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Exeter Advocate, 1904-6-16, Page 6iteatleiTtetel'a•-.NC-10teir•ttn^lateteiVe4snil 4 Ia; The Two c.S5 STORY Olt ROSSIAN 3V5" Z; HEROISM; 5timi,,ce:etetiqm.,Newm-nemev.,;lE •('he foollowing sketch. which is • to have been written lig the wife of founded on fact, has created a great sensation in Russia. It is SuPposed one a the high naval ()Moors alio took part in the nrst naval .engage - anent at Port. Arthur and -have since been recalled,) • Why they were made into sailors nobody could say. • The two Ivens, one from inland It a-stroll:La, the other from inland Vologda, stood in a line with other =jibs sommoned as eon - scripts from all parts of the Russian empire. Nobody asked them what they wished themselves -Hussars, Life- Cluarhs, Infantry or Fleet. Arid, to tell the truth, the two Ivens were absolutely indifferent. They must serve eeniewhere. So, when the conscription officer, chalk in hand, walked past the long line of men, writing a military or naval mark on the mens sheepskin coats, neither Ivan had a single thought in his heed. At most there was a faint image of their native villages, but even that receded and seemed to melt into the mien "That fellow has a sailor snout," said someone's voice. Then one lvan felt the chalk passing over his chest. "The navy !" And as the other Ivan stood be- side him it appeared that he, too, had a "sailor snout," axed on his chest appeared the same mark. In that way the two Isaias became sailors. * • * Bath Ivens served on the saine ves- eel, the destroyer Steregushtehi. And they both served well, with the exception of rare trips ashore, when both, primed with -vodka to the neck, became two indescribable wild beasts. But that pbriee passed rapidly, and next day, both Ivans, as if nothing uncommon had happened toiled on the destroner's steel deck, and all their actions showed intelligence and care Since childhood the two Ivens had epent their days plowing their flea tive land with a "sokha" (wooden Idow). Yet now they suddenly found themselves sailors. Why? To that question nobody eould reply. The chief reason was -they, must serve somewhere. * * Darkness and silence by the Pacific. Poet Arthur seems dead, The harbor lights are extinguished, and the long ]ins of guns can barely be seen on the forts. The two Ivens are silent, and look wistfully into the obscure distanee. Strangely shaped shad- ows crowd underneath, and the sound of occasional voices is borne on the wind. The searchlights above throw long pencils of bright light on the outer harbor. Then even they go out. The enemy is invisible. From the beach comes the dull' and measured roar of surf. The dark sil- houets of big ships rise from the water afar. Tey can hardly be I seen. The two Rens are in a. post of danger. The "Steregushtchi," far from land in the outer roadstead, is I watching for tbe eeneniy. All are awake; all watch, It would seem as if each man had four eyes, not two. And each man's four eses strain into the remote darkness to the point of torture. They must not be caught napping by the enemy -the Jap is cunning. He would choose such a dark night, with bad weather coming on, lhath eharp winds blinding the watcher's eyes, with salt spindrift cutting the face, for his attack. And the two ,Ivaxis are wide awake, scenting the foe. ahead, * * * * * From the nearest warship Anehne Ihe dazzling searchlight. There is a roar, and a thousand reverberations rattle across the watery space. 'A minute later More theneands of reverberations blend M one prolonged and terible cra.sh. The enemy is sighted. On the destroyer ali at once rushes into life. The boatswain whistles. The crow rush on deck. From the bridge comes the commander's harsh vac% The commauder is ardent and thirsty for battle. The two Ivens bustle about a gun; they are training it, on the (Monty. And the destroyer, under full steam, rustles ahead, rending with its steel nose the black sea, and dashing, towards the foe. • The ardent commander's battle - thirst is soon quenched. For before an hour has passed not a man re- mains alive on the destroyer with. the exception of the two iVallS; anti haw, they have 'escaped they them- selves cannot tell. In a cloud of smoke, and sprinkled with their comrades' blood, the two Ivens fought as lions. But, the en- emy came ori -and conquered, And When the two Ivens saw their ship In the foe's possession it suddenly entered their heads that though hea- ven had saved their lives in battle they Must die all the- same. . • And under the enemy's very hose the tWo Ivans dived into the des- troyer's held and shut down the hatahee. Japanese were amazed. • "What thara acre I 0 iv e yourselves up -s -the ship is rause. We will treat you honorably rts prisoners, We are eivilieed people." 