the con -
are wholesome and attractive? servation of energy and valuable as..a
I have said often that meats and time saver.
vegetables are more poorly cooked in
this than in any other country, and The Right Way.
this statement is based on extensive To give your blouses and handker-
travels abroad. On the other hand, chiefs an exquisite, subtle, fresh and
we seem to emphasize the need of pud- .•'flowery odor, put a small piece of
dings, pie, cake and wrongf=cell,• stimu- orris root in the rinsing water when
late too groat an appetite Thr then washing them.
in ou: families. To cool a fevered patient, add a lit-
If we want to classify the family
according to taste, we might well be-
gin with father, who feels the meal is
incomplete unless he has a hearty
triangle of pie at the end. Now, there
is nothing about a good pie to be
criticized, but it is the one &ssert
which must be well made ira order to
be wholesome, and, ;neeond, it does
take a considerable amount of time.
Just why it should be a staple des-
sert in xrany a home cannot be fath-
omed, since all dietitians agree that
the crust is not wholesome if eaten
frequently or on top of an already
generous areal. Then there is the
•child who will not eat the rest bf his
meal because,l,e is so anxious for des-
sert, and whose taste has been educat-
ed beyond simple desserts like rice
pt c1e1ing, cornstarch orafruit and who
asir , ,. r lore elaborate puddings with
sauces and, worst of all, whipped
cream.
Whipped cream in itself is unob-
jectionable, but when added fo an- — --:• --
other tent which is sweet a .d fat the BABY'S OWN TABLETS
Casters for the Kitchen Table.
The most convenient thing in my
tle bicarbonate of s_da to bathing wa-
ter.
To keep moths away and to give to
it a wholesome and pleasant odor, put
branches of arbor vitae in your winter
clothing before storing it away.
To prevent green vegetables from
boiling over drop a piece of dripping
the size of a walnut into the center of
them just as they commence to boil.
Fish that is to be boiled will be im-
proved if it is placed in a dish con-
taining melted butter for an hour be-
fore boiling.
Scrambled eggs and onions is made
by first frying the onions, then turn-
ing the eggs into the pan, and stirring
as usual.
. To make a tight shoe more easy try
laying a cloth wrung out of hot water
across the place where it pinches.
This .should:be renewed. several.times'
till the inoist .heat has caused the
leather to mold itself to the foot of the
wearer.
combination often proves disastrous
to enc'; liver! The cream itself is
practically all fat, so that it should
never be used with desserts which con-
tain a large amount of fat or sugar hi
some other form.
. It is the exceptional dinner among
USED TEN YEARS
Mrs. W. J. Wilson, Carp, Out., writes:
"I have used Baby's Own Tablets for
the last ten years and can highly re -
middle class families across the 'At commend them for babyhood. and child-
lantic which has anything for dessert hood ailments. My baby was very
except fresh fruit, cheese and crackers. delicate; in fact we never thought he
Or stewed fruits which are called would live, but thanks to the Tablets
"compotes" may be served with a he is now a fine healthy boy." Baby's
small offering of tiny cakes. There Own Tablets should be kept in every
is much in favor of this simple type home where there are small children.
of dessert which would mean so much
less work for the homemaker and few-
er overl.urdened digestions. Fruit,
either fresh or canned, without much
sugar, is the dessert which could be
served every day and which would be
by far the most wholesome for chil-
dren and old people, who particularly AFTER -THE -WAR EMIGRATION.
need the salts and mineral values that ----
food offers. Farmer Prisoner in Germany Getting
Another more wholesome plan is to Farm Recruits.
make a combination salad dessert at Coining all the way from a prison
the end of a hearty meal. So many camp in Germany, a letter from a
delightful salads can be made even Canadian soldier reached the Ontario
in winter or between seasons, that one Department of Agriculture recently,
often wonders why another course is and the quest it contained was one of
the most unusual the Department has
had in years. Cooped up in a Hun
They regulate the bowels and stomach
and never fail to cure the minor ills
of little ones. The Tablets are sold by
medicine dealers or by mail at 25
cents a box from The Dr. Williams
Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
passed after the- salad. A sweet
dressing' may be used, especially with
fruits, and if accompanied by crackers camp Sergeant Salter, of the 3rd To -
or wafers and the cup of coffee or tea rgnto Battalion, and a number of his
the stomach really should not crave or fellow -prisoners have been doing a
need anything else, little "after -the -war" planning, and
it is to the farm their minds have
been turning. Now Sergt. Salter, a
farmer himself, wants "literature" to
tell the rest all about it.
