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The Brussels Post, 1914-9-10, Page 3Hints for the Home Preserving Time. At •this season of the year, \siren many !fruits are at their prime, we gave much attention to preserving them. Usually we 'think this must be done by cooking Chem, yet per- fect peaches, pears and ,grapes may with proper care be kept fresh for at least three months, and apples mudh longer. The necessity is that they be kept clean, cool and dry. Our grandmothers kept such fruits in certain inside yet airy closets, off evenly cool temperature, The softer limits. like peaebes, were never 'laid directly on a 'hard shelf, as the weight of the soft pulp flattens the skin so that the pulp is 'bruised, and even , the skin broken. Pupas cuttings such as are used in packing c!hkta are sterilized and used for packing fruit by those who keep expensive fruits for months, Sometimes. too such fruits are packed in powdered eugar, each piece being oompletely separated from its neighbors, at sides and' top and 'bottom. If any one piece de-: Days the juice which oozes out makes a concentrated syrup with the sugar, 'Which will. not ferment and effect others This method men be used by those who like to save fine -fruit for ,he Chriebmas season. Fine (bunches of grapes, etpeeial- ly those which'beee.lbeenoripened in paper bags and so are sterile, .are ,preserved by hanging therm in a cool, ,dust protected place, 'after the nut., end of the stalk has:- ,been dipped in 'Moslem or paraffin to keep the -water of the stem :from evaporating. If the stem dbes;not• -shrivel the grapes will not. They are also kept in .00tton, which 'ad- mits the ,air but filters the dust ,so that it cannot !bring to them agents of decay. It requires precious care to keep fruit without cooking it, and it takes equally preoioys care to cook it so that it will keep. Few fruits can be (boiled in syrup,especially a heavy one, if they are to keep shape, color, and •aroma, because the boiling dhrivels theal. The reas on for this is that sugar halo a great affinity for water and dra se, out that in the fruit. Quinces, pine- apple, and pumpkin must be first cooked in water . without sugar if to be preserved in a syrup. Une peeled- pears cooked in a heavy syrup shrivel. Ginger Pear. --The following un- doubtedly is eche original recipe ,for ginger pear, of which there have been many variations, some using candied ginger and many of them too mudh ginger. Ginger root is now easy to obtain, aed often quite ineaapensive. Eight pounds of pears, eight pounds of 'sugar, two ounces of green ginger -the er•es'h root, the juice and .rind oe six lem- ons, and one tumbler of water.. Peel the ginger root, out in small pieces, and soak in the tumbler of .water while pr•eparimg the pears, Boil all together until olear. Put into jelly glasses and seal. It /should be cooked slowly at a low tempera= tore, The .smaller, amount of gin- ger is enough to flavor the pre- serve desirably and yet, leave the pear some character.. Use regular, hard. •000kin.g pears. Jams: - The amount . of sugar used in making jams dependsupon tihe acidity of the fruit, which va ries from -.,year to year, and unon " : s;,, i used. Apple and quince ravaalFtnvavAPsta quire from three-fourths to THE Best Brains In Canada have participated in the pre- pnratinh of our Ap'endid none Study Conrneidu Banking, Boemmnira Higher Aoeonnting, Commercial Art,Show Card Writing, Photography, journal- ism, Shortp. Story \vetting, Shorthand and Bookkeeping. Select the work which enact Interenta.yen end write us for pnrtioniars, Address THE SHAW COONESPONOENCE: SCHOOL 381-7 Yong.) St., Toronto QOL.L E G E of Con eve lav con' ist, Da ter dot usu Th the for s J, 'r be au d tv dr Ie to p time 1i b. di3, illi a.aku . logier half .breaking off and the part left .contracting, it is - about done, A spoonful may then be cooled, and if ib has the consietepey of butter, and when thrown into water disolvas slowly, ie is done. Preserved Quineeel.