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The Brussels Post, 1911-3-9, Page 7a ilints for' Busy U'ousekeepers. ;: Realpee and Settler Valuable ln1ormatilox of Particular lusnrost to Women Folks. OAICES. Low Coat Sponge Oake,—Two eggs, beaten separately; one cupful find granulated; sugar; three- eighths cupful hot water or' milk; •one-half teaspoon lemon extract; eine oupful flour ; one and one-half teaspoonfuls baking powder; one- quarter teaspoonful salt, Process: ,Beat yolks 'of eggs until thick and light, add' half the sugar gradually, beating eonstantly; add water or 'Milk, and gradually remaining eug- •ar. Beat mixture three minutes; add extract, whites of eggs beaten until stiff; mix and' sift flour, bak- ing powder and salt, then cut. and •fold into first mixture, Butter and flour a shallow cake pan, turn in mixture, spread evenly and bake in a moderate oven twenty-fiye minu- tes, General Directions for Making Cake.—Thin_ cakes require a hotter oven .than those baked in thick lemma, If the oven" be not hot •enough at first or be cooled too sud- •denly during the bakipg the Dake will not be light. Mix cake in an earthen bowl and•never in a tin pan. Us'e a wooden spoon, as iron spoons discolor the hand and the mixture. Coarse granulated sugar makes heavy cake, with a hard and sticky `crust. Line your cake tins with paper to pr•ebent burning the bottom and edges and to aid in re- moving the cakes from the pans.. Lay the paper over the outside of the pan and crease it around the edge of the bottom. Allow it large enough to eome above the edge of the pan.' Break each egg on the edge of the eup just enough to crack the middle of the shell, so the white will flow out, but not hard enough to break into the yolk. '" Let the white run into the cup and keep the yolk in the half shell until all the white is drained off. Be careful not to break the yolk, as the small- est portion of. it in the' whites will prevent them from frothing. Never stop beating the whites until they are stilt .and dry, as it impossible to have them light if they become liquid again. Mother's Oake.—One scant cup': of butter, one and one-half cups sug- ar, three eggs beaten separately,• one teaspoonful, lemon or :vanilla, one salt -spoonful mace, one-half cup milk, three' cups flour, one tea spoonful cream of, tartar, and one- half teaspoonful soda, or three lev- el teaspoonfuls baking powder. Dream the butter, add the sugar gradually then the yolks of the eggs, then the flavoring; reserve a quarter of a cup of flour lest the cake be too stiff if all be used; put the soda and - cream of tartar into the remainder of the flour; add the milk and flour alternately a little at a time, and .lastly the whites, which have been beaten stiff and' dry. Bake from forty to fifty min- utes in a moderate oven. Add one 'cup of currants and you have a nice currant -cake, or half` a cup of dates 'cut fine nd flavored, and you have a, elate 'cake. Color one cupful of: the dough with spices, cinnamon, a11= spice, and mace, or with grated -chocolate and you have a Leopard cake, By using. a cupful of butter it is the same as White Mountain Cake.; • Loaf Oake.—One cupful butter,• creamed with two cupfuls of sugar; add four beaten .yolks of eggs; one teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in one cupful of sweet milk; two tea- spoonfuls cream of tartar, mixed in three cupfuls of flour; flavor with vanilla and a teaspoonful of mace; lastly add the beaten whites of eggs; beat well before you put in the whites of eggs; add one cupful of chopped nuts if you wish. This is . excellent and will make two leaves. Filled Sponge Cake,—Bake : a sponge cake in a round loaf pan and put it aside for a day or two. After that time cut off the top crust and take out the soft part on the inside and mix et up with chopped nuts and whipped cream. Put back in crust and cover with top crust, Cut •slices and serve as dessert. SANDWICHES. Ribbon Sandwiohes<—Butter six thin slices of bread on both sides ;: spread layers . of deviled ham,. tongue, or chicken 'between; then prose the- entire pile closely, • and slice downward, making thin, rib- bon like sandwiches. ,Another-- Put white and brown bread togeth- er alternately, as above, using a filling of cream creese and chopped' nuts or olives. Japanese Sandwiches,—Take any kind of left over fish, baked or boil- ed; pick out every bit of;skin and !bone andflake oke in small pieces; put into a saucepan with a little cream or milk to moisten, adding a little batter and dusting of pepper; work to a paste while it is heating; then •.cool and spread on thin slices of buttered bread, Jelly Sandwiches. = — Out thin ;;lives of warts fresh, bread.. Remove crusts, butter them evenly, spread ,with eurrettt jelly, and s rinkle with freshly grated cocoanut. !Zell each .slioo separately and tie' with baby ribbon, Fruit Sandwiches,—'Take thin takes, of raisin bread, butter 'them and fill them with the big filling prepared as follows: One-half pound finely.chopped figs, one third cup sugar half cup of boiling water, and two tablespoons of lem- on juice. Mix and nook in a double boiler until thick enough to spread, TESTED' RECIPES, Baked Apples.