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The Brussels Post, 1912-5-23, Page 3The e - Notes of Particular Interest to Women Folks CHOICE RECIPES, Spanish Omelet—Cook together in one tablespoon of butter ono chopped green pepper, one-half sliced onion; acid ono and one-half eups of tomato; add salt and cook slowly for fifteen minutes. Make an omelet by your usual rule, and just before folding spread with part of the tomato mixture. Turn out on a hot platter and serve with the rest of the sauce poured around i.t. Vienna Steaks --Chop together one-half pound each of raw beef and veal. Season with three-quar- ters teaspoonful of salt, paprika and a little celery salt, one-eighth teaspoonful nutmeg, one teaspoon- , ful lemon juice, a few drops of on- ' ion juice, Add one beaten egg. Let • stand three hours. Make into small steaks and pan-broil. Spread while hot with butter and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bean Stow—Soak over night one pint of Mexican beans, The next morning boil for five minutes in fresh water and drain. Add two quarts of boiling water and let cook slowly fur two hours. At serving time brown two chopped onions in two tablespoons of butter ; drain the beans and add to the onions. Add one chip of strained tomatoes, season with salt and pepper and cover closely. Let stew for twenty minutes. Serve very hot, with or without boiled rice used as a bor- der. Jeune flange—Soak one ounce of gelatin in one-half cupful of cold water. Add to ono cupful of boil- ing water and stir till dissolved. Take from the fire and pour over the beaten yolks of four eggs, beat- ing steadily. Return to the fire, add one cupful of powdered sugar, one-half .teaspoonful of cinnamon, the juice and half of the grated peel of one orange. Stir till boiling hot; add one cupful of sherry; pour into a mold and chill. Serve with whip- ped cream. Sponge Pudding—Beat stiff the whites of three eggs. Boil together one cup of water and one of sugar. Add ono teaspoon of vanilla, one tablespoon of gelatin softened in cold water, and remove from the fire. Fold in the beaten whites of the eggs; divide into two pants, color one part with pink vegetable had in no other way. coloring and let stand until cold and g nearly set. Pour one quart into a mold, keeping the other part just warm enough. to prevent setting un- til the rest is 'solid. Then add the second part and set aside to get very cold and firnh, • Serve with cream, Making Meat Sauce.—In making a meat sauce of any kind, it is wiser to blend the flour with the melted butter. By doing this, the starch in the flour is more quickly cooked and the butter is absorbed. When the flour is mixed with water and then stirred into the liquid, at least ten minutes of boiling is re- quired to cook the flour, and even then It may have a taw taste. An- other difficulty with a sauce made this way is that the butter often does not blench, but rises to the sur- face of .the liquid. Escalloped Beef and -Potatoes. — Fill a casserole oe baking dish with alternative layers of boiled sliced beef and sliced raw potatoes ; sea- son with salt and pepper, Pout' over this meat stock to cover. This is perhapa beat if thickened a little with Fleur. • Cover the whole with bread crumbs and dot with a little fat fromn the top of the kettle after the beef was boiled, instead of but- ter --use but little. Cock until po- tatoes are tender. Additional sea- sonings to snit the taste may be ad- ded to this scallop. Octan 6 *e Pie.—Beab a oul1 a .fu.l of sugar and a large tablespoonful of. butter together until creamy. Moisten two level teaspoonfuls of cornstarch with a little milk, and •add to a cupful of milk scalded.in' the double bailer. Cook and stir a minute; then pour quickly into the butter and sugar, Add the grated yellow rind and juice. of otic orange mired with a well beaten egg, Peel another large, juicy orange; shoo very thin and Out slices into quar- ters, Line a deep pie tin with good light paste, and bake in a medcr- .ately quick oven until done. When the mixture is cool, quickly stir in the cut and sugared oranges an turn the mixture, into the baked crust and place in the oven a few minutes to brown. Meanwhile beat up the whites of two eggs to a white froth; add two tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar and beat up stiff and white. Heap on the pie, dust thickly with sugar and again place in the oven to brown slightly. U,SEF UL HINTS. Mice object to camphor, which, if put