'The two Ivans did not reply; it was no time to listen to Japanese babble. They; Ware . preparing for death. t t s The oneiny tritinenhed. It was the tIrst Ruasitai Warship captured. Joy- farlly they took the destroyer in tont as a trophy I ,And tile two Inane eta beloW, held - — ?.!'7!-.!•;440, inn a council of death. For the two J i his net in O'Brien harbor et tlie "vane were in enzamand of the fthip. entrance to Untaavit Bay, aad was All the World looked at them, but able to kill theni with but little then could not -even See the shy; trouble. Another skipper sighted a they Sat concealed and obscure in a third and sent 1:11',0 men in a boat af- eteel box under _waterter him, but, their fleet eliot only The imancil .was short and their de- wounded the brute and he Made back eision soon taken; at them, upeeta and tore apart thole "We mast die." •aaat„ and badly gashed ono of the And the two Ivens prayed, and, Men•before the schooner ran down having prayed, opened the stop -cocks and poured u, whole battery. of b1117 4111C1 let the water late the hold. lets into him. The Stereguslitchi sank rapidly to The Hudson Bey CoMPaey'a fan, the bottom.. The enemy bad barely tors are always keen to ,sectire skins 'Limo to cut the hawser, Of this white water bear. Last year * one eta tion seeased fotirteen of these In the doze of the Pacific bate= skins, the largest of which measured lies "the first Russian manure," and thirteen feet and brought 6a15 at the in it lie its tWe "commaadera," the company's animal auction in Lona two Ivans. • ' don. Another station, Nakvak, the Tho Bassi= =Ilk does not know most northern and therefore hest sit - how to live. . But he knows how to uated for them, collects die. •• ABOUT SIXTY A YEAR. . ----a—..-- About 4.00. bears are killed along FIGHT WITH POLAR BEARS _ . Labrador every twelvemonth. These bears are extraordinarily. cunning' They catch in exact- MAI\TY DOWN FROM THE ARC- ly the same way as the Esquhn.aux, TIC THIS YEAR. • .y waiting at a blowhole, having first built up a little wall aiesund — Monsters That Struggle With it. They 'show cleverness almost Half a Beam Sailors at human in grasping a seal when it a Time. comes up to breathe, and transferr- Mg it to the ice. Owing to the exceptional rigors of If the bear is not hungry he will of the past winter along Ballinland play with the seal just as a, cat and Labrador,tho polar bears have does with a mouse, patting it till it had. to wander off among, wriggles away, catchingit again, the ice nes in greater numbers than tossing it into the air and torturing usual in quest of the seals Illx'n it in various ways, but always which they chiefly. feed, and the crews noopth.g,.. between it and the blow - of the Newfoundland sealing fleet, hole, and eventually killing it by just back from, their annual hunt, jumpiug on it ' with all four paws. tell many stories of encounters with The bears also will 'wait, nose these monsters writes a St. John's, down, • against the floe •by which Newfoundland, correspondent. •seals, narwhals and eyen white 'When he is well fed the polar bear whales swim, and when one of these is easily worsted, but if liungi'y he -- tvill riso to breathe, spring upon it 'fights with fui7. Hence, encounters like a cat on a sparrow, hugging and with bears are not sought, anffess a tearing it to death in the water, riflemen are included iii the party; and, eventually dragging it up on the but sometimes there is no alternative ice, to be devoured at leisure. When Tbis season, on one 'occasion, sevea no better food offers,, they subsist inen armed •only with seal clubs had on some of the innu:mera,ble. diving. to aight an old male bear. birds that abound in: northern seas. One man thought he saw a seal be- The bear will immerse himself in the hind a husinnocic and started off eta- water where the birds are swimming, ter it, a second following him. Just and then, sinking beneath it, will as the first •topped the hummock he leave only the black nose visible, up raised his club and struck, when to to which the unwitting bird