—Take as 'many ap- ples as there are people to• be eerv- ed. Peel and remove core. Fill with ohopped hickory and English walnut meats. Sprinkle with white sugar. Put in oven and bake slow- ly, basting all the while with sir- up, made of one cup sugar, one- third cup water, cooked until '. in threads. Bake until apples are clear. Serve with whipped cream, Nut Graham Bread.—Three cups graham flour, one cup white flour, four teaspoons baking powder, one teaspoon 'salt, ons -third cup mol- asses, one-half cup brown sugar, two eggs,, two cups milk, one cup seeded raisins, one cup chopped nuts: Mix quickly, let raise for twenty minutes. Bake one hour. COOKIES. Sweet,Crackers:-One cup of sug- ar, one cup of lard, and two eggs creamed together. Five cents' worth of oil of lemon,' also five cents' of baking ammonia, dissolved in one pint of sweet milk overnight. Pound and knead about forty minutes. Work in as much flour as possible. Roll thin, cut in squares, and stick several times with 'a fork. Bake in quick even. Half of the oil of lemon is enough for one baking. PALM HELP,. Ihad a palm which became infest- ed with scales, After trying var- ious kinds of .treatment for their extermination. I began washing it in suds made from soap. After three washings, at intervals of a few days apart, I find the scales almost en- tirely gone, the' palm looking fresh and green and making new growth. Another bath of the same will keep it in fine condition.—J. 13, A'. • VALUABLE HINTS. Apply a drop of oil to the door hinges to keep them from creaking. A cork soaked in oil . makes a good substitute for a glass stopper. Canned or fresh rhubarb is a fine substitute for fruit. for the pudding.. Try a little baking soda and hot water when cleaning kitchen uten- sils. If your pancake batter•is too thin try using 'stale bread crumbs as a thickener, • : •• Flowerpot stains may be removed from window'sills with fine wood ashes. The neck of a baby's frock. should never be starched, as it will chafe the tender skin,• A cupful of liquid yeast is.equiv- alent to half a compressed'yeast cake nr a whole dry yeast cake. In selecting beef the pieces which are well mottled with fat will . be. found the richest and juciest. Scatter unslaked lime round the corners of the cellar; this will ab- sorb any damp and dispel insects. When leather armchairs look shabby they should be wiped with a soft cloth moistened with olive oil. Wooden breadboards arc kept in better condition by rubbing them with sand than by simply using soap., Green blinds that have become faded may be renewed by rubbing them with a rag .saturated with linseed oil. If fresh fish is to be kept over night, it should be salted and laid on an earthen dish, not placed on a board or shelf, Comfort's and quilts sho}rld be" dried in a good stiff breeze so they may be as light and fluffy as when new. • You my discover that you have not potatoes enough to warm up. Just take some stale bread, as they blend perfectly. A few drops of lemon juiao or vin- egar put in the water in which cauliflower is to be cooked will preserve its whiteness. A large clean marble boiled in mills, porridge, custards, sauce, will automatically do the staring as. the liquid boils, and so prevent Burning,. The mica windows of coal stoves can easily be cleaned with a soft cloth dipped in vinegar and water. This should be done when putting the stove up, Japanese railroads use terra -cot- to sleepers, They have women ticket agents in Australia. They who do not believe that character can bo told from hand- Writing have evidently; never beard handwriting rend aloud in a breech - of -promise suit. s THE SUNDAY SC11001 STUDY INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MARCII I2. J:+e8een XI. T.lisha the Prophet Res stores a Child to` Life, 2 Kluge 4.8.37. Golden Text, Rom. 6.28, Verso 8.A. great woman ---The prevailing idea of greatness was Of a person who was independently rich (1 Sam, 25. 2), and who had the power that goes' so frequently with wealth. This same Shunem was made famous es the abode of the beautiful " maiden ° who is the heroine of Solo'mon.'a Song, and who may be identified with Abishag, the nurse of David's old age, Thus . Shunarn- mite seems. to have been an heir - esti, who, with her husband, owned much of the property about the vil- lage. Her hospitality must have been welcome to the prophet in his wearisome tours among the pro- phetic schools. 