in places frequented by them, will drive them away completely. Grease on a well can be generaI- ly eradicated by covering with clean blotting paper and then passing a warm iron over it. Washing lamp chimneys by im- mersing them in lot water makes them very brittle, A. safer way to clean them is to hold them over the steam of a teakettle and polish with an old soft linen cloth. An eiderdown quilt may be wash- ed in a lather. Rinse it carefully and then shake it well before hang- ing out in the wind. While drying shake several times and it will be like new. Kerosene rubbed on with a soft cloth will clean zinc perfectly. Kerosene or gasoline applied with a cloth will also remove all grease marks from porcelain basins and bathtubs. Rinse well with very hot water, If after removing a mustard poul- tice the affected place is rubbed with camphorated oil there is not likelihood incurring cold. Paint your tin wash basins on the inside with good `white enamel paint, if you would prolong their usefulness. An old-fashioned but efficient re- medy for hives is a solution ef.com- mon baking soda and 'water. Dis- solve half a cupful of the soda in a basin of water. Bathe the spots with this several times a day. In selecting beef, the pieces which are well mottled with fat will be found the richest and juciest. When purchasing a roast of veal have the butcher lard it with salt pork. This will make the meat juicy instead of being dry, and ib will have a fine flavor that can be » (' •stir• k + -E; •';ld • 1 +31f'•lE'••i=f•:;9;,•.iE Is the Titanic Still Afloat? �r lc Sty Charles M. nice, Deaver Col iKtotili ri;'*'jl + ji;»r;1. :f: • timiti'••jQ.a,',y'"t,e- The sinking of the, TiLanie in mid ocean has given rise to many curi- ous speculations by the so-called solentiets, The question is asked in all seri <1 ousness :.Is the Titanic still float ing? Will site, continue to float a long as the world spins ? Another asks ; Where is she now on the bottom of the sea just uncle where she went down with het' pre cious load of human lives, or he. she drifted and is she on the, bot tom at some other place? There seems to be no unanimity, even among the wise scientific guy of the Smithsonian Institute ix their ahswer's given to these quer- ies. Some beet that .oinking as she did at an angle of about 50 degrees, she would zigzag to the bottom, first shooting one way and then an- other, and, to make it mysterious, they couch the problem in mathe- matical language, thus: "Her path would describe an arc of a great circle, whose limib would be reach- ed at a point tangent to a line par- allel to the ,surface," and so on through a whole lot more high- brow stuff. Another scientific sharp denies that she, lies at the bottom, and asserts that the gulf stream and the Arctic current, both of which flow there, the first above the other, would both have something to say about the Titania before she reach- ed the. bottom, and that they would carry her no one knows where, but surely a long distance from where she went down. Many think be- cause the ocean at thab point is over two miles deep that the boat must be at least -two miles to one side of the place where she disap- peared. Then, along comes another scien- tific sharp and says, All are wrong, no such thing possible ; not even leach will sink to the bottom of wa- ter that deep. It will go down till the weight of the water exerts such au enormous pressure that Ib can- not sink further, and will there re- main for ever suspended. So with the Titanic. It, too, is suspended at some point, doubtless, far from the bottom, there to re- main as long as the "world wags," or until the chemical action of the sea water has eaten her up, If these so-called scientists would employ a little common sense, they would not make themselves appear so ridiculous as they have succeed- ed in doing. All these half -reasoned theories are based on the erroneous notion that the density of the water a mile or two down m the ocean depths is far greater than ab the surface. They confuse density with pressure. There is no question but that the pressure is vastly increased as KNOWS NOW. Doctor Was Fooled by His Own Case For a Time. It's easy to understand how or- dinary people get fooled by coffee when doctors themselves sometimes forget the facts. A physician speaks of his own ex- perience: "I had used coffee for years and really did not exactly believe it was injuring me, although I had palpi- tation of the heart every day. (Tea contains