swims, his horror he found he had hit a pol- only to find itself a victim to his ar bear over the snout. The benr maw. turned on barn with an angry growl It is while abroad on the ice that and would have dismembered him the bears are carried off by adverse with a single stroke, when the second winds and swept southto perish of man got in and hit hini. on the snout starvation. During last Christmas also. Ills blow half stunned him week the steamship Hanover, cross - and he fell backward into a small ing the Grand l3anks on the way to Baltimore, sighted an iceberg on which were moving objects Arst thought to be human beings, but subsequently. seen to be six polar bears. They liad been ferried hun- dreds of miles from their Arctic home and were -doomed to perish by drowning or hunger: Similar scenes are often witnessed by the crews of vessels fishing on the Grand Banks. Last July two castaway. fishermen from one of the ships on the Banks pulled toward an iceberg to get some fragments to melt into drinking wa- ter, but found it .tenanted by a starving polar bear, which plunged 'into the sea and made after them on catching sight Of them. They had to row their best to escape, as these bears can swim as well as seals, and it was only when hcr saw he could not reach them that lie re- turned to his lonely eygie, bellowing, forth hoarse growls of rage the while, , bole of water. Still, though dazed, he struggled to get out, and so there was nothing for it but to nght him, and this the men did successfully, the whole seven jeining in the struggle. Yet he broke one man's ankle, lacerated an- other's thigh and splintered the arm of a third before he gave in. His skin and fat weighed 400 pounds and his carcass probahly. as much more, eo that he was as BULKY AS A MULL Honsm. On another occasion there was a fierce fight, within full view of a ship's crew, between a bear and six men. Bruin had been asleep fon the night on a small pan of ice and was •awakened in the early morning by the sound of the steamer's whistle, blown to Call her crew to their day's toil. The bear, aroused from slum- ber, raised himself on his hind paws with a mighty growl, as if in chal- lenge to the Ship, Fie deriarMe WaS accepted in this sense by six young sealmen, who promptly •made at him A TERRIBLE EXPERIENOE with only their clubs. The bear was -unable to leave the small pan he was on, owing to six -WOMAN IMPRISONED WITH enemies assailing him, and so had DEATH ADDERS. • to fight it out there. He made game defence, too, notwithstanding all attacks of his adversaries. One of these Struck at him with a club, but he reared up, caught it in his meaith and jerked it from the owner's hands and, shaking it as a terrier would a rat, hurriedly banged at the owner with it and felled him sense- less with a blow over the bead. The other assailants he kept off also in the sante way, and it was not till a man came from the ship with a rifle and fast four bullets through him that he showed any weakening. At last he became dazed, and ft. well directed blow on the snout stunned hihn While a Shower more apparently killed him. A rope was lashed tound late: hodSr and he was saning up by the ship's winch to be got on board, but just as lie came over the rail the rope broke and he disappertind from view in the water. The card bath revived him. for in about five minutes he was seen to emerge in a blow holesin, • a floe, and climbed- on .to a high Pan. rThree men .ware at once des- patclied after him, and he was stun- ned, stabbed to' the heart and theu dragged to the ship to be skinned. He was nearly nine feet long and twelve feet in largest girth, and was al together A FORMIDABLE ADVERSARY. Men who go to the seal fisheries for the sport or experience as pas- sengers on the ships of the fleet, usually 'derive their keenest enjoy- ment from stalking the polar bears, as it is quite a novel form of big game hunting. The scene is the great floating ice Add, and from hummock to hummock, and berg to berg, the hunter will. (ledge his prey until a lucky shot -will enable him to bring clown the victim. Sealing captains will toyer let their guests go off unattended on sucli a mission, but send a couple of expert riflemen with them, as at times Mr, and Mrs, Bear and their offspring may be at boae on the floe, and they would be rather too formidable a combination for the in- experienced hunter, The Esquirnaux of Greenland and Baffin Land