The Brussels Post, 1912-1-11, Page 3rOU5EtOL'
CONFECTIONERY.
Creamy Trudge. -After removing
fudge from tem lire add a pinch of
baking powder and beat briskly,
If the fudge has been cooked a lit-
tle too long and hardens before
it is perfectly smooth, add a 'table-
spoonfed of cream, or condensed
milk will do just as well. Beat
again till the right oonsistenoy' and
you will have smooth, creamy, and
dolicious candy.
Turkish Candy. -Take ono and
one-half cups granulated sugar,
one-half cup warm water, ono -half
cup glucose. Boil together till they
form •a hard lump when dropped in
cold water. Thon add the whites
of two eggs, well beaten, and a
cup of nut moats.
Marshmallow Fluff. -Take one-
half pound of marshmallows, cut
each in four dice, one pint of cream
whipped stiff and white of one' egg
whipped, and pulverized sugar to
taste. Add marshmallows and one-
fourth pound of English walnuts
broken in small pieces to cream and
mix all together. If Dolor scheme
is desired, one or two drops of any
fruit coloring can be added. T•hiu
is a cheap and delicious dessert f "e
until smooth, and when (sold thin
with thick sweet cream or sour or
whipped cream, and mix with your
salad.
Fruit Salad. -Use ono apple cut
into mall pieces, eno orange cut
in the same way, one-quarter cup
of seedless raisins, ono -half cup of
sugar, one cup of milk. Mix and.
let stand a half hour.
LUNCHEON..
Walnut. Sandwich. -Chop -com-
mon walnut meats fine, add a little
salt, Spread between thin slices
of buttered bread.
Veal Birds, --Have your butcher
cut a slice of veal outlet thin. Di-
vide this into two to three inoh
squares. Lay on each a little heap
of cracker crumbs seasoned with
pepper, salt, celery salt, and mois-
tened with milk. . An oyster or nuts
may he added. Draw- the corners
of the meat together. and 'fasten
with toothpicks. Bake or fry un-
til. brown. They may be served on
toast with a spray of green. This
is one of the daintiest luncheon
dishes imaginable, and it is quite
amusing how much they look like
real little birds.
Lace Luncheon Sot. -To make an
attractive and inexpensive lunch-
eon set procure at the curtain goods
department filet curtain lace for
about Gf cents a yard. Four of the
squares make a plate doily, one
square a breach and butter plate
daily, and one square a tumbler
doily. Sixteen squares make the
k centerpiece. To make a set of
Candy Cranberries -'Into a;'pc twelve each only takes about a
lain kettle put a quart of crag , = yard and a quarter of material,
ries, add ' three cups of granulated
sugar and a pint and a half of
evater. Let simmer, until berries
are soft, but not until they lose
their shape.
Brown Sugar Creel ee. :es) two
cups light brown sneer \ r` one-
half cup water. Boil toga\ j un-
til a bit dropped into colo water
forms soft ball Remove from fire.
Beat in deep bowl the whites of two
eggs to slight froth, add cantly
syrup, Duel -half teaspoon vanilla,
and beat until it begins to stiffen.
Long beating ,makes it finer
grained. Drop with teaspoon np-
on waxed or buttered paper and
press a nut -meat into top if desir•
ed, Will keep moist indefinitely in
glass jar.
Frosted Nut Hills. -Use one-half
pound long, narrow, white crack-
ers, whip white of one egg, add one
cup- chopped nuts and one cup
sugar. Place little lumps here and
there an crackers and brown in
oven a few minutes. Watch.eon-
stantly.
DESSERTS.
Teddy Bear Pudding. --Make a"
rich custard and while warm add
chopped nuts and glace fruit; beat
with egg beater until cool. Eat
with whipped cream, to which you
may add a little brandy or vanilla,
according to taste.
Egg Snow. -Beat up until stiff
the whites of six eggs; have ready
in the saucepan on the fire a pint
of milk sweetened and flavored with
vanilla. As soon as lt boils drop
the beaten egg into it by table-
spoonfuls, one at a Lime, and as
they'become set dip thoem ort with
a tin.. Slice them and arrange
them upon a -broad if]sh. Allow
the milk in the saucepan to cool a
little and then stir in the yolks of
the eggs gradually. When it be-
comes thick pour it around the
avowed eggs and serve cold.