caffeine—the same drug found in coffee—and is just as harmful as coffee.) "Finally ono day a severe and al - 'web fatal attack of heart trouble • frightened mo and I gavo up both tea and coffee, using Postum in- stead and since that time I have had absolutely no heart palpitation except on one ortwo occasions, i when I tried a small quantity of coffee which caused severe irrita- tion andproved to me 1 must let it alone. ' i "When we began using Postum t ib seemed weak—that was because we did not make it according to cli- rections—but now we put a little bit of butter in the pot when boiling and allow the Postum to boil full 1 15 minutes, whielt gives it the pro- tpor richt flavor and the deep brown co 10r' . "I have advised a great many of t my� friends and patients to leave off coffee and drink Postern, in foot I o daily give this advice." Name t given by Canadian Posthlm Co.; Windsor, Ont. s i s such enormous depths are reached. Wee can gab some idea of this pres- sure when we consider that at a depth of 100 feet by actual test the pressure exceeds 6,000 pounds to the square foot. Divers who go down 150 feet or a little more (which is about the limit), find that the pressure has increased over 3,000 pounds more than at the 100 feet depth. Divers must be armored specially to resist the pressure if they de- scend more than 150 feet. It is estimated that the pressure on the Titanic, reckoned upon the basis of ncrease aforesaid, as she lies tin- der 8,000 fathoms,of water, is over 750,000 pounds per square foot. It would seem to be a reasonable nforence that under such pressures he density of the water would be nereased accordingly, bub scien- tists have demonstrated by actual expsritneuts that water is almost wholly incompressible, and for a on titre ib was thought to be, ab- solutely so. Extremely delicate and accurate testing instruments lave been used, and sen water top he depth of one mile has been measured and found to be only one ne-hundred and thirtieth greater lean at the surface. Hence, for ail tactical purposes, it may be eon luded, that a given body of water s not materially reduced, in dimen- sion by any known means of pres- ure that may be applied. Keeping these facts clearly in mind, there should be no clifrioulby n locating the, resting place of the Hanle, tis water is practically income res- t Y p ibhe, its density or weight is nob o perceptibly greater ab the two-mile level than it is at the surface, and. hence its power of buoyancy is only t slightly greater, 16 follows from this' that any ob- ject that could net float at the sue - face. would have no chance to re- main suspended 'ea any intermedi- ate point, but must sink directly to the bottom, ' The increased pressure at the two -While depth manifettly could. not prevent h Titanic Econ] reach- ing tt e t the bottom, because the lues sure ie teem all sides, and equal, downwards es well as upwards. Nu doubt this enormously in- creased pressure • would c Ca 1 6 iC went instantly crush any air=fillod chambers or other frail or compressible matter in the vessel, and hence, as the,hulk 1 a ciesce.nded, the dispiacemcnt would n beeorric lessened and the Pio Many thousands of physicians use Postum in place of tea and col- s fee in theft own homes and pro- soeibe it to patients. ""There's a reason," and it is ex- plal"ned in the little book, "The p Road to Wellville," in pkgs. Ever read the above. letter? A now alio appears from time to time. They oro 8 genuine, true, and fun 01 human interest. of Secure & Profitable Bonds Paying 6/ q Price Bros. & Company have been hi business in Quebec over Soo years, It is the largest industry in ,Quebec Province. Their holdings of pulp andtimberlands are 6,000 miles in extent, and have been valued by experts at over $13,000,000. The net earnings in typo were $448,00000. The new pulp hill now muter construction will double these earnings. T,0imber`lintits are insured with Lloyds of England against fire. 4j Price Bros, fe Company First Mortgage Bonds pay 6 per cent, interest on their present price. They wilt assuredly appreciate 't value, Consitlecfn g interest return, security, anti Mare increase in value, they are an unusually attractive investment, On appllectlon WO will send you Literature fully describing these bonds, ECURITIES 01( AL CORPORATION L.iMiTCD BANK, Or MONTREAL. BUILDING 'YONGE AND OUEEhI STREETSIt, 141. WHITETG12 NTo Manger IJONrnChL-buGnas-NALtrAX.OrrAWA LONe0hi ieNtl,) through the water' would be