are notable bear hunters, The Esquimaux have trained their dogs to run the etaatures down and torment them Until they tan . come up themselves and give the etnietus with lance or gun. The darthg of the Espuimaux hunters is great, end they, will attack the iefuriated beat the reciatent they come tvithie strik- ing range. In northern Labrador they are al - 'kr to be got in goodly e.umbers. Ilast seatieri a Newfoundland fishing skipper feund two of them eritaegled Inflating for Orchids in the Wild Hills of North Queensland. On the bank of the Kirk River, in North Queensland, there is a wild picturesque range of rocky hills, whose tops are 800 feet high. They consist of immense boulders, tumbled together in the wildest confusion, with timber, vines, creepers and huge orchids and ferns growing in be- tween. - I -had 'visited this place tbree times ble with excitement, 1 began my pre - for the purpose of gathering orchids parations. used to pay me live shillings each should, I knew, be for a- person in - Townsville who As long as daylight lasted I cornparatively for them. . . safe from the adders, unless` 1 dia.: One day I set out tor a, spot where turbed -them; but at night they I was sure plenty of orchids would be found -a narrow, wild -looking, would be all over the place Seeking wedge-shaped cleft or gorge in the food; such as little grey rock lizards, zuany of which 1 stvw creeping about mountains which was desely covered the sides of the cavern in pursuit of on each side with jungle. Huge flies, nioths, etc. Very carefully 1 grey bouldens----showed out here and gathered up armsful of leaves and there through the verdure, and or- dead vines, and pushed them inch chids could be seen less than one by inch towards the sleeping adders hundred feet above me.- Hobbling feeling more courageous every mom - out my horse, and taking my water ent, when I saw that no notice was bag, I started. It took me quite taken of any movements, In half an hour to, get to the top of the an hour I had a thick semi -circular gully, for I had to clamber over layer of leaves nearly two feet high • boulders, pash through vines and between the sakes and me. Then 1 creepers and make many detours, added more and more leaves, until However, when I readied there, 1 I had formed a complete circle, with was well satisfied, for there were a clear space in the centre, into many. orchids around me -some grow - which I then carried all the leaves Mg on trees and -others in the clefts that were left and compressed them and crannies of the boulders. From as mon as possible by covering the summit there was them with my shirt, which I took A SPLENDID VIEW at it was my intention to it on • _ this mound of leaves till darkness meandering course of the Kirk River being especially eoticeable, owing to to them from of the surrounding country -the long , came on; then first set fire to the surrounding girdle of leaves arid add nay heap, little by both banks being heavily fringed with dark green she -oaks, which made a startling contrast to the 'AS THEY BURNED DOWN. monotony of the pale dull green of I was sui•e there were enough leaves the forest- of iron bark and gum to keep the fire belt alive until day - trees. Almost directly, beneath Inc. light, but at the same tins.° I was at the base of the hills, there was a almost certain that help would come flock of seven emus, who were feeding to me lohg before then. on a thick, fleshy, kied of saline Suddenly I heard a sound which creeper, which grew amonst the loose -made my heart leap -a gun Shot I stones. I could see then t quite dis- Then another and another followed, Wildly as they etaliced to and fro. I sprang to my feet, and in a few Little did 1 know as I watched them moments I had lit the eircle onleaves that these huge birds were to be the in a' d oz en places, cooee-ing kindly; indirect meanie of my being reecued the while. from a dreadful eituatiori. A dense volume of strioke aroOse Leaving my water -bag under the rotand me, arid poured hp through shade of an overhanging bcaildee, 1 the top of the cave, 1 was tio mar - began to collect. 