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The Brussels Post, 1912-8-1, Page 3DAINTY DISHES, Mint Sallee.—Chop a bunch mint, very fine. Pour over it on fourth *up of boiling water, ad two tablespoonfuls of sugar; cove closely and 41101V to )beep for ha an beer; then add. the juice of on lemon or three tablespoons of vin gar, one-fourth teaspoon ef s and dash of cayenne. Waldorf 'Potatoes. -Pare, was and dry the potatoes. Cut the round and round in curls in th same manner in which apples al pared, having the pieces as long a Possible. Lay in cold water tt hour ; wipe dry. Fry in deep fa until brown and tender, Drain o soft paper, sprinkle with salt. Sery as a garnish for the fish. Daisy Egg Salad. -Cook eggs un il hard, Plunge into cold wale to remove the shell reedily. Cu into halves lengthwise and emery the yolk. Out each half white int four lengthwise strips and dispos on a bed of curly or head lebbuse th represent c daisy. Force th yolk through a puree sieve to re present the yellow centre, an place over it a spoonful of mayon naiee or boiled dressing. Allow a -egg and a half for each serving. Spanieh Buns. --One and one -hal cups sugar, one-half cup butter three eggs, one n cup sour milk, o thaemenful soda, two and one -hal •cups flour, one teaspoon ,cloves, tw teaspoons (enflame)), one-half cu each of chopped nuts and raisins Cream the butter and sugar ant well-bcaten eggs. Sift all dry in gredieets. reserving part of th flews to sprinkle over the fruit, an alternate with the milk. Rake i gem pans. Pineapple. Pie. -Strain the liquor from a can of minced pineapple. Put the liquor in a howl and add to it two heaping tablespoonfuls of flour, a cup and a half of sugar three eggs (the yolks only, beats light). two cum of boiling water end, last of all. the chopped o minced pineanple, Pens into an open crust and bake. Make a mer bete' for the top of the pie of the whiles of the eggs bead% lightth wi a little powdered sugar. A Mexican Summer -Dish. --Take ▪ a cup of mid mashee potatoes well seasoned and beat, into them a cup of thick sour cream and two beaten eggs. Sot into a cupful of flour half a teaspoon each of soda and salt, and int beat lightly into the poet - toes tied milk. Drop the better m big spent:lab onto a hot griddle and bake on both sides. Put grated ham. chopped olives and little minced parsley on one cake, place another on top to make a sandwich. Serve hot and pass chili sauce with them. Hamburg Steak, - Instead of serving all meat. use three-foul:the of a cup of breadm ernbs-not but eale-te each cup of ground meat. Add one or two well -beaten eggs ane enough milk to make a. drop mixture. Season generously th wisale peeper and onion. Drop by the spoonful into a pan strette.ed with &lettings or bacon fat and saute as liked. Make a berevn same of the fat remaining. This is an improvement over The little hard meat balls so often served and is cheaper than all -meat. Veal Birds. --Cut half-ineh slices of veal from -the round two inches by four inches. Pound well. To each piece allow a one -inch cube of salt eork, a few drops of lemon juice. a little of the grated rind, a little minced onion and a dash of poultvy seasoning. Mix these with the meat trimmings of the veal and the .same amount of bread crumbs. Chop all together. Moisten with eggs. Spread on the pieces of veal, roll each like, a jelly roll and tie or skewer securely. Dip into. egg and crumbs n»d sante till brown. Cover with milk or water and aimmer for forty-five minutes, Remove strings or skewers before serving, - Thicken the -sauce and serve over the birds or on a .separate dish. special effort:elle:eta be made in this direction. ; Ninth -The new vacuum botelesi made in fancy styles, .are eonven- lent for cool drin' ks as well as Inc hot, Especially useful aro they in the sielc-room and dining -room. DOMESTIC • HINTS, The juice ef a lemon before breakfast will often cure bilious (1 attack, but no sugar must be taken ed with ib, Try adding a little lernoe-julee I: to the water when boiling Hee. It; gives the rice a nice white apear, e once, and also keeps the grains well It separated. Housekeepers who have had trou- ble with ants have found that borax h one of the best exterminators. 