The Brussels Post, 1910-6-16, Page 6nts for Busy Housekeepers.
Recipes and Other Valuable Information'
Of Particular Interest to Women Polka,
BREADS.
Graham Bread. --One egg, beat-
en; one-half cupful of white sugar,,
•ane -half cupful sour eroam, one
tied one-half cupfuls '.sour milk,
even toaspoonfu) soda, two cupfuls
of graham flour, one cupful of white
flour, not heaping; Iittle salt, Icae
then slow oven.
Graham Tarts, --Beat the whites
and yolks of four eggs separately.
To the.. beaten yolks add one and
one-half cupfuls of sugar. The
more you beat the yolks the better.
To the yollee and sugar add one
cupful of graham cracker crumbs
and ene teaspoonful of baking pow-
der. And to this one cupful of Apple, Celery and Nut Salad.—
chopped walnuts. Put the whites Chop apples, celery, and mixed
of the eggs in last. Bake to a nuts of any kind very fine. Mix
brown and servo with whipped well together and serve with wbip-
•cream, j ed cream that is sour, yr enayun-
Nub Bread.—Toru' cupfuls of raise clressl
flour, four teaspoonfuls of baking
powder, one egg beaten light, one
cupful of granulated sugar, two
eupfule'of sweet milk, one cupful lone sliced, one cupful of cloppe<t
of English walnuts and pecans, pecans, one-half cupful of browned.
mixed and run through food chop -{bacon, one tablespanful of sugar;
per. Let rise twenty minutes and! add salt, pepper, and vinegar to
,d lg of the nuts causes the oil of • Waldorf Salad—Ingredient- (inc
the nuts to penerate the bread and cupful sliced apples, ono cupful'
makes'it look like brown bread, sliced celery, and one cupful of
though it tastes much better. - 'chopped nuts. Salad dressing.• - One
'
Bread for Two.—In summer time ( teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoon -
at night dissolve one-half cake of ful mustard, one and one-half tab.'
leepoonfuls of sugar, one salt=p.•on-
ful of pepper, one cupful of milk,
two eggs, one and one-half table-
t one-Irnlf
heaping tablespoonful of rice that
has 'been rooked in one oupfnl of
milk until tender, then cool; sold
half a 010111 of chopped preserved
giegor.
BREAKFAST HELPS.
Corn Bread with Breed Crumbs,
—One cupful cornmeal, one, cupful
i crtimbs,'ground lino, one-half sup,
Ilia of shortening, one-quarter cup-
the grease in another large pan, 1 ful of sugar, one egg, ono and une-
slowly, and if possible without bait teaspoonfuls of baking pow -
heating it. When the water is cool der, 011e-hal£ teaspoonful stale, oee
and the grease melted pour to- taut: s,,veet mills.
gether and stir until thoroughly Featherlight Waffles -Thee follow -
mixed, then pour into a large drip-
ping pan and when cool enough cut
into oaken. It will be ready to neo
ja a few, days, makes -a fine labor,
and ie not hard on the hands. There
is no unpleasant odor about the op -
oration and the soapy pan cleans!
thoroughly the greasy one. Tho
soap also removes unsuspeeted
black from the dripping pan;
SALADS.
Cucumber Potato Salad. -- One
quart of boiled sliced potatoes, two
sliced cucumbers, three small un
bake about one hour The glint I taste, Good.
yeast foam in two starts of luke-
warm water. When thoroughly
• dissolved, thicken with' flour. One
must use her own judgement in re- spoonfuls of butter,
gard to the amount of flour. In cupful of hot vinegar. Make the
the morning sift about one and one dressing. Mix dry ingredients, and
half quarts of flour in the pan, in
the centre put a handful of salt,
then pour in the sponge and stif-
fen. Knead until the sponge will
take no more flour. Use a two gal-
lon stone jar to raise bread in; it
retains heat better. Put a small
handful of lard into the jar, set on
back part of range until lard is
melted, then put the bread in and
set in a warm place. When it rises
to top mix down. When it comes
up the emend time knead into four
add the beaten egg. Adel milk gr±'
dually, and add vinegar slowly,
stirring rapidly. Gook over hot
water till mixture coats a vole
spoon. stirring rapidly, and con-
stantly. Add the butter, strain
and eoo1. Wash, and pare, and
.slice apples, wash end slice celery,
drop nuts, and pour the dressing
aver.
