The Brussels Post, 1913-3-13, Page 6Dainty Dishes,
Shepherd's Pie.—Mince some cold
meat (beef or mutton), enough to
fill pie -dish required, and season
with pepper and salt. Peel and
Slim an union, Put a layer of meat,
then some onion, and so on till pie.
dish is three parts filled, adding
euongh stock to snake the meat
nicely moist. Have Mlle potatoes
ready boiled, mash them, season
with pepper and salt, put a thick
layer on the top, anti bake till neat
is boiling hot and the potato a nice
brown color.
Chillaly.—One green pepper,
minced ; one teaspoon onion, minc-
ed; two tablespoons celery, minced ;
three tablespoons butter, four
tablespoons pastry flour, one egg,
one-quarter teaspoon soda, two
cups tomato puree, two. cups soft
cheese, grated or cut into bits; one-
half teaspoon salt, paprika to taste.
Cook onion, pepper and celery in
butter till softened. Add flour and
gradually the tomato puree with
soda. Let boil rapidly and strain.
Season and turn in the cheese, Let
cook over hot water till melted,
stirring constantly; beat the eggs,
combine, let stand two minutes,
stirring rapidly, and serve on toast
or crackers.
Beef a La Mode with Raisins.—
Cut a quarter of a pound of salt
pork into strips and fry them in a
saucepan, with a sliced onion, in
good beef dripping. Lay a com-
pact round of beef upon them, add
a pint of boiling water, cover, and
cook ten minutes to the pound,
turning the beef three times during
the process. Take up the beef and
lay it hi a dripping pan, dredge it
with flour, baste it with its own
gravy once. and leave it in an oven
where it will keep hot without cook-
ing while you strain the gravy left
in the pot. Take the grease from
the top, thicken it with browned
flour. season with pepper and a lit-
tle salt, if it needs this, and stir in
a teaspoonful of white sugar, a
heaping tablespoonful of Sultana
raisins you have washed and picked
over, and the same quantity of
blanched almonds cut into strips.
Boil gently three minutes, put the
beef in a dish, and pour the gravy
over it and around it.
Cottage Pudding.—One cup pow-
dered sugar, one cup sweet milk,
ono tablespoon butter, two eggs
beaten light, the whites and yolks
separately, saltspoon salt, three
cups flour, or enough to make a
good batter, like cake, sifted with
two teaspoons baking powder. Rub
the butter and the sugar together
until smooth ; add the beaten yolks,
then the milk, the salt, the flour,
and the whipped whites. Bake in
a buttered moll in a steady oven
with a straw run into it comes out
clean ; turn the loaf out on a dish.
For a sauce beat a tablespoon of
butter into a sup of powdered
sugar, add half a cup of boiling
water gradually, and flavor with
lemon juice to taste or with sherry,
and, if you like, a pinch of cinna-
mon.
Boston Baked Beans. --Far every
quart ef small white beaus use a
half -pound of salt pork, three large
tablespoonfuls of baking molasses,
a teaspoonful of soda, and salt hod
pepper to taste. Soak the beans in
cold water over night. In the morn-
ing pour off this water, corer with
fresh cold water, add the teaspoon-
ful of soda, at little salt, and put on
the stove. Remove just when the
liquid begins to froth—it must not
come to a boil. Put in a colander
said rinse well—it can be put under
the cold water spigot. Put the
beans in a three -quart bean pot,
• add the molasses, a little salt and
pepper, and cut some of the pork
in small pieces through the beans,
leaving enough to cower the top.
Cover with water, put on the lid
and bake all day in a gond oven.
Watch the beans, and if they ap-
pear to be getting foo ,dry add
water as needed. This is a matter
of judgment. The lid should be re-
moved about an hoar before the
beans are to be used at the evening
meal, If the browning is too gnick-
.ly done the lid can be put an again.
TO Get Rid of Raise--L-Tere is the
remedy:Fifty-five per pent. of wheat
flour, 25 per cent, pulverized sugar,
20 per cent. white aree:ni mix all
together well with care, doing it.
indoors and out of the 'wind or
draft. Be careful no cirildreii get
hold .of it. Keep the ehukens and
the dog or at away from) it. After
having mixed the stuff put it in
Mums, a tablespoon to a portion,
and set it any place where you are
troubled with rate Within a fort-
night you will seethe result. Don't
worry; over the possible oder, tor
there will be none. Most of the rats
seek water end go out to get it, but
none eseapos. The above dose is
not cruel or trouhlesrrrna, Nett son
may be sure of the best results,
If bread is rubbed with -butter be-
fore putting it in the oven the, crust
will bo mere soft and flaky.
