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The Brussels Post, 1911-11-23, Page 3tiousmouP SEASO.NA.tl1,E DISHES. llaaruit:Calse-Two cupfuls of brawn sugar•, one Vupful of molasses, ono and three-quarter eupfisla of .hut ter, ane cupful of sweet milk, four oupfula of flour, three teaepoonfuls of baking powder, five eggs, three. patinae of raisins, ane pound of dates, one pound citron, one-half pound of orsaiige peel, two pounds of currants; brandy and spice to taste. Steam three Miura, Cranberry L'onaerve. — Chop coarsely five pounds of berries and two of seeded raisins, thinly peel rind from five oranges, then take the pulp and juice of six, boil the rind in water, changed until it is no longer butter. When tender chop fine. Place the fruit and rind in kettle with five pounds of ,sugar, heat and '.simmer slowly' •cunni re- duced to jam. Christmas Loving Cup -Chop and melt twelve marshmallows in one pint of fruit juice. Boil one pound of sugar and one-half pint of water to 220 degrees Fahrenheit. then stir - in the etiffly beaten whites of two eggs, the fruit juice, and juice of ono lemon. When cold fold in one- half pint of whipped cream, pack in ioe and salt for three hours. Fill sherbet glasses half full of thin slie- ea of orange, bananas, pineapple and marsehino cherries.., Cover with teaspoon each of lemon juice and: liquid honey. Over this heap the frozen mixture. Nut Creams. -Dissolve one and ono -half .tablespoons of gelatin in one gill of -boiling water, strain in- . cupful of lard. When this has to a basin, add .six tablespoons of cu Fp' sugar, two tablespoons each of cooledadd ane cake of yeast that chopped pecans and pistachio nuts, has previously: been soaked. Mix one teaspoon of vanilla' extract, and this about noon; let stand till night, then mix stiff with flour, as for bread; let rise' over night; in the morning out into biscuits, let rise again, and bake. Grandma's Doughnuts,—One cup- ful of Sugar, ane cupful of warm mashed potatoes, three' cupfuls of flour, one-half of milk, one egg, one teaspoonful of butter, ;ono -fourth teaspoonful of salt, three teaspoon- fuls of baking powder, one-fourth teaspoonful of .ginger; one teaspoon- ful of nutmeg; roll rather thin, cut, fry, then dust with powdered sugar. Oatmeal Cookies.—Ono cup brown sugar creamed with one-half cup lard and ono -quarter cup butter, yolks of two eggs well beaten. One teaspoon • soda, one-half cup hot water, two cups oatmeal, two cups flour, one teaspoon of baking pow- der, one teaspoon cinnamon, pinch of salt, two tablespoons chocolate dissolved in the one-half cup hot water, two cups raisins and one cup nuts put through grinder. WHERE THE • ITA.LIANS SUSTAINED HEAVIEST LOSSES. r'eldiers firing from the trenohes in the bumeliana, the Italians' moat advanced point in Tripoli It wale .sere that the Turks attacked the Italian& and drove them in aftera terrible cavalry charge witl fearful losses on both alias. In the background are the houses of the fawn, where .Turks, .supposed t, have surrendered, fired at the Italians in the rear, causing the latter to. take revenge by slaughtering a1 the men, women and children in the place. The officer in the foreground is Major Pisani, who a short time after this photograph was taken was killed by one of the Arab riflemen in the rear. • TESTED RECIPES. blush Biscuits, To ono quart of boiling water add one teaspoonful of salt and one and one-fourth cup- fuls of corn meal; boil till like mush, remove from fire,and add a scant cupful of sugar and three fourths ono pint ofwhipped cream. Stir un- til beginning to grow firm. Pour in- to individual molds, Turn out on serving plates, garnish with- whip- ped sweetened cream, and sprinkle over with finely chopped pistachios. Taffy.—Two cupfuls granulated sugar, . one cupful vinegar, one . tablespoonful of butter. Roil until erackles when dropped in water. CAKE. Spite Cake.—Two cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of butter or lard, throe cupfuls of flour, one cupful of sweet milk, four eggs, one teaspoon- ful cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful -cloves, three teaspoonfuls baking socia. Cinderella Cake.—Three-quarters of a capful of melted butter, four whole eggs beaten, one cupful of granulated sugar, one cupful of sweet milk, two and one-half cup- fuls of flour, and two and onsehalE teaspoonfuls baking powder. Sprinkle top with cinnamon, sugar, • and chopped almonds; bake three- quarters of an hour; serve hot. Spice Cake.