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The Brussels Post, 1912-5-30, Page 3MouSErsOLa .DAINTY DISHES. Broiled Finnan Haddie -- Soak twenty minutes in warm welter. Drain and dry thoroughly, brush with melted butter and broil until browned on both sic(es. Tr/easier to a hot platter on which has been Poured a cup of cream or white sauce, slip in oven an instant to re- heat and serve, 1'ricasaed Veal—Select a light shoulder or fore -quarter's of veal. Simmer till tender, then cut in pieces suitable kr serving, salt and pepper them, roll in fluor and brown on a griddle. Serve on toast, with a gravy macre from liquor in •which veal was cooked, Canned Peach and Nut Salad --• Select a large half peach for snail person. Let stand thirty minutes in a little l ii"ich dressing, drain anti fill centers with chopped :ig:, dates or prunes mixed with a little orea.m, Sprinkle with chopped • a; chew nuts, place on lettuce leaves and serve, Lemon Rice Pudding,—Ocie and one-half cups rice, three cups milk, one egg, juice, and rind one-half le- mon, one-half cup sugar. Mix in order given, pour in buttered pud- ding dish, set ill pan of hot wafer and bake slowly till firm in the ce:a- ter, Serve hot or cold with currant jelly sauce. Tapioca Pear Soup—One-fourth pound dried pears, half to Ores - quarters sugar, one-quarter pound dried apricots, three tablespoons tapioca, one-quarter cup cur sae ts, few grains salt, one quart water, one. -inch piece cinnamon, one table- spoon lemon juice, two cloves. Soak fruit over night in the water. In the morning add the spice and tapi- oca and simmer gently till both are done. Then sweeten, add salt artd lemon juice and chill. Currant Jelly Sauce—Boil ,. ne cup of granulated sugar and one- third cup of water, without stirring, four minutes; add four tablespoons of currant jelly. As soon as the sauce boils again, add two table- spoons of lemon juice and serve. Potatoes Goldenrod—Three cups diced cooked potatoes, two table- spoons -Hour, three hart! -cooked eggs, two cups milk, one tablespoon, finely minced anion, one teaspoon salt, three tablespoons butter, one- quarter teaspoon pepper. Soper - ate egg whites from yolks, cut into dice and add to potato. Fry union in butter till softened, add flour and seasonings and gradually the milk, stirring well. Let boil; add potatoes and when very hot turn into serving dish. Put egg yolks in • ota.to ricer' and rico over dish. Serve ,at once. TEA, COCOA AND COFFEE. Making Tea.—Fill the kettle with fresh cold water and set it on to boil. If soft water can be procur- ed, it should always be used, Never make the tea with water that has been long on the fire simmering or that has been twice boiled. The natural aeration of the water is drawn off by long-eontinued heat- ing, anci the hardness of the water is increased by the evaporation that: takes place. The more rapidly the water is heated 'the better the tea. Warm the teapot. Put in the tea in the proportion of one ounce to six or seven persons, or a teaspoon- ful for each person, and a teaspoon- ful over•. Pour on the boiling water: Cover the teapot and allow it to stand from five to seven minutes to draw. Take care to use. a teapot .in right proportion to the size of your party. If the teapot is nut tilled the tea cools rapidly, If tea is required in haste, while the water is conning to the boil put the tea into the teapot and stand it in- side the oven until it is thoroughly hot through. Pour on the -boiling water, and in a minute it will be ready to pour out. Making Cocoa.—Two tablespoon- fuls of cocoa; two cupfuls of milk, two tablespoonfuls of auger, two cupfuls of boiling water and a pinch of salt, Mix the cocoa, sugar and salt together ; add the boiling water gradually ; when smooth, boil five minutes; adcl two cupfuls of milk scalded. and beat with an egg beat- er or chocolate stick -until frothy. Making Coffee,—One cupful of coffee and six cupfuls of colts water,' Put coffee in cheesecloth bag. Tie, allowing room .for coffee• to swell. Place in scalded coffee pot, cover with cold water and boil 10 minutes. Remove bag, lot stand two minutes b en back of tango, and so'r'e wit]. r hot milk, sugar and cream. b p ner the spread of cnntagieus discos is may be greatly elix'k+;d. It is all irnpuesrhility to hem th Roane strictly sanitary. This wont mean sacrificing its artistic beauty Carpets, draperies and papers walla, long c'iinside'ed a menace to health, would have to he dispelled with. Very few families have the cour- age to run their homes upon a sani- tary bat's; therefore the lovely draperies and upholstered Iurn i- tur€' remain, With the ward "home" is as oci ated all that produces cunifot't beauty and enjoyment. 