To prevent eyeglasses from be-
coming misty an entering a hot
room rub them with a small quan-
tity of glycerine, put on. with a sat
rag,
Weak, dry hair needs food. A
mixture of vaselino and cocoa -nut
oil is excellent, Almond oil is also
recommended, for blonde hair
especially,
Chapped hands aro a troublesome
eornplaiut during the cold weather,.
Glycerine and rose water or lano-
line niay be used with good results,
When cutting now bread heat
your knife by dipping it into a jug
of hot water, In this way you oan
out the thinnest bread and butter
from a new loaf quite easily.
Never wear stockings short in the
feet. Be sure they will allow your
toes to stead out et the extreme
ends, as this keeps the joints in
place, and makes a strong and at-
tractive foot.
Small pieces of cotton cloth, no
matter what their shape, should be
kept in the towel drawer, instead
of a rag bag, They can be used fur
washing meat and fish, and thus
save staining a good towel.
Nails may be easily driven into
hard wood without bending it they
are first dipped in oil, and if a
screw is first oiled or greased it is
much easier to screw it in quite
tight and with much less exertion.
Lamps that aro not in use should,
upon being placed in the attic, be
covered with a big paper bag. Paper
bags such as groceries come in may
be slipped down over the chimneys,
and will successfully keep out dust
and foreien matter.
Before laundering undergar-
ments run, with ribbon, catching
ono end of the ribbon to a piece of
narrow tape, pull out the ribbon,
and let the tape remain run through
beading until after the garment is
washed and ironed. The ribbon is
then caught to the tape and pulled
through the beading, keeping
smooth and straight.
Feet that are easily tired and in-
clined to ache will be relieved by
bathing in warm salt ivater, dry-
ing them thoroughly, and rubbing
them with a piece of cut lemon or
lemon juice. Change the shoes and
stockings when the feet ache very
much; a dusting of antiseptie pow-
der both on feet and the stockings
will also give relief.
Butter can be kept as fresh as
when newly made in the following
manner :—1Vrap each half -pound of
butter in a piece of muslin. Make
a brine strong enough for an egg
to float in. When cokl put in the
butter, taking caro that it is well
covered whit the brine. Keep in a
cool place.
Strangely enough it is rarely
deemed necessary to clean a broom.
Yet all household brooms and
brushes need to be cleaned as much
as anything else, an•cI if occasional-
ly washed they will last far longer.
About once a week prepare a good
lather of soap and hot water, and
into this dip the broom or brush up
and down, Shake till' nearly dry,
and hang up with the bristles down-
wards,
LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT.
Sometimes Turn Into Important
Events in history.
How often has it happened that
the fate of a nation' --a man's career
—has turned on .some insignificant
detail, some unpremeditated re-
mark or effort,
Fel' instance, James Watt, the re..
Anted inventor of the motive power
of steam, originated his idea from
noticing bow the force of steam
raised the lid of the kettle. The
falling of an apple led Sir Isaa
Newton to the discovery of unive1a
sal gravitation. Rome was saved
from her enemies by the cackling
of geese warning the sentries that
the walls wore being scaled,
To turn to the gentler sex --Nell
Gwynne, a poor orange -girl, whose
descendants to -day are the Dukes
of Si.. Albans, first came under the
notioe of Charles Il. by running
.alongside his carriage, offering her
oranges.
The famous South African De
Beers diamond mines were discov-
ered by e, man who eesually went
into a cottage, and there noticed
sono children playing with what
appeared to be brilliant stones,
which they saicl they had picked up
Mom a stream near the cottage.
It was only a question of failing
health that necessitated the late
Cecil John '.Rhodes, then a compara-
tively poor man, going abroad.
Everyone knows 'the Magnificent
work he did in South Africa, and
how well he deserved his name of
Empire Builder.
A:ncl so we lnighb run on, record
after record. Only a short time
ago, a lady living near 'Gateshead
was unexpectedly ,loft a fortune of
1120,700 by a man sh.e, had once be-
friended when a seafaring youth of
seventeen. He went to Australia; as
0• sheep -farmer, and, prospering,
nape a fortune, and left it to his
oumblc benefactresse—Louder) An -
were,
must he careful in handling it, Ton
Ilint.s io Housekeepers.:
Dirty brushes make dirty hair.