. OAKES.
Prune Cake.—One cupful of su-
loaves, put in a well greased pan, gar, three-quarters of a cupful of;
ant when nice and light bake in a butter,, three eggs, three table -t
moderate- oven. Following these spoonfuls of sour cream, one level;
directions you will never fail to teaspoonful of soda, two cupfuls of;
have good bread. Cour, sifted twice before measur-;
ing; one teaspoonful each of cinna-ti
THE LAUNDRX. ruin, allspice and nutmeg, and la -t,
one cupful of cooked, chopped
Lingerie Waists.—Wash lingerie prones er any fruit not too wet.
waists, rubbing carefully wide Filing.—Ono egg, one-half cupful,
hands, to prevent tearing, with of sugar, one-third cupful of sour1
good white soap. Rinse thoroughly, eream, one-half cupful of raisins„
then use blueing sparingly. Starch butter size of an egg. Cook all to -
oath one tablespoonful of starch gether for a few minutes and add
and one-half tablespconful of bor- flavoring and nets if desired,
ax to about one quart of cold Nut and Date Cake.—Chip find
water. Roll in towel, iron when two cups of dates and two of wal-1
dry enough. The result is most ruts, add two cupfuls of sugar,
satisfactory. four eggs, and mix two teaspoon -
Pressing Help.—Now that sum- Eula of baking powder with cipht
urger approaches we are aware of teaspoonfuls: of flour. Bake in a
the fact that mach pressing is re- cesium oven and servo with whip-;
quired to snake our light frocks ped cream. 1
flesh looking. All muslin, dimity, Killarney Cakes.—Cream half
.organdie, and lingerie frocks and ' cupful of butter, ane eupful of fine
.— .., waists can be made to look like new. sugar, one cupful of milk. two and!
sE'slenged with a cloth dipped in one-half cupfuls of flour sifted with:
a; bowl of water into which has; four level teaspoonfuls or baking,
been put one tablespoon borax and powder, one teaspoonful of vanilla,;
allowed to dissolve, and nicely three drops of aline ;d extras t.
press•ed with hot iron. Peat thor..;ughly whites of three,
•Shrinking Wash C4 --Keep eggs. Frost, and flavor frosting
your material in the same creases with a little vanilla anti two drops
,as when delivered, opened only of almond extract.
so as to lie easily on the bottom of
the bathtub. Run enough water
in the tub to cover the goods easily
and leave sufficient length of time
to be thoroughly shrunk. Then lay
the broom across the tub and care eehen dare, cut a Small hole in the
fully hang the material upon it, top of each and scarp out the entire
still folded. This will drain in the inside. Marsh first in a saucepan
tub and dry. Upon removal the
over the fire atkling two t tb.
goods will be as pressed wed sma"th sroonfuls of butter, a ge'lerous
as when delivered. A little salt, in quantity of cream, salt, and pep -
the water will also set the color at per, and beaten whites of two eggs.
the same time.
Clothes Sprinkler.—Take an or-
dinery jelly or pickle bottle with
a tin screw top; remove the paper
hem inside the tin cover, then with
a small nail and hammer make
hc•]es in the cover ffom the inside.
Fill, the bottle with water, screw on
the top, and you have a clothes
sprinkler that will give perfect sat-
isfaction. Be sure and have the
hetes sural].