1 strictly sanitary house is no beautiful or conducive to cheerful nems. It reminds one of a hoapi tai, and the• desire to live there i never longed for by normal person We can, to a certain extent, keep the home geunpreof. Here are. a tl few suggestios which may pl'os helpful: Window draperies sift all the germ -laden dust from the streets and very quickly become a delight- ful resting place f.n' an unbelievable number of bacilli. If the draperies are of washable material, they should he frequently 'dipped in a weak solution of Ohne isle. Your druggist will tell you the right proportion. The door' -knob, turned by count- less germ -covered hands, should have an antiseptic -bath as often as possible. Infectious diseases are spread very often by the seemingly harm- less •'.00rknob. While the telephone is a wonder- ful invention, and it would he a difficult matter to exist comfortab- ly without one, it is a breeder of disease. To prevent this, to a cer- tain extent, an antiseptic shield should be placed over the mouth- piece. A good idea would be fur each member of the family to have his own shield conveniently near the 'phone, and use it when speak- ing. Combs and hairbrushes should not be neglected They should have an antiseptic bath at least once a week. These articles nsedl in the guest chamber should be subject to this treatment after the departure Of each visitor, Children, when using a pencil; moisten it with the mouth. This ]cubit should be broken if possible. The danger of contagion is prevent- ed by labeling the pencil with each owner's name, This can be done by pasting a strip of paper 00 the pencil or cutting the initials in the wood. GREAT DANGER FROM FLIES CARRY INFECTION ('TION 1''Olt LONG Intelligent Cleanliness about All Premises- Should be Rigorously Enforced. Nalwithstanding all that has been said and written, many people continue to ignore the constant clanger from flies as carriers of in. lection, Everywhere food is ex- posed to the visits of these distri- s tutor's of disease. A series uf re- s ports on this subject has recently been published in England, in which it is shown that infections may re- n nein active upon flies which have been exposed to them. ---and their habits thus expose them continually —for from four to ten days. An idea of thedistance to whieh infec- tion may be dispersed by flies is given by recent investigations at Postwick, near Norwich, England, where it was found that marked. flies travelled nearly a unite from the notorious refuse heap that served as their breeding ground. As long as the fiy was known merely as an annoying nuisance there was little chance of enlisting concerted effort for its suppression. WISE S.I.YINCS. Never stop work till you have to. I have seen so many good men re- tire—and go to pieces.—Dian Pi- gott. Work is the very salt of life; not only preserving it from decay, but also giving it tone and flavor.— Hugh Black. Providence never intended that any State. here should bo either completely happy or entirely miser- able.—Blair. If all men had to earn all they lived upon they would know better (tow to use money and how td save it.—Mr. Samuel Barrow. Eschew wickedness. Be truthful in speech, faithful to your engage- ments, kind and helpful to your re- lations and neighbors.—Mahomet. This world is full•of fools, and he who would not wish to see one must not only shut himself ftp alone, but also: break his looking-glass.—Boil- eau. • If men would only be as consider- ate -to wife, children and servants as they are to acquaintances and strangers their homes would be in- comparably brighter.—Canon Hen- sley Henson, The unhappy are never pleasing, and all naturally avoid the contag- ion of misery. To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy. . 