7 had been at roendeciby it that I was not only Work abotit half aui hour when I haifsemoothered, but nearly roasted Icaught sigh t of a beautiful orchid Just, corning into flower, It was . gra:swing in the theft of it jagged -IbouldeenStanding amidst a tangled iletWorof tough, maloderoue vine, it that, wilen I found .there was a iiarrow , cleft between the boulder and me 1 did .net hesitate to 3mup across -with a disastrous result, Lor when 1 leaded an the other side my foot slipped on the rock nad I Tell sideways down into the cleft and dropped into a thick pile oS klebrie of dead vines am leaVea, \valet): had, fallen intim the trees above. Rising to my feet 1 looked about 1110, aud netany cried with fright, for I saw that I was in a prison cham- ber! From Where I had fallea to the bottom was about ten or twelve feet, although the floor of the place \vas three feet thiek with powdery leaves, etc. But what toreillecl inc was that the wall of solid reek wits dente -shaped, and would be impossi- ble for anyone to elimb. The cleft at the top -through which 1 could see the blue sky above -was about three feet wide and about ten long; at one cad, of it the roots of a tree ealle4 .t.l° iall0RETON BAIY. hong dewn Over the edge. sat down and looked all around my, prison and saw that it Was fu- tile my attempting to escape un- aideci-I should have to wait until 1 was rescued. There I began to feel a little More 'courageous. Mg mothea, I knew, 11 1 did net return by sun- set, would be sure - to send someone to look for me. That I should be found by night, or at least on the following morning, P was certain,. I stood up and seraped.together pile of leaves, making them let° a sort of bank against the side of the cavern, so •tliat 1 could either sit or lie down in some comfort. Then 1 caught sight of something a few yards away, en the other side of the cave that made iny heart "come into my mouth"-4,number of snakes lying together in aalierip, and appar- e n t l y atpsleeePri skepecily still for a. few mo- ments, and watched them intently, wondering whether they were young, non -venomous "reek" carpet snakes (which were very plentiful ail about the Kirk) or the deadly brown snake, . Very. softly and quietly I went a little nearer, and looked more close- ly, and felt sick with fear when. I Savi that they were death adders - dark grey in color, and all, except one, appeared to be of the same size, about 18 inches long; evidently they were the one breed. Presently one of them moved, and then- writh- ed itself clear from its horrid com- panions, and slowly crawled away to the foot of the wall, where it sudden- ly- disappeared, and then I saw what had previously escaped zny notice - that there were means of exit • (for snakes at least) -narrow cracks and fissures in the rock, Some of them as large as aaman's hand. At that side -where the adders were lying -the• floor of the pit was iree from de- bris (being away fromthe opening above), and consisted of a, dietay dark greyish sand; and a wild hope come to nie that 1 might be able to dig ray wan through 'under tbe- Creeping .Over as quickly as:possi- ble and keepiag a watchful eye on the hideous Mass of Sthinbering rep- tiles, I began to dig with my hands at the base of the wall, and worked on for ten minutes or so, the per- spiration streaming from every pore in my. body, and then gave up when my nails struck against solid rock. Kneeliag down I PRAYED FOR COURAGE; for the coming night, and -then I "did a long weep." Turning over my seat of leaves, in the hope that 1 might find some large stones under- neath which would enable Inc to kill any, of the adders if one came over to my part of the cave I found some "small pieces of granite. These I put in my handkerchief and tied them up tightly, making a weapon as good as a stone, and weighing about live pounds. Then I suddenly remembered My box of matches, and 1 became almost hysterical with joy. I found it cer- tain means of defence, and should not die a dreadful death from snake- bite in that awful place! 'After an- other "weer-athis time one of joy - and wben 'my hands ceased to trem- as well, foe the, leitares of the More- ton Bay fig tree give out a great heat. In anothrin smarter of ah whea 1 was gaSning for -instal-4 the flameh atal emoke had died l I was Oa eager to got poseession of a I was able to see. ' P. About the the metiouse elatkonrovists °Frown Rearnif,.s. $ pan ish &indwiches-Thin slices of Graham bread, slightly buttered; sPreaci with made mustard, then a layer of cottage. cheese. Salad -On page 151 of the Record Cook Book is a choice recipe, which bears a marvelous reseinblance to deviled crab. Half the amount is enough' for sinall family, Orange Sauce -Beat the whites of three eggs till