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The Brussels Post, 1912-3-21, Page 3• First, in selecting the paper, 00' led a pattern that will match easily and that can be cut without much waste, This rule may bo layed down, that large figures should be .avoided in small rooms. A dark room or ono on the north side of a house, may be brightened by using a warmer tone of paper than in a room with a sunny exposure, A soft shade of yellow or deep cream is desirable to see day after day, and has the advantage of harmon- izing well with nearly all colors of carpets, curtains, etc. Pale sage green or cold blue may be used with good effect in a room where the bright sunlight streams the greater part of the day. Striped paper in- creases the apparent height of the room. Never choose a pattern with wave-like lines, or one with a de- cided figure, for a bedroom, In 'case of sickness the invalid will al- most involuntarily count the spots •or follow the wriggling lines on the paper. A soft ingrain paper of ono color is restful to the eye.. If their are more than two layers of paper on the walls they should bo removed. Pull off as much of the -old paper es you can get off, then saturate what still sticks to the wall, with warm water ; let it stand a, half-hour then saturate it again, and the paper can be easily scraped off with a knife blade. Re- move all nails and fill the holes with putty or else a paste made of plas- ter -Paris and cold water. White- washed walls should be washed with water and strong vinegar, Use one quart of Strong acid vinegar to two eof water, apply the solution well around the caseings, baseboards and -corners. As the paste is to bo used cold, it would be best to make it the day before using. To every quart of well anted flour, add a teaspoon of pow- dered alum, mix smooth with (1.1d water, and poor in boiling -water, stirring rapidly, till the paste is of the consistency of thick cream. Re- move it from the stove as soon as it comes to a boiling point; strain it through a flour sieve or colander. If the paste is lumpy, the air will not all pass out 1 rom under the paper and as the paper is drying it will crack wherever there is an air bubble. Pour in a little cold water on top of the paste to prevent a scum from forming. Do not undertake to paper a room without a helper. If you have no 'assistant change off work with a neighbor. A smooth board, the ex- act length and width of the paper will facilitate the work of spreading the paste. If you have nothing bet- ter, an extension table will do nice- ly. Begin with the ceiling. Mea- sure it the shortest way of the room, 'ascertain how many strips will be required and cut and match them before spreading the paste. Cut the strips fully two inches longer .than the measurement of the ceil- ing. This extra amount is to allow the paper to lap down an inch upon the walls at both sides, whieh is necessary to insure a neat finish when the border is put on. Now draw a guiding line across the ceiling with,..a lead pencil as wide as the paper. Use a clean whitewash brush to spread the • paste. If the paste is too thick to spread well, thin it out with cold water. Spread it evenly, being careful not to leave any dry spots of paper, Turn up two or three feet of the ppm; to make it easier to handle, with the pasted sides to- gether, with your helper's aid, lift the paper to the ceiling, and when you have it matched press the edges of the paper on the wall, then let the helper turn back the folded end, and when it is all nicely matched, brush the rest of the paper to place with a clean whisk broom. If wrinkles appear, gently pull the paper loose, remove the wrinkles, and press the paper in place again. Air bubbles should be pricked with a pin to allow all the air to escape. If the seams. of the paper are lapped from the light they will be less no- ticeable. To hang the paper on the side walla. follow the instructions as given for the coiling. Cut the strips long onough to extend down on the baseboard about an inch when. thea paper is applied, Press it down On the baseboard, Then loosen it and out off the paper below the mark made by the baseboard, and press the petrol' to place again. This is the only way to get a neat finish to .-the baseboard. tiOUSEHILP HOME PAPER HANGING. SELECTED RECIPES. Bacalao.