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The Exeter Advocate, 1917-1-18, Page 6Useful 'tints and General lnforma. dean for the .:C3usy tiotgsewltc Useful Recipes A delielaus pudding is made with cooled and n spread read weer t a a stoned prunes p the :bottom of a bating dish and cover- ed with a rich biscuit dough.Serve hot with cream and sugar or hard sauce. !Ginger Snape—One cup lard; one. cup sugar, one cup syrup, half cup boiling water, one teaspoonful baking soda dissolved in the water, one table - p gt�' s oonful n er one t;ab1esponnsful , cinnamon, one teaspoonful vanilla, half teaspoonful salt, a little grated nut- meg and flour for a pretty stlfr: dough. Cut with: cookie cutter and bake quickly. CodfishBalls.-1 pound codfish, 1 ounce butterine, 33a pounds potatoes (pared), 3 eggs, few grains cayenne. Soak fish several hours. Cook in fresh water Until it flakes easily. Drain and put through food chopper. Add to potatoes which have been cooked and mashed. Add butterine, seasoning :and eggs slightly beaten. Cool and shape into balls and fry in deep fat. Gini=er Fndge.—Sugar, two cups; milk, one cap; butter, two tablespoon- fuls; oon- fuls; vanilla. one-half teaspoonful; salt, a pinch;. ginger (crystallized), one-half cup, chopped fine. Put sugar, butter, milk and ..salt in saucepan to- gether and allow to boil 10 minutes, or until it hardens when dropped into cold water; remove from the stove and add vanilla; beat until ,creamy, add ginger and pour into buttered pans or plates. Cut into squares with a buttered knife. Emergency Apple Pudding.—One cup of flour (prepared wheat pan- cake), one cup brown sugar, one egg, one-half cup milk, a little nutmeg, four large apples, peeled and sliced. Butter a pudding dish, lay in the ap- pies and pour the batter over them. This takes only about as long as the ordinary apple pie, and yet it is not heavy or indigestible. It may be eaten with cream or hard sauce. To Cook Rice.—After washing rice, put it an in just enough cold water to prevent it burning at the bottom of the pot, which should have a close fit- ting cover, and with a moderate fire the rice is steamed rather than boiled until nearly done; then the cover is re- moved, the surplus steam and mois- ture, allowed to escape and the rice turns, out a mass of snow-white ker- nels, each separate from the other and as much superior to the usual soggy mass as a fine, meal potato is sup- erior to the water -soaked article.. White Cake Like China Dishes.— Take ishes:Take the yolks of two eggs and a spoonful of salt and as much rosewat. er, some carraway seeds and as much flour as will make it a paste stiff en- ough to roll out very thin; if you would have them like dishes you must bake them on dishes buttered. Cut them out into what work you please to candy them. Take a pound of per- fumed sugar and the white of an egg and three or four spoonfuls of rose- water, stir until it looks: white; and when that paste is cold do it with a feather on one side. This candied, let it dry, and do the other side and also dry it. , Almond Cakes. -Take a pound of Jordan. ,almonds, blanch thorn, beat them very fine with a little orange flower water to keep them from oil- ing; then take a:pou.nd and a quarter of fine sugar, boil to a high candy, then put in your almonds; then take two fresh ie mons, grate off the rind very thin and put in as much juice as to make of it a quick taste, then put it into your glasses and set it in your. stove, stirring often that they do not candy; so when it is a little dry put it into little cakes upon sheets of glass to dry. Fondant,—To one pound of granu- lated sugar add a gill and a half of boiling water and stir in a saucepan over the fire only until the sugar is dissolved; then allow the mixture to boil without stirring for about six minutes, or until the syrup spins a thread when held on a fork. When it can be made into a very soft ball between the fingers turn on to a large buttered platter. Do not scrape off the sugar which adheres to the side of the pan. When it is only blood warm stir it with a wooden paddle or spoon until it begins to crumble; then it should be kneaded in the hands like dough. Pack it into a bowl, cover with .a thin cloth slightly moistened and set it away until needed. Fruit Deserts. Whenever you peel oranges save the peel and parboil it, then preserve in a rich syrup and it is ready for a dozen uses in cookery. Banana Puffs.