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The Brussels Post, 1920-4-22, Page 2Don't Trust to Luck When ordering Tea, but insist on getting the reliable PI ng "rhe Tea, That Never Disappoin Black. Green or Mixetli Seated Packets Only. BUDDY TEE MASCOT By ME,ADE MINNIGRODE. PART III. Sir seven, eight intiinge passed. No change. The game was on ice. The visiting. cheering section made no hones about R. Came the last half of the ninth inning. Everyone stood up and waited hopefully but without convict.on. Suddenly, "Crash!" and a man en first. Moderate exe!tement' from the stands. Men on bases was! not ail at `]tie stage of the game. "Crack!" and a man out at first, run-; ner .-afe at se.•onrl. Intermission while tl:e i- t_h leisurely struck oat the. next ratan up. Two down, one man! on. -Crack!' again, and a elond of I dust. Both Wren • safe, at first and: third. This tints there was a goodly! roar, tapering off este the_ ,hatter of 1 an e.eited athletic crowd. It was 5,1 good finish hi any case. Batter up. Stile one --general commotion. Mani Oil het safe at second! Perfectly, tile .• of sennas, but it i- sert;e1ee5 thin.; like that which melte callcc;ci ha^c:,:g.:1 interesting. Beady edged himself fo and. 'This; was momentous, Two ,ren do:vm,1 men :,n ereond and tided, erne. ,,trike,� two _ it needed to tie—let alone" threw to win. Otit en the diamond they ;:ere taking their bins. Buddy leaked back at the bleachers. Had they ecrgotten? Surely :hie was the moment to sale. It had ::ark:ii et cruet week again now that they; had pared the penaisy 1.e their pride. Buddy stood up. ":'.it ,town!" "Shut up:" "Down in, Trent!" they Balled to trim angrily. "Can the hoodoo play ball?" roared the. Joekeys. Buddy stooped for a sceend unc'er+ the storrn, then resolutei-r he steed, up again. If they had lost- faith, well„ at least be could try. He only knew! \ part of the song, but he Cult] do his beet. IIe raised bis cent, and starer.. -1 ed his feet. "Bang! Bang! Bang!" pipak the little voice, "and .vo'n lire off the fire---" ea It ettli!" Buddy newer tieishod. At leaeno• rl,e !weird Ifni finish. He saw the; J -t ohlte:lc;, leap as ore man into thei ale. Out of the corneaof his eye, he caw the jockeys ar l the Tares, and all •he rest of them do the same. Some live hie bred hats soared heavenward. Time live hundred voicee reared oat a Niagara of sound. It :tins deseribcd in the papers as a scene at pandemoniune liven the sun .•ants alt to see what had hap - pe ne J. via, quite simple. inartistic as it unci•• have been, the hero of the hour had slot -truck out, teat's all. restore!, he had craeked out a home - run to the field house. and when Biddy turned around they were carrying him on their shoulders to the bench with the winning run safely stowed away in his system. Those things will happen, especially in col- lege ba. ehali, 'they came pouring down from the blenetere shouting,"Meese! Music!" The brit to reach Buddy was his big friend. "I did it, mister!" said Buddy engerly. "1 gang the, song, anwe won, an' there'll be fireworks!" The big fellow grabbed Buddy and hoisted him up on his shoulder. The others all came swanning around them. Even the Jockeys seerned sat- isfled, After all, it was true, the kid bad sung the song and• they had won, "Listen, boys!" shouted the big Highlander, "Give a cheer for Buddy! He wen the game for us. Long cheer for the hest mascot a class ever had!' They gm:0 it. They gave several. Other ciassee went to far as to tempt Buddy with culinary bribes, but he remained firmly established on the shoulders of hie friend. In this man- ner they carried bins around the field and en the street, throngh the dust and the erewds, with the tunsat at his baek. And that evening, of coarse. they had fireworks. Perfectly splendid fireworks, enou h to make f up or the last two years. The big space of grass was a nightmare of smoke and torches and swirling figures. The climax came when the Highlanders with the maj- ority of the twelve bands present car- ried Buddy around from class to elass to be cheered. And then the last pin- wlfcel sheeted off, torches began to go out, and Turk and •Crusader, Jockey and Clown, Convict and Highlander, eat to work to disentangle themselves. The celebration was over for this year. Buddy jumped down off a fence post and came to earth mentally as well as physically. He awoke from a (bream of skyrockets and cannon crackers and felt very tired and hun- gry A little chilly too for the bare feet. It must be very late, And there Watt something else. What was it? His business! Gee whiz, yea, his business! Buddy had forgotten all about it. This was a calamity pee-, Renting the most dire consequences. What should he do? It was too late now. For a moment he hovered on the edges of the orowd, then suddenly he turned and ran off in the darlotess. Some of his klighlanders saw hins go and called "Goad night!" to him, but he did not answer. 