Exeter Advocate, 1914-12-3, Page 2b
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.RING TH Me ON MOTHER!
Doesn't every boy love Griddle
Cakes 1 Especially when served
with delicious
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Book.
Manufacturers
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Mother knows it too, for she likes
CROWN BRAND SYRUP herself,
and uses it to make delicious pud-
ing sauces. And sister says it's the
"best ever" for candy -making.
Made in Canada.
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of the Famous Edwardsburg Brands.
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. MONTREAL, CARDINAL, BRANTFORD, FORT. WILLIAM.
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With the Potato.
Mashed Potato. — There is one
essential thing to remember about
mashed,potato which we so univers-
ally serve: it is that it must not be
allowed to stand after it has been
mashed and seasoned. It loses all
its quality by so doing. So true is
this that -t ousaads of people do not
know what true mashed potato is.
If it must be prepared beforehand.
pack it into a hot earthen dish,
brush the top with butter or .•egg,.
and put into the oven for ten nein-
utes A tablespoon of cream to
each two potatoes and an ounce of
butter to four medium potatoes
seasons them well, with the salt and
perhaps pepper. It is best to have
the Cream hot, or hot milk may be
used instead with :a little more but-
ter,
Potatoes Baked and Stuffed. --
Potatoes
Potatoes prepared in a, little differ-
ent way from those •sometimes put
in to bake with a roast, in the last
hour, may be done as .follows. Peel
as many potatoes of medium size as
are. needed, making them egg shap-
ed -or pyramidal, or in any .form you
please. Cut off one end so that they
will stand and metre them with the
roast or by themselves. When done
cut off the top, dip out the pulp,
mash, .and season, refill the pota-
toes, put on caps or part cut off,
set in oven ten minutes, and then
pour some melted butter over them
before serving. Butter, Dream, and
egg volk may be used to season the
inside and some finely chopped meat
or bacon and some chopped mush-
room may be added. These may be
made a decorative garnish,
Potato Noise — Noisette
means nut. a hazel net, and vege-
table noisettes are little vegetable
spheres the size -of a hazel nut cut
out with .a tiny scoop or round
spoon :cutter. One advantage of
these is that they may be cooked
quickly and are decorative. The
cooking may be done in ten or
twelve minutes. The matting out
takes some gime and skill, . but re-
member that the word used for this
euttine, is "turning," and the knack
can soon be acquired. The scoop' is
buried in the vegetable and turned.
Priedpotato noisettes are pretty
and•may be simply eooked in butter
until a Light brown, or in the pan
with the roast, where they must
be stirred and turned ° so as to
brown on all sides, Another way
is to bail the little pieces for eight
or ten minutes, just covering with
cold water, to 'make them` more
mealy, and quickly broughtto a
boil, These can •be drained and
finished with butter or added to a
sauce. In either case potatoes so
prep.ared can stand in the oven
covered and not lose in flavor as do
mashed potatoes.
Boiled Onions. — Small onions
boiled in meat stock, :boiled away
and reduced to glaze, axe delicious,
but somebutter or. :bacon with a
little sugar and water may be used
instead,just enough liquid to cover,
so that ib will all be boiled away.
Cooked in ,plain salted water and
served in a .little hot cream they
are delicious; but cannot so well be
used as a garnish. Small onions
will eoolr horn twenty minutes to
half an hour xta •follows Remove the
thin paper skin leo as to leave theft
as comely as possible, cover with a
little cold water or meat stock, boil
up, then cover cooking vessel close -
1y, and finish over the simmering
burner. The steam generated helps
to cook them better than in an
open vessel.
Potatoes a la Brabanconue. —
Cook one-half onion sliced. Add
two tablespoons chopped ham, one
tablespoon chopped ,parsley, butter,
salt and paprika to season, cream
if convenient. Mound in a greased
baker, and smoothly mash six po-
tatoes and cover top with fine
bread crumbs and dots of butter.