Sergt, Salter's letter, written from
Giessen, follows:
"Gentlemen,—"Would you be kind
enough to forward me some literature
appertaining to farming in Ontario
and other provinces, as there are
quite a number of my fellow -prisoners
who are seriously contemplating emi-
grating to Canada after the war. As
I am a farmer myself, I want to do
all I can to get men to work the land,
which our. Dominion is so much in need
of. So I would be glad of any official
information which I could hand around
to my fellow -prisoners who contem-
plate emigrating to Canada, also a few
illustrated pamphlets, showing the
machinery with which we -farm."
If the department can get it
through,gh, Sergt. Salter
will getallthe
"literature" he needs for effective
propaganda.
Aman should keep his friendship in
constant repair. --Samuel Johfison,
:!feints For The School Children's
Dinner.
1. i gs, boiled, coddled, poached or
scrambled; bread and butter; spinach
-or other greens; cake.
2. Beef stew with vegetables; milk;
crisp, thin tea biscuits; honey.
3. Dried bean or pea puree; toast;
baked apple; cookies.
4. Vegetable -milk soup; rice with
maple suga.and butter or with milk
or cream.
5. Potato chowder; crackers; jelly
Sandwiches.
6. Cold meat; creamed potatoes;
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HOLLAND SLOWLY SINKING.
Average Subsidence About Ele"ven
Inches in Each Century.
If the land of Holland continues to
sink, there is danger that the subsid-
ence will become so great that, in spite
of the progress of engineering science,
it will be impossible to continue the
ceaseless struggle with the •waters.
That is the view which Prof, Molen-
graaf of the Plottechnic College of
Delft recentiYe xpressed before the
Geological Mining Society.
A large part of the Netherlands,
particularly the western and north-
western provinces, lies below the level
of the sea, which is kept from over-
flowing hundreds of square miles of
land by the natural barrier of the long
line of sand dunes that fringe the
coast, reinforced at two or three points
by artificial means. • The level of the
rivers and many of the canals in such
regions is likewise higher than the
surrounding country, and the nation
has to maintain dikes and embank-
ments at great pains and correspond
ing expense. .
"If," declares Prof. Molengraaff,
"the total expenditure should. exceed
the total income, then the common
sense of the Dutch people would lead
them to withdraw to higher,, regions"
Opinions differ on the question of
whether the ground is still sinking,
and what influences ;are responsible
for such a phenomenon. Some ex-
perts believe that the phenomena ob-
served are a consequence of certain
movements of the sea level.
Me J. C. Ramaer is convinced from
the'• xesults of water -gauge observa-
tions that the land of Holland has sub-
sided noticeably, and so has that of
the bordering countries and the great-
er part of the British Isles. He con-
cludes from the entire list of such
observations that there has been an
average subsidence at the coast line
of about eleven inches in each century.
Farther inland the subsidence
diminishes to perhaps five and one-
half inches.
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YOUR BLOOD
IN THE SPRING
Just now you are fooling. "out of
sorts"—not your usual self. Quite ex-
hausted at tunes and cannot devote
real energy to your work. Sleep does
not rest you and you wake up feeling
"all tired out." Perhaps rheurnatisin is
flying through'y'oirr muscles and joints
or may be youi skin isdisfigured by
rashes, boils or pimples. Headaches,
twirfges of neuralgia, fits of nervous-
ness, irritability of temper and a dis-
c,
di
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4si t-V:tt
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Biliousness.
The word "biliousness" has had
varying fortune in the language of
medicine. At one time it was tired
to define an indisposition of peculiar
character, and at another physicians
rejected it because they believed that
it implied a wrong cause for the con-
dition in question. Although the
pendulum is swinging back in favor of
of a judicious use of the word, the
latest medical dictionary cautiously
defines it as "a minor ailment, thought
to depend upon a slight disturbance
of the hepatic functions."