'Poor kid," said one, "he must be all in! Guess he had the time of his life, though. He never had a day like this before, I bet." Buddy went down a succession of dark side streets, climbed a couple of hack fences, threw a brick at a pass- ing cat, missed her, and let himself into a messy kitchen through a screen door. "So there you are!" said a woman's querulous voice, as she stopped her ironing to inspect ]him. "They keepin' open late at the grocery to -night?" "Gess so," Buddy replied, sniffing at the stove. "You guess so?" she caught him up. "Don't you know? Ain't you come from there?" "N -no," Buddy admitted cautiously. "Xan ain't?" slle exclaimed, "Where have yea been, then? I know, traip- sin' around the college, tvatchir.' them crazy boys at their antieo—answer me!" "I been there—some," Buddy ad- mitted shifting his feet. "Ain't you got more sense than that?" she scolded. "A boy your age! An' e•oin' to your job so early too— ou had ought to be in bed long ago.) What'd Mr. Elkins say to you, any - 0.7 "idope," replied Buddy with con- vestion, glad of an opportunity to give at least one entirely truthful answer. "Didn't he say nothin' about your tannin' errands and all bein' satis- factory?" she insisted. "He said he'd take you on trial to -day, just to see if you eras any good." "He didn't say nothin," replied Buddy. Oh, shucks! What was the use? There had never been a day like thie. What were jobs and run- ning errands, and all the rest of it, compare:I to the utter glory of this day of days. He looked up at her denantly, and in so doing he looked a little less like an angel than usual. "I ain't been to the store at all!" he said very firstly. "You what?" she exclaimed. "You ain't been to the store? Now don't you Be to me—you been fired!" "I ain't lyin'," said Buddy, "an' I ain't been fired. I—I been busy all day." "Busy!"' she snorted. "Busy what at, I'd like to know?" "I been a mascot,' Buddy explain-, ed, and the stere mentioning of it; brought a transforming smile to his face. "A which?" she asked. "A mascot," he explained eagerly. "You walk out in front of the pee - rade, an' sing songs, an' make the fireworks come—gee, it's slick, Ilia! I forgot to go to the store," he con- cluded lamely. "Mascot, is it?" she exclaimed. "Forgot to go to the store, did you? An' lost your jab --at your age too— I'll mascot you! Come here to me!" "I don't carel" he said when it was over. "Those fellers was all oider'n me—and they done it too, marchin' and all. I guess I'll have my name is the papers too—an' my picture per- haps, gee!" He paused and sniffed at the stove again. "Can I have some supper, Ma?" "Supper!" she stormed at him. "No supper for the likes of you! Go on to bed with you this instant. I'n have to see Mr. Elkins to -morrow an' try an' explain. Guess I'll have to tell him you got sick er sontethin',' "I wouldn't, Ma," said Buddy proudly. "i•Ie'lI be seein' my picture in the paper to -morrow, I guess," and he retreated hastily out of the kit- chen. Upstairs in his dingy little room Buddy flung himself on the bed, over- alls and all, Oh, he was tired, and hungry. But he did not go to sleep right away. No he stood up very quietly in the dark. Froin unforeseen recesses of his person he carefully produced a Highlander bonnet and cane. He put on the bonnet and rais- ed the cane. Very gently he stamped his feet, "Bang! Bang! Bang!" whispered Buddy. "An' we'll fire off the fire- works to -night" His eyes were shin- ing in the dark. Out there somewhere, on a sunlit diamond, a man was mak- ing a home run , .. Throes in cos- tumes were cheering themselves hoarse for Buddy the mascot ... A Roman candle went soaring through the ceiling; no, above the trees . , . When he finally went to sleep there wore brass bands playing in his ears, and Highlanders dancing before his oyes, and the bonnet and cane were clasped close in two grubby little hands. Downstairs in the kitchen his moth- er smiled suddenly over her work. "She little rascal] she said to her- self. "feudal! I'll buy a paper. to- morrow." ('the Ilintl.) A human generation le •counted las twenty -live years; a geheratien o! hies covers seven oe eight days. P'Pbp SelimerA'a Littitncnt in the sena*. The Woman of To -Day 1 Left -Over Breads. Even in the household where the housewife is most careful about cut- fo ting the right amount of bread r each meal there will be pieces left over. Those who ate having trouble in using left -over bread will find that they have been missing some very palatable dishes. They will also find that they may save much waste, The best rule to follow is, not to let any bread get very old. In keeping it for a long time there is danger that it will mold and so be lost. Breast pudding is very popular in the homes where it is wen made. Out of many kinds of bread puddings this one is especially good: Raisin Pudding. -1 cupful raisins, 114 cupfuls milk, 1 tablespoonful sugar, le teaspoonful vanilla, 2 cup- fuls bread crumbs, 1 egg, 1f teaspoon- ful salt. Wash the raisins, beat the egg, sugar, salt and vanilla into the milk. Butter a baking dish. Put a layer of the bread crumbs into the baking dish using one-third of them. Put half the raisins ,in next and then a layer of another third of the crumbs; the reminder of the raisins and lastly the remainder of the bread. Over this pour the egg -and -milk mix- ture. If this does not completely cover the crumbs, add a Little more milk until it does. Bake in a moderate oven for half an hour, It is best to prepare this dish several hours before it is baked, if convenient, as the raisins will soak and become plumper. Bread Dressing.