—After peeling some fairly ripe bananas, sprinkle the: fruit with sugar. Prepare a nice short paste, roll it out thinly anat cut into strips rather longer and more than double the width of a banana. Inclose the banana neatly, and, after moisten Ing and fastening the edges of the paste, bake the puffs lightly,' and after they are a faint broivn color they will be ready for serving when cold. Orange Cream. --One-half" cupful orange 1uace� one�half cupful ug sugar; A small amount of gelatin;_ one-fourth cupful cold water; one and a half eup fuls cream; orange rind. Heat the. orange juice and one-half cupful of over r sugar;, v't er the hot .water. Beat the of of eggs, the es o ` h y ks z gg, add rest f the tai*a:r, stir and cook In the hot mix tune . until the spoon is coated with Bustard. Add the gelatin, softened in cold water, a grating of orange rind, and stir over ice water, until the mixture begins to stiffens -Orange Snow,, . Take six fine oranges, the whites of four eggs, one ain't whipped cream, half cup powder ed sugar. Slice the oranges after peeling, remove seeds, sprinkle sugar over them before adding the snow cream, which is made thus: Beat the whites of the eggs s until foaming, then add by degrees the sifted sugar. ' Whipthe cream which must be very cold from standing on ice. When very stiff beat in the orange slices and juice, adding as nrneh as the cream and the merin Rill hold without be- g ue coming soft. Place in glasses and serve very cold. • Cider Apple Butter.—Use sweet cider of good quantity and apples that cook easily. Boil the cider down one-half. Wash, peel, quarter and core the apples, carefully cutting out all decayed spots. Boil together equal quantities of apples and boiled- down cider. Boil the apples rapidly until they become so tender as to be mushy, otherwise they will sink' to the bottom and scorch. Continue the cooking more slowly. If the quantity • is small, run the aples through the colander, place the pulp in a stone crock and cook it in a slow oven, stir- ring it at intervals of fifteen minutes; otherwise stir it constantly from time to prevent it scorching and to make it smooth. =If the butter is not 1 smooth when it has the right consis- tency, add a little cider and continue the boiling and stirring. Add sugar at any time if butter is not sweet en- ough to suit the taste. Useful Hints. An hour should elapse after as meal before taking a bath. A linen case to hold a pair of rub- bers is an excellent gift. There is no use telling a boy to stop doing something he ought not to do, unless you show him better to do in its place. Earthly roots should be well scrub- bed before peeling. Green vegetables should always be cooked in salted water. To clean plaster-of-paris figures, sprinkle thein with a thick coating of starch and water. When this is dry the dirt will brush off with the dry' powder. Clean your sewing machine - fre- quently if you would have good ser- vice. Kerosene oil and absorbent cot- ton are admirable for the purpose; follow with a good lubricator. "I haven't enough suit 'hangers to hang my clothes." Roll up a thick section of the newspaper, and tie a string around the middle with a loop. That will do just as well. To soften brown sugar that has be- come lumpy place it in a cloth sack and hold the sack over the steam from a boiling tea -kettle. This is I easier than rolling it on the bread- ; board, and takes less time. I To do away with the smell of fresh, paint, put a pail of water into which en onion has been cut up in the newly painted room over night. If windows and doors are closed the odor will be absorbed by morning. Belts made of colored calf leather become shiny in places. To remedy this, get a piece of fine glass-paper, hold the belt taut, and lightly rub in one direction with the glass-paper, -when the "bloom" will,be restored. Buy from the stationer's a package of strong manila envelopes, size about 4 x 6 inches, and start a collection of clippings. Ilse one envelope for each subjects, and you will soon have a valuable depository of information.. It is much more convenient than pasting clippings in a book. INTERNATIONAL L1 S$ON JANUARY 21. Lesson IIL--First Disciples of The Lord Jesus --John' 1. 85-51 Golden Text, John 1. 43. Verse 35. - Two—Who Andrew's companion was, of course, we do not know. : The new reading in verse 41 weakens the suggestion that :it was John. 38, Turned -The picture reminds us of John 21. 20. Abidest--They want- ed to find where the Master was stay- ing, y iixg, that they might stay with him. 39. 'We may conceive his inviting them in words such as the disciples' used to him at Emmaus (Luke 24..29) Tenth—This Gospel is the only New, Testament book which names any, other of the twelve divisions o:£ day- light except this, sixth, and ninth which only mean morning, noon, and afternoon; Matt. 20. 6 is an exception! that only preves the rule: It is characteristic of the Evangelist's eye for detail, for only unusual powers of observation could approximate to the hours in the absence of a sundial.. 40, Andrew—Note his Greek name, like Philip's. In "Galilee of the Gentiles" Greek was much at home. It very noteworthy that this Gospel tells us details of several of the twelve —Andrew, Philip, Judas son of James, Thomas -of whore the Synoptics have not a word, except that Andrew is named as with his brother and•the. sons of Zebedee. Matthew is named in the first Gospel at the story of his call. Otherwise, Peter, James, John and the Traitorare the only apostles r of whom we hear more than their navies in the list. 41. First—Our oldest authority, the second century Syriace Gospels dis- covered by Mrs. Lewis, has enabled us to recover a much more, probable reading, early [next] 'morning. We picture Andrew spending the last hours of daylight with Jesus, and probably much of the night, and then hurrying away with the dawn to fetch his own brother: the term suggests the special tie that binds this quiet, e p u man o re power ul personal- ity of his brother. The Messiah See note on verse 34, Lesson 11. It pis impossible to reconcile,this as a, "literal report with the Synoptics, which i show that the Messiahship was a I secret not revealed till near the end (see especially Mark 8. 