111 Pantry 'shelves and creeks should e be well sprinkled with it. -e . Well -cooked oatmeal with a raw s apple is (shamed to be an ideal diet h for humanity, an,' children can t keep strong and healthy on this at n the ,smallest pessible.ontlay. o When bunches of •sweet -scented grass begin ite lose their fragrance plunge them for a minute into boil - r _ ing water and they will be again tas aromatic as when first gathered. Dried lavender may be similarly '1 treated. • When filling oil -lamps place a t° small lump ef camphor in the pil- e vesFel. It will greatly improve the light and make the flame clearer d and brighter. If you have no cam- - phor, Mad a few deeps of vinegar n occasionally. When the feet of 'stockings are be- yonel repair, they should be .cut off the legs, split open, and then tack - e, di between two old blankets. Co- ' ver with cretonne. This makes a o capital quilt for the winter. It is a very well-known fact on • the Continent that a raw egg is a certain restorer al tired nerves. A French or a German woman will e eat a couple of raw eggs for a pick- ed me -up just as an Englishwoman " takes a cup of strong tea, and feels meth refreshed thereby. To Curl Iseathers.-Healt them gently by holding before a small fire and shaking out occasionally; then, when perfectly ,dry and hot, draw each piece round .a knife 1 ehaxply, using the back part for • fear of rutting the feather; shake r out again when finished. Cleaning White Straw Squeeze some lemon -juice into a saneer, add to it some flowers of sulphur, and mix. Brush the hat thoroughly over with lt, rinse in cold water; then lay it on some- thing flat and dry. The hat will dry quite white, all signs of sun - here having been removed by the lemon. TIPS FOR HOUSEWIVES, First --to most of the cooking in the earlier, cooler hours of the morning. Second -Use the fireless cooker for meats and vegetables Wilk/1 TO - quire long cooking. It will not only save fuel and money, but will keep the kitchen, consequently tele whole house, eooler. Third -Keep the bottles„ef .water in the refrigerator. Do not put ice in the water. Fourth --Squeeze lemon juice into a bottle and sweeten as desired, Cork the bottle and keep it on the ice. Then at an time lemonade cen be made, with very little, trouble to best nr guest. liefth-When making tea allow for a grmlin, which can be kept Inc iced tea, Sixte-The same rule can be ap- pike to the making of coffee• , Severeli-One egg shaken in a glass of milk with the addition of 6, scant, powdering of cinnamon makes a ceinferline and wholesome waxra wee ther Eighth -Keep all the food eover- ed. Fond beeemes s menus if sub• lebted to the thrombi of film, A LA.ST STAND FOB ISLAM. War in Tripoli Cementing Erst- while Warring Tribes. An Algiers correspondent sum- marizes as follows the situation which is slowly crystalizing in Northern Africa: "The Italian invasion of Tripoli- taniais cementing and unifying the erstwhile warring tribal factions as had no other influence in m.osiern times. Although the Turks ere yielding, and must 'eventually capi- tulate, ib will be. a military capitu- lation only. A roving Arab popu- lation more than a million strong is coining day by day ts regard the Ottoman dynasty as the last Auld of resistance against European per- secution of their race and their re- ligion, "Stirred by the reverses suffered in Tripoli the Mahommetan religi- ous chiefs are intent upon arousing the Arab and Berber peoples of the entire coast of Africa, to a 'holy war' upon the European residents of not only Tripoli, but Algeria and Tunis. "A steady fillibustering traffic in rifles and ammunition is being con- ducted into the south of Tripoli- tania. All manner of guns -some new, but most of them old and quite in need of repair -are being dispatched to the -scene of the con - ''The ,significant phase of this traffic is that while money entees into it end affords the usual oppor- tunities for dishonesty among the tribal dikes and merchants, a uni- fied religious zeal is impelling the poorer classes tofacilitate the pas- sage of the arms and is suceossfully imposing their eecreey and often) their eoneivanoe at falsehood and misrepresentation to the European officials. "These illicit opermbions were suspected be French officials in Al- geria and Tu»is some time ago, but it has re,quired 'Months of espionage to obtain real evidence of their ex- iemtence, end actual discovery has resulted only in causing the fillibes- ter oarevans