Soap Making. --Few housekeepers
realize what a simple and rather
pleasant matter it is to make the
family supply of soap. got the
harsh, , unpleasant soap of com-
merce, but clean white soap, and
costing next to nothing. It is an
easy' way to dispose of grease not
desirable for cooking purposes. The
fnrnlule calls for five pounds of raisins, one cui,ful saint nillt, one
grease, one can of lye, one table-
apoonful of borax, one quart of
cold water. To do away with weigh-
ing use a flue pound 'aril pail into
which carefully strain the grease to
keep it elute, and clear of sedi-
ment. When the pail is full ,lis-
rto1ve t11e Tye In tl.n cold watev',rus-
ilea a largo dish ;ten, and 'add the cul,frtls of thick cream, then add
borax, Thee1 o mattes the water one-third capful Sugar, flavor with
y
het, encl while it -is cooling melt vanilla and ebony wine. add one
VEGETABLE.S.
Sweet Potato ('aces. --Wash and
bake six large sweet potatoes.
Fel up the skive• with the mixture,
set back in the oven, and serve hot.'
Celery Fritters.—Take the,geeen
stalks and tender leaves of celery
that are not fit for salad; chop
firlc, and to one cup of this chop-
ped celery add one pint of flour,
one beaten egg, one grating of
anion, me -half tea-poonful salt,
one-quarter of a teaspoonful pep-
per, one teaspoonful baking pow-
der, and sufficient milk to make a
tbiek flatter; drop by spoonfuls
to hot fat; drain on paper a few
minutes, and 'plats around the
roast with lemon wedges and pars-
ley springs as a garnish
PUDDINGS. •
ing recipe cannot be surpassed ei-
ther ,for exccllenee ur Mellon -1y.
The gitantity +,1' corn meal used is
SO small that it�does eat give the
taste of corn notal but imparts a'
delicate, nutty flavor which is lack-
ing It here it is mut used; Breivk,
two eggs in a round bottom bowl'
end beat- well, Poisr over them
loo caps of sour milk (or butter-
milk), aekl one-fourth cup -corn-
meal, two cups flour, one teaspoon
sew, ene teaspoon salt, one'full
tablespoonful butter, one level 1
tablespoonful lard (lard and butter;
aihould be melted), enc] one scant,
teaspoon of soda dissolved in a
tablespoonful of warm water. Stia.
the nlixtttte well.
ENCOURAGING BIRD LIFE.
llnileing ilo11505 foe Bluebird( and
Seallows.
What may be dune in the en-
couragement of naturalli• migra-
tory song birds to remain North
during the Winter has been demon-
s -tam -et! at the farm house of
George le. Haxc+io during the last
Winter. where a colony of eleven
bluebird. have contentedly lived
and apparently enjoyed their gear-
-airs in the bird houses, where they
were reared legit Frommer, says the
csterl1 num lt: is quite inter
esting to watch their modes of ltv
as' their .habits of procuring
frad have to be entirely tl:flsten
t
front what they are in Summer.
Every fairly pleasant morning by
the time it is dight they fly away
end are not, We:1 again until near
sunset, when they return individu-
ally and go into the bird houses,
several occupying one house, and
ail in the same building.
Mr. Hoxsie is a great lover of
birds and has about his place twen-
ty-two bird houses, all of which
were occupied last season, there
being two nests of bluebirds and
twenty nests of stump swallows.
Besides these there were raised
about the bui]dings four nests of
barn swallows, one nest of chimney
swallows and seven nests of cave
swallows. As these would average
four young birds to each nest, the
number raised, with the old ones
added. would make approximately
200 birds. Then there were within
500 feet of the house ten robin
nests, one oriole, one waxwing,
me house wren, two chippins, two
ground sparrows and one king
bird, making in all eighteen nests,
.and these young and old added
mould make a. total of 300 insect
destroying eongsters that were not
only a continual joy but a source
of rare profit in the great number
of gnats, flies, hugs and worms
daily consumed.