—Fry three slices of salt pork and four sliced onions. Add ono can of tomatoes, and one pond of salt fish which has beee soaked for several hours and cut in small a her woman on your head I" he pieces. Cook one hour, Serve with asked severely, one cup of rice which has been "Why do you," she replied sweet - boiled in plenty of salted water for ly "pia the; skin of another calf on one hour, yet r , feet Southern Cranberry Muffins, -. Beat one-third cupful of biatef tc; fi,After all, there's no highet praise i OrOa/11; gredually beat in on6-quar- than envy, ter eupful of auger, one egg beaten light, three-quarters cupful of sweet milk'two cupfule of sifted flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking -powder and a pinch of salt. When these have been well mixed, beat in ono cupful of eranberries cut in halves, Bake about twenty-five minutes in well -buttered •muffin -pans, The muffins may bo served as desert, with a cream sauce poured over them. Red Pea Soup.—A delicious soup for the winter months is made as follows : Boil one quart of peas in two quarts of water until they aro half -done. Then .add one pound of bacon or a ham bone with a little moat on it, When the peas are thoroughly boiled, take out and rub them through a colander or coarse elieve. Put the pulp back into the pot 'with the bacon or the bone, and season with pepper, salt and some chopped celery. Boil the soup un- til it is quite thick and serve with a slice of lemon in each plate. Savory Bean Loaf.—Brown or golden beans, or black or white haricot beans may be pressed into service for this dish, Boil or steam them tender, then mash smooth; add half as much brown broad in crumbs as there is bean mush, ground black pepper and salt to taste, a small onion chopped and browned, and the yolk of one egg. Mix well together with the hands, and form into a large ball flattened top and bottom, dip first in the un- beaten white- of egg-, then roll in cracker -crumbs; repeat and put in the oven, basting it well with ve- getable butter or drippings till nice - 1p browned. When cooking beans remember net to add an salt till they are tender ; salt hardens the outer skin and causes the bean to be indigestible. The same rule holds good for peas and lentils. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Clean white felt hats with ma nesium, rubbing with woollen clot Stains on brown boots can go evilly be removed by rubbing wi methylated spirit. Then clean a polish in the usual way. Some people wash the hair wi tar soap after an eg shampoo, b the plain egg is cleansing and lea the hair much softer than if soap used with it. Take a large mouthed bottle, ha fill it with turpentine, tie a stri around the neck, and hang it up a closet or -wherever the moths ar This will drive them out and preve their return. In cases of cold or overfatigu there is nothing that so quickly act as a stimulant as a cup -of hot milk Heat it just to the boiling poin and sip slowly. A little salt may b added to make it more palatable. To clean the railing of banisters wash off all the dirt with soap an water, and when dry rub with tw parts of linseed oil, and one par of turpentine. A good rubbing wil bring up the polish as if the rail had .been -repolishecl. To relieve choking, break an eg ia cup and give to the distresses one to swallow. The white of th egg seems to catch around the ob stack and remove it. If one egg does not answer the purpose try .another. The white is all that is necessary to use. Small doses of cod-liver oil are very useful for children who catch cold easily. They should be given two or three times a day, directly after food. It is a great mistake to give large doses of cod-liver oil; they are not digested, and really do more harm than good. Boiled eggs which adhere to the shell are fresh. A good egg will sink in water. Stale eggs are mglas- sy and seoth of shell. The shell of a fresh egg has a limo -like sur- face. A boiled egg which is done and clries quickly on the shell when taken from the saucepan is fresh. -When washing a new blanket for the first time, begin by soaking it for, twelve hours in cold water, then rinse in clear water. This will re- move the sulphur used in the bleaching, After this wash the blankets in a lukewarm lather made of boiled soap and water. Rinse well in clear water, shake thoroughly, and hang out to dry. To Circumvent Moths.