Brushes eh.ouldbe wesltad every tow
days with hot suds,
Memory, it bas been a ertaine l .
a
is stronger in summer, than, in win-
ter.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
MU,ARCII 16,
Lesson X1. --The test of Abraham's
faith, Gen. 22. 1-19. Golden
text, Hos. 6. 6.
Following the account of the de-
struction of Sodom and Gomorrah,
the biblical narrative (Gen. 19, 30-
38) records the birth of sons to the
daughters of Lot, Moab, ancestor
of the Moabites, and Ben-amnri,
"father of the children of Ammon."
Chapter 20 contains the account of
Abrem's sojourn in the land of
Gerar to the south, and his deal-
ings with Abinrelech, upon whom he
practiced the same deceit with re-
gard to Sarah, his wife, as earlier
he had practiced on' the king of
Egypt (compare Gen. 12. 10-20). The
birth of Isaac and the casting out
of Hagar and her son, Ishmael, to-
gether with Abraham's covenant
with Abimelech at Beersheba, re-
ported in chapter 21, prepare the
way for the account of the great
test of Abraham's faith and loyalty
to Jehovah.
Verse 1. After these things — The
longer sojourn of Abraham in the
land of the Philistines, reported in
the preceding chapter.
God did prove Abraham—Put-
ting him to a severe test of obedi-
ence and faith.
And said—Verse 3 would seem to
imply a dream or night vision.
"2. Thy son, thine only son, whom
thou lovest—After the rejection -of
Ishmael, Isaac alone remained - to
Abraham, and the emphasis upon
their relationship to each other as
father and only son is intended to
indicate in advance the severity of
the demand about to be made.
The land of Mori•ah--The name
later given to the hill on which the
temple at Jerusalem was built. The
Septuagint, or earliest Greek ver-
sion of the Old Testament, how-
ever, substitutes the adjective
"lofty" (mountain) for the proper
noun Moriah in this passage,
while. the Vulgate, the earliesb La-
tin translation, has the noun "vis-
ion." This would seem to indicate
that the proper noun itself was in-
serted later. Following either the
Septuagint or the Vulgate reading,
the two oldest which have been pre-
served .to us, the command was
simply to proceed into the moun-
tainous country, probably to the
north, and to offer a burnt -offering
upon one of the mountains which
Jehovah himself was to designate.
3. Rose early in the morning.—
Suggesting, as already indicated,
that the communication from Je-
hovah was received in a dream or
vision.
Two of his young men—Servants.
Clave the wood—Or, as we would
say, split the wood.
4, On the third day .. , the place.
afar off—The place selected must,
therefore, have been three days'
journey from Beersheba. The ex-
act distance would vary with cir-
cunrstarices. If we are to think of
the vicinity of Jerusalem, it may be
estimated that the journey from
Beersheba would, after Oriental
fashion, have occupied from sev-
enteen to twenty hours'- continuous
traveling, a distance which might
be conveniently divided into three
days, .
5. We will worship, and come
again—Doubtless Abraham still
cherished the faint hope that in
some way his son might be spared
or restored to him. •-
6. Took in his hand the fire—The
method by which the ancient Israe-
lites secured fire is nowhere ex-
plained, though a reference in the
Book of IVIacoabces .speaks of "fir-
ing stones and taking fire out of
them" (2 Maccabees 10. 3), from
which it may be inferred drat fi.ro
was obtained by striking stones to-
gether, 7lere, however, it seems
that Abraham had parried the burn-
ing embers with him, keeping the
fire burning all the way,
7. Where is the lamb fur the
burnt -offering 1—The boy was quick
to observe that while all the acces-
sories of the sacrifice had been
carefully provided, the offering it-
self had apparently been over-
looked.
8, God will provide—Hebrew,
God will see for himself, or, as we
would say, "see to the matter him-
self." Here, : as in 'verse 5, there
is a suggestion of hope to which
the father was still clinging.
9. The place which God hall told
him ef—Nu name is mentioned, fel'
the reason that it was this event
which gave to the place its name.