9. This was: a holy man—It seems unlikely that Elijah would have availed himself of such comforts as Were offered in this luxurious home, but the impression made by Elisha was not diminished because he had an eminently social nature and gave it free play. At any rate, the pro- posal made to her husband by the. woman (10) was not unusual, even in a land overflowing ,with hospit- ality. The little chamber, built 'with walls, above the roof, so as to give easy and private access from the outside (and furnished after the style of Oriental rooms), mush have afforded the prophet many hours of refreshment. • 12, Gehazi—Throughout his ling public eareer Elisha was attended by his servant, who ocupied, much the same position as he himself held in relation to Elijah. She stood before him ---It is dif- ficult for us to imagine the rever- ence with which she would come is to the presence of one whom she considered a representative of God, or the reserve which Elisha, in the dignity of his position, would ex- ercise, so downtrodden was the con- dition of womankind in those days (compare Jesus and the Samaritan woman, John 4. 27), • So Elisha speaks to her through his mouth- piece, Gehazi (13), and, careful not to offend his benefactor by any sug- gestion of money equivalent for her pains, he proposes that he might give expression to his grati- tune by .speaking a word in her be- half to the king, or using his court influence• with the captain of the: host. But, dwelling as she did, among her own friends, she felt no need of royal or military protec- tion. So she went away, only to be recalled on Gehazi's suggestion that .the great sorrow of her life was, that she had no child, and was growing old (14, 15). 16. Do not lie—The promise that inthespringu of. the year following she should have a child her very own was•too good to be believed on light evidence. 19. My head—It is likely 'the child' had suffered 'from sunstroke. 21. Laid him en the bed of the man of God -What Elisha. had al- ready done for her was sufficient to make her believe in his power to do even greater things. 23, Wilt thou. go to-day!—The husband is not thinking of the dead. child, but of some religious festival connected with the new moon or the sabbath,' over which the prophet might be called upon to preside Nevertheless, upon her . assuring him that all was well,' be has the ass prepared (24)• . The servant would attend her for protection, running by her side the entire six- teen ix teen miles to Carmen, 25. The roan of God saw her— From his retreat in the hills he could look down the road and see het while she wee yet afar off. He at once divined that something was amiss. But the woman not relin- quishing the hope which she cher- ished, out of an anxious heart ex- claimed, It is well (26). 27. Thrust her away—Gehazi con- eidered in a breach of etiquette, but his master saw that she acted in great extremity, and put his ser- vant aside, 29. Be said to Gahazi—Ho did not need to ]tear the words which the woman seemed reluctant tb speak, that her son was dead. He bade ius servant gather up the loose folds of his garment, and to pause for no salutations, lest his progress should be impeded. But the moth- er is not satisfied to have the staff and its master separated, for where he is there is power. So with the woman, Elisha follows his servant, who meets them ten the way with the news that the. child has not re- vived. ' 32. The child was dead -There is left no such doubt in this story as in some others in°the Bible, as to. whether the person was actually dead. 33-35.—Notice the earnest solic- itude displayed by Elisha, He.net only prayed, but used every means uvithf.' his power to bring back the breath of life. This was the order followed by Elijah at Zarephath, and is the true method of approach- ing God in everything we seek 'ram N8.'r'ake up thy eon --In the tens. mess of the situation the indireo address,. through' •his servant, i laid aside,. Ilumanit'y lea far lar er coneideration than eonventio ality, 37, Fell at hie feet—She was to over'whelnaed with emotion an gratitude to speak.,. We are left t imagine what the return journey must havombeen, °&{NIS. FROM SUNSET* GO g n 0 d a PROVIDING FOR WOItliPROPLL Iuvalfdity 1.nsurauoe Will Not Con- fliot With Ohl Ago Pensions, The English people are beginning to realize the vast importance of the British Government's scheme of invalidity insurance, which isnow being eagerly dacussed in every factory and workshop, mine, and quarry,.in the servants hall of'Loxi- don mansions, and humble farm kit- chen*. The invalidity insurance, as proposed by the Government, is quite 'a thing apartfrom old age pensions and unemployment insur- ance, There is no idea of changing the basis, of old age pensions as at present administered, Invalidity insurance is an extension only. Old age pensions of $1,25 a week will still be granted on a non-contribu- tory basisto qualified persons over the age of seventy. For this reason the insurance