—An in- genious housekeeper has discover- ed that empty coffee and cracker tins make safe and convenient re- ceptacles fee the storage of small woollen articles during. the season when moths abound. The articles are thoroughly brushed and placed in the cans. A piece of paper is then pasted round the cover, and a slip is affixed to the top on which can be written a list of what the can contains. g - h. a- th nd th tab es is lf Lg in e. nt e t 0 t g REVISION. Suitor—"I an afraid that 1 am not worthy enough for your daugh- ter." Parent --"Bosh 1 The point now - a -days is, Are you worth enough for her?" ANSWERED. "Why' do You ,put the hair of an- AMUNDSEN WAS LONG AT IT BEGAN EXPLORING ABOUT FIFTEEN YEA.RS AGO. Captain Raold Amundsen Decided to Make Polar Research His Life Work. Capt, Retold Amundsen has for many years been considered one of the most daring and most compe- tent of Arctic and Antarctic ex- plorers.. A sailor from his youth, he started polar research at the age of twenty-five, when, as first officer, he participated in the Belgian. Ant- arctic expedition of 1897-9. He made up his mind to- 'continue polar research, but to go to the north in an endeavor to discover the, north- west passage, which had been sought for 300 years by such daring sailors' as Frobisher, Cabot, Sir Hugh Willoughby, Richard Chan- cellor, John Davis-, Sir John Ross, and Sir John Franklin. STUDIED MAGNETISM. He prepared himself by undergo- ing a course of two- years' study i» magnetism and meteorology, after which he sailed from Christiana with a crew of only eight men on June 16, 1903. For many months. Amundsen drifted along, and finally did bring his little vessel through the Bering Strait. He also determined exactly the position of the magnetic pole. Altogether he was three years away from Norway, arriving in New York Nov. 6, 1906. Several years were spent in mak- ing preparations for an expedition to the North Pole on which he was to start in 1910. He, however, later city block. Open leads of water held -him back till they froze or elosed again. A steady drift of the las carried him constantly bal.& on the course he had come. ROAD OVER GLACIAL ICE, The Antarctic ice sheet is differ- ent. It is not the frozen surface of a sea; it is akeiel ke, part of the primeval sheet that has planed off from the Antarctic -continent for centuries, It floats in the aea; yet it is not moved by the water, but, only mimed with crevasses. On the Arctic Ocean the floes aro from twenty to- sixty feet in thiekness. This sheet, as has been said, proba- bly reaches. 3,000 feat in places, or more than half a mile. 11» surface is rolling ,and open, and save for the constant and terrible danger of the crevasses, it is not a difficult road. THOUGHTFUL THOUGHTS, A man has only a. definite amount of force in him, and if he spends it in one way he goes short in, another. Our minds aro endowed with a vast number of gifts of totally dif- ferent use.s—limbe of mind, as it were, which, if we don't exercise, we cripple. It is always the charm of the un- known which attracts a man most strongly. 'Tis o rule in eloquence that the moment the orator loses command of his audience, the audience com- mands him. Worry pulls down the organism, and will finally tear it to pieces. Nothing is to be gained by it, but everything is to be lost. Stand at thy real height against some higher nature, that shall show thee, what the real smallness of thy greatest greatness is. SUBMARINE TORTURE. Those who go down in a submar- mustlive on compressed air. To the, old hand this is nothing; but to the novice the sensation when the boat, filet strike is most disagree- able. A tingling cornea all over the body, and a pounding ef the ear- drums, and thea perhaps a, sense of nausea. Another submarine "tor ture" is "gasoline heart." Th fumes from the machinery, which 1 propelled by gasoline, become over powering, and generally eause the unfortunate sufferer: to become tri conecious. Cooking is also very limited on board a submarine. The only appliance allowed for this pur- pose is a small electric heater, which, at the most, is capable of boiling an egg. Woe betide the submarine sailer if he is caught in a storm! All his efforts must then be put forth to avoid death by be- ing battered against the steel walls-, or becoming involved in the purring dynamoes. PLAGUE OF PALMISTS. London, England, was recently at the mercy of a veritable plague of fortune-tellers, palmists, and other self-proclaimed necromancers, who preyed upon the rich and poor alike, particularly in the shopping districts. They even became so fearless that they advertised by means of saedwich-men along the Strand, in Piccadilly Circus, and in Regent -and Oxford etreets. It seemed impossible to convict them of obtaining money under false pre- tence of foretelling the future, and 11 was almest impessible to get evi- denee knee against them, as they re - c eived no unrecommended clients. Their succ.ess among the supersti- tious and the credulous was clue to the fact that their clients uncon- scioualy revealed information con- cerning would-be visitors, THE SUNDAY SCHOOL STE INTERNA.TIONAL LESSON, MARCH 24, Lesson X11.—Fasting and feasting, Mark 2. 13-22. Golden Text, Murk 2. 17. - Verse I3.