—Two cups brown. sugar creamed with one-half cup butter, two eggs, one cup sour milk one teaspoon soda dissolved in milk, two and one-half cups flour, one- half teaspoon allspice, One of cin- namon, one-half teaspoon of cloves, one-half nutmeg grated. Icing.— The white of one egg beaten stiff. . Cook ono cup sugar and one-half cup water until it threads, add' to white of egg. and beat until thick; flavor wit`, vanilla. Latiy 13altimore Cake.—Two- thirds cup of batter, five eggs, two cups of sugar, four cups of flour, rano li if cup of milk, two level tea- spoonfuls of cream of tartar, ono level teaspoonful of soda; cream half Of the sugar with the butter, beat the remaining sugar into theyo•lfc's of the eggs; sift the cream of tartar and the soda twice through the flour; boat the eggs and sugar to- gether with the butter and sugar and and the milk slowly: now beat the white of an egg, and it will pre - the flour, add the stiffly beaten vent the juice of the fruit from whites, flavor half of this mixture seeking in. • To remove an ink stain from a col- ored waist, put tho stained portion in 'sweet milk and let it etand.un•til the milk eours. When baking•individual custards; ware of brea cup to avoid ;3S. USEFUL HINTS. Alcohol will remove candle grease. Keep tacks in bottles. It saves opening many boxes to find a parti- cular kind. When cleaning house use plenty of turpentine in the scrub water. It means certain death to moths. A great many blemishes on wall paper may be removed with a rub- ber on a lead pencil. To remove fly specks from, var- nished surfaces use 'equal parts of water and skint milk, warmed. Discolored china baking dishes tan be made as clean as when new by rubbing them with whiting. Add borax to :the water in which the dish towels are to be washed, and it will aid in making them white and soft. The cushioned back of a Morris chair has, been found valuable in the sickroom to place back of the invalid in bed. Rub the bottom crust of a pie with with rosy and into the other half beat ossa teaspoonful of powdered cinnamon, one of eleves,ane grated nutmeg, flavor with vanilla or ai- med; bake in four layers, two rose and two spiced. Filling for cake put a•thin but Out 'fine one cup of seeded raisins, in the botto ono small cocoanut grated, citron, ego cup of blanched almonds, make boiled icing; beat these ingredients in reserving the almonds ; those put on top laver stuck and sprinkle this layer with powdered sugar, Graham Loaf Cake.—Two and one-half cups buttermilk (or sour milk). three and one-half cups gra- ham flour, one cup brown sugar, one pound dates, cut; two level tea- spoons soda, pinch of salt. Makes two small loaves. Bake in slow oven thirty-five or forty-five minutes, Cream Oake- Beat the yolks of Stains on flannels may be re four eggs, to which has been added ed by applying yolks of egg and• one oven eup of powdered sugar for coriuo in equal quantities. l.et Ave minutes, Then add the whites, for half an hour and then wash sine. Which have been boston thoroughly,' Salt or coffee groundssprinkled one cup of flour with ono teaspoon- on the stove when a kettle •or• pot NI of baking powder, and lastly boilsover, will prevent any dis- edd one tablespoonful cold water, agreeable odor from spreading 7xllisag: Twa ettps of• silk into which through the house. has been beaten the yolks ,ef twe To prevent rust no over the nickel eggs. two tablespoonfuls cr,rn- parts on stoves with a cloth •damp- .„,,starch, one•half cup tenser, one tr' enc 1 with linseed oil, rind then wrap • enoonfill vanilla, Bake, eels() in in pater before 'putting away for; three leyea this. I the summer, the custard Dark st standing by rubbh kerchief clip_ Place a bo. in which jams, preser stored away. Ib will p from gathering on the fru] To cleat leather, first titer with soft cloth, tile,' other cloth dippofn tl ei1 rd and allot will be ealate Ames, DIE SUNDAY SCHOOL STUDY INTERNATIONAL LESSON, NOV.26. Lesson IX.-Nchciniah's Prayer,: ',Sch. 1. Golden Text; James 5. 16. Verse 1. The words—The margin has "history," a rendering that of course alters the sense considerably. As a matter of fact, the book does not, consist entirely of the words of Nehemiah, there being a break of veral chapters (7. 