29.) But if Andrew actually said (for instance), "We have found the Prophet," it is easy to understand the Evangelist's translating the term into the perman- ent erthair.ent title which when the revelation was complete meant the same' thing. 42. Looked -The record of these looks of Jesus is a very vivid feature of Mark's Gospel (thus 10. 23-27), but Luke 22, 61 is yet more impressive. One who had seen them might well picture the glorified Lord as having "eyes as a flame of fire" (Rev. 1. 14). I Cephas—The crowning application of the name is given in Matt. 16..18. It is not given him for what he was by nature; . it is .a splendid paradox that it falls on'`one who so often shows himself "unstable as water." But in the presence of a Divine Christ water can become firm as rock (Matt. 14. 29). 43. He findeth Philip—His record suggests a timid, self -distrustful man, not likely, like Andrew, to "find" Christ, and needing therefore to "be found of him." 44. Bethsaida Julies in the north- east corner„ of the Lake. 45. , Nathanael—Often supposed to be identicalwith Bar-Tolmai, who is named next to Philip in the listsof the twelve; the "son of Tolmai" pre- sumably had a name of his own. But we must not too confidently assume. that these called disciples were all meant to be of the twelve. Moses , andthe prophets—Virtually "the the Old- Testament." Jesus '--Ar, extremely ceminon name, for the memory of Joshua, and thereminder of the "Divine Deliverance," were specially near. faithful Israelites' hearts at this time. The full ,designa- tion was needed to identify. 46. Nazareth is wholly unknown be- fore this period, a fact that does not surprise us, ` This remark of Nathan- nael's may imply that it had some note, but nothing to its credit. Its failure to Appreciate Jesus after his. Fong residence (Luke 4. 29) is certain- ly suggestive. 47, Israelite—The ` father of the "sons of Israel," the guileful Jacob, received this mane as a token of a ;;seat change: Hence it was appro- priate as the name of privilege. 48, It is suggested that the words recall some occupttion--meditation and prayer most probably -which marked this resting beneath the fig tree: Nathannael thought himself un- observed. 49. The "true Israelite" knows his King. The temperament which finds faith easy is impressively contrasted in this Gospel with that which finds it hazed: see John 20. 24-29.: But Thomas reached the swine goal. CANNOT TRUST GERMANY. Russia Resents Underhand Approaches of Ifuns for. Peace. Russia resents Germany's insidious and repeated attempts to negotiate a separate peace 'with her,says the Pro- vidence' Journal, She realizes that the greatest menace to her ambitions is embodied in the eastward schem- ings of Berlin. • She is bitterly hos- tile to the Germandesireto dominate the Slavonic peoples of the Balkans. She remembers that Teutonic aggres- sion in Serbia was the immediate cause of the continental war. Marc-. over, she distrusts Teutonic diplomacy. Like the rest of the world she appre- ciates the difficulty of binding faith- less Germany tothe faithful .perform- ance of. her future engagements. This sentiment of suspicion crops out in the comment of the President of the Duma, who says: "We cannot trust our adversary. He is a worn- out felon." An official of 'the Foreign Office declares that the lack of sinear ity in the German proposal is evident.. A Duma :,resolution, unanimously adopted, characterizes the offer as hypocritical. The Foreign Minister, addressing the Duma, brands Germany as deceitful. The German Govern- ment cannot ignore the extraordinary —the worldwide—emphasis put upon its duplicity. Russia's sturdy opposition to Ger- many's desire to control the Balkans is a reminder that in the final 'settle- ment of the present conflict it' -will be futile to ignore racial' and religious lines. So far as possible nationality and tradition must be respected. Trieste and the Trentino must go to. Italy because they are, by every test except that of government, ItaIian.. The national ambitions of the South- ern Slays cannot be evaded. Bohe- mia's age -long aspirations for liberty must be . given fuller play -or' else peace will be but a travesty on the world. , Soldier's Long Sleep. Professor Verger has described to the- Medical and Surgical Society the strange case of a soldier who was at the battle of the Marne, disappeared, and was found afterward in Brittany. The soldier has been asleep for 27 months, eyelids closed, respiration regular, but .pulse rapid. It is pos- sible to administer liquid food and Professor Verger says that the case is one of hysterical lethargy, and that it is likely the man will eventu- ally awake and resume his normal occupation. The wise man always` looks before he leaps -then instead` of leaping into the fire he stays in the frying pan. Teacher. (during geometry; lesson) Why,: are' these angles correspond- ing!? Pupil—Because they are ds. . e ih • .,..