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The Brussels Post, 1912-11-21, Page 3Spinach Recipes. Spieeed is a vegetable of an 4:141,,,i iablo taste, light and wha,le- +.one. Many letup] , give . tip eating '` sit because, they say, it "so grit- ty," ,So it is unless it is properly washed; but with ear° every hit of grit can be reureved. Before washing notice if it is quite young or if the stalks and mid OW look ware: and stringy, If they do they must be stripped oil and only the leafy part used, Al:yel- low leaves must bo rento•:sd. Next it should be thrown into a large pan of clean cold or lulcowarrn water; use sufficient water to float the leaves well, and teen swisu them round and round wish a wood- en spoon. Next raise them from the water with your hand or a drainer; re- peat this process three times. case time in clean water. If washed in this way no grit will be left. Stewed epinaeh is much nicer than boiled. The flavor is better, and when it is yoursg there is not the least need to rub it through a sieve, as :c me receipts direct; in fact, very many people infinitely prefer it merely chopped, To Stew Spinnth.--Two pounds of spinach, two heaping tablespoon- fuls of butter, one tablespeentul of flour, a pinch of salt and sugar one cupful of milk or steak and the yolk of one egg. Wash and prepare the spinach as already directed; next blanch it by cooking it for six min- utes in plenty of boiling rafted water,•then drain it through a col- ander and throw it into some cold water to cool it. Now drain it thor• ougiily, pressing out 4,1 moisture possible, and chop ib finely. Melt the butter in a saucepan, stir in the flour smoothly and add the salt and sugar. Stir this over the are for a few minutes, than adci the spinach, then add the milk or stock and stir over the fire until the spin ach is almost dry. Beat up tee yolk of an egg, add one tablespoon- ful of milk or cream to it, then stir it into the spinach. Make ib tho'r- oughly hot and serve in a hot dish: Spinach with Eggs. — Spinach with scrambled eggs is a vegetarian dish and excellent for lunch or sup- per. Stewed spinach (as in preced- ing recipe); three or more eggs, one heaping tablespoonful of butter, salt and popper, two tablespoonfuls of milk. Arrange the spinach in a neat border on a hot dish. Beat up the eggs until alightly frothy,• add the milk and a dust of salt and pepper. Heat the butter in a small saucepan, pour in the egg mixture and stir it with a wooden spoon over a slow fire until it becomes a soft, creamy mass, then heap it up quickly in the centre of the spinach border. Poached Eggs with Spinach, — Poached egg with .spinach is an- otherlight, wholesome and appetiz- ing lunch lee supper dish. Stewed spinach, one poached egg for each person, neat round se fried or toasted bread. Cut the bread ra- ther thicker than you would for ordinary toast. Toast or fry it very carefully. Coat each piece thickly with some of the spinach mixture, which should be very het, smooth it evenly over and place a neatly poached egg on each. Servo very hot. Spinach Souffles.—This is a very dainty method of serving spinach as an ordinary vegetable. If you have not time to make the mixture into small souffles, make just one large ene, either in a souffle case or in a fireproof dish. One pouud of stewed spinach, three eggs, two tablespoonfuls of cream, seasoning of pepper, a dist of sugar, a few browned breadcrumbs and one tablespoonful of butter. Prepare the spinach exactly as directed in stewed apinaeh, but rub it through a sieve before using. Separate the yolks and whites of the eggs, add the beaten yolks,• eream, sugar and pepper to the spinach. Whisk the whites to wa, stiff froth and stir them lightly into the mixture, Put the mixture into small paper or china cases, after first greasing them slightly: Sprinkle a few browned ermnbs on the top of each, put a• few small pima of butter on the top, and bake them in a moderate oven for about a quarter of an hour, Serve them hot. Snbrios of Spinach.