—This stuffing or dressing is very good for filling pep- pers or tomatoes for baking, or with roast beef, pork, mutton, veal or chicken: 2 cupfuls bread crumbs, 1 tablespoonful butter or bacon fryings, 1 tablespoonful onion (chopped) or a teaspoonful ground sage, ie teaspoon- ful salt, el teaspoonful pepper, milk. Add the fat, salt, pepper and onion to the bread crumbs and then add enough milk to just moisten it. Be careful in making this stuffing not to mash the bread together while mixing, and do not press it down hard when filling the vegetables or putting it into the pan meth the meat. The bones can be removed from a roast and the space filled with the dressing. Bread Dressing No. 2.—This stuff- ing is best to use with baked fish. It also harmonizes with hoaat duck or goose: 2 cupfuls bread crumbs, 1-3 cupful boiling water, els teaspoonful salt, 1 tablespoonful chopped celery, onion or parsley, 1-3 cupful butter or cooking fat (melted), 11 teaspoonful pepper. Also if desired for stuffing for fowl, add ea cupful chopped nuts. Mix the bread crumbs with the season- ing, add the melted fat and stir until thoroughly mixed. Lastly add the hot water and mix lightly. Though the stuffing may seem crumbly it should not be pressed together when being added to the rest of the dish, Escalloped Tomatoes.—Slices of dry bread or toast, salt, pepper, an equal quantity of cooked tomato as there is bread, butter. Butter a baking dish. Lay enough of the slices of bread in the bottom to stover it. Cover the bread with tomato and season with a little butter, pepper and salt. Continue making layers like this, having the top one of tomato dotted with bits of butter. Put into a moderately het oven anti bake for not less than half an hour. Long, slow baking makes it delicious. Be sure that there is enough tomato in each layer to mois- ten the bread. Aunt Mary's Sideboard. This pnrtitular sideboard, although substantially built, was typical of the early nineties in its high top and ornate decorations and not at all in keeping with the simple lines of our table and chairs. Still the lines were good fundamentally, and presented urging possibilities. Barring the useless experimentation we proceeded as follows: My husband removed the entire back from the chest of drawers, by removing four screws in the support. With a chisel, the applied designs, which are fasten- ed with glue and small nails, were easily taken off, and the remaining nails removed by the aid of pliers. We removed the varnish next, We tried various types of liquid varnish removers, patent varnish scrapers, pen knives, case knives and glees, dis- carded blade from a corn binder was the roost rapid and efficient scraper. This may be supplemented by a pen knife for grooves and other places, which cannot be touched by the blade:' These crevices may also be cleaned by a judieioue use of varnish remover and stiff brush, We sandpapered the entire eurface, using coarse Iaper first and following with a finer grade, alwaya following the -direction of the grain. We found that we gat more pressure by putting a small board within the sheet of sandpaper. If there are any creeks or holee in the article, the cracks should be mended with glue and holes filled With putty, plaster of Pas -is, or paper pulp and allowed to dry before sand- papering, Then wash with gasoline. The hardest part of the work was then over, In finishing, we applied a dark oak oil stain, rubbing it ihto the surface 'with a brush, The directions any that R shotild not he rubbed off on hard wood, but we found that method left a streaky appearanec, not at all de- sirable. Rubbing off the excess stain with a cloth as directed for soft woods li ht Crr effect than vee desired gave a g , but I secured a most beautiful war 0 brawn, which wouhi harmonize with either fumed or Jacobean, by rabbit g to a beginning imlin , u.tle gy tee 1(when Ll t bra itg j perhaps two or three hours after a1- plicat'on) more thoroughly into t se wood with my hands. Black hands are the result, but they wash easily, The next day, I took off the little excess; stain by rubbing the satire surface' with a cloth. Two or three days later,! I applies paste wax—two coats accord -i int; to direction.:. We measured the distance between: the holes left by the old bandies and i selected very plain velvet brass; handles to tit. Two knobs to match! were purchased for the doors, I forgot one important point. We fastened the shelf of the old side- board which was curved rather grace- fully to the cheat for a back for our buffet. This may be sawed narrower to suit the proportions. A friend who copied the general idea, finished his, by using the shelf as a low shelf sup- e el bytheold