73 to 12, 31) in which the writer has drawn from other sources besides the personal memoirs of Nehemiah. "The his- tory of Nehemiah" might mean ei- ther a historical book by him or a record of his deeds. Whichever reading is preferred it doubtless should be regarded as an editorial heading. Son of Hacaliah—This is simply a designation, differentiating this Ne- hemiah from others of the same name (Ezra 2. 2, Neh. 3. 10). We know nothing of the father, and can only make conjeotures as to his tribe. Some have thought Nehemiah belonged to Levi, others, to Judah. The more important fact about him is, that being an exile, oceupying a place of prominence in a foreign court, he should still have enter- tained his own people. Now—The abrupt manner in which the beak beginsis an evidence of its close connection with the story which precedes. The month Chis- ley was the ninth in the Jewish. candar, and corresponded nearly to our December. Its was in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes Longi- menus, ongimanus, or B. 0, 445. It was in the seventh year of the same reign that Ezra was given permission to re- turn. Shushan—See Word Studies for November 5. Since the days of Cyrus, it had been the principal ca- pital of the Persian empire, and was used by the kings as their winter residence. The word palace here, however, signifies more than a royal abode. It was a special designation given to Shushan, and refers to its being a stronghold as well as a city of kings. The remains of the anci- ent city, near the modern town of Diz£ul, eighty miles oast of the Tig- ris, are said to bo of astonishing magnitude. 2. Hanani--Nohemiah 7, 2 speaks of him as "my brother," meaning something more than a more fellow countryman. The phrase, one of my brethren, makes ib seem unlikely a't he was owl brother et b dicates his complete surprise. He must have known of the expeditior of Ezra and the attempt to rebuilt the wall, also of the edict of Ar taxerxos prohibiting further work f>~ that direction. But it was an un expected blow to hear of Jerusalen defenceless and dishonored. Before the God of heaven—The interest of this title for the Doit; is in its, frequent occurrence, not alone in the writings of Nohemial but also in the Persian inscriptions, and in the edicts of Gyrus, Darius and Artaxerxes. While it can hard ly be shown that it is of Persian ori• gin it almost certainly originated with the Jews under Persian rule It is a title of universal soverignty and indicates that the wider experi- ences of the Jews tended to enlarge their conception of God, so that he is no longer to them a divinity whose sway is limited by the house daries of Palestine. 5-11. Nehemiah's prayer. Com- pare with the prayer of Daniel (Dan. 9. 4-19), and that of Ezrs (Ezra 9. 5-15). The prayer may be analyzed as follows: (1) address : (2) humble invocation; (3) confes- sion of sins; (4) appeal to the di• vine promises; (5) closing supplica- tion for immediate help. 5. Great and terrible God—An idea of God borrowed from Deut. 7. 21. In times of calamity the h}}.�y, man heart is visited with a sense o£ the might and terror of Jehovah. These awe -awakening attributes, however,. are blended with hope -in- spiring thoughts of God's mercy and faithfulness. He will surely keep his convenient and laving kindness with those who keep his command- ments. The •sentence is also derived from Deuteronomy. With God the keeping of the covenant consists in his continuing to show mercy. This mercy is vouchsafed only to those who return to their allegiance in the spirit of obedience and love. 6. Thine ear attentive, and thine eyes open—This is somewhat in the temper of the courtier, but it is full of -earnestness. This is evi- dent in the plea that the prayer is offered day and night. Tho faith and humbleness of heart of such re- iterated supplications cannot be overlooked. I confess the sins . . . we have sinned—He identifies himself with his own erring people, In its eon - solemness of sin the entire race of men is one. That is one notable thing about the confession. Another is the kind of national conscience manifest in the expression, I and my father's heuso. Neither the in- dividual nor the family can escape responsibility. Nothing is said about tho enemies at Home. The real fees of Nehomiahts people have been their faller :; q_ i the corn- ball JSINN CEMENT IN WINTER JONCUET.E WQRfi IN FREEZING Ample ['reeautions on Using X Whet( Thermometer illay he Below Zero. 