-,Pore, chop, and quarter four quarts of quinces and boil in water to cover untie bhe fruit is tender, then skim them out and drain, 'but ado not leave long exposed to the air. Use the water in whieh the quinces are cooked either for making the syeep or in which to cook gnarled (fruit, par- . . legs, and Bores for jelly. Put one quart of ,this . waiter or of clear cold !water .together in a ,preserving kettle with lewd quarts of sugar, stir until the sugar is dissolved; toed then- hr ng slowly to..Ik,ailing point. Skim if necessary and boil twenty minutes, 11 there is any sedimene. itt ib strain. through •a clean ,cloth. Using two kettles, pub hall of the syrup and half of the cooked and drained fruit into each. Simmer gently <ifor half an hour, then seal in thoroughly ster- ilized cans. Useful Abuts. A little ammonia added to the, water wil'i. make .white paint look. like new. Wheat woollen blankets are past their best, cover with .silkoline and tack like a quilt. (Save your red apple parings. You may .get a glass of jelly of the parings from two pies. If rugs or eanpets are beaten on a set of bedsprings they will 1,.ok as if done by a professional. Put eelenty of butter into cake you •wish to keep, Cake eaten im- mediately does not require ea mudh. Always put a little flour in vege- table cream soups to bind the vege- table matter and the liquid to- gether. smoothly. Put a crust iof bread in with a (spinach,- [beet taps, etc., while boil- ing; it lessens the odor if cooking and ,adds delicacy to the greens. Black ribbons will lose that rud- dy !appearance 1,'f let stand in a cup of water to which a teaspoon- ful of indelible ink thasebeen added. There is no !better . remedy for wasp stings than lemon juice. Con- tinea to apply at intervals of ten or -fifteen 'minutes untii, the pain ceases. To remove old varnish been fumo. niture; take three''„teauspoondnls of, 'baking soda and put it in a quart of water and apply it with .a, rough cloth. A.good way to brown a stew with- out adding coloring is to save the outside of onions and when well .washed. add to the stew and boil !together., Your cake will not scorch ie you put a pan of water into the oven. Put a pan of boiling water in the oven if you want a smooth, tender' crust on your 'bread. - 'Coffee-it/tine, even when enema has been in the coffee, maybe re- moved from table linen Iby rubbing the spats with pure • glycerine. Rinse afterward in lukewarm wa- ter. The knife used in peeling a pine- apple should not' be used in slicing it, as the peel contains an acid that will cause a sore, swollen Mouth. Salt is an antidote for this acid. In making jelly, boil it only five minutes after adding the sugar. Then pour into gltaeses and let it stand in the sun 24 hours. This helps to give the right firmness and clear color. Dry your crusts in the oven, put 'through the meat chopper and save as crumbs for •sniffing ,poultry, etc. Melt one mince of butter to stir into one cupful of crunidbs when ready to use. When -your feat are sore or tired, soak them Lor 20 minutes in water to which has been added a tea- apooniful of epsomi .salts, a tea- spoonfpl of common. salt. • When sewing hooks on a was'h- dress try sewing the eyes on the up- per flap. and thehooks on the un- der, instead of the •'usual way. The outer 'flap may then Ibeironed smoothly. . DEATH'S HEAD HUSSARS Genian. (regiment Not Only: One to Wear Grim Device. The badge of the Death's Head Huans ors is composed of the head and crossed arms of .a recumbent effigy. The addition of the wards "to glary” makes the application el it obvious. Other nations have had these reginnentis, In 1789, when Colonel John Hale (who came to London with the news of Wolfe's fall and the conquest of Canada), raised the -. Seventeenth Light Dragoons, now ,styled the Lancers, King George ordered -that "on the front of the men's caps, egad on the left breast of their uniforms ;there' was to be the dieath's head and erase bongs over it The grim device they still retain, Eke the famo.ue P.om,er- anion Ilore,e who, since this days of Gustavus Adolphus, have worn skulls anderor-•s bones on their high fur cape, and in Sweden are now known asthe King's Own,Hiussars. T[hisedsvioe was tle* worn by 1;lie Black Bru,nswickers, who charged eo gallantly at Quatro Bras in 1815, where their (leader, the young Duke of Brunswick, fella They ne- ver gave or took quarter, on, ac- coane of the Dstlte's father having been mortally, wounded :at the bat- tlie of Jena in 1806. Meuse. rained for Wine. The Meuse Valley, the theatre of war, is nutted for the supenexcol- lenoe of its wine. The ohoieest Bur gundy cone from there. Oeliters are cue in.ibhc rock of ,he valley reo which at oertaie seasons el the year, when the riverris,e', the waiter is admitted. When the tidefalls again it levee ,bhe boitlbles coated with mud, which iia, said Ito invest thein with a special ,and etimulating peoteclion, A. Detachment of. i'hlans Encountering Barbed -Wire Defeneei Outside Liege. Parties of German Uihlan& have penetrated all parts of Belgium im groups of four, carrying to the peasantry false pews calculated to inspire them with terror. The picture shows a party of Uhlans charging down on a Liege fort, only to find itself entrapped amongst .the barbed -ware defences which General Liman had constructed round the strategic .points. -Frani London Illustrated News. mains the penalty they-had-.to- heyhadto -Pete-lighted torches. But this chance seem all the harder. , one lost to therm, because when the IHE SHOP SCHOOL STUDY I.NTERNA'l'IONAL LESSON; SEPTEMBER 13. Lesson XL The Ten Virgins. -Matt. 28. 