supportinglillarsl portedI sawed in two. It might he interesting to itemize the cost of our most satisfactory buffet. Sandpaper $ .10 Oiiwood .25 Wax . • • .60 4 handles .00 2 knobs .. .35 $1.90 Of course, only a smell amount of the wax was used. The oil wood stains are made in all the usual finishes such as walnut, weathered oak and others, and any shade may be obtar:nedi by varying the Iength of {nine it is al- lowed to remain on the waved and the amount of rubbing. Always rub, scrape or sandpaper in the direction of the grain. Do not wax until the stain •is perfectly dry and will not come oft on the hands. I certainly hope that these dirce- tiens which I have tried to snake as detailed as posd:ble may prove help- ful to some one else whose old furni- tore is proving an eyesore, SHE WEARS NOTHING FADED AND SHABBY But "Diamond Dye" Her Old Apparel Fresh and New. 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No ships have been raised, but two vessels bought by the British company from the American navy are engaged In sal- vage work and are equipped with a new device, an oxyacetylene flame that can be worked under water and is used for cutting holes in the sides of submerged vessels. From ono sunk- en vessel alone $5,000,000 iu gold was recovered. The salving ships are equipped with the latest searchlights, line-th owleg guns, hoisting machinery, rock drills and all the devices available for such service. The field of operations is great, for it is estimated. that 14,000,- 000 tons of shipping were sunk by enemy action during the war, and while some of these ships cannot be reached and in any case would per- haps not repay the effort, having had perishable cargoes, there are many cargoes and much machinery or parts of machinery that would well repay the ]alter and expense of recovery. It is expected in many instances to raise the veeseis, and it is believed that the undertaking as a whole will acid appreciably to the resources of the country, The crews have been enlisted from men who served in the navy in sal- vage work during the war and are young, Their labors will be hard said perlious, and the story of their adven. tures and experiences will make a tale exciting and p1Ctn1'eaque am any of the snifter undertakings during the war. C Well Brought Up, The little girl had been assldaously inetrifated in the arts and graces of courtesy, and when she told her moth - es, how the strange boy at the party had hissed hes, else did it with a de- mure, swerved air that would have delighted her mamma under other encu matasaces. "And he kissed me," she said, "Kissed you!" her mother exclaim - d. "And you, Agnes --what slid you do?" "blahnma, I didn't faeget my melte- pees. 1 even 'Thanes You!' " The World's Smallest Republic. ].very now and then one hears of yet nuttier "smaneat republic in the world." The latent emendate for tont title is anncs steed by a writer In the Wide World, who lies been visltieg San Marino, the small and ancient re- public that bus perched for contraries, t a of it. •rd memory, i t e. out sight and out s rein t air t, y , seesties and not large enough to at- tract the dangerous interest of a "cote- qucror," un lite heights of Mt. Titannn in Italy. The little republic is said to be not larger than 38 stluaro nif!os, and its papulation is only about 11.,000, Be- fore the war a good many tourists came to San Marino, and now that tho war is over a good many touriets are expected; but the only part played by the little republic during the war, despite the spectacular statement at one thne that the Lilliputian govern- ment had "declared war" agslnst the Central Powers, was the individual department and enlistment in the Italian army of many of its younger citizens. Toehni,tally San ltlarino maintained a dignified neutrality. San Marino ie said to date from the fourth century, and it is probably true enough that any nation would be hard to tied now- adays in which so many customs cen- turies and centuries old are still prac- ticed in a matter -of -course way by the people. The government, which was origin- ally constituted by the head of tt monastery, changed about 900 years ago to a General Council, at which the heads of families have the right to aseemble twice a year to disousa ntatteoo, and in the little mountain community this system seems still to work well for the oontentment of all the citizens. Italy completely sur- rounds the republic, and the relations between, Italy and San Marino have always been friendly. Today Italian money is the currency of the republic, the Ital:fan Government manages the international telegraph and postal sys- tem, and there is no apprehension in San Marino that Italy is ever likely to disturb its autonomy. • Grass. Yon see a plot of grass And loudly say: "How green! And lovely to be seen!" Then trample it, alas? And lightly pass Unthinking on your way. Another pauses silently; "It is the living sod, Upspringing tho' downtrod With every glade Divinely made— A part and parcel Of eternal God." 