Bake twenty minutes, until the top
is well browned.
Household lints.
To clean tinware, try dry flour
applied with a newspaper.
Bran 'muffins are better than grid-
dle cakes every morning.
Roll sausage in a. little • flour be-
fore frying and it will not burst.
The better the flour, the better
the bread made from it will be.
Part milk used in mixing bread
improves both flavor and quality.
Every household should have a
plentiful supply of apples for win-
ter.
inter.
'Tie a knot of red ribbon on scis-
sors and keys -if you want to find
them easily.
Celery leaves should always be
saved—even dried, if neee'ssary to
use in soup.
Never put much sugar in bread;
it is only used at all to help the
yeast to ferment.
A japanned tray can be freshen-
ed with two coats of white paint
and a finish of enamel.
To snake an old .fowl tender, rub
the bird alI over wibh lemonjuice,
then wrap in buttered paper, and
steam for two or three hours, ac-
cording to. size.
By adding soda before heating it,
milk on the verge of souring may
be scalded and used for blanc
mange or rice or tapioca pudding
or squash pies.
To clean white buckskin and
chamois shoes, try lump magnesia.
Russet ;shoes can be cleaned by rub-
bing them with a'banana peel, ac-
cording to same.
When bedrooms are small, and
trunks acid hat -ibexes have to be pil-
ed up in corner's, it is a good plan
to get four blocks of woad all the
same ,size, and to shake a groove in
each for the casters to fit an. This
raises the bed, and all trunks 'and
hat boxes may he put under the
bed, giving more room for moving
about.
To ,preserve a paper document,
pictures or a letter, dip them in a
strong solution of alum water, dry-
ing thoroughly. If the paper is very
thick, repeat the process.
To remove greasespots from earn
pets, rub on each spot a.mixture of
Puttees earth, oxgall :and water ;
then rinse this out • with clear water
and rub ,as dry as possible with a
dry cloth.
To, protect the finger -nails when
doing rough and dirty work, rub
them over with a piece of soap,:aid
when you wash your hands after the
task the soap will come out. Gar-
dening work and ,blanking the stove
are not :50 disastrous if this is done.
When you have a receipt that
calls for baking a custard . or other
delicate egg .pudding, which may
curdle, try cooking it in this way:
Put the baking dish into a steamier
on the top of a, stove, until it is so-
lid, and put it into the oven only
long enough to brown it,
TYPHOID
Valuable Wats 'Issued by tiff.* Qn'
taeio Board of Health.
Typhoid fever, or enteric fever, is
a eortanunieable disease caused by
the typhoid baeillus germ; it is
mare prevalentduiingt;'lie late sum-
mer and earlyautumnmonths, al-
though in some portions of the Pro-
vine serious epidemicshave oc-
curred during the winter months,
indeed, it may be said 40 be always
with us; it is both oont,agious and
infectious. The contraction and
spread of the disease can almost
certainly be avoided by the strict
observance of the rules set .forth in
this pamphlet.
The disease is usually transmitted
by means of water, ice, milk or food
containing typhoid germs; it may
and management, and this israrely
given in the' average household.
The public should also support
the Provinoisl Board of Health ill
its contention that no eo mnuniity •
or ..individual has sa right to pollute
any source of drinking water with
sewage. Means have been devised
for the satisfactory purification of
sewage, and proper walks should
be installed by all' mC�unieipalrties, '
corporations and, individuals now
polluting our streams and lakes.