Flour Pudding. -This dessert is
known in Maryland and the Vir-
ginias as a "flour pudding," but
in reality is a boiled apple dump-
ling. Sift sufficient flour to make
the quantity of dumplings you wish
and mix in a little salt. Pour into
this boiling water direct from the
kettle, sufficient to make a soft
dangle Mix quickly before it bas
time to get chilled, roll out on the
bread board in sheets about three-
quarters of en'inch thick and spread
o174' it the apples pared and quar-
tered. Sprinkle over this a little
auger, roll up quickly, just.asyou
would a jelly roll, tie in a cloth
wrung from cold water., and
plunge quickly into a pot of boil-
ing water. Boil for an hour and a
quarter: Serve with milk and
cream, half and half, sweetened
and flavored with grated nutmeg,
or any other sauce preferred.. This
aloe is delicious made from peaches,
and in the winter time make, it
of preserved fruits, plums and'
peaches being particularly pala-
table,
Then get inexpensive torohon or
some other heavy lace and sow
around the edges of the doilies,
making the seams in the corner,
where they will not show.
SALADS.
Macaroni Salad, -Break into two
inch pieces required amount of ma-
caroni for a meal. Cook until ten-
der in salt water. When cold mix
with the same amount of fine sliced
cabbage. Then mix with salad
dressing.
Appetizing Salad, -Cut fresh
pineapples -if you can get them -
if not, the canned, into small piec-
es, sweet pickles in tame sized
pieces, using two thirds pine-
apple,
apple, ono -third of pickles, and a
cup or more of English walnuts,
Mix those with a salad dressing
made of one-half cup vinegar, yolks
o4 fouls eggs, teaspoon salt, one-
half teaspoon mustard, two table-
spoons sugar ; pet on stove, stirring
all the time until it thickens. Add
butter size of a largo walnut, beat.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Paper Quilt. -hive or six thick-
nesses of common newspaper placed
between light layers of cotton and
covered and tacked in the usual'
way make a warm, light, cheap,
and sanitary quilt. Those who have
not tried it will be surprised at its
warmth and durability. In these
days of high priced. cotton, many
will find this an economical means
of keeping warm.
Economical Cushions. -Make a
slip the proper size, turn wrong
side out, cover thickly with cotton
batting, and tank firm with twine.
Turn right side out again and fill
with excelsior that has been clipped
fine with scissors,, and you will
have a satisfactory pillow at little
oast.
To strengthen woollen mittens
where men are handling forks, as
.on a farm, sew a piece of leather.
in the palm, out from the tops of
wornout shoes.
Night Pillow Shams. Take the
good part of worn sheets (or use
new material if preferred) and
spread over and tuck under, the
pillows when fixing, the bed for use
at aright. These will protect the
Pillow alipa.,
Save Hat Banda. -Do not throw
away the silk hat bands on men's
straw Bats or soft felt hats, as they
make excellent belts to be used in
a buckle or take the place of belt-
ing for skirt bands.
Make Insoles. -A goodidea is to
save all the old felt and beaver
hats. Out of the felt ones make
insoles for shoes. With the beaver
out out the shape of a shoe, only a
little larger ; then sew on any old
bottoms of woollen socks and have
nine bedroom slippers.
Wear Socks Over New Shoes: -
So many people try shoes on in
the store and find them comfor-
table, but when they wear them
awhile they find them either too
shod or too narrow, Put a pair of
socks over your shoes and try
wearing them around the house for
a.few hours. You soon can see if
theshoesare the right size and
shape for your foot. If they are
nob comfortable th•e socks have .so
protected them- that they can be
returned without the shoesseeming
to have been worn.,
p .
ANIMALS WITH MEMORIES.
floss Bull Remembered a Cruel
Beating With a Club.
That animals of certain species
possess highly retentive memories
is vividly illustrated by -a tragic af-
fair that happened some time ago in
Colorado.