Mr. Hoxsic attributes a big yield
of apples last season to the de-
struction by birds of the insect pest
that infects the .apples from bloom
to fini h, haring sold last Fall'
twenty-three barrels of fine fruit
from e fifteen -year-old orchard 'of
eighteen trees, and this without
spraying. If every farmer would
put up a few suitable bird houses
it would soon make a vast differ-
ence to the raising of farm pro-
ducts.
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STATION14IASTER'S LUCK.
A romantic story of a staionmas-
ter's good fortune comes from Set-
tee, in Yorkshire. By the, death of
Snuire Tomlinson, of Aysgrlath,.
Wensleydale, Mr. William Bell,
stationmaster at Selby, finds him-
self heir to a Large cannery man-
sion and an estate the value of
which is said to run to six filmes.
Mr. Bell is a distant relative of
the late squire, his mother having
been Mr. Tomlinson's cousin, and
he was the old gentlernan'e last
living relation. He now becomes
Squire of Aysgarth, and will retie()
from the North-Eastern Railway af-
ter a term of service of forty-five
years.
Suet Pudding. ---One cmliful ehop-
ped suet, ono* cripful of ehr,ppecl
cupful' of mr,larsres,° with, one tea-
1.1fnunfu1 Socia, three mei one-half
etiefele of flout'. Mix flour, milk,
and molasses, then Met, rllslile,
one-1lal1 grated nutmeg. Steam
tw-0 and tine -hall liuteree Serve
with halt) Sauer.
• ('linger Theo Iandding.•--Whip two
A ,A1) PARTING,- Life.
THE S. S. LISSON J
INTERNATIONAL r'ATI1NAL L SSON,
JUNE le.
Leeson XII, The Parable of the
• Sower, Matt, la. 1-J, 1923. Goa.
fico Text games 1. 21... •
Verse 1, On -thee clay--Ev clently
on the SOTae day 58 the events an,
00 111 the latloi• part of the twelfth
chapter. .
Out of the house ---Neither titin
ear thepartieular day is mentioned
lay hearer. In chaptee 12, 47, "tut-
sicle" means 011 rhe outskirts of
the crewel,,se that we are tee
�
conjecture that this was the ]scow.
of Simon and Anati•ow (Mark 1. 80).
Sat by the sea ;ide—C'hryseasom,
whose Homilies on the Geispel of
Saint Matthew aro full of h••+suety
wisdom says here "He nits by the
boa he one, atnd• getting in 'b net
there that are on the land. The
0111150 of his doing this is a desire
to order his auditory with exact-
ness, anti to leave nu one behind
his back, but to have all face to
face,'°
3. I32 spoke , in parables' —
Svo1e have already been recorded;.
the salt and the light, the fowls and
the lilies, the wise and the foolish
builders, but they have been brief
and incidental. From .now on this
method of teaching becomes more.
elaborate, and forms at. large part
of the instructions of Jesus.
Behold, the sower --Christ. It is
fitting that the peep of parables
sheuld start off with this one, in
which so many important 18130e5 of
Cho kingdom Como to test. It tis
one of the three which appear in
Matthew, Mark, and Lube, the
ether being those of the mustard
seed and the wicked husbandmen.
Ale(' it is one of those whose inter-
pretation we have from our Loretta
own lips.
Went, forth to sow --it is pre-
sumed. that an actual sower and en
actual field were in sight at the
ti Inc.
4. As be sowed—For the meaning
of the parable, see comments be-
low on verses 18-2's.
e. He that hath ears --lb is a
challenge to serious thought, and
a common observataort of Jesus.
Only those whose hearts are sin-
cerely open to the truth can per-
ceive its spiritual meanings.