—Went forth again— Left Capernaum for the seaside, which, during much of his Galilean ministry, seems to have been a fav- orite resort, perhaps in part for purposes of recreation as well as for teaching. 14. As he passed by—Along the public !highway of the city, perhaps at its gate, where Matthew, here called Levi, the son of Alphaeus, collected the toll or revenue from incoming merchants and others. Follow me—The call to disciple- ship here, as in theease of Andrew and Peter, James and John, involv- ed a giving up of the regular busi- ness and means of securing a liveli- hood. 15. Sitting at meat—Luke explains that Matthew made "a great feast" in honor of Jesus. Sinners—Those outside the pale of official religien, with its minute observances and duties. The asso- eiation of publicans with sinners in the same phrase reveals the religi- ous factor in the popular hatred of the publicans, Whose very business was a sign and symbol ef Israel's subjection to a heathen power. For there were many—Publicans and sinners were already conspicu- ous among the multitudes that crowdedesusto hear the preaching of Jesus. 16. Scribes of the Pharisees Some ancient manuscripts read, scribes and the Pharisees. The use of thepreposition of may, perhaps, imply that some of the scribes were Sadducees, tliciugh this was rare. The office of the scribe still flourish- es in the Orient, where most of the people are illiterate and find it necessary to employ the services of this public officer whenever a letter s to be written or deciphered. In l9"ew Testament times one of the principal function -s of the scribe -was o read, transcribe, n:ld interpret he law. The Pharisees were ao patriotic religious party, devoted t. strict observance of the law as in- terpreted by their own 'distinguish- cl rabbis. Both parties looked own upon and despised the. com- mon people and considered it a de- ided reflection upon the standing f Jesus as a teacher that he should onsent to dine with such people as ere gathered about the festal oard of Levi. 17. Whole—Or, strong, that is, Meet in health. Net to call the righteous — Not hose who, like the Pha,ris'ees, were elf -righteous, satisfied with them - elves, and not seeking help or in - ruction. 18. John's disciples—Net all of e great forerunner's disciples ad, like Andrew and Philip, joined ie company 6f those who followed eWsuesile fasting—Were in the habit fasting as part of their regular ligious observance, 19. Sons of the bride chamber— argin : companions of the bride - 'Gore. 2,1, Undressed cloth—Cloth which s not been shrunk-. That which should it up—The tch which should cover the rent. Taketh from it—By shrinking, ars a hole larger than the first. 22, New wine—Unfermented wine. Wine -skins — Water -tight skins ed as bottles. In these not only ne but water and certain drinks de from fermented milk were /Tied. With age these skins be- ne creased and worn and there - e easily torn by the expanding 80 fermenting wine. SNOW STATUES ERECTED FOR CHARITY Copenhagen's sculptors and sculptresses provided an unusual sight recently when they faced a cold winter's night, and moulded with snow a number of statues, te each of which was affixed an appeal for the poor. On the left is seen "Mother and Child," by Mademoiselle Brandt, and on the right a "Lion on a Pedestal," a contribution of M. Eriangsea. changed his plans and decided to go to the Antarctic instead. REMARKABLE SHIP. The `Tram" has been used for many years in Arctic 'exploration From 1893 to 1893, during the expo dition of the Dr. Fridtjof Nansen she covered about 7,000 miles in th Antic Oman, 3,000 miles of this be mg accomplished while she was fro- zen solid in the ice. The Frani has a hull from 32 to 40 inches thick, and is es stout as a block of wood. She is only 125 feet long, 17 feet from deck to k -eel, and her heavy beams criss-cross until the inside of her hull looks like a forest. She is so sound that she can be driven into an ice floe with such force that the impact will send her rebounding one :hundred foot and not so much as make her groan. She can withstand pressure as no other Arctic vessel, HAD EXPERIENCED CREW, Amundsen ]eft Buenos Ayres on his trip toward the close of 1910 with a small party of Norwegians, all ex- perienced in Arctic work. He took with him a large pack of Siberian dogs, and his men were- all pro- vided with skis, which were thought to offer great advantages in tra- versing the glacier ice, The party made cite base and winter quarters 80 mike nearer the South Pole than did his British rival, THE NORTH AND SOUTH. The journey from McMurdo Sound th the South Pok nearly twice as great as that from Cape