Among the live stock of Antonio
Anderson a selocosaful farmer, was
a fine hull that was so. docile that
Mrs. Anderson herself 'fed and Wa-
tered hire regularly every day. On
ono occasion, snore than a year .ago,
while Mrs, Anderson was absent
Andenson gave the animal aertel
beating with a club,
The than had forgotten the affair,
but hats not aimeoached the bull
since then until one evening,• when
he decided to leach the bull to water..
When Andersson drew near the
animal attacked him and gored him
to death,
Neighbors who witnessed the af-
fair insisted that the bull was mad
and should be, killed, To show
that they were mistaken, Mrs.
Andersen stepped forward, robbed
the bull's, nose, then phut her arm
ermine! his peek, .•and led him away.
The man cored his cruel deed, but
the hull remembered,
THE QUALITY OF MERCY.
Judge -"Prisoner, have you got anything to say before sentence
is passed l"
Prisoner -"All I arst, ser lordshiji, is to tike into account the ex-
treme youth and hinexperience of my lawyer, and to be lenient fur
'is slice. '-The Bystander,
THE H WWWY SCHOOL STUDY
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
Jeiev VARY 14.
Lesson II. The birth of Jahn the
Baptist, Luke 1. 57-89. Golden
Text, Luke 1. 68.
Versos 24 -5O --Tho verses which
intervene between the text of our
last lesson and this one record a
number of events of special inter-
est. for us in our study of the lifo
of Jesus. These include the fel-
JAPANESE BUSINESS ]IONOD..
Their Standa'd Not the Sane as
Ours -'lie ileaeon Why.
Japanese business methods have
been widely criticised, en:weially in
ties last few years, as lacking these
standards of commercial honor
which prevail .among Occidental toe
bons. A writer in the Atlantic says
that the quasticn roost frequently
Orient ;has been:,,
"Why is it that the Japanese aro
so diahoneist that they eannot even
trust themselves, and laevo to em-
ploy Chinamen at the head of all
their great business oonoerns1"
Heexplains this almost univeesai
impression by saying that the aver-
age tourist usually has lameness re-
lations only with the branches of
the three great banks established
in the treaty ports. When he
:melees hie letter of credit he ob-
serves the singular fact that the
money is being handled by a China-
man instead of by a native.
"The simple truth," says this
writer, "is that these throe, -banks -
all of them, by the way, foreign
concerns -ere the only business
houses in the entire, empire so
conducted. When. Japan was open-
ed and these foreign corporations in
China sent their branches into the
new field, they sent their Chinese
comps cloree with them.
"Yet, while all bilis can be said, the color can poesibly serve. Then, tions; and Now Zealand, with its
and should be said, in the interest again, why does the madder root a sera; hat s sins and quaint
of simple justice.. it is nevertheless contain quantities of alizarineand Maaorisbut the allfailedto supply
undeniable that in Japan the ideals allied dpo,stuffe that in the past, the peaceful lest and beauty to be
found in thio group of ielan
of commercial honer and the have been of such great valve, l de -a
methods adopted in the con¢luCt of while in modern times we. have group of emerald rales set in a
business are not what they are in learned to manufacture these by ;silver sea.
the West, and there is much o• � 't is ,a very i en sing, in-
winch the Occidental may justly use taxi such dyestuffs be to rho deed to describe this 'group There
complain, plants Gonsi er the watermelah q ley worthy p
"There is •a historical reason for sen akin. : .We may snake some.
this. The fact that in the olden, &?r as to• the ur- people, who need never. be ashamed
days in Japan the merchant was: sort of, conjectureP of their Viking characteristics ane
placed at the bottom. of the social pose of this: it perhaps serves in appearance, end, least of all, their
world -famed hospitality,
NATURE AND HER COLORS.
Why the Pink of the Flesh of the
Watermelon, for Distend?
The attractive appetizing outwaetl
a peerauoe of moat fruits is ex-
plained by' the uscientific suppettition
that its function tis to attract birda
and animals which, carry the fruit
away to eat the fleshy portion and
dscard the, seed, thereby aiding in
the disturbution of the species.