Compare .verse 1.4,
'Bound Isaac hie sou -There is no
suggestion of resistance on the part
of the boy. The custom of lmman
sacrifice was 'doubtless not unfamil-
iar to hits, since surrounding leo-
pals commonly practiced it at this
time. The underlying idea of such
sacrifices was the surrender of that.
which was of highest value to the
deity. Under the later kinge,'
especially .Ahaz and Manasseh, the
custom still existed in • parts, of
Judah (compare 2 Rings 16. 3'; 2.t.
6; 23. 10. ;• Ter. 7. 31; 19. 6; Ezek,•
16. 20; 23. 37; In, 07, 5). Tho
aimiteronomic l.aw, however, strenu-
ously forbade the practice (Det]'t,
13, 31; 18, 10), while the pruphots
also strongly condemned it (Mite
6, 7),
11, And the angel of Jehvvali
called unto him—Abraham recogniz-
es the voice, whether audible or
hoard only in the inmost reeessee
of his soul, as the voice of divine
command. It is made clear to him
that while the absolute trust and
obedience involved in such a sac-
rifice is desired of God, yet God
does not require the sacrifice it-
self.
12. Lay not thy hand upon the
lad—The sacredness of human life
receives a new and great emphasis
in this command.
13. Abraham lifted up his eyes—
For a time he had been altogether
abeorbed in his own trying experi-
ence and struggle. Now that the
probation was ended and the strain
of suspense and fear over, his eyes
saw what they had not seen before,
a ram caught in the thicket by his
horns.
Offered him up for a burnt -offer-
ing in the stead of his son—And
with double gratitude for tate pre-
servation of the child's life,
'0
STALWART OF OTHER DAYS.
The other day Lord Llandaff cele-
brated his eighty-seventh birth-
day. He now lives a very retired
life in London, but his career has
been a strenuous one, and twenty
years or so ago his name was on
everybody's lips.
Lord Llandaff was born in Cey-
lon, where his father was a judge
of the Supreme Court. Educated
in London and Paris, Mr. Henry
Matthews took up the law as a pro-
fession, and rapidly forged his way
to the front. Entering Parliament
in 1868 as Conservative member for
Dungarvan, he eventually trans-
ferred his activities to East Birm-
ingham. From 1886-99 he was in the
Conservative Cabinet, and few
Home Secretaries have passed
Lord Llandaff.
through such a disturbing period as
he, The odium of the Labor riots
in. Trafalgar square was heaped
upon his head, but when the Con-
servatives went out of office he was
consoled by a peerage,
When ehoosing his title, Lord
Llandaff was influenced by the fact
that he is descended front the Welsh
,family of Mathew of Llandaff, an-
other branch of which were at ono
time Earls of Llandaff in the peer-
age of Ireland: He has never mar-
ried, and consequently the peer-
age will become extinct at his
death.
Lord Llandaff is a very able lingu-
ist, .and a distinguish scholar... By
Ids professional abilities he attained
to- wealth, and he was ono of the
founders of the Catholic Cathedral
'of Westminster.
.THIS PLANT COUGHS'.
Expulsion of Gas From Leaves `Rids
Thele of Dust.
All hem read of carnivorous
plants, of laughing plants, and the
plants that weep, but who has
heard of a plant that coughs?
There is the authority of a French
botanist, however, for the state-
ment that a plant in various tropi-
cal regions actually possesses the
power to .cough in the most approv-
ed manner. The fruit of this plant
resembles the common broad bean.
It appears that the coughing plant
is something of a -crank, that it
easily works itself into a rage and
that it has a. :curious hoer•o.r• of alp
(lust. As soon as a few grains of
dust are deposited on its leaves the
air ehalnbers that cover their faces
and the respiratory organs of the
plant become filled with gas, swell,.
and end by driving mit the gas with.
a slight explosion and a sound that.
resembles so much the .cough of a
chided suffering (roan a, cold as to
cal'ry a mast uncanny ,sensation to
the "e - he:holtling the phenomenon,
Ca 01 it frli 1Vitltont Capsizing.
Shis of the tyre of. a. room
Sham 51 g
!yacht or of a torpedo boatdcst•roy-
er can roll to an tingle ei 90 dr.grnes.
without capsizing. '1 o'at•ns-Mol antic
hirers 'end battleships will capsize
when they have tipped to 60 and 80
degrees, respectively, while an et -
(Jittery stilling ship will eapsiae
when it roadies am angle of 40 de-
grees,
A 'i'1RY I)CRADLE WOOD.
llritlsll Gulano Gretinheari Outlasts
Steel or Iron in Willer,
A wood which, according to• the
department of agriculture, outlasts
item and steel when placed fn wa-
ter, is British Guiana Greenheart,
It is need in .ship and dock build-
ing, trestles, bridges, shipping
platforms, flooring, and for ell pur-
poses involving great wear and
tear, The woods of two species of
West African trees have been' in -
traduced into English markets as
substitutes for greenheart under
the name of African greenheart,
but both are inferior to the South
American tree.