Casks of typhoid fever occur; clue-
ing the fall among families who
have spent the holidays at summer
resorts, the muttary arrangements
of whieh are inadequate Intending
visitors to a summer .re;oit .hould
demand evidence that the house
and its .surroundings have been re-
cently inspected by the local health
authori .i
e
t s•n'
a. d the sanitation i•e.
also be contracted by people who ported upon as satisfactory.
some into di ee.t contact with those
having the disease. Bad sanitary Pveeantions Against Contracting
surroundings such as lank ofdrain- : the' Disease.
age,defective plumbing, open cess- 1, For drinking purposes Use only
pools, sewer gas, decaying animal distilled or bottled' water or water
and .vegetable matter, etc.), may which :has been boiled. Only boiled
predispose a person to the disease water should' be used for all domes -
they cannot themselves cause the tic purposes. Milk, the source of
,disease. It requires the presence which is not ,absolutely beyond sus -
of the typhoid germ.
Typhoid germs will live for a long
time in the soil, and if a patient's
discharges are thrown upon or put
into the ground or thrown in cess-
pool or privy pit without previous
disinfection the natural drainage
may infect a well or other supply
of drinking water.
In order to prevent pollution of
the well water the privy pit or cess-
pool should be removed as far as
possible from the well and always
at a lower level.
Where septic tanks are operated
and the sewage is disposed of in the
ground be -tiles, +the land used for
this purpose should be remote from
your well and also from your neigh-
bor's.
The tops of wells should be so
constructed as to keep out all sur-
face water and prevent pollution in
this manner.
Ice is a frequent source of infec-
tion. Typhoid germs May remain
alive in ice for several months, and
they have been found in the"parti-
cles of dirt often seen in ice.
Typhoid germs grow luxuriantly
in milk, which may become con-
taminated by some one whose hands
have •come in oontact with the dis-
oharges of a typhoid patient, by be-
ing in a vessel which Inas be•exr,wash-
ed by infected water, or by flies that
have come in contact with typhoid
discharges. -
Uncooked food May cause the dis-
ease by being washed in infected
water, or become infectedby flies
or being handled by infected hands:.
The eating of shell fish taken from
Polluted waters may also cause the
disease.
Actual contact between typhoid
fever patients and ' well persons is a
frequent means of transmitting. the
disease when such well persons do
not observe the proper precautions
in handling the patient's dis-
charges. Both the faeces and the
urine contain the ty'ph,oid germs for
weeks, in some cases m•o-niahs, after
the patients have "reoov.ered. And
many typhoid patients are so slight-
ly sick that the disease is not re-
cognized as typhoid; yet their dis-
oharge.s contain typhoid germs. i taken into tahe, kitchen, but should
Such oases are'a great source of be burned by the atitendant in some
danger. •other room or outside the house.
6.- The aft-Nada/it .should . wear
clothing that can be laundered, and
all' soiled clothing, as well as all
clo'th's, bed linen and clothing which
have come in, contact in any way
witlh • the patient, •should be soaked
for an hour in a carbolic solution
(see pamphlet on Disinfection), be-
fore removal 'from the room, and
be boiled in water and soap
for five minutes.
pilon, •should be boiled or brought
to the boiling point. Raw shell fish
should net be eaten during the
months when 'typhoid fever is pre-
valent. Thorough cooking destroys
the germs,
2, Bathing at beaches or in rivers
or lakes near the opening of a
sewer should be strictly avoided.
3. Observe strictly the ordinary
rules of personal and household
cleanliness and hygiene,
4, The windows and doors of all
dwelling houses, and especially of
the kitchen and dining -room, should
always be well screened and flies
kept oat.
Rules to Prevent the Spread. of
Typhoid.
1. The sick room should ••be large,
easily ventilated, and as far from
the kitchen :and living and sleeping
rooms of other members of the fam-
ily as possible. All ornaments, ear-
pets, draperies •aflnd artiel'e;s not ab-
solutely needed in the room should
be removed. A free circulation of
pure „fresh air from without should
be .admitted both by day and by
night. Place the bed as nearly as
possible in the middle of the room,
carefully keeping the patient out of
draughts. The bed s'hou1d be pro-
tected by a rubber sheet over the
mattress.
2. If possible, one atte'ndant
should take • entire charge of the
patient, and no one else .besidesthe
physician should .be allowed to en-
ter • the. room. This attendant
should avoid inne•cessary contact
with other occupants of.the house.