'Until a few years ago, although .onereta had already been gener- .11y adopted throughout the eoun- ry by contractors and farmers for imost all 'structural work; it was ,he practice to stop all work on this arm of construction at soon as the .old weather set in. It has been foand, however, that :oncrete work may be carried on in old weather successfully, and with .ut very little more trouble .than -.rider az'dinary circematanCea. This fact is of great benefit to the armor, as it is in the colder period .1 the year that he is able to find imo for building .and making the nany articles avoun..l the farm to .vhich conoreto so readily adapts it - _elf, With a few simple precautions it gas been found that concrete can 30 used, not only in freezing wea- ,her, but when the thermometer has seen actually below zero. If concrete freezes before it starts .o "set": it will not be injured, but :f the freezing takes place after the 'setting" action has started up, he concrete is likely to be damaged /then it thaws, owing to the expan- sion of the melting water forcing he particles apart and making the concrete crumbly. On the other -sand, if the concrete has a chance ;o become thoroughly "set" before freezing, no harm will bo done. To sive it this chance you must first of all prepare the materials as de- :cribed below, and secondly, you nust protect the concrete after it :ria been placed in the "forms." PREPARATION OF MRTERIALS. Conorete will, on its own account, develop a certain amount of heat Fig. 1. Showing simple method of water heating. in the "setting" pro,eess. But in cold weather, some outside assist- ance, in the form of artificial heat, is necessary. The best way to de- velop this 'artificial heat is to warm the materials before mixing. This shortens the time that it takes the concrete to "set" and lengthens the time necessary to bring it to the freezing point. Bear in mind that the less water used, the quicker concrete "sets." Therefore, it is. advisable to use as little water as possible in the mixing during cold weather. HEATING WATER. A simple and easily -made vessel for heating water is shown in the accompanying drawing. (See Fig. 1.) A coil is made of one -inch pipe with the ends fastened in the barrel and made water -tight. A small fire built under the coil will heat the water rapidly and will keep it in circulation, thus keeping all the water heated. For this purpose it is wise to use a length of malleable iron gas -pipe, because it is easily bent into the required coil. 'Thisis done by tak- ing a log or fence -post about the size of the coil and bending the pipe around it. This method pre Fig, 3, Showing how materials may he heated by means of 0 fire iu ar old 'stove -pipe. , lows the waist to be constantly replenished without eeducing the heat .of thewater in the barn, from which the hot water is teke.i. Most femme, however. pusses: largo boiling kettles, .used during butchering time, or for making sof, soap, etc. Ono of these will do equally well, HEATING SAND AND STONE. Sand and stone may be very sme- lly heated by making, use of two pieces of stove pipe, ono piece fes' the sand and the other for the stone. The pipes are laid on the ground iii such a position as to al• low the wind to make a good draft. Tho fire is then built .in one end. The flames pass through, heating the whole pipe, and as fresh fuel i. added, the cinders are pushed along the pipe and gradually, work out as the other end. The sand and stone should be piled on top of the stove pipes, and will soon thaw out and become heated. • In very cold weather, the cement may be heated by laying the bags on top of the sand, but this is not ' kutolutely necessary, as the cement itself must be kept dry until used, whether the weather be hot or cold, TEMPERTURL" REQUIRED. Materials should not be heated to too high a temperature. A good way to judge the proper amount of heat is to make them just hot enough to be comfortable to touch. Care should be taken not to use any frozen lunips of sand. PROTECTING CONCRETE IN POSITION. After the concrete has been placed in "forms" it should be pro- tected so as\to keep the heat in as long as possible. This is more es- sential in thin structures than in massive walls and foundations; for the latter will hold their own heat longer en account of their thick- ness. Wooden "forms" are nen-conduc- tors, and will retain the heat in the concrete up to a certain point, but the concrete should be protected on top by a covering of canvas or heavy paper, with a layer of ten or twelve inches of manure on top of this. Straw will also answer the purpose. If manure is used, care should be taken to prevent it from