� A� r.. >t4arassatee- �y xrw7 �'`��a��+�5ei:�z/cyl%�'• • ; E! s a es sy,rse `etesee'reat w. JTd•:weave s A Potato Day for the Belgian People. Ono, 'of the central.,Belg otato depots in ia'i.m established by people of the, the Germans.' From here the p 11 g country are fed ,lust, so much a dad n.,ually a potato has to suffice twenty-four hours, Inrthis. Way the .food supply is -being kept"track`of, Even for a potato a tielcdt has. to be 'slaovnr. The Belgians have to -dig the Iota- toes and then turn thein over to.the Germans, who dole theta 'eat, To Give Ourselves, Our Very Best, ,To Throw Our Virtue Into Our Work, is to Win Happiness. ``Throw Yourself' Into Your Task." Romans, aii, 11.. Olive Shreiner tells a story of an artist who painted a picture which excelled all other pictures in ,brilliancy, and its richness of color endured, while the pictures of other artists faded. They could not find out the secret of his success: until after his death, when they found 'a wound upon his breast; and so it appeared that he painted the picture with the blood of hie heart, and that was why it was so beautiful and so lasting,. Ot course it is a parable; but like many parables, it carries a great lesson. We must give ourselves—our very best -- to our task if we expect that task to be worthy and to endure. We are told that when our Lord healed t sick woman virtue went out of Him (St. Luke, viii, i16), We cannot fathom all the meaning of those won- derful words, but they surely show that our Christ gave of. His own strength that the sick woman might be made strong. In` a measure we should do the same so far as we can --throw our virtue into our work and. so make that work "effective. W EnthusAiawsmay> zeaitlh cLoauzrianeess,s love and` cheerfulness can do more to bless and help than even human knowledge. I cannot but think that men err in ex -I Lilting knowledge and deriding feeling.' Emotionalism maygo to an extreme and not accomplish a great deal in the human struggle, and yet it has a pow- I er which the greatest intellect can never have to soothe and comfort. The heart and the head should not be enemies, but friends, yet the heart° should be in' many eases the deciding! power. We are to love God with all our heart first; then conte the soul! and the mind. And the heart is the well from which flow enthusiasm, zeal, courage and cheer. St. Paul gives us three character= istics of work: Not slothful, fervent and consecrated to the Lord. We must not be lazy. Slothfulness is one of the deadly sins—that is, it kills all good in us if we let it control us, and brings a host of other sins in its train. I have little .patience with the cry, which is ' quite commonly' heard to- day, about hard work. All - work Aught to be hard; that is, demanding of the utmost of energy, if it is worth anything. ' Easy things amount to little. Hard work never hurts a man if he obeys the laws of health for his body and keeps his heart happy and his mind free from worry. Indeed, it is this last—worry—that wears people out, not work,; No pian ever died from over -work. It was his . anxiety, his doubt, his gleom' that killed him. Work is a friend. Fervent in Spirit. The spirit must be fervent, That means that wem ust love our tasks, not hate them. There should be no such' thing as "necessity" in a true. man's career; "opportunity" must drive necessity>away, for we are .free, not ruled by any taskmaster. "I love to," is the cry of God's child. Ali, how that gives the elastic step and the singing heart! The burning spirit longs to have its share in the work God is doing: it counts the days as creative; it gives its fire to dight the lamp of progress, and of its warmth to 'drive away gloom and fear. Singing, laughter, worship and praise have much to do -with healthful toil. We have no `right to make machines of of ourselves when we may be splendid living forces, throbbing vitality into the task of band `or head. The very difficulties of our toil should lead us to draw new Life from the spirit, and that life will tell us that nothing is impossible and that same time surely the effort we make will have a crown- ing. Perhaps the third direetior of St. Paul is the finest and most inspiring of all. We are serving the Lord as we work. He has given us our task. Man may seem to be the taskmaster, but, behind him stands the Lord of the Universe, our dear Friend. Work gains its everlasting signi- ficance from Him Whose we are and Whom we serve, for He has placed us here- He has allotted our tasks and He works with us, and without Him we could do nothing.