Columbia, Commander Peary's base of supplies, to the North Pole, To Compare the two it anything except mere distance is almost impossible. Peary's route lay across the drifting ee of a great °man', For a red miles from shore it was piled o great pressure ridges, row row as high Ao th h 1 t DYING LEVIATHANS. Beasts at London Zoo Whose :Kin Are Passing Away. Tom died recently. He was the last of the, great rhinoceroses in the London Zoo. There are only two left, and each is a child. Moreover, each of these two children is Afri- can. Jim died eight' years ago. He was -an Indian, and livecl for forty years in eaptivity, hating it all the time,. Them is no Indian and no Javan in the Zoo now, Indeed, there are very few of the great beasts. They are dying out not only from their 'places of captivity, but from their own homes, Even the. elephants are growing fewer, says the London. Standard. If you go into- the elephant house at the Zoo you will find the first pen vacant; that is where Tom His kin eame into the world long before men, and he. alwaye.resented their presence. Sullenly he looked through his pig -like, eyes- at, all who came -to see him. No biscuits tempted him. He never tolerated his keepers, and tho cleaning of his pen was- always rather diffieta. With the two that are leit the case ie different Billy, who lives in the last pen of all, is- only a baby, not three years old. When he was sent as a gift to the King he, was a very little baby, so a black Swahili boy Was sent to take care of him. 33illy weighed rather less than a ton, and played with his black keeper in a loving way. When the boy want back to his ONVII people the great baby was inconsolable for a few days'. Now he ie affectidnate, but he weight; a peal, deal more, and his caresses are big ceough to email 01011», Near him is • the, other, heavier still, He is being carefully weteh- , 0d, for the keepers- know that very seen his baby mind will change, and I hat the grown-up beast will keg for the place he came from. At pre- sent he le the finest specimen we can 000 in England, but Billy is the one the children will like. They should watch him swallow his por- ridge. The keepers pour a bag of oatmeal into his trough and turn a fire hose en it. He buries his nose in the food before they have pro- perly mixed it RING GEORGE'S KEY.. Fits the Writing Desk in All the Royal Palaces. The only key which King George habitually carries about 'itis him, says. .Answers, is one which opens the writing -desk in the King's pri- vate writing -room. at each of the royal residences, each desk being specially fitted with the same type of lock. This key, which is a small one, is attached to the end of the King's watch -chain, and is carried in his Majesty's waistcoat pocket. The King's private bunch of keys is kept in the writing -desk in his MfljOSty'S writing -room at whatever royal residence. the King may bo staying, The bunch of keys is not, a large one; there are only eight keysmn ell. One opens the bureau contain- ing a number of the late King's private papers-, which 1a, kept ine Xing George's personal writing - room at Buckingham Palace ; an- other opens a safe containing a number of private documents relet- ing to private business affairs of the royal family, and another 0000 con - Mining, among ether things, the King's collection of postage ,stamps. No one ever 'uses these keys' ex- cept the King, When the come moves from elle royal rear:donee to another: the keys are taken -charge of by one of the eetretaries, and meded tubeequently to the King, Who looks them in his desk "50 5'0W I • 0 01 500 11 15 • . I . I 1 '•• .. ta a 0 b p t st th of 10 M ha Pa te us wi 1110, ca. caa for fin POINTED PA'i.RAGRAPHS. Even the "has been" never for- gets the day when he was "IT," It's easier to know what to do than it is to do what you know. A child owl save its parents a lot of money by not being twins, Never offer a man advice until you find out just what kind he wantsl About the sweetest thing on earth is a girl of seventeen who is still a baby, o D 't imagine that people, are go- ing to call you a liar every time they think it. Every time a woman changes her mind elite thinks it is up to her to air her views. Don't, be too modest. People, never criticize an old hen for cack- ling aft r the lays 4111 egg. Owing to the difference in weight, aptoeeopitl: inneawteaiidiveost binuyilnagkeelmini utbonrg. some gold bricks. If a man has a big family hata11 seldom be induced to spend his money on anything else that may 0a1180 him more trouble, Lady---Couldn't,y—on possibly have saved your friend who IVA,o captur- ed by the cannibals'? African Traveller — flnfortunately not. When1 arrived he was already theatithed off the menu, COMMIT SUICIDE EN MASSE. Russian Sect Drink Poison From Wine Glasses. A contributor to The Veeisarnaya Vrernya describes ono of the meet- sinugicsidoef Itehaegu`e-Trui4leniethlsioef=Dideawthil'a';ea bauljagr.ge nieznb'ership 'in St, Peters - The meeting, which was held in a house in the heart ed the city, began ' early in the evening in order not to excite the attention of the police, and for the .sarne reason the mem- bers arrived singly, -many by the hclaucdlcv,denmtieenn ac en, d wl o!h me eant ,te:nydotainnese a innd- old. Several of the men were uniform. The large meeting -morn was thickly carpeted and heavy cur- tains masked the windows. Over the door was the ineeription; "All Hope Abandon Ye Who Enter Here." On the door itself two crossed scythes were hown on a flaming red background. Portraits, of Schopenhauer, Hartmann, and other apostles of pessimism were hung on the walls, also a large pic- ture portraying the legendary dis- pute between life and death. A few candles gave the only light, by which the proceedings were conducted. The president and other commit- teemen sat at a long table covered with a black cloth, on which was an" urn in which the suicidal lots are east, Three dull knocks from a hammer enveloped in black cloth intimated ;that the meeting was open. The president began by ex -pressing his sympathy with the member of the league, a woman, who had recently attempted suicide, but a& yet with- out fatal result. He added the fer- vent hope that she would meet the death she desired. By way of in- dorsing his words all pre.eeut rose in silence. Another member said that hap- pily the wo.und-received by the wo- man was dangerous, and there was no hope of her recovery. The greater part of the subse- quent discussion turned en the question of devising original meth - cd s of suicide. It came, out that nine of the members on whom the lot had fallen had previously sworn nob to take their live,s in common- place conditions. Varlets sugges- tions were anade, but the one. most favorably received was that a con- siderable number of the membera should commit suicide en must, it being ealculated the eensation thereby produced would attract any number of recruits to the league. It was proposed that a dinner he arranged at a fashionable restaur- ant and that the dinners swallow cyanide, of potassium out of cham- pagne glasses. Their funerals would be organized with great pomp in order to effect the impres- sionable people. The evening closed with the play- ing of a funeral march and a re- quiem ceanposed by a member of the league who recently took his life. A NEW CHOLERA. French Experts Discover Hitherto Unknown Type. Rather late in the day the French sanitary authorities have been tak- ing extreme precautions to prevent the importation of cholera at the Italian frontier. It is remarkable, in view of the comparative, neglect of measures of this kind during the latter part of the summer and the early autumn, that se few eases of the true epidemic form of the dis- ease have been noted in Fran-ce. Besides the easeful inspection of travellers coining from infected dis- tricts the Government has enforced a rigid prohibition of the sale of crude fruits ef all kinds on the in- coming trains near the border, • But a more interesting fact of possible far-reaching importance, which has developed f rom the labors of the French medical corps engaged in preventive measures is the discovery of a choleric bacillus, which differs essentially from that of the epidemic .Asiatic cholera. It seems to be specially characteristic of the kind of cholera which has raged along the Mediterranean coast last year. A CHEF'S ;JUBILEE. Has Cooked 1,800,000 Chops, and listen 10,000 II imself. Of very few /11011 can it truthfully be said, "Ile has cooked million chops." Yee 'William, of Edwards', in Fishmonger Alloy, Lon -don, Eng- land, who -trill presentlycelebrate the jubilee of his professional ca- reer, is believed to have cooked a million and a half. About ten thou- sand of these he has eaten himself - The calculation was made one clay on the table cloth by a distieguish- ed etatiatician, 'who was .so shocked by the figures thet he clergel not go on to estimate the toeiti ob steartiZ' the mountains of kidney -s, and the miles of eensages, "I wonder, Wil- liam," he ,said, "that aro not SIS hurled to look a flock of sheep in the face." "I have not -eaten a steak for twentyve years," he said, "hut I have eaten a shop every day. Some people aey you cannot live on rine thing, but 1 still manage to keep Silayeeiv, that 1, my age -thia Maroh,"