'Who that is struggling under his own evils will acid to them the miseries of an- other I—Dr, Johnson, For two women to love each other all things must be clear and fair— there must be no mystery and, noth- ing hidden. Between a man and e woman it is different. Some bar- riers should never be broken down, some things left undefined, if a man's love especially is to continue. —Mrs. W. IC, Clifford, THE BURSTING OF. BOILERS, The naval correspondent of the London Morning Post has some- thing interesting to say on the sub- ject of the bursting of the boilers aboard ship, of which so much has been heard, When a steamship sinks it is inevitable that reports should get about that the boilers nest as she went dowel. There is a oar and a great expulsion of steam rout the funnels as the boilers be ome submerged, and itis assumed hat this can only be caused by their ursting. It has, however, been roved over and over again' that his effeet is merely the result of the water suddenly reaching and put- ting out the fires; that there is no violent explosion within board, and that the bursting of boilers in such circumstances would be im- possible, THE CLEAN HOUSE. Modern scientists have tried to impress upon the minds of the gen- eral public the necessity of keeping the hone as free from germs as possible. Every disease has its beginning traced to these destroyers of life. Therefore, we should take every proeautiorr in turn to destroy them, The mother in the home would be wise tit form a crusade against all warring germs, Each member of the family might to assist her in every way possible Ii this man - Moors am forbidden by their re- ligion to deposit dire' money in banks; instead, they hide .it; in the ground, suggested a similar solution of the fly problem. Mosquitoes breed in stagnant water, and it is generally easy to drain, fall, sleek with fishes or oil the pools of a neighborhood and relieve it completely of the mos- quito nuisance, -The fly breeds chiefly in stable manure. but will breed also in almost any cteeaying filth; animal or vegetable, and only ten days are required for eggs to lunch and mature. We cannot too strongly advocate intelligent cleanliness, but even if all stable and barnyard mem/mita- tions were plowed into the fields weekly, there would still remain, in the e]thes, the glitters, sewers, dumps and all sorts of accidental accumulati'.,ns anywhere; and in the country, the utiles of roadsides and acres of barnyards and pas- tures. All this means that the breeding places are an impossible field of attack in case o of the filth. fly. In fact the plan has been be- fore the country now fur several years and we doubt whether a single city, town or even home has tried to Follow it consistently for an on - tire reason. THE FLY NUISANCE touches every home, and since one household can breed enough flies to cover at least a half a mile square, positively every family must co-op- erate. This means that we must, first of all, have a plan which shall Why not put the Iles in jail Now that it is convicted of being the bearer of all manner of germs of l disease, its extermination has be- come the most urgent next step to- ward cleanly living. How to do this is the problem. - THE MAIN FEATURE in our solution of this problem in the past has been the invention of fly screen, with which to shut our- selves .in prison, while we yield to the enemy undisputed possession of the out-of-doors. Then we have de- vised other .disagreeable accessor- ies, like tanglefoot paper and fly spatters with which to kill those that slip into our prisons. To cap the climax of stupidity we have sup- plied food at our kitchen doors and unlimited breeding places its our stable collars. In recent years oar success in dealing with mosquitoes by atten- tion to their breeding places has and let ourselves out! appeal to everyone as fair and ef- fective, and by its own merits en- list universal support. The public is an enormous mass of common sense, and nothing short of real common sense can move it. A pair of flies beginning in April may be the progenitors of billions by Aug- ust. The one thing needful is in- telligence enough on the part of every member of the community to realize how many flies niay breed from a single pair. It has been computed that a pair of flies begin- ning to breed early in April might, if all lived, be the progenitors of 191,010,000,000,000,000,000, by Aug- ust. The first nation or community in which this degree of civic intelli- gence is attended will be .free from flies from that time on, and we need to develop this intelligence with reference to a good many other na- tural enemies. SEWS IN DANGER FROM MOBS. Old Accusation of "Blood Sacri- fices" Inliana ng Ignorant Minds. A danger now menacing the Sews of Kieff, Russia, is causing much anxiety to their co -religionists throughout the world. They are being accused once more of carry- ing out "bleed sacrifices," and the ,unreasoning