to deploy further southward into the desert in their. long passage to Tsinoli. The forci- ble search of no fewer than five such •gal -evens revealed many cases of rifles and cartridges packed epon the camels, 'These are enxious times ie this land, so coveted by the powers, arid the sunset call of the nmezzie of late has assemed a sinister aspect to 'infidel' ears, The 'student of ennditions menet bet realize that the work of whole decnees of &pie - maty and stateemeeshie may be lie - dote in amdot by the cent:bleed foe( ding of this "farintical antagons ism by the Moslem priests." COMPANY AT BREAKFAST. Amusing Experience in lIonsetthese leg in India. "1 was married in India," FayE; writer in the Centre Costa, Gazette, "and rented a little house fourteen miles ar so from any ether habita- tion of white men. The morning my wife and I arrived, the servants laid breakfast en the veranda, over- looking the river. Ab the clatter of the plates there began to come down from the big tree that over- shadowed the house, and up the tree that grew in the raving behind it, from the house -roof itself, from evesywhere, a multitude of solemn monkeys. "They came up singly and in cou- ples and families, and ,Isok their places without noise or fuss en the veranda, and sat there, like an au- dience waiting fur an entertainment to begin. And when the breakfast was all laid and the monkeys were all ,thated, I went in to call my wife. " 'Breakfast is ready, and they are all waiting -I' I said. are waiting]' she asked, in dismay, thought we were go- ing to be alone, and I was just com- ing out in my dressing -gown.' 'Never mind,' I said. 'The people about here are nob fashion- ably dressed. They wear pretty much the same things all the year round.' "And so my wife came ant. Ima- gine her astonishment. In the mid- dle ef the veranda stood our break- fast -table; and all the rest of the space, as well as the railings and the steps, was covered with an im- mense 'company of monkeys, as grave as possible, and as motion- less and silent as if they were stuff- ed. Only their eyes kept blinking and their little round ears kept twitching. eey wife laug-hed heart- ily -at which the monkeys only looked all the graver -and sat down. " 'Will they eat anything]' she mice& " 'Try them.' 1 said. "So she picked up a biseeit and threw it among the company. Three hundred monkeys jumped into the air like one, and for an instant thee was a riot that defies descrip- tion. The next moment every mon- key was Fitting in its place as sol- emn as if it had never,moved. Only their eyes winked and their ears twitched. "My wife threw them another bis - cult, and the riot broke out again. Then she threw them another and another and another. But atslast we had given away all that we had to give, and got up to go. The mon- keys at .onee rasa, enc) advancing gravely to the steps, walked down them in a solemn procession, and dispersed for the day's occupa- tions?' TITCASE FOR TIIE COOK. Scott Nearing Says She Has a Hard • Tillie for Her Money. Scott Nearing in his new book "Woman and Social Progress" pre- sents a pretty good ca,so for the girl who hesitates to go intodomes- tic service. He considers the cook's duties herd. "First," Ise says, "ehe muse be able to cook a wide variety of dish- es, perhaps seventy-fiye or a hun- dred; second, she must be neat and clean; third, she must work from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Out of this she has Limo off, but ib is eearcely her own time; and fourth, she must eook dinner on Saturday evening and two or three meals on Sunday. "Now," he says, turning to the other side of the controversy, "sup- ! pose that same girl were to secure employment in a factory, what would the superintendent require of b&ni She must know how to do one thing well, she must be punc- tual and neat, her hours are frain 7 .a.m. to 5 p.m., with half an hour fer lunch ; he has Saturday after- noon and Sunday for her vary own. "You are ddmanding," he con - ole -dos, "therefore, that a skilled woman -for smoking is -an art which it takes years to master -shall work eighty-five or ninety hours a week .0,11 week long, and in return receive $5 a week with bed and board. A girl with an equal amount of skill working fifty hours a week in a fac- tory could cern $12 a week and find her own bed ane) board. "But these