scheme will come to an end at seventy, and there will be no over -lapping. Contributions to invalidity insurance will begin at as age net lower than sixteen years and not higher than eighteen years. Again, invalidity insurance is quite distinet from unemployment insur- ance as outlined by the ,Beard of Trade. Unemployment insurance is intended for men and women who are able and willing to work but cannot find a job. Invalidity in- surance is meant for men and wo- men who are debarred from work- ing through 'continued ill -health. Unemployment insurance will be compulsory only for the building, ship -building and engineering trades—that is, fortwo and a -half million workers. Invalidity insur- ance will be compulsory and univer- saI for all persons between the ages of sixteen or eighteen and seventy whose income is less than $800 a year. Unemployment insurance supplements the work of trade un- ions ; invalidity insurance supple- ments the work of friendly societ- ies. The details of the invalidity insurance are still secret. On Nov- ember 4th ovember.4th Mr. Lloyd George hand- ed a draft of it to. Mr. Barnes, the Grand Master of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows: The docu- ments -were,-however, communicate- ed on Cabinet • terms, . and Mr: Barnes was forbidden to make them public. Contributions to the echeme will, as in the case of unemploy- ment insurance,, be derived from the worker, the state and the em- ployer. The, amount of the combin— ed contribution is unknown and the proportions to be paid by the three parties respectively is also not known, Conjecture has set one- half for the employer, and one-half for the state. WHO WAS BOSS? Once on a time, runs a modern fable, a youth about to embark on the sea of matrimony, went to his father and said :— "Father,who should be boss, I or my wife l" The old man smiled and said :-- "Here —"Here are one hundred hens and a team of .horses. Hitch up the horses, put the liens into the wag- on, and wherever you find a man and his wife dwelling stop and make inquiry as to who is the boss. Wher- ever you find, a woman running things, leave a hen. If you come to a place -where a man is in con- trol, give him one of the horses." After ninety-nine hens had -been disposed of, he came to a house and made the usual. inquiry. - "I'rn boss o' this farm," said the man. So the wife was called, and she affirmed her husband's• assertion. "Take whichever horse you want," was the boy's reply. So the husband replied, "I'11 take the bay." But the wife did not like the bay horse, and called her husband aside WW1 talkedto him. He returned and said :— "1 "believe I'll take the grey horse." "Not much," said the young man. "You get a hen." d+ FACT AND FANCY. Tight lacing goes with- loose hab- its. Greece, thanks to her climate, has the most centenarians. The only time a real . financier tak es. lair ,wife into his confidence is to tell her when ho isn't making any money. Many a millionaire is the archi- tect of his son-in-laws'e fortune. "Dear," comes from the old Eng- lish "deore," meaning "distin- guished," Tt is important at this season to remember that no ono can arrest the flight of time. We can all, how- ever, step a minute; There are no less than 5,000 .var- ities of cider apples e pp s grown in Normandy WRAT TILE' WESTERN PRO ARE DOING. Progresl of the Groat West T In a Few Pointed, • Items, ' , There were 820 deaths in Van ver last year. Nearly eight feet of snow h fallen in Roseland this winter, The new $75,000 convent buildi in Kamloops, 13,0,, is about co pld, Tetehe new Inland Hospital, to built this year in Kamloops, n Dost $125,000. The mayor of Vancouver ie p $5,000 a year and the alder $600 each, In the spring a salmon Bann and box factory will be started Stewart, B.U, Calgary real estate men preparing for an influx of farm during March and April. Four feet of solid ore has been struck at'the 1,050 foot level of the Rambler mine in the Slocan. Vancouver citizens are indignant because compulsory vaccination has been forced upon them. Last year there were 538 cases before •the• police court 'in. Revel- stoke.. The fines 'amounted to $4,000 Not for Many winters has there been so much snow on the Saskat- chewan prairies as is the case at present. David Oppenheimer is to be hon- ored by a memorial in Vancouver. He was one of the first mayors of. that city. The B,C. Government has con- sented to the appointment of a com- mission to enquire into the high price of coal. A syndicate of Vancouver people has recently purchased 35 lots in the west end of New Westminster for $75,000. Two men, who pleaded guilty in Medicine Hat to cattle -stealing, were each sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Winnipeg Ministerial Association has unanimously elected Rabbi J. K. Levin, a Jewish clergyman, to membership. • Appalling stories of inadequacy of