—Chop two pounds of cooked spinach, throw it into hot butter, add salt and pep- per to taste and ono tablespoonful of flour) let this cook for six or seven minutes, then take ib offthe fire and acid three well -beaten eggs, Mix then, with the spinach, aid spoonful by spoonful drop them in- to a saacepan containing a suffici- ent quantity of melted butter to fry them. Turn the sulirios from one side to the other and let them cook for three or'four minutes; strain and serve them with a good white sense. Spinach with Ilutter.—Take two pounds of freshly picked spinach; wash it well in two or three cold waters, then drain it thoroughly and putit inti a clean saueepsn with fetor Iaeapireetabletpoonfule of batter and two tablespoonfuls of flourthat hays been cooked to- gether but not discolored, cover the! saucepan and let the spinach ooelc in this way till drawn down to a creamy consistency, which will take about 20 minutes, then rub it through e, fine sieve, and then re -j turn it again to the saucepan, add to it three tablespoonfuls of cream,; ieboil, add a dust of white pepper and a very little salt, dish up aild gernirh it trowel with little crou- tons of fried bread or little pieces of pull paste, that are baked a pret- ty gulden eol"or, and nerve. Croustades of Spinach. -- Cut some bread into the shape of hearts and Slit them all around, then fr.y tltont in hut butter; arrange the hearts in the Turin of a rosette; next cut a round of bread, which slit in the same way, and place it in the center over the points of the hearts; fry them till they are a golden brown, then eut out the in- terior, take out ail the crumbs and fill the space left with cooked spin- ach. Household hints. Soup should always be simmered, not boiled, Allow nearly throe hours for roasting a ten -pound turkey. To crisp celery, let it lie in ice water two hours before serving. Sponge black goods thoroughly with aloohol to take away a dusty Took. \,,e. .a calendar with pencil at- tached in the kitchen for house- keeping accounts. Never leave canned hoed in the tins after opening. , Remove im- mediately. Instead of balls of butter, cubes with fluted edges are a pleasant change. Don't put simple milk puddings in a very hot oven, or the milk will °tirdla, Unless a turkey is very young, it should be .steamed for an hour be- fore roasting. Fat for frying should be boiling before the article to bo fried is dropped into it. When chestnuts are in season, they are a delicious addition (boiled) to a simple salad. One of the economies of a well- run kitchen is a biscuit and dough- nut cutter combined. Pour olive oil into the bottle if you open a largo bottle of olives -- it will preserve the flavor. Never leave the furnace ashes uncovered after sifting. Sprinkle with water gad leave tightly cov- ered. When boiling vegetables, never let them stop boiling until they are done, or they will be soggy and heavy. expose an opal to heat, or it will creek, Olean it with cold water, softened with a tiny pinch df soda. Put a rose geranium leaf on top of newly made jelly before sealing it, if you would have a delicious flavor. When a light evening gown is stained with fruit juice, the simplest thing is to send it to a good eleaner. For peach stains, wet the stain, spread it with cream of tartar and place in the sun. Then wash as usual - In making buttonholes in stuff that ravels easily mark the button- holes and stitch around it before cutting, To remove stains from a vinegar crust fill with grated raw potato and let stand. Then rinse with 'pear water. DOT VEILS ENRICH OCULISTS. Closely Woven Network Also Is Cause of mye Troubles. "Every dot in a woman's veil is worth a ,sovereign to the oculist," an old English member of the pro- fession declares, "and there is no doubt that the modern veil, with its intrioate figuring and bold designs, is far more harmful than the olci- time veil, which was either, plain hr'extorned with small spots. "A closely woven network offers a considerable barrier to ampere - tion and the surrounding of the skin of the face with material which hinders the proper ventilation of the eyes andskinptadn•ces a certain amount of trouble. Tints all condi- tions of eczema or skin irritation which women complain of are due to the heated condition of the eye brought about by the veil. "Associated with the watering there is redness of the eyes and a curious over -sensitiveness to light. Again aveil which is twisted