fads," Mr, Nearing goes en to say, 'fare only one little element in the problems. I have not yet sot down the phase of the subject which transcends and clinches the entire argument. The girl in your kitchen is a eervane subject to the, dictates of the young- est child in the house. The girl in the fadory is a lady, subject to her fovelady and no other. "Domestic service," Mr. leearing offers in solution, "presents four possibilities. First, it may become a profession performed by & trained group; second, it may be taken oyes by a menial class; third, peo- ple may live in epertmente, and feurth, they may have their work done co-opertstively," It isn't 0/redly a compliment to call a woman & little goose, It might imply that she is Tio chicken. a Tommy --"Pop, what is oblivion 1" .a Pop --"Getting married to a fames a women, my 800," POR 'ellE RESORTS. A pretty frock for the summer girl, made in spotted muslin, trimmed with tiny frills and lace. THE COW'S G /YOST. How She Acted ellen She Could Not Reach the Corn. Mr. Latimer was laughing at the silly fear that a superstitious neigh- bor had of ghosts, when his son sRaaidlp.h spoke- up. "Cows are afraid of ghosts," ho "Nonsense, son, nonsense 1" "Well, father, you come down to the barn -lot with me and I will prove it to you right now." So IVIT Latimer went, unbelieving, but curious to the what the boy was go- ing be do. Stationing his father round the corner of the barn, where he could see without being seen. Ralph took an ear of corn in the shuck-sueh an ear as a cow loves to munch - and tied a fine fish -line thirty feet long to the butt. Then getting in- side the crib, he threw the ear of cern out into the barn -lot, where sBeeettiut.ty Spot, the family COW, could She walked up eagerly, opened her mouth and thrust out her tongue Inc the treat; but just as she thought she hart it, Ralph jerked the corn five- -or six feet from her. Raising her head, Beauty Spot studied that ear of corn Inc a mom- ent thoughtfully. • Its action was unexpected, bub reflection seemed to convince her that it might have blown or rolled .away from her, and she advanced once more, This time she approached it somewhat ginger- ly. Again site lowered, her head and reaches] for it, sand again the -ear swiftly slid five or six feet out of her reach. • "Whoof I" snorted the OM. Her eyes dilated with wonder. She bold her head half-losyered, and gazed 'wildly at that corn. Still she held her groend, She studied the' strange eta intently for a minute. Tho thing was certainly lying still now; surely it was an ear of corn. She resolved not to be -a eoware. With wide eyes, distended nostrils and lowered head, she went forward the third time, very eau - The car lay perfectly still. Her eonfelence grew; her mouth open- ed ; out went her tongue to lick in he corn -and away it jmnpecl .gein. The cow sprung high into the air with a piteous bellow, whirled, and, eith flying tail and swinging heed, silted for the open gate .and the astern, Ralph came mit, rearing with &tighter; bis father, too, was teething.- "Silly beast," said Mi'. Letimer. "Oh, don't know," Reid. Ralph. 'How would you feel if you wont o ehalre heeds with man &lei uddenly found he was fen feet, way from you will werrant you mule rim before yea had tried it throe times," "Well, I mdmit it wes funny," aid his father, "But don't do it gide, Ralph. It is pretty nearly s mean to play praceical jekes on cow as ,on a. man -and -don't ilow that it isn't meatier ! b 11 a WHAT TOADS ARE WORTH. They Are the Greatest of All Iles terminatore of Inserts. Seienee offers a. new solution for the bug problem. It is theempley in its professional capacity, so to speak, the toad -the ordinary hop - :eel of the field and garden -es an insect destroyer. In this 1;11,13111cm the humble toad is unequalled by any other living animal. He is the greatest bug ex,- terminetor in the world, It is en- tirely predicable to utilize his Ser- vices on an extensive settle, em- ploying him systematically as an ally to keep in check the insects which levy an annual tax of mere than $8,000,000 upon our agrieuls tune resources. There is ne reason why the farm- ers of the, country should. not hatch anti rear their own supply toads for local service. With a pond or even a small pool insures' against drying up during late epring, the creatures will breed of their