the medical provision for labor- ing men on G.T.P. construction work west of Edmonton are told. "It will take a small army of men busy this coming summer building new churches in this city," says the Morning Albertan, Calgary. In a recent excursion from Medi- cine Hat down into Montana, there were 100 men in the party and one out of every three was a real es- tate agent. Tom Flynn died in Roseland last month aged 71 years. Three months ago he paid the Dominion Govern- ment $4,250 for an annuity of $50 a month. Over 300 farmers young and' old, attended the 'class of instruction on agricultural subjects held by the provincial -government at Strath- more last week. On Kootenay Lake the progressive ranchers are devoting their ener- gies to placing the recently formed Kootenay Fruit Growers Union, Limited, en a sound financial foot- ing.' The entire province of Saskatche- wan is living .from hand to mouth as regards fuel, and one more sev- ere storm will put the entire pro- vince right lip against it for fuel. There are several sulphur springs in that part of British Columbia known as the Pemberton Meadows. Just after the San Francisco earth- quake they stopped flowing for three months. Slake work is advertised by the miners' unions in three different mining districts of Alberta, the Royal collieries at Lethbridge, Coal Creek, in the Crow's Nest Pass, and Bankhead. Operations at the Vancouver - Prince Rupert Meat Packing Com- pany's abbatoir, at Sapperton, are now in steady progress. About 40 head of cattle and from 80 to 100 hogs are despatched daily. 3• A LONG CREDIT. The motto of the Highland host that battled for the Stuart cause, which •bonnie Prince Charlie head- ed, apparently was that heaven helps those who helps themselves liberally. They levied toll on the hen -roost, stable, and according to the author of a recent delightful Week, entitled "The Land of Ro- mance," even on the pogxets of the Covenanters, At Swarthholm a party of these marauders overhauled the house of a tailor, and when one of them was about to cut up a web of homespun that had taken his fancy, the good - wife earnestly remonstrated, "A day'1l come when yell ha' tae pay for that," she solemnly as- sured lain. Scissors in hand, Donald paused. "An' when will she pe haling to do that?" he asked, "At the Last Day, said she. "An' that will pea Sony goat long credit," the robber coolly returned. "She wass going to pe only taking a coat, but now she will pe takin' a waistcoat n,s well," , •., - e,.,• on and smaller tonnages for other countries. Warships launched in the United Kingdom during 1910: British ., ,.,43 ships, 133,625 tons Foreign 2 ships, 1,120 tons Countries for whose use are in- tended the 122 warships in all the shipbuilding ports in the world: British 43 ships, 133,525 tone German .., 21 ships, 49,024 tons U S A, 13 ships, 30,287 tons French 12 ships, 24,063 tons Japanese 3 ships, 23,100 tons no other country having added so much as 20,000 to its naval ton- nage. Combining mercantile .andnaval shipbuilding in United Kingdom ports and abroad, we have these remarkable figures concerning this "ruined induatry" : Launched in 1910 in the United Kingdom, 545 ships, 1,277,814'tons; launched in 1910 in all the rest of the world, 864 ships, only 990,893 tons. Of the last named the United States built 361,000 tons; Germany, 210,000; France, 105,000 tous; Hol- land 71,000 tons; no other country turning out so much as 60,000 ton- nage. The United Kingdom gain in out- put as compared with figures ab- road is shown by comparing our first table with the subjoined Tonnage of merchant ships launched in all the world except the United Kingdom, during three years: 1908 1909 1910 903,617 610,991 814,684 Thus the rest of the world has de- creased its output almost half as much as the United Kingdom has increased its output. . Even the gain on balance as af- fected by vessels being lost as sea or broken up, the United Kingdom has an advantage over the rest of the world. Tonnage of merchant ships lost or broken up, thus reducing the total tonnage of the mercantile marine: Foreign British Isles. and Colonial. Ships. Tons. Ships, Tons, 1906 198 291,000 602 518,000 1909 .... 