3. Flies should be rigidly exclud-
ed from the sick rooms.
Those•
found in 'the room should be killed
and not allowed to escape. House-
hold pets should be •excluded from
the sick room.
4.' Plantes, eups, glasses, knives,
forks, spoon's, etc., used by the pa-
tient, should lie kept for his use
alone , • and should not be mixed
with similar• utensils• used by others.
They should be washed tin the room
in holt soap suds, and then rinsed.
in boiling wartier.
5. Remnants of food should not he
As the most important aid teethe
prevention of typhoid fever, the
public should advocate and work for
the instiallation xf a proper system
of filtration of publi water sup-
plies, House hold filters are, in a
vast majority of cases, worse than
useless, because they give a false
sense of a security to the user.. The
few that are really efficient require then
much skill in their proper operation suds
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7. Any articles or surfaces soiled
by discharges should be immediate-
ly washed with a carbolic solution
(see pamphlet on Disinfection),
8. The discharges from the. bow-
elS_and kidneys should be received
into a bed pan or vessel containing
a solution of carbolic acid or corro-
sive sublimate (see pamphlet on
Dissnfeotion), and enough of the
same added to cover them,, or boil-
ing water may •be poured over the
discharges. Solid masses should be
broken up with a'stick, which cane
burned, or a glass rod, Which can be
disinfected. They should' stand
the vessels for not less than an
hour, and then emptied into the
water closet where there are sew-
ers, taking care not to soil the seats
or covers. In the country it is best
to deposit the. contents of the ves-
sels in a :trench, which must be re-
mote from, and, if possible, down
hill, from the well or nearest water
course. The trench Gould be four
feet deep .and`two wide, and each
deposit should immediately be well
covered with quicklime and earth
well beaten down, the trench cover-
ed in with earth when half filled in
this manner.
Never throw the discharges on
the suace,
Riaiserfthe bed pans with disinfec-
tant •solution at the trench, never
near the well or water course.
The urine or 'typhoid fever pa-
tients contains the disease germs
for many weeks after recovery, and
should be treated as above until the
health officer certifies that all dan-
ger is past.
9. After waiting on the patient,
after handling :anything soiled by
the patient's discharges and before
eating, the hands of the attendant
should be thoroughly scrubbed in
hot soap suds. Care should be
taken to atooid soiling door knobs
or anything handled by others. The
attendant should not touch any food
or dishes used by others. Tlhe at-
tendant should not east in the sick
room, nor put the hands near r the
mouth unlesuslth•ey have been disin-
fected.•
10. When the final disinfection of
the room and its contents has been
ordered by the health officer, the
entire body of the patient should be
bathed and the hair washed with
hotsoap suds. The patient should
then be d•ressedin clean clothes and
removed from the room. Under no
circumstances should the sick r•ooin
be occupied or .anything be removed
from it until the' final disinfection
has been performed. (See pamphlet
on Disinfection). -
11: Cases occurring in the family
of a milk dealer or dairy'_ farmer
must either be removed to a, hospi-
tal or the sale of milk be stopped
until •after the final disinfection has
been performed. The medical
health officer may permit the -con-
tinuance of the "business it it is' ab-
solutely certain that the milk,. the
British Soidiet', iii the Trenches in .` ortheru France.
"" (dr men have made,• .r "� "
themselves fairly comfortable in thc, treneli�e.s, wrote the Eye-witn't;ssrese�n't
with General Headquarters" in his descriptive account, dated October 13. "At all points P
p subject to
shell -fire, access to the firing -line from behind is: provided by communication tren•ohes. These are now
so good that it is possible to ,cross' in .safety the fire -swept zone to bhetadvanced trenches from the billets
in villages, the bivouacs in qu,arries,, or the other places where the headquarters
To those at home ;the life led b • our i • Y p q s of item happen no ed,
,1 y men and 'by the inhabitant's in this zone would seem strange indeed,
Al day,, and often at night as, well, the boom of'tihe guns otid the scream of the ehe+ils overhead continue,"
vessels containing it, and the per-,
sons who handle it are kept enttre'ly i
apart from all possible contact with
the ,sick or their surrauiidings.