tight. ly finder the .chili compresses the veins of the face, and this intensi- fies any tendeney to skin irritation, and may account by impeding the circulation for woman's chief dread in life --a red nose. ",Always in the autumn an toe - list gets a certain number of cases, principally of young people, who find that they cannot rend or write in a dim light. That is due to the exhausting of the eye wieli too witch light, Young people not only go about without head eovering, but they read on the beach ler long per- ieds in full ,sunlight, with the result that they get what is known as ac- qufred night bli.ndeess." Nell—"I think I should like to marry an imaginative man," Belle -•-"Well, what other kind of a mien can e•ou expect to marry --if he has a chance to ,,see you in daylight?" WHERE THE C.N.R. LINER ROYAL GEORGE RAN OFF HER COURSE 85727 Z.. ARL ` : foo w�mn,.Y�AQ`Ln.- tSL raps 0 orki, e s, erilP iENCY n This map shows the couren oI .nu hluya, +a:noryu art. • .r•a p.,,r, : on the river,' tan milds east of Quebec, where she ran aground. The ship had been held) opposite Grosse Island for quarantine inspection, and was anxious to reaoh Ouebeo in time for the passengers to pass the immigration officials. SlNJMM SCII)JL STJ]1 INTERNATIONAL LESSON, NOVEMBER 24. Lesson VIII.—The Transfiguration, Mark 9. 2-13. Golden text, Luke 9. 35. Verse 2. After six days—So in both Mark and Matthew; Luke, however says "about eight days," which is obviously intended to be a less precise statement, as the word "about" indicates. Peter, and James, and John — The selected group of disciples, forming an inner circle within the larger company, and selected on several other occasions to be the exclusive companions of Jesus at crucial moments in his ministry. A high mountain—Luke uses the definite article "the," while in 2 Peter 1. 18 the scene of the trans- figuration is referred to as "the holy mount." For the place com- pare introductory paragraph above, Transfigured — LiteraIly, meta- morphosed, or, as Luke, following more nearly the literal sense of the word, has it, altered. Jesus him- self refers to what happened as a vision (Matt. 17. 9). However we may explain the event, it was clear- ly a revelation of reality and no mere mockery of, the senses. 3. Glistering — An exceptional word, net occurring again in the New Testament, though used else- where in describing the flashing of burnished brass or gold. As no fuller on earth can whiten them—The Roller's art seems to have consisted in "washing the ma- terial with some preparation of lye, beating or rubbing it, and ex- posing it to the rays of the sun," The cleaning, and bleaching involv- ed in this process achieved excep- tional results in the whitening of the cloth, as remains of ancient Egyptian linen testify. 4. Elijah with Moses—Usually re- garded as representing the two great stages of Old Testament re- velation, prophecy and legislation. In reality, however, Moses was as much of a prophet as Elijah, while Elijah was constantly insisting up- on the requirements of Jehovah's law, Talking with' Jesus—Concerning his impending decease at Jerusa- lem (compare Luke 9. 21), 5. Peter answereth A.1l three synoptists represent Peter as the spokesman of the apostolic group. His action tinder the circumstances is wholly in keeping with his eager, ardent, and impulsive nature. Rabbi—A customary title by which a pupil addressed his teacher. Three tabernacles—Or, booths. These on the slopes of Mount Her- mon could easily be made from branches of trees. Peter is wholly unselfish and forgetful of the needs of both himselfand his two com- pauions, thinking only of the Mas- ter and his distinguished visitants. 8. Knew not what to answer— The overwhelming impression of the vision seemed to demand' some word in response. Its marvelous nature, however, was conducive to awe and fear rather than to sober reflective thought. 7. There came a cloud—Peter's well -meant but only hail coherent proposal is not answered, except in the progress of events incident to the divine manifestation as a whole; of this the overshadowing cloud and the voice out of the cloud were a part. Hear ye him Not Moses and the prophets, but Jesus, is hereafter to be their guide and authority. 