1-13. Golden Text, Matt. 25. 13. Verse 1. Teat virgins -The Talmud gives an •account of ten such torohes being carried before a bride on one occasion. This may have been a custom (ten botches being borne are a- wedding) well wallah Jesus was familiar. It is ,also said that the number ten is used as we, in .pic- bureequue language, might speak of "a dozen.," nsmnely, an Indefinite term„ no significanoe being placed upon the 'weasel number. Their Lampe -Torches, made of a short wooden stem!, with a diehlike receptaolo'at the top in which was a piece of oloith dipped in oil or pitch. It was usual to carry torches at weddings. Buell a torchlight pro- cession was not peculiar to Judaea, but formed a feature of the mar- riage customs" also of Greece and Roane._ Went ' forth to meet the bride- groom -It wiss usual trio meet the bridegroom 'either at hie home, or near the, bride's ,horse, or some- ! where in 'between. Junk where they wanted for: the bridegroom as, n,o,e important. 2=4. Wise in that they first looked to :see whether they had enough oil for any emergency,; foolish in that they • either did not look to their supply of oil at all or,' nor thinking thele anything unusual would occur, supposed they had enough for the aeeataian. • 5. But the unusual happened. The bridegroom tarried -This delay ire an essential. emphasis of the par- a.ble, and 'indicates the difference between is wise and a foolish man, namely, thoughtfulness of the for- mer to prepare for he uuespested', Slumbsred and slept•-Threy'nod- ded at first, 'slumbered intermit- tently, as is indicated :by. (the tense used in the Greek, but their drowsie nese developed into continuous ell,eep. All tof them slept, the wise as well as the foolish. Na blame attached tar any of hem, because they gave wary to physical weari- nese.' 6, At midnigieb-An unusual time. The wedding ceremony, under:em l nary circumstances, would long have been p !brined and the feeti- vities perhaps over. The delay and the ery alt sngdnigh b, when deep and continuous sleep had fallen upon the watchene,1, prepares again for the �eonolusiion of ,the panablei, "Be ready." . 7. All . , . areae, and !trimmed-- This would indi0ata that idle foolish virgins thought they had oui'ticient, and hence did not knowingtly start 'one without autiy oil at ali. They were fooliish in the sense of thought• leesyess or carolesepees, which 8. Give us of your oil-The.fool- ish ones Soon sew that their wicks would not continue to flame. Their first thought is. to get -help from their more thoughtful dieters. They olid mob stop to consider whether there was' oil enough in the five torches oto suffice for ten, and if not, that the ten torches would soon go out, putting the thoughtful virgins in the same predicament as the thoughtless.' Neither did they raise the point whether they had a right to profit at the expense of the others. Their minds were set on the wedding feast, they wanted to enter in, and so self-centred were they that any means of attaining their end seemed justifiable. 9. The favorably situated in this parable, .as well as in life genesailly, could not, if they would, help the unfortunate to overcionue the oonse- quenoes of dieds carelessness or in- diffesenoe. T'h,eoreticaaley, this looks hard; we endeavor to help the less fortunate without questioning the cause. of their predioament. But praebkalily our encleavoir fails. We can go only so far. Selfteh as cit may seem, justice and prudence may require us to say, "We our - pelves are inon,e rboo strong; of we gins you of our strength, we all shall. fail," 10. And while they went away to huy-It would seem ars though Je- sus's wordei, "From thlm than hath nob shall he taken all that he hath," bard peculiar iapplioaition here. This five foolish mmid,ane did not have forethought to take enough oil with them. Hence in the emergency, all