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Exeter Advocate, 1915-4-22, Page 2HOM A little •sant dissolved in water is recommended for eyelids reddened in the wind. When cooking a custard stir slow- ly and regularly. This is the only way to prevent curdling. The celery and cheese sandwiches are delicious. A little mayonnaise is mixed - in with the cheese, which is finely grated, the celery being put through the mincing machine. To clean brass that has been ex-' • posed to the weather, make a. paste of salt and common vinegar; rub the brass with the mixture and leave for ten minutes. Then clean in the usual way. Prevent a steamed pudding from becoming heavy by putting a cloth ever the steamer before piacine the lid on. This prevents the moisture from settling and making a pudding heavy. `When there's company for din- ner a man stands at the back of his chair and waits until all the guests are seated ; • when they're alone he dives into his chair and says : 'Conte along with the food.' When a brown .stew or curry i toe greasy, mix a teaspeenful c flour into a smooth paste with little water, pour it intoe the stew and let it boil up again, when all fat will have disappeared. Pin This 1'it. One teaspoonful of salt to quart soup. One teaspoonful salt to quarts of flour. • One teaspoonful. of sada to pint of sour milk. One teaspoonf ui. of extract to one plain loaf cake. One scant cup of liquid to full cups of flour for bread. Cue scant cupful of liquid t< ;ape of livor for muffins. One seam cup oaf liquid to one c:zp of deur for batters. One quart of water to each pound of meat and bone for soup shack. One-half cup of yeast or one-quar- ter cake compressed yeast to one fun: liquid. 1'eur peppercorns, four cloves, one teaspoonful of mixed herbs for each quart of water for soup stack. one two ens two two edible portion is too -thirds as I nourishing as potatoes. Also, few persons have any idea that oranges can be served in morel than half a dozen ways, and those in the raw state or used as it flavor- I. ing. Yet nothing is more delicious than an orange omelet, a 'breakfast dish At for a king Yes, the orange admits of so any different ways of preparing and; serving, some cooked and others, uncooked, that ee is possible to serve a whole course dinner with almost nothing' but orange dishes in the menu. And this meal. aside frena being novel, is tempting and nourishing. Here it is: Orange Juice Orange Omelet Orange and Rice as Vegeta les Orange Salad Ice Cream and Cake Candied Orange Peel Orange Juice In serving such a dinner, the table decorations should be made o carry out the orange idea. There ild be acentre piece of fine. bright ora n es with greente leaves— orange leaves and blossoms if pas. - sable interwurked among the fruit, nd the eolor schemeel-toted be fol - wed in candles, candle shades and cards. era, acre or two which can be de- Lombaertzyde and beginning one voted to tree fruits and growing of the first consistent aggressive vegetables. What cannot be oon movements of the Allies. aimed by the family may be sold to i They were ea astonished to see nearby residents. The garden will' us there, as they told us afterward, help eonsideratbly to pay the house- they did not attempt to warn us hold expenses. Other Means of Income. When darking table linen tack a pieessf stiff paper under the rent and make a. number of fine stitches backwards and forwards carrying them a good inch over the edges. Then tear the paper away. Sew snap fasteners on each pair of stuc Lungs at the top and have the wearers snap them together when taithot, them .•ff., They can -be laun- dered this way and save all the bather of trying to match the stock- ing.. Jewelry can be successfully clean- ed by washing it in hot soapsuds in whicha little ammonia has been ,teed. Shake off the water and lay the jewelry in a small box of fine sawdust to dry. This method leave no scratches ar marks of any kind. DAY THE FRE:NCU RE. ED LOMBi.ERTZIOE. :1n Expedition to the Front. The morning the French troops secured their first permanent foot hold in Lombaertzyde, on the Bel- gian coast, the morning the slow eastward movement of the Allies across the low countries began, Pierre, "The Cossack," and I drove inan epee' F lemishh cart through the lines of French and Belgian trenches on the Yser, and, before we knew it, were within a. few yards sof the German outposts. The Cossack was a sharpshooter and a• scout, and, though. a can- nonee.r by enlistment, lie always went out along the enemy's lines alone and came back with accurate information of the enemy's move- ments. froze driving on. We were well into the town and about to make a turn into the street when a French sol - On one poultry farm Ave acres dier began frantically waving us are used. cult of these are amt. back. But the hard. -mouthed horse ed to poultry, one toe vegetable went another twenty feet before he garden, and one to peach trees. stopped, and by this time we Zltzwereere The living expenses in summer are .partly around the corner. virtually paid by the vegetables wtoase •enc iii might in the scre 1 consumed and sold, so that out of the next turn, but I could seee a r'a the lan of the profits from the poultry onlyroe etinol buildingbion kthe 11 