Whether properly earned or not,
however, the conditi:n certainly ex-
ists, and it is quite probable that the
liver, whethernor not it is primarily at
fault, is often concerned in the diges-
tive upset. The functions of the liv-
er are manifold: it secretes bile, stores
up sug 1r, and destroys many poisons,
either derived from without the bony
or formed in it, especially some of the
waste products of digestion, which it
converts into urea. If any of these
functions become deranged, the sys-
tem suffers. If something interferes
with the secretion of bile or with its
passage into the intestine, the symp-
toms of jaundice appear. If the liver
is unable to store up sugar, diabetes
results. If it cannot destroy the poi-
sons that are taken into the body or
that are accidently formed in it, an in-
disposition or actual illness follows.
? When we speak of a "sluggish lfv-
er" we mean that the organ is unable
to dispose of all the poisonous waste
products that occur in the system;
the result is that acute form of auto -
jintoxication which we call a bilious at-
; tack. The symptoms are headache,.
; dizziness, spots or zigzag figures be-
fore the eyes, irritability and depres-
sion indigestion, nausea and perhaps
vomiting, and often a pasty complex-
--
omplex-
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�..... __ ion and a yellow tinge to the whites of
with tears m their eyes. A boy of taches the thread to the centre of the' the eyes.
twelve, running up to the soldiers, whirling frame, and as the spider pays i Associated with those symptoms, or
sang the `Marseillaise,' in which their out its web she wraps it round the preceding them, then: is constipation
elders and then all the soldiers joined. frame. At one time she removes I or irregularity of the bowels. And
"The French troops have, perhaps, from a spider several hundred feet of !that is no doubt the cause of the whole
known no such poignant moment since thread. !trouble: The intestines are slow in
the war began. The spiders are kept in a large room ; disposing of the waste products of
"Before going, also, firebrands had under the supervision of three girls I nutrition, and so a larger amount of
been at work, setting alight all the and a forewoman. When the little poisonous material is carried to the
houses ---not already smashed by shell-
fire—ea wanton and cruel destruction.
,n
k., were -burning tivherr---T'----laa•esed-
t
workmen are not spinning, they live in
:a large wooden cage. Flies axe their
ehief'artiele•of diet:•:.During-the:ein-
em,
;win -.. ..lliousness. That checks the ap-
1
em,'so f cicely that the hot breath `ter months the spider colony usually t „erf Abi• fewer waste products form,
he.s' flames was upon my• face, dies, and an entirely new corps of : Psite' p
se stones and charred embers fell workmen must be recruited _- Not i and thus the body rids itself of the
a 'scatter of sparks, and tiles every spieler will. do—only large fat i exequilibrium already
adsy'epresent. When restored the "Bilious a an
i roofs clattered at my feet. A fellows that spin a tough, round
er old,. place,''said a young British thread are suitable. ,ti.: stack" is cured.
r, staring at the long vista of. The girls who have charge of the Lowered Resistance
ed town, with his steel hat tilted spiders are not �n the least afraid of
liver than that organ can easily dis-
pose of. . Some of It therefore enters
e,ltlrrnd:stream ,and causes an attack
on
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we
a smile of irony on his face. Tra-
ether than queer, I thought."
formation. from the localities
red by the Allies reveals the
them. On the contrary, they regard The things which reduce our per -
them as pets, can tell them apart, and sonal resistance to disease are many
often call them by nicknames that and varied. Conditions known as
humorously describe their appearance "depressed vitality," "lowered tone,
arous procedure of the enemy, or their peculiar habits: of work. "general debility," "weakened con -
in retreating pillaged and de- se-- _-__.- stitution" and similar terms, imply a
ed systematically, even poisoning The King of Bulgaria enjoys the re- condition in which the resistance to
ells with arsenic," says a French putation of being the shrewdest and disease in general is reduced.
The principal causes which diminish
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but do not be. persuaded to take
"something just the same." If you
can't get the genuine, Pills from your
dealer they will Le you by mail,
post paid, at 50 cents a box or six
boxes for $2.50 by writing The Dr. Wil-
liams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
iN LIBERATED FRANCE. -
Inhabitants of •Ruined Districts Wel-
come the Troops.
The welcomes given to the French
and to our own troops by the Hien, wo-
men and children of liberated France
have been very touching and pathetic.
"For the first time since the war
started French troops have had the
splendid experience of marching vic-
toriously into a French invaded vil-
lage, where the French inhabitants
remained, and of freeing then," says
the London Telegraph correspondent.
"The Germans had left about 800
inhabitants at Roye. These had been
under the bombardment of the French
guns for two years and a half. It—is
quite possible that the Germans left.
thein behind p iirposely, to serge as a
•� •m and the attacking
-era between tg
"French.