their remaining power of thought was taken from them!. Tho empha- sis of the parable is •nat,on the lack of oil, but on the courting ttoo lane. The failure to provide the one caueed the other. But would they have been shut oub had they conte without torches? Suppose they had remained with their sisters who had the lighted torohes11 Would the bridegrooms have shut the door in their faces simply because their lamps were not burning? Plow ,about ,the, other guests who also were not provided with lights'? Were they excluded? The eonelu- sien seems irresisitibile tiist'Jesus is emphasizing the foolislrneee of the five who had no oil in that they went to procure oil • ab !the very moorn,ent when the bridegroom was appriaaehing, It was too late now eo make up for what their eoresigtht would have provided them' with, But it was nob too late for hear to be in waiting when the bhudegroonn arrived, The :other :guests were ready because they were present (whether they had lighted lamps or not). The foolish owe could have been present in spite of their pre- eions eadeleesness, Their. 'foolish- Hees was supreme because they add- ed to their arse bit of thougtptlese- ness another and more serious piece. They rushed on blindly,. not stoppidig to think than at so lathe an hour shops probably w,otaki be teased and they camld tiler produce any oil. Thorn was at least a thence for thein to ,got hn with93.0 bridegroom came they were absent. The essential element after all was tile, welaorning of the bridgroom, with or 'without ]igibted torches. Only those who were present could be ready to give chin welcome. 11. Afterward came also the other virgins -There is no indication here that they came with lighted torches. But whether or not they had pro- cured oil, the fact remained that they were too late. The door was shut. 12. I know you not -The bride- groom was noir concerned about those who were without. He did not know them,, not because he was ignorant of their identity, but be- oause'tbey were not ready to enter when the door was open, This adds ko +the pathos of the parable. "I know you nob" means, "Much ,aa I would,,iit is now too late for me to recognize you." 13. Watch therefore -Jesus called atbesutiom, frequently to the uncer- tainty' of the time when the King- dom would .come. The parable of the 'ben virgins not only stresses tittle paint strongly; it indicates that the penalty for rhhe unprepared must be inflicted despite any mitigating oz alleviating circumstance. • FORESTRY FACTS. Many engineer's. well acquainted with ,the use of steel and concrete, lava little knowledge of the advan- tages pnseessed by wood' for certain kinds of structural work. This lack of knowledge is due to the lack of re- liable tables showing the mechanical properties of various Canadian woods, To remedy this want, the forest Pro. duets Laboratories, recently estab- lished by the Dominion '.Forestry Branch at McGill University, will con- duct a aeries of elaborate taste which will establish' the strength of these woods, and make available for area tural purposes 'many tree species whose value for this work is at pre- sent doubtful. The testing machines to be used are second to none in America, On certain of the Dominion Forest. Reesrvee in the West, ten miles per General !Sir Robert Baden-Powell day In the densely wooded regions is is appealing for an endowment fund considered fairly rapid travelling with of $1,250,000 for the Boy 'Scout klovemenut. After nine months of advertising, an assi'eta•nt master Chas been ; ap- pointed to the Horsham (Surrey) Connell School. - leroad beans are so plentiful in. WHEN ENTERPRISE PAYS. The Time When a Rich Man May Become Richer. In times of doubt and utnoertain- by, when the average mase feela his way oeutioa ly in businese, there are mem of extraordinary courage and foresigbb who make a great deal of money by refusing to be hampered by widespread fears of the future. They know that their own resources are equal to the un- dertakings upon which ,they embark and they 'go, on with their enter- prises in full faith, !that the eompli- csttions of the times and the abnor mall conditions of !the day will dis- appear and heave 'the world' still sound and governed by the spirit of progress, It ie when timidity and hesitation. are general (that eaterpriee is likely to prove exbbemelly profitable. Then the man with !the far outlook and the resolute Hind finds his greatest o tportunitieis. It le then that he daffere most from