Aoeordialg to Prof. 0. N. Whitt,
writing' in a recent number of the
Runrschau,' modern Mend toachea;
us that everything related to color
of fruits and vegetables has its de-
finite purpose. The red cheeks of
peach, he says, are so eeticing
that the • above distribution - oh'
species explanation will probably
be .'seedily accepted. But why
that brilliant red color where, the
PEOPLE OF ORI�ISLANOS
NO MORE iiOSPITABI.:,
IN THE WORLD.
A T'r'aveller Desrt'iben the Chid
Attractions at theBeauti-
ful Isles.
The inhabitants of the Orkney
Kande aro justly proud of their
little' corner of the globe, and'ono
enthusiast writing in a ceneesee,
porary, gets rid of .Isis feelings
the aubject as follows •.;rse j•D
Sir, -Here I am in theeshi
Isles, looking for something+, .,
the way of scenery, and as res
long "globe-trotter" I feel
flesh meets theekerneli The bird d it
authorize�t to say I have faun 1 j
that picks at.the flesh of the fruit tom heart's desire, hero is does not strike• this, colored layery ,, %,
until the work is practically ao
complished.
Somewhat similar conditions are
met with in the vegetable kingdom.
Why is the red beet deeply colored,
while its close congeners have a
white juice, After all, neither,
under normal oireumstanees, sees
the light of day, use that it is pro-
biematioal whet' useful function
fascinating scenery, the like of
which I have longed to eisoover. tee
1 was born and bred on the plains
of Andalusia, and had: seen althat tnd
is on the continent before the eget
of 20. Then I travelled through
Arabia, Persia, Afghanistan, India
and traversed the bonder" between
Tibet an China. Then I visited
Australia', with its salt lakes, smell-
lese flowers, and numerous fascina-
f 1 artificial means Of what possible I d•ffi It thing,
covered byathick. opaque, darkis at. 1 c o ua wo y °f i raise.
First •I think I can mention its
Beale and the soldiers at the top. I kespir-g oft 'some of the lei ge ani
while in China, exactly the -reverse mals which would: devour the fruit,
was the case, fully explains why skin and all, and thus leaving the
Japan has produced a splendid melon to be burrowed by worms,
Messiah. In this capacity the child, soldiery, and has wofully suffered in 1 who leave the seeds untouched.
when grown to manhood, shall her mercantile life, :while the, amyl But why that appetizing pink color
proclaim the message of salvation, of China hes been the sport of the of the, flesh of the melon? It can-
the remission of sins, release from nations though her merchants have not s as a charm to attract
bondage, the dawn' of hope, and tt mecl a lugh place in the well
the reign of peace, which the birth
of the Saviour shall bring.
68. Blessed be the Lord - The
hymn of praise which follows gets
its name, the Beneclictus, from this
opening phrase. It has been in Use
in Christian worship since the.
sixth century.
Wrought redemption -To Zech-
arias this would mean redemption
from foreign rule, as well as from
spiritual bondage.
69. Horn of salvation -A fre-
quent metaphor found also in cies-
lowing • The annunciation by the sic ancient writers outside of the
erve
a• world; visitors, for the guest that has eat- attractions: How vague indeed
of business ci+edit• I en its way through the skin needs would Shakespeare's words -
"But even though the `cake 01 no. further attraction, after he has "Books in the running brooks, ser -
custom' is the hardest to break, its t reacher the, interior. The black mons in stones, tongues in trees,
Power of resistance has been al- i color of the seeds may perhaps The and good in everything" -have been
ready materially weakened by this put down as a preventive measure, it he had been privileged to sojourn
wise obey of the Emperor ; and the: protecting them from 'sharing the here for a. short, time. Of trees.
p g fate of the mat of the fruit.
merchant is no' longer the Pariah' this place has not got its share,
of the realm. Prominent among 1 We now know that the refresh- but there, is much heather; and you
those who by the Emperor's. favor I ing green of the weeds and rasa see wild roses, 'honeysuckle and such
have risen front the :social, east into dews is not provided for our enjoy- like,
places of highest honor is a family 'meat, but for the serious and: Around each humble thatched cot
whose history is significant. practical .purpose of plant nutri- rage hangs a romance,. You hear
"The Mitsui family of Japan have "Sen; the flowers display their tales of sonsand daughters wander -
been called the Rothsch
ilds of the bright colors to attract the insect ingover the world, far from their
Bast; but while the fame, of the' that carries the pollen from stamen chldhood's home. Some have
latter has gene abroad over the to stigma; the Alpine hale is snow made their fortunes either onland
od b " hill n from rho or at sea, and some have died in
the service of their country.