8. They saw no one any more, save Jesus only—The actual depar- ture of Moses and Elijah it was not given the disciples to witness. 9. As they were coming down— According to Luke, apparently on the morning following the trans- figuration. WHERE TURKISH ARMY WILL MAKE LAST STAND Galata Save when—The time of the re- surrection is left indefinite and con- tingent. 10, Kept the saying—Obeyed his command to tell no man, though among themselves the strange words of Jesus concerning his resur- rection from the dead, together with the event itself, was a matter of frequent conversation and ques- tioning, 11, And they asked him—A fur- ther difficulty presents itself to their thinking. According to the teaching of the scribes, the advent of the Messiah was to be preeeded by the reappearance of Elijah; but here was an appearance of Elijah after the Messiah's advent, con- cerning which Jesus had charged them to say nothing. 12. Elijah indeed cometh first — Jesus interpreted this prophecy as having been fulfilled in the life and work of John the Baptist, who came and taught in the spirit of the Old Testament prophet. Restoreth all things ---In the sense of inaugurating a great moral re- form movement for the religious betterment and renovation of Israel, Suffer many things and bo set at nought—The humiliation of being deepised and rejected by those whom he came to redeem was the severest part of the Master's suf- fering. 13. They have also done unto him —The three disciples understood that Jesus meant to identify Elijah with John, Matthew's account clearly pointing out the fact that he did. (Matt. 17. 13.) As it is written of him—What is recorded in the Old Testament re- garding Ahab's and Jezebel's treat- ment of Elijah (1 Kings 19) was ty- pical of Herod's and Herodias's treatment of John. TURKISH SOLDIERS' TITLES. Bashi-Bazouks Are Auxiliaries — Redifs Second Reserves. "Nizams," "Rodifs" and "Mus- tafiz" filled the telegrams during the mobilization of the Turkish army. Now that fighting has be- gun in the high mountain valleys south of Phillippopolis the messages have begun to speak of "Bashi; Bazouks." Bashi-Bazouks are irregular Turkish auxiliaries. The Pomaks, or Moslem mountaineers of Bulger race, who are now offering a stern resistance to the Bulgarian invad- ers, are correctly described as Bashi-Bazouks. So are the Alban- ian tribesmen now fighting for the Sultan. The regular army consists of Ni- zams, Redifs and Mustafiz, A Ni- zam is a young Ottoman who is serving his term of military service. When a Nizarn has finished his time in the active army he passes into the Ihtiat, or fire, reserve, and then into the Refill, or second reserve. The Rcdifs form the main part of the Turkish army in time of war. Finally when the soldiers of the Redif have reached the age of 38 years they, become mustatiz, It sore of general militia, 0 he called upon only in Limas of grave emergency, An Ottoman is liable to service up to the age of 70. The nrystorions word ordu, so commonly used in the war news, simply mentis army corps. !w4 Ellie—"In a way getting married is like using the telephone." Ho— "Ilow eel' Sho--•"Ona doesn't al- ways get the party one wants." Peck ---Yon will never get the dog to mind you, my dear, Mrs. Peck —I will with patience, You were just as troublesome yourself at first. He who is always talking abont hi.initelf is bound to bane a tedious subject, One of the false notions that a pretty young girl always has ie that good cooks can be hired, y "What 9s meant," gncatimied the Bridge,, aver the ii*si,horus, the 'livdlleat part et t.onatantlnOplo� ba with 'the in nn'in mind of )tis contesting eiereeesn Turkey with eerie the t•esidontlal quarters or Turkey', y q 2" .Father, "by the rnptbttr tongue . The Galata Lire and signal tower, rising in the bactcground,..t the beacon of. the "Hush, my bot'," sahl the father, cosmopolitan nuropean part of the Cirientaf capital. hurriedly, "don't start her!" t�f WS FROM SUNSET COAST WHIT THE WESTERN PEOPi41 ARE DOLNG, Progress of the Great West Told In a Petr Pointed Paragraphs. Wood is $3 a curd in Chill]wack. Princeton coal is beteg sold in Vancouver, :l'Jne city limits of Fort Alberni are to be enlarged. F. W, Hart wilt build a large block in Prince Rupert. 