his, sedghbors said associates in vesiem and strength. Under such circumstances thoee who are heavily involved and, those who ,have inert: a' fair opportunity to begin itnljtortant Yenth.res without extreme personal risk ,aannore be ex- peeled to do more rlton ,seek the safest course and the VinootheSt wa- ters. It is self-preservation. But for ,biose who have ample meetine alt command and need not jeopardize their solvency there are no times for invevremenit and for 1aybng wide and deep the found/Mk:me of large mita/stases more favorable than the periods when depression and asis•- givings elle&k thio natural progress and expansion of Wetter? and come morels. FROM MERRY OLD ENGLA13 NEWS 13T MAIL AnOv'r JOH11 GULL AM) lllei PIOPL$ Occurrences' to 1'hs Land TAO Deigns Suprema -in:t the COP' taerolnti World; ' Inspector Wilson of Rotherham, has been appointed thief constable of Banbury. - Mr. James lechofieiki, one of the ,Senators for Natal, !was formerly a weaver at Rainsbotiton, near Bury. packhorses, Bence it Is necessary to cut narrow trails in various directions so that when fire occurs the rangers may get to the scene of the fire and extinguish it before It spreads beyond control. Several hundred miles of these trails were constructed last summer and they requlre considerable Surrey that they do not now lacy attention to keep them cleared of ' for wind -fall, The Indians, however, do .the picking, and many Ude are not take the trouble to chop out wind- falls, but, If possible, they will en- deavor to prop up the fallen trees sufficiently high to allow them to pass beneath, Quarrymen In France spilt enor- mous blocks of stone by inserting wooden pins in small holes along the proposed line of cleavage and then soaking the pins with. water. The word 'forest" was originally derived from the old High German word "Voorst " and, In the middle ages, meant a large tract of land', not necessarily wooded, on which the right to hunt was reserved to the king. In Nebraska„ broad shelter -belts of trees have been found: to so benefit the crops by protecti>ig them from. drying windy thatthe increase, in yield Is esual .to the 'amount formerly hair' vested from the -area pi/tilted •as a wlnd•brealn, 'Hence the yield in tiara?:. ber •fromthis areawasclear- profit to the: farmer, On the wind-swept prair- ies of Western Canada the value of the shelter -belt is also recognized sed; three million tress are annually dis- tributed - to the prairie, farmers for. this purpose by the Forestry Branch of the Depflrtment of tie Interior. Recent forest surveys conducted by the Dominion Forestry Branch In the wooed region lying -to the Korth of Edmonton in Alberta indicate ilia very large areas of valuable timber have been destroyed by forest fire within the last twenty-five years. Re- production is good, however, and the possibilities of the rough, sandy re• glop as a timber producer are indi- cated -by the fact that in the few ma- ture stands remaining white spruce attains a diameter of thirty-six Inches, lodgepole pine twenty inches, aspen poplar fifteen inches and paper birch twelve inches. MILLIONS WERE COUNTED. The Census of India In a Single Night. At a cost of only $075,000, and by means of a staff numbering about two million persons, a, general cen- sus of India was taken on the night of March 10, 1911, the results of -which are embodied in a Targe volume issued by the India Office as a blue book, The difficulties of taking a census of a population numbering about three hundred million, over an area of 1,803,657 square miles, were en- ormous, says the London News. They were especially great, owing as the report puts it; "to the long lines of railway, the big rivers on which boats travel sometimes for days without .coming to the bank, the forests to which the weedcutters resort, often for weeks at a time, and the numerous sacred places, which on occasion attract many thousands.of.pilgrims." People had toe be enumerated wherever they were caught. In the ease of rail- ways, for instance, all persons trav- elling by rail who took tickets after seven o'clock an the night of the census were enumerated either on the platforms or in the trains. The latter were all stopped ab six o'clock on the following morning, in order to include any travellers who up till then had escaped notice. In spite of this, and owing to the vast work done preliminary, the re- sults for the whole of India were received complete on March 19, .and were issued in print the next day. This