stiff and dry, add gra- dually one cup of powdered sugar and continue to beat, then add rind and juice of two ,oranges and rind of ono lemon. Maitre .d'Etetel Butter -Cream one- half cup of butter, add one teaspoon of...ealt and a speck of pepper and one-half teaspoon of 'finely chopped parsely, then add ono teaspoon of lemon juice ellen) by drop. Sunshine Cake -Beat wbite of five eggs very Ann. Thoroughly beat yolks with one cup sugar. Fold in carefully the .beaten whites- Fold in two-thirds cup well sifted flour. Bake in loaf or patty pans. This is Very, nice. No baking powder used, De- pends on the beatings Snowballs -One-half cup of butter, one-half cup of sugar, one-lialf cup,of milk, two and one-half cups of ilour, two rounding teaspoons of baking Poivder, whites of four 'eggs. Oream butter, add sugar gradually, then A.dd flour sifted with baking powder; lastly the whites of the eggs beaten stiff and dry. Steam thirty-five minutes in buttered elms. Half this quantity will make five largo snowballs and half the sauce recipe will do. Cream Sponge Cake -Sift together a cup of sugar and a. cup of flour, one rounding teaspoon of cream of tartar, half level teaspoon of soda and one-half saltspoon of salt, Break into a cup two eggs and beat till light, fill the cup with thick cream and add one teaspoon of or- ange extract. Turn into dry mix- ture and fold carefully and thorough- ly together. Bake the same as sponge cake. Maitre d'Hotel Potatoes -We sh, pexe and shape potatoes into balls, using a French vegetable cutter, or shape in one-half inch curbs. There should be potatoes to make two cups full'. Soak in cold water for lifteen. minutes, then dramn. and boil in salt- ed water till soft. Dram and add maitre d'hotel butter and mix well. Dandelion Wine -Gather two quarts of blossoms, without stems, which wili make the wine better. Pour one gallon of boiling water over blos- soms, let stand in stone crock three days and nights (or granite kettle is better). Strain and add three pounds white sugar, two sliced le- mons and two oranges. Boil about five minutes. When lukewarm add one tablespoonful good yeast.' Pour into a jug to ferment, having ...the jug full, so it can run out as it fer- ments. filling up the jug with the re- mainder (if any is left over, if not, use sugar and water, as the jug must be kept full during fermentation). In about six weeks pour it off and put it in air -tight bottles, with one or two.raisins to each bottle. Lay the bottles on their sides an cool, dark piece. Cork tightly. Spring Soup -Simmer a pint of sorrel, two heads of lettuce, a cup of small dandelion leaves in two ounces of butter for ten minutes, stirring constantly; then add three pints of well seasoned stock and boil gently one hour. Strain and serve. Roast Birds -Pluck, singe, draw and wash the birds thoroughly. Dust each one with one-quarter teaspoon salt and rub the breast inside and out with a small raw onion. Place in the body of the bird a few unr cooked cranberries or a slice of le- mon. Place in roasting pan, cook in hot oven thirty minutes, basting frequently with hot water and but- ter. Serve on hot platter garnished with Men bread crumbs, - soto HELPFUL HINTS. Removal of soot marks -When soot falls upon the carpet or rug, never i.ttempt to sweep it up at once, for the result ie sure to be a disfiguring Mark. Cover it thickly with nicely, dried salt, vbich will enable you to sweep it up, cleanly, sd that not the slightest stain or smear will be left. Carpets should be beaten on the wrong side first, and afterward more gently on the right. Never pat down a carpet on a damp floor, for this -often the result of hurry and impatience on the part of weary house -cleaners -is a frequent cause of carpets becoming moth-eaten. Windows in daalip weather -Wien it ie necessary to clean windows in damp weather, use a little methylat- The adders had gone. • X then made another pile of leaves directly, under the opening above, lit, it and watched the smoke ascending in a straight line to the sky, and every now and then cooeed with alls, the strength of my. lungs. Hours and hours seethed to pass, though it was in reality, less than half an hour after the first fire was lit that the smoke was noticed, and nlyr cries heard by a man named Maurice Kerr and a black boy. The former was a stockman, and was riding aeross Country to the Kirk River Township when he saw the flock of emus, and had .shot