18. Hear then ye—Strong empha-
sis on the pronoun: "De you,
therefore, hear the parable of the
sower." Jesus warns the disciples
against the shallowness, worlelli-
mness, and diffidence which are the
indication of a barren heart. No-
tice that Matthew, omits the re -
bake contained in 'Mark 4. 13. It
is not so much a parable of the
sower, who seems not to occupy a
prominent place in the story, as
se the soils, four different kinds
•1 which are mentiueed. Though
Christ is the Sower, and the seed
he sa.ws is the truth, the result
clearly depends upon the nature of
the 'soil.
18. Tho word of the kingdom is,
of course, the seed. The waning
of Jesus, "Take heed how ye
hear," would apply here He that
heareth and understandeth not is
the ratan whose mind grasps the
words one by one but whose heart
does not "take in." and treasure
up the truth, understanding, in the
Qld Testament and New, being a
matter of the heart rather than of
the head.
The evil one --We might have in-
terpreted the birds (verse 4) as im-
personal temptations, but Jesus ex-
pressly, in spite of the plural, ex-
plains them as "Satan" (Mark),
the devil (Luke), and as here.
The way slide—According to the
Jewish fashion, a path led through
the midst of a field of grain. This
would naturally become' hard and
beaten by the trampling of many
feet, of men alld beasts. This
may represent et certain lightness
of mind, or too exclusive attention
to the calls of the worn]. So t'hc
weed dues not get in deep, and the
axil one straightway eeatcheth int
away. The voice of the messenger
is barely silent before the memory
is as clear of the truth as if it had
never been spoken. Yet Jesus'
wtnkl ineite the preacher r,,f truth
not to neglect even so unpromising
a soil.
20. The rooky pulses—Here wo
find a,thhn soil atop of a hard sub-
stratum. T'hi:, class is camman,
especially in times of religions
awakening—people whose emotions
are quickly stirred, who receive
with joy the. word. to 'which, for one
reason or another, they happen to
bo ] articnilar]y susceptible, but
whose nature acrd profession are
too shallow for the truth to take
doclp root, They will hold out so
long as condjt"ons are favorable.
live, when called upon to suffer
tribulation (2). far the sake of what
they profess, straight ,vay they
stumble, Our regard fur the truth
must go into the deeps of oar na-
ture am] take bold of every part of
.as, for, to be al ('hrietinlr devolves
the shock of many a stern enceinte -
ter with : enaitirnls which cutely
teem% seed thinly planted.
22. Among, the ,thorns-••I•Iere is
exc'ellont coil, but, sadly enrrugh, et
is. infested nit•J] the seed of sin and
error. Whet choker; Cho word, in
'nee of this 'type, is not the world,
hue a faire relation to the world.
Mark aside "the lusts of other
things," and Lease, "the pleasures
of this life.". The endless petty
worries of• business life, the subtle.
allurements of those Wetakon
paths which are so easily opened
y e'icleos--those, if indulged in, or
e,mpramssed with, or surrendered
to, are bounkl to crowd out the
choicest spiritual growth. The tra-
grady of, this class of people is that
their fruitfuhres's might be second
to none, but instead they turn scut
only'a.'rankc crop of brambles.
28. The goazl ground -eat is note-
worthy tee all that is required is
elat the soil should be of the sort
elide not only eagerly receives but
stores up and' nourislies the truth.
Even then the restate are different
w.itll Iliffere ut soils. Iiowe. yer
good a man may 'bo, the seed may
fail .to expand when received in
hie heart more than thfntyfold,
while .his neighbor, because per-
chance of better endowment of ono
kind or another, though no better
e man, niay bring forth a hundred-
Teel.
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TOO 31leCBE FOR JOU1ti' _A,LIST.
Enterprising Newspaper Man Lock-
ed Up for Lunatic..
Growing suspicious of the admin
istration of insane asylums in
Itch, Tomaso Giloni, a well-known
journalist, set to find out about
cocditions in Rome. Ordinary me-
thsds failed to extract what he
wanted, so he determined to get
in as a patient. Now he confesses
he wishes he lead beon lose en 1 -
prising.