corres- pondingly aceeleeated, Even the iron and the other me- tals of which the Titanic was largely eonstructed are much more cum- preeeiblc than water, and hence it is idle to suppose that the Titanic in sinking •swerved far from a per- pendicular line. If the statement of some of these scientists were true, then the sounding of the ocean depthswould be impossible; but two know that this has been successfully accom- plished in water more than twice the depth of thab whiclh overlays the Titanic. Very odd and curious forms of deep •sea life, dredged from the ocean bottoms, have been brought to the surface by the Eng- lish ship "Challenges," and in 1868 Prof. Huxley announced his belief thab the gelatinous substances found in the ooze, of the beds of the deet' seas, is a sheet of living mat- ter extending around the globe. Hestained ed it Batins h�b' ane y it hong ht he had discovered the real origin of all life, Denver, Col, `1018, -- s:— SCII:NCE AND SUPERSTITION. The Shah of Persia's Experience With :Radiuul. Radium—most mysterious of the new mysteries in modern scionee--is so little familiar to unscientific men that the panic of the Oriental pot- enbate described in a recent book by Mons. Xavier Paoli, a French detective, is easily understood. Once, while in Paris, the Shah of Persia, Muzaf-far-eel-din, expressed a wish to know something of Pro• fessor Curie's discovery. Monsieur Paoli made the necessary arrange- ments. Complete darkness is of course needed 11 radium is to reveal itself in all its brilliancy. With endless trouble Paoli persuaded the monarch to descend into one of the hotel cellars that had been ar- ranged for the purpose. But at length his majesty, with all his suite, proceeded to the un- derground apartment. Professor Curie closed the door, switched off the electric light, and uncovered his ,specimen of radium. Suddenly a shout of terror between the roar of a bull and the yell of a. man be- ing murdered rang out, and was echoed by a hundred others. "Amid general excitement and consternation," writes Monsieur Paoli, "we flung ourselves upon the electric switches, and turned on the lights. "Then we beheld a strange spec- tacle. In the midst of the prostrate Persians, with his arms round the neck of his grand vizier, and his round pupils dilated to their very rims, stood the Shah, shouting at the top of his voice in Persian : "'Come away! Come away "The switching on of the light, calmed his mad terror as if by ma gie. Realizing the disappointment and chagrin he had caused Mon- sieur Curie, the Shah tried to com- pensate him by the offer of a decor- ation. But the. austere man of science," concludes Paoli, "thought fib to decline it." l SOME DAYS FA.VORABLE. Human Organism Subject to Varies tines in Week's Time. Not alone the weather, but cer- tain days of the week also exert fatal orable or unfavorable influences;. upon the human organism. Such! are the, conclusions reached by Prof. W, Trabeet, director of the Vienna' Meteorological Institute, after collecting valuable data on the I subject. That the weather affects the general condition of people has long been conceded, but Pref. Tra- beet is the first to investigate the matter from the . scientific stand- point. , Ike induced a large numbee of persons of different startling and occupations to furnish him with particulare of their daily state of health, noting particularly any changes or disturbances in their normal condition. Many school teaelicr; have also been making in- vestigations along the same lines among their pupils, carefully classi- fying their general behavior and eoncluct. From the very interesting results tinfis obtained it is clear that ether influences than the wea- ther affect the human organism. For it was found that persons are subject to weekly pperiodical. changes corresponding in almost the same measure or degree to wea- ther influence. With adults, fee example, Se.turclays and Sundays are "favorable" clays, while 00 Tuesdays Tt osdays and Fridays many nhhfay.. rabic deviations from the normal ond•lion were observed. With school childeen it was found hat Monday is the best day and Saturday the worst; also that all fternoons are "unfavorable." Physiologically spcakings that day s found to be, bad when therm is,a' deep atmospherle depression and ire day is good when the barometer. s rising. Atmospheric pressure eems to affect the human condition ery much as it does the, weather. Yoe ]911-1018 theteal' him t estimated lumber of anon