passion of the mob is being worked up against them. And the usual results of race hatred against the Jews in Russia are known to everybody. A year ago a boy 'named Andrei Yuschiusky was murdered at Kieff, and on very slender evidence a, Jew has been arrested and charged with the murder. The inquiry is now in progress, but whether the accused man is guilty or not is nob the point. The critue has been seized on by the snob orators, who assert that the boy Yuschi:nsky was mur- dered by Jews -'in seeder that his blood might be taken and used for ritual purposes, in obedience to an alleged Jewish religious law, The hest -known .Russian scholars, au- thors, and .artists have made su ve- hement protest against the spread- ing of this dangerous fiction, and now the fo.renost Jewish people throughout Europe• have joined their protests to that of the Russian intellectuals, The accusation now beings trade at Kieft is .a direct deecencl'ant of the mediaeval "ritual murder" charge which has been responsible for anti-Jeiwsh exercises. In the newspapers photographs of the murdered boy aro being shown with the legend: "Orthodox Rus- sian people, remember the name of the youth,- Andrei Yuschinski, tor- tured by the Jews! Clunistians, watch your children!" It isagainst this dangerous and infamous propo- ganda that the Tows of Europe are now protesting, and in Germany pai'ticulat'ly the movement of indig- nation and protest has taken large Proportions, "1 hear Arthur has bought a mo- tet car." "Yes," "Where bas he run with it so far?" "Principally into debt." During the last ten years'the to- tal number of depositors in the British Post Otiteo Savings Bank has itureased by over 3,000,000, "Women generally have del)cany, good taste and achniratioii for things that are graceful nisi bean- tiful, FAMILY OF FREAKS. Spanish Peastutt -ars 't'w'elve Fin- gers on'Each Ihtnd. Spain possesses two families at least which have unique records. One was brought to light when a woman called at Bilbao hospital with her son, who has enormous hands and 12 fingers on each. .The most curious part of the case is that all her sons possess similar hands. One has 21 fingers, another 23, and the other five. children 24 fingers each. All are living and enjoying good health. Many doctors are studying these cases, At Zarza- tano, IS town in the same province, a child has just -been born, while his father, grandfather, great- grandfather, and his great -great- grandfather .are still living, His name is Urriticoechea, and the fam- ily are Basque farm laborers: The great-grandfather and great -great- grandfather have • acted as god fathers to the latest arrival. The united family constitutes nearly a whole village. • ' WOMAN JAIL GOVERNOR. Mune, Jenny Porchct, who has charge of the prison ab Aigle, in the Canton of Vend, Switzerland, is now fifty-two years of age, and thirty -ono years ago she married the then prison governor, .At his death the authorities advertised for a successor, and among the appli- cants was his widow, who had man- aged the prison during her hus- band's long illness, Another point in her favor was her physique. In height she wants only an inch of six feet, and possesses the muscles of a wrestler, The Prison C'omtnissien doubted her fitness, but when she offered to try her strength against the most -powerful gendarme, all doubts subsided, The prison is said to be the hest managed in Switzer- land, ' es - AIRMEN IN FLOCKS, A.s many as 120 aeroplanes will take place in the coining 1912 French army manoeuvres, along with the unprecedented number of 140,000 men, or one-fifth of the to- tal only, The aeroplanes , cam - peke twentysections, el' "esca- drilles,' of eight aeroplanes each. At present the '4lrar Department is engaged in laying out the plans for the manoeuvres, an which the soros planes will snake alt the combine- t]crin4 whieh appear to be. useful, THE SUNDAY SCDODI. STUDY IN'TERN:1'1'IONAL LESSON, JUNE' 2. Lesson IX, hypocrisy and sincer- ity. Matt. 6, 148. Golden Text, Matt. 0, 1. Verse 1. Take heed—Tyre exhar- tation which fellows is a criticism of Phai'asaic religion and an insis' tence upon the necessity of keeping religion free fl'om ostentation, The lesson passage may be divided into throe parts, as follows: Verses 1-4, devoted to almsgiving; verses 0-15, to prayer, and verses 10-18, to fast- ing. Righteousness—Almsgiving, pray - et', and fasting were conspfeuous elements in righteousness as under - steed by the Jews. To be seen --Or, to be a spectacle to ; that is, to make an ostentatious display. The word used here is the Greek word from which the word theatre is derived. Jesa, is warn- ing against insincere play-acting in religion, Reward with your Father who- in hoin heaven—This is granted only to those who are contrite and humble in spirit. 