awn accord in any desired numbers lip to the. limit of the food supply avail- able in the shape of inseets. But one thing absolutely essential is that they shall he protected against their natural enemies, and by no means the least destructive of their enemies are small boys, who through mere thoughtlessness kill toads whenever they get a. Chance . It is estimated that an average toad is worth to the farmer $5 a year for the cutworms alone which it destroys. But this is only one item. The amount a toad will eat is astonishing. A large specimen h as been known to devour a hun- dred rose beetles at a single, meal. One toad needed eneenty-seve myriapods-the common hou seb al centipede -to satisfy his appetite another fifty-five army worms, an yet another sixty-five gypsy mat eaterpillaxs. Still another toa was seen te eat thiety-five large fall-grewn celery worms in thre hours, while another athepte eighty-six flies fed to him in les than ten minutes. It is a common thing when th occupants of .an ants' ne.st ar swarming and the insects emerging in large numbers, to se an enterprising toad sit at the en trance of the burrow and snap u -every h ant that comes out. T slanghter he accomplishes uncle such circumstances is frightful. Bu of course most ants axe. not recog nized as insects injurious to man and the toad unquestionably des treys -some species which are benefi cia,1 to the farmer. Upon the whorl he is immensely useful, devourin- countless numbers of the very wors bug. foes ef the crops. -Technical World. —s_._ THE WATER OP TUE SEA. Blue and Green—Are Not the Only Colors Observed in the. Sea. Why the color of the different ocea,ns varies, from the emexaki green of arctic waters to the azure, yellow and dull red of °thee seas, is thu,s explained in an article in the Marine, Journal: The blueness of sea -water is in constant ratio rto its saltness. In the tropics the tremendous evapora- tion induced by the blazing sun .cause.s the water to be much salter than it is in higher latitudes. For about thirty degrees north and south of the equator the waterssare of an exquisite azure. Beyond these latitudes the blue changes to green, and in the Arctic and Ant- arctic oceans the greens are almost as vivid a.s the tropical blues. The extraordinary blueness of the Mediterranean has tsvo MOWS. Few ]arge rivers of fresh water run intothis sea, and, moreover. the Mediterranean is virtually lands looked, and exposed to a powerful 11 a 1 G 0 a h 0 e 0 li 01 k sc PC m• 0 11) th 11 00 19 s Ito 501 0,11 0.1) de no THE SUNDAY SCHOOL STUDY INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AUG UST 4. Lessen V. The worth of the King- dom. Matt, 13,44.3, Golden Text, Matt, 6.33. Verse 44. Kingclem of heaven - The nature and importance of the Kingdom axe .emphasized in the fol- lowing parables which are recorded by Matthew only, rather than, the method of its propagation es in the previous lesson.s. Thar fuller dis- missions of the Kingdom of Heaven see Lessen Texts Studies for June 2 and 9. Hidden in the fiekl-Modern eon. veniences, such as banks and safety vaults, were unlcnown in that day. Treasures were buried for safe keeping. This limier of the trea- sure hid it again until he could arrange for the purehese of the field. In his joy -Or, for the joy there- of. Because of his discovery and appreciation of its value. All he hath -The discovered tree - zero was of more value than all his possessions, illustrating the super- lative worth of the Christian reli- gion as a personal possession. The blessings of the Kingdora are of vastly greater consequence than all that the world affords. Buyeth that field -le is not to be understood that every phase of the imi parable is worthy of talion. There is scarcely any figure or illus - 11, !trate:in in which the analogy can be successfully carrise out in full de - 't tail, Only that pant of the parable SS which has a direct bearing upon the truth to be taught is to be consid- le; dee.. The transaction alluded to • 1 here was itself contrary to the ethi- cal teachings of Tesiss, as the man u! who sold the field was not aware that it: contained the treasure. It nevertheless serves to teach. the eagerness with which one should seek to possess the Kingdem. 