"Old men, women, and children
crowded rotind the French troops, re-
gardless of shell -fire, took the soldiers
by the hand, and clung to their coats,
entator. "The Germans in re-
ing committed depredations
1 no plea of military importance
excuse.
ven if they can justify the de -
tion of bridges, railway lines,
oads, they could not possibly at -
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En rest in increasing our resistance to
9 infection.
= All diseases, however, are not the
• same in their behavior. Typhoid
fever, smallpox, measles, scarlet fever
and cholera for example, have no re-
lationship whatever to bodily vigor,
M and these often attack the young and
• virgorous in the prime of life. The
E most robust, for instance, will sue -
▪ dumb quickly to ;r.ny of the above dis-
eases if he receives a sufficient
amount of the virulen disease germ
• and has not been rendered "immune"
ley inoculation or a previous attach of
the disease. One only has to consid-
er how readily smallpox spreads,
- among unvaccinated lumbermen, a
• very rugged class of men; how readily
- typhoid fever is contracted by un-
inoculated soldiers, another peculiarly
ES rugged group; and of how measles has
carried of as mm_ch as one-third of the
N vigorous population of certain south-
= ern islands where the disease.nhad been
r unknown and where there was no "lm-
eal
ree rnunity" agaiinst it, to realize. how true
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the above observations vations are.
A Guessieg Contest.
wiliest of all loyal business men. He resistance to infections are wet and
owns theatres, cinemas, tobacco Mc -cold; fatigue, insufficient or i nsuit-
tories, dairies, and has made consider- able food, bad air, insufficient sleep
able sums on the Austrian Stock Ex -
and rest, worry, and excesses of all
change. kinds. The campaigr against tuber-
culosis has been of great value to the
tion of all the fruit -trees, the up- i=
of fields by mines, the burning
tire villages, and, above all, the
nte-
mable wreteh dness in which re
left the inhabitants, who, with-
helter and without food, were c
ored and fed by our troops."
WHERE SPIDERS WORT.
Factory in England Where Spiders
Are Efficient Workmen._
In a large English factory that pro- I
duces surveying instruments, spiders 9.
aro probably the most indispensable I
workmen. It is their duty to spin E
the delicate thread used for the cross E
hairs that mark the exact centre of
the object lens in the surveyor's tele- 9
scope;
Spider web is the only suitable ma-
terial yet discovered for the cross
hairs of surveying instruments. Al- E.
though this fibre is almost invisible to 5 -
the naked eye, the powerful lenses of N
the telescope magnify it to the. size
of a man's thumb. Human hair when
magnified in the same way has the ap-
anent dimensions of a rough-hewn
lamp -post. Moreover, human hair
is transparent and cross hairs must be g
opt glee.
spiders produce during a two -
month's spinning season thousands of
ya 'ds of web, which is wound upon
metal frames and storedaway until g
notded. A spider "at work" dangles
in the air. by its invisible thread, the
r which is attached to a
iend c . F
up, cis „T,
met,a1 wire flame whirled in the hands
of a girl. The girl first places the I
spider on her hand until the protrud-
ing: end of the thread has ,become at- Ewarxarv. .o-
tat'.ied, When the spider attempts to ; ttatsrierenAaldren=, Grand irapld:t,
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Won't Reach The Poison
105 children were reported poi-
soned in the last three years by
arsenical fly destroyers. And this
is but a fraction of the actual num-
ber. Arsenical fly poisoning and
cholera infautiltn symptoms are al-
most exactly the same. Diagnosis
is difficult. And first aid in arsenic
poisoning must be quick.
Don't subject your children to this
danger. Use the nonpoisonous fly
catcher
TA L OO
safe, sure and etficient,which catches
the fly and embalms its b ply and
the !3eadiygermss it carries n a coat
:••L di: int,;eting varnish.
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Lady Visitor (to friend just mar-
ried) ---So you are not getting tired of
studio life, eh?
Artist's \•rife ---•Good gracious, no!.
.-N it's most interesting. Jim paints
and 1 cook.
Ti
;n the game
to
guess what the things are meant for,
Whenever you can look at yourself
'Y' and be satisfied, you should begin to
se suspect yourself of moral blindness.
i.earniui; by study must be won,
✓ 'twas neer entailed from son to son.—
_ bray.
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