coming in contact with the concrete, as it will discolor it, and possibly even seep through sufficiently to weaken the structure. PROTECTING THIN STRUC- Y- TURES. • In the case of thin walls where extra cold weather calls for addi- tional protection, heavy paper QW .p maw Fig. 4. Paper tacked to wooden. sup- ports to protect concrete from frost. should be nailed to the vertical posts of the forms, (see Figure 4), thus leaving an enclosed air space between each pair of posts. These air spaces will have about fifteen degrees higher temperature than the outside air. Tho "forms" UiPRAXW' BRID E, 0114o10 Sti'netul'o lluilt Over a British Columbia River. Sows interesting examples of Indian ingenuity aro afforded on the River Sheena and its-tribist•- aries in north British Columbia. These waterways in their upper reaches flow very "Utter and for the most part through deep ravines. As it is impossible for the Indians to cross them by means of canoes they have resorted to bridging, says the Scientific .Ana.erican. Their bridges aro interesting struetures from the engineering point of view, inasmuch as the can- tilever principle is adopted. 4. bridge of this design : spans the liulkeley River where ib is about 120 feet wide, and the height from the bridge to water level is about. eighty feet. It is built of wooden logs, the legs of the structure being formed of single stout logs varying from sixty' to eigthy feet in length. The task of ,lowering them into posi- tion must have demanded consider- able ingenuity on the part of the builders. They are buried about fifteen feet at their lower ends and anchored by the super -imposition of masses of large rock rolled and carried to the site. Thelongitudinal mem- bers- of the shore spans are simii arly buried in the ground and lash. ed to the ends of the diagonal legs. These main members, correspond- ing to deck griders, are about 120 feetin length, and to either end the A members of the superstruc- ture are lashed. Elaborate cross bracing is resorted•to in order to secure greater strength. When the bridge was East erected the different shembell War; simply secured together by willow thongs, but when the British Columbian' Government erected a more sub- stantial suspension bridge lower down the river the Indians assembl- ed and followed the white man's operations with great interest. They observed how the thick wire, cables were slung and anchored, and accordingly decided to intro- duce wire into their own structure. They procured the material for this purpose from wherever they could and introduced it in a most fantastic manner. Also when the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway engineers commenced working on their- track near by the Indians procured odds and ends, sneh as bolts and spikes, from them for in- troduction in their bridge, so that now it is a strange looking pieced work. though the fundamental cantilever lines are still distinct. ,5 -- JAPAN'S RYCii 11iEN. Only 1,018 Individuals With a For- tune of $250,000 or More. The Tokio Jiji has compiled a list of Japanese men of wealth at home and abroad and finds that there aro only 1,018 who possess $250,000 or more. But if the Japanese are gen- erally poor, some of them atleast are getting rich rapidly, for ten years ago there was only 441 in the $250,000.or more class. In that space of time the number of the wealthy leas increased by 557 or more than doubled. The peonies tion of Japan, including Formosa, exceeds 51,000,000. According to the list the wealthiest Japanese out- side of Japan are Shinzaburo Ban of Portland, Me.; Takanoshin Demote of San Francisco, Masajiro Furuya of Seattle, each of whom is a grocer; Kinji Ushijima, a plant- er, of San Francisco; Dr. Jokichi Takamine, the chemist of New York, and Seujiro Wataabe of the. Mitsui Bussan l:aisha . of London, England, Comparing the wealth of thee.: men with the fortunes of the ver';' rich of other countries one is suf- ficiently impressed with Japan's • comparative poverty. The Cronus of Japan is Baron Mitsui, whose wealth is estimated as between $100,000,000 and $200,000,000, al- though Baron Iwasaki bo con- sidered in the same multi -million- aire class. On an income basis fortunes such as these do not compare unfavor- ably with those accumulated in Europe and America, says the Oriental Review, but the 1,018 in- dividuals have $250,000' or -r present 1 1 iersng tally. 'g ,astincliscret 1 a from with the rep walls ne 1110 of r 4. I Rh 01.