nearthe winter household expenses must s de of the street,trhiclh gave me be drawn, When thepeach crop a sickly feeling. Through it the comes in there is a. sufficient profit muzzle of a machine-gun was o. pay the heavy bills, like taxes, lyointed. Though there was not a' nsurance, repairs, etc. This arm zs gray uniform or `helmet in sight, I not only making a good living for spies ---one with an American pass- port that belongedto some one else—had nut been able to give the German gunners any information that helped them get the range. So gathered the Germans were still holding the other end of the street. The gunners could evidently see only me, but if we had gone for- ward another two feet, Pierre•. would have been in sight, and the they were dropping shells over the machine-gun would have opened whole area, where they believed fare. Hie Belgian uniform would the batteries to be, in the hope of ! have. drawn fire where my civilian silencing au occasional gun. clothes did not. u kerke and Nieu- noticed Between Oost D n Directly behind us as I n 4 por.. there are a few patches . of ► as soon as we had hacked and wood, offering cover. The hidden Clawed Our Way Ont.French guns were thicker here. The I y Germans, knowing this, were giving of than lice of fire, the buildings it the most .et•ere ;belling. In were gouged so deep by the bul- every shelled area in which I had lets from the machine-gun that the been before it was possible to pick walls were, at points, almost cut n. comparatively safes course by away. All night, the French sol - watching the exploding shells and diers told us, the German gunners seeing whether they were breaking had kept the muzzle sw•ingang in a any nearer. Here they were drop» narrow are, making the street im- ped here and there, as if by the passable. It had not taken any caprice of the gunners, and'ou French lives, but bud prevented a were about as unsafe in one pace rush. The town had to be captured as another. When I expressed my house by house. Each house - in line apprehensions Pierre replied, Ne- was rushed by a squad from be - ver mind, we shall soon be in too hind. This, too, had to be done in. close for shell -fire." the dark to prevent the invaders At a turn in the muddy road we from being seen. As soon as they came upon a one -roomed Flemish forced their way througb the in). - fermi -some servingas a pros ised barricades at wiIldows and f eldshhn .e al. it wast . doors,they threw a light in each field hospital. All about it an a widening circle were the graves of room with a hand searchlight, and the men who had died there, each killed every one they encountered. grave marked with a wooden cressUnless a man had his hands in. the bearing the soldier's name. air there was no time to learn what "We get very few wounded his intentions might be. They had young surgeon W here," a,, ild me, work -ed their way to a house less than "`'Thi men from the trenches are fifty feet from the machine- "The carried past, We have gun, and on the street behind held mostly gunners, and they are so the house in the rear of it. They well protected in their under- were waiting fo- night to make the ground shelters that they get hurt final dash and clear out that end of only when a shell breaks through the town. their shelter. If it breaks ten feet We were standing on the narrow to one side, they are untouched. sidewalk talking and Pierre had If it breaks right on them they are walked nearly to the turn in the torn all to pieces. The four men street. Suddenly he waved to us with this gunner,"said the sur- eagerly, his Rice alight with geon, pointing to a 'huddled mass, Pleased excitement. "Come here.," "were all killed outright." cellar. said, Ihear some voices in the ! Our road into Nieuport ran par- cellar. W ll' either get a drink Iaot down there, or some German sol- allel with the railroad and the ca- diets." nal, Here was the second line of without stopping to see if we trenches, and, as soon as we reach were followed, he pushed open the ed it, we could see Lombaertzyde, door and plunged down a flight of scarcely a mile away in a direct stairs to the left. Before we could line. Though I looked carefully I get past the door we could hear him shouting menacingly and loud guttural cries in response. He was shouting in Flemish, and the answering cries were in German. At the top of the stairs he had en- countered three German soldiers coming up, and now, withhis car- bine cove -ring the three, he was bullying them into throwing down their arms by bawling into their faces. The ' Germans evidently knew they were trapped and preferred to surrender. But the Cossack was enjoying himself making threats. As far as I could make out, -he was promising to shoot them out of, hand, and I was afraid he meant it. Finally he agreed he would let them go if they had any children. The first two cried loudly they had three apiece. The third said he had two, and produced a photo- graph to prove it. So Pierre agreed to let them live for the sake of their children. We found one street by which. we could getto the centre of Nieuport, and there encountered some of the mechanics attecihed to the English naval flying corps. They invited me into a tower.' where, they said, we could see