46. One Pearl -A single pearl, in 6 somparison with which all others si were of little worth. Having sold P all he purchased the one. The el seeker after spiritual truth must be r willing to sacrifice every unworthy "I aim te Diet end. 47. A net -A dragnet. This par - ;1 tinier kind of net was employed -1 near the .thore. It was of an oblong i shape and of great length. Weights of lead were attached to the lower gt• edge while the upper edge was sup - un, so that evaporation is rapid. y _actual test tits waters of the lediterraneen are heavier and alter than those of the Atlantic: In January, 1909. a river of yel- ow water three miles wide was ob- erved running parallel with the ulf Stream. It stretched from ape Florida to Cape Hatterae, nd its .color undoubtedly due o some tremendous sub -marine up- eaval, probably volcanic. Again, nine years ago, the sea irned 'almost blaok off a large part the California coast. The whole f Santa Cruz Bey Resettled this xtraordinary inky hue, and fishing time abruptly to an encl. The clerk- ess seems to have been censeel by Miens of the tin, animalcules nn as whale food. The dell eddish tint thee has given the Red ea its name has a. similar cause. he- water becomes fell of micro- opie algee--tiny weeds, The Yellow see of Celina is sup - sed to owe its eolee to the flood of uddy water -that its great river 11/11 into it. But there again liv- g organisms are responsible for e peculiar tint. Oece,siorxelly, for some cause yet ndiecovered, great, amens of the eat -turn milk -white. In lefavele 04, a Jepenese. merchant vessel, th aming at eight between Hong - ng and rna, Yokoha, ren into a ew-white see. It was not an &gee phosphorescent surfece, but expanse of pure enow-white that zzlecl the eees. The phenome- n lasted for six beers. "Whet does your husband like for his breakfast 2'' "Anything I haven t gee M the 1101186." ported by corks. Reaching as it did from the bottom of the hike to the surface, when drawn toward the shore it gathered every fish which happened to be in its path. Every kind -Good a,nd bad, and every sort of each. ille.serating, as does the partible of the tares. verses 24-43, that the church on earth in- cludes all classes. 49. End of the world -Or, the consummation of the age. Com- pare Dan. 12, 13; Heb. 9, 96. Since bios Kingdom is eternal, the ending ef one period would mean the be- ginning ef another. Even in the event of the literal destruction of the world there would be a "new earth" (Rev. 21. 1). The significant noint is that it shall bo a. time of judgment.. Sever-Separete. This is to be done by angels. nut men. the infer- ence being that the separation shall be just and complete. 50. Furnaee of fire -- Compare verse 40. Gnashing of teeth -An indication of disappointment and rage. 52. Every scribe--Use,d in th geese of a religious teacher. Scribes were also copyists of the Scrip- tures. Disciple to the kingdom -The Kingdom of heaven is here personi- flee as a. teacher. Whoever would teach the principles of the. King- dom must adopt those principles. and imbibe their spirit. The true Christian teacher is .to bc charm- terized by the method and spirit. of jeAsngbonseholder-One who main- . tains a well -kept he:rise. Thin es new and t1d-As the fnathful houeekerper, because of frugality and thrift. is prepared to serve an unexpected goest with lay - bit supplv. teac'her 00 cier so•thiewetileedelb"ntle istliar ci, present the fundamental principles of the Kingdom and to apply the same es need -might snggest. 53. Departed thenee-Left the seaside near Capernaum for Naza- reth, -- NOW SOME leTSFf ST,F,F,P. The sleep af Ashes is still very im- perfeefly enderstmed. From a guide book to the new marine me - se= at. Madras it appease that 'certain scsi peselies regelerly eeek b the baton; of their tank at night' „ and remain motionless-eteetrently1 se, sleeping until morning. Other sne- re" cies have a 'simile's habit. 