Banging the knot:Icor of the door
at the (;imarosa asylum, he de-
nra•ndcc e that vhe . astonished por-
ter should secure for him an audi-
ence with the King of Italy. The
porter merely told him he was
dru•'k and turned him out.
So he strolled down the street
ane; performed such antics that the
police locked him up. After an in-
terview with the police surgeon he
found himself inside. Soon after
ho was admitted the doctors de-
clared he was over -excited and
needed immediate treatment. So
they administered an emetic, gave
him an Arctic shower bath and;
vacciinated trim,
Then they held a consultation on
hist condition and decided he had
cancer on the brain. Nothing could
save him, they agreed, but prompt
trepanning. That sent Tomaso
Giluni's enterprise fizzling out
with a rush. He confessed, and the
aeylum authorities sent him along
to the magistrate.
Stifling his laughter over the evi-
deuce the magistrate said the jour-,
nalist.had been sufficiently punish-
ed already, so he would be releas-
ed Whereupon the doctors an-
nounced that they had seen the lay
of Tomaso's little game all along
and had acted accordingly.
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MORE DOGS'P'IIIAN PEOPLE.
British Town That is the Huh of the
Canine World.
The gr•eatest'dog town in Great
Britain if not in the world, is Bav-
erfordwest, England. There are
many men in the tawn who live
wholly and make a good living by
breeding and selling dogs.
Although the population is only
0.000 • says Fur News, at least 0,-
000 dog licenses are issued annu-
ally and there are also alarge
number of exemptions. Almost
daily there; are more dogs than
people in the. pnblie streets, 'though
valuable animals are never allowed
to rile loose.
Haverfordwest dog breeders are
known for their working terriers,
Show terriers, painters, setters and
spaniels, which are daily traded for
big sums through the fanciers'
journals and go everywhere.
It is the• home of the Sealyham
breed of terriers, the' origin of
which has puzzled. the keenest
sportcrn•en, One fancier's kennel
recently sold by . auction realized
2200, but £260 ire not all unusual
price fur a single dog, while £60,
£70 and .280 are almost common.
The quaint old town with its mixed
Welsh, English and Flemish popu-
lation, is almost, the -hub of the
dog's universe.
THE BRITISH (.Cielelt'lliTlOX,
In England they' have no written
constitution—notili,lg ausweving tc
what is underst ed in the United
States by that term. That which
le Greet Britain 1answf.rs to the
etnstitution is gnmething that
grows steadily and lit, itself to ilio-
ever-changing conditi x115 of elle l,ro•
grossiy° times. 11 is elalytie. rend
in no way bound by the past, ex-
cept, in so far as that Well is re-
garded as of the Datura or prece-
dent, can stand every test or the
new conditions ansa new 1cqu;rr.
men Ls.
UNCLE, C;1-, 1.Z.IlA SAYS
Playin' on one strut♦ soon wears
nut the siring ez well ez the 131115t.
er
FROM t O NIE SCOTLAND
NOTES 01' 1I1T118liS'1' FROM
111:18
HANKS A1`#1) BRAES,
{Pent le Going On lit tIi i 3higblands
and Lowlands of Auld
Scotia.
A Dundee kirk leas naw 14 lady
deacon,
There were 4,492 persons arreste.
ed for orilne in the County of Ayr-
(11451'0 last year.
A company of Torr'itariusls is be-
ing formed in itilbirnie.
Last year the birth, marriage
and death rates in Scotland were
the lowest yet recorded.
Progress is being matte with the
arrangements for the re -opening
of the Auld.13rig of Ayr in the mid-
eilc of June, '
At Greenock Slleriff:Court, Han-_
Mei O'Donnell was sent to prison
for six months for •stealing a petti-
coat,
A Glasgow choir is to make e
three months' tette-in Canada, be-
ginning in September.