2. Sound not a trumpet—There is a Greek phrase, meaning "to play one's own pipe," which in modern colloquial English has be- come "to blow one's own horn." Hypocrites — Literally, play -act- ors, or pretenders; that is, those who pose and act upon the stage before an admiring audience. In both Matthew and Luke this epithet is frequently applied to the Mari - Have received—That• is, "in full." They have therefore nu further re- gognition or reward to expect. 3. Let not thy left hand know— "Hide your charity not only from the gaze of others, but from the too frequent recollection of it in your own consciousness." 5. Stand and pray—Standing was the customary posture for prayer. Wherever a man happened to be when the hour for prayer came, custom required that he as- sume this posture. The point Je- sus makes against the Pharisees is that they so arranged their daily routine of work as to be in some eonspicuous place when the hour for prayer arrived, so that all might see their elaborate devotions. Have received their reward—The recognition or admiration of the populace. 0. Inner chamber—The private place of prayer. This was usually in the upper part of the house, sometimes being a small room built upon the flat roof. 7. Vain repetitions—The Hebrew Talmud contains this promise, "Everyone that multiplies prayer is heard." Jesus teaches that the mere multiplication of the verbal part of prayer is not in keeping with the true spirit of communion with God, 8. Your Father — Some early manuscripts read, God your Father. 9. After this manner—The prayer which follows is intended to be a model of simplicity, directness, and brevity. A slightly variant parallel is found in Loire 11. 2-4, In heaven—Literally, in the hea- vens. This was a common introduc- tion to Jewish prayer, intended to express the thought that the place of God's abode was invisible. Hallowed—Considered ever sac- red. 10, Thy kingdom—Compare in- troductory paragraphs to this and the. following lesson. 11. Our daily bread—The suste- nance which our physical needs for the day demand. 13. Bring us not into temptation —God does not tempt man to evil (James 1, 13), but he does permit trials to conte upon all (IIeb, 4. 15), The petition stere is for strength to overcome the evil one. Many early manuscripts, though with considerable variation, add at this point• the words, For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen, 16. When ye fast —Jests takes for granted the compliance of his followers with many of the custom- ary religious observances. Of a sad countenance—Hypocriti- cally so, The Pharisees fasted twice in the week (Luke 18. 12). Disfigure their faces—Face and stead were left unwashed and un- kempt. es indicative of the serious- ness of the mood in which the fast- ing was performed. The whole at- tire of the one thus fasting was in harmony with his facial appear- ance, Their reward—In this case the mere notice of their fellows, either with or without commendation, as the case .night be. • 17. Anoint thy head ---As if for a glad festival. By tints radically changing the manner in whieh fast- ing was to be performed, Jestts ac- tually does away with the emetics in its eller Jewish form, since without . the outward ostentation fasting lost its historic chin•nete' of a public observance and religious formality, T8. But of thy Vallee , in secet--Jestts emphasizes the inner personal side of religions life, and makes it clear that personal i'cli- gion must be it matter of the inner life, In so fat as it touches the lives of others and becomes social in its nature it must be chastened and lifted wholly above the plane of self-seeking ostentation by a sense of sacred communion with the Fa- ther. -5' AN IMPORTANT tjl"1:STION, Canada's Doty Toward the Bahama Isitunr's. The question of the entry of the Bahama Islands into the ('on?edor- ation of ('artatla is once again tsc the front. There are at present un- satisfactory trade conditions rtiist ing in the islands which render it necessary that relief must he se- cured from some sotrrce. There arc two alternative.s open to the people of tlin islands, either to throw in their