13iit some remain motionless without dr:- seendieg to the bottom, and mane' others Iceen ;items moving through- I 00 the night, seeming to take no (''t sleep. Pref. B. Tiemeis, a French: that -shelters its Yonne et night, zoologist, has lately meiced e fish The female of Peretilapia multi- • color hatches its eggs in pnekete in I a her mouth arid afterwavis the; d yeeng fsv return cash evening to the methremaining.110.1 h SEES DANDER IN CITY LIFE CAUSE OF • DEGENERATION ANI) 'WOMB. All Europe. Affected by the Stress of Intensive Modern Dr. Max NoCcill.elatlir tz11 contributed o paper on the problem. of &gen-. elation to the Filbert kernel, ao deals with the increase of insanity and dime and with :those milder forms of degeneration which are "the most dangerous for the oora- initiiity, because their destructive influence. only gradually makes it- self bit"; discusses one of the great causes of the degeneration-- auto -intoxication and organic wear and tear through fatigue couse- quent on eves-exertien-and points to the danger of the town. He says:- • "In ever greater numbers -the population makes Ur/ way from the country the town, to exchange agricultural occupations for la,bor in workshops and factories. Th number cig people that ewell in. towns of over 100,000 inhabitants is everywhere swelling; everywhere among civilized nations the tendon- cy appears to transform a people that lives on the land end raises natural products into a people of great eities, producing differen- tiate(1 goods. "The process produces wealth, end the world economy sets this on a le -vel with happiness - A MANIFEST ILLUSION', "Extrenie State intervention in the .senee of the Socialistic pro- gramme woulsl rescue the indivi- dual from the overexertion end fatigue that make him a progenitor of degenerates.- "Sines, however, it seems chimer- ical to look for a realization of the integral Socialistic programme et any date te which we can now look forward-meciest tentative mea- sures like Mr. Lloyd George's old. age insurance are of no efficienee-e we must regersi this theoretically conceivable remedy for degenera- tion as practically inapplicable." Degeneration, continues Dr. Nor- den, has its chief home in the large town. He s.ays "The large town gives the highest percentage of crime, insanity and constitutional diseases ; the large town is the focus of all the frenzies of faehion, all hysterical a,berrae tions of public opinion, all Anarchi- cal movements in polities, social customs, morality. It is in the large town that celibacy and child- lessness are most te be found. "The stunted forms that we meet in the slum of East and Southsea.st London are the descendants of the gigantic peasants of Saxon Sussex, of Danish and Nerwegian Hertford, ef Jutic Kent and of Anglian. Northumberland. In the large town (- Families which had originally the finest constitution disappear in four or fire generations, if they ars not renewed bv a ,continual infusion of fresh bleed FROM THE COUNTRY. "In London and Paris -the young cities of America cannot here come into question -there are probably not a hundred persons who can show a pedigree ef 150 years con- eisting on both sides of ancestors born in London or Paris." "The large town is an abyss in which the population that pours in from the whole counite•y and from foreign lands oozes and tricklesaway.,Dr, away. Dr. Norden contine,eer- "13ut for that inflow from with- out it would be extinct in about a century and a half, since its popu- lation is now renewed out of its own resources. For the present the country population is ,still capable of feeding the large towns. "Bet the day will come when the depopulated country will have no more reinforcements to bestow on. the great city, end then the danger of national degeneration will have come very neer to us. This dan- ger will be European in its scope, since one peeple after another is adopting tee large town eivilizatiou and the white race has to more bar- barians in reserve to step into the weakened ranks and fill them Tr: the stress ef intensive modern cultere the peoples that take the lead mee st needs weer themselves net, They cermet at the same time be rich and able, shine and endure, but only the one or the other. oREsrriRP, English cheesernakers are A01118." what diemeyed tbe -announce- ment thee at Dicsk in Siberia they 01,0 111Akil1g Cheshire cheese of the est tpialitv ender the ,supervision an English expert. • A farmers' seiciation promoting -the enter - rise proposes to establish tweet, arge dairy farms with en aneteel utput of same 16,000 tons of the elite of $5,500,000 or enwerel, An xperimentel coesignment forty ODA ia +41 be ehippeli to London P resently. Metalitv witheue religion is only kied of 'dead reekeeing-en ett- (aver to find our place on a eletely OA by measuring the clistance aye bee wiehout Rev observe - til inornieg, doe of the Ireeverily bodies