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Tho Prinee of Wales, who is now on his way to Australia 011. the Re- nown, will by his voyage to the Ante, Wes add something litre 23,000 utiles to him travel record and give himself the distinction of being, for his age, easily the most travelled prince in all tlstar 1 y His tour of Canada last autumn, in - eluding visits to Washington and New York, covered fully 17,000 miles, be- tween Auguet, 1919, and October, 1920, the Prince of Wales travelled over 40,000 miles, a total which works. out at an average of nearly 100 suites a 1day, spread over the whole fourteen months. In addition there were liter- ally hundreds of public functions crowded into the very brief periods of "rest" during a highly detailed itine- rary. It is the Prince's custom to complete, each an itinerary every thne before be sets out OR a journey born Eng- land. Every day of his Australian tour is napped out to the last Minute. Thus be will have two exceedingly trying reliway journeys to undergo; neat along the transcontinental line from Western Australia to Adelaide, and a Week or two later from the South Australian capital eit'ect to the heart of Queensland. Bach of these journeys will occupy four or five days. In order that the Prince shall be enabled to see as. much of Australia as he can in the time at Ills disposal with O. minimum. of inconvenience little re- gard has been paid in arranging this itinerary to the somewhat tender eus- ceptibilitles of the Australian `eases in matters of precedence, Tasmania will bo visited immediately after ,11e1 - bourne and Sydney. On the other hand, however, tho Prince has not 110011 slow in deciding a sartorial point which Wee ❑gitating the minds of Premier IIuf;hes and many fellow Australians. lir. llaglres had cabled to ]England to ,.seertain whether military men altchdb,g func- tions should dress in hhalii on all oc- casions or wear full reglntentabe— dress or parade uniforms. The Prince immediately inquired what was the existing order in Aus- tralia, and be was informer] that the instructions for the use of khaki hid not so far been eouuternranded. t%'itlt- out hesitation he intimated that khan would be the ceremonial uniform of himself and the military members of his staff, and that rule will of course be followed by Australian oiileero. After leaving Sydney the Renown will proceed to Albany, a shelved Western Australian port, which, never- theless, is the moot suitable for a ship of the Renown's dimensions, and from that time onward the Prince will do the whole of his Australian travelling overland, picking up the warship again on the day of Isis departure for lIng- Iand. The Hibernating Bear. The director of the New York Zoo- logical Gardens, Dr. William T. Horne - day, gives some very interesting facts about bears and their curious custom of hibernating. In the Rocky Mountains, he says, a bear got,, ready to go lute winter quarters when the first snow falls. I3e cuts bis rations down, eats a little leas from day to day, and spends a large part of his time preparing his winter den, He drags le pine boughs and fallen leaves, to make himself a soft and comfortable bed, chinks up all the crevices to keep out the drafts, and blocks up the entrance until there is only room for him to get in. By the time the big snow comes, from a fort- night to a month later, kis intestines are entirely empty, and he. crawls into his den and curls up for hie long sleep, The bear to omnivorous, Dr. Horny, day continuos, but his foot] is largely vegetable. If he had to stay fu the open and bunt a living in the winter snows he would die of starvation. So he crawls into a den and sleeps until a new supply of food is ready for him in the spring—a period that varies ac- cording to the latitude and altitude from six weeks to four and sometimes nearly live months. When the bear comes out, his in- testines are absolutely fiat. But al- though probably he ie ravenously hungry, he does not proceed to gulp down food in enormous quantities. He selects: carefully and eats• but little e0 as not to strain Ida weakened intes- tines', and at night he returns to hie winter den. Only after ten days or two weeks door he display the full measure of au appetite acquired by several months of feet and forsake hits den for a bed in the open. A Min to Rely On. With a keen eye on dramatic effect. the ambitious candidate for the job of Member of Parliament faced hie audience, "Like you, any Mende," he said, "I am a horsy -headed' son of toil, and here aro the tools I used," Ashe a w ave d trowel and a hstnlmer in the air, he went on: "Two yeare ago 1 was a working bricklayer, and, although prosperity hag ensiled an mo, I still treasure tite implements whir% brought me my bread and butter." 'W'ild cheats greeted his statement, and the tools were handed around for inspection. The candidate thought to make ilia point more telling with the e:r.plana.tiott 1 "ilrothee workingmen, can I rely on .yell! support?" "You csit that!" exnla!med a man who ",ea examining the tools, with au air of we "A chap wit 0011 lay brielte with a gardenore trowel must be extra eieyer!"