Then the proud motherr willshow
you the, honeysuckle or rowan tree,
wheel her oldest son, who was
drowned in the. China Sea or some
far away ;lace, planted 40 years
ago.
The Orcadians of to -da- like
their ancestors, are worthy and
famous sailors. Ah 1 what pathos.
and tragedy is lying there! Then
the, the mother will relate some boyish
dining room; what made their prank of Jamie, who was killed by
choice of site more remarkable was th,e, Modeler River, but she can also
s tell you about her "other sons, who
have done well out west, and are
keeping her from want and drudg-
ery in her declining years.
Upon asking one mother the cause
of her hospitality to strangers, she
replied:- `Have I not boys wand-
ering here and there in need of
somebody's kindness? My motto is,
'As ye would like to have done to
yours, do ye so to others."' No
wonder, indeed, the O'rcadiens are
loved and reverenced.
You will'not hear on these isl-
ands the shrill'. Cockney aecent, or
the rough Scotch dialect. The
Orcadians are proud of their pure
English, and pleasantly they speak
it with a faint touch of Norwegian
dialect.
THEY LIVEAS MAN.
BOORS IN RUNNING BROOKS.
Of the beauty spots of the Ork-
neys, T think North Willes, Hoy,
and Raokwiok, should • be first'
mentioned, Hills, crags, streams
and glorious verdure are the chief
angel Gabriel to Mary of the con.- Bible. The figure here signifies the
ing birth of hes son ; the visit of
Mary to Elizabeth at her home in
the hill country of Judaea; the re-
ference to the kinship existing be-
tween the two women and to the
difference in time between the
birth of John and of, Jesus; and the
Song of Mary, known to the church
throughout the centuries as the
Magnificent. The, entire passage
should be read in connection with
our to -day's lesson.
Verse 58. Magnified his mercy.
towards her -Shown her especial
favor.
50. On the eigth day -In harmony
with the requirement of the law.
Compare Gen. 17. 12; Lev. 12. 3.
The religious ceremony of circum-
cision the prophecies was administered simultane- sand Malachi 3. 1. The figure 0.
Dusk with the naming of the maleh
power of the Messianic king, which
is likened to the strength of a :wild
ox as represented in its horns.
Its the house of his servant
David -A statement implying that
Mary, as well as Joseph, was de-
scended from David
'70. His holy prophets -"In the
law of Moses, and the prophets.
and the psalms" (Luke 24. 44).
72, 73. Covenant; '...oath -These.
were identical. Compare Gen. 22.
1G-18.
76. Thou, dull -Zacharias has
been speaking of the Messiah to
come; now he addresses his own in-
fant son, who is to be the prophet
of the Most High.
Make ready his ways -An allu-
child. In the Christian Church
the sacrament of baptism takes the
place of the Jewish oer'emonial;
but, like the latter, it is still asso-
ciated with the giving of the name.
Thus the expression "to christen,"
meaning literally, to make Chris-
tian by baptizing, has came also
to mean simply to name.
62. Made signs to his father --
Who was still unable to speak, the
Penalty of his unbelief, referred to
in verse 20 of our last lesson.
What he would have him called --
The word of the father was the final
authority. tablet -A small
63. A writing
wooden tablet, smeared with wax,
on which the impression was made
with an iron styles.
64. His mouth was opened -His
power of speech was restored.
Spoke, blessing God -There was
a double reason for his thanksgiv-
ing, the restoratiote of his speech
and the groat blessing that had
come to him in the gift of this child.
65. Fear came on all that dwelt
round about them -There . was
something mysterious and awe-in-
spiring about the events which they
bad witnessed..