The old custom of visiting the
well at Culloden on the first Sun-
day of -May was observed by albont
one thousand young persons.
The other day while Angus Mao-
kintosh was . tending his sheep on
Bealach, Arnisdale, he found a
dead eagle, measuring over six feet.
This bird is now very rare in the
High]'ands. •
A leading geologist has stated
that the cabbie deposits of Skye
are as rich as can be found to the
depth of 1,600 feet. Two eempan-
ies, working in conjunction, have
commenced operations near Broad -
fold.
There are nee ab, et lone men
employed at Rosyth, and `with the
opening of other work the number
will be periodically augmented.
A stone Gist has been found an
a knoll known locally as the Gal-
lows Hill, on the Gradyne estate,
Guthrie. The Gist is 3 feet long
and stands 2% feet high. It con-
tained human remains.
In mining circles a proposal is on
feat to procure a motor ambulance
waggon for the districts of Carluke,
Law, Wishaw, Newmains and Cam-
nethan.
Tho estimated gest of, cleaning
and lighting Edinburgh for the
coming year is, for lighting £46,-
065, and for Meal .eg 4240 (iai. The
revenue of the cleaning department
is. L3,200.
-Miss Annie McDougall has been
appointed registrar in Tarbert.
There is also a lady registrar in
Locbgilphead.
Dunoon will try the salt water
erre for the dust nuisance this sea-
son. It is much more efficacious
than fresh for this purpose.
In Islay not for many years hes
such a large amount of sickness
prevailed as during the, past. win-
ter.
Sir James Crichton-Browne, the
eminent authority on lunacy, who
is a Dumfriesshire man, and was
long associated with the Crichton
Institute, is to be accorded the free-
dom of Dumfries on the occasion
of the opening of the new town
hall.
ROYAL BABY'S SHOES.
Little Julianne of holland Ras
Wonderful Footgear.
Queen Wilhclnrina's 'baby, heir -
apparent to the throne of Holland,
is the most fortunate royal young
ster in the world in the matter of
shoes to cover her little pink toes.
45'11. American firm has just matte
several 'plaits for her, one out of
0 piece hof goods from the Queen's
wedding gown; one of cloth of gold;
another of cloth of silver and still
another of the very finest patent
calf with cloth of silver copping.
Beautifel silks and brecaded eat -
ins that cast '$l00 a yard were
used. One pair in particular is
noteworthy. It is a tiny pair. of
'carriage boots in exact miniature
of a woman's boot and made of'•sa-
t'r brocade in emits and mauve
with a border of pure white fur and
white satin bows. Each style of
shoe for this sprig of nobility is
made in three colors, white, pink.
one blue.
WOULDN'T INJURE IT.
On one occasion a judge gave an
exhaustive decision in a ease, after
which the lawyer fur the plaintiff
rose and questioned it.
"Pardon ere," said his lordship,
"1 cannoj, allow you to reopen this
ease atter I have given my final de-.
cisien, I may be wrong, but that
15 my opinion.",
The lILwyel' replied a -
"Then, meted, 1 know it is no
use, my knocking my heard against
a brick wall. 1 suppose I meet sit
tk•wn 1"
Che judge, adjusting his cyegles•
res andlooking saraneeieatlly at the
lawyer, said :-.- '
"Sir, I ]Clow ]t .is of no wse for
yeti to knock rine head against a
brick Wall ; but, I mite add, 1 ltnow.
0) one else who sold perform snelr
an operation with leen injury to
himself than you."
THE STOVE PEELING OFF
WALLS OF WES',1'UINSTEJR Allo'
10 .11( ARE C1iUblJRUT' 41.
The Mau Sitys '1.'his Is Due to the
Action of Coal awoke on •
111e,Stone.
Is will Come as a movie() to most
people to know that the suchen,
tics at Westminster Abbey have to
wage war unceasingly with, the de-
mon stoke, says The budge Daily
Cbruniolo. All kinds of efforts are
being tussle to safeguardt the fab -
rue but op to the present no entire-
ly satiefaetory
ntire-ly'satisfaetory method has been
discovered.