the -effect of the can- non -fire. Stumbling up acircular stair- case in atower which, I fancy, had been nearly dark inside, before the German shells let in daylight, we came out on a parapet from which we could The road between La Panne and G'oxyde was full of people going both ways. Pierre offered a ride to three women, the eldest at least fifty, but with cheeks as hard and red as apples, They laughed and joked with Pierre and paid no more attention 'to the bursting shells to- wards which we were driving than to the cutting ice blowing into their faces. They had arrived at the point of view of soldiers toward shell -fire : There is no use paying any attention to it. The shells you hear do you no harm. If you are killed by one you never know it. Directly ahead of us, as we pass- ed through Coxyde's mud -splashed could not see a sign of life, bier buildings into the road beyond, that matter the trenches, past swimming with dirty slush, lay which we were driving, might have Oost-Dunkerke, and the area un- been empty, except for one soldier der fire. The country was open who showed his head. I offered except for the bare clusters of him some little French cigars out buildings and the scrub brush in' of a fairly large box, and, within the dunes, but, scattered through ten seconds, heads, then bodies the country over which we were and legs, began to appear from the passing, there were whole batteries whole line. All were wearing sae of French guns, mostly General bats, into which malty had stuffed Joffre'a favorite "seventy -fives." straw for warmth. All were play - We could hear their sharp "ping" tered with mud. all about us, but we knew no more of their whereabouts than did the Gouged with Machine-gun Fire. German aviators who passed Nieuport itself, ripped and goug- through a bombardment of shrap- ed with machine-gun fire, where it nel every day trying to;locate them. had not been crumpled by bursting I am running no danger of giving shells, did not even offer us a pass away a military secret in saying able street. Finally we rumbled they were buried and the only way across the bridge over the canal - the German '°shells could reach them locks, the turning of which had was to drop directly on them. The flooded all the territory between chances of their doing this were not the Yser Canal and the Yser River, much better than those of an ex- and, twisting among the holes in pert golf player dropping the ball the pavement, drove at, a nangle to directly into the hole with a drive the northeast on the elevated road from the tee. Even the numerous to Lombaertzyde. The ' open fields and each year marketing the cock- on both sides were flooded, and the erels of the hatch as broilers, only building of importance be - Others combine egg farming with tween the two towns was a preten meat growing selling the eggs at jious house -which had been blown a season of the year when they into a, grotesque shape. Its gro- bring the highest prices, and tarn tesqueness was in keeping with its ing them into table poultry when surroundings. The country lay the price falls below a certain fig- d'e'ad, with no one in sight. Even the trenches we ,had just passed tire. The sale of eggs for hatching and were hidden behind the raiilrotad fowls for 'breeding is very profitable tracks. Over on the edge of the but 3,t calls for expert •service. Be- sand dunes to the left, we knew there must be -thousavds of French ginners are advised to keep away soldiers "dug in" against the rain from that end of the business uf-rio n- and protected m attack by barb - til they have had a general expert- ed ware entanglements concealed epee of at least three years. in, the rolling dunces, !and behind The eelec�tron of 'breeds is a mat- the low-lying road to the right, a ter that must be governed by the half -mile across the flooded fields, object in -new. If it is intended to was the first line of German have an exclusive egg farm, the treasobeis. But all we could see was shipments to be made Ito a market the highway to at. Georges, that prefers white eggs, theta such Justbefore we reached Lona - breeds as the Leghorns, Miiiceroas, baertzyde we pass -ed the forward or any a the white .egg -+layers French trenches, shallower and should be chosen. Tease priotected than the others. Where at is.intended to -combine Over toward the sand ,tunes we 'eggs, • broilers and 'roasters, such could sere they were occupied by breeds as the American class should crouching, alert figures, but .• the be "kept, with possibly a white -egg trenches under the shelter of the breed if there is •a call for white .town itself were empty, The oom- eggs in the market parries that had occupied 'them the The matter of location is worthy night before were in the town of consideration. One hundred around fires to the houses. As they heard the crunch of the cart wheels miles frown a city like .