01r Saturdays the stores in Ender- by close at 9.30 p.m. The Marchioness of Donegal is touring British Columbia this month. A stage line is now in operation between Princeton and Voigt'e damp. The Dominion Government will build wharves at Revelstoke and Comaplix, In Vernon twenty years ago blue grouse could be killed with a gar- den rake. Land has been secured up the Skeane. River for the settlement of 6,000 Russians, Sunday chicken dinners and a singing school have been establish- ed in Quesnel. The Grand Jury at Nelson, B.C., pointed out the need of a modern jail in that city. In the Chilliwack Valley this sea- son some ranchers have raised two crops of raspberries, The railway contractors have nearly 1.000 white men working in the vicinity of Alberni. There is a shortage of railway laborers an the G.T.R. between Tete Jaune Cache and Fraser Lake. There aro 50 boxes in the post- offiee at South Fort George, and 60 mare will be added this winter. Cattle are running at large in Armstrong, thereby decreasing the value of mechanical lawn mowers. By dipping a pail into the Skeena River J. L. Christie recently caught a four -pound rainbow trout, The Dominion Government has thirteen parties making hydrogra- phic surreys of the rivers of Bri- tish Columbia, During a thunderstorm at Van- couver, electricity in the air fired off the nine p.m. gun two hours, too a04n. Live eats• are worth $5 each in Tete Jaune Cache country. Rail- way eontractors need them for the killing of bush rats. This winter two flour mills will be built in the Peace River country, one at the Crossing, and the other at Grand Prairie, Frank Nichols and Richard Mil- lett brought to Roseland for their dairy, 11 Jersey cattle. The herd was bought at Creston and cost $1.000. In South Fort George, James Nelson was given six months in jail. for running a poker game. One of the peeks of cards used in the joint contained seven aces. The Canadian Northern Railway has put np about $75,000 for yeast' and station sites in Armstrong, and the main line will go through that town, with a branch from Enderby. On the eonstruction of the 0.N,R. Railtvay between Cowichan and Port Alberni, nearly 2,000 men are working. The contractors have bought 300.000 feet of lumber to put up construction ramps. The Frondeg ranch at Cobble Hill en Vancouver Island, has been sold to an eastern farmer for $125,- 000. The ranch will be stocked with Jersey'eattle, and hothouses cover- ing eight acres will be erected. The produce of the ranch will be conveyed to Vielaria by an auto truck. Frank Tiihhee was severely wounded by a bear about 90 miles from la.rkervillo. The hear was rnnning away with the trap that he had been caught in and turned on Kibbe,. Frank Connors. his pert - nee, killed the hoar with a revolver shot n.itd pilled 'Kibbe, from under the hear. ('cone's had to ern.g bee four miles before help could be secln-c'c1. et,i1ll,", OP ItONOR TO GOY Queen erary May .eliolisll the Post,. Ts London hunter. According to rumor in London the historic post of Maid of Honor is to be abolished, Queen Mary hits three Maids of Honor, but the dtt- 1 ties they perform can he equally well done by ordinary' ladies in waiting, end as the dispcsitien of the present court ie to dispense with much that is purely ornamental these maids may bethelast of their kind, at any rate lis far as Queen Mary is concerned. ]from the Maid of Honor's stand- point, of eonrso, the emolument of $2,000 a year is immaterial com- pared with the social advantage to be 'reape'd From eenetant contiguity to the throne. The salary indeed ie' easily swallowed up in clothes; in fact in Queen Victoria's time the young ladies spent fully a quarter of their pay nn gloves, an they wores never permitted to enter "the pre• cen,ce" with bare heeds, Since 1841 the area of the British Empire has increased by two and threegquarter million square miles MONTENEGRINS MEN OF IRON SAID TO LIVE STILL IN ',PUB MIDDLE AGiMS. Authoress of Books on Balkanii Discoursers on Their tooliti and Ways. Writes Maude M. Jlolhach in the LandouDaily Mail: -- A laud of rock and stone breeds a people of iron. Montenegro is more or less a barren wilderness its lie upis