lot with Canada, 1i/seeming one of the provinces of the Domin- ion, or to negotiate with some country a reciprocal trade arrange- ment. In regard to the latter. there are only •tw'o countries with which any arrengomtnt of the, kind could he made, the 1)ontonion of Canada and the United States. The Bahama Islands produce goods for which there i, a market in both Canada and the United States, while Canada and the United States produce goads which the people of the Bahamas must necessarily import. The entry of the Bahamas into confederation world remove all trade harriers in the way of cus- toms duties between Canada and the islands, and would, therefore, afford the relief for which the lat- ter are looking. Of coarse, a reci- procal trade arrangement with Canada would to a large extent serve the same purpose, but there is this difference, that iu the ease of negotiations of this nature United States influence would na- turally intrude itself, Inc it can be taken for granted that the Ameri- cans would not lose the possible ad- vantage of a trade alliance of thin; kind without a struggle. Conces- sions might be offered which it would be difficult to resist, Were, however, the Bahamas to become part of Canada, there would not only be freedom of trade between the islands and this country, but the Dominion would also be under obligation to provide means of transportation between its present Atlantic ports and the suggested added territory, something which it is possible the United States might offer as a concession in connection with any trade arrangement with that country. As the situation stands, and as already pointed out, the islands must secure relief either from Can- ada or the United States; from Canada either through confedera- tion or by means of a reciprocal trade arrangement, and from the United States through the latter, unless absolute necessity should force the islanders into renuncia- tion of the British connection and the allying of their political as well as their trade interests with those of the United States. The question, therefore, becomes one of Imperial concern. Canada in this .natter could render a great service to the empire by either ad- mitting the Bahamas into confeder- ation, or by entering into such a trade arrangement with the people of the islands as will give them re- lief, from their present unsatisfac- tory conditions. The entry of the islands into confederation would settle natters once and for all, whereas a trade arrangement night not in the end prove satisfactory, and might result in doing what it is desired should not be done, throw the Bahamas into the arms of the tinted States, It is hoped, there- fore, that the Dominion Govern- ment shall give the best possible attention to whatever advances in the direction of confederation may be made by the people of the Baha- mas,—Nelson Daily News, 1lISASTIII1:S'l'O SHIPS. '1'lte Greatest Loss of Life Was On the Titanic. The tale of great disasters to mer- chant ships is too long to do more than glance at. It ineludes the Austria, a steam emigrant vessel, burned in 1858 in the Atlantic, and involving a lose of nearly 500 lives ; the s.s. Royal Charter, wrecked off the Welsh coast in 1839, with a loss of 440 lives and nearly £800,000 in gold; the s.s. London, lost in the Bay of Biscay in December, 1865, with a loss of 229 persons; the "White. Star s.s. Atlantic, on her way to Halifax in 1873, with a loss of 560; the GreatQuecnsland, in 1870, on her way to Melbourne, with 560 persons on board, supposed to have caught fire off Cape Finistere, and the Pi'ineess Alice, which was run into by another steamer on the. Thames in 1878, and went down' with between 000 and 700 persons. In none of these, nor in any other instance since, did the loss of life approach to that of the Titanic, the obvious reason being that it is only within a comparatively few years that vessels have numbered their p avengers and crew by the thou- sand. The 'Titanic, therefore, has t Accomplished for herself the sorry 0 record of earrying with her into the s depths by far the largest number of e human lives sacrificed to ,any single c disaster at sea, 01 the tectal gold output of the b world the British Fanlike supplies c dearly sixty per sent, o ALWAYS CONSULT YOUR WIFE WILY YOU SHOULD 'TELL YOUR ' BUSINESS TROUBLES. To Allow Disaster to Pall on Or Suddenly Is (be Greatest Cruelty. In theory a husband should hide nothing from his wife ; in practice he very often