201 361,000 666 578,000 1910 202 358,000 587 516,000 4• OSMAN DIGNA STILL ALIVE, Dervish Leader Now at Wady Haifa is Eighty Years of Age. The Emir Osman Abu Bakr Dig- na, once notorious in the Soudan as Osman Digna, who since Decem- ber, 1908 has been interned at Wa dy Haifa is now an old man of eighty years of age. Lieutenant - Governor Wingate (Sirdar of the Egyptian army) contributes some facts relating to "Osman the Ug- ly," who in the troublous times in the Soudan had as many reported deaths as the Mad Mullah, Osman, prior to Mandism, was a sucassdiui slave -trader between the Souriaa and the Arabian coasts. Owing to his persecution by the old Egyptian Government for carrying on this trade, he- seized the opportutriie of the Dervish revolt to join the Mandi ill 1883, and proved to be his most zealous adherent and capable lieu' tenant, He was entrusted with the propagation of Mandism in the Eastern Soudan, and this region he rapidly overran and conquered, Os- man was present at the battle of Omdurman and at the Khalifa's de feat and death of Gedicl in 1899. He escaped after the conflict, and after a long march on foot was cap- tured in the Warriba Hills, ninety miles west of Suakim, by Captain Burges, at th'e head of acivil pat- rol, in January, 1900. Osman was then deported to Rosetta, in Egypt, to join the other Dervish prisoners, and remabred there to the end of 1902, when he was transferred tc the Damietta prison, and in. Dec- ember, 1908, was senti turn to Wady' Haifa, n to where he now is, He—"Ah, Miss Laura, and what have you been doing to -day 1" She --"Oh, I've been reading Tenny- son. He --"Aro you fond of Ten- nyson?" She—"Fond of him ! Why, I simply devour him!" He — "Ali, well, that accintnts for it; 1 have SO often heard him spoken of as a poet Laura ate." ing. The castle lies on a hill over- looking the Danube, witian a drive of Vienna, and is one of the first sights which all distinguished visit- ors to the capital, such as in recent years, King Edward, Emperor Wil- liam, rind ex -President Roosevelt have been taken to see. A "fideikommis" is stricter than its English equivalent as it cannot be cut off like an entail, An estate can, however, now be tied up in this way only by a special act of the Austrian Parliament, which: the lower house is nowadays very un- willing to pass; none has bean created for fifteen years. This dif- ficulty was got over in this case by the legal advice of a so-called ex- change. Part of Count Wilczek's estates is already subject to "'Mei- t kommis," and he was permitted by t the judicial authorities to bring Kreutzenstein under the entail in the place of land in Silesia, which was thereby released, A CAT'S DAILY `SWIM. Feline That Crosses the River Every Day. A cat that swims across the Thames River •every evening and swims back again next morning is something in the nature of a novel- ty, but the people of Deptford claims that they possess such an an- imal.. The feline to which such re- markable feats are attributed be - longe to the ferr,yboatman who us- ed bo ply between the landings of the shipyards of Messrs, Robert Thompson, on the Southwick side, and Messrs, Laing on the Deptford side. This man had up to about a. fortnight ago ferried a small boat across the river and on many oc- casions the cat, which had appar- ently discovered "pasture's new" at Southwick, accompanied him in his boat each evening, and returned by the first ferry the next morning. Sometimes, however, the oat would travel so far in the boat, and then of its free will would leap over- board and finish the journey with; a beautiful paw -over -paw stroke. On the cessation of the ferry ser- viee people thought that the eat would check its roving disposition and remain on its own side of the river, but evidently pussy found , that the rats and mice on the Dept- ford side were not to be compared with those at Southwick, for every night, with a beautifully graceful jump it takes the water and swims. across the river, returning first thing in the morning with a con- tented and self-satisfied smirk. But Deptford is not the only place on the Thames that can boast of a clever cat. Harry Milham, one of the most popular boating men on the river, has a cat at his well- known boat -house at Strawberry Vale, between Twickenham and Teddington, which is a feline mar- vel. In the summer it may fre- quently be seen perched on the how of a boat gazing into the water. All at once it will make a. (live into the river and, swift as lightning, bring to the surface a small flab, which it proceeds to devour with evident satisfaction. Milham has had this cat from the days of its kittenhood, and believes it is the cleverest oat on the Thames, IBRITAIN'S AIR SCOUTS. New Naval inonster of the Skies Nearing Completion. Britain's naval airship No. 1,. which has been under construction for more than twelve months at t Cavendish dock, is now approach- ing completion, but nobody can say when the huge vessel will be i launched, The construction of the first nav- al Dreadnought of the air has been veiled in the same, profoundofficial secrecy as was that of : the first Dreadnought of the sea, Nobody,l unless he be a naval man directly connected with ter work, is allowed to approach with, in twenty yards of the enormous shed in which the airship is being built; Her length. is 51'0, feet, her diam- eter 48 feet, her gas capacity 706,- 000 -cubic feet, and her eit;l t cylin- der motors and three spenially con - abraded propellers will drive her through the air et 50 i:riles an ho./ ,