12. In ease of death the, body
should be wrapped in a sheet satur-
ated with corrosive sublimate" (see
pamphlet in Di'sinfeotion), placed in
a tight •coffin, which' should not be
opened afterwards. The transpor
ta:tion of the bodies of those" who
have died fr4an this disease by a
railroad or •steamboat company is
generally prohibited, except in
compliance with regulations re-
specting burials and transportation
of the dead.
et—
DRAKE'S DRUM.
It hangs in the Hall at Buekland
Palace.
Will Drake's, drum be beaten now
for the third 'tixne4 In the great
hall ,at Buckland Abbey in Devon-
shire, a few miles from Plymouth,—
the ,ancestral home of the family of
Sir Fraeicis Drake,—there hangs an
ancient drum of a pattern not
known these hundred years. It is
the :famous durum of the great Eng-
lish sea fighter, his companion
throughout his whole •adventurous
career. It heat the signals on his
flagship when he scattered the
Spanish Armada; it went with him
on the first British ship that went
round the world, and ib wounded the
taps when, •after his death .at sea in
the West Indies, hie body was e•om-
mitted to the waters of the Atlan-
tic Ocean. -
When Drake bay dying, so ruins
the, tradition, he commanded his,
brother, who was 'a .captain ofone
of 'the ships in the British fleet, to
take his drum back to England,
tend hang it in his hall 'at'Buckland
Abbey. Whenever danger threat-
ened Britain let them sound on that
drum., and his spirit would enter.
into the British ,admiral and scatter
his •country's foes as he had done
in the days gone by. His brother
did as he was commanded, and .af:�
ter .three centuries the drum still
hangs in Buckland Abbey, which is
now in •bhe posseseioii of a descencl-
ent of Drake's brother.
Twice, runs the legend, has he
drum been sounded -aid not in
vain; once, in the generation after
Drake's dearth, when the Dutcah
sought to wrest the control of the
seas from the British, and the
doughty Admiral an Tr'emp sailed
np the British Channel with a
broom art his masthead, to signify
that he would sweep the English
from ,bhe ocean. At els sound the
spirit of Drake entered into Ad-
miral Blake, • who triumphed over
the eenqueri-ng Dutch. Again,
when the . genius;. of Napoleon
threatened the very existence of the
British Empire, the drum was
sounded, •and Drake's spirit ani-
mated the greatest of English sea
fighters --Admiral Nelson. -
And now, when Britain is in-
volved in the greatest war of her
history, it is said that Drake's
drum will again be sounded—to
raise up, if the legend be true, the
spirit of the. old captsin for' the
third time. The old tradition is the
alibied of a poem by an English
}writes, Henry Newbolt. The poem
makes the great sea fighter, dying
in his berth, exclaim :
"Take my drum to England, hang et
by the slhore, •
Strike' et .when your powder's
runnin' low ;
If the Dons sight Devon, I'll quit,
the port o' heaven
An' drum then up the Channel
as we drummed thein long -
ago ,, •
Willie—Say, teacher, to -morrow's
my birthday-. Teacher --Why, what
a strange coincidence 1 It's "mine,
too. Willie --Well, gee! Hoev'.d you.
ever e get so much bigger',n me,
then l
• 'A method which is .aid to be very.
good for removing all the cream
from milk contained in at bottle or
Like vessel is to use a 'large round
disk of rubber which takes .a slight-
ly concave shape, it being hung
upon three light aluminum rods or
wires. Slipping the disk in edgewise
and below the, surface, it then takes
the flab position and' can be dint-
out -with all the cream. ' „r
On! istutl 's bought froxi rte
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