67. The Son of Zacharias, known
to the Christian Church as rho Be-
nedictus, is worthy to be the in-
spired utterance of a saintly priest
of. Jehovah, The text of the song
is given in versos 68-79. t con-
i Hebrew
sista of five: strophes o
stanzas, oath of three verses ; but
in English is most conveniently di-
vided into two •parts, verses 68-75,
and verses 76-79. The first of these
parts expressos thankfulness to
God for having fulfilled his it sn'
ices to Israel in the sending of the
Messiah, the offspring of David,
for the salvation of Israel and the
establishment of true religion and
righteousness. Ie refers to the
child of Mary as the Messiah to
come. The second past begins
with a reference to the speaker's
own child as the appointed prnr+r nt
of Jehovah and forerunner of the ing to save ti penny,
the forerunner is taken from t e
ancient Oriental custom of sending
a special advance messenger to an-
nounce the coming of any royal
personage, one function of this
forerunner being `to see to it that
the roads over which the royal.
traveler was to go were put into
good' order for his coming.
78. Dayspring from on high -The
expression in the original 'may
mean either the rising of a heaven-
ly body, as the sun or morning star,
or. the heavenly body itself. It. is
thus equivalent to .speaking of the
Messiah as the Sun or Star of
Israel.
normally.
80. Grew -Developed
The same expression is applied to
Jesus in Luke 2. 40.:
Waxed strong in spirit -Develop-
ed unusual strength >tntellegtua11y
and spiritually. - '
Was in the deserts -His boyhood
home was in the hill country of
Judaea and in this :quiet seclusion,
far from the tulnlllt and:distraction
of city life, he geew to manhood.
r;.
CLAY EATERS.
The earth eaters of Africa do not
eat the clay beeanse of the ab-
seno of other edibles, as they are
found in localities' where other
forms of food are found in aliund-
anee. The clay of the deeper lay-
ers is preferred, and dile netiveS dig
galleries of a' rude nature' and ac-
cidents due to falls or earth are
When .accidents
quite frequent. W
of this ohmmeter occur, no effort is
made to assist the unfortunate
miner thus buried, and ,bels allow
ed to die, beyplutuse_rt its believed that
rho deities of the mines Must be
propitiated with a certain number
of sacrifices annually, and the as-
oident ns regarded as the means
of Claiming their rights. The earth
caters frequently consume seven
and eight pounds of clay daily,
4
is all ri ht but :don't
l.,conoiny right,
waste a dollar's worth of time try -
world the 1iitsuis have rem.aaned color se se to e e
practioally unknown except to a sight of; his enemy while the lion is
few Western merchants who have tawny and the, tiger striped.
had extensive dealing& with the
Orient. The: European family OF SWALLOWS.
owes its great renown to the fact BOLDNESS
that for a century there has been 1 in a Iioatsc-Anotlt-
no .slightest stain upon its corn- One'Nest Built
mercial honor:. or on an Electric Lamp.
"But its career, it should lie re- A very curious instance of bcQd
membered, lies been passed in a ness in awallows,aves recorded in
world where, business itself has been 1886 from Oeylon. In this, case
held in honor; while the Mueslis, tl binds built over a lamp 1 the
engaged in a pursuit utterly con-
temned by public sentiment, foe
three centuries, in spite of the de-
moralizing influence of the social
ban, have been trusted by Govern-
ment and people alike, and have
keit the honor of their name un-
stained. :Now, thanks to the new
spirit animating- the, nation, they
no longer stand so conspicuously
alone."
HUNTING THE CHEETAH.
Sport. Once Popular With English
Residents of India.
The cheetah hunt which th,e. Vice-
roy `witnessed recently at Hydera-
bad reminds one that cheetah hunt-
ing WASanextremely popular sport
with Indian princes in former days,
although the initation. of European
forms of sport has done much• in
times tiine.s to. roll it of its ancient
vogue, says the Madras Mail.
It was practised both by Hindi.
and Mohammedan chieftains over.
the ,greater part of. India, for the
cheetah even now 15 no a'r:are
beast and a century or so ago must
have been common enough.,
Another animal used in the same,
way by Indian nobles was a sort of
lynx, 'spelled variously es Shoe
goose," "syehgush." But this was.
used much more rarely than the
cheetah. However, it was not only
Indians who indulged in this form
of sport.