three of them with his Winchester carbine, when the black bey first called his attention to my horse and than to the smoke. As they were pulling the big feathers out of ono of the emus they hear -41 fliy cooee. It did not take them long to And ine, and I was soon rammed by Means of two bridle", Which Kerr lathed together aid lowered down to me, telling me how to tie one ender my arms. Then they pulled rne up, And then as I lay on the hot roeke ,peinted• to my Water -bag. I Ohl that /Ira* of water. It was illieaveri Itselft ad spirit', and yea will poltali windows M half the than, as the epirit evaporates, eta dries the etki petfluous moisture as it gOOS.. To (neon enameled baths -Stain may be taken off an enameled bath if it is rubbed well with rough salt moistened with vinegar. This will also clean eaamelea pot $ an.d pang, no matter how burned or discolored they may be. rro preserve stair carpets pat pads of old blankets on each step If • there is no store of ancient blanket to draw froixa a substitute may be made of several thieknessea of brown IMP Sr Melt making a pudding don't for- get to make a pleat i21 the cloth at the top of yew. basin, so as to al- low the pudding roolurtitlitd,.br toswell,the, To bail eggs for in water to the boil, then take the egg in it for Ave Minutes.. This will cook the egg perfectly without mak- ing the white hard and indigestible. It is also well to boil an egg intend- ed for a young child in this manner. To clean brass nothing is better • than the old-fashioned plan of rub- bing first with a paste made of pow- dered bathbrick and paraffin% and then with powdered bathbrick. mixture of lemon juice and powdered chalk used in the same way is else. excellent., Never hang a mirror where sun's rays will fall upon it, The sun acts upon the mercury and cloudi the glass, .^.."•••••• ON TOAST. For an inexpensive "tasty" hot, dish for tea there are more ways of using up theleft-overs from dinner by 'serving them eau toast, which, with a little care, may be made to look as tasteful to the eye as to the palate. Trim the crust from neat slices of - stale bread, and toast each side delicate brown; butter while hot, and keep covered until the slices are soft- ened. Then lay on each a portion of the preparatioa, leaving a tinya edge of the toast visible. Fish -Separate the meat from tlia. bones of any fish that may be loft from dinner, and place on one side. Break into a bowl one or two eggs, according to the amount of fish, add salt, a bit of pepper, and one tea- spoonful of plain flour; mix thor- oughly. If you think there is not. sufficient fish for your slices of toast, add one slice of fresh, white bread, minus crust, mix all well, and add' the fish. Pour into a.frying pan in which is a little hot butter or ham. gravy, stir until very hot, spread, on toast and serve. A few drops. of lemon, juice sprinkled on the mix- ture improves it for some tastes. Chipped Beef -Put into a saucepan one 0111 of milk, and n. teaspoonful , of buttcr. When the butter, 'melts. add as much as desired of chipped beef shredded into tiny, bits. Add to this one beaten egg, a sprinkling of' black pepper. Stir with a fork. about two minutes, spread on toast, and servo. Tomato -To about a cupful of colt. stewed tomato, add the same quanti- ty of chopped ham, one beaten egg,. and a little warm water or gravy,. Bring to riS strong heat, and lay on. toast. Serve very hot. CUTS AND 1311VISES. Just as soon as the warm weather, comes the children want to go bare- footed and then begins trouble ,with. sore toes and bruises. They get all kinds of wounds, but the most ser- ious are those made by rusty iron, generally received by stepping on an. old nail, the barbs of wire fences, etc. Such hurts often prove ser- ious, resulting sometimes in. lockjaw and that is a disease that the doc- tors do not seem able to handle suc- cessfully. Children should be instructed not to think such hurts ofino consequen,cee This is not "babying" them, either, for they should be instructed why, care is desirable. Teach them to come to you with every hurt in which the skin is broken, then see that the wound- is properly cleansed and bound tip with sonic healing line intent, so that no foreign matter either remains or can enter. In the case of a wound from a rusty niost 'dangerous of in, juries to the barefoot bon-turpen- tiae is highly rerommended. 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