rapidity, as the report men- tions with justifiable pride, "is not approached even in the smallest Eu- ropean states." The summary tables show that bhe total population of India (including the native states) on the night men tioned was 315,156,896 (as against 204,361,056 •ten years previously), of whom .217,886,892 were Hindus, 66,847,299 were Moslems, 10,721,453 were Buddhist and 8,876,2209 webs Christians, The literates only num- bered 18,639,578 persons, anti /Agri- culture claimed the labor of 224,- 695,909 persons, as against 35,323,- 041 personc engaged in industry. -- - 0--_ leitenta Better Now. Wifey-•Do you recollect that once when we had a teiterrea I saiirl yon were just as meat ae you omelet be hubby -Yes, my dear. ; Wifey--{lit, Tom, 'haw little did I know you then? Aotivity is the righet halal of .for- tune, and frugality the hetet, being ploughed ie, The ;South Wales and Monmouth- dhire Steel Works Board have re- duced 'the wages of the men 3 per. cent., from July 1.st. Prince .Consort's statue at Hol- born ,Cirous, and that of Sir Row-, land dill, at the Royal Exchange, are to be reebronzed and renovated. Gen. alir'an Hamilton, Gen. Sir . O. W. H. Douglas and Lieut. -Gen, ,sir J. H. Grierson have tbeengetzet- ted' in aides-de-camp general to the • King. Jabez Wolffe, , the world's long distance sea ehampion, ewers learn Eddystone lighthouse to Plymouth.; about • 14 utiles ip 10 hours 45 niin thea. The London General • Omnibus Co. are to station interpreters at various busy centres in London to' answer the questions of foreign visitors. General Bramwell Booth laid the fouti&etion ,stone of a new hall at Nottingham, which is to •be built in • memory of This father, who was born.' Close by. At a private meeting of the Birm-. inghanl City Counoil the nomina- tion of Mr. Harrison Barrow for the Lord Mayoralty. next November was agreed upon. Wihile the employes . of Messrs. Israel and Co., makers of mackin- toshes, . Stamford Hill, were away on tlheir annual picnic, the premises were burnt down. While standing upon his van at Surbiton to 'light a cigarette, Charles Benee'1'l a brewers' canter, was thrown into the roadand run over and killed by his van. Five old -age pensioners, whose total ages reached 486 vears, died at Harrolds (Bede) recently within a week of each outer, and they have been buried oldie by. aide. After working as a miner far over 60 years, Frank Pickering died rud denly at Huggilesoote, Leicester- shire, For .twenty years he was a member of the Ashly Board of Guardians. During the annual promttilgation of Manx laws at Tynwald Hill, near' Douglas, in accordance with ancient oeromouy, M. eleeinet, the aviator,' landed on the hill in an aeroplane. Liverpool (Chamber of Commerce are to approach the Board of Trade • as to insurance of third -elites pas stingers in ships to obviate ithe need .for public appeals in time of dims - ter. While -hurrying to catch a ttram- oer, Mr, Wm..Rebinson, aged sixty- five, a clerk in the service of tete Great Northern Railway Co.•at Keighley [Station, ' had a sudden seizure and died. 1' CLEAN MEAT ASSURED. Municipality Does Slaughtering for Butchers in Australian City. The City of Adelaide, Australia, with a determination to furnish the. residientsof that place with pure meat, has solved the problem along entirely.original lines. The emboli.:' ers go and buy their ,stock, ceetle' and sheep at markets in the ordi- nary pray, brand them and then hand them over to the municipality; which ulaatgleters them, . pays ithel. butcher for the hide and hems and retains the offal, out of wheel). it 'makes its, profit, The butehers are, therefore, as well off, if not better, than when under the formes' Irysilem they had !their private elaugltt;er+ houses., - Meat is conveyed to the, aids in . motor tars and ishong tend pnoteet ed from flies. It is delivered ab the birthers' shops without being ,bouched• by hand. Tire new acct obliges ,the btrliohere' establishments to be conttructecl'on the beet health conditions, with marble slabs ineteed, of weed, pro-' te:Aeonn agauinet flies, etc, The a- presexte,The sur e.n tow - guaird cl a. re nlimie��. ,Them •f© p)oyect at the, slaughter hel Des( are subject to medioail inspection, and are 'given a •olieen suit of eloiblt,es+ every morning, The enterprasie has been apps ± i, byalll ,the inhabitants of $be acct,,. what consider bha)b the 41j75Q,O1 tbny invested iia dhe uzielattiOtioif+aIi. tin givam `valuab 1 o eb ur n t guarding health.'