—Rev. Floyd W. Tomkins. Proper Ventilation. The question of proper ventilation during the winter months is one which it is quite difficult for many persons to solve. It' is apparent to almost everybody that the admission of pure air is neces- sary if efficient work is to be per - farmed in office and school and if re- freshing sleep 'is desired by night. The fresh air does not depend upon the temperature and can be supplied by a proper heating and ventilating system. The opening of windows,•while it ad- mits the fresh air, often causes drafts which are uncomfortable, not to say injurious Where; a number of per- sons are occupied in a room it is often a cause of subjecting one or two to exposure' if the, windows are opened to secure ventilation. This. can be avoid- ed by an ample supply of warm air. Numerous devices, more or less ex- pensive, have been. placed on the mare ket, but are not always satisfactory. The most economical and at the same time probably the most efficient ven- tilating device is one made of glass or wood eight or ten inches in height and made the width of the sash. This should be laced under the sash, with a slant from the bottom to the top at an angle for forty-five degrees, leav- ing an opening at the top covered with cheesecloth. Ventilators of this sort are so simple that they can be made at small cost anywhere and the covering can be readily replaced. They are suitable for office and school room, living' rooms .and bedrooms. They permit reasonable ventilation without too great a'loss of heat, and prevent that stuffines of atmosphere which -is dang- erous to health and destructive to real comfort during the winter months. This device leaves an open- ing between the upper and lower sash through which the Used air'of 'the room may escape. Nature Cure . For Burns. j A new method of treating serious burns that involves the use of air' and sunlight has been put into practice at John' Hopkins [lospital and already" in .a number of cases` has peen ,success- ful. Nat are c ores" have been recognized as the most practicable in a rapidly in- creasing list of ailments. The general. idea back of all these ,methods is that nature, with a fair chance, will 'do more for the sick body than will thugs or surgery. • In treating burns .a small part of the injured surface', is exposed dit•ect- ly to the sun and air out of doors. The results t ine. . - x ebest r s l s are obtained ed m .tem- perate weather, when the patient can lie at ease for hours under the direct rays o:f the sun and the influence of the air. In colder weather only more indirect exposure is possible and then the results are not rapid. As a result of the treatment skin grafting will not have to be used In a number of cases.. The effect of the air and sunshine sure is to keep alive Much of the ,burned tissue and in time this tissue grows out over the burned surface. A DAY A MONTH. Feature of the Canadian •, Patriotic Campaign. The men in the trenches are fight ing for us three hundred and sixty- five days in the year. Why shouldn't the poorest of us work at Ieast one day a month for the families of these men?, That is not much to ask -twelve days a year, as against three hundred and sixty-five, especially as the three hundred and sixty-five are spent in constant danger of death from bullets, bombs or exposure to weather. The imperative character of the call made by the Canadian Patriotic Fund is denied by no one. A campaign for contributors to=it will be begunin this town in a short time. Why not make one of the features of this campaign the plan adopted with success in other places, namely, the contribution of wage-earners of one day's pay a month? The idea has "caught on" in other towns. In many factories and stores the employees have acted unanimous- iy, and either instructed the employer to deduct one day's pay a month, or appointed one of their own number to make the collection monthly. The average payment to each fam- ily by the Canadian Patriotic Fund is sixteen dollars, a year. A day's pay a month will go a long way towards' helping some such family to ' get through 1917 in comparative comfort, HIGH PI1ICEs AND WAGES. Increase of Wages' Does Not Neces sarily Mean Jump in Prices. The notion is somewhat widely cur- rent that the raising of wages in a period of rising prices simply keeps up the action of a vicious economic circle; that you make wages • higher to :meetthe high prices, and that then you have to make the prices still higher to nieet the high wages, says New. York Post. Insome par- ticular instances, the highest wages do cause the rising .of prices; but broadly speaking, "thb idea is quite false. The process is one of readII - justment to a new' scale of prices; those who carry on, various business enterprises, reap an abnormal profit through the rise of prices, and when. they have yielded:up some of this to the workers, things ha'Ve simply gone back to a condition of equilibrium. When wages are raised in the steel industry, for example, in such condi- tions as exist to -day, ,that is not hi the least a factor tending to 'raise rices; t merely prices; iy affects the clistribu- tion 'o^, the surplus (over .normal re- turned), which existing prices yield. When it comes to solid comfort there e there is very little .to choose between an easy conscience and • An easy pair of boots.