in the German Navy xceeds 60,000, • 'Bitty," saki her mother, rebuk- ngly, "you must sit still when you re at the table 1" "I ean't,'mam'- ea," penteste.d the little girl; "I'm fidgetar'ian ;" a r SHOPS ACT OI° 1912, New Experience in Paternal Gov cement in Britain. The 13ritisll shopkeeper on May 1 began a new experience in paternal government. The Shops Act of .1918 became operative on that day, and hencefor't1t every employer included in its schedules will be compelled under penal -tics to grant his em- ployes a weekly half -holiday and a definite period for their meals. Thousands of shop hands already have a half -holiday through a vol- untary, mutual agreement with their employers. The new Act ex- tends this privilege by statute to thousands imoro who have hitherto been unaffected. Under the provisions of the Act most ,shops mast henceforth be closed absolutely at 1,30 p.m., one day in the week, but exceptions in this respect are allowed in certain trades, such as saloons, restaur- ants, butchers and other dealers in perishable goods, as well as tobac- conists, tsts, drt g stores and newspaper vendors. These trades must, nev- ertheless, arrange for every em- ploye to have the benefit of the Act. individually. There has been practically no op- position to the general principles of the Aet, but ttvo days of its working has sufficed to show that the de- tails must be revised. The .act is in- elastic. It inflicts inconvenience and even hardship in some cases. One of the chief difficulties in con- nection with restaurants is a com- pulsory 45 minutes for the waiters'. meals which comes in the busiest period of the day. The waiters and waitresses also complain that the half holiday deprives them of a val- uable proportion of their tips, which in many cases constitute, their sole earnings. The barbers are up against a similar difficulty at meal times. A curious situation has been created in email shops, where vai'ions class- es of goods are retailed. For in- stance, a drug store may keep open always to sell medicines, bob on the day fixed for a half -holiday in its tonrn 14 must not sell scented soap or other articles of this kind, So, too, a news dealer may sell news- papers and magazines, but not sta- tionery on the, half -holiday.. Tho big department stores are not affected in this matter, as they already b•? custom close all branch- es of their business for a half day. Another anomaly of the Act is that it does not embrace wholesale warehouses, and accountants and TI16WH TEST,LI0tftESTa NEVER ANY FAILURE OR DISAPPOINTMENT WHEN MAGIC BAKING POWDER IS USED. CONTAINS NOALUM. COSTS NO MORE THAN THE ORDINARY KINDS. MADE IN CA DA other clerks who are not sales hands in any chop. Shopkeepers are puzzled as to hots 'to interpret many of the clauses, and are bom- barding the newspapers with Letters and asking questions as to whether they will be punishable for certain courses of conduct. AT AN AFTERNOON TEA. "Speaking of poets, thab fellow over yonder is evidently a poet." "I've seen hint ab 'good many receptions, but I never heard him uncork any poetry." "Maybe not, but just, look at him eat." Never ask a friend for a candid opinion unless you are sure you want it. PARTNERSHIP IN SUCCESSFUL CANADIAN INDUSTRIALC®MPA1Y Holders of the 7 per cont. Preferred Stock of The Slenron Company, Limited, enjoy the full benefits of straight partner- ship, because, In addition to the regular 7 por cent. dividend on the stock, they share equally with the Common stock In all profits in excess of the proferred dividend. The Company has been In sueeesstul operation for close to a quarter of a century, and with its present capacity cannot now fill more than 50 per cent. of its orders. In addition, the Com- pany holds a largo number of exceedingly valuable timber limits. Subject to prior sale, we offer 555,005 of the 7 per cont. Pre- ferred Stook of the Company at 8100 a share. 