All the gates, piers and jetties of
the Liverpool dooke and practically
all the look gates of the Bridge-
water Canal in England aro of
greenheart. It furnished the ma-
terial also for the 50 pairs of look
gates in the Manchester (England)
ship canal. When the -greenheart
dock gates in the Mersey harbor at
Liverpool were removed in order
that the channel might be deepened
and widened, the same wood was
again employed in building the en-
larged gates, and wood placed in
the gates of the Canada dock in
1856 was used again in its recon-
struction in 1894. The use of green -
heart has been specified for sills
and fenders in the lock gates of the
Panama Canal. Nansen's ship, the
Frani, and the Antarctic ship Dis-
covery were built of 'greenheart. In
addition to its use as timber, great
quantities of the wood are made
into thermal.
Though it grows in parts of Bri-
tish, French and Dutch Guiana,
Venezuela, Brazil, Columbia, Peru,
Trinidad, Jamaica and Santo, Do-
mingo, ib is being cut only in Bri-
tish Guiana, where it is found along
the ,seacoast and water courses,
seldom extending more than 50
miles inland. Greonheert used to
bring 91 per cubic foot at the point
of shipment, but the preeent price
is considerably less. Constant
drain for more than 100 years upon
the most accessible stands of green -
heart in British Guiana leas strip-
ped the forest of its best material,
and the wood now obtained is of in-
ferior quality. Tracts are now be-
ing eut over in some placce for the
third time. Only the heartwood of
the tree possesses the peculiar
durability desired, and the best
wood is found in old trees.
The wood of three other species
of the same botanical family is oc-
casionally cut and so]d with the
genuine greenheart. Theme are the
white cirouballi or sirauballi, the
yellow cirouballi, sometimes called
black cedar, and the keritee or
kretti. While they closely re-
semble greenheart, they 'are infer-
ior to it in durability.
ck
IiIS SECRET SE1IU31.
Italian Chemist Now Clamps a Tu-
berculosis Cnre.
Guiceppi Nurgis, a -Sardinian
chemist, asserts he has discovered a
euro for tuberculosis which is des-
tined to eclipse that of Dr.. Fried-
mann, the Berlin physician. It
consists of a subcutaneous• injection
of .a secret serum tom:posed of two
elements, the nature of which has
not been divulged. It is said exper-
iments on animals with the serum
have .aohieved wonderful emits.
Dr. Nurgis is now treating seven
patients at B,ome, all of whom are
in the last .stages of consumption.
Dr. Nurgis refuses to divulge die
enrol; c)1 his treatment and will not
allow it to be tried at the hospitals.
The physician who. attended the
present patients admits that a de-
cided improvement fol]owed the
first injection of the scrum and that
the most alarming symptoms disap-
peared completely.
I)r. Nurgis has secured medical
certificates to the effect thatide un-
known remedy certainly has a, bene-
ficial! effect. He hopes to effect real
cures before patenting the scrum
and announcing his discovery,
ABOU1' VARIOUS SUGARS.
Dr. Hirshberg Says There Is Ignor-
ance About Them.
'There's a lot of ignorance floating
around about the things we eat,
says Dr. L. K. Hirshberg, in Les-
lie's, especially Lilo sweet thing
called sugar, for there is not one,
but many sugars, varying one from
tine other in certain qualities.
There if a sugar from the cant;
from the beet and the maple. There.
is sugar called glucose, and anteater.
called £suotose, wlii•olr when com-
bitted are invert sugar. One or
both of these sugars are universal—
ly distributad. They are to be
famed in all fruits. When cane su-
gar has been boiled with an acid or
cream of tartar in the making of
candy it is changed into glucose; in
the lemma system all .starch is di-
gested Tato this guease,
Although this is the, etarch which
gives the sweetness to commercial
g utteee; which when made from
starch of the Corn is known -aa corn
syrup, and when made from stareh
of the potato 'has bcenoalled potato
syrup. 'Thenthere is the sugar of
nsillc.
lir.-•-""!'hey say that two"ea,n live
as cheaply as ene." Sloe --"Yes ;
but I dont intend to, live cheaply."