The Dean of Westminster (.a)r,
Rubinson) was present recently at
,the annual' meeting of the Coal
Smoke Abatement Service, held aji
the Royal United Soivice 'mate -
Man, when he smile this striking
statement :—
"Almost every kind of stone in
the Abbey Church is showing con-
stantly increasing same of depre-
ciation, and I think wecan have'
no doubt drat it is due to the pro,
ducts of burning coal."
For the last fifteen years, said
the Dean, they had been fighting
the enemy as . well as they could
with the aid of. scientific advice.
They had been i'n a
CONDITION OF EXPERIMENT,
and had been . trying almost every
thing that had been Suggested to
thein—not on the most valuable
stones in every case unless they
'were very certain' as to their ad-
visers.
He was sorry to say, in regard to
one preparations that, although
they had given it a thorough trial,
at very considerable expense, it
had proved a failure. This was
surprising, in view of the fact that
it had been tried at Chichester
with excellent results. They were,
however, hopeful of ,discovering
something which would prevent the
seenes from peeling.
There was a fall some few years
ago from the north front, which
caused a great deal of expense, ow -
'ng to the enormous scaffolding re
quired. That fall was due,act to
bad .building—that was out of, the
question—but, he thought, to the
smoke nuisance.
-At the present time they were
utilizing a new stone—the grim
Portland stone. It was a magn:li-
cent -stone, one which would stand
better than -any other this insidi-
ous atmosphere' of London. But .
it was
NO STONE FOR CARVING
It seemed almost cruel to coat The-
Abbey
heAbbeY with a substance so very elf-
ferent from that which the <saw
builders loved to employ.
Still, there it was. The interior
of the Abbey was eafe, It was :he
exterior -its great coat --which 1 e-
quired so largely to be renewo:l,
and must be renewed, in Portland
stone. "Of course, if your s<'r•i•
Pty will stop the cause of the mis-
chief," added the Dean, "we ,hall
give up our experiments with vent
delight."
Sir W. B. Richmond, the Prete-
dent of the society, said he th mole;
they had reason to congratulate
themselves on the work which they
hl.d done during the last ten year's.
The local authorities in London
were really beginning to view the
smoke nuisance as an unneeess try
evil.
„Each year," he said, "the 'Lon-
don particular' is rarer. The old''"-''
blinding poison of smokr-laden fog
is becoming a thing of the past."
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01)1) itAIRRIA .G.E STATISTICS.
All 'But Seven Parisian Mal'l'ietl
Couples Rate Each Other.
Thole are only seven really hap-
py married couples in Paris, ac-
cord'ng to keine singular statistics
just published of the lclativo state
of conjugal felicity in the capital.
There are 1,302 wives who liavo
left their husbands for .tliers, and
2,371 lhusbanels who have run away
from their wives; .1,120 couples bevel
separated amicably, while no few-
er than 181,023 " lrlenagec" live at
warfare under the same roof:
The 'number of those who, "hast-
irate one another cordially, masts in
public ferocious enmity beneath ap-
pcea•aneos of assumed pulitene.;s,''
is very large, amounting to 102,-
3"), while the record in the list is
Lett by
couples who are visibly in-
different to one another -namely,,
010,112.
Further, 1,10'2 couples are wrong
l,• thought to be happily married,
while there aro 146 "nie:nttges"
happy in tempera -ion with others
more unhappy. Tenfortunately this
analytical pessimist 'does not fur-
11101 the sourees,of his inhumation.
;,llpilla 14111, ride astride.
Mrs. .Nowbrido '-all Iohao ! tine-
ry throw a cake rt me. One• the
1 Mettle myself, tarn." elot11er'''-•
raa`11e nyonNtol•l see might racy
hilted you:" -
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