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Withthe New Pettection Oven, the New ferierhon' Book alw giver to anyone ' ' sa,d;ns 5 000:, to 560er mail - 't L just as quick end handy, too, for washing hod ironing, i"s enh TkIJE IMPERIAL OIL COMPANY, Limited Winnipeg, Montriui 1, St. eg,tp, aril to o Reif Queen City fivieVon, Torten o DISEASE HEREDITARY 7 DOCTOR THROWS LID HT o11 TIRE PROB[rEH[, WIty 2.1 IiiTitnt Maladies Are Trans* milted From Parents to Children, Airny people are greatly worried by tlee fear of consumption or 'can- cer, because, their pares ;s suffered from these diseases. Doctors who have collected exhaustive statistics on the question are strongly of opinion that they have no pause for fear, It is true, of emirate than some are of a contrary opinion; but the pre-sweption is against the theory of heredity, writes a doctor in London Answers. But there ro are some"family r' fainly dis- eases concerning which no doubt remains. For instance, gout. It is said that no man, however large the quantity of meat and strong drink he consumes, can give himself gout if no ancestor of his suffered from it. But he can injure his stomach, kidneys, liver, and outer organs, This injury may be transmitted to Ins children, and then, if they live luxurious lives, they are pretty sure to be gouty, FRECKLES AND FAMILIES. Any peculiarity niay be handed down in this way. If a great- grandfather found eggs and milk to disagree, with him, his great -grand- child may have the same complaint one hundred years later. The eggs and milk disagree be- cause of some defect of the gastric juices. This is due to some peculi- arity of the stomach, and this pecu- liarity goes down from father to son, just like a hooked nose, or large ears, or grey eyes. Excessive liability to freckles is well known to be an heirloom in some families. The skin of these people is delicate, and easily in• attract by sunlight, and this delicacy may be handed down for several hundred years. In other families one sees that if the mother suffers from chilblains, so do her dauglhters, and so will her granddaughters. These are proba- bly due to a certain peculiarity of the blood. and the same peculiar blood is handed !down from parents to children. Another little malady that one may be sure of having if his parents were troubled with it is nettle -rash. For some reason not exactly known the skin rises in wheals—white, pink, or red—after eating certain foods. Shell -fish cause it in some people, eggs or milk in others, and whatever defect of skin or'blood is responsible in the parents it will be transmitted to the children. Then, if anyone sueffrs from acne (pimples) on the face, he probably has large sebaceous glands. These same large glands almost certainly existed on his father's or mother's face, and they will be sure, to trou- ble his chikiren and grandchildren. I FROM PAST TO PRESENT. Another family disease, is that re- markable tendency to bleed from the slightest'Meusewhich is often found in the male sex, but aoarcely ever in females. It may be a strong liability to bleeding of the nose, or, what is much worse, to profuse bleeding from the slightest wound. Such people are the terror of the dentist, who cannot stop the bleed- ing, after a tooth is drawn; and, of coarse, any kind of accident is more dangerous for them than for others.. It is well known that harelip runs in families. So do six -fingered hands and six -toed feet, webbed fin- gers, and other malformations, In sone people you may see the skin extend from the palm of the hand far down between the fingers, and if you examine, their parents' hands, S'ou will almost surely find the same peculiarity. Fortunately, the descent of these hereditary diseases is sometimes ptopped by the in•tt'odnetion of new and antagonistic blood into thelam- il• Otherwise, se ash..of n. 1 each 5 las n sixteen Meal -great grandparents, sixty -Four groat -great -great-grand- parents, and so on, we would all suffer from nearly every known dis- case and deformity. SOOTT ALL IN ENGLAND, IEnglishchemists estimate that nearly ,500,000 tons of cowl is wasted every year in the British Isles in the ferns of soot. Various e.x oris en, p to is in the pity of Leeds have shown that at least 920 tons of soot; is deposited annually over each square, mile of the city's arca. Glass Plates exposed in the centr'n" of Leeds became coated with about 9.1 times es much tarry sob as in a locality nine miles away. 7llho black deposit chokes vegetation by check• big transpiration and assimilation, thins the foliage of trees, and re•' duces the quantity and quality of • garden. products. The solid parti- cles, too, diminishthesetilight. 'In . 190'7 h 0 the centre of Leeds had but 1,167 (tours of Sunlight, as com- pered with 1,408 hours at .Adel, four miles distant, a loss of 17 per cont., and the actual intensity of light was reduced fully 40 Per cont,. The • groalcet ,sootfali yet recnreled oc' curs in the city of London, whore about; 650 tone aro deposited ek1t, totally on each st s..ar'e mile of sea - fade.