NEWS OE THE MIDDLE WEST
BETWEEN ONTARIO AND B11I«
T1811 COLUMBIA,
Items from Provinces Where ]pians
Ontario ]buys 4nd Girls Are
"Making. Good."
A Regina barless hotel cleared
over 911,000 last year,
There are 20,000 Norwegians in
the Province of Alberta,
A new Baptist elroreh in Prince
Rupert is to oust $40,000,
Melfort, Sask., has appointed two
weed inspectors at 94 per clay.
The farmers in Kinistine, Sask„
have vtarted a joint stock creamery.
Nelson moving picture shows are
nob to be allowed to keep open on
Sundays,
Saskatoon is proposing to build a
fair building to cost 9150;000 and to
seat 3,000 people.
Qu Appele is to have a now ar-
mory for the housing of its troop
of the 16th Light Horse,
The Union of Canadian Mnnioi-
palities is to have a 'gathering in
Saskatoon in. July next.
]tegina is likely to- see a re -open-
ing of the agitation in favor of a
Sunday car service this summer.
In 1913 the C.P.R. will spend
about one million dollars in Moose
Jaw depots,, ,shop and trackage
changes.
While following the trail from
Barkervillc to Sugar Creek, James
Smith, a former Ontario man,
dropped (lead.
Over two hundred ef the descen-
dants of the settlers brought out by
Lord Selkirk, met at a re -union in
Winnipeg,
The Town of Bralebbury, Sask.,
has engaged expert oil well borers
to see if there are paying quanti-
ties under the town.
A lighthouse is being built at
Vangara Island. It will be the first
to be sighted by vessels on the
coast trip to Prince Rupert.
The building permits for the
month of January in North Battle -
ford were 500 percent, greater than
the corresponding month.
The first child born in Harlan
since the starting of the settlement
in 1909, is the son of Mr. Giles.
The whole place celebrated.
Saskatchewan Dairy Commission
is going to snake a tour in a ear
fitted up es a dairy and give lec-
tures to the farmers on methods.
The Council of Wawota, will give
r,• bonus of $1,50 to any ratepayers
owning trees seven feet high which
were ,planted under its •dirertiun.
Saar McKay, who stole 0, bunch
of horses - in Saskatchewan and.
drove them over the bonder has
been .arrested in San Francisco and
will be brought back.
POSTAL TROUBLES IN PERSIA.
One Merchant's Servant T9u'cw Let-
ters Into the Scar.
The difficulties of the post office
in the Persian Gulf are aggravated
by the Persian language, which in-
vests the word "poost" as colloqui-
ally pronounced with considerable
ambiguity,
"Pool" means a dock or anchor-
age ; "point" signifies Irides, skins
or leather and is also the term for
the post office. On the coast the
final "t" is dropped and "pops„
therefore has to duty in three cape-
0;ties.
A e.nerobant at Lingo; says the
Pioneer Mail, recently complained
that his lettor•s were being lost and
a servant was asked what he had
been -doing with ;them,
"The first week," was the reply,
"When you told me to carry the let-
ters to the poost, I went to the
shoemaker's and was putting them
among the poost (meaning leather
and skins); but the man said I
should carry thorn to the Po:osm-
Buzurg," By this the shoemaker
neoism• the big or British post office,
"Then 1, -leek them t"4 the :Pomo
Buzi g (big dock) and threw them
in, The first time there was plenty
of water, bot the next vieek the we -
ter was low and i hadto dig e hole
in the sand for thein,"
Did You Know This?
Probably very few persons under-
stood the expression "Contin'
Through the Rye," There is in
Scotland ,0, small stream called the
Rye. The girls forded it going to
ehu.roh, school and to market, and
as the water was a foot or two deep
they had to hold their skirts up.
The preys would- meet them in mid-
cytrearm and kiss them without stns
difficulty, as. the, girls cemldn't drop
their skirts to make any resistauce.
That's what the poet moans when
he wrote "Conlin' Thro' the Reye,"
but oust people think he meant e
field of rye,
Tittle Eitel for Mitch Freight.