-oxonto is end the pounding of the horse's not too far, providing there are good sh•pping, facilities. Private •hoofs they came to the doors and family txalde is very profitable, but windows. '.Lahey -were the most un - ft may take some tine too'bale, up kempt-looking soldiers I have ever ly a good retail austere. The market aTheir beards were coy- . and uncombed, and they were.cov- in the vicinity of the location of the cried with a 'muddy paste. Their farm should be carefully looked up lenses and elbows were crusted deep before the investment and Start is with 'it, and it was even in their made. hair and on their caps. But that It is a good plan to have an ex- had not kept them from entering that wide area, could ooracentrarte About Oranges. Two of the 'housewive's most vex- atious problems. "How to lessen the cost of livin g t" and "How to vary the menu 5" could easily be solved by,;, greater use of fruit, de- clares one of America's best-known fo al experts. Says she :--- -I have been testing out fruits as leads; ordinary fresh and dried fruits such as we all have around the house all the time, Mark well what I say, fruits as foods. . Nearly every one has been using oranges, bananas, prunes and ap- ples simply as fruits or for different kindls of desserts, But hardly any one ever hen thought of these things being worth much more than their delicious flavor. And almost no eine has attempted to use them as meat substitutes or in place of vegetables. or even in soups I Well, for months I have been ex- perimenting .with these and other everyday fruits, and with rice, for I have .found it is such an indispen- sable thing When working with fruits as food. I had always known that many fruits possessed far more nutritive value than is commonly att'ri:bided to them. For instance, a pound of ripe •bananas contains more food value than a pound of white pota- toes. And a pound of dates isliar more productive of energy in 'the human body than •a similar amount of beefsteak. These, and all other statements I make concerning the food value of fruits, are based on figures furnished by the United States Department. of Agriculture. Also,. I hati realized that people did not make free enough use if fruits, although their coneuanption has increased largely during recent years.: Still, more •should be eaten. And with meat prices steadily climbing and other food stapl.ee ad- vancing as a. result of the war, I set to work to see what we could do 'w3 h fruits as food. suppose few persons have any idea that an orange has reel food 'Value. Yet, pound for pound, the READ THE: LABEL. OR THE PROTECTION OF THE CON- SUMER THE INGREDIENTS ARE PLAINLY PRINTED ON THE LABEL.. IT IS THE ONLY WELL-KNOWN MEDIUM- PRICED BARRING POWDER MADE IN CANADA THAT DOES NOT CONTAIN ALUM AND WHICH HAS ALL THE INGREDIENTS PLAINLY STATED ON THE LABEL. MAGIC BAKING POWDER CONTAINS NO ALUM ALUM IS. SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS SUL- PHATE OF ALUMINA OR SODIC ALUMINIC SULPHATE. THE PUBLIC SHOULD NOT BE MISLED ST THESE TECHNICAL NAMES. E. W. GILLETT COMPANY LIMITED WINNIPEG TORONTO. ONT. IMONTREAL their fire at particular points be- hind the enemy's Hue under the directions of a man me this tower, when we all dodged involuntarily to the sharp whizz of a. shell. It stung at my ear like the passing of a thousand bullets at once, and, i before I had really had time to duck, broke overhead two hundred feet beyond. The rain of shrapnel on the broken roofs below was drowned by the explosion. "Come quick," cried one of the Englishmen, diving down the stairs. "They've seen us. They've got the range of this tower and they'll have us, too, in a minute." I think I slid down moat of the way and. I was notsorry when Pierre, who. was waiting below, said it was getting late and time we made off for the coal. Before we had wound our way out through the debris of the town. it began to rain with a fresh violence. We passed a continuous string of cov- ered trenches beside the road and another set along the railroad- em- bankment. The road was six inches deep in soft slush, seeping off into the trenches. Behind were ditches full of water cud back of them the sodden fields pitted with shell holes, full also to the brim with water. It was as dreary and depressing a sight as an enemy could ask, and the soldiers gathered together in shelters were dreary, too, if not depressed. These were Belgian trenches here, and it takes a good deal to keep ie small group of Bel- gians glum. We came shortly to the farm, where Pierre found the coal as he expected. A small body of infan- tryinen with a. nnitrailleuse were resting their dogs there before slipping forward under cover of the approaching night to another deserted farm house. They were muddy and wet and their faces showed the strain of hardship. One gave use his military coat to lift and it weighed, I judged, #shirty pounds. He had not been able to get it dried out for days. • I com- miserated ommiserated with them on the weari- ness of their task. "It is weary, indeed," one of them replied, sadly. "Here we have flooded this country and we cannot get across it ourselves now. We hoped to have the Kiang back in Brussels by Christmas." Pierre helped himself to a. full load of coal, and then we went on. It was almost four o'clock and nearly dark. At a temporary bridge across the Yser Canal near Ramseappelle, we had to back out of the way to make room for two automobiles. This Pierre did grumbling, and the horse stubbornly. The first auto- mobile had already passed when one of the officers in the tonneau caught sight of me, and stepping