does, just to rave his wife, a lot of trouble and worry. If a man sees his business going to pieces, and sees nothing for it but the Bankruptcy Court in the end, he may hide the grim secret from his wife, liopilg against hope that things will right themselves at the r.leventh hour, This may be very creditable to him. He may s.ek to keep his wife's mind at rest; he may seek to bring ro shadow over the home. But by hiding his business trou- bles he acts the part of a coward, and treats his wife in an, abominable way. He also plays the llypoerite, and is cruel its every cense. He knows what may curve along one • day—he sees the clouds gathering, he can discern diaster—hut, having full knee ledge, be, is braced against a coming storm. A HUSBAND'S DUTY. What of Itis wife? She knows nothing; site imagines her husband is doing well in business; she has her comfurts, perhaps her luxuries.; - she dues nut curtail expenses. nor snake any endeavor to straighten things out. She feels eecnre, and never a tlwttght of trouble or post - bye disaster. crosses: her mind. One day the blow falls, for a time comes when she must be told, and when that tine semen the crisis is at hand. What can she think of her husband?? She feels that she leas been deceived; site recognizes that her husband is a craven -hearted hypocrite. What else. can such a weak-kneed man be called? A husband's duty is to tell his wife all. On the first day that seri- ous trouble threatens, on that day she should be told, and schooled in- to expecting what may happen along. To allow disaster to fall on her suddenly is the greatest cruelty a husband can i ifliet on Ws wife. A wife is the partner of her bus- bard, and, as a partner, 'he has a • right to know everything. She is a partner, not- only in the home, but in her husband's trade or pro- fession. Is a man's business of no importance to his wife 1 Some men seem to think ee, and, so doing, hide away business secrets from their helpmeets, only to regret it one day. If a man fails ie busisesse, does he suffer alone 1 If Ise sue- ceeds, does the success benefit him- self only ? Win :f a man fails in business. every single porton in his home suffers; if Its succeeds, every member of his household is allowed to share in his success. WHY TRUTH IS BEST. Truth is always the best; to keep client over heavy loses, to hide business worries, is but acting a lie, and a lie like, that comes home to roost. When evil tines come, let a mtan go straight to his wife, and own up like a man. If ire is not to blame, what honest wife will up- braid? If he does not own up—well, he but acts the brute, Will his wife ever trust kite again ? Never—ne- ver, at least, if there is -a, young family. Let a mother see her chil- dren suffer through the downfall of a husband's trade, and she will ne- ver' have faith in him again. But had he allowed her to know how the land lay when trouble appeared, she certainly would trust hint again, What site blames hint for is not a failure in business, but failure in doing his duty by disclosing the true facts at the beginning•. Is your business going wrong? If 50, your duty" is clear—off to your wife. rat once, ,and lay the facts be- fore her, Don't wait till ruin cones, for then your wife would be justified in epurnirg you as a cra- ven -hearted wretch --a ratan who had failed in his duty as a husband. 't' •Y FRlL 'l'OBACCO 'r is'rglios. Men who Find Smoking ;Anything But an Agreeable Task. The French Government's official tasters of tobacco form a category of civil servants of whose activity little is known outside their own department. Tobacco is a State monopoly in Trance, and these experts are anm- ployed under the Ministry of b'i- nance to report on all classes of to- bacco that are permitted to be sold • in France. The .men are mostly superannuated inspectors of tobac- co factories. Their hours of business are from 9 to 6. As a rule it is the iuwtr grades of tobacco that need the most careful attention, They have: to report not only on the cigars, cigarettes and pipe tobaccos put up by the .French 'Tobacco• Regie, but also on all imported tobacco. • Smoking when compulsdry is any hing but an agreeable darty, the.ae mployecs say. They are in eon- tant danger from ills caused by the xemsive use of tobacco and they • ombat these by taking large quan- ities of black coffee, which ns else aid to assist them to differentiate etweethe e vltriotis -kinds of tohac� 0 on which they have to give their pitdott,