()lie. of .the modern, miracles of
acricnce 1)1)11 invention is the ae,n-
omy el fuel in moving merchandise
by water. In the first long voyage
of the, Sclandia, a ship of. 9,300 teals
cargo capacity, it wits, provedthat
by the use of pebonleun feel in
Diesel inteenel eambustion einggines
itbout sixty tons of freight, coaled be
transported one smile bythc
p e. an:
strmption of a pint of crude oil,
THE FRENCHMAN OF TO -DAY
PROFESSOR CALLS Milli AIA,.St
OL' NEW PEIIIODa
Unstable Is NO Longer the Right
Word to Cllulraaoderizo
French Temper.
In an interesting leetuure deify -
trod before the Modern Language
Association at South Kensington
(England) recently, Professor
Cazamian, of the University of
Paris, traced the history of the
change which has lately come over
the temper of the French people in
so many directions, politieally and
otherwise.
The political reputation of
France, he said, was not high in
Europe, a fact which was not to be
wondered at when the history' of
Europe during the past century was
considered. F The, ordinary English-
man regarded the word 'instabil-
ity" as the best summing up of the
Frenchman's political outlook, and
as this opinion was eliered by a
large number ef his countrymen, it
was beyond question that there was
something in it.
As Peli(ieal Franco Was.
That political instability was as-
cribed, said Professor Cazamian,
to the traditional character of the
Frenchman, a man who is por-
trayed as impatient and volatile,
eager for revolt, a rebel to disci-
pline, immersed in abstract theo-
ries, contemptuous el precedent
and custom, always tempted to in-
troduee personalities in the domain
of public affairs, devoid of perse-
verance and that laborious patience
which was undoubtedly the founda-
tion of political capa,eity.
"I admit," contteued the profes-
sor, "that there is a considerable
amount of truth in that picture, but
France forty years ago passed
through a great trial, a,nd the men
of our generation instinctively took
from their earliest years a serious
view of life. That experience tend-
ed to self-examination, and it is
noteworthy that both England and -
France have -this in common, that
both countries, ancient but not de-
crepit, have passed through their
youth and are busy investigating
their position, while other oountries
aro still going through a period of
self-assertion."
New Concentrating Effort.
To some extent, he went on, the
vogue that sport enjoyed at present
in France, together with the new
spirit of adventure which was driv-
ing Frenchmen to seek careers fn
the. colonies, notably in Morocco,
all tended to teach them self -com-
mand and concentration of effort.
They were trying to divide parties
more according to principles, and
not personalities, ackI.. ministers
were obtaining longer leases of
power.
Then again, the professor pointed
cut, iu :France to -clay- there was
among other ehangos a much great-
er respect for the law. That could -
be illustrated in the appeals which
were being made to the good eense
of the crowd, the public gardens
and open spaces being placed "un-
der public) protection," Nothing,
he said, in. conclusion, could show
in a clearer light this new spirit in
France than the conduct of his
countrymen during the 'Agadir,.eri-
sis, Tn,glislunen were good enough
to compliment the French on their
behavior at that time, but the proof
of the .profound ohange in the na-
tional oonsciousness was that their
ettitude, which appeared splendid
to others, was to themselves quite
natural. -
2+
JA PS 110 NOT EAT MISA'.l'.
Simplieiiy of Nation's Diet Reduces
Cost ol`Liviag.
While the cry has been in this and
many other -countries for years that
the Cost of living was donstantly
increasing, such a ori' has evidently
not he'en heard to any great extent
in. Japan.
Instead 'of a high cost of living
there, according to figures accumu-
lated at the, Imperial College of Ja-
pan, in Tokio, it is a low oast of
living, The J,atpancse do not eat
much meat. Tho great majority
there do not eat meat at .all, al-
though• they are a decidedly sturdy
race,
Aquart of i'ien a day will suffice
a Japanese, while the Chinaman,'
despite stories to the eontrary,• are.
getting to be ,moat eaters, and are
especially fond of pork, Por•l:.doee
not appeal to or agree with; the Ja-
paneso stemaoh, they'h.avo no " ecli-
bin hogs, ' while horses are tote val-
uable and beef is l+oo expensive,
For 916 a month or .$4. a week,
the clever Japanese laborer car)
have a house of his own, educate
two children, take a choly mows -
paper, have a daily hot both and -
00)6 01, dollar a, month. iatf,_ of
course, while this includes plenty
of food, it does 'not include a meat '
diet,
Wasted sympathy is the sympa-
thy that clooSn't offer i,o help.
A. man hardly over, marries for
love Mere • than once.
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