are a Spartan race, reckless of suffering, strong to endure, Of the savagery attributed to them in their wars with the Turk 12oend no trace in their features—they do not leek like men who would take plea- sure in cruelty --yet we have the fact of the gory Turk's heads stuck round the monastery walls in the "pod old days" not so vary long ago! What is the secret of ft7 How is it that men of a type of countenance noble and dignified are capable of conimittiug such horrible excesses! Only the other day a border fray waa reported in which the dead bodies of the Turks were mutilated —the despatch said not all after death. And the answer to the rid- dle lies in this—the Montenegrin ie a survival of the Middle Ages. Fanatical in Patriotism. When he fights the infidel he it animated by the fanatic zeal that emulates the Crusaders—to him it is a "Hely War" of righteous ven- geance. Curious anomaly, he calls himself a Christian, glories in his religion, but practically he knows nothing of the Christian dfsponsa- tion, His religion is that of the Old Testament—his god a tribal deity delighting in vengeance. He would • never dream of a brotherhood 'of man that included the Turk. Every Montenegrin is a soldier; even old men and mere boys are enrolled in the citizen army that is ready to follow its king to death or victory. Second only to their reli- gion is their love for king and country, - I have seen men stoop and kiss the ground when they. crossed the border atter long ab sense from their fatherland, Nor is this to be wondered at when history calls to mind that these are the only representatives of the Servian race that were never conquered 1 Truly has Montenegro been called "a principality founded and maintain- ed solely on physical valor." Honest in Our' Conntry, But — I have heard, however, and it may be true, though I doubt it (for do not many banks employ Monte- negrins on account of their faithful • ness), that their code of honor is not the same outside their territory es in it. One thing I know, that within the ber.dors of the tiny king- dom. you can travel more safely than elsewhere, for every son of the soil regards you as his country's guest, and, being primitive and patriarchal, to him the laws of hos- pitality are those of the Medes and Persians. You may not speak his language, but his dignified saluta- tion bids you welcome; he has lit- tle. but he will offer you of his best. A high officer in the army, respleit dent in glittering uniform, will re• esive you in a humble little wooden house such as well-to-do workmen inhabit at home—if you knew the amount of his pay you would be less surprised—but his poverty does not detract one whit from his dignity; everyone is poor in Montenegro. Not the richest man but the bravest is to be envied and looked np to. There is no fashion to keep up with, for prince and peasant dress alike, and that of men and women differs but little. How They Dress. All wear the circular 'crimson cap edged with black silk (in token of perpetual mourning for the ]os•s of Stamen Freedom), but on the crown' aro embroidered the initials of their 11inrr within a rainbow, sym- bolic, of hope that the lost. lcinpcloin. may one day be regained. Roth Reyes wear the long white coat of hnlme-spun weo1 madk firth the fleece of the hardy little mountain sheep. The men, however, add to this a scarf. Or plaid tlesown over one shonlder, which, like that of the Scottish Highlanders, is used for sleeping cut in the hills, The Monteneerins are a magnifieent- looking people. and the dress suits their taall, well -knit figures to per - /Mien. Dress in Siam. In Siamn, both men and women wear the " y,anung,"which is de- scribed as a niece of ailk :rr tattoo cloth wound round the hips, the slack being tolled up, teemed be - *ween 4;heego and hitched up'be• hind in such a way 358 to give the apppee anee of a pair if loose knielc- erbockers, For waist coverings the women wear jaekete and ;blouses and the men wear coats, "1)o you really believe, doctor, that your old -medicines really keep anybody alive 1" asked the akeptie, "Surely," toturned the doeter, "My prescriptions have kept three 'r ] sand their families elle* dlt gg st as a ye i1t this teem for twenty years."