it, jumped out. Pierre recognizing a general, gave a short account of how he got the coal, but the 'gen- eral was interested in me. He was willing enough to accept Pierre's explanation of his being responsi- ble for me. The second automobile ca -me up behind and stopped a moment to give the general time to return to his seat. Two men were sitting in the tonneau, both silent. The nearest I recognized even in the poor light. It was the King, whom I had not seen before on this visit to the Belgian army. • But no one could have recognized him from his photograph. Re was -no longer the spruce young man who walked briskly down the aisle in the Bel- gian perla.ameant that day last Aug- ust and threw his gauntets on the desk before him 'as he -declared his defiance to- -the invading German See the German Trenches behind St. Georges, though we could see no men. We also had a panoramic' view of the inundated country. We were on the western boundary whidh mast in a straight line eolith from the sea:. The rail- roadline stopped it there. East- warit bellied out with the curve of' the Year, filling the river itself bank full and spilling it over the fields on both 'sides. The scattered farm houses, ballet doubtless on the highest grounfMrailable, : were ';in some eases out . of wahen,b.ut d they had been torn, by shellee and head. been used only as ad'vatnice_posts for many weeks. As far as I could see to the south there was water, with occasional parties of soldiers picking their way along the r aieed paths. Across the flooded Gelds •a few miles to the south ram the splendid highway which °. the "old. king," Leopold, had built to give autonn,obiles, his ow n among, the number, a smooth course on the way from. Paris to Ostend. We had not been there five min- utes and the men of the flying corps were explaining- how the French batteries, scattered over army. His hair had grown long and hung over his collar. His blond moustache, too, was long and bushy. His face had set into ' severe lines. ' As he passed on, Pierre and 7 crossed the makeshift bridge and the west on broad highway, the beautiful road the "old king" built • so his automobile could go faster from Ostend to Paris. Germany Never Dreaded R Issia.•. Charles W. Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard University,' gives the following denial to the German excuse that the war was' caused by the fear of Russian do velopme nt Many German apologists for the wee attribute it to German fear of Russia.. They say that, although' Germany committed the first actual aggression by invading Belgium and Luxemburg on the way to attack France with the utmost -speed and fierceness, the war is really a war against Greet Britain, that of defense against Russia, which might desirably pass over, aftce France has been crushed, into a war against Great Britain, that eis perfidious and insolent obstacle to Germany's world -empire. The an- swer to this explanation is that, as a matter of fact, Germany had never dreaded, or even respected, the military strength„ of Russia, and that the recent wars and threatenings of war by Germany have not been directed against Rus-' site but against Denmark, Austria, France and England. In her colo- nization enterprises it not Russia. that Germany has encountered, but England, Prance- and the United States The friendly ad- vances made within the, last twenty years by Germany to Turkey were not intended primarily to strength- en Germany against Russia, but Germany against Great Britain through access by land to British India. Iii abort, Germany's poli- cies, at home and abroad, during the past forty years have been in- spired not by fear of Russia•, or of any other invader, but by its own aggressive ambition for world -ern. pire, In the present war it thinks it has staked its all on "empire or downfall.” Those nations elicit value public liberty and believe that the primary object of government is to promote the general welfare by measures and policies founded on justice, good -will and respect for the free. dom of the individual can not bul hope that Germany will be cam•• pletely defeated in its present um• dertalci;ngs; but, they do not believe that Germany is compelled eta choose between a life of domination and national death. They with that all her humane culture and her genius for patient research may survive this hideous war and guide another Germany to great achievements for humanity. e< A stitch in time is worth two needles in a haystack. She was standing on le chair on. the pier' watching the racing. On; a chair behind were two French= men. The lady turned around .and said ; "I hope I don't obstruct your; view'" "12adeznoiselle;" quiokly1 replied one, "I much prefer the obs struction to 'the view." At an evening' party a very elder-: ly lady was dancing with a yours. partner. A stranger approached Douglas Jerrold, who was looking on, .and ,said "Pray, sir, can . you\ tell me who is the young gentleman, dancing with that elderly lady I" "One of the Humane !Society, I. should think," replied Jerrold. Schmidt the Spy- and Massage to Berlin. "All the Indian !soldiers in. London are wounded in the head. They, m:ust'be a very hardy riaee, as ,apparently none iof the wounds prove fatal:" -London ; Opinion,