It was enjoyed and practised by
Europeans as well in the days when
they were, content to .abide in India
for fifteen years at a stretch and
when they lived a L'Indienne in' a
way unknown to modern times.
More than one of the, Company's
nabobs kept their own cheetahs,
which were frequently eresonts
from friendly chiefs.
It may easily be imagined that
cheetah, blipike_.,8 v:a,5 'very good
sp8'rt and welebrit1d by tbO Ki vapbs
of the Company' as an exoe3ilcnb
substitute for the coursing which
was. familiar to them in England
like,the eetah hunt
and which, a aTi
has vanished before the epreed of
games such) as tennis and golf.
"A couple," said Mrs, Simpkins,
"got married a few days ago after
,+t courtship which had lasted fifty
"
yoa'r'a." C7i suppose, replied Mr.
Sim -kina the poor old man had.
n ' l out
become too feeble to held any
longer."
the fact that the lamp oauld b
rinsed or lowered by counter
weights and the, oonnecting chains
actually passed through the mud
walls of the nest, says Baily's Mag-
.zine.
Occasionally the bird selects a
nesting site which invites comparison
with the boldness of the robin. In
July last a pair of swallows took
advantage of the. open window of
an unoccupied bedroom in a house
at Felmershaen in Bedfordshire to
begin building their nest on the cur-
tain rod of the bed.
The, return of the owner of the.
house' and hie occupation of the
bed did trot in the least disturb or
alarm the birds, which completed
the nest and brought off three
nestlings within seven weeks of the
house owner's return. They took
no notice of the occupant of the
bed when flying in and out of the
window feeding thiser young; but
the hen bird would fly off the nest
if any one entered the room during
the daytime.
Three s'sers ago a pair of swal-
lows built their nest on top of the
shade of an electric lamp which
hangs outside the asylum at Nar-
borough, near Leicosier.
B.AW FOOD AND THE' BLOOD.
Two Frenchp hysiologists have, re -
Gently demonstrated that a raw
food diet develops, under certain
conditions, a considerable increase
of the white blood corpuscles which
play such 5a1 isnporta.ntpert in the
fight against invading bacteria,'
Cooked food, even in double doses,
lies no similar effect, according to
these „scientists. They accredit the
value of the raw food diet to the
juices extracted from it in the pro -
ode of digestion.'f
PACT AND FANCY.
A poend of cheap dolma 011 enely-
sir proved to contain five ounces of
sugar, five thew of starch, five
ounces of cocoa husk, and en,ounco
of cocoa.
Manners covet a multitude of
pins.
England boasts 50,000 patent
Median -le dealers.
Ifid gloves are not made from
kids, het from lambs,
Suicide vie China is usually ao
eernnlished by the inhalation ei
gold leaf:
Upon visiting "God's Acre" ye:
can see many graves of'. strangers
-sailors who have been drowned
by i is rugged shores in the tumultu-
ous winter, or have been washed
ashore from whence nobody knows
-a convincing proof of the destruc-
tiveness' of. the Atlantic Ocean.
These graves are well cared for,
although to is large extent those.
who lie there aro foreigners. Many
an evening some shy maiden will
wander thither with flowers to
strew over the grave and to think
of brother or lover who is for away
at sea: nr may be, lying like this
in au foreign land less cared for.
I will now have to :cross over the
sapphire sea encs more to toll my
countrymen .what free lives Dan be
enjoyed in planes such as. this, and •
help thole to claim their rights and
tllo rights, of their ancestors, and
live as men o0G•e more,
{` l
Bl.,OT,1,, MARCON.
An E yptolegiat and an Assyrio'
1oa;rt were"disputing about the re-
lative advancement of the 'two anti-
out ,peoples whom they wore study-
ing,
'Why, sir," Mod the Egyptolo-
gist,
tolo-
W��v,s rd g.p
Lnst, "we find remains of wires in
' t which proves thry nada-
stood
Egypt,
stood electricity."
" I'shaw I" answered the Assyrio�
tog gist "we don't find any wires in.
Mayne, and these shows that they
understood wireless telegraphy...
There
'time be ]? conic who are
beneath flattery,- but 'did you over
see any one who was t.biove iii